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- [Narrator] The modern era of UFO sightings began in 1947

when Kenneth Arnold, a businessman and pilot from Idaho,

spotted what he believed was a formation

of flying saucers near Mount Rainier in Washington.

Encounters with unidentified flying objects

have been recorded since ancient times

but Arnold's sighting hooked the American public.

It was the encounter that launched a thousand theories.

Some 6,000 UFO encounters are reported every year.

98% or more of sightings are basically misidentifications.

They're airplanes or Chinese lanterns

or a variety of different things.

What's left are the truly unexplained and mysterious

and those become the top UFO encounters of all time.

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We begin with the oldest known photograph of a UFO.

The photo was taken in 1870

at Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

This was originally a stereo photograph

which would be difficult to manipulate.

At that time the term UFO didn't exist

nor did Photoshop or other image manipulation techniques.

The object is huge, oblong

and flying against a cloud background.

No more information about the photo or object is known.

Because of the date it was taken

and it's obvious flying capabilities

it is one of the most mysterious UFO encounters

caught on film.

In the 1890's,

other mysterious aircraft began to be reported.

Mystery air ships or phantom air ships

are a class of unidentified flying objects

best known from a series of newspaper reports

originating in the western United States

and spreading east during the late 1896 through 1897 period.

Air ship sightings were reported worldwide

during the 1880's and 1890's.

Mystery air ship reports are seen as a cultural predecessor

to modern claims of extraterrestrial piloted

flying saucer type UFO's.

Typical air ship reports involved nighttime sightings

of unidentified lights,

but more detailed accounts reported ships

comparable to a dirigible.

Reports of the alleged crewmen and pilots

usually described them as human looking,

though sometimes the crew claimed to be from Mars.

It was popularly believed that the mystery air ships

were the product of some inventor or genius

who was not ready to make known of his creation public.

For example, Thomas Edison was so widely speculated

to be the mind behind the alleged air ships

that in 1897 he was forced to issue

a strongly worded statement denying his responsibility.

During the 1896 to 1897 timeframe,

numerous sightings of a cigar shaped mystery air ship

were reported across the United States.

One of these accounts appeared in the April 17, 1897 edition

of the Dallas Morning News.

Written by a Dallas Morning News stringer S E Haydon,

the alleged UFO is said to have hit a windmill

on the property of Judge J S Proctor

two days earlier at around six AM local time

resulting in its crash.

The pilot, who was reported to be not of this world

and a Marsian according to a reported Army Signal Service

officer named TJ Weend from nearby Fort Worth

did not survive the crash

and was buried with Christian rights

at the nearby Aurora Cemetery.

The cemetery contains a Texas Historical Commission marker

mentioning the incident.

Reportedly wreckage from the crash site

was dumped into a nearby well

located under the damaged windmill

while some ended up with the alien in its grave.

Adding to the mystery was the story of Mr. Braw-ley Oates

who purchased Judge Proctor's property around 1935.

Oates cleaned out the debris from the well

in order to use it as a water source

but later developed an extremely severe case of arthritis,

which he claimed to be the result of contaminated water

from the wreckage dumped into the well.

As a result, Oates sealed up the well with a concrete slab

and placed an out-building atop the slab.

To this day, the cemetery still contains the burial site

of the alien, however the county will not allow

anyone to dig it up.

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On April 12th, 1941 in Cape Girardeau

the Reverend William Huffman was called

to what he thought was a plane crash

to read the last rights of the passengers.

A car arrived at his house and they drove

about 18 miles or so outside of Cape Girardeau

closer to the Chaffee area.

When they showed up on the scene, it was not a plane crash.

It was allegedly a flying saucer.

Classic, silver, round disc that had crashed

that had started a fire.

There were police and firemen there

to take care of the scene,

put out the fire on a local farmer's field.

The reverend arrived and saw a classic flying disc

with part of the side ripped open

and two alien bodies that were dead

and one that may have been dying.

It may have been alive but couldn't breathe.

The reverend looked inside the flying saucer

and saw wires and components of some sort of alien design.

There were strange hieroglyphics

and bizarre knobs and dials.

The reverend knew that he couldn't give the last rights.

About that time the Army Corps arrived from Sikeston Field

and cordoned off the area and swore everybody to secrecy,

then tried to confiscate all cameras.

There were pictures allegedly taken that night

of men holding one of the alien bodies

and somewhere out there those pictures exist.

The story came through Charlotte Mann

who was the reverend's granddaughter

who began to give accounts of the story in the late 70's.

It was a document of a deathbed confession

by the reverend himself.

Reverend Mann told the story to his granddaughter

and she had seen some of the pictures.

To this day, no one knows where the photos are now

but many families in the area remember the event.

It could be the first UFO crash in North America

and certainly is one of the top UFO mysteries of all time.

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A photo published in the Los Angeles Times

on February 26, 1942 has been cited by some ufologists

and conspiracy theorists as part of evidence

that an extraterrestrial visitation happened.

They assert that the photo clearly shows

searchlights focused on an alien spaceship.

The Battle of Los Angeles is an incident that occurred

less than three months after the United States

entered World War Two in response

to the Imperial Japanese Navy's surprise attack

on Pearl Harbor and one day after the bombardment of Ellwood

on February 23rd.

Initially the target of the aerial barrage

was thought to be an attacking force from Japan.

The photo clearly shows a saucer craft

in the searchlight's crossed beams.

Several buildings and vehicles were damaged

by shell fragments and five civilians died

as an indirect result of the anti-aircraft fire,

three killed in car accidents in the ensuing chaos

and two of heart attacks attributed to the stress

of the hour long action.

The incident was front page news along the US Pacific coast

and across the nation.

To this day, no one knows what they were shooting at

and no wreckage was ever found.

Many believe this was a UFO

that appeared at the wrong place and at the wrong time.

The modern day UFO phenomenon began in 1947

with the aforementioned Kenneth Arnold UFO sightings.

Private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed

that he saw a stream of nine

shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Ranier

at speeds that Arnold estimated at a minimum

of 1,200 miles per hour.

This was the first post-war sighting in the United States

that garnered nationwide news coverage

and is accredited of being the first of the modern era

of UFO sightings, including numerous reported sightings

over the next two to three weeks.

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Of all the top UFO encounters,

one would be remiss without mentioning Roswell, New Mexico.

In July 1947, something happened northwest of Roswell

during a severe thunderstorm.

Was it a flying saucer?

Was it a weather balloon?

What happened?

The answer is nothing, for many years,

until leading UFO researcher Stanton Friedman

came across the story in the early 1980's

and began to search for information and witnesses.

That research brought him to Roswell,

looking for the public information officer

who had been at Roswell Army Airfield in 1947.

That officer was Lieutenant Walter Haut.

He still lived in Roswell and remembered the press release

and the orders from his commanding officer.

Friedman's investigation also led to many others,

both military and private, who had information

to add to the Roswell incident story.

Stepping into the picture very strongly in the late 1980's

were Don Schmitt, Kevin Randall and Tom Carey.

Since then, Schmitt and Carey

have dedicated their research to Roswell.

The debris recovered by rancher WW Mack Brazel

was gathered by the military from the Roswell Army Airfield

under the direction of base intelligence officer,

Major Jesse Marcel.

On July 8th, 1947, public information officer

Lieutenant Walter Haut issued a press release

under the orders from base commander

Colonel William Blanchard which said basically

that we have in our possession a flying saucer.

The next day another press release was issued,

this time from General Roger Ramey

stating it was just a weather ballon.

That was the start of the best known

and well documented UFO cover up.

Once it became public

the event known as the Roswell Incident,

the crash of an alleged flying saucer,

the recovery of debris and bodies

and the ensuing coverup by the military

was of such magnitude and so shrouded in mystery

that 70 years later

there's still more questions than answers.

Books have been written

and TV documentaries have been filmed.

Witnesses have come forward,

skeptics have issued rebuttals to the incident

and the debate continues.

The tiny town of Roswell flourishes

due to the incident to this day.

It is a mecca for UFO enthusiasts and truth seekers.

Some say the government still has the saucer and aliens

hidden away in some bunker somewhere.

Deathbed confessions continue to get reported

by people who were there and Roswell has a firm place

in the top UFO encounters.

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On January 7th, 1948, 25 year old Captain Thomas F Mantell,

a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot,

died in the crash of his P-51 Mustang fighter

after being sent in pursuit

of an unidentified flying object.

The event was among some of the most publicized

early UFO incidents.

Later investigation by the United States Air Force

Project Blue Book indicated that Mantell may have died

chasing a Skyhook balloon,

which in 1948 was a top secret project

that Mantell would not have known about.

Mantell pursued the object in a steep climb

and disregarded suggestions to level his altitude.

At high altitude he blacked out from a lack of oxygen.

His plane went into a downward spiral and crashed.

In 1956, Air Force Captain Edward J Ruppelt,

the first head of the Project Blue Book,

wrote that the Mantell crash was one of three

classic UFO cases in 1948

that would help to define the UFO phenomenon

in the public mind and would help convince

some Air Force intelligence specialists

that UFO's were a real physical phenomenon.

The other two classic sightings in 1948

were the Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter

and the Gorman dogfight.

Historian David M Jacobs argues the Mantell case

marked a sharp shift in both public

and governmental perceptions of UFO's.

Previously the news media often treated UFO reports

with a whimsical or flip attitude

reserved for silly season news.

Following Mantell's death, however,

Jacobs notes the fact that a person had died

in an encounter with an alleged flying saucer

dramatically increased public concern about the phenomenon.

Now, a dramatic new prospect entered

throughout the UFO community.

They may not be only extraterrestrial

but potentially hostile as well.

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The Aztec, New Mexico UFO incident,

sometimes known as the other Roswell

was a flying saucer crash alleged to have happened in 1948

in Aztec, New Mexico.

The story was first published in 1949 by Arthur Frank Scully

in his variety magazine columns

and later in his 1950 book, Behind The Flying Saucers.

Beginning in the 1970's,

some ufologists resurrected the story in books

claiming the purported crash was real.

In 2013 and FBI memo claimed by some ufologists

to substantiate the crash story was dismissed

by the Bureau as a second or third-hand claim

that we never investigated.

According to Scully,

in March 1948 an unidentified aerial crash

containing 16 humanoid bodies

was recovered by the military in New Mexico

after making a controlled landing in Hart Canyon

12 miles northeast of the city of Aztec.

The craft was said to be 99 feet in diameter,

the largest UFO to date.

Scully named as his sources

two men identified as Newton and Gebauer,

who reportedly told him the incident had been covered up

and the military had taken the craft for secret research.

Scully wrote that the crashed UFO

along with other flying saucers captured by the government

worked on magnetic principles.

According to Scully,

the inhabitants stocked concentrated food wafers

and heavy water for drinking purposes

and every dimension of the craft

was divisible by nine.

In the late 70's author Leonard Stringfield purported

that not only was the incident real

but that the craft involved was one of many captured

and stored by the US military.

In later years, many alleged first hand accounts

of the Roswell crash contained the Aztec crash story

with some claiming the craft was made of a material

impervious to all heat

while other claiming the craft was damaged by the crash.

The supposed humanoid bodies were said to measure

between 36 inches and 42 inches in height

and weighed about 40 pounds.

Ufologists claim that shortly after the craft was downed

the military cleared the area of evidence

including the bodies, subsequently taking it to Hangar 18

at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The Aztec UFO crash is certainly one of the top

UFO encounters of all time.

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The McMinnville UFO photographs were taken on a farm

near McMinnville, Oregon, United States in 1950.

The photos were reprinted in Life Magazine

and in newspapers across the nation

and are often considered to be among

the most famous ever taken of a UFO.

UFO skeptics believe that the photos are a hoax

but many ufologists continue to argue

that the photos are genuine

and show an unidentified flying object in the sky.

In 1975 the negatives were found

in files of the News Register by Bruce Maccabee,

an optical physicist for the US Navy and a ufologist.

After completing his own study of the photos,

Maccabee assured that the original negatives

were finally returned to the Trents.

Maccabee analyzed the photos and concluded

that the photographs were not hoaxed

and showed a real physical object in the sky

above the Trent farm.

Much of his analysis is based on densitometric measurements,

similar to the photometric analysis done by Hartmann.

Maccabee argued that the brightness

of the object's underside suggested it was

at some distance from the camera,

not a smaller object close to it.

Maccabee also analyzed the position

of various objects in the image

as well as an image prepared by Hartmann

when he visited the site in June of 1967.

Based on this, Maccabee argued that the line of sight

of the two images intersected some distance

behind the power lines seen in the photos

provided further evidence in his opinion

that it was not a small model suspended from the lines.

Maccabee stated that his analysis of the object

did not find any evidence of a thread or strings

suspending it from the power lines.

The McMinnville UFO photographs remained

among the best publicized in UFO history.

Skeptics continued to explain the two photographs

as being hoaxes and or faked.

Ufologists continue to argue that the Trent photos

are credible evidence that UFO's are real,

a physical phenomenon.

Evelyn Trent died in 1997 and Paul Trent in 1998.

Both insisted until the end of their lives

that the sighting and the photos were genuine.

The interest surrounding the Trent UFO photos

led to an annual UFO festival

being established in McMinnville.

It's now the largest such gathering in the Pacific Northwest

and is the second largest UFO festival in the nation

after the one held in Roswell, New Mexico.

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The Lubbock Lights were an unusual formation of lights

seen over the city of Lubbock, Texas

in August and September 1951.

The Lubbock Lights incident received national publicity

in the United States a genuine UFO sighting.

The Lubbock Lights were investigated

by the US Air Force in 1951.

The Air Force initially believed the lights

were caused by a type of bird called a plover.

Eventually concluded that the lights weren't birds

but they weren't space ships.

The Lubbock Lights have been positively identified

by a very commonplace and easily explainable

natural phenomenon.

However, to maintain the anonymity of the scientist

who had provided the explanation

the Air Force refrained from providing any details

regarding their explanation for the lights.

The first publicized sighting of the lights

occurred on August 25th, 1951 at around nine PM.

Three professors from Texas Technological College,

now Texas Tech University, located in Lubbock,

were sitting in the backyard of one of the professors homes

when they observed the lights fly overhead.

A total of 20 to 30 lights as bright as stars

but larger in size flew over the yard

in a matter of seconds.

The professors immediately ruled out meteors

as a possible cause of the sighting

and as they discussed their sightings

a second, similar group of lights flew overhead.

The three professors, Dr. AG Oberg, chemical engineer,

Dr. WL Ducker, a department head and petroleum engineer

and Dr. WI Robinson, a geologist,

reported their sightings to the local newspaper,

the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

Following the newspaper's article,

three women in Lubbock reported

that they had observed peculiar flashing lights

in the sky on the same night of the professors' sightings.

Dr. Carl Hemminger, a professor of German at Texas Tech,

also reported seeing the objects,

as did the head of the college's journalism department.

The three professors became determined

to view the objects again

and perhaps discover their identity.

On September 5, 1951, all three men

along with two other professors from Texas Tech,

were sitting in Dr. Robinson's front yard

when the lights flew overhead.

According to Dr. Grayson Mead

the lights appeared to be about the size of a dinner plate

and they were greenish-blue, slightly fluorescent in color.

They were smaller than the full moon at the horizon.

There were about a dozen to fifteen of these lights.

They were absolutely circular.

It gave all of us an extremely eerie feeling.

Mead claimed that the lights could not have been birds

but he also stated that they went over so fast

that we wished we could have had a better look.

The professors observed one formation of lights

flying above a thin cloud of about 2,000 feet.

This allowed them to calculate

that the lights were traveling at over 600 miles per hour.

The photo was taken well before drones existed

and remains one of the most mysterious

and top UFO encounters of all time.

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The 1952 Washington DC UFO incident,

also known as the Washington National Airport sightings

or the invasion of Washington

was a series of unidentified flying object reports

from July 12th to July 29th in 1952 over Washington DC.

UFO's flew over and around the White House and Capitol.

The most publicized sightings took place

on consecutive weekends, July 19th through 20th

and July 26th through 27th.

UFO historian Curtis Peebles called the incident

the climax of the 1952 UFO flap.

Never before or after did Project Blue Book

and the Air Force undergo such a tidal wave of UFO reports.

At 11:40 PM on Saturday, July 19th, 1952, Edward Nugent,

an air traffic controller at Washington National Airport,

which is today Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport,

spotted seven objects on his radar.

The objects were located 15 miles

south-southwest of the city.

No known aircraft were in the area

and the objects were not following

any established flight paths.

Nugent's superior, Harry Barnes,

a senior air-traffic controller at the airport,

watched the objects on Nugent's radarscope.

He later wrote we knew immediately

that a very strange situation existed.

Their movements were completely radical

compared to those of ordinary aircraft.

Barnes had two controllers check Nugent's radar.

They found that it was working normally.

Barnes then called National Airport's

radar-equipped control tower.

The controllers there, Howard Cocklin and Joe Zacko,

said that they also had unidentified blips

on their radar screen and that they had seen

a bright light hovering in the sky.

It took off, zooming away at incredible speed.

Cocklin told Zacko, "Did you see that?

"What the hell was that?"

At this point other objects appeared

in all sectors of the radarscope

when they moved over the White House

and the United States Capitol.

Barnes called Andrews Air Force Base,

located 10 miles from National Airport.

Although Andrews reported that they had no unusual objects

on their radar, an airman soon called

the base's control tower to report

the sighting of a strange object.

Airman William Brady, who was in the tower,

then saw an object which appeared to be

like an orange ball of fire.

It was unlike anything I had ever seen before.

As Brady tried to alert the other personnel in the tower,

the strange object took off at an unbelievable speed.

On one of National Airport's runways,

S.C. Pierman, a Capital Airlines pilot,

was waiting in the cockpit of his DC-4

for permission to take off.

After spotting what he believed to be a meteor,

he was told that the control tower's radar

had detected unknown objects closing in on his position.

Pierman observed six objects,

white, tailless, fast-moving lights over a 14-minute period.

Pierman was in radio contact with Barnes

during his sighting and Barnes later related

that each sighting coincided

with a pip we could see near his plane.

When he reported that the light

streaked off at a high speed, it disappeared on our scope.

At Andrews Air Force Base, meanwhile,

the control tower personnel were tracking on radar

what some thought to be unknown objects

and others suspected might be simply stars and meteors.

However, Staff Sgt. Charles Davenport

observed an orange-red light to the south.

The light would appear to stand still

then make an abrupt change in direction and altitude.

This happened several times.

At one point both radar centers at National Airport

and the radar at Andrews Air Force Base

were tracking an object hovering over a radio beacon.

The object vanished in all three radar centers

at the same time.

At three AM, shortly before two United States Air Force

F-94 Starfire jet fighters from New Castle Air Force Base

in Delaware arrived over Washington,

all of the objects vanished from the radar

at National Airport.

However, when the jets ran low on fuel and left,

the objects returned which convinced Barnes

that the UFOs were monitoring radio traffic

and behaving accordingly.

The objects were last detected by radar at 5:30 AM.

UFO's flying over our nation's capital

is of course very disturbing and makes this sighting

one of the top UFO encounters of all time.

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First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Jr, presumed dead,

was a United States Air Force pilot

who disappeared while performing an air defense intercept

over Lake Superior in 1953.

This is sometimes known as the Kinross incident

after Kinross Air Force Base where Moncla

was on temporary assignment when he disappeared

chasing a UFO radar blip.

On the evening of November 23, 1953,

Air Defense Command Ground Intercept radar in Michigan

identified an unusual target near the Soo Locks

designated a UFO.

An F-89C Scorpion jet from Kinross Air Force Base

was scrambled to investigate the radar return.

The Scorpion was piloted by First Lieutenant Moncla

with Second Lieutenant Robert L Wilson

acting as the Scorpion's radar operator.

Wilson had a difficult time tracking the object

on the Scorpion's radar,

so ground radar operators gave Moncla directions

towards the object as he flew.

Moncla eventually closed in on the object

at about 8,000 feet in altitude.

Ground Control tracked the Scorpion

and the unidentified object as two blips

on the radar screen.

The two blips on the radar screen grew closer and closer

until they seemed to merge.

Assuming that Moncla had flown either under

or over the target,

Ground Control anticipated that moments later

the Scorpion and the object would again appear

as two separate blips.

Donald Keyhoe reported that there was a fear

that the two objects had struck one another

but the single blip continued on its previous course.

Attempts were made to contact Moncla via radio

but without success.

A search and rescue operation by both

the United States Air Force and the RCAF

was quickly mounted but failed to find a trace

of the plane or the pilots.

Weather conditions were a factor in hampering the search.

To this day, Moncla is presumed dead

and his aircraft was never recovered.

Did First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Junior

encounter a UFO?

Was he taken by the occupants of the UFO?

No one knows and this one remains a mystery

in the annals of top UFO encounters.

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Betty and Barney Hill were an American couple

who claim they were abducted by extraterrestrials

in a rural portion of the state of New Hampshire

from September 19th to September 20th of 1961.

It was the first widely publicized report

of an alien abduction in the United States.

The incident came to be called the Hill Abduction

and the Zeta Reticuli Incident

because the couple stated they had been kidnapped by aliens

who claimed to be from the Zeta Reticuli system.

Their story was adapted into the best-selling 1966 book

The Interrupted Journey

and the 1975 television movie The UFO Incident.

In September 2016, plans were announced to make a film

based on the events with an unknown release date.

Most of Betty Hill's notes, tapes, and other items

have been placed in the permanent collection

at the University of New Hampshire, her alma mater.

In July 2011, the state Division of Historical Resources

marked the site of the alleged craft's first approach

with a historical marker.

According to a variety of reports given by the Hills,

the alleged UFO sighting happened on September 19th of 1961

around 10:30 PM.

The Hills were driving back to Portsmouth

from a vacation in Niagara Falls and Montreal.

Just south of Lancaster, New Hampshire,

Betty claimed to have observed a bright point of light

in the sky that moved from below the moon

and the planet Jupiter upward to the west of the moon.

While Barney navigated US Route three,

Betty reasoned that she was observing a falling star,

only it moved upward.

Since it moved erratically and grew bigger and brighter,

Betty urged Barney to stop the car for a closer look,

as well as to walk their dog, Delsey.

Barney stopped at a scenic picnic area

just south of Twin Mountain.

Betty, looking through binoculars,

observed an odd-shaped craft flashing multi-colored lights

travel across the face of the Moon.

Through binoculars, Barney observed what he reasoned

was a commercial airliner traveling toward Vermont

on its way to Montreal.

However, he soon changed his mind

because without looking as if it had turned,

the craft rapidly descended in his direction.

This observation caused Barney to realize

this object that was a plane was not a plane.

They quickly returned to the car

and drove toward Franconia Notch,

a narrow, mountainous stretch of the road.

Approximately one mile south of Indian Head,

they said the object rapidly descended toward their vehicle

causing Barney to stop in the middle of the highway.

The huge, silent craft hovered approximately 80 to 100 feet

above the Hills' 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air

and filled the entire field of view in the windshield.

It reminded Barney of a huge pancake.

Carrying his pistol in his pocket,

he stepped away from the vehicle

and moved closer to the object.

Using the binoculars, Barney claimed to have seen

about eight to 11 humanoid figures,

who were peering out of the craft's windows,

seemingly looking at him.

Red lights on what appeared to be bat-wing fins

began to telescope out of the sides of the craft,

and a long structure descended from the bottom of the craft.

The silent craft approached and Barney observed

the beings were not human.

Barney tore the binoculars away from his eyes

and ran back to his car.

In a near hysterical state he told Betty,

"They're going to capture us!"

He saw the object again shift its location

to directly above the vehicle.

He drove away at high speed

telling Betty to look for the object.

She rolled down the window and looked up.

Almost immediately, the Hills heard a rhythmic series

of beeping or buzzing sounds,

which they said seemed to bounce off

the trunk of their vehicle.

The car vibrated and a tingling sensation

passed through the Hills' bodies.

The Hills said that they experienced the onset

of an altered state of consciousness

that left their minds dulled.

A second series of beeping or buzzing sounds

returned the couple to full consciousness.

They found that they had traveled nearly 35 miles south,

but had only vague, spotty memories of this section of road.

After the encounter Betty began to have a series of dreams

where she remembered details of the UFO incident,

including being abducted and a medical examination.

Through hypnosis, both Betty and Barney

separately recalled vivid memories of the encounter

as well as a star map Betty was shown by the aliens

and a pregnancy test that didn't exist in 1961.

Barney passed away in 1969 while Betty lived to 2004.

The Hill abduction is one of the most extensive

and exhaustive UFO investigations of all time.

The star map Betty described was proven to be

an actual map of the Zeta Reticuli star system.

She drew it well before any astronomers on earth

knew it existed.

Many have tried and failed to debunk the Hill case

and it remains one of the top UFO encounters

of modern times.

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On the evening of October 11th, 1973,

coworkers 42 year old Charles Hickson

and 19 year old Calvin Parker

told the Jackson County, Mississippi sheriffs office

they were fishing off a pier on the west bank

of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi

when they heard a whirring, whizzing sound.

They saw two flashing blue lights

and an oval shaped object 30 to 40 feet across

and eight to 10 feet high.

Parker and Hickson claim that they were conscious

but paralyzed while three creatures

took them aboard the object and subjected them

to an examination before releasing them.

Within days, Pascagoula was the center

of an international news story

with reporters swarming the town.

Ufologist James Harder of the Aerial Phenomena

Research Organization and J. Allen Hynek

interviewed the two men.

Harder attempted to hypnotize them

and concluded Hickson and Parker

experienced an extraterrestrial phenomena,

while Hynek believed they had a very real,

frightening experience.

Hickson later appeared on talk shows,

gave lectures and interviews, and in 1983

authored a self-published book UFO Contact at Pascagoula.

Hickson claimed additional encounters with aliens in 1974,

alleged that the aliens told him they were peaceful.

Parker later attended UFO conventions

and has written two books about his encounter

as well as appeared in a documentary including others

who witnessed the UFO that night.

Charles Hickson died of a heart attack at age 80

on September the 9th, 2011.

Charlie told his story until he died,

claiming it was in fact all true.

Calvin continues to make appearances at UFO conventions

and his story remains solid.

He says he will tell the truth of the encounter

till the day he dies.

The Pascagoula UFO abduction continues

to baffle debunkers to this day.

[mysterious music]

The Travis Walton UFO incident

was an alleged alien abduction

of an American forestry worker, Travis Walton,

by a UFO on November 5th, 1975,

while he was working near Snowflake, Arizona.

Walton reappeared after a five-day search.

The Walton case received mainstream publicity

and remains one of the best-known alien abduction stories.

Walton wrote a book about his purported abduction in 1978

called The Walton Experience,

which was adapted into the 1993 film Fire in the Sky.

According to Walton, on November 5th, 1975,

he was working with a timber stand improvement crew

in the forest near Snowflake, Arizona.

While riding in a truck with six of his coworkers

they encountered a saucer-shaped object

hovering over the ground approximately 110 feet away

making a high-pitched buzz.

Walton claims that after he left the truck

and approached the object,

a beam of light suddenly appeared from the craft

and knocked him unconscious.

The other six men were frightened and supposedly drove away.

Walton claimed that he awoke in a hospital-like room,

being observed by three short, bald creatures.

He claimed that he fought with them

until a human wearing a helmet led Walton to another room,

where he blacked out as three other human looking beings

put a clear plastic mask over his face.

Walton has claimed he remembers nothing else

until he found himself walking along a highway

with the flying saucer departing above him.

The encounter was extensively investigated

as Walton was missing for five days

and his coworkers came under scrutiny of murder.

All took and passed lie detector tests

and remained solid that their encounter did happen

even though many of the parties do not get along.

The Allagash Abduction is a purported UFO sighting

and alien abduction claimed to have occurred

in Allagash, Maine, United States, in 1976.

Brothers Jim Weiner and Jack Weiner

with friends Charles Foltz and Charles Rak

claimed that they were abducted by aliens

during a camping trip in Allagash, Maine,

on August 20th of 1976.

According to the four men,

hypnotic regression enabled them to recall

being taken aboard a circular UFO

and being probed and tested by four-fingered beings

with almond-shaped eyes and languid limbs.

The men all claimed that when they set out fishing

on Big Eagle Lake the evening of the UFO sighting

they had left a large fire burning at their campsite

as a beacon to guide them back to shore

during the pitch black night.

However, when they returned to the campsite,

the fire had burned down much faster

than they thought it should have

given the amount of time that they thought

they had spent out on the water.

This led to understanding the men

had experienced missing time

and the encounter occurred during that time.

In a later interview by St. John Valley Times,

Charles Rak changed his story,

saying he saw strange lights during the camping trip,

but the abduction part of the story was a total fabrication

and he went along with the narrative for financial gain.

The other members of the group stand by the abduction story.

According to Jim Weiner, Jack, Charlie, and I,

after all these years, are still in agreement

with the Eagle Lake event as we three remember it.

We also accept the results

of the hypnotic regression sessions

and subsequent polygraph tests

as supportive of an abduction scenario.

[adventurous music]

The government had three official projects

to investigate UFO's and in 1969

they closed Project Blue Book

and claimed they did not investigate UFO's any longer.

This was not true.

The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,

or A-tip, was a secret investigative effort

funded by the United States government

to study unidentified flying objects

or unexplained aerial phenomena.

The program was first made public on December 16th of 2017.

The program began in 2007 with funding of $22 million

over the five years until the available appropriations

were ended in 2012.

The program began in the US Defense Intelligence Agency.

Although the official A-tip program has ended,

a related group of interested professionals

have extended the effort founding

a public benefit corporation and entertainment company

named To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science.

A-tip came to a broader public attention

on the 16th of December, 2017 in three news stories

in the Washington Post, Politico and the New York Times.

Gun camera footage of a UFO known as the Tic Tac UFO

came to light and the pilot confirmed it was a UFO.

At least six Super Hornet pilots made visual

or instrument contact with the UFO on November 14th, 2004.

Later, under pressure, the government had to concede

that it did indeed run the program

and that all the footage leaked or released

was in fact genuine.

Since then, a plethora of government officials,

politicians, military personnel

and those who worked on the project have come forward.

It's pretty clear the government takes UFO's seriously.

What is not known is if the government will finally admit

UFO's are alien and what measures are being taken

to ensure our air space is protected.

Captain Max Clark, commanding officer of the USS Nimitz

has said it is important his ship and everybody on it

is kept safe from UFO's.

From my perspective we have an obligation

to make sure the air space is clear

whether it's UAP, unidentified aerial phenomenon,

or UAV's, unmanned aerial vehicles.

This comes just weeks after the Office of Naval Intelligence

revealed the existence of a classified,

unreleased UFO video.

The video was related to the notorious

USS Nimitz Carrier Group 2004 encounter

with a Tic Tac shaped UFO.

The encounters remain a mystery

and the object's incredible speed and movements

have led to speculation that it was extraterrestrial.

Could it be we're getting closer to a complete disclosure

that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth?

Are we on the verge of a worldwide acknowledgement

of the true nature of the flying craft?

As more UFO encounters occur,

eventually the truth will be told.

When it does, that will be the greatest

UFO encounter of all time.

[intense music]

- [Man] 10, nine, ignition sequence start,

six, five, four, three, two, one.