UFOs: The Lost Evidence (2017): Season 1, Episode 3 - Pilots and Astronauts - full transcript
When it comes to identifying mysterious, unknown objects in our skies, there are few more qualified than pilots and astronauts. Through amazing first-hand accounts we'll learn that ...
Narrator:HIGHLY TRAINED PILOTS ENCOUNTERING
MYSTERIOUS AIRCRAFT ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
Man:
IT WAS A HIGHLY MANEUVERABLE,
INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED OBJECT
IN MILITARY AIRSPACE.
Narrator: INCREDIBLE UNEXPLAINED
SIGHTINGS BY ASTRONAUTS
ARE INCREASING EVERY YEAR.
Man: IF PILOTS ARE GOOD
UFO WITNESSES,
THEN ASTRONAUTS
ARE GREAT UFO WITNESSES.
Narrator: NEW EVIDENCE, NEVER
BEFORE SEEN ON TELEVISION,
HAS UFO RESEARCHERS
CONVINCED THAT NASA
MAY BE CONCEALING THE TRUTH.
Woman:
THIS VERY CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES
THAT WE ARE DEALING
WITH SOMETHING
FROM ANOTHER WORLD.
Narrator: AS MANKIND REACHES
FURTHER FROM EARTH,
NEW SCIENTIFIC
DISCOVERIES ON MARS
ARE RAISING NEW QUESTIONS.
Man: MARS WAS INHABITED
AT ONE POINT,
AND WHAT WE SEE TODAY
IS REMNANTS
OF THAT CIVILIZATION.
Narrator: IS OUR GOVERNMENT
TELLING US
ALL IT KNOWS ABOUT UFOs?
Man: THESE UFO INCIDENTS
POSE SERIOUS
NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES.
WE IGNORE THESE SIGHTINGS
AT OUR PERIL.
Narrator: NEW INFORMATION
IS TRANSFORMING
WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT.
ARE UFOs REALLY
VISITING OUR WORLD?
IS THE GOVERNMENT
HIDING THE TRUTH?
AND, IF SO,
COULD NEW EVIDENCE
REVEAL THE TRUTH
WITNESSED BY PILOTS
AND ASTRONAUTS?
CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS
Narrator: APRIL, 2007 --
SUFFOLK, ENGLAND.
UNDER EXCELLENT VISIBILITY,
MILITARY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS
AT THE LAKENHEATH
AIR FORCE BASE
IDENTIFY A STRANGE ANOMALY
IN THE NEARBY AIRSPACE.
THEY IMMEDIATELY REQUEST
THE HELP OF TWO PILOTS
ALREADY IN THE AIR
TO INVESTIGATE.
PILOTS ARE FROM THE BASE
AT LAKENHEATH,
AN AMERICAN BASE,
PART OF THE WIDER U.S.
PRESENCE IN THE U.K.
THESE AMERICAN PILOTS,
THEY ARE ORDERED
TO INTERCEPT A UFO
THAT HAS BEEN PICKED UP
AND TRACKED
ON MILITARY RADAR.
NEWS OF THIS ONLY LEAKED OUT
BECAUSE OF THE ACTIVITIES
OF A HAM RADIO OPERATOR.
Man: TARGET CONFIRMED...
Narrator:
WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR
IS THE ACTUAL EXCHANGE
BETWEEN THE AMERICAN PILOTS
RECORDED BY THE HAM
RADIO OPERATOR.
THIS CONVERSATION HAS NEVER
BEFORE BEEN HEARD ON TELEVISION.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO THE PILOTS,
THE STRANGE OBJECT MOVED
FROM 17,000 FEET
UP TO 17,700
FEET IN ALTITUDE.
AS ONE OF THE PILOTS
FINALLY GETS CLOSE, HE REPORTS.
Dolan: WE HAVE NO EXPLANATION
FOR WHAT THIS THING WAS.
SO BOTH F-15s HAD A RADAR
LOCK ON THE OBJECT,
AND GROUND-BASED RADAR
ALSO WAS TRACKING IT,
SO THERE WAS CLEARLY
SOMETHING THERE.
Pope: AT FIRST, THE AUTHORITIES
DENIED EVERYTHING,
BUT ONCE THAT HAM RADIO OPERATOR
HAD MADE PUBLIC THE RECORDING,
IT WAS UNDENIABLE.
Lukes: WHEN YOU HEAR
THE EXCHANGE OF THESE PILOTS
AND THEY'RE SAYING
THAT THEY DON'T KNOW
WHAT THIS OBJECT IS,
YOU NEED TO TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY.
THEY KNOW WHAT
THEY'RE LOOKING AT.
THIS IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL.
Rosenfeld: THIS LAKENHEATH
INCIDENT IS VERY INTERESTING
BECAUSE YOU HAVE PILOTS
DESCRIBING A ROCK
THAT'S FLOATING AND CHANGING
DIRECTION IN THE SKY.
Bara: IT HAD NO WINGS,
IT HAD NO TAIL,
IT HAD NO MEANS OF PROPULSION,
YET IT WAS AT HIGH ALTITUDE,
IT MOVED AROUND,
IT CHANGED ALTITUDE.
IT DID THINGS THAT
BASICALLY A ROCK
IS NOT CAPABLE OF DOING,
SO WHAT WAS THIS THING
DOING IN THE SKY?
NOBODY REALLY KNOWS.
Narrator: ACCORDING TO
UFO INVESTIGATORS,
THIS INCIDENT
IS NOT AN ISOLATED ONE.
SUCH OCCURRENCES ARE
INCREASING EVERY YEAR.
TAKE JULY 7, 2010.
IN A CHINESE CITY
JUST SOUTH OF SHANGHAI
ALONG CHINA'S EASTERN SEABOARD,
A THREE-MAN FLIGHT CREW ONBOARD
AN AIR CHINA JET LINER
FILLED WITH PASSENGERS
PREPARES FOR LANDING.
CHINESE PILOTS, AS THEY WERE
APPROACHING THE AIRPORT,
REPORTED SEEING
AN UNUSUAL OBJECT
THAT GOT THEIR ATTENTION
AND THEIR CONCERN.
Narrator: THE PILOTS REPORT
TO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
THAT AN UNKNOWN OBJECT
ABOUT 100 FEET IN LENGTH,
30 FEED IN WIDTH
IS MOVING SLOWLY
IN THE AIRSPACE 2,000 FEET
ABOVE THE AIRPORT.
AT THE SAME TIME,
PEOPLE ON THE GROUND
PHOTOGRAPHED THIS OBJECT.
THERE ARE SEVERAL
OF THESE PHOTOGRAPHS
AND THEY'RE VERY INTERESTING.
AND THEY CERTAINLY APPEAR
TO SHOW AN ELONGATED OBJECT,
AND THERE'S LIGHT COMING
DOWN FROM THE OBJECT.
THE ENTIRE AIRPORT WAS CLOSED.
FLIGHTS WERE DIVERTED.
I MEAN, CLEARLY SOMETHING
WAS GOING ON IN THE SKIES.
Lukes: YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT
THERE WERE WITNESSES IN THE AIR
THAT SAW THE OBJECT
AS THEY WERE LANDING,
AND WE HAVE THIS
PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE.
SO ALL OF THAT TOGETHER TELLS ME
THAT THERE ABSOLUTELY WAS A UFO.
THERE'S TOO MUCH EVIDENCE
TO SAY THAT THERE WASN'T.
Bara:
BECAUSE OF THE PREJUDICE
AGAINST REPORTING
THESE KINDS OF SIGHTINGS,
THE PILOTS REALLY
TOOK A HUGE RISK
BY ACTUALLY CALLING OUT
OVER THE OPEN AIRWAVES
AND SAYING THAT THEY'D
SEEN THIS OBJECT.
SO FOR THEM TO DO THAT,
THEY MUST'VE
REALLY SEEN
SOMETHING VERY UNUSUAL,
AND IT WAS CONSIDERED
A THREAT TO THEM.
Narrator: TWO WEEKS LATER,
ANOTHER UFO
SIGHTING WAS REPORTED
IN THE SAME AIRSPACE
ABOVE THE SAME CHINESE CITY.
THIS IS ACTUAL RECORDED
EYEWITNESS VIDEO OF THE EVENT.
OBSERVERS DESCRIBE THE SIGHTING
AS AN EERIE WHITE
LIGHT FLOATING THROUGH THE SKY,
LEAVING A BRIGHT TRAIL
IN ITS WAKE.
Pope:
IT'S BEEN VARIOUSLY SUGGESTED
THAT THIS WAS A ROCKET TEST,
OR PERHAPS SOME SORT OF SECRET
MILITARY TEST WAS UNDERWAY.
IT'S ALSO BEEN THEORIZED
THAT THIS WAS THE REENTRY
INTO THE EARTH'S
ATMOSPHERE OF A ROCKET
THAT HAD LAUNCHED.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL
EVER HAVE DEFINITIVE ANSWERS.
BUT IT SHOWS THAT THESE
THINGS ARE OCCURRING,
APPARENTLY WITH INCREASING
REGULARITY IN OUR SKIES,
AND THAT THEY'RE A CAUSE
OF SOME CONSIDERABLE CONCERN
TO AUTHORITIES
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
Bara: YOU ALSO GOT TO CONSIDER
THAT CHINA IS VERY MILITARIZED.
IT'S A COMMUNIST COUNTRY.
IT DOES HAVE A VERY
INTENSE AIR DEFENSE,
AND THESE OBJECTS PENETRATED
THAT AIR DEFENSE,
GOT IN THEIR AIRPORTS,
AND ACTUALLY CREATED
ENOUGH TROUBLE
TO HAVE THEM SHUT DOWN
THE AIRPORT ITSELF.
THAT'S A REALLY BIG DEAL.
Narrator: UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE THE CHINESE SIGHTINGS
ARE A CLEAR INDICATION
OF THE INCREASING
NUMBER OF UFOs WORLDWIDE.
BUT PERHAPS
THE BEST-KNOWN EVIDENCE
OF THIS ALARMING
TREND OCCURS
OVER MEXICO'S YUCATAN PENINSULA.
IN EARLY 2004,
THE MEXICAN AIR FORCE
WAS DOING A ROUTINE
DRUG INTERDICTION FLIGHT
OVER THE SOUTHERN
PART OF MEXICO.
THIS IS THE MOST FAMOUS CASE
IN THE MEXICAN AIR
FORCE HISTORY.
Dolan: THEY WERE USING
FORWARD-LOOKING INFRARED --
FLIR -- AND RADAR,
AND TRACKED ON
THEIR INSTRUMENTATION,
BUT DID NOT SEE
VISUALLY 11 OBJECTS.
Narrator: AT ABOUT 10,000
FEET IN ALTITUDE,
THE CREW RECORDS
AND MONITORS THE UFOs
WHILE REPORTING THE SIGHTINGS
TO GROUND CONTROL.
THIS IS THE ACTUAL
RECORDED VIDEO FEED
FROM THE MEXICAN AIR FORCE.
Dilettoso: WE'RE LOOKING AT
THE TARGET IMAGERY
OF THESE OBJECTS
THAT ARE TRACKING ALONG
WITH THE AIRPLANE.
WHERE'S THE AIRPLANE?
LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE HERE,
AZIMUTH, APERTURE,
ANGLE IN THE SKY ON THE HORIZON,
SO THAT THIS TARGET TELLS US
EXACTLY WHAT THE POSITION
IN THE ANGLE
IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT,
WHAT POSITION THE AIRPLANE IS.
NOW WE HAVE OTHER OBJECTS
THAT ARE COMING UP
THAT ARE MUCH CLOSER,
THAT ARE MOVING IN
BETWEEN THE CLOUDS,
TRACKING ALONG
WITH THE AIRPLANE.
Lukes: IT WOULD APPEAR
THAT THESE OBJECTS
ARE EITHER INTELLIGENT
OR INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED
BECAUSE THEY APPEAR TO BE
COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER
AS THEY ARE FOLLOWING
THE AIRCRAFT.
Pope: IT'S A FASCINATING
PIECE OF FOOTAGE.
ONE CAN SEE QUITE
CLEARLY THESE UFOs
APPARENTLY MOVING AT HIGH SPEED,
AND HERE THEY ARE SHOWING UP
ON MILITARY CAMERAS.
Narrator: AFTER THE INCIDENT,
THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT RELEASES
A PRESS STATEMENT
AND THE FOOTAGE
FROM THE ENCOUNTER.
Pope: IT'S BEEN SUGGESTED
THAT THESE OBJECTS
ARE NOTHING MORE THAN
THE FLARES FROM OIL RIGS.
TO ME, IT DIDN'T STACK UP.
Dolan: WE'RE LEFT WITH AN OBJECT
THAT WAS TRACKED
AT A HIGH ENOUGH ALTITUDE,
MUCH HIGHER UP
THAN WHAT YOU WOULD GET
BY LOOKING DOWN
AT OIL RIGS,
SO I'M NOT REALLY CONVINCED
BY THAT EXPLANATION.
BECAUSE OF THE TESTIMONY
FROM THE PILOTS,
BECAUSE OF THE FOOTAGE,
BECAUSE OF THE WAY THESE OBJECTS
WERE MOVING AND BEHAVING,
THIS CASE VERY
CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES
THAT WE ARE IN ALL
LIKELIHOOD DEALING
WITH SOMETHING
FROM ANOTHER WORLD.
Narrator:
UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
THE EVIDENCE IS UNDENIABLE.
SIGHTINGS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL
CRAFT WORLDWIDE
ARE ON THE RISE.
THE ONLY QUESTION
IS WHY ARE THEY HERE?
BUT IT'S NOT JUST PILOTS
IN THE SKY
WHO ARE ENCOUNTERING
STRANGE AIRCRAFT.
THERE ARE DOZENS
OF MYSTERIOUS UFO
SIGHTINGS REPORTED
BY NASA ASTRONAUTS,
MANY CAPTURED ON LIVE
VIDEO FEEDS
THAT WERE INTERRUPTED
FOR UNKNOWN REASONS.
COULD THERE BE
ANY REASON TO BELIEVE
THEY REPRESENT A CLEAR
AND PRESENT DANGER?
AND SINCE MAN HAS
VENTURED INTO SPACE,
THERE'S ALSO BEEN
A LONG HISTORY OF UFO SIGHTINGS
REPORTED BY
ASTRONAUTS, SCIENTISTS,
AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
COULD NASA's LACK
OF ADEQUATE EXPLANATION
BE THE REASON WHY MANY SUSPECT
THERE IS A CONSPIRACY,
AND PERHAPS EVEN
A COVER-UP CONNECTED TO UFOs?
NASA, THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS
AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION,
WAS ESTABLISHED
ON JULY 29, 1958.
BEYOND THE SPACE RACE,
NASA's MISSION
WAS TO PIONEER THE FUTURE
OF SPACE EXPLORATION.
Barclay: THE POINT OF NASA
IS TO MAKE SURE
THAT THE UNITED STATES
STAYS AS A WORLD
LEADER IN SCIENCE,
PARTICULARLY FOCUSING ON SPACE,
AERONAUTICS,
AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE.
Narrator: AS TECHNICAL
AND SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS,
ASTRONAUTS ARE TRAINED TO
THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE STANDARDS.
IN A SENSE, OF COURSE,
ASTRONAUTS ARE ELITE PILOTS.
THEY ARE GENERALLY SELECTED
FROM THE TOP RANKS
OF MILITARY PILOT COMMUNITY,
AND THESE PEOPLE ARE
THE BEST OF THE BEST.
Dolan: THEY'RE THE ONES
WHO HAVE THE RIGHT STUFF,
AND WHEN AN ASTRONAUT
MAKES A UFO REPORT
OR SEES WHAT HE
OR SHE THINKS IS A UFO,
WE REALLY NEED TO TAKE
THAT SERIOUSLY.
Pope: IF PILOTS ARE GOOD
UFO WITNESSES,
THEN ASTRONAUTS
ARE GREAT UFO WITNESSES.
Narrator: NASA's FIRST MANNED
SPACE PROGRAM
WAS CALLED PROJECT MERCURY,
AND ON MAY 15, 1963,
THE LAST OF THE PROGRAM'S
SIX MISSIONS LIFTS
OFF FROM LAUNCH COMPLEX 14
AT FLORIDA'S CAPE CANAVERAL.
Barclay: PROJECT MERCURY WAS
PART OF THE SPACE RACE.
IT WAS THE FIRST U.S.
PROJECT TO PUT PEOPLE IN SPACE,
AND IDEALLY BEAT THE RUSSIANS.
Narrator: PILOTING THE MERCURY
SPACECRAFT KNOWN AS FAITH 7
IS 30-YEAR-OLD
MAJOR GORDON COOPER.
HE IS AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER
AND AN AIR FORCE TEST PILOT
WHO'S LOGGED MORE
THAN 7,000 HOURS
FLYING ALL TYPES
OF AIRPLANES, HELICOPTERS,
AND EXPERIMENTAL JET FIGHTERS.
Dolan: GORDON COOPER'S ONE OF
THE MOST FAMOUS ASTRONAUTS
IN U.S. HISTORY, RIGHTLY SO,
AND ABOARD THE FINAL
MERCURY MISSION,
HE DID A RECORD 22
ORBITS AROUND THE EARTH.
Narrator:
COOPER'S 34-HOUR SPACE FLIGHT
IS OVER THREE TIMES LONGER
THAN ANY OF THE PREVIOUS
MERCURY MISSIONS.
BUT ON HIS LAST ORBIT,
THE ASTRONAUT HAS A VERY STRANGE
AND UNEXPECTED EXPERIENCE.
HE REPORTED TO NASA
THERE WAS A BRIGHT GREEN,
GLOWING OBJECT THAT
APPROACHED HIS CAPSULE,
AND IT ZOOMED BY HIM.
AND, I MEAN, IT'S JUST
AN EXTRAORDINARY SIGHTING.
Man: YOU KNOW, FOR SOMEONE
LIKE COOPER,
HIGHLY TRAINED ASTRONAUT,
TO REPORT SOMETHING LIKE THIS,
CLEARLY IT'S SOMETHING
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
Dolan: WHAT THE HECK
DID GORDON COOPER SEE?
THERE'S NOTHING SUPPOSED
TO BE UP THERE IN 1963,
LET ALONE SOMETHING
THAT'S GREEN AND GLOWING,
LET ALONE SOMETHING THAT'S
SUPPOSED TO APPROACH HIS CRAFT.
HE'S ONE OF THE TOP
OBSERVERS IN THE WORLD.
HE WAS AN EXPERIENCED PILOT,
AND HE'S OUT THERE IN SPACE,
AND SOMETHING AT THE BEGINNING
OF OUR SPACE AGE
BUZZES BY HIS CAPSULE.
WOW.
THE SIGHTING AS SOME
SORT OF OPTICAL ILLUSION,
THE UFO IS PICKED UP
ON AN AUSTRALIAN RADAR
TRACKING STATION.
BUT AFTER COOPER AND HIS CAPSULE
ARE RECOVERED
FROM THE PACIFIC OCEAN,
SOMETHING REMARKABLE OCCURS.
Dolan:
WHAT'S INTERESTING TO ME
IS THAT WHEN HE GOT DOWN
ONTO EARTH AGAIN,
NO ONE ASKED HIM ABOUT IT.
Pope:
BEFORE COOPER EVEN RETURNED,
IT WAS MADE CLEAR TO REPORTERS
THAT THEY COULD NOT ASK HIM
ABOUT THE UFO SIGHTING.
NASA WOULD ONLY DO THIS
IF THERE WAS SOME
INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT PIECE
OF INFORMATION BEING RELEASED
THAT THEY WOULDN'T
WANT OUT THERE.
CLEARLY NASA WAS
VERY UNCOMFORTABLE
WITH HIM DESCRIBING WHAT HE SAW.
SO IF SPACE IS EXACTLY
WHAT THEY TELL US IT IS,
THIS BIG, EMPTY VOID
WITH NOTHING OUT THERE,
THEN WHY DO THEY NEED
TO SUPPRESS
ONE OF THEIR OWN BEST
AND BRIGHTEST FROM TALKING
ABOUT WHAT HE SAW?
Narrator: DESPITE COOPER'S
OBSERVATION IN SPACE,
NASA's OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT
OF THE MISSION
BEARS NO MENTION
OF COOPER'S SIGHTING.
TWO YEARS LATER,
ANOTHER SIMILAR
SIGHTING TAKES PLACE
BY TWO VERY EXPERIENCED
ASTRONAUTS --
FRANK BORMAN
AND JIM LOVELL
ONBOARD GEMINI 7.
Barclay: GEMINI FOLLOWED
PROJECT MERCURY.
IT WAS THE NEXT STEP
IN PUTTING PEOPLE INTO SPACE.
GEMINI 7
WAS THE FOURTH FLIGHT,
AND ONE OF THE GOALS
OF THIS PROJECT
WAS TO STUDY
THE EFFECTS OF 14 DAYS
IN SPACE IN HUMANS.
Narrator: EARLY IN THE MISSION,
DURING ONLY
THEIR SECOND ORBIT OF EARTH,
BORMAN AND LOVELL SEE
SOMETHING HIGHLY UNUSUAL.
RECORDED ON AUDIO TAPE,
JIM LOVELL REPORTS
TO MISSION CONTROL
THAT HE SEES
AN UNIDENTIFIED SPACECRAFT
NEARING THEIR CAPSULE.
Narrator:
SUDDENLY, THE LIVE BROADCAST
OF THE CONVERSATION
IS INTERRUPTED BY NASA.
[ INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER ]
[ PLAYBACK STOPS ]
Narrator: DESPITE THE CUT
IN TRANSMISSION,
HERE, FOR THE FIRST TIME
ON TELEVISION,
IS NASA's OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT
OF THE CONVERSATION
THAT CONTINUED.
Dolan: THEY ASK HIM, "WELL,
IS IT THE BOOSTER ROCKET
THAT WAS FROM THE CRAFT,"
AND HE SAYS,
"NO, I SEE THE BOOSTER."
THAT WAS IN HIS SIGHT.
THIS WAS A DIFFERENT OBJECT.
Man: THEY ARE TALKING
ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE
THAT ISN'T THE BOOSTER.
FOR WANT OF A BETTER
EXPRESSION, IT'S A UFO.
Narrator: EACH TIME ASTRONAUTS
SPOKE TO MISSION CONTROL
ABOUT UNIDENTIFIED
FLYING OBJECTS,
THE TRANSMISSIONS ABRUPTLY END.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NASA
AND THE ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE,
THEY HAVE SEVERAL
DIFFERENT CHANNELS,
AND SO IF THEY'RE USING
A PUBLIC CHANNEL
AND THEY SEE SOMETHING,
THEY WOULD AUTOMATICALLY
HAVE THEM SWITCH OVER
TO ANOTHER CHANNEL.
Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE
SUGGEST THAT NASA
INTENTIONALLY
CUT PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
WITH THEIR ASTRONAUTS
AFTER THEY REPORTED
SEEING UFOs IN SPACE?
AND IF SO, WHY WOULD NASA
AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
CHOOSE TO KEEP
SUCH SIGHTINGS SECRET?
SOME UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
THERE MAY HAVE BEEN
AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE
TO THE FORMATION
OF THE SPACE PROGRAM
IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I BELIEVE THAT NASA KNEW
WHEN THEY WERE FORMING
THAT THERE WAS ACTUALLY THESE
SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL
EVENTS HAPPENING
AROUND OUR PLANET,
AND I BELIEVE THAT THEY KNEW
FROM THE INCEPTION
THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GO
INTO SPACE WITH THE IDEA
OF CONTACTING SOME
SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.
Bara: THERE ARE REPORTS OF NASA
LYING ABOUT THE TIME
AND THE PLACE ASTRONAUTS
WERE AVAILABLE
FOR CONVERSATIONS,
WHETHER THEY WERE
IN COMMUNICATION
WITH THE SPACECRAFT OR NOT.
THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS
YOU CAN GO THROUGH THE RECORD
AND FIND THAT NASA
WAS DUPLICITOUS
ON AT THE VERY LEAST,
AND CERTAINLY NOT
COMPLETELY HONEST.
Narrator: COULD THE SPACE RACE
REALLY HAVE BEEN A RACE
TO CONTACT EXTRATERRESTRIALS
THE GOVERNMENT
ALREADY KNEW EXISTED?
FURTHER EVIDENCE MAY BE FOUND
BY REEXAMINING NASA's MISSIONS
TO THE MOON,
OVERNMENT.
AND BEYOND IN EARLY NASA
MISSIONS INTO SPACE,
BUT SHOCKING EVIDENCE
MAY BE FOUND
IN THE SPACE AGENCY'S
GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT --
THE MOON LANDINGS.
JULY 20, 1969.
A NEW ERA IN SPACE EXPLORATION
IS LAUNCHED WHEN A MASSIVE
SATURN ROCKET LIFTS OFF
FROM NASA's KENNEDY
SPACE CENTER.
Barclay: THE APOLLO PROGRAM WAS
ALL ABOUT GOING TO THE MOON,
AND THE CULMINATION OF THAT
EFFORT WAS APOLLO 11.
THE APOLLO 11 MISSION
HAD THREE ASTRONAUTS --
MICHAEL COLLINS, BUZZ ALDRIN,
AND NEIL ARMSTRONG --
AND THE LUNAR MODULE WENT DOWN
TO THE SURFACE OF THE MOON,
AND OUT STEPPED TWO ASTRONAUTS,
BUZZ ALDRIN AND NEIL ARMSTRONG,
TO TOUCH THE SURFACE OF ANOTHER
WORLD FOR THE FIRST TIME.
Armstrong: THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP
FOR [A] MAN,
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.
Narrator: EVERY MOMENT
OF THEIR LUNAR ENCOUNTER
MAKES HISTORY WORLDWIDE.
BUT IT'S WHAT WASN'T
MADE PUBLIC,
ACCORDING TO ONE FORMER NASA
COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER,
THAT CONTINUES TO ROCK
THE UFO COMMUNITY TODAY.
IN 1975, SIX YEARS AFTER
THE APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING,
MAURICE CHATELAIN CAME FORWARD
WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM
IN HIS BOOK
"OUR COSMIC ANCESTORS."
MAURICE CHATELAIN IS
A RETIRED NASA
COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST,
AND HE WENT PUBLIC
WITH SENSATIONAL CLAIMS
THAT WHEN ARMSTRONG
AND ALDRIN LANDED
ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON,
THERE WERE UFOs THERE
WATCHING THEIR EVERY MOVE.
CHATELAIN HAD STATED THAT
HE WAS IN A SECRET ROOM
DURING THE APOLLO 11
MOON LANDINGS
AND THAT HE WITNESSED
A RECORDING FROM THE SURFACE
OF THE MOON OF THE ASTRONAUTS
TALKING ABOUT THE FACT
THAT THEY WEREN'T ALONE.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO CHATELAIN,
AFTER THE ASTRONAUTS
HAD STEPPED OUT
ONTO THE MOON
FOR THE FIRST TIME,
THEY REPORTED SEEING
TWO UFOs HOVERING
OVERHEAD AT ABOUT
15,000 FEET IN ALTITUDE.
Pope: AND THERE'S REFERENCE
TO THESE OBJECTS
JUST WATCHING WHAT'S UNFOLDING.
THIS IS A PIVOTAL POINT
IN HUMAN HISTORY,
AND IT SEEMS
THAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS
WERE THERE TO WATCH.
Narrator: IS IT CONCEIVABLE
THAT NASA
AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
DECIDED TO KEEP THIS
INCREDIBLE ENCOUNTER A SECRET?
AS MANY CRITICS OF THIS THEORY
ARE QUICK TO POINT OUT,
HOW WOULD THAT EVEN BE POSSIBLE
WITH TV CAMERAS ROLLING
NONSTOP AND BILLIONS
OF PEOPLE ON EARTH
WATCHING THE EVENT ON LIVE TV?
INCREDIBLY, THERE IS A GAP
IN WHAT WAS BROADCAST
TO THE PUBLIC.
THERE'S TWO MINUTES OF SILENCE
IN THIS TRANSMISSION,
TWO MISSING MINUTES.
AND NASA SAYS THIS WAS
JUST AN EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTION
CAUSED BY OVERHEATING CAMERAS.
THE SUSPICION MUST BE
THAT SOME SORT OF CLASSIFIED,
SECRET CONVERSATION WAS GOING ON
DURING THESE TWO MINUTES
WHICH STILL TO THIS DAY
HAS NOT BEEN MADE PUBLIC.
Narrator: ALL OFFICIAL DETAILS
OF WHAT THE GOVERNMENT
MAY HAVE LEARNED ABOUT UFOs
DURING THE TWO
MISSING MINUTES ON THE MOON
HAVE REMAINED ULTRA TOP SECRET.
INCREDIBLY, CHATELAIN ALSO
CLAIMS IN HIS BOOK
THAT UP UNTIL THE MOON LANDINGS,
ALL APOLLO AND GEMINI MISSIONS
WERE FOLLOWED BY UFOs.
AND EACH TIME, THE ASTRONAUTS
WERE ORDERED BY NASA
TO NEVER SPEAK ABOUT
THEIR ENCOUNTERS.
THE PROBLEM
WITH CHATELAIN'S STORY
IS HE WASN'T ACTUALLY
WORKING FOR NASA
DURING THE APOLLO MOON LANDINGS.
WHAT'S THE TRUTH?
IS NASA LYING ABOUT
WHEN HE WAS THERE?
IS CHATELAIN LYING?
NOBODY REALLY KNOWS FOR SURE.
BUT AT LEAST THERE WERE
A COUPLE PIECES OF EVIDENCE
THAT WERE STARTING
TO COME TOGETHER
THAT SHOWS MAYBE THERE WAS MUCH
MORE THAN THE PUBLIC STORY.
Narrator: STILL, BUZZ ALDRIN
HIMSELF HAS LENT CREDIBILITY
TO THE CLAIMS
OF HIS UFO SIGHTINGS.
Pope:
ALDRIN, OVER THE YEARS,
HAS CERTAINLY CONFIRMED
THAT HE'S SEEN
SOME STRANGE THINGS
THAT HE COULDN'T EXPLAIN.
Greenewald: WHEN BUZZ ALDRIN
PUBLISHED HIS BOOK
AND HE TALKED ABOUT A UFO
THAT THEY SAW ON APPROACH
TO THE MOON
OUTSIDE OF THEIR CAPSULE WINDOW,
I THINK THAT LENDS
A LOT OF CREDIBILITY
THAT MAYBE THERE
IS MORE TO THE STORY.
Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE
SUGGEST THAT
ARMSTRONG AND ALDRIN REALLY
ENCOUNTERED UFOs ON THE MOON,
AND IF SO, DID THEY MAKE CONTACT
WITH AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE,
AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?
I DON'T THINK NASA KNEW
THAT THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE
ON THE MOON
WHEN WE FIRST LANDED.
BUT WHEN WE GOT TO THE MOON,
I THINK WE WERE BEING
OBSERVED THE ENTIRE TIME.
Pope: THERE IS, INDEED,
A THEORY THAT EXTRA TERRESTRIALS
WOULD ONLY BE INTERESTED
IN MAKING CONTACT
WITH US AT THE POINT
AT WHICH WE'VE DEVELOPED
VIABLE SPACE TRAVEL,
AND LANDING ON THE MOON
MIGHT JUST BE THE TRIGGER POINT.
Narrator: IF NASA IS AWARE
OF THE LUNAR UFOs,
WHY ARE THEY KEEPING IT SECRET?
IS IT POSSIBLE THE GOVERNMENT
IS TRYING TO COVERTLY
MAKE CONTACT
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS?
Lukes: WERE THESE ASTRONAUTS
SENT THERE
TO INTERCEPT SOMETHING,
TO MEET WITH SOMETHING?
DID THEY KNOW THEY WERE ACTUALLY
GOING TO SEE THESE OBJECTS,
AND WHY DON'T WE KNOW
THIS INFORMATION?
Narrator: FURTHER CLUES MAY BE
FOUND IN THE YEARS
AFTER THE MOON LANDINGS
DURING THE HEIGHT OF NASA's
SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM.
Man: ...TWO, ONE.
WE HAVE BOOSTER
IGNITION AND LIFT OFF.
Narrator: THE SPACE SHUTTLE'S
CHIEF MISSION
WAS TO CARRY
LARGE PAYLOADS INTO ORBIT,
MAINTAIN SATELLITES,
AND PERFORM SCIENTIFIC
EXPERIMENTS.
BUT UFO INVESTIGATORS
HAVE RECENTLY
LEARNED THAT ON MARCH 13, 1989,
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENED
ABOARD THE SPACE
SHUTTLE DISCOVERY.
Dolan: SPACE SHUTTLE HAS ALWAYS
HAD A CERTAIN NUMBER
OF VERY CLASSIFIED COMPONENTS
TO EVERY ONE OF ITS MISSIONS.
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE
PUBLIC MISSIONS,
AND THERE ARE
CLASSIFIED MISSIONS.
AND WE DON'T REALLY KNOW
WHAT THEY'RE DOING UP THERE.
Narrator: JUST OVER 20 HOURS
INTO THE MISSION AT 6:42 A.M.
EASTERN STANDARD TIME,
THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WAS SENT
BY 47-YEAR-OLD
SHUTTLE COMMANDER COLONEL
JOHN BLAHA,
A LONGTIME AIR FORCE PILOT
TURNED ASTRONAUT.
Narrator: THE ASTONISHING
ADMISSION
OF A UFO IN CLOSE PROXIMITY
TO THE SPACE SHUTTLE
WAS RECORDED
BY A MEMBER OF THE GODDARD
AMATEUR RADIO CLUB,
WHICH MONITORS ALL NASA
SPACE FLIGHTS.
Narrator: AFTER THAT, THE PUBLIC
TRANSMISSION ENDS ABRUPTLY.
ACCORDING TO UFO INVESTIGATORS,
THAT'S WHEN NASA SWITCHED
FREQUENCIES TO A SECURE MODE.
ARE THEIR SPACE SHUTTLES
BEING USED IN ONE WAY
OR ANOTHER TO OBSERVE
OR INTERACT
WITH THESE OBJECTS
THAT ARE OUT THERE?
I THINK IT'S TOTALLY POSSIBLE.
THERE ARE OBJECTS THAT
DO CERTAINLY APPEAR
TO BE MANEUVERING
IN EARTH ORBIT,
AND THESE ARE NOT
SO SIMPLE TO EXPLAIN.
Lukes: WE HAVE A WITNESS
THE CALIBER
OF THE SHUTTLE COMMANDER
MAKING STATEMENTS LIKE THIS,
THEN YOU THROW ON THE FACT
THAT THIS ISN'T
AN ISOLATED INCIDENT.
SO, ONE HAS TO
SURMISE THAT THERE
IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING UP
THERE INTERACTING
WITH THESE ASTRONAUTS.
Greenewald: THERE IS JUST
AN EXCEPTIONAL AMOUNT
OF WHAT WE DON'T KNOW
ABOUT THE COSMOS,
SO, YES, IT COULD BE
SOME KIND OF
A CRAFT THAT THEY'RE SEEING,
OR IT COULD BE
A NATURAL EXPLANATION,
SOMETHING THAT WE HAVEN'T
DISCOVERED YET.
Narrator: STILL, MOST
RESEARCHERS CONTEND
THAT DESPITE NASA's
BEST EFFORTS,
THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
OF THE INCREASING
NUMBER OF UFO
SIGHTINGS IN SPACE.
YOU PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER,
YOU HAVE THE EARLY
MERCURY OBSERVATIONS
BY GORDON COOPER,
YOU HAVE THE GEMINI 7,
YOU HAVE BLAHA'S OBSERVATIONS.
YOU HAVE THIS TON
OF EVIDENCE STACKED UP.
Narrator:
YET AS NASA VENTURES OUT
ON THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION,
DOES IT SERVE AS A PLATFORM
FROM WHICH EVEN MORE EVIDENCE
IS OBSERVED AND GATHERED,
AS UFO EXPERTS SUSPECT?
AND IT IS EASILY
THE LARGEST STRUCTURE
MANKIND HAS
EVER PUT INTO SPACE.
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
PROJECT BEGAN IN 1998
AND HAS BEEN BUILT
UPON SINCE THEN.
Narrator: PERMANENTLY OCCUPIED
BY U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL CREWS,
THE SPACE STATION
PRIMARILY SERVES
AS A RESEARCH LABORATORY.
Barclay: THE SPACE STATION
IS OUR ORBITING PLATFORM.
IT'S A PLACE TO STUDY
WHAT SPACE IS LIKE
AND PERFORM SCIENTIFIC
EXPERIMENTS IN MICROGRAVITY
WHILE STILL BEING ABLE TO GET
TO EARTH RELATIVELY QUICKLY
AND BRING THINGS UP
RELATIVELY QUICKLY.
Narrator:
BUT IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT ONE OF THE SPACE
STATION'S REAL FUNCTIONS
IS TO PROVIDE A PLATFORM
FROM WHICH TO MONITOR
THE ACTIVITY OF UFOs?
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
AND THE UNITED STATES,
THEY LOOK AT EVERYTHING
AS A POTENTIAL
MILITARY ADVANCEMENT,
WHATEVER IT IS.
SO IT'S POSSIBLE THAT ONBOARD
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION,
THERE IS AN ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT MISSION STATEMENT
THAN WHAT WE ARE TOLD.
Pope:
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
IS IMPORTANT IN TERMS
OF THE UFO PHENOMENON,
BECAUSE FOR AROUND 20 YEARS,
WE'VE HAD THESE
ELITE PERSONNEL,
ASTRONAUTS AND SCIENTISTS
OUT THERE IN THE FRONT LINE.
SO WHEN THESE PEOPLE SAY
THAT THEY'VE SEEN SOMETHING,
YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK.
Narrator:
IN APRIL OF 2004,
A LIVE-STREAMING VIDEO
FEED WAS ACTIVATED.
Barclay: THE HIGH-DEFINITION
EARTH-VIEWING CAMERAS
ON THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION ALLOW US
TO TAKE PICTURES
OF THE EARTH
AND VIDEO AS THE SPACE STATION
ORBITS EVERY 90 MINUTES.
Narrator: BUT ROUTINE VIEWING
SOON TURNS EXPLOSIVE
WHEN ON APRIL 19, 2016,
A UFO IN THE SHAPE
OF A TRANSLUCENT SQUARE
IS SEEN IN THE SPACE
STATION'S VIDEO.
Dolan: IT'S A DEFINITE OBJECT
THAT'S OUT THERE.
IT SEEMS UNUSUAL, FOR SURE,
IN THE DISTANCE,
AND WHAT'S PARTICULARLY
INTERESTING
IS THAT AFTER A VERY SHORT TIME
OF RECORDING IT
THAT THE VIDEO JUST GOES BLUE,
AND YOU CAN THINK ONCE AGAIN
THIS IS A CASE OF NASA
JUST CUTTING SHORT
A TRANSMISSION,
SOMETHING THAT
SHOULDN'T BE THERE.
THE ASTRONAUTS HAVE SEEN
AND CONTINUE TO SEE
OBJECTS IN SPACE
THAT DO NOT APPEAR
TO BE TERRESTRIAL.
THEY DO NOT APPEAR
TO BE OUR TECHNOLOGY.
AND THEN THE QUESTION BECOMES
WHOSE TECHNOLOGY ARE THEY?
Narrator: AND THE EVIDENCE
OF UNEXPLAINED
SIGHTINGS BY NASA
ASTRONAUTS CONTINUES TO GROW.
ON JUNE 30, 2015,
THREE SEPARATE
UFOs ARE SPOTTED
LEAVING EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
AND FLYING INTO SPACE.
SOME OF THE FOLLOWING
VIDEO AND PHOTO EVIDENCE
HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN
ON TELEVISION.
IT'S OBVIOUS THAT
THEY'RE MOVING
AT THOUSANDS OF MILES PER HOUR.
HAS TO BE.
THERE'S NO OTHER WAY.
THESE ARE HIGHLY
RAPIDLY MOVING OBJECTS
COMING FROM EARTH,
CONVERGING FROM RADICALLY
DIFFERENT POINTS OF ORIGIN.
NASA HAS SAID THAT THESE
ARE SATELLITES TRANSITING EARTH.
BUT THESE LOOK LIKE THEY'RE
COMING UP FROM THE EARTH
AND COMING UP AT ANGLES
THAT ARE JUST HARD
TO EXPLAIN AS SATELLITES.
Lukes: THEY'RE MOVING IN UNISON
WITH THE SAME GOAL IN MIND,
AND I BELIEVE THAT THIS
IS EXCELLENT PROOF
THAT THERE IS SOMETHING
TAKING PLACE IN OUTER SPACE
THAT PROBABLY HAS
INTELLIGENCE BEHIND IT.
Narrator: MOMENTS AFTER
THE THREE UFOs CAN BE SEEN
HEADING INTO THE SAME SECTOR
OF OUTER SPACE,
THE VIDEO FEED IS LOST.
Pope: NASA AND SOME OTHER
IMAGERY EXPERTS
HAVE SUGGESTED THAT QUITE A LOT
OF THESE FILMS
ACTUALLY SHOW LITTLE MORE
THAN DUST OR ICE PARTICLES,
BUT IT'S VERY DIFFICULT
FOR PEOPLE TO LOOK
AT THESE SORTS OF FILMS
AND BE SURE WHETHER THEY'RE
LOOKING AT A MASSIVE OBJECT
FAR AWAY OR A VERY,
VERY SMALL OBJECT
CLOSE TO THE LENS.
Narrator:
SOME RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
THERE ARE A VARIETY
OF EXPLANATIONS
FOR SO-CALLED UFO SIGHTINGS.
THE REALITY IS THERE
ARE LITERALLY TENS
OF THOUSANDS OF PIECES
OF SPACE JUNK,
JUST TRASH THAT'S LITERALLY
LITTERED OUR UPPER
ATMOSPHERE THAT'S IN ORBIT,
AND IT INCLUDES PIECES
OF DEAD SPACECRAFT,
SATELLITES THAT HAVE
GONE OFFLINE.
SO, DID THEY REALLY
SEE AN ALIEN CRAFT,
OR DID THEY JUST SEE MAYBE
ONE OF THE MILLIONS
OF DIFFERENT SPACE
DEBRIS OBJECTS
THAT ARE UP THERE?
WE MAY NEVER KNOW.
Narrator: THEN ON JULY 9, 2016,
YET ANOTHER UFO
IS SEEN ENTERING
EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE,
AND AGAIN, THE VIDEO
IS INTERRUPTED.
Pope:
IT SEEMS ALMOST EVERY TIME
THERE'S AN INTRIGUING
PIECE OF FOOTAGE
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION,
SOMETHING GOES WRONG
AND THE FEED
IS MYSTERIOUSLY CUT.
NOW, IS THIS CENSORSHIP?
IS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
BEING DELETED,
WITHHELD FROM THE PUBLIC?
OR IS IT JUST
EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTIONS?
WE DON'T KNOW.
Narrator:
NASA CLAIMS THE VIDEO SUFFERS
REGULAR OUTAGES
AS THE SPACE STATION
PASSES OUT OF RANGE
OF RELAY SATELLITES.
BUT IS THIS REALLY THE CASE?
THESE ISSUES HAVE
HAPPENED SO MANY TIMES,
YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE CONCLUSION
THAT THEY ARE REALLY DOING THIS
TO KEEP INFORMATION
FROM THE PUBLIC.
Narrator: DOES EVIDENCE GATHERED
BY THE CAMERAS
OF THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION,
OR ISS, SUGGEST THAT UFOs
REALLY DO INHABIT OUR WORLD?
UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE NASA
MAY HAVE A HIDDEN AGENDA.
Lukes:
GIVEN THE REPEATED ACCOUNTS
FROM ASTRONAUTS OF SEEING
THESE EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT,
PERHAPS THERE IS A VERY
CONCERTED ATTEMPT BY NASA
TO ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION
WITH THESE BEINGS.
I DO BELIEVE THE ISS
IS DOING LEGIT RESEARCH,
BUT I ALSO BELIEVE
THAT THE ISS COULD BE A PLATFORM
FOR COMMUNICATION
WITH NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCES.
Bara:
THE QUESTION'S ALWAYS BEEN
WITH THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION
DOES IT HAVE
A SECRET MISSION?
IS IT UP THERE DOING MORE
THAN JUST THE PUBLIC FRONT-VIEW
KIND OF STUFF
THAT THEY SHOW US?
IS THERE A POSSIBILITY
THAT IT IS SOME
SORT OF EARLY SPACE
INTRUDER DETECTOR KIND OF CRAFT
THAT'S DESIGNED TO LOOK
FOR UFOs OR ALIEN SPACECRAFT?
THAT ACTUALLY MAKES MORE SENSE
THAN YOU MIGHT THINK
BECAUSE THERE'S A LONG
HISTORY OF NASA MISSIONS
HAVING SECRET AGENDAS.
Narrator:
AS HUMANS CONTINUE TO PUSH OUT
AND EXPLORE THE DISTANT
REACHES OF SPACE,
UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
THIS WILL ONLY INCREASE
THE POSSIBILITY FOR CONTACT --
HAVE PROVIDED SOME OF
THE MOST COMPELLING EVIDENCE
OF THE EXISTENCE OF UFOs.
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE
IS TRYING TO
COMMUNICATE WITH US,
OR HAVE THEY ALREADY DONE SO?
AUGUST, 2005.
NASA LAUNCHES THE MARS
RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER.
ONBOARD IS AN ADVANCED
CAMERA SYSTEM,
THE HIGH-RESOLUTION
IMAGING SCIENCE EXPERIMENT,
ALSO KNOWN AS HiRISE.
THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE
ORBITER ORBITS AROUND MARS
TAKING IMAGES
OF ITS SURFACE.
Narrator: ITS ULTRA-POWERFUL
TELESCOPE HAS ALLOWED
THE ORBITER TO PHOTOGRAPH
HUNDREDS OF SWATHS
OF THE MARS SURFACE
IN UNPRECEDENTED DETAIL.
THE HiRISE INSTRUMENT
HAS A RESOLUTION
OF ABOUT ONE FOOT
ON THE SURFACE OF MARS,
SO WE GET SOME REALLY
GREAT PICTURES OF MARS
FROM THIS ORBITER.
Narrator:
THEN, ON JULY 13, 2016,
MAJOR NEWS OUTLETS REPORT
THAT THE ASTRONOMERS
USING HiRISE HAVE
DISCOVERED FORMATIONS ON MARS
THAT BEAR A STRIKING
RESEMBLANCE TO MORSE CODE.
MORSE CODE WAS DEVELOPED
IN THE 19th CENTURY
AS ESSENTIALLY
A BINARY CODE.
IT'S A WAY OF QUICKLY ENCODING
A LOT OF TEXTUAL INFORMATION
THROUGH A SERIES OF DOTS
AND DASHES.
THE U.S. MILITARY STILL TRAINS
A NUMBER OF PEOPLE
EACH YEAR IN MORSE CODE,
AND THAT'S BECAUSE
IT'S STILL THE EASIEST
AND MOST RELIABLE TO TRANSMIT
INFORMATION OVER DISTANCE.
Barclay: IMAGES COMING FROM
THE HiRISE INSTRUMENT
ON THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE
ORBITER SAW DARK DUNES
ON THE SURFACE OF MARS.
SOME OF THEM ELONGATED
AND SOME OF THEM
MORE LIKE DOTS.
OUR BEST GUESS
FOR WHAT FORMED THESE
IS WINDS COMING
FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
Narrator: DESPITE NASA's ATTEMPT
TO EXPLAIN THE PHENOMENA,
THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY ADMITS
THE DUNE FORMATIONS
ARE VERY COMPLEX,
MAKING IT DIFFICULT
TO DETERMINE
EXACTLY WHAT CAUSED
THEIR FORMATION.
Dolan:
SCIENTISTS DON'T REALLY KNOW
EXACTLY HOW TO
EXPLAIN THIS.
WE DON'T HAVE
ANYTHING ON EARTH
THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS.
SO THE QUESTION
IS WHAT CAUSES IT?
IS IT NATURAL
OR IS IT ARTIFICIAL?
IT'S AS IF SOMEBODY
KIND OF DUG UP
AROUND A BUNCH OF LAND
AND CREATED THIS DOT, DASH,
DOT, DASH,
DOT, DASH PATTERN.
NOW, THERE'S NO EXPLANATION
FOR THIS GEOLOGICALLY.
NASA HAS DESCRIBED IT,
BUT NASA HAS A TENDENCY
TO SUGGEST
THAT THE DESCRIPTION
OF SOMETHING
IS THE SAME THING
AS EXPLAINING SOMETHING.
IT'S NOT EXPLAINABLE.
Narrator:
FOR UFO INVESTIGATORS,
THE SATELLITE IMAGES
RAISE SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS.
WHAT IF THE STRANGE FORMATIONS
ARE THE RESULT OF SOMETHING
OTHER THAN
THE NATURAL PROCESS OF WIND
OR GEOLOGIC ACTIVITY ON MARS?
AND WHAT IF THEY WERE CREATED
BY AN INTELLIGENT SPECIES
THAT ONCE LIVED
ON THE RED PLANET?
Man: NOW, IS THIS
MORSE CODE PROOF
OF A PAST INTELLIGENT
CIVILIZATION,
OR IS THIS SOMETHING
THAT SCIENCE
JUST HAS YET TO EXPLAIN?
WE'RE DEALING
WITH AN ALIEN WORLD.
WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING
ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE.
Pope: IF THOSE FEATURES
ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE
ARE MORSE CODE,
THEN TWO QUESTIONS ARISE.
FIRSTLY, WHO SENT THE MESSAGE,
AND SECOND, WHAT DOES IT SAY?
NOW, EXPERTS
IN MORSE CODE
HAVE ACTUALLY LOOKED
AT THESE MARTIAN FEATURES
AND THEY'VE BEEN
UNABLE TO DECODE IT.
IT DOESN'T SEEM TO
CORRESPOND TO ANY LANGUAGE
THAT WE KNOW,
BUT MAYBE IT'S NOT WRITTEN
IN OUR LANGUAGE AT ALL.
MAYBE IT'S WRITTEN
IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S LANGUAGE,
AND THAT WE CAN
ONLY GUESS AT.
Bara: WHEN THE GEOLOGIC
EXPLANATIONS DON'T ADD UP,
AND YET YOU CAN'T REALLY SAY
THAT IT IS SOMETHING ARTIFICIAL,
YOU'RE KIND OF STUCK
IN THE MIDDLE.
IT'S A GENUINE MYSTERY
WHAT THAT STUFF IS,
AND NASA's EXPLANATION
CERTAINLY IS NOT ADEQUATE.
WE'VE BEEN SEARCHING
FOR LIFE ON MARS,
AND WE ABSOLUTELY CAN'T RULE OUT
THAT THERE WAS
ONCE LIFE ON MARS.
WE THINK ABOUT 3.5 BILLION YEARS
AGO, MARS MAY WELL
HAVE HAD WATER
AT THE SAME TIME
THAT LIFE WAS
BLOSSOMING ON EARTH.
Narrator:
THIS COMPELLING NEW EVIDENCE
OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF OCEANS, RIVERS,
AND EVEN LAKES ON MARS ADDS
TO AN EMERGING PICTURE
OF THE RED PLANET
AS ONCE BEING A HABITABLE WORLD.
GIVEN WHAT WE KNOW
THAT TOOK PLACE
WITH THE WATER BILLIONS
OF YEARS AGO ON THE PLANET,
WE HAVE TO TAKE
THIS INTO ACCOUNT
THAT THERE COULD HAVE
BEEN A CIVILIZATION
THAT'S NOW EXTINCT,
AND THERE STILL MIGHT
BE LIFE ON THAT PLANET.
Rosenfeld: I DO BELIEVE THAT
MARS WAS INHABITED AT ONE POINT,
AND WHAT WE SEE
ON THE SURFACE TODAY
IS REMNANTS OF
THAT CIVILIZATION.
Narrator: AS MANKIND'S INTEREST
IN SPACE EXPLORATION
HAS GONE WELL BEYOND MARS,
TODAY NASA HAS
NUMEROUS SATELLITES,
SPACE-BASED TELESCOPES,
AND EVEN SPACE PROBES LOOKING AT
AND LISTENING TO THE FAR CORNERS
OF THE COSMOS.
Pope:
CURIOSITY SEEMS TO BE
INEXTRICABLY LINKED
WITH INTELLIGENCE.
WE LOOK OUT INTO
THE UNIVERSE AND WE ASK,
"WHAT'S OUT THERE?"
AND I THINK IT'S POSSIBLE
THAT OTHERS OUT THERE
ARE LOOKING BACK AT US.
Narrator:
THE UFO COMMUNITY BELIEVES
THAT WE NEED
TO LOOK NO FURTHER
THAN OUR OWN SKIES
AND PLANETARY BACKYARD
FOR EVIDENCE.
PILOT AND ASTRONAUT SIGHTINGS,
INTERRUPTED NASA TRANSMISSIONS,
ALL RAISING THE SPECTER
OF CONSPIRACY AND COVER UP.
FOR UFO RESEARCHERS,
THE MOUNTAIN
OF UNEXPLAINED EVIDENCE,
COMBINED WITH THE GOVERNMENT
INADEQUATELY
PROVIDING EXPLANATIONS,
ALL POINT TO CONFIRMATION
THAT UFOs ARE,
IN FACT, REAL.
Adjusted CORNELDVD
MYSTERIOUS AIRCRAFT ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
Man:
IT WAS A HIGHLY MANEUVERABLE,
INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED OBJECT
IN MILITARY AIRSPACE.
Narrator: INCREDIBLE UNEXPLAINED
SIGHTINGS BY ASTRONAUTS
ARE INCREASING EVERY YEAR.
Man: IF PILOTS ARE GOOD
UFO WITNESSES,
THEN ASTRONAUTS
ARE GREAT UFO WITNESSES.
Narrator: NEW EVIDENCE, NEVER
BEFORE SEEN ON TELEVISION,
HAS UFO RESEARCHERS
CONVINCED THAT NASA
MAY BE CONCEALING THE TRUTH.
Woman:
THIS VERY CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES
THAT WE ARE DEALING
WITH SOMETHING
FROM ANOTHER WORLD.
Narrator: AS MANKIND REACHES
FURTHER FROM EARTH,
NEW SCIENTIFIC
DISCOVERIES ON MARS
ARE RAISING NEW QUESTIONS.
Man: MARS WAS INHABITED
AT ONE POINT,
AND WHAT WE SEE TODAY
IS REMNANTS
OF THAT CIVILIZATION.
Narrator: IS OUR GOVERNMENT
TELLING US
ALL IT KNOWS ABOUT UFOs?
Man: THESE UFO INCIDENTS
POSE SERIOUS
NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES.
WE IGNORE THESE SIGHTINGS
AT OUR PERIL.
Narrator: NEW INFORMATION
IS TRANSFORMING
WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT.
ARE UFOs REALLY
VISITING OUR WORLD?
IS THE GOVERNMENT
HIDING THE TRUTH?
AND, IF SO,
COULD NEW EVIDENCE
REVEAL THE TRUTH
WITNESSED BY PILOTS
AND ASTRONAUTS?
CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS
Narrator: APRIL, 2007 --
SUFFOLK, ENGLAND.
UNDER EXCELLENT VISIBILITY,
MILITARY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS
AT THE LAKENHEATH
AIR FORCE BASE
IDENTIFY A STRANGE ANOMALY
IN THE NEARBY AIRSPACE.
THEY IMMEDIATELY REQUEST
THE HELP OF TWO PILOTS
ALREADY IN THE AIR
TO INVESTIGATE.
PILOTS ARE FROM THE BASE
AT LAKENHEATH,
AN AMERICAN BASE,
PART OF THE WIDER U.S.
PRESENCE IN THE U.K.
THESE AMERICAN PILOTS,
THEY ARE ORDERED
TO INTERCEPT A UFO
THAT HAS BEEN PICKED UP
AND TRACKED
ON MILITARY RADAR.
NEWS OF THIS ONLY LEAKED OUT
BECAUSE OF THE ACTIVITIES
OF A HAM RADIO OPERATOR.
Man: TARGET CONFIRMED...
Narrator:
WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR
IS THE ACTUAL EXCHANGE
BETWEEN THE AMERICAN PILOTS
RECORDED BY THE HAM
RADIO OPERATOR.
THIS CONVERSATION HAS NEVER
BEFORE BEEN HEARD ON TELEVISION.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO THE PILOTS,
THE STRANGE OBJECT MOVED
FROM 17,000 FEET
UP TO 17,700
FEET IN ALTITUDE.
AS ONE OF THE PILOTS
FINALLY GETS CLOSE, HE REPORTS.
Dolan: WE HAVE NO EXPLANATION
FOR WHAT THIS THING WAS.
SO BOTH F-15s HAD A RADAR
LOCK ON THE OBJECT,
AND GROUND-BASED RADAR
ALSO WAS TRACKING IT,
SO THERE WAS CLEARLY
SOMETHING THERE.
Pope: AT FIRST, THE AUTHORITIES
DENIED EVERYTHING,
BUT ONCE THAT HAM RADIO OPERATOR
HAD MADE PUBLIC THE RECORDING,
IT WAS UNDENIABLE.
Lukes: WHEN YOU HEAR
THE EXCHANGE OF THESE PILOTS
AND THEY'RE SAYING
THAT THEY DON'T KNOW
WHAT THIS OBJECT IS,
YOU NEED TO TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY.
THEY KNOW WHAT
THEY'RE LOOKING AT.
THIS IS HIGHLY UNUSUAL.
Rosenfeld: THIS LAKENHEATH
INCIDENT IS VERY INTERESTING
BECAUSE YOU HAVE PILOTS
DESCRIBING A ROCK
THAT'S FLOATING AND CHANGING
DIRECTION IN THE SKY.
Bara: IT HAD NO WINGS,
IT HAD NO TAIL,
IT HAD NO MEANS OF PROPULSION,
YET IT WAS AT HIGH ALTITUDE,
IT MOVED AROUND,
IT CHANGED ALTITUDE.
IT DID THINGS THAT
BASICALLY A ROCK
IS NOT CAPABLE OF DOING,
SO WHAT WAS THIS THING
DOING IN THE SKY?
NOBODY REALLY KNOWS.
Narrator: ACCORDING TO
UFO INVESTIGATORS,
THIS INCIDENT
IS NOT AN ISOLATED ONE.
SUCH OCCURRENCES ARE
INCREASING EVERY YEAR.
TAKE JULY 7, 2010.
IN A CHINESE CITY
JUST SOUTH OF SHANGHAI
ALONG CHINA'S EASTERN SEABOARD,
A THREE-MAN FLIGHT CREW ONBOARD
AN AIR CHINA JET LINER
FILLED WITH PASSENGERS
PREPARES FOR LANDING.
CHINESE PILOTS, AS THEY WERE
APPROACHING THE AIRPORT,
REPORTED SEEING
AN UNUSUAL OBJECT
THAT GOT THEIR ATTENTION
AND THEIR CONCERN.
Narrator: THE PILOTS REPORT
TO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
THAT AN UNKNOWN OBJECT
ABOUT 100 FEET IN LENGTH,
30 FEED IN WIDTH
IS MOVING SLOWLY
IN THE AIRSPACE 2,000 FEET
ABOVE THE AIRPORT.
AT THE SAME TIME,
PEOPLE ON THE GROUND
PHOTOGRAPHED THIS OBJECT.
THERE ARE SEVERAL
OF THESE PHOTOGRAPHS
AND THEY'RE VERY INTERESTING.
AND THEY CERTAINLY APPEAR
TO SHOW AN ELONGATED OBJECT,
AND THERE'S LIGHT COMING
DOWN FROM THE OBJECT.
THE ENTIRE AIRPORT WAS CLOSED.
FLIGHTS WERE DIVERTED.
I MEAN, CLEARLY SOMETHING
WAS GOING ON IN THE SKIES.
Lukes: YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT
THERE WERE WITNESSES IN THE AIR
THAT SAW THE OBJECT
AS THEY WERE LANDING,
AND WE HAVE THIS
PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE.
SO ALL OF THAT TOGETHER TELLS ME
THAT THERE ABSOLUTELY WAS A UFO.
THERE'S TOO MUCH EVIDENCE
TO SAY THAT THERE WASN'T.
Bara:
BECAUSE OF THE PREJUDICE
AGAINST REPORTING
THESE KINDS OF SIGHTINGS,
THE PILOTS REALLY
TOOK A HUGE RISK
BY ACTUALLY CALLING OUT
OVER THE OPEN AIRWAVES
AND SAYING THAT THEY'D
SEEN THIS OBJECT.
SO FOR THEM TO DO THAT,
THEY MUST'VE
REALLY SEEN
SOMETHING VERY UNUSUAL,
AND IT WAS CONSIDERED
A THREAT TO THEM.
Narrator: TWO WEEKS LATER,
ANOTHER UFO
SIGHTING WAS REPORTED
IN THE SAME AIRSPACE
ABOVE THE SAME CHINESE CITY.
THIS IS ACTUAL RECORDED
EYEWITNESS VIDEO OF THE EVENT.
OBSERVERS DESCRIBE THE SIGHTING
AS AN EERIE WHITE
LIGHT FLOATING THROUGH THE SKY,
LEAVING A BRIGHT TRAIL
IN ITS WAKE.
Pope:
IT'S BEEN VARIOUSLY SUGGESTED
THAT THIS WAS A ROCKET TEST,
OR PERHAPS SOME SORT OF SECRET
MILITARY TEST WAS UNDERWAY.
IT'S ALSO BEEN THEORIZED
THAT THIS WAS THE REENTRY
INTO THE EARTH'S
ATMOSPHERE OF A ROCKET
THAT HAD LAUNCHED.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL
EVER HAVE DEFINITIVE ANSWERS.
BUT IT SHOWS THAT THESE
THINGS ARE OCCURRING,
APPARENTLY WITH INCREASING
REGULARITY IN OUR SKIES,
AND THAT THEY'RE A CAUSE
OF SOME CONSIDERABLE CONCERN
TO AUTHORITIES
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
Bara: YOU ALSO GOT TO CONSIDER
THAT CHINA IS VERY MILITARIZED.
IT'S A COMMUNIST COUNTRY.
IT DOES HAVE A VERY
INTENSE AIR DEFENSE,
AND THESE OBJECTS PENETRATED
THAT AIR DEFENSE,
GOT IN THEIR AIRPORTS,
AND ACTUALLY CREATED
ENOUGH TROUBLE
TO HAVE THEM SHUT DOWN
THE AIRPORT ITSELF.
THAT'S A REALLY BIG DEAL.
Narrator: UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE THE CHINESE SIGHTINGS
ARE A CLEAR INDICATION
OF THE INCREASING
NUMBER OF UFOs WORLDWIDE.
BUT PERHAPS
THE BEST-KNOWN EVIDENCE
OF THIS ALARMING
TREND OCCURS
OVER MEXICO'S YUCATAN PENINSULA.
IN EARLY 2004,
THE MEXICAN AIR FORCE
WAS DOING A ROUTINE
DRUG INTERDICTION FLIGHT
OVER THE SOUTHERN
PART OF MEXICO.
THIS IS THE MOST FAMOUS CASE
IN THE MEXICAN AIR
FORCE HISTORY.
Dolan: THEY WERE USING
FORWARD-LOOKING INFRARED --
FLIR -- AND RADAR,
AND TRACKED ON
THEIR INSTRUMENTATION,
BUT DID NOT SEE
VISUALLY 11 OBJECTS.
Narrator: AT ABOUT 10,000
FEET IN ALTITUDE,
THE CREW RECORDS
AND MONITORS THE UFOs
WHILE REPORTING THE SIGHTINGS
TO GROUND CONTROL.
THIS IS THE ACTUAL
RECORDED VIDEO FEED
FROM THE MEXICAN AIR FORCE.
Dilettoso: WE'RE LOOKING AT
THE TARGET IMAGERY
OF THESE OBJECTS
THAT ARE TRACKING ALONG
WITH THE AIRPLANE.
WHERE'S THE AIRPLANE?
LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE HERE,
AZIMUTH, APERTURE,
ANGLE IN THE SKY ON THE HORIZON,
SO THAT THIS TARGET TELLS US
EXACTLY WHAT THE POSITION
IN THE ANGLE
IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT,
WHAT POSITION THE AIRPLANE IS.
NOW WE HAVE OTHER OBJECTS
THAT ARE COMING UP
THAT ARE MUCH CLOSER,
THAT ARE MOVING IN
BETWEEN THE CLOUDS,
TRACKING ALONG
WITH THE AIRPLANE.
Lukes: IT WOULD APPEAR
THAT THESE OBJECTS
ARE EITHER INTELLIGENT
OR INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED
BECAUSE THEY APPEAR TO BE
COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER
AS THEY ARE FOLLOWING
THE AIRCRAFT.
Pope: IT'S A FASCINATING
PIECE OF FOOTAGE.
ONE CAN SEE QUITE
CLEARLY THESE UFOs
APPARENTLY MOVING AT HIGH SPEED,
AND HERE THEY ARE SHOWING UP
ON MILITARY CAMERAS.
Narrator: AFTER THE INCIDENT,
THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT RELEASES
A PRESS STATEMENT
AND THE FOOTAGE
FROM THE ENCOUNTER.
Pope: IT'S BEEN SUGGESTED
THAT THESE OBJECTS
ARE NOTHING MORE THAN
THE FLARES FROM OIL RIGS.
TO ME, IT DIDN'T STACK UP.
Dolan: WE'RE LEFT WITH AN OBJECT
THAT WAS TRACKED
AT A HIGH ENOUGH ALTITUDE,
MUCH HIGHER UP
THAN WHAT YOU WOULD GET
BY LOOKING DOWN
AT OIL RIGS,
SO I'M NOT REALLY CONVINCED
BY THAT EXPLANATION.
BECAUSE OF THE TESTIMONY
FROM THE PILOTS,
BECAUSE OF THE FOOTAGE,
BECAUSE OF THE WAY THESE OBJECTS
WERE MOVING AND BEHAVING,
THIS CASE VERY
CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES
THAT WE ARE IN ALL
LIKELIHOOD DEALING
WITH SOMETHING
FROM ANOTHER WORLD.
Narrator:
UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
THE EVIDENCE IS UNDENIABLE.
SIGHTINGS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL
CRAFT WORLDWIDE
ARE ON THE RISE.
THE ONLY QUESTION
IS WHY ARE THEY HERE?
BUT IT'S NOT JUST PILOTS
IN THE SKY
WHO ARE ENCOUNTERING
STRANGE AIRCRAFT.
THERE ARE DOZENS
OF MYSTERIOUS UFO
SIGHTINGS REPORTED
BY NASA ASTRONAUTS,
MANY CAPTURED ON LIVE
VIDEO FEEDS
THAT WERE INTERRUPTED
FOR UNKNOWN REASONS.
COULD THERE BE
ANY REASON TO BELIEVE
THEY REPRESENT A CLEAR
AND PRESENT DANGER?
AND SINCE MAN HAS
VENTURED INTO SPACE,
THERE'S ALSO BEEN
A LONG HISTORY OF UFO SIGHTINGS
REPORTED BY
ASTRONAUTS, SCIENTISTS,
AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
COULD NASA's LACK
OF ADEQUATE EXPLANATION
BE THE REASON WHY MANY SUSPECT
THERE IS A CONSPIRACY,
AND PERHAPS EVEN
A COVER-UP CONNECTED TO UFOs?
NASA, THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS
AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION,
WAS ESTABLISHED
ON JULY 29, 1958.
BEYOND THE SPACE RACE,
NASA's MISSION
WAS TO PIONEER THE FUTURE
OF SPACE EXPLORATION.
Barclay: THE POINT OF NASA
IS TO MAKE SURE
THAT THE UNITED STATES
STAYS AS A WORLD
LEADER IN SCIENCE,
PARTICULARLY FOCUSING ON SPACE,
AERONAUTICS,
AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE.
Narrator: AS TECHNICAL
AND SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS,
ASTRONAUTS ARE TRAINED TO
THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE STANDARDS.
IN A SENSE, OF COURSE,
ASTRONAUTS ARE ELITE PILOTS.
THEY ARE GENERALLY SELECTED
FROM THE TOP RANKS
OF MILITARY PILOT COMMUNITY,
AND THESE PEOPLE ARE
THE BEST OF THE BEST.
Dolan: THEY'RE THE ONES
WHO HAVE THE RIGHT STUFF,
AND WHEN AN ASTRONAUT
MAKES A UFO REPORT
OR SEES WHAT HE
OR SHE THINKS IS A UFO,
WE REALLY NEED TO TAKE
THAT SERIOUSLY.
Pope: IF PILOTS ARE GOOD
UFO WITNESSES,
THEN ASTRONAUTS
ARE GREAT UFO WITNESSES.
Narrator: NASA's FIRST MANNED
SPACE PROGRAM
WAS CALLED PROJECT MERCURY,
AND ON MAY 15, 1963,
THE LAST OF THE PROGRAM'S
SIX MISSIONS LIFTS
OFF FROM LAUNCH COMPLEX 14
AT FLORIDA'S CAPE CANAVERAL.
Barclay: PROJECT MERCURY WAS
PART OF THE SPACE RACE.
IT WAS THE FIRST U.S.
PROJECT TO PUT PEOPLE IN SPACE,
AND IDEALLY BEAT THE RUSSIANS.
Narrator: PILOTING THE MERCURY
SPACECRAFT KNOWN AS FAITH 7
IS 30-YEAR-OLD
MAJOR GORDON COOPER.
HE IS AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER
AND AN AIR FORCE TEST PILOT
WHO'S LOGGED MORE
THAN 7,000 HOURS
FLYING ALL TYPES
OF AIRPLANES, HELICOPTERS,
AND EXPERIMENTAL JET FIGHTERS.
Dolan: GORDON COOPER'S ONE OF
THE MOST FAMOUS ASTRONAUTS
IN U.S. HISTORY, RIGHTLY SO,
AND ABOARD THE FINAL
MERCURY MISSION,
HE DID A RECORD 22
ORBITS AROUND THE EARTH.
Narrator:
COOPER'S 34-HOUR SPACE FLIGHT
IS OVER THREE TIMES LONGER
THAN ANY OF THE PREVIOUS
MERCURY MISSIONS.
BUT ON HIS LAST ORBIT,
THE ASTRONAUT HAS A VERY STRANGE
AND UNEXPECTED EXPERIENCE.
HE REPORTED TO NASA
THERE WAS A BRIGHT GREEN,
GLOWING OBJECT THAT
APPROACHED HIS CAPSULE,
AND IT ZOOMED BY HIM.
AND, I MEAN, IT'S JUST
AN EXTRAORDINARY SIGHTING.
Man: YOU KNOW, FOR SOMEONE
LIKE COOPER,
HIGHLY TRAINED ASTRONAUT,
TO REPORT SOMETHING LIKE THIS,
CLEARLY IT'S SOMETHING
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
Dolan: WHAT THE HECK
DID GORDON COOPER SEE?
THERE'S NOTHING SUPPOSED
TO BE UP THERE IN 1963,
LET ALONE SOMETHING
THAT'S GREEN AND GLOWING,
LET ALONE SOMETHING THAT'S
SUPPOSED TO APPROACH HIS CRAFT.
HE'S ONE OF THE TOP
OBSERVERS IN THE WORLD.
HE WAS AN EXPERIENCED PILOT,
AND HE'S OUT THERE IN SPACE,
AND SOMETHING AT THE BEGINNING
OF OUR SPACE AGE
BUZZES BY HIS CAPSULE.
WOW.
THE SIGHTING AS SOME
SORT OF OPTICAL ILLUSION,
THE UFO IS PICKED UP
ON AN AUSTRALIAN RADAR
TRACKING STATION.
BUT AFTER COOPER AND HIS CAPSULE
ARE RECOVERED
FROM THE PACIFIC OCEAN,
SOMETHING REMARKABLE OCCURS.
Dolan:
WHAT'S INTERESTING TO ME
IS THAT WHEN HE GOT DOWN
ONTO EARTH AGAIN,
NO ONE ASKED HIM ABOUT IT.
Pope:
BEFORE COOPER EVEN RETURNED,
IT WAS MADE CLEAR TO REPORTERS
THAT THEY COULD NOT ASK HIM
ABOUT THE UFO SIGHTING.
NASA WOULD ONLY DO THIS
IF THERE WAS SOME
INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT PIECE
OF INFORMATION BEING RELEASED
THAT THEY WOULDN'T
WANT OUT THERE.
CLEARLY NASA WAS
VERY UNCOMFORTABLE
WITH HIM DESCRIBING WHAT HE SAW.
SO IF SPACE IS EXACTLY
WHAT THEY TELL US IT IS,
THIS BIG, EMPTY VOID
WITH NOTHING OUT THERE,
THEN WHY DO THEY NEED
TO SUPPRESS
ONE OF THEIR OWN BEST
AND BRIGHTEST FROM TALKING
ABOUT WHAT HE SAW?
Narrator: DESPITE COOPER'S
OBSERVATION IN SPACE,
NASA's OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT
OF THE MISSION
BEARS NO MENTION
OF COOPER'S SIGHTING.
TWO YEARS LATER,
ANOTHER SIMILAR
SIGHTING TAKES PLACE
BY TWO VERY EXPERIENCED
ASTRONAUTS --
FRANK BORMAN
AND JIM LOVELL
ONBOARD GEMINI 7.
Barclay: GEMINI FOLLOWED
PROJECT MERCURY.
IT WAS THE NEXT STEP
IN PUTTING PEOPLE INTO SPACE.
GEMINI 7
WAS THE FOURTH FLIGHT,
AND ONE OF THE GOALS
OF THIS PROJECT
WAS TO STUDY
THE EFFECTS OF 14 DAYS
IN SPACE IN HUMANS.
Narrator: EARLY IN THE MISSION,
DURING ONLY
THEIR SECOND ORBIT OF EARTH,
BORMAN AND LOVELL SEE
SOMETHING HIGHLY UNUSUAL.
RECORDED ON AUDIO TAPE,
JIM LOVELL REPORTS
TO MISSION CONTROL
THAT HE SEES
AN UNIDENTIFIED SPACECRAFT
NEARING THEIR CAPSULE.
Narrator:
SUDDENLY, THE LIVE BROADCAST
OF THE CONVERSATION
IS INTERRUPTED BY NASA.
[ INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER ]
[ PLAYBACK STOPS ]
Narrator: DESPITE THE CUT
IN TRANSMISSION,
HERE, FOR THE FIRST TIME
ON TELEVISION,
IS NASA's OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT
OF THE CONVERSATION
THAT CONTINUED.
Dolan: THEY ASK HIM, "WELL,
IS IT THE BOOSTER ROCKET
THAT WAS FROM THE CRAFT,"
AND HE SAYS,
"NO, I SEE THE BOOSTER."
THAT WAS IN HIS SIGHT.
THIS WAS A DIFFERENT OBJECT.
Man: THEY ARE TALKING
ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE
THAT ISN'T THE BOOSTER.
FOR WANT OF A BETTER
EXPRESSION, IT'S A UFO.
Narrator: EACH TIME ASTRONAUTS
SPOKE TO MISSION CONTROL
ABOUT UNIDENTIFIED
FLYING OBJECTS,
THE TRANSMISSIONS ABRUPTLY END.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NASA
AND THE ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE,
THEY HAVE SEVERAL
DIFFERENT CHANNELS,
AND SO IF THEY'RE USING
A PUBLIC CHANNEL
AND THEY SEE SOMETHING,
THEY WOULD AUTOMATICALLY
HAVE THEM SWITCH OVER
TO ANOTHER CHANNEL.
Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE
SUGGEST THAT NASA
INTENTIONALLY
CUT PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
WITH THEIR ASTRONAUTS
AFTER THEY REPORTED
SEEING UFOs IN SPACE?
AND IF SO, WHY WOULD NASA
AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
CHOOSE TO KEEP
SUCH SIGHTINGS SECRET?
SOME UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
THERE MAY HAVE BEEN
AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE
TO THE FORMATION
OF THE SPACE PROGRAM
IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I BELIEVE THAT NASA KNEW
WHEN THEY WERE FORMING
THAT THERE WAS ACTUALLY THESE
SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL
EVENTS HAPPENING
AROUND OUR PLANET,
AND I BELIEVE THAT THEY KNEW
FROM THE INCEPTION
THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GO
INTO SPACE WITH THE IDEA
OF CONTACTING SOME
SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.
Bara: THERE ARE REPORTS OF NASA
LYING ABOUT THE TIME
AND THE PLACE ASTRONAUTS
WERE AVAILABLE
FOR CONVERSATIONS,
WHETHER THEY WERE
IN COMMUNICATION
WITH THE SPACECRAFT OR NOT.
THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS
YOU CAN GO THROUGH THE RECORD
AND FIND THAT NASA
WAS DUPLICITOUS
ON AT THE VERY LEAST,
AND CERTAINLY NOT
COMPLETELY HONEST.
Narrator: COULD THE SPACE RACE
REALLY HAVE BEEN A RACE
TO CONTACT EXTRATERRESTRIALS
THE GOVERNMENT
ALREADY KNEW EXISTED?
FURTHER EVIDENCE MAY BE FOUND
BY REEXAMINING NASA's MISSIONS
TO THE MOON,
OVERNMENT.
AND BEYOND IN EARLY NASA
MISSIONS INTO SPACE,
BUT SHOCKING EVIDENCE
MAY BE FOUND
IN THE SPACE AGENCY'S
GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT --
THE MOON LANDINGS.
JULY 20, 1969.
A NEW ERA IN SPACE EXPLORATION
IS LAUNCHED WHEN A MASSIVE
SATURN ROCKET LIFTS OFF
FROM NASA's KENNEDY
SPACE CENTER.
Barclay: THE APOLLO PROGRAM WAS
ALL ABOUT GOING TO THE MOON,
AND THE CULMINATION OF THAT
EFFORT WAS APOLLO 11.
THE APOLLO 11 MISSION
HAD THREE ASTRONAUTS --
MICHAEL COLLINS, BUZZ ALDRIN,
AND NEIL ARMSTRONG --
AND THE LUNAR MODULE WENT DOWN
TO THE SURFACE OF THE MOON,
AND OUT STEPPED TWO ASTRONAUTS,
BUZZ ALDRIN AND NEIL ARMSTRONG,
TO TOUCH THE SURFACE OF ANOTHER
WORLD FOR THE FIRST TIME.
Armstrong: THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP
FOR [A] MAN,
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.
Narrator: EVERY MOMENT
OF THEIR LUNAR ENCOUNTER
MAKES HISTORY WORLDWIDE.
BUT IT'S WHAT WASN'T
MADE PUBLIC,
ACCORDING TO ONE FORMER NASA
COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER,
THAT CONTINUES TO ROCK
THE UFO COMMUNITY TODAY.
IN 1975, SIX YEARS AFTER
THE APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING,
MAURICE CHATELAIN CAME FORWARD
WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM
IN HIS BOOK
"OUR COSMIC ANCESTORS."
MAURICE CHATELAIN IS
A RETIRED NASA
COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST,
AND HE WENT PUBLIC
WITH SENSATIONAL CLAIMS
THAT WHEN ARMSTRONG
AND ALDRIN LANDED
ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON,
THERE WERE UFOs THERE
WATCHING THEIR EVERY MOVE.
CHATELAIN HAD STATED THAT
HE WAS IN A SECRET ROOM
DURING THE APOLLO 11
MOON LANDINGS
AND THAT HE WITNESSED
A RECORDING FROM THE SURFACE
OF THE MOON OF THE ASTRONAUTS
TALKING ABOUT THE FACT
THAT THEY WEREN'T ALONE.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO CHATELAIN,
AFTER THE ASTRONAUTS
HAD STEPPED OUT
ONTO THE MOON
FOR THE FIRST TIME,
THEY REPORTED SEEING
TWO UFOs HOVERING
OVERHEAD AT ABOUT
15,000 FEET IN ALTITUDE.
Pope: AND THERE'S REFERENCE
TO THESE OBJECTS
JUST WATCHING WHAT'S UNFOLDING.
THIS IS A PIVOTAL POINT
IN HUMAN HISTORY,
AND IT SEEMS
THAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS
WERE THERE TO WATCH.
Narrator: IS IT CONCEIVABLE
THAT NASA
AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
DECIDED TO KEEP THIS
INCREDIBLE ENCOUNTER A SECRET?
AS MANY CRITICS OF THIS THEORY
ARE QUICK TO POINT OUT,
HOW WOULD THAT EVEN BE POSSIBLE
WITH TV CAMERAS ROLLING
NONSTOP AND BILLIONS
OF PEOPLE ON EARTH
WATCHING THE EVENT ON LIVE TV?
INCREDIBLY, THERE IS A GAP
IN WHAT WAS BROADCAST
TO THE PUBLIC.
THERE'S TWO MINUTES OF SILENCE
IN THIS TRANSMISSION,
TWO MISSING MINUTES.
AND NASA SAYS THIS WAS
JUST AN EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTION
CAUSED BY OVERHEATING CAMERAS.
THE SUSPICION MUST BE
THAT SOME SORT OF CLASSIFIED,
SECRET CONVERSATION WAS GOING ON
DURING THESE TWO MINUTES
WHICH STILL TO THIS DAY
HAS NOT BEEN MADE PUBLIC.
Narrator: ALL OFFICIAL DETAILS
OF WHAT THE GOVERNMENT
MAY HAVE LEARNED ABOUT UFOs
DURING THE TWO
MISSING MINUTES ON THE MOON
HAVE REMAINED ULTRA TOP SECRET.
INCREDIBLY, CHATELAIN ALSO
CLAIMS IN HIS BOOK
THAT UP UNTIL THE MOON LANDINGS,
ALL APOLLO AND GEMINI MISSIONS
WERE FOLLOWED BY UFOs.
AND EACH TIME, THE ASTRONAUTS
WERE ORDERED BY NASA
TO NEVER SPEAK ABOUT
THEIR ENCOUNTERS.
THE PROBLEM
WITH CHATELAIN'S STORY
IS HE WASN'T ACTUALLY
WORKING FOR NASA
DURING THE APOLLO MOON LANDINGS.
WHAT'S THE TRUTH?
IS NASA LYING ABOUT
WHEN HE WAS THERE?
IS CHATELAIN LYING?
NOBODY REALLY KNOWS FOR SURE.
BUT AT LEAST THERE WERE
A COUPLE PIECES OF EVIDENCE
THAT WERE STARTING
TO COME TOGETHER
THAT SHOWS MAYBE THERE WAS MUCH
MORE THAN THE PUBLIC STORY.
Narrator: STILL, BUZZ ALDRIN
HIMSELF HAS LENT CREDIBILITY
TO THE CLAIMS
OF HIS UFO SIGHTINGS.
Pope:
ALDRIN, OVER THE YEARS,
HAS CERTAINLY CONFIRMED
THAT HE'S SEEN
SOME STRANGE THINGS
THAT HE COULDN'T EXPLAIN.
Greenewald: WHEN BUZZ ALDRIN
PUBLISHED HIS BOOK
AND HE TALKED ABOUT A UFO
THAT THEY SAW ON APPROACH
TO THE MOON
OUTSIDE OF THEIR CAPSULE WINDOW,
I THINK THAT LENDS
A LOT OF CREDIBILITY
THAT MAYBE THERE
IS MORE TO THE STORY.
Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE
SUGGEST THAT
ARMSTRONG AND ALDRIN REALLY
ENCOUNTERED UFOs ON THE MOON,
AND IF SO, DID THEY MAKE CONTACT
WITH AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE,
AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?
I DON'T THINK NASA KNEW
THAT THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE
ON THE MOON
WHEN WE FIRST LANDED.
BUT WHEN WE GOT TO THE MOON,
I THINK WE WERE BEING
OBSERVED THE ENTIRE TIME.
Pope: THERE IS, INDEED,
A THEORY THAT EXTRA TERRESTRIALS
WOULD ONLY BE INTERESTED
IN MAKING CONTACT
WITH US AT THE POINT
AT WHICH WE'VE DEVELOPED
VIABLE SPACE TRAVEL,
AND LANDING ON THE MOON
MIGHT JUST BE THE TRIGGER POINT.
Narrator: IF NASA IS AWARE
OF THE LUNAR UFOs,
WHY ARE THEY KEEPING IT SECRET?
IS IT POSSIBLE THE GOVERNMENT
IS TRYING TO COVERTLY
MAKE CONTACT
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS?
Lukes: WERE THESE ASTRONAUTS
SENT THERE
TO INTERCEPT SOMETHING,
TO MEET WITH SOMETHING?
DID THEY KNOW THEY WERE ACTUALLY
GOING TO SEE THESE OBJECTS,
AND WHY DON'T WE KNOW
THIS INFORMATION?
Narrator: FURTHER CLUES MAY BE
FOUND IN THE YEARS
AFTER THE MOON LANDINGS
DURING THE HEIGHT OF NASA's
SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM.
Man: ...TWO, ONE.
WE HAVE BOOSTER
IGNITION AND LIFT OFF.
Narrator: THE SPACE SHUTTLE'S
CHIEF MISSION
WAS TO CARRY
LARGE PAYLOADS INTO ORBIT,
MAINTAIN SATELLITES,
AND PERFORM SCIENTIFIC
EXPERIMENTS.
BUT UFO INVESTIGATORS
HAVE RECENTLY
LEARNED THAT ON MARCH 13, 1989,
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENED
ABOARD THE SPACE
SHUTTLE DISCOVERY.
Dolan: SPACE SHUTTLE HAS ALWAYS
HAD A CERTAIN NUMBER
OF VERY CLASSIFIED COMPONENTS
TO EVERY ONE OF ITS MISSIONS.
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE
PUBLIC MISSIONS,
AND THERE ARE
CLASSIFIED MISSIONS.
AND WE DON'T REALLY KNOW
WHAT THEY'RE DOING UP THERE.
Narrator: JUST OVER 20 HOURS
INTO THE MISSION AT 6:42 A.M.
EASTERN STANDARD TIME,
THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WAS SENT
BY 47-YEAR-OLD
SHUTTLE COMMANDER COLONEL
JOHN BLAHA,
A LONGTIME AIR FORCE PILOT
TURNED ASTRONAUT.
Narrator: THE ASTONISHING
ADMISSION
OF A UFO IN CLOSE PROXIMITY
TO THE SPACE SHUTTLE
WAS RECORDED
BY A MEMBER OF THE GODDARD
AMATEUR RADIO CLUB,
WHICH MONITORS ALL NASA
SPACE FLIGHTS.
Narrator: AFTER THAT, THE PUBLIC
TRANSMISSION ENDS ABRUPTLY.
ACCORDING TO UFO INVESTIGATORS,
THAT'S WHEN NASA SWITCHED
FREQUENCIES TO A SECURE MODE.
ARE THEIR SPACE SHUTTLES
BEING USED IN ONE WAY
OR ANOTHER TO OBSERVE
OR INTERACT
WITH THESE OBJECTS
THAT ARE OUT THERE?
I THINK IT'S TOTALLY POSSIBLE.
THERE ARE OBJECTS THAT
DO CERTAINLY APPEAR
TO BE MANEUVERING
IN EARTH ORBIT,
AND THESE ARE NOT
SO SIMPLE TO EXPLAIN.
Lukes: WE HAVE A WITNESS
THE CALIBER
OF THE SHUTTLE COMMANDER
MAKING STATEMENTS LIKE THIS,
THEN YOU THROW ON THE FACT
THAT THIS ISN'T
AN ISOLATED INCIDENT.
SO, ONE HAS TO
SURMISE THAT THERE
IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING UP
THERE INTERACTING
WITH THESE ASTRONAUTS.
Greenewald: THERE IS JUST
AN EXCEPTIONAL AMOUNT
OF WHAT WE DON'T KNOW
ABOUT THE COSMOS,
SO, YES, IT COULD BE
SOME KIND OF
A CRAFT THAT THEY'RE SEEING,
OR IT COULD BE
A NATURAL EXPLANATION,
SOMETHING THAT WE HAVEN'T
DISCOVERED YET.
Narrator: STILL, MOST
RESEARCHERS CONTEND
THAT DESPITE NASA's
BEST EFFORTS,
THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
OF THE INCREASING
NUMBER OF UFO
SIGHTINGS IN SPACE.
YOU PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER,
YOU HAVE THE EARLY
MERCURY OBSERVATIONS
BY GORDON COOPER,
YOU HAVE THE GEMINI 7,
YOU HAVE BLAHA'S OBSERVATIONS.
YOU HAVE THIS TON
OF EVIDENCE STACKED UP.
Narrator:
YET AS NASA VENTURES OUT
ON THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION,
DOES IT SERVE AS A PLATFORM
FROM WHICH EVEN MORE EVIDENCE
IS OBSERVED AND GATHERED,
AS UFO EXPERTS SUSPECT?
AND IT IS EASILY
THE LARGEST STRUCTURE
MANKIND HAS
EVER PUT INTO SPACE.
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
PROJECT BEGAN IN 1998
AND HAS BEEN BUILT
UPON SINCE THEN.
Narrator: PERMANENTLY OCCUPIED
BY U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL CREWS,
THE SPACE STATION
PRIMARILY SERVES
AS A RESEARCH LABORATORY.
Barclay: THE SPACE STATION
IS OUR ORBITING PLATFORM.
IT'S A PLACE TO STUDY
WHAT SPACE IS LIKE
AND PERFORM SCIENTIFIC
EXPERIMENTS IN MICROGRAVITY
WHILE STILL BEING ABLE TO GET
TO EARTH RELATIVELY QUICKLY
AND BRING THINGS UP
RELATIVELY QUICKLY.
Narrator:
BUT IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT ONE OF THE SPACE
STATION'S REAL FUNCTIONS
IS TO PROVIDE A PLATFORM
FROM WHICH TO MONITOR
THE ACTIVITY OF UFOs?
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
AND THE UNITED STATES,
THEY LOOK AT EVERYTHING
AS A POTENTIAL
MILITARY ADVANCEMENT,
WHATEVER IT IS.
SO IT'S POSSIBLE THAT ONBOARD
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION,
THERE IS AN ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT MISSION STATEMENT
THAN WHAT WE ARE TOLD.
Pope:
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
IS IMPORTANT IN TERMS
OF THE UFO PHENOMENON,
BECAUSE FOR AROUND 20 YEARS,
WE'VE HAD THESE
ELITE PERSONNEL,
ASTRONAUTS AND SCIENTISTS
OUT THERE IN THE FRONT LINE.
SO WHEN THESE PEOPLE SAY
THAT THEY'VE SEEN SOMETHING,
YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK.
Narrator:
IN APRIL OF 2004,
A LIVE-STREAMING VIDEO
FEED WAS ACTIVATED.
Barclay: THE HIGH-DEFINITION
EARTH-VIEWING CAMERAS
ON THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION ALLOW US
TO TAKE PICTURES
OF THE EARTH
AND VIDEO AS THE SPACE STATION
ORBITS EVERY 90 MINUTES.
Narrator: BUT ROUTINE VIEWING
SOON TURNS EXPLOSIVE
WHEN ON APRIL 19, 2016,
A UFO IN THE SHAPE
OF A TRANSLUCENT SQUARE
IS SEEN IN THE SPACE
STATION'S VIDEO.
Dolan: IT'S A DEFINITE OBJECT
THAT'S OUT THERE.
IT SEEMS UNUSUAL, FOR SURE,
IN THE DISTANCE,
AND WHAT'S PARTICULARLY
INTERESTING
IS THAT AFTER A VERY SHORT TIME
OF RECORDING IT
THAT THE VIDEO JUST GOES BLUE,
AND YOU CAN THINK ONCE AGAIN
THIS IS A CASE OF NASA
JUST CUTTING SHORT
A TRANSMISSION,
SOMETHING THAT
SHOULDN'T BE THERE.
THE ASTRONAUTS HAVE SEEN
AND CONTINUE TO SEE
OBJECTS IN SPACE
THAT DO NOT APPEAR
TO BE TERRESTRIAL.
THEY DO NOT APPEAR
TO BE OUR TECHNOLOGY.
AND THEN THE QUESTION BECOMES
WHOSE TECHNOLOGY ARE THEY?
Narrator: AND THE EVIDENCE
OF UNEXPLAINED
SIGHTINGS BY NASA
ASTRONAUTS CONTINUES TO GROW.
ON JUNE 30, 2015,
THREE SEPARATE
UFOs ARE SPOTTED
LEAVING EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
AND FLYING INTO SPACE.
SOME OF THE FOLLOWING
VIDEO AND PHOTO EVIDENCE
HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN
ON TELEVISION.
IT'S OBVIOUS THAT
THEY'RE MOVING
AT THOUSANDS OF MILES PER HOUR.
HAS TO BE.
THERE'S NO OTHER WAY.
THESE ARE HIGHLY
RAPIDLY MOVING OBJECTS
COMING FROM EARTH,
CONVERGING FROM RADICALLY
DIFFERENT POINTS OF ORIGIN.
NASA HAS SAID THAT THESE
ARE SATELLITES TRANSITING EARTH.
BUT THESE LOOK LIKE THEY'RE
COMING UP FROM THE EARTH
AND COMING UP AT ANGLES
THAT ARE JUST HARD
TO EXPLAIN AS SATELLITES.
Lukes: THEY'RE MOVING IN UNISON
WITH THE SAME GOAL IN MIND,
AND I BELIEVE THAT THIS
IS EXCELLENT PROOF
THAT THERE IS SOMETHING
TAKING PLACE IN OUTER SPACE
THAT PROBABLY HAS
INTELLIGENCE BEHIND IT.
Narrator: MOMENTS AFTER
THE THREE UFOs CAN BE SEEN
HEADING INTO THE SAME SECTOR
OF OUTER SPACE,
THE VIDEO FEED IS LOST.
Pope: NASA AND SOME OTHER
IMAGERY EXPERTS
HAVE SUGGESTED THAT QUITE A LOT
OF THESE FILMS
ACTUALLY SHOW LITTLE MORE
THAN DUST OR ICE PARTICLES,
BUT IT'S VERY DIFFICULT
FOR PEOPLE TO LOOK
AT THESE SORTS OF FILMS
AND BE SURE WHETHER THEY'RE
LOOKING AT A MASSIVE OBJECT
FAR AWAY OR A VERY,
VERY SMALL OBJECT
CLOSE TO THE LENS.
Narrator:
SOME RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
THERE ARE A VARIETY
OF EXPLANATIONS
FOR SO-CALLED UFO SIGHTINGS.
THE REALITY IS THERE
ARE LITERALLY TENS
OF THOUSANDS OF PIECES
OF SPACE JUNK,
JUST TRASH THAT'S LITERALLY
LITTERED OUR UPPER
ATMOSPHERE THAT'S IN ORBIT,
AND IT INCLUDES PIECES
OF DEAD SPACECRAFT,
SATELLITES THAT HAVE
GONE OFFLINE.
SO, DID THEY REALLY
SEE AN ALIEN CRAFT,
OR DID THEY JUST SEE MAYBE
ONE OF THE MILLIONS
OF DIFFERENT SPACE
DEBRIS OBJECTS
THAT ARE UP THERE?
WE MAY NEVER KNOW.
Narrator: THEN ON JULY 9, 2016,
YET ANOTHER UFO
IS SEEN ENTERING
EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE,
AND AGAIN, THE VIDEO
IS INTERRUPTED.
Pope:
IT SEEMS ALMOST EVERY TIME
THERE'S AN INTRIGUING
PIECE OF FOOTAGE
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION,
SOMETHING GOES WRONG
AND THE FEED
IS MYSTERIOUSLY CUT.
NOW, IS THIS CENSORSHIP?
IS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
BEING DELETED,
WITHHELD FROM THE PUBLIC?
OR IS IT JUST
EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTIONS?
WE DON'T KNOW.
Narrator:
NASA CLAIMS THE VIDEO SUFFERS
REGULAR OUTAGES
AS THE SPACE STATION
PASSES OUT OF RANGE
OF RELAY SATELLITES.
BUT IS THIS REALLY THE CASE?
THESE ISSUES HAVE
HAPPENED SO MANY TIMES,
YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE CONCLUSION
THAT THEY ARE REALLY DOING THIS
TO KEEP INFORMATION
FROM THE PUBLIC.
Narrator: DOES EVIDENCE GATHERED
BY THE CAMERAS
OF THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION,
OR ISS, SUGGEST THAT UFOs
REALLY DO INHABIT OUR WORLD?
UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE NASA
MAY HAVE A HIDDEN AGENDA.
Lukes:
GIVEN THE REPEATED ACCOUNTS
FROM ASTRONAUTS OF SEEING
THESE EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT,
PERHAPS THERE IS A VERY
CONCERTED ATTEMPT BY NASA
TO ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION
WITH THESE BEINGS.
I DO BELIEVE THE ISS
IS DOING LEGIT RESEARCH,
BUT I ALSO BELIEVE
THAT THE ISS COULD BE A PLATFORM
FOR COMMUNICATION
WITH NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCES.
Bara:
THE QUESTION'S ALWAYS BEEN
WITH THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION
DOES IT HAVE
A SECRET MISSION?
IS IT UP THERE DOING MORE
THAN JUST THE PUBLIC FRONT-VIEW
KIND OF STUFF
THAT THEY SHOW US?
IS THERE A POSSIBILITY
THAT IT IS SOME
SORT OF EARLY SPACE
INTRUDER DETECTOR KIND OF CRAFT
THAT'S DESIGNED TO LOOK
FOR UFOs OR ALIEN SPACECRAFT?
THAT ACTUALLY MAKES MORE SENSE
THAN YOU MIGHT THINK
BECAUSE THERE'S A LONG
HISTORY OF NASA MISSIONS
HAVING SECRET AGENDAS.
Narrator:
AS HUMANS CONTINUE TO PUSH OUT
AND EXPLORE THE DISTANT
REACHES OF SPACE,
UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
THIS WILL ONLY INCREASE
THE POSSIBILITY FOR CONTACT --
HAVE PROVIDED SOME OF
THE MOST COMPELLING EVIDENCE
OF THE EXISTENCE OF UFOs.
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE
IS TRYING TO
COMMUNICATE WITH US,
OR HAVE THEY ALREADY DONE SO?
AUGUST, 2005.
NASA LAUNCHES THE MARS
RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER.
ONBOARD IS AN ADVANCED
CAMERA SYSTEM,
THE HIGH-RESOLUTION
IMAGING SCIENCE EXPERIMENT,
ALSO KNOWN AS HiRISE.
THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE
ORBITER ORBITS AROUND MARS
TAKING IMAGES
OF ITS SURFACE.
Narrator: ITS ULTRA-POWERFUL
TELESCOPE HAS ALLOWED
THE ORBITER TO PHOTOGRAPH
HUNDREDS OF SWATHS
OF THE MARS SURFACE
IN UNPRECEDENTED DETAIL.
THE HiRISE INSTRUMENT
HAS A RESOLUTION
OF ABOUT ONE FOOT
ON THE SURFACE OF MARS,
SO WE GET SOME REALLY
GREAT PICTURES OF MARS
FROM THIS ORBITER.
Narrator:
THEN, ON JULY 13, 2016,
MAJOR NEWS OUTLETS REPORT
THAT THE ASTRONOMERS
USING HiRISE HAVE
DISCOVERED FORMATIONS ON MARS
THAT BEAR A STRIKING
RESEMBLANCE TO MORSE CODE.
MORSE CODE WAS DEVELOPED
IN THE 19th CENTURY
AS ESSENTIALLY
A BINARY CODE.
IT'S A WAY OF QUICKLY ENCODING
A LOT OF TEXTUAL INFORMATION
THROUGH A SERIES OF DOTS
AND DASHES.
THE U.S. MILITARY STILL TRAINS
A NUMBER OF PEOPLE
EACH YEAR IN MORSE CODE,
AND THAT'S BECAUSE
IT'S STILL THE EASIEST
AND MOST RELIABLE TO TRANSMIT
INFORMATION OVER DISTANCE.
Barclay: IMAGES COMING FROM
THE HiRISE INSTRUMENT
ON THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE
ORBITER SAW DARK DUNES
ON THE SURFACE OF MARS.
SOME OF THEM ELONGATED
AND SOME OF THEM
MORE LIKE DOTS.
OUR BEST GUESS
FOR WHAT FORMED THESE
IS WINDS COMING
FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
Narrator: DESPITE NASA's ATTEMPT
TO EXPLAIN THE PHENOMENA,
THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY ADMITS
THE DUNE FORMATIONS
ARE VERY COMPLEX,
MAKING IT DIFFICULT
TO DETERMINE
EXACTLY WHAT CAUSED
THEIR FORMATION.
Dolan:
SCIENTISTS DON'T REALLY KNOW
EXACTLY HOW TO
EXPLAIN THIS.
WE DON'T HAVE
ANYTHING ON EARTH
THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS.
SO THE QUESTION
IS WHAT CAUSES IT?
IS IT NATURAL
OR IS IT ARTIFICIAL?
IT'S AS IF SOMEBODY
KIND OF DUG UP
AROUND A BUNCH OF LAND
AND CREATED THIS DOT, DASH,
DOT, DASH,
DOT, DASH PATTERN.
NOW, THERE'S NO EXPLANATION
FOR THIS GEOLOGICALLY.
NASA HAS DESCRIBED IT,
BUT NASA HAS A TENDENCY
TO SUGGEST
THAT THE DESCRIPTION
OF SOMETHING
IS THE SAME THING
AS EXPLAINING SOMETHING.
IT'S NOT EXPLAINABLE.
Narrator:
FOR UFO INVESTIGATORS,
THE SATELLITE IMAGES
RAISE SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS.
WHAT IF THE STRANGE FORMATIONS
ARE THE RESULT OF SOMETHING
OTHER THAN
THE NATURAL PROCESS OF WIND
OR GEOLOGIC ACTIVITY ON MARS?
AND WHAT IF THEY WERE CREATED
BY AN INTELLIGENT SPECIES
THAT ONCE LIVED
ON THE RED PLANET?
Man: NOW, IS THIS
MORSE CODE PROOF
OF A PAST INTELLIGENT
CIVILIZATION,
OR IS THIS SOMETHING
THAT SCIENCE
JUST HAS YET TO EXPLAIN?
WE'RE DEALING
WITH AN ALIEN WORLD.
WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING
ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE.
Pope: IF THOSE FEATURES
ON THE MARTIAN SURFACE
ARE MORSE CODE,
THEN TWO QUESTIONS ARISE.
FIRSTLY, WHO SENT THE MESSAGE,
AND SECOND, WHAT DOES IT SAY?
NOW, EXPERTS
IN MORSE CODE
HAVE ACTUALLY LOOKED
AT THESE MARTIAN FEATURES
AND THEY'VE BEEN
UNABLE TO DECODE IT.
IT DOESN'T SEEM TO
CORRESPOND TO ANY LANGUAGE
THAT WE KNOW,
BUT MAYBE IT'S NOT WRITTEN
IN OUR LANGUAGE AT ALL.
MAYBE IT'S WRITTEN
IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S LANGUAGE,
AND THAT WE CAN
ONLY GUESS AT.
Bara: WHEN THE GEOLOGIC
EXPLANATIONS DON'T ADD UP,
AND YET YOU CAN'T REALLY SAY
THAT IT IS SOMETHING ARTIFICIAL,
YOU'RE KIND OF STUCK
IN THE MIDDLE.
IT'S A GENUINE MYSTERY
WHAT THAT STUFF IS,
AND NASA's EXPLANATION
CERTAINLY IS NOT ADEQUATE.
WE'VE BEEN SEARCHING
FOR LIFE ON MARS,
AND WE ABSOLUTELY CAN'T RULE OUT
THAT THERE WAS
ONCE LIFE ON MARS.
WE THINK ABOUT 3.5 BILLION YEARS
AGO, MARS MAY WELL
HAVE HAD WATER
AT THE SAME TIME
THAT LIFE WAS
BLOSSOMING ON EARTH.
Narrator:
THIS COMPELLING NEW EVIDENCE
OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF OCEANS, RIVERS,
AND EVEN LAKES ON MARS ADDS
TO AN EMERGING PICTURE
OF THE RED PLANET
AS ONCE BEING A HABITABLE WORLD.
GIVEN WHAT WE KNOW
THAT TOOK PLACE
WITH THE WATER BILLIONS
OF YEARS AGO ON THE PLANET,
WE HAVE TO TAKE
THIS INTO ACCOUNT
THAT THERE COULD HAVE
BEEN A CIVILIZATION
THAT'S NOW EXTINCT,
AND THERE STILL MIGHT
BE LIFE ON THAT PLANET.
Rosenfeld: I DO BELIEVE THAT
MARS WAS INHABITED AT ONE POINT,
AND WHAT WE SEE
ON THE SURFACE TODAY
IS REMNANTS OF
THAT CIVILIZATION.
Narrator: AS MANKIND'S INTEREST
IN SPACE EXPLORATION
HAS GONE WELL BEYOND MARS,
TODAY NASA HAS
NUMEROUS SATELLITES,
SPACE-BASED TELESCOPES,
AND EVEN SPACE PROBES LOOKING AT
AND LISTENING TO THE FAR CORNERS
OF THE COSMOS.
Pope:
CURIOSITY SEEMS TO BE
INEXTRICABLY LINKED
WITH INTELLIGENCE.
WE LOOK OUT INTO
THE UNIVERSE AND WE ASK,
"WHAT'S OUT THERE?"
AND I THINK IT'S POSSIBLE
THAT OTHERS OUT THERE
ARE LOOKING BACK AT US.
Narrator:
THE UFO COMMUNITY BELIEVES
THAT WE NEED
TO LOOK NO FURTHER
THAN OUR OWN SKIES
AND PLANETARY BACKYARD
FOR EVIDENCE.
PILOT AND ASTRONAUT SIGHTINGS,
INTERRUPTED NASA TRANSMISSIONS,
ALL RAISING THE SPECTER
OF CONSPIRACY AND COVER UP.
FOR UFO RESEARCHERS,
THE MOUNTAIN
OF UNEXPLAINED EVIDENCE,
COMBINED WITH THE GOVERNMENT
INADEQUATELY
PROVIDING EXPLANATIONS,
ALL POINT TO CONFIRMATION
THAT UFOs ARE,
IN FACT, REAL.
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