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NARRATOR: All over the world, governments are now

openly investigating unidentified flying objects.

DAVID CHILDRESS: We’ve seen a dramatic increase

in UFO reports in a number

of countries around the world.

NARRATOR: From democracies

to dictatorships,

world leaders have begun releasing

secret and still unexplained video evidence.

JEREMY CORBELL: Even in a closed country like China,

what we’re seeing is acknowledgment

of the UFO phenomenon.

NARRATOR: But why are governments

that once denied UFOs

suddenly launching serious inquiries?

And if the new spirit of openness spreads,

where might that lead?

NICK POPE: After nearly 80 years of denying and debunking,

you have international cooperation and liaison.

This is governments

acknowledging that there’s a potential threat

and that something needs to be done.

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

The United States government

breaks a 70‐year precedent of denying UFOs

and releases a groundbreaking report

on unidentified aerial phenomena.

The nine‐page unclassified document

identifies 144 UAP incidents

and concludes that only one of them

can be explained.

JOHN PODESTA: For the first time,

you actually had the U.S. government

putting out physical evidence

that any person in the United States

or around the globe could click on

and see and say, "Okay, what’s that about?"

And I think you’re left with the impression

that this is something extremely unusual,

highly unlikely that it’s sourced

to a foreign government or to the U.S. government.

And, therefore, you’re left with what?

GEORGE KNAPP: I hope

that because of the recent openness

of the U.S. government,

some of our allies will take a cue from that.

These things are not an American phenomena.

They are seen all over the world.

They’ve been seen on every continent,

in every culture throughout human history.

The fact is that Russia, like the U.S., like China,

like most other world governments,

has been interested in this topic forever.

CHILDRESS: In the last few years,

we’ve seen a dramatic increase in UFO reports

in a number of countries around the world.

In South America.

Also in Iran and the Philippines

and Japan and even China.

When I look at the best cases

of military pilots, commercial pilots

all over the world caught on radar,

ground radar, ground and airborne radar,

multiple aircraft ground and airborne radar,

it’s clearly a worldwide phenomenon.

NARRATOR: While the United States

officially denied investigating UAPs

until 2017,

some nations had always been ahead

in their approach to the subject.

Leading the world in UAP research

is the South American country of Chile.

In 1997,

the Chilean government officially instructed

air traffic control and military personnel

to create the Committee for the Study

of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena.

The committee studies all reports of UAP activity

by commercial, military and civilian pilots.

One of the most well‐publicized

was a shocking incident that occurred in 2014

when Chilean naval officers

flying along the coast of Santiago

captured video of a UAP.

ALEJANDRO ROJAS: There was an incident

in 2014 where a military helicopter

got video of a strange object.

It kind of looked like

a rocket with some sort of plume behind it.

And they said they were at about 4,500 feet.

RICHARD DOLAN: They have nine minutes

of fairly clear video that exists on this.

The Chilean military studied it for two years,

and they were not able to identify this at all.

HESELTINE: Chile,

like many other South American countries,

seem to be far more open to the idea

that there are objects coming into our airspace.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: I think one of the reasons

why South American countries are more open‐minded

about the UFO and the extraterrestrial question

is because it is part of their cultural heritage.

In fact, Peru

and Bolivia, they’re treasure troves

for the ancient astronaut theory.

The whole pre‐Inca culture and even the Inca culture spoke

of these beings of light that descended from the sky.

And so, these countries essentially grew up

with this intrinsic knowledge of someone up in the sky.

Brazil has had a history of really dramatic UFO encounters.

Chile, I think Uruguay, maybe, as well.

But the whole world didn’t pay much attention to it.

NARRATOR: In addition to South America,

now other parts of the world

are also starting to disclose information about UFOs.

Governments are openly investigating encounters

reported by both civilians and military personnel.

But many researchers believe the most noteworthy country

to join this international effort is also

one of the most skeptical: Japan.

In 2018, the Japanese government released an official statement

denying the existence of UFOs.

For the longest time in Japan, those in charge,

those at the top of the defense departments

have denied UFOs, showed a disinterest in UFOs,

basically a complete dismissal of the UFO topic completely.

GREG SULLIVAN: The Japanese government made a sudden press release

that was said they would not recognize any UFO encounters

or extraterrestrial presence on Earth

or in the airspace of Japan.

I thought this was very strange, as we had already interviewed

two pilots, uh, who had several i‐incidents and, uh, testimonies

that they gave us regarding various pilots’ encounters

in the air and from the ground over the years

when they were active in the military.

NARRATOR: Mamoru Sato, a former wing commander

in the Japanese Self‐Defense Force,

said that he regularly heard stories from other pilots

as well as civilians about UAP sightings.

(speaking Japanese)

TRANSLATOR: Some people said,

"There’s something strange up there."

There were a lot of opportunities

to see inexplicable things,

such as UFOs that were monitoring the sky

and training in the sky.

And it was my subjective view that we should make a report

and organize these things as correct data.

But even when this happened, it was only shared

among colleagues and not reported publicly.

(speaking Japanese)

NARRATOR: According to Sato, numerous pilots

have reported highly unusual encounters

with what they described as cigar‐shaped objects.

During one such incident,

a student in his fighter pilot course

even lost control of his craft.

(speaking Japanese)

SATO (translated): He said, "The aircraft started going crazy."

The alarm rang to indicate that something was wrong

with the machine.

I saw a cigar‐shaped object flying

about 1,500 meters high from east to west.

The anomaly continued until it disappeared.

NARRATOR: For years, pilots in the Japanese military

were instructed to remain silent about such incidents.

But in September 2020,

Japan’s decades‐long policy of secrecy and denial

came to an end when Defense Minister Taro Kono

tasked the Japanese Self‐Defense Forces

to make a visual recording of any encounter

with an unexplained craft.

Many believe this very public shift in policy

was prompted by a meeting held one month earlier

between Minister Kono and his U.S. counterpart

Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

The Japanese, after this meeting,

uh, gave a press conference.

And they said one of the topics that came up

was unidentified aerial phenomena.

And we talked about the need to cooperate on this.

That’s a major development, I think,

when you have close allies like the U.S. and Japan

openly speaking about the UFO issue and agreeing to cooperate.

We’ve come so far in such a short amount of time.

RYAN SPRAGUE: The fact that Japan denied

that there was UFO activity happening in their country,

and now they’re establishing

the Japanese Space Operations Squadron

says to me that there clearly is something going on

over the skies of Japan.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

governments throughout the world

are finally beginning to acknowledge

that there may be objects in our skies

that are not of this Earth,

and they say that when it comes to promoting

investigation and transparency,

one of the biggest proponents is also one of the most unlikely:

the royal family of Britain.

NARRATOR: At a meeting of the House of Lords‐‐

the second chamber of Parliament‐‐

Minister of Defence, Baroness Annabel Goldie,

is questioned about the just‐released report

on unidentified aerial phenomena issued by the United States,

and is asked if the U.K. plans on issuing a report of its own.

HESELTINE: Baroness Goldie answered in a way that said

that there is no threat.

She was very careful how she phrased it.

She said there has never been a "proven" threat.

Reading between the lines,

that said to me that unless these things

are gonna start shooting at our aeroplanes,

they’re not considered a threat.

NARRATOR: But while the British Parliament has no plans

to release its own UAP report, it was recently discovered

that for more than 70 years, UFO activity

was closely monitored

by some of the most prominent members of the royal family.

April 9, 2021.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,

passes away at the age of 99.

As publications across the world report on his incredible life,

it comes to light that the prince

had a long‐held fascination with the UFO phenomenon.

When Prince Philip died in the spring of 2021,

there was a bit of a surprise to the British public,

and that was that Prince Philip had a huge collection

of books on UFOs that went right back to the mid‐1940s.

DOLAN: He had an associate named Sir Peter Horsley

who was a former RAF pilot.

He was a good friend of Prince Philip,

and back in the mid‐1950s,

was charged by the prince to do a lot of research

into this whole flying saucer situation.

POPE: The two of them over the years

researched and investigated this quietly,

kept an eye on all the developments,

secretly subscribed to various UFO magazines and newsletters,

and even had witnesses interviewed.

But a lot of this, of course, was highly sensitive.

I mean, here you have the queen’s husband,

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,

researching and investigating UFOs.

Had the news got out, it would have caused a sensation.

NARRATOR: While those within the UFO community

had long been aware of Prince Philip’s investigations

into strange phenomena,

most of the public only learned of it with his passing.

And it also came to light that another member

of the British royal family was responsible

for one of Great Britain’s earliest UFO reports.

Hampshire, England, 1955.

On the morning of February 23rd, at 8:30 a.m.,

bricklayer Frederick Briggs is riding his bike

when he encounters a startling sight,

an enormous object in the sky above his employer’s estate.

POPE: He said this thing was huge,

it was hovering a short distance above the ground,

some sort of column descended and a figure emerged,

a humanoid figure wearing some sort of dark uniform

and‐and perhaps wearing a hat or a helmet.

And at one point he talks about a force

knocking him off his bicycle and holding him down.

He talks about the UFO as having windows

around the side of it, and seeing a strange light.

It’s a quite extraordinary account.

This close encounter event was so remarkable

to Fred Briggs that he thought it was necessary

to tell the actual owner of this estate.

And that just so happened to be Lord Mountbatten,

who was the uncle of Prince Philip,

who was married to Queen Elizabeth.

NARRATOR: At the time of the sighting, Lord Louis Mountbatten,

former governor general of India,

was the first sea lord of the British Royal Navy.

This is a UFO sighting at the home

of one of the most senior figures

in the British establishment.

We know so much about this

because they recorded the whole thing.

They actually took a statement from the bricklayer,

Lord Mountbatten wrote up a report,

they all signed them all.

DOLAN: This, apparently, was a very credible account,

according to Lord Mountbatten.

And he talked extensively to Prince Philip about this.

I mean, you have to assume this whole thing

went through the entire royal household.

You have to assume Queen Elizabeth knew all about this.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: Lord Mountbatten would have access

as friends and colleagues to the people in the MOD

who were keeping the secret information about UFOs and ETs.

And that is my guess, is the fuel

that kept Prince Philip so interested

because they were telling each other,

"This is real, this is true."

NARRATOR: While the royal family was secretly investigating UFOs

in the 1950s, so, too, was the British government.

In 1988, researchers unearthed a five‐page report

from 1951, buried in the National Archive,

detailing the findings of a group called

the Flying Saucer Working Party.

One of the British government’s first forays

into the whole UFO mystery was the Flying Saucer Working Party.

It examined a range of UFO sightings

mainly reported by military witnesses.

HESELTINE: The Flying Saucer Working Party met briefly for about 12 months.

It comprised of five scientists, and it was‐‐

originally met in October of 1950,

and by June of 1951, had produced a report.

And the report basically said,

"We’re gonna debunk it, following America’s lead."

DOLAN: I’ve always interpreted this report

as orders from above.

You know, someone said, "Look, we don’t need the lower levels,

uh, to start getting worked up over these UFO reports."

NARRATOR: The Flying Saucer Working Party was shut down

following the 1951 report, but it inspired interest

from prominent figures within the British government,

and led to further investigations.

POPE: In 1952, Winston Churchill,

back as prime minister in the U.K.,

said to the Air Ministry and to his chief scientific adviser,

"What does all this stuff about flying saucers mean?"

Just the year after Churchill wrote that memo,

the Ministry of Defence actually set up the UFO program

where I worked in later years.

The government’s official position was,

"There’s nothing here to suggest a reality to the phenomenon."

I think the reality behind closed doors was very different.

And there have always been those of us who felt

this was an extremely serious defense

and national security issue.

NARRATOR: While the British government

continues to be less than forthcoming

regarding its UFO investigations,

perhaps the world’s best model of transparency

has emerged just across the English Channel.

In France, collaborative efforts by space,

military and government agencies

have recently uncovered more than 400 encounters

that remain entirely unexplained.

NARRATOR: The National Centre for Space Studies

establishes an organization to record eyewitness accounts

of abnormal phenomena observed in the sky.

Known today as GEIPAN, which, translated,

stands for The Group for Studies and Information

on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena,

the unit has amassed more than 100,000 pages’ worth

of UAP reports.

And in 2007, the group did something unprecedented.

It shared all of its files with the public.

France is quite unorthodox

when it comes to how governments are dealing with UFOs.

They released all their UFO data.

And they said, "Here’s where we’re at.

"As we get new information,

we’re just gonna release it to you, the public."

They did something that no one had ever done before.

It was the first time it had ever happened.

CORBELL: France is one of these countries

that, both culturally and also governmentally,

have made a point to be in front of the UFO issue.

This is a rarity

because of the national security implications,

but it shows us an opportunity where the public can be informed

alongside the government with the fundamental reality

that UFOs are real,

that the presence on planet Earth has been durational.

It has been here a long time.

And there is a mystery that we need to look at.

It is our right to know and our duty to find out.

NARRATOR: GEIPAN posted information on their website

on over 1,600 cases and concluded that 28% of them

cannot be explained by conventional events.

And a number of these unexplained sightings

were reported by multiple witnesses.

One of the most sensational encounters took place

more than 45 years ago on a clear,

cloudless night at a combat flight school

to the southwest of Paris.

There was an incident on March 3, 1976,

when French fighter pilots were engaged in a training mission.

Every five minutes, T‐33 planes were taking off

from the air base near Tours.

NARRATOR: Flying solo at an altitude of 20,000 feet,

each student pilot had to navigate a route

of several hundred miles.

CHILDRESS: One of these pilots was flying

with‐with several other flights just behind him.

He suddenly saw this huge, green fireball...

...coming straight at him.

And in fact, he thought that it was going to hit his plane,

and he covered his eyes and braced for impact,

and just then, this green fireball

went off to one side

and clipped the wing of his jet fighter.

He was amazed that he had actually survived this,

and had no idea what happened, but two pilots behind him

had seen the same thing.

HENRY: Nothing was recorded on the radar on the ground,

but the fact remains,

is that highly trained military pilots saw this object.

They couldn’t explain what they actually saw.

NARRATOR: Commercial airline pilots

were also involved in an extraordinary incident

that occurred over the French capital.

This time the reported UFO encounter

took place in broad daylight.

HENRY: On January 28, 1994,

Air France flight 3532

was flying from Nice, France to London, England.

They were just over Paris when, all of a sudden,

the pilots reported seeing an orangish‐reddish disc

about 30 miles away that was changing its form.

HOWE: It transforms into a bell,

from a bell into a lens, from a lens back into a bell.

And they kept watching this transformation,

which today, we know, this is one of the key signatures

in the UFO phenomena.

CHILDRESS: Later, when they made their report,

they found out that radar had also tracked this disc,

and they had no explanation for it at all.

HENRY: These are just two examples of the 400 incidents

that could not be explained.

NARRATOR: France’s decision to share its data with the public

is unprecedented.

Then again, their entire approach to UAPs stands

in stark contrast to the way the rest of the world operates.

POPE: If you look at the history of government UFO programs,

most nations that have had one embed those programs

in either the air force or the department of defense.

The French have a different model.

Their UFO program is embedded

in their national space agency.

GREENSTREET: And they’re provided with data from the military.

And so, it’s this trilateral commission, almost,

of space, public, military and government working together

to release to the public current information on UFOs.

POPE: What you get is a less secretive

and threat‐orientated approach,

and a more open scientific inquiry.

If you embed a UFO program in the military,

their first question is, "Is this a threat?"

If you embed it in the scientific community,

their question is, "What is the true nature of this phenomenon,

and can we do any scientific experiments to validate this?"

So, if you look at the way things are done in France,

that might be a model for the future here in the U.S.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists

hope that France’s collaborative approach to UAP investigations

becomes the norm around the world.

But even as more nations seem willing

to share information about UAPs,

China, the Western world’s most secretive adversary,

remains mostly silent.

Recent developments, however,

suggest they know more than they are letting on.

NARRATOR: Hangzhou, China,

July 7, 2010.

Air traffic at Xiaoshan International Airport,

one of the busiest in the entire nation, grinds to a halt

when pilots spot a UFO hovering over the runway.

DOLAN: You have Chinese pilots coming into the airport there

and they actually are reporting unusual‐shaped object,

unusual object maneuvering,

uh, to the extent that i‐it prompted the airport

to essentially shut down for an hour.

I think there were 18 flights that were diverted away

from the airport during that hour.

There was a lot of speculation as to what this thing was,

and we don’t really have an answer to this day.

NARRATOR: Neither civilian nor military authorities

were able to identify the object,

and the Chinese government

made no official comment on the situation.

But behind the scenes,

the incident and its implications

worried Chinese officials,

and an investigation was launched.

CHILDRESS: That incident really shocked the Chinese.

And at that point they thought,

"Okay, we’ve got to see what’s going on here."

NARRATOR: For decades, investigators around the world suspected China

had a deep interest in unidentified aerial phenomena.

But the Chinese government is historically secretive,

and members of the UFO community have had difficulty

obtaining information on their methods of UAP research.

POPE: It’s very difficult

to extract reliable information

about what countries like China are doing in relation to UFOs.

About the only thing we know for sure

is that there are government programs looking at this.

The Chinese government is notoriously closed

and secretive on a range of issues,

so it doesn’t surprise me that it’s the case on UFOs as well.

NARRATOR: But in the 21st century,

secrets have become harder and harder to keep.

The UFO sighting at Xiaoshan Airport

was only one of over 3,000 reported in China

over the past two decades.

And in the years that followed the sightings at Hangzhou,

China has undergone a significant change

in its approach to UAPs.

China’s Early Warning Academy,

a division of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force,

issues a government report acknowledging an increase

in what they refer to as "unidentified air conditions."

MICHAEL DENNIN: So, in China, what we call

"unidentified aerial phenomena," they call

"unidentified air conditions,"

and they’ve set up new task force to look at this.

DOLAN: China’s getting a lot of UFO reports,

and one interesting thing about what China does

to collect UFO reports is that they work very closely

with all of these independent Chinese UFO groups

that are around the country.

KNAPP: Their public has UFO clubs

that have a million or more members.

They have multiple clubs that are so much bigger

than our little, tiny UFO groups‐‐

MUFON and things like that‐‐ which are very valuable.

But compared to these Chinese groups, oh, my gosh.

It’s‐it’s gigantic.

DOLAN: There’s no problem in China for you to start up

your own UFO group, but you are absolutely

going to be in communication with Chinese authorities.

And they actively monitor every one of those groups.

NARRATOR: In 2019, in the same report

that revealed China’s UAP program,

Air Force Early Warning Academy researcher Chen Li

also stated that the country would become the first

in the world to use A.I., or artificial intelligence,

to analyze all information related to UAPs.

POPE: It seems that they are looking for patterns in the data

to see historically whether examination of past reports

can throw up any patterns

that human analysts might have missed.

And this is a very important aspect for the future,

as the technology improves.

One of the things in the recent report to the U.S. Congress

was that the United States needs to start doing this.

We don’t want a situation where the Chinese government

gets ahead of the game,

so there’s a gap to be closed there.

DOLAN: I can easily see the benefit from having

a very, very excellent program to analyze these patterns.

’Cause that’s what you’re looking for,

is you’re looking for anomalous patterns.

And so, the fact that China is announcing

that they’re doing it was quite significant.

CHILDRESS: The Chinese have really stepped up

their own official UFO investigations,

and it’s the People’s Liberation Army itself

that’s spearheading this.

NARRATOR: Could events in China indicate

that there is a global mandate to share information

about unidentified aerial phenomena?

While it may appear that governments around the world

are becoming more transparent,

shocking statements recently made

by a pioneer of space exploration

may indicate that much bigger secrets,

with far greater implications, continue to be closely guarded.

NARRATOR: Tel Aviv, Israel,

December 2020.

General Haim Eshed, the former head

of Israel’s defense ministry’s space directorate,

sits for an interview with the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

What he reveals is highly unexpected.

General Eshed is quoted as saying,

"The UFOs have asked not to disclose

"that they are here.

The human race is not ready for them."

He then proceeds to divulge even more shocking revelations.

CHILDRESS: Haim Eshed said that

the Americans and the Israelis and‐and other Western nations

are a part of a federation with extraterrestrials.

And what he described was

something similar to what’s in Star Trek,

a galactic federation of extraterrestrials,

and they are wanting Earth to join this federation.

Eshed was the head of Israel’s defense ministry

space programs for 30 years.

And so, this is an extremely credible person

with this information.

KNAPP: I can’t imagine someone more credible in Israel

than Haim Eshed to make those statements.

He was the head of, uh, space security,

he was a general, he was a professor, an engineer.

He knows his stuff.

He knows what’s ours and what isn’t flying around out there.

HOWE: Haim Eshed is one of the most fascinating humans

on this planet.

He was personally responsible for the overseeing

and the launch of 20 critical satellites in Israel.

He’s saying it, "We are not alone,"

and then comes the other twist.

It isn’t humans that are holding it back.

It’s the extraterrestrial biological entities

who said humans are not ready for the introduction yet.

It is obvious now

that we have to harness the advanced technologies,

to join forces and create this world, a better world.

When someone like that comes out with a story like this,

everyone should sit up and take notice.

And yet, for a lot of people, they’re not either

aware of this or just write this off

because it just sounds too crazy.

And yet it comes from someone

who has operated at the heart of the establishment.

NARRATOR: Despite General Eshed’s high status

as the father of the Israeli space program,

government officials around the world

remained largely silent about his sensational claims.

But did they refrain from commenting

because they found his claims to be outlandish

or because they were protecting the same secret?

It cannot be dismissed offhand because there were others.

One of them is Canada’s defense minister Paul Hellyer,

who has said that there is extraterrestrial contact

going on between Earth and extraterrestrial factions.

NARRATOR: On December 30, 2013,

in an international television news broadcast,

former Canadian Minister of National Defense Paul Hellyer

made the astonishing statement that he has knowledge

of extraterrestrials visiting Earth.

Why do you say that UFOs are as real as the airplanes

flying over our heads?

Well, because I know that they are.

And they’ve been visiting this planet for thousands of years.

And there is what is called a federation of these people,

and they have rules.

When I first went public and I said that UFOs are as real

as the airplanes going overhead,

I got the dubious distinction

of being the first person of cabinet rank

to, uh, to say it categorically.

The elected people have been kept in the dark.

I would say both the president and the Congress.

There have been presidents who’ve wanted to know

what was going on, so, yes, the situation,

I think, is not well understood.

And this has been going on for decades.

So that is a, is a matter of concern,

and I think, uh, should continue to be a matter of concern,

uh, especially for Americans

but also for the people of the world.

CHILDRESS: So here we have two senior military personnel,

one from Israel, one from Canada,

who are basically saying yes, extraterrestrials are here,

UFO activity is real, and certain governments

of planet Earth are in contact with these extraterrestrials.

What’s going on?

Are these people almost, like,

trying to disclose themselves?

Or are they part of a wider strategy

involving many different nations all around the world

working to try and find a way to get this out?

It’s a difficult one, because you can’t ignore the backstory.

If it was just a question of saying

"UFOs are extraterrestrial, it’s all true,"

then fair enough, but the backstory

is that "We’ve been lying to you about this for nearly 80 years."

So, you got to find a way to get it out there in a way

that exonerates governments all around the world

from complicity

in this decades‐long cover‐up and conspiracy.

How to do that?

Well, maybe use these people who have retired

but are still obviously connected and they’re players.

At that level, you don’t ever really leave.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the extraordinary claims

of former high‐ranking government officials

like Haim Eshed and Paul Hellyer are true?

Are there world leaders who are not only aware

of extraterrestrials but in contact with them?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

a recent agreement that details how NATO nations

will protect each other’s interests beyond Earth.

NARRATOR: Brussels, June 2021.

President of the United States Joe Biden

attends the 31st NATO summit

along with 30 other world leaders and dignitaries.

Among the items on the agenda is an agreement between members

to expand the collective defense clause,

also known as Article 5.

In addition to land, sea, air and cyberspace,

NATO nations will now protect one another’s safety

and national interests in space.

POPE: What’s particularly significant

about this is it was the first NATO summit

that President Biden attended.

So here we have a‐an incoming president

who makes this a key part of his initial business.

There’s no getting away from the fact that space

will be a key battlefield in any future conflict.

The only question arises, conflict with who or what?

Some people say the real forces

that they’re concerned about are extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR: NATO leaders claim

the expansion of Article 5 was made to address their concerns

about increasingly aggressive behavior in space

by China and Russia.

But could this actually be the first collective agreement

between nations preparing for the possibility of a threat

from an alien civilization?

And is it one more step towards greater government transparency?

HOWE: We are at 2021 headed toward 2050,

when Elon Musk says he will have a million humans on Mars.

Are we now, in the next decade, going to be introduced

to revelation after revelation, country by country,

treaty by treaty, until the entire planet

has finally stepped up to the plate

on all political and military secrets?

Could it happen that way?

POPE: After nearly 80 years of denying

and debunking and downplaying,

now is the time for governments to step forward and own this.

Time and time again we see this concept that cooperation is key.

It’s only when nations collaborate

that we will be able to fully understand

and respond to the UFO phenomenon.

Mr. Secretary General,

honored guests and distinguished delegates...

TSOUKALOS: In one of his speeches

in 1987, President Reagan made the suggestion

that if Earth would receive a threat from outer space,

that this would unify world cultures from around the planet.

Can we and all nations not live in peace?

I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide

would vanish if we were facing an alien threat,

from outside this world.

TSOUKALOS: I don’t look at the extraterrestrial question

as a threat, but rather an extension of who we are

or how we even got here long ago.

What if you have all the nations around the world

pull together their resources

and research the extraterrestrial question?

And guess what. There is an incredible chest‐‐

a war chest‐‐ of indications from the past

all the way to the present that what we see today is not new.

NARRATOR: Are world leaders

beginning to seriously consider the possibility

that unidentified aerial phenomena

are, in fact, of extraterrestrial origin?

And could the profound implications

of an alien presence on Earth

lead to greater collaboration between nations,

uniting to prepare for an incredible new reality?

Perhaps the visitors in our skies

have been watching us all along,

and only when the world comes together will it finally

be revealed that we are not alone.

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