1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,847 An enigmatic craft is filmed over Daytona Beach, Florida. 2 00:00:06,847 --> 00:00:12,448 Invisible to the naked eye, it's captured by an infrared camera operated by society's 3 00:00:12,448 --> 00:00:16,568 most credible witnesses, the police. 4 00:00:16,568 --> 00:00:21,929 Our policemen from all over the world seeing things they're not allowed to report. 5 00:00:21,929 --> 00:00:27,410 From Yorkshire, England, to the skies over Stonehenge. 6 00:00:27,410 --> 00:00:31,410 We saw an object that certainly was not from this planet. 7 00:00:31,410 --> 00:00:33,130 And high over Daytona Beach. 8 00:00:33,130 --> 00:00:35,451 I didn't know what it was. 9 00:00:35,451 --> 00:00:40,411 Using the latest technology and presenting video footage of sightings never before seen 10 00:00:40,411 --> 00:00:41,411 on television. 11 00:00:41,411 --> 00:00:45,132 You have a police officer telling us that he has a UFO on video. 12 00:00:45,132 --> 00:00:47,412 This is a police officer we're talking about. 13 00:00:47,412 --> 00:00:49,213 This isn't some random civilian. 14 00:00:49,213 --> 00:00:55,173 The UFO hunters examine the wall of silence surrounding police reports of UFOs. 15 00:00:55,173 --> 00:01:00,534 Police officers are the most credible witnesses who are trained to observe. 16 00:01:00,534 --> 00:01:06,175 Our police officers routinely encountering things not of this world and are their reports 17 00:01:06,175 --> 00:01:08,615 being suppressed. 18 00:01:08,615 --> 00:01:14,176 This is case number 91104, COPS versus UFOs. 19 00:01:25,177 --> 00:01:36,419 We just got shipped to us. 20 00:01:36,419 --> 00:01:38,059 A really great video. 21 00:01:38,059 --> 00:01:41,699 This is a video from March 1, 1991. 22 00:01:41,699 --> 00:01:46,660 The team has uncovered a police videotape of something extraordinary flying over Daytona 23 00:01:46,660 --> 00:01:49,861 Beach, Florida on March 1, 1991. 24 00:01:49,861 --> 00:01:55,821 A video shot by two employees of the Volusia County Sheriff's Office of an object and 25 00:01:55,821 --> 00:02:01,102 I'll play it for you. 26 00:02:01,102 --> 00:02:06,063 Seen here for the first time on television, this strange barbell shaped object was taped 27 00:02:06,063 --> 00:02:12,263 by two Sheriff's Department employees, Mark Patterson and Jim Delarosa. 28 00:02:12,263 --> 00:02:14,624 I've never seen that shape before, honestly. 29 00:02:14,624 --> 00:02:15,624 Is it a UFO? 30 00:02:15,624 --> 00:02:16,624 Is it a conventional object? 31 00:02:16,624 --> 00:02:19,704 So both of these guys are convinced that they're looking at something unusual here? 32 00:02:19,704 --> 00:02:23,425 Yeah, they are, because of the shape of the object. 33 00:02:23,425 --> 00:02:28,626 The officers were in a helicopter equipped with a forward-looking infrared camera, commonly 34 00:02:28,626 --> 00:02:30,986 known as FLIR. 35 00:02:30,986 --> 00:02:37,027 The camera is sensitive to heat, radiating at wavelengths invisible to the human eye. 36 00:02:37,027 --> 00:02:41,227 They didn't even know that they were filming this because they had the FLIR camera looking 37 00:02:41,227 --> 00:02:44,348 out to sea and it picked up this. 38 00:02:44,348 --> 00:02:49,268 I don't know about you guys, but unless it's like two balloons tied together, I mean, it 39 00:02:49,308 --> 00:02:52,349 could be some sort of dumbbell shaped UFO. 40 00:02:52,349 --> 00:02:53,749 How do we know this is not a hoax? 41 00:02:53,749 --> 00:02:56,509 How do you know this is just made up stuff or is fake? 42 00:02:56,509 --> 00:02:58,430 Why would cops present hoax footage? 43 00:02:58,430 --> 00:03:01,790 Could it be a ghost image or some sort of internal reflection or a fraction? 44 00:03:01,790 --> 00:03:02,790 Possibly. 45 00:03:02,790 --> 00:03:04,510 But I'd have to learn more about the camera. 46 00:03:04,510 --> 00:03:07,391 I want to know guys, what did this look like visually? 47 00:03:07,391 --> 00:03:08,911 What is this surrounding environment? 48 00:03:08,911 --> 00:03:10,711 And I want to know, what is it doing? 49 00:03:10,711 --> 00:03:11,711 Is it animated? 50 00:03:11,711 --> 00:03:12,711 Is it stationary? 51 00:03:12,711 --> 00:03:14,712 Is it tracking them? 52 00:03:14,712 --> 00:03:17,872 Well, you know, to answer your questions, there's only one way to do it. 53 00:03:17,872 --> 00:03:23,313 To get down to Florida, look at the land, talk to police employees, have them recount 54 00:03:23,313 --> 00:03:24,753 the story from that night. 55 00:03:24,753 --> 00:03:26,353 Did they know they were shooting something? 56 00:03:26,353 --> 00:03:28,234 Did they not know they were shooting something? 57 00:03:28,234 --> 00:03:30,514 These are all the questions that need to be answered. 58 00:03:30,514 --> 00:03:36,235 In other words, we don't know anything except here's an object that looks very strange, 59 00:03:36,235 --> 00:03:41,715 shot by an infrared camera and captured on videotape all the way back in 1991. 60 00:03:41,715 --> 00:03:42,715 Period. 61 00:03:42,715 --> 00:03:44,716 Guys, let's go. 62 00:03:48,876 --> 00:03:54,037 The team meets with Mark Patterson, a former sergeant with the Sheriff's Department of 63 00:03:54,037 --> 00:03:57,197 Lusia County, Florida, for 30 years. 64 00:03:57,197 --> 00:04:01,518 He served as a police airplane and helicopter pilot for 18 years. 65 00:04:01,518 --> 00:04:03,278 This is New Smyrna Beach Airport. 66 00:04:03,278 --> 00:04:06,759 This is where we were that night. 67 00:04:06,759 --> 00:04:11,999 New Smyrna Beach Airport is a small municipal airport that closes at night. 68 00:04:11,999 --> 00:04:15,240 Police air patrols routinely scan it with infrared cameras. 69 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,800 There's always suspicious activity around airports, so we're checking hot aircraft 70 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,081 that come in late at night to see if there's any connection with a foreign border crossing 71 00:04:24,081 --> 00:04:28,762 or somebody that may have come in illegally from out of country. 72 00:04:28,762 --> 00:04:33,042 One of our duties would be to do ramp checks of aircraft for security reasons, using the 73 00:04:33,042 --> 00:04:35,482 infrared camera to look at aircraft. 74 00:04:35,482 --> 00:04:41,883 I took off to the north and made a 180 turn down US Highway 1 here to the east of us at 75 00:04:41,883 --> 00:04:44,044 about 4,500 feet. 76 00:04:44,044 --> 00:04:49,524 Patterson and his partner, Jim De La Rosa, left New Smyrna Airport around midnight. 77 00:04:49,524 --> 00:04:53,925 They had only been flying south for a few minutes when something strange appeared on 78 00:04:53,925 --> 00:04:55,565 their infrared camera. 79 00:04:55,565 --> 00:05:02,246 We were already turned south along the highway, and basically the FLIR unit, when we discovered 80 00:05:02,246 --> 00:05:07,847 it, was looking to the right of the aircraft, was looking back out in this general sky area. 81 00:05:07,847 --> 00:05:11,047 I noticed that the FLIR screen had an object on it. 82 00:05:14,047 --> 00:05:15,688 I didn't know what it was. 83 00:05:15,688 --> 00:05:20,688 It's a round egg-shaped object that appears to be producing a great heat signature. 84 00:05:20,688 --> 00:05:26,049 I started looking out my window, but there was nothing there to see. 85 00:05:26,049 --> 00:05:32,170 Because it was a dark, moonless night, Patterson and De La Rosa saw nothing outside their helicopter. 86 00:05:32,170 --> 00:05:37,491 Yet the FLIR camera captured 33 seconds of a strange barbell-shaped object. 87 00:05:37,491 --> 00:05:41,291 Just inadvertently, the infrared happened to pick this object up, and we couldn't play 88 00:05:41,291 --> 00:05:44,492 it back in the cockpit, so we headed back to the hangar. 89 00:05:44,492 --> 00:05:48,652 You had called in to see if anybody had this object on radar, is that correct? 90 00:05:48,652 --> 00:05:53,853 My partner remembers that I called air traffic control in Daytona, and they scanned the area, 91 00:05:53,853 --> 00:05:58,053 and according to him said no, there was no other traffic in the immediate area. 92 00:05:58,053 --> 00:06:04,054 So there's no visual, the camera picks it up, but radar doesn't pick it up, so the only 93 00:06:04,054 --> 00:06:07,095 thing that's picking up an object is the FLIR camera. 94 00:06:07,095 --> 00:06:11,255 When it doesn't lie, it's there. 95 00:06:11,255 --> 00:06:14,696 Mark is a veteran police officer with a lot of flying time. 96 00:06:14,696 --> 00:06:18,496 He had never seen anything like this before or after that, so this was truly an unusual 97 00:06:18,496 --> 00:06:21,136 event for him, and he knows that. 98 00:06:21,136 --> 00:06:27,857 We have an object caught on video that they can't identify, and of course I want to analyze 99 00:06:27,857 --> 00:06:31,978 it and hear what some experts had to say. 100 00:06:31,978 --> 00:06:37,098 Mark Patterson's co-pilot that night was Jim De La Rosa, another longtime veteran of 101 00:06:37,098 --> 00:06:40,499 the Voluja County Sheriff's Department, now retired. 102 00:06:40,499 --> 00:06:43,939 I felt very confident with the running the instrument. 103 00:06:43,939 --> 00:06:48,380 I've had a thousand plus hours on that FLIR monitor, and this thing here had nothing that 104 00:06:48,380 --> 00:06:49,860 I'd ever recognized before. 105 00:06:49,860 --> 00:06:52,861 What was your altitude? 106 00:06:52,861 --> 00:06:56,021 Four to five hundred feet. 107 00:06:56,021 --> 00:07:00,222 And the object seems to have two distinct pieces of it. 108 00:07:00,222 --> 00:07:03,342 It looks like it possibly has two different heat sources. 109 00:07:03,342 --> 00:07:09,103 Right in the middle, you see a white band, and that to me indicates a colder area. 110 00:07:09,543 --> 00:07:12,983 So it's two separate heat sources on the object, which is why there's a cold band in 111 00:07:12,983 --> 00:07:13,983 the middle. 112 00:07:13,983 --> 00:07:16,664 Or one heat source with some cold insulator. 113 00:07:16,664 --> 00:07:20,424 Now it looks like there's something going on in the rear of that craft, like there's 114 00:07:20,424 --> 00:07:22,784 something turning. 115 00:07:22,784 --> 00:07:26,585 The image appears to show a craft with a rotating section. 116 00:07:26,585 --> 00:07:31,506 Jim is certain it's not a helicopter, but there is nothing on the video that identifies 117 00:07:31,506 --> 00:07:35,026 the object as any known aircraft. 118 00:07:35,026 --> 00:07:37,026 In my opinion it was not a helicopter. 119 00:07:37,066 --> 00:07:41,587 I couldn't identify what it was because the fact is there was no distinct fuselage, no 120 00:07:41,587 --> 00:07:44,227 tail boom, no rotor blade motion. 121 00:07:44,227 --> 00:07:49,228 Have you ever seen in your experience using FLIRs any kind of artifacts in the field? 122 00:07:49,228 --> 00:07:53,469 This is an oddball entity to say the least. 123 00:07:53,469 --> 00:07:58,109 You know, I'm listening to what could be a reasonable explanation for what I'm hearing. 124 00:07:58,109 --> 00:08:03,390 For example, maybe it's a solid object like a helicopter at distance, but the camera system 125 00:08:03,390 --> 00:08:05,350 is defocused, which is blurring it. 126 00:08:05,710 --> 00:08:10,071 I have a lot of experience working with optical systems and you get all kinds of artifacts 127 00:08:10,071 --> 00:08:12,871 when any object you're looking at fall out of focus. 128 00:08:12,871 --> 00:08:16,072 There's no chance that this was a blur of some sort, something out of focus. 129 00:08:16,072 --> 00:08:20,072 You can tell by the cursor's movement that it's in focus and it's coming back up to 130 00:08:20,072 --> 00:08:27,873 the sky, but as we go into this turn you will start to see the detail on the ground 131 00:08:27,873 --> 00:08:29,713 that you can tell the trees and the bushes. 132 00:08:29,713 --> 00:08:31,034 You can tell where the water is. 133 00:08:36,354 --> 00:08:42,835 You can clearly see that periodically the camera is shifting down to the ground below 134 00:08:42,835 --> 00:08:47,396 and we're seeing in focus field in the near field and off into infinity. 135 00:08:47,396 --> 00:08:51,516 So that pretty well discounts this defocus issue. 136 00:08:51,516 --> 00:08:56,757 The discovery that something is flying nearby is troubling, but Patterson and Della Rosa 137 00:08:56,757 --> 00:09:01,037 are more disturbed by the realization that it seems to be tracking them. 138 00:09:01,037 --> 00:09:03,158 Is it traveling alongside you? 139 00:09:03,158 --> 00:09:04,438 Is it coming in towards you? 140 00:09:04,438 --> 00:09:08,438 This thing here is staying with us at that approximate same speed. 141 00:09:08,438 --> 00:09:12,199 Do we have evidence of some sort of intelligent behavior of this object? 142 00:09:12,199 --> 00:09:14,719 It counteracted every move that we made, it stayed with us. 143 00:09:14,719 --> 00:09:16,520 It goes like it's tracking you. 144 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:17,520 Exactly. 145 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:23,400 The object came down at a fairly rapid rate and was at least traveling the same speed 146 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:27,241 that we were traveling. 147 00:09:27,241 --> 00:09:29,281 You guys know anything that would do that. 148 00:09:29,281 --> 00:09:33,922 I've never seen anything like this and I'm sure if it was a helicopter or an airplane 149 00:09:33,922 --> 00:09:38,522 in my close proximity it would have appeared just that way. 150 00:09:38,522 --> 00:09:40,803 We all know this is a UFO investigation. 151 00:09:40,803 --> 00:09:43,483 My question is, is this a UFO? 152 00:09:43,483 --> 00:09:44,683 I can't tell you what it is. 153 00:09:44,683 --> 00:09:46,003 It's unexplained in my opinion. 154 00:09:46,003 --> 00:09:50,724 I've got like I said a thousand plus hours using that instrument and I have no idea to 155 00:09:50,724 --> 00:09:53,644 this day what it possibly could be. 156 00:09:53,644 --> 00:09:58,685 We have two seasoned officers who have a lot of flying time, a lot of experience telling 157 00:09:58,685 --> 00:10:00,685 us that they have a UFO. 158 00:10:00,685 --> 00:10:04,246 It was caught using some of the best optical equipment out there. 159 00:10:04,246 --> 00:10:06,566 Now it's really a mystery. 160 00:10:06,566 --> 00:10:10,767 The shape of that signature reminds me of a gyrocopter. 161 00:10:10,767 --> 00:10:15,647 But if you went out and actually flared another aircraft, a gyrocopter, a helicopter, you're 162 00:10:15,647 --> 00:10:18,368 going to see destruction, you're going to see the rotor blades. 163 00:10:18,368 --> 00:10:23,048 I don't have anything that proves that it was an extraterrestrial object. 164 00:10:23,048 --> 00:10:29,689 But I haven't found anything that disproves that it couldn't have been. 165 00:10:29,689 --> 00:10:34,970 Is this mysterious object a man-made craft or a UFO? 166 00:10:34,970 --> 00:10:38,090 An optical physicist provides a surprising answer. 167 00:10:38,090 --> 00:10:43,411 All I can say is it's not a helicopter. 168 00:10:43,411 --> 00:10:49,532 On March 1st, 1991, two Sheriff's Department employees on a routine patrol over Daytona 169 00:10:49,532 --> 00:10:55,533 Beach, Florida, captured 33 seconds of an unknown invisible craft, seen here for the 170 00:10:55,533 --> 00:10:56,533 first time. 171 00:10:57,533 --> 00:11:01,893 It's very strange that we have things flying around over our cities that police officers 172 00:11:01,893 --> 00:11:04,294 can't identify. 173 00:11:04,294 --> 00:11:10,855 The team goes to the foremost authority on UFO image analysis to find some answers. 174 00:11:10,855 --> 00:11:15,895 Optical physicist Dr. Bruce McAbee draws on his lifetime experience in image analysis 175 00:11:15,895 --> 00:11:20,736 for the United States Navy in an attempt to identify what others cannot. 176 00:11:20,736 --> 00:11:26,497 We are having this debate over this Veluzha County Sheriff's Department video about what 177 00:11:26,497 --> 00:11:28,497 it was like to be a helicopter. 178 00:11:28,497 --> 00:11:33,978 So please try to resolve it for us. 179 00:11:33,978 --> 00:11:36,418 Okay, this is a picture of the helicopter they were in. 180 00:11:36,418 --> 00:11:38,458 You can see the overall shape of it. 181 00:11:38,458 --> 00:11:44,059 If you had a helicopter and you were looking at it in infrared, that is where the hotspots 182 00:11:44,059 --> 00:11:45,059 are. 183 00:11:45,059 --> 00:11:46,979 You would see a real hotspot up here at the top. 184 00:11:46,979 --> 00:11:50,100 The rest of it would be cool and you would see the shape of the helicopter. 185 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:51,100 You would see the tail part. 186 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:53,700 You would see the rotor flashing. 187 00:11:53,700 --> 00:11:58,581 McAbee believes the recorded image does not match the heat signature of a helicopter, 188 00:11:58,581 --> 00:12:02,341 but he points out another important difference. 189 00:12:02,341 --> 00:12:06,782 One part of the object seems to be rotating in a manner unlike any known aircraft. 190 00:12:06,782 --> 00:12:10,823 And the funny thing about that is the rear rotors are rotating like this. 191 00:12:10,823 --> 00:12:14,583 It's not rotating the way one of these colors would be on the back. 192 00:12:14,583 --> 00:12:17,703 Bruce McAbee claims this is not a helicopter. 193 00:12:17,703 --> 00:12:23,064 The rotation of the blades in the object on this video footage are going in a different 194 00:12:23,064 --> 00:12:26,185 direction than the way the blades on a helicopter would go. 195 00:12:26,185 --> 00:12:27,185 Talking about it. 196 00:12:27,185 --> 00:12:29,185 This thing right here is the model of a helicopter. 197 00:12:29,185 --> 00:12:31,625 Here's the front of the helicopter. 198 00:12:31,625 --> 00:12:33,466 Here's the tail shooting out of the back. 199 00:12:33,466 --> 00:12:37,066 Now they have a top rotor that goes like this and that lifts it up and down. 200 00:12:37,066 --> 00:12:39,986 But if they only had the top rotor, the whole thing would start to rotate. 201 00:12:39,986 --> 00:12:43,707 So they put another rotor on this side with a plane of rotation like that. 202 00:12:43,707 --> 00:12:44,707 Right, so that stabilizes it. 203 00:12:44,707 --> 00:12:46,787 And that keeps it from turning. 204 00:12:46,787 --> 00:12:51,148 But this thing here, instead of rotating in this plane, is rotating this way. 205 00:12:51,588 --> 00:12:55,628 I'm saying the rotation is in the wrong plane if it were a helicopter. 206 00:12:55,628 --> 00:12:57,789 Therefore, it's not a helicopter. 207 00:12:57,789 --> 00:13:01,869 If it's not a helicopter and it's not a plane, what is it? 208 00:13:01,869 --> 00:13:02,869 I don't know. 209 00:13:02,869 --> 00:13:04,870 All I can say is it's not a helicopter. 210 00:13:10,190 --> 00:13:11,191 Let's tack off what we got. 211 00:13:11,191 --> 00:13:15,351 We have two pilots in the chopper that night who say, you know what, we don't know what 212 00:13:15,351 --> 00:13:16,351 it is. 213 00:13:16,351 --> 00:13:17,351 There's one more thing. 214 00:13:17,351 --> 00:13:20,712 You'll see in the FLIR footage there's a segment where there's a person unloading what 215 00:13:20,712 --> 00:13:23,072 looks like boxes out of a pickup truck. 216 00:13:23,072 --> 00:13:26,072 We've tracked that person down and we can give him a call and see what we can learn. 217 00:13:26,072 --> 00:13:27,073 He's on this video. 218 00:13:27,073 --> 00:13:28,073 That's right. 219 00:13:28,073 --> 00:13:29,073 Wow. 220 00:13:29,073 --> 00:13:34,354 We were down in Florida, we were analyzing the FLIR footage from 1991, and in analyzing 221 00:13:34,354 --> 00:13:38,434 the footage we found was clearly a person unloading a vehicle. 222 00:13:38,434 --> 00:13:41,394 And we were able to find out who that person was. 223 00:13:41,394 --> 00:13:42,995 That's Mike Holloman. 224 00:13:42,995 --> 00:13:48,595 Mike Holloman, a NASA engineer, claims that he was in the area when Patterson and Dellerosa 225 00:13:48,595 --> 00:13:51,596 allegedly filmed the UFO. 226 00:13:51,596 --> 00:13:53,716 That's it right there. 227 00:13:53,716 --> 00:13:54,716 I've got the number for Mike. 228 00:13:54,716 --> 00:13:55,716 Why don't we call him right now? 229 00:13:55,716 --> 00:13:56,717 Do it. 230 00:13:56,717 --> 00:13:57,717 All right. 231 00:13:57,717 --> 00:14:03,157 To me, I want to know, does he remember hearing or seeing a second object aside from the 232 00:14:03,157 --> 00:14:04,158 helicopter? 233 00:14:04,158 --> 00:14:05,158 Was it lit? 234 00:14:05,158 --> 00:14:06,158 Was it unlit? 235 00:14:06,158 --> 00:14:08,078 Was there audible noise coming off of it? 236 00:14:08,078 --> 00:14:10,238 Maybe we can pick up some additional information from him. 237 00:14:10,238 --> 00:14:11,238 Thank you for new. 238 00:14:11,238 --> 00:14:12,239 Hi, Mike. 239 00:14:12,239 --> 00:14:14,959 This is Ted Ackworth and the UFO Hunter's calling. 240 00:14:14,959 --> 00:14:20,720 Can you tell us what you saw in the air that night, new or the vicinity of Mark Patterson's 241 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:21,720 helicopter? 242 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:30,161 And I know that I stepped out and actually observed this helicopter circling the airfield. 243 00:14:30,161 --> 00:14:35,682 Holloman saw the officer's helicopter from Massey Ranch Airport, located six miles from 244 00:14:35,682 --> 00:14:42,643 New Smyrna Beach Airport, the spot where the officers filmed the alleged UFO. 245 00:14:42,643 --> 00:14:47,483 Did you see any other helicopters or any other aircraft around that same time? 246 00:14:47,483 --> 00:14:51,924 No, I never witnessed any other aircraft that evening. 247 00:14:51,924 --> 00:14:55,404 Have you ever seen an air vehicle flying with no lights? 248 00:14:55,404 --> 00:15:00,485 I've never observed anyone doing that in this area. 249 00:15:00,485 --> 00:15:04,726 So whatever it was was flying stealth and flying black. 250 00:15:04,726 --> 00:15:10,486 The fact that Mike didn't see another marked or audible vehicle near the helicopter tells 251 00:15:10,486 --> 00:15:12,126 us something. 252 00:15:12,126 --> 00:15:19,247 If this object was not visible and produced no sound, what could it be? 253 00:15:19,247 --> 00:15:23,488 We can analyze that clear footage on and on and on, but the reality is that that whole 254 00:15:23,488 --> 00:15:26,208 case is 1991, it's old material. 255 00:15:26,208 --> 00:15:29,849 We need something that's current, that's fresh, where we can get there, boots on the ground, 256 00:15:29,849 --> 00:15:32,889 and get hard evidence that's current. 257 00:15:32,889 --> 00:15:37,490 With this huge curtain of ridicule that's drawn around this whole subject, it's impossible 258 00:15:37,490 --> 00:15:39,530 for cops to come forward and report UFOs. 259 00:15:39,530 --> 00:15:44,371 At least here in the U.S., but in the U.K., which is kind of a really exciting place for 260 00:15:44,371 --> 00:15:51,932 UFO sightings, there is a report that comes out each year called PRUFOs, police reports 261 00:15:51,932 --> 00:15:52,932 of UFO sighting. 262 00:15:52,932 --> 00:15:58,813 And in this report, officers are encouraged to note their UFO sightings. 263 00:15:58,813 --> 00:16:01,573 Let me get the reports, you can take a peek. 264 00:16:01,573 --> 00:16:06,654 The United Kingdom has the highest number of police UFO encounters in the world, but it 265 00:16:06,654 --> 00:16:10,334 is also the only country with a system to document them. 266 00:16:10,334 --> 00:16:19,215 Recently, these reports have increased by 39 percent, from 97 cases in 2006 to 135 cases 267 00:16:19,215 --> 00:16:21,856 in 2007. 268 00:16:21,856 --> 00:16:25,976 These cases are really interesting, they're a combination of summer off-duty, summer on-duty 269 00:16:25,976 --> 00:16:29,137 sightings, and there's some real hard evidence in here. 270 00:16:29,137 --> 00:16:35,578 We've got to get over there and investigate this. 271 00:16:35,578 --> 00:16:42,018 Police encounters with UFOs in the U.K. date back to as far as 1901. 272 00:16:42,018 --> 00:16:47,219 Fifty years later, the Ministry of Defense began officially investigating reported sightings 273 00:16:47,219 --> 00:16:48,859 of UFOs. 274 00:16:48,859 --> 00:16:55,340 Since 1950, the British government has received over 10,000 UFO reports. 275 00:16:55,340 --> 00:16:59,941 Nick Pope worked for the U.K. Ministry of Defense for 21 years. 276 00:16:59,941 --> 00:17:03,861 For four of those years, he investigated UFO sightings. 277 00:17:03,861 --> 00:17:09,182 Many governments still investigate UFOs officially, the British government does, the French government 278 00:17:09,182 --> 00:17:10,182 does. 279 00:17:10,182 --> 00:17:16,303 The American government says that it doesn't, and a lot of people feel that that's a mistake. 280 00:17:16,303 --> 00:17:21,984 Project Blue Book was started in 1952 to study UFOs and determine if they were a threat to 281 00:17:21,984 --> 00:17:23,824 national security. 282 00:17:23,824 --> 00:17:28,985 The U.S. Air Force collected more than 12,000 witness reports until the project was shut 283 00:17:28,985 --> 00:17:31,225 down in 1970. 284 00:17:31,225 --> 00:17:37,866 While most sightings were found to be misidentification of known phenomena, about 6% defied analysis 285 00:17:37,866 --> 00:17:40,426 and were classified as merely unknown. 286 00:17:40,426 --> 00:17:48,667 My own views on UFOs are that while most of them can be explained as misidentifications, 287 00:17:48,667 --> 00:17:54,508 there has consistently been this small percentage of very, very interesting cases. 288 00:17:54,508 --> 00:17:59,389 There's something going on over and above misidentifications and hoaxes, but what it 289 00:17:59,389 --> 00:18:02,029 is, I don't know. 290 00:18:02,029 --> 00:18:07,270 The team meets with Gary Heseltine, the creator and manager of the world's largest database 291 00:18:07,270 --> 00:18:10,750 of police reported sightings, PRUFOs. 292 00:18:10,750 --> 00:18:16,471 Heseltine is currently a detective constable in West Yorkshire with over 18 years experience 293 00:18:16,471 --> 00:18:18,151 on the police force. 294 00:18:18,151 --> 00:18:20,591 He runs PRUFOs solely on his own. 295 00:18:20,591 --> 00:18:23,392 It is not affiliated with any police department. 296 00:18:23,392 --> 00:18:30,233 In 2001 I came up with the idea of creating an unofficial national database to record 297 00:18:30,233 --> 00:18:32,753 British police officer UFO sightings. 298 00:18:32,753 --> 00:18:37,594 PRUFOs is an organisation that I created six years ago and I thought, well I'm a police 299 00:18:37,594 --> 00:18:41,314 officer, I'm back, there's loads of police officers out there who've seen things. 300 00:18:41,314 --> 00:18:45,915 So I then contacted the guy who was the editor of the UFO magazine, Raymond Birdsell. 301 00:18:45,915 --> 00:18:50,955 I went to see him and I said, look, I've had this idea, would you allow me to write an 302 00:18:50,955 --> 00:18:52,956 article for the magazine? 303 00:18:52,956 --> 00:18:58,956 In 2001 article in the British edition of UFO magazine brought in a flood of reports 304 00:18:58,956 --> 00:19:01,837 from policemen all over Great Britain. 305 00:19:01,837 --> 00:19:09,598 Now some six years later I've got 260 reports involving around 600 British police officers. 306 00:19:09,598 --> 00:19:16,479 Certainly there is a constant flow of information coming from police officers. 307 00:19:16,479 --> 00:19:20,199 So Gary, these are the police UFO reporters. 308 00:19:20,199 --> 00:19:23,560 The database has cases going back to 1901. 309 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,480 There was a sighting reported in 1901. 310 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,000 That's the earliest one I've got. 311 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,961 December 12th, 1901, West Yorkshire. 312 00:19:32,961 --> 00:19:38,722 A few minutes after midnight two on-duty police constables spotted a luminous cigar shaped 313 00:19:38,722 --> 00:19:40,242 UFO. 314 00:19:40,242 --> 00:19:46,323 According to the Cayley News the objects slowly moved across the sky for 15 minutes before 315 00:19:46,323 --> 00:19:48,843 taking off. 316 00:19:48,843 --> 00:19:52,884 Two other people reported seeing similar objects. 317 00:19:52,884 --> 00:20:00,765 By its age the UFO was cigarshipped, it was seen low over the village, what had occurred 318 00:20:00,765 --> 00:20:03,925 in England, and suddenly it shot off. 319 00:20:03,925 --> 00:20:07,285 How many things in 1901 could do that sort of thing? 320 00:20:07,285 --> 00:20:10,366 How many things in 1900 were in the air? 321 00:20:10,366 --> 00:20:11,886 They did have dirgibles, right? 322 00:20:11,886 --> 00:20:15,086 Hot air balloons, but they wouldn't just shoot off like that at high speed. 323 00:20:15,086 --> 00:20:20,527 And there are very, very few reported dirigibles, balloons, whatever you want to call them, that 324 00:20:20,527 --> 00:20:23,648 would make those kind of flights over town. 325 00:20:23,648 --> 00:20:29,728 The 1901 case follows the pattern of many modern-day UFO sightings, not least because 326 00:20:29,728 --> 00:20:37,169 it happened in an area that's become known as England's UFO hotspot, Yorkshire. 327 00:20:37,169 --> 00:20:43,050 Police officers have reported 37 UFO sightings in this single area, including one of the 328 00:20:43,050 --> 00:20:47,171 most baffling encounters in recent years. 329 00:20:47,171 --> 00:20:53,972 May 2003, a police officer on patrol in North Yorkshire spots an unknown bright object in 330 00:20:53,972 --> 00:20:55,812 the distance. 331 00:20:55,812 --> 00:20:59,652 The dashboard camera records the entire sighting. 332 00:20:59,652 --> 00:21:02,893 We're on the cutting edge of UFO investigation. 333 00:21:02,893 --> 00:21:05,133 Is this object a UFO? 334 00:21:05,133 --> 00:21:08,133 A NASA scientist analyzes the footage. 335 00:21:08,133 --> 00:21:14,054 It's certainly not an astronomical object of any kind. 336 00:21:14,054 --> 00:21:20,535 In May 2003, a police officer in North Yorkshire, England, records a strange, bright light with 337 00:21:20,535 --> 00:21:23,736 the camera mounted on the dashboard of his police car. 338 00:21:23,736 --> 00:21:27,016 It's pretty high quality in terms of resolution. 339 00:21:27,016 --> 00:21:31,817 The red light is the reflection of the camera's record light in the windshield. 340 00:21:31,817 --> 00:21:38,057 At exactly 9.30 p.m., a bright object appears to fly into the officer's field of vision, 341 00:21:38,057 --> 00:21:40,498 moving right to left. 342 00:21:40,498 --> 00:21:42,458 The obvious explanations don't match up. 343 00:21:42,458 --> 00:21:46,259 It doesn't look like an aircraft, it doesn't look like an astronomical object. 344 00:21:46,259 --> 00:21:51,139 The policeman who captured this object wishes to remain anonymous for fear of ridicule and 345 00:21:51,139 --> 00:21:53,499 concern for job security. 346 00:21:53,499 --> 00:21:58,100 He has purposely withheld the exact date and location of the sighting. 347 00:21:58,100 --> 00:22:02,341 There's some footage on there that's some sort of unidentified object. 348 00:22:02,341 --> 00:22:08,021 Dr. Ted Ackworth dissects the footage with Jack Kasher, an imaging expert for NASA. 349 00:22:08,021 --> 00:22:11,622 The car is starting out about 50 or 48 miles per hour. 350 00:22:11,622 --> 00:22:15,462 As the object comes into view, the police car slows down. 351 00:22:15,462 --> 00:22:20,343 It's possible the police officers are seeing that and slowing down. 352 00:22:20,343 --> 00:22:24,344 The fact that the car is slowing down once the object is observed says to me that the 353 00:22:24,344 --> 00:22:27,824 cops who are driving the car saw something that they didn't understand what it was. 354 00:22:27,824 --> 00:22:31,665 And they're trained observers, so that makes me wonder what this could possibly be. 355 00:22:31,665 --> 00:22:34,505 To me it looked like it was flying in from the right side. 356 00:22:34,505 --> 00:22:39,466 That was my first impression, but it's coming in and the car is turning to the right, which 357 00:22:39,466 --> 00:22:42,546 makes it appear that the thing's moving to the left. 358 00:22:42,546 --> 00:22:47,747 And it's not moving, it's always above the same spot on that hill. 359 00:22:47,747 --> 00:22:50,707 So we have a stationary light. 360 00:22:50,707 --> 00:22:55,348 Using the information available, Ted tries to determine where the unknown object was 361 00:22:55,348 --> 00:22:56,348 hovering. 362 00:22:56,868 --> 00:23:02,709 The police car was traveling along Route 59, a 7-mile road between Skipton and Bolton 363 00:23:02,709 --> 00:23:06,189 Abbey, 21 miles northwest of Leeds. 364 00:23:06,189 --> 00:23:08,549 We have a divider here at the beginning of the footage. 365 00:23:08,549 --> 00:23:10,550 Two lanes on the right, one on the left. 366 00:23:10,550 --> 00:23:13,790 You see the inner lane on the right has the left turn arrow. 367 00:23:13,790 --> 00:23:20,831 If we just scan along the route, right here, you can see that the road begins a white striped 368 00:23:20,911 --> 00:23:27,112 divider, which makes way for three lanes with two left turning arrows. 369 00:23:27,112 --> 00:23:29,912 That's it. 370 00:23:29,912 --> 00:23:31,832 So we're off in a direction like that. 371 00:23:31,832 --> 00:23:37,113 With the limited amount of information that these officers did give us, I believe we definitively 372 00:23:37,113 --> 00:23:41,794 determined the location of this cruiser as it's moving down the road, and we're able 373 00:23:41,794 --> 00:23:44,434 to determine the sight line to the object. 374 00:23:44,434 --> 00:23:47,835 So a line along that straight path after it straightens out. 375 00:23:47,835 --> 00:23:50,795 Somewhere along there. 376 00:23:50,795 --> 00:23:55,076 So I'm always curious to see if there's a major airport right along this line that would 377 00:23:55,076 --> 00:23:56,396 tell us a lot. 378 00:23:56,396 --> 00:24:02,317 One theory is that the bright light is actually a plane flying away from the police officers, 379 00:24:02,317 --> 00:24:04,917 creating the illusion that it is stationary. 380 00:24:04,917 --> 00:24:08,637 And no airports. 381 00:24:08,637 --> 00:24:11,878 It's certainly not an astronomical object of any kind, even though it's stationary 382 00:24:11,878 --> 00:24:12,878 in the sky. 383 00:24:12,878 --> 00:24:14,518 There's a moment there where it gets very bright. 384 00:24:14,518 --> 00:24:19,119 To me, that really discounts the possibility of an astronomical object or even an aircraft. 385 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,999 It could be a radio antenna, a tower, a lighthouse of some sort. 386 00:24:22,999 --> 00:24:26,960 I think that's not any of those things because the elevation angle from our point of view, 387 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,400 it would have to be too high. 388 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:29,720 The light is too bright. 389 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,560 It doesn't meet some sort of rotating beacon. 390 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:36,881 This is pretty amazing footage to me because we've just given it a pretty thorough analysis 391 00:24:36,881 --> 00:24:37,881 here. 392 00:24:37,881 --> 00:24:39,561 You know, if we find anything else, I'll be sure to let you know. 393 00:24:39,561 --> 00:24:40,562 Let me know. 394 00:24:40,562 --> 00:24:41,562 You bet. 395 00:24:41,562 --> 00:24:46,202 If two cops who are running their normal beat, they see the same geography day after day, 396 00:24:46,202 --> 00:24:53,563 night after night, if to them it's something unusual, that is very mysterious to me. 397 00:24:53,563 --> 00:24:57,404 Encounters like these among police officers are not uncommon. 398 00:24:57,404 --> 00:24:59,924 The team interviews Alan Godfrey. 399 00:24:59,924 --> 00:25:06,805 He claims he not only saw an alien, but experienced something much more terrifying. 400 00:25:06,805 --> 00:25:10,445 My story began 27 years ago. 401 00:25:10,445 --> 00:25:12,046 Three police officers in Halifax. 402 00:25:12,366 --> 00:25:18,887 They were up on the moors when they saw a blue pulsating light and it kept making swooping 403 00:25:18,887 --> 00:25:21,687 movements towards the police cars. 404 00:25:21,687 --> 00:25:27,728 The first sighting of the alleged UFO was at Halifax, 12 miles from Todd Morden. 405 00:25:27,728 --> 00:25:32,248 It headed towards the village of Littleborough, where it was again spotted by two different 406 00:25:32,248 --> 00:25:33,769 police officers. 407 00:25:33,769 --> 00:25:38,289 Two other police officers in Littleborough were up on the moors and they saw the same 408 00:25:38,289 --> 00:25:39,849 object over him. 409 00:25:40,649 --> 00:25:46,290 Again it moved away in this general direction of Todd Morden. 410 00:25:46,290 --> 00:25:50,011 Godfrey alleges he spotted the craft hovering over this road. 411 00:25:50,011 --> 00:25:54,651 When I was driving the police car, I got to a approximate this spot over here, so I stopped 412 00:25:54,651 --> 00:25:57,372 the car and I put the lights on. 413 00:25:57,372 --> 00:26:01,452 Godfrey remembers driving to about 60 feet from the object. 414 00:26:01,452 --> 00:26:03,452 It was completely blocking the road. 415 00:26:03,452 --> 00:26:04,773 It was huge. 416 00:26:04,773 --> 00:26:05,773 It was huge, yeah. 417 00:26:05,893 --> 00:26:11,294 It was as wide as the road and it was hovering about five foot off the ground. 418 00:26:11,294 --> 00:26:14,414 14 feet high, diamond shaped. 419 00:26:14,414 --> 00:26:17,014 The lights off the car were reflecting off him. 420 00:26:17,014 --> 00:26:21,215 It was a nuts and bolts craft, solid as a rock. 421 00:26:21,215 --> 00:26:23,895 The top half was rotated. 422 00:26:23,895 --> 00:26:26,696 The bottom half appeared to be stationary. 423 00:26:26,696 --> 00:26:32,856 The trees, either side, rolled shaking. 424 00:26:32,856 --> 00:26:37,177 He remembers trying to call for help, but the radio did not work. 425 00:26:37,177 --> 00:26:40,137 He took a notebook and began sketching the object. 426 00:26:40,137 --> 00:26:44,178 I picked my clipboard up and instinctively started to draw it. 427 00:26:44,178 --> 00:26:48,338 And as I'm drawing it, just a white light. 428 00:26:49,339 --> 00:26:56,219 Initially, Godfrey had no memory of what happened after the white flash. 429 00:26:56,219 --> 00:27:00,740 When consciousness returned, he found himself behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. 430 00:27:00,820 --> 00:27:03,660 I'm suddenly finding myself driving, you know? 431 00:27:03,660 --> 00:27:08,341 He quickly drove into Todd Morden and returned with a fellow officer. 432 00:27:08,341 --> 00:27:12,942 The two policemen noticed broken tree limbs and debris surrounding the site where Godfrey 433 00:27:12,942 --> 00:27:14,822 claimed the UFO was hovering. 434 00:27:14,822 --> 00:27:19,743 The road was bone dry in that area where the UFO had been. 435 00:27:19,743 --> 00:27:27,144 And he also saw the pattern that the leaves had made, the swirly, whirlpool pattern. 436 00:27:27,144 --> 00:27:29,064 I don't know what to think about this case. 437 00:27:29,064 --> 00:27:32,144 It's so weird and bizarre. 438 00:27:32,144 --> 00:27:37,345 What happened to you after what you remembered after the bright light went off? 439 00:27:37,345 --> 00:27:42,586 They realized that there was a time-lapse of 40 minutes. 440 00:27:42,586 --> 00:27:48,906 This is one of these fantastic UFO cases because it is multiply-witnessed. 441 00:27:48,906 --> 00:27:51,187 You have people from three different agencies. 442 00:27:51,187 --> 00:27:53,107 You've got a very credible witness. 443 00:27:53,107 --> 00:27:56,227 It went to the highest level of the police department. 444 00:27:56,227 --> 00:28:03,188 We had to sign an official statement which made specific mention of a UFO that's tantamount 445 00:28:03,188 --> 00:28:06,189 to an admission on the part of the police. 446 00:28:06,189 --> 00:28:11,269 My gut tells me that Alan Godfrey would have no reason to make up a story like this. 447 00:28:11,269 --> 00:28:16,710 If we're dealing with the reality of UFOs, then we have to accept the possibility that 448 00:28:16,710 --> 00:28:20,511 somebody landed and took a good look at Alan Godfrey. 449 00:28:20,511 --> 00:28:25,631 So did being involved with this have any effect on your personal life or your career? 450 00:28:25,631 --> 00:28:33,072 It had an astronomical effect on my life, but both personally and within the job itself. 451 00:28:33,072 --> 00:28:39,393 In 1981, less than one year after his UFO sighting, Godfrey was ordered to take early 452 00:28:39,393 --> 00:28:40,913 retirement. 453 00:28:40,913 --> 00:28:46,194 Although three other officers witnessed the craft, Godfrey was the only one to speak out. 454 00:28:46,194 --> 00:28:50,195 Basically the other officers just stated that they saw lights. 455 00:28:50,195 --> 00:28:55,395 But it was Alan Godfrey that really got deeper into it with stories of azalean abduction. 456 00:28:55,395 --> 00:29:04,596 I could see how a police department would want that to go away. 457 00:29:04,596 --> 00:29:09,957 The report of one officer may be discounted or ignored, but what if there is a sighting 458 00:29:09,957 --> 00:29:12,557 witnessed by multiple officers? 459 00:29:12,557 --> 00:29:20,919 We saw objects that certainly was not from this planet. 460 00:29:20,919 --> 00:29:23,319 Here we are on Salisbury Plain. 461 00:29:23,319 --> 00:29:24,319 Isn't that something? 462 00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:25,319 Look at these things. 463 00:29:25,319 --> 00:29:26,319 They're huge. 464 00:29:26,319 --> 00:29:27,519 I mean, how would they put these together? 465 00:29:27,519 --> 00:29:33,160 In investigating whether policemen are reluctant to file reports of encounters with UFOs, the 466 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:37,481 team has come to one of the most mysterious places in the world. 467 00:29:37,481 --> 00:29:43,082 It's claimed that over a dozen officers watched a mysterious object perform impossible maneuvers 468 00:29:43,082 --> 00:29:45,082 in the sky. 469 00:29:45,082 --> 00:29:52,003 There's a whole theory that the extraterrestrials actually helped the ancient people build 470 00:29:52,003 --> 00:29:53,803 this entire site. 471 00:29:53,803 --> 00:29:58,684 Stonehenge is one of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world. 472 00:29:58,684 --> 00:30:03,564 Located on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire County, very little is known about who built 473 00:30:03,564 --> 00:30:05,805 Stonehenge or why. 474 00:30:05,805 --> 00:30:09,805 But later civilizations regarded it as a holy place. 475 00:30:09,805 --> 00:30:16,366 Even today, modern druids and other New Age believers hold ceremonies underneath its awe-inspiring 476 00:30:16,366 --> 00:30:17,366 stones. 477 00:30:17,366 --> 00:30:21,767 Through the centuries, this has been associated with UFOs and ETs and everything else. 478 00:30:21,767 --> 00:30:23,887 So it's a really magical spot. 479 00:30:23,887 --> 00:30:30,128 If we saw an object, that certainly was not from this planet. 480 00:30:30,128 --> 00:30:37,009 On June 21, 1987, officer Phil Hutchings and dozens of other police officers were on duty 481 00:30:37,009 --> 00:30:40,329 at Stonehenge during the summer solstice. 482 00:30:40,329 --> 00:30:45,490 But they were no match for one unexpected visitor that arrived late that night. 483 00:30:46,490 --> 00:30:52,211 Myself and a large number of other uniformed colleagues were circling the stones, keep 484 00:30:52,211 --> 00:30:56,931 people away, and we were there literally through the night. 485 00:30:56,931 --> 00:31:01,532 Probably two, three o'clock in the morning, object started to come across the sky. 486 00:31:01,532 --> 00:31:09,333 But then I noticed that this object had suddenly taken a 90 degree turn whilst maintaining 487 00:31:09,333 --> 00:31:12,333 its speed. 488 00:31:12,333 --> 00:31:15,854 Do you try to form any gestimates as to what was happening? 489 00:31:15,854 --> 00:31:21,575 I remember saying to the guys, the way it flew across the sky, I just felt it almost 490 00:31:21,575 --> 00:31:24,855 seemed to be mapping the area. 491 00:31:24,855 --> 00:31:27,855 The object certainly wasn't from this planet. 492 00:31:27,855 --> 00:31:32,656 Did you file an incident or a witness report about this with your command? 493 00:31:32,656 --> 00:31:34,136 You don't file a report. 494 00:31:34,136 --> 00:31:38,897 It's a difficult situation because you will find that you're held to ridicule. 495 00:31:38,937 --> 00:31:44,258 Even though there were a number of other officers, it would probably be difficult for some of 496 00:31:44,258 --> 00:31:46,058 them to come forward. 497 00:31:46,058 --> 00:31:48,978 So do you expect some consequences from this interview? 498 00:31:48,978 --> 00:31:54,419 From some of my colleagues, past and present, yes. 499 00:31:54,419 --> 00:31:59,620 But did the alleged UFO, witnessed by a dozen policemen, have a reason for its maneuvers 500 00:31:59,620 --> 00:32:00,620 over Stonehenge? 501 00:32:00,620 --> 00:32:08,381 I have a sneaking suspicion that the way Phil described the maneuvers of that UFO, that 502 00:32:08,381 --> 00:32:14,101 it was mapping something, that it was actually forming a grid, means that it was here for 503 00:32:14,101 --> 00:32:17,302 a reason. 504 00:32:17,302 --> 00:32:23,623 Experiments producer John Tyndall has a theory about this UFO's behavior at Stonehenge. 505 00:32:23,623 --> 00:32:29,744 Is there a link between the UFO sighting in 1987 and Stonehenge itself? 506 00:32:29,744 --> 00:32:37,385 The team travels back to the lab in Los Angeles to test this theory. 507 00:32:37,385 --> 00:32:42,825 John has created a scale model of Stonehenge and uncovered some secret patterns. 508 00:32:42,825 --> 00:32:48,706 As you recall, the police officer Phil Hutchins saw UFOs making patterns in the sky. 509 00:32:48,706 --> 00:32:50,466 So I thought, well, patterns. 510 00:32:50,466 --> 00:32:54,187 What kind of patterns could we create within Stonehenge? 511 00:32:54,187 --> 00:32:57,267 The officers were looking up in the sky and they were seeing these geometric shapes being 512 00:32:57,267 --> 00:32:58,267 drawn. 513 00:32:58,267 --> 00:33:02,028 There are some internal geometric shapes and things that I think are quite interesting. 514 00:33:02,028 --> 00:33:06,508 And mathematically, there may be something more going on than no one's discovered. 515 00:33:06,508 --> 00:33:12,949 I got this idea that there were internal equilateral triangles working within the geometry of Stonehenge. 516 00:33:12,949 --> 00:33:17,830 Our model of Stonehenge is basically built out of acrylic and front surface mirrors and 517 00:33:17,830 --> 00:33:19,750 the whole thing is about geometry. 518 00:33:19,750 --> 00:33:22,911 Jeff, would you turn off the overhead lights? 519 00:33:22,911 --> 00:33:25,231 Oh, wow. 520 00:33:25,231 --> 00:33:28,471 We've now taken some lasers and we're going to see if we can discover maybe some sacred 521 00:33:28,471 --> 00:33:32,952 geometry and some secrets that Stonehenge is still holding. 522 00:33:32,952 --> 00:33:38,353 Phil Hutchins was part of a skirmish line of police constables guarding Stonehenge that 523 00:33:38,353 --> 00:33:39,353 night. 524 00:33:39,353 --> 00:33:44,313 They looked up in the sky when they saw an object zigzagged across the sky, forming 525 00:33:44,313 --> 00:33:45,754 a geometric pattern. 526 00:33:45,754 --> 00:33:51,714 Remember what makes this UFO sighting so significant is not merely that it was zigzagging, but 527 00:33:51,714 --> 00:33:55,395 zigzagging sharply without slowing down. 528 00:33:55,395 --> 00:34:00,155 No helicopter is going to do that, no plane is going to do that. 529 00:34:00,155 --> 00:34:01,156 Right. 530 00:34:01,156 --> 00:34:04,156 So, I think that the reflections didn't describe anything like this on Stonehenge. 531 00:34:04,156 --> 00:34:07,716 What he did describe were patterns up in the sky. 532 00:34:07,716 --> 00:34:12,597 So I set up a front surface mirror on the ceiling to basically get the aerial view of 533 00:34:12,597 --> 00:34:16,078 Stonehenge, actually the UFO's point of view, if you will. 534 00:34:16,078 --> 00:34:21,878 So why not explore the idea that since this UFO is making zigzags in the sky, maybe there's 535 00:34:21,878 --> 00:34:26,839 a possibility that he's playing around with a geometry of Stonehenge and some sort of 536 00:34:26,839 --> 00:34:31,440 internal reflections and internal geometry that we still don't understand. 537 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,240 Stonehenge is in a specific spot. 538 00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:36,760 It's made of stone, which doesn't reflect light, but it would reflect radio waves. 539 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:42,201 But if they were seeing energy waves, what did that design mean to them? 540 00:34:42,201 --> 00:34:50,442 What if they're pointed and arrayed with respect to one another as a signpost for UFOs? 541 00:34:50,442 --> 00:34:56,683 Clearly there's something going on from stone to stone in terms of energy that we don't 542 00:34:57,643 --> 00:35:01,964 see, but somebody else or something else can see. 543 00:35:01,964 --> 00:35:05,964 It seems like everything in the officer's descriptions can be found here. 544 00:35:05,964 --> 00:35:08,204 You've got your right angles, you've got your zigzags. 545 00:35:08,204 --> 00:35:12,565 If the UFOs were reflecting radio waves, they might be making these geometric shapes. 546 00:35:12,565 --> 00:35:16,045 And perhaps what the officer saw was these guys were making the same shapes up in the 547 00:35:16,045 --> 00:35:19,126 sky as they're kind of tuning in their instruments. 548 00:35:20,086 --> 00:35:28,247 What I'm seeing here is our best possible guess of what might be going on with the zigzagging UFO. 549 00:35:28,247 --> 00:35:30,087 This is all hypothetical. 550 00:35:30,087 --> 00:35:35,608 It's John Tindall's best stab at putting together some kind of theory around a zigzagging UFO. 551 00:35:35,608 --> 00:35:41,449 The laser light bouncing off the mirrors inside this little Stonehenge model revealing this 552 00:35:41,449 --> 00:35:47,530 sort of grid of energy may be a reason for this UFO to be zigzagging across the sky. 553 00:35:49,530 --> 00:35:58,011 For more than a century, man has attempted to understand enigmatic images in the sky. 554 00:35:59,691 --> 00:36:03,452 And with advanced technology, the team is now closer than ever. 555 00:36:06,172 --> 00:36:08,252 This is scientific benchmark test. 556 00:36:08,252 --> 00:36:12,733 Using a thermal imaging camera, the team tries to prove once and for all 557 00:36:12,733 --> 00:36:15,133 Look at that helicopter, it's amazing. 558 00:36:15,133 --> 00:36:22,414 That the unidentified flying object videotaped over Florida in 1991 is not of this world. 559 00:36:26,015 --> 00:36:31,615 More than 15 years ago, police officers in Florida using a thermal imaging device 560 00:36:31,615 --> 00:36:34,416 unexpectedly filmed an anomalous flying object. 561 00:36:35,056 --> 00:36:36,096 I didn't know what it was. 562 00:36:37,456 --> 00:36:43,777 Now, back in Los Angeles, the team performs further scientific experiments with clear cameras 563 00:36:43,777 --> 00:36:46,817 at the lab of experiments producer John Tindall. 564 00:36:46,817 --> 00:36:49,858 We're outside the lab today because we wanted to set up a little demonstration that would 565 00:36:49,858 --> 00:36:54,338 illustrate what the police officers went through that night in the helicopter with the FLIR camera. 566 00:36:54,338 --> 00:36:57,699 They said they couldn't see anything with the naked eye that night, 567 00:36:57,699 --> 00:37:01,219 and there are people who question, well, if you can't see with the naked eye, is that valid? 568 00:37:01,219 --> 00:37:06,580 So what we're going to do is do a comparison and see, can we see John with the visible light 569 00:37:06,580 --> 00:37:08,020 versus the infrared light? 570 00:37:08,020 --> 00:37:12,661 The team explores the capabilities and limitations of infrared technology. 571 00:37:12,741 --> 00:37:15,061 Here I go, going into the void. 572 00:37:15,061 --> 00:37:19,782 John, cloaked in black, demonstrates how a seemingly invisible object 573 00:37:19,782 --> 00:37:20,742 I can't see him at all. 574 00:37:20,742 --> 00:37:21,782 He's disappeared. 575 00:37:21,782 --> 00:37:24,262 can still be detected with this technology. 576 00:37:24,262 --> 00:37:28,343 And now look at the camera, you know, playing his day, there's this figure. 577 00:37:29,143 --> 00:37:31,303 So I mean, look, try raising hands. 578 00:37:31,303 --> 00:37:33,464 How does this relate to the FLIR case? 579 00:37:33,464 --> 00:37:36,184 The helicopter footage, there was no moon that night. 580 00:37:36,184 --> 00:37:38,584 There were no spotlights on the front of the helicopter. 581 00:37:38,584 --> 00:37:42,905 So there was no way that with a visible eye, they would either pick up any emitting light 582 00:37:42,905 --> 00:37:45,065 off of the object that they detected. 583 00:37:45,065 --> 00:37:46,505 But on the other hand, it was hot. 584 00:37:46,505 --> 00:37:48,266 And so this camera is picking that up. 585 00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:54,186 See, well, this really exemplifies what happened where they were able to see an object 586 00:37:54,186 --> 00:37:59,787 through their FLIR camera, even though they couldn't see it visually, never actually saw it visually, 587 00:37:59,787 --> 00:38:02,988 and that object stayed with them, always on the FLIR camera. 588 00:38:03,788 --> 00:38:09,948 The thing with the FLIR camera is it only gets an image based on the ambient heat of the object 589 00:38:09,948 --> 00:38:12,269 itself from the background atmosphere. 590 00:38:12,269 --> 00:38:17,389 So you really can't tell if an object is far away, what the shape is, all you know is the heat 591 00:38:17,389 --> 00:38:18,590 that it's throwing off. 592 00:38:19,790 --> 00:38:23,950 According to Ted, there's still one theory worth investigating. 593 00:38:23,950 --> 00:38:30,991 As a pilot myself, I've flown imagery helicopter for NASA, and maybe it's a solid object like 594 00:38:31,071 --> 00:38:36,912 a helicopter distance, but the camera system is defocused, which is blurring it. 595 00:38:36,912 --> 00:38:40,913 And we've got to look for any evidence I can find that would prove or disprove that hypothesis. 596 00:38:41,553 --> 00:38:46,433 Did the distorted heat signature of a helicopter produce this puzzling image? 597 00:38:47,313 --> 00:38:49,234 I knew this is going to be a tough case. 598 00:38:49,234 --> 00:38:55,394 The team, along with UFO researcher Ronnie Millione, travels to Corona, California to test 599 00:38:55,394 --> 00:38:56,435 this hypothesis. 600 00:38:56,435 --> 00:39:01,875 So at the FLIR system guys send me an actual camera, which has the same exact specs of the 601 00:39:01,875 --> 00:39:04,916 3000 camera that they had back in the UHO case. 602 00:39:04,916 --> 00:39:06,516 See Pat, we're going to benchmark this. 603 00:39:06,516 --> 00:39:08,676 This is a scientific benchmark test. 604 00:39:08,676 --> 00:39:12,357 My friends at Corona PD are going to take a helicopter out. 605 00:39:12,357 --> 00:39:17,477 Ronnie's going to film it with this camera set to the same specs as the one 10 years ago. 606 00:39:18,117 --> 00:39:23,638 We're going to compare a real helicopter on infrared to the images from Florida, 607 00:39:23,638 --> 00:39:28,199 and we're going to see at the end of the day, are they the same or are they not the same? 608 00:39:29,479 --> 00:39:35,160 The team meets police sergeant Neil Reynolds, a helicopter pilot for the Corona Police Department. 609 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:39,640 Can you explain like where would be the heat signatures and your particular aircraft here? 610 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:44,521 On our aircraft, the hot areas be the exhaust port right here. 611 00:39:44,521 --> 00:39:45,241 Okay. 612 00:39:45,241 --> 00:39:48,441 Then the engines underneath it, which is extremely warm as well. 613 00:39:49,082 --> 00:39:52,522 Another hot area would be the transmission under the rotor mass here. 614 00:39:53,402 --> 00:39:56,282 And lastly, the tail rotor gear box back there. 615 00:39:56,843 --> 00:40:03,643 So a prototypical image from a fleer of another helicopter would be a diminished image of the 616 00:40:03,643 --> 00:40:06,524 top rotors and a stronger image of the tail rotor. 617 00:40:06,524 --> 00:40:10,684 Right, or the tail rotor area where the gearbox is right at the back of the tail boom. 618 00:40:12,605 --> 00:40:16,045 Ronnie starts the fleer camera as the helicopter lifts off. 619 00:40:19,086 --> 00:40:20,286 Look at that, right there. 620 00:40:20,286 --> 00:40:20,846 There he is. 621 00:40:20,846 --> 00:40:21,406 There you go. 622 00:40:21,406 --> 00:40:21,886 There you go now. 623 00:40:21,886 --> 00:40:23,406 Okay now look at that helicopter. 624 00:40:23,406 --> 00:40:24,046 It's amazing. 625 00:40:25,966 --> 00:40:26,927 This is very exciting. 626 00:40:27,567 --> 00:40:29,407 Okay look, we've got it on tape guys. 627 00:40:29,407 --> 00:40:32,927 Let's get Sergeant Reynolds, let him see both and make a decision. 628 00:40:33,887 --> 00:40:37,008 Sergeant Reynolds helps the team analyze the fleer footage. 629 00:40:37,568 --> 00:40:44,049 This is said in black hot, so the hottest parts are going to show darker, cooler parts will show light. 630 00:40:44,689 --> 00:40:47,649 All right, we'd never confuse that for anything but the helicopter. 631 00:40:47,649 --> 00:40:48,689 I'm seeing rotors. 632 00:40:49,169 --> 00:40:52,130 The rotors are very distinguishable in this. 633 00:40:52,130 --> 00:40:55,970 See the closer it gets at, the more defined the shape is. 634 00:40:55,970 --> 00:40:56,530 That's right. 635 00:40:56,530 --> 00:41:01,011 The further away the helicopter is, the less defined the shape is. 636 00:41:01,011 --> 00:41:04,532 Let's see what happens when that helicopter goes far away, just like the other one. 637 00:41:06,212 --> 00:41:07,332 You know what that is? 638 00:41:07,332 --> 00:41:07,812 It's a helicopter. 639 00:41:09,172 --> 00:41:14,853 The infrared camera gives enough detail to identify the helicopter, regardless of its distance. 640 00:41:14,853 --> 00:41:23,574 The team now compares this new image of a helicopter with the unidentified image from 1991. 641 00:41:23,574 --> 00:41:27,735 Does its performance in the air look like a conventional aircraft deal? 642 00:41:28,535 --> 00:41:33,815 Yeah, it actually doesn't seem abnormal for helicopter flight. 643 00:41:33,815 --> 00:41:39,736 Something else that I would be interested in seeing is a gain or focus change because 644 00:41:40,296 --> 00:41:48,297 if the gain is set incorrectly or the focus is out, it can take just that dark heat image 645 00:41:48,297 --> 00:41:51,658 and overpower the rest of the image of what you're looking at. 646 00:41:51,658 --> 00:41:57,418 The team scans the footage of the helicopter for any moments that are unfocused or overexposed. 647 00:41:58,059 --> 00:41:59,019 Watch what's going to happen. 648 00:42:01,099 --> 00:42:03,739 Look, the camera goes out of focus. 649 00:42:03,739 --> 00:42:05,580 Sergeant, what do you think? 650 00:42:05,580 --> 00:42:07,500 I think that's how the other one was filmed. 651 00:42:08,300 --> 00:42:08,780 Look at that. 652 00:42:08,780 --> 00:42:09,660 Look at that. 653 00:42:09,660 --> 00:42:12,701 You tell me you see a difference between the two of them. 654 00:42:13,341 --> 00:42:20,302 It resembles to me, though, as images that I've seen before, the object that the gain and focus is out 655 00:42:20,302 --> 00:42:23,582 and it's overwhelmed the rest of the detail of the object. 656 00:42:25,422 --> 00:42:31,103 The team can manipulate footage of a helicopter to make it look very similar to what Mark Patterson filmed. 657 00:42:31,823 --> 00:42:35,824 But Patterson insists that his camera was always in focus. 658 00:42:35,904 --> 00:42:41,584 You can tell by the cursor's movement that it's in focus, you will start to see the detail on the ground 659 00:42:41,584 --> 00:42:43,345 that you can tell the trees in the bushes. 660 00:42:43,345 --> 00:42:44,785 You can tell where the water is. 661 00:42:44,785 --> 00:42:46,465 So we've got a long depth of focus. 662 00:42:47,185 --> 00:42:49,745 Could you call that object a helicopter? 663 00:42:49,745 --> 00:42:55,346 If you had to file a report, a professional report, based on this video evidence, 664 00:42:55,346 --> 00:42:57,426 would you call that object a helicopter? 665 00:42:57,426 --> 00:43:03,027 My first gut reaction would say it's a helicopter, but in a professional report that I'm going to go to court 666 00:43:03,027 --> 00:43:05,267 testifying on, I couldn't say. 667 00:43:05,267 --> 00:43:07,028 Would you say you're not certain? 668 00:43:07,028 --> 00:43:08,228 I would say I'm not certain. 669 00:43:17,269 --> 00:43:20,629 I think we really had an experience with this FLIR footage. 670 00:43:20,629 --> 00:43:26,230 To the limit of my technical skill, I cannot positively identify what that object was. 671 00:43:26,790 --> 00:43:30,631 It may have been a helicopter, but we have no way to really prove that it was. 672 00:43:30,631 --> 00:43:35,111 And it's very possible that the Florida FLIR footage is a helicopter. 673 00:43:35,271 --> 00:43:37,912 But the thing is, all the experts tell us otherwise. 674 00:43:37,912 --> 00:43:40,712 They say it was not a helicopter, and they're firm on that. 675 00:43:40,712 --> 00:43:44,873 We have an expert guy on the FLIR, we have an expert pilot, we have Bruce McAbee analyzed in the footage. 676 00:43:44,873 --> 00:43:46,233 They all say it's not a helicopter. 677 00:43:47,353 --> 00:43:53,434 More and more, policemen all over the world are coming forward with detailed and credible reports 678 00:43:53,434 --> 00:43:55,594 of encounters that cannot be explained. 679 00:43:56,234 --> 00:44:04,395 These are the people whose eyewitness testimony we trust is credible, except when it comes to UFOs. 680 00:44:04,395 --> 00:44:05,995 And that's what's so frightening to me. 681 00:44:06,636 --> 00:44:11,996 Could all these highly trained witnesses be misconstruing ordinary objects into UFOs? 682 00:44:13,516 --> 00:44:20,797 Or are there reports simply official confirmation of what thousands of people have been seeing for years?