1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,240 Wherever there are strange encounters, they appear. 2 00:00:05,340 --> 00:00:08,680 These people see a UFO, and suddenly, 3 00:00:08,780 --> 00:00:10,880 these sinister counterintelligence 4 00:00:10,980 --> 00:00:13,220 officers turn on. 5 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,620 They question witnesses and demand silence. 6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,720 A man shows up dressed in a black suit and white shirt, 7 00:00:20,820 --> 00:00:21,860 gives a warning. 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,000 You tell anybody about whatever it is that you saw, 9 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:28,360 bad things could happen to you or to your family. 10 00:00:28,860 --> 00:00:31,000 Who are the men in black? 11 00:00:31,100 --> 00:00:35,160 Men in black are without doubt the most feared beings 12 00:00:35,260 --> 00:00:37,060 in ufology. 13 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:38,840 Who do they work for? 14 00:00:38,940 --> 00:00:40,940 Some people believe that men in black 15 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:42,580 weren't guys from the government. 16 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,880 And what do they want? 17 00:00:44,980 --> 00:00:48,640 Perhaps the men in black are the gatekeepers 18 00:00:48,740 --> 00:00:50,080 of the UFO secret. 19 00:00:53,180 --> 00:00:56,220 There is a doorway in the universe. 20 00:00:58,420 --> 00:01:02,560 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 21 00:01:02,660 --> 00:01:05,300 It demands we question everything 22 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,800 we have ever been taught. 23 00:01:07,900 --> 00:01:11,240 The evidence is all around us. 24 00:01:11,340 --> 00:01:15,280 The future is right before our eyes. 25 00:01:15,380 --> 00:01:18,040 We are not alone. 26 00:01:18,140 --> 00:01:20,420 We have never been alone. 27 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:32,760 Sunspot, New Mexico. 28 00:01:32,860 --> 00:01:37,360 September 6, 2018. 29 00:01:37,460 --> 00:01:41,100 Black Hawk helicopters descend upon a government facility 30 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:47,080 secluded on a mountaintop, the US National Solar Observatory. 31 00:01:47,180 --> 00:01:51,140 Men dressed in black swarm in, seize material, 32 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:56,980 evacuate employees, and shut the site down. 33 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,280 The National Solar Observatory is a US government science 34 00:02:01,380 --> 00:02:02,580 project. 35 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:03,680 It has some sensors. 36 00:02:03,780 --> 00:02:04,880 They're pointed up in space. 37 00:02:04,980 --> 00:02:08,880 It's looking at the sun at other phenomenon heavens. 38 00:02:08,980 --> 00:02:12,720 This is one of the most powerful and professional solar 39 00:02:12,820 --> 00:02:14,580 observatories on the planet. 40 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,700 And it was shut off for the day. 41 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,160 There wasn't really a good explanation ever given 42 00:02:21,260 --> 00:02:24,200 as to why this happened. 43 00:02:24,300 --> 00:02:26,440 Did we discover a signal from outer space? 44 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:28,060 Did we see a spacecraft? 45 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,400 Were we contacted? 46 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:34,100 Government investigators questioned all the witnesses, 47 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,840 gathered evidence, and they told people strongly not 48 00:02:37,940 --> 00:02:40,140 to speak about this event. 49 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,280 So it would seem that these government investigators were, 50 00:02:43,380 --> 00:02:45,180 in fact, the men in black. 51 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:46,680 But who are they? 52 00:02:46,780 --> 00:02:49,580 Who do they work for? 53 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,720 The men in black, government agents 54 00:02:52,820 --> 00:02:55,820 assigned to monitor extraterrestrial activity, 55 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:00,020 is it possible that this top secret police force actually 56 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,820 exists? 57 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:05,220 There's been a lot of speculation as to who the men in black 58 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:06,320 are. 59 00:03:06,420 --> 00:03:07,760 It's altogether likely that they're 60 00:03:07,860 --> 00:03:10,900 part of some shadowy government agency who 61 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,660 doesn't want reports out there. 62 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,040 The government was involved in a lot of efforts to discredit 63 00:03:17,140 --> 00:03:21,300 and debunk the phenomenon and to suppress the reporting 64 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,840 of UFO incidents. 65 00:03:24,300 --> 00:03:27,800 The men in black are without doubt the most feared 66 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:32,140 and sinister beings in ufology. 67 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,340 The men in black have always been 68 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,240 described by eyewitnesses wearing these black suits 69 00:03:38,340 --> 00:03:43,780 with the black dark shades and black hats. 70 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,420 They call on the house of the witness. 71 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,920 They introduce themselves usually as a G-man. 72 00:03:50,980 --> 00:03:54,780 The whole experience ends with the men in black saying, 73 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:59,480 it is in your best interests to stay silent. 74 00:03:59,580 --> 00:04:02,260 While the idea of a real ET police force 75 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,960 may seem far-fetched, encounters with the men in black 76 00:04:06,060 --> 00:04:09,000 have been reported for more than seven decades. 77 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:11,960 And recently, new evidence has come to light 78 00:04:12,060 --> 00:04:14,100 that may prove the agency's existence. 79 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:16,640 Moray Island, Washington state. 80 00:04:16,740 --> 00:04:20,640 October 29, 2019. 81 00:04:20,740 --> 00:04:24,680 Author and ufologist Mike Berra arrives at the island 82 00:04:24,780 --> 00:04:29,720 to investigate a UFO encounter that occurred in 1947. 83 00:04:29,820 --> 00:04:31,820 Known as the Moray Island Incident, 84 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,520 it is the first case on record involving the men in black. 85 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,660 Mike is meeting near the site of the incident. 86 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,920 With investigative filmmakers Scott Schaeffer and Steve 87 00:04:45,020 --> 00:04:47,420 Edmiston, who have secured recently 88 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:51,400 declassified government documents about the event, 89 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:55,200 the Moray Island Incident was first reported by local Harold 90 00:04:55,300 --> 00:04:59,200 Dahl, who worked as part of an informal harbor patrol, 91 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:01,940 retrieving logs that had floated free from nearby lumber 92 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:03,580 mills. 93 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,440 When we talk about the Moray Island Incident, 94 00:05:05,540 --> 00:05:06,740 what exactly happened? 95 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:08,240 What did Harold Dahl exactly claim 96 00:05:08,340 --> 00:05:09,740 to have seen the incident? 97 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:15,600 So June 21, 1947, Dahl was right off the island here 98 00:05:15,700 --> 00:05:17,140 on a boat scavenging logs. 99 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:18,200 That's what he did. 100 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:25,140 And around 2 o'clock, six donut-shaped disks came down. 101 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:29,080 If we go over here, we can show you where it happened. 102 00:05:29,180 --> 00:05:31,120 So this is where this event actually took place right 103 00:05:31,220 --> 00:05:32,080 through here? 104 00:05:32,180 --> 00:05:35,320 Yes, out on the water, just up the shoreline here. 105 00:05:35,420 --> 00:05:37,520 All right, so Mike, imagine you're out in your boat 106 00:05:37,540 --> 00:05:41,240 and you've got a crew of two people and your son and a dog. 107 00:05:41,340 --> 00:05:43,820 And all of a sudden, you see six flying disks 108 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:44,720 come over your boat. 109 00:05:44,820 --> 00:05:46,780 One of them appears to be in trouble. 110 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:47,980 It's wobbly. 111 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,120 And all of a sudden, some tass falls out of it. 112 00:05:50,220 --> 00:05:53,520 And then seconds later, hot molten slag. 113 00:05:53,620 --> 00:05:56,820 And it hits your boat, kills your dog, injures your son. 114 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,920 And they decide they've got to get off the water. 115 00:05:59,020 --> 00:06:01,160 And there ain't no place to go except this beach 116 00:06:01,260 --> 00:06:02,760 where we're standing right now. 117 00:06:02,860 --> 00:06:03,720 OK. 118 00:06:04,620 --> 00:06:07,820 Harold Dahl escaped the reign of metal unharmed, 119 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,160 but he claimed that the most frightening aspect 120 00:06:10,260 --> 00:06:14,360 of the incident occurred the next day, 121 00:06:14,460 --> 00:06:19,900 when he was paid an unexpected visit by a strange man. 122 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,240 A man shows up at Harold Dahl's house 123 00:06:23,340 --> 00:06:26,840 and invites Harold Dahl to go to a diner, 124 00:06:26,940 --> 00:06:28,440 because he would like to talk to Harold 125 00:06:28,540 --> 00:06:29,940 about what Harold's doing. 126 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,640 And he's going to tell him that he's 127 00:06:31,660 --> 00:06:33,860 going to tell him that he would like to talk to Harold 128 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:38,100 about what Harold saw on the water. 129 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,400 So he goes there and basically intimidates Dahl, right? 130 00:06:41,500 --> 00:06:43,340 He absolutely gives what we now believe 131 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,040 is that classic man in black warning. 132 00:06:46,140 --> 00:06:48,040 If you tell anybody about whatever 133 00:06:48,140 --> 00:06:50,980 it is that you saw on the water yesterday, 134 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,780 bad things could happen to you or to your family. 135 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:56,820 We think it's the first man in black associated 136 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,520 with an UFO case in modern history. 137 00:07:00,580 --> 00:07:03,320 Was frightened by the visit from the man in black, 138 00:07:03,420 --> 00:07:07,220 it didn't stop him from recounting his UFO sighting 139 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,960 to Chicago-based fake magazine publisher Ray Palmer, who 140 00:07:11,060 --> 00:07:15,800 in turn hired a pilot named Kenneth Arnold to investigate. 141 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:20,140 Arnold had become famous for his own reported UFO sighting 142 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,900 when he claimed to have seen nine strange objects 143 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,880 flying above Mount Rainier. 144 00:07:25,980 --> 00:07:29,380 He enlisted the help of two US Army Air Force officers 145 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,180 to investigate Dahl's claims, Captain Lee Davidson, 146 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,740 and first Lieutenant Frank Brown. 147 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,740 They had actually come out, conducted interviews 148 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,880 at the Winthrop Hotel in Tacoma of the witnesses. 149 00:07:43,980 --> 00:07:48,560 And they were provided samples of this slag-like material. 150 00:07:48,660 --> 00:07:54,900 They left just after midnight on August 1, 1947. 151 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,460 They get on their B-25 bomber, made it about 45 minutes 152 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,960 into the flight when the plane spontaneously caught fire. 153 00:08:03,060 --> 00:08:06,860 Inexplicably, the two pilots, the Army Intel officers, 154 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,260 Captain Davidson and Lieutenant Brown, 155 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:15,500 perished in the crash along with the slag materials. 156 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,140 A spontaneous fire? 157 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,880 Is it possible that the plane crash that killed both 158 00:08:20,980 --> 00:08:24,440 investigators and destroyed the evidence they had obtained 159 00:08:24,540 --> 00:08:26,420 was not an accident? 160 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,380 After this incident, Harold Dahl refused to talk 161 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,720 about his UFO encounter and even went so far as to insist 162 00:08:33,820 --> 00:08:35,820 it was a hoax. 163 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:37,520 We go online, it's a hoax. 164 00:08:37,620 --> 00:08:40,520 But as we started to investigate, 165 00:08:40,620 --> 00:08:44,760 and we stuck exclusively to actual government documents, 166 00:08:44,860 --> 00:08:47,400 they began to tell a different story. 167 00:08:47,500 --> 00:08:52,380 The story not of a hoax, but of a man who faced so much danger 168 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:59,540 that he decided to invent a fabrication that he'd made it up. 169 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,140 Under the Freedom of Information Act, 170 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,980 Shafer and Edmiston obtained formally classified documents 171 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,160 that confirm an FBI investigation into the Moorie Island 172 00:09:09,260 --> 00:09:13,020 incident took place, one that reached all the way 173 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,420 to the top of the bureau. 174 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,800 So here we are on August 14, 1947. 175 00:09:19,820 --> 00:09:23,420 And this is a teletype that was written by J. Edgar Hoover 176 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:24,420 himself. 177 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:27,460 And he is confirming what he's been told by his deputy. 178 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:30,460 What he's been told is that it's a hoax, 179 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:33,700 because that theory had been injected into the media. 180 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,600 And three hours later, there is another teletype 181 00:09:37,700 --> 00:09:41,440 from the field agent, Jack Wilcox. 182 00:09:41,540 --> 00:09:44,680 He writes this teletype directly to Hoover. 183 00:09:44,780 --> 00:09:46,380 Your conclusions are wrong. 184 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:49,680 Dahl was only going to say his story was a hoax. 185 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:52,600 Only if questioned by authorities would he say that. 186 00:09:52,700 --> 00:09:54,900 He did not want any further trouble. 187 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,200 So isn't that almost confirmation 188 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:01,940 that he's been receiving pressure from these men in black? 189 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:06,100 Despite the efforts of FBI field agent Jack Wilcox, 190 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,100 shortly after the exchange of these teletypes, 191 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,080 the FBI closed the Moorie Island case. 192 00:10:13,180 --> 00:10:14,840 But while producing their movie, 193 00:10:14,940 --> 00:10:18,240 Shafer and Edmiston were approached by a man who claimed 194 00:10:18,300 --> 00:10:21,300 he could prove Dahl's sighting was not a hoax. 195 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,740 Elmer Frombrack, Jr., who grew up on Moorie Island, 196 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,640 had come down to these beaches, was aware of the story 197 00:10:27,740 --> 00:10:32,880 in the mid-1960s, and actually found a sample of the slag 198 00:10:32,980 --> 00:10:34,680 in the trees. 199 00:10:34,780 --> 00:10:35,480 Wow. 200 00:10:35,580 --> 00:10:36,380 You're kidding me. 201 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:37,680 No. 202 00:10:37,780 --> 00:10:39,120 So we were so excited when he came to us, 203 00:10:39,220 --> 00:10:41,460 because we'd never met him, and we weren't soliciting that. 204 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:42,820 We can take you to the tree. 205 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:44,320 You can talk about it right there. 206 00:10:44,420 --> 00:10:45,220 OK. 207 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:46,120 All right. 208 00:10:46,220 --> 00:10:46,920 Great. 209 00:10:47,020 --> 00:10:47,820 Let's do that. 210 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,480 Elmer told us that he found the piece of slag embedded 211 00:10:51,580 --> 00:10:53,820 right in this nook right here. 212 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,480 In 1966, he was up here looking for firewood, 213 00:10:56,580 --> 00:10:59,520 and he took out his Boy Scout knife and pried it right now. 214 00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:01,720 Where is this piece of slag right now? 215 00:11:01,820 --> 00:11:02,720 Where is it? 216 00:11:02,820 --> 00:11:05,660 I just happened to have it in my pocket right here. 217 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:06,900 No. 218 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,260 So let's see if it fits. 219 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:09,560 It kind of does. 220 00:11:09,660 --> 00:11:12,200 Oh, my. 221 00:11:12,300 --> 00:11:13,740 Yeah, that's just wedged right in there. 222 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,040 It fits perfectly. 223 00:11:15,140 --> 00:11:16,240 So this is it? 224 00:11:16,340 --> 00:11:17,400 That's it. 225 00:11:18,020 --> 00:11:19,360 Wow. 226 00:11:19,460 --> 00:11:22,800 So you're telling me I could be holding a piece of metal 227 00:11:22,900 --> 00:11:23,860 from a UFO? 228 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,000 It's possible. 229 00:11:26,100 --> 00:11:28,100 OK, has this thing ever been tested by anybody? 230 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:29,940 Elmer Frombach, he actually put it 231 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,840 on loan to this Northwest Museum of the Mysteries. 232 00:11:32,940 --> 00:11:34,740 And they're the custodians. 233 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,140 They have loaned it to us, and we're actually 234 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,380 working with the folks to see if we can get permission 235 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,980 to do that, which would obviously be very exciting. 236 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:44,880 I learned a lot from Steven Scott today, the fact 237 00:11:44,940 --> 00:11:46,900 that there's so much documentation about the FBI 238 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,700 interest in the case, I think, is really over the top. 239 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,240 And the whole Man in Black phenomenon 240 00:11:52,340 --> 00:11:55,180 actually started here with this case, 241 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:59,780 and that makes it of historic importance. 242 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:03,280 Curiously, the Man in Black that allegedly visited Harold 243 00:12:03,380 --> 00:12:07,120 Dahl is not mentioned in any of the FBI documentation 244 00:12:07,220 --> 00:12:10,660 that Schaefer and Edmiston were able to obtain. 245 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:12,760 Could it be that the Man in Black, 246 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,140 like the others in his organization, 247 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,200 answers to another even more secretive authority? 248 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:29,540 In 2017, the Washington State Senate 249 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,880 passed a resolution acknowledging the 70th anniversary 250 00:12:32,980 --> 00:12:34,580 of the Maury Island incident. 251 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:37,920 We take a moment to recognize the impact of the UFO 252 00:12:38,020 --> 00:12:42,480 phenomenon that swept our country in the summer of 1947 253 00:12:42,540 --> 00:12:45,780 from Maury Island to Roswell, New Mexico. 254 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,380 I urge adoption of this resolution. 255 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:50,940 I also rise in support of this resolution. 256 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,780 In 1947, there were six UFOs cited, six. 257 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,920 It is not that it ended in 1947, Mr. President. 258 00:12:59,020 --> 00:13:02,360 The incidents continue. 259 00:13:02,460 --> 00:13:03,560 They continue. 260 00:13:03,660 --> 00:13:05,760 Question before the Senate is adoption of this resolution, 261 00:13:05,860 --> 00:13:08,360 as many is in favor, please say aye. 262 00:13:08,460 --> 00:13:10,060 Many opposed, please say no. 263 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:11,860 Resolution is adopted. 264 00:13:12,860 --> 00:13:14,460 While the Maury Island incidents 265 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:17,360 involved the first reference to a figure resembling 266 00:13:17,460 --> 00:13:20,400 the notorious Men in Black, some researchers 267 00:13:20,500 --> 00:13:24,100 believe they became an official government organization 268 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:25,940 five years later. 269 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:31,080 In 1952, the US Air Force organized a highly specialized 270 00:13:31,180 --> 00:13:35,580 and highly confidential unit called the 4602nd Air 271 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:39,480 Intelligence Service Squadron, or AISS, 272 00:13:39,540 --> 00:13:42,340 an internal Air Force intelligence letter dated 273 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,340 November 13, 1961. 274 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:49,380 The so-called Betz Memo outlined the 4602nd's 275 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,480 responsibilities to locate, recover, and deliver 276 00:13:53,580 --> 00:13:56,260 descended foreign space vehicles. 277 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,300 So these were top secret units that all had a top secret mission. 278 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,100 And for a short period during the Cold War, 279 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:05,200 something existed called an Air Intelligence Service Squadron. 280 00:14:05,300 --> 00:14:08,500 And these were unit's custom builds to go and recover 281 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:10,900 Soviet technology. 282 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Yes, they may well have got their hands 283 00:14:13,100 --> 00:14:15,700 on the odd Soviet satellite missile, 284 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:20,840 but the real mission was UFOs. 285 00:14:20,940 --> 00:14:26,280 Their job was to go collect intelligence from crashed plane 286 00:14:26,380 --> 00:14:29,580 or saucer sightings. 287 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:31,780 So they had a rapid response unit, 288 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,560 and they were all tasked with being able to get to a site 289 00:14:35,660 --> 00:14:38,420 within a maximum of six hours that was in the air. 290 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,520 And they were able to get to the site 291 00:14:40,620 --> 00:14:42,520 within a territory. 292 00:14:42,620 --> 00:14:45,200 The 4602nd were very, very capable men. 293 00:14:45,300 --> 00:14:48,500 And over time, it is true they connected up with Project 294 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:55,340 Blue Book and were involved in writing some UFO reports as well. 295 00:14:55,440 --> 00:15:01,580 The 4602nd may literally be the real life man in black. 296 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:05,420 In the exact same month that the 4602nd was formed, 297 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:10,320 the 4602nd was the new program to investigate UFO reports. 298 00:15:10,420 --> 00:15:13,020 Project Blue Book. 299 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,120 And it was the 4602nd that was assigned to conduct 300 00:15:16,220 --> 00:15:19,160 Project Blue Book's investigations. 301 00:15:19,260 --> 00:15:22,640 Astronomer J. Allen Heineck was the scientific advisor 302 00:15:22,740 --> 00:15:25,900 and driving force behind Project Blue Book. 303 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,300 But according to his son, Paul Heineck, 304 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:30,580 it quickly became clear to his father 305 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:32,980 that what the Air Force really expected of him 306 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,640 was to be more serious and more debunking. 307 00:15:35,740 --> 00:15:40,380 The Air Force, their job was to find answers, not the truth. 308 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:45,680 So he was always at odds with his Air Force partners. 309 00:15:45,780 --> 00:15:49,460 But over time, he realized there was a phenomena here 310 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,220 that merited serious scientific study. 311 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:56,000 Project Blue Book was the third of the Air Force's projects 312 00:15:56,100 --> 00:15:58,740 after Project Sign and Project Grudge. 313 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,640 And Project Blue Book, especially after 1953, 314 00:16:01,660 --> 00:16:05,040 and the formation of the 4602nd Air Squadron, 315 00:16:05,140 --> 00:16:07,400 was really more of a PR exercise 316 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:11,140 to tamp down public hysteria. 317 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:15,780 Project Blue Book studied over 12,000 reported UFO sightings, 318 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,120 and they were able to identify the aircraft 319 00:16:18,220 --> 00:16:21,260 in all but 700 of these incidents. 320 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,520 The CIA formed a scientific committee called the Robertson 321 00:16:24,620 --> 00:16:28,300 Panel to review the unsolved UFO cases. 322 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,260 The panel then issued a top secret recommendation, 323 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,360 suggesting that the government systematically debunked 324 00:16:34,460 --> 00:16:38,020 UFO sightings, claiming that reporting on UFOs 325 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,160 might cost hysterical mass behavior. 326 00:16:41,260 --> 00:16:44,500 Many researchers believe that the debunking campaign 327 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,900 was led by the same outfit that was heading up 328 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,980 Project Blue Book's investigations, the 4602nd. 329 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:56,840 The 4602nd had around 20 detachments throughout the US. 330 00:16:56,940 --> 00:17:01,140 And their job was to go and collect intelligence 331 00:17:01,140 --> 00:17:06,200 from crashed plane or saucer sightings. 332 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:08,640 A lot of people think that the men in black 333 00:17:08,740 --> 00:17:11,940 come from the 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron. 334 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:13,440 And I think that's entirely likely, 335 00:17:13,540 --> 00:17:16,580 because if you have this rapid deployment 336 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:21,520 of intelligence-educated, paratrooping Air Force guys 337 00:17:21,620 --> 00:17:24,460 coming to get as much information from a crash, 338 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,420 seems like part of their job duty 339 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:29,460 would also be to clamp down on the dissemination 340 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:32,280 of that potentially highly classified and valuable 341 00:17:32,380 --> 00:17:33,720 information. 342 00:17:33,820 --> 00:17:36,520 Their job was to spread disinformation, 343 00:17:36,620 --> 00:17:40,700 to seed amongst the public that if you saw UFO, 344 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:42,560 you might be crazy. 345 00:17:42,660 --> 00:17:45,560 Don't admit you saw something strange in the sky, 346 00:17:45,660 --> 00:17:50,040 because your life will change from that moment on. 347 00:17:50,140 --> 00:17:52,480 You can easily understand how people 348 00:17:52,580 --> 00:17:56,980 became terrified by the men in black. 349 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,300 You see something crash to the ground. 350 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,140 You phone your local Air Force base. 351 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:04,780 You get a knock on the door. 352 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,820 And there are these strange guys who threaten you 353 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,360 not to talk about these events again. 354 00:18:12,460 --> 00:18:15,460 My father heard about men in black from actual UFO 355 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,720 witnesses who reported that after they had made 356 00:18:18,820 --> 00:18:23,040 their experiences known, they were then visited by what 357 00:18:23,140 --> 00:18:25,840 we call men in black. 358 00:18:25,900 --> 00:18:29,400 I'm not aware of my father having actual interactions 359 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:32,400 with the men in black, but he did feel their presence, 360 00:18:32,500 --> 00:18:35,000 and he did speak about them. 361 00:18:35,100 --> 00:18:40,240 Project Blue Book was officially terminated in 1969. 362 00:18:40,340 --> 00:18:43,780 But many suspect the 4602nd continued 363 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:48,180 to operate in the shadows for years. 364 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:51,860 We're quite sure that from the late 1950s onward, 365 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,220 and through the 1980s and probably 366 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,940 beyond the 80s, although under a different name, 367 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:58,980 this program existed. 368 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,780 This was totally classified for decades. 369 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,620 Then in the 80s, people began getting documents. 370 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:09,920 And some of them clearly state that their mission 371 00:19:10,020 --> 00:19:16,660 is to go and find UFO debris, evidence of crashed UFOs. 372 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,700 And yet the Air Force continued to deny they 373 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,800 investigate UFOs. 374 00:19:22,860 --> 00:19:26,060 Are the men in black a secret government agency that 375 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,760 is tasked with both investigating the UFO phenomenon 376 00:19:29,860 --> 00:19:32,260 and covering up that it is real? 377 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:35,940 But if so, what is the purpose of the cover up? 378 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,240 According to many who have encountered them, 379 00:19:38,340 --> 00:19:40,940 the men in black are not only hiding the truth 380 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:45,440 about alien visitation, but are protecting an even bigger 381 00:19:45,540 --> 00:19:46,140 secret. 382 00:19:53,740 --> 00:20:00,280 Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1952. 383 00:20:00,380 --> 00:20:03,140 World War II Air Force veteran Albert Vender 384 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,980 establishes one of America's first UFO organizations, 385 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,760 the International Flying Saucer Bureau. 386 00:20:11,860 --> 00:20:16,560 The IFSP publishes a quarterly journal, Space Review, 387 00:20:16,660 --> 00:20:20,400 to share stories of UFO sightings with its 600 worldwide 388 00:20:20,460 --> 00:20:22,500 members. 389 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,700 But just one year after launching, 390 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:29,040 Vender claims he was visited by strange men in black suits 391 00:20:29,140 --> 00:20:31,900 who threatened both his fledgling organization 392 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:33,380 and his life. 393 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,640 Albert Vender started to have doubts about whether or not 394 00:20:37,740 --> 00:20:40,480 he should continue doing his research, 395 00:20:40,580 --> 00:20:42,220 putting out his journal. 396 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,760 And there was a very good reason for this. 397 00:20:44,860 --> 00:20:47,280 He'd actually been visited and threatened 398 00:20:47,380 --> 00:20:50,360 by the men in black himself. 399 00:20:50,460 --> 00:20:54,100 Albert K. Vender coined the term men in black 400 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,400 to describe the people who cautioned him not to talk 401 00:20:57,500 --> 00:21:00,800 about UFOs, not to talk about flying saucers, 402 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:05,140 and above all, not to talk about extraterrestrials. 403 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,540 He became very frightened about this encounter 404 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,140 with these men in black. 405 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,320 And he stopped publishing his newsletter. 406 00:21:12,420 --> 00:21:16,880 And for a decade, it was a mystery among UFO investigators 407 00:21:16,980 --> 00:21:18,360 what had happened to him. 408 00:21:20,460 --> 00:21:24,900 Although Vender would not speak publicly about it for years, 409 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,600 he would share some of his frightening experiences 410 00:21:27,700 --> 00:21:29,660 with friend Gray Barker. 411 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,700 Gray Barker was a researcher in West Virginia 412 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,000 who knew Albert Vender. 413 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:37,140 In fact, he had subscribed to Vender's journal 414 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,140 back at the time. 415 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:43,320 When Vender started to talk about these strange, mysterious 416 00:21:43,420 --> 00:21:46,380 men in black, Barker realized, wow, 417 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:51,580 this is a really cool, intriguing, sinister story. 418 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:56,140 Vender reluctantly gave some of the data to Barker. 419 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,780 And it was enough to allow Barker to write his 1956 book. 420 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:02,820 They knew too much about flying saucers. 421 00:22:06,420 --> 00:22:10,220 Gray Barkers, they knew too much about flying saucers, 422 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,800 introduced the men in black to a wide audience 423 00:22:12,900 --> 00:22:13,860 for the first time. 424 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,200 In the book, Barker described a visit he himself received 425 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:22,440 from an FBI agent questioning him 426 00:22:22,540 --> 00:22:25,740 about the International Flying Saucer Bureau 427 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,840 and wondered if the agent might also 428 00:22:27,940 --> 00:22:29,680 have been one of the men in black. 429 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,420 At that particular time, the FBI were watching Gray Barker. 430 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:40,720 J. Edgar Hoover actually ordered one of his personnel 431 00:22:40,820 --> 00:22:44,660 to go out and purchase a copy of Gray Barker's. 432 00:22:44,740 --> 00:22:47,600 They knew too much about flying saucers. 433 00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:49,600 Hoover was personally interested. 434 00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:52,940 We have a binder full of FBI memos, 435 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,680 memos from Hoover to his field agents, 436 00:22:55,780 --> 00:22:58,580 discussing flying disk investigations. 437 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,520 And we think that he was kind of obsessed with the men in black. 438 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,560 J. Edgar Hoover wanted to actually know 439 00:23:07,660 --> 00:23:09,500 who these men in black were, which strongly 440 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,500 indicates they weren't FBI. 441 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,360 They must have come from some other intelligence 442 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:16,760 agency, some other US military agency, 443 00:23:16,860 --> 00:23:21,400 or they came from somewhere else entirely. 444 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:24,200 If J. Edgar Hoover was trying to gather information 445 00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:26,940 on the men in black, could that indicate 446 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,980 that they are not affiliated with either the FBI 447 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:34,680 or the 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron? 448 00:23:34,780 --> 00:23:39,920 In 1962, nine years after his first terrifying encounter, 449 00:23:40,020 --> 00:23:43,120 Albert Bender came out of hiding to write his own book, 450 00:23:43,180 --> 00:23:45,820 Flying Saucers and the Three Men, 451 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,360 in which he made a controversial revelation 452 00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:51,820 about the men in blacks' true identities. 453 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,960 He said late one night when he was working in his office, 454 00:23:55,060 --> 00:23:57,960 Bender started to suddenly feel ill and sick. 455 00:23:58,060 --> 00:24:01,040 He felt dizzy, and he had to lay down. 456 00:24:01,140 --> 00:24:06,800 And as he did so, he saw these three shadowy, fedora-wearing 457 00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:11,980 figures literally materialized through the walls. 458 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,780 They were dressed in black suits, 459 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,280 and they had these shining eyes. 460 00:24:17,380 --> 00:24:20,480 Bender said that the men in black had communicated with him 461 00:24:20,580 --> 00:24:22,380 telepathically. 462 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,380 He felt that they were aliens. 463 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,620 And so it became another mystery. 464 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,600 A mystery within a mystery is, who are the men in black? 465 00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:32,700 What is the secret? 466 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,760 What is the answer if there is a single answer? 467 00:24:35,860 --> 00:24:38,860 After Bender's encounter, people begin to wonder if maybe 468 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,300 the men in black were actually extraterrestrials 469 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:44,120 that were trying to suppress the revelation of the alien 470 00:24:44,220 --> 00:24:45,400 presence on the planet Earth. 471 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,660 After 1962, Bender actually quit ufology. 472 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,400 This was not some sort of publicity stunt at all. 473 00:24:56,500 --> 00:25:00,240 He just walked away from the subject, never came back. 474 00:25:00,340 --> 00:25:04,140 And a lot of people believe the men in black visited him again 475 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,540 and threatened him. 476 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,480 Did Albert Bender's encounter reveal the truth 477 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,280 about the men in black? 478 00:25:11,380 --> 00:25:14,560 That they are, in fact, extraterrestrials 479 00:25:14,660 --> 00:25:17,120 disguised as humans? 480 00:25:17,220 --> 00:25:19,260 Perhaps further clues can be found 481 00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:23,360 by examining a curious connection between the men in black 482 00:25:23,460 --> 00:25:27,040 and what some believe is an otherworldly entity, 483 00:25:27,140 --> 00:25:30,600 the legendary monster known as the Mothman. 484 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,880 Throughout the 1950s and 60s, there 485 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,920 were numerous reports of encounters with the men in black. 486 00:25:43,020 --> 00:25:45,220 The most notorious was connected not 487 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,260 to a sighting of a UFO, but a monster. 488 00:25:51,260 --> 00:25:57,560 On November 15, 1966, in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, 489 00:25:57,660 --> 00:26:01,840 two young couples were driving down a dark road outside of town. 490 00:26:01,940 --> 00:26:04,080 As they passed by an old building, 491 00:26:04,180 --> 00:26:06,380 they were startled by a frightening sight. 492 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:15,480 They claimed to have seen a large winged creature, 493 00:26:15,580 --> 00:26:21,220 6 to 7 foot tall, gray in color, and two large red eyes. 494 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:25,060 They said this creature flew over their car 495 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,060 and followed him back into town. 496 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,800 That was the beginning of the Mothman sighting. 497 00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:33,900 The young couple's heroin account 498 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,980 was picked up by the local press and incited panic 499 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,180 across town. 500 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,940 The legend of the Mothman was born. 501 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,380 And dozens of encounters with the winged monster 502 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,420 would be reported over the next year. 503 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,360 There were over 100 reported sightings 504 00:26:53,460 --> 00:26:56,700 to the local authorities. 505 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,100 You had some people who claimed to have seen it while driving 506 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:01,000 in their car. 507 00:27:01,100 --> 00:27:06,100 You had other people seeing it in their front yard. 508 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,020 For the people of Point Pleasant, 509 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:12,260 the mystery of the Mothman persists to this day. 510 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:14,960 Where did this monster come from? 511 00:27:15,060 --> 00:27:19,140 Why did it suddenly appear in this small town? 512 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,840 And perhaps most curious of all, why were the first Mothman 513 00:27:22,940 --> 00:27:27,580 sightings followed by a visit from the men in black? 514 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,020 Some people think he was being from another world. 515 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:31,920 The supporting evidence of that is the fact 516 00:27:32,020 --> 00:27:34,880 that multiple witnesses who saw the Mothman 517 00:27:34,940 --> 00:27:37,600 were actually intimidated by what can now 518 00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:39,840 be described as men in black. 519 00:27:39,940 --> 00:27:43,680 Men in black typically are only associated with UFO cases. 520 00:27:43,780 --> 00:27:47,280 People describe them as looking like cadavers. 521 00:27:47,380 --> 00:27:50,620 They looked like pale-faced zombies dressed 522 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,900 in black suits with black fedoras. 523 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,200 I interviewed Mothman witnesses who did have men in black 524 00:27:57,300 --> 00:27:58,400 experiences. 525 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:00,400 This was 40 years after the fact at the time. 526 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:04,300 And they were still clearly traumatized by the event. 527 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,000 I had no reason to disbelieve these people, none whatsoever. 528 00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:13,500 One resident who claimed to have been visited by the men 529 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,400 in black was Mary Hire, a local journalist who reported 530 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:20,840 on the Mothman's sightings for the Point Pleasant Register 531 00:28:20,940 --> 00:28:22,740 and the Athens messenger. 532 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:27,380 Mary Hire was just a normal, legitimate journalist 533 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,880 investigating your average stories around town. 534 00:28:30,980 --> 00:28:33,880 And then she was suddenly plunged into this thing 535 00:28:34,580 --> 00:28:37,840 involving the Mothman. 536 00:28:37,940 --> 00:28:41,340 Mary Hire had begun investigating the mysterious incidents 537 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,580 in and around Point Pleasant with a New York-based UFO 538 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,420 researcher named John Keel. 539 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,580 John Keel heard about the Mothman story 540 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,460 and decided, I'm going to go up there. 541 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,420 I'm going to see what's going on. 542 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,160 And when he did so, he hooked up with Mary Hire. 543 00:28:58,260 --> 00:29:00,700 And the two of them sort of became 544 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,400 like the molder and scully of that era 545 00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:06,360 and secured a great deal of information, 546 00:29:06,460 --> 00:29:09,160 interviewed a lot of people. 547 00:29:09,260 --> 00:29:11,460 These investigations would eventually 548 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,400 lead to the popular book and later Hollywood film, 549 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:17,140 The Mothman Prophecies. 550 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,700 But not everyone was pleased with the information 551 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,740 Mary Hire and John Keel were gleaning from the public 552 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:23,740 about the Mothman. 553 00:29:26,980 --> 00:29:30,180 Mary Hire was visited by men in black. 554 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:34,300 And who told her to stop writing about the Mothman 555 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,140 and all these strange encounters. 556 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,040 Stop writing about this. 557 00:29:39,140 --> 00:29:41,880 You don't want to be involved in this. 558 00:29:41,980 --> 00:29:46,580 This is a classic example of the men in black not just 559 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,320 terrorizing and threatening UFO witnesses, 560 00:29:50,420 --> 00:29:52,760 but also journalists as well. 561 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,660 Was this just one more case of the men in black? 562 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,120 Attempting to cover up a potential alien encounter? 563 00:30:04,220 --> 00:30:06,560 Or might the fact that numerous witnesses reported 564 00:30:06,660 --> 00:30:10,460 being visited and threatened by these mysterious characters 565 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,740 indicate that they were protecting an even bigger secret? 566 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,040 Eight miles north of Point Pleasant 567 00:30:20,140 --> 00:30:23,040 is the MacLintic Wildlife Management Area, 568 00:30:23,140 --> 00:30:28,540 a 3,600 acre wilderness known to locals as the TNT Area. 569 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,760 This former World War II military installation 570 00:30:31,860 --> 00:30:35,200 is believed by many to be the home of the Mothman. 571 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,040 The reason it's called the TNT Area 572 00:30:40,140 --> 00:30:43,840 is because they manufactured explosives and TNT 573 00:30:43,940 --> 00:30:46,240 for the war effort. 574 00:30:46,340 --> 00:30:50,380 When the war ended in 1945, the government basically 575 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,780 just deserted that area there. 576 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,320 That's where the first Mothman sighting took place. 577 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,140 And then you had some people who claimed 578 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,640 to have seen it in the TNT Area near some 579 00:31:02,740 --> 00:31:03,840 of the vacant buildings. 580 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,720 Within days of the first Mothman sighting in 1966, 581 00:31:10,820 --> 00:31:13,220 residents of Point Pleasant were surprised 582 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:19,520 by another unexpected visitor at the TNT Area, the US military. 583 00:31:19,620 --> 00:31:21,520 According to reports from locals, 584 00:31:21,620 --> 00:31:24,420 they had barricaded the site and swiftly turned away 585 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:25,960 anyone who approached it. 586 00:31:28,060 --> 00:31:30,860 While no explanation was ever given for the military's 587 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,200 sudden arrival, some researchers 588 00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:36,360 suggest that it could provide a clue as to the truth 589 00:31:36,460 --> 00:31:40,160 behind the Men in Black. 590 00:31:40,260 --> 00:31:42,400 There are a lot of people who think the Men in Black 591 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:44,740 are government agents. 592 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,640 There are an equal number of people 593 00:31:46,740 --> 00:31:49,000 in the UFO community who believe that they are actually 594 00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:50,980 extraterrestrials. 595 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,420 The fact is we really don't know who or what the Men in Black 596 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:55,920 are. 597 00:31:55,980 --> 00:31:59,620 And in fact, some of the aliens may be impersonating government 598 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,260 agents to intimidate witnesses. 599 00:32:05,660 --> 00:32:08,060 Could it be that those who believe the Men in Black 600 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,260 are government agents and those who believe they 601 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:15,000 are from another world are both right? 602 00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:18,280 But if so, are extraterrestrials impersonating 603 00:32:18,380 --> 00:32:19,500 the Men in Black? 604 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:24,280 Or are aliens and government agents actually working together? 605 00:32:24,340 --> 00:32:26,240 Perhaps further clues can be found 606 00:32:26,340 --> 00:32:28,480 by examining another mystery associated 607 00:32:28,580 --> 00:32:32,020 with these shadowy characters, black helicopters. 608 00:32:36,980 --> 00:32:39,980 Dayton, Texas. 609 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:44,160 December 29, 1980. 610 00:32:44,260 --> 00:32:47,600 Seven-year-old Colby Landrum is with his grandmother 611 00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:51,600 and her friend, driving along a desolate two-lane road 612 00:32:51,660 --> 00:32:53,700 when they have a life-changing experience. 613 00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:59,840 Betty Cash, my grandmother, Vicki Landrum, and myself, 614 00:32:59,940 --> 00:33:01,800 headed back home towards Dayton. 615 00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:03,580 It was real late at night. 616 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:04,880 Nobody else on the road. 617 00:33:04,980 --> 00:33:08,980 And I encountered a bright light. 618 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,880 It actually looked just like a big glowing ball of flame, 619 00:33:12,980 --> 00:33:16,460 probably about the size of a water tower, 620 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:21,500 100 foot across, 100 foot tall, but in a diamond shape. 621 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,200 This is Vicki Landrum from Dayton, Texas. 622 00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:28,500 A vehicle came down and it was like fire was coming from it. 623 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,000 It got ahead of us and we went to stop. 624 00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:34,740 And we got out of the car, but I didn't stay out 625 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,940 and just the minute because I had my little ransom. 626 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,880 It came down almost in the tree car. 627 00:33:40,980 --> 00:33:44,480 And then he went back up and left to the ride of it. 628 00:33:44,580 --> 00:33:48,980 And we found it in 23 helicopters. 629 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:55,640 It was surrounded by 23 Chinook double-roader helicopters. 630 00:33:55,740 --> 00:33:57,640 To me, it looked like it was being escorted 631 00:33:57,740 --> 00:33:59,480 by the helicopters. 632 00:33:59,580 --> 00:34:03,380 In my belief, the government definitely knew about it. 633 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,520 There's no way that something that size 634 00:34:06,620 --> 00:34:09,220 is going to have 23 Chinook helicopters. 635 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,320 They were in, like, escort mode. 636 00:34:11,420 --> 00:34:14,360 They were definitely transporting it. 637 00:34:14,460 --> 00:34:18,460 For UFO researchers, the presence of helicopters 638 00:34:19,060 --> 00:34:21,760 is one aspect of the Cached Landrum Incident 639 00:34:21,860 --> 00:34:25,060 that makes it particularly intriguing. 640 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,700 Since the 1970s, encounters with the men in black 641 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,760 have often been connected to reports 642 00:34:30,860 --> 00:34:34,340 of unmarked black helicopters. 643 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,880 A black helicopter, which has now also become legend, 644 00:34:37,980 --> 00:34:43,340 is a helicopter that doesn't have insignia markings on it. 645 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:44,520 It's stealthy. 646 00:34:44,620 --> 00:34:46,620 It's simply painted black. 647 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:51,220 And it has come to be known as the vehicle of choice 648 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,180 for the men in black. 649 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,520 One of the most baffling aspects of the men in black mystery 650 00:34:56,620 --> 00:35:00,820 is how quickly they seem to arrive on the doorsteps of people 651 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,100 who've had recent UFO encounters. 652 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,460 Now, if the men in black are actually 653 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,200 flying around in black helicopters, 654 00:35:09,300 --> 00:35:13,140 well, a helicopter would be the perfect tool, if you like, 655 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:16,180 to get from town to town and threaten people 656 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:17,400 very, very quickly. 657 00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:21,940 Black helicopters can be very intimidating. 658 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,380 They've been seen by multiple credible witnesses at one time. 659 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,420 Maybe the men in black and the black helicopters 660 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,420 are actually associated. 661 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,460 Maybe it's men in black helicopters. 662 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,260 Could the helicopters witness during the Cached Landrum 663 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,000 Incident have been piloted by the men in black 664 00:35:41,100 --> 00:35:43,900 on an emergency dispatch to follow and retrieve 665 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,500 an alien spacecraft? 666 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:48,220 Many people think it could possibly 667 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,600 have been some kind of an anti-gravity device 668 00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:52,000 that our government was building, 669 00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:53,400 and it was being tested. 670 00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:56,000 Others think it might have been an extraterrestrial craft. 671 00:35:56,100 --> 00:35:58,900 They got in trouble and came into our atmosphere 672 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,100 and into our presence and was being followed 673 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,140 by these military helicopters. 674 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:07,640 According to Colby Landrum, whatever it was they witnessed 675 00:36:07,740 --> 00:36:09,480 that night seemed to be emitting 676 00:36:09,580 --> 00:36:11,720 dangerous levels of radiation. 677 00:36:11,780 --> 00:36:13,040 Betty stopped the car. 678 00:36:13,140 --> 00:36:14,820 You could feel the heat off of it. 679 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,120 The heat was very intense. 680 00:36:17,220 --> 00:36:20,420 There was an imprint from my grandmother's hand 681 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,020 on the actual dash. 682 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,360 It was hot enough for when she grabbed the dash when we stopped. 683 00:36:25,460 --> 00:36:28,060 I mean, it was an indention of where her hand was sitting. 684 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,000 Following the incident, all three witnesses 685 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:35,400 were examined at a NASA-run laboratory 686 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:37,000 for radiation exposure. 687 00:36:37,060 --> 00:36:40,560 Joanne Donaldson was a member of the NASA medical team 688 00:36:40,660 --> 00:36:43,760 that conducted the examination. 689 00:36:43,860 --> 00:36:50,600 My role was to make sure all the readings were recorded 690 00:36:50,700 --> 00:36:54,400 correctly and accurately, and that everything 691 00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:57,940 was documented accordingly to the established protocols 692 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,280 for doing radiation testing. 693 00:37:01,380 --> 00:37:03,680 I was able to see that the radiation 694 00:37:03,740 --> 00:37:07,800 was being recorded for doing radiation testing. 695 00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:10,740 They did get radiation exposure, 696 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:15,240 and I fully believe that their story was absolutely true. 697 00:37:15,340 --> 00:37:19,980 There was no fabrication in that experience. 698 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,380 I got nauseous and sick. 699 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,520 It probably lasted two or three days with me. 700 00:37:25,620 --> 00:37:29,560 My grandmother, she had the same symptoms, 701 00:37:29,660 --> 00:37:32,260 but she also had blisters on her skin. 702 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,840 And she'd have sores for several years after that. 703 00:37:35,940 --> 00:37:39,300 Betty Cash suffered the most severe part of it. 704 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,640 She was out of the car the longest. 705 00:37:42,740 --> 00:37:48,980 According to the doctors, she had the most exposure to it. 706 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,880 The mutual UFO network, also known as Muffin, 707 00:37:51,980 --> 00:37:55,720 investigated the Cash Lantern case and radiation exposure, 708 00:37:55,820 --> 00:37:58,660 which was verified by a radiologist later 709 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,820 and put into their public record. 710 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:02,280 What was rare about this incident 711 00:38:02,380 --> 00:38:05,920 is it's one of the very few that resulted in court proceedings 712 00:38:06,020 --> 00:38:09,320 because Cash and Landrum actually sued the Air Force 713 00:38:09,420 --> 00:38:11,160 for their injuries. 714 00:38:11,260 --> 00:38:13,720 The lawsuit was against the federal government. 715 00:38:13,820 --> 00:38:16,700 It was thrown out. 716 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:22,600 They just said that it was not government affiliated. 717 00:38:22,700 --> 00:38:24,700 Could the Cash-Landrum incidents 718 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,200 and the connection between the men in black and black 719 00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:30,440 helicopters provide evidence that the US government 720 00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:35,340 is, in fact, working alongside extraterrestrials? 721 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,640 Is this the secret that the men in black 722 00:38:37,740 --> 00:38:40,140 are so vigilantly defending? 723 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:42,780 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 724 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,820 and suggest that their ability to hide the truth 725 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,360 is due to a powerful and disturbing technology. 726 00:38:56,860 --> 00:38:59,760 70 years on from the Moray Island incident, 727 00:38:59,820 --> 00:39:02,480 and the first known men in black sighting, 728 00:39:02,580 --> 00:39:04,780 the mysterious figures continue to capture 729 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,820 the public's imagination. 730 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,460 We're still fascinated with all the stuff 731 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,860 that this unleashed in 1947. 732 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,160 And it's amazing the kind of life it's taken on, 733 00:39:17,260 --> 00:39:22,100 especially when you trace it back to kind of a single incident 734 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,600 and then track it through these other experiences 735 00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:29,240 and the connecting of dots that it's kind of gained a momentum. 736 00:39:29,820 --> 00:39:32,340 You know, the men in black have gone from these very scary, 737 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:37,240 intimidating, possibly ghost-like extraterrestrial beings 738 00:39:37,340 --> 00:39:39,940 to this cultural phenomenon. 739 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,920 I think the world of entertainment, especially Hollywood 740 00:39:43,020 --> 00:39:47,860 movies like men in black, are part of disclosure 741 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:52,760 because those movies are preparing us for the fact 742 00:39:52,860 --> 00:39:55,300 that we are not alone in the universe. 743 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,100 While real world accounts paint a much different picture 744 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,400 than what has been portrayed in the movies, 745 00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:05,360 both describe a technology that may explain how the men in black 746 00:40:05,460 --> 00:40:09,700 have been able to operate in the shadows for so long. 747 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,400 With the men in black movies, they 748 00:40:12,500 --> 00:40:16,540 are using this special device called a neuralizer. 749 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:20,380 When this device is activated on you, the subject, 750 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:24,680 you will not have any memory of what happened before. 751 00:40:24,780 --> 00:40:26,280 And they plant new ideas in your head, 752 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,380 oh, this is what you just saw. 753 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:34,020 And yet, there seems to be some device like this. 754 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,080 It's mentioned in men in black books 755 00:40:36,180 --> 00:40:39,180 that there's a device called the Rick Edum device, 756 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,120 radio-hypnotic inter-cerebral control 757 00:40:42,220 --> 00:40:46,560 dashed Edum, electronic dissolution of memory. 758 00:40:46,660 --> 00:40:48,300 What if you really can wipe somebody's memory 759 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,640 with just a little flash of a device 760 00:40:50,740 --> 00:40:53,500 and make them forget very, very specific things? 761 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:55,100 Maybe they're around us all the time. 762 00:40:55,160 --> 00:41:00,200 Maybe what we think we know about UFOs and aliens 763 00:41:00,300 --> 00:41:04,000 is actually a deliberately manipulated consciousness 764 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:06,540 raising timeline that's been controlled 765 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,840 by men in black all along. 766 00:41:09,940 --> 00:41:13,280 UFO sightings haven't stopped quite the opposite. 767 00:41:13,380 --> 00:41:16,520 So if UFO sightings are still going on, 768 00:41:16,620 --> 00:41:19,380 there's no reason to suppose that men in black 769 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,120 aren't still going around speaking to witnesses. 770 00:41:23,180 --> 00:41:26,220 And if they're successful in their mission, 771 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,120 we don't get to hear about it. 772 00:41:28,220 --> 00:41:30,880 It's quite possible that the men in black 773 00:41:30,980 --> 00:41:34,520 are still operating, still intimidating witnesses, 774 00:41:34,620 --> 00:41:40,200 and still being the gatekeepers of the UFO secret. 775 00:41:40,300 --> 00:41:43,600 Could there be an alien presence on planet Earth 776 00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:47,640 that is far more widespread than we have ever imagined? 777 00:41:47,740 --> 00:41:51,980 Are the men in black working to keep humanity in the dark? 778 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,880 And if so, when the truth finally comes to light, 779 00:41:55,980 --> 00:41:59,440 will it be forever wiped from our memories? 780 00:41:59,540 --> 00:42:03,420 Perhaps it has already happened.