Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 13, Episode 6 - Area 52 - full transcript
Could Area 51's notoriety act as a cover up to much bigger, top-secret extraterrestrial experiments taking place at multiple locations?
It is America's most
infamous military installation.
For decades,
witnesses in that area
are seeing unusual craft
hovering over the base.
The place
where top secret experiments,
involving alien technology,
are rumored to be taking place.
There is extraterrestrial
technology at Area 51.
But is Area 51 still viable,
now that the top secret is out?
This underground
expansion has stretched
all the way through Nevada
into Utah.
Or do other,
even more covert places exist,
where mankind's
extraterrestrial future
is being prepared?
Where are Areas 52, 53, and 54?
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Langley, Virginia.
August 15, 2013.
After decades of secrecy,
denials and cover-ups,
the CIA declassifies documents
which acknowledge the existence
of a top secret military
research facility
known as Area 51.
This was an historic
announcement.
Finally, these years of rumors
that the UFO community and the
conspiracy theory community
had been claiming to be true
had been validated.
The federal government
was forced to acknowledge
the existence
of the Area 51 base
because of a Freedom
of Information Act request.
It took them over a decade
to actually respond,
but in the end,
they eventually had to admit
what everybody already knew,
which was that
Area 51 did exist.
Since 1955,
this top secret base,
located in the remote desert
of southern Nevada,
has been considered
the epicenter
of the military's
most classified projects,
from the U-2 spy plane
to the F-117 stealth fighter.
But many believe
that in the darkest corners
of Area 51
lurks an even bigger secret...
One that hides
the ultimate evidence
of extraterrestrial contact.
While the admission that
Area 51 existed was important,
it didn't go far enough
for many people
who were hoping that the
government was going to confirm
all the rumors
about crashed UFOs
and recovered
alien technology were true.
But the government
said nothing about that.
They only gave us
the exact minimal amount
of information
that was requested.
They did not give us
any more information.
And they certainly appear
to still be covering up
what exactly goes on at Area 51.
Over the years,
there have been a number
of claims by people
who have been
associated with Area 51
who have spoken to journalists
or whistle-blowers
in which they have stated,
quite explicitly,
that there is extraterrestrial
technology at Area 51.
The theory was that they
had hired propulsion experts,
engineers, physicists,
to reverse engineer
alien propulsion technology,
which was so far
in advance of ours,
and they were doing that
at Area 51.
We also have rumors
that there are alien spacecraft
on the base that have actually
been tested and flown
out of Area 51.
Is it possible
that scientists at Area 51
have been able
to not merely study,
but successfully
reverse engineer
an extraterrestrial craft?
For 30 years, people have gone
to the perimeter
with binoculars, telescopes.
They've seen bright objects
moving in angular motions,
or zigzag motions,
and in ways that seem to be
well beyond anything
that we have ever seen,
and propulsion technology
that's not readily identifiable.
But if Area 51
is the place where
the U.S. government
is conducting its most top
secret military research,
and possibly hiding
decades of evidence
concerning alien contact,
just how secret is it now?
If everyone knows that it exists
and what kind of work
is done there,
could Area 51
have outlived its purpose
as a strategic military asset?
In search of the answers,
ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos has traveled
to Henderson, Nevada.
- Hello. Great to meet you.
- Hello.
He has arranged
to meet with TD Barnes,
a former electrical engineer
who worked on classified
military projects
at Area 51 for more
than four decades.
- Only in 2009.
- Yeah, 2009.
And when did you start
your work there?
So almost 50 years
you kept it a secret
from your wife.
And what did you work on?
Okay.
Let's hypothetically say
that a UFO crashes
and you get ahold of it.
Would we be able to reverse
engineer that technology?
Wow.
I mean, for all
intents and purposes,
that was a secret space program.
Do you think that this
secret space program
stills exists today?
Okay. Now, while you
were working there,
did you ever see anything weird
up in the sky?
Wow.
In your estimation, when you
read these stories about
some companies trying
to develop a warp drive,
or even an antimatter
propulsion system,
is this something
actually achievable?
Ah, that's tremendous.
But if, as TD Barnes suggests,
the military has successfully
reverse engineered anti-gravity
and flying saucer technologies
at Area 51,
what are they working on now?
And if its purpose
is still to operate
as the government's
most highly classified,
top secret laboratory,
why would they admit
to the existence of Area 51?
Especially after decades
of silence?
One possibility about
the public announcement
that Area 51 exists,
is that the real action
has moved elsewhere.
In other words, the CIA,
the government,
only felt able to come clean
about this because
the real secrets
have been moved somewhere else.
So in a real sense, perhaps,
the question isn't so much
what's going on at Area 51,
but what's going on
at Area 52, 53, and 54?
Area 52? 53?
And 54?
Might there really be other,
even more secret locations,
where the government
is continuing to study
and replicate
extraterrestrial technology?
Having one big place
where everybody
is doing the research
is not a good idea
because it would be hard to hide
from the general public.
So the idea that there
might be any single, individual
Area 51 where they're reverse
engineering alien spacecraft,
now, that seems a little bit
an outdated concept.
If I were going to do it,
I would spread the technology
pieces out across the country.
Is it possible that
the reason government officials
revealed the existence
of Area 51
is because they want
to use it as a decoy?
One that takes the focus away
from their other,
perhaps even bigger, operations
at numerous sites
all across the United States?
So the fact that
they would finally admit
that Area 51 exists is actually,
to my mind, a smoke screen.
What's really going on
is that you've got
all these massive
underground facilities.
You can take all
the really good stuff
you don't want anybody
to see and simply
move it somewhere else
in the blink of an eye.
While the public
remains focused on what is
or isn't happening at Area 51,
could the government
be hiding its research
into extraterrestrial technology
at other strategic sites
all across the country?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by investigating reports
of an extensive
tunneling operation
currently underway
in the Nevada desert.
Witnesses
are looking out, and even.
March 17, 2018.
Just outside the perimeter
of Area 51,
Giorgio Tsoukalos
meets with researcher
Wolf McCarron
and mining expert
Christian Gronau.
They are here
to investigate rumors
of an alleged tunnel network
that lies beneath Area 51.
- This is amazing.
- Isn't it?
Wolf and Christian believe
this location...
the Tempiute Mine...
is one of several old Nevada
mines that have been used
to expand operations at Area 51,
deep underground.
I'm a miner, about 100 miles
north of Area 51 here,
and I've been mining there
since 1992.
I also own a mine in Goldfield.
So I'm just an avid miner,
you know... I search these out.
So what can you tell us
about Area 51?
Well, Area 51, what you see,
like, on Google Imagery, that
was the '50s, '60s and '70s.
Since then, they've gone down.
Everything they do
is underground.
And what evidence
have you come across as a miner
that would corroborate
your idea?
People are questioning, well,
if they're going down,
where is all the dirt going?
Well, it's going
to these nearby mines,
and they're putting it
in huge mountains,
and they're heap leaching it.
And by the time they're done
heap leaching a huge mountain,
it goes down to nothing.
Now, to the uninitiated,
what does heap leaching mean?
It is... they pile the ore up
into a large mountain,
hundreds of feet high,
and they run hoses all the way
through it, like every two feet,
and they leach in mercury
and cyanide.
And what that does,
it'll take boulders this large
and actually just bring them
down to nothing.
Really?
Yeah.
Is the government
using heap leaching
inside the Tempiute Mine
in order to hide
the massive amounts of dirt
being removed
in the course of their
digging operations?
But if so, how is the government
able to conduct
such an enormous operation
without arousing the suspicion
of the local miners?
These mines around here
have gold, silver, lead.
So any mine would be more than
happy to accept the ore.
And it's kinda like
hush-up money.
I've witnessed this hush up
and dealt with this a lot.
Hush up of what?
Hush up of the base
and the tunnels of Area 51.
Okay.
It's sort of self-explanatory
that the reason
why people would go underground
is if there are experiments
going on that there's
no interference,
or less interference.
Exactly. Yeah.
Has the U.S. military
been expanding its operations
at Area 51 not outward,
but downward,
in order to keep
its top secret work
even more secret than before?
It is my own belief,
based on a lot of good research,
that there is most likely
a large...
I would even say vast... web
of interconnected,
underground bases and tunnels
that exist.
They originally started doing
it, by the way,
just to protect against
an atomic strike
that could've happened
from the Soviet Union.
And you need secure
underground facilities.
Well, they took that
and just ran with it.
There are those that believe
that the underground operations
being conducted at Area 51
are only the tip
of an enormous iceberg.
Is it just one of many secret
government facilities,
each connected to each other
by a vast network
of underground
high-speed trains?
An underground train system
is said to be centered
around Cheyenne Mountain
in Colorado Springs.
This is a mountain
that has been hollowed out
by the U.S. military.
It's the NORAD
central command.
And they go from Cheyenne
Mountain, in Colorado Springs,
to Dulce, New Mexico,
which is said to have
an extraterrestrial
underground base.
Then it goes to Los Alamos,
in New Mexico,
then to Albuquerque,
and to Roswell,
and to Area 51, in Nevada.
All of these military bases
are essentially connected
by a secret underground
subway system.
The folks who are
looking at Area 51,
they're not looking at Dulce.
Dulce, New Mexico, is on
Jicarilla Apache Reservation.
It's actually a separate entity.
It's part of the Apache Nation.
In other words,
you can't just go there.
There is a peak just
north of the town of Dulce
called Archuleta Peak.
And residents of Dulce claim
to have seen UFOs
coming in and out
of that mountain.
The U.S. government is saying
that there's nothing there...
they have no military
base there,
there's not some underground
train network.
And yet,
people who live there say
there is something
going on here.
So, just like Area 51,
where the government was saying,
hey, there's
nothing going on here,
but researchers for decades knew
and investigated things
that were going on there.
And so perhaps at Dulce,
one day, they will admit...
yes, something was
going on there.
Is there really a vast network
of top secret government
laboratories,
each conducting experiments
using extraterrestrial
technology?
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is a profound yes.
And they offer,
as additional proof,
not one located at a facility
in the American southwest
but one much farther
to the east.
A military base they claim
has been working directly
with extraterrestrials
for decades
and operating very close
to the location
where mankind made its first
successful effort
to reach the sky.
We actually have an eyewitness
NARRATOR: Dayton, Ohio.
Here, on the very same plains
where Wilbur and Orville Wright
lifted mankind
into the era of flight,
sits Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base,
one of the largest
and highest-funded bases
in the nation's military.
It is up there as one
of the single most important
military, technology,
back-engineering study
in biological entities
of any place we have.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
Wright-Patterson...
or Wright-Patt,
as it is more commonly called...
has been a hub of
extraterrestrial investigation
and experimentation for decades.
Some even consider it
of greater strategic importance
than Area 51.
So, the rumors and stories
of aliens at Wright-Patt
have been very widespread
for a very long period of time.
And there have also been claims
that unknown aerial vehicles
or UFOs are being stored
deep underground.
On June 14, 1947,
an unidentified object
reportedly crashed on a farm
outside the town
of Roswell, New Mexico.
According to eyewitnesses,
the object resembled
some sort of flying disc,
and the bodies recovered
from the wreckage
looked like nothing
from this planet.
Within days,
the so-called Roswell incident
captured the imaginations
of millions of people
around the world.
But just as the event
jump-started America's interest
in UFOs,
it also ushered in the era
of the government cover-up.
The Roswell Base
issued a press release,
and then several hours later,
it's all denied.
"Sorry, people,
just a weather balloon.
"Our top intelligence officers
didn't know what
they were looking at."
And we actually have evidence
of an FBI memo
that made such a statement,
that what was recovered
was being brought
to Wright Field for analysis.
Well, you're not going to bring
balloon parts
to Wright Field for analysis.
That's not going to happen.
You've got
to remember that in 1947
when the Roswell crash happened,
there was no Area 51 in Nevada.
And in fact, the important
Air Force headquarters
to study these crashed artifacts
and possibly alien bodies
was Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Now, the reason
that this wreckage
would have been sent to
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
is because at that time,
it was the center
of the Air Force's
Foreign Technology Division,
meaning the division
that actually studied
foreign aircraft,
foreign technologies
of all kinds,
and certainly alien tech,
wrecked alien spacecrafts
and report
of alien spacecraft sightings
would be sent there
to be studied
by the Foreign
Technology Division.
Is it possible
that Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base
is still housing the remains
of the object
recovered from the New Mexico
desert more than 70 years ago?
And if so,
could there be evidence
that their efforts to recreate
the so-called flying disc
have been successful?
Even now, in the last few years,
there have been important
UFO sightings around Dayton.
And witnesses in that area
are looking out over
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
and, even in broad daylight,
seeing unusual craft
hovering over the base.
This is a very distinct
possibility
that's supported by the fact
that no jets are released
when these UFOs appear.
It's almost as if they know
what they are.
Maybe it's because
it's one of our own
reverse engineered craft.
But even if the UFOs
recently sighted in the skies
above Wright-Patterson
are man-made,
couldn't that be
considered proof
that the UFO
that crash-landed near Roswell
was, in fact,
reverse engineered?
Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and to support their claim,
they point to two other
top secret UFO investigations
that took place
at Wright-Patterson:
Project Sign
and Project Blue Book.
Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base was the center,
the hub, for Project Sign
and Project Blue Book.
Now, both of these projects
were involved
with one essential task,
which was the study and
categorization of reports
of unidentified flying objects.
Project Sign was set up
after the flying saucer
wave of sightings
across the United States
in 1947,
and shortly after
the Roswell crash.
Sign researched
and investigated the phenomenon,
taking reports,
not just from the public,
but from the military, from
pilots who were seeing things,
from radar operators
who were tracking these objects.
This was the U.S. government's
formal UFO program.
The Air Force had
22 years of UFO investigation
that was housed in
the Foreign Technology Division,
and Blue Book
is the most famous and ran
for the longest period of time.
They go out and they look
for foreign technology,
including crashed wreckage.
And then, they have access
to all of the technical
expertise on the base.
In 1969,
after compiling and studying
more than 12,000 UFO sightings,
Project Blue Book
was terminated.
Most of the sightings
were categorized
as high-altitude spy planes
or natural aerial phenomena,
although approximately 700
unidentified cases still remain.
But while the U.S. Air Force
insists to this day
that credible evidence
of extraterrestrial visitation
never existed,
many former employees of
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
such as Ray Szymanski,
have come forward
with a very different story.
I started working at Wright-
Patterson in January of 1973,
and I had 38 years and nine
months of service
when I retired.
I spent nearly my entire career
at Air Force Research Labs,
and I did advanced research
and development.
On the first day of working
there, I had a mentor.
His name was Corvette Al.
He was the equivalent
of a flag officer,
a general or an admiral,
and he said,
"Let's go through the hangar,"
and as we stepped
into that hangar,
he turned to me and said,
"Have you heard
about our aliens?"
I said, "What?"
He said, "Yeah, we have
aliens here on the base."
I said, "Really?"
And then, he said, "Well, yeah,
there was a crash out west",
and they brought the aliens
and their machine."
He used the word "machine."
Brought here to Wright-Patterson
for evaluation
and possible exploitation.
Hangar 18 was this mysterious
hangar at Wright Field where
we actually have an eyewitness
who was taken to Hangar 18,
Lieutenant Colonel
Marion Magruder.
He was a fighter pilot in
the United States Marine Corps
who saw the alien technology,
but worse,
he saw the live alien.
It looked human,
its head was larger
than humans',
its arms were much longer,
and it moved like this
in a wavy motion.
The humanoid communicated
with Magruder telepathically,
and the Army and the Air Force,
as well as the higher branches
of the Pentagon,
were absolutely fascinated
by the fact that here
were creatures who could
communicate without using words.
Thus began a series of
experiments into psychokinesis,
psychic projection,
thought projection.
If the Magruder
account is true,
and the U.S. military
was once using live aliens
for scientific study,
where did those experiments
take place?
Was it at Wright-Patterson?
Area 51?
Or were they conducted
at yet another facility?
And, if so, where?
And are they still
taking place today?
Here, at the eastern tip
of the island,
is all that remains of
the Montauk Air Force Station.
Originally established
as a naval base in 1917
due to its strategic
defensive location,
the Montauk installation
protected the East Coast
from submarines and bombers
for several decades, before
it was decommissioned in 1981.
But according to statements
from multiple whistle-blowers,
a secret laboratory hidden
deep beneath the base
may still be operating.
I think it's the perfect cover.
You have kind of a lax
topside operation,
an Air Force Station that really
nothing is going on at,
but underneath the ground, you
have this extremely elaborate
experiment going on, many levels
of an underground base.
Each of these men
that told the tale,
they don't say they entered
the base through,
you know, a topside location.
They would all enter Brookhaven
National Laboratories
and travel on a train underneath
the ground to Montauk.
So people that are working
above ground don't even know
what's going on
underneath the ground.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
Montauk, like Area 51
and Wright-Patterson,
remains notorious
as one of the places
the U.S. military would carry
out numerous experiments,
often with the aid
of otherworldly technology.
There are some who believe
these experiments
even involved human subjects
as part of a highly
controversial research program
known as the Montauk Project.
Some of the stories
about what was going on
in the Montauk Project actually
tie in with something
that we absolutely know
to be real,
because we have declassified
documents on it,
and that's MKUltra.
Now, MKUltra was a program run
by the CIA and the U.S. Army,
and it literally tried
to harness
the technique of mind control.
But there are rumors
that there were other,
more exotic techniques that
people were using at Montauk:
remote influencing,
for example, which is the idea
that you can effectively use
the power of your mind
to influence
somebody else's behavior.
Clearly, there would be
huge military value
in such techniques,
and that, of course,
is exactly why
they were doing them.
This was stuff
that was so beyond
the normal thought processes
of the military mind.
It wasn't making better guns,
better ammo,
more efficient airplanes.
This was way beyond that.
This was a program that used all
sorts of different techniques
to try to control human thought.
Mind control?
Remote thought manipulation?
If the U.S. military
really did believe
that such incredible power
was achievable,
did it get the idea
from extraterrestrials?
Perhaps even from the technology
reportedly recovered
after the crash at Roswell?
The big question about Montauk
has always been, were they
operating with the technologies
that they had because they were
given to our government
by non-humans, legitimately,
as some kind of collaboration
or trade,
for us to experiment with?
One thing that's at Montauk
is the so-called Montauk Chair.
It had some kind of wires,
or there's some kind of
extraterrestrial technology
associated with this chair
and that, combined
with the individual's
innate psychic capabilities,
would allow you to engage
in transforming reality
in one way or another.
The subject would
sit in the chair,
and this chair was meant
to manifest thought
into physical reality.
And included in that are
telekinesis, remote viewing.
One of the experiments that they
used at first was to manifest,
let's say, a glass or a ball,
something simple,
an inanimate object.
Whatever the subject
was thinking
would manifest
into physical reality.
Eventually, this evolved into
heightened psychic abilities.
They claimed they could teleport
from one place to another.
According to many researchers
and ancient astronaut theorists,
accounts of the so-called
"Montauk Chair"
and its connection
to mind control
are strangely similar
to accounts of a chair
that dates back to the days
of the pharaohs:
the throne of Ptah.
Ptah was one of the most
intriguing gods
of Ancient Egypt.
He was the god
before all the other gods.
He created Earth.
He created humanity.
Unlike the other gods,
Ptah would create the world
with his thought.
He would think it, feel it
and hence, it was created.
Ptah is portrayed
sitting on a throne.
And this throne is thought to be
the center point from which
his thought is able
to manifest creation.
What's fascinating
about these scenes
is that this throne
is feathered.
It's feathered because it flies.
It's known
as his ascension throne.
When we compare the descriptions
of the Montauk Chair
with the ascension throne
of Ptah,
Was the U.S. military involved
in reverse engineering
an extraterrestrial technology
that was used thousands
of years ago in Ancient Egypt?
Could the legends
about an Egyptian god
and his flying throne
and the report
of a thought-control chair
at the Montauk military base
really be connected?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and suggest
that not only has
the U.S. government been working
to acquire and perfect
alien technology for decades,
but that the operations
at Montauk are still going on.
Several people have claimed
that they were part
of these Montauk experiments.
They do recall sitting
in a special chair.
And people say that today
there is still activity
in the underground sections
of the Montauk base.
Is the seemingly
abandoned military base
on Eastern Long Island still,
secretly, in operation?
And if so, is Montauk part
of a vast network
of government laboratories
and factories
where extraterrestrial
technology is being harvested?
Ancient astronaut
theorists insist
such an incredible notion
is true,
and they point to yet another
highly guarded installation
as proof that alien technology
is not only being tested,
but that it's
already being used.
Washington, D.C.
December 16, 2017.
After a decade of speculation
within the UFO community,
officials at the Pentagon
confirm the existence
of a highly secretive
UFO research project
known as the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program,
or AATIP.
The project was funded
by Congress in 2007
with the help
of Senator Harry Reid of Nevada.
What's different about
the AATIP program is the fact
that it involved a private
company, Bigelow Aerospace.
This has never been done before.
The government previously
has always kept
all of its UFO
extraterrestrial information,
all of its reports,
completely separately.
So that makes it very,
very unique and very different
from Projects Sign
and Blue Book.
The Pentagon ran
this program officially
from 2007 to 2012,
although there's a lot of reason
to believe that the program
not only has continued,
but that multiple programs
of this sort have continued.
But why would
the U.S. government
allow such sensitive research
to take place
outside of its
secure military facilities?
According
to ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is all too obvious.
Over the years,
the government realized,
if you can take projects
that were developing
and move them
from inside the Pentagon itself,
and move them into industry,
guess what you get to avoid?
Freedom of information.
Inside the government,
the military,
Department of Defense,
the scientists
and engineers there
are possibly susceptible to
the Freedom of Information Act.
People can fill out a
Freedom of Information Act form
and request information
on any government program.
Well, private companies
are not susceptible.
They don't have to adhere to
the Freedom of Information Act.
So the big aerospace
defense companies, for example,
can do their own research
in their own private facilities,
and they never have
to tell you anything about that
if they don't want to.
And when you look
at the exemptions
to the Freedom
of Information Act,
exemption number four
covers trade secrets,
information which belongs
to the private sector.
So when the government put out
some of their UFO programs
to Bigelow Aerospace,
what they were doing, cleverly,
was making scrutiny
much more difficult.
And we know from Luis Elizondo,
the program manager
of the AATIP program,
that they received a number
of shocking UFO cases
that came their way
in connection
with the U.S. military.
The word he used was "beyond
next generation technology."
According to sources
within the AATIP program,
the government
secretly collects materials...
often referred to
as "metamaterials"...
from extraterrestrial
crash sites
and then turns them over
to be reverse engineered
by approved contractors,
like those at Bigelow Aerospace.
Metamaterials are
materials that
have been combined in such a way
that the isotopic ratios
of the materials
are not found on Planet Earth.
I worked with, uh,
some of these artifacts.
I put them through
various tests.
There was nothing unusual
about the materials
they were made of, but they
were layered in such a way
that it took some doing
to make them
in their configuration.
And also, the interesting piece
of it was when you put them
under extremely high
electric fields,
they tend to show properties
of propulsion,
meaning they would move
in directions,
sometimes toward the field,
sometimes away from the field,
that wasn't typical
of standard electrostatic things
that I had seen before.
What metamaterials will do
is they will alter
electromagnetic frequencies,
or the visual spectrum.
They can bend light if they're
engineered in such a way.
They can change
acoustic properties.
And the imagination
is the limit.
So they can really do
almost anything.
Is the government's
increasing use
of outside agencies
and contractors
designed to throw
UFO investigators
and ancient astronaut
theorists off?
And if so, does that mean
that infamous top secret sites,
like Area 51 and its
alleged underground network
of covert laboratories
and military installations,
will soon be obsolete?
Ancient astronaut
theorists say no,
and they insist that,
if anything,
there are now
more government sites
engaged in extraterrestrial
research than ever,
and that this research
is no longer being confined
to areas
within the United States,
or even on Planet Earth.
The U.S. Air Force
announces that SpaceX,
an aerospace company run
by billionaire CEO Elon Musk,
is now eligible to participate
in the launch
of military satellites.
The announcement
leads many to speculate
whether SpaceX may be contracted
in the future for additional,
and perhaps even more covert,
military space projects.
In 2015, SpaceX...
which is a private corporation,
of course...
Was actually certified
by the U.S. government
for national security launches
into space.
And what that means is,
you've now got
another private corporation
which is authorized
to actually put
secret payloads into orbit.
What that means is
that their entire operation
now kind of flows under the dark
umbrella of national security.
It's possible
that the private ventures,
like SpaceX,
like Bigelow Aerospace
and the various others,
will come up with a way
to make it economically viable
to colonize Mars.
For decades...
ever since the first
Earth satellites
and rovers
began sending back data
about the so-called
"Red Planet"...
Mars has been the focus
of intense scrutiny
by ancient astronaut theorists.
They cite images
of structures...
carvings
and other strange anomalies
as evidence that Mars was...
and might still be...
a hub of extraterrestrial
activity.
Is it possible
that the U.S. government,
along with other nations,
has proof that such
an audacious notion is true?
And could this be the reason
why the human-based Mars
missions are being conducted
not by publicly funded
governments,
but by a number
of privately funded corporations
with their own
seemingly disparate agendas?
I am extremely familiar
with this technique,
and it's one of the ways
that you protect
classified information
and big secrets.
You can have
a highly classified project,
but effectively,
it's broken into small parts.
Everyone's working
on a piece of it.
No one necessarily knows what
the person next door to them
is doing, and very few people
have the big picture.
It's a world that
I've operated in myself
in my 21 years
at the Ministry of Defense.
It's even possible
that somebody could be working
on extraterrestrial technology
and not know it.
We are on the cusp
of a brand-new reality
of super-advanced technology,
that will see us colonizing
the Moon, Mars,
traveling into deep space.
This is a chapter
that's opening in human affairs
that began as long ago as 1947
with the Roswell crash,
after which the U.S. military
began preparing us
for a life in which we will be
living with extraterrestrials,
both on Earth and in space.
Are the U.S.
government's efforts to examine
and utilize extraterrestrials
and their technology
really on the threshold
of a bold new era?
One where places like Area 51,
Wright-Patterson, Montauk,
and even Mars
will all become part
of a larger
and more powerful network?
One that will facilitate
mankind's anticipated journey
to the stars?
Ancient astronaut
theorists believe
there are forces
in the government
that insist we are not yet ready
to have the answers,
and that the truth
must remain hidden away,
behind electric fences
and security cameras,
at places
both known and unknown,
and equally protected
by the notion
that what we can see
with our own eyes
could not possibly be true.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
infamous military installation.
For decades,
witnesses in that area
are seeing unusual craft
hovering over the base.
The place
where top secret experiments,
involving alien technology,
are rumored to be taking place.
There is extraterrestrial
technology at Area 51.
But is Area 51 still viable,
now that the top secret is out?
This underground
expansion has stretched
all the way through Nevada
into Utah.
Or do other,
even more covert places exist,
where mankind's
extraterrestrial future
is being prepared?
Where are Areas 52, 53, and 54?
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.
Langley, Virginia.
August 15, 2013.
After decades of secrecy,
denials and cover-ups,
the CIA declassifies documents
which acknowledge the existence
of a top secret military
research facility
known as Area 51.
This was an historic
announcement.
Finally, these years of rumors
that the UFO community and the
conspiracy theory community
had been claiming to be true
had been validated.
The federal government
was forced to acknowledge
the existence
of the Area 51 base
because of a Freedom
of Information Act request.
It took them over a decade
to actually respond,
but in the end,
they eventually had to admit
what everybody already knew,
which was that
Area 51 did exist.
Since 1955,
this top secret base,
located in the remote desert
of southern Nevada,
has been considered
the epicenter
of the military's
most classified projects,
from the U-2 spy plane
to the F-117 stealth fighter.
But many believe
that in the darkest corners
of Area 51
lurks an even bigger secret...
One that hides
the ultimate evidence
of extraterrestrial contact.
While the admission that
Area 51 existed was important,
it didn't go far enough
for many people
who were hoping that the
government was going to confirm
all the rumors
about crashed UFOs
and recovered
alien technology were true.
But the government
said nothing about that.
They only gave us
the exact minimal amount
of information
that was requested.
They did not give us
any more information.
And they certainly appear
to still be covering up
what exactly goes on at Area 51.
Over the years,
there have been a number
of claims by people
who have been
associated with Area 51
who have spoken to journalists
or whistle-blowers
in which they have stated,
quite explicitly,
that there is extraterrestrial
technology at Area 51.
The theory was that they
had hired propulsion experts,
engineers, physicists,
to reverse engineer
alien propulsion technology,
which was so far
in advance of ours,
and they were doing that
at Area 51.
We also have rumors
that there are alien spacecraft
on the base that have actually
been tested and flown
out of Area 51.
Is it possible
that scientists at Area 51
have been able
to not merely study,
but successfully
reverse engineer
an extraterrestrial craft?
For 30 years, people have gone
to the perimeter
with binoculars, telescopes.
They've seen bright objects
moving in angular motions,
or zigzag motions,
and in ways that seem to be
well beyond anything
that we have ever seen,
and propulsion technology
that's not readily identifiable.
But if Area 51
is the place where
the U.S. government
is conducting its most top
secret military research,
and possibly hiding
decades of evidence
concerning alien contact,
just how secret is it now?
If everyone knows that it exists
and what kind of work
is done there,
could Area 51
have outlived its purpose
as a strategic military asset?
In search of the answers,
ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos has traveled
to Henderson, Nevada.
- Hello. Great to meet you.
- Hello.
He has arranged
to meet with TD Barnes,
a former electrical engineer
who worked on classified
military projects
at Area 51 for more
than four decades.
- Only in 2009.
- Yeah, 2009.
And when did you start
your work there?
So almost 50 years
you kept it a secret
from your wife.
And what did you work on?
Okay.
Let's hypothetically say
that a UFO crashes
and you get ahold of it.
Would we be able to reverse
engineer that technology?
Wow.
I mean, for all
intents and purposes,
that was a secret space program.
Do you think that this
secret space program
stills exists today?
Okay. Now, while you
were working there,
did you ever see anything weird
up in the sky?
Wow.
In your estimation, when you
read these stories about
some companies trying
to develop a warp drive,
or even an antimatter
propulsion system,
is this something
actually achievable?
Ah, that's tremendous.
But if, as TD Barnes suggests,
the military has successfully
reverse engineered anti-gravity
and flying saucer technologies
at Area 51,
what are they working on now?
And if its purpose
is still to operate
as the government's
most highly classified,
top secret laboratory,
why would they admit
to the existence of Area 51?
Especially after decades
of silence?
One possibility about
the public announcement
that Area 51 exists,
is that the real action
has moved elsewhere.
In other words, the CIA,
the government,
only felt able to come clean
about this because
the real secrets
have been moved somewhere else.
So in a real sense, perhaps,
the question isn't so much
what's going on at Area 51,
but what's going on
at Area 52, 53, and 54?
Area 52? 53?
And 54?
Might there really be other,
even more secret locations,
where the government
is continuing to study
and replicate
extraterrestrial technology?
Having one big place
where everybody
is doing the research
is not a good idea
because it would be hard to hide
from the general public.
So the idea that there
might be any single, individual
Area 51 where they're reverse
engineering alien spacecraft,
now, that seems a little bit
an outdated concept.
If I were going to do it,
I would spread the technology
pieces out across the country.
Is it possible that
the reason government officials
revealed the existence
of Area 51
is because they want
to use it as a decoy?
One that takes the focus away
from their other,
perhaps even bigger, operations
at numerous sites
all across the United States?
So the fact that
they would finally admit
that Area 51 exists is actually,
to my mind, a smoke screen.
What's really going on
is that you've got
all these massive
underground facilities.
You can take all
the really good stuff
you don't want anybody
to see and simply
move it somewhere else
in the blink of an eye.
While the public
remains focused on what is
or isn't happening at Area 51,
could the government
be hiding its research
into extraterrestrial technology
at other strategic sites
all across the country?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by investigating reports
of an extensive
tunneling operation
currently underway
in the Nevada desert.
Witnesses
are looking out, and even.
March 17, 2018.
Just outside the perimeter
of Area 51,
Giorgio Tsoukalos
meets with researcher
Wolf McCarron
and mining expert
Christian Gronau.
They are here
to investigate rumors
of an alleged tunnel network
that lies beneath Area 51.
- This is amazing.
- Isn't it?
Wolf and Christian believe
this location...
the Tempiute Mine...
is one of several old Nevada
mines that have been used
to expand operations at Area 51,
deep underground.
I'm a miner, about 100 miles
north of Area 51 here,
and I've been mining there
since 1992.
I also own a mine in Goldfield.
So I'm just an avid miner,
you know... I search these out.
So what can you tell us
about Area 51?
Well, Area 51, what you see,
like, on Google Imagery, that
was the '50s, '60s and '70s.
Since then, they've gone down.
Everything they do
is underground.
And what evidence
have you come across as a miner
that would corroborate
your idea?
People are questioning, well,
if they're going down,
where is all the dirt going?
Well, it's going
to these nearby mines,
and they're putting it
in huge mountains,
and they're heap leaching it.
And by the time they're done
heap leaching a huge mountain,
it goes down to nothing.
Now, to the uninitiated,
what does heap leaching mean?
It is... they pile the ore up
into a large mountain,
hundreds of feet high,
and they run hoses all the way
through it, like every two feet,
and they leach in mercury
and cyanide.
And what that does,
it'll take boulders this large
and actually just bring them
down to nothing.
Really?
Yeah.
Is the government
using heap leaching
inside the Tempiute Mine
in order to hide
the massive amounts of dirt
being removed
in the course of their
digging operations?
But if so, how is the government
able to conduct
such an enormous operation
without arousing the suspicion
of the local miners?
These mines around here
have gold, silver, lead.
So any mine would be more than
happy to accept the ore.
And it's kinda like
hush-up money.
I've witnessed this hush up
and dealt with this a lot.
Hush up of what?
Hush up of the base
and the tunnels of Area 51.
Okay.
It's sort of self-explanatory
that the reason
why people would go underground
is if there are experiments
going on that there's
no interference,
or less interference.
Exactly. Yeah.
Has the U.S. military
been expanding its operations
at Area 51 not outward,
but downward,
in order to keep
its top secret work
even more secret than before?
It is my own belief,
based on a lot of good research,
that there is most likely
a large...
I would even say vast... web
of interconnected,
underground bases and tunnels
that exist.
They originally started doing
it, by the way,
just to protect against
an atomic strike
that could've happened
from the Soviet Union.
And you need secure
underground facilities.
Well, they took that
and just ran with it.
There are those that believe
that the underground operations
being conducted at Area 51
are only the tip
of an enormous iceberg.
Is it just one of many secret
government facilities,
each connected to each other
by a vast network
of underground
high-speed trains?
An underground train system
is said to be centered
around Cheyenne Mountain
in Colorado Springs.
This is a mountain
that has been hollowed out
by the U.S. military.
It's the NORAD
central command.
And they go from Cheyenne
Mountain, in Colorado Springs,
to Dulce, New Mexico,
which is said to have
an extraterrestrial
underground base.
Then it goes to Los Alamos,
in New Mexico,
then to Albuquerque,
and to Roswell,
and to Area 51, in Nevada.
All of these military bases
are essentially connected
by a secret underground
subway system.
The folks who are
looking at Area 51,
they're not looking at Dulce.
Dulce, New Mexico, is on
Jicarilla Apache Reservation.
It's actually a separate entity.
It's part of the Apache Nation.
In other words,
you can't just go there.
There is a peak just
north of the town of Dulce
called Archuleta Peak.
And residents of Dulce claim
to have seen UFOs
coming in and out
of that mountain.
The U.S. government is saying
that there's nothing there...
they have no military
base there,
there's not some underground
train network.
And yet,
people who live there say
there is something
going on here.
So, just like Area 51,
where the government was saying,
hey, there's
nothing going on here,
but researchers for decades knew
and investigated things
that were going on there.
And so perhaps at Dulce,
one day, they will admit...
yes, something was
going on there.
Is there really a vast network
of top secret government
laboratories,
each conducting experiments
using extraterrestrial
technology?
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is a profound yes.
And they offer,
as additional proof,
not one located at a facility
in the American southwest
but one much farther
to the east.
A military base they claim
has been working directly
with extraterrestrials
for decades
and operating very close
to the location
where mankind made its first
successful effort
to reach the sky.
We actually have an eyewitness
NARRATOR: Dayton, Ohio.
Here, on the very same plains
where Wilbur and Orville Wright
lifted mankind
into the era of flight,
sits Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base,
one of the largest
and highest-funded bases
in the nation's military.
It is up there as one
of the single most important
military, technology,
back-engineering study
in biological entities
of any place we have.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
Wright-Patterson...
or Wright-Patt,
as it is more commonly called...
has been a hub of
extraterrestrial investigation
and experimentation for decades.
Some even consider it
of greater strategic importance
than Area 51.
So, the rumors and stories
of aliens at Wright-Patt
have been very widespread
for a very long period of time.
And there have also been claims
that unknown aerial vehicles
or UFOs are being stored
deep underground.
On June 14, 1947,
an unidentified object
reportedly crashed on a farm
outside the town
of Roswell, New Mexico.
According to eyewitnesses,
the object resembled
some sort of flying disc,
and the bodies recovered
from the wreckage
looked like nothing
from this planet.
Within days,
the so-called Roswell incident
captured the imaginations
of millions of people
around the world.
But just as the event
jump-started America's interest
in UFOs,
it also ushered in the era
of the government cover-up.
The Roswell Base
issued a press release,
and then several hours later,
it's all denied.
"Sorry, people,
just a weather balloon.
"Our top intelligence officers
didn't know what
they were looking at."
And we actually have evidence
of an FBI memo
that made such a statement,
that what was recovered
was being brought
to Wright Field for analysis.
Well, you're not going to bring
balloon parts
to Wright Field for analysis.
That's not going to happen.
You've got
to remember that in 1947
when the Roswell crash happened,
there was no Area 51 in Nevada.
And in fact, the important
Air Force headquarters
to study these crashed artifacts
and possibly alien bodies
was Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Now, the reason
that this wreckage
would have been sent to
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
is because at that time,
it was the center
of the Air Force's
Foreign Technology Division,
meaning the division
that actually studied
foreign aircraft,
foreign technologies
of all kinds,
and certainly alien tech,
wrecked alien spacecrafts
and report
of alien spacecraft sightings
would be sent there
to be studied
by the Foreign
Technology Division.
Is it possible
that Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base
is still housing the remains
of the object
recovered from the New Mexico
desert more than 70 years ago?
And if so,
could there be evidence
that their efforts to recreate
the so-called flying disc
have been successful?
Even now, in the last few years,
there have been important
UFO sightings around Dayton.
And witnesses in that area
are looking out over
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
and, even in broad daylight,
seeing unusual craft
hovering over the base.
This is a very distinct
possibility
that's supported by the fact
that no jets are released
when these UFOs appear.
It's almost as if they know
what they are.
Maybe it's because
it's one of our own
reverse engineered craft.
But even if the UFOs
recently sighted in the skies
above Wright-Patterson
are man-made,
couldn't that be
considered proof
that the UFO
that crash-landed near Roswell
was, in fact,
reverse engineered?
Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and to support their claim,
they point to two other
top secret UFO investigations
that took place
at Wright-Patterson:
Project Sign
and Project Blue Book.
Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base was the center,
the hub, for Project Sign
and Project Blue Book.
Now, both of these projects
were involved
with one essential task,
which was the study and
categorization of reports
of unidentified flying objects.
Project Sign was set up
after the flying saucer
wave of sightings
across the United States
in 1947,
and shortly after
the Roswell crash.
Sign researched
and investigated the phenomenon,
taking reports,
not just from the public,
but from the military, from
pilots who were seeing things,
from radar operators
who were tracking these objects.
This was the U.S. government's
formal UFO program.
The Air Force had
22 years of UFO investigation
that was housed in
the Foreign Technology Division,
and Blue Book
is the most famous and ran
for the longest period of time.
They go out and they look
for foreign technology,
including crashed wreckage.
And then, they have access
to all of the technical
expertise on the base.
In 1969,
after compiling and studying
more than 12,000 UFO sightings,
Project Blue Book
was terminated.
Most of the sightings
were categorized
as high-altitude spy planes
or natural aerial phenomena,
although approximately 700
unidentified cases still remain.
But while the U.S. Air Force
insists to this day
that credible evidence
of extraterrestrial visitation
never existed,
many former employees of
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
such as Ray Szymanski,
have come forward
with a very different story.
I started working at Wright-
Patterson in January of 1973,
and I had 38 years and nine
months of service
when I retired.
I spent nearly my entire career
at Air Force Research Labs,
and I did advanced research
and development.
On the first day of working
there, I had a mentor.
His name was Corvette Al.
He was the equivalent
of a flag officer,
a general or an admiral,
and he said,
"Let's go through the hangar,"
and as we stepped
into that hangar,
he turned to me and said,
"Have you heard
about our aliens?"
I said, "What?"
He said, "Yeah, we have
aliens here on the base."
I said, "Really?"
And then, he said, "Well, yeah,
there was a crash out west",
and they brought the aliens
and their machine."
He used the word "machine."
Brought here to Wright-Patterson
for evaluation
and possible exploitation.
Hangar 18 was this mysterious
hangar at Wright Field where
we actually have an eyewitness
who was taken to Hangar 18,
Lieutenant Colonel
Marion Magruder.
He was a fighter pilot in
the United States Marine Corps
who saw the alien technology,
but worse,
he saw the live alien.
It looked human,
its head was larger
than humans',
its arms were much longer,
and it moved like this
in a wavy motion.
The humanoid communicated
with Magruder telepathically,
and the Army and the Air Force,
as well as the higher branches
of the Pentagon,
were absolutely fascinated
by the fact that here
were creatures who could
communicate without using words.
Thus began a series of
experiments into psychokinesis,
psychic projection,
thought projection.
If the Magruder
account is true,
and the U.S. military
was once using live aliens
for scientific study,
where did those experiments
take place?
Was it at Wright-Patterson?
Area 51?
Or were they conducted
at yet another facility?
And, if so, where?
And are they still
taking place today?
Here, at the eastern tip
of the island,
is all that remains of
the Montauk Air Force Station.
Originally established
as a naval base in 1917
due to its strategic
defensive location,
the Montauk installation
protected the East Coast
from submarines and bombers
for several decades, before
it was decommissioned in 1981.
But according to statements
from multiple whistle-blowers,
a secret laboratory hidden
deep beneath the base
may still be operating.
I think it's the perfect cover.
You have kind of a lax
topside operation,
an Air Force Station that really
nothing is going on at,
but underneath the ground, you
have this extremely elaborate
experiment going on, many levels
of an underground base.
Each of these men
that told the tale,
they don't say they entered
the base through,
you know, a topside location.
They would all enter Brookhaven
National Laboratories
and travel on a train underneath
the ground to Montauk.
So people that are working
above ground don't even know
what's going on
underneath the ground.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
Montauk, like Area 51
and Wright-Patterson,
remains notorious
as one of the places
the U.S. military would carry
out numerous experiments,
often with the aid
of otherworldly technology.
There are some who believe
these experiments
even involved human subjects
as part of a highly
controversial research program
known as the Montauk Project.
Some of the stories
about what was going on
in the Montauk Project actually
tie in with something
that we absolutely know
to be real,
because we have declassified
documents on it,
and that's MKUltra.
Now, MKUltra was a program run
by the CIA and the U.S. Army,
and it literally tried
to harness
the technique of mind control.
But there are rumors
that there were other,
more exotic techniques that
people were using at Montauk:
remote influencing,
for example, which is the idea
that you can effectively use
the power of your mind
to influence
somebody else's behavior.
Clearly, there would be
huge military value
in such techniques,
and that, of course,
is exactly why
they were doing them.
This was stuff
that was so beyond
the normal thought processes
of the military mind.
It wasn't making better guns,
better ammo,
more efficient airplanes.
This was way beyond that.
This was a program that used all
sorts of different techniques
to try to control human thought.
Mind control?
Remote thought manipulation?
If the U.S. military
really did believe
that such incredible power
was achievable,
did it get the idea
from extraterrestrials?
Perhaps even from the technology
reportedly recovered
after the crash at Roswell?
The big question about Montauk
has always been, were they
operating with the technologies
that they had because they were
given to our government
by non-humans, legitimately,
as some kind of collaboration
or trade,
for us to experiment with?
One thing that's at Montauk
is the so-called Montauk Chair.
It had some kind of wires,
or there's some kind of
extraterrestrial technology
associated with this chair
and that, combined
with the individual's
innate psychic capabilities,
would allow you to engage
in transforming reality
in one way or another.
The subject would
sit in the chair,
and this chair was meant
to manifest thought
into physical reality.
And included in that are
telekinesis, remote viewing.
One of the experiments that they
used at first was to manifest,
let's say, a glass or a ball,
something simple,
an inanimate object.
Whatever the subject
was thinking
would manifest
into physical reality.
Eventually, this evolved into
heightened psychic abilities.
They claimed they could teleport
from one place to another.
According to many researchers
and ancient astronaut theorists,
accounts of the so-called
"Montauk Chair"
and its connection
to mind control
are strangely similar
to accounts of a chair
that dates back to the days
of the pharaohs:
the throne of Ptah.
Ptah was one of the most
intriguing gods
of Ancient Egypt.
He was the god
before all the other gods.
He created Earth.
He created humanity.
Unlike the other gods,
Ptah would create the world
with his thought.
He would think it, feel it
and hence, it was created.
Ptah is portrayed
sitting on a throne.
And this throne is thought to be
the center point from which
his thought is able
to manifest creation.
What's fascinating
about these scenes
is that this throne
is feathered.
It's feathered because it flies.
It's known
as his ascension throne.
When we compare the descriptions
of the Montauk Chair
with the ascension throne
of Ptah,
Was the U.S. military involved
in reverse engineering
an extraterrestrial technology
that was used thousands
of years ago in Ancient Egypt?
Could the legends
about an Egyptian god
and his flying throne
and the report
of a thought-control chair
at the Montauk military base
really be connected?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and suggest
that not only has
the U.S. government been working
to acquire and perfect
alien technology for decades,
but that the operations
at Montauk are still going on.
Several people have claimed
that they were part
of these Montauk experiments.
They do recall sitting
in a special chair.
And people say that today
there is still activity
in the underground sections
of the Montauk base.
Is the seemingly
abandoned military base
on Eastern Long Island still,
secretly, in operation?
And if so, is Montauk part
of a vast network
of government laboratories
and factories
where extraterrestrial
technology is being harvested?
Ancient astronaut
theorists insist
such an incredible notion
is true,
and they point to yet another
highly guarded installation
as proof that alien technology
is not only being tested,
but that it's
already being used.
Washington, D.C.
December 16, 2017.
After a decade of speculation
within the UFO community,
officials at the Pentagon
confirm the existence
of a highly secretive
UFO research project
known as the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program,
or AATIP.
The project was funded
by Congress in 2007
with the help
of Senator Harry Reid of Nevada.
What's different about
the AATIP program is the fact
that it involved a private
company, Bigelow Aerospace.
This has never been done before.
The government previously
has always kept
all of its UFO
extraterrestrial information,
all of its reports,
completely separately.
So that makes it very,
very unique and very different
from Projects Sign
and Blue Book.
The Pentagon ran
this program officially
from 2007 to 2012,
although there's a lot of reason
to believe that the program
not only has continued,
but that multiple programs
of this sort have continued.
But why would
the U.S. government
allow such sensitive research
to take place
outside of its
secure military facilities?
According
to ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is all too obvious.
Over the years,
the government realized,
if you can take projects
that were developing
and move them
from inside the Pentagon itself,
and move them into industry,
guess what you get to avoid?
Freedom of information.
Inside the government,
the military,
Department of Defense,
the scientists
and engineers there
are possibly susceptible to
the Freedom of Information Act.
People can fill out a
Freedom of Information Act form
and request information
on any government program.
Well, private companies
are not susceptible.
They don't have to adhere to
the Freedom of Information Act.
So the big aerospace
defense companies, for example,
can do their own research
in their own private facilities,
and they never have
to tell you anything about that
if they don't want to.
And when you look
at the exemptions
to the Freedom
of Information Act,
exemption number four
covers trade secrets,
information which belongs
to the private sector.
So when the government put out
some of their UFO programs
to Bigelow Aerospace,
what they were doing, cleverly,
was making scrutiny
much more difficult.
And we know from Luis Elizondo,
the program manager
of the AATIP program,
that they received a number
of shocking UFO cases
that came their way
in connection
with the U.S. military.
The word he used was "beyond
next generation technology."
According to sources
within the AATIP program,
the government
secretly collects materials...
often referred to
as "metamaterials"...
from extraterrestrial
crash sites
and then turns them over
to be reverse engineered
by approved contractors,
like those at Bigelow Aerospace.
Metamaterials are
materials that
have been combined in such a way
that the isotopic ratios
of the materials
are not found on Planet Earth.
I worked with, uh,
some of these artifacts.
I put them through
various tests.
There was nothing unusual
about the materials
they were made of, but they
were layered in such a way
that it took some doing
to make them
in their configuration.
And also, the interesting piece
of it was when you put them
under extremely high
electric fields,
they tend to show properties
of propulsion,
meaning they would move
in directions,
sometimes toward the field,
sometimes away from the field,
that wasn't typical
of standard electrostatic things
that I had seen before.
What metamaterials will do
is they will alter
electromagnetic frequencies,
or the visual spectrum.
They can bend light if they're
engineered in such a way.
They can change
acoustic properties.
And the imagination
is the limit.
So they can really do
almost anything.
Is the government's
increasing use
of outside agencies
and contractors
designed to throw
UFO investigators
and ancient astronaut
theorists off?
And if so, does that mean
that infamous top secret sites,
like Area 51 and its
alleged underground network
of covert laboratories
and military installations,
will soon be obsolete?
Ancient astronaut
theorists say no,
and they insist that,
if anything,
there are now
more government sites
engaged in extraterrestrial
research than ever,
and that this research
is no longer being confined
to areas
within the United States,
or even on Planet Earth.
The U.S. Air Force
announces that SpaceX,
an aerospace company run
by billionaire CEO Elon Musk,
is now eligible to participate
in the launch
of military satellites.
The announcement
leads many to speculate
whether SpaceX may be contracted
in the future for additional,
and perhaps even more covert,
military space projects.
In 2015, SpaceX...
which is a private corporation,
of course...
Was actually certified
by the U.S. government
for national security launches
into space.
And what that means is,
you've now got
another private corporation
which is authorized
to actually put
secret payloads into orbit.
What that means is
that their entire operation
now kind of flows under the dark
umbrella of national security.
It's possible
that the private ventures,
like SpaceX,
like Bigelow Aerospace
and the various others,
will come up with a way
to make it economically viable
to colonize Mars.
For decades...
ever since the first
Earth satellites
and rovers
began sending back data
about the so-called
"Red Planet"...
Mars has been the focus
of intense scrutiny
by ancient astronaut theorists.
They cite images
of structures...
carvings
and other strange anomalies
as evidence that Mars was...
and might still be...
a hub of extraterrestrial
activity.
Is it possible
that the U.S. government,
along with other nations,
has proof that such
an audacious notion is true?
And could this be the reason
why the human-based Mars
missions are being conducted
not by publicly funded
governments,
but by a number
of privately funded corporations
with their own
seemingly disparate agendas?
I am extremely familiar
with this technique,
and it's one of the ways
that you protect
classified information
and big secrets.
You can have
a highly classified project,
but effectively,
it's broken into small parts.
Everyone's working
on a piece of it.
No one necessarily knows what
the person next door to them
is doing, and very few people
have the big picture.
It's a world that
I've operated in myself
in my 21 years
at the Ministry of Defense.
It's even possible
that somebody could be working
on extraterrestrial technology
and not know it.
We are on the cusp
of a brand-new reality
of super-advanced technology,
that will see us colonizing
the Moon, Mars,
traveling into deep space.
This is a chapter
that's opening in human affairs
that began as long ago as 1947
with the Roswell crash,
after which the U.S. military
began preparing us
for a life in which we will be
living with extraterrestrials,
both on Earth and in space.
Are the U.S.
government's efforts to examine
and utilize extraterrestrials
and their technology
really on the threshold
of a bold new era?
One where places like Area 51,
Wright-Patterson, Montauk,
and even Mars
will all become part
of a larger
and more powerful network?
One that will facilitate
mankind's anticipated journey
to the stars?
Ancient astronaut
theorists believe
there are forces
in the government
that insist we are not yet ready
to have the answers,
and that the truth
must remain hidden away,
behind electric fences
and security cameras,
at places
both known and unknown,
and equally protected
by the notion
that what we can see
with our own eyes
could not possibly be true.
Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.