1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 On this episode of Expedition X, my team embarks on a dangerous mission to investigate reports of UFOs. 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,000 I can't believe I'm saying this, but I was abducted. 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Around the Washington State Mountain where the term flying saucer was coined, 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Are you getting this? It's right through here. 5 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,000 What the hell is that thing? 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Now, new sightings nearly every night have brought this UFO hotspot back into the spotlight. 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 There's something extraordinary going on around here. 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Can you see the light right now? 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,000 The performance of the helicopter is really struggling right now. 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Brace for a vertical impact. 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Oh my God! 12 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,000 My name is Josh Gates. 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:54,000 In my travels, I've experienced strange things that defy logic and made me question everything. 14 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Oh my God! 15 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Now, I've put together a team to investigate the stranger side of the unknown. 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Let's go! 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Phil Torres is a scientist who hunts for rational explanations. 18 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,000 This is a corner for actually found stonestones. 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Jessica Chobot's paranormal research has made her a true believer. 20 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 There is a monster living in this forest. 21 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Phil, Phil, Phil! I just saw something run across. 22 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Together, we're searching for answers to the world's most extraordinary mysteries. 23 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,000 This is Expedition X. 24 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Jess, Phil, we're talking about aliens today. 25 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Okay. 26 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Now, I don't know where you come down on this topic, 27 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,000 but look, it wasn't that long ago that when somebody was talking to you about aliens, 28 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 they were probably wearing a tinfoil hat or they were screaming about conspiracy theories. 29 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:54,000 But times have changed and we're now having very serious conversations about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. 30 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Yeah, I mean, I love it. The fact that NASA's chief scientist has come out and said 31 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,000 our future space probes will probably discover extraterrestrial intelligence. 32 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,000 I mean, I dig it. That's awesome. 33 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,000 And a lot of these predictions that scientists are making are based upon our observations of the universe. 34 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 We have better telescopes, we have better satellites looking outwards, 35 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:18,000 and they're finding habitable planets not too far off from our own star. 36 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Yeah, all of this raises the question, is whatever's out there already here? 37 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,000 In other words, UFOs. 38 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Now, news broke a few years ago that our own government had a top secret program going 39 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,000 called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. 40 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 And this is not some Roswell-era conspiracy. 41 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000 This is a real thing that was being run out of the Pentagon, a $22 million program, 42 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,000 analyzing UFO sightings here in the States to determine if they represent a possible threat. 43 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Yeah, and that's what I'm talking about. I mean, this stuff is real. That's a big deal. 44 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 You're fully convinced already. Aliens are out there. 45 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Well, you might become a believer here in a minute too, because footage from one of the incidents they investigated 46 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 was recently released and it shows an unidentified object that was encountered 47 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:06,000 by six Navy super hornets on a training mission off the coast of California, 48 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:11,000 and it has quickly become one of the most talked about UFO videos ever. Check it out. 49 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:18,000 The pilots reported seeing a white tic-tac shape flying at about 28,000 feet. 50 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Oh, thank you. 51 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,000 They're all going against the wind. The wind's a hundred and twenty-nice in the west. 52 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,000 In less than a second, it dropped down to just above the ocean 53 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 and created a kind of circular disturbance on the surface of the water. 54 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Then it disappeared. 55 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Alright, Phil, what do you make of that? 56 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Well, I have to admit, not only have I already seen this video, I've probably watched it about a thousand times. 57 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,000 You have? 58 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,000 When it first came out, I was like obsessed with it. I had to watch to see what was going on, 59 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 because it is so unexplainable. 60 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:54,000 But what's recently been reported is even more weird that they have more classified documents about this sighting 61 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 that haven't been released. 62 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,000 So if the Navy was comfortable releasing this, which is incredibly shocking, 63 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,000 imagine what they are uncomfortable releasing to the public. 64 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Exactly. And remember, this is just one of countless sightings that have been reported up and down the west coast. 65 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:16,000 But the place in the country with the most UFO sightings is actually Washington State, 66 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,000 and more specifically, on and around a place known as Mount Adams. 67 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:26,000 And in fact, Mount Adams really is the spot that started the modern UFO phenomenon as we know it. 68 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Check it out. 69 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,000 June 24, 1947. 70 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:37,000 That's when seasoned private pilot Kenneth Arnold witnessed something inexplicable while flying home from a business trip. 71 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Nine shining, unidentified flying objects darting between Mount Adams and Mount Rainier for nearly two minutes. 72 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Fourteen days later, the famed Roswell incident came to light and made the idea of extra-terrestrial visitation, front-page news. 73 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:00,000 These days, people in the Mount Adams area report aerial anomalies almost every night. 74 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Strange lights in the sky that float and flicker above the mountain, but also lights that seem to disappear into the mountain. 75 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:13,000 More recently, radio host and researcher Jimmy Church has made a provocative claim, 76 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:20,000 capturing images of what he believes could be a mechanical opening built into the side of Mount Adams. 77 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,000 There is a rectangular hangar door that is open. 78 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Guessing from here, it's got to be a couple hundred feet wide by maybe a hundred feet tall. 79 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Okay, so that is a lot to unpack. 80 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Phil, I'm guessing you are not on board with this. 81 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,000 I got to say, there's parts of this that I'm pretty skeptical of. 82 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:44,000 However, I will say, I'm always intrigued when people see something in the sky they can't explain. 83 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 I actually had a UFO sighting. 84 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:54,000 In college, I was driving to school and out in the distance, there were these three really bright lights in a triangle formation. 85 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:02,000 The top light flew up and then the two side lights flew in opposite directions so quickly that all I could see was kind of the light trails. 86 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Wow, okay, so obviously you two are well suited for this case. 87 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:15,000 And so the mission is this, get up to Mount Adams, America's UFO hotspot, and see if you can document evidence of extra-terrestrial activity. 88 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 People up there say that this happens every night. 89 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 I say, prove it, let's see the evidence. 90 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Consider me in. 91 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,000 We've got a mountain to climb. 92 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,000 The truth is out there. 93 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Jessica and Phil fly nearly 3,000 miles across the country to Seattle, where they then drive more than a hundred miles into the heart of the Cascade Range. 94 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Fifth gear. 95 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Woo-hoo! 96 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Now I've got all the gears. 97 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Eventually they arrive in the foothills of a soaring and stunning peak. 98 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Oh, look, Mount Adams! 99 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Although it hasn't erupted in a thousand years, the 12,281-foot-high Mount Adams is still considered a potentially active volcano. 100 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:08,000 But according to locals, one thing that is undisputedly active are the mysterious lights that have attracted the attention of UFO watchers from around the world. 101 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,000 So Mount Adams, UFOs, every single night. 102 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,000 How is that not world news if they're here all the time? 103 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Well, I hear you on that. 104 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,000 But I got some ideas on what other things it might be. 105 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Yeah. 106 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 So I want to do some tests here. 107 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:31,000 I've arranged a meeting with a nearby expert who believes he can use cutting-edge technology to study the Mount Adams mystery. 108 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 His name is Dan Nims. 109 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Over the course of his 25-year career, he was an Air Force test pilot for the F-22 program, the famed Stealth Tactical Fighter Aircraft. 110 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,000 In other words, Dan is someone I would expect to be skeptical about UFOs. 111 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,000 What can you tell us about Mount Adams and the sightings that are happening? 112 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,000 There is a thing that we refer to in the UFO community as orbs. 113 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Which are round, circular, balls of light. 114 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:04,000 There seems to be quite a propensity of seeing these things here in the Mount Adams area. 115 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,000 To our amazement, Dan is a believer. 116 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:12,000 After hearing so many accounts from other seasoned pilots, he began studying the history of sightings at Mount Adams. 117 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:19,000 He now works with MUFON, the world's largest organization dedicated to investigating reports of UFOs. 118 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Why do you think Mount Adams is so active with these orbs? 119 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:31,000 There seems to be a propensity for UFOs to be evident around volcanic features. 120 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:36,000 And some of the original work studying that was down near Mexico City. 121 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:42,000 There's a theory that strange lights appear with more frequency near seismically active locations. 122 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,000 They're referred to as EQLs, or earthquake lights. 123 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Some scientists have proposed that they may be a natural phenomenon. 124 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:56,000 The result of sudden disruptions to the Earth's magnetic field, or a byproduct of tectonic activity. 125 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,000 But others are convinced that these lights are extraterrestrial in origin. 126 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,000 When somebody starts telling you their experience or telling you their story, 127 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 what is kind of the checklist you go through in your mind as to, 128 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:14,000 okay, well that's definitely something not UFO, or, oh, that is worth investigating a little further. 129 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 The main things you're looking for is, does it fly like an airplane? 130 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Yeah. I mean if it flies up and stops and hovers for a while, and then shoots straight up, that's not an airplane. 131 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Is it lit like an airplane? Probably one of the biggest things is, did it make any sound? 132 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Because almost everything that's man-made that flies through the sky are fairly noisy. 133 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Yeah. 134 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:42,000 We're trying to move to the level where we are first-hand observers. 135 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,000 I've got something over here I could show you that might kind of explain that. 136 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Oh, that'd be great. 137 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Oh, look at this cool thing. 138 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 That thing's amazing. 139 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,000 This is what we call our UFO DAP, Data Acquisition Program. 140 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:04,000 And we're going to try and get some first-hand evidence for you skeptics of real UFOs in the sky. 141 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:11,000 The DAP UFO camera is designed to track and record moving objects in the sky with incredible accuracy. 142 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:19,000 It's recently been tested in Colorado and New Mexico, but this will be the first time using it in the UFO hotspot of Mount Adams. 143 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 You guys want to go for a ride? 144 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Yeah. 145 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Let's do it. 146 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Great. 147 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:31,000 We drive into the forest towards the area with the highest concentration of recent UFO sightings around Mount Adams. 148 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:36,000 As we climb higher into the remote and lonely wilderness, the temperature starts to drop. 149 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,000 We wait no time getting to work setting up the equipment. 150 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 We got up here, set up the camera. 151 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,000 We had this perfect view of the top of Mount Adams and then it started snowing. 152 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 I kind of like it, though. 153 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,000 It's snowing. 154 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:53,000 We got a storm coming in, but we still want to test this thing to see how well it works. 155 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,000 This is our field test. 156 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Not only is it going to track multiple things in the sky, but also track in the elements. 157 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,000 That's the plan. 158 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:08,000 This unique device combines a high-resolution 30-time zoom camera capable of scanning the entire sky. 159 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:13,000 With a payload of sensitive instruments to measure everything from temperature and atmospheric pressure 160 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,000 to seismic activity and fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field. 161 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:25,000 But what makes this gizmo truly state-of-the-art is artificial intelligence, designed to track objects moving across the sky 162 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:32,000 and then identify whether they're just shooting stars or passing planes or truly UFOs. 163 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 This is where we bring in the experts. 164 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Mike. 165 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Our drone people. 166 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,000 How you doing? 167 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Can you fly in this weather? 168 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Yeah. 169 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Let's do it. 170 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Yeah. 171 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Why not? 172 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:47,000 With the weather getting worse by the minute, we launch the drone and send it soaring. 173 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Our tech supervisor, Mike, is going to attempt to trigger the DAP camera from above 174 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,000 to see just how smart Dan's camera really is. 175 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Okay, it's live. 176 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Top of the tree and run across. 177 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:05,000 If the camera detects an object, it will lock on, record its movement and attempt to figure out what it is. 178 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,000 All right, let's see what this camera can do. 179 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:12,000 I mean, if it can work in this weather, I feel like we can definitely use it and get something from it. 180 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Yeah. 181 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Oh, you get it? 182 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Is that it? 183 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,000 It's going. 184 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 It's recording. 185 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Yes, we got it. 186 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,000 We got it. 187 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,000 It's tracking. 188 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,000 We got a lock on. 189 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Not only that, but the DAP's artificial intelligence can tell that this is not extraterrestrial. 190 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Oh my gosh, it knows it's man-made. 191 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,000 Our first IFO, an identified flying object. 192 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Let's leave the DAP here for a couple of nights and see what we get. 193 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,000 We'll meet back up with Dan in a few days to analyze the results. 194 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:55,000 In the meantime, Phil and I drive on into the forest, descending out of the snow on our way to an important meeting 195 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000 with the most recent eyewitness here at Mount Adams. 196 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:05,000 He claims to have had a remarkable encounter with some kind of extraterrestrial presence less than a week ago. 197 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:10,000 He's nervous to go on camera and at his request, we've obscured his identity. 198 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,000 So I think we should just jump into it. 199 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,000 What exactly happened when you were out in the woods? 200 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,000 I can't believe I'm saying this, but I was abducted. 201 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Phil and Jess are investigating Mount Adams in Washington State, a massive volcano that has long been one of the nation's UFO hotspots. 202 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Having deployed a cutting-edge optical scanner high on the slopes to search the skies, 203 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:56,000 they're now meeting with the area's most recent UFO eyewitness, a man who is so shaken by his experience that he has asked us to protect his identity. 204 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,000 What exactly happened when you were out in the woods? 205 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,000 I can't believe I'm saying this, but I was abducted. 206 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,000 So what makes you think that it was an abduction? 207 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,000 It was getting late and I was coming out of the forest. 208 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:24,000 I remember the leaves starting to kick up and then a strong force of wind hit me in a really loud sound. 209 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:30,000 It was like a jet engine fired up and it was so fast, I just went blank. 210 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,000 The man's story is dramatic, but he's not alone. 211 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Many reports of abductions happen in remote and mountainous environments. 212 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:50,000 In 1961, married couple Betty and Barney Hill famously claimed they were abducted while driving a winding road in New Hampshire's White Mountains. 213 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Travis Walton, author of Fire in the Sky, claimed to have been taken in the wilderness of Arizona. 214 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Victims often report bright lights, loss of consciousness, and awakening with unexplained injuries and hazy memories. 215 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Which is exactly what happened to our subject here at Mount Adams. 216 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:21,000 I woke up the next day deep in the forest, outside of a cave, and I had pain in my arms and legs and chest. 217 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:30,000 When I woke up, what I remembered was the feeling of like nails in my back and the sensation that I was being pulled through the forest. 218 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:36,000 That's a memory I can't get out of my head. To be honest, I'm freaked out just being in these woods again. 219 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Have you thought about other things that could have been? No, it could be something medical or an animal attack. 220 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Could have been a seizure. 221 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:48,000 I've never had anything like that happen to me. I've never had a seizure of any kind. 222 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:54,000 But if it was a bear, my clothes weren't ripped. I'm a hunter. And I know these woods well. 223 00:15:54,000 --> 00:16:00,000 This was something else. I think those lights came from inside the mountain, inside that cave. 224 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Whatever it is, it's extraterrestrial. 100%. 225 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,000 So you think that that's something dangerous? Absolutely. 226 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Can you take us to the site where this all happened? 227 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:19,000 I can give you the coordinates to that location. I know exactly where it is. But I'm not going back out there. Something is in that cave. 228 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 Wow. Right? 229 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:32,000 I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around this story. It's not just a light in the sky. It's something in the mountain. 230 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,000 I don't know, but it's definitely worth checking out. 231 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Yeah. 232 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:41,000 You know, like all things. I'm like willing to give it a shot. I definitely should go there and check it out and take a look for ourselves. 233 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,000 I'm not just going to believe what people tell me. I want to see it. 234 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:58,000 The man's encounter took place nearly a day's hike away, so I've arranged for a local river guide to get us within a mile of the location in less than half the time. 235 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:04,000 But even with the shortcut, Phil and I have no idea what to expect or what dangers might lie ahead. 236 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Ready to hit the river? Let's do it. 237 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,000 We get on the water and at first it seems like a pleasure cruise. 238 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 That's so pretty up there. 239 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:21,000 But this water is frigid and soon our river route transforms into a dangerous passage. 240 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Big rocket's up ahead. 241 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Let's go. 242 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,000 Go, go. 243 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,000 Oh, no, no, no, no, no. 244 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 My, my. 245 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Big rocket's up there. Let's go. 246 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Watch for the big rocket on my right. 247 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,000 No. 248 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Whoa. 249 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Oh. 250 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Turn it in, Jim. 251 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Oh, f**k. 252 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Get it. 253 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Up, up, up, up, up. 254 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,000 I think we made it work. 255 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,000 What's our best way to throw? 256 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 We want to squeeze this back in through. 257 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,000 No. 258 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Almost there. 259 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Got it. 260 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Go. 261 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 There's a big old rock right there. 262 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Back title a little bit, guys. 263 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 And all forward. 264 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,000 Watch out, watch out. 265 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Almost through. 266 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Oh, f**k. 267 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Come on. 268 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Nice job, guys. 269 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000 All right. 270 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,000 So GPS says, should be getting pretty close to it. 271 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000 So I think if we pull over right up here. 272 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Yeah. 273 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Should be good to go. 274 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,000 All right. 275 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,000 To the shore. 276 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,000 We part ways with our guide who will raft onto a pullout 277 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 while we plan to hike back to the road tomorrow 278 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,000 after investigating tonight. 279 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,000 For now, we're on our own. 280 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 We hike further into the forest, 281 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,000 following our GPS to the location where our recent eyewitness 282 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,000 claims to have had a close encounter. 283 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,000 You know what, Jess? 284 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,000 Huh? 285 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,000 I think this is it. 286 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Oh, yeah? 287 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,000 Yeah. 288 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,000 These are the coordinates he gave us. 289 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,000 Okay, well then, I'd like to set up camp around here then. 290 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Yeah, looks like a good spot right here. 291 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 As the temperature drops, 292 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,000 we set up base camp and prepare for our investigation of the area. 293 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Ready? 294 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Yeah. 295 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,000 All right, well, we have eyewitness accounts and experts 296 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 all saying that they see balls of light 297 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 coming in and out and around the mountain. 298 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 We have no idea what these things could be. 299 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,000 I'm still convinced there's an answer out there that isn't aliens. 300 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Well, let's find out. 301 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Our first job is to see if there's any physical evidence 302 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,000 to back up the eyewitness's story. 303 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,000 He claimed to have been abducted from this area to the mouth of a cave nearby, 304 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000 so we searched for any drag marks or signs of struggle. 305 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000 In the event this was an animal attack, 306 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:57,000 we're also on the lookout for tracks, scat, or other physical clues. 307 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000 It's really quiet around here. 308 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 Oh, look at this. 309 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Oh, oh, oh, what is this? 310 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,000 Oh, wow. 311 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Oh, look at that. 312 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Wow. 313 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,000 Look at that, it's a cave. 314 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,000 The team is investigating reports of nighttime aerial anomalies 315 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,000 at one of the most active UFO hotspots in the world, 316 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Washington State's Mount Adams. 317 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,000 They've trekked to the remote location where several sightings have been reported, 318 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:43,000 including one by a hunter who believes he may have been abducted. 319 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,000 I woke up the next day in the forest outside of a cave. 320 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,000 Wow, it's really quiet around here. 321 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Wow. 322 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000 Check that out, it's the cave. 323 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,000 All right, well, if this is where the hunter woke up, 324 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,000 we've got to check out what's inside. 325 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000 I mean, people say that the lights come from inside the mountain. 326 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Do you really think this is the place where all these aerial anomalies around Mount Adams 327 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,000 are disappearing into? 328 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Or if it's something more logical like, say, a bear attack, 329 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,000 good place for it to hide? 330 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Well, either way, I definitely want to explore the cave. 331 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,000 Yeah, let's do it. 332 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,000 All right, ready? 333 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Yeah. 334 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Oh, my goodness. 335 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 There could be all sorts of things in here. 336 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Check this out. 337 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Wow. 338 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Oh, look at that top. 339 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,000 This is a lava tube. 340 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,000 The way that they form is as this volcano is erupting. 341 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,000 All the lava went through and then it leaves this behind, 342 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000 and it is spectacular. 343 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:55,000 While we tend to picture volcanoes as having one opening or vent at the top of the cone 344 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000 where lava violently erupts, 345 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,000 many volcanoes have multiple vents at different levels 346 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,000 where lava flows out at a lower pressure. 347 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,000 We're sitting inside an active volcano. 348 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Yeah? 349 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Wow. 350 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000 What is that? 351 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 What's in here? 352 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Can I, I'm going to go check it out. 353 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 See what I can see. 354 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:25,000 If something rips your face off, Phil, I'm running outside, OK? 355 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,000 I'm convinced there's going to be some animal glowing eyes staring back at me. 356 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,000 I'm going to peek over here. 357 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Are you seeing anything in there? 358 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 It's insane. 359 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,000 I mean, it just keeps going all the way down into the volcano. 360 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,000 But this would be a perfect place for an animal to hibernate. 361 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Like, if you're a bear, this is your spot. 362 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:52,000 We continue pushing deeper into the cave, exploring several passages. 363 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,000 If there's something in here, it's definitely gone quiet. 364 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,000 So let's go and set up a 360 light grid and get a camera 365 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,000 watching the mouth of the cave. 366 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000 OK. 367 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 That way, if anything moves in here, we're going to capture it. 368 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Yeah. 369 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 And see what we can find. 370 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Real tight. 371 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Real tight. 372 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,000 I set up a laser grid at the entrance, which acts as a kind of trip wire. 373 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:30,000 If anything crosses these beams, animal, human, or other, 374 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,000 it will activate an infrared camera that is covering the mouth of the cave. 375 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000 How's that looking, Phil? 376 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Oh, it's great. 377 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 I mean, we can see the whole tube. 378 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Perfect. 379 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 All right, so here's what I'm thinking. 380 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 We've planted the cameras. 381 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 I think it's time to scan the sky. 382 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,000 I feel like we're going to have a better chance to see something if we split up. 383 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 OK. 384 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,000 So do you have the night vision goggles? 385 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Yeah. 386 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 All right, I'm going to use the infrared monocular. 387 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Yeah. 388 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,000 If anything happens, call me on the walkie. 389 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,000 Yeah, you got to be careful, though. 390 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Me too. 391 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Along with our purported abductee, there have been many recent sightings of lights in this area. 392 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Phil and I are staking out different views of the sky to attempt to see what so many others have reported above Mount Adams. 393 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:21,000 So I've actually found a spot where I can see through the tree canopy and up into the stars. 394 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Time to put these to work. 395 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,000 If there's any lights floating around here, we'll get it on tape. 396 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,000 OK, so I'm going to use this monocular. 397 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Super high-res. 398 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,000 You can actually see all the way up to the stars. 399 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Oh my gosh. 400 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,000 You can see so many different stars up there. 401 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 Hey, Jessica, how's it looking? 402 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000 Nothing up top yet. 403 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Hang on, hang on, hang on. 404 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 Move your light, move your light away. 405 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 I got something in front of me right now. 406 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000 I think I saw something glowing. 407 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Well, like glowing how? 408 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000 It's right through here. 409 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Look at that. 410 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Are you getting this? 411 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,000 It's right through here. 412 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,000 What is that? 413 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Phil? 414 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,000 Phil? 415 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,000 I have something glowing in front of me. 416 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,000 What are you looking at? 417 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,000 What are you seeing, Phil? 418 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Phil, talk to me. 419 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,000 What are you seeing? 420 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,000 Hang on. 421 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,000 I'm going to try and image it for my position. 422 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000 All right, where in the sky? 423 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,000 Where is it? 424 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000 And now it's gone. 425 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,000 No, it's not. 426 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,000 I just saw something. 427 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 It's coming up from the tree line. 428 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,000 I got it. 429 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,000 It looks brighter. 430 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,000 No idea what I'm looking at here. 431 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Look at it move. 432 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Look, look, look, look. 433 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,000 We're recording it, whatever it is, we got it. 434 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 This is nuts. 435 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000 What the hell is that thing? 436 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,000 The team is investigating the forests around 437 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,000 Mount Adams, Washington, a famed UFO hotspot. 438 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Jessica and Phil have split up in order to cover more ground, 439 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,000 but now they have both spotted strange lights 440 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000 moving erratically across the sky. 441 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000 What the hell is that thing? 442 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:32,000 What's that? 443 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,000 What's that? 444 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Oh my God. 445 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,000 What the f*** is that thing? 446 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,000 It's changing direction. 447 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,000 It totally just came out and went back behind the tree line. 448 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,000 There it is, there it is. 449 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,000 It's coming up from the tree line. 450 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,000 This is crazy. 451 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,000 What is that? 452 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,000 Oh, that's curving. 453 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000 It's coming back towards me. 454 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,000 I mean, oh, oh no. 455 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,000 I don't see it anymore. 456 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,000 Of everything we've seen tonight, that I sit out the most. 457 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Whatever it is, I have it on video. 458 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,000 Let's get back together and compare it with what we've got. 459 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,000 All right, sounds good. 460 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,000 Saw something up there. 461 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,000 Yeah, what the hell was that? 462 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,000 I got it on video. 463 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 I've got it moving all over the place. 464 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,000 It wasn't a satellite, definitely not a shooting star. 465 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,000 I don't think it's a plane. 466 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,000 There was no blinking lights on it, 467 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,000 and it didn't travel in the light. 468 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000 I mean, I saw something. 469 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,000 I'm feeling really good about it. 470 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,000 Yeah, you're fired up right now. 471 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,000 I'm totally fired up. 472 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Well, let's just keep looking at the sky. 473 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 We head back out and post up to continue scanning overhead. 474 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,000 But after hours of staring into space, 475 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,000 she doesn't see anything. 476 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,000 We don't see anything else unusual. 477 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,000 At dawn the next morning, we make the long hike out of the forest. 478 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,000 Our plan is to take our recordings to be analyzed by 479 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,000 former Air Force test pilot and UFO researcher Dan Nims 480 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,000 to see if what we saw was also detected by his DAP camera, 481 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000 which we deployed on the slopes of the mountain. 482 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,000 First though, there's one more theory we want to investigate. 483 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Some researchers claim that Mount Adams strange lights 484 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000 come from somewhere in the mountain's peak. 485 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000 Recently, an even more sensational claim has come to light, 486 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,000 video of a so-called UFO hangar door, 487 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,000 which has been posted online and viewed more than 488 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,000 3.5 million times. 489 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,000 The next morning, we meet up with Jimmy Church, 490 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,000 the radio and television host who shot the footage. 491 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,000 You look right there, the second peak, 492 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,000 there is a rectangular hangar door that is open. 493 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,000 That footage you captured over on Mount Adams is incredible. 494 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,000 What we shot is right through those trees. 495 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,000 And I shot it from right over here. 496 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000 And if you'd like to check it out, we can jump in the car. 497 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,000 That'd be great. 498 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Let's go. 499 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Mount Adams, what is it that makes you 500 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000 convince this place is so special? 501 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,000 The sightings that happen here on the mountain 502 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,000 and around the mountain would indicate to me 503 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000 that the mountain is the attraction. 504 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,000 But it also goes back to 1947. 505 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Kenneth Arnold had his first UFO sighting 506 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,000 flying towards Mount Adams. 507 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,000 That's when pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying home 508 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,000 from a business trip in a small, single-engine aircraft. 509 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:39,000 I climbed back up to 9,200 feet across the face of Mount Rainier. 510 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,000 What he saw was a series of nine objects 511 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,000 passing Mount Rainier at an estimated 1,200 miles per hour. 512 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,000 In my knowledge, there isn't anything that would go that fast. 513 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,000 They seem to flip and flash in the sun. 514 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,000 They seem to kind of weave in and out right above the mountaintops. 515 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,000 They looked something like a pipe plate 516 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:03,000 that was cut in half with a sort of a convex triangle in the rear. 517 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,000 He tracked them visually until they disappeared somewhere 518 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,000 in the vicinity of Mount Adams. 519 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,000 And like I told the associated breath out, 520 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,000 I'd be glad to confirm it with my hands on a Bible 521 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,000 because I did see it. 522 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,000 The sighting prompted an Air Force investigation 523 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000 and national media attention. 524 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,000 It is often credited as the first UFO sighting in modern times. 525 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,000 Arnold's description of the flying objects as 526 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,000 disc-like or half-moon-shaped 527 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,000 led the media to coin the term flying saucers, 528 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,000 a phrase that would quickly become synonymous with UFOs. 529 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,000 We pull into a field about 16 miles away from the base of the mountain. 530 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Jimmy says this is the best vantage point for a view of the so-called hatch. 531 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,000 When we arrive, however, the peak is shrouded by clouds. 532 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,000 This is so beautiful! 533 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,000 Oh my gosh! 534 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,000 There's something really extraordinary happening around Mount Adams, 535 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,000 but possibly inside of it. 536 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:06,000 And you can see the details of what appears to be an entrance or a door 537 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,000 at the top of the mountain. 538 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,000 So then how come somebody hasn't just gone up there to check it out? 539 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,000 There's a lot of mountain climbing that happens on the east side of the mountain. 540 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000 That's an easy ridge to get up. 541 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000 But as far as the second peak over there? 542 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000 No, that is a sheer ice wall. 543 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,000 The team takes out their most powerful telephoto lens 544 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,000 to try to get a view of the supposed hangar door. 545 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:35,000 This is what a lot of people have claimed is like a portal or a UFO door or a hangar. 546 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,000 I see what you mean. 547 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,000 There's this deeply shadowed part of the mountain which does look squared off. 548 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000 That's weird looking. 549 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,000 That is crazy looking. 550 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,000 I totally see why people think there's something up there. 551 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,000 The theory about the UFO hangar door seems out there, even to me. 552 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,000 But with millions of people talking about Jimmy's video, we want to be sure. 553 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,000 Now the only way to know for certain is to examine the rock face up close 554 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,000 and get high resolution photographic evidence. 555 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,000 To do that, Phil and I arranged for some quick transport to the summit. 556 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:14,000 Our pilot Ron Klein has spent years in the skies above Mount Adams. 557 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:19,000 He's heard the theories, but he's also experienced strange things here first hand. 558 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:25,000 When I land on the mountain and shut down, there's a lot of vibrations and noises 559 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,000 just from the internal to the mountain. 560 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000 Oh really? You can actually feel and hear it? 561 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,000 Oh yeah. 562 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:36,000 UFO enthusiasts claim that something otherworldly inside the mountain is causing the vibrations. 563 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:41,000 But for my money, it seems much more likely to be low frequency seismic activity 564 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,000 emanating from deep inside the volcano. 565 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,000 So Ron, how far away are we right now? 566 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,000 I can't believe that a couple of miles from the hangar door. 567 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,000 So Ron, have you ever had a good look at this hangar door area? 568 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000 No I have not. All my work has been on the east side of the mountain 569 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,000 and I have not been up to where this location is. 570 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Our depth in the altitude is over 11,600. 571 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,000 We're just about as high as we can get with this helicopter and this load. 572 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,000 That's nice. 573 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,000 We can get closer. 574 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,000 That's why we got you Ron, you're taking us nice and close. 575 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,000 Well we should be approaching the hangar door. 576 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,000 Well I guarantee if that hangar door opens, I'm going left 577 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,000 and the hangar door will be on your right. 578 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,000 Okay. 579 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,000 The performance of the helicopter is really struggling right now. 580 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,000 So I don't know how much higher I can get. 581 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,000 Oh I feel it's taken. 582 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000 Brakes for a vertical impact. 583 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Oh my gosh. 584 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,000 These Mount Adams UFO sightings that Jess and Phil are investigating 585 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,000 really did get their start back in 1947. 586 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,000 And to be clear, even back then these were sightings, plural. 587 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,000 Ten days after the Kenneth Arnold incident, 588 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,000 the crew of United Airlines Flight 105, bound for Seattle, 589 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,000 reported something eerily similar. 590 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000 Captain Emile Smith, first officer Ralph Stevens, 591 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,000 and flight attendant Marty Morrow, 592 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:15,000 all reported seeing a cluster of 5-9 disc-like objects, 593 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,000 about a thousand feet higher than their DC-3. 594 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000 The discs seemed to come and go, 595 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,000 tracking the airplane for nearly 15 minutes. 596 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,000 Kenneth Arnold met with Captain Smith the next day 597 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000 to compare notes on their respective sightings. 598 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000 The pilots became convinced that they'd both seen the same squadron 599 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,000 of mysterious flying saucers. 600 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,000 Their eyewitness testimony in a subsequent Air Force investigation 601 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,000 helped establish this area of Washington State 602 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,000 as the first true UFO hotspot. 603 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000 My team is in the air over Mount Adams, 604 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000 approaching a sheer rock wall near the peak, 605 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,000 where people claim there is an otherworldly UFO hatch 606 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,000 that opens into the mountain. 607 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,000 There is a rectangular hangar door that is open. 608 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,000 We should be approaching the hangar door. 609 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,000 But the location is at a very high altitude, 610 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,000 and the closer they get, the harder it becomes for the pilot 611 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,000 to maintain control of the chopper. 612 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,000 Oh, I feel it's vacant. 613 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000 Put your hands against your legs. 614 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,000 Oh, my God. 615 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000 Race for a vertical impact. 616 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,000 Are you? 617 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000 Oh, my God. 618 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,000 The helicopter begins to lose altitude rapidly. 619 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,000 Its blades struggling in the thin mountain air. 620 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,000 As we drop though, 621 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,000 Ron is able to regain control and stabilize the chopper. 622 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,000 Okay, I'm done with helicopters for a while. 623 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000 Now at a safer altitude, 624 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:51,000 Ron flies the team as close to the so-called hangar door 625 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000 as they can get. 626 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,000 You see what? 627 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,000 I see it. 628 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,000 Look at the line on that. 629 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,000 I don't know. 630 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000 Incredibly straight line. 631 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,000 I am able to get the best shot. 632 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000 One more 360 around. 633 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,000 Give you a close look. 634 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,000 Now that we're getting closer, 635 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,000 the top of it doesn't look so much like an actual 636 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,000 straight car of a craft. 637 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,000 Yeah. 638 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,000 Looks like part of the rock base kind of fell off. 639 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,000 Yeah. 640 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000 So it's really interesting shadow pole. 641 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000 When the sun is setting over here, 642 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000 you get a really strong shadow. 643 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,000 Yeah. 644 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000 It's going to look like a cave with your 14 miles away. 645 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,000 Alright, so let's compare what we've got with what Jimmy shot. 646 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,000 Okay. 647 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,000 Now that does look like there's a cave or a door. 648 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000 What he sees is darkness. 649 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000 When you have that really bright snow around it, 650 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,000 any shadow is going to look super dark. 651 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,000 We were able to see it with the right light at the right time 652 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,000 of day where we can clearly see what's going on here. 653 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,000 We now know what this is, 654 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,000 so we don't have to focus our energy on this part of the mountain. 655 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,000 Feeling satisfied that the Mount Adams UFO hangar 656 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000 is really just a case of convincing shadow play, 657 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000 we drive back to town to meet up with expert Dan Nims 658 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,000 to review our findings from the rest of our expedition. 659 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000 I had a night vision monocular, 660 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,000 and I caught something and was able to record it. 661 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,000 You want to see it? 662 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,000 Okay. 663 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,000 Alright. 664 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000 Oh, yeah. 665 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,000 So you've got something moving through the sky, 666 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,000 much brighter than any of the surrounding stars. 667 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:42,000 Now, your night vision system is going to amplify any lights it sees. 668 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,000 Now, this path it's on right here, 669 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,000 yes, it could be a satellite. 670 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,000 A satellite would look just like that, 671 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,000 moving through the sky. 672 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,000 Now, this business of then it turns around 673 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,000 and is coming back out the other way. 674 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,000 Satellites don't turn around and go backwards. 675 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,000 That's pretty unusual. 676 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000 And that was not a satellite, 677 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,000 because satellites just run on their own. 678 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000 Satellites move in orbits, they don't turn. 679 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,000 Yeah. 680 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000 That's a pretty impressive video. 681 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,000 I think that we captured one of the lights, 682 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000 but I don't know what the lights are. 683 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000 You've heard a lot of stories from around here. 684 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,000 You've probably seen a lot of videos, a lot of evidence. 685 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,000 What do you think we saw? 686 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:30,000 What you display there is what we might refer to as an orb. 687 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:35,000 We don't find a reason to say it was made by a natural cause, 688 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,000 a hoax, or made by anything man-made that we're aware of. 689 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,000 So which category would you put this in? 690 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,000 I would say that's probably who would be an unknown. 691 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,000 Whoa. 692 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000 Dan's assessment is compelling, 693 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,000 but it turns out there's even more evidence here to back him up. 694 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,000 Dan has recovered the DAP camera from the slopes of the mountain, 695 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,000 which was running on the same night as our investigation. 696 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:03,000 It turns out that what we saw was also detected by the automated camera. 697 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000 First, we review it without the tracking software. 698 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000 So you've got something moving through the sky. 699 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:13,000 This thing is obviously much brighter than any of the surrounding stars, 700 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000 and actually turning right there. 701 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,000 Wow. 702 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,000 Then we let the DAP camera's artificial intelligence analyze the object. 703 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:25,000 The tracking software detects and tracks the object through the night sky. 704 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,000 So what is this? 705 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,000 And the results are in. 706 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,000 A true unidentified flying object. 707 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:38,000 When we were on the mountain in the woods, there was no noise. 708 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,000 Like not even animals. 709 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,000 Like it was dead quiet. 710 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,000 Is that normal when people have encounters or see something, 711 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000 or anything like that, that the sound was out? 712 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:53,000 That very much is an aspect of a close encounter that people sometimes report. 713 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,000 Huh. 714 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,000 That they were there in a place where they commonly hear night noise, 715 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,000 and when they saw this thing moments before they saw it, 716 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,000 they were almost thinking, 717 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,000 why is things so quiet right now? 718 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,000 Something's going on here. 719 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,000 Oh yeah. 720 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,000 No, Mount Adams for sure is a hotbed of activity. 721 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:15,000 I'm not going to say this seems like it's extraterrestrial, 722 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:20,000 but I will agree that it is technically an unidentified flying object. 723 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,000 I would feel comfortable also saying that that is an unidentified flying object. 724 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,000 That sounds like a reasonable and logical assumption. 725 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,000 I see something. 726 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,000 Look at it move. 727 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,000 As for our laser triggered cave camera, 728 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,000 nothing left or entered the tunnels. 729 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,000 And while the eyewitness's story was dramatic, 730 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,000 and he seemed authentically shaken by what he saw. 731 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,000 I'm freaked out just being in these woods again. 732 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,000 Without corroborating evidence, it's far from conclusive. 733 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,000 Phil and Jessica were able to get close enough to the so-called UFO hangar door 734 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,000 to determine that it is a compelling illusion 735 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,000 made from straight lines in the rock and tricks of shadow. 736 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,000 But Mount Adams' true claim to fame is its mysterious lights. 737 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,000 Whatever it was that Jess and Phil saw, 738 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,000 whatever the advanced DAP camera detected, 739 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,000 it doesn't bear an easy explanation. 740 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:15,000 As Dan Nims prepares to activate an army of automated cameras, 741 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:20,000 it may just be a matter of time before Mount Adams reveals her secrets. 742 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,000 Until then, residents and visitors will keep looking up, 743 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:29,000 hopeful to catch a glimpse of a genuine UFO.