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From the past 50 years, there's been evidence of highly advanced technology in our skies.

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Baffling Navy top gun and military helicopter pilots alike.

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These massive, tic-tac-shaped objects appear to move at warp speeds, defying the laws of physics.

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This object was going 24,000 miles an hour.

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Something came in moving very fast and almost hit us, and I have no idea what it was.

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Could these UFOs be the proof that we are not alone?

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Because it really happened. You think I'm lying?

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And if so, what do they want?

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Do you think we're prepared to meet with such superior technology?

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An equivalent would lead no.

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I'm Ben Hansen, former federal agent.

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My grandfather worked at a highly classified Air Force base and convinced me we are not alone in the universe.

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Then I had my own encounter that changed my life forever.

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Welcome to UFO Country.

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Now I've gained access to a top secret archive from Project Bluebook.

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This planet has been under surveillance for centuries.

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Containing reports of over 10,000 UFO sightings investigated by the U.S. government.

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We could very well be standing on the exact place where a UFO crashed.

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My mission is to uncover the truth.

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I'm on my way to meet Kevin Day, who was a former chief radar officer for the Navy.

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Years ago, Kevin was stationed off the coast of California,

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and he actually had a front-row seat to one of the biggest UFO sightings in the 21st century.

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The Nimitz video.

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In 2004, the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier was on a combat training mission off the coast of San Diego,

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when officer Kevin Day had an encounter with an unidentified flying object.

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The cylindrical object in the shape of a tic-tac hovered somewhere between 15 and 24,000 feet in midair,

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and then suddenly darted off.

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13 years later, video of the encounter was leaked to the New York Times.

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The video is considered the gold standard of UFO encounters, and to this day,

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analysts have been unable to identify the craft.

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There's simply no denying that this was a UFO.

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Kevin Day was the radar operator on the Nimitz that day.

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Since leaving the Navy, he's been warned not to discuss what he saw,

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but he's agreed to meet with Ben no matter the risk.

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I'm waiting a long time to meet you.

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I have some very specific questions I'd like to take some notes on if you don't mind.

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But why don't we start out first of all, could you take me back to that day, tell me what was it like to re-design?

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I can follow a course air manual.

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In the morning of the 14th, we had planned to do a major air defense exercise.

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So we were off the coast about 90 miles off San Diego that day.

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I was up on watch, I was anti-air warfare coordinator.

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I'm the actual guy that makes the identifications.

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My whole job is to identify stuff that flies.

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Okay.

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And I notice these really strange contacts off Catalina Island.

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They were at 28,000 feet in a real loose formation and they were tracking south at up 100 knots.

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Interesting, I'm a pilot.

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I can see why you're like, well, what's something that slow doing this high up?

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I had never seen anything fly like that before.

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Immediately we're thinking, hey, are these things real?

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You know, is this some type of glitch?

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So we ran a bunch of diagnostic tests and we brought all our systems back up and the contacts were, they were stronger now.

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The objects seemed to ping-pong through the sky, changing speed and directions in ways that defy the laws of physics.

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That's when I became concerned about these things.

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I strongly recommend that we take one of the aircraft that just launched off the Nimitz and go intercept one and see what it is.

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Commander Fravor happened to be airborne.

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He was one of the first to launch off the Nimitz.

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One of the best pilots the Navy's probably ever produced.

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So I said, hey, let's intercept one of these things.

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As soon as that happened, he's like, oh my god, oh my god, I'm engaged, I'm engaged.

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Pilots describe the object as a white 40-foot-long, tic-tac-shaped craft.

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That object dropped from 28,000 feet down to the surface of the water in less than a second.

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So he's like, I gotta go check this out, right?

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So he loses wingman at pie and he follows it down to the surface and this thing recognizes him.

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And next thing you know, this thing is gone.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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And it was one of the most humbling moments of my life.

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We were a highly trained group of people on that ship, years of experience, and these objects totally kicked our asses.

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If they had been hostile, there was nothing I could have done.

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Do you think they were curious about what you guys were doing out there?

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I'm going to speculate here, Ben, because I don't know.

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But I think they've been there for a long, long time.

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And I'm going to speculate even a little bit farther.

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I think that technology upgrade that our ship had received, I think it gave us the ability to finally suddenly see these things.

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So I actually have the video right here.

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All right, so here's the video.

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5-2-3, rocket.

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Look at this.

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Oh my gosh, dude.

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Okay, so he's following this and his altitude is level.

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And there it goes.

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There it goes.

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Just zips off.

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Mind you, a star trek, huh?

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The weight dude's got a job.

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So based on what you were seeing on your radar scope, the video, do we have an estimate of how fast this was going?

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They crunched the numbers on that and it turns out this object, whatever it was, was going a little bit in excess of 24,000 miles an hour.

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24,000 miles an hour.

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And the G forces, the gravities, 1350 G forces.

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A human can withstand maybe nine without special gear and stuff.

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The aircraft itself can survive maybe 15, 1450 G before it flies apart.

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Was your audio traffic all that you recorded during that ever recovered?

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Was that ever found?

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People came on board the ship.

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Looking like Air Force officers.

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They had top secret clearances.

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These guys collected a bunch of stuff.

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We have a system there that records all your external communications onto an optical disc.

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My coms were taken.

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All the actual voice data was taken.

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All your audio from radio traffic is gone?

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Wow.

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And did all for the radar.

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And then they got back on the helicopter and went back.

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Where did it go?

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I don't know.

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That's what happened.

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It really, it really happened.

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You think I'm lying?

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No.

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I mean, really?

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I'm not.

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Was there any follow-up officially, like after the incident happened?

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No, that's what...

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No one came to talk to you about it?

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It bugs me so much about this.

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You know, I tried to talk to the captain about it.

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He seemed disinterested.

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I'm trying to talk to the people in my office about it.

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No one wanted to hear it.

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And to this day it disturbs me because what do you mean you're not curious about it?

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These things are there.

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They're right in our airspace.

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And there's definitely concerns for safety of flight.

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But that's not the only thing that disturbed Kevin Day.

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After the incident, Kevin began to have nightmares.

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My concerns actually manifested into nightmares.

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You were having what types of...

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It's like end of the world to...

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Sonomias, tidal waves, earthquakes, forest fires, floods, that type of stuff, which was really weird.

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And I didn't know what the hell was going on with me.

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The reason why I am here talking to you is because...

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Something's happening here.

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And my personal fear is...

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What if...

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Happened to me, happens to the whole damn world at the same time?

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And nobody knows why all of a sudden everything's changing.

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That might not end so well for us, Ben.

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So I think we need to put a stop to this.

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So I think we need to prepare for this because it's coming whether we want it to or not.

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I didn't expect Kevin to be so emotionally impacted from this event.

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It's been 15 years since this occurred.

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And yet you can see in his eyes this completely changed his world.

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He felt like these objects may have been here for a long time.

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Can we place this event that was only 15 years old in history?

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A pattern perhaps is emerging.

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Ben contacts the one person he thinks knows the truth, Jenny Zeidman.

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The last remaining member of the top secret government agency, Project Blue Book.

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Starting in 1952, Project Blue Book analyzed thousands of UFO encounters.

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Like Kevin, Jenny has never gone public with what she knows.

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But she's agreed to share what the government knows about the UFOs

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and grant Ben access to her case files.

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Jenny, Mark.

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I just had a really great conversation with Kevin Day of the USS Nimitz case.

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A very personal, up-close, kind of terrifying experience that these military pilots had.

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With this UFO.

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If they had been hostile, there was nothing I could have done.

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Jenny, what do you think of this?

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This was a horrible, scary thing.

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I was like, I couldn't control anything about it.

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You didn't even know what it was.

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Joining Jenny and Ben is UFO historian Mark O'Connell.

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All we know for sure is he was very close to this object.

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But what is it?

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It's an enigma wrapped up in a mystery.

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But it's not the first time Jenny's heard accounts of an oval-shaped craft

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playing games with American military pilots.

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Jenny sends Mark to dig up one of the cases in her archive,

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the Coyne UFO helicopter case of 1973.

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There was a profusion of UFO cases in the fall of 1973.

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Most of them were in the Eastern United States,

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among them the Coyne helicopter case.

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Most of the time with UFO reports, there's one person.

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The Coyne case had separate witnesses.

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Several witnesses all reported seeing the same thing.

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A cylindrical object flying across the sky at incredible speeds.

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Just like the Nimitz Tic Tac video.

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I interviewed the crew mostly separately.

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They're very cooperative.

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They were very cooperative.

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Coyne is very serious and I can't imagine him pulling anything.

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I think we got the tapes right here.

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Well, let's have a listen.

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Jenny's tapes are the original interviews she conducted

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with the Coyne helicopter crew about their UFO encounter.

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First up, Sergeant Healy, the flight medic,

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describes what the object looked like.

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We were headed northbound on the 18th of October of 1973.

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And all of a sudden there's a great light.

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The odd thing is that the thing that keeps you up in the air is wings.

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And this thing has wings.

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Next, Robert Yannisek, crew chief, describes how the UFO moved.

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It was obvious that it was coming at us.

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I hate to call it crash style, but that's basically what it was.

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It was the last trip we got all the way.

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It just seemed like it was there for the demo.

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I'd say it was stopped for 10 to 12 seconds.

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I mean, it stopped. It wasn't cruising, it was stopped.

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Finally, Captain Coyne, the helicopter pilot, describes the encounter.

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This object became bigger and bigger.

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But we raised our impact.

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We went from 1,700 feet all the way around up to 3,500 feet.

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There's no explanation for why the collective bottom and the gaining held it.

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The UFO described by the Coyne helicopter crew and the Nimitz naval pilots 30 years later

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sound eerily similar in appearance, movement, and encounter.

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But that's not all.

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Soon after the Coyne incident, Sergeant Healy, like Kevin Day, began having strange nightmares.

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I dreamt that my spirit or whatever was floating looking down at me lying dead in bed.

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And the only thing that I was thinking was I was worried about what would happen to my two boys.

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It sounds like someone who suffered something very traumatic.

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This was a nightmare. In a nightmare, you were watching something which you have no control over.

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So do we have anything else reported? Other witnesses? Did they come out in the time?

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As Jenny soon discovered, people on the ground also saw the object.

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The second group was a family, several kids, mother driving.

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Just the case file here. Let's have a listen.

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As I entered a portion of the road, we saw a light.

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A red and green light.

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Moving together, coming down rapidly towards us.

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I became aware of a second group.

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I saw the light. Some of them crashing and pushing from behind.

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I thought the two sets of lights were about to crash.

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I turned my children to stay in the car.

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My son ran out.

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We stepped out of the car.

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And we could see with the light.

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We were so scared.

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We could see the lights were converging.

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Family.

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Everything turned green.

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That illustration is true to the testimony of the family in the car.

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So they were actually pretty close.

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Well, one of the kids said the object was as big as a school bus.

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And this is very credible testimony.

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So that means that these are truly unidentified objects.

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You were over several months talking to them.

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Oh, over months. None of these stories ever changed.

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By this time, I've been working on the case so long

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that I probably just sat and looked at the papers and looked at the papers.

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And said, this is it.

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And I'm looking at this and thinking about Kevin Day's description.

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What they described as a tic-tac.

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Right? Cylindrical. No wings. No tail.

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And I can't help but think of similar.

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We have 1973 something such as this.

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Right? Is it possible we're dealing with the same phenomena, the same craft?

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Or the same models.

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The same type of class or like you said model.

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Maybe it was a very popular model.

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It's interesting that both cases we're talking about, the Nimitz case and the coin copter case.

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Why are they so curious about interfering with military aircraft?

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What are they looking for? What are they testing?

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Pretty mind boggling.

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I agree. It's very puzzling.

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What else can we find in history where we've had these very close contact reports

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with military pilots or personnel with UFOs?

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Well, the first on record is from January 1948.

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That's when an international guard pilot named Thomas Mantell

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was ferrying a plane from Georgia up to Kentucky.

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And what he didn't know was while he was flying north,

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people all over Kentucky were already seeing strange objects in the sky.

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So Mantell is flying into this area where all these sightings are taking place

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and he gets the order to change course, follow this thing, find out what it is.

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So he breaks off from the three other pilots in his group

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and basically starts chasing this object, starts following it higher and higher.

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Unfortunately, his plane wasn't equipped with oxygen.

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He was on a short flight at lower altitude and he didn't need the oxygen.

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And he's flying way past an altitude where you need oxygen.

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And he passed out.

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He may have actually suffocated at 30,000 feet before he went into his crash dive.

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All we know for sure is he got to about 25,000, 30,000 feet and his plane crashed.

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Mantell's case was a real tragedy.

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As far as we know, it wasn't directly caused by the UFO,

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but getting up there and following it was an impetus that maybe caused his death.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Captain Mantell, when he set out that day in his airplane,

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he had no idea that he would be sent off to chase some weird thing in the sky.

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And he would be dead before the day so far.

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People's lives have and can be taken because of these events.

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And therefore, I think it's a safety concern and it's something I think the government should officially take seriously.

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I'm a pessimist as you may have gotten his so from time to time.

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They're so far ahead of us psychologically and I don't see how we could ever survive.

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There's a lot of information here to process and I would love to read over your full report, Jenny.

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Is there anyone that you think I could talk to that was actually there that day?

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Yeah, we managed to track down Rick Jezi.

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Really?

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Oh, yeah.

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One of the four crewmen on the helicopter, he was at the controls of the helicopter when they first sighted the object.

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So he's going to have a lot of really good stuff to share with you.

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Oh, I can't wait.

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You better see him fast because time is fleeting.

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Jenny arranges a meeting with coin helicopter pilot, Rick Jezi.

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Rick hasn't gone on record since the 1970s, but due to Ben's background, he's agreed to meet him in a hotel in Philadelphia.

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Interviewing Rick is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

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Rick, thank you so much for meeting me here.

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I have talked to Jenny Zeidman and gone over a lot of things and I'm so happy to have you actually here because unfortunately as I understand, most of the crew or all of them are all gone.

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Yep.

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And, uh...

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Last man standing.

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I know maybe it's been a while since you told the story.

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Can you take me back to that and just try to remember the details?

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Who noticed something unusual first and what happened?

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We were about 2,000 feet above the ground and we were flying.

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Everything was copacetic.

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It was a clear night and I think it was the Anisek who said, gee, there's a red light in the eastern horizon and it's approaching.

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And then all of a sudden the commentary increases in tempo.

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It seems to be coming right at us.

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It's a red light and it just seems like the intensity began to increase.

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So it was traveling relatively fast.

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Was it 600 knots?

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Was it 500 knots?

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I can't say.

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Was it 1,000?

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Who knows.

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But it was much, much faster than what we were used to seeing at that altitude on our regular flight.

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Boyne says, I've got the aircraft.

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Immediately he went into a auto rotation, which in an army helicopter, you cut the throttle and you put the collective down and you drop and you drop pretty aggressively.

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But the helicopter didn't drop at all.

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Instead, it started rapidly gaining altitude, completely out of the pilot's control.

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Something happened.

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Something came in and it rattled the crew.

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And I have no idea what it was.

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I only got to see the object who was directly above us.

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And what I noticed was a very bright white light is close enough to be a major concern.

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It moved quickly and I recall following it.

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All the way to the horizon where it disappeared.

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And all of a sudden we noticed that we were a little higher altitude that would typically would fly.

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After it passed, we got back to altitude.

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We flew back to Cleveland Hawkins and landed.

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First reaction was we could contact the FVA.

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They weren't flying.

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Every aircraft was down that day.

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With no flights airborne at the time of the encounter, the strange craft was truly an unidentified object.

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So we reported it as an un-year miss and that was the official position that was taken.

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I mean, and that's exactly what has me curious is that something going clearly faster than 250 knots below 10,000 feet should not be doing that.

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Clearly unsafe, but what kind of conventional craft do you think possibly could be doing this?

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And one of the reactions that we had is it could have been F-100, but we didn't hear any noise.

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We didn't get into some turbulence or any of that sort.

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So it was a different reaction that we experienced as a result had it been a conventional jet aircraft.

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It wasn't a meteor.

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I can tell you categorically it was not a meteor.

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And it wasn't hallucination.

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It was not a hallucination.

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Wow.

348
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Okay.

349
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Well, that's quite the experience.

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When you landed as a crew, you made the official reports, but did they do any follow up with that?

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Did they find this concerning?

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No.

353
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There was no follow up from the military at all.

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Not at all.

355
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Not at all.

356
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Wow.

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My puzzlement is why would the military, the FAA, not be more concerned of finding out?

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Well, I think the military know a lot more than they say, but obviously they're not discussing it.

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Now, one of the things that true that happened was that the mag compass on that helicopter never functioned the same way as it did before.

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At times it would just spin on its own.

361
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Really?

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And then it would stop.

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And it would point someplace that it shouldn't be pointing to.

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It was weird.

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It was replaced later.

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Unfortunately, that piece of hard evidence appears to have been destroyed and the story covered up.

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Did you ever talk to each other about like, hey, should we talk to the public about this?

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There was some sensitivity about being embarrassed.

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I mean, who were these cliques who saw our UFO?

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That permeated some of the discussions that we had the next day.

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And Saturday morning, both Yannisek and Healy came out and they both had sketched what they saw.

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And interestingly, both had sketched very similar objects.

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Wow.

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I again wanted to really thank you, Rick.

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It may not have been easy for you to come here today, but thank you for trusting me in hearing your story.

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I really appreciate it.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Rick's experience to terrifying encounter, similar to Kevin Day's, now both men have the same question.

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Why did the government cover it up?

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Something unexplainable happened to Rick's helicopter.

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When they attempted to descend, the helicopter instead ascended 1800 feet in a matter of seconds.

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Is it possible that the UFO was pulling it up like a magnet?

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Ben decides to set up an experiment.

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Good morning.

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You must be Andrew.

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I'm Andrew.

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Ben, nice to meet you.

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Nice to meet you, Ben.

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Andrew Adrian is a helicopter pilot who specializes in high-altitude maneuvers.

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You got the notes that I sent you about what we're trying to do, right?

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I did.

393
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Great.

394
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Let's get started.

395
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All right, sir.

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Ufologists theorize that extraterrestrial spacecraft used magnetic forces to propel themselves through the galaxy.

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Could this also account for the helicopter's rapid ascent in 1973?

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Ben wants to put this theory to the test.

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John, are you rolling go-kros right now?

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We have to make sure that the crew has some experience in this too, because some of them get air-sick.

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Clear!

402
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All right.

403
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Ready to do this.

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I think today's late turn and pressure's coming up.

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You're degree in check.

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Check, check, check.

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So what we're going to do is climb up to 1,700, indicating the conditions in which the crew in 1973 were facing.

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We're going to do 1,600 feet now.

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They're approaching that 100 knots.

410
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They said they were doing it.

411
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Right, so the UFO is about to collide with them.

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They're pushing down.

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They come down to 1,700 feet.

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All right, let's do it.

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Let's see what you can do.

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There it is.

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Starting.

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So, climbing up.

419
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There's just some cheese out of this.

420
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Yeah!

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Got 2,100.

422
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Approaching 2,500 feet.

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2,570.

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2,900.

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About 3,000 feet.

426
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You've got 500 feet left to go.

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31.

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31.

429
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3150.

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3350 almost there.

431
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3,400.

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3,500.

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Time.

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One minute 37.

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Enter.

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We're way off.

437
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We are way off.

438
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The test is complete and the results are clear.

439
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A helicopter cannot climb 1,800 feet in 10 seconds.

440
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We're going a ways off.

441
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The only two things in my mind that could have happened

442
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were maybe it was something some frontal activity

443
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some stronghold was in the area.

444
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,000
That definitely couldn't have contributed.

445
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Yeah.

446
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Something got a hold of them and moved them 1,800 feet

447
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in a matter of seconds.

448
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You know, that pretty much resolves what I needed

449
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out of this experiment.

450
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Great.

451
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Well, thank you so much.

452
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This is great.

453
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It was a pleasure.

454
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Thank you.

455
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Wow.

456
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That was fun.

457
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This experiment was a huge success.

458
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I learned some things that I was not expecting

459
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with a helicopter.

460
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What it told me is that any helicopter

461
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is not going to be able to make that rate of climb

462
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naturally within 10 seconds.

463
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I just don't see it happening.

464
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We're left with the X factor.

465
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Some external force had to have created this scenario

466
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where the helicopter ascended 1,800 feet in 10 to 12 seconds.

467
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,000
Ben is now convinced that the helicopter was somehow

468
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manipulated by the tic-tac-shaped UFO it encountered.

469
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But the question remains, how did the tic-tac achieve this?

470
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And why?

471
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To find out, Ben is meeting with a local UFO expert

472
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000
who claims to have never before revealed info

473
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on the coin helicopter case.

474
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Hey.

475
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It must be Tom.

476
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,000
I'm Tom.

477
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Nice to meet you.

478
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,000
So thank you so much for meeting me here.

479
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,000
I'm really interested to first know how did you get started

480
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,000
in investigating the coin copter case?

481
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,000
One thing that really made me start digging in this whole case,

482
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you've got trace evidence from mechanical issues on the helicopter.

483
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,000
I'm a pilot, and when you do maintenance on any aircraft,

484
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,000
that maintenance follows the aircraft for the life

485
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,000
of the plane, the helicopter you're required to.

486
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,000
Do you know if the military made official documentation

487
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of those effects on the craft or what happened to it afterward?

488
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Well, here's the problem.

489
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When you dig into it, you find out that the compass was swapped out.

490
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And after 90 days, they threw away the documentation associated with it.

491
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After way of sex, so.

492
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000
Yeah, yeah, right.

493
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Then they went back later on and started talking to the crew

494
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,000
about some unusual dreams.

495
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,000
What they related to out of body experiences.

496
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,000
Kevin Day in 2004 and Rick's crew in 1973

497
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,000
both discussed having residual nightmares after their UFO encounters.

498
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000
My concerns actually manifested into nightmares.

499
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,000
Tsunamis, tidal waves, earthquakes, forest fires, floods, that type of stuff.

500
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,000
I dreamt that my spirit or whatever was floating

501
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,000
looking down at me lying dead in bed.

502
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,000
They want to know about the content of the dreams

503
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,000
and they want to know all about the dreams.

504
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,000
We want to know about the dreams.

505
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,000
So who was it that asked them about their dreams?

506
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:10,000
It came from the Surgeon General's office.

507
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000
Has the government long known that apocalyptic nightmares

508
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,000
were an after effect of UFO encounters?

509
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Tell me a little bit more about the effects on the Huey helicopter.

510
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,000
On the helicopter, they did a magnet flux test the next day.

511
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:30,000
The magnet flux test, what they would do is spray on a chemical.

512
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,000
Then it would put like an ultraviolet light to it and look for fractures.

513
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:40,000
Why would you do a magnet flux test out of the clear blue sky?

514
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000
Unless you're looking for something.

515
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,000
Do you know who did this?

516
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,000
I mean, they're superiors.

517
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000
It's just like the mechanics.

518
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000
There was no mention of exactly who ordered it.

519
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,000
But it was just done.

520
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,000
So they get back, they do these tests on the helicopter.

521
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,000
It's unusual to be testing an aircraft on a routine flight.

522
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,000
That's soon afterwards.

523
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,000
I mean, why would you do that?

524
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:08,000
To me, that would be such a major coincidence that they would do it the next day.

525
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000
So what about the crew?

526
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Did they debrief them on the whole thing?

527
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,000
Well, that's another interesting thing.

528
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:21,000
So it took like six months for eventually a disposition to get filled up with like the FAA.

529
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:26,000
Where they documented everything that happened.

530
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,000
And I asked Healy and Yanacheck both about that document.

531
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:38,000
I said, does the military mind you talking about this as long as we stay with the story?

532
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:43,000
So basically what they were saying is as long as I don't vary

533
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:48,000
and kind of become very opinionated on everything and I just stay with the script,

534
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,000
they're fine with me.

535
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000
So I'm like, that's unusual.

536
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,000
What happens to the helicopter after that?

537
00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:01,000
Well, that would be a good question because that's your biggest piece of physical evidence.

538
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,000
I tracked down the tail number,

539
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:08,000
found out that the helicopter was pulled out of service, reassigned another number,

540
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000
and sent to Columbia.

541
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,000
I found WikiLeaks documents.

542
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:18,000
To that effect, yes, this helicopter in March of 2009,

543
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Christ, killing all four crewmen on board.

544
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,000
And it wasn't because it was shot down.

545
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Huh.

546
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,000
What if this helicopter had ongoing mechanical issues?

547
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:38,000
What if you found maybe magnetic effects on the helicopter all these years later?

548
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:46,000
Based on Tom's research, is it possible that the 1973 UFO encounter damaged the helicopter,

549
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:50,000
which in turn caused it to crash years later in the jungles of Columbia?

550
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Awesome, Tom, you've given me so much information.

551
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,000
Thank you.

552
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,000
Thank you.

553
00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,000
Tom has really gone the extra mile in a lot of aspects of this case.

554
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:04,000
He actually tried to track down where the helicopter went.

555
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:09,000
I mean, the question is, are some of the problems that contributed to the crash

556
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000
related to this UFO incident?

557
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Both Kevin Day and Rick Jeze had unexplainable encounters with Tic Tac shaped UFOs during their time in the military.

558
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:32,000
With the similarities of the two incidents, how many other pilots and crew have had experiences like Kevin Day and Rick Jeze?

559
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:41,000
To find out, Ben is reaching out to Narcap, an organization that tracks anonymous pilot reports of encounters with UFOs.

560
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,000
Hi, Ted.

561
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Hi, good morning.

562
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,000
Thank you for meeting with me.

563
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Can you tell me, on average, how many new cases do you get reported to you from pilots?

564
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,000
We average about two dozen cases a year.

565
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,000
Wow.

566
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,000
Yes, we feel it's a tip of the iceberg.

567
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,000
Generally, FAA will not take them on and won't study them.

568
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:15,000
And this is a very irrational perspective, in my opinion, because any time I'm in a gathering of airmen, somebody's got something to tell me.

569
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,000
And Ted, you've been doing this for quite some time.

570
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000
What do you think they are?

571
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,000
Where do you think they're from?

572
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,000
That's the big question.

573
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,000
Some of them, I think, are natural phenomena, but others beg a different explanation.

574
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000
They're clearly technical.

575
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:38,000
They're clearly superior in performance to any known aerial phenomena, including airplanes.

576
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:44,000
I have a hard time believing that they're human technology, wherever they're from.

577
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,000
Do you think we're prepared?

578
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:55,000
If this were malevolent, if they have bad intentions, do you think we're prepared to meet with such superior technologies?

579
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000
No.

580
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,000
No.

581
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,000
Unequivocally, no.

582
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:10,000
We're talking about something very, very different, and we've had no real preparation for it, just rumors.

583
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:22,000
If you take all these factors together, I don't know why the media especially or the government doesn't take more notice of these things, because they're significant.

584
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:26,000
They could be potentially very dangerous, and they're happening.

585
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,000
That's a good synopsis right there.

586
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000
All right, well, Ted, thank you so much.

587
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,000
You've given me a lot to think about.

588
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:38,000
Everything that you've done to collect these reports, I think, is very important, and I appreciate your time.

589
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,000
Thank you very much, man.

590
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,000
Thank you.

591
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:48,000
Ted and the Narcap organization have been studying UFO pilot reports for decades.

592
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:53,000
And what he concludes is that these are not conventional craft.

593
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,000
They are probably not from here.

594
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,000
They're extraterrestrial.

595
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:03,000
And I think that that is confirming what I've been seeing in the Coyne-Popter case and with the Nimitz video.

596
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:11,000
So if these are the types of reports we're getting that are coming forward, think about all the others we're not receiving.

597
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:21,000
Digging into Narcap's archives, Ben turns up a shocking video taken by two documentary filmmakers.

598
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,000
Has the Tic Tac craft been cited once again?

599
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:32,000
Ben is meeting back up with Kevin Day and legendary ufologist Dr. Bruce McAbee to find out their opinions.

600
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:40,000
I'd like to start with this video that we obtained from a more recent case out of Beaver, Utah.

601
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,000
Kind of just like your opinions on this.

602
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,000
Right there.

603
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000
So fast.

604
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,000
Here's a slowed down version.

605
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,000
But as you see it come here, came down through that far valley.

606
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,000
Ostensibly, this does come from that valley, right?

607
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
It appears that way.

608
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,000
It is a long distance away.

609
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,000
It's a big thing and it's going at extremely high speed.

610
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Coming out of the right here, okay, it starts to take shape.

611
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,000
I'm noticing the shape of it seems similar.

612
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
I mean, how would you describe it?

613
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,000
I look at that and it's a pill shape.

614
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,000
Tic Tac.

615
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,000
Looks like a Tic Tac.

616
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,000
Yeah.

617
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,000
Are we perhaps looking at the same phenomenon?

618
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,000
That's my personal speculation.

619
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:37,000
The Kraft cabin encountered the one that pulled Rick Jezzy's helicopter and this new object out of Utah all share the signature Tic Tac shape.

620
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,000
So Bruce, I'm sure you've looked over this.

621
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,000
What is your take when you initially saw this?

622
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:47,000
I often wonder whether somebody got his head chopped off for the release of this stuff.

623
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:55,000
Anyway, this thing whatever it was was out of its cage playing with us.

624
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,000
Here they're saying, we can do something you can't do.

625
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,000
This thing is sort of moving in oddball patterns.

626
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:09,000
You could say, well, it looks like instantaneous direction changes.

627
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:15,000
It's the type of thing that's been reported for years, but people didn't know how to believe it.

628
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:21,000
A guy where I worked told me about a sighting he and his kids had one day in the Washington, D.C. area.

629
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,000
I never published this, but I might.

630
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,000
He's long gone.

631
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:30,000
Anyway, he said he was out there sitting on his lawn one Sunday.

632
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000
This was back in the 70s.

633
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:37,000
He looks up and he sees this thing come dropping down some apparent altitude.

634
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,000
And he's watching another one comes in from another direction.

635
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,000
And then he's got two of these things side by side.

636
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,000
Then one of them goes right straight up.

637
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,000
And the other one leaves by going, bing, bing, bing.

638
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,000
A zigzag motion.

639
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:57,000
So what you're saying is they may have been seeing the same types of objects, but they were just seeing it differently.

640
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,000
Well, they didn't know how to interpret it.

641
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:06,000
I'll tell you, with my experience with hoaxes and CGI, if this is CGI, this is actually really pretty good.

642
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:16,000
It takes a lot of detail, in my opinion, to do an overlay composite and give that motion blur and the frame and the attention to the detail

643
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:21,000
in that if this is this close to camera now, this is the last frame.

644
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,000
So you're seeing frame by frame together together together as it gets closer.

645
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,000
It spreads out.

646
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,000
Not a lot of people would know even to consider doing that in a hoax.

647
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,000
That's true.

648
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:37,000
Previously, the government has tried to keep this whole subject at arm's length.

649
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:43,000
And if everybody who was a witness fell off the cliff, the government wouldn't care.

650
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:50,000
So what you're saying is they may have been seeing the same types of objects, but they were just seeing it differently.

651
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,000
Well, they didn't know how to interpret it.

652
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:57,000
We have suspected that the government is doing more than they are saying for years.

653
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,000
The problem is they can't keep the UFOs themselves quiet.

654
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:05,000
Well, the whole phenomenon is being driven by them.

655
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:10,000
Ready. Thank you very much.

656
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:15,000
After meeting with Bruce and Kevin, Ben returns home with Jenny's file.

657
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:21,000
Based on his investigation, Rick and his crew likely encountered something otherworldly.

658
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,000
Whatever it was, it's returned.

659
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,000
So where do things stand now?

660
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:30,000
So there's still one piece of the puzzle that I'm not completely sure about.

661
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,000
What was the government's role in all this?

662
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:41,000
Kevin Day and the helicopter crew, they really didn't give testimony of the attention that it deserved, and then the government might completely sign.

663
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:47,000
So I was researching this and something really interesting happened.

664
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:55,000
The Nimitz video has now become the central focus of the media because the Pentagon came out and said,

665
00:44:55,000 --> 00:45:02,000
not only do we confirm that the video is authentic, but it depicts a truly unidentified flying object.

666
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:07,000
In response, a retired government official issued the following statement.

667
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:15,000
I'm glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available.

668
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,000
The American people deserve to be informed.

669
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:30,000
Personally, I'm glad that the Pentagon has finally come clean with the existence of UFOs, but the Tic Tac mystery still remains an unexplained threat.

670
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:43,000
I mean, should we be more concerned as to why these objects suddenly reappeared again, and should our pilots be prepared for more close encounters like Rick and Kevin experienced?

671
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:52,000
If these Tic Tac UFOs are piloted by extraterrestrials who are technologically light-years ahead of us, should we be afraid?

672
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,000
My search for answers continues.