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MAN:
Five, four, three, two, one.
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NARRATOR:
The most powerful force
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ever unleashed by humankind
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ignites a firestorm
of UFO encounters.
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JASON MARTELL: We have reports
of these green fireballs
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being seen nightly.
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NARRATOR:
Mass sightings are reported
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at nuclear installations.
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Multiple military personnel
witnessed these craft
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interfacing with our
nuclear warheads.
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NARRATOR:
Bombs are taken offline.
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GIORGIO TSOUKALOS
If it wasn't the Russians,
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well, what or who is left?
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These were
extraterrestrial objects.
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PAUL HELLYER: Aliens have
always been interested
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in planet Earth
and its military affair.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that extraterrestrials
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are monitoring
our nuclear capabilities?
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And if so, what are their
ultimate intentions?
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NICK POPE:
This was the birth
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of the modern UFO mystery.
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NARRATOR:
There is a doorway
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in the universe.
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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
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It demands
we question everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is
right before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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NARRATOR:
The Pentagon.
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April 23, 2019.
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The United States Navy
announces that it is creating
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new formal guidelines
to encourage pilots
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and other servicemen
to report UFO sightings.
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Officials promise that
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all such accounts
will be taken seriously
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and fully investigated.
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The move marks a significant
change in protocol
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by the U.S. military,
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which previously
has tried to deny
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or cover up these sightings.
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WILLIAM HENRY: The Navy is
saying we're willing to listen,
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we're gonna collect this data,
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we've seen too many examples
of unidentified aerial phenomena
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around strike groups and other
very important installations,
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it's time that we start getting
some more eyes on this.
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NARRATOR:
Officials are quick
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to dismiss the suggestion
that these craft
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have any connection
to extraterrestrials,
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but there is a long history
of military personnel
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reporting encounters with craft
that defy explanation,
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both around military bases
and, particularly,
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nuclear weapons.
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POPE: Something about
these nuclear facilities
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seems to be attracting
these UFOs.
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Something that we are doing
there is of interest,
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and of course,
the logical deduction is
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that it's the presence
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of the nuclear weapons
themselves.
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NARRATOR:
Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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July 16, 1945.
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At a remote site in the Jornada
Del Muerto Desert of New Mexico,
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the Army successfully detonates
the world's first atomic bomb.
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The top secret test is given
the code name "Trinity."
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It is an ominous preview
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of the destructive potential
of nuclear weapons.
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MARTIN K.A. MORGAN: The Trinity
test was a turning point in history.
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It rates up there
along with harnessing fire.
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It's truly, and in every sense,
a milestone in human history.
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NARRATOR: Just a few weeks after the
test, the United States
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dropped atomic bombs
on the Japanese cities
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of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The result was 200,000
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men, women, and children dead.
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Thousands more were poisoned
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or disfigured by radiation.
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In a world war that had claimed
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an estimated 85 million lives,
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and threatened
to claim millions more,
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the bombs succeeded in shocking
Japan into surrender.
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But back in New Mexico,
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the Trinity blast also unleashed
something unexpected,
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a series of bizarre
UFO sightings
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described by witnesses
as green fireballs.
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So right after
the Trinity test site,
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we have various reports
of these green fireballs
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being seen nightly
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flying around
at incredible speeds,
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and no one could identify
what these objects were.
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HELLYER: The best explanation
is that they are, in fact,
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drone reconnaissance vehicles
from a scout, uh, ship.
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They send out these drones
and collect the information.
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NARRATOR: Despite being
investigated by Air Force officers
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and world-renowned physicists,
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no scientific explanation
for the fireballs
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was ever found.
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But this was by no means
the beginning.
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According to
ancient astronaut theorists,
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evidence that people had been
witnessing alien craft
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in the sky had been documented
for centuries.
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And in the weeks and years
that followed
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the detonation
of the atomic bomb,
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the number of UFO sightings
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began to escalate dramatically.
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POPE:
After Hiroshima,
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there was a quantum leap change
in all of this
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and a sudden, rapid acceleration
of the pace of events.
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The modern UFO phenomenon
really took hold
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in a very short order,
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and the pace of all this
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just increased exponentially.
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NARRATOR: Less than two years
after the end of World War II
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came one of the most famous UFO
sightings in American history,
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and it happened just miles
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from America's most important
nuclear facility.
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On June 24, 1947,
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near Mount Rainier
in Washington,
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a private pilot
named Kenneth Arnold
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witnessed nine shining,
disc-shaped aircraft
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move at an impossible speed
across the horizon
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before disappearing from view.
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POPE:
These nine objects
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flew in formation at speeds
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that he estimated at
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what at the time
was a staggering
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1,200 miles per hour,
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but what a lot of people
don't realize about that
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is how close this sighting was
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to the Hanford nuclear
processing facility.
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MORGAN: The Hanford nuclear
site is where the United States
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established its first plutonium
production facility,
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and this facility was producing
the fissile material
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that would later be used
in atomic bombs.
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The atomic bomb
in the Second World War
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could not have been developed
without Hanford.
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NARRATOR: Then,
just weeks after Arnold's sighting,
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came the famous
Roswell incident.
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After a mysterious craft crashed
in the New Mexico desert
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outside Roswell,
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military officials announced
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they had retrieved
a flying saucer.
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The next day, they suddenly
changed the story
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and claimed it was just
a weather balloon.
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Ever since, the Roswell incident
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has been the subject of endless
speculation and debate,
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but no one debates
that it happened literally
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on the doorstep of
Roswell Air Force Base,
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home to the 509th Bomb Wing,
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the unit that dropped
the atomic bombs
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on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The 509th Bomb Wing
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was the most knowledgeable
group of humans
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on the planet at that time
that knew about nuclear bombs
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and nuclear warfare.
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NARRATOR:
In June of 1948,
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exactly one year after
the Roswell incident,
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a similar UFO event occurred
in the Soviet Union.
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At the time, the Soviets
were on the brink of developing
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their own atomic weapon,
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and the UFO encounter
occurred at their primary
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ballistic missile test site,
Kapustin Yar.
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PAUL STONEHILL;
It's a highly classified case,
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but allegedly,
a silver, cigar-shaped
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object appeared
over the testing grounds.
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And the Soviets were able to
actually shoot this object down.
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They found remnants
of bodies in it
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and also technology,
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which was recovered and taken to
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the local bunker where they
kept it, allegedly, for years.
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NARRATOR:
Kenneth Arnold's sighting.
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The Roswell crash.
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The Kapustin Yar incident.
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Many believe it was
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these events that ignited
the modern UFO era.
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But is it a coincidence
that they all happened
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next to important
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nuclear weapon and
ballistic missile facilities?
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While little has been documented
about UFO encounters
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in the Soviet Union
during this time,
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similar sightings were soon
reported in the vicinity
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of virtually every other
nuclear installation
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in the United States.
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HENRY: The sites where we're
developing these weapons...
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Sandia, Savannah River,
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Los Alamos, Oak Ridge...
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There were UFO sightings
at these labs as well.
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LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
To me, the word that
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we all should
be concentrating on
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around the world is:
Governments, powerbrokers
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confirm for us
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everything that has been
being reported
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since World War II.
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We are dealing
with other intelligences.
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They are here,
they are around us,
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and they are right
under our noses.
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NARRATOR:
The post-World War II sightings
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shocked the military
establishment,
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but America's monopoly
on nuclear weapons
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was about to come
to an explosive end.
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And as a nuclear
arms race erupted
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with the USSR,
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the rash of UFO sightings
would expand beyond America
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and engulf the planet.
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NARRATOR:
Kazakh Republic,
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Soviet Union,
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August 29, 1949.
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At a secret testing
site four years
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after the end of World War II,
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the Soviets become only
the second country in the world
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to successfully detonate
an atomic bomb.
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Code-named "First Lightning,"
the bomb signals to the West
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that the Soviets
are capable of matching
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the nuclear might
of the United States.
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After the first
Soviet nuclear test,
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the United States
begins to react...
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and begins reacting
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by developing newer
and more powerful weapons,
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developing more effective
delivery systems.
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In other words,
once the Soviets set off
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their first nuclear test,
a nuclear arms race begins.
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NARRATOR: Desperate to
stay ahead of the Soviets,
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the U.S. races to develop
a vastly more powerful device,
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a hydrogen bomb.
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This devastating new weapon
is first tested underwater
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near the Marshall Islands
in 1952.
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The colossal yield
is terrifying:
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Over 700 times the power
of the Hiroshima bomb.
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But the size of the new weapons
hardly deters UFO sightings,
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which occur before, during
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and after these explosions,
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although the public
is never informed.
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POPE:
Time and time again,
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when bomb tests are conducted,
there are UFOs.
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Something that we are doing,
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seemingly, is grabbing
the attention of the UFOs,
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or the intelligence
behind the UFOs.
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NARRATOR: The U.S.
Air Force is so concerned
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that in 1952,
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Look magazine
runs a story entitled
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"Hunt for the Flying Saucer,"
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detailing a secret
Air Force investigation
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into a rash
of over 800 UFO sightings.
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The article points out
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that an Air Force map
of the UFO sightings
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duplicates "exactly the area
of atomic energy installations."
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It also reports that
the government is distributing
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200 special cameras
to atomic plant guards,
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hoping to photograph
the mysterious intruders.
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We have eyewitness testimony
from all sorts
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of different branches
of military...
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from people who are sworn
under oath,
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and there are trained observers
that witnessed
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these massive disc-shaped
objects come in,
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hover over top
of these nuclear facilities.
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And this, of course,
would have been a breach
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of national security.
This would have gone
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all the way up the food chain
to the very, very top,
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about how these craft
are actually interfacing
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with our nuclear warheads.
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NARRATOR: Does the sheer
volume of sightings
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suggest that as the threat
of nuclear war grew,
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extraterrestrials became
increasingly concerned
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about the fate of the Earth?
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Could they have been looking
for ways to save mankind,
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perhaps by disabling
its nuclear weapons?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
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that such an audacious notion
is possible,
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and point to evidence
that as the arms race escalated,
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these aliens became
more than just observers.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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September, 1964.
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The Air Force prepares
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to conduct a series
of test launches
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of intercontinental ballistic
missiles, known as ICBMs,
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from this base along
the central coast of California.
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(indistinct radio chatter)
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These powerful missiles
reduce the time it takes
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to strike the Soviet Union
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from 12 hours in a B-52 bomber
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to a mere 30 minutes.
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MORGAN: Suddenly, all it takes is
a go order and the weapons launch.
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Within a split second,
a thermonuclear attack
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goes downrange
toward the opposition.
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NARRATOR: In order to film
the Vandenberg missile tests,
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Air Force cameraman
Lieutenant Robert Jacobs
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set up an ultra light-sensitive
telescopic camera
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124 miles northwest of the base,
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in the forest above Big Sur.
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MAN:
Liftoff.
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NARRATOR:
After filming the launch,
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Lieutenant Jacobs
brought the raw footage
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back to Vandenberg for analysis.
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The next day, Jacobs'
commanding officer,
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Major Florenz Mansmann, showed
him the newly developed film.
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To Jacobs's shock,
a UFO zoomed into in the frame
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and traveled alongside the ICBM
at over 11,000 miles per hour.
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STEVE BASSETT:
The rocket launches perfectly,
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first stage falls off,
second stage falls off,
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third stage falls off and now
you've got the dummy warhead.
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Suddenly, a craft,
very disc-like,
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moves in into the screen,
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and starts maneuvering
around it.
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And then, it seems to fire
a beam at this dummy warhead.
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It burned up in the atmosphere.
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The test failed.
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The rocket was destroyed
or knocked off course.
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Now, if true, this would be
direct intervention
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on the part of a UFO,
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to disrupt, perhaps destroy,
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one of our weapons tests.
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They invited the CIA
to come in and see it.
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The CIA said, "Very interesting,
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we're gonna take that film and
you're... this never happened."
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Jacobs had records,
he had actual records
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of what he did that day,
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and Major Mansmann
denied his story at first.
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He later on supported it,
so it's a supported story.
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NARRATOR:
To this day,
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the government denies that
any such film footage exists.
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But if so, why would
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two highly-trained
military professionals
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make up such a story?
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BASSET: It's notable that after
this, Dr. Jacobs started getting
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lots of harassing phone calls
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and other harassments,
including his mailbox blown up.
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So somebody was not happy.
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I believe that film
still exists,
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and I think one day
we will see it.
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NARRATOR: After Vandenburg,
the rash of interference
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with nuclear missile facilities
only increased.
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Four years later,
at Minot Air Force Base in 1968,
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a UFO reportedly removed
the massive cover
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from a missile silo.
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SALAS: This object had
literally removed the cover
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from the launch facility.
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It was a 20-ton
concrete, steel cover
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that could only be removed
through explosive bolts
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or taken off on rails.
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NARRATOR: What do incidents
like those at Vandenberg, Minot
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and other
nuclear facilities mean?
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Are they a warning or a threat?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
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that a vital clue was provided
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during one of the most shocking
incidents in UFO history,
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- (alarm blaring)
- when extraterrestrials
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didn't simply monitor
nuclear facilities,
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but started
taking control of them.
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NARRATOR:
Washington, D.C..
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September 27, 2010.
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Determined to inform the public
about UFO sightings
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at nuclear sites,
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former Air Force Commander
Robert Salas
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and UFO researcher
Robert Hastings
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organize a public hearing
at the National Press Club.
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Isn't it time
for the truth to be revealed?
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NARRATOR: They introduce
the national media
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to former Air Force officers
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who give chilling accounts
of UFO encounters
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at nuclear weapons sites.
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Encounters they witnessed
themselves.
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He was as white as sheet.
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He said, "Its back."
I said, "What's back?"
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He said, "The UFO."
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Probably about 1:00, 1:30,
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uh, and a...
unidentified flying object
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came from the north
and stopped right over us.
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A UFO was sited over Echo Flight
about the same time
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all missiles in Echo Flight
went down.
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I am convinced
that somebody out there
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is trying to send us a message.
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NARRATOR: The stories attempt
to reverse a decades-old pattern
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of military cover-ups
and denial.
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POPE: A number of former
military witnesses
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went on the record
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that UFOs had been
seen directly over
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or in very close proximity
to these nuclear facilities
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and that these UFOs,
whatever they were,
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were clearly
under intelligent control.
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NARRATOR: Press conference
co-organizer Robert Salas
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had a very personal stake
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in challenging
the official cover-up.
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That is clearly misleading.
It is false.
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NARRATOR:
In 1967, Salas was stationed
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at the Malmstrom nuclear missile
facility in Montana
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when UFOs not only
appeared overhead,
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they shut down the ten nuclear
missiles under his control.
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Malmstrom remains one of
the most infamous and baffling
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UFO encounters
in American history.
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00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,050
POPE To lose so many
nuclear missiles...
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To have them inoperative... this
was an unprecedented incident.
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Yes, there had been
UFO sightings
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at nuclear facilities before,
but nothing like this.
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NARRATOR:
Wall, South Dakota.
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June 28, 2019.
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Ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos
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has asked Robert Salas
to join him
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at The Minuteman Missile
National Historic Site.
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So, how does it feel to be back
after so many years?
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Uh, this will be kind of
a strange déjà vu.
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NARRATOR:
Giorgio wants to learn firsthand
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what happened to Salas
at Malmstrom in 1967.
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While many Minuteman missile
sites were deactivated
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00:21:52,220 --> 00:21:53,970
at the end of the Cold War,
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00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:57,100
this facility has been
carefully preserved
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in its original form.
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00:21:59,690 --> 00:22:02,400
It remains almost identical
to the Malmstrom site,
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00:22:02,530 --> 00:22:05,490
where Salas witnessed
the UFO incursion.
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00:22:05,610 --> 00:22:08,570
TSOUKALOS:
A similar facility where
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your story happened
that fateful night.
411
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:12,280
It's very similar.
412
00:22:12,410 --> 00:22:13,990
A lot of the sites
looked exactly the same.
413
00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:17,040
Where were you on that night?
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00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,080
Yeah, on that night
I was 60 feet underground
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00:22:19,210 --> 00:22:22,420
in a reinforced
concrete capsule.
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00:22:22,550 --> 00:22:25,340
And, now, where are
the actual silos?
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The silos are about
a mile or so away
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from this central position.
419
00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:32,970
- Can we check that out as well?
- Let's do it.
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That would be amazing.
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NARRATOR: Giorgio and Robert
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make their way
to an adjoining silo,
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where a deactivated
Minuteman missile is preserved.
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They harness up and descend
30 feet to get a better look
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at a weapon that once
held the power
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to obliterate millions
in a split-second.
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TSOUKALOS:
Welcome to the Enterprise.
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00:22:57,870 --> 00:22:58,960
(chuckles)
429
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,080
So this is one of these
430
00:23:01,210 --> 00:23:04,250
- Minutemen missiles.
- Exactly.
431
00:23:04,380 --> 00:23:05,750
Minuteman One.
432
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,550
The first missile went
into the hole in '62,
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just at the time of the Cuban
Missile Crisis, just before.
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These have a range
of about 6,000 miles.
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Now, the warhead we had
was 1.2 megatons.
436
00:23:21,310 --> 00:23:25,520
Just to put it in perspective,
the bomb that hit Hiroshima
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was 15 kilotons.
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So 15,000 tons versus
1.2 million tons
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of TNT equivalent.
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We had 150 of these
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just at Malmstrom alone.
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TSOUKALOS:
We should all be so lucky that
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these things were never fired.
444
00:23:42,710 --> 00:23:44,880
- Absolutely.
- 'Cause that would have been
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- complete devastation.
- Absolutely.
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TSOUKALOS:
When your incident happened,
447
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do you remember whether
there was any damage
448
00:23:54,180 --> 00:23:56,180
to the missile itself, or...
449
00:23:56,310 --> 00:23:57,970
Let me tell you what happened.
And there was no damage.
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00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:00,140
What happened was
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signals were sent
to each of the ten missiles,
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00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:05,270
allegedly from the UFO,
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00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,780
penetrating 60 feet
of earth and concrete.
454
00:24:07,900 --> 00:24:11,820
It upset this guidance
and control system.
455
00:24:11,950 --> 00:24:14,030
Uh, that's what
shut the missiles down.
456
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,080
TSOUKALOS: I venture to say
that it was not a short circuit.
457
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:19,700
SALAS:
They could not isolate it
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to any short circuit.
And believe me,
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00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,130
they did extensive investigation
on this thing.
460
00:24:26,250 --> 00:24:29,210
TSOUKALOS: Well, this was incredible,
but I also would like to see
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00:24:29,340 --> 00:24:31,420
- your command center, so can we go check that out?
- You bet.
462
00:24:31,550 --> 00:24:33,800
- All right. Let's do it.
- Let's go to the launch control center.
463
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,270
Let's go in here.
464
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,480
Thank you very much.
465
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Then we go down the elevator.
466
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,990
And there's the blast door,
Giorgio.
467
00:24:59,120 --> 00:24:59,990
Wow.
468
00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:02,040
Look at this thing.
469
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:03,750
This is huge.
470
00:25:03,870 --> 00:25:06,790
It was, of course, designed
to withstand nuclear blasts.
471
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,210
So let's go on in.
472
00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:14,510
Wow.
473
00:25:14,630 --> 00:25:15,970
This is the capsule.
474
00:25:16,090 --> 00:25:18,970
We were down here for 24 hours.
475
00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:20,850
You know, it even
smells the same.
476
00:25:20,970 --> 00:25:22,310
(laughs)
I remember.
477
00:25:22,430 --> 00:25:23,310
I remember the smells.
478
00:25:23,430 --> 00:25:24,770
Yeah.
479
00:25:27,770 --> 00:25:30,020
Tell me what happened
that night.
480
00:25:30,150 --> 00:25:32,030
I was in charge.
My commander was out.
481
00:25:32,150 --> 00:25:33,570
He was taking a nap.
482
00:25:33,690 --> 00:25:35,150
First thing that happened is
I got a phone call
483
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,610
from the topside guard.
484
00:25:36,740 --> 00:25:39,530
"Uh, sir, the guards and I
are out here,
485
00:25:39,660 --> 00:25:42,040
"we're looking up at the sky
and we see these strange lights
486
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,410
"flying around above us.
487
00:25:44,540 --> 00:25:48,080
"They're flying very fast,
stopping on a dime,
488
00:25:48,210 --> 00:25:49,960
"reversing course.
489
00:25:50,090 --> 00:25:51,960
No engine noise."
490
00:25:52,090 --> 00:25:54,170
I said, "Okay.
491
00:25:54,300 --> 00:25:55,590
Let me know if something
more interesting happens,"
492
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,760
basically, and I went back
to my book.
493
00:25:57,890 --> 00:26:00,850
So about five minutes later,
he calls back,
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00:26:00,970 --> 00:26:02,560
and this time he's
screaming into the phone.
495
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,100
I mean, he's really frightened.
496
00:26:05,230 --> 00:26:07,310
(alarm blaring)
497
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,150
He said, "I got all the guards
out here, weapons drawn,
498
00:26:11,270 --> 00:26:15,070
"and we see this gigantic
red-orange object, oval shaped,
499
00:26:15,190 --> 00:26:20,160
hovering above the front gate."
500
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,950
Uh, I was sure we were under
some sort of an attack,
501
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,960
and I said, "Use whatever
force necessary,
502
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,750
but make sure nothing comes in
the fenced area."
503
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,040
So the next thing I did is
I come over here,
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00:26:32,170 --> 00:26:34,130
wake up my commander,
505
00:26:34,250 --> 00:26:38,050
and start telling him
about the phone calls.
506
00:26:38,180 --> 00:26:40,140
And all of a sudden
507
00:26:40,260 --> 00:26:43,640
- we get Klaxons, horns.
- (Klaxons blaring)
508
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,350
We both look over
at the control panel here,
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00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,520
and boom, boom, boom,
one right after the other.
510
00:26:49,650 --> 00:26:51,150
(clacking)
511
00:26:51,270 --> 00:26:52,690
All no-go.
512
00:26:56,030 --> 00:26:58,450
An-And each of these missiles
is on an independent system.
513
00:26:58,570 --> 00:27:00,110
Exactly.
514
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:01,990
They're not like
Christmas tree lights,
515
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:03,950
where if one goes out,
the rest of them go out.
516
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:05,330
No, it's not like that.
517
00:27:05,450 --> 00:27:08,210
Meanwhile, my commander
was calling command post.
518
00:27:08,330 --> 00:27:09,710
So when he was finished
with that call,
519
00:27:09,830 --> 00:27:12,840
he turns to me and says
the same thing happened
520
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,210
at another launch facility
a week earlier.
521
00:27:15,340 --> 00:27:17,630
I mean, it has to be
incredibly startling
522
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,220
and disconcerting
that someone else
523
00:27:20,340 --> 00:27:23,890
with higher technology
is able to disable our missiles.
524
00:27:24,010 --> 00:27:26,220
- Right.
- If it wasn't us, the U.S.,
525
00:27:26,350 --> 00:27:28,930
and it wasn't the Russians
or the Chinese or whoever,
526
00:27:29,060 --> 00:27:31,690
well, what or who is left?
527
00:27:31,810 --> 00:27:34,650
Exactly. And that's how I've
come to the conclusion
528
00:27:34,770 --> 00:27:37,530
that these were
extraterrestrial objects.
529
00:27:37,650 --> 00:27:41,410
- Or they were constructed off Earth.
- Mm-hmm.
530
00:27:41,530 --> 00:27:45,120
Because we had nothing that
could do anything like this,
531
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,540
either then or now.
532
00:27:50,250 --> 00:27:53,500
NARRATOR: Military officials have
never provided an explanation
533
00:27:53,630 --> 00:27:55,460
for the missile shutdown.
534
00:27:55,590 --> 00:27:58,510
Was it caused by
extraterrestrials?
535
00:27:58,630 --> 00:28:01,630
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
536
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,010
and suggest that proof lies
537
00:28:04,140 --> 00:28:07,350
in the fact that for 50 years,
538
00:28:07,470 --> 00:28:10,230
the United States military
covered it up.
539
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,150
NARRATOR: The Minuteman Missile
National Historic Site.
540
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:19,610
South Dakota.
541
00:28:19,740 --> 00:28:22,610
June 28, 2019.
542
00:28:22,740 --> 00:28:23,990
Wow.
543
00:28:26,330 --> 00:28:28,240
NARRATOR:
Giorgio Tsoukalos is with
544
00:28:28,370 --> 00:28:30,290
former Air Force commander
Robert Salas
545
00:28:30,410 --> 00:28:32,500
at a decommissioned
nuclear launch site
546
00:28:32,620 --> 00:28:36,250
that is identical to one
at Malmstrom Air Force Base,
547
00:28:36,380 --> 00:28:40,170
where Salas had
a UFO encounter in 1967.
548
00:28:40,300 --> 00:28:43,680
So after the object flew away,
549
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,510
what happened next?
550
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,430
The missiles come back online?
551
00:28:47,550 --> 00:28:48,890
We had to bring
maintenance crews out
552
00:28:49,010 --> 00:28:52,180
to go through a very
intricate procedure
553
00:28:52,310 --> 00:28:54,730
to bring them back up online.
554
00:28:54,850 --> 00:28:58,230
Within 24 hours,
we had our missiles back up.
555
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,820
TSOUKALOS:
And then was there a debriefing
556
00:29:00,940 --> 00:29:02,860
or was there a discussion?
557
00:29:02,990 --> 00:29:05,860
We were ordered to our
squadron commander's office.
558
00:29:05,990 --> 00:29:10,450
Right away, I say, "What the
hell happened out there?"
559
00:29:10,580 --> 00:29:14,040
And he said, "I don't know."
560
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,170
I asked him specifically,
561
00:29:17,290 --> 00:29:20,710
"Could it have been some kind
of an Air Force exercise?"
562
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,420
And he said, "Absolutely not."
563
00:29:24,550 --> 00:29:26,510
And then the guy next to him,
564
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,720
he shoved this paper
in our faces. "Sign here."
565
00:29:31,220 --> 00:29:32,810
I said, "What is this?"
566
00:29:32,930 --> 00:29:35,520
He said, "This is a
nondisclosure statement
567
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,900
"about the incident.
568
00:29:38,020 --> 00:29:40,730
You are never to speak
about it to anybody."
569
00:29:40,860 --> 00:29:42,070
So you were given an order.
570
00:29:42,190 --> 00:29:43,860
We were ordered to sign, yeah.
571
00:29:43,990 --> 00:29:46,280
And that was it.
572
00:29:46,410 --> 00:29:48,200
Uh, I could not speak
about this,
573
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,450
and I didn't speak about this
to anyone for, uh,
574
00:29:51,580 --> 00:29:53,700
about 27 years.
575
00:29:53,830 --> 00:29:56,420
NARRATOR: Some believe
that the ability of UFOs
576
00:29:56,540 --> 00:29:58,130
to shut down nuclear missiles
577
00:29:58,250 --> 00:30:01,670
poses a grave threat
to national security,
578
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,090
and that the Malmstrom
incident suggests
579
00:30:04,210 --> 00:30:06,680
the aliens had a hostile intent.
580
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,550
But Robert Salas believes
it shows the opposite.
581
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:15,310
The intruders were demonstrating
their concern for mankind.
582
00:30:15,430 --> 00:30:18,400
They did not damage
the missiles.
583
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,650
They did not hurt anybody.
584
00:30:20,770 --> 00:30:22,730
If they had some kind
of a weapon,
585
00:30:22,860 --> 00:30:24,940
They did not use it
against any...
586
00:30:25,070 --> 00:30:27,030
any of the... of the guards.
587
00:30:27,150 --> 00:30:29,950
So all it was, to me,
was a message,
588
00:30:30,070 --> 00:30:32,780
and the message was,
"Get rid of your nukes.
589
00:30:32,910 --> 00:30:35,500
"They will not help you
590
00:30:35,620 --> 00:30:38,500
- in any way advance your civilization."
- Right.
591
00:30:38,620 --> 00:30:40,330
Over the years,
you've thought about this
592
00:30:40,460 --> 00:30:42,670
and, essentially,
it was a warning
593
00:30:42,790 --> 00:30:44,420
that this is not the way to go.
594
00:30:44,550 --> 00:30:47,090
Exactly. Exactly.
595
00:30:47,220 --> 00:30:51,680
Robert Salas and his commander
saw that all ten missiles,
596
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,600
one by one, went offline.
597
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,810
Now, this is something that
the Air Force later deemed
598
00:30:58,940 --> 00:31:01,770
could not be possible,
because all of these missiles
599
00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:03,400
are all independent.
600
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:07,190
So the likelihood
of someone being able to
601
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,530
manipulate this is almost zero.
602
00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:14,990
And I say almost zero because,
clearly, somebody did it.
603
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,580
I could feel the emotion
by Robert.
604
00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:21,710
And for over 20 years
he has investigated this,
605
00:31:21,830 --> 00:31:24,630
and there are dozens
of similar examples.
606
00:31:27,170 --> 00:31:30,340
NARRATOR: Were incidents like
Malmstrom attempts to force mankind
607
00:31:30,470 --> 00:31:32,390
to abolish nuclear weapons?
608
00:31:34,550 --> 00:31:37,060
If so, they did not succeed.
609
00:31:37,180 --> 00:31:39,680
The arms race continued unabated
610
00:31:39,810 --> 00:31:42,560
through the 1970s and '80s.
611
00:31:42,690 --> 00:31:46,530
And so did reports
of UFOs at nuclear sites.
612
00:31:46,650 --> 00:31:50,900
During the famous Rendlesham
Forest incident in 1980,
613
00:31:51,030 --> 00:31:53,370
dozens of military witnesses
reported
614
00:31:53,490 --> 00:31:55,620
a strange triangular UFO
615
00:31:55,740 --> 00:31:58,290
above the nuclear weapons
storage depot
616
00:31:58,410 --> 00:32:00,580
at Woodbridge Air Force base
in the U.K.
617
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,750
An even more
frightening incident
618
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,380
happened in the Soviet Union
in 1982.
619
00:32:09,510 --> 00:32:13,840
There, UFOs didn't turn off
the missiles like at Malmstrom,
620
00:32:13,970 --> 00:32:17,220
they turned them on.
621
00:32:17,350 --> 00:32:19,390
A number of the missiles
622
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,150
actually went into
their prelaunch sequence.
623
00:32:23,270 --> 00:32:27,270
And panicked scientists
and military personnel
624
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,400
were rushing around desperately
trying to shut things down,
625
00:32:31,530 --> 00:32:35,530
fearing that whatever was going
on here was going to lead,
626
00:32:35,660 --> 00:32:40,370
perhaps, to nuclear war
and Armageddon.
627
00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:43,750
NARRATOR: With the fall of
the Soviet Union in 1991,
628
00:32:43,870 --> 00:32:46,880
the Cold War came to an end.
629
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,630
Unfortunately, the world's
deadly nuclear arsenal
630
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,470
did not diminish,
as many had hoped.
631
00:32:53,590 --> 00:32:56,720
Instead,
nuclear proliferation continued,
632
00:32:56,850 --> 00:32:59,930
and with it, the continued
sightings and reports
633
00:33:00,060 --> 00:33:03,310
of alien interference.
634
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,020
It is my belief
that over the years,
635
00:33:07,150 --> 00:33:10,780
they have catalogued
every nuclear installation
636
00:33:10,900 --> 00:33:13,700
in the whole world to record
637
00:33:13,820 --> 00:33:17,490
what they should expect
in case of an emergency.
638
00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:23,330
NARRATOR: But if extraterrestrials
really are monitoring
639
00:33:23,460 --> 00:33:27,500
Earth's nuclear-armed nations,
what is their agenda?
640
00:33:27,630 --> 00:33:29,540
(man shouts in foreign language)
641
00:33:29,670 --> 00:33:32,010
NARRATOR: Ancient
astronaut theorists suggest
642
00:33:32,130 --> 00:33:34,760
that the best way to understand
the events of today
643
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,300
is by examining those
in the distant past,
644
00:33:38,430 --> 00:33:41,640
and an ancient site that appears
to also have been destroyed
645
00:33:41,770 --> 00:33:44,100
by a nuclear blast.
646
00:33:48,690 --> 00:33:53,110
NARRATOR: Sindh Province,
Southern Pakistan.
647
00:33:55,860 --> 00:34:00,450
These ruins spanning 250 acres
of the Indus River Valley
648
00:34:00,580 --> 00:34:04,330
represent one of the earliest
civilizations in the world.
649
00:34:04,450 --> 00:34:07,170
Known as Mohenjo-daro,
650
00:34:07,290 --> 00:34:09,920
this 4,000-year-old lost city
651
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:14,260
was first uncovered
by archaeologists in 1922.
652
00:34:14,380 --> 00:34:17,300
DEEPAK SHIMKHADA:
Mohenjo-daro came to a height
653
00:34:17,430 --> 00:34:19,550
around 2000 BCE.
654
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:21,600
For some reason,
unknown reasons,
655
00:34:21,720 --> 00:34:23,390
it was totally wiped out,
you know.
656
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,690
The whole civilization
vanished, um,
657
00:34:26,810 --> 00:34:29,770
and we do not know why and how.
658
00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:33,360
CHILDRESS: When British archeologists
first excavated Mohenjo-daro,
659
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,400
what they found astonished them.
660
00:34:35,530 --> 00:34:39,160
And that was that people were
just lying dead in the streets,
661
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,490
sometimes holding hands.
662
00:34:42,620 --> 00:34:47,250
It was like some terrible doom
had just totally wiped out
663
00:34:47,370 --> 00:34:50,500
this entire city and everyone
was just instantly dead.
664
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,090
NARRATOR:
In 1979,
665
00:34:54,210 --> 00:34:56,880
British researcher
David Davenport published
666
00:34:57,010 --> 00:35:00,890
startling findings about
the demise of Mohenjo-daro.
667
00:35:01,010 --> 00:35:04,890
He revealed that there was a
kind of epicenter in the ruins,
668
00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:07,600
approximately 50 yards wide,
669
00:35:07,730 --> 00:35:09,890
where pottery,
stones and other objects
670
00:35:10,020 --> 00:35:12,980
were melted on one side.
671
00:35:13,110 --> 00:35:16,360
Many appeared crystallized
and fused together,
672
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,740
as though subjected
to instantaneous, extreme heat.
673
00:35:20,860 --> 00:35:24,240
Davenport concluded
that this ancient civilization
674
00:35:24,370 --> 00:35:26,080
must have been destroyed
675
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,410
by a nuclear explosion.
676
00:35:30,670 --> 00:35:33,250
By finding fused bricks,
677
00:35:33,380 --> 00:35:36,000
vitrified walls,
678
00:35:36,130 --> 00:35:40,130
pottery vessels
that had completely melted
679
00:35:40,260 --> 00:35:43,180
and also skeletons
that were calcified,
680
00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:46,970
and apparently some of them
even still radioactive.
681
00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:51,350
He decided that Mohenjo-daro
had been nuked.
682
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,270
ERICH VON DANIKEN:
In Mohenjo-daro,
683
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,730
you find some of the ruins
which are simply melted stones.
684
00:35:56,860 --> 00:35:58,740
Which means extreme heat
685
00:35:58,860 --> 00:36:01,400
must been developed
to melt the stones.
686
00:36:01,530 --> 00:36:03,620
At that time,
some thousands of years ago,
687
00:36:03,740 --> 00:36:06,660
we humans had no extreme heat,
688
00:36:06,790 --> 00:36:09,250
so it must have
come from a weapon.
689
00:36:09,370 --> 00:36:13,040
NARRATOR: How could a 4,000-year-old
city have been wiped out
690
00:36:13,170 --> 00:36:14,960
by a weapon
that wasn't even developed
691
00:36:15,090 --> 00:36:17,210
until the 20th century?
692
00:36:21,510 --> 00:36:25,010
Some believe the answer may lie
in the ancient Hindu holy book
693
00:36:25,140 --> 00:36:28,060
the Ramayana of Valmiki,
694
00:36:28,180 --> 00:36:31,810
which tells of epic battles
with a monstrous weapon
695
00:36:31,940 --> 00:36:34,810
called the Brahmastra.
696
00:36:34,940 --> 00:36:37,230
SHIMKHADA:
Brahmastra is a weapon
697
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,610
named after Brahma himself,
god Brahma.
698
00:36:40,740 --> 00:36:44,530
It has a heat-seeking device
put into it,
699
00:36:44,660 --> 00:36:47,620
and also motion detecting.
700
00:36:47,740 --> 00:36:49,490
WHITEHEAD:
The fallout from these weapons
701
00:36:49,620 --> 00:36:51,250
are reported in the Ramayana
702
00:36:51,370 --> 00:36:55,170
as lasting for months and years
after the blast.
703
00:36:55,290 --> 00:36:57,210
People's fingernails
were coming off,
704
00:36:57,340 --> 00:36:59,090
people's hair were falling off,
705
00:36:59,210 --> 00:37:02,510
so it's got all the signatures
of an atomic explosion.
706
00:37:04,340 --> 00:37:06,180
MORGAN: The descriptions
of the aftermath
707
00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:08,760
of the use of the Brahmastras
708
00:37:08,890 --> 00:37:13,480
sound just like descriptions
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
709
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,270
NARRATOR: But could such powerful
weapons of mass destruction
710
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,650
have existed on Earth
thousands of years ago?
711
00:37:21,780 --> 00:37:25,280
And is it possible
that the city of Lanka,
712
00:37:25,410 --> 00:37:28,870
where the ancient texts say the
Brahmastra weapon was unleashed,
713
00:37:28,990 --> 00:37:30,910
was not a fictional location,
714
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,790
but the site known today
as Mohenjo-daro?
715
00:37:34,910 --> 00:37:39,630
TSOUKALOS: Those texts are
chock-full with extraterrestrials
716
00:37:39,750 --> 00:37:43,920
or the so-called gods having
waged a war up in the sky
717
00:37:44,050 --> 00:37:46,970
that our ancestors
actually witnessed.
718
00:37:49,220 --> 00:37:53,270
When you combine the physical
evidence and you combine that
719
00:37:53,390 --> 00:37:55,940
with ancient written documents,
720
00:37:56,060 --> 00:37:59,900
perhaps what we have here
are descriptions
721
00:38:00,020 --> 00:38:01,650
of weapons of mass destruction.
722
00:38:02,980 --> 00:38:05,030
NARRATOR:
In 2016,
723
00:38:05,150 --> 00:38:08,110
researchers in India announced
that carbon dating
724
00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:11,580
of pottery and animal remains
revealed Mohenjo-daro
725
00:38:11,700 --> 00:38:14,830
could be as many
as 8,000 years old,
726
00:38:14,950 --> 00:38:19,080
2,500 years older
than previously thought.
727
00:38:19,210 --> 00:38:23,300
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe it could be even older,
728
00:38:23,420 --> 00:38:27,130
perhaps dating to a time before
the so-called "great flood"
729
00:38:27,260 --> 00:38:30,220
as described in numerous
religious texts.
730
00:38:30,350 --> 00:38:33,810
But even if such
a startling notion is true,
731
00:38:33,930 --> 00:38:36,100
how was Mohenjo-daro destroyed?
732
00:38:36,230 --> 00:38:37,810
Was it a natural event?
733
00:38:39,850 --> 00:38:42,570
Or was it the result of some
kind of nuclear accident...
734
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,740
or act of war?
735
00:38:46,860 --> 00:38:49,610
HELLYER: I think atomic weapons
have been used on Earth
736
00:38:49,740 --> 00:38:52,700
many times
over thousands of years.
737
00:38:52,830 --> 00:38:56,960
The aliens were concerned
every time that happens.
738
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,120
NARRATOR: If an ancient
civilization was destroyed
739
00:39:00,250 --> 00:39:02,750
by some kind
of nuclear incident,
740
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,460
did it happen
as the result of human warfare
741
00:39:05,590 --> 00:39:08,300
or an extraterrestrial attack?
742
00:39:08,420 --> 00:39:12,100
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
743
00:39:12,220 --> 00:39:14,930
the answer to this question
must be found
744
00:39:15,060 --> 00:39:18,020
before it's too late.
745
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:26,780
NARRATOR:
Washington, D.C..
746
00:39:27,940 --> 00:39:31,450
May 2013.
747
00:39:31,570 --> 00:39:34,330
Thank you for giving me
this opportunity to speak.
748
00:39:34,450 --> 00:39:37,120
NARRATOR: Former Canadian
Defense Minister Paul Hellyer
749
00:39:37,250 --> 00:39:40,000
addresses the Citizen Hearing
on Disclosure,
750
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,210
a weeklong conference
centered on UFO sightings
751
00:39:43,330 --> 00:39:45,420
and government transparency.
752
00:39:45,550 --> 00:39:47,340
We live in a cosmos
teeming with life.
753
00:39:47,460 --> 00:39:50,380
The fact that some other
civilizations are more advanced
754
00:39:50,510 --> 00:39:52,760
than we are may be humbling.
755
00:39:52,890 --> 00:39:54,140
NARRATOR:
Based on the information
756
00:39:54,260 --> 00:39:56,720
that he has been presented with
over the years,
757
00:39:56,850 --> 00:39:59,020
Hellyer believes that
extraterrestrials
758
00:39:59,140 --> 00:40:00,640
are concerned about Earth
759
00:40:00,770 --> 00:40:03,610
because of previous
devastations.
760
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,070
I think several species
throughout history,
761
00:40:09,190 --> 00:40:12,030
both on this planet
and other planets,
762
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,530
have used nuclear weapons
763
00:40:14,660 --> 00:40:17,830
and have really destroyed
764
00:40:17,950 --> 00:40:20,960
their planets
as a habitable place.
765
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:25,460
And some of the people
who have been visiting here
766
00:40:25,590 --> 00:40:27,960
have gone through that
and understand it,
767
00:40:28,090 --> 00:40:31,800
don't want it to happen again
on Earth...
768
00:40:33,090 --> 00:40:37,430
because the cosmos is a unity.
769
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,770
It's all one creation.
770
00:40:40,890 --> 00:40:45,150
And anything that happens
anywhere affects other planets,
771
00:40:45,270 --> 00:40:48,980
other species
all throughout the cosmos.
772
00:40:49,110 --> 00:40:51,990
SALAS:
I think we're being observed
773
00:40:52,110 --> 00:40:54,450
to see if we can get through
this period,
774
00:40:54,570 --> 00:40:57,490
of dealing with these weapons
and actually eliminating it.
775
00:40:57,620 --> 00:41:00,500
And that's a big test for us.
776
00:41:00,620 --> 00:41:04,000
HOWE:
They want to see humans advance.
777
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,540
They want us to get past war.
778
00:41:06,670 --> 00:41:08,250
That's what they say.
779
00:41:08,380 --> 00:41:12,800
"You have to stop even
considering nuclear warfare
780
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,930
"because you do not
understand, humans,
781
00:41:16,050 --> 00:41:19,220
"that when you split an atom,
782
00:41:19,350 --> 00:41:22,020
"you are tearing
into other dimensions
783
00:41:22,140 --> 00:41:23,600
"where there are
other intelligences,
784
00:41:23,730 --> 00:41:25,770
and we cannot allow that."
785
00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:29,900
NARRATOR: Are extraterrestrials
monitoring our nuclear weapons
786
00:41:30,020 --> 00:41:32,610
not just out of concern
for humanity,
787
00:41:32,740 --> 00:41:35,740
but because they fear
we may one day pose a threat
788
00:41:35,860 --> 00:41:38,240
to life on other planets?
789
00:41:38,370 --> 00:41:42,500
And if so, might they be
withholding the key
790
00:41:42,620 --> 00:41:45,580
to interstellar travel
until we demonstrate
791
00:41:45,710 --> 00:41:48,710
that we can live in peace
with all our neighbors,
792
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,380
both here on Earth and in space?
793
00:41:52,510 --> 00:41:56,300
Perhaps it will only be
when humankind abandons
794
00:41:56,430 --> 00:41:58,640
its most fearsome weapons
795
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,140
that our evolution on Earth
will be complete,
796
00:42:02,270 --> 00:42:06,850
and we will join our alien
ancestors in the stars.