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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,728 --> 00:00:05,064 If you're a civilian and you spot a UFO 2 00:00:05,147 --> 00:00:08,026 in your area, you don't call the military, you call 3 00:00:08,068 --> 00:00:11,113 the police department or you call your local sheriff. 4 00:00:11,238 --> 00:00:13,241 As a police officer, when you're involved 5 00:00:13,324 --> 00:00:16,244 in a UFO case, things can get tricky. 6 00:00:16,285 --> 00:00:19,498 They can get very political, and that's just the nature 7 00:00:19,581 --> 00:00:23,001 of the beast in this country. 10X31, clear. 8 00:00:28,466 --> 00:00:31,554 120 West 81st Street. 9 00:00:44,569 --> 00:00:50,075 Ravenna, Ohio, April 17, 1966. 10 00:00:50,117 --> 00:00:52,661 It's just before dawn on a midnight shift 11 00:00:52,744 --> 00:00:56,499 that Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur and Deputy Wilbur Neff 12 00:00:56,583 --> 00:01:00,211 will never forget. All morning 13 00:01:00,295 --> 00:01:03,007 their police radio had been filled with all sorts 14 00:01:03,090 --> 00:01:06,594 of chatter from witnesses near Akron, Ohio claiming 15 00:01:06,635 --> 00:01:09,389 to have seen a large, bright disc flying 16 00:01:09,473 --> 00:01:11,892 through the sky. 17 00:01:15,688 --> 00:01:17,482 With just a few hours left of their day, 18 00:01:17,565 --> 00:01:22,905 they noticed something unusual, an abandoned car on Route 224. 19 00:01:31,998 --> 00:01:34,335 Just as Neff is about to reach the car, 20 00:01:34,418 --> 00:01:36,253 Spaur senses something. 21 00:01:39,590 --> 00:01:43,094 In Spaur's written report, he states he feels the need 22 00:01:43,178 --> 00:01:45,722 to look behind him. 23 00:02:02,242 --> 00:02:04,202 Spaur tells Neff 24 00:02:04,244 --> 00:02:06,122 to look over his shoulder. 25 00:02:13,213 --> 00:02:16,216 They're suddenly engulfed in light, and the only thing 26 00:02:16,258 --> 00:02:19,220 they can hear is a hum, like a transformer 27 00:02:19,262 --> 00:02:23,558 being overloaded. Both police officers are frozen 28 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:27,062 underneath this light. Spaur remembers 29 00:02:27,104 --> 00:02:29,648 moving his right foot slightly to make sure he could 30 00:02:29,731 --> 00:02:31,985 still move, and when they realize they aren't 31 00:02:32,068 --> 00:02:34,571 actually paralyzed, they run as fast as they can 32 00:02:34,654 --> 00:02:36,532 for the patrol car. 33 00:02:38,159 --> 00:02:40,286 Can you imagine, two veteran officers 34 00:02:40,369 --> 00:02:42,581 used to dealing with local domestic issues 35 00:02:42,664 --> 00:02:45,292 now find themselves facing a UFO? 36 00:02:51,048 --> 00:02:53,968 Immediately, Spaur gets on the radio and reports 37 00:02:54,051 --> 00:02:57,473 what they just saw. Dispatch tells them 38 00:02:57,556 --> 00:03:00,142 not to move and to wait in the car, they're sending 39 00:03:00,225 --> 00:03:04,230 immediate backup. Spaur and Neff nervously wait 40 00:03:04,314 --> 00:03:09,612 as the light engulfs their car. The officers are starting 41 00:03:09,737 --> 00:03:12,281 to panic, and they're thinking, should we shoot at it 42 00:03:12,364 --> 00:03:16,578 or should we get out of here? They're absolutely terrified, 43 00:03:16,620 --> 00:03:19,289 but they have their orders to wait for backup, 44 00:03:19,372 --> 00:03:23,544 if they survive that long. And this is just 45 00:03:23,628 --> 00:03:26,005 the beginning of one of "Hangar 1's" 46 00:03:26,088 --> 00:03:29,134 extraordinary stories of close encounters 47 00:03:29,176 --> 00:03:32,638 with the police and UFOs, some of the best 48 00:03:32,679 --> 00:03:37,644 documented cases in MUFON's archives. 49 00:03:37,727 --> 00:03:41,732 The Mutual UFO Network, known as MUFON, 50 00:03:41,816 --> 00:03:46,321 is an independent organization not bound to any government. 51 00:03:46,404 --> 00:03:49,407 They investigate reports of UFO sightings 52 00:03:49,491 --> 00:03:53,538 from around the world. Over the past five decades, 53 00:03:53,621 --> 00:03:57,208 they have collected more than 70,000 files, 54 00:03:57,291 --> 00:04:02,256 stored at a secure location known as Hangar 1. 55 00:04:02,339 --> 00:04:08,179 Now, MUFON is granting access to their vast archive. 56 00:04:08,263 --> 00:04:11,934 These are the files of Hangar 1. 57 00:04:21,194 --> 00:04:23,698 Officer Spaur and Neff are engulfed in the light 58 00:04:23,781 --> 00:04:27,368 of this UFO, paralyzed with fear wondering, is this it? 59 00:04:27,493 --> 00:04:32,666 Is this how we're going to die? But then, inexplicably... 60 00:04:35,127 --> 00:04:38,131 the UFO just takes off. 61 00:04:41,134 --> 00:04:43,721 They're stunned and relieved and once they regain 62 00:04:43,762 --> 00:04:46,390 their composure, they do the unthinkable. 63 00:04:46,515 --> 00:04:51,646 They actually chase this thing. 64 00:04:55,318 --> 00:04:58,488 These two officers are actually pursuing this UFO, 65 00:04:58,571 --> 00:05:00,574 going about 100 miles an hour 66 00:05:00,657 --> 00:05:05,287 Though it's the Pennsylvania border along U.S. Route 224. 67 00:05:08,082 --> 00:05:12,086 As the Sun rises, the UFO continues traveling East 68 00:05:12,128 --> 00:05:17,551 approaching the Pennsylvania state line. 69 00:05:17,635 --> 00:05:21,181 Patrolman Frank Panzanella, Conway, Pennsylvania is sitting 70 00:05:21,264 --> 00:05:25,143 in his squad car drinking coffee when he sees a large object 71 00:05:25,227 --> 00:05:29,148 fly over him. 72 00:05:29,273 --> 00:05:32,361 His first instinct is also to pursue the UFO. 73 00:05:32,444 --> 00:05:35,155 Panzanella radios dispatch 74 00:05:35,239 --> 00:05:37,991 to see if they have anything on their radar. 75 00:05:39,577 --> 00:05:41,538 They pick up an unidentified object 76 00:05:41,621 --> 00:05:43,206 on their screen. 77 00:05:44,583 --> 00:05:48,671 The officers aren't the only ones interested in this craft. 78 00:05:50,506 --> 00:05:53,093 Four fighter jets appear in the sky. 79 00:05:53,134 --> 00:05:55,595 The police receive confirmation on their radios 80 00:05:55,637 --> 00:05:58,683 that the jets are pursuing the UFO. 81 00:05:58,766 --> 00:06:02,270 The police officers 82 00:06:02,311 --> 00:06:05,023 must be thinking, wow, this is really happening. 83 00:06:05,107 --> 00:06:07,109 The Air Force is going to take down a UFO 84 00:06:07,150 --> 00:06:10,655 right in front of us. But the UFO then shoots upward 85 00:06:10,738 --> 00:06:14,534 into the sky at an incredible speed until it disappears, gone, 86 00:06:14,617 --> 00:06:16,996 before the jets can make a move. 87 00:06:24,796 --> 00:06:27,174 Within hours, this case was picked up by the press. 88 00:06:27,215 --> 00:06:30,636 And from there, the Air Force gave it a lot of attention. 89 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:34,348 All of the police officers involved are then contacted 90 00:06:34,390 --> 00:06:37,978 by the military's UFO investigative unit, 91 00:06:38,020 --> 00:06:41,482 Project Blue Book. This is where 92 00:06:41,524 --> 00:06:44,319 the Air Force cover-up begins. Blue Book Chief, 93 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,740 Major Hector Quintanilla, arrives on the scene. 94 00:06:47,823 --> 00:06:51,452 Hector Quintanilla headed Project Blue Book from 1963 95 00:06:51,535 --> 00:06:54,581 until its closure in 1970. In addition to his degree 96 00:06:54,664 --> 00:06:57,167 in physics, he was recruited to the position 97 00:06:57,209 --> 00:06:59,461 because they needed a man who was, quote, 98 00:06:59,545 --> 00:07:03,216 "cool under pressure." He gets to Dale Spaur 99 00:07:03,257 --> 00:07:06,470 and the first thing he says to him is, "Tell me about 100 00:07:06,553 --> 00:07:09,598 this mirage that you saw." Can you imagine, 101 00:07:09,681 --> 00:07:11,558 you're a police officer and you've just seen 102 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,062 the most incredible thing and the first thing 103 00:07:14,145 --> 00:07:17,690 the Air Force does is accuse you of seeing a mirage. 104 00:07:17,732 --> 00:07:22,112 Could the officers have witnessed a top secret 105 00:07:22,196 --> 00:07:24,991 military plane, forcing the Air Force 106 00:07:25,075 --> 00:07:28,245 to try and deflect attention from the truth? 107 00:07:28,328 --> 00:07:31,749 Spaur describes exactly what he saw in great detail, 108 00:07:31,791 --> 00:07:35,086 but Quintanilla doesn't ask anymore questions, 109 00:07:35,127 --> 00:07:37,172 and he doesn't attempt to interview the other 110 00:07:37,256 --> 00:07:40,008 three officers who also saw the UFO. 111 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,306 Major Quintanilla holds a press conference to release 112 00:07:45,390 --> 00:07:49,435 the Air Force's official findings on the incident. 113 00:07:49,519 --> 00:07:52,731 Quintanilla's explanation was simple, the officers 114 00:07:52,773 --> 00:07:55,693 had been chasing an echo communication satellite 115 00:07:55,776 --> 00:07:58,738 and then after the Sun came up, that changed to them 116 00:07:58,780 --> 00:08:03,411 chasing the planet Venus. Quintanilla also denied 117 00:08:03,452 --> 00:08:06,163 that any jet fighters had been in the area attempting to engage 118 00:08:06,247 --> 00:08:10,502 or intercept a UFO. Unsatisfied with the official 119 00:08:10,586 --> 00:08:13,505 explanation, a number of investigators, 120 00:08:13,589 --> 00:08:17,093 including famed ufologist, William Weitzel, 121 00:08:17,135 --> 00:08:20,638 are determined to find out what really happened. 122 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,976 William Weitzel got on the scene and found 123 00:08:24,059 --> 00:08:26,145 three other police officers and four other 124 00:08:26,187 --> 00:08:29,482 civilian witnesses who had seen a UFO between 125 00:08:29,524 --> 00:08:34,447 5:00 and 5:30 that morning. 126 00:08:39,493 --> 00:08:43,165 After Weitzel's findings, Quintanilla is forced 127 00:08:43,207 --> 00:08:47,337 to reopen the case. Realizing simple deflection 128 00:08:47,378 --> 00:08:51,591 was not effective, stronger tactics are employed. 129 00:08:51,674 --> 00:08:54,637 Quintanilla and Spaur sit down for another meeting, 130 00:08:54,678 --> 00:08:57,097 this time attended by William Weitzel 131 00:08:57,181 --> 00:09:00,435 and local reporters, but afterwards, Quintanilla 132 00:09:00,519 --> 00:09:02,395 stands by his original conclusion that 133 00:09:02,479 --> 00:09:04,689 the police officers were chasing Venus. 134 00:09:04,731 --> 00:09:09,195 He says, "There was never a UFO. Case closed." 135 00:09:09,237 --> 00:09:11,698 Project Blue Book head, Quintanilla, 136 00:09:11,740 --> 00:09:15,244 successfully closes the case. The police officers 137 00:09:15,327 --> 00:09:19,207 who witnessed the UFO find themselves discredited, 138 00:09:19,249 --> 00:09:23,044 left trying to understand what they did wrong. 139 00:09:23,127 --> 00:09:26,090 After this whole event was over, the officers involved 140 00:09:26,173 --> 00:09:29,635 really took it hard. Officer Houston quit the force 141 00:09:29,718 --> 00:09:32,180 and moved off to Seattle just to get away. 142 00:09:32,222 --> 00:09:37,270 Officer Neff became a recluse. And I think Dale Spaur 143 00:09:37,353 --> 00:09:39,438 had it the worst. He lost his job 144 00:09:39,522 --> 00:09:42,400 and his marriage, and for years 145 00:09:42,483 --> 00:09:45,445 was hounded by the press, everyone trying to debunk 146 00:09:45,529 --> 00:09:47,239 his case and make him look like he didn't know 147 00:09:47,281 --> 00:09:49,617 what he was doing. And this just made him crazy 148 00:09:49,701 --> 00:09:52,203 because he knew that what he saw was real. 149 00:09:52,245 --> 00:09:53,705 He knew it was legitimate. 150 00:09:55,124 --> 00:09:58,627 During this Cold War era, UFOs were treated 151 00:09:58,711 --> 00:10:00,546 primarily as a threat. 152 00:10:00,629 --> 00:10:05,010 These military people come in and intimidate the officers, 153 00:10:05,093 --> 00:10:08,639 discredit them for something that obviously the government 154 00:10:08,723 --> 00:10:14,104 knows is going on. Was Quintanilla simply 155 00:10:14,187 --> 00:10:17,024 employing the same techniques that began with 156 00:10:17,107 --> 00:10:20,111 Project Blue Book regarding deflection 157 00:10:20,194 --> 00:10:24,282 and discrediting witnesses? And when did these techniques 158 00:10:24,324 --> 00:10:25,617 come into play? 159 00:10:27,703 --> 00:10:31,248 Up next... Zamora starts to back away, 160 00:10:31,290 --> 00:10:34,211 a huge flame bursts out of the craft. 161 00:10:34,294 --> 00:10:38,465 Military and media descend 162 00:10:38,506 --> 00:10:41,677 on a small town after one police officer's 163 00:10:41,761 --> 00:10:45,349 incredible close encounter when we return. 164 00:10:50,812 --> 00:10:53,608 If I had been working back in the fifties and sixties, 165 00:10:53,691 --> 00:10:56,694 I don't think I would've wanted to make a UFO report. 166 00:10:56,778 --> 00:10:59,573 Something like that could destroy your credibility. 167 00:10:59,615 --> 00:11:02,576 You just turn your head and look the other way. 168 00:11:02,618 --> 00:11:06,081 But, you know, that's stressful, and you have to carry that 169 00:11:06,122 --> 00:11:07,123 with you. 170 00:11:16,718 --> 00:11:21,056 Police officers are trained to be meticulous about details. 171 00:11:21,139 --> 00:11:23,810 But when it comes to UFO sightings, 172 00:11:23,851 --> 00:11:26,980 their reports are often challenged or the incident 173 00:11:27,063 --> 00:11:32,736 is dismissed as a hoax. Hangar 1 files suggest that 174 00:11:32,820 --> 00:11:36,616 this treatment lines up directly with how Project Blue Book 175 00:11:36,658 --> 00:11:40,620 and the military dealt with civilian UFO witnesses 176 00:11:40,662 --> 00:11:43,666 and that these protocols were applied 177 00:11:43,749 --> 00:11:46,252 to police officers as well. 178 00:11:54,721 --> 00:12:00,603 April 24th, 1964. Socorro, New Mexico. 179 00:12:00,686 --> 00:12:03,188 Officer Lonnie Zamora is driving in his car 180 00:12:03,272 --> 00:12:07,110 outside of Socorro, New Mexico. He's chasing a speeder. 181 00:12:09,362 --> 00:12:13,117 All of a sudden, Zamora hears this roaring sound, 182 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,788 and he sees what he thinks is a flame object in the sky. 183 00:12:21,376 --> 00:12:24,713 Zamora breaks off from the chase to investigate. 184 00:12:24,755 --> 00:12:26,883 He thinks that a local dynamite shack 185 00:12:26,925 --> 00:12:28,718 may have exploded. 186 00:12:31,805 --> 00:12:35,059 He's moving closer to where this event was taking place. 187 00:12:37,394 --> 00:12:40,106 It's then that he notices a shining object, 188 00:12:40,190 --> 00:12:42,651 which at first he thought was an overturned car. 189 00:12:46,781 --> 00:12:49,909 Zamora gets on the radio and tells the dispatcher 190 00:12:49,951 --> 00:12:52,287 he's leaving his car to check out a situation 191 00:12:52,371 --> 00:12:54,915 in the arroyo. 192 00:12:57,877 --> 00:13:04,760 Suddenly, a loud roar emanates 193 00:13:04,843 --> 00:13:08,264 from the craft. 194 00:13:14,271 --> 00:13:17,275 A huge flame bursts out of the craft. 195 00:13:20,778 --> 00:13:25,617 The craft begins lifting up and then immediately takes off. 196 00:13:25,742 --> 00:13:30,164 Zamora radios a fellow officer, Sergeant Chavez, asking him 197 00:13:30,248 --> 00:13:34,795 if he sees a craft in the sky. Radio silence. 198 00:13:38,632 --> 00:13:41,720 When Chavez finally got there, the two of them 199 00:13:41,803 --> 00:13:44,639 found four indentations in the ground 200 00:13:44,723 --> 00:13:47,184 where the object had sat, some burnt vegetation, 201 00:13:47,268 --> 00:13:51,606 and they took very detailed notes and pictures 202 00:13:51,647 --> 00:13:53,734 of the whole area, and they put together 203 00:13:53,817 --> 00:13:55,652 a complete report. 204 00:13:57,362 --> 00:14:01,242 Two days after the incident, Major Quintanilla, the head 205 00:14:01,326 --> 00:14:04,662 of the Air Force's Project Blue Book shows up 206 00:14:04,746 --> 00:14:08,834 to investigate the report, but he isn't the only one 207 00:14:08,918 --> 00:14:10,753 who descends on the town. 208 00:14:18,011 --> 00:14:20,056 The sleepy little town of Socorro, New Mexico 209 00:14:20,139 --> 00:14:21,766 was overrun. 210 00:14:21,849 --> 00:14:26,146 Overrun by major journalists, UPI, AP were there. 211 00:14:28,774 --> 00:14:31,236 Government agents, FBI, military intelligence 212 00:14:31,319 --> 00:14:33,613 were there, and private UFO investigators 213 00:14:33,696 --> 00:14:35,365 were also there. Everyone wanted 214 00:14:35,406 --> 00:14:38,869 to look for answers. The evidence gathered 215 00:14:38,953 --> 00:14:42,748 by the police appears to be compelling. 216 00:14:42,831 --> 00:14:46,127 Subsequent research and analysis of ground samples 217 00:14:46,211 --> 00:14:50,675 and photos revealed that some of the sand in the ground 218 00:14:50,716 --> 00:14:53,886 appeared to have been fused together as if 219 00:14:53,928 --> 00:14:57,099 it had come in contact with some very high, 220 00:14:57,182 --> 00:15:02,730 intense form of heat. 221 00:15:04,607 --> 00:15:10,114 Then, on June 8th, 1964, Quintanilla issues his formal 222 00:15:10,197 --> 00:15:14,577 Project Blue Book report. Not surprisingly, this report 223 00:15:14,660 --> 00:15:17,789 turned all the evidence right on its head. 224 00:15:17,872 --> 00:15:20,292 It stated no substantial evidence 225 00:15:20,375 --> 00:15:23,588 had been found to support any kind of event, 226 00:15:23,671 --> 00:15:26,674 none of the witnesses were reliable, and so on. 227 00:15:26,757 --> 00:15:30,804 Now, in the classified version of that report, it was a little 228 00:15:30,887 --> 00:15:33,265 bit of a different story. I have Hector Quintanilla's 229 00:15:33,307 --> 00:15:37,228 words right here and I quote, "There is no doubt 230 00:15:37,270 --> 00:15:41,025 that Lonnie Zamora saw an object that left an impression on him 231 00:15:41,108 --> 00:15:44,612 and scared Zamora to the point of panic." 232 00:15:44,695 --> 00:15:47,907 Zamora became so hounded by the Air Force and ufologists 233 00:15:47,949 --> 00:15:50,994 that he quit law enforcement, and he took a job managing 234 00:15:51,077 --> 00:15:52,162 a gas station. 235 00:15:54,874 --> 00:15:57,710 If I were in the shoes of these officers 236 00:15:57,793 --> 00:16:00,797 that saw these things and were then shut up 237 00:16:00,881 --> 00:16:05,303 and intimidated, I would absolutely lose faith in myself. 238 00:16:05,386 --> 00:16:09,098 This, I mean, this has to be a profound effect on their whole 239 00:16:09,182 --> 00:16:12,269 sense of who they are, the fact that the government would 240 00:16:12,311 --> 00:16:15,981 step in after these careers of service and treat them 241 00:16:16,065 --> 00:16:20,862 like crazy people when we know the government knows a heck 242 00:16:20,946 --> 00:16:23,031 of a lot more than than what they're telling us. 243 00:16:25,368 --> 00:16:28,955 Based on Quintanilla's report, the case was closed. 244 00:16:28,996 --> 00:16:32,334 But shortly thereafter, a UFO researcher 245 00:16:32,417 --> 00:16:37,006 named James McDonald locates a local scientist who claims 246 00:16:37,090 --> 00:16:42,596 to have analyzed a soil sample from the Socorro landing site. 247 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:44,932 Mary G. Mayes was a doctoral student 248 00:16:45,015 --> 00:16:47,977 in radiation biology at the University of New Mexico 249 00:16:48,018 --> 00:16:52,816 and she was asked to analyze some of the soil samples 250 00:16:52,857 --> 00:16:55,695 from the Socorro case. So she didn't find 251 00:16:55,736 --> 00:16:58,656 any radiation in the soil, but she did find 252 00:16:58,698 --> 00:17:02,577 two organic substances that she was not able to identify. 253 00:17:02,703 --> 00:17:06,581 This is an important detail. It proved that whatever landed 254 00:17:06,707 --> 00:17:10,545 there had organic material that is not found on earth. 255 00:17:14,675 --> 00:17:17,845 The analysis 256 00:17:17,886 --> 00:17:21,558 on the soil samples really opens up the possibility, 257 00:17:21,641 --> 00:17:24,019 maybe the likelihood that we're talking about 258 00:17:24,060 --> 00:17:25,895 two different kinds of investigations, 259 00:17:25,979 --> 00:17:28,232 or two versions of the investigation, 260 00:17:28,274 --> 00:17:31,235 the public one and the not so public one. 261 00:17:31,277 --> 00:17:35,198 What it looks like to me is that Quintanilla and Blue Book 262 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:39,078 were sent in basically to mess up the investigation 263 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:43,082 and make Zamora look like a fool. 264 00:17:43,166 --> 00:17:46,253 Civilian police officers are not the only ones 265 00:17:46,295 --> 00:17:49,131 who meet resistance when it comes to reporting 266 00:17:49,214 --> 00:17:53,219 UFO incidents. Up next, military 267 00:17:53,303 --> 00:17:56,932 police officers find themselves in the wrong place 268 00:17:56,973 --> 00:18:00,186 at the wrong time and the outcome 269 00:18:00,269 --> 00:18:02,939 becomes deadly. 270 00:18:07,194 --> 00:18:10,365 Many agencies are not open to these types of investigations 271 00:18:10,448 --> 00:18:13,201 because the upper echelon don't want the media. 272 00:18:13,284 --> 00:18:15,620 They don't want to deal with it. 273 00:18:15,703 --> 00:18:18,123 That's the biggest problem with law enforcement, 274 00:18:18,207 --> 00:18:21,043 dealing with the upper hands. When it gets from 275 00:18:21,126 --> 00:18:23,380 local government up to the military, well, then, 276 00:18:23,463 --> 00:18:24,881 that's a little bit different. 277 00:18:30,554 --> 00:18:33,891 Hangar 1 files contain remarkable encounters 278 00:18:33,975 --> 00:18:37,854 of police officers and UFO sightings. 279 00:18:40,399 --> 00:18:44,696 Some of these incredible events occur with officers who provide 280 00:18:44,737 --> 00:18:47,657 security for military bases. 281 00:18:47,740 --> 00:18:52,037 In 1978, I was working at McGuire Air Force Base 282 00:18:52,079 --> 00:18:55,834 at 21st Air Force as the Deputy Director 283 00:18:55,917 --> 00:18:57,877 of Intelligence. 284 00:18:57,961 --> 00:19:03,592 On January 18th, 1978, I drove onto the base 285 00:19:03,676 --> 00:19:08,390 and noticed that off to my right was a number 286 00:19:08,432 --> 00:19:12,352 of crash trucks and lights out on the runway. 287 00:19:12,436 --> 00:19:15,023 And the sergeant in charge of the command post 288 00:19:15,106 --> 00:19:18,318 came up to me and said that an alien has been found 289 00:19:18,401 --> 00:19:21,322 at the end of the runway, that he was shot 290 00:19:21,405 --> 00:19:26,995 by a military policeman. 291 00:19:30,457 --> 00:19:35,087 January 18th, 1978, between Fort Dix 292 00:19:35,129 --> 00:19:37,423 and McGuire Air Force Base. 293 00:19:37,548 --> 00:19:40,969 Radar from Fort Dix picks up an unidentified object 294 00:19:41,011 --> 00:19:45,433 between Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base. 295 00:19:45,475 --> 00:19:47,894 The military police officer on duty is patrolling 296 00:19:47,977 --> 00:19:50,981 the outside of the base when he sees a large object 297 00:19:51,065 --> 00:19:53,400 hovering over the road. 298 00:19:56,821 --> 00:20:00,825 He stops his car and radios in what he sees. 299 00:20:00,867 --> 00:20:02,786 He's looking out through his windshield through 300 00:20:02,869 --> 00:20:05,414 the falling snow and explaining to the dispatcher 301 00:20:05,498 --> 00:20:06,958 what the craft looks like. 302 00:20:09,168 --> 00:20:10,837 Right in the middle of a sentence... 303 00:20:10,921 --> 00:20:14,424 the radio goes dead. 304 00:20:19,472 --> 00:20:22,393 The officer looks up and that's when he sees 305 00:20:22,476 --> 00:20:28,525 the unimaginable, a small figure in the shadows 306 00:20:28,566 --> 00:20:30,694 that he later describes as having an unusually 307 00:20:30,735 --> 00:20:33,863 large head, long arms, and a slender body. 308 00:20:33,905 --> 00:20:36,409 And this creature is standing right in front 309 00:20:36,492 --> 00:20:39,954 of his police car. The officer panics. 310 00:20:47,505 --> 00:20:51,801 Here's a man who is told to protect the base. 311 00:20:51,884 --> 00:20:57,016 He's an armed guard, and he's seen a monster 312 00:20:57,057 --> 00:20:59,101 run around. He does what probably 313 00:20:59,184 --> 00:21:02,647 a lot of guys would do, he shoots at the thing. 314 00:21:05,066 --> 00:21:06,902 He runs back to his car and his radio 315 00:21:06,944 --> 00:21:09,780 is now working again. He tells the dispatcher 316 00:21:09,864 --> 00:21:11,866 that he just shot a strange creature 317 00:21:11,907 --> 00:21:16,496 and it's now headed for McGuire Air Force Base. 318 00:21:16,580 --> 00:21:19,042 The police officer drives to the gates 319 00:21:19,083 --> 00:21:23,421 of McGuire Air Force Base where he is told to wait. 320 00:21:23,504 --> 00:21:25,758 Sergeant Jeffrey Morse from McGuire Air Force Base 321 00:21:25,841 --> 00:21:27,926 is called to the front gate to meet with the officer 322 00:21:28,010 --> 00:21:30,471 from Fort Dix to discuss the incident. 323 00:21:30,554 --> 00:21:33,475 The officer is really shaken up. He tells Morse that he shot 324 00:21:33,558 --> 00:21:36,102 at a strange entity, but it escaped and climbed 325 00:21:36,144 --> 00:21:40,816 over the fence into McGuire Air Force Base. 326 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:44,571 Sergeant Morse says that he'll handle it from here. 327 00:21:47,491 --> 00:21:49,451 Sergeant Morse has to be thinking this other 328 00:21:49,493 --> 00:21:52,121 police officer is crazy, but he was about to get 329 00:21:52,205 --> 00:21:53,331 a big surprise. 330 00:22:00,714 --> 00:22:03,468 Morse and several other MPs head to the area 331 00:22:03,551 --> 00:22:05,971 where the entity reportedly climbed over the fence. 332 00:22:07,889 --> 00:22:10,142 At the end of the runway they see a dead creature 333 00:22:10,184 --> 00:22:12,812 with a large head and slender body. 334 00:22:15,482 --> 00:22:17,901 Sergeant Morse can't believe his eyes. 335 00:22:17,985 --> 00:22:20,570 He reports that the smell is so bad they have 336 00:22:20,654 --> 00:22:23,574 to stand back several feet just to be able to breathe. 337 00:22:23,658 --> 00:22:26,661 He calls in a report 338 00:22:26,744 --> 00:22:29,164 and within hours the Air Force OSI 339 00:22:29,289 --> 00:22:31,500 takes control of the situation. 340 00:22:31,583 --> 00:22:34,838 AFOSI is the Air Force's Office of Special 341 00:22:34,963 --> 00:22:37,799 Investigations, and they report directly to the Office 342 00:22:37,841 --> 00:22:39,467 of Security to the Air Force. 343 00:22:39,551 --> 00:22:41,846 Technically, this means that they provide 344 00:22:41,887 --> 00:22:44,682 independent investigations outside the traditional 345 00:22:44,724 --> 00:22:46,059 military chain of command. 346 00:22:49,104 --> 00:22:51,690 Sergeant Morse reports that he is surprised to see 347 00:22:51,732 --> 00:22:54,527 a military team responding to the incident in a way that 348 00:22:54,569 --> 00:22:57,572 suggests this wasn't the first encounter like this they had 349 00:22:57,655 --> 00:23:00,409 dealt with. Sergeant Morse 350 00:23:00,492 --> 00:23:04,038 is not only brought in for questioning, but threatened. 351 00:23:04,121 --> 00:23:06,583 Morse went through several days of intimidating 352 00:23:06,666 --> 00:23:11,797 interrogations where he was told to keep his mouth shut or else. 353 00:23:11,881 --> 00:23:15,801 As incredible as this story sounds, it is corroborated 354 00:23:15,885 --> 00:23:20,599 by George Filer who was brought in to investigate the incident. 355 00:23:20,682 --> 00:23:23,185 When I was investigating the case, I did interview 356 00:23:23,226 --> 00:23:29,525 Sergeant Jeff Morse who claims to have been out at the place 357 00:23:29,567 --> 00:23:31,528 where they found the ET. 358 00:23:33,572 --> 00:23:36,910 Within a couple of days after he was out there, 359 00:23:36,993 --> 00:23:40,372 he was transferred to Okinawa. 360 00:23:41,831 --> 00:23:45,086 They more or less arrested him and held him for awhile 361 00:23:45,169 --> 00:23:47,338 and essentially gave him a hard time. 362 00:23:49,883 --> 00:23:53,679 When it comes to military officers who witness UFOs, 363 00:23:53,762 --> 00:23:58,059 did the protocol escalate from discrediting witnesses 364 00:23:58,101 --> 00:24:02,022 to completely removing them? Now, what happened 365 00:24:02,106 --> 00:24:04,483 to Jeffrey Morse in the aftermath of all of this 366 00:24:04,566 --> 00:24:07,904 is kind of symptomatic of how military personnel 367 00:24:07,987 --> 00:24:10,699 were held to different standards of accountability than, say, 368 00:24:10,782 --> 00:24:12,617 civilian police officers had been. 369 00:24:12,701 --> 00:24:14,453 It's one thing for a small town cop 370 00:24:14,495 --> 00:24:17,790 to be ridiculed, but when you're a military person and you start 371 00:24:17,832 --> 00:24:20,544 talking privately to investigators about this, 372 00:24:20,627 --> 00:24:24,131 they're going to come after you. 373 00:24:32,181 --> 00:24:34,351 It's almost as if the military learned 374 00:24:34,435 --> 00:24:36,812 from previous reports that if you remove the witness, 375 00:24:36,895 --> 00:24:40,400 the media and investigators don't have any leads. 376 00:24:41,943 --> 00:24:45,698 If this was the military's new protocol, how far 377 00:24:45,781 --> 00:24:48,159 will they go to ensure the silence 378 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:53,415 of highly credible witnesses? Up next, 379 00:24:53,498 --> 00:24:55,500 military police officers 380 00:24:55,584 --> 00:24:59,380 report a UFO landing on a nuclear base. 381 00:25:15,315 --> 00:25:17,610 The Federal Government is going to give you exactly 382 00:25:17,651 --> 00:25:20,905 what they want you to hear. I don't think they're afraid 383 00:25:20,946 --> 00:25:23,283 of anything, they just want to control things. 384 00:25:23,367 --> 00:25:25,911 And as police officers, we're caught in the middle 385 00:25:25,952 --> 00:25:28,163 because the government does not want this information 386 00:25:28,246 --> 00:25:29,582 to get out. 387 00:25:35,088 --> 00:25:38,676 MUFON investigators have uncovered evidence indicating 388 00:25:38,759 --> 00:25:42,180 the military's desire to undermine and discredit 389 00:25:42,263 --> 00:25:47,477 law enforcement testimony regarding UFO encounters. 390 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:51,607 However, despite the intention to keep these stories hidden, 391 00:25:51,649 --> 00:25:54,903 information is still often leaked. 392 00:26:03,538 --> 00:26:09,545 1980, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 393 00:26:09,670 --> 00:26:12,798 Ten minutes before midnight on August 8th, 1980, 394 00:26:12,841 --> 00:26:14,676 three security policemen are on duty 395 00:26:14,759 --> 00:26:17,554 at the Manzano Weapons Storage Area just East 396 00:26:17,637 --> 00:26:21,017 of Kirtland Air Force Base. The Manzano Weapons 397 00:26:21,058 --> 00:26:23,978 Storage Area consisted of a series of tunnels 398 00:26:24,020 --> 00:26:27,649 that had been excavated into three mountains. 399 00:26:27,691 --> 00:26:29,860 In these tunnels is where the nuclear weapons 400 00:26:29,943 --> 00:26:31,863 would be stored. 401 00:26:34,032 --> 00:26:37,035 On this night, three guards at the base 402 00:26:37,118 --> 00:26:41,540 saw a very bright light about three miles northeast 403 00:26:41,582 --> 00:26:45,545 of their position. The men noticed this light 404 00:26:45,587 --> 00:26:48,048 traveling very fast before it suddenly 405 00:26:48,089 --> 00:26:50,216 stops over Coyote Canyon. 406 00:26:53,804 --> 00:26:55,723 Coyote Canyon was a restricted area 407 00:26:55,806 --> 00:26:58,602 and so all three officers became very nervous when 408 00:26:58,685 --> 00:27:02,022 they saw this lighted object begin to descend 409 00:27:02,064 --> 00:27:03,608 into the canyon. 410 00:27:06,194 --> 00:27:07,945 About three miles East of that position, 411 00:27:08,029 --> 00:27:10,115 there was another military police officer. 412 00:27:10,199 --> 00:27:12,951 He was on patrol, and he was told to check out 413 00:27:13,035 --> 00:27:14,953 the weapons barracks area. 414 00:27:18,083 --> 00:27:20,919 This officer drove down an access road to Coyote Canyon, 415 00:27:21,002 --> 00:27:25,049 and when he got there, he saw a very bright light in the air. 416 00:27:25,091 --> 00:27:28,095 And above it was a disc-shaped object. 417 00:27:30,722 --> 00:27:33,642 He starts to panic. He tries to radio for help, 418 00:27:33,725 --> 00:27:36,646 but his radio doesn't work. The officer grabbed 419 00:27:36,771 --> 00:27:39,565 his rifle, got out of his Jeep, and decided to pursue it. 420 00:27:47,826 --> 00:27:50,995 He heard the sound of metal, and before he knew it, 421 00:27:51,079 --> 00:27:52,997 the ship just took off. 422 00:27:54,625 --> 00:27:57,920 The lone patrolman who fired at the object, reports 423 00:27:57,962 --> 00:28:02,217 the incident to Sandia Base security headquarters. 424 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:06,639 The officer on duty reported the incident on August 9th, 425 00:28:06,681 --> 00:28:09,100 but Sandia Base didn't report it 426 00:28:09,142 --> 00:28:11,144 until August 11th, and they were 427 00:28:11,227 --> 00:28:13,480 supposed to report it to the Air Force Office 428 00:28:13,564 --> 00:28:17,818 of Special Investigations. Protocol dictated that 429 00:28:17,860 --> 00:28:20,905 anything like that had to be reported immediately, 430 00:28:20,989 --> 00:28:22,574 but it wasn't. 431 00:28:25,244 --> 00:28:27,538 But here's where things get more interesting. 432 00:28:27,621 --> 00:28:30,124 For some reason, the AFOSI office at Kirtland 433 00:28:30,166 --> 00:28:32,669 informs Sandia that the Air Force no longer 434 00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:35,922 investigates such sightings unless they specifically occur 435 00:28:36,006 --> 00:28:39,594 on a base. This doesn't make any sense 436 00:28:39,677 --> 00:28:42,221 because the incident did happen around 437 00:28:42,305 --> 00:28:45,059 a U.S. Air Force facility, and furthermore, 438 00:28:45,142 --> 00:28:50,190 near nuclear weapons, and yet AFOSI is not interested. 439 00:28:50,315 --> 00:28:54,194 The AFOSI's main directive is to provide investigative 440 00:28:54,235 --> 00:28:57,198 services to protect the national security of the U.S. 441 00:28:57,239 --> 00:28:59,700 So to claim that a UFO that lands near 442 00:28:59,742 --> 00:29:02,662 a nuclear weapons storage unit is out of their jurisdiction 443 00:29:02,704 --> 00:29:04,206 is ludicrous. 444 00:29:06,208 --> 00:29:09,837 On the night of August 11th, the UFO returns 445 00:29:09,879 --> 00:29:14,676 to the exact same location. At that point, the Air Force 446 00:29:14,718 --> 00:29:16,887 just couldn't deny it. 447 00:29:18,222 --> 00:29:22,102 On August 22nd, Major Edwards from Kirtland Air Force Base 448 00:29:22,185 --> 00:29:24,104 interviews every officer who was involved 449 00:29:24,187 --> 00:29:27,191 in these multiple sightings. Major Edwards informs 450 00:29:27,233 --> 00:29:29,193 an intelligence officer named Richard Doty 451 00:29:29,235 --> 00:29:32,071 of the persistent accounts of UFO sightings near their 452 00:29:32,154 --> 00:29:34,991 nuclear weapons storage site. Richard Doty 453 00:29:35,075 --> 00:29:37,994 is a controversial character in the whole history of UFOs. 454 00:29:38,078 --> 00:29:41,582 Doty was expert at leading people on a wild goose chase. 455 00:29:42,959 --> 00:29:46,255 It appears that once Officer Doty became involved, 456 00:29:46,338 --> 00:29:50,092 the case was doomed and eventually buried. 457 00:29:50,134 --> 00:29:52,637 This is an important case because you have multiple 458 00:29:52,721 --> 00:29:56,683 witnesses of a multiple sighting that took place 459 00:29:56,766 --> 00:29:59,145 over several days all claiming to see 460 00:29:59,228 --> 00:30:01,689 the same object near Coyote Canyon. 461 00:30:01,772 --> 00:30:05,068 So it appears there was a cover up. 462 00:30:05,152 --> 00:30:09,281 Once again, we see forces from above come in 463 00:30:09,364 --> 00:30:13,202 and take these credible men, these servants to our country, 464 00:30:13,286 --> 00:30:17,081 and make them feel like they've done something wrong 465 00:30:17,123 --> 00:30:20,586 when they were just doing their duty. 466 00:30:20,669 --> 00:30:22,838 If it was a cover up, who are they hiding 467 00:30:22,921 --> 00:30:25,550 the information from? The public was not involved 468 00:30:25,633 --> 00:30:27,844 in this, it was strictly military. 469 00:30:27,927 --> 00:30:30,306 Was the military hiding information 470 00:30:30,347 --> 00:30:31,640 from the military? 471 00:30:33,059 --> 00:30:36,063 Up next, these incidents aren't just confined 472 00:30:36,146 --> 00:30:39,024 to the ground. Two respected police 473 00:30:39,107 --> 00:30:43,654 helicopter pilots go head to head with a UFO. 474 00:30:43,738 --> 00:30:48,242 The unbelievable dog fight when "Hangar 1" returns. 475 00:30:53,916 --> 00:30:56,503 When you're involved in a UFO case, your credibility 476 00:30:56,544 --> 00:30:59,297 is in question. The first thing they're going 477 00:30:59,380 --> 00:31:02,468 to do is perform a psych test on you, then they're going 478 00:31:02,551 --> 00:31:04,887 to do a drug test on you. 479 00:31:04,970 --> 00:31:07,891 They want to intimidate you and a lot of police officers 480 00:31:07,933 --> 00:31:09,059 don't want to go through that. 481 00:31:21,907 --> 00:31:26,538 Louisville, Kentucky, 1993. 482 00:31:26,621 --> 00:31:29,624 At 11:50 P.M., Officers Graham and Downs 483 00:31:29,666 --> 00:31:32,335 are in the middle of a routine patrol flight 484 00:31:32,419 --> 00:31:35,506 when they receive a call about a possible break in 485 00:31:35,589 --> 00:31:39,219 near Sanford Avenue and Buechel Bank Road. 486 00:31:41,596 --> 00:31:44,599 The officers fly over the area when suddenly Graham 487 00:31:44,683 --> 00:31:46,602 notices a small light below them. 488 00:31:49,772 --> 00:31:52,526 Downs points the helicopter spotlight on the object 489 00:31:52,609 --> 00:31:53,652 to get a better look. 490 00:31:57,615 --> 00:32:00,618 Downs and Graham see a glowing, pear-shaped object 491 00:32:00,744 --> 00:32:04,749 about the size of a basketball. Suddenly, the object 492 00:32:04,790 --> 00:32:08,461 shoots up, right in front of the helicopter 493 00:32:08,544 --> 00:32:10,839 and then spins counterclockwise around them 494 00:32:10,881 --> 00:32:14,342 until it stops right behind the two pilots. 495 00:32:16,429 --> 00:32:19,766 Graham has never seen anything like it. 496 00:32:19,807 --> 00:32:23,437 Now he's afraid the object is going to ram the tail rotor, 497 00:32:23,479 --> 00:32:26,648 so he pushes the helicopter forward at a 100 miles an hour. 498 00:32:30,028 --> 00:32:34,491 Incredibly, the UFO chases them and at one point 499 00:32:34,574 --> 00:32:35,659 even shoots past them. 500 00:32:39,497 --> 00:32:42,667 All of the sudden, the UFO appears to shoot three fireballs 501 00:32:42,709 --> 00:32:44,252 at the helicopter. 502 00:32:47,422 --> 00:32:49,425 Graham is able to bank his helicopter away 503 00:32:49,509 --> 00:32:50,551 from the blast. 504 00:32:52,845 --> 00:32:56,475 The pilots are panicking, but then the UFO just zips away. 505 00:33:04,692 --> 00:33:08,656 The officers wake up 506 00:33:08,697 --> 00:33:11,325 their boss, Lieutenant David Pope, 507 00:33:11,367 --> 00:33:13,870 to give him their full report. Pope can't believe 508 00:33:13,954 --> 00:33:15,956 what he's hearing. He knows that 509 00:33:16,039 --> 00:33:19,627 his officers are credible. He stated in a report that 510 00:33:19,710 --> 00:33:23,339 Graham was a veteran pilot and that both he and Downs 511 00:33:23,381 --> 00:33:27,302 were military veterans with many years of service. 512 00:33:27,386 --> 00:33:30,514 So, look at the facts here. These are police officers 513 00:33:30,556 --> 00:33:32,934 who work in the air. They work in the sky 514 00:33:33,017 --> 00:33:34,352 every single day. 515 00:33:34,436 --> 00:33:37,188 Well, of course they know the difference between a star, 516 00:33:37,230 --> 00:33:41,318 a planet, and some bell-shaped thing flying around 517 00:33:41,402 --> 00:33:42,695 their helicopter. 518 00:33:47,367 --> 00:33:50,913 Lieutenant Pope submits his report to superiors, 519 00:33:50,955 --> 00:33:53,708 but it goes unnoticed. 520 00:33:53,791 --> 00:33:56,544 Downs and Graham can't believe the report isn't being 521 00:33:56,586 --> 00:33:59,631 taken seriously. And then if that isn't enough, 522 00:33:59,715 --> 00:34:00,799 fellow colleagues warn them 523 00:34:00,924 --> 00:34:03,928 to just let it go because it was starting to make the department 524 00:34:03,970 --> 00:34:07,599 look bad. It makes you wonder 525 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,894 if these police officers were hung out to dry 526 00:34:09,935 --> 00:34:12,271 with nowhere for them to go and no one to provide 527 00:34:12,354 --> 00:34:16,318 any answers. Is the military 528 00:34:16,401 --> 00:34:20,655 now intentionally ignoring UFO reports by police officers 529 00:34:20,739 --> 00:34:24,702 in order to protect law enforcement authority 530 00:34:24,786 --> 00:34:29,416 or to protect themselves by avoiding a paper trail? 531 00:34:29,458 --> 00:34:31,418 It's almost a relief when I hear that 532 00:34:31,460 --> 00:34:34,464 there is some official involved, someone who is trained 533 00:34:34,547 --> 00:34:38,218 to observe because the credibility of these things 534 00:34:38,301 --> 00:34:40,178 is so often challenged. 535 00:34:42,973 --> 00:34:46,727 One thing that I want to see in my lifetime is some answer 536 00:34:46,812 --> 00:34:49,481 for these experiences that I've had. 537 00:34:49,564 --> 00:34:52,818 I want to see some kind of government recognition. 538 00:34:52,901 --> 00:34:54,862 If they would just, you know, come out and say, yes, 539 00:34:54,946 --> 00:34:56,739 it is real, this is actually happening. 540 00:35:06,835 --> 00:35:10,213 With the majority of UFO sightings at night, it makes 541 00:35:10,338 --> 00:35:13,843 sense that the officers working these late shifts would be 542 00:35:13,926 --> 00:35:17,555 the most likely witnesses of such phenomena. 543 00:35:21,351 --> 00:35:24,856 Coming up, another predawn UFO chase leaves 544 00:35:24,939 --> 00:35:30,821 the police with nowhere to turn until MUFON uncovers the files. 545 00:35:43,335 --> 00:35:47,173 When government policy states that UFOs do not exist, 546 00:35:47,256 --> 00:35:50,677 what happens when their local law enforcement agents see 547 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:55,892 and report UFO sightings? Over the years, it appears 548 00:35:55,975 --> 00:36:00,271 policy has changed from deflection to disaccreditation 549 00:36:00,354 --> 00:36:04,443 to disregarding entirely, leaving police officers 550 00:36:04,526 --> 00:36:07,613 with nowhere to turn when it comes to reporting 551 00:36:07,696 --> 00:36:08,656 these incidents. 552 00:36:17,041 --> 00:36:21,338 January 5th, 2000 near Scott Air Force Base, 553 00:36:21,379 --> 00:36:23,215 Illinois. 554 00:36:25,258 --> 00:36:27,386 Melvin Knoll, a local Highland, Illinois 555 00:36:27,470 --> 00:36:30,473 truck driver pulls into his company office at 4:00 A.M. 556 00:36:39,943 --> 00:36:42,737 He looks up and notices this really bright light 557 00:36:42,779 --> 00:36:45,448 in the sky that's moving towards him, 558 00:36:45,490 --> 00:36:48,369 and he realizes that the light is actually coming from a huge 559 00:36:48,452 --> 00:36:53,333 triangle-looking craft. A recording from the county 560 00:36:53,416 --> 00:36:57,212 radio dispatcher documents the driver's report 561 00:36:57,295 --> 00:36:59,423 to the Highland Police Department. 562 00:36:59,507 --> 00:37:01,592 We received a call from the Highland PD 563 00:37:01,634 --> 00:37:03,511 in reference to a truck driver who just stopped in 564 00:37:03,594 --> 00:37:05,681 and said there was a flying object. 565 00:37:08,308 --> 00:37:11,479 Officer Ed Barton responds to the call at 4:10 A.M. 566 00:37:11,521 --> 00:37:13,940 He asks the county dispatcher if she's joking. 567 00:37:13,982 --> 00:37:16,734 The dispatcher says, "No, the man who stopped in 568 00:37:16,818 --> 00:37:20,322 was totally serious." Just a quick question. 569 00:37:20,364 --> 00:37:22,491 If I happen to find it, what am I supposed 570 00:37:22,533 --> 00:37:23,660 to do with it? 571 00:37:23,743 --> 00:37:27,497 As soon as Officer Barton turns onto Route 4... 572 00:37:31,377 --> 00:37:34,630 there's a bright light coming from a large triangle. 573 00:37:38,552 --> 00:37:40,304 He pulls over to the side of the road, 574 00:37:40,345 --> 00:37:42,807 kills the car lights, and turns off his radio 575 00:37:42,849 --> 00:37:45,518 to see if this thing is making any noise. 576 00:37:49,023 --> 00:37:52,443 The object makes no sound, but he can see every detail 577 00:37:52,526 --> 00:37:54,863 on this craft because it's moving right above him 578 00:37:54,905 --> 00:37:57,783 at a steady speed. As soon as it passes, 579 00:37:57,866 --> 00:38:01,370 he radios the sighting into central command. 580 00:38:01,454 --> 00:38:03,873 He predicts that the object should be hitting the town 581 00:38:03,915 --> 00:38:06,959 of Shiloh, Illinois at any moment. 582 00:38:07,043 --> 00:38:10,214 In Shiloh, Officer David Martin soon radios in 583 00:38:10,339 --> 00:38:12,299 that he sees the craft as well. 584 00:38:12,382 --> 00:38:14,803 What does it look like to you? 585 00:38:14,886 --> 00:38:16,930 It's kind of V-shaped. 586 00:38:21,811 --> 00:38:24,438 Several minutes later, at 4:29 A.M., 587 00:38:24,522 --> 00:38:26,983 Officer Craig Stevens, who is in the nearby town 588 00:38:27,067 --> 00:38:29,945 of Milstadt radios in that he also sees 589 00:38:30,028 --> 00:38:34,033 a triangular UFO passing over his patrol car. 590 00:38:34,075 --> 00:38:38,412 And then at 4:35 A.M., another officer in Dupo, 591 00:38:38,454 --> 00:38:41,250 Illinois reports that he can also see the craft, 592 00:38:41,333 --> 00:38:43,919 but at this point, it's climbing altitude fast 593 00:38:43,961 --> 00:38:47,715 and he's losing track of the light. 594 00:38:47,799 --> 00:38:49,759 If you would, contact Scott Air Force Base 595 00:38:49,801 --> 00:38:53,347 and see if they have anything flying in this area. 596 00:38:53,430 --> 00:38:55,391 The dispatcher calls Scott Air Force Base, 597 00:38:55,432 --> 00:38:57,519 who report that they have not detected 598 00:38:57,602 --> 00:38:59,813 any unidentified object on their radar. 599 00:38:59,896 --> 00:39:03,441 But here you have no less than four different officers 600 00:39:03,483 --> 00:39:07,363 all witnessing the same craft, yet Scott Air Force Base claims 601 00:39:07,446 --> 00:39:10,993 they've got nothing. It just doesn't add up. 602 00:39:13,954 --> 00:39:18,084 This was a huge case. You have four police witnesses, 603 00:39:18,126 --> 00:39:21,796 media interest, and yet the military claims that 604 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,049 they have no knowledge about anything that happened 605 00:39:24,133 --> 00:39:25,426 in the vicinity. 606 00:39:25,509 --> 00:39:28,889 I find it impossible to believe Scott Air Force Base 607 00:39:28,972 --> 00:39:31,933 is not going to be able to detect a 75-foot 608 00:39:31,975 --> 00:39:34,811 triangular craft in its vicinity, 609 00:39:34,895 --> 00:39:38,441 and yet this is exactly what they claim. 610 00:39:38,483 --> 00:39:41,277 Does the government and military now turn 611 00:39:41,319 --> 00:39:45,407 a blind eye when it comes to these kinds of sightings? 612 00:39:45,491 --> 00:39:47,367 The government knows what's going on. 613 00:39:47,451 --> 00:39:50,038 They don't talk about it. They won't report it. 614 00:39:50,121 --> 00:39:52,499 Any singular event that has happened 615 00:39:52,624 --> 00:39:55,961 with pilots reporting and the police department 616 00:39:56,003 --> 00:39:58,380 on the ground reporting this, and then the story 617 00:39:58,464 --> 00:40:01,301 dies the next day. You don't know if there's 618 00:40:01,343 --> 00:40:03,386 an investigation going on internally. 619 00:40:03,470 --> 00:40:05,514 We know that there is, but the government doesn't 620 00:40:05,597 --> 00:40:06,933 talk about it, any government. 621 00:40:08,226 --> 00:40:11,187 As a son of a cop and having grown up around cops 622 00:40:11,229 --> 00:40:14,066 my whole life and knowing the kinds of witnesses 623 00:40:14,149 --> 00:40:16,610 that they are, I find it offensive 624 00:40:16,652 --> 00:40:19,489 when you start seeing all of the ridicule that so many 625 00:40:19,572 --> 00:40:22,992 of them have been facing. Once a police officer 626 00:40:23,076 --> 00:40:27,206 has seen a UFO, they very adamantly 627 00:40:27,289 --> 00:40:30,292 will defend what they saw against all odds. 628 00:40:32,671 --> 00:40:35,674 Many of these police cases go unreported because of a fear 629 00:40:35,799 --> 00:40:39,011 of ridicule, but some brave officers do come to us 630 00:40:39,095 --> 00:40:41,180 to report their story. 631 00:40:41,305 --> 00:40:43,724 They recognize that these are important cases 632 00:40:43,808 --> 00:40:45,686 that shouldn't be swept under the rug. 633 00:40:45,727 --> 00:40:47,688 And they'd also like some answers to what 634 00:40:47,771 --> 00:40:50,650 they've witnessed. We have now become the place 635 00:40:50,692 --> 00:40:55,363 for police officers to come to to report UFO encounters. 636 00:40:55,488 --> 00:40:58,242 When you have this kind of experience seeing a UFO 637 00:40:58,325 --> 00:41:01,120 or something as unexplainable, and you try to report it, 638 00:41:01,203 --> 00:41:03,165 they'll tell you, we don't investigate 639 00:41:03,206 --> 00:41:05,542 this kind of phenomena. If you want answers, 640 00:41:05,584 --> 00:41:08,044 you have to go to someone outside of the system because 641 00:41:08,086 --> 00:41:10,423 chances are it's not going to be investigated through 642 00:41:10,506 --> 00:41:11,549 law enforcement channels. 643 00:41:14,594 --> 00:41:18,473 Police encounters with UFOs are some of the most detailed 644 00:41:18,557 --> 00:41:22,061 witness reports on record and yet they are 645 00:41:22,103 --> 00:41:26,024 continually disregarded by higher authorities. 646 00:41:26,065 --> 00:41:28,736 Despite the government distancing themselves 647 00:41:28,819 --> 00:41:33,073 from these UFO accounts, MUFON remains a source 648 00:41:33,157 --> 00:41:36,620 that our law enforcement, both civilian and military, 649 00:41:36,703 --> 00:41:39,664 can turn to and be taken seriously. 650 00:41:39,748 --> 00:41:44,170 As these officers continue to spend so much time 651 00:41:44,253 --> 00:41:46,589 on the front lines of our streets 652 00:41:46,631 --> 00:41:49,760 and military bases, the unusual sightings 653 00:41:49,843 --> 00:41:56,316 they document will be revealed in the files of "Hangar 1." 54973

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