1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Jose Escamilla used to be like a lot of other amateur sky watchers. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 He'd take his video camera outside and hope for the best. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,000 But in March of this year, Jose got something. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 A UFO streaking across the sky. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,000 And since then, he has shot more than 500 hours of what he believes is UFO footage. 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Where does Jose Escamilla live? 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 12 miles outside of Roswell, New Mexico. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,000 The first time he's shot a video of a UFO in the sky. 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:40,000 He began taping UFOs on March 5th. 10 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000 And I got a call and they said, come out to midway, there's UFOs out here. 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Midway, New Mexico is easy to miss if you're speeding by in the interstate. 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,000 To the casual observer, it's just another small, southwestern town. 13 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,000 But look up. 14 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,000 There, in broad daylight, strange craft are flying over the town. 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Sightings contacted local residents who have startling home videos of UFOs they just can't explain. 16 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:11,000 New Mexico as a whole has had a lot of sightings. 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,000 And I think that there is a tremendous interest by our visitors, should we say, 18 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,000 as to the activities that have taken place here in the past. 19 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Here, just a stone's throw from midway near Roswell, New Mexico, 20 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,000 a suspicious crash landing in 1947 launched modern interest in ufology. 21 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 The air force insisted it was a downed weather balloon. 22 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:39,000 And despite persistent rumors, continue to deny any knowledge of alien craft or life forms. 23 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,000 But many people who live and work here believe otherwise, 24 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:50,000 that this new flap of UFOs is connected to the original Roswell incident. 25 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Jose Escamilla owns a videotape facility in New Mexico 26 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 and has shot hundreds of hours of beautiful southwestern scenery. 27 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,000 But on March 5th, 1994, Escamilla saw his first UFOs. 28 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 He immediately began videotaping. 29 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,000 We have a piece of film of a jet, I think it was a citation that flew right over the property. 30 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 I guess it must have been about five or six hundred feet. 31 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 And we captured an object that comes from upper screen right on TV. 32 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:22,000 And it goes right up behind the jet and it seems to tag it on a tail or bump it. 33 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,000 And you can see the object taken off away from the jet. 34 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Because of his video background, some people were suspicious of Escamilla's footage. 35 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Local news reporter Lachelle Yates launched an investigation. 36 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Given the history of Roswell and the crash, 37 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:45,000 we thought it was interesting that here is a man who is capturing something unexplained on videotape. 38 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,000 So we went out and videotaped in the same place that he videotapes. 39 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 And we got identical objects on our video. 40 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:59,000 So we feel that he's not tricking us with any video scam or anything. 41 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 What he has captured on tape, we feel is authentic. 42 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:09,000 To date, Jose Escamilla has logged more than five hundred hours of UFO videotape. 43 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Every time we get a new tape and we find some new kind of object in there, 44 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 there's an excitement that builds and it's just like incredible. 45 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 I've never seen anything like this in my life. 46 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:26,000 From the film footage I have seen, there appears to be some type of intelligence behind the phenomena. 47 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:32,000 They represent a true enigma deserving of scientific scrutiny. 48 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:38,000 The Escamilla video is an excellent cross-section of the kinds of things that are in the film. 49 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Of the kinds of things that I see on videotapes. 50 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Jim DeLotosis specializes in computer-assisted analysis of film and videotape. 51 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Siding's asked him to examine a large sapling from Escamilla's footage. 52 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,000 He has found a number of unnatural flight patterns. 53 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:01,000 What we find, you'll see, is that the object comes right in front of this telephone pole 54 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,000 and then moves right up here and over top of the wires and out of the frame. 55 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Now in calculating this distance from where it comes in over the trees 56 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:16,000 and by analyzing the edges and going up over the poles, it's about 900 yards. 57 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:22,000 And in that period of time, it's moving well over 3,000 miles an hour. 58 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:30,000 There are at least four military bases that are known to use the airspace over this part of New Mexico. 59 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:35,000 And Area 51, the supposedly non-existent Air Force testing facility, 60 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,000 would be only 10 minutes away for a stealth fighter. 61 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Are unidentified craft like these government built and run? 62 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 The Pentagon isn't talking. 63 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,000 When it comes to trying to get this information, the Air Force will come back 64 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,000 on an initial generic request stating that they have no information. 65 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 This is a lie. 66 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:05,000 The proximity to military bases in New Mexico and Eskimea making these videotapes 67 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 is not just a coincidence, it follows a pattern. 68 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Skeptics offer this as proof that UFOs are actually military aircraft. 69 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:19,000 But much of Eskimea's footage reveals silhouettes and velocities 70 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 that are not only unidentified by eyewitnesses, 71 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,000 but also unimaginable by current standards of technology. 72 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 I'd like to find out what they are, period. 73 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,000 If they're top secret military aircraft that the military is testing, 74 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:38,000 I want an answer why they're doing such dangerous things out there, like bumping their own jets. 75 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:44,000 That's number one, but if they are not, I'd like to know what they may be. 76 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Jose Eskimea knows that not everything he's capturing on videotape can be an alien spacecraft, 77 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 but he believes that his video journal of the skies above Roswell 78 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 is an important research tool for ufologists. 79 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,000 It is the only comprehensive catalog of rare daytime activity anywhere in the world.