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- At the age of 11 or 12,

I saw my first UFO. (suspenseful music)

- [Leslie] It was 2005 before I saw my first one.

- [Stephen] I've always been
kind of attracted to that idea

of there's something else.

- This is what's happening, this is what's going on,

and this is what they are doing it and what they want.

(suspenseful music)

- [Stephen] They're really not aliens, okay?

- [Leslie] They're not coming here

from distant star systems.

- [Stephen] They don't necessarily want us to know

that they are here.

- [Leslie] Just a mountain, a hole opens up in a mountain

and UFOs are shooting out of it.

- [Stephen] That's when he saw this tall Gray

that was standing in his doorway.

- [Leslie] As soon as we realized

that this is what's going on,

everything clicked into place
and started making sense.

- UFOs, eerie, elusive.

What in the cosmos are they?

Where did they zip in from? (calming music)

And what clandestine agendas do they harbor

on our humble Earth?

These questions might tickle the mind

or send shivers down the
spine depending on who you ask.

Yes, my friends, UFOs,

or UAPs, as they now want us to call 'em,

are undeniably real.

- We've seen every show on it and read so much about it.

And I kept seeing these people
looking up at the sky going,

"Who are they?

What do they want?"

You know, this poor person keeps getting abducted

and they don't understand it.

And we had a theory on it.

- [Narrator] For centuries, perhaps millennia,

the skies have set the stage
for these mysterious visitors

according to the dedicated folks

at the UFO Reporting Center,

which has been keeping tabs on these celestial

anomalies for nearly half a century.

Over 150,000 sightings have been cataloged

in the United States alone.

That's an average of over 3,000 per year,

with a startling spike to over 6,000 in 2019.

And let's whisper a chilling truth.

These reported incidents are likely

just a fraction of the actual encounters.

- When I saw my first UFO, it was at nighttime,

about maybe 9:30 at night.

It was in, like, January or February.

It must have been about 1970, '71.

I just happened to be looking out the front door,

and there was this large,

orange globe that was maybe 500 feet high in the air,

and it was just moving from south to north

at an even pace, kind of slow.

And then it kind of paused,

and then it continued on to the north.

And I was just staring at us thinking,

"Is that an airplane?"

But it doesn't have running
lights and it's moving too slow

"and it's an orange globe." (suspenseful music)

- [Narrator] So we should dismiss the thought

that this is merely a fringe phenomena

observed by the eccentrics among us.

This is a persistent, worldwide enigma

that has even the most skeptical scientists

scratching their heads.

- It was 2005 before I saw my first one.

I was the one driving

and looking through the windshield ahead,

and it was a bright white light
in the sky about maybe twice

the brightness and size of, say, Venus.

And at first I thought, "Oh,

it's a plane coming into Palm Springs Airport."

But it didn't have the blinking running lights

like planes have.

And it wasn't behaving like a plane.

It was sort of just hovering.

It moved slowly, and then it got over

the highway in front of us and stopped.

We were hurtling towards it at about 65 miles an hour.

And it got, so it got brighter
and brighter and brighter.

And I'm not sure if it was moving towards us

and us to it or what,

but it got brighter and brighter

until it was about half the brightness of the moon.

And it took off so quickly

that visually it streaked out into a line

and that the line collapsed in on itself.

I would've guessed it was
traveling at 20,000 miles an hour.

It was gone over the northern horizon

in less than a quarter of a second.

Just that fast.

You know, a white light in the sky

could be any number of things, right?

But not when it moves at 20,000 miles an hour.

And also, it didn't like ramp up to 20,000 miles an hour.

It instantly went at this speed.

The inertia would've been unbelievable.

Any human-made craft or human being

would've been squashed against the wall.

All the equipment in the plane

would've been squashed against the wall

moving like that. (calming music)

- [Narrator] So, how fast are these things?

There have been actual
reports, allegedly reliable ones,

that have clocked these mysterious crafts

moving at speeds that, well,

we're talking hold onto your hat somewhere

in the ballpark of 15,000 miles per hour.

Yes, you heard that right.

And no, they're not earning frequent flyer miles.

- That's ridiculous fast.

That's, what was in the "Spaceballs"?

Ludicrous speed. (laughs)

So obviously, we're dealing
with, that's the UFO phenomenon.

It can't be anything else.

- [Narrator] What are these craft?

Who pilots 'em?

Why do they visit us so frequently?

Is there a covert alliance with the government?

There are many theories out
there, some fairly mundane.

Some of them are really out there.

Today, we're gonna cover one of those theories.

Brace yourself.

These answers might just be as shocking

as the unexpected phenomena itself.

- My wife and I, Leslie,

we actually sat down and
talked with my brother, Philip,

about some of the things that had happened to him.

When he turned 16, yes,

he had three events in a row that happened to him.

The first night,

he was awakened by these two bright, like, UFOs,

these bright lights that were shining inside

just outside his bedroom window.

And he looked at 'em and then he blacked out.

For a few seconds trying to
figure out, is it flashlights?

You know, what?

It wasn't flashlights.

So the next night, he was awakened

by what he called a scrabbling
sound underneath his bed.

And he just thought it was one of the cats.

So he's gonna go, you know, put his hand down there

and pet the cat, whatever.

And instead, a hand grabbed his arm.

He blacked out.

And so the following night was, again,

he was awakened in the middle of the night,

and that's when he saw this tall Grey

that was standing in his doorway.

- It's fascinating really. (suspenseful music)

UFO sightings aren't just the
domain of sci-fi enthusiasts

who wear tinfoil hats and
attend yearly conventions.

Although, let's be honest,

they do add a bit of color to the mix.

No, these reports come from folks of every kind,

from the farmer in Nebraska who swears the lights

above his cornfield weren't
from the local teen's drone,

to the pilot cruising at 30,000 feet

who glimpses a fast mover that isn't on her radar.

And let's not forget the teacher, baker, and yes,

even the candlestick maker,

it seems looking up into the night sky

and spotting something otherworldly

is one of the few hobbies

that doesn't discriminate based on your day job.

Everyone's a potential witness
in the grand cosmic court

where the jury's still out,
but the intrigue is unanimous.

- What happened to me when I was 18,

it appeared to me as a blue-white entity, but bright.

I was literally afraid to sleep

in that bedroom the next night.

So I didn't.

I wore my work clothes from the day before

and I slept on the living room couch.

I woke about 5:30 in the morning,

and I was laying on my back and I know I was awake.

I looked up my piano,

thinking about what I was gonna play that day.

Heard the fountain in the other room.

I was awake, but I'm not gonna get up at 5:30.

And then from behind me,

it was like this entity knew that I was awake.

And again, this tall, skinny entity

came from the front door,

like just came right through the front door,

brought all this blue-white light in with it.

The whole room was filled with blue-white light,

and it was blue white, stopped by my right hand side.

Immediately, the whole right side

of my body becomes paralyzed.

And it bent down and it whispered in my ear,

not in my head, but in my ear

it said, "Hi, Steve."

And I'm thinking, "I wanna see your face.

I wanna see who you are."

And I can't quite see his face, its face.

And so half of me was really excited.

The other half of me was scared.

And then I black out.

- Now the real question, (suspenseful music)

the one that keeps folks at NASA up at night,

not to mention a few curious folks like us,

is exactly what are these beings?

Are they tourists from across
the galaxy just popping by

to snap some photos of the Earth

for their extra terrestrial Instagram?

Or are they perhaps long-lost relatives

who figured it was time to drop in

for a cosmic family reunion?

And here's where it even stickier.

There's a chance that they
might not even be from space.

- Theories at the time were that

these beings are coming
from all different star systems.

The tall white ones are coming from the Pleiades

and the blue ones are from the Arcturus

and from all these different places around.

Right?

The more I tried to apply that theory to our data,

it kept not aligning.

For one thing, these UFOs are being seen way too often.

They're seen like 10,000 times a year, every year,

for hundreds of years,

and going back maybe even thousands of years.

So just the number of
sightings was straining credulity

that these could be coming
from a distant star systems.

It would have to be so easy,

they could just literally open a door

and walk through to our universe.

That's how...

It would have to be that easy for them

to come here, to come here so often.

A lot of the UFO sightings that I was finding,

were talking about them coming
up out of the planet somehow.

They're coming up out of a lake,

or they're coming up out of
the ocean or out of a volcano

or the side of a ridge or a mesa or just a mountain,

a hole opens up in a mountain

and UFOs are shooting out of it.

I kept hearing these kinds of things.

And so it's not, they're not coming from up, down.

They're coming from down, up.

- So around about the time when I hit 30,

I started doing my own research

because of a very strange event

that happened when I was married to my ex-wife.

I still don't know what to make about it this day.

My ex-wife was a school teacher,

and she was getting ready to go to school.

It's about 5:30.

She would always get up early, you know?

So anyway, so she's in the bathroom getting dressed,

and I'm trying to go back to sleep.

And I hear this distinctive sound

of a Harley Davidson being revved.

And this is 5:30 in the morning in January, so it's dark.

And we lived on the second story of a condo

in a courtyard of a condominium park, right?

Well, who the hell is revving a Harley Davidson

at 5:30 in the morning?

It was loud.

And so I got up out of bed and I looked out the window

and I said, "There's nobody there."

I thought that was really odd.

And so I tried to go back to sleep,

and then it happened again, even louder this time.

So I rolled onto my back,

and then all of a sudden,

all these beings just appear
in my room, weirdly dressed,

some were animals,

and they were like attacking
me, you know, holding me down.

And I could not stop it.

Then I finally got out of that.

You know, I wasn't in a dream, you know?

And I thought, "Well, God, I must be losing my mind."

(somber music)

Well, according to our research,

that they really are part of the human experience

that goes back to a splitting of our races

about 13,000 years ago,

- [Narrator] Zacharias Sitchin, born in 1920,

became famous, or infamous
depending on how you look at it,

for his interpretations of ancient Sumerian texts.

Now, according to him,

these texts weren't just historical records.

Oh no.

He believed they told the story

of extraterrestrial visitors
known as the Anunnaki.

According to Sitchin,

well, they weren't just any visitors,

they were the architects of human civilization.

He argued that these beings
came from a hidden planet

in our solar system.

Now, this planet supposedly has an elongated orbit,

bringing it near Earth every 3,600 years or so.

Sitchin's books, particularly starting

with "The 12th Planet,"

explore the idea that the Anunnaki come

to the Earth in search of
resources, specifically gold,

which they needed to stabilize

their own planet's atmosphere.

And here's the kicker, (somber music)

he suggested that the
Anunnaki genetically engineered

the first humans as laborers to mine this gold.

- Sitchin has a lot of good evidence.

And one of the things

is that in the ancient Sumerian tablets,

they talk about a pyramid that they built.

They show a picture of it.

And the proportions are precisely that

of the Great Pyramid at Giza.

- Now, his theories, (suspenseful music)

they've stirred up quite a bit of debate.

Scholars, many of them, dismiss his interpretations,

but there's no denying

that Sitchin's ideas have
captivated a wide audience.

People are drawn to the mystery of it all.

Extraterrestrial, ancient myths, hidden planets.

It's quite a story.

One that Zecharia Sitchin wove into a narrative

that challenges our
understanding of human history.

- Early on in my life,

I read this book by a man named Fraser.

He wrote it in the 1800s.

He had tracked down 500
separate cultures worldwide

that had a flood myth in their most ancient lore.

- [Narrator] The great flood.

This isn't just your run-of-the-mill puddle

that forms because you forgot to clean the gutters.

No, this is the flood, with a capital F,

the one that supposedly washed away

nearly everything on the Earth,

leaving behind only those
lucky enough to snag a spot

on what might be considered the most

overcrowded cruise in history.

- And supposedly, a lot of these flood myths

end the same way too.

They all begin the same way, almost.

It's like, "God told us",

"'You better build an arc, '" you know?

But then they almost all end the same way.

Man had devolved into barbarism and cannibalism,

and it looked like we were failing,

like we were going to die out.

Then God took pity on us and sent an emissary,

or came himself.

A god-like figure comes back

to the people and gives 'em back civilization,

teaches 'em how to grow crops again

and how to do architecture and math.

Basically, gives civilization back to the people,

and then disappears.

Then I began looking into it,

the possibility that the flood really did happen.

And about three decades ago,

I think it was, nanodiamonds were discovered

in the soil of 13,000 years ago.

There was a minor extinction event in North America.

The Clovis people were all
wiped out along with the mammoth

and the mastodon,

American horse and camel, and the saber-tooth cat

and the dire wolf, and a bunch of other animals,

all wiped out at the same time.

(calming music)

Then the nanodiamonds

were discovered in this 13,000-year-old soil.

And once that happened,

then we knew what we were dealing with.

It was a celestial impact of some kind,

'cause nanodiamonds only form

during celestial impacts,

the dust that a meteor or a comet brings with it

through our atmosphere,

that dust superheats and forms

these little tiny round
diamonds called nanodiamonds.

Now we had the smoking gun.

We knew it was a celestial impact of some kind.

But then after the comet struck,

the resulting tsunamis, we think,

caused a lithospheric shift as well.

But right after that,

after the Younger Dryas impact,

we think it shifted the planet slightly.

It put Siberia from a temperate zone

up into an arctic zone. (laughs)

So that's why there are all these mammoths

and, you know, rhinoceri frozen to death,

flash frozen, by the way,

which would've happened in
the Younger Dryas comet impact,

'cause a wall of sleet would've gone out

in a massive circle outward.

When it hit these mammoths

and these animals in Siberia,

it hit 'em so fast that it froze 'em standing.

They actually froze with food still in their mouths,

like their mid chew,

and fruit trees were frozen with fruit still on them.

Anyone who's had a crop of fruit trees

exposed to a winter frost knows

that the trees will drop their fruit to survive.

But for 'em to be flash frozen so fast

that the fruit is still on the tree,

that would've had to have
been incredibly fast freezing.

I think the human race, back then,

they had like the "Deep Impact" movie.

There's a killer asteroid heading to Earth.

President Morgan Freeman proposes two plans.

Plan A is to blow up the asteroid with the hero,

you know, Hollywood heroes that fly off.

But plan B was to dig these
cities underground deep enough

to where the people would survive the impact.

And I believe that that is precisely what happened.

These societies of humans
were installed underground.

They took their technology with them.

Then the impact happened.

The poor schmos left on the surface,

we were almost wiped out,

and we were thrown back into the stone age.

And so that makes the people living under the ground,

13,000 years more advanced than we are,

technologically speaking.

We think that that's who is
launching the UFOs in our skies.

And as soon as we realized that this is what's going on,

everything clicked into place
and started making sense.

- These entities, they're really related to human.

They're basically really human beings.

Human beings that have a 13,000-year advantage

over us technologically.

I mean, look how far we've come in 100 years,

from the Model T to what we have now,

from the beginning of airplanes,

you know, now we have the internet.

It's like we've come so far.

Just imagine we human race, you know,

with even a couple thousand
years of not killing themselves

and what we will be able to do.

I mean, it's shocking.

It's necessity.

A lot of it's necessity.

They, and also too, they don't
want us to blow up the planet

because they live here.

We're messing with their ability to survive,

but they need us.

And they don't necessarily want us

to know that they're here,

because human beings, we freak out easily too.

You know?

It's easy to buy into, like,

"The War of the Worlds," 1938, you know, it was even said,

this is all a fiction.

This is all some play, right?

But some people thought, like, tuning in late,

they thought it was absolutely real.

People killed themselves because they didn't know.

You know?

'Cause it's easy to make people fearful.

It's easy to push the buttons of people.

- So a lot of people ask, "So, Leslie,

are aliens involved at all?"

Then we have to go back.

So, most of the time, we've been talking about

what happened 13,000 years ago

when I think the race separated,

that would be a really good reason

for the race to separate, right?

You know, is why would so many people go underground,

you ask yourselves.

Well, there's a really good
reason right there, you know?

But if you go back a lot further

to the time between Homo erectus and Homo sapien,

this is an enormous missing link here.

It appears that the human race was uplifted

from Homo erectus into Homo sapien.

And we think that because there's actually

some genetic proof of this.

It's in the speech centers of the Broca's brain

that there looks like there's been a cut

and paste job on our genome.

Like, we've been uplifted to be able to speak,

like somebody gave us the power of speech.

And there's an enormous
difference between Homo erectus

and Homo sapien cognitively as well.

It has to do with being able to imagine.

The Homo erectus was still like an animal.

It would've drunk water out of a creek like this, right?

But homo sapien, we make
cups and build chairs to sit in

and houses to sit in and drink water from our cup.

The creative mind was...

This is an enormous jump

and it looks like we were uplifted,

and we couldn't have uplifted ourselves, right?

Prior to 13,000 years ago,

because of the comet impact,

we have almost no history of ourselves

back anything prior to that.

Everything comes from
archeology prior to that, you know?

One of the few things we do
have is the Sumerian tablets

because they were fired and buried.

That was good.

That was a good idea, right?

Their history is there,

and it's one of the few histories

we have that does go back that far.

Sitchin didn't make the stuff up, you know,

he was translating these tablets.

Some people think badly, some people think great,

but I really put a lot of stock in Sitchin's work.

For instance, I like his theory

on the Great Pyramid of Giza,

that it was built 10,000 years ago.

One of the things the Sumerians liked to do was mark

their endeavors with the astrological

components of procession.

And the procession,

they would've been entering the time of Leo

10,000 years ago.

And that's why they put all these sphinxes

all over the Giza plateau

is because it was in the time of Leo.

Now is this the master and his people?

Are they making this history up,

or is this really the, you know,

Sumerian history as is real?

'Cause if it is, then Nibiru is a planet

that is supposed to be part of our solar system.

So we're still not talking

about interstellar travel, per se, right?

Nibiru is supposed to circle a brown dwarf

out towards the direction of Orion.

This is why so many ancient-world sculptures

have Orion somehow in it.

The Belt of Orion is key and important to them.

And it takes a 3,600-year evolution for Nibiru

to swing through our solar system.

So once again, you don't need faster-than-light travel

'cause the planet itself is just swinging

through the solar system every 3,600 years.

And then you can use just
good, old-fashioned rocketry

to get from one planet to another.

And we think they did 'cause, you know,

we have a lot of rockets in ancient Sumerian artwork,

showing a giant rocket with flames

coming out of the bottom of it.

A lot of these artifacts that don't make any sense,

it's because we were a thriving civilization

that got destroyed and then had to reemerge.

But we have a few little
pieces from the civilization prior

that make no sense with our current, you know,

belief in evolution.

But it also makes no sense

in what mainstream archeology is saying

and mainstream science is saying.

They're saying that we
evolved into Homo sapien sapien

roughly 120,000 years ago,

and then we sat around for
107,000 years doing nothing,

advancing in no way.

We didn't even invent the house.

And then 13,000 years ago, we just get some gumption up

and decide to grow a society

and go to the moon in, like, 13,000 years.

What were we doing with 107,000 years of what?

I think we rose as a civilization

and were fairly technologically advanced,

maybe to where we are now, say.

I think we actually had a space program.

I think that's why there are bases on Mars.

So then we're looking up at the sky.

An extinction level event is heading our way.

What do we do?

And I think we buried ourselves

and I think some of us escaped into space,

and these people have been living under the ground.

And now, 1,000 years or so goes by,

they're still underground.

And see, people don't realize
that the climate upheaval

after the comet.

The Usselo Horizon is this layer

of charcoal 13,000 years ago,

showing all the forests of the northern hemisphere

were on fire at the same time.

That happens in comets

because they break apart as they come in

and airburst that cause forest fires.

First it catches all of the
northern hemisphere on fire

at the same time,

lays down this layer of charcoal,

and then there's 1,100 years

of climate upheaval on top of that.

For 1,100 years afterwards,

you wouldn't have been able

to grow crops in the northern hemisphere.

We had to return to hunter gatherers just to survive.

History became stories around campfires.

(suspenseful music)

I think they just, in order to survive the cataclysm,

they had to go underground
and seal off all the air ducts

and everything, and then survive the cataclysm.

And then you can open up all the air ducts again.

And so they're breathing fine.

Another thing I think they did,

and this makes a lot of sense to me,

we have stories about these populations

moving to underground mountains,

underground into mountains,
like the Lemurians were...

There was a continent in the Pacific Ocean

that was kind of low ground

and would certainly not survive
the tsunami that was coming.

They had to move the entire population quickly

to a safe place.

The inside of a volcano is perfect.

A volcano has a throat

that's like an elevator shaft
going down to the mantle,

essentially through the entire crust.

And off of this elevator shaft

are huge lava tubes that open
up into enormous chambers.

So it's already a preexisting bomb shelter in a way.

You know, you can just move,

with relatively a small amount of effort,

you can move an entire population into these things.

It'd be above the tsunami line,

so it's safe from the tsunamis.

Like, you don't wanna go underground and low ground

after a tsunami,

you could have a lake on top of you,

but you go underground in a mountain,

you're gonna be high enough elevation.

And so I think that's why a lot

of these underground bases
are in mountains or in volcanoes.

Monti Cimini in Italy, UFO
hotspot, abduction stories.

We think these people that live underground,

they have no qualms about using

genetic manipulation whenever they want to.

We think that when a...

Let's say they need a bunch of underwater work done,

they would maybe just breed the reptiloid race.

Instead of making scuba gear,

you make reptiloids that can
work underwater, say, you know?

And so I think that they also created Bigfoot.

So we think that they created them and used them.

I believe they used them as sentries

to guard the entrances to their underground bases.

I know that sounds even
wackier than everything else,

but one of the things

that made me think this was Lake Roop Kund in India.

Lake Roop Kund is, like, 14,000 feet,

and it's on the slopes of Mount Kailash.

So it's right there.

It's full of skeletons.

It's a lake above the tree line.

And they found there's like 1,000 skeletons

inside this lake.

And so they thought, "Well, was there a battle here?"

And maybe everybody just got thrown in, you know?

The losers got thrown in the lake.

Now they're DNA testing these skeletons.

And this is not what happens.

These skeletons span, like, 1,000 years.

And they're from all different races.

So, and a lot of them have their heads bashed in, like,

it looks like a giant behemoth took a club

and bashed their heads in.

So I think that's literally what's happening.

The Yeti are sentries on Mount Kailash.

And when a scouting party does get too close,

they bash their heads in and
throw their bodies in the lake.

(uplifting music)

One of the things I really like about our theories

is it doesn't require any theoretical physics

for them to be true.

For instance, if they're coming
from other solar systems,

then somehow a faster-than-light
travel has to be true.

Wormholes have to be true,

or some way of traveling has to be true.

Not our theory.

They're here already.

They've always been here.

Are they interdimensional?

We don't see any signs that
interdimensional travel is real,

except that this seems like they open up portals

and go in and out through them.

And maybe this is interdimensional travel,

but our theories don't
require interdimensional travel

to be true for our theories to exist.

Also, the same thing with time travel.

It doesn't require time travel to be real

for our theories to exist.

Our theories are just fine with normal physics.

For instance, in biblical times,

these beings were flying in fiery chariots.

(uplifting music)

Ezekiel describes this fiery chariot coming down,

the other prophets that went up in the sky, you know,

they'd see this fiery chariot

sounds to me like good, old-fashioned rocketry.

They're using rockets

and rocketry to fly around, right?

Now we know that they've evolved too.

They're not just sitting there stagnant.

They've been evolving as well.

And now we know they use some sort of a nuclear power

to power their ships because
when people get too close

to these ships sometimes now,

they're getting electromagnetic radiation burns.

So it has something to do with their propulsion,

I believe, of their ships.

When I think about their technology,

I try not to overthink it

because I feel like a gorilla poking at a cell phone.

You know? (laughs)

Like, it's just beyond me, most of it,

but it doesn't seem like a
million years ahead of us, right?

It seems about, like, 13,000 years might be about right.

Now they've evolved past it and so are we.

We're we're just starting to get

beyond looking at other means of propulsion as well.

(suspenseful music)

- Okay, so let's get into Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

He was quite the explorer, you know, a real adventurer.

In his time, he flew over the North Pole

and the South Pole,

which back then wasn't just a hop on a plane,

it was a major expedition.

Now where it gets interesting and a little bit out

of the ordinary is when you bring

in his connections to ufology.

Byrd supposedly kept a diary.

And here's where it gets a little bit, you know, curious.

In his diary entries,

particularly those about his Arctic expedition,

he talks about entering a strange new land

beyond the North Pole

where he encountered advanced technology

and perhaps even extraterrestrial beings.

This part of his story has become a cornerstone

for many theories involving UFOs and aliens.

- Most people know about Admiral Byrd's lost diary,

I should not say lost, but posthumously discovered.

His son was going through his personal effects

after he died.

And he found this diary.

And in this diary, he describes a meeting

with these human beings.

He describes them as men living under the ice sheet.

He's flying this plane into an underground ice world

where he spots a wooly mammoth
as he's flying by, you know,

and then his plane is taken over.

They tell him on the radio,

"We're gonna take over your plane and land it."

Then he's flanked by flying saucers.

They land his plane for him.

He meets with a person called The Master

who talks to him like he's
talking to a child, like, my son,

oh, my son, this, my son, that.

This Master tells him that you are in the underworld,

the world of the Arriani.

And normally, we have nothing to do with you people

and your barbaric wars up on the surface.

But we had to make an exception now

because you've learned to crack the atom,

and this is a power that you
should not be playing with,

you don't have the knowledge

to control this or handle it, right?

So now we've had to break our silence

and warn the people of your world,

take back this message to the people of your world.

(suspenseful music)

- [Narrator] People in the ufology community,

they really latch onto this because it suggests

that there could be hidden, advanced civilizations

or alien contacts that have been kept secret.

It adds a whole 'nother layer of mystery

to Byrd's already impressive legacy.

It changes the whole perspective.

- Then in '47, Admiral Byrd,
in the thirties, late thirties,

Hitler was showing this
bizarre interest in Antarctica.

Nobody could figure out why,

but he's got U-boats just combing the coast.

And the U-boats say they discover something

like a paradise under the ice.

One of the U-boat commanders was quoted.

Then after that,

he sends the enormous resources to the continent,

engineers and ships and mining equipment,

and all this equipment is going down there.

So there's bizarre...

So US intelligence, at the time,

surmises that there was a Nazi base

under the ice sheet of Antarctica.

And in 1947, after the war,

Admiral Byrd was tasked, we believe,

with the destruction of this base.

So he sends an armada down to Antarctica.

It's the Operation Highjump.

And in Operation Highjump,

we discovered this in a Russian documentary

that hit the air on 19, I think, 86,

but now it's on YouTube.

Anybody can see it on YouTube.

Describes this incident.

When Admiral Byrd gets to Queen Maud Land

with his armada,

a squadron of flying saucers fly up out of the ocean,

attack the armada with a ray that they shoot at it,

they sank a destroyer and they downed

half of Byrd's carrier-based
aircraft, killed dozens of men.

Then they go back into the ocean and gone.

And Operation Highjump was supposed

to be a six-month operation.

They turned tail and ran back to South America

after just two months.

We know that.

And a Byrd was quoted in an Argentine magazine

as saying, "America can now be attacked

by an enemy capable of flying from pole

to pole in a matter of seconds."

Then he went back to Washington

and was muzzled for the rest of his life.

He did not say another word

about any of this the rest of his life.

But then this diary is published.

And I think what happened was is that

after the attack, he being the hero he was,

this guy was a Medal of Honor winner.

He was an explorer.

He was just an American hero at the time

of unimpeachable character.

We think he personally took a crew,

got in one of his planes and flew

into the Arriani world. (ethereal music)

- [Narrator] But, and this is a big but,

it's important to remember

that these diary entries are widely debated.

Many folks question their authenticity,

while others treat them as gospel.

So in the grand scheme of things,

Byrd's supposed encounters
have fueled a lot of speculation

and excitement in the world of ufology,

giving both believers and
skeptics plenty to talk about.

- We've since heard of an enormous hole

in the Antarctic ice sheet, huge,

that you could fly a plane into and go down.

And this is in the no-fly zone
that America has blocked off

that nobody's supposed to fly over, right?

But in a medical emergency,

this one pilot decided to fly over it.

Sure enough, they spot this enormous hole

that the US is hiding from the rest of the world.

So we believe he flew down into the ice sheet,

met with The Master.

The Master told him essentially
what they wanted to do.

They want us to give up our
nukes, be less technological,

take better care of the planet.

And then he told us why he's gonna abduct us.

It is very interesting.

The Master told Admiral Byrd, he says,

"Don't worry about the future of your race.

We are going to take individuals

and assure the perpetuation of your race,

the safety of your race."

So they're claiming

that there may be taking individuals and keeping 'em.

And we're finding that this is true as far

as there's a lot of just missing people.

And the missing people, the
numbers go up when you happen

to be in a high UFO zone area like Alaska.

The numbers of people,

there's like 16,000 missing people in Alaska.

And sure, some were eaten by a grizzly bear

and some are dead in a crevasse,

but most of 'em are just, poof, gone.

And as soon as we applied this story,

Admiral Byrd's story to our UFO data,

it all started making sense.

Oh, we're not dealing with aliens,

we're dealing with humans.

And the Greys are humans that have been underground

for 13,000 years and looked like that because of that.

But then the Nordic aliens, they looked just like us

because they came back up
under the surface at some point,

but they were our masters playing god.

For thousands of years,

they'd been playing god and kind of steering our race,

but now they can't get away with that anymore.

Or maybe with some people, you know,

but most of the time, they can't get away

with the god thing anymore.

So, now they're playing space alien,

anything to keep us looking up

and not down where they really are.

I keep hearing the same thing.

A hole opened up on the mesa and UFOs

shot in and out of the hole and then it closed up.

This is not a spiritual event.

This is a duck blind.

- A duck blind (uplifting music)

has nothing to do with ducks needing glasses.

No, a duck blind is actually
a sort of hideout for hunters.

The whole idea is to be sneaky

'cause you can imagine ducks aren't that keen

on sticking around if they
know there's a hunter nearby.

- On that mesa,

somebody pointed a heat-detecting camera at it.

And sure enough, right under where the hole was,

there's this heat signature on the mesa

because there's a facility underneath the mesa.

And you know, everywhere else on the mesa you point

this heat thing, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold.

But right where the hole was, it's hot.

This is a physical, measurable phenomenon that,

and they're physically here
sharing our planet with us.

We think that our government became aware

of these things in the forties.

In 1941, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri,

there was a crashed alien ship

and with dead alien bodies.

The government managed to quashed that one quickly.

You know, they grabbed all the evidence

and took it off to Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base in Ohio,

and they disappeared the evidence.

But we know that they became aware of these things,

if not before that,

at least by then. (uplifting music)

- Back in 1947, and this is the kind of famous part,

a UFO supposedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico.

You've probably heard about it,

but here's where it gets interesting.

The wreckage, and some say even

the extraterrestrial occupants inside of it,

were moved later to the
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Why there?

Well, it's home to the Foreign Technology Division,

which sounds like they're
supposed to be dealing with,

you know, foreign cars or something.

But actually, they handle
much more mysterious stuff.

Now, this base became the
center of a lot of speculation

and let's just say imaginative stories.

People thought it wasn't just about studying

foreign technology from other countries,

but rather from other galaxies.

That's right.

Galaxies far, far away.

And Wright-Patterson

was the Grand Central Station (uplifting music)

for UFO research.

There were rumors about secret hangers

and underground tunnels

where alien technology was stored and studied.

So over the years,

this base has become legendary in UFO circles.

- It all sounds kind of nuts.

And I realized that,

especially when I was researching

the alien breeding program, I thought, "Oh my God,

I have to report this in a book?"

You know, this is so crazy.

But then I thought, "But is it crazier than that

they're coming from 38 light years away,

10,000 times a year, every year?"

You know?

And I realized that it actually
makes a lot more sense.

That's why they've been with us for thousands of years.

They live here.

So the Admiral Byrd thing
was the real epiphany for me

was realizing that we're dealing

with a breakaway population of humanity.

And I think some of them have
been underground for too long.

Like the Greys, what would happen to a human being

if you put us underground for 13,000 years?

Our eyes would get blacker and larger.

Our skin would get paler and grayer.

We wouldn't need hair anymore
to protect us from the sun.

And we have more in common with the Greys

than we do with our closest other relative

on the planet, the chimps.

The Greys that walk perfectly upright,

the only other creature to do this

besides us, is the Greys, the Nordic aliens,

the Bigfoot, you know,

these are the only upright-walking beings.

So we think that they're evolved from humans.

They have mutated from us to a certain extent.

That was proven with the...

This one little kernel of evidence I really love

is the hair of the alien.

This man in Australia,

he woke up to a hybrid alien woman

straddling him in bed.

And another woman, he said she looked more Asian,

was sitting on the foot of the bed.

But this hybrid alien woman who's having sex

with him while he's paralyzed,

her eyes were too large, he said,

her cheekbones and chin
were pointy, kind of too pointy.

And she had white hair, long white hair.

And so these two women have their way with him

and then he blacks out and
he wakes up the next morning

and there's a hair in bed with him, a white hair in bed.

But you look closer at this hair,

it's clear like fishing line.

So he gets this thing analyzed, he gets it tested.

And sure enough, it is a clear hair,

and there is no human type of hair that's clear.

Even albinos don't have clear hair.

So it's an unknown type of hair,

previously unseen, unknown.

And then it tests out genetically as human.

It's Basque, Gaelic,

and a branch of Chinese that only 1%

of the Chinese population...

It tests out really bizarre DNA, but human DNA,

mutated human DNA because it's clear.

So this is a proof, you know, finally one little kernel,

hard kernel of evidence that not only

are these creatures human, they're mutants.

(uplifting music)

All in the same hair.

We get the same information from the same hair.

- There's a lot of conjecture around

what knowledge the government has about all

this alien stuff.

Which brings us to President Eisenhower's

supposed meeting with aliens.

Well, let's set the scene.

It's 1954, Dwight D. Eisenhower is president.

And according to this story,
which is really something,

instead of spending a peaceful weekend golfing,

he's off secretly meeting with extraterrestrials.

Eisenhower went to Edwards Air Force Base,

which, at the time, was called Muroc Airfield.

The official story was that he was there

for a dental emergency.

But according to UFO lore,

what he was actually doing there

was having a meeting with some very tall,

very blonde visitors from another world.

These visitors were known as the Nordics

because they looked like, well, Scandinavians.

These Nordics weren't your average guests.

They were described as
peaceful beings, highly advanced.

And they supposedly offered

to share their advanced technology with us.

But there was a catch.

They wanted the US to
dismantle all its nuclear weapons.

As the story goes, Eisenhower declined because, well,

giving up the entire nuclear arsenal

during the height of the Cold War

seemed like a bad move strategically.

So this meeting is one of
those stories that's floated

around in UFO circles for years.

There's no real concrete evidence,

just a lot of whispered rumors and a few looks.

- We think that this meeting

between Eisenhower and the Nordics,

we think they set a disclosure date

that has since come and gone.

Stephen and I believe, at this point,

that it's actually us that wanna keep this quiet

and is trying to keep a lid on it.

And we think our cousins are actually trying

to come out to the world.

That's why they're showing themselves so often.

I think that's what crop circles are all about,

is they're trying to go around our military

and communicate directly
with our science community.

The whole thing with the Phoenix lights,

if you're not trying to show
yourself, what are you doing?

That incident, the UFO started in Nevada

and crossed all of Arizona,

making sure to go over the Capitol

so that most people can see it.

And then cruise all the way
across the rest of the state

and into Mexico.

I thought, "What are they, joy riding?

Did they steal Papa's ship or something?"

You know?

But I think what they're trying to do is they're trying

to disclose to us that they're there,

and it's our government now trying to keep

a lid on it still. (suspenseful music)

We all think, we all keep thinking, "Oh,

disclosure's coming, disclosure's coming."

Since Project Blue Book inception,

the government has been stonewalling us.

This isn't happening.

It's not happening.

It's swamp gas, it's mass hysteria.

And then in 2017, Luis Elizondo released his story

to "The New York Times" with the three videos,

the famous ones, tic-tac, go fast and gimbal.

- [Narrator] Over the past few years,

there's been some real movement in regards

to the government disclosing info on UFOs.

It all started to unfold publicly back in December

of 2017 when "The New York Times"

ran a rather eye-opening article.

This piece revealed that
there was a previously covert

US government program,

dubbed the Advanced Aerospace

Threat Identification Program or ATIP,

which had been operational
from about 2007 till around 2012.

This program was no garden-variety project.

Fast forward to April, 2020,

and the Pentagon made a move that was startling.

They officially released three navy videos

that had been leaking around since 2017.

And these weren't your typical home videos.

These captured UAPs performing maneuvers

that defy our understanding of physics

and aerospace technology.

The videos, which were originally captured

between 2004 and 2015,

showed objects moving at
incredible speeds and making turns

that would leave even the best pilots dumbfounded.

Following this release,

the topic of UAPs started

to be taken much more seriously by officials

and the public alike.

It had become a subject worthy of official reports

and congressional briefings.

All of this culminated in a report

delivered to Congress in June, 2021,

which admitted that there were aerial objects

that the US government cannot identify.

They couldn't say for sure

that they were extraterrestrials,

but they also couldn't say they weren't,

leaving everyone hanging a bit.

And that's how the government began

to pull back the curtain on
the mysterious world of UAPs,

marking a significant shift from the usual secrecy

to a more open acknowledgment of the unknown.

It's quite the development,

although some will say it was a misdirect.

- We know all this information
from our research almost.

But to hear it read onto the floor of the house,

you know, into the congressional record,

it was really something for us,

us ufology people were like, "Whoa."

Yes, they have ships.

Yes, they have dead biologics.

Yes, they are real.

And the two pilots, one of them was Ryan Graves.

He was with the Red Rippers

out of Oceania on the East Coast.

They're the ones that were seeing these orbs more.

He says they're 15 feet in diameter, clear glass,

with a black square or cube,
like, spinning inside of it.

I think these are, like, spy drones that they use.

And what Graves told me that was news to me

was that they are seeing
these things every single time

our navy goes out on maneuvers, every time.

That means they're monitoring our nukes every time,

everywhere we go, all around the world.

And Russia too.

They're keeping tabs on all the nuclear weapons

in the world at all times.

And they've proven they can deactivate 'em

whenever they want to too.

The Malmstrom incident, a UFO parked itself

outside Malmstrom, one by one,

the nuclear warheads were taken offline.

All separate systems too, just like off, off, off, off.

And it's just their way of telling us that

we can shut them off whenever we want to.

But you can tell they're afraid of our nukes.

And why?

If they're coming here from distant star systems,

why would they care?

Who cares if we blow ourselves up?

But if they live here with us.

I think that's further proof

that they're not coming here
from distant star systems.

(uplifting music)

- [Narrator] In the shadowy
depths of government secrecy

and the endless skies above,

we have journeyed through the strange world of UFOs

and unearthed tales.

From Admiral Byrd's Arctic adventures

to the concrete halls of Wright-Patterson

and the legendary meeting
between President Eisenhower

and extraterrestrial beings,

we've explored corners of
history not found in textbooks.

What truths lie behind

the government's recent acknowledgments

of unidentified aerial phenomenon.

As the curtain slowly lifts,

revealing hints of advanced technologies

and potential interstellar communications,

we're left to ponder,

are we alone in the universe

or have aliens been here all along

living right beneath our feet?

The answer, woven into the fabric

of these unsolved mysteries,

is waiting silently to be unraveled.

- In our theory, (uplifting music)

they're really not aliens, okay?

I think they're opportunists.

- We don't call 'em aliens in this house.

We call 'em cousins.

Or we coined a word intraterrestrials,

instead of extraterrestrials.

That's our word. We should copyright it. (laughs)

(suspenseful music)