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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.
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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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