1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 A lot to impress the sightings investigative team. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:08,000 But what you are about to see is among the most intriguing UFO footage we've ever broadcast. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 A brilliant disc-shaped craft hovered over Salida, Colorado for more than an hour. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Tim Edwards has spent most of his life in Salida, Colorado. 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 He runs the cafe his dad started 20 years ago. 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Tim's heard his whole life about fireballs, mutilated cattle and UFO sightings in the valley. 7 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,000 He never thought it would happen to him, but then it did. 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,000 On the morning of August 27, 1995, Tim recorded this videotape. 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Approximately 9.30 in my daughter, Brandi, came out here and she has said that she looked up in the sky to see if it was going to rain that day. 10 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:03,000 If it was going to rain or lightning or something, we couldn't go camping, so I looked up and I saw it. 11 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:11,000 I looked up again and I see a very intense, bright, shimmering, white light. 12 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:17,000 At times it appeared to be a boomerang shape too, or a slight arc. 13 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Tim called his restaurant to see if anyone else had sighted the UFO. 14 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Cook Michael Maggio told him he'd take a look. 15 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Come out here, about right here, a little beyond the door, and I could see the three flashes come off that looked like boomerangs and it was bright white. 16 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Then a fourth witness, Tim's 15-year-old daughter Lorraine saw the UFO. 17 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 At first I thought those guys were crazy. I was like, let's film. 18 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Then when it started moving around, I was like, I couldn't believe it. 19 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Michael Curtis is Mufon's chief investigator in Colorado. 20 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 He's been researching UFO activity in the St. Louis Valley for several years. 21 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Mr. Edwards' video is some of the best footage that I've seen. 22 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Purely for the fact that number one, it's a daylight sighting. There are multiple witnesses. 23 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:12,000 It's a very large object or appears to be a very large object, and we just don't get that many credible good daylight sightings. 24 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Sightings asked Chip Peterson to study the Edwards videotape. 25 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Peterson is an aerospace engineer specializing in computer enhancement and stabilization. 26 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:28,000 When you look at moving video, what you're actually seeing is 30 frames per second flipping on the screen very quickly, and that's what we've got right here. 27 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:35,000 What you're seeing here is the edge of each frame that I had to stabilize by hand in order to keep this object in the center of the screen. 28 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,000 So after you stabilize the image, you can see its motion much more clearly. 29 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Based on what I know of atmospheric flight, it doesn't look like any conventional aircraft. 30 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Could it be otherworldly technology? Yes it could. Could it be military aircraft? Yes it could. 31 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Could it be some unexplained weather phenomena? That's also possible. 32 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:01,000 There's an awful lot of strange things that occur in the mysterious valley of Colorado, and this is racking up to be one of them. 33 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:09,000 The San Luis Valley is 5,000 square miles of fertile Colorado pasture land, the largest cleanest alpine meadow in the world. 34 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:16,000 It's also a UFO hunt spot. Recently people here sighted huge fireballs streaking across the sky. 35 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Over on this mountain range we've seen the orange orbs that come down and sit or just race right across the mountain range. 36 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:31,000 This bright blue oval was traveling at this speed you would expect a meteor, and it stopped instantly and started straight down. 37 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:37,000 We've saw lights come off of this side of the mountain over here, come clear across and go over the top of these mountains on this side. 38 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 This light came across all the way across to no sound whatsoever. 39 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:51,000 For 10 years, researcher Chris O'Brien has studied more than 100 bizarre animal mutilations in the valley and their potential link to UFO activity. 40 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:57,000 The activity that we experienced in November through January was quite incredible. 41 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:06,000 We saw so much activity here. We had green fireballs, blue fireballs, squadrons of blinking lights traveling too fast to be conventional aircraft, 42 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:12,000 and then soon on the heels of many of these sightings we had incredible military activity. 43 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:24,000 On January 12th, 1994, the most spectacular UFO sighting to date occurred when an enormous arc of fiery orbs raced across the afternoon sky. 44 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Among the eyewitnesses was a retired 30-year Air Force veteran, pilot Jimmy Lloyd. 45 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:36,000 They were extremely bright, like strobes, a green color. 46 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:44,000 There were seven of them in a semicircular formation. They looked as big as a battleship and very fast. 47 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,000 They were going at hypersonic speed, yet there was no sound wave. 48 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Within hours of the sighting, it became clear that Colonel Lloyd was not the only one interested in the sighting. 49 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:03,000 In nearby Montevista, Colorado, the local sheriff received a phone call from the North American Air Defense Command. 50 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:15,000 The Rio Grande County Sheriff's Office got a call from NORAD saying that one of their satellites had picked up a significant burst of heat up on Greenie Mountain. 51 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:23,000 The information to us from NORAD that night that we needed to exhaust all efforts to determine what this explosion was. 52 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:31,000 At NORAD's urgent request, the sheriff dispatched planes and a ground crew to search for the source of the explosion. 53 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 But as the team neared Greenie Mountain, they were waved off. 54 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:42,000 When they called us in originally, they gave us coordinates. Explosion took place here. So many degrees latitude, so many years long, it was too hot. 55 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Then we called them back and they said, well, it happened on these coordinates, which completely gave us probably 20 miles away, 15 miles without it all the time. 56 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Had NORAD really been off by more than 20 miles? Or did they want the search team out of the area? 57 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:04,000 We did our extensive search and couldn't come up with anything I called. NORAD directly and was in contact with a major macauch. 58 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:11,000 He kind of blew it off. He said, if we can't find it, don't worry about it. If we can't find it, it never happened. It was no more of our concern. 59 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:21,000 In an effort to determine what really happened, sightings asked aerospace analyst Ron Rieger to access satellite data collected in the area on the day in question. 60 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Rieger has concluded that there was a significant heat flash on January 12, 1994. 61 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:44,000 I did talk with one of the analysts at work and they confirmed both the event, the time and the location and added the comment that this did not appear to be a forest fire. 62 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:55,000 The cause of the explosion recorded by NORAD and confirmed through satellite data remains a mystery, as do the many UFO sightings that continue to be recorded in the San Luis Valley. 63 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:07,000 If the military has any answers, they're not telling. The lack of information is particularly disturbing to Tim Edwards, who has the dubious distinction of owning the best footage of one of the area's many UFOs. 64 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:23,000 I've been obsessed almost. My family thinks with trying to get the information, the facts out of this case and the truth and getting this out to the public and bringing witnesses forward. 65 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:33,000 One thing that sustains Tim Edwards and UFO researchers in the Valley is the knowledge that UFO activity here is not just a cosmic flash in the pan. 66 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:38,000 The local paper records sightings today, just as it did more than 80 years ago. 67 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Back then, eyewitnesses asked one simple question. And it's the same question people are still asking. 68 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:55,000 The selected tape is consistent with a number of reports sightings has received about UFOs in the four state area of Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. 69 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:01,000 We're continuing to pursue these reports and will bring you extended coverage on an upcoming edition of sightings. 70 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Thank you.