It is America's most infamous military installation.
For decades, witnesses in that area
are seeing unusual craft hovering over the base.
The place where top secret experiments,
involving alien technology,
are rumored to be taking place.
There is extraterrestrial technology at Area 51.
But is Area 51 still viable,
now that the top secret is out?
This underground expansion has stretched
all the way through Nevada into Utah.
Or do other, even more covert places exist,
where mankind's extraterrestrial future
is being prepared?
Where are Areas 52, 53, and 54?
Langley, Virginia.
August 15, 2013.
After decades of secrecy, denials and cover-ups,
the CIA declassifies documents
which acknowledge the existence
of a top secret military research facility
known as Area 51.
This was an historic announcement.
Finally, these years of rumors
that the UFO community and the conspiracy theory community
had been claiming to be true had been validated.
The federal government was forced to acknowledge
the existence of the Area 51 base
because of a Freedom of Information Act request.
It took them over a decade to actually respond,
but in the end, they eventually had to admit
what everybody already knew,
which was that Area 51 did exist.
Since 1955,
this top secret base,
located in the remote desert of southern Nevada,
has been considered the epicenter
of the military's most classified projects,
from the U-2 spy plane
to the F-117 stealth fighter.
But many believe
that in the darkest corners of Area 51
lurks an even bigger secret...
One that hides the ultimate evidence
of extraterrestrial contact.
While the admission that Area 51 existed was important,
it didn't go far enough for many people
who were hoping that the government was going to confirm
all the rumors about crashed UFOs
and recovered alien technology were true.
But the government said nothing about that.
They only gave us the exact minimal amount
of information that was requested.
They did not give us any more information.
And they certainly appear to still be covering up
what exactly goes on at Area 51.
Over the years,
there have been a number of claims by people
who have been associated with Area 51
who have spoken to journalists or whistle-blowers
in which they have stated, quite explicitly,
that there is extraterrestrial technology at Area 51.
The theory was that they had hired propulsion experts,
engineers, physicists,
to reverse engineer alien propulsion technology,
which was so far in advance of ours,
and they were doing that at Area 51.
We also have rumors that there are alien spacecraft
on the base that have actually been tested and flown
out of Area 51.
Is it possible that scientists at Area 51
have been able to not merely study,
but successfully reverse engineer
an extraterrestrial craft?
For 30 years, people have gone
to the perimeter with binoculars, telescopes.
They've seen bright objects moving in angular motions,
or zigzag motions,
and in ways that seem to be well beyond anything
that we have ever seen,
and propulsion technology that's not readily identifiable.
But if Area 51
is the place where the U.S. government
is conducting its most top secret military research,
and possibly hiding decades of evidence
concerning alien contact,
just how secret is it now?
If everyone knows that it exists
and what kind of work is done there,
could Area 51 have outlived its purpose
as a strategic military asset?
In search of the answers, ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos has traveled to Henderson, Nevada.
- Hello. Great to meet you. - Hello.
He has arranged to meet with TD Barnes,
a former electrical engineer
who worked on classified military projects
at Area 51 for more than four decades.
- Only in 2009. - Yeah, 2009.
And when did you start your work there?
So almost 50 years
you kept it a secret from your wife.
And what did you work on?
Okay.
Let's hypothetically say
that a UFO crashes
and you get ahold of it.
Would we be able to reverse engineer that technology?
Wow.
I mean, for all intents and purposes,
that was a secret space program.
Do you think that this
secret space program stills exists today?
Okay. Now, while you were working there,
did you ever see anything weird up in the sky?
Wow.
In your estimation, when you read these stories about
some companies trying to develop a warp drive,
or even an antimatter propulsion system,
is this something actually achievable?
Ah, that's tremendous.
But if, as TD Barnes suggests,
the military has successfully
reverse engineered anti-gravity
and flying saucer technologies at Area 51,
what are they working on now?
And if its purpose is still to operate
as the government's most highly classified,
top secret laboratory,
why would they admit to the existence of Area 51?
Especially after decades of silence?
One possibility about the public announcement
that Area 51 exists,
is that the real action has moved elsewhere.
In other words, the CIA,
the government, only felt able to come clean
about this because the real secrets
have been moved somewhere else.
So in a real sense, perhaps,
the question isn't so much what's going on at Area 51,
but what's going on at Area 52, 53, and 54?
Area 52? 53?
And 54?
Might there really be other,
even more secret locations,
where the government is continuing to study
and replicate extraterrestrial technology?
Having one big place
where everybody is doing the research
is not a good idea
because it would be hard to hide from the general public.
So the idea that there might be any single, individual
Area 51 where they're reverse engineering alien spacecraft,
now, that seems a little bit an outdated concept.
If I were going to do it,
I would spread the technology pieces out across the country.
Is it possible that the reason government officials
revealed the existence of Area 51
is because they want to use it as a decoy?
One that takes the focus away from their other,
perhaps even bigger, operations
at numerous sites all across the United States?
So the fact that they would finally admit
that Area 51 exists is actually, to my mind, a smoke screen.
What's really going on is that you've got
all these massive underground facilities.
You can take all the really good stuff
you don't want anybody to see and simply
move it somewhere else in the blink of an eye.
While the public remains focused on what is
or isn't happening at Area 51,
could the government be hiding its research
into extraterrestrial technology
at other strategic sites
all across the country?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by investigating reports of an extensive
tunneling operation currently underway
in the Nevada desert.
Witnesses are looking out, and even.
March 17, 2018.
Just outside the perimeter of Area 51,
Giorgio Tsoukalos
meets with researcher Wolf McCarron
and mining expert Christian Gronau.
They are here to investigate rumors
of an alleged tunnel network that lies beneath Area 51.
- This is amazing. - Isn't it?
Wolf and Christian believe
this location... the Tempiute Mine...
is one of several old Nevada mines that have been used
to expand operations at Area 51,
deep underground.
I'm a miner, about 100 miles north of Area 51 here,
and I've been mining there since 1992.
I also own a mine in Goldfield.
So I'm just an avid miner, you know... I search these out.
So what can you tell us about Area 51?
Well, Area 51, what you see,
like, on Google Imagery, that was the '50s, '60s and '70s.
Since then, they've gone down.
Everything they do is underground.
And what evidence
have you come across as a miner
that would corroborate your idea?
People are questioning, well, if they're going down,
where is all the dirt going?
Well, it's going to these nearby mines,
and they're putting it in huge mountains,
and they're heap leaching it.
And by the time they're done
heap leaching a huge mountain,
it goes down to nothing.
Now, to the uninitiated,
what does heap leaching mean?
It is... they pile the ore up
into a large mountain, hundreds of feet high,
and they run hoses all the way through it, like every two feet,
and they leach in mercury and cyanide.
And what that does, it'll take boulders this large
and actually just bring them down to nothing.
Really?
Yeah.
Is the government using heap leaching
inside the Tempiute Mine in order to hide
the massive amounts of dirt being removed
in the course of their digging operations?
But if so, how is the government able to conduct
such an enormous operation without arousing the suspicion
of the local miners?
These mines around here have gold, silver, lead.
So any mine would be more than happy to accept the ore.
And it's kinda like hush-up money.
I've witnessed this hush up and dealt with this a lot.
Hush up of what?
Hush up of the base and the tunnels of Area 51.
Okay.
It's sort of self-explanatory that the reason
why people would go underground is if there are experiments
going on that there's no interference,
or less interference.
Exactly. Yeah.
Has the U.S. military
been expanding its operations at Area 51 not outward,
but downward,
in order to keep its top secret work
even more secret than before?
It is my own belief,
based on a lot of good research,
that there is most likely a large...
I would even say vast... web of interconnected,
underground bases and tunnels that exist.
They originally started doing it, by the way,
just to protect against an atomic strike
that could've happened from the Soviet Union.
And you need secure underground facilities.
Well, they took that and just ran with it.
There are those that believe
that the underground operations being conducted at Area 51
are only the tip of an enormous iceberg.
Is it just one of many secret government facilities,
each connected to each other by a vast network
of underground high-speed trains?
An underground train system
is said to be centered around Cheyenne Mountain
in Colorado Springs.
This is a mountain that has been hollowed out
by the U.S. military.
It's the NORAD central command.
And they go from Cheyenne Mountain, in Colorado Springs,
to Dulce, New Mexico, which is said to have
an extraterrestrial underground base.
Then it goes to Los Alamos, in New Mexico,
then to Albuquerque, and to Roswell,
and to Area 51, in Nevada.
All of these military bases are essentially connected
by a secret underground subway system.
The folks who are looking at Area 51,
they're not looking at Dulce.
Dulce, New Mexico, is on Jicarilla Apache Reservation.
It's actually a separate entity.
It's part of the Apache Nation.
In other words, you can't just go there.
There is a peak just north of the town of Dulce
called Archuleta Peak.
And residents of Dulce claim to have seen UFOs
coming in and out of that mountain.
The U.S. government is saying that there's nothing there...
they have no military base there,
there's not some underground train network.
And yet, people who live there say
there is something going on here.
So, just like Area 51, where the government was saying,
hey, there's nothing going on here,
but researchers for decades knew and investigated things
that were going on there.
And so perhaps at Dulce, one day, they will admit...
yes, something was going on there.
Is there really a vast network
of top secret government laboratories,
each conducting experiments
using extraterrestrial technology?
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is a profound yes.
And they offer, as additional proof,
not one located at a facility in the American southwest
but one much farther to the east.
A military base they claim has been working directly
with extraterrestrials for decades
and operating very close to the location
where mankind made its first successful effort
to reach the sky.
We actually have an eyewitness NARRATOR: Dayton, Ohio.
Here, on the very same plains where Wilbur and Orville Wright
lifted mankind into the era of flight,
sits Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
one of the largest and highest-funded bases
in the nation's military.
It is up there as one of the single most important
military, technology, back-engineering study
in biological entities of any place we have.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
Wright-Patterson... or Wright-Patt,
as it is more commonly called...
has been a hub of extraterrestrial investigation
and experimentation for decades.
Some even consider it of greater strategic importance
than Area 51.
So, the rumors and stories
of aliens at Wright-Patt
have been very widespread for a very long period of time.
And there have also been claims that unknown aerial vehicles
or UFOs are being stored deep underground.
On June 14, 1947,
an unidentified object reportedly crashed on a farm
outside the town of Roswell, New Mexico.
According to eyewitnesses,
the object resembled some sort of flying disc,
and the bodies recovered from the wreckage
looked like nothing from this planet.
Within days, the so-called Roswell incident
captured the imaginations
of millions of people around the world.
But just as the event
jump-started America's interest in UFOs,
it also ushered in the era of the government cover-up.
The Roswell Base issued a press release,
and then several hours later, it's all denied.
"Sorry, people, just a weather balloon.
"Our top intelligence officers
didn't know what they were looking at."
And we actually have evidence
of an FBI memo that made such a statement,
that what was recovered
was being brought to Wright Field for analysis.
Well, you're not going to bring balloon parts
to Wright Field for analysis. That's not going to happen.
You've got to remember that in 1947
when the Roswell crash happened,
there was no Area 51 in Nevada.
And in fact, the important Air Force headquarters
to study these crashed artifacts and possibly alien bodies
was Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Now, the reason that this wreckage
would have been sent to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
is because at that time,
it was the center of the Air Force's
Foreign Technology Division, meaning the division
that actually studied foreign aircraft,
foreign technologies of all kinds,
and certainly alien tech,
wrecked alien spacecrafts
and report of alien spacecraft sightings
would be sent there to be studied
by the Foreign Technology Division.
Is it possible
that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
is still housing the remains of the object
recovered from the New Mexico desert more than 70 years ago?
And if so, could there be evidence
that their efforts to recreate the so-called flying disc
have been successful?
Even now, in the last few years,
there have been important UFO sightings around Dayton.
And witnesses in that area
are looking out over Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
and, even in broad daylight,
seeing unusual craft hovering over the base.
This is a very distinct possibility
that's supported by the fact
that no jets are released when these UFOs appear.
It's almost as if they know what they are.
Maybe it's because
it's one of our own reverse engineered craft.
But even if the UFOs recently sighted in the skies
above Wright-Patterson are man-made,
couldn't that be considered proof
that the UFO that crash-landed near Roswell
was, in fact, reverse engineered?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and to support their claim,
they point to two other top secret UFO investigations
that took place at Wright-Patterson:
Project Sign and Project Blue Book.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was the center,
the hub, for Project Sign and Project Blue Book.
Now, both of these projects were involved
with one essential task,
which was the study and categorization of reports
of unidentified flying objects.
Project Sign was set up
after the flying saucer wave of sightings
across the United States in 1947,
and shortly after the Roswell crash.
Sign researched and investigated the phenomenon,
taking reports, not just from the public,
but from the military, from pilots who were seeing things,
from radar operators who were tracking these objects.
This was the U.S. government's formal UFO program.
The Air Force had 22 years of UFO investigation
that was housed in the Foreign Technology Division,
and Blue Book is the most famous and ran
for the longest period of time.
They go out and they look for foreign technology,
including crashed wreckage.
And then, they have access
to all of the technical expertise on the base.
In 1969, after compiling and studying
more than 12,000 UFO sightings,
Project Blue Book was terminated.
Most of the sightings were categorized
as high-altitude spy planes or natural aerial phenomena,
although approximately 700 unidentified cases still remain.
But while the U.S. Air Force insists to this day
that credible evidence of extraterrestrial visitation
never existed,
many former employees of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
such as Ray Szymanski,
have come forward with a very different story.
I started working at Wright- Patterson in January of 1973,
and I had 38 years and nine months of service
when I retired.
I spent nearly my entire career at Air Force Research Labs,
and I did advanced research and development.
On the first day of working there, I had a mentor.
His name was Corvette Al.
He was the equivalent of a flag officer,
a general or an admiral,
and he said, "Let's go through the hangar,"
and as we stepped into that hangar,
he turned to me and said,
"Have you heard about our aliens?"
I said, "What?"
He said, "Yeah, we have aliens here on the base."
I said, "Really?"
And then, he said, "Well, yeah, there was a crash out west",
and they brought the aliens and their machine."
He used the word "machine."
Brought here to Wright-Patterson for evaluation
and possible exploitation.
Hangar 18 was this mysterious hangar at Wright Field where
we actually have an eyewitness who was taken to Hangar 18,
Lieutenant Colonel Marion Magruder.
He was a fighter pilot in the United States Marine Corps
who saw the alien technology,
but worse, he saw the live alien.
It looked human,
its head was larger than humans',
its arms were much longer,
and it moved like this in a wavy motion.
The humanoid communicated with Magruder telepathically,
and the Army and the Air Force,
as well as the higher branches of the Pentagon,
were absolutely fascinated by the fact that here
were creatures who could communicate without using words.
Thus began a series of experiments into psychokinesis,
psychic projection, thought projection.
If the Magruder account is true,
and the U.S. military
was once using live aliens for scientific study,
where did those experiments take place?
Was it at Wright-Patterson?
Area 51?
Or were they conducted at yet another facility?
And, if so, where?
And are they still taking place today?
Here, at the eastern tip of the island,
is all that remains of the Montauk Air Force Station.
Originally established as a naval base in 1917
due to its strategic defensive location,
the Montauk installation protected the East Coast
from submarines and bombers
for several decades, before it was decommissioned in 1981.
But according to statements from multiple whistle-blowers,
a secret laboratory hidden deep beneath the base
may still be operating.
I think it's the perfect cover.
You have kind of a lax topside operation,
an Air Force Station that really nothing is going on at,
but underneath the ground, you have this extremely elaborate
experiment going on, many levels of an underground base.
Each of these men that told the tale,
they don't say they entered the base through,
you know, a topside location.
They would all enter Brookhaven National Laboratories
and travel on a train underneath the ground to Montauk.
So people that are working above ground don't even know
what's going on underneath the ground.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
Montauk, like Area 51 and Wright-Patterson,
remains notorious as one of the places
the U.S. military would carry out numerous experiments,
often with the aid of otherworldly technology.
There are some who believe
these experiments
even involved human subjects
as part of a highly controversial research program
known as the Montauk Project.
Some of the stories about what was going on
in the Montauk Project actually tie in with something
that we absolutely know to be real,
because we have declassified documents on it,
and that's MKUltra.
Now, MKUltra was a program run by the CIA and the U.S. Army,
and it literally tried to harness
the technique of mind control.
But there are rumors that there were other,
more exotic techniques that people were using at Montauk:
remote influencing, for example, which is the idea
that you can effectively use the power of your mind
to influence somebody else's behavior.
Clearly, there would be huge military value
in such techniques, and that, of course,
is exactly why they were doing them.
This was stuff that was so beyond
the normal thought processes of the military mind.
It wasn't making better guns, better ammo,
more efficient airplanes.
This was way beyond that.
This was a program that used all sorts of different techniques
to try to control human thought.
Mind control?
Remote thought manipulation?
If the U.S. military really did believe
that such incredible power was achievable,
did it get the idea from extraterrestrials?
Perhaps even from the technology reportedly recovered
after the crash at Roswell?
The big question about Montauk
has always been, were they operating with the technologies
that they had because they were given to our government
by non-humans, legitimately, as some kind of collaboration
or trade, for us to experiment with?
One thing that's at Montauk
is the so-called Montauk Chair.
It had some kind of wires, or there's some kind of
extraterrestrial technology associated with this chair
and that, combined with the individual's
innate psychic capabilities,
would allow you to engage in transforming reality
in one way or another.
The subject would sit in the chair,
and this chair was meant to manifest thought
into physical reality.
And included in that are telekinesis, remote viewing.
One of the experiments that they used at first was to manifest,
let's say, a glass or a ball,
something simple, an inanimate object.
Whatever the subject was thinking
would manifest into physical reality.
Eventually, this evolved into heightened psychic abilities.
They claimed they could teleport from one place to another.
According to many researchers
and ancient astronaut theorists,
accounts of the so-called "Montauk Chair"
and its connection to mind control
are strangely similar to accounts of a chair
that dates back to the days of the pharaohs:
the throne of Ptah.
Ptah was one of the most intriguing gods
of Ancient Egypt.
He was the god before all the other gods.
He created Earth.
He created humanity.
Unlike the other gods,
Ptah would create the world with his thought.
He would think it, feel it and hence, it was created.
Ptah is portrayed sitting on a throne.
And this throne is thought to be the center point from which
his thought is able to manifest creation.
What's fascinating about these scenes
is that this throne is feathered.
It's feathered because it flies.
It's known as his ascension throne.
When we compare the descriptions of the Montauk Chair
with the ascension throne of Ptah,
Was the U.S. military involved
in reverse engineering an extraterrestrial technology
that was used thousands of years ago in Ancient Egypt?
Could the legends
about an Egyptian god and his flying throne
and the report of a thought-control chair
at the Montauk military base really be connected?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest
that not only has the U.S. government been working
to acquire and perfect alien technology for decades,
but that the operations at Montauk are still going on.
Several people have claimed
that they were part of these Montauk experiments.
They do recall sitting in a special chair.
And people say that today
there is still activity in the underground sections
of the Montauk base.
Is the seemingly abandoned military base
on Eastern Long Island still, secretly, in operation?
And if so, is Montauk part of a vast network
of government laboratories and factories
where extraterrestrial technology is being harvested?
Ancient astronaut theorists insist
such an incredible notion is true,
and they point to yet another highly guarded installation
as proof that alien technology is not only being tested,
but that it's already being used.
Washington, D.C.
December 16, 2017.
After a decade of speculation within the UFO community,
officials at the Pentagon confirm the existence
of a highly secretive UFO research project
known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,
or AATIP.
The project was funded by Congress in 2007
with the help of Senator Harry Reid of Nevada.
What's different about the AATIP program is the fact
that it involved a private company, Bigelow Aerospace.
This has never been done before.
The government previously has always kept
all of its UFO extraterrestrial information,
all of its reports, completely separately.
So that makes it very, very unique and very different
from Projects Sign and Blue Book.
The Pentagon ran this program officially
from 2007 to 2012,
although there's a lot of reason to believe that the program
not only has continued,
but that multiple programs of this sort have continued.
But why would the U.S. government
allow such sensitive research to take place
outside of its secure military facilities?
According to ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is all too obvious.
Over the years,
the government realized,
if you can take projects that were developing
and move them from inside the Pentagon itself,
and move them into industry, guess what you get to avoid?
Freedom of information.
Inside the government,
the military, Department of Defense,
the scientists and engineers there
are possibly susceptible to the Freedom of Information Act.
People can fill out a Freedom of Information Act form
and request information on any government program.
Well, private companies are not susceptible.
They don't have to adhere to the Freedom of Information Act.
So the big aerospace defense companies, for example,
can do their own research in their own private facilities,
and they never have to tell you anything about that
if they don't want to.
And when you look at the exemptions
to the Freedom of Information Act,
exemption number four covers trade secrets,
information which belongs to the private sector.
So when the government put out some of their UFO programs
to Bigelow Aerospace, what they were doing, cleverly,
was making scrutiny much more difficult.
And we know from Luis Elizondo,
the program manager of the AATIP program,
that they received a number
of shocking UFO cases
that came their way
in connection with the U.S. military.
The word he used was "beyond next generation technology."
According to sources within the AATIP program,
the government secretly collects materials...
often referred to as "metamaterials"...
from extraterrestrial crash sites
and then turns them over
to be reverse engineered by approved contractors,
like those at Bigelow Aerospace.
Metamaterials are
materials that have been combined in such a way
that the isotopic ratios of the materials
are not found on Planet Earth.
I worked with, uh, some of these artifacts.
I put them through various tests.
There was nothing unusual about the materials
they were made of, but they were layered in such a way
that it took some doing
to make them in their configuration.
And also, the interesting piece of it was when you put them
under extremely high electric fields,
they tend to show properties of propulsion,
meaning they would move in directions,
sometimes toward the field, sometimes away from the field,
that wasn't typical of standard electrostatic things
that I had seen before.
What metamaterials will do is they will alter
electromagnetic frequencies,
or the visual spectrum.
They can bend light if they're engineered in such a way.
They can change acoustic properties.
And the imagination is the limit.
So they can really do almost anything.
Is the government's increasing use
of outside agencies and contractors
designed to throw UFO investigators
and ancient astronaut theorists off?
And if so, does that mean that infamous top secret sites,
like Area 51 and its alleged underground network
of covert laboratories and military installations,
will soon be obsolete?
Ancient astronaut theorists say no,
and they insist that, if anything,
there are now more government sites
engaged in extraterrestrial research than ever,
and that this research is no longer being confined
to areas within the United States,
or even on Planet Earth.
The U.S. Air Force announces that SpaceX,
an aerospace company run by billionaire CEO Elon Musk,
is now eligible to participate
in the launch of military satellites.
The announcement leads many to speculate
whether SpaceX may be contracted in the future for additional,
and perhaps even more covert,
military space projects.
In 2015, SpaceX...
which is a private corporation, of course...
Was actually certified by the U.S. government
for national security launches into space.
And what that means is, you've now got
another private corporation which is authorized
to actually put secret payloads into orbit.
What that means is that their entire operation
now kind of flows under the dark umbrella of national security.
It's possible that the private ventures,
like SpaceX, like Bigelow Aerospace
and the various others, will come up with a way
to make it economically viable
to colonize Mars.
For decades...
ever since the first Earth satellites
and rovers began sending back data
about the so-called "Red Planet"...
Mars has been the focus of intense scrutiny
by ancient astronaut theorists.
They cite images of structures...
carvings and other strange anomalies
as evidence that Mars was... and might still be...
a hub of extraterrestrial activity.
Is it possible that the U.S. government,
along with other nations,
has proof that such an audacious notion is true?
And could this be the reason
why the human-based Mars missions are being conducted
not by publicly funded governments,
but by a number of privately funded corporations
with their own seemingly disparate agendas?
I am extremely familiar with this technique,
and it's one of the ways that you protect
classified information and big secrets.
You can have a highly classified project,
but effectively, it's broken into small parts.
Everyone's working on a piece of it.
No one necessarily knows what the person next door to them
is doing, and very few people have the big picture.
It's a world that I've operated in myself
in my 21 years at the Ministry of Defense.
It's even possible that somebody could be working
on extraterrestrial technology and not know it.
We are on the cusp of a brand-new reality
of super-advanced technology, that will see us colonizing
the Moon, Mars, traveling into deep space.
This is a chapter that's opening in human affairs
that began as long ago as 1947 with the Roswell crash,
after which the U.S. military began preparing us
for a life in which we will be living with extraterrestrials,
both on Earth and in space.
Are the U.S. government's efforts to examine
and utilize extraterrestrials and their technology
really on the threshold of a bold new era?
One where places like Area 51,
Wright-Patterson, Montauk,
and even Mars will all become part
of a larger and more powerful network?
One that will facilitate
mankind's anticipated journey to the stars?
Ancient astronaut theorists believe
there are forces in the government
that insist we are not yet ready to have the answers,
and that the truth must remain hidden away,
behind electric fences and security cameras,
at places both known and unknown,
and equally protected by the notion
that what we can see with our own eyes
could not possibly be true.