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Welcome to Sightings. The videotape that you're about to see is different. It was shot in

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late 1994 in the government's own backyard, the super secret Nellis Test Range in southern

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Nevada. Had the tape not been smuggled out, it may 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

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way onto the complex, says aerospace journalist Bill Sweatman, 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 if

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somebody is really straying into the range is very very serious. And yet something obviously did

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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 the ranges for close to 10 years.

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It seemed to move in whichever direction it wanted to go whenever it wanted to,

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contrary to any aircraft that I've seen in the past. Chuck Decaro is a former member of U.S.

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Special Forces, specializing in state-of-the-art military technology. He has analyzed hours of

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video footage of supposed UFOs, debunking many, but he has never seen anything like the Nellis UFO.

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In my first look at that tape, I said wow, and I continue to say wow. There are only three

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things that could be on that tape. One is a very elaborate and very expensive hoax. I don't think

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that's what we're seeing. The second is some kind of a black project, a secret project, that has some

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very unusual aerodynamic characteristics. And the third, if you can eliminate all those aerodynamic

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answers, could be a true unknown. And if that is an unknown, if you can come to that conclusion,

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you get a pretty interesting piece of history right there. To rule out the possibility of a hoax,

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sightings asked a government subcontractor who uses the same image analysis computer as the

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Department of Defense to analyze the S-30 tapes. He has asked to remain anonymous.

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The video appears to be genuine. Specifically, it was taken by contractor personnel that are

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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 and 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.

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And that's why I thought it was interesting to start with. It almost appears to be

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like spherical in the center and with a appendage on the bottom and on the top. You don't see any

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evidence of rotors. The, and also the startling thing is it seems to change shape. Another

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anomalous characteristic of the object is its apparent ability to change shape instantaneously.

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The physical profile of the object changes almost frame to frame.

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It's sometimes it appears almost to be a fuzzy gassy cloud. In some portions of the video,

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it appears to be several spherical objects surrounding a dark mass.

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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 S30 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 during

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this phase the range is increasing. It's actually going away from the camera and at this point

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it changes direction. Wind wouldn't do that. It wouldn't change that abruptly and it wouldn't

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follow a constant radius throughout this entire portion here. It's all at constant distance from

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

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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 radar

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

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as you get a lock where you get this radar signal it would seem to me that this object was interested

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in who's observing it and it turned in order to find out. When something starts to change shape

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like that in the air you become very very puzzled because you realize that you're looking at something

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that appears to involve a whole new technology that we don't understand. What you want to do of

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course is go and find the person who's invented this and say whatever made you think of that and

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what does it do and how does it do it. But we will probably never know who created this new

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technology. Questions about the earthly or other worldly origins of the Nellis UFO are unanswerable

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until the mastermind behind this craft comes forward there is only speculation and fear.

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Like us viewing an ant farm. 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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Nellis 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.