aerial maneuvers that defy understanding
and top secret government installations
forbidden to the public.
What exactly are unidentified flying objects?
Are they simply aircraft that haven't been accounted for?
Examples of advanced military technology?
Weather phenomena?
Or could they be exactly what many people believe they are:
alien spacecrafts?
Well, that is what we'll try and find out.
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An opinion poll conducted by the Gallup Organization
reveals two astonishing facts:
one‐third of all Americans have not only seen a UFO,
they believe alien spaceships have visited the Earth.
In the last few years, there's been a historic, dramatic shift
in the entire debate over UFOs.
It used to be that the burden of proof was on the true believers.
They had to prove that they were from another planet.
Now the burden has shifted.
Before, it was hearsay.
Now we have the videotapes.
And the fact that everyone has cell phones
has vastly increased the number of encounters.
And so now we're running out of excuses.
We're running out of natural phenomena
that can explain these UFO sightings.
PAUL HYNEK: MUFON is the Mutual UFO Network
and the largest UFO research group in the world.
There were 5,000 reported cases to MUFON last year alone.
So, what that shows is that the UFO phenomenon
is not slowing down at all.
This is a real pointer that this subject
is now absolutely mainstream.
This is no longer a subject
of fringe belief and conspiracy blogs.
This is absolutely down the middle,
on your TV screens every evening.
This is real.
SHATNER: If the number of recent sightings is any indication,
then by all means, the UFO phenomenon is quite real.
But despite the compelling evidence
presented by true believers,
skeptics are still waiting for a smoking gun.
There are several issues that are at work
in this whole topic of UFOs,
and number one, you think you've got
a really good scientific experiment about
things from another planet being here on Earth?
Go write that scientific paper and try to get it published.
It's most likely not going to get published
because, for whatever reason, we call that "fringe science."
POPE: Intellectually, from history,
we know the sorts of things that people misidentify as UFOs.
Military aircraft activity, of course, and commercial airlines.
We know that certain meteorological phenomena
can give rise to UFO reports.
We liaise with astronomers and we find out
whether there were any meteor showers,
or debris from a rocket launch.
All of these things we check and we essentially try to see
if the UFO has a conventional explanation.
BILL BIRNES: When the stealth fighter was being tested,
one of the things the Air Force would do
is have its pilots fly the stealth fighter under the wing
of commercial flights from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.
And the pilots would see this triangular craft,
and they would say, "What is this thing?
"Is it a flying saucer or is it a UFO?
We don't know."
It was actually the stealth fighter.
SHATNER: While some may be quick to say
that alien UFOs are figments of the imagination,
the truth is, sightings of strange things in the sky
are not a recent phenomenon.
According to both ufologists and ancient astronaut theorists,
they have been documented for thousands of years.
The idea of celestial visitors goes way back.
This is not just a modern phenomenon.
And it's not just things that seem like spaceships.
There are celestial visitors in the form of angels
and random characters that show up in mysterious ways.
The idea that we would have some kind of contact
with beings beyond ourselves is part of ancient cultures.
It varies from culture to culture,
but there is something universal about this,
something that seems persistent.
ARIEL BAR TZADOK: One of the most profound
close encounters in the Bible
is recorded in the Book of Ezekiel.
The episode begins by saying that Ezekiel
had the hand of God upon him,
and that he witnessed this experience
of this profound apparatus which he tries to describe,
but yet is described in the most bizarre ways,
talking about types of angels called wheels, Ophanim,
and they have multiple faces and the like.
Many want to understand Ezekiel's vision as either being
some psychological dreamlike experience.
Others want to interpret it as being a spaceship.
But the reality is, it was both and more.
SHATNER: Strange objects raining fire from the heavens,
celestial bodies streaking across the night skies
and floating balls of mesmerizing light.
But believe it or not, until the mid‐19th century,
UFOs like these were often dismissed as little more
than delusional daydreams or hoaxes.
So, what changed?
A little invention called photography.
RICHARD DOLAN: The first known UFO photograph
is from a place called Mount Washington
in New Hampshire, from 1870.
And what you see is, in the clouds,
is this horizontal cigar‐shaped object.
Which is odd because airship technology
really didn't take off until the early 1900s.
There were attempts even then to create photographic illusions,
but this is clearly not that.
We don't really have an explanation for it to this day.
SHATNER: Despite photographic evidence
and thousands of credible eyewitness accounts,
there are many who still refuse to believe that UFOs are real.
However, there is one incident that continues to cast doubt
in the minds of even the most hardened UFO skeptics,
an incident so infamous
that many researchers believe it was a tipping point,
when UFOs went from being science fiction to science fact.
A radar operator with the 509th Operations Group
detects an unidentified craft approaching the base.
Moments later, the object drops from the sky
and crashes into the desert outside a nearby cattle ranch.
A local rancher found debris,
contacted the local sheriff, who then contacted the air base.
You have a couple of days pass before the 509th Bomb Group
was able to get up to the site.
So, it absolutely is clear
that the United States military was not immediately
on top of acquiring whatever it was that came down there.
BIRNES: People in the city of Roswell
thought it was an airline crash.
They saw a kind of a delta‐shaped object embedded
into the arroyo that was split open.
DOLAN: The Roswell Daily Record
had the most famous headline, uh, you know,
probably of the year, which was
"the Army's recovered one of these flying discs."
That made national, international news.
BIRNES: After the crash,
Roger Ramey, who was general of the Eighth Air Force,
flew to Roswell.
And Jesse Marcel, who was the base intelligence officer,
brought all of the Army truck drivers out,
gave them gunnysacks,
and they said, "Look, just collect this stuff."
Meanwhile, Ramey says to Marcel,
I want you to pose in front of this weather balloon.
Marcel is, like, in shock, but he poses with it with a smile,
and he becomes the poster boy for the cover‐up.
PAUL HELLYER: The first press release was the truth
and the second one was a lie.
And that is an indication of the depth
of the withholding of information
and the, uh, truth embargo, as it has been called.
SHATNER: A truth embargo?
Is it possible that the rumors about Roswell are true,
and the United States military was concealing physical evidence
that UFOs exist?
Despite the government's insistence to the contrary,
almost 75 years later,
UFO researchers are still searching for answers.
Because according to many firsthand accounts,
Roswell may have been the government's first UFO cover‐up,
but it wouldn't be the last.
SHATNER: An unidentified object slams into a hill DOLAN: They went out there
eight miles northeast of the Kingman Airport.
Within moments, the United States military
springs into action. This time,
they won't repeat the mistake they made at Roswell
of letting the public find out about it.
BIRNES: The Army descends on that hill,
locks it down.
Onlookers are trying to climb the hill to see it.
Nope, can't see it.
The Army puts up a tent, but it invites
different scientists to come out
and kind of examine it.
It was estimated to be about 14 feet high,
classic flying saucer shape.
It had, like, rows of lights along the perimeter.
And they were all told to examine this site
and provide their assessment.
And then they were told, like, "You are to take an oath,
and you are never to talk about this again."
The Kingman crash was really not even discussed
until the 1970s, when one researcher
was able to interview a primary witness of it:
an atomic scientist who gave a very detailed description
about the Kingman event.
SHATNER: Unlike the crash at Roswell six years earlier,
the U. S. military's response to the Kingman incident
was so swift that it wasn't until years later
that the world knew anything had occurred there.
But how was an event of this apparent magnitude
kept secret for so long?
In my experience of government, there would need to be
what we would call a standard operating procedure.
And it's claimed that one was drawn up
for UFO crashes after Roswell.
And it seems that this was used in 1953
in relation to the Kingman UFO crash.
SHATNER: An operations manual
on how to deal with UFO crashes?
As far‐fetched as it sounds, UFO researchers believe
that such a handbook not only exists,
but was put in place to avoid the mistakes
the U. S. military made trying to contain
the earlier crash at Roswell in 1947.
And they claim that the authors of this handbook
were members of a shadowy organization
known as the Majestic 12.
DOLON: Majestic 12, or MJ‐12, is believed by many researchers
to be a group of individuals who essentially are
controlling the UFO cover‐up.
MIKE BARA: There are many, many documents that exist that say that
MJ‐12 actually was a real government organization.
Majestic 12 was signed into existence
by President Harry Truman in September of 1947,
shortly after the Roswell incident,
when the U. S. government decided it needed to have
a main central oversight committee that would handle
the so‐called alien problem.
And it contained many, many prominent members,
including the head of the CIA at the time,
or what became the CIA.
Of all of the documents that I have ever received,
most important to me is the Majestic 12:
Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology,
Recovery and Disposal.
The document is about how you would take military units
out into a field,
gather extraterrestrial biological entities,
alive or dead.
How you would get the craft.
And it has top secret classification throughout.
SHATNER: Are we really to believe a secret government agency
was established in order to cover up evidence of UFOs?
According to many experts,
even if that organization did exist,
it would be nearly impossible to keep
such information under wraps for long.
They argue that it's much easier to convince eyewitnesses
that what they saw wasn't really there in the first place.
High school basketball coach Reggie Bone and his players
are driving through the Ozark woods
on their way home from a game when they spot
a bright shaft of light coming from the sky.
In 1973, I was general manager of KPWB radio station
in Piedmont, Missouri.
And I did the news for the station.
I interviewed Reggie and five of his basketball players.
After the team had seen a light flashing in the sky,
several miles later,
one of the boys exclaims, said, "Hey, there's that light again."
The coach and the ballplayers got out, and they saw
these lights, circular, in red, amber, green and white.
And then it started raising up, and... no sound.
And went over a hill,
and that's the last they saw of it.
SHATNER: At first, Reggie and his team thought what they had seen
wasn't actually a UFO, but merely a trick of light
fooling their tired eyes.
But, as it turns out...
they weren't the only ones who saw it.
HOVIS: Pretty soon, the local police department had received
500‐plus phone calls from people saying,
"Hey, we're looking at this, we're seeing this."
As a reporter, I felt like I needed to
do some more investigating besides just the local people
explaining to me what they were seeing.
So I contacted personnel at Scott Air Force Base
to find out if they had any lights in the area.
And the gentleman at the time explained to me that they‐‐
nothing like that was going on.
SHATNER: According to one theory, the reason why
the Air Force was so unhelpful was due to yet another
government program created to cover up UFOs.
One that wasn't designed to conceal UFO wreckage,
but to explain it away.
DOLON: Project Blue Book was the official
UFO investigative body of the United States Air Force,
from the 1950s through the end of the '60s.
And one of the tricks that they used was
they eliminated the category of "possible."
And so, if something was a possible balloon,
even if it was the most remote possibility,
then it became balloon, and that was the explanation.
All they wanted to do was just get these reports
into the "identified" category
so that the public didn't get worked up over them.
HELLYER: One of the ways to combat
public understanding of UFOs
was ridicule.
First denial, then ridicule.
And then, if that didn't work, to call it Venus or swamp gas.
One day, a couple of gentlemen came in
and started questioning me about what the people were seeing,
what was in the air, did it leave any kind of traces?
I suspected then that they were part of the military.
Part of the Air Force.
SHATNER: Although Project Blue Book was officially ended in 1970,
three years before the Piedmont sightings,
its methods of disinformation still seemed to be in place.
Because one of the mysterious men in black
who visited Piedmont after the UFO sightings
was none other than J. Allen Hynek,
the scientist who had been in charge of Project Blue Book.
My father was in a very awkward position at times,
being a scientist who wanted to discover the truth,
but knowing that Project Blue Book was not chartered
to go out and find the truth to the UFO phenomenon,
but rather to be a public relations answer factory
for the Air Force so that they could trot out an astronomer
and say, "Oh, we've discovered that this is a sighting
of Venus, or it's a weather balloon or a hoax."
And so my father's on record as saying that
the 1973 sightings in Piedmont, Missouri were mass hysteria.
HOVIS: I disagree with that.
I didn't see anybody going crazy,
running up and down the streets of Piedmont, in a rural area.
There was no mass hysteria in Piedmont at that time.
Could the hundreds of UFO sightings in Piedmont, Missouri
really have been a simple case of mass hysteria?
Or did those witnesses see something that
traveled to Earth from somewhere across the galaxy?
To find out, perhaps we should
ask for scientists who are searching for signs
of advanced technology in a place...
where no one has gone before.
KAKU: EvenAstronomer Seth Shostak is at home,
getting ready to have dinner,
‐when he receives an urgent phone call. ‐(phone ringing)
SETH SHOSTAK: The phone rings, and it's my boss at the SETI Institute.
And he says, "Seth,
I think you ought to get down to the office."
Now, he never calls me at home, and certainly not at dinnertime.
And he never, never ever says, "Get down to the office."
So I didn't know what was going on.
SHATNER: Moments later, Seth arrives at the SETI Institute,
a nonprofit organization tasked with the search
for extraterrestrial intelligence.
I go in, and there are about a dozen of my colleagues
all looking at computer screens.
There was a signal that we had picked up...
...and it had the characteristics that we look for
when we're trying to find whether ET is on the air
somewhere else in the galaxy.
So this was pretty darn exciting.
SHATNER: After attempting to pinpoint the source of the signal
for hours, Seth and his colleagues' initial excitement
gave way to profound disappointment.
As it turned out, one of my colleagues
had been busily looking up the frequencies‐‐
the telemetry frequencies‐‐ of known satellites,
and he found a European satellite that sent data
back to Earth just at the frequencies
that we were picking up,
and it was in the direction we were looking, and he said,
you know, "Everybody can go back to bed now."
SHATNER: Despite the false alarm, there are many leading scientists
who believe that SETI's work is a key component
in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon.
Because if there are aliens visiting Earth,
programs like SETI may be able to tell us where they came from.
SHOSTAK: The universe has been around a long time,
a lot longer than the Earth and our solar system.
There could be very advanced societies out there,
and maybe they've sent probes to our solar system.
You know, maybe they've sent probes to lots of solar systems,
and we just have one ourselves.
HYNEK: My father thought that SETI was a tremendously important effort.
He felt that it was incumbent upon us as a civilization
to reach out to try to find life elsewhere in the universe
as opposed to only waiting for it to land in our laps.
We know that there are planets around pretty much every star.
So now we have to look at those planets
and see if there are things called technosignatures.
These are signatures that civilization is occurring.
Are they creating what we call greenhouse gases
or outgassing materials or properties that we could detect
with our instruments using normal, natural,
astronomical technologies that we have?
One thing they might be producing is light.
Do they have cities that make light,
or radio waves or whatever?
SETI has so far turned up empty‐handed.
For all the millions of dollars, for all the stars
that they've analyzed, they have yet to pick up
a single signal indicating intelligence in outer space.
But maybe we're barking up the wrong tree.
After all, what do we do with SETI?
We analyze radio from outer space.
But the aliens out there may laugh at us, saying, "What?
"You're looking for our civilization using radio?
"That's so 20th century.
We got rid of radio centuries ago."
SHATNER: Is it possible
our current technology is too primitive to detect
advanced alien civilizations throughout the galaxy?
Perhaps.
But if some UFO researchers are to be believed,
it hardly matters.
Because according to them,
astronomers already have the evidence they need
to confirm the existence of alien spaceships.
Evidence that is hiding in plain sight.
Scientists working at the Panoramic Survey Telescope
detect a mysterious, oblong object
that has wandered into our solar system.
Named 'Oumuamua,
which means "scout from a distant place" in Hawaiian,
it is the first interstellar asteroid
ever observed by astronomers.
And many believe its journey from across the galaxy
to our solar system is no accident.
SHOSTAK: It's just a little dot on a photograph.
You don't really know what it looks like up close.
We knew it was kind of cigar‐shaped,
and beyond that, we didn't know.
It was about the size of a football stadium.
Well, Avi Loeb, who is the chair
of the Harvard Astronomy Department, suggested
that there was a good reason to think that maybe
this wasn't just a rock, that maybe it was a spacecraft,
deliberately sent by aliens from some other solar system.
Astronomers were shocked to find that it tracked backwards
into outer space from another solar system.
Not only that,
but the trajectory was acting irregularly.
This sent shockwaves through the community.
Even reputable astronomers said, "We cannot rule out the fact
that this irregular trajectory means that it's piloted."
It seems very, very unlikely
that a rock that's just randomly thrown out by nature
would so accurately get to the center of our solar system,
swing around the Sun and leave.
That's pretty unlikely.
This may be a directed rock and maybe it's an alien spacecraft.
POPE: The fact that we're even having this debate
shows how much the landscape has changed
in the last two or three years.
I think, previously, this sort of theory
would have been just dismissed as nonsense.
Uh, mainstream media would have not covered the story at all,
and if they had, they would have simply ridiculed it.
But now, stories like this are treated very seriously,
and it's‐it's reported in an absolute levelheaded way.
You're not shocking people by telling them something
they already believe.
SHATNER: Could 'Oumuamua be an alien ship?
One that is cigar‐shaped
like the many UFOs that have been reported in the past?
According to some astronomers, it's a distinct possibility.
But there are those who believe that we can find out for sure,
by determining whether it's even possible for a spacecraft
to travel across the galaxy in the first place.
SHATNER: The New York Times publishes an article that reveals
the existence of a top secret military program known as AATIP,
the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
Its purpose: to identify and investigate UFOs.
Congress was informed about AATIP
in a letter dated January 2018.
And the Defense Intelligence Agency wrote to Congress
and said, "The AATIP program was designed
"to look at far‐term aviation threats to the United States
"out to maybe 40 years into the future
"from Russia, China, Iran, North Korea,
secret prototype aircraft, missiles and drones."
But there was an attachment to the letter, and said,
"Please find attached a list of all the products
produced under the AATIP contract."
Antigravity, invisibility, warp drive,
wormholes, stargates.
And when I looked at this list, it‐it was astounding.
SHATNER: In the weeks that follow,
a number of previously classified videos
are leaked to the public.
Among them is footage of an encounter
that took place in 2004,
between a squadron of fighter jets
and an unidentified flying craft
that appears to be not of this world.
TAYLOR: Whatever this thing is in this video,
it goes from a couple hundred miles per hour
to thousands of miles per hour like that.
That's the equivalent of going many hundreds of miles per hour
and hitting a brick wall.
So, what would that do?
It would turn your brain to mush.
It would turn your body to Jell‐O.
I mean, you‐‐ it would kill you instantly.
So, there's a technology in there that would protect
a biological thing if it's a biological thing in there.
We don't have that type of technology yet.
We now know much more about the AATIP program
and indeed government UFO investigations more generally
than we knew a couple of years ago.
So, we have pilots who are involved in these incidents.
We have radar operators, we have former intelligence officers
who handled this, all going public,
going on the record and saying this is real.
SHATNER: Is the footage proof that UFOs not only exist,
but that they employ technology that far surpasses our own?
It's certainly a far‐fetched notion,
but according to one man who was there, the answer's yes.
On the day of the incident, Petty Officer P. J. Hughes
was stationed on the nearby USS Nimitz,
the aircraft carrier from which the fighters were launched.
His job was to facilitate the storage of radar data
by an E‐2C Hawkeye aircraft that was in the air at the same time
that the fighter jets encountered the UFO.
The easiest way to explain what an E‐2C Hawkeye is
is by saying it's the quarterback of the air wing.
It's got a bunch of sensors,
it's got a bunch of communications equipment.
We were doing some testing, and before that exercise
was actually able to start, the object actually came up,
so everybody got a good look at it and then it just took off.
I wasn't in the plane, so the information I'm getting
is secondhand from the multitude of sources who've seen it.
HUGHES: It's a giant white cylindrical object,
roughly 48 feet, 49 feet, somewhere in there.
No windows, no engines, no flight control surfaces,
a smooth object, basically.
It looked like a white Tic Tac.
No visible means of propulsion, but be able to go
from full blast to zero in time we can't measure.
When the Hawkeye left, it was recording.
When it came back, the recording was stopped.
I took the bricks.
They're classified hard drives
that basically record everything it saw.
Went down, put them in our safe.
20 minutes after I locked them in that safe,
my executive officer shows up at my door
with two uniformed Air Force officers,
and he asked me for all the hard drives
that were in that Hawkeye that went flying.
'Cause normally we'd sign them out in a logbook saying,
you know, "XO took these‐these serial numbers,"
and as I started to write, he's like, "Don't do it."
So, I hand them over and away they went,
and I never knew what happened to them.
SHATNER: On April 27, 2020, the Pentagon officially released
the three now‐famous AATIP videos.
By doing so, they acknowledged that the UFOs depicted
were genuinely of unknown origin,
although they stopped short of admitting
they might also be extraterrestrial.
HUGHES: The fact that the government wants to know more about things
that we encounter in the sky and that the pilots see,
there's something to it.
The universe is way too big for us to be alone.
There's something else out there.
If extraterrestrials really do possess advanced technologies
thousands of years ahead of ours,
wouldn't we seem as insignificant
and primitive to them as bugs are to us?
Perhaps.
But there are many who believe that aliens might be coming here
not to invade us
but to guide us to a future more incredible
than anything we could otherwise imagine.
‐of weather phenomenon... ‐MAN: Oh, my God.
...or Earth technology, is it possible
that they are really extraterrestrial spacecrafts?
(people exclaiming)
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
alien visitors have been coming to Earth for thousands of years.
And they have left behind evidence in the form
of everything from magnificent architecture
to mysterious symbols etched into the earth.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The ancient astronaut theory
suggests that at some point,
extraterrestrials came to our planet and they saw
that there was potential for a civilization here,
and so, they artificially changed the genetic makeup
of our ancestors.
And they left behind
these m‐massive megalithic structures
in ancient Egypt and on Easter Island,
in South America, in Greece, all over the world.
We have multiple written stories and oral stories
where we are told that these megalithic blocks at one point
levitated into place.
And the mythologies only happened because our ancestors
thought they were visited by divine beings,
when in actuality,
the only divine thing that they had was more advanced technology
which, to our ancestors, looked divine.
SHATNER: But if highly advanced alien visitors
are visiting Earth from other worlds,
shouldn't we be frightened?
Ancient astronaut theorists believe that, if anything,
extraterrestrial interest in our planet suggests
they have a much more benevolent agenda.
DOLAN: I think that, from the 20th century onward,
there has been a qualitative change in the UFO phenomenon,
and I think it is our technology that has gotten
the interest of other beings.
And I'm looking particularly at nuclear technology.
When you look at all of the confluence of sightings
of these unknown objects over our nuclear technology sites,
nuclear weapons sites, over the many years,
this is way beyond chance.
So, there is a definite interest
by these objects in our nuclear technology.
HELLYER: It is my belief that, over the years,
they have catalogued every nuclear installation
in the whole world, of all nations,
and they have gone from one location to another
to record what is there
and what its capabilities are and what they should expect.
Perhaps to prepare themselves better in case they ever had
to come to our rescue and save us from wrecking our world.
SHATNER: Nick Pope, a defense analyst for the British government,
attends an international symposium
on advanced propulsion systems.
POPE: These people came together with different backgrounds,
united by their common interest in exotic propulsion systems,
the sort of propulsion that ultimately will take us
to the stars.
And if anything in the UFO phenomenon is real,
this is the technology the aliens use
because it gets around the problem
of, "Well, you can't get here from there."
The answer is, "Maybe you can."
And what happened is these people came together to say,
"If it's true, this is how they do it."
Some people were from government,
some people from the military,
some from the intelligence community
and some from the big defense contractors
and others were scientists working in academia.
But what's really interesting is that a number of people
who attended that conference, who spoke
and who presented papers at it,
went on to be involved with the Pentagon's AATIP program.
For the longest time,
studying UFOs was not gonna be a career maker, right?
It was gonna be a career killer.
But yet, there's no question
that a number of very brilliant, knowledgeable,
scientifically oriented individuals
have said to themselves,
"You know what, I'm not gonna be swayed
by the media propaganda that this is all nonsense."
And they started looking into it, and what they discovered
is that there's something there and they began communicating
with each other about it.
That's the invisible college.
SHATNER: UFOs, piloted by extraterrestrials
who come to Earth not to invade or destroy but to instruct?
If true, it's a temptingly reassuring notion.
But, then, what would be their ultimate goal?
Perhaps the answer can be found not here on Earth
but on a neighboring planet in our own solar system.
it,
Perseverance, which it plans to launch later in the year.
It will be equipped with an experimental instrument
designed to generate oxygen
from the carbon dioxide‐rich Martian atmosphere,
paving the way for humans to one day
be able to breathe on Mars.
Some people dream of the day when we can terraform Mars.
That is, turn Mars into a Garden of Eden
by changing the atmosphere, and then water, liquid water,
will then flow freely in the riverbeds of Mars.
And so, we're talking about creating a new home for us
in outer space.
SHATNER: If humankind is planning to colonize Mars
as a first step in expanding its knowledge of the universe,
is it so far‐fetched to suggest that alien‐piloted UFOs
may be coming to Earth for very similar reasons?
We got to think of why would
UFOs come here in the first place?
What if you wanted to find kindred spirits,
you wanted to find other life?
We send probes to the Moon and Mars and elsewhere.
Saturn, Jupiter, you name it.
They're doing a search for extraterrestrial life.
Maybe that's what's happening.
Somebody else is sending probes.
DOLAN: This is a planet overflowing with life.
If you know how to manipulate DNA,
Earth could be the ultimate, ultimate gold mine,
and that's got to be an attraction.
Do they want to take over the world?
Something tells me that although some people believe that,
I'm not sure that I believe that.
But I do think that there is a presence here that is covert,
a monitoring that is covert to a large degree.
TSOUKALOS: Once a technological society
has reached or mastered
the way with which to explore beyond your solar system,
at least morally and philosophically,
you have advanced enough to recognize that if and when
you encounter a species that is less technologically advanced,
you don't destroy them, you let them live.
You let them develop to see what happens.
And according to the ancient astronaut theory,
you may even help them.
So, what do you think?
Are UFOs really evidence that aliens
are coming to Earth to visit, to examine, to colonize?
And is the proof really being withheld from us by a government
that believes we would panic if we knew the truth?
For the answers, perhaps we should keep searching the skies
and continue to find more evidence of the unusual,
the unknown and the unexplained.
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