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[Greg] We've been waiting
a couple of hours

and we see a light pop up.

Oh, my God.

It wasn't like
discovering something

and, like, "Oh, wow,
we're getting to see this."

It was like,
"Oh, no, what are we seeing?"

[West] I looked off
to the southwest

and I could see
this bright white light.

I was blown away.

I wanna get
to the bottom of it.

When I went outside,
I immediately saw

this tubular craft.

Whatever it was,
it seemed like

it was
intelligently controlled,

as if it knew
it might be watched.

[woman] I see it again.

I see it. I see it.

[Greg] Oh, my God.

Holy [bleep]!

[man 3]
You've got to see this.
You've got to see this.

[narrator] Around the world,
people are witnessing

and capturing
unexplained phenomena
everyday...

There's a feeling you get,

the hairs on your arms
your neck kinda stand up.

[man 4]
What the [bleep] is that?

There was a lot
that pointed me

in the direction
of something non-human.

[woman 2]
Oh [bleep], there it goes.

[man 4 speaking]

[narrator] ...and they are
looking for answers.

It left me
with a lot of questions.

[narrator] The recent release
of thousands of pages

of declassified
US Government documents,
whistleblower testimony...

[CDR. Fravor Ret.]
These objects have been
observed for over two weeks,

coming down from
over 80,000 feet.

[narrator]
...and shocking new evidence
could hold the answer.

Can you confirm
that's what it was?

Yes, that's what it was.

[narrator] Now,
two expert investigators
will use this new information,

and their expertise
to unlock the truth.

I'm experiencing
chills over here.

[narrator] Mitch Horowitz
is an author and historian,

known for his
investigative research
into the unexplained...

You all have had some
very mysterious experiences.

The video
is extremely compelling.

[narrator]
...and Chrissy Newton
is a journalist and authority

on space, science,
and the unknown.

And we were told that
this was a secret location.

Absolutely.

When I looked up,
I saw a UFO in the sky.

[narrator] Thousands
of experiencers came forward

and submitted
their personal stories

and evidence
for examination...

These beings were so
so gloriously beautiful.

[narrator] ...hoping
to finally separate
fact from fiction.

[Mitch] Based on everything
that you've brought
to the table...

you witnessed a UFO.

I am excited
for us to be talking
about Area 51 and UFO lore,

that's King Arthur's Court,

and we're about to
go way back.

Heading down
the road of 1992--

-Gregory, how are you?
Welcome. Mitch.
-Hi. Hi.

-[Chrissy] Hi.
-Please sit down.

-[Greg] Hi.
-Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you, too.

-Thanks for being here.
-Thanks for having me.

-[Mitch] Absolutely
a pleasure.
-Absolutely, yeah.

You are
one of the trailblazers

of what is one of
the number one UFO hot spots

of the 21st century.

-Yeah.
-[Mitch] That's remarkable.

Well, first and foremost,

we wanna ask you
to tell us your story,

where you were, when it was,
and what happened.

[Greg] My name is Greg Ayers,

and I think that I saw
a UFO at Area 51.

This was
in the late spring of 1992.

I was living
in San Francisco at the time,

and my ex was very deep
into conspiracy theories.

Area 51 had been getting
some unwanted attention.

The US Government's
infamous Area 51
in the Nevada desert

has been cloaked in
conspiracy theories for years,

and recently,
President Clinton reclassified

the security status
for this top secret
clandestine compound.

[reporter 2]
The spokesperson for
the US Department of Energy,

who holds jurisdiction
over the Nevada test site,
had no comment on UFOs.

[reporter 3]
Las Vegas Police report

quite a few calls
just last night

from people who saw
strange lights in the skies
northwest of the city.

It's top secret military base
called Area 51.

Witnesses say the object
was like a pyramid

or a V-shaped wedge
with pulsating yellow lights.

An ex-employee from Area 51,
this guy named Bob Lazar,

started giving interviews

with a local Las Vegas
news station.

He was purporting
that he was hired

to reverse engineer
UFO technology

that the US Government
had acquired

through
actual alien encounters.

Real obvious
what was in the hangar.

You could see
about three quarters
of the edge of the craft.

It was
a typical flying saucer.

Human hands
did not put this together.

[reporter 1] Lazar
brought a group of friends
to the edge of the facility,

where they videotaped
the so-called UFO

on what Lazar says
was a test flight.

[man 1] Man,
it is really bright.
Look at it. Look at it.

I believe
beyond any shadow of a doubt

uh, that, "Yes,
these are alien spacecraft."

[Greg] Just the fact
that he went on air

and revealed these things

really stirred up
a lot of interest.

And so my ex decided

that we were going
to make a trip to Area 51.

My ex had some directions
that he had gotten

and we were going to look
for this black mailbox

at the end of a entrance way

into the military compound
of Area 51.

Miraculously,
we find this black mailbox
at the end of this entryway.

We brought our video cameras

because we were determined

to catch
some kind of evidence.

We've been
waiting a couple of hours
and we see a light pop up.

Pops up over the ridge.

It is a yellowish orange
glowing light.

I was recording,

then the light
just sort of hovered there.

[bleep]

Then that light is joined
by some more lights.

Oh, my God. Holy [bleep]!

When I zoom in on my camera,
you've got to see it.

Then they started tracing
the top of the mountain ridge,

but at an incredible speed,

and then disappeared.

Definitely way faster
than you see an airplane fly,

and it was not a helicopter.

It was something
that we couldn't identify.

I'm totally getting
footage of this.

The whole thing
just seemed kind of creepy.

Oh, my God.

It wasn't like
discovering something

and, like, "Oh, wow,
we're getting to see this."

It was like,
"Oh, no, what are we seeing?"

I got scared,
emotionally overwhelmed,

and I put the video camera
down on the ground.

Then everything
just went dark.

The next morning,
I was so nervous about it

and it really seemed
like we were doing
something very dangerous.

Felt like
we were violating the law.

Well, I know we were...
[chuckling]
...violating the law,

and so I took the tape

and I brought it
back to my house,

where it just sat...

for quite a long time.

You've brought to the table
your own experience, account.

You have provided really
extraordinary evidence.

One of the things
that is so exciting

is that you have extremely
rare vintage video evidence

going back
to the VHS era of 1992,

pre X-Files,
pre 21st century
contemporary UFO studies.

-What you captured...
-[Greg] Mm-hmm.

...represents some of
the first civilian footage

that has ever been taken,

ever been made
publicly available
for the first time,

thanks to your efforts,

and that's profoundly exciting
in and of itself.

[narrator] Gregory submitted
a 47-second-long video

that he recorded in 1992
inside the Area 51 base.

This is the first time
he has ever shared

the images from that night.

-My question to you is...
-Mm-hmm.

...why did you
keep it private until now?

[Mitch] Based on all of this

and the unanswered
questions that exist,

I would have to say...

[West] It was probably
up in the sky

for a good
two or three seconds

before I got my camera out
and started to record.

Oh, my God,
I'm actually seeing something.

This is happening.

My ex decided
that we were going

to make a trip to Area 51.

We brought our video cameras

because we were determined

to catch
some kind of evidence.

We've been waiting
a couple of hours
and we see a light pop up.

Then that light is joined
by some more lights.

Oh, my God.

Holy [bleep]!

The whole thing
just seemed kind of creepy.

Oh, my God.

You've brought to the table
your own experience, account.

You have provided really
extraordinary evidence

going back
to an earlier generation.

-My question to you is...
-Mm-hmm.

...why did you
keep it private until now?

Back then,

I maybe
didn't share it so much

because it sounded crazy...

-Mm-hmm.
-...and this just seemed to be

the right time
to tell this story.

What do you hope to gain
from this exchange?

This happened early in '92.

There was no Internet.

Doing research
was literally us getting
in the car and driving there,

and it would be amazing
to get some insights.

Chrissy has teamed
with researchers

to study the video evidence...

-Amazing.
-...that you provided,

and she will be stepping up
with some insights.

We'll do our very best
to provide you
with what we can.

Some answers.

-Try to.
-[chuckles]

[narrator]
Chrissy works with a team
of researchers and analysts

who review UFO databases,

air traffic records,
and satellite data.

They also conduct
state-of-the-art photo
and video examination.

The challenge was around
date, time and location.

We didn't really have that.
We had location.

-We have a year.
-There's no time stamp on it.

[Chrissy] We don't
have a time stamp
on it unfortunately.

So, we're not
able to crosscheck

the UFO databases
or flight patterns.

There's no
satellite information.

We just didn't have
enough data to go on.

Hmm.

[Chrissy] One thing
that we thought...

"Could it be a meteorite?"

So, this is stills
from the video.

-[Greg] Yeah.
-[Chrissy] This is yours.

[Greg] Wow.

[Chrissy]
And this is a meteorite,

from 1992
in Peekskill, New York.

[Greg] Wow.

[narrator] A still
taken from Greg's video,

reveals similarities
to an image of a meteor

taken in Peekskill, New York,
in October of 1992.

-[Greg] That pattern
is incredibly similar.
-[Chrissy] Right.

And that's what we thought
was really intriguing.

Yeah.

We found out in our research,

in '92 within that region,
we didn't see any impact

that would say
that it was a meteorite.

-Okay.
-And so then we thought that
it could possibly be flares.

Because you are
within a military area

-in a range,...
-[Greg] Yeah.

...but it was hard
for us to determine

time, date,
location, exact date.

From the amount of information

that we could get
back to that time,

within those regions

there was
live artillery, bombing
and potentially war games.

I don't have enough data

to be able to make
a real concrete conclusion,
unfortunately.

So I have to defer to Mitch.

When I'm looking
at these cases,

I make a determination
from an aggregate of details.

I'm going to take in

your account,
your credibility,

Chrissy's analysis

and come to my conclusion.

First of all, there is
your credibility as a witness,

which I think is very high.

The video was analyzed
to be absolutely
unpolluted, uncorrupted.

It's almost like
you've brought us
this wonderful time capsule

from the dawn
of this present epic
in UFO history.

Based on all of this,

and the unanswered
questions that exist,

in the strictest of terms,

I would have to say,

you did witness
and capture a UFO.

What you captured
is unidentified.

It is definitely unidentified.

-[Chrissy] Yeah.
-Yeah.

This has been
a huge pleasure, Gregory.

A huge pleasure for me, too.

Yeah, great meeting you both.

Um...

-Can I keep these?
-Yeah, sure. Yeah.
Go for it.

Really appreciate it.

-Thanks.
-Back at you.

-All right. All right.
-See you later.

Safe travels.
Thank you, Greg.

It's not
definitely conclusive,

but it was satisfying
to hear an opinion

about what these
video images might be.

Oh, my God. Holy [bleep]!

I visited Area 51
with my partner, Jacqueline,

about
two and a half years ago,

and we went as close
as you can get

till you start to see
threatening signs and...

-Yeah.
-...guys staring back
at you from white SUVs

who do not look like
they're welcoming visitors.

No, and I would
never recommend
anyone to pass that line.

I was at Area 51
right when it was coming
to people's attention.

It's cool to feel like
I am a part of history.

-[man] Hi.
-[Mitch] Hey.

-[Chrissy] Hey.
-[Mitch] How's it going,
my man?

-I couldn't help overhearing
all the talk of UFOs.
-[Chrissy] Yeah.

-[man] Unidentified
Flying Objects and...
-[Chrissy] Yeah.

-I got a video, you guys
might wanna look at.
-[Chrissy] Yeah.

[woman] UFOs, man?

-[child] What is that?
-[woman] Videotape it.

-Are you videotaping?
-Yes, yes.

-Where is this?
-This is going south on 285,

-outside of--
-In here?

-Yes, in Roswell.
-In Roswell?

[Mitch] Roswell,
New Mexico,

is the world's
central gathering spot

for UFO
and alien experiencers.

We were
constantly seeing them,

and we don't know
what they are.

[Mitch] The biggest stories
and groundbreaking reports

are only possible
because of citizen seekers

who step up
to provide the evidence,

and blow the whistle.

[Chrissy] It's amazing.
Thank you very much.

-[Mitch] We appreciate
seeing that, man.
-[Chrissy] Yeah.

This video
is pretty interesting.

Yeah, from what I've heard,
and what I read is that
he did his own analysis.

So I'm curious
to see what he said.

-I'm curious to see
how he did his researching...
-Mm-hmm.

-...compared to our research.
-For sure.

-[Chrissy] Yeah.
-Hear about that.

-Hey, how are you, man?
-West. Nice to meet you.

-West. Chrissy.
-Chrissy, nice to meet you.

-Nice to meet you, too.
-[Mitch] Welcome.

-Thank you very much.
-Thanks for being here.

I'm excited to be here.

I really appreciate you guys
looking into this with me.

-[Mitch] Absolutely.
-[Chrissy] For sure.

Please tell us, uh,
what transpired.

[West] My name is West Decker.

I'm from Fort Worth, Texas,

and I may be
a UFO experiencer.

For most of my life,
I have always been skeptical,

but I really got interested
in the UFO phenomenon

when the big articles came out
in The New York Times

and we started seeing videos
from the Navy.

We know that in some cases,

these phenomena have
impacted military training,

have then impacted
military readiness.

[reporter] The committee
also heard from former pilots,

who had witnessed
Unidentified Flying Objects

they claim
couldn't be flown by humans.

Could a human survived
those G forces

with known technology today?

-[Mr. Graves] No.
-[CDR. Fravor Ret.] No,

not for the acceleration rates
that we observed.

Something clicked with me,
and I really got interested

in the whole topic
of the UFO phenomenon,

and I did research,
read the books

and I became convinced

that there's
something going on.

I also became convinced

that I have no idea
what it is.

On January 7th, 2024,
I had finished dinner,

and at that time my dog
always wants to go out,

so I walked out with him.

My kind of habit
in the evening,

is to just to scan the sky
and just look for movement.

So I looked off
to the southwest.

It was dusk and I could see
this bright white light.

It was probably up in the sky

for a good
two or three seconds

before I got my camera out
and started to record.

Oh, my God,
I'm actually seeing something.

This is happening.

[Chrissy] So,
we cross-checked
our flight databases.

It showed an aircraft
in that area of the time

that was traveling
at 20,000 feet,

but...

On January 7th, 2024,

I looked off to the southwest.

It was dusk and I could see
this bright white light.

It was probably up in the sky

for a good
two or three seconds

before I got my camera out
and started to record.

Oh, my God,
I'm actually seeing something.

This is happening.

I was blown away.

I mean, I... I...
at that moment in time,

I didn't know what to think.

As it moved, it slowly grew,

and then it
expanded out into this ring.

It slowed down
and then... faded...

and then it disappeared.

There was this
progression of thoughts

and emotions
that I went through.

I immediately was in awe.

My next thought was,
"What if it wasn't real?"
[laughs]

"What if it was
just something mundane"?

If I'm gonna
try to get to the bottom
of the sighting that I had,

I think we should be
facts and evidence base.

We've got to be real careful
because we could be missing

some important evidence

simply because
we're more prone
to a convenient answer.

To me,
I don't want "probably."

I wanna get
to the bottom of it.

West, what are you hoping for
from our exchange today first?

I want to know
what the truth is,

as best as
we can figure it out.

-Well, West,
we received your testimony...
-Yep.

-...and your video evidence...
-Mm-hmm.

...which Chrissy
has reviewed...

-Oh, awesome.
-...with analysts,

and she's going
to have some findings

-to disclose.
-Excellent.

[narrator] West submitted

a 67-second-long
cell phone video

that he recorded on
January 7th, 2024,
for analysis.

So we look for a date,
time and location,

photo and video evidence.

We cross-checked
our flight databases.

It showed an aircraft
in that area of the time

that was traveling
at 20,000 feet,

but what you saw
was unlike an aircraft.

[West] It wasn't
a plane for sure.

It wasn't
anything conventional
that I'm used to seeing.

We also looked
for mass sightings.

And we found a lot of
social media coverage.

[woman]
What is this in the sky?

[man] Oh, man, that's crazy.

[woman]
This is bananas right now.

There was multiple
UFO activity

reported in North Texas,

and there was a whole
bunch of media coverage.

So a lot of people saw that.

Yeah, exactly.

And then we cross-checked
rocket launch data.

So what we did notice

is that SpaceX launch occurred
on January 7th

at 4:35
Central Standard Time.

[man at Space X]
Go, Falcon. Go, go!

But it occurred
an hour and a half
before your sighting.

The time doesn't match up.

Yeah, exactly.
That was my confusion, too.

The one thing, though,
that was really interesting,

and we were
a little bit boggled,

was that the aura glow
that came off it,

and we're like,
"What is that?"

From further analysis,

we did conclude

it's a sound barrier
compression wave.

[narrator] When an object
passes through the air,

it creates
a series of pressure waves

similar to the waves
created by a boat.

These waves travel
at the speed of sound,

and as the speed increases,
the waves are compressed,

which appears to be
what was captured
in West's video.

According to the data,

it's SpaceX Falcon 9
rocket booster

that was entering
the atmosphere.

It was a second stage
reentry of SpaceX Falcon 9.

This particular
piece of evidence

didn't capture a UFO.

And I am
completely okay with that.

I'm glad we found the answer.

And West,
your credibility
and reliability

as a witness
is absolutely impeccable.

You've been completely
transparent, ethical,

and when I first
saw the video,

I was very excited because
it's very alluringly shot.

This is a remarkable video.

Thank you.

The fact that
it was something mundane

doesn't make it
any less, uh, amazing to me.

I'm so grateful
that you guys were able

-to get that next level
of research, and...
-[Chrissy] Yeah.

...and apply
that kind of rigor

because I guessed that
that glow

and that
diffused ring and stuff

were maybe a fuel dump, but...

That doesn't take away
from any of those
other experiences.

Sure, and I appreciate that.

I am extraordinarily grateful

for all the work
that you guys put into this,

-tracking
the orbits like this...
-Yeah.

...that was one of the things
that I was missing
in my own research.

That's just something
that's outside of my reach,

so I'm really, uh, impressed,

and to me,
it was more important
to find out what I saw

than it was for me
to find what I wanted to see.

-West, you are
a true citizen seeker.
-[Chrissy] Yeah.

-Thank you.
-[Mitch] And this has been
a great pleasure.

-[both] Thank you.
-It's been my pleasure.

-[Chrissy] Thanks, West.
-Thank you.

Well, that is a man
who believes in
pure questioning.

One of the rarest
of all traits.

This was the kind of help
I was looking for.

Which was, you know,
having people

who could find out
the answers that I couldn't.

Mitch and Chrissy
are so big in this field

that even though mine
didn't turn out to be a UFO,

it was like
an amazing experience.

We did a detail analysis
on your video.

We know it's not been faked
or altered in any way.

One thing, though...

Everything that we do
is building a record,

and everybody's got
different levels of evidence.

Yeah.

I was like, "Mom,"
like, "Come here,

you have to see
what's outside,"

because it was
just such a weird,
translucent, whitish color.

Eventually, it just
disappeared into nothing.

And I mean,
I had no idea what it was.

I just don't have any data,

and there's no hard science
for me to analyze,

to say that
that is 100% real or accurate.

[Mitch]
A lot of the experiencers

that comes through the door
here at the Variety

are people
with firsthand accounts.

They cannot always provide
the hard evidence

that Chrissy and her team
require for analysis.

Hey, Welcome.

-Hey.
-Hey-hey.

-How's it going. Mitch.
-Hello.

July of 2022, I was,
I think it was like 5:00 a.m.

[Mitch] For me,
this doesn't necessarily mean

that their account
cannot be taken seriously.

And so we all look up
and there's a dot in the sky,

and then instantly
there is a craft

in the yard, um,
in front of us.

[Mitch] I listen
with a critical mind.

I turned around and there was
a being at the foot of my bed

who was about
three or four feet tall.

It had the big eyes,
real spindly.

-Looked like a kid.
-Mm-hmm.

Do they truly believe
what they saw was real?

Um, but I guess
the biggest question
is like, "Why me?"

[Mitch] And are they
a credible witness

with respect
to what they're saying?

You've also, frankly,
put your own reputations
on the line.

-You're working people.
-[Chrissy] Oh, yeah.

You have friends,
you have families,
you have work relationships.

All of these factors
help me determine

where their story falls
on the scale of fact.

Even though
there's no evidence,
I believe in the story

that you are bringing
to the table.

[woman] Thank you.

The bar is a great place,

which people
crisscross through.

-Yeah.
-It's UFO junction.

Oh, yeah, seriously.

-Everyone has a story...
-Yep.

...and this is the town
that UFOs built.

What's your understanding of
the skinwalker? What is that?

[Chrissy] With a skinwalker,
it can

-shape-shift and transform.
-Mm-hmm.

One day it might be,
some will say that
they've seen a wolf

and then it can shape-shift
into something else.

-Mm-hmm.
-So it's not really,
we don't know what it is.

-Interesting.
-Yeah.

Hey, man.
Good to see you. Ryan.
I'm Mitch.

Hi. Chrissy. Nice to meet you.

-Good to meet you both.
-[Mitch] Welcome.

First and foremost,
we want to hear

your account directly from you

to ensure that
we haven't missed anything.

So walk us through the events.

[Ryan] My name is Ryan Burns.

On June 17th, 2012, 12:36,

I saw something that I could
not understand, comprehend,

and still wonder to this day
what I might have done.

I am a property manager.

One of the properties
shares a fence line

with Skinwalker Ranch up
in the northeastern part
of Utah.

And there's
a lot going on there.

That whole area
has high strangeness appeal.

That's where I had
one of the strangest events.

I was on the property
with a friend

and he said, "Hey, you guys,
come check this out."

When I went outside,
I immediately saw,

for lack of a better word,
this tubular craft.

It was directly
over our heads,

somewhere along the lines
of 2, 300 feet,

so close enough to get a look,

but far enough that
we couldn't tell what it was.

I ran back inside,
grabbed the camcorder.

When I zoomed in
with the camcorder

is when we started
to really get an idea of,

like, what this thing
might be made of.

It looked like
it was something very solid,

cylindrical
and slightly moving up.

As I zoomed in
with the camcorder,

there was no signs
of propulsion.

It seemed to be rolling
or undulating,

moving more in ways

that were not
congruent with it

being reflective
and metallic looking.

Whatever it was,
it seemed like

it was
intelligently controlled,

almost more biological,

as if it knew
it might be watched.

You know, when the three of us
were pointing and talking,

it just rose

until it was out of sight.

After it disappeared,

we checked
all kinds of flight logs.

There seemed to be nothing
that matched this description.

It falls into line
with a lot of

strange descriptions
in the area.

I honestly don't know
what we saw that day,

but there was a lot
that kinda pointed me

in the direction
of something...

non-human.

What is it you hope to gain
from our exchange today?
What are you looking for?

Um, any thoughts,
uh, theories.

What, you think, you know,

what... what boxes it checks,
and which ones it doesn't.

Where it fits into
the whole scheme of things.

I think the, uh,
the more experiences

and opportunities
we have to see things

that are somewhat
anomalous in nature,

-and I think there's more
to be gathered from it all.
-[Mitch] Hmm.

We have received your accounts
and your evidence.

[narrator]
Ryan Burns submitted
a 20-second long video

of an object
flying over Skinwalker Ranch

in Utah,
that he filmed in 2012.

Hopefully, Chrissy can shed
some significant light

on these questions of yours.

All right,
so let's just go through
the collected material.

I have a video along with,
then your own testimony.

Some research that we did,
is we looked at

the historical analysis
of the area

and past sightings,

we know that Skinwalker Ranch
in the Uinta Basin

is filled with
tons of UFO sightings,

high strangeness.

[narrator] Located
in northeastern Utah,

Skinwalker Ranch
has been known

for its UFO sightings
for more than 50 years.

In 2008, the Defense
Intelligence Agency created

the Advanced Aerospace Weapon
System Application Program

and along with
ranch owner Robert Bigelow,

they began researching UFOs

and other strange phenomena
reported there.

The program ended in 2012,

and the results
of the four-year study

led to the creation
of the now declassified

Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program.

So, we looked into that
and we did take it
into consideration.

We also did
a detailed analysis
on your video.

We know it's not been faked
or altered in any way.

And then we did check
all UFO databases

for aircraft
and unknown objects
in the sky.

And we saw nothing.

One thing, though...

When I first
saw the images and video,

I thought,
"Ah, this is gonna be

a weather balloon,
solar sail."

You know,
something of that nature,

but I'm surprised as hell...

2024 is the year
of disclosure.

I'm here in
Roswell, New Mexico,

home of the 1947
UFO crash site,

which has become a mecca

for UFO
experiencers, and seekers.

The key to finding answers
lies within the people

who have experienced
this phenomena firsthand.

I'm hoping to find that
one true gem of evidence...

I'm experiencing
chills over here.

...that stands out
and rewrites history forever.

When I went outside,
I immediately saw,

for lack of a better word,

this tubular craft.

It was directly over our heads

somewhere along the lines
of 2, 300 feet.

I honestly don't know
what we saw that day,

but there was a lot
that kinda pointed me

in the direction
of something non-human.

We did a detailed analysis
on your video.

We know it's not been faked
or altered in any way.

We did check
all UFO databases,

for aircraft,
and unknown objects.

And we saw nothing.

There wasn't any other
UFO connections

or anything that was reported
with any other databases.

Also, the movement was so slow

that it does eliminate
any airplanes.

So, finally,
we had two analysts
look at this.

They thought
that it could be...

a solar balloon.

That day, the temperatures
were in the mid-'90s,

so it's a great condition
for that.

[narrator] Solar balloons
are used to study the weather

and for other airborne
scientific investigations.

One thing, though,
both analysts said

there wasn't any
solar balloon launch data
at that point in time,

so they couldn't prove
that it was a solar balloon.

Definitely baffled.

[Chrissy] The experts said
they're perplexed, too.

It's unidentified.

Well, um,
I'm surprised as hell,

you know, because
I have to be perfectly frank.

When I first saw
the images and video,

I thought,
"Ah, this is gonna be

a weather balloon
solar sail."

You know
something of that nature

but I'd have to say

based on the material,
culture, locality,

your credibility as a witness,

the analysis from the experts,

you saw a UFO.

I mean, UFO in my mind
is something unidentified.

It's quite common
to talk to people

that experience
this sort of thing,

but it's a lot harder
to actually have
analysts like that

who are experienced,
to be able to actually

view video evidence
and come away with that,

so I think
it's really exciting.

-[Mitch] Thank you, man.
-[Chrissy] Thank you.

We appreciate
your sharing this

and your stepping forward.

-[Chrissy] Yeah.
-Yeah, appreciate you both.
Thank you.

-[Mitch] Yeah.
-[Chrissy] Nice to meet you.

This is a field that comes
with a lot of doubt.

Now that the experts
have validated this,

it assures me
that I'm on the right path.

You know, I'm gonna
keep doing what I'm doing.

I'm gonna keep working
towards more disclosure.

I was surprised.

I... Well,
it was hard decision.

-I know it was.
-Yeah.

I really, really thought
you were gonna say,

"Look,
this is a weather balloon.
This is a sail."

Something else.
I really, I was surprised.

You know, and we can't find
any other data in that region

that says that
there was a plane

or anything else
in that... in that area.

-Then to me, it says UFO.
-Yeah.

So I have to go on the fact
that it's potentially
an Unidentified Flying Object.

-Yeah, it's a UFO.
-Bravo.

Well, another good night
at the Variety.

-Yeah.
-One more joke for the road.

Oh, man.

What do you find
on every alien farm?

-I don't know.
-A tractor beam.

I've been chasing a phenomenon
all of my life,

and we captured something
that I've never seen before.

What the is [bleep] that?

Wow.

I... I don't understand
what it could have been.

[man 1] We went to an event

which is kind of
a meditational focused

intention to make contact
with extraterrestrials.

I was like,
"What the F is that?"

[people exclaiming]

Some part of me is just like,

this experience
was not of this world.

I saw things
I couldn't explain

happening in the sky.

-Holy [bleep].
-[man 2] It is gone.

-[woman exclaims]
-[man 4] Oh, my God.

It's gone.

I'm not entirely sure
what I saw that night,

but I do know that I witnessed
something extraordinary.