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Narrator: Next, on "alien highway"...

People have seen objects fly out of the water and zip around.

I look up, and there's something there.

Lights around the red light came on.

She claims that a craft landed.

I did not just see that.

Do you think we're being studied?

Oh, I guarantee it.

-This meter's going everywhere. -Go, go, go, go, go, go.

Dan, come on back to chuck.

Here we go. -I think I see something.

♪♪

Chuck: There's something happening across our land.

It's carving a terrifying path.

Right there. -Whoa!

Lawmen don't want to talk about it.

I have no idea how you would explain that.

And the government denies notice it's even happening.

Anchorman: The white house has dismissed

A full ufo investigation.

Those who speak up face ridicule or even worse.

Anchorwoman: An el paso county sheriff's deputy

Fired from his job.

They took my badge, but they can't take my voice.

I'm determined to uncover what's happening.

Look at that thing! Do you see that?

I saw it that night.

I listen to people who are afraid to speak out.

Nobody is gonna believe me.

I find evidence that's hiding in plain sight.

This is it right here.

Together with my son, dan zukowski...

It's absolutely moving right now.

....And investigator heather taddy...

We never really get this close.

...I'm here to find the truth...

Dan: I see it!

Chuck: ...Along america's alien highway.

♪♪

Narrator: Piedmont, missouri --

A city of 2,000, isolated in the american heartland.

But in 1973, its residents found themselves not so alone

When one of the most reported ufo sightings in history

Gained national attention,

Known today as the piedmont lights.

I don't know what it was.

I know it wasn't a plane or a helicopter.

They all know that they saw something

And cannot explain it.

Narrator: But ultimately, authorities discouraged

Witnesses from speaking out.

Now, with new reports continuing to emerge,

The question is,

Did the activity ever really subside?

And why is this region constantly tormented by ufos?

♪♪

Chuck: I was contacted by a lady named sherri.

She had this anomaly happen.

She doesn't know what it was.

She said that there's been a lot of ufo activity

In this particular area -- over 37 sightings.

37 sightings -- that's a lot.

That's a lot.

What kind of sightings are they having right now?

Anything from balls of light to the actual craft sighting.

Chuck: We're gonna talk with sherri.

She's scared. She's confused.

Maybe we can be the one's to help her.

I sure hope so.

Chuck: There's increased ufo incidents happening

All around the world, but you still don't see it

In mainstream media.

Our goal is to go out to these areas, hear these stories,

And capture any evidence we can.

If the media won't put this information out to the public,

Then we will.

Sherri: One night I was coming home

And I caught out of my left eye fire coming up

From the top of the tree branches in the back. Chuck: Okay.

And it startled me because it just looked like

The tops of the trees on fire.

There were some houses on the other side,

So I thought maybe a roof was on fire.

-Was it a lightning strike? -No.

-There were no clouds. -No.

No storms?

Sherri: So I ran into the house to try to call 911.

When I got back out here and I saw it again,

And I watched the flames turn into a ball.

And it folded within itself and disappeared

And went completely black. Whoa.

Now, when it disappeared it didn't shoot away, it just --

No, it folded in itself and just kind of went poof.

And it was completely black.

And I'm like, I did not just see that.

Sherri's case isn't the first case I've heard of this.

Firstly, I've interviewed witnesses who've seen

These balls of light, either above the tree or in the trees.

How long was the fire there, roughly?

It could not have been very long.

-Maybe two minutes? -Yeah, maybe.

It wasn't very long.

The next morning, I got in the car and I drove around

To see if there was any kind of singeing,

Anything that a fire would leave.

And there was nothing. Nothing.

That's crazy.

My first thought is...

Nobody's gonna believe me

Because that doesn't just happen.

I didn't hear any reports of anyone seeing anything.

How did it make you feel when you first saw that?

I honestly felt like there was something

Beckoning me to come and that I knew I shouldn't.

I could tell right off,

What sherri is telling me, she actually saw.

At no time was there any indication

That she was exaggerating her story.

Do you think you're in any kind of danger?

Yes.

So, I was worried that it had escorted me home that night.

Are they following you?

I have no idea.

Did it feel, like, threatening at all?

[ sighs ] that, I would just say,

I felt a sense of I shouldn't go any further. Mm-hmm.

You had a pretty bad feeling, so I think

While we're investigating these woods,

We should probably be a little bit careful.

Absolutely.

Yeah, especially since we don't know what it was.

Exactly. You know, when you first saw it,

You could think, "well, that could be a fire,"

But when it folded and went away...

I had never, ever seen anything like it,

And I never saw that again.

From an investigator's point of view, what we want to do

Is go out there and shoot some full-spectrum,

Hit it with the geiger counter, maybe a flare,

Check it all out, see if we can find any evidence.

Well this is definitely something

That we need to look at.

Yeah.

Narrator: Chuck and team venture into the woods

In search of residual evidence --

Radiation, electromagnetic energy, burn marks,

Anything that could link sherri's sighting

To potential ufo activity.

Chuck: Hey, guys, be careful. Be on high alert.

If you hear anything, if you see anything, call it out.

♪♪

So, as a kid, my dad always dragged me around

On all of his ufo paranormal investigations

And I think that's why I'm more of skeptic now.

♪♪

But still, every once in a while,

I come across something that I just can't explain.

♪♪

I've been doing this for so long, there's certain reports,

Like sherri's, I know that evidence will still be here.

So when I'm walking through the woods behind sherri's house

I'm not looking on the ground.

I'm looking in the top of the trees

'cause that's where the evidence is going to be.

I think I found something.

[ camera shutter clicking ]

You can see a little bit of tree damage

Straight up right here.

Oh, I see a tree that looks like

The top of it was cut off.

That's crazy.

It's definitely burned.

Chuck: Some of the signs I've seen where lightning strikes

Is actually the explosion of the tree itself.

But in sherri's case, we only see burning

On the top of the trees,

Which tells me that what sherri saw

Was definitely not a lightning strike.

If you look back from here to the observation location

Where her car was parked... Dan: Yeah.

...It definitely falls in line to where she was.

Whatever she saw, this is the spot.

Yeah, I agree.

♪♪

Narrator: With potential evidence of renewed activity in piedmont,

Chuck has arranged to meet with reporter dennis hovis,

Who broke the story

Of the original missouri lights in 1973.

This is dennis hovis, for kpwb news.

So, I was the manager and a disc jockey

At the local radio station, kpwb, at the time.

Suddenly someone called and said, "have you heard

About these ufos that have been flying around piedmont?"

And so we became interested and decided we'd go out

And see what was happening.

So you went from being a dj

To an investigative journalist?

Yeah, I guess you could call that.

We were able to go out and record people and talk to them

About what kind of sightings they were having.

Dennis: Strange, unidentified flying objects

Have been appearing over the skies of piedmont

And the clearwater lake.

Woman: And I saw the flashing lights

Through the curtains.

Man: Ronnie spotted it coming from the east to west.

-What is this white light? -It went directly over us.

-I don't know what it could be. -There isn't any noise.

Man #2: I hope there isn't somebody in here

Trying to get me or my boys.

There was a lot of people concerned about what it was.

People would come in and ask us questions

About we were seeing -- a lot of them we didn't know.

And so two gentlemen came in,

And they asked us some questions,

And I happened to walk around the car that they were driving,

Which was a u.S. Air force car.

They had their military uniforms in the car,

But they were in civilian clothes.

If it wasn't something that people were seeing,

Why would the military be interested in coming down?

Yeah. But the people were seeing something.

Yes.

Strange things were happening in the sky over piedmont.

Narrator: The sky over piedmont may once again

Be under siege by strange things,

And sightings have spread across the state

To the town of salem, where local ufo reports

Are at their highest since 1973.

Chuck and the team are eager to collect eyewitness accounts

Of this statewide resurgence in ufo activity.

We were coming through one night. Okay.

And I look up, and there's something there.

And it was iridescent -- like, glowing from the inside.

There was nothing on the outside.

And dan was with me.

And dan was your boyfriend?

-He was my boyfriend. -Okay.

I said, "are you seeing this?"

And he says, "what is that?"

It came right over us, like right over us.

Not up in the sky -- like, on us.

-Okay. -And it was scary.

I just felt, we've got to get out of here.

You know, you get the fight-or-flight instinct,

Like, maybe we need to go.

This one right here was during the day.

And these were all taken around by your house?

Yeah. Now, that one -- it was during the night.

♪♪

Something's interested in you or your house. Yeah.

What's it feel like to be experiencing this?

I just feel scared.

I see this very bright object.

Fort wood is not far from our house, so we've seen

Just about every type of aircraft come through.

They do whatever war games out there all the time,

But this was not something I'd ever seen.

How was it different?

There was no noises. There was no indication,

Other than the lights themselves.

The bottom you could absolutely see.

It was bright, bright red and orange on the bottom of it.

-Okay. -It was kind of oval-shaped.

Okay. I don't know what they were looking for.

We just would like some answers.

When was your last sighting?

Early November, 12:30, 1:00 in the morning.

Me and a buddy of mine had been out driving

Through his field, and all of a sudden

There was two lights in front of us,

Just like they were chasing each other --

Both round spheres.

One had a big light in the center of it,

And the other one had several different lights

Around the edge of it.

Now, there's a military base nearby.

You could tell the difference between airplanes,

Conventional aircraft -- oh, yeah.

It was getting daylight,

And you could see them pretty plain.

It hovered over us probably for 10 minutes.

Any sound, any noise?

No sound.

I wouldn't have never believed it

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.

Make the hair stand up on your head.

Freaked me the heck out.

You didn't happen to have a cellphone on you? I did.

So you got pictures of some of the stuff that you've seen.

Oh, yeah.

I've seen these things at night.

I've seen them during the day.

Of all the sightings that you've had,

Which sighting really sticks out?

I'm still kind of freaked out about it.

Can you tell me a little bit more about the deer?

It was deer season. I was hunting,

Seeing all the deer coming out of the hollow.

These deer didn't look right --

Just like they're a hologram or something.

You couldn't exactly see through them.

They were, like, real dark and real dark-eyed,

And they would just move real slow,

Kind of like they was spotters.

Just kind of watch you.

It wasn't a hallucination or anything like that.

It was real.

I have hunted and killed enough deer

That you could tell the difference.

I took a couple of the guys with me

A couple of days after I seen them,

And we seen them again.

So you've actually had witnesses with you

That have seen these, too. Yeah. Yeah.

Still in the same area that you've seen lights? Yeah.

Do you think we're being studied?

Oh, I guarantee it.

♪♪

Heather: From the people that I've talked to,

There's clearly a lot going on here.

They're definitely seeing stuff above the treeline,

As well as above houses.

That seems to be a pattern.

I talked to a witness who had seen

Something above the trees.

Balls of light, orbs.

We've talked to a lot of people that are experiencing

The same activity, and they're very scared.

Plus, everybody that I've talked to is afraid to go out

During certain times of night.

They feel like they're being targeted by these things.

It's just crazy.

That tells me that we've got to get these people together

And find out what's really going on here.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: Chuck has assembled a town hall meeting

Full of concerned citizens and potential ufo witnesses.

Man: All right, all right. Everybody settle down. Please.

Go ahead chuck.

My name is chuck zukowski, and I've been doing

Ufo investigations for over 35 years now.

I was law enforcement in colorado for about eight years.

For every crime, there's always some time of evidence left.

Same thing with ufo sightings.

We're gonna do what we can

To figure out what's going on over here.

How many people have actually had experiences here in salem?

You want to raise your hand?

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: In the aftermath of the original piedmont lights,

The national media turned the incident into a joke.

Man: Disbelievers who have seen this film

Say it's merely a street light

Animated by the motion of the camera.

Reporter: Could this possibly have been something

That you imagined? Oh, no!

No way. Unh-unh.

And they all say they were sober at the times

Of the various sightings.

Narrator: 45 years later, that stigma remains,

And getting witnesses to speak in a public forum

Is a challenge.

I know a lot of you have probably had life-changing

Experiences that probably keep you up all night,

And maybe you feel like people, your friends and family,

Don't believe you or they think you're crazy.

We've all had crazy experiences like you guys have had.

This alien stuff is new to me, but my background

In law enforcement and being in the military

Is why I'm here to help do the investigations.

How many have you have had experiences in salem?

♪♪

These fault lines you believe are attracting ufos?

Absolutely.

Is that one of our vans?

What the [bleep]?

Can you see it?

What is that?

I have [bleep] no idea.

♪♪

Narrator: Amid a surge of ufo reports,

Chuck has assembled the residents of salem, missouri,

In search of ufo witnesses willing to share tales

Of their close encounters.

How many of you have had experiences in salem?

♪♪

Go ahead. There has been an uptick in ufo sightings

For the last four years.

We live so close to an army base

That we're always hearing, "it's flares. It's war games."

-Absolutely. -Oh, yeah.

I think it's part of national security.

They feel that they have a duty to keep things at rest.

I've had actual events where I've been followed

During investigations -- I'm not always sure by who.

But we're not gonna let any of that stuff stop us.

Narrator: One local witness who wishes to remain anonymous,

Approaches heather with what she claims

Is startling evidence of a close encounter

In her own backyard.

♪♪

Did you pick up any photographic evidence?

Heather: One witness showed me this.

This was taken in her backyard.

She claims that a craft landed.

I see you shaking your head, dan.

Do you know if that witness has any kids?

Yes.

So, to me, I look at this,

And I see this was an above-ground pool.

I'm very suspect about all this,

And I think me being skeptical actually makes me better

When it comes to this type of investigation.

Now, you know, as a kid, we had a four-foot pool

And when we broke it down,

There was no grass at all in the middle.

Everything was dead, from the outside edge.

It was completely dead all the way through.

My opinion is we should consider this,

Maybe go out there, check this out,

Maybe take some dirt samples.

Yeah.

Narrator: The truth might lie somewhere on these grounds.

This is it.

If this is an actual ufo landing site,

There could be changes in the soil,

Environmental anomalies, even residual radiation --

Exactly the kind of evidence that could prove

What these witnesses are claiming is true.

Dan, you know, when we were talking about a swimming pool...

Yeah. ...This is at a slant. You wouldn't do that.

All the water would shift to one side,

Especially if it's downhill. Right.

I think my dad was right.

After looking at kind of how the slope is at the house,

No one would put a pool here.

It's something else.

Heather: Do you want to look at the photo?

Yeah.

Narrator: The homeowners first noticed a ring

On their property after allegedly witnessing

A ufo rising over their backyard last spring.

In the time since, the grass has grown back.

Give me that picture, dad.

Narrator: Dan is using a photo transparency

To pinpoint exactly where the ring was located.

Hey, where do we need to be, dan?

-Probably about here. -Okay.

We're gonna map out the ring with the flags

So we get an actual area to be able to take soil samples.

Let's do this, like, maybe every three feet.

-Is that good? -Yeah.

What do you think?

That's about right here where the picture was taken.

Chuck: Once I take the soil samples,

I sketch out the ring on my tablet, I measure,

So I know exactly where the soil samples come from.

Cool.

♪♪

-It's down. -[ coughs ]

Chuck: Your camera went down? What happened?

It's working?

I don't know. It just restarted.

Over by this ring?

Yeah.

Soon as I went to walk in it.

Okay, you know what, give me a couple of minutes.

I'm gonna go grab my emf meter.

I'm gonna see if we have a high em field.

You know, when electronic devices react to certain areas,

That's a red flag that something's there.

That actually drives me to do more tests

Because if something happened here,

There will be residual energy,

And that will affect our equipment.

And that means that we could be closer

To capturing tangible evidence.

-Do a baseline of the circle. -Okay.

I got nothing here.

♪♪

[ shrill beeping ] ooh.

You see that? -Yeah.

Chuck: This meter's, like, going everywhere.

Right back here, outside the ring,

I'm not getting any readings at all.

Soon as I step into the ring...

[ shrill beeping ] ...Look at this.

Look at this! You see how it jumps?

It's jumping.

Who's van is that?

Is that guy watching us?

Could just be a neighbor?

Heather: It definitely wasn't there before.

Yeah. That's not one of ours?

Let's go talk to him.

♪♪

Narrator: While investigating a ufo anomaly...

Chuck: Hey, guys, is that one of our vans?

Narrator: ...The team is alerted to the presence

Of an unexpected visitor...

Heather: It definitely wasn't there before.

Chuck: Yeah. That's not one of ours?

Narrator: ...A mysterious van that appears to be watching them.

-How long has it been there? -I just noticed it.

Let's go talk to him.

♪♪

♪♪

It looks like it's leaving.

Dan scared him off. -You see anything, dan?

Yeah, they saw me walking up, and they left.

That was weird. Oh, he's coming back now.

-Could just be a neighbor? -Well...

-Did you make eye contact? -Couldn't get close enough.

What was it? Who was in there? Could you see anything?

Like, two people. I don't know.

Two males?

-I couldn't tell. -You couldn't tell.

Did you get their license plate?

Did not.

Chuck: I can't say for sure who was in that van watching us.

It could have been the government.

But one of the reasons why the military or an entity

Within the government would be watching

Is because they could be running their own investigation,

Or they may want to know what I'm learning

That they don't know.

Narrator: After pinpointing the location

Of an alleged ufo sighting,

The team is collecting soil from the grounds.

These samples will be tested for anomalies

That could link this site to extraterrestrial activity.

Okay, so we've got the soil samples.

The problem is the emf.

I wasn't expecting that at all.

We have an anomaly here.

We have something, and we really need to look at this.

Let's go get that stuff analyzed.

Let's see what we got.

♪♪

Narrator: Midwest testing will perform a compression comparison,

Determining if a heavy object ever landed

Inside the mysterious circle.

They'll also test for radiation

And chemical abnormalities that could point

To the involvement of something unexplained.

-Here are the soil samples. -Okay.

Narrator: While heather deals with the soil samples,

Chuck has a new mission for dan --

A deeper investigation into missouri's ufo past.

I talked to dennis hovis, who was the dj at the time

During the 1973 piedmont ufo flap.

Strange things were happening in the sky over piedmont.

He gave me a list of witnesses

From that original sighting.

What we can do is we can look at that list,

See if they're still local, see if they're still alive even,

And if they want to talk to us or not.

Narrator: With dan on the hunt for the original witnesses,

Chuck regroups with heather to review the soil-test results.

Heather: Take a look at this.

The soil is hydrophobic, meaning that the soil

Isn't allowing water to settle,

Which can explain the lack of grass growth around the ring.

-Okay. -This is the weird part.

They're still analyzing everything.

They're looking at something else.

Yeah, there's something else there.

And we don't know what that something else is.

That's an unknown. Yeah.

Didn't you find that kind of strange? Yeah.

You were expecting the whole packet,

And they're holding back. Yeah.

Chuck: Based on the analysis of the soil samples

We took at ring site, I needed to talk to a geologist

That knows a little bit more about that area.

Heather found a researcher that might be able

To shed some light on what's going on

With all this activity in the area.

♪♪

Belleview's elephant rocks is the current base

Of operations for geology expert gary hart,

Who has spent decades unearthing a potential connection

Between what lies beneath this region's surface

And the mysterious craft plaguing its skies.

♪♪

So, what you're seeing here is an entire area

Of slightly radioactive granite.

And this is an exposure of it, but the whole area

Is underlain by this granite.

It's busted up with faults.

Now, the faults produce seismic energy.

It's an energy that mainstream science does not recognize.

Now, we can look at the fault lines in this area

With this map.

Heather: Wow.

Most people don't know this,

But I've plotted the ufo sightings

Onto a topographic map,

And a lot of sightings are along these fault lines.

So you think this energy

Has something to do with the activity in this area?

Absolutely.

So these are the fault lines right here?

Yes, they fill this whole area, for miles.

That's what makes this area so easy to study

Versus anywhere else.

So we have miles and miles of fault lines

That are releasing energy.

And the energy being released by these fault lines

You believe are attracting ufos to this region?

Yes, and the faults are the only type of structure

On earth that can generate this unusual energy.

Now, mainstream scientists don't want to study this.

We really don't know what the military thinks,

But they've been known to be flying around this area,

Especially when there's a spate of sightings.

That absolutely makes sense because there in 1973,

Military did come into that area.

Exactly.

Now, what I'm looking at here

Is all these fault lines are going this way.

These are coming down this way. Exactly.

It looks like they meet right here,

Like a vortex or something? Exactly.

And where is this convergence point?

Clearwater lake.

People in the clearwater lake area have seen objects

In the water fly out of the water and zip around --

Both silver objects and orange lights.

That's exactly what sherri and the others

Reported seeing.

So the lake is clearwater lake, and that's down here.

Yes, it's right there, just off the map.

Narrator: Could the mysterious fault-line energy

Be the x-factor that is pulling ufos to the lake?

Chuck: We need to get to clearwater lake.

If these are aliens, they can do whatever they want.

-Go, go, go, go, go, go. -Dan, is everything okay?

Heather: Have you seen or heard from dan?

Chuck: Dan!

Chuck: Now, what I'm looking at here

Is all these fault lines are going this way.

These are coming down this way. Exactly.

It looks like they kind of meet right here,

Like a vortex or something? Exactly.

And where is this convergence point?

Clearwater lake.

People in the clearwater lake area have seen objects

In the water fly out of the water and zip around.

So the lake is clearwater lake, and that's down here.

Yes, it's right there, just off the map.

♪♪

We need to get to clearwater lake.

♪♪

Narrator: Clearwater lake is located back in piedmont, missouri,

Home of 1973's infamous mass ufo sightings.

As chuck preps for the investigation,

Heather travels ahead to join dan,

Who has tracked down a witness to the original

1973 clearwater sightings.

Could her experience from decades ago

Confirm gary hart's theory that strange energies

Beneath clearwater lake are attracting ufos?

Dan: So, I tracked down jean coleman.

Back in 1973, she was one of the first witnesses

To report a close encounter of strange lights

Flying over clearwater lake.

I want to know how her experience matches up

With what's going on today.

Are we dealing with the same thing?

Is history repeating itself?

Oh. We were driving across the dam,

And I was looking out across the lake. Heather: Mm-hmm.

And I saw a red flash out, you know, in the lake.

And all of the sudden, it flashed again.

And so we both got out, and we watched.

There would be a red flash, and in two or three seconds,

There would be another flash,

But every time there was a flash,

You could see that the flash was higher.

When it got so far up,

Then lights around the red light came on,

And they flashed.

So then when it got up pretty high,

All the lights came on, and they just stayed on.

What do you think that was?

[ laughs ]

Well, definitely, it was never identified,

So I would say it's a ufo.

So how does it feel to be back here?

I really don't like to be here at nighttime.

Why's that?

Well, you know, if these are aliens,

They're a lot more advanced than we are,

And, you know, they can do whatever they want.

I know what I saw was real.

I mean, I didn't make it up, and I didn't imagine it.

And I know, you know, other people that --

Very credible people, you know --

Have told me what they saw,

And there was definitely something that happened here.

♪♪

Narrator: From the multiple ufo witness accounts

Throughout piedmont and salem to gary hart's research

Tracking those sightings along fault lines,

Everything points the team

Back to where it all started in the 1970s --

Clearwater lake.

♪♪

This is ground zero.

Okay, this is what we're gonna do --

I'm gonna set up my binary light experiment.

We got to take water samples because there might be

Something within the water, biological contaminants,

Could be caverns, all kinds of stuff under the water.

Secondly, if something flew over,

There might be something inside the woods here,

So we need to walk around the woods out here

And check the emf.

Be on guard, be careful,

And don't forget your walkies, okay?

When we investigate, we use everything at our disposal --

Historical reports, eyewitness testimonies,

Photos, forensic evidence, everything,

To find the best location

To potentially make contact with a ufo.

♪♪

[ owl hoots ]

♪♪

Hey, dan, how's it going in the woods?

Dan: It's pretty freaky out here.

♪♪

Something's going on.

There was a heat source.

I don't know where it went, though.

There it is.

Yeah, we got some sort of heat source going on out here.

Could be an animal.

Oh.

I've seen deer that didn't actually look like deer,

Kind of like they was spotters.

♪♪

Go, go, go, go, go, go.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Dan.

♪♪

Dan, can you please respond?

Come back, heather.

Have you seen or heard from dan?

Dan, come on back to chuck.

Dan, come on back to chuck.

Dan!

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Narrator: While pursuing an unidentified entity

At a known ufo hotspot,

Dan has disappeared into the woods.

Have you seen or heard from dan?

Dan, come on back to chuck.

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Dan, come on back to chuck.

Dan!

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All right, where was his last location?

-Over there. -All right, let's head that way.

He didn't respond to anything I said.

Dan, this is chuck.

Where you at?

Producer: Chuck, dan doesn't have his walkie.

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So, I'm pretty sure I saw something that was

Bigger than a small animal but shorter than a person,

And I was watching it on my flir,

And it took off, so I went after it.

I left the crew and everybody else behind me.

While I'm running, I drop my radio.

It was just -- it was really crazy.

The part that bothers me, though --

I'm pretty fast, and I can catch people,

And whatever this was outran me.

Hey, dad. I hear you loud and clear.

I had some issues.

-You're okay? -I'm good now.

I'll be heading back up there shortly. Ah.

Narrator: With dan safely headed back,

Chuck readies a next-level experiment in ufo hunting --

Binary light signaling.

Chuck: Be careful with the wires, okay?

Binary communication translates ones and zeroes

Into signals capable of transmitting information.

Chuck has created a binary sequencer to relay these signals

Through a system of lights.

The result -- simple messages broadcast into the night sky,

Reaching out to make contact with whatever might be

Watching us from above.

It's gonna do the alphabet. It's gonna do alphanumeric.

And then we're gonna do some simple letters like "hi."

What we need to do is kill any other lights

So we can see out over the water

And see if we get any type of responses.

So let's get this going.

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Here we go.

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Dan? -Yeah.

What I want you to do --

Okay, if you see anything,

I want you to point in that direction.

What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna be scanning, like a 180... Got you.

...To see if I see anything,

And I'll point it out to you guys, okay? Okay.

See anything, heather?

Not yet.

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Hey, guys, keep scanning the treeline.

That's where a lot of these sightings happen.

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-Do you see anything, dan? -No.

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[ lights banging ]

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Chuck: I got lights!

-What do you see? -I got lights right here.

-You do? -I'm not kidding.

-Where? -Hey, kill that light.

Right here, straight through,

Just over the ridge.

See anything, heather?

I think I see something.

See it right there?

It's moving really slow.

No. Let me see.

-Where? -Right there.

-Where? -Right over there.

-Yes, right there. -Right over there.

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Can you see it?

Slowly moving from left to right?

-Yeah. -Yeah, it's a plane.

Chuck: Are you sure? Planes don't move like that.

Okay, hang on. I'm gonna try and document this.

[ camera shutter clicks ]

Stay right where you're at.

-It stopped. -It stopped?

-Yeah. -Give me that back.

"stopped."

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Ah, [bleep]. It did stop.

Yeah, planes don't stop in mid-air, guys.

-What is that? -I have no idea.

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What the [bleep]?

What is that?

Wasn't an airplane. It didn't look like a satellite.

We didn't really know what it was.

Chuck: Oh, my god.

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I have no idea.

Dan: I don't know what I was expecting to see

Out here tonight, but it wasn't that.

I'm not saying what we saw tonight was an alien spacecraft,

But by definition, it was a ufo.

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[ camera shutter clicking ]

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Chuck: There it goes.

Huh. [bleep] what did we just see?

Heather: It's awesome.

Can't believe it.

As an investigator, I usually investigate

Other people's sightings, but to confirm those sightings

With my own eyes and capture it on video?

What better way to validate that, yes, there is

Something happening here in missouri?

It wasn't a plane. Definitely wasn't lightning.

That's exactly what everybody's talking about.

This is great.

This experience definitely proves to me,

Whatever happened in the early '70s is still happening today,

And somebody is keeping that information

Away from the public.

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Narrator: In a region flooded with ufo reports,

These unexplained lights over clearwater lake

Further cement missouri's infamy as a ufo hot spot.

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Chuck: This has been one heck of an investigation.

We came out here to check up on just one report,

And it seems like it's just so much more.

It's, like, exploding everywhere around here.

I think it's a place we'll have to keep our eye on,

Maybe come back for a future investigation.

Narrator: Since landing in missouri,

The team found evidence to corroborate sherri stack's

Report of anomalous fire descending from the sky.

Chuck: You can see a little bit of tree damage

Straight up right here.

-Oh. -It's definitely burned.

Narrator: They experienced electrical anomalies,

Which disabled their cameras

Where a ufo was said to have landed.

And they captured unexplained lights

At clearwater lake,

The epicenter of the mass sightings back in 1973.

What I'd like to in the future is maybe not necessarily

Just put something out to salem, but maybe that whole county

About us coming out to come to talk to them... Yeah.

...Bring everybody in versus just a town.

Well, then we're gonna need a lot bigger place.

Bigger town hall.

Narrator: The results of chuck's investigation

May bring peace of mind to some of the area's residents.

I just want to thank you guys for believing our stories.

But what remains troubling is the government's refusal

To acknowledge these craft that clearly populate

The missouri skies,

Hovering, watching, and waiting.

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