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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.

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- [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.

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- [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.

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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.

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- 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.

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- [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.

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- 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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- [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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- [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.