1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Here are some of the stories Sightings is following in the news. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:14,000 For the first time in more than 25 years, six hours of provocative Air Force audio tapes have been cataloged and condensed. 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:21,000 So now the public can finally hear for themselves what happened when a UFO appeared over one of America's largest military bases. 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Carla Wall reports. 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,000 Edwards Air Force Base is one of the largest aircraft test centers in the world. 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:36,000 The people who work here know the difference between an experimental aircraft and a meteor. 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,000 But in 1965, they couldn't figure this one out. 8 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,000 I understand you got some new parts. Roger. 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:43,000 What about Charlie? 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Edwards and Victorville area. 11 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Key excerpts from the declassified tapes have been organized into an audio documentary. 12 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,000 I spoke with Sam Sherman, the documentary producer. 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Why did you decide to do something with them? 14 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,000 I felt the public should know something about it. 15 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,000 It's a subject that has been ridiculed for many years. 16 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:09,000 It was a daunting task to make sense out of hours of tape from dozens of different sources. 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:17,000 I took all the significant pieces of the conversations from phone patches and ground to air radio based the base communication 18 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,000 and put them all together so it was like a dramatic program. 19 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Sherman took eight months to assemble the collection of tapes into a concise and comprehensible account of the Edwards UFO incident. 20 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:35,000 I was stunned to find out that a squadron of 12 UFOs was over Edwards and that there was an alert status 21 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,000 and that five other bases were involved and NORAD was involved. 22 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,000 He just shocked me. 23 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,000 This is the power of Edwards. We have an object now. 24 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 What's the field? 25 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 I can make out red and white flashing light. 26 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:58,000 The air traffic controller on duty that night has agreed to speak publicly about the UFO incident for the first time in three decades. 27 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,000 That interview on an upcoming edition of Sightings. 28 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Shroud, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus still bearing his likeness, will soon be put on public display the first time in 20 years. 29 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Although some scientists have concluded through carbon dating that the shroud of Turin is a medieval forgery, 30 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,000 new research suggests previous carbon dating is unreliable. 31 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,000 This is a replica of the shroud of Turin. 32 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Probably the most visible features are the two parallel burn marks that were the result of the fire that the shroud suffered in the year 1532. 33 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:42,000 John and Rebecca Jackson head up a joint Russian American scientific investigation from the Turin Shroud Center in Colorado 34 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:49,000 and researchers in Moscow have found evidence that the 1532 fire may have tainted carbon dating results. 35 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:59,000 The fire itself, the fire alone, is able to generate such an error as a 400 years. 36 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:07,000 And pollen samples from the shroud as well as distinctive funeral markings suggest the shroud is of Middle Eastern origin. 37 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:14,000 I with certainty can say that the man in the shroud has elements that are distinctly Jewish. 38 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:22,000 And the burial customs are typically Jewish burial customs which were enforced at the time of Jesus. 39 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Minimal age, not exact, but minimal age of the shroud is about 18 or 1700 years before present. 40 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Age is a critical factor, but the most enduring mystery to be solved is how the human form was imprinted on the cloth 41 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,000 since there are no traces of paint or body fluids remaining on the shroud. 42 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:55,000 And certainly one possibility is radiation because that can cause changes to the cloth. 43 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:01,000 I am not prepared to offer any sources or causes of that radiation. 44 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:08,000 However, there's something here that needs to be resolved one way or the other. 45 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:16,000 We'll have more stories from the news next time. 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