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An acorn-shaped object that crashed in the woods of Pennsylvania.

A mysterious craft that washed ashore in Japan.

And an Earth-shaking impact in Britain that defies explanation.

Over the years, ancient Aliens has examined dozens of accounts of

extraterrestrial spacecraft crashing to Earth.

Now, we're going to explore 10 of the most remarkable UFO crashes ever reported.

Crashes that add to the growing body of evidence

that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.

The idea of an Alien spaceship crashing to Earth has fascinated us since stories of

flying saucers were first reported in the 1940s.

And while the government has never acknowledged recovering an

extraterrestrial craft, there are plenty of eyewitness

accounts that describe UFOs plunging from the sky.

And believe it or not, there are even UFO crashes

that were witnessed thousands of years ago.

Like this first event, which was recorded on

ancient stone disks found in a cave in China.

Number 10 on our countdown of the Top 10 UFO Crashes, the Dropa Stones.

Qinghai Province, China, 1938.

Archaeologist Dr. Chi Pu Tei is exploring a cave in the Bayan Kara'ula Mountains

when he and his team discover chambers that appear to be man-made.

And what they find within them is highly unexpected.

Archaeologists discovered cave systems in China that contained hundreds of disks.

And these disks were about this wide, and it seemed that they had some type of a

groove in them reminding of modern-day vinyl records.

According to an article published in a German magazine in July 1962, entitled

UFOs in Prehistoric Times, archaeologists unearthed 716 of these

disk-shaped objects from the caves, later termed Dropa Stones.

The article states that archaeologists at Beijing

University dated the Dropa Stones to roughly 10,000 BC.

Each stone had a small hole in the center, measured roughly a foot in diameter,

and had grooves containing microscopic inscriptions.

In 1962, the Beijing Academy of Ancient Studies released their

first translations of the inscriptions on the Dropa Stones.

And the inscriptions were stunning.

An incredible story was revealed.

It tells of extraterrestrial beings called the Dropas, who were tiny beings within

large heads and slender bodies who crashlanded on the Earth and were unable to

rebuild a spacecraft in order to return to their home.

Shortly after the article about the Dropa Stones

was printed, the disks disappeared from public view.

But is it possible that the published account of the mysterious stones and their

record of a UFO crash in ancient China is true?

The story of the Dropa disk is very interesting.

The information on these disks could be evidence of one

of the earliest UFO encounters in all of ancient history.

The next UFO crash on our list also predates the modern

UFO era, having been reported over 200 years ago in Japan.

It involves multiple accounts of a strange disk-shaped craft that was found floating

in the ocean, carrying inside of it a mysterious visitor.

At number nine, Utsuro Bune.

Hitachi Province, Japan, 1803.

Local fishermen are working on Hisaki Beach when they

spot an unusual object floating out in the ocean.

They sail out to investigate and come upon a mysterious metallic vessel.

Whatever this strange craft was, it clearly wasn't a boat or ship because

it was actually shaped like an ancient Japanese incense container.

So they towed it back to the shore and essentially scratched their heads looking

at it, trying to figure out what on Earth it was.

The fishermen looked into the window and they saw this beautiful woman sitting

inside and they opened up the hatch and she came out and they said that not only

did she have a physical appearance that was unlike ours, but her hair was

different and also the clothes that she was wearing were different.

For Ancient Astronaut Theorists, this event, known as the legend of

Utsuro Bune or hollowship, provides compelling evidence that an

extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed off the coast of Japan.

The story of the strange Utsuro Bune craft appears in three different Japanese texts.

Now these texts are accompanied by multiple illustrations.

of the woman and the craft.

This craft is almost literally a flying disc, a flying saucer.

The historical accounts found in China and Japan are certainly intriguing,

but perhaps the most incredible story of a UFO crash reported before the modern era

comes from right here in the United States.

In the 1800s, during the days of the Wild West, residents in a small town in Texas

claimed to witness a strange vehicle crash to Earth,

leaving a trail of wreckage and a deceased Alien visitor.

At number eight on our countdown, the Aurora UFO incident.

Aurora, Texas, April 17th, 1897.

In the early morning hours, residents in this rural town are working in their fields

when suddenly they see a strange cigar-shaped object hurtling towards Earth,

then crashing in a fiery blaze on the property of Judge J.S. Proctor.

In those days, this was before television, before jet aircraft,

any big noise got your attention, plus the ground shook.

So they knew something tremendous had happened.

Two days after the crash on April 19th, 1897, the

incident was reported in the Dallas Morning News.

It's sad that when the explosion has happened, people run

out and find that there is actually a creature lying about.

This creature is of otherworldly origins, that it is non-human.

What they decide to do is actually to bury the creature in the local cemetery.

The event quickly faded from memory and was largely forgotten until the 1970s,

when Ufologists decided to revisit the case.

I consider the Aurora spaceship crash the smoking gun of the UFO controversy,

because in 1897, this was six years before the Wright brothers flew.

And yet here is a well-documented UFO, six years

before there was anything man -made in the air.

Is it possible the mysterious airship that crashed

in Aurora, Texas was a visitor from another world?

For Ancient Astronaut Theorists, the ultimate

proof might be buried in the pilot's grave.

But when investigators took up the case in the 1970s, they

found that the tombstone that marked the grave site was missing.

I first got onto the Aurora story back in 1973 and was there before the tombstone

went missing, and actually probably one of the few people

around who still remember where the actual grave site was.

Now, the little grave is located right here.

It was a short little grave.

That was a child or very small person.

And the little hidden stone, the marker, was right about there.

Is it possible that an extraterrestrial being is buried at the Aurora cemetery?

Despite this astonishing possibility, requests

to examine the remains have been denied.

Researchers wanted to exhume the body, but the

local cemetery association wouldn't let them.

Just what crashed in Aurora, Texas and who was

buried in the small grave remains a mystery.

But in 1976, this strange chapter in the town's history was

memorialized on a plaque at the entrance to the cemetery.

Today, people continue to visit and leave offerings for the supposed Alien being.

And for many researchers, the peculiar encounter from 1897

remains one of the most compelling UFO crashes ever reported.

I believe the Aurora spaceship story is a legitimate account of a UFO crash.

One of the most important factors to keep in mind when

evaluating a UFO report is the credibility of the witness.

And that's why the next entry on our list is so compelling.

It is a strange, acorn-shaped object that crashed in the woods

of rural Pennsylvania and was seen by hundreds of people.

At number seven on our list of the Top 10 UFO Crashes, the Kecksburg incident.

December 9th, 1965.

On a clear, cold night, thousands of people across southern Ontario,

Michigan, and Ohio watch as a brilliant fireball streaks across the sky.

Witnesses actually claimed that this strange object caused what appeared to be

Sonic bulbs and it was seen to come down in a wooded area.

Witnesses in the town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania reported that the object came

crashing through the trees and dropped down into a wooded ravine.

Volunteer firemen and policemen were brought from all over the region and at

least 10 got into a forest and described a bell or

acorn-shaped craft and at the top it was copper colored.

This became known as the Kecksburg UFO and what they said that they found on this

bell -shaped object were strange hieroglyphic writing all along the base.

Just minutes after the firefighters arrived at the location of the crash,

they were met by a convoy of military personnel and ordered to leave.

The military was immediately on the scene grabbed

everything up and then said nothing happened.

The whole thing was essentially hushed up.

Now the official explanation is that this was just a meteor passing over the United

States but there is a clear mystery here, one that has never been solved.

Is it possible that the object that crashed in the woods of Pennsylvania

wasn't a meteor but an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

For Ancient Astronaut Theorists, not only is this a distinct possibility,

but this UFO event bears a striking resemblance to mysterious flying craft

described by people who lived in India thousands of years ago.

The craft itself is an acorn-shaped craft.

Immediately that's reminiscent of what the

ancient Indian text described as the Vimana.

In the Mahabharata and many of the ancient Vedic

texts, they speak about the so-called Vimanas.

The Vimanas were flying vehicles with which to reach the celestial realm.

Could the legends of flying craft called Vimanas have been vehicles flown by other

world beings and might the same type of craft

have crashed in the woods of Pennsylvania?

According to the witnesses in Kecksburg, the object they saw that night was in fact

an Alien spacecraft and the event had such an effect on the town that in 1990.

residents erected a monument to mark the site of the incident.

Those men who stood around this object knew it was no meteorite.

They said at the time this was this big craft from outer space.

Kecksburg isn't the only place where hundreds of people witnessed a UFO crash.

In 1974, a dramatic aerial incident unfolded over the

rural countryside of Wales that was seen for miles around.

And in 2017, I got the chance to meet an eyewitness to what would become one of the

most extraordinary UFO cover-ups in history.

At number six, the Berwyn Mountains UFO.

Llandrillo, Wales, January 23rd, 1974.

It's a quiet evening and residents of this rural community in the Berwyn Mountains

are preparing for bed when the peace is suddenly shattered.

The number of people in the area perceive something anomalous like a fleet of UFOs.

Now, at the same time that these strange lights were seen, whatever they were,

there was an impact on the Berwyn Mountains.

The small Welsh village is rocked by what locals think is an explosion.

Everything shakes, crockery falls off, wall units,

and everyone is saying, what the heck just happened?

According to residents, the police and military

showed up just minutes after the explosion.

The initial theory is that there's been a plane crash.

The locals who are following this can see lights of vehicles, powerful flashlights.

It's clear a major operation is underway.

Eventually, rumors start to do the rounds that

maybe this wasn't a plane crash after all.

Has there maybe been a UFO crash?

And that's the rumor that takes hold.

In 2017, Ancient Aliens contributors Giorgio Tsoukalos and Nick Pope met up with

Hugh Lloyd, an eyewitness to the Berwyn Mountains incident.

On the night of the event, Lloyd drove a police inspector to higher ground where he

could get a better view of the area where the object crashed to Earth.

Now, he's taking Giorgio and Nick to the same location.

So down there...

When this light appeared, did it seem to you as if it was an explosion?

No.

This was definitely very strong white light from the ground.

And how long was it shining for?

No, more than 15 seconds.

According to Hugh, after observing the white light in the distance, he and the

police inspector got back in the car and drove towards it.

But just as they were about to reach what they believed was the impact point,

the inspector received an order to stay away.

We went back down that way a quarter of a mile and turned left on the track.

And then this radio message came and said, come back at the first light.

So it sounds like it was a stand-down call.

Yes.

That bugs me till today if they were looking for a crash site.

Why?

When you were half a mile away from where we wanted to go, they were called down?

Yes.

This makes sense.

Is it possible that the police officer who accompanied Hugh that night was ordered to

stand down because the military was hiding a crashed extraterrestrial craft?

When the Ministry of Defense finally provided an official explanation for what

occurred in the Burwin Mountains that night, it involved

a coincidence that many found too incredible to believe.

The story is apparently that there was an earthquake that hit the village in the

Burwin Mountains, but at the same time, there was a bright

fireball meteor breaking up in the Earth's atmosphere.

So not one extraordinary event, but two at exactly the same time.

Over the years, the UFO community has become

convinced that this was indeed a UFO crash.

We're coming up on the halfway point of our countdown.

And this next entry involves Italy's most famous UFO event.

According to reports, when a UFO crashed in the Italian Alps, a brilliant inventor

was asked to reverse engineer it by one of history's most feared leaders.

At number five on our countdown of the Top 10 UFO Crashes, Mussolini's UFO.

Northern Italy, June 13th, 1933.

On a clear and quiet evening, an unusual object

is spotted streaking across the night sky.

Dozens of people report seeing a large

disk-shaped craft disappear into the Italian Alps.

In 1933, it's claimed that a UFO crashed in the Lombardy region of Italy.

This was apparently an object around 50 feet

in diameter, like two saucers joined together.

It was described as being grayish in color and metallic.

And apparently it was then taken by the military and studied on the personal

orders of the then dictator Benito Mussolini.

According to reports, the craft was found to be unoccupied

and unlocking its secrets was Mussolini's top priority.

An elite unit of scientists and government officials, code-named RS-33, was set up

and began investigating not just this crash, but other

strange sightings that were being reported at the time.

To lead the committee, it's said Mussolini enlisted the Nobel Prize winning physicist

and famed inventor of the radio, Guglielmo Marconi.

Mussolini said, find out what it is, and because it seems to be so advanced,

build one.

Marconi apparently said, well, we can't.

We can't figure it out.

Is it possible that a crashed UFO was recovered by the Italian government in 1933?

And if so, what happened to it?

Some researchers suggest news of the wreckage

attracted the attention of Pope Pius XII.

The story is, in 1943, when Italy was invaded and then changed sides and was

fighting with the Allies, the Vatican intervened and the Pope personally

brokered a deal whereby this crashed UFO would be shipped back to the United States.

So it's very interesting to speculate that although Mussolini

was the first to get this, it ended up with Americans.

It's crazy to think that Mussolini might have been involved in reverse engineering

an Alien spaceship, but just as incredible are reports from Russia that say in the

late 1940s, Soviet military pilots chased a UFO until it eventually crashed and then

recovered not only the wreckage, but Alien bodies.

At number four on our countdown, Kapustin Yar.

Southern Russia, 1948.

In the years following World War II, the Soviet

Union is racing to develop its first nuclear weapon.

One of the primary facilities for this research is a remote

military base along the Volga River called Kapustin Yar.

Kapustin Yar is a critically important rocket launch facility where all of the

major Soviet era and Russian rocket launches take place.

Curiously, at the time, officials at nuclear facilities and rocket launch sites

frequently witnessed mysterious objects flying overhead.

In 1947, 1948, you find a number of important UFO encounters

over American and Soviet nuclear technology facilities.

There were UFO sightings in the United States

over key atomic energy development sites.

Similarly, over Kapustin Yar, we've got significant UFO activity being reported.

On June 19, 1948, radar operators detected an

Unidentified Flying Object near Kapustin Yar.

Strange blips were seen on radar.

Something was tracked, performing extraordinary speeds and maneuvers.

And a Russian fighter jet was sent to intercept it.

The pilot saw a silver cigar-shaped object and was told to shoot this thing down.

It managed to launch a missile and shoot down the UFO.

We don't know exactly what happened, but allegedly

they were able to actually shoot this object down.

They found remnants of technology which was recovered and taken to the local

bunker where they kept it allegedly for years and

used it to reverse engineer some of the technology.

According to reports, along with the wreckage,

officials recovered bodies from inside the craft.

We are told that there is an underground facility under Kapustin Yar, similar

probably to facilities here in the States, where a full

examination could be performed on the pilots of these craft.

Is it possible that the Soviet Union not only recovered a

crashed UFO, but also the remains of extraterrestrial beings?

Perhaps clues can be found by examining the

rapid development of the Soviet space program.

Why were the Russians first into space?

Why did they manage to do Sputnik 1 and then send Yuri

Gagarin up into orbit and leave the Americans standing?

Because on paper you'd think that the US government should have won that race,

but they didn't.

If the Russians got live Alien, maybe they found out something from what

happened at Kapustin Yar that gave them the edge in the space race.

The rumor is, is they were reverse engineering UFO technology there.

And one wonders if it's possible that they could reverse engineer

the craft that they believe they had in their possession.

On ancient Aliens, we've investigated numerous reports of

crashed UFOs that were allegedly recovered by the military.

One that's not often talked about occurred in a

small town along the banks of the Mississippi River.

And many researchers believe it's this event that

marks the beginning of deliberate UFO cover-ups.

Number three on our countdown of the Top 10 UFO Crashes, the crash of Cape Girardeau.

April 12, 1941, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Just after 9.30 P.M., Reverend William Huffman gets a call from local police

informing him that there's been a crash about 15 miles outside of the city.

He is needed to offer spiritual comfort to the victims.

But when he gets to the scene, it is nothing like what he expected.

The minister thought he was just going to some automobile

accident or something like that where there had been a fatality.

But when he got there, the military was there, the FBI was there, there were

photographers taking photos of the scene, they were cleaning up the crash site.

When William Huffman arrived to the area where this had occurred, he realized that

this was a disk, a craft of some sort that had crashed in Cape Girardeau.

And it wasn't human victims that were inside of this thing.

He's taken and shown three individuals.

And these individuals are about four feet in height and very clearly not human.

They were described as having long arms, slightly oversized heads.

Once all of this wreckage was taken care of and shipped off to destinations

unknown, William Huffman was told by members of the United States Air Force

never to speak about what it just occurred.

And right then and there, you had the beginning of yet

another UFO crash cover-up by the United States military.

Reverend Huffman's account would remain a secret until after his passing,

when his wife, on her deathbed in 1984,

devotes the details to the rest of the family.

Further information about the military response has since

been leaked in a book titled The Bombshell Before Roswell.

Cape Girardeau, Missouri, from 1941, appears to be where our retrieval as a

government of things that were described as from another world began.

Did the military really recover a crashed UFO in 1941?

And if so, what happened to it?

According to reports, the disk was taken to a secret facility in Washington, D.C.

The story is that a military unit comes in with orders to gather up this disk and fly

it to Washington, D.C., and that the bodies were put in the craft in a

sub-basement underneath the nation's capital, where they could be secure.

Today, the mysterious crash at Cape Girardeau

remains a little-known footnote in history.

But for many researchers, this obscure event, which took place four years before

an object crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, marked

a turning point in the nation's handling of UFOs.

When we talk about UFO crashes, wouldn't it be something if the ground

Zero for the whole UFO crash phenomena was actually Cape Girardeau?

Cape Girardeau crash was a preparation for

the military's response to the Roswell crash.

And the military learned an awful lot about how to handle these events,

how to cover them up, and how to make sure that they

put a blanket of secrecy over future crash events.

It would seem that the American government has been aware of some Alien presence and

perhaps interacting with them since at least

World War II, with the Cape Girardeau crash.

But no matter what the actual truth is, it would appear that we've been

interacting with and aware of extraterrestrials for many decades.

You might be surprised that the number two entry on

our list is the most famous UFO crash ever reported.

It involves eyewitnesses, strange unexplainable

wreckage, and even a military cover-up.

At number two on our countdown of the Top 10 UFO Crashes, the Roswell incident.

July 1947.

Witnesses see a flash of light that streaks across the night sky.

The incident crashes in the desert north of Roswell, New Mexico.

Rancher Mac Brazel hears the impact and investigates the next morning.

The field of debris was like nothing ever seen before.

And the ranch reported finding what looked like initially foil-like material.

This sort of suggested the possibility that

something very strange had come down at Roswell.

Brazel, of course, reports it to the local Roswell sheriff, a man named George

Wilcox, and Wilcox sends some deputies out

there, and the case just gets crazier from there.

Roswell Army Airfield sends people out to investigate it.

On July 7th, the airfield dispatches Army Air force

Major Jesse Marcel to investigate the mysterious debris.

My grandfather, Major Jesse Marcel, back in July of 1947, was the head of

intelligence for the 509th bombing group and was really the lead investigator into

what has become known as the Roswell incident.

According to his grandson, Marcel was so astounded

by what he saw that he took the debris home with him.

He woke up his son, my father, who was about 12 years old at the time,

and his wife, Vio, and said, you guys got to come take a look at this.

He couldn't make heads or tails or any sense out of what he was looking at.

While examining the wreckage, Marcel's family discovered several mysterious markings.

My father picked up what was a beam about 11, 12 inches long, and all of a sudden,

he really came to the idea that whatever this was, it was not made by human hands.

The next morning, the front page headline of the Roswell Daily Record

reads Roswell Army Airfield captures flying saucer.

That day, Major Marcel is summoned to Fort Worth, Texas, headquarters of the 8th Air

Force, and is ordered to bring with him the debris he recovered from the crash site.

He and Brigadier General Roger Ramey are

scheduled to present their findings to the media.

Jesse Marcel flies to Fort Worth to tell the whole world about the crash of a

flying saucer at Roswell, except Roger Ramey says to

Jesse Marcel, could you just go and eat map room for a second?

I want to arrange some stuff out here.

According to Marcel, Roger Ramey removed all the material recovered from the

Roswell crash site and gave Marcel something else to present to the reporters.

They make Jesse Marcel, a radar trained intelligence officer, stand in front of a

weather balloon and admit that he was confused.

UFO researchers suggest that evidence proving Jesse Marcel's story is true and

that the actual wreckage from Roswell was indeed replaced with a weather balloon can

be found in a photograph of General Ramey inspecting the recovered debris.

General Ramey had a document in his hands, the so-called Ramey memo.

Modern forensic document analysis and photographic enhancement has enabled some

researchers to zoom in on this and to clarify at least some portions of the text.

What it tells us is astounding.

Some of the phrases in the memo are victims of the wreck and disk which we will ship.

So clearly if the official story is true, well this makes no sense.

Clearly something more than just a weather balloon was

involved here and the memo might just be the smoking gun.

Is it possible that the military's initial report about the crash of a flying saucer

was true and that they actively concealed this evidence from the public eye?

For Ancient Astronaut Theorists, the answer is a resounding yes.

The question is always, well where is the evidence?

Well if the evidence has not yet been revealed,

that does not mean the evidence is not there.

There is only one UFO crash left on our countdown and you won't want to miss it

because this event reportedly includes an actual Alien survivor.

We've reached the Top UFO crash on our countdown which took place deep in the

Mojave Desert and while it occurred six years after Roswell, what makes this one

so compelling is that reports claim that there was an extraterrestrial survivor.

At number one, the Kingman UFO Crash.

Phoenix, Arizona, May 21st, 1953.

In the middle of the night, government officials secretly

gather a team of scientists for a curious assignment.

They are collected to investigate a mysterious object that

crashed in the desert outside the small town of Kingman.

There were 40 engineers that boarded a bus and they took

a long three and a half hour ride from Phoenix to Kingman.

When they got there, it was nighttime.

There were MPs on all corners of the craft.

They had two high powered lights shining down on it.

It's about a 40 foot diameter dish shaped craft that was perfectly intact.

There wasn't a scratch on it.

According to reports, the wreckage contained not only a spacecraft,

but extra terrestrial entities.

There were four beings associated with this craft and what

they ended up doing is they took an M25 tank transporter.

They put this craft on the tank transporter on the trailer.

They built a cradle for it and they shipped it to Groom Lake.

Groom Lake is the Area 51 region in Nevada.

When Area 51 was just bare bones, they took the craft and the Aliens out to

that location in the middle of the Nevada desert because

it was so remote and around that they built Area 51.

Hidden within a ring of mountains deep in the Nevada desert, Area 51 is a top secret

military installation that has long been

rumored to hold evidence of Alien technology.

And there are even stories that a special facility

at Area 51 once held an Alien entity known as J-Rod.

J-Rod is an Alien who allegedly worked at Area 51 over a period of years.

It was J-Rod's mission or duty to help reverse engineer technology that was

apparently from the 1953 Kingman UFO Crash.

One man who claimed to have worked with J-Rod is Captain Bill UHouse, a former

Air Force test pilot who was assigned to Area 51 in the mid 1960s.

We had a long period of introduction into meetings, you know, and I call him J-Rod.

That's the name that the linguists gave him.

And he'd try and answer your question, you know.

Basically, it was only engineering advice or science advice.

Is it possible that the United States military worked with an extraterrestrial

being to develop cutting-edge technology while the sensational

account of Bill UHouse strikes many as outlandish?

In the years following the Kingman UFO Crash, scientists at Area 51 developed

some of the military's greatest innovations, including the U-2 spy plane,

the SR-71 Blackbird, and stealth technology.

It's interesting to look at the sudden explosion of

technology just about at the time of these UFO crashes.

You see us go from propeller aircraft to space rockets in just a few short years,

and many believe a lot of technologies that

we do have, have been acquired through UFO crashes.

Did an Alien pilot really help reverse engineer

extraterrestrial spacecraft at Area 51?

To some, the evidence is certainly compelling.

And so is the fact that UFO crashes have been reported all over the world,

from the American Southwest to northern Italy and even the mountains of China.

The ten incidents we featured in this episode are just the tip of the iceberg,

and with so many reported crashes, it may only be a matter of time before our

governments can no longer hide the physical proof of extraterrestrial visitation.

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