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My team heads to the deserts of New Mexico

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to investigate one of the most compelling UFO encounters

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in American history.

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This is a case that changed everything right here.

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Where local law enforcement report a bizarre craft.

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They saw a great big spaceship.

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Piloted by extraterrestrial beings.

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One of them turned and faced him and scared him.

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How do these wits?

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Getting steep up here.

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Try not to fall off the edge.

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And according to some, it seems like a fleet of craft.

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They have returned.

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Different nuclear military operations

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made this kind of a hotbed for UFO sightings.

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Jess, get over here!

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Let me see, let me see.

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Check that out.

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What the f***?

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What is this?

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UFOs over New Mexico.

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My name is Josh Gates.

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In my travels, I've experienced strange things

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that defy logic and made me question everything.

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Oh my God.

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Now, I've put together a team to investigate

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the stranger side of the unknown.

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Let's go!

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Phil Torres is a scientist who hunts for rational explanations.

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This is the corner for naturally found snowstorms.

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Jessica Chobot's paranormal research has made her a true believer.

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Phil, did you see that?

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I just saw some paper across.

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Together, we're searching for answers

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What is that?

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to the world's most extraordinary mysteries.

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This is Expedition X.

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Phil and Jess, I hope you're ready.

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We've got a wild one today.

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What you got?

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Are you out familiar with the 1947 Roswell incident in New Mexico?

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Right. When I poured weather balloon crash, it was terrible.

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Are you for real right now?

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Stay calm Jess, stay calm.

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Well, what if I told you there was another,

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potentially even more significant incident

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that occurred only 140 miles from Roswell,

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about 15 years later.

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Not a crash, but supposedly an actual landing of a UFO

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and allegedly a close encounter with alien beings.

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So we're talking the Lonnie Zamora incident,

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which is the one that happened to me the day before yesterday.

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I'm sure you'll be able to see it tomorrow, New Mexico.

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Unbelievable. You never fail to impress me, Jess. Amazing.

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Before we dive into it, Phil, you have gone on record as saying

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you think that extraterrestrials could be out there somewhere, right?

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I mean, scientists believe that there are over 400 billion galaxies

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in our universe, and in our galaxy alone,

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they found several hundred habitable planets.

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Here, and that brings us back to the Zamora incident.

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When this occurred, the US government investigated this thoroughly,

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and they couldn't solve it. It remains unsolved.

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Locals in this area believe that the Zamora incident was real,

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and they're still having experiences.

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Experiences that they say can end the debate

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over extraterrestrials once and for all.

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New Mexico ranks among the states with the most UFO sightings

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in the country, with reports nearly doubling in the last two years,

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and they're still on the rise.

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it begins with the Roswell incident in 1947,

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and perhaps an even stranger event just 15 years later.

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The year is 1964, Socorro, New Mexico.

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At approximately 5.45 p.m.,

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police sergeant Lonnie Zamora is pursuing a reckless driver

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just outside of town when he hears a loud roar

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followed by a large flame rising from the desert off the highway.

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He breaks off the chase to investigate.

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When he crests a hill, he claims to see an oval-shaped object

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emblazoned with a strange symbol resting on four legs,

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with two small beings next to what appears to be a spaceship.

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the craft suddenly lifts into the air and races away across the desert sky.

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Zamora is shaken and calls in his encounter to the local dispatch.

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sends their top investigators to the scene, where they record physical evidence,

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charged scrub, indentations in the soil, and even small footprints.

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Lonnie Zamora dies in 2009.

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Despite a lifetime of scrutiny into his story,

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he never wavered that what he saw was from another world.

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have emerged about the Zamora incident, reinvigorating the mystery.

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all claiming to see unidentified objects in the sky

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and putting the city of Socorro back under the cosmic microscope.

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So, guys, what do you think?

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I'll admit, Lonnie Zamora seems like he was a very credible witness.

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He wasn't just some random guy with a temp-oil hat.

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He was a trained police officer.

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because law enforcement usually aren't the typical people to come forward with UFO encounters.

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That's what makes this case so fascinating.

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means it is the perfect time to reopen this case.

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and I think that where you should start

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is to really try to understand the original Zamora incident

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and see if it could be connected to the sightings that are happening today.

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Sounds like a plan.

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All right, go have a close encounter.

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My team hops on a 2,000-mile flight from New York City to Albuquerque,

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then drives 76 miles south to the small town of Socorro.

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While I try to line up a credible eyewitness for the recent UFO sighting in the area,

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I'm directing Jess and Phil to dig deeper into the Zamora incident.

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Out of any of the investigations that we do,

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Out of all of them!

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Oh no, you are a believer!

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or even the majority of them are real.

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that I'm questioning, like tiny alien people coming out of there.

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I understand, but keep in mind,

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and the government took it seriously enough that they actually sent out people

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to check out the scene.

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I think there's the potential there that Lonnie Zamora actually encountered aliens.

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that all just seems a little unimaginative to what's really out there in the universe.

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if there is no doubt in my mind, we would be taken over and destroyed.

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We've arrived at the site where Lonnie Zamora supposedly witnessed an alien craft.

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Is it hailing?

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All sorts of weird things coming out of the sky here.

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I've arranged for my team to meet renowned UFO investigator James Fox.

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Hi!

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Nice to meet you guys.

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Two years ago, James and I investigated another infamous UFO case in Zimbabwe,

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where in 1994, 62 schoolchildren claimed to witness a UFO landing.

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The details are strikingly similar to what Lonnie Zamora reported seeing in 1964.

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James is a filmmaker, journalist, and author,

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who has studied every detail of the Zamora case for over five years

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and has spent decades pursuing answers to the mysteries of UFOs.

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This is a case that changed everything right here.

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You came out here to check out where the actual landing occurred.

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Can you guys show us?

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You want to lead the way?

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With James is Pablo Lopez, who arrived at the scene minutes after Lonnie Zamora

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reported the incident to the authorities.

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He was 20 years old at the time.

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This is a spot where it landed.

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How did you end up here?

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I was at the sheriff's office.

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My dad was a radio operator, and I went in to visit with him.

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And Lonnie came over the air, and he was really, really scared.

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And he said he saw a great big spaceship.

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He said, who landed right here?

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I came up here with a sheriff.

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When I got here, there was bushes here that were smoldering.

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They still had smoke coming out of them and some fire.

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The footprints were tiny.

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They were probably three inches long and maybe an inch and a half, two inches wide.

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Lonnie said they weren't over that tall.

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One of them turned and faced him, and it scared him out of his wits.

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What do you think landed here?

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A UFO.

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Something unexplainable.

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Officer Zamoro was a man's man, OK?

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So you knew him personally?

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Officer Zamoro wasn't the same person after this.

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He saw what he saw, and it was for real.

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I gotta admit, this is messing with my brain a little bit.

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So James, why this case?

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Why does this one stand out to you?

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This case right here is what gave Project Bluebook the conclusion that UFOs were not only real,

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but that close encounters of the third kind, and that's cases where witnesses report beings associated with the craft.

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So what are some of the details that you've gleaned from your investigating?

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There was a blue flame that came down from this object, and it didn't hit the ground and reflect like a rocket booster would do it.

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It penetrated into the ground.

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I'm like anything you've ever seen.

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This object rises to about 20 feet off the ground, and then it completely shuts off all propulsion as an absolute silent.

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You look at the Air Force's own files, and they're saying that what took place here defies a terrestrial explanation.

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I brought some documents that I personally got at the National Archives from Project Bluebook files.

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You can take a look at some of these here.

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These are great photos.

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Look how old they are.

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So what I basically want to illustrate here is the level of seriousness that the Air Force took when they were investigating this case.

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James has meticulously compiled hundreds of official government files on this case, and two things stand out.

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First, the government investigation was exhaustive.

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The site was extensively combed for evidence.

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Soil samples were taken and scrutinized.

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Every radar station within 100 miles was contacted.

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They even tried to match the indentations at the landing site with every variety of plane and helicopter that was operating in the region.

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Despite their efforts, the Project Bluebook investigators could not come up with a rational explanation for what happened.

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The other major takeaway?

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The investigators believed Officer Zamora.

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Not only did they consider him credible, but that this incident was, and I quote,

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the best authenticated landing sighting on record, and one of the major UFO sightings in the history of the Air Force.

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So what's your theory on this then?

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Why would aliens be interested in this area?

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I started looking at sightings in the 40s and 50s and 60s, and I actually took out a map.

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And I was looking at proximity to different nuclear military operations.

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You know, Trinity site, 44 miles away.

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We got white sands all over the airport space, and I thought there must be some sort of correlation with our nuclear activity,

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our atomic activity that had made this kind of a hotbed for UFO sightings.

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Intense UFO activity around our most dangerous weapons would definitely be an issue of national security.

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Thousands of nuclear tests have been conducted in these deserts.

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New Mexico still has a stockpile of 700 nuclear bombs and over 1,800 active warheads that could be deployed in minutes.

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There are structured craft of unknown origin, whizzing around with impunity under super sensitive military installations.

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We don't know who they are, where they come from, or what they want.

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The military bases are all around here, so I would just think it's going to be a military craft.

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But you're saying that because the military is here, that's why the UFOs are interested in this location?

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That's why I'm here.

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I'm here to help you.

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I'm here to help you.

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I'm here to help you.

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I'm here to help you.

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I'm here to help you.

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I'm here to help you.

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Because the military is here, that's why the UFOs are interested in this location?

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That's the one likely scenario.

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If the Coro's high concentration of UFO sightings is due to its proximity to the military installations in the area, we need to pressure test that theory.

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So after reviewing topographical maps, we've found the most perfect spot to set up some surveillance.

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A mesa in the middle of the desert, located between the landing site of the Zamora incident and White Sands missile range.

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It offers the perfect elevated vantage point to monitor the skies over Socorro to the northwest and White Sands to the south.

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Our objective is to reach the mesa before nightfall and investigate for any unusual activity.

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But getting there, that's the tricky part.

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Come on.

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Woo!

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Just up here?

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Yeah.

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To the base of that mesa, try to get up there.

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Height gone up?

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Yeah.

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Hey Phil, we got a river up ahead.

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Alright, not sure how deep this thing is. Hope these horses swim.

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Looks like there's a passage through here.

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Yeah, let's go.

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Alright Jess, I don't think the horses are going to go any higher.

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I think you're right.

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The height of this mesa, which rises 1200 feet, makes it ideal for viewing the night sky without any light pollution.

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It's getting steep up here.

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But getting to the top won't be easy.

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We're facing a 70% grade climb over loose shale with a sheer drop off.

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Good?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Just looking for snakes, trying not to fall off the edge.

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Yeah, watch where you put your hands.

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Could be a snake hole anywhere.

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Jess, watch your step.

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Oh, you got this.

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Well, look around.

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We got sky in every direction here.

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Well, if nothing else, aliens will see us and say, who are those two idiots that got to the top of that hill?

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Let's not say anything it takes.

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With nightfall upon us, I'm attaching a low light lens to one of our cameras, which will amplify the surrounding light and allow us to more easily view objects that would usually be hidden in darkness.

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Jess has brought the FLIR camera, which has infrared sensors that can detect heat signatures from any airborne object.

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If there are any craft in the sky tonight, we're going to see them.

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We've got 360 view of this entire area.

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Because you have such a good lock on the stars in the sky, I'll search over here with the FLIR where the military bases are.

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Okay.

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There's been a big uptick of sightings from people in this area, so just look for anything that seems even slightly out of the ordinary.

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I do think between this camera and your FLIR, we should hopefully be able to get whatever that something is on tape to help identify it.

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Yeah.

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I'll be facing northwest towards Sikoro, where Lonnie Zamora had his encounter, while Jess will scan the southern skies towards Holloman Air Force Base and the White Sands missile range.

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So right now I can see the Milky Way, but I'm also seeing some movement.

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So, so far, anything that's moving and blinking, it's a plane.

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Anything that's moving really, really steady in one direction and not blinking, that's a satellite.

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What I'm interested in is anything that's moving that strays outside of those parameters.

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Oh, I just saw some lightning down there.

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Nothing yet.

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What the hell is that?

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What the f***?

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It's glowing, it's spinning.

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Brian, you getting this? You getting this?

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Yeah, I've got it.

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Jess, right over there!

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Look it over there!

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Oh! I can't get focus on it!

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Are you kidding? This is f***ing nuts!

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Why is this not showing up on my flare?

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I got it on tape! You seeing that? Is it showing up on the flare?

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No, I can't get it on the flare! Come on!

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Holy f***!

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Oh my God! So it's below cloud level. Jess, get over here!

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Alright!

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Let me see, let me see.

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Check that out.

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I could not pick that up on my flare.

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Man, it's traveling fast.

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Really fast.

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Well, that definitely looks like a disc.

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Oh my God.

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Holy f***! I lost it!

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The object appeared to accelerate out of frame,

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and we were unable to locate it after that,

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leaving Phil and I to try to make sense of what the hell we just saw.

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So, it came from the direction of Sikoro.

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Uh-huh.

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It pivoted suddenly and started heading towards White Sands and Holmen Air Force Base.

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It didn't have a heat signature.

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So it's not a plane, because the thermal would have definitely picked up on the heat coming off it.

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The spin is weird. The speed, the height is weird.

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I don't know what that is.

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We saw a UFO, an unidentified flying object.

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The shape, speed, and rotation of the object we saw tonight

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is similar to the now famous video captured by United States Navy F-18 pilots.

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Look at that thing. It's a rocket.

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For me, the similarities between our UFO and the Navy's are impossible to ignore.

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But what exactly is the difference between the UFO and the UFO?

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The difference between the UFO and the UFO is that the UFO is a very different object.

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But what exactly are these objects?

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In the case of the F-18 sighting, our own government admits they haven't got a clue.

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Oh, they did? My God.

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It's not lost on me that Lonnie Zamora claimed to see a strange egg-shaped craft

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touched down just 10 miles from this location.

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But as I replay in my mind what Jess and I experienced tonight,

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something happened just before the object appeared.

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Lightning lit up the sky.

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Oh, I saw some lightning down there.

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I can't help but wonder if that could be a clue to understanding

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what is really going on here in New Mexico.

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Whoa, that was unprepared for that.

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Oh, that is so steep, though.

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Oh, f***, don't look.

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Oh, my gosh, I'm not gonna look.

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Why are you taking me up this road?

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Oh, yeah, get this.

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Last year, New Mexico had twice the normal rate of lightning strikes.

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The same year that New Mexico is reporting way more UFO sightings.

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And last night, lightning struck right before I saw the object.

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Maybe it's all connected.

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I'll admit that some types of lightning, like ball lightning,

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have been used to explain some UFOs, but I don't think that's what we saw.

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There happens to be a facility at the top of this hill

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that specializes in rare atmospheric phenomena in New Mexico.

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Call them up this morning. They're happy to see us.

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So we'll see what answers they have.

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Hello. Hi. How are you?

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We're good. Good.

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Come on in. The door right there.

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The door that says danger, keep out.

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Don't worry about it. That's the one.

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I'll let you go first. You're welcome.

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I've arranged a meeting with Harold Edens,

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the director of the Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research.

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This guy studies lightning for living.

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Yeah, I'm pretty jealous.

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Welcome to the top of the world.

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Here's why we are here.

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One theory I've had about UFO sightings around here

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is it could just be lightning

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or some kind of atmospheric phenomenon

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making people think they're seeing a flying aircraft.

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So have you seen examples of lightning

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that could be confused with something like a UFO?

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Yes, I have. Let's go take a look.

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Since 1963, scientists here have been studying

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and provoking lightning with ingenious technology.

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They've used weather balloons, electric cables,

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and even rockets shot directly into storm clouds.

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I feel like this whole building

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looks like the coolest movie set ever.

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It's a time capsule now, because nowadays

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everything can be done by just basically a computer right here.

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The scientists here have managed to capture

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incredible footage of all kinds of lightning

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and extremely rare atmospheric phenomenon,

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which could explain the massive number

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of UFO sightings in the area.

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This is intra-cloud lightning.

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Whoa!

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So intra-cloud lightning is entirely within the thunderstorm.

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It lights up. People see a flash of light suddenly,

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but you may not know there's lightning storm around.

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Another type of rare lightning takes place

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about 50 miles above the surface of the Earth.

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We have something called sprites.

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That looks like an alien invasion.

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That does look like straight out of War of the Worlds.

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The luminous tendrils in spright lightning

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can spread out for dozens of miles,

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which could easily be misinterpreted

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as something from another world.

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But I'm eager to ask Dr. Eden's

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his opinion about a theoretical type of lightning

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that many people believe could be the answer

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to the majority of UFO reports.

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What about ball lightning?

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First of all, is it even real?

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I think the evidence about ball lightning

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is so overwhelming that you basically have to admit,

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so to speak, that ball lightning probably exists.

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Ball lightning is usually described as glowing orbs of electricity

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that have been reported both in the sky

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and close to the ground.

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They appear for a few seconds or even a few minutes.

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So it would be something that would be glowing in the air,

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persisting for at least several seconds

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and potentially even moving.

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It's usually moving based on eye-evaluable reports.

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The fact that a top atmospheric scientist

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believes ball lightning is a real phenomenon

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means it could easily be misidentified as a UFO.

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And after seeing unusual forms of lightning

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recorded in the same skies where people are reporting UFOs,

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you could explain a lot of sightings.

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But I'll admit, these examples don't match what we saw last night

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and whatever Lonnie Zamora witnessed in 1964.

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With questions still looming,

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we decide to check in with Josh to update him on our progress.

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Hey Josh!

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Hi!

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Greetings, Earthlings!

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How goes the search?

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Any little green men yet?

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No little green men, but man, we have seen some weird stuff.

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Really?

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Oh yeah.

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We actually went to the top of a mesa,

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and sure enough when we were up there,

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we saw a weird glowing light.

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What the f***?

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It was strange.

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Wait, Phil, did you see a UFO?

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Yeah, that's what I'm trying to tell you.

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But for me, it still keeps coming down to the fact

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that there's so much military activity around here.

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To your point, Phil, there are a lot of things flying around up there.

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I want to play something for you, actually.

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This is a conversation between two commercial pilots

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that was captured fairly recently in the area that you're investigating.

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Listen to this.

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You ready?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Albuquerque, 7-1-Papa Golf.

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There was 7-1-Papa Golf, good.

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And it was anybody at the top above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago.

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There was 7-1-Papa Golf, negative.

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American 1095, let me know if you see anything pass over you here in the next 15 miles.

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I don't know what it was, it wasn't an airplane, but it was a capital-seq on-off subtraction.

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A UFO.

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Whoa, did he just say UFO?

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Ooh, UFO!

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He really said that.

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Yes.

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This is literally just one account.

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There are several of these that have recently happened.

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We're talking commercial pilots, Air Force personnel, air traffic controllers.

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All in this area, they're really credible.

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And after a lot of work, I have finally convinced one of them to talk with you about another mass sighting that happened just last week.

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Until now, few have gone on record to talk about this new UFO sighting over Sikoro.

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But Josh managed to track down a woman that works at a nearby military base, who not only witnessed the event, she caught it on camera.

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She's agreed to speak with us, but only on the condition that we obscure her identity.

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I know that you didn't want to have your image on camera, so I really appreciate you taking the time to talk with us.

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Yeah, definitely.

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Can you walk us through the night? Like, what did you see?

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I was driving home from Sikoro to Magdalena.

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I had my kids in the car, and I started to hear this rattling in my engine, so I pulled the car over.

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And that's when I noticed a single light that was coming towards us in the sky.

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So I gave my daughter my cell phone and asked her to film it for us.

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When we pull up the footage that her daughter captured, you can clearly see an unidentified light.

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Whoa! Right there. There's definitely something in the sky.

499
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:04,000
It's hard to make out exactly what we're seeing, but a closer look reveals something even stranger.

500
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000
There's more than one. Oh my God.

501
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:22,000
My team is reviewing eyewitness footage captured just last week of unexplained lights in the Sikoro night sky by a woman who wishes to remain anonymous.

502
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,000
There's more than one. Oh my God.

503
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,000
You could see it was actually multiple lights.

504
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000
Oh my gosh. Look at that.

505
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,000
I do see multiple lights?

506
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,000
Yeah, me too.

507
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,000
You could see there's what, three, four different lights?

508
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,000
Yeah, like a whole line of them.

509
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,000
Interesting.

510
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:44,000
So you don't think you saw just a single UFO? You think you saw what, a formation of them?

511
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,000
It seemed kind of like a fleet of craft.

512
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,000
Which direction did you see those lights?

513
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:54,000
I saw the lights to the southeast hovering right around South Baldy Peak.

514
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:59,000
I've heard stories about UFOs and aliens, but I've always been skeptic.

515
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,000
After this, I don't know what to think.

516
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:08,000
According to our eyewitness, the strange fleet of craft were flying over South Baldy Peak.

517
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,000
Just east of Sikoro and the legendary Zamora landing site.

518
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,000
So we're heading over 10,000 feet into the Magdalena Mountains.

519
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,000
And thank God there's a road.

520
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000
That is really hard.

521
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,000
Keeping my eyes on the road.

522
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,000
Okay, I got it.

523
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:28,000
This position also offers a direct line of sight towards White Sands Missile Range

524
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,000
and Holloman Air Force Base to the southeast.

525
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:37,000
With no lightning in the forecast, there will be no mistaking anything we see as atmospheric phenomenon.

526
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:42,000
And tonight, I'll be deploying a brand new technique to hunt for UFOs.

527
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,000
And it's gonna blow Phil's mind.

528
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000
What is this?

529
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,000
I'll show you.

530
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,000
Three, two, one.

531
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,000
What?

532
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,000
Right?

533
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:06,000
So one of the theories running around UFO circles right now is that aliens are attracted to anything that has a lot of lights and lasers.

534
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,000
And so I figured we'd bring this out here.

535
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,000
We're out in the middle of nowhere and try and lure some UFOs in.

536
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,000
So they're like space cats in the sky following laser pointers.

537
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,000
Pretty much.

538
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:28,000
It may sound far-fetched, but a few years ago, an astrophysicist at MIT proposed shooting a high-powered laser into deep space to attract extraterrestrials to Earth.

539
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:33,000
They have yet to put the plan into action, so allow me to make some history.

540
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:39,000
Now while my setup won't beam into deep space, it is reaching the outer edges of our atmosphere.

541
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:44,000
So if any visitors to Earth are in the neighborhood, maybe this will get their attention.

542
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:53,000
You know, the other night when we filmed what we filmed in the sky, I realized that that low-light IR camera didn't quite have the resolution I was looking for.

543
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000
This is the PVS-14.

544
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000
This is essentially military-grade night vision technology.

545
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,000
This thing is gonna let us see absolutely everything out there.

546
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,000
Well, I'm gonna head out with my night vision. Are you just gonna sit here and stare at your lasers?

547
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:15,000
As much as I would like to hang out here and sing Pink Floyd to myself, you know, a lot of people say that when they see these UFOs, that there's not any sound that they can hear.

548
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:20,000
But maybe it's just because the sound they do emit is just too faint for the human ear to pick up.

549
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000
So I figured I'd bring the parabolic mic.

550
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:30,000
You can be the eyes, I'll be the ears, lasers will be the lure, and any sound that I pick up, I can record, and we can go back and listen and analyze it later.

551
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000
All right. Sounds like a plan.

552
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:45,000
All right. This thing can see anything out here in the dark.

553
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:51,000
This military-grade scope can amplify any surrounding light more than any night vision device in the world.

554
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,000
But there's one problem is that it can't record.

555
00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:05,000
So that's why we 3D printed this, a mount for the scope that attaches to a smartphone that we can record on.

556
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000
So I'll get my evidence.

557
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000
Look at that. There's just lasers.

558
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:23,000
I don't know if anybody's ever tried to actually record a UFO sound with something like this.

559
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,000
Maybe we'll get lucky.

560
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,000
Wait, I'm getting something.

561
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:50,000
So I'm kind of picking up a persistent hum in this direction, a low hum.

562
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,000
There, right there.

563
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000
What the f***?

564
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,000
So are you there?

565
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000
Yeah, I'm here. How's it going?

566
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,000
I keep hearing things.

567
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,000
What are you hearing?

568
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,000
I don't know what it is. It's kind of like this low hum.

569
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,000
Are you seeing anything or hearing anything on your end?

570
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:24,000
I'm hearing nothing on my end. It is completely silent out here.

571
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,000
Okay. I'll let you know if I hear anything else.

572
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:36,000
After an hour of scanning the skies, we're definitely not getting lucky.

573
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000
And then...

574
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Wait, it's back. That hum is back.

575
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:49,000
Did you see that? Did you see that? What the hell is that?

576
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:54,000
It's traveling south. It's hard to keep focus on it.

577
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,000
It's starting to disappear behind the clouds.

578
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000
Jesse, are you there?

579
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,000
I'm here.

580
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,000
I saw something. I don't know what that was.

581
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000
It wasn't flashing like a plane. I don't think it was a satellite.

582
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000
We've been seeing some weird stuff out here, so who knows?

583
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,000
Do you still have eyes on it?

584
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,000
No, I lost it. It was heading south towards White Sands.

585
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:30,000
I continue listening for any strange sounds while Phil keeps scanning the stars with the military-grade scope.

586
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:36,000
But after scouring the sky for hours, there's nothing else to report.

587
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:44,000
I'm shocked that Jess and I managed to record not one, but two unidentified flying objects in a single week out here.

588
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:49,000
Both were traveling in the same direction, south, toward White Sands' missile range.

589
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:57,000
So, as a new day dawns, we work the phones to try to gain access to this highly secure military base.

590
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:02,000
Unfortunately, our requests for information have so far been denied.

591
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Yeah, real shocker there, but here's the good news.

592
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:15,000
We located a fellow investigator who has uncovered a new link between the White Sands missile range and the 1964 Lani Zamora incident.

593
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,000
And he has a paper trail to prove it.

594
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,000
Hi!

595
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Hey Dave, I think we can finally track you down.

596
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,000
Nice to talk to you.

597
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000
Dave, take a look at the video.

598
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,000
We can track you down.

599
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,000
Nice to talk to you.

600
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:34,000
Dave Thomas is a scientist, mathematician, and president of the investigative group New Mexicans for Science and Reason.

601
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:39,000
And after tireless research and study, he believes he's finally cracked the Zamora case.

602
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,000
So you have great new evidence on the Sikoro incident. Do you mind sharing that with us?

603
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,000
I think the best explanation probably is this.

604
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:59,000
It sounds extraordinary that UFOs visited Sikoro, New Mexico to keep tabs on our nuclear arsenal.

605
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,000
Unless of course it's happened before.

606
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,000
And many claim it did, across the pond.

607
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:09,000
It's called the Rendlesham Forest Incident, dubbed Britain's Roswell.

608
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:18,000
In 1980, military personnel claimed to spot UFOs near RAF Bentwaters, an air base in England that was being used at the time by the US Air Force.

609
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:25,000
I've personally investigated this story and met with former deputy commander of the base, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt.

610
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,000
There it is. I see it too. What is it?

611
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,000
We don't know, sir.

612
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:39,000
Colonel Halt claimed that an unidentified craft shot a beam of light into the base's weapons storage facility, which had long been rumored to house nuclear weapons.

613
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:44,000
If an alien craft really did visit that base, maybe now we know why.

614
00:36:45,000 --> 00:37:01,000
Jess and Phil have been investigating unidentified objects that have been reported over Sikoro, New Mexico since Officer Lonnie Zamora claimed to have encountered an alien craft in 1964.

615
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:10,000
And scientist Dave Thomas might have just discovered hard evidence that can finally explain one of the most iconic events in UFO history.

616
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,000
I think the best explanation probably is this.

617
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,000
That is interesting.

618
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,000
Oh, wow.

619
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:26,000
The White Sands Missile Range was testing the lunar surveyor on April 24, 1964, and we have logs from the range.

620
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,000
April 24, 1964.

621
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:41,000
The very same day Lonnie Zamora had his encounter, and according to the test logs from the White Sands Missile Range, it's the same day they are testing this highly secretive lunar surveyor.

622
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Keep in mind, this was at the height of the space race and five full years before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.

623
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:55,000
The surveyor had three landing pods, and then it had four rocket engines.

624
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,000
And that would have been just one of the strangest gadgets you could imagine.

625
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:08,000
One of the things that Lonnie mentioned seeing when he came across the UFO was the fact that it had this blue flame shooting out from underneath it which scorched the earth around it.

626
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,000
What could that have been?

627
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:15,000
I think what they were testing is these rockets, they were on the bottom of the craft.

628
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Lonnie Zamora did see something strange, but we think it was probably from White Sands, not from outer space.

629
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:28,000
Is there anything else about Zamora's description that you think matches up to this lunar lander?

630
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:34,000
The two guys in the coveralls could have been the people in the helicopter.

631
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,000
That is interesting.

632
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:44,000
Since gravity on the moon is six times less than that on earth, the surveyor was suspended from a helicopter to mimic the conditions of a lunar landing.

633
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:51,000
And that helicopter was piloted by two people, the same number of beings that Officer Zamora described.

634
00:38:52,000 --> 00:39:00,000
Dave also has an explanation for one of the landing's most puzzling details, the strange symbol that Officer Zamora reported adorning the craft.

635
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Lonnie Zamora actually said he saw some sort of symbol on the side of the craft.

636
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:15,000
The logo that Lonnie saw may have been from a Hughes aircraft company.

637
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:20,000
The Hughes aircraft company actually built the first lunar surveyor for NASA.

638
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,000
And that actually matches up to a known company at the time?

639
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:30,000
Pretty close to what's on Howard Hughes's business card. Man, it's a pretty good match.

640
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:39,000
Yeah, I can see it. While not an exact match, you could definitely see the similarities, considering Lonnie Zamora sketched the symbol he saw from memory.

641
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:45,000
How come Project Blue Book didn't know what White Sands was launching, you know, test equipment that day?

642
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:53,000
You know, when you work on a classified facility like White Sands Missile Range, they have compartmentalization and need to know.

643
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,000
So the government might have been keeping secrets from itself, essentially?

644
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,000
It does it every day.

645
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,000
Thank you, Dave.

646
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,000
Thank you, Dave.

647
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,000
All right, what do you think?

648
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:12,000
Well, this Coral thing, completely unexplainable, and bizarre. And then we talk to Dave.

649
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:19,000
I have to say, what Dave is bringing to the table is tough to ignore.

650
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,000
It makes so much sense.

651
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:29,000
He actually has solid proof that White Sands Military Base had scheduled that lunar test that same day.

652
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,000
But it still doesn't explain away all UFO sightings.

653
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:42,000
Based on this new revelation, the Lonnie Zamora incident is most likely explained by top secret testing of a lunar surveyor.

654
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:51,000
But, as Jess points out, this does not discount every strange sighting over Sakura, and there may be more to this story than meets the eye.

655
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:57,000
After further analysis and enhancement of the mysterious object captured above the mesa.

656
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,000
What is this?

657
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Oh, look at its spin.

658
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:10,000
And after isolating the strange sounds collected on the parabolic microphone, both pieces of evidence remain unidentified.

659
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,000
There's little doubt that life exists beyond Earth somewhere in the universe.

660
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:21,000
As for those who insist they've witnessed aliens flying over the skies of Sakura, that remains to be proven.

661
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:27,000
So, keep looking skyward, because the truth really is out there.

662
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:34,000
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