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- [Narrator] Tonight
on Unidentified.

- Out of nowhere this object
drops out from the sky,

zipped off in incredible speed.

- [Narrator] It was the
sighting that stunned the world.

- We were all clamoring
to get on the radio,

"What the f--- is that?"

- [Narrator] Unidentified
objects captured on video

by US Navy pilots.

- Somebody has mastered
aeronautical technologies

that are far superior
to anything we possess.

- [Pilot]Look at that
thing dude.

- [Narrator] Now
a new development,

possibly more troubling
than the objects themselves,

is there a conspiracy
to hide the truth?

- And he comes in,

asks for the hard drives
that were on that plane.

- Doesn't it seem odd to you

that the Air Force
hasn't spoken up?

- [Narrator] Does the trail lead

to America's most secret base?

- [Narrator] Are these
UFOs made in the USA

or are they truly unidentified?

- [Lue] If this is a
flight safety issue

or a potential threat
to national security

then we need to know about it.

(whooshing)

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

Thanks to a team led by former
Pentagon UFO investigator,

Lue Elizando.

- 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.

(whooshing)

- [Narrator] They discovered
five unique characteristics

that UFOs have in common
called the five observables.

They also released
groundbreaking videos

that forced the Navy
to admit its pilots

were coming face to face
with unidentified objects.

- [Reporter] The US Navy made
a shocking admission today.

- [Reporter] Strange flying
objects caught on tape

by their own fighter
pilots are in fact, UFOs.

(upbeat dramatic music)

- [Narrator] Now a new
wave of military witnesses

is coming out of the shadows.

- I've never seen
anything move like that.

Shape, size, speed is
clearly unidentified.

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

connect the dots to reveal
the truth about UFOs.

- This thing had no capability
like anything on earth.

- [Narrator] And warn the world

about the dangers
they might represent.

- Carl Sagan once famously said,

"Extraordinary claims
require extraordinary proof."

He was absolutely right,

but now we have the proof.

(whooshing)

(upbeat dramatic music)

- [Narrator] Lue Elizando and
the team have been haunted

by what Navy pilots encountered
over the Pacific in 2004.

And over the Atlantic in 2015.

- [Chris] US aerospace
is being violated

by vehicles of unknown origin
with advanced capabilities.

- [Narrator] The objects
were captured on video

that Tom DeLonge was
determined to show the world.

- [Tom] I was like, there's
three videos coming.

The first three videos of
UFOs to be declassified

in US history.

- [Narrator] The first
video was taken by pilots

from the USS Nimitz

who chased down the
Tic Tac shape object.

- It's white, it has no
wings, it has no rotors.

- Maybe 40 feet.

Large enough to scare
the s--- out of me.

- [Narrator] The
other two videos

were believed to
be recorded in 2015

over the Atlantic
by stunned pilots

from the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

(upbeat dramatic music)

- [Narrator] Elizando and his
partners are still grappling

with the implications of
what these Navy pilots saw.

- [Lue] This is an
evolving story.

I think we realize now that
the USS Nimitz incident

may be actually far
more comprehensive

than anyone of us
initially thought.

There's been some whispers
now for the last six months

that other individuals in the
Navy, on board the vessels

and possibly other
aircraft actually saw

the Tic Tac with their own eyes.

I wanna get to the bottom of it.

- [Narrator] One of those
individuals is now

coming forward.

Omar Lara was an enlisted sailor

who worked on the Nimitz's
aviation fuel systems.

- Jets would come in park,

we'd fuel them up.

They'll disembark.

(whooshing)

- [Narrator] In November 2004,

the Nimitz led a
carrier strike group

on a training exercise off
the Southern California coast

that included an
attack submarine

in the advanced
radar-equipped USS Princeton.

Several days after the infamous
Tic Tac video was taken

Lara says he was
on the Nimitz deck,

responding to what turned
out to be a false alarm

of a man overboard.

- All the jets had left

except for the personnel
who take care of maintenance

and the work centers on
board the aircraft carrier,

and a sailor had a
falling overboard.

And at that time a man
overboard was called

and everyone needs
to report in person.

So we ended up on the
fantail starboard side,

looking towards out
to the vest ocean's

beautiful panoramic view.

And out of nowhere,

this object drops out from
the sky

at incredible speed.

It just plants itself
right above the ocean.

The object itself was this
white luminescent object.

This thing did not stop

or slow down up until
maybe a hundred feet

above the waterline.

And it stopped on a dime.

Then it zipped off to our right

at incredible speed
with no Sonic boom.

You had to literally
move your torso,

a slight turn to your
right to follow it.

The speed and the
maneuverability of this object

is nothing I've ever seen

in my 10 years in the
United States Navy.

(upbeat suspenseful music)

- Mr. Lara's testimony
is very important

because Mr. Lara is reporting
the same type of maneuvering

that was described
by the pilots.

You have, Mr. Lara,
substantiating,

instantaneous acceleration.

You also have
hypersonic velocities

and this ability to
seemingly defy gravity,

you don't have wings

and you don't have any
obvious means of propulsion.

- I do not believe that what
I saw was made on this planet.

If it wasn't made by us

and you can count us off as
the number one superpower.

This thing just basically
made you feel smaller.

It's a paradigm changer.

- [Narrator] But perhaps
what's most striking

about Lara's alleged sighting,

is that it was unknown until
the videos were made public.

(upbeat suspenseful music)

16 years after the
Nimitz incident,

the team investigates
evidence of a coverup.

- Gentleman, great
to see all again.

- [Narrator] The team
is following a trail

that could lead to the US
militaries own black projects.

- This last year and a half,

two years has been
pretty monumental

in what we've been able
to collectively achieve

regarding the topic.

You have an acknowledgement
by the Department of Defense

that the videos were authentic.

And you also have an
acknowledgement now

from the Navy

that these things
that are depicted

in these videos are truly
unidentified aerial phenomenon.

- And we have to figure out
what that is, all of us.

- [Narrator] Jim
Semivan spent 25 years

working as an Operations
Officer for the CIA.

- It's a fundamental issue for
the intelligence community.

It's a fundamental issue for
the FBI for heaven's sakes

and for DIA, for CIA.

- For them to have that level
of ignorance is astonishing.

- We have irrefutable evidence

of an intelligently controlled
vehicle defying science,

something operating beyond

what we even thought
was possible.

- The Pentagon
officially said that

there was nothing else involving
the USS Nimitz incident,

nothing to see here,

but there is indeed
more information

involving the Nimitz.

I think that's a big deal.

- [Narrator] The Pentagon
says it has more evidence

from the Nimitz encounter
video and other data,

but won't release it because
of national security concerns.

- You still have the
Department of Defense

to some degree
dragging their feet.

Just recently they acknowledged
the fact that there were

more videos in their possession,

and they also had some
classified briefings

that they were not going to
release them to the public.

- It might be something like,

"Okay, we have another
picture of that same Tic Tac

"at the same location, but
from a different system,

"there was a classified system."

- I think it's interesting
because it shows

that there's still segment
within the US government

that is for some reason,

hesitant or resistant to
have the conversation.

(dramatic music)

- [Narrator] The team
is especially interested

in one branch of
the armed forces.

- Does it didn't seem odd to you

that the Air Force
hasn't spoken up?

I'm quite puzzled.

- Chris has voiced
that concern as well.

Where the hell is the Air Force
in this entire conversation?

I mean, we can only speculate
why they're being quiet.

- [Narrator] Coming
up on Unidentified.

For the first time
a Navy eye witness

claims Air Force officers
dropped in on the Nimitz

and took with them key evidence.

- He asked for the hard
drives that were on that plane

and he stops me.

He's like, "Just
give him to me."

- He brings this vision of
Men In Black, showing up.

- [Narrator] And the trail
leads to a secretive location.

- [Patrick] I mean,
somebody out there

knows a lot more than we do.

(upbeat dramatic music)

- [Narrator] Lue Elizando
has just her testimony

from a new eye witness to the
2004 Nimitz UFO encounter.

Now he's digging
deeper into allegations

of a military coverup.

- [Patrick] Howdy.

- [Lue] Hey sir, how are you?

- Good, how are you?
- Good.

- [Lue] I'm Lue.
- Nice to meet you.

- [Lue] Thank you
for allowing me

to invade your house here.

- [Patrick] Anytime.

- [Lue] I'd love to know a
little bit about yourself.

You were in the Navy?

- Yes, sir, it was
just under 11 years,

I was Navy Avionics Technician.

Primarily on the E2 Hawkeye.

- [Narrator] On
November 14th, 2004,

F-18s from the
USS Nimitz took off

on a routine training exercise.

- It was a workup cycle
for our 2005 deployment.

They were doing air
defense exercises that day.

The planes go out

and basically play laser
tag with each other,

a good guy versus bad guy enough

to get their training back out.

- [Narrator] Patrick Hughes' job

power up in launching E2 Hawkeye

the exercises
airborne quarterback,

which will direct
the jets maneuvers.

- We control the missions.

We control pretty much
everything that goes on

once those planes
leave the carrier deck.

(whooshing)

(upbeat dramatic music)

- [Narrator] Shortly
after the exercise began,

radar technicians start
tracking a strange object

prompting the now-famous
sequence of events,

Commander Fravor, and his
wing man intercept the object,

but then it flies off appearing
to travel hundreds of miles

in the blink of an eye.

While they E2 Hawkeye monitors,
the action from a far.

Another FA team captures the
incredible Tic Tac video.

(whooshing)

After the Hawkeye lands,

Hughes could tell
something wasn't right.

- Normally when the crew
walked out of the airplane,

whoever the mission
commander was will stop

and let you know
how the mission was,

but they didn't stop to
talk to anybody this time.

They just bolted down below.

And no, thanks to talking
to a crew like that

the actual Tic Tac object
formed top of the Hawkeye

and the five guys in that
crew all saw real close.

Wasn't for very long,
but they all saw it.

- I was not aware that
people in the Hawkeye

actually had eyes
down on the Tic Tac.

It begs a question
that at the time

when I was at AATIP,

why wasn't that little bit of
information shared with us?

Maybe it was a trust issue.

- [Narrator] The Hawkeye's
alleged Tic Tac sighting

might also have been kept secret

because of the data
captured by its sensors.

- That plane, when
it left the deck

was recording everything
they saw on the screens,

all the information,
all the button touches,

basically, everything they do.

And there's been some
contention about that,

but I know for a
fact it was recording

'cause I hit the button

and I turned it off
when it got back.

- You specifically
remember turning on

that piece of
equipment that day,

and then again, upon
recovery, turning it off?

- Correct.

- That is interesting.

- [Narrator] The
plane's recordings

could contain key evidence of
the Tic Tac's capabilities.

- It sees what
the Princeton saw.

It saw what the Nimitz saw.

It saw some other stuff saw.

So it's recording a big picture

of everything that's
going on that day.

- Okay, interesting.

- I do our post-flight
checks on the airplane.

Make sure everything's
turned off,

take all our classified
hard drives out.

We keep them in our safe.

We don't leave those
in the airplane.

And normally that's
the end of it.

(upbeat dramatic music)

After I'd gotten
back downstairs,

my commanding officer comes
to our workspace door.

- [Narrator] But his commanding
officer wasn't alone.

- With them are two guys in
the Air Force flight suits.

I don't remember
their ranks but there's a

very big difference
between a Navy flight suit

and the insignia in an
Air Force flight suit.

- So you were confident

these were Air Force
representatives.

- Yes, sir.

- [Narrator] It seemed
unusual to Hughes,

to encounter Air Force personnel

who didn't identify themselves.

What happened next
was even stranger.

- [Patrick] He comes in,

asks for the hard drives
that were on that plane.

So we go get them out

and start logging them
out in our little log book

and he stops me.

Just he's like,
"Give them to me."

No--
- No hand receipt?

- [Patrick] Nope, nothing.

- How much time transpired

from the time you retrieve
those hard drives of the Hawkeye

till the time that the
CEO's knocking on your door

with two Air Force people?

- All in all, I'd say
probably about a half-hour.

- [Narrator] The Nimitz
wasn't the only ship that day

from which data was taken.

Chris Mellon previously
heard a similar account

from a radar technician on
the nearby USS Princeton,

which had been tracking
strange objects for days

before the encounter.

- A helicopter arrived,
people got off the helicopter,

they came in and they requested
all the data recording.

And right after that,

I was requested to hand over
the data recording tapes

and anything that wasn't
recorded on during the event,

I was to erase.

- How unusual was this
request to destroy it,

erase this data?

- It was completely
unprecedented.

- [Narrator] While both accounts
suggest a possible coverup,

Hughes story is a
firsthand account

of possible Air
Force involvement.

But why would the Air Force
confiscate Navy flight data

of a UFO?

- It brings this vision of
the "men In black" showing up.

- There was obviously
data and information

that was recorded on those E2
Hawkeyes that somebody wanted.

- [Narrator] Tim
McMillan is a journalist

who spent months investigating
the Nimitz incident.

- We can assume that it was
taken somewhere to be analyzed.

That's the big key,

because there's a significant
amount of data there

that should give us a lot
more definitive conclusions

about what this is.

Now, if you consider that

with the aspect
that 15 years later,

they say, "It's unidentified,"

that makes it even
more intriguing.

- [Narrator] Did the Air
Force remove the data

because they wanted to study
the unidentified object

or were they
collecting information

on their own
top-secret creation?

- It's equally possible
that the Navy has no clue

what it is.

And it's an Air Force project

that they didn't
tell the Navy about.

The left-hand does
not always know

what the right hand is doing.

- [Narrator] Hughes also
believes there's a good reason

why they would test a
top-secret craft on the Navy.

- I have this new super
technology I wanna test it out.

I'm gonna throw it
at the best we have.

And the Nimitz strike group was
pretty much the best we had.

I mean, somebody out there
knows a lot more than we do.

They may have very, very good
reason for not sharing it.

(whooshing)

- [Narrator] Coming
up on Unidentified,

pulling the curtain back
on a top-secret project.

- So I just kind monitor
that, I watching them.

And I was wondering,

"How come no one's seen
these darn things?"

(whooshing)

- When I was in the Pentagon,

we only had a small shot in time

of what we referred to
as the Nimitz incident.

But now more and more
people are feeling enjoined

to come forward and say, "It
wasn't just the four pilots

"or a blip on a screen.

"And I saw something strange."

(whooshing)

- [Narrator] Lue
Elizando has just heard

from a former US Navy crewman

who says two mysterious Air
Force officers showed up

on the USS Nimitz after its
famous Tic Tac UFO encounter

and confiscated flight data
that could prove its existence.

The explosive theory,

Air Force officers wanted to
see how the Tic Tac performed

because the Tic Tac

was actually a top-secret
Air Force craft.

Following that lead
Elizando speaks with man

who worked at the most secretive
Air Force facility of all.

- Hello, sir, Mr. Barnes.

- Yes, how're you doing today?

- [Narrator] T.D. Barnes
is a former CIA engineer

who spent most of
his career working

on classified technology
often at area 51.

60 years later,

Barnes is willing to speak
for the first time on camera,

about the electronic
warfare systems he created

and their possible connection
to the Nimitz event.

- I think Nimitz is interesting

because so many people
saw the same thing

that whether or not
it was a real event,

I think that's beyond question.

The question is what was it?

And if it was some sort of
electronic warfare capability,

fine, but then that
information didn't get

to the right people.

You know that's, that's
something...

(whooshing)

- [Narrator] One of the
programs Barnes worked on

was called project Palladium.

The cold war technology
used electronic signals

to trick the Soviets into
seeing whole squadrons

that weren't there.

- [Narrator] To Elizando,
this sounds eerily familiar.

Radar operator, Kevin Day
previously told Elizando

he tracked a group
of strange aircraft

in the days leading up
to the Nimitz event.

- I started noticing these
anomalous contacts on our radar.

There was like 10 or 12 objects

and it was kind of
watching them on display.

It was like watching
the snowfall in the sky.

- [Narrator] The objects
were seen on Day's radar,

but seemingly nowhere else.

- So I just kind of monitor
that, watching them.

And I was wondering,

"How come no one's seeing
these darn things?"

- [Narrator] Could,
what Day saw be phantoms

caused by radar
spoofing technology

and what accounts for
the Tic Tac object

seen by Nimitz pilots up close?

(whooshing)

- [Narrator] Palladium
used metallic balloons

to reflect radar signals.

- I'm kind of curious
from your perspective,

going back to the Tic Tac

and these balloons that
were part of Palladium,

if, is it possible
that the balloons,

not only were you testing
different size balloons,

but maybe even different
shapes of balloons?

- That's fascinating.

So from your perspective,

the incident that
occurred here in 2004

may be some sort
of US technology.

- [Narrator] This raises
a troubling question,

would the Air Force test
top-secret technology

on Navy pilots without
their knowledge?

- Right.

- [Narrator] One theory, is
what the Nimitz pilots saw

was related to a
21st-century version

of what T.D. Barnes
developed for the Air Force.

Tim McMillan spent
months investigating

if any known technologies
might explain the Tic Tac.

- Early 2004-ish,
funding has jumped up.

Technologies are being boosted.

A lot of the older subs
were being retrofitted

whether, some of the missile
tubes are being altered

for it to launch drones.

- [Narrator] A
submarine launch drone

could potentially
explain another detail

from the Nimitz sighting.

- One of the fascinating
things with the 2004 incident

was this frothy whitewash.

- [Narrator] The pilots who
first encountered the Tic Tac

reported seeing it hovering
over disturbance in the ocean.

(indistinct chatter)

- We all very quickly realized

that there was
something in the water,

churning like boiling.

One of my theories
was that a submarine

that surfaced launched
something and was re-submerging.

- [Narrator] McMillan believes
he found enticing clues

to the Tic Tacs
possible origins,

but nothing that can explain

its incredible flight
characteristics.

And what about the objects
caught on tape by pilots

from a USS Roosevelt
10 years later?

- [Narrator] McMillan
thinks those sightings

could be related to a more
recent program known as Nemesis.

- Nemesis is a fascinating
technology we know exist.

Very similar to Palladium.

They're injecting
multiple false targets

and the idea is that
you've got one plane,

we wanna make it look like 50

in hopes that they're not
gonna pick out the right one.

- [Narrator] Nemesis
was originally developed

by the Navy and use
the swarms of drones

that emit signals
to fool enemy radar.

- [Pilot] Look at that
thing dude!

- There's some very
close timeframes

in terms of when the Nemesis
system was being tested.

And when these pilots during
the Roosevelt encounter

said that they
observed the objects.

- [Narrator] Could
this technology

or a similar system account
for what F-18 pilots

from the USS Roosevelt
say they witnessed

on their target
tracking screens?

- [Second Pilot] My gosh.

- [Narrator] But what
about the objects

other pilots reported
seeing up close?

- It was basically a
cube inside of sphere

where the points of the
cube were touching outside

of the sphere.

- [Narrator] McMillan
believes the cubes

might have a simple explanation.

- In the few visual
observations,

at least that at I'm aware of,

with the cubes inside
of spheres type thing

that sounds consistent
with a radar reflectors.

- [Narrator] But Chris
Mellon believes few,

if any of these sightings
can be explained

by current US technology.

- I've been out of the Defense
Department for quite a while,

electronic warfare was old
then, it's even older now.

It's a never-ending
game of cat and mouse.

However, it's not an explanation

for what happened in
the Nimitz incident

or what was happening in
2015 off the East coast.

That's what we need
to remind people.

It has very little to do
with the UAP phenomenon.

- [Narrator] And for Mellon,
the Navy's public statement

that pilots are encountering
unidentified aerial phenomenon

is proof positive that
what they're seeing

is not US technology from
the Air Force or anyone else.

- [Chris] It's really a
stretch for people

to try to suggest
these incidents

it could be explained
by some secret program.

It was being used
against our own people

behind the backs of Congress

who are briefed for
all these programs,

the military wouldn't be
going up to Capitol Hill

saying publicly,
these are not ours

if in fact, it was
electronic warfare program

that wouldn't be happening.

- [Narrator] But even if Navy
personnel were guinea pigs

in the top-secret test,

what can explain
this next sight?

Coming up on Unidentified.

- [Narrator] A
confidential source

describes a terrifying
UFO encounter.

He says the military
tried to bury.

(dramatic music)

(ocean breeze blows)

- [Narrator] Lue Elizando
has uncovered information

that the UFO seen by the
Nimitz pilots could be related

to U.S. Air Force tests, but
not everyone believes it.

He's been contacted
by a new witness

about an incident involving
a military helicopter.

- [Narrator] This Defense
Department Investigator

asked to have his
identity protected.

He says he personally
investigated the UFO encounter.

- [Narrator] He won't reveal

the exact location
of the incident.

(helicopter chuffing)

- [Narrator] The
pilots we're testing

brand new attack helicopters

when one witnessed
something unexplained.

- [Lue] He associated those
lights as being somehow

correlated to the
event that occurred

and then only when
those things were gone,

did the helicopter behave
normally, is that correct?

- [Narrator] Elizando says
it's also not the first time

he's heard of unidentified
objects

exhibiting this behavior.

- [Lue] From personal experience
I'm aware of the relevance

that some of these UAP have

regarding our national
security assets and equities.

Unfortunately, I'm
not allowed to go

into a whole lot
of detail on that

but what I can say
is that this is nothing new

and I'm not surprised at
all to hear that there was

you know, three points of
light that seemed to be flying

in a consistent
formation and pattern.

(helicopter chuffing)

- [Narrator] The
investigator says

he reported it to his superiors

and the committee was
formed to dig further.

He says they uncovered
at least seven other

similar incidents involving
helicopters and orbs,

but he was shocked
at their conclusion.

- After this event
occurred you learn that

there was actually other
reports of similar type activity

occurring perhaps seven
or eight other times

to the point where they actually
established a committee,

an internal committee to
try to figure this out

and only when they
didn't have any answers

did they wind up scratching
their head, closing the books

and say, well, nothing
to see here folks.

- [Narrator] Why wouldn't
the military keep probing?

Were they hiding another
test of a top secret

electronic countermeasure?

Or is it evidence of
an unknown technology

the government doesn't
want to acknowledge

because it doesn't
understand it.

- [Lue] You now have pilots
flying helicopters

and now coming into
contact with these,

we'll call them
orbs, if you will

and all of a sudden now
there's a correlation

between these orbs
and equipment failure.

You could have an issue

where you potentially could
collide with one of the things

- There is something occurring,
there are transgressions

of restricted military airspace

and of U.S. borders
that are going on

that our own military has
acknowledged publicly.

They wouldn't be saying that
if they own the very programs

that were causing
those sightings.

- [Narrator] Coming up,
Elizando searches for answers

from one of the
original UFO insiders.

- We're moving away from
the allegory of tinfoil hats

and Elvis on the
mothership to no kidding

there's something there.

- Well, there's absolutely no
doubt on the physical reality

of some UFOs.

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- [Narrator] In
the wake of reports

that the Pentagon may have
covered up UFO sightings

by the U.S. Navy and didn't
pursue reports of orbs

seen from a U.S.
army helicopter,

Lue Elizando gets guidance
from a man he trusts,

a man who has been
seeking the truth

about what the government
knows about UFOs for years.

- Colonel John Alexander
was a godfather

of everything spooky and
weird at the Pentagon.

- Lue.

- Great to see you my
friend, how are you?

- Good, good.

- [Lue] John Alexander ran
a lot of the programs

at the U.S. government
pretended like we didn't have.

John, thank you very much

for allowing me to
come into your home,

this is for me a great
honor and privilege.

First and foremost,
you're a legend,

I knew about you, whether
you knew it or not

- Mmm-hmm.

a long time ago, I knew
a little bit about your,

how shall we say, adventures.

- Adventures yes.

- [Narrator] In the
1980s, Alexander studied

the paranormal for
the U.S. military.

- What was the name of
your program at the time?

Did you have a name for it?

- We called it "Intentionally
Advanced Theoretical Physics"

and we did that because
UFOer at that time

was just becoming a hot issue

and we figured that,
people may ask for UFO data

but they're not
likely to ask for data

on Advanced Theoretical Physics.

- So John, is there any
advice you can give me

as to where I
should go from here?

What I should do?

And potentially what I
need to watch out for?

- Well, I think you've probably

stepped on many of
the mines already.

In fact, the reason that
you're in the civilian sector

is part of that.

- (laughing) Very true.

- The biggest thing that has
to happen and is happening

and I think your T-piece of
this is getting information

and making it acceptable
in the civilian sector,

that's what they're
really afraid of.

I do suspect you're
gonna get blow back

there are gonna be people who
come in and say, you know,

these are just aerial
phenomena that are explainable,

but when you get done
with all of the cases,

you end up with a core set
that simply cannot be explained

by any traditional means.

- We're moving away from
the allegory of tinfoil hats

and you know, Elvis on the
mothership to no kidding,

there's something there,
these things are real.

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- [Narrator] Elizando
questions why

the military still won't
release everything it knows.

- We don't like things
we can't explain

and that's one of the
reasons for classifying

some of the stuff

you just don't wanna be
potentially embarrassed.

We have, as you know,
hundreds of thousands

of these kinds of incidents
that have been recorded,

it's much easier to
just discard the data

and unfortunately,
terrible thing

that we have done
that for decades.

- [Narrator] Some experts claim

that the military isn't covering
up information about UFOs,

but is actually
feeding the UFO myth

to hide secret programs.

- If you've got an aerial
platform that is highly advanced

and the public who
happens to get, you know,

get a glimpse of the
thing from time to time,

if they're convinced
that it's from Venus

and there's no way it
could be our military

well, hey, you know,
that's awesome, hell yes.

- [Narrator] Walter Boseley was
an agent with the Air Forces

Secretive Office of
Special Investigations.

- [Walter] If I'm the agent
or running the protection

for that particular program

and that's helping me
cover something for years,

I might even feed the fire.

- [Narrator] Bill
Scott is a former

Air Force Flight Test
Engineer and editor

at Aviation Week magazine.

He claims a high ranking officer
at area 51 admitted to him

how the military used the media

to spread disinformation
about UFOs.

- Some of the people
that I would approach

would give me clues,

one of the more intriguing
responses that I got was,

"well, if you really wanna
know what's going on,

read the rags at the
supermarket checkout".

Now like the Enquirer and The
Globe and all these things.

I said, you gotta be kidding me,

he said "when you see a
picture of Bill Clinton

standing there in front of
one of these black airplanes

with his arm around
the alien being"

he said, "forget what's in front

and look what's behind",
I said, come on.

So what you're really telling me

is that in order to hide
real highly classified stuff

is that you basically
paint it with the UFO brush

and I said why
would you do that?

And he said "to
keep people like you

from looking any farther".

I said, come on,
does it really work?

he said "it worked for 50
years why would we change now?"

- [Narrator] For decades,
the National Enquirer

and Weekly World News were
published by Generoso Pope Jr.

Who pushed the papers
sensational stories

about UFOs and aliens.

Pope's job just
before taking over,

Psychological Warfare
Officer for the CIA.

Author, Mark Pilkington

believes the Nimitz
and Roosevelt cases

are part of this long history
of media manipulation.

- It's about perception
management,

the technologies exist,

that may not explain
precisely what was seen

but our analogist to the
things that are seen.

Nemesis combines,
swarms of drones

with complex multi-system
countermeasures

that are simultaneously
operating against aircraft,

satellite systems,
ship based systems.

Certainly these would have
been something that was outside

the sphere of familiarity
for the pilots involved

and could certainly have
led to you know, confusion,

- [Narrator] Elizando doubts
evidence of the Tic Tac

is part of a
disinformation campaign

meant to cover up a
classified program.

- Could the Nimitz incident
and other UAP related incidents

possibly involve some sort of
super secret U.S. technology?

Is it possible?

It's absolutely
possible, is a plausible?

No, it's not plausible and
the reason why I say that

is because at the time I had
one of the highest levels

of security clearance
in the U.S. government

and I was briefing
people who were read onto

just about anything
and everything

in the U.S. government.

- [Chris] There's no reason to
believe that the Air Force

is today seeking to promote
confusion between UAPs

and classified Air
Force programs,

or using the UAP
phenomenon as a cover

for Air Force programs.

- [Narrator] Coming
up on unidentified.

- [ Chris] There is a profound
mystery here,

are we alone in the universe?

And we may be the
first generation

in the history of our species
that can answer this question.

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- [Narrator] Lue Elizando
has been investigating

what the military
might be hiding

about recent UFO encounters.

Could the objects be Air
Force top secret craft

tested unwittingly on other
branches of the military

or is the truth more fantastic?

- This is something that
we need to figure out

if this is a flight safety issue

or a potential that I will
reiterate potential threat

to national security, then
we need to know about it.

- [Narrator] The team
reconvenes in hopes of putting

together the pieces
of the puzzle.

- So, gents I appreciate you
guys taking a few moments

to sit with me this afternoon.

- [Narrator] They
begin by discussing

whether these unidentified
objects could be explained

by radar spoofing technology.

- There's always been
efforts since time began

and man has been at war
to deceive the enemy

and you know, there
are all sorts of ways

to deceive the enemy, you
know, back in world war II,

we had light deception,
so you know...

- You had something
called Window

which we now know is
chaff to screw up radars

you know what I mean?

It just filled
radars with images.

- But I think when we
come up with programs

to deceive the enemy

and they come up with
programs to deceive us,

it's usually in one
particular domain.

So it's to spoof radar or is
to trick this or to trick that.

- Since we attack, you know,
sensors kind of one at a time

when you have a
multispectral confirmation,

radar, infrared, visual,

the odds of something spoofing
the same in all those domains

is pretty low.

- Radar spoofing doesn't
give you a visual.

- And radar just
displays on your console

it doesn't create anything
out of the cockpit.

You wouldn't see that.

- You wouldn't see that.

- There wouldn't be a Tic
Tac out there flying around.

- [Tom] It's decption.

- [Narrator] The team
doesn't believe the objects

are related to radar spoofing,

but could they be some
other advanced technology

being tested by the Air
Force on Navy pilots?

- If you're talking
about conducting tests

with a carrier battle group,
you're not blindsiding

the commander of the
carrier battle group.

There's multimillion
dollar aircraft

and safety and lives at stake,

you're not using these
people like guinnea pigs.

- You don't wanna test
something super classified

and in front of
a bunch of people

that are not read onto a program

and all of a sudden are now
talking about this thing

in the open saying,
what the hell is that?

I mean, that's not a great
way to keep up secret.

- Correct, all those
radar operators

going talking about
what happened

that's not what you want

if you were trying to
protect that capability.

- [Narrator] If the objects
aren't top secret technology

the government wants to keep
hidden, then what are they?

- If we ask ourselves,
if someone else has made

a fundamental, radical
technological breakthrough,

how would that appear to us?

What might that look like?
- [Lue] Right.

It would look like magic.

- It would be magic, witchcraft
- It would look like magic.

- [Chris] It is baffling to a
degree that is almost magical,

how could you possibly
have a sphere safe object

with a cubic side that
goes at supersonic speeds

could loiter all
day or a Tic Tac

that could descend from
80,000 feet to 50 feet

and then shoot off
at insane speeds

that would tear apart anything
that ever built by man,

and then come to a
complete hover, right?

It's so what we're seeing
really looks a lot like

what you might expect to see

if somebody had had a
fundamental breakthrough

that leapfrog, it's far
far ahead of anything

that we've devised,

- [Narrator] The team
believes the mounting evidence

proves these incidents are
not U.S. military tests

and are possibly something
all together extraordinary.

- I don't (mumbling)

- We're very confident
these are not

some form of experimental
U.S. aircraft

because of the position
the Navy's taken

but also the fact
that these vehicles

are operating in such close
proximity to Navy fighters

and carrier battle groups.

There is a profound
mystery here,

are we alone in the universe?

And we may be the
first generation

in the history of our species
that can answer this question

and do so definitively

and getting the
answer to this mystery

motivates me to no
end, whatever it takes,

to try to answer that question.

- We always wanna have a nice,
neat little bow on things

and say, well, it's gotta
be then extraterrestrial,

but you know, there's
a lot of other options.

It could actually be a
combination of both U.S.

and adversarial, it could be
that it's extraterrestrial.

There's an entire
universe of physics

that we're just now
beginning to unlock

and understand,
maybe there's options

that we've never even
considered before.

Simply because we don't
have the technology

or the science yet,
or the understanding

to even ask the right question.