1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 For reasons of national security. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000 But sightings has spoken with former government personnel 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,000 who charge that not only does the government keep certain projects secret, 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,000 it also creates bogus projects to divert the pride eyes of the American public. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 It's called disinformation. 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:22,000 What does the United States government and the military know about UFOs? 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,000 And when did they know it? 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:30,000 For nearly 50 years, researchers and private citizens have been asking for answers to no avail. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Have we made contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence? 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Are we being kept from the truth through a systematic plan of disinformation? 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Certainly there is a cover-up. 12 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000 That's not the important question. That's a given. 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,000 The ability to maintain a cover-up is directly proportional 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,000 to the magnitude of the secret that's being kept. 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:00,000 If the secret is only that there are UFOs, 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,000 that there are extraterrestrials coming here visiting the planet, 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 then I submit to you that's not much of a secret. 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:17,000 It has to be something so potentially shattering to the basic sociological structure of the planet 19 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,000 that anybody privy to it takes one look at it and says, 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 oh my god, we've got to keep the lid on this. 21 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,000 How are we going to tell the public? 22 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Charges of government conspiracy are nothing new, 23 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,000 but what is new are revelations that not all secret government projects 24 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,000 have been for the greater public good. 25 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:39,000 As recently as the early 1970s, LSD was given to unwitting human subjects. 26 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:45,000 In the 1940s, people received plutonium injections without their knowledge or consent, 27 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:52,000 and during the Cold War, human guinea pigs were used to determine the effective nuclear bombs 28 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 dropped within close range. 29 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 These experiments and hundreds of other secret military projects 30 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 proved that the government is capable of large-scale deception. 31 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 clandestine operations in the name of national security 32 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:11,000 came to public attention for the first time in the 1950s with the U-2 spy plane. 33 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Just before it became operational in 1954, a plan was developed 34 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,000 in which they said, how do you hide an airplane with a 60-foot wingspan? 35 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 You don't. 36 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Leo Janus worked in the Johnson White House before becoming a correspondent for Time Magazine. 37 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:34,000 In Skunk Works, Janus investigates the top secret test center where the U-2 was developed. 38 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:40,000 So they made up a story, and the story was that this airplane was being developed 39 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000 to study high altitude weather and so on and so forth, 40 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,000 and put out an official news release lying to the American people. 41 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:56,000 But keeping the wraps on a new generation of spy plane is a far cry for maintaining a massive UFO conspiracy. 42 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Skeptics charge that if our government does have evidence of alien craft or life forms, 43 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 someone, somewhere, would leak it. 44 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,000 That a secret this big just could not be kept. 45 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Nonsense. Nonsense. You can do it. I'm convinced of that. 46 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:22,000 George Knapp is another investigative reporter who believes that the U.S. government consistently hides the truth from the public. 47 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:30,000 He showed sightings documents that outline government procedures for launching a disinformation campaign called cover stories. 48 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Our government does it all the time. 49 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,000 There are even printed guidelines for how cover stories disinformation are supposed to work. 50 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:44,000 In April of 1994, there was even a review of the cover story policy by something called the Joint Security Commission, 51 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,000 something hidden in the bowels of the Pentagon, and they said it in a very delicate way, 52 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,000 we're doing this too much. We're doing it too much for the wrong reasons. 53 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 It's too expensive. It's not getting the job done. 54 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 But it recommended rewriting the guidelines for cover stories. 55 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,000 In other words, let's revise the way we lie to the American public and the rest of the world. 56 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Robert O. Dean is a retired Army Sergeant Major who served on the front lines in Korea and Vietnam 57 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,000 and was later assigned to NATO's Supreme Headquarters Command. 58 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:20,000 He claims to have had NATO's highest security clearance, which is called, strangely, a cosmic top secret clearance. 59 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:27,000 It was during his tenure at NATO that Dean claims he read a 12-inch thick intelligence report on UFOs. 60 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:34,000 I have to be honest with you and tell you that that information literally changed my life, 61 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:44,000 because I knew for the first time that this subject was not fantasy, it wasn't myth, it wasn't legend, it was real. It was true. 62 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:52,000 But why is Dean breaking his silence now, nearly 30 years after reading that life-changing report? 63 00:04:52,000 --> 00:05:02,000 One of the reasons I'm violating my national security oath is that I believe that the American people are losing their constitution 64 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 because of the secrecy and the cover-up. 65 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:12,000 We've got people in positions of power that are making national policy that were never elected for this. 66 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,000 They're not accountable, they're not responsible to either the executive or the legislative branch. 67 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,000 And that's got to stop. 68 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Dean and others charged that secret government enterprises called Black Projects are far more widespread and far more damaging than most people believe, 69 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,000 and the best minds in the country are in charge of keeping them secret. 70 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:37,000 The people who engage in disinformation are a lot better at it than we are at figuring it out. 71 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:47,000 This document from the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence reveals that the agency was proposing a UFO disinformation plan as early as 1952. 72 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:53,000 The document also details an investigation of NICAP, a private UFO watchdog group. 73 00:05:53,000 --> 00:06:04,000 They spied on it, they infiltrated it, they became officers in it, and soon thereafter the regular members who'd kept this thing going for a number of years lost interest. 74 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Despite hundreds of pages of documentary evidence, the only officially recognized government investigation of UFOs is Project Blue Book. 75 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Now, I look upon Blue Book itself as a little bit of disinformation. 76 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:26,000 To tell the people, yes, we're doing something, when in reality Blue Book, as we understood it, was simply a public relations front. 77 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 And those of us who really dug into it know that Blue Book was a cover. 78 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:37,000 It was a PR cover that they didn't really address the reality of the issues. 79 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,000 It was a PR attempt to show the public, well, we're doing some research. 80 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Yeah, we're really paying attention to it. 81 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:50,000 But most of the real solid material never went to Blue Book, and Air Force pilots knew this. 82 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,000 And according to Dean, this information continues to this day. 83 00:06:54,000 --> 00:07:03,000 To give you an example of the most recent example of absurd disinformation, was this incident involving the Roswell incident. 84 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 First, the Air Force says it was a weather balloon. 85 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:12,000 And 50 years later, they said, gee guys, we're sorry, it really wasn't a weather balloon. 86 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 It was much more than that, but it was a balloon. 87 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Project Mogul. 88 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Well, I'm tempted to use terms that you'll have to bleep out. 89 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 This is garbage. 90 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 That's disinformation. 91 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,000 That's lying through your teeth to the American people. 92 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 That isn't disinformation. I don't know what is. 93 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:41,000 What Dean is referring to is this 23-page statement about the Roswell incident released by the Air Force in late 1994. 94 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:48,000 In it, the Air Force attempted to link veteran researcher Stanton Friedland to ludicrous stories in the tabloid. 95 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:54,000 They said, in 1978, an article appeared in a tabloid newspaper, The National Enquirer. 96 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:59,000 The fact of the matter is, there wasn't an article in the Enquirer. 97 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 It's not only wrong information. 98 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:07,000 It has a purpose to create a false picture of what was going on. 99 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,000 After all, it's just tabloid nonsense. 100 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Bob Dean believes that there have also been attempts to discredit his UFO investigations. 101 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,000 We're not merely dealing with probably the most important issue of our time. 102 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,000 We're probably dealing with the most important issue in the history of the human race. 103 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:30,000 This is something I believe in my heart, that the truth on this issue will literally set us free. 104 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,000 George Knapp is not so optimistic. 105 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,000 I don't see any way it's ever going to end. The nature of the information itself. 106 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:43,000 I mean, we all say we have a right to know. We want to know we're ready. I'm not sure we are ready. 107 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:51,000 You know, some of the more outrageous aspects of alien visitation, UFOs, are downright scary. 108 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:58,000 We can say we're ready all we want, but I think when you get right down to it, it would have severe ramifications. 109 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Sightings is in the midst of its own investigation into charges of a government UFO conspiracy. 110 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:12,000 We have examined hundreds of documents, including this Air Force study that concludes that there is a possibility of alien visitors to our planet, 111 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,000 or at least of alien-controlled UFOs. 112 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 We'll bring you our full report on upcoming editions of sighting.