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NARRATOR: In the age of smartphones and social media,

more evidence of otherworldly activity

has come to light than ever before.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Alien sightings have gone up

exponentially in the last ten years.

TRAVIS TAYLOR: More people have a high-definition camera

in their pocket, and so we're seeing a lot more

video of these UAP, UFOs

than we ever have before.

WILLIAM HENRY: In Miami, we have

what appears to be

an eight to ten-foot

shadow figure walking along the side of the mall.

LILY NOVA: I had 13 encounters in two weeks.

They were doing everything normal craft don't do.

NARRATOR: Could the sharp rise in UAP reports indicate

that there is in fact an extraterrestrial presence

on Earth?

NICK POPE: Perhaps they've always been here.

This could be evidence

of aliens amongst us.

Good morning and welcome to today's historic hearing...

NARRATOR: On Capitol Hill,

the House Oversight Committee assembles to hear testimony

on unidentified anomalous phenomena,

or UAP.

It is my honor and privilege to testify before you

on the issue of unidentified anomalous phenomenon,

formerly known as UFOs.

During the hearing, lawmakers listen to testimony

from four prominent experts on the phenomena:

Retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet,

former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo,

Michael Gold of NASA's Independent UAP Study Team

and investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger.

The witnesses have come forward

to shed light on UAP reports

they claim the government

has been withholding from the public.

It shows the redaction of how many reports

they've collected, for how many years.

POPE: Michael Shellenberger testified

there's a cover-up, there's a small group

of people in government

hiding that there are aliens here on Earth.

NARRATOR: During the hearing, Shellenberger testified

that he has received evidence of a top-secret

military database of UAP sightings.

This database is part of a project

known as Immaculate Constellation.

Immaculate Constellation is said to be part of a network

or constellation of special access programs that study

imagery related to UAPs, or unidentified aerial phenomena.

MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER: Immaculate Constellation includes a huge amount

of visual and other information:

Still photos, video photos, other censor information.

MIKE RICKSECKER: Shellenberger revealed

this database that the U.S. government had

of high-res images,

very, very detailed images

of UFOs, UAPs, and they had

thousands of these images, terabytes of information.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the U.S. military has

a secret database containing thousands

of high-resolution images

of what might be

extraterrestrial craft?

The government continues to deny the existence

of Immaculate Constellation, but ufologists point out

that similar secret UFO projects

have come to light before.

Most notably, in 2017,

The New York Times revealed a top-secret Pentagon project

called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,

or AATIP, which collected footage of UAPs

taken by military pilots.

TAYLOR: When that article came out in 2017,

it was actually the floodgates opening

of a lot of information being released.

At that time, the U.S. Navy released the videos

that were the Gimbal, Go Fast and the Tic Tac.

We had been told all this time

that the government wasn't interested in UFOs.

But now, suddenly,

we find out there actually was a program

and had been a program for a couple of decades.

Suddenly, scientists and government workers

and everybody could finally think,

"Yes, UFOs are a subject that we can talk about."

NARRATOR: The AATIP revelations sparked a new public interest

in UFOs, and more military videos were released

over the following weeks and months.

Before long, Congress

began to demand greater transparency from the military

regarding their investigations into potential

alien phenomena.

RICKSECKER: The fact that we are having Congressional hearings

on this topic of UFOs, UAPs,

extraterrestrials-- this gives so much more credence

to everything that we've been exploring here over the decades.

Even our government is talking about having these experiences.

When you have an increasing number of credible

whistleblowers with backgrounds

in various stages of government,

the Air Force, the military,

that have really credible and believable stories,

that just sparks a fervor

within the population to want to know more.

There is a push for a deeper level of transparency.

The evidence is bearing out and showing us

that there's something to it.

NARRATOR: Now, more than any other moment in history,

the possibility of an otherworldly presence on Earth

is being taken seriously by not only the public

but also mainstream media

and government officials.

And ancient astronaut theorists believe this is no accident.

HENRY: This suggests something very important to me.

That is that the Department of Defense

or someone within the military is leaking these videos

as part of a preparation campaign,

as part of the unfolding disclosure

that is letting us know

this technology is related to non-human intelligence.

NARRATOR: Are government officials working to prepare the public

for the incredible revelation that extraterrestrials

not only exist, but are present

right here on Earth?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists

are concerned, it is a real possibility,

and such a disclosure

may be part of an alien agenda

that was put in motion thousands of years ago.

One of the basic premises

of the ancient astronaut theory is that long ago,

extraterrestrials manipulated our ancestors' DNA

that made us essentially human.

And they instructed us in the earliest concepts

of mathematics, of astronomy,

of engineering, agriculture, all those different things.

Now, what you also find when you look at all of these

ancient traditions is that at some point,

these beings departed from Earth

with the promise to return in the future,

but only when humankind is ready for it.

ERICH VON DÄNIKEN: This planet was visited by beings from outer space.

Definitely. They were here,

they promised to return in the far future,

and we have this expectation of returning

in every culture and every religion still today.

At least in my opinion, they have returned.

They are among us.

POPE: There is a theory that the reason for this uptick

in story after story,

revelation after revelation, whether it's

a new video or photograph

or government document,

is that the extraterrestrials themselves

have made a decision that they will no longer be hidden.

They will gradually introduce humanity

to the concept that they are here,

perhaps that they've always been here,

that they never really went away.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the recent shift in attitudes towards

the topic of extraterrestrials is being somehow orchestrated

by otherworldly visitors who have been

watching over humanity for thousands of years

and are preparing to reveal their presence?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining the increasing number of military encounters

with UAPs

and the extraordinary images

that have been captured on video.

NARRATOR: Marine officer Michael Cincoski

is deployed to Al Taqaddum Airbase

just west of Baghdad.

Upon arriving, he's shown a sensational video

that was recoded at the base

the previous year.

When I first saw this video,

I was... I was a little shocked.

What made it unique was the overall shape,

that it was this jellyfish--

we called it the Spaghetti Monster.

It was flying at a consistent speed,

going from east to west over our base and over the lake.

NARRATOR: The unusual object was recorded by a large blimp--

otherwise known as an aerostat--

that was hovering above the base.

CINCOSKI: This object was lower than our aerostat camera,

which is, I would have to guess, less than 60 feet.

And the two people that you see on the video

that were walking on base

had no idea that this thing was there.

It passed, seemingly, right over them,

and they had no idea.

NARRATOR: The soldiers who were present at the time

the so-called Jellyfish UFO was recorded

told Cincoski that the object was only visible

on the infrared camera.

CINCOSKI: The security element was sent out

to try to gain positive identification

on this thing flying over the base.

They used line of sight, uh, just with the naked eye

and they tried to use night vision goggles,

and nobody was able to see anything.

NARRATOR: The strange object was recorded passing over the base

for more than 30 minutes.

While some have theorized that the object

was merely a smudge on the lens

or even a soldier using some kind of jet pack,

both possibilities have been ruled out.

So, what could explain this oddly-shaped craft

that could not be seen with the naked eye?

CINCOSKI: I'm trained to identify different types of drones,

different types of aircraft, whether they're manned

or unmanned.

And this is nothing like I've ever seen before.

There are a lot of different theories

from all the different Marines that-that saw this footage.

But there's really no explanation

for this sort of thing.

There's a possibility that this might be

something out of our world.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the jellyfish-shaped UAP

captured on video flying over a U.S. military base

was of alien origin?

The footage remained unknown to the public

for six years after it was recorded

and only came to light in 2024 thanks to the efforts

of filmmaker and ufologist Jeremy Corbell.

CINCOSKI: The videos were located on a secret terminal,

a secret system.

And so, the way the footage has been released,

I think somebody recorded, illegally, the screen.

And I don't know how long they've had this footage

or why they released it now, years later,

but I imagine they didn't want to get caught.

POPE: The video was handed

to investigative journalist

and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.

And it was released to the public.

The Department of Defense have confirmed this is authentic.

This is not some blurry light in the sky.

This is up close and personal, and you can see the detail.

TAYLOR: The video from Iraq is the most intriguing one

that I've seen in a while.

The reason why is because

whatever this object is stays at a steady rate of velocity,

and it stays at the same altitude

above the surface the entire time.

So it's being controlled.

And it has some sort of propulsion device

that we don't see on board.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the so-called Jellyfish UFO

is footage of a visitor from another world?

While the military remains tight-lipped

about what was filmed in Iraq,

a number of compelling videos have appeared on the website

of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO.

Established in 2022,

AARO is a government program to study UAPs.

TAYLOR: We have objects captured on an infrared sensor,

and we also have objects detected on radar.

And on the situational awareness system.

So, multiple instruments saying there's something there

suggests that there really is something there.

POPE: Congress has now mandated the military

to actually devise surveillance equipment

specifically geared to target and capture UFO images.

POPE: So, we are gonna see

a lot more of these.

Some in infrared...

...but others, perhaps, across the spectrum.

And that's interesting because whether something shows up

just in infrared or other parts of the spectrum

can tell you something about the object.

Perhaps its energy source, perhaps its propulsion system.

NARRATOR: But while the military has been more transparent

in confirming the authenticity of UAP videos,

many believe the public has only seen a small fraction

of the footage they possess.

This has left ufologists to ask: what other evidence

might the U.S. military be withholding from the public?

POPE: High-level government insiders have been saying

we have both metamaterials from craft

and actually intact craft

but also entities.

And yeah, absolutely,

a small group of people in the government

are keeping this from the people.

TAJI HUANG: When you look into some of these guys

that have long, illustrious military careers

that are opening up and talking about things

that we wouldn't have heard about

20 years ago, 30 years ago,

this all is going to add to more curiosity

and make us really say,

"If this is what we're hearing about,

"what about all the things that we haven't heard about

that are out there?"

They're still talking about UAP

as Chinese or Russian, things like this.

They're not willing to mention this as actual contact.

But what we do know is that, off the record,

many government employees,

high-level people who have really studied this,

they absolutely believe this.

NARRATOR: Are the UAPs filmed by the military

simply advanced aircraft created by a foreign power?

Or might they be indisputable evidence

of extraterrestrial craft?

While military videos of UAPs

have captured the public's attention in recent years...

(whooping) -WOMAN: Wow.

NARRATOR: ...some of the best evidence

of an alien presence on Earth may come from civilians

who report ongoing contact

with otherworldly beings.

NARRATOR: Amateur astrophotographer Lily Nova

spends the evening filming the night sky,

like she has most nights during the COVID-19 pandemic.

But on this night, she observes more

than just stars and planets.

NOVA: I looked up at the sky

and locked eyes with a hovering light.

I started ruling out, "It's not a planet,

it's not a star, it's not one of our aircraft."

That's when I began to realize,

"Wow, I think this is something else.

This isn't anything of ours that I've ever seen before."

So, I started recording the light.

And then a second craft appeared.

This time, it was much closer.

It was a large, uh, diamond-shaped craft,

and it had a strip of red and blue, green lights

going across the middle.

The craft moved up and down very quickly,

and then side to side.

And then it started coming straight towards me,

and it vanished right above my head.

I was in shock.

I was actually kind of trembling a little bit when--

you know, coming that close, face-to-face with something.

NARRATOR: Roughly two months later,

Lily had a second incredible sighting

while sitting in her car

that she recorded with her smartphone.

NOVA: I could see a hovering craft

over the skyline.

And then I looked to my left, and I see another light.

And there are two lights behind me in the trees,

and lights in front of me now.

And the lights would go up and down,

they would change direction.

They were doing everything that our normal craft don't do.

I had 13 encounters within the next two weeks,

which was, uh...

Turned my life upside down, to say the least.

(laughs)

And at that point, I realized,

"Okay, something's going on here."

RICKSECKER: She started noticing unusual objects.

Balls of light,

triangular shapes and many other things

that were really abnormal.

These weren't planets, these weren't stars.

These were very, very different objects.

NARRATOR: Lily became convinced that she had experienced

an extraterrestrial encounter,

and posted about her sighting on TikTok.

And then, one night, her experiences took

a dramatic turn.

NOVA: I went out with a friend,

and within five minutes, a golden orb of light appeared.

I received a very vivid telepathic vision.

I saw a woman with light blue skin and no hair,

and she was wearing a skintight silver uniform.

I would continue to see these craft

and began receiving telepathic words and communication

from this specific being.

So, in the coming months,

I discovered that her name was Talia.

After I actually got to see Talia,

I immediately felt a stronger connection,

and she would actually begin contacting me telepathically

a lot, very frequently.

And they were helping me to capture evidence, I believe,

to help others to be able to wrap their heads around

the reality that we are being visited

by extraterrestrial species.

Lily is not alone in this.

Other people across the world

have reported a similar type of phenomena

where they start seeing these craft

and they are able to have some sort of telepathic communication

between themselves and beings that are on these craft.

NARRATOR: After her encounter with Talia,

Lily says that she began to receive regular communication

from these otherworldly visitors.

And she began to share her experiences and videos

of her encounters online.

NOVA (over video): It's hovering on the horizon.

HENRY: In my view, Lily Nova is a pioneer.

She's one of probably thousands, perhaps, of people

around the world that are having such experiences,

but she's been brave enough to share these with the public.

I still regularly have contact.

I'd say maybe even daily.

They seem to allow me to capture this footage

in order to show it to the public and share that.

And assist with disclosure.

And I think they've been here for a lot longer

than people realize.

CHILDRESS: You have to wonder, is this a plan

that has been set into motion by the extraterrestrials

to intermingle with humans?

To interact with them?

To tell them that they're from some other planet?

Perhaps the extraterrestrials themselves

are slowly showing us they're here.

And perhaps, at one point in the future,

they will come out in the open, in a sense.

NARRATOR: For Lily Nova, the impact of her encounters

has been life-changing.

NOVA: Having telepathic communication

with these otherworldly beings

has profoundly impacted my life.

They have been like guides to me,

teaching me things about our history,

about who we truly are as a species,

and also, how to tap into

heightened, altered states of consciousness.

NARRATOR: Could it be that through mass UFO sightings,

as well as ongoing communication

with individuals like Lily Nova,

extraterrestrials are already in the process

of revealing to humankind

that they are present on planet Earth?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

the extraordinary account of two men

who claim to have encountered alien beings

in broad daylight.

NARRATOR: Josh Brinkley and Daniel Lucero

are hunting elk near the peak

of this 9,500-foot-tall dormant volcano

in the Southern Rockies

when they spot two strange, humanlike figures.

BRINKLEY: I decided to head to the top of the mountain

where the little caldera is, the old volcano deal there.

So, I got to this caldera.

I kind of climbed down to the edge of it.

Just looking around.

And, uh, about 35 yards away,

I saw what I thought were a couple hunters.

Looking at these figures...

...they had these kind of helmets or a hood.

Their heads looked a little big.

They were kind of black-and-grey-ish.

They had a grey cat-eye shape in the middle of them.

They had to have been seven-feet-plus tall.

I took my eyes off them for a few seconds,

I walked around a juniper bush,

expecting to see them right in front of me, and they were gone.

Behind them was just an open meadow,

hundreds and hundreds of acres.

There's no way they could have just disappeared.

NARRATOR: The hunters were mystified by the appearance

and then sudden disappearance of the two mysterious figures.

The next day, they went back out on the mountain in Josh's Jeep

and had another extraordinary encounter.

BRINKLEY: We get a couple miles from camp,

and off in the distance, we see what looked like a circus tent.

The closer we got, we realized

that this wasn't a circus tent.

I guessed it to be 60 or 80 feet tall,

two to three hundred feet wide.

Coming off of the left side of it

was, like, another white tent-type structure

about half the height of it.

We got within about a quarter mile from it,

went down through another little creek bed

and it was gone.

We were very confused, very creeped out.

So, we just sat there, dumbfounded,

for the longest time.

NARRATOR: As far as Josh Brinkley is concerned,

what he and his friend encountered on the mountain

was not of this world.

And for Josh, it was a life-changing experience.

BRINKLEY: I can't let it go.

I'll have dreams about it.

You know? Daydreams about it.

Little flashes of the two beings

or whatever I saw on the top of the mountain.

Those stay with me.

NARRATOR: Josh Brinkley is just one of many

who have been profoundly transformed

by what they believe to have been

an extraterrestrial encounter.

KATHLEEN MARDEN: There has been an increase recently

in the number of reports

of nonhuman entities in people's yards

or in their environment.

RICKSECKER: More people these days seem to be having

these interactions and encounters

with extraterrestrials.

This could be because extraterrestrials

are making themselves more known to the public at large.

NARRATOR: In addition to an increase in reported sightings,

many believe they've captured evidence

of their strange encounters on video.

On January 1, 2024,

in Miami, Florida,

a large brawl between teenagers erupted outside a shopping mall

known as Bayside Marketplace.

In the aftermath, eyewitnesses suggested

that it wasn't the brawl that drew the attention

of law enforcement, but rather,

it was the appearance of otherworldly beings.

And a video posted online

allegedly showed one of the creatures.

HENRY: Video footage that was taken

from a nearby high-rise of this incident

shows what appears to be

an eight-to-ten-foot shadow figure

who is walking along the side of the mall.

And suddenly, the world's attention

is focused on this event.

Through social media, it really took on a life of its own.

People started posting comments to say,

"Look, this was not a brawl."

"The police were there, but in response to something

out of this world. Aliens."

NARRATOR: Does the footage captured in Miami

really show an extraterrestrial being?

In the past, the strange figures seen in the video

would likely have been dismissed as a mere illusion,

but today, more and more scientists believe

these videos deserve serious scientific analysis.

Dr. Travis Taylor,

a former member of the U.S. government's UAP Task Force,

has traveled to Los Angeles

to examine some of the latest UAP videos

that have come to light.

For the past five years,

Travis has been part of an investigation team

at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah,

studying UAP and paranormal activity.

TAYLOR: Hey, look! UAP right there! -THOMAS WINTERTON: Yep.

For this investigation,

Travis is meeting with image analyst Michael Bradbury.

One of the very first things I do

before I even analyze a video is to make sure

it hasn't been altered.

And you can tell by a series of different techniques.

If there's been light added, because there'll be

different-sized pixels where there shouldn't be.

Well, Michael, this first video is from Miami.

And what it was was someone, like, 30 stories up

with a cell camera captured this.

BRADBURY: I'll show you what I found in the video.

Here's the-the area-- trying to get

a height perspective of this possible...

Sure. -you know, creature using the steps,

'cause that's the only thing we had to work with.

And again, we have to compensate. We're-we're...

250 feet in the sky, looking down,

but at the end of the day, we know that there is

someone, something there that's fairly tall.

My concern with this video is

it gets really blurry halfway through. -Yeah.

I was able to take away a lot of the-the blurring,

and-- as you'll see coming up right in this next segment.

Here's where I was able to pull away a lot of that blurriness.

TAYLOR: Uh-huh. -You can see what look like extremities right here.

TAYLOR: And also looks like it's a-a large thing

with two legs and big arms. -Very much so.

So, Michael, what-what is your final opinion

about this, or at least, your-your opinion

as it is today? -As it is today,

based off of what we have to work with here in this video,

um, it's inconclusive.

NARRATOR: As far as Travis and Michael are concerned,

while the Miami incident is intriguing,

the video is too pixelated

to provide a definitive answer.

But there is other footage that just may contain

undeniable evidence of extraterrestrial visitors.

NARRATOR: In Los Angeles, California,

aerospace engineer Dr. Travis Taylor

and image analyst Michael Bradbury

are examining some of the latest and most provocative UAP videos

to come to the public's attention.

Their goal is to determine

not only if the videos are authentic

but also if they provide compelling evidence

of a potential E.T. event.

With each one of the videos that I've sent you, uh,

they get more interesting.

So, the next one that I want you to talk about

is really intriguing.

It comes from Lily Nova at Mount Shasta.

BRADBURY: This object appears out of nowhere.

And as you'll see,

there are what look like extremities

coming off the sides of this thing.

Now-- and-and somebody might look at this

and try to say these things at the corners

could be props for a drone.

That's not what's going on here. -Right.

This is pixelation from the rendering,

uh, of-of the software. -Very much.

I zoomed in-- very heavy modification--

and this is a form of, in my humble opinion, pure energy.

Is the video a fake? No, absolutely not.

Something's going on at Mount Shasta

in Northern California.

Exactly what? That remains to be seen.

TAYLOR: I've seen this kind of thing at Skinwalker Ranch,

and we have a hundred cameras in every d-direction,

with infrared, high-speed.

NARRATOR: Since 2019,

Dr. Travis Taylor has been part of a research team

conducting scientific experiments

at Skinwalker Ranch in northern Utah.

For decades, this 512-acre property

has been known as a hot spot

for all kinds of strange phenomena,

including paranormal activity,

reports of strange creatures

and UAP sightings.

Look, look, look. What is that?

Hey, wait. Wait, wait, wait.

UAP! Right there!

NARRATOR: Over the course of their research,

Travis and the team have documented

numerous startling anomalies.

I really have no idea what these phenomena are, specifically.

We have a lot of data.

Uh, some of them

seem like they might have been mechanical objects.

What's going on, Erik?

The third year I was at Skinwalker Ranch,

we captured on a, um,

night vision system this orb,

probably about as big around as, say, a volleyball,

floats across the road in front of the homestead,

and it's leaving some kind of strange vapor trail behind it.

And then it flies off through the woods.

We've never been able to, uh, identify what that was.

I-I-- I have no idea what it was.

But it is an absolute orb phenomenon

that was captured on camera.

In the fourth year of the investigation,

we had an event that occurred near an ancient petroglyph.

And then, suddenly, we see something moving

with some kind of control.

And we have good enough imagery of this object

that shows it has two hemispheres.

And it's got a, like, a donut hole through it,

and perhaps there's another cube-like or cylindrical object

on the interior of the two hemispheres.

I-I've never seen anything like this before.

But we have heard from F-18 pilots

many times say they've seen cubes within spheres.

So, could this be a similar phenomenon?

NARRATOR: Many of the UAPs Travis has witnessed

at Skinwalker Ranch defy conventional explanations.

But one of the most intriguing videos

he's seen in recent years

was recorded thousands of miles away in Iraq.

TAYLOR: Michael, this next video is the Jellyfish video

from a military base

taken in Iraq in 2017.

You have some people trying to tell you,

"Oh, it's a scratch on the lens, it's a bug."

If it were, the object wouldn't move

in respect to the field of view.

It's clearly not. -BRADBURY: We can conclude

this is not an artifact on the lens.

This was taken at night.

There is something in the sky that has physical mass.

TAYLOR: It doesn't look like a jellyfish to me.

It looks more mechanical.

BRADBURY: A lot of people will say, "Oh, well, there's a-a jet pack

"on the back of maybe a-a soldier or something

flying through the air," well, where's the-the heat signature

off the back side of the jet? -Oh, yeah,

this is infrared, you'd see it. And not only that, -You'd see it.

the people it just flew over would've heard it.

BRADBURY: Yeah. Whatever it could be.

This is under some form of intelligent control.

Yeah. -There's no doubt about it.

I went in super close.

I could see a little bit of movement

in the extremities down below.

TAYLOR: Boy, you could really draw a Grey alien head right there

if you wanted to. -Right? Right?

That's what's there.

TAYLOR: It does look as if there's a face here

and these are protective lenses or goggles.

BRADBURY: The eyes are looking back further in this frame.

It's looking at the camera.

It's like it knows it's being watched,

Right. -Whatever it is, right?

That's really interesting. -That's what's there.

TAYLOR: Michael, my final thoughts on this are

they might end up being completely mundane explanations

for whatever they are,

but because of the unknowns in them,

the general public is enamored with the concept and the idea

that these are something more, right?

That they're-- maybe they're extraterrestrial.

Maybe they're from another reality.

Maybe there's some technology that we've been hiding

from the general public for some reason.

BRADBURY: People are drawn to it.

They gravitate to the mysterious side of the world.

They want to-- they want to see more.

(mouthing)

NARRATOR: While none of the videos

analyzed by Michael Bradbury and Travis Taylor

provide definitive proof of an extraterrestrial event...

...they also could not be dismissed

with conventional explanations.

And amid the flurry of recent reports

of UAPs and strange beings,

an extraordinary event in Las Vegas may indicate

that humanity will soon receive full disclosure

of an alien presence on Earth.

NARRATOR: Just after midnight,

a 911 operator receives a highly unusual phone call.

NARRATOR: A police unit is quickly dispatched to the caller's home.

By the time the officers arrive at the house,

whatever entities the caller may have encountered are gone.

But body cam footage shows that the police

had reason to suspect something unusual was taking place.

NARRATOR: The fireball in the sky

was witnessed by hundreds of other people.

SCOTT RODER: It was recorded by several independent Ring cameras,

as well as body camera from police officers

and self-driving cars,

even recorded with a FLIR heat sensing, uh, camera.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that the object that was seen falling from the sky

was not a meteor

but an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

NARRATOR: For UFO researchers,

almost as intriguing as the event itself

is that the encounter immediately went viral

on social media.

POPE: The fact that clips like this

get millions of views

is just an illustration of how mainstream

this subject is and how widely accepted

the idea of aliens among us is now.

HUANG: The more that we talk about it,

the more that we think about it,

the more that we read about it, watch movies,

the more that we accept and feel comfortable,

and then it doesn't become such

a scary, threatening type of a situation.

NARRATOR: Could it be that humankind

is getting the first glimpse of a new reality?

NARRATOR: Are we receiving hints

that there is, in fact, an alien presence on Earth?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

we may be nearing a revelation that was planned for us

many centuries ago.

TSOUKALOS: It can be proven statistically

that alien sightings-- whether it is of an alien being

or UFOs--

have gone up exponentially

in the last ten years.

Now, why is that?

Is it possible, one, because it's all mass psychosis?

Or is it possible that something is actually going on?

And if extraterrestrials are watching out

over this whole thing here, you have to wonder

if maybe they have contributed to this conditioning

of the human brain to understand, "Hey,

"not only are we not alone, we've never been alone

and they were here this entire time."

HENRY: Perhaps we're now coming into a time

and an age where our technology is advanced,

where our psychology is advanced,

we're more equipped than ever to handle the truth.

One could argue that the E.T.s have been

preparing us for millennia to join

a greater society of intelligent beings

in our universe and now is the time for this to happen.

POPE: At some point, this won't just be something

that is possible and probable,

but something that's certain.

And at that point, it will be

what the UFO community have been chasing for decades:

disclosure. And not just

aliens up there in the skies,

but aliens down here amongst us.

NARRATOR: Are we on the brink of an incredible disclosure

that will come not from the government

but from otherworldly beings?

Is it possible that there have been

extraterrestrials on Earth throughout human history

who have been guiding our evolution

and are now preparing us to learn the truth?

Perhaps the next sensational video

to emerge on the Internet will provide

the undeniable proof

that there are aliens in our midst.

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