NARRATOR: A detailed description
of a highly advanced aircraft appears
in a 3,000-year-old text.
JONATHAN YOUNG: There are tales
of flying craft
that could fly at extraordinary speeds
that defy the laws of physics.
NARRATOR: Ancient stories depict a vehicle
that travels both in the sky and underwater.
WILLIAM HENRY: In Sumeria and in Babylon, they talked about
Oannes who emerged from the sea in a winged disc.
NARRATOR: And the oldest Egyptian hieroglyphs
reference strange objects descending to Earth.
We have depictions in ancient times
of flying craft that seem to be
in the form of pyramids.
NARRATOR: Now, military personnel
are capturing footage
of nearly identical objects in the sky.
Are we encountering the same extraterrestrials
that have occupied Earth for thousands of years?
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NARRATOR: There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is the promise of truth.
It demands we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
NARRATOR: July 2019.
San Clemente Island, California.
68 nautical miles west of San Diego.
Nine U.S. warships
belonging to an elite Navy unit called
Carrier Strike Group 9
are performing nighttime training exercises
in restricted waters.
The Navy was undertaking an exercise
with Strike Force 9.
This is an integrated crew
centered on an aircraft carrier,
but with multiple other
U.S. Navy vessels,
and jets really testing how
the U.S. military would respond
in a war-fighting situation,
so everything has to be seamless.
And then,
into the middle of all of this,
suddenly and unexpectedly,
the exercise is interrupted
by an unknown presence.
NARRATOR: The ships are swarmed
by what the Navy refers to as UAVs,
or Unidentified Aerial Vehicles.
The UAVs fly for prolonged periods of time
in low-visibility conditions,
performing brazen maneuvers over the warships
near a sensitive military training range.
Make no mistake about it,
something is penetrating
the sophisticated air defense network.
JEREMY CORBELL: That swarm series
of UFOs around Navy ships
is one of the most important bodies of evidence
ever documented and put out to the public
because it involved so many ships.
There were a strategic coordination
of these unidentifieds.
NARRATOR: The Photographic Interpretation
and Examination team aboard the USS Russell
captured a compelling 18-second night vision video
of multiple UAVs hovering just 700 feet above the ship.
CORBELL: The USS Russell was swarmed by UFOs
like other ships, but this was different.
These were flying pyramids
without any control surfaces, wings,
rudders, tails, plumes, or exhaust. Nothing.
How did these things move?
How were they able to get past
one of our nation's greatest defense systems?
This was something that we couldn't even defend against.
NARRATOR: In December 2017,
just 18 months prior to this incident,
The New York Times exposed the U.S. government's
secret program to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena.
Since that bombshell revelation,
numerous photographs and videos have surfaced
of Navy encounters with different types of UAPs.
And as far as ancient astronaut theorists
are concerned, the video captured
from the USS Russell may be the most extraordinary of all.
Not because there were so many objects seen in the sky,
but because of the UAP's very unique shape.
TSOUKALOS: The fact that there are pyramid-shaped objects
that have been filmed by the Navy
is beyond interesting to me
because we have similar depictions
in ancient times of flying craft
that seem to be in the form of pyramids.
Clearly, what we see in this footage of today
is pyramid-shaped, three-dimensionally.
It's not flat.
It's a three-dimensional pyramid
floating in the sky.
Providing that the footage is real,
providing it is extraterrestrial,
then one could argue that the same visitors
that we've had back then
are showing themselves again.
NARRATOR: On display in the Egyptian Museum
and Royal Mummies' Hall
is an artifact from the pyramid of Amenemhat III,
called a Benben stone.
In ancient Egypt, similar pyramid-shaped capstones
were placed on the top of giant standing stones called obelisks.
The first of these Benben stones
predate the earliest pyramids.
The obelisk pointed up toward the heavens,
so it is an object of worship,
and that capstone, that Benben stone,
was the meeting place.
That was the portal to other worlds
where human energy lifted up and made contact with the gods.
HUGH NEWMAN: The shape of the Benben stone
is like a classic pyramid shape.
And, uh, you know, apparently, the design of pyramids
was based on the Benben stone itself,
and these are like giant versions of it.
DAVID CHILDRESS: The Benben stone was not just, uh,
symbolizing a connection to the heavens,
it was actually memorializing an extraterrestrial visitation.
TSOUKALOS: In ancient Egypt, it's chock-full of references
of celestial beings descending from the sky
and imparting knowledge to our ancestors.
One of the origin stories says
that a Benben stone descended from the sky,
out of which the first creator gods emerged
and started Egyptian civilization.
It was a flying craft.
NARRATOR: Could the pyramidal capstones found atop Egypt's obelisks,
and even the pyramids themselves,
have been inspired by an extraterrestrial visitation?
And if so,
is it possible that similar alien craft
were captured on video above the USS Russell?
What we're seeing from the USS Russell,
these kind of objects flying around in the sky
were an identical shape
and there was multiple ones witnessed and filmed.
And so, is there a connection?
Is this what was witnessed from the USS Russell?
CHILDRESS: It's a fascinating idea that, perhaps,
extraterrestrials first arrived
in Egypt in these small, pyramid-shaped craft,
like we're seeing in this video.
And, in fact, many of the UAPs
that have been reported in modern times
and that we see in the recent Navy videos
are very reminiscent of ancient accounts
of strange objects in the sky,
accounts that you can find
in many ancient cultures around the world.
NARRATOR: Did people living thousands of years ago
encounter the very same objects in the sky
that appear in recent videos and photographs
taken by the U.S. Navy?
And if so, could this indicate that humans
have been sharing planet Earth with another race
of intelligent beings
since our earliest history?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and suggest further evidence
can be found in India,
within the pages of one of the world's
oldest texts.
NARRATOR: The coast of Florida. January 2015. 2019,
The crew of a Navy F-18 fighter jet
fly into restricted air space and encounter
an airborne object directly in their flight path.
They aim their forward-looking infrared camera at the object
and capture it in flight.
F-18s were chasing this thing, and they couldn't catch it.
The UAP is doing things
that modern aerodynamic vehicles can't do.
NARRATOR: The pilots in pursuit of the unidentified craft,
observed that it performed unusual maneuvers
unlike any military aircraft they had ever witnessed.
And all while flying
at high velocities.
One of the impressive aspects of it,
is that it's moving against the wind,
and you can hear the pilot say this.
CORBELL: It doesn't lose speed, and it rotates
mechanically against the wind.
This gimbal footage
is one of the rare pieces of physical evidence
that is corroborated directly by individuals who are
out there on the East Coast documenting these things.
It is highly impressive.
Now, modern-day aircraft can yaw and pitch,
and they can roll,
but they can't simply pitch straight up
and continue to move forward into the line of flight.
This thing does that.
It's moving extremely fast,
and it's accelerating much faster than the F-18s can.
So that, in itself,
is a feat that mankind has yet to accomplish.
CORBELL: We tried to vet this for a long time.
What's uncomfortable is that we haven't figured it out.
That we don't know whose technology this is.
If you can't identify someone that's far more advanced
than you technologically, Houston, we have a problem.
NARRATOR: Navy video of the incredible encounter
was made public in December 2017,
and the object was dubbed "GIMBAL"
due to its ability to rotate on an axis.
But for ancient astronaut theorists,
just as intriguing as the way it moves is the object's shape.
The craft itself is an acorn-shaped craft.
Immediately, that's reminiscent
of the what the ancient Indian text described as
the vimana, which were acorn-shaped craft.
TSOUKALOS: In the Mahabharata, and at many of the ancient Vedic texts,
they speak about the so-called vimanas.
The vimanas were flying vehicles
with which to reach the celestial realm.
NARRATOR: In the ancient Sanskrit epics of India
there are highly detailed descriptions of the vimana,
which carried the gods and other important figures
through the sky
and sometimes to other planets.
The acorn-shaped craft
were even incorporated at the very top of many Hindu temples,
and some researchers believe
they also inspired similar Buddhist structures
called stupa.
TSOUKALOS: If we go to Indonesia and look at Borobudur,
where we have 194 stupas
sitting in concentric circles,
each stupa, in my opinion,
represents a type of flying craft.
Because "stupa" actually means "celestial chariot,"
or a way with which to reach the celestial realm.
And they are in the shape of the so-called vimanas.
NARRATOR: Often, the vimana were described as war machines,
armed with incredible weapons.
There are tales of flying craft
that could defy gravity
and fly at extraordinary speeds that defy the laws of physics.
These were military in usage,
had powerful engines and powerful weapons.
In these battles,
missiles would fire that could wipe out cities.
These were the earliest stories
we have of flying military craft.
HENRY: In the Indian text,
the vimanas are the chariots or craft of the gods.
They were clearly a method of transportation
that could take the gods from place to place,
country to country, or even to other planets.
They're sometimes described as bright clouds.
Some of them are seven stories tall.
NARRATOR: In 1895,
Sanskrit scholar Shivkar Talpade
decided to fashion an aircraft based solely on information
gleaned from the ancient Indian writings
about the vimana.
While the story is hotly disputed,
he allegedly tested the craft
in front of an audience of thousands of people
on a beach in Bombay.
TAYLOR: The legend has it that he flew for,
like, 30 seconds at 1,500 feet.
The Wright brothers only went 120 feet for 12 seconds.
But even more exciting is that this is technology
based on a scripture written
thousands of years before mankind ever had the idea
of heavier-than-air flight.
How is this possible?
NARRATOR: According to the Hindu text,
the crafts were mind-controlled,
able to change direction and pitch
and travel at high speeds,
defying our current knowledge of aeronautical physics.
What's really cool is that these modern-day UFO videos
show that these vehicles
are capable of ridiculous maneuvers.
That they can accelerate at the drop of a dime,
or they can just stop or change direction immediately
at g-forces
that we could not survive.
In the Vaimanika Shastra, which describes what these vimanas
were capable of doing,
the exact same descriptions exist.
The fact that we have similar stories in ancient times
illustrates to me something similar has happened.
NARRATOR: Could it be that the ancient Sanskrit texts
are describing extraterrestrial vehicles
even more advanced than the U.S. military's
most sophisticated fighter jets?
And if so, are we seeing the same alien technology
on display in the recent videos
released by the United States Navy?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest that this technology
may also be depicted on the wall
of an Egyptian temple that dates back thousands of years.
NARRATOR: Dendera, Egypt.
Roughly one and a half miles southeast
of this ancient city lies the Temple of Hathor,
one of the most impressive and well-preserved
archeological sites in all of Egypt.
Among the vast hieroglyphs that cover the columns of the temple
are numerous depictions
of pharaohs standing on mysterious ships
and purportedly traveling through the stars.
HENRY: At the Temple of Hathor,
we see a remarkable depiction of a resurrected pharaoh
standing on what the ancient Egyptians called
the Ship of Eternity.
This is a-a craft that was created by Ptah,
the ancient Egyptian god of technology,
who the Egyptians connected with the star Sirius.
In ancient Egypt, we learn of
pharaohs, gods who travelled the stars riding these craft.
NARRATOR: According to William Henry,
who has spent decades studying
the ancient Egyptian iconography,
an important detail found in some of the depictions
at Dendera and elsewhere
is that the pharaoh is shown within a circle or bubble.
HENRY: In another remarkable example,
we see a Pharaoh sitting on a throne
with Isis and Nephthys
on either side of him,
and he's sitting in a blue bubble or magic bubble.
NARRATOR: The so-called "magic bubble" imagery
is found in artwork throughout the ancient world.
And some researchers speculate
that the repeated connection
between the bubble shape and ascension
may indicate that it represents
a common experience describing space travel.
Throughout the ancient world,
we find other very compelling examples
of beings surrounded by a bubble.
For example, in Tibet we find
Padmasambhava who sits on a lotus throne
surrounded by rainbow-colored light
with a thin line symbolizing some form of a bubble.
When you see the earliest examples of Jesus
ascending into the heavens,
he's sitting on a throne surrounded by concentric rings
that form a bubble around his body.
These are supposed to represent
what the Book of Acts says he ascended in
and will return riding upon.
TSOUKALOS: There are countless paintings
of saints and other celestial beings
that happen to be shown
in some type of an energetic bubble.
What if people saw something
that surpassed their technological intellect,
and thus drew it in that way?
NARRATOR: Mainstream historians interpret the bubble shape
found in religious art as simply symbols of divinity.
But could the repetition of this iconic imagery across traditions
suggest it was something our ancestors witnessed?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and believe further evidence may be found
by taking a closer look at the recently released GIMBAL video
captured by Navy jets in 2015.
When aerospace engineer Dr. Travis Taylor
examined the GIMBAL video,
he noticed a very curious anomaly:
a halo of light surrounding the craft.
TAYLOR: After further analysis of the video,
what we can see is there is a bubble region
that sort of surrounds this craft.
This is something that you don't see
when you look through the same instrument
at, say, an F-18 or an F-22 or an F-35.
Black is hot on their forward-looking infrared camera.
And if black is hot, then white is cooler,
so this is a colder region around the vehicle.
So, maybe
this is a warp bubble
or some sort of propellant-less propulsion field
that someone has discovered.
NARRATOR: The concept of a warp bubble
was introduced in 1994
by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre,
as part of a hypothetical model
for traveling faster than the speed of light.
MICHIO KAKU: I once asked Miguel Alcubierre
how he came up with the idea of the Alcubierre drive.
He told me that he was watching Star Trek.
And in Star Trek, they, well, compress the space
in front of them and expand the space behind them
and would rocket faster than the speed of light.
And then he said, "Well, wait a minute.
I think I can duplicate that."
NARRATOR: In Alcubierre's theoretical model,
the warp drive vehicle is surrounded by an energy bubble
within space-time.
KAKU: You need energy to create a bubble,
what's called a warp bubble, surrounding your starship.
Then you need what is called negative energy
to drive it faster than the speed of light,
while inside, you feel almost nothing.
HENRY: When we look at the idea
of a warp bubble
that could surround a spacecraft,
in the video, engineers are seeing
exactly that principle in action.
As far as ancient astronaut theorists
are concerned, warp bubble technology
could be on display not only in the GIMBAL video,
but also in artwork created centuries ago,
like the pharaoh's blue bubble,
the Tibetan lotus throne,
the ascension of Christ,
and countless other sacred images
that seemingly show identical phenomena.
TSOUKALOS: So, you have to wonder,
what is it that the artist tried to depict here?
It's just like Arthur C. Clarke said,
"Any advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
HENRY: These are powerful examples
that are suggesting ascended beings
who traveled the stars in magic bubbles
that precisely matches
the Alcubierre warp bubble concept.
TAYLOR: Could these ancient drawings be showing us
the same thing that we're seeing today
in these modern-day infrared cameras?
NARRATOR: Is it possible that depictions
of figures encompassed by bubbles found
throughout history and all around the world
represent an alien technology?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining another extraordinary Navy video
and its direct connection
to the ancient world.
NARRATOR: Veteran journalist George Knapp
and documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell
publish astonishing video they acquired from the USS Omaha
that shows a mysterious spherical object
flying at speeds approaching 160 miles per hour
before disappearing into the ocean.
The USS Omaha is one of the central pieces of evidence
that I've put forward to the American and global public.
There were objects that were swarming this Navy warship,
and one in particular
appears to transcend
between the space of air and into sea.
They call that a trans-medium vehicle,
a vehicle that can operate equally as well
from in the air and under the water.
Now, this was suspected,
but when they went to go look for this craft
under the water, or for wreckage,
none was found.
NARRATOR: Tennessee representative Tim Burchett,
an outspoken proponent for disclosure of UFO sightings,
was one of the first members of Congress to review the footage.
TIM BURCHETT: To me, i-it's pretty astounding
when they showed that craft actually
going in and it popping up.
It looked like it didn't even slow down.
There wasn't any friction at all
when it hit the water, so, to me, that's something
that we can't even begin to understand, I don't think.
I've read the mathematical equations of friction
and things like that, and it just defies all of that.
TAYLOR: How could a vehicle
fly into the water at 100 miles per hour?
Well, that suggests either the surface of this vehicle
is frictionless,
and it wouldn't have any interaction
with any material it was flying through,
or it's not frictionless, it's actually a warp bubble
where the spacecraft or craft is inside it.
The stresses and strains by flying through the atmosphere
in outer space and then plunging into the oceans
would be enough to rupture any of our known aircraft.
POPE: These reports of USOs,
unidentified submerged or submersible objects,
are much more common than people might suppose.
In 1991,
Jing Yu Xian, a fisherman
was at Fuxian Lake
when he encountered this strange craft
in the waters of the lake.
He described it as a shining disc.
This UFO was so close and so powerful
that it actually tossed the boat around.
And then rapidly this craft just disappeared up into the sky.
Over the years, there have been many, many cases
of UFOs seen over the water,
disappearing under the water,
and in some cases, emerging from under the water.
CHILDRESS: On December 29, 2020,
a very curious thing happened off of the coast
of Hawaii.
People could see a huge cigar-shaped craft
hovering off the coast
and took photos of it, and,
eventually, this craft then plunged into the ocean.
And the Navy went out there to also
look for possible wreckage of some craft
crashing into the ocean and found nothing.
POPE: One theory about this trans-medium travel
and these USOs is that what we're seeing
is evidence of underwater bases.
Now, this makes a good deal of sense.
I mean, the distance involved
for interstellar travel
means that it's much easier to have a base
on the location that you're interested in
than to constantly travel there and back.
But what if that presence goes back millennia?
They're operating here, but under the oceans,
right under our noses.
HENRY: When we see the spherical object in the video taken by
the USS Omaha hovering for a time
and then descending into the water,
this opens up some really interesting concepts
in relation to the ancient world.
For example, in Sumeria and in Babylon,
they talked about a god being named Oannes
who lived in the sea,
who emerged from the sea wearing a fish cloak.
He was, uh, an initiator of humanity,
who taught writing and science and-and other concepts.
What's amazing about this is that Oannes
also founded a priesthood
of beings called Apkallu priests,
who also wore fish cloaks.
And in Sumerian cylinder seals,
we see these Apkallu priests
on either side of a luminous or radiant tree of life
with a winged disc hovering above.
The inference is-is that this craft came from the sea
because these are priests of a sea being.
And so, here's an example of an ancient being
emerging from the sea and connected with a craft.
NARRATOR: Oannes belonged to a group of powerful beings
known in ancient Mesopotamia as the Anunnaki.
The term Anunnaki means
"those who from the heavens came,"
and refers to beings
descending from the sky, imparting knowledge.
That is the most important thing that we can read and learn
about the Anunnaki, that they were our teachers.
So, I think it's very possible
that what the ancient people tried to record
was an extraterrestrial visitation.
NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,
perhaps the most compelling evidence of an alien presence
that traverses Earth's oceans
can be found in an account from 1492,
recorded by Christopher Columbus.
CHILDRESS: It's a famous story about Christopher Columbus,
and he wrote this in his journals,
that as he was moving west across the Atlantic
towards the Caribbean in his first voyage,
he saw a light out in the ocean
to the west hovering over the water,
and this light then descended into the water,
but Columbus felt that this light was guiding him
towards his destination.
So, if this glowing object that Columbus saw did,
you know, go into the water,
he's perhaps one of the first witnesses to describe
a trans-medium craft like this,
which could hover, uh, above the water
and then disappear into it like a submarine.
NARRATOR: Could the account of Christopher Columbus
and the ancient Babylonian stories of Oannes
have a profound connection
to the object recorded from the USS Omaha?
Do they provide further evidence that the same crafts witnessed
in the distant past are still visiting Earth in the present?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and believe the ultimate proof of this
can be found in the Hebrew Bible.
NARRATOR: Just outside the Capitol Building,
Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee
speaks with a reporter
about the much-anticipated government UAP report,
due to be released in less than two weeks.
To the surprise of many,
he suggests that UFOs
have been around for all of human history,
and can even be found
in the Bible's Book of Ezekiel.
POPE: I was intrigued
when I heard that Congressional representative
Tim Burchett had talked about these UFOs
and said, "Well, this is straight out of the Bible.
This is the Book of Ezekiel."
And I thought, "My goodness,
he's an ancient astronaut theorist."
CORBELL: We have seen a lot of unsolicited comments
by congressmen, politicians,
uh, even heads of the CIA
have come forward and given opinions about UFOs.
This has been such a shocking
and revelatory few years about UFOs
that you're now seeing people go back to the Bible
and trying to understand if those events
are similar to the events that we're having today.
NARRATOR: Congressman Burchett's bold assertion
that UFOs can be found in the Bible
was a conclusion he came to after careful study
of the Book of Ezekiel.
According to this text,
the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel describes a fiery chariot
coming down from the sky drawn by four living creatures.
Each creature is flanked by a metallic object,
a wheel within a wheel, that Ezekiel observes
as it descends in a whirlwind making tremendous noise.
BURCHETT: It's pretty clear what's going on in the Bible,
what he's describing, to me.
I've read it many times. You got to realize,
Ezekiel was in sixth century BC,
but he basically describes
what I would say was what people describe as a UFO.
I mean, it's a wheel within a wheel,
there's fire, there's landing gear.
To me, it sounds like there's a craft landing,
and there are smaller craft around it
that are providing protection for it.
And, you know, it's what we see
when you see the president land in a helicopter.
There's not just one helicopter, there's multiple helicopters.
So, to me, it sounds like
Ezekiel saw something that he could not accurately describe,
and he used things around him
that he would see in a day-to-day basis
to describe what he saw.
The closest thing he has is a wheel because that was the, uh,
pinnacle of technology at that time, was a wheel.
NARRATOR: To Congressman Burchett and many others,
the Navy videos indicate
that crafts like those seen by Ezekiel
are still with us in the present.
BURCHETT: I think it's the same type of thing that's being depicted,
in olden times that's being depicted today
in some of those Navy tapes.
There's just too much similarity for it not to be.
If you heard those Navy pilots, they're the sharpest we've got.
BURCHETT: You can tell they're excited,
and they're trying to explain what they're seeing,
much like Ezekiel would try to define what he was seeing.
And so, I think that, um, that it-it proves that
we're definitely not alone.
NARRATOR: To many UFO researchers,
the only difference between ancient sightings
like Ezekiel's and modern 21st-century encounters
is that, today, people have the technology
-to record them. -(camera shutter clicks)
CORBELL: We have seen throughout history
that individuals will testify
to seeing in the sky, you know, shields on fire,
or things that just are not aerodynamic.
Now, because of the-the nature of our technology
and our corroborative evidence,
we have more information to say,
"Yes, this happened exactly like this witness said it happened."
We just didn't have that 150 years ago.
We just didn't have that capability.
The difference now is that we are able to artificially capture
these craft and these objects to a precise measuring
of the rotation and the speeds.
That is just something we did not have before.
We did not have it before, but we have it now, so it's...
I mean, kind of an exciting time to be alive. (chuckles)
TSOUKALOS: Countless times our ancestors referred to these things
up in the sky as flying shields
or flying furnaces.
Today, we actually refer to that as flying craft,
flying machines, unidentified aerial phenomena.
Back then, people didn't have those words.
And so, in my opinion,
there is a clear connection between
the sightings that we have today
and the sightings that we have in the past
because if we would not have the vocabulary,
what we see in those Navy videos
can be described as a flying shield.
These kinds of images have been with us
throughout our entire history,
and they're all telling the same thing,
that the ancient astronauts never left.
The same visitors that we've had back then
are showing themselves again,
and this time publicly.
It's incredible.
NARRATOR: As the photographic and video
evidence of UFOs continues to grow,
so, too, does the number of people
who believe that governments around the world
know more than they are disclosing.
POPE: The idea that there's an alien presence, and the idea
that the U.S. government, amongst others,
knows about all this
is coming out of the fringe and into the mainstream.
Now, you hear of people in Congress talk about it.
We do not need to fear these-these airborne
unidentified objects.
They would've shown themselves to be dangerous
a long time ago by now if they were a threat.
BURCHETT: I wished our intelligence community
would release everything they have on that.
The higher-ups put out a lot that some
of these recent tapes were just sort of a joke, was an anomaly,
but we sure have had a heck of a lot of anomalies.
I think there's a lot more going on to this.
I've talked to military and people
that, when something like this happens, they are generally
told not to bring it up.
They can have psych evaluations,
they can have things put in their records,
and they're encouraged not to bring these kind of things up.
NARRATOR: If the United States government
and other governments around the world
were to reveal all the evidence they have concerning UFOs,
would it show irrefutable proof
that there is an alien air force on Earth?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suspect the truth is even more incredible,
and that hidden away in top-secret facilities
around the globe
are recovered extraterrestrial craft.
NARRATOR: NASA's Advanced Propulsion Physics Lab,
known as the "Eagleworks Project,"
announces that, based on their latest experiments,
they now believe it is possible
to create an actual warp drive
and a spacecraft that can travel faster than the speed of light.
TAYLOR: The team at NASA's Eagleworks
has been trying to reproduce a warp field, and
the results have been right at the edge
of experimental error right now.
So, they're not ready to go build the Starship Enterprise,
but it's possible that they can do an experiment
that says we could build the Starship Enterprise
if we put enough work into it.
NARRATOR: While some believe
that such a revolutionary technology
is purely the result of human ingenuity,
others maintain that such advances are possible
because secret government agencies possess,
and are able to study, crashed alien vehicles.
It is a theory that goes back to the famous
Roswell crash of 1947.
BURCHETT: Roswell happened in '47. Roswell, New Mexico.
They put out, you know, UFO crash,
and it was on the headlines of the papers.
Then, the next day, they came back and said,
"No, in fact, it was a weather balloon."
And it just contradicted everything everybody had said.
NARRATOR: Many have alleged that the U.S. government
secretly retrieved an alien spacecraft
from Roswell.
In 1989,
a scientist named Bob Lazar even came forward to say
that he worked for the U.S. government
reverse engineering crashed extraterrestrial vehicles,
divulging incredible details
about the secret project in the years that followed.
The government is holding, uh, nine alien spacecraft,
um, that are propelled by, um,
a modified gravity generator.
Uh...
It's being-- the work is being conducted
15 miles south of Groom Lake.
CORBELL: The only reason you know about UFOs
and Area 51
and that connection is because of Bob Lazar.
He was faced with a lot of adversity through this.
But, in my eyes,
he's telling you the truth,
and it's backed up time and time again.
NARRATOR: For decades,
the U.S. government denied Lazar's claims,
as well as the existence of the facility
where he said the alien craft were being held,
Area 51.
But in 2013,
a Freedom of Information Act request
finally forced officials to admit
that Area 51 is real.
BURCHETT: For the government to say
the things they say and to hold back
on these reports,
it goes back to Roswell or any of those other...
spots. It's just, um, nobody trusts
the government. They don't trust government,
and they really, frankly, they shouldn't.
We-we don't keep our word on anything.
NARRATOR: The United States isn't the only country
accused of covering up attempts to study alien craft.
Many believe the Russians have a similar UFO program
at a site called Kapustin Yar,
often nicknamed the Russian Area 51.
HENRY: Kapustin Yar was one of the former Soviet Union's
most secretive air bases.
The rumor is, is they were reverse engineering
UFO technology
that could be as much as 1,000 years in advance
of what we have today.
NARRATOR: Recovered alien vehicles are also rumored to be held
at the Pine Gap military base in Australia,
at a mysterious desert airfield
in the Xinjiang region of China,
and at Rudloe Manor in England.
With these craft coming from other planets
and other solar systems,
this is clearly a very advanced technology,
and we are now trying to catch up
to these extraterrestrials
and have the same kind of technology
that they already have.
BURCHETT: It's clear that there's something
we don't understand,
and we're not sure where it comes from,
and I just wish they'd just say that.
They think that the American public can't handle it,
and they can, in fact, handle it, I think, very well.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the sensational footage
recently released by the U.S. Navy
features the same type of aerial vehicles
that were documented by our ancestors?
Do we now have overwhelming evidence
that alien craft not only exist,
but have been present on planet Earth
for thousands of years?
Perhaps, when we discover just who
is behind the UFO phenomenon,
we will uncover an even more profound truth,
that extraterrestrials have been living among us
all along.
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