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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,502 --> 00:00:04,505 NARRATOR: In 2019, a call went out 2 00:00:04,505 --> 00:00:06,882 to storm the gates of the world's most top secret 3 00:00:06,882 --> 00:00:09,176 military installation. 4 00:00:09,176 --> 00:00:11,136 NICK POPE: This was the place 5 00:00:11,136 --> 00:00:15,224 that people were attempting to back engineer 6 00:00:15,224 --> 00:00:17,768 extraterrestrial technology. 7 00:00:17,768 --> 00:00:19,978 NARRATOR: Millions responded. 8 00:00:19,978 --> 00:00:21,980 JEREMY CORBELL: This information had been percolating 9 00:00:21,980 --> 00:00:25,817 for 30 years, and then bam! A perfect storm. 10 00:00:25,817 --> 00:00:28,445 BILL BIRNES: On the Internet, on the radio, 11 00:00:28,445 --> 00:00:31,865 promoters were talking about let's storm Area 51. 12 00:00:31,865 --> 00:00:34,952 NARRATOR: The military vowed to protect the base 13 00:00:34,952 --> 00:00:37,246 by any means necessary. 14 00:00:37,246 --> 00:00:38,580 The DoD said 15 00:00:38,580 --> 00:00:40,207 we would bomb millennials 16 00:00:40,207 --> 00:00:42,584 if they actually tried to storm the gates of Area 51. 17 00:00:42,584 --> 00:00:45,879 NARRATOR: But still, thousands met the call to action. 18 00:00:45,879 --> 00:00:48,715 What's behind those gates is one of the last mysteries. 19 00:00:48,715 --> 00:00:52,469 I want the government to release the records now, today. 20 00:00:52,469 --> 00:00:54,805 NARRATOR: Was this the beginning of a movement 21 00:00:54,805 --> 00:00:58,558 that will finally tear down the walls of government secrecy 22 00:00:58,558 --> 00:01:00,894 and expose the truth 23 00:01:00,894 --> 00:01:04,398 about an extraterrestrial presence on planet Earth? 24 00:01:04,398 --> 00:01:07,067 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: People are interested 25 00:01:07,067 --> 00:01:08,235 in the extraterrestrial question, 26 00:01:08,235 --> 00:01:10,571 and they want answers. 27 00:01:12,781 --> 00:01:15,075 NARRATOR: There is a doorway 28 00:01:15,075 --> 00:01:17,869 in the universe. 29 00:01:17,869 --> 00:01:20,872 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 30 00:01:22,374 --> 00:01:24,585 It demands we question everything 31 00:01:24,585 --> 00:01:26,920 we have ever been taught. 32 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:31,133 The evidence is all around us. 33 00:01:31,133 --> 00:01:34,678 The future is right before our eyes. 34 00:01:34,678 --> 00:01:37,347 We are not alone. 35 00:01:37,347 --> 00:01:40,851 We have never been alone. 36 00:01:55,198 --> 00:01:59,911 College student Matty Roberts creates a post on Facebook. 37 00:01:59,911 --> 00:02:03,582 In it, Roberts calls on his friends to storm 38 00:02:03,582 --> 00:02:05,459 the top secret U. S. military base 39 00:02:05,459 --> 00:02:07,586 called Area 51, 40 00:02:07,586 --> 00:02:10,130 a place that has long been rumored 41 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:14,009 to be housing crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft. 42 00:02:14,009 --> 00:02:17,304 As part of the post, Roberts invites his readers 43 00:02:17,304 --> 00:02:21,308 to click to indicate if they're attending. 44 00:02:21,308 --> 00:02:23,685 I had shared it to my own personal Facebook page, 45 00:02:23,685 --> 00:02:26,855 and I think it amassed probably about 40 RSVPs, 46 00:02:26,855 --> 00:02:28,398 the people that were interested 47 00:02:28,398 --> 00:02:29,900 or had tagged themselves as going. 48 00:02:30,901 --> 00:02:33,320 NARRATOR: Roberts has no idea 49 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,739 whether the post will simply reach his own circle 50 00:02:35,739 --> 00:02:37,949 of friends and acquaintances on Facebook 51 00:02:37,949 --> 00:02:41,912 or if it will spread further into cyberspace. 52 00:02:41,912 --> 00:02:44,247 He gets his answer two days later 53 00:02:44,247 --> 00:02:48,377 when his phone begins buzzing with RSVP notifications. 54 00:02:48,377 --> 00:02:50,754 First a few hundred. 55 00:02:50,754 --> 00:02:52,923 Then a few thousand. 56 00:02:52,923 --> 00:02:54,800 ROBERTS: It just kept kind of snowballing. 57 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,344 And it took about three days for it to really take off, 58 00:02:57,344 --> 00:03:00,681 and it just took off like wildfire. 59 00:03:00,681 --> 00:03:02,182 And then that's when it got posted on reddit. 60 00:03:02,182 --> 00:03:03,684 And when it got posted on reddit, 61 00:03:03,684 --> 00:03:04,851 it really took off. 62 00:03:04,851 --> 00:03:06,687 NARRATOR: Within a week, 63 00:03:06,687 --> 00:03:10,899 the number of RSVPs soars to over a million. 64 00:03:10,899 --> 00:03:13,819 And then on July 11, the news got ahold of it. 65 00:03:13,819 --> 00:03:16,238 Now a new Facebook event talks about organizing 66 00:03:16,238 --> 00:03:18,907 a large mob to raid the base. 67 00:03:18,907 --> 00:03:21,827 They were trying to organize a big mob to storm Area 51, 68 00:03:21,827 --> 00:03:23,412 where all the aliens are. 69 00:03:23,412 --> 00:03:25,122 Officials are saying stay away, 70 00:03:25,122 --> 00:03:27,416 this is not something you want to go to. 71 00:03:27,416 --> 00:03:30,377 REPORTER: There are even signs that warn it's a restricted area, 72 00:03:30,377 --> 00:03:32,337 that it's unlawful to enter the area without permission, 73 00:03:32,337 --> 00:03:35,966 and that use of deadly force is authorized. 74 00:03:35,966 --> 00:03:37,717 In short, don't go. 75 00:03:37,717 --> 00:03:41,721 NARRATOR: News commentators point out that if even a small fraction 76 00:03:41,721 --> 00:03:43,640 of those who responded show up, 77 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:47,060 the proposed storming could quickly turn violent. 78 00:03:49,896 --> 00:03:53,483 Alarmed at the overwhelming response to Roberts' post, 79 00:03:53,483 --> 00:03:56,236 U.S. military officials issue a warning. 80 00:03:56,236 --> 00:03:59,823 In ominous language, it states that 81 00:03:59,823 --> 00:04:02,576 "The U. S. Air Force always stands ready 82 00:04:02,576 --> 00:04:05,328 to protect America and its assets." 83 00:04:05,328 --> 00:04:09,916 Within days, Matty Roberts gets a visit from the FBI. 84 00:04:09,916 --> 00:04:12,169 ROBERTS: FBI did show up to my house. 85 00:04:12,169 --> 00:04:14,421 They asked me to send them anybody that's trying 86 00:04:14,421 --> 00:04:15,547 to radicalize this thing, 87 00:04:15,547 --> 00:04:17,924 in the form of actually storming the base, 88 00:04:17,924 --> 00:04:19,676 and actually causing harm to people. 89 00:04:19,676 --> 00:04:22,137 They were really concerned about people sending me death threats. 90 00:04:22,137 --> 00:04:25,390 NARRATOR: In the wake of the FBI's visit, 91 00:04:25,390 --> 00:04:28,727 Roberts claims that he was joking all along, 92 00:04:28,727 --> 00:04:30,437 and that he never actually intended 93 00:04:30,437 --> 00:04:33,064 for anyone to heed his call. 94 00:04:33,064 --> 00:04:35,442 ROBERTS: I was just kind of like, I didn't think anybody was gonna 95 00:04:35,442 --> 00:04:37,652 take it too seriously 'cause when I created the event 96 00:04:37,652 --> 00:04:39,821 on Facebook, it was meant as a joke, 97 00:04:39,821 --> 00:04:41,114 kind of, like, tongue in cheek. 98 00:04:41,114 --> 00:04:43,366 Never intended for it to go this far. 99 00:04:44,493 --> 00:04:46,620 It was terrifying. 100 00:04:46,620 --> 00:04:49,414 NARRATOR: But whether Roberts wanted people to take him seriously 101 00:04:49,414 --> 00:04:53,460 or not, by early July, it seemed nothing could derail 102 00:04:53,460 --> 00:04:55,629 what he had set in motion. 103 00:05:01,551 --> 00:05:05,388 Matty Roberts' original post has now been reposted 104 00:05:05,388 --> 00:05:08,058 hundreds of thousands of times. 105 00:05:08,058 --> 00:05:11,144 Over two million people have indicated 106 00:05:11,144 --> 00:05:14,356 they plan to descend on Area 51 in September, 107 00:05:14,356 --> 00:05:17,150 and storm the top secret base. 108 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:22,113 No one has any idea how many might actually attend, 109 00:05:22,113 --> 00:05:25,283 and both the government and the media gear up to blame Roberts 110 00:05:25,283 --> 00:05:27,994 if things turn into an ugly confrontation 111 00:05:27,994 --> 00:05:33,458 between the military and tens of thousands of UFO enthusiasts. 112 00:05:33,458 --> 00:05:36,753 In order to take the pressure off of himself 113 00:05:36,753 --> 00:05:40,841 and his associates, Roberts asks that his followers call off 114 00:05:40,841 --> 00:05:45,095 any plans to actually invade the base on September 20. 115 00:05:45,095 --> 00:05:48,890 Instead, he announces an alternative idea: 116 00:05:48,890 --> 00:05:51,852 a peaceful celebration called Alienstock, 117 00:05:51,852 --> 00:05:56,189 which he begins organizing in the tiny town of Rachel, Nevada, 118 00:05:56,189 --> 00:05:59,192 just outside Area 51. 119 00:05:59,192 --> 00:06:04,656 He promises a festival of music, art and all things alien. 120 00:06:04,656 --> 00:06:07,701 POPE: In the weeks before the event, there are efforts aimed 121 00:06:07,701 --> 00:06:12,581 at scaling down the rhetoric and averting a potential tragedy. 122 00:06:12,581 --> 00:06:16,376 BIRNES: The government just did a whole counter‐media program, 123 00:06:16,376 --> 00:06:19,713 letting folks know that they're not taking this as a game, 124 00:06:19,713 --> 00:06:22,132 they don't think it's funny. 125 00:06:22,132 --> 00:06:24,134 No, it's not Woodstock. 126 00:06:24,134 --> 00:06:27,012 You want to have a rock festival outside of Rachel? 127 00:06:27,012 --> 00:06:28,930 Hey, have a nice day, right? 128 00:06:28,930 --> 00:06:32,934 But you cross Area 51, we take it seriously. 129 00:06:32,934 --> 00:06:36,313 You will be arrested, prosecuted, 130 00:06:36,313 --> 00:06:38,648 likely convicted and sent to jail. 131 00:06:41,526 --> 00:06:45,071 NARRATOR: Ten days before the event, two Dutch YouTubers 132 00:06:45,071 --> 00:06:47,741 penetrate the Area 51 perimeter, 133 00:06:47,741 --> 00:06:52,162 hiking three miles into the restricted area. 134 00:06:52,162 --> 00:06:56,625 Their arrests make national headlines, and add to concerns 135 00:06:56,625 --> 00:07:00,420 that the upcoming gathering could easily get out of hand. 136 00:07:03,673 --> 00:07:08,053 POPE: Astoundingly, they were sentenced to a year in jail. 137 00:07:10,180 --> 00:07:14,434 The message was clear: we are going to come down on you hard. 138 00:07:23,568 --> 00:07:24,986 KEVIN ALMEIDA: I think behind those gates 139 00:07:24,986 --> 00:07:27,322 is something that nobody can explain, 140 00:07:27,322 --> 00:07:29,282 not even the people that work there. 141 00:07:29,282 --> 00:07:30,992 I have no answers, but I'm gonna find out. 142 00:07:30,992 --> 00:07:32,535 That's why I came here, 3,000 miles, 143 00:07:32,535 --> 00:07:34,162 to find out those answers. 144 00:07:34,162 --> 00:07:37,791 NARRATOR: On the day the event begins, 145 00:07:37,791 --> 00:07:40,377 the Department of Defense posts an ominous tweet. 146 00:07:40,377 --> 00:07:43,963 It features a picture of a B‐2 bomber, 147 00:07:43,963 --> 00:07:47,217 along with a heading that states that this is the last thing 148 00:07:47,217 --> 00:07:51,554 millennials will see if they attempt the Area 51 raid today. 149 00:07:51,554 --> 00:07:54,933 The tweet is quickly deleted. 150 00:07:54,933 --> 00:07:56,559 They made a case of saying that it would be considered 151 00:07:56,559 --> 00:07:57,811 an act of terrorism. 152 00:07:57,811 --> 00:08:00,313 Even saying we would bomb millennials 153 00:08:00,313 --> 00:08:03,316 if they actually tried to storm the gates of Area 51. 154 00:08:03,316 --> 00:08:05,193 That was a little severe. 155 00:08:05,193 --> 00:08:09,489 POPE: Now, they cleverly didn't exactly say what would happen, 156 00:08:09,489 --> 00:08:13,076 but there was a palpable threat left hanging in the air. 157 00:08:13,076 --> 00:08:17,497 NARRATOR: Faced with the military's willingness to defend Area 51 158 00:08:17,497 --> 00:08:22,419 at all costs, many potential attendees change their plans 159 00:08:22,419 --> 00:08:25,463 and decide not to attend. 160 00:08:25,463 --> 00:08:28,216 But while the government warnings are largely effective, 161 00:08:28,216 --> 00:08:30,802 on the night of September 20, 162 00:08:30,802 --> 00:08:34,389 nearly 100 people refuse to be intimidated, 163 00:08:34,389 --> 00:08:35,765 and gather at the gates. 164 00:08:37,976 --> 00:08:41,312 ZACK ETKIND: I think behind the gate there could very well be, 165 00:08:41,312 --> 00:08:44,232 uh, technology that the government is not 166 00:08:44,232 --> 00:08:46,151 informing us of. 167 00:08:47,944 --> 00:08:50,280 There's a lot of people that are, like, watching this event 168 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:51,781 being like, "This is the night. 169 00:08:51,781 --> 00:08:53,575 This is the night we find some aliens." 170 00:08:53,575 --> 00:08:54,868 They can't catch us all! 171 00:08:58,079 --> 00:09:00,874 KYLE KALLMAN: People are prepared for a bloodbath, 172 00:09:00,874 --> 00:09:03,877 but I have seen nothing. 173 00:09:03,877 --> 00:09:05,545 The cops have been out in a show of force, 174 00:09:05,545 --> 00:09:08,256 and they are gonna make it very unpleasant 175 00:09:08,256 --> 00:09:11,051 for anybody who crosses. 176 00:09:11,051 --> 00:09:13,553 NARRATOR: Both sides show restraint, 177 00:09:13,553 --> 00:09:16,681 and a potentially deadly confrontation is averted. 178 00:09:16,681 --> 00:09:22,312 Only two people are detained by authorities for minor offenses. 179 00:09:23,772 --> 00:09:27,984 Over the next three days, approximately 3,000 more people 180 00:09:27,984 --> 00:09:31,988 make the journey to Area 51 in a show of solidarity, 181 00:09:31,988 --> 00:09:35,617 and in protest of government secrecy. 182 00:09:35,617 --> 00:09:38,578 There's a huge alien community around the world. 183 00:09:38,578 --> 00:09:42,457 It was a matter of time before this was gonna happen. 184 00:09:42,457 --> 00:09:44,209 I don't think the government's being honest, 185 00:09:44,209 --> 00:09:46,127 'cause I think they would freak us out if they told us 186 00:09:46,127 --> 00:09:48,630 what was inside that big ol' mountain there. 187 00:09:48,630 --> 00:09:52,092 NARRATOR: But there are many who believe that without the serious threat 188 00:09:52,092 --> 00:09:55,136 of military action, the turnout might have been 189 00:09:55,136 --> 00:09:57,430 significantly larger. 190 00:09:57,430 --> 00:10:01,684 MARTELL: The government caused a lot of confusion, 191 00:10:01,684 --> 00:10:02,811 and pretty much discouraged most people 192 00:10:02,811 --> 00:10:04,562 from showing up to the event. 193 00:10:04,562 --> 00:10:09,359 POPE: In the days and weeks leading up to September the 20th, 194 00:10:09,359 --> 00:10:12,195 there was a mass of confusing reports about 195 00:10:12,195 --> 00:10:14,697 what might actually take place. 196 00:10:14,697 --> 00:10:18,409 And one wonders, did this play into the hands of the government 197 00:10:18,409 --> 00:10:20,370 and work to their advantage? 198 00:10:20,370 --> 00:10:24,624 NARRATOR: If government threats did indeed suppress the turnout 199 00:10:24,624 --> 00:10:28,878 at the Area 51 festivals, what could they be protecting? 200 00:10:28,878 --> 00:10:33,299 Is it only military secrets... or something else? 201 00:10:33,299 --> 00:10:38,388 For ancient astronaut theorists, the answer is obvious. 202 00:10:38,388 --> 00:10:42,058 So it seems a lot of people are asking the same question: 203 00:10:42,058 --> 00:10:46,980 what is it that the government is hiding at Area 51? 204 00:10:46,980 --> 00:10:49,149 LINDA MOULTON HOWE: The United States began 205 00:10:49,149 --> 00:10:52,443 with a policy of lies and denial. 206 00:10:52,443 --> 00:10:56,823 Let's call it for what it is... counterintelligence. 207 00:10:56,823 --> 00:11:01,119 UFOs and ETs have been at the top 208 00:11:01,119 --> 00:11:04,914 of the counterintelligence list since World War II. 209 00:11:04,914 --> 00:11:07,834 Our government doesn't want us to know the truth. 210 00:11:07,834 --> 00:11:10,295 TSOUKALOS: We know for a fact 211 00:11:10,295 --> 00:11:13,923 that for over 50 years, not just the U. S. government 212 00:11:13,923 --> 00:11:17,927 but governments from around the world have always denied 213 00:11:17,927 --> 00:11:21,431 the UFO question or the extraterrestrial question. 214 00:11:23,141 --> 00:11:25,476 NARRATOR: Could the U. S. government be hiding 215 00:11:25,476 --> 00:11:31,858 not only crashed UFOs, but even extraterrestrials at Area 51? 216 00:11:31,858 --> 00:11:34,569 Perhaps further clues can be found 217 00:11:34,569 --> 00:11:37,155 at the very entrance of the secret base, 218 00:11:37,155 --> 00:11:42,118 an entrance that has been strictly off‐limits for decades. 219 00:11:46,581 --> 00:11:48,875 NARRATOR: Could Area 51 truly harbor 220 00:11:48,875 --> 00:11:51,085 extraterrestrial secrets? 221 00:11:51,085 --> 00:11:54,130 And if so, how did it all begin? 222 00:11:54,130 --> 00:11:56,216 Perhaps answers can be found 223 00:11:56,216 --> 00:12:00,011 in the murky history of the mysterious desert base. 224 00:12:00,011 --> 00:12:04,682 We actually have to go back to the attack on Pearl Harbor 225 00:12:04,682 --> 00:12:06,684 in December 1941. 226 00:12:06,684 --> 00:12:08,603 The government said 227 00:12:08,603 --> 00:12:12,232 we can never allow something like this to happen again. 228 00:12:12,232 --> 00:12:16,778 So, let's move or create some of these installations 229 00:12:16,778 --> 00:12:19,656 and facilities further into the country. 230 00:12:19,656 --> 00:12:24,702 NARRATOR: Area 51 was built around a salt flat known as Groom Lake. 231 00:12:24,702 --> 00:12:28,414 A runway now slices across the dry lake bed. 232 00:12:28,414 --> 00:12:33,378 The reason why Groom Lake was chosen was very simple: 233 00:12:33,378 --> 00:12:36,256 Groom Lake itself was a dry bed 234 00:12:36,256 --> 00:12:38,675 but it was extremely long, 235 00:12:38,675 --> 00:12:42,345 and it could double as a huge runway. 236 00:12:42,345 --> 00:12:47,100 Some of these aircraft required long runways. 237 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:50,645 For many years, Area 51 enthusiasts were able to watch 238 00:12:50,645 --> 00:12:55,483 with high‐powered binocular lenses and see base activity. 239 00:12:55,483 --> 00:12:57,360 None of that is possible anymore. 240 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,238 They've gone to great lengths to keep whatever's happening 241 00:13:00,238 --> 00:13:02,198 at Area 51 a secret. 242 00:13:02,198 --> 00:13:04,200 NARRATOR: For the better part of a century, 243 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:09,163 the U. S. government denied the very existence of Area 51. 244 00:13:09,163 --> 00:13:10,957 But why? 245 00:13:10,957 --> 00:13:15,336 The official Area 51 now admitted by the government 246 00:13:15,336 --> 00:13:20,341 is this facility where aircraft were developed and test‐flown. 247 00:13:20,341 --> 00:13:22,885 The U‐2 spy plane. 248 00:13:22,885 --> 00:13:24,971 The SR‐71 Blackbird, 249 00:13:24,971 --> 00:13:28,766 and of course, more recently, stealth technology. 250 00:13:28,766 --> 00:13:31,060 So that's the official Area 51... 251 00:13:31,060 --> 00:13:34,439 highly secret, secure, remote. 252 00:13:34,439 --> 00:13:38,318 But then there's the unofficial Area 51 253 00:13:38,318 --> 00:13:41,738 where people say that there was an even bigger secret there. 254 00:13:41,738 --> 00:13:46,325 And that was extraterrestrial technology. 255 00:13:56,169 --> 00:13:58,046 NARRATOR: To further investigate 256 00:13:58,046 --> 00:14:01,549 what might be hidden at the secret Area 51 base, 257 00:14:01,549 --> 00:14:05,178 former British Ministry of Defense officer Nick Pope 258 00:14:05,178 --> 00:14:08,056 and filmmaker Jeremy CORBELL 259 00:14:08,056 --> 00:14:10,975 have enlisted the help of local resident Joerg Arnu. 260 00:14:10,975 --> 00:14:15,271 Joerg, who has lived in nearby Rachel, Nevada for 15 years, 261 00:14:15,271 --> 00:14:20,610 has been a firsthand witness to Area 51's recent history. 262 00:14:20,610 --> 00:14:23,404 What's the strangest, uh, interaction you've seen 263 00:14:23,404 --> 00:14:25,406 of people coming in or out of the base? 264 00:14:25,406 --> 00:14:28,076 Heavy construction equipment going into the base 265 00:14:28,076 --> 00:14:29,452 when they were doing construction. 266 00:14:29,452 --> 00:14:31,287 And also, sometimes you see 267 00:14:31,287 --> 00:14:34,373 military vehicles being dragged into the base. 268 00:14:34,373 --> 00:14:36,167 They set them up inside 269 00:14:36,167 --> 00:14:39,087 the bombing ranges for shooting targets. 270 00:14:39,087 --> 00:14:41,422 Um, just pull over here. 271 00:14:41,422 --> 00:14:43,549 There's a sheriff's vehicle coming our way. 272 00:14:43,549 --> 00:14:45,259 We don't want any trouble. 273 00:14:45,259 --> 00:14:46,803 We don't want to block them. 274 00:14:46,803 --> 00:14:48,888 We don't want to go any further. 275 00:14:48,888 --> 00:14:50,765 POPE: This is extra security. 276 00:14:50,765 --> 00:14:53,601 I don't think we've ever seen quite this much. 277 00:14:57,897 --> 00:15:00,149 NARRATOR: In light of the tension 278 00:15:00,149 --> 00:15:02,610 surrounding the Storm Area 51 event, 279 00:15:02,610 --> 00:15:05,613 the military has implemented a zero‐tolerance lockdown 280 00:15:05,613 --> 00:15:09,075 at the gate of the secret base. 281 00:15:09,075 --> 00:15:11,410 POPE: So, here we are. 282 00:15:11,410 --> 00:15:14,664 I think this is about as far as we can go. 283 00:15:14,664 --> 00:15:16,666 The point of no return, right? 284 00:15:16,666 --> 00:15:19,085 ARNU: Yes. We cannot go any further. 285 00:15:19,085 --> 00:15:21,420 POPE: All this barbed wire here, 286 00:15:21,420 --> 00:15:23,422 all the security measures, 287 00:15:23,422 --> 00:15:26,008 this is the point at which 288 00:15:26,008 --> 00:15:28,594 if you take one step further, 289 00:15:28,594 --> 00:15:33,057 the full force of security will come down on us, right? 290 00:15:33,057 --> 00:15:35,268 Make no mistake, we step one step 291 00:15:35,268 --> 00:15:37,562 into that territory, and everything is going to change. 292 00:15:37,562 --> 00:15:40,189 If I came up here, is anybody going to talk to me? 293 00:15:40,189 --> 00:15:41,524 ‐Are they going to say anything to me? ‐No. 294 00:15:41,524 --> 00:15:45,528 No. These are signs that spell out in plain English: 295 00:15:45,528 --> 00:15:48,739 bad things are going to happen to you if you cross this line. 296 00:15:48,739 --> 00:15:50,491 ‐POPE: Right. ‐ARNU: It's very clear. 297 00:15:50,491 --> 00:15:51,576 So now look, 298 00:15:51,576 --> 00:15:54,704 if we walked past that barrier, 299 00:15:54,704 --> 00:15:56,497 up that road, what would we see? 300 00:15:56,497 --> 00:15:58,082 What would we find? 301 00:15:58,082 --> 00:16:02,170 We would be walking down about 20 miles of paved road 302 00:16:02,170 --> 00:16:06,257 into the valley that Area 51 is located in. 303 00:16:06,257 --> 00:16:09,719 In between here and the base, 304 00:16:09,719 --> 00:16:11,304 there's more security checkpoints, 305 00:16:11,304 --> 00:16:13,556 there's more road sensors. 306 00:16:13,556 --> 00:16:15,933 If you were to get to Area 51, 307 00:16:15,933 --> 00:16:18,144 you're standing there and you look around 308 00:16:18,144 --> 00:16:21,731 and it looks like any other military Air Force base. 309 00:16:21,731 --> 00:16:23,983 But the good stuff is all in hangars. 310 00:16:23,983 --> 00:16:25,651 It is not out in the open. 311 00:16:25,651 --> 00:16:27,486 It's not like, you know, they got the saucer 312 00:16:27,486 --> 00:16:28,988 right there on the runway. 313 00:16:28,988 --> 00:16:30,907 ‐So, there are hangers obviously. ‐Yeah. 314 00:16:30,907 --> 00:16:32,617 But, uh, there are even rumors 315 00:16:32,617 --> 00:16:35,244 of huge underground facilities, 316 00:16:35,244 --> 00:16:38,539 facilities carved into the sides of the mountains. 317 00:16:38,539 --> 00:16:42,043 There are people that talk about underground facilities. 318 00:16:42,043 --> 00:16:45,004 They keep tabs on people that watch the base. 319 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:47,632 They know exactly when somebody's up on Tikaboo Peak, 320 00:16:47,632 --> 00:16:50,134 for instance, one of the view spots of the base. 321 00:16:50,134 --> 00:16:53,888 NARRATOR: Located 26 miles from the Area 51 base, 322 00:16:53,888 --> 00:16:57,350 Tikaboo Peak is the only public land 323 00:16:57,350 --> 00:16:59,727 where people can actually see the Groom Lake runway 324 00:16:59,727 --> 00:17:01,437 and hangars. 325 00:17:01,437 --> 00:17:04,106 And they know exactly, "Okay, right now is a good moment 326 00:17:04,106 --> 00:17:05,608 to fly our good stuff," 327 00:17:05,608 --> 00:17:07,276 and that's when they bring out the good stuff. 328 00:17:07,276 --> 00:17:09,070 I've actually been on Tikaboo Peak 329 00:17:09,070 --> 00:17:10,696 when they did a test‐flight 330 00:17:10,696 --> 00:17:13,199 and it was the most amazing thing. 331 00:17:13,199 --> 00:17:15,284 We look at the base and all of a sudden, 332 00:17:15,284 --> 00:17:18,996 in the middle of the night, all the runway lights come on. 333 00:17:18,996 --> 00:17:20,957 I mean, it's‐it's the most amazing thing to watch. 334 00:17:20,957 --> 00:17:23,834 All of a sudden, the‐the desert in front of you, 335 00:17:23,834 --> 00:17:25,670 below you, becomes alive. 336 00:17:25,670 --> 00:17:28,297 You see a light taxiing to the runway, 337 00:17:28,297 --> 00:17:30,216 the light takes off, 338 00:17:30,216 --> 00:17:32,176 the runway lights go out, the light goes out, 339 00:17:32,176 --> 00:17:35,179 and that was the end of that. 340 00:17:35,179 --> 00:17:37,723 I mean, literally feet above the runway, 341 00:17:37,723 --> 00:17:39,767 the lights just went out. 342 00:17:39,767 --> 00:17:41,561 ‐That's ultra‐high security. ‐Yes. 343 00:17:41,561 --> 00:17:43,354 And whatever that thing was, 344 00:17:43,354 --> 00:17:46,941 ‐clearly they were really trying to protect it... ‐Yes. 345 00:17:46,941 --> 00:17:50,236 ...and minimizing that anyone could get eyes on it. 346 00:17:50,236 --> 00:17:51,862 Correct. 347 00:17:51,862 --> 00:17:54,615 NARRATOR: Could claims that the U. S. military 348 00:17:54,615 --> 00:17:58,286 discovered otherworldly spacecraft be true? 349 00:17:58,286 --> 00:18:00,454 Might some of post‐war America's 350 00:18:00,454 --> 00:18:02,331 greatest technological accomplishments 351 00:18:02,331 --> 00:18:03,666 have been the result 352 00:18:03,666 --> 00:18:07,169 of reverse engineering alien vehicles? 353 00:18:07,169 --> 00:18:10,548 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 354 00:18:10,548 --> 00:18:13,801 and insist that the truth about Area 51 355 00:18:13,801 --> 00:18:16,929 was actually revealed decades ago, 356 00:18:16,929 --> 00:18:20,641 not by UFO enthusiasts or whistle‐blowers, 357 00:18:20,641 --> 00:18:23,728 but by two of the men most responsible 358 00:18:23,728 --> 00:18:27,315 for maintaining the government's most vital secrets. 359 00:18:37,742 --> 00:18:40,411 NARRATOR: In the midst of World War II, 360 00:18:40,411 --> 00:18:44,040 the government presses the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation 361 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,627 to develop the next generation of military planes... 362 00:18:47,627 --> 00:18:51,213 jet fighters designed to outflank propeller aircraft 363 00:18:51,213 --> 00:18:54,592 and help turn the tide of war. 364 00:18:56,636 --> 00:18:59,096 A team headed by Lockheed engineer 365 00:18:59,096 --> 00:19:01,015 Clarence "Kelly" Johnson 366 00:19:01,015 --> 00:19:06,103 delivers the first production model in just 143 days. 367 00:19:06,103 --> 00:19:08,689 Their P‐80 Shooting Star 368 00:19:08,689 --> 00:19:12,818 initiates the jet age for the U. S. military. 369 00:19:12,818 --> 00:19:15,863 Kelly Johnson's secret research and development team 370 00:19:15,863 --> 00:19:18,824 ultimately becomes known... 371 00:19:18,824 --> 00:19:20,951 as "Skunk Works." 372 00:19:20,951 --> 00:19:22,995 DOLAN: Clarence Kelly Johnson 373 00:19:22,995 --> 00:19:26,165 was the first head of Lockheed's Skunk Works division 374 00:19:26,165 --> 00:19:29,627 back in the '50s and '60s, up until 1975. 375 00:19:29,627 --> 00:19:33,047 He's the developer of the U‐2 spy plane 376 00:19:33,047 --> 00:19:35,508 which was able to fly at the incredible altitude 377 00:19:35,508 --> 00:19:36,967 of 80,000 feet, 378 00:19:36,967 --> 00:19:38,719 equipped with photographic capabilities 379 00:19:38,719 --> 00:19:40,513 that were astonishing. 380 00:19:40,513 --> 00:19:44,266 And he is a great legend in the aviation community, for sure. 381 00:19:44,266 --> 00:19:47,478 NARRATOR: Despite his mainstream credentials, 382 00:19:47,478 --> 00:19:50,481 Johnson becomes the primary witness 383 00:19:50,481 --> 00:19:54,151 to a now‐famous UFO sighting in Agoura, California, 384 00:19:54,151 --> 00:19:57,738 on December 16, 1953. 385 00:19:57,738 --> 00:19:59,824 His report of the encounter, 386 00:19:59,824 --> 00:20:01,784 and his personal sketches of the craft, 387 00:20:01,784 --> 00:20:04,078 were preserved by Project Blue Book, 388 00:20:04,078 --> 00:20:06,205 the U. S. government's official account 389 00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:09,291 of the UFO phenomenon at the time. 390 00:20:09,291 --> 00:20:12,545 DOLAN: He was with some of his colleagues at the time 391 00:20:12,545 --> 00:20:14,755 when he saw a very, very unusual object 392 00:20:14,755 --> 00:20:18,259 that he could not explain in any kind of technology 393 00:20:18,259 --> 00:20:20,261 that was familiar to him at the time. 394 00:20:20,261 --> 00:20:25,015 NARRATOR: During an era of official skepticism about UFOs, 395 00:20:25,015 --> 00:20:27,309 Johnson risks his career 396 00:20:27,309 --> 00:20:29,854 by reporting the sighting to his superiors. 397 00:20:29,854 --> 00:20:34,316 But instead of being penalized or demoted, 398 00:20:34,316 --> 00:20:36,986 Johnson is seemingly rewarded two years later, 399 00:20:36,986 --> 00:20:39,613 when he plays a pivotal role in founding America's 400 00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:45,119 most secret military base: Area 51. 401 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,747 Kelly Johnson was the person that identified 402 00:20:47,747 --> 00:20:51,375 the location where Area 51 is as a good strategic location. 403 00:20:51,375 --> 00:20:56,213 It is fundamentally located in the right part of the world 404 00:20:56,213 --> 00:20:58,090 without prying eyes. 405 00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:03,345 NARRATOR: But was Area 51 founded merely to test experimental aircraft, 406 00:21:03,345 --> 00:21:06,682 as the military insists? 407 00:21:06,682 --> 00:21:11,479 Or did Kelly Johnson choose the location as the best place 408 00:21:11,479 --> 00:21:15,024 to reverse engineer the very alien spacecraft 409 00:21:15,024 --> 00:21:17,985 he believed he saw with his own eyes? 410 00:21:21,197 --> 00:21:24,074 Kelly Johnson died in 1990, 411 00:21:24,074 --> 00:21:28,662 without ever disclosing the secrets of Area 51. 412 00:21:28,662 --> 00:21:31,624 But a key person in his inner circle 413 00:21:31,624 --> 00:21:34,919 openly expressed his belief that extraterrestrials 414 00:21:34,919 --> 00:21:37,963 are present on Earth. 415 00:21:45,221 --> 00:21:48,808 Aviation designer Benjamin Robert Rich 416 00:21:48,808 --> 00:21:52,978 succeeds Kelly Johnson as the second director of Skunk Works. 417 00:21:52,978 --> 00:21:56,524 He will eventually become known as the "father of stealth." 418 00:21:58,526 --> 00:22:01,028 Ben Rich was one of the real legends 419 00:22:01,028 --> 00:22:03,113 of the history of American aviation, 420 00:22:03,113 --> 00:22:04,865 and‐and the classified world in general. 421 00:22:04,865 --> 00:22:07,159 And he's famously known as the man 422 00:22:07,159 --> 00:22:10,621 who's really behind the design of the F‐117A Nighthawk. 423 00:22:10,621 --> 00:22:12,373 That's the stealth fighter 424 00:22:12,373 --> 00:22:16,669 which would revolutionize aviation in the 1980s and 90s. 425 00:22:18,379 --> 00:22:22,800 NARRATOR: Another aviation expert and colleague, Jim Goodall, 426 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,636 heard rumors that Ben Rich had information 427 00:22:25,636 --> 00:22:28,556 confirming the existence of UFOs, 428 00:22:28,556 --> 00:22:31,016 so he decided to ask, point blank, 429 00:22:31,016 --> 00:22:35,187 what this legendary head of Skunk Works really believed. 430 00:22:35,187 --> 00:22:38,524 JIM GOODALL: Mr. Ben Rich was a friend of mine, 431 00:22:38,524 --> 00:22:41,777 and just before he passed away, I asked him, I said, 432 00:22:41,777 --> 00:22:43,612 "Do you believe in UFOs?" 433 00:22:43,612 --> 00:22:45,322 He said, he said, "Jim, 434 00:22:45,322 --> 00:22:47,324 "we have things out in the desert 435 00:22:47,324 --> 00:22:50,995 "that are 50 years beyond what you can comprehend. 436 00:22:50,995 --> 00:22:53,247 "Not what you think you can build in 50 years, 437 00:22:53,247 --> 00:22:55,541 "but what you can comprehend. 438 00:22:55,541 --> 00:22:58,961 "And if you've seen movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, 439 00:22:58,961 --> 00:23:01,255 we've been there, done that." 440 00:23:01,255 --> 00:23:06,302 To me, I think it was a deathbed confession. 441 00:23:06,302 --> 00:23:08,220 CORBELL: This is a man that would know 442 00:23:08,220 --> 00:23:11,473 what technologies we have in our inventory as humans 443 00:23:11,473 --> 00:23:13,017 and what we don't. 444 00:23:13,017 --> 00:23:16,604 Ben Rich was a believer in UFOs. 445 00:23:16,604 --> 00:23:19,982 I think beyond believer, I think he knew. 446 00:23:19,982 --> 00:23:23,652 NARRATOR: But of all the people who worked at Area 51, 447 00:23:23,652 --> 00:23:29,033 perhaps the most famous, or infamous, is Bob Lazar. 448 00:23:29,033 --> 00:23:33,704 No one has been more inflammatory, or controversial. 449 00:23:33,704 --> 00:23:36,332 As far as alien enthusiasts are concerned, 450 00:23:36,332 --> 00:23:38,918 Lazar has done more to turn 451 00:23:38,918 --> 00:23:41,086 a previously unknown military base 452 00:23:41,086 --> 00:23:43,380 in the middle of an obscure Nevada desert 453 00:23:43,380 --> 00:23:47,468 into the white‐hot center of America's obsession with UFOs, 454 00:23:47,468 --> 00:23:51,555 aliens and government conspiracies. 455 00:23:51,555 --> 00:23:54,224 But who is Bob Lazar? 456 00:23:54,224 --> 00:23:57,895 And what did he see at Area 51? 457 00:24:06,236 --> 00:24:09,990 Who among us has not heard about an alleged UFO cover‐up? 458 00:24:09,990 --> 00:24:11,867 NARRATOR: On local TV station KLAS, 459 00:24:11,867 --> 00:24:15,037 investigative reporter George Knapp 460 00:24:15,037 --> 00:24:17,998 interviews a man going by the name "Dennis" 461 00:24:17,998 --> 00:24:20,751 and shot in silhouette to hide his identity. 462 00:24:20,751 --> 00:24:25,047 The man claims to work at the secret military installation 463 00:24:25,047 --> 00:24:28,050 that the U. S. government still maintains does not exist. 464 00:24:28,050 --> 00:24:31,637 And according to him, the base does, in fact, 465 00:24:31,637 --> 00:24:34,431 hold extraterrestrial spacecraft. 466 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,852 GEORGE KNAPP: Exactly what's going on up there? 467 00:24:38,852 --> 00:24:43,023 BOB LAZAR: Well, there's several, uh, actually nine, uh, 468 00:24:43,023 --> 00:24:45,067 flying saucers, flying disks, 469 00:24:45,067 --> 00:24:48,487 uh, that are out there of extraterrestrial origin. 470 00:24:50,656 --> 00:24:52,032 POPE: Here was someone 471 00:24:52,032 --> 00:24:53,617 who claimed to have worked at Area 51, 472 00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:57,496 back engineering alien technology. 473 00:24:57,496 --> 00:25:00,916 UFOs that had crashed, possibly at Roswell, 474 00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:03,460 and trying to figure out how they worked. 475 00:25:03,460 --> 00:25:08,340 And then maybe building one ourselves. 476 00:25:10,217 --> 00:25:11,677 NARRATOR: Frightened that the government 477 00:25:11,677 --> 00:25:14,513 might try to harm him if he remains anonymous, 478 00:25:14,513 --> 00:25:17,182 the whistle‐blower and reporter George Knapp 479 00:25:17,182 --> 00:25:21,061 wrestle with the idea of revealing his name. 480 00:25:21,061 --> 00:25:24,523 The day that we unveiled his identity to the world, 481 00:25:24,523 --> 00:25:27,484 he's in the station and he grabs the tape, 482 00:25:27,484 --> 00:25:30,070 he said, "I've changed my mind, not gonna do it." 483 00:25:30,070 --> 00:25:32,406 Right up to the end, he was fighting it 484 00:25:32,406 --> 00:25:35,117 and arguing with himself about whether it's a good idea, 485 00:25:35,117 --> 00:25:36,577 even though his life had been threatened, 486 00:25:36,577 --> 00:25:39,872 his life had been turned upside down. 487 00:25:39,872 --> 00:25:41,457 NARRATOR: In the end, the whistle‐blower decided 488 00:25:41,457 --> 00:25:42,916 to come out from the shadows 489 00:25:42,916 --> 00:25:46,378 and reveal his name... Bob Lazar. 490 00:25:48,088 --> 00:25:50,382 The one good thing Bob Lazar did was came forward 491 00:25:50,382 --> 00:25:53,218 with George Knapp in 1989 on May 15, 492 00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:56,555 and by doing that, he protected himself. 493 00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:59,850 He was scared for his life, and he protected himself 494 00:25:59,850 --> 00:26:03,979 by telling you what happened to him in one shot, straight up. 495 00:26:03,979 --> 00:26:06,940 NARRATOR: From that day onward, 496 00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:11,070 Bob Lazar has remained the most controversial UFO whistle‐blower 497 00:26:11,070 --> 00:26:15,449 in history, and going public came at a heavy price. 498 00:26:15,449 --> 00:26:19,745 A price many believe was exacted by a government 499 00:26:19,745 --> 00:26:24,333 determined to hide the truth about Area 51. 500 00:26:24,333 --> 00:26:27,086 Not only was Bob's house broken into and they'd 501 00:26:27,086 --> 00:26:30,089 move stuff around, they'd write things on the, on the wall. 502 00:26:30,089 --> 00:26:32,132 He's got an Uzi peeking out the window. 503 00:26:32,132 --> 00:26:33,801 The fear was real. 504 00:26:33,801 --> 00:26:36,470 The threats that were made against him were real. 505 00:26:36,470 --> 00:26:38,138 The surveillance was real. 506 00:26:38,138 --> 00:26:40,682 NARRATOR: Faced with such harassment, 507 00:26:40,682 --> 00:26:44,561 Lazar retreated from public view for decades. 508 00:26:44,561 --> 00:26:47,815 I don't like being in the public eye. 509 00:26:47,815 --> 00:26:49,691 I don't have money for doing this, 510 00:26:49,691 --> 00:26:52,361 and quite frankly, I could make up a better lie, 511 00:26:52,361 --> 00:26:55,322 but I have no motivation to lie. 512 00:26:55,322 --> 00:26:58,408 NARRATOR: But if Bob Lazar's claims are true, 513 00:26:58,408 --> 00:27:00,911 just how much could he expose 514 00:27:00,911 --> 00:27:04,706 about what's really going on at Area 51? 515 00:27:04,706 --> 00:27:09,503 On December 4, 2018, 516 00:27:09,503 --> 00:27:12,464 Lazar finally decided to end years of silence 517 00:27:12,464 --> 00:27:16,718 and tell his full story to filmmaker Jeremy CORBELL 518 00:27:16,718 --> 00:27:18,512 in an explosive documentary entitled 519 00:27:18,512 --> 00:27:24,309 Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers. 520 00:27:24,309 --> 00:27:27,145 LAZAR: In the late 1980s, 521 00:27:27,145 --> 00:27:31,483 the U. S. government had recovered alien spacecraft, 522 00:27:31,483 --> 00:27:32,901 several of them, 523 00:27:32,901 --> 00:27:36,154 and the technology, in the Nevada desert 524 00:27:36,154 --> 00:27:39,324 that they were keeping quiet and analyzing. 525 00:27:39,324 --> 00:27:40,742 That's a fact. 526 00:27:40,742 --> 00:27:44,288 That's all my story was, 527 00:27:44,288 --> 00:27:48,083 was that I was just one of the people working on these craft. 528 00:27:48,083 --> 00:27:53,714 There probably wouldn't be this awareness of Area 51 529 00:27:53,714 --> 00:27:55,215 without Bob Lazar. 530 00:27:55,215 --> 00:27:59,052 And now we have the film, and suddenly 531 00:27:59,052 --> 00:28:01,972 he's back in the media and the public eye. 532 00:28:04,016 --> 00:28:06,643 NARRATOR: The most extraordinary technology that Lazar claims 533 00:28:06,643 --> 00:28:09,146 to have encountered at Area 51 534 00:28:09,146 --> 00:28:12,274 was an alien reactor, one that he believes 535 00:28:12,274 --> 00:28:15,402 has the potential to change the world. 536 00:28:15,402 --> 00:28:19,156 LAZAR: The first time they showed me the reactor in operation, 537 00:28:19,156 --> 00:28:21,325 just seeing something like that 538 00:28:21,325 --> 00:28:24,286 immediately starts that whole chain reaction in your mind 539 00:28:24,286 --> 00:28:26,455 going, "Wow, wait, if you can do this, 540 00:28:26,455 --> 00:28:28,123 "we don't need jet and rocket engines anymore. 541 00:28:28,123 --> 00:28:29,833 "That means there's... wait... 542 00:28:29,833 --> 00:28:31,835 there's no use for cars." I mean, boom, 543 00:28:31,835 --> 00:28:33,587 the whole thing changes. 544 00:28:33,587 --> 00:28:36,590 The entire world economy, everything, 545 00:28:36,590 --> 00:28:39,593 would go end‐on‐end, just if we had 546 00:28:39,593 --> 00:28:42,054 an answer to how that machine worked 547 00:28:42,054 --> 00:28:44,556 that I was sitting there, touching. 548 00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:49,394 NARRATOR: Jeremy Corbell's documentary caused a sensation, 549 00:28:49,394 --> 00:28:54,107 bringing Bob Lazar and Area 51 into the spotlight once again. 550 00:28:54,107 --> 00:28:57,819 Ultimately, it provided the spark 551 00:28:57,819 --> 00:29:00,614 that ignited the Storm Area 51 movement. 552 00:29:00,614 --> 00:29:02,699 ALEX DISCHINGER: We're all here thanks to Bob Lazar 553 00:29:02,699 --> 00:29:07,120 and, uh, his good work and bravery, to be honest. 554 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:08,747 I think, you know, with the Internet, 555 00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:10,791 we're just gonna continue to see more and more people 556 00:29:10,791 --> 00:29:12,209 explore the ideas. 557 00:29:12,209 --> 00:29:13,835 It's gonna grow hotter and hotter 558 00:29:13,835 --> 00:29:15,712 as people continue to question. 559 00:29:17,381 --> 00:29:19,007 NARRATOR: Is the U. S. government 560 00:29:19,007 --> 00:29:22,219 still operating a longstanding campaign to suppress 561 00:29:22,219 --> 00:29:25,222 the truth about Area 51? 562 00:29:25,222 --> 00:29:26,640 Perhaps further clues 563 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,434 can be found in information exposed 564 00:29:29,434 --> 00:29:32,187 by other whistle‐blowers. 565 00:29:32,187 --> 00:29:34,815 Whistle‐blowers who claim that Bob Lazar 566 00:29:34,815 --> 00:29:37,859 isn't the only one who has discovered the truth 567 00:29:37,859 --> 00:29:40,404 and then been harassed and discredited 568 00:29:40,404 --> 00:29:42,406 by the U. S. government. 569 00:29:48,245 --> 00:29:51,039 NARRATOR: Critics of Bob Lazar and his audacious claims 570 00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:54,793 about alien craft being studied at Area 51 571 00:29:54,793 --> 00:29:57,629 insist that there is no proof of him ever having worked 572 00:29:57,629 --> 00:30:00,215 at the top secret military facility. 573 00:30:00,215 --> 00:30:02,134 They suggest that his stories 574 00:30:02,134 --> 00:30:03,802 are simply made up. 575 00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:09,307 But a powerful new witness has come forward 576 00:30:09,307 --> 00:30:12,060 to corroborate Lazar's story, 577 00:30:12,060 --> 00:30:15,689 former Air Force pilot David Fruehauf. 578 00:30:15,689 --> 00:30:18,650 DAVID FRUEHAUF: It's only been for me, personally, 579 00:30:18,650 --> 00:30:20,527 in the last few years, 580 00:30:20,527 --> 00:30:23,321 all of a sudden, Bob Lazar's statements 581 00:30:23,321 --> 00:30:24,781 and all the things he had said 582 00:30:24,781 --> 00:30:26,992 have gelled now to the point 583 00:30:26,992 --> 00:30:29,244 where I think he's very credible. 584 00:30:30,912 --> 00:30:32,706 NARRATOR: While critics routinely claim 585 00:30:32,706 --> 00:30:35,542 that Lazar's supporters lack any credibility, 586 00:30:35,542 --> 00:30:38,670 they can hardly make that claim about Fruehauf. 587 00:30:48,555 --> 00:30:53,185 U.S. Air Force Captain David Fruehauf 588 00:30:53,185 --> 00:30:55,020 joins an elite group of pilots 589 00:30:55,020 --> 00:30:57,230 flying America's most sophisticated spy plane, 590 00:30:57,230 --> 00:30:59,232 the SR‐71. 591 00:30:59,232 --> 00:31:03,862 FRUEHAUF: I was an SR‐71 pilot for four and a half years. 592 00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:06,406 The aircraft, as far as performance went, 593 00:31:06,406 --> 00:31:09,534 it was an hour from coast to coast. 594 00:31:09,534 --> 00:31:13,371 It would warp your mind with that kind of performance. 595 00:31:13,371 --> 00:31:17,501 And you just felt so proud that you were... 596 00:31:17,501 --> 00:31:20,253 had an opportunity to‐to fly that airplane 597 00:31:20,253 --> 00:31:23,507 and to be a part of that unit and those people. 598 00:31:23,507 --> 00:31:24,925 It was family. 599 00:31:24,925 --> 00:31:28,386 NARRATOR: No one is surprised when the military assigns 600 00:31:28,386 --> 00:31:30,555 such an elite pilot 601 00:31:30,555 --> 00:31:34,601 to duties at America's most top secret Air Force base. 602 00:31:34,601 --> 00:31:36,937 FRUEHAUF: I worked at Area 51 603 00:31:36,937 --> 00:31:42,234 for six years, from 1979 till 1985. 604 00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:46,404 You had to have a special clearance, a top secret SBI, 605 00:31:46,404 --> 00:31:48,782 Special Background Investigation. 606 00:31:48,782 --> 00:31:52,285 Fortunately, I had gotten that while I was flying the SR, 607 00:31:52,285 --> 00:31:54,454 so it was an easy transition for me 608 00:31:54,454 --> 00:31:58,458 to move from the SR‐71 and my clearances and all 609 00:31:58,458 --> 00:32:01,128 over into Area 51. 610 00:32:01,128 --> 00:32:03,588 NARRATOR: Along with his colleagues, 611 00:32:03,588 --> 00:32:08,260 Fruehauf commuted each day from McCarran Airport in Las Vegas 612 00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:10,262 to Area 51, 613 00:32:10,262 --> 00:32:15,142 using a mysterious government carrier named Janet Airlines. 614 00:32:15,142 --> 00:32:17,978 BIRNES: One of the great stories about Area 51 615 00:32:17,978 --> 00:32:19,980 comes from engineer TD Barnes. 616 00:32:19,980 --> 00:32:21,606 Here's what he said. 617 00:32:21,606 --> 00:32:24,234 "If there were UFOs being reversed engineered 618 00:32:24,234 --> 00:32:26,695 at this base, I wouldn't know about it," 619 00:32:26,695 --> 00:32:30,157 because you flew out in an airline, Janet Airlines, 620 00:32:30,157 --> 00:32:32,200 and the windows were blacked out 621 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,785 so you didn't know where you were going. 622 00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:35,453 NARRATOR: Fruehauf noticed 623 00:32:35,453 --> 00:32:37,455 that on his daily commutes, 624 00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:40,458 a select group of scientists and military personnel 625 00:32:40,458 --> 00:32:44,045 also boarded the Janet 737 in Las Vegas. 626 00:32:45,463 --> 00:32:47,674 When the plane landed at Area 51, 627 00:32:47,674 --> 00:32:50,427 this group boarded a bus 628 00:32:50,427 --> 00:32:52,512 and headed to an even more secretive facility 629 00:32:52,512 --> 00:32:56,516 code‐named Site Four, or S‐4. 630 00:32:56,516 --> 00:33:00,645 FRUEHAUF: When I was there, we knew about S‐4, 631 00:33:00,645 --> 00:33:02,355 but we didn't know what they did. 632 00:33:02,355 --> 00:33:04,816 All we knew was there was certain people that got on 633 00:33:04,816 --> 00:33:09,237 the 737 in the morning, and we got to Area 51, 634 00:33:09,237 --> 00:33:12,657 they would take and go off in a different direction in a bus 635 00:33:12,657 --> 00:33:14,201 and then we went on to the north, 636 00:33:14,201 --> 00:33:16,369 going up towards the hangars. 637 00:33:16,369 --> 00:33:20,999 NARRATOR: Fruehauf never knew exactly what was going on at Site Four 638 00:33:20,999 --> 00:33:23,752 during his time at Area 51. 639 00:33:23,752 --> 00:33:27,505 But when he heard Bob Lazar's story years later, 640 00:33:27,505 --> 00:33:29,716 he found that Lazar's description of flying 641 00:33:29,716 --> 00:33:34,679 to Area 51 on a Janet 737 and traveling to S‐4 642 00:33:34,679 --> 00:33:37,265 rang true in every detail. 643 00:33:37,265 --> 00:33:41,394 FRUEHAUF: When I heard, uh, Bob Lazar describe getting on the 737 644 00:33:41,394 --> 00:33:44,814 and fly to Area 51 and get off 645 00:33:44,814 --> 00:33:49,527 and go through the terminal and go to, uh, S‐4... 646 00:33:49,527 --> 00:33:52,405 and everything he talked about and the way he put it, 647 00:33:52,405 --> 00:33:55,367 uh, he sounded totally, uh, believable to me. 648 00:33:55,367 --> 00:33:58,245 NARRATOR: Critics contend that no actual eyewitnesses 649 00:33:58,245 --> 00:33:59,996 have ever come forward 650 00:33:59,996 --> 00:34:05,877 to confirm that Lazar worked at Area 51, much less at Site Four. 651 00:34:05,877 --> 00:34:08,463 But Fruehauf claims otherwise. 652 00:34:08,463 --> 00:34:10,090 FRUEHAUF: I know people 653 00:34:10,090 --> 00:34:13,260 that had worked for me, that after I left there, 654 00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:15,470 they had seen Bob Lazar there, 655 00:34:15,470 --> 00:34:18,014 and they admitted that to me recently. 656 00:34:18,014 --> 00:34:22,394 I know that his critics piled on because obviously, 657 00:34:22,394 --> 00:34:26,564 they did not want the word to come out that there were, 658 00:34:26,564 --> 00:34:29,651 in fact, uh, UFOs in our possession, 659 00:34:29,651 --> 00:34:32,654 and that he was revealing a capability 660 00:34:32,654 --> 00:34:36,157 to perhaps our enemies 661 00:34:36,157 --> 00:34:39,911 that we, in fact, were, uh, alien technologies. 662 00:34:42,372 --> 00:34:44,499 NARRATOR: But Dave Fruehauf is not 663 00:34:44,499 --> 00:34:47,335 the only highly regarded aviation expert 664 00:34:47,335 --> 00:34:50,422 to corroborate Bob Lazar's explosive story. 665 00:34:50,422 --> 00:34:55,719 Jim Goodall is a U. S. Air Force veteran, military historian 666 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,431 and investigative author who befriended Bob Lazar 667 00:34:59,431 --> 00:35:04,019 before Lazar was hired to work at Area 51. 668 00:35:04,019 --> 00:35:07,939 Back then, Lazar worked at the Sandia nuclear lab 669 00:35:07,939 --> 00:35:12,110 in Albuquerque, and was a vocal UFO skeptic. 670 00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:16,489 I have the distinction of knowing him for quite a while. 671 00:35:16,489 --> 00:35:19,534 Yeah, he had been working in developing nuclear weapons 672 00:35:19,534 --> 00:35:21,161 for Sandia. 673 00:35:21,161 --> 00:35:22,829 You couldn't put a gun to his head 674 00:35:22,829 --> 00:35:25,290 to convince him that UFOs were real. 675 00:35:25,290 --> 00:35:27,542 NARRATOR: But Bob Lazar's skepticism 676 00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:31,796 about the existence of UFOs was about to change. 677 00:35:31,796 --> 00:35:34,215 GOODALL: A year later or so, 678 00:35:34,215 --> 00:35:37,260 there's a silhouetted guy talking about 679 00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:40,180 doing reverse engineering on alien spacecraft, 680 00:35:40,180 --> 00:35:43,141 and that‐that silhouette was Bob Lazar. 681 00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:46,311 NARRATOR: In an effort to help his friend 682 00:35:46,311 --> 00:35:49,564 prove he worked at Area 51 and Site Four, 683 00:35:49,564 --> 00:35:52,984 then‐Sergeant Goodall took Lazar's military tax form 684 00:35:52,984 --> 00:35:56,821 to the Office of Naval Investigations at the Pentagon. 685 00:35:56,821 --> 00:36:00,659 What happened when he got there was chilling. 686 00:36:00,659 --> 00:36:03,870 GOODALL: There's a young, uh, lieutenant commander behind the desk. 687 00:36:03,870 --> 00:36:07,707 And I handed him Bob Lazar's W‐2. 688 00:36:07,707 --> 00:36:11,836 He looks at it, said, "Excuse me for a minute." 689 00:36:11,836 --> 00:36:15,256 And he says, "The admiral will see you now." 690 00:36:15,256 --> 00:36:19,260 I mean an admiral, to go talk to an Air Force tech sergeant 691 00:36:19,260 --> 00:36:23,348 is really below his level of interrogation. 692 00:36:23,348 --> 00:36:26,893 And he's looking at Lazar's W‐2, and he said, 693 00:36:26,893 --> 00:36:29,938 "Sergeant, I don't know where in the hell you got this, 694 00:36:29,938 --> 00:36:33,316 "but if I ever see your face cross my threshold again, 695 00:36:33,316 --> 00:36:36,528 "you'll be the most sorry son of a bitch NCO 696 00:36:36,528 --> 00:36:38,113 in the United States Air Force," 697 00:36:38,113 --> 00:36:42,033 as gets Bob's W‐2 and he puts it in the shredder. 698 00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:44,703 And he says, "You are dismissed." 699 00:36:44,703 --> 00:36:47,414 CORBELL: So he was warned 700 00:36:47,414 --> 00:36:50,542 to stop asking questions about Bob Lazar. 701 00:36:50,542 --> 00:36:53,211 Anybody trying to seek the truth about Bob Lazar, 702 00:36:53,211 --> 00:36:55,213 there was pressure applied on them. 703 00:36:55,213 --> 00:36:56,339 And that's just the way it works 704 00:36:56,339 --> 00:36:58,383 when you want to try to silence somebody. 705 00:36:58,383 --> 00:37:02,929 NARRATOR: Have the kinds of pressures exerted against Bob Lazar 706 00:37:02,929 --> 00:37:07,642 continued to obscure the search for the truth about Area 51? 707 00:37:07,642 --> 00:37:10,895 If so, will such secrets continue 708 00:37:10,895 --> 00:37:12,772 to remain out of reach to the activists 709 00:37:12,772 --> 00:37:15,900 of the Storm Area 51 movement? 710 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:20,071 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 711 00:37:20,071 --> 00:37:23,992 that will depend on a new generation of truth‐seekers, 712 00:37:23,992 --> 00:37:26,911 and a powerful movement that is just beginning to take shape. 713 00:37:40,341 --> 00:37:45,472 NARRATOR: The Storm Area 51 event comes to an end without incident. 714 00:37:45,472 --> 00:37:46,931 POPE: Here in Rachel, 715 00:37:46,931 --> 00:37:48,933 people were fearing the worst. 716 00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:50,435 WAYNE DICE: So everybody's coming out here, 717 00:37:50,435 --> 00:37:52,437 to‐to really, to see what was gonna happen. 718 00:37:52,437 --> 00:37:54,439 We're out here to make it a safe event for everybody. 719 00:37:54,439 --> 00:37:57,400 I think the order has come down. 720 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,986 We do not want mass arrests here. 721 00:37:59,986 --> 00:38:01,946 We do not want trouble. 722 00:38:01,946 --> 00:38:03,782 GEORGE HARRIS: You know, they had a few arrests, 723 00:38:03,782 --> 00:38:04,949 and, uh, other than that, 724 00:38:04,949 --> 00:38:06,201 they didn't have any incidents at all. 725 00:38:06,201 --> 00:38:07,577 Everybody behaved. 726 00:38:11,456 --> 00:38:13,291 When we look at all the disinformation 727 00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:16,252 circling the event of storming Area 51, 728 00:38:16,252 --> 00:38:19,214 from the media, from the government, from social media, 729 00:38:19,214 --> 00:38:21,424 it made it a convoluted mess 730 00:38:21,424 --> 00:38:25,011 that was easily something that most people just chose to avoid. 731 00:38:25,011 --> 00:38:28,973 NARRATOR: Amid what some consider to be a concerted government effort 732 00:38:28,973 --> 00:38:31,476 to intimidate UFO believers, 733 00:38:31,476 --> 00:38:36,648 many doubt whether the Storm Area 51 movement can last, 734 00:38:36,648 --> 00:38:39,651 while others hope that this small beginning will blossom 735 00:38:39,651 --> 00:38:41,820 into something much larger. 736 00:38:41,820 --> 00:38:46,157 POPE: What we might find, when we look back on this, 737 00:38:46,157 --> 00:38:47,992 is that this was the beginning 738 00:38:47,992 --> 00:38:51,371 of some sort of cultural movement. 739 00:38:51,371 --> 00:38:54,833 Something that will grow, year on year. 740 00:38:54,833 --> 00:38:57,710 We might find that it starts 741 00:38:57,710 --> 00:39:00,588 as just maybe a small one‐off event, 742 00:39:00,588 --> 00:39:05,718 but evolves into something with global recognition... 743 00:39:05,718 --> 00:39:07,387 You're all part of this. Become active participants, 744 00:39:07,387 --> 00:39:09,389 not passive observers. 745 00:39:09,389 --> 00:39:13,184 POPE: ...and it becomes a mainstream event. 746 00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:15,186 REDFERN: I think a lot of people, 747 00:39:15,186 --> 00:39:18,857 particularly due to pop culture, know of Area 51 748 00:39:18,857 --> 00:39:21,734 and they accept it as gospel 749 00:39:21,734 --> 00:39:25,530 that there really are UFOs and aliens out there. 750 00:39:25,530 --> 00:39:29,117 That sort of demonstrates how the public is coming around 751 00:39:29,117 --> 00:39:33,288 to the idea that alien life is a reality. 752 00:39:35,456 --> 00:39:40,712 KEN LAYNE: For some people, the events were a good time and a fun weekend. 753 00:39:40,712 --> 00:39:42,714 It could turn a handful of people 754 00:39:42,714 --> 00:39:46,426 into the next decade's prominent researchers 755 00:39:46,426 --> 00:39:50,722 on UFOs and government secrecy and flying saucers 756 00:39:50,722 --> 00:39:55,685 and government corruption and the military‐industrial state. 757 00:39:55,685 --> 00:40:00,481 HOWE: We are at a revolutionary moment. 758 00:40:00,481 --> 00:40:04,569 You've got an entire generation of young people now 759 00:40:04,569 --> 00:40:06,571 who have been galvanized, and they will be looking 760 00:40:06,571 --> 00:40:09,908 for legitimate, credible news 761 00:40:09,908 --> 00:40:12,201 about high strangeness on this planet 762 00:40:12,201 --> 00:40:15,580 in numbers that have not happened before. 763 00:40:15,580 --> 00:40:19,000 NARRATOR: For many, the gates of Area 51 764 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,086 are both real and symbolic. 765 00:40:22,086 --> 00:40:25,423 Real in the sense that the gates may hide evidence 766 00:40:25,423 --> 00:40:28,426 of an actual alien presence on Earth, 767 00:40:28,426 --> 00:40:31,930 symbolic in that they represent 768 00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:33,473 the government's wider determination 769 00:40:33,473 --> 00:40:37,477 to cling to secrecy for as long as possible. 770 00:40:39,437 --> 00:40:42,398 The U. S. government has kept so many secrets from the people 771 00:40:42,398 --> 00:40:44,776 that I think that's, you know, a major driving force 772 00:40:44,776 --> 00:40:46,444 for people to come here. 773 00:40:46,444 --> 00:40:48,279 I don't know if this is a movement that we're seeing, 774 00:40:48,279 --> 00:40:50,865 but the people want to know the truth, right? 775 00:40:50,865 --> 00:40:53,993 And they want to know if there are secrets being kept form us. 776 00:40:53,993 --> 00:40:56,120 And I think if that forms a movement, 777 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:57,121 that would be awesome. 778 00:40:57,121 --> 00:40:58,957 COLLIN ANDERSON: What's behind those gates 779 00:40:58,957 --> 00:41:00,541 is one of the last mysteries. 780 00:41:00,541 --> 00:41:05,171 Bottom of the ocean, Area 51 and aliens. 781 00:41:05,171 --> 00:41:08,007 POPE: I think the only way to get the government 782 00:41:08,007 --> 00:41:11,260 to come up with answers is to keep the pressure on. 783 00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:13,680 Keep demanding answers. 784 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:18,476 A new generation has to continue to demand answers, 785 00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:22,313 and do what the past generation failed to achieve. 786 00:41:22,313 --> 00:41:26,776 NARRATOR: In the end, some believe that the harsh treatment 787 00:41:26,776 --> 00:41:29,862 once suffered by Bob Lazar is being repeated today 788 00:41:29,862 --> 00:41:34,325 in the government's response to the Storm Area 51 movement. 789 00:41:34,325 --> 00:41:37,078 They fear that under the onslaught 790 00:41:37,078 --> 00:41:38,663 of official intimidation, 791 00:41:38,663 --> 00:41:41,374 the drive for answers will slowly fade, 792 00:41:41,374 --> 00:41:45,670 and the secrets of Area 51 will remain hidden. 793 00:41:45,670 --> 00:41:49,173 But others are determined to make this modest event 794 00:41:49,173 --> 00:41:51,592 the beginning of a mass movement 795 00:41:51,592 --> 00:41:55,013 that will ultimately force open the gates of secrecy 796 00:41:55,013 --> 00:41:58,558 to finally reveal that both in the universe at large 797 00:41:58,558 --> 00:42:01,561 and right here on Earth, 798 00:42:01,561 --> 00:42:04,439 we are not alone. 65233

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