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December 12, 2009.
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Residents of Barstow, California,
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report the sudden
appearance of a UFO skimming
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over their rooftops in the
predawn sky.
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Witnesses claim that this
UFO streaked across the
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neighborhood, and then it touched
down in a desert across the highway.
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So what they decided to do was walk
over and see what was going on.
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But the residents
quickly find that the strange
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craft is not the only unusual
arrival that day.
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The citizens are making their
way towards the lights.
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They're coming out of their
house in the early morning,
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and then all of a sudden, a fleet of
SUVs barrel right past them
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towards the scene.
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Those SUVs were heading
towards the UFO.
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Nobody ever got out and said
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that, you know, "we're from an
official agency.
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We're government."
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They didn't acknowledge them.
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Witnesses claim the
vehicles encircled the
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grounded UFO, shining their high
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beams outward and
blinding the onlookers.
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Any details of the downed craft
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are lost behind a
glare of headlights.
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Before anybody can get a good
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look at what's going on, a
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flatbed truck rolls in, and
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about 10 minutes later, all the
cars pull out.
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And what was on this flatbed
truck is about the size of a
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vw bug, but of course, it was
covered in the tarp.
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The convoy disappears
as quickly as it arrived,
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leaving the residents
of Barstow with far more
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questions than answers.
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And that's it.
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The witnesses contact the police
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and the military, and they hit
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dead end after dead end.
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No explanation is given.
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Could this be another
UFO incident locked
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away in a classified file?
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The U.S. government has a
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longstanding history of
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covering up UFO incidents.
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So we have to ask the
question, "why?"
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What do they have to gain from
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concealing this fact from their
own citizens?
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Throughout history,
numerous UFO crashes
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have been reported, and to date,
none have been officially acknowledged.
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What exactly is the government
concealing, and why?
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MUFON opens its files to reveal
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more of these incredible stories
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and investigate the extreme
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methods that go into
covering them up.
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The mutual UFO network,
known as MUFON,
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is an independent organization
not bound to any government.
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They investigate reports of UFO
sightings from around the world.
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Over the past five decades, they
have collected more than 70,000
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files stored at a secure
location known as Hangar 1.
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Now, for the first time, MUFON
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is granting access to
their vast archive.
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These are the files of Hangar 1.
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Inside Hangar 1, MUFON investigators
review thousands of UFO sightings each year.
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The Barstow incident is just one
case.
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That downed UFO is cordoned off
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and removed by the military
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without explanation.
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Very few of these stories ever
reach the public.
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But this was not always the
case.
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MUFON files contain a long history
of reported UFO crashes and cover-ups,
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including one of the first recorded
incidents in the United States:
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Back in 1897,
when a UFO crash was simply
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reported as everyday news and a
lone gravestone marked the event.
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April 17, 1897.
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A day like any other in the
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small farm town of Aurora,
Texas...
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Until eyewitnesses report a
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flying airship trailing fire
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across the morning sky.
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It comes flying down into
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this rural town, it hits a
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windmill, and it crash-lands on
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a farmer's property.
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Judge J.S.
Proctor's windmill is destroyed
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by the unusual craft.
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Allegedly, this UFO crash was
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witnessed by the entire town,
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but it happened in 1897.
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How do you verify
something like that?
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Well, MUFON launched an
investigation.
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In 1973, MUFON conducted a
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search for surviving Aurora
witnesses.
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The 1973
investigation turns up several
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living witnesses eager to share
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their stories.
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One 83-year-old man, Charlie
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Stevens, remembers witnessing
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the crash as a child.
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There were witnesses to this.
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The 10-year-old boy actually saw
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the crash occur working on his
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father's farm.
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Our investigators tracked down a
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91-year-old woman.
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She was 15 at the time, and she
saw it.
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Mary Evans tells
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MUFON that the 1897 incident
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was the talk of the town, and
that talk wasn't just about the
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UFO, but what townspeople found
inside the craft.
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Multiple townspeople are
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actually on record as having
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seen an alien body, and these
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witness reports are corroborated
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by local newspaper accounts
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uncovered by MUFON.
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The Aurora newspaper
runs a vivid account
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of the UFO crash from local
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reporter S.E. Haydon.
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This is oddly matter-of-fact
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coverage for such an unusual
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event, but the article gets even
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stranger when we come
to the aftermath.
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The newspaper account
states that the pilot
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is "badly disfigured" and "not
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an inhabitant of this world."
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"Not an inhabitant
of this world."
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This article casually mentions
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that aliens crashed.
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It's just in the newspaper in
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black and white.
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In 1897, not only was the
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public trusted with this
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information, the public was also
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invited to the alien's funeral.
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For nearly 80 years,
a simple tombstone
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stands as a reminder
of the Aurora crash.
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It bears no name and is only
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marked with a small carving
depicting a flying saucer.
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You have to remember that, at
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the time of the Aurora crash,
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our own planet still
held a lot of mystery.
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It wasn't scary to them back
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then to have mysteries.
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It's us today that can't accept
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the unknown and the unexplained.
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We're frightened by that.
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But in Aurora, in 1897, this was
not a scary event.
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During MUFON's 1973
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investigation in Aurora, they
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attempt to recover evidence and
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exhume the remains of the alien.
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It would seem like a surefire
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way to debunk or confirm the
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story would go dig up the
evidence, literally.
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So we went to the small Aurora
cemetery to do just that:
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Dig it up.
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Investigators arrive
at the Aurora cemetery
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with metal detectors.
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As they went from grave to
grave, only one grave site
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registered anomalous readings:
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The grave of the alien pilot.
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MUFON submits an official
request to exhume the grave.
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It is denied.
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We're denied access to the
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grave because it's
on church property.
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The following day, we come back
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for one last look
before going home.
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The grave was exhumed
the night before.
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There's your proof.
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There's your smoking gun.
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So whatever was buried there
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is now lost, and the headstone
is missing as well.
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In less than 80
years, it appears the official
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attitude on UFOs shifts from
openness to secrecy.
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This is just another example
of the kind of cover-up that we
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find in this sort
of investigation.
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Over the course of 100 years,
UFO reports have evolved from
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openness and transparency to
secrecy and denial.
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That's an example of how much
things have changed.
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But why have things
changed so drastically?
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Could there be dangers that we
are unaware of?
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Hangar 1 contains
thousands of files, each one a
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record of UFO activity from
around the world.
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One file tells the story of an
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1897 UFO crash in Aurora, Texas,
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where residents held a public
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funeral for a dead alien.
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But 80 years later, a MUFON
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investigation into that crash
hits a dead end.
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Is it possible that UFO
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incidents are still
routinely covered up?
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Another file documents a UFO
crash in Mexico that some
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believe to be the subject of an
international cover-up.
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Texas, 1974.
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United States air defense radar
detects an unidentified flying
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object over the Gulf of Mexico
rapidly approaching U.S. airspace.
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Across the border, Mexican
authorities are alerted.
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Right from the start, we have
independent confirmation in this incident.
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the same object is being tracked
by both the United States and Mexico.
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The object shifts
course away from the U.S. and
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rockets back toward
Mexican airspace.
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Radar operators on both sides of
the border are stunned.
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When you're looking at this
kind of movement, it would have
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to be under some kind of
intelligent control.
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Reportedly, the
U.S. military traces the UFO's
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path to Coyame, a sparsely
populated Mexican border town,
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where it suddenly
vanishes from radar.
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At the same moment, Mexican
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authorities receive
a distress call.
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They receive a radio
broadcast that a civilian
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airplane has crashed in the vicinity,
possibly due to a midair collision.
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In the same location where
this UFO went off radar, a
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civilian aircraft collided with
something in flight.
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Well, what did it collide with?
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Mexican authorities
arrive at the crash
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site and discover the remains
of a small civilian plane.
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But there also appears to be
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wreckage from a second
craft at the scene.
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There was another report of a
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second crash, and
this is interesting.
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They said it was damaged, but it
was perfectly intact.
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It was described as saucer,
metallic shape with no markings.
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The Mexican military
does not know what to
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make of the unusual craft.
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They call in a report and then
go radio silent.
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But word of the crash has
already reached U.S. authorities.
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The Mexican broadcast was
intercepted by the CIA, and
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they wanted to bring their own
crash retrieval special team
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down to Mexico, but the Mexican
authorities flat-out denied that
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a crash even occurred.
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Within hours, CIA
reconnaissance captures
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images of the Mexican convoy
departing the Coyame crash site.
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At this point, the CIA know
about the convoy, and they
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definitely know that there's a salvaged
crashed UFO on the back of that truck.
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In the file are
claims that the CIA dispatches
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a small, covert team to
intercept the Mexican convoy
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and get a closer
look at the UFO.
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The U.S. team arrives, and
surprisingly, they're met with
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zero resistance from
the Mexican army.
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The Mexicans suddenly want
nothing to do with this UFO
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anymore, and that's because the
whole situation has taken a dark turn.
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The Americans encounter
a grim scene.
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When the CIA finally
arrive, they come up on the
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convoy and they see four
soldiers laying down in the dirt.
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It's clear that
the Mexican soldiers are dead.
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What's not clear
is how they died.
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All of the dead soldiers had
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made contact with the UFO while
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trying to remove it
from the crash site.
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Is it radiation?
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Extraterrestrial bacteria?
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We don't know.
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The Mexicans realize how
dangerous this craft was, and
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the CIA managed to convince
them that they had more
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experience containing
this sort of threat.
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It is believed the
American team takes possession
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of the UFO and transports it
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back to Missouri's
Whiteman air force base.
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The incident is kept secret
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until it is unearthed by a MUFON
investigation.
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The Coyame incident occurred
in 1974, but it didn't really
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come to our attention until
1992 through an anonymous
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report that went to Ruben Uriarte,
one of our field investigators.
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It detailed this crashed saucer
and the subsequent cover-up.
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Ruben Uriarte's informant
provides a full
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report, detailing the Coyame
crash and its subsequent
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cover-up by authorities.
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The report provided a good
place to start an investigation.
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It was a credible account, and
it drove us to seek further evidence.
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Ruben Uriarte was able to get
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flight logs, communication logs,
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and radar logs that synch up
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perfectly with this
sighting report.
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The biggest find was that
Uriarte was actually able to
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confirm the names of the dead
Mexican soldiers.
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This is huge.
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I mean, he now had proof that
these four soldiers died at the
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exact same time, during an
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incident that officially
never occurred.
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But even with this
evidence in hand, the
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investigation is stonewalled.
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So Ruben was able to track
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down the names of the dead
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soldiers, but the government
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denied that they'd ever existed.
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So again, we have a classic
example of cover-up.
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We have evidence.
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We have witnesses.
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Yet with every piece of evidence
we've got, there's continuing
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pushback and denials.
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Is the cover-up of
the Coyame crash linked to the
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unknown dangers encountered when
recovering the UFO?
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Perhaps, because the files
reveal that a more recent crash
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in Brazil led to
similar casualties.
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We have verified sightings of
UFOs in Varginha.
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We have E.T.s walking
around in the town.
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And we have a dead body.
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The evidence is piling up.
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Another swift and
forceful cover-up leads to the
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question, how many UFO crashes
will it take before the truth
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is finally revealed?
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Inside Hangar 1,
MUFON has opened its 70,000
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files, which reveal stories
from around the globe of UFO crashes...
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And authorities determined to
conceal all evidence.
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A deadly UFO crash in Coyame,
Mexico, may have been covered up
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by both U.S. and Mexican
officials, and this pattern
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continues throughout the world.
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From Brazil comes the story of
another extraterrestrial
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encounter that is derailed by
cover-ups and suppression.
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There's a tendency to believe
that the U.S. government is
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behind every UFO cover-up, but
this is just not the case, as
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we see from a number
of cases in our files.
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January 20, 1996.
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Local police respond to reports
of a wild animal running loose
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in the town of Varginha, Brazil.
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Earlier that morning, a group
of three girls were startled by
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this strange creature that was
located behind an auto body shop.
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And what they described it as,
it was a small creature with a
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large, disproportionate head,
lidless eyes, and it was
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snarling and growling at them.
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And officer Marco Cherese
decided to investigate.
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By evening, the
town is consumed with stories
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that a devil creature is on the loose.
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But what officer Cherese
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eventually encounters
is all too real.
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Officer Cherese tracks down
this creature, and when he comes
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towards it, he could tell that it almost
seems like it's half dead, almost dying.
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So he decides to pick it up, and
the thing pushes him.
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And in doing so, it made contact
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with his ungloved hand, which he
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didn't think very much about
during the time.
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Officer Cherese and
his partner take the
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creature and transport it to a
local hospital.
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By the time the officer
arrives at the hospital, it's
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already swarming with
military personnel.
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And what he didn't know was that
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a radio call went out of another
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entity, a second entity that was
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tracked and captured
by the military.
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They bagged it and tagged it and
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threw it in the
back of the truck.
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That second creature was
examined in the same hospital.
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Officer Cherese had to be
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wondering, "what's
going on here?"
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The army wouldn't be involved
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if it was just a wounded animal.
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So what's even more
interesting... on January 13th,
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the whole week before this
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incident, NORAD gave the
Brazilian government a head up
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that a UFO was tracked coming
down over the hills of Varginha.
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Was this a crash?
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Were these alien pilots?
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When officer Cherese tries to
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investigate these creatures even
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further, he is told to back off,
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forget about it, and pretend
like it didn't even happen.
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And that would've been okay.
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He probably would've, but then
something else happened.
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Two weeks after his
encounter, officer
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Cherese's doctor finds
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something unusual on his arm in
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the exact same spot where the
creature touched him.
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Officer Cherese starts
feeling really ill and sick.
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He starts complaining of back
pains, high fever, respiratory
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failure, and he's hospitalized.
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Reportedly, one week
later, the 23-year-old
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police officer is dead.
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The autopsy revealed that his
body was riddled with
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infections, and it's odd that a
young man would contract so many
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infections all at the same time.
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Even the doctor
confirms that this is a strange
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death without
rational explanation.
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We have verified sightings of
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UFOs in Varginha.
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We have E.T.s walking
around in the town.
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And we have a dead body.
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The evidence is
piling up, right?
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Wrong.
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Just days after these
events, mysterious
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strangers arrive in the town.
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All the witnesses to this
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event... the three girls, even
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their parents and the police
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captain... were visited by four
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men who strongly intimidated
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them and encouraged them, "do
not discuss this in public."
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We don't know who these men
were or who they represent.
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It wouldn't make sense for them
to be military because they also
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confronted military personnel.
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With some witnesses, they threatened.
Others, they offered bribes.
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According to the
file, Brazilian authorities
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explained the Varginha incident
with a controversial report.
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The official story about the
bodies recovered from Varginha
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were that they were dwarves.
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Dwarves!
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That was the best they could
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come up with when half the town
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had seen these creatures.
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And since when does the military
round up dwarves?
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No mention of a UFO.
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It's paper thin, absolutely
ridiculous, but that's their story.
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And once again, we may never
know what really happened
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because the witnesses
have been silenced.
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Could this be another
incident in a pattern
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of UFO crashes and cover-ups?
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And is it possible to silence
every witness, even when that
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witness is a high-profile
political figure?
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If someone of this stature
and integrity were to go public,
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it would have an incalculable
effect on the media and the
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00:24:32,222 --> 00:24:34,707
public regarding the
truth with UFOs.
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MUFON investigates
this story, and its surprising
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twist, when we return.
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Hangar 1's files
contain hundreds of stories of
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UFO witnesses who claim to be
intimidated by authorities.
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Their agenda: To cover up all
evidence of extraterrestrial
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encounters, a pattern seen in
case files from Barstow,
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California; Coyame, Mexico;
and Varginha, Brazil.
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But sometimes, witnesses may
even feel pressure to censor
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themselves, such as one case
involving a UFO abduction
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allegedly observed by one of the
most prominent men in the world.
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Manhattan, New York.
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Linda cortile awakens at 3:00
A.M. and is astonished to find
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herself hovering 12 stories
above the street, outside her apartment.
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The witness, Linda, thinks
she's dreaming, but this is no dream.
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Here she is, floating over the
New York skyline.
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Linda claims that she has been
pulled toward the giant UFO.
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She described it as a sort of tractor
beam pulling her through the night sky.
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As Linda is pulled
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into the UFO, the surrounding
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neighborhood experiences a
major power outage.
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And not just in the
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buildings, but on
the street also.
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Cars were dying right in the
middle of the street.
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Once on board, Linda falls into
a dreamlike trance and then,
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many hours later, finds herself
back in her apartment.
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In the days to
come, Linda is traumatized by
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her experience and seeks help.
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She eventually meets with famed
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abduction investigator
Budd Hopkins.
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00:27:04,433 --> 00:27:08,812
Budd Hopkins worked for years
in the UFO field with abductees,
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00:27:08,912 --> 00:27:12,090
taking their stories, publishing
the results of his
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00:27:12,190 --> 00:27:16,151
investigations, and basically
really being a pioneer in the
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whole field of
abduction research.
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Budd found Linda's case
extremely interesting,
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particularly after doctors found
a small metal object in her
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skull shortly after
her abduction.
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This is an intriguing story,
but there's not much to base our
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00:27:36,573 --> 00:27:40,672
investigation on other than
Linda's memory of the event, and
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there are no witnesses
to corroborate it.
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But this story cannot
be easily dismissed,
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because the files report that
one year after the incident,
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two surprise witnesses
come forward.
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Budd Hopkins receives a
letter from two individuals,
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Richard and Dan.
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They claim to have witnessed the
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abduction of Linda.
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Richard and Dan
identify themselves as New York
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city police officers who were
providing private security for a
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vip client at the time of
Linda's abduction.
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The men describe the exact
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same story that
Linda experienced.
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They saw a woman floating in the
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sky above them, slow drifting
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towards a massive,
oval-shaped craft.
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But the case takes
a bizarre turn when the men
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reportedly reveal the identity
of their vip client.
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These men reveal that there
was a third witness, the vip
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client they were providing
security for, and he happened to
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be Perez de Cuellar.
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At the time, Javier
Perez de Cuellar is the
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secretary general of
the united nations.
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The other two witnesses had
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already told Budd Hopkins that
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the third man was traumatized by
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what he had seen that night.
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Maybe because of his high-level
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position, he didn't
know where to turn.
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According to reports,
Budd Hopkins reaches
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out to Javier Perez de Cuellar.
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Budd is overwhelmed
with this revelation.
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If someone of this stature and
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integrity were to go public, it
would have an incalculable
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effect on the media and the
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public regarding the
truth with UFOs.
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And it is true that Budd
Hopkins did communicate at least
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one time with Javier Perez de
Cuellar on this, and de Cuellar
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absolutely did not want to get
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00:29:41,566 --> 00:29:44,289
involved publicly on this matter
whatsoever.
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Secretary general
Javier Perez de Cuellar has
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never acknowledged this story,
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and we may never know the truth.
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Clearly, Javier Perez de
Cuellar, one of the most public,
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prominent men in the world at
that time, knew full well there
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was no way he was going to come
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00:30:02,876 --> 00:30:09,631
out and publicly say, "yes, I
too was involved in that utterly
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fantastic abduction experience."
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In the de Cuellar case, we
see an example of self-censorship.
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It's not always the media or the
government.
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Sometimes it's us.
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00:30:18,847 --> 00:30:20,957
If you fly in the face of public
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00:30:21,057 --> 00:30:24,852
opinion, you run the risk of
losing jobs, losing friends,
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losing credibility.
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Hangar 1 files reveal
a possible pattern of
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00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,436
UFO cover-ups, from government
denials and secrecy to the
503
00:31:15,536 --> 00:31:19,899
self-censorship of witnesses
afraid to speak out.
504
00:31:22,150 --> 00:31:27,655
A UFO crash in 1965 is believed
by some to be one of the first
505
00:31:27,780 --> 00:31:33,117
cases of a UFO investigator who
searches for the truth and pays
506
00:31:33,284 --> 00:31:35,286
the ultimate price.
507
00:31:44,044 --> 00:31:47,713
December 5, 1965.
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.
508
00:31:48,881 --> 00:31:52,884
Dozens of eyewitnesses report a
UFO streaking across the sky
509
00:31:52,984 --> 00:31:55,095
over Canada, Michigan, and Ohio.
510
00:31:57,722 --> 00:32:02,309
The F.A.A. logs sightings from
23 pilots along the UFO's flight path.
511
00:32:06,563 --> 00:32:10,683
Finally, the residents of
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, observe
512
00:32:10,783 --> 00:32:14,903
a fiery object plummeting from
the sky and into the woods.
513
00:32:16,446 --> 00:32:17,321
People in town describe
514
00:32:17,488 --> 00:32:20,658
seeing this fireball-shaped
object, and it suddenly changes
515
00:32:20,783 --> 00:32:23,869
course and crashes
in the wood line.
516
00:32:27,831 --> 00:32:31,041
So the Kecksburg case is
extremely interesting because
517
00:32:31,167 --> 00:32:34,253
you have an entire town that
sees an object coming out of the
518
00:32:34,336 --> 00:32:36,130
sky and crashing into the woods.
519
00:32:36,629 --> 00:32:39,366
So they all come out
to take a closer look.
520
00:32:39,466 --> 00:32:43,510
A lot of people went out to
the woods to investigate, and
521
00:32:43,610 --> 00:32:46,413
they got there first before
anybody else did.
522
00:32:46,513 --> 00:32:50,475
A couple of the guys described
it as a acorn shape that was
523
00:32:50,575 --> 00:32:53,503
embedded into the dirt, and
there was a outside
524
00:32:53,603 --> 00:32:58,106
circumference, what they described
resembled Egyptian hieroglyphics.
525
00:32:59,566 --> 00:33:03,344
In the middle of
the scene, a local reporter,
526
00:33:03,444 --> 00:33:07,147
John Murphy, is capturing the
events with his camera.
527
00:33:07,247 --> 00:33:10,950
John Murphy was a reporter
and news director for whjb, a
528
00:33:11,050 --> 00:33:14,104
radio station in nearby
greensburg, Pennsylvania.
529
00:33:14,204 --> 00:33:18,499
So while this is going on, he's
snapping pictures of everything.
530
00:33:20,292 --> 00:33:24,253
It is not long
before the authorities show up.
531
00:33:24,353 --> 00:33:26,322
John Murphy was just snapping
532
00:33:26,422 --> 00:33:28,840
away, taking pictures
of the object.
533
00:33:28,940 --> 00:33:30,867
The military shows up and tells
534
00:33:30,967 --> 00:33:33,357
him, "this is now a
restricted area.
535
00:33:33,456 --> 00:33:35,746
You guys are ordered
out of here."
536
00:33:35,846 --> 00:33:39,808
They confiscated his camera,
and they told everybody to get
537
00:33:39,908 --> 00:33:41,726
the hell off the property.
538
00:33:41,826 --> 00:33:43,545
They were all pushed back, and
539
00:33:43,645 --> 00:33:46,089
all the military
trucks pulled in.
540
00:33:46,188 --> 00:33:49,775
This is a small town a few
miles from where I live.
541
00:33:49,817 --> 00:33:52,777
There were dozens of witnesses
on the street.
542
00:33:52,819 --> 00:33:56,823
The army brought in a flatbed
and did a crash and retrieval,
543
00:33:56,923 --> 00:33:58,016
and then they left.
544
00:33:58,116 --> 00:34:02,702
The official government report on this
incident states that only three
545
00:34:02,786 --> 00:34:06,330
members of the military were
sent to investigate the scene.
546
00:34:07,248 --> 00:34:11,285
the Kecksburg crash of 1965,
that's a perfect example of this
547
00:34:11,385 --> 00:34:15,421
disparate nature between what
officially happened and then
548
00:34:15,521 --> 00:34:16,881
what really happened.
549
00:34:18,799 --> 00:34:20,743
A team of three individuals go
550
00:34:20,843 --> 00:34:23,554
investigate it, and
that's all she wrote.
551
00:34:23,654 --> 00:34:25,371
What everyone in the town of
552
00:34:25,471 --> 00:34:29,070
Kecksburg knows is that an
enormous number of people...
553
00:34:29,170 --> 00:34:32,769
Military, different types of
branches of the military...
554
00:34:33,770 --> 00:34:37,231
Probably over 100 outside
people came in, combed the
555
00:34:37,331 --> 00:34:40,092
woods, sealed off the woods
from the public.
556
00:34:40,192 --> 00:34:43,778
And yet what's interesting is
that there's no official
557
00:34:43,878 --> 00:34:45,822
acknowledgment by the military
558
00:34:45,864 --> 00:34:48,658
services that they did
this type of thing.
559
00:34:50,576 --> 00:34:51,685
Think about it.
560
00:34:51,785 --> 00:34:54,705
You see something happen with
your own eyes.
561
00:34:54,805 --> 00:34:56,747
You know hundreds of military
562
00:34:56,847 --> 00:34:58,791
personnel swarmed a small town.
563
00:34:58,833 --> 00:35:01,778
Yet this is outright denied
by the government.
564
00:35:01,878 --> 00:35:05,476
When you get that kind of
firsthand look at how these
565
00:35:05,576 --> 00:35:09,243
cover-ups work, you're going to
be hungry for the truth.
566
00:35:09,343 --> 00:35:13,012
So now the town was just
sitting around with all these
567
00:35:13,112 --> 00:35:16,097
rumors of what the
heck is going on.
568
00:35:16,197 --> 00:35:19,184
Kecksburg buzzes with
stories about the
569
00:35:19,284 --> 00:35:21,227
mysterious object in the woods,
570
00:35:21,326 --> 00:35:23,170
and John Murphy, the reporter
571
00:35:23,270 --> 00:35:25,631
at the scene, decides
to investigate.
572
00:35:25,731 --> 00:35:29,579
Some people heard that it was
a misfired army missile.
573
00:35:29,679 --> 00:35:32,617
Others thought it was a satellite
that came crashing down.
574
00:35:32,717 --> 00:35:33,596
And because this was at the
height of the cold war, some
575
00:35:33,696 --> 00:35:38,325
even thought that it could be a
Soviet spy plane that was shot down.
576
00:35:38,366 --> 00:35:41,644
But the official story
ends here, with
577
00:35:41,744 --> 00:35:44,730
authorities denying that any
UFO was involved.
578
00:35:44,830 --> 00:35:49,209
The fallen object is reported to
the press as a meteorite, but no
579
00:35:49,309 --> 00:35:52,796
meteorites or fragments were
recovered from the scene.
580
00:35:57,883 --> 00:36:01,481
The Kecksburg case is
important, I think, because it
581
00:36:01,581 --> 00:36:05,181
involved the landing or crashing
of a physical object.
582
00:36:06,515 --> 00:36:09,376
So it means that there is a
physical object.
583
00:36:09,476 --> 00:36:13,229
It was taken away by the
military and put somewhere, and
584
00:36:13,329 --> 00:36:15,297
there aren't that many UFO cases
585
00:36:15,397 --> 00:36:18,192
that involve something
physical like that.
586
00:36:18,292 --> 00:36:20,260
Leaving John Murphy and other
587
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,780
witnesses to wonder, "what
became of the evidence?"
588
00:36:25,656 --> 00:36:30,327
So the fact that all these
people witnessed a physical
589
00:36:30,452 --> 00:36:34,622
object come down... some saw it in
the woods on the ground, others
590
00:36:34,705 --> 00:36:38,542
saw it on the flatbed truck
being taken away... means that
591
00:36:38,625 --> 00:36:41,253
there is a huge evidential thing
592
00:36:42,754 --> 00:36:44,672
that the U.S. government
has somewhere.
593
00:36:46,632 --> 00:36:48,717
So you have this very black and
594
00:36:48,759 --> 00:36:50,827
white contradiction between what
595
00:36:50,927 --> 00:36:54,180
the official line was and what
actually happened.
596
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,453
However, the journalist
at the scene, John
597
00:36:57,553 --> 00:37:00,727
Murphy, is determined
to uncover the truth.
598
00:37:02,062 --> 00:37:05,815
But is it possible that John
Murphy's search for answers
599
00:37:05,915 --> 00:37:07,650
regarding the Kecksburg UFO
600
00:37:08,651 --> 00:37:11,570
could ultimately lead to his
untimely death?
601
00:37:24,456 --> 00:37:28,500
Inside Hangar 1,
MUFON files reveal the story of
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00:37:28,542 --> 00:37:31,712
a UFO crash in Kecksburg,
Pennsylvania, in 1965.
603
00:37:34,423 --> 00:37:39,260
The file describes a UFO seized
by the military and the
604
00:37:39,427 --> 00:37:44,723
subsequent suppression of all
evidence, until a local reporter
605
00:37:44,848 --> 00:37:46,641
threatens the cover-up.
606
00:37:54,063 --> 00:37:56,057
John Murphy begins gathering
607
00:37:56,157 --> 00:37:58,051
evidence on the Kecksburg crash.
608
00:37:58,151 --> 00:38:02,137
John Murphy decided to do a
radio documentary, and what he
609
00:38:02,237 --> 00:38:06,449
needed to do was go around and
talk to all the witnesses to get
610
00:38:06,549 --> 00:38:08,810
all the pieces of
the story together.
611
00:38:08,910 --> 00:38:12,563
The reporter believes
that the government's
612
00:38:12,662 --> 00:38:16,512
account is very different from
actual eyewitness reports.
613
00:38:16,612 --> 00:38:20,321
Right away, Murphy notices
there are many witnesses, yet
614
00:38:20,421 --> 00:38:24,131
their descriptions of the UFO
are consistently similar.
615
00:38:24,231 --> 00:38:26,800
And this wasn't a
typical flying saucer.
616
00:38:26,841 --> 00:38:30,845
This was a very specific kind of
craft with unusual details.
617
00:38:34,515 --> 00:38:38,084
John Murphy actually feels
like he's on the verge of
618
00:38:38,184 --> 00:38:42,221
something here, and he's pouring
all his energy and effort into
619
00:38:42,321 --> 00:38:46,358
this radio broadcast, and he's
telling all his friends that
620
00:38:46,458 --> 00:38:48,302
he's uncovered something huge.
621
00:38:48,402 --> 00:38:52,263
He conducts this thorough
investigation, and is about to
622
00:38:52,363 --> 00:38:57,325
reveal his findings to the world,
and this is when things take a dark turn.
623
00:38:57,367 --> 00:39:01,371
The file reports
that on the evening before the
624
00:39:01,471 --> 00:39:03,189
radio documentary is to air,
625
00:39:03,289 --> 00:39:06,417
John Murphy receives some
unannounced visitors.
626
00:39:06,517 --> 00:39:09,194
So two men show up at
the radio station.
627
00:39:09,294 --> 00:39:13,256
They don't identify themselves
as military or police or any
628
00:39:13,356 --> 00:39:14,574
type of investigator.
629
00:39:14,674 --> 00:39:18,814
John Murphy never disclosed
what the men actually told him,
630
00:39:18,914 --> 00:39:23,055
but they clearly convinced him
that it was in his best interest
631
00:39:23,155 --> 00:39:25,458
to keep quiet about
the whole thing.
632
00:39:25,558 --> 00:39:30,186
Then they confiscated his recordings
and other evidence he'd obtained.
633
00:39:30,286 --> 00:39:33,965
Murphy was forced to re-cut
his documentary at the 11th
634
00:39:34,065 --> 00:39:38,360
hour, and the version that aired
was a chilling testament to how
635
00:39:38,460 --> 00:39:41,013
badly these visitors
had intimidated him.
636
00:39:41,113 --> 00:39:45,032
The documentary
that airs is simply an account
637
00:39:45,132 --> 00:39:46,951
of a possible meteor strike.
638
00:39:48,368 --> 00:39:51,955
It contains no new evidence,
makes no reference to the
639
00:39:52,055 --> 00:39:54,665
military, and does
not mention a UFO.
640
00:39:58,586 --> 00:40:00,870
This guy is absolutely
devastated.
641
00:40:00,970 --> 00:40:03,156
After pouring his heart and soul
642
00:40:03,256 --> 00:40:06,426
into a potentially
world-changing investigation,
643
00:40:06,468 --> 00:40:09,178
it gets snatched away
at the last minute.
644
00:40:11,889 --> 00:40:15,750
He loses his job and spends the
next three years completely
645
00:40:15,850 --> 00:40:20,645
beaten down and dejected, until
he decides to do something about it.
646
00:40:20,745 --> 00:40:24,649
In 1967, Murphy
reportedly confides to a friend
647
00:40:24,691 --> 00:40:28,102
that he wants to reopen his
original investigation.
648
00:40:28,202 --> 00:40:31,526
John Murphy eventually
convinced himself that this
649
00:40:31,626 --> 00:40:34,949
story had to be told, and
apparently, he no longer
650
00:40:34,991 --> 00:40:38,161
believed he was in any danger.
But he was wrong.
651
00:40:38,261 --> 00:40:41,563
Two days after
reportedly reopening his
652
00:40:41,663 --> 00:40:44,983
investigation into the
Kecksburg crash, John Murphy
653
00:40:45,083 --> 00:40:48,878
crosses the street and is killed
by a hit-and-run driver.
654
00:40:52,214 --> 00:40:53,965
The driver is never found.
655
00:40:59,095 --> 00:41:02,540
It's impossible to
categorically state that he was
656
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:06,626
killed because of what he knew
about Kecksburg and to prevent
657
00:41:06,726 --> 00:41:11,522
him from disclosing his information,
but it's certainly cause for alarm.
658
00:41:11,622 --> 00:41:15,651
John Murphy is far from being
the only UFO whistleblower to
659
00:41:15,751 --> 00:41:17,985
die under mysterious
circumstances.
660
00:41:19,529 --> 00:41:23,031
Some wonder if there
is a pattern of UFO
661
00:41:23,073 --> 00:41:26,576
investigators who have
seemingly met untimely deaths.
662
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:35,292
There's been a long list of
UFO investigators that have died
663
00:41:35,392 --> 00:41:38,069
under mysterious
circumstances... fast-acting
664
00:41:38,169 --> 00:41:41,756
cancers, car accidents,
suicides... all way before their
665
00:41:41,856 --> 00:41:43,966
normal lifespan should've ended.
666
00:41:45,092 --> 00:41:48,720
James E. McDonald. He testified before
congress twice.
667
00:41:48,820 --> 00:41:50,763
He ends up dying of a suicide.
668
00:41:53,015 --> 00:41:55,125
John Mack, he gets hit by a car.
669
00:41:55,225 --> 00:41:58,879
John Murphy of the Kecksburg
case, he gets hit by a car.
670
00:41:58,979 --> 00:42:04,692
It goes on and on, UFO
investigators all meeting an early death.
671
00:42:09,654 --> 00:42:13,316
Between the desire to keep
a lid on UFO sighting reports
672
00:42:13,416 --> 00:42:16,977
and the treatment of the
witnesses and the data they
673
00:42:17,077 --> 00:42:21,164
share, there's a strong program
in place to suppress credible
674
00:42:21,205 --> 00:42:22,290
UFO information.
675
00:42:24,584 --> 00:42:28,045
How far this desire
to suppress goes is
676
00:42:28,145 --> 00:42:29,337
impossible to know.
677
00:42:33,424 --> 00:42:38,012
MUFON files chronicle a long
history of UFO crashes and
678
00:42:38,137 --> 00:42:42,348
cover-ups, but it seems the
public still knows very little
679
00:42:42,474 --> 00:42:45,601
about many of these events, as
680
00:42:45,768 --> 00:42:47,686
witnesses continue to be
681
00:42:47,811 --> 00:42:51,523
silenced and evidence
is locked away.
682
00:42:52,815 --> 00:42:54,734
But somewhere within the files
683
00:42:54,984 --> 00:42:57,965
of Hangar 1 is the truth.
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