1 00:00:00,830 --> 00:00:07,829 If you're a civilian and you spot a UFO in your area, you don't call the military. 2 00:00:07,829 --> 00:00:11,829 You call the police department and you call your local sheriff. 3 00:00:11,829 --> 00:00:15,829 As a police officer, when you're involved in a UFO case, things can get tricky. 4 00:00:15,829 --> 00:00:17,829 They can get very political. 5 00:00:17,829 --> 00:00:20,829 And that's just the nature of the beast in this country. 6 00:00:30,828 --> 00:00:32,828 The Police Radio 7 00:00:43,827 --> 00:00:48,827 Ravenna, Ohio, April 17, 1966 8 00:00:48,827 --> 00:00:56,826 It's just before dawn on a midnight shift that Deputy Sheriff Dale Spauer and Deputy Wilber Neff will never forget. 9 00:00:57,826 --> 00:01:03,825 All morning, their Police Radio had been filled with all sorts of chatter from witnesses near Akron, Ohio, 10 00:01:03,825 --> 00:01:08,825 claiming to have seen a large bright disc flying through the sky. 11 00:01:12,825 --> 00:01:16,825 With just a few hours left of their day, they noticed something unusual. 12 00:01:16,825 --> 00:01:19,824 An abandoned car on Route 224. 13 00:01:27,824 --> 00:01:32,823 Just as Neff is about to reach the car, Spauer senses something. 14 00:01:35,823 --> 00:01:40,823 In Spauer's written report, he states he feels the need to look behind him. 15 00:01:57,822 --> 00:02:00,821 Spauer tells Neff to look over his shoulder. 16 00:02:07,821 --> 00:02:14,820 They're suddenly engulfed in light and the only thing they can hear is a hum, like a transformer being overloaded. 17 00:02:15,820 --> 00:02:19,820 Both police officers are frozen underneath this light. 18 00:02:19,820 --> 00:02:24,820 Spauer remembers moving his right foot slightly to make sure he can still move, 19 00:02:24,820 --> 00:02:30,819 and when they realize they aren't actually paralyzed, they run as fast as they can for the patrol car. 20 00:02:31,819 --> 00:02:38,819 Can you imagine? Two veteran officers used to dealing with local domestic issues now find themselves facing a UFO. 21 00:02:44,818 --> 00:02:48,818 Immediately, Spauer gets on the radio and reports what they just saw. 22 00:02:49,818 --> 00:02:54,817 Dispatch tells them not to move and to wait in the car. They're sending immediate backup. 23 00:02:55,817 --> 00:02:59,817 Spauer and Neff nervously wait as the light engulfs their car. 24 00:03:01,817 --> 00:03:06,817 The officers are starting to panic and they're thinking, should we shoot at it or should we get out of here? 25 00:03:06,817 --> 00:03:13,816 They're absolutely terrified, but they have their orders to wait for backup if they survive that long. 26 00:03:14,816 --> 00:03:22,815 And this is just the beginning of one of Hangar One's extraordinary stories of close encounters with the police and UFOs. 27 00:03:23,815 --> 00:03:27,815 Some of the best documented cases in Mufan's archives. 28 00:03:29,815 --> 00:03:37,814 The Mutual UFO Network, known as Mufan, is an independent organization not bound to any government. 29 00:03:37,814 --> 00:03:42,814 They investigate reports of UFO sightings from around the world. 30 00:03:42,814 --> 00:03:51,813 Over the past five decades, they have collected more than 70,000 files stored at a secure location known as Hangar One. 31 00:03:52,813 --> 00:03:57,813 Now, Mufan is granting access to their fast archive. 32 00:03:58,813 --> 00:04:01,813 These are the files of Hangar One. 33 00:04:01,813 --> 00:04:18,811 Officer Spauer and Neff are engulfed in the light of this UFO, paralyzed with fear, wondering, is this it? Is this how we're going to die? 34 00:04:19,811 --> 00:04:26,811 But then, inexplicably, the UFO just takes off. 35 00:04:27,811 --> 00:04:37,810 They're stunned and relieved, and once they regain their composure, they do the unthinkable. They actually chase this thing. 36 00:04:43,810 --> 00:04:53,809 These two officers are actually pursuing this UFO, going about 100 miles an hour, towards the Pennsylvania border along U.S. Route 224. 37 00:04:54,809 --> 00:05:02,808 As the sun rises, the UFO continues traveling east, approaching the Pennsylvania state line. 38 00:05:05,808 --> 00:05:13,808 Patrolman Frank Pansanella of Conway, Pennsylvania is sitting in his squad car drinking coffee when he sees a large object fly over him. 39 00:05:16,807 --> 00:05:19,807 His first instinct is also to pursue the UFO. 40 00:05:20,807 --> 00:05:24,807 Pansanella radios dispatch to see if they have anything on their radar. 41 00:05:26,807 --> 00:05:29,806 They picked up an unidentified object on their screen. 42 00:05:30,806 --> 00:05:34,806 The officers aren't the only ones interested in this craft. 43 00:05:36,806 --> 00:05:43,805 Four fighter jets appear in the sky. The police receive confirmation on the radios that the jets are pursuing the UFO. 44 00:05:44,805 --> 00:05:53,805 The police officers must be thinking, wow, this is really happening. The Air Force is going to take down a UFO right in front of us. 45 00:05:54,805 --> 00:06:01,804 But the UFO then shoots upward into the sky at an incredible speed until it disappears, gone before the jets can make a move. 46 00:06:01,804 --> 00:06:14,803 Within hours, this case was picked up by the press, and from there the Air Force gave it a lot of attention. 47 00:06:15,803 --> 00:06:23,802 All the police officers involved are then contacted by the military's UFO investigative unit, Project Blue Book. 48 00:06:24,802 --> 00:06:30,802 This is where the Air Force cover-up begins. Blue Book Chief Major Hector Quintanilla arrives on the scene. 49 00:06:31,802 --> 00:06:36,802 Hector Quintanilla headed Project Blue Book from 1963 until its closure in 1970. 50 00:06:37,801 --> 00:06:43,801 In addition to his degree in physics, he was recruited to the position because they needed a man who was, quote, cool under pressure. 51 00:06:44,801 --> 00:06:50,801 He gets the Dale Sparr and the first thing he says to him is, tell me about this mirage that you saw. 52 00:06:50,801 --> 00:06:59,800 Can you imagine? You're a police officer and you've just seen the most incredible thing, and the first thing the Air Force does is accuse you of seeing a mirage. 53 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:09,799 Could the officers have witnessed a top-secret military plane, forcing the Air Force to try and deflect attention from the truth? 54 00:07:09,799 --> 00:07:21,798 Sparr describes exactly what he saw in great detail, but Quintanilla doesn't ask any more questions, and he doesn't attempt to interview the other three officers who also saw the UFO. 55 00:07:23,798 --> 00:07:29,798 Major Quintanilla holds a press conference to release the Air Force's official findings on the incident. 56 00:07:30,798 --> 00:07:40,797 Quintanilla's explanation was simple. The officers had been chasing an echo communication satellite, and then after the sun came up, that changed to them chasing the planet Venus. 57 00:07:42,797 --> 00:07:47,796 Quintanilla also denied that any jet fighters had been in the area attempting to engage or intercept the UFO. 58 00:07:48,796 --> 00:07:59,796 Unsatisfied with the official explanation, a number of investigators, including famed ufologist William Weitzel, are determined to find out what really happened. 59 00:08:00,795 --> 00:08:10,795 William Weitzel got on the scene and found three other police officers and four other civilian witnesses who had seen a UFO between 5 and 5.30 that morning. 60 00:08:18,794 --> 00:08:23,794 After Weitzel's findings, Quintanilla is forced to reopen the case. 61 00:08:24,794 --> 00:08:29,793 Realizing simple deflection was not effective, stronger tactics are employed. 62 00:08:30,793 --> 00:08:36,793 Quintanilla and Sparr sit down for another meeting, this time attended by William Weitzel and local reporters. 63 00:08:37,793 --> 00:08:42,792 But afterwards, Quintanilla stands by his original conclusion that the police officers were chasing Venus. 64 00:08:43,792 --> 00:08:46,792 He says there was never a UFO. Case closed. 65 00:08:47,792 --> 00:08:51,792 Project Blue Book Head Quintanilla successfully closes the case. 66 00:08:52,792 --> 00:08:59,791 The police officers who witnessed the UFO find themselves discredited, left trying to understand what they did wrong. 67 00:09:00,791 --> 00:09:04,791 After this whole event was over, the officers involved really took it hard. 68 00:09:05,791 --> 00:09:12,790 Officer Houston quit the force and moved off to Seattle just to get away. Officer Neff became a recluse. 69 00:09:12,790 --> 00:09:17,790 I think Dale Sparr had it the worst. He lost his job and his marriage. 70 00:09:18,790 --> 00:09:24,789 And for years was hounded by the press. Everyone trying to debunk his case and make him look like he didn't know what he was doing. 71 00:09:25,789 --> 00:09:29,789 And this just made him crazy because he knew that what he saw was real. He knew it was legitimate. 72 00:09:30,789 --> 00:09:36,789 During this Cold War era, UFOs were treated primarily as a threat. 73 00:09:36,789 --> 00:09:45,788 These military people come in and intimidate the officers and discredit them for something that obviously the government knows is going on. 74 00:09:47,788 --> 00:09:56,787 Was Quintanilla simply employing the same techniques that began with Project Blue Book regarding deflection and discrediting witnesses? 75 00:09:57,787 --> 00:10:00,787 And when did these techniques come into play? 76 00:10:02,787 --> 00:10:03,787 Up next... 77 00:10:03,787 --> 00:10:08,786 The morris starts to back away. A huge flame bursts out of the craft. 78 00:10:10,786 --> 00:10:19,786 Military and media descend on a small town after one police officer's incredible close encounter when we return. 79 00:10:25,785 --> 00:10:30,785 If I had been working back in the 50s and 60s, I don't think I would have wanted to make a UFO report. 80 00:10:30,785 --> 00:10:36,784 Something like that could destroy your credibility. You just turn your head and look the other way. 81 00:10:37,784 --> 00:10:40,784 But you know, that's stressful and you have to carry that with you. 82 00:10:40,784 --> 00:11:01,782 Police officers are trained to be meticulous about details. But when it comes to UFO sightings, their reports are often challenged or the incident is dismissed as a hoax. 83 00:11:02,782 --> 00:11:17,781 Hanger 1 files suggest that this treatment lines up directly with how Project Blue Book and the military dealt with civilian UFO witnesses and that these protocols were applied to police officers as well. 84 00:11:18,781 --> 00:11:24,781 April 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico. 85 00:11:25,781 --> 00:11:31,780 Officer Lonnie Zamora is driving in his car outside of Socorro, New Mexico. He's chasing a speeder. 86 00:11:33,780 --> 00:11:39,780 All of a sudden Zamora hears this roaring sound and he sees what he thinks is a fire. 87 00:11:39,780 --> 00:11:46,779 Zamora breaks off from the chase to investigate. He thinks that a local dynamite shack may have exploded. 88 00:11:49,779 --> 00:11:53,779 He's moving closer to where this event was taking place. 89 00:11:54,779 --> 00:11:56,779 It's then that he notices a fire. 90 00:11:56,779 --> 00:12:03,778 Zamora gets on the radio and tells the dispatcher he's leaving his car to check out a situation in the Arroyo. 91 00:12:04,778 --> 00:12:07,778 He's driving closer to where this event was taking place. 92 00:12:08,778 --> 00:12:13,777 It's then that he notices a shining object, which at first he thought was an overturned car. 93 00:12:17,777 --> 00:12:23,777 Zamora gets on the radio and tells the dispatcher he's leaving his car to check out a situation in the Arroyo. 94 00:12:27,776 --> 00:12:30,776 Zamora's car starts to roar. 95 00:12:32,776 --> 00:12:35,776 Suddenly, a loud roar emanates from the craft. 96 00:12:43,775 --> 00:12:46,775 A huge flame bursts out of the craft. 97 00:12:49,775 --> 00:12:52,775 The craft begins lifting up and then immediately takes off. 98 00:12:53,774 --> 00:13:02,774 Zamora radios a fellow officer, Sergeant Chavez, asking him if he sees a craft in the sky. Radio silence. 99 00:13:06,773 --> 00:13:13,773 When Chavez finally got there, the two of them found four indentations in the ground where the object had sat. 100 00:13:13,773 --> 00:13:19,773 Some burnt vegetation and they took very detailed notes and pictures of the whole area 101 00:13:19,773 --> 00:13:22,772 and they put together a complete report. 102 00:13:24,772 --> 00:13:33,772 Two days after the incident, Major Quintanilla, the head of the Air Force's Project Blue Book, shows up to investigate the report. 103 00:13:33,772 --> 00:13:37,771 But he isn't the only one who descends on the town. 104 00:13:37,771 --> 00:13:52,770 The sleepy little town of Socorro, New Mexico was overrun. Overrun by major journalists. UPI, AP were there. 105 00:13:54,770 --> 00:14:01,770 Government agents, FBI, military intelligence were there and private UFO investigators were also there. Everyone wanted to look for answers. 106 00:14:02,769 --> 00:14:07,769 The evidence gathered by the police appears to be compelling. 107 00:14:07,769 --> 00:14:23,768 The subsequent research and analysis of the ground samples and photos revealed that some of the sand in the ground appeared to have been fused together as if it had come in contact with some very high intense form of heat. 108 00:14:24,768 --> 00:14:36,767 Then, on June 8, 1964, Quintanilla issues his formal Project Blue Book report. 109 00:14:36,767 --> 00:14:47,766 Not surprisingly, this report turned all the evidence right on its head. It stated no substantial evidence had been found to support any kind of event. 110 00:14:47,766 --> 00:14:50,766 None of the witnesses were reliable and so on. 111 00:14:50,766 --> 00:14:55,766 Now, in the classified version of that report, it was a little bit of a different story. 112 00:14:55,766 --> 00:14:59,765 I have Hector Quintanilla's words right here and I quote, 113 00:14:59,765 --> 00:15:07,765 There is no doubt that Lonnie Zamora saw an object that left an impression on him and scared Zamora to the point of panic. 114 00:15:07,765 --> 00:15:15,764 Zamora became so hounded by the Air Force and ufologists that he quit law enforcement and he took a job managing a gas station. 115 00:15:17,764 --> 00:15:27,763 If I were in the shoes of these officers that saw these things and were then shut up and intimidated, I would absolutely lose faith in myself. 116 00:15:27,763 --> 00:15:33,763 This has to be a profound effect on their whole sense of who they are. 117 00:15:33,763 --> 00:15:44,762 The fact that the government would step in after these careers of service and treat them like crazy people when we know the government knows a heck of a lot more than what they're telling us. 118 00:15:45,762 --> 00:15:50,762 Based on Quintanilla's report, the case was closed. 119 00:15:50,762 --> 00:16:02,761 But shortly thereafter, a UFO researcher named James McDonald locates a local scientist who claims to have analyzed a soil sample from the Socorro landing site. 120 00:16:03,761 --> 00:16:14,760 Mary G. Mays was a doctoral student in radiation biology at the University of New Mexico and she was asked to analyze some of the soil samples from the Socorro case. 121 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:22,759 So she didn't find any radiation in the soil but she did find two organic substances that she was not able to identify. 122 00:16:22,759 --> 00:16:30,759 This is an important detail. It proved that whatever landed there had organic material that is not found on earth. 123 00:16:33,759 --> 00:16:47,758 The analysis on the soil samples really opens up the possibility, maybe the likelihood that we're talking about two different kinds of investigations or two versions of the investigation. 124 00:16:47,758 --> 00:16:50,757 The public one and the not so public one. 125 00:16:50,757 --> 00:16:59,757 What it looks like to me is that Quintanilla and Blue Book were sent in basically to mess up the investigation and make Zamoro look like a fool. 126 00:17:00,757 --> 00:17:08,756 Civilian police officers are not the only ones who meet resistance when it comes to reporting UFO incidents. 127 00:17:08,756 --> 00:17:19,755 Up next, military police officers find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time and the outcome becomes deadly. 128 00:17:20,755 --> 00:17:32,754 Many agencies are not open to these types of investigations because the upper echelon don't want the media. They don't want to deal with it. 129 00:17:32,754 --> 00:17:42,754 That's the biggest problem with law enforcement. Dealing with the upper hands. When it gets from local government up to the military, well then that's a little bit different. 130 00:17:49,753 --> 00:18:00,752 Hanger One files contain remarkable encounters of police officers and UFO sightings. 131 00:18:00,752 --> 00:18:09,752 Some of these incredible events occur with officers who provide security for military bases. 132 00:18:10,752 --> 00:18:19,751 In 1978 I was working at McGuire Air Force Base at 21st Air Force as the Deputy Director of Intelligence. 133 00:18:19,751 --> 00:18:33,750 On January 18, 1978 I drove onto the base and noticed that off to my right was a number of crash trucks and lights out on the runway. 134 00:18:33,750 --> 00:18:41,749 And the Sergeant in charge of the command post came up to me and said that an alien has been found at the end of the runway. 135 00:18:41,749 --> 00:18:44,749 That he was shot by a military policeman. 136 00:18:51,749 --> 00:18:57,748 January 18, 1978 between Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base. 137 00:18:57,748 --> 00:19:04,748 Radar from Fort Dix picks up an unidentified object between Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base. 138 00:19:04,748 --> 00:19:12,747 The military police officer on duty is patrolling the outside of the base when he sees a large object hovering over the road. 139 00:19:16,747 --> 00:19:19,747 He stops his car and radios in what he sees. 140 00:19:19,747 --> 00:19:26,746 He's looking up through his windshield through the falling snow and explaining to the dispatcher what the craft looks like. 141 00:19:27,746 --> 00:19:33,746 Right in the middle of a sentence the radio goes dead. 142 00:19:38,745 --> 00:19:42,745 The officer looks up and that's when he sees the unimaginable. 143 00:19:45,745 --> 00:19:52,744 A small figure in the shadows that he later describes as having an unusually large head, long arms and a slender body. 144 00:19:52,744 --> 00:19:56,744 And this creature is standing right in front of his police car. 145 00:19:56,744 --> 00:19:58,744 The officer panics. 146 00:20:05,743 --> 00:20:09,743 Here's a man who is told to protect the base. 147 00:20:09,743 --> 00:20:15,743 He's an armed guard and he's seeing a monster run around. 148 00:20:15,743 --> 00:20:18,742 He does what probably a lot of guys would do. 149 00:20:18,742 --> 00:20:20,742 He shoots at the thing. 150 00:20:22,742 --> 00:20:25,742 He runs back to his car and his radio is now working again. 151 00:20:25,742 --> 00:20:31,742 He tells the dispatcher that he just shot a strange creature and it's now headed for McGuire Air Force Base. 152 00:20:33,741 --> 00:20:39,741 The police officer drives to the gates of McGuire Air Force Base where he is told to wait. 153 00:20:39,741 --> 00:20:46,740 Sergeant Jeffrey Morse from McGuire Air Force Base is called to the front gate to meet with the officer from Fort Dix to discuss the incident. 154 00:20:46,740 --> 00:20:48,740 The officer is really shaken up. 155 00:20:48,740 --> 00:20:55,740 He tells Morse that he shot at a strange entity but it escaped and climbed over the fence into McGuire Air Force Base. 156 00:20:57,740 --> 00:21:00,739 Sergeant Morse says that he'll handle it from here. 157 00:21:03,739 --> 00:21:09,739 Sergeant Morse has to be thinking this other police officer is crazy but he was about to get a big surprise. 158 00:21:09,739 --> 00:21:21,738 Morse and several other MPs head to the area where the entity reportedly climbed over the fence. 159 00:21:21,738 --> 00:21:27,737 At the end of the runway they see a dead creature with a large head and slender body. 160 00:21:29,737 --> 00:21:32,737 Sergeant Morse can't believe his eyes. 161 00:21:32,737 --> 00:21:38,737 He reports that the smell is so bad they have to stand back several feet just to be able to breathe. 162 00:21:39,737 --> 00:21:45,736 He calls in a report and within an hour the Air Force OSI takes control of the situation. 163 00:21:45,736 --> 00:21:53,736 AFOSI is the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations and they report directly to the Office of Security to the Air Force. 164 00:21:53,736 --> 00:21:59,735 Technically this means that they provide independent investigations outside the traditional military chain of command. 165 00:22:00,735 --> 00:22:10,734 Sergeant Morse reports that he is surprised to see a military team responding to the incident in a way that suggests this wasn't the first encounter like this they had dealt with. 166 00:22:10,734 --> 00:22:15,734 Sergeant Morse is not only brought in for questioning but threatened. 167 00:22:15,734 --> 00:22:22,734 Morse went through several days of intimidating interrogations where he was told they keep his mouth shut or else. 168 00:22:23,733 --> 00:22:31,733 As incredible as this story sounds it is corroborated by George Filer who was brought in to investigate the incident. 169 00:22:31,733 --> 00:22:42,732 When I was investigating the case I did interview Sergeant Jeff Morse who claims to have been out at the place where they found the ET. 170 00:22:44,732 --> 00:22:51,731 Within a couple days after he was out there he was transferred to Okinawa. 171 00:22:52,731 --> 00:22:58,731 They more or less arrested him and held him for a while and essentially gave him a hard time. 172 00:23:00,731 --> 00:23:11,730 When it comes to military officers who witness UFOs did the protocol escalate from discrediting witnesses to completely removing them? 173 00:23:11,730 --> 00:23:22,729 Now what happened to Jeff Morse in the aftermath of all this is kind of symptomatic of how military personnel were held to different standards of accountability than say civilian police officers had been. 174 00:23:22,729 --> 00:23:31,729 It's one thing for a small town cop to be ridiculed but when you're a military person and you start talking privately to investigators about this they're going to come after you. 175 00:23:41,728 --> 00:23:48,727 It's almost as if the military learned from previous reports that if you remove the witness the media and investigators don't have any leads. 176 00:23:50,727 --> 00:23:59,727 If this was the military's new protocol how far will they go to ensure the silence of highly credible witnesses? 177 00:24:00,726 --> 00:24:12,726 1980 Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico 178 00:24:12,726 --> 00:24:22,725 Ten minutes before midnight on August 8th, 1980 three security policemen are on duty at the Manzana Weapon Storage Area just east of Kirtland Air Force Base. 179 00:24:23,725 --> 00:24:33,724 The Manzana Weapon Storage Area consisted of a series of tunnels that have been excavated into three mountains and in these tunnels is where nuclear weapons were stored. 180 00:24:36,724 --> 00:24:44,723 On this night three guards at the base saw very bright light about three miles northeast of their position. 181 00:24:45,723 --> 00:24:51,723 The men noticed this light traveling very fast before it suddenly stops over Coyote Canyon. 182 00:24:54,723 --> 00:25:04,722 Coyote Canyon was a restricted area and so all three officers became very nervous when they saw this lighted object begin to descend into the canyon. 183 00:25:05,722 --> 00:25:11,721 About three miles east of that position there was another military police officer. 184 00:25:11,721 --> 00:25:16,721 He was on patrol and he was told to check out the weapons barracks area. 185 00:25:19,721 --> 00:25:28,720 This officer drove down an access road to Coyote Canyon and when he got there he saw a very bright light in the air and above it was a disc shaped object. 186 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:35,720 He starts to panic. He tries to radio for help but his radio doesn't work. 187 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:40,719 The officer grabbed his rifle, got out of his jeep and decided to pursue it. 188 00:25:47,719 --> 00:25:52,718 He heard the sound of metal and before he knew it the ship just took off. 189 00:25:53,718 --> 00:26:00,718 The lone patrolman who fired at the object reports the incident to Sandia Base Security Headquarters. 190 00:26:01,718 --> 00:26:13,717 The officer on duty reported the incident on August 9th but Sandia Base didn't report it until August 11th and they were supposed to report it to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. 191 00:26:13,717 --> 00:26:20,716 Protocol dictated that anything like that had to be reported immediately but it wasn't. 192 00:26:23,716 --> 00:26:34,715 But here's where things get more interesting. For some reason the AFOSI office at Kirtland informed Sandia that the Air Force no longer investigates such sightings unless they specifically occur on a base. 193 00:26:35,715 --> 00:26:47,714 But this doesn't make any sense because the incident did happen around a U.S. Air Force facility and furthermore near nuclear weapons and yet AFOSI is not interested. 194 00:26:48,714 --> 00:26:54,714 The AFOSI's main directive is to provide investigative services to protect the national security of the U.S. 195 00:26:54,714 --> 00:27:01,713 So to claim that a UFO that lands near a nuclear weapons storage unit is out of their jurisdiction is ludicrous. 196 00:27:02,713 --> 00:27:09,713 On the night of August 11th the UFO returns to the exact same location. 197 00:27:09,713 --> 00:27:13,713 At that point the Air Force just couldn't deny it. 198 00:27:14,713 --> 00:27:21,712 On August 22nd Major Edwards from Kirtland Air Force Base interviews every officer who was involved in these multiple sightings. 199 00:27:21,712 --> 00:27:29,711 Major Edwards informs an intelligence officer named Richard Doty of the persistent accounts of UFO sightings near their nuclear weapons storage site. 200 00:27:29,711 --> 00:27:33,711 Richard Doty is a controversial character in the whole history of UFOs. 201 00:27:33,711 --> 00:27:36,711 Doty was expert at leading people on a wild goose chase. 202 00:27:37,711 --> 00:27:44,710 It appears that once Officer Doty became involved the case was doomed and eventually buried. 203 00:27:44,710 --> 00:27:55,710 This is an important case because you have multiple witnesses of a multiple sighting that took place over several days all claiming to see the same object near Coyote Canyon. 204 00:27:55,710 --> 00:27:58,709 So it appears there was a cover-up. 205 00:27:59,709 --> 00:28:12,708 Once again we see forces from above come in and take these credible men, these servants to our country and make them feel like they've done something wrong when they were just doing their duty. 206 00:28:14,708 --> 00:28:17,708 If it was a cover-up who were they hiding the information from? 207 00:28:17,708 --> 00:28:21,708 The public was not involved in this it was strictly military. 208 00:28:21,708 --> 00:28:24,708 Was the military hiding information from the military? 209 00:28:25,707 --> 00:28:30,707 Up next, these incidents aren't just confined to the ground. 210 00:28:30,707 --> 00:28:36,707 Two respected police helicopter pilots go head to head with a UFO. 211 00:28:36,707 --> 00:28:41,706 The unbelievable dogfight when Hangar One returns. 212 00:28:46,706 --> 00:28:50,706 When you're involved in a UFO case your credibility is in question. 213 00:28:50,706 --> 00:28:54,705 The first thing they're going to do is perform a psych test on you. 214 00:28:54,705 --> 00:28:56,705 Then they're going to do a drug test on you. 215 00:28:56,705 --> 00:29:01,705 They want to intimidate you and a lot of police officers don't want to go through that. 216 00:29:01,705 --> 00:29:19,704 Because of their jobs, police officers can find themselves on the front lines when it comes to UFO encounters. 217 00:29:19,704 --> 00:29:25,703 Yet protocols for burying these stories seem to have escalated. 218 00:29:25,703 --> 00:29:32,703 Tactics range from ridicule and discrediting witnesses to removing them entirely from the scene. 219 00:29:32,703 --> 00:29:38,702 Recent reports indicate that in order to not completely undermine law enforcement authority, 220 00:29:38,702 --> 00:29:43,702 new methods of dealing with these incidents are to simply ignore them. 221 00:29:50,701 --> 00:29:54,701 Louisville, Kentucky, 1993 222 00:29:55,701 --> 00:30:00,701 At 11.50 p.m. officers Graham and Downs are in the middle of a routine patrol flight 223 00:30:00,701 --> 00:30:07,700 when they receive a call about a possible break in near Sanford Avenue and Buchel Bank Road. 224 00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:15,700 The officers fly over the area when suddenly Graham notices a small light below them. 225 00:30:17,699 --> 00:30:21,699 Downs points the helicopter's spotlight on the object to get a better look. 226 00:30:22,699 --> 00:30:28,699 Downs and Graham see a glowing, pear-shaped object about the size of a basketball. 227 00:30:28,699 --> 00:30:33,698 Suddenly, the object shoots up right in front of the helicopter 228 00:30:33,698 --> 00:30:39,698 and then spins counterclockwise around him until it stops right behind the two pilots. 229 00:30:42,698 --> 00:30:45,697 Graham has never seen anything like it. 230 00:30:45,697 --> 00:30:48,697 Now he's afraid the object's going to ram the tail rotor, 231 00:30:48,697 --> 00:30:52,697 so he pushes the helicopter forward at 100 miles an hour. 232 00:30:55,697 --> 00:31:01,696 Incredibly, the UFO chases them and at one point even shoots past them. 233 00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:08,696 All of a sudden, the UFO appears to shoot three fireballs at the helicopter. 234 00:31:12,695 --> 00:31:15,695 Graham is able to bang his helicopter away from the blast. 235 00:31:18,695 --> 00:31:21,695 The pilots are panicking, but then the UFO just zips away. 236 00:31:31,694 --> 00:31:37,694 The officers wake up their boss, Lieutenant David Pope, to give him their full report. 237 00:31:37,694 --> 00:31:41,693 Pope can't believe what he's hearing. He knows that his officers are credible. 238 00:31:41,693 --> 00:31:45,693 He stated in a report that Graham was a veteran pilot 239 00:31:45,693 --> 00:31:50,693 and that both he endowens with military veterans with many years of service. 240 00:31:50,693 --> 00:31:55,692 So look at the facts here. These are police officers who work in the air. 241 00:31:55,692 --> 00:31:57,692 They work in the sky every single day. 242 00:31:57,692 --> 00:32:01,692 Well, of course they know the difference between a star, a planet, 243 00:32:01,692 --> 00:32:05,692 and some bell-shaped thing flying around their helicopter. 244 00:32:06,692 --> 00:32:11,691 Lieutenant Pope submits his report to superiors, but it goes unnoticed. 245 00:32:15,691 --> 00:32:19,691 Downs and Graham can't believe the report isn't being taken seriously. 246 00:32:19,691 --> 00:32:23,690 And then if that isn't enough, fellow colleagues warn them to just let it go 247 00:32:23,690 --> 00:32:26,690 because it was starting to make the department look bad. 248 00:32:28,690 --> 00:32:32,690 It makes you wonder if these police officers were hung out to dry with nowhere for them to go 249 00:32:32,690 --> 00:32:35,689 and no one to provide any answers. 250 00:32:36,689 --> 00:32:42,689 Is the military now intentionally ignoring UFO reports by police officers 251 00:32:42,689 --> 00:32:45,689 in order to protect law enforcement authority 252 00:32:45,689 --> 00:32:50,688 or to protect themselves by avoiding a paper trail? 253 00:32:50,688 --> 00:32:54,688 It's almost a relief when I hear that there's some official involved, 254 00:32:54,688 --> 00:33:00,688 someone who is trained to observe, because the credibility of these things is so often challenged. 255 00:33:03,687 --> 00:33:09,687 One thing that I want to see in my lifetime is some answer for these experiences that I've had. 256 00:33:09,687 --> 00:33:13,687 I want to see some kind of government recognition. 257 00:33:13,687 --> 00:33:17,686 If they would just come out and say, yes, it is real, this is actually happening. 258 00:33:26,686 --> 00:33:29,686 With the majority of UFO sightings at night, 259 00:33:29,686 --> 00:33:32,685 it makes sense that the officers working these late shifts 260 00:33:32,685 --> 00:33:36,685 would be the most likely witnesses of such phenomena. 261 00:33:45,684 --> 00:33:50,684 January 5, 2000, near Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. 262 00:33:53,684 --> 00:33:58,684 Melvin Null, a local Highland Illinois truck driver, pulls into his company office at 4 a.m. 263 00:33:59,683 --> 00:34:04,683 He looks up and notices this really bright light in the sky that's moving towards him. 264 00:34:04,683 --> 00:34:09,683 And he realizes that the light is actually coming from a huge triangle-looking craft. 265 00:34:10,683 --> 00:34:18,682 A recording from the county radio dispatcher documents the driver's report to the Highland Police Department. 266 00:34:18,682 --> 00:34:21,682 We received a call from the Highland PD in reference to a truck driver 267 00:34:21,682 --> 00:34:24,682 who was in the car and was in the car. 268 00:34:24,682 --> 00:34:26,681 The Highland Police Department. 269 00:34:26,681 --> 00:34:29,681 We received a call from the Highland PD in reference to a truck driver who just stopped in 270 00:34:29,681 --> 00:34:32,681 and said there was a flying object. 271 00:34:34,681 --> 00:34:37,681 Officer Ed Barton responds to the call at 4 10 a.m. 272 00:34:37,681 --> 00:34:40,680 He asks the county dispatcher if she's joking. 273 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,680 The dispatcher says, no, the man who stopped in was totally serious. 274 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:49,680 Just a quick question. If I happen to find it, what am I supposed to do with it? 275 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,680 As soon as Officer Barton turns into Route 4, 276 00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:58,679 there's a bright light coming from a large triangle. 277 00:35:03,679 --> 00:35:06,679 He pulls over to the side of the road, kills the car lights, 278 00:35:06,679 --> 00:35:09,678 and turns off his radio to see if this thing is making any noise. 279 00:35:13,678 --> 00:35:17,678 The object makes no sound, but he can see every detail on this craft 280 00:35:17,678 --> 00:35:20,678 because it's moving right above him at a steady speed. 281 00:35:20,678 --> 00:35:24,677 As soon as it passes, he radios the sighting into central command. 282 00:35:24,677 --> 00:35:30,677 He predicts that the object should be hitting the town of Shiloh, Illinois at any moment. 283 00:35:30,677 --> 00:35:35,677 In Shiloh, Officer David Martin soon radios in that he sees the craft as well. 284 00:35:44,676 --> 00:35:48,676 Several minutes later at 4 29 a.m., Officer Craig Stevens, 285 00:35:48,676 --> 00:35:53,675 who's in the nearby town of Milstatt, radios in that he also sees a triangular UFO 286 00:35:53,675 --> 00:35:56,675 passing over his patrol car. 287 00:35:56,675 --> 00:36:03,675 And then at 4 35 a.m., another officer in Dupoe, Illinois reports that he can also see the craft, 288 00:36:03,675 --> 00:36:07,674 but at this point it's climbing altitude fast and he's losing track of the lights. 289 00:36:09,674 --> 00:36:14,674 If you would, contact Scott Air Force Base and see if they have anything flying in this area, please. 290 00:36:15,674 --> 00:36:19,673 The dispatcher calls Scott Air Force Base, who report that they have not detected 291 00:36:19,673 --> 00:36:21,673 any unidentified object on their radar. 292 00:36:21,673 --> 00:36:26,673 But here you have no less than four different officers all witnessing the same craft. 293 00:36:26,673 --> 00:36:29,673 Yet Scott Air Force Base claims they've got nothing. 294 00:36:29,673 --> 00:36:32,672 It just doesn't add up. 295 00:36:34,672 --> 00:36:36,672 This was a huge case. 296 00:36:36,672 --> 00:36:40,672 You have four police witnesses, media interest, 297 00:36:40,672 --> 00:36:45,671 and yet the military claims that they have no knowledge about anything that happened to me in the vicinity. 298 00:36:45,671 --> 00:36:50,671 I find it impossible to believe that Scott Air Force Base is not going to be able to detect 299 00:36:50,671 --> 00:36:54,671 a 75 foot triangular craft in its vicinity. 300 00:36:54,671 --> 00:36:57,671 And yet this is exactly what they claim. 301 00:37:05,670 --> 00:37:07,670 The government knows what's going on. 302 00:37:07,670 --> 00:37:08,670 They don't talk about it. 303 00:37:08,670 --> 00:37:09,670 They won't report it. 304 00:37:09,670 --> 00:37:15,669 Any singular event that has happened with pilots reporting the police department on the ground 305 00:37:15,669 --> 00:37:19,669 reporting this and then the story dies the next day. 306 00:37:19,669 --> 00:37:22,669 You don't know if there's an investigation going on internally. 307 00:37:22,669 --> 00:37:25,669 We know that there is, but the government doesn't talk about it. 308 00:37:25,669 --> 00:37:26,669 Any government. 309 00:37:28,668 --> 00:37:33,668 If you can imagine the courage it takes to come forward with these strange stories, 310 00:37:33,668 --> 00:37:37,668 these men who have been trained, they're out there under the sky every day. 311 00:37:37,668 --> 00:37:39,668 We trust these men. 312 00:37:39,668 --> 00:37:43,667 It's a son of a cop and having grown up around cops my whole life 313 00:37:43,667 --> 00:37:46,667 and knowing the kinds of witnesses that they are. 314 00:37:46,667 --> 00:37:52,667 I find it offensive when you start seeing all the ridicule that so many of them have been facing. 315 00:37:52,667 --> 00:38:00,666 Once a police officer has seen a UFO, they very adamantly will defend what they saw against all odds. 316 00:38:01,666 --> 00:38:06,666 Many of these police cases go unreported because of a fear of ridicule, 317 00:38:06,666 --> 00:38:10,665 but some brave officers do come to us to report their stories. 318 00:38:10,665 --> 00:38:15,665 They recognize that these are important cases that shouldn't be swept under the rug, 319 00:38:15,665 --> 00:38:18,665 and they'd also like some answers to what they've witnessed. 320 00:38:18,665 --> 00:38:24,664 We have now become the place for police officers to come to to report UFO encounters. 321 00:38:24,664 --> 00:38:29,664 When you have this kind of experience seeing a UFO or something is unexplainable 322 00:38:29,664 --> 00:38:33,664 and you try to report it, they'll tell you we don't investigate this kind of phenomenon. 323 00:38:33,664 --> 00:38:36,664 If you want answers, you have to go to someone outside of the system 324 00:38:36,664 --> 00:38:40,663 because chances are it's not going to be investigated through law enforcement channels. 325 00:38:43,663 --> 00:38:49,663 Police encounters with UFOs are some of the most detailed witness reports on record, 326 00:38:49,663 --> 00:38:54,662 and yet they are continually disregarded by higher authorities. 327 00:38:54,662 --> 00:38:58,662 Despite the government distancing themselves from these UFO accounts, 328 00:38:58,662 --> 00:39:08,661 MUFON remains a source that our law enforcement, both civilian and military, can turn to and be taken seriously. 329 00:39:08,661 --> 00:39:15,661 As these officers continue to spend so much time on the front lines of our streets and military bases, 330 00:39:15,661 --> 00:39:22,660 the unusual sightings they document will be revealed in the files of Hangar-1.