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Stargazing scientists at NASA are confident that when the next few decades humans will discover the very first signs of extraterrestrial life.

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Yet some believe it's entirely possible alien craft have already visited Earth.

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Large black flying object.

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Hey calm down calm down.

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But extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.

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In this series I'm going to investigate some of the most remarkable and recent UFO sightings from around the world.

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They saw something really strange in the sky that day.

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And I'll be joined by renowned astrophysicist and space journalist Sarah Cruders.

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The thing is with something so extraordinary like this we've got to look at all the more logical explanations.

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I still think this can be explained by science.

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As together we'll separate back from fiction once and for all.

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That is an unidentified flying object.

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I knew you were going to say that and yes it is.

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It's one of the greatest UFO mysteries of all time.

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From our specially created UFO investigation hub we'll speak to experts.

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We have no conventional explanation for what we are seeing here.

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Whistle blowers.

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Anytime you step out of ranks in an organization like mine there's obviously going to be some repercussions.

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And first hand witnesses.

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There was this massive boomerang.

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It was at least a mile to a mile and a half wide.

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It was huge.

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Wow that's just spooked me now.

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And finally answer the big question.

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Are we alone in the universe?

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Whatever they are they're not of this world.

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The truth is out there.

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Well actually it might be.

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In January 2021.

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700 declassified CIA files were dumped on a public archive called the Black Vault.

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And it reads like sci-fi.

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From a sighting of a fiery sphere.

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The truth is out there.

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Well actually it might be.

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In January 2021.

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700 declassified CIA files were dumped on a public archive called the Black Vault.

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From a sighting of a fiery sphere in a Russian town.

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To an unidentifiable flying craft in Azerbaijan.

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But of the millions of official and unofficial UFO sightings reported around the world.

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It's the reports that come from highly respected civilian and military pilots.

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But are the most difficult to explain.

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In 2004.

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US Navy fighter jet pilots operating from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier.

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Filmed UFOs prowling the skies of San Diego.

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They're all going against the wind.

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The wind's 100.5 knots.

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The leaking of this jaw dropping footage.

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Along with two further sightings by pilots in 2015.

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The US Navy fighter jet pilots operating from the US Navy fighter jet pilots.

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In 2015.

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Oh my gosh.

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Forced the Pentagon to officially confirm their authenticity.

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Where you've got something that was taken from a military aircraft.

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With forward looking infrared cameras or whatever.

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It's authentic.

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And in 2013.

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A US customs patrol plane captured a truly remarkable UFO.

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On its cockpit camera.

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It shows an object traveling pretty fast.

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And then over the sea.

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And a couple of really really bizarre things happen.

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This object at one point goes into the ocean.

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At one point it appears to split into two.

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And then it's out of sight.

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And then it's out of sight.

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Unidentified.

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That is exactly the same conclusion.

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With regard to the Nimitz sighting.

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Unidentified.

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When Top Gun pilots tangle with UFOs.

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The world sits up and listens.

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But it's not just military personnel.

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They're encountering mysterious objects in the clouds.

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It's also highly trained commercial pilots.

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And one of the most extraordinary sightings took place.

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Very close to home.

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Something inexplicable happened.

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The pilots noticed a strange bright orb.

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And this is a real time recording.

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Of that conversation.

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Any military traffic you've got right now?

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You didn't think it was likely to live in the course.

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You're just wondering what's that for the day?

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A Norwegian airline pilot.

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Reported the same thing?

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This unique UFO encounter,

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Witnessed by seasoned pilots,

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Is one of the most credible mysteries of the modern age.

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What did the pilots really see that November morning?

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And are we ready to discover the truth?

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Pilots, not just one pilot,

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Two pilots and other pilots backing them up,

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The fact that pilots spend their life in the sky,

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They know what's up there.

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It wasn't pitch black either.

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Who's the director of investigations at NARCAP.

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Ted, we're investigating some mysterious sightings,

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Can you tell us what you know about these recordings,

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And these sightings?

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Several commercial aircraft observed unusual lights,

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It fought varying a way to the north.

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It's not clear or cut.

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So there is an investigation which has been conducted?

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It's my understanding that the investigation is still ongoing.

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Ted, what do you think it could possibly be?

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Whether pilots know what they saw or not,

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Well there you go Sarah, there's a lot of things we can rule out.

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We can rule out meteors.

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We only had one account where it's veering upwards.

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I'd be shouting it from the rooftops.

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I don't understand why pilots are so reluctant to share this information.

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But I have got just the man for you.

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His name can't be revealed.

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We're going to call him Simon.

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And he's actually a former radar operator with NATO.

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And he can tell us more about this.

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Simon, why can't you reveal your identity?

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Being an air traffic controller for NATO,

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Coming up.

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Your record of that's a plane.

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No, it's a plane. Look at the shape of it.

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Oh hang on, is it the shape of it?

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There, there, yeah.

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That's something we can't explain.

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And Simon gives us some astonishing information

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about what we're not being told.

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I'm interested in the truth.

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I'm not a discoverer.

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We're investigating a major UFO sighting

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of the West Coast of Ireland in November 2018.

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When pilots from three different airlines

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Moving at speeds and speed,

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moving at speeds and trajectories never seen before.

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I'm about to find out from an ex-NATO radar operator

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who's agreed to speak on condition of anonymity.

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Why cases like this are often kept secret by the authorities.

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What information do you have about unidentified objects?

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So is this why pilots are so afraid to come forward

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because they feel intimidated by governments?

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Not just by governments.

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The situation is that when a pilot reports a UFO,

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there is an investigation.

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So that could mean he's been tested of drugs, alcohol use,

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or psychological problems.

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And that could lead to being fired from the airline.

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So if a pilot was to see something in the sky,

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he would be reluctant in your opinion

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to tell his bosses that he'd seen it?

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Just too dangerous for them

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because either they will be right, really killed,

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or it will have consequences for the job.

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In your opinion, are the alien beings flying off skies?

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Officially you don't talk about those kind of stuff

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because the general rule is that

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when you say you do not exist, you do not talk about it.

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Yes, I think they exist.

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They must exist.

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We're not alone in the universe.

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And I'm sure that they visit us.

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What motivates you to come forward?

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Surely you're risking yourself by speaking to us?

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I'm interested in the truth.

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I'm not interested in the cover-up.

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Simon, you say you're looking for the truth,

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but it's hard to find that truth

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when pilots won't talk about the sightings

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and they're also being suppressed by governments.

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Where do we go?

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How do we establish what's fact and what's fiction?

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First of all, there is no reason for those pilots to lie.

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There are generals, there are colonels,

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high brass, they know about the UFOs,

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but they want to talk about it because of the consequences.

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But when they're on the dyke bed, for example,

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there was an American military high-staff Pentagon Colonel,

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I think it was.

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He started talking on his death bed.

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So the moment there are no consequences anymore,

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for those people, they will come forward and talk about it,

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but not as long as they live.

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Are you putting yourself at risk?

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You're essentially a whistleblower.

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Yeah, well, I don't know.

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I mean, a couple years ago,

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I was working on the forum,

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and we were approached by someone, an American,

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and he said that there was no wise for us to continue.

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The government is definitely interested in looking into UFOs,

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and especially following the people that are interested in UFOs.

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Well, I mean, if the evidence points to what you're saying is pointing to,

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it's, I think, it's mind-boggling, mind-blowing.

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We can agree on that.

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Simon, thanks for talking to us. Stay safe.

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Thank you. Yeah, thank you.

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And it's been fascinating. All right.

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Well, there you go, Sarah.

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According to Simon, we've got shadowy organisations

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using fear and suppression

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to stop pilots calling in these incidents

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to keep Pentagon generals quiet until their dying day.

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It is quite frightening as well,

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and the fact that he's potentially risking his life to speak to us,

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that's chilling.

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What is going on that needs to be covered up?

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Actual UFO, don't it?

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UFO.

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UFO sightings have spiked dramatically over the last 12 months,

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and in cloudless skies,

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no one has better place to have a close encounter with an alien craft

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than a pilot.

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But we have uncovered a culture of fear and suspicion

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around the reporting of these sightings,

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which suggests an untold number are going unreported

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or may have been covered up.

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It makes the instant that took place off the Irish coast in November 2018

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all the more compelling.

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The pilots of multiple passenger planes heading to London Heathrow

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were so shocked and so convinced by what they'd seen from their cockpit windows

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that they all called it in to air traffic control.

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The BA pilot says that we saw bright lights,

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and then it just disappeared at a very high speed,

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and then the Virgin pilot comes on and backs him up.

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We also saw that in our midnight clock position.

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We saw two bright lights, midnight clocks,

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seem to back over to the right,

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and then climb away at the speed at least now, in perspective.

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So, um...

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That's unusual.

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Pilots are incredible witnesses,

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because they spend their whole life in the skies.

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They know what's unusual up there.

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So if they're saying,

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this is something I can't explain,

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and then you've got people backing them up,

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that's huge.

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But what makes this sighting off the west coast of Ireland in 2018

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even more extraordinary is that it was not a one-off.

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In fact, it was just the beginning.

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Ireland has become a UFO hotspot.

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Last year, 105 UFO sightings were reported to Irish authorities.

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And it's not just pilots seeing these anomalous objects.

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Ordinary people are capturing an increasing number of mysterious sightings

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on their mobile phones.

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And we've managed to get hold of video evidence

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of some of the most recent examples.

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The first one is Anilong, Cante Down.

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Right. And this is strange, Sarah.

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RUNNING

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Is it a disc? Is it an orb?

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It's almost... Look, see, the bird went past,

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and you can see that's a solid object, where this is almost opaque.

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Are you saying it's a balloon?

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Potentially, but it's moving rather fast.

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It's moving really quickly.

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If that was a balloon, it wouldn't move that quickly.

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It depends on the wind speed of the day.

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Oh, true, it's close.

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And it's the fact it's slightly opaque.

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That's what makes me curious.

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OK, let's go to Belfast now.

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OK.

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Now, look at that. This...

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It's a plane.

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Right, look at the shape of it.

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Oh, hang on, is it this over here?

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That's a plane. No, look at this side.

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That's a plane, and that's travelling so much quicker than it.

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Can we just go back a minute? Just go back.

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There you go, yeah, so we've got that there.

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Yeah, a plane. Which I think looks like a plane.

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Agreed. But that doesn't look like that, look.

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OK. Then if you go slightly forward, wait...

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There. There, yeah.

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There. That's something we can't explain.

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I'm confused now.

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As far as I'm concerned, we can't explain any of it.

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It's the fact that multiple people

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are seeing unusual things in Ireland.

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OK. Where do we go now?

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How do we continue with our investigation?

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And how do we begin to explain this sudden rush

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of UFO sightings in Ireland?

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So I've got someone who can potentially help us with these videos.

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His name is Chris McMurray.

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He's from the Northern Ireland UFO Society,

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and he's spent years investigating these mass sightings.

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Chris, can you tell us more about these recent videos

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that we've been watching?

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Oh, yeah, we'll start with the one in Anaheim,

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which was seen on the 8th of July 2020.

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Now, that is the most surprising video that we've seen.

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There was no sign from it.

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There's no flight records to say that any aircraft

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was in the air in that area at that time.

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So that definitely does remain unexplained.

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The Belfast video, we initially thought it was

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a transatlantic airliner or an aircraft

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taking off from Belfast at the airport.

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That's what Sarah thinks.

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Yeah, however, we've looked into that.

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We've looked at historical flight records

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and the only aircraft that was nearby in the vicinity

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within the next 30 miles or so

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was an aircraft taxiing at a different airport.

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It could be maybe a military aircraft.

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The only time I'm aware that they turn off their transponders

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is if they're in operations.

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Now, flying over friendly airspace,

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they should be using their transponders.

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So I can't completely rule it out,

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but it doesn't convince me that it was an aircraft.

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Chris, have you heard the pilot audio from the BA pilot

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and the Virgin pilot seeing something above your skies?

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I have heard it, yes.

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What do you think they saw then?

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Well, the mainstream theory behind it

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is that they saw a meteor entering into the atmosphere.

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I would contest that simply because it seemed

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for quite a long duration of time.

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And to say this to the pilot,

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which I think is quite insulting to the pilot

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of someone who's had that many years of experience flying,

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who would have seen things like this before

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and what you saw was a meteor breaking up in the sky.

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Especially when he says he saw two bright lights

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that seemed to bank over to the right

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and then climb away at speed.

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You know, meteors don't bank to the right and climb, do they?

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No, meteors don't take those weird turnings.

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There are instances where meteors would bounce off

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the Earth's atmosphere,

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but this was far too low for that to happen.

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It might be something different.

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OK, Chris, listen, it's been fascinating talking to you.

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Keep looking at the skies, kid.

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Thank you. You too, man. OK.

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OK, so let's look at what we've got.

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We've got the cockpit audio from British Airways

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and Virgin pilots talking to the air traffic control,

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saying they've seen something that's very, very strange in the sky.

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They don't know what it is.

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OK, it was moving so far.

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I was expecting a little of the heat, but yes, thank you.

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Now, these pilots are used to seeing things in the sky,

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so let's freak them out.

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We've got multiple other sightings on the ground in Ireland as well.

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All over Ireland? Why is Ireland such a hot spot?

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I don't know.

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Coming up, Sarah and I continue our enquiries

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into the series of unexplained sightings in Ireland.

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It could be multiple things, Craig.

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It could be hysteria, it could be the fact that clear sky

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is less light pollution.

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And we venture further afield.

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The pilot saw a strange light out of the cockpit.

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Watch your expert opinion on this incident.

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We're not quite sure what we're dealing with.

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And we examine startling new evidence

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from other international UFO hotspots.

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I've never seen anything like that before.

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Look at this now.

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You've got a cylinder and an orb.

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I genuinely can't explain this.

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Are we alone in the universe?

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Or somewhere out there,

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our intelligent being staring into the night sky

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and asking the same question?

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And is the answer stranger than we can ever imagine?

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That's nuts. That's two nights in a row.

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An estimated 5% of UFO sightings worldwide

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can't be explained.

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David, that is the weirdest thing.

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What the f*** is that?

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But there's one European country that appears to attract

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more interstellar visitors than any other.

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Ireland has become a UFO hotspot.

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And one encounter stands out from the rest,

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a major sighting by multiple commercial pilots.

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In November 2018.

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That's all right.

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Right, right.

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Left, left, right.

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Left, right, right.

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Left, right, right.

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Left, right, right.

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Left, right, right.

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Left, right, right.

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Left, right, right.

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Shannan Air Traffic Control

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received numerous reports of mysterious lights

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and unidentified craft shooting across the morning sky

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at 30,000 feet.

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Here to be multiple objects following the pace of the trajectory.

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Very bright. Where are we?

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Where extraterrestrials behind this extraordinary event

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and is something bigger going on in Irish airspace?

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The speed is at the top.

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We're leaving no stone unturned to get to the truth.

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Let's look at what we've got.

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We've got the cockpit audio from British Airways

531
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,000
and Virgin pilots talking to the Air Traffic Control

532
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000
saying they've seen something that's very, very strange

533
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000
in the sky. They don't know what it is.

534
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000
It was moving so fast, it's like the 10-mil of the sea.

535
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000
Alongside you.

536
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,000
Get to Kalavanagh, left-hand side

537
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000
and then rapidly reach to the north.

538
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,000
And we've got really recent sightings in Earth, faster.

539
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,000
County Down, County Meath.

540
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,000
Something's going on in Ireland.

541
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000
Why is Ireland such a hotspot?

542
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,000
It could be multiple things, Craig.

543
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,000
It could be hysteria.

544
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000
You know, you hear your neighbour saying he UFO

545
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000
and then suddenly you're like, I can see something also.

546
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000
It could be the fact that people are just looking up more.

547
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,000
Clear skies, less light pollution.

548
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000
But I am curious about the pilots.

549
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,000
That is certainly, as you say, incredible witnesses.

550
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,000
And they're up in the skies all the time.

551
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,000
They know when they see something which is unusual.

552
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000
The next logical step in our investigation

553
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,000
is to compare the report from the pilot over Ireland

554
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,000
in November 2018

555
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:53,000
with similar sightings by pilots elsewhere in the world.

556
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,000
So I caught up with Nick Pope, former M.O.D. investigator

557
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000
and UFO expert earlier.

558
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000
And he has more to say on this.

559
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000
In terms of sightings from pilots,

560
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,000
we've got incredible witnesses.

561
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,000
There's numerous accounts of pilots seeing things

562
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,000
that they can't explain.

563
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000
And these are people who are aware of the skies

564
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000
more than any other people.

565
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000
And there was one particular incident, a flight heading from the U.S.

566
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,000
in the year 2020 to Mexico,

567
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,000
where they saw this unexplained object.

568
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,000
Can you just talk us through that incident?

569
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,000
Well, this was an interesting case,

570
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,000
but also, frankly, a disturbing case.

571
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,000
The pilot and the first officer

572
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,000
saw a strange light

573
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,000
out of the cockpit.

574
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,000
And their initial thought was that,

575
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000
oh, look, there's a meteor.

576
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,000
And then the thing just stopped.

577
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,000
It's like an orb, man. Look at that.

578
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000
Oh, man, that is phenomenal.

579
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,000
Dude, I'm so glad you saw that.

580
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,000
And you saw it drop out of the sky and just...

581
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,000
And just stopped?

582
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,000
Dude, it's awesome, man.

583
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,000
Look at that.

584
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000
Oh, this is awesome.

585
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,000
It was almost as if it was tracking the aircraft.

586
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000
And at one point in this encounter,

587
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000
there was actually a beam of light

588
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,000
that seemed to be shone from the UFO,

589
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,000
whatever it was, towards the aircraft.

590
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000
Oh, man, look at that thing, dude.

591
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000
And in your expert opinion,

592
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,000
with your background working for the MOD,

593
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,000
investigating UFOs,

594
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,000
what's your opinion on this incident?

595
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,000
It wasn't another aircraft,

596
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000
it wasn't a meteor,

597
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,000
and you left with this uncomfortable feeling

598
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000
that there's something,

599
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,000
but we're not quite sure what we're dealing with.

600
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,000
And in terms of sightings from pilots again,

601
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,000
this isn't the only case of unusual lights

602
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,000
being seen in the night sky.

603
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,000
Yeah, in Chile,

604
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,000
they have had a number of cases

605
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,000
where they've had some very interesting sightings.

606
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,000
In particular, there's a piece of film footage

607
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,000
from a Navy helicopter

608
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,000
that they spent, I think, two years looking at

609
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000
and said,

610
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,000
we have no conventional explanation

611
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,000
for what we are seeing here.

612
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000
So, a Naval helicopter in Chile

613
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,000
in 2014 recorded something unexplained on camera?

614
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,000
Yes, and one of the other fascinating things about this

615
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,000
is at one point you can see what looks to be

616
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:41,000
almost like a vapor trail, a contrail.

617
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,000
It looks as if the thing,

618
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,000
some people have speculated that it's venting,

619
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000
I don't know, plasma or something,

620
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,000
but something's coming off this thing.

621
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,000
They went through everything.

622
00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,000
Were there any aircraft helicopters in the area

623
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000
where the balloon launches?

624
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,000
What about an astronomical or meteorological explanation?

625
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,000
And just drew a couple of pictures

626
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,000
and just drew a complete blank.

627
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000
What do you think that is, sir?

628
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000
I think there's a lot of unknowns,

629
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,000
but what's interesting to me is the shape.

630
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,000
It looks similar to one of the videos we saw for Ireland.

631
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,000
I don't know whether they're related or not,

632
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,000
but it's that same orb-type shape.

633
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000
Can I have a closer look at this?

634
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,000
It does look a bit like a Chinook helicopter.

635
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,000
But this is moving much, much slower than the other videos.

636
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,000
I mean, the Chilean government investigated this thoroughly.

637
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000
They still don't know what it is.

638
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000
It appears to be venting something.

639
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000
Yeah, it's like an exhaust fume or something.

640
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,000
I've never seen anything like that before.

641
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000
I've never seen anything like it either.

642
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,000
And then it separates looks.

643
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,000
So do you think that might have been sort of an exhaust?

644
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:17,000
Like, so it's decided to fire itself towards the ground or something?

645
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000
Or is it two separate objects?

646
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000
Has it split into two?

647
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000
But look there now, you've got a cylinder and an orb.

648
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,000
I genuinely can't explain this.

649
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,000
Wow, that's just spooked me now.

650
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,000
OK, Sarah, you as a scientist, a renowned astrophysicist, Stephen,

651
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,000
can you explain to me what's going on there?

652
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,000
I can't explain it.

653
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000
It's genuinely interesting.

654
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000
It's genuinely something I've never seen before.

655
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,000
I can't give you the answer to what's going on in that video.

656
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,000
OK.

657
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,000
We've been sidetracked though. Let's get back to our main case.

658
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:56,000
We've got credible witnesses, pilots talking in the air to air traffic control.

659
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,000
We've got multiple sightings in multiple venues.

660
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,000
Well, fast, carry down, carry me.

661
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000
How do we move this investigation forward?

662
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000
Well, I think we need to treat them as separate events

663
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,000
because what happened in Ireland might not be related to what's happened in Chile.

664
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000
But it's certainly interesting. It's certainly a hotspot.

665
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,000
I think we need to speak to someone else

666
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,000
and I've got the perfect person who can shed some light on this.

667
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Coming up, we meet a scientist with an incredible explanation

668
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,000
for what might be going on in the skies over Ireland and Chile.

669
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:33,000
It's quite possible we have a controlled autonomous surveillance of the Earth

670
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000
by these anomalous objects.

671
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,000
He thinks we're being watched.

672
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,000
There is more stuff going on than we know about.

673
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,000
And they're scared to tell us that we'll be frightened to death.

674
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,000
We're on a mission to uncover the truth about what commercial

675
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,000
and military pilots are really seeing in our skies

676
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000
and reporting back as encounters with UFOs.

677
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:04,000
And in particular, the extraordinary aerial encounter that took place in 2018

678
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,000
off the west coast of Ireland

679
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:12,000
when multiple commercial pilots reported sightings of unidentified flying objects.

680
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,000
Before we come to a verdict, let's look at what we've got here.

681
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:21,000
We've got the cockpit audio of three separate pilots talking to Air Traffic Control

682
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,000
about seeing something very, very strange in the sky.

683
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,000
The BA pilot radio was in.

684
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,000
It was moving so fast we saw bright lights.

685
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,000
It disappeared at a very high speed.

686
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,000
There have been multiple objects following the takeover of the trajectory.

687
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,000
They're very bright where we were.

688
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,000
A Virgin pilot says they're two bright lights, multiple objects, very bright.

689
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,000
So they've all seen something very unusual in the sky.

690
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:49,000
So far, we've spoken to someone from NARCAP who deals with pilots

691
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,000
and unusual sightings that they have in the sky.

692
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,000
How unusual is it for pilots to report seeing things like this?

693
00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:00,000
I will tell you that we get more reports when pilots retire.

694
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:05,000
We've spoken to a UFO expert, Simon, a former radar operator with NATO.

695
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000
There's two dangers for them.

696
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,000
I'm interested in the truth.

697
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,000
I'm not interested in the cover-up.

698
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,000
But despite the mounting evidence,

699
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,000
Sarah wants to see if there's a plausible scientific explanation

700
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,000
for some precedented series of UFO sightings.

701
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,000
I still want to explore this idea that it could be an astronomical phenomenon.

702
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000
So we, Craig, are going to speak to an astronomer.

703
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,000
His name is Dr. Ayman Ansborough.

704
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,000
What do you think is going on?

705
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:41,000
There were indeed multiple pilots in multiple aircraft

706
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,000
linked into air traffic control at Shannon.

707
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,000
And we're not dealing with one object here.

708
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000
There wasn't any trail behind them.

709
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:55,000
And I thought, well, maybe it could be meteor or fireballs.

710
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,000
At the time, I think it was about a few days beforehand,

711
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:05,000
the torad meteor shower does have a characteristic,

712
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,000
which is a horizontal movement of meteors.

713
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:15,000
But these objects that were seen by pilots don't resemble anything like meteors.

714
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,000
The pilot described it, Ayman, as changing direction.

715
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,000
I mean, do meteors change direction?

716
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000
No, meteors don't change direction.

717
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:29,000
And they come straight down in a curve, so to speak, down to the horizon.

718
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,000
I thought of other objects, possibly sprites.

719
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,000
This would be a type of lightning,

720
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,000
but going in the opposite direction, but in the upper stratosphere.

721
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000
But that doesn't fit either.

722
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,000
Where these objects were seen was at 30,000 feet,

723
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,000
more or less on the same level as the pilots.

724
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:53,000
But there have been cases with meteors where they actually go into the Earth's atmosphere,

725
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000
they don't get low enough, and then they skip out again.

726
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,000
It's a rare astronomical phenomenon, so it does happen.

727
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000
But not that long, Sharon, not at 30,000 feet.

728
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000
The thing is, with something so extraordinary like this,

729
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000
we've got to look at all the more logical explanations.

730
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000
Yes, I take her point there, Sarah.

731
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,000
You're quite right.

732
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:13,000
They would bounce off from the atmosphere, but at a very high altitude.

733
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,000
And it can't be space junk, either, can it?

734
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,000
Because space junk doesn't fly up with either, does it?

735
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Yeah, I think the problem is gravity.

736
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:27,000
It's so low down that it doesn't make sense for it to go the opposite direction.

737
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,000
So what you're saying is that we can rule out space junk, space debris.

738
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,000
We can potentially rule out the meteor.

739
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:39,000
So in your opinion, then, how unusual is this sighting from the cockpit of these aircraft?

740
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000
This is fairly common.

741
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,000
It's common?

742
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:51,000
There's thousands of pilots over the last 70 or 80 years that are seeing these constructs.

743
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,000
You know, cylindrical objects, triangular type objects.

744
00:36:54,000 --> 00:37:02,000
I decided to get computerized data of thousands and thousands of reports

745
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000
and started studying this, and one day we made a breakthrough.

746
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:17,000
And sure enough, the model was showing that there was a pattern to it.

747
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,000
There were cycles to it.

748
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000
What was the pattern? What was the cycle?

749
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,000
I mean, give it to you.

750
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:30,000
We thought it might be, you know, similar to what satellites do going around the Earth.

751
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,000
But it wasn't making sense.

752
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:40,000
And then one day we found that if we synchronized the orbits with the rotation of the Earth,

753
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,000
lo and behold, it actually works.

754
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000
And it was testable.

755
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,000
And the theory is that...

756
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:57,000
that it's quite possible that we have a controlled autonomous surveillance of the Earth by these anomalous objects.

757
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,000
Wow, that's just spooked me now.

758
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:07,000
We are being watched by a superior species.

759
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,000
Is that what you're trying to say?

760
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:17,000
All I do know is that the constructs that people have been witnessing, going back 140 years,

761
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000
appear to be intelligent.

762
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:26,000
Hang on, it's a bold hypothesis, but there could be a more generic, less sexy reason for these cycles.

763
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,000
Well, they're quite precise, actually.

764
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,000
So it's actually showing that we're here to have this...

765
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,000
like a surveillance going on.

766
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Wow.

767
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,000
Dr. Ayman, it's been fantastic talking to you.

768
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,000
You've certainly opened my eyes and you've freaked me out a little bit.

769
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,000
And I think you freaked Sarah out as well.

770
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000
Thank you so much, Ayman.

771
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,000
You're most welcome.

772
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:59,000
Well, there you go. You wanted science, you wanted data, and you just got it.

773
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,000
And he thinks we're being watched.

774
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:06,000
There is some credibility in the idea that we could potentially be being watched now, bear with me.

775
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:12,000
There is that potential that there are civilizations out there which are vastly more intelligent than us

776
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,000
that just are watching us and don't want to communicate.

777
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:21,000
When I made the bold claim that, like, in a few decades' time, we'll find alien life forms.

778
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,000
And you said, yeah, but there'll be microbial.

779
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,000
Yes, that's us finding them. This is different. This is them finding us.

780
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,000
OK.

781
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,000
So within the next few decades, it's a case of when, not if, we will prove that we're not alone in the universe

782
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,000
in terms of microbial life elsewhere in the solar system.

783
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:40,000
But in terms of aliens, intelligent life beyond Earth, that could be tomorrow.

784
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,000
That could be 100 years from now. We just don't know.

785
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,000
I don't know.

786
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:54,000
In this investigation, with a master wealth of never-before-heard expert testimony and secret revelations,

787
00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:04,000
but have we got enough to make a final decision on what it was the pilots really saw up in the skies over Ireland in November 2018?

788
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Let's have a look at the board.

789
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:15,000
British Airways pilot, Virgin pilot, third pilot, all say they saw something very, very, very odd.

790
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,000
So perhaps this is something we haven't even dreamt of.

791
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Perhaps it is something beyond the imagination.

792
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:26,000
And then there's Ted from Narcab, who says, so many pilots have seen so many things,

793
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,000
but they're afraid to come forward and say,

794
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:36,000
I've seen so many pilots. I've seen so many things, but they're afraid to come forward because of the ridicule and the stigma.

795
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,000
Whether pilots know what they saw or not, I find them to be pretty good observers.

796
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,000
I've never had a pilot come to me and tell me that he knew what he saw. He told me what he saw.

797
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,000
Pilots spend more time in the sky than anyone else.

798
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,000
They're the people to know what's strange and what's more common.

799
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,000
But at the same time, it could just be something natural that we haven't managed to explain yet.

800
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,000
No detail of this case has escaped our forensic examination.

801
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:05,000
And now, finally, it's time to put our cars on the table.

802
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Do the mysteries of this incredible UFO sighting hold up under scientific scrutiny,

803
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:15,000
or should it be struck from the UFO files for good?

804
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,000
Watch your verdict.

805
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,000
I think this is very interesting.

806
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,000
I'm going to say it's not been solved yet.

807
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,000
Maybe I'm scared of being stigmatized.

808
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000
I believe in aliens. I believe in aliens.

809
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,000
But I'm going to have to say that the jury's out.

810
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000
The jury's out.

811
00:41:52,000 --> 00:42:00,000
This extraordinary case now joins the thousands of other impossible to dismiss sightings from around the world.

812
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:07,000
The weight of evidence that UFOs exist is building at an ever-increasing pace.

813
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:15,000
Hot off the press, another Pentagon authenticated sighting of an unidentified flying triangle

814
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000
has sparked a media frenzy.

815
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:26,000
And a frustrated public, desperate for answers, are forcing the authorities slowly but surely to disclose their secrets.

816
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:31,000
But for now, UFO hunting remains a dangerous game.

817
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:38,000
Always remember Simon, the radar operator, ex-NATO, who was so scared to come forward

818
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,000
that we had to disguise his identity and change his name.

819
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,000
Are you putting yourself at risk? You're essentially a whistleblower.

820
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:53,000
Yeah, well, I don't know. We were approached by someone and he said that it was not wise for us to continue.

821
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:58,000
He says there are shadowy forces out there who know lots of things that we don't know

822
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,000
and they're scared to tell us because we'd be frightened to death.

823
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:08,000
I am curious about Simon and why would the general on his deathbed at the Pentagon come out and say

824
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,000
there is more stuff going on than we know about?

825
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:39,000
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