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[sounds distort]

[plane engines roar]

[Knapp] We just landed in Brazil, where my exploration of alien intentions

has escalated from attacks on cattle in Oregon

to one of the most dangerous UFO encounters of all time,

the Colares event,

where hundreds of people were reportedly attacked by UFOs

in the late '70s, and activity has recently ramped up.

This is not travel for the timid here.

You can't just jump on a plane from Las Vegas

to the middle of the Amazonian jungle.

This is where these things happen.

You gotta come down here and speak

to the people who've been experiencing this.

- Have you been to Brazil before? - [Armour] Never.

- [Knapp] I know you've traveled. - This is my first time.

[tense music playing]

[Knapp] The plan is to meet up with Brazilian UFO expert

Thiago Tecchetti...

- How are you? - Hey. Great to meet you.

- This is Vee. - Nice to meet you.

[Knapp] ...get on a series of ferries, and head up the river

to where there have been recent sightings

that may provide clues for why these attacks occurred.

Our destination is a small town on the Tocantins River called Barcarena.

Thiago and his associate Nathan have made contact

with a local here named Jhonny...

George. Pleased to meet you.

...who's reportedly been witnessing this activity on a regular basis.

So, how recently have you seen it?

[Tecchetti interpreting in Portuguese]

[in Portuguese] A few weeks ago, I witnessed a fireball in the sky

that made a sharp turn.

Fortunately, I had my cell phone and was able to film the fireball.

[Tecchetti in English] He got it on phone. The film.

He filmed it?

He filmed it. Yeah.

Do you have that?

- [Armour] We gotta see that. - Yeah.

Let's see it.

[intense, rhythmic music playing]

[Jhonny] I would have thought it could have been a meteor or an aircraft

if it'd gone in a straight line, but it made a sharp turn.

It came in my direction, but it made a 90-degree turn.

That's impossible.

It disappears.

[intense music subsides]

[in English] You seen this before?

- [in Portuguese] Seen this before? - Yes.

Here, on the island.

I was also able to photograph it a little while ago.

I came across an object floating right above my head.

[Armour in English] Can we see it?

[Jhonny in Portuguese] Yes.

This is the object I was able to photograph.

I photographed it in the morning.

I was in the forest taking pictures of small animals, here on the island.

I was photographing small animals,

and I came across this object floating above the middle of the field.

I confess that the moment I was able to take the photo...

As soon as I took the photo, I got scared and fled the place.

And these marks here...

[in English] A long time ago,

before there were crop circles, they called them saucer nests.

[Tecchetti] Yes.

They appeared in Australia, New Zealand, and other parts of the world.

That's very strange.

- You didn't see this being made? - No.

There are other witnesses as well?

[in Portuguese] Are there others who saw these balls?

Yes. About... Of the population of the island,

about 50% have already witnessed this phenomenon.

[Knapp in English] The best cases are where there are multiple witnesses.

Better still are those that have photos or video.

Better still, are the ones that have photos, videos, witnesses,

and then physical evidence where a saucer might have sat down.

It is information that you could collate into a theory.

Are the people who seem them frightened, or it's just a normal part of living here?

[in Portuguese] No, all the people, all who reside here on the island...

All the residents of the island, excuse me.

[in English] People that have had injuries or, um, have been hurt in some way?

- [Tecchetti in Portuguese] By lights? - No.

Uh, it's just... If they come close, if they come close to us,

I believe that everyone who faces this situation runs in fear.

[interpreter in English] They get close, and when they get close, they run away.

In Barcarena, things came out of the sky, scared people to death.

They scattered and got away.

Colares is its own kettle of fish. These people were attacked.

So nobody got hurt here.

We're trying to figure out why they're visiting.

- That's our main mission. - [Armour] Right. What's their intent?

So is there something special about this place,

where they would come here all the time?

[in Portuguese] Since this is an island, and water is an energy conductor...

Uh, since this is an island, and it is surrounded by water,

it is easy for them to land or come to visit us.

- [thunder rumbles] - [unsettling music playing]

[in English] Let me ask you about that video.

From an aviation perspective, what could it have been other than a UFO?

- Meteor? Plane? - [Armour] I was thinking about that.

So a meteor is obviously gonna have some movement

and a little bit of a trail if we could see it.

It didn't look like a plane because the fire, if you will,

encompassed the whole thing, and you didn't see

anything in front of it.

Plus, it was just this round, orangish glow.

And it sat there.

- And it sat there. - Before it moved.

[Armour] But the velocity,

the speed at which it would change directions and then just disappear,

airplane can't do that, right?

Now, a flare would be the closest thing. But a flare, when it shoots out...

[flare sizzles]

...it's like... [imitates sizzling]

And out of the gun, it swoops up, comes down, you see a little trail.

There was none of that with this. It was kind of hovering there.

[Knapp] Yeah, it sat there long enough for Jhonny to get his phone and record it.

And then it started moving. That's no flare I've ever heard of.

Correct. It moved straight out.

And it's almost like it just rode out into the sunset and... [imitates sizzle]

And went out.

So much of what you heard today is unique.

I mean, A, that half of the people who live here have seen these things,

that there is video and photos...

They can't figure out why we're seeing 'em,

but it's pretty clear this was a physical event.

And it's ongoing activity over a very long period of time,

including up to the present day.

Why are there UFO hotspots?

Why do these things return to the same places again and again,

sometimes over many years' time? Is there a portal?

Some kind of... a highway system that they use as an exit and an entrance?

Maybe they're interested in particular people

that they're tracing over a long period of time.

Maybe there are resources in those particular areas

that are of interest to them.

We don't know. Uh, they're not telling us.

We can only guess based on how we might react in the same situations.

[Armour] But is this connected to what happened in Colares?

[Knapp] Half of the people here have seen these things.

It's amazing that that many people in a place like this would see 'em.

Right. But nobody got attacked here.

This wasn't hostile. Maybe there is more than one agenda.

If we're gonna understand why the Colares attacks happened,

we're gonna need to head back downriver to find out

what the original witnesses and victims experienced during that terrifying event.

It all started in April of 1977,

when villagers in a small island town in the Brazilian Amazon

began reporting sightings of lights in the sky

that were seemingly attacking people on the ground.

The Brazilian Air Force went to the scene.

They were there for months, interrogating witnesses,

collecting information,

studying, uh, the locations where these things happened.

The people in Colares were scared to death.

Hundreds of 'em got out of Dodge.

They were frightened by what was happening. They left.

And most of them never spoke publicly about what happened.

Many relocated to the state capital, Belém,

where they tried to move on with their lives.

Like so many other UFO witnesses around the world,

they were treated like crap. No one believed 'em.

[somber music playing]

[Knapp] I think I'm a pretty decent reporter.

I have a way to get people to open up. I... I work at it.

Trying to talk people into discussing something they don't want to talk about,

there's a finesse involved there, and it's served me well.

I can't tell you how excited I am about having this opportunity.

- Thanks for setting it in motion. - It's a pleasure.

You know, she's like a symbol.

That photo went all over the world. I've been reading about it for 30 years.

And we finally get a chance to speak directly,

not with just a witness but the witness.

[Tecchetti] Yes.

[Knapp] There's one person who's the face of the whole incident.

That's Aurora.

She suffered very distinct injuries.

She is, in effect, the embodiment of the Colares incident in one person.

But she firmly refused to discuss what happened to her

for more than 40 years.

- Thank you. - [Tecchetti] George, after you.

[Knapp] We do know people were harmed, that there were serious injuries.

But we don't know really what the intent was.

Was it a hostile attack, or is something else going on here?

Can you take us back to that day,

where you were, what you saw, and what happened?

[Tecchetti in Portuguese] Take us back to 1977.

Tell us where you were and everything that happened--

- [Aurora] Yes. I was 18 years old. - Go ahead.

There was... I don't know if it's still there.

There was a huge chestnut tree. Very tall.

I was washing the dishes,

and I suddenly saw this bright light above the chestnut tree.

It was above the nut tree.

I saw very clearly that the thing was rotating.

Like this, rotating.

[in English] So a disc-shaped object

with lights, changing colors, rotating around?

[Tecchetti in Portuguese] Disc-shaped object, with lights around it.

- Yes. - [Tecchetti] A light ray hit you?

[Aurora] It hit me. Yes.

When I saw that machine above the chestnut tree, I stood there.

When I saw that ray on me, I was terrified.

I looked up, and I could see that red ray when it hit my chest.

That thing felt like a needle, like something was piercing me.

I felt a puncture from a needle. you know?

That's how it felt. Like a puncture from a needle.

- [Tecchetti in English] She felt a needle. - Ah.

[in Portuguese] When it hit my chest, I felt this burning.

And with that burning, I could smell ether.

[Knapp in English] Every UFO case,

you're looking for physical manifestations that are measurable.

And smell is one of 'em.

Powerful smells have been reported

pretty much everywhere there's been UFO activity.

People say it smelled metallic or electrical.

There are some cases where people have been taken on ships

for medical procedures,

where it smells antiseptic, like a hospital.

Others have said there are powerful floral, uh, scents,

as if it was piped in to calm them down.

When the doctors looked at the injury, um, how did they react?

[in Portuguese] He smelled it too.

When he examined me, he told me he also could smell liquid.

There were three holes. There were three holes in my breast.

[in English] Do you still have evidence of this?

Is it still visible?

[Tecchetti in Portuguese] Still have the mark?

Faintly. Here, on my breast.

- [Tecchetti in English] Ah. A little. - Yeah.

[in Portuguese] It wasn't just me, no. There are many others in Jurunas.

[Knapp in English] What is special about what happened to you and Colares is,

it is unusual in the whole history of the UFO subject

for these things to attack humans.

We don't understand why it happened here. What was going on?

[in Portuguese] Look, I don't know.

I don't know what to tell you. Why they were attacking.

People were saying in the street, "Do you think it was to take blood?"

[Knapp in English] It's very similar to what has been reported

in cattle mutilation cases,

where something from out of the sky comes out and carves 'em up

and takes samples of different parts of the blood and body.

It's an advanced civilization of some sort that has technology that we don't have,

imposing its will on a lesser civilization,

which in this case is us.

But so far, it's just a theory.

We need more information to fill in the blanks about what this was.

[intense, rhythmic music playing]

[Armour] The local investigator in the Belém area

connected us with a woman named Laura

who also has a story about being attacked from lights in the sky.

So I want to find out exactly what her story is

and how closely it lines up with the story that George is getting from across town.

[in Portuguese] Where I used to live.

[in English] This is where I used to live.

[Tecchetti in Portuguese] How often...

Have you returned here before we asked you today?

Or did you never come back?

[Laura] No, I've never come back here.

[Armour in English] I am skeptical.

Was it necessarily aliens?

Was it something else in the jungle?

It's possible that there are other explanations.

So what happened here?

[in Portuguese] It was a starry night. It was beautiful.

And I was just looking at it, you know.

As I was looking, I saw what I thought was a shooting star. A very bright light.

But it came in my direction, you know. And it shone onto me, here.

And it hurt.

[in English] What did it feel like when it hit your chest?

[in Portuguese] As if I had been burned.

It was scary. And as I told you, I went in right away because it hurt me.

[in English] When it came closer to you, what did the light look like?

Was it white or red or a different color?

[in Portuguese] White. It was a white light.

[in English] Did you see it come down and hit you in the chest?

Or did you only feel heat?

[in Portuguese] No, it came towards me and hit me.

It came as if it were falling, you understand?

And it hit me, and I felt the impact of it.

No, there's a mark here. A mark.

[in English] Can I see it?

There's two marks.

Wow. [inhales sharply]

I could just feel it in that moment

how much this has impacted her, impacted her family.

Like, enough to leave her home. Um, to still be impacted to this day.

I just wonder if her injuries were intentional,

or if she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[energetic music playing]

When I first heard the story of Aurora and the other people at Colares,

it sounded like these crafts were shooting laser beams at them.

And yeah, there is... there is a beam of light.

But inside that, the way she described it,

was some kind of filament and a hook

that stuck in her chest and then took samples.

It's not just a... a blind attack.

[Armour] It's very similar to Laura.

She saw this light beam come down,

and it actually burned her on the chest and left a "V" mark right here.

I could still see it.

She couldn't see the craft itself, just the light. No... no sound.

And the only thing she remembers is that light and getting burned.

Was she just a little kid at Colares when that stuff went down?

[Armour] In Colares originally, yes. Yeah.

She was attacked as an adult.

This is decades later. After Colares.

What stands out to me is, that this is still happening.

[softly] Wow. That's pretty weird. I didn't know about this.

So we're aware that there is new UFO activity in this area.

What we've always heard is these attacks that started in 1977 were over,

essentially, by 1978, which is when Operation Prato had ended.

You know, what do you do with a witness story like that

that is so strange?

Can it be corroborated somehow?

When I was a police officer, we had to be very careful about witness statements.

- [Knapp] Sure. - Because the memory is fallible, right?

My experience is when people...

when you get 'em to open up about something like this,

they're telling you the truth as they know it.

- Right. - But it doesn't mean it's the truth.

One more person that... Thiago is helping us set this up.

It's a journalist, Carlos Mendes.

He was there while the Brazilian Air Force investigation was underway.

So he saw what they were doing, who they were talking to,

the kind of information they were gathering.

As a newsman, I'm hoping we... Even though we don't speak the same language,

we do speak the same language.

[energetic music fades]

[indistinct chatter]

[Knapp] Look, following this story now is hard enough, let alone back then.

Brazil was run by a military dictatorship at the time who just shut it down.

"There's nothing to see here, folks. It's crazy stuff. There's nothing to it."

"Move along."

Most of the journalists in Brazil at the time

took the Air Force's word for it.

Carlos did not.

Carlos, George Knapp. Very nice to meet you.

Carlos Mendes pursued the story as it was happening.

And he's been following the story ever since.

Vee and I are working to get the full story of how many people saw it,

how many people were injured, and over what kind of an area.

[in Portuguese] In around 20 municipalities in the state of Pará...

[Tecchetti] 20 cities.

...the reports are very similar

from people who lived 300, 400 km apart and had never met.

[in English] Over how long?

[in Portuguese] How long did it last?

The investigation lasted

from June 1977 to August 1978.

It lasted more than a year and a half.

The official story is

the Brazilian Air Force investigated the Colares incidents

for about four months, and then it all went away.

Carlos is telling us that is not accurate,

that the actual investigation went on much longer.

Talk to us about the Brazilian military investigation,

what you saw, and what you were able to report.

Were they open about it?

[in Portuguese] It was a tense relationship.

And they were very intimidating.

I had a tense discussion with Captain Hollanda.

He tried to expel me from Colares Island.

"That isn't something for a journalist."

[Knapp] Captain Uyrangê Hollanda

was the Brazilian Air Force commander in charge of Operation Prato,

which translates to "the Plate" or "Saucer Operation."

As a representative of Brazil's military dictatorship,

Captain Hollanda would have been under strict orders

to control what news made it out.

He wouldn't say anything about his own experiences until 1997,

when he finally spoke to some UFO researchers about what he saw.

[in Portuguese] It had an erratic flight path.

It didn't fly in a straight line.

It flew as if it were swinging.

[interviewer] Was that documented? Photographed?

[Hollanda] It was. And filmed too.

[Knapp in English] Three months after this interview, he hung himself.

The Brazilian Air Force compiled this gigantic report.

I know some of it, a lot of stuff,

went to the United States 'cause I have seen it.

After the dictatorship fell, the Brazilian Air Force turned over

a treasure trove of information about the Colares incidents.

A lot of that information was transferred from the Brazilian government

to the US government, to the Defense Intelligence Agency.

I've seen some of those files.

Not one page of that has been released.

Do you believe that they actually gave away everything

and didn't keep copies of film and photos or anything?

[in Portuguese] They took the most important things.

The main events.

Sixteen hours of footage from 32 days of investigation by the military.

[in English] Who's "they"? Who took it? Who are "they," do you know?

CIA.

[dramatic stinger]

I've heard this rumor before that there is film footage

or video of dramatic UFO incursions in and around Colares.

And that this footage found its way to the United States.

But what exactly was recorded?

Why does this evidence remain hidden to this day?

And what else did the Brazilian military witness

during their 15-month-long investigation?

[intense music playing]

[Knapp] I'm hoping we can find some answers on the island

where the Brazilian Air Force conducted its operation.

How much of the Brazilian Air Force stuff have you read?

Around 1,000 pages.

- A thousand pages? - Yes.

And that's an official document?

There are hundreds of pages of official documents,

photos and drawings and testimonies.

WELCOME TO COLARES

I called somebody on the way here that works for an agency.

And I asked, "Where's the film? I keep hearing about hundreds of hours of film."

He said, "Somebody from the US snatched it."

"An agency that has three letters. You can guess."

I know because another three-letter agency tried to get it from 'em,

and they were told no.

Do you have any military contacts that I can talk to?

- 'Cause they're probably out by now. - They're not trying to talk to us.

[Armour] The military is structured.

And you just don't color outside the lines.

But I'm hoping there's someone out there that we can find

that is willing and able to talk about the military operation firsthand.

[Knapp] And right out here, that's where the UFOs were in and out?

[Tecchetti] Yeah. We are at the ground zero.

[Knapp] So Operation Prato was based here as well?

Yeah. The military used this beach and the island over there as a base.

[Knapp] So if I was here in 1977 on this beach,

what would I have seen coming in and out of the water?

What did they see?

[Tecchetti] Hundreds of UFOs in different shapes.

You can see orbs, disk shapes.

The military, they were based in there

to see the UFOs coming in and coming out from the water and cross through the city,

so they can investigate what was going on.

[Knapp] The massive military response in Brazil was unusual,

but not without precedent.

In the US, during the Second World War,

Los Angeles experienced what appeared to be a full-blown aerial barrage of UFOs,

known as the Battle of Los Angeles.

It led the US military to mobilize antiaircraft artillery

that lit up the skies over Hollywood.

And after an unusual craft dubbed the Petrozavodsk Jellyfish

buzzed over a lakeside village in the Soviet Union,

the Kremlin launched a massive state investigation

into the phenomenon that would span more than 20 years.

So if they were looking to provoke a response to see how we'd react,

it worked.

[Knapp] People will say, "These are simple people."

"They're villagers. They were fooled. It was some kind of military technology,

or they misunderstood a natural phenomenon."

What do you say to that?

[Tecchetti] Well, we don't have this technology today.

How we can have this technology back in 1977?

[dramatic music playing]

I LOVE COLARES

[Armour] After asking around to some of the contacts we've made,

I was able to get the name of a boat captain.

- [in Portuguese] Hi. - Hi.

[in English] Can we talk?

- [interpreter in Portuguese] Can we talk? - Yes.

[Armour in English] He was ferrying military officials to the island

where they had their operations set up during the attacks.

What was the mood like out here at first? Were they scared or apprehensive?

[De Oliveira speaking Portuguese]

[Valéria] One of the captains that were with us on the mission,

he said that there was no danger. It was fine.

But after two weeks, we started taking guns with us,

and they would even give a gun to me.

[Armour] As someone who's been in combat and had civilians around them in combat,

we only arm civilians in the most desperate situations.

Clearly, there was a fear for their safety.

There was an uneasiness.

So what happened that freaked them out

or scared them enough to give a boat captain,

a civilian who has no arms training, a weapon?

So, who all was on the boat with you

when you were going out there for that long?

[Valéria in Portuguese] Who was with you?

There were five of us.

Hollanda, Luciana, and two others whose names I forgot.

One was a scientist. It was Luciano.

[Armour in English] Wow. Did any happen to be American?

[in Portuguese] I believe so. All of them were military.

[Armour in English] Did they have cameras?

[De Oliveira in Portuguese] When they set it up,

we could only see light.

But looking on the monitor, we could see their shapes.

[in English] What did the shapes look like?

[De Oliveira in Portuguese] They were shaped like a crab trap.

A crab trap is shaped like a hat. Like a plate.

They were all saying that it was a spaceship.

[tense music playing]

- [music subsides] - [in English] Were you scared?

[in Portuguese] It gave me a strange feeling.

Sometimes, when I got home, I'd have, like, a headache.

[in English] Oh wow. What was the American doing?

[Valéria] What was the American doing?

[in Portuguese] He worked with the monitor,

with the people who came in the light.

They didn't understand their voices.

The sound was unclear...

[imitating gibberish sound]

All unclear like that.

[in English] Did it sound like language or just sounds?

[in Portuguese] It was like a language, yes.

[Armour in English] So you heard this?

[De Oliveira] I heard it.

[Armour] Did anyone ask you not to say anything about what you saw?

[in Portuguese] In the final days, we were working, and he asked me...

He said he was going,

and many people would come to my house to interview me,

but I shouldn't talk to anyone.

[Armour] All right. Let's head back.

So clearly, there was a lot going on. There was a huge military presence.

I mean, they were conducting this operation for six months

out on that island.

Why was the investigation abruptly ended?

Where's the video? Rosil said there was a recording.

I'm wondering if George has a contact where we could get our hands on it.

[Knapp] How did your morning go?

From what the boat captain said,

some of the things he confirmed, he was taking people out to the island,

but it was not just Brazilian.

There was an American.

We had all the suspicions that Americans were here.

The fact that Americans were there

during the Brazilian Air Force investigation of these,

uh, tumultuous events in Colares is telling.

It confirms a lot of suspicions

about our US government's involvement in this on a global scale.

He said a couple weeks into the operation, they started taking guns.

And the kicker is, they gave the boat captain a gun.

Military guys gave him a gun?

Gave the boat captain a gun.

That says a lot. They took this seriously. That it was considered a threat.

And they were trying to communicate back and forth.

The guys who are with him on this boat are trying to communicate

with whatever other language that's being spoken.

Meaning some kind of language that doesn't sound human?

[Armour] Correct. He remembered what it sounded like.

- Man, I... - That... Yeah, I'd never heard that before.

A couple things occurred to me. I know we regard Colares as long ago,

something from ancient history. It's not ancient history.

Some of the same kind of activity continues to this day with a lot of it,

then and now, often happening around water.

As far as why, the people here think it had to do with research or sampling.

It's possible the injuries weren't intentional,

just a side effect of this operation.

But what also struck me is what Vee learned from the boat captain.

That in the midst of all that was going on,

it seems like there was an attempt at communication between us and them.

WELCOME TO COLARES

The biggest questions are, what was the purpose of the message?

What was recorded? And who got it?

I know that the three-letter agency that I know

asked the other three-letter agency what they've got,

and they shut the door in their face.

Somebody's got footage. Somebody's got documents.

Somebody's got audio recordings.

I'm gonna make some phone calls, ask some people

who should know where it is, to see if they can make any progress.

The more we can bring out of the shadows and into the public,

the fuller our view gets, and the closer we get to answers.

[bright, energetic music playing]

[Knapp] Before I left Brazil,

I was able to get in touch with one of the few government insiders

who are willing to discuss what they know about UFOs, Christopher Mellon.

[intense music playing]

Chris Mellon and I have been in communication

for the past five and a half, six years.

He spent ten years on Capitol Hill.

He worked, uh, directly as a senior staffer

for Senate Intelligence and Armed Services.

So he was privy to a lot of really sensitive information.

Chris has been an essential player.

But the public knows very little about what he does

because almost everything he's done is behind the scenes, in the shadows.

I am absolutely certain that Chris Mellon knows way more

about the UFO topic than he's been allowed to say.

I know he's sat in on closed-door, on-the-record, under-oath briefings.

I know for a fact he's had access

to some very, uh, highly classified and sensitive documents and materials.

- Great to see you. - Great to see you.

[tense music playing]

[Knapp] In Brazil,

we heard the Brazilian Air Force seized or recorded film footage

of UFOs coming in and out of the water.

And that some of that stuff ended up in the US.

But nobody knows where we can find it.

And now, you've... you've had better contacts than I've had.

Is there somebody that knows?

Even the most knowledgeable supposed insiders

claimed that it was a mystery to them.

But there were some injuries that seemed to have been

not just adjacent to the craft, but on purpose.

[Mellon] Just as we use light to collect data

on distant planets and so forth,

they're using a light beam, perhaps, to, uh, gauge the chemistry,

biology of the target.

So you also think it has to do with sampling?

So, that's what it appeared to be.

Many of these accounts do look like somebody conducting research

or sampling or taking inventory.

Chris Mellon, with all the knowledge he has from the inside,

agrees with our idea

that what happened at Colares was a sampling operation.

This isn't just from witnesses

who had this terrifying experience back in the 1970s.

This is from a former high-ranking intelligence official of our government.

We didn't even talk about this, but back to the Tic Tac case...

So Dave Fravor had said

it looked like that object, that Tic Tac, was zipping around

trying to interact with something that was under the water.

We heard about craft coming in and out of the water in Brazil as well.

You think there's some credibility to that?

So absolutely, there's a lot of activity.

And our Navy absolutely has encountered some anomalous things underwater.

We certainly do have valid cases from nuclear subs,

where they've detected very anomalous things underwater.

And that's most of the planet's surface, and it would be the perfect place to hide.

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[Knapp] Chris Mellon makes an important point.

Three-quarters of the Earth is covered by oceans.

If you were from somewhere else,

and you wanted to stay away from prying human eyes,

you might hide there.

The suggestion from Chris Mellon,

from other evidence we've put together, is the mystery of why they're here

might be solved by going down into the oceans.

I'm gonna keep working sources to find that missing film footage from Colares

because I believe it holds vital clues

about the connection between UFOs and the water.

But something just came up back at home that needs my immediate attention.

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[Knapp] Just got back to Las Vegas, and I've got something big.

There's another UFO researcher I work with sometimes, Jeremy Corbell.

We get sent a lot of videos.

This was recorded

at an American military base in the Middle East,

uh, by security personnel.

Inside this base is another base.

A... an intelligence agency,

a three-letter agency, has a base inside as well.

So this thing floats through this base at night.

Security people are tracking it on camera.

You can't really see it. They've got a thermal image of it.

And it's the strangest, creepiest UFO I've ever seen.

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[Knapp] So, it's a thermal image. Uh, you couldn't see it with your eyes.

It changes its temperature a couple of times

as it floats through this very secure base.

I mean, it looks like a jellyfish.

This video was not approved for release by any government authority.

We've been keeping it to ourselves

because we want to protect the people who have helped us get the information.

They wanted to share it with the public. They thought we could be trusted

to do the right thing with it, to put it out in a way

that wouldn't get the sources in trouble.

I'm a little nervous about it. I mean, you don't know for sure

how ticked off people in high places might be after we make this public.

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[Knapp] Before I go forward with this evidence,

I need to know if there are any potential landmines for the source

that I might not be aware of.

Let me ask you. So I've got a video.

It's very sensitive. It came from a sensitive place.

I'm told it was over a black site.

A really weird UFO.

If I were to tell you about this, show it to you,

would you have to report it to CIA?

I mean, no, I'm not obligated to do anything

because I didn't record it.

So no, I have no obligation. I don't work there anymore.

Well, there's no marking on it that indicates it's classified.

So as a journalist, I'm trying to decide,

is it worth the risks that come from making it public?

If it was taken on any CIA property,

it is their property.

So if they want to make it secret, top secret, eyes only,

restricted handling, whatever they want to do, it's up to them.

It's not up to a civilian to determine the classification of anything. So...

Does this make sense that there would be a black site

within a military base in the Middle East?

Yeah.

Move over here. I'll show it to you.

This is thermal. It's at nighttime over this base.

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Is that the weirdest thing you've ever seen?

[Laux] He's moving across the entire base.

- If that's real, that's something big. - Yeah.

But just know your source, if you talk to this person again,

you should explain that, "Hey, the very fact that you took video

inside of a black site,

um, it's a felony."

Well, protecting the source is the whole ballgame

for an investigative journalist.

You only have to burn a source once, and then you're done. You're toast.

The word gets out that you can't be trusted,

people are not gonna share information with you.

That which you possess has nothing, no blowback on you.

- 'Cause you didn't take it. - Right.

- It's gonna come back on them. - [Knapp] Yeah, I know.

- It's an ethical quandary there... - Yeah, you really...

About, again, protecting the source from themselves.

They need to know what they're getting themselves into.

- They know. - I'm not kidding.

[Knapp] I'm worried about risk,

but I also have a commitment to the public,

and I believe this footage needs to get out.

I think the day has arrived, and it looks like we're gonna do it.

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There's a new video that is sending shockwaves throughout the UFO community.

This footage was reportedly taken at a US joint operations base in Iraq,

showing what appears to be this jellyfish flying through the air.

We released that jellyfish video, and it was kind of an explosion.

I mean, it went all over the world pretty quickly.

[reporter] Investigative UFO journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp

obtained the military-filmed UAP incursion.

But when you look at it,

you just scratch your head, thinking, "What is that?"

[Knapp] God, I hope we're doing the right thing.

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