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I'm Sean Ryder, as a 15 year old lad in Salford,

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long before my old racing antics and I have been Mondays,

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I saw a ball of light whizzing about in the night sky as I stood at a bus stop.

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I knew there and then I'd seen a UFO,

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ever since I've been obsessed with all things extraterrestrial.

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I've always wanted to understand what I saw that day,

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and in this series I'm going to do just that.

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My mission is to seek out those at the forefront of UFO research,

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and through them try to discover how other people deal with this most mysterious phenomenon.

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I'll be meeting the top dogs of ufology,

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from generals and scientists to the abductees themselves,

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to hear what they have to say and to separate fact from fiction.

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That's clear as day like that.

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Well, this is one of the strangest, mysterious things I've ever seen.

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Chile is the UFO capital of South America,

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where most sightings per square kilometre than almost anywhere else on the planet,

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the country's media is the wash of reports of mysterious happenings in its skies.

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Arm headed to Santiago, the capital of this country,

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squeezed between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean,

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stretching almost 3,000 miles down the continent's west coast.

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I've been here before with a band,

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and after 20 hours on a plane it always feels like I've arrived at the edge of the world.

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But there have been no trashy hotel rooms are dealing with cranky roadies.

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I've come here to meet the people who can shed some light

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on Chile's most amazing UFO sightings, and everyone has their own point of view.

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Santiago itself has a rich history of UFO sightings,

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and meeting Antonio Juneyos, a world-renowned UFO writer and expert

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who's been investigating them for 20 years.

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I'm expecting some mind-blowing stuff, so it's vital and properly prepared.

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Hi, Sean. Hi, Antonio. Yeah.

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Pleased to meet you. He's the one and only.

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So... So if you've got one question,

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we're going to this place called El Bosque. El Bosque?

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Yeah, which is where the Air Force Academy is located. OK.

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And where this incident took place just about exactly two years ago.

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The El Bosque case has rocked the world of ufology.

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Six months ago, footage captured at a Chilean airbase was released

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that appears to show a genuine UFO.

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It's the major factor in why I've chosen to be a part of this.

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That appears to show a genuine UFO.

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It's the major factor in why I've chosen to come to Chile now,

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and I'm hoping Antonio will help me get to the bottom of it.

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Basically, what we're seeing here is every four years,

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you have a change of the commander-in-chief of the Chilean Air Force.

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So they beat him out every four years?

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Yeah, automatically, it changes.

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And because it is the Air Force, they do this big military parade.

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A lot of people take films, you know, a lot of people photograph them.

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And seven different videos show this little object going very, very fast.

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Although almost too fast to be seen with an achy eye,

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once the video is slowed right down, something seriously weird appears.

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The video shows a dome-shaped, flat-bottomed metallic object

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buzzing around the fighter jets.

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Of course, there are many cases of military pilots seeing UFOs,

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but there are not too many videos where you see both of the aircraft in the UFO.

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Very few.

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What speed is that?

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Well, in one of the analysis, they estimated that it was 18 times faster than the plane,

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because that's a nice thing about this video.

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They know how long it takes from one side of the mountain here to the other side.

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So there are a lot of known parameters, which is normally you don't have that in videos.

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A couple of thousand miles an hour or so.

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Something like that.

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Wow.

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And has that been looked at? It's not a mosquito, is it?

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Well, some people say it is.

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Yeah, they probably would, yeah.

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That was the one that was suggested.

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The only one, they had left for the black.

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And one of the reasons it's so interesting is because it was released officially by the committee.

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You know, Chile has...

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Well, Chile seems to be quite free on releasing stuff, though.

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It is, it is.

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Chile is unusual in being among a number of countries that officially take UFOs seriously.

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So much so that in 1997, the government set up a committee for the study of anomalous aerial phenomena,

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or CIFA, to analyze and study all sightings of UFOs reported in the country.

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Once CIFA is certain an object is truly unidentifiable, they officially release the footage,

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like they did with the El Bosque video in March 2012.

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I mean, Srid, it's time for Antonio and I to see this place for ourselves.

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So I guess we'll go to the actual place.

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There's nothing better to investigate a UFO case than to go to the spot where you're having it.

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Off to the spot.

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I guess that shows that star, if I believe.

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So how long have you written his drivers?

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I think about half an hour.

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Half an hour, it's good.

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Dear Antonio.

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As we head out into Santiago's Rush Hour traffic, it's time to pick Antonio's brain

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about some of the questions that keep me awake at night.

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Why is it that people are so fascinated by UFOs?

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I mean, why am I fascinated by UFOs?

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I mean, with me, I was stuck in a batch of what I saw when I was a teenager.

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But, you know, then again, it just seems I was ridiculous that we're the only people in the universe.

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Well, for me, I think it's the mystery, you know, because even the skeptics have to recognize

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that at least as a sociological phenomenon, UFOs are real.

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In other words, people see stuff.

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Nobody can deny that.

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But we don't know what it is.

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That's why they call them UFOs, right?

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I mean, my first time when I saw something was in the 70s.

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Just literally flying about like this.

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And then off.

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That's kind of the same thing I saw.

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In here, my first UFO sighting was in 1988.

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I saw these lights.

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I mean, it looked like a star.

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I had the luminosity of the star, but it was moving like crazy, you know, just like...

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And then it would stop and it went on for like, I don't know, 20 minutes or something.

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Antonio and I have had the same experience, but we're not alone.

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Two-thirds of close encounters are the first kind that his sightings of UFOs are similar to ours.

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Mysterious lights in the night sky moving with incredible speed

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and performing impossible fast changes of direction.

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I looked up in the sky once and saw literally hundreds of small lights, you know, like, hundreds of them.

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Oh, really?

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Going across the sky.

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And the next day it was on the local news that apparently it was supposed to be the lights from the rubby ground,

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which was just rubby.

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That was the explanation.

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Yeah, it was garbage.

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And even when they went away, they didn't look like that.

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I think this was in Britain?

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Yeah, it's a lot of strange stuff.

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I mean, if they suddenly announced tomorrow that, you know, we've contacted other people,

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I mean, a lot of people would go bananas.

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I don't think even nowadays they would take it.

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Mathematically, we're teaming with life.

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And in the universe, it's so huge, why would it just be one place with life?

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I mean, it doesn't make sense.

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To put the mathematical chance of life elsewhere in the universe into perspective,

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it's important to understand Earth's place within it.

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Our galaxy contains an estimated 400 billion stars.

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If the planet's around just 0.001% of these are with some kind of life,

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that still leaves 40 million, almost three times the population of Chile,

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that could support life.

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Once you then consider our galaxy, it's just one of billions in the known universe.

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It's enough to twist anyone's melon.

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The universe may be vast, but it's conspired to put Antonio and I together on this mission.

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We're going to be there where this thing happened right now.

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The odds that we're going to see UFOs, I doubt it, but you never know, of course.

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Antonio has his doubts, but as we weave our way through Santiago,

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I know from personal experience that strange things have happened.

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I'm Sean Ryder, lead singer of the Api Mundis.

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I'm in Chile on a mission to find out the truth about the country's UFO sightings.

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On the trail of one of Chile's most curious recent cases,

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I managed to get official military clearance to the Chilean Air Force Base,

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El Bosque, outside Santiago.

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Commander Pedi, a fighter pilot and instructor is here to meet us.

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Hello, sir. Hiya.

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Welcome. Welcome to the Air Force Academy.

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Thanks for having us.

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Owned to the Chilean Air Force Academy, the skies above the base

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are often opposed with military aircraft,

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but on November 5th, 2010, it played host to something much more mysterious.

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Anyway, this is good. When I left Northern England, it was snowing, so this is a lot better.

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This is the base, is it? Yeah.

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That's right.

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Was you here that day?

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I was there. I was in the formation of a 5.

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You were flying? That's right.

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Wow.

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What do you think that is?

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Well, I certainly don't think it's an insect.

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It's somebody I said.

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Maybe dashing the camera or not.

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No. No.

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I didn't say anything. I was just seeing the formation.

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Yeah, very busy.

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So when you were flying that day, what speed were you doing in your flight?

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We passed about 350 knots.

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And that thing was probably going about 3,000 miles an hour.

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Very fast, yeah.

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I'm really excited to be here and see where it was all happening.

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Chile's governmental body dealing with UFOs, CIFA,

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has a rigorous process of determining what constitutes a genuine sighting,

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and the El Bosque video has stood up to all their tests.

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95% of the information we get is clarified or undone.

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We have around 200 cases, which have been investigated

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and we have no explanation for them.

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Or they have an explanation that is an unidentified aerial phenomenon.

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Of the seven videos captured that day,

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so far only one has been officially released by CIFA.

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In it, the suspicious object passes through the frame several times,

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as the military jets take part in the air show.

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We're heading to the exact spot from where the video was shot,

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and I can't wait to see it for myself.

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This looks familiar.

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That's right.

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This is pretty much the same position that the video was made.

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Okay, so we got the video here.

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We can reconstruct actually the incident as it happened.

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There are the hills.

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That's right.

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And we see the building.

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You can see the front, the forest and the buildings on the front.

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It's the same position.

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Nobody saw anything.

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Nobody saw anything.

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I guess it took a while until people started reviewing the footage.

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And nothing shows up on radar.

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We use actually a radar to keep the distance between all formations.

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So that day nobody reports nothing unusual.

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Right.

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Even though no one noticed anything that day,

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I mean, trying to find out Commander Peddy's professional view

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of just what the UFO might be.

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So you've seen the video of this.

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I mean, what do you think that is?

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I'm going to question it.

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It's strange because it's nothing military or civilian aircraft.

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It's not a bird.

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So maybe we have something out of this planet in that video.

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Coming from an Air Force pilot, this is music to me ears.

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Even in the UFO-op zone like Chile, authentic sightings are rare.

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I've been here less than 24 hours

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and already my investigation is up and running.

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In general, pilots or people with aeronautical background,

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both pilots and air traffic controllers,

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we call them qualified testicles

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because the preparation they have is different from the person who works in another area.

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And on the other hand, the one who is more familiar with different aeronautical models

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or different meteorological phenomena that are happening today in our atmosphere.

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This is our first bit of real evidence.

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I'm over a million, you know?

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So it's great to speak to people in the military

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who are brave enough to come on camera and say that it's a possibility that it's not of this world.

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That's right.

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Maybe it's a possibility.

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I don't have the answer.

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But maybe we have in front of something out of this world.

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Before that news is even sunken,

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we're told about a newly discovered video filmed the same day by the Air Force personnel.

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Not only has it never been seen before, even see if I don't know it exists.

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Unbelievably, we're offered the chance to analyse it in the Bases Command Centre.

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Antonio and I are eager to find out whether this new footage will give us any extra answers.

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We're watching the air parade.

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This is the F5 formation with the UFO appears in another video.

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So you were...

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That's right in the middle.

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That's the guy?

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That's you.

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Yeah.

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That's the birds and the cross in the video.

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Well, whatever those UFOs were in the famous ones,

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certainly you can totally rule out birds.

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Birds are totally different.

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We have lots of examples of birds.

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Checking out the local bird lab is all well and good.

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But if I wanted to go twitching, I could have stayed in Salford.

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So that is another one formation of F16 and nothing's serious.

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I just saw something then.

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Yeah, it was down here.

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There?

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Oh, yes.

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I mean, I don't know, but there's something there.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Maybe some reference.

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I don't know.

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I mean, there is something there.

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I think it's a...

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I don't know, maybe a light or a reflection of the camera.

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No, no, I don't think it's a reflex, but...

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It's one should be good.

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It's a fast-flying chicken.

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I don't know if it's a leg.

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It is.

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It's a little bit of a sink.

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Let's see it by the beginning.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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It's very similar.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That makes it eight videos now.

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We had seven before.

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Well, definitely, I don't think that was a bird.

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No, because we had lots of birds.

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Yeah, yeah.

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We could make great comparisons with birds.

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We're not going to let us take away that film.

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Very nice.

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It's only a brief glimpse, but I'm sure what I've just seen

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is the same UFO as the one on the original El Bosque video

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and blown away by the tape,

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but also by these people.

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It's impossible to imagine being welcome with such open arms

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investigating UFOs at a military base back home.

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They're even going to give us a copy of our newly discovered eighth tape.

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I'm really pleased that we've managed to get a copy,

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and we're going to...it looks like.

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Still, even though I'm convinced the cynic's voice is never far away

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when it comes to controversial subjects like this.

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There are a lot of our astronomers who say there's something there.

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And they give their reasons.

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In some...in some statements, they clearly see insects.

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In others, there are strange objects.

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And while the investigation continues,

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it's still not over yet.

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What's more than I expected?

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Brilliant. Thank you.

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I've only just arrived in Chile,

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and I have to admit I wasn't expecting so much so soon.

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It may just be pixels on the screen,

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but like me, the people here are open to the idea that it might just be more.

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And that's good news for the rest of my trip.

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The 7,000 miles that I've travelled to be here

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is already starting to feel like it was well worth the effort.

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I've travelled to Chile on a mission

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to unearth the truth behind the country's UFO phenomena.

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My trip has got off to a flying start

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with the discovery of a UFO

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on the previously unseen video at El Bosque Air Base.

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My aim today is to get up close and personal with the real thing.

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I'm heading 30 miles east of Santiago to Cajón de Maipo,

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one of Chile's UFO zones calientes, or hot zones.

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This area, right in the foothills of the Andes,

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has long attracted tourists,

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but some are convinced the visitors are coming from much further afield,

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or the star systems.

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There are sectors of Chile where there are up to two weekly sightings.

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In some cases, up to three weekly sightings.

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The weekly sightings are constant, that type of incident,

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and what makes Chile a fabulous laboratory

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to investigate in situ the UFO events.

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I've arranged to meet ufologist Miguel Jardin.

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He's been coming here since the early 90s,

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and I'm excited about what he has in store for me.

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Hi. Hi, Michelle. Nice to meet you. And you.

337
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Finally. Yeah, good.

338
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So, what is this place? Where are we?

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You're welcome to San José Maipo.

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It's a little town in the middle of the Cajón de Maipo Valley.

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And this is a very special area for us,

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because here we have seen a lot of UFOs.

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Maybe 30 or 40% of the people living here,

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or this in this area, have seen an UFO.

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Three out of ten people in the square might have seen a UFO?

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I would say yes, but let's try if this is true.

347
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Let's prove it. Yeah, OK. Let's go.

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Miguel seems pretty confident, and with good reason.

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In 2002, the town's mayor declared San José Maipo

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a UFO tourism zone after he and other locals made sightings.

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I'm just hoping my dodgy Spanish doesn't alienate me.

352
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Perfecto. They haven't seen a UFO.

353
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OK.

354
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Muchas gracias. Gracias.

355
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Well, that got off to a shaky start,

356
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but we're putting more people in the square,

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and I'm not going to be put off that easily.

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What about this man?

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Uh, sure could be. Let's try.

360
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Yeah, you can try.

361
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Yo, 43 años en la planta que tengo.

362
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En la planta que tengo está 43 años abajo.

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43 años.

364
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Y ahí siempre aparecían los hombres,

365
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pero de lejos los veíamos así, no más.

366
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Ah, y su otro colega de la planta también?

367
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También.

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He and also the college, they have seen the same phenomenon

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for a long time.

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Light, slow moving light, so I'll be...

371
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Yes.

372
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You see it?

373
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No sé, la luz así, no más...

374
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Ya.

375
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Cuánto graba? Cuánto tiempo graba?

376
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Para uno lo riera un par de minutos.

377
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Par de minutos?

378
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Sí.

379
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Minutes, a couple of minutes.

380
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Y después de saber si...

381
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Lento, rápido.

382
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Ah, rápido.

383
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Sí, así es lo que me parece.

384
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Fast, yeah.

385
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Yeah.

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What the old fella there seems to have seen is...

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You know, what I saw, the fast moving,

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side to side...

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zigzagging off.

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He's the second person we've asked, you know,

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so that's pretty good.

392
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That's just 50% already.

393
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If I wondered down D's gate in Manchester,

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asking people about UFOs would be told to get lost,

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I wonder whether the openness here

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is just down to what they witnessed

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or something more fundamental about Chileans.

398
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Eh...

399
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Maipo?

400
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Se lo amareció a salud.

401
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¿Y lo sigue a nosotros?

402
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Hola, ustedes son de acá, ¿no? ¿Cierto?

403
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No.

404
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¿Son visitantes?

405
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Sí.

406
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¿Usted viene regularmente a la zona de Maipo?

407
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Sí.

408
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Perfecto.

409
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¿Tú se quizás habrán visto alguna cosa extraña en el cielo alguna vez?

410
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No.

411
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¿Cómo fue lo que viste? ¿Qué te tocó ver?

412
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Si se puede saber.

413
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Luz, desmovimiento...

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¿Por qué?

415
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000
Eh... extraño muy rápido.

416
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,000
Muy rápido.

417
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,000
Mucha gracias.

418
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Gracias.

419
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Everybody seems to have their own take on extraterrestrial life.

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She was not a witness, but...

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I didn't see anything like this.

422
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I was at the station at 4 or 5 in the morning,

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and he was traveling, and then there was a light.

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It was strong, and...

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He didn't fear it.

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But that light was on, on, on, on.

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And then he started to advance very slowly.

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And then he was lost.

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The light in the color of the ranch, because it's like...

430
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It's like we were at the disco.

431
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Do you think we are alone in the galaxy?

432
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Ah!

433
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¿Usted quiere que estemos solo en la galaxia?

434
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,000
No.

435
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000
¿Copique que estamos acompañados?

436
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000
Yes, we are not alone.

437
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,000
It's good.

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We spent the morning in the square,

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and it turns out Miguel's prediction was actually conservative.

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In fact, around 70% of the people we've asked

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claimed to have seen a UFO.

442
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What strikes me is how similar these people's experiences are

443
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to the one I had all those years ago

444
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on the other side of the world.

445
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You're all in the same club.

446
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You see one, you see one.

447
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Same club.

448
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Miguel suggests a place further up, Cajón de Maipo,

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as a perfect spot for us to try and see a UFO.

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And so we head up into the mountains.

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The Andes is the longest mountain range in the world,

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stretching 4,300 miles through seven countries.

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Farmed 138 million years ago,

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when the South American and Nazca tectonic plates smashed together,

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they rise to the height of almost 7,000 metres,

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and are home to scenery as brutal as it is beautiful.

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Not only that, they play host to some of the clear-ish skies

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anywhere on the planet, perfect for spotting any extra

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terrestrial visitors.

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After the success of this morning,

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it's hard to believe we won't see something for ourselves.

462
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And as the evening starts to jar in, I'm feeling tense.

463
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We're here!

464
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What a place! What a nice place!

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Five minutes ago, sunshine boiling up, speedos and beach.

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Now...

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Amazing, huh?

468
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So this is where we get a lot of UFO sightings here?

469
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Yeah, I would say it's a very wide area

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where this kind of phenomena have been apparent since a long time.

471
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You know, we have a history of 200 or 300 years of UFO phenomena.

472
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,000
The Spanish guys that arrived to South America in the beginning,

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they brought everything, the lights that came from the water,

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came from the mountain down that moved in a very specific way.

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These episodes were written using other words, other descriptions,

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00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:29,000
but if you try to interpret what they were trying to tell us,

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the phenomena is the same.

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So it's a very, very odd story.

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According to Miguel, Chile has been visited by aliens for centuries,

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but one intriguing theory states contact goes back far beyond the arrival

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of the conquestadors and into antiquity,

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a hypothesis known as paleo-contacts.

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The idea suggests that primitive man's exposure to ancient aliens

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influenced the development of culture and religion on Earth,

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and that as a consequence, the deities worshipped in modern-day faiths

486
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were in fact originally extraterrestrial.

487
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000
As to why aliens might want to visit our planet,

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one theory is that Chile is being used as some kind of intergalactic petrol station.

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I think that minerals are a key factor

490
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for the amount of observations of UFOs there are.

491
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A territory with many natural resources,

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because I think there is a direct and proportional relationship

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between the need for energy,

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by this phenomenon,

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and that it provides them.

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There is a relationship between nature,

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energy supply and phenomena.

498
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I believe that in any way.

499
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What's the most spectacular story that you think is credible of happening up here?

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For me, the most spectacular phenomenon was,

501
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one day suddenly, a UFO appeared and I said,

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please wait, I go to the battery, I put it on,

503
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and then I made the light and they asked me with light and then they disappeared.

504
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,000
Could you say, I guess, how big this thing was?

505
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,000
It's difficult to say because you cannot see exactly the form,

506
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,000
maybe you suppose it's 200 meters away,

507
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000
but it could be maybe one, it's difficult to say.

508
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,000
Today in Chile, 80% of the cases that arrive in the aeronautics

509
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,000
are all different, different in size, different in color,

510
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000
different in movement, different in the situation,

511
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,000
in geographical places where they are manifested,

512
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,000
different in their forms.

513
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,000
Therefore, making a disaster is already complex.

514
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,000
That shows us how difficult it is to accept this phenomenon.

515
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,000
So what we're going to do is just wait until it gets dark,

516
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,000
and then out for the mountain to open up.

517
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,000
We normally arrive at this hour in order to see the whole area,

518
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,000
because in the night when it's very, very dark,

519
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,000
if something appears you want to be very sure that what he's looking is a UFO.

520
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000
So if I see a UFO, what should I do?

521
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,000
I would say the best what you can do is stay quiet,

522
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,000
look at the phenomena, warn the others,

523
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,000
but don't run because you know when something appears

524
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,000
some people react and are very difficult.

525
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,000
I run and say f***ing nothing.

526
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000
After living what can only be described as a colourful life,

527
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,000
it takes more than a few lights in the sky to scare me.

528
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:28,000
So as the sun sets, Miguel and I turn our gazes to the heavens and wait.

529
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,000
So when you're doing a sky watch,

530
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:36,000
is it important to be quiet and not talk and keep your eyes on the sky?

531
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:41,000
The idea is more to enjoy the sky watch, to enjoy the nature,

532
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,000
and also if you see a UFO, this is for me a pleasure,

533
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,000
it's for me something like a prize, you know?

534
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,000
You see I don't go to nightclubs or disco dancing or the pub anymore,

535
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,000
because I'm very sad.

536
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,000
I go out in the middle of my garden at home and look at the stars all night.

537
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,000
Last night I was looking up to see four shooting stars.

538
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,000
Shooting stars?

539
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,000
Yeah, four.

540
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,000
Wow.

541
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,000
How long was it?

542
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,000
The star?

543
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,000
You see those seconds?

544
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Seconds.

545
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,000
Four of them.

546
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,000
The people who think that the UFO phenomenon research is something easy,

547
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000
they don't know what they are talking about.

548
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,000
It might not be easy, but being up here with Miguel

549
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,000
means I've got the best chance of seeing a UFO since I was 15,

550
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,000
so I'm going to wait this one out.

551
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:38,000
I've left the band back in the UK and travelled 7,000 miles to Chile

552
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:43,000
on a mission to discover the truth behind the country's many UFO sightings.

553
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,000
I've come to the UFO watch spot, go honking my pole,

554
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:52,000
with expert sky watcher Miguel Jardin, to try my hand at UFO hunting.

555
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,000
But three hours in, and with all still quiet in the skies above,

556
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000
it reminds me what we're studying for.

557
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,000
Some UFO episodes begin with flashing,

558
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,000
you follow the flashing and suddenly a stop,

559
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,000
and they may begin to make movements,

560
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,000
and you have only to follow them.

561
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,000
And he hasn't spoken a moment too soon?

562
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,000
There is one?

563
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,000
Yeah, I saw something.

564
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,000
Oh, there.

565
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,000
Have you seen?

566
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,000
Yeah.

567
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000
You see? No, it's something.

568
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,000
It could be also a plane, it could be also a plane.

569
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:33,000
But normally the flags, there's something like 200 kilometres to the north.

570
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,000
Look, there's another satellite there, in the top,

571
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,000
coming from left to right.

572
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,000
But it's soon obvious that whatever the light was,

573
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,000
unfortunately it's not what we're really looking for,

574
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:52,000
and I get the feeling Miguel's even more desperate to see a UFO than I am.

575
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000
I mean, I did see something flash before,

576
00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,000
but again, I think it was a star in the cloud, I mean, yeah.

577
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,000
And the reason I suppose it was a cloud, too,

578
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,000
there are a lot of mysteries in the sky.

579
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,000
It seems to me this place has put Miguel on edge,

580
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,000
and as Candy sends, he opens up about a UFO experience

581
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,000
and he's like,

582
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,000
I was a UFO researcher until 2003.

583
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,000
I would say I'm still a UFO researcher, but I promise

584
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:31,000
I'm not making sky-watching signs 2003 after an episode

585
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:36,000
where we, with the other 12 or 13 person sufferers,

586
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000
are missing time.

587
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000
I'm not saying I'm not doing that.

588
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000
I'm not saying I'm not doing that.

589
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,000
I'm not saying I'm not doing that.

590
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:48,000
So for our missing time,

591
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:53,000
from that time I don't take people to the sky-watching

592
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:58,000
because I feel responsible of everything that could happen to the people.

593
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,000
What impresses me about some of these missing time experiences

594
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,000
is that they occur collectively sometimes,

595
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,000
and the onset of the amnesia in two or more witnesses

596
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,000
seems to occur at the same time.

597
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:17,000
Now, if these memory gaps were due to purely internal psychological processes,

598
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,000
you wouldn't expect that.

599
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,000
If you and I took LSD right now,

600
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,000
you wouldn't expect our trips to begin exactly at the right time,

601
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,000
end at precisely the right time, and have the same content.

602
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,000
But that seems to be the case with some of these missing time experiences,

603
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:37,000
and that gives me the feeling that we're dealing here with something genuinely anomalous,

604
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,000
genuinely paranormal.

605
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,000
From missing time, one or two hours of missing time,

606
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,000
I would say, most of us, we cannot remember what happened,

607
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000
and that's the problem.

608
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000
When you cannot remember what happened,

609
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,000
you ask yourself, why?

610
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,000
And you say, what happened there?

611
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,000
And these kind of questions remain and remain,

612
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,000
and you say, maybe something happened,

613
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,000
and you will remember it in the future.

614
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,000
And some guys remember, or they're not.

615
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:12,000
And if it was a bad experience, I feel responsible.

616
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:18,000
So there is a risk you take when you enter into this phenomenal research.

617
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,000
But if you're a researcher, you are obligated to look for the truth.

618
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000
For me, this is not a joke.

619
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,000
The night sky might not be lit up with alien spacecraft,

620
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:49,000
but studgazing at the southern skies up here in the Andes feels like a real privilege.

621
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:57,000
Well, this might be a UFO hotspot,

622
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000
but I'm bloody freezing.

623
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,000
So I might have to call it a night.

624
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000
I've just not got the vibe tonight.

625
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,000
I was willing to suffer to happen tonight,

626
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,000
but it just wasn't to be.

627
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,000
As we jumped back into four before to drive back to civilization,

628
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,000
though I feel unlucky not to have seen anything,

629
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,000
this has been a night I will ever forget.

630
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,000
I know the sky watching from my garden in Salford

631
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,000
just won't ever be the same when I eventually get home.

632
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,000
It's the start of a new day in Santiago.

633
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000
I'm back in the city, but here in Chile,

634
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000
you don't need to be in the middle of the wilderness

635
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000
to find stories of UFO sightings.

636
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Wherever you are, they're surrounding you.

637
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,000
I'm on my way to investigate one of Chile's more bizarre UFO events,

638
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:03,000
which happened in the skies over the capital itself on January 31, 1932.

639
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,000
The case consists of a family that is in their house

640
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,000
celebrating the birthday of one of their children.

641
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,000
The family goes out to the streets to play with the children,

642
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,000
and suddenly someone screams that some of the paracaidists are coming.

643
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,000
They say, look, the paracaidists are coming.

644
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,000
But they saw that the paracaidists weren't coming.

645
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,000
They thought that the paracaidists were coming

646
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,000
because they were afraid of the UFO.

647
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000
They saw that the paracaidists weren't coming,

648
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,000
but that the paracaidists were staying there

649
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000
and moving from one place to another.

650
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:42,000
On January 31, 1998, people all over Santiago

651
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,000
observed several humanoid figures descending from the sky

652
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,000
to over above the city,

653
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,000
catching on video by various witnesses

654
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,000
the case cut the imagination of the country,

655
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,000
and to this day it remains unexplained.

656
00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:01,000
Rodrigo funds a leader, director of Chile's leading civilian UFO group,

657
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,000
has agreed to meet me to look through the footage.

658
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:11,000
This is Hira, an appear, the bodies flying over the cubs.

659
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000
For me, it's...

660
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,000
I don't explain it today, this.

661
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:21,000
But it does look like he's sort of dressed in Star Wars.

662
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Yes.

663
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,000
He? Yes.

664
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,000
He really does look like a starship trooper.

665
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
Yes.

666
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,000
Star Wars in Chile.

667
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:30,000
Yes.

668
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,000
Yes, similar.

669
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,000
Especially on the last shot, that the guy, when coming down,

670
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000
he's like, he has the stick here.

671
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000
He stood this way with the stick out.

672
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,000
The thing over his head and he stood there like that

673
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,000
in Star Wars stormtrooper gear.

674
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,000
Yes, similar.

675
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:54,000
Can you imagine, the study seeing a starship trooper

676
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,000
coming down out of the sky on a Pogo stick.

677
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:03,000
It really does look like Darth Vader's coming out of the sky.

678
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,000
That must have been mad.

679
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,000
Mad or not, stuck out here in the Santiago sunshine,

680
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,000
I can't see a thing.

681
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:16,000
So we head to Rodriguez's truck to take a closer look at the footage.

682
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,000
It looks like...

683
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:24,000
It looks like it's somebody coming down out of the sky, you know.

684
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,000
And it also looks like on the top where the head is,

685
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,000
he's shooting sort of spinning around.

686
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,000
Yes.

687
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000
Like, you know, a little propeller on the top of the head.

688
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,000
And then they're falling down.

689
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:40,000
And then they seem to go back up.

690
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,000
The mystery is...

691
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,000
With no parachute on?

692
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,000
Not parachute.

693
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,000
Where they come from, what they come out of?

694
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,000
Helicopter, no.

695
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,000
No.

696
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,000
No.

697
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,000
I've specially looked at this film.

698
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,000
I've specially analysed it.

699
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,000
Ah.

700
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,000
And what do they say?

701
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,000
First, it's not a military exercise.

702
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,000
No.

703
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,000
It's authentic, it's original.

704
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,000
The Schiele and the official research don't explain it today.

705
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,000
It's an open case.

706
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:16,000
I have not got a clue what it is.

707
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Can we see that again?

708
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,000
OK.

709
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,000
One of the reasons this case is unusual

710
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:28,000
is the sheer number of witnesses and their accounts are intriguing.

711
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,000
Some motorists report it seems some of the figures vanishing into the clouds,

712
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,000
whilst those on the ground described others disappearing down into the city,

713
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,000
never to be seen again.

714
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,000
Oh, very mysterious.

715
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,000
Of course, this is the light of the day,

716
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000
near the sunset,

717
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,000
reports of meteorology have been requested,

718
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,000
and it was confirmed that the wind in that area and that height

719
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,000
was going in another direction,

720
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,000
not the direction in which the objects were flying.

721
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:08,000
How many people in Chile believe this is extraterrestrial?

722
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000
70%.

723
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,000
70%?

724
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,000
Yes.

725
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Wow.

726
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
It is a UFO, it's unidentified.

727
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,000
Unidentified, yes.

728
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000
It's flying, object, moving object.

729
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,000
Yes.

730
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000
A UMO.

731
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000
And has this type of thing been seen before in other places?

732
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,000
Yes, on the mountain range, perhaps,

733
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:35,000
very interesting UFO case similar to this case.

734
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:40,000
The other cases in Chile are just the tip of this very weird iceberg.

735
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,000
This is a truly global phenomena.

736
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:48,000
The internet buzzes with reports of strange humanoid figures descending from the sky,

737
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,000
and in the last 10 years alone,

738
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,000
sightings have been made in Mexico, India and the USA,

739
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,000
to enable a few.

740
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,000
Some reports are more credible than others,

741
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:03,000
but the Santiago case is right at the top of the peculiar pile.

742
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,000
Well, it's definitely not nonsense.

743
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,000
I mean, I don't know.

744
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,000
I mean, do we do...

745
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,000
Is it some sort of experimental parachute?

746
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,000
In Paris, you want some experimental landing to Earth,

747
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,000
here that we've never seen?

748
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,000
I don't know.

749
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:23,000
It looks like a team of some sort coming down.

750
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:28,000
This is one of the strangest, mysterious things that I've ever seen.

751
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,000
It really is.

752
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,000
Yes.

753
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:31,000
Any interested?

754
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Very interested.

755
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,000
The final conclusion we reached in El Sefa,

756
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,000
the truth is that we couldn't reach a final conclusion, actually.

757
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,000
It was a bit out of the question,

758
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,000
because there's no clear explanation for what we saw.

759
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,000
There's no way...

760
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,000
It's not about terrestrial objects.

761
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,000
It was a distraction from everything that wasn't there.

762
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:56,000
In the end, there's nothing terrestrial that can explain it.

763
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,000
For no one.

764
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,000
They weren't known flying objects,

765
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:04,000
they were UFOs, unidentified flying objects.

766
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,000
The analyst at Sefa

767
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,000
might not be able to tell us what these figures are,

768
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,000
but I know exactly what they look like to me.

769
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,000
It looks like a Star Wars trooper

770
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,000
who stood on a pole-goal stick under a woman's airdryer

771
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,000
coming down from the sky.

772
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,000
It does. It looks like a stash.

773
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,000
Of all the things I've seen so far in Chile,

774
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000
this final case is perhaps the most baffling,

775
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,000
but maybe some of these questions

776
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,000
just don't have a conventional explanation.

777
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,000
Although my motive for this journey

778
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,000
was to see cancers to my own UFO story,

779
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,000
what I've discovered is that here on the other side of the planet,

780
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,000
through our shared experiences,

781
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:50,000
I have a real connection with this place and its people.

782
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,000
It's comforting to learn that I'm not alone,

783
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,000
and that Chile was the perfect place to come on my search.