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A series of mystery sightings in the sky

are raising national security concerns now.

[man1] Navy pilots say they saw something

that defies the limits of known aviation technology.

[narrator] For decades, the US government

has ignored reports of unidentified flying objects,

harassing our military.

[Derrel Sims] Lying to the public is part of what we do,

you pay us to do it.

[narrator] Finally, a groundbreaking Pentagon disclosure

makes one thing clear,

UFOs are real.

UFOs are real.

U.S. Navy has finally acknowledged

that videos appearing to show UFO's flying through the air are real.

The navy says it still doesn't know

what the objects are

and officials aren't speculating.

[narrator] For the first time ever,

members of the military are breaking their silence.

I never spoke a word about my incident for almost 40 years.

[narrator] With shocking revelations,

[David Schindele] There was no doubt that

an unidentified flying object

took our missiles off alert.

[narrator] And horrifying encounters.

This is nothing that words can even describe.

This is nothing that words can even describe.

[man 3] It's like a orb man, look at that [bleep]

It's pulsating.

[narrator] But are we prepared...

[John Desouza] A single UFO would have the ability

to wipe out the air force.

[narrator] For a war of the worlds.

The real worst case scenario is that

we are targeted for total extermination.

[intense music playing]

[narrator] In June 2021,

[narrator] In June 2021,

the Pentagon released an official report

detailing 144 UFO encounters by the US military.

Intelligence officials claim this is all they know about UFOs.

But critics aren't buying it,

including government insider, Rich Emberlin.

As a 30 year law enforcement veteran,

who has worked alongside the CIA,

FBI and Secret Service,

he believes,

we're in the midst of a massive military cover up.

we're in the midst of a massive military cover up.

Aliens are a threat

and our very existence is at risk.

Now, Rich is on a mission to expose the government's greatest secret,

why are aliens stalking our military?

And is our planet in jeopardy?

[intense music playing]

[narrator] Today, Rich is meeting

with retired Air Force Security Officer, Mario Woods,

with retired Air Force Security Officer, Mario Woods,

who knows firsthand what the military is hiding.

[Mario Woods] My God!

I can't believe, I'm on this road, man.

[narrator] For the first time in over 40 years,

Mario is returning to Ellsworth Air Force Base,

the site of his terrifying alien encounter

that proves

UFOs are a threat to us all.

[Mario] Unbelievable seeing this place.

I mean there's almost a sense of...

wariness I guess or

excitement all in the same way to

come back and be on the absolute road that you were on

all these years ago.

When all this happened.

-[Rich] I bet it is strange. -It is.

[Mario] And that's the facility, that's November One.

-[Rich] Wow! -[Mario] I cannot believe it's still here.

Still the same fence, I can't even believe it,

43 years ago.

My heart's beating about 1,000 RPMs right now.

Wow!

Wow!

Rich, I am speechless at this facility how it is were today.

As in... As still here?

Yeah, even here and existing.

[narrator] During the Cold War,

Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota,

was home to 150 nuclear missiles.

was home to 150 nuclear missiles.

All locked, loaded, and ready for the command

to launch at a moment's notice.

In 1977, Mario Woods oversaw security

at one of the launch control facilities,

called November One,

on the day, that would change his life,

forever.

[Mario] I was standing about right here.

And directly to East of us right there

at about a 30 degree angle, I see this object

and it's miles away.

And it was extremely bright,

And it was extremely bright,

brighter than anything else in the sky and it was flickering.

So, I just sit and looked at it for a minute,

I smoked a cigarette and I said, "well, that's awfully weird."

But if you look around us,

there is no nothing out here.

The brightest thing on the ground here would be this facility.

So, just for

fun,

I flipped the facility lights at it.

Walk back out here and look, smoked a cigarette,

didn't do nothing.

So, I start to go back in

and when I did, I turned to look back and it was gone.

Instantly?

Instantly, it was just gone.

I didn't see it go out it just, was gone.

I didn't see it go out it just, was gone.

[narrator] But that wasn't the end of Mario's encounter.

Just after midnight,

the launch facility receives a high threat alarm.

There's been a breach at November Five,

a missile silo, 15 minutes from the facility.

Mario and his partner, Sergeant Michael Johnson

receive the order to investigate.

But, as they approach November Five,

the site of the security breach,

the site of the security breach,

they are not prepared for what stands before them.

Been a long time since here Rich,

my heart's about to come out of my chest from this.

[Rich] So, this is it right here?

[Mario] That's it, right there.

[narrator] Hovering over the missile silo

is a giant glowing sphere of light,

approximately 100 feet tall

approximately 100 feet tall

and several hundred feet in diameter.

-You could feel the heat from it from right here. -Hmm hmm.

And I only say that because you could feel it

-almost through the windshield of that truck. -The radiation?

Yeah, gives me chills seeing it

and feeling it.

[inhales]

Phew!

Really, it really gets my... Really it bothers my heart.

I'd say that's normal.

I'd say that's normal.

This is a...

It's all right.

It's a lot.

This is a drawing.

This is where we pulled the vehicle to.

And this is the fence line of the facility.

[narrator] Mario vividly remembers

his paralyzing confrontation

with the ominous glowing sphere.

But the terrifying events that followed,

remain buried for many years.

Until a hypnotist helped him uncover hidden memories.

The atmosphere

was like vacuumed away from us.

So, it was becoming difficult to breathe?

Yeah, there was no oxygen, there was no air.

And I pull myself up on the windowsill of that truck

and I flashed my Maglite at this thing

not following any sequence.

No more different than

what was at the launch control facility where they're launched from.

And almost immediately, the pressure stopped.

And almost immediately, the pressure stopped.

Did you feel like you'd communicated with them?

I felt as if I asked for...

-Relief? -Relief.

[narrator] Seeing and interacting with a UFO

over the nuclear missile silo was shocking enough.

But there was more in store for Mario

and his partner Sergeant Michael Johnson.

A paralyzing encounter with several alien beings.

[Mario] We were sitting here.

And I just remember whispers, that's all I heard.

And then everything just,

And then everything just,

everything just went black from that point.

Next thing I know, I'm five to seven miles off in that direction

at a place called Newell lake,

which was a reservoir for this whole area.

[suspenseful music playing]

[narrator] Military security locates Mario Woods and Sergeant Michael Johnson

and takes them to be checked out by medical personnel.

Once cleared,

they're told to never speak about this experience to anyone

ever again.

God, I could still smell the air.

[crying]

It's nothing that words can even describe.

Your senses are just...

I can't even...

Come to grips with that,

whatever that is.

[Rich] You keep looking up.

You have to.

Did it feel threatening at all?

Mentally and visually,

so overwhelming that

you didn't know whether to fear,

mess yourself,

shoot at it.

And every one of those things

is not the right thing...

is not the right thing to do.

is not the right thing to do.

-[Rich] You were out of options. -Yeah.

[crying]

Whatever

they had in mind, they did.

And they'll continue to do it

and they've always done it.

And they're not done yet.

[thrilling music playing]

[narrator] Mario Woods' life changing encounter

has haunted him for over 40 years.

But the military's attempt to bury the truth

is even more frightening.

Why was the government suddenly silencing witnesses?

Were they trying to hide the aliens' interest in our military bases?

The classic cover-up

implies we may be in more danger

than we know.

than we know.

Your story of your encounter with the UFO's incredible.

I can't imagine what it was like.

So, if you think my story was bad and scary,

I'd really like you to speak with Captain David Schindele.

He was at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.

-And you can put us in touch with him? -Yeah.

I can put you in touch with him. He has a very interesting story

that was very scary.

[narrator] Like Mario Woods,

Captain David Schindele was also silenced by the military,

Captain David Schindele was also silenced by the military,

when one of the world's greatest nightmares

came true.

My name is David D. Schindele,

Captain US Air Force retired.

In 1966,

I was involved in an incident

while stationed at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.

[narrator] In 1966,

Captain Schindele had the monumental responsibility

of launching nuclear missiles

from inside a top secret control facility.

from inside a top secret control facility.

Today,

he's gained access to a near identical facility at

the Minuteman Missile Museum in South Dakota

and is showing Rich, how he performed

the most dangerous job on Earth.

And what happened

when a UFO took control

of a full arsenal of nuclear weapons.

We're going 60 feet down.

-Sixty feet? -Sixty feet down.

For?

You wonder why it's so deep?

You wonder why it's so deep?

-Yeah. -It's so that if we get nuked,

they're gonna have to really dig us out of the ground.

And so, the deeper we go

-the better it is. -[Rich] Roger that.

Incredible.

Well, Rich, this is where I spent

a good part of three years of my life.

Amazing.

So, this is your office.

So, this is your office.

-Yes, Rich. -Wow!

This is where the deputy crew commander sits.

And when they receive a message

from the primary alerting system

-to launch their missiles... -Yes, sir.

They'll access this, uh,

uh, lockbox.

They determine what missiles they're gonna launch.

And we have 10 switches here,

one for each of the 10 missiles.

[narrator] At the height of the Cold War,

those nuclear missiles are pointed at Russia.

those nuclear missiles are pointed at Russia.

Just one mistake down here could trigger World War III.

[Rich] You are a young man in your 20s

in charge of missiles that could

destroy parts or the entire world--

Well, that's exactly right.

We had tremendous responsibility

and we felt it.

[narrator] But nothing could have prepared

Captain Schindele

for what happens during one terrifying night

for what happens during one terrifying night

that starts out innocently enough

one cold September morning.

So, take me to the day.

You wake up, you're having breakfast,

and you're watching the news

at Minot and what do you see?

I heard the TV news announcer

say something to the fact that

residents of Walhalla, North Dakota

saw strange lights overnight.

And they were attributing it to a UFO

and these lights were in the west of town.

And when I heard that, I thought, "Oh my goodness,

And when I heard that, I thought, "Oh my goodness,

I'm scheduled for duty at November Five, west of Minot."

[narrator] Once Captain Schindele arrives at the control facility,

news about the UFO was quickly making the rounds.

[David] The flight security manager,

he approached me and said,

"Did you hear what happened overnight?"

[narrator] The manager tells Captain Schindele

that a mysterious disc shaped UFO,

about 100 feet in diameter,

about 100 feet in diameter,

invaded the skies

over the west end of the launch control facility.

I could tell in their voices

and in their faces that

it was a very, very frightening experience.

And they didn't wanna go outside and approach it,

it was that frightening.

[narrator] For a brief moment, the UFO idled undeterred,

until it suddenly disappeared into the open prairie.

But what happened next

But what happened next

will forever torment Captain Schindele.

So, this is the launch control console

that the commander sits at and monitors his missiles.

You can see that the green lights here indicate

the missiles are ready to be launched.

Well, the first thing we see was we have no green lights,

they're all off.

But there are a number of indicator lights that were on

yellow and red lights.

[Rich] But every light that was on meant bad.

Yes, and especially without a green light, they're unlaunchable.

Yes, and especially without a green light, they're unlaunchable.

[narrator] Just moments earlier,

all 10 nuclear missiles are ready for launch.

But suddenly, something has disarmed them,

leaving not only the United States,

but the entire world

vulnerable to enemy attack.

[David] That was a very serious problem

'cause we had never seen

the situation like this ever before.

There was no doubt that

an unidentified flying object

an unidentified flying object

took our missiles off alert.

[narrator] The mind bending event

leaves Captain Schindele wondering

if the United States is facing an existential threat

from a new enemy.

I mean, if they can do that,

what kind of threat do you think they bring to us?

Well, if they were able to take our...

nuclear tipped missiles off alert,

I have tended to wonder about that.

I have tended to wonder about that.

What else they could do?

Could they actually

remove our nuclear warheads?

And what's their fascination with them,

are they trying to like

prep the battlefield, soften it up?

-That's a good question. -By--

You know, the military has long had this problem

of these things harassing them.

In fact, my commander and I were told

as soon as we came above ground the next morning,

that we're never to say another word about this incident again.

In fact, we were told,

In fact, we were told,

"as far as you're concerned, it never happened.

Don't you ever talk about this again to anybody

or even between yourselves."

[narrator] Fifty five years,

that's how long Captain Schindele keeps his secret.

A secret that festers inside him,

until 2013.

When he heroically comes forward

to six former members of Congress

at the National Press Club.

at the National Press Club.

I was involved in an incident

while stationed at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.

I was told to never speak of the incident again.

And also told that "as far as I was concerned,

it never happened."

Because of that,

I am before you today,

with a bit of trepidation,

I must say a lot of trepidation,

as I have never before,

as I have never before,

shown my face in person on this matter.

Was it tough talking during that?

It was very tough. I was emotional, then too, like I think I sort of am now.

I can see where this would eat at you,

for so many years when you knew something happened

and you can't tell anybody.

-And then-- -I couldn't tell my wife at the time.

I couldn't tell anybody.

Because I did have personal integrity,

but that personal integrity now,

leans toward the truth.

Perfect.

Perfect.

And I'm obligated now to tell the truth.

-You we're following orders before. -Yes.

-Now, you're following the truth. -Yes.

[narrator] But what is the truth?

And why is the military hiding it?

That is exactly what Rich is on a mission

to find out.

[thrilling music playing]

[explosion]

[suspenseful music playing]

[narrator] After meeting with Captain David Schindele,

Rich Emberlin is convinced,

UFOs have the power to wage war at any moment.

[alarm blaring]

In fact, it almost happened when US Armed Forces open fire

on a fleet of UFOs

in the Battle of Los Angeles.

In the frantic weeks that followed

the deadly attack on Pearl Harbor,

many Americans feared a Japanese invasion

of the continental United States

was imminent.

But according to Nick Pope,

a former UFO investigator for the British Ministry of Defense,

this was not the only enemy the US had to fear.

War nerves were in play.

Everyone was on edge.

Everyone was on edge.

There was a lot of panic and hysteria.

[narrator] On February 25th, 1942,

nightmare becomes reality,

when military radar picks up what appears to be an enemy airplane

120 miles west of Los Angeles.

[Nick Pope] This strange object

appeared and, uh,

basically coastal defenses opened fire.

[narrator] While Los Angeles erupts in panic,

[narrator] While Los Angeles erupts in panic,

a mandatory blackout goes into effect,

while the military fires over 1,400 rounds of ammunition

into the night sky.

[Derrel] That night, during the Battle of Los Angeles,

it was like a Hollywood movie.

There was chaos everywhere.

[narrator] The next morning, Angelenos awaken,

expecting to see a Japanese invasion force lying off shore.

But to their surprise,

But to their surprise,

it's the exact opposite.

[suspenseful music playing]

No Japanese aircraft or, or weapons were, were found.

There was no evidence that this had been

a Japanese attack.

But this strange object had been seen.

[narrator] Many believe the mysterious object that caused city wide panic

was in fact a UFO.

But the military vehemently denies such accusations.

[Derrel] The amazing thing to me is

[Derrel] The amazing thing to me is

if it was the Japanese attacking us,

how did they get those

Japanese aeros, those airplanes

to stop midair,

with a bright light,

take 1,400 rounds

and never hit one of them.

And then they just left.

[Nick] To this day,

whatever happened in the Battle of LA

remains a complete mystery.

[narrator] The Battle of Los Angeles

is one of many historical incidents the military has dismissed.

is one of many historical incidents the military has dismissed.

But what were they trying to hide?

The government reaction

to these UFO incidents

is the traditional one.

Deny, downplay, debunk.

[Derrel] I think the reason that the CIA

or other intelligence communities would cover this stuff up

is from a military point of view,

you can't protect us and you know it.

[distant explosion]

[narrator] In the wake of World War II,

[narrator] In the wake of World War II,

the military suddenly realized

we were facing a new adversary.

And as more UFO stories surfaced,

the government cover ups continued.

The most notorious took place in 1947,

when a UFO crash landed near Roswell, New Mexico.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Nick] Roswell is literally the ground zero

[Nick] Roswell is literally the ground zero

of the modern UFO phenomenon.

[TV presenter] The Navy has no saucer shaped aircraft or missile

in any of these programs.

The Air Force itself has officially admitted that flying saucers exist.

[man 6] Forty seven years ago, something crashed into the desert

outside Roswell, New Mexico.

And for 47 years, the Pentagon lied about it.

This was the incident where something crashed.

So, this was the day that we went beyond

lights in the sky

lights in the sky

and

we faced the reality of something physical.

And the US military admitted as much.

[narrator] The startling press release

quickly turns into headlines around the world.

But just 24 hours later,

the government has second thoughts.

The next day, literally,

they change their story, it says weather balloon.

[narrator] Instead of a flying disc,

[narrator] Instead of a flying disc,

the government now maintains the unidentified flying object

was a mistaken weather balloon.

Obviously,

at a much higher level,

somebody said, "hey, you can't say flying disc.

You gotta come up with a cover story."

[Derrel] In my opinion, the president of United States found out

about it by the next day and said,

"Get rid of it" and they did.

[narrator] US Military and government denial of the Roswell crash

has confounded the public for nearly 80 years.

has confounded the public for nearly 80 years.

People say sometimes, oh you can't keep a secret that big.

Yes, you can.

And history shows us time and time again

that huge secrets

can be kept.

[narrator] So, what exactly is the government covering up?

Someone who knows the answer is Agent X.

A former CIA operative, who has agreed to speak with Rich

A former CIA operative, who has agreed to speak with Rich

providing he can keep his identity a secret.

It's pretty incredible that he's gonna talk to me

because it's a big risk for him

to talk about things like UFOs.

When I first came in and worked at headquarters, nobody really owned a desk.

You know, you sat at wherever the convenient place to sit was.

In the older days, back in the '40s, '50s, all through the '60s,

things were piled in boxes in desk drawers.

The place was full of stuff and nobody had any idea what it was.

The place was full of stuff and nobody had any idea what it was.

When the agency entered modern era,

cubicles showed up and certain things

were in convenient old fashioned

heavy gauged cardboard boxes.

Those boxes all wound up going to a place in the library called

the Historical Intelligence Collection.

I was in there one day and there was a metal rack with all these boxes

and I was just scanning around

and I saw one that said Roswell.

and I saw one that said Roswell.

And I thought, "Wow, are you kidding me?"

I opened it up and what was inside,

I cannot, I will not, under any circumstances,

tell you what I saw in there specifically.

There were materials, there were papers, there were other items.

I 100% in my heart and soul guarantee

Roswell happened.

There was a craft,

absolutely cadavers.

Beyond that, I have no idea where everything else went, nobody knows where it is.

Beyond that, I have no idea where everything else went, nobody knows where it is.

[narrator] If a UFO actually crash landed at Roswell,

and alien cadavers were recovered,

why was it hushed up by the government.

Rich wonders if the military knew

what the aliens were planning.

After learning the truth about Roswell from Agent X,

Rich is left with one lingering question.

What were UFOs doing there?

Perhaps the aliens crash landed,

before they reached their final destination.

Could they have been headed to the

White Sands Missile Range instead?

The world's largest military installation

and the test site for the first atomic bomb.

and the test site for the first atomic bomb.

[John] The proximity of White Sands

secret weapons testing site,

the fact that is right next to where Roswell happened,

that's not a coincidence either.

[narrator] To help determine why the aliens

may have been scoping out White Sands,

Rich looks back to the 1940s,

when the US Government first authorized a top secret nuclear testing program,

code named, The Manhattan Project.

code named, The Manhattan Project.

Its goal was to develop the world's first atomic bomb.

On July 16th, 1945,

their efforts finally came to fruition.

After three years of research,

the first ever nuclear detonation,

known as the Trinity Test,

exploded in the New Mexico desert.

[distant explosion]

[narrator] Did the Trinity test

[narrator] Did the Trinity test

somehow catch the attention of aliens in outer space?

Is this when they became aware of our nuclear weapons?

Could it mean, they have their eyes on our military?

[explosion]

[John] The impact of the Trinity test was tremendous in the scope.

The effects were felt 100 miles away.

It broke windows 120 miles away.

It broke windows 120 miles away.

[narrator] The Trinity test released an explosive force of 21 kilotons,

equivalent to 10,000 tons of TNT

and created a blinding flash of light

with a giant mushroom cloud 38,000 feet tall.

[Nick] Put yourself in the mind's eye

of an extraterrestrial war planner,

looking at Earth.

And they see the Trinity test.

That's the point where they have to come up with a new plan,

That's the point where they have to come up with a new plan,

because that's the point

that they realized they are facing a nuclear power.

[distant explosion]

[Nick] Earth now has nuclear weapons.

And, with the missile technology,

they have perhaps, the capability to get these things into space.

[narrator] July 9th, 1962,

detonating a nuclear weapon in outer space became a reality,

detonating a nuclear weapon in outer space became a reality,

when a test known as Starfish Prime

was launched from Johnston Island,

900 miles southwest of Hawaii.

[distant explosion]

[Nick] Starfish Prime was a staggering event.

I mean, this was a, the detonation 250 miles in space.

And suddenly here we are,

not just detonating

nuclear bombs on the ground, but in space.

nuclear bombs on the ground, but in space.

It's like,

we've ratcheted things up a notch.

So, that's the point,

where any extraterrestrials looking at Earth,

say this is a planet that needs watching closely.

[distant explosion]

[narrator] One hundred times more powerful than the Trinity Test,

Starfish Prime was the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated in outer space.

[Nick] It caused an electromagnetic pulse

that knocked out street lights

and led to radio interference.

[John] It makes us really wonder,

what was being seen in the other dimension.

It's kind of like ringing the dinner bell

and saying, "Here we are, come and get us."

[distant explosion]

[narrator] Nuclear blasts may have attracted aliens to our planet,

but what was their plan once they arrived?

Is this when UFOs started surveilling our military?

Rich heads to Franklin, Kentucky to find out.

To most, Franklin, Kentucky appears to be a typical southern town.

But, beneath this facade lies a dark mystery.

In 1948,

it was here, the 25-year-old fighter pilot,

Captain Thomas Mantell

made headlines around the world,

after he died chasing a UFO

in the skies above Franklin, Kentucky.

in the skies above Franklin, Kentucky.

For over 70 years,

his tragic plane crash

has left the community clamoring for answers

including Mantell's grandsons,

Eric and Terry Mantell.

-Hey, how you doing? -Hi guys, Rich Emberlin.

Eric Mantell, nice to meet you.

-Terry Mantell. -It's an honor to meet both y'all.

[narrator] Rich believes, they can help him understand

how far the military will go,

to continually hide the truth about UFOs from the public.

to continually hide the truth about UFOs from the public.

[Rich] Some of the medals here, just absolutely amazing.

Wow.

-For a guy that's, how old was he, 25? -Twenty five.

He already had two Presidential Unit Citations.

This is a major award, the Distinguished Flying Cross.

For someone that's 25-years-old,

already has all that,

that guy's legit, and he was going places.

A competent pilot,

A competent pilot,

hero.

It just solidifies, who he was as a pilot,

as a person, who had two kids

and a wife that he was madly in love with

and he still put his life on the line whatever happened that day.

[phone ringing]

[narrator] On January 7th, 1948,

control tower operators at Godman Army Airfield

in Fort Knox, Kentucky

receive a report of an unidentified flying object hovering over the base.

There's a bunch of calls all over the state of Kentucky

that was flooding into the police department.

"We see something, it's huge, it's metallic, what is it?"

[narrator] Controllers immediately radio

the Kentucky Air National Guard.

Captain Thomas Mantell,

who is leading a flight of four P 51 Aircraft is sent to investigate.

Within minutes,

Mantell and his wingmen close in on the mysterious object.

He reported that it was shiny,

He reported that it was shiny,

metallic, tremendous in size,

reported seeing observation windows.

[narrator] But then, Mantell gives an astonishing order

to one of the pilots in his formation,

"return to base and arm your plane with hot guns."

The military term, which means

prepare to fire.

So, it's what I always thought was really interesting because

for me, it's almost like the smoking gun of the whole case.

They knew what was going on. They knew it's a serious matter

and they just wouldn't do hot guns,

for no reason.

The reasons he's requesting hot guns is he feels threatened,

and he's a seasoned guy.

He's not gonna ask for that unless he needs it.

[narrator] While the other plane prepares for intergalactic battle,

Mantell climbs higher and higher in pursuit of the UFO.

So, he chased this thing and at around 20,000 feet,

they lost contact, that's where the mystery kinda starts.

[narrator] Captain Mantell's plane is last seen as it hurdles to the ground,

crash landing in a field in Franklin, Kentucky.

crash landing in a field in Franklin, Kentucky.

The same town where ironically,

he was born just 25 years earlier.

One of the last people to see the plane

was local resident Doyle Burnette,

who is just seven years old when the P 51 Aircraft tragically fell from the sky.

[Doyle Burnette] I heard an explosion

and we looked up

and we saw a plane coming down

and one wing flew off of the plane

and one wing flew off of the plane

and went across the field from us.

[narrator] Doyle's wife Patsy also witnessed the crash.

This is the house you grew up in?

Yes, this is, where I grew up.

And this is where you were at when the plane came down?

-Yes. -How old were you?

-I was four years old, -Really

but I remember it well.

I don't think you could forget that.

No you can't.

-No. -The noise when it hit the roof.

It was just...

It was worse than a hailstorm.

[narrator] Within hours, the horrific crash attracted

[narrator] Within hours, the horrific crash attracted

onlookers from around the area,

while the press blurted out news of a military

plane crashing while chasing a UFO.

[Rich] Did the military ever show up?

[Patsy Burnette] Oh yes, they came to our house and...

I, they woke us up in the middle of night. It was a very cold night.

Well, my mother asked military officers,

what made the plane crash

and their standard answer

was "he flew too high and ran out of oxygen."

[narrator] There have been many attempts to explain

what caused Captain Mantell's plane to crash.

No official reports

mentioned anything about a UFO.

And this opens more questions than answers.

A report came out

afterwards saying that...

-[Rich] After this one? -Yes, yes.

-A military one? -Military report.

Yes sir, that he was perhaps chasing Venus,

then another report came out saying that he was

perhaps chasing a weather balloon.

perhaps chasing a weather balloon.

So, that Venus stuff is ridiculous.

He sees weather balloons all the time too.

They always launch them on near bases.

They do it in the morning, before planes takeoff.

This is a piece of your grandfather's plane

they recovered from the crash scene.

This is amazing.

This is very emotional for me.

This is very emotional for me.

Has to be. How can't it be...

It's emotional for me and I didn't know the man.

[narrator] Well, Captain Mantell

will forever be immortalized in Franklin, Kentucky history.

Now, his grandson's

finally have the opportunity to pay homage to his great sacrifice.

Franklin resident Joe Phillips,

has offered to take Eric and Terry to the crash site,

where their grandfather, a true American hero,

where their grandfather, a true American hero,

lost his life chasing a UFO.

[Joe Phillips] We're basically, right in front of it,

Right there.

When it hit and shook the ground,

people to come around to see something like that.

It was a terrible day.

There's so many emotions going through,

through my mind, really right now.

Now, we're standing right here on the ground,

means a lot, not only to Eric and myself,

means a lot, not only to Eric and myself,

but our whole family,

his plane, his PF 51 was sitting right where we are standing in,

which is, it's amazing.

I just wonder,

you know, what he was thinking.

If he came to...

[Nick] He is someone, Thomas Mantell, served at D Day,

lives through that

and then dies

years later in peacetime

over the continental United States, chasing a UFO

in a situation where the government says says there's no such thing.

in a situation where the government says says there's no such thing.

And yet, you've got to live with this. You've got to...

deal with the fact that this happened

in your family, your grandfather.

I wish I could have swayed your loss,

but there's just no words for that.

Take your time.

I don't know how people

deal with that, I don't know how they get that closure.

But, I hope they do.

Let's say a prayer.

Dear God, thank you for this day.

We do know that Tommy and his mother

We do know that Tommy and his mother

and his wife are together

right now and that's the faith that we have

and that's what carries us on and

we love you Jesus in our prayer, Amen.

[narrator] The world may never know

what Captain Thomas Mantell encountered

25,000 feet up in the air.

Could his death have been a warning

that the worst is yet to come?

And if so, Rich wants to know

is the military prepared to fight back?

[explosion]

[narrator] While, Captain Mantell was the first pilot to die

chasing a UFO.

None have ever been ordered to fire on one

until 1957,

when Major Milton Torres Jr. survived the greatest UFO faceoff

of all time.

And became the centerpiece of yet another military cover-up.

And became the centerpiece of yet another military cover-up.

Rich is bringing in Roderick Martin,

a field investigator for the highly respected

Mutual UFO Network,

known as MUFON.

After witnessing a UFO chasing an Air Force fighter jet

at the age of 12,

Roderick has made it his lifelong quest

to uncover why aliens are stalking our military.

Today,

Roderick is arranged to meet with Major Torres' son, Geoffrey,

at the organization's annual conference in Las Vegas.

[Roderick Martin] Geoff, thank you for meeting with us today.

We have been investigating

several different incidents of pilots chasing or engaging with UFOs,

but unfortunately, some of those lost their lives.

In this case, with your father,

-he survived to tell you. -Yeah.

And that's really what's intriguing us today.

So, let's start from the beginning.

You, can you take us back to his career,

so, that we can kind of get a little understanding there.

[Geoffrey Torres] My father served 20 years

in the United States Air Force,

and he had over 300 combat missions in Vietnam.

So, he was a well decorated officer.

And, he also worked for NASA during the space program.

-[Joe] Wow, impressive, -[Geoffrey] But , uh, you know, I can say, I was...

-[Joe] Wow, impressive, -[Geoffrey] But , uh, you know, I can say, I was...

I lived in the land of giants, 'cause I did

and he was one of them.

[narrator] At the height of the Cold War,

hysteria surrounding enemy invasions were mounting.

Any indication of an unidentified aerial craft

puts the military on high alert.

[siren blaring]

May 20, 1957,

American fighter pilot Major Milton Torres Jr.

is stationed at a US military base in England,

when suddenly, he's given the order to scramble,

when suddenly, he's given the order to scramble,

after a mysterious object is detected on ground radar.

[Man on radio]

[narrator] Tearing across the sky at nearly 700 miles per hour,

Torres fearlessly pursues the unidentified enemy.

He said the radar signature was

as big as an aircraft carrier at sea.

It was huge.

[narrator] The Strange blip on Torres's radar screen

is unlike anything he's ever seen.

is unlike anything he's ever seen.

He was chasing this thing on a radar and

as, as it was doing...

The one thing I do remember is it was doing

incredible maneuvers

that would defy physics.

And, that was his words, "they defied physics."

[narrator] Armed with an arsenal of 24 missiles,

ground control orders Torres to engage.

[man on radio]

It scared the hell out him because,

you know, you're thinking, you're starting World War III.

you know, you're thinking, you're starting World War III.

You know, or what the hell is this thing?

What am I firing at?

-But yet he went with courage. -[Geoffrey] Oh, yeah.

He went right into it.

But, he's thinking,

this is the beginning of...

the end.

[narrator] Torres locks in his target

and prepares to fire.

Once you lock on and you fire,

the computer takes over.

[Roderick] Mmm.

And as computer's taking over this thing

boop, boop in two sweeps two sweeps, on the radar was gone.

boop, boop in two sweeps two sweeps, on the radar was gone.

He said his knees were shaking.

He said, "what the hell was that?"

And you know, he was totally spooked.

And he calls ground radar.

And, he says ground radar, "I don't know what happened.

But, this thing just

disappeared off my scope."

-Wow. That is, yes-- -My dad tells me it was an alien craft.

There was nothing it couldn't have been

it was an alien craft.

[Roderick] Wow!

[narrator] Following the incident,

Torres heads back to base,

Torres heads back to base,

where he's immediately intercepted by a superior officer.

One of the enlisted men brought an NSA guy

with a IBM salesman,

you know, black suit and tie.

The traditional Men in Black that we all hear about.

-Absolutely, absolutely. -Okay.

[Geoffrey] And the guy came in,

and he basically said, "do you like flying,

Lieutenant Torres?" My dad said, "I love flying."

He said, well, listen, he says

"If you ever reveal what has happened, you'll never fly again.

"If you ever reveal what has happened, you'll never fly again.

"We'll pull your rank,

"we'll pull your pilot's license and you'll be dog [bleep]

And my dad said, "Yes, sir."

He says, "You will not talk about this ever again.

"This didn't happen.

"Don't tell your wife, don't tell anybody."

-Fifty years? -Yeah.

How did he hold it together all of this time

without just

-breaking? -It ate him up.

He locked it in his head. He just had a lockbox there.

And you couldn't get it out of him.

And you couldn't get it out of him.

And, how was life after that for your father?

I think the most profound thing was, not to tell his father.

You know, because my dad was close with my grandfather,

you know, they were close.

And, for him to not even tell his father

just

bewilders the mind.

And, you know,

I think, he took that to his grave

that he never was able to tell his dad.

I think he really took that to his grave.

[narrator] Although Torres is prohibited from speaking about his UFO encounter,

it doesn't stop him from secretly writing about it.

He knew from day one, it's a cover up.

And, he knew possibly that this could die with him.

He had the foresight to say, you know what,

we're gonna get an affidavit in place

so, it doesn't disappear.

[narrator] In 2003,

Torres's account resurfaces after the British Ministry of Defense

Torres's account resurfaces after the British Ministry of Defense

declassified thousands of pages of UFO documents,

and releases them to the public.

I had been asked to help with the

promotion of the declassification and release

ministry of defense UFO files.

So, what I was able to do

was to act as a sort of intermediary

and forewarn

Milton Torres that this was going to come out

and then do some media

and then do some media

work with him.

[narrator] In April 2009,

Nick Pope invited Major Torres to speak at a UFO conference, in Gaithersburg, Maryland,

where he was finally able to share his story with the world.

[audience clapping]

So, without any further ado

for myself, I would like now

to hand over to Major Milton Torres.

[audience clapping]

[audience clapping]

[Nick] If ever you want an unimpeachable witness

I mean, Milton Torres was it.

A decorated hero he really was the best of the best.

I have been convinced since then,

that was an alien.

And, nobody's gonna talk me out of that one.

I did it myself.

And, I thank you for your...

[audience clapping]

[Nick] He could not tell this story,

without breaking down.

I mean, just the emotion of it, was

was too much for him.

I was pleased that I was able to bring him

some closure before he died.

Thank you very much, Nick, for

being instrumental in bringing this about, because

if you weren't there to bring this out,

he would have carried it to his grave.

At the end of his life,

you know, he was able to finally get some relief.

And, he was unburdened by it, you know.

I mean, obviously, for you, this is a deeply personal

I mean, obviously, for you, this is a deeply personal

-Yeah. -family thing.

But, let's not forget, and I don't want to

-kind of reduce your father to being -Yeah.

-just a case, but -Yeah.

there's no getting away from the fact that

this is one of the biggest and most spectacular UFO incidents of all time.

Yeah.

People talk about Roswell and the other big cases,

but this is right out there.

What could be bigger and more impactful

than getting ordered to shoot down a UFO?

[narrator] After the MUFON conference,

Roderick concludes that, if the military

ordered Major Torres to open fire,

they must have known

UFOs are a threat.

But, how will we know if it's an alien invasion?

[narrator] To find out, if UFOs threaten our airspace.

Rich and Roderick meet with investigative journalist Melissa Tittl

at a central location.

As the daughter of an Air Force veteran,

and with over two decades of experience

reporting on UFOs,

Melissa brings a wealth of contacts,

including Ted Roe,

including Ted Roe,

Executive Director of NARCAP,

The National Aviation Reporting Center

On Anomalous Phenomenon.

Together,

they will examine his nearly 20 years of research on pilot related incidents

with unidentified aerial phenomenon.

More commonly known as UAP's.

Ted Roe, we are so honored to have you here today.

Ted Roe, we are so honored to have you here today.

So, I have to say how did you get involved in this,

specifically researching the safety incidents with aircraft?

[Ted Roe] I got involved with this type of research, because UAP

experiences were something that happened to me,

and I wanted to understand it better.

Can you tell us about one of your particular experiences?

[Ted] It involved an observation over Oakland, California,

in January of 1999.

We were southbound on 880.

We were southbound on 880.

My friend Susan was driving,

and about a mile away this thing stopped

right next to the Oakland Federal building.

And at that point, it jumped,

it moved faster than I could blink.

What I saw was a cylinder

about 45 feet long.

I'm guessing it had two big white lights underneath it.

As we moved along this way, eventually it turned and paralleled the car.

And then, for some reason, it got very dark, really fast.

And we gained about three hours in time.

We drove for maybe a minute and 15 seconds

linear time and three hours in some past.

Uff!

Wow! That's amazing.

Did your life completely change after this moment?

Absolutely.

I felt very unwell.

And, that literally has become your life now?

Yeah. And it's been my life arc since, it's the only thing I do.

Yeah. And it's been my life arc since, it's the only thing I do.

We've been collecting data,

I have over 100 years of pilot reports of unidentified aerial phenomena.

And what are some of the patterns that you've noticed

in some of your research specifically?

Pilots commonly report

four basic varieties of UAPs.

They report balls of light, they report spheres,

cylinders and disks,

common geometric forms.

There are others, but those are the primary ones that we see on the data.

Balls of light made up nearly 50% of the cases that we

are aware of at this point.

And, what are the interactions with the pilots and the balls of light?

And, what are the interactions with the pilots and the balls of light?

We've had accounts of them coming

and barrel rolling around aircraft.

Other types of observations include

just having them come at you from a distance and pass you.

But, there seems to be a personal

aspect to the pacing of the aircraft.

Hmm, a personal aspect?

Coming up next to the aircraft and staying with it.

Okay, so there's an interactive quality between an aircraft versus

something that's just going by and you saw it.

Why are they pacing these aircraft?

Why are they trying to interact with them?

My guess is that they are information gathering.

My guess is that they are information gathering.

What do you think the message is?

Look, what we can do.

Hmm, it's kind of scary.

Yeah. It's very sobering.

We should be paying very close attention to this. This is not a joke.

Right now, it doesn't look good.

We've been talking a lot about military incidents.

But, do you find that commercial

-pilots are coming forward? -[Ted] Yeah.

In fact, we have Mr. Erik Delgado,

who was a pilot, who had a UAP encounter

in the air that I investigated.

He's got most of 30 years in the cockpit.

He's got a military career behind him.

He's got a military career behind him.

And, he's actually willing to come forward

and talk about this a little bit with us.

Why don't we get him on a video call?

-Let's do it. -Let's do it.

Hello.

Hi, Erik can you share with us a little bit about what happened?

My name is Eric Delgado.

I'm a captain on the Boeing 767

for a cargo outfit here in the southern United States.

Our destination was Memphis.

First officer and I were just talking about you know, the trip

and I look over my left shoulder and I see this massive white light.

and I look over my left shoulder and I see this massive white light.

- [Erik] Turn on the tail light, okay, come on. - [man 1] Oh, it is on.

That's why I thought it was an airplane 'cause

this thing is rotating into us.

And, I'm like, oh my God, he's descending into us and, just it really scared me.

Got my hands on the flight controls and on the throttles.

And I was expecting the TCAS

The Traffic Collision and Avoidance System

on our aircraft started screaming at us

to descend now. So, I was like really scared.

And heart's racing.

It's like an orb man, look at that [bleep].

It's pulsating.

And, he's not on TCAS man.

Flip the TCAS switch up

and see if you see anything on the display.

and see if you see anything on the display.

[Erik] This system that warns of traffic

around or near our aircraft was not going off

either orally and was not depicting anything, ah, visually.

That is a unidentified flying object bro.

Jeez man, that is freaky man.

[Erik] And, it was then I realized,

oh my God, this is an unidentified flying object.

And I'm like, I've been flying for nearly 30 years of my life

and I've never seen anything like this.

[man 1] That is phenomenal man, look at that.

[Eric] There's our airplane.

And, there's no TCAS,

it's weather

it's weather

about 40 miles off our left wingtip.

It was out of this world.

Wow!

There's no way we can compete with that type of speed and maneuverability.

What if it could have like some type of a weapon on there?

Plasma Energy of some sort because

a missile would seem so, outdated.

I mean, the threat is real.

We're in trouble. if these guys wanted to

man, they could run circles around us.

If we were to associate

them with a hostile take over a coupe

if you will, on a scale of one out of ten, you know, one

at least and ten the worst, a nine.

at least and ten the worst, a nine.

The intent as what they're doing here, your guess is as good as mine.

We appreciate your service and your time.

-Yeah, appreciate your service. -Thank you.

My pleasure, nice to meet all of you.

When somebody like Erik steps up,

he is a straight arrow. He's here to tell you what he saw.

Stories of

UAP, balls of light go back decades, in fact, I brought some photographs.

This is a photograph of ball of light over Catalina Island

taken in 1947.

And this is a still from Mr. Delgado's encounter last year.

[Melissa] Wow!

Look how similar they look.

So, these two pictures were taken over 70 years apart,

and they virtually look the same.

Yes.

What do you think that they are monitoring?

Is it our progress as humans,

is it our technology?

I think strategically, they are here to occupy

and they are doing it as part of their overall

pattern of colonization or expansion.

Are they a threat?

Are they a threat?

I would think so.

They outmatch us on every level.

They don't respect boundaries.

We could find ourselves dealing

with an extinction level event.

It could be very bad.

[narrator] If aliens decide to wage war and take over our planet,

does humanity stand a fighting chance?

Or will an invasion

be the end of the world as we know it.

be the end of the world as we know it.

After meeting with Ted Roe, and Erik Delgado,

Rich believes we're at a critical point.

It's more pressing than ever

for him to determine how aliens may carry out an attack.

To further investigate the aliens war plan,

Rich has traveled to Texas.

To meet with Lieutenant Colonel Kent Johnson,

To meet with Lieutenant Colonel Kent Johnson,

a highly decorated retired Air Force pilot,

who may be able to help Rich understand the aliens' capabilities.

[Rich] Again, thank you for coming forward.

I know it's not easy for former military or

current military people to come forward, but

I do appreciate it.

It's more of a sense of obligation than anything else, because of

the most recent report that came out from Congress

and I figured, well,

someone needs to know that this is not unusual and it is happening.

someone needs to know that this is not unusual and it is happening.

[narrator] In January 1991,

Lieutenant Colonel Kent Johnson

is on what he thinks

is a routine training mission in Saudi Arabia during Gulf War One.

[Lt Col Kent Johnson] I was working with t he US Army.

I am in an, OH-58 Kiowa helicopter.

It's an unarmed observation two place helicopter.

Now, to give you a better idea of what that environment looked like

that's the type of desert environment.

that's the type of desert environment.

And, you can see it's rather flat and featureless

that would be me and there is

the other pilot that was on with me

during that mission.

This picture right here was taken pretty much

just before the incident occurred.

[narrator] Lieutenant Johnson and his co-pilot are hovering 50 feet

above the desert sand.

When suddenly,

something from over a mile away demands their attention.

An ominous shadow, the size of a football field,

snaps towards them at over 1000 miles per hour

and disappears into the desert.

We were searching around looking up and down,

I couldn't see

what was casting the shadow.

[narrator] But then, the shadow returns

only this time with a vengeance

as it heads straight for Lieutenant Colonel Johnson's helicopter.

Suddenly, the shadow mysteriously stops directly in front of them.

It stopped, it was reacting to us, obviously,

because we were getting in its flight path.

It slams on the brakes.

Hit the zero.

That thing violated what we understand the laws of physics to be.

It would be like running into a

concrete wall

or a granite mountain site at 20,000 miles an hour.

It will just splatter everything and everybody all around it.

It will just splatter everything and everybody all around it.

Wow!

Let me show you something here that I think you'll really appreciate.

To better describe what we were seeing

as far as the shadow is concerned, the sharp edge

is, if you envision something that's flying at altitude,

the shadow becomes very blurred.

But, as it gets closer to the surface,

the shadow becomes more sharp, more well-defined.

And in this particular case, it was very well-defined.

So, it indicates it's very close to the ground.

[Rich] Is it a threat?

[Rich] Is it a threat?

[Kent] That's a good question.

A very good question.

Because we don't know.

All I can say is, if they have hostile intent,

what chance do we have, realistically speaking?

What do you think it was?

It could have been a cloaked

UFO.

The thing is because we don't know exactly what it is and what makes it operate it.

Who controls it.

What kind of technology is involved,

it could be a threat, if it chooses to.

it could be a threat, if it chooses to.

Because how do you defend against something you can't see?

And, you don't know, how it operates?

And, we don't know what their intents are.

That scared the hell out of me.

Me too.

[narrator] If UFOs can cloak and defy the laws of physics,

our military is defenseless.

But, is this something the government already knows?

And, are we just sitting targets

And, are we just sitting targets

for when aliens decide to attack?

[narrator] After meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Kent Johnson,

Rich realizes that the aliens' offensive capabilities

out match any of our current technologies.

If aliens decide to attack,

we don't stand a chance.

Not only can they take out the military,

but our entire planet.

Is this fateful outcome, something the government already knows?

Is this fateful outcome, something the government already knows?

If so,

why are they trying to hide it?

Someone who may know the answer

is retired Air Force Staff Sergeant Jeremy McGowan.

As the inventor of the world's first

citizen owned UAP tracker

named the O.S.I.R.I.S.

He's currently on his own pursuit

to uncover answers

the military is not telling us.

the military is not telling us.

Rich has sent Roderick Martin to meet with him in his hometown of Las Vegas.

Man, this is a cool vehicle dude.

I appreciate it.

Like this mad scientist, I'm gonna say

this is like Ghostbusters vehicle, right.

[Jeremy] This car has definitely been compared to Ecto-1 a few times.

It's kind of the real life version except

It's kind of the real life version except

instead of hunting ghosts and goblins,

I'm out looking for potential UAP.

[narrator] Jeremy has traveled throughout North America with the O.S.I.R.I.S,

which is equipped with specialized radar,

a magnetometer to detect any magnetic fields emitted by UFOs.

And an accelerometer to identify movement in the sky.

[Jeremy] The purpose of this vehicle

is simply to uncover the truth,

that I think we will never get from the US government.

that I think we will never get from the US government.

I was serving in the Air Force for about 12 years.

We would normally get calls to pack our bag and get on an airplane and

get deployed at no notice because we were a very high mobility base.

[narrator] In March of 1995,

Staff Sergeant McGowan is deployed to the Middle East

to carry out a covert operation.

[Jeremy] I got transported out into the middle of the desert.

And the only things that were there was a tent,

And the only things that were there was a tent,

and this big, giant wooden crate.

At this moment, you're thinking what?

[Jeremy] I didn't really know what to think.

This was just straight up strange.

-Okay. -Um.

I had participated in Desert Storm.

I'd seen combat over there,

and this was nothing

like what I had been accustomed to.

But, you're not supposed to ask questions.

You're just supposed to do what you're told.

Is it common practice that you're briefed

prior to going to a situation like that?

We didn't have anything.

There was no paperwork.

There was no paperwork.

No, nothing.

My orders were don't get near the crate.

Don't let anybody else get near the crate.

Like if they come near it, shoot them.

This was a serious order.

I was armed with 240 rounds of

ammunition for my rifle.

And, I had 18 rounds of high explosive grenades with me as well.

And, how long did this go on?

I was there for three days and nights.

-Around the clock. -Around the clock.

[Jeremy] There's no supervision, there's no

military officers walking around.

There's nobody there.

So, I climbed on the crate, I sat on the crate,

So, I climbed on the crate, I sat on the crate,

I laid down on the crate.

[narrator] One evening while guarding the mysterious crate,

Jeremy has a life changing experience

he will never forget.

[Jeremy] It is a crystal clear sky.

You can look up and just see

the entire Milky Way Galaxy

passing in front of you.

I was just sitting there watching the stars with my night vision goggles.

And as I was leaning back and looking up,

And as I was leaning back and looking up,

I saw this bright point of light

that came from my rear position,

shot straight up directly over top of me,

made a 90 degree turn to the left

and shot off to my 9 o'clock.

In under two seconds.

When it made the turn, there was no curve to the turn.

It didn't slow down.

Then it started repeating

and it went over and over and over again.

Wow! So what are you thinking now?

I don't know what to think at this point.

I don't know what to think at this point.

I mean, I just saw something...

that...

defies my understanding of the laws of flight physics.

Could have been a falling star.

Falling stars do not make right hand turns.

[Roderick] Okay.

[Jeremy] Not at right angles.

There's no aircraft, because we're in a restricted no fly zone.

It was a dead zone for air travel.

So, now that you saw this, this needs to be reported.

I couldn't.

I couldn't tell anybody.

[narrator] For years,

[narrator] For years,

Jeremy wonders what exactly was in that crate?

Was the mysterious UFO sighting in the Jordanian desert,

somehow connected to its contents?

In 2019,

Jeremy finally gets an answer,

which also points to a government cover up.

I ended up uncovering a guy

who was attached to Seal Team Four.

He told me details about that crate

that he was on the receiving end of that crate.

that he was on the receiving end of that crate.

And that the contents of that crate

were actually a recovered

nuclear weapon that had been stolen from the Soviet Empire

during the collapse at the end of the Cold War.

To be specific, it was an SS 24,

which is capable of holding ten warheads.

He stated eight of them were in place.

About nine years ago,

I was diagnosed with a very

specific and rare form of skin cancer that is only caused

specific and rare form of skin cancer that is only caused

by exposure to radiation.

Wow!

[narrator] Since his cancer diagnosis,

Jeremy no longer trusts the government,

especially the military.

To this day, he wonders

what else are they hiding?

[narrator] The government's attempt to cover up the threat in our skies

has been documented throughout history.

But now, recently leaked footage,

reveals a new alien craft stalking our military,

making the truth harder to hide.

[intense music playing]

[narrator] Unidentified submerged objects

or USOs

is the official name given to these strange anomalies

is the official name given to these strange anomalies

lurking deep within our oceans.

And, with our nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers at sea,

where there's water,

there could be alien firepower.

If anyone knows about deadly threats hiding underwater,

it's retired US Navy Chief Warrant Officer, Carson Shoemake.

it's retired US Navy Chief Warrant Officer, Carson Shoemake.

He served on nuclear submarines,

including the USS Tennessee and the USS Pennsylvania.

And has agreed to meet with Rich

to help him hypothesize what the aliens might be planning.

[Rich] Carson, in the course of our investigation, we've found

a lot of occasions where

ICBM sites up north

and in other parts of the world

have been completely shut down

and there were UFOs in the area, at the time?

and there were UFOs in the area, at the time?

So, in December of 1966,

up at Minot ten ICBM missiles

were disabled all at the same time.

How is that possible?

I don't know that anybody,

any nation level government is even capable of that.

If you thought it was another nation, that's a act of war.

So, when we see things like UAPs coming over United States,

why don't we shoot it down?

You would never from a military aspect

You would never from a military aspect

wanna go pick a fight with something

that you didn't even know what it was.

You don't know what their capabilities are.

If we just look at this from a logical standpoint,

they're capable of intergalactic travel.

What exactly are you gonna shoot them down with?

That's a pretty narcissistic, like

view to think that we're the only ones that are

capable of intelligent thought

and research and development

and accelerated technology.

And, we don't even know how big the actual universe is.

And, we don't even know how big the actual universe is.

You've served on submarines,

that were nuclear weapons capable platforms?

Yes.

Has there ever been anything out of the ordinary that you've seen?

Yeah, I've seen a few high speed anomalies

-myself. -Underwater?

Underwater.

Wow!

[Carson] So, when you look at Sonar,

we have these waterfall displays.

And, so the way that you know that that thing passed so rapidly by you

And, so the way that you know that that thing passed so rapidly by you

is it will have whipped

from one side of the screen to the other.

Wanna give me a baseline on an incredibly high speed.

That did not match

even the capabilities of our system,

-it was faster than our system, -Right.

which told me that there's something out there

that's not what we would normally see.

You got to remember, you know, everybody's talking about, you know, looking up

UFOs.

Nobody is talking about looking down into the water.

I mean, if I was an intergalactic traveler trying to hide,

I'd probably pick the water.

I'd probably pick the water.

And, we don't even have the entire ocean mapped.

There are large chunks of the ocean

that we haven't even verified, the contour of the bottom.

I've always thought that they were completely charted.

Nope.

-You guys hear noises all the time? -Yes.

Take me underwater, and let me hear, what sound, sounds like, on the Sonar.

Ya, I've got a few on my phone now

every sound I can't share with you

-because some of them are gonna be controlled -I understand.

and classified, like this one right here

is...

is...

that's a whale.

Wow, that's louder than I expected.

And, then we have another one that is

actually a ship's propeller noise.

-You can tell. -Yup.

It's pretty obvious.

And, here's one that was actually

not specifically identified.

Canadian

military is actually the ones that uncovered it,

and they called it a USO.

Does that sound like anything you've ever heard?

No.

That just doesn't match up.

Does that give you some sort of pause?

Yeah, it definitely makes me curious.

I would definitely

wanna know more information about it.

You should always be concerned.

You should always collect all data that's available

and be prepared to analyze

anything that your troops run across.

[narrator] To learn more about USOs and their capabilities,

Rich is sending Melissa Tittl

to meet with someone, who actually came face-to-face with one

during his time in the US Navy.

In 2010,

Airmen apprentice, John Baughman

is serving on the nuclear powered aircraft carrier,

USS Carl Vinson

as it heads for Haiti on a humanitarian mission.

But little does he realize,

But little does he realize,

this deployment will be one he will never forget.

[Melissa] So, tell me about that day.

So, on that day, it was pretty calm day,

not a lot going on, on the flight deck.

And, I just took a break,

I was on the starboard side of the boat.

And, then I noticed

below me, there was an object

that resembled the shape of a Tic Tac.

This isn't a submarine, you've seen before.

This is something completely different.

It didn't have a lot of

features that could help distinguish it

from like an actual submarine.

Typically, you have the mast of a submarine that sticks out of the water.

In this particular situation, this was a...

it looked like a solid object.

Can you show me what it looks like?

-Yeah, absolutely. -Okay.

It was about 20 feet long

and it went from my left to right.

and it went from my left to right.

And as it did it,

the direction that it was moving, the front end of it

collapsed on itself, and it disappeared.

[narrator] In real time, the Tic Tac shaped USO

morphs into a horseshoe shape

within seconds, it bolts away and disappears into the depths of the ocean.

Did you panic a little bit?

Like, how did you feel?

What I did next was I tried to forget what I had seen.

What I did next was I tried to forget what I had seen.

[narrator] The strange encounter stays with Officer Baughman.

Because, he believes that our enemies,

worldly or otherwise, are someone or something

that we ignore at our own peril.

And, if it was something not from this planet,

and they were checking out your aircraft carrier,

wouldn't that also be a little suspicious as well

that they were doing it for nefarious reasons?

that they were doing it for nefarious reasons?

Well, I think you look at it the same way that

we should be looking at our foreign adversaries.

Obviously, if they got here from another planet

they're way more advanced than we are.

However, the objective is the same.

How do we defend ourselves against that kind of threat?

[narrator] Is total annihilation of the human race imminent?

Or is this something we can prevent?

[automated voice] Missiles launched.

[narrator] Until recently,

alien super intelligence has been largely off limits to serious scientific study.

And, while the government has silenced and ridiculed

those who spoke openly about UFOs,

this didn't stop famed theoretical physicist

Michio Kaku,

who believes aliens may be humanity's greatest threat.

Dubbed the modern day, Einstein,

Professor Kaku is considered one of the smartest people in the world,

and has agreed to meet with Melissa on this urgent matter

to share some of his most shocking scientific findings.

[Michio Kaku] I think we're reaching a tipping point.

That is traditionally the burden of proof

has been on the believers to prove that these objects were extraterrestrial.

Now, it's reversed.

Now, it's reversed.

And, now we have the smoking gun.

Where hearsay is now being replaced by military grade videotapes,

radar sighting infrared sensor reports

that we physicists can analyze frame by frame.

This is a game changer.

Some of these encounters are off the charts,

things that we understand currently in physics.

[Michio] If they can reach us from the stars

they are thousands of years more advanced than us.

We could be dealing with something

that has a new law of physics involved.

that has a new law of physics involved.

First, we know they can travel between Mach 3 and Mach 20,

three times to 20 times the speed of sound.

They can zigzag

creating G forces

several hundred times the force of Earth's gravity,

that seems to violate most laws of physics, okay?

And these objects can go underwater.

And, so we realize that we're dealing with

a technology that pushes the very boundary

a technology that pushes the very boundary

of what we know about the laws of physics.

You mentioned USOs, which are the crafts that go into the water.

What are your thoughts on that?

Well, what does water have that they may want?

And, that is first of all hydrogen.

Hydrogen as fuel.

And so in other words, they're filling up their gas tanks,

oceans and oceans of fuel

that could be used to fuel a starship.

Could there be another reason, possibly that they're hiding?

Could there be another reason, possibly that they're hiding?

They could do whatever they do like maintain their equipment

without being harassed by the United States military.

The oceans would be an ideal place for them.

We've come across a couple stories where we've heard of cloaking,

that these UFOs, USOs have the ability to cloak?

Any fan of Star Trek knows that these starships

can cloak themselves and become invisible.

And alien technology they've probably already mastered it.

But, why are they here, you know, what do they want?

But, why are they here, you know, what do they want?

[Michiko] Look at the film The War of The Worlds. Did the Martians hate us, no?

What did the Martians want? They wanted our planet.

That's all. We were just in the way.

[narrator] Professor Kaku's sobering message could be a wakeup call

to humanity that UFOs and USOs are something to fear.

And that we need to prepare for the day,

when they decide to strike.

[Michiko] The movie Independence Day, what did the aliens want?

They wanted everything, every scrap of energy or resource.

They were locusts, locusts, that come in like bugs

and just take everything in sight.

If push comes to shove, and we have to fight them.

And in the worst case scenario we're simply outgunned,

And in the worst case scenario we're simply outgunned,

out manned, and we would become a footnote,

a footnote in the history of the Milky Way Galaxy.

When there is a potential adversary in our skies,

with technology that goes way beyond anything we have,

how could there not be some fear?

What if this suddenly accelerates from

What if this suddenly accelerates from

being a war of nerves to a real shooting war?

If they don't have our best interests at heart,

we're in trouble.

We have seen their deeds. We have seen things that they've done.

If we ignore this, we're doing that at our own peril.

The UFO phenomenon, it affects all of us.

My only hope and prayer is that we are prepared.

The next step is not gonna be we come in peace.

This feels like war.