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Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White. The videotape you're about to see is different.

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It was shot in late 1994 in the government's own backyard, the super-secret Nellis Test Range in

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Southern Nevada. Had the tape not been smuggled out, it might well have been classified by authorities.

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The base employees in this report appear at considerable professional risk, and therefore

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their identities have been heavily disguised.

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Remote-controlled cameras monitor the 7,700 square miles of airspace above the Nellis range.

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The cameras record fighter jet training, tactical exercises, and in at least one case, this UFO.

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The video, from a tracking location known only as S-30, was fed into Nellis Air Force Base in

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Las Vegas. Personnel there monitor what is supposed to be classified data about aircraft runs over

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the three million acres of desert that make up the Nellis range. An unknown aircraft making its way

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onto the complex, says aerospace journalist Bill Sweepman, is not considered standard operating

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procedure. I don't think you'd really see many objects wandering in by accident. They're very

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very careful to ensure that sort of thing doesn't happen. The potential for serious accidents,

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if somebody is really straying into the range, it's very very serious. And yet something obviously

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did stray in, and it frightened the cameras remote-controlled operators. This craft shows up.

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And it's like they're playing with kids. It's like do whatever they want and buy now.

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That's scary. I've never seen anything like this before. This was my first encounter seeing

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anything of this nature. And I've been working in the ranges for close to 10 years. It seemed to move

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in whichever direction it wanted to go whenever it wanted to, contrary to any aircraft that I've

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seen in the past. Chuck Decaro is a former member of US Special Forces, specializing in state-of-the-art

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military technology. He has analyzed hours of video footage of supposed UFOs, debunking many,

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but he has never seen anything like the Nellis UFO. In my first look at that tape, I said wow,

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and I continue to say wow. There are only three things that could be on that tape. One is a very

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elaborate and very expensive hoax. I don't think that's what we're seeing. The second is some kind

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of a black project, a secret project that has some very unusual aerodynamic characteristics.

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And the third, if you can eliminate all those aerodynamic answers, could be a true unknown.

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And if that is an unknown, if you can come to that conclusion, you get a pretty interesting

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piece of history right there. To rule out the possibility of a hoax, Sightings asked a government

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subcontractor who uses the same image analysis computer as the Department of Defense to analyze

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the S-30 tapes. He has asked to remain anonymous. The video appears to be genuine. Specifically, it was

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taken by contractor personnel that are operating tracking sites for the United States Air Force.

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Could the Nellis UFO be a rare glimpse at a military black project? The stealth bomber is one

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former black project tested in Nevada and early on misidentified by civilians as a UFO.

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But our sources insist that when black projects are tested, the tracking cameras are deactivated.

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The camera operators in the tracking sites are not exposed to those highly classified

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aircraft on a typical basis. Chuck DeCarro and the government video engineer compared

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notes on the possibility that this UFO was a black project. What's startling about it is that

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it doesn't resemble any shapes that I would know immediately. And that's why I thought it was

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interesting to start with. It almost appears to be like spherical in the center and with a

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appendage on the bottom and on the top. You don't see any evidence of rotors.

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And also the startling thing is it seems to change shape. Another anomalous characteristic of the

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object is its apparent ability to change shape instantaneously. The physical profile of the

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object changes almost frame to frame. And sometimes it appears almost to be a fuzzy,

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gassy cloud. In some portions of the video, it appears to be several spherical objects

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surrounding a dark mass. To get a better look at the flight characteristics of the Nellis UFO,

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Sighting's consulted with Chip Peterson, a video processing expert. He stabilized and

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enhanced several minutes of the S-30 video. I basically moved each frame and you can see the

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frame's actually moving now, showing the degree that I had to move the image in order to keep this

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object stable in the center. The stabilized image clearly shows the odd shape of the object shifting

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and turning in the sky. I then took the numbers one by one and reconstructed the flight path.

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And that's the only way I could determine what the actual motion was. And I recreated that in

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three dimensions. It's initially heading away from the camera and it abruptly changes. And

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during this phase, the range is increasing. It's actually going away from the camera.

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And at this point, it changes direction. Wind wouldn't do that. It wouldn't change that abruptly.

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And it wouldn't follow a constant radius throughout this entire portion here. It's all a constant

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distance from the camera. It's as if it's observing the ground position just as the ground is observing

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it and maintaining this constant distance. Based on his knowledge as an aerospace engineer,

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Peterson offered one possible explanation for the abrupt turns performed by the UFO.

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You could interpret it as if it determined it was on radar at this point. Perhaps if you're on

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radar, of course, you can sense that in all of our fighter planes. You know when you're being tracked.

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As soon as you get a lock where you get this radar signal, it would seem to me that this

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object was interested in who's observing it and it turned in order to find out.

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When something starts to change shape like that in the air, you become very, very puzzled

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because you realize that you're looking at something that appears to involve a whole new

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technology that we don't understand. What you want to do, of course, is go and find the person

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who's invented this and say, whatever, mate, you think of that and what does it do and how does

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it do it? But we will probably never know who created this new technology. Questions about the

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earthly or otherworldly origins of the NLS UFO are unanswerable. Until the mastermind behind

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this craft comes forward, there is only speculation and fear. Like us viewing an ant farm.

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And the ants think they're it. That's the scary part.

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To this day, the origin of the UFO has not been determined. Sightings forwarded a copy of the

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NLS videotape to the Pentagon requesting an official response. As of this broadcast, the

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Air Force has not responded to sightings request.