1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,440 Classified military videos leaked to the public. 2 00:00:05,540 --> 00:00:08,280 You can actually hear the shock and the awe 3 00:00:08,380 --> 00:00:10,920 as people saw this going into the water. 4 00:00:11,020 --> 00:00:12,120 What was blast? 5 00:00:12,220 --> 00:00:13,220 Blast. 6 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,720 Top secret, Pentagon projects suddenly exposed. 7 00:00:17,820 --> 00:00:19,020 It was huge. 8 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,400 It was a monumental sea change in the federal government's 9 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:25,400 acknowledgment of these aerial phenomena that 10 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:26,900 are unexplained. 11 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,800 And a shocking admission. 12 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:32,400 About unidentified flying objects. 13 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:34,340 Our current science, our current tech, 14 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,600 can't understand some of these. 15 00:00:36,700 --> 00:00:37,980 The government said that. 16 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:39,140 Wow. 17 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,640 What is clear is that these sightings 18 00:00:41,740 --> 00:00:43,480 simply cannot be explained. 19 00:00:43,580 --> 00:00:46,580 The question becomes, what are we dealing with? 20 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,720 Are we on the brink of full government disclosure 21 00:00:49,820 --> 00:00:54,020 about the strange objects witnessed in our skies? 22 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,500 And if so, will we soon discover that they are 23 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:02,400 in fact of extraterrestrial origin? 24 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:03,940 Something is going on. 25 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:08,100 And for the first time ever, the government admitted to this. 26 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,440 There is a doorway in the universe. 27 00:01:15,540 --> 00:01:19,620 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 28 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,560 It demands we question everything 29 00:01:22,660 --> 00:01:24,920 we have ever been taught. 30 00:01:24,940 --> 00:01:28,320 The evidence is all around us. 31 00:01:28,420 --> 00:01:32,420 The future is right before our eyes. 32 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,320 We are not alone. 33 00:01:35,420 --> 00:01:38,020 We have never been alone. 34 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:53,640 Washington, DC, the Oval Office, December 27, 2020. 35 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:54,960 All right. 36 00:01:55,060 --> 00:01:56,300 Thank you all. 37 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,700 President Donald Trump signs a massive $2.3 trillion 38 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,840 spending and relief package to stimulate economic recovery 39 00:02:04,940 --> 00:02:07,920 from the ravages of COVID-19. 40 00:02:08,020 --> 00:02:12,460 But the bill serves another highly unexpected purpose, 41 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,360 detailed in its committee comments section 42 00:02:15,460 --> 00:02:19,100 beneath the heading, Advanced Aerial Threats. 43 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,160 The stipulation mandates that the director of national 44 00:02:22,220 --> 00:02:25,460 intelligence work with the Secretary of Defense 45 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,600 on a report revealing everything the government knows 46 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:34,640 about unidentified aerial phenomenon or UAP. 47 00:02:34,740 --> 00:02:36,900 Because of public pressure, public scrutiny, 48 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,600 members of Congress, specifically 49 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:40,880 on the Senate Intelligence Committee, 50 00:02:40,980 --> 00:02:44,880 inserted language that the government release a report 51 00:02:44,980 --> 00:02:47,780 to the public on UFOs. 52 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:49,880 And they had 180 days to do it. 53 00:02:49,980 --> 00:02:51,280 This was jaw dropping. 54 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:54,820 And a lot of people said, what? 55 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:57,080 UFOs and COVID, what's going on? 56 00:02:57,180 --> 00:03:00,060 The original requirement for a UFO report 57 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,560 had come from the Senate Intelligence Committee. 58 00:03:03,660 --> 00:03:07,200 And they'd articulated it in the Intelligence Authorization 59 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:10,000 Act for Fiscal Year 2021. 60 00:03:10,100 --> 00:03:11,740 But for a number of reasons, that bill 61 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,440 wasn't going to get through. 62 00:03:14,540 --> 00:03:18,640 So what they did is they attached that part of the bill 63 00:03:18,740 --> 00:03:21,140 to something they knew would get through. 64 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,500 And that was the COVID-19 relief bill. 65 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:29,540 To researchers of UFOs or UAPs, as government agencies now 66 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:32,940 call them, it is a watershed moment. 67 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,140 It is even applauded by many in Washington, 68 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,280 who believe the Pentagon has been overly secretive 69 00:03:39,380 --> 00:03:42,060 about this phenomenon. 70 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,920 I'm comforted in knowing that we have good folks 71 00:03:45,020 --> 00:03:46,720 in the intelligence community who are protecting 72 00:03:46,820 --> 00:03:48,200 our national security. 73 00:03:48,260 --> 00:03:51,820 At the same time, I think that not just the American people, 74 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:53,400 but the global community really want 75 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:55,600 to know what's going on up in our skies. 76 00:03:55,700 --> 00:03:59,100 Everything is rotating. 77 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:03,040 I was prompted to ask myself, where have you been? 78 00:04:03,140 --> 00:04:06,980 Why did it take so much prodding by the public, 79 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,380 by members of Congress, over decades, really, 80 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,620 before you took this threat seriously? 81 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:16,120 There are people in the government 82 00:04:16,140 --> 00:04:20,620 who are very hostile to UFO information. 83 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,720 The government had plenty of time and reason 84 00:04:23,820 --> 00:04:26,560 to investigate these things, but only seriously 85 00:04:26,660 --> 00:04:32,100 started compiling data in 2019, which is totally insane. 86 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:37,500 I mean, this information was available for decades before. 87 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,200 UFO community went into overdrive. 88 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:45,080 Some of them were actively predicting disclosure. 89 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:50,140 The mainstream media as well were fully engaged on this. 90 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:55,180 And there was intense speculation. 91 00:04:55,280 --> 00:05:00,180 I remember after Trump had signed the COVID relief bill, 92 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:01,780 and I had to see it. 93 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,760 So I called up somebody, and I got a link. 94 00:05:04,860 --> 00:05:09,760 And I went down through all of that bill. 95 00:05:09,860 --> 00:05:13,500 And of course, there was tremendous amounts of speculation. 96 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,120 Well, are they now going to tell us 97 00:05:15,220 --> 00:05:17,460 that we're not alone in the universe? 98 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,500 The government of the United States 99 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,800 is openly investigating UFOs. 100 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:28,900 And I think that this speaks volumes how the paradigm has 101 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,340 shifted. 102 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,780 But how did the US government go from decades of denying 103 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:39,320 any interest in UFOs to passing a bipartisan bill demanding 104 00:05:39,420 --> 00:05:42,120 an official report on unidentified aerial 105 00:05:42,180 --> 00:05:43,740 phenomena? 106 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:47,280 It's a sea-changing policy with roots that trace back 107 00:05:47,380 --> 00:05:50,820 to a series of secret meetings more than two decades earlier. 108 00:05:53,620 --> 00:05:57,500 Las Vegas, 1995. 109 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,400 Local TV news reporter George Knapp, 110 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:03,860 famous in Nevada for his investigation of the top secret 111 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:10,140 Air Force facility Area 51, has spent years discussing UFOs 112 00:06:10,260 --> 00:06:14,260 with Nevada's powerful senator, Harry Reid. 113 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:15,760 Senator Reid has a lot of interest 114 00:06:15,860 --> 00:06:19,900 in national security issues, NELIS, Area 51. 115 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,840 So I told him, I think there's a legitimate issue here, 116 00:06:22,940 --> 00:06:24,540 that this is real. 117 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,180 And so we had a secret conversation that lasted 30 years 118 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:29,980 about UFOs. 119 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,480 In 1995, Knapp invited Reid to attend a meeting hosted 120 00:06:34,580 --> 00:06:36,920 by another powerful Nevada resident 121 00:06:37,020 --> 00:06:39,220 with a longtime interest in the topic. 122 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:43,980 Hotel Magnet and aerospace billionaire Robert Bigelow. 123 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,280 Bigelow had recently founded the National Institute 124 00:06:47,380 --> 00:06:50,720 for Discovery Science, a privately financed research 125 00:06:50,820 --> 00:06:54,220 organization created to investigate fringe science 126 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,060 and UFO phenomena. 127 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,300 I told Reid, I think he should go check this out. 128 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,940 He goes to the next board meeting later in the year 129 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:03,940 and is blown away. 130 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,900 He's hooked. 131 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:10,300 But the bond that he formed with Bigelow at that point 132 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,400 became critical to everything that would unfold later. 133 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:20,240 In 2007, with Reid's help, Bigelow secured $22 million 134 00:07:20,340 --> 00:07:23,680 from the Department of Defense to fund the Advanced Aerial 135 00:07:23,780 --> 00:07:27,320 Threat Identification Program, or ATIP, 136 00:07:27,420 --> 00:07:29,920 an initiative that would investigate reports 137 00:07:30,020 --> 00:07:32,620 of anomalous aerial vehicles. 138 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,920 They managed to create this program in the Pentagon, 139 00:07:36,020 --> 00:07:39,280 which was a classified program, a sort of black program, 140 00:07:39,380 --> 00:07:40,680 as they say. 141 00:07:40,780 --> 00:07:44,960 And so they were able to get the funds the Pentagon was able 142 00:07:45,060 --> 00:07:47,260 to get up and running with that. 143 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,860 And I think that was a game changer. 144 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,700 Pentagon officials select former US Army counterintelligence 145 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:58,800 special agent, Luis Elizondo, to run the secret ATIP program. 146 00:07:58,900 --> 00:08:01,000 Lou Elizondo was put in charge of that. 147 00:08:01,020 --> 00:08:02,920 He was overseeing his little group of people 148 00:08:03,020 --> 00:08:05,660 in different parts of the Pentagon. 149 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,400 They would exchange information, do what they could, 150 00:08:08,500 --> 00:08:10,460 and try to keep a very low profile. 151 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,540 Some people in the Pentagon knew what they were doing, 152 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,640 but others did not. 153 00:08:15,740 --> 00:08:20,980 Elizondo ran ATIP for those approximately seven years 154 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:25,380 with funding from Senator Harry Reid in Nevada. 155 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,480 And none of us knew anything about it. 156 00:08:29,540 --> 00:08:33,380 As Elizondo delved into the government's secret files, 157 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,180 he became convinced that UFOs could pose 158 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,840 a major national security threat. 159 00:08:38,940 --> 00:08:41,280 But to his growing frustration, he 160 00:08:41,380 --> 00:08:44,680 struggled to get anyone to listen to him. 161 00:08:44,780 --> 00:08:49,060 Lou figured out that forces within the Pentagon 162 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,960 weren't taking this seriously and were perhaps 163 00:08:53,060 --> 00:08:58,200 dismissing and covering up and suppressing UFO information 164 00:08:58,220 --> 00:08:59,820 for various reasons. 165 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:02,660 And Lou couldn't stand the fact that, 166 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:04,700 and within the halls of the Pentagon, 167 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,360 it wasn't being taken seriously. 168 00:09:07,460 --> 00:09:12,700 In October 2017, Luis Elizondo resigned from ATIP 169 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,540 after Pentagon officials refused to present his findings 170 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,680 to Defense Secretary James Mattis. 171 00:09:19,780 --> 00:09:21,280 I've seen too much. 172 00:09:21,380 --> 00:09:23,080 I've talked to too many people. 173 00:09:23,180 --> 00:09:24,380 I have too many reports. 174 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:25,680 I know it's real. 175 00:09:25,780 --> 00:09:27,180 I can't agree with consciousness, 176 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:28,800 keep my head buried in the sand. 177 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:34,380 I had to leave the very job that I love to get my point across. 178 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,380 Just as Elizondo was leaving his position at the Pentagon, 179 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,880 Tom DeLong, co-founder of the rock band Blink 182, 180 00:09:42,980 --> 00:09:45,980 was forming a group called To The Stars Academy 181 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,620 to collect and study information on unidentified aerial 182 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:51,560 phenomena. 183 00:09:51,660 --> 00:09:56,060 Tom DeLong gathered around him an extraordinary team 184 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:01,720 of insiders with backgrounds in the government, intelligence 185 00:10:01,820 --> 00:10:05,860 community, the aerospace community, particularly 186 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:07,960 cutting-edge technologies. 187 00:10:08,060 --> 00:10:12,360 Elizondo almost immediately went to work for Tom DeLong 188 00:10:12,460 --> 00:10:14,860 and his new company, To The Stars, 189 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:20,200 a company that was dedicated to working to try to uncover 190 00:10:20,300 --> 00:10:22,940 the answers about the UFO phenomenon, which just 191 00:10:23,020 --> 00:10:26,320 seemed like a perfect stroke of luck. 192 00:10:26,420 --> 00:10:30,320 With the addition of Elizondo, To The Stars Academy 193 00:10:30,420 --> 00:10:33,620 now had unprecedented access to government intel 194 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:38,560 on unidentified aerial phenomenon and unbeknownst to Elizondo's 195 00:10:38,660 --> 00:10:42,660 former bosses in the military, he hadn't left government service 196 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:44,460 empty-handed. 197 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:51,000 He brought with him extraordinary video evidence of UFOs. 198 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:52,000 My god. 199 00:10:53,940 --> 00:10:59,580 Washington DC, October, 2017. 200 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:03,720 After Luis Elizondo resigned from his position with A-Tip 201 00:11:03,820 --> 00:11:07,980 and leaves the Pentagon, he shares three declassified videos 202 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,260 recorded by Navy pilots with his new colleagues 203 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:12,320 at To The Stars Academy. 204 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,160 The first object, known as Tic Tac, 205 00:11:18,260 --> 00:11:22,180 was caught on radar in 2004 off the US Navy 206 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:26,280 limits at an altitude of 80,000 feet. 207 00:11:26,380 --> 00:11:29,320 As Navy F-18s approached the object, 208 00:11:29,420 --> 00:11:32,520 it descended to within one foot of the water in seconds. 209 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:39,420 We don't have this capability of dropping 80,000 feet 210 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:44,900 within a matter of seconds, hitting a velocity of Mach 20. 211 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,740 So we now know that there's some kind of propulsion system 212 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:55,040 that exceeds the capability of our own rocket. 213 00:11:55,140 --> 00:11:58,100 Naval Aviator Lieutenant Chad Underwood 214 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,140 was ordered to pursue the object in an F-18 215 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,120 equipped with a sophisticated FLIR video system. 216 00:12:04,220 --> 00:12:07,920 The object looked featureless, and that's 217 00:12:08,020 --> 00:12:10,460 why I called it the Tic Tac. 218 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:11,720 It looked like a Tic Tac. 219 00:12:11,820 --> 00:12:14,900 It had no wings, no method of propulsion, 220 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,360 and on your forward-looking infrared pod, 221 00:12:17,460 --> 00:12:19,060 all it is is tracking heat. 222 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:23,460 So you would typically see engine exhaust coming out 223 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:26,960 of one of the ends of the aircraft, not seeing any of it. 224 00:12:27,060 --> 00:12:30,860 The object was changing altitude, air speed, things 225 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,240 that my FLIR and my radar were having difficulty tracking. 226 00:12:35,340 --> 00:12:37,000 And then at the end of the encounter 227 00:12:37,100 --> 00:12:42,140 is when you see a dart off to my left on the FLIR pod. 228 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:46,920 And that's when I was like, whoa, what just happened? 229 00:12:46,980 --> 00:12:50,020 The other two videos Elizondo brought to his colleagues 230 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,780 at To The Stars Academy were equally groundbreaking, 231 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,120 known as Gimbal, and Go Fast. 232 00:12:56,220 --> 00:12:59,600 Both videos were taken by Navy jets from the USS Theater 233 00:12:59,700 --> 00:13:04,760 Roosevelt near the Florida coast in 2015. 234 00:13:04,860 --> 00:13:08,700 All three videos show objects moving in ways that defy 235 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,140 the known laws of physics. 236 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,240 These objects can zig-zag effortlessly 237 00:13:16,300 --> 00:13:19,860 defying the known laws of aerodynamics. 238 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,940 These objects can effortlessly accelerate up 239 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,200 to 20 times the speed of sound. 240 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:28,340 They have no visible means of propulsion. 241 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,640 So what could it be? 242 00:13:30,740 --> 00:13:33,940 Well, the short answer is we don't know. 243 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:37,820 The phenomena had unusual flight characteristics, 244 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:42,920 unusual vectors, speed, being able to hover and move. 245 00:13:43,180 --> 00:13:46,380 Oh, I think, dude, it's roasted. 246 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:51,020 The fact that the Chinese or the Russians or anyone else 247 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:52,720 would have that kind of capability, 248 00:13:52,820 --> 00:13:57,060 and we wouldn't know about it, is pretty slim. 249 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:01,000 As head of ATIP, Elizondo was able to have the videos 250 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:04,400 declassified, but they had never been made public. 251 00:14:04,500 --> 00:14:06,840 His involvement in To The Stars Academy 252 00:14:06,940 --> 00:14:08,900 offered a new opportunity to share 253 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,140 the remarkable information collected at the Pentagon. 254 00:14:13,140 --> 00:14:16,400 To The Stars, their goal was that they 255 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:18,500 were going to crack it all open, and they 256 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,640 were going to open up the truth that the government knows 257 00:14:22,740 --> 00:14:25,640 about these unidentified aerial phenomena that 258 00:14:25,740 --> 00:14:29,980 have the technology that does not exist in terms 259 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,420 of human production. 260 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,920 To The Stars Academy, to their credit, 261 00:14:35,020 --> 00:14:38,620 brought Lou Elizondo together with Chris Mellon, Department 262 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,120 of Defense official, Senate Intelligence, 263 00:14:41,180 --> 00:14:44,440 Insider, and then they go to the New York Times 264 00:14:44,540 --> 00:14:48,180 with this blockbuster story about US government's interest 265 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,320 in investigating UFOs. 266 00:14:50,420 --> 00:14:53,420 Chris Mellon arranged a meeting with Leslie Cain, 267 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,120 a best-selling author who had spent years trying 268 00:14:56,220 --> 00:15:00,200 to draw mainstream media attention to UFOs. 269 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:03,460 Mellon and Elizondo revealed to Cain the existence 270 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:06,840 of the secret ATIP program and promised her access 271 00:15:06,940 --> 00:15:10,000 to the videos if she could place the story with the New 272 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,620 York Times. 273 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,220 Leslie Cain is very well connected politically. 274 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:19,760 Her uncle, Thomas Cain, was the former governor of New Jersey 275 00:15:19,860 --> 00:15:22,160 and headed up the 9-11 Commission. 276 00:15:22,260 --> 00:15:25,900 This gives you an idea of just how plugged in 277 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,900 to the political network Leslie is. 278 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,740 So when Leslie was contacted by Lou Elizondo and Chris Mellon, 279 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,940 she then teamed up with Ralph Blumenthal, veteran New York 280 00:15:38,980 --> 00:15:43,820 Times reporter, and Helene Cooper, again from the Times. 281 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,520 Ralph Blumenthal came to know Leslie Cain 282 00:15:46,620 --> 00:15:49,760 while working on his book, The Believer, a biography 283 00:15:49,860 --> 00:15:53,620 about alien abductions researcher Dr. John Mack. 284 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,800 When Blumenthal heard about the government's ATIP program, 285 00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:59,740 he was eager to help break the story. 286 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,940 Well, it was clearly a great story for the New York Times, 287 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,580 a secret Pentagon unit investigating UFOs 288 00:16:06,620 --> 00:16:09,960 after the government was supposed to be out of the UFO 289 00:16:10,060 --> 00:16:12,760 business, but of course, never really was. 290 00:16:12,860 --> 00:16:16,220 Blumenthal pitched the story directly to the New York Times 291 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,800 managing editor, Dean Bouquet. 292 00:16:19,900 --> 00:16:26,800 And on December 16, 2017, Leslie Cain, Ralph Blumenthal, 293 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:29,040 and Helene Cooper's groundbreaking report 294 00:16:29,140 --> 00:16:32,180 about the Pentagon's mysterious UFO program, 295 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:35,880 made the front page of the New York Times online edition. 296 00:16:36,380 --> 00:16:38,280 We had a nail down chapter and verse. 297 00:16:38,380 --> 00:16:40,620 The people involved in it, everything on the record, 298 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,220 the documents. 299 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,160 So this hit all the benchmarks. 300 00:16:45,260 --> 00:16:49,760 We had the Navy videos, which we were able to put on the Times 301 00:16:49,860 --> 00:16:52,860 website, and they garnered more views than almost anything 302 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:54,400 in Times history. 303 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:58,000 This was a real turning point in the United States, 304 00:16:58,100 --> 00:17:01,100 because the New York Times has always said 305 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:04,240 that they are the guardians of the truth. 306 00:17:04,700 --> 00:17:08,840 Suddenly, New York Times is actually reporting on UFOs. 307 00:17:08,940 --> 00:17:13,480 This really shows that UFOs and the study of UFOs 308 00:17:13,580 --> 00:17:17,740 and the investigation has entered the mainstream. 309 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:21,720 All of a sudden, since 2017, these stories 310 00:17:21,820 --> 00:17:28,260 have become front page news on worldwide newspapers. 311 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:33,100 And it clearly shows that there was a type of a paradigm shift 312 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:36,400 that's happened over the past 25 years. 313 00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:40,700 And for someone like me, it's incredible. 314 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,440 Astonished by the atyp revelations and leaked videos, 315 00:17:44,540 --> 00:17:47,780 Congress demanded briefings, forcing the intelligence 316 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:51,240 communities to respond. 317 00:17:51,340 --> 00:17:54,380 Suddenly, UFO briefings become the hottest ticket 318 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,320 on Capitol Hill. 319 00:17:56,420 --> 00:17:58,620 Briefings for the Armed Services Committee, 320 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:00,760 the Intelligence Committee, everybody wants in. 321 00:18:00,820 --> 00:18:03,160 Congress takes it serious. 322 00:18:03,260 --> 00:18:05,860 The media give them political coverage 323 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:07,620 by saying this is a legitimate story. 324 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,360 So you have people like Marco Rubio and Senator Warner, 325 00:18:10,460 --> 00:18:14,160 who can tell reporters, yeah, we're looking into this. 326 00:18:14,260 --> 00:18:15,900 This is a legitimate mystery. 327 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,700 We have things flying over military installations, 328 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,100 over military exercises, and other places. 329 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:22,680 And we don't know what it is. 330 00:18:22,780 --> 00:18:26,480 If there are objects flying over military installations, 331 00:18:26,580 --> 00:18:28,120 that could pose a security threat. 332 00:18:28,180 --> 00:18:30,780 I think we're going to have more hearings. 333 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:35,020 And I think that we're seeing we can have these conversations 334 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:39,220 publicly in a way that doesn't warrant mockery or scorn 335 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:40,220 or ridicule. 336 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,360 I think it's critically important. 337 00:18:43,460 --> 00:18:48,060 After 70 years of taboo, going back to the 1947 incident 338 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,240 at Roswell, New Mexico, the study of UFOs 339 00:18:52,340 --> 00:18:55,340 had finally gained mainstream acceptance. 340 00:18:56,340 --> 00:19:01,700 But is the US military ready to share all it knows? 341 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,640 Or are there still forces within the Pentagon 342 00:19:04,740 --> 00:19:07,880 that will go to any length to protect its secrets? 343 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:14,680 Washington, DC, June 2019. 344 00:19:14,780 --> 00:19:16,960 In the wake of the New York Times revelations 345 00:19:17,060 --> 00:19:20,420 about ATIP and the explosive Navy videos, 346 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,900 Washington's defense has been able to take over 347 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,200 the entire Navy's explosive Navy videos. 348 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:29,960 The House and Senate Armed Services committees 349 00:19:30,060 --> 00:19:33,160 begin interviewing Navy pilots who claim to have witnessed 350 00:19:33,260 --> 00:19:37,000 UAPs while on training missions. 351 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:38,740 It started with closed door briefings 352 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,140 of senior staff members. 353 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,980 These pilots, David Fraver and Alex Dietrich, 354 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,320 and people like that, Chad Underwood, Ryan Graves, 355 00:19:46,420 --> 00:19:48,180 start being led up to Capitol Hill. 356 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:49,580 They tell their stories. 357 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,520 This thing would go instantaneous from one way 358 00:19:51,580 --> 00:19:52,520 to another. 359 00:19:52,620 --> 00:19:54,180 It just rapidly accelerates beyond anything 360 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,020 that I've ever seen. 361 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:58,220 They are incredibly believable. 362 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,020 They have gravitas. 363 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:01,620 They're not UFO nuts. 364 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,620 We were able to then visually pick up 365 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,220 what we described as a tic-tac. 366 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:08,500 It was moving very fast. 367 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,100 They're telling stories of encounters 368 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,640 with strange craft that are way beyond any technology we have. 369 00:20:13,740 --> 00:20:16,600 We do work-ups along the Eastern seaboard, 370 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:18,580 and these objects kind of came with us. 371 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,140 The fact that he would just get himself 372 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,060 with no turn isn't how aircraft work. 373 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:24,900 The senior staff members are impressed. 374 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,940 They tell the elected members of Congress, 375 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:28,200 it changed everything. 376 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:29,980 I never thought I would see it in my lifetime, 377 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,280 and here it is unfolding right before our eyes, 378 00:20:32,380 --> 00:20:34,240 still unfolding. 379 00:20:34,340 --> 00:20:36,140 The Pentagon has had to respond. 380 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,180 It might just be difficult for the Pentagon 381 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:43,420 to completely do a blanket denial the way they used to. 382 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:48,600 In August 2020, in a rare instance of transparency, 383 00:20:48,660 --> 00:20:51,160 the US Department of Defense announces 384 00:20:51,260 --> 00:20:54,700 that the work Luis Elizondo oversaw with ATIP, 385 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,340 analyzing and cataloging UAPs, is still 386 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,340 being carried on under a new program called 387 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,440 the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. 388 00:21:06,540 --> 00:21:10,540 That same summer, Senator Marco Rubio's Intelligence Committee 389 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,980 drafts legislation giving the Pentagon 180 days 390 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,020 to publicly report what government agencies know 391 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,940 about UAPs. 392 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:21,840 The Senate Intelligence Committee 393 00:21:21,940 --> 00:21:24,740 puts in a bill for 2021. 394 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,120 We want to report on UAP. 395 00:21:27,220 --> 00:21:31,920 And so the whole momentum of this is this theme of, 396 00:21:32,020 --> 00:21:33,220 we need to do something. 397 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,420 We need to get serious about it. 398 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:39,260 The legislation is passed and signed by the president, 399 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:42,900 and the 180 day countdown begins. 400 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,300 But curiously, even as this was happening, 401 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:49,560 top Pentagon officials were attacking Luis Elizondo's 402 00:21:49,660 --> 00:21:55,100 credibility and claiming that he had nothing to do with ATIP. 403 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,800 The Pentagon had launched a smear campaign against Elizondo, 404 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:01,000 calling him crazy. 405 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:06,040 On May 3, 2021, Lou Elizondo filed a 64 page complaint 406 00:22:06,140 --> 00:22:07,680 with the inspector general. 407 00:22:07,780 --> 00:22:11,520 These are like the top cops in the Department of Justice. 408 00:22:11,620 --> 00:22:13,980 There is still pockets of resistance to the Pentagon 409 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,480 that is trying to muzzle or if you will stifle this conversation. 410 00:22:18,580 --> 00:22:20,240 That must be corrected. 411 00:22:20,340 --> 00:22:23,440 And yes, I'd love it if they also corrected the record about me. 412 00:22:23,540 --> 00:22:26,780 But that's less important than not fixing the record 413 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,680 about this overall conversation. 414 00:22:29,780 --> 00:22:32,220 So now you have a movement after all these years 415 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,060 to begin to crack that secrecy even by a little bit. 416 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,800 You're clearly going to have a very powerful faction 417 00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:42,860 of individuals who are going to do everything possible 418 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:44,660 to thwart that effort. 419 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:48,660 And if that means smearing good people with good reputations, 420 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:49,560 well, so be it. 421 00:22:49,660 --> 00:22:51,360 This is war. 422 00:22:51,460 --> 00:22:55,560 Researchers suggest efforts to deny whistleblower testimony 423 00:22:55,660 --> 00:22:59,860 about the existence of UFOs have persisted since World War 424 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:03,860 II, citing government reactions to numerous bombshell 425 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,100 revelations. 426 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:10,200 Whistleblowers, in many ways, are the most courageous heroes 427 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:15,200 of the 20th to the 21st century because they were decent human 428 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:20,100 beings who get hired to do science. 429 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:24,680 And then what they find themselves in are straight jackets, 430 00:23:24,780 --> 00:23:27,980 straight jackets of political policies, 431 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,320 of Defense Department policies. 432 00:23:30,420 --> 00:23:35,020 Each of the different intel agencies and military groups, 433 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:39,220 they want to control whatever is being let out. 434 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:44,120 It's been going on since World War II to today. 435 00:23:44,220 --> 00:23:48,320 In 1958, after conducting research on UFOs 436 00:23:48,420 --> 00:23:51,260 with the help of his contacts at the Pentagon, 437 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:54,960 retired Marine Corps pilot Major Donald Keeho 438 00:23:55,060 --> 00:23:58,600 went on a live television program called the Armstrong Circle 439 00:23:58,700 --> 00:24:02,700 Theater to report his conclusion that extraterrestrials were, 440 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,340 in fact, visiting Earth. 441 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,980 But mysteriously, just as he was about to make this point, 442 00:24:09,980 --> 00:24:11,640 the sound cut out. 443 00:24:11,740 --> 00:24:13,740 If the hearings are held, open hearings, 444 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,780 I feel it will prove beyond doubt that the blanks are 445 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:17,740 being done. 446 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:28,560 In 1989, when physicist Bob Lazar claimed 447 00:24:28,660 --> 00:24:32,120 that he was hired to reverse engineer an alien spacecraft 448 00:24:32,220 --> 00:24:36,600 at a top secret military base called Area 51, 449 00:24:36,660 --> 00:24:41,060 government officials denied that the base even existed at all, 450 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:46,160 a falsehood that would be exposed 14 years later. 451 00:24:46,260 --> 00:24:51,000 You can hear Bob Lazar's story, and it sounds so outlandish. 452 00:24:51,100 --> 00:24:53,300 Until you have people within the Pentagon saying, 453 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,840 we do have recovered materials and craft, 454 00:24:55,940 --> 00:24:58,640 and then you have to look back at Bob Lazar's story, 455 00:24:58,740 --> 00:25:01,840 and you see his telling you the truth. 456 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:06,980 In 1997, retired US Army Colonel Philip J. Corso 457 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:11,180 published The Day After Roswell, in which he confirms 458 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,720 that an extraterrestrial craft did indeed crash 459 00:25:14,820 --> 00:25:17,020 in the New Mexico desert. 460 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:20,620 It was met with similar denials from the Pentagon. 461 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,820 Colonel Corso's entire book is about the physical evidence 462 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:31,360 where it went, the fact that there were policies of denials 463 00:25:31,420 --> 00:25:34,660 all of it was off limits. 464 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:39,460 When the Pentagon tries to discredit Elizondo in 2020, 465 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,860 many fear it indicates business as usual, 466 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,300 and that the government UAP report will once again prove 467 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,600 to be an effort to debunk rather than disclose. 468 00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:54,480 But to the surprise of many, the Inspector General immediately 469 00:25:54,580 --> 00:25:57,940 agrees to investigate Elizondo's complaint. 470 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,040 Ancient astronaut theorists are hopeful this could lead 471 00:26:01,140 --> 00:26:04,600 to an official re-examination of the high-profile UFO 472 00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:08,440 incidents that have been dismissed before. 473 00:26:08,540 --> 00:26:11,780 It's possible the Inspector General could get in and find 474 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,040 evidence about what happened with Roswell, what happened 475 00:26:15,140 --> 00:26:18,420 with Major Kehoe, what happened with Bob Lazar. 476 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,080 All of these questions under oath 477 00:26:20,180 --> 00:26:21,920 would be asked to Pentagon officials, 478 00:26:22,020 --> 00:26:25,160 and the public would get to know about it as well. 479 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,660 While the Inspector General's investigation was just 480 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,600 getting started, the release of the government's UAP report 481 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:37,400 was only a month away. 482 00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:40,180 And as the anticipation was growing, 483 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,680 more explosive new evidence came to light. 484 00:26:43,780 --> 00:26:44,680 Book is flat. 485 00:26:44,780 --> 00:26:45,680 It's flat. 486 00:26:50,780 --> 00:26:56,460 May 2021, with the government's much-anticipated report 487 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:01,820 on UFOs only weeks away, veteran journalist George Knapp 488 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,560 and documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell 489 00:27:04,660 --> 00:27:07,460 dropped yet another bombshell. 490 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:12,100 New footage of US encounters with UAPs from Navy combat ships. 491 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,640 These were leaked videos and photos 492 00:27:18,740 --> 00:27:22,620 from the actual Pentagon UFO task force, one of which 493 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:27,620 showed a pyramid-shaped object floating above the USS 494 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,120 Russell off the West Coast. 495 00:27:30,220 --> 00:27:31,480 And it wasn't just one pyramid. 496 00:27:31,580 --> 00:27:35,420 There were apparently swarms of these things. 497 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:40,020 They were triangular by angle of observation, 498 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:42,900 but they were pyramid-in-shape in reality. 499 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,400 Other leaked videos were recorded aboard the USS Omaha, 500 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:53,600 part of the same strike group as the USS Russell. 501 00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:56,640 These included not only a smartphone recording, 502 00:27:56,740 --> 00:28:00,980 but also thermal imaging footage and video of the objects 503 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:01,980 caught on radar. 504 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,280 138 knots. 505 00:28:03,380 --> 00:28:05,320 What the f*** was that? 506 00:28:05,420 --> 00:28:08,240 You've got what's known as FLIR that is forward-looking 507 00:28:08,340 --> 00:28:11,160 infrared or thermal signatures. 508 00:28:11,260 --> 00:28:13,180 You have radar data as well. 509 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:17,020 And there was actually video that was shot by Navy personnel 510 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,040 on the deck looking up at these objects. 511 00:28:19,140 --> 00:28:21,820 You have three different types of things. 512 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,480 One video appeared to show a single round object flying 513 00:28:25,580 --> 00:28:29,160 above the water, then hovering before making a controlled 514 00:28:29,260 --> 00:28:31,900 descent into the ocean. 515 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,060 You can actually hear in the CIC, which is the Combat 516 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,160 Information Center, the shock and the awe. 517 00:28:38,260 --> 00:28:40,040 Whoa, it's getting close. 518 00:28:40,140 --> 00:28:43,500 As people saw this vehicle going into the water. 519 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:44,500 Whoa, it's flat. 520 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:45,500 It's flat. 521 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:49,460 These objects can apparently fly through the atmosphere 522 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,600 at velocities that exceed the known velocities of our 523 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:54,700 projectiles. 524 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,240 And they can go underwater, exceeding the pressure that 525 00:28:59,340 --> 00:29:02,840 would normally rupture the hull of a projectile. 526 00:29:02,940 --> 00:29:05,080 In other words, these objects have a capability 527 00:29:05,180 --> 00:29:09,420 exceeding that of ours because they can go to outer space, 528 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,960 through the atmosphere, and even the oceans. 529 00:29:12,020 --> 00:29:16,460 Skeptics rushed to claim the videos were refracted light 530 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:21,760 or errant weather balloons or perhaps even fakes. 531 00:29:21,860 --> 00:29:25,260 But the debunkers were dealt a blow when the Pentagon quickly 532 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,660 confirmed that the videos were authentic. 533 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,540 In UFO world, everything's a conspiracy. 534 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,540 So when we release these images, we're 535 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,540 being fed disinformation by the government. 536 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:37,840 That's the assumption. 537 00:29:37,940 --> 00:29:38,880 These are phonies. 538 00:29:38,980 --> 00:29:39,880 These are phonies. 539 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:43,500 The same kind of accusations that were leveled at the images 540 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,580 released by Louis Elizondo, New York Times, back in 2017. 541 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,480 Same kind of attacks from people who just 542 00:29:50,580 --> 00:29:51,780 don't want it to be true. 543 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,520 They don't want there to be genuine unknowns. 544 00:29:54,620 --> 00:29:57,420 So we released them, got them verified, 545 00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,820 and damned if the Pentagon didn't come out and say, 546 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:01,460 yep, they're real. 547 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,800 They're legit. 548 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:06,800 One of the most fascinating aspects of all this 549 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,700 was how quick the Department of Defense 550 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,460 was to confirm the authenticity of this material. 551 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,800 In the normal course of business, 552 00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:21,440 the policy is to either debunk or refuse to comment at all. 553 00:30:21,540 --> 00:30:24,580 Makes one wonder, is this material coming out 554 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,380 with the tacit approval of someone in government, 555 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,180 or at least a faction within government, the military, 556 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,720 the intelligence community? 557 00:30:33,820 --> 00:30:36,720 The reaction was huge when it came to the fact 558 00:30:36,820 --> 00:30:40,100 that it came to these mainstream media picked up on it 559 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:41,600 almost immediately. 560 00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:45,160 And it became a sensation, all leading up 561 00:30:45,260 --> 00:30:47,900 to the countdown to this report. 562 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,300 My personal intent was to stoke the fire, 563 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,740 was to provide new data and evidence, 564 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:58,280 corroborative data and evidence that shows 565 00:30:58,380 --> 00:31:03,820 that we are being engaged by a technology of unknown origin. 566 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,720 And behind that technology is an intelligence. 567 00:31:07,820 --> 00:31:10,120 Look, a little bit of pressure is not the worst thing. 568 00:31:10,220 --> 00:31:13,520 If you want the US government to come clean on a subject 569 00:31:13,620 --> 00:31:18,600 that it has lied about for more than 70, almost 80 years. 570 00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:21,760 With a deadline now weeks away, the speculation 571 00:31:21,860 --> 00:31:24,040 reached a fever pitch. 572 00:31:24,140 --> 00:31:27,040 Would the final report be yet another cover-up, 573 00:31:27,140 --> 00:31:30,340 as many in the UFO community predicted? 574 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,640 Or might it contain shocking revelations 575 00:31:33,660 --> 00:31:34,440 in the future? 576 00:31:40,540 --> 00:31:47,440 Washington, DC, June 25, 2021. 577 00:31:47,540 --> 00:31:51,040 The Pentagon's UAP task force, along with the Office 578 00:31:51,140 --> 00:31:53,620 of the Director of National Intelligence, 579 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,480 submits to Congress its long-awaited report 580 00:31:57,580 --> 00:32:02,660 entitled Preliminary Assessment on Identified Aerial Phenomena, 581 00:32:02,780 --> 00:32:06,220 the simple nine-page report represents the most direct 582 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,060 and substantive US government account of UAPs ever made 583 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,160 public. 584 00:32:12,260 --> 00:32:16,860 The headline is that out of 144 reported encounters, 585 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:21,460 only one UAP was identified as a large deflating balloon. 586 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,380 The other reported UAPs remain unexplained. 587 00:32:27,380 --> 00:32:29,080 I thought that report was tremendous, 588 00:32:29,180 --> 00:32:31,520 a tremendously important step forward. 589 00:32:31,580 --> 00:32:32,840 To me, it says two things. 590 00:32:32,940 --> 00:32:35,880 UFOs are real, and two, they're not ours. 591 00:32:35,980 --> 00:32:37,680 I thought it was an astonishing report. 592 00:32:37,780 --> 00:32:38,920 And it spoke volumes. 593 00:32:39,020 --> 00:32:40,920 We got 144 cases. 594 00:32:41,020 --> 00:32:43,320 We can't figure out 143 of them. 595 00:32:43,420 --> 00:32:44,520 It's monumental. 596 00:32:44,620 --> 00:32:46,320 I mean, it is a watershed moment. 597 00:32:46,420 --> 00:32:48,260 We're giving cover and relief for folks 598 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,000 who are in the intelligence community now 599 00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:53,140 and work for our government and folks who have served, 600 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,240 and pilots who can now talk about this thing. 601 00:32:56,340 --> 00:32:59,080 It's only a preliminary assessment. 602 00:32:59,140 --> 00:33:01,780 Some people in the UFO community were a bit disappointed 603 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,140 because it wasn't disclosure. 604 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,380 But what it did say was, I think, very encouraging and important. 605 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:13,320 It essentially said that whatever UFOs are, 606 00:33:13,420 --> 00:33:19,000 some of these sightings demonstrate advanced technology. 607 00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:22,960 And this, in one sense, is a form of disclosure. 608 00:33:23,060 --> 00:33:26,940 It's certainly taking this further than it's ever 609 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,860 been taken before within government. 610 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,900 It's quite an admission. 611 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,800 Of the 144 reports that the UAP task force reviewed, 612 00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:43,040 the bulk of the sightings had occurred between 2019 and 2021 613 00:33:43,140 --> 00:33:46,740 after the Navy reporting protocol was put into effect. 614 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,980 But perhaps what is most compelling 615 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:53,920 is the revelation that out of the 144 reported UAP sightings, 616 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,000 only one sighting has been explained. 617 00:33:57,100 --> 00:34:00,460 Only one out of them has been shown to be spurious. 618 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:05,200 That indicates to me that we're sitting on a gold mine, 619 00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:08,880 a gold mine of incidences that cannot be explained 620 00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:10,440 using the normal metrics. 621 00:34:10,540 --> 00:34:12,940 Oh, god. 622 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,040 We're talking about incidences that 623 00:34:15,140 --> 00:34:18,880 are beyond the stretch of our imagination that indicate 624 00:34:18,980 --> 00:34:21,320 new laws of physics opening up. 625 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,660 And we physicists are just dying to get access to it. 626 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,860 The report established five potential explanatory 627 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:33,200 categories, airborne clutter, natural atmospheric 628 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:36,840 phenomena, US government or American industry 629 00:34:36,940 --> 00:34:41,240 developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, 630 00:34:41,340 --> 00:34:43,940 and a category for UAP reports that 631 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:50,120 require additional analysis, simply called other. 632 00:34:50,140 --> 00:34:54,220 Other simply means beyond the known technologies of today, 633 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,880 which could be extraterrestrial or who knows. 634 00:34:57,980 --> 00:35:00,860 But I think the military is now admitting other 635 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,100 could mean extraterrestrial. 636 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,160 Although the word extraterrestrial 637 00:35:06,260 --> 00:35:09,800 never appears in the report, many observers believe 638 00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:13,040 it contains one very profound statement. 639 00:35:13,140 --> 00:35:15,300 There's a bombshell quote in the report 640 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:16,800 that a lot of people have missed. 641 00:35:16,860 --> 00:35:21,660 And it says, essentially, that we may have to fundamentally 642 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,100 change our understanding the laws of physics 643 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,900 to figure out what's going on here. 644 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,440 We may require additional scientific knowledge 645 00:35:30,540 --> 00:35:32,980 to successfully collect on analyzing, 646 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,980 characterize some of them, pending scientific advances 647 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,880 that allowed us to better understand them. 648 00:35:39,980 --> 00:35:41,280 This is not a sci-fi novel. 649 00:35:41,380 --> 00:35:43,180 This is a government report. 650 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,160 That was the thing that most stuck out to me. 651 00:35:46,180 --> 00:35:49,260 As jaw dropping, our current science, our current tech, 652 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:50,980 can understand some of these. 653 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:52,220 The government said that. 654 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:53,520 Wow. 655 00:35:53,620 --> 00:35:56,920 Additional scientific knowledge could mean knowledge 656 00:35:57,020 --> 00:36:00,060 beyond the known laws of physics. 657 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,800 In other words, the technology thousands of years more 658 00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:06,500 advanced than ours. 659 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:10,800 The UAP report received mixed reactions from the public. 660 00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:13,340 Some were stunned by the government's admission 661 00:36:13,420 --> 00:36:16,980 that it couldn't explain so many of the unidentified objects 662 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:18,880 seen in the sky. 663 00:36:18,980 --> 00:36:22,760 While others felt it contained nothing of substance. 664 00:36:22,860 --> 00:36:25,760 But for UFO investigators, the report 665 00:36:25,860 --> 00:36:29,660 represented validation that was long overdue. 666 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:34,260 The UAP report that came out in June, 2021, 667 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:38,500 was revolutionary for the world of UFOs. 668 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,300 Because for the first time in the history of the United 669 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,860 States, the government of the United States 670 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:51,900 has released a statement in which the whole UFO question 671 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,500 is addressed. 672 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,240 And the bottom line is that the US government 673 00:36:57,340 --> 00:37:01,880 knows what our adversaries are capable of. 674 00:37:01,980 --> 00:37:06,580 And in this report, it says it's not them. 675 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,620 I have more hope. 676 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:13,120 It doesn't change the dangerous relationship 677 00:37:13,220 --> 00:37:16,320 that I have with several whistleblowers who have, 678 00:37:16,420 --> 00:37:20,920 I am telling you, substantial information. 679 00:37:21,020 --> 00:37:24,500 Not about just one type of non-human. 680 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,560 There are a lot. 681 00:37:26,660 --> 00:37:30,160 That's the part that keeps astonishing me. 682 00:37:30,260 --> 00:37:33,000 Now that the United States government has confirmed 683 00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:36,280 that there are, in fact, unidentified flying objects 684 00:37:36,340 --> 00:37:39,940 in our skies, that top scientists and military personnel 685 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:44,440 cannot explain, many are hopeful that these objects will soon 686 00:37:44,540 --> 00:37:48,620 be revealed to be of extraterrestrial origin. 687 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:50,920 But if that happens, what comes next? 688 00:37:57,620 --> 00:38:01,560 Washington, DC, 2021. 689 00:38:01,660 --> 00:38:04,460 The publication of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenal 690 00:38:04,740 --> 00:38:08,580 report, along with the declassified Navy videos, 691 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,520 marks the largest public disclosure 692 00:38:10,620 --> 00:38:13,560 of the possible existence of extraterrestrials 693 00:38:13,660 --> 00:38:15,520 in US history. 694 00:38:15,620 --> 00:38:18,060 In the wake of the report, politicians 695 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:23,360 like Marco Rubio, Mark Warner, Adam Schiff, and Andre Carson 696 00:38:23,460 --> 00:38:27,300 have called for further funding and study. 697 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,500 There's voluminous data available, 698 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,040 but the report really just skimmed the surface. 699 00:38:32,140 --> 00:38:33,540 It just said we're going to need more time 700 00:38:33,620 --> 00:38:35,420 to look into this. 701 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,420 There's a history of this going back 702 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:41,320 to the early years of the 20th century, at least. 703 00:38:41,420 --> 00:38:45,820 Not even talking about the sightings going back to the Bible 704 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,000 and literature of other cultures going back thousands 705 00:38:49,100 --> 00:38:53,100 of years talking about unexplained things in the sky. 706 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,640 But just in our era, there have been many documented 707 00:38:56,740 --> 00:38:59,000 accounts which they chose not to deal with. 708 00:38:59,100 --> 00:39:02,400 So they just took a very narrow slice of this. 709 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,100 We don't want to trivialize this matter. 710 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,440 We want to make sure we remove the stigma 711 00:39:06,540 --> 00:39:09,340 while engaging with some of our civilian organizations who 712 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,680 are seeing these things and working with the government 713 00:39:12,780 --> 00:39:16,220 and ensuring that if it is otherworldly, 714 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:20,020 we will have internal controls in place to protect us 715 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:23,560 and to engage in the event that that happens in a healthy 716 00:39:23,660 --> 00:39:25,500 and safe way. 717 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,960 The majority of unidentified aerial phenomenon data 718 00:39:29,060 --> 00:39:30,540 came from the US Navy. 719 00:39:32,460 --> 00:39:36,040 But efforts are underway to standardize incident reporting 720 00:39:36,140 --> 00:39:39,740 across all government services and agencies. 721 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:44,040 The UAP task force plans to expand to include the Air Force 722 00:39:44,140 --> 00:39:47,580 and the FAA, and use artificial intelligence 723 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,480 to analyze new data. 724 00:39:50,580 --> 00:39:52,120 We're talking about a standardization 725 00:39:52,220 --> 00:39:56,020 by which pilots are now going to be opening up floodgates. 726 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,500 Floodgates of these sightings are now 727 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:02,600 going to be analyzed by physicists and by scientists. 728 00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:05,500 And I think that is a sea change in the way 729 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,400 we deal with these things. 730 00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:10,640 Let's have a real congressional hearing. 731 00:40:10,740 --> 00:40:14,240 Let's hear from real physicists and real scientists. 732 00:40:14,340 --> 00:40:16,640 That's my personal dream. 733 00:40:16,740 --> 00:40:20,820 And I would like to be there in the congressional hearing 734 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,720 standing by with my evidentiary material 735 00:40:23,820 --> 00:40:27,120 as an investigative reporter to contribute and hoping 736 00:40:27,180 --> 00:40:29,220 that there would be so many others, 737 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,880 and that we would finally, finally, in a government 738 00:40:32,980 --> 00:40:37,460 of, by, and for the people, just finally have everybody 739 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,120 tell the truth. 740 00:40:40,220 --> 00:40:43,200 What's really fascinating is that in the 1960s, 741 00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:47,240 Eric Fundaniken proposed in Chariots of the Gods 742 00:40:47,340 --> 00:40:52,040 that aliens would show up when Earth civilization would 743 00:40:52,140 --> 00:40:55,940 reach a certain level of technology. 744 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,260 And with everything that's going on right now, 745 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:05,440 this may be the time when we will make contact. 746 00:41:05,540 --> 00:41:07,640 Some thousands of years ago, extraterrestrials 747 00:41:07,740 --> 00:41:11,380 promised to return in a faraway future. 748 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:15,720 And we have good reasons to believe that now they are back. 749 00:41:15,820 --> 00:41:19,860 More and more of these proven UFO cases 750 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:24,360 appeared to the public before it was never shown to the public. 751 00:41:24,420 --> 00:41:26,280 We know we are not alone. 752 00:41:26,380 --> 00:41:27,980 We are on the observation. 753 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,320 And it must be extraterrestrials because they 754 00:41:30,420 --> 00:41:33,060 show a technology which we do not have. 755 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,460 Could the recent attention and reporting 756 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,760 on unidentified flying objects signal 757 00:41:38,860 --> 00:41:43,140 that we are rapidly approaching a far more profound disclosure? 758 00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:46,100 Will we soon discover, once and for all, 759 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:47,880 that we are not alone? 760 00:41:47,980 --> 00:41:49,340 Well, it's getting close. 761 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,840 And that we have never been alone? 762 00:41:51,940 --> 00:41:52,740 What was flashed? 763 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:53,840 It was flashed. 764 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,400 Perhaps the next disclosure will not 765 00:41:56,500 --> 00:42:01,240 be orchestrated by any government or military official, 766 00:42:01,340 --> 00:42:05,180 but by other worldly visitors themselves.