1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Stargazing scientists at NASA are confident that when the next few decades humans will discover the very first signs of extraterrestrial life. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Yet some believe it's entirely possible alien craft have already visited Earth. 3 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Large black flying object. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Hey calm down calm down. 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,000 But extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:33,000 In this series I'm going to investigate some of the most remarkable and recent UFO sightings from around the world. 7 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,000 They saw something really strange in the sky that day. 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,000 And I'll be joined by renowned astrophysicist and space journalist Sarah Cruders. 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,000 The thing is with something so extraordinary like this we've got to look at all the more logical explanations. 10 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 I still think this can be explained by science. 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 As together we'll separate back from fiction once and for all. 12 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000 That is an unidentified flying object. 13 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,000 I knew you were going to say that and yes it is. 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,000 It's one of the greatest UFO mysteries of all time. 15 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,000 From our specially created UFO investigation hub we'll speak to experts. 16 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 We have no conventional explanation for what we are seeing here. 17 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Whistle blowers. 18 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Anytime you step out of ranks in an organization like mine there's obviously going to be some repercussions. 19 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,000 And first hand witnesses. 20 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 There was this massive boomerang. 21 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,000 It was at least a mile to a mile and a half wide. 22 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,000 It was huge. 23 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Wow that's just spooked me now. 24 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 And finally answer the big question. 25 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Are we alone in the universe? 26 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Whatever they are they're not of this world. 27 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,000 U.S. Army 28 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 MUSIC 29 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,000 If an extraterrestrial being was a visit Earth it would shake the very foundations of our reality. 30 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Behivering in the minds of many is a belief that it may already have happened 31 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 with over 10% of people claiming to have seen a UFOs. 32 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Oooh I think it. 33 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,000 I think it, I think it. 34 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Oh there it is right there. 35 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Part of the world attracts significantly more sightings than others, 36 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,000 known as UFO hotspots. 37 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:24,720 And there's one very close to home. 38 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,040 Central Scotland has its very own Area 51. 39 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:39,520 The Falkirk Triangle, stretching from Staling to the outskirts of Edinburgh. 40 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:44,200 This certified extraterrestrial hotspot averages over 300 41 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,800 officially reported sightings every year. 42 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,120 It's up there as one of the best places on the planet to see a UFO. 43 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:57,720 What the f*** is that? 44 00:02:58,920 --> 00:02:59,920 Is that a new one? 45 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,120 From cigar-shaped crafts to mysterious lights, 46 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,320 and even chance meetings with extraterrestrial beings, 47 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,400 the list is endless. 48 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,040 Ex-MOD man Nick Pope, 49 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,160 during his time on the UFO desk in the early 90s, 50 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,800 took hundreds of calls. 51 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,840 There were sightings all over the place. 52 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:24,160 They were coming in left, right and centre, 53 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,120 the media was running stories, 54 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,280 there were a number of fascinating individual cases, 55 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,440 some alleged abductions. 56 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,360 It was all happening. 57 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,400 One thing is for certain, close encounters of the Scotches kind 58 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,480 are in a league of their own. 59 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,320 What is going on? Why are there so many UFO sightings 60 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,600 being reported and why is it carried on? 61 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,800 A lot of information has been kept back 62 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,480 because it would be too disturbing to everybody 63 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:52,840 to appreciate that we are not alone, 64 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,080 that there are other entities out there. 65 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,400 The first case we're going to look at in more detail 66 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,560 is one of the most infamous Scottish UFO encounters. 67 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:10,880 42 years ago, deep in Deckman Woods, West Lothian, 68 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,120 a 61-year-old man didn't just see a UFO. 69 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,200 He was attacked by it. 70 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,400 The encounter was so disturbing, 71 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,280 it was even investigated by the British police. 72 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:33,040 On the 9th of November, 1979, 73 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,600 forestry worker and respected war hero Robert Taylor 74 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,200 was checking fences in Woodland at the edge of his small village 75 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:42,480 when the unimaginable happened. 76 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,160 Entering the clearing, 77 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,120 Robert came face-to-face with a large flying dome 78 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,320 hovering above the forest floor. 79 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,200 The dome was approximately six metres across 80 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:54,240 with a rough, dark metallic texture 81 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,000 and small propellers on its outer rim 82 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,800 as he approached something terrifying. 83 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,800 Two spheres covered in spikes dropped from the main craft, 84 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,240 flew towards him, attached to his legs 85 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,280 and began dragging him violently towards the craft. 86 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,200 Robert's next memory is waking up 20 minutes later, 87 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:17,040 injured, disheveled and temporarily unable to talk. 88 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,840 The horrific encounter changed Robert's life forever 89 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,720 and left a Scottish small village dub the twilight zone. 90 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,440 So, Sarah, at this first case, what have we got? 91 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,280 Well, this one's particularly interesting, and it's a bold claim. 92 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,960 It's a claim of an encounter of the fourth kind, 93 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,120 which basically means an alien or a UFO interacted. 94 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:36,720 Have we got any evidence of this? 95 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,000 Well, this is the thing, because when you've got this extraordinary claim, 96 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,800 the normal thing to do is trust and then verify, 97 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,360 but we've got very little to verify on so far. 98 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,800 What we've got is a very little bit of a question. 99 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:49,880 We've got a very little bit of a question. 100 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,440 And then verify, but we've got very little to verify on so far. 101 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,720 What we've got is a sketch, 102 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,400 and this is a photocopy of a sketch which is done by the police. 103 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,680 And there's also a video where he was interviewed 104 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:02,120 sometime after the incident. 105 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,200 OK, can we look at the video? 106 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:10,280 Robert Taylor sadly passed away in 2007 at the age of 88. 107 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,800 But until his death, his story remained consistent 108 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:16,760 with this archive news report. 109 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:23,480 I was amazed to see in front of me this huge dome-shaped... 110 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,600 ...ship, you know, and... 111 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,000 ...just couldn't believe my eyes. 112 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,680 What would you have thought of someone who had just said 113 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:35,280 on television what you've just said? 114 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,880 Well, doubtful if I would believe. 115 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,320 It's a thing that you have to see, I think, before you could believe. 116 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,480 Sir, this guy is an upstanding member of the community. 117 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:46,800 He's a churchgoer. 118 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,160 No history, mental illness or anything like that. 119 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,600 But that is evidence that he said it happened. 120 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,640 It's not evidence of it actually happening. 121 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:56,720 Exactly. We're trying to prove something extraordinary. 122 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,320 We're trying to prove that we're not alone in the universe 123 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,040 and that potentially aliens have visited Earth. 124 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,120 If you're going to try and prove something like that, 125 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:05,400 you need a lot of evidence. 126 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,040 So far, all we have to go on is an artist's impression 127 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,400 of the craft scene by Robert Taylor, 128 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,720 which formed part of the police investigation. 129 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,000 Together, with a testimony of a now-retired police officer 130 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,880 who's one of the first at the scene at the time 131 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,160 and has since corroborated what Taylor says he saw. 132 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:29,960 Once we saw the marks on the ground, I thought, 133 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:31,640 well, something's been here. 134 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:33,560 This is where Robert Taylor stopped. 135 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:35,840 Wherever it was, it was heavy. 136 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:37,120 It was there. 137 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,520 And the only way that went was up through there. 138 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:43,560 Can we look at the sketch? Yeah. 139 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,760 You see, my problem with the sketches, 140 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,680 it looks a little like Emperor Ming's spaceship from Flash Gordon. 141 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,080 So when people first saw UFOs going back a few hundred years ago, 142 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,160 they would see flames in the night sky 143 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:57,640 or things that they could relate to. 144 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,640 And then you come to the 20th and the 21st century 145 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,000 and things look like Flash Gordon or Star Wars 146 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,040 and things which look like science fiction. 147 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:06,800 But something which is beyond the imagination 148 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:08,320 is something we need to investigate. 149 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,000 OK, so, Sarah, how do we move this investigation forward? 150 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,240 Well, this is the thing, because we can't speak to Robert. 151 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:14,640 It leaves us in a bit of a hole, 152 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,800 but we have got someone called Malcolm Robinson. 153 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,400 Now, he is an author and a paranormal investigator 154 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,160 who's dedicated his life to investigating this case. 155 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,680 Malcolm spoke to Robert about his extraordinary experience 156 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:29,800 numerous times before his death 157 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,160 and has acquired a forensic understanding of the case. 158 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:38,320 Malcolm, Craig Charles here, how are you? 159 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,120 I'm great, very well. 160 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,840 In the case of Robert Taylor from 1979, 161 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:44,680 what proof have we got? 162 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,000 Because at the moment, all we've got is he said it happened 163 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,120 and he's done a sketch, which the police then augmented. 164 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,120 Well, we have a lot of proof, Craig. 165 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,040 We do have in our possession the actual very ripped trousers. 166 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:02,800 The Robert Taylor war on that eventful morning of November the 9th, 1979. 167 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,920 And as you can see on one of the legs here, it has got a rip there. 168 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,960 If we turn the trousers over here, 169 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:11,480 you can see a different type of rip there. 170 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:18,360 These trousers were analysed by the police forensic department in Edinburgh. 171 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,720 These trousers were not ripped by any forest debris, 172 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,920 like sharp stones or sharp twigs. 173 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,400 This was clearly a mechanical upwards movement of the trousers. 174 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,120 It's an astonishing case. 175 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,080 How seriously did the police take this? 176 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,280 Well, they took it very serious indeed. 177 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:42,840 So much so, in fact, that they erected a fence around the perimeter of this incident, 178 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:48,360 which was to ensure that members of the public did not stray into this area. 179 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,160 Because clearly, there was these track-like marks 180 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,440 in the circular and triangular indentations. 181 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:01,240 I was there a few days later and I saw myself, these marks, 182 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:05,000 and you could physically see that there had been some kind of struggle 183 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,600 going on in that particular area. 184 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:09,760 And the police knew Bob Taylor, 185 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:14,560 and they knew that he would not dream of making up a story of this nature. 186 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:16,800 It was the furthest thing from his mind. 187 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:18,720 What do you think it could possibly be? 188 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:21,320 There are many theories, Craig. 189 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:27,200 One of those theories is that the forestry worker digested some form of... 190 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,840 Well, it's called a tropa belladonna. 191 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,240 It's a rare berry which can cause hallucinations, 192 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:35,680 and sometimes it can even cause death. 193 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,920 Now, there's no evidence of that plant being in Degment Woods. 194 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,920 People have said perhaps it was epilepsy, an epileptic fit. 195 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,040 We had no history of epilepsy in the family. 196 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:55,600 But to this day, I'm convinced of the sincerity of the honesty of this witness. 197 00:10:55,680 --> 00:10:59,600 And Malcolm, of course, this isn't the only strange sighting in Scotland. 198 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:02,760 There's in fact been a hub of sightings in Scotland. 199 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,840 Since 1992, Scotland has seen a rise of UFO reports 200 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,440 coming from the central belt of Scotland. 201 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,720 There was one case, a gentleman was driving to Stirling 202 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:14,640 with these two young sons. 203 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,480 And as they're driving down this lowly b-road, 204 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:19,440 his young son in the back screamed out, 205 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,160 Dad, what's that? 206 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:22,800 And the father looked through the windscreen, 207 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,560 and he could see this two-tiered, jet-black shiny craft 208 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:31,000 with red lights on its underside, just floating above a field. 209 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,800 We also had the Slogot family, 210 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,920 who were walking on the moors above Bonnie Bridge. 211 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,640 This blue ball of light descended from the heavens 212 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:45,920 and landed in a field. 213 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:51,880 And as it did so, the farmer's fence started to vibrate very violently. 214 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,720 And they just took to their heels and screamed away. 215 00:11:54,800 --> 00:12:00,400 We've also had a number of photographs taken of UFOs from that particular area. 216 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,440 Famous photograph taken by Phil Trevis. 217 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:09,680 He was there to take some photographs of the BP petrochemical plant at night. 218 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,600 It burns off flare, gas flares, etc. 219 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:15,960 And as he was setting up the tripod, he looked to his left 220 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,760 and he saw, coming from the Oco Hills, 221 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,800 this red ball of light moving very fast. 222 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:22,880 And then it stopped. 223 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:25,480 It was about 300 feet above, he said, 224 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:28,640 and he had to physically bend over backwards. 225 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:33,240 The photograph he took shows the underside of this object, 226 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,160 which has a concave underside and it's throwing out light. 227 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,360 Malcolm, at this Falkirk triangle, 228 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,040 what do you think they're looking for there, these extraterrestrials? 229 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,360 Well, we don't know for sure what's going on. 230 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:53,040 All we do know with sincerity is that people are reporting things 231 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,840 to the airports and the police that defy description. 232 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:01,440 So we have to find out what is going on in the skies above Scotland. 233 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:07,560 Wow, Sarah, it's gone from one story to like multiple stories. 234 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:09,000 This case is getting bigger. 235 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,520 I mean, his evidence was very compelling. 236 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,640 It seems like this area of Scotland is a hub of UFO sightings. 237 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,040 OK, so where do we go next? 238 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:18,440 We need to dig deeper. 239 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:20,080 This is getting really interesting. 240 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:22,320 Coming up. 241 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,360 It was like he was in a trance, watching this huge UFO. 242 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,720 And he grabbed his camera and he fired off a shot. 243 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,040 What was captured on that one image? 244 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:38,360 XMOD official Nick Pope shares a Falkirk triangle UFO sighting 245 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,040 that defies explanation. 246 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:45,360 We found no evidence of any fakery with this. 247 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:47,880 There's something being drawn there. 248 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,280 So many people have seen something that they don't understand. 249 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:55,280 And we hear about Provost Billy Buchanan's relentless search 250 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:56,320 for the truth. 251 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,800 Do you think the government knows more than they're letting on? 252 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:05,360 We've been down to every Prime Minister, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown. 253 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,200 The question is still unanswered. What is it? 254 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,440 America has Area 51. 255 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,520 We have the Falkirk Triangle, 256 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,120 stretching east to Fife and back to Staling. 257 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,960 This triangle is a major hotspot for UFO activity. 258 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,160 Since the early 90s, sightings of flashing lights, 259 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:30,640 flying saucers and even violent close encounters with alien tech 260 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,200 have been reported. 261 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:37,280 Scotland has seen a rise of UFO reports coming from the central belt of Scotland. 262 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,360 People suddenly find themselves embroiled 263 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,880 in what we can only describe as a twilight zone. 264 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,520 Sightings in the region include Robert Taylor's terrifying close encounter 265 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:53,160 with the four kind in Deckwood Woods in November 1979. 266 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,800 I was amazed to see this huge dome-shaped set. 267 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:01,880 I just couldn't believe my eyes. 268 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,520 And the bizarre sighting of a glowing craft captured at night 269 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,400 at Pullman Reservoir in 1991. 270 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,000 We have actual photographic evidence 271 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:19,960 reportedly showing the underbelly of a circular UFO as it's streaked overhead. 272 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:26,800 But what's really striking about the Scottish UFO phenomenon 273 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,080 is the sheer volume of reports. 274 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,200 The hundreds of mysterious encounters in the region 275 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:34,160 logged with the authorities every year 276 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,760 are a major cause of concern for the locals, 277 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:40,160 with the authorities yet to provide a rational explanation. 278 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:45,160 In this investigation, we'll stop at nothing to get to the truth 279 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:49,840 about what's really happening in the skies and forests of central Scotland. 280 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,360 So we started out by investigating the case of Robert Taylor, 281 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:07,440 who in 1979 claims he saw a spacecraft in the woods in West Lothian. 282 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:10,520 It attacked him, ripped his clothes, left him so traumatised 283 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,600 that for a short while he couldn't speak. 284 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:18,680 It's now turned into a mass of sightings all over the Folkirk Triangle. 285 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:23,360 So, Sarah, is something happening and is it extraterrestrial? 286 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,520 We've got this huge amount of sightings, 287 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,640 but there could be multiple reasons to explain that. 288 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,520 It could be hysteria. We've seen that throughout history. 289 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,120 For example, when War of the Worlds was first played in on the radio, 290 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,480 people thought it was an actual alien invasion. 291 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,800 It could also be the simple fact that this is more of a rural area, 292 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:41,880 so there's clear skies. People are looking up more 293 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:44,480 and they just see things that they might not have seen before. 294 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,880 What is quite strange is that all seems to be happening 295 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:51,800 in this triangle here around Folkirk. 296 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:53,560 I think that's what's interesting for me. 297 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:57,520 We've got a cluster of sightings in the same area in Scotland. 298 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,000 There's something being drawn there. Is it the military? 299 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,400 We need to find out what is going on here, what it could potentially be. 300 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:08,000 You can't get away from the fact that so many people have called this in. 301 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:11,200 So many people have seen something that they don't understand. 302 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,960 Well, we need to speak to Nick Pope, former MOD investigator, UFO expert, 303 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,560 and what he doesn't know about this case isn't worth knowing. 304 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:24,680 So, Nick, Scotland's certainly been a hotspot for UFO sightings. 305 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:30,840 Yes, it has, and particularly from about 1990 through to about 2010, 306 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:32,760 there were sightings all over the place. 307 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,080 They were coming in left, right and centre. 308 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,000 The media was running stories. 309 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,560 There were a number of fascinating individual cases, 310 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:42,680 some alleged abductions. 311 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:44,600 It was all happening. 312 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,160 Can you just talk us through some of the sightings? 313 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:53,480 Well, one really interesting sighting involved an amateur artist 314 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,320 called Ian McPherson. 315 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,720 This was 1994. 316 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:03,440 In Bonnie Bridge, he was out taking some photographs 317 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,880 at a particular reservoir that he wanted to paint. 318 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,600 And he said a huge UFO was hovering over the water 319 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:12,960 and right in front of him. 320 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:17,240 And he said he literally, he had the camera in his hands. 321 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:22,080 And yet, it was like he was in a trance watching this huge UFO. 322 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,160 And it was only when the UFO began to move away 323 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,000 that it was like the spell was broken. 324 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:31,160 He grabbed his camera and he fired off a shot. 325 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,760 Can you describe the image? 326 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:36,640 What was captured on that one image? 327 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:41,480 The photo showed an apparently disc-shaped object 328 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:46,040 with maybe a difference between the rim 329 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:49,680 and the main body of the object. 330 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,720 That was, I think, pretty much all you could see. 331 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:57,320 Surely you can just say, well, he didn't see anything. 332 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,640 Just an excuse saying he couldn't take this photo. 333 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,320 Why couldn't he get that image when it was close? 334 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:08,960 Well, he would say that he was so much like a rabbit in the headlights 335 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:13,000 that he was frozen with some mixture of emotions. 336 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:16,520 Believers, true believers in the UFO community, 337 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,120 say it's more than that. 338 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:23,320 Any civilization with the technology to devise interstellar travel, 339 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:27,000 maybe they've got some way that they can switch witnesses on and off 340 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:32,200 and put them in a state of mind where they won't use a camera. 341 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:33,280 I don't know. 342 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,560 And what did you conclude from your investigation? 343 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,000 It was just somebody relating an experience 344 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:41,600 that had genuinely puzzled him. 345 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,080 He seemed to be a straightforward, honest witness 346 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,760 with nothing to gain from this story. 347 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,920 He seemed to be genuinely puzzled, wanting some answers. 348 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:58,520 So do you think with your background in the MOD investigating this 349 00:19:58,600 --> 00:19:59,920 and the work you do now, 350 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,040 you're well placed to know whether someone is hoaxing you or not? 351 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:07,120 If somebody hoaxes a photo, 352 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:11,880 the intelligence community has all sorts of resources and capabilities 353 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,360 that can tell if a photo is being hoaxed. 354 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,880 We found no evidence of any fakery with this. 355 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:25,440 What do you make of that? 356 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:26,520 So what do you think? 357 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,320 Kind of a man in black with nebulizers. 358 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:30,400 Get rid of your memory. 359 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,480 Do you think something like that could be going on? 360 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,920 Because this guy, he's seen this thing, but he's frozen. 361 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,160 He says he can't move to get the picture. 362 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:40,720 I think that's highly unlikely. 363 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,520 That is a bold idea to come up with. 364 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:43,800 We've got no evidence of that. 365 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,760 But I think it's a fair thing, isn't it? 366 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,880 Something terrifies you. Sometimes you can't actually move. 367 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,640 So you can understand someone being paralyzed by fear. 368 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,800 But what I thought was interesting from that 369 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,600 is what Nick Pope was saying about how some of these sightings are false. 370 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:00,360 And it goes back to this hysteria. 371 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,200 And I think that makes our task even harder 372 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,640 because we've got to go through everything 373 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,560 and work out what's real and what's fake. 374 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,040 In the mid-90s, at the peak of the UFO activity, 375 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:17,640 the local government, under pressure from concerned residents, 376 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,520 agreed to hold an official meeting to discuss the phenomena. 377 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:24,840 No conclusion was drawn, 378 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:29,600 although alcohol was mooted as a possible factor in the sightings. 379 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,320 A sentiment which was reflected in the national press. 380 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,160 We know that in the 60s and the 50s in the US, 381 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:42,320 this kind of thing was happening. 382 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,520 When the US government was doing very serious UFO investigations, 383 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,320 the media were dismissing the claims. 384 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:48,920 And the reason they were doing that 385 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:53,320 is because they didn't want genuine sightings to be muddied by false sightings. 386 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:54,880 So that, for me, is interesting. 387 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,360 How are we going to find our truth in this investigation? 388 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,280 Well, there's one person we need to speak to, 389 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:01,160 one person who might hold the key. 390 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,840 Folkirk Provost and long-standing councillor Billy Buchanan 391 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,960 have spent decades trying to persuade the British government 392 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,080 to carry out a probe into the sightings. 393 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:17,520 Let's talk to him. 394 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,200 So Billy, can you just explain your involvement 395 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,360 with all these unusual sightings? 396 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:27,480 Well, the fact is, I've tried every single thing 397 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,720 to try and get somebody to come forward. 398 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,120 We've been down to every Prime Minister, 399 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,280 Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, 400 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:38,400 to try and get an official investigation 401 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,640 into this phenomenon in this area. 402 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,720 When the Scottish Parliament opened in 1999, 403 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,040 I contacted them and said, 404 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:47,680 We've got a problem in our area. 405 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,640 And not all of what was an email back saying, 406 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,160 Look, Billy, don't get involved in this. 407 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,120 It's political suicide. 408 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,040 The question is still unanswered. 409 00:22:58,120 --> 00:22:59,200 What is it? 410 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,920 Do you think the government knows more than they're letting on 411 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,640 and the government is potentially hiding things? 412 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,000 Well, I was doing something around Westminster 413 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:09,680 and the House of the Parliament, 414 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:15,680 and I remember being sort of roughly pushed about 415 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,200 with these gentlemen that came across the road 416 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,960 when I was standing with this placard. 417 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,640 But when I went to my hotel that night, 418 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,320 there was a video waiting for me in a cassette. 419 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:33,440 And then somebody had handed this in. 420 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,320 And I found out later that it was an MP. 421 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,360 And obviously, we've got to be the discrete moment 422 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:44,240 in his name, but it was a tape that clearly was to do 423 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,120 with aircraft flying in the Borough of Nigeria. 424 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,440 So I went up to the Cumbernauld Airport. 425 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:51,760 I gave them the tape and I said, 426 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,000 Look, I've been given this tape. 427 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,680 I wonder if you could tell me whether it's fact or fiction. 428 00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,920 I was up in the control town of the owner. 429 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,360 He played the tape and he said that the tape was genuine. 430 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,280 We're in a holding area for Glasgow and Edinburgh Newcastle. 431 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,320 And these pilots flying were seeing quite clearly 432 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,280 that they saw UFOs in the Bonnie Bridge and Falkirk Triangle area. 433 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,520 You see it yourself, this gives it more credibility 434 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,200 and you keep going forward, hoping that someday 435 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,080 that we're going to have an answer. 436 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,560 Billy, do you still have that tape? Because we'd love to see it. 437 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:33,080 Well, the fact is, Tillham Crew wanted us to give them copies. 438 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,240 And what happened was, whenever I heard from them, 439 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,440 whenever I'd seen them again, their telephone numbers went blank. 440 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,200 When you talk about people, 441 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:46,640 we'll maybe laugh about the men in black and so forth. 442 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,400 But I can tell you on a number of occasions 443 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,600 that we've had individuals who we could say 444 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:57,080 that were only there for what everybody else was there for. 445 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,040 Well, I mean, if the evidence pointing to what you're saying 446 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:02,520 is pointing to, it's mind-boggling. 447 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,720 But the fact of the matter is, is that we want an answer. 448 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,560 The government isn't going to give us an answer. 449 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,600 So whether it's the military trying new things 450 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,320 or whether it's something different, who knows? 451 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,440 Billy, it's been great talking to you. 452 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,120 Coming up. 453 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,760 Billy mentioned Cumbernail quite a lot. 454 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,840 New theories that might explain the sightings are scrutinised. 455 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,320 If you look at the Falkirk Triangle here... 456 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:30,920 Both the earthly. 457 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,720 Right, almost in the middle. It's Cumbernail. 458 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:35,600 And the otherworldly. 459 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:40,600 Some people say we've been visited by aliens from distant planets, 460 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,120 but another possibility is that we're seeing 461 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,480 into other dimensions, into other worlds. 462 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,680 There's something spooky going on in Scotland, 463 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,520 where you won't find it in the deep waters of its locks. 464 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,600 Instead, look to the skies. 465 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,720 With more UFO sightings and close encounters 466 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,160 than anywhere else in the world, 467 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,280 the Falkirk Triangle in central Scotland 468 00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:08,680 is an internationally recognised UFO hotspot, 469 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:13,520 with thousands of reports logged over the last three decades. 470 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,960 We're on a mission to establish whether this extraordinary phenomenon 471 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,040 has an earthly explanation, 472 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:24,680 or whether extraterrestrial creatures 473 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,560 are in the ocean, or whether extraterrestrial craft 474 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,640 are visiting Earth. 475 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,760 The village of Bonnybridge was the scene 476 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:35,920 of one of the first reported sightings. 477 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,600 In 1989, glowing objects appeared before a stunned fire crew, 478 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,200 before speeding across the sky. 479 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:47,680 In January 1993, a couple spotted two large triangular objects 480 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,840 low in the sky above the Castle Cary Railway viaduct. 481 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,960 They appeared about the 1991 Pullman reservoir sighting 482 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:00,840 and an extraordinary photo showing a disc-shaped red UFO. 483 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:06,200 The photograph he took shows the underside of this object, 484 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,280 which has a concave underside and it's throwing out light. 485 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:14,320 One of the most vivid descriptions is of a sighting of a UFO 486 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,560 by an amateur photographer at Craig Lusker Reservoir. 487 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:23,880 A two-tiered classic saucer, caught apparently in mid-flight. 488 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,640 We found no evidence of any fakery with this. 489 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:34,880 We also spoke to Provost Billy Buchanan about his fight for the truth, 490 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,560 and he's convinced dark forces are at work. 491 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,880 We never ever heard from them, we never seen them again. 492 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,960 Their telephone numbers went blank. 493 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,120 Shadowy forces, conspiracy theories, 494 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,760 but Billy and Malcolm so absolutely passionate 495 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,040 about what they say is the truth. 496 00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:55,440 This is my concern. 497 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,800 If you're going to investigate something like this, 498 00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,640 you need to have an open mind, 499 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,280 but it feels like in some way they're so convinced 500 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:03,800 that the answer is alien, 501 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,320 that they're not prepared to find that it's something much closer to Earth. 502 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,520 Billy mentioned Cumbernail quite a lot. 503 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,760 Not to the Cumbernail, therefore. 504 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,920 I was up in the control tower with the owner, 505 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,480 and he said the tape was genuine. 506 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,320 Do you know anything about Cumbernail? 507 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,440 If you look at the Folkirk Triangle here, 508 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,680 right, almost in the middle, is Cumbernail. 509 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,560 Cumbernail is a small, busy, mixed-use airport 510 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,800 host to a diverse range of craft, 511 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,240 from helicopters to jets and charter planes. 512 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:38,840 And just outside the Folkirk Triangle are even more airports, 513 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,880 some used by the UK and US military. 514 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,160 And we know that often throughout history, 515 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,440 mysterious sites, claims of UFOs, unidentified flying objects 516 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,400 have just been military tests, 517 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,520 which haven't been communicated to the public. 518 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,400 So it's... 519 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,120 There's a lot of earthly explanations still to this, 520 00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,120 but it is unusual. 521 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,480 The number of people who've come forward with sightings 522 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:02,560 is still of interest. 523 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,160 OK, so we've got one more person to help us prove 524 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:07,720 that this actually happened. 525 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:14,120 Leading Scottish UFO investigator and author Ron Halliday 526 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,080 has spoken in depth to hundreds of witnesses 527 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:22,480 and remains convinced the Folkirk Triangle is a real phenomenon. 528 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:23,920 Ron, it's Craig Charles here. 529 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,040 Listen, how solid is the evidence? 530 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,000 Well, I think the evidence is pretty solid. 531 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,960 I mean, obviously, you know, people do misidentify certain things 532 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:33,800 and no question about it. 533 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,800 When you're dealing with people like airline pilots 534 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,520 with reports in UFOs, buzzing them, 535 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,360 then, you know, I think there's a significant amount of evidence. 536 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,600 It's like there is something strange going on over Scotland. 537 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:46,800 You're talking about evidence, 538 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,960 but accounts aren't enough to prove something extraordinary. 539 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,400 I mean, although I'd agree that people seeing an order light in the sky 540 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,000 maybe can be, you know, dismissed or difficult to interpret, 541 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:00,800 it's hard as to dismiss the evidence 542 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,560 when people have something that they come up against, 543 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,320 you know, maybe just 100 yards or even closer. 544 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,560 There's something really out of the ordinary. 545 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,040 People aren't making these things up. 546 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:14,600 They are really reporting quite strange things. 547 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:19,160 But, Ron, why do you think it's happening in the Folkirk Triangle? 548 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,680 What's there that's interesting these extraterrestrials so much? 549 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,360 Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, that is the big question. 550 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:31,320 Some people say they've been visited by aliens from distant planets, 551 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,080 but another possibility is that we're seeing into other dimensions, 552 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:36,400 into other worlds. 553 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,920 I mean, even some scientists are saying, you know, 554 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,600 we could be living in multieuniversities. 555 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,320 So I mean, I think that, you know, that is one possibility, 556 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,320 but I don't think anybody has come up with a clear-cut answer. 557 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,600 But what evidence have you got of that? 558 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,240 Because that's a huge claim, 559 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,040 but it's just a claim. It's just a tall story right now. 560 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,320 Yeah, I mean, I appreciate what you're saying. 561 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,720 That is difficult to be 100% definite about things, 562 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:04,360 because I think people are reporting seeing something really strange, 563 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,280 like an alien entity, or it seems like a spacecraft close up. 564 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,160 I mean, I don't see how you can just dismiss that, you know, 565 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:16,840 because it goes concrete to what, you know, we understand as everyday life. 566 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,680 What I don't understand, Ron, is that everyone has a mobile phone 567 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,240 these days with a camera on it. 568 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:25,840 And if you're talking about close-up interactions with alien life forms, 569 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,160 how come we've got no video evidence of that, 570 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:29,920 because everyone has a phone? 571 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,320 Yeah, I mean, I don't deny that that is a question 572 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,240 that isn't easy to come with a proper answer to. 573 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,000 I mean, some people say there are already lots of close-up videos 574 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,400 that places like the Ministry of Defence, 575 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,880 just because we don't have anything in the public domain 576 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,240 doesn't mean that there are things that have been get-backed from the public. 577 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,240 Do you think there are forces at play in this country 578 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,240 that are trying to keep us in the dark, Ron? 579 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:57,320 Absolutely. 580 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:03,640 I mean, I think the government should take this phenomenon quite seriously 581 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,240 and actually conduct proper investigations into it. 582 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,200 I mean, what specific evidence have you seen 583 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,800 regarding the Falkirk Triangle 584 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,960 that you would say is 100% convincing? 585 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,920 I mean, I think we have to weigh things up and ask ourselves, 586 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,560 is the sheer volume of the port evidence 587 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,000 that something really strange is going on? 588 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,640 People have been frightened by what's been happening, 589 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,880 people have been demanding answers to it. 590 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,360 So I think, you know, we have to accept 591 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,680 this is a really strange phenomenon, whatever the answer is. 592 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,720 Ron, thank you so much for your time. 593 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,400 We really appreciate what you've been able to tell us. 594 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:44,480 Thank you. 595 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,720 Ron has shared some valuable insight 596 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,240 and he's certainly convinced something's going on. 597 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,560 But although the volume of the UFO sightings 598 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,000 in the Falkirk Triangle is undeniable, 599 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,760 it's not the hard proof we're looking for. 600 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,360 We're still struggling to substantiate the facts. 601 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,160 You've got to have more evidence for me than this. 602 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:10,840 You're right. We're looking for the diamond in the rough. 603 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,560 We're looking for that thing which is going to prove something extraordinary. 604 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,600 So things which aren't compelling, they don't work for me. 605 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:22,480 But just in, video footage of a more recent sighting, 606 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,200 a triangular UFO, 607 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,200 captured on dashcam in Brocksburn, West Lothian, 608 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,000 just three miles from Deckman Woods. 609 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,960 This is one of the latest UFO sightings from the Falkirk Triangle. 610 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,480 OK, show me, show me. 611 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,920 If this footage captured in the Falkirk Triangle 612 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,840 shows a clear image of a UFO, 613 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,480 it could change the course of this investigation. 614 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:50,720 Coming up. 615 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:51,720 There it is. 616 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,400 Kind of triangular, lights at three sides. 617 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,840 The new video evidence throws the investigation wide open. 618 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,240 Wow, Sarah, this case is getting bigger. 619 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,880 And we close in on a final verdict. 620 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,280 He believes it's got an extraterrestrial origin. 621 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,280 We've got to say that in the case of Robert Taylor 622 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:09,880 and the Falkirk Triangle... 623 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,880 Scotland appears to be the destination of choice 624 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,640 for interstellar visitors, 625 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,760 from good old-fashioned flying sources 626 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,560 to inexplicably advanced alien technology. 627 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,560 But despite numerous appeals by local leaders to the authorities, 628 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,840 no official explanation for the phenomenon exists. 629 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,400 Between 1990 and 2010, 630 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,200 authorities received a flood of UFO reports, 631 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:42,280 but hard proof that extraterrestrials are buzzing Scotland 632 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,000 is frustratingly thin on the ground. 633 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,560 I think we have to weigh things up and ask ourselves, 634 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,560 is the sheer volume of the report 635 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,000 evidence that something really strange is going on? 636 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:58,480 What we desperately need in this case is incontestable proof. 637 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:03,840 And just into the hub is recent video footage of a triangular UFO 638 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,760 captured on dashcam in Brockspur and West Lothian. 639 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,720 Could this be the smoking gun we've been looking for? 640 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,520 OK, so there it is, top right of the frame. 641 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,440 What is that? That looks like an aeroplane to me. 642 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,840 It doesn't quite look like an aeroplane. 643 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:24,120 Can we play it again? Yeah, please. There it is. 644 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:25,600 That is unusual. 645 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,080 Kind of triangular, lights at three sides. 646 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:30,600 I don't think it looks like an aeroplane. 647 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,480 It could be military aircraft. Yeah. 648 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,280 Something that we haven't seen. 649 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,680 I don't know, because the car's moving, you can't tell whether it's... 650 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,120 No. ...you know, what speed it's going at, how it's behaving. 651 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,280 It didn't look like it was going very fast, did it? No, it was almost hovering. 652 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:44,280 Mm-hmm. 653 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:47,240 That is interesting. 654 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,240 My first thought was an aircraft, but you're right, 655 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,360 you have got that triangular shape. 656 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,360 But then, it doesn't mean it's an alien spacecraft 657 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:55,440 coming to kidnap people. 658 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,320 It just means it's something that you and I can't explain right now. 659 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,840 Yeah. I wonder how many new planes are the military developing? 660 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,840 But the thing is, we won't know. 661 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,960 So there have been cases like the Blackbird SL 71. 662 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,520 Before that was released publicly, people would mistake that 663 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,280 with its wing-like shape, its stealth shape, through UFO. 664 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:19,000 So it could be a military aircraft that we don't understand. 665 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,800 Sarah, please believe me, I really want to believe. 666 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,880 I know. But at the moment, I'm not convinced. 667 00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:32,600 This extraordinary case has taken us on a roller coaster ride. 668 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,680 And to be honest, it's one of the most frustrating. 669 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,320 But before we reach a final conclusion, 670 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,240 we need to take stock of everything we've learned over our investigation. 671 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,160 So Sarah, we started out with the case of Robert Taylor, 672 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:50,360 who claimed that in the woods in 1979 in West Lothian, 673 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,320 he saw something that looked like this. 674 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,560 42 years ago in Deckman Woods near Livingston, 675 00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,760 respected war hero Robert Taylor, 676 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,800 claimed that as he entered a clearing, 677 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:07,040 he came face to face with a UFO hovering a few feet off the ground. 678 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:13,000 I was amazed to see this huge dome-shaped shape. 679 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,080 I just couldn't believe my eyes. 680 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,440 What happened next defied imagination, 681 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,360 spiked theirs role towards Robert, 682 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:26,560 grabbed hold of his trousers and pulled him violently towards the craft. 683 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:31,240 We do have in our possession the actual very ripped trousers. 684 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:35,840 This was clearly a mechanical upwards movement of the trousers. 685 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,760 We've got this claim of an interaction and encounter of the fourth kind. 686 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,840 We haven't got much evidence. 687 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,520 This could potentially be bull lightning, 688 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,920 which caused the incident with Robert Taylor, for example, 689 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,120 or he may have had an epileptic fit or something else might have happened. 690 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:51,440 But I don't think we'll ever know. 691 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,120 I'm sure he's an honourable man, 692 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,240 but there's no evidence that it occurred this event. 693 00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,120 You need more than a ripped pair of pants. 694 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:03,120 I believe that Malcolm, who investigated this, believes it happened, 695 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,960 and he believes it's got an extraterrestrial origin, 696 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,320 but belief isn't enough with this for me. 697 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,560 Then it turned into a mass of sightings 698 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,360 and something that we've called the Falkirk Triangle. 699 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:17,600 Is something happening in the Falkirk Triangle and is it extraterrestrial? 700 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:25,480 We established the true scale of UFO activity within the Falkirk Triangle. 701 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,360 Scotland has seen a rise of UFO reports. 702 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,560 People are reporting things to the airports and the police. 703 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,760 That defy description. 704 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,880 We also discovered that photographic evidence 705 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,440 relative to the quantity of reports is rare, 706 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:45,400 but there are two images we were able to examine. 707 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,280 The Paulmont Reservoir photo, 708 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:51,720 which purportedly shows the underside of a glowing red UFO at night. 709 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,720 And a daytime image taking that Craig Luska Reservoir 710 00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,800 of a classic flying saucer. 711 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:05,240 But to be honest, these images on their own haven't entirely won me over. 712 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,480 I mean, that one was taken at Craig Luska Reservoir, 713 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,560 and to me that looks like a frisbee. 714 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,240 I wish it wasn't the case, but I'm not quite convinced. 715 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,760 And this one, where he said he was bending over 716 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:20,320 and taking the photograph right underneath the spaceship, 717 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,840 that to me, that could be a camping stove. 718 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,600 Yeah, a photograph's not good enough. 719 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:30,040 I think they're interesting, but it's not evidence. 720 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,040 It's just someone's photographs. They could be anything. 721 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,080 We shared our frustrations about the limited availability 722 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:43,160 of photographic evidence with UFO investigator Ron Halliday. 723 00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:47,960 You're talking about close-up interactions with alien life forms. 724 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,400 How come we've got no video evidence of that? 725 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,480 Because everyone has a phone. 726 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,080 I don't think the way that that is a question 727 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:59,120 that isn't easy to come with a proper answer to. 728 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:03,000 But we also spoke to Falkirk, Pravos Biribu Cannon. 729 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:07,680 He was so convinced that something is going on in Scottish skies, 730 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,320 he dedicated years to finding the truth. 731 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:17,200 We've been down to every Prime Minister, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown. 732 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:22,520 I've tried every single thing to try and get somebody to come forward. 733 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,800 Only to find the doors of power slam shut. 734 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,920 When it comes to something extraterrestrial, 735 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,600 we've got some people who very much believe that, 736 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,840 but I'm not convinced we haven't got that strong piece of evidence 737 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,040 to say, yes, this is something otherworldly. 738 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:44,200 But we must keep in mind the remarkable and recent dashcam sighting, 739 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:48,120 showing a triangular UFO hovering close to a dual carriageway. 740 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,760 It doesn't quite look like an aeroplane. 741 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:53,880 There it is. That is unusual. 742 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,320 It certainly can't be explained. 743 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,240 I mean, no, it's not the first triangular craft seen in this area. 744 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:05,960 Back in 1993, two triangular UFOs 745 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,840 were reported near the Castle Carey Railway viaduct. 746 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,760 But the final word must go to UFO expert 747 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,640 and XMOD official Nick Pope. 748 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:22,040 In your opinion, are the sightings reported 749 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,240 within the Folkirk Triangle credible? 750 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:29,440 A lot of them will turn out to have conventional explanations 751 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,760 as misidentifications. 752 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,800 There will probably be some hoaxes too, 753 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:40,120 but in there somewhere is what I refer to as the core phenomenon. 754 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,440 And that remains unexplained to this day, 755 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,400 both with the Folkirk Triangle sightings 756 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,720 and indeed the phenomenon as a whole. 757 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,400 Now we must come to a final verdict. 758 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:59,560 Have we proved extraterrestrials are visiting Scotland? 759 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,840 So I think we've got to say that in the case of Robert Taylor 760 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:04,320 and the Folkirk Triangle... 761 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:08,760 Case not proven. 762 00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:11,680 Yet. 763 00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:12,760 Mm-hmm. 764 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,960 The perplexing and disturbing case of Robert Taylor 765 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,760 and the Folkirk Triangle for now remains unsolved. 766 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,440 There's just not enough corroborating evidence. 767 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,080 But over the last 30 years, the people of Scotland 768 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,440 have risked their reputations to state on record 769 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,480 they've encountered a UFO, 770 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,160 so I remain convinced there's much more to this story. 771 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,200 Somewhere out there is the truth. 772 00:42:40,240 --> 00:42:43,440 And as governments around the world begin to open their vaults of secrets 773 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:44,640 to the public, 774 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:48,880 we move ever closer to the moment that will change humanity, 775 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,680 the discovery that we are not alone.