1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:28,540 Look for yourself and fill love. 2 00:00:28,540 --> 00:00:34,640 If there really have been UFO landings in the United States, why isn't there any hard evidence? 3 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,440 Why haven't UFOs appeared on radar? 4 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:42,500 Ufologists answer that our government has purposely and systematically suppressed information 5 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:44,620 about alien spacecraft. 6 00:00:44,620 --> 00:00:51,220 And they point to an astonishing case on a U.S. military base in Great Britain. 7 00:00:51,220 --> 00:00:56,860 For nearly 50 years, UFO researchers have maintained that the U.S. government has systematically 8 00:00:56,860 --> 00:01:00,220 withheld information about encounters with aliens. 9 00:01:00,220 --> 00:01:04,540 Such contact may have occurred in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. 10 00:01:04,540 --> 00:01:07,540 The U.S. government says it never happened. 11 00:01:07,540 --> 00:01:12,860 Some believe that alien technology is currently being tested in the notorious and top secret 12 00:01:12,860 --> 00:01:15,580 Area 51 in the Nevada desert. 13 00:01:15,580 --> 00:01:18,180 The U.S. government refuses to comment. 14 00:01:18,180 --> 00:01:22,860 But under the authority of the Freedom of Information Act, previously classified documents 15 00:01:22,860 --> 00:01:24,380 have been released. 16 00:01:24,380 --> 00:01:30,700 They shed light on what may have been an intentional U.S. government cover-up of UFO contact occurring 17 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:35,260 in England in 1980. 18 00:01:35,260 --> 00:01:40,420 The 81st Tactical Fighter Wing of the U.S. Air Force was located 60 miles northeast of 19 00:01:40,420 --> 00:01:43,940 London between the towns of Bentwaters and Woodbridge. 20 00:01:43,940 --> 00:01:49,460 It was here on December 26, 1980, members of base security claimed to have witnessed one 21 00:01:49,460 --> 00:01:52,140 of the most bizarre events in UFO history. 22 00:01:53,140 --> 00:01:54,860 The whole thing was weird. 23 00:01:54,860 --> 00:01:56,260 It just didn't seem right. 24 00:01:56,260 --> 00:02:02,420 Airman 1st Class John Burroughs and his partner were on a routine patrol around the base perimeter 25 00:02:02,420 --> 00:02:05,500 when they spotted unusual activity in the nearby woods. 26 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:07,700 My partner initially saw some strange lights. 27 00:02:07,700 --> 00:02:11,700 So we went ahead and looked at each other and we decided we'd better kind of see what's 28 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:15,020 going on because it didn't seem normal. 29 00:02:15,020 --> 00:02:19,300 At the very same moment, the control tower at London's Heathrow Airport reported the 30 00:02:19,300 --> 00:02:24,260 sudden appearance of several unidentified flying objects on radar. 31 00:02:24,260 --> 00:02:26,660 I think if we would have been armed, we might have been fired on it. 32 00:02:26,660 --> 00:02:29,860 I mean, it really, there was whatever it was, scariest. 33 00:02:33,460 --> 00:02:38,300 I was going to bed and threw the side windows here and I must have these lights. 34 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:43,300 Local resident Jerry Harris was one of a handful of civilians who reported strange phenomena 35 00:02:43,300 --> 00:02:44,300 that night. 36 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:45,300 He recalls the encounter. 37 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:48,300 Well, they moved sort of sideways this way. 38 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:52,300 You know, they'd go down and they'd come back up again. 39 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:55,060 Most peculiar. 40 00:02:55,060 --> 00:02:59,620 The next morning, British police investigated the area around the alleged sighting. 41 00:02:59,620 --> 00:03:04,740 They found three circular impressions in the ground exactly 12 feet apart, forming a perfect 42 00:03:04,740 --> 00:03:06,620 equilateral triangle. 43 00:03:06,620 --> 00:03:08,900 The surrounding trees had been damaged. 44 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:12,060 It looked like something had landed there. 45 00:03:12,060 --> 00:03:18,580 They came straight down through the trees and rested long enough to leave three, four 46 00:03:18,580 --> 00:03:20,580 inch indentations in the ground. 47 00:03:20,580 --> 00:03:23,060 I was kind of hoping we'd go out there and we wouldn't find anything. 48 00:03:23,060 --> 00:03:30,820 And we just, you know, it'd be like, because if you can't explain it, it bothers you. 49 00:03:30,820 --> 00:03:34,780 The next night, strange lights were reported again. 50 00:03:34,780 --> 00:03:39,060 Deputy Base Commander Colonel Charles Halt quickly assembled a special investigative team 51 00:03:39,060 --> 00:03:40,940 to search the woods. 52 00:03:40,940 --> 00:03:46,140 The woods were observed moving in geometric patterns, mainly in squares. 53 00:03:46,140 --> 00:03:47,580 Everything traveling at right angles. 54 00:03:47,580 --> 00:03:53,100 They'd go for a set distance and do a sharp left or right bank. 55 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:58,180 Colonel Halt and his team not only witnessed the light phenomenon, but they were also able 56 00:03:58,180 --> 00:04:03,100 to document their sightings on film and audio tape, listened to part of Halt's recording 57 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:04,100 at the scene. 58 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:05,100 Here he comes from the front. 59 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:06,100 He's coming towards us now. 60 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:13,100 It appears to be a beam coming down to the ground. 61 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:14,100 It's a real. 62 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:17,100 330, 033 and the objects are still in the sky. 63 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:20,100 Although the one on the side looks like it's losing a little bit of altitude. 64 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:23,100 We'll turn around and head back toward the base. 65 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:27,620 In the distance, you can see lights flying around and you can see like a stream of white 66 00:04:27,620 --> 00:04:30,500 light that came down to the ground. 67 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:35,340 Soon after that initial sighting, another strange UFO appeared at the airman, a single red 68 00:04:35,340 --> 00:04:36,620 hovering light. 69 00:04:36,620 --> 00:04:41,540 We followed it for quite a distance, two, three miles. 70 00:04:41,540 --> 00:04:44,180 All the time it stayed just a bit ahead of us. 71 00:04:44,180 --> 00:04:47,340 Then the most extraordinary event of the night occurred. 72 00:04:47,340 --> 00:04:50,060 It looked like a shaft of light came down from the sky. 73 00:04:50,060 --> 00:04:51,060 It was momentary. 74 00:04:51,060 --> 00:04:53,060 Couldn't have lasted more than five seconds. 75 00:04:53,060 --> 00:04:58,740 But I observed it, Colonel Halt observed it and the two other individuals with us observed 76 00:04:58,740 --> 00:04:59,740 it. 77 00:04:59,740 --> 00:05:01,220 It was like, it hurt your eyes almost. 78 00:05:01,220 --> 00:05:03,100 It was so bright. 79 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:07,660 Because of this inexplicable encounter, a special unit from European headquarters was 80 00:05:07,660 --> 00:05:10,660 dispatched to Bentwaters to take over the investigation. 81 00:05:10,660 --> 00:05:15,340 We were told that whatever we saw at the different middle, we were not to call in on the radio 82 00:05:15,340 --> 00:05:19,180 or report in and people were aware of this something had happened or something could 83 00:05:19,180 --> 00:05:20,900 still be going on. 84 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:25,860 The team confiscated all physical evidence of the encounter, including Colonel Halt's 85 00:05:25,860 --> 00:05:30,860 tape recordings, films and memos. 86 00:05:30,860 --> 00:05:32,380 All of that material was gathered up. 87 00:05:32,380 --> 00:05:34,300 It was considered technical intelligence. 88 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:37,380 Therefore, it went to Ramstein Air Force Base. 89 00:05:37,380 --> 00:05:41,820 Now retired from Army Intelligence, Clifford Stone was stationed at Hanau West Germany 90 00:05:41,820 --> 00:05:44,540 at the time of the Bentwaters investigation. 91 00:05:44,540 --> 00:05:48,220 According to Stone, news about the UFO landing spread like wildfire. 92 00:05:48,220 --> 00:05:52,580 I know that they considered that craft to be under intelligent control and they did not 93 00:05:52,580 --> 00:05:55,220 consider that intelligence to be of this earth. 94 00:05:55,220 --> 00:05:59,180 With so many credible witnesses, there's little doubt that something anomalous occurred that 95 00:05:59,180 --> 00:06:00,180 night. 96 00:06:00,180 --> 00:06:01,180 But what was it? 97 00:06:01,180 --> 00:06:05,140 There was no doubt it was an identified phenomenon, which is what the UFO is. 98 00:06:05,140 --> 00:06:10,180 The blue light that we saw and what they were capable of doing could lead you to believe 99 00:06:10,180 --> 00:06:13,020 possibly that they were intelligent. 100 00:06:13,020 --> 00:06:16,220 It was not a natural phenomenon. 101 00:06:16,220 --> 00:06:22,220 It was some sort of a manned or unmanned craft and it was being controlled by someone. 102 00:06:22,220 --> 00:06:26,860 Despite so much eyewitness testimony, skeptics maintain the encounter was not the result 103 00:06:26,860 --> 00:06:28,740 of otherworldly phenomena. 104 00:06:28,740 --> 00:06:32,820 Let's say that this wasn't a UFO incident. 105 00:06:32,820 --> 00:06:37,900 What is it that can cause highly trained Air Force security policemen who are armed to 106 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:42,420 the teeth with automatic weapons, grenade launchers, pistols? 107 00:06:42,420 --> 00:06:47,460 What can cause them to run away from a light in the woods? 108 00:06:47,460 --> 00:06:52,540 Chuck DeCarro was a Defense Department correspondent for CNN who traveled to England to research 109 00:06:52,540 --> 00:06:53,900 the Bentwaters incident. 110 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:57,660 He's heard many explanations for the strange lights. 111 00:06:57,660 --> 00:06:59,300 This was an important base. 112 00:06:59,300 --> 00:07:01,540 It had a nuclear weapon storage dump. 113 00:07:01,540 --> 00:07:08,060 If these guys were hallucinating as some debunkers have claimed, what were they doing guarding 114 00:07:08,060 --> 00:07:12,220 those self-same nuclear weapons the next day and the next week? 115 00:07:12,220 --> 00:07:16,780 Others have speculated that the UFO was a top secret U.S. military aircraft used to 116 00:07:16,780 --> 00:07:20,580 test the responses of base security forces. 117 00:07:20,580 --> 00:07:26,220 We exercised on a regular basis through every possible contingency at the ground troops 118 00:07:26,220 --> 00:07:31,220 and there was no need for the Air Force to come up with something extra. 119 00:07:31,220 --> 00:07:38,380 There is another possibility involving technology known as psychotronic or radio frequency weapons. 120 00:07:38,380 --> 00:07:45,220 There are those experts in the area of radio frequency weapons who say that RF energy can 121 00:07:45,220 --> 00:07:55,220 be delivered in such a form as to have an effect on human psychology or physiology. 122 00:07:55,220 --> 00:07:59,500 Speeds of unexplained lights identical to those reported at Bentwaters had also been 123 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:02,340 reported in the former Soviet Union. 124 00:08:02,340 --> 00:08:06,820 Experts suggest these reports may be the result of experiments using similar weaponry. 125 00:08:06,820 --> 00:08:11,180 Unfortunately none of these theories can be fully explored because the U.S. Air Force 126 00:08:11,180 --> 00:08:14,700 has refused to acknowledge that any encounters occurred. 127 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:17,500 Some believe there's been a cover-up. 128 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:21,820 I ended up going to Korea and I can't prove it with thermos. 129 00:08:21,820 --> 00:08:26,340 I really wasn't due for incitement and they kind of got me out of here in the hurry. 130 00:08:26,340 --> 00:08:30,700 Any attempt to gather physical evidence at the site is now impossible. 131 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:33,180 The alleged landing site has been destroyed. 132 00:08:33,180 --> 00:08:37,740 When our sightings crew visited Bentwaters, this was all that remained of the woods. 133 00:08:37,740 --> 00:08:42,900 All that there, yes the whole lot, 10,000 acres was absolutely devastating. 134 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:47,380 British UFO researcher Brenda Butler has been investigating the Bentwaters sightings since 135 00:08:47,380 --> 00:08:48,780 1981. 136 00:08:48,780 --> 00:08:53,940 She claims that her efforts have been sabotaged by the U.S. and British governments. 137 00:08:53,940 --> 00:08:59,340 The Ministry of Defense have been on to us and telling us to keep quiet and you know 138 00:08:59,340 --> 00:09:02,260 not to say anything about it. 139 00:09:02,260 --> 00:09:05,620 What we can't understand is why this case, when all the other cases we've been on, we've 140 00:09:05,620 --> 00:09:06,940 been allowed to talk about it. 141 00:09:06,940 --> 00:09:11,580 I have no doubt that our government and other governments are withholding information. 142 00:09:11,580 --> 00:09:15,900 They don't know what's going on or if they do they're not willing to share that information 143 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:21,820 with the general populace and sooner or later it's all going to come out. 144 00:09:21,820 --> 00:09:27,260 It wasn't until one of the base commanders, Top Secret Memos, was released in 1983 that 145 00:09:27,260 --> 00:09:31,460 any information about the Bentwaters UFOs was made public. 146 00:09:31,460 --> 00:09:34,700 The U.S. Air Force still refuses to comment. 147 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:36,980 Could it have been a weapons experiment? 148 00:09:36,980 --> 00:09:37,980 Possibly. 149 00:09:37,980 --> 00:09:41,300 Could it have been a visitation from a UFO? 150 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:42,660 Possibly. 151 00:09:42,660 --> 00:09:44,180 Is there a cover-up? 152 00:09:44,180 --> 00:09:45,380 Probably. 153 00:09:45,380 --> 00:09:48,380 Is there more to come from the Bentwaters incident? 154 00:09:48,380 --> 00:09:52,060 You bet. 155 00:09:52,060 --> 00:09:57,980 The United States Air Force continues to deny that a UFO encounter occurred at Bentwaters. 156 00:09:57,980 --> 00:10:02,020 Without the military's cooperation, the documents obtained through the Freedom of Information 157 00:10:02,020 --> 00:10:07,780 Act remain just one more tantalizing clue for scores of conspiracy theorists. 158 00:10:07,780 --> 00:10:12,900 They remain convinced that the government has Top Secret UFO information and plans to 159 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:19,900 keep it that way.