1 00:00:00,742 --> 00:00:07,741 ACeducation 2 00:00:30,740 --> 00:00:35,739 December 12, 2009. 3 00:00:35,739 --> 00:00:39,739 Residents of Barstow, California report the sudden 4 00:00:39,739 --> 00:00:43,739 appearance of a UFO skimming over their rooftops in the 5 00:00:43,739 --> 00:00:44,738 pre-dawn sky. 6 00:00:44,738 --> 00:00:46,738 Witnesses claim that this UFO 7 00:00:46,738 --> 00:00:48,738 streaked across the neighborhood and then it touched down 8 00:00:48,738 --> 00:00:50,738 in the desert across the highway. 9 00:00:50,738 --> 00:00:52,738 So what they decided to do was walk over the 10 00:00:52,738 --> 00:00:57,737 But the residents quickly find that the strange craft is not 11 00:00:57,737 --> 00:01:01,737 the only unusual arrival that day. 12 00:01:01,737 --> 00:01:04,737 The citizens are making their way towards the lights. 13 00:01:04,737 --> 00:01:07,737 They're coming out of their house in the early morning and 14 00:01:07,737 --> 00:01:11,736 then all of a sudden a fleet of SUVs barrel right past them 15 00:01:11,736 --> 00:01:13,736 and then they're going to the house. 16 00:01:13,736 --> 00:01:15,736 And then they're going to the house. 17 00:01:15,736 --> 00:01:17,736 And then they're going to the house. 18 00:01:17,736 --> 00:01:19,736 And then they're going to the house. 19 00:01:19,736 --> 00:01:22,735 And then a fleet of SUVs barrel right past them 20 00:01:22,735 --> 00:01:24,735 towards the scene. 21 00:01:24,735 --> 00:01:27,735 Those SUVs were heading towards the UFO. 22 00:01:27,735 --> 00:01:31,735 Nobody ever got out and said that, you know, 23 00:01:31,735 --> 00:01:33,735 we're from an official agency or government. 24 00:01:33,735 --> 00:01:36,734 They didn't acknowledge them. 25 00:01:36,734 --> 00:01:41,734 Witnesses claim the vehicles encircled the grounded UFO, 26 00:01:41,734 --> 00:01:47,733 shining their high beams outward and blinding the onlookers. 27 00:01:47,733 --> 00:01:52,733 Any details of the downed craft are lost behind a glare of headlights. 28 00:02:00,732 --> 00:02:03,732 Before anybody can get a good look at what's going on, 29 00:02:03,732 --> 00:02:05,732 a flat-begged truck rolls in. 30 00:02:05,732 --> 00:02:08,732 Then about 10 minutes later, all the cars pull out 31 00:02:08,732 --> 00:02:13,731 and what was on this flat-begged truck is about the size of a BW bug, 32 00:02:13,731 --> 00:02:15,731 but of course it was covered in a tarp. 33 00:02:18,731 --> 00:02:23,731 The convoy disappears as quickly as it arrived, 34 00:02:23,731 --> 00:02:28,730 leaving the residents of Barstow with far more questions than answers. 35 00:02:30,730 --> 00:02:31,730 And that's it. 36 00:02:31,730 --> 00:02:34,730 The witnesses contact the police and the military, 37 00:02:34,730 --> 00:02:36,729 and they hit dead end after dead end. 38 00:02:36,729 --> 00:02:39,729 No explanation is given. 39 00:02:39,729 --> 00:02:45,729 Could this be another UFO incident locked away in a classified file? 40 00:02:48,729 --> 00:02:53,728 The U.S. government has a long-standing history of covering up UFO incidents, 41 00:02:53,728 --> 00:02:55,728 so we have to ask the question, why? 42 00:02:55,728 --> 00:03:00,728 What do they have to gain from concealing this fact from their own citizens? 43 00:03:00,728 --> 00:03:04,727 Throughout history, numerous UFO crashes have been reported, 44 00:03:04,727 --> 00:03:08,727 and to date, none have been officially acknowledged. 45 00:03:09,727 --> 00:03:13,727 What exactly is the government concealing and why? 46 00:03:13,727 --> 00:03:18,726 MUFON opens its files to reveal more of these incredible stories 47 00:03:18,726 --> 00:03:23,726 and investigate the extreme methods that go into covering them up. 48 00:03:25,726 --> 00:03:29,725 The Mutual UFO Network, known as MUFON, 49 00:03:29,725 --> 00:03:33,725 is an independent organization not bound to any government. 50 00:03:33,725 --> 00:03:38,725 They investigate reports of UFO sightings from around the world. 51 00:03:38,725 --> 00:03:43,724 Over the past five decades, they have collected more than 70,000 files 52 00:03:43,724 --> 00:03:47,724 stored at a secure location known as Hanger One. 53 00:03:47,724 --> 00:03:54,723 Now, for the first time, MUFON is granting access to their vast archive. 54 00:03:54,723 --> 00:03:57,723 These are the files of Hanger One. 55 00:04:09,722 --> 00:04:15,722 Inside Hanger One, MUFON investigators review thousands of UFO sightings each year. 56 00:04:15,722 --> 00:04:18,721 The Barstow incident is just one case. 57 00:04:18,721 --> 00:04:24,721 That downed UFO is cordoned off and removed by the military without explanation. 58 00:04:26,721 --> 00:04:30,720 Very few of these stories ever reach the public. 59 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,720 But this was not always the case. 60 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:41,719 MUFON files contain a long history of reported UFO crashes and cover-ups, 61 00:04:41,719 --> 00:04:46,719 including one of the first recorded incidents in the United States. 62 00:04:46,719 --> 00:04:54,718 Back in 1897, when a UFO crash was simply reported as everyday news 63 00:04:54,718 --> 00:04:58,718 and a lone gravestone marked the event. 64 00:05:04,718 --> 00:05:11,757 The 65 00:05:12,717 --> 00:05:15,717 April 17, 1897. 66 00:05:17,717 --> 00:05:22,716 A day like any other in the small farm town of Aurora, Texas. 67 00:05:24,716 --> 00:05:31,715 Until eyewitnesses report a flying airship trailing fire across the morning sky. 68 00:05:31,715 --> 00:05:34,715 It comes flying down into this rural town. 69 00:05:34,715 --> 00:05:39,715 It hits a windmill and it crash lands on a farmer's property. 70 00:05:43,714 --> 00:05:48,714 Judge J.S. Proctor's windmill is destroyed by the unusual craft. 71 00:05:48,714 --> 00:05:54,714 Allegedly, this UFO crash was witnessed by the entire town, but it happened in 1897. 72 00:05:54,714 --> 00:05:56,713 How do you verify something like that? 73 00:05:56,713 --> 00:05:59,713 Well, MUFON launched an investigation. 74 00:06:00,713 --> 00:06:06,713 In 1973, MUFON conducted a search for surviving Aurora witnesses. 75 00:06:06,713 --> 00:06:13,712 The 1973 investigation turns up several living witnesses eager to share their stories. 76 00:06:13,712 --> 00:06:20,712 One 83-year-old man, Charlie Stevens, remembers witnessing the crash as a child. 77 00:06:20,712 --> 00:06:22,711 There were witnesses to this. 78 00:06:22,711 --> 00:06:27,711 The 10-year-old boy actually saw the crash occur working on his father's farm. 79 00:06:29,711 --> 00:06:35,710 Our investigators tracked down a 91-year-old woman. She was 15 at the time and she saw it. 80 00:06:37,710 --> 00:06:43,710 Mary Evans tells MUFON that the 1897 incident was the talk of the town. 81 00:06:43,710 --> 00:06:50,709 And that talk wasn't just about the UFO, but what townspeople found inside the craft. 82 00:06:50,709 --> 00:06:55,709 Multiple townspeople are actually on record as having seen an alien body. 83 00:06:55,709 --> 00:07:00,708 And these witness reports are corroborated by local newspaper accounts uncovered by MUFON. 84 00:07:00,708 --> 00:07:07,708 The Aurora newspaper runs a vivid account of the UFO crash from local reporter S.E. Hayden. 85 00:07:07,708 --> 00:07:11,707 This is an oddly matter-of-fact coverage for such an unusual event. 86 00:07:11,707 --> 00:07:14,707 But the article gets even stranger when we come to the aftermath. 87 00:07:15,707 --> 00:07:23,706 The newspaper account states that the pilot is badly disfigured and, quote, not an inhabitant of this world. 88 00:07:24,706 --> 00:07:29,706 Not an inhabitant of this world. This article casually mentions that aliens crashed. 89 00:07:29,706 --> 00:07:32,706 It's just in the newspaper in black and white. 90 00:07:37,705 --> 00:07:45,705 In 1897, not only was the public trusted with this information, the public was also invited to the aliens' funeral. 91 00:07:46,705 --> 00:07:52,704 For nearly 80 years, a simple tombstone stands as a reminder of the Aurora crash. 92 00:07:52,704 --> 00:07:59,704 It bears no name and is only marked with a small carving, depicting a flying saucer. 93 00:08:01,703 --> 00:08:06,703 You have to remember that at the time of the Aurora crash, our own planet still held a lot of mystery. 94 00:08:06,703 --> 00:08:10,703 It wasn't scary to them back then to have mysteries. 95 00:08:10,703 --> 00:08:15,702 It's us today that can't accept the unknown and the unexplained. 96 00:08:15,702 --> 00:08:17,702 We're frightened by that. 97 00:08:17,702 --> 00:08:22,702 But in Aurora in 1897, this was not a scary event. 98 00:08:24,702 --> 00:08:32,701 During Mufan's 1973 investigation in Aurora, they attempt to recover evidence and exhume the remains of the alien. 99 00:08:32,701 --> 00:08:39,700 It would seem like a surefire way to debunk or confirm the story would go dig up the evidence, literally. 100 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:45,700 So we went to a small Aurora cemetery to do just that, dig it up. 101 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:50,699 Investigators arrive at the Aurora cemetery with metal detectors. 102 00:08:50,699 --> 00:08:59,699 As they went from grave to grave, only one grave site registered anomalous readings, the grave of the alien pilot. 103 00:09:00,699 --> 00:09:07,698 Mufan submits an official request to exhume the grave. It is denied. 104 00:09:07,698 --> 00:09:12,698 We're denied access to the grave because it's on church property. 105 00:09:12,698 --> 00:09:16,697 The following day we come back for one last look before going home. 106 00:09:16,697 --> 00:09:20,697 The grave was exhumed the night before. 107 00:09:20,697 --> 00:09:23,697 There's your proof. There's your smoking gun. 108 00:09:23,697 --> 00:09:30,696 So whatever was buried there is now lost and the headstone is missing as well. 109 00:09:30,696 --> 00:09:39,696 In less than 80 years, it appears the official attitude on UFOs shifts from openness to secrecy. 110 00:09:39,696 --> 00:09:45,695 This is just another example of a kind of cover-up that we find in this sort of investigation. 111 00:09:45,695 --> 00:09:51,695 Over the course of a hundred years, UFO records have evolved from openness and truth. 112 00:09:51,695 --> 00:09:56,694 And, of course, have evolved from openness and transparency to secrecy and denial. 113 00:09:56,694 --> 00:10:00,694 That's an example of how much things have changed. 114 00:10:00,694 --> 00:10:04,694 But why have things changed so drastically? 115 00:10:04,694 --> 00:10:07,693 Could there be dangers that we are unaware of? 116 00:10:07,693 --> 00:10:15,693 When we return, a UFO crash along the Gulf of Mexico pits two nations against each other, 117 00:10:15,693 --> 00:10:19,692 and the aftermath turns deadly. 118 00:10:22,692 --> 00:10:32,691 Hanger 1 contains thousands of files, each one a record of UFO activity from around the world. 119 00:10:32,691 --> 00:10:39,691 One file tells the story of an 1897 UFO crash in Aurora, Texas, 120 00:10:39,691 --> 00:10:44,690 where residents held a public funeral for a dead alien. 121 00:10:45,690 --> 00:10:52,690 But 80 years later, a MUFON investigation into that crash hits a dead end. 122 00:10:52,690 --> 00:10:59,689 Is it possible that UFO incidents are still routinely covered up? 123 00:10:59,689 --> 00:11:09,688 Another file documents a UFO crash in Mexico that some believe to be the subject of an international cover-up. 124 00:11:15,688 --> 00:11:18,688 Texas 1974. 125 00:11:18,688 --> 00:11:28,687 United States Air Defense Radar detects an unidentified flying object over the Gulf of Mexico, 126 00:11:28,687 --> 00:11:31,687 rapidly approaching US airspace. 127 00:11:31,687 --> 00:11:36,686 Across the border, Mexican authorities are alerted. 128 00:11:36,686 --> 00:11:40,686 Right from the start, we have independent confirmation in this incident. 129 00:11:40,686 --> 00:11:45,685 The same object is being tracked by both the United States and Mexico. 130 00:11:45,685 --> 00:11:52,685 The object shifts course away from the US and rockets back towards Mexican airspace. 131 00:11:52,685 --> 00:11:57,684 Radar operators on both sides of the border are stunned. 132 00:11:57,684 --> 00:12:03,684 When you're looking at this kind of movement, it would have to be under some kind of intelligent control. 133 00:12:03,684 --> 00:12:09,684 Reportedly, the US military traces the UFO's path to Coyame, 134 00:12:09,684 --> 00:12:15,683 a sparsely populated Mexican border town, where it suddenly vanishes from radar. 135 00:12:18,683 --> 00:12:22,682 At the same moment, Mexican authorities receive a distress call. 136 00:12:22,682 --> 00:12:28,682 They receive a radio broadcast that a civilian airplane has crashed in the vicinity, 137 00:12:28,682 --> 00:12:30,682 possibly due to a mid-air collision. 138 00:12:34,682 --> 00:12:39,681 In the same location where this UFO went off radar, 139 00:12:39,681 --> 00:12:43,681 a civilian aircraft collided with something in flight. 140 00:12:43,681 --> 00:12:46,681 Well, what did it collide with? 141 00:12:46,681 --> 00:12:54,680 Mexican authorities arrive at the crash site and discover the remains of a small civilian plane. 142 00:12:54,680 --> 00:13:00,679 But there also appears to be wreckage from a second craft at the scene. 143 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,679 There was another report of a second crash, and this is interesting. 144 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,679 They said it was damaged, but it was perfectly intact. 145 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,678 It was described as saucer metallic shape with no markings. 146 00:13:13,678 --> 00:13:18,678 The Mexican military does not know what to make of the unusual craft. 147 00:13:18,678 --> 00:13:22,678 They call in a report and then go radio silent. 148 00:13:24,677 --> 00:13:28,677 But word of the crash has already reached US authorities. 149 00:13:28,677 --> 00:13:31,677 The Mexican broadcast was intercepted by the CIA, 150 00:13:31,677 --> 00:13:36,677 and they wanted to bring their own crash retrieval special team down to Mexico, 151 00:13:36,677 --> 00:13:40,676 but the Mexican authorities flat out denied that the crash even occurred. 152 00:13:40,676 --> 00:13:48,676 Within hours, CIA reconnaissance captures images of the Mexican convoy departing the Coyame crash site. 153 00:13:48,676 --> 00:13:51,675 At this point, the CIA know about the convoy, 154 00:13:51,675 --> 00:13:56,675 and they definitely know that there's a salvaged crashed UFO on the back of that truck. 155 00:13:57,675 --> 00:14:02,674 In the file are claims that the CIA dispatches a small covert team 156 00:14:02,674 --> 00:14:08,674 to intercept the Mexican convoy and get a closer look at the UFO. 157 00:14:08,674 --> 00:14:14,673 The US team arrives and surprisingly they met with zero resistance from the Mexican army. 158 00:14:14,673 --> 00:14:18,673 The Mexican suddenly want nothing to do with this UFO anymore, 159 00:14:18,673 --> 00:14:22,673 and that's because the whole situation has taken a dark turn. 160 00:14:27,672 --> 00:14:31,672 The Americans encounter a grim scene. 161 00:14:31,672 --> 00:14:39,671 When the CIA finally arrived, they come upon the convoy and they see four soldiers laying down in the dirt. 162 00:14:39,671 --> 00:14:43,671 It's clear that the Mexican soldiers are dead. 163 00:14:43,671 --> 00:14:47,671 What's not clear is how they died. 164 00:14:47,671 --> 00:14:54,670 All of the dead soldiers had made contact with the UFO while trying to remove it from the crash site. 165 00:14:55,670 --> 00:14:59,670 Is it radiation? Extraterrestrial bacteria? We don't know. 166 00:14:59,670 --> 00:15:02,670 The Mexicans realize how dangerous this craft was, 167 00:15:02,670 --> 00:15:07,669 and the CIA managed to convince them that they had more experience containing this sort of threat. 168 00:15:07,669 --> 00:15:12,669 It is believed the American team takes possession of the UFO 169 00:15:12,669 --> 00:15:16,669 and transports it back to Missouri's Whiteman Air Force Base. 170 00:15:16,669 --> 00:15:23,668 The incident is kept secret until it is unearthed by a MUFON investigation. 171 00:15:24,668 --> 00:15:27,668 The Koyame incident occurred in 1974, 172 00:15:27,668 --> 00:15:33,667 but it didn't really come to our attention until 1992 through an anonymous report that went to Ruben Uriarte, 173 00:15:33,667 --> 00:15:35,667 one of our field investigators. 174 00:15:35,667 --> 00:15:40,667 It detailed this crash saucer and the subsequent cover-up. 175 00:15:40,667 --> 00:15:47,666 Ruben Uriarte's informant provides a full report detailing the Koyame crash 176 00:15:47,666 --> 00:15:51,666 and its subsequent cover-up by authorities. 177 00:15:51,666 --> 00:15:55,665 The report provided a good place to start an investigation. 178 00:15:55,665 --> 00:15:59,665 It was a credible account, and it drove us to seek further evidence. 179 00:15:59,665 --> 00:16:05,665 Ruben Uriarte was able to get flight logs, communication logs, and radar logs 180 00:16:05,665 --> 00:16:08,664 that sync up perfectly with this sighting report. 181 00:16:08,664 --> 00:16:14,664 The biggest find was that Uriarte was actually able to confirm the names of the dead Mexican soldiers. 182 00:16:14,664 --> 00:16:20,663 This is huge. I mean, he now had proof that these four soldiers died at the exact same time 183 00:16:20,663 --> 00:16:24,663 during an incident that officially never occurred. 184 00:16:26,663 --> 00:16:31,662 But even with this evidence in hand, the investigation is stonewalled. 185 00:16:32,662 --> 00:16:36,662 So Ruben was able to track down the names of the dead soldiers, 186 00:16:36,662 --> 00:16:39,662 but the government denied that they'd ever existed. 187 00:16:39,662 --> 00:16:42,662 So again, we have a classic example of cover-up. 188 00:16:43,662 --> 00:16:45,661 We have evidence. We have witnesses. 189 00:16:45,661 --> 00:16:51,661 Yet with every piece of evidence we've got, there's continuing pushback and denials. 190 00:16:54,661 --> 00:17:01,660 Is the cover-up of the Koyame crash linked to the unknown dangers encountered when recovering the UFO? 191 00:17:01,660 --> 00:17:08,660 Perhaps because the files reveal that a more recent crash in Brazil led to similar casualties. 192 00:17:08,660 --> 00:17:11,659 We have verified sightings of UFOs in Barjina. 193 00:17:11,659 --> 00:17:16,659 We have ETs walking around in the town, and we have a dead body. The evidence is piling up. 194 00:17:17,659 --> 00:17:20,659 Another swift and forceful cover-up leads to the question, 195 00:17:20,659 --> 00:17:26,658 how many UFO crashes will it take before the truth is finally revealed? 196 00:17:28,658 --> 00:17:36,657 A deadly UFO crash in Koyame, Mexico may have been covered up by both U.S. and Mexican officials. 197 00:17:36,657 --> 00:17:39,657 And this pattern continues throughout the world. 198 00:17:39,657 --> 00:17:48,656 From Brazil comes the story of another extraterrestrial encounter that is derailed by cover-ups and suppression. 199 00:17:51,656 --> 00:17:55,656 There's a tendency to believe that the U.S. government is behind every UFO cover-up, 200 00:17:55,656 --> 00:17:59,655 but this is just not the case, as we see from a number of cases in our files. 201 00:18:09,655 --> 00:18:19,654 January 20th, 1996. Local police respond to reports of a wild animal running loose in the town of Barjinha, Brazil. 202 00:18:22,654 --> 00:18:28,653 Earlier that morning, a group of three girls were startled by this strange creature that was located behind an auto body shop. 203 00:18:28,653 --> 00:18:35,653 And what they described it as, it was a small creature with a large disproportionate head, with lidless eyes, 204 00:18:35,653 --> 00:18:38,652 and it was snarling, growling at them. 205 00:18:38,652 --> 00:18:41,652 And officer Marco Chiriz decided to investigate. 206 00:18:44,652 --> 00:18:50,651 By evening, the town is consumed with stories that a devil creature is on the loose. 207 00:18:52,651 --> 00:18:57,651 But what officer Chiriz eventually encounters is all too real. 208 00:18:58,651 --> 00:19:06,650 Officer Chiriz tracks down this creature, and when he comes towards it, he can tell that it almost seems like it's half dead, almost dying. 209 00:19:08,650 --> 00:19:11,650 So he decides to pick it up and the thing pushes him. 210 00:19:11,650 --> 00:19:19,649 And in doing so, it made contact with his unglobed hand, which he didn't think very much about during the time. 211 00:19:20,649 --> 00:19:26,648 Officer Chiriz and his partner take the creature and transport it to a local hospital. 212 00:19:29,648 --> 00:19:34,648 By the time the officer arrives at the hospital, it's already swarming with military personnel. 213 00:19:34,648 --> 00:19:43,647 And what he didn't know was that a radio call went out of another entity, a second entity, that was tracked and captured by the military. 214 00:19:43,647 --> 00:19:46,647 They bagged it and tagged it and threw it in the back of a truck. 215 00:19:47,647 --> 00:19:50,647 That second creature was examined in the same hospital. 216 00:19:50,647 --> 00:19:53,646 Officer Chiriz had to be wondering what's going on here. 217 00:19:53,646 --> 00:19:56,646 The army wouldn't be involved if it was just a wounded animal. 218 00:20:01,646 --> 00:20:06,645 So it's even more interesting on January 13th, the whole week before this incident, 219 00:20:06,645 --> 00:20:13,645 NORAD gave the Brazilian government a head up that a UFO was tracked coming down over the hills of Barhina. 220 00:20:16,644 --> 00:20:19,644 Was this a crash? Were these alien pilots? 221 00:20:19,644 --> 00:20:25,644 When Officer Chiriz tries to investigate these creatures even further, he is told to back off, 222 00:20:25,644 --> 00:20:28,643 forget about it and pretend like it didn't even happen. 223 00:20:28,643 --> 00:20:32,643 And that would have been okay, he probably would have, but then something else happened. 224 00:20:34,643 --> 00:20:41,642 Two weeks after his encounter, Officer Chiriz's doctor finds something unusual on his arm. 225 00:20:41,642 --> 00:20:45,642 In the exact same spot where the creature touched him. 226 00:20:46,642 --> 00:20:49,642 Officer Chiriz starts feeling really ill and sick. 227 00:20:49,642 --> 00:20:54,641 He starts complaining of back pains, high fever, respiratory failure, and he's hospitalized. 228 00:20:56,641 --> 00:21:03,641 Reportedly, one week later, the 23-year-old police officer is dead. 229 00:21:04,641 --> 00:21:07,640 The autopsy revealed that his body was riddled with infections, 230 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,640 and it's odd that a young man would contract so many infections all at the same time. 231 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:19,639 Even the doctor confirms that this is a strange death without rational explanation. 232 00:21:20,639 --> 00:21:22,639 We have verified sightings of UFOs in Barhina. 233 00:21:22,639 --> 00:21:26,639 We have ETs walking around in the town and we have a dead body. 234 00:21:26,639 --> 00:21:29,639 The evidence is piling up, right? Wrong. 235 00:21:31,638 --> 00:21:37,638 Just days after these events, mysterious strangers arrive in the town. 236 00:21:38,638 --> 00:21:42,638 All the witnesses to this event, the three girls, even their parents and the police captain, 237 00:21:42,638 --> 00:21:50,637 were visited by four men who strongly intimidated them and encouraged them to not discuss this in public. 238 00:21:52,637 --> 00:21:54,637 We don't know who these men were, who they represent. 239 00:21:54,637 --> 00:21:58,636 It wouldn't make sense for them to be military because they also confronted military personnel. 240 00:21:58,636 --> 00:22:02,636 With some witnesses, they threatened others, they offered bribes. 241 00:22:03,636 --> 00:22:10,635 According to the file, Brazilian authorities explain the Barhina incident with a controversial report. 242 00:22:10,635 --> 00:22:15,635 The official story about the bodies recovered from Barhina were that they were dwarves. 243 00:22:16,635 --> 00:22:21,634 Dwarves? That was the best they could come up with when half the town had seen these creatures. 244 00:22:21,634 --> 00:22:24,634 And since when does the military round up dwarves? 245 00:22:24,634 --> 00:22:31,634 No mention of UFO. It's paper thin, absolutely ridiculous. But that's their story. 246 00:22:33,633 --> 00:22:39,633 And once again, we may never know what really happened because the witnesses have been silenced. 247 00:22:39,633 --> 00:22:45,632 Could this be another incident in a pattern of UFO crashes and cover-ups? 248 00:22:45,632 --> 00:22:53,632 And is it possible to silence every witness, even when that witness is a high-profile political figure? 249 00:22:53,632 --> 00:22:57,632 If someone of this stature and integrity were to go public, 250 00:22:57,632 --> 00:23:04,631 it would have an incalculable effect on the media and the public regarding the truth with UFOs. 251 00:23:04,631 --> 00:23:09,631 MUFON investigates the story and its surprising twist. 252 00:23:15,630 --> 00:23:22,630 Hanger One's files contain hundreds of stories of UFO witnesses who claim to be intimidated by authorities. 253 00:23:22,630 --> 00:23:27,629 Their agenda to cover up all evidence of extraterrestrial encounters. 254 00:23:27,629 --> 00:23:35,628 A pattern seen in case files from Barstow, California, Coyame, Mexico, and Varginia, Brazil. 255 00:23:35,628 --> 00:23:41,628 But sometimes witnesses may even feel pressure to censor themselves. 256 00:23:41,628 --> 00:23:50,627 Such as one case involving a UFO abduction allegedly observed by one of the most prominent men in the world. 257 00:23:52,627 --> 00:23:57,627 The case is a case of a murder. 258 00:23:57,627 --> 00:24:02,626 The case is a case of a murder. 259 00:24:02,626 --> 00:24:11,626 In 1989, Manhattan, New York, Linda Cortial awakens at 3 a.m. 260 00:24:11,626 --> 00:24:20,625 and is astonished to find herself hovering 12 stories above the street outside her apartment window. 261 00:24:22,625 --> 00:24:26,624 The witness, Linda, thinks she's dreaming, but this is no dream. 262 00:24:26,624 --> 00:24:29,624 Here she is floating over the New York skyline. 263 00:24:29,624 --> 00:24:34,624 Linda claims that she is being pulled towards a giant UFO. 264 00:24:34,624 --> 00:24:40,623 She described it as a sort of tractor beam pulling her through the night sky. 265 00:24:40,623 --> 00:24:48,623 As Linda is pulled into the UFO, the surrounding neighborhood experiences a major power outage. 266 00:24:48,623 --> 00:24:58,622 And not just in the buildings, but on the street also, cars were dying right in the middle of the street. 267 00:24:58,622 --> 00:25:07,621 Once on board, Linda falls into a dream-like trance and then many hours later finds herself back in her apartment. 268 00:25:07,621 --> 00:25:13,621 In the days to come, Linda is traumatized by her experience and seeks help. 269 00:25:13,621 --> 00:25:19,620 She eventually meets with famed abduction investigator, Bud Hopkins. 270 00:25:19,620 --> 00:25:27,619 Bud Hopkins worked for years in the UFO field with abductees, taking their stories, publishing the results of his investigations, 271 00:25:27,619 --> 00:25:34,619 and basically really being a pioneer in the whole field of abduction research. 272 00:25:34,619 --> 00:25:45,618 Bud found Linda's case extremely interesting, particularly after doctors found a small metal object in her skull shortly after her abduction. 273 00:25:45,618 --> 00:25:56,617 This is an intriguing story, but there's not much to base our investigation on other than Linda's memory of the event and there are no witnesses to corroborate it. 274 00:25:57,617 --> 00:26:08,616 But this story cannot be easily dismissed because the files report that one year after the incident, two surprise witnesses come forward. 275 00:26:08,616 --> 00:26:17,615 Bud Hopkins receives a letter from two individuals, Richard and Dan. They claim to have witnessed the abduction of Linda. 276 00:26:17,615 --> 00:26:29,615 Richard and Dan identify themselves as New York City police officers who were providing private security for a VIP client at the time of Linda's abduction. 277 00:26:29,615 --> 00:26:41,614 The men described the exact same story that Linda experienced. They saw a woman floating in the sky above them, slowly drifting towards a massive oval-shaped craft. 278 00:26:41,614 --> 00:26:48,613 But the case takes a bizarre turn when the men reportedly reveal the identity of their VIP client. 279 00:26:48,613 --> 00:26:57,612 These men revealed that there was a third witness, the VIP client they were providing security for, and he happened to be Perez de Cuellar. 280 00:26:57,612 --> 00:27:04,612 At the time, Javier Perez de Cuellar is the secretary general of the United Nations. 281 00:27:05,612 --> 00:27:16,611 The other two witnesses had already told Bud Hopkins that the third man was traumatized by what he had seen that night, maybe because of his high-level position, he didn't know where the turn. 282 00:27:16,611 --> 00:27:22,610 According to reports, Bud Hopkins reaches out to Javier Perez de Cuellar. 283 00:27:22,610 --> 00:27:35,609 Bud is overwhelmed with this revelation. If someone of this stature and integrity were the go public, it would have an incalculable effect on the media and the public regarding the truth with UFOs. 284 00:27:40,609 --> 00:27:50,608 And it is true that Bud Hopkins did communicate at least one time with Javier Perez de Cuellar on this, and de Cuellar absolutely did not want to get involved publicly on this matter whatsoever. 285 00:27:51,608 --> 00:28:00,607 Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar has never acknowledged this story, and we may never know the truth. 286 00:28:00,607 --> 00:28:08,607 Clearly, Javier Perez de Cuellar, one of the most prominent men in the world at that time, knew full well. 287 00:28:08,607 --> 00:28:19,606 There was no way he was going to come out and publicly say, yes, I too was involved in that utterly fantastic abduction experience. 288 00:28:19,606 --> 00:28:25,605 In the de Cuellar case, we see an example of self-censorship. It's not always the media or the government. Sometimes it's us. 289 00:28:25,605 --> 00:28:32,605 If you fly in the face of public opinion, you run the risk of losing jobs, losing friends, losing credibility. 290 00:28:34,604 --> 00:28:45,604 Hanger One files reveal a possible pattern of UFO cover-ups, from government denials and secrecy, to the self-censorship of witnesses afraid to speak out. 291 00:28:46,604 --> 00:28:59,602 A UFO crash in 1965 is believed by some to be one of the first cases of a UFO investigator who searches for the truth and pays the ultimate price. 292 00:29:00,602 --> 00:29:21,601 December 5, 1965, Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. Dozens of eyewitnesses report a UFO streaking across the sky over Canada, Michigan, and Ohio. 293 00:29:21,601 --> 00:29:27,600 The FAA logs sightings from 23 pilots along the UFO's flight path. 294 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:38,599 Finally, the residents of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania observe a fiery object plummeting from the sky and into the woods. 295 00:29:39,599 --> 00:29:46,599 People in town describe seeing this fireball-shaped object and it suddenly changes course and crashes in the wood line. 296 00:29:47,599 --> 00:29:58,598 So the Kecksburg case is extremely interesting because you have an entire town that sees an object coming out of the sky and crashing into the woods. 297 00:29:58,598 --> 00:30:00,598 So they all come out to take a closer look. 298 00:30:02,597 --> 00:30:06,597 A lot of people went out to the woods to investigate and they got there first before anybody else did. 299 00:30:07,597 --> 00:30:17,596 A couple of the guys described it as an acorn shape that was embedded into the dirt and there was an outside circumference, what they would describe resembled Egyptian hieroglyphics. 300 00:30:20,596 --> 00:30:27,595 In the middle of the scene, a local reporter, John Murphy, is capturing the events with his camera. 301 00:30:28,595 --> 00:30:35,595 John Murphy was a reporter and news director for WHJB, a radio station in nearby Greensburg, Pennsylvania. 302 00:30:35,595 --> 00:30:39,594 So while this is going on, he's snapping pictures of everything. 303 00:30:40,594 --> 00:30:43,594 It is not long before the authorities show up. 304 00:30:43,594 --> 00:30:47,594 John Murphy is just snapping away, taking pictures of the object. 305 00:30:47,594 --> 00:30:53,593 The military shows up and tells him this is now a restricted area. 306 00:30:53,593 --> 00:30:55,593 You guys are ordered out of here. 307 00:30:55,593 --> 00:30:59,593 They confiscated his camera and they told everybody to get the hell off the property. 308 00:30:59,593 --> 00:31:03,593 They were all pushed back and all the military trucks pulled in. 309 00:31:04,592 --> 00:31:07,592 This is a small town, a few miles from where I live. 310 00:31:07,592 --> 00:31:09,592 There were dozens of witnesses on the street. 311 00:31:09,592 --> 00:31:15,592 The army brought in a flatbed and did a crash and retrieval and then they left. 312 00:31:16,591 --> 00:31:24,591 The official government report on this incident states that only three members of the military were sent to investigate the scene. 313 00:31:24,591 --> 00:31:34,590 The Kecksburg crash of 1965, that's a perfect example of this disparate nature between what officially happened and then what really happened. 314 00:31:36,590 --> 00:31:40,590 A team of three individuals go investigate it and that's all she wrote. 315 00:31:40,590 --> 00:31:49,589 What everyone in the town of Kecksburg knows is that an enormous number of people, military, different types of branches of the military, 316 00:31:49,589 --> 00:31:57,588 probably over a hundred outside people came in, combed the woods, sealed off the woods from the public. 317 00:31:57,588 --> 00:32:05,588 And yet what's interesting is that there's no official acknowledgement by the military services that they did this type of a thing. 318 00:32:06,587 --> 00:32:10,587 Think about it, you see something happen with your own eyes. 319 00:32:10,587 --> 00:32:17,587 You know hundreds of military personnel swarmed a small town, yet this is outright denied by the government. 320 00:32:17,587 --> 00:32:23,586 When you get that kind of first-hand look at how these cover-ups work, you're going to be hungry for the truth. 321 00:32:25,586 --> 00:32:30,586 So now the town is just sitting around with all these rumors of what the heck is going on. 322 00:32:31,585 --> 00:32:36,585 Kecksburg buzzes with stories about the mysterious object in the woods. 323 00:32:36,585 --> 00:32:41,585 And John Murphy, the reporter at the scene, decides to investigate. 324 00:32:41,585 --> 00:32:46,584 Some people heard that it was a mis-fired army missile, others thought it was a satellite that came crashing down. 325 00:32:46,584 --> 00:32:52,584 And because it was the height of the Cold War, some even thought that it could be a Soviet spy plane that was shot down. 326 00:32:53,584 --> 00:32:59,583 But the official story ends here, with authorities denying that any UFO was involved. 327 00:32:59,583 --> 00:33:04,583 The fallen object is reported to the press as a meteorite. 328 00:33:04,583 --> 00:33:08,583 But no meteorites or fragments were recovered from the scene. 329 00:33:12,582 --> 00:33:18,582 The Kecksburg case is important, I think, because it involved the landing or crashing of a physical object. 330 00:33:19,582 --> 00:33:22,581 So it means that there is a physical object. 331 00:33:22,581 --> 00:33:26,581 It was taken away by the military and put somewhere. 332 00:33:26,581 --> 00:33:31,581 And there aren't that many UFO cases that involve something physical like that. 333 00:33:31,581 --> 00:33:37,580 Leaving John Murphy and other witnesses to wonder what became of the evidence. 334 00:33:38,580 --> 00:33:46,579 So the fact that all these people witnessed a physical object come down, some saw it in the woods on the ground, 335 00:33:46,579 --> 00:33:56,579 others saw it on the flatbed truck being taken away, means that there is a huge evidential thing that the U.S. government has somewhere. 336 00:33:58,578 --> 00:34:05,578 So you have this very black and white contradiction between what the official line was and what actually happened. 337 00:34:07,578 --> 00:34:12,577 However, the journalist at the scene, John Murphy, is determined to uncover the truth. 338 00:34:13,577 --> 00:34:22,577 But is it possible that John Murphy's search for answers regarding the Kecksburg UFO could ultimately lead to his untimely death? 339 00:34:23,576 --> 00:34:42,575 Inside Hanger 1, Mufan files reveal the story of a UFO crash in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania in 1965. 340 00:34:43,575 --> 00:34:56,574 The file describes a UFO seized by the military and the subsequent suppression of all evidence, until a local reporter threatens the cover-up. 341 00:35:01,573 --> 00:35:07,573 1965, John Murphy begins gathering evidence on the Kecksburg crash. 342 00:35:07,573 --> 00:35:15,572 John Murphy decided to do a radio documentary. What he needed to do was go around and talk to all the witnesses to get all the pieces of the story together. 343 00:35:15,572 --> 00:35:22,572 The reporter believes that the government's account is very different from actual eyewitness reports. 344 00:35:24,572 --> 00:35:32,571 Right away, Murphy notices something. There are many witnesses, yet their descriptions of the UFO are consistently similar. 345 00:35:32,571 --> 00:35:39,570 And this wasn't a typical flying saucer. This was a very specific kind of craft with unusual details. 346 00:35:42,570 --> 00:35:50,570 John Murphy actually feels like he's on the verge of something here, and he's pouring all his energy and effort into this radio broadcast. 347 00:35:50,570 --> 00:35:53,569 And he's telling all his friends that he's uncovered something huge. 348 00:35:54,569 --> 00:36:02,569 He conducts this thorough investigation and is about to reveal his findings to the world, and this is when things take a dark turn. 349 00:36:03,568 --> 00:36:12,568 The file reports that on the evening before the radio documentary is to air, John Murphy receives some unannounced visitors. 350 00:36:14,568 --> 00:36:21,567 So two men show up at the radio station and they don't identify themselves as military or police or any type of investigator. 351 00:36:21,567 --> 00:36:24,567 John Murphy never disclosed what the man actually told him. 352 00:36:24,567 --> 00:36:29,566 But they clearly convinced him that it was in his best interest to keep quiet about the whole thing. 353 00:36:29,566 --> 00:36:33,566 Then they confiscated his recordings and other evidence he'd obtained. 354 00:36:35,566 --> 00:36:43,565 Murphy was forced to recut his documentary at the 11th hour, and the version that aired was a chilling testament to how badly these visitors had intimidated him. 355 00:36:44,565 --> 00:36:52,565 The documentary that airs is simply an account of a possible meteor strike. 356 00:36:52,565 --> 00:37:00,564 It contains no new evidence, makes no reference to the military, and does not mention a UFO. 357 00:37:02,564 --> 00:37:04,564 This guy is absolutely devastated. 358 00:37:04,564 --> 00:37:11,563 After pouring his heart and soul into a potentially world-changing investigation, he gets snatched away at the last minute. 359 00:37:14,563 --> 00:37:21,562 He loses his job and spends the next three years completely beaten down and dejected, until he decides to do something about it. 360 00:37:22,562 --> 00:37:30,561 In 1967, Murphy reportedly confides to a friend that he wants to reopen his original investigation. 361 00:37:30,561 --> 00:37:38,561 John Murphy eventually convinced himself that this story had to be told and apparently he no longer believed he was in any danger, but he was wrong. 362 00:37:39,561 --> 00:37:51,560 Two days after reportedly reopening his investigation into the Kecksburg crash, John Murphy crosses the street and is killed by a hit-and-run driver. 363 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,559 The driver is never found. 364 00:37:57,559 --> 00:38:10,558 It's impossible to categorically state that he was killed because of what he knew about Kecksburg and to prevent him from disclosing his information, but it certainly caused for alarm. 365 00:38:12,558 --> 00:38:18,558 John Murphy is far from being the only UFO whistleblower to die under mysterious circumstances. 366 00:38:19,558 --> 00:38:26,557 Some wonder if there is a pattern of UFO investigators who have seemingly met untimely deaths. 367 00:38:31,557 --> 00:38:44,556 There's been a long list of UFO investigators that have died under mysterious circumstances, fast-acting cancers, car accidents, suicides, all way before their normal lifespan should have ended. 368 00:38:44,556 --> 00:38:51,555 James E. McDonald, he testified before Congress twice. He ends up dying of a suicide. 369 00:38:51,555 --> 00:38:58,554 John Mack, he gets hit by a car. John Murphy of the Kecksburg case, he gets hit by a car. 370 00:38:58,554 --> 00:39:03,554 It goes on and on. UFO investigators all meeting an early death. 371 00:39:04,554 --> 00:39:19,553 Between the desire to keep a lid on UFO sighting reports and the treatment of the witnesses and the data they share, there's a strong program in place to suppress credible UFO information. 372 00:39:22,553 --> 00:39:27,552 How far this desire to suppress those is impossible to know. 373 00:39:28,552 --> 00:39:35,551 Mufan files chronicle a long history of UFO crashes and cover-ups, but it seems the public still knows very little about many of these events. 374 00:39:35,551 --> 00:39:43,551 As witnesses continue to be silenced, and evidence is locked away, but somewhere within the files of Hangar One is the truth.