1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 terrifying encounters at 40,000 feet. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,000 And so I kind of looked over my left shoulder, 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,000 and there's this bright light in our face. 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,000 He's a pulsating orb. 5 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Look at that, dude. 6 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Look at that. 7 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Pilot accounts of UFOs taking control of their aircraft. 8 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 He goes to move the yoke, and the yoke is moving on itself. 9 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 If it climbs any further, it will stall out. 10 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,000 And entire jumbo jets disappearing into thin air. 11 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,000 How do you have a commercial airliner just vanish? 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Since the dawn of aviation, pilots have experienced 13 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000 unexplainable events in the sky. 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Is it possible that what they have witnessed are aliens 15 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 in our airspace? 16 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,000 When you have thousands of pilots coming forward 17 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000 with encounters that they've witnessed up in the sky 18 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 with so-called UFOs, I think we should pay more attention 19 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,000 to what these pilots have been saying. 20 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,000 There is a doorway in the universe. 21 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 22 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:15,000 It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. 23 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 The evidence is all around us. 24 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,000 The future is right before our eyes. 25 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 We are not alone. 26 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,000 We have never been alone. 27 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 In 2017, The New York Times broke the story 28 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 of the U.S. government's secret investigations 29 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 into unexplained aerial phenomena. 30 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,000 And in the years that followed, a number of sensational 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:56,000 UFO videos have been released or leaked to the public. 32 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,000 Nearly all of the footage was recorded by cameras 33 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 mounted on U.S. Navy fighter jets. 34 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 The videos captured the public's imagination 35 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,000 like no other UFO images that had come before them. 36 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000 But Navy pilots are not alone in witnessing 37 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 unidentified flying objects. 38 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000 For decades, shocking encounters have been reported 39 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,000 by non-military civilian pilots. 40 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 UAP sightings by commercial airline pilots 41 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000 are a lot more commonplace than what we generally think of. 42 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000 We've seen a lot of the footage from the military, 43 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 but we're actually getting a lot more reports 44 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,000 from our civilian pilots. 45 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,000 There are more civilian pilots than military pilots, 46 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,000 and you have an exponentially larger amount of flights 47 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:58,000 with commercial airlines than you do with military airplanes. 48 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Alaska, November 17th, 1986. 49 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Japan Airlines Flight 1628 is carrying cargo 50 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 from Paris, France to Nareda International Airport 51 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,000 near Tokyo. 52 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,000 The three-person crew is led by Captain Kenju Teruuchi, 53 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:23,000 an ex-fighter pilot with over 10,000 hours of flight time. 54 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,000 As the 747 approaches Anchorage, 55 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Captain Teruuchi notices two strange lights 56 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 out of his cockpit window. 57 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 It's dark. It's very early morning before sunrise. 58 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 These lights are clearly maneuvering. 59 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 They are in relationship to each other. 60 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 One is on top of the other, 61 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,000 and they move directly in front of his aircraft. 62 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 He's flying at about 500 miles per hour. 63 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,000 These things are pacing him. 64 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Captain Teruuchi realizes the lights 65 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,000 are strange oval-shaped flying objects, 66 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 and they're getting dangerously close to his aircraft, 67 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,000 as bright lights fill the cockpit. 68 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Captain Teruuchi radios the Anchorage Air Traffic Control Center 69 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,000 and asks if they can identify the objects near his plane. 70 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Anchorage Center, 71 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 we're trying to have 16, 28, 72 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 and we have an electronic aircraft. 73 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Japan has 16, 28 heavy negatives. 74 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 As Teruuchi attempts a series of evasive maneuvers 75 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,240 to avoid a potential collision, the two UFOs suddenly 76 00:05:01,340 --> 00:05:03,380 disappear. 77 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:08,040 In their place is another object. 78 00:05:08,140 --> 00:05:13,420 Once so large, it dwarfs the 747. 79 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:18,560 His words for describing it were gigantic spaceship. 80 00:05:18,660 --> 00:05:22,760 The size of maybe two aircraft carriers is immense. 81 00:05:22,820 --> 00:05:29,660 Teruuchi sees his massive thing in the sky, and he's scared. 82 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,760 Concerned by Captain Teruuchi's report, 83 00:05:32,860 --> 00:05:36,760 the air traffic controller calls NORAD, the North American 84 00:05:36,860 --> 00:05:40,640 Aerospace Defense Command, based at Elmendorf Air Force Base 85 00:05:40,740 --> 00:05:43,580 in Anchorage. 86 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,040 Communication specialists at the airbase 87 00:05:46,140 --> 00:05:49,980 confirm that there is a very large, unidentified object 88 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:51,280 on their radar screens. 89 00:05:52,820 --> 00:05:54,680 Traffic control told them that they could actually 90 00:05:54,780 --> 00:05:58,620 take whatever evasive actions they needed to avoid collision, 91 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,400 and they even dropped down to 4,000 feet above sea level, 92 00:06:02,500 --> 00:06:05,740 and the thing continued to follow them. 93 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:09,200 Air traffic control diverted another commercial flight 94 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:12,640 to come look at this UFO, and by the time they got there, 95 00:06:12,740 --> 00:06:15,840 UFO was completely gone. 96 00:06:15,940 --> 00:06:20,380 One of the reasons why the JAL report is such a big deal 97 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:26,240 is because the corroborating evidence is overwhelming. 98 00:06:26,340 --> 00:06:27,980 Not only are there eyewitness reports, 99 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,020 but there is the records off the communication systems 100 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,780 that Teruuchi was in touch with. 101 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,560 Actual dialogue that happened. 102 00:06:36,660 --> 00:06:37,960 Hey, we are up here. 103 00:06:38,060 --> 00:06:38,860 We see this. 104 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:40,400 Are you guys seeing this on your radar? 105 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:42,560 All this stuff is recorded. 106 00:06:42,660 --> 00:06:46,900 Once safely grounded, Captain Teruuchi, his co-pilot, 107 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,400 and flight engineer were immediately 108 00:06:49,460 --> 00:06:52,760 interviewed by Alaska Federal Aviation Administration 109 00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:56,160 officials and other special agents. 110 00:06:56,260 --> 00:06:59,900 There's an FAA investigation into this. 111 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,800 There's lots of documentation. 112 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:06,980 There's no real hard and fast conclusion about this. 113 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,980 And so the pilot, perhaps out of frustration, 114 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,480 talks to the media. 115 00:07:12,580 --> 00:07:17,680 In December 1986, one month after the encounter, 116 00:07:17,740 --> 00:07:20,780 Captain Teruuchi contacted Kyoto News 117 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,740 and said he believed the mysterious crafts were 118 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:27,540 of extraterrestrial origin. 119 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,780 The unauthorized statements prompted Japan Airlines 120 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,520 officials to remove Captain Teruuchi from pilot duty 121 00:07:34,620 --> 00:07:38,620 and assign him to a desk job. 122 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,400 Around the same time, John Callahan, the FAA's division 123 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:46,340 chief of the Accidents and Investigations Branch, 124 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:52,000 learned of the incident and deemed it worthy of investigation. 125 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:55,000 John Callahan went to DC about this. 126 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:58,180 And there was a meeting that was chaired by one 127 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,740 of the top people of the FAA. 128 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:05,420 This meeting was also attended by representatives of the FBI, 129 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,760 representatives of the CIA, and representatives 130 00:08:08,860 --> 00:08:11,020 of President Reagan's White House. 131 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:14,020 They had audio tapes that were played 132 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,640 between the pilot and air traffic control, 133 00:08:16,740 --> 00:08:18,640 describing everything that was happening, 134 00:08:18,740 --> 00:08:20,280 and written reports. 135 00:08:20,380 --> 00:08:24,880 And at the end of the meeting, one of the CIA agents 136 00:08:24,980 --> 00:08:29,720 stood up and said, this meeting never happened, 137 00:08:29,820 --> 00:08:34,020 and we're confiscating all of the data that 138 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,520 has been shared here. 139 00:08:36,620 --> 00:08:38,820 Now, Callahan, he was a little sly, 140 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:40,980 but he was within his rights. 141 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:43,420 They never asked me, he said, if I had 142 00:08:43,420 --> 00:08:47,920 a copy of any of this myself, he said, which I did. 143 00:08:48,020 --> 00:08:51,160 He had a copy of the audio recordings of nothing else, 144 00:08:51,260 --> 00:08:52,620 and a little over a decade later, 145 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,000 shared that with the public. 146 00:08:56,100 --> 00:08:58,500 John Callahan came away with the feeling 147 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,760 that there was essentially a kind of cover-up. 148 00:09:00,860 --> 00:09:03,600 The FAA didn't want the fact that this incident had 149 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:05,540 occurred to get out. 150 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:10,840 I've spoken to pilots who have seen amazing things out there, 151 00:09:10,860 --> 00:09:15,140 but never reported because of the fear of being disbelieved, 152 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:20,700 being ridiculed, and perhaps being grounded. 153 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,940 You won't be flying anymore. 154 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:24,340 So what did they say? 155 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,540 Most times, nothing. 156 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:32,420 You have countless commercial and private airline pilots 157 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:37,320 who spend an exorbitant amount of time up in the sky. 158 00:09:37,420 --> 00:09:39,560 And in my opinion, I think they're 159 00:09:39,580 --> 00:09:45,620 the best people to discern what is natural and what is not. 160 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,560 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 161 00:09:49,660 --> 00:09:53,060 UFO encounters reported by civilian pilots 162 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,100 provide some of the most compelling evidence 163 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,500 that there is an extraterrestrial presence 164 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,900 in the skies above Earth. 165 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,280 And according to some pilots, what they've witnessed 166 00:10:05,340 --> 00:10:07,500 presents a serious danger. 167 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:17,380 For ancient astronaut theorists, UFO sightings reported 168 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,480 by pilots are particularly intriguing 169 00:10:21,580 --> 00:10:25,020 because while accounts of strange phenomena in the sky 170 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:29,120 date back millennia, it is only in the past century 171 00:10:29,220 --> 00:10:33,060 that humans have had an aerial vantage point. 172 00:10:33,340 --> 00:10:35,700 For thousands of years, we could only 173 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,700 observe things in the sky from the ground. 174 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,340 But in the last 100 or so years, we've 175 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,640 had the ability to fly. 176 00:10:43,740 --> 00:10:46,280 And so now we're up in the sky ourselves. 177 00:10:46,380 --> 00:10:49,940 We can discern natural phenomenon from powered craft. 178 00:10:53,220 --> 00:10:55,780 Thousands of pilots have reported 179 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,420 observing phenomena in the sky that do not resemble any 180 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,920 weather anomaly or man-made aircraft they've ever encountered. 181 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,320 Such was the case with Captain Eric Delgado, 182 00:11:07,420 --> 00:11:10,620 who served as an Air Force pilot for 10 years 183 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:15,500 before being hired to fly for FedEx in 2001. 184 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,200 On the evening of March 20, 2020, 185 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:22,360 Captain Delgado departed from Mexico City 186 00:11:22,460 --> 00:11:28,280 in a Boeing 767 bound for Memphis, Tennessee. 187 00:11:28,380 --> 00:11:32,540 One hour into the flight, Delgado noticed something strange. 188 00:11:33,620 --> 00:11:36,220 In the distance, he saw a strange in the distance. 189 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,320 Usually when we get to altitude, we'll relax. 190 00:11:38,420 --> 00:11:39,780 I was conversing with my first officer. 191 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,420 And as I'm looking at him, his eyes got really big. 192 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,500 And his mouth kind of dropped. 193 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,600 And I'm like, what the hell is this guy looking at? 194 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:50,100 And he goes, look at the shooting star. 195 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,060 And he stops. 196 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,160 They never finished the word star. 197 00:11:53,260 --> 00:11:54,940 And so I kind of looked over my left shoulder. 198 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,740 And you can imagine a lighthouse and thin fog, 199 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,980 kind of just a spotlight that just kind of came over us. 200 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:02,280 And I thought, oh my god. 201 00:12:02,340 --> 00:12:03,300 It's another airplane. 202 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,000 And he's got a vector toward us. 203 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:07,240 What's this clown doing? 204 00:12:07,340 --> 00:12:10,380 I grabbed the throttles, gripping it with a death grip. 205 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,240 It's getting ready to disconnect the autopilot. 206 00:12:12,340 --> 00:12:14,520 And I'm looking at the screen, realizing there's 207 00:12:14,620 --> 00:12:17,180 nothing on the screen. 208 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,560 Delgado immediately used his digital camera 209 00:12:20,660 --> 00:12:23,120 to record the astonishing sight. 210 00:12:23,220 --> 00:12:24,460 I thought it was a shooting star. 211 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:26,600 I thought, let it just stop. 212 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:27,640 He's a pulsating orb. 213 00:12:27,740 --> 00:12:28,440 Look at that, dude. 214 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:30,600 Look at that. 215 00:12:30,660 --> 00:12:32,960 Within minutes of the sighting, the orb 216 00:12:33,060 --> 00:12:35,900 moved towards the plane at a high rate of speed, 217 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,260 then suddenly stopped short. 218 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:39,660 My heart was racing still. 219 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,100 Speed doesn't kill. 220 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,780 Deceleration, stopping, that's what kills you. 221 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,040 And the fact that this thing stopped like that, 222 00:12:48,140 --> 00:12:51,480 if there were somebody inside there, 223 00:12:51,580 --> 00:12:53,780 our conventional laws of physics and stopping, 224 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:55,420 they wouldn't have survived the G forces 225 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,820 to come to a stop like that. 226 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,020 Oh, man, look at that thing, dude. 227 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,420 The UAP flew alongside Delgado's aircraft 228 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,580 at an astonishing 500 miles per hour. 229 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:11,520 And yet, there was no sign of a propulsion system. 230 00:13:11,620 --> 00:13:14,500 This thing was parked on a wingtip about 1,000, 2,000 feet. 231 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:15,500 And it didn't move. 232 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,100 With your naked eye, it was just bright dim, bright dim. 233 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:19,540 And it was very sick like it didn't waver. 234 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:20,860 It was the same. 235 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,840 And you look through the camera, 236 00:13:22,940 --> 00:13:27,600 and now you can see features in a shape. 237 00:13:27,660 --> 00:13:30,960 The object continued to track Delgado's aircraft 238 00:13:31,060 --> 00:13:32,900 for nearly 30 miles. 239 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,360 It's turning colors now. 240 00:13:35,460 --> 00:13:38,200 This thing started rotating and start changing colors, 241 00:13:38,300 --> 00:13:39,240 and it started taking off. 242 00:13:39,340 --> 00:13:41,440 And so I'm zooming in as fast as I could. 243 00:13:41,540 --> 00:13:44,040 I'm zooming in, and he's pulling away, dude. 244 00:13:44,140 --> 00:13:45,840 He's pulling away. 245 00:13:45,940 --> 00:13:50,020 This thing took off at pretty good velocity. 246 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,960 After making a safe landing, Delgado 247 00:13:53,060 --> 00:13:57,120 shared his videos with the Air Operations Center personnel. 248 00:13:57,140 --> 00:14:00,020 Even though his co-pilot was reluctant to file 249 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,380 an official report. 250 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:04,480 There was still a stigma behind the whole thing. 251 00:14:04,580 --> 00:14:05,620 Are they going to ground us? 252 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,580 Are they going to ask for our medical? 253 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:09,220 Are we going to have to go see somebody? 254 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,460 So I could understand where he was coming from. 255 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:14,660 In recent years, we've seen military pilots 256 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:16,660 being encouraged to come forward and talk 257 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:18,060 about things they've seen. 258 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,260 The same has not necessarily always 259 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,140 extended to commercial pilots because there 260 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,040 isn't an interest in collecting information 261 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:28,560 from those pilots the same as there would be with military 262 00:14:28,660 --> 00:14:31,140 pilots where in the interest of national security, 263 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,200 if you see something, say something. 264 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:37,280 But traditionally, when commercial pilots contacted 265 00:14:37,380 --> 00:14:39,040 the FAA, they have been told, hey, 266 00:14:39,140 --> 00:14:41,740 you need to talk to civilian UFO researchers, 267 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,520 or they don't actually have a clear idea of where else they 268 00:14:44,620 --> 00:14:45,720 can even log those reports. 269 00:14:45,820 --> 00:14:48,120 So it's a very different situation. 270 00:14:48,220 --> 00:14:52,460 Captain Delgado decided not to give the video to the FAA, 271 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,620 and instead turned it over to the National Aviation 272 00:14:55,720 --> 00:15:00,060 Reporting Center on anomalous phenomena, or NARCAP, 273 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,500 a civilian organization made up of volunteers 274 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:08,340 who investigate unidentified aerial sightings. 275 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,080 They concluded that the glowing object was 276 00:15:11,180 --> 00:15:14,520 consistent with that of an exotic craft with a plasma 277 00:15:14,620 --> 00:15:19,040 exterior that could disrupt radar signals. 278 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:23,240 I think I saw some intelligent anomaly. 279 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:27,840 It's amazing. 280 00:15:27,940 --> 00:15:31,280 I'd like to know more of the science and the physics 281 00:15:31,380 --> 00:15:34,120 behind what I was looking at, maybe. 282 00:15:34,220 --> 00:15:38,860 But see the footage and inform your own opinions. 283 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,320 Things need to change because pilots 284 00:15:42,420 --> 00:15:47,260 should be at the forefront of being free enough 285 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:53,320 to come forward to report what they saw. 286 00:15:53,420 --> 00:15:57,400 The FAA has never conducted an official investigation 287 00:15:57,500 --> 00:16:00,460 into Pilot Delgado's incident. 288 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,640 What would they take notice if a UFO sighting affected 289 00:16:04,740 --> 00:16:05,900 an entire airport? 290 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:14,480 O'Hare International Airport, November 7, 2006. 291 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:22,220 A ramp employee for United Airlines Flight 446, 292 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,600 sponsor metallic saucer-shaped object hovering over 293 00:16:25,700 --> 00:16:32,860 Gate C-17, between 1,000 and 1,900 feet in the air. 294 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,400 Within minutes, federal authorities 295 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:38,140 received nearly a dozen panicked phone calls 296 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,340 from airport personnel. 297 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,080 Here you have pilots. 298 00:16:42,180 --> 00:16:45,120 Here you have people working at the airport. 299 00:16:45,180 --> 00:16:49,240 And civilians going to get on their flights all witness 300 00:16:49,340 --> 00:16:54,020 a UFO hovering directly over one of the gates at the airport. 301 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:56,320 This UFO was cylindrical in shape. 302 00:16:56,420 --> 00:16:59,160 It was metallic. 303 00:16:59,260 --> 00:17:03,900 Witnesses estimated the object to be between 16 and 24 304 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,700 feet in diameter. 305 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:10,700 Suddenly, this thing just accelerates vertically 306 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:14,140 and punches a hole through the cloud. 307 00:17:14,260 --> 00:17:16,460 Everyone's staggered by this. 308 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,440 Now, there is a meteorological phenomenon 309 00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:22,200 called a hole punch cloud. 310 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:24,000 But that doesn't really fit with the idea 311 00:17:24,100 --> 00:17:26,740 that there was this metallic craft hovering 312 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:28,840 before this happened. 313 00:17:28,940 --> 00:17:32,140 A hole punch cloud is a real phenomena. 314 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:36,080 But the weather conditions needed to produce a hole punch 315 00:17:36,180 --> 00:17:39,980 cloud weren't there that day. 316 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:41,360 They weren't there that day. 317 00:17:41,460 --> 00:17:43,960 And so that explanation doesn't make any sense at all. 318 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,720 The Chicago Tribune, they end up filing a Freedom of Information 319 00:17:48,820 --> 00:17:50,720 Act request with the FAA. 320 00:17:50,820 --> 00:17:52,720 And lo and behold, they get a recording. 321 00:17:52,820 --> 00:17:54,660 There was a disk out there flying around. 322 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:55,760 There was a what? 323 00:17:55,860 --> 00:17:59,060 There was a disk flying outside above Charlie 17. 324 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:00,660 But you couldn't see it out there. 325 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,600 A disk, like a frisbee? 326 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:05,040 Like a UFO type thing. 327 00:18:05,140 --> 00:18:07,940 So we have a United Airlines supervisor 328 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:13,140 on the phone with the FAA controller using the word UFO. 329 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,760 So once again, we have a scenario where the FAA, 330 00:18:16,860 --> 00:18:19,540 and we have United Airlines personnel in this case 331 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:23,840 saying there's nothing to see here, but in fact, there was. 332 00:18:23,940 --> 00:18:27,540 Is it possible the US government has been concealing 333 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:32,380 evidence about UAP sightings near our airports? 334 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,920 According to UFO researchers, it would fit a disturbing pattern 335 00:18:37,020 --> 00:18:40,160 of ignoring what many believe are serious threats 336 00:18:40,220 --> 00:18:44,380 to the millions of people who travel the skies every day. 337 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:48,220 Threats that are surprisingly well documented 338 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,520 and sometimes even caught on tape. 339 00:18:55,860 --> 00:18:59,700 For decades, civilian pilots have been frustrated 340 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,800 by the Federal Aviation Administration's refusal 341 00:19:02,900 --> 00:19:06,340 to investigate encounters between commercial airlines 342 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:08,540 and unidentified flying objects. 343 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:14,400 Skeptics argue that these encounters lack hard data, 344 00:19:14,500 --> 00:19:17,940 like telemetry, radar, and audio recordings 345 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,540 that would warrant an investigation. 346 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,120 But there have, in fact, been numerous incidents 347 00:19:25,220 --> 00:19:28,380 where viable evidence has been collected, 348 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,160 including an event involving two aircraft traveling 349 00:19:32,260 --> 00:19:34,960 over the state of Arizona. 350 00:19:35,060 --> 00:19:38,360 In 2018, flying over Arizona, you've got a Learjet, 351 00:19:38,660 --> 00:19:41,060 you've got an American Airlines jet, 352 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:45,660 and something zips over the Learjet right over top. 353 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,260 And they immediately call ATC. 354 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:49,260 I don't know where it was. 355 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:52,000 It wasn't an airplane, but it was a capital storm 356 00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:53,800 after the direction. 357 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:55,640 And radar tower says, we don't see anything. 358 00:19:55,740 --> 00:19:57,480 We don't know what the heck it is. 359 00:19:57,580 --> 00:20:00,780 And so the radar tower calls the American Airlines jet 360 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,120 behind that plane and says, hey, look out for a second. 361 00:20:04,220 --> 00:20:06,620 Objects should be coming your way. 362 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:10,320 American 1095, let me know if anything 363 00:20:10,420 --> 00:20:14,220 passed over you here in the next 15 miles. 364 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,680 The pilot of the American Airlines jet 365 00:20:16,780 --> 00:20:19,560 initially responds, requesting clarification. 366 00:20:22,060 --> 00:20:23,720 Anything passes over? 367 00:20:23,820 --> 00:20:25,100 American 1095 affirmative. 368 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:26,360 We had an aircraft in front of you 369 00:20:26,460 --> 00:20:27,860 that reported something passed over him, 370 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,200 and we didn't have any targets. 371 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:33,600 Just let me know if you see anything pass over you. 372 00:20:33,660 --> 00:20:37,300 And then, just moments later, the American Airlines pilot 373 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,660 radios back to air traffic control. 374 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:41,760 It's American 1095. 375 00:20:41,860 --> 00:20:44,260 Yeah, something just passed over. 376 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:49,000 Like a, what it was, at least 2,000, 3,000 feet above us. 377 00:20:49,100 --> 00:20:51,100 But yeah, it passed right over the top of us. 378 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,140 OK, American 1095, thank you. 379 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,340 And American 1095, can you tell if it was in motion 380 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:58,340 or just hovering? 381 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:02,780 I want several thousand feet above us 382 00:21:02,780 --> 00:21:05,440 and go out of their direction. 383 00:21:05,540 --> 00:21:07,540 Was it a Googlebore? 384 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,140 Yes, sir. 385 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:11,040 UFO. 386 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,020 This incident is significant because there 387 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:19,820 are audio recordings of the whole incident. 388 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:23,620 And the pilots actually use the word UFO 389 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,320 while they're talking to the control tower. 390 00:21:25,420 --> 00:21:25,820 UFO. 391 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,800 According to researchers, the Arizona encounter 392 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,120 was never openly investigated by the government, 393 00:21:35,220 --> 00:21:38,000 despite the evidence presented in the recordings 394 00:21:38,100 --> 00:21:41,660 between the two pilots and air traffic control. 395 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,960 Neither was another incident. 396 00:21:44,060 --> 00:21:48,400 This one's so serious, it required a call to the US Air 397 00:21:48,500 --> 00:21:48,900 Force. 398 00:21:51,700 --> 00:21:57,840 The Oregon Coast, October 25, 2017. 399 00:21:57,940 --> 00:22:00,560 A radar operator spots a fast-moving, 400 00:22:00,620 --> 00:22:05,160 unidentified object in a busy commercial flight path. 401 00:22:05,260 --> 00:22:07,420 There were no pilots involved in that initial reporting. 402 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:11,200 It was just a tower controller and a radar center operator. 403 00:22:11,300 --> 00:22:13,700 And they're going back and forth. 404 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,800 The radar operator contacts air traffic control 405 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:18,900 in Seattle, Washington. 406 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,080 You know that target's out of the boundary there? 407 00:22:21,180 --> 00:22:25,580 That 0027 code moving very fast at 37,000? 408 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,140 Oh, look at that thing. 409 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:28,980 Yeah, that's crazy. 410 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,600 Oh, and you don't have anything on him? 411 00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:32,900 I got nothing. 412 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,640 Well, well, look. 413 00:22:35,740 --> 00:22:37,540 The object has no call sign. 414 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,280 It has no transponder. 415 00:22:39,380 --> 00:22:40,880 It's not communicating. 416 00:22:40,980 --> 00:22:42,780 What is this object? 417 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,420 Pilots in the air start picking it up visually. 418 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,920 Multiple pilots from multiple airlines 419 00:22:48,020 --> 00:22:51,820 flying both north and south of the coast. 420 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:56,040 And they see this huge white object moving extremely fast 421 00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:59,200 at 37,000 feet. 422 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:04,000 The pilots could see a white light that was coming at them 423 00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:06,140 and moving around. 424 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,540 And they reported it to the control tower. 425 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,580 And the pilot said that it was moving erratically. 426 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,180 Yeah, if you have 612, we can see it. 427 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,320 But there's no identification on it. 428 00:23:17,420 --> 00:23:19,860 It's there. 429 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,600 This object was a little bit too close for comfort. 430 00:23:23,660 --> 00:23:26,320 And so they tried to communicate with it. 431 00:23:26,420 --> 00:23:29,900 All the things that this object should have given off 432 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,360 if it was an authorized aircraft, a US aircraft, 433 00:23:34,460 --> 00:23:36,400 a commercial aircraft weren't there. 434 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:38,740 It was just silent. 435 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:43,240 And so the military scrambled two F-15 fighters 436 00:23:43,340 --> 00:23:47,080 to go intercept this thing. 437 00:23:47,180 --> 00:23:49,080 Now, you don't do that lightly. 438 00:23:49,180 --> 00:23:50,280 This is a big call. 439 00:23:50,380 --> 00:23:51,620 This is the sort of thing that you 440 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,340 do on a 9-11 type event. 441 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,120 So what happened? 442 00:23:56,220 --> 00:23:58,680 Why did they take this one so seriously 443 00:23:58,780 --> 00:24:03,420 that a fighter interceptor was sent up to try and take a look? 444 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,020 The F-15s race to intercept the UFO. 445 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:10,260 But this proves more difficult than expected. 446 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:13,100 Once the jets were on their way, 447 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,200 this UFO suddenly shot off in a different direction 448 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:20,000 and was very fast and was able to make 449 00:24:20,020 --> 00:24:24,960 these quick turns at very high speeds. 450 00:24:25,060 --> 00:24:27,960 At one point, this object changes direction. 451 00:24:28,060 --> 00:24:32,840 It's flying southbound and then turns and goes northbound. 452 00:24:32,940 --> 00:24:35,200 So the F-15 fighters, they go there, 453 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:38,940 and at the last minute, as best anyone can guess, 454 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,640 turns and zips out over the Pacific Ocean. 455 00:24:42,740 --> 00:24:46,680 Observers are shocked that F-15s, among the nation's 456 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,720 fastest and most sophisticated fighter jets, 457 00:24:49,820 --> 00:24:54,420 are unable to catch up with the mysterious object. 458 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,020 We're this guy in the depth. 459 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:57,220 We don't know. 460 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:58,860 Oh, so we do that now? 461 00:24:58,960 --> 00:24:59,960 No. 462 00:25:00,060 --> 00:25:01,060 The fighters scrambled. 463 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:02,560 They went out looking around a little bit, 464 00:25:02,660 --> 00:25:06,300 but we lost anybody having sight of the aircraft. 465 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:07,600 Wow, that's weird. 466 00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:08,440 It's really weird. 467 00:25:08,540 --> 00:25:09,900 Yeah. 468 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,900 What's great about this is the audio tapes, 469 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,780 which were released via the Freedom of Information Act. 470 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:20,780 When you hear the process happen from initial sighting 471 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,080 to the scrambling of military jets, 472 00:25:23,180 --> 00:25:26,020 it's fascinating to hear that happen. 473 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:27,220 What should we do? 474 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,580 It goes to the Air Force. 475 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,420 It goes to NORAD. 476 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,060 It's there and seen by so many, and then it's gone. 477 00:25:36,660 --> 00:25:39,460 These two incidents are considered to be 478 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,800 among a multitude of reports where 479 00:25:42,260 --> 00:25:46,700 analyzable data, including radar, radio transmissions, 480 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,500 telemetry, and eyewitness accounts, 481 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:54,440 offer compelling evidence of unidentified aerial phenomena. 482 00:25:54,540 --> 00:25:57,980 Yet to the public's knowledge, these dangerous encounters 483 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,940 have never been investigated by the government. 484 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,940 UFO experts believe the flying public 485 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,920 is at significant risk. 486 00:26:07,020 --> 00:26:09,920 And as evidence, point to a mysterious case 487 00:26:09,980 --> 00:26:14,620 where a pilot experienced his worst nightmare, 10,000 feet, 488 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:15,380 in the air. 489 00:26:21,660 --> 00:26:29,260 Zihuantanello, Mexico, May 3, 1975. 490 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:32,260 After dropping off passengers at this seaport town 491 00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:36,040 on the Pacific Coast, pilot Carlos de los Santos 492 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,100 embarks on a return trip to Mexico City 493 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,500 in his Piper PA-24 Comanche. 494 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,580 The weather conditions are clear, 495 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,940 and visibility is good as de los Santos cruises 496 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,440 at 10,000 feet. 497 00:26:50,540 --> 00:26:56,360 One hour into the flight, he witnesses something unusual. 498 00:26:56,460 --> 00:27:01,460 A gray, wingless object off the left side of his plane. 499 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,720 And as he approaches Mexico City, 500 00:27:03,780 --> 00:27:07,180 he notices basically a small flying saucer just 501 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:08,040 above his left wing. 502 00:27:08,140 --> 00:27:09,880 It's not as large as his aircraft. 503 00:27:09,980 --> 00:27:12,820 And he's flying a fairly small aircraft. 504 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,920 And he's like, what is this? 505 00:27:15,020 --> 00:27:18,820 And then he looks over to his right, and he sees another one. 506 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,860 And then he looks ahead of them, and there's one coming at him. 507 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,860 It goes below his aircraft. 508 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:28,300 And he feels a bump under his aircraft. 509 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,340 And he's scared out of his mind. 510 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:32,200 Anyone would be. 511 00:27:34,340 --> 00:27:36,820 He then realizes that he's not really 512 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,580 in control of his aircraft. 513 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,180 His aircraft is moving in a way that 514 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,280 seems to respond to these objects, not to him. 515 00:27:47,020 --> 00:27:51,160 He goes to move the yoke, and the yoke is moving on itself. 516 00:27:51,260 --> 00:27:54,560 The plane starts climbing to 3,000 meters. 517 00:27:54,660 --> 00:27:57,460 That's the ceiling of the Piper. 518 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,440 If it climbs any further, it will stall out. 519 00:28:01,540 --> 00:28:02,840 He will lose control. 520 00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:06,000 The plane will fall out of the sky. 521 00:28:06,100 --> 00:28:07,940 He's actually becoming afraid because his cabin's 522 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,740 not pressurized. 523 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,100 You get to a certain altitude. 524 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,640 He's going to have a hard time breathing. 525 00:28:14,740 --> 00:28:19,480 The theory is that the UFO that came under the plane 526 00:28:19,580 --> 00:28:22,780 took control of his plane. 527 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,620 And the UFO's own magnetic envelope 528 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,720 is lifting the plane higher and higher and higher. 529 00:28:29,740 --> 00:28:31,940 So a scientist is in a panic. 530 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:33,620 He's giving mayday calls. 531 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,160 He's telling them, there are these unidentified objects 532 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,700 at my wingtips and below me. 533 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,960 And I don't know what to do. 534 00:29:03,060 --> 00:29:06,840 As the private plane races towards a mountainous area, 535 00:29:06,940 --> 00:29:10,500 the three UAPs disengage from Carlos' plane 536 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,880 and veer off toward the Mount Popacata Petal Volcano 537 00:29:13,980 --> 00:29:16,940 at lightning speed. 538 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,180 As the objects disappear from sight, 539 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,320 Carlos regains control of the plane. 540 00:29:22,420 --> 00:29:25,620 But he quickly realizes his ordeal isn't over. 541 00:29:28,220 --> 00:29:30,120 He can't initiate his landing gear 542 00:29:30,220 --> 00:29:32,020 because of the impact that one of these objects 543 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,820 made on his aircraft. 544 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:39,000 He has to circle around the airport about 10 times. 545 00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:41,900 And he uses a screwdriver to push the lever 546 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,660 to get his landing gear to come down. 547 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,900 And he successfully lands his aircraft. 548 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,380 It's kind of an amazing thing there. 549 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,540 So he lands his aircraft. 550 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,080 And the story doesn't end here. 551 00:29:54,180 --> 00:29:57,380 Now, he would have had his whole career reputation ruined, 552 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,980 probably with this, except for the fact 553 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:04,480 that Mexican air traffic control tracked these objects also. 554 00:30:04,580 --> 00:30:07,080 And this came out to support him. 555 00:30:07,180 --> 00:30:10,420 This story became a huge news story in Mexico. 556 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,480 Didn't really make much impact in the United States, 557 00:30:12,580 --> 00:30:15,820 but it was a very big story in Mexico. 558 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,460 Years later, De Los Santos revealed 559 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,500 that in the aftermath of the event, 560 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,900 he was twice approached by mysterious figures warning him 561 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,100 not to speak about his experience. 562 00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:31,120 The first occasion was just before he was scheduled 563 00:30:31,220 --> 00:30:34,600 to be interviewed by a Mexican television station. 564 00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:37,600 The second happened when De Los Santos was 565 00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:41,460 set to meet with the famous UFO investigator, J. Allen 566 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,600 Heinrich. 567 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:44,700 Heinrich was into the case. 568 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,140 A lot of people were following this case. 569 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,480 And just before he was going to meet with Heinrich at some hotel, 570 00:30:50,580 --> 00:30:53,620 he gets another encounter from one of these men in black, 571 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,320 these tall, pasty, white-skinned guys, 572 00:30:56,780 --> 00:30:59,940 who warned him, don't talk about this. 573 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:01,180 He was threatened. 574 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,520 And he did actually stop talking about this 575 00:31:03,620 --> 00:31:04,920 for a little while after that. 576 00:31:05,020 --> 00:31:08,180 But as time went by, he's talked about it. 577 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,420 It's just one of the most incredible aviation UAP stories 578 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:13,420 that you're ever going to hear. 579 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,620 And he got out of it alive. 580 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,420 Pilot Carlos De Los Santos ultimately 581 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,820 emerged from his harrowing mid-air encounter, unscathed. 582 00:31:23,820 --> 00:31:28,280 But similar confrontations between civilian planes and UFOs 583 00:31:28,380 --> 00:31:32,720 have led to tragic consequences, including injuries, 584 00:31:32,820 --> 00:31:36,060 crashes, and even loss of life. 585 00:31:41,060 --> 00:31:44,660 The National UFO Reporting Center, or New Fork, 586 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,040 has counted at least 100 cases in the US 587 00:31:48,140 --> 00:31:51,940 where flight safety was impaired because of close calls 588 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,840 with unidentified aerial phenomena. 589 00:31:54,940 --> 00:32:00,640 And in at least one incident, it appears a collision with a UFO 590 00:32:00,740 --> 00:32:01,840 cost fatal results. 591 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:10,180 Mobile, Alabama, October 23, 2002. 592 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:14,580 Former NYPD pilot and flight instructor Thomas Precios 593 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,060 departs from Mobile downtown airport, 594 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,680 piloting a single-engine Cessna with the call sign, 595 00:32:21,780 --> 00:32:24,960 Night Chip 282. 596 00:32:25,060 --> 00:32:29,960 The story of Night Chip 282 is quite alarming. 597 00:32:30,060 --> 00:32:34,060 A Hollywood scriptwriter couldn't come up with this one. 598 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:38,260 We have a NYPD pilot, a freight hauler, 599 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,860 very experienced flight instructor, 600 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:46,980 hauling documents from Mobile, Alabama, up north to Montgomery. 601 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,140 Routine flight. 602 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:54,840 Due to poor visibility, Precios was flying by his instruments. 603 00:32:54,940 --> 00:32:58,140 Just one minute into the flight, he spotted something 604 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:03,880 in the distance and immediately radioed air traffic control. 605 00:33:03,980 --> 00:33:06,840 He saw what looked like another plane in the sky. 606 00:33:06,940 --> 00:33:10,740 It was just confirming that that was another plane up there. 607 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,440 And then all of a sudden, he's alarmed. 608 00:33:12,540 --> 00:33:13,040 He's panicked. 609 00:33:13,140 --> 00:33:16,080 Something is coming at him. 610 00:33:16,140 --> 00:33:19,780 This pilot sees an object in front of him 611 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,880 on a collision course with his plane. 612 00:33:23,980 --> 00:33:25,680 What does he do? 613 00:33:25,780 --> 00:33:29,280 He radios a request for permission to deviate. 614 00:33:29,380 --> 00:33:30,520 I must deviate. 615 00:33:30,620 --> 00:33:33,980 I must deviate, he says over the radio. 616 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,980 He deviates. 617 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,020 Silence. 618 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:43,020 The transmission goes dead. 619 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,980 Five minutes after takeoff, Night Chip 620 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,380 282 crashes into Big Bato Bay. 621 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:56,120 Tragically, Thomas Precios is killed on impact. 622 00:33:56,220 --> 00:33:59,420 When investigators from the National Transportation Safety 623 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,680 Board, or NTSB, arrive at the scene, 624 00:34:03,780 --> 00:34:06,320 they discover parts of the Cessna scattered 625 00:34:06,420 --> 00:34:10,020 over an area of nearly 200 yards. 626 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,820 The plane is not just demolished. 627 00:34:13,820 --> 00:34:17,120 It's almost vaporized. 628 00:34:17,220 --> 00:34:19,260 Something obviously hit the plane. 629 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:20,520 The props are damaged. 630 00:34:20,620 --> 00:34:22,460 The wings are damaged. 631 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,060 The fuselage is damaged. 632 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,760 Holds ill damage inside the mechanics of the airplane. 633 00:34:29,860 --> 00:34:34,160 It becomes apparent he has collided with something 634 00:34:34,260 --> 00:34:37,300 in midair. 635 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,300 A midair collision of such extreme force 636 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,500 would naturally send two wrecks spiraling to the ground. 637 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,440 But an extensive search of the area 638 00:34:46,540 --> 00:34:50,300 produced only one aircraft. 639 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,540 No other wreckage was ever found. 640 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:57,040 No other craft which would have presumably done this. 641 00:34:57,140 --> 00:34:59,040 The most bizarre thing about this 642 00:34:59,140 --> 00:35:02,780 is that there are these strange red markings all 643 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,880 over parts of the aircraft. 644 00:35:05,980 --> 00:35:08,920 These red markings have not been identified as far as I 645 00:35:08,980 --> 00:35:10,340 can tell. 646 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,640 And there are a variety of places of the aircraft. 647 00:35:13,740 --> 00:35:16,780 The NTSB suggested that whatever it hit was this color 648 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,520 red, or had this red coating on it. 649 00:35:19,620 --> 00:35:22,620 And when it hit, it rubbed off on this guy's craft. 650 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:27,060 They also found pieces of metal in the wings 651 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,800 that didn't belong to the plane. 652 00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:33,700 Various pieces of metal were embedded in the crashed plane 653 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:35,400 that weren't part of that plane. 654 00:35:35,460 --> 00:35:39,360 So something metal, something red. 655 00:35:39,460 --> 00:35:42,860 But at the end of the day, a mystery. 656 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,500 Clearly, this is one of the rare occasions 657 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,140 where there was a collision that obliterated a plane, 658 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:49,740 killed the pilot. 659 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,640 And the FAA, the aviation authorities, 660 00:35:52,740 --> 00:35:55,280 and the investigations that followed 661 00:35:55,380 --> 00:35:56,780 could not explain it. 662 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,820 And to this day, cannot explain it. 663 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:02,680 You have to wonder if this incident, which 664 00:36:02,740 --> 00:36:05,900 caused the death of the pilot, wasn't also 665 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,340 some extraterrestrial incident where perhaps a flying saucer 666 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,380 or other craft hit this plane, or the plane itself 667 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,320 hit the craft. 668 00:36:16,420 --> 00:36:19,920 For UFO researchers, the tragic case of Thomas 669 00:36:20,020 --> 00:36:24,020 Precios raises the question, is it possible 670 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,460 that there have been other fatal collisions with UFOs that 671 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,260 have gone unreported? 672 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:35,420 Or happened before the pilot could radio air traffic control? 673 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,020 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 674 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,960 it is a question worth investigating. 675 00:36:42,060 --> 00:36:45,100 Given the number of highly unusual encounters, 676 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,700 pilots have started sharing with the public. 677 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:53,580 And while the FAA continues to dismiss such reports, 678 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,640 another government agency, one focused on outer space, 679 00:36:57,700 --> 00:37:02,240 is taking notice of possible extraterrestrial activity 680 00:37:02,340 --> 00:37:03,200 on Earth. 681 00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:10,240 In recent years, more and more pilots 682 00:37:10,340 --> 00:37:14,580 are coming forward to say that unidentified aerial phenomena 683 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:18,520 pose a serious risk to the flying public. 684 00:37:18,620 --> 00:37:21,220 The federal aviation administration, however, 685 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,860 continues to downplay the danger. 686 00:37:25,220 --> 00:37:28,160 The FAA is all about flight safety, 687 00:37:28,260 --> 00:37:31,820 and yet they don't accept UFO or UAP reports from civilians. 688 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,100 The FAA is essentially telling you, civilian, 689 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:35,620 I don't care what you've encountered. 690 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:38,100 And we don't have to keep statistics on it, 691 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,360 and we, therefore, don't have to do anything 692 00:37:40,460 --> 00:37:43,300 about this impossible phenomenon, which we don't 693 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,440 know what we could do. 694 00:37:45,540 --> 00:37:47,440 The FAA does not want civilians reporting 695 00:37:47,540 --> 00:37:51,640 UFOs because they don't want the public stirring the pot. 696 00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:55,360 This is something that could, in theory, become actionable 697 00:37:55,460 --> 00:37:57,300 through FOIA requests, for example. 698 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,000 You can have a civilian saying, I'd 699 00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:00,940 like to know how many civilians are reporting 700 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,740 UFOs to the FAA. 701 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:04,740 And then what do they do? 702 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,420 How many thousands of reports are they going to be releasing? 703 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,820 They don't want to get into that at all. 704 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,760 I think it goes to this idea not of air traffic safety, 705 00:38:13,860 --> 00:38:16,920 but not wanting to alarm the public. 706 00:38:17,020 --> 00:38:20,600 But now that the US government is paying serious attention 707 00:38:20,660 --> 00:38:24,500 to UAP encounters reported by military pilots, 708 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,200 at least one agency is ready to listen to civilian pilots 709 00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:30,300 as well. 710 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:35,800 And to the surprise of many, it is America's top space agency, 711 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:36,300 NASA. 712 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:44,180 In October, 2022, NASA assembled a team of 16 scientists 713 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,780 and experts for a first-of-its-kind investigation 714 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,140 into unidentified aerial phenomena. 715 00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:54,980 In order to collect new data, the space agency also 716 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,280 announced it is taking over management of the Aviation 717 00:38:58,380 --> 00:39:03,820 Safety Reporting System, or ASRS, a public service website 718 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:08,200 that encourages pilots to submit anonymous reports regarding 719 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:11,060 UAP sightings. 720 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:15,440 NASA has something now called the Aviation Safety Reporting 721 00:39:15,540 --> 00:39:16,340 System. 722 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,400 And this is a mechanism whereby pilots 723 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:26,140 can report UFO sightings anonymously if they choose. 724 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:29,340 And it says on the website, this is non-punitive. 725 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:30,780 We will not come after you for this. 726 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:31,840 There's no comeback. 727 00:39:31,940 --> 00:39:34,780 Just make your report. 728 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,060 It suggests to me that there's something else out there. 729 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,460 NASA knows about it, and they want to know more about it. 730 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,860 And so they are sort of surreptitiously saying, 731 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,380 we'll listen to your story now. 732 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,280 We're collecting a database now of what 733 00:39:49,380 --> 00:39:50,880 is happening in our skies. 734 00:39:50,980 --> 00:39:54,620 And so that is why I think NASA is ultimately 735 00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:57,160 taking the lead on this. 736 00:39:57,260 --> 00:39:59,460 People are saying, why NASA? 737 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:00,760 Why not the FAA? 738 00:40:00,860 --> 00:40:03,100 Does it perhaps tie in with the fact 739 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:07,260 that NASA is now studying UFOs? 740 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,140 Maybe an indication, an intriguing clue, 741 00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:13,340 that a lot of the incidents of most import 742 00:40:13,420 --> 00:40:17,760 happen in the real upper atmosphere, 743 00:40:17,860 --> 00:40:19,460 where we are going into space. 744 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:20,560 I don't know. 745 00:40:20,660 --> 00:40:22,560 But in a sense, that's not the point. 746 00:40:22,660 --> 00:40:26,960 The point is we now have this receptive environment 747 00:40:27,060 --> 00:40:32,640 into which pilots can finally speak out about the UFOs 748 00:40:32,740 --> 00:40:38,280 that they are seeing on a very frequent basis. 749 00:40:38,380 --> 00:40:42,000 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 750 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,720 encouraging commercial pilots to come forward 751 00:40:44,820 --> 00:40:48,480 with their stories, they finally provide critical proof 752 00:40:48,580 --> 00:40:50,940 that civilian aircraft do, in fact, 753 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,680 encounter UAPs in our skies. 754 00:40:54,780 --> 00:40:57,920 There's a deep history of UFO sightings, 755 00:40:58,020 --> 00:41:00,120 and the obvious threat to aviation 756 00:41:00,220 --> 00:41:04,460 is becoming more and more prevalent. 757 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:08,060 We have to start taking these reports incredibly seriously 758 00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,940 because pilots, crews, and passengers 759 00:41:10,980 --> 00:41:13,280 could be at risk. 760 00:41:13,380 --> 00:41:15,480 I challenge anybody to take anything you have and put it 761 00:41:15,580 --> 00:41:16,480 out there. 762 00:41:16,580 --> 00:41:18,120 Don't hesitate, because maybe you're 763 00:41:18,220 --> 00:41:21,180 going to open the door to bigger and better things 764 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,660 for mankind. 765 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,660 As more civilian pilots come forward 766 00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,660 to report their encounters with unidentified aerial 767 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,900 phenomena, will it be revealed that such incidents occur 768 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,500 far more often than we would ever imagine? 769 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:41,160 And if so, could bringing these incidents to light 770 00:41:41,260 --> 00:41:43,840 also bring us one step closer to learning 771 00:41:43,940 --> 00:41:48,300 the truth about just who or what has been occupying 772 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:53,480 our airspace for thousands of years? 773 00:41:53,580 --> 00:41:57,620 Perhaps one day soon, the strange craft in our skies 774 00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:00,020 will descend to Earth. 775 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,060 And when they do, we will know for certain 776 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,420 that we are not alone.