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They're all going against the wind.

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The winds are 100.

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Is the U.S. government covering up the truth about alien contact?

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I think so.

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And if so, why?

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The government seems to be completely unaccountable to the American public.

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They rarely release anything that they know or the findings.

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What do you think?

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It's a red state.

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The fact that the U.S. government has investigated thousands and thousands of reports

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leads me to think they know much more than they let us believe.

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Could the government have a secret agenda, one known to only a select few,

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and perhaps dating back hundreds of years?

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The government's program continues to be deny, deny, deny.

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Sometimes government finds it helpful to sow seeds of disinformation and misinformation

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to hide the facts about these sorts of programs.

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Hillary Clinton was basically saying,

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you are going to give me the information I need to disclose the extraterrestrial presence

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or I'm going to fire every single one of you.

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People want to know what the government knows

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and they ought to know what the government knows.

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The New York Times

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On December 16th, 2017,

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The New York Times ran an explosive story entitled,

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Glowing Auras and Black Money,

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The Pentagon's Mysterious UFO Program.

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It was the first time the American public learned of a top secret U.S. government project,

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the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,

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otherwise known as ATIP.

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The revelations concerning the existence of the Pentagon's ATIP program are extraordinary.

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It is the single biggest ever news in the whole history of the UFO phenomenon.

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It's not quite a spaceship and a hangar smoking gun,

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but it's the closest we've ever been.

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I assure you that nothing like this has ever happened in the history of this issue.

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This is a milestone, this is a watershed.

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The article reported that the program had been run by a former Pentagon official named Luis Alessando,

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a senior career intelligence officer with top security clearance

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and with experience in everything from microbiology and parasitology

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to the study of global terrorism.

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and to measure what threat they could pose to national security.

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in other cases it would come up from Air Force channels,

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in other cases it would come through the intelligence community,

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and all roads led to our office regarding the phenomenon.

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Alessando played a key role in the government's top secret ATIP program

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prior to his leaving the government in 2017.

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Among the reasons given for his departure was the bitterness he felt that the research he was conducting

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and the conclusions that he and his colleagues were reaching

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were not being taken seriously by other agencies within the government.

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was hard pressed to give Alessando so much as a hearing

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so that his findings could be made part of the public record.

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the New York Times broke the major story,

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exposing the ATIP program and many of the facts surrounding the government's secret research into UFO activity.

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When I read in the New York Times, this front page story,

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that the government was running this semi-secret program to investigate,

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well, aerial phenomena, which is kind of a code word for UFOs.

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people who think that we're being visited were claiming that the government was, in fact,

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possessing some secret knowledge about this,

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and sure enough, they did have this secret investigation.

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For Luis Alessando, the New York Times article served as a vindication

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for the years that his research went unrecognized and his warnings unheeded.

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so too was the possibility that it was being caused by technologies

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that were not only unknown, but of extraterrestrial origin.

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Alessando, he resigned because he felt the government considered this a joke.

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I think that the fact that these folks are out there trying to get the answers that we're all seeking,

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absolutely fantastic, and they're getting to top government officials,

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and some, someday, we're going to get the answers from people like that,

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not from government, but from people like that.

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Luckily for Luis Alessando, one of the people who took him and his research seriously

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was musician and UFO researcher Tom DeLong.

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Tom DeLong, who is most famous for his being the lead in Blink 182,

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that's brought together a number of scientists and others

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to both continue to study the phenomena on the outside

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in the private sector and to raise funds to do that.

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A lot of people were saying, what does a rock star know about all this?

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Tom DeLong was able to use this to leverage, I guess, access where others had tried and failed.

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an organization devoted to the study of UFOs

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and the possible existence of extraterrestrial activity here on Earth.

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When Elizondo left the Pentagon, he was determined to bring eight years of investigation out of the shadows

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by releasing several of the videos he had collected.

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One of them featured this incredible encounter, taken by a fighter jet in Florida in 2015,

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now known as the Gimbal Video.

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which was released through the Washington Post.

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This UFO had been tracked by the USS Princeton for several days over the Pacific Ocean,

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approximately 100 miles southwest of San Diego.

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On the screen, it also says the speed of the F-18 is 250 knots, roughly about 280 miles per hour.

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This F-18 can't seem to get any closer to this vehicle, whatever it is.

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and it can't catch this thing.

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I mean, it would kill them.

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and featured yet another unexplained aerial encounter.

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But perhaps the most shocking information to come from Tom DeLong and his To The Stars Academy

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was Luis Elizondo's claim that Bigelow Aerospace had modified its buildings

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for the storage of strange metal alloys of unknown origin, also known as meta-materials.

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Now, ho, stop the presses right there. What are these metal alloys?

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Luis Elizondo has referred to these as meta-materials.

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The implication is that they're not special magical elements or anything,

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but they do seem to be materials that have been studied.

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According to Elizondo, tests have been run. The answer has come back.

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Whatever these things were, they came from space.

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There was also indications that there were certain polymers that were discovered

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at crash sites that were unexplained and were reviewed.

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You know, for years and years, UFO researchers had talked about crash retrievals of UFOs

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or that elements of these objects had been recovered and were being studied,

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and skeptics would laugh at these claims, you know, how ridiculous such conspiracy, paranoid fantasies were.

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Well, guess what? Now we have it confirmed.

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What are these materials? Are they of this Earth? Are they from an advanced alien intelligence?

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Were these metals actually taken from crash UFOs? What are the sources for these kinds of metals?

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These are the kind of questions that we need to learn the answers to

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if we're going to get to the bottom of understanding what the government knows about UFOs.

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Is it possible that the U.S. military has recovered crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft

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and that wreckage from these aircraft is currently being stored and studied by a top secret team at Bigelow Aerospace?

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Well, the really interesting thing about ATIP is how much information hasn't been released.

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We hear things that are coming. There's this report that was written that we're supposed to get to see at some point.

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Haven't seen it yet. And then, are there more videos? We've seen, I think, three videos come out that they've released.

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There has to be more. They were doing this for like five years or maybe even a lot longer than that.

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I bet you there's a lot more.

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Other secret military programs that have been going on for many, many decades.

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Was the U.S. government's ATIP program the only one to be investigating extraterrestrial activity?

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And if so, how was it started and why?

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And was the government seriously concerned that such activity was happening?

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Washington, D.C.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada summons Senator Daniel Inouye from Hawaii

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and Alaska Senator Ted Stevens to a secure room in the Capitol Building for a secret meeting.

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He convinces them to lend their support to fund a project researching UFO reports in the interest of national security.

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The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, or ATIP.

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Senator Reid was successful in getting money into the Defense Department budget to create a small office

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to look at what the government knew and to study some more recent incidents that had occurred

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and to delve into the background and to try to explain what pilots who had encountered

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a strange aerial phenomenon couldn't explain.

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Without any public debate, $22 million is allocated for ATIP from a black money budget that few people know about or can monitor.

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Much of it, I think, was classified. Much of it was unclassified, but I think people didn't know about the program.

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I'm very glad that my friend Harry Reid decided that he would pursue this

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and sought money for it. Senator Stevens was genuinely interested in the topic, but none of them went out and discussed it.

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When later asked about his support for the program, Senator Reid said that he was inspired by his friend,

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retired former Senator and astronaut John Glenn.

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Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, told Reid that he thought that the federal government should be looking seriously into UFOs.

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But there are some who believe that Reid's support owes less to John Glenn than to his friendship with one of the senator's largest campaign contributors,

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Robert Bigelow, the founder of Bigelow Aerospace.

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Robert Bigelow owned a series of hotels and he sold it and made a lot of money.

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He decided then he wanted to get into space exploration. He's fascinated by extraterrestrials and UFOs.

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NASA was providing insight as opposed to oversight, which is an important distinction there.

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And his dear friend, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, was convinced by Robert Bigelow to get the government to spend $22 million into this program to investigate UFOs.

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It's not a coincidence to my mind that he was involved in the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

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He builds rockets and planes and who knows what else.

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And he seems like a perfectly logical person to have been the point man in the private sector for using the information that was gleaned from that project, whatever it was.

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And we don't know what a lot of it was because it's classified.

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At the time, the fact that much of ATIP's research was outsourced to Bigelow Aerospace made perfect sense.

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First of all, the company already had a staff of highly qualified aerospace engineers.

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And secondly, an outside company could operate without the kind of public scrutiny imposed on a government-based agency.

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Bigelow could operate in total secrecy.

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Private companies aren't held to the Freedom of Information Act. Private companies can do whatever they want to with their funding and you can't go then and fill out a Freedom of Information Act request.

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That's a way to keep things more secretive.

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But was the ATIP program's need for secrecy merely designed to keep its UFO findings independent of public scrutiny?

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Or was there a greater interest in hiding not only what ATIP was binding, but also what those in charge of the program were looking for?

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In May 2017, Robert Bigelow was the subject of a profile on CBS's 60 Minutes.

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The piece focused on Bigelow's relationship to NASA and his activities in creating life-support habitats for future astronauts.

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During his interview, Bigelow revealed to 60 Minutes that he was not only an aerospace enthusiast, but a full-fledged believer in extraterrestrials.

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Do you believe in aliens?

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I'm absolutely convinced that's all there is to it.

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I also believe that UFOs have come to Earth.

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There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence.

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And I spent millions and millions, I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.

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Is it risky for you to say, you know, in public that you believe in UFOs and aliens?

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I don't give a damn. I don't care.

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You don't worry that some people will say that you hear that guy? Sounds like he's crazy.

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I don't care.

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Why not?

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It's not going to make a difference. It's not going to change reality of what I know.

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Bob Bigelow said, ET's are here. They're right under your nose.

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And he uses the word ET. He doesn't beat around the bush.

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Robert Bigelow became my hero. That I don't give a damn. Really was for a lot of people.

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It was for every billionaire space jockey out there, whether it's Elon Musk or Branson or Bezos.

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But guess what? None of those people have ever said to a reporter, you know, I'm pretty sure there's extraterrestrials here.

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Bigelow did.

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We must now go and ask the head of Bigelow Aerospace, what does he mean?

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That aliens are under everyone's noses.

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This story really is begging for somebody to go to Robert Bigelow and say, can we now go and see York Warehouse?

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What a fantastic next step it would be for the world.

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Although funding for the ATIP program was quietly ended in 2012, there are those who believe that its focus on the study of recent UFO activity and on the study of extraterrestrial life are still alive and well.

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Although now further hidden under a different agency name.

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When the Pentagon grudgingly admitted the existence of the ATIP program, they did a clever thing and they said that the funding had run out in 2012.

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The implication was that the program was no more. But with my knowledge of the way in which these classified sensitive programs are run, pulling the funding plug is not the same as terminating the project.

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But while some version of the government's ATIP program may still be operating in secret, the same cannot be said for some of the agency's former employees.

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And there is one in particular who is not only open to the idea that aliens do exist, he has made it his mission to communicate his findings throughout the world.

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When the New York Times story broke, revealing the existence of the US government's ultra top secret ATIP program,

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UFO experts and ancient astronaut theorists had validation for what they knew had been happening for decades.

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That the government has proof of extraterrestrial visitation and that they have been hiding it from the public.

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The investigations were denied during the time of their happening and it's really curious that we're always told, no, these programs are not happening.

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And then 20 years later, these documents are being released to reveal the fact that these investigations did happen.

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My initial reaction to the information that was released in December of 2017 was that this has really been going on for over 70 years.

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Although the government's ATIP program was established in 2007, it was by no means the first top secret program designed to investigate UFO activity in the United States.

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The first was known simply as Project Sine and it was set up within the US Air Force to investigate unexplained aerial phenomena such as the event now known as the Battle of Los Angeles.

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What's called the Battle of LA is actually one of the earliest unexplained UFO mysteries in modern or modern era.

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Three months after Pearl Harbor took place on the early morning of February 25, 1942, an unknown object appeared over Los Angeles and anti-aircraft guns opened fire on it.

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The anti-aircraft guns began barking during a blackout ordered by the 4th Interceptor Command at 225 A.S.

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At 2430, artillery shells were fired at several unknown objects. Many eyewitnesses on the ground saw this.

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There was concern that the Japanese were somehow involved, but there was no Japanese aircraft carrier, no chance that Japanese airplanes could have been responsible for this.

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The secretary of the Navy said to the public it was just war nerves, there was nothing out there whatsoever.

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Although the US Army Air Force officially dismissed the object seen in the sky as weather balloons, they failed to explain why so many weather balloons would have been floating over Los Angeles in the first place.

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In the years following the Battle of Los Angeles, numerous other UFO sightings were reported, including the one widely referred to as the Roswell Incident, in which an unidentified object referred to in the press as a flying saucer, reportedly crashed on a ranch just outside the town of Roswell, New Mexico on July 4, 1947.

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Within 24 hours, the story changed, and they said we made a mistake. It's not a flying disk, it's just debris from a weather balloon.

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The Roswell Incident was probably a major contributor to the establishment of what became known as Project Sign just a couple of months later.

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By the time Project Sign was established in 1948, UFO sightings had become so frequent they could no longer be ignored or dismissed.

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Given the fact that there was a cold war escalating between the United States and the Soviet Union, concerns that UFOs might be spy satellites or foreign-made weapons gave some justification to the increasing paranoia.

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Answers needed to be found. But just as the government's first official UFO program was getting started, it was suddenly, and mysteriously, shut down.

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There was a very big incident during the summer of 1948 when a report went to the Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenberg, and it stated, this is real, they're here, and Vandenberg closed down Project Sign.

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But why would the Air Force Chief of Staff shut down a program designed to study UFOs just after being informed that UFOs were not only real, but of genuine concern?

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There seems to be a pattern of suppression over the last 70 years when it comes to the UFO subject. And all of these government investigations into UFOs where they look into it, then they say there's nothing to it, then they look into it again, then they're finding that there is something to it.

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But they don't want to say what it is.

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For the next four years, UFO sightings continued to be reported, so many in fact that the government could no longer dismiss them as hoaxes, weather anomalies, or simply the product of mass hysteria.

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By March 1952, a number of high-ranking Air Force generals became so frustrated with the military's previous attempts to properly investigate so-called flying saucers that they launched a program that would be the most serious and best funded to date, Project Blue Book.

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Under the command of Air Force Captain Edward Repelt, this new top-secret agency would take UFOs and their potential threat to national security very seriously.

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Project Blue Book produced a standard form for people who wanted to report a UFO. What did it look like? Was there a sound? They even had a chart for people to calculate the angle of elevation.

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If UFOs are nothing to worry about, why is the Air Force requesting so much information about the true nature of what the witnesses saw?

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In January 1953, after gathering hundreds of reported sightings, photographs, and interviews, Captain Repelt and astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hineck prepared and presented their best 23 cases to a CIA-formed panel of scientists led by Dr. H.P. Robertson.

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The Robertson panel concluded that the evidence could all be dismissed as natural occurrences and was not worth the effort of the government.

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And it was the Robertson panel, which was the origin for a lot of the propaganda that was put out in the media. When it came to UFOs, they wanted to publicly ridicule the subject so that people wouldn't want to be associated with it.

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Basically killing all the public interest in this field so that they could continue to research these exotic technologies behind the scenes.

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In 1969, Project Blooper was finally shut down on the grounds that there was no proof that the unidentified objects posed a national security threat or were of extraterrestrial origin.

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But was that really the end of the story or only the beginning?

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In February 2018, Nick Pope, the former director of defense security at the British Ministry of Defense, traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with Chase Klotzke, a registered lobbyist for UFO disclosure, and a former program developer for the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Chase Klotzke has investigated numerous U.S. government secret studies into UFOs and has examined many of the once classified files pertaining to Project Blue Book.

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I've got this Project Blue Book file from the FBI archives, and the first page I want to really go over with you is this one that indeed reads UFO fact sheet.

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Okay, so this is basically a summary of the position with regard to Project Blue Book.

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Right, the official statement.

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Okay, and so this says, since the termination of Project Blue Book, no evidence has been presented to indicate that further investigation of UFOs by the Air Force is warranted.

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Terminated? Well, was the program really terminated? That's my question.

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Absolutely, and if it was, what took its place?

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Well, yes, the Air Force isn't suddenly going to stop being interested in uncorrelated targets in its airspace.

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Right, absolutely, and the second document I really want you to weigh in on doesn't make sense.

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Wow, 12,618 sightings, that's a lot, and 701 of them remained completely unidentified. That's a staggering amount.

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These are the cases that were properly investigated, interviewed, witnesses, radar tapes were looked at, and still no answers found.

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Wait a minute, here, look, here it is. At the end of the program, the unknowns drop.

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They go from 32 to 19 to 3 and 1. I smell a rat.

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They've cooked the books. Can't pull the plug on the program if you've still got a high number of unknowns, so they clearly push those cases out of the unidentified column and into the cases that are explained, at least publicly.

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This is their way out.

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Was Project Blue Book officially shut down because it had simply found no convincing evidence that UFOs were real, or was it because the government had come to the opposite conclusion that not only were they real, but of extraterrestrial origin?

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A truth that could be so potentially disturbing it needed to be covered up even deeper than before.

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As far as UFO researchers and ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, proof that the US government has not only known about extraterrestrial activity on our planet, but has been systematically covering it up for decades,

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first came in the form of a single roll of 35mm film, anonymously sent to a documentary filmmaker by the name of Jamie Chandra Ray in 1984.

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The film, when developed, showed images of an 8-page memo allegedly written in 1952 by the first director of the CIA, Roscoe Hillencoder, to present-elect Dwight Eisenhower.

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In it, Hillencoder informs Eisenhower of the existence of a top-secret government think tank that was originally set up by President Harry S. Truman in 1947.

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It was referred to in the memo as MJ-12, initials which stood for a far more mysterious group of men known as the Majestic-12.

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The authorization to establish MJ-12 allegedly came from President Harry Truman on September 24, 1947.

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This was actually one day after the famous memo in which General Nathan Twining wrote a 3-page letter about these flying saucers to another general, talking quite explicitly about their characteristics, the fact that this was real, not visionary or fictitious.

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No one anywhere outside of this group is to know anything about UFOs, ETs, crash retrievals, bodies, any of it.

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That document identified the 12 people who were MJ-1 through MJ-12.

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The first one, MJ-1, was Admiral Hillencoder of the Navy. There were four military people, there were four technical people, and then there were just general government people.

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They were the kind of people you'd expect to have been involved in an important top-secret program.

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While the authenticity of the MJ-12 documents is still being debated, what is known is that in 1954, Eisenhower thought enough of the UFO phenomenon to order that a new secret military base be set up.

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Located 83 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, Area 51 would later become infamous as the most top secret military base in the world.

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Area 51 is the secret base of all secret bases. For a long time, it was the place that we went to to study foreign technology.

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During the 1970s and 80s, TD Barnes worked at the secret base, reverse engineering captured enemy aircraft like Russian MiG-Jets.

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What we considered reverse engineering was taking a plane or a radar, taking it apart, looking at the electronics, how they built it.

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We were all bound by security oaths. We could not tell it.

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But is it possible that in addition to reverse engineering foreign fighter jets, Area 51 employees were also working on other out-of-this-world technologies?

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To my mind, it's also clear that the U.S. government has had crashed extraterrestrial technology, and Area 51 would have been the perfect place to reverse engineer and test that particular information.

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In order to ensure that the activities at Area 51 and elsewhere were kept hidden from the public, members of the military and even officers were sworn to secrecy.

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But luckily for UFO researchers and ancient astronaut theorists, not everyone involved was willing to keep quiet.

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Some became whistleblowers who risked everything from public scorn to imprison it in order to let the public learn the truth.

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Washington State, June 24, 1947.

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Aviator and businessman Kenneth Arnold witnesses nine fast-moving objects flying in tandem near Mount Rainier.

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He times them as they fly between two mountain peaks and calculates their speed to be between 1,200 and 1,700 miles per hour.

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At least 600 miles per hour faster than the fastest aircraft in existence at the time.

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Kenneth Arnold is the guy who actually is credited with coining the term flying saucer because what he saw were objects that were flying at some distance from his airplane that were sort of skipping and jumping and wobbling and doing very, very unusual high-speed maneuvers.

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So that's where the term flying saucer came from.

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Although the U.S. Air Force formally categorized Kenneth Arnold's experience as a mirage, other reported sightings were not so easily dismissed.

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The public was starting to demand answers.

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Once the initial sighting happened by Kenneth Arnold and the Roswell incident took place, there were sightings everywhere around the United States.

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They were happening all over the world.

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In 1949, retired Marine Corps pilot turned writer Major Donald Kehoe was asked by True Magazine to write an article on these numerous sightings.

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Although Kehoe was a skeptic, he spent the next eight months conducting his own research by tapping into his contacts in the Pentagon and the military.

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Eventually, he came to a conclusion he would have considered unthinkable.

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Flying saucers were not only real, they were of extraterrestrial origin.

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Major Kehoe was one of the last real military voices from the time of the Trimman administration going into the Eisenhower administration, who was honestly trying to tell the truth.

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Kehoe's article in True Magazine shook the nation.

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It was not only a solid piece of journalism on the topic of UFOs, but served as a stinging indictment of the U.S. military and the government's determination to keep the public in the dark.

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That True Magazine, it was historic because it went to a heck of a lot of people.

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Then in 1958, Kehoe went on a program called the Armstrong Circle Theater, which was a live television program.

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UFO, the Enigma of the Skies, on the Armstrong Circle Theater.

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Major, you've seen our report on the Air Force conclusions dealing with the current UFO sightings.

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Well, I was excited to hear that Kehoe was going to debate the Air Force.

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And now, Mr. Edwards, I would like to make a disclosure, something which has never been revealed to the public.

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Toward the end of the program, he broke in and said to the effect, I'm going to say something that the public has never heard before.

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If the hearings are held, open hearings, I feel it will prove beyond doubt that the flying saucers are...

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At that point, his sound was lost.

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What was Major Kehoe saying and who cut him off?

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It was later discovered that Air Force officials had been stationed in the control booth during the broadcast.

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And there are many who still believe that Kehoe's audio was deliberately cut in order to keep him from revealing top-secret information concerning the government's ongoing UFO investigations.

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The Air Force was lying.

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But why was the Air Force so concerned about the American public hearing Major Kehoe's statement?

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What did they have to lose if they were forced to admit their ongoing investigations into UFOs?

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I wrote this down because I think it's one of the most important historic sentences and it comes from Major Kehoe.

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For the past 175 years, that would be 1772.

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That would be before the founding of the United States.

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The planet Earth has been under systematic, close-range examination by living observers from another planet.

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This is nothing new. These cover-ups have happened for thousands and thousands of years.

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Throughout ancient texts, there are references to what I call misunderstood technology.

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In modern times, you'll hear stories of UFOs and spacecraft because now we have the language to talk about technology.

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Whereas in ancient times, they didn't have any reference to that kind of technology.

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So they would have thought this is something that's angelic or from another dimension or godlike.

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The fact that the US government has investigated thousands and thousands of reports leads me to think that they may know much more than what they let us believe.

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Proof of the US government's complicity in covering up extraterrestrial activity does not only come in the form of leaked documents and the contents of secret files.

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Sometimes, the evidence comes from credible first-hand accounts, not from whistleblowers, but from American astronauts.

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Everything that NASA does is supposedly above board.

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Everything they do, they should tell us about.

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We should know about all of their launches and missions and who all the astronauts are.

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They themselves are not sharing all of the information. Most of it is being kept secret.

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The Baikonur Cosmodrome, April 12, 1961.

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The Vostok-1 rocket achieves lift-off.

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And Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is heralded as the first human in space.

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The event serves as a wake-up call to the United States and NASA, whose project Mercury program would over the next two years launch six of its own astronauts into space.

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The space race to land a human being on the moon was on, and mankind was now a space-faring species.

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The achievement of putting the man in space was almost a miracle.

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Nobody knows what they might see or encounter out there, extraterrestrial spacecraft or even ETs themselves.

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Although the first five Mercury missions go off without instance, during the sixth and final mission, astronaut Gordon Cooper reports an unusual encounter.

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While aboard his spacecraft, he reports a green glowing object quickly approaching his capsule.

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The UFO is also picked up by NASA's tracking station.

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But by the time Cooper splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, reporters are told that any questions about the incident are strictly forbidden.

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There's no question that NASA actually has protocols in place for how astronauts should deal with and report or not report anomalies.

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Now over the years, there have been astronauts that have kind of broken those protocols.

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Gordon Cooper is one who talked a lot about a UFO sighting he had on a Mercury spacecraft, and that upset quite a few people at NASA.

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In June 1965, two years after Gordon Cooper's flight, Gemini 4 astronaut James McDivitt reports seeing a metallic object flying in orbit alongside his spacecraft.

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And once again, the event is quickly covered up.

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There have been many stories over the years coming from astronauts of various missions, from Mercury missions, from the Apollo missions, and even from the Soviet missions to space,

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where astronauts have come out and said that they have seen these UFOs flying around, that they've been followed, that they've seen unconventional aircraft on some of their missions.

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There's a story that Buzz Aldrin tells about Apollo 11, where the Apollo 11 spacecraft was followed for many, many hours by an object that was so strange that they actually reported on it through their private channels.

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I'm looking out the window and I said, what's that? There's an object that's moving with respect to everything else. Jesus, that's supposed to be doing that.

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I wonder how far away it is. If it's a long ways away, it's going mighty fast. If it's not too far away, it may be in going very fast.

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I wonder what it is. Hey, Neil, look at this. We look at, huh, what is that? Probably the upper-stage rocket.

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Yeah, but didn't we just watch that thing carefully out in front of us, out the window, light its engine and go, shh.

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Well, I guess that's not what we're looking at, because that's a long ways away.

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What's the odds that it's from alien or Russian or something else? But we were not about to cancel the moon mission and putt-putt over there to find out which one it was.

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There's many astronauts that have come forward that have talked about this, so it seems like some of them want to talk about it and others are either afraid to talk about it or they've been silenced for some reason.

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One person involved with the early space program who did not remain silent was Joanne Donaldson, a young biomedical engineer at NASA.

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In 1972, during the Apollo 17 moon mission, Donaldson's job was to monitor the astronauts' vital signs and to observe their pre-flight and post-flight recovery.

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Ron Evans was in charge of the command module while Gene Cernan and Harrison Smith were on the surface of the moon.

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When the command module would orbit the moon, part of the orbit would take it behind the moon, what we call lost signal to mission control.

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Day two, Ron came out from behind the moon, reported into mission control and Gene comes up on the cum lake and says, hey, Ron, you're not lonely up there without us, are you?

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And Ron reported back, says, no, I got company. Everybody was just kind of taken back, it's like, you know, company.

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That itself implies that there was something else up there with him.

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Well, mission control's first reaction was, guys, are you joking? And Ron says, no, this was not a joke.

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There is an object flying in formation with me up here circling the moon.

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When Ron reported that the object was leaving his orbit, he calculated that there had been information with him for approximately five to five and a half orbits of the moon.

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But as far as the public was concerned, nothing out of the ordinary happened.

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At the exact moment that astronaut Ron Evans reported he was not alone, NASA officials disconnected the public feed from media outlets.

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The following day, NASA ordered a conference call for everyone involved in the incident.

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We were all told we're going to continue on with the mission as if nothing has happened and do not discuss this anomaly with anyone outside of your command.

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After the Apollo 17 crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, Joanne Donaldson examined Evans as part of the post-mission recovery procedure.

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Ron was sitting up on the side of his bunk and he goes, well, I'm reliving what I saw was an orbit around the moon.

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I don't think the Russians launched something this big in orbit. I have faith to say it was 40, 45 feet long. It was cigar shaped.

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Now, any cylindrical object like that is not going to be something that we made. So what was it? Clearly, it was not one of ours.

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We trust these astronauts to report back on what they see. They're essentially scientists that are exploring space on our behalf.

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But a lot of people are unaware of the fact that many of our astronauts have spoken openly about UFOs.

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Many of them were fighter pilots before they became astronauts and they have seen craft flying as pilots.

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Could it be they've been pulled aside and told, this is all you're allowed to say and no more because NASA is trying to silence these astronauts from telling the truth?

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Another Apollo astronaut who openly admitted his belief in extraterrestrial contact was Edgar Mitchell, the lunar module pilot for Apollo 14.

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In his later years, he claimed many of his colleagues had strange paranormal experiences during their missions and frequently declared that most UFO phenomena are directly connected to extraterrestrial activity.

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I have had no first-hand personal experience, but all the evidence from the research people that I know from both Europe and the United States have investigated all the sightings from dozens of years.

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And I'm pretty sure it's all true.

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I believe that the alien craft, presuming they're the reality, I think they are, and others think they are, have been coming for a long, long time.

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As the sixth person to walk on the moon, Mitchell's opinions concerning UFOs and their connection to extraterrestrial encounters have been difficult to dismiss.

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But if otherworldly entities have been making contact with us, not only for decades, but for centuries, what is their goal?

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July 20, 1969

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Here you go, Houston. Everything's fucking good here. Over.

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Millions of people around the world are glued to their televisions to watch one of the greatest achievements in human history.

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Astronaut Neil Armstrong is about to become the first Earth-born extraterrestrial by stepping foot on the surface of the moon.

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That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

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Although Richard Nixon is the current president of the United States, most give credit to the man who held the office six years earlier, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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Many years ago, the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it.

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He said because it is there, well space is there, and we're going to climb it.

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But even as Neil Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin were still engaged on their historic mission, Nixon and the team at NASA now faced an even more daunting challenge.

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What to do next? The moon mission had gripped the American consciousness as nothing before.

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And even though a number of return missions had been planned, there was nothing on the launch pad that could top landing a man on the moon as either a national goal or effective political propaganda.

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To this end, in 1972, as Nixon began planning his reelection campaign, the Space Shuttle program was announced.

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It was also during this same time that the president's chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, proposed the creation of a documentary film that would depict Nixon as being fully committed to the development of a number of ambitious science-based programs.

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To produce it, Haldeman turned to successful advertising executive turned filmmaker Robert M. Meneger.

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They knew that Bob had made promotional films for the Department of Defense, so he was contacted and asked if he would come to a meeting in Los Angeles with the committee to re-elect the president.

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And they said we'd need a media consultant. We'd like somebody to come on board and make a documentary that would support Nixon a documentary about some perhaps secret project that the government's been working on that can be released or declassified.

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Well, they were run around the country being shown all sorts of secret projects. They went to Wright-Patterson and they were shown very classified laser experiments.

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They were shown dolphins being trained for demolition work. They were shown dogs being trained for various tasks.

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Then they were taken to Norton Air Force Base, which at that time housed the Air Force Film Depository. Paul Shartle was the director of the depository.

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They were taken into a building where these films were kept. They were taken into what was known as a clean room, meaning it was free of any bugs, microphones, video equipment, anything.

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It was during his meeting at Norton Air Force Base that Robert Emanager learned that Paul Shartle had a different agenda from that of the president and a different film in mind than the one that had been initially proposed.

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And Shartle said, I'd like to ask you this. How would you like to make a documentary on UFOs? And Bob Emanager was stunned. He told me at his home, he said, I didn't know anything about UFOs.

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I was shocked. They said if we would make the documentary, we would be given 600 feet of 16-millimeter film shot at Hollman Air Force Base of a UFO landing there.

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For Robert Emanager, it was an offer too good to refuse. Believing he had the full support of both the president and the military, he set about to make the U.S. government's first official film on the subject of UFOs.

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He quickly recruited Rod Serling, Burgess Meredith, and Jose Ferrer to narrate the film. And the final explosive scene was to show actual footage of an alien encounter. But when it came time to receive the incredible footage he'd been promised, Emanager had the government's once open door slammed in his face.

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They had been promised really dramatic footage, said to be completely legit of a UFO landing at Hollman Air Force Base in 1964, which had alien beings come out like the day the Earth stood still, essentially.

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Out came some kind of a ramp. Our contingent of humans walked up and met these two ebbs, extraterrestrial biological entities, and that in this doorway was a being unlike the ebbs, and that it was holding a rod that had a spiral that went around the rod and that this was used to communicate with our team.

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This was a film that had four different vantage points. They were shooting one from the air, three on the ground, and the craft landed. The aliens came out and they stored the craft. All this was on film.

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But on the day Emanager was to be given a copy of the 16 millimeter footage from the Air Force, the filmmaker received an unexpected phone call.

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It is one of those like out of a Hollywood feature. It's supposed to be coming, a courier is on the way, they cannot believe it, it's really going to happen, they're going to see all of this film.

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And then another phone call. We're sorry, the approval has been rescinded. No film.

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Colonel Coleman from the Pentagon said the timing isn't right. We can't allow you to use the film.

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Bob Emanager was crushed. He said why? And he's found out that making a documentary exposing UFOs as being extraterrestrial would not help the president, but conceivably could harm them.

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Ultimately, Robert Emanager was forced to complete his documentary without the sensational footage he had been promised.

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It was a documentary called UFOs Past, Present, Future, and they also had a book by the same name.

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As written by Robert Emanager and directed by Ray Rivas, the documentary proved to be both popular and influential.

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Even without the smoking gun footage, it caused a sensation and was later credited as one of the inspirations behind Steven Spielberg's 1977 blockbuster, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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The Robert Emanager disclosure effort is what I call it. I said, you know that film Bob, that's very strange.

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You know, if it weren't for the location, that's Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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And he said, what? I didn't tell you? And I said, you didn't tell me what? I didn't tell you I gave a copy to Steven Spielberg?

428
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And I said, no, you didn't tell me that. So the documentary was done in 1975.

429
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Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out in 1977.

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And so when you see Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it's the Holloman Air Force Base story.

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Just change the location. It's exactly what the story was.

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While the alleged alien UFO footage from Holloman Air Force Base has never surfaced, many ancient astronaut theorists believe it still exists under lock and key.

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What I am really, truly expecting is that somewhere from 2018 going forward in the next decade, that finally all of that film is going to be released and that we will finally enter the true history.

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Did the U.S. Air Force really have footage of secret meetings between government officials and extraterrestrials?

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And if so, where is it now?

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For decades, American presidents have officially denied that they received any information that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth.

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But considering that the U.S. government has conducted at least four major investigations into UFO activity since the 1940s, why has there been so much time and taxpayer money devoted to studying something that the government claims isn't happening?

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We don't know for an absolute fact what kind of briefings presidents actually receive when they come into office about extraterrestrials, but we do have some indications from some documents that do exist.

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One of them being of the original MJ-12 presidential briefing for President Eisenhower, telling them all about the crash at Roswell.

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On November 2, 2005, a document surfaced that was allegedly a transcript made from a recorded presidential briefing held at Camp David in March of 1981.

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President or President Ronald Reagan, CIA Director William Casey, Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger, and a mysterious person known only as the caretaker.

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According to the document, during the meeting, the caretaker shared evidence that aliens have been visiting the Earth for thousands of years, and that modern American records of such encounters officially began in 1947 following the Roswell incident.

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Certainly, if you look at Ronald Reagan, he's somebody who brought up aliens all the time. To my mind, what Reagan is communicating is, yes, Roswell happened, yes, it is significant, yes, there are aliens, and we'd better get used to this idea or figure out how to deal with them.

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But it was with the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in January 1993 that many UFO researchers believed they finally had an ally in the White House.

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If the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it either, and I want to know.

446
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So when Bill Clinton gets into office, he called in his presidential aide, Webb Hubble, and the first two things that he asked for after he was president was, who killed JFK and are there aliens?

447
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Clinton knew that there was something up about aliens and UFOs that people were not being told.

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In his quest to shed light on the government's secret UFO investigations, President Clinton found an unlikely ally in billionaire philanthropist Lawrence S. Rockefeller, who used his influence to push full disclosure about possible extraterrestrial activities on Earth.

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The way it started was Lawrence Rockefeller, who was one of the famous Rockefeller brothers, had been shown a documentary on Roswell and was very, very interesting.

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So the election was going on at the time and he said, whether Ross Perot wins or George Bush wins or Bill Clinton wins, I'm going to the White House and I'm going to get them to disclose the UFO story.

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In 1993, Lawrence Rockefeller began inviting a select group of UFO researchers and ancient astronaut theorists to join him for an important first meeting of what would become known as the Rockefeller Initiative.

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In 1993, I got a phone call saying, Linda, we'd like you to join a group of your peers at Lawrence Rockefeller's ranch at Jackson Hole.

453
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So we met, there were people like Robert Bigelow, now the head of Bigelow Aerospace, and there were others that were authors and scientists.

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One of the people who helped edit the letter on UFO disclosure to the President of the United States was Hillary Clinton. She was the first lady at the time.

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Another person close to Bill Clinton, who was an advocate for government investigation of UFOs, was John Podesta, who served as the President's assistant in 1993 and became his deputy chief of staff in 1997.

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I've had a long career trying to fight against government secrecy and create more openness.

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Right after I left law school, I started working on that at the Department of Justice, then at the Senate Judiciary Committee, and then when I worked for President Clinton in the White House, I was one of the people spearheading an initiative to declassify what turned out to be over a billion pages of documents that were resident at the National Archives.

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In President Clinton's case, I think he was interested in the phenomena. He had worked with his then science advisor, Jack Gibbons, to understand what was going on.

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This correspondence starts going back and forth. For three years, Rockefeller is putting immense pressure on the White House to disclose.

460
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Lawrence Rockefeller requested that the 1947 Roswell incident be a starting point in the government's disclosure.

461
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They went out and they reinvestigated Roswell. It came back and Bill Clinton saw the final report in 1995.

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President Clinton is one of the most curious people I've ever met. I think he wanted to know what the Air Force knew and got a report back that, in my view, was a little bit unsatisfying.

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And he was furious from what I was told.

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The Rockefeller Initiative was hoping for a revelation, but the U.S. Air Force stuck to its position that a crashed weather balloon caused the Roswell incident.

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Clinton goes to Belfast, Northern Ireland in November of 1995. He's lighting the Christmas tree and that's when he gives the famous speech.

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He said, he gets a letter from Ryan, which I tried to recover in an FOIA. There is no letter to Ryan. I think they just made it up.

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01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:34,000
He said, Ryan, if you're out there in the audience tonight, here's the answer to your question.

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No. As far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico. And Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it either. And I want to know.

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That's why in 1997, the U.S. Air Force goes out and does a second Roswell report. It spends $20 million on it because the president was furious.

470
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According to the revised report, the so-called alien bodies that eyewitnesses claim they saw being pulled from the wreckage were dismissed as being nothing more than crash test dummies, which had been tethered to parachutes being used in an otherwise conventional test.

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Dr. Gibbons pressed first the Secretary of Defense, Les Aspen, then the Secretary of the Air Force to take this matter seriously, to do a review. The boxes were missing, the documents were gone, nobody knew anything. And, you know, the trail kind of went cold.

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In 1996, the Rockefeller Initiative was quietly closed. And its participants, frustrated that forces within the government still refused to reveal the truth, went away without the answers they'd hoped for.

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01:05:57,000 --> 01:06:04,000
The Rockefeller Initiative is considered by some researchers to be the biggest government UFO disclosure story of all times.

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The fact that it even existed, that it was sanctioned in any way by the government, that the report was accepted by the White House and people in the government, I think is very, very highly significant.

475
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So it's kind of a very small incremental step forward in the process of disclosure and moving us towards the ultimate answer to the questions that we're all asking.

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July 1996, political activist Stephen Bassett becomes the first registered extraterrestrial life and disclosure lobbyist in the United States.

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For years, he had been trying to organize a hearing with members of Congress to present evidence that the government was hiding important information from its people.

478
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The extraterrestrial presence it performedally acknowledged could bring in an age of reform where the human race could get its act together because they were running out of time.

479
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:20,000
As I got into the issue, what I learned is just how dysfunctional the United States government had become.

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It is the vast expanse of secrecy and abuse of secrecy and power that is lying at the base of a great deal of our problems.

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And so I had one simple fundamental task, formal acknowledge of the extraterrestrial presence, simple, clean and easy.

482
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Gentlemen, if you could stand and repeat after me.

483
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On April 29, 2013, Bassett organized the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in Washington, D.C.

484
01:07:50,000 --> 01:08:00,000
The objective was to bring together the most compelling evidence of extraterrestrial visits to Earth and convince former members of Congress to take immediate action.

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I had wanted to do it since 2001, bring in 42 witnesses from 10 countries to testify in the main ballroom of the National Press Club before six former members of the Congress, five Congresspersons, one senator.

486
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And they testified for 30 hours over five days.

487
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It was an amazing event, mostly because of the caliber of witnesses that were brought in, the investigators, researchers.

488
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:32,000
They don't want you to know that.

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Witnesses included John Callahan, former division chief of the Accidents and Investigations branch of the FAA.

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01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:53,000
The former Canadian Minister of Defense, Paul Hellyer, retired Air Force Captain Robert Salas, and many others who had conducted extensive research into the UFO phenomenon.

491
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We live in a cosmos teeming with life.

492
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:04,000
The fact that some other civilizations are more advanced than we are may be humbling, but that could be a necessary step in our survival.

493
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People are so afraid for their lives, their families, because they have had to sign nondisclosure agreements.

494
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Witness from the UK, Nick Pope.

495
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Thank you. You should all have a printed out copy of my opening statement, but I was one of the witnesses and I have to say this was the nearest that we've gotten since, oh, way back to the 70s and the 60s even, to proper congressional hearings on the UFO phenomenon.

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You did work for the Ministry of Defense in the UK.

497
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I was asked about my experience within the British government's UFO program and one of the UK's most high profile cases, the Rendlesham Forest incident.

498
01:09:54,000 --> 01:10:02,000
In December 1980, there were unexplained reports of a glowing craft in the woods of Royal Air Force Base Woodbridge.

499
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Burn marks and broken branches were later discovered. Some have called this incident Britain's Roswell.

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Even though I've left government, I responded with I can neither confirm nor deny.

501
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:25,000
I don't think the committee liked my neither confirm nor deny response and they pushed me very hard on that.

502
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:28,000
Certainly you've been involved since you left.

503
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:30,000
Yes, sir, in a private capacity.

504
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What's your opinion based on all that stuff that you've had access to?

505
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:40,000
Is there an ET origin to what's obvious sightings of real UFOs?

506
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:42,000
It is a possibility.

507
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You could tell by the faces they really weren't quite sure what to think of this yet.

508
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:55,000
By Wednesday, we have them standing up pointing fingers saying, we need to open those files.

509
01:10:55,000 --> 01:11:02,000
It drove things forward. It took the UFO phenomenon out of the fringe and into the mainstream.

510
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Thousands of people watched it online. We netcast it so that members of Congress and their staff were too timid to come down and watch it there.

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Or members of the press that were afraid that they might be seen watching it could watch it in the comfort of their offices.

512
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Sometime this year, we may just enter a new world. Thank you so much.

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Based on the hearings, four of the six former members of Congress pledged their support to hold a world conference in conjunction with the United Nations to address the disclosure of all knowledge of extraterrestrial contact with this planet.

514
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Then, on August 15, 2013, less than four months after the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, the United States government made a shocking admission.

515
01:11:52,000 --> 01:12:00,000
After decades of denying its existence, they finally admitted that a secret base known as Area 51 did exist.

516
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:06,000
Did the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure force the U.S. government to act?

517
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:16,000
While the government acknowledged the existence of Area 51, it still has not been revealed just what it is currently being used for.

518
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:24,000
And since that disclosure, the perimeter around the base has been extended and security heightened.

519
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:31,000
Area 51 has to be more secretive now because you got so many other concerns.

520
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We didn't have computers to worry about internet, all that sort of thing that you got today.

521
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:39,000
So it's a brand new ballgame at Forest Security.

522
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While many considered the government's admission of the existence of Area 51 to be a bombshell and even bigger disclosure was still to come,

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the declassification of millions of top secret CIA documents.

524
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Bethesda, Maryland, November 2014.

525
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Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Paradigm Research Group, launches an initiative directed to influence Hillary Clinton.

526
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Based on Clinton's work with Lawrence Rockefeller in the 1990s, Bassett believes she could be an ally in getting the government to declassify its UFO files.

527
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That political initiative was begun by sending a full copy of the 30 hours of testimony to every member of Congress, addressing the Rockefeller Initiative.

528
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:49,000
Naming names, Secretary Clinton, President Clinton, John Podesta, George Stephanopoulos, etc. etc.

529
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:54,000
That testimony created a very significant dilemma for the Clinton campaign team.

530
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The political initiative forces the Clinton campaign team, which included Barack Obama, he was on the team, to speak to the issue.

531
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:22,000
Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, is well known for his interest in UFO and expert terrestrial encounters, and according to him, so is she.

532
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:36,000
Secretary Clinton, likewise, was who kind of interested in the topic, and during the course of the campaign said that if elected, she would have ordered a more thorough declassification review.

533
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:41,000
She was very open. She did not skirt the issue. She talked about it very openly.

534
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:54,000
Many believe that had Clinton won, there would have been a seismic shift from the government's long held policy of secrecy concerning UFO investigations to a new policy of full disclosure.

535
01:14:55,000 --> 01:15:10,000
The system of regulation that creates our secrecy system, what's top secret, what's confidential, these lower levels of classification, that's regulated and has been since the Truman administration by executive order of the press.

536
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:26,000
The president sets forward the general rules of classification, and some presidents have been more forthcoming, wanted less secrecy, some have tightened the reins and wanted more secrecy. It makes a difference.

537
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:42,000
In the CIN, the Pentagon, they were worried about Hillary Clinton, Secretary Clinton, all the statements she was making, winning the presidency and going to the Pentagon and basically saying, you're going to give me the information I need to disclose the extraterrestrial presence, or I'm going to fire every single one of you.

538
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As this year of 2016 went forward, we all expected that this headline that we've been waiting for that is going to break the protocol, break the policy of denial was going to happen.

539
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John Podesta was trying to get ready to open up that we're not alone in the universe. All of that crashed when a different person became president of the United States.

540
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November 8th, 2016, Donald Trump was elected as America's next president. There would be no disclosure of the secret UFO files.

541
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:35,000
I've had a number of members of Congress, members of the U.S. Senate say to me, keep going at this. I'm really interested in it, but I can't say anything about it.

542
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:47,000
But as a long time advisor to President Barack Obama, John Podesta still had an ally in the White House, one who would remain there for another two months.

543
01:16:47,000 --> 01:17:07,000
January 17th, 2017, in Barack Obama's last days as president, the CIA posts on its website nearly 13 million pages of agency documents, many of which pertain to UFOs.

544
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:24,000
It was a very, very big deal and people were excited. All of these things were efforts, I believe, to educate people and to move us in a direction that we can accept as a society.

545
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:31,000
The extraterrestrials are here and have been here for thousands of years.

546
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:51,000
Investigator Chase Kluncki and author Nick Pope have been searching for proof that the U.S. government has been hiding its interactions with extraterrestrials. Now they hope to find new evidence among the millions of recently declassified pages.

547
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:54,000
Well, there's such a lot to go through.

548
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:55,000
Exactly.

549
01:17:55,000 --> 01:18:09,000
It comes back to the old saying, the best place to hide a book is in a library. And there are all sorts of gems in here, I'm sure. But how would we ever know? We've got to go through it literally page by page, line by line.

550
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:11,000
Right.

551
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:25,000
So taking a look at this report, December 1960, this has come from Detroit and it's a sighting of unidentified objects in the sky like a disk, it says.

552
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:30,000
Which again is something I'm sure you've come across in various reports as have I.

553
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:32,000
Yes, many.

554
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:41,000
Yet it has these redactions on it. And again, the question arises, why if this subject is so unclassified and unimportant, why all these redactions?

555
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:43,000
And this next document.

556
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:44,000
Oh, wow, that's crazy.

557
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:51,000
Right? Why even bother? Only information is the date.

558
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:59,000
13 million documents. If there really was a smoking gun in there, it would be almost impossible to find.

559
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:09,000
So far, the CIA archive has revealed thousands of reports of sightings of unexplained aircraft.

560
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:20,000
One report said that of 1500 official accounts of UFOs since 1947, an incredible 20% remain unexplained.

561
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:29,000
But was the release of the CIA online archive another step towards disclosure or a way to bury the truth?

562
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:45,000
When the Pentagon's classified study into UFOs, the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program was uncovered later in 2017, journalists and researchers rushed to file Freedom of Information Act requests.

563
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:50,000
Will these files finally explain what the government knows?

564
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:55,000
The New York Times

565
01:19:56,000 --> 01:20:10,000
11 months after the CIA's archive is released to the public in 2017, the New York Times story reveals the Department of Defense's ATIN, or Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

566
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:13,000
Oh, my God.

567
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:22,000
As soon as the story breaks, journalists and researchers start filing Freedom of Information Act requests, known as FOIA.

568
01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:35,000
There have now been 1,500 to 2,000 FOIs on this program, $22 million program. And the government at this point is saying, program? What program?

569
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:40,000
They're playing the same old game. We didn't release those films, but they're under so much pressure.

570
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:49,000
If this keeps up for even four or five or six more months, I do not imagine how disclosure cannot take place.

571
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:58,000
Much of what was undertaken and reviewed still remains in the dark, in classified form at the Department of Defense.

572
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:02,000
I would hope that they would declassify and release as much as possible.

573
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:04,000
Good afternoon.

574
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:08,000
When this story broke in the New York Times,

575
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:15,000
Jordan, the guy in the name of Jordan Fabian from the Hill, he asked Sarah Sanders, the $64,000 question.

576
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:22,000
Does the President believe in the existence of UFOs and would he be interested in restoring funding for that program?

577
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:30,000
Somehow that question hasn't come up in our back and forth over the last couple of days, but I will check into that and be happy to circle back. Jennifer.

578
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:37,000
As far as I know, she has never come back around because you can't. The President has to stay out of it.

579
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:43,000
They want the community to force the issue. They want us to force the issue.

580
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:49,000
And that is why they moved it to Bob Bigelow, who's a contractor in Las Vegas.

581
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:52,000
It's a private industry that will do the disclosure.

582
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:59,000
History is about to happen at a level that's almost incalculable, extraordinary, unprecedented.

583
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:02,000
It makes something with the Roman Empire look trivial.

584
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:11,000
So just think about that. The announcement of extraterrestrial presence, worldwide engagement, open contact with multiple civilizations.

585
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:18,000
The revelations about ATIP may be clues that there's an agenda here.

586
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:28,000
This may be government trying to slowly drip feed this information out to the public in such a way that there won't be out and out panic.

587
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:39,000
It may be a way of slowly but surely acclimatizing people to the reality of this phenomenon.

588
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:49,000
The fact that the New York Times published a Pentagon story is extraordinary and nobody really cared.

589
01:22:50,000 --> 01:23:01,000
So to me, that means that while we are all talking about that we may be connected to extraterrestrials, that this knowledge is within us.

590
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:09,000
It's hardwired so that, hey, if they're coming it won't be panic because we come from them.

591
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:19,000
I do think that the world is ready for this knowledge and I think that it would be the most revolutionary story in the history of mankind.

592
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:35,000
Has the time finally come when not only the United States government but nations around the world will reveal what UFO researchers and ancient astronaut theorists have long suspected?

593
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:44,000
That extraterrestrial visitation of our planet is not only real but has been happening for thousands of years.

594
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:57,000
There are many who believe the answer is a profound yes and that the truth will lead to a greater understanding not only of mankind's past but of its future.

595
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:11,000
A future that will see humans as the torch bearers of a new generation and as the extraterrestrial visitors of planets and galaxies far beyond our own.

596
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:22,000
This season, if you look at the face, it's keeping the record not only of Egypt but the whole world.

597
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:26,000
Our ancient aliens, three, two, one, let it go.

598
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:29,000
We came to find microbes coming from the upper atmosphere.

599
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:33,000
We're going to recreate the deck flight path over the Bermuda Triangle.

600
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:36,000
This is what you experience as time vortex.

601
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:39,000
I travel 100 miles in only three minutes.

602
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:41,000
Wow.

603
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:44,000
Every block is bigger than this car.

604
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:46,000
Insane.

605
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:51,000
The reason this pyramid is the most magnificent is what you're about to see inside the Great Pyramid.

606
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:53,000
This is incredible.

607
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:55,000
That's a story that we've actually seen.

608
01:24:56,000 --> 01:25:00,000
The possibility that in the past we had interactions with an extraterrestrial civilization.

609
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:02,000
You can't rule it out.

610
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:05,000
We have an impulse within us to explore, to discover.

611
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:07,000
There is where Area 51 is.

612
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:12,000
What we actually could be looking at is a genuine alien life form.