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[narrator] There are about 77 million documents

marked as Top Secret or Classified by the United States government.

Among the most sensitive of those, relating to top secret UFO programs,

and in particular, the encounters by US Air Force pilots

with the so-called Tic Tac UFO crafts in 2004.

By releasing unclassified United States government reports in 2018,

that include analysis regarding interactions with the Tic Tacs,

journalist George Knapp changed the game.

I produced a document that was leaked from the government

that did the first analysis of Tic Tac.

It looked at all the sensor systems that were in the sky, from the ships,

under the sea, and they combined all that information

to track the capabilities of the Tic Tac craft.

And they verified it. It was real.

The same thing was true for the Gimbal craft.

This information was never meant to be released to the public.

The military did this analysis behind the scenes,

classified in a classified program.

The fact that it is now leaked out

has started the debate that we're having all over the world,

but the proof is pretty solid.

[narrator] How the US government will respond to these allegations

remains to be seen.

While in the first half of the 20th century,

the government was still seeking an appropriate strategy

to deal with UFO stories.

By the end of the millennium the way had become clear:

to investigate the phenomenon in absolute secrecy,

and if any information should leak out, it must be denied,

the trail obliterated, and evidence confiscated or discounted.

The government insisted that it's not there, it's not there, not there.

If some undeniable incident occurs,

it's going to make them look very bad.

It's going to increase the kinds of negative consequences

that would come from it.

[Dolan] The US is great at making up false news stories

and spreading them throughout the world. I mean, the CIA is a master of this.

They've done this for decades.

They're very good also at using the media

to scare the public to engage in certain actions.

They do this all the time.

So they certainly would be able to do this about UFOs or UAP.

Like, they had the capability to, if they were to release information,

they could do it in such a way to maximize fear

to whatever level they want that would be useful for them.

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There are many testimonials from around the world

that information leaks to the media about UFO incidents are undesirable,

and that they have been covered up.

On the basis of these testimonies,

it can be reasonably assumed that some of these countries

will have secret agreements with the US intelligence services

who assist them in suppressing reports of UFO sightings.

I was-- every single significant case, no matter what country,

whether I had asked them to travel to America,

or whether I traveled to their place, they said,

"It's funny, right after the incident occurred,

there were two men in suits that showed up from some unknown agency

in the US government."

They have men on site at every one of these locations

that I personally have been.

And they're making inquiries.

They're trying to get an exchange of information.

They're trying to either silence witnesses,

get whatever evidence that was gathered in their country.

So they played a very large role.

[narrator] A prime example is one of the most remarkable cases

of UFO sightings in history.

[intense music playing]

1966, Westall, Melbourne, Australia.

During the midmorning break

at Westall High School in Melbourne, Australia,

there were almost 200 children

and school staff outside in the school grounds.

Suddenly, there was a commotion among the children outside,

and those looking out the windows, gazing at the sky.

A disc-shaped UFO was hovering above them.

[tense music playing]

The chemistry teacher quickly took photos.

After some time, the vessel descended into a nearby pine grove.

My whole vision

was on trying to just look at what I was seeing in the sky

and take in every single detail I could.

There was a lot of noise apparently, because the kids were excited.

Some were frightened, whatever.

But I can just remember standing there,

because I'd never seen anything like that before,

and I wanted to take in as much as I could

because wow, this was just amazing, just amazing.

[narrator] Fourteen-year-old student Marilyn Smith ran to the landing site.

By the time she got there, the UFO had taken off.

Marilyn's friend Tanya later fell unconscious

and was taken away by an ambulance.

Witnesses described one big flying disc and two smaller accompanying vessels.

The larger vessel left behind a circle in the grass.

TV crews quickly arrived on the scene.

Channel 9 TV filmed interviews with students,

and journalists interviewed witnesses as well.

And then, came the cover-up.

The Channel 9 TV report was never broadcast,

and no one ever saw the photographs that were taken.

An interview with a student, Joy Tighe, in which she described the UFOs

disappeared from the GTV archive.

All this,

after some mysterious plain clothes officials and soldiers arrived.

When they left, a lot of the evidence vanished with them.

The grass at the landing site was quickly cut and restored to normal.

One week after the incident, the Dandenong Journal claimed

that the situation could not be explained

because there were no witnesses willing to speak about it.

They weren't allowed to speak about it anymore.

Even the teachers were warned.

There were government officials that came and told them

they couldn't speak about it.

And even the news media that followed the story,

when they went back to look at the files, all the files were gone.

They were taken.

[Clarke] All we want is an answer.

All we want is for someone to say to us,

that "Yes, we know what-- that did happen that day."

"It was a very extraordinary experience,

but something definitely did happen that day."

"It wasn't in your imagination."

"You weren't on drugs. You weren't drunk. It happened."

[narrator] More than 50 years later, witnesses have preserved the images

from the children's memory, and about how government officials

tried to erase all signs of the incident.

The teacher who took the photographs had her camera confiscated,

and for a long time was threatened with having her career ruined

if she ever spoke about the incident.

So this was a government making sure that this wasn't talked about,

and even the headmaster was shut down, and that-- that's what happened.

And we know this happened, we know that.

They were like flying saucers and that's what we used to call them in those days,

you know, in comic books, and all that sort of stuff.

That's what they were, so we called them flying saucers.

[narrator] But the frontline effort to cover up the incident

by deleting all records,

silencing witnesses,

and confiscating photographs

was not 100% successful.

There is actually evidence.

There was a Polaroid camera,

a guy that shot a photograph of it two days prior, 17 kilometers away.

And it was-- performed exactly like the children said it performed,

right down to the point where it pivots up like this and rockets away.

[narrator] A young engineer from the suburb of Balwyn

took the picture of the event from his garden.

They show a metallic-like UFO tipped vertically on its side.

The Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society

very carefully analyzed the photograph,

and they concluded the photo showed no sign of multiple exposure,

montage, or any other tampering.

The strategy of rapid response to leaked information about UFO incidents

was established in the 1950s during Project Blue Book.

Techniques of manipulation and cover-up were improved over time,

and have since been developed almost to perfection.

[man] So it's not surprising they were able to get people on board,

and the institutions.

And then, as things went forward,

they had to deal with increasing developments,

and research, and evidence,

and they developed more skills.

And they applied everything they had at their disposal

to keep this issue from ever formally being confirmed.

That's the Truth Embargo.

[narrator] However, a unique case of an uncontrollable information leak

about UFO sightings is the Cash-Landrum incident from 1980,

which could not be entirely discredited,

because the witnesses took an unprecedented step

of taking the matter to court.

December 29, 1980, near the small town of Huffman, Texas.

Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and her seven-year-old grandson Colby

are returning home along the road to Dayton, Texas at night.

When suddenly, a bright light appears among the trees.

After a few bends further along the road, a diamond shape appears

about 15 meters high at a level of the treetops.

Vickie, a devout Christian,

believes it is the second coming of Jesus Christ.

She and Betty got out of the car to see the object,

and to welcome Christ.

Flames are shooting from the bottom of the vessel,

and the car and surroundings become very hot.

The object lit up the surrounding pine woods like it was daylight.

I was burning, my skin was burning.

Fire was coming out of the bottom like a blowtorch.

It lifted up and then flew over the trees.

That was when we saw the helicopters come out.

The helicopters?

[Cash] Colby counted 23 of them.

[Landrum] Yes. It seemed that they were trying to escort the craft somewhere.

It looked like they were about to collide.

The roar sounded like a tornado.

When we got home, I washed Colby off, and put him to bed.

When the water touched his skin, he cried out like he had been burned,

as if he had been in the sun too long.

[narrator] That evening, Betty, Vickie, and Colby suffer from nausea,

resembling symptoms of exposure to radiation.

And I was too sick to work the next day.

My eyes swelled closed, and welts appeared on my face and head.

I thought I was going to die.

Vickie came and took me to the emergency room at the hospital.

They treated me like a burn patient.

Over the next few days, I kept losing big patches of skin on my face,

and about half of my hair fell out.

They kept me in the hospital over a month with no improvement.

[narrator] April 1981,

a CH-47 helicopter landed in Dayton

and was greeted by curious townspeople.

The pilot mentions that he had been in Dayton a year earlier

pursuing an unknown vessel.

But as soon as he finds out

that eyewitnesses to the event are among the crowd,

he quickly ends the discussion.

In this field that we're in, they're going to be more witnesses,

but it's still not enough. It's still not good enough.

So it doesn't matter how much proof anybody has, it's not good enough.

If it's too mind-blowing or too difficult to accept as reality,

in a court of law it wouldn't work.

Yeah. There's witnesses. Oh, yeah. There's evidence.

There's marks, there's um, places, locations, this and that.

There's stories. There's books that have been written.

There's, there's more evidence than we can possibly imagine.

What people have to stop doing is saying, "Where's the proof?"

Because the proof is already there.

Has the government ever expressed a willingness

to take responsibility for this thing?

No, and I am mad. I'm mad as hell and disappointed with the government

of our United States.

[narrator] Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum eventually sued Bergstrom Air Force Base

for $20 million in damages.

But in 1986, a district court judge dismissed the lawsuit

because the helicopters involved had not been proven

as belonging to the US government.

Furthermore, military officers denied in court

that the United States Armed Forces

possessed a diamond-shaped aircraft of any kind.

But many years later, Richard Dotty,

a former government agent of the Office of Special Investigations,

declared that it did exist,

and it was a prototype vessel

from a secret reverse engineering program experimenting with nuclear propulsion.

A problem with the aircraft reportedly occurred,

and Cash and Landrum just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

There's been numerous crashed craft around the world,

and I believe that that technology was something

that they wanted to keep secret for their own purposes.

I think this is why they're doing it around the world,

because that technology could change the way that we are living now.

And I believe those that have this technology

are only going to utilize it for their own benefit.

So there's lots of reasons why it suits them to keep this quiet.

Over the years, there have been a number of instances where leaks have come out,

or at least what seem to be genuine leaks.

One is the Gary McKinnon case.

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[narrator] The case of the most infamous government database hacker, Gary McKinnon,

is highly significant since it is the most concrete information we have

about the existence of a secret UFO program.

[Dolan] He didn't exactly hack in.

That's not quite accurate to say that he was a hacker.

He created, I think he called it a Perl script,

where he was able to find sites within that web

that either had no password or had "password" as their password.

Cybersecurity was really lax. But this is the late 1990s.

[narrator] This is why Gary McKinnon's attempt

to download the photo was unsuccessful.

His connection was able to be intercepted just in time by the government,

and the photo deleted.

But that didn't prevent the story from breaking into a blaze of publicity.

February 2001, London.

When Gary McKinnon sat down at his computer in London

in February of 2001, to launch what was later described

as "the greatest hack of the century," he was inspired by witnessing something

in the night sky at the age of 13,

something that had profoundly affected him.

Gary had witnessed a glowing, orange shape moving in a way that left him in no doubt

that he was not observing a natural phenomenon, or terrestrial craft.

A few months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the New York Twin Towers,

the following message appeared on one of the Pentagon's computers:

"Your security system is crap."

"I am Solo."

"I will continue to disrupt the highest levels."

The Pentagon was suddenly on high alert.

What I was doing was illegal,

but at the time I felt that it was morally right

in view of getting this technology, getting it out to the public.

And it was actually easy getting into the Pentagon.

I scanned for blank passwords.

I'm not some great big computer, you know, criminal mastermind.

[narrator] Between February 2001 and March 2002,

an unknown assailant calling himself Solo, in fact, McKinnon's alias,

managed to copy data from about 100 computers

belonging to various departments of the US military.

He copied data and passwords for months.

I was looking for evidence of UFO technology.

And I know that's laughed at by a lot of people,

but I was working from witness testimony of a group called The Disclosure Project.

Four hundred military witnesses, some ex-military,

some still current at the time.

Anything all the way up from radar, the air traffic controllers,

all the way up to strategic air command, you know, very credible people.

They all said that, "Yes, UFOs were real. Yes, they were extraterrestrial."

And in addition to that, rogue elements of military and intelligence

had captured and reverse engineered some of the technology,

and they had a free energy technology.

And, you know, in these days of oil crisis and stuff,

I found that hugely interesting.

I thought it was morally correct to break the law

in order to get the technology out to the public.

[narrator] Despite using an alias,

Gary made no other attempts to cover his tracks.

He wanted what he had learned to come out.

He was arrested by the United Kingdom's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit

in March of 2002.

We learn that his primary goal

was to discover classified information about UFOs

from the US Defense Department and NASA servers.

He successfully engaged some top secret files,

and they were bigger than that.

And it was strange what he was reporting.

It should have been ridiculous,

except some of this is coming out.

It's just that in, in my own country,

the punishment for unauthorized access is, you know, six months in prison,

or I think a year maximum.

And I think the US authorities have been extremely heavy-handed.

And even now, they've got to the point where I'm officially referenced to

as a terrorist in official Army training manuals

for combating terrorism in the 21st century.

I think Gary had it exactly right.

So he saw ships connected to the US Navy

that were not part of the United States Navy

of any inventory that we know of.

And something called a ship of a non, list of non-terrestrial officers,

which was quite interesting.

The real key to the Gary McKinnon case is how the US tried

to extradite him for more than a decade,

and really tried to ruin his life.

Um, fortunately for Gary, he was not extradited, and the British government

was able to defend him against extradition.

[narrator] Clearly, there is a difference between hacking

into government computer servers and databases,

and being in receipt of the same information from a trusted source

within the secret programs themselves.

Even then, we would be just talking about fragments since government departments

are so skilled at compartmentalizing their activities and minimizing the risk

of any one potential source or employee being able to see the whole picture.

When I had a clearance, there were programs I'd be in where I would have

a lot of information about a certain thing.

It's like a pyramid.

The more you know, the farther up this pyramid you go, okay, in clearance.

When you're here, you see this much stuff.

When you're here at the top, you only get this little tiny bit. Okay?

And the next pyramid over of another program

that might be looking at a similar thing such as a UFO system,

or-- that's flying around,

they're up at the top too.

They never see your top of your pyramid.

So they don't know the big picture.

That's one way they can compartmentalize it.

They can keep a secret when they can-- when they want to.

So when they really want to keep a secret, they can do it,

and they compartmentalize it.

[Dolan] When someone claims that he goes to Mars for 20 years,

and as time regressed, and age regressed back,

he's able to say that because it's clearly not true

and he's making up a series of fantasies.

So that's one thing.

Um, but for legitimate information, we have to ask,

"Well, why does any of it come out?"

Well, in general, we have to say that most of it never comes out, right?

So… most of the information within that community

is still very tightly controlled. Absolutely.

[narrator] In the same year that the British and American authorities

are negotiating the extradition of Gary McKinnon,

another information leak occurs.

The world learns incredible facts from 15 pages of notes from a dialogue

between a highly respected scientist and a high ranking official

in US Military and National Security.

Many refer to this Autumn 2002 event as "the most significant UFO leak ever."

It all began when three men decided to draw the attention

of a high-ranking Pentagon official to a secret UFO program.

I came here to Washington with a Navy commander

by the name of Will Miller, and Dr. Steven Greer.

And we were able to get an appointment at the Pentagon

to talk about what we knew, or what we allegedly knew,

what we thought we knew.

And went and told our story.

The admiral said, "Well, I don't know that story."

"I don't know that that's true, but I will find out."

[intense music playing]

[narrator] October 2002, Las Vegas.

Physicist Eric Davis, a specialist, among other things,

in advanced military technologies, arrives at the EG&G building

near the intersection of Grier Drive and Paradise Road

at exactly ten o'clock in the morning.

Another car then arrives with Admiral Thomas Wilson,

dressed in civilian clothes.

Wilson, in his fifties with an extraordinary career

in the United States Navy behind him,

and just a few months earlier,

the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

He is accompanied by two men in Navy uniforms.

Wilson gets into Davis's car,

and they spend about an hour talking in the back seat.

Later, Eric Davis reconstructs the dialogue into a 15-page document,

containing devastating evidence about the extent

of government-led UFO cover-ups.

[Wilson] "They weren't going to let me in the door."

"They wouldn't accept my arguments that they fell under my statutory oversight

and regulatory authority as Deputy Director DIA."

[narrator] Wilson describes how he, an admiral in the US Navy,

was denied access to all but a fragment of information

about the top secret program,

and that on the list of people granted oversight,

there was no one from the White House,

or even from Congress, or any elected official.

It was not a weapons program, nor an intelligence program.

It was something entirely different.

The private industry is very interested in UFO technology.

Eric Davis being the employee of Robert Bigelow

and Robert Bigelow is, of course, the famous billionaire

who has been investigating

strange paranormal phenomena for decades,

also for the Pentagon.

Eric Davis is an important scientist.

And they'd all been interested in…

"What do the other corporations know?"

[narrator] As the conversation progressed,

Wilson revealed his concerns over the work within the top secret program.

[Davis] "What were they then?"

[Wilson] "They were a reverse engineering program."

"Something recovered years ago in the past."

"Program manager said they didn't know where it was from."

"It was technology that was not of this Earth,

not made by man, not by human hands."

[Fleischer] So if it's true that private corporations are in the possession

of extraterrestrial remnants of whatever origin, whatever kind,

then it is also logical to assume that other private companies

who want to build that stuff may also be interested in knowing "What do they know?"

It's just logical.

[narrator] Davis kept asking questions, but the more questions he asked,

the less answers he got.

Eventually, he began threatening the men, which ended the meeting prematurely.

[Davis] "Did you deal with it somehow?"

"Turned to Special Access Programme Oversight Committee."

"I was very angry."

"Result?"

"If I didn't follow their suggestion then I would not see Director DIA promotion,

get early retirement, lose one or two stars along the way."

And it was really difficult,

he names the exact department where he got information about this program.

Eventually, they invite him to their facility,

but just to tell him that he has no access, and that he is not in charge.

And they didn't let him inspect the site.

They didn't let him inspect the project.

[narrator] Although Wilson never got inside the program,

this recording of the interview

contains so many details and names that most UFO researchers and investigators

consider it entirely credible.

It confirms there is a deeply classified program

hidden in the network of the Defense Department,

whose purpose was, and perhaps still is,

the study of extraterrestrial technology.

I think there's some interesting evidence for this theory that within government

there are different factions.

So government is not a single entity

moving with one single common purpose.

[man] So you have competing groups, I think, within the government.

There may be one group that wants all this information to come out,

and they're being fought by another group.

Governments and corporations don't mind me talking about extraterrestrials,

or the underground facilities.

And they really don't like me talking about over unity devices

and zero-point energy,

which I had laboratories that were making these devices as well.

So all day long, I can talk about ETs because there's no money being made

talking about ETs for them.

And they don't believe anyone's going to believe this anyway.

They don't care what you know. They care what you can prove.

That's how this game works.

[narrator] The insiders or whistleblowers are mostly former participants

in these secret UFO programs.

One such individual was Emery Smith.

As a US Air Force Surgical Assistant,

he claims to have worked undercover

on projects relating to the examination of extraterrestrial life.

Smith described in detail how he participated in the autopsies

of extraterrestrial corpses, and how strictly the program was guarded.

Emery Smith is a good example

of someone who, when he joined the US military,

was given an option of becoming part of a black program.

And then, when he did that black program, he did that side by side

with his normal military service.

Because this is often the way in which, in the United States, it's done.

Military recruits are basically given the option

to do some additional work on top of their regular assignment,

and that would involve extraterrestrials.

[narrator] Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, 1990 through 1998.

[Smith] There's a facility called Sandia Labs,

and Sandia National Laboratories

is another, um,

government-controlled corporation

uh, that does a lot of amazing things.

But under that facility, and now, that's a base inside a military base.

So it's like double security.

And below that, that building and that little base

is a whole underground facility.

[narrator] Young Emery would enter the building

through highly sensitive identification

and security scanning gates.

Specially trained dogs were able to recognize if the person entering

had an infectious or cancerous disease.

Everyone who passed through the multistage screening

received a special computer tablet

containing all the information necessary to navigate the underground lab,

and to avoid any paper documents in or out.

In the early 1990s, at a special laboratory

where Emery usually dissected biological tissues

from humans and animal remains,

an arm lay on the autopsy table.

Emery was convinced that this arm

didn't belong to a human or was of this planet.

[Smith] I was amazed to see this arm with this hand, with color,

and this blue iridescent field. It was so beautiful.

And what was so interesting is they didn't even tell me what I was supposed to do

until I got in there.

They wanted to see how I was going to react.

and if I would be a good agent to keep my mouth shut,

and that's all that was for.

And then, I found out later that that arm

was synthetic. It was a fake.

[narrator] Emery, as he claims, passed the test,

and gradually became a specialist in autopsies,

retrieving and analyzing tissue samples from extraterrestrial corpses.

He became part of the government's inner sanctum

of closely guarded secrets

on extraterrestrials and UFOs.

There's many different kinds of extraterrestrials out there

with many different kinds of looks.

The one thing they all have in common is they all have human DNA in them.

The second thing is they all have a head, two arms, and two legs.

The five star, you know, pointed system of the universe,

which is very fascinating.

[narrator] He soon gained the trust of his superiors,

receiving special permission to access the laboratory's secret archive.

As he describes it today, it was so extraordinary

that he became addicted to going there and discovering information

that was forbidden to others.

[Smith] This is a giant room made up of eight large pool, like pool tables

about that size, and they were white.

And they-- you can access this with your hand or your voice,

and the AI knows who you are.

And you have a band on you, they know where you're at all the time

inside the facilities.

They know if your heart rate goes up, they know everything.

So when you're in the library, you can request anything that has to do

with your project, or a future project, or extraterrestrial, or craft,

or device that you're going to be working on.

[narrator] The library gave him access

to all the sensitive and closely guarded information

relating to extraterrestrial monitoring work,

and the secret space program.

And it also offered a completely different perspective on what we perceive

as established and unchanging in our solar system.

He claims that he even saw the interstellar highway system.

In effect, a map to the stars.

So the library was just an amazing concept for me to get in and see things

like the moon, for instance.

There was a great model of the moon three-dimensionally that you can open up

and look inside, and you know,

the moon turned out being something I didn't realize what it really was.

[narrator] The question arises:

how it is possible that a person can keep something so extraordinary to himself

for so many years and why he has chosen to share it now?

Well, what had happened is I had to come forward just recently

within the last couple of years

because I was working with some over unity devices,

and someone leaked some information at the lab.

And it just got a little scary.

So I have been kept behind the scenes for, you know, 27 years now,

but I've been coming to events,

and I've been an insider for many of my colleagues here for over a decade.

I think not everyone within the military industrial complex supports disclosure.

There are some groups that want to keep the secrecy for another 50 years.

[narrator] But will their attempts be successful?

Or is the genie already out of the bottle?

A completely different attempt, this time not to obtain information,

but to declassify the content of secret programs,

was leaked to the public in March 2016.

Russian hackers send a phishing email to John Podesta,

who was, at the time, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman.

Subsequent opening of the Podesta mail allows the hackers to access

approximately 60,000 private emails.

Many of these, of course, related to the Clinton presidential campaign.

But some of them related to something entirely different.

When news emerged that John Podesta's email had been hacked,

obviously, everyone was interested in all sorts of different aspects of it.

But the surprising aspect was apparent communication

between Tom DeLonge and John Podesta about UFOs.

[narrator] Private emails from Hillary Clinton's adviser

posted on WikiLeaks

prove that former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge did contact Podesta,

undoubtedly with the purposeful intention of developing mutual cooperation

on release of UFO information.

Tom DeLonge is a very nice guy. He is deeply involved in the UFO subject.

He's also very familiar with virtually everything you need to know about it.

And he's had some very interesting contacts

in the US intelligence community.

[narrator] As well as being

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign manager,

John Podesta's abiding interest in the UFO phenomenon was so well known

that he was nicknamed "the X-Files man" in Bill Clinton's White House.

The discovery of these emails reinforced the impression

that Podesta could have been an active link

between the White House and the emerging group of government officials

associated with the UFO phenomenon.

I think what you can see from those WikiLeaks emails

is that Tom DeLonge had been preparing a huge thing together with John Podesta.

How do you say, this multichannel marketing approach with books, series,

TV shows, feature film, stuff like that.

And he had the interest of John Podesta.

[narrator] With Hillary Clinton's defeat to Donald Trump

in the 2016 presidential election,

the proposed link between DeLonge and the To The Stars… Academy

and the Clinton White House was no longer achievable.

They, therefore, had to select an alternative plan

to get the information out via the United States Congress.

I have guided Congress with getting all the data, all the briefings,

and all the people in various parts of the government

to brief the senators and congressmen. We did all that.

It actually leaked a handful of weeks ago

when you saw these articles in The New York Times and whatever

where it said the Navy is creating formal mechanisms

for reporting UFOs. That was us.

That was To the Stars… Academy. That was our show. It's on the show.

It's really just following around what we do at To the Stars… Academy.

We deal with the US government every single day.

I think Tom DeLonge said in a tweet

shortly after WikiLeaks published those files, those emails, he said,

"You don't know what you have just destroyed,

the whole mess you have created."

And I think they had a completely different plan in the beginning.

I think their plan was that Hillary Clinton would become President,

and that this would somehow-- they would somehow work together.

Maybe the intelligence community is using this

as a way to disclose, but through the back door.

What I'm trying to say is that

maybe politically the President can't say,

"My fellow Americans, people of the world, we're not alone."

Because the implication is that governments have known about this

and lied for it for 70 years.

But maybe there's a way to just slip it out piece by piece

so that the end result is the same.

People end up knowing that this is real and the information is out there,

but it's done through this third party.

[narrator] In recent years, it has become clear

that the effort to publicize information on UFOs

has generated new momentum since the WikiLeaks Scandal,

despite the results of the 2016 election.

In 2017, The Academy of Arts and Sciences,

with Tom DeLonge and former Pentagon point man on UFOs, Luis Elizondo,

released three videos from the Pentagon's secret program archive.

These videos have provided fascinating new insight

into the extent of contact with

and research on the infamous Tic Tac UFO craft.

So far, this initiative presents UFOs, renamed UAPs, as a threat.

But is it not more possible that technologically unsurpassable craft

that have been flying overhead for centuries, perhaps even millennia,

are more of a hope than a threat?

The world is bracing itself for further revelations.

Perhaps a formal acknowledgment

from the highest ranks in government that Top Secret UFO Programs do exist,

and that they have shown, as so many have suspected,

that we are not alone in the universe.

We are going to have to help push along

a process in which the people in the world

and governments start to get more information

and engage this thing until eventually, they have no choice

but to acknowledge, yes, there's extraterrestrials here,

and probably even say,

"And there's not a damn thing we can do about it."

Firstly, we know that there are more videos,

photographs and videos,

like the videos that we've seen of the Navy jets chasing UFOs.

So we're going to see more of those sorts of videos, I think.

Secondly, I think we'll see more documents,

and I think the other thing we will see is that more people

who have been involved in this,

either as witnesses

or as people who have been involved in the program,

they are going to come forward and speak out.

I think we're seeing what we're seeing now because of social media

and the digital age, everybody is sharing information at a rapid rate.

So if something seems like it's changing,

it's because the information is flowing in a different way now.

You know, this phenomenon is ancient as far as we can tell from the beginning

of recorded human history, so we'll see what happens.

[D'Antonio] The military is always looking for money, um…

and they will use that public opinion to scare the public

so we can get more money to do this.

"We need a space force."

"Let's scare the public into thinking we need to protect them from…"

your choice here.

A, B, or C, asteroids, aliens, anything, you know?

So that's something that does happen.

This is a road, and we're not at the end of that road yet.

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