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I was four years old the first time that I was abducted.

When I woke up and felt a lump behind my ear,

I had to get whatever this was out of my body.

The first thing I see are

these two sets of tracks walking

beside each other,

and they were very creepy looking.

[Thor] I was on my way to visit Yvette on my boat.

Something caught my eye.

I don't know what the heck these things are.

So are you prepared for me to talk

about the analysis of what we looked at?

I cannot wait.

This is one of the most compelling cases

that we've seen.

[woman] I see it again.

I see it! I see it!

[woman 2] Oh, my God.

Holy [bleep].

[man] You've got to see this.

You've got to see this.

[narrator] Around the world,

people are witnessing and capturing

unexplained phenomena every day.

There's a feeling you get.

The hairs on your arms

and your neck kind of stand up.

[woman 3] What the [bleep] is that?

There was a lot that pointed me

in the direction of something non-human.

[woman 4] Oh, [bleep], there it goes.

[man 2 speaking]

[narrator] And they are looking for answers.

It left me with a lot of...

questions.

[narrator] The recent release of thousands of pages

of declassified U.S. government documents,

whistleblower testimony...

[Fravor] These objects had been observed

for over two weeks

coming down from over 80,000 feet.

[narrator] ...and shocking new evidence

could hold the answer.

Can you confirm that's what it was?

-Yes, that's what it was. -[Chrissy] Okay.

[narrator] Now, two expert investigators will use

this new information

and their expertise

to unlock the truth.

[exhales] I'm...

experiencing chills over here.

Mitch Horowitz is an author and historian,

known for his investigative research

into the unexplained.

You all have had

some very mysterious experiences.

The video was extremely compelling.

[narrator] And Chrissy Newton is a journalist

and authority on space, science,

and the unknown.

And we were told that this was a secret location.

Absolutely.

And when I looked up,

I saw a UFO in the sky.

[narrator] Thousands of experiencers came forward

and submitted their personal stories

and evidence for examination...

These beings were so gloriously beautiful.

[narrator] ...hoping to finally separate fact

from fiction.

[Mitch] Based on everything

that you've brought to the table,

you witnessed a UFO.

Roswell's such an interesting place.

I love it 'cause they embrace

the UFO culture.

They know it. They live by it.

They're just living the counterculture.

[Mitch] The thing I love about this bar

and all local watering holes is

you feel people are here.

Yeah. And this is the only bar in Roswell.

This is where you come, chat,

to exchange UFO stories...

- [Mitch] Right. - [Chrissy] ...connect.

This is the local watering hole,

-like, hands down. -Yeah.

-Oh, hey. How you doing? -[ladies] Hi.

-And too. -Nice to meet you.

[Mitch] Have a seat, please.

Thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

-And I'm very excited to meet you both. -[Mitch] Absolutely.

What we wanted to ask, first and foremost,

in your own words,

you briefly tell us

what your experience has been

and when and where it occurred.

My name is Rachel Hoffman,

and I think I was abducted by aliens

seven times since 1984.

I'm the mother of four children,

and I live in Hudson Valley.

I was four years old

the first time that I was abducted.

I'm one of four children at the time,

and we were all sleeping in the same bed together.

And I was on the edge of the bed

when I felt something lifting me up.

I felt gravity with my hair falling backwards

and my nightgown falling backwards

as I was

taken out of a window

and brought up into the vessel.

The ship,

it was so cold. I was freezing.

Every hair on my body was standing up.

I don't think I was supposed to see what I saw.

The room had tables,

and the tables had

hands and feet,

arms and legs

that didn't have bodies attached to them.

Next to that,

there were embryos.

I also saw a fetus in a jar.

I was four years old,

and the fetus was as big as me.

It looked like an experiment gone wrong.

When they had me on the table,

they were doing

ultrasounds on my abdomen.

They were poking and prodding.

They were taking

bits and pieces of me.

They were robbing my body parts,

and they were taking my eggs.

I remember thinking to myself, "I just want my dad.

I just want my dad."

And then I woke up.

When I was six years old,

I saw an arm

above me of a robot

with a needle in it.

And the needle came down

and began to extract

fluid from the center of my nose.

When the needle went in,

it felt like it went

straight through my bone into my brain.

Each time this was done to me,

I didn't even blink.

And I never closed my eyes.

As the needle went back up into the ceiling of the ship,

I was picked up by the alien

that brought me back and forth.

I used to call him the butler.

The butler looked like an octopus out of water.

They have hands with suction cups.

That's what holds them to the ship.

The last time that I was abducted,

I was 13 years old

and I said,

"Who are you

and what do you want from me?"

It was

the loudest voice

I've ever heard.

And it said, "I'm God."

[church bell ringing]

And that was the last interaction I had.

I was 31 in 2011

when I woke up and felt

a lump behind my ear.

I thought it was cancer.

And so I went to the medical center

and I spoke to a lab technician.

After looking at it, she expressed to me

that they were going to need to have it excised,

that they weren't able to perform that there.

She said that it would be

in the realm of around 30 days.

When I got home, I started panicking.

My heart was beating out of my chest.

I had to get whatever this was out of my body.

And so I took a safety pin

and I pulled as hard as I could out of my ear.

I didn't know what it was.

I brought it back to the laboratory.

They didn't know what it was.

It wasn't taken away from me for further testing,

so I kept it.

It is one thing to have your body stolen

and have your body parts robbed from you,

and then to have something invasively put

inside your body.

It was terrible.

So this all occurred in childhood

and early adolescence?

Yes.

And what have been the after effects

in your experience?

It left me with a lot of fear.

It left me with a lot of... questions.

And [sighs] I guess

I want to advocate for, like, little me

in a way.

-[Chrissy] Mm. -[Rachel clears throat]

And I want to go back and, like, save her

and tell her everything's going to be okay.

I just need the explanation of why. I mean...

Because I want answers.

It's hard to live every day

with just not knowing

why you were kidnapped.

[Mitch] We received your account

as well as the physical evidence

that you supplied.

Chrissy has examined the evidence that you sent

with analysts and researchers,

and she is going to have some answers for you.

[narrator] Along with the details of her encounter,

Rachel submitted a small unknown object

that she removed from her ear for analysis,

which she is concerned may be evidence of an alien implant

and proof that her memories of childhood abductions

were real.

What we wanted to ask, first and foremost, is

what year was it you said

that you had your initial abduction experience?

It was between 1983 and 1984.

It was in the summer

and it was right before I started kindergarten.

You know, it's remarkable

because the Hudson Valley is widely known

around the world today

as a kind of UFO hotspot.

In the 1980s through early 90s,

about 9,000 reports...

[man] God, I don't know what the hell it is.

[Mitch] ...of UFO encounters emerged

from the Hudson Valley.

I was awakened in my cabin in upstate New York

by small people in dark blue uniforms.

New York State's Hudson Valley has been

one of the critical areas of UFO reportage.

And the Hudson Valley was, of course,

the site of the events

described in Whitley Strieber's seminal bestseller,

Communion.

The New York Times says the story is nonfiction.

Our Krista Bradford reports.

That book not only opened the door

to the Hudson Valley experiences,

but allowed claimed abductees

to step forward with their testimony,

in many cases, for the very first time.

You have brought to the table physical evidence

which Chrissy and her colleagues have examined,

and I'm eager to hear

what you all have found.

[narrator] Chrissy works with a team of experts

to research UFO databases,

scrub air traffic,

satellite data,

and conduct state-of-the-art photo and data analysis

before delivering the results of her verified report.

I want you to take a look at this

from our evidence report.

Can you confirm that's what it was?

-[Rachel] Yes, that's what it was. -[Chrissy] Okay.

So we received the sample that you sent to us

and we sent it off to the MUFON laboratories

to have it analyzed.

[Chrissy] So are you prepared

for me to talk a little bit about the analysis

of what we looked at?

Yeah, I'm sweating, I'm shaking.

We have the results.

The piece that you gave us...

[Thor] I was on my way to visit Yvette on my boat.

Something caught my eye.

I don't know what the heck these things are.

So we received the sample that you sent to us,

and we sent it off to the MUFON laboratories

to have it analyzed.

[Chrissy] So are you prepared

for me to talk a little bit about the analysis

of what we looked at?

Yeah, I'm-- I'm sweating, I'm shaking, I cannot wait.

[Chrissy] The MUFON labs conducted

two different tests.

The first one was a radiation analysis.

[narrator] Radiation analysis tests

for traces of radioactive elements

that have been associated with unknown implants.

So...

no radiation was present.

The second analysis we did was look at the XRF detection

to see if there was any metals.

[narrator] XRF, or X-ray analysis,

is used to identify

the material makeup of the object

and if any metals are present.

No metals were present.

Okay.

The piece that you gave us...

was actually a plastic crown from a tooth.

A crown?

A crown, yeah. A tooth crown.

I don't have any crowns.

Is there any other way that that might have happened

or how that appeared?

I don't-- I have no clue

where that would even materialize from.

We were baffled, too.

But plastic in my body?

Plastic crown from a tooth.

So my job is to do analysis,

talk to multiple experts,

and try to find an answer.

What it says here is that

this is a plastic crown

and that it is of this Earth.

So I have to go by the data.

[Rachel] I don't understand

the final result.

-Yeah. -I'm trying to wrap my head around it.

You have traveled a long distance

to come and speak to us,

and you are entitled

to a blunt assessment.

For my outlook, I take into account

the data that Chrissy has analyzed,

the background and credibility of the witness,

surrounding circumstances,

corroboration, history,

and I try to weave it all together in one ball,

which informs my decision.

The Hudson Valley is probably--

ranks just slightly behind Roswell

in terms of UFO-reported activity.

The entire abduction narrative took shape

in the Hudson Valley.

I think there's no question

that the phenomena warrants

the attention of serious people,

researchers, journalists, medical authorities,

trauma specialists.

And I do think that people who have

experienced abduction

have been subject to ridicule.

Based on everything

that I have described culturally, medically,

historically,

and in terms of listening to your testimony today,

I believe in the story

that you are bringing to the table.

And I think that your experience is

absolutely valid.

At the same time,

this material, based on our data, is

a piece of mundane, earthly material.

I didn't expect this.

I'm upset.

I traveled a really long way.

I'm disappointed.

And I'm still looking for the truth.

It's really stressful for me

to come here,

be as transparent as I have been,

tell my entire story,

and then have

a scientific piece of evidence that I provided

not validate my experience.

That was a tough one.

-That's a very tough one. -Very tough one.

Knowing that

-it's from this Earth... -Yep.

...I hope that gives her some closure.

Yeah. And look,

I know what the cynics are going to say.

"Oh, she sent them a tooth.

-Ha, ha, ha." -Yeah.

If somebody was trying to pull over a fast one on us,

they would work a lot harder than sending a dental implant,

which is easy to identify in a lab

and which has been identified.

-Yeah. -But I think there's more to it than just that.

You know, I wish I had more data.

I don't know how or why this wound up

inside of me.

And I'm more afraid than ever.

I think we're still waiting for that evidence

that really moves the needle to 11.

Yeah, that one piece of evidence.

Yeah. So I'm psyched.

[Chrissy] Yeah, seriously.

[Mitch] All right.

-[Chrissy] Hey. -[Mitch] How's it going?

[Chrissy] Good. How are you?

Welcome. It's great to have you all here.

It's cool to be in Roswell.

-Yep. -[Mitch] Yeah, right?

Never been here.

We have received your story,

your accounts,

as well as the evidence and data.

But first and foremost,

we want to hear the story of your key account.

My name is Thor Laizans.

I'm from San Clemente, California.

My name is Yvette Marquez,

and I'm from Catalina, Avalon.

[Thor] I've spent my entire life out on the sea.

Pacific Ocean is my backyard,

so between diving and boating, fishing,

I started getting twitchy

if I'm away from the ocean for too long.

September 13th in 2021,

I was on my way to visit Catalina Island on my boat,

and I made it about halfway there,

about 15 miles out.

Something caught my eye.

I don't know what's going on here.

I don't know what the heck these things are.

They were like orbs.

It started with three,

and then all of a sudden, there's two,

and then it'd go down to one,

and they would kind of merge in and out of each other.

When I first caught notice of them,

they were about three to five miles away from me,

and they were probably

the elevation of, like, a low-flying airplane

when they first appeared.

They looked like little miniature galaxies

that would fade in and out.

They'd change colors from orange to black.

Black was the weird one.

It had like a negative light.

You could still see it.

And it wasn't glowing.

But I don't know how to really explain it.

I was living on my sailboat.

I was anchored right outside of Catalina Island.

I always kept my eye out for him

when I knew that he was coming over.

I saw what I thought were flares,

except they didn't have the pattern of flares.

So I called the Harbor Patrol.

I told them that Thor was coming over,

and I didn't know if those were flares.

Maybe he was in trouble.

Harbor Patrol was like, "Well, nobody's calling in."

And they came and parked next to my boat.

In fact, one of the Harbor Patrol guys came

with his binoculars.

He's looking and said,

"No, we don't know what that is.

Those aren't flares."

By then, it caught, like, a little crowd.

And there was other boaters looking.

So I called him.

And I was like,

"Hey, do you see those lights out there?

How far away are you?"

He's like, "Oh, my God.

There's these balls of light.

I'm filming them right now."

[Thor speaking]

[Thor] I went inside my boat.

I got a laser pointer out,

and I started shooting lasers out at them.

As I'm narrating through the video,

they were interacting.

They could hear me,

and they like, kind of responded to my voice.

Kinda trippy though.

Where'd the third one go? There was three.

I'm like, "Yeah, there was three of them,

but now there's two of them."

I'm like, "Where'd the third one go?"

And then all of a sudden,

bink, there's the third one right there.

Okay, there's the third.

Oh, wow. [chuckles]

They came back.

They dropped down right above the ocean,

started coming straight at me,

which kind of freaked me out a little bit.

It's kind of unnerving

to have these weird glowing orbs,

like, coming straight at me.

They seem to be coming this direction.

The first thing I see are

these two sets of tracks walking beside each other

and the tracks just stopped.

Almost kind of like they got beamed up or something.

We looked at video analysis

and to see if it was faked or altered in any way and...

we have the results.

[Thor] I don't know what the heck these things are.

I might have caught their attention.

They seem to be coming this direction.

They're actually getting really, really close here.

Freaked me out a little bit.

It was kind of unnerving

to have these weird glowing orbs,

like, coming straight at me.

And then at one point, they disappeared.

They are right above the water now.

It's gone.

I do not see

anything anymore.

I know there are things out there

that I believe are not from this world.

There's something else out there,

and knowing that,

uh, it's kind of scary.

[Thor] I don't know what the heck

these things are.

That's an amazing story.

-Yep. -Yeah.

So what can we do for you?

What are you hoping to get out of...

this discussion today?

I would totally love a confirmation

that someone could look at my video and analyze it.

Yeah, if someone could say, "Yeah, that's not a flare."

That's not SpaceX launch."

And what do you think of that?

[Yvette] Uh, to me,

it's just very unnerving

not knowing what it is.

I would like to know what it is.

But in a way, it's kind of...

finding out, like, the boogeyman is real.

We have received your story,

your accounts, as well as the video.

[narrator] Thor and Yvette submitted

a nine-minute video of his encounter at sea,

hoping to get an answer about what they witnessed.

The clip shows what seem to be three orange lights

that disappear, reappear, and merge with each other.

Okay, let's take a look at this.

Can you tell me where you are?

[Yvette] When it happened, Avalon is right there.

[Chrissy] Yeah.

[Thor] You got mainland,

and you have Catalina Island

-that sits about 35 miles out from my home harbor. -[Chrissy] Yeah.

And I was somewhere right in between those points.

[narrator] Catalina Island sits

47 miles off the coast of Southern California.

Thor was traveling from the harbor

in Dana Point West towards Catalina

and was about half or 23 miles from home port

when he encountered the lights.

What's the direction you were looking?

I was actually looking towards the power plant

and the military base, which was right behind me.

And so where was your direction?

What were you facing?

I was just outside of Avalon Harbor, anchored,

and looking straight out towards Dana Point.

So you know that Catalina is

-very rich in UFO history. -[Yvette] Mm-hmm.

Have you heard of the Tic Tac incident?

-[Thor] I have heard the word "Tic Tac" before. -[Chrissy] Yeah.

I can't say I know of the incident, though.

[narrator] In 2017,

the New York Times posted a thermal imaging video

of a tic-tac-shaped object

filmed by a Navy fighter pilot

off the coast of Catalina Island in 2004.

The video shed light

on the top-secret Pentagon program called AATIP,

the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program,

which is tasked with tracking

and analyzing potential UFO activity

for the U.S. military.

-Where you were was... -[Yvette] Mm-hmm.

[Chrissy] ...very close

where the Tic Tac incident happened.

So the first thing we did was check

the Marine Casualty Database

to see if anybody had an emergency

or they had to shoot off an emergency flare.

[narrator] The Marine Casualty Database logs

all open water emergencies in the Pacific Ocean.

According to their records that night,

there were no reports of trouble.

Chrissy's team also contacted Camp Pendleton Marine Base,

located 28 miles south of Dana Harbor.

But they reported no nighttime military drills

that evening.

There was...

no...

supporting evidence

of parachute flares

-or any military activity during those times. -[Thor and Yvette] Mm-hmm.

So then we had to look at satellite data.

We know that there's multiple launches

that happened in that area.

[narrator] Vandenberg Air Base is located

only 155 miles from Catalina

and routinely launches satellites into orbit.

On September 13th,

the airbase launched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

containing 51 Starlink satellites.

I did witness that launch from Vandenberg that evening.

It wasn't until 30 minutes, half an hour afterwards,

that I started seeing these strange lights.

-You're right. It was 25 minutes. -[Thor] Mmm.

Okay.

[narrator] The SpaceX launch occurred at 8:55 p.m.,

25 minutes before Thor's encounter.

Based on the trajectory of the rocket and the time,

analysts have concluded

that Thor's sighting could

not have been the launch from the airbase.

[Chrissy] So...

we don't know what it is.

I personally think this is

one of the most compelling cases

that we've seen.

You got a nine-minute video,

and you had

more than a dozen witnesses overall.

And based on everything

that you've brought to the table,

I feel absolutely confident in saying...

you witnessed a UFO.

-Awesome. -[Chrissy chuckling] Yeah.

That's amazing.

It's good. It's good confirmation.

-[Yvette chuckles] -They're out there.

Finally, after all these years,

got, like, my video on them.

That was like a present to me.

I mean, I've seen them for years and years.

I'm very happy.

I like that mystery that hangs up over everything

around that island

and its history and the people there.

I think this is one of the remarkable sightings

of our immediate era.

100%, yeah.

I think it's one of the best ones

-we have so far, too. -Right on.

It was cool to get that confirmation

from people that, like, know what they're talking about,

they know what they're dealing with,

and just say,

"Hey, we don't know what the heck that is."

I really couldn't believe what I found.

These two sets of tracks

with three big toes,

and they were very creepy looking.

[dramatic music playing]

[eerie music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

[Mitch] I find bars

to be a playing field of the whole human situation.

And they reveal things. They tell you things.

Sometimes more than you might want to know.

Oh, right.

-There it is. -Okay, now we're in business.

-How are you doing? -I'm Mitch, how you doing, man?

-Pretty good. -Hi, I'm Sondra.

-Sondra, Mitch. Hi. -Hi, Sondra.

-Chrissy, nice to meet you. -Hello.

-[Mitch] I want to just weigh it a little. -[Sondra] Yeah, go for it.

-Yeah, yeah. -[Mitch] Okay, first of all, thanks for coming in.

Very eager to speak to y'all.

Oh, yeah, no problem. Thanks for having us.

[Mitch] Now, Chad,

you're interested in--

I mean, I'm into all facets of the paranormal.

-Wow. -[Chad] Oh, yeah.

We could have us some good camping trips.

-[Chad] Oh, yeah. Yeah, we could. -Yeah. [chuckles] Yeah, yeah.

I could take you to some pretty crazy places.

-[Mitch] Really? -Oh, yeah.

[Mitch] I may take you up on that.

-[Chad] Mmm. -So let me tell you

what we're going to try to accomplish here today.

Uh, we have your testimony and the background story

of how you came to take this impression.

-[Chad] Okay. -And Chrissy has

looked over this cast with researchers,

and she is going to deliver their findings to you.

I wanted to ask you to please tell us the story

of your experience in your own terms.

Where was it? When was it?

What were the circumstances

that led you to get this very unusual track?

So...

My name is Chadwick Gales.

[Sondra] My name is Sondra Gales.

We've been married for about eight years now,

and we believe we have found alien footprints.

[eerie music playing]

The first experience I ever had with a UFO

or anything paranormal

happened about 30 years ago, when I was 16.

I was hanging out with a couple of my buddies

at this place called Betty Knox

in the Chestnut Ridge.

It's a popular fly fishing spot in our area,

just a long dirt road beside the creek.

So me and a couple of my buddies were

back there hanging out, just...

talking.

Just happened to look up and notice this...

bluish white orb

just floating across the treetops.

It's not making a sound.

[eerie music playing]

And we were like, "What is that?

What is that thing?"

We couldn't believe what we were seeing, you know?

It was unreal.

And this thing just floated right across,

floated over the trees,

and then out of sight.

And then it got really quiet.

[music stops]

We sat there for a second,

and we just heard this sound.

It sounded like 20 or 30 people running down

through the woods towards my buddy's truck.

[footsteps]

And I mean, this really scared us.

So we jumped in and we took off.

[engine revving]

[Chad] So ever since that night,

I kind of do feel like

I'm drawn to Betty Knox a little bit.

There's something very intriguing

about that place.

It just compels me to go there.

So on March 26th, 2021,

it was a Friday and I had the day off work.

So I figured I might as well go for a hike.

Of course, back to Betty Knox.

I'd say it was around noon when I got there

and just looked around for a while and...

kept hearing...

It was really weird.

It sounded like an electronic whistle.

It was kind of like [whistles softly]

Like a whistle with a buzz of electricity.

I just happened to look over

and I see this sandbar.

I really couldn't believe what I found. I mean...

I walk over and the first thing I see are

these two sets of tracks coming up out of the water,

like these two things walk beside each other,

up out of the creek and up the bank.

And then they just walk everywhere, all around,

kind of like they were looking for something.

The tracks were 14 inches long

by about six inches wide

with three big toes.

And they were very creepy looking.

Very creepy looking.

They really looked reptilian to me.

And I'm a pretty decent tracker,

so I tried to find a track

to see if they, like, left up the road,

went over into the woods,

and I couldn't find where they left

because the tracks just stopped.

I don't know, it's like--

almost kind of like they got beamed up or something.

I was like,

I didn't want to leave them

because I was afraid someone would

come and destroy all the evidence I found.

And I mean, this was an incredible find.

You don't find stuff like this very often.

So I thought to myself, "I need to cast these."

So the first thing I did,

I started blowing up Sondra's phone.

She was still at work.

I was just like, "You're not gonna believe what I found."

I'm sending her pictures and...

said, "When I get off work,

I'm coming straight there, so."

Well, the first thing I saw was

there was three toe tracks

-all over this beach. -[camera shutter clicks]

[Sondra] I was like, "Wow, this is different."

And like Chad said,

they didn't have any rhyme or reason

what they were doing on that beach.

They were just randomly, like, all over the place.

[Chad] We started to pour some casts,

and we're letting them settle.

And I figured I'd mix up another batch

and do a couple more casts.

So I start mixing it up, and I hear a car door slam.

[car door slams]

Like, I look up.

Of course, here comes the game warden.

It's weird, it's like the guy knew we were there,

pulled right in.

He comes walking over,

looking around, and he starts...

kicking his feet around, rubbing out the tracks.

I was like, "What are you doing?"

I stop-- I screamed "Stop." I screamed loud.

Dude, this guy stopped and looked at me

like he wanted to choke me.

Like, "What are you doing?

I'm trying to cast these,

and you're kicking them all around

trying to cover them up."

And he's just standing there staring at me, like,

giving me the death eye.

He just keeps staring at me for a minute.

[Sondra] He got into his vehicle and he left.

[Chad] Yeah.

We waited for the cast to settle. We...

pulled all the casts out.

We got six altogether

-that were decent. -We had to get something.

We wanted these and just wanted evidence.

[Chad] From all the anomalous things

we've been seeing in the sky,

finding these tracks,

I'm starting to think

there might be an alien base

somewhere deep in the Chestnut Ridge.

After a further analysis

by Dr. Jeff Meldrum,

the final conclusion is...

1947 was the opening year of the modern UFO era,

and it was marked by three events.

Saucer sightings

by commercial pilot Kenneth Arnold

in Washington State,

the spotting of six flying disks

and submersible disks at Catalina Island

off the coast of Southern California,

and Roswell, New Mexico,

home of the famous 1947 UFO crash site.

[newsreader] The disk landed at a ranch

in Corona, New Mexico.

And in the ensuing days,

the military and the government supposedly covered up

the evidence of this reputed extraterrestrial crash.

[dramatic music playing]

[Chad] Finding these tracks,

I'm starting to think there might be

an alien base somewhere deep in the Chestnut Ridge.

We came here today to find out

if the experts know what these tracks are,

what made these tracks, where they come from,

and possibly...

if they could tell us anything

about what they might want there.

[Mitch] Yeah, I'd have the same questions

if I found tracks that look like that.

-[Chad] Right. -[Mitch] And...

I'm fascinated with all this material.

[narrator] Chadwick and Sondra Gale submitted a cast

as well as photos

of tracks they discovered

in Chestnut Ridge, Pennsylvania.

Their evidence was analyzed

using archaeological research and historical data

to determine what sort of creature might have

created them.

Chrissy has looked over this cast

and I'm eager to turn it over to her

and hear what was found.

So I should start off saying

I'm a journalist in this space,

so my job is to work

and to talk with multiple experts.

So one of the first things we do is

cross-reference our time, date, and location

with multiple databases.

We look at cryptid databases and we look at UFO databases.

[narrator] While UFO databases contain research and data

and accounts pertaining to potential UFO sightings,

cryptid databases deal with cryptozoology

or the study of unknown, legendary, or extinct animals.

So we did find

on March 26, 2021,

approximately 200 miles southwest of that area,

there was a report of a long, bright object

with no wings

that moved across the sky.

-Fantastic. -Yeah.

[Chrissy] On the same day, in the same location,

the witness observed a luminous object

-in the treetops. -Oh, wow.

It moved down, and then it slowly vanished.

-Wow. -[Chrissy] Yeah.

Then it says here

that unusual sounds were heard then as well.

-That's like you were hearing sounds. -Wow. Yeah.

Can you do it again?

[whistles]

[Chrissy] Amazing.

And that was in the Newcastle area.

-Do you know where that is? -[Sondra] Yeah, that's north.

-[Chad] Yeah. It's north of us, yeah. -How far is that?

-45 minutes... well, 50 miles. -Yeah.

-That's fascinating. -[Chrissy] Mm-hmm.

We also sent it off to have it analyzed.

The expert that did the analysis on this footprint

is Dr. Jeff Meldrum.

He's a Professor of anatomy and anthropology

at Idaho State University.

He thinks it resembles a prehistoric biped,

which walks on its toes.

It has a metatarsal pad.

That's great.

So the final conclusion

that Dr. Meldrum said,

it's an emu.

-Really? -[Chrissy] Yeah.

-Oh. -Oh, wow.

[Chrissy] Right.

Within our research,

-we found out the Emu farm was 11 miles north. -[Sondra] Ah.

[Sondra] But did any get loose during that time?

-They're caged in to the property. -Right.

-[Chrissy] Yeah. -So how could two of them get out

-and travel that far? -[Chrissy] So...

We do know that it's located in the region.

I go by the research

and the analysis.

So I have to say this is not an alien footprint,

but an Emu footprint.

I know that you guys bring

tremendous credibility to the table.

You took the tracks.

You consulted with the game warden.

And over and above all,

I want to emphasize that you behaved

with impeccable responsibility.

I think you guys should write a handbook

about field research.

-Yeah, thank you. -[Chrissy] That's awesome.

My hat is off to you. I'm with you.

I wish it was a mysterious beast.

The data is definitive.

This is not an alien footprint.

It's an escaped emu footprint.

What you've done goes a long way

towards helping people understand

some of this strange phenomena.

-So thank you so much. -Yeah.

-[Mitch] A real pleasure. -[Chrissy] Thank you.

If you found something like this

in the Dunbar Mountains,

would you really think it was an emu?

[Sondra] I just thought it was a little strange

that we could see them coming up out of the water.

But where'd they go from there?

They walked around in circles.

And we don't know

where the tracks went from there.

They don't fly.

So where'd they go?

I'm still going to go out and look for these things

because I'm not quite sure that it was an emu.

Well, it was kind of exciting.

You know, the romantic in me is always happy

when somebody has a cast of footprint.

Even though I'm in the UFO field,

I think cryptids are awesome.

I love it when people tell me stories about cryptids.

It blows my mind. It also scares me, too.

I want to go camping with Chad.

-[chuckling] Yeah. -And, uh, I want to go to all the scary places.

Yeah, totally. Totally.

[indistinct chatter]

[Mitch] Well, another good night

at the Variety.

-Yeah. Oh, man. -One more joke for the road. [chuckles]

What do you find on every alien farm?

-I don't know. -A tractor beam.

[both chuckle]

[man] One of us noticed a light in the sky.

Then it kept coming closer to us.

And it kept getting bigger.

But we were all like, "What the [bleep] is this?"

[woman] Me and my kids were driving,

and from the back of the car

I can see a string of lights in the sky.

What the [bleep] is in the sky?

-[woman 2] It's moving. -[woman] Yeah, it's going!

As I'm videotaping the craft,

I audibly ask the craft,

[Mitch] You have a lot to lose

if people see you stepping forward.

I'm not making anything up.