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Narrator:HIGHLY TRAINED PILOTS ENCOUNTERING MYSTERIOUS AIRCRAFT ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Man: IT WAS A HIGHLY MANEUVERABLE,

INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED OBJECT IN MILITARY AIRSPACE.

Narrator: INCREDIBLE UNEXPLAINED SIGHTINGS BY ASTRONAUTS

ARE INCREASING EVERY YEAR.

Man: IF PILOTS ARE GOOD UFO WITNESSES,

THEN ASTRONAUTS ARE GREAT UFO WITNESSES.

Narrator: NEW EVIDENCE, NEVER BEFORE SEEN ON TELEVISION,

HAS UFO RESEARCHERS CONVINCED THAT NASA

MAY BE CONCEALING THE TRUTH.

Woman: THIS VERY CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES

THAT WE ARE DEALING

WITH SOMETHING FROM ANOTHER WORLD.

Narrator: AS MANKIND REACHES FURTHER FROM EARTH,

NEW SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES ON MARS

ARE RAISING NEW QUESTIONS.

Man: MARS WAS INHABITED AT ONE POINT,

AND WHAT WE SEE TODAY

IS REMNANTS OF THAT CIVILIZATION.

Narrator: IS OUR GOVERNMENT TELLING US

ALL IT KNOWS ABOUT UFOs?

Man: THESE UFO INCIDENTS

POSE SERIOUS NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES.

WE IGNORE THESE SIGHTINGS AT OUR PERIL.

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 EVIDENCE

REVEAL THE TRUTH

WITNESSED BY PILOTS AND ASTRONAUTS?

-- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com

CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS

Narrator: APRIL, 2007 -- SUFFOLK, ENGLAND.

UNDER EXCELLENT VISIBILITY,

MILITARY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS

AT THE LAKENHEATH AIR FORCE BASE

IDENTIFY A STRANGE ANOMALY IN THE NEARBY AIRSPACE.

THEY IMMEDIATELY REQUEST THE HELP OF TWO PILOTS

ALREADY IN THE AIR TO INVESTIGATE.

PILOTS ARE FROM THE BASE AT LAKENHEATH,

AN AMERICAN BASE,

PART OF THE WIDER U.S. PRESENCE IN THE U.K.

THESE AMERICAN PILOTS,

THEY ARE ORDERED TO INTERCEPT A UFO

THAT HAS BEEN PICKED UP

AND TRACKED ON MILITARY RADAR.

NEWS OF THIS ONLY LEAKED OUT

BECAUSE OF THE ACTIVITIES OF A HAM RADIO OPERATOR.

Man: TARGET CONFIRMED...

Narrator: WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR

IS THE ACTUAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE AMERICAN PILOTS

RECORDED BY THE HAM RADIO OPERATOR.

THIS CONVERSATION HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN HEARD ON TELEVISION.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO THE PILOTS,

THE STRANGE OBJECT MOVED FROM 17,000 FEET

UP TO 17,700 FEET IN ALTITUDE.

AS ONE OF THE PILOTS FINALLY GETS CLOSE, HE REPORTS.

Dolan: WE HAVE NO EXPLANATION FOR WHAT THIS THING WAS.

SO BOTH F-15s HAD A RADAR LOCK ON THE OBJECT,

AND GROUND-BASED RADAR ALSO WAS TRACKING IT,

SO THERE WAS CLEARLY SOMETHING THERE.

Pope: AT FIRST, THE AUTHORITIES DENIED EVERYTHING,

BUT ONCE THAT HAM RADIO OPERATOR

HAD MADE PUBLIC THE RECORDING, IT WAS UNDENIABLE.

Lukes: WHEN YOU HEAR THE EXCHANGE OF THESE PILOTS

AND THEY'RE SAYING THAT THEY DON'T KNOW

WHAT THIS OBJECT IS, YOU NEED TO TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY.

THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT.

THIS IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL.

Rosenfeld: THIS LAKENHEATH INCIDENT IS VERY INTERESTING

BECAUSE YOU HAVE PILOTS DESCRIBING A ROCK

THAT'S FLOATING AND CHANGING DIRECTION IN THE SKY.

Bara: IT HAD NO WINGS, IT HAD NO TAIL,

IT HAD NO MEANS OF PROPULSION,

YET IT WAS AT HIGH ALTITUDE,

IT MOVED AROUND, IT CHANGED ALTITUDE.

IT DID THINGS THAT BASICALLY A ROCK

IS NOT CAPABLE OF DOING,

SO WHAT WAS THIS THING DOING IN THE SKY?

NOBODY REALLY KNOWS.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO UFO INVESTIGATORS,

THIS INCIDENT IS NOT AN ISOLATED ONE.

SUCH OCCURRENCES ARE INCREASING EVERY YEAR.

TAKE JULY 7, 2010.

IN A CHINESE CITY JUST SOUTH OF SHANGHAI

ALONG CHINA'S EASTERN SEABOARD,

A THREE-MAN FLIGHT CREW ONBOARD AN AIR CHINA JET LINER

FILLED WITH PASSENGERS PREPARES FOR LANDING.

CHINESE PILOTS, AS THEY WERE APPROACHING THE AIRPORT,

REPORTED SEEING AN UNUSUAL OBJECT

THAT GOT THEIR ATTENTION AND THEIR CONCERN.

Narrator: THE PILOTS REPORT TO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

THAT AN UNKNOWN OBJECT ABOUT 100 FEET IN LENGTH,

30 FEED IN WIDTH IS MOVING SLOWLY

IN THE AIRSPACE 2,000 FEET ABOVE THE AIRPORT.

AT THE SAME TIME, PEOPLE ON THE GROUND

PHOTOGRAPHED THIS OBJECT.

THERE ARE SEVERAL OF THESE PHOTOGRAPHS

AND THEY'RE VERY INTERESTING.

AND THEY CERTAINLY APPEAR TO SHOW AN ELONGATED OBJECT,

AND THERE'S LIGHT COMING DOWN FROM THE OBJECT.

THE ENTIRE AIRPORT WAS CLOSED.

FLIGHTS WERE DIVERTED.

I MEAN, CLEARLY SOMETHING WAS GOING ON IN THE SKIES.

Lukes: YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THERE WERE WITNESSES IN THE AIR

THAT SAW THE OBJECT AS THEY WERE LANDING,

AND WE HAVE THIS PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE.

SO ALL OF THAT TOGETHER TELLS ME

THAT THERE ABSOLUTELY WAS A UFO.

THERE'S TOO MUCH EVIDENCE TO SAY THAT THERE WASN'T.

Bara: BECAUSE OF THE PREJUDICE

AGAINST REPORTING THESE KINDS OF SIGHTINGS,

THE PILOTS REALLY TOOK A HUGE RISK

BY ACTUALLY CALLING OUT OVER THE OPEN AIRWAVES

AND SAYING THAT THEY'D SEEN THIS OBJECT.

SO FOR THEM TO DO THAT, THEY MUST'VE

REALLY SEEN SOMETHING VERY UNUSUAL,

AND IT WAS CONSIDERED A THREAT TO THEM.

Narrator: TWO WEEKS LATER,

ANOTHER UFO SIGHTING WAS REPORTED

IN THE SAME AIRSPACE ABOVE THE SAME CHINESE CITY.

THIS IS ACTUAL RECORDED EYEWITNESS VIDEO OF THE EVENT.

OBSERVERS DESCRIBE THE SIGHTING AS AN EERIE WHITE

LIGHT FLOATING THROUGH THE SKY,

LEAVING A BRIGHT TRAIL IN ITS WAKE.

Pope: IT'S BEEN VARIOUSLY SUGGESTED

THAT THIS WAS A ROCKET TEST,

OR PERHAPS SOME SORT OF SECRET MILITARY TEST WAS UNDERWAY.

IT'S ALSO BEEN THEORIZED

THAT THIS WAS THE REENTRY INTO THE EARTH'S

ATMOSPHERE OF A ROCKET THAT HAD LAUNCHED.

I DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL EVER HAVE DEFINITIVE ANSWERS.

BUT IT SHOWS THAT THESE THINGS ARE OCCURRING,

APPARENTLY WITH INCREASING REGULARITY IN OUR SKIES,

AND THAT THEY'RE A CAUSE OF SOME CONSIDERABLE CONCERN

TO AUTHORITIES ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Bara: YOU ALSO GOT TO CONSIDER THAT CHINA IS VERY MILITARIZED.

IT'S A COMMUNIST COUNTRY.

IT DOES HAVE A VERY INTENSE AIR DEFENSE,

AND THESE OBJECTS PENETRATED

THAT AIR DEFENSE, GOT IN THEIR AIRPORTS,

AND ACTUALLY CREATED ENOUGH TROUBLE

TO HAVE THEM SHUT DOWN THE AIRPORT ITSELF.

THAT'S A REALLY BIG DEAL.

Narrator: UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THE CHINESE SIGHTINGS

ARE A CLEAR INDICATION

OF THE INCREASING NUMBER OF UFOs WORLDWIDE.

BUT PERHAPS THE BEST-KNOWN EVIDENCE

OF THIS ALARMING TREND OCCURS

OVER MEXICO'S YUCATAN PENINSULA.

IN EARLY 2004, THE MEXICAN AIR FORCE

WAS DOING A ROUTINE DRUG INTERDICTION FLIGHT

OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF MEXICO.

THIS IS THE MOST FAMOUS CASE

IN THE MEXICAN AIR FORCE HISTORY.

Dolan: THEY WERE USING FORWARD-LOOKING INFRARED --

FLIR -- AND RADAR,

AND TRACKED ON THEIR INSTRUMENTATION,

BUT DID NOT SEE VISUALLY 11 OBJECTS.

Narrator: AT ABOUT 10,000 FEET IN ALTITUDE,

THE CREW RECORDS AND MONITORS THE UFOs

WHILE REPORTING THE SIGHTINGS TO GROUND CONTROL.

THIS IS THE ACTUAL RECORDED VIDEO FEED

FROM THE MEXICAN AIR FORCE.

Dilettoso: WE'RE LOOKING AT THE TARGET IMAGERY

OF THESE OBJECTS

THAT ARE TRACKING ALONG WITH THE AIRPLANE.

WHERE'S THE AIRPLANE?

LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE HERE,

AZIMUTH, APERTURE,

ANGLE IN THE SKY ON THE HORIZON,

SO THAT THIS TARGET TELLS US

EXACTLY WHAT THE POSITION IN THE ANGLE

IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, WHAT POSITION THE AIRPLANE IS.

NOW WE HAVE OTHER OBJECTS THAT ARE COMING UP

THAT ARE MUCH CLOSER,

THAT ARE MOVING IN BETWEEN THE CLOUDS,

TRACKING ALONG WITH THE AIRPLANE.

Lukes: IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THESE OBJECTS

ARE EITHER INTELLIGENT OR INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED

BECAUSE THEY APPEAR TO BE COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER

AS THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE AIRCRAFT.

Pope: IT'S A FASCINATING PIECE OF FOOTAGE.

ONE CAN SEE QUITE CLEARLY THESE UFOs

APPARENTLY MOVING AT HIGH SPEED,

AND HERE THEY ARE SHOWING UP ON MILITARY CAMERAS.

Narrator: AFTER THE INCIDENT,

THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT RELEASES A PRESS STATEMENT

AND THE FOOTAGE FROM THE ENCOUNTER.

Pope: IT'S BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THESE OBJECTS

ARE NOTHING MORE THAN THE FLARES FROM OIL RIGS.

TO ME, IT DIDN'T STACK UP.

Dolan: WE'RE LEFT WITH AN OBJECT THAT WAS TRACKED

AT A HIGH ENOUGH ALTITUDE,

MUCH HIGHER UP THAN WHAT YOU WOULD GET

BY LOOKING DOWN AT OIL RIGS,

SO I'M NOT REALLY CONVINCED BY THAT EXPLANATION.

BECAUSE OF THE TESTIMONY FROM THE PILOTS,

BECAUSE OF THE FOOTAGE,

BECAUSE OF THE WAY THESE OBJECTS WERE MOVING AND BEHAVING,

THIS CASE VERY CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES

THAT WE ARE IN ALL LIKELIHOOD DEALING

WITH SOMETHING FROM ANOTHER WORLD.

Narrator: UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE

THE EVIDENCE IS UNDENIABLE.

SIGHTINGS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT WORLDWIDE

ARE ON THE RISE.

THE ONLY QUESTION IS WHY ARE THEY HERE?

BUT IT'S NOT JUST PILOTS IN THE SKY

WHO ARE ENCOUNTERING STRANGE AIRCRAFT.

THERE ARE DOZENS OF MYSTERIOUS UFO

SIGHTINGS REPORTED BY NASA ASTRONAUTS,

MANY CAPTURED ON LIVE VIDEO FEEDS

THAT WERE INTERRUPTED FOR UNKNOWN REASONS.

COULD THERE BE ANY REASON TO BELIEVE

THEY REPRESENT A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER?

AND SINCE MAN HAS VENTURED INTO SPACE,

THERE'S ALSO BEEN A LONG HISTORY OF UFO SIGHTINGS

REPORTED BY ASTRONAUTS, SCIENTISTS,

AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.

COULD NASA's LACK OF ADEQUATE EXPLANATION

BE THE REASON WHY MANY SUSPECT THERE IS A CONSPIRACY,

AND PERHAPS EVEN A COVER-UP CONNECTED TO UFOs?

NASA, THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION,

WAS ESTABLISHED ON JULY 29, 1958.

BEYOND THE SPACE RACE, NASA's MISSION

WAS TO PIONEER THE FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATION.

Barclay: THE POINT OF NASA

IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE UNITED STATES

STAYS AS A WORLD LEADER IN SCIENCE,

PARTICULARLY FOCUSING ON SPACE,

AERONAUTICS, AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE.

Narrator: AS TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS,

ASTRONAUTS ARE TRAINED TO THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE STANDARDS.

IN A SENSE, OF COURSE, ASTRONAUTS ARE ELITE PILOTS.

THEY ARE GENERALLY SELECTED FROM THE TOP RANKS

OF MILITARY PILOT COMMUNITY,

AND THESE PEOPLE ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST.

Dolan: THEY'RE THE ONES WHO HAVE THE RIGHT STUFF,

AND WHEN AN ASTRONAUT MAKES A UFO REPORT

OR SEES WHAT HE OR SHE THINKS IS A UFO,

WE REALLY NEED TO TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY.

Pope: IF PILOTS ARE GOOD UFO WITNESSES,

THEN ASTRONAUTS ARE GREAT UFO WITNESSES.

Narrator: NASA's FIRST MANNED SPACE PROGRAM

WAS CALLED PROJECT MERCURY,

AND ON MAY 15, 1963,

THE LAST OF THE PROGRAM'S SIX MISSIONS LIFTS

OFF FROM LAUNCH COMPLEX 14

AT FLORIDA'S CAPE CANAVERAL.

Barclay: PROJECT MERCURY WAS PART OF THE SPACE RACE.

IT WAS THE FIRST U.S. PROJECT TO PUT PEOPLE IN SPACE,

AND IDEALLY BEAT THE RUSSIANS.

Narrator: PILOTING THE MERCURY SPACECRAFT KNOWN AS FAITH 7

IS 30-YEAR-OLD MAJOR GORDON COOPER.

HE IS AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER

AND AN AIR FORCE TEST PILOT

WHO'S LOGGED MORE THAN 7,000 HOURS

FLYING ALL TYPES OF AIRPLANES, HELICOPTERS,

AND EXPERIMENTAL JET FIGHTERS.

Dolan: GORDON COOPER'S ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ASTRONAUTS

IN U.S. HISTORY, RIGHTLY SO,

AND ABOARD THE FINAL MERCURY MISSION,

HE DID A RECORD 22 ORBITS AROUND THE EARTH.

Narrator: COOPER'S 34-HOUR SPACE FLIGHT

IS OVER THREE TIMES LONGER

THAN ANY OF THE PREVIOUS MERCURY MISSIONS.

BUT ON HIS LAST ORBIT,

THE ASTRONAUT HAS A VERY STRANGE

AND UNEXPECTED EXPERIENCE.

HE REPORTED TO NASA THERE WAS A BRIGHT GREEN,

GLOWING OBJECT THAT APPROACHED HIS CAPSULE,

AND IT ZOOMED BY HIM.

AND, I MEAN, IT'S JUST AN EXTRAORDINARY SIGHTING.

Man: YOU KNOW, FOR SOMEONE LIKE COOPER,

HIGHLY TRAINED ASTRONAUT,

TO REPORT SOMETHING LIKE THIS,

CLEARLY IT'S SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Dolan: WHAT THE HECK DID GORDON COOPER SEE?

THERE'S NOTHING SUPPOSED TO BE UP THERE IN 1963,

LET ALONE SOMETHING THAT'S GREEN AND GLOWING,

LET ALONE SOMETHING THAT'S SUPPOSED TO APPROACH HIS CRAFT.

HE'S ONE OF THE TOP OBSERVERS IN THE WORLD.

HE WAS AN EXPERIENCED PILOT, AND HE'S OUT THERE IN SPACE,

AND SOMETHING AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR SPACE AGE

BUZZES BY HIS CAPSULE.

WOW.

THE SIGHTING AS SOME SORT OF OPTICAL ILLUSION,

THE UFO IS PICKED UP

ON AN AUSTRALIAN RADAR TRACKING STATION.

BUT AFTER COOPER AND HIS CAPSULE

ARE RECOVERED FROM THE PACIFIC OCEAN,

SOMETHING REMARKABLE OCCURS.

Dolan: WHAT'S INTERESTING TO ME

IS THAT WHEN HE GOT DOWN ONTO EARTH AGAIN,

NO ONE ASKED HIM ABOUT IT.

Pope: BEFORE COOPER EVEN RETURNED,

IT WAS MADE CLEAR TO REPORTERS

THAT THEY COULD NOT ASK HIM ABOUT THE UFO SIGHTING.

NASA WOULD ONLY DO THIS IF THERE WAS SOME

INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFORMATION BEING RELEASED

THAT THEY WOULDN'T WANT OUT THERE.

CLEARLY NASA WAS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE

WITH HIM DESCRIBING WHAT HE SAW.

SO IF SPACE IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY TELL US IT IS,

THIS BIG, EMPTY VOID WITH NOTHING OUT THERE,

THEN WHY DO THEY NEED TO SUPPRESS

ONE OF THEIR OWN BEST

AND BRIGHTEST FROM TALKING ABOUT WHAT HE SAW?

Narrator: DESPITE COOPER'S OBSERVATION IN SPACE,

NASA's OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT OF THE MISSION

BEARS NO MENTION OF COOPER'S SIGHTING.

TWO YEARS LATER,

ANOTHER SIMILAR SIGHTING TAKES PLACE

BY TWO VERY EXPERIENCED ASTRONAUTS --

FRANK BORMAN AND JIM LOVELL

ONBOARD GEMINI 7.

Barclay: GEMINI FOLLOWED PROJECT MERCURY.

IT WAS THE NEXT STEP IN PUTTING PEOPLE INTO SPACE.

GEMINI 7 WAS THE FOURTH FLIGHT,

AND ONE OF THE GOALS OF THIS PROJECT

WAS TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF 14 DAYS

IN SPACE IN HUMANS.

Narrator: EARLY IN THE MISSION,

DURING ONLY THEIR SECOND ORBIT OF EARTH,

BORMAN AND LOVELL SEE SOMETHING HIGHLY UNUSUAL.

RECORDED ON AUDIO TAPE,

JIM LOVELL REPORTS TO MISSION CONTROL

THAT HE SEES AN UNIDENTIFIED SPACECRAFT

NEARING THEIR CAPSULE.

Narrator: SUDDENLY, THE LIVE BROADCAST

OF THE CONVERSATION IS INTERRUPTED BY NASA.

[ INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER ]

[ PLAYBACK STOPS ]

Narrator: DESPITE THE CUT IN TRANSMISSION,

HERE, FOR THE FIRST TIME ON TELEVISION,

IS NASA's OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT

OF THE CONVERSATION THAT CONTINUED.

Dolan: THEY ASK HIM, "WELL,

IS IT THE BOOSTER ROCKET THAT WAS FROM THE CRAFT,"

AND HE SAYS, "NO, I SEE THE BOOSTER."

THAT WAS IN HIS SIGHT.

THIS WAS A DIFFERENT OBJECT.

Man: THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE

THAT ISN'T THE BOOSTER.

FOR WANT OF A BETTER EXPRESSION, IT'S A UFO.

Narrator: EACH TIME ASTRONAUTS SPOKE TO MISSION CONTROL

ABOUT UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS,

THE TRANSMISSIONS ABRUPTLY END.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NASA AND THE ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE,

THEY HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT CHANNELS,

AND SO IF THEY'RE USING A PUBLIC CHANNEL

AND THEY SEE SOMETHING,

THEY WOULD AUTOMATICALLY HAVE THEM SWITCH OVER

TO ANOTHER CHANNEL.

Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE SUGGEST THAT NASA

INTENTIONALLY CUT PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS

WITH THEIR ASTRONAUTS

AFTER THEY REPORTED SEEING UFOs IN SPACE?

AND IF SO, WHY WOULD NASA AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

CHOOSE TO KEEP SUCH SIGHTINGS SECRET?

SOME UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE

THERE MAY HAVE BEEN AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE

TO THE FORMATION OF THE SPACE PROGRAM

IN THE FIRST PLACE.

I BELIEVE THAT NASA KNEW WHEN THEY WERE FORMING

THAT THERE WAS ACTUALLY THESE SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL

EVENTS HAPPENING AROUND OUR PLANET,

AND I BELIEVE THAT THEY KNEW FROM THE INCEPTION

THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GO INTO SPACE WITH THE IDEA

OF CONTACTING SOME SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.

Bara: THERE ARE REPORTS OF NASA LYING ABOUT THE TIME

AND THE PLACE ASTRONAUTS WERE AVAILABLE

FOR CONVERSATIONS,

WHETHER THEY WERE IN COMMUNICATION

WITH THE SPACECRAFT OR NOT.

THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS YOU CAN GO THROUGH THE RECORD

AND FIND THAT NASA

WAS DUPLICITOUS ON AT THE VERY LEAST,

AND CERTAINLY NOT COMPLETELY HONEST.

Narrator: COULD THE SPACE RACE REALLY HAVE BEEN A RACE

TO CONTACT EXTRATERRESTRIALS

THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY KNEW EXISTED?

FURTHER EVIDENCE MAY BE FOUND

BY REEXAMINING NASA's MISSIONS TO THE MOON,

OVERNMENT.

AND BEYOND IN EARLY NASA MISSIONS INTO SPACE,

BUT SHOCKING EVIDENCE MAY BE FOUND

IN THE SPACE AGENCY'S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT --

THE MOON LANDINGS.

JULY 20, 1969.

A NEW ERA IN SPACE EXPLORATION

IS LAUNCHED WHEN A MASSIVE SATURN ROCKET LIFTS OFF

FROM NASA's KENNEDY SPACE CENTER.

Barclay: THE APOLLO PROGRAM WAS ALL ABOUT GOING TO THE MOON,

AND THE CULMINATION OF THAT EFFORT WAS APOLLO 11.

THE APOLLO 11 MISSION HAD THREE ASTRONAUTS --

MICHAEL COLLINS, BUZZ ALDRIN,

AND NEIL ARMSTRONG --

AND THE LUNAR MODULE WENT DOWN TO THE SURFACE OF THE MOON,

AND OUT STEPPED TWO ASTRONAUTS,

BUZZ ALDRIN AND NEIL ARMSTRONG,

TO TOUCH THE SURFACE OF ANOTHER WORLD FOR THE FIRST TIME.

Armstrong: THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR [A] MAN,

ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.

Narrator: EVERY MOMENT OF THEIR LUNAR ENCOUNTER

MAKES HISTORY WORLDWIDE.

BUT IT'S WHAT WASN'T MADE PUBLIC,

ACCORDING TO ONE FORMER NASA COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER,

THAT CONTINUES TO ROCK THE UFO COMMUNITY TODAY.

IN 1975, SIX YEARS AFTER THE APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING,

MAURICE CHATELAIN CAME FORWARD

WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM IN HIS BOOK

"OUR COSMIC ANCESTORS."

MAURICE CHATELAIN IS A RETIRED NASA

COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST,

AND HE WENT PUBLIC WITH SENSATIONAL CLAIMS

THAT WHEN ARMSTRONG

AND ALDRIN LANDED ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON,

THERE WERE UFOs THERE WATCHING THEIR EVERY MOVE.

CHATELAIN HAD STATED THAT HE WAS IN A SECRET ROOM

DURING THE APOLLO 11 MOON LANDINGS

AND THAT HE WITNESSED A RECORDING FROM THE SURFACE

OF THE MOON OF THE ASTRONAUTS TALKING ABOUT THE FACT

THAT THEY WEREN'T ALONE.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO CHATELAIN,

AFTER THE ASTRONAUTS HAD STEPPED OUT

ONTO THE MOON FOR THE FIRST TIME,

THEY REPORTED SEEING TWO UFOs HOVERING

OVERHEAD AT ABOUT 15,000 FEET IN ALTITUDE.

Pope: AND THERE'S REFERENCE TO THESE OBJECTS

JUST WATCHING WHAT'S UNFOLDING.

THIS IS A PIVOTAL POINT IN HUMAN HISTORY,

AND IT SEEMS THAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS

WERE THERE TO WATCH.

Narrator: IS IT CONCEIVABLE

THAT NASA AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

DECIDED TO KEEP THIS INCREDIBLE ENCOUNTER A SECRET?

AS MANY CRITICS OF THIS THEORY ARE QUICK TO POINT OUT,

HOW WOULD THAT EVEN BE POSSIBLE WITH TV CAMERAS ROLLING

NONSTOP AND BILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON EARTH

WATCHING THE EVENT ON LIVE TV?

INCREDIBLY, THERE IS A GAP

IN WHAT WAS BROADCAST TO THE PUBLIC.

THERE'S TWO MINUTES OF SILENCE IN THIS TRANSMISSION,

TWO MISSING MINUTES.

AND NASA SAYS THIS WAS JUST AN EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTION

CAUSED BY OVERHEATING CAMERAS.

THE SUSPICION MUST BE THAT SOME SORT OF CLASSIFIED,

SECRET CONVERSATION WAS GOING ON

DURING THESE TWO MINUTES WHICH STILL TO THIS DAY

HAS NOT BEEN MADE PUBLIC.

Narrator: ALL OFFICIAL DETAILS OF WHAT THE GOVERNMENT

MAY HAVE LEARNED ABOUT UFOs

DURING THE TWO MISSING MINUTES ON THE MOON

HAVE REMAINED ULTRA TOP SECRET.

INCREDIBLY, CHATELAIN ALSO CLAIMS IN HIS BOOK

THAT UP UNTIL THE MOON LANDINGS,

ALL APOLLO AND GEMINI MISSIONS

WERE FOLLOWED BY UFOs.

AND EACH TIME, THE ASTRONAUTS WERE ORDERED BY NASA

TO NEVER SPEAK ABOUT THEIR ENCOUNTERS.

THE PROBLEM WITH CHATELAIN'S STORY

IS HE WASN'T ACTUALLY WORKING FOR NASA

DURING THE APOLLO MOON LANDINGS.

WHAT'S THE TRUTH?

IS NASA LYING ABOUT WHEN HE WAS THERE?

IS CHATELAIN LYING?

NOBODY REALLY KNOWS FOR SURE.

BUT AT LEAST THERE WERE A COUPLE PIECES OF EVIDENCE

THAT WERE STARTING TO COME TOGETHER

THAT SHOWS MAYBE THERE WAS MUCH MORE THAN THE PUBLIC STORY.

Narrator: STILL, BUZZ ALDRIN HIMSELF HAS LENT CREDIBILITY

TO THE CLAIMS OF HIS UFO SIGHTINGS.

Pope: ALDRIN, OVER THE YEARS,

HAS CERTAINLY CONFIRMED

THAT HE'S SEEN SOME STRANGE THINGS

THAT HE COULDN'T EXPLAIN.

Greenewald: WHEN BUZZ ALDRIN PUBLISHED HIS BOOK

AND HE TALKED ABOUT A UFO

THAT THEY SAW ON APPROACH TO THE MOON

OUTSIDE OF THEIR CAPSULE WINDOW,

I THINK THAT LENDS A LOT OF CREDIBILITY

THAT MAYBE THERE IS MORE TO THE STORY.

Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE SUGGEST THAT

ARMSTRONG AND ALDRIN REALLY ENCOUNTERED UFOs ON THE MOON,

AND IF SO, DID THEY MAKE CONTACT

WITH AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE,

AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

I DON'T THINK NASA KNEW THAT THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE

ON THE MOON WHEN WE FIRST LANDED.

BUT WHEN WE GOT TO THE MOON,

I THINK WE WERE BEING OBSERVED THE ENTIRE TIME.

Pope: THERE IS, INDEED, A THEORY THAT EXTRA TERRESTRIALS

WOULD ONLY BE INTERESTED IN MAKING CONTACT

WITH US AT THE POINT

AT WHICH WE'VE DEVELOPED VIABLE SPACE TRAVEL,

AND LANDING ON THE MOON MIGHT JUST BE THE TRIGGER POINT.

Narrator: IF NASA IS AWARE OF THE LUNAR UFOs,

WHY ARE THEY KEEPING IT SECRET?

IS IT POSSIBLE THE GOVERNMENT

IS TRYING TO COVERTLY MAKE CONTACT

WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS?

Lukes: WERE THESE ASTRONAUTS SENT THERE

TO INTERCEPT SOMETHING, TO MEET WITH SOMETHING?

DID THEY KNOW THEY WERE ACTUALLY GOING TO SEE THESE OBJECTS,

AND WHY DON'T WE KNOW THIS INFORMATION?

Narrator: FURTHER CLUES MAY BE FOUND IN THE YEARS

AFTER THE MOON LANDINGS

DURING THE HEIGHT OF NASA's SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM.

Man: ...TWO, ONE.

WE HAVE BOOSTER IGNITION AND LIFT OFF.

Narrator: THE SPACE SHUTTLE'S CHIEF MISSION

WAS TO CARRY LARGE PAYLOADS INTO ORBIT,

MAINTAIN SATELLITES,

AND PERFORM SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS.

BUT UFO INVESTIGATORS HAVE RECENTLY

LEARNED THAT ON MARCH 13, 1989,

SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENED

ABOARD THE SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY.

Dolan: SPACE SHUTTLE HAS ALWAYS HAD A CERTAIN NUMBER

OF VERY CLASSIFIED COMPONENTS TO EVERY ONE OF ITS MISSIONS.

YOU KNOW, THERE ARE PUBLIC MISSIONS,

AND THERE ARE CLASSIFIED MISSIONS.

AND WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING UP THERE.

Narrator: JUST OVER 20 HOURS INTO THE MISSION AT 6:42 A.M.

EASTERN STANDARD TIME,

THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WAS SENT BY 47-YEAR-OLD

SHUTTLE COMMANDER COLONEL JOHN BLAHA,

A LONGTIME AIR FORCE PILOT TURNED ASTRONAUT.

Narrator: THE ASTONISHING ADMISSION

OF A UFO IN CLOSE PROXIMITY

TO THE SPACE SHUTTLE WAS RECORDED

BY A MEMBER OF THE GODDARD AMATEUR RADIO CLUB,

WHICH MONITORS ALL NASA SPACE FLIGHTS.

Narrator: AFTER THAT, THE PUBLIC TRANSMISSION ENDS ABRUPTLY.

ACCORDING TO UFO INVESTIGATORS,

THAT'S WHEN NASA SWITCHED FREQUENCIES TO A SECURE MODE.

ARE THEIR SPACE SHUTTLES BEING USED IN ONE WAY

OR ANOTHER TO OBSERVE OR INTERACT

WITH THESE OBJECTS THAT ARE OUT THERE?

I THINK IT'S TOTALLY POSSIBLE.

THERE ARE OBJECTS THAT DO CERTAINLY APPEAR

TO BE MANEUVERING IN EARTH ORBIT,

AND THESE ARE NOT SO SIMPLE TO EXPLAIN.

Lukes: WE HAVE A WITNESS

THE CALIBER OF THE SHUTTLE COMMANDER

MAKING STATEMENTS LIKE THIS,

THEN YOU THROW ON THE FACT

THAT THIS ISN'T AN ISOLATED INCIDENT.

SO, ONE HAS TO SURMISE THAT THERE

IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING UP

THERE INTERACTING WITH THESE ASTRONAUTS.

Greenewald: THERE IS JUST AN EXCEPTIONAL AMOUNT

OF WHAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE COSMOS,

SO, YES, IT COULD BE

SOME KIND OF A CRAFT THAT THEY'RE SEEING,

OR IT COULD BE A NATURAL EXPLANATION,

SOMETHING THAT WE HAVEN'T DISCOVERED YET.

Narrator: STILL, MOST RESEARCHERS CONTEND

THAT DESPITE NASA's BEST EFFORTS,

THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

OF THE INCREASING NUMBER OF UFO

SIGHTINGS IN SPACE.

YOU PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER, YOU HAVE THE EARLY

MERCURY OBSERVATIONS BY GORDON COOPER,

YOU HAVE THE GEMINI 7, YOU HAVE BLAHA'S OBSERVATIONS.

YOU HAVE THIS TON OF EVIDENCE STACKED UP.

Narrator: YET AS NASA VENTURES OUT

ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION,

DOES IT SERVE AS A PLATFORM

FROM WHICH EVEN MORE EVIDENCE

IS OBSERVED AND GATHERED,

AS UFO EXPERTS SUSPECT?

AND IT IS EASILY THE LARGEST STRUCTURE

MANKIND HAS EVER PUT INTO SPACE.

THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION PROJECT BEGAN IN 1998

AND HAS BEEN BUILT UPON SINCE THEN.

Narrator: PERMANENTLY OCCUPIED BY U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL CREWS,

THE SPACE STATION PRIMARILY SERVES

AS A RESEARCH LABORATORY.

Barclay: THE SPACE STATION IS OUR ORBITING PLATFORM.

IT'S A PLACE TO STUDY WHAT SPACE IS LIKE

AND PERFORM SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS IN MICROGRAVITY

WHILE STILL BEING ABLE TO GET TO EARTH RELATIVELY QUICKLY

AND BRING THINGS UP RELATIVELY QUICKLY.

Narrator: BUT IS IT POSSIBLE

THAT ONE OF THE SPACE STATION'S REAL FUNCTIONS

IS TO PROVIDE A PLATFORM

FROM WHICH TO MONITOR THE ACTIVITY OF UFOs?

THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND THE UNITED STATES,

THEY LOOK AT EVERYTHING AS A POTENTIAL

MILITARY ADVANCEMENT, WHATEVER IT IS.

SO IT'S POSSIBLE THAT ONBOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION,

THERE IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MISSION STATEMENT

THAN WHAT WE ARE TOLD.

Pope: THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

IS IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF THE UFO PHENOMENON,

BECAUSE FOR AROUND 20 YEARS,

WE'VE HAD THESE ELITE PERSONNEL,

ASTRONAUTS AND SCIENTISTS OUT THERE IN THE FRONT LINE.

SO WHEN THESE PEOPLE SAY THAT THEY'VE SEEN SOMETHING,

YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK.

Narrator: IN APRIL OF 2004,

A LIVE-STREAMING VIDEO FEED WAS ACTIVATED.

Barclay: THE HIGH-DEFINITION EARTH-VIEWING CAMERAS

ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ALLOW US

TO TAKE PICTURES OF THE EARTH

AND VIDEO AS THE SPACE STATION

ORBITS EVERY 90 MINUTES.

Narrator: BUT ROUTINE VIEWING SOON TURNS EXPLOSIVE

WHEN ON APRIL 19, 2016,

A UFO IN THE SHAPE OF A TRANSLUCENT SQUARE

IS SEEN IN THE SPACE STATION'S VIDEO.

Dolan: IT'S A DEFINITE OBJECT THAT'S OUT THERE.

IT SEEMS UNUSUAL, FOR SURE, IN THE DISTANCE,

AND WHAT'S PARTICULARLY INTERESTING

IS THAT AFTER A VERY SHORT TIME OF RECORDING IT

THAT THE VIDEO JUST GOES BLUE,

AND YOU CAN THINK ONCE AGAIN THIS IS A CASE OF NASA

JUST CUTTING SHORT A TRANSMISSION,

SOMETHING THAT SHOULDN'T BE THERE.

THE ASTRONAUTS HAVE SEEN

AND CONTINUE TO SEE OBJECTS IN SPACE

THAT DO NOT APPEAR TO BE TERRESTRIAL.

THEY DO NOT APPEAR TO BE OUR TECHNOLOGY.

AND THEN THE QUESTION BECOMES WHOSE TECHNOLOGY ARE THEY?

Narrator: AND THE EVIDENCE OF UNEXPLAINED

SIGHTINGS BY NASA ASTRONAUTS CONTINUES TO GROW.

ON JUNE 30, 2015,

THREE SEPARATE UFOs ARE SPOTTED

LEAVING EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE AND FLYING INTO SPACE.

SOME OF THE FOLLOWING VIDEO AND PHOTO EVIDENCE

HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN ON TELEVISION.

IT'S OBVIOUS THAT THEY'RE MOVING

AT THOUSANDS OF MILES PER HOUR.

HAS TO BE. THERE'S NO OTHER WAY.

THESE ARE HIGHLY RAPIDLY MOVING OBJECTS

COMING FROM EARTH,

CONVERGING FROM RADICALLY DIFFERENT POINTS OF ORIGIN.

NASA HAS SAID THAT THESE ARE SATELLITES TRANSITING EARTH.

BUT THESE LOOK LIKE THEY'RE COMING UP FROM THE EARTH

AND COMING UP AT ANGLES

THAT ARE JUST HARD TO EXPLAIN AS SATELLITES.

Lukes: THEY'RE MOVING IN UNISON WITH THE SAME GOAL IN MIND,

AND I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS EXCELLENT PROOF

THAT THERE IS SOMETHING TAKING PLACE IN OUTER SPACE

THAT PROBABLY HAS INTELLIGENCE BEHIND IT.

Narrator: MOMENTS AFTER THE THREE UFOs CAN BE SEEN

HEADING INTO THE SAME SECTOR OF OUTER SPACE,

THE VIDEO FEED IS LOST.

Pope: NASA AND SOME OTHER IMAGERY EXPERTS

HAVE SUGGESTED THAT QUITE A LOT OF THESE FILMS

ACTUALLY SHOW LITTLE MORE

THAN DUST OR ICE PARTICLES,

BUT IT'S VERY DIFFICULT

FOR PEOPLE TO LOOK AT THESE SORTS OF FILMS

AND BE SURE WHETHER THEY'RE LOOKING AT A MASSIVE OBJECT

FAR AWAY OR A VERY,

VERY SMALL OBJECT CLOSE TO THE LENS.

Narrator: SOME RESEARCHERS BELIEVE

THERE ARE A VARIETY OF EXPLANATIONS

FOR SO-CALLED UFO SIGHTINGS.

THE REALITY IS THERE ARE LITERALLY TENS

OF THOUSANDS OF PIECES OF SPACE JUNK,

JUST TRASH THAT'S LITERALLY LITTERED OUR UPPER

ATMOSPHERE THAT'S IN ORBIT,

AND IT INCLUDES PIECES OF DEAD SPACECRAFT,

SATELLITES THAT HAVE GONE OFFLINE.

SO, DID THEY REALLY SEE AN ALIEN CRAFT,

OR DID THEY JUST SEE MAYBE ONE OF THE MILLIONS

OF DIFFERENT SPACE DEBRIS OBJECTS

THAT ARE UP THERE? WE MAY NEVER KNOW.

Narrator: THEN ON JULY 9, 2016, YET ANOTHER UFO

IS SEEN ENTERING EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE,

AND AGAIN, THE VIDEO IS INTERRUPTED.

Pope: IT SEEMS ALMOST EVERY TIME

THERE'S AN INTRIGUING PIECE OF FOOTAGE

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION,

SOMETHING GOES WRONG

AND THE FEED IS MYSTERIOUSLY CUT.

NOW, IS THIS CENSORSHIP?

IS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION BEING DELETED,

WITHHELD FROM THE PUBLIC?

OR IS IT JUST EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTIONS?

WE DON'T KNOW.

Narrator: NASA CLAIMS THE VIDEO SUFFERS

REGULAR OUTAGES AS THE SPACE STATION

PASSES OUT OF RANGE OF RELAY SATELLITES.

BUT IS THIS REALLY THE CASE?

THESE ISSUES HAVE HAPPENED SO MANY TIMES,

YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE CONCLUSION

THAT THEY ARE REALLY DOING THIS

TO KEEP INFORMATION FROM THE PUBLIC.

Narrator: DOES EVIDENCE GATHERED BY THE CAMERAS

OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION,

OR ISS, SUGGEST THAT UFOs REALLY DO INHABIT OUR WORLD?

UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE NASA MAY HAVE A HIDDEN AGENDA.

Lukes: GIVEN THE REPEATED ACCOUNTS

FROM ASTRONAUTS OF SEEING

THESE EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT,

PERHAPS THERE IS A VERY CONCERTED ATTEMPT BY NASA

TO ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION WITH THESE BEINGS.

I DO BELIEVE THE ISS IS DOING LEGIT RESEARCH,

BUT I ALSO BELIEVE THAT THE ISS COULD BE A PLATFORM

FOR COMMUNICATION WITH NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCES.

Bara: THE QUESTION'S ALWAYS BEEN

WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

DOES IT HAVE A SECRET MISSION?

IS IT UP THERE DOING MORE

THAN JUST THE PUBLIC FRONT-VIEW

KIND OF STUFF THAT THEY SHOW US?

IS THERE A POSSIBILITY THAT IT IS SOME

SORT OF EARLY SPACE

INTRUDER DETECTOR KIND OF CRAFT

THAT'S DESIGNED TO LOOK FOR UFOs OR ALIEN SPACECRAFT?

THAT ACTUALLY MAKES MORE SENSE THAN YOU MIGHT THINK

BECAUSE THERE'S A LONG HISTORY OF NASA MISSIONS

HAVING SECRET AGENDAS.

Narrator: AS HUMANS CONTINUE TO PUSH OUT

AND EXPLORE THE DISTANT REACHES OF SPACE,

UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE

THIS WILL ONLY INCREASE THE POSSIBILITY FOR CONTACT --

HAVE PROVIDED SOME OF THE MOST COMPELLING EVIDENCE

OF THE EXISTENCE OF UFOs.

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE

IS TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH US,

OR HAVE THEY ALREADY DONE SO?

AUGUST, 2005.

NASA LAUNCHES THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER.

ONBOARD IS AN ADVANCED CAMERA SYSTEM,

THE HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING SCIENCE EXPERIMENT,

ALSO KNOWN AS HiRISE.

THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER ORBITS AROUND MARS

TAKING IMAGES OF ITS SURFACE.

Narrator: ITS ULTRA-POWERFUL TELESCOPE HAS ALLOWED

THE ORBITER TO PHOTOGRAPH HUNDREDS OF SWATHS

OF THE MARS SURFACE IN UNPRECEDENTED DETAIL.

THE HiRISE INSTRUMENT HAS A RESOLUTION

OF ABOUT ONE FOOT ON THE SURFACE OF MARS,

SO WE GET SOME REALLY GREAT PICTURES OF MARS

FROM THIS ORBITER.

Narrator: THEN, ON JULY 13, 2016,

MAJOR NEWS OUTLETS REPORT THAT THE ASTRONOMERS

USING HiRISE HAVE DISCOVERED FORMATIONS ON MARS

THAT BEAR A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO MORSE CODE.

MORSE CODE WAS DEVELOPED IN THE 19th CENTURY

AS ESSENTIALLY A BINARY CODE.

IT'S A WAY OF QUICKLY ENCODING

A LOT OF TEXTUAL INFORMATION

THROUGH A SERIES OF DOTS AND DASHES.

THE U.S. MILITARY STILL TRAINS

A NUMBER OF PEOPLE EACH YEAR IN MORSE CODE,

AND THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S STILL THE EASIEST

AND MOST RELIABLE TO TRANSMIT INFORMATION OVER DISTANCE.

Barclay: IMAGES COMING FROM THE HiRISE INSTRUMENT

ON THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER SAW DARK DUNES

ON THE SURFACE OF MARS.

SOME OF THEM ELONGATED

AND SOME OF THEM MORE LIKE DOTS.

OUR BEST GUESS FOR WHAT FORMED THESE

IS WINDS COMING FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.

Narrator: DESPITE NASA's ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN THE PHENOMENA,

THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY ADMITS

THE DUNE FORMATIONS ARE VERY COMPLEX,

MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE

EXACTLY WHAT CAUSED THEIR FORMATION.

Dolan: SCIENTISTS DON'T REALLY KNOW

EXACTLY HOW TO EXPLAIN THIS.

WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ON EARTH

THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS.

SO THE QUESTION IS WHAT CAUSES IT?

IS IT NATURAL OR IS IT ARTIFICIAL?

IT'S AS IF SOMEBODY KIND OF DUG UP

AROUND A BUNCH OF LAND

AND CREATED THIS DOT, DASH,

DOT, DASH, DOT, DASH PATTERN.

NOW, THERE'S NO EXPLANATION FOR THIS GEOLOGICALLY.

NASA HAS DESCRIBED IT,

BUT NASA HAS A TENDENCY TO SUGGEST

THAT THE DESCRIPTION OF SOMETHING

IS THE SAME THING AS EXPLAINING SOMETHING.

IT'S NOT EXPLAINABLE.

Narrator: FOR UFO INVESTIGATORS,

THE SATELLITE IMAGES RAISE SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS.

WHAT IF THE STRANGE FORMATIONS ARE THE RESULT OF SOMETHING

OTHER THAN THE NATURAL PROCESS OF WIND

OR GEOLOGIC ACTIVITY ON MARS?

AND WHAT IF THEY WERE CREATED BY AN INTELLIGENT SPECIES

THAT ONCE LIVED ON THE RED PLANET?

Man: NOW, IS THIS MORSE CODE PROOF

OF A PAST INTELLIGENT CIVILIZATION,

OR IS THIS SOMETHING THAT SCIENCE

JUST HAS YET TO EXPLAIN?

WE'RE DEALING WITH AN ALIEN WORLD.

WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE.

Pope: IF THOSE FEATURES ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE

ARE MORSE CODE,

THEN TWO QUESTIONS ARISE.

FIRSTLY, WHO SENT THE MESSAGE,

AND SECOND, WHAT DOES IT SAY?

NOW, EXPERTS IN MORSE CODE

HAVE ACTUALLY LOOKED AT THESE MARTIAN FEATURES

AND THEY'VE BEEN UNABLE TO DECODE IT.

IT DOESN'T SEEM TO CORRESPOND TO ANY LANGUAGE

THAT WE KNOW,

BUT MAYBE IT'S NOT WRITTEN IN OUR LANGUAGE AT ALL.

MAYBE IT'S WRITTEN IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S LANGUAGE,

AND THAT WE CAN ONLY GUESS AT.

Bara: WHEN THE GEOLOGIC EXPLANATIONS DON'T ADD UP,

AND YET YOU CAN'T REALLY SAY

THAT IT IS SOMETHING ARTIFICIAL,

YOU'RE KIND OF STUCK IN THE MIDDLE.

IT'S A GENUINE MYSTERY WHAT THAT STUFF IS,

AND NASA's EXPLANATION CERTAINLY IS NOT ADEQUATE.

WE'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR LIFE ON MARS,

AND WE ABSOLUTELY CAN'T RULE OUT

THAT THERE WAS ONCE LIFE ON MARS.

WE THINK ABOUT 3.5 BILLION YEARS AGO, MARS MAY WELL

HAVE HAD WATER AT THE SAME TIME

THAT LIFE WAS BLOSSOMING ON EARTH.

Narrator: THIS COMPELLING NEW EVIDENCE

OF THE POSSIBILITY OF OCEANS, RIVERS,

AND EVEN LAKES ON MARS ADDS TO AN EMERGING PICTURE

OF THE RED PLANET

AS ONCE BEING A HABITABLE WORLD.

GIVEN WHAT WE KNOW THAT TOOK PLACE

WITH THE WATER BILLIONS OF YEARS AGO ON THE PLANET,

WE HAVE TO TAKE THIS INTO ACCOUNT

THAT THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A CIVILIZATION

THAT'S NOW EXTINCT,

AND THERE STILL MIGHT BE LIFE ON THAT PLANET.

Rosenfeld: I DO BELIEVE THAT MARS WAS INHABITED AT ONE POINT,

AND WHAT WE SEE ON THE SURFACE TODAY

IS REMNANTS OF THAT CIVILIZATION.

Narrator: AS MANKIND'S INTEREST IN SPACE EXPLORATION

HAS GONE WELL BEYOND MARS,

TODAY NASA HAS NUMEROUS SATELLITES,

SPACE-BASED TELESCOPES,

AND EVEN SPACE PROBES LOOKING AT

AND LISTENING TO THE FAR CORNERS OF THE COSMOS.

Pope: CURIOSITY SEEMS TO BE

INEXTRICABLY LINKED WITH INTELLIGENCE.

WE LOOK OUT INTO THE UNIVERSE AND WE ASK,

"WHAT'S OUT THERE?"

AND I THINK IT'S POSSIBLE THAT OTHERS OUT THERE

ARE LOOKING BACK AT US.

Narrator: THE UFO COMMUNITY BELIEVES

THAT WE NEED TO LOOK NO FURTHER

THAN OUR OWN SKIES

AND PLANETARY BACKYARD FOR EVIDENCE.

PILOT AND ASTRONAUT SIGHTINGS,

INTERRUPTED NASA TRANSMISSIONS,

ALL RAISING THE SPECTER OF CONSPIRACY AND COVER UP.

FOR UFO RESEARCHERS,

THE MOUNTAIN OF UNEXPLAINED EVIDENCE,

COMBINED WITH THE GOVERNMENT

INADEQUATELY PROVIDING EXPLANATIONS,

ALL POINT TO CONFIRMATION THAT UFOs ARE,

IN FACT, REAL.

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