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- [Girl] Reality Films.

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- [Narrator] We are being visited

by aliens from other worlds.

We are still being visited.

Literally tens of thousands of people

from across the globe have witnessed them and made reports.

Tens of thousands more remain silent

about what they have seen.

Politicians, military officers, business leaders,

and astronauts have all come out of the darkness

to reveal their own experiences.

But more than this, there are hundreds of incidents

where larger groups of people

have witnessed the unexplained.

They can't all be mad, they can't all be hallucinating

or seeking attention.

There has to be truth hidden within all of this data.

We are going to embark upon a journey

into the world of UFO and alien sightings

all around the world.

Are you ready for the truth?

Because it is out there.

From the crashed ship in Dallas in the 19th century

to the hundreds of Foo Fighters spotted by pilots

in World War II.

From the thousands of sightings in the Hudson Valley

in the 1980s to the sighting of ships

by huge crowds at baseball games.

All of these and more reveal a world.

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- [Man] This thing was hanging in space,

the Earth's hemisphere visible below it,

and no rivets, no seams, none of the stuff associated

with normal.

When we were coming about 30 or 40 feet out,

there were a lot of objects, white things, flying by.

It looked as if they were being propelled or ejected

but I'm not.

Those are giant things.

No, no, no.

This is not an optical illusion.

No one is going to believe this.

Houston, what the hell is happening?

What's wrong with you?

They're under the surface.

What's there?

Mission interrupted.

Interference control calling Apollo 11.

We saw some visitors.

They were here for a while observing the instruments.

Repeat your last information.

I say that there were other spaceships

that lined up in the other side of the crater.

Repeat, repeat.

Let us (mumbles).

In six two five to five.

Automatic relay connected.

My hands are shaking so badly I can't do anything.

Film it!

Got it, these damn cameras I picked up.

- [Narrator] What is it that stops you believing?

Why do we mock those who have witnessed the wonderful?

For decades, the government and media have played down

the world of the UFO

and anybody who has experienced

something out of the ordinary isn't.

Everybody has heard the term UFO.

To some, it simply means unident.

To others, it is the term used for extraterrestrial visit.

Whatever we believe, the press, and even Hollywood,

love to make fun of those who have claimed to.

Terms such as little green men are often used

to belittle believers.

And yet, literally millions of people around the globe

have actually witnessed a UFO phenomenon

and thousands have done so in large groups and even at.

In this film, we investigate those mass sightings,

both well known and unknown.

We reveal new footage, unseen before,

and eyewitness account.

You may not want to believe but you will.

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One of the very first mass sightings occurred in 1561.

On the morning of April the 4th,

residents woke to witness glowing ball.

According to eyewitness accounts from the time,

it appeared as if the.

This lasted for over an hour

and a painting from the period reveals

two large black craft launching glowing orbs, crashes.

Years later, another mass sighting occurred in 1853.

At a college.

The actual sighting was reported by Professor Carnes

in a letter to Scientific American.

He stated that students had witnessed.

One appeared to be a small moon while the other.

Quickly, the moon vanished

but the star remained and changed shape.

First into an orb.

Next, the moon reappeared

and grew in size as the star reduced.

This process carried on for a full 30 minutes.

One of the.

To this day, there has been no satisfactory explanation

for what was witnessed.

But it is a sighting that has been seen repeatedly

by thousands of people around.

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A few years later, in 1897,

the Dallas Morning News reported a story so bizarre

that elements of it have crept.

In the small town of Aurora, Texas,

the local citizens were rudely awoken by a sighting of what.

Suddenly, the craft stalled and crashed violently.

Wreckage was.

The newspaper reported that the pilot of the ship

is supposed to have been the only one aboard.

And while his remains were badly disfigured,

enough of the original has been picked up

to show that he was not an.

Years later, the report has been called a hoax without.

It seems that mass sightings no longer carries any weight

with the skeptics.

But in 1973, a 91 year old woman called.

She remembered that her parents had visited the crash site

and even that the pilot, who was not of this world,

had in fact been.

During the second World War, people had become accustomed.

In fact, it had change.

From single engine.

It is unusual then that the people of Madisonville, Kentucky

would be perplexed at a huge circular glowing craft

floating above their town in 1948.

Even the state police were concerned.

Within 20 minutes, the tower crew at Fort Knox Air Base.

A squadron of P51 fighters were scrambled to investigate.

The squadron leader, a highly experienced combat pilot

and decorated during World War II, was on the scene.

He too spotted the craft.

He report.

- [Man] The thing looks metallic and.

- [Narrator] Just three minutes later,

Squadron Leader Mantell.

Officially, the Air Force stated he had run out of oxygen

and crashed.

Unofficially.

Around 11:00 p.m. on the 5th of November, 1957,

police in Levelland, Texas received 15 phone calls

from worried residents about a strange object in the sky.

The sightings were reported in the press

and one particular man's story would find its way

into the film Close.

A Korean war veteran and farm worker reported seeing

a flash of light followed by rushing wind.

The lights and engine on his truck stopped working.

Other witnesses described the craft a blue-green color

and shaped like an egg

that would suddenly become a fireball.

In a small town in Pittsburgh in 1965,

residents witnessed an object described

as streaking fire across the sky.

It crashed just before.

Belle Bulbash, a local resident,

described the object as acorn-shaped.

A local fireman, James Romanski,

said that the craft had hieroglyphs around the bottom.

Within 15 minutes of Romanski being on the scene,

government and military officials arrived and.

Some believe the object was a Russian satellite

but years later, Russian officials admitted.

In 2009, a journalist filed

a Freedom of Information Act suit

and discovered that NASA had convenient.

Between 1982 and 1986,

over 5,000 UFO sightings were reported in the Hudson.

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But one particular night stands out due.

On March the 24th, 1983,

over 300 local residents called the local UFO hotline

to report a huge V-shaped.

For every one person who reported the sighting,

it is estimated that another nine or 10 did not.

This would mean that thousands of people witnessed

the strange sight.

Residents who were near the lights reported

the craft were huge, the size of.

They were described as multi-colored lights

and unlike most human flying machines, they were stationary.

There are no helicop.

A very similar event occurred years later in 1997.

Thousands of people witnessed a massive V-shaped object.

Some reported smaller craft flying around the orb

and triangular in shape.

The local police.

The National Guard later claimed they had released flares.

Nothing stated in the witnesses backs this up.

Many claimed to be able to see the mass of the craft

behind the light.

Flares do not remain stationary for long periods of time

nor would they.

Very few people believe the National.

In 2001, witnesses at a New Jersey turnpike were struck dumb

as they witnessed a formation

of yellow lights near the city.

The formation was in the shape of a V yet again

and lasted for at least 10 minutes before.

In 2008 in Stevensville,

over 40 residents including a police officer and pilot

witnessed a UFO hovering over farmland.

The policeman said it reminded him of a gushing volcano

but 3,000 feet in the air.

It was estimated to be over half a mile wide,

or as one witness put.

For many years, lights and glowing orbs have been appearing

over Lake Erie.

There is no doubt that the lights are there.

There is also no doubt that they are not celestial bodies

or ordinary human craft.

They change color.

They appear and disappear.

They hover.

The size is immense, being around the.

Often the orbs will divide like.

A third appears and the three orbs form

into triangular craft, just like many other sightings

in other parts of the world.

There is no denying these reports.

For some strange reason, around half of all UFO.

And many believe the sheer number of sightings

at Lake Erie could mean

that this is a meeting place or even.

Often, the pulsating orbs of light will submerge.

What are.

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Everybody has heard of Roswell, an infamous crash of a UFO.

But five years before.

It has become known as the Battle of Los Angeles

because it happened during.

Los Angeles was, like many other cities

on the shores of the USA, in blackout.

It was just a few weeks after the infamous.

- [Man] We armed our merchants

and for the first time, they steamed up the combat zones

to deliver (mumbles).

While this was going on in the Atlantic,

the Japs by so-called agreement with the public government

have defeated France, moved in on Indochina.

There were now only two threats to their plan

for conquest of Greater East Asia.

First was their northern neighbor, Russia,

the only military power within striking distance of Japan.

The Nazis were taking care of Russia.

The second threat to Japanese conquest was us.

Japanese southward expansion was too dangerous

to attempt with our bases still standing in the Philippines

and our supply lines opened a wake to midway and to Hawaii.

We were in their way.

We had to be removed, the Japanese way.

Off to Washington went Special Ambassador Kurusu

on what the Japs said was a mission of peace.

But carefully synchronized with his departure from Tokyo

was the departure of a Jap task force,

underseeing orders not on a mission of peace.

On November 14th, Mr. Kurusu arrived in San Francisco,

smiling his toothy smile

as he sang the old song of Japanese friendship.

The Japanese were a peace loving people.

Their whole policy was devoted to the establishment

of permanent peace in Asia.

Our aid to China was delaying the establishment

of that peace.

Our refusal to sell them oil and scrap was interfering

with the establishment of that peace.

Our objections to their taking over the East Indies,

Greater East Asia, was an interruption

in the establishment of that peace.

All they wanted was peace.

On November 17th, Mr. Kurusu

and Japanese ambassador Nomura were received

by the President in the presence of the Secretary of State,

Cordell Hull.

It very quickly became clear

that the Japanese had brought no new proposals

and that the Japanese intended to continue their campaign

to conquer China and all East Asia.

However, on November 26th,

our Secretary of State presented the Japanese

with the basis for peaceful agreement

between the two nations.

The proposal was forwarded to Tokyo.

The Japs had to stall for time, but only a short time.

A task force was nearing its goal.

Sunday, December 7th, 1941.

(speaking in foreign language)

1:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time.

The Japanese emissaries are expected at the State Department

to keep a one o'clock appointment they had requested

in order to present their answers to our proposals.

1:05 p.m.

The Japanese planes are approaching Hawaii.

1:10 p.m.

The Japanese emissaries telephoned

to postpone their appointment until 1:45.

1:20 p.m.

(explosions booming)

2:00 p.m.

The Japanese envoys, smiling and correct,

arrive at the State Department.

2:20 p.m.

(explosions booming)

Japanese planes had been sowing death and destruction

for an hour on American outposts in the Pacific.

- December 7th, 1941,

a date which will live in infamy.

United States of America was suddenly

and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces

of the Empire of Japan.

The United States was at peace with that nation

and at the solicitation of Japan,

was still in conversation with its government

and its emperor, looking toward the maintenance of peace

in the Pacific.

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- [Man] We were not sufficiently on the alert in Hawaii.

The Japanese won a series of spectacular victories

in the Pacific.

Under General Douglas MacArthur,

American and Filipino forces brought

a fabulous delaying action in the Philippines.

Manila was bombed although it was declared an open city.

Because of vast distances,

it was impossible to send supplies or reinforcements.

And Bataan fell only when Americans

and Filipinos had eaten their mules.

General MacArthur established his headquarters in Australia

and as commander in chief of the United Nations Forces

in that area, prepared for the offensive

that would develop inevitably.

For despite setbacks, we had established a supply chain

6,000 miles across the Pacific

that stretched to New Zealand.

Like the other democracies,

we were not prepared for total war.

Fortunately, under a land lease act of March 1941,

we had set out to become the arsenal

of the free and fighting nations.

We were determined to supply them with our war goods,

whether they could afford to pay or not.

We were buying time,

time to convert the industries of peace into war,

time to make ships, merchant ships and war ships,

time to make planes and more planes,

bombers and fighters, faster, more powerful

than any the world had ever seen.

Time to make guns and more guns,

shells and more shells, tanks and more tanks.

Time to gather the huge strength which was ours

to pour the great riches of American earth

into the cauldron of war.

America was at war.

It had been at war, although few Americans realized it,

for more than 10 years.

Ever since September 18th, 1931,

when Japan clawed Manchuria out of the body of China.

While Hitler was still brawling in the streets of Munich,

Japan had already begun weaving the pattern of aggression.

And the warriors of Japan, still breathing the scourge

of the samurai in an era of machines,

adopted Western methods of warfare

as they had adopted Western clothes

and architecture and music.

And the Japanese warriors dreamt

of the conquest of Asia and then of the world.

And their emperor invoked the blessings of the divine

upon this dream.

- [Narrator] And the United States was in panic.

They're expecting attacks on their Pacific Seaboard

and all eyes were on the skies.

One night, a huge aircraft appeared over Santa Monica

and Culver City.

Everybody assumed it was a Japanese attack craft,

unlike anything they'd seen before.

Thousands of air raid wardens ran around,

trying desperately to secure the citizens.

Anti-aircraft batteries fired thousands

of rounds at the object

and the powerful searchlights trained thousands of eye.

Los Angeles and Southern California went into lockdown.

Gun batteries reported direct hits

and yet the craft hung in the sky, virtually motionless.

Witnesses reported American fighter planes were sent up

and yet the military deny any planes were dispatched.

Waves of them, according to eyewitness accounts.

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Eventually, they appeared to be called off

and ground forces let loose with everything they had

for over half an hour.

Six people died as a result of the flack

from ground forces defending them.

Eventually, the craft moved down to Long Beach.

However, this was wartime

and the media was under a lot of control.

The only mention of the sighting

seen by hundreds of thousands of people

was in the LA Times, which ran a small sidebar article.

To this day.

Another mass sighting occurred in Vancouver, Canada

during a game of baseball.

It was the start of the sixth inning

when suddenly hundreds of people started tweeting images

of glow.

A shining blue orb hovering over a field fence.

Nobody discovered what the object was

but thousands of people.

Over in Zimbabwe in 1994,

there was something more than just a mass sighting.

This was a mass close encounter.

It occurred in a small town called Ruwa

and the witnesses were the children of the Ariel School.

They all came from different ethnic backgrounds

and ranged from five to 12 years of age.

These children not only saw an alien ship,

they saw a fleet of them.

And one of the ships landed

and alien visitors communicated with the children.

They were warned humanity is.

As news of the close encounter emerged,

experts descended on the school from all over the world.

Psychologists.

The children were asked to draw what they had seen

and it was a common story.

Gray aliens with long necks and large eyes emerging from.

One Harvard professor of psychology

and Pulitzer Prize winner said later

that the event seems to have been what they said it was,

alien visitation.

The children were in fact terrified.

One adult witness noted this thing, whatever.

It had a circular shaped bright light as the leader

and behind it were tails of light in beautiful colors,

green, orange, and yellow.

It moved slowly

and looked as if it were just above the house.

The amazing thing is that it moved.