All language subtitles for UFOs.The.Lost.Evidence.S02E02.Police.UFO.Files.WEBRip.x264-CAFFEiNE

Narrator:
A deputy sheriff collides

With a bright, hovering object.

Could this be evidence that
this is an otherworldly craft?

Narrator:
Officers listen to the sound,

Never before heard on national
television, of a glowing orb.

We have three
corroborating sources

Saying that it was mostly
likely a real ufo.

Narrator:
Police cruisers give chase

To an unidentified
triangular aircraft.

It was witnessed and reported
across four different precincts.

Narrator:
And incredible visual evidence

Uncovered in the most famous
ufo case in europe.

[ sirens wailing ]

Could the detailed accounts
of ufo activity

By law enforcement provide proof
that we are not alone?

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August 27, 1979, not far from
the north dakota border,

In the northeast corner
of minnesota,

Near the town of stephen.

It's about 2:00 a.M.

As deputy sheriff val johnson
drives his police cruiser

On a dark
and deserted rural highway.

What happens next will be seen
by ufo investigators

As a landmark case
involving law enforcement

That almost cost
val johnson his life.

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He was doing, I assume,
a routine patrol

In a fairly quiet
stretch of the area.

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And he sees a bright light off
to the side, out his window.

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Initially thinking it was
an aircraft,

He thought it was unusual

And followed around
to get a better look at it.

And next thing you know,

This thing is low
over the ground.

It's a little smaller
than a basketball,

A glowing ball of light,
which then seemingly

Almost instantly
accelerated at his vehicle.

[ siren wailing ]

All of a sudden,
it crashed into his car.

It broke the headlight.

It broke off the antenna,
and it broke the windshield.

It was a brilliant ball
of light.

It obviously had substance to it

To do all of that damage
to his cruiser.

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Narrator: 40 minutes later,
deputy val johnson

Calls for help over his radio.

Another sheriff's deputy reaches

The scene of the accident
within minutes.

He finds johnson's car
sideways in the road

And johnson in a daze.

The officer was obviously
extremely shaken by all of that.

When backup arrived,

They claimed he was
in a true state of shock.

Narrator: Deputy val johnson
can only remember

Making visual contact
with a strange object

Hovering just above the ground,

Being blinded by
a bright light,

And hearing the sound
of breaking glass

Just before passing out.

The next day, photos are taken
of johnson's squad car,

Which shows damage
from a collision.

Dolan: This ball of light
left evidence in the form

Of a broken headlight
and damage to the windshield.

It would be as if something hit
his vehicle from the air.

That is what it would look
like to me,

But no visible damage
to the body of the car.

It is a bit odd.

Clearly it wasn't another car
or an airplane.

There would have been wreckage.

There would have been debris.

And he would have seen it
and reported it as such.

But we don't really have
any certainty

About what we're dealing with.

Narrator: Strangely,
the doctor who examines

Val johnson finds indications

Around his eyes
of welding burns.

In the process of arc welding,

The intense arc light
emits ultraviolet radiation

And can damage a person's skin
as if sunburned.

But val johnson
had not been welding.

The police and the highway
patrol investigators

Believed that this was some kind
of anomalous experience.

They were never able to find
a reasonable explanation

For what had occurred.

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Narrator: Ufo researchers
recently uncovered a transcript,

Never before seen
on national television,

Of an interview
with deputy val johnson

Shortly after
his close encounter.

It reads in part,

"I got to the intersection
of 5 and minnesota state 220

"when I noticed a very bright,
brilliant light

"8 to 12 inches in diameter,
3 to 4 feet off the ground.

"the edges were very defined.

"I thought perhaps at first
that it appeared to be

"a landing light
from an aircraft.

"I proceeded south on 220,
about a mile and 3/10,

"when the light
intercepted my vehicle.

"the brakes were engaged
by forces unknown to myself,

As I do not
remember doing this."

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A photo taken at the encounter
location reveals skid marks

Going in
a straight line for 99 feet,

Then suddenly veering
to the left.

Not long after the incident
in 1979,

Val johnson was interviewed
on local tv

About his strange encounter.

The light was coming at me.
It was extremely bright.

The inside of the car lit up.
I remember that.

And something did strike
my vehicle.

Something didn't want me there.

I really don't know
how to classify it.

Narrator: The official findings
of a confidential investigation

Report filed the day
after the incident says

That val johnson's
patrol vehicle

Was involved in an accident
with an unknown object.

But what kind of
unknown object was it?

And could what was described
as a brilliant light

Actually cause all the damage
to deputy johnson's car?

Bob spearing,
a field investigator

And visual analysis expert
for the mutual ufo network,

Attempts to answer
this very question.

Val johnson claims
that he skidded 99 feet.

His car was turned sideways
when he was found.

He claims he was unconscious
for 39 minutes.

Basically, all of the damage
to the car

Was done on the left side,
the driver's side.

The headlight, the windshield,
and the antenna, all right,

Was bent at a 60-degree angle.

An engineer from
ford motor company --

He was unable to determine
what caused the cracks,

But he said that a pressure
by some unknown force

Caused the cracks
in the windshield.

I would classify this as
probably an orb ufo sighting

Which attacked his car.

Narrator: Since 1979,
val johnson's close encounter

Has gained worldwide attention,
in part, many believe,

Because johnson
was a police officer.

But what makes a ufo incident
reported by law enforcement

More convincing than claims
by other witnesses?

The police officers tend to be
some of our best witnesses

Because they're not
only trained observers,

They're not prone to fantasy,

And it's not in
their nature to lie.

For him to come out and say
something like this,

To put his job at risk,

To me adds a lot
of credibility to this case.

Pope:
Here is someone who holds

A responsible position
in the community.

He's a deputy sheriff.

And yet here he is, talking
about not just a ufo sighting...

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...But a ufo sighting that ended
with his police vehicle

On one side.

People like that
don't speak out lightly.

When someone like that tells you
this is what happens,

You can take that to the bank.

Narrator: Although the evidence
in this case is compelling,

Many believe
it's circumstantial at best.

Proof of a ufo encounter
would need physical evidence

And eyewitness corroboration.

One such case like that

Has gone unequaled
for nearly 40 years.

Coming up...

We actually have a recording
of the ufo.

And the recording suggests
that the object was close by.

There's no aerial object
that we had that was able

To do the kinds of things
that are described here.

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Narrator:
When it comes to ufo sightings,

The police are regarded

As far more reliable
witnesses than most.

Even so, they need
corroborating evidence

To make their cases
truly credible.

March 17, 1981, 4:03 a.M.,

20 miles north of portland,
oregon, near st. Helens.

It's an early Tuesday morning,

And sergeant russell yokum
of the oregon police department

Is driving along highway 30.

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Suddenly, out over
the columbia river,

A bright orb lights
up the entire area.

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[ siren wailing ]

[ metal crashes ]

It was red, orange.

It appeared to be large,
maybe 30 feet in diameter.

And it was hovering
80 to 100 feet above the water.

Sergeant yokum believed
it was moving

Toward the portland airport.

So, he's watching this.

He radioed in to headquarters.

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And two state police officers
heard him.

♪♪

Narrator: Sergeant yokum meets
the two officers at a turn-out

With a view of the bizarre
aerial object over the river.

♪♪

A couple of civilians
also are there,

So you've got about
five people watching this,

A very bright, unusual light.

Now you got to wonder, "what is
this thing that's just making

Such a bright light
at this time of day?"

No one could figure
this one out.

Narrator: On the opposite side
of the columbia river,

In washington state,

Someone else is also
watching the bright orb,

And he's a lot closer to it.

♪♪

There was a ham
radio operator

Who was monitoring
the police communications.

[ static ]

And he was also
watching the object.

He got in touch
with the officers,

And he noticed that
the object was making noise.

♪♪

Narrator:
The ham radio operator,

Known as lucky 13,

Volunteers to hold a microphone
out his window

So the police can hear
the sound he claims

Is coming
from the glowing orb.

Here, for the first time
on national television,

Is the audio recording
of the conversation

Between oregon police
and lucky 13.

[ static ]

[ static ]

We actually have
a recording of the ufo,

And the recording suggests
that the object was close by.

But the second thing is,

This actually implies
it's a physical object.

This is clearly a craft
of some kind.

The question is, with the noise,
is it an engine?

Is it a type of propulsion?

♪♪

There's on aerial object,
particularly in 1981,

That we had that was able to do
the kinds of things

That are described here,

That looked like this looks,

That sounded like this thing
apparently sounded like.

♪♪

Narrator: The police officers
and lucky 13 observe the ufo

For another 14 minutes,
until 4:43 a.M.,

Just before sunrise,

When the object goes dark
and disappears.

♪♪

But was this
mechanical-sounding,

Glowing orb really
from out of this world,

As investigators believe?

And if so, might it be similar
to the spherical orb

Reported by
deputy sheriff val johnson?

[ siren wailing ]

And if we accept
these light spheres

Are from a distant world,

The big question is --

Why are they here?

Searching for answers,
ufo investigators note

That the columbia river basin

And the nearby yakima indian
reservation in washington state

Have long been the site
of unexplained aerial phenomena.

Could there be a connection
between orb ufos

And nearby
native american tribes?

The indigenous tribes have
always been well aware of ufos

And alien sightings
for many thousands of years.

Narrator: In 2010, orb ufos
have been spotted

Near the yakima reservation.

The yakima indians call
these alien observers

Their star brothers.

What we're looking at here
are two apparent orbs

Circling each other

In the yakima valley
in washington state.

Washington state is known
for earthquake lights

Because it sits on
a fault line.

So, there's a theory that
these lights,

Which are seen by many,
many people

Over hundreds of years,
may be a natural phenomenon.

As you can see a car right here
passing very close

To the objects,

We can gauge
how big they might be.

They might be as wide
as five feet across.

Is it a natural phenomenon?

Is it some sort of ufo?

We just don't know enough
at this point

To be able to tell what it is
that we're looking at.

♪♪

Narrator: For ufo researchers,

Questions about the origin
of glowing orbs

And ufos in general come down
to whether or not

They appear to be
under intelligent control.

And the answer can only be
determined by the evidence.

With the columbia river case,
this ufo made a sound,

And we were fortunate enough
that the people involved in this

As the witnesses taped it.

The sound starts up again,

And they say, "it sounds like
it's revving up its engines."

That sounds to me like they're
describing, clearly, a machine,

A craft of some sort.

Narrator: But is it possible
that even cases

With multiple police witnesses

And hard evidence
can be dismissed by skeptics?

Perhaps.

Then again, sometimes
the truth seems more obvious

When numerous police are chasing
the same unidentified

Aerial object
from town to town.

Coming up...

We have in real time
what the police officers

Were actually experiencing.

Ufo activity was witnessed

And reported
across four different precincts.

[ siren wails ]

♪♪

Narrator: Ufo researchers
believe the glowing orbs

Encountered by law enforcement
could be a natural phenomenon

Or they could be
from another world entirely.

But what about ufos that appear
to be unidentified spacecraft?

In a more recent
police ufo file,

What began as an odd
civilian sighting

Grew to involve
multiple police departments

In numerous
neighboring townships

And perhaps reveal

A military cover-up.

January 5, 2000,

Wednesday morning
in highland, illinois,

Shortly before sunrise,
around 4:00 a.M.

Melvern noll,
a truck driver and owner of

A local miniature golf course,

Is about to head home

When something overhead
catches his eye.

He looks up, and he sees this
very large, low object.

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No sound.

It looked like it was
two stories high.

And then out of nowhere,
this single-story ranch

With a penthouse
on top slowly floats

Over his miniature
golf course.

It appeared to be
rectangular in shape.

This object had a series of

Windows that ran down
the side.

The object was so large, it was
the size of a football field.

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And clearly it was reported
to police.

Narrator: Immediately afterward,
the sheriff's dispatcher shares

The unlikely details
with officers in the field.

Lebanon police officer
ed barton responds to the call.

Within minutes, the officer
relays what he sees in the sky,

Documenting the events
as it unfolds.

We've got the whole conversation
as it transpired that morning.

We have in real time
what the police officers

Were actually experiencing,

And that is really
valuable to us.

Officer barton,
who is looking into this --

Suddenly he sees lights himself.

And it's one of those situations

Where a police officer
goes from

Investigator to witness

And actually becomes
part of the story.

Narrator:
As the unidentified object

Approaches his location,

Barton pulls over to listen.

And as the ufo passes
directly overhead,

The officer notices
there is no sound.

After resuming his chase,
strangely,

Barton gives a completely
different description

Than previously reported.

Pope: Officer barton
describes a huge,

Triangular-shaped object.

And we know it's big because
he describes

How it's blocking out
the stars

As it goes overhead.

Narrator: Was this a different
ufo being observed?

Or did the officer's training
allow him

To provide
a more accurate description?

He describes how the movement
of this thing is very different

To that of
a conventional aircraft.

It doesn't bank, he said,
like an aircraft would.

It pivots.

It moves from side to side.

And, again,
this is an experienced,

Trained observer.

Narrator: Thinking quickly,
officer barton decides to see

What the military might know
about the situation.

Man: 10-4.

Scott air force base was called

When the craft
was only two miles away.

They had no knowledge
of this craft.

It didn't show up on radar.

Very perplexing.

Narrator: Is it possible
the military was really unaware?

And could the ufo be using
some form of stealth technology?

It went from town to town,
and the greatest part about it

Were the witnesses calling
each other, the dispatches.

Police officers were talking
to the next town over

And letting them know,
"well, you should be seeing it."

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Narrator: In nearby shiloh,

Officer david martin
is on patrol

When he spots the object
about 1/4 mile away.

He pulls over and observes
the huge triangle

Flying slowly in the distance,
without making a sound.

As the craft leaves shiloh,
the officer estimates the craft

Accelerates from about 15 miles
an hour to 100 in an instant.

What really lends a lot
of credibility to the case

Is it was witnessed and reported
across four different precincts.

There was a ton of radio chatter
that happened

As they were trying to figure
out what they were witnessing.

Even the military was contacted,

Which adds a ton more
credibility,

When they call the military
and they tell them,

"we think we have a ufo."

Narrator: Is it possible,
as researchers claim,

That one or more objects
observed in the skies

Of illinois were, in fact,

Off-world alien spacecrafts
that blocked out the stars,

Moved without sound,
and defied the laws of physics?

Carson: Nobody's telling us
exactly what it is,

And it's been cited
across many counties.

So, what could it have been?

We're thinking that
it probably was a ufo

That could have been using
alien technology.

Narrator:
The illinois ufos were witnessed

By multiple police officers
who documented what they saw.

But amazingly, the police chase
will continue

Through three more townships

And under the noses
of military air-traffic control.

Coming up...

There was no radar.
It was complete denial.

Dolan: Scott air force base
is two miles away.

They say,
"nope, we got nothing."

So, what's that all about?

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Narrator: In the early morning
hours of January 5, 2000,

A large
and very bizarre object

Is reported to be flying
over highland, illinois.

But within the hour,
police in nearby townships

See something
completely different --

A large,
triangular flying object.

Could there have been
two different ufos in the air,

Causing confusion
on the ground?

Or might the difference be due
to more reliable information

Provided by police?

These are the different
configurations that were seen

By multiple eyewitnesses
on the night January 5, 2000,

Including at least
three police officers.

Multiple
triangle configurations.

Eyewitnesses reported
a mechanical under-structure,

Like stacked legos or plumbing,

Probably 60 to 80 feet across.

♪♪

Narrator: As the triangular
object continues over the state,

At about 4:30 a.M.,

Craig stevens, with
the millstadt police department,

Sees it flying overhead

And immediately reports
the sighting

To the sheriff's dispatcher.

Craig stevens and other
police officers

Stated that
when it departed the area,

It departed like a spark
off a grinding wheel

And made no sonic boom.

Absolutely immediate accelerate,
made no sonic boom.

Narrator: Minutes later,
the ufo is spotted

By yet another police officer
working for the town of dupo.

He and officer stevens
from millstadt

Have the following
conversation.

Just before sunrise,

The triangular craft
finally flies out of sight,

Leaving police officers
across several townships

To try
and make sense of the case.

Here you had something
over the state of illinois

For around nine hours.

One or multiple objects
came in to the north of chicago,

From lake michigan, and then
zigzagged slowly over the state,

Seen in multiple locations
by numerous witnesses,

Including police officers,

And then was last seen

Somewhere in the vicinity
of st. Louis.

Clearly, we're dealing
with something unexplained

And some would say,
something otherworldly.

Police officers are some of
the most reliable witnesses

In the world.

And then throw in the fact that
you've got a nine-hour period

Where their voices were being
recorded over dispatch.

If that's not credible,
I don't know what is.

Narrator: But strangely,
when police dispatchers

Again contact nearby
scott air force base,

Desperate for answers,
the military again

Claims to have no idea
what's going on,

This despite the fact that,
according to police,

The triangle's flight path
was directly through the area

Of military traffic control.

Scott air force base is two
miles away from this sighting.

That's an amazing thing
to consider.

You have all of these
police officers

In this animated series of
conversations and observations,

And they're asking,

"is this something
from scott air force base?"

And yet here's
scott air force base --

"nope, we got nothing."

So, what's that all about?

It was complete denial.
There was no radar.

And it's really hard to believe
if they just flat out denied

The public
any answers whatsoever

And just covered everything
about this event up

For reasons
that only they can --

They can understand.

Narrator:
Does the military response

Add to the conversation
about government conspiracy

And cover-up
in regards to ufos?

What if the military
isn't talking

Because they already know
that these triangular craft do,

In fact,
come from other worlds

And they don't want
the public to know?

Incredibly,
there is more evidence

Of these alien
craft available elsewhere,

In europe's most famous
police ufo file.

Coming up,
for more than an hour,

The belgian air force
attempts to intercept

A triangular object
without success.

These ufos had the capability
of out-maneuvering

Any military craft
that was sent after them.

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Narrator:
Despite law enforcement reports

And eyewitness accounts,
neither the u.S. Military

Nor government
has ever acknowledged

The illinois ufo incident.

But what if these types
of sightings

Have been seen
before by hundreds,

Maybe even thousands
of witnesses?

November 29, 1989.

On a crisp and clear Wednesday
evening in eupen, belgium,

Just five miles
from the german border,

Frightened residents
call police to report

A large,
triangular-shaped craft

In the skies
directly over the town.

Two federal policemen
immediately respond.

What they find is described
as absolutely extraordinary.

♪♪

A couple of belgian
police officers

Got a very, ultra-clear view

Of a very low,
perfect triangle.

♪♪

Maybe a couple of hundred
feet altitude at the most.

And it just moved like
no other aircraft would move.

It was very, very deliberate,
very slow,

And then just moved off
and was gone.

And that was
only the beginning.

Many witnesses were mesmerized
by this,

And there was chatter about it
over the police radios,

Civilian sightings coming in,

Which matched up
with the police sightings.

This is about as good as you
can get in terms of evidence.

Narrator:
As the night progresses,

Three sets of police officers

And hundreds of eyewitnesses
watch the triangular craft

Move above the countryside,

Not unlike what was
reported in illinois.

And it wasn't
exclusively belgium, either.

Northwestern germany,
which is right over

The other side of the border,

And, in fact, there were
quite a few ufo sightings

Even going into
central europe and even russia.

Narrator:
Sightings continue throughout

Europe for four months.

Thousands of people report

Seeing triangle craft
again and again,

Craft that appear to defy
physics and logical explanation.

The belgian police
are at a complete loss.

But could the triangles really
be extraterrestrial spacecraft,

As ufo researchers believe?

We don't know if they were
actually military-owned,

If they were arvs,
alien reproduction vehicles.

But they were moving
and flying in a way

That did not match
with our current technology,

Leading us to believe that these
were probably more advanced

Type of ufos
from another world.

I built these models based
on eyewitness testimony.

You'll notice here that it has
a white light at each corner.

This is almost virtually silent,
making this low-frequency,

Electrical humming noise
like a transformer.

That's something that
we've heard many times.

Narrator: A few months later,
on March 30, 1990,

Things take a dramatic turn
when the belgian air force

Reports that two sets of objects
were observed

And tracked by the glons air
force base, a nato facility.

Tindal: Just look at the radar
of these ufos over belgium.

Clearly, they were real.

Clearly, they had mass to them

Or they wouldn't
have appeared on radar.

Narrator: For more than an hour,
the belgian air force

Attempts to intercept
the triangles, without success.

♪♪

These ufos had the capability

Of out-maneuvering
any military craft

That was sent after them,
again,

Adding credence to the fact that
they may be otherworldly craft.

It departed their area

At about 1,600 kilometers
per hour in less than a second.

So, we're looking at
about a 40-g maneuver,

Something that pilots
couldn't withstand.

During these events
or sightings,

There were nine
attempted interceptions.

That is incredible.

Narrator: For the first time
on national television,

New evidence reveals
general de brouwer

Of the belgian air force
explaining why nato f-16s

Are no match
for the flying triangle.

What these pilots detected

Was well outside the normal

Flying envelope,

Varying from speeds

Between 150 knots to 990 knots,

An acceleration which occurred
in a few seconds.

Our best technology was
absolutely no match

For the things
that they witnessed.

This is a straight-up
acknowledgement

From the belgian military
in the aftermath.

These objects had
maneuvering capabilities

That we just don't have.

They would have instant
acceleration,

From near-hovering, loitering,

To 1,000-miles-per-hour-type
speeds,

And then also just altitude
drops of nearly,

I think, 4,000 feet
in one or two seconds.

That's nearly a mile.

I mean, incredible changes
in altitude that --

Again, our craft -- we have
no capability of doing this.

Narrator: Skeptics claim that
the triangles

Reported by
the belgian air force

Are nothing more than
an advanced, top-secret,

Experimental aircraft
that was misidentified.

Skeptics trot out
the explanation,

"well, people probably
saw stealth technology."

Why? Well, because
the stealth fighter

Had just recently
been unveiled.

But the only unique thing
about the stealth aircraft

Is that they are
radar-stealthy,

So they're not easily
detectable on radar.

But in terms of performance,

Stealth aircraft can't do any of
the things that were reported

During the wave of
the so-called belgian triangle.

Narrator:
General de brouwer's absolutely

Incredible analysis continues.

Visual observations always

Describe a machine

Which hangs and hovers
above the surface

At quite a low altitude
without making any noise.

Now, with the current
technology,

That would be impossible.

And, of course, the speeds
would be impossible

To tolerate for a human being.

Narrator:
Might the evidence regarding

Triangular ufos in belgium

And illinois
finally be clear and conclusive?

And what of the orb ufos
seen in minnesota

And in the columbia river basin?

If these events are evidence
of interstellar intelligence

Visiting our world, could there
be truth to the theory

That such visitations have been
happening for a very long time?

There are those who believe

The answer may lie back in
the u.S.,

In the legends
of native americans.

Coming up...

The people have been having
encounters for centuries --

Thousands of years, actually.

Some of these things that our
ancestors saw

Look remarkably similar
to what we're seeing today.

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Narrator: Researchers believe
the evidence gathered by police

About the interstellar origin
of triangular aircraft

And orb ufos is hard to deny.

But what can we make
of their visits

To specific locations
in america,

Places like
the yakima indian reservation

In washington state

And even illinois?

These triangular-shaped craft
passed over illinois,

Over land that is considered by

Native americans to be sacred.

And this suggests that they've
been here for a very long time.

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Narrator:
According to researchers,

The illinois territory
may have been visited

Because of a mysterious
and sacred connection

To its earliest inhabitants.

We have
the native american reports

Going back hundreds of years,

And it all paints
a picture of an area

Where there have been a long
history of strange sightings

In the same location,
but over many, many years.

Narrator:
The upper mississippi valley

Was inhabited long before
the arrival of europeans

By the illini people,

Who the french
called the illinois.

Scholars have long noted
that the legends of the illinois

Are filled with powerful,
supernatural entities

They called thunderbirds.

We have a very fragmented record
of the thunderbirds.

We see many images
of them in art,

Carved onto stones
on the top of monuments.

The thunderbirds were deities
that lived up in the sky.

So, when we see a lot
of the images of ancient

Native american warriors
dressed up in bird costumes,

They're dressing themselves
as those protector spirits,

The thunderbirds.

This goes back centuries,
apparently, of sightings

And stories about a large,

Winged creature
with a wingspan of 40 feet

Or more that made a sound
like thunder --

Hence, "thunderbird."

And it was something that
they would talk about in their

Oral history tradition for many,
many years and generations.

Narrator: Although mainstream
historians contend

That the thunderbirds legend is
based on sightings of real birds

That were somehow threatening
to the illinois people,

Is it possible,
as ufo investigators suggest,

That thunderbirds were aerospace
machines observed by the people

With no understanding of
technology, aircraft, nor ufos?

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Were they trying to describe

What they saw
the best way they can?

Because when you look
into legends,

Sometimes they're trying to
describe technological devices.

Many ufo researchers believe
that the depictions

By the indigenous people

Might have been the same
exact type of ufo

That was seeing flying
across illinois.

Narrator: For the ufo community,
questions remain.

Are the triangular craft
of illinois

Related somehow to those seen
in the skies of belgium?

And are they connected
to the glowing orb ufos

Encountered by
deputy sheriff val johnson

And witnessed by numerous police
over the columbia river?

And if so, how far back in time

Might such ufos
have appeared on our planet?

So, the question is, well,

Could any of this be more
than just myths and legends,

But be a retelling

Of actual events?

And it seems that
some of these things

That apparently our ancestors
were seeing

And then recording, you think,

"wait a minute.
That looks very similar

To some of these
modern descriptions of ufos."

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Narrator:
The observations, testimony,

And reports by police
play a decisive role

In better understanding
the ufo phenomenon.

For researchers, the evidence
of extraterrestrial visitation

Is overwhelming.

So, too, is the recognition that
interstellar entities

Continue to visit our world,
as they did in the distant past.

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