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(low rumbling)

- The vast expanse
of Nevada's badlands
stretches

endlessly to the
horizon.

Hidden within these
mountain strongholds

are some ofAmerica's deepest
and darkest secrets.

Secret aircraft and
the other legends of
Area 51

Among these sandstone
canyons today

there's a new
glimmer of truth.

Shrouded in mystery
it's a story that demands
to be told.

These are the witnesses of
one of America's most unusual

UFO encounters in
history.

Navy veterans and a
band of brothers

that want you to know that
what they witnessed is
real.

This is their
story.

Petty Officer Jason
Turner server aboard

the USS Princeton in
2004.

His personal conviction for
democracy and patriotism

guides him in his
search for the truth.

- This is an actual
event that happened

and I witnessed it.

Aviation tech
Patrick Hughes,

a USS Nimitz veteran, he
speaks for his shipmates

who choose to remain
silent.

- I'm one of those
who has to see to
believe

and obviously I've
seen the evidence of
this

so it exists.

- Top Gun Air Intercept
Controller Kevin Day

and Fire Controlman
Gary Voorhis, both from
the Princeton,

served together in the ship's
Combat Information Center.

They saw them
first.

Whatever it is they
are.

- They wanted to
show themselves, whatever
they were.

I don't think they
wanted anything really to
do with us.

- They were
literally breaking
the laws of physics

in my eyes.

These sailors are
herefor truth and
vindication.

And their story goes
back over a decade to
a time and place

that marked a
departure for all of
them,

both in their Navy
careers, but also
in their knowledge

of the limits of
man's technological

understanding of our
world.

(dramatic
instrumental)

Looking out over the ocean
towards the horizon,

sun, sea, and sky form
an endless vista.

A never-ending
cycle of tide,
wind, and waves.

Here, far from shore strange
events have unfolded.

These stories stretch
the boundaries of our
imagination

and challenge our
beliefs.

This is a true story
of such events from
the accounts

of the sailors and
naval aviators who
experienced them,

professional military
service members who
want the world

to know that what
they encountered is
real.

Even more troubling,
our military has no
explanation.

The answers seem to
elude everyone,

like reflections on
the waves.

Yet, they are out
there.

(jets blasting)

November 10th, 2004.

90 miles Southwest of
San Diego California

in the Naval
Operations Area,

the Nimitz Carrier
Strike Group and her
compliment

of warships and the
aircraft of Air
Wing 11,

are conducting a
routine, two-week
training exercise.

Nearby, the guided
missile cruiser,

USS Princeton has
been tracking
unknown aircraft

that appear and disappear
from her sophisticated

AEGIS radar screens.

The SPY1 Bravo
radar is one of the
most advanced

sensors ever
deployed.

Princeton's main
role is air defense
of the Strike Group

and Operations
Specialist Senior Chief
Day

is in charge of
protecting the airspace
around the Nimitz.

- My job was to
man the radars and
ID everything

that flew in the
skies.

And I also sat a
position called anti air
warfare

coordinator where if
we ever had to go to
war,

I was the guy who
was going to launch

the missiles.

In addition to
that, I was
an air intercept controller

when the Super
Hornets take
off the carrier,

I'm the guy that
takes control

and takes them to
the fight
and get 'em some home safe.

There was a lot of
experience in that
room.

The captain had 28
years, I had 18 years,

and the AEGIS
ship is our
newest weapons system afloat.

And it's got the spy
one radar system,

a phased array radar
system.

And I was an expert
on that.

- Inside the Combat
Information Center

Chief Day's
attention is
focused on a group of unknown

aircraft on the Spy
1 screen.

He's trying to
identify them.

- I was on watch
and we were
probably 100 miles,

I forget how far
exactly that day

we were off the
coast of
San Diego, southwest.

Kind of off the coast
of Mexico, Baja.

And I started to
notice, these
weird tracks

that were popping
under my radar
coverage right around

San Clemente island.

And the reason why
I say there are
weird because they were

appearing in
groups of five to
10 at a time

and they were
pretty closely
spaced to each other.

And they were 28,000
feet going a hundred

knots tracking
south.

And in the back
of my mind I'm
thinking, you know,

that's Kinda odd.

I mean, what, I
don't know
anything that flies like that.

They weren't on the
COMAIR routes,

the commercial
airline routes.

I wasn't really that
concerned about them

and I didn't consider
them them hostile

for any reason at
all.

Another watch or
two I am on watch
the same formation

appeared again
and over the
course of three, four days

probably counted
up to that point
groups of five to 10

at a time, there
were probably
50, 60 tracks by then.

- Today Kevin
and Gary are
still looking for answers.

They've known each
other for over a decade

since their Navy
days.

Gary was a 3rd Class
Petty Officer

and Fire Controlman
back then.

- I worked on the
AEGIS computer system

on a CG 59 guided
missile cruiser
the USS Princeton.

I'm in charge of CEC and
a data recording and
maintaining

and operating all the
mainframes that run
the system.

- They're both
becoming
increasingly frustrated

in their attempts to
ID the strange
aerial objects,

which have no
transponders,

and fit no known
flight profiles.

- The guys that work
on Spy one Bravo
radar,

they had come across
and said they needed to
take the system

down for
recalibration cause
they were getting a clutter

or ghost tracks and they
needed to recalibrate

to get rid of them.

And then once they
did finish all that
recalibration,

bring it back up
the tracks didn't
disappear.

They were still
there, but they were
actually

sharper and
clearer.

- They were doing
diagnostic
tests on everything we had

to make sure it was
not a system
malfunction

and it turned out
that it wasn't,

these were actually
real objects.

I had the highest SPY
track quality
possible

on these contacts.

- In this
situation I
actually started recording

on all four tapes at
the same time.

That way it was at one
continuous loop and I
was just

replacing them as they
were becoming full.

- We failed utterly
to identify these
things.

It didn't meet any of
the parameters for
anything

that was known.

- In some cases,
they seem to
descend from space,

and then suddenly
plunge to
near sea level in seconds.

Coupled with the
unidentified
nature of the craft

and lack of
clearance, these
extreme flight observations

are very troubling
to the
crew assigned to protect

the carrier group
from aerial threats.

Sunday Nov 14th,
morning.

The Nimitz deck crew
is busy launching

F/A-18F Super
Hornets, helicopters

and E2-Hawekeye Early
Warning Planes.

The mission?

Simulated air
defense, or ADEX
training over the Pacific.

The winds are calm,
the skies are clear,

a near perfect day
for flying.

(jets blasting)

As they launch, the
Black Aces Squadron

has no knowledge of
events happening
nearby.

- In the back of my mind,
that's when I determined

I was going to
become concerned
about these objects.

We were getting ready
to launch a whole bunch
of aircraft

in that same piece
of sky.

- Fast Eagle climbs
out to 20 thousand
feet

and heads to the CAP
station,

about 40 miles south
of the carrier.

The CAP is a
rendezvous point used
to form up

with the other
airplanes.

- There's 25 miles
separation.

- The commander of
Fast Eagle has over
a decade

in the Air Wing.

(radio chatter)

His wingman for the
day is a new pilot,

a young officer on her
first carrier
deployment.

She's paired with a
senior pilot,

her backseat
weapon's system
officer for the mission.

He will manage
navigation
and the advanced radar

and targeting pods on
the aircraft.

(jets blasting)

Overhead, an E2
Hawkeye from
the Wallbangers squadron

is on station
directing the
aircraft.

Banger provides eye in the
sky command and control

during carrier
flight operations.

Back in the Combat
Information Center on
Princeton

the mysterious objects
are back and today is
the first time

Senior Chief Day has
jets in the air

that can intercept the
mysterious aircraft.

- Seeing these
contacts

Captain Smith orders
me to intercept one of
them

so I just want back
to the console,

I pick the closest
one that was to us,

and I had intended to
let the Hawkeye do the
intercept

because they already
had control.

It's just easier.

- Day briefs the
Captain and they agree

to send the
Hornets.

The Air Intercept
Controller aboard
Princeton,

Callsign Charlie
radios the Hawkeye

and takes control of
Fast Eagle.

- (radio) Banger, Charlie.

- Charlie this is
Banger, go ahead.

- Banger , Charlie, do
you hold unknown air
contact

BRA 270, 48, 28,000
feet, Bogey?

- Charlie, Banger,
negative.

Radar picture's
clean.

- The E-2 radar operators
have been frustrated

in their attempts to get
a radar return on the
unknown

aerial target that
Princeton is tracking.

Even with their
24-foot radar dish,

they can't get a lock
on the object.

- ( radio) Banger, Charlie,

transfer Fast Eagles
flight to Charlie control,
button 13.

We have a Real World
Tasking for them.

- Charlie to Banger,
Roger.

- Fast Eagle Charlie,
stand by For Real
World Tasking.

- Charlie Fast
Eagle, send it.

- We vector towards
that position in
the sky

and real quiet on
the radio,

I'm just giving him,
BRA calls,

which is bearing,
range, altitude

to these unknown bogey
groups and basically

I'm just telling
the air crew where
the object is,

the bearing from them
and the range from
them

and the altitudes so
they can drive
towards it.

- (radio) Contact BRA, 270,
41, 20,000 feet

Bogey Snap 270.

- Roger Bearing 270 at
41 miles.

- 100 go trail.

- 100.

- Say state?

- State 12,000
pounds.

Clean, do you have
it?

- I'm trying to get a
track on it now.

They sent LINK 16, but
my radar picture is
clean.

- The next radio
call takes everyone
by surprise.

- Fast Eagle 110,
say load out.

110 what's you
weapons load out?

- Yeah, The tactical
action officer, the TAO,

jumps on the radio, her
name was Lieutenant
Elders

and she just point blank
asked the Fast Eagle
flight

if they were carrying
any type of weapons

and there was a
stunned pause on the
radio.

- (radio) Wings clean
Princeton.

We just have CATM
training missiles

and they're not
coming off the rail.

- We're in an
exercise environment

and the last thing
we wanted
to do is start shooting stuff.

- Now the
controllers have the
pilot's undivided attention.

Normally, the
squadron doesn't carry

live ordinance when
training.

- What do you guys
think that was about?

- What, about the
load out?

I have no idea.

Maybe it's drug
runners or something?

- Yeah it could be,
or a lost Cessna out
of So-cal.

- I don't like
this.

- Fast Eagle Charlie,
contact BRA 160 34.

8,000 feet, Bogey.

(dramatic music)
(jets blasting)

- Roger, 34 miles
at 8,000.

Committed, your call,
continuing.

- As Fast Eagle
approaches the target,

they see nothing
unusual.

Their onboard
radars can't
get a lock on the object.

- Fast Eagle
Charlie
BRA 160 10 8,000 feet.

- Roger.

(dramatic music)

- Fast Eagle
Charlie.

Merge plot.

- What the merge
plot means on the
radar.

You got two objects
in the same vertical
piece of sky.

So when I'm looking at
the 2D display,

it looks like one
radar blob now.

- Afirm, the object
appears stationary.

- I had it at 17 7.

- Showing there's
basically
no air speed on it.

- Hey, you guys
seeing this?

- What is that?

- As the Super Hornets
approach the target,

they see a
disturbance on the
ocean surface.

it's about the size
of a 737,

and it looks like
something
could be just below the surface.

- 100 Anchor here.

Angels 24.

- Roger.

- Charlie Fast
Eagle.

- We're observing
something in
the water here.

Possibly aircraft
in the water at the
merge plot

just north of our
position about two
miles.

- Charlie, Roger.

- I'm descending to
angels 14 to take a
look.

- Do you think that's
our unknown?

- Not sure.

Radar's clean.

- As soon as he got to
the merge plot position,

the object that he was
intercepting dropped
from 28,000 feet

down to 50 feet
above the water in
0.78 seconds

as I found out later
the next day.

- As the Super
Hornets get closer to
the ocean disturbance

he suddenly spots
another craft above it.

A much smaller white
object with an oblong
shape,

hovering then darting
just above the waves.

The object is moving
around erratically,

seemingly focused on
the white water.

The shape is similar
to a Tic Tac.

It's smooth like
porcelain.

It's not an
airplane.

(dramatic music)

Suddenly the object
begins to rise into the
air.

(dramatic music)

- Hey this thing just
turned on my nose.

It's coming up!

2 miles.

- The strange craft
begins mirroring

the turn rate of
Fast Eagle.

- Tally one bogey 287
two miles.

Angels 5!

- The object is now
at his three o'clock
position

as he continues to
turn with it.

- He's turning hard
at 3000 meters.

- We had the external
communications in the speaker

in combat so everyone
can listen to it.

And the next thing I
hear on the radio
going,

oh my god, oh my god, I'm
engaged, I'm engaged!

- 1000 meters he's
(radio garbled)

(dramatic music)

- The commander is now
about a mile away

as he maneuvers his
hornet to get behind
the unknown craft.

It's about the size
of an F-18,

about 47 feet long and
it has no wings.

As the dogfight
unfolds,

he quickly turns and
dives to bring his
jet's nose ahead

of the object to
close the distance.

- Holy...!

- It jumped!

- 1000 meters...

(dramatic intense
music)

Woah!

I lost him!

Two do you see him?

- Suddenly the Tic
Tac rockets past.

It's gone beyond the
horizon in the blink of an
eye.

- I saw it go 137.

No tally.

- That didn't just
happen.

- Say again.

- Fast Eagle Charlie,
sir you're not going
to believe this

but the bogey group is
now back at your cap
station.

- As Fast Eagle
returns to the area

of the ocean
disturbance, the object
is gone and the sea

is once again calm.

Soon they land on
the ship.

(jet engines)

Back onboard Banger, the
flight crew has been listening

to the radio
transmissions
from Fast Eagle.

The crew has been
tracking the intercepts

on their advanced
display systems, called
the CEC.

One of the radar
operators who wishes to
remain anonymous

describes hearing the
fear in the pilot's
voices,

and he knows this is
no drill.

- I had a good friend who
flew on the Hawkeyes.

We've been calling
him Roger,

to protect his identity
because he didn't want
to come

forward at this time but
he wanted to contribute

to the story to verify
that it actually happened.

So there are five
people in the airplane.

Roger would've been seated
in the radar officer's
seat

which is toward the
back middle of the
plane

to the side of each
one of them or behind
them depending

how the chairs
rotating is a window.

- Suddenly, his
attention is drawn
to something

outside the Hawkeye.

He and the entire crew
watch in disbelief

as a Tic Tac object
suddenly forms up on
their E2

and then just as quickly
shoots away from sight.

The crew is left in
disbelief.

(Sound of plane
landing)

As Banger returns to
the ship, the crew
is shaken.

The highly unusual
events are troubling,

but what happens next
has haunted them to
this day.

US Navy officers
quickly arrive and
escort the air crew

to a secure space on
the ship.

As the crewmen
begin to take off
their flight gear,

an officer begins the
debriefing by telling
them,

this event did not
happen

and they are given
non-disclosure
agreements to sign.

They are warned to never
discuss this event
again.

(dramatic music)

- Again we we're preparing
air defense exercise.

now we got all the
squadrons launching
off the carrier,

They're all up
gonna to do
their functional

check flights.

- Senior Chief Day
watched in disbelief as
the Tic Tac UFOs

reacted to the
incoming fighter jets.

- All the objects in the
sky, they all dropped
out

of the sky from 28,000
feet down to 50 feet.

- Based on the SPY1
Bravo Radar system

the object descended at
over 24,000 miles an
hour.

- It was
unbelievable because
normally what would happen

if a normal aircraft
did that, first of
all

it would fly apart, it
wouldn't be able to withstand

the G forces and
there would
be multiple sonic booms.

So it would be boom
boom, boom boom boom
boom boom boom.

This did not make any
sonic booms.

- From what I observed,
I saw that it went
from, you know,

right around between 25
and 30,000 feet down to
sea level.

Sometimes they'd be
going slower than an
object should

you know to stay in
the air and sometimes
they would

be moving faster than
an object should from a
stand still.

Going high altitude
to low altitude very
quickly.

Just staying
imobile.

- In my mind I was thinking
good god it's raining UFOs!

'cause that's what
it looked like
the way they were going

choo, choo, choo! It
was quite amazing.

- Tag number 042

- A USS Princeton senior
sonar operator has come
forward

to say the ship did not
have any unidentified
sonar contacts

during the
encounters.

The towed sonar array
was not in use at the
time.

The USS Louisville, a
Los Angeles
class

nuclear fast attack
submarine
was also

partolling the
area.

The former captain
of the sub
reported

they had no unknown
sonar contacts

during the events
of that
week

despite the
observations
by the pilots.

After the intercepts both Kevin
and Gary

climbed up to the ships
bridge wing to get a better

view of the object through
the binoculars.

- We go up to the
bridge wing and look
at them through

the big eyes, which is
a heavily magnified
binoculars

that are out on the
bridge wing of the
ship.

-Here's my opportunity. We
intercepted a UFO I think.

Even when I was off
watch I was usually up
in combat

anyway and I was
sitting at the console,
I just picked

the closest object
to us and I got the
relative

bearing from the ship.
Slave over to the
relative bearing of about

the right altitude and
then saw this white
light in the sky.

- The movements were
smooth to erratic.

It just moved from one
point to another.

It was always a very
sharp and clean movement.

It always felt like
a constant
speed, not like speeding up.

Just, it needed to go
to that point and it
decided

to do it at this speed
and then it would just go

from nothing to the
speed they were going
to go

and then stop at the
next point.

-Meanwhile back on
the Nimitz

aviation tech Patrick
Hughes is working

to secure the classified
data recorders from the
Hawkeye

that encountered the
Tic Tac.

- We pull out the
hard drives.

We call them RMCs.

We call them bricks
'cause they're physically
heavy

like a brick but they
contain the software
to run

the airplane and they
also record a lot

of the data that the air
crew sees during the
flight.

So we take the
removable stuff, we
take it out,

we go downstairs,
back to our shop.

- Patrick's job involves
tracking the chain of
custody

of the hard drives.

- Then we open up the
safe, put them in a
safe,

we've got tracking
sheets so we know

what RMCs or what
airplane.

We know who signed
them out, who put
them in the airplane,

who took him out of
the airplane.

- As he gets ready to
wrap up the mission,

there is a knock on
the door.

- Our commanding
officer's there.

Two other guys in flight
suits who I'm assuming

were air force
officers 'cause pretty
sure

that's the insigma
they had on,

but they were not on
the ship earlier.

I did not seem them
come on the ship,

so I'm not sure how
they got there.

But the skipper basically
said I need the bricks

off the flight.

We open the safe, we put
them in the bags, he took
them,

he took his two anonymous
officers and left.

- The officers, with the
classified hard drives
in hand,

soon board an HS-60 Seahawk
Helicopter and leave
Nimitz.

(helicopter
blades spinning)

Soon thereafter,
Petty Officer Voorhis

has his own visit by unknown
officials on the Princeton.

- Once they landed
and everybody got
off then about maybe

20 minutes later I got
called in to have all
my data

recording tapes turned
over and then also
told that I needed

to reload CEC 'cause
it had been wiped.

So I turned over all
the tapes and then
they also said

if there's any even blank
tapes to erase anything

else that's in the
shop.

Well they were
plain-clothes people
that came on board

on the helicopter.

It was my chain of
command,

that took control of
the tapes from me.

The Helo left with
them after that.

So, cause we went
right back to flight
ops.

- The link between the
Tic Tacs and these men
is unknown.

How they became
aware of the UFO
encounters

and how they arrived
so quickly onboard

after the event is
also a mystery.

- The video you are now
watching is the actual
gun camera

FLIR footage of the Tic
Tac taken by a later
flight.

This is the first
video ever released
by the US Government

showing military
planes engaging UFO's.

The Advanced
Targeting pod,
known as ATFLIR,

works in both TV mode
and infrared mode.

The film reveals no control
surfaces, no exhaust plume,

a uniform heat signature
and no visible means of
propulsion.

Gary and his shipmates
saw the FLIR film on
their consoles

and on the secret LAN
aboard the Princeton.

- It was a much
clearer video.

You could see the
shape of the ship, you
could see it,

you know, moving.

I tried to go and get
a disc to come make a
copy of it

and by the time I got
back it was already
off

of our hard drive,
off the secret LAN.

Yeah, no access to it
whatsoever.

- Petty Officer
Jason Turner also
saw a much higher

resolution version of
the FLIR film showing
strange

appendages extending
from the object.

- But it did have
some protruding at
the bottom of it.

I couldn't tell if
they were curled back
or straight down.

- Jason says the video
was approximately 10
minutes

in length and much
longer than the video

that has been
released.

- I saw this video
playing and I'd ask
him,

is this what we're
training or was this
part of this

training that we're
going through and he
said, no,

this is real life and
when I saw it,

it was a very clear
image, a very clear
video,

and this thing was going
berserk, like making
turns like

it's incredible.

The amount of G forces
that it would put on a
human

that this thing was
doing.

The jets were like
trying to trail this
thing

and it would just run
off and leave them.

It would just pfft
gone and then it would
come back

and then you would
see it.

And then it, I mean,
it was, it made a
maneuver,

like they were
chasing it straight
on.

It was going with
them.

This thing stopped
turning, just pew,
gone.

I mean, that's the
only way to describe
what it looked like.

- Just 11 years
later, fighter jets
from USS Roosevelt

filmed this anomalous
object in 2015.

- Like the Nimitz
Encounter,

they too were
conducting routine
training

when fleets of UFO's
were encountered by
the pilots.

The Nimitz encounter
remained cloaked
secrecy

for over 13 years.

The first hand testimony
about UFO sightings

is practically unheard
of from military service
members.

Thanks to the brave
and honest accounts of
the sailors

and naval aviators
who have come forward
to relate

their experiences,
and of the remarkable
videos

they filmed that
day, the silence has
been broken.

- I dealt with this all
on my own for many,
many years.

And it was not a very
pleasant journey to
go through.

'Cause no one really
believes you.

But now things have
changed and anyone out
there

that's struggling
with this and wants
to reach out,

there is now a group
that you can reach out
to

and get help and
support and
vindication.

- It's honestly been
a little relieving
to be able

to talk about it and how
important that event
really was

and not just keep
blowing it off.

There's people out
here that, you know,

really need to know
and want to know

and you have the
support of, you know,
me and Kevin

and my other
shipmates that have
come forward

and decided to talk
about it.

- My role is to
describe the story and
convince people

that yes, this event
really happened and
these objects

were really real,
but what they are, I
have no idea.

- It is something, I
want to know what it
is.

That's the whole reason
I chose to come forward

to contribute to this
story because there is a
story here,

there is more
information here

and more of us that talk
about it, the better
chance

of the full story
coming together.

-And it's almost, it's
vindication for us

that other people are looking
into it and you know,

we finally tell our
story and people
listen.

As we strive to
understand
these encounters

and come to terms with
what they mean,

there's something far
beyond the horizon
and the limits

of our comprehension
waiting, waiting for all
of us.

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