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NARRATOR: Across the globe,

reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are on the rise.

But none are more mysterious or more prevalent

than the accounts of glowing orbs.

TRAVIS TAYLOR: We don't know what orbs are.

But we have video

of orb-like phenomena around the world.

NARRATOR: Their movements frequently defy the laws of physics.

DAVID CHILDRESS: You'll suddenly see an orb appear,

and it starts to move in one direction

and then, it will disappear.

NARRATOR: And now orbs are even being reported

near military bases, ships

- and nuclear weapon facilities. - [beeping]

Just what are these glowing orbs?

And more importantly, what are they doing in our airspace?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: I think it's highly important

that we investigate these orbs

because even the U.S. military has come forward and said,

"By the way, this is not ours."

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

♪

Starting in mid-November, people throughout the state

begin to witness an unsettling phenomenon

when they see strange lights and giant drones

in the skies above.

NARRATOR: With no country or organization claiming

responsibility for these mysterious aircraft,

residents were perplexed by what they saw.

NICK POPE: Some of these drones were described as being large,

the size of a car,

and some of them were moving around

doing strange, right-angle turns,

extraordinary speeds and maneuvers.

POPE: People were wondering,

does some of this belong to an enemy of the United States?

Or could this be extraterrestrials?

Nobody knew, but everyone was talking about it--

the media, the public.

They were very concerned.

NARRATOR: In January 2025,

the U.S. government finally put out a statement

claiming that the drones were authorized by the FAA

to conduct some type of unspecified research.

But for ufologists,

a much bigger mystery than the drones are

the strange lights that were seen

along with them that looked like glowing orbs.

These things were quite different, obviously not drones.

Smaller, spherical,

sometimes staying stationary for hours

and then shooting off at high speed.

Now, that's not an aircraft.

That's not a bright star or planet.

That-that kind of movement, that's something else.

NARRATOR: But what exactly are these so-called "glowing orbs"?

TAYLOR: We don't know what orbs are.

They're unidentified and they're anomalous.

And they're some kind of phenomena,

so they fit in this broader UAP category.

UAP is Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.

That's the big category.

But orb is a specific subset.

CHILDRESS: Orbs tend to be more of a light phenomenon.

They are very distinct

from these, you know,

larger metallic craft

that we call UFOs.

RICHARD DOLAN: Glowing orbs are one of the most fascinating

and probably least understood elements of the UFO

or now UAP phenomenon.

In fact, it's really better

to refer to them as UAP

because they truly are.

They're not unidentified flying objects.

They really are unidentified anomalous phenomenon.

Orbs can be varied in size

from anything as small as like a baseball.

Sometimes quite a bit larger.

They can be bright white, they can be gold and yellowish,

glowing orange to red.

There's greens, there's blues.

They can hover for a long period of time,

practically motionless,

and then they can move very suddenly,

almost instant acceleration, just like a UFO would do.

These luminous balls of light that are often seen,

appear to be intelligently controlled.

There doesn't appear to be any real technical device,

meaning nuts and bolts.

Think of a, like a plasma ball, a luminous ball of light

that seems to be able to operate and maneuver

under some sort of guidance.

These orbs now have been seen by huge swaths of the population

and the civilian population,

and in fact, all around the world.

It's a global phenomenon.

There has been a large increase

in sightings of UFOs

and especially of orbs

and people are capturing it on film.

ELIZONDO: With the pervasiveness of cell phones with cameras,

it's getting increasingly harder to deny their existence.

NARRATOR: But it's not just civilians

who are reporting sightings of strange glowing orbs.

According to former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo,

there have been numerous encounters

between orbs and our military.

ELIZONDO: I was brought into a program

that is now known as AATIP,

Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

And that was a program by the Pentagon

to investigate UFOs or what we now call UAP.

Orbs are being picked up and seen

by our military personnel, both in controlled U.S. airspace

and over sensitive military installations.

And they're quite prevalent.

TSOUKALOS: Some of those orbs

that have been recorded

run circles around fighter jets with their acceleration

or going from 10,000 feet altitude

to 85,000 feet altitude

in a snap of a finger.

I mean, this is something that we today cannot do,

so what's going on here?

Could it be that these represent

some type of extraterrestrial craft?

NARRATOR: What are these mysterious glowing orbs?

Could they be of extraterrestrial origin?

And if so, why are they here?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

an extraordinary orb video recorded by the U.S. military.

During a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee

on Armed Services,

Pentagon official Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick

presents senators with new declassified footage.

SEAN KIRKPATRICK: You'll see it, uh,

come through the top of the screen.

There it goes.

NARRATOR: Taken by an MQ-9 Reaper drone

in 2022, the footage shows

a small metallic orb flying over Mosul, Iraq.

PAUL HYNEK: Mosul is significant

because it's the first visual corroboration

of a UFO in an active combat zone.

It's really unchartered territory

for the U.S. military to divulge something like this

and not have any kind of answer.

ELIZONDO: The Mosul orb was over a...

over controlled U.S. airspace.

And to see an orb

that had no wings, no control surfaces, no rudders,

no cockpit, no engine,

fly unchallenged

over an active theater of war, um, is problematic.

MARTELL: Many sightings involve these metallic orbs,

so getting an actual shot of this orb

over a military active space raises the question,

is this possibly some intervention

of one of these species that's monitoring Earth,

watching Earth, gathering data on us?

CHILDRESS: The American military knows

a lot more about UFOs and orbs than they will admit.

And it would seem

that the military has got all kinds of footage

of orbs.

Yet, they won't really comment on what these orbs really are.

NARRATOR: As far as ancient astronaut theorists

are concerned,

orb encounters reported by military personnel

provide some of the most compelling evidence there is

of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth.

And while they've only recently made headlines,

similar phenomena have been witnessed

by the military for decades.

In fact, numerous encounters with orbs

were reported by fighter pilots

from multiple countries during World War II.

NARRATOR: In the closing stages of World War II,

Allied forces are pushing deeper into Nazi-occupied France.

On November 27th, American aviators

with the 415th Night Fighter Squadron are conducting

a nighttime raid along the Rhine River

when they report seeing

several strange red lights in the sky.

The glowing orbs seem to pursue them

through a series of high-speed maneuvers

before they suddenly vanish.

In the days that follow,

more pilots experience similar encounters.

These craft, these objects,

whatever they-they were,

they were often just described as balls of light.

And they would come in very close to Allied aircraft.

POPE: These strange balls of light

often displayed speeds and maneuverability

that was way ahead

of-of the cutting edge of aviation technology.

NARRATOR: As the sightings increased,

Allied pilots began to call the mysterious orbs

"foo fighters."

BILL BIRNES: The reason they were called foo fighters was

because they were glowing on the inside.

The word for fire in French is feu,

and the French called them feu.

And that's how they got the name foo fighters from the Americans.

These foo fighters often just stayed very briefly

and then maneuvered with incredible speed

either straight up or far away.

NARRATOR: Most concerning to pilots was

that sightings were often accompanied

by bizarre malfunctions to their aircraft.

BIRNES: What the airmen found was the foo fighters were

sending an electric signal out

that got in the way of their radios...

[buzzing]

...got in the way of their navigational instruments.

TAYLOR: These orbs would fly near the airplanes,

even as close to the airplane wing

and the pilots claimed that it interacted

or confused the controls,

or changed how it operated,

and might have actually

made them, uh, nearly crash.

POPE: It was as if these things were observing the pilots.

These balls of light would often keep track with the aircraft.

So this was a-a real concern for the authorities.

But no overt hostile action,

which leads to the question,

what were these things and what was going on?

NARRATOR: Allied airmen speculated that the foo fighters were

a secret weapon that had been developed by the Germans.

But after the war, it became clear

that the flying orbs had been encountered

by forces on both sides of the conflict.

DOLAN: We learned that Germans and Japanese pilots

apparently were also reporting these.

Now, these foo fighters never seemed to be

weapons directed against them.

Because they often just stayed very briefly,

and then maneuvered with incredible speed

either straight up or far away.

We don't know what they are officially.

They strike me as classic UFO-type activity.

TSOUKALOS: I think the argument can be made

that some of these orbs

that we see today are those foo fighters of World War II.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the foo fighters

of World War II were extraterrestrial visitors?

And if so, could they be connected

to the glowing orbs

that military personnel are witnessing in the present day?

According to UFO researchers, America's armed forces have

not only been encountering strange orbs for decades

but they sometimes appear in swarms.

In July of 2019, off the West Coast,

ten U.S. Navy warships were buzzed by unknown craft,

one right after another.

One of those ships is the USS Omaha.

It was surrounded by more than a dozen of these things

that would fly toward it, then fly back.

And they were trying to get images of it.

And finally on a thermal imaging system, they got one of them.

It followed the ship for an hour.

It was a perfectly round sphere,

something like eight feet across.

No wings, no tail, no rotor.

That video showed that there were a bunch of these things

floating around the ship for a long period of time.

They'd zip in, zip out, disappear, appear.

What the hell was that?

NARRATOR: Even more astonishing,

footage recorded by sailors on the warship

shows the mysterious orbs performing maneuvers

that defy explanation.

TSOUKALOS: Many of these orbs dive into the water

and come out and oftentimes you do not see any splashes.

It's as if there's an artificial bubble

that allows this thing to move through material

without any loss of velocity.

ELIZONDO: Transmedium travel is

a breakthrough technology from what we have.

We have no idea even whose technology it is.

The official response by the Department of Defense

and our government is that these still remain a mystery.

They remain unsolved, unattributed.

Is that a concern for the Navy?

Well, absolutely it is.

And it's also a concern

for our national security.

NARRATOR: Two months after the USS Omahaincident,

in September 2019,

another swarm of glowing orbs was filmed

off the coast of North Carolina.

Cell phone video uploaded to YouTube by William Guy

shows what appears to be

a swarm of 14 orbs hovering over the water.

NARRATOR: The video was shot from aboard a ferry

and was witnessed by other passengers on board.

But perhaps the most concerning encounter

occurred in December 2023,

when a fleet of orbs appeared

over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.

ELIZONDO: Langley Air Force Base is certainly a sensitive facility,

and the notion of orbs certainly is a national security concern.

They're coming completely unattributed, unchallenged

over a controlled U.S. airspace,

and we have no idea what their intent is.

But it's not just military and intelligence eyewitnesses.

These orbs now have been seen by

huge swaths of the civilian population

all around the world.

It's a global phenomenon.

Every nation out there that has had to deal

with these orbs has come out and said

that they're not our technology.

Meaning it's not Russian, it's not Chinese, it's not U.S.,

it's not Canadian, German, U.K.

We're dealing with something

that is being intelligently controlled.

We have really no other choice

but to consider the possibility

that some sort of nonhuman intelligence

is controlling these things.

NARRATOR: Just who or what is behind

these remarkable encounters with flying orbs?

Are they simply an advanced, highly classified technology

created by the military or a foreign power?

Or is it possible that these orbs are not of this world?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining hot spots where glowing balls of light

not only appear but are believed

to travel to other dimensions.

NARRATOR: As darkness falls on this small town in West Texas,

a number of glowing orbs materialize in the night sky.

They hover over the dusty landscape

for a few seconds at a time, then mysteriously vanish.

These strange orbs have come to be known as the Marfa lights.

CHILDRESS: One of the most famous places in the world

for viewing orbs is Marfa, Texas.

And since the early 1800s.

You can stop and see these orbs moving

across the desert.

CHILDRESS: The Marfa lights are the most consistent

unexplained phenomenon in the world,

because the Marfa lights occur virtually

every single night.

BIRNES: Nobody knows what they are,

but there are mysterious orbs in the sky

that seem to float and nobody can understand why.

CHILDRESS: The state of Texas has actually put up a rest area there

with binoculars that are free to look at the Marfa lights.

We just don't know what the Marfa lights are,

and no one has come up with any definitive conclusion.

NARRATOR: Curiously, West Texas is not the only place in America

where mysterious lights can be regularly seen.

Roughly 700 miles northeast of Marfa,

in the Ozarks,

residents frequently report seeing strange floating orbs.

For decades, the locals have called them "spook lights."

POPE: The Ozark spook light

is something that's been sighted over many, many years,

dating back to the 1830s.

This is the sighting

of a small but intense ball or orb of light

that some people say is bright and colorful,

moves erratically, sometimes darting around.

For almost a hundred years,

people have been plagued by orbs.

They seem to come out of nowhere.

In fact, the orbs just didn't hang there.

They actually interacted with people.

NARRATOR: In addition to the Ozarks, another site

where orbs are reported on a regular basis can be found

600 miles east in North Carolina.

For decades, people have flocked to Brown Mountain

to witness the appearance of lights and glowing orbs

in the night sky.

CHILDRESS: In the Brown Mountains is a famous mystery light

called the Brown Mountain light.

And this light is occasionally seen by people and it's--

this has been going on for hundreds of years at least.

This goes on for hours.

And you're sitting there watching,

and then, suddenly, there's two lights,

and they're moving, and then they disappear.

No one has really come up with any definitive theory

on, you know, what is the origin of these orbs,

or what they're doing,

and whether they're just a natural phenomenon

or intelligently controlled in some way.

NARRATOR: Intelligently controlled?

Could it be that the mysterious orbs seen in Marfa,

the Ozarks and Brown Mountain

are of extraterrestrial origin?

Perhaps clues can be found by examining the story

behind an orb carved in stone.

Tempe, Arizona.

Towering above the city stands a mountain

known as Hayden Butte.

Its rugged slopes are home to approximately 500 petroglyphs

that were made by the Hohokam,

a Native American tribe that mysteriously disappeared.

DOVER: In the 12th century,

the Hohokam just vanished.

The tribe itself just ceased to exist,

kind of overnight,

and, uh, we still don't know why.

NARRATOR: According to some researchers,

clues about what happened to the Hohokam

can be found by examining the petroglyphs on Hayden Butte.

DOVER: There's one petroglyph that depicts two human figures

standing with their arms up to the sky,

as if pointing or possibly worshiping

two circular objects above them.

There's some interpretation

that these could depict celestial objects--

an orb up above them.

In the Navajo Nation there are descriptions

of going through a hole in the sky.

And I can't help but wonder

if like the Navajo, the Hohokam saw

some kind of portal in the sky

and climbed through.

NARRATOR: Ancient petroglyphs

representing gateways to other worlds?

While it may sound like science fiction,

one prominent theory about glowing orbs

is that they could represent

entities crossing over into our reality

from another dimension.

The term interdimensional refers

to other dimensions

or other planes of existence

that are believed to exist parallel to our own

or perhaps interweaving within our own.

And when you look at the orb phenomena

in light of this concept, it explains a lot

because in eyewitness accounts, these orbs just seem to pop in

and then pop out.

The orbs themselves may not be physical.

NARRATOR: Could the ancient rock art at Hayden Butte

actually portray orbs traveling through some sort of portal?

To this day, residents have been capturing footage

of orbs flying in the skies above the mountain.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that locations known for strange lights are

gateways where orbs can cross into our world

from other planets or even other dimensions?

Perhaps further clues can be found

at one of the world's most famous UFO hot spots:

Skinwalker Ranch.

NARRATOR: Nestled in a deep valley surrounded by mountains

is Skinwalker Ranch,

where a myriad of unusual phenomena

have been documented for decades.

This 512-acre property is

a place where strange disappearances are common,

- [creature growling] - and people regularly

sight bizarre creatures

as well as glowing orbs.

Skinwalker Ranch is

an absolute hot spot of both

UFO and paranormal activity.

It is a spooky place.

They have everything there

from strange, maybe malevolent creatures

that have been sighted

through to animal mutilations and, of course, UFO sightings.

And many of those UFOs involve glowing orbs of light.

BIRNES: Among the many manifestations

at the Skinwalker Ranch are floating orbs.

They seem to be coming out of nowhere,

hovering over the ranch,

and they disappear again.

NARRATOR: Today, a team of researchers...

- [device whining] - That's significant.

NARRATOR: ...which includes

astrophysicist Dr. Travis Taylor,

is conducting scientific experiments across the property

and has documented numerous startling anomalies.

- Hey, look, UAP right there! - Yep.

TAYLOR: Before I went to Skinwalker Ranch,

I had never personally seen

any type of "UFO" or UAP phenomenon that wasn't on video.

And once I got there,

and I've been there now for six years,

it's so common.

We see them at least once a week on average.

One of the more common ones are

the orbs that we've measured and captured

on various types of instruments and video at Skinwalker Ranch.

Since I've been there, we have video of multiple...

What is that? Right there.

...orange, purple and blue

orb-like phenomena

and many of them we've captured in infrared,

so we don't know what color they were.

The orbs seem to be

some size say between a volleyball

out to maybe the size of a car.

And I don't know if they're nuts and bolts,

if they're some sort

of new phenomena that we haven't seen

from Mother Nature before

or if they're something more exciting.

- Oh, wow! - Did you guys see that, too?

I got it on camera.

NARRATOR: Much like the foo fighters that pilots encountered

during World War II,

glowing orbs that appear at the ranch

seem to cause some sort of technological interference.

TAYLOR: One of the most common telltale signs that we see

is that GPS on the ranch nearby the phenomena seems

to suddenly lose its mind.

It literally becomes inaccurate

to within hundreds to thousands of miles.

And also, we see

a microwave signal that seems to accompany it,

and it's usually around 1.6 gigahertz.

Holy crap, look at this.

See this right here?

Look at that, look.

We've got a 1.6 gigahertz signal right now

that's in, that's-that's pulsing.

- I see it. - Yeah, look at that!

It's-it's the one that we got before.

It could be that these orbs are

some kind of advanced

extraterrestrial technology,

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

CHILDRESS: Some special energy

that's sent out and can appear.

Holy ...!

- Right there. - BARD: What is that? What is that?

TAYLOR: We got, we got something.

Hold on. Right there.

- WINTERTON: Yeah, I see it. - BARD: Oh, yeah.

NARRATOR: Many of the orbs seen at Skinwalker Ranch

also display capabilities

far beyond those of any man-made aircraft.

Look right here.

This thing is really clipping along.

Oh, my gosh. It disappeared. Can you replay that,

- please? - Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

BARD: And... gone.

TAYLOR: There are things that they're doing

that we do not have modern technology

that can do these things.

And one of the most, uh, telling is

this blue, silver-like orb flies out of the sky,

flies into solid rock mesa

and seems to be inside the mesa

for about three-quarters of a mile

and comes out of the mesa,

at the same speed, same direction,

same kind of pace.

So that would be in the realm of transmedium

and that's something we definitely don't know how to do.

NARRATOR: As far as Dr. Taylor is concerned,

while the glowing orb phenomenon is certainly real,

more data is needed before a theory can be formed

as to just what these balls of light might be.

But based on the many orb events

he has observed at Skinwalker Ranch,

he believes it's entirely possible

that these orbs are passing between dimensions.

I always wonder if these phenomena were

coming from a parallel universe

and not necessarily having to come from another planet.

Is it true? Do we know?

We don't have any evidence that tells us

it's a nuts-and-bolts craft from Zeta Reticuli

or that it's an orb from some other dimension.

I have no idea.

But since it is a possibility,

it deserves scientific investigation.

NARRATOR: The team at Skinwalker Ranch continues to search for answers

as to what the glowing orbs are and where they come from.

But the biggest question

concerning these mysterious orbs is: why are they here?

WINTERTON: I can still see it. It's right there.

I mean it-it was over top of the ranch.

BIRNES: They seem to be coming out of nowhere,

hovering over the ranch.

Are these orbs surveillance devices?

Or are they the actual creatures themselves?

TAYLOR: Wow, that was so cool!

TSOUKALOS: The science,

the experiments that have been done

at Skinwalker Ranch, some of them have

baffling, baffling results.

Do you see the orange light coming from the west?

What in the hell is that?

TSOUKALOS: What is the origin for this?

I think the extraterrestrials were called The Watchers

for a reason.

Because what do they do? They watch. They observe us.

NARRATOR: If extraterrestrial orbs

have been monitoring our planet, what could they want?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

clues can be found by examining

the numerous orb encounters that have been reported

at nuclear missile facilities.

NARRATOR: As tensions in the Cold War rise,

the military is on high alert to stop Soviet aggression.

Key to the nation's defense is

an arsenal of nuclear Minuteman ballistic missiles.

Ten of these powerful weapons are stored in silos

at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.

Early in the morning on March 27th,

a soldier is conducting

a routine patrol at Malmstrom when he notices

a red glowing orb is flying toward the base.

Soldiers above the ground reported

this very large, substantial,

glowing red orb,

spherical type of glowing thing coming to where they were.

NARRATOR: Stationed more than 40 feet below ground,

in the missile control center, was Lieutenant Robert Salas.

I was in charge of the--

we call it a launch control facility,

which controlled ten nuclear missiles.

These were Minuteman I

intercontinental ballistic missiles.

What I recall is getting a call from my topside guard.

There was some lights flying over the facility.

- [radio chatter] - They were behaving strangely.

They were flying, very fast,

stopping in midair, reversing course.

They heard no engine noise.

And he said, "These are not aircraft, sir."

I said, "Well, make sure you call me back

if something more significant happens."

Maybe five, ten minutes later, he calls back.

This time he's screaming into the phone.

He's clearly frightened.

He said, "Uh, I'm looking

"at a reddish orange pulsating light

that's hovering right above the front gate."

NARRATOR: According to Lieutenant Salas,

moments after the call

the missiles began to malfunction.

[alarms ringing]

SALAS: We hear these horns go off.

We looked over at the board,

this was a bank of lights.

The missiles started going from operational to no-go.

We lost all ten right in rapid succession...

...while this object was still up there.

POPE: This was a case that, whatever you think about UFOs,

illustrates why this is

a serious national security problem.

Salas, at the time, was told

this isn't the first time this has happened.

This was a systemic issue.

And for every one of these cases we've heard,

who knows how many cases there are

that we haven't heard?

SALAS: Whoever, whatever this craft was,

they knew exactly what it took to disable our missile system.

NARRATOR: Is it possible, as Robert Salas believes,

that the glowing red orb

deactivated the nuclear missiles?

According to UFO researchers,

a similar event occurred four years later.

DOLAN: One astonishing story

happened on July 2, 1971.

It was aboard the nuclear-powered

aircraft carrier, the USS John F. Kennedy.

The witness who wrote about this said

the ship was coming back from the Caribbean,

and he sees what he describes as a large

glowing orange, pulsating luminous sphere.

This thing is over the aircraft carrier,

and it's disabled the ship's communications.

[alert blaring]

At which point the ship goes on battle stations.

But for the next 20 minutes,

weapons systems failed to function.

At some point this sphere went away.

A few days later, there was a message

from the ship's captain on the intercom,

just saying no one was expected to speak about it.

NARRATOR: But the U.S. was not the only nation

whose military reported strange encounters with orbs.

The Soviet Union allegedly experienced at least

one similar UFO encounter

at a nuclear missile base in Ukraine.

In the 1980s,

the Soviet Union kept its missile silos in Ukraine.

And one day, over one of those missile sites, an orb appeared,

and the controllers in the site looked down and they said,

"The missiles are fueling."

Nobody told them to fuel. The controller tried to stop it.

They didn't have control.

Suddenly, they saw on their boards

launch codes were being entered for the United States.

The countdown started.

The panicked controllers tried to shut it down,

but they couldn't.

As the countdown progressed,

suddenly they shut down,

and the orb flew away.

According to former intelligence officer Lou Elizondo,

interaction between orbs

and nuclear facilities is still happening.

ELIZONDO: These orbs were being witnessed over our nuclear equities.

So think of nuclear power plants,

nuclear weapons development locations.

And so I think it's safe to say

that if you have something that can enter

into controlled U.S. airspace with complete anonymity

and unchallenged,

and outperform anything that we have,

certainly, from a national security perspective,

that's a problem.

NARRATOR: Could it be

that extraterrestrial orbs are interacting

with our military bases?

And if so, for what purpose?

TSOUKALOS: The fact is,

many of these orbs have been seen

over military installations and military equipment.

To me, suggests that if this is extraterrestrial in origin,

whoever is visiting, they want to show

a more technologically primitive society,

"Hey, we can turn off your nuclear rocket silos."

NARRATOR: Could the claims of Robert Salas and Lou Elizondo be true?

That otherworldly glowing orbs are

monitoring and interfering with our nuclear arsenal?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and argue that the recent surge in orb sightings is evidence

of an even more profound alien agenda.

One that may be preparing humanity for disclosure.

NARRATOR: Mysterious glowing orbs seen

flying over our cities and our shores.

- [alert blaring] - Strange balls of light

witnessed hovering over our nuclear facilities.

And small metallic orbs observed

flying through an active combat zone.

If these orbs are of nonhuman origin,

as ancient astronaut theorists believe,

should we be concerned?

ELIZONDO: People often ask,

should we be taking this threat

more seriously?

And I would submit to you that we're not sure

if it's even a threat yet.

ELIZONDO: In order to determine if something's a threat,

from a national security perspective,

it's a very simple calculus.

It's capabilities versus intent.

Now we've seen some of the capabilities,

yet we have no idea the intent.

DOLAN: You can look at orbs one of two ways.

They're either natural phenomenon

or technology of some sort.

I tend to think that's the answer.

I tend to think that they are a technology--

a very, very advanced technology.

And I do not believe

that this is something that we humans have created.

And I don't know of any scientist

who's really come up with a viable theory

to explain this.

So my assumption, until indicated otherwise,

is that we're dealing with technology from somewhere else.

HENRY: The question comes down to:

why are they here?

And there's largely two possible reasons.

One, these are interdimensional travelers

from other planes of existence,

or perhaps they are some kind

of a reconnaissance craft.

CHILDRESS: It could be that these orbs are

some kind of advanced extraterrestrial probe,

that's sent out

and it's observing and taking calculations

and things like that, and then,

when it has all the information it needs,

it suddenly disappears.

NARRATOR: Could it be that glowing orbs

have been sent to Earth to observe humanity?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and they suggest it's part

of a long-standing agenda to help humankind.

TSOUKALOS: If an extraterrestrial civilization has achieved

the technological wherewithal to travel across galaxies

and wanted to destroy us,

it would have already happened a long time ago.

Today, with all these orbs that we see,

more and more evidence is

coming forward that we are certainly

not alone in the universe.

And with everything that's going on right now,

I think that this may be the time

when we will make contact.

POPE: The orbs have been here, and they're still here.

And we should be doing more scientific investigation because

the key to the mystery of the orbs

may be the key to the mystery of UFOs

and alien visitation.

NARRATOR: From military encounters during World War II...

NARRATOR: ...to modern-day smartphone videos...

NARRATOR: ...do glowing orbs

provide evidence of an otherworldly intelligence

that has been present on Earth for more than 80 years?

And if they are now, day by day,

revealing themselves in ever larger numbers,

could we soon meet the extraterrestrial

or interdimensional entities behind this phenomenon?

Perhaps solving the mystery of the glowing orbs

will finally put us on the path to being reunited

with our alien ancestors.

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