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Official government reports of extraterrestrial contact.

A clandestine group tasked with silencing UFO witnesses.

And secret research programs to reverse engineer Alien technology.

For over a decade, Ancient Aliens has investigated covert groups, bases and

research sites that are connected to the extraterrestrial phenomenon.

Now, we're taking a look back at ten of the most

incredible secret projects we've investigated.

Projects that could provide evidence of government contact with extraterrestrials.

As an Ancient Astronaut Theorist, I think it's great that

UFOs are becoming a regular subject of today's headlines.

And what I find even more exciting is that for more than 80 years, witnesses have

claimed that the government has top secret programs

designed to study extraterrestrials and their technology.

We'll start our countdown with a famous incident in New

Mexico that the government still denies to this day.

At number ten on our list of the Top Ten Secret Projects, the Roswell Cover-Up.

Washington, D.C., April 2011.

The FBI posts thousands of previously classified files to its new online vault.

And one file in particular draws immediate attention

from the media and independent researchers.

The memo, dated March 22nd, 1950, is a briefing to FBI Director

J. Edgar Hoover regarding informant information about

three flying saucers that were recovered in New Mexico.

Investigators immediately connect the memo to the infamous Roswell incident,

a purported UFO crash that many people believe

was covered up by the military in 1947.

Perhaps the most famous UFO incident of all time is Roswell.

Now this crash was brought to the attention of the Army Air Force Base at Roswell.

And, famously, the base actually put out a press

release and said a flying disk has been recovered.

Just one day after this explosive headline, the military changed its story

and claimed the recovered debris had an earthly origin.

The world was told, nope, just a weather balloon.

And for more than 30 years, that's where it was left.

Until witnesses started to surface, saying,

in fact, it was an extraterrestrial craft.

Is it possible that an Alien craft really did crash near Roswell?

Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes, and suggest the

cover-up was part of a secret government project.

As evidence, they point to statements made 50 years after

the event by retired United States Army Colonel Philip J. Corso

in his book, The Day After Roswell.

Philip J. Corso made an incredible claim that he worked at the Foreign Technology Division

within the Army Research and Development and had

key access to ET technology from the Roswell crash.

According to Colonel Corso's account, military scientists were tasked with

reverse engineering the debris collected at Roswell.

After the 1947 crash in Roswell, New Mexico,

our technology took off just like a rocket.

Silicon chips, laser technology, fiber optics,

all of this stuff came after the Roswell crash.

Not only did Roswell spark public interest in UFOs, according to allegedly top secret

documents, it also inspired the creation of a

classified organization that has a really cool name.

Number 9 on our countdown, the Majestic 12.

Burbank, California, December 1984.

Movie producer and UFO researcher Jamie Shandera

is anonymously sent a mysterious document.

It is a top secret memo allegedly sent in 1952

from the CIA to President-elect Dwight Eisenhower.

The document reveals the existence of a clandestine

government think tank called the Majestic 12.

Majestic 12 is supposedly the government body that has responsibility for securing

extraterrestrial technology, crash retrievals and investigating UFOs.

It comprises senior figures in the scientific community, the military

community and within government, particularly intelligence.

No one anywhere outside of this group is to know anything

about UFOs, crash retrievals, ETs, bodies, any of it.

According to the documents, President Harry S. Truman

established MJ-12 in 1947, shortly after

the infamous UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico.

The files also include detailed instructions explaining

how to handle the debris from an extraterrestrial crash.

The documents talk about how debris from UFOs could be collected and sent to

specific military facilities and how Alien bodies could be preserved.

So the documents essentially is a guideline to handle UFOs.

The most important document is a restricted SOM

101 Majestic 12 Group Special Operations Manual.

And when you go to page 10, there is an

extraterrestrial technology classification table.

This is solid confirmation that our government knew and was dealing with

extraterrestrial entities and technology in the 40s.

Of all the top secret projects we've covered on Ancient Aliens, perhaps the

most nefarious is a group of clandestine government agents who will do whatever it

takes to keep extraterrestrial encounters quiet.

At number 8 on our list, The Men in Black.

Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1952.

World War II Air Force veteran Albert Bender establishes one of America's first

UFO organizations, the International Flying Saucer Bureau.

The IFSB publishes a quarterly journal, Space Review, to

share stories of UFO sightings with its 600 worldwide members.

But just one year after launching, Bender claims he was visited by three

strange men in black suits who threatened

both his fledgling organization and his life.

Albert K. Bender coined the term Men in Black to describe the people who cautioned him not

to talk about UFOs, not to talk about flying saucers, and above all,

not to talk about extraterrestrials.

The Men in Black are, without doubt, the most feared and sinister beings in ufology.

The Men in Black go around threatening people who've seen UFOs, who've been

abducted, even in some cases, people who've found crop circles.

Encounters with the Men in Black have been reported for more than seven decades.

But just who, or what, are the Men in Black?

There's a lot of Men in Black stories that have occurred over the years.

Enough to make you conclude that there is an agency involved, or agencies involved

over the years, that from time to time have

felt it was important to silence UFO witnesses.

Are the Men in Black a secret government agency that is tasked with both

investigating and concealing an extraterrestrial presence on Earth?

Based on Albert Bender's account of his experience with the Men in Black,

some researchers believe these intimidating

figures may even be Alien entities themselves.

He said, late one night, when he was working in his attic room, these three

shadowy, fedora-wearing figures literally

materialized through the walls of the bedroom.

And, of course, the three men were the Men in Black.

He thought they were an extraterrestrial police force.

If the Men in Black are, in fact, of otherworldly origin, could it be that

the government is working with extraterrestrials

to keep their presence hidden from the public?

Whatever the truth may be, many in the UFO community are

convinced these shadowy figures continue to operate today.

UFO sightings haven't stopped quite the opposite.

So, if UFO sightings are still going on, there's no reason to suppose that Men in Black

aren't still going around speaking to witnesses, and if they're successful in

their mission, we don't get to hear about it.

It's quite possible that the Men in Black are still operating, still intimidating

witnesses, and still being the gatekeepers of the UFO secret.

For UFO researchers, one of the most intriguing secret projects that studies

extraterrestrial activity is located in England.

Its headquarters are rumored to be hidden within a series of underground rooms and

tunnels found beneath a quaint country estate.

At number seven on our countdown of the Top Ten Secret Projects, Rudloe Manor.

In England's southwest county of Wiltshire stands Rudloe Manor.

On the surface, it appears to be nothing more than a charming English country house.

But deep beneath this structure lie an astounding 2.2 million square feet of vast

caverns divided into many smaller chambers.

Rudloe Manor is an extremely mysterious place, and at the heart of it is a very

hidden base, one that is so secret that very little

is known today about what actually goes on there.

During World War II, the caverns and chambers beneath the estate were used by

the British Royal Air Force as an underground aircraft factory.

But while the underground complex once served as a clever way to hide military

production from German bombers, today it is used

to protect even more clandestine activities.

To this day, the underground facility carries out work, which is highly

classified, shrouded in secrecy, and people cannot

get information about what the true mission is.

It's absolutely off-limits.

For years, it was home to a group called the Provost and Security Services.

They're kind of like the James Buns of the British Royal Air Force.

They do espionage investigations, counterintelligence programs, things like that.

One of the more thought-provoking aspects of Rudloe Manor is

this claim that it's sort of the British equivalent of Area 51.

Rudloe Manor earned its reputation as the British Area 51 in 1955.

After celebrated American journalist Dorothy Kilgallen published a story with

the International News Service that claimed the

British Royal Air Force had recovered a UFO.

Kilgallen heard a story that the British government had got its hands on a crashed

UFO, and the military then decided to start investigating it at Rudloe Manor.

Now, for years, the Air Force and the Ministry of Defence denied that any UFO

investigations were going on at Rudloe Manor.

Then a document got released, and it showed that, actually, yes, UFO

investigations had been done from Rudloe Manor.

And, of course, a lot of people say, oh, wait a minute, now we're getting interested.

So all this, of course, just fuels the idea that

maybe there is something to hide down there.

And whatever's going on down there, it's big.

One of the most compelling stories we've investigated on

Ancient Aliens features another top-secret project in England.

It involves the 30-year cover-up of what some

are calling the greatest UFO photo of all time.

At number six, the Calvine Cover-Up.

August 15, 2022.

Newsweek Magazine publishes the provocative headline, Best UFO Picture Ever,

the Calvine Photo, found after 30 years missing.

This photograph from the Calvine Hills in Scotland is crystal clear, it's in color,

and it shows this just magical-looking, 100-foot-long

diamond-shaped craft that is clear as a bell.

Not only that, we also see a Harrier jet trailing the object.

As soon as this photo was released to the public, people went crazy.

It was a big deal.

According to the article, the photograph was taken 32 years earlier, in August 1990.

It is one of six photographs allegedly taken by two

hikers outside the small Scottish village of Calvine.

The two hikers brought the photographs to

Scotland's largest newspaper, the Daily Record.

But then, the photographs mysteriously disappeared.

They had six photographs, and they go to the local newspaper to have them published.

And for reasons that are still not clear to this day, this Scotland newspaper,

instead of immediately putting these six incredible photos on the front page,

which is what I would have done as a reporter, somebody calls the Ministry of

Defence in London, and they are ordered to send the photos and

the negatives from the newspaper to somebody in the government.

Among the people who saw the six photographs was former Ministry of Defence

UFO Investigator Nick Pope, who was present

for classified briefings regarding the images.

The photographs and the negatives went to Jarrick, which

is joint-air reconnaissance and intelligence centre.

This is part of the intelligence community that specialises in imagery analysis.

Their opinion was that this was not a fake.

These were genuine pictures.

The photographs would remain hidden from public view for over 30 years,

until one of the photos was shared with Newsweek for publication.

In 2022, a former Royal Air Force press officer named Craig Lindsay actually came

forward and said that he had in his possession

a copy of one of the Calvin UFO photos.

And he decided he wanted to release it to the public.

Craig Lindsay was the Royal Air Force press officer who

interviewed the original hikers, who took the photos.

While the photographs shared by Craig Lindsay caused a

sensation, the five other Calvin photos have yet to be revealed.

But why?

Is it possible that the British government has a secret project to keep evidence of

UFOs and extraterrestrials out of the public eye?

According to some government insiders, it's a distinct possibility.

We had the photographs, we had the negatives.

Now, the Ministry of Defence has not commented on whether

the Craig Lindsay picture is or isn't the real thing.

And therefore, because I'm still bound by the

Official Secrets Act, I can't comment on that either.

But the pictures out there in the public domain and

people can look at these images and decide for themselves.

We're coming up on the halfway point in our countdown of the Top Ten Secret Projects.

And this next one is absolutely mind-blowing.

According to one military whistleblower, in the 1980s, a team of government

scientists challenged the laws of physics and opened a portal to another world.

At number five, Project Jackknife.

Lincoln County, Nevada, 1984.

Counterintelligence officer Richard Doty begins

a new assignment at the Nevada test site.

A top-secret U.S.

military facility used for the development of nuclear weapons in the 1940s and 50s.

According to Doty, he was part of an operation codenamed Project Jackknife.

A military experiment that was attempting to open a gateway to another world.

I got involved in it to protect the operation against any kind of espionage.

This particular experiment used a high-energy laser and a large magnetic field.

And when they generated this beam through this

magnetic field, what I saw was a wavy orb appearing.

The orb became larger and larger and larger and larger.

And behind it, there was a flashing light.

And when I asked a scientist who was standing right next to me, what did we

just see, he said, we just opened a fabric of space.

If we go in that, then we can go to another dimension.

They call that a portal.

Also known as wormholes or Stargates, portals are bridges

through space and time that can connect to other worlds.

According to Doty, this is only one of many secret experiments the U.S.

government has conducted to try to create these conduits.

Ever since the Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Scientific Intelligence,

realized that there were theories about portals, they engaged in a number of

operations over the years to try to prove portals were possible.

And I can guarantee you, even today, that there's some type of experiment going on.

Could it be that for the past 50 years, the United States government has had a

secret project to develop a real, traversable Stargate?

While it may sound like science fiction, to Ancient Astronaut Theorists,

this technology is not only possible.

But there is evidence it was used in the ancient world.

All around the world, we have myths and legends

of beings coming and going through gates.

The Anunnaki Gods in ancient Sumeria were

constantly coming and going through gateways.

In Egypt, we learn of the portals of Pata and the Pharaoh scaling the ladder to

heaven and going through the portal of the Gods.

The idea of the Stargate as a transportation system has been proposed as

one of the ideal ways for these extraterrestrial beings to travel.

Deep in the barren desert of Nevada is a clandestine

military installation that is the world's worst-kept secret.

It's a series of runways, nondescript buildings and giant hangers.

And according to some government insiders,

it's also home to extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Number four on our countdown of the top ten secret projects, Area 51.

Throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s, dozens of reports surfaced that suggested the U.S.

government was hiding evidence of extraterrestrials.

But for many UFO researchers, the most important revelations

of all came in 1989 from a physicist named Bob Lazar.

According to Lazar, he worked on a top -secret

project at an Air Force facility known as Area 51.

While there, he had a remarkable encounter that he revealed to his close friend,

retired CIA pilot John Lear.

Bob Lazar used to work at Los Alamos, had

the highest clearance that you can get there.

And then he worked for two or four months at Area 51.

It was December 6th of 1988.

He comes in, he sits down there at my desk, and he said, I saw a disc today.

And I said, what?

He said, I saw a disc.

And I said, you saw a flying saucer?

He said, yeah, sure did.

If I saw them, I'd touch them.

They are real.

With Bob's permission, Lear shared his story with a

reporter he knew at the local KLAS TV station, George Knapp.

On May 15th, Knapp sat down with Lazar for a live interview.

We'd have a five-minute live interview segment every day on the five O'Clock

news, and we got a cancellation at the last minute.

We got to fill this hole.

We call up Lear.

Hey, would your UFO buddy come on the air?

And Lear calls back in a little while.

Yes.

We go up to John Lear's house.

We put Bob Lazar on the air, blacked out his face, and he told this incredible story.

Exactly what's going on up there?

Well, there's several, actually nine flying saucers, flying

discs, that are out there of extraterrestrial origin.

And they're being test flown and basically just analyzed.

Could Bob Lazar's extraordinary claims that there is a

secret program studying Alien technology at Area 51 be true?

The idea struck many as far-fetched until August 2013, when the CIA not only

acknowledged the existence of Area 51, but admitted that scientists at the

top-secret facility had developed some of the military's most advanced technology from

the U-2 spy plane to the F-117 stealth fighter.

When this announcement was first made, some people said, wait a minute,

if Bob Lazar was right about Area 51, what else was he right about?

Finally, these years of rumors that the UFO community and the conspiracy theory

community had been claiming to be true, had been validated.

When it comes to the UFO phenomenon, one of the most

astonishing secret projects was revealed in 2002.

A computer hacker claimed to have uncovered NASA documents that suggest that the U.S.

has been collaborating with extraterrestrial beings for decades.

Number three on our countdown, the Secret Space Program.

London, England, March 19, 2002.

Shortly after 8 A.M., the National High-Tech Crime Unit arrives at the home of

36-year old Scottish computer engineer Gary McKinnon.

They are there to arrest him on behalf of the United States Justice Department for

hacking into top-secret computers at NASA and the Pentagon.

McKinnon not only admits to the crime, but claims he uncovered evidence that the U.S.

government was working with extraterrestrial beings.

I found the spreadsheet was actually titled in the column, Non-Terrestrial Officers.

As well as officers' names, it had its ship names.

None of these were ocean-going ships.

It was astounding.

They're not Navy, they're not in the Army, and not even Air Force.

So, to me, I was thinking there must be an off-planet space force, or space fleet,

at least.

According to McKinnon, the most shocking file he came

across was on a computer at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Within a folder labeled Unfiltered, he spotted a thumbnail image of a high-res

NASA satellite photo, which appeared to depict an unusual spacecraft.

So, I double-clicked on an image, and it came down slowly more and more.

But as it came down, you could see the hemisphere of a planet.

And then, suddenly, a ship started to appear.

It was tubular, or what we used to call a cigar-shaped object.

Then, suddenly, that was it.

Blank screen.

So, it was my Eureka moment, and the same moment I got caught, too.

Before he was arrested, Gary McKinnon released what he had discovered online.

Could it be that his account of what he saw when he

hacked into computers at the Pentagon and NASA is genuine?

According to Ancient Astronaut Theorists, the answer is a resounding yes.

It seems that what he's talking about is real.

And even today, I mean, we have now the space force of the American military.

And that would actually be combined in with what Gary McKinnon was discovering

when he hacked into the Pentagon's computers.

While there are many who question the authenticity of Gary McKinnon's account,

other more notable figures have since come forward with similar claims.

In 2013, former Canadian Minister of National Defence, Paul Hellyer,

declared that the United States government and other governments around the world are

working with organized groups of extraterrestrials.

Paul Hellyer was really a senior political leadership figure, and he essentially came

out and said extraterrestrials are real, they

are visiting Earth, and there is interaction.

I was privy to a lot of things, and some of it, for me, very frightening,

very disturbing.

UFOs are real, the United States government had been in contact with them.

Paul Hellyer is not the only government official to come forward with alleged

knowledge of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth.

Recently, the former Israeli Chief of Space Security, Haim Eshed, came out and

said that there is a Galactic Federation, and that indeed many world leaders know of

and are in talks with delegates of the Galactic Federation.

Dr. Haim Eshed claimed that the extraterrestrials in this Galactic

Federation were in contact with governments around the world.

It's a fascinating idea, and one that may well be true.

Is it possible that the so-called secret space program, allegedly uncovered by Gary

McKinnon, is connected to the supposed Galactic

Federation that politicians have recently disclosed?

If Gary McKinnon's story is true, it means that we have treaties with

extraterrestrials, and that we are up there in space operating with them.

And that's an intriguing thought.

Without a doubt, one of the most extraordinary government

projects to study extraterrestrials came to light in 2017.

But this wasn't some wild Internet rumor or conspiracy theory.

This classified program was featured on the front page of The New York Times.

Number two on our countdown of the Top Ten Secret Projects.

ATIP.

December 16, 2017.

The New York Times publishes an explosive

story entitled, Glowing Auras and Black Money.

The Pentagon's mysterious UFO program.

The story exposes a top-secret U.S.

government project.

To investigate UFO reports, call the Advanced

Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or ATIP.

The revelations concerning the existence of

the Pentagon's ATIP program are extraordinary.

It is the single biggest ever news in the whole history of the UFO phenomenon.

It's not quite a spaceship in a hangar smoking

gun, but it's the closest we've ever been.

The article reported that the program had been run by a former Pentagon official

named Luis Elizondo, a senior career

intelligence officer with top security clearance.

It was Elizondo's job to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects and

to measure what threat they could pose to national security.

Luis Elizondo is a long-standing intelligence officer in the Department of Defense.

He has made it clear that the information that's come to ATIP

over the years is quite extraordinary and not explainable.

And these most important statements have been along the lines of, look,

if we've ever thought that these were Russian

or Chinese, we'd be going crazy right now.

To everyone who's able to read between the

lines, he's essentially saying UFOs are real.

Elizondo ran ATIP for eight years, from 2009 until he resigned in 2017.

During this time, the program collected several

extraordinary videos of military encounters with UFOs.

Taken by forward-looking infrared cameras mounted on Navy jets, they were perhaps

the most spectacular and credible UFO videos ever released to the public.

One of these videos, at least, comes from the gun camera of an F-18.

And you don't just jump out in your plane and fly

out and chase something because you saw it go by.

You were told to do so, and it took a lot of people to know this was going on.

These videos captured the world's attention,

and suddenly it's like we're in a new world.

We have these incredible videos shot by Navy pilots, giving irrefutable evidence

that there is a technology out there that is beyond anything our near peers have.

Perhaps the most shocking information to come out about ATIP was that the

government had recovered strange metal alloys of unknown origin.

Luis Elizondo has referred to these as meta-materials.

The implication is that they're not special magical elements or anything,

but they do seem to be materials that have been studied.

According to Elizondo, tests have been run.

The answer has come back.

Whatever these things were, they came from space.

You know, for years and years, UFO researchers had talked about crash

retrievals of UFOs, that elements of these objects had been recovered and were being

studied, and skeptics would laugh at these claims, you know,

how ridiculous such conspiracy, paranoid fantasies were.

Well, guess what?

Now we have it confirmed.

Although the complete findings of ATIP are still considered highly classified and may

never be released, its very existence provides proof that the United States

military has been secretly investigating unidentified flying objects for decades.

One of the really interesting things about ATIP

is how much information hasn't been released.

Are there more videos?

They were doing this for like five years or maybe even a lot longer than that.

I bet you there's a lot more.

We've reached the top spot in our countdown of the Top 10 Secret Projects.

And for Ancient Astronaut Theorists like me, this last one truly stands apart.

It was the subject of a televised congressional hearing, where rumors about

unidentified aerial phenomena became public record.

At number one, the UAP Recovery Program.

June 5th, 2023.

The debrief, a science news website, publishes a sensational

interview with military intelligence officer David Grusch.

In the article, Grusch revealed that the Pentagon has a top secret task force to

recover and reverse engineer crashed craft of non-human origin.

It is simply known as the UAP Recovery Program.

Grusch stated that there are multiple craft, Alien craft, let's be clear,

that the United States government or its

licensed private contractors have possession of.

He speculated it could be as many as 10 or more or dozen or more.

A lot.

According to Grusch, the UAP Recovery Program had secured vehicles that were

made of exotic materials and suggests they are non-human in origin.

Grusch claims he learned about this secret

project while serving on the UAP Task Force.

David Grusch served on the unidentified aerial phenomena

task force under the directorship of Jay Stratton.

And he was representative of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

While I was on the UAP Task Force, Dave Grusch was given the job to go and

start interviewing people who worked on a previous UFO program.

And see what they were willing to tell us.

And he found a lot of things.

The dramatic revelation of a secret UAP recovery program

in the debrief article turned heads on Capitol Hill.

And on July 26, 2023, just seven weeks after going public, David Grusch and two

other whistleblowers testified before a congressional hearing.

I am taking every step I can to cooperate this evidence over a period of four years

while I was with the UAP Task Force and do my

due diligence on the individual sharing it.

This is because of these steps I believe strongly in

the importance of bringing this information before you.

During his testimony, Grusch refused to divulge specific details about the UAP

recovery program as the project remains highly classified.

If you believe we have crashed craft stated earlier, do

we have the bodies of the pilots who piloted this craft?

Biologics came with some of these recoveries, yeah.

And was this documentary evidence, this video, photos?

The specific documentation I would have to talk to you in a skiff about.

When pressed for some of these details, he would frequently say, look,

I am going as far as I can legally go with you here in this environment.

If we go into a skiff that is a secured compartment and information facility where

we can discuss these classified topics, I can go further.

I will be happy to go further.

Millions of people are watching it and they're hearing this beyond dramatic

testimony that for the first time we're told what everybody knows to be true.

The U.S. government has been hiding secrets about UFOs for over 70 years.

The sworn testimony of David Grusch seems to confirm what many have proposed all along.

That secret projects to study extraterrestrials have existed for decades.

But whether it's a UAP crash and retrieval program, a covert laboratory in the

English countryside, or even attempts to open portals to other worlds, unlocking

the truth behind these secret projects may finally reveal a

long history of extraterrestrial visitation here on Earth.

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