Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 5, Episode 2 - Aliens and Cover-Ups - full transcript

Mysterious stories of
extraterrestrial contact...

If we were to know
the truth, society as we

know it would collapse.

Secret messages from alien beings...

If it wasn't our
technology and it certainly

wasn't the Russian technology,
then whose technology was it?

and inexplicable
events hidden from the public.

Just because something is a cover-up,

doesn't mean you can't reach the truth.

All around the planet,
evidence points to proof

of otherworldly visitors, yet
governments continue to deny



their existence.

Most of 'em are afraid of it,
and they run away from it.

They don't know anything.

So their only option is lie, lie, lie.

Millions of people
around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so, what is the truth
behind aliens and cover-ups?

# Ancient Aliens 5x02 #
Aliens and Cover-Ups
Original Air Date on December 28, 2012

Omaha, Nebraska, Strategic Air Command,

Offutt Air Force Base, October 1973.

As Cold War tensions between the
United States and Russia simmer,

the world remains on edge.



Suddenly, an object picked up
on SAC radar sends the base

onto high alert.

Sergeant Ken Storch was part of
the Strategic Air Command's top

secret Trident Defense.

This alarm went off on
the computer, and at the very

top of the message it said,

"Alert, alert, alert,
this is not a drill."

Five unidentified objects had
been picked up coming in over

the Pacific Northwest.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff
initially felt that it was a

pre-emptive strike by a Russian
submarine, and that they had

launched ballistic missiles.

According to Storch,
the unidentified objects

flew over the entire
Canadian territory in less

than two minutes.

The UFO's then made a course
correction that defied

conventional physics.

Could it be, as some ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

that these objects were
extraterrestrial crafts visiting Earth?

These five objects
went across the Bering Sea

into the Soviet Union.

Richard Nixon was the
president at the time.

He picked up what we called
the Bat Phone and called

the Kremlin, and Nixon said,
"They are not ours."

Is it possible that both nations knew the

unexplained aircraft were
piloted by extraterrestrials?

Might the alien craft have
actually wanted to be seen?

But if so, why?

The next day, CIA and air force
investigators moved to block the

story from becoming public.

I had to sign a security contingency form.

This one was specific to this
incident, that I would not talk

about it, uh, for 30 years.

That I would keep my
mouth shut, and I did.

Could this incident
involving two of the world's

most powerful nations be one of
hundreds of UFO events that have

been known to governments the
world over, but covered up as

ancient astronaut theorists believe?

And might this be additional
evidence of a long history of

extraterrestrials attempting
to contact and communicate

with the human race?

Los Angeles, California.
February 25, 1942.

In the early morning hours,
something ignites a firestorm

that lights up the sky.

That was he famous Battle of Los Angeles.

And this photograph that's been
all around the world, showing

all of those arc lights coming up to it.

Those arc lights were aimed at a
diamond lozenge,

eyewitnesses said...

that nearly 2,000 rounds of army
anti-aircraft artillery was fired.

They could tell nothing was interacting.

It was as if it had a
force field around it.

We fired thousands of rounds.

Unfortunately, civilians lost their lives.

The next day, no sign of this craft.

Could it have been extraterrestrials?

All the evidence points to some
type of craft not of this world.

According to researchers, five years later

a UFO crash-landed outside Roswell,
New Mexico in July of 1947.

Following this incident and
numerous other UFO sightings,

the public demanded to know
who or what was behind these

unexplained objects seen in the skies.

The government responded not
by answering the question,

but by creating the National Security Act.

Six weeks after the
Roswell incident, the National

Security Act that Harry Truman
signed essentially says

to you...as an American citizen, we
the government, don't have to answer

that question in the "interests"
of national security.

The sightings and close
encounters only continued.

And the mysterious visitors
appeared to grow even bolder.

But was there a message behind
these increasing contact events?

Washington, D.C.
July 19, 1952.

In the skies over the heart of
the United States government,

multiple unidentified flying
objects are picked up on radar

by air traffic controllers at
Washington National Airport and

Andrews Air Force Base.

There were jets
scrambled to intercept them.

When the jets would get there,
they would disappear.

When the jets would land,
they would reappear again.

Basically, it was all over the
news, all over the entire world.

So it happened twice on two consecutive

weekends, meaning that more and
more people saw the same thing:

they were flying over the
heart of Washington.

So that is essentially the
equivalent of landing on

the White House lawn.

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

there was a reason that alien
beings chose the nation's

capital to make contact.

We had a series of UFO
sightings that were buzzing

the White House, the U.S. Capitol,
I think in an attempt to make

a very symbolic direct contact saying,

"Hey, we'd like to talk to you guys."

But it just seems to me like
somehow we didn't get the message.

In the days following the mysterious

sightings over the nation's capital,
the U.S. government

refused to acknowledge any
extraterrestrial connection.

We have, as of date,

come to only one firm conclusion,
and that is that it does not

contain any pattern of purpose
or of consistency that we can

relate to any conceivable
threat to the United states.

In 1952, the Air Force
created Project Blue Book

to investigate the growing
number of sightings

and contact events.

But was this simply an attempt
on the part of the U.S.

government to suppress the truth?

You've got too many tangible objective

sightings, and of objects, by the
way, that were doing things,

just utterly incredibly extraordinary.

We've got a physical phenomenon.

It's real.

The question is why, and
that's something we don't have

the answer to.

If the United States government and others

around the world knew that
extraterrestrials were real,

why was this information being covered up?

Could it be that authorities
feared the threat that these

unconventional spacecraft
represented to national security?

There's a long litany of reports that, uh,

the U.S. government has authored on
UFOs, and many of them show dramatic

UFO evidence for real.

And yet their conclusion was,
it's either hoaxes or mistaken

sightings of natural
phenomenon and so forth.

That's the history of U.S.
government studies on UFOs.

In modern times
there's the idea that there's a

secret and small elite body of
people who are covering up the

truth from the rest of society;

that aliens from space have
visited planet Earth, but nobody

else is allowed to know about it.

In 1969, the air force abruptly terminated

Project Blue Book.

Could it be that the
government denials regarding

extraterrestrial contact were
failing to convince the public?

Or is it possible that officials
knew far more than they admitted

about these events that were
being reported again and again?

One of the scientific advisors for the air

force's Project Blue Book
was J. Alan Hynek.

Hynek became disenchanted with
the fact that certain cases were

not being followed up on and
that there appeared to be some

sort of cover-up going on.

According to researchers,
the United States

government and others around
the world have continued to

secretly investigate alien
encounters that now number

in the tens of thousands.

But might extraterrestrial
contact actually have been

documented and covered up
for hundreds, and perhaps

thousands of years?

Luxor, Egypt.

Along the east bank of the Nile
River, lie the ruins of the

Karnak temple complex, dating
to the 32nd century B.C.

Here, in ancient Egyptian
society, the pharaohs were

considered perfect humans to be
worshiped above all others as

supreme living gods.

This religious hierarchy was in
place for over a thousand years,

until one pharaoh came into
power and changed everything.

His name was Akhenaten.

According to legend, Akhenaten
descended from the stars,

and when he came to power, the
worship of multiple gods ended.

The pharaoh replaced the old
deities with a single sun god

that some believe had
interacted with and gave birth

to Akhenaten.

This god was called Aten.

What we have with
Akhenaten is very brief period

of time when Egypt radically departs
from its standard behavior.

We see Akhenaten is becoming
obsessed, saying that he can

contact the gods.

Also, he is remodeling the way
he looks, not physically,

but on his monuments.

Akhenaten looked very odd.

And the other statues that were
created during that time all

featured elongated heads,
bizarre bodies and chicken legs.

The whole reign of Akhenaten
leads us to think that he had

contact with extraterrestrials.

Akhenaten's wife,
Queen Nefertiti, and their

children were also depicted
with similar elongated heads.

But might there be a specific
reason why the pharoah and his

descendants were illustrated in this way?

Clearly Akhenaten and
various other people were

confronted with deities who
had these elongated skulls.

And so they reshaped their heads
because this somehow would

bring them closer to the gods,
and maybe even in contacting or

being amongst the gods.

Could the sun god
Aten have been an alien being

that visited Earth, as some ancient
astronaut theorists contend?

Or it it possible that Akhenaten
himself had an extraterrestrial origin?

Might Akhenaten have
received messages from Aten?

Messages that would have had a
profound effect on Egyptian

society during the pharaoh's reign?

They visited him.

He had actual physical contact with them.

And so that was the reason why
he instituted this one-god rule.

And in other theories also,
that Akhenaten himself was in fact

half-human half-extraterrestrial.

Akhenaten ruled for 17 years,
but upon his death,

the magnificent city he built to
the sun god was partially destroyed

and his mysterious depictions
were defaced or obliterated.

Aten, the god who some believe
may have delivered messages to

the pharaoh, was also virtually
erased from the records.

Is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists contend,

that the pharaoh's relationship
with extraterrestrial beings was

covered up for nearly 1,000 years?

All the other pharaohs
left wall descriptions

and describing their glory and brilliance.

But for some reason,
around Akhenaten, it was all

scribbled out, as if to hide
them like an ancient cover-up.

Could this be because Akhenaten
was perhaps actually

extraterrestrial?

Might contact with
alien messengers have been kept

secret by the ruling elite
around the world for hundreds

and perhaps thousands of years?

Perhaps further evidence of
this contact can be found where

science and religion met, and
struggled with the truth, or as

some believe, tried to deny it.

Rome, Italy.
February 17, 1600.

Here, astronomer and philosopher
Giordano Bruno spent his last

day imprisoned during
the Roman Inquisition.

Among his alleged crimes,
the scientist had asserted his

belief that the Earth was not
the center of the universe,

and that the cosmos is filled with life.

In the 16th and 17th century,
the, uh, Catholic

Church was against certain
developments in science,

and among these heresies made by
Giordano Bruno was the idea that

there's a lot of life out there.

Bruno believed in the existence of

extraterrestrial beings.

We also know that the Vatican is
able to cover up this material

extremely well.

So this is just one example of
almost two thousands of years

of Vatican power.

Is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists

claim, that Giordano Bruno
had been visited by

extraterrestrial beings?

And might these same beings have
shared messages with Bruno and

other scientists including
Copernicus and Galileo, messages

that the Vatican learned
of and greatly feared?

In the Renaissance, scientists like

Galileo and Copernicus were
excommunicated because the

Catholic Church had a very strong
interest in controlling information.

So, of course, they did
everything they could to silence

scientific discoveries.

Bruno's revolutionary assertions

included the belief that the
universe was made up of an

infinite number of worlds,
which were populated by

intelligent beings.

The problem with all
these statements was that they

violated one of the basic tenets
of religion at that point, which

was we were the center of creation.

We were the crown of creation.

We were top dog in the cosmos.

Bruno angered
scholars and theologians across

Europe with his teachings,
and the scientist was finally

arrested by order of the Vatican.

He endured eight years locked
in a dungeon and was tried for

heresy, but Bruno refused
to recant his beliefs.

For his crimes against the Catholic
Church, Bruno was burned at the stake.

But is it possible that the
Vatican knew Bruno had been

receiving messages from alien beings?

And might it be that the Vatican
wanted to deny the existence of

extraterrestrial life,
a species that far exceeded human

capabilities and eluded
the Vatican's control?

The existence of
this cover-up feeds our worry

today that government, uh,
and science could be engaged in a

cover-up to hide the
evidence of contact with

extraterrestrial life.

Bruno's writings were
condemned by the Catholic

Church and banned for decades.

Many of his works were
destroyed, and researchers

believe they included
revelations of messages he had

received, and that the
Vatican wanted to erase.

But might the information
Bruno may have received from

extraterrestrials still be locked away?

And if so, does it remain a
threat to Catholic doctrine?

Does the trial of Bruno point
to a cover-up by the Vatican?

Perhaps the answers can be found
in a small village in western

Portugal and the story of a
miracle that could offer proof

that we are not alone.

The Vatican...

Vatican City, Italy.

In the 17th century, Pope Paul V
ordered select documents

of the Catholic Church moved from
the Vatican Library and closed

to outsiders until 1881.

Today, the Vatican Secret
Archives are closely guarded and

some researchers believe they
contain revelations so explosive

that they threaten the doctrine
of the Catholic Church.

You have to
wonder if the secret library at

the Vatican, which they
acknowledge exists, doesn't have

records or chronicles about
extraterrestrial contacts that

the Catholic Church has recorded
and knows happened but is

keeping a secret.

Might the Vatican
Secret Archives contain the

details of messages Giordano
Bruno may have received from

extraterrestrials...

information that supports his
pronouncements about the universe?

When we look at certain specific examples,

like Giordano Bruno, we know that
there was so more to it than this.

The Vatican Archives, whenever
they're going to be opened,

are going to reveal extraordinary
levels of details.

According to researchers,
the Vatican Secret

Archives holds hidden evidence
connected to the Miracle of Fatima.

It was here, in 1917, that
three children claimed to have

received messages from what some
Catholic theologians believe was

the Virgin Mary.

In Fatima, children
saw an apparition they said

was the Virgin Mary...

and 70,000 people came to
this same sheep pasture.

And people said that they
saw a spinning silver disc.

The Catholic Church, for a very
long time, would not acknowledge

what was happening with
the children or Fatima.

The extraterrestrials give to the

children a telepathic message, saying
you are not alone on this planet.

We are here.

We have been here some
thousands of years ago.

We observe you.

Please prepare mankind
that we will return again.

So all this story of Fatima
went to the Vatican.

But is it possible,
as ancient astronaut theorists

contend, that the Catholic
Church censored the messages

that were received in Fatima?

The kids were given three messages,

and the Pope refused to
release the third message.

The third message apparently talks
about extraterrestrial life.

Now that is sensational because,
to me, to deny the revelation

of that particular message.

And that is exactly what the Pope did...

and I wonder why?

Some contend that the
Miracle of Fatima is one of

many events that describe visitations from

extraterrestrial messengers.

Researchers also point to the
voices described by Joan of Arc,

visions received in Lourdes
by Bernadette Soubiros and

countless stories depicted in
the Hebrew Bible,

in which similar events are described.

Perhaps the Vatican knows far
more about life in the universe

than they have acknowledged.

But does a belief in alien life
question the omnipotence

of a Supreme Being?

Of course the Vatican knows about

extraterrestrial life.

But to suggest that, because
extraterrestrials exist,

that means there is no
God, is total nonsense.

Safford, Arizona.

130 miles northeast of Tucson.

The Mount Graham
International Observatory.

Here, the Roman Catholic Church
quietly operates a massive

telescope that scans the heavens
day after day, as does another

telescope in Rome.

What do they expect to find?

We're doing all kinds of research work

into various aspects of the heavens.

So, from the very nearest-around
planets nearby...

our own solar system...
out through to our galaxy,

galaxies beyond that, and
then the universe as a whole.

Might the Catholic
Church be monitoring our cosmic

neighbors and preparing for the
day when science and governments

acknowledge their existence?

The Vatican Observatory, uh,

on Mount Graham, is very near the San
Francisco Peaks, which is the

Sacred Mountain to the Hopi
and Zuni Indians, where the

Sky People come and go from.

I find it very interesting that
the Vatican should have an

observatory right at this
very sacred and crucial spot,

also well known as a
corridor for UFO activity.

If you are a Vatican,
a government, and you have

secret knowledge that there is
other life in the universe,

they're going to be forced into
public statements consistent

with the Catholic view of the divine.

In 2008, the Vatican stunned the world

when it announced that the
possibility of extraterrestrial

life was not in conflict
with church teachings.

Might they know something we don't?

Do you think they came forward with such a

statement out of thin air, willy-nilly?

No. There was a deliberate
calculation behind releasing

such a statement.

All you have to do is open
your eyes and it becomes

quite clear we've been visited,
and the Vatican knows that.

The Vatican does
not have a specific stance

on extraterrestrial life.

If extraterrestrial life was
found, then the church would

react as it does with any data:

What's about it to learn?

A living experience would
be the experience of

extraterrestrials.

Might the growing
accounts of messages shared

with a select few, here on Earth,
have prompted the Vatican

to begin acknowledging other
life in the universe?

And if extraterrestrials are
delivering messages to humans,

could they be signaling a reunion
with our ancient ancestors?

Suffolk, England.

The decommissioned American
Bentwaters Air Force Base.

December 2010.

Two retired airmen have returned
here, still searching for

answers to a mysterious event
they claim to have witnessed

30 years earlier.

It went from a sleepy,
boring night to, all of a sudden,

within a matter of minutes,
we were dealing with

something we didn't know what it was.

The incident has
haunted them for three decades,

and compelled them to finally revisit
the site of their close encounter.

But why?

Our journey has begun.

John and I knew we were
going to do this years ago;

that's the strange part.

December 26, 1980.

Shortly after midnight, an
unidentified object is picked

up on radar over the Bentwaters
Air Base and appears to go down

in the nearby Rendlesham Forest.

Some of the security police saw strange

lights in the forest; it was
clear to the military personnel

that they were looking at
something highly unusual,

and that they needed to go and investigate.

Three enlisted men, including Sergeant

James Penniston and Airman John
Burroughs, entered the forest

expecting to find a downed aircraft.

I could see all
these multiple color lights

and I was, uh, trying to
rationalize my own mind that it

was an aircraft crash.

There was a weird feeling in the air.

It's hard to explain.

It just felt like there was
electricity or something in the air.

When we got into this clearing,
there was something there.

And the whole area just lit
up in a bright white light.

I was dumbfounded by what was going on.

I started seeing a silhouette
of a, uh, triangular craft.

It was, uh, completely black
in color except for these

occasional bits of blue and
orange light and yellow light

running through it.

It appeared to me like there was something

there making us feel like
we wanted to get closer.

I was running towards it;

it came over the top of me,
and then it exploded into

blue objects and lights, but I
disappeared into what it was.

Then the next thing I know I was
standing in the field,

and I had no idea what had happened.

As Penniston approached the object,

he observed strange, hieroglyphic
inscriptions on its side.

Reaching out to touch it, his
mind suddenly became bombarded

by images of numbers.

It's like someone was
holding a picture up,

of this... zeros and ones and...
after another.

I could see it in my mind's eye.

What do they mean, I don't know.

The craft was on the ground
approximately 45 minutes.

Then there was a bright flash of light.

I don't know, the craft just took off.

Jim and I both had watches on,
and it was behind...

in other words, when we were
finished, it showed like

45-minute difference in
what time it really was.

But the 45 minutes of missing
time actually came from the

shift commander and some other
people saying that, for awhile,

what they attributed it to was
they lost radio contact with us.

The next day, James Penniston
was compelled to write

down the strange series of
numbers in his notebook.

It filled an astonishing 22 pages.

I pull out my notebook
and started writing it down.

I think the part that was okay
for me, was that once I did that,

they went away then.

Uh, did I tell anybody?

No way am I gonna tell anybody that.

Penniston and Burroughs
were ordered by their

superiors to document the
events they witnessed

in Rendlesham Forest.

But both men claim they were
pressured to leave out certain

details of the event, especially
those suggesting the craft may

have been extraterrestrial.

What I remember is a triangular craft,

and it didn't have no
sharp edges to it at all.

It was equally on all sides.

Black in color, warm to touch.

I had to give this sanitized story.

I left out everything from the
feeling of the electricity,

the feeling of being drawn into it,
also the description of the craft.

There's a lot of detail that was left out.

And truth by omission is not the truth.

It's a lie.

They didn't want it
to appear like the government

was trying to cover it up, but I
clearly felt that they didn't

want me to go and tell all the details.

For the next two evenings, more mysterious

sightings were reported by other
soldiers stationed at Bentwaters.

Yet virtually nothing was
recorded except for a top-secret

report written by Deputy Base
Commander, Colonel Charles Halt.

What makes the Rendlesham
incident important is

really the military witnesses
who were involved in this.

There are probably several
hundred people who were either

direct witnesses to the UFO or were
involved in a more peripheral sense.

But few witnesses
stationed at Bentwaters were

willing to go on record
about what they saw.

The event was kept from the
public, and no mention of the

triangle UFO was divulged
until years later.

Rumors had been spreading
about this incident for some time.

But it was not until 1983 that
the story actually broke in the

media after a Freedom of
lnformation Act request.

Most were interested.

Some were more skeptical.

Uh, but this was definitely a big story.

When pressed for comment,
military officials

claimed the men mistook a nearby
lighthouse for a UFO, or perhaps

fabricated a hoax.

We're living in a
world that until governments

and police authorities
say this happened...

and speak in microphones
for TV and radio and print,

it becomes a non-event.

They know how to control the media.

Penniston and Burroughs retired from the

military in the mid-1990s,
but each were plagued with

nightmares for decades.

In the fall of 2010, after three
decades of trying to forget the

incident, Penniston and
Burroughs reconnected for the

first time in many years.

Something was compelling them
to return to Rendlesham Forest.

We couldn't explain
how we got from point A to point B.

I don't know how we got there.

Nope.
Neither do I.

The best thing would be for us to
go back out and go step-by-step.

That's what we need to do.

Come right up to where we were,
right where we had it happen.

- We need to do that.
- I know we do.

There's a drive in
us that says we have to go.

I suppose we'd like to have some closure.

The situation never leaves you.

I mean, it is a life-changing event.

It happened there at Bentwaters.

I would gladly give that to
somebody else to be burdened

with for all their life.

One of the things
that always bothers you is

who are they, what was it,
what were they doing,

what were their intentions and what
would happen if they did come back?

Why would Penniston
and Burroughs want to revisit

the site of a 30-year-old nightmare?

Is it possible that by
returning, they will discover

who or what they had encountered
in the forest, and the key to

decoding the mysterious
message they had received?

Suffolk, England.
December 26, 2010.

On the 30th anniversary of their
close encounter while stationed

at Bentwaters Air Force Base,
James Penniston and John

Burroughs were compelled to
return to the place that left

them with reoccurring dreams
and many unanswered questions.

We know this is different.

- Yeah.
- The gate wasn't here.

It was all the way down to
the end of that perimeter.

Accompanied by
journalist Linda Moulton Howe,

the men hoped that revisiting
Rendlesham Forest where they

encountered the triangle UFO,
would confirm their memories.

Well, let's go down this road.

All right.

and see if that meets up
with the Eastgate Road

and see if there's a
logging road between here

- and the Eastgate Road.
- Yeah, sounds good.

- Go ahead. You lead the way.
- All right.

We got to walk
out into the forest with them

and see if they could remember.

We were trying to find the exact
spot where they think that all

of this occurred.

So this is the eerie feeling.

These are the trees I remember.

This is it, yeah.
Exactly.

Exactly.

John Burroughs seemed to begin to actually

recall details of what he remembered.

This is right where
the whole thing started.

At one point, the white
lights were emanating right

all through this whole forest, was lit up.

This whole forest was lit up.

But I think you saw that,
too, right? From the gate?

- It was brilliant, wasn't it,
that light? - Yeah.

- It was just a really white light.
- Yeah.

And Jim Penniston, he really did seem to

start going back to that time,
remembering touching those

symbols and having his mind
filled with the zeroes and ones.

It was dead silent out here,
there was no sound at all.

Went around from the front side,
what appeared to be front.

I started touching it back here.

It was warm.

Then I noticed up here on
the left side there was an

inscription or something.

And I touch them.

And then there's, like,
intense light again.

I got images in my head
that I can't explain.

And it took at
least two days for things to

start focusing down through their minds.

But it is a testimony to the
nature of this phenomena that it

can come, it can be here, it can
interact with humans, and humans

are left 100% in the dark
about what happened.

Later that evening,
Penniston, Burroughs and a team

of researchers returned to the site...
at the exact time and

place where they were 30 years earlier.

But would retracing their steps
reveal new details about the

craft and its purpose?

I'm watching.

Feeling like something
might happen tonight.

There is a feeling of anticipation.

Yes, feeling like something's gonna happen.

As you can clearly see tonight,
whatever it was, it wasn't the

lighthouse or anything
else that's out here.

It had to have been something
that came into the area.

I saw the lights in the sky
and the beams coming down.

And this is where the beam shot at us.

I think everything's much clearer.

It's obvious that we had
the answers to begin with.

I think this was necessary
for us to come back out here

and clarify it.

I know that it is the beginning.

We have other things we got to do.

This is not over.

Although Penniston
and Burroughs recalled long...

forgotten memories of the
encounter, the investigation

failed to answer the questions that
have haunted them for decades.

But is it possible that the
answer lies not in the forest,

but remains locked in the
brain of James Penniston?

And in the notebook which
contains the hundreds of ones

and zeros he was compelled to write down?

Two months before the return
to Rendlesham Forest,

computer programmer Nick Ciske
attempted to decode the

mysterious number sequence
found in five pages

of Penniston's notebook.

But could this random string of
zeros and ones really contain

an alien message?

After I had decoded the binary,

there appeared to be a message
that read, "Exploration humanity."

And then it says, "Continuous.

For planetary advance."

And then some numbers
that included coordinates

I looked those coordinates up.

They were off the west coast of Ireland.

So if I were to interpret this
message, it would seem to be

that this alien race has
come to to explore humanity

and help us along.

Does this prove that?

Well, I don't know.

Could the remaining
pages contain even more vital

information from an
extraterrestrial source?

I mean, it seemed like
it was supposed to happen.

So, I don't know.

Maybe I was just the one...
along with John... and we were

supposed to be out there.

I cannot explain
to you what we were dealing

with, and how it did what
it did, and the last thing

would be, why us?

What is the secret
of the Bentwaters incident?

And what was so important that
both the U.S. and British

military needed to cover it up
and hide it from the public?

And why have so few witnesses
been willing to come forward?

There seems to be
a concerted effort to really

cover up evidence that aliens
have been coming here and

interacting with humans
for thousands of years.

There does seem to
be some type of international

cover-up taking place.

Tangible evidence of some type
of craft in the sky that's

possibly not from this world.

This is a global phenomenon
where we're being visited by

extraterrestrials.

I think we've evolved
to the point where we're

able to understand and accept
interaction with another

extraterrestrial.

It's out there.

If you go looking for it,
the evidence is there.

Will we ever really
learn the truth about the

possibility of extraterrestrial
visitors to our planet?

And if they are real, why do
governments and religions

throughout the world continue
to deny their existence?

Perhaps we are like Penniston and
Burroughs, compelled to keep

exploring the mystery of our past.

Because only then, will we come ever
closer to discovering our future.