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Hello?

You know my name and what I do, right?

Yes, I do.

You are, what we would
classify as a whistleblower.

Yes, that would be exactly what I am.

Have you, spoken in front of congress?

Yes, I have. Behind
closed doors, of course.

Nothin' in a public setting yet.

Right. I want to be able to share
this with the world, but I need proof.

I could take you to one of these locations
that could prove that this stuff exists.

So what are we talking about exactly?

Antigravity, advanced weapons systems.

There are technologies
out there that exist

that is far more remarkable
compared to just transportation.

Sounds like you're indicating that
the us military and its contractors

are able to reproduce
this stuff on their own.

Yes, they have, and they've been
doing that successfully for over 50 years.

I mean, how... how can
we help you break this story?

Is there a way that we can move
forward and have some solid proof

that would convince anybody
that what you're saying is true?

Well, I... I'm working on it.
It's a very hard place to be.

I have to respect the safety of
these insiders as well as myself

and anybody associated with this.

And this also includes you, George.

There is enormous amount of evidence

to suggest that we do have
a nonhuman intelligence

interacting with us on this planet.

We don't know where they're from.
They can do things that we can't do.

Our military knows

that there is an intense, ongoing
interest by whatever they are

in our most sensitive installations.

Wow! What is that?

This is real, and I'm
right in the middle of it.

My name is George knapp.
People know me as the ufo reporter.

I've covered this story
from pretty much every angle

for probably longer than any other
mainstream journalist in the country.

All we want to know is what's going on.

I didn't come into this topic
as some sort of a ufo believer.

I always approached it as a news story.

But after talking to eyewitnesses...

What's going on up there could be
the most important event in history.

The experts... Extraterrestrial hypothesis

is entirely viable and,
in my view, reasonable.

And following the
evidence all over the world,

it's impossible for me
to explain it all away.

But for so long, the truth
has been kept under wraps

because of social stigma
and government secrecy.

Someone said, "you open your mouth,

and that's the end of
your retirement pay."

People who came forward
could face real consequences.

The government has lied to us
about ufos, has withheld information,

has spied on ufo organizations,
and has discredited ufo witnesses.

It was very brutal.

Some of the tactics they used

hurt me both professionally and
personally, to be quite frank. Yeah.

I was banging my head against a
brick wall for at least 20, 25 years,

trying to get this topic
into the mainstream.

And it seemed like a lost cause.

But now, the whole
playing field has changed.

We're looking at all types
of anomalous phenomena.

And even congress are
now takin' this seriously.

It's probably the most
credible ufo sighting in history.

But the closer the public gets

to the crashed saucers, to the bodies,
the harder the pushback is gonna be.

We need to get beyond that
obvious question, "are ufos real?"

To what really matters.

Why are they here?

And what do they want from us?

We can handle it, can't we?

So, we're on our way to klas-TV.

That's the place where
I've worked since 1981.

My day job for 43 years has been
a reporter at klas-TV Las Vegas.

- I'm ready when you are.
- We are ready.

In three, two...

Area 51 still reigns as
a contradiction in terms,

the world's best-known secret base.

What whiz-bang tech might be
brewing out there in the shadows?

George knapp, 8 news now.

I had no idea when I moved
here what Las Vegas was all about.

I didn't know there was a place
called area 51, or a Nevada test site,

the most nuked place in the world.

Didn't know about nellis air force base.

So many secrets are hidden here,
some of which have come to light.

But most are still shrouded in mystery.

Ufos found me, instead
of the other way around.

They walked in the door at klas one day.

A guy named John lear, whose father,
bill lear, had developed the Learjet.

He walked into the station
with this big stack of documents.

He put 'em on the desk of my boss

and said, "this is the
biggest story of your career."

"It's about the ufo cover-up.
It's gonna make you famous."

My boss read four or five pages,

pushed the pile back, and
said, "this can't be true."

"If it were true, I'd already know about it."

Before lear left the station, I said,
"hey, let me take a look at that stuff."

At the time, I produced a little talk show.

I decided to see if
lear would do the show.

And I put him on and just let him go.

I got really interested in
this about two years ago.

My father saw a ufo, and my brother did.

And he out... comes,
spilling this amazing story.

George, I'll give you the bottom line.

I have found out that the
government has retrieved

between ten and 15
actual flying saucers.

They have between 30 and 50
alien bodies, in cryogenic storage.

They represent at least
five different civilizations.

Initially, I was skeptical.

But as soon as it aired,
the public started calling.

It was absolutely astonishing.

And I saw this huge
saucer-shaped vehicle.

Yes, there has been an
alien visitation. They're here.

I do know what I saw. It wasn't
a plane. Wasn't a helicopter.

I started getting dozens, then
hundreds of messages, then thousands.

And eventually, over time,
people inside the government,

people who really did know the secrets
started talking to me and trusting me.

This is something that
we should be studying.

A lot of the information
that was shared with me,

I sat on for a long time.

But nothing stays secret forever.
And eventually, the dam broke.

December 2017, the New
York times comes out with a story

that revealed the existence of a
previously unknown government program

that investigated ufos.

Right after the New York
times story comes out,

congress starts having
hearings behind closed doors,

hearing from witnesses,
under oath, about ufos.

If we have things flying over
our airspace that is not ours,

do not coordinate with
us, doesn't belong there,

that is the definition of danger.

And last year, we started getting hints

from members of congress that
they wanted to have a hearing,

and they were looking for good witnesses,
and they asked for help lining them up.

These were some of the most
decorated high-ranking officials

to ever go public about ufo encounters.

These objects were approaching some
of the security guards at rapid speeds

before darting off.

It completely disabled
the radar on the aircraft.

It's far beyond, actually,
our material science

that we currently possess.

If you believe we have crashed craft,

do we have the bodies of
the pilots who piloted this craft?

Biologics came with some
of these recoveries, yeah.

Were they, I guess, human
or nonhuman biologics?

Nonhuman, and that was the
assessment of people with direct knowledge

on the program I talked to that
are currently still on the program.

Dave grusch testified that there
are crash-retrieval operations,

that there is a
reverse-engineering program,

that we've recovered technology
that's beyond anything that we have.

All those rumors we've been
hearing for years? It's true.

And I had a front row
seat for the whole thing.

I know I saw in the
crowd there George knapp.

Breaking area 51. He's
the reason I knew about that.

The window is now open
wider than it's ever been before

to tackle these big questions.

So I'm putting my decades of
knowledge, connections, and special access

to carve out a new path,

figuring out why they're here
and what they want from us.

This is the opportunity I've
been waiting for for 37 years,

and I intend to make the most of it.

This is serious. It's been
serious for a long time,

and it's been ignored for way too long.

So, I had this phone conversation
out in the desert the other day

with a guy who wants to remain
anonymous, but I figured out who he is.

I know the name.

I ran this name past somebody
that I've known for a long time

and whose judgment I trust
to see if he's the real deal,

if we could confirm
anything of what he said.

And it turns out we did.

The guy I asked said this,

"I think he's a genuine guy."

"He did indeed speak to the hill

and to the Pentagon's new office
investigating ufos called arrow."

So two of the things
that that witness told us.

And this guy I know says both are true.

He seems legit.

The next thing I want
to do is set up a meeting.

But he's not ready to commit to that yet.

So, in the meantime, I'm
gonna focus my attention

on the biggest question at hand.

Why are they here?

To start, you have to look at the
behaviors that people have observed

time and again all around the world.

Ufos are often spotted over military sites,

so they could be coming
to monitor our capabilities.

They seem to be
interested in our food supply

and occasionally instigate
close encounters with humans,

as if they're trying to understand who
we are and why we live the way we do.

There it is again.

Most of the time, they
only reveal themselves

to one person or a small
group for a brief moment.

And then they disappear.

Sometimes, they make
their presence known

to thousands of people
all at the same time.

Is this a show of force or an
attempt at communication?

Whatever this phenomena is,
it's smart. It's smarter than us.

This might be more of
an intelligence operation

to gather disparate series of threads
into some kind of a... a unified tapestry

that explains the phenomena
we've been witnessing

for the past 70-plus years.

And the first thread I want
to pull on is a new lead

in one of the most widespread
ufo mysteries of them all.

Animal mutilations.

Today, nearly 15,000 mutilation reports

have been received.

Most often, the phantom
surgeons remove sex organs,

udders, rectums, eyes, or ears.

The animal mutilations is
maybe the most perplexing part

of the whole larger ufo picture.

These things have
happened all over the world.

The carcasses are
usually drained of blood,

but blood is rarely found on the ground.

There are occasional burn marks,

and the cutting is performed
with scalpel-like precision.

I started looking into animal
mutilations in the late '80s.

We had a rash of cases in
Nevada, in my home state.

And to this day, we
don't know who's doing it,

and we don't know why they're doing it,

but strange aerial
activity has been reported

in conjunction with these mutilations
since the beginning of the phenomena.

Scattered stories of carved-up livestock

and strange lights in the sky

date back to the 1890s in the us,

but it wasn't until the early 1970s
that a pattern began to emerge.

What's the deal? Are
they harvesting cows?

Are they doing their
own kind of investigation

or a survey of our food chain?

Are they messing with us
to see how we'll respond?

We don't know the answers to this,

but it does seem to be some
sort of a symbiotic connection

between things in the
sky that are unidentified

and these strange mystery mutilations

that have happened all over
North America, all over the world.

The lead I'm following up
on today is open and active.

Ranchers in this part of Oregon

have been reporting
these strange mutilations.

There's a sheriff named Jeremiah
Holmes who's been looking into these cases.

And like so many other
lawmen all over North America

who've tried to get to the bottom
of this, this guy is perplexed.

I'm hoping that by coming to
help investigate this mystery,

we can get a better understanding
of why this keeps happening.

And we need to consider all possibilities.

So I decided to ask a close contact,
Doug laux, to meet me out here

and to hopefully help
come up with some answers.

I'm a former CIA case officer.

In Hollywood parlance,
they would call that a spy.

During my time in the agency, I
was an undercover field operative.

You're going to live a life
of lies and a life of alias,

but, it helps you to smoke out

when people are lying
to you pretty quickly.

What impresses me about Doug is
his boots-on-the-ground experience.

I mean, he's put it all on the line.

He knows about counterintelligence
and the tricks of the trade.

- Good to see you.
- Same.

He's not a ufo guy, so he
still has a set of fresh eyes

and can look at this world

in ways that maybe it's hard
for me to look at it anymore.

- Thanks for meeting with us.
- You bet.

We were told that you, were in ranching.

- Before you were in law enforcement.
- I was.

And maybe you had some experience
with this whole mutilation mystery before.

- I did, yeah.
- What happened?

So, in 2004, I was working on a
ranch down in southern Oregon,

and, during my time there,
there was, several mutilations.

I think I know the answer,
but were they solved?

No.

How many reports has
your department received?

Since our first case in
2019, I believe that was,

we've had a total of five.

Were there any similarities

between the five reports that
you've had where you can go,

"this might be the same individual
who's doing these five things"?

So, the reproductive organs are gone,

ear was gone, tongue
was gone, nose was gone.

Usually, part of the cheek was razor cut.

There's some that say,
"well, we have the predators,

we have the cults, we
have the extraterrestrial."

There's some that'll
say it's the government.

People have been trying
to debunk animal mutilations

since they were first reported.

Ranchers in new Mexico,

when there first became sort
of an epidemic of mutilations,

cows and... and, sheep and horses,

they hired a former FBI agent to come in.

It was a whitewash.

He did minimal investigations

and came back with a report that
has been cited over and over again.

"Yeah, these are predators."

"These are coyotes and
mountain lions doing this." It's not.

Coyotes don't cut
things up with a scalpel.

Some people like to say
it's gotta be devil worshipers.

Well, where are these
laser-wielding beelzebubs?

How do they keep from getting caught?

Ten thousand cases, and not
one of 'em has ever been caught.

Those are some pretty
stealthy devil worshipers.

No lawman wants to
say, "maybe it's aliens."

That, you know... you
don't wanna say that.

Right. No.

But there's something
weird going on here.

I mean, as an investigator, we
can't investigate anything with a slant

'cause then we could have
the potential of ignoring evidence

that may say something else.

The why sometimes answers the who.

And so, if we don't have a
why, it doesn't help us find a who.

I know ranchers don't always like to
come forward when these things happen.

Who do you have who might talk to us?

Dave hunt was the first... He
had the first case that I had.

Didn't really want to
talk about it right at first.

But, since then, he's been more, open,

and it might be somebody
you guys can talk to.

I know that, Grant county,

harney county, crook
county, deschutes county

recently, have all had cases.

I'm definitely not going into this
investigation making any assumptions.

But if I start to see patterns,
it's not a coincidence.

It's a pattern.

So, what's causing this repetition?

Why is this happening?

Something is effectuating this to happen.

And I wanna know what it is.

Sergeant Holmes helped
us secure two different leads

on recent cattle mutilation incidents
that are around 200 miles apart.

I'm gonna look into one of
Wheeler county's open cases,

while Doug's gonna meet
with a former ranch manager

in harney county.

He's outside sergeant
Holmes's jurisdiction,

but the case made waves
all across law enforcement

in eastern Oregon.

We're just pulling into
burns, Oregon, right now.

Not the easiest town to
get to, I'll tell you that much.

I have a contact here named Colby.

He experienced directly
firsthand cattle mutilations.

There's nothing better you can
do than come directly to the source

and get it straight out
of the horse's mouth.

From what I've heard of Colby,
he's not really a believer in aliens,

and I can appreciate that,

but the very fact he's
willing to speak with me at all,

that means this guy
really wants answers.

Colby?

- Good morning. Doug?
- Doug laux.

- Yeah. How are you?
- Nice to meet you.

- Appreciate you meeting me this early.
- Absolutely. Happy to have you here.

My name is Colby Marshall. I
grew up right here, in harney county.

My family's been in this
community for about six generations.

I'm raising my kids here now.

I'm gonna lay these
out on the tailgate here.

We had five range bulls that
were murdered and mutilated

within a 24-hour period of time.

Right up in here is where
my cowboy found the first bull,

which was really a weird situation.

But then after he found the second
bull, we knew something was goin' on.

- Same day, two bulls? Yeah.
- Exactly right.

We contacted the state police.

We contacted the forest service.

We got in touch with the county sheriff,

and we had them all come out
and try to find forensic evidence

that... that would lead us to somebody
that had perpetrated the crime.

Including offering a $25,000 reward.

It didn't yield anything.

It'll be interesting to go and
take a look at what we'll see.

Well, I'd like to see it in person,

so if you're ready, I
mean, let's hop in and do it.

Just made it over to a town called
fossil, Oregon, to meet Dave hunt.

According to the sheriff, Dave
hunt is solid as the rock of Gibraltar.

Absolute solid citizen. He
spent his entire life here.

He's a fifth-generation rancher,
lived on this land for 70 years.

It took us a while to talk him
into speaking with us about it.

His neighbors are the same way.

It's at least a dozen of his neighbors

that we know of that
have had similar cases.

They're not trying to become
celebrities or start a podcast.

They want this to go away.

I've chased these kind of
stories all over North America,

and a lot of ranchers
don't wanna talk about it.

Yeah, it's kind of tough to talk about
when you're born and raised around cattle,

and you know everything they do
and everything that can happen to 'em,

and then you see
something that isn't normal.

You just, like, want
to sit on it for a little bit.

So, tell me about your
animals, which ones you lost.

The bull happened in December.

The cow happened the
following June or July.

I'm not the only person it happens to.

There's, you know, in John
day and seneca and antelope.

- And, you know, they're all around.
- How many total do you think in this area?

A lot. Fifteen, 20.

Over what period of time?

In the last four years. Three, four years.

I understand that you've
had some other weird stuff

that happened preceding this.

I don't know what caused 'em,
but we have a series of crop circles

that come in the field.

They're in a pattern, and
they kind of come and go.

In the spring, you can
see 'em really good.

And they happened about...
Around about the same time.

Any strange things in the sky,
that you associate with this?

Yeah, I have. I've seen

I'm gonna call it a...
unidentified flying object.

- Describe it.
- It was round.

It had green rectangle
windows around the middle

and round red ones around the top.

How long was it sittin' there?

Long enough for me to
go get a rifle to shoot at it.

- Did you shoot?
- No, because this is a funny story.

It's still sitting there, right?
And my wife called me,

and I came out, I looked at it,
and I go, "I'm gonna shoot it."

So, I've got a rifle, and the funniest thing,

because it's sitting right there,
and as soon as I put the scope on it,

disappeared.

Just vanished?

Did not go up, down, left, or right. Gone.

I'm not surprised to hear
that there's ufo activity

in association with
these mutilation cases

because that's been
reported all over the world.

But some of the other
aspects of this mystery

that we've just had unveiled to us today,

crop circles, right out here.

These gigantic circles that appear
out of nowhere in their pasture.

And then for the next couple of years,
the grass, the hay that grows there

is bigger and stronger
than anything around it.

Where did they come from?

Why aren't there other government
agencies here investigating this?

Is it because they don't
believe the witnesses?

Or they're not surprised?

Show me where this happened?
Where the cow and the bull were found?

All right.

- I know the price of bulls.
- Right.

I mean, you're talking at
least $5,000 or $10,000.

Each one of those hits
is about a $20,000 cost.

If somebody totals your
car, and it's worth $20,000,

you're gonna be really furious about that.

What if somebody
totals five of your cars?

The most probable cause

is Colby's got enemies, and
somebody just cost him 100 grand.

- That's right.
- Of course, the question becomes why.

Have you ever considered, like,
something more, like, paranormal? Or

I'm sure people have asked you,
because people made claims it was aliens.

- Right.
- Do you have any thoughts on that at all?

I don't... I don't think it's aliens per se.

I think it is a group of individuals.

I don't have any preconceived notions.

I know a lot of people do.

And the more you can
provide to prove your situation,

obviously, the more I'm
gonna get on your level,

the more I'm going to believe you.

Especially if we're talking about
things that might seem outlandish at first.

When the cowboy found
the first bull, it was right here.

God! I was not expecting
the bones to still be here.

Yeah.

Walking up, and I'm seeing
the bones in front of me,

this is surreal.

The animal was laying
there with no genitalia.

All the reproductive
organs have been removed

with no other harm to the animal at all.

Not to be crass, but why
do you want bulls' balls?

You can get 'em from a butcher for free.

There was no blood around
the animal or on the carcass.

And even to the point that the
carcass over the next months

sort of melted into the ground.

It wasn't torn apart by the
scavengers or anything.

Just doing math in my head,
it's gonna have 50 liters of blood.

- Correct.
- That's a hell of a lot of blood.

That's right, and it's gonna make a mess.

- I mean, a lot.
- Yes.

I mean, how do you do that
without, like, spilling a single drop?

Then that means that this bull had
to be exsanguinated beforehand.

Before they removed its genitalia,

they would have had to
have pulled all its blood.

Yeah.

Right here, you can see just
right underneath those trees,

that is the bones of the
second mutilated bull.

I see it from here, yeah.

Just like the first bull that we
saw, Doug, we can walk up here.

We can see there's still bones here.

No scavengers, no predators

got to this animal and tore it into
pieces and drug it all over the place.

These bones are just clean.

They're not all gnawed and chewed
up, and they're not all broken into pieces

by coyotes and other critters.

- By teeth.
- Right.

This just has to be, then,

that the scavenger
animals smelled something,

and it's just innate in them that
they knew not to touch this meat.

- What, there's five, right?
- That's correct.

So, I mean, they were untouched
as well by, like, scavengers.

- That's right.
- So...

There's no such thing as coincidence.
I mean, this didn't happen in a vacuum.

- There's just no way.
- Yeah. Absolutely.

What kind of gives me
goosebumps the most

is how complex it was and
that no mistakes were made.

I understand why people
believe that aliens are responsible.

The one thing that I am certain of
is that there was a purpose to this.

Someone or something
forced this to happen,

and this is an extremely
advanced operation.

This is the pasture right here
that we keep these bulls in.

We'll just stop right up here.

So, this is the location.

- It's right here?
- Right here.

So, this bull is laying right here,

with his face pointing that
way, with his front feet out.

It laid in a position I've never
seen a bull or a cow lay in.

Then there's no tracks,
and there's no blood.

His nose is gone, his lips are gone,

his tongue is gone, his ears are gone,

his tail is skinned.

All precision... I call 'em laser cuts.

They're heat cuts

because the hair's curled
like it's singed right by the cuts.

We're talking about a time of year
this ground is covered with snow?

- Yeah, four inches.
- Four inches of snow.

- Yeah.
- And there are no tracks.

There's no tracks.

And no blood.

Not one drop.

That animal had no blood in him.

My vet, she said probably the only way

you could get all of the
blood out of the animal

was to bleed it while it's alive

so that the animal
pumps all the blood out.

- That's a horrible way to go?
- Yeah.

I know the rest of my bulls

that were in this pasture
were petrified to death.

They were scared to death,
and my bulls are never scared.

I can pet 'em.

If you're a cowman, that'll tell
you more than anything else.

Something super weird happened
to scare those bulls that bad.

A long time ago, one of the
first investigative reporters

to look into this called it an alien harvest.

And I don't know that that's what it
is, but it sure seems like somebody

is harvesting bits and pieces from cattle.

And it's not the same
pieces that we harvest.

This is how I found this
cow, dead with her head up.

They were about six months
apart. December and then July.

Gravity will tell you

that that head's gonna go to
the ground the instant she dies.

Well, that cow died, and
her head's still in the air.

- This is really weird and creepy.
- Yeah.

Why is it not a person? Why
do you know it's not people?

I've been a cowman for 70 years.

I know what everything
looks like that can kill a cow.

You know, and that's not
one of... That wasn't there.

You can't pick a 2,500-pound bull
up and position him in that position

and then do all the cuts
and take everything off

and drain him of blood
without leavin' a track.

It just can't happen.

In my opinion,

something picked the bull up, did
all of whatever they were doing to it,

and then set it back down.

If whatever came in and killed
this bull was leaving no tracks,

what's to keep 'em from killing
ten more tomorrow, you know?

- I mean, it'll wipe you out, you know?
- Or people.

- Yeah.
- It's like a harvest.

- It is.
- Like they're harvesting.

They are harvesting.
That's what they're doing.

They don't just come out
here and kill him and leave him.

They harvest the part that
they want off of every animal.

Dave actually has a son who
says he's had his own experience

with things he can't explain here.

- Hi, George.
- My wife, ginger.

Ginger, nice to meet you.
So, this is where you saw it?

Yeah. We were just driving by,
and we seen a big buck, you know.

Everybody always asks us.
They want to see these big bucks.

So I stopped and took a video of it,
right on the edge of that cut right there.

And I didn't notice
anything on it at the time.

And later on, I showed it to somebody.

And they asked me, "hey,
what the heck is that?"

There's something right behind it

- can I just take a look at it?
- Yeah.

- This is the buck.
- See that behind it?

- Something walking behind it.
- Yeah. But...

This is a wild animal.

And they're really spooky.

You can't get that close
to it and it not know it.

- It should have reacted.
- Absolutely. It'd bolted out of there.

So, if it was a person,
that deer would have

it would have known.
It would have looked.

You know, it's focused on me.

And if it's that close to
it, right there behind it,

that thing would have bugged out.

When you blow that up and
slow it down, it gets really weird.

Mind if I have a copy of
that video and share it online?

- Leave it.
- Absolutely.

When you add it to all the
other stuff that's been going on,

it really gets weird.

It seems to play in with
the other odd activity.

After this bull and the cow happened,

my daughter was out on the
porch in the summertime at night,

and, one of the triangular,

three-lighted whatever they are flies over.

She yells at me. I run in, grab
my binocs. I'm looking at this thing.

And it's low and slow, and it
is quiet as a church mouse.

- Floats over?
- Yep.

- Could you see any insignia or anything?
- I couldn't.

It just looked like a bunch of mechanical,
you know, tubing, wire, all that stuff

under this thing, and three
big lights in the corner of it.

Like I said, we try not
to think about it a lot

because you can't explain it,

so let's not lose any
sleep worrying about it.

We don't get stressed about it. We just...

- Not much you can do.
- It is what it is.

Law enforcement doesn't know.

You hope it goes somewhere else.

Absolutely.

What looks like a
humanoid walking on a hill,

two major ufo sightings
among the family members,

two classic mutilation cases,
and crop circles all in one place

suggest there is a connection
between all these strange phenomena.

Now we need to take
everything we've gathered

and bring it to a colleague of mine

who is uniquely qualified to help us
connect the dots of why this is happening.

I don't think there's a person who's
done more hands-on investigations

of animal mutilation
cases than colm kelleher.

Colm has a phd. He's a biochemist.

He's been at the scene of dozens
of mutilation cases all over the world.

He's sampled those.
He's sent them to labs.

He's had it analyzed. He's
worked with veterinarians.

He's developed some
theories about what's going on.

So, we spent a couple of days
talking to ranchers and lawmen up there.

They've had a dozen cases in this
area. At least a dozen, maybe more.

But the ranchers, you know,
they don't always report 'em.

Our two ranchers have different opinions
as far as who's responsible for this.

The gentleman I spoke to in burns
thinks this was done by humans.

This guy thinks it's aliens.

They think the answer is there,

that somebody from up
there is visiting and harvesting.

For what purpose? I don't know.

It did remind me of a
field sampling operation.

You know, I don't want to
go much further than that

because, I mean, it's really a
hypothesis based on repeated patterns

of the same tissues being
removed from these animals.

What we found really interesting is
that no predators went after these.

And, as he said, they eventually
just melted into the earth.

- Would you say that's typical?
- Yes, it is typical.

The early days of nids, the national
institute for discovery science,

we set up a surveillance
camera on the animal

to see if any predators showed up.

And for two nights in a row,
nothing came near the cow,

and this was... this was a
place that was full of coyotes.

That surveillance camera did not
lie. There was not a single animal.

Why is it so difficult,
getting to the bottom of this?

I think the cattle mutilation phenomenon

is, by its nature, deceptive.

Whatever is doing this
are incredibly skilled.

They're surgically adept.

They have, equipment
that is very sophisticated.

I mean, this was a...

A ritualistic display of
raw power and finesse.

I mean, it basically is a form
of psychological intimidation.

The evidence suggests that
they're always one step ahead.

Here's one of the thoughts that
rattles around in my head at night.

If they can do this to livestock,
what does it mean for us?

So, the cattle mutilation phenomena,
it's not an encouraging sort of a sign.

How often do they express
hostility toward humans?

There are medical, injury
cases that we've studied.

But you could never really define
the agenda of the ufo phenomenon.

You know, were these people just
in the wrong place at the wrong time?

And they got injured as
a result of being too close

to a "propulsion system,"

to a directed energy weapon,
or whatever caused the injury.

The colares, Brazil,
case was very different.

Colares island in northeastern Brazil

was besieged for somewhere
between six months and 12 months

by dozens and dozens
of different-sized objects,

and they were hunting people.

You guys studied that.

Yeah. There was an
obvious intent to injure people,

and, you know, in some
cases, people got killed.

I first heard about the colares
case when I started down this path,

back in the late '80s and early '90s.

Even back then, it seemed weird.

It doesn't seem to really fit the pattern

of what I had known
about ufos by that point.

I was reading everything I could
find, but this one just didn't fit

what you see everywhere else.

In the beginning, I wasn't
necessarily intimidated

by the idea of alien visitors.

I thought if we could confirm it,

that'd be the biggest
thing in human history.

As I've gone on, I've learned about
some darker aspects of the phenomena.

And colm is right.

The colares, Brazil, incident might
be the most extraordinary of them all.

In late 1977, hundreds of
people along the tocantins river

were attacked and injured by
these things that came out of the sky.

Some reportedly died
from their encounters.

Images of the injured people
went out all over the world.

It has become one of the best documented
but least understood ufo incidents

in all of history.

There's been a lot of secrecy in
that country, as there has been here.

- Thiago, how you doing?
- I'm fine, George. Thank you. How are you?

I appreciate you carving
out some time for me.

So, all the inquiries I
have made about colares,

the story is, the witnesses won't talk,

the people who were injured won't talk.

Are all those still true?

In the past, they were afraid if
they talk, something could happen.

But the stigma is changing a lot,

and much, much of this is because
of what happened in the United States.

The... the... the public and society,
you know, pressing the government

to disclose all the things about the ufos.

If you go there, you can find people
that have been attacked by these lights.

This phenomena, it still happens today.

You're saying it's ongoing now?

They're seeing the same thing happen,

and they're scared if what
happened there in the past

can happen now, in the present.

If this is going on even now, I've
got to get there and investigate it.

There's a recent contact of
mine who has relevant expertise,

and I've asked her to
come over and talk about it

and maybe join our investigation.

My name is vernice "fly girl"
arm our. All my friends call me vee.

And after two tours in Iraq,

I became america's first
black female combat pilot.

I'm not the smartest guy in the room.

Among the many gaps in my
expertise, aviation and aeronautics.

I don't know any of that stuff.
She's a former marine helicopter pilot.

She knows how they operate

and what other kinds of craft there
are, what landing lights look like.

- Hey, vee. Welcome.
- George.

She worked as a police officer, so
she knows how to do investigations.

She is a bit of a badass.

You know, we've been chasing
this cattle mutilation stuff.

- It's pretty creepy.
- It is.

For the most part, they
don't attack humans.

We're gonna look at a case where
they did. This is operation prato.

This is, an investigation in Brazil.

Dozens of people were burned
with something like lasers.

"Abruptly making 90-degree turns,
changing speed above 35,000 feet."

We don't have any technology.

Yeah, we don't have it now.

We sure didn't have it back
then, so it's something else.

As a military pilot, we're
trained for all types of situations.

Traditional, nontraditional.

How do we train for something

that far exceeds our tactical capabilities?

Like, it's literally defying the laws of
physics and aerodynamics as we know it.

You know, if we're ever
gonna figure out the intentions,

what do they want,
what's their interest in us,

you have to look at the dark side as well.

This is dark.

So, we can go down to
Brazil, see what we can find out.

Let's go.

Did they seem to intend harm?

What were the capabilities of
these things that were in the sky?

What did the Brazilian air force learn?
Did they get solid physical evidence?

If these are aliens, and
they're back, why there?

Why these people?

I'm gonna find out.