1 00:00:00,868 --> 00:00:16,867 Some say it was an extraterrestrial craft. Others, a secret weapon test, gone wrong. 2 00:00:16,867 --> 00:00:22,867 But whatever two women and a young boy encountered on a Texas road, it was dangerous. 3 00:00:22,867 --> 00:00:26,866 The first thing that came to her mind was the end of the world. 4 00:00:26,866 --> 00:00:30,866 What type of sighting could cause burns and injuries? 5 00:00:30,866 --> 00:00:34,866 Everywhere you can imagine, she had blisters. 6 00:00:37,866 --> 00:00:41,865 Now, nearly 30 years later, clues emerge. 7 00:00:41,865 --> 00:00:44,865 Theoretically, it could have happened. 8 00:00:44,865 --> 00:00:46,865 And another story surfaces. 9 00:00:46,865 --> 00:00:50,865 Of a police car hitting a UFO, head on. 10 00:00:50,865 --> 00:00:54,865 It happened to a reliable, credible, law enforcement officer. 11 00:00:54,865 --> 00:00:57,864 A family with signs of radiation poisoning. 12 00:00:57,864 --> 00:00:59,864 A strange collision. 13 00:00:59,864 --> 00:01:02,864 Are we encountering aliens? 14 00:01:02,864 --> 00:01:04,864 Or our own bizarre creations? 15 00:01:04,864 --> 00:01:10,864 This is case number 80103, Alien Fallout. 16 00:01:25,863 --> 00:01:31,862 Somebody needs to admit to what they've done. 17 00:01:31,862 --> 00:01:36,862 I just want answers for what they've been hiding for 28 years. 18 00:01:36,862 --> 00:01:40,862 December 29th, 1980. 19 00:01:40,862 --> 00:01:43,861 The Piney Woods of Huffman, Texas. 20 00:01:43,861 --> 00:01:48,861 At approximately 9 in the evening, Betty Cash and Vicki Landrum, 21 00:01:48,861 --> 00:01:51,861 and a 7-year-old boy, Colby Landrum, 22 00:01:51,861 --> 00:01:54,861 are driving home to Dayton on Huffman, New Cane Road, 23 00:01:54,861 --> 00:01:57,860 30 miles northeast of Houston. 24 00:01:59,860 --> 00:02:03,860 The boy sees a bright light in the sky, heading straight towards them. 25 00:02:03,860 --> 00:02:08,860 This light will soon irreparably impact the lives of everyone in the car. 26 00:02:12,860 --> 00:02:17,859 The light descends and reveals itself to be a diamond-shaped object. 27 00:02:19,859 --> 00:02:22,859 All of the occupants in the car feel strong heat, 28 00:02:22,859 --> 00:02:25,859 and the two women are burned. 29 00:02:25,859 --> 00:02:30,858 These photos show the blisters that formed on their exposed skin. 30 00:02:32,858 --> 00:02:38,858 Possibly as many as 23 double-rotor military helicopters arrive on the scene 31 00:02:38,858 --> 00:02:40,858 and circle the craft. 32 00:02:41,858 --> 00:02:46,857 Though the object and helicopters eventually disappear over the treeline, 33 00:02:46,857 --> 00:02:53,857 for the three in the car, an ordeal which will haunt them for the rest of their lives has just begun. 34 00:02:55,857 --> 00:03:01,856 Minutes later, a Dayton police officer and his wife observe large military helicopters 35 00:03:01,856 --> 00:03:05,856 with searchlights flying above the trees, as if looking for something. 36 00:03:08,856 --> 00:03:12,856 Other witnesses claim a diamond-shaped craft flew above them, 37 00:03:12,856 --> 00:03:16,855 lighting flames as it moved over populated areas. 38 00:03:17,855 --> 00:03:21,855 The incident leads to a full military investigation. 39 00:03:22,855 --> 00:03:25,855 But the effects of this incident linger on. 40 00:03:27,855 --> 00:03:30,855 Both women suffer mysterious injuries. 41 00:03:31,854 --> 00:03:37,854 Years later, according to their families, their deaths are caused by the incident. 42 00:03:38,854 --> 00:03:42,854 Now, after decades of loss and lawsuits, 43 00:03:42,854 --> 00:03:47,853 no suitable explanation for the helicopters and the fiery craft has been found. 44 00:03:50,853 --> 00:03:53,853 Maybe their lives weren't affected like mine was, 45 00:03:53,853 --> 00:03:58,853 but somebody actually seemed the same thing that I seen that night. 46 00:03:58,853 --> 00:04:05,852 This should wake up the American people and demand to know what's going on. 47 00:04:08,852 --> 00:04:13,852 The investigation into alien fallout leads to Huffman, Texas. 48 00:04:14,852 --> 00:04:18,851 Bill Burns will collect testimony from a retired Lieutenant Colonel 49 00:04:18,851 --> 00:04:21,851 who led the Pentagon investigation into the incident. 50 00:04:23,851 --> 00:04:28,851 George Saran was to investigate what role the Army might have had 51 00:04:28,851 --> 00:04:32,851 in flying helicopters on December 29, 1980. 52 00:04:33,850 --> 00:04:38,850 Pat Uskert will get details about the injuries from one victim's daughter. 53 00:04:39,850 --> 00:04:43,850 These people not only experience physical harm after these UFO sightings, 54 00:04:43,850 --> 00:04:47,850 but also experience emotional and psychological damage. 55 00:04:48,850 --> 00:04:54,849 And Dr. Ted Ackworth will meet a physician who says the three were irradiated by the craft. 56 00:04:54,849 --> 00:04:57,849 There aren't too many medical records left over from those days, 57 00:04:57,849 --> 00:05:01,849 but what I really want to do is talk to him and get what information he has 58 00:05:01,849 --> 00:05:03,849 about the mission. 59 00:05:04,849 --> 00:05:06,848 The investigation begins in Dayton, 60 00:05:06,848 --> 00:05:11,848 where Bill meets with the Mutual UFO Network's Texas director, Ken Cherry. 61 00:05:14,848 --> 00:05:16,848 Walk us through it, Ken. What happened? 62 00:05:16,848 --> 00:05:22,847 Betty, Cash and Vicki Landrum were out on an evening about nine o'clock 63 00:05:22,847 --> 00:05:25,847 accompanied by Vicki's grandson. 64 00:05:25,847 --> 00:05:29,847 They saw something that they described that looked as if the sky had opened up. 65 00:05:31,847 --> 00:05:36,846 For the first time ever, the boy, Kobe Landrum, now in his 30s, 66 00:05:36,846 --> 00:05:39,846 will reveal what happened that night. 67 00:05:39,846 --> 00:05:44,846 In hopes of finding the truth, he has agreed to tell his story on camera. 68 00:05:48,846 --> 00:05:50,846 Kobe, tell us what happened on this road. 69 00:05:50,846 --> 00:05:55,845 Right about here as we were driving along, we started seeing the bright object 70 00:05:55,845 --> 00:05:58,845 come over the top of the trees. 71 00:05:58,845 --> 00:06:04,845 And as we got closer, we realized that the temperature was getting a lot hotter 72 00:06:04,845 --> 00:06:10,844 and my grandmother kind of got frantic and they stopped in the middle of the road. 73 00:06:10,844 --> 00:06:15,844 According to Kobe, the craft spews flames and heat down onto the road 74 00:06:15,844 --> 00:06:18,844 and the three helpless occupants of the vehicle. 75 00:06:19,844 --> 00:06:21,844 What did it look like to you? 76 00:06:21,844 --> 00:06:23,843 It was a bright red glowing object. 77 00:06:23,843 --> 00:06:27,843 It kind of looked as if you took a piece of metal and heated up with a torch. 78 00:06:27,843 --> 00:06:31,843 It kind of looked like it was on fire, but it was kind of floating. 79 00:06:33,843 --> 00:06:40,842 While Vicki and Kobe take refuge in the car, Betty, mesmerized, opens the door and steps out. 80 00:06:42,842 --> 00:06:45,842 My grandmother went to the daze, you know, she was screaming. 81 00:06:45,842 --> 00:06:50,842 Betty had got out of the car and was looking at it and that the heat was so intense 82 00:06:50,842 --> 00:06:54,841 she couldn't stand it much more, so she got back in the car. 83 00:06:55,841 --> 00:06:59,841 Betty was seared by the burning effects of that heat. 84 00:06:59,841 --> 00:07:04,841 Vicki was burned, Kobe was burned and traumatized by the event. 85 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,840 At that moment, helicopters appear overhead. 86 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:18,840 At first, there's just a few, but within moments, they're everywhere. 87 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,840 As I was counting the helicopters, I come up with a count of about 23. 88 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,839 I just remember being real frantic. 89 00:07:26,839 --> 00:07:33,839 Finally, the alleged UFO and its escort of roughly 23 helicopters disappear into the Texas night. 90 00:07:35,839 --> 00:07:40,838 Kobe, his grandmother and Betty Cash, managed to reach Dayton. 91 00:07:40,838 --> 00:07:45,838 Since Kobe is the only living witness to experience the effects of the incident, 92 00:07:45,838 --> 00:07:49,838 Pat begins his search for corroborating evidence, 93 00:07:49,838 --> 00:07:54,838 someone else who may have seen the helicopters and the diamond-shaped craft. 94 00:07:57,837 --> 00:08:01,837 Lamar Walker, former police officer with the Dayton Police Department, 95 00:08:01,837 --> 00:08:05,837 he was driving with his wife that night when they saw these formations of helicopters. 96 00:08:06,837 --> 00:08:11,837 I was looking out on this side just glancing out this way and I was in the first bunch I saw. 97 00:08:11,837 --> 00:08:14,836 The first one was right here in front of me. 98 00:08:14,836 --> 00:08:17,836 OK, so the first formation right here in front of you. 99 00:08:17,836 --> 00:08:22,836 Anything from 9 to probably 12, OK, what I could see. 100 00:08:22,836 --> 00:08:27,835 They was all head there, ground search, landing lights on. 101 00:08:27,835 --> 00:08:30,835 They was definitely sure looking for something. 102 00:08:33,835 --> 00:08:37,835 If there is a diamond-shaped craft, as Kobe Landrum reports, 103 00:08:37,835 --> 00:08:40,835 Walker never sees it. 104 00:08:40,835 --> 00:08:44,834 Could you tell me a little bit about the helicopters themselves? 105 00:08:44,834 --> 00:08:49,834 They was twin rotors, big blade in the front, big at the rear, 106 00:08:49,834 --> 00:08:54,834 kind of like the army would have or the Air Force or something. 107 00:08:54,834 --> 00:08:56,834 So in your mind these are military helicopters? 108 00:08:56,834 --> 00:08:58,833 Yes, very much so. 109 00:08:58,833 --> 00:09:02,833 These double-rotor helicopters are known as Chinooks 110 00:09:02,833 --> 00:09:06,833 and are built for heavy lifts and transporting troops. 111 00:09:08,833 --> 00:09:10,833 This is a military helicopter. 112 00:09:10,833 --> 00:09:15,832 Maybe we can use the Chinook as a lead and see who might be responsible for what happened that night. 113 00:09:18,832 --> 00:09:23,832 Pat meets with Jerry McDonald, another witness, who didn't see the helicopters, 114 00:09:23,832 --> 00:09:26,832 but saw something else he'll never forget. 115 00:09:26,832 --> 00:09:29,832 When I looked up, I saw this unidentified craft. 116 00:09:29,832 --> 00:09:31,831 I'm like a triangle shape. 117 00:09:31,831 --> 00:09:36,831 And in the back of it, it had, how do you say, acetylene torches. 118 00:09:36,831 --> 00:09:40,831 You know that bright blue light when you get ready to cut metal? 119 00:09:40,831 --> 00:09:42,831 That was coming off the back of it. 120 00:09:43,831 --> 00:09:47,830 McDonald watches the alleged UFO fly right over the town of Dayton, 121 00:09:47,830 --> 00:09:51,830 minutes before Betty, Vicki and Colby's encounter. 122 00:09:54,830 --> 00:09:58,830 Now would you be able to draw a picture of what you saw? 123 00:09:59,830 --> 00:10:03,829 We've got a triangle shape right here. 124 00:10:04,829 --> 00:10:06,829 This was flaming torches here. 125 00:10:07,829 --> 00:10:11,829 In front of it was two white lights here and a white light here, guiding the craft. 126 00:10:11,829 --> 00:10:12,829 Okay. 127 00:10:12,829 --> 00:10:15,829 And it went that direction right there. 128 00:10:15,829 --> 00:10:20,828 McDonald reveals to Pat that he got sick soon after the incident. 129 00:10:21,828 --> 00:10:27,828 I got sick a couple of days later, but for the most part of it, I felt like I came unscathed. 130 00:10:28,828 --> 00:10:34,827 Jerry suffers from headaches and nausea, but the effects of his sighting are almost inconsequential, 131 00:10:34,827 --> 00:10:38,827 compared to those of Colby Landrum and the other occupants of the car. 132 00:10:39,827 --> 00:10:47,827 I started getting sick after we got back to the house and I had vomiting and I had a couple of blisters on my face. 133 00:10:47,827 --> 00:10:48,826 Kind of like a sunburn. 134 00:10:48,826 --> 00:10:50,826 Did your grandmother have any symptoms too? 135 00:10:50,826 --> 00:10:52,826 I guess my grandmother was very sick. 136 00:10:52,826 --> 00:10:56,826 I think Betty had more of the worst symptoms than any of us. 137 00:10:57,826 --> 00:11:03,825 The symptoms are devastating, severe burns, painful blisters, hair loss. 138 00:11:03,825 --> 00:11:06,825 What could cause such overwhelming injuries? 139 00:11:06,825 --> 00:11:12,825 Ted turns to Betty's physician to confirm that this was no ordinary illness. 140 00:11:12,825 --> 00:11:17,825 There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that she had high energy radiation exposure. 141 00:11:21,824 --> 00:11:25,824 I didn't get out of the car and wasn't hurt near as bad as Betty or my grandmother. 142 00:11:25,824 --> 00:11:28,824 They seemed to have taken the hardest hit. 143 00:11:29,824 --> 00:11:37,823 The investigation is searching for answers to what witnesses encountered outside Huffman, Texas in December of 1980. 144 00:11:38,823 --> 00:11:44,823 Hours after witnessing a diamond-shaped object, Colby Landrum, his grandmother Vicki Landrum, 145 00:11:44,823 --> 00:11:48,823 and friend Betty Cash succumbed to a mysterious illness. 146 00:11:49,823 --> 00:11:56,822 Ted arranges a meeting with Betty Cash's physician, Dr. Brian McClelland, who treated her for 18 years. 147 00:11:57,822 --> 00:12:01,822 I'm wondering if you could just start by describing to me the case. 148 00:12:01,822 --> 00:12:08,821 Well, when I met Betty, she had a burn mark on the back of her right hand and so I asked her how that happened. 149 00:12:08,821 --> 00:12:13,821 And she told me that I wouldn't believe her if she told me the story and I said, well, just try me out. 150 00:12:13,821 --> 00:12:22,820 Betty Cash is admitted to Parkway Hospital three times within a month after the incident, with severe burns, blistering and hair loss. 151 00:12:22,820 --> 00:12:27,820 She claims these symptoms are a result of her encounter with the diamond-shaped craft. 152 00:12:29,820 --> 00:12:37,819 Dr. McClelland points to a handful of remaining medical records to back his startling diagnosis of Betty's injuries. 153 00:12:37,819 --> 00:12:44,819 Well, I have a copy of the dictated parts of her chart from the Parkway Hospital. 154 00:12:44,819 --> 00:12:52,818 She was admitted what looks like three times from this chart and each one of them is consistent with progressive radiation exposure. 155 00:12:52,818 --> 00:13:00,818 There are a number of skeptics on this case who just say that she could not have been irradiated because she would be dead. 156 00:13:00,818 --> 00:13:01,818 What do you say to that? 157 00:13:01,818 --> 00:13:04,818 Well, all radiation does not kill you. 158 00:13:04,818 --> 00:13:09,817 It depends on the intensity of the source and the duration of your exposure. 159 00:13:09,817 --> 00:13:17,817 And those two factors made it so that she suffered burns, she suffered some superficial damage, but she didn't have a lethal dose. 160 00:13:17,817 --> 00:13:20,817 How much radiation would it take to cause these kinds of effects? 161 00:13:20,817 --> 00:13:27,816 You'd have to estimate her getting somewhere between one and two grays of radiation, which is a way of measuring absorption. 162 00:13:27,816 --> 00:13:30,816 So it's not a lethal dose, but it's enough to hurt you. 163 00:13:35,816 --> 00:13:45,815 Curiously, Dr. McClelland is unable to obtain the vast majority of Cache's medical records from Parkway Hospital where Betty was initially treated. 164 00:13:45,815 --> 00:13:49,815 We send them at least 20 or 30 releases over time. 165 00:13:49,815 --> 00:13:51,815 But yet you were unable to get information? 166 00:13:51,815 --> 00:13:52,815 No. 167 00:13:52,815 --> 00:13:55,814 So you've never seen this happen before or since with the request for information? 168 00:13:55,814 --> 00:14:00,814 I mean, occasionally I'll send you back, can't find it, it's lost, but they never just don't answer. 169 00:14:00,814 --> 00:14:04,814 So why would Parkway Hospital not release this information to you? 170 00:14:04,814 --> 00:14:08,814 I would speculate that they wouldn't release it because it was blocked. 171 00:14:08,814 --> 00:14:12,813 It had to be blocked by military or legal means. 172 00:14:16,813 --> 00:14:24,813 While Ted continues to uncover the medical facts and records of the case, Pat meets with Betty Cache's daughter, Mickey Geisinger. 173 00:14:24,813 --> 00:14:28,812 She was a witness to her mom's horrific injuries. 174 00:14:28,812 --> 00:14:33,812 Blisters on the face, burns on the arm, her hair falling out in clumps. 175 00:14:33,812 --> 00:14:35,812 I didn't know it was my mother. 176 00:14:35,812 --> 00:14:36,812 You didn't recognize her? 177 00:14:36,812 --> 00:14:48,811 Oh no. She could open her eyes because she even had blisters on the inside of her eyes, on the inside of her nose, on the inside of her mouth. 178 00:14:48,811 --> 00:14:51,811 Everywhere you can imagine she had blisters. 179 00:14:51,811 --> 00:14:53,811 Did you try to talk to your mother or could she talk? 180 00:14:53,811 --> 00:15:00,810 I did, too. My mother, she was kind of blurting out the words, you know, trying to tell me exactly what happened, but she couldn't. 181 00:15:00,810 --> 00:15:05,810 About that time, here comes a police officer escorting me out of the room. 182 00:15:05,810 --> 00:15:07,810 Why was he escorting you out of the room? 183 00:15:07,810 --> 00:15:08,810 I don't know. 184 00:15:10,810 --> 00:15:15,809 Undaunted, Mickey returns and visits her mother multiple times. 185 00:15:15,809 --> 00:15:21,809 On one occasion, she finds her mother has been moved to an unlikely room. 186 00:15:22,809 --> 00:15:24,809 They had her isolated to herself. 187 00:15:24,809 --> 00:15:29,808 The nurse directed me to the room, but she said, I'll have to walk you to it. 188 00:15:29,808 --> 00:15:33,808 And then she takes me to a room downstairs where there's nothing else down there. 189 00:15:33,808 --> 00:15:37,808 There's no other rooms, like a basement. 190 00:15:37,808 --> 00:15:46,807 And when they went into the room, every one of them had to have gloves up to here, mask on, gowns on, hats on. 191 00:15:46,807 --> 00:15:50,807 So they were handling this almost like a hazardous material zone. 192 00:15:50,807 --> 00:15:55,807 And that's what was on the outside of her hospital door, a sign for hazardous material. 193 00:16:01,806 --> 00:16:05,806 When finally stabilized, Cash moves to Alabama to live with her mother. 194 00:16:05,806 --> 00:16:09,806 Her injuries from the encounter have left her unable to care for herself. 195 00:16:10,806 --> 00:16:20,805 There, Dr. McClellan treats Betty Cash pro bono until her death in 1998, on the 18th anniversary of the incident. 196 00:16:20,805 --> 00:16:25,805 Dr, you've seen as much of the evidence in this case as anybody, especially the medical evidence. 197 00:16:25,805 --> 00:16:28,805 What's your diagnosis here? Was Betty radiated? 198 00:16:28,805 --> 00:16:37,804 There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that she had high energy radiation exposure and physical damage from that exposure. 199 00:16:37,804 --> 00:16:45,804 Anyone can speculate as to the source of the radiation, and I don't know of anything available to common people that would cause that. 200 00:16:48,803 --> 00:16:54,803 The doctor has never met Colby Landrum, but agrees to examine him for this investigation. 201 00:16:54,803 --> 00:16:59,803 He tracked her case throughout 17, 18 years. 202 00:16:59,803 --> 00:17:04,802 He's actually something of an expert when it comes to radiation exposure and radiation poisoning. 203 00:17:04,802 --> 00:17:09,802 And I think Dr. McClellan is the right kind of person to be able to give us an expert diagnosis. 204 00:17:09,802 --> 00:17:12,802 First, let's talk about the incident. Do you remember anything about it? 205 00:17:12,802 --> 00:17:18,801 I was sick for a week or two afterwards. I never went to the hospital. I mean, I went and got checked out, but I had some burns. 206 00:17:18,801 --> 00:17:20,801 Where'd you have those? 207 00:17:20,801 --> 00:17:27,801 They were on my back and arms. And then I remember I couldn't get out in the sun very much for a week or two. 208 00:17:28,801 --> 00:17:33,800 Dr. McClellan proceeds to collect a case history on Colby Landrum. 209 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,800 Put your shirt up. 210 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:45,800 Kind of the same as if you had some sun exposure or something. That's about the only changes. 211 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,800 That's cool. But otherwise you're uninjured, right? 212 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,799 Otherwise I have no problems. There's a great link. 213 00:17:51,799 --> 00:17:52,799 Did you lose any hair? 214 00:17:52,799 --> 00:17:57,799 Not that I remember. I may have lost a slight amount in the back of my hair before I remember. 215 00:17:57,799 --> 00:18:03,799 It looks like it's pretty much intact now. Everything came back. How long was it before you actually felt well? 216 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:04,798 After? 217 00:18:04,798 --> 00:18:07,798 I'd say probably two weeks. 218 00:18:09,798 --> 00:18:13,798 Have you ever had a liver problem? Is ulcers in your stomach? Trouble with your stomach? 219 00:18:13,798 --> 00:18:15,798 Not that I know of. 220 00:18:15,798 --> 00:18:19,798 Take a big breath. And out. 221 00:18:20,797 --> 00:18:22,797 You can sit up. 222 00:18:22,797 --> 00:18:28,797 Though no physical effects remain, Colby is still pained by the experience. 223 00:18:28,797 --> 00:18:33,797 At least you're healthy and you can get along. But you really should be doing these check-ups. 224 00:18:33,797 --> 00:18:40,796 Not more than every two years. Part of every year. But anything that shielded you with metal would have been relatively protected. 225 00:18:40,796 --> 00:18:46,796 But the windows didn't protect you. If you were inside the vehicle, Betty only got it because she was outside. 226 00:18:47,796 --> 00:18:55,795 If radiation was the cause, Betty probably received the highest dose as she stood outside the car. 227 00:18:55,795 --> 00:19:00,795 Vicki would have been next in dosage as she peered through the front window. 228 00:19:00,795 --> 00:19:06,795 Colby would have received the least by hiding beneath the dash away from any windows. 229 00:19:06,795 --> 00:19:11,794 But the radiation could have affected more than just the witnesses. 230 00:19:12,794 --> 00:19:17,794 Is it possible that it was absorbed by the road itself? 231 00:19:17,794 --> 00:19:24,793 Bill learns that a crew was seen at the site days after the incident, digging up the road. 232 00:19:24,793 --> 00:19:30,793 My grandmother told me this is a section from about here, about 135 feet back. 233 00:19:30,793 --> 00:19:36,793 And they stripped the pavement from about this point, 135 foot back towards Inland Road. 234 00:19:36,793 --> 00:19:39,792 Well, did people describe trucks coming in and doing this? 235 00:19:39,792 --> 00:19:45,792 I heard from different sources. Somebody had told me that it was black unmarked trucks that come in here and actually stripped it. 236 00:19:45,792 --> 00:19:47,792 It should throw a red flag up to somebody. 237 00:19:47,792 --> 00:19:49,792 It sure is a red flag. I agree. 238 00:19:53,791 --> 00:20:03,791 If clandestine crews were brought in to repave the road without the county's knowledge, then a core sample of the road should show the resurfacing pattern. 239 00:20:04,791 --> 00:20:11,790 If it doesn't match county records, it could confirm the military's attempt to hide the truth. 240 00:20:12,790 --> 00:20:18,790 And the Lieutenant Colonel, who originally investigated the case, finally comes forward. 241 00:20:22,790 --> 00:20:30,789 They had two, maybe three, double rotary Chinooks and the rest of them were the type to carry personnel in. 242 00:20:30,789 --> 00:20:40,788 On this county road almost 30 years ago, three witnesses see an alleged diamond-shaped UFO spitting flames and descending toward their car. 243 00:20:40,788 --> 00:20:45,788 The three receive burns and one seems to suffer from radiation sickness. 244 00:20:47,788 --> 00:20:56,787 But just before the encounter in Texas, one of the most famous events in UFO history takes place, the United Kingdom's Rendlesham Forest Incident. 245 00:20:57,787 --> 00:21:08,787 A previous investigation looked into this sighting, which involved multiple Royal Air Force bases and reports of strange lights resembling, quote, an aircraft on fire. 246 00:21:08,787 --> 00:21:14,786 Before the event, locals had long complained of strange blisters on their skin. 247 00:21:14,786 --> 00:21:22,786 And that night, men in a military security detail reported feeling, quote, very hot as the lights approached them. 248 00:21:22,786 --> 00:21:29,785 In the days following, strange marks with abnormally high radiation levels are found in the forest. 249 00:21:32,785 --> 00:21:41,785 Less than 48 hours after the conclusion of these events, Betty Cash and Vicki and Colby Landrum have their encounter on this road in Texas. 250 00:21:43,784 --> 00:21:50,784 Bill has learned that a crew allegedly removed part of the road after the sighting, perhaps to remove traces of radiation. 251 00:21:51,784 --> 00:21:56,784 If there is any truth to the story, it could point to a cover-up. 252 00:21:57,784 --> 00:22:06,783 Pat returns to the location with Francisco Puentes of Terracon Industries, an engineering firm that specializes in pavement analysis. 253 00:22:06,783 --> 00:22:15,782 Two samples will be taken, one from the spot that was alleged to have been replaced and the other from a portion of road outside the contact site. 254 00:22:16,782 --> 00:22:21,782 Now, if road was retained, will we be able to tell from this sample? 255 00:22:21,782 --> 00:22:27,782 Will we be able to see some type of delamination or color difference between the old and the new? 256 00:22:28,782 --> 00:22:34,781 Francisco tells Pat that the section of road allegedly replaced reveals unusual features. 257 00:22:34,781 --> 00:22:37,781 It's different than typical construction. 258 00:22:37,781 --> 00:22:42,781 Typical construction, again, is they remill and put directly on top of the asphalt. 259 00:22:42,781 --> 00:22:45,780 Here we have two distinct layers of asphalt. 260 00:22:45,780 --> 00:22:47,780 Does that say anything to you? 261 00:22:47,780 --> 00:22:49,780 It's unusual. It's not typical. 262 00:22:51,780 --> 00:22:55,780 A control sample is taken from 160 feet away. 263 00:22:57,780 --> 00:22:59,780 Comparing one to the other, fairly similar. 264 00:22:59,780 --> 00:23:05,779 Well, the alleged story is that the road was actually torn up and completely reconstructed. 265 00:23:05,779 --> 00:23:07,779 That it wasn't just resurfaced. 266 00:23:07,779 --> 00:23:11,779 They actually dug down to the foundation of the road and removed it. 267 00:23:11,779 --> 00:23:16,778 But do these core samples show any evidence of that kind of total removal of the road? 268 00:23:16,778 --> 00:23:18,778 Not completely removed and reconstructed. 269 00:23:18,778 --> 00:23:19,778 Anything abnormal? 270 00:23:19,778 --> 00:23:21,778 You have a lot more asphalt than typical construction. 271 00:23:21,778 --> 00:23:24,778 It looks like it's been resurfaced a few times. 272 00:23:24,778 --> 00:23:29,778 The core samples don't show major differences, but they do add to the mystery. 273 00:23:29,778 --> 00:23:40,777 According to Harris County Highway officials, they are unable to find any documentation of repairs, overlays or reconstruction on this road since 1980. 274 00:23:40,777 --> 00:23:44,777 But these two extractions show multiple repavings. 275 00:23:44,777 --> 00:23:50,776 The investigation believes the road reconstruction may have stretched further than first thought. 276 00:23:50,776 --> 00:23:56,776 And with the discrepancies in the county records, that an outside operation is very possible. 277 00:23:58,776 --> 00:24:01,776 But Colby has another lead. 278 00:24:01,776 --> 00:24:05,775 He tells Bill that five months after the traumatic events on the road, 279 00:24:05,775 --> 00:24:09,775 he and his grandmother crossed paths with someone involved in the incident. 280 00:24:09,775 --> 00:24:17,775 During a military exhibition at the county fair, a chance encounter opens the possibility of a military secret. 281 00:24:18,774 --> 00:24:21,774 A Chinook helicopter had flown in a date. 282 00:24:21,774 --> 00:24:27,774 We went up there to actually see it, and I think my grandmother had got to talking to the gentleman at the pilot. 283 00:24:27,774 --> 00:24:32,774 And before he realized who she was and what had happened, 284 00:24:32,774 --> 00:24:38,773 he started talking that he was on a mission the night of December 29th in that vicinity. 285 00:24:38,773 --> 00:24:44,773 According to Colby, the pilot said his unit was based at Ellington Air Force Base. 286 00:24:44,773 --> 00:24:49,773 After my grandmother had confronted him about being caught on whatever mission they was on, 287 00:24:49,773 --> 00:24:52,772 he kind of climbed up and wouldn't say anything. 288 00:24:53,772 --> 00:25:01,772 Military secrecy continues to surround the case, but due to the press received at the time, or another unknown reason, 289 00:25:01,772 --> 00:25:06,771 the Army launches a major investigation into the Cash Landrum incident. 290 00:25:06,771 --> 00:25:09,771 The report on the topic is classified. 291 00:25:10,771 --> 00:25:14,771 The author of the report is Lieutenant Colonel George Saran. 292 00:25:14,771 --> 00:25:18,771 His investigation has called much of Colby's story into question. 293 00:25:18,771 --> 00:25:25,770 For the first time, he is speaking out about the case and has come face to face with Colby Landrum. 294 00:25:26,770 --> 00:25:31,770 The only organization that had that many helicopters was the United States Army. 295 00:25:31,770 --> 00:25:36,769 23 helicopters would be a real logistical operation. 296 00:25:36,769 --> 00:25:47,769 Being so close to a major international airport, the air traffic control people would definitely have, it would have been cleared through them. 297 00:25:47,769 --> 00:25:55,768 You asked them if they had any record of the flight of 23, give or take a couple helicopters, and the answer was... 298 00:25:55,768 --> 00:25:58,768 No. They had no record. 299 00:25:59,768 --> 00:26:05,768 But the investigation receives a piece of evidence that distinctly contradicts the Lieutenant Colonel's claims. 300 00:26:05,768 --> 00:26:12,767 A declassified handwritten note by George Saran himself, released through a Freedom of Information Act request. 301 00:26:13,767 --> 00:26:21,767 The note states that 100 helicopters landed at Robert Gray airfield at nearby Fort Hood that same evening. 302 00:26:23,766 --> 00:26:29,766 I have no idea why I might have wrote that down. 303 00:26:29,766 --> 00:26:36,766 In those days, it was kind of a closed down place that was just used on the weekends by the reserves and the National Guard. 304 00:26:36,766 --> 00:26:39,765 They would have never been anything like that. 305 00:26:39,765 --> 00:26:41,765 I must last words. 306 00:26:41,765 --> 00:26:44,765 I don't have an answer for that. 307 00:26:44,765 --> 00:26:51,765 But what about the helicopter pilot Colby and Vicki spoke to, who claimed that he was on patrol in the area that night? 308 00:26:51,765 --> 00:26:55,764 Lieutenant Colonel Saran's report details the encounter. 309 00:26:55,764 --> 00:26:56,764 Quote, 310 00:26:56,764 --> 00:27:01,764 Ms. Landrum heard him to say that he was flying the evening of the incident. 311 00:27:01,764 --> 00:27:09,764 When pressed for more details, the pilot responded that he was prohibited from adding more information because of national security. 312 00:27:11,763 --> 00:27:17,763 I guess my question is why come out and actually tell us that he was dispatched to that area? 313 00:27:17,763 --> 00:27:23,763 And after he found out that we were actually the victims that had the encounter out there, retract his statement. 314 00:27:23,763 --> 00:27:25,762 I just find that very hard to believe. 315 00:27:25,762 --> 00:27:27,762 I don't have an answer for that. 316 00:27:30,762 --> 00:27:35,762 Something definitely happened here in Huffman, Texas on December 29, 1980. 317 00:27:35,762 --> 00:27:40,762 Whether it was above your command, below it, something definitely happened. 318 00:27:40,762 --> 00:27:47,761 I'm not trying to be hard towards you, but you're the only one that I've ever had a chance to talk to involving our government. 319 00:27:47,761 --> 00:27:50,761 As far as your commanding officers ever come up to you and say, OK, that's enough. 320 00:27:50,761 --> 00:27:52,761 That's all we can do on this. 321 00:27:52,761 --> 00:27:57,760 Absolutely not. 322 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:05,760 Never was I told that this is hush-hush off limits and play this this way or that way or don't play it at all. 323 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:17,759 With no concrete answers for the ship or military helicopters in the air that night, Saran is sure of one thing. 324 00:28:17,759 --> 00:28:20,759 Obviously something had happened to them. 325 00:28:20,759 --> 00:28:27,759 You don't get those kind of burns and the kind of problems medically without something happening. 326 00:28:27,759 --> 00:28:32,758 I could not substantiate that the Army or any of his assets were involved. 327 00:28:33,758 --> 00:28:41,758 Colonel Saran said definitively that the Army had no reports of helicopters taking off from any of its spaces. 328 00:28:41,758 --> 00:28:44,757 We're now homing in on the possibilities. 329 00:28:44,757 --> 00:28:48,757 Could have been black operation. The Army didn't even know about it. 330 00:28:48,757 --> 00:28:56,757 We still have to establish culpability for who was controlling that craft. 331 00:28:57,757 --> 00:29:09,756 With these questions still lingering, the investigation looks at another contact event that left a victim with both psychological and physical damage. 332 00:29:09,756 --> 00:29:11,756 What's the problem? 333 00:29:11,756 --> 00:29:14,756 I don't know. Something just hit my car. 334 00:29:14,756 --> 00:29:20,755 What is causing this rash of trauma and who is responsible for it? 335 00:29:21,755 --> 00:29:27,755 The investigation into alien fallout has led to Marshall County, Minnesota. 336 00:29:27,755 --> 00:29:38,754 One year before the Cashlandram incident, on August 27, 1979, outside of Warren, Minnesota at 1.45 a.m., 337 00:29:38,754 --> 00:29:42,754 Officer Val Johnson is on patrol in his police cruiser. 338 00:29:42,754 --> 00:29:46,753 A strange light appears hovering above the road in the distance. 339 00:29:46,753 --> 00:29:54,753 Deputy Johnson is traveling at 65 miles per hour when the light begins rushing head on towards his car. 340 00:29:54,753 --> 00:29:56,753 Then, an impact. 341 00:29:56,753 --> 00:30:00,753 And Officer Johnson loses consciousness. 342 00:30:00,753 --> 00:30:04,752 These are the actual police recordings from that night. 343 00:30:04,752 --> 00:30:09,752 Johnson sounds dazed as he reports the accident to dispatch. 344 00:30:09,752 --> 00:30:12,752 What's the problem? 345 00:30:12,752 --> 00:30:17,751 I don't know. Something just hit my car. 346 00:30:17,751 --> 00:30:20,751 I don't know. I'll explain it. 347 00:30:20,751 --> 00:30:22,751 Strange. 348 00:30:23,751 --> 00:30:29,751 Johnson's cruiser has a broken windshield, unexplainable creases and dents along the length of the body, 349 00:30:29,751 --> 00:30:34,750 and the antenna is bent at a 90-degree angle. 350 00:30:34,750 --> 00:30:42,750 Today, Johnson refuses to speak about the incident and has moved to another city. 351 00:30:42,750 --> 00:30:49,749 Ted sets out to meet with former Sheriff Dennis Brecky, the man in charge of the investigation that night. 352 00:30:49,749 --> 00:30:54,749 He hasn't spoken about Johnson's encounter in two decades. 353 00:30:54,749 --> 00:31:00,749 As far as Val Johnson is concerned, you know, he was a good person, and I had no doubt in his word at any time. 354 00:31:00,749 --> 00:31:08,748 But one angle of Johnson's story is almost impossible to reconcile, and it seems to defy time itself. 355 00:31:11,748 --> 00:31:18,748 His clock in the car was 14 minutes slow, and then we went to take his wristwatch at night, and that was 14 minutes slow. 356 00:31:18,748 --> 00:31:27,747 And so the clock in the car was running again when you recovered the car, so whatever had happened had stopped it temporarily for 14 minutes. 357 00:31:27,747 --> 00:31:34,747 Together he was a very meticulous officer. He set his clock very carefully that on his wristwatch and the car every every call. 358 00:31:34,747 --> 00:31:36,746 Oh, he poured it in. 359 00:31:36,746 --> 00:31:43,746 The loss of time is impossible to prove, but the physical damage to the car is very real. 360 00:31:43,746 --> 00:31:51,745 Bill and Pat tracked down Deputy Greg Winskowski, the first responder that night. 361 00:31:51,745 --> 00:31:56,745 He's agreed to meet at the site of the UFO incident on Highway 220. 362 00:31:56,745 --> 00:31:58,745 What did you find when you got there? 363 00:31:58,745 --> 00:32:05,745 And I think someone took a shot at him. He slumped over, I got him back. Again, I asked him what kind of car was it? 364 00:32:05,745 --> 00:32:10,744 He says there was no car. He says there was a light. A light. What kind of light? From a car or what? 365 00:32:10,744 --> 00:32:13,744 He says no, it came out of the air. It came right at me. 366 00:32:13,744 --> 00:32:18,744 Deputy Winskowski was one of the first to witness the strange damage to the car. 367 00:32:18,744 --> 00:32:21,744 The antennas were bent, the windshield and the headlight was out. 368 00:32:21,744 --> 00:32:25,743 And I could see faint tire impressions that stretched for about 850 feet. 369 00:32:25,743 --> 00:32:30,743 And then solid black marks for about another 99 feet where the brakes were locked up. 370 00:32:30,743 --> 00:32:33,743 So, when an accident was investigated, the engine went off at this point? 371 00:32:33,743 --> 00:32:36,743 That was the only explanation I could get. 372 00:32:36,743 --> 00:32:46,742 Could the light have possibly disabled the police cruiser's engine and caused the car to skid off the road almost 1,000 feet from the point of impact? 373 00:32:47,742 --> 00:33:01,741 One of the only corresponding UFO cases involving damage to a vehicle happened outside Mandrabilla, Australia, in the early morning of January 20, 1988. 374 00:33:01,741 --> 00:33:07,741 Similar to Val Johnson's encounter, a family is run off the road by a strange light. 375 00:33:07,741 --> 00:33:10,740 But the incident doesn't end there. 376 00:33:10,740 --> 00:33:16,740 The family claims the light lifts their car from above and drops them further down the road. 377 00:33:20,740 --> 00:33:27,739 Later, the police would confirm a blown out tire and four separate indentations in the car's roof, 378 00:33:27,739 --> 00:33:32,739 and note the presence of a fine black ash on the exterior of the vehicle. 379 00:33:33,739 --> 00:33:41,738 Though it has been almost 30 years since Val Johnson's incident, physical evidence has survived. 380 00:33:41,738 --> 00:33:44,738 Officer Johnson's patrol car. 381 00:33:44,738 --> 00:33:51,738 And Ted has brought in a crash expert to help him examine the effects of this strange encounter. 382 00:33:55,737 --> 00:34:01,737 I'm about to meet with Professor George Bible, who studies the forensics of air traffic. 383 00:34:01,737 --> 00:34:04,737 I think it's really relevant here. 384 00:34:04,737 --> 00:34:05,737 So George, here it is. 385 00:34:05,737 --> 00:34:07,737 1977 Ford LTD. 386 00:34:07,737 --> 00:34:11,736 I think the damage was mostly down the driver's side. 387 00:34:11,736 --> 00:34:12,736 So there's the headlight. 388 00:34:12,736 --> 00:34:14,736 Some kind of impact around here. 389 00:34:14,736 --> 00:34:16,736 Almost all of the reflectors gone as well. 390 00:34:16,736 --> 00:34:18,736 The clear glass fronts all gone. 391 00:34:18,736 --> 00:34:20,736 Look here, the impact marks on the hood. 392 00:34:20,736 --> 00:34:23,736 Definitely some kind of deformation though. 393 00:34:23,736 --> 00:34:25,736 That impact looks a little odd to me. 394 00:34:25,736 --> 00:34:29,735 It doesn't seem like that could happen from an impact horizontally. 395 00:34:29,735 --> 00:34:31,735 That looks more like a vertical. 396 00:34:31,735 --> 00:34:32,735 And then here's the windshield. 397 00:34:32,735 --> 00:34:34,735 Can you make out where the impact marks are? 398 00:34:34,735 --> 00:34:35,735 Well, hard to say. 399 00:34:35,735 --> 00:34:42,734 The windshield expert thinks the windshield had two impacts from the outside and one impact from the inside, which is unusual. 400 00:34:42,734 --> 00:34:49,734 The Ford guy said they all happened within a few milliseconds, and they could estimate the speed being very rapid. 401 00:34:49,734 --> 00:34:54,734 The description of the accident and the damage to the car don't seem to make sense. 402 00:34:54,734 --> 00:34:57,734 Clearly, something impacted the vehicle. 403 00:34:57,734 --> 00:35:09,733 But if Johnson was traveling at 65 miles per hour and collided with something head-on, the police cruiser should have had severe damage. 404 00:35:09,733 --> 00:35:14,732 One piece of evidence may show the true power of the impact. 405 00:35:14,732 --> 00:35:16,732 And here's the two antennae. 406 00:35:16,732 --> 00:35:24,732 One is sent to almost 90 degrees, and I gave the sight of it that just couldn't happen from an air blaster from impact to the hard object. 407 00:35:24,732 --> 00:35:31,731 Professor Bible shows why he believes the antenna couldn't have been bent by a minor impact or wind blast. 408 00:35:31,731 --> 00:35:37,731 This is a high-strength steel wire, similar to what they had in the antenna. 409 00:35:37,731 --> 00:35:42,731 And if you try to bend it back 90 degrees, it has tremendous spring back. 410 00:35:42,731 --> 00:35:45,730 Right. You're only getting about 30 degrees out of it. 411 00:35:45,730 --> 00:35:52,730 So if it impact a solid object and it bent it back 90 degrees, you can't really bend it further than that. 412 00:35:52,730 --> 00:35:57,730 With a solid object or a wind blast, now it just can't bend it 90 degrees. 413 00:35:57,730 --> 00:36:03,729 Now you could bend it 90 degrees by hand. You've got to bend it more than 90 degrees and let it spring back. 414 00:36:03,729 --> 00:36:08,729 Is it possible Officer Johnson faked the incident and bent the antenna by hand? 415 00:36:08,729 --> 00:36:16,728 I said that the antenna, while it did get bent to 90 degrees, roughly, that there was still residue left over from bug strikes. 416 00:36:16,728 --> 00:36:17,728 Yes. 417 00:36:17,728 --> 00:36:20,728 So how would you keep that if it was handled manually? 418 00:36:20,728 --> 00:36:23,728 Well, I don't know. That might be a mystery. 419 00:36:24,728 --> 00:36:34,727 If the antenna was forcibly bent by Officer Johnson, all the bug residue should have rubbed off onto his hands, but that's not the case. 420 00:36:34,727 --> 00:36:38,727 Well, George, we've had a good look at the car. Is there an explanation for all this? 421 00:36:38,727 --> 00:36:47,726 No, I don't think so. Any one single little piece of damage is pretty ordinary, but if you put it all together, it is kind of hard to explain. 422 00:36:47,726 --> 00:36:55,726 And conversely, something that might have bent those antenna, and I'll see how whatever that was could have caused these impacts on the front. 423 00:36:55,726 --> 00:36:58,726 That's correct. I don't have a good answer to that either. 424 00:36:59,726 --> 00:37:07,725 Lost time, an unconscious police officer, and inexplicable damage to a car. 425 00:37:07,725 --> 00:37:13,725 Did Val Johnson really suffer these alien effects from a UFO collision? 426 00:37:14,725 --> 00:37:20,724 And are Cash and Landrum's radiation burns and sickness caused by an extraterrestrial craft? 427 00:37:20,724 --> 00:37:27,724 Or is this the hallmark of a top secret government plan gone terribly wrong? 428 00:37:28,724 --> 00:37:38,723 I was scared. I actually got down on the floorboard and I was kind of peeking over, and it looked as if it was on fire. 429 00:37:39,723 --> 00:37:49,722 In 1980, Betty Cash, Vicki Landrum, and her seven-year-old grandson Colby, witnessed a large diamond-shaped object descending out of the sky. 430 00:37:49,722 --> 00:37:55,722 Soon, a swarm of large double-rotor helicopters begins circling the UFO. 431 00:37:58,722 --> 00:38:08,721 But Lieutenant Colonel George Saran, the military investigator for the Cash Landrum incident, says he found no proof any helicopters were ever deployed, 432 00:38:08,721 --> 00:38:12,721 but he's willing to concede that there are other possibilities. 433 00:38:12,721 --> 00:38:23,720 Had another branch of the military, say the Navy, say the Marines, say some kind of a joint command exercise, been testing something, that would have been out of your purview. 434 00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:35,720 No Army base was involved, no Army flight logs under the radar so that it would not have been tracked, and to this day, you wouldn't know about it, and it might have never made your investigation. 435 00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:38,719 Theoretically, it could have happened. 436 00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:47,719 If the Army wasn't involved, who authorized the helicopters seen by numerous witnesses that evening? 437 00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:56,718 Dr. McClelland, who treated Betty Cash for radiation sickness, later hears from eyewitnesses who approach him in confidence. 438 00:38:56,718 --> 00:39:04,718 Some are from the military, and they tell him that what Colby, Vicki, and Betty really saw was a top-secret aircraft. 439 00:39:04,718 --> 00:39:14,717 There were a large number of military people exactly describing the series of events in the vehicle, and they could describe exactly what happened. 440 00:39:14,717 --> 00:39:23,716 In one of those, they said there was a vehicle called a WASP-2, which was a nuclear-powered personnel carrier that they were apparently experimenting with, 441 00:39:23,716 --> 00:39:28,716 and they matched Betty and Vicki's description of the entire event. I mean, it was perfect. 442 00:39:30,716 --> 00:39:37,716 To find out more about the mysterious WASP-2, Bill meets with former Air Force flight test engineer Bill Scott. 443 00:39:37,716 --> 00:39:43,715 Dr. Brian McClelland, he said that other Army people came to him and said, 444 00:39:43,715 --> 00:39:49,715 I was involved in a project called WASP-2 that was powered by an atomic engine. 445 00:39:49,715 --> 00:39:54,714 The military obviously does have a number of operations involving radiation in some form. 446 00:39:54,714 --> 00:40:00,714 Back in the late 60s, I actually suffered some radiation poisoning because of the job I had in the Air Force. 447 00:40:00,714 --> 00:40:05,714 It was very classified at the time, and when we did a hot mission, I lost about 10 pounds. 448 00:40:05,714 --> 00:40:09,713 I lost some hair. I suffered from some nausea over the next two weeks. 449 00:40:09,713 --> 00:40:12,713 Had you ever heard of something called a WASP? 450 00:40:12,713 --> 00:40:16,713 Well, the only WASP I ever heard of was an Army test program. 451 00:40:16,713 --> 00:40:25,712 That was a one-man flying vehicle, and it has controls, and one guy flies it around, and that's the only WASP I've ever heard of. 452 00:40:26,712 --> 00:40:35,712 If there was a WASP-2, a second-generation multi-passenger airborne troop transport, it remains classified. 453 00:40:35,712 --> 00:40:41,711 And its size, shape, propulsion, even purpose are total speculation. 454 00:40:41,711 --> 00:40:45,711 But what about the very identifiable Chinook helicopters? 455 00:40:45,711 --> 00:40:50,711 George Soran has said there were no helicopter units operating that night. 456 00:40:50,711 --> 00:40:57,710 Could there have been a unit that even Lieutenant Colonel George Soran from the Inspector General's office might not have known of? 457 00:40:57,710 --> 00:41:05,710 In 1980, the disaster that we called Desert One, the rescue attempt to try to get the hostages out of Iran, 458 00:41:05,710 --> 00:41:10,710 as you know, that went bad. We had a lot of deaths, lost aircraft, etc. 459 00:41:10,710 --> 00:41:19,709 So the outcome of that was to form an aviation unit within the Army that trained to fly at night, do these deep. 460 00:41:19,709 --> 00:41:25,709 Covert insertions and extractions, and that was Task Force 160. 461 00:41:25,709 --> 00:41:31,708 But is it possible that Task Force 160 could have been flying literally under the intelligence radar? 462 00:41:31,708 --> 00:41:39,708 Definitely possible, because that's what Task Force 160 was set up to do, was to do covert clandestine operations. 463 00:41:39,708 --> 00:41:48,707 Today, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is headquartered at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. 464 00:41:48,707 --> 00:41:56,707 Known as the Night Stalkers, the group officially requires its members to have or be able to obtain secret clearance, 465 00:41:56,707 --> 00:42:03,706 as the regiment continues to employ new technologies and tactics on clandestine operations. 466 00:42:03,706 --> 00:42:10,706 The entire Cache Landrum incident may be explained by a top secret military test gone horribly wrong, 467 00:42:10,706 --> 00:42:16,705 with the alleged helicopters there to observe, or maybe pick up the pieces. 468 00:42:16,705 --> 00:42:24,705 Betty Cache and Vicki Landrum filed a claim for damages against the U.S. Air Force, but it was denied. 469 00:42:24,705 --> 00:42:30,704 After its own investigation, the Air Force concluded the U.S. military wasn't involved. 470 00:42:30,704 --> 00:42:39,704 Facts failed to establish that the unidentified flying object, or helicopters, were owned or operated by the U.S. government. 471 00:42:39,704 --> 00:42:48,703 In response, Betty and Vicki sued the government in a Houston court for damages, but the lawsuit was dismissed in 1986. 472 00:42:48,703 --> 00:42:53,703 My mother and Vicki was trying to tell them what was wrong with her. I mean, it was obvious. 473 00:42:53,703 --> 00:43:01,702 You know, I mean, blisters, ball-headed, you know, she was sick, and they told her there was nothing they could do. 474 00:43:01,702 --> 00:43:10,702 Betty Cache passed away on December 29, 1998. Vicki Landrum died on September 12, 2007. 475 00:43:10,702 --> 00:43:17,701 Both women suffered greatly from early forms of radiation sickness, and eventually cancer. 476 00:43:17,701 --> 00:43:24,701 Now, Colby Landrum is the only remaining victim to experience the effects of the alleged UFO. 477 00:43:25,701 --> 00:43:31,701 We have determined definitively that something happens, but I just can't say whether it's terrestrial or something else. 478 00:43:31,701 --> 00:43:38,700 We've made some great headway in this case. I think we're getting closer to some kind of answer of what really happened that night. 479 00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:48,699 There was one unit equipped to put 20-plus Chinooks in the air, fly a mission, set down, refuel. 480 00:43:48,699 --> 00:43:52,699 This is Task Force 160. 481 00:43:56,699 --> 00:44:06,698 Whether it was a black project or an extraterrestrial craft, witnesses hold firm to what they saw that night in the piney woods of Texas, 482 00:44:06,698 --> 00:44:13,698 and they continue to hope that whatever it was, the truth is close to being revealed. 483 00:44:13,698 --> 00:44:19,697 It's been 28 years, so I mean, I still have some kind of hope that the truth will come out. Somebody knows about it.