1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Could we be looking at the impact of an extraterrestrial object? 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Seems like such an isolated incident. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 But what if it's not? 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 There is a truth, and it's our duty to uncover that truth. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Conclusion is, that was not a meteorite. 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 So the government is lying? 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 I'm determined to not walk away from here empty-handed. 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Holy s***. 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Is this a crash site? 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 A UFO. 11 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 I want to solve. 12 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,000 That's the longest encounter that we've heard of. 13 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,000 We could be looking at evidence of a UFO coming in for a landing. 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 How much farther is it? 15 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Four kilometers more, all right. 16 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Investigative reporter Paul Beben and Green Beret intelligence sergeant Kawamale 17 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,000 are deep in the mountains of Santa Argentina, 18 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,000 following a lead on the front lines of a worldwide investigation 19 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 into possible extraterrestrial contact with Earth. 20 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 How much further? 21 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 About another half hour. 22 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Half hour? Yeah. 23 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Roberto Vignas leads the team to the location where he witnessed a UFO crash 24 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 on August 17, 1995. 25 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Starting to open up a little bit. 26 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,000 The government claims that the object that Roberto witnessed was a meteorite, not a UFO. 27 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 The government said that this crash site is just a meteorite. 28 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 So our objective here to determine once and for all what crashed here. 29 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,000 We want to make sure we're testing for everything possible, leaving no stone unturned. 30 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,000 We're almost there. 31 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Holy s***. 32 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Whoa. 33 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 This is the impact area? 34 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Exact dummy indeed. 35 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 It looks like this place has just been clear-cut. 36 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 It just doesn't make any sense. 37 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:04,000 The team uncovers a massive clearing measuring 1,000 feet long by 500 feet wide, 38 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,000 the equivalent of 10 football fields. 39 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Prior to the crash incident, the area was populated by a dense hardwood forest. 40 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Joining them is geologist Jorge Marcuse, 41 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,000 who will lead them in a comprehensive survey of the site. 42 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Jorge, what's your first impression of this place? 43 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Well, I don't see much evidence of the site. 44 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:30,000 I don't see any evidence on the surface that shows that there's been a meteorite here. 45 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 What's the most efficient way to survey this area? 46 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:37,000 So the metal detector should tell us if there's a large concentration of metal. 47 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Once you call to take the metal detector. 48 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Great. 49 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,000 And Kawa, you come with him and he'll teach you how to take the soil samples. 50 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Alright, let's get started. 51 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Let's do it. 52 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Just how flat it is compared to the rest of the terrain is crazy. 53 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 I'm starting in the center with the metal detector, 54 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 and I'm going to work my way out in a spiral, 55 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,000 just like you're mowing a lawn to make sure I cover the entire site. 56 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Meteorites are usually made up of a lot of iron, 57 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,000 so if anything, like a meteorite, came down in this area, 58 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 there's going to be an unusual concentration of iron. 59 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,000 There's going to be pieces of it. 60 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 There's going to be scattered all over this field. 61 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Do I want to go to a certain depth or just go as deep as I can? 62 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:31,000 The deeper you go, the better we'll be able to analyze the soil that we get. 63 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Okay. 64 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 In addition to metal detecting, 65 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000 they also collect soil samples every 50 feet 66 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 to test its composition for any anomalies 67 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 that could determine what touched down on the site. 68 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Anything that sticks out to you? Anything odd? 69 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Well, until now, there's been a lot of material floating around. 70 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,000 There's been an impact here, you can't talk about it. 71 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,000 I definitely think this is the right first step, go to this police station. 72 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,000 If there was a big security operation up here, they certainly know about it. 73 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,000 While the team waits for the results of their soil composition tests, 74 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Paul and Kawa head to the Salta Police Headquarters. 75 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 So according to eyewitness, local authorities closed off access to the site, 76 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,000 so we're going to go talk to the police in Salta. 77 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,000 We're just hoping they can tell us some more details about what was really going on up there on the mountain. 78 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Yeah, yeah. Kawa, hi. Paul. 79 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Nice to meet you. 80 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,000 The team makes contact with Jorge Acosta, the department's desk sergeant. 81 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:53,000 So we're looking into an event back in 1995, August 17, 1995, 82 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 when there was an unexplained object crashed in the mountains nearby. 83 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 And we're hoping you can give us some kind of incident report 84 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 or any information or details that you have from that day. 85 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 I wanted to know some details about that incident. 86 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Well, I'm going to check. 87 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 What happened to the police? 88 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 What happened to the police? 89 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:17,000 We don't have any information about the incident that happened. 90 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,000 They've got nothing from that day, nothing at all? 91 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 No, we don't have any information about that day. 92 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Is there someone else we can talk to that might know anything about that day? 93 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Well, we can talk to the chief of the police. 94 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,000 It was a massive crash. Thousands of people saw it. 95 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,000 The fact that the local police don't have any files, don't have any records, 96 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 that's just really unusual. 97 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:43,000 The chief of Salta Police, Adolfo Torres, meets with the team. 98 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:49,000 We were hoping that you guys had some reporting regarding a huge crash of this object. 99 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Something about the incident, I don't know, it wasn't our case, 100 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 it wasn't our investigation. 101 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Here in the police station, the police didn't have any records. 102 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:04,000 You're saying that the local police, you guys had no role in the security 103 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 or the investigation at all? 104 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Officially, the police didn't participate in the incident. 105 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Okay. 106 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Wow. 107 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,000 The local police claim that they have no records of this event 108 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,000 and that some other agency, some higher authority came in 109 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,000 and took over the investigation, which is really confusing. 110 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,000 Like, who was it? Who was running the show? 111 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Is there anybody else that we can talk to that might perhaps know anything about that date? 112 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,000 See? 113 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 There's somebody commented to him off the record, 114 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 but there's one person who saw the explosion close by. 115 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Maybe you can follow this lead. 116 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 I'm really curious to hear from the eyewitness. 117 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 I mean, I really want to know what he saw. 118 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Paul and Kawa head to the outskirts of Salta to meet with Tony Galvano, 119 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 the eyewitness provided to them by the chief of police. 120 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Looks like this is it. 121 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Yeah, man. Looks like this is the place. 122 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Tony is a 35-year veteran commercial pilot 123 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,000 with intimate knowledge and understanding of Chilean airspace. 124 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Good day. 125 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,000 How are you? 126 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 How are you? 127 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Hey. 128 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Tony, where were you the day of the UFO crash in 1995? 129 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Where was the day when the UFO crashed in 1995? 130 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000 That day, it was 2.45 p.m. 131 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 We were at my particular house, on the table. 132 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,000 And we heard a very, very strong explosion. 133 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Could you feel the impact? Did it shake the ground? 134 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Exactly. The movement was very good. 135 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Shaking like a sock wave. 136 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,000 The Aledaños, the Takoposos, the Monte Queimados, are 150 km away. 137 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,000 They felt the same as we felt in Joaquín Begonzales. 138 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,000 150 km. 139 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 That's more than 90 miles. 140 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Shaking houses that far away. 141 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 This possible seismic activity, right? 142 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 We've seen this before. We've seen it in Virginia. 143 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 We've seen it in Mexico. We've seen it in Chile. 144 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 And now that we're seeing it here in Argentina, 145 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 it's just another connection, 146 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,000 linking together all these different UFO sightings. 147 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Then what did you do? 148 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 I went directly to the town. 149 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000 I had the plane on the runway. 150 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,000 I tried to go to the place where the explosion had taken place. 151 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,000 When I flew over, I saw a big white stain. 152 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,000 There was a lot of heat. There was a lot of heat like sulfur. 153 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 I would be. 154 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,000 I'm mystified by this white substance, this residue that was left behind. 155 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Was it a product of the explosion? 156 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Was it the actual craft disintegrating? 157 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 It just raises so many questions. 158 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,000 That day, I landed 7.5 am. 159 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,000 And down there, there was a lot of people dying. 160 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Two hours after the incident, the road had been blocked 161 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 and you couldn't access the area. 162 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,000 So, this is within two hours of this crash? 163 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,000 The whole area is on lockdown, basically? 164 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Yes. 165 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Were you able to see who was blocking these roads, 166 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,000 what they looked like, anything like that? 167 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 There were civilians. 168 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,000 There were trucks, 4x4. 169 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 There were uniformed people with black uniforms. 170 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,000 So there were some strangers dressed as civilians 171 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,000 and others that came in black 4x4s, all dressed in black. 172 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Some of these people spoke a little Spanish, 173 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 but they were foreigners 174 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 and they were blocking all the access to that area. 175 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Really? 176 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Unidentified men in black that don't seem Argentinian, 177 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,000 that really gets my attention. 178 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Somebody didn't want this story to get out. 179 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Somebody didn't want people to see that site. 180 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Somebody wanted to put a lid on this thing. 181 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Who was that? 182 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 What were they trying to hide? 183 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 We just got an update from Argentina. 184 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 The Argentine government told inquiring residents 185 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 the object was determined to be a meteorite. 186 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 On site, we conducted analysis to determine 187 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,000 if meteorite explanations hold water. 188 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Analysis conclusions attached. 189 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:33,000 ZIA veteran Mike Cole and conflict analyst Dr. Livingston 190 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,000 review the final lab report from a battery of soil sample tests 191 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 conducted at the impact site in Salta. 192 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Elemental analysis of the SOE was performed 193 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,000 to search for indications of meteorite impact, 194 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 because they should be able to detect it. 195 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Iron, nickel, camisite, tynite, 196 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,000 or perhaps the best indicator, shocked quartz. 197 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,000 The analyzed samples were void of any of these particulates. 198 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,000 In other words, conclusion is that was not a meteorite. 199 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,000 So the government is lying. 200 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Right. 201 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Whatever crashed in Salta, it wasn't a meteorite, 202 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,000 which means that the fact that the Argentine government 203 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,000 said that it was means that they were covering something up. 204 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 There was something happening there they didn't want the public to know about. 205 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,000 There is definitely a bigger story here. 206 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,000 The team also met with an eyewitness, 207 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 a pilot named Tony Galvano, who flew over the site that day. 208 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Primary crash site was quarantined by a foreign organization, 209 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 and access was limited within 48 hours of the event. 210 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 They say they spoke English. 211 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 All right, so let me get this straight. 212 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Galvano says that a foreign organization, 213 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 not the Argentine government, 214 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,000 cordons off the area of this site, 215 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,000 won't let anybody on, 216 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,000 and then the Argentine government says, 217 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 in no uncertain terms, that this is a meteorite, 218 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,000 and scientific analysis of the site says it is not a meteorite. 219 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 So it's not what the government said it was? 220 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,000 If that wasn't a meteorite, 221 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,000 then what the hell caused that impact? 222 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,000 Who are these men in black involved in that incident? 223 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,000 The National Security Council 224 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 The National Security Council 225 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 The National Security Council 226 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Another potential UFO crash here, wiped away. 227 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,000 We have some kind of government intervention. 228 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:27,000 CIA veteran Mike Cole and conflict analyst Dr. Livingston 229 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 dig into the findings from Santa Argentina, 230 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,000 where they unearthed a potential UFO crash site 231 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,000 that was covered up by English-speaking men in black. 232 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:43,000 I feel like we're on the trail of something unexplained, 233 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,000 truly unexplained, touching down on the surface of the Earth. 234 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,000 We can't get physical evidence to confirm or deny this, 235 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,000 because the evidence was covered up and it was gone. 236 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,000 We got to take a different approach. 237 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,000 What we need is something like this, hasn't been picked clean. 238 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Let's do a search. 239 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:07,000 UFO, white powder, and let's remove the classified documents in our search. 240 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:11,000 I'm just going to do worldwide. 241 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,000 The team searches for all unexplained crashes and landings 242 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 that were not investigated by the government or military 243 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,000 to try and find physical evidence that may not have been covered up. 244 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Okay, so 107 results, 245 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,000 much all over the globe here. 246 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 What's this? 94% relevancy. 247 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,000 APRO, Aerial Phenomenal Research Organization, 248 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 preliminary information on a three-witness landing case 249 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,000 near Delphos, Kansas on November 2, 1971. 250 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 The Link Analysis software identifies a news article 251 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:54,000 on a Kansas UFO sighting with no apparent government investigation involved. 252 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 At about 7 p.m., 16-year-old Ronald Johnson 253 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,000 is tending a flock of sheep. 254 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Here's a rumble. 255 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 It sees a really bright object. 256 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,000 It was on the ground where the object was first sighted. 257 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Johnson found a glowing phosphorescent ring-shaped area. 258 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Upon removing the surface soil, Johnson noticed 259 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,000 the soil contained a large quantity of a white substance. 260 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Look, that's the same thing as we were seeing in Salta, right? 261 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Right. 262 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,000 How to write white substance of some kind. 263 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,000 I see a white white. 264 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,000 This trace of like white powder. 265 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Johnson took a photo of the ground immediately. 266 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Do we have that photo? 267 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Let me see if I can find it. 268 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Here it is. 269 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Is that the border of the ring? 270 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 What are we looking at here? 271 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 We're looking at a very grainy image about five decades old. 272 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Very hard to know what we're seeing here. 273 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,000 So look, we need more data. 274 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,000 We have eyewitnesses matching physical characteristics. 275 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,000 In Salta, we had success getting a geologist on the ground 276 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,000 and taking samples. 277 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Maybe we can do the same thing here. 278 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Maybe we can visit this site. 279 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000 And if it is linked to Salta, prove it. 280 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Between the signs of a physically altered Earth 281 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 and similarities to what we saw in Salta, 282 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,000 there's too much here for us to ignore this site in Delphos. 283 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 If the UFO did in fact land here, 284 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 it could be the key to finding the physical evidence 285 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 we need to prove contact. 286 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Where is Delphos? 287 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Small town. 288 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,000 That's all the residential. 289 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,000 The rest of it is entirely farmland. 290 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 It's not like there's been any development, 291 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,000 which is good. 292 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Maybe the site's still intact. 293 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Could be. 294 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,000 All the more reason to get them on the field is as quick as we can. 295 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 I'm really excited to track Ron down. 296 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 If this ring still exists and we can find it, 297 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 I mean, that would be huge. 298 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Nick Carnese, US Marine Intelligence Officer, 299 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 and Sarah Crutus, Astrophysicist and Space Journalist, 300 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,000 land in Delphos, Kansas, on the hunt for Ron Johnson, 301 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,000 the eyewitness to a potential UFO landing in this area. 302 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 There could be hard evidence here. 303 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 That's a big deal for this investigation. 304 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,000 I mean, this is quintessential American small town. 305 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000 How many Ron Johnson's can there be in this town? 306 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,000 There's got to be somebody who at least knows something 307 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 about Ron Johnson. 308 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,000 I'm just going to grab some gas real quick while we're here. 309 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Sure. 310 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,000 Afternoon. 311 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,000 How you doing? 312 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,000 All right. 313 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Thank you. 314 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 This is going to sound a bit random, 315 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000 but do you know anyone by the name of Ron Johnson? 316 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Yes. 317 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Who do you do? 318 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 You're not going to believe this. 319 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,000 That's an address for Ron Johnson, the guy in the gas station, knew him. 320 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,000 I have a feeling that he's not going to want to be talking about this. 321 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,000 Yeah, Johnson. 322 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Perfect. 323 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Can I help you guys? 324 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Hey, morning. 325 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Morning. 326 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,000 I'm Nick. 327 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Nice to meet you. 328 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Nice to meet you. 329 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Sorry for barging in on you like this, 330 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,000 but we're in town investigating the Delphos Ring incident. 331 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 OK. 332 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,000 And we were told that a gentleman by the name of Ron Johnson 333 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,000 was an eyewitness to that, and we're trying to track him down. 334 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,000 He's my father. 335 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Oh, really? 336 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Oh, wow. 337 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Is your father still around? 338 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,000 He is. 339 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,000 He's exactly here. 340 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Ron Johnson has declined all prior media interviews. 341 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:04,000 I would love to hear your story if you're willing to tell us. 342 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Yeah, I'll tell you my story. 343 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,000 But agrees to provide his testimony to aid the investigation. 344 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 It had been a long time. 345 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,000 I was 15 years old. 346 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Come home, and we had to do our chores, and I went to feed the sheep there 347 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:25,000 and just getting ready to go in the door and kind of heard a rumble. 348 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:31,000 And I looked over there, and it was just bright, like electric welder. 349 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,000 I liked the sun. 350 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:36,000 And just hovering off the ground about two feet. 351 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Was it an object or was it a light? 352 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,000 It was light, and it shaped like a toadstool. 353 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:46,000 It was eight feet across, and it was about 10 feet tall. 354 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000 How far away were you from this? 355 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:54,000 I was probably about 30 feet from it. 356 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Wow, close. 357 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:01,000 I run told the folks about it, and we watched it go off. 358 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,000 In a couple minutes there, it was completely gone. 359 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,000 I mean, just like a star. 360 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,000 Oh, wow. 361 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,000 And I told them, come and see where it landed at. 362 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,000 And they went over there to see where it's at. 363 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:22,000 It was glowing, and mom touched the ground, and their fingers turned numb and said, 364 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:28,000 wait a minute, I'll go get a camera and take a picture of this circle. 365 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Ron shares with the team original photos of the ring, 366 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000 making just moments after the incident, 367 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,000 and another photo from four years later. 368 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000 So this is the circle, this is the same circle. 369 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Yep, yep. 370 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,000 So this is 1971, 1974. 371 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 If this mark remained for years. 372 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Yes, the ground never took up any moisture, 373 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,000 and years after years, nothing grew. 374 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,000 Ron's described this ring as lasting for years, 375 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000 with some pretty unusual characteristics. 376 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,000 You know, it would repel water, things wouldn't grow. 377 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 Now soil doesn't just change like that. 378 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 Something must have caused that change. 379 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,000 And in this case, the belief is that a UFO landed here, 380 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,000 and fundamentally altered the soil. 381 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Do you think we could take a look at the site? 382 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,000 I can take you now, if you want. 383 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Ron leads Nick and Sarah to the spot where the incident occurred, 384 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,000 now used as a cattle pen. 385 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,000 It would be right around here. 386 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,000 The ring's down below, because I could put two foot of dirt on it. 387 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 When did you cover it with dirt? 388 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Probably about 20 years ago. 389 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Why? 390 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Because we had people trespassing on that fence line, 391 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 get in the circle. 392 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,000 For you, it was best just to cover it up and forget about it. 393 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 Yes, yep. 394 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,000 I feel like this incident has really affected your entire life. 395 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000 It has. 396 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:05,000 We would love to bring in some experts and try and help you 397 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 and try and find out exactly what happened here. 398 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,000 If the best attempt we can to find out what went on here, 399 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,000 we need to be able to see if we can dig down and get to the original ring. 400 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,000 You'd be okay if we brought some equipment in here, 401 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 and then a team to excavate. 402 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Because, you know, we have the tools and the technology now 403 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 that they didn't nearly 50 years ago, 404 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 and I believe that if we apply science, 405 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 we could get some really interesting results. 406 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000 I want to solve some way. 407 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Is this soil unique? 408 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Is it unusual? 409 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Is there still some evidence of this ring? 410 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 The moment we don't know yet, 411 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 we need to call in some reinforcements 412 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,000 who can actually get beneath the soil and get clean samples. 413 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,000 I'm determined to not walk away from here empty-handed. 414 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000 Looks like Paul and Kyle have been talking to the locals. 415 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,000 We got some intel. 416 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Mike and Dr. Livingston review an update from the field team in Argentina 417 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,000 where they are investigating a potential UFO crash 418 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,000 outside the small town of Salta on August 17, 1995. 419 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Apparently, there have long been rumors 420 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:24,000 that a UFO successfully landed at Bariloche International Airport. 421 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 But, it's not a big deal. 422 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Could they be related? 423 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,000 This is not isolated incidents anymore. 424 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Let's do an LAS search. 425 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Landings, UFO, UAP, Bariloche. 426 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 One hit. 427 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 One document, 98% relevancy. 428 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,000 August 15, 1995. 429 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000 That's a huge hit. 430 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,000 I'm going to go back to the beginning of the story. 431 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 98% relevancy. 432 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 August 15, 1995. 433 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,000 That's just two days before the Salta incident. 434 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:03,000 A 20 to 30 meter circle imprint on Bariloche International Airport 435 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,000 burned into the ground with four smaller circles in the corners 436 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000 caused by an extreme heat source. 437 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:14,000 The soil had a strange white substance under the affected area. 438 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Like Salta. 439 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,000 Heat source? White substance. 440 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Could a UFO have touched down here in Bariloche 441 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000 and then crashed at Salta 48 hours later? 442 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,000 It's worth looking into. 443 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Airport officials have not released a statement 444 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,000 despite completing an internal investigation. 445 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,000 If things are moving around in airspace, 446 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,000 coming in for a landing, leaving, they've got radars, they've got... 447 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000 They've got cameras on it. 448 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Right. They've got more data. 449 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Let's get Paul and Cow over to Bariloche International Airport. 450 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,000 They can hopefully find somebody involved in that investigation, 451 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000 somebody who may have been there that day, 452 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,000 and they might have the information we need. 453 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:56,000 If this spot is where something actually touched down, 454 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,000 established contact, that's huge. 455 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 This is a whole new category for us. 456 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,000 Did you ever have a control of the descent in a landing? 457 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Right. 458 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 This airport is smaller than I thought. 459 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,000 Paul, Cowla, and their translator Dario 460 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,000 arrive just after the incident. 461 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,000 Paul, Cowla, and their translator Dario 462 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,000 arrive just outside the Bariloche International Airport. 463 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Hola, buenos días. 464 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,000 They've arranged a meeting with Daniel Garcia, 465 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000 the chief of the airport control tower 466 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000 at the time of the 1995 incident. 467 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Daniel, what do you know about the reported UFO landing back in 95? 468 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Marcas, la has visto mucho la atención, 469 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,000 no cierto, pues estaban bien definidas. 470 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Marks were found inside the airport perimeter 471 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 and they were very big and noticeable. 472 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000 Can you describe the markings? 473 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000 Like how big? 474 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 It's like a big circle with a series of circles around it. 475 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Were these markings, were they very clean lines? 476 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,000 The ground was burned. 477 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,000 If this is an actual UFO landing safely 478 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000 on the surface of the planet, 479 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,000 we need to learn as much as we can about what actually happened. 480 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000 What did the investigators find? 481 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Que yo tenga conocimiento en ese momento, en esa circunstancia, 482 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,000 no lo puedo definir. 483 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,000 Hubo otro caso que sí que fue observado. 484 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Como jefe de turno en el edificio debajo de la torre vieja, 485 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,000 cuando veo una luz muy fuerte. 486 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,000 There was something making the light, 487 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 you just couldn't make out the shape. 488 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000 And there was a power failure, 489 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,000 all the lights went out in the airport and also in the city. 490 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,000 In Bariloche? 491 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Yes. 492 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,000 Ten miles away. 493 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Do you think that this object caused the power to go out? 494 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 We turned on the generators 495 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000 because there was an airplane coming in 496 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,000 and it started the landing process. 497 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,000 And what did they report? 498 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,000 Did they see the object? 499 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000 The pilot was asking the control tower 500 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,000 if there was another aircraft in the area 501 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 because it was like right next to it 502 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,000 and they didn't understand what was happening. 503 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,000 What did he think this thing was doing? 504 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,000 It appeared and like it appeared, it just disappeared. 505 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,000 There was about 30 minutes between the time 506 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,000 that the light appeared and that he landed the plane. 507 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,000 It's amazing. 508 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,000 This is 30 minutes of interaction between this object, 509 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,000 the UFO and the control tower and two other pilots. 510 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,000 I mean, that is incredible. 511 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000 We've never seen anything like that. 512 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000 That's the longest encounter that we've heard of. 513 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,000 Right. 514 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,000 I've never heard of anything like it. 515 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000 And honestly, the most intimate. 516 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:28,000 This is an actual UFO encounter between an object and a plane. 517 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,000 And it seems to have been targeting this area. 518 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 There are just so many questions here now. 519 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,000 Why did this thing cause these blackouts? 520 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Why was it targeting this airport? 521 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,000 We need answers. 522 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,000 This is never there. 523 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,000 Oh, wow. 524 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,000 Nick and Sarah are on the ground in Delphis, Kansas, 525 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,000 where Ron Johnson, a local rancher, 526 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,000 claims that in 1971, a UFO landed on his property 527 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,000 leaving behind a ring of strange white soil. 528 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,000 This mark remained for years. 529 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,000 Yeah. 530 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,000 But over the years, Ron has covered up this ring 531 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,000 with two feet of topsoil to deter curiosity seekers 532 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,000 from trespassing on his property. 533 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,000 So, Deanne, Ron, he's the landowner. 534 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,000 He was actually here. 535 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,000 He witnessed the event. 536 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,000 Joining Nick and Sarah is a team of field researchers 537 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,000 from Kansas State University's renowned soil science department 538 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,000 led by Dr. Deanne Presley. 539 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,000 Can I see it? 540 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,000 Yeah. 541 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,000 I'll show you. 542 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,000 OK, cool. 543 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,000 Right over here where it's at. 544 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,000 Correct. 545 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,000 We've got a team of soil experts coming in. 546 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,000 They've agreed to help us dig beneath the soil, 547 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,000 get multiple samples, send it off to the labs 548 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000 where they're going to test it for us. 549 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,000 If there's something strange going on here, 550 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,000 science will find that answer to this question. 551 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,000 Here's a pile of dirt right there. 552 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,000 Is there a chance the soil could be contaminated 553 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000 because that topsoil's been there for a long time? 554 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,000 Yeah, because that topsoil's been there for about two decades now. 555 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,000 In terms of has anything moved from that new topsoil 556 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,000 into the old surface? 557 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,000 There could be. 558 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,000 OK. 559 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,000 The first thing I like to do is just mark it out with slags 560 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,000 and then we can pull the truck back here 561 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,000 and pull our first core. 562 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,000 OK. 563 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,000 So, Ron, do you want to point us in the direction 564 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,000 and we'll drop some flags? 565 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,000 OK. 566 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,000 What, the dead center? 567 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000 Yeah, that's the center right in there. 568 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000 One more. 569 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,000 Not Sarah, I think. 570 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,000 With Ron's instructions, Nick and Sarah mark out the area 571 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,000 of what they believe would be the buried location 572 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,000 of the Delfas ring. 573 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,000 Who? 574 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,000 Yeah. 575 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,000 There could be. 576 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,000 OK. 577 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,000 This is about right. 578 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Yeah. 579 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,000 OK, so this is the truck that we're going to use. 580 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,000 It's a truck mounted hydraulic probe. 581 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,000 We're just going to start it up here. 582 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,000 Dr. Pressley utilizes a probe core sampler 583 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,000 that can extract sediment from as deep as two feet 584 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:32,000 into the ground while limiting the soil specimen's contamination. 585 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,000 There we go. 586 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,000 The moment we waited for it, right? 587 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,000 Oh. 588 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,000 Oh. 589 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,000 I don't know. 590 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,000 Hang on. 591 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,000 Obviously, just have the manure here. 592 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000 So that red color is topsoil. 593 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,000 I would say we just have a regular old soil here coming down. 594 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,000 I don't think we found the white substance. 595 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,000 Do we need to keep drilling? 596 00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,000 I think we need to move. 597 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,000 OK. 598 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,000 Reposition. 599 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:23,000 I'm not really seeing anything much different than the last ones. 600 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,000 Unable to locate the ring with the core sampler, 601 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000 the team brings in a six-ton excavator 602 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,000 to expose a large swath of buried soil. 603 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000 So it's almost like you'd have the topsoil 604 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000 and the white mark. 605 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000 So is this where we should be looking? 606 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,000 Yeah. 607 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,000 Yeah. 608 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,000 The team collects several samples, 609 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000 but with daylight fading, they still haven't found 610 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,000 what they're looking for. 611 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,000 Two? 612 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,000 Yeah. 613 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,000 Some bit disappointed. 614 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,000 I was surprised that we didn't find anything. 615 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,000 It screamed. 616 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Landing site. 617 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,000 Yeah. 618 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,000 You guys, is this the place? 619 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,000 Yeah. 620 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,000 The one that was named, landing site. 621 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,000 Yeah. 622 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000 You guys, this stuff here is the most strange to me 623 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,000 out of everything. 624 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,000 Where'd that one come from? 625 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,000 Right here. 626 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,000 Oh, yeah, look at that. 627 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,000 I just think that looks like it could be the old surface. 628 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,000 Preserved. 629 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,000 Oh, wow. 630 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000 What's so unusual about this? 631 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000 What's unusual about it is how smooth these are. 632 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,000 There's potentially a lot of pressure, 633 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000 like something landing could have caused this. 634 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,000 Maybe. 635 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,000 There's also something odd here. 636 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000 There's really no roots penetrating here. 637 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,000 I don't really see too many pores going through it. 638 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,000 That's interesting because Roms had nothing grow 639 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,000 where the circle was. 640 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,000 That's right. 641 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,000 All these are concentrated right around the circle, 642 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,000 right around where we thought the ring would be found. 643 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,000 Have you seen this before? 644 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,000 No, I don't think I've seen that. 645 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,000 This is, I would say, unique to the scenario. 646 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:04,000 Can't wait to see if it's got any kind of different property 647 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,000 in the lab. 648 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,000 But I don't think I can really explain it right now. 649 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,000 Nick and Sarah head to Kansas State University, 650 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:24,000 armed with the samples taken from Ron Johnson's property. 651 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,000 This is it. 652 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,000 Our hope is to conduct an analysis so we can determine 653 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000 if there are any anomalies that might help indicate 654 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,000 what actually landed there back in 1971. 655 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,000 Hello. 656 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,000 Hi, Ganga. 657 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,000 How you doing? 658 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:40,000 Environmental scientists Dr. Ganga Hadaraji and Jay Weeks 659 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:45,000 will run the samples through a battery of soil composition tests. 660 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,000 We're going to be able to see the results today. 661 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,000 Is that right? 662 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000 Today, yeah. 663 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,000 Over here, we'll measure the pH. 664 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:58,000 The team starts with a pH test to find the soil's pH level. 665 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:03,000 Normal soil in Kansas ranges from 5.5 to 7. 666 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,000 This is just a standard pH electrode. 667 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,000 So we'll submerge the electrode in the solution 668 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,000 that's sitting above the soil. 669 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000 It's looking to be around 9.1, 9.2. 670 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,000 9.2 is actually pretty high. 671 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,000 Would that high of a pH make it less likely for something to grow? 672 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,000 Yeah, definitely. 673 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000 Now we know that we have increased pH at that level. 674 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,000 So next step? 675 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,000 Yeah, there's a quick test with a few drops of water 676 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,000 and then see what the water bubbles for, 677 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000 rather than water soaking it. 678 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,000 The team will now execute a saline absorption test 679 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,000 to reveal whether the soil has come into contact with extreme heat. 680 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000 The less saline solution the soil absorbs, 681 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:55,000 the more extreme heat the sample has come into contact with. 682 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,000 Okay, so we're using the A sample as our control sample. 683 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,000 Yeah, to compare whether or not we see any differences. 684 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000 First, they test a control soil sample 685 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,000 taken from 50 feet outside the ring. 686 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,000 So our control sample absorbs water? 687 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,000 Correct. 688 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,000 The first test confirms soil outside of the ring absorbs water. 689 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,000 Next, they will test the sample taken from inside the ring, 690 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000 where the UFO purportedly landed. 691 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,000 Hmm. 692 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,000 Oh. 693 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,000 Can we try again? 694 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,000 Whoa. 695 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,000 That's weird. 696 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,000 Admittedly, I was not expecting that to happen. 697 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,000 No, neither was I. 698 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,000 No, I was not. 699 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000 The sample didn't absorb any water 700 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000 and now we've actually got physical evidence, 701 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,000 which does support Ron Johnson's story. 702 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,000 Ron claims that it repels water. 703 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,000 He's no chemist, as far as I know. 704 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,000 So that's interesting that it does match that description. 705 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,000 It does match his descriptions, yeah. 706 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,000 This is the most significant piece of evidence 707 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,000 that something unusual has actually altered 708 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000 the site where this incident happened. 709 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000 It's just incredible. 710 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000 Mike, check out this document. 711 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000 It may have some similarities to Kansas. 712 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000 Mike and Dr. Livingston examine a recently 713 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,000 declassified Lithuanian government file. 714 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,000 Two Lithuanian police officers see a spherical object 715 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,000 pulsing, shrinking, expanding, 716 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,000 making a strange sound like an electric crackle. 717 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,000 They said that it flattened the long grass 718 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,000 for a diameter of 50 meters. 719 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,000 We got some stuff that's really in common 720 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,000 with some of our sightings. 721 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000 This is suggesting something that's not true 722 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,000 and something that's not true. 723 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,000 We're not in common with some of our sightings. 724 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,000 This is suggesting something touched down 725 00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,000 on the surface of the Earth. 726 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,000 Hold on. 727 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000 Sounds a lot like ball lightning. 728 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000 Atmospheric electrical phenomena. 729 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,000 This is something very difficult to recreate in the lab, 730 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,000 but we do see it in the wild. 731 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,000 Yeah, but a highly trained military unit 732 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000 does not engage meteorological phenomena. 733 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,000 Maybe it's something else. 734 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,000 I've never heard of ball lightning lasting for 30 minutes. 735 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,000 The police recorded that sound. 736 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000 We need to get a hold of that recording. 737 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,000 Let's see what's going on with Kansas. 738 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000 Mike and Dr. Livingston review the findings 739 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,000 from Delfast, Kansas, 740 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,000 where a team of scientists from Kansas State University 741 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,000 executed a series of lab tests 742 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,000 on soil from the location where an eyewitness, Ron Johnson, 743 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,000 saw UFO touch down, 744 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,000 leaving behind a strange ring in the ground. 745 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,000 This is the soil taken from that ring. 746 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,000 And look at this. 747 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,000 It repels water. 748 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000 Look at that. 749 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,000 Yeah, it's sort of clinging to the film of it, right? 750 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000 Look. 751 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000 That is something else. 752 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,000 I don't think I've seen that from soil. 753 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,000 The Kansas State University Soil Science Team 754 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000 has now proven, scientifically, 755 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,000 that the soil in that ring 756 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,000 is different from the soil around it. 757 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,000 And that matches exactly what the eyewitness, Ron Johnson, said. 758 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,000 All right, so think about Ron Johnson's account. 759 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000 It was about 10 feet tall. 760 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,000 This mark remained for years. 761 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000 Yes. 762 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000 The ground never took up any moisture. 763 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,000 And years after years, nothing grew. 764 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:48,000 So what started out as a pretty wild story, 765 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000 this UFO landing in this field, 766 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000 now we've got some real science behind it. 767 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,000 We do. 768 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,000 That's a pretty big deal, 769 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,000 because that could mean that its whole story is true. 770 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000 So could a UFO have touched down here, 771 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,000 and using technology we don't understand, 772 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000 have somehow burned or altered the Earth 773 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,000 so that it will no longer accept water? 774 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:14,000 Could we be looking at the impact of an extraterrestrial object? 775 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000 And if so, why Delphus? 776 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000 Why nowhere Kansas? 777 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000 Seems like such an isolated incident, 778 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,000 in an isolated place. 779 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000 But what if it's not? 780 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,000 Let's do a search in this area. 781 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,000 Okay. 782 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,000 Let's see what we find. 783 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,000 The team utilizes their link analysis software 784 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,000 to search for all strange aerial phenomena 785 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,000 within 50 miles of Delphus, Kansas, 786 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,000 in the last 100 years. 787 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:42,000 In an effort to uncover why a UFO might have touched down in this area. 788 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,000 Alright, look at this. 789 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:45,000 36 hits. 790 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:50,000 In 1980, a bright light in the sky looked like a star, 791 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,000 but it was four or five hours before sun. 792 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:57,000 2016, we saw a bright light move above the trees. 793 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,000 Pull up this one. 794 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,000 89% relevancy. 795 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,000 2008, something brighter than the sun, 796 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000 finds all the cattle huddled up in the shade 797 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000 like they do when a bad storm comes in. 798 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,000 Hardly got a good view of it, 799 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,000 but this thing wasn't much bigger than a car. 800 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,000 That's actually about the same size. 801 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,000 As the ring. 802 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,000 As that ring. 803 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,000 There's a lot of common threads here. 804 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,000 All of them describing a light comparing it to the sun, 805 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,000 multiple eyewitnesses, 806 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,000 all of them describing it either on the ground or close to the ground. 807 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,000 And in one case, a size similar to the ring 808 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,000 reported by the Johnson's in 1971. 809 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,000 And look at this. 810 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,000 These sightings are all clustering right here. 811 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,000 Can you map it? 812 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,000 Carnero, Kansas. 813 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000 What we're looking at is a cluster of six sightings 814 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,000 within three square miles. 815 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,000 That's unusual. 816 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,000 Carnero is a postage stamp of a town. 817 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,000 It's probably about the same size as Delphos. 818 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,000 What is happening in Carnero, Kansas? 819 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,000 Let's get Nick and Sarah the coordinates for this cluster. 820 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,000 Let's get them on the ground and see what they can find. 821 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000 Next time on Contact. 822 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,000 What could possibly be around here drawing these objects? 823 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,000 That's interesting. 824 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000 They're almost like a landing pad. 825 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,000 There were many UFO sightings over the lake for years. 826 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,000 Why would that UFO be hovering over this island? 827 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,000 Whatever this is, it looks like no one's been here for a while. 828 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:38,000 Oh, wow. 829 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,000 This is massive. 830 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,000 It wasn't until I served with CIA that I started to understand 831 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,000 how secrets really work. 832 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,000 There's a secret that's being held and somebody knows what's going on. 833 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:53,000 Does all of this have something to do with the UFO encounter? 834 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,000 Holy s***. 835 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,000 Why? 836 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,000 Why?