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Is the U.S. government

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covering up the truth
about alien contact?

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And if so, why?

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The government seems to be
completely unaccountable

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to the American public.

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They rarely release anything

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that they know
or their findings.

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The fact
that the U.S. government has

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investigated thousands
and thousands of reports

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leads me to think
they know much more

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than they let us believe.

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Could the government
have a secret agenda,

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one known to only a select few,

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and perhaps dating back
hundreds of years?

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The government's
program continues

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to be deny, deny, deny.

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Sometimes,
government finds it helpful

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to sow seeds of disinformation
and misinformation

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to hide the facts
about these sorts of programs.

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Hillary Clinton
was basically saying,

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"You are going to give me
the information I need"

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to disclose
the extraterrestrial presence,

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"or I'm gonna fire
every single one of you."

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People want to know
what the government knows,

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and they ought to know
what the government knows.

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On December 16th, 2017,

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<i>The New York Times
ran an explosive story</i>

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entitled "Glowing Auras
and 'Black Money':"

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The Pentagon's
Mysterious UFO Program."

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It was the first time
the American public learned

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of a top secret
U.S. government project,

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the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program,

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otherwise known as AATIP.

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The revelations
concerning the existence

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of the Pentagon's AATIP program
are extraordinary.

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It is the single
biggest ever news

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in the whole history
of the UFO phenomenon.

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It's not quite a spaceship
in a hangar smoking gun,

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but it's the closest
we've ever been.

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I assure you that nothing
like this has ever happened

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in the history of this issue.

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This is a milestone.
This is a watershed.

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The article reported
that the program had been run

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by a former Pentagon official
named Luis Elizondo,

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a senior career
intelligence officer

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with top security clearance and
with experience in everything

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from microbiology
and parasitology

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to the study
of global terrorism.

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It was Elizondo's job
to investigate reports

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of unidentified flying objects,

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and to measure what threat they
could pose to national security.

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AATIP received these cases
from various different channels.

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In some cases, reporting would
come up through Navy channels.

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In other cases, it would come up
through Air Force channels.

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In other cases,
it would come through

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the intelligence community,
and all roads led to our office,

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regarding the phenomena.

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Elizondo played a key role

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in the government's
top secret AATIP program

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prior to his leaving
the government in 2017.

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Among the reasons given for
his departure was the bitterness

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he felt that the research
he was conducting,

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and the conclusions that he and
his colleagues were reaching,

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were not being taken seriously

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by other agencies
within the government.

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Even Congress, to which
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was hard-pressed to give
Elizondo so much as a hearing

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so that his findings could be
made part of the public record.

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Interestingly, just two months

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after Elizondo's exit
from the government,

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<i>The New York Times
broke the major story,</i>

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exposing the AATIP program
and many of the facts

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surrounding the government's
secret research

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into UFO activity.

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<i>When I read in The New York
Times this front page story</i>

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that the government was running
this semi-secret program

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to investigate, well,
aerial phenomena,

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which is kind of
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yeah, you know, I thought,
"My God, all these years,

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"you know, people who think
that we're being visited

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"were claiming that
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"possessing some
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And, sure enough, they did have
this secret investigation."

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<i>For Luis Elizondo,
The New York Times article</i>

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served as a vindication

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for the years that his research
went unrecognized

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and his warnings unheeded.

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so, too, was the possibility
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by technologies
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but of extraterrestrial origin.

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Elizondo,
he resigned because he felt

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the government
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I think that the fact
that these folks are out there

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trying to get the answers
that we're all seeking,

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absolutely fantastic.

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And they're getting
to top government officials.

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And someday,
we're gonna get the answers

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from people like that...

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Not from government,
but from people like that.

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Luckily for Luis Elizondo,

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one of the people who took him
and his research seriously

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was musician and UFO researcher
Tom DeLonge.

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Tom DeLonge, who is most famous

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for his being the lead
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I've known Tom for a while,
and he spearheaded an initiative

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that's brought together a number
of scientists and others

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to both continue to study
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in the private sector,
and to raise funds to do that.

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His enthusiasm, his passion

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has driven things forward.

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A lot of people were saying,

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"What does a rock star
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Let's not forget that sometimes
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and military and
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get a little more starstruck
than they should by celebrities.

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Tom DeLonge was able to use this
to leverage, I guess, access

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where others had
tried and failed.

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In October 2017,

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Tom DeLonge announced
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of his To The Stars Academy
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an organization devoted
to the study of UFOs

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and the possible existence
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here on Earth.

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When Elizondo left the Pentagon,
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to bring AATIP's years of
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by releasing several
of the videos he had collected.

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One of them featured
this incredible encounter,

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taken by a fighter jet
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now known as the Gimbal video.

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On December 18, 2017,

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DeLonge and Elizondo revealed
a second shocking video

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<i>which was released through
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<i>This UFO had been tracked
by the USS Princeton</i>

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for several days
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approximately 100 miles
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On the screen, it also says
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is 250 knots, roughly
about 280 miles per hour.

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This F-18 can't seem
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to this vehicle, whatever it is.

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Now, the F-18's one of
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fighter crafts on the planet.

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And it can't catch this thing?

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When it darts offscreen
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it would be going
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The g-forces would
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into, like, tapioca pudding.

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I mean, it would kill them.

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a third Pentagon video entitled
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and featured yet another
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But perhaps
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to come from Tom DeLonge
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Luis Elizondo's claim that
Bigelow Aerospace had modified

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its buildings for the storage
of strange metal alloys

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of unknown origin,
also known as metamaterials.

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Now, hold, stop the presses
right there.

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What are these metal alloys?

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Luis Elizondo has referred

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to these as "meta materials."

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The implication is that they're
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or anything,
but they do seem to be

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materials that
have been studied.

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According to Elizondo,
tests have been run.

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The answer has come back:

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whatever these things were,
they came from space.

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There was also indications

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that there were certain polymers

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that were discovered
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that were unexplained
and were reviewed.

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You know, for years and years,

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UFO researchers had talked about
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or that elements
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had been recovered
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And skeptics would laugh
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You know, how ridiculous

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such conspiracy
paranoid fantasies were.

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Well, guess what.

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Now we have it confirmed.

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What are these materials?

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Are they of this Earth?

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Are they from an advanced
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Were these metals actually taken
from crashed UFOs?

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What are the sources
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These are the kind of questions
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the answers to if we're gonna
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of understanding what
the government knows about UFOs.

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Is it possible that
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crashed extraterrestrial
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and that wreckage
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is currently being stored
and studied

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by a top-secret team
at Bigelow Aerospace?

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One of the really
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is how much information
hasn't been released.

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We hear things that are coming.

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There's this report
that was written

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that we're supposed to get
to see at some point.

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Haven't seen it yet.

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And then, are there more videos?

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We've seen, I think,
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that they've released.

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There has to be more.

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They were doing this for,
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or maybe even
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I bet you there's a lot more.

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Other secret military programs

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have been going on
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And it's really just the tip
of the iceberg.

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Was the U.S.
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the only one to be investigating
extraterrestrial activity?

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And, if so, how was
it started, and why?

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And was the government
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that such activity
was happening?

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Or was the bigger concern
that the public

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would find out about it?

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Washington, D.C., 2007.

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Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid of Nevada

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summons Senator Daniel Inouye
from Hawaii

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and Alaska Senator Ted Stevens
to a secure room

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in the Capitol Building
for a secret meeting.

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He convinces them
to lend their support

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to fund a project
researching UFO reports

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in the interest
of national security...

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The Advanced Aviation Threat
Identification Program,

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or AATIP.

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Senator Reid was successful
in getting money

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into the Defense Department
budget

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to create a small office
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what the government knew,

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and to study some more recent
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and to delve into
the background,

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and to try to explain
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strange aerial phenomena
couldn't explain.

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Without any public debate,

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$22 million is allocated
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from a black money budget
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or can monitor.

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Much of it,
I think, was classified.

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Much of it was unclassified,

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but I think people didn't know
about the program.

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I'm very glad that my friend
Harry Reid decided

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that he would pursue this
and sought money for it.

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Senator Stevens was genuinely
interested in the topic.

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But none of them
went out and discussed it.

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When later asked about
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Senator Reid said that he was
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retired former senator
and astronaut John Glenn.

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Glenn, the first American
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told Reid that he thought
that the federal government

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should be looking seriously
into UFOs.

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But there are some who believe
that Reid's support

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owes less to John Glenn
than to his friendship

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with one of the senator's
largest campaign contributors:

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Robert Bigelow, the founder
of Bigelow Aerospace.

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Robert Bigelow owned
a series of hotels,

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and he sold it
and made a lot of money.

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He decided then he wanted
to get into space exploration.

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He's fascinated by
extraterrestrials and UFOs.

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NASA was providing insight,
as opposed to oversight...

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Which is an important
distinction there...

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And his dear friend,
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada,

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was convinced by Robert Bigelow

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to get the government
to spend $22 million

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into this program
to investigate UFOs.

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It's not
a coincidence, to my mind,

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that he was involved in

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the Advanced Aerospace Threat
Identification Program.

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He builds rockets and planes
and who knows what else,

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and he seems like
a perfectly logical person

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to have been the point man
in the private sector

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for using the information that
was gleaned from that project,

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whatever it was, and we don't
know what a lot of it was

273
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because it's classified.

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At the time,

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the fact that much
of AATIP's research was

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outsourced to Bigelow Aerospace
made perfect sense.

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First of all, the company
already had a staff

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of highly qualified
aerospace engineers.

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And, secondly, an outside
company could operate

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without the kind
of public scrutiny

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imposed on
a government-based agency.

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Bigelow could operate
in total secrecy.

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Private companies aren't held to
the Freedom of Information Act.

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Private companies can do
whatever they want to

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with their funding, and
you can't go then and fill out

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a Freedom of Information Act
request.

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That's a way to keep things
more secretive.

288
00:15:41,571 --> 00:15:45,115
But was the AATIP
program's need for secrecy

289
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merely designed
to keep its UFO findings

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independent of public scrutiny?

291
00:15:51,039 --> 00:15:54,083
Or was there
a greater interest in hiding

292
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not only what AATIP was finding,

293
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but also what those in charge
of the program were looking for?

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In May 2017,

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Robert Bigelow was the subject
of a profile

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<i>on CBS's 60 Minutes.</i>

297
00:16:11,059 --> 00:16:13,978
The piece was meant to focus

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on Bigelow's relationship
to NASA

299
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and his activities in creating
life-support habitats

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for future astronauts.

301
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<i>During his interview,
Bigelow revealed to 60 Minutes</i>

302
00:16:25,907 --> 00:16:29,243
that he was not only
an aerospace enthusiast,

303
00:16:29,244 --> 00:16:33,248
but a full-fledged believer
in extraterrestrials.

304
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Do you believe in aliens?

305
00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,795
I'm absolutely convinced.
That's all there is to it.

306
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Do you also believe
that UFOs have come to Earth?

307
00:16:43,091 --> 00:16:45,259
There has been and is
an existing presence...

308
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An E.T. presence.

309
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And I've spent millions
and millions.

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I've probably spent more
as an individual

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than anybody else
in the United States

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has ever spent on this subject.

313
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Is it risky for you to say,

314
00:16:55,604 --> 00:16:57,104
you know, in public
that you believe

315
00:16:57,105 --> 00:16:59,023
- in UFOs and aliens?
- I don't give a damn.

316
00:16:59,024 --> 00:17:00,816
- I don't care.
- You don't worry

317
00:17:00,817 --> 00:17:02,776
that some people will say,
"Did you hear that guy?

318
00:17:02,777 --> 00:17:03,944
He sounds like he's crazy."

319
00:17:03,945 --> 00:17:05,904
- I don't care.
- Why not?

320
00:17:05,905 --> 00:17:07,281
It's not gonna
make a difference.

321
00:17:07,282 --> 00:17:10,576
It's not gonna change reality
of what I know.

322
00:17:10,577 --> 00:17:12,536
Bob Bigelow said,

323
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"E.T.s are here.
They're right under your nose."

324
00:17:14,831 --> 00:17:17,833
And he uses the word "E.T."
He doesn't beat around the bush.

325
00:17:17,834 --> 00:17:21,712
Robert Bigelow became my hero.

326
00:17:21,713 --> 00:17:25,799
That "I don't give a damn"
really was for a lot of people.

327
00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,553
It was for every billionaire
space jockey out there,

328
00:17:29,554 --> 00:17:34,600
whether it's Elon Musk
or Branson or Bezos.

329
00:17:34,601 --> 00:17:36,226
But guess what.

330
00:17:36,227 --> 00:17:40,689
None of those people
have ever said to a reporter,

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00:17:40,690 --> 00:17:43,734
"You know, I'm pretty sure
there's extraterrestrials here."

332
00:17:43,735 --> 00:17:46,278
Bigelow did.

333
00:17:46,279 --> 00:17:49,573
We must now go and ask the head

334
00:17:49,574 --> 00:17:52,826
of Bigelow Aerospace
what does he mean

335
00:17:52,827 --> 00:17:56,288
that aliens are
under everyone's noses.

336
00:17:56,289 --> 00:17:59,833
This story really is begging

337
00:17:59,834 --> 00:18:03,337
for somebody
to go to Robert Bigelow

338
00:18:03,338 --> 00:18:06,675
and say, "Can we now go
and see your warehouse?"

339
00:18:09,010 --> 00:18:13,430
What a fantastic next step
it would be for the world.

340
00:18:13,431 --> 00:18:17,518
Although funding
for the AATIP program

341
00:18:17,519 --> 00:18:20,771
was quietly ended in 2012,

342
00:18:20,772 --> 00:18:24,441
there are those who believe
that its focus on the study

343
00:18:24,442 --> 00:18:25,859
of recent UFO activity

344
00:18:25,860 --> 00:18:28,362
and on the study
of extraterrestrial life

345
00:18:28,363 --> 00:18:31,073
are still alive and well,

346
00:18:31,074 --> 00:18:35,577
although now further hidden
under a different agency name.

347
00:18:35,578 --> 00:18:38,747
When the Pentagon
grudgingly admitted

348
00:18:38,748 --> 00:18:41,125
the existence
of the AATIP program,

349
00:18:41,126 --> 00:18:42,751
they did a clever thing,

350
00:18:42,752 --> 00:18:47,131
and they said that the funding
had run out in 2012.

351
00:18:47,132 --> 00:18:50,759
The implication was
that the program was no more,

352
00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:52,469
but with my knowledge of the way

353
00:18:52,470 --> 00:18:55,639
in which these classified
sensitive programs are run,

354
00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,266
pulling the funding part

355
00:18:57,267 --> 00:19:00,686
is not the same
as terminating the project.

356
00:19:00,687 --> 00:19:04,314
But while some version
of the government's

357
00:19:04,315 --> 00:19:08,026
AATIP program may still be
operating in secret,

358
00:19:08,027 --> 00:19:09,778
the same cannot be said

359
00:19:09,779 --> 00:19:12,781
for some of the agency's
former employees.

360
00:19:12,782 --> 00:19:15,409
And there is one in particular

361
00:19:15,410 --> 00:19:19,413
who is not only open to the idea
that aliens do exist,

362
00:19:19,414 --> 00:19:21,373
he has made it his mission

363
00:19:21,374 --> 00:19:25,253
to communicate his findings
throughout the world.

364
00:19:27,033 --> 00:19:29,660
<i>When The New York
Times story broke,</i>

365
00:19:29,661 --> 00:19:32,371
revealing the existence
of the U.S. government's

366
00:19:32,372 --> 00:19:35,040
ultra top secret AATIP program,

367
00:19:35,041 --> 00:19:38,127
UFO experts
and ancient astronaut theorists

368
00:19:38,128 --> 00:19:40,504
had validation
for what they knew

369
00:19:40,505 --> 00:19:43,465
had been happening for decades:

370
00:19:43,466 --> 00:19:47,595
that the government has proof
of extraterrestrial visitation

371
00:19:47,596 --> 00:19:50,890
and that they have been
hiding it from the public.

372
00:19:50,891 --> 00:19:53,392
The investigations were denied

373
00:19:53,393 --> 00:19:55,895
during the time
of their happening.

374
00:19:55,896 --> 00:19:58,898
And it's really curious
that we're always told,

375
00:19:58,899 --> 00:20:01,400
"No, these programs
are not happening."

376
00:20:01,401 --> 00:20:04,904
And then, 20 years later, these
documents are being released

377
00:20:04,905 --> 00:20:09,074
to reveal the fact that
these investigations did happen.

378
00:20:09,075 --> 00:20:12,244
My initial reaction
to the information

379
00:20:12,245 --> 00:20:15,247
that was released
in December of 2017

380
00:20:15,248 --> 00:20:20,085
was that this has really been
going on for over 70 years.

381
00:20:20,086 --> 00:20:23,756
Although
the government's AATIP program

382
00:20:23,757 --> 00:20:26,258
was established in 2007,

383
00:20:26,259 --> 00:20:28,928
it was by no means
the first top secret program

384
00:20:28,929 --> 00:20:31,263
designed to investigate
UFO activity

385
00:20:31,264 --> 00:20:33,098
in the United States.

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00:20:33,099 --> 00:20:36,810
The first was known simply
as Project Sign,

387
00:20:36,811 --> 00:20:39,939
and it was set up
within the U.S. Air Force

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00:20:39,940 --> 00:20:43,275
to investigate
unexplained aerial phenomena,

389
00:20:43,276 --> 00:20:48,280
such as the event now known
as the Battle of Los Angeles.

390
00:20:48,281 --> 00:20:49,949
What's called the Battle of I.A.

391
00:20:49,950 --> 00:20:53,744
is actually one of the earliest
unexplained UFO mysteries

392
00:20:53,745 --> 00:20:55,788
in modern... our modern era.

393
00:20:55,789 --> 00:20:58,123
Three months after Pearl Harbor,

394
00:20:58,124 --> 00:21:02,379
it took place on the early
morning of February 25, 1942.

395
00:21:04,047 --> 00:21:07,549
An unknown object appeared
over Los Angeles

396
00:21:07,550 --> 00:21:10,512
and anti-aircraft guns
opened fire on it.

397
00:21:12,472 --> 00:21:14,640
The anti-aircraft guns

398
00:21:14,641 --> 00:21:16,976
began barking during a blackout

399
00:21:16,977 --> 00:21:20,854
ordered by the IV Interceptor
Command at 2:25 a.m.

400
00:21:20,855 --> 00:21:24,108
1,430 artillery shells
were fired

401
00:21:24,109 --> 00:21:28,988
at several unknown objects.

402
00:21:28,989 --> 00:21:33,158
Many eyewitnesses
on the ground saw this.

403
00:21:33,159 --> 00:21:37,663
There was concern that the
Japanese were somehow involved,

404
00:21:37,664 --> 00:21:40,541
but there was no
Japanese aircraft carrier,

405
00:21:40,542 --> 00:21:42,835
no chance
that Japanese airplanes

406
00:21:42,836 --> 00:21:44,670
could have been
responsible for this.

407
00:21:44,671 --> 00:21:47,673
The Secretary of the Navy
said to the public,

408
00:21:47,674 --> 00:21:49,216
"It was just war nerves.

409
00:21:49,217 --> 00:21:51,176
There was nothing out there,
whatsoever."

410
00:21:51,177 --> 00:21:54,179
Although the U.S. Army Air Force

411
00:21:54,180 --> 00:21:56,849
officially dismissed
the objects seen in the sky

412
00:21:56,850 --> 00:21:58,517
as weather balloons,

413
00:21:58,518 --> 00:22:01,311
they failed to explain
why so many weather balloons

414
00:22:01,312 --> 00:22:04,690
would have been floating over
Los Angeles in the first place.

415
00:22:04,691 --> 00:22:08,235
In the years following
the Battle of Los Angeles,

416
00:22:08,236 --> 00:22:11,655
numerous other UFO sightings
were reported,

417
00:22:11,656 --> 00:22:13,824
including the one
widely referred to as

418
00:22:13,825 --> 00:22:18,120
"the Roswell incident,"
in which an unidentified object,

419
00:22:18,121 --> 00:22:21,206
referred to in the press
as a flying saucer,

420
00:22:21,207 --> 00:22:23,876
reportedly crashed on a ranch

421
00:22:23,877 --> 00:22:26,545
just outside the town
of Roswell, New Mexico,

422
00:22:26,546 --> 00:22:30,299
on July 4, 1947.

423
00:22:30,300 --> 00:22:33,844
Within 24 hours,
the story changed.

424
00:22:33,845 --> 00:22:36,388
And they said,
"We made a mistake.

425
00:22:36,389 --> 00:22:38,348
"It's not a flying disc.

426
00:22:38,349 --> 00:22:41,727
It's just debris
from a weather balloon."

427
00:22:41,728 --> 00:22:44,188
The Roswell incident was

428
00:22:44,189 --> 00:22:47,733
probably a major contributor
to the establishment

429
00:22:47,734 --> 00:22:49,401
of what became known
as Project Sign

430
00:22:49,402 --> 00:22:51,404
just a couple of months later.

431
00:22:52,739 --> 00:22:57,242
By the time Project Sign
was established in 1948,

432
00:22:57,243 --> 00:23:00,079
UFO sightings
had become so frequent,

433
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,999
they could no longer
be ignored or dismissed.

434
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,419
Given the fact that there was
a Cold War escalating

435
00:23:07,420 --> 00:23:10,297
between the United States
and the Soviet Union,

436
00:23:10,298 --> 00:23:13,759
concerns that UFOs
might be spy satellites

437
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,969
or foreign-made weapons
gave some justification

438
00:23:15,970 --> 00:23:19,056
to the increasing paranoia.

439
00:23:19,057 --> 00:23:21,266
Answers needed to be found.

440
00:23:21,267 --> 00:23:23,227
But just as the government's

441
00:23:23,228 --> 00:23:26,396
first official UFO program
was getting started,

442
00:23:26,397 --> 00:23:31,401
it was suddenly
and mysteriously shut down.

443
00:23:31,402 --> 00:23:34,488
There was a very big incident
during the summer of 1948,

444
00:23:34,489 --> 00:23:37,407
when a report went to
the Air Force Chief of Staff,

445
00:23:37,408 --> 00:23:38,992
General Hoyt Vandenberg,

446
00:23:38,993 --> 00:23:43,497
and it stated,
"This is real. They're here."

447
00:23:43,498 --> 00:23:47,459
And Vandenberg closed down
Project Sign.

448
00:23:47,460 --> 00:23:50,212
But why would
the Air Force Chief of Staff

449
00:23:50,213 --> 00:23:54,216
shut down a program
designed to study UFOs

450
00:23:54,217 --> 00:23:55,884
just after being informed

451
00:23:55,885 --> 00:24:00,639
that UFOs were not only real
but of genuine concern?

452
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,100
There seems to be
a pattern of suppression

453
00:24:03,101 --> 00:24:05,936
over the last 70 years when
it comes to the UFO subject.

454
00:24:05,937 --> 00:24:08,981
And all of these government
investigations into UFOs,

455
00:24:08,982 --> 00:24:11,942
where they look into it,

456
00:24:11,943 --> 00:24:13,777
then they say
there's nothing to it.

457
00:24:13,778 --> 00:24:15,487
Then they look into it again,

458
00:24:15,488 --> 00:24:17,489
then they're finding
that there is something to it.

459
00:24:17,490 --> 00:24:19,409
But they don't want
to say what it is.

460
00:24:23,997 --> 00:24:25,831
For the next four years,

461
00:24:25,832 --> 00:24:28,208
UFO sightings continued
to be reported,

462
00:24:28,209 --> 00:24:30,002
so many, in fact,

463
00:24:30,003 --> 00:24:33,297
that the government could no
longer dismiss them as hoaxes,

464
00:24:33,298 --> 00:24:34,840
weather anomalies,

465
00:24:34,841 --> 00:24:38,343
or simply the product
of mass hysteria.

466
00:24:38,344 --> 00:24:41,096
By March 1952,

467
00:24:41,097 --> 00:24:43,432
a number of high-ranking
Air Force generals

468
00:24:43,433 --> 00:24:45,767
became so frustrated
with the military's

469
00:24:45,768 --> 00:24:48,270
previous attempts
to properly investigate

470
00:24:48,271 --> 00:24:52,232
so-called flying saucers
that they launched a program

471
00:24:52,233 --> 00:24:55,736
that would be the most serious
and best-funded to date:

472
00:24:55,737 --> 00:24:58,322
Project Blue Book.

473
00:24:58,323 --> 00:25:01,658
Under the command of Air Force
Captain Edward Ruppelt,

474
00:25:01,659 --> 00:25:05,370
this new top secret agency
would take UFOs

475
00:25:05,371 --> 00:25:08,332
and their potential threat
to national security

476
00:25:08,333 --> 00:25:10,000
very seriously.

477
00:25:10,001 --> 00:25:14,504
Project Blue Book
produced a standard form

478
00:25:14,505 --> 00:25:17,257
for people who wanted
to report a UFO.

479
00:25:17,258 --> 00:25:20,219
What did it look like?
Was there a sound?

480
00:25:20,220 --> 00:25:24,306
They even had a chart
for people to calculate

481
00:25:24,307 --> 00:25:27,559
the angle of elevation.

482
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,437
If UFOs are nothing
to worry about,

483
00:25:30,438 --> 00:25:34,858
why is the Air Force
requesting so much information

484
00:25:34,859 --> 00:25:37,653
about the true nature
of what the witnesses saw?

485
00:25:37,654 --> 00:25:41,615
In January 1953,

486
00:25:41,616 --> 00:25:44,576
after gathering hundreds
of reported sightings,

487
00:25:44,577 --> 00:25:46,912
photographs and interviews,

488
00:25:46,913 --> 00:25:50,707
Captain Ruppelt and astronomer
Dr. J. Allen Hynek

489
00:25:50,708 --> 00:25:53,752
prepared and presented
their best 23 cases

490
00:25:53,753 --> 00:25:57,047
to a CIA-formed panel
of scientists

491
00:25:57,048 --> 00:26:00,717
led by Dr. H.P. Robertson.

492
00:26:00,718 --> 00:26:02,761
The Robertson Panel concluded

493
00:26:02,762 --> 00:26:05,264
that the evidence
could all be dismissed

494
00:26:05,265 --> 00:26:07,099
as natural occurrences

495
00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:10,644
and was not worth the effort
of the government.

496
00:26:10,645 --> 00:26:13,438
And it was the Robertson Panel
which was the origin

497
00:26:13,439 --> 00:26:16,108
for a lot of the propaganda
that was put out in the media

498
00:26:16,109 --> 00:26:19,278
when it came to UFOs.

499
00:26:19,279 --> 00:26:21,196
They wanted to publicly
ridicule the subject,

500
00:26:21,197 --> 00:26:24,116
so that people wouldn't want
to be associated with it,

501
00:26:24,117 --> 00:26:26,410
basically killing
all the public interest

502
00:26:26,411 --> 00:26:29,037
in this field so they could
continue to research

503
00:26:29,038 --> 00:26:31,040
these exotic technologies
behind the scenes.

504
00:26:34,669 --> 00:26:40,632
In 1969, Project Blue Book
was finally shut down

505
00:26:40,633 --> 00:26:42,634
on the grounds
that there was no proof

506
00:26:42,635 --> 00:26:46,346
the unidentified objects posed
a national security threat

507
00:26:46,347 --> 00:26:49,641
or were of
extraterrestrial origin.

508
00:26:49,642 --> 00:26:52,644
But was that really
the end of the story

509
00:26:52,645 --> 00:26:55,398
or only the beginning?

510
00:26:57,057 --> 00:26:58,808
In February 2018,

511
00:26:58,809 --> 00:27:02,896
Nick Pope, the former
Director of Defence Security

512
00:27:02,897 --> 00:27:05,064
at the British
Ministry of Defence,

513
00:27:05,065 --> 00:27:09,485
traveled to Washington, D.C.,
to meet with Chase Kloetzke,

514
00:27:09,486 --> 00:27:12,405
a registered lobbyist
for UFO disclosure

515
00:27:12,406 --> 00:27:13,740
and a former program developer

516
00:27:13,741 --> 00:27:17,243
for the U.S.
Department of Defense.

517
00:27:17,244 --> 00:27:19,704
Chase Kloetzke has investigated

518
00:27:19,705 --> 00:27:23,124
numerous U.S. government
secret studies into UFOs

519
00:27:23,125 --> 00:27:26,544
and has examined many
of the once-classified files

520
00:27:26,545 --> 00:27:28,922
pertaining to Project Blue Book.

521
00:27:28,923 --> 00:27:33,468
I've got this Project Blue Book
file from the FBI archives.

522
00:27:33,469 --> 00:27:37,055
And the first page I want
to really go over with you

523
00:27:37,056 --> 00:27:41,851
is this one that indeed reads
"UFO fact sheet."

524
00:27:41,852 --> 00:27:45,229
Okay, so this is basically
a summary of the position

525
00:27:45,230 --> 00:27:46,773
with regard
to Project Blue Book.

526
00:27:46,774 --> 00:27:49,400
- Right, the official statement.
- Okay.

527
00:27:49,401 --> 00:27:51,069
And so, this says,

528
00:27:51,070 --> 00:27:53,780
"Since the termination
of Project Blue Book,

529
00:27:53,781 --> 00:27:56,449
"no evidence has been
presented to indicate

530
00:27:56,450 --> 00:27:58,743
"that further
investigation of UFOs

531
00:27:58,744 --> 00:28:00,328
by the Air Force is warranted."

532
00:28:00,329 --> 00:28:02,205
"Terminated."

533
00:28:02,206 --> 00:28:06,459
Well, was the program really
terminated? That's my question.

534
00:28:06,460 --> 00:28:09,921
Absolutely. And if it was,
what took its place?

535
00:28:09,922 --> 00:28:11,297
Well, yes, the Air Force

536
00:28:11,298 --> 00:28:13,967
isn't suddenly going to stop
being interested

537
00:28:13,968 --> 00:28:17,178
in uncorrelated targets
in its airspace.

538
00:28:17,179 --> 00:28:19,180
Right, absolutely.
And the second document,

539
00:28:19,181 --> 00:28:21,140
I really want you
to weigh in on.

540
00:28:21,141 --> 00:28:22,433
It doesn't make sense.

541
00:28:22,434 --> 00:28:25,728
Wow. 12,618 sightings.

542
00:28:25,729 --> 00:28:27,146
That's a lot.

543
00:28:27,147 --> 00:28:31,985
And 701 of them remained
completely unidentified.

544
00:28:31,986 --> 00:28:33,319
That's a staggering amount.

545
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,240
These are the cases
that were properly investigated,

546
00:28:37,241 --> 00:28:41,661
interviewed witnesses,
radar tapes were looked at,

547
00:28:41,662 --> 00:28:44,163
and still no answers found.

548
00:28:44,164 --> 00:28:47,667
Wait a minute.
Here, look. Here it is.

549
00:28:47,668 --> 00:28:51,170
At the end of the program,
the unknowns drop.

550
00:28:51,171 --> 00:28:56,509
They go from 32 to 19
to three and one.

551
00:28:56,510 --> 00:28:59,804
I smell a rat.
They've cooked the books.

552
00:28:59,805 --> 00:29:02,974
- They can't pull the plug on the program...
- Right.

553
00:29:02,975 --> 00:29:05,143
...if you've still got
a high number of unknowns.

554
00:29:05,144 --> 00:29:07,854
So they clearly
pushed those cases

555
00:29:07,855 --> 00:29:10,314
out of the unidentified column

556
00:29:10,315 --> 00:29:13,818
and into the cases that are
explained, at least publicly.

557
00:29:13,819 --> 00:29:15,904
This is their way out.

558
00:29:18,699 --> 00:29:21,701
Was Project Blue Book
officially shut down

559
00:29:21,702 --> 00:29:24,328
because it had simply found
no convincing evidence

560
00:29:24,329 --> 00:29:26,372
that UFOs were real?

561
00:29:26,373 --> 00:29:28,833
Or was it because the government

562
00:29:28,834 --> 00:29:31,044
had come to
the opposite conclusion,

563
00:29:31,045 --> 00:29:36,507
that not only were they real
but of extraterrestrial origin,

564
00:29:36,508 --> 00:29:40,553
a truth that could be
so potentially disturbing,

565
00:29:40,554 --> 00:29:44,516
it needed to be covered up
even deeper than before?

566
00:29:48,477 --> 00:29:50,561
As far as UFO researchers

567
00:29:50,562 --> 00:29:53,272
and ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

568
00:29:53,273 --> 00:29:56,567
proof that the U.S. government
has not only known

569
00:29:56,568 --> 00:29:59,403
about extraterrestrial activity
on our planet,

570
00:29:59,404 --> 00:30:02,573
but has been systematically
covering it up for decades,

571
00:30:02,574 --> 00:30:04,408
first came in the form

572
00:30:04,409 --> 00:30:07,620
of a single roll
of 35-millimeter film,

573
00:30:07,621 --> 00:30:10,456
anonymously sent
to a documentary filmmaker

574
00:30:10,457 --> 00:30:15,128
by the name of
Jaime Shandera in 1984.

575
00:30:16,338 --> 00:30:18,297
The film, when developed,

576
00:30:18,298 --> 00:30:20,633
showed images
of an eight-page memo

577
00:30:20,634 --> 00:30:23,344
allegedly written in 1952

578
00:30:23,345 --> 00:30:27,598
by the first director of
the CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter,

579
00:30:27,599 --> 00:30:30,810
to President-elect
Dwight Eisenhower.

580
00:30:30,811 --> 00:30:34,563
In it, Hillenkoetter
informs Eisenhower

581
00:30:34,564 --> 00:30:37,942
of the existence of a top secret
government think tank

582
00:30:37,943 --> 00:30:39,777
that was originally set up

583
00:30:39,778 --> 00:30:43,364
by President Harry S. Truman
in 1947.

584
00:30:43,365 --> 00:30:47,618
It was referred to
in the memo as MJ-12,

585
00:30:47,619 --> 00:30:51,664
initials which stood for a far
more mysterious group of men

586
00:30:51,665 --> 00:30:54,458
known as the Majestic 12.

587
00:30:54,459 --> 00:30:57,253
The authorization
to establish MJ-12

588
00:30:57,254 --> 00:30:59,797
allegedly came from
President Harry Truman

589
00:30:59,798 --> 00:31:02,508
on September 24, 1947.

590
00:31:02,509 --> 00:31:07,638
This was actually one day
after the famous memo

591
00:31:07,639 --> 00:31:09,974
in which
General Nathan Twining wrote

592
00:31:09,975 --> 00:31:11,809
a three-page letter
about these flying saucers

593
00:31:11,810 --> 00:31:13,436
to another general,

594
00:31:13,437 --> 00:31:16,480
talking quite explicitly
about their characteristics,

595
00:31:16,481 --> 00:31:19,650
the fact that this was real,
not visionary or fictitious.

596
00:31:19,651 --> 00:31:23,988
No one anywhere,
outside of this group,

597
00:31:23,989 --> 00:31:27,366
is to know anything about UFOs,

598
00:31:27,367 --> 00:31:32,247
E.T.s, crash retrievals,
bodies, any of it.

599
00:31:34,833 --> 00:31:37,001
That document identified
the 12 people

600
00:31:37,002 --> 00:31:39,503
who were MJ-1 through MJ-12.

601
00:31:39,504 --> 00:31:41,505
The first one, MJ-1,

602
00:31:41,506 --> 00:31:44,342
was Admiral Hillenkoetter
of the Navy.

603
00:31:44,343 --> 00:31:46,594
There were four military people,

604
00:31:46,595 --> 00:31:48,429
there were
four technical people,

605
00:31:48,430 --> 00:31:51,974
and then there were
just general government people.

606
00:31:51,975 --> 00:31:53,851
They were the kind of people
you'd expect

607
00:31:53,852 --> 00:31:56,896
to have been involved in
an important top secret program.

608
00:31:56,897 --> 00:31:59,357
While the authenticity

609
00:31:59,358 --> 00:32:02,568
of the MJ-12 documents
is still being debated,

610
00:32:02,569 --> 00:32:04,528
what is known is that,

611
00:32:04,529 --> 00:32:09,033
in 1954, Eisenhower thought
enough of the UFO phenomenon

612
00:32:09,034 --> 00:32:13,704
to order that a new
secret military base be set up.

613
00:32:13,705 --> 00:32:18,709
Located 83 miles northwest
of Las Vegas, Nevada,

614
00:32:18,710 --> 00:32:21,379
Area 51 would later
become infamous

615
00:32:21,380 --> 00:32:25,633
as the most top secret
military base in the world.

616
00:32:25,634 --> 00:32:30,554
Area 51 is the secret base
of all secret bases.

617
00:32:30,555 --> 00:32:33,224
<i>For a long time,
it was the place</i>

618
00:32:33,225 --> 00:32:37,561
that we went to
to study foreign technology.

619
00:32:37,562 --> 00:32:40,439
During the 1970s and '80s,

620
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,234
T.D. Barnes worked
at the secret base,

621
00:32:43,235 --> 00:32:46,237
reverse-engineering
captured enemy aircraft,

622
00:32:46,238 --> 00:32:48,572
like Russian MiG jets.

623
00:32:48,573 --> 00:32:51,075
What we considered
reverse-engineering was...

624
00:32:51,076 --> 00:32:54,328
was taking a plane or a radar,

625
00:32:54,329 --> 00:32:56,330
taking it apart,
looking at the electronics,

626
00:32:56,331 --> 00:32:57,915
how they built it.

627
00:32:57,916 --> 00:33:00,251
We were all bound
by security oaths.

628
00:33:00,252 --> 00:33:01,669
We could not talk.

629
00:33:01,670 --> 00:33:03,671
But is it possible that,

630
00:33:03,672 --> 00:33:05,464
in addition
to reverse-engineering

631
00:33:05,465 --> 00:33:07,258
foreign fighter jets,

632
00:33:07,259 --> 00:33:10,636
Area 51 employees
were also working on other,

633
00:33:10,637 --> 00:33:13,764
out-of-this-world technologies?

634
00:33:13,765 --> 00:33:16,851
To my mind, it's also
clear that the U.S. government

635
00:33:16,852 --> 00:33:20,604
has had crashed
extraterrestrial technology,

636
00:33:20,605 --> 00:33:23,607
and Area 51 would have been
the perfect place

637
00:33:23,608 --> 00:33:27,445
to reverse-engineer and test
that particular information.

638
00:33:27,446 --> 00:33:29,822
In order
to insure that the activities

639
00:33:29,823 --> 00:33:33,742
at Area 51 and elsewhere were
kept hidden from the public,

640
00:33:33,743 --> 00:33:36,162
members of the military,
and even officers,

641
00:33:36,163 --> 00:33:38,664
were sworn to secrecy.

642
00:33:38,665 --> 00:33:42,501
But luckily for UFO researchers
and ancient astronaut theorists,

643
00:33:42,502 --> 00:33:46,297
not everyone involved
was willing to keep quiet.

644
00:33:46,298 --> 00:33:48,632
Some became whistleblowers,

645
00:33:48,633 --> 00:33:51,677
who risked everything from
public scorn to imprisonment,

646
00:33:51,678 --> 00:33:55,474
in order to let the public
learn the truth.

647
00:33:57,726 --> 00:33:59,727
Washington state.

648
00:33:59,728 --> 00:34:02,522
June 24, 1947.

649
00:34:03,815 --> 00:34:06,525
Aviator and businessman
Kenneth Arnold

650
00:34:06,526 --> 00:34:08,986
witnesses
nine fast-moving objects

651
00:34:08,987 --> 00:34:12,031
flying in tandem
near Mount Rainier.

652
00:34:12,032 --> 00:34:15,826
He times them as they fly
between two mountain peaks,

653
00:34:15,827 --> 00:34:17,328
and calculates their speed

654
00:34:17,329 --> 00:34:21,707
to be between
1,200 and 1,700 miles per hour,

655
00:34:21,708 --> 00:34:24,710
at least
600 miles per hour faster

656
00:34:24,711 --> 00:34:28,839
than the fastest aircraft
in existence at the time.

657
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,884
Kenneth Arnold is the guy
who actually is credited

658
00:34:31,885 --> 00:34:34,136
with coining the term
"flying saucer,"

659
00:34:34,137 --> 00:34:37,306
because what he saw
were objects that were flying

660
00:34:37,307 --> 00:34:39,517
at some distance
from his airplane

661
00:34:39,518 --> 00:34:42,603
that were sort of skipping
and jumping and wobbling

662
00:34:42,604 --> 00:34:45,189
and doing very, very unusual
high-speed maneuvers.

663
00:34:45,190 --> 00:34:47,900
So that's where the term
"flying saucer" came from.

664
00:34:47,901 --> 00:34:51,195
Although the U.S.
Air Force formally categorized

665
00:34:51,196 --> 00:34:54,240
Kenneth Arnold's experience
as a mirage,

666
00:34:54,241 --> 00:34:58,369
other reported sightings
were not so easily dismissed.

667
00:34:58,370 --> 00:35:01,914
The public was starting
to demand answers.

668
00:35:01,915 --> 00:35:04,208
Once the initial sighting
happened by Kenneth Arnold,

669
00:35:04,209 --> 00:35:07,378
and the Roswell incident
took place,

670
00:35:07,379 --> 00:35:11,090
there were sightings everywhere
around the United States.

671
00:35:11,091 --> 00:35:13,635
They were happening
all over the world.

672
00:35:15,887 --> 00:35:20,766
In 1949, retired Marine
Corps pilot-turned-writer

673
00:35:20,767 --> 00:35:24,728
<i>Major Donald Keyhoe
was asked by True magazine</i>

674
00:35:24,729 --> 00:35:28,232
to write an article
on these numerous sightings.

675
00:35:28,233 --> 00:35:30,734
Although Keyhoe was a skeptic,

676
00:35:30,735 --> 00:35:33,571
he spent the next eight months
conducting his own research

677
00:35:33,572 --> 00:35:35,990
by tapping into his contacts
in the Pentagon

678
00:35:35,991 --> 00:35:38,242
and the military.

679
00:35:38,243 --> 00:35:40,744
Eventually,
he came to a conclusion

680
00:35:40,745 --> 00:35:43,414
he would have considered
unthinkable:

681
00:35:43,415 --> 00:35:46,584
flying saucers
were not only real,

682
00:35:46,585 --> 00:35:50,796
they were of
extraterrestrial origin.

683
00:35:50,797 --> 00:35:52,756
Major Keyhoe

684
00:35:52,757 --> 00:35:56,427
was one of the last real
military voices,

685
00:35:56,428 --> 00:35:58,929
from the time of
the Truman administration

686
00:35:58,930 --> 00:36:01,140
going into
the Eisenhower administration,

687
00:36:01,141 --> 00:36:06,562
who was honestly trying
to tell the truth.

688
00:36:06,563 --> 00:36:10,441
<i>Keyhoe's article in
True magazine shook the nation.</i>

689
00:36:10,442 --> 00:36:13,277
It was not only
a solid piece of journalism

690
00:36:13,278 --> 00:36:16,447
on the topic of UFOs,

691
00:36:16,448 --> 00:36:18,365
but served as
a stinging indictment

692
00:36:18,366 --> 00:36:21,285
of the U.S. military and
the government's determination

693
00:36:21,286 --> 00:36:24,246
to keep the public in the dark.

694
00:36:24,247 --> 00:36:28,292
<i>That True magazine,
it was historic because</i>

695
00:36:28,293 --> 00:36:30,669
it went to a heck
of a lot of people.

696
00:36:30,670 --> 00:36:33,130
Then, in 1958,
Keyhoe went on a program

697
00:36:33,131 --> 00:36:34,965
<i>called the
Armstrong Circle Theatre,</i>

698
00:36:34,966 --> 00:36:36,634
which was
a live television program.

699
00:36:36,635 --> 00:36:39,970
"The Enigma of the Skies"

700
00:36:39,971 --> 00:36:43,307
<i>on the Armstrong Circle Theatre.</i>

701
00:36:43,308 --> 00:36:46,810
Major, you've seen our report
on the Air Force conclusions

702
00:36:46,811 --> 00:36:49,105
dealing with the current
UFO sightings.

703
00:36:50,649 --> 00:36:52,399
Well, I was excited to hear that

704
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,152
Keyhoe was going to
debate the Air Force.

705
00:36:55,153 --> 00:36:58,280
And now, Mr. Edwards, I would
like to make a disclosure,

706
00:36:58,281 --> 00:37:01,075
something which has never
been revealed to the public.

707
00:37:01,076 --> 00:37:04,328
Toward the end of the program,
he broke in and said,

708
00:37:04,329 --> 00:37:07,331
to the effect,
"I'm going to say something

709
00:37:07,332 --> 00:37:09,333
that the public
has never heard before."

710
00:37:09,334 --> 00:37:11,710
If the hearings are held,
open hearings,

711
00:37:11,711 --> 00:37:14,798
I feel it will prove beyond
doubt that flying saucers...

712
00:37:17,384 --> 00:37:21,011
At that point,
his sound was lost.

713
00:37:21,012 --> 00:37:26,184
What was Major Keyhoe saying,
and who cut him off?

714
00:37:28,228 --> 00:37:29,269
Thank you, Major Keyhoe.

715
00:37:29,270 --> 00:37:31,772
It was later discovered

716
00:37:31,773 --> 00:37:33,899
that Air Force officials
had been stationed

717
00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:36,568
in the control booth
during the broadcast.

718
00:37:36,569 --> 00:37:39,196
And there are many who still
believe that Keyhoe's audio

719
00:37:39,197 --> 00:37:42,991
was deliberately cut in order
to keep him from revealing

720
00:37:42,992 --> 00:37:46,704
top secret information
concerning the government's

721
00:37:46,705 --> 00:37:48,206
ongoing UFO investigations.

722
00:37:49,791 --> 00:37:51,918
<i>The Air Force was lying.</i>

723
00:37:53,837 --> 00:37:57,005
But why was the
Air Force so concerned about

724
00:37:57,006 --> 00:38:00,050
the American public hearing
Major Keyhoe's statement?

725
00:38:00,051 --> 00:38:03,762
What did they have to lose
if they were forced to admit

726
00:38:03,763 --> 00:38:07,641
their ongoing investigations
into UFOs?

727
00:38:07,642 --> 00:38:09,560
I wrote this down
because I think

728
00:38:09,561 --> 00:38:12,604
it's one of the most important
historic sentences,

729
00:38:12,605 --> 00:38:15,149
and it comes from Major Keyhoe.

730
00:38:15,150 --> 00:38:19,778
"For the past 175 years..."

731
00:38:19,779 --> 00:38:22,489
That would be 1772.

732
00:38:22,490 --> 00:38:26,076
That would be before the
founding of the United States.

733
00:38:26,077 --> 00:38:30,748
"...the planet Earth
has been under systematic,

734
00:38:30,749 --> 00:38:34,585
"close-range examination by

735
00:38:34,586 --> 00:38:39,507
living observers
from another planet."

736
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,427
This is nothing new.

737
00:38:43,428 --> 00:38:44,970
These cover-ups have happened

738
00:38:44,971 --> 00:38:47,264
for thousands and thousands
of years.

739
00:38:47,265 --> 00:38:50,476
Throughout ancient texts,
there are references

740
00:38:50,477 --> 00:38:54,104
to what I call
"misunderstood technology."

741
00:38:54,105 --> 00:38:56,607
In modern times,

742
00:38:56,608 --> 00:38:59,777
you'll hear stories
of UFOs and spacecraft,

743
00:38:59,778 --> 00:39:02,446
because now we have the language
to talk about technology.

744
00:39:02,447 --> 00:39:05,365
Whereas in ancient times,
they didn't have any reference

745
00:39:05,366 --> 00:39:07,576
to that kind of technology.

746
00:39:07,577 --> 00:39:09,495
So they would have thought
this is something

747
00:39:09,496 --> 00:39:12,832
that's angelic or from
another dimension or god-like.

748
00:39:14,584 --> 00:39:18,295
The fact that the U.S.
government has investigated

749
00:39:18,296 --> 00:39:21,131
thousands and thousands
of reports

750
00:39:21,132 --> 00:39:24,051
leads me to think that

751
00:39:24,052 --> 00:39:29,099
they may know much more
than what they let us believe.

752
00:39:36,397 --> 00:39:39,066
Proof of
the U.S. government's complicity

753
00:39:39,067 --> 00:39:41,652
in covering up
extraterrestrial activity

754
00:39:41,653 --> 00:39:44,696
does not only come
in the form of leaked documents

755
00:39:44,697 --> 00:39:47,491
and the contents
of secret files.

756
00:39:47,492 --> 00:39:50,702
Sometimes the evidence comes

757
00:39:50,703 --> 00:39:53,622
from credible
firsthand accounts,

758
00:39:53,623 --> 00:39:58,877
not from whistleblowers,
but from American astronauts.

759
00:39:58,878 --> 00:40:02,381
Everything that NASA does
is supposedly aboveboard.

760
00:40:02,382 --> 00:40:05,676
Everything they do,
they should tell us about.

761
00:40:05,677 --> 00:40:08,011
We should know about
all of their launches

762
00:40:08,012 --> 00:40:11,598
and missions and who
all the astronauts are.

763
00:40:11,599 --> 00:40:14,935
They themselves are not sharing
all of the information.

764
00:40:14,936 --> 00:40:17,647
Most of it is being kept secret.

765
00:40:24,270 --> 00:40:27,147
The Baikonur Cosmodrome.

766
00:40:27,148 --> 00:40:30,900
April 12, 1961.

767
00:40:30,901 --> 00:40:34,988
The Vostok-1 rocket
achieves liftoff,

768
00:40:34,989 --> 00:40:38,158
and Soviet cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin

769
00:40:38,159 --> 00:40:40,953
is heralded
as the first human in space.

770
00:40:42,246 --> 00:40:44,247
The event serves
as a wake-up call

771
00:40:44,248 --> 00:40:46,833
to the United States and NASA,

772
00:40:46,834 --> 00:40:51,004
whose Project Mercury program
would, over the next two years,

773
00:40:51,005 --> 00:40:54,007
launch six of its own astronauts
into space.

774
00:40:54,008 --> 00:40:56,009
The Space Race...

775
00:40:56,010 --> 00:40:58,887
To land a human being
on the Moon... was on,

776
00:40:58,888 --> 00:41:02,724
and mankind was now
a space-faring species.

777
00:41:02,725 --> 00:41:05,644
The achievement
of putting a man in space

778
00:41:05,645 --> 00:41:07,520
was almost a miracle.

779
00:41:07,521 --> 00:41:11,858
Nobody knows what they might see
or encounter out there,

780
00:41:11,859 --> 00:41:15,362
extraterrestrial spacecraft
or even E.T.s themselves.

781
00:41:15,363 --> 00:41:16,571
Liftoff.

782
00:41:16,572 --> 00:41:17,989
Although the first five

783
00:41:17,990 --> 00:41:19,574
Mercury missions
go off without incident...

784
00:41:19,575 --> 00:41:22,118
Liftoff
30 minutes after the hour.

785
00:41:22,119 --> 00:41:24,579
...during
the sixth and final mission,

786
00:41:24,580 --> 00:41:28,750
astronaut Gordon Cooper reports
an unusual encounter.

787
00:41:28,751 --> 00:41:32,379
While aboard his spacecraft,
he reports

788
00:41:32,380 --> 00:41:36,049
a green glowing object
quickly approaching his capsule.

789
00:41:36,050 --> 00:41:39,761
The UFO is also picked up
by NASA's tracking station.

790
00:41:39,762 --> 00:41:43,390
But by the time
Cooper splashes down

791
00:41:43,391 --> 00:41:47,185
in the Pacific Ocean,
reporters are told

792
00:41:47,186 --> 00:41:51,064
that any questions about the
incident are strictly forbidden.

793
00:41:51,065 --> 00:41:55,402
There's no question that NASA
actually has protocols in place

794
00:41:55,403 --> 00:41:58,571
for how astronauts
should deal with

795
00:41:58,572 --> 00:42:01,491
and report or not report
anomalies.

796
00:42:01,492 --> 00:42:04,577
Now, over the years,
there have been astronauts

797
00:42:04,578 --> 00:42:06,454
that have kind of
broken those protocols.

798
00:42:06,455 --> 00:42:09,833
Gordon Cooper is one who talked
a lot about a UFO sighting

799
00:42:09,834 --> 00:42:12,252
he had on a Mercury spacecraft.

800
00:42:12,253 --> 00:42:15,131
And that upset
quite a few people at NASA.

801
00:42:16,590 --> 00:42:19,759
In June 1965,

802
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,595
two years after
Gordon Cooper's flight,

803
00:42:22,596 --> 00:42:26,307
Gemini 4 astronaut
James McDivitt

804
00:42:26,308 --> 00:42:28,685
reports seeing a metallic object

805
00:42:28,686 --> 00:42:32,147
flying in orbit
alongside his spacecraft.

806
00:42:32,148 --> 00:42:36,901
And, once again,
the event is quickly covered up.

807
00:42:36,902 --> 00:42:39,112
There have been many stories
over the years

808
00:42:39,113 --> 00:42:41,072
coming from astronauts
of various missions,

809
00:42:41,073 --> 00:42:43,158
from Mercury missions,
from the Apollo missions,

810
00:42:43,159 --> 00:42:46,161
and even from
the Soviet missions to space,

811
00:42:46,162 --> 00:42:47,787
where astronauts
have come out and said

812
00:42:47,788 --> 00:42:49,873
that they have seen
these UFOs flying around,

813
00:42:49,874 --> 00:42:51,458
that they've been followed,

814
00:42:51,459 --> 00:42:53,126
that they've seen
unconventional aircraft

815
00:42:53,127 --> 00:42:54,711
on some of their missions.

816
00:42:54,712 --> 00:42:57,338
There's a story
that Buzz Aldrin tells

817
00:42:57,339 --> 00:43:00,049
about Apollo 11, where
the Apollo 11 spacecraft

818
00:43:00,050 --> 00:43:03,386
was followed for many,
many hours by an object

819
00:43:03,387 --> 00:43:05,722
that was so strange that
they actually reported on it

820
00:43:05,723 --> 00:43:07,474
through their private channels.

821
00:43:07,475 --> 00:43:10,852
I'm looking
out the window, and I see...

822
00:43:10,853 --> 00:43:12,937
What's that?

823
00:43:12,938 --> 00:43:17,317
There's an object that's moving
with respect to everything else.

824
00:43:17,318 --> 00:43:19,652
Geez. It's not supposed
to be doing that.

825
00:43:19,653 --> 00:43:21,322
Wonder how far away it is.

826
00:43:23,282 --> 00:43:26,743
If it's a long ways away,
it's going mighty fast.

827
00:43:26,744 --> 00:43:31,206
If it's not too far away, it,
uh, maybe isn't going very fast.

828
00:43:31,207 --> 00:43:34,125
Wonder what it is.

829
00:43:34,126 --> 00:43:36,085
"Hey, Neil. Look at this."

830
00:43:36,086 --> 00:43:37,378
We look at it.

831
00:43:37,379 --> 00:43:39,422
God, what is that?

832
00:43:39,423 --> 00:43:43,968
Probably the, uh,
upper stage rocket.

833
00:43:43,969 --> 00:43:47,472
Yeah, but didn't we just watch
that thing carefully

834
00:43:47,473 --> 00:43:50,308
out in front of us,
out the window,

835
00:43:50,309 --> 00:43:53,811
light its engine and go...

836
00:43:53,812 --> 00:43:56,981
Well, I guess that's not what
we're looking at,

837
00:43:56,982 --> 00:43:58,650
'cause that's a long ways away.

838
00:43:58,651 --> 00:44:02,820
What's the odds
that it's some alien

839
00:44:02,821 --> 00:44:05,073
or Russian or something else?

840
00:44:05,074 --> 00:44:09,327
But we were not about
to cancel the Moon mission

841
00:44:09,328 --> 00:44:12,456
and putt-putt over there
to find out which one it was.

842
00:44:13,958 --> 00:44:15,875
There's been many astronauts

843
00:44:15,876 --> 00:44:18,545
that have come forward
that have talked about this,

844
00:44:18,546 --> 00:44:21,589
so it seems like some of them
want to talk about it,

845
00:44:21,590 --> 00:44:24,425
and others are either afraid
to talk about it,

846
00:44:24,426 --> 00:44:26,594
or they've been silenced
for some reason.

847
00:44:26,595 --> 00:44:31,140
One person involved
with the early space program

848
00:44:31,141 --> 00:44:34,811
who did not remain silent
was JoAnn Donaldson,

849
00:44:34,812 --> 00:44:37,730
a young biomedical engineer
at NASA.

850
00:44:37,731 --> 00:44:43,653
In 1972, during the
Apollo 17 Moon mission,

851
00:44:43,654 --> 00:44:47,323
Donaldson's job was to monitor
the astronauts' vital signs

852
00:44:47,324 --> 00:44:51,369
and to observe their pre-flight
and post-flight recovery.

853
00:44:51,370 --> 00:44:54,789
Ron Evans was
in charge of the command module

854
00:44:54,790 --> 00:44:56,958
while Gene Cernan
and Harrison Schmitt

855
00:44:56,959 --> 00:44:58,960
were on the surface of the Moon.

856
00:44:58,961 --> 00:45:02,171
When the command module
would orbit the Moon,

857
00:45:02,172 --> 00:45:05,091
part of the orbit would take it
behind the Moon,

858
00:45:05,092 --> 00:45:09,137
what we call "loss of signal"
to Mission Control.

859
00:45:09,138 --> 00:45:13,182
Day two, Ron came out
from behind the Moon,

860
00:45:13,183 --> 00:45:16,269
reported in to Mission Control.

861
00:45:16,270 --> 00:45:18,896
And Gene comes up
on the comm link and says,

862
00:45:18,897 --> 00:45:22,609
"Hey, Ron, you're not lonely
up there without us are you?"

863
00:45:22,610 --> 00:45:26,571
And Ron reported back, says,
"Nope, I got company."

864
00:45:26,572 --> 00:45:29,073
Everybody was just
kind of taken aback.

865
00:45:29,074 --> 00:45:32,118
It was like, you know,
"company"?

866
00:45:32,119 --> 00:45:35,538
That itself implies
that there was something else

867
00:45:35,539 --> 00:45:37,540
up there with him.

868
00:45:37,541 --> 00:45:40,918
Well, Mission Control's
first reaction was,

869
00:45:40,919 --> 00:45:42,545
"Guys, are you joking?"

870
00:45:42,546 --> 00:45:45,423
And Ron says,
"No, this is not a joke.

871
00:45:45,424 --> 00:45:50,011
"There is an object flying
in formation with me,

872
00:45:50,012 --> 00:45:52,180
up here, circling the Moon."

873
00:45:52,181 --> 00:45:56,643
When Ron reported that the
object was leaving his orbit,

874
00:45:56,644 --> 00:45:59,729
he calculated that they had been
in formation with him

875
00:45:59,730 --> 00:46:01,606
for approximately five

876
00:46:01,607 --> 00:46:04,525
to five-and-a-half orbits
of the Moon.

877
00:46:04,526 --> 00:46:07,612
As far as
the public was concerned,

878
00:46:07,613 --> 00:46:10,448
nothing out of
the ordinary happened.

879
00:46:10,449 --> 00:46:13,451
At the exact moment
that astronaut Ron Evans

880
00:46:13,452 --> 00:46:15,662
reported he was not alone,

881
00:46:15,663 --> 00:46:20,501
NASA officials disconnected the
public feed for media outlets.

882
00:46:22,628 --> 00:46:24,671
The following day, NASA ordered

883
00:46:24,672 --> 00:46:28,299
a conference call for everyone
involved in the incident.

884
00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:31,010
We were all told
we're gonna continue on

885
00:46:31,011 --> 00:46:34,806
with the mission
as if nothing has happened,

886
00:46:34,807 --> 00:46:37,684
and do not discuss this anomaly

887
00:46:37,685 --> 00:46:42,313
with anyone outside
of your command.

888
00:46:42,314 --> 00:46:46,734
After the Apollo 17
crew splashed down

889
00:46:46,735 --> 00:46:51,072
in the Pacific Ocean,
JoAnn Donaldson examined Evans

890
00:46:51,073 --> 00:46:53,866
as part of the post-mission
recovery procedure.

891
00:46:53,867 --> 00:46:57,870
Ron was sitting up
on the side of his bunk.

892
00:46:57,871 --> 00:47:01,457
And he goes, "Well, I'm reliving"

893
00:47:01,458 --> 00:47:04,335
"what I saw while I was
in orbit around the Moon.

894
00:47:04,336 --> 00:47:06,462
"I don't think
the Russians had launched

895
00:47:06,463 --> 00:47:08,715
"something this big in orbit.

896
00:47:08,716 --> 00:47:11,509
"I estimate this thing
was 40, 45 feet long.

897
00:47:11,510 --> 00:47:13,386
It was cigar shaped."

898
00:47:13,387 --> 00:47:15,722
Now, any cylindrical
object like that

899
00:47:15,723 --> 00:47:18,641
is not gonna be something
that we made. So what was it?

900
00:47:18,642 --> 00:47:21,769
Clearly it was not one of ours.

901
00:47:21,770 --> 00:47:23,438
We trust these astronauts

902
00:47:23,439 --> 00:47:25,606
to report back on what they see.

903
00:47:25,607 --> 00:47:26,858
They're essentially scientists

904
00:47:26,859 --> 00:47:28,276
that are exploring space
on our behalf.

905
00:47:28,277 --> 00:47:30,862
But a lot of people
are unaware of the fact

906
00:47:30,863 --> 00:47:33,573
that many of our astronauts
have spoken openly about UFOs.

907
00:47:33,574 --> 00:47:37,744
Many of them were fighter pilots
before they became astronauts,

908
00:47:37,745 --> 00:47:41,247
and they have seen
craft flying as pilots.

909
00:47:41,248 --> 00:47:43,541
Could it be that they've been
pulled aside and told,

910
00:47:43,542 --> 00:47:46,461
"This is all you're allowed
to say and no more,"

911
00:47:46,462 --> 00:47:48,546
because NASA
is trying to silence

912
00:47:48,547 --> 00:47:50,424
these astronauts
from telling the truth?

913
00:47:53,927 --> 00:47:55,720
Another Apollo astronaut

914
00:47:55,721 --> 00:47:59,015
who openly admitted his belief
in extraterrestrial contact

915
00:47:59,016 --> 00:48:01,058
was Edgar Mitchell,

916
00:48:01,059 --> 00:48:03,811
the lunar module pilot
for Apollo 14.

917
00:48:03,812 --> 00:48:07,440
In his later years, he claimed
many of his colleagues

918
00:48:07,441 --> 00:48:10,067
had strange
paranormal experiences

919
00:48:10,068 --> 00:48:13,404
during their missions,
and frequently declared

920
00:48:13,405 --> 00:48:16,574
that most UFO phenomena
are directly connected

921
00:48:16,575 --> 00:48:19,535
to extraterrestrial activity.

922
00:48:19,536 --> 00:48:23,748
I have had no
firsthand personal experience,

923
00:48:23,749 --> 00:48:27,001
but all the evidence from
the research people that I know

924
00:48:27,002 --> 00:48:29,587
from both Europe
and the United States

925
00:48:29,588 --> 00:48:32,381
have investigated
all the sightings

926
00:48:32,382 --> 00:48:35,343
from dozens of years.

927
00:48:35,344 --> 00:48:37,804
And it's pretty sure
it's all true.

928
00:48:37,805 --> 00:48:43,726
I believe that the alien craft,
presuming they're reality...

929
00:48:43,727 --> 00:48:45,728
I think they are,
others think they are...

930
00:48:45,729 --> 00:48:47,897
Have been coming
for a long, long time.

931
00:48:47,898 --> 00:48:51,901
As the sixth person
to walk on the Moon,

932
00:48:51,902 --> 00:48:55,029
Mitchell's opinions concerning
UFOs and their connection

933
00:48:55,030 --> 00:48:59,534
to extraterrestrial encounters
have been difficult to dismiss.

934
00:48:59,535 --> 00:49:01,619
But if otherworldly entities

935
00:49:01,620 --> 00:49:03,663
have been making contact
with us...

936
00:49:03,664 --> 00:49:07,917
Not only for decades
but for centuries...

937
00:49:07,918 --> 00:49:10,546
What is their goal?

938
00:49:13,455 --> 00:49:17,084
July 20, 1969.

939
00:49:21,589 --> 00:49:23,756
Millions of people
around the world

940
00:49:23,757 --> 00:49:25,925
are glued to their televisions

941
00:49:25,926 --> 00:49:29,762
to watch one of the greatest
achievements in human history.

942
00:49:29,763 --> 00:49:32,265
Astronaut Neil Armstrong

943
00:49:32,266 --> 00:49:36,603
is about to become the first
Earth-born extraterrestrial

944
00:49:36,604 --> 00:49:39,940
by stepping foot
on the surface of the Moon.

945
00:49:46,530 --> 00:49:49,073
Although Richard Nixon

946
00:49:49,074 --> 00:49:51,159
is the current president
of the United States,

947
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,411
most give credit to the man

948
00:49:53,412 --> 00:49:55,788
who held the office
six years earlier,

949
00:49:55,789 --> 00:49:58,791
John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

950
00:49:58,792 --> 00:50:03,588
Many years ago, the great
British explorer George Mallory,

951
00:50:03,589 --> 00:50:07,300
who was to die on Mount Everest,

952
00:50:07,301 --> 00:50:09,469
was asked why did he want
to climb it.

953
00:50:09,470 --> 00:50:11,804
He said, "Because it is there."

954
00:50:11,805 --> 00:50:14,974
Well, space is there,
and we're going to climb it.

955
00:50:14,975 --> 00:50:18,269
But even as Neil Armstrong

956
00:50:18,270 --> 00:50:20,480
and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin

957
00:50:20,481 --> 00:50:22,940
were still engaged
on their historic mission,

958
00:50:22,941 --> 00:50:26,277
Nixon and the team
at NASA now faced

959
00:50:26,278 --> 00:50:30,448
an even more daunting challenge:
What to do next?

960
00:50:30,449 --> 00:50:32,617
The Moon mission had gripped

961
00:50:32,618 --> 00:50:35,620
the American consciousness
as nothing before,

962
00:50:35,621 --> 00:50:38,206
and even though
a number of return missions

963
00:50:38,207 --> 00:50:40,667
had been planned, there was
nothing on the launch pad

964
00:50:40,668 --> 00:50:43,211
that could top
landing a man on the Moon

965
00:50:43,212 --> 00:50:45,380
as either a national goal

966
00:50:45,381 --> 00:50:48,174
or effective
political propaganda.

967
00:50:48,175 --> 00:50:52,178
To this end, in 1972,

968
00:50:52,179 --> 00:50:55,181
as Nixon began planning
his reelection campaign,

969
00:50:55,182 --> 00:50:58,559
the space shuttle program
was announced.

970
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,020
It was also
during this same time

971
00:51:01,021 --> 00:51:04,148
that the president's
chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman,

972
00:51:04,149 --> 00:51:07,026
proposed the creation
of a documentary film

973
00:51:07,027 --> 00:51:09,862
that would depict Nixon
as being fully committed

974
00:51:09,863 --> 00:51:11,531
to the development of a number

975
00:51:11,532 --> 00:51:14,200
of ambitious
science-based programs.

976
00:51:14,201 --> 00:51:17,203
To produce it, Haldeman turned

977
00:51:17,204 --> 00:51:20,415
to successful advertising
executive-turned-filmmaker

978
00:51:20,416 --> 00:51:23,167
Robert Emenegger.

979
00:51:23,168 --> 00:51:25,545
They knew that Bob
had made promotional films

980
00:51:25,546 --> 00:51:27,714
for the Department of Defense.

981
00:51:27,715 --> 00:51:30,425
So he was contacted and asked

982
00:51:30,426 --> 00:51:32,760
if he would come to a meeting
in Los Angeles

983
00:51:32,761 --> 00:51:34,762
with the Committee
to Re-Elect the President.

984
00:51:34,763 --> 00:51:38,516
And they said,
"We need a media consultant.

985
00:51:38,517 --> 00:51:40,560
"We'd like somebody
to come on board

986
00:51:40,561 --> 00:51:43,896
"and make a documentary
that would support Nixon,

987
00:51:43,897 --> 00:51:48,067
"a documentary about
some perhaps secret project

988
00:51:48,068 --> 00:51:50,903
"that the government's
been working on

989
00:51:50,904 --> 00:51:53,573
that can be released
or declassified."

990
00:51:53,574 --> 00:51:56,075
Well, they run around
the country

991
00:51:56,076 --> 00:51:58,661
being shown all sorts
of secret projects.

992
00:51:58,662 --> 00:52:01,539
They went to Wright-Patterson,
and they were shown

993
00:52:01,540 --> 00:52:03,875
very classified
laser experiments.

994
00:52:03,876 --> 00:52:08,796
They were shown dolphins being
trained for demolition work.

995
00:52:08,797 --> 00:52:12,884
They were shown dogs being
trained for various tasks.

996
00:52:12,885 --> 00:52:16,554
Then they were taken
to Norton Air Force Base,

997
00:52:16,555 --> 00:52:20,266
which at that time housed
the Air Force film depository.

998
00:52:20,267 --> 00:52:23,603
Paul Shartle was the director
of the depository.

999
00:52:23,604 --> 00:52:27,857
They were taken into a building
where these films were kept.

1000
00:52:27,858 --> 00:52:31,068
They were taken into
what was known as a clean room,

1001
00:52:31,069 --> 00:52:34,030
meaning it was free
of any bugs, microphones,

1002
00:52:34,031 --> 00:52:36,574
video equipment, anything.

1003
00:52:36,575 --> 00:52:40,703
It was during his
meeting at Norton Air Force Base

1004
00:52:40,704 --> 00:52:44,290
that Robert Emenegger learned
that Paul Shartle had

1005
00:52:44,291 --> 00:52:47,502
a different agenda
from that of the president,

1006
00:52:47,503 --> 00:52:49,754
and a different film
in mind than the one

1007
00:52:49,755 --> 00:52:53,299
that had been
initially proposed.

1008
00:52:53,300 --> 00:52:56,636
Shartle said,
"I'd like to ask you this:

1009
00:52:56,637 --> 00:53:01,432
How would you like to make
a documentary on UFOs?"

1010
00:53:01,433 --> 00:53:03,184
And Bob Emenegger was stunned.

1011
00:53:03,185 --> 00:53:05,436
He told me at his home,

1012
00:53:05,437 --> 00:53:07,647
he said, "I didn't know
anything about UFOs."

1013
00:53:07,648 --> 00:53:09,065
"I was shocked.

1014
00:53:09,066 --> 00:53:12,401
"They said if we would make
the documentary,

1015
00:53:12,402 --> 00:53:17,281
"we would be given 600 feet
of 16-millimeter film

1016
00:53:17,282 --> 00:53:21,869
shot at Holloman Air Force Base
of a UFO landing there."

1017
00:53:21,870 --> 00:53:24,288
For Robert Emenegger,

1018
00:53:24,289 --> 00:53:27,124
it was an offer
too good to refuse.

1019
00:53:27,125 --> 00:53:28,835
Believing he had
the full support

1020
00:53:28,836 --> 00:53:31,212
of both the president
and the military,

1021
00:53:31,213 --> 00:53:33,172
he set about to make
the U.S. government's

1022
00:53:33,173 --> 00:53:36,843
first official film
on the subject of UFOs.

1023
00:53:36,844 --> 00:53:39,720
He quickly recruited
Rod Serling,

1024
00:53:39,721 --> 00:53:43,641
Burgess Meredith and José Ferrer
to narrate the film,

1025
00:53:43,642 --> 00:53:47,687
and the final explosive scene
was to show actual footage

1026
00:53:47,688 --> 00:53:50,690
of an alien encounter.

1027
00:53:50,691 --> 00:53:52,650
But when it came time to receive

1028
00:53:52,651 --> 00:53:54,819
the incredible footage
he'd been promised,

1029
00:53:54,820 --> 00:53:58,364
Emenegger had the government's
once-open door

1030
00:53:58,365 --> 00:54:01,325
slammed in his face.

1031
00:54:01,326 --> 00:54:05,955
They had been promised
really dramatic footage,

1032
00:54:05,956 --> 00:54:09,750
said to be completely legit,
of a UFO landing

1033
00:54:09,751 --> 00:54:13,337
at Holloman Air Force Base,
in 1964,

1034
00:54:13,338 --> 00:54:15,089
which had alien beings come out,

1035
00:54:15,090 --> 00:54:17,550
<i>like The Day the Earth
Stood Still, essentially.</i>

1036
00:54:17,551 --> 00:54:21,304
Out came some kind of a ramp.

1037
00:54:21,305 --> 00:54:24,557
Our contingent of humans
walked up,

1038
00:54:24,558 --> 00:54:26,350
met these two EBENs,

1039
00:54:26,351 --> 00:54:29,061
"Extraterrestrial
Biological Entities."

1040
00:54:29,062 --> 00:54:34,734
And then in this doorway
was a being unlike the EBENs,

1041
00:54:34,735 --> 00:54:37,695
and that it was holding
a rod that had a spiral

1042
00:54:37,696 --> 00:54:41,073
that went around the rod,
and that this was used

1043
00:54:41,074 --> 00:54:43,951
to communicate with our team.

1044
00:54:43,952 --> 00:54:46,412
This was a film

1045
00:54:46,413 --> 00:54:48,748
that had four
different vantage points.

1046
00:54:48,749 --> 00:54:51,250
They were shooting one from
the air, three on the ground.

1047
00:54:51,251 --> 00:54:53,419
And the craft landed,

1048
00:54:53,420 --> 00:54:56,547
the aliens came out,
and they stored the craft.

1049
00:54:56,548 --> 00:54:58,299
All this was on film.

1050
00:54:58,300 --> 00:55:02,386
But on the day
Emenegger was to be given a copy

1051
00:55:02,387 --> 00:55:05,097
of the 16-millimeter footage
from the Air Force,

1052
00:55:05,098 --> 00:55:08,185
the filmmaker received
an unexpected phone call.

1053
00:55:10,187 --> 00:55:13,105
It is one of those
like out of a Hollywood feature.

1054
00:55:13,106 --> 00:55:17,276
It's supposed to be coming.
A courier is on the way.

1055
00:55:17,277 --> 00:55:19,987
They cannot believe it.
It's really gonna happen.

1056
00:55:19,988 --> 00:55:22,448
They're gonna see
all of this film.

1057
00:55:22,449 --> 00:55:24,784
And then another phone call:

1058
00:55:24,785 --> 00:55:27,912
"We're sorry, the approval
has been rescinded.

1059
00:55:27,913 --> 00:55:29,789
No film."

1060
00:55:29,790 --> 00:55:33,125
Colonel Coleman
from the Pentagon said,

1061
00:55:33,126 --> 00:55:34,752
"The timing isn't right.

1062
00:55:34,753 --> 00:55:37,630
We can't allow you
to use the film."

1063
00:55:37,631 --> 00:55:39,632
Bob Emenegger was crushed.

1064
00:55:39,633 --> 00:55:41,258
He said, "Why?"

1065
00:55:41,259 --> 00:55:44,470
And he found out that,
"Making a documentary

1066
00:55:44,471 --> 00:55:48,015
"exposing UFOs as being
extraterrestrial

1067
00:55:48,016 --> 00:55:52,311
would not help the president,
but conceivably could harm him."

1068
00:55:52,312 --> 00:55:55,147
Ultimately, Robert Emenegger

1069
00:55:55,148 --> 00:55:58,150
was forced to complete
his documentary

1070
00:55:58,151 --> 00:56:01,612
without the sensational footage
he had been promised.

1071
00:56:01,613 --> 00:56:02,989
It was a documentary called

1072
00:56:02,990 --> 00:56:04,991
<i>Past, Present, and Future.</i>

1073
00:56:04,992 --> 00:56:07,159
And they also had a book
by the same name.

1074
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,079
As written by Robert Emenegger,

1075
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:13,124
and directed by Ray Rivas,
the documentary

1076
00:56:13,125 --> 00:56:16,335
proved to be both popular
and influential.

1077
00:56:16,336 --> 00:56:20,172
Even without the smoking gun
footage, it caused a sensation,

1078
00:56:20,173 --> 00:56:24,343
and was later credited
as one of the inspirations

1079
00:56:24,344 --> 00:56:27,847
behind Steven Spielberg's
1977 blockbuster

1080
00:56:27,848 --> 00:56:32,018
<i>Close Encounters
of the Third Kind.</i>

1081
00:56:32,019 --> 00:56:34,061
The Robert Emenegger
disclosure effort

1082
00:56:34,062 --> 00:56:35,896
is what I call it.

1083
00:56:35,897 --> 00:56:38,649
I said, "You know, that film,
Bob, that's very strange."

1084
00:56:38,650 --> 00:56:40,860
"You know, if it weren't
for the location,

1085
00:56:40,861 --> 00:56:42,528
<i>that's Close Encounters
of the Third Kind."</i>

1086
00:56:42,529 --> 00:56:45,156
And he said,
"What, I didn't tell you?"

1087
00:56:45,157 --> 00:56:47,408
And I said,
"You didn't tell me what?"

1088
00:56:47,409 --> 00:56:49,702
"I didn't tell you I gave a copy
to Steven Spielberg?"

1089
00:56:49,703 --> 00:56:51,996
And I said,
"No, you didn't tell me that."

1090
00:56:51,997 --> 00:56:55,166
So the documentary
was done in 1975.

1091
00:56:55,167 --> 00:56:57,209
<i>Steven Spielberg's Close
Encounters of the Third Kind</i>

1092
00:56:57,210 --> 00:57:00,046
came out in 1977.

1093
00:57:00,047 --> 00:57:02,548
<i>And so, when you see Close
Encounters of the Third Kind,</i>

1094
00:57:02,549 --> 00:57:04,508
it's the Holloman
Air Force Base story,

1095
00:57:04,509 --> 00:57:06,218
just changed the location.

1096
00:57:06,219 --> 00:57:08,679
It's exactly what the story was.

1097
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:12,058
While the alleged
alien UFO footage

1098
00:57:12,059 --> 00:57:15,019
from Holloman Air Force Base
has never surfaced,

1099
00:57:15,020 --> 00:57:18,731
many ancient astronaut theorists
believe it still exists,

1100
00:57:18,732 --> 00:57:21,233
under lock and key.

1101
00:57:21,234 --> 00:57:27,073
What I am really truly expecting
is that somewhere,

1102
00:57:27,074 --> 00:57:30,701
from 2018, going forward
in the next decade,

1103
00:57:30,702 --> 00:57:37,416
that finally all of that film
is going to be released,

1104
00:57:37,417 --> 00:57:41,921
and that we will finally
enter the true history.

1105
00:57:41,922 --> 00:57:45,591
Did the U.S. Air Force
really have footage

1106
00:57:45,592 --> 00:57:48,052
of secret meetings between
government officials

1107
00:57:48,053 --> 00:57:50,638
and extraterrestrials?

1108
00:57:50,639 --> 00:57:55,018
And if so, where is it now?

1109
00:57:59,629 --> 00:58:01,568
Coming up... For decades,
American presidents

1110
00:58:01,739 --> 00:58:05,158
have officially denied that they
have received any information

1111
00:58:05,159 --> 00:58:08,161
that extraterrestrials
are visiting Earth.

1112
00:58:08,162 --> 00:58:11,748
But considering that the
U.S. government has conducted

1113
00:58:11,749 --> 00:58:15,418
at least four major
investigations into UFO activity

1114
00:58:15,419 --> 00:58:17,420
since the 1940s,

1115
00:58:17,421 --> 00:58:21,591
why has there been so much time
and taxpayer money devoted

1116
00:58:21,592 --> 00:58:23,176
to studying something

1117
00:58:23,177 --> 00:58:26,471
that the government claims
isn't happening?

1118
00:58:26,472 --> 00:58:29,474
We don't know
for an absolute fact

1119
00:58:29,475 --> 00:58:32,351
what kind of briefings
presidents actually receive,

1120
00:58:32,352 --> 00:58:35,772
when they come into office,
about extraterrestrials.

1121
00:58:35,773 --> 00:58:37,482
But we do have some indications

1122
00:58:37,483 --> 00:58:39,776
from some documents
that do exist,

1123
00:58:39,777 --> 00:58:43,446
one of them being the original
MJ-12 presidential briefing

1124
00:58:43,447 --> 00:58:45,156
for President Eisenhower,

1125
00:58:45,157 --> 00:58:47,784
telling him all about
the crash at Roswell.

1126
00:58:48,660 --> 00:58:52,204
On November 2, 2005,

1127
00:58:52,205 --> 00:58:55,374
a document surfaced
that was allegedly a transcript

1128
00:58:55,375 --> 00:58:58,293
made from a recorded
presidential briefing

1129
00:58:58,294 --> 00:59:03,131
held at Camp David
in March of 1981.

1130
00:59:03,132 --> 00:59:07,219
Present were
President Ronald Reagan,

1131
00:59:07,220 --> 00:59:09,638
CIA director William Casey,

1132
00:59:09,639 --> 00:59:12,140
Secretary of Defense
Caspar Weinberger,

1133
00:59:12,141 --> 00:59:16,853
and a mysterious person
known only as "The Caretaker."

1134
00:59:16,854 --> 00:59:20,107
According to the document,
during the meeting,

1135
00:59:20,108 --> 00:59:22,734
The Caretaker shared
evidence that aliens

1136
00:59:22,735 --> 00:59:26,530
have been visiting the Earth
for thousands of years,

1137
00:59:26,531 --> 00:59:29,866
and that modern American records
of such encounters

1138
00:59:29,867 --> 00:59:35,580
officially began in 1947,
following the Roswell incident.

1139
00:59:35,581 --> 00:59:37,708
Certainly,
if you look at Ronald Reagan,

1140
00:59:37,709 --> 00:59:40,502
he's somebody who brought up
aliens all the time.

1141
00:59:40,503 --> 00:59:43,380
To my mind,
what Reagan is communicating is,

1142
00:59:43,381 --> 00:59:46,550
"Yes, Roswell happened.
Yes, it is significant.

1143
00:59:46,551 --> 00:59:48,385
"Yes, there are aliens.

1144
00:59:48,386 --> 00:59:51,388
"And we'd better
get used to this idea

1145
00:59:51,389 --> 00:59:53,724
or figure out
how to deal with them."

1146
00:59:53,725 --> 00:59:57,060
I, William Jefferson Clinton...

1147
00:59:57,061 --> 00:59:58,895
But it was with the inauguration

1148
00:59:58,896 --> 01:00:02,899
of President Bill Clinton
in January 1993

1149
01:00:02,900 --> 01:00:05,235
that many UFO researchers
believed

1150
01:00:05,236 --> 01:00:09,531
they finally had an ally
in the White House.

1151
01:00:09,532 --> 01:00:13,910
If the United States Air Force
did recover alien bodies,

1152
01:00:13,911 --> 01:00:16,079
they didn't tell me
about it, either,

1153
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:18,415
and I want to know.

1154
01:00:18,416 --> 01:00:22,085
So, when Bill Clinton
gets into office, he called in

1155
01:00:22,086 --> 01:00:23,962
his presidential aide
Webb Hubbell,

1156
01:00:23,963 --> 01:00:27,299
and the first two things that he
asked for after he was president

1157
01:00:27,300 --> 01:00:31,344
was who killed JFK
and are there aliens.

1158
01:00:31,345 --> 01:00:35,348
Clinton knew that there was
something up about aliens

1159
01:00:35,349 --> 01:00:39,060
and UFOs that people
were not being told.

1160
01:00:39,061 --> 01:00:40,937
In his quest to shed light

1161
01:00:40,938 --> 01:00:43,607
on the government's
secret UFO investigations,

1162
01:00:43,608 --> 01:00:46,985
President Clinton found
an unlikely ally

1163
01:00:46,986 --> 01:00:50,614
in billionaire philanthropist
Laurance S. Rockefeller,

1164
01:00:50,615 --> 01:00:53,325
who used his influence
to push full disclosure

1165
01:00:53,326 --> 01:00:57,914
about possible extraterrestrial
activities on Earth.

1166
01:00:59,749 --> 01:01:01,958
The way it started was
Laurance Rockefeller,

1167
01:01:01,959 --> 01:01:04,753
who was one of the famous
Rockefeller brothers,

1168
01:01:04,754 --> 01:01:09,257
had been shown a documentary
on Roswell

1169
01:01:09,258 --> 01:01:11,009
and was very interested.

1170
01:01:11,010 --> 01:01:12,677
So, the election was going on
at the time,

1171
01:01:12,678 --> 01:01:15,806
and he said, "Whether Ross Perot
wins or George Bush wins"

1172
01:01:15,807 --> 01:01:18,266
"or Bill Clinton wins,
I'm going to the White House

1173
01:01:18,267 --> 01:01:22,771
and I'm going to get them
to disclose the UFO story."

1174
01:01:22,772 --> 01:01:27,692
In 1993, Laurance
Rockefeller began inviting

1175
01:01:27,693 --> 01:01:29,986
a select group
of UFO researchers

1176
01:01:29,987 --> 01:01:32,113
and ancient astronaut theorists

1177
01:01:32,114 --> 01:01:34,491
to join him
for an important first meeting

1178
01:01:34,492 --> 01:01:39,496
of what would become known
as the Rockefeller Initiative.

1179
01:01:39,497 --> 01:01:43,333
In 1993,
I got a phone call saying,

1180
01:01:43,334 --> 01:01:46,294
"Linda, we'd like you to join

1181
01:01:46,295 --> 01:01:48,296
"a group of your peers

1182
01:01:48,297 --> 01:01:52,467
at Laurance Rockefeller's ranch
at Jackson Hole."

1183
01:01:52,468 --> 01:01:55,345
So, we met.

1184
01:01:55,346 --> 01:01:57,973
There were people
like Robert Bigelow,

1185
01:01:57,974 --> 01:02:00,642
now the head
of Bigelow Aerospace.

1186
01:02:00,643 --> 01:02:05,856
And there were others that were
authors and scientists.

1187
01:02:05,857 --> 01:02:08,275
One of the people
who helped edit the letter

1188
01:02:08,276 --> 01:02:10,861
on UFO disclosure to the
president of the United States

1189
01:02:10,862 --> 01:02:11,987
was Hillary Clinton.

1190
01:02:11,988 --> 01:02:15,657
She was the first lady
at the time.

1191
01:02:15,658 --> 01:02:18,326
Another person
close to Bill Clinton

1192
01:02:18,327 --> 01:02:22,080
who was an advocate for
government investigation of UFOs

1193
01:02:22,081 --> 01:02:23,874
was John Podesta,

1194
01:02:23,875 --> 01:02:27,752
who served as the president's
assistant in 1993

1195
01:02:27,753 --> 01:02:33,425
and became his deputy chief
of staff in 1997.

1196
01:02:33,426 --> 01:02:37,387
I've had a long career,
trying to fight

1197
01:02:37,388 --> 01:02:40,557
against government secrecy
and create more openness.

1198
01:02:40,558 --> 01:02:42,893
Right after I left law school,
I started working on that

1199
01:02:42,894 --> 01:02:44,352
at the Department of Justice,

1200
01:02:44,353 --> 01:02:46,062
then at the Senate
Judiciary Committee.

1201
01:02:46,063 --> 01:02:47,856
And then when I worked
for President Clinton

1202
01:02:47,857 --> 01:02:50,025
in the White House,
I was one of the people

1203
01:02:50,026 --> 01:02:51,860
spearheading an initiative,

1204
01:02:51,861 --> 01:02:54,738
to declassify
what turned out to be

1205
01:02:54,739 --> 01:02:56,823
over a billion pages
of documents

1206
01:02:56,824 --> 01:02:59,784
that were resident
at the National Archives.

1207
01:02:59,785 --> 01:03:01,411
In President Clinton's case,

1208
01:03:01,412 --> 01:03:03,580
I think he was interested
in the phenomena.

1209
01:03:03,581 --> 01:03:06,583
He had worked with his then
science advisor Jack Gibbons

1210
01:03:06,584 --> 01:03:09,377
to understand what was going on.

1211
01:03:09,378 --> 01:03:12,297
This correspondence
starts going back and forth

1212
01:03:12,298 --> 01:03:13,590
for three years.

1213
01:03:13,591 --> 01:03:15,759
Rockefeller is putting
immense pressure

1214
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:17,886
on the White House to disclose.

1215
01:03:17,887 --> 01:03:20,430
Laurance Rockefeller requested

1216
01:03:20,431 --> 01:03:23,934
that the 1947 Roswell incident
be a starting point

1217
01:03:23,935 --> 01:03:26,061
in the government's disclosure.

1218
01:03:26,062 --> 01:03:28,480
They went out
and they reinvestigated Roswell.

1219
01:03:28,481 --> 01:03:30,106
It came back,

1220
01:03:30,107 --> 01:03:33,151
and Bill Clinton saw
the final report in 1995.

1221
01:03:33,152 --> 01:03:36,446
President Clinton's one of

1222
01:03:36,447 --> 01:03:38,782
the most curious people
I've ever met.

1223
01:03:38,783 --> 01:03:41,326
I think he wanted to know
what the Air Force knew,

1224
01:03:41,327 --> 01:03:43,620
and got a report back that,
in my view,

1225
01:03:43,621 --> 01:03:46,456
was a little bit unsatisfying.

1226
01:03:46,457 --> 01:03:48,500
He was furious,
from what I was told.

1227
01:03:48,501 --> 01:03:50,919
The Rockefeller Initiative

1228
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:52,921
was hoping for a revelation,

1229
01:03:52,922 --> 01:03:55,799
but the U.S. Air Force
stuck to its position

1230
01:03:55,800 --> 01:04:00,971
that a crashed weather balloon
caused the Roswell incident.

1231
01:04:00,972 --> 01:04:03,765
Clinton goes
to Belfast, Northern Ireland,

1232
01:04:03,766 --> 01:04:05,850
in November of 1995.

1233
01:04:05,851 --> 01:04:07,519
He's lighting
the Christmas tree,

1234
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:09,813
and that's when he gives
the famous speech.

1235
01:04:09,814 --> 01:04:12,524
He said he gets
a letter from Ryan,

1236
01:04:12,525 --> 01:04:14,985
which I tried to recover
in an FOIA.

1237
01:04:14,986 --> 01:04:18,405
There is no letter to Ryan.
I think they just made it up.

1238
01:04:18,406 --> 01:04:21,282
He said, "Ryan, if you're out
there in the audience tonight",

1239
01:04:21,283 --> 01:04:23,243
here's the answer
to your question."

1240
01:04:23,244 --> 01:04:24,661
No.

1241
01:04:24,662 --> 01:04:27,831
As far as I know,
an alien spacecraft

1242
01:04:27,832 --> 01:04:31,334
did not crash
in Roswell, New Mexico.

1243
01:04:31,335 --> 01:04:35,171
And, Ryan,
if the United States Air Force

1244
01:04:35,172 --> 01:04:37,799
did recover alien bodies,

1245
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:42,303
they didn't tell me about it,
either, and I want to know.

1246
01:04:42,304 --> 01:04:46,599
That's why in 1997
the U.S. Air Force goes out

1247
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:49,227
and does a second
Roswell report,

1248
01:04:49,228 --> 01:04:50,687
spends $20 million on it,

1249
01:04:50,688 --> 01:04:52,522
because the president
was furious.

1250
01:04:52,523 --> 01:04:55,233
According to the revised report,

1251
01:04:55,234 --> 01:04:58,820
the so-called alien bodies
that eyewitnesses claimed

1252
01:04:58,821 --> 01:05:00,947
they saw being pulled
from the wreckage

1253
01:05:00,948 --> 01:05:05,201
were dismissed as being nothing
more than crash test dummies

1254
01:05:05,202 --> 01:05:07,537
which had been tethered
to parachutes being used

1255
01:05:07,538 --> 01:05:10,373
in an otherwise
conventional test.

1256
01:05:10,374 --> 01:05:13,877
Dr. Gibbons pressed
first the Secretary of Defense

1257
01:05:13,878 --> 01:05:16,171
Les Aspen, and then
the Secretary of the Air Force,

1258
01:05:16,172 --> 01:05:19,382
to take this matter seriously,
to do a review.

1259
01:05:19,383 --> 01:05:21,384
The boxes were missing.
The documents were gone.

1260
01:05:21,385 --> 01:05:23,553
Nobody knew anything.

1261
01:05:23,554 --> 01:05:27,933
And, you know, the...
the trail kind of went cold.

1262
01:05:29,351 --> 01:05:31,561
In 1996,

1263
01:05:31,562 --> 01:05:35,231
the Rockefeller Initiative
was quietly closed,

1264
01:05:35,232 --> 01:05:36,858
and its participants...

1265
01:05:36,859 --> 01:05:38,693
Frustrated that forces
within the government

1266
01:05:38,694 --> 01:05:41,404
still refused
to reveal the truth...

1267
01:05:41,405 --> 01:05:45,617
Went away without the answers
they'd hoped for.

1268
01:05:45,618 --> 01:05:48,536
The Rockefeller Initiative is
considered by some researchers

1269
01:05:48,537 --> 01:05:51,998
to be the biggest
government UFO disclosure story

1270
01:05:51,999 --> 01:05:53,583
of all times.

1271
01:05:53,584 --> 01:05:55,752
The fact that it even existed,

1272
01:05:55,753 --> 01:05:58,463
that it was sanctioned
in any way by the government,

1273
01:05:58,464 --> 01:06:00,590
that the report was accepted

1274
01:06:00,591 --> 01:06:02,592
by the White House
and people in the government,

1275
01:06:02,593 --> 01:06:04,928
I think is very,
very highly significant.

1276
01:06:04,929 --> 01:06:07,597
So it's kind of a very small
incremental step forward

1277
01:06:07,598 --> 01:06:09,974
in the process of disclosure

1278
01:06:09,975 --> 01:06:13,394
and moving us
towards the ultimate answers

1279
01:06:13,395 --> 01:06:15,815
to the questions
that we're all asking.

1280
01:06:17,709 --> 01:06:21,378
Washington, D.C.

1281
01:06:21,379 --> 01:06:24,715
July 1996.

1282
01:06:24,716 --> 01:06:27,218
Political activist
Stephen Bassett

1283
01:06:27,219 --> 01:06:29,261
becomes the first registered

1284
01:06:29,262 --> 01:06:31,764
extraterrestrial life
and disclosure lobbyist

1285
01:06:31,765 --> 01:06:34,433
in the United States.

1286
01:06:34,434 --> 01:06:37,603
For years,
he had been trying to organize

1287
01:06:37,604 --> 01:06:39,939
a hearing
with members of Congress

1288
01:06:39,940 --> 01:06:42,775
to present evidence
that the government was hiding

1289
01:06:42,776 --> 01:06:46,153
important information
from its people.

1290
01:06:46,154 --> 01:06:50,658
The extraterrestrial presence,
if formally acknowledged,

1291
01:06:50,659 --> 01:06:53,619
could bring in an age of reform,
where the human race

1292
01:06:53,620 --> 01:06:55,246
could get its act together,

1293
01:06:55,247 --> 01:06:57,123
because we're
running out of time.

1294
01:06:57,124 --> 01:07:00,459
As I got into the issue,

1295
01:07:00,460 --> 01:07:03,838
what I learned is
just how dysfunctional

1296
01:07:03,839 --> 01:07:07,007
the United States government
had become.

1297
01:07:07,008 --> 01:07:09,593
It is the vast expanse
of secrecy

1298
01:07:09,594 --> 01:07:12,179
and abuse of secrecy in power
that is lying

1299
01:07:12,180 --> 01:07:15,474
at the base of a great deal
of our problems.

1300
01:07:15,475 --> 01:07:20,229
And so I had
one simple fundamental task:

1301
01:07:20,230 --> 01:07:22,481
formal acknowledgment of
the extraterrestrial presence,

1302
01:07:22,482 --> 01:07:24,817
simple, clean and easy.

1303
01:07:24,818 --> 01:07:27,653
Gentlemen, if you
could stand and repeat after me?

1304
01:07:27,654 --> 01:07:32,867
On April 29, 2013,
Bassett organized

1305
01:07:32,868 --> 01:07:36,495
the Citizen Hearing on
Disclosure in Washington, D.C.

1306
01:07:36,496 --> 01:07:39,165
The objective was
to bring together

1307
01:07:39,166 --> 01:07:43,544
the most compelling evidence of
extraterrestrial visits to Earth

1308
01:07:43,545 --> 01:07:46,005
and convince former members
of Congress

1309
01:07:46,006 --> 01:07:47,715
to take immediate action.

1310
01:07:47,716 --> 01:07:50,843
I had wanted
to do it since 2001...

1311
01:07:50,844 --> 01:07:54,221
Bring in 42 witnesses,
from ten countries,

1312
01:07:54,222 --> 01:07:58,309
to testify in the main ballroom
of the National Press Club,

1313
01:07:58,310 --> 01:08:01,395
before six former members
of the Congress,

1314
01:08:01,396 --> 01:08:04,690
five congresspersons,
one senator.

1315
01:08:04,691 --> 01:08:09,028
And they testified
for 30 hours over five days.

1316
01:08:09,029 --> 01:08:11,197
It was an amazing event,

1317
01:08:11,198 --> 01:08:15,534
mostly because of the caliber of
witnesses that were brought in,

1318
01:08:15,535 --> 01:08:17,870
the investigators, researchers.

1319
01:08:17,871 --> 01:08:19,872
They don't want you
to know that.

1320
01:08:19,873 --> 01:08:22,166
Witnesses
included John Callahan,

1321
01:08:22,167 --> 01:08:23,667
former division chief

1322
01:08:23,668 --> 01:08:26,045
of the Accidents
and Investigations Branch

1323
01:08:26,046 --> 01:08:28,297
of the FAA,

1324
01:08:28,298 --> 01:08:31,717
the former Canadian Minister
of Defence, Paul Hellyer,

1325
01:08:31,718 --> 01:08:35,221
retired Air Force captain
Robert Salas,

1326
01:08:35,222 --> 01:08:38,557
and many others who had
conducted extensive research

1327
01:08:38,558 --> 01:08:40,392
into the UFO phenomenon.

1328
01:08:40,393 --> 01:08:43,395
We live in a cosmos
teeming with life.

1329
01:08:43,396 --> 01:08:45,689
The fact that
some other civilizations

1330
01:08:45,690 --> 01:08:47,733
are more advanced than we are
may be humbling,

1331
01:08:47,734 --> 01:08:51,320
but that could be a necessary
step in our survival.

1332
01:08:51,321 --> 01:08:54,782
People are so afraid
for their lives, their families,

1333
01:08:54,783 --> 01:08:58,786
because they have had to sign
nondisclosure agreements.

1334
01:08:58,787 --> 01:09:02,748
Witness from
the U.K., Nick Pope.

1335
01:09:02,749 --> 01:09:04,250
Thank you.

1336
01:09:04,251 --> 01:09:05,918
Um, you should all have
a printed-out copy

1337
01:09:05,919 --> 01:09:07,628
of my opening statement.

1338
01:09:07,629 --> 01:09:10,673
I was one of the
witnesses, and I have to say,

1339
01:09:10,674 --> 01:09:14,260
this was the nearest
that we've gotten since,

1340
01:09:14,261 --> 01:09:17,263
oh, way back to the '70s
and the '60s, even,

1341
01:09:17,264 --> 01:09:21,976
to proper congressional hearings
on the UFO mystery.

1342
01:09:21,977 --> 01:09:25,938
You did work for the Ministry
of Defence in the U.K.?

1343
01:09:25,939 --> 01:09:28,107
That's correct, sir, yes.

1344
01:09:28,108 --> 01:09:31,235
I was asked about my experience

1345
01:09:31,236 --> 01:09:34,571
within the British government's
UFO program,

1346
01:09:34,572 --> 01:09:37,116
and one of the U.K.'s
most high-profile cases,

1347
01:09:37,117 --> 01:09:39,618
the Rendlesham Forest incident.

1348
01:09:39,619 --> 01:09:42,871
In December 1980,

1349
01:09:42,872 --> 01:09:46,166
there were unexplained reports
of a glowing craft in the woods

1350
01:09:46,167 --> 01:09:49,670
of Royal Air Force Base,
Woodbridge.

1351
01:09:49,671 --> 01:09:54,300
Burn marks and broken branches
were later discovered.

1352
01:09:54,301 --> 01:09:58,095
Some have called this incident
"Britain's Roswell."

1353
01:09:58,096 --> 01:10:01,765
Even though I've left
government, I responded with,

1354
01:10:01,766 --> 01:10:04,810
"I can neither confirm
nor deny."

1355
01:10:04,811 --> 01:10:07,438
I don't think
the committee liked

1356
01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:10,274
my "neither confirm nor deny"
response,

1357
01:10:10,275 --> 01:10:12,651
and they pushed me
very hard on that.

1358
01:10:12,652 --> 01:10:15,154
Certainly, you've been involved
since you left.

1359
01:10:15,155 --> 01:10:16,822
Yes, sir, in a private capacity.

1360
01:10:16,823 --> 01:10:18,073
What's your opinion,

1361
01:10:18,074 --> 01:10:20,409
based on all that stuff
that you've had access to?

1362
01:10:20,410 --> 01:10:21,952
Is there an E.T. origin

1363
01:10:21,953 --> 01:10:26,540
to what's obvious sightings
of real UFOs?

1364
01:10:26,541 --> 01:10:29,001
It is a... a possibility.

1365
01:10:29,002 --> 01:10:31,670
You could tell by the faces,

1366
01:10:31,671 --> 01:10:34,673
they really weren't quite sure
what to think of this yet.

1367
01:10:34,674 --> 01:10:38,385
By Wednesday, we have them,
you know, standing up,

1368
01:10:38,386 --> 01:10:42,014
pointing fingers, saying,
"We need to open those files."

1369
01:10:42,015 --> 01:10:44,850
It drove things forward.

1370
01:10:44,851 --> 01:10:47,811
It took the UFO phenomenon
out of the fringe

1371
01:10:47,812 --> 01:10:49,521
and into the mainstream.

1372
01:10:49,522 --> 01:10:52,358
Thousands of people
watched it online.

1373
01:10:52,359 --> 01:10:54,193
We netcast it so that

1374
01:10:54,194 --> 01:10:56,195
members of Congress
and their staff

1375
01:10:56,196 --> 01:10:58,989
who were too timid
to come down and watch it there,

1376
01:10:58,990 --> 01:11:00,824
or members of the press
that were afraid

1377
01:11:00,825 --> 01:11:02,493
that they might be seen
watching it,

1378
01:11:02,494 --> 01:11:04,536
could watch it in the comfort
of their offices.

1379
01:11:04,537 --> 01:11:08,332
Sometime this year,
we may just enter a new world.

1380
01:11:08,333 --> 01:11:09,917
Thank you so much.

1381
01:11:09,918 --> 01:11:11,960
Based on the hearings,

1382
01:11:11,961 --> 01:11:14,713
four of the six
former members of Congress

1383
01:11:14,714 --> 01:11:17,716
pledged their support
to hold a world conference,

1384
01:11:17,717 --> 01:11:20,052
in conjunction
with the United Nations,

1385
01:11:20,053 --> 01:11:22,179
to address the disclosure

1386
01:11:22,180 --> 01:11:24,681
of all knowledge
of extraterrestrial contact

1387
01:11:24,682 --> 01:11:26,226
with this planet.

1388
01:11:27,727 --> 01:11:31,105
Then, on August 15, 2013,

1389
01:11:31,106 --> 01:11:34,692
less than four months after the
Citizen Hearing on Disclosure,

1390
01:11:34,693 --> 01:11:39,738
the United States government
made a shocking admission.

1391
01:11:39,739 --> 01:11:42,116
After decades
of denying its existence,

1392
01:11:42,117 --> 01:11:44,701
they finally admitted
that a secret base

1393
01:11:44,702 --> 01:11:48,247
known as Area 51 did exist.

1394
01:11:48,248 --> 01:11:51,333
Did the Citizen Hearing
on Disclosure

1395
01:11:51,334 --> 01:11:54,461
force the U.S. government
to act?

1396
01:11:54,462 --> 01:11:56,296
While the government
acknowledged

1397
01:11:56,297 --> 01:12:00,676
the existence of Area 51,
it still has not been revealed

1398
01:12:00,677 --> 01:12:04,304
just what it is
currently being used for.

1399
01:12:04,305 --> 01:12:05,931
And since that disclosure,

1400
01:12:05,932 --> 01:12:08,767
the perimeter around the base
has been extended

1401
01:12:08,768 --> 01:12:12,104
and security heightened.

1402
01:12:12,105 --> 01:12:15,607
Area 51 has to be
more secretive now,

1403
01:12:15,608 --> 01:12:18,110
because you got
so many other concerns.

1404
01:12:18,111 --> 01:12:21,155
We didn't have computers
to worry about, Internet,

1405
01:12:21,156 --> 01:12:23,699
all that sort of thing
that you've got today.

1406
01:12:23,700 --> 01:12:26,285
So it's a brand-new ball game
as far as security.

1407
01:12:26,286 --> 01:12:29,580
While many considered
the government's admission

1408
01:12:29,581 --> 01:12:33,125
of the existence of Area 51
to be a bombshell,

1409
01:12:33,126 --> 01:12:36,795
an even bigger disclosure
was still to come:

1410
01:12:36,796 --> 01:12:42,760
the declassification of millions
of top secret CIA documents.

1411
01:12:47,186 --> 01:12:48,854
Bethesda, Maryland.

1412
01:12:48,855 --> 01:12:51,732
November 2014.

1413
01:12:51,733 --> 01:12:53,650
Stephen Bassett,

1414
01:12:53,651 --> 01:12:57,404
executive director
of the Paradigm Research Group,

1415
01:12:57,405 --> 01:13:01,867
launches an initiative directed
to influence Hillary Clinton.

1416
01:13:01,868 --> 01:13:04,745
Based on Clinton's work
with Laurance Rockefeller

1417
01:13:04,746 --> 01:13:06,788
in the 1990s,

1418
01:13:06,789 --> 01:13:09,291
Bassett believes
she could be an ally

1419
01:13:09,292 --> 01:13:13,962
in getting the government
to declassify its UFO files.

1420
01:13:13,963 --> 01:13:17,299
That political initiative
was begun

1421
01:13:17,300 --> 01:13:19,718
by sending a full copy

1422
01:13:19,719 --> 01:13:22,888
of the 30 hours of testimony
to every member of Congress,

1423
01:13:22,889 --> 01:13:27,142
addressing the Rockefeller
Initiative, naming names...

1424
01:13:27,143 --> 01:13:31,021
Secretary Clinton,
President Clinton, John Podesta,

1425
01:13:31,022 --> 01:13:32,731
George Stephanopoulos,
et cetera, et cetera.

1426
01:13:32,732 --> 01:13:36,318
That testimony created
a very significant dilemma

1427
01:13:36,319 --> 01:13:38,695
for the Clinton campaign team.

1428
01:13:38,696 --> 01:13:44,618
The political initiative forces
the Clinton campaign team,

1429
01:13:44,619 --> 01:13:47,204
which included Barack Obama...
He was on the team...

1430
01:13:47,205 --> 01:13:49,665
To speak to the issue.

1431
01:13:49,666 --> 01:13:53,878
Are we ready to go win
an election in November?

1432
01:13:55,505 --> 01:13:58,548
Clinton's campaign
chairman, John Podesta,

1433
01:13:58,549 --> 01:14:01,134
is well known
for his interest in UFO

1434
01:14:01,135 --> 01:14:06,474
and extraterrestrial encounters,
and according to him, so is she.

1435
01:14:08,226 --> 01:14:10,519
Secretary Clinton, likewise,

1436
01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:12,646
was also kind of interested
in the topic,

1437
01:14:12,647 --> 01:14:15,607
and during the course
of the campaign said

1438
01:14:15,608 --> 01:14:17,693
that, if elected,
she would have ordered

1439
01:14:17,694 --> 01:14:20,529
a more thorough
declassification review.

1440
01:14:20,530 --> 01:14:23,198
She was very open.
She did not skirt the issue.

1441
01:14:23,199 --> 01:14:24,866
She talked about it very openly.

1442
01:14:24,867 --> 01:14:28,203
Many believe
that had Clinton won,

1443
01:14:28,204 --> 01:14:30,080
there would have been
a seismic shift

1444
01:14:30,081 --> 01:14:32,958
from the government's
long-held policy of secrecy

1445
01:14:32,959 --> 01:14:39,047
concerning UFO investigations to
a new policy of full disclosure.

1446
01:14:39,048 --> 01:14:41,675
The system of regulation

1447
01:14:41,676 --> 01:14:45,762
that creates our secrecy
system... what's top secret,

1448
01:14:45,763 --> 01:14:48,849
what's confidential, these
lower levels of classification...

1449
01:14:48,850 --> 01:14:52,936
That's regulated and has been
since the Truman administration

1450
01:14:52,937 --> 01:14:55,272
by executive order
of the president.

1451
01:14:55,273 --> 01:15:00,485
The president sets forward the
general rules of classification.

1452
01:15:00,486 --> 01:15:02,738
And some presidents
have been more forthcoming,

1453
01:15:02,739 --> 01:15:04,531
wanted less secrecy.

1454
01:15:04,532 --> 01:15:08,618
Some have tightened the reins
and wanted more secrecy.

1455
01:15:08,619 --> 01:15:09,745
It makes a difference.

1456
01:15:09,746 --> 01:15:12,497
The CIA and the Pentagon...

1457
01:15:12,498 --> 01:15:16,001
They were worried about Hillary
Clinton, Secretary Clinton,

1458
01:15:16,002 --> 01:15:18,670
all the statements she was
making, winning the presidency,

1459
01:15:18,671 --> 01:15:20,589
and going to the Pentagon
and basically saying,

1460
01:15:20,590 --> 01:15:22,674
"You are going to give me
the information I need

1461
01:15:22,675 --> 01:15:24,384
"to disclose
the extraterrestrial presence,

1462
01:15:24,385 --> 01:15:27,054
or I'm gonna fire
every single one of you."

1463
01:15:27,055 --> 01:15:32,350
As this year of 2016
went forward, we all expected

1464
01:15:32,351 --> 01:15:35,312
that this headline
that we've been waiting for

1465
01:15:35,313 --> 01:15:38,982
that is going
to break the protocol,

1466
01:15:38,983 --> 01:15:43,195
break the policy of denial,
was going to happen.

1467
01:15:43,196 --> 01:15:46,156
John Podesta was trying
to get ready

1468
01:15:46,157 --> 01:15:49,159
to open up that we're not alone
in the universe.

1469
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:51,912
All of that crashed

1470
01:15:51,913 --> 01:15:56,333
when a different person became
President of the United States.

1471
01:15:56,334 --> 01:16:00,212
November 8, 2016,

1472
01:16:00,213 --> 01:16:04,007
Donald Trump was elected
as America's next president.

1473
01:16:04,008 --> 01:16:08,303
There would be no disclosure
of the secret UFO files.

1474
01:16:08,304 --> 01:16:13,475
I've had a number of
members of Congress,

1475
01:16:13,476 --> 01:16:16,728
members of the U.S. Senate
say to me, "Keep going at this."

1476
01:16:16,729 --> 01:16:19,648
I'm really interested in it, but
I can't say anything about it."

1477
01:16:19,649 --> 01:16:22,234
But as a longtime advisor

1478
01:16:22,235 --> 01:16:24,236
to President Barack Obama,

1479
01:16:24,237 --> 01:16:27,948
John Podesta still had an ally
in the White House,

1480
01:16:27,949 --> 01:16:31,452
one who would remain there
for another two months.

1481
01:16:35,289 --> 01:16:39,376
January 17, 2017.

1482
01:16:39,377 --> 01:16:42,337
In Barack Obama's
last days as president,

1483
01:16:42,338 --> 01:16:45,173
the CIA posts on its website

1484
01:16:45,174 --> 01:16:48,927
nearly 13 million pages
of agency documents,

1485
01:16:48,928 --> 01:16:52,472
many of which pertain to UFOs.

1486
01:16:52,473 --> 01:16:57,435
It was a very, very big deal,
and people were excited.

1487
01:16:57,436 --> 01:17:02,065
All of these things
were efforts, I believe,

1488
01:17:02,066 --> 01:17:04,609
to educate people and to move us

1489
01:17:04,610 --> 01:17:10,115
in a direction that we can
accept, as a society,

1490
01:17:10,116 --> 01:17:12,993
that extraterrestrials are here

1491
01:17:12,994 --> 01:17:16,706
and have been here
for thousands of years.

1492
01:17:19,542 --> 01:17:22,961
Investigator Chase
Kloetzke and author Nick Pope

1493
01:17:22,962 --> 01:17:25,088
have been searching for proof

1494
01:17:25,089 --> 01:17:27,507
that the U.S. government has
been hiding its interactions

1495
01:17:27,508 --> 01:17:29,468
with extraterrestrials.

1496
01:17:29,469 --> 01:17:32,679
Now they hope to find
new evidence among

1497
01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:36,433
the millions
of recently declassified pages.

1498
01:17:36,434 --> 01:17:38,101
Well, there's such a lot
to go through.

1499
01:17:38,102 --> 01:17:40,937
Exactly. It comes back
to the old saying,

1500
01:17:40,938 --> 01:17:44,149
the best place
to hide a book is in a library.

1501
01:17:44,150 --> 01:17:48,278
And there are all sorts of gems
in here, I'm sure,

1502
01:17:48,279 --> 01:17:50,113
but, um, how would we ever know?

1503
01:17:50,114 --> 01:17:52,532
We've got to go through it
literally page by page,

1504
01:17:52,533 --> 01:17:54,409
- line by line.
- Right.

1505
01:17:54,410 --> 01:17:57,204
So we're taking a look
at this report.

1506
01:17:57,402 --> 01:17:59,611
December 1960.

1507
01:17:59,612 --> 01:18:01,571
This has come from Detroit,

1508
01:18:01,572 --> 01:18:06,743
and it's a sighting of
unidentified objects in the sky.

1509
01:18:06,744 --> 01:18:09,913
"Like a disc," it says,

1510
01:18:09,914 --> 01:18:12,207
which again, is something
I'm sure you've come across

1511
01:18:12,208 --> 01:18:14,000
in-in various reports,
as have I.

1512
01:18:14,001 --> 01:18:15,460
Yes, many.

1513
01:18:15,461 --> 01:18:17,796
And yet,
it has these redactions on it.

1514
01:18:17,797 --> 01:18:19,923
And again,
the question arises: Why?

1515
01:18:19,924 --> 01:18:24,261
If this subject is so
unclassified and unimportant,

1516
01:18:24,262 --> 01:18:26,012
why all these redactions?

1517
01:18:26,013 --> 01:18:28,598
- And this next document.
- Oh, wow. That's crazy.

1518
01:18:28,599 --> 01:18:31,643
Right? Why even bother?

1519
01:18:31,644 --> 01:18:35,230
Only information is... the date.

1520
01:18:35,231 --> 01:18:37,607
13 million documents.

1521
01:18:37,608 --> 01:18:40,527
If there really was
a smoking gun in there,

1522
01:18:40,528 --> 01:18:42,989
it would be
almost impossible to find.

1523
01:18:46,492 --> 01:18:49,661
So far,
the CIA archive has revealed

1524
01:18:49,662 --> 01:18:51,746
thousands of reports
of sightings

1525
01:18:51,747 --> 01:18:53,999
of unexplained aircraft.

1526
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:57,419
One report said that,
of 1,500 official accounts

1527
01:18:57,420 --> 01:19:00,255
of UFOs since 1947,

1528
01:19:00,256 --> 01:19:04,843
an incredible 20%
remain unexplained.

1529
01:19:04,844 --> 01:19:08,722
But was the release
of the CIA online archive

1530
01:19:08,723 --> 01:19:14,269
another step towards disclosure
or a way to bury the truth?

1531
01:19:14,270 --> 01:19:17,772
When the Pentagon's
classified study into UFOs...

1532
01:19:17,773 --> 01:19:20,817
The Advanced Aerial Threat
Identification Program...

1533
01:19:20,818 --> 01:19:24,488
Was uncovered later in 2017,

1534
01:19:24,489 --> 01:19:26,656
journalists
and researchers rushed

1535
01:19:26,657 --> 01:19:30,076
to file Freedom of Information
Act requests.

1536
01:19:30,077 --> 01:19:34,707
Will these files finally explain
what the government knows?

1537
01:19:38,023 --> 01:19:41,109
11 months after
the CIA's archive

1538
01:19:41,110 --> 01:19:43,778
is released
to the public in 2017,

1539
01:19:43,779 --> 01:19:46,447
<i>The New York Times story reveals</i>

1540
01:19:46,448 --> 01:19:48,533
the Department of Defense's

1541
01:19:48,534 --> 01:19:52,454
or Advanced Aerospace Threat
Identification Program.

1542
01:19:56,291 --> 01:19:58,084
As soon as the story breaks,

1543
01:19:58,085 --> 01:20:00,628
journalists and researchers
start filing

1544
01:20:00,629 --> 01:20:05,133
Freedom of Information Act
requests, known as FOIA.

1545
01:20:05,134 --> 01:20:12,014
There have now been 1,500 to
2,000 FOIAs on this program...

1546
01:20:12,015 --> 01:20:14,058
$22 million program...

1547
01:20:14,059 --> 01:20:16,018
And the government
at this point is saying,

1548
01:20:16,019 --> 01:20:17,395
"Program? What program?"

1549
01:20:17,396 --> 01:20:18,980
They're playing
the same old game.

1550
01:20:18,981 --> 01:20:20,481
"We didn't release those films."

1551
01:20:20,482 --> 01:20:21,983
But they're under
so much pressure.

1552
01:20:21,984 --> 01:20:24,485
If this keeps up for even

1553
01:20:24,486 --> 01:20:26,529
four, five or six more months,

1554
01:20:26,530 --> 01:20:31,159
I do not imagine how
disclosure can not take place.

1555
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:34,704
Much of what was
undertaken and reviewed

1556
01:20:34,705 --> 01:20:37,039
still remains in the dark,

1557
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:40,334
in classified form
at the Department of Defense.

1558
01:20:40,335 --> 01:20:43,004
I would hope that
they would declassify it

1559
01:20:43,005 --> 01:20:44,839
and release as much as possible.

1560
01:20:44,840 --> 01:20:47,091
- Good afternoon.
- Good afternoon.

1561
01:20:47,092 --> 01:20:50,011
<i>When this story broke
in The New York Times...</i>

1562
01:20:50,012 --> 01:20:51,929
- Jordan.
- ...guy by the name of

1563
01:20:51,930 --> 01:20:55,391
<i>Jordan Fabian from The Hill...
he asks Sarah Sanders</i>

1564
01:20:55,392 --> 01:20:57,643
the $64,000 question.

1565
01:20:57,644 --> 01:21:00,605
Does the president believe
in the existence of UFOs,

1566
01:21:00,606 --> 01:21:02,523
and would he be interested

1567
01:21:02,524 --> 01:21:04,025
in restoring funding
for that program?

1568
01:21:04,026 --> 01:21:06,068
Somehow that question
hasn't come up

1569
01:21:06,069 --> 01:21:09,197
in our back and forth over the
last couple days, but I will,

1570
01:21:09,198 --> 01:21:13,409
uh, check into that and be happy
to circle back. Jennifer?

1571
01:21:13,410 --> 01:21:16,370
As far as I know,
she has never come back around,

1572
01:21:16,371 --> 01:21:18,039
because you can't.

1573
01:21:18,040 --> 01:21:20,124
The president
has to stay out of it.

1574
01:21:20,125 --> 01:21:23,252
They want the community
to force the issue.

1575
01:21:23,253 --> 01:21:25,087
They want us to force the issue.

1576
01:21:25,088 --> 01:21:28,883
And that is why they moved it
to Bob Bigelow,

1577
01:21:28,884 --> 01:21:31,636
who's a contractor in Las Vegas.

1578
01:21:31,637 --> 01:21:34,722
It's private industry
that will do the disclosure.

1579
01:21:34,723 --> 01:21:37,099
History is
about to happen at a level

1580
01:21:37,100 --> 01:21:41,145
that's almost incalculable,
extraordinary, unprecedented.

1581
01:21:41,146 --> 01:21:44,899
It makes something like
the Roman Empire look trivial.

1582
01:21:44,900 --> 01:21:47,109
So, just think about that.

1583
01:21:47,110 --> 01:21:49,070
The announcement of
the extraterrestrial presence,

1584
01:21:49,071 --> 01:21:50,863
worldwide engagement,

1585
01:21:50,864 --> 01:21:53,950
open contacts
with multiple civilizations.

1586
01:21:53,951 --> 01:21:58,246
The revelations
about AATIP may be clues

1587
01:21:58,247 --> 01:22:00,414
that there's an agenda here.

1588
01:22:00,415 --> 01:22:04,001
This may be government trying

1589
01:22:04,002 --> 01:22:07,421
to slowly drip-feed this
information out to the public

1590
01:22:07,422 --> 01:22:11,300
in such a way that there
won't be out-and-out panic.

1591
01:22:11,301 --> 01:22:13,511
It may be a way

1592
01:22:13,512 --> 01:22:18,766
of slowly but surely
acclimatizing people

1593
01:22:18,767 --> 01:22:21,602
to the reality
of this phenomenon.

1594
01:22:21,603 --> 01:22:25,356
<i>The fact that
The New York Times published</i>

1595
01:22:25,357 --> 01:22:28,693
a Pentagon story
is extraordinary.

1596
01:22:28,694 --> 01:22:32,363
And nobody really cared, so,

1597
01:22:32,364 --> 01:22:37,368
to me, that means that
while we are all talking about

1598
01:22:37,369 --> 01:22:40,121
that we may be connected
to extraterrestrials,

1599
01:22:40,122 --> 01:22:43,124
that this knowledge
is within us.

1600
01:22:43,125 --> 01:22:47,545
It's hardwired, so that,
hey, if they're coming,

1601
01:22:47,546 --> 01:22:50,881
it won't be panic
because we come from them.

1602
01:22:50,882 --> 01:22:54,969
I do think that the world is
ready for this knowledge,

1603
01:22:54,970 --> 01:22:59,056
and I think that it would be
the most revolutionary story

1604
01:22:59,057 --> 01:23:01,393
in the history of mankind.

1605
01:23:04,354 --> 01:23:06,856
Has the time finally come

1606
01:23:06,857 --> 01:23:09,358
when not only
the United States government

1607
01:23:09,359 --> 01:23:14,155
but nations around the world
will reveal what UFO researchers

1608
01:23:14,156 --> 01:23:18,075
and ancient astronaut theorists
have long suspected:

1609
01:23:18,076 --> 01:23:21,162
that extraterrestrial visitation
of our planet

1610
01:23:21,163 --> 01:23:24,206
is not only real,
but has been happening

1611
01:23:24,207 --> 01:23:26,542
for thousands of years?

1612
01:23:26,543 --> 01:23:31,422
There are many who believe
the answer is a profound yes,

1613
01:23:31,423 --> 01:23:34,675
and that the truth will lead
to a greater understanding

1614
01:23:34,676 --> 01:23:39,847
not only of mankind's past,
but of its future,

1615
01:23:39,848 --> 01:23:42,933
a future that will see humans

1616
01:23:42,934 --> 01:23:46,062
as the torchbearers
of a new generation,

1617
01:23:46,063 --> 01:23:51,025
and as the extraterrestrial
visitors of planets and galaxies

1618
01:23:51,026 --> 01:23:53,528
far beyond our own.