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Spring, 1941...

A warm Missouri evening in Cape Girardeau.

Suddenly, the Serenity is shattered, as something streaks

across the night sky...

And goes down in flames in the nearby woods.

A story that would've been

buried had it not been for a local clergyman.

Reverend William huffman, a

small-town minister, got a phone call.

He was asked to administer the

last rites at a crash scene.

As he's led through

the wreckage, reverend huffman is astounded.

There's firemen there. There's the police. There's the FBI.

He's escorted to the middle of

this scene, and he sees a flying saucer.

There was a casualty in this

UFO crash... the pilot.

Not just one casualty, but three.

And the report goes on to say

that he realizes they are not of this world.

Still, the reverend does as requested.

That's what you did back then.

You had to have somebody minister to the victim.

But it's the activity beyond the reverend's view that is significant.

Reverend huffman is praying

over these extraterrestrial

bodies, but while he's doing

that, the military is already

taking charge of the scene.

Scattered throughout the site is wreckage

containing remnants of never-before-seen technology.

They're securing the site.

They're labeling and packing away every piece of the craft.

The military recognizes that this technology

far surpasses our capabilities.

It is beyond explanation.

This drops into your lap.

And what is this?

It is the arrival of some kind of exotic technology vastly

beyond anything that we had.

And that's the starting point.

With the material in hand, it becomes clear the

military needs to thoroughly investigate the craft and its technology.

But the question becomes...

Where to study it?

MUFON files suggest that some of

this material may have been sent

to Purdue university, home to

many of the brightest minds in the country.

The government acquires this

technology from the crash.

So where is the top research

facility to work on it? Purdue.

A Purdue graduate student was visited by a government official

who dropped some exotic technology into his hands.

He tells the kid it was

intercepted from an unnamed foreign nation.

"Take a look at this.

Figure out what it does, how it works."

Not much more explanation than that.

This technology was allegedly presented to grad students at

Purdue university like fire from Olympus.

Some speculate that the recovered UFO

technology is eventually reverse engineered.

And within seven years, what started at Purdue may have led

to a breakthrough invention that ushers in the computer age.

That invention is the transistor.

Is it possible that a number of

our technological achievements

have been built on

reverse-engineered materials

retrieved from extraterrestrial spacecraft?

MUFON opens its files right now.

The mutual UFO network, known as "MUFON," is an independent

organization not bound to any government.

They investigate reports of UFO sightings from around the world.

Over the past five decades, they have collected more than 70,000

files, secured at a location known as Hangar 1.

Now, for the first time, MUFON is granting access to their vast archive.

These are the files of Hangar 1.

Over the past 70 years,

technology has advanced at a

staggering rate, providing

mankind with capabilities that

were once unimaginable,

achievements that have

revolutionized communication,

medicine, transportation, and the military.

But what suddenly sparked this

technological leap forward?

MUFON files point to one

possible explanation...

The Cape Girardeau crash,

an event that may have led to

the development of the transistor.

The transistor is a component

now used in most electronics

that acts as an amplifier for an

electronic signal.

Before the transistor, we used vacuum tubes, which is why we

had huge TV cabinets with tiny, little screens

and radios the size of refrigerators.

The transistor breakthrough unlocks a world of possibilities.

What the transistor enabled

is a vast miniaturization of the

electronics to which we

regularly have access.

What would've been a supercomputer the size of a room we now call a smartphone.

In the 1950s,

portable radios utilized five transistors.

Today one smartphone contains billions.

It's really interesting to look at our technological

breakthroughs since the 1940s...

Computers, the Internet,

cell phones, nuclear power, space travel.

It's just staggering.

Just in the last few years

alone, we've seen televisions go

from three feet in depth, to

less than an inch, and that's

all thanks to the transistor.

You can really make a case that

the world we live in today would

not be possible had it not been

for our acquisition of this

extraterrestrial technology.

MUFON files suggest that the 1941 Cape Girardeau

crash is ground zero for our technological boom.

But this isn't the only time we've exploited a UFO crash.

A pattern starts emerging where things fall from the sky,

we collect them, do our best to study them, and figure out how

they can benefit us.

Yet another UFO crash may have provided us with

a vast amount of alien technology...

1947, Roswell, New Mexico.

There are a lot of stories about what really happened

regarding the crash in Roswell, new Mexico...

But I think the best account comes from a military insider

who was actually at the scene, and that's

colonel Philip J. Corso.

According to Philip J. Corso, what crashed at

Roswell was indeed an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

And Corso says that the military

took that wreckage...

Studied it, and that accounts for the technological boom of the 20th century.

Technology from the Roswell crash may also be

responsible for a number of postwar innovations.

A list of inventions that were seeded from the Roswell

crash includes integrated computer chips, fiber optics,

night vision, stealth technology, and even microwaves.

This is a big piece of the

puzzle that our official truth

has sort of whitewashed out.

If the files are

correct, cracking the code to

this technology will require vast resources.

This job is entrusted to the U.S. military.

The government didn't know what they were dealing with, so

what they did was they brought

in the sharpest minds in the

country to look at this.

That's the way it's always been. The sharpest minds have always

worked on national security.

If the U.S. Government has extraterrestrial

technology and is reverse engineering it for military

purposes, what other breakthroughs have they

achieved... Shielded from the public... And the eyes of our enemies?

We have got technology that's better than George Lucas, better

than anything you've seen in Star Wars, Star Trek, whatever.

And it's kept absolutely secret.

Hangar 1 files point to a controversial figure

who claims to be a member of this inner circle and comes

forward to reveal not only where this top-secret work takes

place, but what they are creating there.

Inside the walls of Hangar 1 are thousands of

eyewitness reports of unexplained UFO activity.

In 1941, a baptist minister witnesses a crashed UFO.

Technology extracted from the site may have jump-started the

greatest leap forward in human technology...

Beginning with the invention of

the transistor... And leading to even more innovations of the 20th century.

MUFON files point to one controversial figure who speaks

out about inside information he

holds on the military's deepest secrets.

1989, Las Vegas...

A man named Bob Lazar claims to have knowledge of a highly

classified military operation that is experimenting with

reverse-engineered UFOs.

I have degrees in physics and electronics technology.

I've worked in a number of scientific programs, some of

which require top-secret and above-top-secret security clearances.

Lazar alleges to know where this work is taking

place and also hints at an astonishing secret propulsion technology.

And he's about to blow the

whistle on all of it.

What is your synopsis in a nutshell?

My synopsis of what I know to be true?

Yes.

The government is holding nine alien spacecraft.

The work is being conducted 15 miles south of groom lake.

Bob Lazar went on television in 1989, and he declared that

located south from the secret, infamous Area 51 base, there's

a area called s4, and that's where he said he worked.

Between December of '88 and April of '89, I worked as a

senior staff physicist in what

has to be the most secret project in history.

Area s4 is located approximately 15 miles south of the infamous

Area 51 installation at groom lake. For the duration of my

employment at s4, I was paid by the United States Navy.

Lazar claims that s4 is an above-top-secret

underground research facility hidden deep in the Nevada desert.

He says that s4 houses

reverse-engineered E.T. craft

and UFOs that we've built.

These are amazing claims

that Bob Lazar is making.

He comes out of nowhere and goes on TV saying that we're

building a fleet of UFOs based on alien designs.

Nobody knows what to make of this guy.

Is he for real?

Can we even trust him?

He claims s4, or site four, which is ten miles south of

Area 51, apparently it was cut

out of the side of a mountain and concealed.

How deep it goes, who knows?

Although many are skeptical about his claims,

Lazar asserts that s4 is the real home of acquired alien technology...

A place where UFO retrievals are

stored, studied, and reverse engineered.

This would be a perfect location, of course, to study

any acquired alien hardware that you would've gotten.

It's about as remote as you're gonna get in the US. It's totally off-limits to the public.

Lazar's most controversial claim is that

intergalactic travel is made possible by an alien power

source that he refers to as

atomic element 115, or "ununpentium."

He said it was a near-100%- efficient

electromagnetic generator.

Some of the capabilities of the craft that Lazar had talked

about operated on a very advanced gravitational pull,

where you would bring the

destination toward you, and then

when you turned off the reactor,

you would end up at your destination.

Warp the fabric of space-time,

and you're at your destination instantaneously.

So this is space-time compression that Lazar's talking about,

but he's attributing this technology to an element that,

as far as we know, doesn't even exist... one that goes against

known science. Naturally, people are going to be skeptical.

A deeper look into Hangar 1 files uncovers another surprise from Bob Lazar...

One that alleges the origins of element 115.

This is the most interesting part about Lazar's story.

According to Lazar, element 115 wasn't actually pilfered from

extraterrestrials, it was given to us by extraterrestrials.

We're not just scavenging for extraterrestrial scraps.

Our government is actually in some sort of a partnership with extraterrestrials.

With such a questionable claim, the idea is quickly dismissed

by mainstream scientists, and Lazar faces widespread ridicule.

At the time, Bob Lazar's claims of element 115 were

considered to be ridiculous.

Lazar himself was said to be delusional.

I think that's very insulting to humans.

I think that says, "we're

incapable of developing things on our own."

I give humankind much more credit than that.

But in 2004, an international team of scientists

appears to vindicate Bob Lazar by announcing the discovery of a

new super-heavy element... Element 115...

Or ununpentium.

So now we finally discover element 115 in 2004.

It has the exact properties that Bob Lazar said it had in 1989.

Everyone laughed when Lazar told us about element 115, and

he turned out to be right about that.

So maybe we need to seriously consider his claim that the

aliens actually gave us this element.

But if we have been handed alien technology and are

utilizing these secrets to build our own futuristic UFOs, how

does the government keep these projects wrapped up so tightly?

If you're in charge of keeping this from the public,

you're gonna take extreme measures.

I know of one story from a former air force intelligence

officer that's especially disturbing.

Many believe there are certain elements within the

government that are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to

keep their otherworldly secrets from being exposed.

We'll se just how far when we return.

According to MUFON files secured in Hangar 1,

alien technology retrieved from UFO crashes has led to

breakthroughs in everything from computers to our own

ultra-classified military UFOs.

The secret that our government is reverse engineering alien technology...

This is something that would change the world.

If you're in charge of keeping

this from the public, you're

going to take extreme measures.

Some of the stories about this are truly disturbing.

California, 1989...

A military defense contractor learns firsthand just how far

some will go to keep their secret technology concealed.

This story comes from Edgar Fouche, a retired

air force intelligence officer.

He tells about a friend of his named Sal, who was an engineer

contracted by a top-secret research facility in California.

So Ed Fouche says that one day toward the end Sal's contract,

he starts to feel a little sick.

His supervisor sends him to the on-site doctor.

The doctor gives Sal an injection and tells him to get some rest.

Sal goes home, falls asleep, and awakens to a nightmare.

Sal wakes up the next day and heads for work. Then it hits him.

He doesn't remember how to get there.

He has no idea what he's been

doing for the past several months.

He eventually learns that his contract has been terminated.

His security clearance is revoked, and he has zero memory

of the projects he's actually worked on.

His old pay stubs are the only

proof he ever worked there at all.

Every technological secret that Sal developed

and worked on is forgotten, erased from his memory.

Whether Sal's story can be verified or not, you can't deny

the intense lockdown of defense-industry secrets.

You got to ask yourself, if this kind of thing is going on,

memories being erased, how did we even get here?

But every once in a while, we still get a peek behind the

defense industry's curtain... Sometimes from a very unlikely source.

Hangar 1 files contain a surprising admission

from the former CEO of the U.S. Military's biggest defense contractor...

Written shortly before his death.

We have a letter on file from

Ben Rich, the former president

and CEO of the Lockheed skunk works, where he states

there are two kinds of UFOs...

Those of extraterrestrial origin and those that we manufacture,

and those that are of extraterrestrial origin had a

great impact on the development of our own UFOs.

This is amazing.

I mean, here's one of the biggest military defense

contractors in the world, and he comes right out and says, "we

have technology based on UFO designs."

Does Ben rich's letter shed light on even more

technological secrets?

Revelations that may hint at some of mankind's true capabilities.

We already have the means to travel among the stars...

But these technologies are locked up in black projects.

And it would take an act of god to ever get them out for the

benefit of humanity.

Ben rich said that we have technology that is so far

advanced that, you know, there's no way he could mention any of it.

We're 400 years ahead of what we see here.

Flying cars and this... That's all real stuff.

We're just not seeing it here.

Ben rich makes this claim of unlimited possibilities.

We already have these technologies, but the government has yet to acknowledge its existence.

Yes, we have got technology

that's better than George Lucas,

better than anything you've seen

in Star wars, Star Trek, whatever. And it's kept absolutely secret.

The central question here is,

"how did we acquire this knowledge?"

According to Ben rich, we learned how to build

our own UFOs by studying crash retrievals.

Then he came right out and said that extraterrestrials have been in contact with our

civilization, and we've been pilfering their technology for more than 70 years.

Ben rich's statements seem to confirm what Bob Lazar claimed in 1989...

That we are reverse engineering UFOs.

But Hangar 1 files suggest another startling disclosure...

That the United States may not be the only country with a

history of reverse engineering alien technology.

During World War II, under the control of the SS., the

Nazis and Nazi scientists were doing a whole array of highly

advanced technological research.

narrator: Hangar 1 files suggest a history of reverse-engineered alien

technology as a possible source for some of our most advanced

weapons and aircraft.

But is America the only country

to reap these extraterrestrial rewards?

The files point to the possibility that enemy nations may have also been experimenting

with extraterrestrial technology, at least since World War II.

Of course, when we're talking

about very advanced, cutting-edge sort of

technologies, it's not just the U.S.

Let's not forget the Germans.

During World War II, under the control of the s.S., the Nazis

and Nazi scientists were doing a whole array of highly advanced

technological research.

Is some of this advanced technology also

reverse engineered from alien sources?

One file reports a UFO recovery that occurred over a

decade before Roswell in the heart of Nazi Germany.

1936... A mysterious disc-shaped craft

is spotted flying erratically over the German countryside.

It suddenly plummets to earth, crashing into the black forest.

The disc is recovered by the military and soon comes to the

attention of Adolf Hitler.

When Hitler hears about this weird flying disc, naturally he

wanted to learn everything about it.

What is it?

What can it do?

And most importantly, how could he use this to his advantage?

Hitler orders the crash debris taken to

Wewelsburg castle... a massive stronghold at the center of the

Nazis' plan for a third reich-dominated world.

Inside Wewelsburg castle, high-ranking SS. Officers study

both science and the occult

under the direct command of Heinrich Himmler.

Himmler oversaw the most esoteric, advanced, and sometimes

outright frightening elements of the Nazi war machine.

We know that the Nazis pursued

the idea of the wunderwaffe...

The superweapon.

This was their effort for victory through science.

They worked on things like

directed-energy weapons, basically ray guns.

They tried to create a sun gun...

An orbital mirror that can focus

the sun's rays at a target on earth.

Nazi scientists

study the UFO and make a startling discovery.

Some of this physics appeared to have to do with propulsion technology.

The claim is that

it contains an antigravity

generator, unlike any technology on earth.

It is now known that the

Nazis were experimenting with

many advanced technologies,

including antigravity, during World War II.

And some of that technology may

have been more advanced than

what the Americans had.

The s.S. Works to study and reverse engineer the

salvaged UFO... Resulting in a secret project called Die Glocke...

A terrifying weapon intended to

conquer the skies for the third reich.

We have stories of something called Die Glocke, the bell.

It could very well have existed, and it was a device that created

a kind of electromagnetic field that seemed to be able to play

with gravity and possibly even allow it to levitate.

But the prototype proves unstable and deadly.

It was said to be highly dangerous.

You get to close to it, you'd be dead.

Die glocke supposedly works through some kind of antigravity

power source, but when the Nazis couldn't replicate it, they

abandoned the project.

Despite the Nazis' lack of success, MUFON files

indicate that for decades, other enemy nations may have also

benefitted from recovering crashed UFOs and reverse

engineering their technology.

There's no reason to believe that we're the only nation on

earth that has this technology.

And if rival nations possess the technology that we have, this

could be a potentially disastrous situation.

What if a crashed UFO ended up in the hands of one of our

enemies and they were able to reverse engineer the technology?

That's one of the worst-case scenarios.

Has this scenario already occurred?

We believe that the iranian government reengineered UFO

technology to capture our drones.

Hangar 1's archives recount a possible history of

UFO reverse engineering conducted by Nazi Germany during

World War II.

But more recent files suggest that some foreign nations may

also be arming themselves with extraterrestrial technology.

We have evidence of crashes all around the world...

Russia in 1969, China in 2006,

and the middle east in 1991 and in 2007.

If this really happened, then we

have advanced technology that

might be in the hands of our enemies.

December 2011...

An American drone crosses into Iran's airspace.

It is captured by the iranian

military without so much as a dent.

Iran proudly broadcasts the captured aircraft on

international television.

American military insiders are thrown into a frenzy, uncertain

how Iran could execute this feat.

This is a state-of-the-art military drone, and Iran brought

it down out of midair without a scratch.

It's not like they shot the thing down.

They somehow were able to capture the drone in midair.

How could a small country like Iran have the technology to pull this off?

The files contain reports that suggest the iranian

military may have had help developing this technology.

So, after the drone is captured, the U.S. is pretty

embarrassed and rattled about what's going on.

And then a few days later, a different story emerges by a

nuclear engineer by the name of Dr. Mehran Keshe.

Dr. Keshe, a controversial nuclear scientist,

claims that he helped design an iranian military UFO that was

used to capture the American drone.

He describes the UFO as having capabilities that exceed any

known aircraft, including a

technology that many believe does not exist.

He says that the drone was captured intact by a tractor

beam that was mounted on a secret aircraft that he designed.

A tractor beam is the ability to pull or tow an object without

necessarily being physically connected to it.

The beam uses photons, or light particles, as a mean of achieving this.

In 2013, NASA announced that they have had some success with

this technology, but on a very small scale.

The iranians claim that they brought down one of our drones

with a tractor beam. Not buying it.

We have had limited success, but what this scientist claimed just

doesn't exist.

Could Iran have constructed this technology by

reverse engineering alien materials?

To answer this question, MUFON examines Iran's long history of

UFO incidents.

Beginning in 1976, Iran experiences a succession of UFO encounters.

And in 2004, they appear to have recovered their own UFO crash.

In 2004, fars news agency stated that multiple

eyewitnesses saw a UFO crash in the mountain of Kerman.

The crash is witnessed by many, but the

iranian military arrive at the scene before any civilians.

By the time they are gone, so too is any evidence of a UFO

crash, leaving many to ask, "what became of the UFO?"

Our experts say that that 2004 crash was reengineered by

the iranian government, and that

technology was used by Dr. Mehran Keshe to capture that drone.

What if a crashed UFO ended up in the hands of one of our

enemies and they were able to reverse engineer the technology?

That's one of the worst-case scenarios.

But within Hangar 1 files, there is evidence of a

more immediate danger to our planet...

Because if UFO crashes have truly given us the wonders of

our modern world, can we really trust the alien technology that

we've grown to depend on? It's kind of like giving

matches to a bunch of preschool students.

It's not gonna turn out really well.

Inside Hangar 1, MUFON files contain information

that suggest that many of the wonders of the 20th century

might be built on a foundation of alien technology reverse

engineered from recovered UFO crashes such as the debris

recovered in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Roswell, new Mexico.

And some foreign nations may already be using their own

reverse-engineered technology against us.

But could we potentially face an even greater threat?

This is the worst-case scenario...

We become absolutely dependent

on technology in every facet of our life.

What would happen

to us if it were suddenly taken away?

August 13, 2003...

MUFON receives sighting reports of UFO activity near three

separate power plants in the northeastern United States.

4:10 P.M. that day...

The second largest blackout in north American history begins.

Over 50 million citizens across the northeastern U.S. and Canada

are without electricity.

Entire states are blanketed in darkness.

Transportation systems shut down.

Medical equipment fails.

Radio and television broadcasts go dead.

Cities and towns across the northeast shut down.

People are trapped in elevators

and underground on subway trains.

There's no drinking water

flowing because pumps are now

controlled by electrical regulators.

The Internet, cell phone coverage goes down.

It was total chaos.

Hundreds of thousands of blackout-related

emergencies are reported, including several dozen fatalities.

So what caused this huge disaster?

It's attributed to a software bug at an Ohio power plant.

But that doesn't account for the multiple UFO sightings near

power stations right before the blackout began.

It's easy to interpret these events as an act of aggression.

Whether the 2003 blackout was caused by UFOs or not, it

lasted less than one day and affected less than a quarter of

the United States.

And look how bad that got.

But if, in fact, extraterrestrials could cut us

off from our technology, what if

they did it on a worldwide scale?

One of the biggest threats to our power grid is from solar

flares or its big brother... the coronal mass ejection.

These occur when eruptions on the sun blast out showers of

charged particles that can disrupt electronics.

In fact, I remember in 1998, when, suddenly, everyone's

pager, back when we had pagers,

suddenly died.

What happened was is that we'd

had a solar flare that literally

disrupted hundreds of millions of dollars worth of satellites

from all nations.

If we were to experience another event of that size

today, considering our dependence on computers and electronics, it would cripple us.

Many believe that vulnerabilities in our energy

grid may pose the biggest danger to our world today.

Today we are collectively addicted to electrons.

More to the point, we're addicted to objects that conduct

electron... electronics.

When something happens that

deprives us of our electrons, we're screwed.

I think that 100 years ago, we were more prepared to deal

with that eventuality than we are today. Forget about

our inability to access our own personal bank accounts.

Government and industry would completely collapse.

Civilization wouldn't be able to survive.

If you accept the premise that E.T. Technology is already

here, that it's already happened and integrated into our lives,

then what's the endgame?

There are a few ways to look at this...

That this is great, that we've embraced these technologies from

extraterrestrials, that we're catching up to them, that the

human race is moving forward.

Here's another perspective on the whole situation.

What if this technology... we're not supposed to have it at all,

and these crash retrievals have messed us up on an evolutionary scale.

It's kind of like giving matches

to a bunch of preschool students.

It's not gonna turn out really well.

For thousands of years,

mankind flourished without this technology.

We conquered and mapped the world.

We built the pyramids, founded massive empires. Now

we all need our phones to guide us across town.

We need computers for

everything from balancing our

budgets to managing our

elections to guiding our missiles.

Astrophysicist

Carl Sagan in his final interview warned...

We've arranged a society based on science and technology,

in which nobody understands anything about science and technology.

And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or

later, is going to blow up in our faces.

With this technology comes great

responsibility.

While many wonder if we will ever know the truth about UFO

crashes and reverse-engineered technology, perhaps the only way

to continue uncovering this truth

is to keep investigating and studying the files contained in Hangar 1.