1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,000 In 1962, a brilliant UFO was tracked across the United States from New York to Nevada. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,500 It may very well have been the largest mass sighting of an extraterrestrial object in 3 00:00:13,500 --> 00:00:14,900 U.S. history. 4 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:19,400 And when it finally came to rest, it had crashed in the military's own backyard. 5 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:38,000 It raced across the sky over the tiny mining town of Eureka, Utah on April 18, 1962. 6 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 And high school buddies Dave Redmond and Jerry Sanderson were there to see it. 7 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:48,000 We had gone for a ride. Jerry was a senior in high school. 8 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:57,000 And that night we were probably just driving up and down Main Street, which is what we did most of the year. 9 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:05,000 And we stopped at the east end of the Main Street and Eureka pulled off the road and we're sitting there. 10 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,000 First thing I remember about the incident was the light. 11 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:15,000 It was a bright light that lit up the entire sky from horizon to horizon. 12 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:21,000 That I could see the mountain across the valley and see the trees on that mountain, see the sagebrush. 13 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,000 The unearthly light flooded the night sky and startled Eureka residents. 14 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,000 A light so bright it turned off the street lights by triggering their photoelectric cells. 15 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,000 And a few people had encounters that were a little too close for comfort. 16 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,000 When he got home he looked like he had seen a ghost. 17 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Betty Robinson describes the harrowing experience her late husband Bob endured on the way home from a hunting trip with a friend. 18 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:53,000 They were outside the truck and they could hear this noise. 19 00:01:53,000 --> 00:02:03,000 And they stood there for a few seconds and listened to it kept getting louder and louder and he said it was just a very, very whooshy noise. 20 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Just whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, just deafening. 21 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Unsure what was bearing down on them, the men dove under Bob's truck. 22 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:19,000 When they got out of the truck they had left the motor running. 23 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:28,000 And as the object started to approach them the headlight started to dim and the motor began to sputter. 24 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:33,000 As the object passed over everything returned to normal. 25 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:42,000 All they wanted to do was hurry up and get home and get away from it because they didn't know if it was coming back. 26 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:48,000 According to many eyewitness accounts the UFO headed west and was soon spotted over Reno, Nevada. 27 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Just minutes later it was over Las Vegas, Nevada. 28 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Then it suddenly burst into flames very near Nellis Air Force Base. 29 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 More than 1,000 people witnessed the explosion. 30 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Fighters were scrambled from Nellis in Las Vegas, Luke near Phoenix, Arizona. 31 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,000 The object was tracked on radar both surveillance radars and height finding radars. 32 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,000 And that's important, it's on two separate kinds of radar so you don't have weather related phenomena. 33 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 You have a real solid object. 34 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Kevin Randall is an author and UFO researcher who maintains that the Air Force deliberately tried to make the eureka sightings 35 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,000 and the Nellis explosion look like two separate events. 36 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 The problem we have with this sighting with the paperwork is the Air Force did a very clever thing. 37 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:37,000 They labeled the sightings in Utah using Zulu time, adding six hours to it. 38 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 They labeled the sightings in Las Vegas using the local time. 39 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:47,000 So what appears is we have a sighting that took place over a period of hours in two separate locations on two separate days. 40 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Two distinct events. 41 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:55,000 What really happened was we have a single event that took place over a space of about 16 minutes from the eureka end of the sightings 42 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,000 until it is seen to explode over Las Vegas. 43 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:05,000 But according to the United States Air Force the object that streaked over eureka and Reno was a bolide meteor. 44 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 It was a rare but explainable event. 45 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Information about the Nellis UFO was deemed insufficient for analysis. 46 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:19,000 One, they dismiss as an astronomical phenomena, a bolide, which doesn't come down to the ground and take off again in due turns. 47 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:25,000 And the other one, they said there was insufficient evidence to really categorize the sighting that there was no visual sightings, 48 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:30,000 which is incorrect if you just look at the headline of the Las Vegas paper the next day that negates that. 49 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Mark Farmer is a former naval intelligence agent and an expert in secret military weapons systems. 50 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:43,000 He has conducted his own investigation into the events surrounding the spectacular sightings of April 18, 1962. 51 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:50,000 I estimate that this object probably was traveling more than 2,000 miles an hour at times because it had to slow down, come low, 52 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:56,000 and it took off and in the amount of time that elapsed and the amount of distance that was covered it was going very fast. 53 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:01,000 We can't pretty much rule out most existing aircraft and missiles at that time. 54 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Months after the Nellis explosion, the Air Force Office of Public Information issued this statement, 55 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:12,000 suggesting that the UFO was probably a U-2 spy plane or a weather balloon. 56 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,000 They did say in their report that the crack on the radar seemed to reflect a U-2 or a balloon, 57 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:23,000 and the question becomes what kind of radar operator couldn't tell the difference between a balloon drifting at the whim of the winds 58 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:28,000 and an intelligently controlled U-2 aircraft, so they were just throwing something out. 59 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,000 But why would the Air Force go to such extremes to mislead the public? 60 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:38,000 The Air Force has been charged with keeping our skies clear of enemy craft. 61 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 If they can't stop UFOs, then they clearly can't do their mission. 62 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Why should they be funded with billions of dollars when they cannot do the mission they're charged with doing? 63 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:57,000 The object that flew across the United States on the night of April 18, 1962, I don't believe was an errant Russian missile 64 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:07,000 or one of our weapons. I believe it was an object under control, intelligent control, and just possibly, not from around the neighborhood.