1 00:00:01,502 --> 00:00:04,213 [Narrator] Mysterious orbs of light reported 2 00:00:04,379 --> 00:00:05,839 all over the world. 3 00:00:05,964 --> 00:00:08,759 Unidentifiable flying objects 4 00:00:08,884 --> 00:00:11,762 witnessed by hundreds of people. 5 00:00:11,887 --> 00:00:15,682 And evidence of extraordinary aircraft 6 00:00:15,849 --> 00:00:19,269 moving at impossible speeds. 7 00:00:20,395 --> 00:00:22,397 ♪ ♪ 8 00:00:35,410 --> 00:00:37,829 Since the 1940s, 9 00:00:37,996 --> 00:00:41,166 reports of flying, disk-shaped objects 10 00:00:41,333 --> 00:00:44,294 helped define the modern UFO era. 11 00:00:44,461 --> 00:00:47,214 But the 21st century has changed 12 00:00:47,381 --> 00:00:49,758 much of what we now know 13 00:00:49,925 --> 00:00:51,969 and witness when it comes to 14 00:00:52,135 --> 00:00:55,013 unidentified anomalous phenomena. 15 00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:58,141 Today, reports of strange, glowing orbs 16 00:00:58,350 --> 00:01:00,227 are featured on the evening news, 17 00:01:00,394 --> 00:01:02,896 cell phone footage of mysterious craft 18 00:01:03,063 --> 00:01:05,399 can be found on social media, 19 00:01:05,524 --> 00:01:09,361 and even the U.S. Congress is holding hearings 20 00:01:09,486 --> 00:01:14,408 in search of the truth about UFO sightings. 21 00:01:17,828 --> 00:01:21,123 [Narrator] On December 16, 2017, 22 00:01:21,290 --> 00:01:24,459 The New York Times ran an explosive story 23 00:01:24,668 --> 00:01:28,130 entitled "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': 24 00:01:28,297 --> 00:01:31,633 The Pentagon's Mysterious UFO Program." 25 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,220 It was the first time the American public learned 26 00:01:35,429 --> 00:01:38,348 of a top secret U.S. government project, 27 00:01:38,515 --> 00:01:41,852 the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, 28 00:01:42,019 --> 00:01:44,813 otherwise known as AATIP. 29 00:01:44,980 --> 00:01:47,316 The revelations concerning the existence 30 00:01:47,482 --> 00:01:51,236 of the Pentagon's AATIP program are extraordinary. 31 00:01:51,778 --> 00:01:55,532 It is the single biggest ever news 32 00:01:55,699 --> 00:01:58,827 in the whole history of the UFO phenomenon. 33 00:01:58,994 --> 00:02:03,206 It's not quite a "spaceship in a hangar" smoking gun, 34 00:02:03,373 --> 00:02:05,625 but it's the closest we've ever been. 35 00:02:07,753 --> 00:02:10,505 [Narrator] The article reported that the program had been run 36 00:02:10,672 --> 00:02:15,010 by a former Pentagon official named Luis Elizondo, 37 00:02:15,177 --> 00:02:17,304 a senior career intelligence officer 38 00:02:17,471 --> 00:02:19,473 with top security clearance 39 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:21,683 and with experience in everything 40 00:02:21,808 --> 00:02:23,810 from microbiology and parasitology 41 00:02:23,977 --> 00:02:26,897 to the study of global terrorism. 42 00:02:27,105 --> 00:02:30,442 It was Elizondo's job to investigate 43 00:02:30,609 --> 00:02:33,320 reports of unidentified flying objects 44 00:02:33,487 --> 00:02:37,282 and to measure what threat they could pose to national security. 45 00:02:37,449 --> 00:02:39,534 AATIP received its cases 46 00:02:39,701 --> 00:02:41,745 from-from various different channels. 47 00:02:41,912 --> 00:02:44,206 In some cases, reporting would come up through Navy channels. 48 00:02:44,373 --> 00:02:45,832 In other cases, it would come up through Air Force channels. 49 00:02:45,999 --> 00:02:47,292 In other cases, it would come through 50 00:02:47,459 --> 00:02:48,919 the intelligence community. 51 00:02:49,044 --> 00:02:51,171 And all roads led to-to our office, 52 00:02:51,338 --> 00:02:53,048 uh, regarding the phenomena. 53 00:02:54,466 --> 00:02:56,677 [Narrator] Elizondo played a key role 54 00:02:56,843 --> 00:02:59,221 in the government's top secret AATIP program 55 00:02:59,429 --> 00:03:03,642 prior to his leaving the government in 2017. 56 00:03:04,726 --> 00:03:07,020 Among the reasons given for his departure 57 00:03:07,229 --> 00:03:11,191 was the bitterness he felt that the research he was conducting 58 00:03:11,358 --> 00:03:14,444 and the conclusions that he and his colleagues were reaching 59 00:03:14,611 --> 00:03:17,531 were not being taken seriously by other agencies 60 00:03:17,698 --> 00:03:19,616 within the government. 61 00:03:20,701 --> 00:03:23,495 Even Congress, to which AATIP owed its funding, 62 00:03:23,662 --> 00:03:27,416 was hard-pressed to give Elizondo so much as a hearing 63 00:03:27,582 --> 00:03:31,044 so that his findings could be made part of the public record. 64 00:03:32,087 --> 00:03:35,507 Interestingly, just two months after Elizondo's exit 65 00:03:35,674 --> 00:03:38,218 from the government, The New York Times broke 66 00:03:38,427 --> 00:03:41,680 the major story, exposing the AATIP program 67 00:03:41,805 --> 00:03:43,515 and many of the facts surrounding 68 00:03:43,682 --> 00:03:47,394 the government's secret research into UFO activity. 69 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,772 When I read in The New York Times this front-page story 70 00:03:50,939 --> 00:03:54,860 that the-the government was running this semisecret program 71 00:03:55,068 --> 00:03:57,362 to investigate, well, aerial phenomena, 72 00:03:57,529 --> 00:04:00,115 which is kind of a code word for UFOs... 73 00:04:01,616 --> 00:04:03,869 ...yeah, you know, I thought, "My God, all these years, 74 00:04:04,035 --> 00:04:06,288 "you know, people who-who think that we're being visited 75 00:04:06,455 --> 00:04:09,708 "were claiming that the government was in fact 76 00:04:09,875 --> 00:04:12,210 possessing some secret knowledge about this." 77 00:04:12,377 --> 00:04:14,838 And, sure enough, they did have this secret investigation. 78 00:04:15,922 --> 00:04:17,841 [Narrator] For Luis Elizondo, 79 00:04:17,966 --> 00:04:20,677 the New York Times article served as a vindication 80 00:04:20,844 --> 00:04:23,764 for the years that his research went unrecognized 81 00:04:23,930 --> 00:04:26,099 and his warnings unheeded. 82 00:04:26,308 --> 00:04:29,978 For if the UFO activity being recorded was real, 83 00:04:30,187 --> 00:04:33,273 so, too, was the possibility that it was being caused 84 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,651 by technologies that were not only unknown 85 00:04:36,818 --> 00:04:38,987 but of extraterrestrial origin. 86 00:04:39,154 --> 00:04:41,740 [George Noory] Elizondo, he resigned 87 00:04:41,948 --> 00:04:45,494 because he felt the government considered this a joke. 88 00:04:45,660 --> 00:04:48,038 I think that the fact that these folks are out there 89 00:04:48,205 --> 00:04:50,874 trying to get the answers that we're all seeking-- 90 00:04:51,041 --> 00:04:52,501 absolutely fantastic. 91 00:04:52,709 --> 00:04:55,754 And they're getting to top government officials. 92 00:04:55,921 --> 00:04:57,923 And some-someday, 93 00:04:58,048 --> 00:05:00,467 we're gonna get the answers from people like that. 94 00:05:00,634 --> 00:05:03,678 Not from government, but from people like that. 95 00:05:04,888 --> 00:05:07,140 [Narrator] Luckily for Luis Elizondo, 96 00:05:07,349 --> 00:05:10,227 one of the people who took him and his research seriously 97 00:05:10,393 --> 00:05:14,439 was musician and UFO researcher Tom DeLonge. 98 00:05:14,981 --> 00:05:17,025 [John Podesta] Tom DeLonge, who is most famous 99 00:05:17,192 --> 00:05:19,361 for, uh, his, 100 00:05:19,528 --> 00:05:22,239 uh, being the lead in Blink-182. 101 00:05:23,323 --> 00:05:25,367 I've known Tom for a while, and he spearheaded 102 00:05:25,534 --> 00:05:27,828 an initiative that's brought together a number 103 00:05:27,994 --> 00:05:32,082 of scientists and others to both continue to study 104 00:05:32,249 --> 00:05:34,000 the phenomena on the outside, 105 00:05:34,125 --> 00:05:37,128 in the private sector, and to raise funds to do that. 106 00:05:37,754 --> 00:05:40,173 [Pope] His enthusiasm, 107 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:42,884 his passion has driven things forward. 108 00:05:43,718 --> 00:05:45,136 A lot of people were saying, 109 00:05:45,303 --> 00:05:47,055 "What does a rock star know about all this?" 110 00:05:47,681 --> 00:05:50,517 Let's not forget that sometimes even people in government 111 00:05:50,684 --> 00:05:52,602 and military and the intelligence community 112 00:05:52,727 --> 00:05:57,482 get a little more starstruck than they should by celebrities. 113 00:05:57,607 --> 00:06:02,445 Tom DeLonge was able to use this to leverage, 114 00:06:02,612 --> 00:06:05,574 I guess, access where others had tried and failed. 115 00:06:07,576 --> 00:06:09,661 [Narrator] In October 2017, 116 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:11,788 Tom DeLonge announced the creation 117 00:06:11,955 --> 00:06:15,041 of his To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science, 118 00:06:15,166 --> 00:06:19,129 an organization devoted to the study of UFOs 119 00:06:19,296 --> 00:06:22,465 and the possible existence of extraterrestrial activity 120 00:06:22,632 --> 00:06:24,009 here on Earth. 121 00:06:26,011 --> 00:06:28,388 When Elizondo left the Pentagon, 122 00:06:28,555 --> 00:06:31,516 he was determined to bring AATIP's years of investigation 123 00:06:31,683 --> 00:06:33,059 out of the shadows 124 00:06:33,268 --> 00:06:36,855 by releasing several of the videos he had collected. 125 00:06:37,022 --> 00:06:39,357 One of them featured this incredible encounter 126 00:06:39,524 --> 00:06:43,945 taken by a fighter jet in Florida in 2015 127 00:06:44,112 --> 00:06:46,948 now known as the Gimbal video. 128 00:06:58,543 --> 00:07:02,505 On December 18, 2017, 129 00:07:02,672 --> 00:07:06,426 DeLonge and Elizondo revealed a second shocking video, 130 00:07:06,593 --> 00:07:09,429 which was released through The Washington Post. 131 00:07:10,722 --> 00:07:13,642 This UFO had been tracked by the USS Princeton 132 00:07:13,767 --> 00:07:16,645 for several days over the Pacific Ocean, 133 00:07:16,811 --> 00:07:20,231 approximately 100 miles southwest of San Diego. 134 00:07:21,691 --> 00:07:25,111 On the screen, it also says the speed of the F-18 135 00:07:25,278 --> 00:07:26,655 is 250 knots-- 136 00:07:26,821 --> 00:07:29,908 roughly about, uh, 280 miles per hour. 137 00:07:30,075 --> 00:07:32,160 This F-18 can't seem to get any closer 138 00:07:32,285 --> 00:07:33,995 to this vehicle, whatever it is. 139 00:07:34,162 --> 00:07:36,247 Now, the F-18's one of the, uh, 140 00:07:36,414 --> 00:07:39,084 highest technology fighter crafts on the planet. 141 00:07:39,250 --> 00:07:42,087 And it can't catch this thing? 142 00:07:42,253 --> 00:07:45,090 When it darts offscreen to the left, 143 00:07:45,256 --> 00:07:47,634 it would be going extremely fast. 144 00:07:47,801 --> 00:07:50,929 The g-forces would-would turn a person inside it 145 00:07:51,096 --> 00:07:52,806 into, like, tapioca pudding. 146 00:07:52,972 --> 00:07:54,641 I mean, it would-it would kill them. 147 00:07:56,976 --> 00:07:59,187 [Narrator] In March 2018, 148 00:07:59,354 --> 00:08:03,233 a third Pentagon video entitled "Go Fast" was released 149 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,237 and featured yet another unexplained aerial encounter. 150 00:08:13,201 --> 00:08:14,828 (chuckles) 151 00:08:15,829 --> 00:08:18,164 [Narrator] But perhaps the most shocking information 152 00:08:18,331 --> 00:08:22,627 to come from Tom DeLonge and his To The Stars Academy 153 00:08:22,794 --> 00:08:26,464 was Luis Elizondo's claim that Bigelow Aerospace 154 00:08:26,631 --> 00:08:28,800 had modified its buildings for the storage 155 00:08:28,925 --> 00:08:32,053 of strange metal alloys of unknown origin 156 00:08:32,220 --> 00:08:35,140 also known as metamaterials. 157 00:08:35,347 --> 00:08:38,393 Now, hold, stop the presses right there. 158 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:40,562 What are these metal alloys? 159 00:08:40,687 --> 00:08:43,648 [Pope] Luis Elizondo has referred 160 00:08:43,815 --> 00:08:47,152 to these as metamaterials. 161 00:08:47,318 --> 00:08:49,988 The implication is that they're-they're not special, 162 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:51,990 magical elements or anything, 163 00:08:52,157 --> 00:08:53,658 but they've been studied. 164 00:08:53,867 --> 00:08:55,618 According to Elizondo, 165 00:08:55,827 --> 00:08:57,287 tests have been run. 166 00:08:57,454 --> 00:08:59,164 The answer has come back. 167 00:08:59,330 --> 00:09:02,542 Whatever these things were, they came from space. 168 00:09:02,751 --> 00:09:04,210 [Podesta] There was also indications 169 00:09:04,377 --> 00:09:05,837 that there were certain polymers 170 00:09:06,004 --> 00:09:07,464 that were, uh, 171 00:09:07,630 --> 00:09:09,966 discovered at crash sites 172 00:09:10,133 --> 00:09:13,178 that were unexplained and were reviewed. 173 00:09:13,386 --> 00:09:15,096 [Dolan] You know, for years and years, 174 00:09:15,305 --> 00:09:19,267 UFO researchers had talked about crash retrievals of UFOs 175 00:09:19,434 --> 00:09:20,727 or that elements of these objects 176 00:09:20,894 --> 00:09:22,729 had been recovered and were being studied. 177 00:09:22,896 --> 00:09:25,148 And skeptics would laugh at these claims. 178 00:09:25,315 --> 00:09:26,566 You know, 179 00:09:26,733 --> 00:09:28,026 how ridiculous 180 00:09:28,193 --> 00:09:31,529 such conspiracy paranoid fantasies were. 181 00:09:31,696 --> 00:09:32,947 Uh, well, guess what, 182 00:09:33,114 --> 00:09:35,617 now we have it confirmed. 183 00:09:36,743 --> 00:09:39,496 [Narrator] Is it possible that the U.S. military 184 00:09:39,662 --> 00:09:43,374 has recovered crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft 185 00:09:43,541 --> 00:09:45,835 and that wreckage from these aircraft 186 00:09:46,002 --> 00:09:48,546 is currently being stored and studied 187 00:09:48,713 --> 00:09:52,884 by a top secret team at Bigelow Aerospace? 188 00:09:53,927 --> 00:09:55,512 [Taylor] One of the really interesting things about AATIP 189 00:09:55,678 --> 00:09:58,264 is how much information hasn't been released. 190 00:09:58,431 --> 00:10:00,517 We hear things that are coming. 191 00:10:00,683 --> 00:10:02,060 There's this report that was written 192 00:10:02,268 --> 00:10:03,853 that we're supposed to get to see at some point. 193 00:10:04,020 --> 00:10:05,271 Haven't seen it yet. 194 00:10:05,438 --> 00:10:07,357 And then are there more videos? 195 00:10:07,524 --> 00:10:09,192 We've seen, I think, three videos come out 196 00:10:09,359 --> 00:10:10,693 that they've released. 197 00:10:10,860 --> 00:10:12,362 There has to be more. 198 00:10:12,529 --> 00:10:13,947 They were doing this for, like, five years 199 00:10:14,114 --> 00:10:16,199 or maybe even a lot longer than that. 200 00:10:16,324 --> 00:10:18,159 I bet you there's a lot more. 201 00:10:22,372 --> 00:10:23,498 When you hear the word "UFO," 202 00:10:23,957 --> 00:10:27,043 it may bring to mind images of classic flying saucers. 203 00:10:27,210 --> 00:10:30,505 But many eyewitness descriptions of aerial phenomena 204 00:10:30,672 --> 00:10:33,550 include a variety of shapes and sizes, 205 00:10:33,716 --> 00:10:36,511 including cylinders, triangles, 206 00:10:36,678 --> 00:10:38,513 and even orbs of light. 207 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:42,433 Yet one of the most compelling sightings of a recent UAP 208 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,435 was so strange, 209 00:10:44,602 --> 00:10:48,106 it was named the Spaghetti Monster. 210 00:10:50,358 --> 00:10:53,611 [Narrator] Iraq. 2018. 211 00:10:53,778 --> 00:10:56,156 Marine officer Michael Cincoski 212 00:10:56,322 --> 00:11:00,869 is deployed to Al-Taqaddum Air Base just west of Baghdad. 213 00:11:01,035 --> 00:11:04,247 Upon arriving, he's shown a sensational video 214 00:11:04,414 --> 00:11:08,126 that was recoded at the base the previous year. 215 00:11:09,544 --> 00:11:11,379 When I first saw this video, 216 00:11:11,588 --> 00:11:14,007 I was... I was a little shocked. 217 00:11:15,175 --> 00:11:18,803 What made it unique was the overall shape. 218 00:11:18,928 --> 00:11:20,305 It was this jellyfish. 219 00:11:20,471 --> 00:11:22,265 We called it the Spaghetti Monster. 220 00:11:22,432 --> 00:11:24,809 It was flying at a consistent speed, 221 00:11:24,976 --> 00:11:28,855 going from east to west over our base and over the lake. 222 00:11:29,022 --> 00:11:33,151 [Narrator] The unusual object was recorded by a large blimp 223 00:11:33,318 --> 00:11:35,904 otherwise known as an aerostat 224 00:11:36,070 --> 00:11:38,364 that was hovering above the base. 225 00:11:38,531 --> 00:11:42,827 [Cincoski] This object was lower than our aerostat camera, 226 00:11:42,994 --> 00:11:45,121 which is, I would have to guess, 227 00:11:45,288 --> 00:11:47,916 less than 60 feet. 228 00:11:48,082 --> 00:11:52,170 And the two people that you see on the video 229 00:11:52,337 --> 00:11:55,715 that were walking on base had no idea that this thing was there. 230 00:11:55,882 --> 00:11:58,092 It passed, seemingly, right over them, 231 00:11:58,259 --> 00:11:59,719 and they had no idea. 232 00:12:00,803 --> 00:12:03,014 [Narrator] The soldiers who were present at the time 233 00:12:03,181 --> 00:12:06,559 the so-called Jellyfish UFO was recorded 234 00:12:06,684 --> 00:12:09,270 told Cincoski that the object was only visible 235 00:12:09,437 --> 00:12:11,064 on the infrared camera. 236 00:12:12,148 --> 00:12:14,025 [Cincoski] The security element was sent out 237 00:12:14,192 --> 00:12:15,985 to try to gain positive identification 238 00:12:16,152 --> 00:12:17,904 on this thing flying over the base. 239 00:12:18,071 --> 00:12:20,448 They used line of sight, uh, just with the naked eye. 240 00:12:20,615 --> 00:12:23,701 And they tried to use night vision goggles. 241 00:12:23,910 --> 00:12:25,745 And nobody was able to see anything. 242 00:12:26,871 --> 00:12:29,040 [Narrator] The strange object was recorded 243 00:12:29,165 --> 00:12:31,793 passing over the base for more than 30 minutes. 244 00:12:32,835 --> 00:12:34,170 While some have theorized 245 00:12:34,337 --> 00:12:37,715 that the object was merely a smudge on the lens 246 00:12:37,882 --> 00:12:41,219 or even a soldier using some kind of jet pack, 247 00:12:41,427 --> 00:12:44,180 both possibilities have been ruled out. 248 00:12:44,389 --> 00:12:48,518 So, what could explain this oddly shaped craft 249 00:12:48,685 --> 00:12:51,187 that could not be seen with the naked eye? 250 00:12:53,231 --> 00:12:54,732 [Cincoski] I'm trained to identify 251 00:12:54,899 --> 00:12:57,068 different types of drones, 252 00:12:57,235 --> 00:12:58,444 different types of aircraft, whether they're manned 253 00:12:58,611 --> 00:13:00,113 or unmanned. 254 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:01,572 And this is nothing like I've ever seen before. 255 00:13:02,865 --> 00:13:04,826 There are a lot of different theories 256 00:13:04,993 --> 00:13:07,120 from all the different Marines that-that saw this footage. 257 00:13:07,245 --> 00:13:09,831 But there's really no explanation 258 00:13:09,998 --> 00:13:11,874 for this sort of thing. 259 00:13:12,041 --> 00:13:13,918 There's a possibility that this might be 260 00:13:14,085 --> 00:13:15,670 something out of our world. 261 00:13:16,963 --> 00:13:20,133 [Narrator] Could it be that the jellyfish-shaped UAP 262 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:23,678 captured on video flying over a U.S. military base 263 00:13:23,803 --> 00:13:25,930 was of alien origin? 264 00:13:26,973 --> 00:13:29,600 The footage remained unknown to the public 265 00:13:29,726 --> 00:13:32,437 for six years after it was recorded 266 00:13:32,603 --> 00:13:35,773 and only came to light in 2024 267 00:13:35,940 --> 00:13:37,859 thanks to the efforts of filmmaker 268 00:13:38,067 --> 00:13:40,987 and ufologist Jeremy Corbell. 269 00:13:42,989 --> 00:13:44,866 [Cincoski] The videos were located on a secret terminal, 270 00:13:45,033 --> 00:13:46,367 a secret system. 271 00:13:46,534 --> 00:13:49,537 And the way the footage has been released, 272 00:13:49,746 --> 00:13:53,958 I think somebody recorded, illegally, the screen. 273 00:13:54,125 --> 00:13:56,669 And I don't know how long they've had this footage 274 00:13:56,836 --> 00:13:59,380 or why they released it now, years later. 275 00:13:59,589 --> 00:14:02,341 But I imagine they didn't want to get caught. 276 00:14:03,593 --> 00:14:07,722 [Pope] The video was handed to investigative journalist 277 00:14:07,889 --> 00:14:09,932 and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell. 278 00:14:11,017 --> 00:14:13,186 And it was released to the public. 279 00:14:13,352 --> 00:14:17,148 The Department of Defense have confirmed this is authentic. 280 00:14:17,315 --> 00:14:19,984 This is not some blurry light in the sky. 281 00:14:20,151 --> 00:14:21,694 This is up close and personal, 282 00:14:21,861 --> 00:14:24,155 and you can see the detail. 283 00:14:25,239 --> 00:14:27,784 [Taylor] The video from Iraq is the most intriguing one 284 00:14:27,950 --> 00:14:29,243 that I've seen in a while. 285 00:14:29,410 --> 00:14:31,412 The reason why is because 286 00:14:31,579 --> 00:14:35,416 whatever this object is stays at a steady rate of velocity. 287 00:14:35,583 --> 00:14:38,002 And it stays at the same altitude 288 00:14:38,169 --> 00:14:40,838 above the surface the entire time. 289 00:14:40,963 --> 00:14:42,465 So it's being controlled, 290 00:14:42,632 --> 00:14:44,509 and it has some sort of propulsion device 291 00:14:44,675 --> 00:14:46,135 that we don't see on board. 292 00:14:47,553 --> 00:14:51,140 [Narrator] Is it possible that the so-called Jellyfish UFO 293 00:14:51,349 --> 00:14:54,477 is footage of a visitor from another world? 294 00:14:54,644 --> 00:14:57,355 While the military remains tight-lipped 295 00:14:57,522 --> 00:14:59,649 about what was filmed in Iraq, 296 00:14:59,816 --> 00:15:03,611 a number of compelling videos have appeared on the website 297 00:15:03,778 --> 00:15:08,282 of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO. 298 00:15:08,449 --> 00:15:11,119 Established in 2022, 299 00:15:11,244 --> 00:15:16,124 AARO is a government program to study UAPs. 300 00:15:16,290 --> 00:15:19,252 [Taylor] We have objects captured on an infrared sensor. 301 00:15:19,418 --> 00:15:22,713 And we also have objects detected on radar. 302 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,633 And on the situational awareness system. 303 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,928 So, multiple instruments saying there's something there 304 00:15:29,095 --> 00:15:31,472 suggests that there really is something there. 305 00:15:32,557 --> 00:15:35,184 [Pope] Congress has now mandated the military 306 00:15:35,351 --> 00:15:40,106 to actually devise surveillance equipment 307 00:15:40,273 --> 00:15:42,150 specifically geared 308 00:15:42,316 --> 00:15:45,403 to target and capture UFO images. 309 00:15:47,196 --> 00:15:51,409 [Pope] So, we are gonna see a lot more of these. 310 00:15:51,576 --> 00:15:53,661 Some in infrared... 311 00:15:54,704 --> 00:15:58,332 [Pope] ...but others, perhaps, across the spectrum. 312 00:15:58,499 --> 00:16:01,127 And that's interesting because whether something shows up, 313 00:16:01,294 --> 00:16:05,131 just in infrared or other parts of the spectrum, 314 00:16:05,298 --> 00:16:08,259 can tell you something about the object, 315 00:16:08,467 --> 00:16:12,638 perhaps its energy source, perhaps its propulsion system. 316 00:16:14,140 --> 00:16:15,474 [Narrator] But while the military 317 00:16:15,641 --> 00:16:17,518 has been more transparent 318 00:16:17,685 --> 00:16:20,730 in confirming the authenticity of UAP videos, 319 00:16:20,897 --> 00:16:24,942 many believe the public has only seen a small fraction 320 00:16:25,109 --> 00:16:27,153 of the footage they possess. 321 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,656 This has left ufologists to ask: 322 00:16:30,823 --> 00:16:32,992 what other evidence might the U.S. military 323 00:16:33,159 --> 00:16:35,870 be withholding from the public? 324 00:16:36,871 --> 00:16:38,998 [Pope] High-level government insiders 325 00:16:39,165 --> 00:16:42,210 have been saying, "We have both metamaterials 326 00:16:42,376 --> 00:16:45,254 from craft, and actually intact craft, 327 00:16:45,421 --> 00:16:48,299 but also entities." 328 00:16:48,507 --> 00:16:49,967 And yeah, absolutely, 329 00:16:50,134 --> 00:16:51,844 a small group of people in the government 330 00:16:52,011 --> 00:16:53,804 are keeping this from the people. 331 00:16:53,930 --> 00:16:56,766 [Taji Huang] When you look into some of these guys 332 00:16:56,933 --> 00:16:59,185 that have long, illustrious military careers 333 00:16:59,352 --> 00:17:01,020 that are opening up 334 00:17:01,229 --> 00:17:03,105 and talking about things that we wouldn't have heard about 335 00:17:03,272 --> 00:17:04,732 20 years ago, 30 years ago, 336 00:17:04,898 --> 00:17:08,319 this all is going to add to more curiosity 337 00:17:08,444 --> 00:17:10,695 and make us really say, "If this is what 338 00:17:10,863 --> 00:17:12,906 we're hearing about, what about all the things 339 00:17:13,074 --> 00:17:16,035 that we haven't heard about that are out there?" 340 00:17:16,202 --> 00:17:18,119 They're still talking about UAP as 341 00:17:18,246 --> 00:17:20,205 Chinese or Russian, things like this. 342 00:17:20,373 --> 00:17:23,876 They're not willing to mention this as actual contact. 343 00:17:24,042 --> 00:17:27,003 But what we do know is that, off the record, 344 00:17:27,171 --> 00:17:30,466 many government employees, high-level people 345 00:17:30,633 --> 00:17:33,678 who have really studied this, they absolutely believe this. 346 00:17:38,224 --> 00:17:39,684 In November of 2024, 347 00:17:39,684 --> 00:17:42,270 hundreds of UFO sightings were reported 348 00:17:42,436 --> 00:17:44,647 across the eastern United States. 349 00:17:44,814 --> 00:17:47,608 But these weren't metallic craft. 350 00:17:47,775 --> 00:17:50,444 Instead, witnesses described seeing 351 00:17:50,611 --> 00:17:55,283 glowing orbs of light that moved erratically in the sky. 352 00:17:55,449 --> 00:17:58,619 To many researchers, these sightings sound exactly 353 00:17:58,828 --> 00:18:03,082 like a strange phenomenon reported over 80 years ago, 354 00:18:03,207 --> 00:18:04,917 during World War II. 355 00:18:07,878 --> 00:18:10,339 [Narrator] November 1944. 356 00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:14,969 In the closing stages of World War II, 357 00:18:15,136 --> 00:18:19,307 Allied forces are pushing deeper into Nazi-occupied France. 358 00:18:20,349 --> 00:18:23,185 On November 27th, American aviators 359 00:18:23,352 --> 00:18:26,272 with the 415th Night Fighter Squadron 360 00:18:26,439 --> 00:18:29,525 are conducting a nighttime raid along the Rhine river 361 00:18:29,692 --> 00:18:31,235 when they report seeing 362 00:18:31,402 --> 00:18:33,988 several strange red lights in the sky. 363 00:18:35,031 --> 00:18:37,283 The glowing orbs seem to pursue them 364 00:18:37,450 --> 00:18:39,577 through a series of high-speed maneuvers 365 00:18:39,785 --> 00:18:41,996 before they suddenly vanish. 366 00:18:43,039 --> 00:18:44,582 In the days that follow, 367 00:18:44,790 --> 00:18:48,085 more pilots experience similar encounters. 368 00:18:49,879 --> 00:18:53,049 These craft, these objects, whatever they-they were, 369 00:18:53,215 --> 00:18:54,925 they were often just described as balls of light, 370 00:18:55,092 --> 00:18:59,430 and they would come in very close to Allied aircraft. 371 00:19:00,556 --> 00:19:02,642 [Pope] These strange balls of light 372 00:19:02,767 --> 00:19:06,937 often displayed speeds and maneuverability 373 00:19:07,146 --> 00:19:08,773 that was way ahead 374 00:19:08,939 --> 00:19:12,568 of-of the cutting edge of aviation technology. 375 00:19:13,611 --> 00:19:15,363 [Narrator] As the sightings increased, 376 00:19:15,488 --> 00:19:18,824 Allied pilots began to call the mysterious orbs 377 00:19:18,991 --> 00:19:20,910 "foo fighters." 378 00:19:21,077 --> 00:19:23,454 [Bill Birnes] The reason they were called "foo fighters" 379 00:19:23,621 --> 00:19:26,540 was because they were glowing on the inside. 380 00:19:26,707 --> 00:19:29,669 The word for fire in French is feu, 381 00:19:29,794 --> 00:19:32,004 and the French called them feu, 382 00:19:32,171 --> 00:19:35,549 and that's how they got the name foo fighters from the Americans. 383 00:19:35,716 --> 00:19:36,926 [Dolan] These foo fighters often 384 00:19:37,093 --> 00:19:38,719 just stayed very briefly, 385 00:19:38,844 --> 00:19:41,347 and then maneuvered with incredible speed 386 00:19:41,514 --> 00:19:44,225 either straight up or far away. 387 00:19:46,352 --> 00:19:47,895 [Narrator] Most concerning to pilots 388 00:19:48,104 --> 00:19:50,898 was that sightings were often accompanied 389 00:19:51,107 --> 00:19:53,734 by bizarre malfunctions to their aircraft. 390 00:19:54,819 --> 00:19:57,822 [Birnes] What the airmen found was the foo fighters 391 00:19:58,030 --> 00:20:00,449 were sending an electric signal out 392 00:20:00,616 --> 00:20:02,952 that got in the way of their radios... 393 00:20:04,036 --> 00:20:07,039 ...got in the way of their navigational instruments. 394 00:20:08,165 --> 00:20:09,959 [Taylor] These orbs would fly near the airplanes, 395 00:20:10,084 --> 00:20:12,670 even as close to the airplane wing, 396 00:20:12,837 --> 00:20:15,423 and the pilots claimed that it interacted 397 00:20:15,589 --> 00:20:17,550 or confused the controls, 398 00:20:17,717 --> 00:20:19,385 or changed how it operated, 399 00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:23,305 and might have actually made them, uh, nearly crash. 400 00:20:23,472 --> 00:20:27,518 [Pope] It was as if these things were observing the pilots. 401 00:20:27,685 --> 00:20:32,231 These balls of light would often keep track with the aircraft. 402 00:20:32,398 --> 00:20:36,819 So, this was a-a real concern for the authorities. 403 00:20:37,027 --> 00:20:41,615 But no overt hostile action, which leads to the question, 404 00:20:41,824 --> 00:20:44,452 "What were these things, and what was going on?" 405 00:20:45,536 --> 00:20:47,371 [Narrator] Allied airmen speculated 406 00:20:47,538 --> 00:20:49,915 that the foo fighters were a secret weapon 407 00:20:50,082 --> 00:20:52,710 that had been developed by the Germans. 408 00:20:52,877 --> 00:20:55,379 But after the war, it became clear 409 00:20:55,588 --> 00:20:57,798 that the flying orbs had been encountered 410 00:20:57,965 --> 00:21:01,761 by forces on both sides of the conflict. 411 00:21:02,845 --> 00:21:05,097 [Dolan] We learned that Germans and Japanese pilots 412 00:21:05,306 --> 00:21:06,932 apparently were also reporting these. 413 00:21:07,099 --> 00:21:08,601 Now, these foo fighters never seemed to be 414 00:21:08,726 --> 00:21:10,853 weapons directed against them, 415 00:21:11,020 --> 00:21:13,063 because they often just stayed very briefly, 416 00:21:13,230 --> 00:21:15,608 and then maneuvered with incredible speed 417 00:21:15,775 --> 00:21:17,860 either straight up or far away. 418 00:21:18,068 --> 00:21:19,612 We don't know what they are, officially. 419 00:21:19,779 --> 00:21:23,240 They strike me as classic UFO-type activity. 420 00:21:23,365 --> 00:21:26,285 [Tsoukalos] I think the argument can be made 421 00:21:26,452 --> 00:21:28,287 that some of these orbs 422 00:21:28,454 --> 00:21:31,874 that we see today are those foo fighters of World War II. 423 00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:34,835 [Narrator] Is it possible that the foo fighters 424 00:21:35,002 --> 00:21:39,006 of World War II were extraterrestrial visitors? 425 00:21:40,090 --> 00:21:41,801 And if so, could they be connected 426 00:21:41,926 --> 00:21:45,054 to the glowing orbs that military personnel 427 00:21:45,221 --> 00:21:47,765 are witnessing in the present day? 428 00:21:48,766 --> 00:21:51,101 According to UFO researchers, 429 00:21:51,310 --> 00:21:54,396 America's armed forces have not only been encountering 430 00:21:54,563 --> 00:21:56,899 strange orbs for decades 431 00:21:57,107 --> 00:22:00,486 but they sometimes appear in swarms. 432 00:22:00,653 --> 00:22:03,531 In July of 2019, off the west coast, 433 00:22:03,697 --> 00:22:08,118 ten U.S. Navy warships were buzzed by unknown craft, 434 00:22:08,244 --> 00:22:09,787 one right after another. 435 00:22:09,954 --> 00:22:12,373 One of those ships is the USS Omaha. 436 00:22:12,540 --> 00:22:16,043 It was surrounded by more than a dozen of these things 437 00:22:16,168 --> 00:22:18,045 that would fly toward it, then fly back. 438 00:22:18,212 --> 00:22:19,922 And they were trying to get images of it, 439 00:22:20,047 --> 00:22:21,715 and finally, on a thermal imaging system, 440 00:22:21,882 --> 00:22:23,133 they got one of them. 441 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:25,845 It followed the ship for an hour. 442 00:22:26,011 --> 00:22:27,805 It was a perfectly round sphere, 443 00:22:27,930 --> 00:22:29,431 something like eight feet across. 444 00:22:29,598 --> 00:22:32,059 No wings, no tail, no rotor. 445 00:22:32,268 --> 00:22:34,770 That video showed that there were a bunch of these things 446 00:22:34,937 --> 00:22:36,981 floating around the ship for a long period of time. 447 00:22:37,189 --> 00:22:39,567 They'd zip in, zip out, disappear, appear. 448 00:22:39,733 --> 00:22:41,652 What the hell was that? 449 00:22:41,819 --> 00:22:43,487 [Narrator] Even more astonishing, 450 00:22:43,654 --> 00:22:45,990 footage recorded by sailors on the warship 451 00:22:46,156 --> 00:22:49,410 shows the mysterious orbs performing maneuvers 452 00:22:49,577 --> 00:22:51,829 that defy explanation. 453 00:22:52,830 --> 00:22:55,332 [Tsoukalos] Many of these orbs dive into the water 454 00:22:55,499 --> 00:23:00,170 and come out and, oftentimes, you do not see any splashes. 455 00:23:00,337 --> 00:23:03,674 It's as if there's an artificial bubble 456 00:23:03,841 --> 00:23:08,429 that allows this thing to move through material 457 00:23:08,596 --> 00:23:10,639 without any loss of velocity. 458 00:23:10,806 --> 00:23:12,433 [Luis Elizondo] Transmedium travel 459 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,810 is a breakthrough technology from what we have. 460 00:23:14,977 --> 00:23:17,563 We have no idea, even, whose technology it is. 461 00:23:17,688 --> 00:23:20,274 The official response by the Department of Defense 462 00:23:20,441 --> 00:23:22,735 and our government is that these still remain a mystery. 463 00:23:22,902 --> 00:23:25,571 They remain unsolved, unattributed. 464 00:23:25,738 --> 00:23:28,908 Is that a concern for the Navy? Well, absolutely it is. 465 00:23:29,074 --> 00:23:31,952 And it's also a concern for our national security. 466 00:23:33,078 --> 00:23:35,748 [Narrator] Two months after the USS Omaha incident, 467 00:23:35,915 --> 00:23:38,918 in September 2019, 468 00:23:39,084 --> 00:23:41,295 another swarm of glowing orbs 469 00:23:41,462 --> 00:23:44,548 was filmed off the coast of North Carolina. 470 00:23:44,715 --> 00:23:48,719 Cell phone video uploaded to YouTube by William Guy 471 00:23:48,844 --> 00:23:50,804 shows what appears to be a swarm 472 00:23:50,971 --> 00:23:54,016 of 14 orbs hovering over the water. 473 00:24:05,819 --> 00:24:08,155 [Narrator] The video was shot from aboard a ferry 474 00:24:08,322 --> 00:24:11,992 and was witnessed by other passengers on board. 475 00:24:12,159 --> 00:24:14,787 But perhaps the most concerning encounter 476 00:24:14,954 --> 00:24:17,873 occurred in December 2023, 477 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,209 when a fleet of orbs appeared 478 00:24:20,376 --> 00:24:23,337 over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. 479 00:24:24,338 --> 00:24:26,215 [Elizondo] Langley Air Force Base is certainly 480 00:24:26,382 --> 00:24:29,385 a sensitive facility, and the notion of orbs, 481 00:24:29,551 --> 00:24:32,012 certainly, is a national security concern. 482 00:24:32,179 --> 00:24:34,682 They're coming completely unattributed, unchallenged 483 00:24:34,848 --> 00:24:36,725 over a controlled U.S. airspace, 484 00:24:36,892 --> 00:24:39,937 and we have no idea what their intent is. 485 00:24:40,145 --> 00:24:43,315 But it's not just military and intelligence eyewitnesses. 486 00:24:43,482 --> 00:24:45,359 These orbs now have been seen by 487 00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:47,778 huge swaths of the civilian population 488 00:24:47,987 --> 00:24:49,279 all around the world. 489 00:24:49,405 --> 00:24:50,906 It's a global phenomenon. 490 00:24:51,907 --> 00:24:54,326 Every nation out there that has had to deal 491 00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:56,954 with these orbs has come out and said 492 00:24:57,121 --> 00:24:59,123 that "They're not our technology." 493 00:24:59,289 --> 00:25:01,834 Meaning it's not Russian, it's not Chinese, it's not U.S., 494 00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:04,545 it's not Canadian, German, U.K. 495 00:25:04,712 --> 00:25:06,171 We're dealing with something 496 00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:07,965 that is being intelligently controlled. 497 00:25:08,132 --> 00:25:10,551 We have, really, no other choice 498 00:25:10,718 --> 00:25:13,053 but to consider the possibility 499 00:25:13,220 --> 00:25:16,056 that some sort of nonhuman intelligence 500 00:25:16,265 --> 00:25:18,517 is controlling these things. 501 00:25:21,687 --> 00:25:24,773 One of the most extraordinary UFO sightings in history 502 00:25:24,940 --> 00:25:28,444 occurred at an Air Force base in eastern England. 503 00:25:28,610 --> 00:25:30,696 Over the course of two nights, 504 00:25:30,863 --> 00:25:33,407 military personnel reported not only seeing 505 00:25:33,574 --> 00:25:37,327 mysterious craft in the sky, but one witness claimed 506 00:25:37,494 --> 00:25:41,165 to have touched an alien craft. 507 00:25:43,417 --> 00:25:45,169 [Narrator] In Suffolk county, England, 508 00:25:45,335 --> 00:25:47,463 there is a remote forest in the village of Rendlesham 509 00:25:47,671 --> 00:25:50,632 that has become famous for being the site 510 00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:54,762 of one of the most extraordinary UFO encounters ever reported. 511 00:25:54,887 --> 00:25:57,598 And some of those who experienced it 512 00:25:57,765 --> 00:26:01,268 believe this incident also involved time travel. 513 00:26:01,435 --> 00:26:05,773 The event occurred on December 26, 1980. 514 00:26:05,939 --> 00:26:08,358 Airman John Burroughs was performing 515 00:26:08,484 --> 00:26:11,403 a routine security check at a U.S. Air Force base 516 00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:13,155 when he received orders 517 00:26:13,322 --> 00:26:16,658 to investigate a possible downed aircraft. 518 00:26:16,825 --> 00:26:18,368 [John Burroughs] My supervisor called me on the radio 519 00:26:18,535 --> 00:26:21,455 and asked me to meet up with him so we could check the east gate. 520 00:26:21,622 --> 00:26:23,499 We're driving down the road leading to the east gate 521 00:26:23,707 --> 00:26:25,918 to check on it when, all of a sudden, 522 00:26:26,085 --> 00:26:27,795 he saw some strange lights in the forest. 523 00:26:29,922 --> 00:26:31,340 So, I decided we'll call it in and let them know 524 00:26:31,548 --> 00:26:33,092 something strange was going on. 525 00:26:33,258 --> 00:26:34,718 They decided to send 526 00:26:34,843 --> 00:26:36,136 one of the security units down, 527 00:26:36,303 --> 00:26:38,347 which was Sergeant Penniston. 528 00:26:38,514 --> 00:26:40,182 He got down there and he saw the same strange lights 529 00:26:40,349 --> 00:26:41,725 that we were seeing. 530 00:26:42,768 --> 00:26:44,686 [James Penniston] I could see all these multiple 531 00:26:44,853 --> 00:26:47,564 color lights and things like that. And 532 00:26:47,731 --> 00:26:50,526 the air felt different. I don't know how to... 533 00:26:50,692 --> 00:26:52,236 really explain that. 534 00:26:52,402 --> 00:26:55,114 But it did feel like there was electricity 535 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:56,949 on our skin and hair and stuff. 536 00:26:57,116 --> 00:26:59,910 But that progressively got worse 537 00:27:00,077 --> 00:27:01,328 the closer we got to the tree line. 538 00:27:01,495 --> 00:27:02,955 And it got more intense. 539 00:27:03,122 --> 00:27:04,915 [Burroughs] There seemed to be, like, 540 00:27:05,082 --> 00:27:07,584 an electricity-charged atmosphere, 541 00:27:07,751 --> 00:27:09,128 and then, also, there were points where there-- 542 00:27:09,294 --> 00:27:12,172 it seemed like everything was going in slow motion. 543 00:27:12,339 --> 00:27:15,259 [Narrator] As the servicemen approached the strange lights, 544 00:27:15,467 --> 00:27:18,887 Sergeant Penniston reportedly saw a large craft 545 00:27:19,054 --> 00:27:21,181 just beyond the tree line. 546 00:27:21,390 --> 00:27:23,141 [Penniston] The craft was triangular in shape, 547 00:27:23,350 --> 00:27:25,686 measuring about six to seven feet high, 548 00:27:25,853 --> 00:27:28,188 black in color. 549 00:27:28,355 --> 00:27:30,190 I had come around to the far side of the craft, 550 00:27:30,357 --> 00:27:32,067 and that's when I noticed that there was, 551 00:27:32,234 --> 00:27:33,610 you know, inscription on the side. 552 00:27:33,777 --> 00:27:35,487 You know, it is about three feet long, 553 00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:38,490 maybe six inches high, um, 554 00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:42,035 and, uh, so I'm expecting to find, I don't know, 555 00:27:42,202 --> 00:27:44,538 some kind of prototype stuff, uh, USAF. 556 00:27:44,746 --> 00:27:46,540 I'm-I'm looking for something very familiar. 557 00:27:48,584 --> 00:27:50,127 Instead of something familiar, 558 00:27:50,294 --> 00:27:52,838 I see these pictorial-type glyphs. 559 00:27:53,005 --> 00:27:55,757 And got running my hand over the side of the craft. 560 00:27:55,924 --> 00:27:57,759 I don't know how to explain this. 561 00:27:57,885 --> 00:27:59,803 It's like someone was holding a picture up, 562 00:27:59,970 --> 00:28:01,638 okay? 563 00:28:01,763 --> 00:28:04,558 I could see it in my mind's eye. 564 00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:07,561 Zeros and ones. 565 00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:10,564 So, I recorded those, one after another. 566 00:28:11,732 --> 00:28:13,442 [Heseltine] When Penniston touched 567 00:28:13,609 --> 00:28:15,777 the craft, he then said 568 00:28:15,986 --> 00:28:19,907 that he felt a strange download of information, 569 00:28:20,073 --> 00:28:22,200 uh, to his mind. 570 00:28:22,326 --> 00:28:26,163 And he felt compelled, the next day, to write down 571 00:28:26,330 --> 00:28:28,415 a series of zeros and ones, 572 00:28:28,582 --> 00:28:31,835 which we now regard as binary code. 573 00:28:32,002 --> 00:28:33,462 [Pope] Years later, 574 00:28:33,629 --> 00:28:37,466 a computer programmer took this information, 575 00:28:37,633 --> 00:28:40,260 ran it through a translation program 576 00:28:40,469 --> 00:28:43,013 and a message emerged. 577 00:28:43,180 --> 00:28:47,768 The message read: "Exploration of humanity 578 00:28:47,935 --> 00:28:51,939 continuous for planetary advance, 579 00:28:52,147 --> 00:28:55,192 eyes of your eyes, 580 00:28:55,359 --> 00:28:58,654 origin year 8100." 581 00:28:58,820 --> 00:29:00,906 When one sees 582 00:29:01,073 --> 00:29:04,117 "origin year 8100," 583 00:29:04,284 --> 00:29:06,411 one is forced to speculate, might we be looking 584 00:29:06,578 --> 00:29:08,872 not just at extraterrestrials 585 00:29:09,039 --> 00:29:12,084 but time travelers from the future? 586 00:29:12,209 --> 00:29:15,212 [Narrator] After the incident, the U.S. military 587 00:29:15,379 --> 00:29:17,631 conducted a brief investigation, 588 00:29:17,798 --> 00:29:20,175 but allegedly tried to keep the eyewitnesses 589 00:29:20,384 --> 00:29:22,177 away from the press. 590 00:29:23,387 --> 00:29:26,556 But for Airman Burroughs and Officer Penniston, 591 00:29:26,723 --> 00:29:29,393 the event wasn't easy to leave behind. 592 00:29:30,894 --> 00:29:34,481 Both men had lasting physical effects from the encounter 593 00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:37,901 and even reported strange dreams. 594 00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:42,197 After the incident, I started having throat and eye problems. 595 00:29:42,364 --> 00:29:43,615 At one point, my gums turned white. 596 00:29:43,824 --> 00:29:45,826 I also had vision problems, 597 00:29:45,993 --> 00:29:47,285 and when I went and saw the doctor, 598 00:29:47,452 --> 00:29:49,162 one of his first questions was 599 00:29:49,287 --> 00:29:51,415 had I been ever exposed to radiation? 600 00:29:52,457 --> 00:29:55,043 I've definitely had dreams about it, 601 00:29:55,210 --> 00:29:57,671 and I still have feelings about what happened 602 00:29:57,838 --> 00:30:00,549 and what could happen in the future. 603 00:30:01,842 --> 00:30:05,053 I got out of the service in 1993. 604 00:30:06,722 --> 00:30:08,807 Then I was out about maybe three months, 605 00:30:08,974 --> 00:30:11,059 and then I started getting these dreams 606 00:30:11,268 --> 00:30:12,853 and, uh, nightmares. 607 00:30:13,937 --> 00:30:15,814 During the dreams, 608 00:30:15,981 --> 00:30:17,983 I could see that these were time travelers, 609 00:30:18,150 --> 00:30:21,028 40 to 50,000 years in the future. 610 00:30:21,194 --> 00:30:23,739 I see that their purpose to come back 611 00:30:23,947 --> 00:30:26,658 was to correct things, was to fix things. 612 00:30:27,659 --> 00:30:30,704 Something horrible has happened. 613 00:30:30,871 --> 00:30:33,123 Something they have to correct. 614 00:30:34,124 --> 00:30:36,626 But it requires time travel. 615 00:30:36,793 --> 00:30:40,255 It requires going back into the past. 616 00:30:41,298 --> 00:30:45,969 I never had a feeling of it being extraterrestrial. 617 00:30:46,136 --> 00:30:49,681 It's always been that they were 618 00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:53,935 simply us in the future. 619 00:30:56,563 --> 00:30:58,774 UFO sightings reported by pilots 620 00:30:58,774 --> 00:31:02,069 are some of the most reliable accounts to investigate, 621 00:31:02,235 --> 00:31:04,446 because their safety depends 622 00:31:04,613 --> 00:31:07,240 on being able to correctly identify 623 00:31:07,365 --> 00:31:10,911 various objects flying through the sky. 624 00:31:11,078 --> 00:31:12,788 And in 1986, 625 00:31:12,954 --> 00:31:17,125 the captain of a jumbo jet made a shocking discovery 626 00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:20,212 when he spotted an extraordinary craft 627 00:31:20,378 --> 00:31:23,048 flying alongside his plane 628 00:31:23,215 --> 00:31:27,636 that was larger than an aircraft carrier. 629 00:31:29,930 --> 00:31:34,226 [Narrator] Alaska, November 17, 1986. 630 00:31:35,393 --> 00:31:38,396 Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 631 00:31:38,563 --> 00:31:40,941 is carrying cargo from Paris, France 632 00:31:41,149 --> 00:31:44,444 to Narita International Airport near Tokyo. 633 00:31:44,611 --> 00:31:46,571 The three-person crew 634 00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:49,282 is led by Captain Kenju Terauchi, 635 00:31:49,449 --> 00:31:53,745 an ex-fighter pilot with over 10,000 hours of flight time. 636 00:31:54,955 --> 00:31:57,290 As the 747 approaches Anchorage, 637 00:31:57,457 --> 00:32:01,169 Captain Terauchi notices two strange lights 638 00:32:01,336 --> 00:32:03,421 out of his cockpit window. 639 00:32:04,422 --> 00:32:07,425 It's dark, it's, uh, very early morning, before sunrise. 640 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,348 These lights are clearly maneuvering. 641 00:32:13,515 --> 00:32:15,600 They are in relationship to each other, 642 00:32:15,725 --> 00:32:17,727 one is on top of the other, 643 00:32:17,894 --> 00:32:20,814 and they move directly in front of his aircraft. 644 00:32:22,482 --> 00:32:25,152 Now, he's flying at about 500 miles per hour. 645 00:32:26,695 --> 00:32:28,321 These things are pacing him. 646 00:32:29,990 --> 00:32:32,576 [Narrator] Captain Terauchi realizes the lights 647 00:32:32,742 --> 00:32:35,829 are strange oval-shaped flying objects, 648 00:32:35,996 --> 00:32:40,250 and they are getting dangerously close to his aircraft. 649 00:32:40,417 --> 00:32:43,211 As bright lights fill the cockpit, 650 00:32:43,378 --> 00:32:46,089 Captain Terauchi radios 651 00:32:46,256 --> 00:32:48,341 the Anchorage Air Traffic Control Center 652 00:32:48,550 --> 00:32:52,846 and asks if they can identify the objects near his plane. 653 00:33:24,252 --> 00:33:28,256 [Narrator] As Terauchi attempts a series of evasive maneuvers 654 00:33:28,465 --> 00:33:30,842 to avoid a potential collision, 655 00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:34,137 the two UFOs suddenly disappear. 656 00:33:35,138 --> 00:33:37,724 In their place is another object. 657 00:33:39,267 --> 00:33:43,271 One so large it dwarfs the 747. 658 00:33:45,190 --> 00:33:47,400 [Dolan] His words for describing it were, 659 00:33:47,525 --> 00:33:50,278 "gigantic spaceship, 660 00:33:50,445 --> 00:33:52,864 the size of maybe two aircraft carriers." 661 00:33:53,031 --> 00:33:54,366 Just immense. 662 00:33:54,532 --> 00:33:58,870 Terauchi sees this massive thing in the sky, 663 00:33:59,037 --> 00:34:00,705 and he's scared. 664 00:34:01,706 --> 00:34:03,959 [Narrator] Concerned by Captain Terauchi's report, 665 00:34:04,084 --> 00:34:06,753 the air traffic controller calls NORAD, 666 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,005 the North American Aerospace Defense Command, 667 00:34:10,172 --> 00:34:14,010 based at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage. 668 00:34:15,094 --> 00:34:17,764 Communication specialists at the airbase 669 00:34:17,931 --> 00:34:21,726 confirm that there is a very large unidentified object 670 00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:23,687 on their radar screens. 671 00:34:24,688 --> 00:34:26,523 Traffic control told them that they could actually take 672 00:34:26,648 --> 00:34:28,483 whatever evasive actions they needed to, 673 00:34:28,608 --> 00:34:29,900 to avoid collision, 674 00:34:30,110 --> 00:34:32,404 and they even dropped down to 4,000 feet 675 00:34:32,570 --> 00:34:34,364 above sea level, 676 00:34:34,531 --> 00:34:37,074 and the thing continued to follow them. 677 00:34:37,242 --> 00:34:39,244 [Ryan Sprague] Air traffic control diverted 678 00:34:39,411 --> 00:34:42,330 another commercial flight to come look at this UFO. 679 00:34:42,496 --> 00:34:46,376 And by the time they got there, UFO was completely gone. 680 00:34:47,418 --> 00:34:48,962 [Tsoukalos] One of the reasons 681 00:34:49,087 --> 00:34:53,007 why the JAL report is such a big deal is because 682 00:34:53,174 --> 00:34:55,927 the corroborating evidence is overwhelming. 683 00:34:57,721 --> 00:34:59,431 Not only are there eyewitness reports, 684 00:34:59,598 --> 00:35:02,475 but there is the records of the communication systems 685 00:35:02,642 --> 00:35:05,437 that Terauchi was in touch with. 686 00:35:05,604 --> 00:35:08,273 Actual dialogue that happened. 687 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,025 "Hey, we are up here. 688 00:35:10,191 --> 00:35:12,110 We see this. Are you guys seeing this on your radar?" 689 00:35:12,277 --> 00:35:14,237 All this stuff is recorded. 690 00:35:14,404 --> 00:35:16,072 [Narrator] Once safely grounded, 691 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,993 Captain Terauchi, his copilot and flight engineer 692 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:21,870 were immediately interviewed 693 00:35:22,037 --> 00:35:24,998 by Alaska Federal Aviation Administration officials 694 00:35:25,123 --> 00:35:26,750 and other special agents. 695 00:35:27,751 --> 00:35:29,085 [Pope] There's an FAA 696 00:35:29,252 --> 00:35:31,671 investigation into this. 697 00:35:31,838 --> 00:35:33,965 There's lots of documentation. 698 00:35:34,132 --> 00:35:38,762 Uh, there's no real hard and fast conclusion about this. 699 00:35:38,887 --> 00:35:41,181 And so, the pilot, perhaps out of frustration, 700 00:35:41,389 --> 00:35:42,807 talks to the media. 701 00:35:44,184 --> 00:35:46,645 [Narrator] In December 1986, 702 00:35:46,811 --> 00:35:49,314 one month after the encounter, 703 00:35:49,481 --> 00:35:52,317 Captain Terauchi contacted Kyodo News 704 00:35:52,484 --> 00:35:54,778 and said he believed the mysterious crafts 705 00:35:54,986 --> 00:35:57,280 were of extraterrestrial origin. 706 00:35:59,282 --> 00:36:00,867 The unauthorized statements 707 00:36:01,034 --> 00:36:03,036 prompted Japan Air Lines officials 708 00:36:03,203 --> 00:36:06,081 to remove Captain Terauchi from pilot duty 709 00:36:06,206 --> 00:36:08,500 and assign him to a desk job. 710 00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:13,004 [Pope] I've spoken to pilots who have seen 711 00:36:13,171 --> 00:36:15,465 amazing things out there, 712 00:36:15,632 --> 00:36:17,092 but never report it 713 00:36:17,258 --> 00:36:20,136 because of the fear of being disbelieved, 714 00:36:20,345 --> 00:36:21,805 being ridiculed and, 715 00:36:21,971 --> 00:36:25,225 perhaps, being grounded. 716 00:36:25,350 --> 00:36:28,520 You won't be flying anymore. So, 717 00:36:28,645 --> 00:36:31,147 what do they say? Most times, nothing. 718 00:36:32,607 --> 00:36:34,359 [Tsoukalos] You have countless 719 00:36:34,484 --> 00:36:37,445 commercial and private airline pilots 720 00:36:37,612 --> 00:36:41,908 who spend an exorbitant amount of time up in the sky. 721 00:36:42,075 --> 00:36:45,370 And in my opinion, I think they're the best people 722 00:36:45,537 --> 00:36:48,289 to discern what is natural 723 00:36:48,456 --> 00:36:49,916 and what is not. 724 00:36:54,379 --> 00:36:56,214 When investigating UFO sightings, 725 00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:58,842 one of the most important things to consider 726 00:36:58,967 --> 00:37:01,219 is the credibility of the witness. 727 00:37:01,428 --> 00:37:04,389 Which is exactly what makes a story from Germany 728 00:37:04,556 --> 00:37:07,475 so compelling, when strange aerial activity 729 00:37:07,642 --> 00:37:10,437 was experienced not just by one 730 00:37:10,603 --> 00:37:13,064 but by hundreds of people. 731 00:37:16,401 --> 00:37:18,737 [Narrator] Nuremberg, Germany. 732 00:37:19,779 --> 00:37:23,032 At dawn on April 14, 1561, 733 00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:25,577 the citizens of this Bavarian city 734 00:37:25,785 --> 00:37:27,370 at the center of Europe 735 00:37:27,537 --> 00:37:30,540 awake to a commotion in the sky unlike anything 736 00:37:30,749 --> 00:37:33,293 they have ever experienced before. 737 00:37:33,460 --> 00:37:35,962 People went outside and they saw 738 00:37:36,087 --> 00:37:38,715 what they described as a celestial battle. 739 00:37:38,882 --> 00:37:41,760 The witnesses observed seeing hundreds 740 00:37:41,885 --> 00:37:44,220 of these strange-shaped objects. 741 00:37:44,429 --> 00:37:47,140 What were these strange shapes that they were describing? 742 00:37:47,348 --> 00:37:49,058 [Narrator] The aerial scene, 743 00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:51,728 illustrated in this contemporary woodcut, 744 00:37:51,895 --> 00:37:54,105 is described in the accompanying text 745 00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:56,816 as "a very frightful spectacle." 746 00:37:56,983 --> 00:38:01,029 Strange objects seemed to launch projectiles 747 00:38:01,196 --> 00:38:04,324 as onlookers below watch in amazement. 748 00:38:05,492 --> 00:38:09,204 This was actually witnessed by thousands of people. 749 00:38:09,370 --> 00:38:13,416 Had it been a meteor shower or something like this, 750 00:38:13,583 --> 00:38:15,418 then the reports would have been, 751 00:38:15,627 --> 00:38:17,587 "Okay, this happened before because 752 00:38:17,754 --> 00:38:20,048 we've seen this before." But that was new. 753 00:38:20,215 --> 00:38:21,633 [Henry] The witnesses, 754 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,051 they wouldn't have had a conception 755 00:38:23,218 --> 00:38:25,386 of some kind of a mechanical spacecraft, 756 00:38:25,553 --> 00:38:29,057 but that seems to be exactly what they were describing. 757 00:38:30,934 --> 00:38:34,020 And this has to be one of the greatest mass sightings 758 00:38:34,229 --> 00:38:37,440 of a UFO phenomenon in all of recorded history. 759 00:38:38,566 --> 00:38:41,027 [Narrator] Incredibly, a very similar incident 760 00:38:41,194 --> 00:38:44,280 was reported in Basel, Switzerland, five years later, 761 00:38:44,447 --> 00:38:49,077 and was illustrated in a woodcut that still exists to this day. 762 00:38:50,078 --> 00:38:52,372 Is it possible that these two events, 763 00:38:52,539 --> 00:38:54,249 witnessed by thousands, 764 00:38:54,415 --> 00:38:58,169 represent the first mass UFO sightings on record? 765 00:38:59,754 --> 00:39:02,632 [Tsoukalos] The UFO phenomenon is not modern. 766 00:39:02,799 --> 00:39:06,636 It goes back as far as we can remember, 767 00:39:06,803 --> 00:39:10,765 because we have accounts of lights and craft, 768 00:39:10,932 --> 00:39:12,725 not only in modern times 769 00:39:12,892 --> 00:39:16,396 but also in ancient times. 770 00:39:17,438 --> 00:39:18,898 [Narrator] Ancient astronaut theorists 771 00:39:19,107 --> 00:39:21,109 find it remarkable that the depictions 772 00:39:21,276 --> 00:39:25,154 of these 16th-century sightings include every shape of craft 773 00:39:25,321 --> 00:39:28,533 that has been reported by UFO witnesses in modern times. 774 00:39:29,534 --> 00:39:32,912 But it also poses an important question: 775 00:39:33,079 --> 00:39:34,622 if these are, in fact, 776 00:39:34,831 --> 00:39:37,083 representations of alien vehicles, 777 00:39:37,208 --> 00:39:40,086 what could explain all the different shapes? 778 00:39:42,046 --> 00:39:44,674 [Birnes] So it well might be that different types 779 00:39:44,841 --> 00:39:48,595 of UFOs are tasked for different purposes. 780 00:39:48,761 --> 00:39:50,763 There are scout ships, 781 00:39:50,930 --> 00:39:53,266 there are ships that only orbit, 782 00:39:53,433 --> 00:39:55,560 there are mother ships. 783 00:39:55,685 --> 00:39:58,104 They're all tasked for different purposes. 784 00:39:58,313 --> 00:40:00,648 [Noory] If you look at our planet today, 785 00:40:00,815 --> 00:40:03,985 almost every country has some kind of flying machine 786 00:40:04,152 --> 00:40:06,321 that is different from what we have. 787 00:40:06,446 --> 00:40:10,158 I think the same thing is the case with extraterrestrials. 788 00:40:10,325 --> 00:40:13,202 Let's assume there's ten different E.T. races 789 00:40:13,369 --> 00:40:15,788 within our Milky Way galaxy. 790 00:40:15,955 --> 00:40:19,292 Each one could have a different shape to its craft 791 00:40:19,459 --> 00:40:22,003 because that's just the way they created it. 792 00:40:22,128 --> 00:40:23,963 And I think that's very conceivable 793 00:40:24,130 --> 00:40:26,674 when we see cigar-shaped UFOs, 794 00:40:26,841 --> 00:40:28,676 triangular-shaped UFOs, 795 00:40:28,843 --> 00:40:31,554 round UFOs, they're coming 796 00:40:31,721 --> 00:40:33,556 from different planetary systems 797 00:40:33,723 --> 00:40:35,183 throughout the universe. 798 00:40:37,685 --> 00:40:40,855 What did the people of Nuremberg and Basel 799 00:40:41,064 --> 00:40:43,358 observe in their skies? 800 00:40:43,524 --> 00:40:46,945 Was it simply a unique celestial event? 801 00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:51,115 Or might they have witnessed extraterrestrial spacecraft? 802 00:40:51,282 --> 00:40:53,785 Whatever the case may be, 803 00:40:53,952 --> 00:40:56,162 there's no question that the vast number 804 00:40:56,287 --> 00:40:59,624 of UFO sightings is certainly compelling. 805 00:40:59,791 --> 00:41:03,878 From the foo fighters of World War II 806 00:41:04,045 --> 00:41:07,674 to reports filed by commercial airline pilots, 807 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,802 and even the bizarre craft known 808 00:41:10,969 --> 00:41:13,638 as the Spaghetti Monster-- 809 00:41:13,763 --> 00:41:15,515 as more sightings are reported, 810 00:41:15,682 --> 00:41:17,767 it's only a matter of time 811 00:41:17,934 --> 00:41:20,895 before we'll find undeniable proof 812 00:41:21,104 --> 00:41:23,398 of extraterrestrial visitation. 813 00:41:23,564 --> 00:41:26,859 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS