1 00:00:00,323 --> 00:00:16,325 It sounded like the end of the world. 2 00:00:16,325 --> 00:00:21,925 But it became an ongoing mystery. 3 00:00:21,925 --> 00:00:30,126 What erupted in the sky on April 16, 2008, over the small town in America's heartland. 4 00:00:30,126 --> 00:00:36,327 It was just like if something exploded you know and was burning coming out of the air. 5 00:00:36,327 --> 00:00:39,427 Does the evidence point to a police conspiracy? 6 00:00:39,427 --> 00:00:42,887 I heard officers talk about an orange object in the sky. 7 00:00:42,887 --> 00:00:45,848 A top secret military mission gone wrong. 8 00:00:45,848 --> 00:00:50,328 It's exhibiting flight characteristics that seem to rule out an F-16. 9 00:00:50,328 --> 00:00:52,168 Or something else. 10 00:00:52,168 --> 00:00:55,328 What I observed that night were not any flares I've ever seen. 11 00:00:55,328 --> 00:00:59,209 This is case number 08103. 12 00:00:59,209 --> 00:01:01,209 Heartland explosion. 13 00:01:01,209 --> 00:01:15,210 Music 14 00:01:15,210 --> 00:01:18,211 Music 15 00:01:18,211 --> 00:01:25,211 Well I never believed in UFOs till that night but I do believe in them now. 16 00:01:25,211 --> 00:01:30,212 In the state of Indiana, 60 miles north of Indianapolis is Kokomo. 17 00:01:30,212 --> 00:01:34,212 Kokomo is a charming midwestern bedroom community. 18 00:01:34,212 --> 00:01:40,213 But on April 16, 2008, something extraordinary occurred. 19 00:01:40,213 --> 00:01:43,213 Music 20 00:01:43,213 --> 00:01:49,214 That evening residents claimed to have experienced a close encounter of the first kind. 21 00:01:49,214 --> 00:01:51,214 What was going on that night? 22 00:01:51,214 --> 00:01:55,214 April 16, 2008, right here in Kokomo. 23 00:01:55,214 --> 00:02:03,215 10.30pm, without warning, a thunderous explosion rips through Kokomo. 24 00:02:03,215 --> 00:02:11,216 There was a huge thundering boom that shook the town, rattling windows and shaking homes. 25 00:02:11,216 --> 00:02:17,217 The shockwave travels south through Howard County and into neighboring Tipton County, 26 00:02:17,217 --> 00:02:25,217 and houses over a 20 mile area was a UFO responsible for this explosion. 27 00:02:25,217 --> 00:02:32,218 People frightened ran out into the streets to see what it was and they saw huge lights in the sky. 28 00:02:32,218 --> 00:02:36,219 I heard a loud boom and I ran outside to see what it was. 29 00:02:36,219 --> 00:02:38,219 There was an orange light. 30 00:02:38,219 --> 00:02:42,219 A fireball of some sort heading down towards the earth. 31 00:02:42,219 --> 00:02:48,220 Within seconds, 911 operators are overwhelmed by calls from panicked citizens. 32 00:02:48,220 --> 00:02:54,220 Our 911 lines have all lit up. We're getting reports of a fire or an explosion. 33 00:02:54,220 --> 00:03:01,221 Witnesses reported this was nothing they've ever heard, felt or seen before. 34 00:03:01,221 --> 00:03:04,221 Music 35 00:03:04,221 --> 00:03:10,222 After the explosion, residents in Indian Heights, Sharpsville and as far south as Westfield 36 00:03:10,222 --> 00:03:15,222 witness a string of lights hovering over the horizon. 37 00:03:15,222 --> 00:03:22,223 An eyewitness who wishes to remain anonymous captures these never before seen images. 38 00:03:22,223 --> 00:03:29,224 For the first time, these pictures show glimpses of the unusual light formation seen that night. 39 00:03:29,224 --> 00:03:33,224 Have UFOs come to the heartland? 40 00:03:33,224 --> 00:03:37,225 Music 41 00:03:37,225 --> 00:03:43,225 Strings of light appearing in the sky are a well-documented UFO phenomena. 42 00:03:43,225 --> 00:03:48,226 One of the best known cases occurred in Phoenix in 1997. 43 00:03:48,226 --> 00:03:57,227 Seen by hundreds, if not thousands, the Phoenix lights are one of the best documented string of light sightings. 44 00:03:57,227 --> 00:04:02,227 What makes Kokomo different is the terrifying boom. 45 00:04:02,227 --> 00:04:09,228 Traditionally, UFO witnesses report a complete absence of sound. 46 00:04:09,228 --> 00:04:14,228 The explosion occurs at approximately 10.30 p.m. 47 00:04:14,228 --> 00:04:19,229 One theory is that the sound could have been a sonic boom, but from what? 48 00:04:19,229 --> 00:04:24,229 Grissom Air Force Base is just 15 miles away from Kokomo. 49 00:04:24,229 --> 00:04:31,230 But according to Grissom and the Indiana Air National Guard, all planes were grounded by 10.15 p.m. 50 00:04:31,230 --> 00:04:34,230 At least that is the initial report. 51 00:04:34,230 --> 00:04:39,231 The next day, the Indiana Air National Guard changes its story, 52 00:04:39,231 --> 00:04:48,232 issuing a press release stating that both the explosion and the lights in the sky were caused by an F-16 dropping flares. 53 00:04:48,232 --> 00:04:52,232 What we got from the newspapers totally conflicts with their statements the night before, 54 00:04:52,232 --> 00:04:56,233 which is that they didn't have any planes in the air. 55 00:04:56,233 --> 00:05:01,233 Adding to the mystery, a local paper, the Indianapolis Star, 56 00:05:01,233 --> 00:05:06,234 runs a story that claims a meteor shower was the cause of the spectacular events. 57 00:05:06,234 --> 00:05:10,234 There was a large glow of light that cascaded to Earth. 58 00:05:10,234 --> 00:05:14,234 It does appear that it was some sort of meteorite. 59 00:05:14,234 --> 00:05:17,235 We have all these conflicting reports, right? 60 00:05:17,235 --> 00:05:23,235 We've got the official U.S. Air Force statement that what actually happened was they didn't realize it. 61 00:05:23,235 --> 00:05:28,236 There were planes in the air and one of them accidentally broke the sound barrier over Kokomo. 62 00:05:28,236 --> 00:05:32,236 As far as science goes, there was some speculation that this was some sort of meteor event. 63 00:05:32,236 --> 00:05:40,237 Yet another angle to this strange story are audio accounts from the first responders the night of the incident. 64 00:05:40,237 --> 00:05:47,238 Recordings capture frantic calls between the police and dispatchers of a downed, unidentified craft. 65 00:05:47,238 --> 00:05:50,238 Is the city possible to cut down? 66 00:05:50,238 --> 00:05:58,239 Authorities claim three definitive explanations, an F-16, meteors, or a crash plane. 67 00:05:58,239 --> 00:06:01,239 So which one is it? 68 00:06:01,239 --> 00:06:05,239 June 8, 2008. 69 00:06:05,239 --> 00:06:14,240 The Kokomo incident is less than two months old as UFO hunters begin their investigation. 70 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:18,241 The strategy for the case is to divide and conquer. 71 00:06:18,241 --> 00:06:21,241 Pat Uskert will collect data in the field. 72 00:06:21,241 --> 00:06:26,242 He'll look for evidence that will prove or disprove the meteor theory. 73 00:06:26,242 --> 00:06:31,242 He'll also examine the possibility of the military's F-16 explanation. 74 00:06:31,242 --> 00:06:37,243 So we've set up office here hoping that people will come forward, people will come to us with their information. 75 00:06:37,243 --> 00:06:46,244 Bill Burns will track down footage, photos, eyewitnesses, and first responders to try and unravel the mystery of what happened that evening. 76 00:06:46,244 --> 00:06:56,245 We don't know what happened, but you know what? We are here to eliminate exactly what we can eliminate and look at what's left and try to come up with a decision. 77 00:06:56,245 --> 00:07:02,245 As new developments emerge, Pat and Bill will share their findings with Dr. Ted Ackworth. 78 00:07:02,245 --> 00:07:07,246 I'm going to get our resources set up so we can test video or photographic evidence. 79 00:07:07,246 --> 00:07:14,246 Hopefully, getting on this case fast, we can collect some near real-time evidence and determine what's going on. 80 00:07:18,247 --> 00:07:25,247 It turns out what's been going on in Indiana actually began three months prior to the Kokomo explosion. 81 00:07:26,248 --> 00:07:33,248 January 16, 2008, 30 miles north of Kokomo in Denver, Indiana. 82 00:07:33,248 --> 00:07:39,249 Robbie Becks and his family experience an apparent close encounter caught on videotape. 83 00:07:43,249 --> 00:07:51,250 Because this is only 20 or so miles away from Kokomo where the April 16, 2008 sightings took place, 84 00:07:51,250 --> 00:07:56,251 we need to figure out if this in any way is related to these sightings. 85 00:07:56,251 --> 00:08:05,251 The key witness is 22-year-old Robbie Becks. He first observes the alleged UFO at 7.30 p.m. while driving home. 86 00:08:05,251 --> 00:08:10,252 I was coming down this road and I saw, kind of looked like a tower in the sky. 87 00:08:11,252 --> 00:08:17,253 As Robbie drives closer, he observes the towering object is covered in reflective tiles. 88 00:08:18,253 --> 00:08:22,253 I didn't know what it was. I didn't know what possibly it could be because it made no noise, nothing. 89 00:08:22,253 --> 00:08:25,253 As I got closer to it, I could kind of see a texture to it. 90 00:08:25,253 --> 00:08:26,254 What happened next? 91 00:08:26,254 --> 00:08:28,254 Started heading south towards Kokomo. 92 00:08:29,254 --> 00:08:38,255 Robbie runs inside the house and grabs his video camera. His footage is being seen here for the very first time on television. 93 00:08:48,256 --> 00:08:51,256 There's a black car in spot. Oh my God, look at this. 94 00:08:51,256 --> 00:08:54,256 It's coming over the house right now, guys. It's coming this way. 95 00:08:56,257 --> 00:09:02,257 The video shows a single stationary light that seems to strobe many different colors. 96 00:09:02,257 --> 00:09:05,257 Robbie shows the video to Pat and Bill. 97 00:09:05,257 --> 00:09:09,258 There's a car at the bottom, so don't get that confused. 98 00:09:11,258 --> 00:09:14,258 That's a car that's actually just driving down the road over there. 99 00:09:14,258 --> 00:09:16,259 So you've got car headlights and a UFO light. 100 00:09:17,259 --> 00:09:23,259 The alleged UFO light hovers in the middle of the frame while the car passes through the shot. 101 00:09:24,259 --> 00:09:30,260 But the hovering light is in a place where no road is present and no other light source exists. 102 00:09:32,260 --> 00:09:37,261 We can measure the distance between the camera and the car if we do a little car experiment. 103 00:09:37,261 --> 00:09:42,261 So we should be able to measure the diameter of the headlights and using all that data together, 104 00:09:42,261 --> 00:09:45,261 we should be able to approximate the size of the object. 105 00:09:50,262 --> 00:09:54,262 Pat takes a team vehicle out to pinpoint the car's location in the video. 106 00:09:55,262 --> 00:09:56,263 Hey, Bill, radio check. 107 00:09:56,263 --> 00:09:57,263 I'm on my way. 108 00:09:57,263 --> 00:09:58,263 Copy. 109 00:10:01,263 --> 00:10:07,264 Using this video frame as a reference, Robbie directs Pat to the same position as the car in the video. 110 00:10:08,264 --> 00:10:10,264 I'm going to drive slow. You tell me when I'm getting close. 111 00:10:10,264 --> 00:10:11,264 Stop right there. 112 00:10:12,264 --> 00:10:13,264 Right there, perfect. 113 00:10:14,264 --> 00:10:16,265 Okay, I'm going to take measurements now. 114 00:10:18,265 --> 00:10:24,265 Pat will now use a rangefinder to calculate the distance from the car to where Robbie shot the footage. 115 00:10:25,265 --> 00:10:26,266 Okay, I've got the distance measurement. 116 00:10:26,266 --> 00:10:27,266 It's 355 yards. 117 00:10:29,266 --> 00:10:36,267 With the distance from the car to the house recorded, Pat measures the diameter and distance between the two headlights. 118 00:10:36,267 --> 00:10:43,267 We'll take all this data and send it off to Ted and hopefully he can put it all together and come up with the approximate size of the craft. 119 00:10:44,267 --> 00:10:48,268 Robbie's video shows only one light and he heard no loud boom. 120 00:10:49,268 --> 00:10:53,268 Still, could his sighting have something to do with the Kokomo explosion? 121 00:10:54,268 --> 00:11:00,269 My conclusion is there's more than meets the eye here in Indiana. 122 00:11:00,269 --> 00:11:09,270 Bill and Pat head back to Kokomo to send the video, the camera and the field data to Ted. 123 00:11:11,270 --> 00:11:13,270 Pat and Bill were able to take some measurements. 124 00:11:13,270 --> 00:11:19,271 We can analyze the geometry of the car and the scene to get a sense of the distance or the size of the UFO. 125 00:11:19,271 --> 00:11:28,272 While Ted focuses on the BEX analysis, Pat and Bill turn their attention back to the Kokomo case of April 16th, 2008. 126 00:11:30,272 --> 00:11:35,272 Hello from Kokomo, welcome to Mail Call, WWKI. 127 00:11:36,273 --> 00:11:39,273 WWKI is the most popular radio station in this area. 128 00:11:39,273 --> 00:11:49,274 They've invited us to come on their morning talk show Mail Call to reach out to all the witnesses and all the people who experienced the Kokomo lights. 129 00:11:49,274 --> 00:11:54,274 There was four lights rotating counterclockwise and they were different colors. 130 00:11:54,274 --> 00:11:56,275 They almost looked like fireballs. 131 00:11:56,275 --> 00:12:01,275 No, Cal, these are any way that that could have been flares dropped from airplanes. 132 00:12:01,275 --> 00:12:03,275 Well, I don't know because there was no movement. 133 00:12:03,275 --> 00:12:04,275 They were stationary. 134 00:12:04,275 --> 00:12:05,275 They were stationary. 135 00:12:05,275 --> 00:12:13,276 So you're saying these didn't just hang in the sky, they stayed in the sky for an hour, which is longer than a flare, that's for sure. 136 00:12:14,276 --> 00:12:19,277 We're starting to get a feel that things are a little strange around here in Kokomo right now for a lot of these people. 137 00:12:20,277 --> 00:12:26,278 One of those people is WWKI's nighttime DJ, JJ Davis. 138 00:12:27,278 --> 00:12:31,278 So JJ, you were on the air. Tell us what happened. 139 00:12:31,278 --> 00:12:36,279 I heard this huge explosion and it rattled this room. 140 00:12:36,279 --> 00:12:39,279 It rattled the windows and everything. This is a soundproof booth. 141 00:12:40,279 --> 00:12:46,280 JJ was in the middle of playing a song. His microphone was not on to record the blast. 142 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,280 You were taking all the calls. Your board was lighting up. 143 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,280 All 11 phone lines were lit up. 144 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,280 Do you have any examples you could play for us? 145 00:12:54,280 --> 00:13:00,281 How the sky is, it was a big fireball and it separated. 146 00:13:00,281 --> 00:13:08,282 And then all of a sudden, about nine huge lights separated individually and then went out. They wasn't flares. 147 00:13:09,282 --> 00:13:17,283 The calls from WWKI are not the only audio recordings of what happened that night. 148 00:13:17,283 --> 00:13:20,283 That's going to be a throw at the inside of the explosion. 149 00:13:20,283 --> 00:13:28,284 Actual police communications may contain evidence of a downed craft and the effort to conceal it. 150 00:13:28,284 --> 00:13:32,284 Switch to incident one, take off the main dispatch. 151 00:13:33,284 --> 00:13:38,285 Is Kokomo, Indiana the site of a UFO crash? 152 00:13:43,285 --> 00:13:47,286 It couldn't be flares or anything because they're not going down or falling down. 153 00:13:47,286 --> 00:13:51,286 January 16th, 2008, in Denver, Indiana, 154 00:13:51,286 --> 00:13:56,287 Robbie Bex captures this footage of what he claims is a tower-shaped UFO. 155 00:13:57,287 --> 00:14:02,287 He and his family are left searching for answers. 156 00:14:04,287 --> 00:14:09,288 Exactly three months later, on the night of April 16th, 2008, 157 00:14:09,288 --> 00:14:15,288 something exploded over the city of Kokomo, Indiana, rocking houses over a 20-mile radius. 158 00:14:15,288 --> 00:14:24,289 Minutes after the explosion, people claimed to witness a row of lights in the night sky, rotating counterclockwise. 159 00:14:25,289 --> 00:14:29,290 There was a series of lights. There were eight lights lit up. 160 00:14:29,290 --> 00:14:32,290 It's definitely something unique, something I've never seen before in the sky. 161 00:14:32,290 --> 00:14:35,290 It gives me goosebumps just talking about this. 162 00:14:37,291 --> 00:14:42,291 Are these events the first signs of a UFO escalation in the heartland? 163 00:14:43,291 --> 00:14:49,292 Bill and Pat turn to police communications from the night of April the 16th for answers. 164 00:14:49,292 --> 00:14:54,292 So these are actual 911 recordings? 165 00:14:54,292 --> 00:15:01,293 Actual recordings of the first responders communicating with each other as they approach the scene. 166 00:15:01,293 --> 00:15:09,294 These recordings come from Scan America, an archive of police, fire and EMS communications across the country. 167 00:15:09,294 --> 00:15:11,294 Alright, well let's have a listen. 168 00:15:11,294 --> 00:15:15,294 We're getting reports of soft fire or an explosion. 169 00:15:15,294 --> 00:15:19,295 State police just call and believe it is a plane down. 170 00:15:19,295 --> 00:15:22,295 A plane down at this time. We're trying to figure out the location. 171 00:15:22,295 --> 00:15:25,295 Aircraft down. That's the first one. 172 00:15:28,296 --> 00:15:32,296 Although the police initially believe they are searching for a downed plane, 173 00:15:32,296 --> 00:15:35,296 no aircraft or people are reported missing. 174 00:15:35,296 --> 00:15:38,297 What are they searching for? 175 00:15:38,297 --> 00:15:43,297 Hibben County has requested multiple fire units out of Howard County. 176 00:15:43,297 --> 00:15:46,297 They do have some type of huge debris to field. 177 00:15:46,297 --> 00:15:52,298 What it is right now, that this may have just been a meteorite entering the atmosphere. 178 00:15:52,298 --> 00:15:54,298 However, I don't believe that. 179 00:15:54,298 --> 00:15:56,298 They seem to know where the thing went down. 180 00:15:56,298 --> 00:15:57,299 It's getting interesting. 181 00:15:57,299 --> 00:16:06,299 The incident requires so many first responders that the dispatcher decides to dedicate an emergency channel for all further communications. 182 00:16:06,299 --> 00:16:10,300 Touch the incident one and that will take off the main dispatch. 183 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:14,300 But what about the debris field? 184 00:16:15,300 --> 00:16:19,301 Did first responders discover a huge debris field? 185 00:16:19,301 --> 00:16:21,301 Is this why they switched frequencies? 186 00:16:21,301 --> 00:16:24,301 And if so, what did they find? 187 00:16:28,302 --> 00:16:35,302 No person has gathered more information on what happened on the evening of April 16th than this man. 188 00:16:35,302 --> 00:16:40,303 Field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network, Glenn Means. 189 00:16:40,303 --> 00:16:42,303 We're very fortunate to be working with MUFON on this case. 190 00:16:42,303 --> 00:16:45,303 They've collected video evidence, they've talked to the locals, 191 00:16:45,303 --> 00:16:48,304 so there'll be an invaluable resource in understanding what happened here. 192 00:16:49,304 --> 00:16:54,304 Glenn Means and MUFON have looked closely at the nearby military installations, 193 00:16:54,304 --> 00:16:58,305 Grissom Air Force Base and the Indiana Air National Guard. 194 00:16:58,305 --> 00:17:04,305 Both have military operating areas, or MOAs, in close proximity to Kokomo. 195 00:17:05,305 --> 00:17:12,306 Now keep in mind, this area is prone to military flyover activity from both Grissom with their tankers 196 00:17:12,306 --> 00:17:16,306 and Fort Wayne, the Indiana Air National Guard, flies F-16s. 197 00:17:16,306 --> 00:17:22,307 But according to the rules of these MOAs, you can't use flares and you can't go supersonic. 198 00:17:24,307 --> 00:17:30,308 According to Section 3E of the U.S. Air Force Regulation 55-34, 199 00:17:30,308 --> 00:17:36,308 a planned supersonic flight overland areas must be conducted above 30,000 feet. 200 00:17:36,308 --> 00:17:41,309 To listeners on the ground, a sonic boom generated at 30,000 feet 201 00:17:41,309 --> 00:17:44,309 should sound like little more than a loud pop. 202 00:17:46,309 --> 00:17:50,310 Either this was a highly unlikely and unorthodox military operation, 203 00:17:51,310 --> 00:17:55,310 or something else exploded in the sky that night. 204 00:17:56,310 --> 00:18:00,311 We brought a video in from a witness who lives near Grissom, 205 00:18:00,311 --> 00:18:03,311 and he shoots the planes almost every night. 206 00:18:03,311 --> 00:18:07,312 And he does have some great footage on here of F-16s zipping along. 207 00:18:07,312 --> 00:18:12,312 As you can see, you can see the actual lights, the wingtip anti-collision strobe lights, 208 00:18:12,312 --> 00:18:18,313 and you see the flares popping out of it. See that? See how he drops the flares one after another, after another, after another? 209 00:18:18,313 --> 00:18:19,313 I see that. 210 00:18:19,313 --> 00:18:20,313 That's very interesting. 211 00:18:20,313 --> 00:18:21,313 He looks like a flare drop. 212 00:18:21,313 --> 00:18:23,313 They're all sequential. 213 00:18:24,313 --> 00:18:29,314 The purpose of a flare drop is to divert heat-seeking missiles during battle. 214 00:18:29,314 --> 00:18:35,314 The burning flares draw the missiles away from the aircraft's hot exhaust, allowing the plane to escape. 215 00:18:40,315 --> 00:18:47,316 Why would local residents accustomed to seeing these military operations report seeing strange lights? 216 00:18:47,316 --> 00:18:52,316 And why would 40 emergency response units be called to the scene? 217 00:18:54,316 --> 00:19:05,317 We went ahead and chartered a plane. We jumped up in the air, and we flew over and did aerial recon of the area south of Kokomo, 218 00:19:05,317 --> 00:19:13,318 both through the east and the west. We did find some interesting-looking events, and one in particular looks like a crater. 219 00:19:16,318 --> 00:19:17,319 How big is that hole? 220 00:19:17,319 --> 00:19:20,319 I would guess it's probably somewhere around 8 feet across. 221 00:19:20,319 --> 00:19:24,319 We're going to have to figure out exactly where it is by doing some ground location. 222 00:19:24,319 --> 00:19:26,319 Maybe we should go check it out. 223 00:19:26,319 --> 00:19:27,320 Absolutely. 224 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:33,320 Now, if something crashes into the ground, there has to be some sort of evidence. 225 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:37,321 At this point in our investigation, this is what we're focusing on. 226 00:19:40,321 --> 00:19:45,321 Pat and Glenn head out to see if they can locate a possible UFO crash site. 227 00:19:45,321 --> 00:19:47,322 Let's get our stuff out of the bag. 228 00:19:50,322 --> 00:19:52,322 Yeah, it's going to be a day for boots. 229 00:19:53,322 --> 00:19:56,322 What have you heard about the possibility of this hole? 230 00:19:56,322 --> 00:20:02,323 Well, if we can find a hole, we might be able to determine if it was a crash site, if so, what crashed in it. 231 00:20:02,323 --> 00:20:05,323 We may need something to probe all this water and mud. 232 00:20:07,324 --> 00:20:13,324 Since the pictures were taken, this area of Indiana has been inundated with rainfall. 233 00:20:13,324 --> 00:20:15,324 I do have one question for you. 234 00:20:15,324 --> 00:20:17,325 Sure. How long can you tread water? 235 00:20:21,325 --> 00:20:27,326 While Pat and Glenn search for the crater, Bill has tracked down Debbie Cobble, 236 00:20:27,326 --> 00:20:31,326 a key witness who may have evidence of another crash site. 237 00:20:33,326 --> 00:20:40,327 Can you tell me exactly what happened in the sequence when you were in your office on the night of April 16th, 2008? 238 00:20:40,327 --> 00:20:49,328 Well, I got up to my office about 20 after 10, and I had just turned my computer on when there was a bright flash. 239 00:20:49,328 --> 00:20:54,328 And immediately after the flash, I heard the explosion, and my whole house shook. 240 00:20:56,328 --> 00:21:00,329 You lived right in your grizzly mirror for space, and you've lived for 15 years? 241 00:21:00,329 --> 00:21:01,329 Yeah. 242 00:21:01,329 --> 00:21:02,329 Have you ever heard of sonic boom before? 243 00:21:02,329 --> 00:21:03,329 Yes, I have. 244 00:21:03,329 --> 00:21:08,330 Did the boom you heard on April 16th, 2008 sound like that? 245 00:21:08,330 --> 00:21:10,330 No, it did not. 246 00:21:12,330 --> 00:21:15,330 What exploded near Debbie Cobble's house? 247 00:21:15,330 --> 00:21:20,331 The huge magnitude of the blast inspires her to start investigating. 248 00:21:22,331 --> 00:21:28,332 The next morning, she takes pictures near what she believes is the area of the explosion. 249 00:21:29,332 --> 00:21:34,332 These images seem to show several different areas with ground disturbance. 250 00:21:34,332 --> 00:21:37,333 In addition, the road has been blocked off. 251 00:21:37,333 --> 00:21:41,333 Could this be the area emergency responders were looking for? 252 00:21:41,333 --> 00:21:49,334 And if so, could her pictures be evidence of a clandestine effort to clean up a top secret crash site? 253 00:21:57,335 --> 00:22:01,335 Dippin County has requested multiple fire units out of Howard County. 254 00:22:01,335 --> 00:22:04,335 They do have some type of huge debris field. 255 00:22:05,335 --> 00:22:16,336 According to first responders from the night of April 16th, 2008, no crash site or debris field is ever found from the reported Kokomo explosion. 256 00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:21,337 But these pictures may suggest otherwise. 257 00:22:25,337 --> 00:22:28,338 This case is getting stranger and stranger. 258 00:22:28,338 --> 00:22:33,338 We found a sergeant from the Howard County Sheriff's Department, Rich Ferguson. 259 00:22:33,338 --> 00:22:36,338 And he's going to tell me exactly what happened that night. 260 00:22:37,339 --> 00:22:45,339 Out of the more than 40 units that responded, sergeant Ferguson is one of the few willing to come forward and tell his story. 261 00:22:45,339 --> 00:22:51,340 Can you tell me when you first received the call that there was something going on and where were you? 262 00:22:51,340 --> 00:22:54,340 I was at Northwestern Town, basically on patrol. 263 00:22:54,340 --> 00:23:01,341 We had a call for a large explosion and our dispatch was absolutely in a day with 911 calls. 264 00:23:02,341 --> 00:23:11,342 One of those calls is from a resident at US 31 at 300 North County Road, who reports that a plane has crashed close to his house. 265 00:23:11,342 --> 00:23:15,342 All responding units, just west of 300 North on US 31. 266 00:23:15,342 --> 00:23:18,343 We advise that it's possible to cut down. 267 00:23:19,343 --> 00:23:30,344 At approximately 10.45 p.m., sergeant Ferguson and a parade of first responders arrive at US 31 and 300 North County Road. 268 00:23:32,344 --> 00:23:37,345 This location is within a few miles of where Debbie Cobble takes photos the next morning. 269 00:23:38,345 --> 00:23:45,345 There were 75 to 80 first responders, rescue, fire, police, all in that area looking for a plane crash. 270 00:23:45,345 --> 00:23:47,346 And did anybody find anything? 271 00:23:47,346 --> 00:23:49,346 No, nothing was ever found, period. 272 00:23:50,346 --> 00:23:57,347 If no evidence of a downed aircraft or debris field was ever found, what did this first eye witness see? 273 00:23:58,347 --> 00:24:03,347 Could it be the same craft that Robbie Beck saw just three months earlier? 274 00:24:04,347 --> 00:24:06,347 Rich drove me right to the house of Mike Blake. 275 00:24:06,347 --> 00:24:12,348 It was Mike, it turns out, who said, I saw something falling out of the sky. I saw debris. 276 00:24:14,348 --> 00:24:21,349 There was just a loud boom and I went immediately out back and when I looked up in the eastern sky. 277 00:24:21,349 --> 00:24:22,349 Which direction would that be? 278 00:24:22,349 --> 00:24:23,349 Just about up in there. 279 00:24:23,349 --> 00:24:24,349 Right here? 280 00:24:24,349 --> 00:24:25,349 Okay. 281 00:24:25,349 --> 00:24:26,349 Yeah. 282 00:24:26,349 --> 00:24:31,350 It looked like a debris field falling out of the sky and I thought we could have had an air collision or something. 283 00:24:31,350 --> 00:24:32,350 Something went on up there. 284 00:24:32,350 --> 00:24:36,350 So, but it was your impression that something was actually disintegrating in the air? 285 00:24:36,350 --> 00:24:40,351 Yes. I didn't see any objects coming to the ground on fire. 286 00:24:40,351 --> 00:24:46,351 In other words, nothing that I could see came down to the ground of that debris. 287 00:24:47,352 --> 00:24:54,352 Sergeant Ferguson tips Bill to a witness who can elaborate on Mike Blake's testimony. 288 00:24:54,352 --> 00:25:00,353 While I'm responding to this, I get a phone call from Hank Bolger, a retired police officer, 289 00:25:00,353 --> 00:25:06,353 who said, I saw this orange disc with a bunch of lights going counterclockwise around it 290 00:25:06,353 --> 00:25:08,354 and he said, it's not military. 291 00:25:08,354 --> 00:25:12,354 We're going to meet with former detective Hank Bolger. 292 00:25:12,354 --> 00:25:17,355 He had a long career in the Air Force and served in Vietnam. 293 00:25:17,355 --> 00:25:19,355 This is a credible witness. 294 00:25:19,355 --> 00:25:23,355 I saw this round orange ball falling out of the sky. 295 00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:30,356 To the right of that orange ball, I could see a round and I'll describe it as an orb, a round red light. 296 00:25:31,356 --> 00:25:38,357 Well, I looked at it for a second or two and all of a sudden it seemed to move from right to left a little bit 297 00:25:38,357 --> 00:25:40,357 and a second orb appeared. 298 00:25:41,357 --> 00:25:46,357 Then a third, then a fourth, then a fifth and they were in a perfect line. 299 00:25:46,357 --> 00:25:50,358 It was not like one was up here, one was down here. 300 00:25:50,358 --> 00:25:53,358 Those lights were just hovering in the air. 301 00:25:53,358 --> 00:25:56,358 They were not moving in different directions. 302 00:25:56,358 --> 00:26:00,359 They just hovered right there in the sky. 303 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,360 As a professional in the Air Force, were those flares? 304 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:09,360 No, sir. 305 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:14,360 What I observed that night on the 16th of April of 2008, were not any flares I've ever seen. 306 00:26:24,361 --> 00:26:31,362 According to the team, rotating lights and a large fireball don't seem to fit the F-16 story. 307 00:26:31,362 --> 00:26:38,363 Photos reportedly taken that night by an anonymous source seem to corroborate the eyewitnesses' accounts. 308 00:26:40,363 --> 00:26:44,363 What was the object in the skies above Kokomo? 309 00:26:44,363 --> 00:26:49,364 The answer may lie in Robby Beck's footage taken three months earlier. 310 00:26:49,364 --> 00:26:54,364 Ted takes Pat's data from the field and prepares an analysis of the Beck's footage. 311 00:26:54,364 --> 00:26:59,365 Assisting him is visual effects expert Terrence Masson. 312 00:27:01,365 --> 00:27:06,365 This is Robby Beck's video footage and we got the actual camera. 313 00:27:06,365 --> 00:27:08,366 This is a very consumer grade camera. 314 00:27:08,366 --> 00:27:12,366 It's going to be extremely challenging at night to take quality footage. 315 00:27:12,366 --> 00:27:13,366 What have you found? 316 00:27:13,366 --> 00:27:17,367 We've got almost four minutes of footage. 317 00:27:17,367 --> 00:27:21,367 So, what are we seeing is staying around in a suboriginal location. 318 00:27:21,367 --> 00:27:26,367 Remember Pat and Bill got a car out there and we got measurements at the appropriate distance here. 319 00:27:26,367 --> 00:27:27,368 Here are the photos of those. 320 00:27:27,368 --> 00:27:31,368 Can we, based on the distance and the geometry of the lights from our car, 321 00:27:31,368 --> 00:27:34,368 can we estimate the size of our object in the distance? 322 00:27:34,368 --> 00:27:36,368 We can do a pretty good job. 323 00:27:40,369 --> 00:27:45,369 According to Robby Beck's, the mysterious object was approximately two and a half miles, 324 00:27:45,369 --> 00:27:48,370 or 13,000 feet from his house. 325 00:27:48,370 --> 00:27:54,370 Pat calculated the distance from the car in the video to Robby's camera at 1,000 feet 326 00:27:54,370 --> 00:27:58,371 and the distance between the car headlights at 3 feet. 327 00:27:58,371 --> 00:28:01,371 So, we just need to solve for the last variable. 328 00:28:01,371 --> 00:28:02,371 Simple ratio. 329 00:28:02,371 --> 00:28:06,371 Simple ratio comes out to about 39, say 40 feet. 330 00:28:06,371 --> 00:28:09,372 Although the video quality limits definitive analysis, 331 00:28:09,372 --> 00:28:14,372 the approximate size of the strange orb is revealing nonetheless. 332 00:28:15,372 --> 00:28:20,373 Now, it's based on Robby Beck's estimate of the distance to the object 333 00:28:20,373 --> 00:28:22,373 and he said, oh, it was about two and a half miles. 334 00:28:22,373 --> 00:28:25,373 There's a lot of error potential on that estimate. 335 00:28:25,373 --> 00:28:30,374 Given that estimate, though, we think it's about 39 feet, which is right about the size of an F-16. 336 00:28:30,374 --> 00:28:35,374 The wingspan of an F-16 is 32 feet 8 inches. 337 00:28:35,374 --> 00:28:39,375 Taking into account the margin of error associated with Robby's estimate, 338 00:28:39,375 --> 00:28:45,375 an F-16 could be a plausible explanation, except for one factor. 339 00:28:48,376 --> 00:28:52,376 I mean, it's consistent, in my mind, to the size of an F-16. 340 00:28:52,376 --> 00:28:56,376 Although this light is hovering, of course, which makes that difficult to do an analysis. 341 00:28:56,376 --> 00:28:58,377 An F-16 by no means. 342 00:28:58,377 --> 00:28:59,377 Does not hover. 343 00:28:59,377 --> 00:29:00,377 Anywhere near hover. 344 00:29:00,377 --> 00:29:02,377 Even in the slowest of slow flight. 345 00:29:02,377 --> 00:29:04,377 There are no radio towers that would be lit at night. 346 00:29:04,377 --> 00:29:06,377 We definitely have some sort of object here. 347 00:29:09,378 --> 00:29:14,378 F-16s have been presented as answers for both the Beck's and Kokomo cases. 348 00:29:14,378 --> 00:29:19,379 But Bill and Pat feel the evidence keeps pointing to other explanations. 349 00:29:22,379 --> 00:29:27,380 Back in Kokomo, Pat and Glenn continue to follow up on the crash site theory. 350 00:29:29,380 --> 00:29:31,380 I see a bunch of clumps over there. 351 00:29:31,380 --> 00:29:33,380 Yeah, that could be something. 352 00:29:33,380 --> 00:29:34,380 Should we have a look? 353 00:29:34,380 --> 00:29:35,380 Sure. 354 00:29:35,380 --> 00:29:40,381 After a thorough search, Pat and Glenn strike gold. 355 00:29:45,381 --> 00:29:46,381 What is that? 356 00:29:46,381 --> 00:29:48,382 We may just be looking at ground zero. 357 00:29:52,382 --> 00:29:55,382 After looking around, we have found something that's very suspicious. 358 00:29:55,382 --> 00:30:00,383 It's a large hole around 7 to 8 feet across, and it doesn't look like it belongs here. 359 00:30:00,383 --> 00:30:07,384 Have Pat and Glenn found evidence of a crash site. 360 00:30:09,384 --> 00:30:12,384 The impact hole is 4 feet into the ground. 361 00:30:17,385 --> 00:30:23,385 What I saw that night is totally different than what we're being led to believe. 362 00:30:23,385 --> 00:30:28,386 Ever since I've been small, I have heard of UFO reports in Kokomo. 363 00:30:30,386 --> 00:30:37,386 Multiple sightings of strange lights had been reported in the nearby towns of Denver and Kokomo, Indiana. 364 00:30:37,386 --> 00:30:43,387 The team is searching for evidence that the heartland is becoming a UFO hotspot. 365 00:30:45,387 --> 00:30:57,388 Pat and Mufon Field Investigator Glenn Means have just located a strange crater they believe may be linked to the explosion above Kokomo on April 16, 2008. 366 00:30:58,389 --> 00:31:00,389 Wouldn't a crater be larger than that? 367 00:31:00,389 --> 00:31:03,389 Not if it was made by something baseball sized or smaller. 368 00:31:06,389 --> 00:31:10,390 According to our little measuring post here, this hole is about 4 feet deep. 369 00:31:10,390 --> 00:31:13,390 So the impact hole is 4 feet into the ground. 370 00:31:13,390 --> 00:31:17,390 If this is an impact hole, I guess that remains to be seen. 371 00:31:18,391 --> 00:31:24,391 Pat will use a magnetometer to measure any abnormal readings in or around the crater. 372 00:31:24,391 --> 00:31:33,392 Now meteorites are very high in iron, so if there was anything down here from a meteorite, we'd expect to get some readings on this, some magnetic readings. 373 00:31:33,392 --> 00:31:37,392 So I'm not getting anything. Right now it doesn't look like much. 374 00:31:48,394 --> 00:31:54,394 Glenn and I came out here in the hopes of finding something related to the big explosion. 375 00:31:54,394 --> 00:32:03,395 We're not exactly sure what it is, so we're bringing in an expert in astronomy, Professor Adam Rengstorf, who can maybe help us figure out what this hole in the ground is. 376 00:32:04,395 --> 00:32:13,396 We have pictures of what we think could be a crater related to the incident on April 16. Could that be some sort of impact? 377 00:32:14,396 --> 00:32:19,397 If it was something drilling straight down through the atmosphere, you'd get a nice circular crater. 378 00:32:19,397 --> 00:32:32,398 If it was coming in at a very oblique angle, such that you saw lights trailing across the sky to begin with, I think you'd be more likely to see a somewhat elongated impact feature, kind of it hitting and furrowing in. 379 00:32:33,398 --> 00:32:34,398 But this doesn't look like that. 380 00:32:35,398 --> 00:32:47,399 Since witness testimony describes a trail of lights across the sky, this discounts the vertical trajectory Dr. Rengstorf says is needed for a crater to take this form. 381 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:54,400 In my estimation, just from looking at these images, it could just as easily be a sinkhole. 382 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,401 Looking at the hole in the ground, we thought maybe we had found ground zero. 383 00:32:59,401 --> 00:33:07,401 I mean, there was a strong possibility that this was some sort of impact crater, but after talking with Professor Rengstorf, we have to cross that off the list of possibilities. 384 00:33:08,402 --> 00:33:17,402 Upon closer examination, Professor Rengstorf is proven correct. Pat's impact crater is really a naturally formed sinkhole. 385 00:33:18,403 --> 00:33:29,404 With no credible crash site found, the military's explanation of an F-16 breaking the sound barrier and dropping flares needs to be investigated further. 386 00:33:32,404 --> 00:33:38,405 At the midpoint of their investigation, Bill and Pat decide to brief Ted on what they've uncovered so far. 387 00:33:39,405 --> 00:33:48,406 So guys, you know, the eyewitnesses here are describing this sonic boom shaking windows and the military says well, it's an F-16 flying overhead. 388 00:33:49,406 --> 00:33:53,406 Here's what I want to do. We'll build a sonic blast cannon. We can generate our own sonic boom. 389 00:33:54,406 --> 00:34:02,407 And I think we should be able to tell whether or not that explanation that it was an F-16 flying overhead that night stands up to real quantitative analysis. 390 00:34:03,407 --> 00:34:04,407 Absolutely. 391 00:34:05,407 --> 00:34:16,408 By recreating the shockwave intensity that witnesses experienced, the approximate speed, size of the aircraft and elevation can be determined. 392 00:34:17,408 --> 00:34:23,409 And the team believes this data should prove once and for all if the Air Force's explanation holds up. 393 00:34:24,409 --> 00:34:41,411 In Indianapolis, construction on the sonic boom cannon is underway. As it's completed, Pat and Bill prepare to gather the ear witnesses from the Kokomo event. 394 00:34:42,411 --> 00:34:43,411 Okay, here's Kokomo. 395 00:34:44,411 --> 00:34:52,412 Look, here's Kokomo. Now, folks heard this over a 20 mile area, but there seem to be four or so witnesses who really felt it the strongest. 396 00:34:53,412 --> 00:34:54,412 I mean big. 397 00:34:55,412 --> 00:34:56,412 You talk to these people? 398 00:34:56,412 --> 00:34:58,413 I spoke to each one of them and they're right in this area here. 399 00:34:59,413 --> 00:35:06,413 Debbie Cobble and Hank Bolcher from Kokomo and Mike Blake and Diane Bryant from Sharpsville. 400 00:35:08,414 --> 00:35:10,414 Do you think maybe we can get these people together? 401 00:35:11,414 --> 00:35:12,414 Let's set it up. 402 00:35:18,415 --> 00:35:22,415 The UFO Hunter's next experiment is just up the road. 403 00:35:24,415 --> 00:35:35,416 With the help of Bill's ear witnesses, the team will now try to duplicate the sound level and pressure wave that was felt that evening. 404 00:35:36,416 --> 00:35:44,417 The team hopes that this will determine if the sound could have been generated by an F-16's sonic boom or something else. 405 00:35:45,417 --> 00:35:55,418 But what exactly is a sonic boom? A sonic boom is created when an object moves near or faster than the speed of sound in air. 406 00:35:56,418 --> 00:36:04,419 When a plane travels normally, it has to displace air around its surface by communicating pressure waves from the body to the surrounding air. 407 00:36:05,419 --> 00:36:10,420 A sonic boom is created when the pressure signals have piled up at the very front. 408 00:36:10,420 --> 00:36:18,421 This creates a sudden jump in pressure and the pressure jump passing over the surface of the ground causes a sonic boom. 409 00:36:21,421 --> 00:36:25,421 But different types of aircraft create different sound signatures. 410 00:36:26,421 --> 00:36:35,422 The cannon will not only test sound levels but also different signatures as well to see what best matches what the witness has heard. 411 00:36:35,422 --> 00:36:49,424 The point of this device is to try to duplicate the sound and not just the sound but what you felt that night on April 16th, 2008. 412 00:36:51,424 --> 00:36:53,424 Let's all go back in the house. 413 00:36:54,424 --> 00:37:04,425 Pat will help operate the sonic blaster while Sam, the team's assistant, will use a dB meter to record both the volume and pressure wave of each blast. 414 00:37:05,425 --> 00:37:09,426 Bill will join the witnesses inside the house and get their reactions. 415 00:37:12,426 --> 00:37:21,427 It's crucial that we recreate that boom and see if what these people heard was indeed a sonic boom or something else. 416 00:37:21,427 --> 00:37:22,427 All right, here we go. 417 00:37:23,427 --> 00:37:24,427 Fire in the hole! 418 00:37:25,427 --> 00:37:34,428 Is the Indiana Air National Guard statement that an F-16 generated a sonic boom that rocked homes over a 20-mile radius true? 419 00:37:35,428 --> 00:37:41,429 Or will the sonic cannon blow a hole right through the military sonic boom defense? 420 00:37:41,429 --> 00:37:42,429 Fire in the hole! 421 00:37:42,429 --> 00:37:43,309 The 422 00:37:43,429 --> 00:37:44,429 F-16 423 00:37:48,430 --> 00:37:53,430 My husband and I were laying on the couch watching TV. Heard a really loud boom. 424 00:37:54,430 --> 00:37:57,430 It shook the house so much that we thought something had collided with it. 425 00:37:58,431 --> 00:38:01,431 I really thought maybe we were under attack by somebody or something. 426 00:38:01,431 --> 00:38:02,431 or something. 427 00:38:02,431 --> 00:38:10,472 Bill and Pat have dismissed the notion that meteors created the strange lights witnessed 428 00:38:10,472 --> 00:38:20,033 in and around Kokomo and have found no strong evidence that a crash ever occurred. 429 00:38:20,033 --> 00:38:23,833 But one theory has yet to be fully investigated. 430 00:38:23,833 --> 00:38:28,914 From the day the Indiana Air National Guard first issued this press release, contradicting 431 00:38:28,914 --> 00:38:34,714 what it told emergency first responders on April 16th, many witnesses have questioned 432 00:38:34,714 --> 00:38:38,195 the F-16's sonic boom explanation. 433 00:38:38,195 --> 00:38:41,275 I don't believe that this was a sonic boom. 434 00:38:41,275 --> 00:38:42,915 This might have been larger. 435 00:38:42,915 --> 00:38:48,156 If you're going to hear a boom that loud, I would suspect that you'd hear the jet. 436 00:38:48,156 --> 00:38:52,956 I didn't hear anything like that. 437 00:38:52,956 --> 00:38:58,517 A sonic cannon has been constructed to recreate the sound that ripped over Kokomo on April 438 00:38:58,517 --> 00:39:00,637 16th. 439 00:39:00,637 --> 00:39:06,077 Witnesses from that night are about to decide if it matches what they heard. 440 00:39:06,077 --> 00:39:07,077 Here we go. 441 00:39:07,077 --> 00:39:08,078 Mike? 442 00:39:08,078 --> 00:39:09,078 Mike is a no. 443 00:39:09,078 --> 00:39:10,078 Hey? 444 00:39:10,078 --> 00:39:11,078 Definitely no. 445 00:39:11,078 --> 00:39:12,078 Debbie? 446 00:39:12,078 --> 00:39:13,078 Kids? 447 00:39:13,078 --> 00:39:14,078 No. 448 00:39:14,078 --> 00:39:15,078 Diane? 449 00:39:15,078 --> 00:39:16,078 No. 450 00:39:16,078 --> 00:39:17,078 Sam? 451 00:39:17,078 --> 00:39:18,079 Yeah. 452 00:39:18,079 --> 00:39:22,079 Unanimous no. 453 00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:29,280 The first shot registers 92 decibels of sound, equivalent to a house stereo at full volume. 454 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:33,840 The maximum overpressure is 106.8 decibels. 455 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:41,521 This is the measurement of force above normal atmospheric pressure that an explosion exerts. 456 00:39:41,521 --> 00:39:42,521 Time to reload. 457 00:39:42,521 --> 00:39:43,521 Fire in the hole. 458 00:39:43,521 --> 00:39:47,401 I saw a catch about there. 459 00:39:47,401 --> 00:39:52,802 We know that the experiment is falling apart due to the sheer volume of the noise here. 460 00:39:52,802 --> 00:39:55,962 There are incredible booms that we're hearing. 461 00:39:55,962 --> 00:40:00,803 The next shot is far more powerful. 462 00:40:00,803 --> 00:40:07,923 It delivers 118 decibels of sound, equivalent to standing in the front row of a rock concert, 463 00:40:07,923 --> 00:40:13,884 and generates a maximum overpressure of 136.8 decibels. 464 00:40:13,884 --> 00:40:14,884 Quick pull. 465 00:40:14,884 --> 00:40:15,884 Mike? 466 00:40:15,884 --> 00:40:16,884 I saw that was you. 467 00:40:16,884 --> 00:40:17,884 No. 468 00:40:17,884 --> 00:40:19,885 I'm going to say now. 469 00:40:19,885 --> 00:40:20,885 No. 470 00:40:20,885 --> 00:40:25,805 Okay, Sam, this time one yes, five definite noes. 471 00:40:25,805 --> 00:40:30,966 Mike Blake, the witness that called 911 believing that there was a mid-air collision near his 472 00:40:30,966 --> 00:40:34,446 house, believes it's a match. 473 00:40:34,446 --> 00:40:43,567 For the others, it's still not strong enough. 474 00:40:43,567 --> 00:40:48,808 After several more shots, the sonic blaster is beginning to break apart. 475 00:40:48,808 --> 00:40:51,248 It's time for one last blast. 476 00:40:51,248 --> 00:40:53,568 Three, two, one. 477 00:40:53,568 --> 00:40:56,568 Oh, my God. 478 00:40:56,568 --> 00:40:59,689 Okay, we're breaking glass. 479 00:40:59,689 --> 00:41:08,570 The final shot generates 116 decibels of sound and a maximum pressure wave of 137.5 decibels, 480 00:41:08,570 --> 00:41:13,090 enough to crack a window and virtually destroy the sonic cannon. 481 00:41:13,090 --> 00:41:16,850 Okay, everybody, come on outside. 482 00:41:16,850 --> 00:41:18,651 So how was it in there? 483 00:41:18,651 --> 00:41:19,651 Loud. 484 00:41:19,651 --> 00:41:20,651 Not loud. 485 00:41:20,651 --> 00:41:23,251 But was it as loud as the big boom? 486 00:41:23,251 --> 00:41:24,771 I believe it was, yes. 487 00:41:24,771 --> 00:41:26,571 So we have Mike Blake saying yes. 488 00:41:26,571 --> 00:41:27,571 No. 489 00:41:27,571 --> 00:41:29,652 Thanks, there's no, Debbie. 490 00:41:29,652 --> 00:41:30,652 No. 491 00:41:30,652 --> 00:41:33,692 We haven't come up with anything definitive yet. 492 00:41:33,692 --> 00:41:35,692 Obviously, this needs further analysis. 493 00:41:35,692 --> 00:41:42,453 We'll send all this data to Ted and see what he has to say about it. 494 00:41:42,453 --> 00:41:47,653 Back at the lab, Ted is ready to give his assessment of the sonic boom experiment. 495 00:41:47,653 --> 00:41:52,454 Basically, we've got all these witnesses who describe hearing a loud boom. 496 00:41:52,454 --> 00:41:55,934 By having this cannon, the whole point was to see if we could recreate what they had 497 00:41:55,934 --> 00:41:59,655 heard and have them say, yep, that one was what I had heard. 498 00:41:59,655 --> 00:42:02,695 And from that, we can back calculate what kind of aircraft it might have been, whether 499 00:42:02,695 --> 00:42:06,295 or not it wasn't an aircraft at all, and whether or not it agrees with the explanation 500 00:42:06,295 --> 00:42:07,295 from the military. 501 00:42:07,295 --> 00:42:11,696 The final analysis of these tests proves to be telling. 502 00:42:11,696 --> 00:42:16,536 What Mike heard indicates the pressure wave closely matches a craft similar in size to 503 00:42:16,536 --> 00:42:23,097 an F-16 or F-18 breaking the sound barrier. 504 00:42:23,097 --> 00:42:26,737 Based on the volume, that aircraft was pretty low altitude. 505 00:42:26,737 --> 00:42:29,618 It may have been as low as a couple of thousand feet over the house. 506 00:42:29,618 --> 00:42:34,698 It may have been higher, but it's unlikely that it was up in the tens or 30,000 feet. 507 00:42:34,698 --> 00:42:39,539 Bottom line, what we have very good confidence in here is that we had an F-16 flying over 508 00:42:39,539 --> 00:42:49,380 a residential neighborhood at supersonic speeds at somewhere around 5,000 feet. 509 00:42:49,380 --> 00:42:55,460 But only one witness positively identified the sound from that night, while five others 510 00:42:55,460 --> 00:42:58,581 said it wasn't intense enough. 511 00:42:58,581 --> 00:43:04,701 This proves an F-16 was either lower than 5,000 feet, or this is an entirely different 512 00:43:04,701 --> 00:43:08,021 aircraft. 513 00:43:08,021 --> 00:43:12,142 The BEX sighting now takes on added significance. 514 00:43:12,142 --> 00:43:18,383 Ted's analysis estimated the object to be 40 feet, approximately the same size as an 515 00:43:18,383 --> 00:43:19,383 F-16. 516 00:43:19,383 --> 00:43:25,063 Yet flight characteristics were witnessed that are believed impossible for an F-16 to 517 00:43:25,063 --> 00:43:27,143 perform. 518 00:43:27,143 --> 00:43:32,384 Could it be the same craft that broke the sound barrier over Kokomo? 519 00:43:32,384 --> 00:43:36,704 It's entirely plausible that this was an F-16 breaking the sound barrier overhead. 520 00:43:36,704 --> 00:43:37,704 It then dropped a flare. 521 00:43:37,704 --> 00:43:40,185 It would be the fireball that the witnesses accounted for. 522 00:43:40,185 --> 00:43:46,465 I could go along with the F-16 theory, except what they saw this huge orange glowing ball. 523 00:43:46,465 --> 00:43:52,586 And then they saw this string of red lights come on, moving in a concentric circle. 524 00:43:52,586 --> 00:43:56,666 According to the witnesses that we talked to, the original explosion was much louder than 525 00:43:56,666 --> 00:44:01,747 the ones we were able to produce in the experiments, meaning that if it was an F-16, it would be 526 00:44:01,747 --> 00:44:04,147 flying below 5,000 feet. 527 00:44:04,147 --> 00:44:11,908 That just doesn't sound like anything that professional F-16 pilots would do. 528 00:44:11,908 --> 00:44:18,188 What was seen in the skies over Denver and Kokomo may never be known. 529 00:44:18,188 --> 00:44:24,109 Most of the prevailing theories have been eliminated, or at least appear unlikely. 530 00:44:24,109 --> 00:44:29,350 The search for answers continues, and the possibility of a UFO remains.