UFOs: The Lost Evidence (2017): Season 1, Episode 1 - Area 52 - full transcript

Few have ever heard about the ultra top-secret military base in the remote deserts of Utah known as Area 52. Reports of vanishing aircraft, and UFO's, have convinced investigators that our military knows

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

CALLED AREA 52.

THERE ARE PARTS OF THE FACILITY

WHERE EVEN THE MILITARY
THEMSELVES CAN'T GET ACCESS.

WHAT ON EARTH'S GOING ON?

Narrator:
NEWLY DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS --

ARE THEY PROPAGANDA
OR A SMOKING GUN?

SOME OF THESE FILES CONTAIN
INFORMATION ABOUT UFOs

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

Narrator: EVIDENCE NEVER BEFORE
SEEN ON TELEVISION

OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
AND UFOs SIDE BY SIDE.



THE SECOND TIME IT FIRED,
FIVE BLUE LIGHTS COME DOWN

AND COMPLETELY SURROUND
THIS BEAM.

Narrator: WHY DID THE GOVERNMENT
KEEP THIS IMAGE OF MARS

HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC?

WHAT SECRETS ARE
THEY TRYING TO CONCEAL?

THE GOVERNMENT IS FINALLY
BEGINNING TO TELL US

WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW.

Narrator: WILL NEW SCIENTIFIC
BREAKTHROUGHS

FORCE THE GOVERNMENT
TO REVEAL THE TRUTH?

YOU GOT CONTRACTORS OUT THERE
PLAYING GOD WITH TECHNOLOGY.

THAT'S PRETTY SCARY STUFF.

♪♪

Narrator: NEW INFORMATION
IS TRANSFORMING

WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT.



ARE UFOs REALLY
VISITING OUR WORLD?

IS THE GOVERNMENT
HIDING THE TRUTH?

AND, IF SO, COULD
NEW SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTS

REVEAL EXPLOSIVE NEW EVIDENCE
FOUND AT AREA 52?

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CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS

MARCH 16, 1968, SKULL VALLEY.

THIS QUIET AREA OF RANCH LAND
IN CENTRAL UTAH

IS HOME TO A SMALL
NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATION

KNOWN FOR RAISING SHEEP.

BUT OVERNIGHT,
IT WOULD BECOME INFAMOUS

FOR SOMETHING FAR DIFFERENT.

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

SCATTERED ACROSS THE VALLEY
WERE THOUSANDS

AND THOUSANDS OF DEAD SHEEP.

Dolan:
THE SKULL VALLEY SHEEP INCIDENT,

IN WHICH OVER 6,000 SHEEP
SUDDENLY DIED,

THIS WAS IN MARCH OF 1968,
WAS AWFUL,

AND IT WAS A SHOCKING EVENT,
ACTUALLY,

FOR THE COUNTRY AT THE TIME.

Narrator: VETERINARIANS
DETERMINED THAT THE SHEEP

EXPERIENCED MASSIVE
MUSCLE CONVULSIONS

AND ULTIMATELY DIED
FROM ASPHYXIATION.

DAYS LATER, LAB TESTS
ON SHEEP BLOOD REVEAL

THE EXISTENCE
OF A FOREIGN SUBSTANCE

UNLIKE ANYTHING
PREVIOUSLY KNOWN.

AND, TODAY, ALMOST
50 YEARS LATER,

THERE IS STILL NO OFFICIAL
EXPLANATION WHAT HAPPENED.

ONLY SUSPICIONS REMAIN

THAT POINT TO NEARBY
GOVERNMENT FACILITIES.

250 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF SKULL VALLEY

AND 83 MILES NORTH OF LAS VEGAS
IN THE NEVADA DESERT

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

AND MYSTERY FOR OVER 6 DECADES.

FEW AMERICANS
HAVEN'T HEARD OF IT --

AREA 51.

AREA 51 IN NEVADA HAS EXISTED,
WE KNOW, ANYWAY,

FROM THE 1950s ONWARD.

IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF AN
EXTREMELY REMOTE PART OF NEVADA,

AND IT EXISTED IN VIRTUAL
SECRECY FOR MANY DECADES.

AREA 51 HAS REALLY PLAYED
A KEY ROLE

IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOME
OF THE MOST ICONIC

SECRET PROTOTYPE AIRCRAFT
PROJECTS OF ALL TIME --

THE U-2, THE SR-71 BLACKBIRD,

THE STEALTH FIGHTER,
THE STEALTH BOMBER.

AND THOSE, OF COURSE, ARE
THE THINGS THAT WE KNOW ABOUT.

Narrator: BUT WHAT REALLY
BROUGHT AREA 51

INTO THE SPOTLIGHT

WERE REPORTS
OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

AND THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS

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

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

WHEN AN ALIEN SPACECRAFT
CRASHED IN THE DESERT.

AND, SUPPOSEDLY,

THE WRECKAGE OF THAT CRASH
WAS TAKEN TO AREA 51.

THAT'S WHEN THE LEGEND BEGAN.

THE ORIGINAL LEAKS THAT CAME OUT

WERE THAT THIS WAS A PLACE
WHERE, ALLEGEDLY,

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY
HAD ALIEN TECHNOLOGY

THAT IT WAS TESTING.

AND SO IT WAS THROUGH
THAT LENS, AS IT WERE,

THAT WE LEARNED OF THIS FORMERLY
SECRET PLACE CALLED AREA 51.

ONCE EVERYONE
HAD HEARD ABOUT AREA 51,

IN A SENSE, THE SECRET'S OUT.

BUT, IN SOME WAYS,

THIS CAN WORK
TO THE GOVERNMENT'S BENEFIT.

WHEN ALL EYES ARE ON ONE
PARTICULAR LOCATION,

THE TRICK IS THEN TO MOVE
THE ACTION ELSEWHERE.

WHERE DID IT GO?

AREA 52.

Narrator: OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED
AS THE DUGWAY PROVING GROUND,

THIS MILITARY FACILITY COVERS
AN ASTOUNDING 1,250 SQUARE MILES

OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT.

I'VE BEEN RESEARCHING
DUGWAY FOR TWO DECADES.

THE PLACE IS SO BIG THAT,
YOU KNOW,

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

AND DOCUMENT FENCE
LINES AND BORDERS.

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

AND LOOK ACROSS,
YOU WOULD THINK,

"OKAY, WELL, WHERE DOES IT END?"

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

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

GOT STARTED IN THE EARLY 1940s

AND REMAINS A PLACE
OF EXTREMELY SENSITIVE TESTING

OF THINGS LIKE CHEMICAL WEAPONS,

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS,
GERM WARFARE,

RADIOLOGICAL WEAPONS,

ALL OF THE REALLY
VERY DANGEROUS THINGS.

Narrator:
DUGWAY'S OFFICIAL MISSION

IS TO TEST TOP-SECRET
AMERICAN WEAPONS

AND AEROSPACE SYSTEMS,

BUT UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
THE PURPOSE OF AREA 52

IS FAR MORE THAN THAT.

SOME OF THE THINGS
THAT WE'VE SEEN OUT THERE

ARE CONVOYS OF BLACK SUBURBANS
OR MILITARY VEHICLES

THAT JUST KIND OF DISAPPEAR
LIKE THEY'RE GOING UNDERGROUND

OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

YOU HAVE AREAS
THAT ARE CLEARLY MARKED

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

AND YOU DON'T SEE
ANY KIND OF CRATERS

OR EVIDENCE OF BOMBING.

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

WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?

THERE'S SOMETHING UNDERNEATH,

SOME KIND OF HUGE FACILITY
OR TYPE OF UNDERGROUND BASE.

Narrator: GIVEN THE ULTRASECRET
ACTIVITY AT DUGWAY,

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT UFO ACTIVITY

THAT WAS ONCE CENTERED
AT AREA 51

HAS BEEN SECRETLY RELOCATED
TO AREA 52?

AND, IF SO, IS THERE EVIDENCE?

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

AND MY FIELD WORK OUT THERE,

WE'VE SEEN CERTAIN AIRCRAFT

ACTUALLY JUST DISAPPEAR
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.

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

"PREDATOR" TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY.

I'VE SEEN CRAFT FLYING AROUND
OUT AT DUGWAY

THAT I KNOW ARE NOT MANMADE.

DUGWAY HAS A HISTORY,
WHICH CONTINUES TO THIS DAY,

OF INTERESTING UFO SIGHTINGS.

THIS DOESN'T INCLUDE
SIMPLY CRAFT,

BUT ALSO THINGS LIKE
ORANGE-ISH RED ORBS,

FOR EXAMPLE, BIZARRE THINGS.

THEY'RE CERTAINLY
NOTHING THAT, OFFICIALLY,

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
HAS ACKNOWLEDGED,

AND YET ENOUGH PEOPLE
ARE SEEING THEM

THAT WE REALLY HAVE TO
ASK OURSELVES,

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

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LIKE AREA 51,
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND

HAS A LONG HISTORY
OF UFO SIGHTINGS,

GOVERNMENT SECRECY,
AND OFFICIAL COVER-UPS.

THERE'S ALWAYS A BALANCE
TO BE STRUCK

BETWEEN OPEN GOVERNMENT
AND LEGITIMATE SECRECY.

ON THE ONE HAND, WE ARE IN THE
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT AGE.

THE JOURNALISTS ARE ALWAYS
ASKING QUESTIONS

THE PUBLIC HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW

BUT ONLY UP
TO A CERTAIN POINT.

CLEARLY, YOU DON'T WANT

YOUR MOST HIGHLY
CLASSIFIED PROJECTS

SPREAD ALL OVER THE MEDIA.

CLEARLY, THERE ARE THINGS
BEING DEVELOPED

THAT YOU DON'T WANT THE RUSSIANS

OR THE CHINESE
FINDING OUT ABOUT.

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

TO DEVELOP TECHNOLOGY FROM UFOs?

INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE HIGHLY
CREDIBLE EVIDENCE OF THIS

CAN BE FOUND
IN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS

OF FORMER PRIVATE CONTRACTORS
AT DUGWAY,

WHO REPORT VERY
STRANGE ACTIVITY,

HIGHLY UNUSUAL TECHNOLOGY,

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN
AIRCRAFT DESIGNS

AND EXTREMELY TIGHT SECURITY.

AREA 52 IS A HIGHLY CLASSIFIED
AND SECURE LOCATION,

AND, OF COURSE,
SECURITY IS TIGHT.

BUT THERE ARE AREAS OF IT

WHERE SECURITY IS EVEN TIGHTER.

THERE ARE PARTS OF THE FACILITY
WHERE, APPARENTLY,

EVEN THE MILITARY THEMSELVES
CAN'T GET ACCESS.

WHAT'S GOING ON IN THOSE AREAS?

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

Rosenfeld: NO ONE KNOWS THE AREA
BETTER THAN ME.

IT'S KIND OF ONE
OF THOSE PLACES WHERE,

IF YOU'RE HANGING AROUND,

YOU'RE GOING TO GET CONFRONTED.

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

AND THE GUYS POP OUT
PALMING THEIR GUNS,

IT'S QUITE INTIMIDATING.

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

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

YOU ARE ON DUGWAY PROPERTY."

AND I'M TELLING YOU,
THE SECURITY IS NOTHING

THAT YOU WANT TO MESS WITH.

GOVERNMENTS ARE ALWAYS TALKING
ABOUT BEING MORE TRANSPARENT.

THEY'RE ALWAYS TALKING
ABOUT BEING MORE OPEN.

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

OVER THE YEARS.

I THINK THIS IS MORE PROPAGANDA
THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

Narrator: THE FIRST REPORTS
OF THE EXISTENCE

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

DURING WORLD WAR II,

INVESTIGATORS LEARNED
THAT DUGWAY,

ALSO KNOWN AS AREA 52,

SERVED AS A TEST SITE
FOR TOXIC AGENTS,

INCLUDING NAPALM USED
IN FLAMETHROWERS,

CHEMICAL SPRAY SYSTEMS,
AND FIREBOMBING TACTICS.

WHEN YOU PLAY WITH BIOLOGICAL
AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS,

I MEAN, YOU HAVE
TO ABSOLUTELY HAVE

THE HIGHEST SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE.

ONE MISTAKE CAN BE ABSOLUTELY
FATAL -- LITERALLY.

Narrator: IN 1958, THE U.S. ARMY

ADDED RADIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
TESTING TO AREA 52,

WHICH, ACCORDING TO
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE,

IS ANY DEVICE DESIGNED
TO SPREAD RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

WITH THE INTENT TO KILL
AND CAUSE DISRUPTION.

ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT DUGWAY,

THERE'S NO OVERSIGHT,
NO CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT,

NO INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT,
SO, MORE OR LESS,

THEY'RE DOING WHATEVER
THEY WANT OUT THERE.

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

THAT'S PRETTY SCARY STUFF.

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

THAT IS EVEN MORE CLASSIFIED
THAN AREA 51?

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

A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING MY WAY
WITH PERSONAL STORIES,

THINGS THAT THEY'VE SEEN,
WITNESSED, EXPERIENCED.

ONE OF THESE CONTACTED ME
AND WANTED TO MEET ME

AT A RESTAURANT TO SHOW ME
SOMETHING SPECIAL.

THEY SHOWED ME A PICTURE,

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

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

WAS A FLYING SAUCER.

NOW, THEY WOULD NOT
LET ME HOLD THAT PHOTO.

IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS

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

SO THIS COULD VERY WELL
GET THEM IN TROUBLE.

♪♪

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

COULD BE SECRETLY DEVELOPING
HIGHLY DANGEROUS WEAPONS

AND AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY
OF AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN,

AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

AND, IF SO, WOULD THIS
MEAN THE GOVERNMENT

IS ACTING TO PROTECT US?

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

FURTHER EVIDENCE MAY BE FOUND
IN CHILLING EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS

OF WHAT MANY SAY
IS THE MOST SECRET

AND DANGEROUS MILITARY
BASE IN THE WORLD.

Narrator: UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE AREA 52,

ALSO KNOWN AS DUGWAY
PROVING GROUND,

HAS A LONG HISTORY
OF UFO SIGHTINGS,

GOVERNMENT SECRECY,
AND OFFICIAL COVER-UPS.

CASE IN POINT --
THE SKULL VALLEY SHEEP INCIDENT

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

30 MILES FROM AREA 52.

SINCE 1968,

CLUES OF WHAT
MAY HAVE KILLED THE SHEEP

HAVE SLOWLY COME TO LIGHT.

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND
WAS A LOCATION

WHERE MANY HIGHLY CLASSIFIED
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL TESTS

WERE CARRIED OUT, AND, IN 1968,

ONE OF THESE WENT WRONG
WHEN VX NERVE AGENT

WAS INADVERTENTLY RELEASED.

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

ON THE ONE HAND,
THEY DENIED FOR YEARS AND YEARS

THAT THEY HAD ANYTHING
TO DO WITH THIS,

BUT WE KNOW THAT, QUIETLY,

THEY WERE COMPENSATING
THE RANCHERS.

OBVIOUSLY, THEY KNEW
THAT THEY WERE RESPONSIBLE

FOR THE DEATHS OF THOSE SHEEP.

ALTHOUGH A NERVE AGENT IS
WIDELY BLAMED FOR THE TRAGEDY,

SOME UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
THERE WAS A HIDDEN AGENDA

BEHIND THE NERVE AGENT'S
RELEASE,

ONE MEANT TO CONCEAL
AN EVEN BIGGER SECRET.

Rosenfeld: JUST SO HAPPENS,
DURING THIS SAME TIME,

THERE WAS MASSIVE UFO SIGHTINGS.

SOME WITNESSES HAVE ACTUALLY
FILMED THESE UFOs

AND THESE LIGHTS IN THE SKY.

WAS IT A DIVERSIONARY TACTIC
BY THE MILITARY

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

OR IT COULD BE
THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

MAYBE THEY'RE USING
THE SHEEP INCIDENT

TO TAKE THE FOCUS OFF THE UFOs.

IF THEY'RE TESTING
THIS TYPE OF WEAPONRY,

WHAT DO WE NOT KNOW
ABOUT THE CRAFT

AND THE SIGHTINGS
BEING SEEN AROUND THE AREA?

THE DUGWAY SHEEP INCIDENT
DID SERVE A PURPOSE.

IT FRIGHTENED PEOPLE,
KEPT THEM AWAY,

KEPT THEM FROM ASKING QUESTIONS

BECAUSE THEY SAW
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN.

THESE UFO SIGHTINGS
CONTINUE TO THIS DAY,

AND I FEEL,
AS DO OTHER RESEARCHERS,

THAT THESE OBJECTS
ARE MONITORING

WHAT'S TAKING PLACE AT DUGWAY.

SO THIS IS IMPORTANT.

Narrator:
COULD THE SHEEP INCIDENT

AND THE SIMULTANEOUS
SIGHTINGS OF UFOs

HAVE SERVED AS AN EARLY WARNING
THAT OUR GOVERNMENT

IS OPERATING SECRET PROGRAMS

AT AREA 52 CONNECTED TO UFOs?

AND, IF SO, DOES THE
HIGH-STAKES SECURITY

AND SECRECY SUGGEST
THE GOVERNMENT

IS REALLY WORKING
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS

AND CONTINUES TO DO
SO EVEN TODAY?

SOME PEOPLE IN
THE UFO COMMUNITY BELIEVE

THAT AREA 52 IS A LOCATION

WHERE COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

BETWEEN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

AND EXTRATERRESTRIALS
TAKE PLACE,

AND THIS IS THE VERY LOCATION

WHERE PEOPLE ARE REPORTING
ALL SORTS OF ADVANCED AIRCRAFT,

CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS.

IS THIS A COINCIDENCE?

OR ARE THESE WEAPONS
AND AIRCRAFT

THE FRUITS OF THAT PROJECT?

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

Lukes: BUT WHAT WE DO KNOW

IS THE RESIDENTS
AROUND THE AREA

HAVE REPEATEDLY, FOR DECADES,

REPORTED A HIGH NUMBER
OF UFO SIGHTINGS,

AND I BELIEVE THERE
ABSOLUTELY IS A CONNECTION

BETWEEN WHAT'S
TAKING PLACE AT DUGWAY

AND WHAT WE SEE WITH
THE UNIDENTIFIED PHENOMENON.

Narrator: DAVE ROSENFELD
IS AMONG A NUMBER

OF GROWING UFO RESEARCHERS
WHO CONTEND DUGWAY HAS BEEN

A HOTBED OF UFO ACTIVITY
FOR DECADES.

I'VE SEEN CRAFT FLYING
AROUND AT DUGWAY,

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

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

I'VE PERSONAL WITNESSED
UNCONVENTIONAL CRAFT

BEING ESCORTED BY
BLACK HAWK HELICOPTERS.

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

WHERE UFOs HAVE BEEN
SEEN IN THE AREA,

AND THESE TYPE OF CRAFT
CANNOT BE ALL MILITARY.

THERE'S NO WAY THAT
THE MILITARY CAN ACCOUNT

FOR ALL THE SIGHTINGS
THAT HAPPEN OUT THERE.

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

THROUGH VARIOUS MEANS,
SOVIET MIG AIRCRAFT

AND MANAGED
TO REVERSE-ENGINEER THOSE.

BUT YOU LOOK AT SOMETHING
LIKE STEALTH BOMBERS,

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

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

COULD THERE BE ANY TRUTH
TO THE SUGGESTION

THAT STEALTH TECHNOLOGY
ACTUALLY IS THE RESULT

OF RECOVERED
EXTRATERRESTRIAL TECHNOLOGY?

WHEN YOU LOOK AT
THE REPORTS OF AIRCRAFT,

AIRCRAFT JUST STOPPING ON A DIME

AND THEN GOING STRAIGHT UP,

AIRCRAFT VANISHING,

LITERALLY, INTO THIN AIR,

WHEN YOU LOOK AT STEALTH
FIGHTERS AND STEALTH BOMBERS,

THEY SEEM SO DIFFERENT
FROM ANYTHING THAT CAME BEFORE

THAT YOU CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER,

COULD THIS BE THE RESULT

OF OUR HAVING ACQUIRED
EXTRATERRESTRIAL TECHNOLOGY?

IF A UFO CRASHED
AT ROSWELL IN 1947,

IT STANDS TO REASON
THEY WOULD WORK ON

TRYING TO REVERSE-ENGINEER IT.

IN OTHER WORDS, SCIENTISTS
AND TECHNICIANS AND ENGINEERS

WOULD BE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
WHAT THE TECHNOLOGY IS

AND TRYING TO BUILD
ONE THEMSELVES.

I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE

TECHNOLOGY OUT THERE
THAT'S SO ADVANCED,

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

BUT THEN YOU'VE GOT
THIS EXTRATERRESTRIAL

OR SOME SORT OF INTELLIGENCE

THAT'S INTERACTING AT THIS AREA,

AND WE CAN'T EXPLAIN
THAT EITHER.

BUT THERE IS A DEFINITE
CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO.

IT IS POSSIBLE, ALL RIGHT,

THAT THEY ARE WORKING
ON VERY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY,

EVEN REVERSE-ENGINEERED
TECHNOLOGY FROM SOURCES

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

UNFORTUNATELY,
WE HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS

ABOUT THESE SECRET BASES.

Narrator:
BUT IF THE GOVERNMENT

AND ITS ELITE
PRIVATE CONTRACTORS

ARE REVERSE-ENGINEERING
TECHNOLOGY FROM UFOs,

AS MANY SUSPECT,

HOW ARE THEY GETTING THEIR HANDS
ON SUCH SPACECRAFT?

NOVEMBER 2009 --

AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY

ABOVE NORTH AMERICA.

NEWS REPORTS CLAIM
IT'S JUST A METEORITE,

BUT AS SCIENTISTS
TRACK IT ON RADAR,

THEY DETERMINE THAT THE OBJECT
FALLS INTO AREA 52.

MANY DISMISS THIS AS NOTHING
MORE THAN COINCIDENCE.

BUT IS IT REALLY?

SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS,

UFO INVESTIGATORS POINT
TO ANOTHER SIMILAR INCIDENT

THAT OCCURS ONLY
A FEW YEARS EARLIER.

IN THE EARLY 2000s,
NASA LAUNCHED A SPACE PROBE

CALLED GENESIS,
AND ITS MISSION WAS TO COLLECT

THE FIRST-EVER COSMIC MATERIAL

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

THIS WAS A MISSION
TO TRY AND UNDERSTAND

WHAT'S IN THE SOLAR WIND.

BUT WHEN GENESIS ATTEMPTS
TO RETURN TO EARTH,

SOMETHING APPARENTLY GOES WRONG.

NASA'S GENESIS SPACE PROBE
MALFUNCTIONED,

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

Man: WE SEE THE VISUAL.

Pope: AND WHERE DID THAT HAPPEN?
AREA 52.

IS IT A COINCIDENCE,

OR IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE
AT PLAY HERE?

THE CRASH AT AREA 52,

COUPLED WITH THE RUMORS
ABOUT THAT AREA,

SUGGESTING THAT THIS IS

WHERE ALIEN TECHNOLOGY
IS BEING BACK-ENGINEERED

AND EVEN ADVANCED WEAPONRY
IS BEING DEVELOPED,

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

ACTUALLY DESIGNED
TO BRING DOWN A UFO,

AND THAT WHAT HAPPENED
TO THE GENESIS SPACE PROGRAM

WAS A TEST OF THIS TECHNOLOGY.

AT THE TIME THE SPACE PROBE
CAME DOWN,

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

RE-ENTERING
THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE,

WHICH THEY CLEARLY DID
WITH THIS SPACE PROBE

COMING INTO DUGWAY.

SO COULD THIS BE SOMETHING
THAT THEY WERE TESTING?

IT VERY WELL COULD BE.

Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE
THE MILITARY AND NASA

POSSESS THE EXPERTISE
TO BRING DOWN UFOs,

AS RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

AND, IF SO, COULD THIS BE A PART

OF AN ULTRASECRET
REVERSE-ENGINEERING PROJECT?

WHEN I LOOK AT SOME OF
THE MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES

THAT ARE COMING OUT
OF THE MILITARY,

OUT OF WHAT WE CALL
THE BLACK BUDGET WORLD,

IN TERMS OF OFFICIALLY
RECOGNIZED TECHNOLOGY AND LEAKS,

MY STRONG FEELING IS THAT
A GOOD PORTION OF THIS

COMES FROM SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY

THAT DOES NOT COME FROM US.

IT COMES FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Narrator: IF UFOs ARE COMING
HERE FROM DISTANT WORLDS,

A RECENTLY RELEASED
NASA SATELLITE IMAGE

COULD THROW OPEN THE DOORS
TO A NEW LEVEL OF CONVERSATION

ABOUT GOVERNMENT COMPLICITY
WITH THE UFO PHENOMENON.

♪♪

Narrator: UFO RESEARCHER
DAVE ROSENFELD HAS SEEN

AND HEARD REPORTS OF SO MANY
ASTOUNDING SPACECRAFT

IN AND AROUND AREA 52...

THERE'S SOMETHING
OUT THERE.

...TO SUSPECT THAT SOMEWHERE
ON THE MASSIVE PROPERTY

OF DUGWAY PROVING GROUND,

HE BELIEVES
THERE EXISTS EVIDENCE

THAT COULD ALTER HUMAN HISTORY
FOREVER.

I'VE PERSONALLY WITNESSED
FLYING SAUCERS,

DISAPPEARING JETS,
TRIANGLE-LOOKING CRAFT.

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

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

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

INVESTIGATORS SAY THE EVIDENCE
LIES WITH A NASA SPACE PROBE

NAMED MARINER 9.

Man: THREE, TWO, ONE, ZERO.

THE MARINER 9 MISSION
WAS NASA'S FIRST CHANCE

TO GET A GOOD LOOK
AT WHAT MARS LOOKS LIKE.

WE THINK WATER'S
REQUIRED FOR LIFE

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

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

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

Narrator:
SUSPECTING THE MARINER 9 IMAGES

WERE NOT FULLY RELEASED
TO THE PUBLIC,

UFO EXPERTS HAVE LONG BELIEVED

THAT SOMETHING MORE UNUSUAL
HAD BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED

ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE.

FINALLY, IN 2015,

44 YEARS AFTER THE MISSION,

NASA RELEASES AN IMAGE

THAT INVESTIGATORS CALL
EARTH-SHATTERING.

NASA RELEASED
AN ENORMOUS NUMBER,

THOUSANDS OF OTHER PICTURES,

THAT THEY TOOK OF MARS
FROM THAT TIME,

BUT THEY DID NOT
RELEASE THAT PICTURE

UNTIL 44 YEARS LATER.

WHY NOT?

THE SATELLITE IMAGE,

SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME
ON NATIONAL TELEVISION,

SHOWS A PREVIOUSLY UNDISCOVERED
MYSTERIOUS ROCK FORMATION

ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE.

SO THIS IS
THE NASA MARINER 9 IMAGE

FROM THE SURFACE OF MARS,
MOUNTAIN RANGE HERE,

MOUNTAIN CLUSTER HERE,
BIG VALLEY.

THE AREA OF INTEREST IS
THIS CONE-SHAPED PROTRUSION,

THIS HILL COMING UP
RIGHT OUT OF THE SURFACE

WITH THESE ROCKS PLACED
EITHER BY COINCIDENCE

OR CAREFULLY PLACED

IN AN ARRANGEMENT
ON THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN,

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

IT IS POSSIBLE THAT
THAT MARS FORMATION

IS A NATURAL FORMATION.
I'M NOT SAYING IT ISN'T.

BUT I DO WONDER,

WHY WOULD NASA HAVE HELD OFF
PUBLISHING THAT PICTURE

FOR TWO GENERATIONS?

THERE'S A QUESTION TO ASK.

THE MARINER 9 IMAGE
IS FASCINATING.

THERE'S NO GETTING AWAY
FROM THE FACT

THAT IT LOOKS LIKE
A STONE CIRCLE.

IT LOOKS LIKE EXACTLY THE KIND
OF NEOLITHIC STONE CIRCLES

THAT WE FIND HERE ON EARTH.

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

STONEHENGE
IS ONE OF THE MOST MYSTERIOUS

ANCIENT SITES ON EARTH.

Pope: SOME OF THE BIGGER STONES
AT STONEHENGE

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

TO SEE HOW PEOPLE AT THE TIME

COULD HAVE TRANSPORTED THEM
TO THE LOCATION.

THIS IS A TIME BEFORE THE WHEEL,

AND YET WE KNOW

THAT SOME OF
THOSE BIGGER STONES

WERE SOMEHOW TRANSPORTED
ALL THE WAY FROM WALES.

Narrator: IF, AS SOME BELIEVE,

PREHISTORIC MAN ALONE
COULD NOT MOVE SUCH STONES

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

THEN WHO OR WHAT DID?

THE ANSWER LIES,
UFO EXPERTS SAY,

IN THE SIMILARITY
OF THE STONEHENGE MONUMENT

AND THE ROCK FORMATION
DISCOVERED ON MARS.

IN LOOKING AT THESE STRUCTURES
SIDE BY SIDE,

STONEHENGE AND MARS,

WE HAVE VERY SPECIFIC THINGS
THAT ARE SIMILAR,

FOUR ROCK PLACEMENTS,

FOUR STONES IN THE CENTER
AND TWO CONCENTRIC CIRCLES.

AND THE TWO CONCENTRIC CIRCLES
ENCIRCLE THE FOUR STONES.

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

DOES IT SERVE
SOME PURPOSE IN SCIENCE,

OR IS IT A REMARKABLE
COINCIDENCE?

THE FACT THAT THESE OBJECTS
DO INDEED LOOK SIMILAR,

ONE COULD SPECULATE
THAT THERE WAS

AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL
COMPONENT INVOLVED

IN BOTH OF THESE SITES.

SOME THEORISTS HAVE SPECULATED
THAT STONEHENGE WAS PERHAPS

A PLACE THAT
EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT LANDED.

COULD THIS BE SAID OF MARS?

WE DON'T KNOW.

Narrator: STILL,
SOME RESEARCHERS DISAGREE.

NOW, WHEN YOU GET DOWN
TO THE ACTUAL DETAILS,

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

BUT IT IS BIZARRE WHERE
YOU HAVE CIRCULAR-TYPE,

STRUCTURE-LOOKING OBJECTS

ON AN ALIEN SURFACE

ON A DIFFERENT PLANET
OTHER THAN EARTH.

IS THERE A LOGICAL EXPLANATION?
SURE.

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

Narrator: EVEN SO,
MOST UFO INVESTIGATORS

REALLY BELIEVE THE RESEMBLANCE
IS SIGNIFICANT.

IN FACT, THEY GO
ONE STEP FURTHER.

THEY SEE SIMILARITIES
IN THE FORMATIONS

AT STONEHENGE AND MARS

TO NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN
SATELLITE IMAGES

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

THE AERIAL IMAGE SHOWS FEATURES

OF THE UTAH DESERT THAT MIRROR

THOSE OF BOTH
STONEHENGE AND MARS.

WHEN ONE DOES A COMPARISON
BETWEEN STONEHENGE,

THE MARS ROCK FORMATION,

AND AREA 52,

THERE ARE CERTAINLY
SIMILARITIES.

IS THAT A COINCIDENCE,

OR IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE
GOING ON?

Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE
SUGGEST THAT AREA 52

REALLY DOES FUNCTION
AS A SPACEPORT,

AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

Rosenfeld:
WHEN YOU LOOK AT STONEHENGE

AND YOU LOOK
AT THIS ROCK FORMATION ON MARS

AND THE CONNECTION MAYBE
WITH DUGWAY

HAVING A SIMILAR TYPE
OF FORMATION,

DOES THAT MEAN THAT ALL THREE
OF THEM ARE SPACEPORTS?

I BELIEVE THAT IT'S POSSIBLE.

Narrator:
IF THE EVIDENCE IS CREDIBLE,

AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE,

WHAT ELSE IS THE GOVERNMENT
POSSIBLY HIDING?

AND WHAT ABOUT NEW INFORMATION
FROM SCIENTISTS

THAT IS CHANGING
THE CONVERSATION

ABOUT UFO SIGHTINGS?

DOES THIS PROVIDE
A NEW PERSPECTIVE

ON THE GOVERNMENT'S INVOLVEMENT
WITH THE UFO PHENOMENON?

FOR DAVE ROSENFELD,

THERE IS NO DOUBT
THAT UFOs ARE CONNECTED

TO TOP-SECRET ACTIVITY
AT AREA 52,

AND HE BELIEVES HE'S GOT PROOF.

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

AND WE BRING ALL
OUR EQUIPMENT OUT THERE,

THE TELESCOPES AND NIGHT VISION.

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

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

JUST THIS HUGE FLASHING LIGHT.

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

COMPLETELY WENT THROUGH A CLOUD

AND CONTINUED UP INTO SPACE.

WE COULD ACTUALLY SMELL,
LIKE, STATIC ELECTRICITY.

Narrator: DAVE DESCRIBES
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT WHEN HE TOOK

THIS ACTUAL NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN
PHOTO THAT NIGHT.

Rosenfeld:
NOW, SECOND TIME IT FIRED,

WE WATCHED FOUR OR FIVE
BLUE LIGHTS COME DOWN

AND COMPLETELY SURROUND
THIS BEAM

LIKE THEY WERE WATCHING.

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

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

ONE SIMILAR TO THE TECHNOLOGY

THAT BROUGHT DOWN
THE GENESIS SPACE PROBE,

OR IS THERE MORE TO THE STORY,

AND WILL THE GOVERNMENT
OR MILITARY EVER ADMIT

WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT UFOs
AND ALIEN TECHNOLOGY?

SOME EXPERTS WILL ARGUE
THEY ALREADY HAVE,

AS THE RECENT RELEASE
OF THOUSANDS

OF DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
BY THE UNITED STATES,

INCLUDING THE CIA
AND OTHER WORLD GOVERNMENTS,

COULD PROVE THERE REALLY IS
OFFICIAL EVIDENCE OF UFOs.

BUT WHY ARE SO MANY COUNTRIES
SUDDENLY RELEASING

SO MANY UFO DOCUMENTS
ALL AT THE SAME TIME?

Narrator: OVER THE LAST DECADE,

INTEREST IN UFOs
AND AREA 52 HAS GROWN,

BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL RECENTLY

THAT THE SUBJECT
OF GOVERNMENT SECRETS

WAS THRUST INTO THE SPOTLIGHT.

MAY 13, 2016,

NEWS OUTLETS CONFIRM

THAT CONFIDENTIAL
BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES

ON UFO SIGHTINGS
WILL BE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC.

I'M HOPING THESE NEW FILES
WILL SHED LIGHT

ON MANY OF THE BIGGEST
AND MOST IMPORTANT UFO CASES

IN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S
FILES.

PERHAPS THE BIGGEST IS
THE RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT.

♪♪

THE UFO WAS BRIEFLY TRACKED
ON MILITARY RADAR,

AND THIS OBJECT,
WHATEVER IT WAS, BRIEFLY LANDED.

RADIATION LEVELS AT THE LANDING
SITE WERE SUBSEQUENTLY ASSESSED,

AND THEY WERE
SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER

THAN THE AVERAGE BACKGROUND.

ONE OF THE WITNESSES WAS THE
DEPUTY BASE COMMANDER HIMSELF.

SO WE HAD A SENIOR
AND HIGHLY SKEPTICAL OFFICER

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

"TO DEBUNK ALL THIS
UFO NONSENSE."

AND HE ENDED UP
A WITNESS HIMSELF.

IN THE FILES, BOTH OF
THE BRITISH MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

AND THE CIVIL AVIATION
AUTHORITY,

THERE ARE REPORTS OF WHAT
I CAN ONLY DESCRIBE

AS VIRTUAL DOGFIGHTS TAKING
PLACE IN THE BRITISH SKIES.

PILOTS WERE BEING VECTORED
TOWARDS UFOs

BY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL.

JUST AT THEY CLOSED
ON THE OBJECT,

IT WOULD RESPOND
WITH EXTRAORDINARY SPEEDS

AND MANEUVERS AND SOMEHOW EVADE
EVEN OUR FASTEST JETS.

SOME OF THE SKEPTICS EVEN

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

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

Narrator: COULD SUCH
NEWLY DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS

BEGIN TO CHANGE OUR PERSPECTIVE
ON UFOs?

MORE DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
RELEASED IN FRANCE

WITH THE PUBLICATION
OF AN OFFICIAL REPORT IN 2010.

Dolan: IN 2010,
A PROMINENT FRENCH BODY,

IT WAS THE AERONAUTICAL
AND ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY,

WHICH IS COMPRISED
OF VERY HIGH-RANKING,

ESTABLISHED FRENCH SCIENTISTS,

RELEASED A STUDY OF UFOs,

IN WHICH THEY CONCLUDED
THAT THE UFO PHENOMENON IS REAL

AND COULD BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL.

WHEN YOU HAVE A GOVERNMENT
THAT'S WILLING TO SAY

A PHENOMENON LIKE UFOs
IS ACTUALLY REAL,

THAT'S A BIG STATEMENT TO MAKE.

THE BIG VARIABLE HERE IS,
WHAT IS A UFO?

THE QUESTION MARK
IS IF IT'S ALIEN.

AND THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT,

ALTHOUGH IT DIDN'T MAKE
THAT LEAP,

THEY WERE ABLE TO AT LEAST
DEFINITIVELY SAY

THIS PHENOMENON IS REAL

AND WARRANTS FURTHER
SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION.

Narrator: AND THERE ARE STILL
EVEN MORE GOVERNMENTS

RELEASING THEIR FORMERLY
CLASSIFIED UFO FILES.

IN 2009, NEWS CHANNEL
RUSSIA TODAY

REPORTED THE RUSSIAN NAVY
DECLASSIFIED ITS RECORDS

OF ENCOUNTERS CAPTURED
BY MILITARY SURVEILLANCE.

CLOSER TO HOME,
IN JANUARY 2016,

THE CIA RELEASED THOUSANDS
OF DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS

RELATING TO UFOs,
FLYING SAUCERS,

AND OTHER UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA.

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

WILL CONTAIN INFORMATION
ABOUT UFOs THAT I SUSPECT

WILL CHANGE PEOPLE'S MIND
ABOUT THE WHOLE PHENOMENON.

Narrator:
ONE SUCH DOCUMENT WAS A REPORT

BY THE CIA'S SCIENTIFIC
INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT

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

DATED OCTOBER 2, 1952,

AND SEEN HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME
ON NATIONAL TELEVISION,

THEIR FINDINGS CONCLUDE THAT...

THE FIRST INVOLVES MASS
PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS,

AND THE SECOND CONCERNS
VULNERABILITY

OF THE UNITED STATES
TO AIR ATTACK.

THE FACT THAT YOU'VE GOT
A MEMO GOING DIRECTLY

TO THE CIA DIRECTOR ABOUT UFOs
AND THE POTENTIAL DANGERS

IS SIGNIFICANT AND INTERESTING
IN AND OF ITSELF.

WHY WERE UFOs CONSIDERED

Dolan: TO BE OF EXTREME NATIONAL
SECURITY IMPORTANCE?

WHEN YOU HAVE UNKNOWN OBJECTS
INVADING SENSITIVE AIRSPACE

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

THAT ACT WITH IMPUNITY
OVER OUR MOST SENSITIVE PLACES

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

THAT WOULD NOT CAUSE PANIC?

HOW EASY CAN IT BE
FOR ANY GOVERNMENT,

PARTICULARLY
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT,

TO ADMIT THAT THERE ARE OBJECTS
SO FAR BEYOND OUR ABILITY

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

Greenewald:
WHAT THESE CIA DOCUMENTS SHOW

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

OR THAT THESE UFOs
WERE MALICIOUS IN SOME WAY

OR AGGRESSIVE,

IT COULD ABSOLUTELY
CHANGE THE MIND-SETS

OF THOSE CALLING THE SHOTS
ON WHAT PLACES LIKE DUGWAY

WOULD RESEARCH AND WHAT THEIR
MISSION STATEMENTS REALLY WERE.

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

IN A PATTERN OF GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES ACKNOWLEDGING

THE UFO PHENOMENON.

IT'S ESTIMATED 28 COUNTRIES,
INCLUDING THE VATICAN,

HAVE NOW RELEASED
THEIR UFO DOCUMENTS.

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

THAT THE UFO PHENOMENON IS REAL,

THAT THEIR GOVERNMENTS
ARE NOT AFRAID

TO SAY THIS PHENOMENON
ACTUALLY EXISTS.

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

THAT PROVES THAT UFOs
ARE EXTRATERRESTRIAL.

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

THE TOP 100, THE TOP SEVERAL
HUNDRED OF THESE DOCUMENTS

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

THEY PROVE THAT
THIS UFO PHENOMENON IS REAL

AND IS NOT EXPLAINABLE
CONVENTIONALLY.

Narrator: WHY ARE PROMINENT
NATIONS, SPACE AGENCIES,

AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
ALL OVER THE WORLD

SUDDENLY RELEASING
THEIR SECRET KNOWLEDGE OF UFOs?

Rosenfeld: WITH ALL THESE
COUNTRIES COMING FORWARD

DISCLOSING UFO INFORMATION,

I DO BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE
TRYING TO ACCLIMATE US

TO THE UFO PRESENCE
LITTLE BY LITTLE

SO, IF IT DOES HAPPEN,

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

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

WE'LL BE MORE ACCEPTIVE
TO THE IDEA.

Narrator: AND IT MAY NOT BE
JUST GOVERNMENTS

THAT ARE ACCLIMATING US.

THERE IS ACTUAL SCIENCE THAT'S
ALSO CHANGING THE CONVERSATION

ABOUT UFOs AND THE INCREASING
PROBABILITY

OF INTELLIGENT LIFE
IN OUR GALAXY.

IN FACT, NASA ASTRONOMERS HAVE
RECENTLY MADE WHAT MANY CLAIM

IS THE SINGLE MOST INCREDIBLE
DISCOVERY SO FAR

IN THIS 21st CENTURY.

FOR THE FIRST TIME,
BREAKING NEWS REVEALS

WHAT SCIENTISTS
AND THE GOVERNMENT KNOW

ABOUT WHERE UFOs MAY
BE COMING FROM.

♪♪

Narrator: GOVERNMENTS
ALL AROUND THE WORLD

HAVE BEEN DECLASSIFYING
THEIR SECRET KNOWLEDGE OF UFOs,

BUT WHY?

IS IT POSSIBLE THEY KNOW
OF NEW EVIDENCE

POINTING TO THE EXISTENCE

OF INTELLIGENT
EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE?

JULY 23, 2015 --
NASA ASTRONOMERS,

USING THE KEPLER
SPACE TELESCOPE,

ANNOUNCED
THE GROUNDBREAKING DISCOVERY

OF THE FIRST EARTH-SIZE PLANET
ORBITING A STAR

WITHIN THE HABITABLE ZONE
OF A DISTANT SOLAR SYSTEM.

THE KEPLER MISSION
IS ABOUT FINDING PLANETS,

AND IT'S ABOUT UNDERSTANDING
HOW COMMON PLANETS

LIKE OUR OWN ARE IN THE GALAXY.

THE HABITABLE ZONE IS ALSO KNOWN
AS THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE.

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

IT'S JUST THE RIGHT TEMPERATURE
WHERE LIQUID WATER

COULD EXIST ON THE SURFACE
OF THIS PLANET,

AND WE THINK LIQUID WATER
IS NECESSARY FOR LIFE.

Narrator: ONE YEAR AFTER
THIS AMAZING DISCOVERY,

IN MAY OF 2016,

NASA RELEASES FURTHER ASTOUNDING
NEWS CONFIRMING THE EXISTENCE

OF OVER 2,300 HABITABLE
EARTH-SIZE PLANETS

WITHIN OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY.

THEY ALSO ESTIMATE
THAT THERE COULD ACTUALLY

BE BILLIONS
OF HABITABLE-ZONE PLANETS

BASED ON THESE FINDINGS.

THE MORE CAREFULLY WE LOOK,

WE LEARN THAT THERE
ARE PLACES OUT THERE

THAT LOOK VERY SIMILAR
TO OUR OWN PLANET,

AND THERE'S MANY, MANY OF THEM.

THERE'S PROBABLY MORE PLANETS
THAN THERE ARE STARS.

THAT MEANS
A HUNDRED BILLION OF THEM.

SO, EVEN IF LIFE IS RARE,

IT SHOULD STILL FORM
ALL THE TIME.

THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AND
CHEMISTRY APPEAR TO BE CONSTANT

IN THE UNIVERSE.

THAT BEING THE CASE,
THE SAME PROCESSES

THAT GAVE RISE TO LIFE
HERE ON EARTH

SHOULD REPLICATE COUNTLESS
BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF TIMES

OUT THERE IN THE COSMOS.

AND THAT BEING THE CASE,

THERE'S PROBABLY A LOT
OF LIFE OUT THERE,

AND NOT JUST LIFE,

BUT SOME OF THAT LIFE
WILL BE INTELLIGENT LIFE.

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

THE UNIVERSE IS TEEMING
WITH LIFE.

BILLIONS AND BILLIONS
OF HABITABLE PLANETS

WILL UNDOUBTEDLY
BE KNOWN TO EXIST.

SO WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD
THAT ONE

OR MORE THAN ONE
OF THOSE HABITABLE PLANETS

HAVE DEVELOPED LIFE
THAT IS ADVANCED LIKE US

AND LIFE THAT HAS
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

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

OR MORE?

Greenewald: WHEN THE WRIGHT
BROTHERS ACHIEVED FLIGHT,

THEY HAD NO IDEA THAT 100 YEARS

AFTER THEY ACHIEVED
WHAT THEY DID,

WE WOULD HAVE A SPACE SHUTTLE.

IF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
PROGRESSES INTO THE FUTURE

ANOTHER 150 YEARS
AT THE SAME PACE THAT IT HAS

FOR THE LAST 150 YEARS,
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES.

Narrator:
COULD THE EXISTENCE OF THOUSANDS

OF POTENTIALLY HABITABLE PLANETS

SUPPORT WHAT MANY UFO EXPERTS
KNOW TO BE TRUE --

THAT THESE NEWLY
DISCOVERED WORLDS

ARE THE SOURCE OF UFOs
ALREADY HERE ON EARTH?

CLEARLY, WE HAVE TO ASSUME

THAT THERE HAS TO HAVE
BEEN LIFE OUT THERE

THAT MADE THE BREAKTHROUGH
TO HIGHLY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AND ADVANCED NANOTECHNOLOGY

AND QUANTUM COMPUTING AND BEYOND

AND EVERYTHING ELSE
THAT WE CAN IMAGINE.

AND, IF THEY HAVE DONE THIS,

WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD

THAT THEY MAY HAVE
BEEN ABLE TO FIND US

AT SOME POINT IN THE GAME?

I THINK THE LIKELIHOOD
IS EXTREMELY HIGH.

Pope: ONE CAN LOOK
AT A NUMBER OF THINGS

THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY
AND SAY,

"WELL, IS THIS EVIDENCE
OF UFOs?"

EVERYTHING FROM
ANCIENT CAVE PAINTINGS,

ALL THESE MYSTERIES
FROM OUR ANCIENT PAST

AN ALL THE MORE MODERN
UFO SIGHTINGS,

WHEN YOU PUT TOGETHER ALL THIS
UFO EVIDENCE WITH WHAT SCIENCE

IS NOW TELLING US ABOUT
THE NUMBER OF PLANETS OUT THERE

IN THE HABITABLE ZONE, SUDDENLY,

UFOs AND ALIEN VISITATION
DOESN'T SEEM THAT UNLIKELY.

Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT MODERN SCIENCE

IS LOOKING IN DEEP SPACE
FOR THE SOURCE OF ALIEN LIFE

THAT OUR GOVERNMENT
ALREADY KNOW EXISTS?

IT'S AN AMAZING THING
WHEN YOU CONSIDER

HOW RAPIDLY WE HAVE NOW FOUND
THOUSANDS OF HABITABLE PLANETS.

SO IT IS HIGHLY LIKELY
THAT ANOTHER CIVILIZATION

FROM OUT THERE HAS FOUND US
AND FOUND US INTERESTING

AND IS COMING TO CHECK US OUT.

Narrator: ARE WORLD GOVERNMENTS
REVEALING ALL THAT THEY KNOW

IN ADVANCE OF SOME KIND
OF WORLD-CHANGING EVENT?

Pope: WITH GOVERNMENTS ALL
AROUND THE WORLD DECLASSIFYING

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

"MAYBE THEY KNOW
SOMETHING'S COMING."

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

SOME BIG UNDENIABLE UFO EVENT,

ALL THAT INFORMATION'S
GOING TO BE OBSOLETE ANYWAY.

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

I HAVE LOOKED AT MOUNTAINS
AND MOUNTAINS OF EVIDENCE,

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

AND THAT THERE ARE AGENCIES

WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY THAT KNOW THIS.

Narrator:
COULD ALL THE RECENT REVELATIONS

AND INCREASED AWARENESS OF
AREA 52 BE JUST A COINCIDENCE,

OR IS IT MORE?

MAYBE THIS IS WHY
DUGWAY'S MISSION EXPANDED,

BECAUSE OF THIS THREAT
FROM OUTER SPACE.

PERHAPS THEY'RE BUILDING
COUNTERMEASURES

AGAINST AN ALIEN ATTACK.

IS IT POSSIBLE OUR WORLD LEADERS

ARE FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGING
WHAT THEY HAVE KNOWN ALL ALONG,

THAT MAN'S CONTACT WITH UFOs

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

OR ARE THEY PREPARING US
FOR SOMETHING TO COME?