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If you're a civilian
and you spot a UFO
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in your area, you don't call
the military, you call
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the police department
or you call your local sheriff.
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As a police officer,
when you're involved
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in a UFO case,
things can get tricky.
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They can get very political,
and that's just the nature
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of the beast in this country.
10X31, clear.
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120 West 81st Street.
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Ravenna, Ohio,
April 17, 1966.
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It's just before dawn
on a midnight shift
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that Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur
and Deputy Wilbur Neff
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will never forget.
All morning
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their police radio
had been filled with all sorts
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of chatter from witnesses
near Akron, Ohio claiming
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to have seen a large,
bright disc flying
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through the sky.
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With just a few hours left
of their day,
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they noticed something unusual,
an abandoned car on Route 224.
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Just as Neff is about
to reach the car,
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Spaur senses something.
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In Spaur's written report,
he states he feels the need
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to look behind him.
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Spaur tells Neff
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to look over his shoulder.
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They're suddenly engulfed
in light, and the only thing
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they can hear is a hum,
like a transformer
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being overloaded.
Both police officers are frozen
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underneath this light.
Spaur remembers
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moving his right foot slightly
to make sure he could
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still move, and when
they realize they aren't
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actually paralyzed,
they run as fast as they can
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for the patrol car.
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Can you imagine,
two veteran officers
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used to dealing
with local domestic issues
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now find themselves
facing a UFO?
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Immediately, Spaur gets
on the radio and reports
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what they just saw.
Dispatch tells them
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not to move and to wait
in the car, they're sending
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immediate backup.
Spaur and Neff nervously wait
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as the light engulfs their car.
The officers are starting
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to panic, and they're thinking,
should we shoot at it
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or should we get out of here?
They're absolutely terrified,
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but they have their orders
to wait for backup,
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if they survive that long.
And this is just
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the beginning of one
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They investigate reports
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Over the past five decades,
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Officer Spaur and Neff
are engulfed in the light
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of this UFO, paralyzed with fear
wondering, is this it?
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Is this how we're going to die?
But then, inexplicably...
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the UFO just takes off.
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They're stunned and relieved
and once they regain
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their composure,
they do the unthinkable.
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They actually chase this thing.
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These two officers are
actually pursuing this UFO,
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going about 100 miles an hour
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Though it's the Pennsylvania
border along U.S. Route 224.
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As the Sun rises, the UFO
continues traveling East
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approaching the Pennsylvania
state line.
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Patrolman Frank Panzanella,
Conway, Pennsylvania is sitting
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in his squad car drinking coffee
when he sees a large object
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fly over him.
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His first instinct
is also to pursue the UFO.
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Panzanella radios dispatch
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to see if they have anything
on their radar.
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They pick up
an unidentified object
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on their screen.
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The officers aren't the only
ones interested in this craft.
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Four fighter jets
appear in the sky.
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The police receive
confirmation on their radios
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that the jets are pursuing
the UFO.
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The police officers
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must be thinking, wow,
this is really happening.
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The Air Force is going
to take down a UFO
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right in front of us.
But the UFO then shoots upward
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into the sky at an incredible
speed until it disappears, gone,
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before the jets can make a move.
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Within hours, this case
was picked up by the press.
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And from there, the Air Force
gave it a lot of attention.
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All of the police officers
involved are then contacted
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by the military's
UFO investigative unit,
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Project Blue Book.
This is where
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the Air Force cover-up begins.
Blue Book Chief,
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Major Hector Quintanilla,
arrives on the scene.
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Hector Quintanilla headed
Project Blue Book from 1963
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until its closure in 1970.
In addition to his degree
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in physics, he was recruited
to the position
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because they needed a man
who was, quote,
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"cool under pressure."
He gets to Dale Spaur
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and the first thing he says
to him is, "Tell me about
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this mirage that you saw."
Can you imagine,
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you're a police officer
and you've just seen
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the most incredible thing
and the first thing
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the Air Force does is accuse you
of seeing a mirage.
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Could the officers
have witnessed a top secret
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military plane,
forcing the Air Force
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to try and deflect attention
from the truth?
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Spaur describes exactly
what he saw in great detail,
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but Quintanilla doesn't ask
anymore questions,
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and he doesn't attempt
to interview the other
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three officers who also
saw the UFO.
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Major Quintanilla holds
a press conference to release
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the Air Force's official
findings on the incident.
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Quintanilla's explanation
was simple, the officers
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had been chasing an echo
communication satellite
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and then after the Sun came up,
that changed to them
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chasing the planet Venus.
Quintanilla also denied
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that any jet fighters had been
in the area attempting to engage
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or intercept a UFO.
Unsatisfied with the official
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explanation, a number
of investigators,
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including famed ufologist,
William Weitzel,
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are determined to find out
what really happened.
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William Weitzel
got on the scene and found
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three other police officers
and four other
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civilian witnesses
who had seen a UFO between
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5:00 and 5:30 that morning.
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After Weitzel's findings,
Quintanilla is forced
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to reopen the case.
Realizing simple deflection
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was not effective,
stronger tactics are employed.
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Quintanilla and Spaur
sit down for another meeting,
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this time attended
by William Weitzel
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and local reporters,
but afterwards, Quintanilla
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stands by his original
conclusion that
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the police officers
were chasing Venus.
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He says, "There was never a UFO.
Case closed."
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Project Blue Book head,
Quintanilla,
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successfully closes the case.
The police officers
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who witnessed the UFO
find themselves discredited,
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left trying to understand
what they did wrong.
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After this whole event
was over, the officers involved
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really took it hard.
Officer Houston quit the force
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and moved off to Seattle
just to get away.
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Officer Neff became a recluse.
And I think Dale Spaur
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had it the worst.
He lost his job
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and his marriage,
and for years
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was hounded by the press,
everyone trying to debunk
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his case and make him look
like he didn't know
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what he was doing.
And this just made him crazy
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because he knew that
what he saw was real.
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He knew it was legitimate.
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During this Cold War era,
UFOs were treated
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primarily as a threat.
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These military people come in
and intimidate the officers,
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discredit them for something
that obviously the government
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knows is going on.
Was Quintanilla simply
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employing the same techniques
that began with
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Project Blue Book
regarding deflection
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and discrediting witnesses?
And when did these techniques
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come into play?
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Up next...
Zamora starts to back away,
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a huge flame
bursts out of the craft.
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Military and media descend
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on a small town
after one police officer's
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incredible close encounter
when we return.
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If I had been working back
in the fifties and sixties,
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I don't think I would've wanted
to make a UFO report.
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Something like that could
destroy your credibility.
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You just turn your head
and look the other way.
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But, you know, that's stressful,
and you have to carry that
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with you.
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Police officers are trained
to be meticulous about details.
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But when it comes
to UFO sightings,
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their reports are often
challenged or the incident
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is dismissed as a hoax.
Hangar 1 files suggest that
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this treatment lines up directly
with how Project Blue Book
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and the military dealt with
civilian UFO witnesses
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and that these protocols
were applied
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to police officers as well.
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April 24th, 1964.
Socorro, New Mexico.
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Officer Lonnie Zamora
is driving in his car
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outside of Socorro, New Mexico.
He's chasing a speeder.
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All of a sudden, Zamora
hears this roaring sound,
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and he sees what he thinks
is a flame object in the sky.
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Zamora breaks off
from the chase to investigate.
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He thinks that
a local dynamite shack
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may have exploded.
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He's moving closer to where
this event was taking place.
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It's then that he notices
a shining object,
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which at first he thought
was an overturned car.
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Zamora gets on the radio
and tells the dispatcher
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he's leaving his car
to check out a situation
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in the arroyo.
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Suddenly, a loud roar emanates
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from the craft.
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A huge flame
bursts out of the craft.
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The craft begins lifting up
and then immediately takes off.
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Zamora radios a fellow officer,
Sergeant Chavez, asking him
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if he sees a craft in the sky.
Radio silence.
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When Chavez finally
got there, the two of them
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found four indentations
in the ground
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where the object had sat,
some burnt vegetation,
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and they took
very detailed notes and pictures
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of the whole area,
and they put together
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a complete report.
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Two days after the incident,
Major Quintanilla, the head
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of the Air Force's
Project Blue Book shows up
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to investigate the report,
but he isn't the only one
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who descends on the town.
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The sleepy little town
of Socorro, New Mexico
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was overrun.
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Overrun by major journalists,
UPI, AP were there.
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Government agents, FBI,
military intelligence
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were there, and private
UFO investigators
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were also there.
Everyone wanted
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to look for answers.
The evidence gathered
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by the police
appears to be compelling.
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Subsequent research
and analysis of ground samples
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and photos revealed that
some of the sand in the ground
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appeared to have been
fused together as if
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it had come in contact
with some very high,
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intense form of heat.
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Then, on June 8th, 1964,
Quintanilla issues his formal
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Project Blue Book report.
Not surprisingly, this report
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turned all the evidence
right on its head.
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It stated
no substantial evidence
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had been found
to support any kind of event,
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none of the witnesses
were reliable, and so on.
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Now, in the classified version
of that report, it was a little
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bit of a different story.
I have Hector Quintanilla's
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words right here and I quote,
"There is no doubt
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that Lonnie Zamora saw an object
that left an impression on him
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and scared Zamora
to the point of panic."
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Zamora became so hounded
by the Air Force and ufologists
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that he quit law enforcement,
and he took a job managing
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a gas station.
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If I were in the shoes
of these officers
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that saw these things
and were then shut up
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and intimidated, I would
absolutely lose faith in myself.
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This, I mean, this has to be
a profound effect on their whole
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sense of who they are, the fact
that the government would
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step in after these careers
of service and treat them
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like crazy people when we know
the government knows a heck
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of a lot more than
than what they're telling us.
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Based on Quintanilla's
report, the case was closed.
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But shortly thereafter,
a UFO researcher
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named James McDonald locates
a local scientist who claims
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to have analyzed a soil sample
from the Socorro landing site.
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Mary G. Mayes
was a doctoral student
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in radiation biology
at the University of New Mexico
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and she was asked to analyze
some of the soil samples
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from the Socorro case.
So she didn't find
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any radiation in the soil,
but she did find
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two organic substances that
she was not able to identify.
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This is an important detail.
It proved that whatever landed
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there had organic material that
is not found on earth.
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The analysis
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on the soil samples really
opens up the possibility,
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maybe the likelihood
that we're talking about
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two different kinds
of investigations,
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or two versions
of the investigation,
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the public one
and the not so public one.
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What it looks like to me is that
Quintanilla and Blue Book
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were sent in basically
to mess up the investigation
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and make Zamora
look like a fool.
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Civilian police officers
are not the only ones
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who meet resistance
when it comes to reporting
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UFO incidents.
Up next, military
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police officers find themselves
in the wrong place
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at the wrong time
and the outcome
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becomes deadly.
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Many agencies are not open
to these types of investigations
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because the upper echelon
don't want the media.
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They don't want to deal with it.
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That's the biggest problem
with law enforcement,
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dealing with the upper hands.
When it gets from
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local government up
to the military, well, then,
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that's a little bit different.
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Hangar 1 files contain
remarkable encounters
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of police officers
and UFO sightings.
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Some of these incredible events
occur with officers who provide
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security for military bases.
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In 1978, I was working
at McGuire Air Force Base
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at 21st Air Force
as the Deputy Director
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of Intelligence.
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On January 18th, 1978,
I drove onto the base
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and noticed that
off to my right was a number
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of crash trucks and lights
out on the runway.
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And the sergeant in charge
of the command post
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came up to me and said
that an alien has been found
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at the end of the runway,
that he was shot
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by a military policeman.
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January 18th, 1978,
between Fort Dix
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and McGuire Air Force Base.
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Radar from Fort Dix picks up
an unidentified object
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between Fort Dix
and McGuire Air Force Base.
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The military police officer
on duty is patrolling
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the outside of the base
when he sees a large object
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hovering over the road.
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He stops his car
and radios in what he sees.
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He's looking out through
his windshield through
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the falling snow and explaining
to the dispatcher
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what the craft looks like.
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Right in the middle
of a sentence...
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the radio goes dead.
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The officer looks up
and that's when he sees
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the unimaginable,
a small figure in the shadows
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that he later describes
as having an unusually
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large head, long arms,
and a slender body.
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And this creature
is standing right in front
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of his police car.
The officer panics.
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Here's a man who is told
to protect the base.
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He's an armed guard,
and he's seen a monster
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run around.
He does what probably
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a lot of guys would do,
he shoots at the thing.
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He runs back to his car
and his radio
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is now working again.
He tells the dispatcher
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that he just shot
a strange creature
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and it's now headed
for McGuire Air Force Base.
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The police officer drives
to the gates
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of McGuire Air Force Base
where he is told to wait.
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Sergeant Jeffrey Morse
from McGuire Air Force Base
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is called to the front gate
to meet with the officer
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from Fort Dix to discuss
the incident.
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The officer is really shaken up.
He tells Morse that he shot
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at a strange entity,
but it escaped and climbed
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over the fence
into McGuire Air Force Base.
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Sergeant Morse says that
he'll handle it from here.
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Sergeant Morse has to be
thinking this other
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police officer is crazy,
but he was about to get
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a big surprise.
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Morse and several other MPs
head to the area
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where the entity reportedly
climbed over the fence.
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At the end of the runway
they see a dead creature
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with a large head
and slender body.
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Sergeant Morse can't believe
his eyes.
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He reports that the smell
is so bad they have
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to stand back several feet
just to be able to breathe.
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He calls in a report
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and within hours
the Air Force OSI
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takes control of the situation.
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AFOSI is the Air Force's
Office of Special
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Investigations, and they report
directly to the Office
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of Security to the Air Force.
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Technically, this means
that they provide
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independent investigations
outside the traditional
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military chain of command.
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Sergeant Morse reports that
he is surprised to see
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a military team responding
to the incident in a way that
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suggests this wasn't the first
encounter like this they had
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dealt with.
Sergeant Morse
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is not only brought in
for questioning, but threatened.
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Morse went through several
days of intimidating
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interrogations where he was told
to keep his mouth shut or else.
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As incredible as this story
sounds, it is corroborated
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by George Filer who was brought
in to investigate the incident.
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When I was investigating
the case, I did interview
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Sergeant Jeff Morse who claims
to have been out at the place
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where they found the ET.
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Within a couple of days
after he was out there,
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he was transferred to Okinawa.
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They more or less arrested him
and held him for awhile
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and essentially gave him
a hard time.
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When it comes to military
officers who witness UFOs,
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did the protocol escalate
from discrediting witnesses
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to completely removing them?
Now, what happened
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to Jeffrey Morse
in the aftermath of all of this
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is kind of symptomatic
of how military personnel
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were held to different standards
of accountability than, say,
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civilian police officers
had been.
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It's one thing
for a small town cop
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to be ridiculed, but when you're
a military person and you start
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talking privately
to investigators about this,
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they're going to come after you.
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It's almost as if
the military learned
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from previous reports that
if you remove the witness,
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the media and investigators
don't have any leads.
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If this was the military's
new protocol, how far
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will they go
to ensure the silence
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of highly credible witnesses?
Up next,
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military police officers
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report a UFO landing
on a nuclear base.
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The Federal Government
is going to give you exactly
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what they want you to hear.
I don't think they're afraid
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of anything, they just want
to control things.
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And as police officers,
we're caught in the middle
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because the government
does not want this information
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to get out.
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MUFON investigators have
uncovered evidence indicating
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the military's desire
to undermine and discredit
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law enforcement testimony
regarding UFO encounters.
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However, despite the intention
to keep these stories hidden,
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information is still
often leaked.
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1980, Kirtland Air Force Base,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Ten minutes before midnight
on August 8th, 1980,
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three security policemen
are on duty
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at the Manzano Weapons
Storage Area just East
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of Kirtland Air Force Base.
The Manzano Weapons
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Storage Area consisted
of a series of tunnels
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that had been excavated
into three mountains.
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In these tunnels
is where the nuclear weapons
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would be stored.
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On this night,
three guards at the base
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saw a very bright light
about three miles northeast
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of their position.
The men noticed this light
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traveling very fast
before it suddenly
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stops over Coyote Canyon.
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Coyote Canyon
was a restricted area
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and so all three officers
became very nervous when
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they saw this lighted object
begin to descend
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into the canyon.
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About three miles East
of that position,
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there was another
military police officer.
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He was on patrol,
and he was told to check out
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the weapons barracks area.
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This officer drove down
an access road to Coyote Canyon,
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and when he got there, he saw
a very bright light in the air.
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And above it was
a disc-shaped object.
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He starts to panic.
He tries to radio for help,
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but his radio doesn't work.
The officer grabbed
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his rifle, got out of his Jeep,
and decided to pursue it.
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He heard the sound of metal,
and before he knew it,
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the ship just took off.
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The lone patrolman who fired
at the object, reports
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the incident to Sandia Base
security headquarters.
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The officer on duty reported
the incident on August 9th,
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but Sandia Base
didn't report it
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until August 11th, and they were
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supposed to report it
to the Air Force Office
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of Special Investigations.
Protocol dictated that
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anything like that
had to be reported immediately,
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but it wasn't.
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But here's where things
get more interesting.
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For some reason,
the AFOSI office at Kirtland
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informs Sandia that
the Air Force no longer
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investigates such sightings
unless they specifically occur
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on a base.
This doesn't make any sense
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because the incident
did happen around
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a U.S. Air Force facility,
and furthermore,
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near nuclear weapons, and yet
AFOSI is not interested.
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The AFOSI's main directive
is to provide investigative
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services to protect the national
security of the U.S.
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So to claim that a UFO
that lands near
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a nuclear weapons storage unit
is out of their jurisdiction
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is ludicrous.
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On the night of August 11th,
the UFO returns
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to the exact same location.
At that point, the Air Force
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just couldn't deny it.
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On August 22nd, Major Edwards
from Kirtland Air Force Base
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00:29:22,185 --> 00:29:24,104
interviews every officer
who was involved
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in these multiple sightings.
Major Edwards informs
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an intelligence officer
named Richard Doty
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00:29:29,235 --> 00:29:32,071
of the persistent accounts
of UFO sightings near their
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nuclear weapons storage site.
Richard Doty
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00:29:35,075 --> 00:29:37,994
is a controversial character
in the whole history of UFOs.
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Doty was expert at leading
people on a wild goose chase.
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00:29:42,959 --> 00:29:46,255
It appears that once
Officer Doty became involved,
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the case was doomed
and eventually buried.
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This is an important case
because you have multiple
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witnesses of a multiple sighting
that took place
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over several days
all claiming to see
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the same object
near Coyote Canyon.
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00:30:01,772 --> 00:30:05,068
So it appears
there was a cover up.
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Once again, we see forces
from above come in
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and take these credible men,
these servants to our country,
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and make them feel like
they've done something wrong
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when they were just
doing their duty.
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If it was a cover up,
who are they hiding
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the information from?
The public was not involved
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in this, it was
strictly military.
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Was the military
hiding information
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from the military?
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Up next, these incidents
aren't just confined
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to the ground.
Two respected police
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helicopter pilots
go head to head with a UFO.
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00:30:43,738 --> 00:30:48,242
The unbelievable dog fight
when "Hangar 1" returns.
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When you're involved
in a UFO case, your credibility
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00:30:56,544 --> 00:30:59,297
is in question.
The first thing they're going
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00:30:59,380 --> 00:31:02,468
to do is perform a psych test
on you, then they're going
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00:31:02,551 --> 00:31:04,887
to do a drug test on you.
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They want to intimidate you
and a lot of police officers
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don't want to go through that.
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Louisville, Kentucky, 1993.
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At 11:50 P.M.,
Officers Graham and Downs
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are in the middle
of a routine patrol flight
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when they receive a call
about a possible break in
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near Sanford Avenue
and Buechel Bank Road.
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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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