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- [Narrator] Darcy Weir is an independent researcher

and filmmaker who has traveled around the world

to study the UFO phenomenon.

- [Commentator] And with a grin and a salute,

before his flight, Major Cooper,

along with other Air Force astronauts and space pilots,

attended a traditional Air Force dining in

at the Officers Club at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida.

Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene M. Zuckert,

stated the need for our efforts in space.

- [Eugene] We believe that space can be free to all

with peaceful activity only if somebody keeps it free.

We are that somebody.

[crowd applauding]

- [Narrator] What if there was a Sinister threat

lurking among the stars?

A malevolent extraterrestrial intelligence

daring to invade our atmosphere without consent,

poised to completely change our existence

by revealing themselves to the public.

Could their motives be to exploit our world

or have we already doomed ourselves with our own greed?

Is the United States defense intelligence

aware of these possibilities

and do they hold the answers

to these mind-boggling inquiries?

NASA and various National Defense agencies

in the United States have been aware

of unidentified flying objects, UFOs for many decades.

With the terminology used to classify them

evolving over time.

Since the late 1970s the US Air Force

and NASA have employed different code names

to refer to UFOs.

One such codename Fastwalker

was used by the North American Air Defense Command, NORAD,

to designate UFO sightings entering earth's atmosphere

from outer space.

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The NORAD facility which previously was located

within Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado

tracked numerous such bogeys, annually.

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- [Astronaut] Houston, everybody around here

has looked at the bird and it looks real good.

- Roger, roger. - On May 14th 1973

a Saturn INT-21 launch vehicle

blasted off from Cape Kennedy,

carrying NASA's first space station into orbit above earth.

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Skylab was a 100-ton orbital research

and observation platform

consisting of an air lock module,

docking adapter, orbital workshop,

and a solar and terrestrial telescopic advisory

called the Apollo telescope mount.

Orbiting the earth at an altitude of 440 kilometers,

Skylab provided 10,000 cubic feet

of habitable living space pressurized to 5 PSI

allowing three-man flight crews

to conduct NASA's first real in-depth studies

into the effects of long duration spaceflight

on the human body.

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In addition to microgravity biomedical research,

Skylab also served as an orbital observation platform

allowing the astronauts to conduct

a variety of exo-atmospheric solar studies

and Earth Science/resources surveillance operations.

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During 1973 three separate NASA flight crews

rode the Saturn 1B booster into orbit

rendezvousing with Skylab and occupying the space station

for a total of 171 days.

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On July 28th, 1973, Mission Commander Alan Bean,

pilot Jack Lousma, and science pilot Owen Garriott,

began their Skylab 3 SLM-2 mission

becoming the second flight crew

to live and work aboard the space station.

During their 59 days in space, Bean, Lousma, and Garriott

orbited the earth 858 times,

conducting a variety of experiments

and using Skylab's wide array of instruments

and cameras to study our sun and earth

in ways not possible before.

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At approximately 16:35 GMT

on mission day 55 the Skylab crew

congregated in the wardroom to eat their lunch

and discuss a procedures review of the day's flight plan.

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The lunch break also afforded the astronauts

the opportunity to gaze out the wardroom window,

which was the largest viewing port in the Skylab station.

As Skylab's orbital track was passing over

the continent of Africa.

Jack Lousma known as a bright red object

outside the window, visible well above the earth's horizon.

For over 10 minutes the crew observed

and photographed this bright red UFO.

Noting that it's light intensity was oscillating

between bright and dim in 10 second intervals.

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Finally at 16:46 GMT

as their orbit was passing near Madagascar,

both Skylab and the UFO cross the sunset Terminator

into darkness and visual contact was lost.

Throughout the duration of this UFO sighting,

Skylab was in a blackout period

and thus no radio contact with the MOCR in Houston

via the STDN was possible.

The first official report of this UFO sighting

over the public net came from Skylab

some four and a half years later.

- [Lousma] Did you tell him about that satellite we saw?

- [Bean] Yes, we saw a great satellite.

We didn't know if we told you about it.

- [Lousma] The closest and brightest one we've seen.

- Huge one. - We've seen several.

It was a red one.

[CAPCOM] No, you may have told somebody

but it wasn't this team.

I don't remember hearing about it.

- [Lousma] I guess we didn't report it.

It was reflecting in red light and oscillating.

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- [Narrator] In the Skylab post mission,

technical crew debriefing documentation,

astronauts Garriott and Lousma commented further

about the unidentified satellite they saw.

- [Garriott] Do you want to talk about that satellite?

- [Lousma] I saw one satellite

that appeared like a satellite would own earth.

I saw one that was not like one that you would see on earth,

so why don't you mention it?

- [Garriott] Okay, about a week or 10 days before recovery

and we were still waiting for information

to be supplied to us about the identification.

Jack first notice this rather large red star

out the wardroom window.

It was much brighter than Jupiter

or any of the other planets.

It had a reddish hue to it,

even though it was well above the horizon.

It was slowly rotating

because it had a variation in brightness

with a 10 second period.

As I was saying we observed it for about 10 minutes

until we went into darkness,

and it also followed us into darkness

about five seconds later.

From the five to ten second delay

in its disappearance we surmise

that it was not more than 30 to 50 nautical miles

from our location.

From its original position in the wardroom window,

it did not move more than 10 or 20 degrees

over the 10 minutes or so that we watched it.

It's orbit was very close to that of our own.

We never saw it on any earlier or succeeding orbits,

and we would be quite interested

in having its identification established.

- [Narrator] Commander Alan Bean

also kept an in-flight personal diary

during his Skylab flight where he briefly references

this UFO encounter.

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According to NORAD SSN space object catalog tracking data,

no known satellites or orbital debris

were anywhere near Skylab during this encounter.

There is no doubt that the Skylab 3 SLM-2 crew

observed and photographed a UFO during their mission,

but there were several inconsistencies

in the official evidence related to this incident

that still should be noted.

How long did the Skylab crew observe this UFO?

In the post-mission technical crew debriefing,

Lousma and Garriott both agreed they observed the UFO

for about 10 minutes before it and Skylab

passed into darkness.

However, in CDR Alan Bean's in-flight diary entry

written just a few hours after the sighting

he directly States the UFO drifted along with us

for 20 minutes or more.

Which crossed the sunset terminator first,

Skylab or the UFO?

In the same technical crew debriefing document

Owen Garriott States the Skylab cross the terminator

into darkness first, and then the UFO,

"Followed us into darkness about five seconds later."

Jack Lousma told mission control

that the UFO "Let us into sunset."

According to NASA, there were a total of four photographs

of this UFO that were shot by the Skylab crew

during this encounter, taken with a 35 millimeter camera

using a 300 millimeter lens.

NASA's official Skylab photographic index

and scene identification catalog,

twice references these four specific frames of film,

frames 2138 through to 2141.

On page 41, the four frames were cataloged as showing

"Satellite, unmanned."

And what about the Channel-A tapes?

Aboard Skylab was a voice recording system

designed to tape any conversations

the astronauts had amongst themselves inside the station,

when they were out of direct radio contact with Houston.

According to NASA the Channel-A taping system

was not active during the UFO encounter.

So we have no audio or transcripts

of the astronaut conversations that took place

during the sighting.

However, during the post-mission technical crew debriefing

Owen Garriott says that the Channel-A tape system

was active during the UFO encounter.

This UFO encounter during Skylab 3 mission

remains unexplained to this day.

- We're at a disadvantage here in studying this subject

because we are dealing with a structure of secrecy

that has a lot of the cards that we don't have.

But we still do have the ability

to learn some facts,

and we have the ability to make inferences

based on the facts that we know.

And we actually know a fair number of facts

about clandestine activities in space,

and anomalous events in earth orbit and beyond.

We do actually have good information on that.

So by working with that information,

the fact that you might know that NORAD,

for example, does and has tracked

objects coming in from deep space to earth orbit.

More than once this has happened.

I know of two specific events during the 1980s

when this absolutely happened.

- We have thousands of satellites orbiting the earth

and some of them are aimed outward like the telescopes

in orbit, but many of them,

the majority of them are aiming down.

It's weather, or it's defense related, right?

I want to know where those tanks are, that kind of thing.

And they're very good cameras.

I mean, they can probably read the license plate on my car,

I don't know, but something close to that resolution.

In other words, anything that's more

than a couple of inches in size, they can see.

So if we were really being visited by alien craft

some of these satellites would see them.

- One, there was a woman whose name is Simone Mendez,

she's around, she was active US Air Force

in the early 1980s and unfortunately for her

she was presented with information

that was illegal for her to see.

She gotten a lot of trouble about it.

But this information was NORAD,

that's North American Air Defense,

data describing an object, and not a natural object,

coming in from deep space,

and parking itself in earth orbit.

And she learned about this,

and she wasn't supposed to learn about it,

and not only Air Force Military Police, but the FBI

was on her case for a long time,

and they made her life miserable.

And her documentation is available, I have seen it,

I've held it in my hands.

She's a slam dunk, that's real.

There's another case that I actually,

I have it, I have this little study

by a friend of mine who worked at Aerojet

which is a major defense contractor

that built the DSP system.

That is the defense satellite program.

These are geosynchronous satellites system,

the defense satellite program

that were designed to detect missile launches

and things like that, but are also

outstanding UFO detectors,

just turns out that way.

They've got all these sensor arrays on them

and optical equipment.

And on one occasion on May 5th 1984,

the author of this study is Ron Regehr

he worked at Aerojet for quite a few years.

- [Announcer] Experts from DSP

are revealing this information for the first time.

- We saw something. - The DSP satellite

is in fact a spy satellite.

- [Ron] The confirmation that an event of some type.

- One of these DSP satellites tracked,

its sensors read an object that came to it

within three kilometer distance in space.

That's reach out and touch someone distance.

That's very close.

It was a nine minute long encounter.

And it was a very puzzling thing for the analysts

who saw that because they, what could that be?

That's an amazingly maneuverable object,

got them at scratching their heads.

Knew that Ron is also a very good

and seasoned UFO investigator, so he knows his field.

And he gained, legally, by the way,

none of this is illegal,

he gained access to some bits of information here and there,

relating to the DSPs tracking

of what are known as Fastwalkers that is space based UFOs.

And there's a database that it derives from

which is called the Individual Target Event Database

nicknamed Itty Bitty.

Look at the acronym, the Itty Bitty database.

And what that is, is it's a tracking of the DSP

tracked fastwalkers, so all the space based UFOs.

And I think from 1970, Ron got a printout

of all of their trackings, and I got them right here,

I mean, this looks like a lot of mumbo jumbo,

but these are readouts of fastwalker trackings by year,

this is 1987, '88, '89.

Basically about three per month.

So from 1973 to 1991 was something like 283 fastwalkers

were tracked by the DSP system.

Now, that means uncorrelated targets,

targets that they got that they didn't know

what these could be.

They were not Russian or Soviet,

they were not any other that they knew.

But what Ron got here was facts from,

and this strikes me as something that's unofficial

but probably true.

He has is gentleman who actually,

I knew him and he's no longer alive,

who says, "I have information

that is such and such a time, Zulu May 5th, 1984,

a DSP platform detected an object, with heat,

in the 9000 kilowatt sensor range

coming out of deep space, coming out of deep space

and passing within three kilometers of the DSP.

The DSP star tracking telescope

first detected the object."

And they use this, and he points out here,

the optical system that he's referring to

is used for the DSP to gauge its position accurately

against known stars.

So it has optical equipment,

and this optical equipment detected this thing.

And he goes on to say, "The observation lasted nine minutes

a detailed investigation failed to explain

what caused the sensor reading,

other than a real object of some type."

And this is a drawing that came in,

or a graphic that came in with the facts.

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But some of them do correlate with known UFO events.

So for example one of them on this database,

is an exact correlation with a very famous UFO event

from the city of Tehran, Iran in September 1976.

It's known as a Tehran UFO encounter,

and it's amazing encounter,

got a couple of F-4s attempting to intercept

an amazing object that just bouncing all over the sky.

And I mean, and more and they couldn't.

- [Announcer] A now retired pilot is one of forty men

mainly former government and military officials

from seven different countries

talking about their UFO experiences.

This conference took place in Washington

and the cast of characters was almost strangely,

well, inventional.

One of the believers, this retired Iranian Air Force pilot

said he saw UFO while flying.

- It looked similar to us from far,

but bigger and brighter.

- [Announcer] General Parvis Jafari

says he tried to fire a missile,

but much of his plane became inoperative.

- All the instrument was fluctuating,

the radio had garble, even I couldn't have communication

with my pilot in my backseat who was operating the radar.

- So none of your equipment worked?

Your missiles didn't work,

do you think it's because this was an alien

from another world? - Oh yes.

- You're sure of that? - Yeah, I'm sure.

At about 11:00 PM on the evening of 18th September, 1976,

citizens are frightened

by circling of an unknown object over Tehran,

the capital city of Iran at a low altitude.

It looked similar to a star, but bigger and brighter.

- [Narrator] In 1976, a massive UFO sighting

took place in Iran.

This UFO sighting was also picked up

by the DSP satellite system as a fastwalker.

- All of a sudden I see this flying object

just going round, and round, and round,

and going up, and up, and up.

And I told my mom, I said,

"Mom, I just saw a flying saucer, I saw UFO."

- I was going to prepare myself to shoot it down.

- [Narrator] This UFO event was witnessed

by hundreds of people in the night sky.

Civilians, pilots, generals, and the unerring eye

of the Iranian Air Force Radar operators.

- When I saw this object is flying that fast,

then I thought this is not the helicopter,

and this is not an aircraft.

By that time I said, "Should be some kind of UFO."

- Well, I picked up the phone and it was a base commander,

he wanted me to know they're going to have the airplanes

to take off from his base for the scrambled mission.

- He alerted the Air Force Command Post

and Deputy General Yousefi decided to scramble

an F-4 jet to investigate.

- [Pilot] I saw a big star among the other stars,

which it was at least twice as large

as the normal stars.

- The pilot in the first jet lost instrumentation

and communication when he got too close

to the brilliant object.

So he headed back.

- We lost communication

and I heard nothing from the pilots.

So I was so scared, what's going to happen,

and what happened to the pilot?

- [Narrator] Suddenly major Jafari nervously reported

that a smaller UFO had emerged from the larger object

and was trying to engage him.

- And it was coming toward them,

they tried to shoot them down.

When they squeeze the trigger, it didn't work,

and the trigger was inoperative.

They couldn't shoot the missiles.

- [Narrator] Fearing for their lives,

the pilot tried to eject,

but the ejection did not work either.

Every system was inoperable.

- We understood that the eject missile and arsenal

didn't work.

So in this case, I said to God, "Oh God, save them."

- [Narrator] The pilot had no choice,

but to go into negative G-Force

to escape the seemingly hostile UFO encounter.

When the fighter jet evaded the smaller UFO by 10 miles

all onboard instruments and communications were restored

to their working order.

The pilot then reported that the UFO

seemed to be landing on a mountaintop

just south east of Tehran.

This Landing was confirmed by the radar tower

and Brigadier-General Yousefi

witnessed it from his balcony with his own eyes.

- One of the separated objects landed in an open area

radiating a high bright light

in which the sands on the ground were visible.

- He did it down and landed on the ground.

And now it is a communication between the mothership

and that small flying object.

- [Narrator] Following the smaller UFO landing

the Air Force and many civilians

reported power outages which shocked military personnel

in awe of these events taking place.

- That was strange for us.

And we ask each other why the power went out

for some seconds. - A top secret meeting

between Imperial Iranian Air Force

and the United States Air Force took place

soon after this event.

Hossein Pirouzi an Air Force controller

at Mehrabad Air Force Base was present at this meeting.

- They heard our report and the report of the pilot,

they concluded that no country

is able to have such a technology.

And all of them believe it should be a strange object

from other space.

- Anyway, so the DSP satellite system

detected that object, apparently.

Yeah, on that day, it's amazing.

- DSP as I explained before is an infrared based detector

of things launched from the earth

or entering into the earth's atmosphere

because we know it can detect, what we call fastwalkers.

So the DSP can be pointed,

so it can be aimed at a country like Iran

and the city of Tehran.

So if it's aimed in that direction and it produces a report

of a infrared detection, that's some large incident,

and that happens at exactly the same time

contemporaneously with the Iranian,

Tehran based fighter jet the F-4,

ran into a UFO, tried to shoot it down.

So we don't have a hundred percent proof there the same

but it is really hard to imagine.

You can have an infrared detection

that happens almost simultaneously with the UFO detection

and the two not be related.

So it's just, what this says is those old, tiny spacecraft

that are no longer produced, no longer made,

can detect UFOs entering the earth's atmosphere.

Imagine what we could do with the current technology.

And so that goes back to the essay Chris Mellon did

which means if we could detect them with old technology

we could really do a really good job

with the current modern spacecraft we have in orbit.

- [Announcer] The satellite was scanning

the skies over Tehran.

- Here is the event. - My point is

we have enough good information

that we can work with.

And yes, there's nothing wrong with reasonable speculation.

Sometimes you have to do it, I do it.

Because we don't have every piece of the puzzle,

and we want to know what that picture looks like.

So we do our best, and we're probably wrong

with some of our speculations,

probably, that's life.

But that's a responsible thing

as long as you know what you're doing.

You're trying to figure out this difficult puzzle.

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- [Narrator] Commencing on April 12th 1981 with STS-1

in a new reusable spacecraft,

would lead the way in a new era

for NASA's public space missions.

- [Mission Control] 3, 2, 1, 0 and liftoff on Endeavor,

going where east and west do meet,

at the International Space Station.

- Houston now controlling. - Houston Endeavor

roll program. - Roger roll, Endeavor.

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- [Narrator] NASA's Space Shuttle STS missions

were packed with technical achievements

as they transported people, equipment, and supplies

to and from low earth orbit,

while supporting the construction

and maintenance of the International Space Station.

This reusable spacecraft was designed

to embark on a wide range of thrilling missions

including deploying and retrieving satellites, servicing,

and conducting cutting-edge scientific experiments.

- Is at the very end.

This is New Guinea.

Doing a little tour.

This is the FGB, and what's cool about this module,

it is actually the very first piece of the space station

that came up in 1998.

The space station has been around for about now,

man for 12 years, but it's been up in space

for about 14 years.

And this was the very first.

It is like the Russian's PMM, it has a lot of storage

as you can see.

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[speaking a foreign language]

So here we are in the heart of the space station really,

this is the service module.

This is the central post.

In case we had any problems,

I know when it's a couple of the questions

were about what type of things do you have to worry about,

and some of the things we have to worry about in space

are fire, if we had a fire,

if we had a depressionization like we're hit

by a micrometeorite and it made a hole,

or if we had some type of toxic atmosphere.

We use ammonia for our radiator,

so there is a possibility

that ammonia could come into the vehicle

and then it would be bad for all of us.

If we have any of those problems we come right here,

which we call the Central Post.

It is the main heart of the space station.

It was also the first computers that came up here

that ran the space station.

So behind this wall right here are these main computers.

So we gather here as a group of three or six,

and then figure out how we're going to

either fight the fire, patch the hole,

or solve the toxic spill.

And what's cool about this module,

of course, it's the central post,

it also has great windows right down toward earth.

It has controls to fly in visiting spacecraft

if they need some assistance right here.

It has Russian computers as well as American computers

to help us control anything we need to on the space station.

- [Narrator] This program's ultimate goal

was to ignite the imaginations of future generations

by achieving our knowledge in exciting fields

like aerodynamics, material science, and life science.

[gentle music]

The program ran for a 135 missions,

culminating in 2011 with a final flight

by the shuttle Atlantis.

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- The stuff that NASA has released,

or talked about astronauts have seen stuff

following the Space Station, or capsules, or whatever,

I think they're observing us.

There's some speculation that aliens are responsible

for us not getting into a nuclear war with the Soviets

or the Chinese.

- NASA has had a number of cases where they have dealt

in some fashion with UFOs.

And of course that is, I'm sure classified

and kept secret and hidden from the public.

- [Narrator] STS-29 was off to a great start

in terms of making space history.

As the primary payload,

the tracking and data relay satellite 4, TDRS-4,

was attached to an inertial upper stage IUS.

It was set to be the third TDRS to be deployed.

Once deployed, the IUS shot the satellite

into geosynchronous orbit,

but what the crew witness next

was far beyond their imagination.

As the crew conducted various secondary payloads,

including experiments like protein crystal growth

and chromosomes, and plate cell division,

they couldn't shake off what they saw.

John E. Blaha was overheard saying something very odd

in terms of UFO activity.

While the debate surrounding this statement's authenticity

would ensue.

- Check the risk disconnects to open.

Don the thumb loose.

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- [Narrator] It was evident that this mission

would go down in history as the one

that witnessed something unexplainable.

- There was an incident with a space shuttle Discovery

where Don Ratch, a UFO researcher was listening.

He liked to listen to the shuttle

talking back and forth with Houston.

After an hour and a half,

he heard one of the astronauts say we have a fire.

Maybe they had a fire, maybe they didn't,

nobody seemed to be getting excited.

And UFO researchers think that what happens

in that situation is that they have spotted a UFO,

or some kind of extraterrestrial spacecraft

and that's a code that they use to describe that.

So he sat down right away and started recording.

- [Astronaut] Houston, this is Discovery

we still have a alien spacecraft under observance.

- And a couple minutes later,

he heard that someone on that same channel

he'd been listening to, NASA was presented with that,

they denied that that was an astronaut.

Although it was on that same channel.

I guess you need about 20 words for a voice print analysis

and there are only a 13 words so we could not prove

that it was somebody at NASA saying that,

but it's kind of fishy, because it was on that same channel

that Don Ratch had been listening to for a couple hours.

That would have to be a very classified topic.

- On the thumb loose. - Houston, this is Discovery

we still have a alien spacecraft under observance.

- I'm just driving back from a little visit

that I paid the JFK Space Center, located in Florida.

I had heard through fellow UFO researchers

about seeing the shuttle Atlantis

that's decommissioned their Space Center.

The incredible thing about this craft,

which very few people actually know,

is that it's completely covered

with high-tech space cameras.

When I say space cameras,

I mean cameras that are built to withstand

the unfiltered light and the harsh conditions

of lunar space, outside of the earth's atmosphere.

Now few people are aware that this remarkable spacecraft

has cutting edge technology for recording video.

They actually outfit the spacecraft with

far ultraviolet light spectrum space cameras.

And what's also very cool about this

is that you can see the cameras all over the craft.

And we're not talking about like four or five,

there are cameras all over the interior of the shuttle bay

for deploying satellites, and parts that were used

to outfit the International Space Station.

They also have cameras on the end of every robotic arm.

And there were multiple robotic arms

that were connected to the shuttle.

You also have the fact that all of these astronauts

that went up into space,

to eventually join the ISS,

or to just do a round trip on the shuttle,

were well equipped with cameras.

Either on the ISS or inside of the compartments,

the pressurized compartment for the shuttle spacecraft.

And a lot of the videos that people question,

are these actual UFOs flying around in space

outside of earth are being caught

on these specialized space cameras?

So when people say, "Oh well, I don't believe that video

because it's probably just 3D, or CGI,

or somebody's manipulated the image."

No, that's not the case.

These videos are being caught on

government operated NASA space cameras,

which are untampered with.

And they're incredibly important videos most of the time

because they're just as important

as let's say the videos you see

being shot by the fighter craft

in which we got the Tic Tac UFO,

the Nimitz go fast, Gimbal UFO videos from.

So, I think what you'll see when we go through

all of this UFO video, possible UFO activity video

that comes from the NASA space missions,

you will see that we're looking at cameras

that are capturing this in space.

And astronauts sometimes talking about

what they saw on camera

before they cut the feed, or obscure the image,

or what they classically do to cover up the UFO.

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- [Narrator] One type of camera

that was continually capturing

these objects interacting with earth and space

is called a far light ultraviolet spectrum camera.

During the 1990s NASA carried out space shuttle missions

and recorded footage like this.

In this footage of what seems to be a formation of objects

moving over the earth,

one object can be seen escaping the atmosphere

as we hear NASA explaining the technology

of what they use to capture these images.

- [NASA Narrator] Mission Control Houston.

This view is being taken with the Glow Camera.

Housed in Endeavor's payload bay is one of four

different experiments that are hitching a ride

with the International Extreme Ultraviolet

Hitchhiker payload that is housed in Endeavor's payload bay.

- [Narrator] A Glow Camera is a code name used

for the technology that can capture things

which cannot be seen by the human eye,

but are visible in the ultraviolet light spectrum.

This special light spectrum camera technology

was extremely expensive at the time.

It is also similar to what civilian researchers

and military personnel have caught on infrared cameras

around the world today.

Martyn Stubbs, a Canadian television

broadcast station manager took interest in UFOs

back in the late 80s and early 90s.

Martyn knew that he could use

the television station satellite dish

to intercept NASA's STS mission video downlink

in order to observe what they were seeing

and doing in space.

- Get a video tape recorder an SVH machine.

An older model funny enough, not the digital model,

that literally when you roll the thing

it would break the frames into fields.

And in reality, there are 60 individual pictures

that make up one second of video

And that's when I found.

[phone ringing]

- Hello. - Hey Martyn.

- Hello. - How you doing?

It's Darcy, can you hear me?

- Yeah. - No, perfect.

This is sounding a hundred percent way better.

It's just, you were cutting up a bit there.

So. - What I basically,

because of the nature of my work I had access to space

and I couldn't understand why nobody

was interested in it.

I was with MUFON and they said, "Oh."

I said, "Isn't anybody doing this?"

And they weren't, so it just amazes me

because it's very rare you get access

to something like that

and nobody else in the world is doing it,

and enough to pay the attention I did.

And then I ended up with hours, and hours, and hours,

and hours, every hour of every flight I had on video.

I set up recording banks in my office

and then just put them all on,

record the the signals because I couldn't watch them,

I had a job to do full time.

And so I took them home at night

and looked at them and realized what I had,

and needed to learn a lot about it,

needed to to do more than just react.

So I sat on them and contacted various people

I needed to contact, and everything went from there.

- [Pilot] This is a view of Chicago and also some

[suspenseful music]

ice crystals or other items being eliminated

by the rising sun, Atlanta is moving into sunrise.

- A man tonight has his eyes on the skies

looking for objects that may be out of this world.

- What he found so far

will get you thinking about life on other planets.

Tony Lopez in the newsroom with incredible pictures.

- They really are, we see a big bright object

that lights up the night sky,

chances are it's the big bright moon, right?

But what if that object is moving?

And what if that object can't be explained?

- Almost a blur under the plane and pulled up front.

- Don't call the guy with a pack of cigs

and a battery crazy or lazy.

A spinal injury means Jeff Challender

spends most of this time in bed.

What he sees from his perch is out of this world.

- Well that looks good. - Jeff records

and studies images from the NASA Television channel.

Most of it's been uneventful, most of it.

- We're gonna cross that one that just,

whoa, what was that? - That was this.

The bride object ripping through space.

- I ran the tape back a little bit, watched it again,

and I watched it again, and I'm hollering down the hall,

"Hey, honey, you gotta come see this."

- [Tony] The object caught on tape

did not come from, say, the camcorder of a UFO enthusiast,

but from NASA during the shuttle Atlantis mission

in September of 2000.

Since 1999, Jeff figures he's seen at least a hundred

of what he calls anomalous events,

a fancy way of saying UFOs.

Here's another one, recorded during

the recent Discovery mission, and yet another.

- They're not an ice chip, they're not a piece of debris,

it's not the moon, it's not a star,

not another spacecraft, not a satellite.

- [Narrator] Jeffrey Challender

was a NASA mission researcher who stumbled upon

some strange behavior being demonstrated on video

during NASA's STS missions.

Jeffrey pondered why the video

which NASA beamed back to earth from their space cameras

was so noisy, and filled with distortions.

He thought, "Well if all our TV and satellite programing

comes from space clearly,

why would NASA's come through so horribly."

Jeff witnessed several instances

where NASA had clear video broadcasts,

but suddenly introduced noise distortion and color banding

that seemed to have been intentionally added by NASA

to obscure the picture.

By watching NASA's STS mission videos later,

one may come across anomalies

that could be labeled as possible UFO sightings.

It is observed that NASA employs various methods

to cover up such incidents in the video feed.

These protocols include obfuscating the footage

with digital noise or changing the camera direction,

switching to another camera,

or completely cutting off the video feed

when an anomalous object is detected.

All these actions are carried out by Mission Control

through the CATO communication and tracking officers

stationed on earth.

[NASA Narrator] Different camera angle,

we get a little view of the Astro-2 telescopes

moving off-screen now as the camera is panned upward

and gives us a look at the sky above Endeavor.

With stars visible on this black and white camera,

a low light sensitive camera.

But we now have lost- - I got a chance

to sit down with James Fox,

filmmaker and researcher of the UFO phenomenon.

He in his years spoke to many astronauts

some of which were in support of the idea

that extraterrestrials may be visiting earth,

others who were not.

- I was told by very close source of yours

that you actually saw something other than-

- A lot of people have said things that I saw,

that doesn't mean that I saw it.

- The last time I called him he said,

"Why don't you go talk to,"

because I've got a telephone number in my phone.

He said, "why don't you go talk to

your buddy Edgar Mitchell?"

He'll let him do the talking, and very dismissive.

And his sister said to me, I was in the parking lot

of College of Marin in Kentfield, California,

and I was just leaving the parking lot

and I talked to a fan, and she goes,

And I said to her, "Can you believe

what happened on CNN?"

She goes, "Somebody got to him."

I said, "What do you mean?" She goes, "Somebody got to him,

he won't even talk to me anymore about it,

he's denying it to me."

That's what she told me, I swear to God.

I know it sounds crazy,

but she said somebody's gotten him

because he won't even share with me anymore.

- Statistically it's a certainty

there are hugely advanced civilizations,

intelligence lifeforms out there.

I believe they're so advanced

that they're even doing interstellar travel.

I believe it's possible. - Suddenly I look up

and I see these five lights and they seem to fly by.

- [Dr. Brian] There is abundant evidence

that we are being contacted,

that civilizations have been visiting us

for a very long time.

And it was only later when I began to embrace

the UFO phenomenon, the cover up,

studying all these organizations that are covering up,

and having some direct experience myself

as a researcher, no longer beholden to funding from NASA

or the university environment,

that I began to double check some of Carl's work

and I saw for example, the famous face in Cydonia on Mars

photographed by Viking in 1975,

which shows this gigantic human Mesa

that resembles a human face about a mile across.

Carl was, and I debated this,

and it was very, very disappointing to me

because not only was Carl wrong,

he also fudged data.

He he published a picture of the face,

and Parade Magazine a popular article saying

that the face is just a natural formation,

but he doctored the picture to make it not look like a face

and I began to realize just directly,

from a scientific point of view, not only hearsay,

that this man was colluding with NASA,

that there might be more to this than before.

- And of course eventually I ran into Jesse Marcel Jr.

The son of Jesse Marcel who was the first military officer

on the site, and knew his story well,

we became friends in later years

in this disclosure movement.

And at some point about 10 years ago,

and I can't remember what date it was right now,

When the disclosure movement was under going strongly.

I came here to Washington with a Navy Commander

with the name of Will Miller, and Dr. Steven Greer.

And we were able to get an appointment at the Pentagon

to talk about what we knew,

or what we allegedly knew, what we thought we knew.

And went and told our story.

And the powers would be at the Intelligence Committee

of the Joint Chiefs of Staff listen to our story

and said, the Admiral said, "Well, I don't know that story,

I don't know that that's true, but I will find out."

So we departed, went on our way.

And subsequently learned through Dr. Greer

and through Will Miller

that those stories had been confirmed.

And that the Admiral had been denied access

when he tried to get into the inner workings

of that process.

And we had confirmation of that

although that Admiral now denies the fact

that this is the fact.

- And maybe Edgar- - I don't believe

that Edgar did, I sat down in his home,

and I was dying to know what he knew.

I was begging with him.

And he said, "No, as far as I know

none of my friends have had encounters in space."

And I said, "What about James McDivitt?"

He goes, "Well actually, yeah there."

But I interviewed Gordon Cooper as well,

and Gordon Cooper said there's rumor circulating

about me seeing UFOs in space, but I didn't.

He goes, "I did see UFO when I was piloting a jet in Germany

and tried to chase it.

And we did have the UFO that landed

at Edwards Air Force Base."

Which I saw the film footage of, he didn't film it.

- That was your interview. - That was my interview, yes.

- [Narrator] The STS 51-A mission

delivered the Canadian communications satellite

TELESAT-H ANIK to geosynchronous orbit, on flight day two,

attached to the Payload Assist Module-D PAM-D.

On the third day, the defense communications satellite

SYNCOM IV-I, also known as LEASAT-1 was also deployed.

In a daring maneuver, Allen and Gardner,

equipped with jet-propelled manned maneuvering units,

retrieved two malfunctioning satellites,

PALAPA-B2 and WESTAR-VI,

previously deployed on Mission 41-B.

Fisher expertly operated the remote manipulator system,

successfully grappling the satellites

and placing them in the payload bay.

During the maneuver in which WESTAR-VI

was being collected by one of the astronauts,

this peculiar metallic looking sphere

can be seen flying in behind

as if it had dropped in to take a look.

[suspenseful music]

UFOs like this have been observed

on multiple occasions throughout history.

Including this Cable TV broadcast in which a NASA downlink

is streaming live space camera footage.

[suspenseful music]

The sphere like UFO was observed.

[bright music]

Many people have shared sphere UFO footage

from around the world in our atmosphere too.

[bright music]

Which includes Jeremy Korbel's

recent Mosul IRAQ, UFO image release.

- What you see in this image,

is you see the first ever released,

US military filmed UFO over a conflict Zone.

It is officially designated UFO or UAP,

unidentified anomalous phenomena,

that is actively being investigated.

- [John] Hi, John Holliman at CNN Center in Atlanta,

we're going to take you live

to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

where the countdown clock is ticking off

the final two minutes and 12 seconds before launch

for Space Shuttle Discovery.

- [Narrator] STS 63 made history

with several groundbreaking achievements,

including the first female shuttle pilot,

the second Russian cosmonaut flight on a shuttle,

and the first shuttle approach and flyaround

of the Russian Space Station Mir.

Starting on day one, thruster burns were performed daily

to align Discovery with Mir.

The plan was for the orbiter to approach

no closer than 10 meters from Mir

and complete the flyaround.

[gentle music]

However, three of 44 Reaction Control System thrusters

developed leaks before the rendezvous.

Interestingly though, the crew on this mission

would start naming objects being seen

in the special UV cameras as ice crystals.

[gentle music]

Perhaps though, they were covering up

possible sightings of UFOs in a different light spectrum.

[gentle music]

- [Astronaut] Houston, we're looking at our payload camera

and looks like a lot of moonlight glinting off the ocean.

A whole sparkling bed of diamonds out there.

Is that a real picture,

or are we just getting some video fuzz?

- [Astronaut] We're recording that.

That's some of the ice crystals

that we were dumping out earlier,

and yeah it's a beautiful picture.

- If there are code words

then I think it's pretty clear,

the astronauts would have to know them

before they go up into orbit.

And then if they use them, fine, if they see something.

- [Astronaut] We see another light going by

on the ground there.

- That would have to come, I would think,

from some astronauts being debriefed,

and mentioning that they had seen something,

or else that NASA suspects that it's possible

that they might see something,

and so they developed some code words to use.

- [Narrator] STS-69 made history by retrieving

and deploying two different payloads on the same mission,

while also conducting an extravehicular activity

to practice for International Space Station tasks

and assess space suit modifications.

[lively music]

During the mission's second day, Spartan 201-03,

the first of two primary payloads, was deployed.

Its mission objective was to study the outer atmosphere

of the sun and its transition into the solar wind

that passes earth.

[lively music]

During this deployment a UFO was witnessed on camera

by ground control flying in the background

and changing it's direction.

[lively music]

[lively music continues]

- [Darcy] Now, let me ask you.

When people mention the B2 bomber

and then you hear about the Phoenix Lights,

or people mention the Mac Air.

Do you think that there's, we've got to a point,

I mean, I see the interviews from Bob Lazar,

he says we're nowhere close to reverse engineering,

back when he was working on the project

and propulsion system.

But then Ben Rich contradicts that

and says we're 50 years beyond your comprehension.

Do you think there are some triangular shaped craft

that we have developed

that follow the description of what people describe

as like the TR-3B?

- I would have to say yes.

There isn't anything out there flying

regardless of the shape

that we don't have the capabilities of reproducing

using conventional means for propulsion.

Now there's been reports,

you see a UFO heading down this way

at 4,000 miles an hour and it makes a 90 degree turn.

You're pulling 40 G's on that turn.

A buddy of mine from the skunkwork said we can do that,

we can do that any day of the week,

not with humans in it.

But we put control computers in artillery rounds

where we can, once they're fired,

and it's a tremendous explosion,

but push that thing out the barrel,

and the fins come out and this thing's guided

to precisely hit where it wants to go,

and they're pulling 40 to 100 G's on detonation.

So we have the hardware and the electronics

that can withstand those extremes.

But they're not they're not human rated,

nor could a human withstand those

under normal circumstances.

- [Darcy] So you worked on some aircraft,

I think it was 1972, you said,

that had a drone attached to the top of it.

You think that some of the Delta shapes crafts

that were seeing and hearing about

might be drones to some degree?

- Absolutely.

I mean, some of the stuff that people are seeing

AND airline pilots and other people,

trained observers. - NASA.

- Guys from NASA and Air Force types, whatever,

the first time I saw an F-117 at sunset,

as the sun was going down,

the light was changing on the faceted surfaces,

it looked like the F-117 was changing shape.

And if you look at a head-on view of an F-117

it goes, it's a flying saucer if you look at it straight on.

Now if you just saw a glimpse of it,

or you saw the backside of it,

it could be mistaken for almost anything.

- [Narrator] STS-73 was a mission of historic proportions,

marked by the second flight

of the U.S. Microgravity Laboratory, USML.

Building on the foundation laid by its predecessor,

which flew on Columbia during Mission STS-50 in 1992,

this mission was critical

on the advancement of space research.

The crew was divided into two teams,

working around the clock in the 23-foot,

seven-meter long Space module

located in Columbia's payload bay.

The pressure was on as the team prepared

to tackle research in five crucial areas.

On October 21st 1995, Catherine Coleman

is seen peering out a capsule window

when she is overheard saying this to the ground control.

- [Catherine] We have an unidentified flying object.

- [Narrator] After this, the communication

goes completely silent.

It is well known that the astronauts

have two radio channels, one that is public

and another for the Department of Defense.

It remains a possibility that the rest of the conversation

would have been carried on

through an encrypted DOD channel.

- There were some shuttle missions

that were highly classified

that supported the Strategic Defense Initiative,

where we had launched satellites into space

from the STS vehicles, for particular purpose.

I don't know what the purpose was,

I was never briefed in why they were doing it,

but you can guess what they were trying to do.

And that was a good disguise or cover

for deep space probes,

that I knew we had and it's been released to the public now,

over the years people have figured it out,

where we were launching deep space probes

where these probes would go out near the orbit of Mars

or even as far as Neptune, to safeguard the solar system.

And that was the secret space program that I knew about.

I didn't know about any other kind of secret space program,

but I knew that we were able to manufacture the satellites

back in those days, and launch these,

and they were highly classified, out into space.

I don't know how many were out there

but there's some people that,

there are other people within the community

that knows a lot more about this than I do.

That knows that there's 10 or 12 of them

that are still out there looking for visitors coming in,

so to speak, from other planets.

- Fastwalkers? - Fastwalkers, yes.

- [Commentator] To ride the astronaut van out to Pad 39B.

- STS-80. - Houston go ahead

throttle up. - Throttle up.

- [Narrator] The final shuttle flight of 1996

was full of incredible sightings.

It was highlighted by the successful deployment, operation,

and retrieval of two free-flying research spacecraft.

[lively music]

The two planned extravehicular activities, EVAs

were canceled.

On flight day one, the Orbiting and Retrievable

Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle

Pallet Satellite II, ORFEUS-SPAS II was deployed,

ready to begin its approximately two weeks

of data-gathering.

This was its second flight aboard the shuttle

and it was packed with three primary scientific instruments

the ORFEUS-Telescope

with the Far Ultraviolet FUV Spectrograph.

November 1996, during the STS-80 mission,

NASA captured fascinating footage

of what appears to be UFO sightings.

[lively music]

[lively music continues]

In the recording, peculiar objects can be seen

moving over Africa,

[lively music]

[lively music continues]

with the most notable visualization

being an object that enters the camera's shot

in a transparent or almost corporeal state,

only to shine into existence

once it finds its position within the atmosphere.

[lively music]

Additionally, there seem to be multiple objects

that appear to hold a circular formation,

with the final object moving into the center

and lighting up.

The illuminated objects seem to stay cohesively

in this formation, blinking with the few along the top

ascending back into orbit.

Could space junk or ice perform these kinds of maneuvers?

[lively music]

The seemingly deliberate nature

of the movement of these objects seems near impossible

to explain away as naturally occurring phenomena.

Former NASA employee Jim Oberg

has determined the objects to be just ice,

which can be illuminated based on near-earth conditions.

However, other scientists like Dr. Jack Kasher

say that this explanation is impossible.

[lively music]

Also, during STS-80 this UFO activity

was captured while a storm was taking place on earth.

At the beginning of this sequence

we see a UFO fly into view

until it finds its place over the electrical storm below.

The first object literally descends, slows down,

and then finally holds its position.

Would space ice be able to move like this

and then maintain its place so gracefully?

[lively music]

Later on we see that three objects have congregated

over this same location

that we originally saw this electrical storm taking place.

[lively music]

[lively music continues]

[lively music continues]

Even more peculiar is that the NASA camera operator

seems to take interest in these objects,

exemplified by their zooming in to get a better shot

of the objects.

In which we can see the original object ascending

while another descends into the atmosphere.

[lively music]

Is this not evidence that NASA

at least holds some interest

in tracking unidentified objects?

[lively music]

[lively music continues]

- [Astronaut] The satellite.

[lively music]

Again, just moving into sunrise.

[lively music]

81 nautical miles now from Columbia.

- [Astronaut] Columbia, Houston could you tell us

what your TV view is showing?

- [Houston] Well, the sun has actually risen

on the belly side of the orbiter

so we're getting some light scattered down

from a very bright pale onto the camera lens.

And then those little white dots moving around

are little ice crystals surrounding the orbiter.

So as we come into across the terminator,

guess we'll turn on one of the color cameras.

[lively music]

- [Astronaut] Copy that, I was waiting

for the opening credits of "Star Trek"

to go down the screen there.

- So how do you know if a signal is due to ET

or just due to other humans?

That's a problem that's existed for a long time.

So the answer these days is fairly sophisticated

in this sense, that it's a good filter

to be able to throw out the stuff

that you really not interested in.

To begin with, there's this big database

that's kept by all the radio observatories

that are looking for ET

of known interference causers,

which some, for example GPS transmitters, right?

The GPS satellites, they're sending down signals to earth

all the time, and you occasionally pick those up,

if not from our system,

but from the ones used by the Russians, for example.

So these are, they're just known interferes if you will,

and known noise makers,

and if you pick up a signal that's at the frequency

of a known noise maker, you can ignore it.

That's one thing you do, but the the really acid test

for deciding whether this signal is really it, Bob,

or is this just another a bit of interference?

Is if you pick up suddenly,

you're looking at a particular direction,

you just move the antenna a little bit

so you're not looking in that direction,

you're looking at another direction.

Do you still see the signal?

If it's terrestrial interference, it's something man-made,

You'll find the signal almost anywhere you look, okay?

But if you don't see it, then you say,

"Well, okay, I'll move the antenna back

and point at that star system again

and see if I pick up the signal again."

So nodding back and forth,

nodding the telescope around the sky near the source

is a very, very solid indicator

of whether this is something

you should spend more time on.

- [Darcy] We live in fascinating times.

Avi Loeb a prominent astrophysicist

and professor at Harvard University

has gained attention in recent years

for his controversial claims about a possibility

of an alien technology

that might have visited our solar system in 2017,

Oumuamua, a large Interstellar object.

Now, since then Avi Loeb's project Galileo

has been launched, a not-for-profit organization

that aims to search for and study

potential technological artifacts,

or evidence of extraterrestrial life in our solar system.

I got to talk to HawkEye 360s founder, Bob McGuire.

Bob McGuire makes a living by building satellites

that go into low earth orbit.

He knows full well that there are UAP

floating around in space, but he is dubious

about this project that Avi Loeb is launching.

- Avi Loeb is at Harvard University

which is a private university.

And he has secured funding to do the work

on Project Galileo to some extent.

Seth implies that he has enough money

to put a few observatories out.

So a few observatories are not going to blank at the sky

with coverage, we won't find everything

that's in low earth orbit, or in air atmosphere

because the capabilities of these observatories

will be only a handful of square miles on the surface.

There's just, the probability

of a significant detection is low.

So Avi needs lots, and lots, and lots of money

to build enough observatories

to cover a significant fraction of the earth.

So the probability of detection

of UFOs or UAP's goes way up.

If in fact they're visiting, then the probability goes up

as you increase the coverage more.

And Avi right now is trying to find funding to do that.

Seth is on his advisory group,

and I do believe that we should figure out

what these UAP's are,

but I think it's going to, I have a hard time understanding

how we're ever going to build enough sensors privately

to look up all the way to low earth orbit.

Yeah, I really, I support SETI,

I support SETI's use of highly advanced

scientific instruments to look at other star systems,

to see if we can detect signals

that are produced by intelligent life.

Because the Earth is rotating where the antenna is,

so the signal goes up in strength,

and then down in strength.

So that's how you know, it's outside of the earth.

If you determine these Newtonian physics,

Einstein and Newtonian together,

which says speed of light is the limit,

they can't figure out we're here to aim a signal at us

and then wait 50,000 years for the signal to get here,

and 50,000 years for us to respond, what's the point?

Okay so, either they travel faster than the speed of light

and they're visiting us,

or there's no point in them sending a signal

that we can detect.

And you only see it once so what do you gain by that?

You don't gain much.

I'm happy for private dollars to be spent on SETI.

Why do I support that?

I'll tell you why, my tax dollars don't pay for it.

Because that's such a low probability event

that I don't want my tax dollars being spent for that.

- [Darcy] Can you tell me a bit about your experience

finding out that maybe the NRO

was putting up satellite systems or space probes

that had the ability to see UFOs,

but they had switched off that tracking

from the system.

- Okay, so I can explain that.

So the government knows that it is trying to detect activity

by our earth bound potential adversaries,

so they have a sensor, they point it at the earth,

and what they do is from all the events,

one of these spacecrafts it detects,

they filter what's coming from the spacecraft

to identify the objects that they are interested in.

They are literally throwing away in many cases,

things like UFOs entering the earth's atmosphere

because they're not interested in that

because the Soviet Union, or Russia, or China,

or North Korea is not going to send a UFO at us

they're going to send an intercontinental

ballistic missile to us.

So their job is to detect activity by our adversaries

that can harm our national interests,

are national security threat to us.

And so we, they necessarily filter out everything

that is not one of these things that they care about

because they're going to treat it like it's noise.

And so they want to filter out all the noise,

so they get really high quality detects

of say missile launches.

[gentle music]

[gentle music continues]

- [Narrator] STS-114.

STS-114 was the first Return to Flight mission

since the tragic loss of Columbia February 1st, 2003.

Two and a half years were spent researching

and implementing safety improvements

for orbiters and external tanks.

They included greater in-depth examination

of reinforced carbon panels

that are used on the wing leading edges,

plus replacing bolts and new foam applications on the tanks.

Discovery's climb to orbit was extensively documented

through a system of new and upgraded ground-based cameras,

radar systems, and airborne cameras

aboard high altitude aircraft.

[gentle music]

The imagery captured of Discovery's launch,

and additional imagery from laser systems

on Discovery's new Orbiter Boom Sensor System laser-scanner

as well as data from sensors embedded

in the shuttle's wings,

helped mission managers determine the health

of Discovery's thermal protection system.

[gentle music]

During the mission, while the UV Camera

peered out into space with the planet's horizon

in the background, an object can be seen

flying with intelligent control.

[gentle music]

It changes it's direction as it speeds off camera.

[gentle music]

[lively music]

STS-115.

The STS-115 crew was on a mission of utmost importance,

tasked with delivering and installing

the crucial P3/P4 truss structure

on the International Space Station.

With the success of the entire mission

resting on their shoulders, the crew began their work,

prepared to face any challenge that may lay ahead.

Three perilous spacewalks were planned

each one more challenging than the previous,

as space walkers Joe Tanner, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper,

Dan Burbank, and Steve MacLean worked tirelessly

to connect power cables and activate the new P3/P4 truss.

However, this mission was not without surprises.

Three separate UFO incidents

were reported during the mission.

In one incident, the crew tracked an object

with a triangular formation of lights flying nearby.

- [Astronaut] The best view we got

was through the binoculars,

and the best way I can describe it

is there's some kind of reflective cloak,

or metallic looking type of cloak

of a structure that definitely not rigid,

or it's not a solid metal structure.

- [Astronaut] It Started it over Window 8

then quickly moved towards the nose,

and we tracked it through windows one, two,

three, four, and now it's at about windows five.

It's moving away.

Pans off, we're losing it.

Right now it's about 12:30

and it's passing out in front of the vehicle.

- [Ground Control] Copy that, can you get a still imagery

if you can, and any estimate on size or range?

- Visual on that? - We do see that.

- [Astronaut] Okay, that's looking out

in front of the Orbiter.

- [Ground Control] Okay, we're seeing three or four objects,

can you confirm that it's just the one

that's actually moving, the other ones are just reflections.

- [Astronaut] There are three objects,

The one you see, you see two rings right there,

they're the ones we had the late tally ho on,

the one down the bottom, that was the one we initially saw.

- Crazy alert, aliens after Atlantis?

Official video from the latest NASA space shuttle mission

appears to show what might be UFOs in space.

A segment from the live NASA feed

shows the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Atlantis

and what appears to be three flying objects

directly above the shuttle.

The objects are in motion in a triangular formation

how we often imagine UFOs might move.

The narrator of the live feed

tries to explain the objects away

with a less than convincing story, take a listen.

- [Houston] This is Mission Control Houston

with Atlantis Commander Brent, talking with us

are on high alert here in Mission Control

about an object the crew members noted outside the windows

of this Space Shuttle Atlantis,

describing it as some kind of reflective

or metallic looking cloth,

but definitely not a rigid or metal object.

- Yeah right, there just happen to be three identical pieces

of massive metallic cloth moving around

in a constant formation in space.

So one of the most convincing UFO videos yet,

it appears more likely than ever

that we might have company in our universe.

- [Narrator] As the end of NASA's Atlantis shuttle mission

STS-115 approached, the crew prepared

for the crucial moment of making a controlled re-entry

into the earth's atmosphere.

But as they descended,

their instruments suddenly detected a mysterious object

hovering nearby, blocking their intended entryway.

Tension filled the cabin as the crew realized

the danger of the potential collision.

NASA's explanation to the press,

upon the crew's safe arrival, after a long delay,

was that this large object was simply a piece of plastic.

[lively music]

- But a piece of plastic very much like this

that's used to install tiles,

was there before, is most likely what we saw

in that camera view floating away.

- So this Tehran pilot that almost crashed his F-4

back in the 70s in Tehran.

That was an incident their government should care about it.

So these interactions off the east coast

with the flight crews from the USS Teddy Roosevelt.

They almost crashed into a UAP that flew between them

and missed their wingtips by 50 feet.

So what he called an energy sphere,

a cube inside of an energy looking sphere.

And it passed within 50 feet between Graves

and his wing man, and that is a safety to flight hazard.

They are being exhibiting hazardous behavior.

It's their job to determine

what these things are and whether or not

they are actually a threat,

that is the job of the defense department

and the intelligence community.

Is to analyze and assess

whether or not these things are a threat.

- [Narrator] Seth Shostak is an American astronomer

and author, currently serving as the senior astronomer

for The SETI Institute.

He appears to hold a belief that sets him apart

from many in his field.

Despite the vast amount of evidence

and numerous eyewitness accounts surrounding UFOs,

he remains convinced that the government has nothing to hide

from the public regarding them.

- I think that when it comes to suggestions

that maybe the government is covering up,

that's a very popular idea in the United States.

I've lived in Europe, it's not such a popular idea there

people don't figure that their government

is covering up important info.

But clearly in the US, if it's defense related

there may be secrecy.

People ask me all the time about Area 51.

Well, Area 51 is a test range for new military aircraft.

And of course, you're going to keep that secret if you can,

otherwise, you get pictures of your latest fighter

and going to the enemy.

So, there's always some secrecy in government,

but it isn't secrecy that pertains to science.

Never, I've never come across that

and I was supported by NASA actually in grad school,

and you read on the web

about how NASA's covering up again,

as if NASA's made up of people who are conspiracy-minded,

"We've got to keep this in the."

Well in the United States space exploration

is divorce from military uses of space, right?

NASA is not building equipment to spy on other countries.

The Defense Department does that,

they do with their own satellites?

So NASA is just, it's all about research.

And it's all public.

I mean you paid for it, the taxpayer.

So it's all eventually available to you.

You want to use the Hubble Space Telescope, sure,

you can, you can because your dollars paid for it

and that's just the way the federal government works.

I worked, I mean, I had a top secret clearance

when I was working for the Office and Naval Research,

actually, and what they were doing there,

well, yeah, it was secret but it wasn't malevolent

in any sense.

The idea was how do we protect our pilots,

Navy pilots coming in for landings on aircraft,

and stuff, on flat tops.

- [Narrator] People have heard of SETI,

and they know that SETI he has not produced any results

in terms of actually confirming

we're not alone in the universe.

But what if there was civilian scientists out there

that take this question and actually probe space

with their own conventional technology.

To find out the answer this question,

I traveled to meet a friend, Jimmy Blanchette,

in the middle of the desert,

where he had set up his own radio telescope array

designed to send out messages

in hopes for an intelligent response

coming from extraterrestrials locally.

- I set up for the Moonbounce Communication.

- [Darcy] Very cool, very cool.

So you've been sending messages

through radio telescope that you've built

in your own backyard.

And those messages reach the moon

and you've been getting replies.

- Yeah, that's right, exactly.

Through different interactions

which are literally define a lot of physics,

from my experience all the test that I've done.

And also not only replies through radios

but also sightings, right?

So there's been a lot of sightings

that were produced as a result of this transmission,

I can show you the antenna, let me show you the antenna.

So see this one has 208, has limited 39 degrees elevation

so I can turn the antenna direction,

and you can see them outside.

- It's like a canon, radio frequency canon.

[suspenseful music]

You see here, that it is now directed

towards sun right now.

And it's like a laser beam,

you determine direction, so the broadcast

in the direction of the target.

And so we're going to make a transmission

towards the sun right now.

Using about a quarter of a million watts of power.

And that's how I've been doing the work

for the last few years really.

And you'll see some cameras also that are set up here

to record the action in the sky.

They are covered with a material to prevent the radiation

from affecting them, right?

Faraday bag if you will, it's a faraday material

to keep the camera from being damaged

by the intense radiation that comes out of it,

but I do have many recordings of sightings

and manifestations taking place in the sky.

- UFOs. - Yeah, yeah.

Doing transmissions, and what we find

is that these interactions contains information

that's been why demonstrated that

in the several of my latest presentations,

but the sightings are pretty amazing

and cannot be explained by conventional means

and I have many of them, have hours of material of that.

[lively music]

[lively music continues]

[lively music continues]

[lively music continues]

So towards the sun now, so we can go back inside

and make a transmission and see.

- If the sun replies. - Well, the sun does not reply

but there's sometimes they are sightings

during daytime as well. - Really, okay.

And we've got some wolves that have come to say hi.

- Yeah. - Were these wolves?

Hey guys, one shot of the camera.

- The different planets might get Venus, Mars,

Jupiter, Saturn, we're gonna target Jupiter right now.

It's 243.7 degrees 36 elevation,

244 degrees actually, hasn't it?

I'm gonna.

- [Darcy] What message are we picking here?

- We'll pick a general message, a greeting message,

gratitude messages of gratitude,

and message to invite this civilizations to help us out.

243 so that's about here.

There we go.

And you see here, the antenna moving.

- [Darcy] I'll go check it out real quick.

[ducks quacking] - I can move it back

if you want. - No, it's fine.

[ducks quacking]

[antenna vibrating]

[antenna vibrating continues]

[antenna vibrating continues]

[lively music]

This big antenna sits over top of our head

and you've been using it some form of this antenna

for many years now, right?

- Yes. - When did you get into this?

- Well, I started, I have been an amateur radio operator

since childhood for many, many years.

One of my passion was to build antennas,

so fast forward, I've done essentially,

or practice this hobby for many years until 2013

when I heard about a modality

called Moonbounce Communication.

And I had never heard about it before

and that modality consists in literally

using huge International System with a lot of power

to bounce radio wave of the surface of the moon.

And use the moon as a passive reflector essentially

to establish contact here on earth.

I said, this is a great challenge.

So I wanted to, technically, I love technical stuff.

So I wanted to get into it.

So I started building my own antenna system

and getting the whole equipment that was needed to do this.

I did that, and I built an antenna, and a radio station.

And in 2013, I had my first contact

with essentially via Moonbounce Communication.

So from there, I kept improving the system

and kept building bigger, and bigger antenna

with more power, up until 2016

when I got a myriad of three antennas

that was pretty big.

It was very unique and it's not this one,

but it was using some of the same antenna system.

And I wrote articles about it, scientific article

about the system which was published

in a magazine in Europe.

It was a unique triangular configuration of antenna system.

And so I kept going doing Moonbounce,

but then I had a really powerful radio station by then.

So 2017 I fast forward,

I heard about what people call C5 or human initiated contact

and I was always felt attracted by.

- Which involves meditation? - Which involves meditation

of different modalities really,

but a lot of it is about meditation

and people use consciousness to connect with civilizations.

But there's also, some people use also small radios

and there's some technology that's out there.

Anyway, I had seen many, or watch some videos

on the internet about people making contact

and it was pretty impressive.

So I was intrigued, since I had all this large equipment,

this radio station.

I said, "Why not using this radio station

to send a message out there, to try to make contact?"

And so that's what I did, I created my own

very cool message, yes. - With this?

Yeah. - You getting radio chatter

there because you sent a message earlier and it.

- Yes, before we had this, minutes ago Darcy and I,

we broadcasted the message towards the sun

using a quarter of a million watts, with a message.

And so, we'll talk about it in a minute.

But yeah, there's often interaction charters

that comes back.

[radios vibrating]

[radios vibrating continues]

[radios vibrating continues]

- What you're doing, how does that differ

from what SETI does, for example?

- From what I know from SETI, not an expert with SETI,

what I know is that they owe more in the receiving mode,

they have giant radio telescopes or dishes, if you will.

And the reason, by the way,

why I'm not using these kind of satellite dishes

the dishes right, the parabolic dishes,

it's all about frequencies.

When you go in the gigahertz, in a frequency gigahertz,

it's more desirable to have this parabolic dishes.

When you go and lower frequencies,

then you use these kind of we call Yagi-Uda,

directional Yagi antennas.

But they all more in a receiving mode,

form what I understand, so they pick the target,

and they listen, and they look for an intelligent reply,

or intelligence response, or something that-

- Light years away. - Light years away.

What I'm doing is different.

I am actually broadcasting messages of various kind,

where I'm inviting the intelligence

to manifest their presence.

And essentially, and I'm targeting planets

in our solar system, targeting the sun, targeting the moon.

And from, I mean, the evidence is overwhelming now

that there's a presence out there

that's been interacting with humanity.

And now it's even the government admits

that you look at the TikTok video and Nimitz, right?

I mean, they're all here,

they're not very far, right?

And so the power I have here is more than enough

to cover the solar system, and far beyond,

but certainly the intelligence out there,

they're gonna pick up that signal.

So they're here, they're not very far.

We don't need to have large equipment,

very powerful equipment to reach them.

Even a simple and handheld radio like this.

I mean, if you look just a satellite at all,

around the earth, they broadcast with milliwatts of power,

fractions of watts. - To deliver you TV.

- Deliver TV, and communication, and GPS,

and all that in the fractions of watts.

Even a handheld radio with 4 to 8 watts like this,

the signal will go far beyond

the International Space Station will actually reach the moon

and I can demonstrate that technically.

So they are here, we don't need a lot of equipment,

it doesn't take a lot for humans

to get their voice heard in space.

- Do you have any suspicions that maybe

some of these messages might be human

that are coming back to you,

like people that are just messing with you at all,

or something like that?

- Well, I want to mention here

that in 2017 after I started this work,

I shared this work with other experiencers.

And so this contact modality if we want to call it this way,

has been now utilized worldwide by dozens of people.

People were doing contact work,

and they've had all the very successful experiences,

and they've shared their footage with me

of sightings in the sky and directions for the radios.

And so these, again, these interactions

that are happening now after our broadcaster with the sun.

And so it's not only me now,

it's been done now by many other folks

who were using this contact modality worldwide.

So if somebody is messing with me,

well, they're messing with people in Australia too,

and New Zealand, right?

It's it's all over the place.

And again, I have done many tests, technical tests

to demonstrate that these interactions,

or if we look at the radio as well,

it's a different type of interaction.

It's not regular radio waves that they're sending back away.

It's some other form of energy.

- You said you put a radio inside of a microwave,

which is a perfect Faraday cage.

- Yes, that's right.

So, if we have let's say, and I have videos of that,

you put three radios for instance,

set to the same frequency,

one next to which are identical radios, like we have here.

And the intelligence would be able to trigger

only one of them, and typically they will trigger

the one that you've used to transmit the message,

which is impossible because if it will be

a regular radio waves all the radios

should be going off at the same time, right?

If you on a FM radio - On that channel.

- On that channel, yeah.

Again putting the radios in Faraday cage,

the interactions still happens.

So putting the radio in a faraday cage.

This is a microwave.

And the interaction is still ongoing.

Despite the fact that the radio is contained

in a faraday cage which does not let any radio waves

going in or out.

Even though it's contained in these cage,

or not letting radio wave in or out.

So there are many signs like that,

that it's not natural, and that's beyond

all of technology that we can't really explain,

but it's clearly there.

And these interactions, if we get on the radio also,

or often combined with sightings in the sky,

amazing sightings in the sky.

So that's all experience really that,

and while I advice people who are interested,

serious people, is to just go try it.

It's available to anyone,

it's not unique to me or a few other experiences.

It's available to anyone.

I believe, truly believe it's part of the great awakening.

It's happening, if awakening of what's out there,

and what's possible to do.

Clearly I'm convinced they know way, way, way, way more

than what they tell us. - NASA.

- NASA, yeah.

They know way more.

I tend to try not even to get

too much into this politics of what these things,

clearly they've known this for decades,

government knows this, NASA knows this

and the public has been driven in the wrong direction

and to look in the wrong direction on this.

Again, just what I mentioned earlier is very simple,

a simple principle that a few watts of power

will go very far in space,

far deeper than the International Space Stations.

Meaning that we can get our voice heard in space easily.

I don't think people know that.

- [Darcy] There are many competing theories

in regards to what is happening lately

within Congress legally,

to address UAP or UFO phenomenon in our skies.

One person comes to mind, above others,

that can decipher laws and actions in Congress

regarding this issue.

So in my quest to uncover the truth,

I embarked on a mystical journey

to the land of crystals and alternative health remedies,

to find my friend Steven Bassett, a political activist

and official lobbyist on Capitol Hill for disclosure,

calling for the end of the truth embargo.

[lively music]

- We've seen an explosion of media coverage,

I've logged in over 5000 articles for mainstream media,

scores, and scores of briefings were conducted on private

of members of Congress orchestrated by Christopher Melon,

bringing witnesses up,

and allowing some of the members to talk to them

and getting them up to speed as it were, all right?

This went on for probably two years.

And the result of that, meaning these members

of key committees like the Intel committees,

The Armed Services committees,

was that they became comfortable with the idea

of let's do some legislation.

And the first legislation which was initiated in 2021,

past in 2022, in the National Defense Authorization Act 2022

was put in by Senator Warner.

That legislation was very significant.

It's set up some initial things

over at the DOD, ask for certain things to happen,

people were a little skeptical, but nevertheless,

it was a major milestone.

You had an enormous amount of press coverage of that.

And then the House stepped in,

you had Ruben Gallego put some language in the next bill,

Andre Carson called for a hearing

for the DOD to come forward,

at least tell what's going on.

It was very basic, but the first hearing since 1968.

I think more private briefings took place

and resulting in a new round of legislation,

which was put in the 2023 Bill House Senate.

And we watched that evolve, we watched the two Bills

working through the House in the Senate,

was extraordinary language,

wondering how it would come out,

ultimately was reconciled and that Bill was passed

on December 23.

As far as I'm concerned that Bill,

which you can easily find online,

it's the FY23 NDAA Bill.

I think it's Bill number 7776,

the language in it, which you can easily find

by word searching unidentified, is astounding.

There's a cross agency committee

being created as instructed by the legislation

in the Department of Defense

across 16 or 17 different entities.

Cross agency meaning there will be people assigned

to this across these agencies, not their full-time job,

they have a job, but then this will be part of their duties.

That's how you bring lots of people together across agency.

It could end up with several thousand people involved.

Here are some of the most extraordinary things in the Bill,

one of the most extraordinary is that this legislation

calls for the now finally named office, or this program.

It is the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office,

which is not bad, but then acronym AARO, that's good.

The other ones they came up with were ridiculous.

And so AARO, all right, that's set up.

We know that recently several of the key witnesses

some of the most important witnesses

we will see testify before the Senate Intel committee,

by that I mean the nuclear weapons tampering witnesses.

These are fact-base command captains

who were present when craft came down,

hovered over the base, turned off the weapons,

this happened many times.

Something that The Pentagon

and the president stayed away from,

they can't undermine it, so they just ignore it.

But now they're getting attention.

They have been contacted to come in

and be interviewed by AARO.

Why is this important?

The only reason you interview witnesses like that

is to prepare them for Congressional briefing.

One of the things that's really significant

in this legislation, again, this is unprecedented stuff,

nothing like it even remotely has happened,

is requiring that all of the entities

that could have intersected with this issue, right?

Which is basically all the entities

in the cross agency committee.

Need to supply copies of all the non-disclosure agreements

that are in their files relating to this issue.

If somebody was put under a non-disclosure agreement

either current or expired,

they want to copy of that agreement to be sent to AARO.

So what does that mean?

It means they're going to get a huge amount of information

about things that were people were asked

to go under non-disclosure,

not all of these non-disclosure agreements are specific

but a lot of them are,

and they also find out who was asked

to be under non-disclosure.

Now, this is to AARO, it's still classified in a sense,

it's not to the public.

But the Bill also states

that once AARO has these non-disclosure agreements,

or as they get them, and there's a lot of them,

they will provide them to the appropriate

congressional committees.

Now they have them, this is extraordinary,

as the congressional committees try to decide

how to move forward with hearings.

In other words, everything is going

exactly as you would expect if we're heading for hearings

and that's an extraordinary thing.

Another extraordinary thing that they put in this Bill,

which just blew my mind.

And then it goes on to say, okay, but if it is authorized

meaning it doesn't violate that,

and so you're preventing authorized information,

could be to your commander,

it could be a member of Congress,

whoever within the government, within the program.

And anyone in Congress, or in your department,

or agency, or a boss, or anybody else,

pushes back with any kind of retribution,

or threats, or anything else, classic example

is you say anything more about that commander

and you'll lose your flight privileges.

That is no longer permitted.

It is- - The threat is off the table.

- Essentially, that's what they're saying, Okay?

And what that does, why are they doing it, by the way,

they're only referring to statements

that are going to be internal,

not to the media, or to whatever.

No, no, you can't do that anyway, at least not now,

but internally, they're freeing up the communication lines

to make it easier for witnesses not whistle blowers,

that's not what they are, and some people disagree,

to come forward, say, "Okay, look

I know about this, I know about that,

I understand that you're gathering this information

and I like to provide this, okay?"

They're freeing it up, why?

Because if you're going to have really important hearings

you can't have a very significant witness

unless you know who they are, unless they come forward,

they're never going to be in the committee.

So that's preparation for hearings.

Other members of the United States Senate and House

are learning that this information

is being collected by these other members,

and they would like to know.

And what one way or another,

they're getting bits and pieces,

and they're realizing, "Oh wow."

And they're thinking, "I'm a member of Congress,

I like to be able to speak to this,

I'm not getting briefed."

And so what they're doing is on their own

they're coming forward and getting into the issue.

And there's been several of these,

but the one that intrigues me the most is Tim Burchett

who has some committee assignments,

they're not insignificant,

but they're not the ones that are getting briefed,

I think by the DOD.

And so he has taking on himself to come forward

in multiple venues, including on Fox News,

saying matter of fact there's extra-terrestrials here.

These are non-human craft, that wasn't happening before.

And recently another member of Congress did that.

Well, this is going to continue.

To the members that have come forward,

or put legislation out like Rubio, Warren,

Diego, Carson, Gillibrand, Mike Gallagher

who spoke up at the hearing.

To my knowledge and I'm paying close attention,

not a single one of these politicians

is taking any blow back, no political loss at all.

In other words, people are going "Great, wow, that's cool."

One of the reasons is this is a truly non-partisan issue.

The United States government,

in both Congressional areas,

as well as the Department of Defense,

as well as the military services,

as well as defense contractors,

there're people in all of those entities with need to know,

and their predecessors, okay,

that have known about the extraterrestrial presence

since at least 1947 and perhaps 1945, they've known.

It's not the government is just learning,

"Oh, there's something there, we should do something."

Oh, no, no, they've known all along.

All right, okay fine, that doesn't mean everybody, no.

But is the government, yeah absolutely.

Enough people that it's clearly being dealt with

and they understand it.

- [Darcy] And NASA is really well connected too.

- Oh and NASA too.

Oh, absolutely NASA.

There are people in NASA all along,

certainly at the highest level like the administrator

were like, "No, the ET presence is real."

Okay, but there's a truth embargo

as I've stated million times,

and that embargo says that this is not going to be

confirmed to the American people.

Okay, so now they have been gaming this outcome for years.

The Pentagon has supercomputers

that manage other supercomputers.

They game everything, everybody knows this, right?

War games all that stuff.

And so they have been predicting and gaming

how this could work.

That's a very complex thing, all right?

And I happen to know that in early 1990s

The Pentagon submitted a substantial contract

to a major public relations firm in Washington

called Hill + Knowlton,

and it was, your public relations firm,

we want you to analyze all of the public relations aspects

of how we can get to telling and confirming to the people

the ET presence disclosure.

Then we want you to also look and analyze

the public relations issues we face

after we've confirmed the ET presence.

And they got this report back in a number of years,

cost millions of dollars.

They've been sitting on us of 20 years, that's just that.

So it's not like they're just suddenly shocked here, okay?

And the outcome of that is this,

what they're doing is going through

an appropriate, relatively transparent process

leading to disclosure that involves the proper entities,

the Congress the DOD, legislation,

and all the things they should have done

in all those previous opportunities to correct the record,

to finally end this embargo.

Not to start investigating the issue,

they've never stopped investigating the issue.

And you might say, "Well, why don't they just admit it?"

Just come out and say, "We've known all along."

Because look, this is a big deal.

It has implications for everybody, the politicians,

the DOD agencies, and everything else.

If it's not done in an orderly fashion,

if it doesn't allow participation of many institutions

and the public, it's going to be that much more unpleasant,

it's going to be more destructive.

We need to do this with as many winners as possible,

and not too many losers.

And so this is what I call

a public relations driven extrication process

in which the government in an orderly fashion,

to good purpose, is lying its way out of the bigger lie

to service a larger purpose.

You would ask about NASA.

And again when I say this process

is a public relations driven extrication program.

Oh boy, do I include NASA in there.

In other words, it's the entire government,

this interface with this issue,

is extricating itself and correcting the record,

which includes NASA.

NASA under the 1958 space act,

absolutely not touch this issue.

All right, let me put it this way,

it can find a whole frigging civilization

on the back side of the moon,

and the first thing it could do under the act

was notify the Department of Defense.

"Look what we just found."

And the Department of Defense is going to say,

"Fine, ever talk about this, everybody's fired."

And so NASA this whole time,

- Is classified. - Is yeah, absolutely.

Whether you find it or not.

And so NASA is trying to explore space

and be the civilian space agency,

while at the same time knowing

that there's a extraterrestrial presence.

It could be confirmed, and their budget

could be increased tenfold.

And they're a scientific base operations,

so they're having to violate certain fundamental principles

in service of national security.

So all the various entities that what I would call,

the biggest state of cognizant distance

on this issue would be NASA.

It has suffered because of this

and so nevertheless it is gone along with the embargo.

So as part of the public relations thing,

it's not surprising that NASA is being allowed

to get up to speed, to get with the ball game

so when things break people would go,

"Oh, you're doing the right thing."

So what did the government do?

What was the plans?

Well, they said we know it's coming.

Yeah, we're about to get going here.

We need a new NASA administrator.

Why don't we pick a former Senate member

of the Senate Intel Committee

who just happens to be an astronaut

and make him the administrator, right?

Perfect guy, Nelson.

And then it's like, "Well, I think NASA

should make some interesting statements, he did,

confirming, look, there's something here and so forth.

Oh, by the way, NASA should start up a research group,

or what have you, it's doing the appropriate thing.

- [Narrator] STS-48.

STS 48 marked an important mission

in terms of UFO rumors in space.

On the third day of the mission, the primary payload,

the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, UARS was deployed.

This 14,500-pound observatory was set to conduct

the most extensive study ever conducted

of earth's troposphere,

the upper level of the planet's envelope

of life-sustaining gases,

which includes the protective ozone layer.

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During the UARS mission,

a flash of light was observed by the UV space camera,

followed by the sudden appearance

of two missile-like objects

heading towards mysterious objects on the horizon.

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These objects seemed to stop and make evasive maneuvers,

marking a significant moment in UFO space history.

After this incident,

some claim that NASA began routinely obscuring space video,

cutting video feeds, and using code words

to conceal UFO activity.

- Be right below it, hard to see

is the surface of the earth.

This is the earth down here.

This is above the atmosphere.

That's a star.

This is the second object that is of interest to us.

And it's slowly coming up as you can see.

And in a little bit you're going to see

the main object pop up here,

go over, and you'll see some flashes down here

and then it's going to sharply cut back here.

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Against later a streak is going to go through there

right where it go, and there goes the streak.

And there's a second streak right there, hard to see.

You can't tell by watching the video

but the main object actually paused for half a second

before it turned back up the other direction.

- If we take a look at this STS-48 video,

in which it seems as though we might be firing missiles

at a UFO that stops in space above earth.

This is kind of worrying.

If the theory is correct, Dr. Jack Kasher

wrote a physics paper on,

then that means that we are firing on other civilizations.

But what if this craft is actually a black budget

military craft from earth?

Either from a project that is very quietly being run,

privately, that the military doesn't know about,

or by an enemy nation.

Has a faction of the human race

been able to create UFOs that operate in a way

that we would consider unearthly?

That is the greater question here.

But firing at something that's in space like this

is also worrying because it might mean

that we're at war secretly in space.

And with the backdrop of the Space Force

being created recently,

as well as this war going on in Ukraine

between Russia and the West, and soon possibly China.

One has to wonder if this escalation in war

might spill over into the theater of space,

and if we might see more of this dramatic UAP or UFO

type activity going on out there.

One thinks of the 2023 UAPs and balloons

that recently were shot down.

- My name is Alara and I'm an experiencer.

I produced a space in defense news show

for a number of years which allowed me

to become very familiar with the Space Force

in its initial development and disclosure

to the greater population at large.

I think when people initially heard the term Space Force,

they were thinking space lasers and spacecrafts,

something more akin to "Star Wars".

And although there is some element of truth to this

especial moving into the future,

this image of our sixth and newest branch in the military

is not entirely accurate.

Space Force is mainly tasked with intelligence surveillance

and reconnaissance,

operating and defending military satellites

and their associated ground stations

that provide global communications, navigation,

and earth observation.

They're also in charge of missile detection and defense.

You will hear the term architecture

in relation to the Space Force

this encompasses the entire network of military satellites

and their supporting components.

Also including secure data transmission and analysis.

This is largely what the Space Force

actually does at this time.

The future of Space Force, however,

will heavily rely on machine learning

and artificial intelligence.

AI will be tasking sensors and then pruning the info

which will be sent to analysts

augmenting each operators decision to act,

and in which direction.

Sensors and algorithms will essentially make calculations

enabling swarm intelligence to then execute.

Programs such as RS21

and it's prediction of satellite failures

will become the standard,

as will distributed computing and trajectory design.

Orbital swarms will create structures and flying formation,

unthinkable amounts of data analyzed,

and trajectories calculated on the fly.

Now NASA is a little bit different from Space Force,

in that it is our Civil Space Program.

They're stated purpose is to explore, discover,

and expand knowledge for the benefit of all of humanity

into the far reaches of our solar system and beyond.

Things like NASA's Sensor Web and Hubble demonstrate this.

As where Space Force is mainly tasked with detection,

prediction, and the defense of mother earth herself.

All operations at this juncture

are pretty much limited to LEO.

However, Space Force will be coordinating with NASA

in multiple areas.

One example of this would be Artemis 1

where things such as space debris detection

become not only necessary, but critical,

in a congested space landscape.

Space Force ability to coordinate space related efforts

between all branches of the military

will be vital in order to enable

such missions moving forward.

The nature of war is changing,

and governments around the world have acknowledged

that space and cyberspace

are the new war fighting domains,

making the role of Space Force integral

in coordinating the technological efforts on this front.

- I understand the Space Force, US Space Force,

we have now fifth branch of the military.

It wasn't a new idea?

I mean, that was I mean, if you read,

delve into it, Google it, delve into it,

this idea was thought of back in the 1980s.

Reagan, Weinberger, many government officials,

even a CIA, even Richard Helms,

he was the Director of the CIA back in the 70s,

they had a proposal that we have to, classified,

have to protect space.

Now, the proposal meant more or less

that we had protect space from Chinese or Soviets

from attacking us.

And so the proposal for a Space Force was in the 80s,

the Department of Defense planned it,

wrote out policies about it,

but it never went very far. - Publicly.

- Publicly.

The Proposal went to to President Clinton in the 90s.

'95, 1995 he was briefed on it,

and and they wanted to push this through

in one of the defense bills.

He said, no he didn't really want to do it.

Again in '81.

In 2001 under George Bush it was pushed through,

and I didn't want to do it either.

And then finally when Trump came in office,

they brought this proposal to him,

and he said, "Yes sure, let's do it."

And that's why we have the US Space Force now.

Now, I think it's too pronged,

one being that they do want to counter anything

that the Russians put up, or the Chinese, right?

And the second prong to that is

we want to be protected by,

we know there are hostile alien forces out there,

we know it.

And we want to be prepared for that.

- I believe the answer is,

they already know these things are a threat

to some extent, and it is not understandable to me

that they have not adapted filters,

or turned off filters to try to find some of these.

And I'll give you an example.

In ASAP, which was the first program run to do UAPs

funded by Senator Reed and some of his peers in the Senate.

One of the defense intelligence research directives

the DERBS that came out,

was a section covering experiencers.

And this government classified document,

which is now released to the public,

spoke to women being impregnated in these experiences

where they are abducted,

and we don't know all of the data that went into that claim,

but that's just in a classified government document.

So that speaks to a threat to the public

in the United States of America

that someone in the government should care about.

And that's number one,

number two, we have ongoing incursions of UAP,

whatever they might be,

in and around our defense installations

and our equipment onboard nuclear installations,

our missile bases, our aircraft carriers,

and interacting with our airplanes.

So, and in some cases causing a hazard to flight safety

by some of these pilots.

So this to me speaks to something we should investigate.

And it is clear from the National Defense

Authorization Act, and the budget bill

that was passed to fund these activities

that Congress believes there is an issue

that we need to investigate.

And for whatever reason,

the defense department intelligence community

have decided to not look into this.

Congress is having no part of it,

they are determined to get some answers

about what is going on.

And these all staff reports and the current ongoing reports

of activity speak to the need

to get serious about figuring out

what these things are about.

Why are they here, what are they doing,

how do they do what they do?

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- [Pilot] Okay, dude.

There's a whole fleet of them I'm seeing.

My God.

They go against the wind,

when it's a hundred twenty thousand.

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