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Everything that we know and have learned
about mankind and its place in the

universe suggests that we are a part

of the norm. We are not the exception.

Within the last month, a planet was
identified that has water a mere 110

years away from Earth.

We need to begin to prepare.

to accept and understand that we are not
alone in the universe, have not been

at all throughout this time.

The same year that life -giving water
was discovered on a distant planet, the

.S. Navy made a startling announcement.

Images captured by its pilots of objects
exhibiting a vastly superior technology

were authentic.

We can start to finally, at long last,
after all these decades, begin to answer

these questions about the origin of
these vehicles, where they're from, how

they're made, how they function and why
they're here.

People need to know there is something
else out there.

To fully understand, we must examine a
body of evidence long suppressed,

a parallel history to the one we think
we know, stretching back at least 70

years.

On a clear, sunny day in 1955, William
Coleman, a decorated World War II pilot,

took off from Miami on a routine flight
to deliver a B -25 bomber to an air base

in Mississippi.

My co -pilot said, look at that bright
spot up there. I think it's just a

reflection of the sun, a craze probably
in the windshield.

He and his passengers, two aviation
engineers, realized it was a strange

making a rapid descent right across
their flight path.

My God, look at that thing.

Now open it up to max continuous power.

Here we're clipping right along at over
300 miles an hour, right on the treetop.

I'm right on the tail of it.

As we got closer, I said, it doesn't
have a tail. It doesn't have any wings.

Look at the shadow on the ground. The
shadow was perfectly round.

That's not an airplane.

And I said, I'm overtaking it. So I
said, hang on.

So I'm going to make a hard turn.

There it was, a disc.

Going across the field with two big
swirls.

What I didn't see was any exhaust
propulsion.

No rivet lines, a rounded edge about
that size where it all came together.

A true flying saucer.

Then it seemed to vanish until they
spotted it thousands of feet above them.

Bright, yellow, sunnish -looking object.

It went like a bat out of hell.

After they landed, the stunned witnesses
were separately debriefed by Project

Blue Book, the Air Force investigation
of the UFO phenomenon.

Ironically, a little over a decade
later, Colonel William T. Coleman became

public spokesman for Project Blue Book.

Probably what we saw may have been from
somewhere else.

Look, the Air Force is a very deadly
being when it comes to intercepting an

unknown.

If it proves hostile, we're going to
shoot it down.

Other than that, no problem.

In the late 1940s, America seemed
impregnable to military threat.

It had just emerged from World War II,
Masters of the Air, the only nuclear

-armed superpower in the world.

But in 1947, something appeared in the
sky, and everything

changed.

Every newscaster and every newspaper
across the nation has made headlines out

it. And this afternoon, we are honored
indeed to have here in our studio this

man, Kenneth Arnold, who we believe may
be able to give us a first -hand account

and give you the same on what happened.

I kept looking for their tails. They
didn't have any tails.

I thought, well, maybe something's wrong
with my eyes. They seem to flip and

flash in the sun just like a mirror.

I'd be glad to confirm it with my hands
on a Bible because I did see it.

And whether it has anything to do with
our army or our intelligence or whether

it has to do with some foreign country,
I don't know.

Arnold had sent this sketch to the Air
Force following his sighting.

He was later invited to California's
Hamilton Field Army Air Base, where he

handed what he was told were authentic
photos of a similar craft.

At the request of Lieutenant Colonel
Donald Springer, commanding officer of

4th Air Force Intelligence, and was
given the above prints as a courtesy for

assistance he had given military
intelligence.

The photo was taken in Arizona just two
weeks after his own encounter.

They said that my father's sighting of
flying saucers got more attention than

the ending of World War II.

He was besieged by newspaper reporters
from all over the world.

Reporters interviewed United Airlines
pilot E .J. Smith, who also flew the

Northwest route.

He joked Arnold had likely been fooled
by a cockpit reflection, until he, too,

became a witness a few weeks later.

He and his stunned crew had watched as
nine disks maneuvered in formation for a

full 45 minutes.

And from there it just exploded. The
first few days in July of 1947 had a

large level of exciting activity.

These unknown objects barnstormed across
the country, sometimes in fleet -like

formations that looked like a deliberate
show of force.

Hundreds of people told Air Force
investigators they'd seen the saucers

their own eyes.

Bright, shiny things that whished
through the air at incredible speeds.

Even airline pilots who seldom indulge
in fantasy reported sighting them.

And Air Force flyers told of chasing
them or something all over the sky.

The Air Force called them unidentified
flying objects.

But people went right on calling them
saucers and seeing them. There was

something in the air.

But a then -secret memorandum by the
same general suggested that the highest

military echelons thought there was
plenty to worry about.

The memo states, quote, the phenomenon
reported is something real and not

visionary or fictitious.

It described metallic disks, circular in
shape, with domes on top, often

traveling in formations of three to nine
craft.

It also listed aerodynamic capabilities
with disturbing implications for

national defense, extreme rates of
climb.

dazzling maneuverability, and a superior
capacity for evasive action.

A lot of people expected that the United
States government was about to confirm,

okay, they're ours. This is an exciting
new technological advance that we were

testing, and now it's time to tell
people about it.

Occasionally, eyewitness testimony
included compelling photographic

Evelyn Trent was feeding her rabbits
when she spotted a metallic disc -shaped

object floating over their farm.

She alerted her husband, Paul, to grab
his camera, and he managed to get two

shots.

They described the object slowly
hovering before it abruptly sped away.

Life magazine picked up the story, and
the McMinnville UFO became a global

sensation.

There's no chance of this being weather.

There's no chance of this being a star
or an aircraft.

This is either some kind of structured
object that we don't know what it is, or

it's a hoax. Paul Trent and his wife,
they were honest, simple.

hardworking people who never made a dime
off the photographs that they took.

They never tried to make a dime off of
it. It just come up like that and tipped

and just, I mean, really went.

It went fast.

I've never seen anything go so fast in
my life as that thing went.

Yeah.

In 1951, future astronaut Gordon Cooper,
while training in Germany, chased a

large formation with his squadron of
fighter jets.

Unlike fighters, they would stop, almost
stop in their forward velocity and

change 90 degrees sometimes in their
flight path.

And within the next two to three days,
we'd had practically all the fighters we

could muster on the base up climbing as
high as they would climb with guys with

binoculars in them still trying to spot
these.

Trains, devices flying overhead.

We never could get close enough really
to pin them down, but they were round in

shape and very metallic looking.

And they would come over and do the same
maneuvers that we make, except every

once in a while one of them goes to the
hip.

And you just can't do that in a fighter.

Like two saucers, one inverted over the
other.

They seemed to be made of some kind of
polished metal.

When I first saw the objects, they were
almost overhead.

By the time I had the camera ready to
go, they had moved to a considerably

greater distance.

But the unknowns showed no signs of
hostility, an otherworldly power on its

mysterious mission.

Commercial pilots William Nash and
William Fortenberry, former Navy

with thousands of hours of flight
experience, saw eight huge disks fly in

stack formation over Chesapeake Bay,
Virginia, just a stone's throw from

Washington, D .C.

When they came out over the blackness of
the bay, they're distinct.

Six red coins.

When they got closer, we could see
that...

It looked like you were looking down
into it, like a hot coal.

They reported the glowing red objects
had approached them head -on at a speed

they estimated at 6 ,000 to 12 ,000
miles per hour.

It came in like this and went out like
this.

There would be no way of making complete
reversal or a 90 -degree turn 12

,000 miles an hour or greater.

without making the occupants juice on
the wall.

That kind of really shook us up. Looking
at the thing shook us up.

Nothing could have gotten to that degree
of scientific

progress without some of the
intermediate steps having become public

We just knew that they were not from
this planet.

The unthinkable happened.

The nation's capital was invaded from
the skies.

Seven unknown blips suddenly appeared on
radar at Washington National Airport.

Air traffic controllers at both Andrews
and Bowling Air Force bases confirmed

the objects as they danced through
restricted airspace.

Capitol building, the White House where
the president lived.

These were some of the most important
places in the country when it comes to

national defense.

And there were UFOs violating this
airspace, and there was nothing that the

Force could do about it.

F -94 interceptors were scrambled.

Pentagon Press liaison Al Chopp was in
the radar room that night.

We could see the planes coming in on
this radar scope. In a minute, we saw

beginning of these guys.

UFOs disappeared.

They just left.

Obviously, whatever these things were,
had intelligence enough to get out of

area when they had an intercept going
in.

But the next weekend, it began again.

Pilot William Patterson pushed his
Starfire jet to maximum speed to try to

intercept one of the glowing objects.

Flew right into the middle of the four
of them.

Al Chop recalls the pilot's panicky air
-to -ground transmission as he streaked

at 600 miles per hour into a group of
unknowns.

He actually said they're closing in on
me.

What do I do?

It was frightening.

The Air Force had just issued orders to
shoot down the unknowns if, quote, They

can't talk them down.

I was trying to tell an Air Force pilot
to fire at the damn thing or anything.

I didn't say anything.

Nobody said anything.

And then all of a sudden, things began
to move away from him.

And he said, they're gone.

I'm convinced they're solid objects.

I'm convinced that they're probably from
another planet or from outer space

somewhere.

I've always felt that way since that
night.

The very next day, the Air Force's top
brass hastily prepared the largest

Pentagon press conference since World
War II.

Seen here in a last -minute huddle,
General Roger Ramey, Air Force Director

Operations at the Pentagon.

Captain Edward Ruppelt of Project Blue
Book.

the Air Force's official UFO
investigations arm, and Director of Air

Intelligence, General John Sanford.

Since 1947, we have received and
analyzed between one and two thousand

that have come to us from all kinds of
sources.

Of this great mass of reports, we have
been able adequately to explain the

bulk of them.

However, there have been a certain
percentage of this volume of reports

have been made by credible observers of
relatively incredible things.

We can say that the recent sightings are
in no way connected with any secret

development by any department of the
United States.

In the Q &A with reporters, Sanford
suggested a 50 -50 chance it could have

radar waves bouncing off temperature
inversions.

The point that Sanford put across all
too effectively was that they were not

real. They were just tricks of the
atmosphere.

And atmospheric phenomena can't be a
threat to national security.

You don't shoot at clouds.

The public was pondering the
implications of possible

Robert L. Farnsworth, president of the
United States Rocket Society, urged

defense officials not to permit our
planes to fire at any flying saucers. He

says this might alienate mankind from
beings of far superior forces.

Farnsworth feels that friendly contact
should be sought as long as possible.

Behind the scenes, the CIA had other
concerns.

A secret internal memo urged immediate
attention to unexplained objects in the

vicinity of major U .S. defense
installations.

I would dare say if anything happened
that we thought was a threat to our

national security, somebody out there,
one of the services, would respond to

Remember, this is the height of the Cold
War.

There are bombers on both sides loaded
with nuclear bombs.

Dr. Jacques Vallée was the inspiration
for the French UFO researcher and Steven

Spielberg's close encounters of the
third kind.

In real life, Dr.

Vallée conducted sober scientific
research on the phenomenon.

We know now that there is no simple
answer.

For decades, he met with witnesses and
traveled the globe gathering evidence,

ultimately creating the first database
on the UFO subject.

Mr. Chairman, all the great nations of
the world are represented on this

committee. Let us keep in mind that the
UFO phenomenon may represent an even

greater reality.

Vallée also consulted with scientific,
military, and government officials.

including Project Blue Book's top
science advisor, Dr.

J. Allen Hynek.

I began my work as scientific consultant
to the United States Air Force as an

open skeptic.

Hynek was a university astronomer with a
high security clearance when the Air

Force recruited him to investigate UFOs.

And it so happened when the Air Force
got the job of trying to figure out what

some of these strange flying saucer
stories were about, well, they needed an

astronomer to see how many of the
reports could possibly be explained as

and twinkling stars and planets.

The two scientists became close
colleagues, with Hynek entrusting Vallée

index the reams of Blue Book files
scattered throughout Hynek's home.

It was there that Vallée made a chance
discovery of a letter so secret he had

appeal to the chief counsel of the
Senate Defense Appropriations Committee

get it declassified.

That document changed my life.

It taught me that the subject had been
taken much more seriously than anybody

thought. The document revealed an ultra
-secret, highly funded scientific

investigation.

working parallel to Blue Book, unknown
to all but a select few.

The letter was signed by H .C. Cross,
director of exotic metallurgy at

Battelle National Laboratories.

These were the people who had analyzed
the facts with a large budget, with

highly competent physicists and computer
scientists.

Who are these people?

What information did they have?

Good evening. Tonight we go after a
fantastic story.

The story that flying saucers from other
worlds are visiting our planet just as

we are exploring outer space with our
own rocket satellites.

Our guest is former Marine Air Corps
Major Donald Kehoe in his campaign to

that flying saucers exist.

My name is Mike Wallace. The cigarette
is Parliament.

Why will the United States government
withhold information from United States

citizens? For what reason? The airport
is simply treating the American people

like children. They don't trust them
with the facts.

During the 50s and 60s, it wasn't just
the Americans who were seeing flying

saucers. At the Westall School in
Australia, Several hundred students saw

object hovering over this power line
tower on their athletic field, an event

they vividly recall 50 years later.

A student came into the classroom, you
know, there's flying saucers in the

there's flying saucers. And everybody
ran out.

And I remember the fear and the hysteria
of all the students. I couldn't believe

it because what I was seeing wasn't
possible.

It was vertical, horizontal.

move away from us, back towards us,
appear somewhere else, somewhere else.

My God, you know, but it was exciting.

It was like that and then all of a
sudden it just turned on its side and I

see that it was a round disc.

The children saw the disc begin to
descend into this wooded reserve at the

of the school's running path.

I ran towards the corner of the school,
jumped the fence.

and ran towards where it looked as
though it went down into the tree and

stopped dead because it was right in
front of me on the ground.

Like a disc with a slight rise in the
middle, I also heard a low sort of a

humming noise and I felt a bit of a heat
coming off it as well.

And... It started to take off pretty
well straight away. It had all bluey

-purple lights around the bottom. I
don't remember seeing any windows.

And it took off to about probably four
or five metres in the air and then

on its side and just went, zoom,
straight up so fast that there's just

even nowadays, that could go that fast.

Shortly after the object departed, the
authorities converged on the school.

We had army, air force, police down
there cordoning off the area to prevent

of us entering the area or disturbing
anything.

We got called to assembly. The
headmaster said, you have not seen this.

not talk about it. You'll be in trouble
if you do.

For the first time ever, the school
science teacher agreed to describe what

saw that day, providing we concealed his
identity.

It was not a mirage.

There was something physical in the sky.
It was silver. It could hover.

It could move slowly.

It could move very rapidly.

Eventually, it moved away to the other
side of the oval and down behind some

pine trees.

I was not then nor ever have been able
to use my knowledge of the world nor

my scientific training to provide a
rational explanation.

What he said next sheds light on why the
school's staff have remained silent all

these years.

I was a knock on the door one night. Two
older men, one in uniform, asked for my

description of what I'd seen.

I was then told that I hadn't seen
anything, that I'd made it all up,

because I was drunk, and that they would
have to report that back to the

education department and I would lose my
job. After that, I was told...

that I would be prosecuted under the
Official Secrets Act, and I was told

there wasn't anything there when I knew
there was, and that I had to keep quiet

about it.

Why did I have to keep quiet?

The Westall landing may not have been an
isolated incident.

Four days prior... A then -young
engineer in nearby Baldwin was taking

his mother's garden when something
caught his eye. This tremendous flash of

light, and I looked up, and I saw this
object, and I pulled it. I had a

camera, and I pulled this up and hit
myself on the face, and I took the

and I took the photograph here. This is
the original Polaroid.

That's it.

This is how bad it is.

It looked like it was made out of some
form of metal and it was engineered.

And being an engineer, I was sure it
was.

And that's when I took the photograph
and it tipped around and I could see the

bottom and it looked like it was
rotating to me.

That was it. And then after that, it
sort of gave a bounce and it rocketed

to the north at very high speed.

Can you describe the acceleration?

It was like almost instantaneous, like
it had been shot out of a gun.

Wham, you know.

Air Force officers showed up at his
doorstep, asking for every detail of his

experience. And they also had some
photographs of similar things, and they

had a book which had pictures of things
in which they didn't leave with me, but

at least I had a look through.

They said it was an unidentified flying
object.

That was it.

What was the implication?

That it didn't come from anywhere on
Earth.

Project Blue Book, with a skeletal
staff, continued publicly collecting

thousands of cases.

Despite efforts to explain them away,
hundreds were still filed as unknown.

Several reports of a strange egg -shaped
object about 200 feet long landing on

farms and highways last night in the
vicinity of Level Land.

Sheriff Glenn says he even himself got a
glimpse of the thing which somehow

turned off lights and auto engines when
it came near.

Within 24 to 36 hours after these
sightings in Leveland, Texas, at the

Sands Proving Ground, very close to the
Trinity test site where they first

detonated the first atomic bomb,
military personnel witnessed a glowing

-shaped object that apparently landed.

This is Bill Haggard, public information
officer of White Sands Proving Ground

in Mexico.

What they saw...

Looks like a landing and takeoff of some
controlled objects of outer space.

Well, I was chasing a car up Bark
Street. It was reckless driving.

I saw this big cloud of smoke, so I
decided to let go of the car and go up

and investigate.

By the time I got there, I could see a
big white object sitting in the arroyo.

I couldn't tell what it was at first.

My radio was dead. It didn't work at
all.

I could see some figures.

Looked like they were walking around the
craft there.

They appeared to be dressed in white
coveralls and were childlike, that is,

small.

Zamora added that one of the two persons
turned his head and looked straight at

him.

When I got out of the car, about 50 feet
from it,

I guess they saw me because they started
their motor, whatever it is.

I could see a big blast of fire coming
from right under it.

So I was behind some bushes there,
behind my car.

I could see it, and I could feel that
heat.

That really got me scared, you know.

A lot of people say, why don't you take
your gun out and shoot at it, you know.

That wouldn't do nothing to me, so.

It just took a little while to get
airborne.

Came up a little bit, about 20, 30 feet,
and it stayed there a little while.

And it stayed just as quiet as it could
be.

And then just flew away, that's it.

Lonnie was very, very scared. He was as
white as a sheet. From here, went

directly to the church to talk to the
priest, okay?

Pablo Lopez was among the first to
arrive at the landing and takeoff site.

The ground was still smoldering, some of
the weeds that were around it. This

rare footage gives us a glimpse of the
scene shortly after the incident.

Patrolman Zamora stoops to point out one
of the landing gear imprints where

officers had just placed rocks to
protect the fresh ground traces.

And then there was a set, two sets of
footprints, two sets of footprints like

so.

That was about the approximate size of
them.

In comparison to a quarter, that's
pretty small.

That's about the size of them.

Within an hour and over the next several
days, officials from the FBI, military,

and Project Blue Book documented the
evidence at the scene.

Were there any prong marks on the ground
or anything like that where you could

see where it had landed?

There were four.

Very unusual footprints.

How many were there? Two footprints on
one side and two footprints on the other

side.

Of course, the burn area there. I was
behind my car.

I could see it and I could feel that
heat.

They told me that all over the state
they had been seeing some of those

saucers, whatever you call them.

They gave me a book on that, you know.

They told me to go ahead and read it.

Well, it says not to say nothing.

Keep away from it. Don't say too much,
you know.

It was the middle of the night by the
time Lonnie came home.

Oh, he was real pale.

And I thought he was sick. I said, are
you sick or something?

He said, no. He said, I was just
working. He was like, like he was angry.

What I knew about it was when I started
reading the papers, you know.

Started coming out and coming out and
everything.

They said, well, what's this that you
saw?

I don't know. He said, it's just a
headache.

He said, everybody's after me and some
believe me and some don't.

Dear Mr.

Zamora. Dear Mr.

Zamora.

I saw a UFO myself in the summer of
1928. I can go on for a week telling you

what I've seen. A boy in a school
science fair had three pictures that

just like the flying saucer. I thought I
should write to you to tell you that

you are not alone in your sighting of
this object.

I have pictures of a couple of egg
-shaped ships taken. I read about you

a flying saucer. I'm a retired teacher.
Well, you have a friend who believes in

you. The saucer phenomenon has changed
my life and ideas. Mama said when it

took...

And then people started making fun of
him that he had seen

little men from outer space and this and
that and all this dirty

stuff.

A lot of people ask me, is that the
reason you quit the police force?

The reason I quit the police force is
because I was going into, you know, a

of publicity and stuff like that, and I
didn't want to hurt the town.

The level of inquiry went all the way to
the office of the president.

To this day, the Socorro close encounter
remains unexplained.

Socorro was very similar to the French
cases that I had.

brought to Heineck's attention, checked
by the police, checked by the French Air

Force, where there were also occupants
who were seen, short beings

in connection with the objects.

I think that's what convinced him that
there were UFO landings in the United

States.

It looked like a toy top, somewhat
upside down.

So this is the diagram in which we've
come up with. It's more flat here other

than round, but it does have the hump up
in here.

It seemed to move off the ground if it
was down.

And then we saw three lights that went
from yellow to red.

When we got right up to it, it lit up.

I mean, it really come bright, and we
could see it, the outline of it real

Blue Book's Dr. Alan Hynek investigated
one of the alleged landing sites with

the local sheriff.

At an overflow press conference later
that day, the world held its breath for

historic revelation about the landings
in Michigan.

Hynek, by now privately convinced of the
UFO reality, struggled to follow the

Air Force policy of tamping down public
excitement.

Are you saying that the sightings in the
Ann Arbor and Hillsdale areas

definitely were caused by marsh gasses?
I'm saying that the two cases that I

investigated most deeply were most
likely. I said in a statement that I

prove it in a court of law.

Are you saying then that you don't know
what caused it?

No, that's not quite right. I think that
a person can be pretty sure about

something without being...

able to convict somebody of a murder.
Can you say that?

Yes, I do, honestly, in this case, in
this case.

But you can't say without question that
this is what happened.

Hynek's strained explanation, which he
later called his greatest regret,

a public furor.

Mr. Ford, what about flying saucers?
You've had some in Michigan the past

Dave, we've had several incidents that
many felt were...

sufficient to justify some action by our
government and not the kind of flippant

answer that was given by the Air Force
where they passed it off as a swamp gas.

It seems to me that this mystery does
require that the Congress take a good

look at it. Let them put their record on
the line.

On April 5th, 1966.

Congressional hearings were held with
Dr. Hynek and Secretary of the Air Force

Harold Brown both giving testimony.

Mr. Ford has come out. He has a pretty
good -sized stature in the Congress.

And so, Mr. Secretary, see if you can
shed some light on these highly

illuminated objects.

Mr. Secretary, there have been charges
that the Air Force is hiding something

the UFO field.

We have not been hiding anything.

The investigations have been made
public. The hearing this morning was

for just that reason.

There has never been any evidence
presented to the United States Air Force

discovered by the United States Air
Force which would indicate that the UFO

phenomenon represents any interplanetary
space vehicle of any kind.

Amid growing pressure, the Air Force
commissioned an outside panel of

to analyze select cases and settle the
matter once and for all.

It was headed by physicist Edward
Condon. Dr. Condon, do you hope to find

from outer space here on Earth?

Well, I don't know for sure, but we'll
try to just study the reports and get as

much additional information as we can to
see.

Would you like to have us being visited
by these little or big things?

Well, that'd be fine with me, if I hope
they're friendly.

How do you propose to go about... After
the project was launched, Condon

remarked to an audience that he thought
the UFO subject was nonsense, but,

quote, I'm not supposed to reach that
conclusion for another year.

After a two -year investigation... the
panel submitted a massive 1 ,400 -page

report showing that many cases were
radar and weather anomalies, but

a number as truly unexplainable.

Among them were the famous McMinnville
photos taken on the Trent family farm,

well as film footage of UFOs in Great
Falls, Montana.

As I looked up, I saw two silvery
objects moving swiftly out of the

No sound, except I thought I heard a
whooshing sound when I first saw them.

The discs appeared to be spinning like a
top and were about 50 feet across,

which was much slower than the jets
which shot by shortly after I filmed the

discs.

I could not see any exhaust, wings, or
any kind of fuselage.

They appeared to be of a bright, shiny
metal, like polished silver.

There are cases that are...

not explainable in conventional terms.

There is the assumption of intelligence
or intelligent control, but not

necessarily the assumption of direct
communication.

Why are they here?

What are they doing?

What do they want from us? What are
their motivations?

But it was Dr. Condon who wrote the
final word.

There appears to be no verified and
fully satisfactory evidence of any case

is clearly outside the framework of
presently known science and technology.

I would kind of wallow on that one.
You'd have to conclude that what we were

looking at was beyond our current state
of the knowledge.

But it began to hit me that Dr. Condon
has apparently not read his own material

very carefully. You do an actual
tabulation, which he doesn't seem to

and you find his percentage of
unexplained is five to six times larger

Air Force. And yet, what is his
principal recommendation? The principal

recommendation that Dr. Condon has come
through with is there's nothing of

scientific interest that warrants
further attention on the part of the

government here in any major way. He
recommends dropping the whole problem.

Nobody could get funded. Nobody would
look at the data seriously because of

prestige of the academy saying that the
problem had been solved. The Air Force

closed their reporting system so that if
the public wanted to report something,

they would report it to the local
police, that it would never get to the

attention of scientists really examining
the phenomenon.

In 1969, the Air Force officially ended
its public investigations.

Which would suggest what?

That they knew what it was?

Or didn't know what it was.

Also, the other way, that they did know
what it was.

One aspect of the phenomenon that was
swept under the rug was the pervasive

reporting of UFO intrusions at the
world's most sensitive military

Details did not come to light until
decades later at the National Press Club

Washington, D .C.

Declassified U .S. government documents
and witness testimony from former or

retired U .S. military personnel confirm
beyond any doubt the reality of ongoing

UFO incursions at nuclear weapons sites.

What you have heard here today is
evidence of a phenomenon.

It sounds fantastic and it is fantastic.

In 1967, I was a missile launch officer.

stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base,
Montana.

Malmstrom was America's first line of
nuclear defense.

Its silos packed with Minutemen
missiles, each one nearly 100 times more

powerful than the bomb that devastated
Hiroshima.

Launch officers could, within minutes of
confirmation, send their birds arcing 6

,000 miles to incinerate key Soviet
cities.

triggering a war that would end our
civilization.

I was the chief of party. I was the
observer.

Basically, what I was doing was the star
observation to provide precise latitude

and longitude on our small three -man
team.

came from the north and stopped right
over us.

And it had a white light from the center
looking down into the silo. I just said

to myself, what if this thing beams us
up and takes us off to some distant

and never returned to Earth again? I
mean, this is going through my head here

while this thing is above me.

And then from this dead stop, it shoots
off to the east, just like now you see

it, now you don't.

that went out and claimed that they saw
something. How did they describe that?

He just said a large round object.

Directly over the LF? Directly over the
site.

Lieutenant Salas was stationed in his
underground launch control capsule when

received a frantic call from one of his
topside guards.

Screaming into the phone saying they're
looking, a red glowing object hovering.

just above our front gate. Our missiles
began going into what's called a no -go

condition or unlaunchable.

Essentially, they were disabled.

In fact, ten missiles began going
offline in a matter of seconds, one

other.

Personally, I'm never aware of any two
missiles going down at the same time,

alone ten.

I was a top secret control officer and I
passed out nuclear launch

authenticators.

I can clearly recall a message coming
through my communications center which

basically said that a UFO did in fact
shut down several missile silos in

Montana.

I was on duty at Echo, which is our
squadron command post. We had strike

respond to...

alarms from the missiles. They were
three to five miles away.

And they said, sir, lack of a better
description, there's a flying saucer

hovering over that missile and there's a
beam of reddish light going down to it.

It had to be a data collection thing.
I'm sure they scanned the warhead or

something.

In 1980, I was reassigned from the
Pentagon to RAF Bentwaters as a deputy

commander.

At that time, Bentwaters was one of the
largest tactical fighter planes in the

world.

It was also the largest American nuclear
bomb storage depot in Europe.

In December 1980, early in the morning,
several of our security policemen

discovered strange lights in the forest.

Expecting to find a crashed aircraft,
they came upon an unrecognizable object

resting on the forest floor.

They observed it for a period of time,
and it very...

quickly and silently vanished.

Two nights later, Colonel Halt received
an urgent visit from the base security

commander.

He was white as a sheet.

He said, it's back.

He said, what's back?

He said, the UFO.

I took several security policemen with
me. I also had my small cassette

I carried everywhere when I was on duty.

What is it?

One object approached us in very high
speed.

We

stood there

in awe.

Was this a warning?

Was this an attempt to communicate?

Was this a weapon or just a probe?

Just as suddenly as it appeared, click,
it disappeared.

We stood there, ah.

About that time, we noticed the other
object to the south was Cendidon beams,

about a mile, mile and a half away over
Woodbridge Base, and we had great

difficulties communicating, but we were
able to discern that some of those beams

were either falling into or near the
weapons storage area, and there was a

deal of concern.

I also found out later that both the
tower operators at Bentwaters saw an

and picked it up on their Bright 2 radar
and watched it.

I was just sitting there, and I happened
to see a dot come on the scope, and it

just went like one dot at the beginning,
then another dot, another dot, and it

was gone. And then it made the immediate
right -hand turn and came right towards

the base. Just absolutely phenomenal.

It's not like any radar target I've ever
seen.

traveling at an extremely high rate of
speed.

It passed over the control tower, and
then it stopped.

It was an orangish color, sort of popped
into my mind at the time that

somebody's flying a basketball out here.
There were lights around the center of

it. It was more like portholes, and then
you were seeing the light from the

inside, but it hovered momentarily,
reversed its course.

and went back out at a high rate.

Even more alarming incidents took place
on both sides of the Cold War.

According to one secret Soviet
documents, a UFO hovered over a

nuclear base for nearly an hour.

Inexplicably. Several missiles suddenly
switched to full combat readiness and

began a launch sequence without any
authentication codes.

After 15 heart -stopping seconds, the
countdown to a potential Armageddon

as abruptly as it had started.

As this object passed over the missile
site, we would start getting erratic

indications on that missile.

The bad thing was we also got a launch
indicator.

Does that mean that the launch sequence
has been triggered? That means that the

missile has received a launch signal.

The countdown had to be manually
aborted.

These witnesses are some of the most
highly vetted military officers in

of the world's most devastating
armaments.

If what they're reporting is accurate,
then the pattern is hard to avoid.

UFOs have been making incursions into
top security nuclear facilities decade

after decade.

To me, it's pretty clear. This is just,
we're shining a light on this. We're

pointing it out.

What are you people doing with nuclear
weapons?

As the 90s dawned and the walls fell
down, it was as if humanity itself was

demanding to be seen as one people and
one world.

The Soviet Union had dissolved, and
history's spotlight began to shine on

darkened corners.

Different officials were looking for
ways to open dialogue with the West and

embrace all the changes that were
underway in their country at the time.

This is George Knapp in Moscow, the city
many are... Knapp's team was invited to

Moscow by government and military
officials who were willing to share

worth of UFO files.

General Igor Maltsev, for seven years
commander of the entire Soviet air

system, recalls a UFO flap over Moscow
in 1990, hundreds of visual and radar

observations by military personnel.

Maltsev confirms his standing order
was... Don't fire on the UFOs. March

radar at the Leningrad airport detects
first one, then two, then three

unidentified objects hovering over a
nuclear plant. From a dead stop, the UFO

zipped away at 2 ,000 miles per hour.

Jacques Vallée was one of few Westerners
to personally investigate the case by

meeting with Russian sources firsthand.

An object hovered near a nuclear power
plant in Voronezh, and a beam from that

object melted the asphalt there.

The intention was maybe we would be able
to find out from the Russians more

about what the American government knows
about UFOs than we will ever learn from

the American government itself.

Governor, are you ready to take the
oath?

I am. When a young, open -minded
president was sworn in, one of America's

highly -placed civilians saw a chance
for a new government transparency on the

phenomenon. As a means of access to
people, to the wonders of nature.

Heir to the power and influence of one
of the world's wealthiest families,

Lawrence Rockefeller, philanthropist and
conservationist, also had a passionate

interest in UFOs. His idea was to
approach the

president with a plea for making
available the data

that the government had on the subject.

The first inclination by particularly
people in government is, you got

to be kidding me. You want me to risk my
career by getting deeply into the

rabbit hole of talking about UFOs? And
so there's a tremendous resistance.

Rockefeller met with President Clinton's
science advisor, Jack Gibbons, at the

White House and persuaded him to take
action.

Rockefeller was then asked to pick a
case that the White House should attempt

declassify.

He chose the 1947 Roswell incident,
noting, quote,

Jack

had actually gone to the Air Force.

then Secretary Widnall, who is the
Secretary of the Air Force, to take a

particularly at the records around
Roswell, New Mexico.

Dear Colonel Kavin, the General
Accounting Office seeks to fully explain

claim that the U .S. government
recovered an alien spacecraft near

Mexico in July 1947 and since that time
has covered up that fact.

The Army Air Forces has announced that a
flying disc has been found and is now

in the possession of the Army.

According to my dad, there was a bad
thunderstorm the night before, and the

day he was out on the ranch and he found
this debris.

The disc landed at a ranch at Corona,
New Mexico, and the rancher turned it

to the Air Force.

Roswell was then home to the world's
only nuclear air wing.

including the B -29 that had dropped the
first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

The base's chief intelligence officer,
Major Jesse Marcel, was dispatched to

ranch to investigate.

We had to follow the rancher out there.

With just verbal directions, we know who
would have found it.

Marcel and another officer were the
first military to arrive at the crash

They came upon an expanse of
unrecognizable debris strewn across an

size of a dozen football fields.

There was so much of it.

It was scattered over such a vast area.

We found a piece of metal about a foot
and a half to two feet wide and about

two or three feet long.

It felt like you had nothing in your
hands. It wasn't any thicker than the

out of a pack of cigarettes.

The thing about that got me is that you
couldn't even bend it. You couldn't

embed it.

Even with a sledgehammer, it would
bounce off of it.

Marcel was ordered to immediately
transport the strange wreckage to Fort

Army Airfield.

There, Marcel was met by the commanding
general who told him to keep silent in

the face of what was becoming...

A media frenzy. They had a whole flock
of microphones there. They wanted some

comments from me, but I wasn't that
good, but they didn't do that.

Marcel was instead ordered to pose with
wood, foil, and rubber debris from a

conventional weather balloon.

All I could do is keep my mouth shut.

And General Ramey is the one who told
the newspapers what it was and to forget

about it.

It was nothing more than an observation
balloon, of course, which we both knew

differently.

Colonel Thomas DuBose, who was also
ordered to pose with the fake debris,

describes how an iron curtain of secrecy
slammed down.

This is the highest priority you can
accept, and you will say nothing.

More than top secret, as he said. Beyond
that, this is the story we're going to

tell the public.

It was a cover story, the balloon part
of it.

In order, we don't have any more
inquiries about what we picked up on the

desert. Congressman Schiff, what got you
interested in this subject per se?

I started receiving letters a little
over two years ago from constituents.

stating that they believed the
government was covering up what happened

Roswell. Many of them clearly believed
that it was, in fact, an

crash. The weather balloon story never
made sense because it was clearly, and

undisputed in my mind, extra military
attention to this matter, from extra

security around the crash scene to
special handling of whatever the debris

That could fit a classified project. It
doesn't fit a weather balloon.

In September 1994, the Air Force issued
its response.

The Roswell Report.

Case closed.

The Air Force claimed it was a secret
project of weather balloons hung with

kites and microphones to spy on Soviet
nuclear tests.

Please roll the video.

There's the famous box kite that became
the famous flying disc.

The weather balloons that were on the...

On the balloon train.

Same rubber balloon, same foil box kite
as the original cover story.

Only many of them strung together with
microphones dangling beneath.

That's the tinfoil paper, rubber, and
sticks that they recovered in the desert

near New Mexico in 1947.

The Air Force, nearly 50 years later,
was basically telling the same tale.

that the top security personnel of the
world's only atomic bombing wing really

had mistaken this rubber, wood, and
tinfoil for a crashed flying saucer.

Being an intelligence officer, I was
familiar with just about all materials

in aircraft and in our air travel.

This was nothing like that.

It was not anything from this earth that
I'm quite sure of.

My suspicion...

is that the Roswell incident did happen
and something maybe not from our

universe went down there.

And we should allow the American people
to make a judgment on what that might

have been by disclosing. I mean, this is
probably the most blatant case of

overreaction to what is national
security.

The public has a right to know.

Rockefeller put together a briefing
document intended for world leaders with

sobering observation.

It is conceivable that even the
president himself is not fully briefed

matters classified as above top secret.

I did attempt to find out if there were
any secret government documents that

reveal things. And if there were.

They were concealed from me, too. I
wouldn't be the first president that

underlings have lied to or that career
bureaucrats have waited out.

But there may be some career person
sitting around somewhere hiding these

secrets, even from elected presidents.
But if so, they successfully eluded me.

And I'm almost embarrassed to tell you I
did try to find out.

That was a beautiful one. Apollo
astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who had grown

around Roswell, was an aerospace insider
with deep Pentagon connections.

He became convinced there were UFO
secrets concealed from normal government

channels.

Well, if the accounts are to be
believed, yes, there have been ET

There have been crashed craft.

There have been...

material and bodies recovered, and there
is some group of people somewhere

that may or may not be associated with
government at this point, but

certainly were at one time, that have
this knowledge.

No one has proven there's nothing to it.

No one's had the opportunity to prove
there's something to it. And that's what

did. In 2007,

the most powerful man in the Senate,
Majority Leader Harry Reid, persuaded

colleagues, Senators Ted Stevens and
Daniel Inouye, to secretly allocate

millions in Defense Department funds to
investigate UFOs.

The covert program operated from the
tail end of the Bush presidency through

Obama administration and into Donald
Trump's first year in office.

In December of 2017, the lid blew off.

At long last, the government was
admitting a modern -day program to

UFOs and released startling official
evidence, including videotapes from

the cockpits of military aircraft.

One of the key authors of the Times
story was investigative journalist and

-selling author Leslie Kane.

She went to Washington to meet with Luis
Elizondo.

who had just resigned from his position
as head of the secret Pentagon UFO

program.

I was invited to this meeting. They
wanted me to meet Mr.

Elizondo to see what could happen.

Objects that are moving so fast, and yet
we don't see an ionization trail in the

air, and you don't hear a sonic boom.
How is that possible?

Elizondo's colleagues took her aside to
reveal some extraordinary documentation

related to the program.

I wasn't allowed to take anything with
me. I mean the most important evidence

that was shared with me at the meeting
regarding the phenomenon itself were the

videos.

I knew

this was breaking news for the front
page of the New York Times.

My co -author Ralph Blumenthal and I set
up a meeting with Mark Mazzetti and

said we have this explosive story.

Sat down with him in the New York office
of the New York Times and we brought in

all the documents. These are the videos.
Here's other documents that show the

existence of the program.

And here's what they've studied and
here's what they've learned. And here's

letter from Harry Reid about the
program.

Elizondo's colleague, the former Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for

Intelligence, Christopher Mellon,
managed to obtain the tapes from the

and chose the New York Times to break
the story.

I received the videos, the now famous
videos, in the Pentagon parking lot from

Defense Department official. I still
have the originals in the packaging.

This is a case where somebody bent the
rules a little bit.

And they did so for the larger good and
we're absolutely all better off because

of it.

In the end, I have to say, I was still
extraordinarily disappointed with the

York Times because they focused on this
small AATIP program.

And the real story in my mind, at least,
should have been these things are real.

They're here.

This is happening now.

One of the Pentagon cases reported by
the New York Times was an encounter by

naval aircraft about 200 miles off the
coast of San Diego, California.

5 ,500 people that were on the Nimitz in
2004 when this happened, and I

guarantee every single one of them knows
that this event happened. That's a

whole air wing, that's Mount Fuji,
that's Japan.

Commander David Fravor was leading a
training exercise from the USS Nimitz

Carrier Strike Group.

when he was abruptly ordered to
investigate an unknown target that had

on one of the ship's radar scopes.

We're going to suspend the training. We
have real -world tasking. So we're like,

okay, cool.

He and another F -18 Super Hornet, each
carrying two airmen, zoomed toward the

coordinates. My felt and my wizzo and
the other pilot and the wizzo in the

seat of that airplane. So there's four
of us.

When they arrived, they first saw what
appeared to be a large object slightly

below the surface of the ocean with a
strange oval -shaped craft darting

in the air just above it. If you picture
a tic -tac that's about 40 feet long,

you know, round on both ends, no rivets,
no metal, smooth white.

It was white. It was just smooth, no
wings, no propulsion, no windows.

It didn't matter which way it was
pointing because as it was moving over

water, it would go, you know, it never
turned. It never changed its

axis. It went four half left, right. It
was just doing this.

And I said, hey, I'm going to go check
that out.

All of a sudden, you just see it turn
its body and go, whoop, and start coming

up at you. You go, that was rather
interesting.

We're just looking at it. We're doing
this. We're looking at it.

We're looking at it. We're looking at
it. We go around all the way around the

outside of the circle 180 degrees.

Well, I know where he's going, so I'll
just go over there.

And this thing goes, and it's gone.

I mean, literally that fast.

Gone.

You can think about what we're saying
like, holy shit, what the is that?

You know, and then there's a lot of,
dude, what the?

Did you guys see that? Do you guys see
it? And they're like, it's gone. We

see shit.

Nothing accelerates that fast. You're
talking, you know, something that not

accelerated beyond anything that we had
seen, but it just was, the

controller comes up and says, hey,
you're not going to believe this, but

thing is back at your cat point.

meaning the object had instantly
reappeared at the precise secret

the fleet's critical aerial defense
zone.

It obviously had some awareness. It knew
where we were going.

I'm going to make the hair on the back
of your neck stand up.

I actually told my back's here. I said,
I don't know about you, I'm pretty

weirded out.

More jets equipped with the Navy's most
advanced radar visual tracking system

were scrambled, this time capturing the
object on video.

First thing he gets is a little blip on
the radar.

He puts his cursors over it, and he
tries to grab a lock on it.

Basically, when you take a lock, you
tell the radar, look at that location

stare at it and put all your energy on
that point.

Well, as soon as it does it, the radar
gets indications that it's being jammed

by the object it's trying to lock.

The infrared sees differing
temperatures, so the tic -tac is

than the air around it.

It doesn't have to be by much, but it's
going to appear white.

It's just driving straight at it.

It's just kind of hovering there.

And then it goes poof, and it takes off
off the side.

I just don't know.

I doubt that we have developed that
technology.

I interviewed three of the four aviators
who were with Dave during that

encounter. And it was readily apparent
to everyone involved that that vehicle

had what they call dominant battle space
awareness.

It was in control of that engagement
from the outset.

There was no question.

that it completely outmatched our
frontline fighters.

I served on the Special Access Program
Oversight Committee, so I had access to

all of the black programs in those days.
We know perfectly well there's nothing

like that behind the scenes or even on
the drawing boards.

Senator Harry Reid, who instigated the
secret Pentagon UFO program...

confirmed what nuclear launch officers
have been reporting for decades.

There's more than one up there.

UFOs have interfered with our country's
most powerful weapons.

If they had been called upon by the
president to launch, they couldn't have

it. Did you have anybody in the Defense
Department, the Pentagon, pull you

aside, bend your ear and say...

Why are you doing this? They did
everything they could to stop the

going forward. They gave the person that
came to me initially such a bad time.

He's fortunate to have hung on to his
job because people tried to get rid of

because they wanted nothing to do with
this.

The Defense Intelligence Agency was one
of the worst. They drug their feet, even

though there was one of their senior
scientists thought they should look at

this. And remember, all we're saying.

Nobody has to agree that why it's there,
but shouldn't we at least be spending

some money to study all these
phenomenon?

Shouldn't we study the stuff?

The answer is yes.

And that's all this was about. And why
the federal government all these years

has covered up, put brake pads on
everything, stopped it.

I think it's very, very bad for our
country.

I interviewed Gordon Cooper, Mercury
astronaut Gordon Cooper, back in the

Cooper said on camera that there was a
landed UFO at circa 1957 at Edwards Air

Force Base. His camera crew captured the
filming of this object, and he

presented this to the higher -ups, and
eventually a courier jet came in from

Washington. He handed the footage over,
which was good. He viewed it.

That's the last he saw of it. Exactly.

Did you know where that footage went of
the flying saucer that landed on the...

I went to Washington. That's all that I
know.

Did you ever keep in touch with anybody
about it or discuss it? How would I keep

in touch with anybody about it?

There's no way within the military or
within the government of keeping track

something that is classified.

Did you try to go after stuff like this?

We did.

It's there.

Are you saying that there's some
evidence that still hasn't seen the

day?

I'm saying most of it hasn't seen the
light of day.

Astronaut Cooper had spoken with the
president at a cabinet meeting. He

this with Secretary Cohen.

And then Cohen's office called me and
asked me to pursue this and chase it

The Air Force colonel that I spoke with
got very frustrated, and when I asked

him what happened to all of these
records, he said, well, that was all

up or thrown out to save space,
something like that. That sounded

that's what he told me.

If there is some recovered debris, say,
it is so deeply buried

and squirreled away that...

It's outside of those normal oversight
processes, and that's where there's a

problem in this area.

Dr. Jacques Vallée has collected
purported metal debris from UFO cases

far back as 1947 that experts are
analyzing in a state -of -the -art

The breakthrough has come with the
invention.

of a machine that enables us to look at
the atomic structure.

And at that point, the atomic structure
is impossible to fake.

This device is a multi -parameter ion
beam imager.

Dr. Gary Nolan, a Stanford
microbiologist, is using a revolutionary

-dimensional imaging device to analyze
the samples right down to their

individual atoms.

When Dr.

Nolan placed some of the fragments in
the vacuum chamber of his instrument, he

was astonished to find their composition
was unlike any known metal. Just one

spot and the isotopic composition all
the way across.

No matter where he looked in the
sample's jumble of elements, whether

iron, nickel, or titanium, the ratio of
isotopes didn't make any sense.

If you're talking about an advanced
material from an advanced civilization,

you're talking about something that I'll
just call it an ultramaterial, right?

It's something which has properties
where somebody is putting it together,

again, at the atomic scale. So we're
building our world with 80

elements. Somebody else is building the
world with 253 different

isotopes.

I intend to use the information to try
to build something, to try to understand

a physical principle that we don't know
today.

This material was manufactured.

It's not natural.

It's not natural to the materials that
we have around us in the lab or on the

Earth. It does not mean that it was
necessarily made someplace in outer

It just means that it was manufactured
spatially.

for a particular purpose that we don't
understand and we want to understand it

there

is an immense array of unanswered
questions what we observe some of these

craft doing

Think about the possibilities, what we
may discover technologically, how we

might solve the energy crisis, how we
might raise our standards of living.

There is an urgent need, in my view, to
get to the bottom of it. We don't know

the origin of these vehicles, nor do we
understand the intent of whoever is

controlling them.

There are cases that seem to go beyond
encounters with an advanced technology

contact with an engaged intelligence.

Papua New Guinea, June 1959.

An Australian missionary spots a large
disc hovering just 200 feet off the

ground while standing with 38 other
people.

This solid -looking object, and can you
imagine?

what it's like to look up in the sky and
see some figures up there.

All were amazed to see four small
occupants dressed in what looked like

diving suits.

Figures walking about on top and not the
slightest noise

whatsoever. And so we waved.

Wouldn't it be wonderful?

if we could get this object down onto
the playing field.

And as we waved, wondering whether we'd
get some recognition and whether perhaps

they would understand what we wanted,
they waved back.

The encounter lasted several hours
before the object abruptly departed.

There was this amazingly incredible
speed that the whole craft...

disappeared to nothing across the bay in
a matter of a second or so.

In 1994, three days of sightings across
Zimbabwe culminated in what some

believe is the most significant close
encounter in modern history.

Hundreds of people today phoned the ZBC
and the BBC correspondent in Harare

saying they sighted an unidentifying
flying object last night with some

eyewitness reports.

It almost seemed to be under the clouds.
As it came past, I noticed there was no

noise, and that's when I thought, well,
there's something very odd here.

It was quite amazing.

It was beautiful.

They are saying that Jesus is passing
through Africa.

That's what they are saying.

We interviewed about 64 children in
front of the camera.

UFO story, that happens.

Just say exactly what you want to say,
okay.

Well, I was running and playing and then
I saw this maroon color in the sky.

Why don't we follow it? We saw this like
a silver thing down there. It was a

silver oval thing that flew past really
slowly.

I saw the bigger one and the spaceship,
like four or five of them. It was red,

green, and yellow.

It was this big ship. It had these
lights, these patterns, and it flew.

I thought, no, it's not a UFO.

And then I looked carefully at it, and I
thought, maybe.

Dozens of children said that one or more
of the disk -shaped objects landed just

beyond the far edge of their playground.

The next thing they knew, something was
standing next to it.

You saw him standing by the silver
thing, and he had big eyes.

He had a big head and big black eyes and
was dressed in a black bodysuit.

They were wearing pure black.

And I came down and I saw the funny man
with his eyes here.

And I saw a spaceship and there were a
few little ones around him.

How far away were you when you saw him?

Not very far. Not very far. About a
metre away. A metre away. That close?

Yes.

And how big was the figure?

It was about as big as a grade six.

I believe that the children...

Did you see something?

I believed them, because normally
children don't lie.

I've always taught my children seeing is
believing.

Unfortunately, I didn't see, so... This

alleged encounter caught the attention
of Pulitzer Prize

-winning Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John
Mack.

It seemed that he was looking at all of
us. What did it feel like when he was

looking at you?

I felt scared.

It felt scary? What was scary about it?

Well, I felt scared because I've never
seen such a person like that before.

And I saw this person, and it had big
eyes.

That's all I saw about it, big eyes.

They had short legs and quite a long
top, with a big head and eyes that are

bigger than ours.

How much bigger than ours?

Four or five times the size. Four or
five times the size of ours.

So then I was looking at him, right?
Then he was looking at me back.

I couldn't just keep on looking at him
so I had to stop and I looked sideways.

But I was looking straight into his
eyes.

Well, he never said anything.

Just that the face is the eye.

Maybe they're trying to communicate with
us, show us something which we don't

know about.

I think they want people to know that
we're

actually making harm on the world and we
mustn't get too acknowledged.

We don't look after the planet.

All the trees will just go down and
there will be no air and people will be

dying. Is this an idea?

You have had before, or did this idea
come to you when you had this

When I had this experience.

For the first time in nearly 20 years,
the Ariel schoolchildren gathered from

the four corners of the world to talk to
each other about the experience they

shared that September morning.

I remember.

One they all still struggle to
understand.

You know that it's moving, but you... I
stand by what I saw.

There was no reason for any of us to
make that up.

I've not spoken to anybody about it.

Not because I'm not proud of it, but
because I don't want the stigma.

So it's something that I've had to deal
with.

for 19 and a half years.

I don't want to say I felt like I knew
it, but I knew that I didn't have to be

afraid of it.

They took us back to the moment of
contact. Exactly how I felt, exactly.

details still seared into memory.

I was with one of the other girls and
saying to her, this is amazing.

We all were just stopped in our tracks.

A little man appeared.

On top of the actual craft.

And that moment for me was very distinct
because I was like, that's not human.

I was just completely engulfed in these
eyes. The eyes. And in that moment,

however long it was, because I have no
idea of the time frame, it was

mesmerizing. There was no talking.

It's all just images in the head.

Telepathic communication.

They were trying to communicate, trying
to tell us something. It was something

to do with the environment.

I kept getting these thoughts and ideas
in my mind of technology.

Technology is not helping, technology is
bad.

And we're going down a wrong path and we
have to start recognising that what

we're doing is detrimental and we need
to make changes.

And I don't know what to do with that
or...

They were reaching out to us. It was as
if they wanted us to go with them.

At that moment, that was kind of when I
snapped right out of the trance.

As soon as I broke contact, all of those
feelings, technology, the bad, the

horribleness that was happening and
going around my body at the time went.

It's making me a bit anxious being back
here. I can feel it right now.

I was scared.

They came running up here in such a
panic, screaming, screaming, and the

can't make that up.

So I was there when they were
interviewing them and saw the way they

was just a huge big mess and muddle up
and just people everywhere.

Just ask them questions straight off
without explaining to the children what

they were doing and why they were doing
it. It was chaos.

in terms of the media frenzy that was
going on and us being so young and not

even being allowed time to comprehend
what we had seen.

Our teachers certainly didn't believe
us. That was a big deal because we had

continue going to school there.

We went back one last time to the Ariel
School to meet with Judy Bates, a

teacher at the time of the incident and
now the headmistress.

something was weighing on her that she
wanted to tell the children.

Yeah, I said I wanted to apologize. I
should have taken more notice.

But I didn't. I was more concerned about
me and not them and what was going on

in my own sort of experience.

And that's what, yeah.

And if you could summarize in just one
sentence.

what took place September 1994 here at
Ariel School, Rua Zimbabwe, what would

you say?

Aliens visited us.

And that's about it, yeah.

And that's why if you believe it, you
believe it. If you don't, well...

We find ourselves confronted

with something that challenges our very
understanding of reality.

We may be sharing this fragile blue
-green oasis with an unknown other,

one with a mysterious relationship to
humanity and its own interest in our

world.

And if you saw him again, what would you
do?

I'll ask him what is he doing on earth
and what does he want from us.

They were well -observed UFO cases, just
like modern cases in the 18th century.

In the 17th century, there was science.

They were astronomers.

They had telescopes.

And they were very good observers,
because their life depended on being

observers. And these observations come
from all over the world.

They just have been forgotten.

I like to think of anomalies, mysteries
as opportunities.

And we'll go after those mysteries, take
the torch away from the campfire and

out of the cave into the darkness and
make some amazing discoveries.

The UFO phenomenon, as studied by my
colleagues and myself, bespeaks the

of some form of intelligence.

These objects gave the impression that
they wanted to be seen.

With these enormous spotlights, there
was no way that they were trying to

So why?

That is the main question. Why do these
objects want to be seen?

Later on, I was so sorry that why I did
not call on the

radio, ask them, who are you?

Please, make communication with us.

I figure if they're smart enough and
capable enough to come into our airspace

with the technology that they have, if
they wanted to do us in, they could have

done us in a long time ago. So I'm not
fearful of this at all.

I think if we open up the world, it will
greatly promote the development of the

world's scientific and technological
system, and benefit human progress. This

a big thing.

It went like a bat out of hell. Jumped
about 10 degrees to the right, just like

this. I've never seen anything go so
fast in my life as that thing went.

Incredible speed disappeared to nothing.

And just went zoom straight up so fast.

It's like it had been shot out of a gun.

Wow. Now you see it, now you don't. It's
just too... But it just was...