1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Flying saucers and alien invasions. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Once the stuff of science fiction. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Not anymore. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,000 We're all going against the wind. 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 The wind's a hundred and twenty-nine. 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,000 I don't think, dude. 7 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 I do not have an explanation for what this object is. 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,000 But in the land down under, 9 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,000 UFO sightings aren't one-off events. 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 They're happening almost daily. 11 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000 I have no idea what this thing is. 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Australia and New Zealand. 13 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Isolated countries floating in an ocean of blue 14 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,000 are attempting location for first contact. 15 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 I've seen some weird things in my life. 16 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,000 I've got extra weirders. 17 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Call the flying saucer, call the UFO, call the UAP. 18 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 One thing's for sure, it's not a plane. 19 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Using eyewitness accounts. 20 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 It's like a bloody flying saucer. 21 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,000 And expert commentary. 22 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,000 That was physical evidence. 23 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Now for the first time, 24 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 the Southern Hemisphere's UFO encounters 25 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000 are under the microscope. 26 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Is this seriously a UFO? Look. 27 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Is there something going on 28 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,000 that will change what we know 29 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 about our universe? 30 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,000 In this episode, 31 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,000 our investigation centers on Australia's northeast coast 32 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,000 to Queensland, where summer rains fill the creeks and rivers, 33 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,000 and spill into the jewel-like Great Barrier Reef. 34 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Is there a connection between UFOs and water? 35 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Experts are pondering on the ocean 36 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,000 and they're trying to get the water to flow 37 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 into the ocean. 38 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Experts are pondering that very question. 39 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Because in Australia's tropical north, 40 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000 accounts of unexplained phenomena 41 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 fill volumes of research. 42 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Our first UFO encounter takes us to the Lockyer Valley 43 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 in southeast Queensland. 44 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Prime agricultural country. 45 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Australia's food bowl. 46 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 It's a tough place, full of tough characters. 47 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 They don't suffer fools in the tropical heat. 48 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,000 My name's Andy Galt. 49 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 I'm 39 years old. 50 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,000 I live in Queensland, Australia. 51 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 I'm a project manager 52 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,000 on a goldmine site in Western Australia. 53 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Andy is also a storm watcher. 54 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 When he's at home in Queensland, 55 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 he videos the spectacular thunderstorms 56 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,000 that roll across his property. 57 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Over the last few years, 58 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 I've witnessed, at least on four or five occasions, 59 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 around the area where I live. 60 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 UFO activity and orbs, lights, 61 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 all sorts of things going on. 62 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Andy is in no doubt that he lives in a UFO hotspot. 63 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 As far as UFO activity in Australia goes, 64 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Queensland would be the biggest hotspot for sure. 65 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 In particular, the area where I live in the Lockyer Valley, 66 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 it's had a lot of reporting. 67 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 I've been working with the local government 68 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 in the Lockyer Valley. 69 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 It's had a lot of reporting. 70 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 When you look at social media, 71 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Australian UFO sites, Queensland sites, 72 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000 they sort of eclipse everyone else in Australia. 73 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Other areas or states in Australia for UFO activity, 74 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 that's for sure. 75 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,000 And it was on one steamy wet afternoon 76 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,000 when Andy captured more than he expected. 77 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 On the 9th of October 2018, 78 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,000 I was out in the shed with my partner. 79 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 There was a storm starting to roll in, 80 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,000 coming over the creek. 81 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,000 What I'd been doing is using my phone on slow motion, 82 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 leading up to this day to video lighting activity. 83 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 So when I was videoing, 84 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 the lighting wasn't quite at our property yet. 85 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 It was in the... 86 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 I could see it over on the horizon, it was coming in. 87 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 So I was videoing, 88 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 and there was a flash that I can't describe 89 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 how big and bright the flash was at the time. 90 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 It was that bright. 91 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 My partner was inside the shed, facing the other way. 92 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 She actually turned around at the time and said, 93 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,000 what the hell was that? 94 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Like, that was enormous. 95 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,000 That was a big flash. 96 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 And I said, I don't know what it was. 97 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 And anyhow, at the end of the flash, 98 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 just afterwards, about half a second afterwards, 99 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 we heard a bang. 100 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,000 It wasn't lightning. 101 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,000 It was very hard to describe the noise. 102 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 However, I went back through the footage, 103 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 and lo and behold, we saw... 104 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 fly down on the creek bank, do a U-turn, 105 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 and flew back over us. 106 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 I probably took 15 to 20 different videos 107 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 trying to get lightning over a space of an hour or two. 108 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 That one, I've never seen anything like that on my phone. 109 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Andy forwarded his video to MUFON, 110 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 the Mutual UFO Network. 111 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 And its Australian director, Roger Stankovich, 112 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,000 is globally recognised for his analysis of UFO 113 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 and UAP evidence. 114 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 We've analysed it, and we've gone into the metadata, 115 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 and there's no tampering 116 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 because legitimate footage of this object. 117 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 So it's not a small object. 118 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 It's not extremely large, 119 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000 but it would certainly be 120 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,000 maybe a couple of metres across, at least. 121 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,000 It travelled a distance of, yeah, 122 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 a bit more than a quarter of a mile than under a second. 123 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,000 As it went past, and that's where the flash and the boom went off, 124 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 so for it to cover that distance in under a second, 125 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 that's absolutely phenomenal. 126 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 I don't even know what can do that speed 127 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 and what can cover that distance. 128 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 And it's moving quite rapidly, 129 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 estimated 600 metres per second. 130 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 But even just looking at the slow-motion video, 131 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,000 it's moving very, very fast for a conventional aircraft. 132 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 It seems to be intelligently controlled, 133 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,000 so I don't think that it's anything prosaic. 134 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,000 It's got a very unusual flight pattern. 135 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,000 We couldn't work out what that was. 136 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,000 It's not a drone, not anything man-made. 137 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 So, very unusual video. 138 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 We've classified this as an unknown. 139 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 But this isn't the only unknown object 140 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,000 that Andy's captured on film on his property, 141 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 and around water. 142 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,000 The six months, I suppose, leading up to that video, 143 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,000 a lot of things were happening around our house, 144 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 around the creek bank. 145 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:54,000 I wasn't surprised, and since that video that I took 146 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 was once again out in the paddock video on a storm, 147 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:03,000 and I felt a cold, an extremely cold chill, sort of. 148 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,000 It went basically straight through my body, 149 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 and I said to my partner, 150 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000 you can hear me in the video, I said, oh my God, what was that? 151 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000 And when we went back over and looked at the footage, 152 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,000 there's a green ball of energy 153 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,000 that comes straight through the back of me, 154 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 and straight out the front. 155 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Oh my God! 156 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 He's obviously felt its presence. 157 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 It's had a physiological effect on him, 158 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,000 which is unusual. 159 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 No way that that's lens flare. 160 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Spherical object, not an insect. 161 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 It looks unusual. 162 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,000 I've never seen anything like it. 163 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,000 As the Queensland heat and humidity builds in spring, 164 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 storms are almost daily. 165 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Andy believes it provides perfect cover 166 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 for extraterrestrial activity. 167 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,000 And both videos that I took were around about 1,700 or 5pm 168 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 with the storm rolling in, say, 169 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:07,000 I don't know, I do believe that with lightning and storm activity 170 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,000 around, whatever it is that's flying around above us, 171 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000 and these things that are around us, 172 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,000 definitely use the clouds and storms as a guide 173 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,000 to do what they have to do. 174 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 But the strange happenings around Andrew's property 175 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,000 centre around a particular creek bank. 176 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,000 In so many UFO encounters, water is involved. 177 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 I don't know what it is with this creek bank. 178 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 I mean, it can be in the middle of the night, 179 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,000 and as I said, we don't see cars out where we are 180 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,000 on the property where we are, so the lights sort of go up and down 181 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,000 and flicker around, and then they're green, 182 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000 and they disappear, and we've seen green lights, 183 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 and once again I've got other videos on my phone 184 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,000 of a ball of green light coming out of the creek bank 185 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,000 sitting in the paddock, and then it's flown off into the distance. 186 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 There have been several recorded instances where 187 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,000 UFOs have been associated with bodies of water, 188 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:09,000 whether they be man-made dams, or the ocean, or the creek. 189 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Andy and his partner eventually summon the nerve 190 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,000 to go down to the creek. 191 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Andy wanted to see if the UFO he'd filmed in the paddock 192 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,000 was still around. 193 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,000 What we saw is... 194 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 I can't describe it, it's... 195 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,000 You look at sci-fi movies, you look at all these paintings 196 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,000 and pictures and drawings of things, fairly accurate, 197 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 all that stuff that you've ever seen in your life, 198 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 but this was real life, and what we saw... 199 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 I've got goosebumps now talking about it. 200 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:52,000 MUSIC 201 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,000 It was round, it looked very, very technically advanced, 202 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,000 and in each of these three or four, 203 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,000 I think it was four in total craft, there were two occupants. 204 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Not humans, like not flesh kind of... 205 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 More of a green energy, 206 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,000 but definitely shaped as a human person. 207 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 We just didn't know what to say. 208 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 It was that clear what we were looking at, I can't explain it. 209 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:27,000 They were definitely stereotypical round-flying sources, 210 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:32,000 as everyone has described in other sightings. 211 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Very detailed, very technical looking, that's for sure. 212 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Nothing like I've ever seen in any airplane or latest drone 213 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 that they bring out. 214 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Was this the same UFO Andy filmed speeding across his paddock? 215 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 He believes it was. 216 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:53,000 I'm 100% confident that what I filmed was what I saw down the Creek Bank. 217 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 We got a little bit frightened off it, 218 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,000 to the point where I haven't been down the Creek Bank 219 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 in the last four years to video ever again. 220 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 It's a universal truism that UFO sightings 221 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,000 are traditionally treated with derision and disdain. 222 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,000 It makes reporting and collating evidence difficult. 223 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Andy's grateful for people like Roger Stankovich, 224 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,000 who can help him make sense of what he saw. 225 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Yeah, Roger's been extremely helpful. 226 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,000 It was a big step to sort of contact Roger, I thought. 227 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,000 In my...in A.M. I'm gonna look stupid, or how's this gonna come about? 228 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 But he...I tell you, what if it wasn't for Roger, 229 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,000 we wouldn't be sitting here having this interview. 230 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 It... 231 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,000 What I did see that day has changed my perspective in life forever, 232 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,000 and same as my partner. 233 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,000 I mean, we thought we knew about what we're doing in life 234 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 and what sort of direction we're heading, 235 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 and this sort of supersedes anything that we ever thought. 236 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 It's changed us forever. 237 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:11,000 MUSIC 238 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Later, in this close encounter's down-under investigation, 239 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:21,000 the sugarcane farmer who won't let the world not believe. 240 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:31,000 MUSIC 241 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Bundaberg, Queensland. 242 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. 243 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Warm and tropical weather. 244 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,000 Beautiful beaches and waterways. 245 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Its local rum has made the town famous. 246 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000 But here's a sobering fact. 247 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Bundaberg is also one of Australia's UFO hotspots. 248 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 And a local who knows most about what goes on in this town 249 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:11,000 is Bundaberg journalist, Angeline Louther. 250 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Even since being at the current job I'm at now, 251 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,000 we've had so many people come forward telling us about 252 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:25,000 UFO experiences from people who have seen UFOs underwater 253 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:30,000 to people who have seen UFOs rise out of water and over properties. 254 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:35,000 It seems to be a place that attracts these sorts of sightings. 255 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 Although Angeline is reported on several stories of encounters, 256 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,000 she has also had her own UFO experience. 257 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 I was living in Torquay and Harvey Bay at the time, 258 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:55,000 which is an hour and 20 minutes roughly south of Bundaberg. 259 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,000 It was February 26, 2019. 260 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:07,000 My partner at the time and I had gone to bed about 9.30 p.m. that night. 261 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,000 It was mostly a clear night. 262 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,000 I believe that there were some clouds around, 263 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,000 but I could see the moon and some stars, 264 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:23,000 although it was a little bit cloudy. 265 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,000 I was lying in bed facing the balcony. 266 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:36,000 It was around 9.52 p.m. when I was in the middle of the night. 267 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:42,000 I started watching a bright red light moving across the sky. 268 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 It was darting side to side, then up and down, 269 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:51,000 and then disappearing from view and coming back again. 270 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Angeline grabbed her camera and moved to the balcony to get a better view. 271 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,000 While I was filming the red craft and zooming in, 272 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000 I noticed something underneath it, 273 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:10,000 almost like a mist between what I believed to be the craft and the bay. 274 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,000 It looked like it was sucking up water, 275 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:21,000 but I guess the weirdest thing is that I noticed a big, bright white light 276 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,000 near the red craft. 277 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:29,000 So when I zoomed in on the white craft, what I saw was really strange. 278 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:37,000 The white craft seemed to have lights going around the outside underneath of it as well, 279 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:41,000 and it looked like the lights were spinning. 280 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,000 All of a sudden, the red light disappeared, 281 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:53,000 then a faint white light appeared next to the big white craft, the spinning lights. 282 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 I've never seen anything like it. 283 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Angeline now knows what it's like to see something you can't explain, 284 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,000 and she has a deeper respect for those who have shared their stories. 285 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:11,000 I think it's so important that people come forward with this sort of information. 286 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:19,000 I think that we're living in an age now where we're beginning to accept more and more of these stories. 287 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Journalists are just as curious as people who have cited these things are. 288 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:34,000 And one of those great stories came from a man who is as impressive as the sighting he witnessed. 289 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:39,000 I'm Trevor Garrett. I'm 66 years old. I'm a retired farmer, 290 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000 and over the course of my life and working outside, 291 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:47,000 I've witnessed four or five rather spectacular UFO events. 292 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:56,000 He was a real fair dinkum, Aussie blow, just really wanting to try and make sense of what he saw. 293 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:04,000 I wasn't scared. I was awestruck. I was awestruck. That's probably the best way. 294 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:13,000 When he told me about the size of this thing and the fact that it had green lights on it, I was astonished. 295 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:21,000 It would have to be huge. At least twice the size of a 737 that fly over. 296 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:27,000 That's what made me want to bring that story to a wider audience. 297 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:36,000 So I wrote about it and we did have quite a number of other people coming forward saying that they had seen something similar. 298 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Trevor was a sugarcane farmer at the time. 299 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:49,000 I moved to Bundaberg in 2006. That's where I've seen most of these things around Bundaberg. 300 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:57,000 But Bundaberg is where we saw the most awesome stuff, spectacular or interesting or whatever word you like to use. 301 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Trevor's most remarkable encounter took place on one eerie night. 302 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:06,000 There was a warning, and it came from the local wildlife. 303 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:11,000 We had flying foxes in Palm trees and they were fighting and arguing as they do. 304 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Anybody who knows about flying foxes, they fight all night. 305 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:21,000 They went quiet and I went outside and I was looking around and it was all dead silence. 306 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:32,000 I was looking around at what's going on here and I noticed a greenish glow in the sky. 307 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:39,000 I thought, well, what's that that must be reflection of lights in Bundaberg? 308 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:43,000 I couldn't work out where this greenish glow was coming from. 309 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Out of the greenish glow, this triangular shaped object dropped down below the clouds. 310 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 It was overcast at the time. 311 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:05,000 It was not an equilateral triangle. It was equal side but short across the back. 312 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:13,000 It came out the clouds. It had red and blue lights, very intense. 313 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,000 It was itself illuminated. 314 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:21,000 It just drifted across, well, it didn't drift, but it soundlessly moved across the sky. 315 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,000 And then towards, got towards the northwest. 316 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:29,000 It was a bit more greenish glow in the clouds and it just disappeared up into the clouds. 317 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:37,000 I have no idea what it was. Well, it's not, to me, it's not earthly. 318 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 I don't know what it is. 319 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,000 I watched it for at least 30 seconds, up to a minute. 320 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:49,000 I was all struck. People say, why didn't you get your phone? 321 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Well, the phone was 30 feet away, but the last thing I thought was. 322 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:59,000 You just focused on it, like almost hypnotized, I suppose. 323 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:07,000 And my wife was very conservative in her beliefs and this thing frightened her. 324 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,000 I think whatever they're doing here is for their own purposes. 325 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,000 Whether those purposes are good or bad for us, I don't know. 326 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,000 I don't fear when I see them, I'm not frightened of them, but then they're going to get to my age. 327 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000 You're not much frightened, you know. 328 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:27,000 While many speculate that the Great Barrier Reef is attracting UFOs to Queensland, 329 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:33,000 Trevor thinks the craft are attracted to that other stretch of water, the Burnett River. 330 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:41,000 It might have to have a guess. I think the Burnett River might be what's drawing up here, but I'll be guessing. 331 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,000 The majestic Burnett River is the major estuary feeding town. 332 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,000 It seemed to be following the Burnett River in the course of the Burnett River. 333 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:01,000 This light I saw, or not light, whatever I saw, it seemed to be following along about the path of the Burnett River. 334 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:05,000 So maybe it's the river they're following, I don't know. 335 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Water is a recurring feature of the UFO story in tropical North Queensland. 336 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 But why remains a mystery? 337 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Maybe the answer will be found when there are more witnesses like Trevor who are tough enough to say it as it is. 338 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Our next investigation. 339 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Aircraft, satellite, or alien technology. 340 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,000 What lies at the bottom of the sea off Papua and Nagini? 341 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,000 This object came from outside the solar system. 342 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Could another alien civilization done this? 343 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:54,000 It's very likely that more intelligent civilizations exist out there. 344 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:59,000 The End 345 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Of the many mysteries uncovered by UFO research, there is usually a rational explanation to debunk any outrageous theories. 346 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Typically, the notion that we have been visited by aliens from another galaxy is soon met with skeptical arguments that question the technology that could possibly make travel across the vast emptiness of space possible. 347 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:45,000 But one Harvard astrophysicist says keeping an open mind to all possibilities is key to eventually understanding the universe in which we live. 348 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Avilob has been ridiculed by his peers for his views on close encounters. 349 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:59,000 But locating a meteor that crashed into the sea to Australia's north could change everything. 350 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:14,000 On January 8th, 2014, a missile warning system of the US government detected a meteor about 100 miles off the coast of Papua and Nagini. 351 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:35,000 The explosion, the disintegration of this object, released a few percent of the energy released in the Hiroshima atomic explosion. 352 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:44,000 Not much bigger than a basketball, it was the object's unusual behavior that piqued Avi's interest. 353 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:53,000 The first of all, it was moving faster than your average meteor. 354 00:23:53,000 --> 00:24:01,000 It's this fact and others that have led him to believe it could be a UFO from another solar system. 355 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:12,000 It was moving at 45 kilometers per second at a very high speed, about 18.7 kilometers above the ocean surface. 356 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:19,000 And when we extrapolated back in time, we realized this object came from outside the solar system. 357 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:24,000 It was moving really fast, faster than 95 percent of all stars near the sun. 358 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:34,000 And so that implied that not only that it's unbound to the sun, but also it was moving twice as fast as stars move relative to the sun in its vicinity. 359 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Definitely an interstellar object in origin. 360 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Australian National University astrophysicist Brad Tucker has also studied the object and its flight path. 361 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:53,000 He agrees its unusual characteristics could suggest the object is advanced alien technology. 362 00:24:54,000 --> 00:25:00,000 The speed was drastically different than other meteors that we know of coming from our own solar system. 363 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:06,000 It was also coming at a different angle, with our solar system being the shape of kind of a disk. 364 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:13,000 Most of the meteors we get come from very distinct regions of space, and they come from very distinct speeds. 365 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:22,000 In order to travel interstellar, what this means is you've had to have enough energy to escape the gravitational pull of that star. 366 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:32,000 So in order to escape another star system, you have to have a huge amount of energy and therefore a huge amount of speed, which immediately makes it interesting. 367 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,000 Was it something that got flung out of the solar system potentially? 368 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,000 Was it something purposely built to leave the solar system? 369 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,000 Potentially. 370 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:49,000 But until you at least calculate where it came from and where it landed, none of those questions can really go beyond those questions. 371 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Anything that has enough speed to escape a stellar system is going to be powerful. 372 00:25:55,000 --> 00:26:04,000 And if it's a comet that's exciting, if it is a satellite from another stellar system, that's also interesting as well. 373 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Could another alien civilization done this? 374 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Not on purpose, but they were like us. 375 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,000 They wanted to look at the edge of their solar system and their probes just kept going. 376 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:20,000 And statistically, it could happen that it just came into our solar system. 377 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:27,000 So how to prove the interstellar credentials of this object? 378 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,000 Simple. 379 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Avi Loeb plans to travel to the bottom of the ocean to retrieve it. 380 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:39,000 The expedition near Papua Nugini would explore the Pacific Ocean. 381 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Avi is confident they can recover this alien object. 382 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:50,000 Addie's received funding for the mission. 383 00:26:50,000 --> 00:27:02,000 That would be the first time with an investment of only a few million dollars that we will be able to put our hands on material that came from outside the solar system in a large object. 384 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000 That was never done by humanity before. 385 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:11,000 So it's very exciting to figure out whether this object was natural or artificial in origin. 386 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:23,000 I guess this meteor shows a very attractive landing site for us to examine. 387 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:31,000 It's a bold proposal, but as governments acknowledge, UFOs are potentially real. 388 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 Science is also coming around. 389 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:41,000 And Avi Loeb's expedition might be a game changer in the search for extraterrestrial life. 390 00:27:45,000 --> 00:28:02,000 The down under investigations continue next with an account that has a hardened fisherman running for cover. 391 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,000 At a Vietnam veteran reaching for his rifle. 392 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Loeb would up and get the buy sign. 393 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,000 This is the South Coast of The Netherlands. 394 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:30,000 Kalen, a typical small coastal Australian town of its vast north. 395 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:35,000 What's not typical is its bang in the middle of a UFO hot spot. 396 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:43,000 This is flat coastal land, perfect for sugar cane. 397 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,240 But nothing, the hardworking Aussies who live here say, 398 00:28:48,340 --> 00:28:49,600 is ever sugar coated. 399 00:28:52,580 --> 00:28:56,580 These are no nonsense people, straight talkers. 400 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,680 Local and primary witness, Jerry Van Dale, 401 00:28:59,780 --> 00:29:01,920 is at the heart of our next investigation. 402 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:09,920 MUSIC 403 00:29:10,020 --> 00:29:11,120 My name is Jerry Van Dale. 404 00:29:11,220 --> 00:29:15,600 I'm actually an IPL officer at the McCall Airport, 405 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:17,660 which is basically a security officer basically, 406 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,000 and also a full-time UFO investigator. 407 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,500 One warm, clear evening in August 2019, 408 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,840 before Jerry was a UFO investigator. 409 00:29:30,860 --> 00:29:33,160 He was at home, it was getting late, 410 00:29:33,260 --> 00:29:34,900 and he was on his way to bed, 411 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,500 when he was distracted by his dog, Chilly. 412 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,040 As I was turning off all the lights and locking up, 413 00:29:42,140 --> 00:29:46,340 I looked outside in my backyard and I saw my dog, Chilly. 414 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:47,440 Yeah, I was going to be in the backyard, 415 00:29:47,540 --> 00:29:49,080 and he was moaning and groaning and thinking, 416 00:29:49,180 --> 00:29:50,420 oh, what's wrong with you? 417 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,320 So I tried a calling, he wouldn't come, 418 00:29:54,420 --> 00:29:55,860 which I felt strange. 419 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,620 So I walked outside to have a look. 420 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,020 He basically looked up. 421 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,020 That's what got my attention. 422 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,020 I basically looked up and there it was. 423 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,820 MUSIC 424 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,720 It looked like a start, like a just a start at first. 425 00:30:08,820 --> 00:30:10,120 I thought, you know, what's that? 426 00:30:10,220 --> 00:30:12,560 And I thought, well, maybe a plane or a helicopter 427 00:30:12,660 --> 00:30:14,500 was coming towards us. 428 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,700 The thing was, I think it was, couldn't hear a noise. 429 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:21,300 There was no engine noise, no mechanical sounds, you know? 430 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,500 When you hear a helicopter, you hear the thuds 431 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,840 of the roaders going. 432 00:30:25,940 --> 00:30:28,240 You hear a plane scream, oh, fly over. 433 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:32,560 You hear the jet engine and stuff, but it's nothing. 434 00:30:32,660 --> 00:30:35,700 Jerry pulled out his phone and started filming. 435 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,940 But on my phone, the phone camera was so tiny, 436 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,640 it looked like a red light. 437 00:30:40,740 --> 00:30:43,140 It was just emitting red light. 438 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,380 What I saw with my own two eyes was this object 439 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:46,820 that was actually coming towards us. 440 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,220 It was actually growing. 441 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,020 Exponential was getting bigger and bigger. 442 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,020 I believe about three minutes by three minutes 443 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:54,220 at a conference. 444 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:58,220 So that's how big it looked as it was coming towards me. 445 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,400 But the thing was, no, there was no sound. 446 00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:03,600 There was nothing. 447 00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:06,000 In the video, you can actually hear cars on the highway. 448 00:31:06,100 --> 00:31:07,500 You can actually hear a car that actually 449 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,200 drove past my street. 450 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:11,840 As I said, cars on the highway and also a train 451 00:31:11,940 --> 00:31:13,140 on the train line. 452 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,080 So obviously, my phone had the audio going. 453 00:31:16,180 --> 00:31:18,580 But there was nothing emitting from that light, you know? 454 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,980 So that's when I thought, OK, I've 455 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:23,320 got to stay here and watch this thing 456 00:31:23,420 --> 00:31:27,120 and try and keep it in my view in the camera view. 457 00:31:27,140 --> 00:31:29,780 Jerry's dog, Chili, was unresponsive. 458 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:30,980 So what's the matter, boy? 459 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,780 And I thought, maybe a snake was spitting or something. 460 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,220 If we do have snakes here where we live. 461 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,220 But there was nothing there. 462 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,020 UFO investigator Roger Stankovich 463 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,960 knows from his research that pets and animals have 464 00:31:45,060 --> 00:31:47,760 an acute awareness of UFO activity. 465 00:31:47,860 --> 00:31:49,560 There has been recorded instances 466 00:31:49,660 --> 00:31:54,000 where animals are sensitive to animals. 467 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,500 And there's been recorded instances 468 00:31:55,600 --> 00:32:00,700 where animals are sensitive to the presence of UFOs. 469 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,400 And there's been recorded instances 470 00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:04,700 where animals become silent. 471 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:11,400 Or I've interviewed witnesses where during a UFO event, 472 00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:16,440 everything's silent, even crickets, frogs, everything 473 00:32:16,540 --> 00:32:19,740 becomes silent, whether they're aware of the presence 474 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,580 of this electromagnetic radiation 475 00:32:21,660 --> 00:32:22,960 that shuts everything off. 476 00:32:23,060 --> 00:32:23,860 I don't know. 477 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:31,060 As I started bearing away, it looked like he got smaller again. 478 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:32,660 It was really strange. 479 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:37,960 I wish I'd, yeah, it was just so strange how it just went 480 00:32:38,060 --> 00:32:38,960 from big to small. 481 00:32:39,060 --> 00:32:40,260 And then it just stayed small. 482 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:45,580 And then it kept going all the way up to the ocean. 483 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:46,980 It was definitely something that a man may have made. 484 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,380 No. 485 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,020 I got on Fly Tracker straight after it. 486 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,960 If the object was a plane, I would still 487 00:32:54,060 --> 00:32:55,880 be able to see it on Fly Tracker going out to sea. 488 00:32:55,980 --> 00:33:00,260 There was nothing on Fly Tracker at that time. 489 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,680 There's no helicopters, no nothing going out to sea. 490 00:33:02,780 --> 00:33:06,160 So what was it? 491 00:33:06,260 --> 00:33:08,360 What the hell was it, you know? 492 00:33:08,460 --> 00:33:11,520 Having a sighting verified by independent witnesses 493 00:33:11,620 --> 00:33:17,300 is the gold standard for certifying a genuine UFO encounter. 494 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,620 Jerry's sighting that night was verified 495 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,700 by three other witnesses. 496 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,400 Two were reported in the local newspaper. 497 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:27,600 The lady in the town called Cuddlebook, 498 00:33:27,700 --> 00:33:30,300 which is about 15 minutes away from me, 499 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,140 had fled as she flew over the top of her house. 500 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,640 And she actually contacted me directly. 501 00:33:34,740 --> 00:33:39,680 And also two other people came forward to the Dalai Mercury. 502 00:33:39,780 --> 00:33:41,980 What I actually came forward, basically, 503 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,620 telling the journalists that they saw it coming home 504 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,860 from early beef on a fishing trip. 505 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,320 They're saying at the same time in Kailin, 506 00:33:50,420 --> 00:33:51,720 from where I basically live. 507 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,660 They basically said they saw the same object as I did. 508 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:03,900 It was red, red in color, moving too slow 509 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,100 to be a plane or a helicopter, and just emitting 510 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:09,660 a bright red light. 511 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:14,440 So yeah, so it's actually good that it wasn't just myself. 512 00:34:14,540 --> 00:34:16,380 Because when you see an object by itself, 513 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,900 people go, oh, yeah, right? 514 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,240 Well, like, but when other witnesses see it, 515 00:34:22,340 --> 00:34:25,480 then it starts and the pieces are falling together, 516 00:34:25,580 --> 00:34:28,120 people start to go, OK, maybe it's on the truth. 517 00:34:34,580 --> 00:34:37,220 Jerry's read up on recent UFO sightings, 518 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,120 and not just those in Queensland. 519 00:34:40,220 --> 00:34:42,960 He raises questions many of us are asking. 520 00:34:43,060 --> 00:34:44,060 Maybe they're from the future. 521 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:45,800 Maybe they're coming back towards us 522 00:34:45,820 --> 00:34:48,260 and trying to warn us this time about something, 523 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,120 destroying the planet or apparently the Ukrainian Russian 524 00:34:52,220 --> 00:34:53,460 crisis. 525 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,300 There are troops that've actually seen black objects, 526 00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:01,200 black triangles flying around. 527 00:35:01,300 --> 00:35:02,700 Whether that's true or not, I don't know. 528 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,200 There have been a lot of instances 529 00:35:05,300 --> 00:35:08,640 where objects have been reported in war zones. 530 00:35:08,740 --> 00:35:09,940 Are they trying to tell us something? 531 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:11,700 Are they trying to bring us to peace? 532 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,240 So they can actually come to our Earth 533 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,980 and then give us a technology. 534 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,080 You know, it really has to say. 535 00:35:20,580 --> 00:35:22,780 Whatever their motives for visiting Earth, 536 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,180 it's fair to say having one close encounter in a lifetime 537 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:27,920 is a rare event. 538 00:35:28,020 --> 00:35:30,520 Unbelievably, Jerry has had two. 539 00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:42,000 An encounter in his youth while working on a deep sea trawler 540 00:35:42,060 --> 00:35:43,960 would leave Jerry rattled to his core. 541 00:35:46,660 --> 00:35:48,660 So when I was 17, I was actually working 542 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:53,640 on a professional fishing boat off Maka'i 543 00:35:53,740 --> 00:35:56,440 that used to work 400 nautical miles offshore 544 00:35:56,540 --> 00:35:57,900 to the Great Barrier Reef. 545 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,740 Jerry was lying on deck. 546 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,540 It was a calm summer's night. 547 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,280 And way out in the coral sea, it's dark, 548 00:36:06,380 --> 00:36:09,280 with only the Milky Way lighting the night sky. 549 00:36:09,380 --> 00:36:11,480 I was laying there in the cool weather. 550 00:36:11,540 --> 00:36:13,500 Cool air, night air, summertime air. 551 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,540 And so I thought which was just this green object, 552 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,140 like it was like a green orb. 553 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:22,580 I had to be saying, I thought, oh, it's just a satellite, 554 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,280 you know? 555 00:36:24,380 --> 00:36:27,180 But then this thing just shot down towards the ocean. 556 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,820 And I'm thinking, what the hell is this? 557 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,080 And it sort of scared me. 558 00:36:31,180 --> 00:36:32,920 I just sat up and I'm watching it, you know? 559 00:36:33,020 --> 00:36:34,320 And it sort of stopped me. 560 00:36:34,420 --> 00:36:37,360 And just sat there for about 10 seconds. 561 00:36:37,460 --> 00:36:39,360 And then just doing these erratic movements. 562 00:36:39,420 --> 00:36:41,580 And then it went off the distance towards the other boat. 563 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,780 And as it did that, it actually went down below 564 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,080 and got me a boss. 565 00:36:45,180 --> 00:36:47,120 And then he came up and it was just going, 566 00:36:47,220 --> 00:36:48,720 like, left and right, and really radically. 567 00:36:48,820 --> 00:36:51,060 And then it just stopped and shot back up into the air. 568 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,060 Like, it was just, yeah, it was just so quick, you know? 569 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,360 We never saw anything like that in our lives, you know? 570 00:37:01,460 --> 00:37:02,760 Faster than a plane, mate. 571 00:37:02,860 --> 00:37:04,420 Much faster than a fighter jet. 572 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,320 Much faster. 573 00:37:06,420 --> 00:37:08,120 You know, why a fighter jet goes, well, 574 00:37:08,180 --> 00:37:09,740 a thousand k's an hour? 575 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,740 This thing was way faster than that. 576 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:13,940 Like, there was a boat, as I said, 577 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,740 there was a boat probably, I think it was like 30 nautical miles 578 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,080 from where we were to the northwest of us. 579 00:37:19,180 --> 00:37:20,840 You could still see the glow of the light. 580 00:37:20,940 --> 00:37:25,940 I mean, basically, we watched that go from point A to point B 581 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:27,340 within two seconds. 582 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,740 It was there, it was right on top of that light. 583 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,340 And then it basically shot back towards us again, you know? 584 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,840 Like, yeah, it was, yeah, it was big. 585 00:37:35,940 --> 00:37:36,940 It was fast. 586 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,580 UFO expert Jamie Leonardo has tried 587 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,240 to understand the connection between the sea 588 00:37:44,340 --> 00:37:46,340 and these phenomena. 589 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,380 There seems to be an incredible relationship 590 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,540 between these objects and water. 591 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,340 And, you know, when you think about it, 592 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,440 we are the water planet. 593 00:37:56,540 --> 00:37:59,840 While Jerry couldn't get his head around what the object was, 594 00:37:59,940 --> 00:38:03,280 he has, in hindsight, pondered for years 595 00:38:03,380 --> 00:38:04,840 the nature of what he saw. 596 00:38:04,940 --> 00:38:07,180 Well, maybe it came from another big, 597 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:09,840 another bigger ship that I couldn't see with my naked eye. 598 00:38:09,940 --> 00:38:11,580 Like, was that probably up high in the hemisphere 599 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:12,780 or something like that? 600 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,940 Or, I don't know, maybe it was just like a probe 601 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,880 that was coming down there to have a look at what it was 602 00:38:17,980 --> 00:38:22,380 or have a look at what our Earth is like. 603 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:28,420 But maybe, just maybe, the mothership wasn't up above. 604 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,260 There's a lot of people that have speculated 605 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,660 that there's underwater UFO bases. 606 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,360 And one of the most well-documented UFO cases 607 00:38:36,620 --> 00:38:40,220 in modern history points to a link between UFOs 608 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,420 and underwater activity. 609 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,920 It happened near an aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, 610 00:38:46,020 --> 00:38:49,960 off the coast of San Diego in 2004. 611 00:38:50,060 --> 00:38:53,960 When a UFO was recorded traveling at mind-blowing speeds, 612 00:38:54,060 --> 00:39:00,300 so fast, it could traverse the entire galaxy in four months. 613 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,040 Here it is captured on a Navy fighter jet's camera, 614 00:39:04,620 --> 00:39:07,620 roughly 40 feet long and oval-shaped. 615 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:12,880 Aptly, it became known as the Tic Tac UFO. 616 00:39:12,980 --> 00:39:16,760 And alarmingly, it knew where the Navy planes were headed. 617 00:39:16,860 --> 00:39:20,360 It arrived at their destination before they did. 618 00:39:20,460 --> 00:39:21,600 But that's not all. 619 00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:24,560 These pilots believe they may have spotted a mothership. 620 00:39:27,660 --> 00:39:32,300 2004, we were at the Nimitz, and we're looking at not one, 621 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:33,600 but two objects. 622 00:39:33,700 --> 00:39:36,900 The first object that they were drawn to paying attention to 623 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,700 was quite large in comparison to the Tic Tac. 624 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:45,300 And it was submerged right next to this aircraft carrier. 625 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:49,540 So that was really big trouble in terms of, like, 626 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,080 a military operation off the coast there. 627 00:39:52,180 --> 00:39:54,040 You've got to pay attention to that. 628 00:39:54,140 --> 00:39:56,520 Then all of a sudden, this smaller object, 629 00:39:56,620 --> 00:40:01,720 around 40 feet in length, shot up from a bright next speed, 630 00:40:01,740 --> 00:40:05,340 and it didn't show any problem with the torque in the water. 631 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,120 Just seemed to actually be moving at the same speed 632 00:40:08,220 --> 00:40:12,820 in the air as it was in water, which we know cannot be done. 633 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,320 Jerry Vandale's experience was also off the coast. 634 00:40:16,420 --> 00:40:18,760 And when you are hundreds of miles from anywhere 635 00:40:18,860 --> 00:40:21,600 in the middle of the night on a small boat, 636 00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:25,800 an experience like this is nothing but frightening. 637 00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:29,200 So much so that Jerry's captain, a hardened Vietnam 638 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:31,000 vet, was shaken. 639 00:40:31,060 --> 00:40:34,860 He looked at him and said, you know, was that like, 640 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,460 he said, I don't know, but we're not sticking around to find out. 641 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:38,960 We're going to pull up angering. 642 00:40:39,060 --> 00:40:40,600 Head to here. 643 00:40:40,700 --> 00:40:43,500 So, you know, he was petrified. 644 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:48,400 I've never seen, especially being a Vietnam vet, 645 00:40:48,500 --> 00:40:51,400 yeah, he was pretty much petrified. 646 00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:53,800 He would have seen a lot of stuff in Vietnam, 647 00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:56,800 but yeah, he was petrified when he saw this. 648 00:40:56,900 --> 00:40:58,000 He couldn't explain it. 649 00:40:58,100 --> 00:40:59,000 He wanted to explain it. 650 00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:00,400 He just wanted to get the hell out of there. 651 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,900 Before they left, Jerry's captain ran to his cabin 652 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,500 and fetched his 303 rifle. 653 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,900 And loaded it up and yeah, kept it by his side basically 654 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,700 until we got to Macai Harbor. 655 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:17,200 Basically, he was petrified, man. 656 00:41:17,300 --> 00:41:20,200 I wasn't on land, so I was actually on a boat 657 00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:22,400 one of the nautical miles offshore in the Grand Barrier 658 00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:26,900 Reef, which takes us nearly 12 hours to get back to board, 659 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,000 you know. 660 00:41:28,100 --> 00:41:30,000 It took us, you know, 12 hours to get home. 661 00:41:30,100 --> 00:41:32,700 So that was probably the more frightening factor 662 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,500 was that was this thing following us 663 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,800 or was it going to come back and abduct all of us 664 00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:41,000 or what do you think, you know, like, yeah. 665 00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:43,800 I basically sort of have them on the bow basically 666 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:46,900 just scanning the skies, just trying to see if this thing 667 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,800 is going to come back for us, you know, like, 668 00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:51,100 because it scared the hell out of us, man. 669 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:52,100 It really did. 670 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:57,100 When he got back to the safety of dry land, 671 00:41:57,300 --> 00:42:00,200 Jerry vowed to never go out on a fishing boat again. 672 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,000 I basically said, I'm not going back out. 673 00:42:07,100 --> 00:42:08,400 See you later. I'm done dusted. 674 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:11,800 It was pretty hard to hear the woman to quit 675 00:42:11,900 --> 00:42:12,800 because I'm a pretty good fisherman. 676 00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:14,600 But he said, he said, mate, it's up to you. 677 00:42:14,700 --> 00:42:16,000 I said, look, I'm not going back out. 678 00:42:16,100 --> 00:42:20,000 But 27 years later, Jerry's back out on the water, 679 00:42:20,100 --> 00:42:23,200 wiser, older, and hopeful. 680 00:42:23,300 --> 00:42:26,500 These days, he fishes to relax. 681 00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:29,600 I've sort of come to terms with the fact that, OK, 682 00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:31,500 if there is life out there, we're going to still 683 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,300 allow to know about it. 684 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:37,000 And we're going to have to get used to it. 685 00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:40,700 Jerry Vandell has been researching UFOs for many years. 686 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,200 And while he believes he and his captain witnessed a UFO, 687 00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:48,800 he's still not sure exactly what it was. 688 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:53,200 More importantly, did it come from above or down below?