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This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture.

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The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanations, but not necessarily

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the only ones to the mysteries we will examine.

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This is the clearest film ever shot of a real unidentified flying object.

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Sixty-eight thousand UFO reports have been filed in this country alone.

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Skeptics, however, pose an important question.

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If flying saucers are so common, why haven't we captured one?

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In a remote New Mexico desert, researchers have discovered a startling answer to that

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question.

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A persistent rumor holds that the United States government has recovered and is concealing

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fragments of alien spacecraft, fragments, and more.

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Charges of a UFO cover-up began almost with the first famous flying saucer sightings in

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late June 1947.

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It's curious.

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These reports seem to center around areas where atom bombs and rockets were tested.

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Were alien forces keeping watch on the new weapons we savages had invented?

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The flying discs became the Pentagon's nightmare.

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Seemingly, our fastest jets could never come close to their incredible speeds and right

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angle turns.

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UFOs were said to be able to shut down guided missiles by remote control.

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The Air Force organized Project Blue Book to officially investigate UFOs.

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Since its termination in 1969, Blue Book has been alternately praised and damned.

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Well, the Air Force position is that we investigated UFOs for 22 years, over 12,000 sightings.

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Colonel Don Bergrabe, U.S. Air Force.

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About 95% of all the UFOs were explainable.

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They were weather phenomenon.

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They were balloons.

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They were airplanes.

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They were lightning.

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And we concluded, as a result of our investigation, which was carried out very scientifically,

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that one, there was no threat to the security of the United States, and there was no evidence

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that we could ever locate that an extraterrestrial vehicle had landed here.

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New York lawyer Peter Gerstin sued the CIA and FBI to release 5,000 UFO-related documents.

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The reading of all the documents reveals that UFOs have the ability to render inoperable

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present-day technology.

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UFOs have the ability to gain access to our most sensitive military installations, unrestrictive

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and unlimited access to nuclear installations.

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There's no doubt about it in my mind that there's a government UFO cover-up.

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Ray Fowler, civilian UFO researcher for 17 years.

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I've talked to military people who have told me about government cover-ups, how they've

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been instructed to say this and to say that.

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And I worked for the United States' AFO security service myself, which worked for the National

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Security Agency.

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And I'm very familiar with intelligence operations and cover stories and things like that.

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So there's no doubt in my mind that there is a cover-up.

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If there was a planned cover-up, then they were very successfully keeping it from me.

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Colonel Robert Friend, former head of Project Blue Book, now an engineer on the space shuttle.

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A lot of these organizations decided that there was a cover-up because the Air Force

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didn't pursue these sightings to what they considered the ultimate conclusion.

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If there has been a UFO cover-up, it began in Roswell, New Mexico.

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Under White Sands and Alamogordo, Roswell was home base for many early tests of atom

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bombs and guided missiles.

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Here, also, the practice of military stonewalling may have been perpetrated.

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The case began when Roswell businessman Dan Wilmot witnessed an amazing object over the

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town.

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His son tells the story.

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This was their home in July of 1947.

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It was one summer evening they were sitting out here.

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Dad looked up in the west and saw an object that came down and had lights blinking.

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And it was rather frightening to him, but he said all of a sudden it seemed to rock

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a little bit and started to counterbalance itself, wiggle a little bit, and then seemed

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to settle down and take off at a rapid rate of speed.

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The next day, reporters heard that the Air Force had found fragments of the mystery object,

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crashed on a remote ranch northwest of Roswell.

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Excitement ran high.

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Until officials announced it was only a weather balloon.

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Major Jesse Marcell, in charge of the operation, now tells a far different story.

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They took pictures, of course.

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They had a whole flock of microphones there.

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They wanted me to...they wanted some comments from me, but I wasn't that good, but they

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do that.

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So all I could do is keep a mouth shut.

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And General Rayme is the one who discussed, told the newspapers, I mean the newsman, what

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it was and to forget about it.

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It was nothing more than a weather observation balloon.

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Of course, we both knew differently.

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Major Marcell had to keep silent because of his strategic position at that time.

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He was in charge of all security and intelligence on atomic tests in the United States and the

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Pacific.

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Marcell retraced his secret recovery operation across the hot New Mexico desert.

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We left Roswell perhaps around 3.30 or 4.00 o'clock in the afternoon.

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You can see it's flat.

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It is very difficult.

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In fact, with a just verbal direction that we know would have found it, we had to follow

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the rancher out there.

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The crash site was so remote, it took an entire day to drive there.

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The following morning we went out to the site where the crash was.

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And what I saw, I couldn't believe there was so much of it.

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It was scattered in such a vast area.

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So we proceeded to pick up as much of the debris as we could loaded in the wagon.

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We filled that up and took us a good part of the day to do that.

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Because there was such small fragments that we had to do a lot of picking.

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We found a piece of metal about a foot and a half to two feet wide and about two or three

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feet long.

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So, look, you had nothing in your hands.

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It wasn't any thicker than the foil out of a pack of cigarettes.

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But the thing about that got me is that you couldn't even bend it.

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You couldn't embed it.

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One of the sledgehammers would bounce off of it.

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So I knew that I had never seen anything like that before.

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And as of now, I don't know what it was.

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There is new evidence that the FBI then got into the case with a different cover story.

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Lawyer Peter Gerstin, searching through declassified government documents, came across a mention

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of the Roswell case.

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One of those documents related to an incident in Roswell, New Mexico, which indicated that

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the object which had crashed was an experimental kite.

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The FBI investigated the incident and determined that it was terrestrial, that it was from

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an organization which had been doing research in experimental kites.

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What did crash in this desert?

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A UFO?

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A weather balloon?

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A radar reflecting kite?

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It was not anything from this earth that I'm quite sure of.

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Because I was being an intelligence officer, I was familiar with just about all materials

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used in aircraft and in our air travel.

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This was nothing like that.

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It could not have been.

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To develop the first atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project was our first totally secret military

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operation.

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Security has continued to this day as an instrument of foreign policy.

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Official fabrications have become a vital link in security.

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We never admitted such a spy plane as our U-2 existed, until the Russians managed to

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shoot one from their skies.

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We managed to capture an advanced enemy aircraft.

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Even fragments can reveal new information.

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Such captured material is routinely rushed to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton,

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to the top secret foreign technology division.

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This place is so classified that former Air Force General, Senator Barry Goldwater, was

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once denied entrance.

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For 30 years, rumors have spread about Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

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According to the stories, the U.S. government is concealing under top security flying saucers

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from another world and alien bodies cryogenically suspended in huge freezers.

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Such rumors could be easily dismissed, except that UFO researchers have gathered information

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leaked from military sources, sources who claim to have seen the craft and the bodies.

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The stories and rumors all mention a mysterious Hangar 18 as the ultimate repository.

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In search of cameras, were the first allowed to photograph inside this hangar.

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Is it possible that here in Hangar 18, highly secret activities once took place?

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What evidence of a cover-up might we hope to find?

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Wright-Patterson is one of the largest and most complex air bases in the world.

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In the foreign technology division alone, hundreds of secret experiments have been undertaken.

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Continuing military security has made Hangar 18 a mysterious citadel.

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Some experts believe that new designs have been created here.

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Every branch of the military has experimented with flying wedges, flying wings, hovercraft,

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with an amazingly consistent lack of results.

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The flying saucer shape was an obsession of aeronautical pioneer Edmund Doak.

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These rare films show static and dynamic tests of his early models.

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Doak spent 30 years and a third of a million dollars investigating the problems of circular airfoils.

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Ironically, just when he seemed on the verge of a breakthrough with his Doak 16 vertical takeoff plane,

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the Air Force canceled development on his projects.

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No reason was ever given.

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NASA tested the H2-F2 lifting body as a prototype for the space shuttle.

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As with all flying wedges, lack of stability was a single unsolvable problem.

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We are unable to confirm a single successful test of a manned flying saucer.

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Yet, the effort continues.

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Why? Does the government have some reason to pursue this quest?

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A reason they're keeping secret?

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From Wynnum, a suburb of Boston, comes an eyewitness account which could explain this continued military fascination with flying saucers.

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Ray Fowler, one of the most respected civilian UFO investigators, is also author of two best sellers in the field.

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Because of his stint in the Air Force Security Service, he finds himself still vulnerable to government pressure.

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I worked for a company that designed and built a major weapon system.

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And because of connections within the company, because of connections with Dr. J. Allen Heineck, who was an Air Force investigator for many years,

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I came across information that indicated that this major weapon system, as well as others, had been disrupted by UFOs.

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And I gave a story to a national newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor, which published this story.

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Within an hour after this particular paper was out, a strategic air command had called my company.

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And the following day, the Pentagon called a company and threatened to send a letter of displeasure to the company

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if something wasn't done about my making these things public.

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Because of similar pressures in his own work, a friend of Ray's had kept quiet for 27 years with an amazing story.

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Ray tried to convince the friend to tell his story on In Search Of.

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I know it's been several days now and I've been waiting for you to call me on this, but have you come to any conclusions?

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The man finally agreed, for the first time, to talk, but only under strict conditions.

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I can assure you that your name will not be used.

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They made up a name, Fritz, to protect the witness's true identity.

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And I think the best place to do it probably would be my planetarium away from the kids and the telephone and things like that.

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Waiting for his friend to arrive, Ray nervously fiddled with his telescopes.

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He remembered his extensive investigations into the man's reliability as a witness.

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In the case of Fritz, I started in 1973 when all the way back through the various companies that he worked for,

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right back to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, talked to people he worked with,

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and they all gave him a very clean bill to help, a reputable man, honest man,

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not the type that would fabricate a hulks and a very efficient engineer manager.

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As the man arrived, Ray recalled the years his friend had wavered about breaking an oath of secrecy.

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He recalled their long arguments about a greater public good.

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Would the years of patient persuasion at last pay off?

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So I understand it, Fritz. You were working for the United States Air Force.

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The story began late one night in 1953 at Frenchman's Flat, Nevada.

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The man had been working as a consultant on blast effects of atom bombs

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when he was suddenly ordered to report for a new mission.

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What happened after that?

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We were put on a bus, which the windows were all completely covered with curtains

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and in some cases black paper taped to the windows, and we're driven for three or four hours

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and we're not sure just where we were going.

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Several of us tried to guess where we might have been.

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We at that time came to the conclusion it was in the area of Kingman, Arizona.

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After getting off the bus as recreated here, the scientists were taken to an even more remote location.

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They had no idea exactly where they were or what they were about to see.

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We were told that we had been selected for various technical specialties.

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I was told that I was to ask any questions that had to do with dynamic loads and nothing more

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than I wouldn't get any answers to any other questions.

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It looked like two saucers, I would call it.

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One on top of the other, inverted, probably 25 to 30 feet in diameter.

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In terms of something known, what kind of metal would it look like?

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It would look like a brushed aluminum.

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I'm sure it probably wasn't that, I say that because I noticed no scratch marks.

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And anything that would penetrate into the sand, 20 inches that way would certainly have some scratch marks.

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No signs of buckling fracture or anything?

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Not that I could see.

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I accepted it was probably some United States government vehicle, highly classified vehicle.

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In fact, we were told that that's what it was.

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Interestingly enough, one of the questions I needed to know was what the mass of the vehicle was.

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I can tell a lot of things from the penetration into the desert sand and so forth, but I needed to know the mass.

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And they told me that they weren't going to let me know that.

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They perhaps didn't even know themselves.

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There was also a tent, which I didn't get to look into,

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but one fellow whom I did happen to talk with briefly until they told us to stop talking,

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said that he had seen two bodies inside this tent, two alien looking bodies.

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It was brown leathery skin, had a silver, like a cap on, without a bill.

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Like a skull cap?

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Yes, like a skull cap.

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I realized what this really started to mean,

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but at also at the same time realized probably why the government was keeping a classifying.

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There are a lot of things that could be changed by our culture and religions,

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there are a lot of things that could be affected by the release of information like that at that particular time.

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Like many other UFO stories, this also concludes with the recovered craft taken to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

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Cameras are normally prohibited there,

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but in search of was allowed to photograph certain declassified areas.

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We found there actually are huge freezing chambers inside the legendary Hangar 18.

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The only knowledge I have of little green men Martians or whatever would be from the articles I have read of some of the published novels like Frank Scully's book and things like that.

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Don Ritter, building's manager since 1942, claims the giant freezing cells were never used for storage of alien bodies.

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Building 18 at Wright-Patterson was used primarily for cold soak engine testing,

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and we had four cells in this facility that we would take down to minus 65 degrees Fahrenheit,

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soak the engine for some period of time and make the engine starch to test components, engines and whatever for cold starch.

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My major criticism is that from way back in the 1947's there should have been a gradual information release and have the public accustomed to what UFOs are, what we're trying to do about them.

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Instead, they've covered up so long that to admit that they've covered it up, it's almost like another Watergate.

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Plus the fact that I think they don't have the answers.

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And if they admitted even what they knew, people would want to know more answers.

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They don't have the answers to give them. I'm sure they don't have the answers to give them.

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Based on my own personal and professional experiences for the last 26 years of wearing this blue suit,

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and most of that I've been in the public affairs business where I'm responsible for releasing information to the public.

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I can assure you on behalf of the Air Force that there's just no truth to that at all.

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Inside the freezing chambers of Hangar 18, we've examined one small clue in the mystery of the UFO cover-up.

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Whether it proves fact or fiction, this search for flying saucers has already profoundly influenced our perception of our place in the universe.

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Colonel Robert Fren, former head of Project Blue Book.

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I believe that speculation and the scientific approach to it can't live together.

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I would feel that there were in lots of instances cases that had potential scientific pay dirt that possibly should have been pursued further.

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And in that regard, yes, I think that some of the cases had a lot of promise.

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The Roswell case and the strange story of the man known as Fritz are two dramatic examples of close encounters of the fourth kind.

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Like the 68,000 reports on record of UFO sightings, they exist in a limbo, halfway between science and speculation.

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Coming up next, Pappy Boynton and his fliers use some captured enemy planes for a raid on a Japanese aircraft carrier in the Black Sheep Squadron.

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Then we've got modern marvels with the story of the battle between Tom Edison and Nikola Tesla over electricity systems and how Niagara Falls was harnessed to produce electricity.

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But stay tuned now for the Black Sheep Squadron here on the History Channel, where the past comes alive.

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