Original subtitles

Narrator: SIGHTINGS OF UFOS

IN OUR SKIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED FOR DECADES,

BUT CHILLING NEW EVIDENCE SUGGESTS A NEW PHENOMENON

IS EMERGING FROM BENEATH THE SEA.

Pope: WE KNOW LESS ABOUT THE DEEP OCEAN

THAN WE DO ABOUT THE SURFACE OF THE MOON OR MARS.

Narrator: STRANGE CRAFT CAPTURED ON FILM

FROM THE U.S.S. TREPANG

AND THE SWEDISH CHANNEL INCIDENT...

Dolan: I THINK THAT THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON DOWN THERE,

AND IT DOESN'T REALLY HAVE A CONVENTIONAL EXPLANATION.

Narrator: ...SHOCKING ENCOUNTERS

WITH UNIDENTIFIED SUBMERSIBLE OBJECTS

KNOWN AS GHOST ROCKETS

AND HUMANOID ENTITIES IN RUSSIA'S LAKE BAIKAL.

Lukes: WHATEVER THIS OBJECT WAS,

IT MOST DEFINITELY WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.

Rosenfeld: IF YOU CAN TRAVEL THAT FAST UNDERWATER,

THAT TELLS ME THAT THESE AREN'T CONVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES,

NOTHING EARTHLY MADE.

Narrator: THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL NAVIES

ARE ON HIGH ALERT.

ARE ALIEN CRAFT THREATENING OUR SOLDIERS AT SEA?

AND WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS AND THE MILITARY

DETERMINED TO KEEP THE PUBLIC FROM KNOWING THE TRUTH?

Pope: IF THIS REALLY IS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITATION,

THEN IT'S A MATTER NOT JUST OF NATIONAL SECURITY

BUT OF GLOBAL SECURITY.

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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 IN DEEP SEA ENCOUNTERS?

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OCTOBER 17, 2014. STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.

AN ORDINARY THURSDAY MORNING TURNS CHAOTIC

WHEN WITNESSES OBSERVE AN OMINOUS-LOOKING OBJECT

MOVING ACROSS THE WATER

ALONG A NARROW STRETCH OF THE BALTIC SEA.

THE STOCKHOLM SIGHTINGS WERE SPECTACULAR.

HUNDREDS OF WITNESSES WERE LOOKING OUT,

POINTING AT THIS STRANGE OBJECT.

IT SEEMED TO BE TRAVELING JUST BELOW THE SEA,

AND THEN ON OCCASIONS IT WOULD COME OUT

AND BROACH THE SURFACE.

AND EVERYONE WAS LOOKING AND POINTING AND WONDERING

WHAT THE HECK THIS THING WAS.

Narrator: OVER 100 CALLS POUR IN TO AUTHORITIES

REPORTING THE STRANGE OBJECT.

WITNESSES AGREE -- IT'S ABOUT A HALF-MILE OFFSHORE

AND HEADING UP THE COAST AND FAST.

SOME BELIEVE IT'S A SUBMARINE.

OTHERS ARE NOT SO SURE.

SWEDES ARE VERY USED TO SEEING THINGS IN THIS HARBOR,

WHETHER IT IS A BOAT OR A WHALE.

THEY'RE USED TO SEEING THESE OBJECTS.

SO WHEN SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS

THAT REALLY ALARMS PEOPLE,

YOU HAVE TO TAKE THIS KIND OF THING VERY SERIOUSLY.

WHATEVER THIS OBJECT WAS,

IT MOST DEFINITELY WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.

Narrator: THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF SWEDEN'S GOVERNMENT

ARE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED.

WITHIN THE HOUR, SWEDEN'S ARMED FORCES

LAUNCH A MASSIVE MILITARY EFFORT TO HUNT DOWN

THE MYSTERIOUS SEMISUBMERGED VESSEL.

A CRAFT BEING SEEN IN THE WATER COULD ESSENTIALLY BE A SUBMARINE

OR AN ENEMY ENCROACHMENT INTO THE AREA

WHERE IT SHOULD NOT BE.

AND SO THE MILITARY TOOK THIS VERY SERIOUSLY IN SWEDEN,

AND IT WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST MILITARY OPERATIONS

FOR THEM TO GO OUT AND TRY AND IDENTIFY

WHAT THIS CRAFT ACTUALLY WAS.

Narrator: SWEDISH INTELLIGENCE SUSPECT THE UNIDENTIFIED CRAFT

BELONGS TO RUSSIA.

BUT MOSCOW DENIES HAVING ANY SHIPS OR SUBMARINES IN THE AREA,

A CLAIM LATER CONFIRMED BY U.S. MILITARY.

OTHER NEARBY NATIONS ALSO DENY ANY INVOLVEMENT.

AFTER A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION,

SWEDEN'S MILITARY RELEASED WHAT THEY CLAIM

IS EVIDENCE OF THE SUBMARINE'S TRACKS ON THE SEAFLOOR.

Dilettoso: THE SONAR IMAGE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BALTIC SEA

SHOWS THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING THERE.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS,

BUT CLEARLY SOMETHING MADE THAT IMPRESSION.

AND TO MAKE THAT STRONG OF AN IMPRESSION IN THE SAND

TAKES A LOT OF WEIGHT.

Narrator: FOR SOME INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS,

THE FACTS SIMPLY DO NOT ADD UP.

BUT FOR UFO RESEARCHERS,

THE SONAR IMAGE CAN ACTUALLY BE EVIDENCE NOT OF A SUBMARINE

BUT OF SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY,

SOMETHING KNOWN AS UNIDENTIFIED SUBMERSIBLE OBJECTS, OR USOs.

UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THESE UNDERSEA OBJECTS

COULD IN FACT BE RELATED TO UFO SIGHTINGS SEEN IN THE AIR,

AND THEY POINT OUT IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME

A USO HAS BEEN SPOTTED OFF THE COAST OF SWEDEN.

THROUGHOUT THE '80s, THERE WERE A SERIES OF ENCOUNTERS

WHERE USOs WERE DETECTED BY THE SWEDISH GOVERNMENT.

THE MILITARY RESPONDED INSTANTLY.

NOW THE SWEDISH GOVERNMENT POSITION WAS ALWAYS,

"THIS MUST BE RUSSIAN SUBMARINES."

BUT NONE OF THESE THINGS WERE EVER FOUND.

THEY NEVER DEFINITIVELY GOT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE MYSTERY.

THERE HAVE BEEN SOME VERY INTERESTING CASES OF OBJECTS

BEING SEEN COMING OUT OF THE WATER,

GOING INTO LARGE BODIES OF WATER, BEING TRACKED

GOING AT INCREDIBLY RAPID SPEEDS IN THE DEEP OCEANS.

AND IT DOESN'T REALLY HAVE A CONVENTIONAL EXPLANATION.

Narrator: THIS UNDERWATER MYSTERY HAS BEEN VEXING SWEDEN

FOR WELL OVER 50 YEARS,

SINCE PERHAPS THE MOST DISTURBING ENCOUNTER

EVER RECORDED.

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ON OCTOBER 24, 1966,

SONAR TECHNICIANS ABOARD A MINESWEEPER

ESTABLISHED CONTACT WITH AN UNKNOWN OBJECT

IDLING JUST BELOW THE SURFACE.

A SUBMERGED OBJECT APPEARED

RIGHT UNDERNEATH ONE OF THE SEARCH VESSELS.

THE THING WAS DIRECTLY BELOW THEM.

Narrator: FOR 15 MINUTES,

THE GIGANTIC OBJECT HOLDS ITS POSITION, UNTIL SUDDENLY,

THE USO BREACHES THE SURFACE,

BEFORE IMMEDIATELY DIVING BACK INTO THE SEA.

FEARING THEY ARE UNDER ATTACK,

THE SHIP'S CREW IMMEDIATELY RESPONDS.

THEY ACTUALLY SET OFF DEPTH CHARGES JUST TO TRY AND IDENTIFY

WHERE OR WHAT THIS THING MIGHT BE AND LOCATE IT.

NOTHING WORKED -- THEY WERE NEVER ABLE

TO TRULY IDENTIFY WHAT THE OBJECT WAS.

YOU HAD AN OBJECT THAT WAS SEEN BY APPARENTLY

EVERYONE ON THE DECK AND WAS MOVING VERY RAPIDLY.

Narrator: INVESTIGATORS CONTEND THE SPEED AND MANEUVERABILITY

OF THE CRAFT RULES OUT ANYTHING MANMADE.

COULD THE USOs IN SWEDISH WATERS PAST AND PRESENT

REALLY BE SPACECRAFT FROM DISTANT WORLDS,

AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

IF YOU'RE USING EARTHLY TECHNOLOGY TO TRY TO TRACK

OR FIND ALIEN TECHNOLOGY, IT'S GOING TO BE VERY, VERY HARD.

IT'S BECAUSE THE ALIEN TECHNOLOGY IS SO FAR ADVANCED,

I DON'T THINK THAT WE HAVE THE CAPABILITY

TO EVEN KNOW THE POWER SOURCE THAT THEY'RE USING

OR THE FREQUENCIES TO EVEN LOOK FOR.

IN ALL ACTUALITY, THEY WOULD BE INVISIBLE ON RADAR

OR THEY MIGHT HAVE THE ABILITY TO CLOAK THEMSELVES

AND BECOME TOTALLY INVISIBLE.

Pope: THERE SEEMS TO BE AN AWFUL LOT OF ACTIVITY

IN AND AROUND THE BALTIC.

NOW IF THIS IS TERRESTRIAL,

I CAN UNDERSTAND IT IN TERMS OF THIS BEING

A STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT AREA.

BUT IF IT'S SOMETHING ELSE, IF THIS REALLY IS,

AS SOME BELIEVE, EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITATION,

THEN WHAT THE HECK IS IT ABOUT THIS AREA

THAT'S SO ATTRACTIVE TO THEM?

Narrator: IF THESE ARE, IN FACT, USOs,

WHY ARE THEY HERE? AND WHY ARE THEY UNDERWATER?

DESPITE HIGH-TECH ADVANCES IN OCEAN EXPLORATION,

SCIENTISTS STILL KNOW VERY LITTLE

ABOUT WHAT LIES BENEATH OUR SEAS.

MOREOVER, HIGHLY TRAINED MILITARY OFFICERS

AND THEIR CREWS HAVE, FOR YEARS,

BEEN FILING REPORTS OF ASTONISHING UFO ENCOUNTERS

WITH SURPRISING REGULARITY,

YET THESE REPORTS HAVE REMAINED CLASSIFIED.

GIVEN SOME OF THE SIGHTINGS THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN SWEDEN,

ONE WONDERS, WAS THIS SOMETHING THAT WAS INTELLIGENT?

IS THIS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN SEEN IN THIS AREA REPEATEDLY?

IS THERE PERHAPS SOME SORT OF BASE UNDERWATER?

Dolan: I DO BELIEVE THAT THERE'S A PRESENCE

OF A DIFFERENT CIVILIZATION THAT IS HERE.

THERE ARE SIGHTINGS UP IN THAT REGION, FOR SURE.

THERE ARE SIGHTINGS IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THE GREAT OCEANS

OF THIS PLANET -- PACIFIC OCEAN, INDIAN OCEAN, ATLANTIC OCEAN.

UNDERWATER BASES COULD BE LITERALLY ANYWHERE.

Narrator: UFO INVESTIGATORS CONTINUE TO SEARCH

FOR FURTHER EVIDENCE UNDER THE SURFACE OF OUR PLANET'S OCEANS

WHERE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES MAY HOLD THE KEY

TO UNLOCKING SECRETS HIDDEN BY GOVERNMENTS

ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF ALIEN LIFE ON EARTH.

SOME NOW BELIEVE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE MAY BE FOUND

DEEP WITHIN THE BALTIC SEA.

Narrator: THE BALTIC SEA.

IN 2011, A GROUP OF SWEDISH MARINE EXPLORERS

ARE SCOURING THE SEAFLOOR SEARCHING FOR SHIPWRECKS

62 MILES FROM STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.

USING THE LATEST SIDE-SCAN SONAR

TO DETECT OBJECTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA,

THE TREASURE HUNTERS ARE HOPING TO LOCATE

RARE AND VALUABLE CARGO.

Pope: THEY WERE ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR CARGO OF CHAMPAGNE,

OF ALL THINGS, WHEN THEY ENCOUNTERED SOMETHING,

WHICH THEY PICKED UP ON THEIR SONAR.

AND WHEN THEY LOOKED AT THIS THING,

THEY REALIZED THERE WAS SOMETHING DOWN THERE.

Narrator: THEIR SONAR DISPLAYED A STUNNING IMAGE.

THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECT, NOW KNOWN AS THE BALTIC SEA ANOMALY,

IS UNLIKE ANYTHING THE TREASURE HUNTERS HAVE EVER SEEN.

AFTER DIVING INTO THE BALTIC TO GET A FIRST-HAND LOOK,

THE EXPLORERS FIND THE OBJECT

SHAPED LIKE A PERFECTLY ROUND SAUCER,

200 FEET IN DIAMETER WITH A ROCK-LIKE EXTERIOR.

ONE EXPLANATION WAS THAT THIS WAS THE GUN TURRET

OR THE REMAINS OF A SUNKEN BATTLESHIP OR SUBMARINE

OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.

BUT THERE'S NO RECORD OF ANYTHING GOING DOWN IN THE AREA

THAT THIS CAN BE CONNECTED TO.

SO WHAT IS IT?

WE ULTIMATELY JUST HAVE NO IDEA.

WELL, THIS UNUSUAL OBJECT ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BALTIC SEA,

IF YOU LOOK AT IT AS A FLYING MACHINE,

IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE IN

A SCIENCE-FICTION MOVIE

THAT'S METICULOUSLY PUT TOGETHER TO DO SOMETHING,

TO PERFORM SOMETHING.

HOW BIG IT IS, CAN'T TELL FROM THIS,

BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WAS MADE BY CURRENTS

ON THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN. SOMEBODY MADE THAT.

THE OBJECT, WHATEVER IT IS,

LOOKS LIKE THE MILLENNIUM FALCON FROM THE "STAR WARS" MOVIES.

YOU KNOW, IT'S GOT GEOMETRIC PATTERNS TO IT,

AND IT DOES LOOK LIKE KIND OF A CRAFT.

THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IT'S AN ALIEN BASE

OR EVEN A PETRIFIED ALIEN SHIP,

IF SOMEHOW AN ALIEN CRAFT IS ABLE TO TURN TO STONE.

WHATEVER THIS IS, IT'S NOT SOMETHING, I DON'T THINK,

THAT FORMED ORGANICALLY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEABED.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS,

THE STRANGE OBJECT IS BELIEVED TO BE

A NATURAL GEOLOGIC FORMATION.

BUT WHAT IF THEY'RE WRONG?

COULD THE SONAR IMAGE ACTUALLY BE EVIDENCE

OF AN UNDERWATER SPACECRAFT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN?

Bara: THERE ARE RUMORS THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SAMPLES TAKEN,

AND IT'S LAYERED METALLIC STRUCTURE,

WHICH WOULD HAVE TO BE MANUFACTURED.

SO THE BALTIC SEA ANOMALY IS NOT EXPLAINABLE TODAY.

IT'S NOT BEING RESEARCHED IN PUBLIC, THAT WE KNOW OF,

BUT IT DOES HAVE A LOT OF CHARACTERISTICS

THAT INDICATE IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING FROM ANOTHER WORLD.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS PROBABLY AN ANCIENT CRASH SITE.

THERE'S DEFINITELY A SKID MARK, YOU CAN SEE,

FROM IT SKIPPING OR HITTING THE BOTTOM.

SO IT WAS DEFINITELY MOVING WHEN IT CRASHED THERE.

Narrator: IF THIS STRANGE OBJECT REALLY IS AN ALIEN VEHICLE,

WHY DOES IT APPEAR TO BE MADE OF STONE?

WE ALL KNOW WHAT A PETRIFIED TREE IS.

IT WAS ONCE ALIVE, AND IT BECAME STONE OVER TIME.

SO IF THIS THING IS A PETRIFIED UFO DOWN THERE,

MAYBE IT WAS ALIVE AND WASN'T METAL AT ALL.

MAYBE IT WAS SOME KIND OF LIVING BIOLOGICAL MACHINE.

I THINK WHAT THEY FOUND IS PROBABLY

SOME KIND OF ANCIENT FOSSILIZED UFO.

EVERY NOW AND AGAIN IN HUMAN HISTORY,

WE SEEM TO GET LUCKY AND FIND A REAL PIECE OF EVIDENCE

THAT SEEMS TO LEAN TOWARD EXTRATERRESTRIAL PRESENCE

HERE ON EARTH, FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.

Lukes: THIS ISN'T SOMETHING THAT IS NATURAL

AND THAT WAS FORMED OVER TIME.

THERE ARE VERY DELIBERATE PATTERNS ON THIS OBJECT.

SO COULD IT BE THAT THIS IS A CRASHED UFO?

WE HAVE REPORTS OF THESE OBJECTS CRASHING ON LAND.

SO WHY WOULDN'T WE HAVE SOMETHING

THAT WOULD CRASH UNDERWATER?

WHATEVER THIS OBJECT IS, IT IS CLEAR THAT IT'S OUT OF PLACE.

Narrator: UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THE BALTIC SEA ANOMALY

IS IN FACT AN ALIEN UNDERWATER SPACECRAFT,

POSSIBLY A CRAFT SIMILAR TO THE ONE SWEDEN'S NAVY

HAS BEEN HUNTING FOR DECADES.

THERE WAS A WAVE OF EXTRAORDINARY SIGHTINGS

THAT TOOK PLACE AROUND SCANDINAVIA, MAINLY IN SWEDEN.

IN 1946, THESE OBJECTS WERE SOMETIMES SEEN

FLYING OVER THE SEA AND SOMETIMES FLYING,

MAYBE DELIBERATELY, INTO THE SEA.

ALTHOUGH SOME PEOPLE HAVE ATTEMPTED DIVE,

NO DEFINITIVE EXPLANATION FOR THIS HAS BEEN FOUND,

AND, INDEED, NO WRECKAGE OF ANY KIND HAS BEEN RECOVERED.

Narrator: KNOWN AS GHOST ROCKETS,

THE MYSTERIOUS CRAFTS WERE DESCRIBED

AS FAST-MOVING AND MISSILE-SHAPED,

12 TO 15 FEET LONG.

THEY WERE SEEN DOING IMPOSSIBLE MANEUVERS,

INCLUDING 180-DEGREE TURNS.

SOME SAW TWO OR MORE FLYING IN FORMATION.

NUMEROUS WITNESSES COMPARED THEM

TO NAZI-PIONEERED V-1 FLYING BOMBS OF WORLD WAR II.

YOU WOULD THINK AFTER ALL THESE YEARS,

IF THIS IS SOME KIND OF WEAPONS TEST

OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT,

IT WOULD BE DECLASSIFIED BY NOW,

AND WE CAN SOLVE THE MYSTERY.

BUT THE GHOST ROCKETS PHENOMENA IS UNSOLVED,

AND WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WAS FLYING IN THE SKIES

OVER SWEDEN IN THE '40s.

Rosenfeld: IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A V-1 ROCKET,

WHICH IS KIND OF A GUIDED MISSILE,

YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF CONTROL WITH THAT THING.

YOU JUST HAVE A TARGET.

FOR THIS THING TO BE MAKING MANEUVERS LIKE IT DOES

AND GOING INTO THE OCEAN, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE AT ALL.

THE MERE FACT THAT IT'S COMING DOWN INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED,

WELL, THIS TELLS ME THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S NOT OURS.

IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING OTHERWORLDLY.

Dolan: IN THE 1980s, SOME DECLASSIFIED ANALYSES

BY THE SWEDISH GOVERNMENT WERE FINALLY RELEASED,

IN WHICH THEY STATED THAT THESE WERE UNKNOWN OBJECTS,

AND THEY CAME WITHIN A HAIR'S BREADTH, REALLY, OF SUGGESTING

THAT THESE MIGHT NOT HAVE EVEN BEEN

FROM EARTH-BASED CIVILIZATIONS.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,

THE GHOST ROCKETS ARE JUST ONE MORE EXAMPLE

IN A DECADE-LONG HISTORY OF USO SIGHTINGS

IN THE REGION OF THE BALTIC SEA.

THE MERE FACT THAT THEY'RE INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED

MORE OR LESS TELLS ME THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S NOT OURS.

IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING OTHERWORLDLY.

Lukes: WHAT IS INCREDIBLE AND PERHAPS A LITTLE ALARMING TO US

IS THAT AFTER ALL OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS,

WE ARE NO CLOSER TO FINDING OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT THESE OBJECTS

TODAY THAN WE WERE 40 YEARS AGO.

Narrator: AS RESEARCHERS CONTINUE TO PRESSURE GOVERNMENTS

TO DECLASSIFY THEIR INVESTIGATIONS,

MIGHT WE IN FACT FINALLY BE MOVING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH?

AND WILL EVIDENCE LOST IN THE ARCHIVES

REVEAL DETAILED, SOME SAY IRREFUTABLE, EVIDENCE

OF USO ACTIVITY AT SEA?

WITH MYSTERIOUS SEACRAFT KNOWN AS USOs ARE ON THE RISE.

USOs ARE ESSENTIALLY UNDERWATER UFOs,

AND IT STANDS FOR UNIDENTIFIED SUBMERSIBLE OBJECT.

THESE UNKNOWN OBJECTS HAVE A LONG HISTORY

OF INTERACTING WITH MILITARIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

Narrator: FOR MANY YEARS, SUCH INTERACTIONS

WERE BRUSHED ASIDE AS COLD WAR PARANOIA.

BUT RECENTLY UNSEALED U.S. NAVY DOCUMENTS

REVEAL SOME OF THE STRANGEST ENCOUNTERS AT SEA EVER REPORTED,

ENCOUNTERS WITHOUT A GEOPOLITICAL PURPOSE

BUT INSTEAD, SOME BELIEVE, AN OTHERWORLDLY AGENDA.

ONE STORY BEGINS ON SEPTEMBER 14, 1952

IN THE NORTH SEA.

THE U.S.S. FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT,

A MIDWAY-CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIER,

IS LEADING THE FIRST LARGE-SCALE JOINT NAVAL EXERCISE

AFTER WORLD WAR II.

IT WAS ORGANIZED

BY THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION, OR NATO.

THE 11-DAY MILITARY EVENT IS CALLED OPERATION MAINBRACE.

OPERATION MAINBRACE WAS A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING --

OVER 200 NAVAL VESSELS INVOLVED,

OVER 1,000 AIRCRAFT, 80,000 PERSONNEL.

IT WAS DESIGNED BOTH TO TEST THE WAY IN WHICH

THE DIFFERENT ALLIED NATIONS WORKED TOGETHER,

AND, OF COURSE, IT WAS A SHOW OF STRENGTH FOR THE SOVIETS.

Narrator: WESTERN POWERS, LED BY THE UNITED STATES,

WERE MAKING IT CLEAR TO THE FORMER SOVIET UNION

THAT NATO WOULD NOT LET THEIR GUARD DOWN.

BUT WHAT NOBODY EXPECTED

WAS A NATO FLEET THAT WOULD BECOME WITNESS

TO SOME OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE USO ENCOUNTERS IN HISTORY.

Dolan: USO SIGHTINGS TOOK PLACE FOR ABOUT

A TWO-WEEK STRETCH OF TIME,

FROM THE MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER RIGHT TO THE END OF THE MONTH.

AND IT WAS A SERIES

OF VERY WELL ATTESTED AND DOCUMENTED SIGHTINGS

OF OBJECTS INTERACTING IN SOME WAY WITH THESE VESSELS,

THESE NATO SHIPS.

Narrator: DOCUMENTS FOUND IN MILITARY ARCHIVES

SUGGEST THAT ON THE VERY FIRST DAY OF THE EXERCISE,

DOZENS OF MEN ON BOARD SEVERAL SHIPS

REPORTED SEEING A SILVERY TRIANGULAR OBJECT

MOVING AT AN INCREDIBLE RATE OF SPEED

JUST ABOVE THE WATER TOWARDS THE FLEET.

Dolan: YOU HAD AN OBJECT THAT WAS FAST

AND IT WAS HIGHLY MANEUVERABLE.

Pope: IF ANYTHING COMES DIRECTLY TOWARDS ONE OF THE NAVY SHIPS,

THAT SHIP WOULD GO ON FULL ALERT.

IT'S A POTENTIAL SECURITY THREAT,

AND IT'S TREATED AS SUCH.

Narrator: BUT AS QUICKLY AS THE THREATENING CRAFTS APPEAR,

THEY VANISH,

LEAVING AMERICAN SAILORS ON BOARD THE U.S.S. FDR

AND NATO SAILORS THROUGHOUT THE FLEET

STILL SHOCKED AND SHAKEN AS THEY RETURN TO THEIR NORMAL DUTIES.

TWO DAYS LATER, THEY'RE BACK.

ROYAL AIR FORCE PERSONNEL ON BOARD A BRITISH CARRIER

SPOT ANOTHER USO LOW OVER THE WATER,

AS ONE OF THEIR PLANES COMES IN FOR A LANDING.

RADAR OPERATORS DESCRIBE THE UNKNOWN OBJECT

AS A SILVERY CRAFT PERFORMING IMPOSSIBLE MANEUVERS.

JUST BEFORE THE CREW OPENS FIRE, THE CRAFT DISAPPEARS.

NOW, SOME OF THESE SIGHTINGS WERE ALSO TRACKED ON RADAR.

SO YOU DIDN'T JUST HAVE THE VISUAL REPORTS

FROM THESE WITNESSES,

YOU HAD CORROBORATION FROM THE RADAR OPERATORS.

IT'S IMPORTANT TO STRESS THESE ARE TRAINED OBSERVERS,

AND WHEN PEOPLE LIKE THESE REPORT SEEING STRANGE THINGS,

THAT'S A HIGHLY CREDIBLE REPORT.

Narrator: IN THE FOLLOWING DAYS,

ACCOUNTS OF FLYING SAUCERS DURING OPERATION MAINBRACE

ARE SPLASHED ON NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

AND DESPITE WHAT SUPERIORS TELL THEM,

MANY SAILORS REMAIN CONVINCED THE STRANGE CRAFTS THAT THEY SAW

WERE NOT MANMADE.

SOMETHING LIKE THIS DEFINITELY WARRANTED AN INVESTIGATION

BY THE MILITARY,

AND IF THEY DID TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHAT THESE OBJECTS WERE,

AS FAR AS I KNOW, NOTHING'S BEEN RELEASED

THAT SHOWS WHAT THEY FOUND OUT AND WHAT THEY'VE CONCLUDED.

Narrator: NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DID IN FACT

CONDUCT A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION

OF THE MAINBRACE USO ENCOUNTERS.

FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS,

THEIR FINDINGS HAVE REMAINED CLASSIFIED.

WHAT DOES SURFACE YEARS LATER IS A SKETCH THAT WAS DRAWN

BY U.S. NAVY SAILOR WILLIAM SCOTT,

WHO WAS ON BOARD THE U.S.S. FDR AIRCRAFT CARRIER

DURING THE USO ENCOUNTERS.

HIS SKETCH DEPICTS WHAT HE CLAIMS TO HAVE WITNESSED

DURING THE FATEFUL DAYS OF THE NATO EXERCISE.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS PICTURE,

IT'S A VERY UNMISTAKABLE LARGE CRAFT WITH WINDOWS

AND WITH SILHOUETTES OF BEINGS OR PEOPLE INSIDE.

IT'S A VERY CLOSE-UP SIGHTING,

AND IT WOULD APPEAR TO BE A VERY LARGE CRAFT.

Narrator: FOR UFO RESEARCHERS,

THE SKETCH COMBINED WITH NUMEROUS EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS

AND THE CONTINUED SECRET CLASSIFICATION

OF THE MAINBRACE SIGHTINGS PROVIDE PROOF THAT USOs EXIST

AND MAY, IN FACT, BE SPYING ON OUR NAVIES.

Pope: CLEARLY, THIS WAS THE BIGGEST CONCENTRATION

OF MILITARY UNITS AT SEA SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

SO IF WE WERE BEING OBSERVED, DID THEY THINK,

"IS THIS A THIRD WORLD WAR STARTING?

AND IF SO, IS IT GOING TO GO NUCLEAR?"

Rosenfeld: IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEY'RE TESTING US,

JUST TO SEE WHAT WE WOULD DO,

MAYBE JUST TO SEE IF WE'RE HOSTILE,

SEE IF WE'RE GOING TO FIRE UPON THEM.

WE'RE BEING WATCHED, AND WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN WATCHED.

I DON'T THINK THAT THIS IS ANYTHING NEW.

Narrator: IF EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT REALLY DID REVEAL THEMSELVES

DURING OPERATION MAINBRACE,

WHY ARE WESTERN GOVERNMENTS

DETERMINED TO KEEP IT TOP-SECRET?

FURTHER EVIDENCE MAY BE FOUND

IN NEWLY DECLASSIFIED MILITARY RECORDS,

DATED FEBRUARY 1977.

THE U.S.S. TREPANG, A NUCLEAR ATTACK SUBMARINE,

IS ON MANEUVERS IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN,

SOMEWHERE OFF THE COAST OF ICELAND,

WHEN AN OFFICER NAMED JOHN KLIKA PEERS INTO HIS PERISCOPE

AND IS STUNNED BY WHAT HE SEES.

QUICKLY REACHING FOR A CAMERA,

THE OFFICER BEGINS TAKING PICTURES THROUGH THE PERISCOPE.

SEEN HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON NATIONAL TELEVISION,

THE PHOTOS ARE OF A STRANGE OBJECT

MAKING ASTONISHING AERIAL MANEUVERS

JUST ABOVE THE WATER.

THEN INCREDIBLY, IT DIVES INTO THE FRIGID SEA.

Greenewald: WHEN I FIRST SAW THESE PHOTOGRAPHS,

I WAS REALLY INTRIGUED BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THIS

THAT I'VE EVER SEEN IN ANY TYPE OF UFO OR USO CASE.

ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS, YOU ACTUALLY SEE INDICATOR MARKS

THAT YOU WOULD SEE THROUGH A PERISCOPE.

SO WE CAN REALLY KIND OF DEDUCE, THEY LOOK LEGITIMATE.

Pope: THEY'RE EXTREMELY CLEAR,

AND THEY DO SEEM TO SHOW AN IMMENSE TRIANGULAR-SHAPED CRAFT

PERFORMING SOME PRETTY SPECTACULAR MANEUVERS.

COULD THIS BE A USO?

Narrator: ALTHOUGH SKEPTICS BELIEVE THE OBJECT

IS AN EXPERIMENTAL U.S. AIRCRAFT KNOWN AS THE AEREON 26,

UFO RESEARCHERS ARE CONFIDENT THAT THE CRAFT IS NOT MANMADE.

Dolan: THE AEREON 26 IS A LIGHTER-THAN-AIR,

RIGID-FRAMED DIRIGIBLE THAT THE U.S. MILITARY

WAS WORKING WITH IN THE EARLY 1970s.

THERE'S BEEN SPECULATION THAT

THAT COULD HAVE BEEN THE OBJECT PHOTOGRAPHED.

THE THING IS THE MILITARY HAS SAID THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE

TESTING IT IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN.

THAT'S A REALLY REMOTE, INHOSPITABLE PLACE

TO TEST SOMETHING THAT'S EXPERIMENTAL.

IT JUST SEEMS LIKE A VERY ILLOGICAL THING TO BE DOING.

Narrator: IF THE OBJECT IN THESE PHOTOS

IS NOT AN EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT,

UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THERE IS ONLY ONE OTHER POSSIBILITY.

I BELIEVE THAT'S A TRUE UFO, AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT.

SO IF THIS SUBMARINE WAS BY ITSELF,

AND THIS UFO CAME OUT OF THE WATER AND JUST

KIND OF DISPLAYED ITS TECHNOLOGY,

MAYBE IT WAS A DIVERSION.

THIS WOULD BE ONE KIND OF TACTIC MAYBE THEY WERE USING

TO KEEP THE MILITARY AWAY FROM AN UNDERWATER BASE

THAT THEY HAVE UNDER THE ICE.

Narrator: UFO INVESTIGATORS SUGGEST ENCOUNTERS LIKE THESE

WITH THE U.S. NAVY PROVIDE SOME OF THE MOST CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE

THAT EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT MAY BE HIDING

IN THE DEEPEST AND MOST REMOTE AREAS OF OUR OCEANS.

BUT COULD ANOTHER OF THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL NAVIES

ALSO BE DECLASSIFYING THEIR OWN ASTONISHING EVIDENCE OF

UNDERWATER SUBMERSIBLE OBJECTS,

EVIDENCE SUGGESTING THAT USOs ARE BECOMING AGGRESSIVE

AND EVEN DEADLY?

THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT DECLASSIFIES

TOP-SECRET DOCUMENTS DETAILING USO ENCOUNTERS

BY THE RUSSIAN NAVY.

STUNNING FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENCOUNTERS

SHOCK THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE AND IGNITES INTEREST

FROM THE WORLD'S UFO RESEARCH COMMUNITY.

HOW COULD SUCH GRIPPING ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN KEPT SECRET

FOR SO LONG AND WHY?

Dolan: THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAD IN THE SOVIET ERA PRIOR TO 1992,

YOU'RE DEALING WITH FUNDAMENTALLY

A TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM IN WHICH UFOs AND USOs

WERE NOT TO BE TALKED ABOUT.

SO THERE WAS A LOT OF SECRECY,

AND WITH THE END OF THE SOVIET UNION

AND THE RELEASE OF SOME OF THOSE FILES

THAT WE NOW HAVE HAD ACCESS TO,

ONE OF THEM CONCERNS AN UNDATED ACCOUNT

OF A RUSSIAN SUBMARINE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC.

A RUSSIAN NUCLEAR SUB ENCOUNTERED A FORMATION

OF WHAT APPEARED TO BE ALIEN SPACECRAFT,

AT DEPTH, UNDER THE WATER.

Narrator: AT A DEPTH OF APPROXIMATELY 800 FEET,

CREW ABOARD A FULLY WEAPONIZED RUSSIAN NUCLEAR SUBMARINE

DETECT SIX UNKNOWN OBJECTS ON THEIR SONAR,

TRAVELING IN FORMATION DIRECTLY TOWARD THEM.

WHAT'S EVEN MORE ALARMING IS THE SPEED

AT WHICH THE OBJECTS ARE TRAVELING --

IN EXCESS OF 265 MILES PER HOUR.

THIS WAS HUGELY UNNERVING

FOR THESE HIGHLY TRAINED MILITARY PERSONNEL,

AND IT WAS QUITE UNLIKE ANYTHING

THEY'D EVER SEEN OR EXPERIENCED BEFORE.

Narrator: SIX DISC-SHAPED OBJECTS, TRAVELING IN FORMATION,

CONTINUE ON THEIR TRAJECTORY,

GAINING SPEED AND HEADING DIRECTLY TOWARD THE SUBMARINE.

THEY WERE GOING AT INCREDIBLE SPEEDS,

BUT THEN WHEN THE SUBMARINE BECAME ALARMED

AT WHAT WAS HAPPENING WITH THESE OBJECTS

AND SLOWED DOWN ITS SPEED,

THE OBJECTS DID EXACTLY THE SAME THING,

MIRRORING WHAT THE SUBMARINE WAS DOING.

Narrator: THE RUSSIAN CREW ARE AT FIRST STUNNED

BY WHAT THEY ARE WITNESSING,

THEN QUICKLY MAN THEIR BATTLE STATIONS.

Pope: THE CAPTAIN, FEARING THAT A COLLISION WAS IMMINENT

AND THAT HE WAS UNDER ATTACK,

ORDERED AN EMERGENCY SURFACING OF THE SUBMARINE.

Narrator: THE SUBMARINE FINALLY BREACHES THE SURFACE,

NARROWLY AVOIDING A COLLISION.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IS EVEN MORE ASTONISHING.

SO HERE'S A SOVIET SUBMARINE COMMANDER

DEALING WITH THIS TERRIFYING SITUATION.

THEY THEN SAW THROUGH THE PERISCOPE

THESE SIX OBJECTS COME OUT OF THE WATER

AND TAKE OFF AT SOME ABSURDLY FAST SPEED.

ONE CAN ONLY SPECULATE ABOUT THE INTENT OF THESE USOs.

WAS THIS A HOSTILE ACT OF SOME SORT?

OR WERE THEY JUST FLEEING DETECTION?

WE DON'T KNOW.

Narrator: IF THE DECLASSIFIED REPORTS ARE TRUE,

COULD THIS MEAN THE RUSSIANS REALLY HAD ENCOUNTERED

A SQUADRON OF UNDERWATER EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT?

Rosenfeld: IF YOU CAN TRAVEL THAT FAST UNDERWATER,

WATER'S JUST ANOTHER MEDIUM,

SO THEIR CRAFT CAN FLY UNDERWATER

JUST LIKE THEY CAN ABOVE WATER.

THAT TELLS ME THAT THESE AREN'T CONVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES.

IT'S NOTHING EARTHLY-MADE.

Lukes: WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH HERE IS VERY CLEARLY

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY.

SO WE HAVE TO DRAW THE CONCLUSION THAT PERHAPS

THIS IS SOME SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH.

THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS CASE SO COMPELLING --

THE SPEED, THE MOVEMENT OF THE OBJECTS,

AND THE RATE THAT THEY DISAPPEARED.

IT'S INCREDIBLE.

Narrator: PERHAPS THE MOST CHILLING ENCOUNTER

DESCRIBED IN RUSSIA'S DECLASSIFIED REPORTS

DOESN'T INVOLVE UNIDENTIFIED SUBMERSIBLE OBJECTS

BUT THE ALIEN CREATURES BELIEVED TO INHABIT THEM.

SIBERIA, 1982.

WITH A DEPTH OF 5,387 FEET,

LAKE BAIKAL IS THE DEEPEST FRESHWATER LAKE IN THE WORLD.

HERE, RUSSIAN NAVY DIVERS ARE CONDUCTING

ROUTINE RESEARCH OPERATIONS.

GIVEN THE DEPTH OF THE LAKE AND ITS FRIGID TEMPERATURE,

VERY LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT WHAT LIES BENEATH THE SURFACE.

SEVEN RUSSIAN DIVERS ARE SUBMERGED AT A DEPTH OF 150 FEET

WHEN SUDDENLY THE FROGMEN REALIZE THEY ARE BEING WATCHED.

THESE STRANGE HUMANOID FIGURES

WERE MUCH BIGGER THAN HUMAN BEINGS

AND APPEARED TO BE WEARING HELMETS OF SOME SORT.

WHAT ON EARTH ARE WE TO MAKE OF AN ENCOUNTER LIKE THIS?

IT'S ONE THING TO TALK ABOUT USOs,

BUT QUITE ANOTHER TO TALK ABOUT HUMANOID ENTITIES

DEEP IN THE LAKE.

Dolan: THESE WERE LARGE BEINGS,

HUMAN-SHAPED BUT LIKE NINE FEET TALL,

WEARING WHAT SEEMED LIKE VERY TIGHT-FITTING SILVERY SUITS,

NOT YOUR NORMAL SCUBA GEAR, BASICALLY,

SWIMMING IN THE WATER,

WHAT THEY'VE COME TO CALL THE SWIMMERS OF LAKE BAIKAL.

Lukes: WHAT WERE THESE CREATURES?

WHY DID THEY NOT SEEM TO USE

WHAT WE WOULD BE USING TO SUSTAIN LIFE?

THERE WERE NO OXYGEN TANKS.

SO THERE ARE LOTS OF INTERESTING FACETS TO THIS.

YOU HAVE CREATURES THAT ARE UNDERWATER

AND SURVIVING WITH TECHNOLOGY

THAT WE DON'T COMPREHEND.

Narrator: THE RUSSIAN DIVERS THEN MAKE

A FATEFUL DECISION AND ATTEMPT A CAPTURE.

THE DIVERS ATTEMPTED TO CAPTURE ONE OF THESE CREATURES,

BUT AT THIS POINT, SO THE DOCUMENTS SAY,

THE ENTITIES REACTED.

A POWERFUL UNKNOWN FORCE

SUDDENLY PROPELS THE ENTIRE GROUP OF DIVERS

UP FROM THE DEEP WATER TO THE SURFACE.

THEY DID A RAPID RISE TO THE SURFACE OF THE WATER.

WELL, WHEN YOU DO THAT TOO FAST, YOU SUFFER FROM DECOMPRESSION.

YOU GET THE BENDS, AND IT'S DEADLY.

THERE WERE SEVEN OF THESE DIVERS, AND THREE OF THEM DIED,

AND FOUR WERE VERY SEVERELY INJURED AS A RESULT OF THIS.

Lukes: WHY DID THESE CREATURES REACT THE WAY THAT THEY DID?

I HAVE TO THINK THAT WHEN WE BEGAN TO ACT AGGRESSIVELY,

WHEN THE DIVERS WANTED TO CAPTURE ONE OF THESE CREATURES

AND THROW A NET OVER IT,

THAT PERHAPS THEY WERE REACTING IN A DEFENSIVE WAY

WHEN THEY EXPELLED THE DIVERS TO THE SURFACE.

IF WE CAN BELIEVE WHAT WE'VE READ IN THE REPORTS,

THESE ARE EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS, SOMETHING OTHERWORLDLY.

Narrator: COULD THESE LAKE BAIKAL CREATURES

REALLY BE FROM ANOTHER WORLD, AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

ACCORDING TO RUSSIAN DOCUMENTS,

THE SURVIVING DIVERS WERE TOO SHAKEN

TO SPEAK ABOUT THE INCIDENT.

BUT UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT

IS SILENCING THEM FROM SPEAKING OUT,

AND IF SO, WHAT COULD THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT

HAVE BEEN TRYING TO KEEP SECRET?

THEY WOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL THREAT,

BUT THEY'D ALSO BE INTRIGUED TO KNOW

WHAT THESE ENTITIES WERE,

WHAT THE TECHNOLOGY THAT THEY POSSESSED WAS AND, OF COURSE,

COULD THEY ACQUIRE THAT TECHNOLOGY THEMSELVES?

AND INDEED, WEAPONIZATION IS ALWAYS SOMETHING AT THE BACK

OF THE MIND OF ANY GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL LOOKING AT THE UFO

AND INDEED USO MYSTERY.

IF THERE'S A TECHNOLOGY DOWN THERE

MORE ADVANCED THAN OUR OWN, WE WANT IT.

Narrator: DESPITE WHAT THE RUSSIANS MAY BE WITHHOLDING,

UFO INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THE LAKE BAIKAL ENCOUNTER

INDICATES THAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS

MAY BE ABLE TO SURVIVE FRIGID WATER

AND THAT INTERACTION WITH THEM COMES WITH RISKS.

FOR UFO RESEARCHERS, NEW QUESTIONS ARE RAISED.

WHERE WAS THEIR CRAFT?

AND IS THERE A POSSIBILITY OF A BASE OF OPERATIONS

DEEP BELOW THE SURFACE?

WITH REPORTS OF DISTURBING UNDERWATER ENCOUNTERS

WITH BOTH ALIEN CRAFT AND EXTRATERRESTRIALS

CONFIRMED BY UFO RESEARCHERS,

THEY ARE NOW LOOKING AT ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

BURIED DEEP BELOW THE SEAS FOR FURTHER EVIDENCE

OF AN ALIEN PRESENCE ON EARTH.

RLD'S MOST POWERFUL NAVIES

HAVE ENCOUNTERED STRANGE UNDERWATER SUBMERSIBLE OBJECTS,

OR USOs, FOR DECADES.

BUT WHY ARE THEY BEING SEEN UNDERWATER

AND NOT UP IN THE SKIES?

Dolan: THE OCEANS ARE ABOUT AS REMOTE A PLACE

AS YOU CAN GET ON THIS PLANET.

IF YOU WANT TO CONDUCT YOURSELF ON A WORLD

SECRETLY, WITHOUT A LOT OF INTERFERENCE,

IT'S ACTUALLY IDEAL.

Pope: WE KNOW LESS ABOUT THE DEEP OCEAN

THAN WE DO ABOUT THE SURFACE OF THE MOON OR MARS.

IT'S A COMPLETE MYSTERY.

Bara: LOGICALLY, IT MAKES COMPLETE SENSE

TO ACTUALLY HIDE STUFF UNDERWATER

BECAUSE IT WOULD BE VERY HARD FOR A HOSTILE GOVERNMENT

TO ACTUALLY FIND AN ALIEN BASE OF SOME KIND UNDER THE WATER.

YOU'VE GOT ALL THAT PROTECTION, THE MUD, THE SILT

KEEPS ANY VISUAL RECOGNITION FROM HAPPENING.

SO IT REALLY MAKES A LOT OF SENSE.

Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE USOs ARE OPERATING

FROM BASES DEEP BELOW THE SEA?

AND IF SO, WHERE'S THE EVIDENCE?

JULY 2000 -- THE CARIBBEAN SEA, OFF THE COAST OF CUBA.

HERE, MARITIME EXPLORERS PROBING THE OCEAN FLOOR

DISCOVER SOMETHING COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED

DEEP BELOW THE SURFACE.

THIS VIDEO TAKEN FROM AN UNMANNED SUBMERSIBLE ROBOT

AT A DEPTH OF APPROXIMATELY 2,000 FEET

REVEALS A 1.2-SQUARE-MILE EXPANSE

OF ANCIENT STONE STRUCTURES OF WHAT APPEAR TO BE

A VAST UNDERWATER CITY COMPLETE WITH ROADS,

BUILDINGS AND PYRAMIDS.

THE EXPLORERS ARE STUNNED BY THEIR DISCOVERY,

NOW KNOWN AS THE LOST CITY OF CUBA.

Rosenfeld: IT'S FASCINATING. I THINK IT CLEARLY IS

SOME KIND OF ANCIENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE.

THERE'S PYRAMIDS. THERE'S GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES THERE.

IT'S REALLY QUITE REMARKABLE.

QUESTION IS, HOW OLD ARE THESE STRUCTURES AND WHO BUILT THEM?

Pope: SOME PEOPLE HAVE CONNECTED IT WITH THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS

AND SAID MAYBE THIS IS EVIDENCE OF SOME HISTORIC CIVILIZATION

DESTROYED IN SOME GREAT CATACLYSM.

Narrator: UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGISTS

ESTIMATE THE STRUCTURES WERE BUILT MORE THAN 6,000 YEARS AGO.

IF TRUE, THESE PYRAMIDS ARE THE OLDEST PYRAMIDS IN THE WORLD

BY AN ASTOUNDING 1,000 YEARS.

Dolan: IF THEY'RE AS OLD AS SOME PEOPLE HAVE ARGUED,

AND WE'RE TALKING SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS OLD,

THAT WOULD MAKE THEM EARLIER

THAN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION,

AND IF THAT'S THE CASE,

WE HAVE SOME REAL INTERESTING QUESTIONS TO ASK

ABOUT PYRAMID CONSTRUCTION IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD

IN ANCIENT TIMES.

Narrator: COULD THE LOST CITY, HALF A MILE BELOW THE SEA,

HAVE BEEN BUILT BY AN ANCIENT UNKNOWN HUMAN CIVILIZATION,

ONE THAT PREDATES EVERY KNOWN HUMAN CIVILIZATION

IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE?

OR IS IT POSSIBLE,

AS SOME UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE,

THAT THIS SUNKEN CITY

WAS ONCE CONNECTED TO EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS

IN THE REMOTE PAST?

NOW, THE UFO COMMUNITY ARE EXTREMELY EXCITED ABOUT THIS.

THEY THINK IT'S MAYBE AN UNDERWATER BASE FOR USOs.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE IMAGE,

IT DOES APPEAR THERE'S A STRUCTURE TO THIS THING.

IT CERTAINLY DOESN'T LOOK LIKE ANYTHING

THAT WAS FORMED NATURALLY IN THE OCEAN.

THIS LOOKS AS IF IT HAS BEEN BUILT BY SOMEONE.

Dolan: I THINK THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEANS

IS ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO HIDE.

IF YOU'RE A NONHUMAN INTELLIGENCE HERE ON EARTH

WANTING TO DO SOME KIND OF OPERATION,

WHAT BETTER PLACE THAN THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN?

THERE IS SO MUCH ON OUR PLANET

THAT WE HAVEN'T BEGUN TO EXPLORE,

AND A MAJORITY OF THAT IS UNDERWATER.

WITH ALL OF THESE HIDING PLACES, THESE DEEP ABYSSES,

TO ME, THIS WOULD BE A PERFECT AREA

FOR ANOTHER INTELLIGENCE TO HIDE OUT.

Narrator: IF EXTRATERRESTRIALS HAVE BEEN BUILDING

HIDDEN UNDERWATER BASES FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS,

IS IT POSSIBLE SUCH BASES

ARE STILL BEING CREATED IN THE WORLD'S OCEANS TODAY?

ONE RECENT DISCOVERY SIX MILES OFF THE WEST COAST

OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MAY OFFER CLUES.

LYING ON THE SEABED IN 2,000 FEET OF WATER

AND MEASURING THREE MILES IN LENGTH,

MAINSTREAM SCIENCE CLAIMS THIS OVAL FEATURE

IS A NATURALLY MADE GEOLOGICAL FORMATION.

BUT COULD THIS STRUCTURE HAVE BEEN BUILT BY FORCES

OF A MORE COSMIC NATURE?

NOW, SOME PEOPLE CLAIM THIS IS A NATURAL FORMATION,

BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE USGS MAPS OF THE AREA,

IT IS VERY UNNATURAL.

IT'S A VERY SPECIFIC SORT OF OVAL PLATFORM.

IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS ADDED ON

TO THE UNDERWATER RIDGE THAT ALREADY EXISTED.

IT DOESN'T HAVE A NATURAL SHAPE AT ALL.

SO THE QUESTION IS,

IS THIS SOME SORT OF SECRET U.S. GOVERNMENT BASE?

OR IS IT PERHAPS AN ALIEN BASE?

Pope: THIS UNDERWATER STRUCTURE IS CLEARLY ARTIFICIAL-LOOKING.

I MEAN, IT SEEMS TO ME TO RESEMBLE

SOME SORT OF LANDING PAD.

NOW WHAT'S REALLY INTRIGUING ABOUT THIS,

OF COURSE, IS THE LOCATION.

Narrator: JUST 95 MILES NORTH OF THE STRUCTURE

LIES VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE,

A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

SPACE AND MISSILE TESTING BASE AND THE SITE

OF THE SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION,

BETTER KNOWN AS SpaceX.

Man: FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE.

FOUNDED IN 2002,

THE STATED PURPOSE OF SpaceX IS TO CREATE TECHNOLOGIES

TO REDUCE SPACE TRANSPORTATION COSTS

AND ENABLE THE COLONIZATION OF MARS.

VANDENBERG IS A PLACE WHERE ALL SORTS OF SECRET,

HIGHLY CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT.

IS THERE A CONNECTION HERE?

IS ANY OF THIS ACTIVITY,

THE CUTTING EDGE OF OUR SPACE PROGRAM,

ARE OF INTEREST TO SOMEONE OR SOMETHING ELSE?

Narrator: ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,

THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THE WEST COAST UNDERWATER STRUCTURE

COULD ACTUALLY BE AN ALIEN BASE FOR USOs TO MONITOR

THE GOVERNMENT'S MOST TOP-SECRET BALLISTIC MISSILE TESTS

AND THE SpaceX MARS AGENDA.

Pope: WE HAVE TESTIMONY FROM MILITARY OFFICERS

THAT A NUMBER OF ROCKET TESTS UNDERTAKEN

FROM VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE,

TESTS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN QUITE ROUTINE,

WENT COMPLETELY AWRY

WITH NO EXPLANATION OF WHY THIS HAPPENED.

COULD IT BE THAT USOs ARE HIDING IN THE OCEANS

MONITORING OUR MOST DESTRUCTIVE WEAPONS

AND INTERFERING WHEN NECESSARY AND SHOWING US, IN SOME WAY,

THAT WHATEVER WE MIGHT TRY TO DO,

IF WE EVER LAUNCH THEM IN ANGER,

MAYBE AGAINST OURSELVES AND TRY TO START A THIRD WORLD WAR,

THAT THEY COULD JUST SWITCH THEM OFF IN AN INSTANT?

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE UFO COMMUNITY

BELIEVE IS HAPPENING.

Rosenfeld: I DON'T THINK IT'S A COINCIDENCE

THAT IT'S SO CLOSE TO VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE.

I THINK THAT... BECAUSE IF WE'RE BEING WATCHED,

THAT THIS WOULD BE AN IDEAL LOCATION

TO SEE THESE KIND OF MISSILE TESTS,

TO KIND OF SEE OUR TECHNOLOGY.

I THINK THAT THEY'RE WATCHING TO MAKE SURE

THAT WE DON'T TAKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS OFF THIS PLANET.

Narrator: IF ALIENS ARE HIDING BENEATH OUR SEAS

AND HAVE BEEN FOR CENTURIES,

SOME UFO RESEARCHERS QUESTION

WHY THEY ARE INCREASINGLY ALLOWING THEMSELVES

TO BE SEEN BY MAN.

WHY ARE WE NOW SEEING MORE REPORTS OF UNDERWATER OBJECTS?

IS IT BECAUSE THERE ARE ACTUALLY MORE OF THEM HERE,

AND THEY'RE INTERACTING WITH US IN A MORE PRONOUNCED WAY?

WE DON'T KNOW.

MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE WE'RE DELVING INTO THE OCEANS MORE THESE DAYS

THAN WE USED TO IN THE PAST.

WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO ACTUALLY

GO DOWN DEEPER NOWADAYS.

Pope: THE MORE YOU COME TO THE CONCLUSION

THAT THERE'S AN ESCALATION HERE,

THERE'S A SORT OF BUILDING UP IN INTENSITY,

FREQUENCY OF THESE INCIDENTS,

AND INDEED SOME OF THEM ARE DEADLY,

THEN IT'S A MATTER NOT JUST OF NATIONAL SECURITY

BUT OF GLOBAL SECURITY.

WE SHOULDN'T JUST ASSUME THEY'RE HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS.

Narrator: IF UFOs AND USOs ARE, IN FACT,

INHABITING OUR SKIES AND OUR OCEANS AS INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE,

DO THEY POSE A THREAT TO OUR SECURITY?

AND WHY ARE WORLD GOVERNMENTS

AND MILITARIES KEEPING US IN THE DARK?

AS MORE UNEXPLAINED DEEP-SEA ENCOUNTERS ARE REPORTED,

UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE VITAL QUESTIONS REMAIN UNANSWERED.

WHY ARE THEY HERE?

WHAT IS THEIR PLAN?

AND WILL MORE BE COMING?

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