1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 It is the world's most elite team of UFO hunters. 2 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:09,940 It's this huge network of investigators 3 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:12,480 who are not just interested in UFOs, 4 00:00:12,580 --> 00:00:14,680 but want to do something about it. 5 00:00:14,780 --> 00:00:18,220 For five decades, the mutual UFO network 6 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,780 has gathered detailed evidence of unexplained aerial 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:27,100 phenomena, strange encounters, and alleged alien abductions. 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,200 Out of all the cases that you've looked at, 9 00:00:29,260 --> 00:00:30,700 have you seen anything like this? 10 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,100 Not like this, and I've done over 1,000. 11 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:34,000 OK. 12 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:35,640 Oh, my god. 13 00:00:35,740 --> 00:00:39,100 And now they're collaborating with the United States 14 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,240 government. 15 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:42,880 Mufon has been very well received in Congress. 16 00:00:42,980 --> 00:00:46,380 Whether they believe it's a UAP from another world 17 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:48,720 or from one of our adversaries, they 18 00:00:48,820 --> 00:00:50,720 want to know what's happening. 19 00:00:50,820 --> 00:00:54,160 Could Mufon have, within its vast files, 20 00:00:54,260 --> 00:00:57,560 definitive proof of alien visitation? 21 00:00:57,620 --> 00:01:01,460 Here we have an outfit that has decades worth of investigation, 22 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,520 and some of their cases are, in my opinion, 23 00:01:04,620 --> 00:01:05,960 extraterrestrial encounters. 24 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:13,900 There is a doorway in the universe. 25 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,080 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 26 00:01:18,180 --> 00:01:20,880 It demands we question everything 27 00:01:20,980 --> 00:01:23,320 we have ever been taught. 28 00:01:23,420 --> 00:01:26,780 The evidence is all around us. 29 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:30,680 The future is right before our eyes. 30 00:01:30,780 --> 00:01:33,480 We are not alone. 31 00:01:33,580 --> 00:01:35,980 We have never been alone. 32 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,300 Denver, Colorado. 33 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:51,400 July 7, 2022. 34 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:54,000 Thousands descend on the mile high city 35 00:01:54,020 --> 00:01:58,500 to attend the 53rd International Symposium on UFOs. 36 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,500 We had a similar case out of South Carolina last year. 37 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,800 At this annual conference, researchers from around the 38 00:02:05,900 --> 00:02:09,640 world gathered a share and examined the latest developments 39 00:02:09,740 --> 00:02:11,700 in the study of UFOs. 40 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,920 One resident claimed to have compiled a list of 110 persons 41 00:02:16,020 --> 00:02:18,680 who had witnessed flying objects out of the small town 42 00:02:18,780 --> 00:02:20,320 of only 2,000. 43 00:02:20,420 --> 00:02:22,820 And it is hosted by an organization 44 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:27,880 with the most highly trained UFO investigators in the world, 45 00:02:27,980 --> 00:02:29,580 MUFON. 46 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:34,220 MUFON is the acronym for the Mutual UFO Network. 47 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,920 It's the largest UFO investigation organization 48 00:02:38,020 --> 00:02:39,260 in the world. 49 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,560 And its mission statement is the scientific study of UFOs 50 00:02:43,660 --> 00:02:46,800 for the benefit of mankind. 51 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:49,600 MUFON is a all-volunteer organization 52 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:52,100 that's grown to well over 4,000 members 53 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,560 worldwide of field investigators and people 54 00:02:55,660 --> 00:02:59,160 that want to participate in the quest for the truth. 55 00:02:59,260 --> 00:03:02,400 At the core of MUFON is an investigative body 56 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:05,400 that exists to go out and investigate sightings that 57 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:09,600 are worthy of investigation and compile our database. 58 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:12,940 But over the years, MUFON has grown into so much more. 59 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,140 We offer kind of a community for people 60 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:16,940 to care about the topic. 61 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,980 MUFON is the coming together of people 62 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,440 who are not just interested in UFOs, 63 00:03:23,540 --> 00:03:26,600 but want to do something about it. 64 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:29,440 They want to investigate the case. 65 00:03:29,540 --> 00:03:36,780 So it's like this huge network of like-minded people 66 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:40,680 all around the United States and indeed the world, 67 00:03:40,780 --> 00:03:44,620 brought together by their shared passion for the subject 68 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,680 and their shared interest in it. 69 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,080 I became involved after having been 70 00:03:51,180 --> 00:03:54,680 present for the Phoenix Lights incident here in Phoenix, 71 00:03:54,780 --> 00:03:57,680 Arizona in 1997. 72 00:03:57,780 --> 00:04:01,480 My interest was captured. 73 00:04:01,580 --> 00:04:05,280 I first joined up with MUFON after a trip to Roswell 74 00:04:05,380 --> 00:04:09,580 with the family in 2019, and it got me interested in it. 75 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:11,480 I had heard of MUFON before, but I 76 00:04:11,580 --> 00:04:14,880 didn't think being a nurse if I would be useful. 77 00:04:14,980 --> 00:04:16,780 But I called the headquarters to see 78 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:21,580 about just attending meetings, and I became an investigator, 79 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,280 and I've loved it ever since. 80 00:04:25,380 --> 00:04:29,080 I was 12 years old when I saw my first UFO. 81 00:04:29,180 --> 00:04:33,480 I was outside, and then I lived in Dallas, Texas. 82 00:04:33,580 --> 00:04:38,680 I saw this little white disc kind of just zigzagging. 83 00:04:38,780 --> 00:04:42,580 So imagine that seared into you as a young kid. 84 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,880 As the years roll by, I noticed that there 85 00:04:44,940 --> 00:04:48,580 was an organization called MUFON, mutual UFO network. 86 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,780 Then I found their website. 87 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,780 Wait a minute, you can get behind the scenes. 88 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:55,380 You can become an investigator. 89 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,580 And so I said, you know what? 90 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,780 This is what I'm going to do. 91 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:03,380 Having now existed as an organization for more than five 92 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,980 decades, MUFON's mission is to objectively investigate 93 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,980 the hundreds of eyewitness accounts of UFOs 94 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,480 and other aerial phenomena that are reported every year 95 00:05:15,180 --> 00:05:17,580 across the globe. 96 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:22,980 MUFON started in the 60s as an association of private citizens 97 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,880 who trained themselves to ask questions 98 00:05:25,980 --> 00:05:30,680 to go to scenes where people had reported UFOs. 99 00:05:30,780 --> 00:05:33,780 To question people, they developed a whole protocol. 100 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,480 They had a very sophisticated methodology 101 00:05:36,580 --> 00:05:39,980 that they used to document these things. 102 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,780 And they kept records. 103 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:47,180 Started in Quincy, Illinois, MUFON originally 104 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:50,880 stood for the Midwest UFO network. 105 00:05:50,980 --> 00:05:55,280 But by 1973, the organization had so many members 106 00:05:55,380 --> 00:05:58,180 across the country, its name was changed 107 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:00,980 to the Mutual UFO Network. 108 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,980 The group remained relatively obscure, however, 109 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:08,880 until 1980, when it played a key role in a sensational UFO 110 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,280 case called the Cash Landrum Incident. 111 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,080 Betty Cash and Vicki Landrum are driving through Texas. 112 00:06:18,180 --> 00:06:23,980 When they encounter this giant diamond-shaped object hovering 113 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,780 and spewing out blue flame from the bottom, 114 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,080 they stop the car to investigate. 115 00:06:29,180 --> 00:06:31,280 The local environment is actually 116 00:06:31,380 --> 00:06:33,480 being heated by this object to the point 117 00:06:33,580 --> 00:06:35,280 where they try to touch their car. 118 00:06:35,380 --> 00:06:37,780 It's hot to the touch. 119 00:06:37,780 --> 00:06:39,480 And then what happens is they notice 120 00:06:39,580 --> 00:06:44,380 that there's an army of helicopters, Chinook helicopters, 121 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,180 seeming to escort this object. 122 00:06:49,180 --> 00:06:52,780 This is Betty Landrum from Dayton, Texas. 123 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,880 A deer come down and it was like fire was coming from it. 124 00:06:56,980 --> 00:06:59,680 It was on the head of us and we had to stop. 125 00:06:59,780 --> 00:07:02,380 We got out of the car. 126 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,380 We come down almost in the tree car. 127 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:06,680 We didn't get back up. 128 00:07:08,780 --> 00:07:12,280 Now, what makes this unique is that when they get home, 129 00:07:12,380 --> 00:07:13,980 after a couple of days, they start 130 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:18,580 to show symptoms of being exposed to ionized radiation. 131 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,180 The women all had their hair fall out. 132 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,980 They developed cancer and they blamed the US government 133 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:27,080 for this. 134 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:30,880 And this then became a very well-known court case 135 00:07:30,980 --> 00:07:35,780 where they were suing the US government, essentially. 136 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,280 This was reported in major newspapers all over the United 137 00:07:39,380 --> 00:07:40,280 States. 138 00:07:40,380 --> 00:07:42,980 They couldn't ignore this story. 139 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:47,580 MUFON investigators got the witness statements, 140 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,280 gathered the evidence, including things like medical records 141 00:07:51,380 --> 00:07:54,880 which were central to the legal case. 142 00:07:54,980 --> 00:07:57,980 And although the witnesses didn't win their case, 143 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,880 what's important was that that gets it on the record. 144 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,780 Without MUFON, it's unlikely that it 145 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:09,780 would have gone to court. 146 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,080 It helps MUFON come to the forefront. 147 00:08:12,180 --> 00:08:14,480 It gave us credibility as a group. 148 00:08:14,580 --> 00:08:18,780 And it was a really establishing moment for MUFON. 149 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:23,280 Mesa, Arizona, November 4, 2022. 150 00:08:23,380 --> 00:08:25,780 You can click on this and you can click on your state 151 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,780 and see if your case is coming up due soon. 152 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,780 40 UFO researchers have arrived in this small desert 153 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,280 community for the annual MUFON investigator boot camp. 154 00:08:37,380 --> 00:08:40,480 This intense, three-day conference 155 00:08:40,580 --> 00:08:43,180 offers hands-on training in techniques 156 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,980 used to investigate cases of reported extraterrestrial 157 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:48,480 visitations. 158 00:08:48,580 --> 00:08:49,980 Stay with your group. 159 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,180 We have five sites. 160 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:53,580 You guys are going to go to the site 161 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:57,680 and you're going to find stuff, tag it, bag it, 162 00:08:57,680 --> 00:08:59,380 and you're going to submit it. 163 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:04,080 MUFON strives to train up their field investigators 164 00:09:04,180 --> 00:09:07,080 to know photo and video analysis. 165 00:09:07,180 --> 00:09:11,280 We're expected to know how to read astronomical charts. 166 00:09:11,380 --> 00:09:15,380 We're expected to know how to look at flight radar returns. 167 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:19,080 And that's just the tip of the iceberg. 168 00:09:19,180 --> 00:09:23,480 One of the strengths of MUFON is that it brings together 169 00:09:23,580 --> 00:09:25,980 people with different skill sets. 170 00:09:25,980 --> 00:09:30,480 So for example, some of them will be retired cops, 171 00:09:30,580 --> 00:09:34,880 also people who specialize in imagery analysis. 172 00:09:34,980 --> 00:09:38,480 There are other people who know all about computers. 173 00:09:38,580 --> 00:09:41,980 So all the different things that an organization 174 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,080 investigating UFOs might need, someone's 175 00:09:45,180 --> 00:09:47,180 going to have that skill set. 176 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,280 MUFON has many members from the military, 177 00:09:51,380 --> 00:09:55,680 from the police force, lawyers, PhDs, 178 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:57,180 doctors. 179 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,480 Those are highly, highly educated people. 180 00:10:01,580 --> 00:10:06,480 So it's serious work that these investigators are doing. 181 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:15,380 MUFON is not an organization of wide-eyed believers. 182 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:19,880 These are not people who think everything's an alien spaceship. 183 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:24,280 The MUFON gets thousands of cases. 184 00:10:24,380 --> 00:10:29,680 And they investigate, they analyze, and they conclude. 185 00:10:29,780 --> 00:10:32,180 And MUFON pride themselves on trying 186 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,680 to adhere to the scientific method. 187 00:10:35,780 --> 00:10:41,380 The UFO phenomenon goes back, in my opinion, thousands of years. 188 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,680 The day when it becomes accepted knowledge globally 189 00:10:45,780 --> 00:10:49,480 that we are not alone and never have been alone, 190 00:10:50,180 --> 00:10:55,080 on Earth, I think that MUFON would be part of this paradigm 191 00:10:55,180 --> 00:10:55,580 shift. 192 00:10:58,380 --> 00:11:00,780 For MUFON investigators, determining 193 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:03,980 the source of an encounter is key to identifying 194 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,980 what is truly unexplained. 195 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,680 And often, the most compelling cases 196 00:11:09,780 --> 00:11:13,880 are those in which eyewitness accounts can be corroborated 197 00:11:13,980 --> 00:11:15,280 by physical evidence. 198 00:11:19,980 --> 00:11:25,880 WAP Wallopenn, Pennsylvania, November 7, 2022. 199 00:11:25,980 --> 00:11:29,380 Former British Ministry of Defense UFO investigator Nick 200 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,680 Pong and Dr. Travis Taylor, who was the chief scientist 201 00:11:33,780 --> 00:11:36,980 for the US government's UAP task force, 202 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:40,980 have arranged to meet with two seasoned MUFON researchers 203 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:45,180 who investigated a possible UFO landing here in the summer 204 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:47,680 of 2022. 205 00:11:48,180 --> 00:11:52,480 I'm really fascinated to see how MUFON do their investigations, 206 00:11:52,580 --> 00:11:55,780 what resources and capabilities they can bring to bear 207 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,580 on these investigations. 208 00:11:57,680 --> 00:12:00,580 I find it really intriguing that at least they've taken 209 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:02,780 on that role because in the United States, 210 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,780 there is no government office that's set up to take UFO 211 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:08,180 reports. 212 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:13,780 With the UAP task force, we only looked at military scenarios. 213 00:12:13,780 --> 00:12:17,280 We never looked into civilian events in detail 214 00:12:17,380 --> 00:12:20,380 because we had no authority to go and investigate 215 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,880 inside the walls of the United States, right? 216 00:12:22,980 --> 00:12:24,180 Right. 217 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:25,880 I'm going to be interested to look at this case 218 00:12:25,980 --> 00:12:29,480 through the lens of the way we did things 219 00:12:29,580 --> 00:12:31,680 at the UK Ministry of Defense. 220 00:12:31,780 --> 00:12:35,180 We took a very methodological approach 221 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:36,280 to these sorts of things. 222 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,280 Before proceeding to the site of the alleged landing. 223 00:12:42,780 --> 00:12:43,680 Travis Taylor. 224 00:12:43,780 --> 00:12:47,180 Travis and Nick meet up with Robert Spearing and Jason 225 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:49,880 Albertson, the MUFON investigators 226 00:12:49,980 --> 00:12:54,280 who conducted the original inquiry in July 2022. 227 00:12:54,380 --> 00:12:57,980 I'm MUFON's international director of investigations. 228 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,780 I have a forensic background and this is Jay Albertson. 229 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:03,980 He's a field investigator from Pennsylvania. 230 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:05,380 I'm also a retired military. 231 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:08,980 I'm a chemical, biological, radiological specialist. 232 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,080 So I guess one of the biggest questions to me 233 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,380 is, are MUFONs become so huge? 234 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:14,380 How is it funded? 235 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:15,880 Is it all volunteer? 236 00:13:15,980 --> 00:13:17,580 Are you guys getting paid to do this? 237 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:19,080 No, everything's volunteer. 238 00:13:19,180 --> 00:13:19,980 That's what I thought. 239 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:20,880 That's amazing. 240 00:13:20,980 --> 00:13:23,680 MUFON is mostly funded by its membership 241 00:13:23,780 --> 00:13:26,480 and we have about 500 field investigators right now 242 00:13:26,580 --> 00:13:29,280 from all walks of life, geologists, biologists, 243 00:13:29,380 --> 00:13:31,480 rocket scientists, you name it. 244 00:13:31,580 --> 00:13:35,480 So what's your process when someone makes a report to MUFON? 245 00:13:35,580 --> 00:13:36,580 What happens? 246 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:38,480 When a witness submits a report, 247 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:40,980 it goes to one of five administrators 248 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:42,880 and the state director will then assign it 249 00:13:42,980 --> 00:13:44,980 to a person in that area. 250 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,980 Jay lived in the general area where the incident occurred 251 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,680 and we immediately realized that this was a case of interest. 252 00:13:52,780 --> 00:13:54,680 So what happened? 253 00:13:54,780 --> 00:13:58,380 A woman about 2.30 in the morning 254 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,080 heard her dogs barking. 255 00:14:01,180 --> 00:14:05,880 She saw a white light coming down in the field behind her house. 256 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:10,280 The crickets in the cicadas had stopped making noise 257 00:14:10,380 --> 00:14:14,380 which is unusual in the summertime in Pennsylvania. 258 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,280 The woman was scared because the dogs 259 00:14:16,380 --> 00:14:18,680 was going crazy running back and forth. 260 00:14:18,780 --> 00:14:20,980 And the next morning, her husband went out 261 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,780 and discovered what we call a saucer circle 262 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,880 about two yards in diameter. 263 00:14:27,980 --> 00:14:29,680 The pond is to your right. 264 00:14:29,780 --> 00:14:32,680 The impression is straight ahead. 265 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,580 There's three circles that are burned in the center. 266 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:40,280 If you have a 14-inch circle perfect in the center 267 00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:43,780 and you have two 12-inch circles on the left and right 268 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:47,980 and they connect with the outside impression that comes down. 269 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:49,880 Circle here and here's the big circle. 270 00:14:49,980 --> 00:14:50,880 There's another one right here. 271 00:14:50,980 --> 00:14:51,980 It looks like... 272 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:52,980 Yeah. 273 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,780 Could that be landing gear? 274 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,080 Did the ring look dug into the ground 275 00:14:58,180 --> 00:14:59,780 or pushed into the ground? 276 00:14:59,780 --> 00:15:00,780 The outer ring... 277 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:02,880 That was pushed down about a half an inch. 278 00:15:02,980 --> 00:15:05,180 They hadn't mowed before you got there 279 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:06,380 or had they mowed over this? 280 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:08,380 Oh, no, they haven't mowed at all. 281 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:09,880 Okay, got it. 282 00:15:09,980 --> 00:15:11,080 All right. 283 00:15:11,180 --> 00:15:12,580 You know, if I were going to stay here 284 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:14,480 and play the role of a debunker, right, 285 00:15:14,580 --> 00:15:16,880 I'd look at things trying to figure this out. 286 00:15:16,980 --> 00:15:20,180 I'd say, oh, well, I've seen when I've bent my lawnmower blade, 287 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:22,380 it cuts perfect circles like that. 288 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,580 But you couldn't cut a perfect circle around it. 289 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:26,780 Where you did that? 290 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:27,880 I don't know how in the world, 291 00:15:27,980 --> 00:15:29,980 even with a zero turn radius mower, 292 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:31,280 you couldn't do that. 293 00:15:31,380 --> 00:15:33,280 And then if it's actually depressed, 294 00:15:33,380 --> 00:15:34,280 that means that there's something 295 00:15:34,380 --> 00:15:35,480 that was heavy sitting there. 296 00:15:35,580 --> 00:15:36,480 Yes. 297 00:15:36,580 --> 00:15:39,180 So I find this really interesting. 298 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,980 So when you get to the location, 299 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:46,080 is the first thing you do to go to these circles 300 00:15:46,180 --> 00:15:48,280 because that's what's been brought to your attention? 301 00:15:48,380 --> 00:15:51,280 And what do you find? 302 00:15:51,380 --> 00:15:54,180 The first thing I did was I went to the circle. 303 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:55,680 I was taking photographs 304 00:15:55,780 --> 00:15:57,680 and getting all my measurements first. 305 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,780 And when I initially was down on the ground taking samples, 306 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:05,380 I felt a burning sensation on the insides of my arms, 307 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,980 on certain parts that I just couldn't understand. 308 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,780 Pain, nausea, headaches. 309 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:13,980 And me being in the military, 310 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:16,380 I knew exactly what that could have been. 311 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:17,680 And are you worried? 312 00:16:17,780 --> 00:16:18,580 Are you scared? 313 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:19,580 Are you? 314 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:20,580 At that point, I was. 315 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:22,080 Because then I knew exactly... 316 00:16:22,180 --> 00:16:23,280 Could be radiation or something. 317 00:16:23,380 --> 00:16:24,380 I knew it was a flash burn. 318 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:25,780 It had to have been a flash burn. 319 00:16:25,780 --> 00:16:28,180 So do you seek medical help for that? 320 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:29,180 Yes. 321 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,380 I went directly to the hospital. 322 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:32,980 They were initially just burns. 323 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:36,180 And then they circled. 324 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,080 They initially looked at it and they said, 325 00:16:38,180 --> 00:16:39,180 is this a bug bite? 326 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:40,180 And I said, no. 327 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:41,180 Right. 328 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:45,180 Because, you know, everyone's been bitten by bugs before, right? 329 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:46,480 You know what that feels like. 330 00:16:46,580 --> 00:16:49,680 And you're saying that was not what happened here. 331 00:16:49,780 --> 00:16:50,680 This is something else. 332 00:16:50,780 --> 00:16:51,880 Yes. 333 00:16:51,980 --> 00:16:53,780 After I talked to the doctor, 334 00:16:53,780 --> 00:16:58,780 he determined that it was unexplained skin eruption. 335 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,280 What other data did you collect with this? 336 00:17:01,380 --> 00:17:04,680 When we got the lab results back from the Mufan Lab in Missouri, 337 00:17:04,780 --> 00:17:08,880 the technician there told us that there were some heavy elements 338 00:17:08,980 --> 00:17:10,580 within the soil itself. 339 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,580 Yeah, if you look on the back of the test here, 340 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,180 it states that where it was coal mining, 341 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:17,880 toxic metals were present. 342 00:17:17,980 --> 00:17:23,480 Mercury lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum, nickel, uranium, 343 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,280 this is all found in the samples. 344 00:17:25,380 --> 00:17:29,080 The technician there told us that when heavy elements interact 345 00:17:29,180 --> 00:17:33,680 with the residual EMF field left over by whatever left the EMF 346 00:17:33,780 --> 00:17:35,880 field can become toxic for them. 347 00:17:35,980 --> 00:17:41,280 And we believe that's what started the blistering on Jay's body. 348 00:17:41,380 --> 00:17:45,880 The other thing the lab found was that some of the vegetation 349 00:17:45,980 --> 00:17:50,280 within the circle had been burnt from the inside out. 350 00:17:50,780 --> 00:17:54,380 So I believe when you add in that the plant matter was burned 351 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,980 from within, you have more and more evidence suggesting 352 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,280 that there was a strong residual EMF field. 353 00:18:00,380 --> 00:18:02,880 So out of all the cases that you've looked at, 354 00:18:02,980 --> 00:18:04,180 have you seen anything like this? 355 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:05,180 Not like this. 356 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,180 I'd say this is one of the top three cases I've done, 357 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,780 and I've done over 1,000. 358 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:11,680 Well, I'll tell you what I would like to do. 359 00:18:11,780 --> 00:18:14,380 You guys still have your investigation kit with you? 360 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:15,480 Yes. 361 00:18:15,580 --> 00:18:16,580 I would like to go back up there, 362 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,480 and you guys go back through all the measurements you made. 363 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,580 And we'll get to watch and see how you did that. 364 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,180 But at the same time, we're taking another measurement 365 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,980 that happened given amount of time after the event. 366 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,680 And if there are changes, that'll be very interesting data 367 00:18:29,780 --> 00:18:30,780 that we'll need to know. 368 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:31,580 OK. 369 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:32,580 Well, let's go. 370 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:33,380 All right. Let's go. 371 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:33,880 Great. 372 00:18:33,980 --> 00:18:34,380 All right. 373 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,780 November 7, 2022. 374 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:48,680 Dr. Travis Taylor and Nick Pope are in Wapwala, Pennsylvania 375 00:18:49,180 --> 00:18:54,580 to see how Mufon investigates UFO sightings firsthand. 376 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,380 They arrive at the home of Robert and Melissa Scurchak. 377 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:58,480 Hi, I'm Travis. 378 00:18:58,580 --> 00:19:01,180 The Scurchaks are looking for answers 379 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:04,280 as to what occurred on their property several months earlier. 380 00:19:04,380 --> 00:19:06,380 So whereabouts did this take place? 381 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:07,380 Right behind you in the grass area. 382 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:08,480 Right behind you in the grass area. 383 00:19:08,580 --> 00:19:09,080 Lead the way. 384 00:19:09,180 --> 00:19:09,580 Show us. 385 00:19:12,980 --> 00:19:14,180 So this close to the house? 386 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:14,880 Yes. 387 00:19:14,980 --> 00:19:16,180 Wow. 388 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:17,280 Yeah, in this area right here. 389 00:19:17,380 --> 00:19:18,380 Over here. 390 00:19:18,380 --> 00:19:21,480 I say we go back and get the equipment out of the vehicle 391 00:19:21,580 --> 00:19:25,480 and then we'll let the Mufon guys come do their thing again. 392 00:19:25,580 --> 00:19:29,280 Nick and Travis are joined by Mufon field investigators, 393 00:19:29,380 --> 00:19:32,180 Robert Spearing and Jason Albertson. 394 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:36,480 Jason and Robert will retest the area for radioactivity 395 00:19:36,580 --> 00:19:40,280 and collect more soil samples on the Scurchak property. 396 00:19:40,380 --> 00:19:43,380 The goal is to see if any lingering effects 397 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,480 from the initial incident remain. 398 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,380 Jay's going to check for residual radiation, an EMF field, 399 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,280 residual EMF field, and we're going 400 00:19:51,380 --> 00:19:54,180 to see if there's anything sub-ground metallic underneath. 401 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,180 When we do that, if it's safe to go back in, 402 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:57,580 we're going to do some soil samples. 403 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:58,380 Sure. 404 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:00,680 So let's do it. 405 00:20:00,780 --> 00:20:02,680 Jason actually has a pretty good background 406 00:20:02,780 --> 00:20:04,580 for this type of investigation. 407 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:08,080 He's from a military background to a chemical weapons disposal. 408 00:20:08,180 --> 00:20:11,380 So he's familiar with radiation, electromagnetic fields, 409 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,880 and that type of scientific measurement. 410 00:20:13,980 --> 00:20:15,180 Now, do you remember where it was? 411 00:20:15,180 --> 00:20:16,880 And understanding those phenomena. 412 00:20:16,980 --> 00:20:18,880 Just about here. 413 00:20:18,980 --> 00:20:21,980 Now, normal radiation levels in this area of Pennsylvania 414 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,280 are about 50 to 68 clicks per minute. 415 00:20:24,380 --> 00:20:26,080 Yeah, that sounds about right. 416 00:20:26,180 --> 00:20:29,880 It's pretty much 65 right now, so I don't see any sort 417 00:20:29,980 --> 00:20:32,080 of dangerous radiation. 418 00:20:32,180 --> 00:20:34,180 Did you find anything with the metal detector 419 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:35,680 on your initial search? 420 00:20:35,780 --> 00:20:36,980 Initially, no. 421 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:38,580 Nope. 422 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,780 So, Jason, you said you took samples outside of the spot. 423 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:43,780 Yes. 424 00:20:43,780 --> 00:20:46,180 So you took soil samples from the pond, 425 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,280 grass samples, water samples, soil samples here, 426 00:20:49,380 --> 00:20:52,880 and the soil samples near the pond were not the same 427 00:20:52,980 --> 00:20:54,280 or they were the same as they were here? 428 00:20:54,380 --> 00:20:55,480 They were different. 429 00:20:55,580 --> 00:20:59,080 The interesting thing, though, is that right here, 430 00:20:59,180 --> 00:21:03,580 just 10, 20 feet away, you have different minerals 431 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,680 in the soil than you do there, and you would expect 432 00:21:05,780 --> 00:21:07,780 the runoff since that's downhill. 433 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:11,880 It ought to be the same, which is odd. 434 00:21:11,980 --> 00:21:14,680 Jason and Robert are going to take fresh samples 435 00:21:14,780 --> 00:21:17,580 of the soil to test it again. 436 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,480 Jason, this is where you kind of got sick yourself, right? 437 00:21:21,580 --> 00:21:22,780 Yes. 438 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:23,880 As soon as I got down to the ground, 439 00:21:23,980 --> 00:21:26,680 that's when I felt different spots on my arms 440 00:21:26,780 --> 00:21:28,980 and the insides of my arms. 441 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,080 Yeah, we'll get some grass in here too from this. 442 00:21:32,180 --> 00:21:35,280 All right, and then we'll get a control sample. 443 00:21:35,380 --> 00:21:36,680 Okay, which way you want to go down? 444 00:21:36,780 --> 00:21:37,680 Yeah, we know what you're doing. 445 00:21:37,780 --> 00:21:40,080 Yeah, I'm going to hold on to this till it's labeled. 446 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:41,080 All right. 447 00:21:43,180 --> 00:21:46,980 So we'll take the control sample. 448 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,480 Yeah, there we go. 449 00:21:49,580 --> 00:21:54,880 So this then gets labeled, gets sent back to the lab, 450 00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:56,880 and you maintain the chain of custody. 451 00:21:56,980 --> 00:21:58,780 You've got some initial data. 452 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,180 If it was just simply something on the surface 453 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:02,680 that's been enough time now, a lot of that 454 00:22:02,780 --> 00:22:04,380 should have washed away. 455 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,680 So it might be that you'll find a different sample 456 00:22:07,780 --> 00:22:09,180 than what you found before. 457 00:22:09,380 --> 00:22:10,180 That's it. 458 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:11,980 We're good. 459 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,280 I can't wait to see the results. 460 00:22:14,380 --> 00:22:17,180 For Travis and Nick, the Scurchac case 461 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:21,380 has shown them the methodical nature of MUFON investigations. 462 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,780 I think MUFON did a great job here. 463 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,880 I was very impressed with both the investigators. 464 00:22:27,980 --> 00:22:33,380 Everything I witnessed them talk about and actually do 465 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,480 resonated with me in terms of the sort of thing 466 00:22:36,580 --> 00:22:38,480 that we did in the government. 467 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,680 The case here at the Scurchac residence 468 00:22:40,780 --> 00:22:43,480 is a really interesting one because there's actually 469 00:22:43,580 --> 00:22:47,280 some physical evidence left behind that can be investigated. 470 00:22:47,380 --> 00:22:51,780 And the MUFON guys did a good job taking soil samples, 471 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,180 electromagnetic measurements, gamma ray measurements, 472 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:55,180 and things of that nature. 473 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,480 This is the type of process that we're 474 00:22:57,580 --> 00:22:59,880 going to have to standardize more if we're ever going 475 00:22:59,980 --> 00:23:02,880 to get to the bottom of this phenomenon. 476 00:23:02,980 --> 00:23:06,880 The Scurchac sighting is one of MUFON's most intriguing cases 477 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,580 of 2022. 478 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,580 But deep in MUFON's files are a host of other sightings, 479 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,480 many with video evidence. 480 00:23:15,580 --> 00:23:16,880 What the hell are those? 481 00:23:16,980 --> 00:23:20,880 That cannot be explained. 482 00:23:20,980 --> 00:23:23,780 Gosport, England. 483 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:28,280 January 9, 2017. 484 00:23:28,380 --> 00:23:31,980 Just before 11 PM, residents of this city 485 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,780 see something unusual in the night sky. 486 00:23:35,780 --> 00:23:40,180 Dramatic video is captured of three lights converging, 487 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:41,880 separating. 488 00:23:41,980 --> 00:23:43,080 It's coming back again. 489 00:23:43,180 --> 00:23:45,980 And then, reconverging. 490 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,480 For MUFON investigators, this footage 491 00:23:48,580 --> 00:23:52,380 was particularly exciting. 492 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,880 What makes this video especially compelling 493 00:23:54,980 --> 00:23:59,280 is that you have the visual evidence, multiple witnesses, 494 00:23:59,380 --> 00:24:02,480 and it still stands out as something we can't explain. 495 00:24:02,580 --> 00:24:04,580 That's what we call the category three case. 496 00:24:04,580 --> 00:24:08,980 It's the one with the most potential to be unexplained. 497 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:13,580 On December 31, 2021, an even stranger 498 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,980 video of an alleged UFO was sent to MUFON by soldiers 499 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,280 at Tule Army Depot in Utah. 500 00:24:21,380 --> 00:24:24,980 The soldiers filmed a strange light hovering in the sky 501 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,180 for five consecutive nights. 502 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,180 If it were some kind of a military plane, 503 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:32,680 we would be able to detect it. 504 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,380 We have our ways of finding out that this is a military craft. 505 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,580 We can check all the information in the area. 506 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,180 There was no craft at that time. 507 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,580 What makes this case so interesting to us 508 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:47,380 is that after this happened, all military personnel 509 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,280 were released from the base. 510 00:24:50,380 --> 00:24:55,380 After the fifth night, military executives suddenly showed up. 511 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,080 They interviewed people. 512 00:24:57,180 --> 00:25:01,280 They told everyone on the base who had seen these UFOs 513 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,080 that they were dismissed. 514 00:25:04,180 --> 00:25:06,380 They told them also their clothes and things 515 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,680 had been contaminated by this UFO. 516 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,580 Are the mysterious lights in these videos 517 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,480 and accounts by witnesses like the Skirchaks evidence 518 00:25:18,580 --> 00:25:22,480 that extraterrestrials are visiting our planet? 519 00:25:22,580 --> 00:25:26,280 For now, the answer remains a mystery. 520 00:25:26,380 --> 00:25:30,280 But each MUFON investigation is added to their ever-growing 521 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:37,580 database in the hope that one day they will provide vital clues. 522 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,180 Every time you investigate, you're 523 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,180 adding to the database of knowledge, 524 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,480 and then you look for trends. 525 00:25:44,580 --> 00:25:46,680 It's those sorts of little details 526 00:25:46,780 --> 00:25:50,580 that you just store away until they come up again. 527 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,880 And then maybe it tells you something interesting and important. 528 00:25:54,980 --> 00:25:58,180 While MUFON has amassed a large inventory of reports, 529 00:25:58,180 --> 00:26:00,080 they cannot explain. 530 00:26:00,180 --> 00:26:05,080 There are a few that stand out as truly astonishing. 531 00:26:05,180 --> 00:26:09,280 One of the most compelling of all involved multiple witnesses 532 00:26:09,380 --> 00:26:16,080 who saw not only a craft, but also alien visitors. 533 00:26:21,380 --> 00:26:25,880 Oklahoma, July 2021. 534 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,580 A man named Randy Young has come forward 535 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:33,080 to report a UFO encounter that happened almost 50 years earlier 536 00:26:33,180 --> 00:26:35,680 in 1975. 537 00:26:35,780 --> 00:26:39,880 The story begins when he was 10 years old at the Miracle Mountains 538 00:26:39,980 --> 00:26:44,480 boarding school in Hartshorne, Oklahoma. 539 00:26:44,580 --> 00:26:48,580 Miracle Mountain was kind of out in the boonies of Oklahoma. 540 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,680 That day, my brother and I were out in the sandbox 541 00:26:51,780 --> 00:26:55,480 and we saw this circular shining light that was probably 542 00:26:56,180 --> 00:26:59,780 2,000 or so feet up in the air. 543 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,180 And it didn't have the movements of an airplane. 544 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,980 It was just hovering. 545 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:08,080 And as it got darker, this craft got closer. 546 00:27:08,180 --> 00:27:11,380 It had lights that went through the midsection all the way around 547 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,980 and it had his classic saucer type shape. 548 00:27:16,980 --> 00:27:19,580 For decades, Randy and his brother 549 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,580 kept their extraordinary encounter to themselves 550 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,080 for fear of how it would be received. 551 00:27:25,580 --> 00:27:27,480 He didn't want people thinking that you're crazy. 552 00:27:27,580 --> 00:27:29,980 You didn't want to ruin your reputation. 553 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,980 But in the back of my mind, that story was always there. 554 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,480 And with all that has been going on with the government, 555 00:27:36,580 --> 00:27:39,480 military jets that are, you know, tracking these things 556 00:27:39,580 --> 00:27:42,480 and there's been a lot more talk about it recently. 557 00:27:42,580 --> 00:27:46,480 I'm like, okay, if they're talking this big at this level, 558 00:27:46,580 --> 00:27:47,680 they got to hear this story. 559 00:27:47,780 --> 00:27:50,880 They need to know about what had happened in Hartshorne in 1975. 560 00:27:50,980 --> 00:27:52,680 And so I contacted Mufon. 561 00:27:53,180 --> 00:27:56,580 The report reached the desk of Mindy Toddfest, 562 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,180 the Oklahoma State Mufon director. 563 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,680 Randy filed an official report through Mufon.com 564 00:28:02,780 --> 00:28:05,380 and I immediately knew after reading it 565 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,580 that this case could be a very, very important case 566 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,680 to all of UFO history. 567 00:28:11,780 --> 00:28:15,680 I first reached out to Randy and interviewed him. 568 00:28:15,780 --> 00:28:18,580 The next person I spoke to was Phillip Buchanan. 569 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,580 Phillip was one of the older children at the school at the time. 570 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,080 And so he has one of the more complete memories 571 00:28:25,180 --> 00:28:26,580 of what transpired there 572 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,880 and the operations of the school itself. 573 00:28:29,980 --> 00:28:35,280 And then I spoke with the teacher via email. 574 00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:37,980 And the teacher described that some of the kids 575 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,980 were hiding under the beds because they were very terrified. 576 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,480 And some of the kids were looking out the window. 577 00:28:45,580 --> 00:28:51,380 They reported to see shape-shifting entities out there. 578 00:28:51,380 --> 00:28:53,480 They just said it keeps changing. 579 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,780 What Mindy found out after doing all that work 580 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:03,480 is that these kids were recalling the exact same thing. 581 00:29:03,580 --> 00:29:06,480 As these witnesses were telling their stories years later, 582 00:29:06,580 --> 00:29:08,680 one of the things Mindy asked them to do 583 00:29:08,780 --> 00:29:12,780 was to actually draw the UFO that they'd seen. 584 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,780 And the consistency is amazing. 585 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,180 And not only are they telling the same story, 586 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,480 but they're describing the same craft. 587 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,580 It shows us that these old historic cases 588 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,880 still have something to offer. 589 00:29:24,980 --> 00:29:28,580 I think that we need an organization like MUFON. 590 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,580 I think we need to have a database 591 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:31,980 for all these different incidents. 592 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,680 And I think that we need to have as many eyes 593 00:29:35,780 --> 00:29:38,080 and as many investigators on this as possible. 594 00:29:38,180 --> 00:29:41,380 We need to figure out what's going on. 595 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,480 There's been a lot of excitement around this story 596 00:29:44,580 --> 00:29:48,880 because there were a lot of things that corroborated each other. 597 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,280 We find value in all UFO reports. 598 00:29:52,380 --> 00:29:56,180 And some of the older ones serve to validate some other sightings 599 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:57,980 that may be in our database. 600 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:02,280 And so the older historic cases really have a lot of value 601 00:30:02,380 --> 00:30:06,280 whenever it comes to ufology. 602 00:30:06,380 --> 00:30:10,280 This cold case is one of the most fascinating cases 603 00:30:10,380 --> 00:30:13,380 that MUFON's ever investigated. 604 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,380 Because students, they had not spoken to each other 605 00:30:17,380 --> 00:30:23,880 since 1975, and they all replied with the same answers, 606 00:30:23,980 --> 00:30:27,180 which indicates that something happened 607 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,380 and everybody saw the same thing. 608 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,480 In the ancient astronaut opinion, 609 00:30:32,580 --> 00:30:37,580 those stories of UFOs today are the same stories 610 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:42,480 that our ancestors in the remote past also explored. 611 00:30:42,580 --> 00:30:46,480 Their cell phone cameras were the walls of caves. 612 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:51,280 And reliefs and carvings in which they commemorated 613 00:30:51,380 --> 00:30:54,580 those incredibly significant events 614 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,580 that they were eyewitnesses to. 615 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,680 Is MUFON's growing database for the evidence 616 00:31:02,780 --> 00:31:06,380 that extraterrestrial beings have been visiting our planet 617 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:11,880 for thousands of years, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 618 00:31:11,980 --> 00:31:14,880 And if so, what do they want? 619 00:31:15,380 --> 00:31:18,380 Perhaps clues can be found in MUFON reports 620 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,380 that go beyond UFO sightings, 621 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,880 and to describe terrifying encounters. 622 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:33,480 Each year, the mutual UFO network receives approximately 623 00:31:33,580 --> 00:31:37,280 10,000 reports of UFO phenomena, 624 00:31:37,380 --> 00:31:41,880 while most involve sightings of strange objects in the sky. 625 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:46,380 In some cases, the witness claims to have come face-to-face 626 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,880 with an alien entity. 627 00:31:48,980 --> 00:31:51,180 A lot of people that approach MUFON 628 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,080 have these stories of having these personal encounters 629 00:31:54,180 --> 00:31:56,280 with entities that they can't explain. 630 00:31:56,380 --> 00:31:58,180 But what we've found over the years 631 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:03,780 is that there is serious validity to this phenomenon. 632 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,480 I believe that worldwide, there are millions of people 633 00:32:07,580 --> 00:32:09,480 who have had these encounters. 634 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,980 But it is very, very difficult for a lot of people 635 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:14,280 to come forward. 636 00:32:14,380 --> 00:32:15,980 Maybe they told their family. 637 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,280 Maybe they told a good friend. 638 00:32:18,380 --> 00:32:20,380 And they were laughed at. 639 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,880 They feel that they really need to talk to someone, 640 00:32:23,980 --> 00:32:25,380 but they can't. 641 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:31,780 In 2011, MUFON formed the Experiencer Resource Team, 642 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,880 a program dedicated to assisting those 643 00:32:34,980 --> 00:32:36,880 who claim to have been traumatized 644 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,780 by extraterrestrial encounters. 645 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,780 We receive up to 150 reports per month 646 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,480 from the people who believe that they have had 647 00:32:46,580 --> 00:32:47,880 a missing time event. 648 00:32:47,980 --> 00:32:50,480 They've had a close encounter with a craft, 649 00:32:50,580 --> 00:32:53,780 sometimes observed non-human entities. 650 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,280 And we've worked with members of the military. 651 00:32:57,380 --> 00:32:59,280 We've worked with medical doctors. 652 00:32:59,380 --> 00:33:01,280 We've worked with business owners. 653 00:33:01,380 --> 00:33:05,280 Credible people who have a lot to lose. 654 00:33:05,780 --> 00:33:07,780 Oftentimes, they're frightened. 655 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:13,980 So they are seeking assistance in overcoming the fear 656 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,580 and in gaining a better understanding of what is occurring. 657 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,180 One such encounter reported to MUFON 658 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:26,680 was made by trauma nurse Earl Gray Anderson in 2016. 659 00:33:26,780 --> 00:33:32,680 Just weeks after he had joined MUFON as a field investigator, 660 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,080 Earl was at his home in Los Angeles 661 00:33:35,180 --> 00:33:40,080 when his room was suddenly illuminated by a mysterious light. 662 00:33:41,580 --> 00:33:43,580 Our room started filling with light. 663 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,080 It was a light with no source. 664 00:33:46,180 --> 00:33:51,380 It wasn't coming from an object or a lamp or outside. 665 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,380 And the wall opened up. 666 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,280 I couldn't move as paralyzed. 667 00:33:57,380 --> 00:34:00,580 And that was when I first started feeling afraid. 668 00:34:00,580 --> 00:34:04,380 I saw these little diminutive creatures. 669 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,080 You would call them the small grays. 670 00:34:08,180 --> 00:34:10,980 It was almost like watching a surgical team work 671 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,880 or these tubes that they attached to the top of my chest. 672 00:34:14,980 --> 00:34:20,180 And I felt like they were draining blood or energy life force from me. 673 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:25,180 I was yelling in my mind and I was crying out for them to stop. 674 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,180 But they were not listening to me. 675 00:34:28,180 --> 00:34:31,680 They pulled backwards out the same way they came in. 676 00:34:31,780 --> 00:34:36,080 The wall seemed to swirl almost like a little galaxy in the room. 677 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:43,580 And it was back to normal except there was still light in our room. 678 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,580 The light didn't fade for a good five minutes with no source. 679 00:34:48,780 --> 00:34:53,980 After the experience, I didn't tell friends and family. 680 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,280 I mean, you're going to feel skepticism 681 00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:00,480 if somebody says that you just became a field investigator. 682 00:35:00,580 --> 00:35:04,680 And I'm suddenly saying that I was visited by ETs. 683 00:35:04,780 --> 00:35:06,380 But it scared the hell out of me. 684 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,380 It was very, very serious. 685 00:35:09,780 --> 00:35:14,680 Burl eventually reached out to Mufon's Experiencer Resource Team. 686 00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:20,780 And after sharing his encounter, he decided to become a member of the ERT himself. 687 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,180 It was very, very helpful to have someone to listen. 688 00:35:25,180 --> 00:35:30,080 And that's what I find in my own dealings with Experiencers now. 689 00:35:30,180 --> 00:35:36,080 The ERT is Mufon's, it's like the compassionate wing of Mufon. 690 00:35:36,180 --> 00:35:39,080 Like social workers for Experiencers. 691 00:35:39,180 --> 00:35:44,080 By working closely with individuals who claim to have been abducted, 692 00:35:44,180 --> 00:35:49,580 Mufon has compiled a wide range of data on the Experiencer Phenomenon. 693 00:35:51,580 --> 00:35:55,080 The data that we collect is pretty interesting. 694 00:35:55,180 --> 00:35:57,580 And we try to find patterns. 695 00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,580 It's really kind of astounding whenever you break it down 696 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,080 and look at the different commonalities 697 00:36:04,180 --> 00:36:07,580 between these different sightings or abductions. 698 00:36:08,780 --> 00:36:15,580 Most Experiencers have conscious continuous recall of being awake. 699 00:36:16,780 --> 00:36:18,580 They become paralyzed. 700 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:24,280 They have a sense of an electrical tingling sensation through their bodies. 701 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:29,180 They might hear high-pitched buzzing tones in their heads. 702 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:33,180 We used to think that abduction occurred only once. 703 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:41,180 But after years of research, we realized that individuals are taken multiple times over a lifetime. 704 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:45,180 We are gaining a better understanding of what is occurring. 705 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:51,680 With the volume of empirical data that has been collected over the years, 706 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,580 related to mysterious sightings and reported encounters, 707 00:36:55,680 --> 00:37:03,580 is it possible that the organization could be on the verge of a major breakthrough in the UFO Phenomenon? 708 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:09,580 For ancient astronaut theorists, the answer is a resounding yes. 709 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:14,580 And they believe it will come thanks to emerging cooperative efforts 710 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:19,580 between Mufon and the United States government. 711 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:28,580 Washington, DC. May 17, 2022. 712 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:37,580 UFO enthusiasts across the nation tune in to watch as a congressional subcommittee holds a hearing on UFOs 713 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:41,580 for the first time in more than 50 years. 714 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:46,580 Unidentified aerial phenomena are a potential national security threat, 715 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,580 and they need to be treated that way. 716 00:37:49,580 --> 00:37:56,480 The last hearing, held in 1968, was called to discuss Project Blue Book, 717 00:37:56,580 --> 00:38:01,480 the U.S. government's first official UFO investigations. 718 00:38:01,580 --> 00:38:06,480 By the late 60s, Project Blue Book had been going for many years, 719 00:38:06,580 --> 00:38:11,480 and whatever the U.S. government knew about UFOs behind the scenes, 720 00:38:11,580 --> 00:38:19,480 this public program was just considered by senior military officers a waste of time and money. 721 00:38:19,580 --> 00:38:24,480 So they wanted to get out of the game, and they got the answer they wanted, 722 00:38:24,580 --> 00:38:28,480 a recommendation that the Air Force disengage from this. 723 00:38:28,580 --> 00:38:33,480 So we've had decades of playing the whole thing down, 724 00:38:33,580 --> 00:38:37,480 and now it's as if they're putting it out there in front of us all. 725 00:38:37,580 --> 00:38:43,480 We know that our service members have encountered unidentified aerial phenomena. 726 00:38:43,580 --> 00:38:48,480 Some absolutely fascinating information was disclosed. 727 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:56,380 The briefers presented evidence, talked about how there had been near-misses 728 00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:00,380 between UAP and military jets. 729 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:08,380 There was discussion about how these objects moved with no visible propulsion. 730 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,380 It looks reflective in this video, somewhat reflective, 731 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:16,380 and it quickly passes by the cockpit of the aircraft. 732 00:39:16,380 --> 00:39:21,280 So this was absolutely groundbreaking. 733 00:39:21,380 --> 00:39:25,280 A major contributor to the hearing was Jessica Tocco, 734 00:39:25,380 --> 00:39:33,280 a lobbyist who briefed committee members about civilian UFO encounters on behalf of MUFON. 735 00:39:33,380 --> 00:39:39,280 The mutual UFO network was founded around the time that Project Blue Book was disbanded. 736 00:39:39,380 --> 00:39:44,280 So to work with the government on this issue, and that there were elected officials 737 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:49,180 who were very interested, that was groundbreaking and historic. 738 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:53,180 Many hailed the hearing as a historic breakthrough, 739 00:39:53,280 --> 00:40:01,180 one that could potentially usher in a new era of government cooperation with civilian UFO research. 740 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:06,180 When that day comes, MUFON investigators believe their large database 741 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,180 will prove vital to future investigations. 742 00:40:09,180 --> 00:40:15,080 MUFON stands ready to assist the government in any way that we can. 743 00:40:15,180 --> 00:40:20,080 We are really at the forefront of UFO investigation. 744 00:40:20,180 --> 00:40:25,080 We have the world's largest database of UFO sightings and investigations. 745 00:40:25,180 --> 00:40:29,080 Here's the thing though, we'll never say, oh, it was definitely extraterrestrial. 746 00:40:29,180 --> 00:40:32,080 We can't scientifically prove that. 747 00:40:32,180 --> 00:40:36,080 Now we can say that it's unexplained, and that we don't know what it was. 748 00:40:36,180 --> 00:40:38,080 We're going after the truth. 749 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:45,980 MUFON has amassed this treasure chest of investigative reports of cases 750 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:53,980 that are very similar to stories of our ancestors that say that they have witnessed 751 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,980 strange events up in the sky. 752 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:04,980 There is a connection between the two, and usually the simplest solution is to correct one. 753 00:41:04,980 --> 00:41:11,880 In my opinion, the suggestion of extraterrestrials is the simplest solution 754 00:41:11,980 --> 00:41:19,880 to explain this phenomenon, this aerial thing that goes on up in the sky for thousands of years. 755 00:41:19,980 --> 00:41:25,880 From ancient depictions of disc-shaped objects and strange figures 756 00:41:25,980 --> 00:41:32,880 to modern-day video footage of UFOs and accounts of alien abductions, 757 00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:40,780 does evidence exist that for thousands of years, Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials? 758 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:46,780 And as the public becomes more open to discussing this incredible possibility 759 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:53,780 and sharing personal experiences, will we arrive at a definitive answer? 760 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:58,780 Perhaps as the evidence continues to mount and more witnesses come forward, 761 00:41:58,780 --> 00:42:05,680 we will finally arrive at the undeniable truth that we are not alone.