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Something came out of the sky and hit the ground.

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In front of several eyewitnesses, a burning object crashes to Earth.

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There's this round, flames coming off the front.

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And over 2,000 miles away, another strange impact.

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He said nobody goes down in there with us.

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Technology reveals clues at one site.

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It's not natural. That is definitely not natural.

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While reports of men in black surround the other.

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They worked for an agency I had never heard of before.

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Who or what is crashing outside of these communities?

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Would you say this thing was under intelligent control then?

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It had to be.

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And what does our own government know about them?

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I don't see how a military could possibly cover that up.

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This is case number 65303.

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Alien crashes.

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Whatever it was, they wanted it back.

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I looked up and I saw an object passing to the south that lit up the area.

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May 14, 2008, Needles, California.

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In the early morning darkness at approximately 3 a.m.,

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a local fisherman claims to see something he will never forget.

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A turquoise ball of fire suddenly lights up the Colorado River.

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Seconds later, it crashes into the desert.

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Some initially think it's just a meteor,

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but can't explain the strange color.

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And the incident isn't over yet.

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Within moments, five unmarked helicopters enter the area.

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But these aren't just any helicopters.

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They're double-rotor military models.

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And one has a large sky crane.

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Soon after, witnesses see the armada leaving,

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and it's carrying something.

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The object, according to witnesses,

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is around 30 feet long and bulky like a tanker truck.

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But there's something else.

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It's still burning with a bright turquoise glow.

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There seems to be a common witness testimony involving military presence.

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The military coming in and apparently removing or cleansing the area.

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The military moves in hard, moves in fast.

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Helicopters come in and yank out whatever crashed.

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Needles are still under investigation.

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We don't know exactly where the crash site is,

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but we do know that a crash occurred.

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And we'll be trying to find out where that site is and see what happened.

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The search in Needles starts with several breaking leads.

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Some claim that hidden somewhere in the dense desert brush

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is proof of whatever crashed here.

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Dr. Ted Ackworth will attempt to pinpoint where the object came down.

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You've got vehicles crash landing into Earth.

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You should be able to find physical evidence,

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hard physical scientific evidence.

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Pat Uskert will head down the river in search of the crash site.

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As a UFO investigator, this is a chance for me to dig into the ground

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and maybe turn up some answers.

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And Bill Burns will meet with eyewitnesses

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who saw the entire event unfold.

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We're going to find out why the military comes in

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and denies anything ever happened.

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The investigation is underway.

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The investigation begins at Needles KT-OX radio,

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where Bill and Pat meet station owner David Hayes.

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We find ourselves trying to figure out what happened on May 14th.

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In studio with Bill Burns, Pat Uskert,

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if you have any information on the incident of May 14th on that morning.

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According to Hayes, the morning following the alleged UFO crash,

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listeners begin calling in reports.

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And the calls are still coming in.

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Let's try a phone call, guys. Call or you're live on 1340.

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It was coming down fast, but at an angle.

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Did you notice a shape to the object?

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Yeah, it almost looked like a huge meteorite from where I was.

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That's why I had expected to hear an explosion when I hit it.

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While some describe the object as a meteorite,

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hardly any believe that's the case after what happened next.

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I think something came out of the sky and it was retrieved

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and I don't have any idea what it was.

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They were here to recover it so quickly.

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And how quickly was that, by the way?

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I was told within the first 20 minutes.

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Wow.

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Do you think they were tracking it if it's that quick?

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I think you would have to be.

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I don't think you could get here that quickly

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unless you were staged, ready to go, knowing it was coming down.

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But few claim to have seen the actual crash

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or are afraid to admit it because of the military's response.

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I noticed some vehicles coming off the freeway.

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And one of them was incredibly strange.

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On the back with antennas and domes,

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the front license plate was U.S. government

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and with blacked out windows with a guy who was staring at me.

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Hayes says he later saw the same vehicles outside the radio station, watching.

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It was actually parked about 100 yards in the station.

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And I'm not quite sure, but the kind of equipment

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and the kind of vehicles they were in obviously were very high-tech,

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electronic possible surveillance.

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But surveillance vehicles are not the only mysterious presence.

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The afternoon following the crash,

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people see strange unmarked planes arriving at a local airport.

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They're plain white with a red stripe down the side,

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and to some, they are very familiar.

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The other intriguing part of this story is the Janet flights.

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We had had a report that there was these flights coming in and out

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of the International Airport that morning.

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Janet is not the name of an official airline.

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It is a call sign assigned to these unmarked white jets with the red stripe,

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allegedly seen since the 1970s.

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This is one of these flights,

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seen at the far end of Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport.

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Janet flights are believed to carry defense workers

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to several notoriously isolated locations,

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including Area 51.

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But why are they being seen in needles

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the day following the reported UFO crash?

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Bill heads to Laughlin Bullhead Airport

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and meets the manager, David Gaines, to see if he can find the answer.

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Government planes do come in here from time to time.

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That is correct, yes.

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Primarily, they're military aircraft.

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Have you ever seen aircraft from an airline known as Janet Airlines?

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No.

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Have you ever seen aircraft coming in, covert aircraft,

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white, maybe with red bands on them,

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maybe blacked out windows for passengers?

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No.

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You never heard of this operation, you don't know anything about it.

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I could give no credence to it ever happening,

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because to our knowledge it didn't happen here.

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If you'd seen that,

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and you had been ordered not to divulge that they use this airport,

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what would you tell me?

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I would tell you that no aircraft have ever been here of that nature.

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We've never seen any.

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The witnesses said that on May 14th,

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a Janet plane did land there under the cover of darkness.

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David Gaines said, never happen again.

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With witnesses at odds over what happened that day,

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the best way to find proof may lie in the vast desert.

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Pat is prepping an expedition down the Colorado River,

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his goal to find the actual crash site.

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We're bringing in archaeologist Garth Baldwin,

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he'll be able to differentiate between just regular ground erosion

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and the impact of this object.

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But finding it won't be easy.

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The vegetation in this area is pretty dense.

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There's some trails we're going to use to get to the clearings that are out there

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and maybe find some of the indications of a burn or an impact.

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If things are disrupted, it should be pretty apparent.

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While searching the thick brush will prove formidable,

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a new development could aid the search.

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A witness who heard the radio program has come forward

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and he has a general idea of where the object crashed.

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His name is Frank Costigan.

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About a little after three in the morning,

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I came out to hunt for my cat.

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All of a sudden the ground here lit up.

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Not like bright sun or bright moon, but enough to make me look up.

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Frank has an incredible background with controlled flights.

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Though he now lives in needles,

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he used to be chief of police at Los Angeles International Airport.

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Could you tell me the shape of it?

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It was round, flames coming off the front.

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It was blue and turquoise.

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I'd say five to six times longer than it was white.

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I thought I'd hear a sonic boom when it slowed down to the speed of sound.

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Did you hear a crash?

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Didn't hear a thing.

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Costigan claims he doesn't hear anything

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because the descending UFO disappears over the horizon to the south.

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It crosses right over the Colorado River Bend, north of Topic.

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But from what he is able to see,

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Costigan believes this couldn't be anything ordinary.

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You worked at LAX, correct?

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Yes, I was chief of police.

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I was also superintendent of airport operations.

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Was this object anything like you'd ever seen before in your experiences?

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Nothing commercial, nothing private.

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And nothing I'd seen in the military.

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It had to be something that was a controlled flight of some sort that maybe went haywire.

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That's my opinion.

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Yet if this craft was at one time under control,

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who was guiding it and where did it come from?

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The desert outside of Needles is ringed by military bases and test facilities.

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To the northwest sits the China Lake Naval Range.

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To the west are both the armies Fort Irwin and the Marine Base at 29 Palms.

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To the south is Yuma Proving Ground,

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where the Army test fires long range experimental artillery.

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And of course, most intriguing of all,

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to the north of Needles is Area 51.

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In other words, we're standing right here in the middle of a military test area hotspot,

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where test aircraft, some things that are like beyond what we even dream of, are being flown.

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Two theories are possible.

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One, that it was an alien vehicle.

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Two, that it was one of ours.

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The answer may lie with a witness who claims he heard the impact.

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I looked up and that's when it came in.

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It kind of went through a cloud and came out and there was another one directly behind this.

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On a quiet morning in May of 2008, something crashes in the desert outside of Needles, California.

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Multiple witnesses watch as a turquoise blue object is carried away by military helicopters.

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But there's more to the story and it may be the key to understanding what's going on.

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All of this has happened before.

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In July 1947, another desert crash brings the small town of Roswell, New Mexico to worldwide attention.

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The military's announcement that they have recovered a flying disk shocks the world.

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Allegedly, the nearby Army airfield sends personnel to clean up the crash site

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and instructs workers to leave no evidence behind.

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Days later, the military changes its story, attributing the crash to a weather balloon.

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Now in Needles, the team has located a key eyewitness who agrees to speak with the investigation on one condition,

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that his real name not be used.

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The witness, known only as Bob, arranges a meeting on the Colorado River, near where he saw the object on May 14th.

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As I was sitting on the boat fishing at 3 o'clock in the morning, the whole front of the boat lit up.

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I looked up and I saw a bright turquoise blue something falling out of the sky.

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It came straight across from one side to the other and it hit.

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It just kind of made a thump.

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Where did it impact?

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Just west of my position, maybe 200 yards from my boat, in between the railroad tracks and the river.

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Bob claims that within 15 minutes, military helicopters appeared.

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And almost immediately after the first helicopter showed up, there was a second and then a third.

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And that's when the big one came overhead.

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That thing came circled over my boat, went to the site, dropped out of sight for a few moments,

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and the next thing I know, it was up and flying.

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Bob not only sees the armada of helicopters arrive, but their return trip with the alleged UFO in tow.

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Did you see the object being lifted on the skyhawk?

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Yes, sir. That's where I saw the shape.

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Not only was it well lit by the other helicopters, they were shining their lights on it.

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It was still very hot.

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Both Bob and Frank Costigan's testimony say that the object may be in the area of the desert closest to the river.

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The investigation sets off.

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Archaeologist Garth Baldwin will be looking for several telltale signs.

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There should be enough of an indication of an impact of the signs that Bob talked about.

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There should be some displacement of soil marked by a change in the sand, changing the texture of the ground.

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The sage grows very slowly, the grass grows very slowly, so if it's disturbed in any way, it's going to be obvious.

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We might get lucky, because if there was an object that crashed there, I don't see how the military could possibly cover that up.

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But finding the actual site will prove difficult.

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Thick desert sagebrush blankets this entire area.

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The sagebrush will make an impact site hard to spot.

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But there's a backup plan in place.

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An eye in the sky.

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The ultralight will be rigged with a high definition camera.

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As it searches from the air, Pat and Garth will follow on land, looking for any trace signs near the river, while Ted and Bill will retrace Bob's movements from the water.

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If we think we can get relatively close to the spot, just let us know and we'll call on the ultralight.

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They can help us from the air, see anything that might be on the ground that would be invisible.

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We'll get you in the general area.

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After nearly an hour, Bob sees something.

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See where the brush comes all the way to the water?

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Yeah.

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That's where.

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We've got to be real close.

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He recognizes some landmarks, power lines and a bend in the river up ahead.

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I see the train trestle there, so you're sure that this side of the...

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One of the things that makes me pretty sure we're in the right spot.

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The ultralight is called in for aerial support.

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After a few passes, the ultralight hits paydirt.

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Our pilot Glenn did say there was a burned area south of here.

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Now that sort of corresponds with what you saw, right Bob?

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That's correct.

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Somewhere in this position right here.

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Do south of us.

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The burns could be physical remnants of the flaming iron.

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The burns could be physical remnants of the flaming objects crash landing.

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If we do S-trans-X, you know, walking in an S, lazy S sort of pattern and teams of two,

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20 to 30 meters apart, we'll cover a lot of ground pretty quickly.

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So why don't you guys start there? We'll start there and cross paths.

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We better move. We don't have a lot of daylight left.

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But before they get to the burn site, Ted and Bill find another possible sign of a crash.

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Over there.

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Check it out.

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That's about the size of what we're looking for.

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Exactly.

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So this is really curious at how this dirt is all thrown up, right?

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I mean this is about the size of a berm or a crater that you might expect.

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It's not so much in a crater form except it's in a very small area.

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So if something really landed and threw dirt up in front of it, it would be a dune or a berm just like this.

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Actually, if you look at it, it's almost a bit of a horseshoe coming in from that direction.

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It's fascinating.

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And that's the direction that Bob described the object coming out of.

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That's right.

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Ted brings in Garth for his opinion.

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I don't see any direct impact where it would have obliterated the living vegetation and then allowed everything else to live.

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I mean, I don't see an impact.

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I don't see an impact.

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But the burn site is still further inland.

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A few hours later,

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it comes into view.

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Look at how burned this area is.

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We've got burned stuff all over the place.

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And Bob did say that when they extracted this object from the ground, this thing was still glowing.

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But he described it as landing with a thud and not an explosion.

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Exactly.

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So that kind of argues against some kind of fire.

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But Garth has other reasons for questioning this site.

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There's little patches of burned stuff probably from wildland fires.

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We've got a lot of burn trees here and over there.

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So, I mean, I think that's all natural.

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There's live vegetation all around it, dry vegetation all around it, old dry vegetation all around it.

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So that would have caught fire had this been the flaming impact that they'd said.

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With no physical evidence found,

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the ground search hasn't been able to verify Bob's location.

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But with so much ground to cover,

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the needle's crash site might still be hidden somewhere in the brush.

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This really isn't as easy as we thought it was.

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Our pilot did spot burned areas from the air.

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And we went to those burned areas and we looked at them.

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No evidence of impact.

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But we're going to press it.

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No evidence of impact.

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But we're going to press on further and see what we can find.

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During the ground investigation, a new lead has come to the forefront.

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George Knapp, an investigative reporter for KLAS Television in Las Vegas,

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has also been looking into the alleged UFO crash in needles.

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And during his search, he came face to face with government operatives

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that may actually be men in black.

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Agents who are allegedly charged with intimidating UFO witnesses

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and keeping these types of events out of the public eye.

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George Knapp was an eyewitness to these people

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and an eyewitness to who they are, where they were going, and what they're doing.

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As Bill heads to get this new information,

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Ted and Pat shift their focus to Pennsylvania,

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where a crash in the small community of Kecksburg is yielding fresh evidence.

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The Kecksburg incident is a cornerstone of ufology.

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It is Pennsylvania's Roswell.

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We know that something crashed from the sky.

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It was on TV, it was on the radio.

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We have a range of instruments.

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If we can find a position that we feel with high confidence could be the crash site,

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we can use these instruments to see what we can learn about what's underneath the soil.

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As Ted preps a full scale scrutiny of the Kecksburg site,

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testimony from the last surviving witnesses could show

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that the military has been complicit in a cover up for years.

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I stood there, I walked around, looking at it, this thing ain't from here.

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In Needles, California, a glowing object crashes into the desert,

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seemingly out of control.

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Witnesses say it is retrieved by a group of military helicopters,

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but the incident doesn't end there.

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People see unmarked planes landing at the local airport,

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planes identical to those reportedly used for transport to the top secret military base at Area 51.

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But this has all happened before, and not just at Roswell.

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Over 40 years ago, something crashed in the sleepy town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.

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But whatever it was, it wasn't out of control.

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According to witnesses, it had to be piloted by someone.

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On December 9th, 1965, around 4.45pm, something is moving in the sky.

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It's a glowing fireball.

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But many think that this can't be a meteor, because it's moving too slowly.

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Whatever it is, the object loses control and crashes.

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What immediately transpires bears eerie similarities to what has just happened

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in needles.

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Is it just a coincidence?

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Or are these two crashes mirror images of each other 43 years apart?

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Bill Burns is meeting with Stan Gordon, the leading investigator of the Kecksburg incident.

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He's researched this case for over two decades.

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Witnesses out tell us the object turned and came back in towards Kecksburg.

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This object came down as though it was making almost like a controlled landing.

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And moments after it fell, people reported like a calm of bluish-gray smoke rising up out of the woods that dissipated very quickly.

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According to research, hundreds if not thousands of people in Michigan, Ohio and Ontario, Canada,

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reportedly witnessed the UFO as it traveled on a trajectory that finally led to its crash landing in New York.

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The police departments, the radio and TV station were being barred with calls.

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And as it proceeded into Westmoreland County, the media out in this area began to be overwhelmed with reports coming in.

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Witnesses agree with Stan Gordon's findings.

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This tiny town was consumed by the incident.

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No one had ever seen anything like what happened that night.

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Pat meets with one witness, Bill Buell Bush, who saw the object fly over and crash in Westmoreland County.

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Billy, tell me what happened?

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Heard this sizzling noise and then I seen this red farball coming.

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Come over like this, just like this.

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And I watched it.

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And it went up towards the mountain.

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It made the turn and come back, a perfect turn and come down.

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It just seemed like it was trying to find a place to land.

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Would you say this thing was under intelligent control then?

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It had to be.

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Buell Bush says that he got in his corvair and drove to what he believed was a downed aircraft.

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So I grabbed my flashlight and went down through the woods.

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And I could see it down there.

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I figured, well, how can they come out there?

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There ain't no windows and there are no rivers and nothing on it.

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So you got a close look at this thing.

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Oh, I was only about eight feet away from it.

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Was it smoking?

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Oh yeah, it smelled like sulfur.

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It smelled like rotten eggs.

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Bill Buell Bush really helps us eliminate some of the more prosaic explanations of what this could have been.

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The meteor or maybe a crashed airplane or capsule.

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He saw this fireball coming down in the sky and turning.

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He specifically said that this had to be under intelligent control.

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Soon after, emergency personnel reached the crash site

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and volunteer fireman Jim Romanski is one of them.

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He is also surprised by what he sees.

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I was shocked because I was preparing for my stop airplane.

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And here was this humongous piece of metal buried into this drainage ditch.

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Can you describe exactly how it was buried?

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We're talking nighttime, first of all.

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We're talking piles of brush around this thing because it comes flying down through the trees.

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Romanski says the UFO was acorn shaped

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and had a ring of strange markings that encircled the entire object.

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This description is rare.

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Unlike other reported UFO shapes such as triangles and discs.

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And there's more.

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Strange hieroglyphics are reminiscent of another case.

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The Bentwater's UFO that was reported to have landed near a British military base in 1980

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displayed similar markings to those the Kecksburg witnesses describe.

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Have you ever seen anything like this ever in your life?

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No, absolutely not.

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My impression after I looked at this thing, I stood there and I thought about it

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and I walked around looking at it.

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This thing ain't from here.

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And then a development that would repeat itself 43 years later in needles.

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Within hours of the crash, dozens of military personnel

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including Army and Air Force, arrive on the scene.

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They reportedly cordon off the area, preventing the public from reaching the crash site.

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Inside this restricted zone, they are searching.

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Bob Gatti, a reporter with the Greensburg Tribune, was dispatched to the crash scene

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and he distinctly remembers the intimidating military presence.

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When I got there, there were probably at least a dozen military personnel

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in addition to Pennsylvania State Police officers.

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I said, I need to go down there. They said, there's nothing there.

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I said, well, if there's nothing there, why can't I go in there?

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Gatti tells Pat that the military, not the state police, were clearly in charge of the scene.

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I've never experienced a time in a civilian situation where the military had come in

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and taken control of an accident site.

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Why would the Army be there?

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We were stopped by a military. You heard the bolt snap on the rifle

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and I stopped in my tracks and Ron stopped and, you know, we talked to him for a second.

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He told us to get out, get back to where we came from.

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He looked at me and poured his finger at me and said, nobody goes down in there with us.

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Witnesses tell Stan Gordon that later in the evening, they see a large flatbed truck drive into the crash area.

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Within the hour, the truck drives from the site in a hurry, carrying something under a tarp.

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If you would have walked in front of it, they would never have stopped for you.

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Gordon says that during his own investigation, Jim Romansky, Bill Buobush and others

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led him to a spot they said was the crash site.

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These interviews were conducted independently and each witness led him to the exact same spot.

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I'm very hopeful tomorrow we can find the exact location that was taken to 20-some years ago.

431
00:31:21,763 --> 00:31:24,764
It sounds like there was some sort of crash.

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I can bring in ground penetrating radar and see if we can find anything that hasn't been found before.

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Not only does Stan have multiple corroborating witnesses who pinpoint the location,

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but also it sounds like there's a very good chance we'll be able to find some sort of debris.

435
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Eye witnesses and investigators have seen this site before, but never with technology like this.

436
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You think a signature like this might be consistent with a signature made by a crashed vehicle? Is that possible?

437
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Yeah, that's possible.

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And across the country, the Needle's case breaks wide open with reports of officials that could be the infamous men in black.

439
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They are legitimately federal agents.

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It was something other than this world.

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In December 1965, a flaming object is reported falling through the sky in Canada, Michigan and Ohio.

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In these locations, some claim that debris falls to Earth, that sonic booms are heard, and that a seismograph records the impact.

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But none of this evidence ever surfaces.

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It is only in the small Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg where anything real is verified.

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Several witnesses report that in this ravine, an acorn-shaped object with strange markings crashed.

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And it is this location that has become the investigation's focal point.

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The team will hike in with researchers Stan Gordon, geologist Steve Kite and Pete Hutchinson, an electromagnetic surveyist.

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Gordon compares the terrain with a photograph he took here in 1985 and believes this is the spot where the UFO impacted.

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Well, you have the photo. Does this area here look like it might match?

450
00:33:27,778 --> 00:33:29,778
Oh, Ted, this is the best match we've seen all day.

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I think the photograph that we have here was taken 5, 10 feet behind us looking in that direction.

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We have these, what look like, one or two fence posts.

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Looks like some barbed wire and a fence post here.

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And it looks like another one right up there.

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The fence posts and Stan Gordon's matching photograph taken alongside eyewitnesses all point to this spot as the site of the Kecksburg crash.

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But for years, debunkers claim that what caused the damage in this ravine was a Russian space probe.

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The shape and size of the Cosmos 96 probe, originally slated to reach Venus, was similar to what eyewitnesses described.

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But recently, even this explanation was thrown out.

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According to NASA's National Space Science Data Center, quote,

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U.S. Air Force tracking data on Cosmos 96 also indicate the spacecraft orbit decayed earlier than the 4.43 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the 9th of December.

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But NASA's interest in the crash extends further back.

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At this very site in 1965, witnesses saw NASA officials alongside the military.

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I see NASA there with their uniform on, their patch on the side, they had that white loon runes on.

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And this all ties back to Roswell, a secretive approach to a crash.

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Something taken from the site, on board a flatbed truck covered by a tarp, and under cover of night.

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But after all these years, could they have missed something?

467
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Pete Hutchison here has an array of scientific instrumentation for scanning the Earth around the site.

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We're going to look at the architecture of the site to see if anything is still here that is evidence of a possible crash 43 years ago.

469
00:35:54,795 --> 00:36:00,796
Pete Hutchison and his assistant, Brian, begin the electromagnetic scanning of the ground.

470
00:36:01,796 --> 00:36:09,797
The tool emits electromagnetic energy into the soil, and moisture carries the current, which is sensitive to metal.

471
00:36:10,797 --> 00:36:15,798
So we'll be able to find any metals and then also any anomalous soil conductivities?

472
00:36:15,798 --> 00:36:16,798
Correct.

473
00:36:16,798 --> 00:36:19,798
Okay, well why don't we put the tool to work?

474
00:36:23,799 --> 00:36:27,799
During the search, the scanner picks up some metal conductivity.

475
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:35,800
But the size and identity of the metal is unknown without further information processing.

476
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,801
Significant anomalies appear on the two-dimensional map.

477
00:36:42,801 --> 00:36:46,802
That red indicates a heightened level, just how strong is that?

478
00:36:46,802 --> 00:36:49,802
That's fairly decent for this area. There's definitely metal there.

479
00:36:49,802 --> 00:36:52,802
So you're saying that metal is naturally occurring metal?

480
00:36:52,802 --> 00:36:55,803
It comes from something other than what's naturally occurring in this area.

481
00:36:55,803 --> 00:36:59,803
You think a signature like this might be consistent with a crashed vehicle? Is that possible?

482
00:36:59,803 --> 00:37:01,803
Yeah, that's possible.

483
00:37:05,804 --> 00:37:10,804
According to Hutchison, what makes this unusual is the high concentration.

484
00:37:10,804 --> 00:37:15,805
This amount of metal is not typical in this area of Pennsylvania.

485
00:37:15,805 --> 00:37:20,806
Hutchison suggests that the team dig in this area to determine the source.

486
00:37:22,806 --> 00:37:26,806
This science only tells us where to look, and the next step is to go in there and investigate.

487
00:37:26,806 --> 00:37:28,806
Physically dig it and do an intrusive test.

488
00:37:28,806 --> 00:37:29,807
An archaeological dig.

489
00:37:29,807 --> 00:37:31,807
An archaeological dig, yes, exactly.

490
00:37:35,807 --> 00:37:41,808
The team needs to expose the area before dark, so Pat joins to assist on the dig.

491
00:37:41,808 --> 00:37:48,809
When the soil is uncovered, Pete uses the ground penetrating radar to look for a specific metal source.

492
00:37:48,809 --> 00:37:50,809
Hey, check this out.

493
00:37:50,809 --> 00:37:56,810
It starts here, starts right there, and it ends right there.

494
00:37:56,810 --> 00:37:59,810
It's not natural. That is definitely not natural.

495
00:38:00,810 --> 00:38:05,811
With the sunlight fading, the dig will have to wait until morning.

496
00:38:05,811 --> 00:38:09,811
What is the source of the metal buried at this alleged crash site?

497
00:38:09,811 --> 00:38:14,812
I don't know what's down there, but I can't wait to start digging and turn up some answers.

498
00:38:21,813 --> 00:38:30,814
In the investigation into the alleged Kecksburg UFO crash, ground penetrating radar has revealed an anomalous source of metal

499
00:38:30,814 --> 00:38:36,814
at the exact spot where eyewitnesses claimed the UFO crashed in 1965.

500
00:38:39,815 --> 00:38:45,816
The team has exposed the site and are ready to continue digging to discover the source of the metal.

501
00:38:46,816 --> 00:38:52,816
But within minutes, the investigation suddenly hits an impenetrable wall.

502
00:38:56,817 --> 00:39:03,818
The GPR told us that you've got metallic conductivity, and I'm hitting bedrock.

503
00:39:03,818 --> 00:39:10,818
Now, either the object skimmed along the surface or the metal would have to be under the bedrock, which is totally unlikely.

504
00:39:11,819 --> 00:39:17,819
Maybe this thing did come across this area and left some kind of a residue along the stone.

505
00:39:23,820 --> 00:39:29,821
But upon closer examination, the bedrock itself is the reason for the anomalous hits.

506
00:39:29,821 --> 00:39:33,821
According to Pete, this bedrock contains iron.

507
00:39:34,821 --> 00:39:40,822
The rocks themselves could be so heavily ferrous that they're giving a false positive to the GPR.

508
00:39:40,822 --> 00:39:44,823
So whatever hits we got may have nothing to do with the crash.

509
00:39:51,823 --> 00:40:00,824
Despite the bedrock's false hits, the overwhelming witness testimony and the corroborating interviews makes the site compelling.

510
00:40:03,825 --> 00:40:06,825
This is where everyone agrees the object came down.

511
00:40:06,825 --> 00:40:11,826
And there was, according to all eyewitnesses, a military presence hauling this craft away.

512
00:40:11,826 --> 00:40:15,826
We didn't find anything today, but an object crashed right here in Kexpert.

513
00:40:20,827 --> 00:40:23,827
Bill now turns back to the Needle's crash.

514
00:40:23,827 --> 00:40:28,828
George Knapp, an investigative reporter for KLAS Television in Las Vegas,

515
00:40:28,828 --> 00:40:33,828
has a surprising lead on the helicopters allegedly seen after the crash.

516
00:40:34,828 --> 00:40:39,829
We were working on a story about black helicopters before we started working on this Needle story.

517
00:40:39,829 --> 00:40:45,830
We figured out who they were, and they worked for this very interesting outfit at a Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

518
00:40:45,830 --> 00:40:46,830
The night stalkers.

519
00:40:46,830 --> 00:40:48,830
Task Force 160.

520
00:40:48,830 --> 00:40:54,831
The night stalkers, or Task Force 160, is a special ops aviation regiment,

521
00:40:54,831 --> 00:40:58,831
and it requires a secret clearance for all of its members.

522
00:40:58,831 --> 00:41:04,832
When George Knapp was investigating what group of black helicopters might have been operating in Needle's California,

523
00:41:04,832 --> 00:41:14,833
he discovered they were the night stalkers, the very same group that was transporting a flaming object in the Cache Landrum incident in Texas in 1980.

524
00:41:15,833 --> 00:41:23,834
The Cache Landrum incident, like Needle's, involved military helicopters pursuing and removing a strange glowing object,

525
00:41:23,834 --> 00:41:29,835
which led to three witnesses developing strange blisters and radiation sickness.

526
00:41:30,835 --> 00:41:35,836
But Knapp's investigation digs further and discovers military personnel

527
00:41:35,836 --> 00:41:39,836
that were working in Needle's on unnamed top secret projects.

528
00:41:40,836 --> 00:41:46,837
Could these be the elusive men in black reported by many UFO witnesses?

529
00:41:46,837 --> 00:41:50,837
These guys were driving back to Las Vegas from Needle's.

530
00:41:50,837 --> 00:41:53,838
Pretty soon they come up and they drive up right next to us, the engine running,

531
00:41:53,838 --> 00:41:55,838
and they get out and start talking to us.

532
00:41:55,838 --> 00:41:56,838
They said they're federal agents.

533
00:41:56,838 --> 00:42:00,839
They flashed a badge, and sure enough, they are legitimately federal agents.

534
00:42:00,839 --> 00:42:03,839
They work for an agency I had never heard of before.

535
00:42:03,839 --> 00:42:05,839
They transport nuclear weapons.

536
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:15,840
But the specifics of why these agents are in Needle's are still unknown.

537
00:42:17,841 --> 00:42:18,841
They're highly trained.

538
00:42:18,841 --> 00:42:20,841
They're a dangerous group of people.

539
00:42:20,841 --> 00:42:21,841
These guys are commandos.

540
00:42:21,841 --> 00:42:23,841
They carry all kinds of weapons.

541
00:42:23,841 --> 00:42:25,841
They're very tough customers.

542
00:42:25,841 --> 00:42:29,842
I'm not sure that they're going to be happy that they've got this much attention.

543
00:42:30,842 --> 00:42:35,843
Despite their presence, Knapp doesn't believe that these agents are men in black,

544
00:42:35,843 --> 00:42:38,843
or that they are involved with the nearby crash.

545
00:42:38,843 --> 00:42:41,843
Yet in both the Needle's and Kecksburg crashes,

546
00:42:41,843 --> 00:42:47,844
eyewitnesses reported seeing large objects being hauled away by military vehicles.

547
00:42:49,844 --> 00:42:52,845
If this agency is not involved, who is?

548
00:42:52,845 --> 00:42:56,845
What we're finding out is that the stories of people who say there was a story

549
00:42:56,845 --> 00:43:01,846
of a strange federal government agency in black SUVs traveling in Needle's

550
00:43:01,846 --> 00:43:06,846
right around the day after that event, those stories are true.

551
00:43:08,847 --> 00:43:13,847
Whatever crashed, Area 51 planes were seen in the vicinity.

552
00:43:13,847 --> 00:43:18,848
The helicopters that retrieved the object may have been involved in another case,

553
00:43:18,848 --> 00:43:21,848
where people were exposed to radiation.

554
00:43:21,848 --> 00:43:26,849
And now, federal agents in the Needle's area, by their own admission,

555
00:43:26,849 --> 00:43:30,849
have some association with nuclear weapons.

556
00:43:30,849 --> 00:43:35,850
Could this crash involve some craft that uses nuclear technology,

557
00:43:35,850 --> 00:43:41,850
emits radiation, and be so top secret that its own base is Area 51?

558
00:43:45,851 --> 00:43:50,851
What's missing is hard physical evidence at an action site.

559
00:43:52,852 --> 00:43:56,852
We know that there was military involvement suppressing the information.

560
00:43:56,852 --> 00:44:00,853
They move in, they fill the air with misinformation,

561
00:44:00,853 --> 00:44:04,853
and then they deny that anything happened.

562
00:44:06,853 --> 00:44:09,854
With sites cleansed of all signs of a crash,

563
00:44:09,854 --> 00:44:13,854
could these incidents have national security implications?

564
00:44:13,854 --> 00:44:16,855
Whatever is falling out of the sky,

565
00:44:16,855 --> 00:44:21,855
the military seems intent on keeping it secret.