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alert under war plan bravo.n

- [Narrator] Tonight
on "Unidentified."

- [David] The hair on the
back of my neck stood up.

- It shot straight
up and was gone.

- [Narrator] The team
investigates the link

between UFO sightings and
nuclear installations.

- [Chris] These vehicles were
hovering directly above

the nuclear weapons facilities
and nuclear missile silos.

- They were there scoping
out our capabilities.

- [Daniel] These weapons systems
had been shut off line.

That's a terrifying capability.

- [Man] There is a definitive
link to nuclear technology.

The question is why.

- These things don't seem
to obey the laws of physics.

They're sure as hell not gonna
obey the laws of politics.

(dramatic music)

- [Narrator] Everything we
know about UFOs is changing.

Thanks to a team led by former

Pentagon UFO investigator,
Lue Elizondo.

- That is real,
whatever that is.

- [Narrator] And former
top intelligence official,

Chris Mellon.

- This is a current
continuing phenomenon.

It's happening, it
continues to happen.

- [Narrator] They discovered
five unique characteristics

that UFOs have in common.

They're called the
five observables.

And released
groundbreaking videos.

- [Narrator] That forced
the Navy to admit its pilots

were coming face to face
with unidentified objects.

- [News Announcer]
The U.S. Navy made

a shocking admission today.

- [News Announcer] Strange
flying objects caught on tape

by their own fighter
pilots are, in fact, UFOs.

- Something needs to be done.

- [Narrator] Now a new
wave of military witnesses

is coming out of the shadows.

- I'd be lying if I said
I wasn't scared ----less.

- I never seen anything
move like that.

Shape, size, speeds,
clearly unidentified.

- [Narrator] The team is united
on a new mission,

connect the dots to reveal
the truth about UFOs.

- [Man] This thing had
no capability

like anything on earth.

- [Narrator] And warn the
world about the dangers

they might represent.

- [Chris] Carl Sagan
once famously said,

"Extraordinary claims
require extraordinary proof."

He was absolutely right.

But now we have the proof.

(dramatic piano music)

- [Lue] When I was
at the Pentagon,

one of the concerns we
had was the connection

that UFOs have towards
nuclear weapons systems

or nuclear power plants.

- [Narrator] Lue Elizondo
is on his way to interview

a former U.S. Air Force
officer, willing to speak

about his UFO sighting
for the first time.

The alleged sighting took
place at an Air Force base

with nuclear weapons
and a long history

of strange encounters.

My name is Daniel Gibson.

I'm a retired Air Force major.

- [Lue] Major Gibson,
thank you very much for

taking your time to come here

and speak with us here today.

I'd like to start by asking you

what inspired you to come
here today and why now?

- In the fall of 1995,

I was stationed at
Malmstrom Air Force Base

in Montana, right
outside of Great Falls.

Malmstrom is primarily
a ICBM missile base.

- [Narrator] Since the 1960s,

Malmstrom Air Force Base
has housed hundreds of

Intercontinental Ballistic
Missiles

with nuclear warheads capable
of destroying entire cities.

During the Cold War,
the base was a key part

of America's nuclear arsenal,

that provided a protective arc

across the nations
northern tier.

- Launch trajectories
from the Soviet Union

come over the poles
across Alaska and Canada.

A ring of bases were
established across the northern

United States to house both
ICBMs and strategic bombers.

And they were the bedrock of
our strategic deterrence

and our security and safety.

- [Man On Radio] Maintain
alert to the war plan bravo.

- [Narrator] In the fall of
1995, Gibson was on board

a KC-135 as it conducted
midair refueling

for a fleet of B-1B
strategic heavy bombers,

which can carry nuclear
payloads anywhere in the world.

- [Daniel] Once the
refueling was done,

we started our trip
back to Malmstrom.

I moved forward to
the flight deck,

to enjoy the Aurora
Borealis above us.

- [Narrator] Flight paths
for these refueling missions

often included views
of the aurora borealis,

or Northern lights.

- All of a sudden there was
just this very bright light.

The aircraft commander and the
copilot, they saw it first.

Time kind of froze for us.

But it was probably a good
minute that it was there.

This light, we watched
it all the way down

into the aurora
where it stopped.

And you could actually
see the aurora

flowing around it, just
as if you would see

a bow wave going around
the front of a boat.

The longer the object
stayed in the aurora,

the brighter the object got.

And then it just shot
straight up

(whoosh)

and was gone.

- [Lue] Some people would say,
you're obviously confused.

You saw a planet or a star.

- We had no doubt in our
mind that it was not a star

or a planet because it
entered our atmosphere.

It was in the aurora
borealis itself.

And then it shot
straight back up.

I've seen the international
space station.

It moves at a very fast clip.

This was moving 10 times plus.

We all had the same reaction.

It was almost a stunned silence.

None of us had seen
anything like that before.

- [Lue] Some folks will
say, well, you know,

it could be a Russian
first stage booster rocket

coming in on reentry.

- Well, initially we thought
it was a shooting star,

but then we saw the speed
at which it was descending.

And then it stopped.

- [Narrator] According
to Gibson's account,

the object possessed three
of the five observables.

Instantaneous acceleration,

the ability to accelerate
instantly from a standstill,

hypersonic velocity, speeds
of 3,700 miles per hour

or more, and trans
medium travel,

the ability to move
through air, water,

and the vacuum of space.

- [Lue] You're going from
an atmospheric environment

to potentially a
vacuum environment.

- I don't know of any
object in our inventory

that has the capability
to stop mid reentry,

stay in position, and
then once it's done,

accelerate back out
of the atmosphere.

The G-forces would
kill a human being.

(foreboding music)

- [Narrator] To Elizondo,
Major Gibson's sighting

is part of a pattern.

While working with
AATIP, the Pentagon's

Advanced Aerospace Threat
Identification Program,

Elizondo says
investigators researched

multiple UFO sightings
around Northern Tier

nuclear bases
during the Cold War.

These sightings were
part of a recently leaked

500-page government
funded report

detailing dozens of alleged
Cold War UFO encounters.

- [Officer on PA] Zack is
presently in Def con Four.

- [Narrator] Investigative
journalist Tim McMillan

has studied the report.

- There's a chart
that showed the number

of UFO sightings within
proximity to different

nuclear facilities that
house weapons systems.

There's a distinct
correlation that these objects

appear to be encroaching
upon airspace

of the Northern tier.

If you look at just those
numbers alone, it's alarming.

(muffled speaking on radio)

- [Narrator] One of the most
remarkable Cold War era

sightings also occurred near
Malmstrom Air Force Base,

28 years before
Gibson's experience.

In 1967, several Air Force
personnel reported seeing

a glowing red object
flying over the base.

The object appeared
to move rapidly

and was able to make
sharp 90-degree turns,

stop abruptly, and
reverse course,

much like the movements
described by Major Gibson

nearly 30 years later.

- Both UFOs had this
incredible ability to take off

and basically go from
from a very low velocity,

almost a complete hover,
to an incredible speed

in the instant of time.

- [Narrator] And there
is one more detail

that concerns
Elizondo and his team.

Reportedly, moments
after the sighting,

10 of Malmstrom's nuclear
warheads were suddenly,

inexplicably turned off.

- These weapon systems
had been shut off line,

so they couldn't be fired.

If these were Russian aircraft,

if these were someone
else's aircraft,

the idea that something
could possess a technology

that could fly within proximity

and take these systems offline,

that's a terrifying capability.

- [Lue] Is this some sort
of U.S. secret technology,

or perhaps some
sort of adversarial

secret weapon
system or platform?

There is a definitive link
to nuclear technology,

whether on the battle
space or in time of peace.

That I think is becoming
more and more clear.

The question is why?

What is the connection?

- [Narrator] It's not just
happening near nuclear bases.

Alarming UFO activity
is also being reported

around U.S. nuclear
assets at sea.

Last year, the team
interviewed multiple

U.S. Navy personnel.

- Brother Dave, how are you?

- Hi brother Lue,
how you doing, man?

- [Narrator] Including
two fighter pilots

who described encountering
Tic Tac-shaped UFOs

during a 2004 training
exercise, after taking off

from a nuclear powered
aircraft carrier.

- And all of a
sudden it goes boop,

and it kind of turns.

He just rapidly
accelerates beyond anything

that I've ever seen, crosses
my nose and it's gone.

- [Narrator] They
uncovered other encounters

with nuclear-powered carriers.

- It was basically a sphere
with a cube inside.

- [Pilot] If I hadn't seen
it with my own eyes,

I don't know if I would've
believed it either.

- [Narrator] If these objects
are interested in U.S.

nuclear technology, Elizondo
and Mellon want to know why.

- These weapons and
programs are the ultimate

guarantor of our security.

Any potential
adversary would seek to

neutralize that capability.

These unidentified
craft, they're demonstrating

capabilities far in excess
of those we possess.

So we have every
reason to find out

who's operating these vehicles,

how they work and
why they're here.

- [Narrator] Now
Elizondo is on his way

to investigate
another development.

- Hey, Mr. Marceau!

- Lue, how you doing?
- Good to see ya!

- [Narrator] Another
military eyewitness

is reporting a UFO near a
location with a possible

nuclear connection, a
UFO he says was giant.

Coming up on "Unidentified."

- [Lue] You said
something very peculiar.

I knew it was an alien ship.

- It's pretty clear to
me that they were there

scoping out our capabilities.

And here's these huge
caches of ammunition.

Hey, let's go check k this ou.

(dramatic music)

music)

- [Lue] Now that I'm no longer
confined to just collecting

DOD information, as
I was in AATIP,

I can start talking to other
people to see if there's

anything we're missing.

Then ultimately use
that information to help

inform some of our key
decision makers in our country.

Every one of these stories
adds another data point.

There's always something
a little bit different

that we didn't know before.

- [Narrator] Lue
Elizondo is investigating

the connection between UFOs
and U.S. nuclear assets.

- If there's a
technology out there

that has the ability
to interfere with

our nuclear response
capabilities,

that is a national security
issue for our country.

- [Narrator] He's meeting
with an eyewitness

who had a terrifying encounter

on a Major North American
military base.

(knocking on door)

- Hey, Mr. Marceau!

- Lue, how you doing?

- Good to see ya!

Thanks for inviting me
to your wonderful abode.

What I'd like to
do, David, I want to

hear this story
from front to back.

- It was my first
annual training.

August 1st, 1992,
I was deployed to

a Canadian army
base called Gagetown

in the province
of New Brunswick.

- [Narrator] CFB Gagetown
is a large Canadian

army base just north
of the U.S. border

used by both countries
as a training hub.

- It was all army.

I don't know how many
units were there,

but people from all
over the Northeast

U.S. and Eastern
Canada all met up there

to play these war games.

- [Narrator] Marceau
and another man

he refers to as Mike,
because he doesn't want

his real name revealed,
are assigned night watch.

- Mike was at Pad One, I
was at Pad Three, and--

- And what's in
between each pad?

- Thick forest.

It was a very bright night.

The moon was full.

I could see the whole
big pile of ammunition

in front of me.

I had a weapon,
had no ammunition.

I was a sitting duck there.

About 11:20, the hair
on the back of my neck

starts to stand up.

I feel like someone's
watching me.

The tree frogs and
the crickets and all

the nighttime forest
noises stopped.

And then I look up at
this enormous spacecraft.

My first instinct is don't move.

I was afraid that
whoever was in there

was gonna see me.

I knew as soon as I saw
it what I was looking at.

And um...

I was scared, petrified.

I don't think it was moving
when I first noticed it.

And then I saw it
move over the trees.

Because it's not
like anything that's

naturally occurring
or even man-made.

I could hear like a
static noise, like a TV

that's not tuned
into any channel.

We had field
phones, always live.

I picked up the phone.

I said, "Mike, you there?"

He says, "Yeah."

I said, "Did you see that?"

And he said, "Thank
God you said that.

"I thought I was going crazy."

- So if you can, David, real
quick, just describe for me

front to back, rough dimensions.

- [Narrator] Marceau later
asked an illustrator he knew

to create an
image of the craft.

- Oblong, rounded
corners, slightly tapered

towards the tail.

It was taller than my house.

More than an acre
long, half that width.

It was huge.

- Did you notice any
wings, control surfaces,

navigation lights, landing gear.

- No visible means
of keeping this thing

aloft and stationary.

There was no downwash.

- [Narrator] Only recently
has Marceau been able

to talk openly about
what he experienced.

- [David] I was
traumatized by this.

Just saying, yeah, I
saw an alien spaceship.

- These were your words.

"I knew it was an alien ship."

Now that's a word I typically
don't use, but you did.

- I knew what to look for.

And it was neither an allied
nor Soviet bloc aircraft.

It was not a
commercial aircraft.

It was that.

It was pretty clear to
me that they were there

scoping out our capabilities.

And here's these huge
caches of ammunition.

Hey, let's go check this out.

- Really, really
appreciate it...

- [Narrator] Elizondo
wants to know more

about Marceau's fellow witness.

Until now, Mike
has stayed silent,

but he agrees to speak
to Elizondo by phone.

- [Mike] Hello?

It was a fairly routine shift

and I spotted a very
bright yellow orange light

across the road.

It was about 30 feet
above the treetops.

It was there for at least
a half hour or more.

All of a sudden, without any
warning, it just took off.

It was like a streak of light.

It went so fast that
if I had closed my eyes

for a second, I
would have missed it.

- Did it shoot over the horizon?

Where did it go?

Did it go up?

- [Mike] All I saw
was a streak of light.

It was completely solid.

I was talking to Dave and
I don't know if he asked me

or if I asked him, but I
remember, "Did you see that?"

- [Narrator] Elizondo
recognizes three

of the five observables.

Instantaneous acceleration,

hypersonic velocity,
and anti-gravity,

the ability to move without
conventional propulsion

or heat signature.

- These vehicles
don't seem to have any

obvious signs of propulsion,

no wings or control surfaces,

and yet somehow they
seem to be defying

Earth's gravitational pull.

Both Mr. Marceau
and Major Gibson

described objects with
this incredible ability

to take off from a
very low velocity,

almost a complete hover
to an incredible speed

in the instant of time.

- [Narrator] But why would
a UFO show an interest

in a Canadian military base?

Gagetown was not far from
Loring Air Force base in Maine,

another of America's strategic
Northern Tier nuclear bases.

- Whatever this phenomenon
is, it seems to be

keenly interested in our
defense capabilities.

The Canadians are very
closely integrated

in defending North America.

So not the least bit
surprising that sightings

would occur on both
sides of the border.

- I found it very
interesting that he said,

and they were
guarding ammunition.

And he mentioned that there
was a 50 gallon drum barrel

to simulate an atomic burst.

Wow.

Why would we have that?

Doesn't mean it's a
real nuclear device,

but it's to simulate that.

Is there a connection,
once again,

between potential
nuclear technologies

and UAP activity?

- [Narrator] But
another theory suggests

a different kind of
nuclear connection.

- [Lue] You know,
it's interesting,

about 60 miles
outside of Gagetown,

there is a nuclear power plant.

- [Narrator] The Point Lepreau
Nuclear Generating Station

is one of just four nuclear
power plants in all of Canada.

Previously, Elizondo
had found a link,

not just with UFOs
and missile bases,

but also power plants.

- You know, when I was
at AATIP, we were under

the presumption that there
was definitely a connection

between UAP activity
and our nuclear energy.

The question is, who's doing
it and why are they doing it.

There's all sorts of
reasons why an enemy

would want to spy on our
nuclear capabilities.

They want to know do
they have advancement

in nuclear engineering
that, frankly,

they don't understand
or have yet.

So it's no surprise that
somebody is interested

in our nuclear capabilities.

At this point, is we just
don't know who the hell it is.

- [Chris] A potential
adversary is going to want to

destroy our nuclear
weapons capability

to survive a nuclear conflict.

They're going to want to
understand any vulnerabilities

that they may have.

- [Narrator] Coming
up on "Unidentified."

- [Man] When the
lights were, you know,

enveloping us in the
whole missile silo,

physically it's traumatizing.

Even after 30 years, the
emotions are still there.

They're raw.

(dramatic music)

c music)

- Out of the tree line
rises this huge UFO.

- [Narrator] Lue
Elizondo is reviewing

David Marceau's eyewitness
account with former

Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense Chris Mellon.

- He remembers the
entire forest being

completely dead silent.

- Everything ceased?

- Everything ceased.

He did report it through
his chain of command.

His chain of command
ridiculed him for it.

- Were there
follow-up interviews?

With OSI or Army
Counterintelligence

or anyone interview him?

- Negative.

- There should have
been a follow-up.

This kind of reporting
should be examined

in a purely objective fashion.

- Some of our
facilities owned by

the Department of Energy, DOE,

may have some reporting
as well that hasn't yet

been brought to the light
of day, so to speak.

- And we know that's the
case from the early years

of the nuclear program.

There were so many
sightings that had generated

the memos that got to
the four-star level.

- [Narrator] These memos
and official reports

have never been made public.

Now, to further explore
the link between UFOs

and nuclear capabilities,

Elizondo is seeking
out new witnesses.

This Air Force security
specialist has asked

to remain anonymous because
he fears the repercussions

of coming forward.

- I was stationed at F. E.
Warren Air Force Base

from 1987 'til 1991.

- [Narrator] During the cold war

Francis E. Warren Air Force Base
in Wyoming

was one of America's most secure
nuclear strongholds.

with over 100 intercontinental
ballistic missiles

on constant alert.

- [Officer on radio]
Roger (muffled speech)

- Clear.

- [Narrator] Like Malmstrom
and Loring Air Force Bases,

Warren was also part
of the Northern Tier

nuclear defense system.

- I was a security specialist.

Worked out in the
missile fields.

I was Armed Response Team
member at that point,

which is two men
working a 12 hour shift,

and I usually got stuck
with working nighttime.

- [Narrator] It was June, 1988,

the waning days of the Cold War.

- We had just gotten
on duty and we had

the missile crew
down in their capsule

call up to the Flight
Security Sergeant.

Told him that they had
several missiles go offline.

It's very rare for a
missile field to go down.

In the whole time
that I was there,

it had never happened except
for that one incident.

My ART team leader and
I, we got into the truck

and we headed off, just
patrolling the whole area.

It was right around
9:30-ish at that time.

We had just got done
clearing the site.

That's when the lights went out.

(radio static buzzing)

It's pitch black.

We can't see anything around us.

Then we see this
pinpoint of light

moving from North to South,

and then all of a sudden it
made that immediate turn,

and we were thinking,
wait a second.

We don't know of any
aircraft that would make

that kind of 90 degree turn.

- [Narrator] He then says
he witnessed something

even more alarming.

- This light came
up very quickly,

stopped over us and
hovered over us.

No sound.

We were both poking our
heads out the windows,

looking up at an object,

probably about a
hundred feet above us,

that was 50 to 60
feet in diameter.

The edge of it was bright,
but at the bottom of it,

you could tell it was
a metallic surface.

That we could see
red and blue lights

moving in a circular fashion.

It was saucer on the
bottom, saucer on the top.

And then what I think
was the control area

was angular and then
flat on the top of that.

And when the lights
were enveloping us

in the whole missile silo,
we felt a tingling sensation

over our skin, over our faces.

It was so scary.

You're pretty much
just frozen with fear.

It was only there for
like two, three minutes.

But when the actual
craft left, it just zipped.

I mean, it was a streak
of light going off.

- [Narrator] The
witness and his partner

returned to the launch facility.

- We're still scared at
that point, very tense.

And the Flight Security
Sergeant was like,

"Okay, so anything
go on out there?"

And we were like, "Nope,
nope, nothing happened."

After that, we would
never talk about it.

We knew, just hearing from
other people on the base,

they label you as somebody
who has mental problems.

- [Narrator] The
airmen stayed silent.

But just months later,
multiple witnesses report

a similar unidentified
aircraft in the skies above

Warren Air Force Base in
nearby Cheyenne, Wyoming.

- [Marty Luna] I got
something spotted up here

in the sky I can't
figure out what it is.

- This is a picture of the
unidentified flying object

that hovered over Cheyenne
early Wednesday morning.

According to 9-1-1
records, the officer saw

a circular object
floating in the sky,

and he said it was moving
slowly across the horizon.

- It was kind of long
shaped and kind of oblong,

and it kind of curved in it.

And you could see
lights in the middle

going around like
this changing colors

from red, blue, green, and
even some yellow in it.

- [Julie] Whatever it was
it returned last night

when there were
several new reports

of UFO sightings over Cheyenne.

- [Narrator] There were
never any official reports

about the incident at
Warren Air Force Base.

But the sightings over
Cheyenne serve as proof

for one witness.

- I've never told any
of my family or friends

exactly what happened.

Even after 30 years, the
emotions are still there.

They're raw.

- It's safe to say
now, as a result

of our current
investigation here,

that we may be looking at
a 60-year effort by someone

to either conduct reconnaissance
on or interfere with

our nuclear capabilities
all along the Northern Tier.

The concern is, is there
anything we can do about it?

And the answer may very
well be that there's no,

there is nothing we can
do about it right now.

- [Narrator] Three
military eyewitnesses

from the same area appear
to backup Elizondo's belief

that there's a
connection between UFOs

and America's strategic
Northern Tier nuclear bases,

bases that housed our most
advanced military assets.

But could an alleged
encounter half a world away,

raise the stakes even higher?

Coming up on "Unidentified."

- If there are things
that can move like this,

is this a global threat?

These things don't seem to
obey the laws of physics.

They're sure as hell not gonna
obey the laws of politics.

(dramatic music)

music)

- [Jeremy] I'm looking for
validation for 24 years

of this memory
living in my head.

- [Narrator] Today, another
veteran is coming forward

with a sighting that
Lue Elizondo believes

could raise alarming
new possibilities

about a UFO's ability
to track nuclear assets.

- [Lue] How are you, Sir?

- Good, good to meet you.

- Thank you very
much for coming here.

- I've never said anything
about this in a public venue.

You don't necessarily want
to be the guy who saw a UFO.

You don't want to
have that stigma.

- [Narrator] Jeremy
McGowan served in

the U.S. Air Force
security forces.

- I was part of the team
that would get deployed

all over the planet for
multiple different types

of exercises or operations.

- [Narrator] In the mid
1990s, McGowan was deployed

on a classified security mission

deep in the Jordanian desert.

- We're basically
told here's a crate.

A very large crate that
you could have driven a

Volkswagen Bug through.

There was no
markings, no stencils,

no nomenclature, no
plaques, no cordons.

It was just a large, wooden
crate that had absolutely

no business being in the
middle of the desert.

And we're told don't
let anybody near it.

Don't get near it.

- [Lue] Any idea what might
have been in that crate?

- I was never, never
officially briefed as to

what the contents
of the crate was.

We were told that this crate was

a top priority for security.

- [Narrator] McGowan
wonders why a crate

in this remote desert needs
such intense security.

- On the base, we had
Naval Special Warfare,

75th Ranger Battalion,
FBI, the CIA.

You had units from the military
that have very specific tasks

when it comes to
nuclear security.

- [Narrator] McGowan
suspects the crate contained

some kind of nuclear material,

a realization that becomes
even more concerning

one night during his deployment,
when he's scanning the sky

with night vision goggles.

- All of a sudden I
saw a pinpoint of light

in the night vision goggles
that shot from my six o'clock,

goes straight up to
the apex of my vision,

and then does a 90 degree turn

and shoots off to
my nine o'clock.

It happened multiple times.

I'm seeing something
that is going from

my visual horizon to
another visual horizon

with a 90 degree turn in
the middle of the apex.

And this was happening
in under two seconds.

And it was repeating.

- [Narrator] To Elizondo,
the observables displayed

by the object do not
obey the laws of physics.

- [Jeremy] If you're
looking at a fighter jet

or a helicopter, as
it's turning,

it's going to have an arc.

It's going to have a
radius to that turn.

- [Lue] Why would the
things you witnessed

not be a satellite?

- Satellites go
in orbits in very

circular paths and directions.

This was not that.

- [Narrator] McGowan says
he believes the object

may have been tracking
what's in the crate.

- It was my belief
that this was probably

targeting the crate.

It was able to look
down and select

certain radiation signatures.

The government still has not
told us what was in the crate.

They probably never will.

But after speaking with the
people that I've spoken to,

I have personally no
doubt that this was

a recovered warhead from
one of the fractured states

of the former Soviet empire.

That was our biggest concern.

(crowd cheering)

- As the wall came down,
the Russians, they didn't

seem to be able to fully
account for their inventory.

They had the largest nuclear
inventory in the world.

There was a tremendous
amount of angst

and concern in our government.

- [Narrator] Could a UFO
be capable of tracking

a single nuclear warhead to
the middle of a remote desert?

- I have to be a little careful
how I discuss this aspect,

just like he does, but there
is some reason to believe

that inside that crate
was what we refer to as

a broken arrow, potentially
a nuclear device.

- [Narrator] Whatever it was,
Jeremy McGowan is convinced

that what he saw in the night
sky was no normal aircraft.

- When you look at an aircraft
with night vision goggles,

you can see the wing strobes,
you can see front strobes.

You can see everything.

This was not identifiable.

This had no strobing effect,
it had no flash patterns.

It had nothing except a
point of light that moved

extremely quickly from
horizon to horizon.

If there are things
that can move like this,

they do pose a national
security threat.

I would take it a step further.

Is this a global threat?

Is this something
that affects everybody

regardless of borders?

These things don't seem to
obey the laws of physics.

They're sure as hell not gonna
obey the laws of politics.

- [Narrator] The team has now
heard four different accounts

describing UFOs with
advanced capabilities

hovering near nuclear assets.

They believe it's information
members of the government

need to be aware of.

Especially Lue Elizondo's
mentor,

the man who started the
Pentagon's secret UFO program.

Coming up on "Unidentified."

- [Lue] Why do you
suppose there are people

in our government that
are afraid of the truth?

- So we're not talking
about devils and goblins.

We're talking about science.

This isn't anything we can
just pretend doesn't exist.

It exists and we've
got to make sure that

we don't let it go.

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music)

- [Narrator] Lue
Elizondo and Chris Mellon

have spent months gathering
new evidence of UFOs

hovering near America's
nuclear assets.

Now they're in Washington
D.C. to sound the alarm.

- [Chris] They can't
avert their eyes to these

anomalies any longer.

So we can stimulate that
interest on the Hill

by bringing some of the
latest information to them,

as well as to the
executive branch.

- [Narrator] The team has
briefed top lawmakers before

and now some of those
lawmakers are paying attention.

- Not gonna get into any of
the contents of the briefing,

but the military and others are
taking this issue seriously,

which I think in
previous generations

may not have been the case.

- What shifted and why are
politicians now coming out

and saying we've
received the briefing?

Well, I think a large part
of that does come down

to Lue Elizondo
and Chris Mellon.

You have two people from
very different walks of life,

both of whom have
dedicated their careers

to public service and
national security.

They've really
opened this issue up

at senior government levels.

They're the pathfinders here.

If you see Lue
Elizondo as the Kirk,

then you should see
Chris Mellon as Spock.

- [Narrator] Elizondo
and Mellon have started

the conversation, but
have yet to convince

the U.S. government to view
UFOs and their connection

to nuclear assets as a
national security threat.

- And I did have one
very brief meeting

saying they're seeing UFOs.

Do I believe it?

Not particularly.

- We're seeing something
in our skies that we

don't know what it is.

And yet, for some reason,
our national reaction

has always been very dismissive.

Eh, nothing to see here, folks.

Nah, don't pay
attention to that.

If this turns out to be
an adversarial technology

and we've since been
leapfrogged now for decades,

I think there's gonna
be some people that are

gonna be held accountable.

The American people
are going to demand it.

- [Narrator] Elizondo
meets with the man

who started it all, the
creator of the Pentagon's

Advanced Aerospace Threat
Identification Program,

former Senate Majority
Leader, Harry Reid,

to strategize how to get
congressional attention.

- [Lue] This for me is
probably one of the most

important interviews that
I've had frankly to date.

If it wasn't for
Senator Harry Reid,

there never would
have been an AATIP,

there never would
have been the truth.

- [Narrator] The former Nevada
Senator has been battling cancer

and Elizondo is eager
to sit down again

with his friend and mentor.

- It's good that
we're looking at it.

And I hope we do look at it
more and I wish government

would get more involved
rather than less involved.

- [Narrator] Elizondo
briefs Senator Reid

on the new eyewitness
accounts he believes

suggest a stronger
connection between UFOs

and nuclear assets.

- So wether these are UAPs
buzzing arund our missle silos

or around our nuclear triad
capabilities,

there does seem to be, now,
imperical data

showing conclusively that there
is some sort of interest.

Now, the question is:

Is this interest a benign
interest

or is this some sort of
surveilance

or reconnaissance effort?

- I think that's something
that the military

and State Department
should be interested in.

- [Chris] He's been aware
that these activities

are continuing and had
the courage to take it on

and to say, I'm not going to
let personal embarrassment

come between me and
national security.

- [Narrator] Like Elizondo,
Reid believes the possible link

between UFOs and nuclear
assets makes understanding

what they are even
more critical.

- Why do you suppose there
are people in our government

that are afraid of
just talking about it?

- They're afraid because
they don't want to sound

like a fringe person.

I've had people come to
me, "You can't do that

"because it's not in
keeping with my religion.

"I don't accept that."

- What's your advice
to the American people?

- Don't be afraid
to ask questions.

Put members of
Congress on the spot.

There have not been 10
people that have seen things.

Not 20, but thousands of
thousands are documented.

Shut down.

We have ships see
things out in the water,

the communications stop.

So this isn't anything we can
just pretend doesn't exist.

UFOs exist.

- I know you don't
like to speculate,

but have you had any
theories, personal theories

what these things could be?

- I've always believed there's
other beings out there.

We're not talking about
devils and goblins.

We're talking about science.

I have absolute confidence
that the thousands of people

who have reported them is too

forceful to ignore.

We're missing the boat if we
don't do everything we can

to find out what they are.

- Thank you so much, I cannot
thank you enough.

- [Narrator] Coming
up on "Unidentified."

- There's a very good
possibility that we may not

necessarily be alone.

- Are they aliens
or are they us?

- [Chris] The stakes are so
high, they're existential.

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music)

- [Narrator] Lue
Elizondo has spoken with

four military witnesses.

- Hey, Mr. Marceau!

- [Narrator] Who say they
saw unidentified objects

while on duty near nuclear
sites in the 1980s and '90s.

- It was neither an allied
nor Soviet bloc aircraft.

It was not a
commercial aircraft.

Pretty clear to me
that they were there

scoping out our capabilities.

- All of a sudden there was
just this very bright light,

and then it just shot
straight up and was gone.

- This light came
up very quickly,

stopped probably about
a hundred feet above us.

No sound.

It's very rare for a missile
site or a missile field

to go down whatsoever.

- This was not identifiable.

It had nothing except
a bright point of light

that moved extremely quickly
from horizon to horizon.

- I don't want to conform
to facts to already

a preconceived opinion
that I might have.

So I'm curious your thoughts.

- So we know this is occurring.

We know it from these
witnesses and this was

a recurring phenomenon,
beginning at least in

the '70s, if not prior.

Whether what's being
seen lately is connected

in any way to what was observed
then is an open question.

There hasn't been a satisfactory
answer provided yet.

But why we would ignore this
data rather than seize it

and examine it is
a mystery to me.

It makes no sense.

- [Narrator] For Elizondo and
former top Pentagon official,

Chris Mellon, these
recently uncovered sightings

provide ominous new data
points that extend the scope

and timeframe of what's
known about UFO activities

near America's nuclear assets

and call for further
investigation.

- [Lue] Time and time again,
when I'm talking to individuals

who were stationed at
strategic locations

around the world, UAPs
are being seen over

some sort of U.S.
nuclear capability.

- There should have been
follow up with regard to these

reports, unfortunately,
in some cases,

as we could see from
these witnesses,

what they got was ridicule
rather than interest.

That's extremely unfortunate.

- This is what is so
compelling to me as someone

who does national
security journalism.

When you have some of the
most highly trained observers

over a prolonged period of
time in the most highly cleared

important positions
in the U.S. military,

whether that be
manning an ICBM base

in the middle of nowhere,
or in a nuclear submarine,

or in a jet fighter,

these are witness accounts
and evidence points

that we also cannot ignore.

- [Narrator] Though the
team has recorded compelling

new testimony connecting
UFOs to U.S. military

nuclear assets, one
mystery remains.

Who controls these
unidentified craft

and for what purpose?

- Why would UFOs be interested
in our nuclear weapons

or our nuclear energy systems?

We know human beings would be.

We certainly are very
interested in foreign

governments' nuclear
proliferation.

So are they aliens
or are they us?

- I still remain to be
convinced that it is

not from here, but
at the same time,

there's a very good possibility
that we may not be alone.

- It seems to be that
we need to look at

anything and everything.

The fact that

vehicles are operating
in such close proximity

to these strategic
nuclear weapons suggests

that someone may be seeking
to identify and exploit

vulnerabilities associated
with those weapons

in order to defeat it.

It's difficult to imagine a
more pressing requirement,

from my standpoint, than to
find out who is operating

these vehicles, why they're
here, what their intentions are.

The stakes are so high,
they're existential.