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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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