1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,000 They appear around the globe, unidentified objects streaking across the sky. 2 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Wow! 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,500 Look at that! 4 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:27,300 Home video cameras capture it all. 5 00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:31,300 Why do these supposed UFOs keep appearing in the same places? 6 00:00:31,300 --> 00:00:38,300 Mexico, Brazil, even United States nuclear bases. 7 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:41,300 Is it a coincidence? 8 00:00:41,300 --> 00:00:46,300 Or are these places, these events, proof of? 9 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:51,300 UFO Hotspots 10 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:59,300 São Paulo, Brazil, 1988 11 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:04,300 Gulf Breeze, Florida, 1988 12 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:10,300 Las Vegas, Nevada, 1990 13 00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:14,300 Mexico City, Mexico, 1991 14 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:19,300 Wow! Whatever it is, it's something strange. 15 00:01:19,300 --> 00:01:22,300 What do all these cities have in common? 16 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:26,300 There are so many UFO sightings reported in these places 17 00:01:26,300 --> 00:01:31,300 that they are all considered to be UFO hotspots. 18 00:01:31,300 --> 00:01:42,300 A UFO hotspot would be an area that represents a high number of sightings of abnormal or unusual aircraft that are unidentifiable. 19 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:47,300 It's been long recognized that UFO sightings tend to come in waves. 20 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:56,300 In other words, there is an area of the country or the world where the number of UFO sightings increases for some unknown reason. 21 00:01:56,300 --> 00:02:01,300 There are theories about why these areas seem to attract UFO attention. 22 00:02:01,300 --> 00:02:08,300 To some, the reason is the natural forces of the Earth, like volcanoes and earthquakes. 23 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:11,300 The UFOs appear to be observing us. 24 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:16,300 The UFOs have come to a certain spot because of what's going on at the time. 25 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:22,300 One of the things that seems to stimulate UFO activity is a major disruption in the Earth. 26 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:28,300 Still, others believe that human behavior is at the root of these sightings. 27 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:33,300 One of the things that has to do with hotspots is that once somebody notices something, 28 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:35,300 then others are going to look also. 29 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:38,300 You may not pay much attention to your surroundings. 30 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:42,300 Someone says, gee, last night there were three mysterious lights went by. 31 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:46,300 The next night you're going to be watching and there's a much better chance that you're going to see them 32 00:02:46,300 --> 00:02:50,300 than if you're just sort of walking along looking at your feet. 33 00:02:50,300 --> 00:02:59,300 According to the National UFO Recording Center, there have been more than 13,000 UFO sightings in the United States since 1990. 34 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:10,300 Making such places as the mysterious Area 51 in Nevada, Washington State, and Florida, UFO hotspots. 35 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:19,300 Still, with reports of UFOs coming in from as far-flung locales as Quito, Ecuador, 36 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:27,300 Haifa, Israel, Stuttgart, Germany, and Sydney, Australia, 37 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:33,300 America doesn't seem to be the only place getting these unexplained visits. 38 00:03:33,300 --> 00:03:38,300 Many people don't realize that UFOs are not seen only in the United States. 39 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:40,300 They're seen all over the world. 40 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:42,300 There are hotspots all over the world. 41 00:03:42,300 --> 00:03:44,300 Brazil is one of those hotspots. 42 00:03:44,300 --> 00:03:54,300 With 549 sightings, Brazil was second only to the United States and reported UFO activity in 2001. 43 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:59,300 And unlike America, where UFO reports are traditionally met with skepticism, 44 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:08,300 Brazil has a strong tradition of accepting UFO sightings and even publicly conducting government investigations. 45 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:12,300 Generally, South American countries are more open to this type of thing. 46 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:16,300 There are other cultures that are more tolerant of people's perceptions, their emotions. 47 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:21,300 They're more open to events that may be part real, part mystical, 48 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:25,300 and they do not have the same strong norms, you might say, 49 00:04:25,300 --> 00:04:29,300 against reporting unusual, paranormal kinds of experiences. 50 00:04:29,300 --> 00:04:36,300 We also have to think in terms of the kinds of religions that predominate, 51 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:43,300 in that if you have religions that make opportunity for saints and angels and things like that, 52 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:50,300 the idea of powerful visitors from afar is, I think, much more easy to accept. 53 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:54,300 October 15, 1957. 54 00:04:55,300 --> 00:05:02,300 Brazil is the location for one of the world's first accounts of an alleged alien abduction. 55 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:07,300 Antonio Villes Boss was a young man. He was driving a tractor in a field. 56 00:05:07,300 --> 00:05:13,300 He claimed he saw an object come down out of the sky and land nearby. 57 00:05:13,300 --> 00:05:22,300 He was greeted by aliens taken on board, washed off with some kind of a substance that smelled very badly to him. 58 00:05:22,300 --> 00:05:28,300 He made him vomit and he later thought maybe that might have been something like a disinfectant or the like. 59 00:05:32,300 --> 00:05:38,300 While he was in this enclosure, a female alien type came in and had sex with him. 60 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:46,300 And then went away and he was dumped back out. 61 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:50,300 To many, this seems like an outlandish story, 62 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:57,300 but V.S. Boas' reluctance to profit from the incident lends the tale an air of credibility in many quarters. 63 00:05:58,300 --> 00:06:05,300 And several months after the incident, the story gets some scientific backing when he is diagnosed with radiation poisoning. 64 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:13,300 He is examined by Dr. Olavo T. Fontes, a professor of medicine at the National School of Medicine of Brazil. 65 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:18,300 One of the very important people in Brazil was a doctor, Olavo Fontes. 66 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:21,300 He was a medical doctor. He worked for the Brazilian government. 67 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:25,300 He investigated the case and he said that as far as he was concerned, it was a good case. 68 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:28,300 It really happened the way that the young man said. 69 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:35,300 Less than six months after the alleged V.L.S. Boas' abduction, 70 00:06:35,300 --> 00:06:40,300 the Brazilian Navy has a well-documented encounter with the UFO. 71 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:46,300 In February of 1958, aboard the Almirante Saldana, 72 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:55,300 a civilian photographer named Almiro Baruna takes five photographs of what seems to be a ringed oval-shaped object. 73 00:06:58,300 --> 00:07:03,300 The photographs are shown to Uselino Kubicek, the president of Brazil. 74 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:09,300 Not wanting to keep this information secret, Kubicek releases the pictures to the public, 75 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:13,300 and they soon appear on the front pages of the nation's newspapers. 76 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:18,300 That particular UFO was never seen again, 77 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:26,300 but UFO incidents like that on board the Almirante Saldana continue to be reported to this day in Brazil. 78 00:07:29,300 --> 00:07:35,300 In the mid-1990s, Brazil's UFOs again make worldwide headlines. 79 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:43,300 On January 20th, 1996, it is alleged that extraterrestrials were recovered in Virginia, Brazil. 80 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:46,300 The emergency personnel were called in. 81 00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:53,300 They were able to recover one of them for certain, as rumor has it, and allegedly took it to a local hospital. 82 00:07:55,300 --> 00:08:00,300 According to unconfirmed reports, government doctors perform an autopsy on the alien. 83 00:08:01,300 --> 00:08:10,300 And of course, from this point, the trail goes cold, and no one is quite sure as to where that particular ET or alleged ET had disappeared to. 84 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:18,300 Despite several purported eyewitness accounts, the Brazilian government, which has been so forthcoming in the past, 85 00:08:18,300 --> 00:08:23,300 denies the Varginia encounter, and that an alien was ever captured. 86 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:29,300 Everything that was in any way connected with this sighting somehow vanished. 87 00:08:30,300 --> 00:08:36,300 Ironically enough, after this creature was allegedly recovered, there was a high number of UFO sightings in the area. 88 00:08:37,300 --> 00:08:42,300 While most experts doubt the veracity of the Varginia ET incident, 89 00:08:42,300 --> 00:08:47,300 the long persistent history of UFO sightings in Brazil is harder to ignore. 90 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:56,300 One curious theory proposes that the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest may be attracting extraterrestrial attention. 91 00:09:03,300 --> 00:09:12,300 If you were to look at Brazil from space, you would see that the vast area of that remote land is on fire. 92 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:16,300 They're burning off the rainforest. That's changing the whole ecology of the planet. 93 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:21,300 If you were observing a planet and what's going on there, you would definitely want to look at Brazil. 94 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:23,300 And that seems to be the case. 95 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:32,300 Coming up... 96 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:37,300 In Mexico, mysterious images caught on tape during a silver eclipse 97 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:43,300 seem to suggest that the world's sacred sites may be UFO hotspots. 98 00:09:55,300 --> 00:10:03,300 Mexico is a land with a sacred past, a land dotted with pyramids built by the ancient Mayans and Aztecs. 99 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:10,300 Monuments to the gods still standing hundreds of years after their makers are gone. 100 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:20,300 Would the sacred energy that permeates these buildings be attracting otherworldly visitors and making Mexico a UFO hotspot? 101 00:10:21,300 --> 00:10:25,300 There are areas around the earth known as sacred spots. 102 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:33,300 And these areas have been known for a large number of sightings of abnormal or unusual aircraft that are unidentifiable. 103 00:10:36,300 --> 00:10:42,300 July 11, 1991. In an event predicted hundreds of years earlier by the Mayans. 104 00:10:44,300 --> 00:10:50,300 The longest solar eclipse of the 20th century shrouds Mexico City in midday darkness. 105 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:56,300 Millions of people look toward the heavens. Many armed with their video cameras. 106 00:10:56,300 --> 00:10:59,300 But their cameras capture more than they expect. 107 00:11:02,300 --> 00:11:05,300 People all over the city, Mexico City, were taking videos. 108 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:08,300 And they were getting things that weren't the eclipse. 109 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:11,300 They were getting strange things flying around in the sky. 110 00:11:12,300 --> 00:11:21,300 Nearly 20 different people scattered across the city videotape what appears to be a saucer shaped object floating above the horizon. 111 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:27,300 Theory surface as to what the strange object may be. 112 00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:32,300 Once the moon passes directly in front of the sun, of course it gets quite dark. 113 00:11:32,300 --> 00:11:35,300 And you start to see the stars, you can see the bright planets. 114 00:11:36,300 --> 00:11:42,300 You can see Venus or any other bright star planet that happens to be above the horizon at that time. 115 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:46,300 Undoubtedly that's what a lot of people were seeing. 116 00:11:46,300 --> 00:11:51,300 But when all of the different video shot from multiple locations around the city are analyzed, 117 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:58,300 the images seem to show Venus and the mysterious object as clearly separate entities. 118 00:12:01,300 --> 00:12:03,300 Some experts offer another theory. 119 00:12:03,300 --> 00:12:07,300 Perhaps the phenomenon is the result of the video cameras themselves. 120 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:15,300 As Mexico's emergence as a UFO hotspot coincides with the proliferation of affordable home video recorders. 121 00:12:18,300 --> 00:12:25,300 A camcorder is made with an automatic focus and an automatic aperture control to try to control the amount of light. 122 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:31,300 And so it is not made to focus against the dark background. 123 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:37,300 An automatic camera cannot focus on these objects without seeming to impart motion and changes in shape to it. 124 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:45,300 But many disagree that the sightings were just a trick of the camera and point to subsequent events as proof. 125 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:55,300 Over the course of the next six years, more than 1500 videos and photographs of UFOs surface throughout Mexico. 126 00:12:56,300 --> 00:13:04,300 Many of the alleged UFO sightings appear near ancient Mayan and Aztec pyramids. 127 00:13:06,300 --> 00:13:13,300 One area with a lot of sightings is Teppotzlan, a resort village some 60 miles south of Mexico City. 128 00:13:14,300 --> 00:13:21,300 According to UFO researcher Carlos Diaz, 60% of its residents report having seen a UFO. 129 00:13:22,300 --> 00:13:29,300 And local air traffic controllers confirm that radar regularly detects unidentified objects over the area. 130 00:13:34,300 --> 00:13:39,300 Teppotzlan is chiefly known for its ruins of a 14th century Aztec pyramid. 131 00:13:39,300 --> 00:13:48,300 Do some UFOlogists, ancient sacred spots like this one represent power points that may be attracting UFO activity. 132 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:56,300 There are many power spots around the world where there are certain geological activities and fluctuations in the fields. 133 00:13:56,300 --> 00:14:02,300 You might call them vortexes or portals where there is a lot of UFO activity. 134 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:08,300 Some believe that extraterrestrials have used these portals to enter our world. 135 00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:16,300 And also that they may have actually been responsible for the construction of some of the world's ancient sacred sites. 136 00:14:17,300 --> 00:14:20,300 Including the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt. 137 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:29,300 There's less than 200 of an inch tolerance between the stones. 138 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:35,300 The tolerance to which it's built exceed the tolerance that we use in our space capsule. 139 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:42,300 The more you study the Great Pyramid, the more you begin to realize there was something going on there that goes beyond our understanding. 140 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:51,300 More than 4,000 years old, the pyramid is built from over 2 million stones. 141 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:56,300 Each side is perfectly oriented to the cardinal points of the compass. 142 00:14:56,300 --> 00:15:00,300 North, south, east and west. 143 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:07,300 The maximum error between the side lengths is astonishingly less than 0.1%. 144 00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:16,300 People have looked at these structures and said, well, you know, they must have built these with some idea of making contact with aliens. 145 00:15:16,300 --> 00:15:19,300 Or the aliens have somehow helped them build these structures. 146 00:15:20,300 --> 00:15:33,300 Another theory is that both the ancient architects who built the sites and the alleged UFOs who visit them are attuned to a supposed geomagnetic energy force called laylines. 147 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:37,300 A grid-like pattern that covers the entire Earth. 148 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:44,300 Laylines are geometric. They're like fields or lines of energy. 149 00:15:44,300 --> 00:15:52,300 And there's all kinds of intersections of certain laylines which seem to create magnetic anomalies. 150 00:15:54,300 --> 00:16:00,300 Laylines have also been linked to tectonic activity, the movement of the Earth's plates. 151 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:09,300 A force that results in earthquakes and volcanoes and provides another potential explanation of UFO activity in Mexico. 152 00:16:10,300 --> 00:16:25,300 One of the reasons I believe that Mexico City is indeed a hotspot for unidentified flying objects is due to the volcano that's near Mexico City where large numbers of legitimate unidentified have been filmed. 153 00:16:31,300 --> 00:16:37,300 UFOs have frequently been reported near Popocatapete, Mexico's smoking mountain. 154 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:42,300 They've been keeping a camera on that mountain ever since it started erupting. 155 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:52,300 And they've been finding in those pictures very clear, disshaped objects of some people who try to explain them as rocks that are blasted out of the volcano. 156 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:57,300 And they take an aerodynamic flight path and look like there's something flying when they're not. 157 00:16:57,300 --> 00:17:00,300 That's pretty hard to believe when you see the direction they actually go. 158 00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:04,300 They come down and toward the mountain rather than going up from the mountain. 159 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:07,300 Why would UFOs hover over volcanoes? 160 00:17:08,300 --> 00:17:19,300 One theory proposes that high levels of hydronium ion, also called H3O, are typically found in places with increased geological activity, like volcanoes. 161 00:17:20,300 --> 00:17:28,300 H3O has an extra hydrogen atom in it and that extra hydrogen atom can be split off and used as hydrogen fuel or for energy. 162 00:17:28,300 --> 00:17:35,300 And it's in the splitting of this extra particle that you can create a fusion effect. 163 00:17:37,300 --> 00:17:46,300 It's possible that these UFOs may be harnessing this type of energy for their systems to perhaps propel themselves to the atmosphere. 164 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:56,300 So perhaps UFOs are interested in Mexico more as an intergalactic gas station than for its sacred ancient structures. 165 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:11,300 Coming up next, 10 of America's nuclear missiles suddenly shut down as a glowing disk hovers above mom's from Air Force Base. 166 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:25,300 As the control center for some 221-minute man intercontinental ballistic missiles, 167 00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:34,300 mom's from Air Force Base near Great Falls, Montana, is an essential part of the nuclear arsenal for the United States. 168 00:18:34,300 --> 00:18:43,300 For decades, mom's from and other strategic air command centers like it have been the primary potential targets for the country's enemies. 169 00:18:43,300 --> 00:18:50,300 But many UFO experts wonder if these bases have also been attracting a different kind of attention. 170 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:55,300 Are America's nuclear installations UFO hotspots? 171 00:18:56,300 --> 00:19:05,300 One interpretation of UFO activity is that these entities, assuming that they are entities, are interested in our technological development. 172 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:12,300 We're a very violent species as you know if you watch television at night. 173 00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:17,300 So that alone is a reason that they would have to pay attention to what we're doing. 174 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:22,300 March 16, 1967. 175 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:30,300 Reports of UFOs at mom's rooms seem to demonstrate an extraterrestrial interest in America's nuclear forces. 176 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:38,300 The way it happened, according to Robert Salas, who was stationed underground in one of the missile complexes, 177 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:45,300 was that he received a phone call from a security guard up on top, up on ground level, 178 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:52,300 saying in effect that there was a large red glowing disk shaped object hovering in front of the facility. 179 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:56,300 And the guards were extremely frightened about this as you can imagine. 180 00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:01,300 He kind of laughed and sort of said, you know, back off. 181 00:20:01,300 --> 00:20:10,300 The security guard called a second time saying even more panicky that the UFO was now hovering right outside the gate and was very close. 182 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:19,300 They were observing the status board in the launch complex and they noticed that the missiles started going offline. 183 00:20:19,300 --> 00:20:21,300 Clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk. 184 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:25,300 Ten of the missiles, one at a time, just boom, boom, boom, boom, shut down. 185 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:27,300 The missiles quit functioning. 186 00:20:27,300 --> 00:20:31,300 So we were really out of business as a nuclear deterrent at that time. 187 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:44,300 The incident at Malmstrom is neither the first nor the last time that the security of the United States nuclear sites is supposedly compromised by a UFO incursion. 188 00:20:45,300 --> 00:20:59,300 This supposed trend in UFO activity is noticed as early as 1952 by Captain Edward Ruppelt, the first chief of Project Blue Book, the Air Force's official investigation of UFO reports. 189 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:09,300 Ruppelt discovers what he calls an ominous correlation between UFO sightings and the locations of the nation's nuclear facilities. 190 00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:16,300 If you're in the military and someone is displaying an interest in your strategic capabilities, it's an alarming situation. 191 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:19,300 It raises national security questions. 192 00:21:20,300 --> 00:21:22,300 A lot of investigation went on to determine what could happen. 193 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:26,300 The Boeing company that was responsible for some of the equipment was involved. 194 00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:28,300 The US government was involved in investigations. 195 00:21:28,300 --> 00:21:35,300 The actual reason for so many missiles going down simultaneously was a big puzzle. 196 00:21:36,300 --> 00:21:45,300 They found absolutely that an EMP, an electromagnetic pulse, may have fried the electronic workings in the missiles. 197 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:54,300 However, there was no attempt whatsoever to relate the EMP, the pulse, to the presence of the UFO outside. 198 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:59,300 In fact, the presence of the UFO out in the perimeter was dismissed as hearsay. 199 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:04,300 We have no hard evidence that there really were any UFOs there. 200 00:22:04,300 --> 00:22:08,300 Nobody got any clear photographs or videos or anything like that. 201 00:22:08,300 --> 00:22:14,300 We just have somebody's perception that they went out and they saw a light in the sky. 202 00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:22,300 But the source of the EMP, a radiation wave that disturbs the function of electronic equipment, remains undetermined. 203 00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:29,300 And the government has never explained why so many missiles malfunctioned at the same time. 204 00:22:29,300 --> 00:22:34,300 It's important to bear in mind that these missiles are designed to be independent systems. 205 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:41,300 So if you do something to affect one missile, it won't affect all the other missiles because they're totally separate. 206 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:51,300 So whatever caused this event was able to shut down a whole variety of missiles that were spread around a large geographical area around the EMP. 207 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:55,300 The geographical area around the launch control complex. 208 00:22:55,300 --> 00:23:03,300 Fewer than 10 years later, five strategic air command bases, including Malmstrom, are placed on high priority alert. 209 00:23:03,300 --> 00:23:09,300 As a result of repeated reports of UFOs over nuclear weapons storage systems. 210 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:15,300 In 1975, right along the Northern Tier Frontier, in many of the different Air Force bases, 211 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:21,300 Falcon Bridge in Ontario, Canada, lowering Air Force Base in Maine, Wardsmith Air Force Base in Michigan, 212 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:26,300 Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, and Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, 213 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:30,300 all experienced a series of unidentified objects. 214 00:23:30,300 --> 00:23:36,300 Some of these were explained away as helicopters, some of them were explained away as unidentified aircraft. 215 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:39,300 Some of them were called UFOs. 216 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:48,300 But the general theme was that Air Force Base was being violated at random by a series of aircraft that should not have been there. 217 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:57,300 At each of the bases, official logs record eyewitness accounts of the UFOs, and they are tracked by radar as well. 218 00:23:57,300 --> 00:24:06,300 In each case, the UFO reportedly hovers above the base, specifically the weapon storage area, for up to 40 minutes. 219 00:24:06,300 --> 00:24:16,300 All attempts to intercept or positively identify the UFO from the ground or with fighter jets in the air, fail. 220 00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:23,300 The incursions are brought to the attention of the Commander-in-Chief of NORAD, the North American Air Defense Command. 221 00:24:23,300 --> 00:24:26,300 An investigation ensues. 222 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:38,300 The initial thinking behind the unidentified objects over the Air Force bases in the Northern Tier was thought to be potentially Russians or else some other enemy. 223 00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:47,300 The only information we have is that eyewitnesses described objects that behaved in a very unusual fashion, that they glowed red, for example, 224 00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:53,300 and it doesn't sound like any technology that the Soviets had at that time. 225 00:24:57,300 --> 00:25:08,300 Another theory is that the UFO incursions were a type of readiness self-test to check the security of the bases in the event of an attack. 226 00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:13,300 But if it was a test, the bases performed poorly. 227 00:25:13,300 --> 00:25:17,300 The Air Force personnel were completely at sea as to what was happening. 228 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:22,300 They were actually calling the law enforcement people in Great Falls, Montana for help, 229 00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:27,300 because unidentified aircraft were buzzing them in missile-controlled silos. 230 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:30,300 They had no idea what was going on. 231 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:36,300 Aside from acknowledging that unexplained events have occurred at the Northern Tier bases, 232 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:47,300 the U.S. government remains characteristically silent on the question of whether American nuclear installments are indeed UFO hotspots. 233 00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:54,300 To my knowledge, there's no published report explaining what happened. It's simply a mystery. 234 00:25:56,300 --> 00:26:00,300 And as far as the government is concerned, it can remain a mystery. 235 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:05,300 According to the Air Force Fact Sheet on UFOs published in 1996, 236 00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:15,300 no evidence has been presented to indicate that further investigation of UFOs by the Air Force or other government agency is warranted. 237 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:22,300 But for some, the base sightings are not quite as open and shut a case as the government would have us believe. 238 00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:33,300 We think the reason that the military tend to downplay this whole phenomenon is because the Department of Defense, by definition, needs to defend. 239 00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:38,300 And theoretically, there are objects that are able to violate United States airspace with impunity. 240 00:26:38,300 --> 00:26:44,300 That sets up a very big question mark about the efficiency and the abilities of the Department of Defense. 241 00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:50,300 But they are as bewildered and as puzzled and as intimidated as everybody else is. 242 00:26:56,300 --> 00:27:03,300 Coming up, amazing photographs and multiple sightings in Gulf Breeze, Florida divide the UFO community. 243 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:08,300 Is it a hotspot? Or an elaborate hoax? 244 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:29,300 It's November 11, 1987, and Ed Walters, a building contractor in Gulf Breeze, Florida, is about to experience the UFO phenomenon firsthand. 245 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:36,300 As he would later recount, Walters looks up from his desk and sees what he believes to be a UFO. 246 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:40,300 He grabs his Polaroid camera and ventures outside. 247 00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:50,300 Walters manages to snap a photo of what appears to be a glowing dome-shaped bluish-gray craft hovering about 200 feet in the air. 248 00:27:53,300 --> 00:28:01,300 From 1987 to 1992, the small town of Gulf Breeze, Florida is famous for being an alleged UFO hotspot. 249 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:08,300 Hundreds of eyewitnesses claim to see strange objects and unexplained lights in the sky. 250 00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:14,300 But Gulf Breeze is mired in controversy and allegations of a hoax. 251 00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:18,300 And Ed Walters stands at the center of the storm. 252 00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:32,300 On November 19, 1987, eight days after Ed Walters allegedly had his UFO encounter, the Gulf Breeze Sentinel publishes two of his five photographs. 253 00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:44,300 The next night, Walters claims to see another UFO and manages to take four more pictures, but decides not to publish them. 254 00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:53,300 Still, UFO fever has gripped Gulf Breeze, and by November 25, reports of UFOs are pouring in. 255 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:56,300 Hotspots are very intriguing. 256 00:28:56,300 --> 00:29:03,300 These are places where there are multiple sightings. One person sees something and a number of people see it shortly thereafter. 257 00:29:04,300 --> 00:29:09,300 The first person who notices it, the sense grants permission for the other people to make similar reports. 258 00:29:13,300 --> 00:29:21,300 Over the course of the next four months, Walters takes more than 20 photographs of a strange vessel on more than 10 different occasions. 259 00:29:22,300 --> 00:29:29,300 He even shoots one minute and 38 seconds of video of a UFO sighting on December 28, 1987. 260 00:29:31,300 --> 00:29:38,300 Walters, who chooses to remain anonymous at first, soon becomes the central figure in the Gulf Breeze sightings. 261 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:42,300 But he isn't the only one who is seeing strange things in the night sky. 262 00:29:43,300 --> 00:29:55,300 Pensacola area, Gulf Breeze area, is not just Ed Walters. There were literally over 130 UFO incidents involving more than 200 witnesses in this area. 263 00:29:56,300 --> 00:29:59,300 Ed Walters was only involved in 34 of those incidents. 264 00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:15,300 But it is Walters whose photographs and claims attract the attention of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, a non-profit organization that studies UFO phenomena. 265 00:30:16,300 --> 00:30:26,300 In February 1988, MUFON provides Walters with a specially designed, tamper-proof camera in order to authenticate his UFO experiences. 266 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:31,300 It was a multi-lens camera that could take more than one view at the same time. 267 00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:37,300 We bought a new film, we put it in that camera, we had it certified as new, we closed the camera, sealed it with wax. 268 00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:45,300 He was allowed to use the camera and he did get some pictures. It was again opened then under security conditions. 269 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:52,300 The films were developed, found things on the film and there's no way he could have faked that one. 270 00:30:53,300 --> 00:31:02,300 By the end of 1988, seven different MUFON investigators have analyzed the evidence in Gulf Breeze. 271 00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:13,300 Meteorological and site survey analyses conclude that the photographs were likely to have been taken on the days and at the times that Walters alleges they were. 272 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:20,300 Walters himself passes a battery of examinations including two polygraph tests. 273 00:31:20,300 --> 00:31:27,300 MUFON satisfied that Walters claims are real, officially authenticates the Gulf Breeze sightings. 274 00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:38,300 But in 1990, new doubts surface regarding the Ed Walters case. 275 00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:46,300 First, a model that resembles the UFO in Walters photographs is found in the attic of his former residence in Gulf Breeze. 276 00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:55,300 Then, in July of that year, a teenager named Tommy Smith alleges that he witnessed Ed Walters faking the UFO photos. 277 00:31:56,300 --> 00:32:03,300 MUFON begins an investigation of skeptical stance. Just like any private investigation or any police investigation, we go about it the same way. 278 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:08,300 And like in any crime case, if more evidence comes along, we'll reopen the case. 279 00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:16,300 And we did reopen the case in Gulf Breeze because of Tommy Smith's allegation that Ed Walters had hoaxed it. 280 00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:26,300 MUFON sends two new investigators, Rex and Carol Salisbury, to Gulf Breeze. 281 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:35,300 The Salisbury's findings indicate that Ed Walters doctored the photographs, particularly one called Photo 19, 282 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:40,300 that shows the reflection of a UFO on the surface of a road. 283 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:47,300 The Salisbury's believe that the photo was most likely made by using a small model and double exposure. 284 00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:53,300 But their conclusions are rejected by MUFON. 285 00:32:54,300 --> 00:33:01,300 They believe that the other sightings at Gulf Breeze were real. They stated that in their reports. They just didn't believe Ed Walters. 286 00:33:01,300 --> 00:33:09,300 Basically, MUFON fired them and sent somebody else in to authenticate quote unquote the sighting. 287 00:33:11,300 --> 00:33:17,300 The new investigator named Gary Watson questions the ferocity of Tommy Smith's testimony. 288 00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:25,300 He also alleges that the model UFO found in the attic of Walters former home was planted by someone who wanted to discredit Walters. 289 00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:31,300 Watson concludes that Ed Walters photos and story are true. 290 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:40,300 Despite the controversy over the Walters sightings, reports of a new UFO begin to emerge in Gulf Breeze. 291 00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:46,300 Instead of looking like ships or vessels, the new sightings are characterized differently. 292 00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:56,300 There were various kinds of lights that were seen. Big red globes, little white lights, some lights that maneuvered, some hovered, some shot away, some just disappeared. 293 00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:09,300 From 1990 through 1992, residents of Gulf Breeze see the strange lights so often that they give them a nickname. 294 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:19,300 Bubba. They organize sky watches and by 1992 there are 170 recorded UFO sightings of Bubba. 295 00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:28,300 But then in 1992, the lights disappear as mysteriously as they had appeared two years earlier. 296 00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:34,300 The lights have never been explained and the Ed Walters case still divides the UFO community. 297 00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:43,300 Although strange lights are still occasionally seen in Gulf Breeze, it is no longer considered to be a UFO hotspot. 298 00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:50,300 Whatever supposedly was going on in Gulf Breeze, it's not going on anymore. 299 00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:57,300 Look at that. Look at that. Oh, it doubled. There it goes. It's doubling. 300 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:05,300 Up next, a Washington State man claims to be living in the middle of one of the world's major UFO hotspots. 301 00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:22,300 Winter 2002. Deep in the Mojave Desert, an alleged UFO hotspot, a flashing light beams a hopeful, morse-coded message to the stars. 302 00:35:23,300 --> 00:35:25,300 Hello. We are peaceful. 303 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:39,300 Dr. Colm Kellerher and his colleagues at the National Institute of Discovery Science, or NIDS, are searching for signs of intelligent life in the universe. 304 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:50,300 Armed with a light-gathering telescope, an electro-spectrometer to analyze the light, and geomagnetic sensors to measure radio and microwave emissions, 305 00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:59,300 Dr. Kellerher hopes to amass physical data to prove, beyond a scientific doubt, that UFOs exist. 306 00:36:01,300 --> 00:36:06,300 The primary focus is to try to get physical data with respect to UFOs. 307 00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:15,300 And I think only a person who's been working in this field for quite a while would appreciate the absolute difficulty in getting physical data on UFOs, 308 00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:22,300 because you never know when they're going to appear, you never know how long they're going to stay, and you never know why they would appear in a particular place. 309 00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:33,300 NIDS operates a 24-hour hotline for UFO sightings. 310 00:36:33,300 --> 00:36:42,300 And although 95% of the accounts turn out to be IFOs, identified flying objects, like airplanes or weather balloons, 311 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:46,300 there is still the 5% that defies explanation. 312 00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:51,300 And that 5% is what interests Dr. Kellerher. 313 00:36:53,300 --> 00:37:05,300 If we got a series of reports, say in the last five or six months or even a year, from the same area, same location, different eyewitnesses that appeared to corroborate, we would take those reports seriously. 314 00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:18,300 And one alleged hotspot that is raising some serious questions in the UFO community is the Yakima Mount Adams area in southeastern Washington state. 315 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:27,300 The Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington has the appearances of being a UFO hotspot for many years. 316 00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:36,300 UFOs have been reported from the fire towers, from rangers, from people camping, that sort of thing, over and over and over. 317 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:45,300 James Gilliland is the owner of the Saadfa Sanctuary, a UFO-friendly, spiritual retreat located nearby. 318 00:37:47,300 --> 00:37:51,300 He claims the whole area is rife with UFO activity. 319 00:37:52,300 --> 00:37:58,300 The sanctuary here is located right at the base of Mount Adams, next to the Yakima Reservation. 320 00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:03,300 And it has over a hundred year history of recorded UFO activity. 321 00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:17,300 I'd say this is probably one of the major hotspots in the world right now, because it's almost nightly that we see at least one or two, if not 15 to 25 UFOs flying in the area. 322 00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:26,300 Gilliland and fellow seekers gather regularly in the summer months for sky watches. 323 00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:31,300 They play music and meditate, and wait patiently for UFOs to appear. 324 00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:43,300 They're looking for people that are very spiritually aware, that have kind hearts, that love people, love humanity, earth, 325 00:38:43,300 --> 00:38:51,300 and those are the ones that will be ambassadors to bring forward their message, because those people have risen to the occasion. 326 00:38:54,300 --> 00:39:02,300 As Gilliland and others see it, the anomalous lights that appear above his property exhibit both intelligence and intent. 327 00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:15,300 What these ships are doing, they're inquisitive, they're morphing, they're responding to lights, they're responding to the telepathic messages of those people on the ground. 328 00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:19,300 Whoa, there we go, we got it! That was a good one. 329 00:39:20,300 --> 00:39:30,300 We actually have some that morph from a round object to a triangle when we draw a big triangle in the sky, and then it goes back to a round object and then leaves again with multiple witnesses. 330 00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:37,300 When you're talking about lights in the sky, it's very difficult to say what causes them. Are they natural phenomena or are they not? 331 00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:47,300 When they seem to fly into an area, stop and react to people yelling or to flashes of light or something else, what causes the reaction? 332 00:39:48,300 --> 00:39:50,300 Do natural phenomena do that? 333 00:39:53,300 --> 00:39:59,300 One theory proposes that the lights in the sky are not doing anything, but the observer's eyes are. 334 00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:08,300 Something called the autoconetic phenomenon, the eye literally cannot focus properly on a single bright point source of light against a dark background, 335 00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:20,300 and so it seems to bob around, move around, wiggle, zigzag. All these things are perfectly normal behavior, but it's the behavior of your eye, it's not the behavior of the object itself. 336 00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:33,300 Trick of the eye or not, some believe that Gilliland's role at the center of the UFO activity that surrounds his home is characteristic of all of the areas deemed a hotspot. 337 00:40:33,300 --> 00:40:51,300 We've investigated in a couple of quote-unquote hotspots and we are beginning to realize that any of the areas that we focus on usually has a single individual in that area who becomes a lightning rod for multiple reports in the community. 338 00:40:52,300 --> 00:41:06,300 When you have a charismatic leader or somebody who is identified as an authority on UFOs, people will go where that leader says the UFOs are to be found and there will be more people watching and you'll have more sightings reported in those areas. 339 00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:12,300 But it's a psychological, sociological kind of a thing, it's not related any way to what's actually up there. 340 00:41:13,300 --> 00:41:26,300 The major portion of people that are coming here are more aligned to trying to understand the experience on a more spiritual nature, but we do have a lot of, we call them looky-loos, that are coming just to try to see one. 341 00:41:27,300 --> 00:41:51,300 That there are strange, often inexplicable phenomena in the night sky is undeniable. But just what these phenomena are and whether they tend to cluster in time and place to form UFO hotspots is open to debate. 342 00:41:52,300 --> 00:42:05,300 As far as the skeptics are concerned, on every level you cannot instill want into another being, you can't get them to open their eyes or look at what's obvious. 343 00:42:06,300 --> 00:42:17,300 We showed them footage of ships flying behind trees, landing on the mountain, doing phenomenal feats, making new turns, right angle turns at several thousand miles an hour. 344 00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:23,300 And their standard pet answer is these are meteors or satellites, it's just amazing. 345 00:42:24,300 --> 00:42:33,300 We don't want to feel that we're alone in the universe, we don't want to feel that life is without a purpose, we don't want to feel that there's nothing out there in the way of a mystery. 346 00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:42,300 We human beings want our lives to be exciting, but just because something is exciting doesn't make it true. 347 00:43:05,300 --> 00:43:09,300 Final Frontier weekend as we separate science fiction from science fact. 348 00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:14,300 Final Frontier weekend, tonight at 8pm as only the History Channel can bring you.