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Throughout history,
mysterious lights in the sky have
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sparked wonder, fear, and speculation.
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Are they natural phenomena,
man-made illusions, or
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something far more extraordinary?
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A message from life beyond our world?
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Today we explore the world's
most mysterious encounters
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with unexplainable lights.
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From the chilling depths
of Rendlesham Forest, the
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Roswell incident, the
haunting Martha Lights, to the
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chaos of the Battle of Los Angeles.
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Are these phenomena
mere tricks of nature, or
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could they be undeniable
evidence of extraterrestrial life
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visiting our planet?
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Let's have a look at the aliens
that might be living among us.
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I've never seen anything
like it before then,
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and I've never seen
anything like it since then.
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Set against the turbulent
backdrop of the devastating
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attack on Pearl Harbor, one of the United
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States' most baffling aerial mysteries.
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Birds and blimps to
enemy aircraft, and even
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the possibility of visitors
from another world.
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Yet one fact remains undeniable.
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What was witnessed in the skies that night
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was truly an unidentified flying object.
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A UFO.
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December 7th, 1941.
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A date which will live in infamy.
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With confidence in our
armed forces, with the
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unfounding determination
of our people, we will gain
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the inevitable triumph.
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So help us God.
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Reports of strange flying objects in
the sky are older than the United States.
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Some of them reported
in scientific journals that
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date back to the 16th century, but they've
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usually been classed with
Loch Ness monsters and
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relegated to the Sunday supplements.
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Until World War II showed us that some
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of the most fantastic
dreams can be very real.
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Like atomic bombs, for instance.
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And since the close of the war, hundreds
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of reports of strange objects in the
sky have been filed with the Air Force.
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And most of them have
been easily explained.
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Experimental jet aircraft, weather
balloons, reflected ground lights,
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unusual cloud formations, and so on.
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February 23rd, 1942.
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The sighting of a
Japanese submarine off the
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coast of Santa Barbara, California
heightened fears of a mainland invasion.
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As the sun set, the shelling began.
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February 24th, 1942.
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7.18p.m. That evening, warnings of
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a further invasion by
naval intelligence put much
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of the Los Angeles
coastline under yellow alert.
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Tensions eased over the next few hours,
prompting a white alert to be issued.
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February 25th, 1942.
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Air raid sirens penetrated
the night's silence.
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Radars pinpoint an unidentified
flying object approaching the
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metropolis, forcing a blackout.
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L.A. descended into darkness as
the gunners prepared for the invasion.
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Was it imminent?
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It's a well-known story within UFO history.
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Anti-aircraft guns went into
action against unidentified
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aircraft in the Los
Angeles area shortly after
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3 a.m. Pacific wartime this morning.
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The anti-aircraft guns
began barking during a
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blackout ordered by the
4th Interceptor Command at
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2.25 a.m. The unidentified object, which
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some sources thought
might be a blimp, moved
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slowly down the Pacific
coast from Santa Monica
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and disappeared south of Long Beach.
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They spotted an object in
the sky over Los Angeles.
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Basically, you know, an oval object,
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and they had anti-aircraft batteries
at the ready, and off they went.
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Fired thousands of rounds at this thing.
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It was caught in the searchlights,
you know, of the city...
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and of course, it's gone down in UFO law
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because there was no attack ever on the
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mainland of the United
States by the Japanese.
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So some people said, well, perhaps
this oval -shaped object was a UFO.
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Well, this made headlines
in the newspapers, and
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the reason it didn't get hit is
because it's not of this Earth.
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Captured by a Los Angeles
Times photographer, an
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iconic image offered a
chilling glimpse into the
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source of Los Angeles'
most terrifying air raid.
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Black-and-white picture.
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You see the searchlights all
converging on an object in the sky.
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There's some anti-aircraft
fire around it, and
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it looks like when the
searchlights, you know,
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are all linked together,
all come together, that
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there is some kind of object within it.
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That's fueled speculation as to
what it may or may not have been.
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But the story doesn't
end in the City of Angels.
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Our journey takes us
to the windswept plains
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of New Mexico, where
another enigmatic event would
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forever change the way we view the skies.
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In the small, dusty town of Roswell, a
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mystery unfolded that would
cement its place in UFO lore.
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This is the Roswell
Incident, a case shrouded
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in secrecy, rife with
rumors of government cover
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ups, and nearly erased from public memory.
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What truths lie buried in the desert sands?
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What was being hidden from us?
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So it is known as the
Cosmic Watergate even today.
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Even the skeptics will agree
that something crashed at Roswell.
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There's no denying it.
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The Air Force agrees that
something crashed there.
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It's a question of what, who do you
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believe, what evidence do you,
you know, have to support it?
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We expect the cowboys and
Indians to come riding past.
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It's rocks, sand, cactus.
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The townsfolk have a
saying about Roswell, that
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it's 200 miles from nowhere,
and it pretty much is.
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Headline edition, July 8, 1947.
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The Army Air Forces has announced that a
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flying disc has been found and is
now in the possession of the Army.
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Army officers say the missile,
found sometime last week,
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has been inspected at Roswell, New Mexico,
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and sent to Wright Field,
Ohio, for further inspection.
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What they recovered was
supposedly a vehicle not
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of this world, a flying saucer.
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The airbase that was just outside of
the town was the Roswell Army Air Force.
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The Army and the Air Force
were one group in those days.
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There are claims that
Roswell was a significant
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place for an alien spacecraft to be in
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action on this planet, because it was the
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home at that point of the 509th, which
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was the only, the only
squadron, airborne squadron,
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trained to drop nuclear
weapons on the face of the Earth.
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They were the ones
responsible for the atomic
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bombs during the Second World War,
although they weren't flown out of Roswell.
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They'd had a call from the local sheriff
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in the town, a chap called Matt Brazel,
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claimed to have found this
strange debris on his ranch.
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So they sent Jesse Marcel to investigate.
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He brought some of this debris back,
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en route back to the base in
the early hours of the morning.
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He woke up his son, Jesse Marcel Jr.,
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and spread this material
on the kitchen floor.
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His son picked this, this piece of material
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up, what they call an I-beam,
with these strange symbols on.
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And his father said to him, son,
you may be the first to see writing from
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another world.
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Apart from the I-beam that is described
by his son, one of the most peculiar
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properties of this material was
what they nicknamed memory metal.
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So it looked pretty much like aluminium,
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but it was extremely
lightweight, almost had no weight
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at all, and then when you crushed it,
you could crush it easily, and then you'd
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let go, and it would just spring back
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into its previous shape,
with no creases, no marks.
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His son, who went on to become a
doctor, and also served in the military as
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a flight surgeon, said,
I've never seen anything
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like it before then, and I've never
seen anything like it since then.
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Now, for whatever reason,
Roswell Army Air Force
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did issue an official
press release saying that
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they had discovered a flying disc on a
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rancher's land, and some of it was
being sent to higher headquarters.
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That particular press
release went around the world,
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sent out a second press release
saying, sorry, we got it wrong.
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It wasn't a flying disc.
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It was actually just a weather balloon.
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They basically brought in
the press photographers, and
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there's a set of photographs, and there is
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Major Marcel holding
bits of this material, which
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is clearly a weather balloon.
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However, Major Marcel said, that is not the
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material that I collected
from Matt Brazel's ranch.
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The allegation is that
they did somehow a swap.
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The peculiar thing is that Major Marcel was
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quite well qualified to identify
weather balloons, because
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they used to launch
weather balloons from their
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own base every day, because they needed to
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know the weather,
because they had aircraft in
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and out of there, and it was only,
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I think, two months
before this incident, he'd
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actually been qualified to do this work.
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He knew a weather balloon when he
saw it, and he was adamant until his dying
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day that the material he collected
was certainly no weather balloon.
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In the stillness of the
Rendlesham forest, hazy
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lights pierced through the
treetops, witnessed by military
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personnel stationed nearby.
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It was late December
1980, just after Christmas,
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when this extraordinary event
unfolded, becoming the most
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famous UFO encounter in British history.
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But was it a hoax, or a visit from
beings beyond our solar system?
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Eyewitness accounts tell
of strange lights, and even
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physical contact with
an otherworldly craft.
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Yet sceptics propose alternative
explanations, natural phenomena, or
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perhaps an elaborate prank.
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The biggest cases in the UK, often given
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the name, you know,
Britain's Roswell, happened in
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Rendlesham forest in Suffolk.
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Rendlesham forest lay
between the twin bases of
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RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
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Now in 1980, they were an American base.
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It's not a backward little,
you know, RAF station.
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It had nuclear weapons stored there.
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Now in 1980, they were on high alert
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because there was tensions
throughout Russia and some
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of the Soviet bloc countries.
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Some events happened in late December
1980 over a period of three nights.
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There was apparently a
sighting of a UFO there.
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There's subsequently a
document came to light, which
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is known as the Holt Memo, because Charles
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Holt, who was the acting base
commander that night, wrote up the events.
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And he said that his men went out to
investigate strange lights in the forest.
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And what's subsequently
being claimed is that they
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encountered a UFO,
and that there were aliens
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involved, and that this
may actually have been
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some collusion between
the American military and the
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aliens to do with a craft that needed
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to come down somewhere
to affect its own repairs.
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First night, some
strange lights were seen in
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the forest, and one
of the security police...
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saw this and asked if he
could go and investigate.
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So three base security personnel were sent.
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They traveled into Rendlesham
forest, which was then public land.
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It was not military land.
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One stayed with the
vehicle because they were
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having problems with their communications.
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Jim Pennington and John Burrows were
the two airmen that went into the forest.
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They could see this
thing in amongst the trees.
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They claimed that as
they approached it, what
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they saw was not just lights, it was
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a triangular-shaped craft, either
hovering or on legs just above the ground.
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Red lights on the top,
blue lights underneath.
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It wasn't that big, you know, maybe
the size of a medium-sized car.
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Jim Pennington claims he touched it.
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It felt warm and smooth, and there were
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these strange markings down the side of it.
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They walked around it, and
then it moved off through the trees.
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They were then accompanied
by their third colleague,
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and they tried to chase it
through the trees, but it was gone.
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So they reported this in the incident
log when they returned to base.
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Then on the third night, the deputy base
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commander, Colonel
Holt, was on site, and they
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were having a post-Christmas dinner.
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Awards were being given out, you
know, the base commander was there.
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And one of the, again, the security came
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and said, you know,
Colonel, Colonel had heard
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about what had happened,
and they said to him, it's back.
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What's back?
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This is the UFO.
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So the colonel thought, I'll take some men
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into the forest, and I'll do
away with this nonsense.
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Now he wasn't in military uniform at the
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time, so he went, got changed first, picked
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up his small tape
recorder, a little handheld
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thing, selected a few men, off they went.
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First problem they had, they had these sort
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of diesel-powered lights,
they're called light holes,
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and they wouldn't work.
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They were arguing that there was no diesel
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in them, but of course they were full.
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So they proceeded into
the woods, into the forest.
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The colonel was first taken to the location
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of the first night's encounter, and one of
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his colleagues had brought
a Geiger counter along
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with him, and he waved it over the
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area, and he got higher
readings, not dangerous,
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but higher readings where
this object had supposedly been.
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He looked up in the tree canopy, it
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looked as if the branches
were broken, because
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the trees were quite
densely packed, looked like
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something had descended through the trees.
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Then out in the distance the colonel could
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see this red-orange light, not high in
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the sky but low down, it looked
almost like an eye blinking at you
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and all the while he's recording.
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Approximately 0-1-25 hours.
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The indentations look like
something twisted, you know,
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has it sat down on them?
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Looks like someone
took something and sat it
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down and twisted it from side to side.
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Very strange.
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Hey, this is Erie.
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Foxtrot.
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This is strange.
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Erie, someone want to look
at the spots in the ground?
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0148, we're getting very strange signs
out of the farmer's barnyard animals.
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Very, very active, making
an awful lot of noise.
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They came to the edge of the forest,
and then there was a farmer's field.
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Beyond the field was
the farmhouse, and they
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said this orange thing was in the field,
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and it was so bright it lit up
the, it reflected off the glass in the
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windows of the farmhouse, and it made
the farmhouse look like it was on fire.
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The lighting is gone now, it was
approximately 120 degrees from the site.
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Is it back again?
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Yes, sir.
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We'll douse the flashlight, sir.
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Let's move out to the edge of the
clearing so we can get a better look
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at it, see if we can
get the star scope on it.
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The light's still there, and all the
barnyard animals have gotten quiet now.
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Yeah, we're heading
about 110, 120 degrees from
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the site out through to the clearing now,
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still getting a reading on
the meter, about two clicks.
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Maybe three to four
clicks, getting stronger.
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Now, some people have said what the colonel
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and his party were looking
at was the lighthouse.
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There's a lighthouse out
on the coast at Orford Nest.
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The colonel said I could see
the lighthouse as well as this.
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I knew what the lighthouse
looked like anyway,
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and this thing was in the field.
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Okay, we're looking at the thing.
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We're probably about 200 to 300 yards away.
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It looks like an eye winking at you,
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still moving from side to side, and
when you put the star scope on it, it's
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sort of a hollow center, a dark center.
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It's like a pupil of an eye
looking at you and winking.
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This thing moved closer to them.
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They all got a bit edgy, and
then it burst, and it was gone.
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When they looked, somebody
notified the colonel, and
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there was three or more objects in
the sky, and they said at one point a
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beam of light was shot down towards them.
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Okay, here he comes from the south.
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He's coming towards us now.
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Now we're observing what appears to
be a beam coming down to the ground.
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This is unreal.
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And it landed, you know, it
was aiming towards them.
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I don't mean a long way off.
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It was just a few yards away from them.
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He didn't know if this
was a weapon or warning.
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You know, some of these lights were
also seen over the weapon storage area.
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3400 hours, one object still
hovering over Woodbridge
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base at about five to ten degrees off
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the horizon, still moving
erratic and similar lights
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and beaming down over here.
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So they chased these
lights through the forest
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for a couple of hours or more, and
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then he thought, well,
I'm, you know, I'm wet.
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There's nobody come, you know.
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He expected that, you know, there might be
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an aircraft intercept or a
helicopter, nothing, nobody.
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So he decided to return to base.
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He reported it to his commanding officer.
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He was later asked to write a memo,
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which was just a one-page thing
that he wrote, and he sent that to the
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Ministry of Defence.
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Unbeknown to him, the
Ministry of Defence sent
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one to the United States Air Force, and
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a few years later, that memo surfaced in
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the United States under
the Freedom of Information
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Act, and the story then was made public.
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The colonel himself would
never wanted anything made
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public, but once it was made public,
more of those on site came forward.
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There is no doubt these
people were genuine.
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There is no sense of a hoax
or anything like that at all.
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He has no idea what it is.
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He's gone on the record, he's written an
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affidavit, as have many of the other
airmen that were involved as well.
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From the dense greenery
of Surrey, we travel
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to the arid plains of Texas, where a
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century-old mystery
dances across the desert.
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Known as the Marfa
Lights, flickering orbs of
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illumination have been reported
since 1883, mystifying locals
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and baffling scientists.
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First documented by
Robert Reed Ellison, a young
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cowhand, the lights
were initially thought to be
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Apache campfires, yet no evidence
of fire or human presence was found.
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Since then, countless witnesses
have seen these supernatural orbs.
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They move against the
wind, shimmer in various
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colours, and sometimes
defy explanation entirely.
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The Marfa Lights.
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Marfa's in Texas, in the United States, and
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it is one of several locations around the
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world where these
strange lights are observed.
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There's no houses there, there's no
roads, there's no cars, no streetlights.
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To give you an example, there's a place
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in Norway called Hestalen
in central Norway, and
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they too have these strange lights.
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The Norwegians have
studied this, and there is
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a 24-hour monitoring
station in Hestalen even now.
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In Australia, they call
them the Min Min Lights.
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In the UK, they've got various names, but
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they generally go under
the term of the Spook Lights.
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And there's places in the Pennine chain of
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hills where these lights are
seen on a fairly regular basis.
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There may not be lots of them,
but they turn up year in, year out.
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And we have Bala in Wales.
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So there's locations
in different parts of the
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world where these strange lights are
seen, and Marfa is one amongst them.
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Scientists have proposed
theories ranging from tectonic stress
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beneath the Earth's crust,
creating glowing Earth lights,
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to gases igniting in the desert air.
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Some claim superior mirages
caused by temperature differences
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might be to blame.
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Others suspect the answer lies in natural
gas reserves below the Marfa desert.
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How many people have seen the Marfa lights?
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You know, certainly
hundreds down the years.
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I've worked with a colleague
by the name of Dr. Irina Scott.
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She lives in Ohio.
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She's seen the Marfa lights.
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She went to visit a friend near
there, and she too saw them.
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You know, she was as
puzzled by them as anyone else.
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I've been to Hestalen in Norway, didn't see
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the lights, but they have caught the lights
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on radar, they've taken video of them, and
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lots and lots of photographs of them.
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What you find about
these locations, like Marfa,
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they go back if not
decades, even centuries,
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and you usually find folk tales or ghostly
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paranormal tales originally
associated with these lights.
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Despite the scientific scrutiny,
no single theory explains it all.
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To this day, the Marfa lights remain a
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captivating mystery on the Texan horizon.
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The early hours of February 25th, 1942.
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00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,840
Air raid sirens shattered the calm as radar
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00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,414
tracked an unidentified
object over Los Angeles.
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This is, you know, downtown Los Angeles.
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You know, high above it, there must have
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been thousands if not tens of thousands of
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people at least saw
some part of it that night.
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You know, by its very nature, with the
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searchlights and the anti-aircraft
fire, you couldn't hide it.
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The civilians in Los
Angeles panicked somewhat.
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They thought this was an attack by,
you know, the armed forces of Japan.
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Anti-aircraft guns filled the
night with thunderous fire.
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The city plunged into chaos.
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Captured in a haunting
photograph by the Los
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Angeles Times, the
events of that night became
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etched in history as one of the
most infamous UFO mysteries.
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Explanations ranged from
weather balloons to enemy aircraft,
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but declassified documents
later suggested the military had
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fired at nothing more than a
weather balloon carrying a flare.
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It was a weather balloon.
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You know, a weather balloon is
something that is launched even today.
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We still use them.
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It goes into various
parts of our atmosphere
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and does, you know,
what it says on the tin.
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It reads the weather, not just from its
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location, but it can carry
equipment, you know,
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sometimes to test the weather in other
areas or other parts of the atmosphere.
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And of course, that
goes back to the ground.
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Well, there was thousands
of rounds of flares.
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Of anti-aircraft, fired at whatever
this may or may not have been.
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And of course, nothing was shot down.
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You know, nothing.
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00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:16,694
Not weather balloon, not Japanese
bomber, no flying saucer, nothing.
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00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:24,480
Yet no wreckage was ever found, and
Japanese involvement was ruled out.
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00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,280
Theories of extraterrestrial
visitors have persisted, fueling the
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00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:31,920
enigma of the Battle of Los Angeles, a
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00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,600
mystery that to this day
defies definitive explanation.
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00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,320
Roswell died for decades.
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00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,720
Nuclear physicist Stanton
Friedman met quite by chance
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00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,200
Major Marcel in the late 1970s.
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00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,600
And that's really when
the investigation began.
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In the 1990s, it hit the headlines
again for a whole host of reasons.
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And another investigation took
place, this time on an official level.
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00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,880
And the United States Air Force provided a
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00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,520
huge great tome, a huge
massive book about Roswell,
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00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,920
saying that it was now
still a weather balloon,
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00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:16,880
but these weather balloons were part
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00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:22,160
of a secret monitoring device,
which was called Project Mogul.
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00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,920
Basically, Project Mogul
launched some equipment into the
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00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,680
higher atmosphere to check for
Soviet nuclear experiments, tests.
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00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,160
It was discontinued for two reasons.
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First of all, because it was
only limited in its effectiveness.
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And secondly, because the
Americans managed to find
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00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,000
better ways of spying on the Russians.
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So Project Mogul was top secret, but the
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00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,480
equipment that they were
using was just ordinary.
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00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,800
It was still weather balloons.
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00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,720
Somebody said, well,
according to some of the
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00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:04,080
eyewitnesses that have
subsequently come forward, there was
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00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,200
also dead bodies found at the crash site.
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00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,320
I never talked about it again.
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00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:11,760
I never mentioned it to anybody.
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00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,640
Not by Major Marcel, but others.
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00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,720
And when they were saying
dead bodies, they meant aliens.
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00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,480
One theory links the incident
to Operation Paperclip,
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00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,360
suggesting the craft
was a secret Nazi flying
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machine brought to the U.S.
after World War II, called the Bell.
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00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,840
This experimental craft
allegedly failed during a test flight.
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00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,120
Grainy hoax footage of alien
autopsies and government
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00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,920
cover-ups have blurred fact and fiction.
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00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,840
While some believe the crash
was extraterrestrial, others
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00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,880
maintain it was a failed
military experiment.
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00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,640
Whatever fell from
the skies in Roswell, its
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00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:04,040
secrets remain tightly guarded, leaving
the truth tantalizingly out of reach.
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00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,120
Press release, i.e. the press release put
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00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,080
out by Walter Holt,
said that they'd captured
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a flying saucer was probably a pretty
bad error of judgment in the heat of the
483
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,880
moment because they
realized that they'd got some
484
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,840
of their own technology
and they didn't want
485
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,560
people to know there were
experiments going on locally.
486
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,440
And they completely
over-egged the press release,
487
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,880
which meant that they had
to retract it very, very quickly.
488
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,400
But that's the only major
mistake I think they made.
489
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,360
You know, if you wanted to hide something
490
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,240
that you were testing,
then it's the perfect place.
491
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,520
You know, Trinity, the
place where the first
492
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,280
atomic bomb was tested, is
not that far away in the desert.
493
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,640
And of course, when they exploded the first
494
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,920
atomic bomb, they just told the locals it
495
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,880
was a dynamite shack that had blown up.
496
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,560
You think, well, if any UFO event has
497
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,040
the possibility of being
an alien spaceship, then
498
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,720
you would put this in that category.
499
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,640
So you cannot prove it
conclusively one way or another.
500
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:24,414
But I would say the odds lie in
the favor of it looking like that.
501
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,080
I'm truly skeptical about the alien thing.
502
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,680
And there are a number of
reasons to be skeptical about it.
503
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,640
First of all, let's just do
a reality check on this.
504
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,880
There were lots and lots of UFO books
505
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,920
published between the
early 1950s and about 1980.
506
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,600
And a number of those played up certain
507
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,320
cases that were taken
to be hugely important
508
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,640
and hugely spectacular, including the
Betty and Barney Hill abduction case.
509
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,640
Roswell's virtually
non-existent in those books.
510
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,120
There are other crashed
saucer cases around then.
511
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:01,094
So I'm skeptical because
it just doesn't turn up,
512
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,600
that no information
appears to leak from it.
513
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,440
However, you have to keep an open mind.
514
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,400
Me personally, I sit on the fence.
515
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,560
I believe something
peculiar happened there.
516
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,360
I don't believe the Weather
Balloon or Project Mogul, it doesn't fit.
517
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,680
The evidence that the
Air Force have provided
518
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,400
doesn't fit, would not surprise me.
519
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,640
However, if it wasn't
something that the military
520
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,720
themselves were experimenting
with that was quite gruesome,
521
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,080
hence the reason to keep it quiet.
522
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:34,254
But I don't believe any of the
balloon, balloon baloney it's called.
523
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,320
When it comes to UFO cover-ups, if
524
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,120
you think about it from
a military perspective,
525
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,520
if you are testing
something that for whatever
526
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,240
reason strays into an area where it comes
527
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,200
in contact with the
public, the general public,
528
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,280
then the perfect
cover-up is to call it a UFO.
529
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,560
Because people would go
running around looking for
530
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,120
something that simply
didn't exist at that time.
531
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,934
And in reality, it was something that
the military had been messing with.
532
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,320
The authorities in any country, it is their
533
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,120
duty to keep secrets in the first place.
534
00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:18,760
That's part of what they do.
535
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:22,120
So they can keep things very secret.
536
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,240
Things happen that shouldn't.
537
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,920
It would never surprise me that some of
the UFO events that we perhaps look at
538
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,200
in different parts of the world are not
539
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:36,694
something that's man-made and
has gone, not as planned, sort of thing.
540
00:34:44,720 --> 00:34:47,520
In the world of British ufology, no case
541
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,280
is more enticing than the
incident at Rendlesham Forest.
542
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,480
In the 40 years since
the alleged extraterrestrial
543
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,600
encounter took place, many
researchers have attempted to
544
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,520
uncover the truth
surrounding Britain's Roswell.
545
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,960
Investigations into the
event has given rise to
546
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,240
both sceptical and scientific
conclusions, riddled with their
547
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:09,600
own contradictions.
548
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,960
What gave off these strange lights?
549
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:17,894
Were they man-made, a natural phenomena,
or visitors from a distant world?
550
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,640
One of the things about all the witnesses
551
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:26,840
at Rendlesham, including
Colonel Holt, is their credibility.
552
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:31,720
He wasn't sent to England for an easy ride.
553
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:37,734
He'd been involved with returning prisoners
from Vietnam, for example, you know.
554
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,960
So he had a long and
illustrious career in the military.
555
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:43,000
They had all kinds of training, not just
556
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,480
walking around with a dog and a flashlight.
557
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:51,200
You make up your own mind, was this
something that the military were testing?
558
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,414
Orford Ness has a
history of military testing.
559
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,014
It's where some of the first radar was
560
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,040
tested, beginning in the
Second World War, for example.
561
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,614
But would you test something where
there's a storage of nuclear weapons?
562
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,640
I'm not so sure you would.
563
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,520
So then you look at the other alternatives.
564
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,040
The sceptics will say that they, over the
565
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,640
three nights, a number of things
happened that they all misidentified.
566
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:21,400
There was, you know, the lighthouse,
the re-entry of a satellite, or whatever.
567
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,134
But the witnesses said, no, I
saw this up close and personal.
568
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,520
You know, and I've met the
Colonel, listened to what he had to say.
569
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,120
I think it's highly unlikely that he would
570
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,320
misidentify anything,
let alone the lighthouse.
571
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,720
He went to speak to the lighthouse keeper.
572
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,800
And he says, the lighthouse
has three coloured lights on it.
573
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:51,200
The red one goes out to sea,
because red means don't come here.
574
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,520
So if you were seeing a red light,
you must have been out at sea.
575
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,360
He has no idea what it is.
576
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:57,974
He's gone on the record, he's written an
577
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,560
affidavit, as have many of the other
airmen that were involved as well.
578
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,560
One little intriguing
thing, as I mentioned, the
579
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,560
first two airmen that went into the
woods were Pennyston and Burroughs.
580
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:16,360
Jim Penniston is the one that said
they saw a craft, touched it, et cetera.
581
00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:21,040
His colleague, John
Burroughs, who was standing just
582
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:26,560
a few yards away, looking at the
same thing, said, I never saw any craft.
583
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:27,880
I only saw lights.
584
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,200
Lord Hill Norton, former
admiral of the fleet,
585
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:40,480
said that either these
gentlemen saw what they
586
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,894
claimed to have seen, or they were all
587
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,240
under the influence of something illegal.
588
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:51,374
Which either way, surely that
must be of defence significance.
589
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,134
Could these unexplainable
lights cutting through the darkness
590
00:37:58,200 --> 00:37:59,840
be more than just phenomena?
591
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,654
Could they be the silent
beacons of extraterrestrial
592
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:07,720
life reaching out across the void?
593
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,520
We just might never actually find out.
594
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,000
Well, originally, of
course, you know, it was
595
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,774
fear and superstition
that was, you know, that
596
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:25,734
were accountable ghosts, you
know, phantoms this, phantom of that.
597
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,760
As we moved into the 20th century, perhaps
598
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,400
they were phantom
airships, you know, and as
599
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,494
we moved further into
the century, perhaps there
600
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,360
were beings from another world.
601
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,120
But basically, all you're
seeing is lights, and
602
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:44,120
it depends on your own perception
as to what you make of them.
603
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,240
Studies have been
done at various locations.
604
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:55,734
As we mentioned previously,
the Ministry of Defence
605
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,520
in the UK did a study on
UFOs called the Condine Report.
606
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:07,040
It came to the conclusion that UFOs
were unidentified atmospheric phenomena.
607
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,280
In other words, strange balls of
light, they're common plasmas.
608
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:16,280
So the number of scientists
and scientific studies
609
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,974
claim that these could be as yet an
610
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,214
unidentified type of
aerial phenomena, natural.
611
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,280
But are those, certainly when you look at
612
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,560
Marfa, they think there
is a sceptical solution,
613
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:54,334
if you want to go down that route,
that it is, you know, caused by traffic
614
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:59,334
cars in the distance, and these lights
are somehow reflected in a certain way.
615
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,720
And that's what people are seeing,
even though you can't see the cars.
616
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,240
And that could be a possibility.
617
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,840
But when you go to places like Hestaland,
618
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,200
these lights are seen down in the valley.
619
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,520
There's only about 200 people live there.
620
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,800
The locations where they've
been seen, there are no roads.
621
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:22,240
And in the winter, it gets down to
minus 20, and about 10 feet of snow.
622
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,560
I know I was there in the
winter, I can guarantee that.
623
00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:27,640
And they have caught them on radar.
624
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:32,760
They have filmed them, both in movie
film, you know, and still photographs.
625
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,054
So there is a very real phenomena there.
626
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,560
Perhaps we are not alone.
627
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:44,120
Perhaps these lights, objects
and encounters are glimpses
628
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,774
of a greater cosmic
reality, or simply reflections
629
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,854
of our curiosity, our
fears, and our imagination.
630
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,654
Until science or transparency
brings definitive answers,
631
00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:01,934
the question will remain, what's out there?
632
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,774
The Air Force then said, well, they will
633
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:12,000
actually crash test dummies,
not related to Project Mogul at all.
634
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,454
But we used to have these large wooden
635
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,014
mannequins that we
dropped from high altitude,
636
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,280
you know, to test parachutes and so on.
637
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:23,374
But the only thing that was wrong with
638
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,640
that is they didn't start
using those until the 1950s.
639
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:31,214
And of course, the Roswell
incident happened in 1947.
640
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,654
So they got the wrong decade as well.
641
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:45,480
In all, the Air Force had given out
four different aspects of what this was.
642
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:47,000
First of all, it was a flying disc.
643
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,174
Then no, it was a weather balloon.
644
00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:52,654
Then, oh sorry, no, it was Project
Mogul, which was still weather balloons.
645
00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:55,160
Oh, all the dead bodies
were crash test dummies.
646
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,040
Oh, we forgot they were from the 1950s.
647
00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:01,960
So they have four different
interpretations of what happened.
648
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,854
That's why, one of the many reasons why
649
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,374
people are suspicious
of the official version.
650
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,720
The various mysterious
lights will probably turn out
651
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,160
to be some kind of
atmospheric phenomenon that
652
00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:25,454
as yet is understood by mainstream
science, nothing to do with ETs at all.
653
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:28,480
Unknown.
654
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,734
The official position is unknown.
655
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,014
Could these unexplainable
lights cutting through the darkness
656
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:37,520
be more than just phenomena?
657
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,054
Could they be the silent
beacons of extraterrestrial
658
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,560
life reaching out across the void?
659
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,360
We just might never actually find out.
54803
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