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March 1994.

Aviation writer and UFO
researcher Don Berliner

retrieves his mail,

and in it,
receives an unusual package.

In March 1994, Don Berliner
had just returned

from an experimental
air show in Wisconsin

where he had taken a lot of
pictures, met a lot of people.

When he got home
he went through his mail.

One of the pieces of mail he had
was an unmarked package,

which inside had a roll of film.

So he assumed that he
had left a roll of film

behind at the air show

and someone had nicely
just sent this to him.

It wasn't until
he developed the roll

that he realized what he had.

Instead of pictures
of aircraft that he had taken,

he was looking at pages
of a top-secret document.

Its title:

SOM1-01:

a special operations manual
for the recovery of

"extra-terrestrial
entities and technology."

If this document is real,
that changes everything.

Life as we know it changes
dramatically.

Is SOM1-01 real?

And if so, is this proof
that the government

not only knows about UFOs,

but has official
protocols in place

to deal with their recovery?

Hangar 1 opens its files
to reveal the shocking truth...

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

stored at a secure 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.

To this day, the
government denies any knowledge

of UFOs or extraterrestrials.

Official White House policy

is that UFOs do not exist.

However, the discovery of a
top-secret government manual

called SOM1-01

could be proof that everything
the government has told us

is a lie.

In March of 1994,

Don Berliner received the mother
of all leaked documents.

The document was Special
Operations Manual 1-01,

otherwise known as SOM1-01.

If this manual is real,

it means that the military
has been collecting evidence

from crash sites from
around the world for decades,

and this entire time engaging
in a large-scale cover-up.

The authenticity of SOM1-01

is hotly debated
among UFO researchers

and raises many questions.

If you really want
to start a heated argument

among ufologists,

ask them if SOM1-01 is real.

Most informed UFO scholars

fall on both sides
of the debate.

You can never be 100 % sure
that a document is real.

There's always people
that will say it's a fake.

But we've invested many
man-years worth of effort

to study each nuance, every
paragraph, every sentence,

everything we can think of

to try to authenticate this
special operations manual.

MUFON investigators Robert Wood,

his son Ryan,
and Stanton Friedman

have made every effort
to authenticate the manual.

My father took the original
negatives down to the print shop

and made 8x10 copies
of these negatives

and studied them
with a magnifying glass,

deciphered every single word,

and then created
a complete replica

of the special
operations manual.

Stanton Friedman
began focusing on the facts

that could be
independently checked.

For instance,

were facilities
mentioned in the manual

in operation at the time?

Were the instructions for
packaging evidence reasonable?

And did the language used

accurately reflect language
and terms used during that time?

On the change control page,
for example,

there are initials -
just initials -

JRT and EWL.

So I found the Albuquerque
phone book in 1954, '55,

and looked up all the people
with those initials,

and sure enough, Lieutenant
Colonel Jess R. Tonton

and Lieutenant Colonel
Edward W. Levine,

both on Perimeter Road
on Kirtland Air Force Base.

Kaboom!

Why would the government
create a detailed manual

for handling UFO crashes
if UFOs do not exist?

The idea that these things
actually crash,

and that there are
recovery protocols

and manuals and so forth,

and that there's involvement
with the government -

all these things
make sense to me.

All of a sudden it lifts up

out of purely a science fiction
kind of way to look at it.

This isn't a television show.

Thiss something
real that's happening

right in front of your eyes.

This document would
not have been created

as some speculative guide
on how to retrieve UFOs.

This is a very specific document

that has very specific
information in it,

and it would not
have been created

if there had only been one
recovery of a downed craft.

There had to have been
numerous UFO crashes

to have warranted
the creation of such a document.

One of these crashes
took place in Kingman, Arizona,

one year before
the special operations manual

was reportedly published.

Many believe the events
surrounding this crash

had a direct impact
on the protocol and procedures

that would eventually appear
in the SOM1-01 manual.

May 1953.

Kingman, Arizona.

A military air base
control tower

picks something up
on their radar.

Suddenly,
the object loses altitude

and disappears from the screen.

Officer Woolcott is on duty
in the control tower.

After witnessing
an object of unknown origin

appear and disappear
on his radar screen,

looks up
to see other officers

pointing towards the horizon,

and they're talking about
something being down.

Several officers,
including Woolcott,

jump into a jeep and take off

in the direction
the object crashed.

After searching around area

where the object had lan,

they finally locate something.

The officers discover a craft

unlike anything
they have ever seen.

In front of them is a domed,
metallic-looking disc

embedded 20 inches
into the sand.

The craft is completely intact

and there isn't
a single scratch on it.

While dermining
how to handle the situation,

Woolcott and his fellow officers
are quickly joined by others,

also aware of the crash.

Within minutes,
military officers are on the scene.

They begin
cordoning off the area

and questioning
all the witnesses.

Soon, the military has complete control
of the crash site.

Everyone not part
of the recovery team

is removed from the site

and warned never to reveal
what they have seen.

Their procedures
for securing the site

appear to follow the exact
instructions found in SOM1-01.

Chapter 3 of the special
operations manual

talks about recovery operations,

and there is an entire section
about securing the area.

Once the crash
has been discovered,

the military moves in
as quickly as possible

to set up a perimeter
and an on-site command post,

claiming complete
control of the area.

Once a perimeter is
established

and an on-site
command post is set up,

the military does an area sweep

of all unauthorized personnel.

Any witnesses they find
must be thoroughly debriefed

and then removed
from the location.

The Kingman Crash of 1953

is a precursor to the creation
of this government handbook

issued in 1954.

But you can see
that the government

is already starting
to put this system into place.

Securing the site
is just one of many protocols

outlined in the
special operations manual.

Yet each procedure appears
to exist for a single purpose.

Every single protocol in this manual
exists for one reason:

to keep things secret.

What other UFO crash protocols

are contained in SOM1-01

that help prove
it's the smoking gun

the government doesn't
want you to know about?

Coming up:
Hangar 1 files

reveal the manual's
specific instructions

for covering-up a crash.

Suddenly the message
comes in over the teletype.

And it reads:

"This is the FBI.

You will immediately
cease all communication."

The special operations manual,
SOM1-01,

reveals how far the government
is willing to go

to maintain their secrets
when we return.

MUFON has uncovered
what could be one of

the most shocking official
documents ever created:

SOM1-01:

a government manual
that outlines procedures

for recovering UFOs.

And though there is debate
among historians and researchers

as to the manual's authenticity,

one event
that may have influenced

its creation and protocols is
the famous Roswell UFO crash.

Early July 1947.

Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In 1947, Lydia Sleppy
worked at KOAT Radio

in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

One of her duties was operating
the station's teletype machine.

It received news as well as
allowed them to send stories

to their affiliate stations.

Sleppy was at the office
when she received a call

from John McBoyle,
the general manager

at the radio station in Roswell.

McBoyle informed her that he had
something hot for the network.

As McBoyle relayed
the information to Sleppy

over the phone, she began using
the teletype machine

to send the message to ABC News
Headquarters in Hollywood.

She recalls McBoyle telling her
that a flying saucer

had crashed down
North of Roswell.

Sleppy is typing
the information

when suddenly the bell
on the teletype machine rings...

[bell dings]
indicati an incoming message.

The next thing Sleppy knows,

a message comes in
over the teletype,

and it reads,
"This is the FBI.

You will immediately cease
all communication."

Afraid to proceed,
Lydia Sleppy

follows the FBI's orders
and stops her transmission.

But despite their efforts to silence the event,

the government fails to keep
Roswell's flying saucer

out of the media.

Because Roswell was probably

one of the earliest
crash retrievals of a UFO,

there weren't specific protocols
in place to manage the press.

This is why the Army found
themselves scrambling to concoct

a cover story like a downed
weather balloon, for example.

This is why, when you look at
the Special Operations Manual,

under recovery operations,
the first thing they talk about

is press blackout.

You see the lessons of Roswell
right here in this manual

in black and white.

To prevent
media blunders like Roswell

from happening in the future,

SOM1-01 also provides protocols
for what to do

when the government fails
to suppress crash information.

According to the handbook,
the first thing to do is,

you deny that anything
had happened.

Secondly, to discredit witnesses
who refuse to keep quiet

by indicating that
they were mentally unstable

or had misinterpreted whatever
they had seen and so forth.

And if that didn't work,
then you just flat-out lie.

You can just state that what
people saw was a meteorite,

or maybe if you want to just

keep them away from the site
altogether,

say it was a toxic chemical
spill or something like that.

Cases like Roswell
expose the lack of protocol

that existed
during the earliest UFO crashes.

Returning to the Kingman crash,
we see that by the mid-1950s,

a new set of procedures
are instituted

to ensure a higher level
of security.

May 1953:

The day of the Kingman crash.

Arthur Stansel is working nearly
two hundred miles away

at the Nevada proving grounds
for atomic testing.

Arthur Stansel was
a mechanical engineer

who was employed by the U.S. Air
Force at Air Materiel Command

at Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base.

At the time, he was on loan to
the Atomic Energy Commission

at the Nevada Test Site.

Stansel receives a call about a
top-secret assignment and is

immediately flown to Phoenix
with 15 other specialists.

Once in Phoenix, he boards a bus
with windows

that are completely blacked out.

They are told that they are
going to be involved in the

recovery of the downing

of a very highly
experimental aircraft.

Once at the crash site,

each person was only responsible

to investigate the area
under their specific expertise,

nothing more.

This is extreme compartmentation
of duties.

Stansel's escorted from
the bus to the crash

by military police.

He first notices that there is a
ring of guards blocking the view

of whatever is behind them.

to see the surrounding area.

But he sees this object
embedded in the ground.

It's a disc shaped object,
about 30 feet in diameter,

looks like a flying saucer,

embedded into the ground
about 20 inches or so in.

He had one and only thing
that his job was.

Determine from the impact site

how fast that object had been
going when it hit the ground.

And then after Stansel's work
was done, he gets debriefed.

He is interviewed at length.

He is ordered to surrender all
of his notes.

He has to raise his right hand
and make an oath never, ever

to reveal what he had learned.

According
to Arthur Stansel's testimony,

security at the Kingman crash
site was incredibly tight.

Stansel's account is
fascinating, because you really

get an inside look at how the
operation on the ground worked.

Everything about these crash
sites was compartmentalized,

right down to the way the
experts analyzed the data.

No one ever had a complete
picture of what was happening.

Compartmentalizing tasks

is key to security protocols.

But what you witness at Kingman

is an early example
of the way security

was handled at UFO crashes.

Because when the special
operations manual is published

a year later, the security
protocol has changed.

It looks like SOM1-01
ultimately does away with

specialists analyzing
the crash on-site.

Outside of a special ops team
evaluating the situation, all

material found at the site is
to be shipped off as quickly

as possible
to a secure facility.

Why would the manual dictate
that a craft be moved as quickly

as possible rather than analyzed
on location?

Is it simply to keep the crash
material secure from the public?

Another complication encountered
at the Kingman crash reveals

unexpected dangers
at UFO retrieval sites,

leading to even more
safety protocols.

The crew spends about
an hour inside the craft,

but when they emerge it is clear
that something isn't right.

Every single team member
almost immediately removes

their mask and begins to vomit.

The files reveal the
deadly truth behind the manual's

instructions on contamination,
when we return.

Hangar 1 files
have exposed a shocking piece

of possible evidence

that connects
the U.S. government

to knowledge of
extraterrestrials.

An official military special
operations manual called SOM1-01

details instructions for the
recovery of downed UFOs.

MUFON investigators are tasked
with the challenge of trying

to prove whether
this manual is real.

Cases like Roswell reveal why
protocols such

as "media blackouts"
were created.

More recent cases indicate that
SOM1-01's retrieval procedures

have continued to evolve,

but essentially follow
specific steps.

Thanksgiving, 1992.

Long Island residents near
Southaven park report what they

think is an airplane crash.

Motorists traveling along Long
Island's Sunrise Highway

on the night of
November 24, 1992,

report what they think
was a plane going down

into Southaven Park
around 7:00 P.M.

Other local residents report
seeing unexplainable flashes

of light in the sky.

It's believed that immediately
after the crash,

a fire broke out in the park.

Firefighters rushed
to the scene,

but instead of local
firefighters,

it was a special team
from the federally controlled

Brookhaven Laboratory
Fire Department.

The roads surrounding the park
were blocked

by county and park police,

but no one except federal
officers were allowed

inside the perimeter
of the park.

At the same time,

a number of military helicopters

were seen flying
over the park area.

The next day,
and several days following,

the park was closed
to the public.

Local residents near the park
noted that for the five or six

days following the incident
they experienced

numerous power surges.

But when the power company
was questioned,

they were told
their official response

was that no abnormal power
outages had occurred.

When authorities
were questioned

about the park's closure,

official records state
that the park was closed

between November 25th and 28th
for private duck hunting.

Seriously?

Duck Hunting?

But look at page 8
of the manual.

It may be necessary to issue
false statements to preserve

the security of the site.

It appears that the security
protocols outlined in SOM1-01

were followed to a "T" during
the Southaven Park incident.

Another interesting thing
about the 1992 Southaven Park

incident is the fact that only
federal officers

are allowed
to enter the scene.

Page nine of the UFO Recovery
Manual specifically states

that local law enforcement
may be used

to set up a perimeter

and deal with crowd control,

but they are not allowed
to enter the crash site.

And here you are with reports
that a federal fire response

team was brought in to secure
the site

rather than local firefighters.

Are all of these security
measures followed just

to insure secrecy?

A closer examination at what
happened years earlier

at the Kingman crash
reveals another purpose:

to prevent
possible contamination.

At the Kingman crash,

a special retrieval team
was called on

to enter the downed craft.

An entry team arrives dressed
in "clean room clothing"

and surgical masks.

They are wired with two-way
radios, so they can communicate

with a team outside the craft.

The crew makes
their way inside the craft

and immediately experiences
complications.

The first thing that happens
is, their communications fail.

They no longer have any contact
with the team outside the craft.

The crew spends about an hour
inside the craft, but when they

emerge, it is immediately clear
that something isn't right.

The team comes out showing
signs of intense nausea.

Every single team member almost
immediately removes their mask

and begins to vomit.

Alarmed, authorities
quickly snap into action.

The entry crew is ushered
through decontamination

protocols and sent off to
another secret facility

to undergo
medical examinations.

The officers at the
scene are left to question,

what have they been
exposed to?

I mean, you have to wonder.

Did the team have
an adverse biological reaction

to the alien
environment?

Or was the UFO booby-trapped
with some sort of toxin?

I believe people get sick not
because of the entities,

but because of the craft or
something to do with the craft.

These are obviously
very far advanced,

but perhaps are using elements
that we have not yet discovered.

Which to me lends credibility
to the story, right,

that they got sick.

Cases such as this,

exposing retrieval teams to
the hazards of alien materials,

are addressed in the manual

with instructions
that limit access to the craft.

There are also explicit
instructions on removing

all crash material
to a secure location.

But transporting a UFO
can be dangerous.

Securing a UFO site
is just the first step -

moving it is
an entirely different matter.

Military officers hatch
this crazy, risky scheme

to tow the saucer
across the river at night.

Suddenly,
the unthinkable happens.

A guide cable comes loose.

The barge starts floating down
the Colorado River headed

straight for the Hoover Dam.

Coming up,

military officers react
when a UFO recovery goes awry

and crashes into a
national monument.

And later, a member of an
elite UFO retrieval team

gives his personal account
of coming face-to-face

with UFOs and their inhabitants.

On several occasions, I was
called upon to be part of an

elite unit to assist in the
recovery of objects

of unknown origin, UFOs.

And I know for a fact that those
objects did not originate

on the face of this planet.

When Hangar 1 returns.

In 1994,

an alleged government
document surfaces that outlines

specific procedures for securing
and recovering UFOs,

a special operations manual
called SOM1-01.

The authenticity of this
document is questioned,

but the fact is,

the instructions
outlined in SOM1-01 seem

to follow procedures described
by eyewitnesses

at numerous crash sites.

However,
one crash stands out:

the famous Kingman, Arizona,
crash of 1953.

As the Kingman case
illustrates,

the retrieval process can be
difficult and dangerous.

The Colorado River.

May 1953.

In the summer of 1953,
a UFO crash-landed

in the desert
near Kingman, Arizona.

Once it no longer appeared safe
to analyze the evidence at the

Kingman crash site, the saucer
was loaded

onto an M25 tank transporter.

Now, the nickname for this beast
was called the Dragon Wagon,

and it is used to transport
tanks during World War II.

Here comes a tank transporter
loaded down with a giant UFO,

when it suddenly finds itself
face to face

with the Hoover Dam.

Now, the weight allowance for
vehicles crossing the dam

is only about 1 ton.

The tank transporter is 40 tons.

This convoy team has
an obvious problem.

The team quickly
devises a plan

to transport the UFO
across the Colorado River.

Now, in order to do this, they
planned to drive the giant M25

transporter loaded down with
the saucer onto a barge.

They would use two floating
personnel carriers to string up

guide cables across the river.

Then they would connect the
barge to the cables

and pull it across.

And of course, they're doing all
of this in pitch black darkness.

This operation was difficult
at best,

but somehow they manage to get
the transport onto the barge.

Here they go.

They start pulling this thing
across the river.

Suddenly,
the unthinkable happens.

A guide cable comes loose.

The barge starts floating down
the Colorado River headed

straight for the Hoover Dam.

The barge carrying the M25
transport and the saucer crashes

into the side
of the Hoover Dam.

Having a military protocol in
place is one thing,

executing it brings up
an entirely new level

of challenges.

It's a miracle they didn't
cause any serious damage.

But finally, they managed to
reattach the cables and finish

pulling the barge and transport
vehicles across the river.

The SOM1-01 manual
contains instructions

that UFOs should be transported
by truck.

But more recent crash retrievals
suggest that as technology

has improved, new methods for
transporting UFOs have evolved.

Spring 2008.

A small military force descends
upon Needles, California.

On May 14, 2008, several
witnesses see a glowing,

turquoise-colored object streak
across the sky

and crash into
a nearby hillside.

Then, almost immediately,

they report what looked
like military helicopters

searching the area.

But the helicopters

aren't the only military
presence on the scene.

David Hayes,
who worked for KTOX,

the local Needles radio station,

was driving down the
road just outside of town

when it happened.

He watched a military convoy
pull off the main road

and head towards
the location of the crash.

It isn't long
before the military finds

what they're looking for,

and attempts to retrieve it.

According to one witness,

one of the helicopters had a
giant hook dangling from it.

And once the military
found the object,

they air lifted it out
of the area by helicopter.

Despite the fact that the object
was covered

with some sort of draping,

other witnesses noted that it
was still glowing

when the military
carted it away.

They claimed they could see it
lighting up the ground below it

as it flew overhead.

Did the residents
of Needles, California,

witness a modern UFO retrieval
team in action?

It makes sense that SOM1-01
would be updated during the years.

As technology changes and our
knowledge UFOs ows,

the methods presented in SOM1-01
would also be updated.

Coming up,

Hangar 1 files uncover another
incredible chapter

in the SOM1-01 manual -

how to deal with alien beings
recovered from crash sites.

And an army sergeant
who recovered UFOs

when we return.

Researchers
inside Hangar 1

believe they have uncovered

a top-secret special operations
manual called SOM1-01.

And though some question the
authenticity of this manual,

it appears to outline government
protocols for securing crash

sites and transporting
UFO technology.

But that's not all.

An entire section of the manual

is also devoted to encounters
with alien beings.

For the amazing story behind one
such alien encounter,

we return to the Kingman crash
of 1953.

At the Kingman, Arizona,
crash site,

military personnel
lock down the scene

to not only conceal the UFO,

but what was also found
in the downed alien craft.

From the moment the military
teams arrive at the site,

the scene is one
of orchestrated chaos.

Some teams are sent to secure
the perimeter,

others are to secure
the craft itself.

Officers immediately start
setting up tents and lights.

I mean everybody
has their orders.

Through the chaos,

it becomes
clear to the retrieval teams

that they are dealing with more
than just crash debris.

Incredibly, when the retrieval
teams arrive on the scene,

they find four extraterrestrial
biological entities,

officially known as E.B.E.s.

The creatures are standing
outside the craft,

and it becomes clear that two
of them are injured.

The E.B.E.s are described as
between 31/2 to 4 feet tall.

Humanoid in appearance,
with dark brown skin.

Their heads are
disproportionately large

compared to their bodies.

A special unit approaches the
two injured aliens and attempts

to give them medical aid.

But in truth, there's not
a whole lot they can do.

The real goal is to secure the
creatures as quickly as possible

and transport them
to a secure location.

Before the aliens are
removed from the scene,

the two uninjured E.B.E.s

are allowed
to reenter the craft.

The two head into the craft,
but remain in view

through the open hatch door.

It is believed they are making
one final attempt to communicate

with others from their home

or perhaps another craft
in the area.

As soon as the two beings
emerge from the craft,

all four are
immediately loaded up

and transported away
to an undisclosed location.

What are
the manual's protocols

when it comes to encountering
alien beings found

at crash sites?

It appears that at the time
the manual was written,

at least two different types
of extraterrestrials

had been encountered.

While the manual states that
teams should make every effort

to keep the E.B.E.s alive,

it also states
that their life

is not worth the security
of the site,

and contact should be kept
to a minimum.

The manual clearly states that
because it is unknown what

effect terrestrial medicine
will have,

medical teams will only attempt
to stop bleeding,

bind wounds,
and splint broken limbs.

According to the manual,

where are these
extraterrestrials sent?

What happens next?

Several receiving facilities
are mentioned in the manual

for UFO materials.

Area 51 is one of them.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
is another one.

But the manual also suggests
that once these materials were

received and cataloged
and studied,

that they could be moved

to other facilities around the
U.S. for additional research.

What this means is that UFO
evidence could be hidden all

over the country.

When analyzing SOM1-01

in conjunction with crash cases
like Kingman and Southaven Park,

evidence seems overwhelming

that the government
has been involved

in recovering downed alien craft
for over half a century.

Investigators remain determined
to uncover additional proof.

Next, the testimony
of Clifford Stone.

I would be visited by an
individual who would always go

ahead and tell me that the
general sends his regard,

code word Tabasco.

I knew then that I had to grab
my BA50 bag,

kiss the kids
and my wife good-bye,

and go off on
that mission.

A member
of an elite UFO recovery team

tells his incredible story
when we return.

My name is Clifford Stone.

I've served 22 and a half years
in the US Army

On several occasions I was called upon
to be part of an elite unit

to assist in recovery of
objects of unknown origin,

UFOs, and I know for a fact
that those objects

not originate on the face
of this planet.

Clifford Stone case
is pretty remarkable.

He is a man who claims to have
first hand experience with UFOs,

as part of an elite military
recovery team.

Now think about that.

Think about what that means.

Everything that we've been
talking about

is confirmed right here
in this man's story.

Stone began his army
career in 1969,

and was assigned to the nuclear,

biological, and chemical
unit, known as the NBC.

It was a good cover for
me 'cause these teams would

always be utilized.

You would go there, you would
secure the site, you would

recover the object and any
bodies or living entities

if any were there.

According to Stone,

these sites were located all
around the world.

We had teams set up

that would actually
go out worldwide

to recover fallen UFOs.

[phone rings]

During this time,

Stone's services were called on
at a moment's notice.

When an event took place and
you got the call,

you grab your BA50 bag,

you'd go ahead, you kiss your
wife and your kids good-bye,

then you'd go, and you had
no idea whether you was ever

coming back,
because accidents happen.

People died,

because we were dealing
with technologies

that we didn't even begin
to understand.

Stone notes that procedures
involving UFO sites followed

a very specific set
of protocols.

There would be
a total blackout

on any news getting out.

We would have several
different cover stories.

We could always cover it
by stating

it was an experimental aircraft
that crashed.

If there was any
media involvement,

we were prepared
to go so far as saying

that there was a nuclear device
on that craft.

After every mission,

there was a
rigorous debriefing.

You'd be debriefed,

and then cautioned not to talk
about it

and be told it was classified.

Stone's experiences
seem to line up exactly

with the instructions detailed
in SOM1-01.

But curiously,
Stone was never shown SOM1-01

during any of his missions.

Special Operations Manual,

do we have Special
Operations Manual?

Yep, but it's not SOM.

I never saw SOM1-01.

But was there a manual,

or what we would call a Standard
Operating Procedure?

Yes, there was.

They had standard protocol
on how you do the recovery.

Everybody involved
knew exactly

what their mission was.

It's fascinating that Clifford
Stone never came into contact

with SOM1-01.

Perhaps there have been multiple
editions of the manual over

the years, and the version
that Clifford saw

was simply a later version.

Or maybe it was written after
the fact by someone with

intimate inside information.

The question remains,
is this manual real?

With debate continuing,
the truth remains unclear.

However, the evidence suggests
that the protocols found within

SOM1-01 are in fact in place.

Whether the manual
is authentic or not,

by investigating multiple UFO
crash files,

including Roswell, Kingman,
and Southaven, Long Island,

one thing becomes clear:

It is possible that the
government has been hiding its

involvement with UFOs
and their inhabitants

for decades.

I think,
what would I do?

If I were the government,
what would I do?

I would absolutely
have a manual.

I would absolutely have
protocols in place.

Now, maybe this wouldn't be
a public thing.

Maybe there would just
be a few individuals,

key individuals, that would know
about these protocols,

but I would absolutely
be prepared

that another Roswell
wouldn't happen.

That absolutely makes sense
to me.

I would do it,
so why wouldn't they do it?

While SOM1-01 appears

to be a smoking gun
for many ufologists,

the final proof of its
authenticity may not be resolved

until the U.S. government
officially discloses

what they know about UFOs.

Until that time, Hangar 1
continues to open its files,

searching for the truth.