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NARRATOR: A detailed description

of a highly advanced aircraft appears

in a 3,000-year-old text.

JONATHAN YOUNG: There are tales

of flying craft

that could fly at extraordinary speeds

that defy the laws of physics.

NARRATOR: Ancient stories depict a vehicle

that travels both in the sky and underwater.

WILLIAM HENRY: In Sumeria and in Babylon, they talked about

Oannes who emerged from the sea in a winged disc.

NARRATOR: And the oldest Egyptian hieroglyphs

reference strange objects descending to Earth.

We have depictions in ancient times

of flying craft that seem to be

in the form of pyramids.

NARRATOR: Now, military personnel

are capturing footage

of nearly identical objects in the sky.

Are we encountering the same extraterrestrials

that have occupied Earth for thousands of years?

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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.

NARRATOR: July 2019.

San Clemente Island, California.

68 nautical miles west of San Diego.

Nine U.S. warships

belonging to an elite Navy unit called

Carrier Strike Group 9

are performing nighttime training exercises

in restricted waters.

The Navy was undertaking an exercise

with Strike Force 9.

This is an integrated crew

centered on an aircraft carrier,

but with multiple other

U.S. Navy vessels,

and jets really testing how

the U.S. military would respond

in a war-fighting situation,

so everything has to be seamless.

And then,

into the middle of all of this,

suddenly and unexpectedly,

the exercise is interrupted

by an unknown presence.

NARRATOR: The ships are swarmed

by what the Navy refers to as UAVs,

or Unidentified Aerial Vehicles.

The UAVs fly for prolonged periods of time

in low-visibility conditions,

performing brazen maneuvers over the warships

near a sensitive military training range.

Make no mistake about it,

something is penetrating

the sophisticated air defense network.

JEREMY CORBELL: That swarm series

of UFOs around Navy ships

is one of the most important bodies of evidence

ever documented and put out to the public

because it involved so many ships.

There were a strategic coordination

of these unidentifieds.

NARRATOR: The Photographic Interpretation

and Examination team aboard the USS Russell

captured a compelling 18-second night vision video

of multiple UAVs hovering just 700 feet above the ship.

CORBELL: The USS Russell was swarmed by UFOs

like other ships, but this was different.

These were flying pyramids

without any control surfaces, wings,

rudders, tails, plumes, or exhaust. Nothing.

How did these things move?

How were they able to get past

one of our nation's greatest defense systems?

This was something that we couldn't even defend against.

NARRATOR: In December 2017,

just 18 months prior to this incident,

The New York Times exposed the U.S. government's

secret program to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena.

Since that bombshell revelation,

numerous photographs and videos have surfaced

of Navy encounters with different types of UAPs.

And as far as ancient astronaut theorists

are concerned, the video captured

from the USS Russell may be the most extraordinary of all.

Not because there were so many objects seen in the sky,

but because of the UAP's very unique shape.

TSOUKALOS: The fact that there are pyramid-shaped objects

that have been filmed by the Navy

is beyond interesting to me

because we have similar depictions

in ancient times of flying craft

that seem to be in the form of pyramids.

Clearly, what we see in this footage of today

is pyramid-shaped, three-dimensionally.

It's not flat.

It's a three-dimensional pyramid

floating in the sky.

Providing that the footage is real,

providing it is extraterrestrial,

then one could argue that the same visitors

that we've had back then

are showing themselves again.

NARRATOR: On display in the Egyptian Museum

and Royal Mummies' Hall

is an artifact from the pyramid of Amenemhat III,

called a Benben stone.

In ancient Egypt, similar pyramid-shaped capstones

were placed on the top of giant standing stones called obelisks.

The first of these Benben stones

predate the earliest pyramids.

The obelisk pointed up toward the heavens,

so it is an object of worship,

and that capstone, that Benben stone,

was the meeting place.

That was the portal to other worlds

where human energy lifted up and made contact with the gods.

HUGH NEWMAN: The shape of the Benben stone

is like a classic pyramid shape.

And, uh, you know, apparently, the design of pyramids

was based on the Benben stone itself,

and these are like giant versions of it.

DAVID CHILDRESS: The Benben stone was not just, uh,

symbolizing a connection to the heavens,

it was actually memorializing an extraterrestrial visitation.

TSOUKALOS: In ancient Egypt, it's chock-full of references

of celestial beings descending from the sky

and imparting knowledge to our ancestors.

One of the origin stories says

that a Benben stone descended from the sky,

out of which the first creator gods emerged

and started Egyptian civilization.

It was a flying craft.

NARRATOR: Could the pyramidal capstones found atop Egypt's obelisks,

and even the pyramids themselves,

have been inspired by an extraterrestrial visitation?

And if so,

is it possible that similar alien craft

were captured on video above the USS Russell?

What we're seeing from the USS Russell,

these kind of objects flying around in the sky

were an identical shape

and there was multiple ones witnessed and filmed.

And so, is there a connection?

Is this what was witnessed from the USS Russell?

CHILDRESS: It's a fascinating idea that, perhaps,

extraterrestrials first arrived

in Egypt in these small, pyramid-shaped craft,

like we're seeing in this video.

And, in fact, many of the UAPs

that have been reported in modern times

and that we see in the recent Navy videos

are very reminiscent of ancient accounts

of strange objects in the sky,

accounts that you can find

in many ancient cultures around the world.

NARRATOR: Did people living thousands of years ago

encounter the very same objects in the sky

that appear in recent videos and photographs

taken by the U.S. Navy?

And if so, could this indicate that humans

have been sharing planet Earth with another race

of intelligent beings

since our earliest history?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest further evidence

can be found in India,

within the pages of one of the world's

oldest texts.

NARRATOR: The coast of Florida. January 2015. 2019,

The crew of a Navy F-18 fighter jet

fly into restricted air space and encounter

an airborne object directly in their flight path.

They aim their forward-looking infrared camera at the object

and capture it in flight.

F-18s were chasing this thing, and they couldn't catch it.

The UAP is doing things

that modern aerodynamic vehicles can't do.

NARRATOR: The pilots in pursuit of the unidentified craft,

observed that it performed unusual maneuvers

unlike any military aircraft they had ever witnessed.

And all while flying

at high velocities.

One of the impressive aspects of it,

is that it's moving against the wind,

and you can hear the pilot say this.

CORBELL: It doesn't lose speed, and it rotates

mechanically against the wind.

This gimbal footage

is one of the rare pieces of physical evidence

that is corroborated directly by individuals who are

out there on the East Coast documenting these things.

It is highly impressive.

Now, modern-day aircraft can yaw and pitch,

and they can roll,

but they can't simply pitch straight up

and continue to move forward into the line of flight.

This thing does that.

It's moving extremely fast,

and it's accelerating much faster than the F-18s can.

So that, in itself,

is a feat that mankind has yet to accomplish.

CORBELL: We tried to vet this for a long time.

What's uncomfortable is that we haven't figured it out.

That we don't know whose technology this is.

If you can't identify someone that's far more advanced

than you technologically, Houston, we have a problem.

NARRATOR: Navy video of the incredible encounter

was made public in December 2017,

and the object was dubbed "GIMBAL"

due to its ability to rotate on an axis.

But for ancient astronaut theorists,

just as intriguing as the way it moves is the object's shape.

The craft itself is an acorn-shaped craft.

Immediately, that's reminiscent

of the what the ancient Indian text described as

the vimana, which were acorn-shaped craft.

TSOUKALOS: In the Mahabharata, and at many of the ancient Vedic texts,

they speak about the so-called vimanas.

The vimanas were flying vehicles

with which to reach the celestial realm.

NARRATOR: In the ancient Sanskrit epics of India

there are highly detailed descriptions of the vimana,

which carried the gods and other important figures

through the sky

and sometimes to other planets.

The acorn-shaped craft

were even incorporated at the very top of many Hindu temples,

and some researchers believe

they also inspired similar Buddhist structures

called stupa.

TSOUKALOS: If we go to Indonesia and look at Borobudur,

where we have 194 stupas

sitting in concentric circles,

each stupa, in my opinion,

represents a type of flying craft.

Because "stupa" actually means "celestial chariot,"

or a way with which to reach the celestial realm.

And they are in the shape of the so-called vimanas.

NARRATOR: Often, the vimana were described as war machines,

armed with incredible weapons.

There are tales of flying craft

that could defy gravity

and fly at extraordinary speeds that defy the laws of physics.

These were military in usage,

had powerful engines and powerful weapons.

In these battles,

missiles would fire that could wipe out cities.

These were the earliest stories

we have of flying military craft.

HENRY: In the Indian text,

the vimanas are the chariots or craft of the gods.

They were clearly a method of transportation

that could take the gods from place to place,

country to country, or even to other planets.

They're sometimes described as bright clouds.

Some of them are seven stories tall.

NARRATOR: In 1895,

Sanskrit scholar Shivkar Talpade

decided to fashion an aircraft based solely on information

gleaned from the ancient Indian writings

about the vimana.

While the story is hotly disputed,

he allegedly tested the craft

in front of an audience of thousands of people

on a beach in Bombay.

TAYLOR: The legend has it that he flew for,

like, 30 seconds at 1,500 feet.

The Wright brothers only went 120 feet for 12 seconds.

But even more exciting is that this is technology

based on a scripture written

thousands of years before mankind ever had the idea

of heavier-than-air flight.

How is this possible?

NARRATOR: According to the Hindu text,

the crafts were mind-controlled,

able to change direction and pitch

and travel at high speeds,

defying our current knowledge of aeronautical physics.

What's really cool is that these modern-day UFO videos

show that these vehicles

are capable of ridiculous maneuvers.

That they can accelerate at the drop of a dime,

or they can just stop or change direction immediately

at g-forces

that we could not survive.

In the Vaimanika Shastra, which describes what these vimanas

were capable of doing,

the exact same descriptions exist.

The fact that we have similar stories in ancient times

illustrates to me something similar has happened.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the ancient Sanskrit texts

are describing extraterrestrial vehicles

even more advanced than the U.S. military's

most sophisticated fighter jets?

And if so, are we seeing the same alien technology

on display in the recent videos

released by the United States Navy?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest that this technology

may also be depicted on the wall

of an Egyptian temple that dates back thousands of years.

NARRATOR: Dendera, Egypt.

Roughly one and a half miles southeast

of this ancient city lies the Temple of Hathor,

one of the most impressive and well-preserved

archeological sites in all of Egypt.

Among the vast hieroglyphs that cover the columns of the temple

are numerous depictions

of pharaohs standing on mysterious ships

and purportedly traveling through the stars.

HENRY: At the Temple of Hathor,

we see a remarkable depiction of a resurrected pharaoh

standing on what the ancient Egyptians called

the Ship of Eternity.

This is a-a craft that was created by Ptah,

the ancient Egyptian god of technology,

who the Egyptians connected with the star Sirius.

In ancient Egypt, we learn of

pharaohs, gods who travelled the stars riding these craft.

NARRATOR: According to William Henry,

who has spent decades studying

the ancient Egyptian iconography,

an important detail found in some of the depictions

at Dendera and elsewhere

is that the pharaoh is shown within a circle or bubble.

HENRY: In another remarkable example,

we see a Pharaoh sitting on a throne

with Isis and Nephthys

on either side of him,

and he's sitting in a blue bubble or magic bubble.

NARRATOR: The so-called "magic bubble" imagery

is found in artwork throughout the ancient world.

And some researchers speculate

that the repeated connection

between the bubble shape and ascension

may indicate that it represents

a common experience describing space travel.

Throughout the ancient world,

we find other very compelling examples

of beings surrounded by a bubble.

For example, in Tibet we find

Padmasambhava who sits on a lotus throne

surrounded by rainbow-colored light

with a thin line symbolizing some form of a bubble.

When you see the earliest examples of Jesus

ascending into the heavens,

he's sitting on a throne surrounded by concentric rings

that form a bubble around his body.

These are supposed to represent

what the Book of Acts says he ascended in

and will return riding upon.

TSOUKALOS: There are countless paintings

of saints and other celestial beings

that happen to be shown

in some type of an energetic bubble.

What if people saw something

that surpassed their technological intellect,

and thus drew it in that way?

NARRATOR: Mainstream historians interpret the bubble shape

found in religious art as simply symbols of divinity.

But could the repetition of this iconic imagery across traditions

suggest it was something our ancestors witnessed?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and believe further evidence may be found

by taking a closer look at the recently released GIMBAL video

captured by Navy jets in 2015.

When aerospace engineer Dr. Travis Taylor

examined the GIMBAL video,

he noticed a very curious anomaly:

a halo of light surrounding the craft.

TAYLOR: After further analysis of the video,

what we can see is there is a bubble region

that sort of surrounds this craft.

This is something that you don't see

when you look through the same instrument

at, say, an F-18 or an F-22 or an F-35.

Black is hot on their forward-looking infrared camera.

And if black is hot, then white is cooler,

so this is a colder region around the vehicle.

So, maybe

this is a warp bubble

or some sort of propellant-less propulsion field

that someone has discovered.

NARRATOR: The concept of a warp bubble

was introduced in 1994

by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre,

as part of a hypothetical model

for traveling faster than the speed of light.

MICHIO KAKU: I once asked Miguel Alcubierre

how he came up with the idea of the Alcubierre drive.

He told me that he was watching Star Trek.

And in Star Trek, they, well, compress the space

in front of them and expand the space behind them

and would rocket faster than the speed of light.

And then he said, "Well, wait a minute.

I think I can duplicate that."

NARRATOR: In Alcubierre's theoretical model,

the warp drive vehicle is surrounded by an energy bubble

within space-time.

KAKU: You need energy to create a bubble,

what's called a warp bubble, surrounding your starship.

Then you need what is called negative energy

to drive it faster than the speed of light,

while inside, you feel almost nothing.

HENRY: When we look at the idea

of a warp bubble

that could surround a spacecraft,

in the video, engineers are seeing

exactly that principle in action.

As far as ancient astronaut theorists

are concerned, warp bubble technology

could be on display not only in the GIMBAL video,

but also in artwork created centuries ago,

like the pharaoh's blue bubble,

the Tibetan lotus throne,

the ascension of Christ,

and countless other sacred images

that seemingly show identical phenomena.

TSOUKALOS: So, you have to wonder,

what is it that the artist tried to depict here?

It's just like Arthur C. Clarke said,

"Any advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

HENRY: These are powerful examples

that are suggesting ascended beings

who traveled the stars in magic bubbles

that precisely matches

the Alcubierre warp bubble concept.

TAYLOR: Could these ancient drawings be showing us

the same thing that we're seeing today

in these modern-day infrared cameras?

NARRATOR: Is it possible that depictions

of figures encompassed by bubbles found

throughout history and all around the world

represent an alien technology?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining another extraordinary Navy video

and its direct connection

to the ancient world.

NARRATOR: Veteran journalist George Knapp

and documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell

publish astonishing video they acquired from the USS Omaha

that shows a mysterious spherical object

flying at speeds approaching 160 miles per hour

before disappearing into the ocean.

The USS Omaha is one of the central pieces of evidence

that I've put forward to the American and global public.

There were objects that were swarming this Navy warship,

and one in particular

appears to transcend

between the space of air and into sea.

They call that a trans-medium vehicle,

a vehicle that can operate equally as well

from in the air and under the water.

Now, this was suspected,

but when they went to go look for this craft

under the water, or for wreckage,

none was found.

NARRATOR: Tennessee representative Tim Burchett,

an outspoken proponent for disclosure of UFO sightings,

was one of the first members of Congress to review the footage.

TIM BURCHETT: To me, i-it's pretty astounding

when they showed that craft actually

going in and it popping up.

It looked like it didn't even slow down.

There wasn't any friction at all

when it hit the water, so, to me, that's something

that we can't even begin to understand, I don't think.

I've read the mathematical equations of friction

and things like that, and it just defies all of that.

TAYLOR: How could a vehicle

fly into the water at 100 miles per hour?

Well, that suggests either the surface of this vehicle

is frictionless,

and it wouldn't have any interaction

with any material it was flying through,

or it's not frictionless, it's actually a warp bubble

where the spacecraft or craft is inside it.

The stresses and strains by flying through the atmosphere

in outer space and then plunging into the oceans

would be enough to rupture any of our known aircraft.

POPE: These reports of USOs,

unidentified submerged or submersible objects,

are much more common than people might suppose.

In 1991,

Jing Yu Xian, a fisherman

was at Fuxian Lake

when he encountered this strange craft

in the waters of the lake.

He described it as a shining disc.

This UFO was so close and so powerful

that it actually tossed the boat around.

And then rapidly this craft just disappeared up into the sky.

Over the years, there have been many, many cases

of UFOs seen over the water,

disappearing under the water,

and in some cases, emerging from under the water.

CHILDRESS: On December 29, 2020,

a very curious thing happened off of the coast

of Hawaii.

People could see a huge cigar-shaped craft

hovering off the coast

and took photos of it, and,

eventually, this craft then plunged into the ocean.

And the Navy went out there to also

look for possible wreckage of some craft

crashing into the ocean and found nothing.

POPE: One theory about this trans-medium travel

and these USOs is that what we're seeing

is evidence of underwater bases.

Now, this makes a good deal of sense.

I mean, the distance involved

for interstellar travel

means that it's much easier to have a base

on the location that you're interested in

than to constantly travel there and back.

But what if that presence goes back millennia?

They're operating here, but under the oceans,

right under our noses.

HENRY: When we see the spherical object in the video taken by

the USS Omaha hovering for a time

and then descending into the water,

this opens up some really interesting concepts

in relation to the ancient world.

For example, in Sumeria and in Babylon,

they talked about a god being named Oannes

who lived in the sea,

who emerged from the sea wearing a fish cloak.

He was, uh, an initiator of humanity,

who taught writing and science and-and other concepts.

What's amazing about this is that Oannes

also founded a priesthood

of beings called Apkallu priests,

who also wore fish cloaks.

And in Sumerian cylinder seals,

we see these Apkallu priests

on either side of a luminous or radiant tree of life

with a winged disc hovering above.

The inference is-is that this craft came from the sea

because these are priests of a sea being.

And so, here's an example of an ancient being

emerging from the sea and connected with a craft.

NARRATOR: Oannes belonged to a group of powerful beings

known in ancient Mesopotamia as the Anunnaki.

The term Anunnaki means

"those who from the heavens came,"

and refers to beings

descending from the sky, imparting knowledge.

That is the most important thing that we can read and learn

about the Anunnaki, that they were our teachers.

So, I think it's very possible

that what the ancient people tried to record

was an extraterrestrial visitation.

NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,

perhaps the most compelling evidence of an alien presence

that traverses Earth's oceans

can be found in an account from 1492,

recorded by Christopher Columbus.

CHILDRESS: It's a famous story about Christopher Columbus,

and he wrote this in his journals,

that as he was moving west across the Atlantic

towards the Caribbean in his first voyage,

he saw a light out in the ocean

to the west hovering over the water,

and this light then descended into the water,

but Columbus felt that this light was guiding him

towards his destination.

So, if this glowing object that Columbus saw did,

you know, go into the water,

he's perhaps one of the first witnesses to describe

a trans-medium craft like this,

which could hover, uh, above the water

and then disappear into it like a submarine.

NARRATOR: Could the account of Christopher Columbus

and the ancient Babylonian stories of Oannes

have a profound connection

to the object recorded from the USS Omaha?

Do they provide further evidence that the same crafts witnessed

in the distant past are still visiting Earth in the present?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and believe the ultimate proof of this

can be found in the Hebrew Bible.

NARRATOR: Just outside the Capitol Building,

Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee

speaks with a reporter

about the much-anticipated government UAP report,

due to be released in less than two weeks.

To the surprise of many,

he suggests that UFOs

have been around for all of human history,

and can even be found

in the Bible's Book of Ezekiel.

POPE: I was intrigued

when I heard that Congressional representative

Tim Burchett had talked about these UFOs

and said, "Well, this is straight out of the Bible.

This is the Book of Ezekiel."

And I thought, "My goodness,

he's an ancient astronaut theorist."

CORBELL: We have seen a lot of unsolicited comments

by congressmen, politicians,

uh, even heads of the CIA

have come forward and given opinions about UFOs.

This has been such a shocking

and revelatory few years about UFOs

that you're now seeing people go back to the Bible

and trying to understand if those events

are similar to the events that we're having today.

NARRATOR: Congressman Burchett's bold assertion

that UFOs can be found in the Bible

was a conclusion he came to after careful study

of the Book of Ezekiel.

According to this text,

the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel describes a fiery chariot

coming down from the sky drawn by four living creatures.

Each creature is flanked by a metallic object,

a wheel within a wheel, that Ezekiel observes

as it descends in a whirlwind making tremendous noise.

BURCHETT: It's pretty clear what's going on in the Bible,

what he's describing, to me.

I've read it many times. You got to realize,

Ezekiel was in sixth century BC,

but he basically describes

what I would say was what people describe as a UFO.

I mean, it's a wheel within a wheel,

there's fire, there's landing gear.

To me, it sounds like there's a craft landing,

and there are smaller craft around it

that are providing protection for it.

And, you know, it's what we see

when you see the president land in a helicopter.

There's not just one helicopter, there's multiple helicopters.

So, to me, it sounds like

Ezekiel saw something that he could not accurately describe,

and he used things around him

that he would see in a day-to-day basis

to describe what he saw.

The closest thing he has is a wheel because that was the, uh,

pinnacle of technology at that time, was a wheel.

NARRATOR: To Congressman Burchett and many others,

the Navy videos indicate

that crafts like those seen by Ezekiel

are still with us in the present.

BURCHETT: I think it's the same type of thing that's being depicted,

in olden times that's being depicted today

in some of those Navy tapes.

There's just too much similarity for it not to be.

If you heard those Navy pilots, they're the sharpest we've got.

BURCHETT: You can tell they're excited,

and they're trying to explain what they're seeing,

much like Ezekiel would try to define what he was seeing.

And so, I think that, um, that it-it proves that

we're definitely not alone.

NARRATOR: To many UFO researchers,

the only difference between ancient sightings

like Ezekiel's and modern 21st-century encounters

is that, today, people have the technology

-to record them. -(camera shutter clicks)

CORBELL: We have seen throughout history

that individuals will testify

to seeing in the sky, you know, shields on fire,

or things that just are not aerodynamic.

Now, because of the-the nature of our technology

and our corroborative evidence,

we have more information to say,

"Yes, this happened exactly like this witness said it happened."

We just didn't have that 150 years ago.

We just didn't have that capability.

The difference now is that we are able to artificially capture

these craft and these objects to a precise measuring

of the rotation and the speeds.

That is just something we did not have before.

We did not have it before, but we have it now, so it's...

I mean, kind of an exciting time to be alive. (chuckles)

TSOUKALOS: Countless times our ancestors referred to these things

up in the sky as flying shields

or flying furnaces.

Today, we actually refer to that as flying craft,

flying machines, unidentified aerial phenomena.

Back then, people didn't have those words.

And so, in my opinion,

there is a clear connection between

the sightings that we have today

and the sightings that we have in the past

because if we would not have the vocabulary,

what we see in those Navy videos

can be described as a flying shield.

These kinds of images have been with us

throughout our entire history,

and they're all telling the same thing,

that the ancient astronauts never left.

The same visitors that we've had back then

are showing themselves again,

and this time publicly.

It's incredible.

NARRATOR: As the photographic and video

evidence of UFOs continues to grow,

so, too, does the number of people

who believe that governments around the world

know more than they are disclosing.

POPE: The idea that there's an alien presence, and the idea

that the U.S. government, amongst others,

knows about all this

is coming out of the fringe and into the mainstream.

Now, you hear of people in Congress talk about it.

We do not need to fear these-these airborne

unidentified objects.

They would've shown themselves to be dangerous

a long time ago by now if they were a threat.

BURCHETT: I wished our intelligence community

would release everything they have on that.

The higher-ups put out a lot that some

of these recent tapes were just sort of a joke, was an anomaly,

but we sure have had a heck of a lot of anomalies.

I think there's a lot more going on to this.

I've talked to military and people

that, when something like this happens, they are generally

told not to bring it up.

They can have psych evaluations,

they can have things put in their records,

and they're encouraged not to bring these kind of things up.

NARRATOR: If the United States government

and other governments around the world

were to reveal all the evidence they have concerning UFOs,

would it show irrefutable proof

that there is an alien air force on Earth?

Ancient astronaut theorists

suspect the truth is even more incredible,

and that hidden away in top-secret facilities

around the globe

are recovered extraterrestrial craft.

NARRATOR: NASA's Advanced Propulsion Physics Lab,

known as the "Eagleworks Project,"

announces that, based on their latest experiments,

they now believe it is possible

to create an actual warp drive

and a spacecraft that can travel faster than the speed of light.

TAYLOR: The team at NASA's Eagleworks

has been trying to reproduce a warp field, and

the results have been right at the edge

of experimental error right now.

So, they're not ready to go build the Starship Enterprise,

but it's possible that they can do an experiment

that says we could build the Starship Enterprise

if we put enough work into it.

NARRATOR: While some believe

that such a revolutionary technology

is purely the result of human ingenuity,

others maintain that such advances are possible

because secret government agencies possess,

and are able to study, crashed alien vehicles.

It is a theory that goes back to the famous

Roswell crash of 1947.

BURCHETT: Roswell happened in '47. Roswell, New Mexico.

They put out, you know, UFO crash,

and it was on the headlines of the papers.

Then, the next day, they came back and said,

"No, in fact, it was a weather balloon."

And it just contradicted everything everybody had said.

NARRATOR: Many have alleged that the U.S. government

secretly retrieved an alien spacecraft

from Roswell.

In 1989,

a scientist named Bob Lazar even came forward to say

that he worked for the U.S. government

reverse engineering crashed extraterrestrial vehicles,

divulging incredible details

about the secret project in the years that followed.

The government is holding, uh, nine alien spacecraft,

um, that are propelled by, um,

a modified gravity generator.

Uh...

It's being-- the work is being conducted

15 miles south of Groom Lake.

CORBELL: The only reason you know about UFOs

and Area 51

and that connection is because of Bob Lazar.

He was faced with a lot of adversity through this.

But, in my eyes,

he's telling you the truth,

and it's backed up time and time again.

NARRATOR: For decades,

the U.S. government denied Lazar's claims,

as well as the existence of the facility

where he said the alien craft were being held,

Area 51.

But in 2013,

a Freedom of Information Act request

finally forced officials to admit

that Area 51 is real.

BURCHETT: For the government to say

the things they say and to hold back

on these reports,

it goes back to Roswell or any of those other...

spots. It's just, um, nobody trusts

the government. They don't trust government,

and they really, frankly, they shouldn't.

We-we don't keep our word on anything.

NARRATOR: The United States isn't the only country

accused of covering up attempts to study alien craft.

Many believe the Russians have a similar UFO program

at a site called Kapustin Yar,

often nicknamed the Russian Area 51.

HENRY: Kapustin Yar was one of the former Soviet Union's

most secretive air bases.

The rumor is, is they were reverse engineering

UFO technology

that could be as much as 1,000 years in advance

of what we have today.

NARRATOR: Recovered alien vehicles are also rumored to be held

at the Pine Gap military base in Australia,

at a mysterious desert airfield

in the Xinjiang region of China,

and at Rudloe Manor in England.

With these craft coming from other planets

and other solar systems,

this is clearly a very advanced technology,

and we are now trying to catch up

to these extraterrestrials

and have the same kind of technology

that they already have.

BURCHETT: It's clear that there's something

we don't understand,

and we're not sure where it comes from,

and I just wish they'd just say that.

They think that the American public can't handle it,

and they can, in fact, handle it, I think, very well.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the sensational footage

recently released by the U.S. Navy

features the same type of aerial vehicles

that were documented by our ancestors?

Do we now have overwhelming evidence

that alien craft not only exist,

but have been present on planet Earth

for thousands of years?

Perhaps, when we discover just who

is behind the UFO phenomenon,

we will uncover an even more profound truth,

that extraterrestrials have been living among us

all along.

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