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Narrator: THERE IS A NEW AND EVER MORE SECRET MILITARY BASE

CALLED AREA 52.

Pope: THERE ARE PARTS OF THE FACILITY

WHERE EVEN THE MILITARY THEMSELVES CAN'T GET ACCESS.

WHAT ON EARTH'S GOING ON?

Narrator: NEWLY DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS --

ARE THEY PROPAGANDA OR A SMOKING GUN?

Pope: SOME OF THESE FILES CONTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT UFOs

THAT WILL CHANGE PEOPLE'S MIND ABOUT THE WHOLE PHENOMENON.

Narrator: EVIDENCE NEVER BEFORE SEEN ON TELEVISION

OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND UFOs SIDE BY SIDE.

Rosenfeld: THE SECOND TIME IT FIRED, FIVE BLUE LIGHTS COME DOWN

AND COMPLETELY SURROUND THIS BEAM.

Narrator: WHY DID THE GOVERNMENT KEEP THIS IMAGE OF MARS

HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC?

WHAT SECRETS ARE THEY TRYING TO CONCEAL?

Lukes: THE GOVERNMENT IS FINALLY BEGINNING TO TELL US

WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW.

Narrator: WILL NEW SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS

FORCE THE GOVERNMENT TO REVEAL THE TRUTH?

Rosenfeld: YOU GOT CONTRACTORS OUT THERE PLAYING GOD WITH TECHNOLOGY.

THAT'S PRETTY SCARY STUFF.

Narrator: NEW INFORMATION IS TRANSFORMING

WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT.

ARE UFOs REALLY VISITING OUR WORLD?

IS THE GOVERNMENT HIDING THE TRUTH?

AND, IF SO, COULD NEW SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTS

REVEAL EXPLOSIVE NEW EVIDENCE FOUND AT AREA 52?

CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS

MARCH 16, 1968, SKULL VALLEY.

THIS QUIET AREA OF RANCH LAND IN CENTRAL UTAH

IS HOME TO A SMALL NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATION

KNOWN FOR RAISING SHEEP.

BUT OVERNIGHT, IT WOULD BECOME INFAMOUS

FOR SOMETHING FAR DIFFERENT.

THAT MORNING, RANCHERS WOKE UP TO FIND A HORRIFIC SCENE.

SCATTERED ACROSS THE VALLEY WERE THOUSANDS

AND THOUSANDS OF DEAD SHEEP.

Dolan: THE SKULL VALLEY SHEEP INCIDENT,

IN WHICH OVER 6,000 SHEEP SUDDENLY DIED,

THIS WAS IN MARCH OF 1968, WAS AWFUL,

AND IT WAS A SHOCKING EVENT, ACTUALLY,

FOR THE COUNTRY AT THE TIME.

Narrator: VETERINARIANS DETERMINED THAT THE SHEEP

EXPERIENCED MASSIVE MUSCLE CONVULSIONS

AND ULTIMATELY DIED FROM ASPHYXIATION.

DAYS LATER, LAB TESTS ON SHEEP BLOOD REVEAL

THE EXISTENCE OF A FOREIGN SUBSTANCE

UNLIKE ANYTHING PREVIOUSLY KNOWN.

AND, TODAY, ALMOST 50 YEARS LATER,

THERE IS STILL NO OFFICIAL EXPLANATION WHAT HAPPENED.

ONLY SUSPICIONS REMAIN

THAT POINT TO NEARBY GOVERNMENT FACILITIES.

250 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SKULL VALLEY

AND 83 MILES NORTH OF LAS VEGAS IN THE NEVADA DESERT

LIES A U.S. MILITARY SITE THAT'S BEEN A STAPLE OF AMERICAN LORE

AND MYSTERY FOR OVER 6 DECADES.

FEW AMERICANS HAVEN'T HEARD OF IT --

AREA 51.

AREA 51 HAS REALLY PLAYED A KEY ROLE

IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOME OF THE MOST ICONIC

SECRET PROTOTYPE AIRCRAFT PROJECTS OF ALL TIME.

Narrator: BUT WHAT REALLY BROUGHT AREA 51

INTO THE SPOTLIGHT

WERE REPORTS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

AND THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS

WHO PUT THE NOT-SO-SECRET BASE UNDER GREAT SCRUTINY.

THE UFO COMMUNITY SAY IT ALL BEGAN IN ROSWELL, 1947,

WHEN AN ALIEN SPACECRAFT CRASHED IN THE DESERT.

AND, SUPPOSEDLY,

THE WRECKAGE OF THAT CRASH WAS TAKEN TO AREA 51.

THAT'S WHEN THE LEGEND BEGAN.

ONCE EVERYONE HAD HEARD ABOUT AREA 51,

IN A SENSE, THE SECRET'S OUT.

BUT, IN SOME WAYS,

THIS CAN WORK TO THE GOVERNMENT'S BENEFIT.

WHEN ALL EYES ARE ON ONE PARTICULAR LOCATION,

THE TRICK IS THEN TO MOVE THE ACTION ELSEWHERE.

WHERE DID IT GO?

AREA 52.

Narrator: OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED AS THE DUGWAY PROVING GROUND,

THIS MILITARY FACILITY COVERS AN ASTOUNDING 1,250 SQUARE MILES

OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT.

I'VE BEEN RESEARCHING DUGWAY FOR TWO DECADES.

THE PLACE IS SO BIG THAT, YOU KNOW,

IT'S TAKEN ME YEARS AND YEARS TO COMPLETELY GO AROUND THIS BASE

AND DOCUMENT FENCE LINES AND BORDERS.

IF YOU WAS TO, SAY, STAND ON THE SOUTHERN VANTAGE POINT

AND LOOK ACROSS, YOU WOULD THINK,

"OKAY, WELL, WHERE DOES IT END?"

AND, AS FAR AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT'S WHAT THEY OWN.

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, WHICH HAS GOTTEN THE NICKNAME OF AREA 52,

GOT STARTED IN THE EARLY 1940s

AND REMAINS A PLACE OF EXTREMELY SENSITIVE TESTING

OF THINGS LIKE CHEMICAL WEAPONS,

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, GERM WARFARE,

RADIOLOGICAL WEAPONS,

ALL OF THE REALLY VERY DANGEROUS THINGS.

Narrator: DUGWAY'S OFFICIAL MISSION

IS TO TEST TOP-SECRET AMERICAN WEAPONS

AND AEROSPACE SYSTEMS,

BUT UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THE PURPOSE OF AREA 52

IS FAR MORE THAN THAT.

SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE SEEN OUT THERE

ARE CONVOYS OF BLACK SUBURBANS OR MILITARY VEHICLES

THAT JUST KIND OF DISAPPEAR LIKE THEY'RE GOING UNDERGROUND

OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

YOU HAVE AREAS THAT ARE CLEARLY MARKED

"BOMBING RANGE" ON SIGNAGE, AND YET YOU LOOK OUT THERE,

AND YOU DON'T SEE ANY KIND OF CRATERS

OR EVIDENCE OF BOMBING.

INSTEAD, THERE'S VENTS STICKING OUT OF THE GROUND, BUILDINGS.

WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?

THERE'S SOMETHING UNDERNEATH,

SOME KIND OF HUGE FACILITY OR TYPE OF UNDERGROUND BASE.

Narrator: GIVEN THE ULTRA-SECRET ACTIVITY AT DUGWAY,

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT UFO ACTIVITY

THAT WAS ONCE CENTERED AT AREA 51

HAS BEEN SECRETLY RELOCATED TO AREA 52?

AND, IF SO, IS THERE EVIDENCE?

IN THE MANY YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN GOING TO DUGWAY IN MY RESEARCH

AND MY FIELD WORK OUT THERE,

WE'VE SEEN CERTAIN AIRCRAFT

ACTUALLY JUST DISAPPEAR IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.

IT LOOKS ALMOST LIKE IT'S BEING CLOAKED, INVISIBILITY,

"PREDATOR" TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY.

I'VE SEEN CRAFT FLYING AROUND OUT AT DUGWAY

THAT I KNOW ARE NOT MANMADE.

DUGWAY HAS A HISTORY, WHICH CONTINUES TO THIS DAY,

OF INTERESTING UFO SIGHTINGS.

THIS DOESN'T INCLUDE SIMPLY CRAFT,

BUT ALSO THINGS LIKE ORANGE-ISH RED ORBS,

FOR EXAMPLE, BIZARRE THINGS.

THEY'RE CERTAINLY NOTHING THAT, OFFICIALLY,

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HAS ACKNOWLEDGED,

AND YET ENOUGH PEOPLE ARE SEEING THEM

THAT WE REALLY HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES,

"WHAT ARE THESE THINGS, AND WHY ARE THEY THERE?"

Narrator: LIKE AREA 51, DUGWAY PROVING GROUND

HAS A LONG HISTORY OF UFO SIGHTINGS,

GOVERNMENT SECRECY, AND OFFICIAL COVER-UPS.

Pope: ON THE ONE HAND,

WE ARE IN THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT AGE.

THE JOURNALISTS ARE ALWAYS ASKING QUESTIONS,

THE PUBLIC HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW,

BUT ONLY UP TO A CERTAIN POINT.

CLEARLY, YOU DON'T WANT

YOUR MOST HIGHLY CLASSIFIED PROJECTS

SPREAD ALL OVER THE MEDIA.

CLEARLY, THERE ARE THINGS BEING DEVELOPED

THAT YOU DON'T WANT THE RUSSIANS

OR THE CHINESE FINDING OUT ABOUT.

Narrator: BUT WHAT IF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WERE CONSPIRING

TO DEVELOP TECHNOLOGY FROM UFOs?

INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE HIGHLY CREDIBLE EVIDENCE OF THIS

CAN BE FOUND IN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS

OF FORMER PRIVATE CONTRACTORS AT DUGWAY,

WHO REPORT VERY STRANGE ACTIVITY,

HIGHLY UNUSUAL TECHNOLOGY,

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN AIRCRAFT DESIGNS,

AND EXTREMELY TIGHT SECURITY.

AREA 52 IS A HIGHLY CLASSIFIED AND SECURE LOCATION,

AND, OF COURSE, SECURITY IS TIGHT.

BUT THERE ARE AREAS OF IT

WHERE SECURITY IS EVEN TIGHTER.

THERE ARE PARTS OF THE FACILITY WHERE, APPARENTLY,

EVEN THE MILITARY THEMSELVES CAN'T GET ACCESS.

WHAT'S GOING ON IN THOSE AREAS?

WHO'S OPERATING IN THERE? WHAT ON EARTH'S GOING ON?

Rosenfeld: NO ONE KNOWS THE AREA BETTER THAN ME.

IT'S KIND OF ONE OF THOSE PLACES WHERE,

IF YOU'RE HANGING AROUND,

YOU'RE GOING TO GET CONFRONTED.

AND, BOY, WHEN YOU HAVE THE WHITE VANS ROLL UP ON YOU

AND THE GUYS POP OUT PALMING THEIR GUNS,

IT'S QUITE INTIMIDATING.

AND THEY SAY, YOU KNOW, "YOU NEED TO MOVE ON.

YOU NEED TO PACK UP YOUR STUFF. IT'S NOT PUBLIC LAND.

YOU ARE ON DUGWAY PROPERTY."

AND I'M TELLING YOU, THE SECURITY IS NOTHING

THAT YOU WANT TO MESS WITH.

GOVERNMENTS ARE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT BEING MORE TRANSPARENT.

THEY'RE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT BEING MORE OPEN.

IN FACT, THEY'VE BECOME LESS TRANSPARENT AND LESS OPEN

OVER THE YEARS.

I THINK THIS IS MORE PROPAGANDA THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

Narrator: THE FIRST REPORTS OF THE EXISTENCE

OF THIS TOP-SECRET BASE IN UTAH SURFACED IN 1942.

DURING WORLD WAR II,

INVESTIGATORS LEARNED THAT DUGWAY,

ALSO KNOWN AS AREA 52,

SERVED AS A TEST SITE FOR TOXIC AGENTS,

INCLUDING NAPALM USED IN FLAMETHROWERS,

CHEMICAL SPRAY SYSTEMS, AND FIREBOMBING TACTICS.

WHEN YOU PLAY WITH BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS,

I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO ABSOLUTELY HAVE

THE HIGHEST SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE.

ONE MISTAKE CAN BE ABSOLUTELY FATAL -- LITERALLY.

Narrator: IN 1958, THE U.S. ARMY

ADDED RADIOLOGICAL WEAPONS TESTING TO AREA 52,

WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE,

IS ANY DEVICE DESIGNED TO SPREAD RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

WITH THE INTENT TO KILL AND CAUSE DISRUPTION.

ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT DUGWAY,

THERE'S NO OVERSIGHT, NO CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT,

NO INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT, SO, MORE OR LESS,

THEY'RE DOING WHATEVER THEY WANT OUT THERE.

YOU'VE GOT CONTRACTORS OUT THERE PLAYING GOD WITH TECHNOLOGY.

THAT'S PRETTY SCARY STUFF.

Narrator: SO WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON AT THIS SECRET GOVERNMENT SITE

THAT IS EVEN MORE CLASSIFIED THAN AREA 51?

I'VE BEEN RESEARCHING DUGWAY FOR SO LONG THAT I GET

A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING MY WAY WITH PERSONAL STORIES,

THINGS THAT THEY'VE SEEN, WITNESSED, EXPERIENCED.

ONE OF THESE CONTACTED ME AND WANTED TO MEET ME

AT A RESTAURANT TO SHOW ME SOMETHING SPECIAL.

THEY SHOWED ME A PICTURE,

WHAT LOOKED LIKE THEM STANDING IN FRONT OF A HUMVEE UNIT.

AND, IN BACK OF THEM, 30 FEET OFF THE DECK,

WAS A FLYING SAUCER.

NOW, THEY WOULD NOT LET ME HOLD THAT PHOTO.

IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS

WHERE THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE TAKING PHOTOS OUT THERE.

SO THIS COULD VERY WELL GET THEM IN TROUBLE.

Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THE U.S. MILITARY AT AREA 52

COULD BE SECRETLY DEVELOPING HIGHLY DANGEROUS WEAPONS

AND AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY OF AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN,

AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

AND, IF SO, WOULD THIS MEAN THE GOVERNMENT

IS ACTING TO PROTECT US?

OR ARE THEY, IN FACT, PROTECTING US FROM THE TRUTH?

FURTHER EVIDENCE MAY BE FOUND IN CHILLING EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS

OF WHAT MANY SAY IS THE MOST SECRET

AND DANGEROUS MILITARY BASE IN THE WORLD.

O RESEARCHERS BELIEVE AREA 52,

ALSO KNOWN AS DUGWAY PROVING GROUND,

HAS A LONG HISTORY OF UFO SIGHTINGS,

GOVERNMENT SECRECY, AND OFFICIAL COVER-UPS.

CASE IN POINT -- THE SKULL VALLEY SHEEP INCIDENT

WHERE, OVERNIGHT, MORE THAN 6,000 SHEEP DIED MYSTERIOUSLY,

30 MILES FROM AREA 52.

SINCE 1968,

CLUES OF WHAT MAY HAVE KILLED THE SHEEP

HAVE SLOWLY COME TO LIGHT.

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND WAS A LOCATION

WHERE MANY HIGHLY CLASSIFIED CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL TESTS

WERE CARRIED OUT,

AND, IN 1968, ONE OF THESE WENT WRONG

WHEN VX NERVE AGENT WAS INADVERTENTLY RELEASED.

WELL, IT'S AN INTERESTING THING, WHAT THE ARMY DID.

ON THE ONE HAND, THEY DENIED FOR YEARS AND YEARS

THAT THEY HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS,

BUT WE KNOW THAT, QUIETLY,

THEY WERE COMPENSATING THE RANCHERS.

OBVIOUSLY, THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE RESPONSIBLE

FOR THE DEATHS OF THOSE SHEEP.

Narrator: ALTHOUGH A NERVE AGENT IS WIDELY BLAMED FOR THE TRAGEDY,

SOME UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THERE WAS A HIDDEN AGENDA

BEHIND THE NERVE AGENT'S RELEASE,

ONE MEANT TO CONCEAL AN EVEN BIGGER SECRET.

Rosenfeld: JUST SO HAPPENS, DURING THIS SAME TIME,

THERE WAS MASSIVE UFO SIGHTINGS.

SOME WITNESSES HAVE ACTUALLY FILMED THESE UFOs

AND THESE LIGHTS IN THE SKY.

WAS IT A DIVERSIONARY TACTIC BY THE MILITARY

TO FOCUS ON THESE UFOs, THESE LIGHTS IN THE SKY?

OR IT COULD BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

MAYBE THEY'RE USING THE SHEEP INCIDENT

TO TAKE THE FOCUS OFF THE UFOs.

IF THEY'RE TESTING THIS TYPE OF WEAPONRY,

WHAT DO WE NOT KNOW ABOUT THE CRAFT

AND THE SIGHTINGS BEING SEEN AROUND THE AREA?

THE DUGWAY SHEEP INCIDENT DID SERVE A PURPOSE.

IT FRIGHTENED PEOPLE, KEPT THEM AWAY,

KEPT THEM FROM ASKING QUESTIONS

BECAUSE THEY SAW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN.

THESE UFO SIGHTINGS CONTINUE TO THIS DAY,

AND I FEEL, AS DO OTHER RESEARCHERS,

THAT THESE OBJECTS ARE MONITORING

WHAT'S TAKING PLACE AT DUGWAY.

SO THIS IS IMPORTANT.

Narrator: COULD THE SHEEP INCIDENT

AND THE SIMULTANEOUS SIGHTINGS OF UFOs

HAVE SERVED AS AN EARLY WARNING THAT OUR GOVERNMENT

IS OPERATING SECRET PROGRAMS

AT AREA 52 CONNECTED TO UFOs?

AND, IF SO, DOES THE HIGH-STAKES SECURITY

AND SECRECY SUGGEST THE GOVERNMENT

IS REALLY WORKING WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS

AND CONTINUES TO DO SO EVEN TODAY?

SOME PEOPLE IN THE UFO COMMUNITY BELIEVE

THAT AREA 52 IS A LOCATION

WHERE COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

BETWEEN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

AND EXTRATERRESTRIALS TAKE PLACE,

AND THIS IS THE VERY LOCATION

WHERE PEOPLE ARE REPORTING ALL SORTS OF ADVANCED AIRCRAFT,

CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS.

IS THIS A COINCIDENCE?

OR ARE THESE WEAPONS AND AIRCRAFT

THE FRUITS OF THAT PROJECT?

Lukes: WHAT GOES ON IN THE BASE WILL ALWAYS BE A SECRET.

BUT WHAT WE DO KNOW

IS THE RESIDENTS AROUND THE AREA

HAVE REPEATEDLY, FOR DECADES,

REPORTED A HIGH NUMBER OF UFO SIGHTINGS,

AND I BELIEVE THERE ABSOLUTELY IS A CONNECTION

BETWEEN WHAT'S TAKING PLACE AT DUGWAY

AND WHAT WE SEE WITH THE UNIDENTIFIED PHENOMENON.

Narrator: DAVE ROSENFELD IS AMONG A NUMBER

OF GROWING UFO RESEARCHERS WHO CONTEND DUGWAY HAS BEEN

A HOTBED OF UFO ACTIVITY FOR DECADES.

I'VE SEEN CRAFT FLYING AROUND AT DUGWAY,

DOING MANEUVERS THAT I KNOW CONVENTIONAL CRAFT CAN'T DO,

AND SO IT'S EITHER EXPERIMENTAL CRAFT OR IT'S NOT OURS.

I'VE PERSONAL WITNESSED UNCONVENTIONAL CRAFT

BEING ESCORTED BY BLACK HAWK HELICOPTERS.

I'VE HEARD OF OTHER STORIES THAT HAVE COME MY WAY

WHERE UFOs HAVE BEEN SEEN IN THE AREA,

AND THESE TYPE OF CRAFT CANNOT BE ALL MILITARY.

THERE'S NO WAY THAT THE MILITARY CAN ACCOUNT

FOR ALL THE SIGHTINGS THAT HAPPEN OUT THERE.

Pope: WE KNOW THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS RECOVERED,

THROUGH VARIOUS MEANS, SOVIET MIG AIRCRAFT

AND MANAGED TO REVERSE-ENGINEER THOSE.

BUT YOU LOOK AT SOMETHING LIKE STEALTH BOMBERS,

AND YOU THINK, "WHERE ON EARTH DID THAT COME FROM?

IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A SCI-FI MOVIE."

COULD THERE BE ANY TRUTH TO THE SUGGESTION

THAT STEALTH TECHNOLOGY ACTUALLY IS THE RESULT

OF RECOVERED EXTRATERRESTRIAL TECHNOLOGY?

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE REPORTS OF AIRCRAFT,

AIRCRAFT JUST STOPPING ON A DIME

AND THEN GOING STRAIGHT UP,

AIRCRAFT VANISHING,

LITERALLY, INTO THIN AIR,

WHEN YOU LOOK AT STEALTH FIGHTERS AND STEALTH BOMBERS,

THEY SEEM SO DIFFERENT FROM ANYTHING THAT CAME BEFORE

THAT YOU CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER,

COULD THIS BE THE RESULT

OF OUR HAVING ACQUIRED EXTRATERRESTRIAL TECHNOLOGY?

IF A UFO CRASHED AT ROSWELL IN 1947,

IT STANDS TO REASON THEY WOULD WORK ON

TRYING TO REVERSE-ENGINEER IT.

IN OTHER WORDS, SCIENTISTS AND TECHNICIANS AND ENGINEERS

WOULD BE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE TECHNOLOGY IS

AND TRYING TO BUILD ONE THEMSELVES.

I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE

TECHNOLOGY OUT THERE THAT'S SO ADVANCED,

WE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE WORKING WITH.

BUT THEN YOU'VE GOT THIS EXTRATERRESTRIAL

OR SOME SORT OF INTELLIGENCE

THAT'S INTERACTING AT THIS AREA,

AND WE CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT EITHER.

BUT THERE IS A DEFINITE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO.

IT IS POSSIBLE, ALL RIGHT,

THAT THEY ARE WORKING ON VERY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY,

EVEN REVERSE-ENGINEERED TECHNOLOGY FROM SOURCES

THAT ARE NOT FROM HERE, LET'S JUST SAY.

UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS

ABOUT THESE SECRET BASES.

Narrator: BUT IF THE GOVERNMENT

AND ITS ELITE PRIVATE CONTRACTORS

ARE REVERSE-ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY FROM UFOs,

AS MANY SUSPECT,

HOW ARE THEY GETTING THEIR HANDS ON SUCH SPACECRAFT?

NOVEMBER 2009 --

AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY

ABOVE NORTH AMERICA.

NEWS REPORTS CLAIM IT'S JUST A METEORITE,

BUT AS SCIENTISTS TRACK IT ON RADAR,

THEY DETERMINE THAT THE OBJECT FALLS INTO AREA 52.

MANY DISMISS THIS AS NOTHING MORE THAN COINCIDENCE.

BUT IS IT REALLY?

SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS,

UFO INVESTIGATORS POINT TO ANOTHER SIMILAR INCIDENT

THAT OCCURS ONLY A FEW YEARS EARLIER.

IN THE EARLY 2000s, NASA LAUNCHED A SPACE PROBE

CALLED GENESIS, AND ITS MISSION WAS TO COLLECT

THE FIRST-EVER COSMIC MATERIAL

THAT'S BEYOND THE MOON THAT WE WOULD BRING BACK.

THIS WAS A MISSION TO TRY AND UNDERSTAND

WHAT'S IN THE SOLAR WIND.

Narrator: BUT WHEN GENESIS ATTEMPTS TO RETURN TO EARTH,

SOMETHING APPARENTLY GOES WRONG.

NASA'S GENESIS SPACE PROBE MALFUNCTIONED,

BUT THEY WERE ABLE TO FORCE IT TO CRASH-LAND.

Man: WE SEE THE VISUAL.

Pope: AND WHERE DID THAT HAPPEN? AREA 52.

IS IT A COINCIDENCE,

OR IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE AT PLAY HERE?

THE CRASH AT AREA 52,

COUPLED WITH THE RUMORS ABOUT THAT AREA,

SUGGESTING THAT THIS IS

WHERE ALIEN TECHNOLOGY IS BEING BACK-ENGINEERED

AND EVEN ADVANCED WEAPONRY IS BEING DEVELOPED,

HAS LED TO THE SUGGESTION THAT THEY HAVE SOME SORT OF WEAPON

ACTUALLY DESIGNED TO BRING DOWN A UFO,

AND THAT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GENESIS SPACE PROGRAM

WAS A TEST OF THIS TECHNOLOGY.

AT THE TIME THE SPACE PROBE CAME DOWN,

WE HAD NO IDEA THAT THEY HAD THE ABILITY TO REDIRECT A CRAFT

RE-ENTERING THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE,

WHICH THEY CLEARLY DID WITH THIS SPACE PROBE

COMING INTO DUGWAY.

SO COULD THIS BE SOMETHING THAT THEY WERE TESTING?

IT VERY WELL COULD BE.

Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THE MILITARY AND NASA

POSSESS THE EXPERTISE TO BRING DOWN UFOs,

AS RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

AND, IF SO, COULD THIS BE A PART

OF AN ULTRA-SECRET REVERSE-ENGINEERING PROJECT?

WHEN I LOOK AT SOME OF THE MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES

THAT ARE COMING OUT OF THE MILITARY,

OUT OF WHAT WE CALL THE BLACK BUDGET WORLD,

IN TERMS OF OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED TECHNOLOGY AND LEAKS,

MY STRONG FEELING IS THAT A GOOD PORTION OF THIS

COMES FROM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

THAT DOES NOT COME FROM US.

IT COMES FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Narrator: IF UFOs ARE COMING HERE FROM DISTANT WORLDS,

A RECENTLY RELEASED NASA SATELLITE IMAGE

COULD THROW OPEN THE DOORS TO A NEW LEVEL OF CONVERSATION

ABOUT GOVERNMENT COMPLICITY WITH THE UFO PHENOMENON.

Narrator: UFO RESEARCHER DAVE ROSENFELD HAS SEEN

AND HEARD REPORTS OF SO MANY ASTOUNDING SPACECRAFT

IN AND AROUND AREA 52...

THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE.

...TO SUSPECT THAT SOMEWHERE ON THE MASSIVE PROPERTY

OF DUGWAY PROVING GROUND,

HE BELIEVES THERE EXISTS EVIDENCE

THAT COULD ALTER HUMAN HISTORY FOREVER.

I'VE PERSONALLY WITNESSED FLYING SAUCERS,

DISAPPEARING JETS, TRIANGLE-LOOKING CRAFT.

MY CONCLUSION IS THAT THERE'S A MILITARY SPACEPORT AT DUGWAY,

AND I DON'T THINK ANYBODY CAN TELL ME ANY DIFFERENT.

Narrator: BUT IS THERE PROOF TO BACK UP SUCH A CLAIM?

INVESTIGATORS SAY THE EVIDENCE LIES WITH A NASA SPACE PROBE

NAMED MARINER 9.

Man: THREE, TWO, ONE, ZERO.

THE MARINER 9 MISSION WAS NASA'S FIRST CHANCE

TO GET A GOOD LOOK AT WHAT MARS LOOKS LIKE.

WE THINK WATER'S REQUIRED FOR LIFE

BECAUSE ALL LIFE AS WE KNOW IT ON EARTH REQUIRES WATER,

SO WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS ANALYZE THE SURFACE OF MARS,

LOOK FOR EVIDENCE THAT, PERHAPS, THERE WAS ONCE LIFE THERE.

Narrator: SUSPECTING THE MARINER 9 IMAGES

WERE NOT FULLY RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC,

UFO EXPERTS HAVE LONG BELIEVED

THAT SOMETHING MORE UNUSUAL HAD BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED

ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE.

FINALLY, IN 2015,

44 YEARS AFTER THE MISSION,

NASA RELEASES AN IMAGE

THAT INVESTIGATORS CALL EARTH-SHATTERING.

NASA RELEASED AN ENORMOUS NUMBER,

THOUSANDS OF OTHER PICTURES,

THAT THEY TOOK OF MARS FROM THAT TIME,

BUT THEY DID NOT RELEASE THAT PICTURE

UNTIL 44 YEARS LATER.

WHY NOT?

Narrator: THE SATELLITE IMAGE,

SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME ON NATIONAL TELEVISION,

SHOWS A PREVIOUSLY UNDISCOVERED MYSTERIOUS ROCK FORMATION

ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE.

SO THIS IS THE NASA MARINER 9 IMAGE

FROM THE SURFACE OF MARS, MOUNTAIN RANGE HERE,

MOUNTAIN CLUSTER HERE, BIG VALLEY.

THE AREA OF INTEREST IS THIS CONE-SHAPED PROTRUSION,

THIS HILL COMING UP RIGHT OUT OF THE SURFACE

WITH THESE ROCKS PLACED EITHER BY COINCIDENCE

OR CAREFULLY PLACED

IN AN ARRANGEMENT ON THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN,

JUST LIKE OTHER STRUCTURES THAT WE'VE SEEN ON EARTH.

IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THAT MARS FORMATION

IS A NATURAL FORMATION.

I'M NOT SAYING IT ISN'T.

BUT I DO WONDER,

WHY WOULD NASA HAVE HELD OFF PUBLISHING THAT PICTURE

FOR TWO GENERATIONS?

THERE'S A QUESTION TO ASK.

THE MARINER 9 IMAGE IS FASCINATING.

THERE'S NO GETTING AWAY FROM THE FACT

THAT IT LOOKS LIKE A STONE CIRCLE.

IT LOOKS LIKE EXACTLY THE KIND OF NEOLITHIC STONE CIRCLES

THAT WE FIND HERE ON EARTH.

Narrator: ERECTED BETWEEN 3,000 AND 2,000 BC,

STONEHENGE IS ONE OF THE MOST MYSTERIOUS

ANCIENT SITES ON EARTH.

Pope: SOME OF THE BIGGER STONES AT STONEHENGE

WEIGH MANY, MANY TONS, AND IT'S DIFFICULT, IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE,

TO SEE HOW PEOPLE AT THE TIME

COULD HAVE TRANSPORTED THEM TO THE LOCATION.

THIS IS A TIME BEFORE THE WHEEL,

AND YET WE KNOW

THAT SOME OF THOSE BIGGER STONES

WERE SOMEHOW TRANSPORTED ALL THE WAY FROM WALES.

Narrator: IF, AS SOME BELIEVE,

PREHISTORIC MAN ALONE COULD NOT MOVE SUCH STONES

WEIGHING UP TO 25 TONS OVER A DISTANCE OF 200 MILES,

THEN WHO OR WHAT DID?

THE ANSWER LIES, UFO EXPERTS SAY,

IN THE SIMILARITY OF THE STONEHENGE MONUMENT

AND THE ROCK FORMATION DISCOVERED ON MARS.

IN LOOKING AT THESE STRUCTURES SIDE BY SIDE,

STONEHENGE AND MARS,

WE HAVE VERY SPECIFIC THINGS THAT ARE SIMILAR,

FOUR ROCK PLACEMENTS,

FOUR STONES IN THE CENTER AND TWO CONCENTRIC CIRCLES.

AND THE TWO CONCENTRIC CIRCLES ENCIRCLE THE FOUR STONES.

NOW, THAT'S VERY INTERESTING THAT THAT WOULD BE LIKE THAT.

DOES IT SERVE SOME PURPOSE IN SCIENCE,

OR IS IT A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE?

THE FACT THAT THESE OBJECTS DO INDEED LOOK SIMILAR,

ONE COULD SPECULATE THAT THERE WAS

AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMPONENT INVOLVED

IN BOTH OF THESE SITES.

SOME THEORISTS HAVE SPECULATED THAT STONEHENGE WAS PERHAPS

A PLACE THAT EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT LANDED.

COULD THIS BE SAID OF MARS?

WE DON'T KNOW.

Narrator: STILL, SOME RESEARCHERS DISAGREE.

NOW, WHEN YOU GET DOWN TO THE ACTUAL DETAILS,

IT'S FAIRLY OBVIOUS IT ISN'T THE SAME.

BUT IT IS BIZARRE WHERE YOU HAVE CIRCULAR-TYPE,

STRUCTURE-LOOKING OBJECTS

ON AN ALIEN SURFACE

ON A DIFFERENT PLANET OTHER THAN EARTH.

IS THERE A LOGICAL EXPLANATION? SURE.

IT'S JUST NOT AS FUN AS THE ALIEN ONE.

Narrator: EVEN SO, MOST UFO INVESTIGATORS

REALLY BELIEVE THE RESEMBLANCE IS SIGNIFICANT.

IN FACT, THEY GO ONE STEP FURTHER.

THEY SEE SIMILARITIES IN THE FORMATIONS

AT STONEHENGE AND MARS

TO NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN SATELLITE IMAGES

OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE A LANDING SITE AT AREA 52.

THE AERIAL IMAGE SHOWS FEATURES

OF THE UTAH DESERT THAT MIRROR

THOSE OF BOTH STONEHENGE AND MARS.

WHEN ONE DOES A COMPARISON BETWEEN STONEHENGE,

THE MARS ROCK FORMATION,

AND AREA 52,

THERE ARE CERTAINLY SIMILARITIES.

IS THAT A COINCIDENCE,

OR IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON?

Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE SUGGEST THAT AREA 52

REALLY DOES FUNCTION AS A SPACEPORT,

AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

Rosenfeld: WHEN YOU LOOK AT STONEHENGE

AND YOU LOOK AT THIS ROCK FORMATION ON MARS

AND THE CONNECTION MAYBE WITH DUGWAY

HAVING A SIMILAR TYPE OF FORMATION,

DOES THAT MEAN THAT ALL THREE OF THEM ARE SPACEPORTS?

I BELIEVE THAT IT'S POSSIBLE.

Narrator: IF THE EVIDENCE IS CREDIBLE,

AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE,

WHAT ELSE IS THE GOVERNMENT POSSIBLY HIDING?

AND WHAT ABOUT NEW INFORMATION FROM SCIENTISTS

THAT IS CHANGING THE CONVERSATION

ABOUT UFO SIGHTINGS?

DOES THIS PROVIDE A NEW PERSPECTIVE

ON THE GOVERNMENT'S INVOLVEMENT WITH THE UFO PHENOMENON?

FOR DAVE ROSENFELD,

THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT UFOs ARE CONNECTED

TO TOP-SECRET ACTIVITY AT AREA 52,

AND HE BELIEVES HE'S GOT PROOF.

THERE'S MANY TIMES WE GO OUT THERE FOR SKY WATCHES,

AND WE BRING ALL OUR EQUIPMENT OUT THERE,

THE TELESCOPES AND NIGHT VISION.

AND, ONE NIGHT, IT WAS ABOUT 1:00 IN THE MORNING,

AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE SEE, ABOUT 5 MILES AWAY,

JUST THIS HUGE FLASHING LIGHT.

AND THEN A BEAM OF LIGHT CAME OUT OF THE MIDDLE,

COMPLETELY WENT THROUGH A CLOUD

AND CONTINUED UP INTO SPACE.

WE COULD ACTUALLY SMELL, LIKE, STATIC ELECTRICITY.

Narrator: DAVE DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED NEXT WHEN HE TOOK

THIS ACTUAL NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTO THAT NIGHT.

Rosenfeld: NOW, SECOND TIME IT FIRED,

WE WATCHED FOUR OR FIVE BLUE LIGHTS COME DOWN

AND COMPLETELY SURROUND THIS BEAM

LIKE THEY WERE WATCHING.

AND AS SOON AS THAT BEAM SHUT OFF, THEY TOOK OFF.

Narrator: WAS THIS SIMPLY A TEST OF A SECRET WEAPONS PROGRAM,

ONE SIMILAR TO THE TECHNOLOGY

THAT BROUGHT DOWN THE GENESIS SPACE PROBE,

OR IS THERE MORE TO THE STORY,

AND WILL THE GOVERNMENT OR MILITARY EVER ADMIT

WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT UFOs AND ALIEN TECHNOLOGY?

SOME EXPERTS WILL ARGUE THEY ALREADY HAVE,

AS THE RECENT RELEASE OF THOUSANDS

OF DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS BY THE UNITED STATES,

INCLUDING THE CIA AND OTHER WORLD GOVERNMENTS,

COULD PROVE THERE REALLY IS OFFICIAL EVIDENCE OF UFOs.

BUT WHY ARE SO MANY COUNTRIES SUDDENLY RELEASING

SO MANY UFO DOCUMENTS ALL AT THE SAME TIME?

INTEREST IN UFOs AND AREA 52 HAS GROWN,

BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL RECENTLY

THAT THE SUBJECT OF GOVERNMENT SECRETS

WAS THRUST INTO THE SPOTLIGHT.

MAY 13, 2016,

NEWS OUTLETS CONFIRM

THAT CONFIDENTIAL BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES

ON UFO SIGHTINGS WILL BE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC.

I'M HOPING THESE NEW FILES WILL SHED LIGHT

ON MANY OF THE BIGGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT UFO CASES

IN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S FILES.

PERHAPS THE BIGGEST IS THE RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT.

THE UFO WAS BRIEFLY TRACKED ON MILITARY RADAR,

AND THIS OBJECT, WHATEVER IT WAS, BRIEFLY LANDED.

RADIATION LEVELS AT THE LANDING SITE WERE SUBSEQUENTLY ASSESSED,

AND THEY WERE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER

THAN THE AVERAGE BACKGROUND.

ONE OF THE WITNESSES WAS THE DEPUTY BASE COMMANDER HIMSELF.

SO WE HAD A SENIOR AND HIGHLY SKEPTICAL OFFICER

WHO WENT OUT INTO THE FOREST, IN HIS OWN WORDS,

"TO DEBUNK ALL THIS UFO NONSENSE."

AND HE ENDED UP A WITNESS HIMSELF.

IN THE FILES, BOTH OF THE BRITISH MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

AND THE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY,

THERE ARE REPORTS OF WHAT I CAN ONLY DESCRIBE

AS VIRTUAL DOGFIGHTS TAKING PLACE IN THE BRITISH SKIES.

PILOTS WERE BEING VECTORED TOWARDS UFOs

BY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL.

JUST AT THEY CLOSED ON THE OBJECT,

IT WOULD RESPOND WITH EXTRAORDINARY SPEEDS

AND MANEUVERS AND SOMEHOW EVADE EVEN OUR FASTEST JETS.

SOME OF THE SKEPTICS EVEN

WILL TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THIS MATERIAL AND SAY,

"WAIT A MINUTE. WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?"

Narrator: COULD SUCH NEWLY DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS

BEGIN TO CHANGE OUR PERSPECTIVE ON UFOs?

MORE DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN RELEASED IN FRANCE

WITH THE PUBLICATION OF AN OFFICIAL REPORT IN 2010.

Dolan: IN 2010, A PROMINENT FRENCH BODY,

IT WAS THE AERONAUTICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY,

WHICH IS COMPRISED OF VERY HIGH-RANKING,

ESTABLISHED FRENCH SCIENTISTS,

RELEASED A STUDY OF UFOs,

IN WHICH THEY CONCLUDED THAT THE UFO PHENOMENON IS REAL

AND COULD BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL.

WHEN YOU HAVE A GOVERNMENT THAT'S WILLING TO SAY

A PHENOMENON LIKE UFOs IS ACTUALLY REAL,

THAT'S A BIG STATEMENT TO MAKE.

THE BIG VARIABLE HERE IS, WHAT IS A UFO?

THE QUESTION MARK IS IF IT'S ALIEN.

AND THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT,

ALTHOUGH IT DIDN'T MAKE THAT LEAP,

THEY WERE ABLE TO AT LEAST DEFINITIVELY SAY

THIS PHENOMENON IS REAL

AND WARRANTS FURTHER SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION.

Narrator: AND THERE ARE STILL EVEN MORE GOVERNMENTS

RELEASING THEIR FORMERLY CLASSIFIED UFO FILES.

IN 2009, NEWS CHANNEL RUSSIA TODAY

REPORTED THE RUSSIAN NAVY DECLASSIFIED ITS RECORDS

OF ENCOUNTERS CAPTURED BY MILITARY SURVEILLANCE.

CLOSER TO HOME, IN JANUARY 2016,

THE CIA RELEASED THOUSANDS OF DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS

RELATING TO UFOs, FLYING SAUCERS,

AND OTHER UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA.

SOME OF THESE FILES, WHICH WILL BE SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME,

WILL CONTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT UFOs THAT I SUSPECT

WILL CHANGE PEOPLE'S MIND ABOUT THE WHOLE PHENOMENON.

Narrator: ONE SUCH DOCUMENT WAS A REPORT

BY THE CIA'S SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT

FOLLOWING A WAVE OF UFO SIGHTINGS OVER WASHINGTON, D.C.

DATED OCTOBER 2, 1952,

AND SEEN HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON NATIONAL TELEVISION,

THEIR FINDINGS CONCLUDE THAT...

THE FIRST INVOLVES MASS PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS,

AND THE SECOND CONCERNS VULNERABILITY

OF THE UNITED STATES TO AIR ATTACK.

THE FACT THAT YOU'VE GOT A MEMO GOING DIRECTLY

TO THE CIA DIRECTOR ABOUT UFOs AND THE POTENTIAL DANGERS

IS SIGNIFICANT AND INTERESTING IN AND OF ITSELF.

Dolan: WHY WERE UFOs CONSIDERED

TO BE OF EXTREME NATIONAL SECURITY IMPORTANCE?

WHEN YOU HAVE UNKNOWN OBJECTS INVADING SENSITIVE AIRSPACE

THAT DO NOT LOOK NORMAL, THAT DO NOT BEHAVE NORMALLY,

THAT ACT WITH IMPUNITY OVER OUR MOST SENSITIVE PLACES

IN THE WORLD, WHAT WOULD THE MILITARY SAY TO THE PUBLIC

THAT WOULD NOT CAUSE PANIC?

HOW EASY CAN IT BE FOR ANY GOVERNMENT,

PARTICULARLY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT,

TO ADMIT THAT THERE ARE OBJECTS SO FAR BEYOND OUR ABILITY

TO CONTROL THAT WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO CONTROL THEM?

Greenewald: WHAT THESE CIA DOCUMENTS SHOW

IS THAT IF THERE WAS TRULY A FEAR OF A UFO ATTACK

OR THAT THESE UFOs WERE MALICIOUS IN SOME WAY

OR AGGRESSIVE,

IT COULD ABSOLUTELY CHANGE THE MIND-SETS

OF THOSE CALLING THE SHOTS ON WHAT PLACES LIKE DUGWAY

WOULD RESEARCH AND WHAT THEIR MISSION STATEMENTS REALLY WERE.

Narrator: THE CIA'S DOCUMENT DUMP IS ONE MORE EXAMPLE

IN A PATTERN OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES ACKNOWLEDGING

THE UFO PHENOMENON.

IT'S ESTIMATED 28 COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THE VATICAN,

HAVE NOW RELEASED THEIR UFO DOCUMENTS.

I THINK THAT THAT SHOULD SHOW THE WORLD, SHOW OUR PLANET,

THAT THE UFO PHENOMENON IS REAL,

THAT THEIR GOVERNMENTS ARE NOT AFRAID

TO SAY THIS PHENOMENON ACTUALLY EXISTS.

Dolan: I DON'T KNOW OF ANY SINGLE UFO DOCUMENT

THAT PROVES THAT UFOs ARE EXTRATERRESTRIAL.

OKAY? BUT I WILL SAY THAT WHEN YOU TAKE THE TOP 10,

THE TOP 100, THE TOP SEVERAL HUNDRED OF THESE DOCUMENTS

FROM, NOW, AROUND THE WORLD, THEY DO PROVE SOMETHING.

THEY PROVE THAT THIS UFO PHENOMENON IS REAL

AND IS NOT EXPLAINABLE CONVENTIONALLY.

Narrator: WHY ARE PROMINENT NATIONS, SPACE AGENCIES,

AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD

SUDDENLY RELEASING THEIR SECRET KNOWLEDGE OF UFOs?

Rosenfeld: WITH ALL THESE COUNTRIES COMING FORWARD

DISCLOSING UFO INFORMATION,

I DO BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO ACCLIMATE US

TO THE UFO PRESENCE LITTLE BY LITTLE

SO, IF IT DOES HAPPEN,

IF THE UFOs DO SHOW UP ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN,

WE'RE NOT GOING TO FREAK OUT. WE'RE NOT GOING TO PANIC.

WE'LL BE MORE ACCEPTIVE TO THE IDEA.

Narrator: AND IT MAY NOT BE JUST GOVERNMENTS

THAT ARE ACCLIMATING US.

THERE IS ACTUAL SCIENCE THAT'S ALSO CHANGING THE CONVERSATION

ABOUT UFOs AND THE INCREASING PROBABILITY

OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN OUR GALAXY.

IN FACT, NASA ASTRONOMERS HAVE RECENTLY MADE WHAT MANY CLAIM

IS THE SINGLE MOST INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY SO FAR

IN THIS 21st CENTURY.

FOR THE FIRST TIME, BREAKING NEWS REVEALS

WHAT SCIENTISTS AND THE GOVERNMENT KNOW

ABOUT WHERE UFOs MAY BE COMING FROM.

ator: GOVERNMENTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD

HAVE BEEN DECLASSIFYING THEIR SECRET KNOWLEDGE OF UFOs,

BUT WHY?

IS IT POSSIBLE THEY KNOW OF NEW EVIDENCE

POINTING TO THE EXISTENCE

OF INTELLIGENT EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE?

JULY 23, 2015 -- NASA ASTRONOMERS,

USING THE KEPLER SPACE TELESCOPE,

ANNOUNCED THE GROUNDBREAKING DISCOVERY

OF THE FIRST EARTH-SIZE PLANET ORBITING A STAR

WITHIN THE HABITABLE ZONE OF A DISTANT SOLAR SYSTEM.

THE KEPLER MISSION IS ABOUT FINDING PLANETS,

AND IT'S ABOUT UNDERSTANDING HOW COMMON PLANETS

LIKE OUR OWN ARE IN THE GALAXY.

THE HABITABLE ZONE IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE.

THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S NOT TOO HOT, NOT TOO COLD.

IT'S JUST THE RIGHT TEMPERATURE WHERE LIQUID WATER

COULD EXIST ON THE SURFACE OF THIS PLANET,

AND WE THINK LIQUID WATER IS NECESSARY FOR LIFE.

Narrator: ONE YEAR AFTER THIS AMAZING DISCOVERY,

IN MAY OF 2016,

NASA RELEASES FURTHER ASTOUNDING NEWS CONFIRMING THE EXISTENCE

OF OVER 2,300 HABITABLE EARTH-SIZE PLANETS

WITHIN OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY.

THEY ALSO ESTIMATE THAT THERE COULD ACTUALLY

BE BILLIONS OF HABITABLE-ZONE PLANETS

BASED ON THESE FINDINGS.

THE MORE CAREFULLY WE LOOK,

WE LEARN THAT THERE ARE PLACES OUT THERE

THAT LOOK VERY SIMILAR TO OUR OWN PLANET,

AND THERE'S MANY, MANY OF THEM.

THERE'S PROBABLY MORE PLANETS THAN THERE ARE STARS.

THAT MEANS A HUNDRED BILLION OF THEM.

SO, EVEN IF LIFE IS RARE,

IT SHOULD STILL FORM ALL THE TIME.

THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY APPEAR TO BE CONSTANT

IN THE UNIVERSE.

THAT BEING THE CASE, THE SAME PROCESSES

THAT GAVE RISE TO LIFE HERE ON EARTH

SHOULD REPLICATE COUNTLESS BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF TIMES

OUT THERE IN THE COSMOS.

AND THAT BEING THE CASE,

THERE'S PROBABLY A LOT OF LIFE OUT THERE,

AND NOT JUST LIFE,

BUT SOME OF THAT LIFE WILL BE INTELLIGENT LIFE.

Dolan: IT'S OBVIOUS NOW, AS CARL SAGAN ONCE PUT IT,

THE UNIVERSE IS TEEMING WITH LIFE.

BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF HABITABLE PLANETS

WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE KNOWN TO EXIST.

SO WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD THAT ONE

OR MORE THAN ONE OF THOSE HABITABLE PLANETS

HAVE DEVELOPED LIFE THAT IS ADVANCED LIKE US

AND LIFE THAT HAS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

AND LIFE THAT MAY HAVE HAD A MILLION-YEAR HEAD START ON US

OR MORE?

Greenewald: WHEN THE WRIGHT BROTHERS ACHIEVED FLIGHT,

THEY HAD NO IDEA THAT 100 YEARS

AFTER THEY ACHIEVED WHAT THEY DID,

WE WOULD HAVE A SPACE SHUTTLE.

IF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRESSES INTO THE FUTURE

ANOTHER 150 YEARS AT THE SAME PACE THAT IT HAS

FOR THE LAST 150 YEARS, IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES.

Narrator: COULD THE EXISTENCE OF THOUSANDS

OF POTENTIALLY HABITABLE PLANETS

SUPPORT WHAT MANY UFO EXPERTS KNOW TO BE TRUE --

THAT THESE NEWLY DISCOVERED WORLDS

ARE THE SOURCE OF UFOs ALREADY HERE ON EARTH?

CLEARLY, WE HAVE TO ASSUME

THAT THERE HAS TO HAVE BEEN LIFE OUT THERE

THAT MADE THE BREAKTHROUGH TO HIGHLY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ADVANCED NANOTECHNOLOGY

AND QUANTUM COMPUTING AND BEYOND

AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE CAN IMAGINE.

AND, IF THEY HAVE DONE THIS,

WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD

THAT THEY MAY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND US

AT SOME POINT IN THE GAME?

I THINK THE LIKELIHOOD IS EXTREMELY HIGH.

Pope: ONE CAN LOOK AT A NUMBER OF THINGS

THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY AND SAY,

"WELL, IS THIS EVIDENCE OF UFOs?"

EVERYTHING FROM ANCIENT CAVE PAINTINGS,

ALL THESE MYSTERIES FROM OUR ANCIENT PAST

AN ALL THE MORE MODERN UFO SIGHTINGS,

WHEN YOU PUT TOGETHER ALL THIS UFO EVIDENCE WITH WHAT SCIENCE

IS NOW TELLING US ABOUT THE NUMBER OF PLANETS OUT THERE

IN THE HABITABLE ZONE, SUDDENLY,

UFOs AND ALIEN VISITATION DOESN'T SEEM THAT UNLIKELY.

Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THAT MODERN SCIENCE

IS LOOKING IN DEEP SPACE FOR THE SOURCE OF ALIEN LIFE

THAT OUR GOVERNMENT ALREADY KNOW EXISTS?

IT'S AN AMAZING THING WHEN YOU CONSIDER

HOW RAPIDLY WE HAVE NOW FOUND THOUSANDS OF HABITABLE PLANETS.

SO IT IS HIGHLY LIKELY THAT ANOTHER CIVILIZATION

FROM OUT THERE HAS FOUND US AND FOUND US INTERESTING

AND IS COMING TO CHECK US OUT.

Narrator: ARE WORLD GOVERNMENTS REVEALING ALL THAT THEY KNOW

IN ADVANCE OF SOME KIND OF WORLD-CHANGING EVENT?

Pope: WITH GOVERNMENTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD DECLASSIFYING

AND RELEASING UFO INFORMATION, ONE CAN'T HELP BUT THINK,

"MAYBE THEY KNOW SOMETHING'S COMING."

AND, IF THERE'S A MASS VISITATION OR A LANDING,

SOME BIG UNDENIABLE UFO EVENT,

ALL THAT INFORMATION'S GOING TO BE OBSOLETE ANYWAY.

Dolan: I HAVE BEEN RESEARCHING THIS FOR A LONG TIME.

I HAVE LOOKED AT MOUNTAINS AND MOUNTAINS OF EVIDENCE,

AND, IN MY JUDGEMENT, THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT UFOs ARE REAL

AND THAT THERE ARE AGENCIES

WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY THAT KNOW THIS.

Narrator: COULD ALL THE RECENT REVELATIONS

AND INCREASED AWARENESS OF AREA 52 BE JUST A COINCIDENCE,

OR IS IT MORE?

MAYBE THIS IS WHY DUGWAY'S MISSION EXPANDED,

BECAUSE OF THIS THREAT FROM OUTER SPACE.

PERHAPS THEY'RE BUILDING COUNTERMEASURES

AGAINST AN ALIEN ATTACK.

Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE OUR WORLD LEADERS

ARE FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGING WHAT THEY HAVE KNOWN ALL ALONG,

THAT MAN'S CONTACT WITH UFOs

RUNS DEEPER AND IS MORE FAR-REACHING THAN EVER IMAGINED?

OR ARE THEY PREPARING US FOR SOMETHING TO COME?

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