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aerial maneuvers
that defy understanding
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and top secret government
installations
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forbidden to the public.
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What exactly are
unidentified flying objects?
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Are they simply aircraft
that haven't been accounted for?
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Examples of advanced
military technology?
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Weather phenomena?
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Or could they be exactly what
many people believe they are:
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alien spacecrafts?
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Well, that is what
we'll try and find out.
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An opinion poll conducted
by the Gallup Organization
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reveals two astonishing facts:
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one‐third of all Americans
have not only seen a UFO,
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they believe alien spaceships
have visited the Earth.
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In the last few years, there's
been a historic, dramatic shift
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in the entire debate over UFOs.
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It used to be that the burden of
proof was on the true believers.
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They had to prove that
they were from another planet.
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Now the burden has shifted.
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Before, it was hearsay.
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Now we have the videotapes.
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And the fact
that everyone has cell phones
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has vastly increased
the number of encounters.
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And so now we're
running out of excuses.
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We're running
out of natural phenomena
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that can explain
these UFO sightings.
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PAUL HYNEK:
MUFON is the Mutual UFO Network
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and the largest UFO
research group in the world.
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There were 5,000 reported cases
to MUFON last year alone.
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So, what that shows
is that the UFO phenomenon
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is not slowing down at all.
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This is a real pointer
that this subject
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is now absolutely mainstream.
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This is no longer a subject
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of fringe belief
and conspiracy blogs.
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This is absolutely
down the middle,
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on your TV screens
every evening.
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This is real.
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SHATNER: If the number of recent
sightings is any indication,
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then by all means, the UFO
phenomenon is quite real.
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But despite
the compelling evidence
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presented by true believers,
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skeptics are still waiting
for a smoking gun.
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There are several issues
that are at work
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in this whole topic of UFOs,
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and number one,
you think you've got
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a really good scientific
experiment about
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things from another planet
being here on Earth?
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Go write that scientific paper
and try to get it published.
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It's most likely
not going to get published
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because, for whatever reason,
we call that "fringe science."
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POPE:
Intellectually, from history,
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we know the sorts of things
that people misidentify as UFOs.
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Military aircraft activity, of
course, and commercial airlines.
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We know that certain
meteorological phenomena
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can give rise to UFO reports.
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We liaise with astronomers
and we find out
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whether there were
any meteor showers,
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or debris from a rocket launch.
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All of these things we check
and we essentially try to see
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if the UFO has
a conventional explanation.
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BILL BIRNES: When the stealth
fighter was being tested,
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one of the things
the Air Force would do
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is have its pilots fly the
stealth fighter under the wing
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of commercial flights
from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.
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And the pilots would see
this triangular craft,
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and they would say,
"What is this thing?
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"Is it a flying saucer
or is it a UFO?
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We don't know."
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It was actually
the stealth fighter.
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SHATNER:
While some may be quick to say
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that alien UFOs are figments
of the imagination,
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the truth is, sightings
of strange things in the sky
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are not a recent phenomenon.
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According to both ufologists
and ancient astronaut theorists,
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they have been documented
for thousands of years.
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The idea of celestial visitors
goes way back.
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This is not just
a modern phenomenon.
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And it's not just things
that seem like spaceships.
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There are celestial visitors
in the form of angels
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and random characters
that show up in mysterious ways.
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The idea that we would have
some kind of contact
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with beings beyond ourselves
is part of ancient cultures.
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It varies
from culture to culture,
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but there is something universal
about this,
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something that seems persistent.
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ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
One of the most profound
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close encounters in the Bible
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is recorded
in the Book of Ezekiel.
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The episode begins
by saying that Ezekiel
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had the hand of God upon him,
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and that he witnessed
this experience
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of this profound apparatus
which he tries to describe,
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but yet is described
in the most bizarre ways,
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talking about types of angels
called wheels, Ophanim,
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and they have multiple faces
and the like.
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Many want to understand
Ezekiel's vision as either being
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some psychological
dreamlike experience.
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Others want to interpret it
as being a spaceship.
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But the reality is,
it was both and more.
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SHATNER:
Strange objects raining fire
from the heavens,
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celestial bodies streaking
across the night skies
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and floating balls
of mesmerizing light.
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But believe it or not,
until the mid‐19th century,
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UFOs like these were often
dismissed as little more
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than delusional daydreams
or hoaxes.
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So, what changed?
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A little invention
called photography.
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RICHARD DOLAN:
The first known UFO photograph
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is from a place called
Mount Washington
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in New Hampshire, from 1870.
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And what you see is,
in the clouds,
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is this horizontal
cigar‐shaped object.
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Which is odd
because airship technology
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really didn't take off
until the early 1900s.
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There were attempts even then to
create photographic illusions,
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but this is clearly not that.
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We don't really have an
explanation for it to this day.
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SHATNER:
Despite photographic evidence
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and thousands of credible
eyewitness accounts,
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there are many who still refuse
to believe that UFOs are real.
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However, there is one incident
that continues to cast doubt
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in the minds of even
the most hardened UFO skeptics,
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an incident so infamous
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that many researchers
believe it was a tipping point,
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when UFOs went from being
science fiction to science fact.
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A radar operator with
the 509th Operations Group
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detects an unidentified craft
approaching the base.
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Moments later,
the object drops from the sky
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and crashes into the desert
outside a nearby cattle ranch.
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A local rancher found debris,
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contacted the local sheriff,
who then contacted the air base.
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You have a couple of days pass
before the 509th Bomb Group
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was able to get up to the site.
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So, it absolutely is clear
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that the United States military
was not immediately
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on top of acquiring whatever
it was that came down there.
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BIRNES:
People in the city of Roswell
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thought it was an airline crash.
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They saw a kind of
a delta‐shaped object embedded
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into the arroyo
that was split open.
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DOLAN:
The Roswell Daily Record
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had the most famous headline,
uh, you know,
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probably of the year, which was
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"the Army's recovered
one of these flying discs."
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That made national,
international news.
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BIRNES:
After the crash,
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Roger Ramey, who was general
of the Eighth Air Force,
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flew to Roswell.
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And Jesse Marcel, who was
the base intelligence officer,
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brought all of the Army
truck drivers out,
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gave them gunnysacks,
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and they said,
"Look, just collect this stuff."
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Meanwhile, Ramey says to Marcel,
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I want you to pose in front
of this weather balloon.
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Marcel is, like, in shock, but
he poses with it with a smile,
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and he becomes the poster boy
for the cover‐up.
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PAUL HELLYER:
The first press release
was the truth
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and the second one was a lie.
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And that is an indication
of the depth
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of the withholding
of information
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and the, uh, truth embargo,
as it has been called.
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SHATNER:
A truth embargo?
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Is it possible that the rumors
about Roswell are true,
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and the United States military
was concealing physical evidence
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that UFOs exist?
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Despite the government's
insistence to the contrary,
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almost 75 years later,
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UFO researchers are still
searching for answers.
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Because according
to many firsthand accounts,
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Roswell may have been the
government's first UFO cover‐up,
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but it wouldn't be the last.
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SHATNER: An unidentified object
slams into a hill
DOLAN:
They went out there
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eight miles northeast
of the Kingman Airport.
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Within moments,
the United States military
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springs into action.
This time,
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they won't repeat the mistake
they made at Roswell
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of letting the public
find out about it.
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BIRNES:
The Army descends on that hill,
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locks it down.
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Onlookers are trying
to climb the hill to see it.
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Nope, can't see it.
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The Army puts up a tent,
but it invites
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different scientists
to come out
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and kind of examine it.
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It was estimated to be
about 14 feet high,
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classic flying saucer shape.
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It had, like, rows of lights
along the perimeter.
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And they were all told
to examine this site
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and provide their assessment.
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And then they were told, like,
"You are to take an oath,
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and you are never
to talk about this again."
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The Kingman crash was really
not even discussed
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until the 1970s,
when one researcher
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was able to interview
a primary witness of it:
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an atomic scientist who gave
a very detailed description
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about the Kingman event.
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SHATNER:
Unlike the crash at Roswell
six years earlier,
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the U. S. military's response
to the Kingman incident
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was so swift that
it wasn't until years later
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that the world knew
anything had occurred there.
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But how was an event
of this apparent magnitude
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kept secret for so long?
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In my experience of government,
there would need to be
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what we would call
a standard operating procedure.
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And it's claimed that
one was drawn up
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for UFO crashes after Roswell.
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And it seems that this
was used in 1953
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in relation to
the Kingman UFO crash.
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SHATNER:
An operations manual
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on how to deal with
UFO crashes?
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As far‐fetched as it sounds,
UFO researchers believe
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that such a handbook
not only exists,
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but was put in place
to avoid the mistakes
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the U. S. military made
trying to contain
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the earlier crash at Roswell
in 1947.
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And they claim that
the authors of this handbook
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were members of
a shadowy organization
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known as the Majestic 12.
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DOLON:
Majestic 12, or MJ‐12,
is believed by many researchers
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to be a group of individuals
who essentially are
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controlling the UFO cover‐up.
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MIKE BARA:
There are many, many documents
that exist that say that
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MJ‐12 actually was a real
government organization.
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Majestic 12 was signed
into existence
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by President Harry Truman
in September of 1947,
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shortly after
the Roswell incident,
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when the U. S. government decided
it needed to have
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a main central oversight
committee that would handle
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the so‐called alien problem.
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And it contained many,
many prominent members,
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including the head of the CIA
at the time,
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or what became the CIA.
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Of all of the documents
that I have ever received,
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most important to me is
the Majestic 12:
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Extraterrestrial Entities
and Technology,
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Recovery and Disposal.
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The document is about how
you would take military units
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out into a field,
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gather extraterrestrial
biological entities,
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alive or dead.
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How you would get the craft.
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And it has top secret
classification throughout.
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SHATNER:
Are we really to believe
a secret government agency
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was established in order to
cover up evidence of UFOs?
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According to many experts,
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even if that organization
did exist,
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it would be nearly
impossible to keep
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such information
under wraps for long.
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They argue that it's much easier
to convince eyewitnesses
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that what they saw wasn't really
there in the first place.
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High school basketball coach
Reggie Bone and his players
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are driving through
the Ozark woods
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on their way home from a game
when they spot
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a bright shaft of light
coming from the sky.
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In 1973, I was general manager
of KPWB radio station
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in Piedmont, Missouri.
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And I did the news
for the station.
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I interviewed Reggie and five
of his basketball players.
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After the team had seen a light
flashing in the sky,
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several miles later,
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one of the boys exclaims, said,
"Hey, there's that light again."
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The coach and the ballplayers
got out, and they saw
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these lights, circular,
in red, amber, green and white.
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And then it started raising up,
and... no sound.
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And went over a hill,
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and that's the last
they saw of it.
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SHATNER:
At first, Reggie and his team
thought what they had seen
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wasn't actually a UFO,
but merely a trick of light
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fooling their tired eyes.
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But, as it turns out...
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they weren't the only ones
who saw it.
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HOVIS:
Pretty soon, the local
police department had received
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500‐plus phone calls
from people saying,
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"Hey, we're looking at this,
we're seeing this."
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As a reporter,
I felt like I needed to
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do some more investigating
besides just the local people
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explaining to me
what they were seeing.
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So I contacted personnel
at Scott Air Force Base
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to find out if they had any
lights in the area.
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And the gentleman at the time
explained to me that they‐‐
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nothing like that was
going on.
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SHATNER:
According to one theory,
the reason why
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the Air Force was so unhelpful
was due to yet another
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government program created
to cover up UFOs.
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One that wasn't designed
to conceal UFO wreckage,
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but to explain it away.
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DOLON:
Project Blue Book was
the official
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UFO investigative body
of the United States Air Force,
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from the 1950s
through the end of the '60s.
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And one of the tricks
that they used was
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they eliminated the category
of "possible."
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And so, if something was
a possible balloon,
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even if it was
the most remote possibility,
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then it became balloon,
and that was the explanation.
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All they wanted to do was
just get these reports
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into the "identified" category
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so that the public didn't get
worked up over them.
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HELLYER:
One of the ways to combat
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public understanding of UFOs
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was ridicule.
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First denial, then ridicule.
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And then, if that didn't work,
to call it Venus or swamp gas.
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One day, a couple
of gentlemen came in
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and started questioning me about
what the people were seeing,
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what was in the air, did it
leave any kind of traces?
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I suspected then that they were
part of the military.
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Part of the Air Force.
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SHATNER:
Although Project Blue Book
was officially ended in 1970,
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three years before
the Piedmont sightings,
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its methods of disinformation
still seemed to be in place.
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Because one of the mysterious
men in black
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who visited Piedmont
after the UFO sightings
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was none other than
J. Allen Hynek,
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the scientist who had been
in charge of Project Blue Book.
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My father was in a very
awkward position at times,
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being a scientist who wanted
to discover the truth,
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but knowing that Project
Blue Book was not chartered
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to go out and find the truth
to the UFO phenomenon,
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but rather to be a public
relations answer factory
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for the Air Force so that they
could trot out an astronomer
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and say, "Oh, we've discovered
that this is a sighting
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of Venus, or it's a weather
balloon or a hoax."
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And so my father's on record
as saying that
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the 1973 sightings in Piedmont,
Missouri were mass hysteria.
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HOVIS:
I disagree with that.
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I didn't see anybody
going crazy,
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running up and down the streets
of Piedmont, in a rural area.
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There was no mass hysteria
in Piedmont at that time.
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Could the hundreds of UFO
sightings in Piedmont, Missouri
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really have been a simple case
of mass hysteria?
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Or did those witnesses see
something that
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traveled to Earth from somewhere
across the galaxy?
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To find out,
perhaps we should
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ask for scientists who are
searching for signs
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of advanced technology
in a place...
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where no one has gone before.
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KAKU:
EvenAstronomer Seth Shostak
is at home,
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getting ready to have dinner,
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‐when he receives
an urgent phone call.
‐(phone ringing)
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SETH SHOSTAK:
The phone rings, and it's my
boss at the SETI Institute.
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And he says, "Seth,
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I think you ought to
get down to the office."
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Now, he never calls me at home,
and certainly not at dinnertime.
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And he never, never ever says,
"Get down to the office."
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So I didn't know what
was going on.
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SHATNER:
Moments later, Seth arrives
at the SETI Institute,
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a nonprofit organization
tasked with the search
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for extraterrestrial
intelligence.
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I go in, and there are about
a dozen of my colleagues
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all looking at computer screens.
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There was a signal
that we had picked up...
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...and it had the
characteristics that we look for
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when we're trying to find
whether ET is on the air
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somewhere else in the galaxy.
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So this was
pretty darn exciting.
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SHATNER:
After attempting to pinpoint
the source of the signal
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for hours, Seth and his
colleagues' initial excitement
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gave way to profound
disappointment.
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As it turned out,
one of my colleagues
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had been busily looking up
the frequencies‐‐
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the telemetry frequencies‐‐
of known satellites,
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and he found a European
satellite that sent data
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back to Earth just
at the frequencies
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that we were picking up,
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and it was in the direction
we were looking, and he said,
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you know, "Everybody
can go back to bed now."
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SHATNER:
Despite the false alarm, there
are many leading scientists
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who believe that SETI's work
is a key component
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in the investigation
of the UFO phenomenon.
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Because if there are aliens
visiting Earth,
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programs like SETI may be able
to tell us where they came from.
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SHOSTAK:
The universe has been around
a long time,
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a lot longer than the Earth
and our solar system.
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There could be very advanced
societies out there,
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and maybe they've sent probes
to our solar system.
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You know, maybe they've sent
probes to lots of solar systems,
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and we just have one ourselves.
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HYNEK:
My father thought that SETI was
a tremendously important effort.
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He felt that it was incumbent
upon us as a civilization
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to reach out to try to find life
elsewhere in the universe
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as opposed to only waiting
for it to land in our laps.
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We know that there are planets
around pretty much every star.
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So now we have
to look at those planets
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and see if there are things
called technosignatures.
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These are signatures
that civilization is occurring.
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Are they creating
what we call greenhouse gases
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or outgassing materials or
properties that we could detect
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with our instruments
using normal, natural,
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astronomical technologies
that we have?
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One thing they might be
producing is light.
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Do they have cities
that make light,
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or radio waves or whatever?
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SETI has so far
turned up empty‐handed.
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For all the millions of dollars,
for all the stars
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that they've analyzed,
they have yet to pick up
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a single signal indicating
intelligence in outer space.
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But maybe we're barking
up the wrong tree.
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After all,
what do we do with SETI?
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We analyze radio
from outer space.
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00:23:05,175 --> 00:23:08,387
But the aliens out there
may laugh at us, saying, "What?
403
00:23:08,512 --> 00:23:11,891
"You're looking for
our civilization using radio?
404
00:23:12,016 --> 00:23:14,351
"That's so 20th century.
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00:23:14,435 --> 00:23:17,479
We got rid of radio
centuries ago."
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SHATNER:
Is it possible
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our current technology
is too primitive to detect
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advanced alien civilizations
throughout the galaxy?
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00:23:26,864 --> 00:23:28,949
Perhaps.
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00:23:29,033 --> 00:23:32,494
But if some UFO researchers
are to be believed,
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it hardly matters.
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Because according to them,
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astronomers already have
the evidence they need
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to confirm the existence
of alien spaceships.
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Evidence that is hiding
in plain sight.
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Scientists working at
the Panoramic Survey Telescope
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detect a mysterious,
oblong object
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that has wandered
into our solar system.
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Named 'Oumuamua,
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00:24:05,569 --> 00:24:09,156
which means "scout from
a distant place" in Hawaiian,
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it is the first
interstellar asteroid
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ever observed by astronomers.
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And many believe its journey
from across the galaxy
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to our solar system
is no accident.
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SHOSTAK:
It's just a little dot
on a photograph.
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You don't really know
what it looks like up close.
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00:24:28,175 --> 00:24:29,301
We knew
it was kind of cigar‐shaped,
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00:24:29,385 --> 00:24:30,678
and beyond that, we didn't know.
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00:24:30,761 --> 00:24:33,514
It was about the size
of a football stadium.
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Well, Avi Loeb, who is the chair
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00:24:35,891 --> 00:24:38,894
of the Harvard Astronomy
Department, suggested
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that there was a good reason
to think that maybe
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this wasn't just a rock,
that maybe it was a spacecraft,
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deliberately sent by aliens
from some other solar system.
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Astronomers were shocked to find
that it tracked backwards
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00:24:52,992 --> 00:24:57,121
into outer space
from another solar system.
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00:24:57,204 --> 00:24:58,789
Not only that,
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but the trajectory
was acting irregularly.
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00:25:01,875 --> 00:25:04,044
This sent shockwaves
through the community.
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Even reputable astronomers said,
"We cannot rule out the fact
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that this irregular trajectory
means that it's piloted."
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00:25:13,512 --> 00:25:16,098
It seems very, very unlikely
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00:25:16,181 --> 00:25:19,268
that a rock that's just randomly
thrown out by nature
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00:25:19,351 --> 00:25:23,147
would so accurately get to
the center of our solar system,
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00:25:23,188 --> 00:25:25,107
swing around the Sun and leave.
446
00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:26,734
That's pretty unlikely.
447
00:25:26,859 --> 00:25:29,987
This may be a directed rock and
maybe it's an alien spacecraft.
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00:25:31,697 --> 00:25:34,950
POPE: The fact that we're even
having this debate
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shows how much
the landscape has changed
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in the last two or three years.
451
00:25:39,955 --> 00:25:42,916
I think, previously,
this sort of theory
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00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,377
would have been just dismissed
as nonsense.
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00:25:45,461 --> 00:25:49,548
Uh, mainstream media would have
not covered the story at all,
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00:25:49,673 --> 00:25:53,135
and if they had, they would have
simply ridiculed it.
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00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:56,722
But now, stories like this
are treated very seriously,
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00:25:56,805 --> 00:26:02,311
and it's‐it's reported
in an absolute levelheaded way.
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00:26:02,352 --> 00:26:05,022
You're not shocking people
by telling them something
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00:26:05,105 --> 00:26:06,732
they already believe.
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00:26:06,815 --> 00:26:10,027
SHATNER:
Could 'Oumuamua
be an alien ship?
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00:26:10,110 --> 00:26:11,820
One that is cigar‐shaped
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00:26:11,904 --> 00:26:14,656
like the many UFOs that have
been reported in the past?
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00:26:14,740 --> 00:26:17,326
According to some astronomers,
it's a distinct possibility.
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00:26:17,451 --> 00:26:21,163
But there are those who believe
that we can find out for sure,
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00:26:21,205 --> 00:26:24,750
by determining whether it's even
possible for a spacecraft
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to travel across the galaxy
in the first place.
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00:26:36,386 --> 00:26:40,349
SHATNER:
The New York Times publishes
an article that reveals
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the existence of a top secret
military program known as AATIP,
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00:26:45,771 --> 00:26:49,983
the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program.
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00:26:50,067 --> 00:26:54,988
Its purpose: to identify
and investigate UFOs.
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00:26:55,072 --> 00:26:59,451
Congress was informed
about AATIP
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in a letter dated January 2018.
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00:27:03,330 --> 00:27:07,459
And the Defense Intelligence
Agency wrote to Congress
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and said, "The AATIP program
was designed
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00:27:10,796 --> 00:27:15,551
"to look at far‐term aviation
threats to the United States
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"out to maybe 40 years
into the future
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00:27:19,096 --> 00:27:23,308
"from Russia, China,
Iran, North Korea,
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00:27:23,433 --> 00:27:26,770
secret prototype aircraft,
missiles and drones."
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00:27:26,854 --> 00:27:31,567
But there was an attachment
to the letter, and said,
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00:27:31,692 --> 00:27:36,488
"Please find attached
a list of all the products
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produced under
the AATIP contract."
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00:27:39,867 --> 00:27:45,664
Antigravity, invisibility,
warp drive,
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wormholes, stargates.
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00:27:48,292 --> 00:27:53,380
And when I looked at this list,
it‐it was astounding.
484
00:27:53,505 --> 00:27:55,174
SHATNER:
In the weeks that follow,
485
00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:57,718
a number of previously
classified videos
486
00:27:57,843 --> 00:27:59,386
are leaked to the public.
487
00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:02,556
Among them is footage
of an encounter
488
00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:05,517
that took place in 2004,
489
00:28:05,601 --> 00:28:07,394
between a squadron
of fighter jets
490
00:28:07,477 --> 00:28:10,564
and an unidentified flying craft
491
00:28:10,647 --> 00:28:14,526
that appears to be
not of this world.
492
00:28:14,651 --> 00:28:17,529
TAYLOR: Whatever this thing is
in this video,
493
00:28:17,654 --> 00:28:20,032
it goes from a couple hundred
miles per hour
494
00:28:20,157 --> 00:28:23,660
to thousands of miles per hour
like that.
495
00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:28,165
That's the equivalent of going
many hundreds of miles per hour
496
00:28:28,248 --> 00:28:29,708
and hitting a brick wall.
497
00:28:29,833 --> 00:28:31,460
So, what would that do?
498
00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:33,462
It would turn
your brain to mush.
499
00:28:33,545 --> 00:28:35,631
It would turn your body
to Jell‐O.
500
00:28:35,714 --> 00:28:37,758
I mean, you‐‐
it would kill you instantly.
501
00:28:37,841 --> 00:28:41,470
So, there's a technology
in there that would protect
502
00:28:41,595 --> 00:28:44,932
a biological thing if it's
a biological thing in there.
503
00:28:45,015 --> 00:28:47,851
We don't have that type
of technology yet.
504
00:28:47,935 --> 00:28:51,271
We now know much more
about the AATIP program
505
00:28:51,355 --> 00:28:55,484
and indeed government UFO
investigations more generally
506
00:28:55,567 --> 00:28:57,486
than we knew
a couple of years ago.
507
00:28:57,611 --> 00:29:00,489
So, we have pilots who are
involved in these incidents.
508
00:29:00,614 --> 00:29:04,993
We have radar operators, we have
former intelligence officers
509
00:29:05,118 --> 00:29:08,247
who handled this,
all going public,
510
00:29:08,372 --> 00:29:11,500
going on the record
and saying this is real.
511
00:29:11,625 --> 00:29:15,837
SHATNER:
Is the footage proof
that UFOs not only exist,
512
00:29:15,963 --> 00:29:20,050
but that they employ technology
that far surpasses our own?
513
00:29:20,175 --> 00:29:23,136
It's certainly
a far‐fetched notion,
514
00:29:23,220 --> 00:29:26,265
but according to one man
who was there, the answer's yes.
515
00:29:26,348 --> 00:29:30,727
On the day of the incident,
Petty Officer P. J. Hughes
516
00:29:30,852 --> 00:29:32,604
was stationed
on the nearby USS Nimitz,
517
00:29:32,688 --> 00:29:37,359
the aircraft carrier from which
the fighters were launched.
518
00:29:37,484 --> 00:29:41,154
His job was to facilitate
the storage of radar data
519
00:29:41,238 --> 00:29:45,826
by an E‐2C Hawkeye aircraft that
was in the air at the same time
520
00:29:45,951 --> 00:29:48,996
that the fighter jets
encountered the UFO.
521
00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:52,332
The easiest way to explain
what an E‐2C Hawkeye is
522
00:29:52,374 --> 00:29:55,335
is by saying it's the
quarterback of the air wing.
523
00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:56,795
It's got a bunch of sensors,
524
00:29:56,878 --> 00:29:58,839
it's got a bunch
of communications equipment.
525
00:29:58,964 --> 00:30:02,050
We were doing some testing,
and before that exercise
526
00:30:02,134 --> 00:30:05,971
was actually able to start,
the object actually came up,
527
00:30:06,096 --> 00:30:10,559
so everybody got a good look
at it and then it just took off.
528
00:30:10,684 --> 00:30:13,937
I wasn't in the plane,
so the information I'm getting
529
00:30:14,021 --> 00:30:17,441
is secondhand from the multitude
of sources who've seen it.
530
00:30:23,447 --> 00:30:26,325
HUGHES:
It's a giant white
cylindrical object,
531
00:30:26,450 --> 00:30:29,453
roughly 48 feet,
49 feet, somewhere in there.
532
00:30:29,536 --> 00:30:32,664
No windows, no engines,
no flight control surfaces,
533
00:30:32,789 --> 00:30:34,166
a smooth object, basically.
534
00:30:34,291 --> 00:30:35,959
It looked like
a white Tic Tac.
535
00:30:36,001 --> 00:30:39,129
No visible means of propulsion,
but be able to go
536
00:30:39,254 --> 00:30:43,175
from full blast to zero
in time we can't measure.
537
00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:45,802
When the Hawkeye left,
it was recording.
538
00:30:45,886 --> 00:30:47,971
When it came back,
the recording was stopped.
539
00:30:48,055 --> 00:30:49,806
I took the bricks.
540
00:30:49,890 --> 00:30:51,141
They're classified hard drives
541
00:30:51,224 --> 00:30:54,061
that basically record
everything it saw.
542
00:30:54,144 --> 00:30:56,188
Went down, put them in our safe.
543
00:30:57,898 --> 00:31:00,233
20 minutes after I locked them
in that safe,
544
00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:03,695
my executive officer
shows up at my door
545
00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:06,198
with two uniformed
Air Force officers,
546
00:31:06,323 --> 00:31:07,908
and he asked me
for all the hard drives
547
00:31:08,033 --> 00:31:09,659
that were in that Hawkeye
that went flying.
548
00:31:09,743 --> 00:31:12,329
'Cause normally we'd sign
them out in a logbook saying,
549
00:31:12,412 --> 00:31:16,458
you know, "XO took
these‐these serial numbers,"
550
00:31:16,541 --> 00:31:19,127
and as I started to write,
he's like, "Don't do it."
551
00:31:19,169 --> 00:31:21,880
So, I hand them over
and away they went,
552
00:31:21,963 --> 00:31:24,341
and I never knew
what happened to them.
553
00:31:24,466 --> 00:31:29,513
SHATNER:
On April 27, 2020,
the Pentagon officially released
554
00:31:29,638 --> 00:31:32,474
the three now‐famous
AATIP videos.
555
00:31:32,599 --> 00:31:35,727
By doing so, they acknowledged
that the UFOs depicted
556
00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:39,356
were genuinely
of unknown origin,
557
00:31:39,481 --> 00:31:41,775
although they stopped short
of admitting
558
00:31:41,858 --> 00:31:43,985
they might also
be extraterrestrial.
559
00:31:44,069 --> 00:31:49,241
HUGHES:
The fact that the government
wants to know more about things
560
00:31:49,366 --> 00:31:52,035
that we encounter in the sky
and that the pilots see,
561
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,537
there's something to it.
562
00:31:53,662 --> 00:31:56,081
The universe is way too big
for us to be alone.
563
00:31:56,206 --> 00:31:58,583
There's something else
out there.
564
00:31:58,708 --> 00:32:03,213
If extraterrestrials really do
possess advanced technologies
565
00:32:03,338 --> 00:32:06,466
thousands of years
ahead of ours,
566
00:32:06,591 --> 00:32:08,135
wouldn't we seem
as insignificant
567
00:32:08,218 --> 00:32:13,473
and primitive to them
as bugs are to us?
568
00:32:13,557 --> 00:32:15,183
Perhaps.
569
00:32:15,308 --> 00:32:18,854
But there are many who believe
that aliens might be coming here
570
00:32:18,979 --> 00:32:21,064
not to invade us
571
00:32:21,148 --> 00:32:25,152
but to guide us
to a future more incredible
572
00:32:25,235 --> 00:32:29,448
than anything
we could otherwise imagine.
573
00:32:37,372 --> 00:32:40,333
‐of weather phenomenon...
‐MAN: Oh, my God.
574
00:32:40,417 --> 00:32:45,005
...or Earth technology,
is it possible
575
00:32:45,088 --> 00:32:48,049
that they are really
extraterrestrial spacecrafts?
576
00:32:48,133 --> 00:32:49,551
(people exclaiming)
577
00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:53,180
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
578
00:32:53,263 --> 00:32:56,475
alien visitors have been coming
to Earth for thousands of years.
579
00:32:56,516 --> 00:32:58,977
And they have left behind
evidence in the form
580
00:32:59,019 --> 00:33:02,147
of everything
from magnificent architecture
581
00:33:02,230 --> 00:33:06,610
to mysterious symbols
etched into the earth.
582
00:33:09,112 --> 00:33:11,531
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
The ancient astronaut theory
583
00:33:11,615 --> 00:33:13,408
suggests that at some point,
584
00:33:13,492 --> 00:33:17,370
extraterrestrials
came to our planet and they saw
585
00:33:17,454 --> 00:33:21,750
that there was potential
for a civilization here,
586
00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:25,587
and so, they artificially
changed the genetic makeup
587
00:33:25,670 --> 00:33:27,881
of our ancestors.
588
00:33:27,964 --> 00:33:30,675
And they left behind
589
00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:33,136
these m‐massive
megalithic structures
590
00:33:33,178 --> 00:33:38,391
in ancient Egypt
and on Easter Island,
591
00:33:38,475 --> 00:33:42,646
in South America, in Greece,
all over the world.
592
00:33:42,687 --> 00:33:46,358
We have multiple written stories
and oral stories
593
00:33:46,441 --> 00:33:50,820
where we are told that these
megalithic blocks at one point
594
00:33:50,904 --> 00:33:53,406
levitated into place.
595
00:33:53,490 --> 00:33:57,160
And the mythologies only
happened because our ancestors
596
00:33:57,202 --> 00:34:00,163
thought they were visited
by divine beings,
597
00:34:00,205 --> 00:34:01,790
when in actuality,
598
00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:07,337
the only divine thing that they
had was more advanced technology
599
00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:10,590
which, to our ancestors,
looked divine.
600
00:35:01,057 --> 00:35:04,811
SHATNER: But if highly advanced
alien visitors
601
00:35:04,853 --> 00:35:07,814
are visiting Earth
from other worlds,
602
00:35:07,856 --> 00:35:09,858
shouldn't we be frightened?
603
00:35:09,941 --> 00:35:14,654
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe that, if anything,
604
00:35:14,738 --> 00:35:18,033
extraterrestrial interest
in our planet suggests
605
00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:22,454
they have a much more
benevolent agenda.
606
00:35:22,537 --> 00:35:25,415
DOLAN: I think that,
from the 20th century onward,
607
00:35:25,498 --> 00:35:28,293
there has been a qualitative
change in the UFO phenomenon,
608
00:35:28,335 --> 00:35:30,795
and I think it is our technology
that has gotten
609
00:35:30,837 --> 00:35:32,339
the interest of other beings.
610
00:35:32,422 --> 00:35:36,259
And I'm looking particularly
at nuclear technology.
611
00:35:37,594 --> 00:35:40,513
When you look at all
of the confluence of sightings
612
00:35:40,597 --> 00:35:44,100
of these unknown objects over
our nuclear technology sites,
613
00:35:44,184 --> 00:35:47,145
nuclear weapons sites,
over the many years,
614
00:35:47,187 --> 00:35:49,689
this is way beyond chance.
615
00:35:49,773 --> 00:35:51,316
So, there is a definite interest
616
00:35:51,358 --> 00:35:54,235
by these objects
in our nuclear technology.
617
00:35:55,528 --> 00:35:59,157
HELLYER: It is my belief
that, over the years,
618
00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:03,203
they have catalogued
every nuclear installation
619
00:36:03,286 --> 00:36:06,331
in the whole world,
of all nations,
620
00:36:06,373 --> 00:36:09,626
and they have gone
from one location to another
621
00:36:09,709 --> 00:36:11,961
to record what is there
622
00:36:12,045 --> 00:36:15,840
and what its capabilities are
and what they should expect.
623
00:36:15,924 --> 00:36:19,386
Perhaps to prepare themselves
better in case they ever had
624
00:36:19,469 --> 00:36:22,722
to come to our rescue and
save us from wrecking our world.
625
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,152
SHATNER:
Nick Pope, a defense analyst
for the British government,
626
00:36:36,236 --> 00:36:38,988
attends
an international symposium
627
00:36:39,030 --> 00:36:41,366
on advanced propulsion systems.
628
00:36:41,449 --> 00:36:45,537
POPE: These people came together
with different backgrounds,
629
00:36:45,620 --> 00:36:51,793
united by their common interest
in exotic propulsion systems,
630
00:36:51,835 --> 00:36:55,588
the sort of propulsion
that ultimately will take us
631
00:36:55,672 --> 00:36:56,673
to the stars.
632
00:36:56,756 --> 00:37:00,301
And if anything
in the UFO phenomenon is real,
633
00:37:00,343 --> 00:37:03,304
this is the technology
the aliens use
634
00:37:03,346 --> 00:37:05,640
because it gets
around the problem
635
00:37:05,724 --> 00:37:09,310
of, "Well, you can't
get here from there."
636
00:37:09,352 --> 00:37:11,855
The answer is, "Maybe you can."
637
00:37:11,938 --> 00:37:14,983
And what happened is these
people came together to say,
638
00:37:15,024 --> 00:37:18,027
"If it's true,
this is how they do it."
639
00:37:18,111 --> 00:37:20,989
Some people
were from government,
640
00:37:21,072 --> 00:37:22,657
some people from the military,
641
00:37:22,699 --> 00:37:25,535
some from
the intelligence community
642
00:37:25,618 --> 00:37:29,372
and some
from the big defense contractors
643
00:37:29,456 --> 00:37:33,877
and others were scientists
working in academia.
644
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:38,757
But what's really interesting
is that a number of people
645
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,968
who attended that conference,
who spoke
646
00:37:42,051 --> 00:37:43,928
and who presented papers at it,
647
00:37:44,012 --> 00:37:49,392
went on to be involved with
the Pentagon's AATIP program.
648
00:37:49,476 --> 00:37:51,227
For the longest time,
649
00:37:51,311 --> 00:37:54,397
studying UFOs was not
gonna be a career maker, right?
650
00:37:54,481 --> 00:37:56,316
It was gonna be a career killer.
651
00:37:56,357 --> 00:37:58,151
But yet, there's no question
652
00:37:58,193 --> 00:38:00,653
that a number of very brilliant,
knowledgeable,
653
00:38:00,695 --> 00:38:03,364
scientifically oriented
individuals
654
00:38:03,448 --> 00:38:05,158
have said to themselves,
655
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:06,618
"You know what,
I'm not gonna be swayed
656
00:38:06,701 --> 00:38:10,997
by the media propaganda
that this is all nonsense."
657
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,584
And they started looking into
it, and what they discovered
658
00:38:14,667 --> 00:38:16,419
is that there's something there
and they began communicating
659
00:38:16,503 --> 00:38:18,213
with each other about it.
660
00:38:18,296 --> 00:38:20,632
That's the invisible college.
661
00:38:22,175 --> 00:38:24,636
SHATNER:
UFOs, piloted
by extraterrestrials
662
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:30,266
who come to Earth not to invade
or destroy but to instruct?
663
00:38:30,350 --> 00:38:33,812
If true, it's a temptingly
reassuring notion.
664
00:38:33,895 --> 00:38:36,815
But, then, what would be
their ultimate goal?
665
00:38:36,898 --> 00:38:40,652
Perhaps the answer
can be found not here on Earth
666
00:38:40,693 --> 00:38:45,406
but on a neighboring planet
in our own solar system.
667
00:38:54,374 --> 00:38:58,086
it,
668
00:38:58,169 --> 00:39:02,715
Perseverance, which it plans
to launch later in the year.
669
00:39:02,799 --> 00:39:06,261
It will be equipped
with an experimental instrument
670
00:39:06,344 --> 00:39:08,346
designed to generate oxygen
671
00:39:08,429 --> 00:39:11,683
from the carbon dioxide‐rich
Martian atmosphere,
672
00:39:11,766 --> 00:39:14,978
paving the way
for humans to one day
673
00:39:15,019 --> 00:39:19,065
be able to breathe on Mars.
674
00:39:19,148 --> 00:39:24,153
Some people dream of the day
when we can terraform Mars.
675
00:39:24,195 --> 00:39:27,824
That is, turn Mars
into a Garden of Eden
676
00:39:27,907 --> 00:39:32,662
by changing the atmosphere,
and then water, liquid water,
677
00:39:32,745 --> 00:39:37,667
will then flow freely
in the riverbeds of Mars.
678
00:39:37,709 --> 00:39:40,378
And so, we're talking about
creating a new home for us
679
00:39:40,461 --> 00:39:41,796
in outer space.
680
00:39:41,838 --> 00:39:45,425
SHATNER:
If humankind is planning
to colonize Mars
681
00:39:45,508 --> 00:39:48,970
as a first step in expanding
its knowledge of the universe,
682
00:39:49,053 --> 00:39:54,017
is it so far‐fetched to suggest
that alien‐piloted UFOs
683
00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:58,187
may be coming to Earth
for very similar reasons?
684
00:39:58,271 --> 00:40:01,107
We got to think of why would
685
00:40:01,190 --> 00:40:03,234
UFOs come here
in the first place?
686
00:40:03,318 --> 00:40:07,071
What if you wanted
to find kindred spirits,
687
00:40:07,155 --> 00:40:09,073
you wanted to find other life?
688
00:40:09,157 --> 00:40:11,993
We send probes to the Moon
and Mars and elsewhere.
689
00:40:12,035 --> 00:40:13,786
Saturn, Jupiter, you name it.
690
00:40:13,870 --> 00:40:16,331
They're doing a search
for extraterrestrial life.
691
00:40:16,372 --> 00:40:18,499
Maybe that's what's happening.
692
00:40:18,583 --> 00:40:20,335
Somebody else is sending probes.
693
00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:24,756
DOLAN:
This is a planet
overflowing with life.
694
00:40:24,839 --> 00:40:27,842
If you know
how to manipulate DNA,
695
00:40:27,926 --> 00:40:32,096
Earth could be the ultimate,
ultimate gold mine,
696
00:40:32,180 --> 00:40:33,806
and that's got to be
an attraction.
697
00:40:33,890 --> 00:40:36,059
Do they want
to take over the world?
698
00:40:36,142 --> 00:40:40,229
Something tells me that although
some people believe that,
699
00:40:40,313 --> 00:40:41,856
I'm not sure
that I believe that.
700
00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:46,486
But I do think that there is
a presence here that is covert,
701
00:40:46,569 --> 00:40:51,950
a monitoring that is covert
to a large degree.
702
00:40:53,618 --> 00:40:57,121
TSOUKALOS:
Once a technological society
703
00:40:57,205 --> 00:40:59,874
has reached or mastered
704
00:40:59,958 --> 00:41:04,337
the way with which to explore
beyond your solar system,
705
00:41:04,420 --> 00:41:07,548
at least morally
and philosophically,
706
00:41:07,632 --> 00:41:12,845
you have advanced enough
to recognize that if and when
707
00:41:12,929 --> 00:41:18,643
you encounter a species that is
less technologically advanced,
708
00:41:18,685 --> 00:41:20,895
you don't destroy them,
you let them live.
709
00:41:20,979 --> 00:41:24,816
You let them develop
to see what happens.
710
00:41:24,857 --> 00:41:27,110
And according
to the ancient astronaut theory,
711
00:41:27,193 --> 00:41:28,611
you may even help them.
712
00:41:28,695 --> 00:41:31,823
So, what do you think?
713
00:41:31,864 --> 00:41:34,826
Are UFOs really evidence
that aliens
714
00:41:34,909 --> 00:41:40,081
are coming to Earth to visit,
to examine, to colonize?
715
00:41:40,164 --> 00:41:43,042
And is the proof really being
withheld from us by a government
716
00:41:43,126 --> 00:41:47,630
that believes we would panic
if we knew the truth?
717
00:41:47,714 --> 00:41:50,925
For the answers, perhaps we
should keep searching the skies
718
00:41:51,009 --> 00:41:55,388
and continue to find more
evidence of the unusual,
719
00:41:55,471 --> 00:41:59,475
the unknown and the unexplained.
720
00:41:59,517 --> 00:42:02,937
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