1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Highly trained pilots encountering mysterious aircraft all around the world. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:12,000 It was a highly maneuverable, intelligently controlled object in military airspace. 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Incredible, unexplained sightings by astronauts are increasing every year. 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:23,000 If pilots are good UFO witnesses, then astronauts are great UFO witnesses. 5 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,000 This is Houston, say again, sir. 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 We're here for you, sir. 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,000 New evidence never before seen on television 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:36,000 has UFO researchers convinced that NASA may be concealing the truth. 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:43,000 This very clearly demonstrates that we are dealing with something from another world. 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:50,000 As mankind reaches further from Earth, new scientific discoveries on Mars are raising new questions. 11 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Mars was inhabited at one point, and what we see today is remnants of that civilization. 12 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Is our government telling us all it knows about UFOs? 13 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:05,000 These UFO incidents pose serious national security issues. 14 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 We ignore these sightings at our peril. 15 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:18,000 New information is transforming what people believe about extraterrestrial spacecraft. 16 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Are UFOs really visiting our world? 17 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Is the government hiding the truth? 18 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:30,000 And if so, could new evidence reveal the truth witnessed by pilots and astronauts? 19 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:37,000 The New World's Most Excessive Space Telescope 20 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:43,000 The New World's Most Excessive Space Telescope 21 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:50,000 The New World's Most Excessive Space Telescope 22 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 April 2007 23 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Suffolk, England 24 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Under excellent visibility, military air traffic controllers at the Lakenheath Air Force Base 25 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:05,000 identify a strange anomaly in the nearby airspace. 26 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:11,000 They immediately request the help of two pilots already in the air to investigate. 27 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Pilots are from the base at Lakenheath, an American base, part of the wider U.S. presence in the UK. 28 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:29,000 These American pilots, they are ordered to intercept a UFO that has been picked up and tracked on military radar. 29 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:35,000 News of this only leaked out because of the activities of a ham radio operator. 30 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:44,000 What you are about to hear is the actual exchange between the American pilots recorded by the ham radio operator. 31 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,000 This conversation has never before been heard on television. 32 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Dude, I have no idea what that is. No kidding. 33 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,000 I just flew over on both eyes. There's her 8 for 20. 34 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:07,000 I had a radar hit and I was swinging with like 30 knots. There was something there. 35 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Back towards you, dude, I can't tell. Something small, very small black object. 36 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:23,000 According to the pilots, the strange object moved from 17,000 feet up to 17,700 feet in altitude. 37 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:28,000 As one of the pilots finally gets close, he reports. 38 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 I found out that I could not imagine what it was. 39 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,000 It didn't look like a bird. It looked like it was getting a rock to me. 40 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 We have no explanation for what this thing was. 41 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,000 So both F-15s had a radar lock on the object and ground-based radar also was tracking it. 42 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 So there was clearly something there. 43 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:54,000 When you hear the exchange of these pilots and they're saying that they don't know what this object is, 44 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:00,000 you need to take that seriously. They know what they're looking at. This is highly unusual. 45 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,000 This lake and heath incident is very interesting because you have pilots describing a rock 46 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 that's floating in changing direction in the sky. 47 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,000 It had no wings. It had no tail. It had no means of propulsion yet. 48 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,000 It was at high altitude. It moved around. It changed altitude. 49 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,000 It did things that basically a rock is not capable of doing. 50 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 So what was this thing doing in the sky? Nobody really knows. 51 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:29,000 According to UFO investigators, this incident is not an isolated one. 52 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Such occurrences are increasing every year. 53 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Take July 7th, 2010. 54 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:42,000 In a Chinese city just southeast of Shanghai, along China's eastern seaboard, 55 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:48,000 a three-man flight crew onboard an air-China jetliner filled with passengers prepares for landing. 56 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Chinese pilots, as they were approaching the airport, reported seeing an unusual object that got their attention and their concern. 57 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:05,000 The pilots report to air traffic control that an unknown object about 100 feet in length, 30 feet in width, 58 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:10,000 is moving slowly in the airspace, 2,000 feet above the airport. 59 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:17,000 At the same time, people on the ground photographed this object. 60 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,000 There are several of these photographs and they're very interesting. 61 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:28,000 And they certainly appear to show an elongated object and there's light coming down from the object. 62 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,000 The entire airport was closed. Flights were diverted. 63 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I mean, clearly something was going on in the skies. 64 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Because of the prejudice against reporting these kinds of sightings, 65 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:46,000 the pilots really took a huge risk by actually calling out over the open airwaves and saying that they'd seen this object. 66 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:52,000 So for them to do that, they must have really seen something very unusual and it was considered a threat to them. 67 00:05:52,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Two weeks later, another UFO sighting was reported in the same airspace above the same Chinese city. 68 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,000 This is actual recorded eyewitness video of the event. 69 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Observers describe the sighting as an eerie white light floating through the sky, leaving a bright trail at its wake. 70 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:21,000 It's been variously suggested that this was a rocket test, that perhaps some sort of secret military test was underway. 71 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:28,000 It's also been theorized that this was the re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere of a rocket that had launched. 72 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I don't know if we'll ever have definitive answers, but it shows that these things are occurring, 73 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:45,000 apparently with increasing regularity in our skies, and that they're a cause of some considerable concern to authorities all around the world. 74 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:52,000 You also got to consider that China is very militarized. It's a communist country. It does have a very intense air defense. 75 00:06:52,000 --> 00:07:00,000 And these objects penetrated that air defense, gotten their airports and actually created enough trouble to have them shut down the airport itself. 76 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 That's a really big deal. 77 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:13,000 UFO researchers believe the Chinese sightings are a clear indication of the increasing number of UFOs worldwide. 78 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:20,000 But perhaps the best-known evidence of this alarming trend occurs over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. 79 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:27,000 In early 2004, the Mexican Air Force was doing a routine drug interdiction flight over the southern part of Mexico. 80 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,000 This is the most famous case in the Mexican Air Force history. 81 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:37,000 In March 5th of 2004, they saw something that couldn't explain. 82 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Comrade, what's that? 83 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 There's a new one. 84 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,000 They're following us. 85 00:07:46,000 --> 00:08:00,000 They were using forward-looking infrared, FLIR, and radar, and tracked on their instrumentation, but did not see visually 11 objects. 86 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:08,000 At about 10,000 feet in altitude, the crew records and monitors the UFOs while reporting the sightings to ground control. 87 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,000 This is the actual recorded video feed from the Mexican Air Force. 88 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:28,000 We're looking at the target imagery of these objects that are tracking along with the airplane. 89 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Where's the airplane? Longitude and latitude here. 90 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Asmuth, aperture, angle in the sky and the horizon, so that this target tells us exactly what the position and the angle is what we're looking at, what the position of the airplane is. 91 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Now we have other objects that are coming up that are much closer, that are moving in between the clouds, tracking along with the airplane. 92 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 The radar detects movements. 93 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 The objects make intelligent movements. 94 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:21,000 It would appear that these objects are either intelligent or intelligently controlled because they appear to be communicating with each other as they are following the aircraft. 95 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:27,000 This airplane was flying over 200 miles per hour. 96 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Then it's incredible that this UFO is moving faster, circling the airplane. 97 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,000 It's a fascinating piece of footage. 98 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:47,000 One can see quite clearly these UFOs apparently moving at high speed, and here they are showing up on military cameras. 99 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:54,000 After the incident, the Mexican government releases a press statement and the footage from the encounter. 100 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Oftentimes the government keeps the pilots quiet and don't talk anything about the UFOs. 101 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 But in this case, we make a press conference. 102 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:10,000 The Mexican Air Force, with this case, recognized that the UFOs exist. 103 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:25,000 It's been suggested that these objects are nothing more than the flares from oil rigs. 104 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 To me, it didn't stack up. 105 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:35,000 We're left with an object that was tracked at a high enough altitude, much higher up than what you would get by looking down at oil rigs. 106 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000 So I'm not really convinced by that explanation. 107 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,000 The flare camera is always looking above the horizon. 108 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,000 I'm a scientist, I'm an astronomer. 109 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:50,000 I didn't believe in UFOs, but this video changed my mind. 110 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Because of the testimony from the pilots, because of the footage, because of the way these objects were moving and behaving, 111 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:08,000 this case very clearly demonstrates that we are in all likelihood dealing with something from another world. 112 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,000 UFO researchers believe the evidence is undeniable. 113 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Sightings of extraterrestrial craft worldwide are on the rise. 114 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,000 The only question is, why are they here? 115 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:32,000 But it's not just pilots in the sky who are encountering strange aircraft. 116 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:37,000 There are dozens of mysterious UFO sightings reported by NASA astronauts, 117 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,000 many captured on live video feeds that were interrupted for unknown reasons. 118 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Could there be any reason to believe they represent a clear and present danger? 119 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:57,000 For decades, there have been countless reports of UFOs in the skies. 120 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:04,000 And since man has ventured into space, there's also been a long history of UFO sightings reported by astronauts, 121 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,000 scientists and government agencies. 122 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Could NASA's lack of adequate explanation be the reason why many suspect there is a conspiracy, 123 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:18,000 and perhaps even a cover-up connected to UFOs? 124 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:26,000 NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was established on July 29, 1958. 125 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Beyond the space race, NASA's mission was to pioneer the future of space exploration. 126 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:42,000 The point of NASA is to make sure that the United States stays as a world leader in science, 127 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:49,000 particularly focusing on space, aeronautics and the search for life. 128 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:56,000 As technical and scientific observers, astronauts are trained to the highest possible standards. 129 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,000 In a sense, of course, astronauts are elite pilots. 130 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,000 They are generally selected from the top ranks of military pilot community, 131 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 and these people are the best of the best. 132 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:15,000 They're the ones who have the right stuff, and when an astronaut makes a UFO report 133 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:20,000 or sees what he or she thinks is a UFO, we really need to take that seriously. 134 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:26,000 If pilots are good UFO witnesses, then astronauts are great UFO witnesses. 135 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:33,000 NASA's first manned space program was called Project Mercury, 136 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,000 and on May 15, 1963, the last of the program's six missions 137 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:43,000 lifts off from Launch Complex 14 at Florida's Cape Canaveral. 138 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Project Mercury was part of the space race. 139 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:55,000 It was the first U.S. project to put people in space and ideally beat the Russians. 140 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Piloting the Mercury spacecraft known as Faith-7 is 30-year-old Major Gordon Cooper. 141 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,000 He is an aerospace engineer and an Air Force test pilot 142 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:11,000 who's logged more than 7,000 hours flying all types of airplanes, helicopters, 143 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,000 and experimental jet fighters. 144 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Gordon Cooper is one of the most famous astronauts in U.S. history, rightly so, 145 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:23,000 and aboard the final Mercury mission, he did a record 22 orbits around the Earth. 146 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Cooper's 34-hour spaceflight is over three times longer than any of the previous Mercury missions. 147 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:37,000 But on his last orbit, the astronaut has a very strange and unexpected experience. 148 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:45,000 He reported to NASA there was a bright, green glowing object that approached his capsule, 149 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:50,000 and it zoomed by him. And, I mean, it's just an extraordinary sighting. 150 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:56,000 You know, for someone like Cooper, highly trained astronaut to report something like this, 151 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,000 clearly it's something out of the ordinary. 152 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,000 What the heck did Gordon Cooper see? 153 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:07,000 There's nothing supposed to be up there in 1963, let alone something that's green and glowing, 154 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,000 let alone something that's supposed to approach his craft? 155 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,000 He's one of the top observers in the world. 156 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:19,000 He was an experienced pilot, and he's out there in space, 157 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:26,000 and something at the beginning of our space age buzzes by his capsule. 158 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 Wow. 159 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Although NASA ground control largely dismisses the sighting as some sort of optical illusion, 160 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:39,000 the UFO is picked up on an Australian radar tracking station. 161 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:45,000 But after Cooper and his capsule are recovered from the Pacific Ocean, something remarkable occurs. 162 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:51,000 What's interesting to me is that when he got down on Earth again, no one asked him about it. 163 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Before Cooper even returned, it was made clear to reporters that they could not ask him about the UFO sighting. 164 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,000 NASA would only do this if there was something incredibly important, 165 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:08,000 a piece of information being released that they wouldn't want out there. 166 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Clearly NASA was very uncomfortable with him describing what he saw. 167 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:18,000 So if space is exactly what they tell us, it is this big empty void with nothing out there, 168 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:24,000 then why do they need to suppress one of their own best and brightest from talking about what he saw? 169 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Despite Cooper's observation in space, NASA's official transcript of the mission bears no mention of Cooper's sighting. 170 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:41,000 Two years later, another similar sighting takes place by two very experienced astronauts, 171 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, onboard Gemini 7. 172 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Gemini followed project Mercury. It was the next step in putting people into space. 173 00:16:53,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Gemini 7 was the fourth flight and one of the goals of this project was to study the effects of 14 days in space on humans. 174 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:11,000 Early in the mission, during only their second orbit of Earth, Borman and Lovell see something highly unusual. 175 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Recorded on audio tape, Gem Lovell reports to Mission Control that he sees an unidentified spacecraft nearing their capsule. 176 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 I told you, I'm just trying to find out. 177 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,000 Are you consistent? Say again, sir? 178 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,000 I told you, I'm just trying to find out. 179 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Suddenly, the live broadcast of the conversation is interrupted by NASA. 180 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:40,000 We're still at four hours, 24 minutes, 84. 181 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Despite the cut in transmission, here, for the first time on television, is NASA's official transcript of the conversation that continued. 182 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:55,000 They ask him, well, is it the booster rocket that was from the craft? 183 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:01,000 And he says, no, I see the booster. That was in his sight. This was a different object. 184 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:09,000 They are talking about something else that isn't the booster. For one to have a better expression, it's a UFO. 185 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Each time astronauts spoke to Mission Control about unidentified flying objects, the transmissions abruptly end. 186 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Communication between NASA and the astronauts in space, they have several different channels. 187 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:30,000 And so if they're using a public channel and they see something, they would automatically have them switch over to another channel. 188 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Does the evidence suggest that NASA intentionally cut public communications with their astronauts after they reported seeing UFOs in space? 189 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:46,000 And if so, why would NASA and the U.S. government choose to keep such sighting secret? 190 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Some UFO researchers believe there may have been an ulterior motive to the formation of the space program in the first place. 191 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:06,000 I believe that NASA knew when they were forming that there was actually these sort of extraterrestrial events happening around our planet. 192 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:17,000 And I believe that they knew from the inception that they were going to go into space with the idea of contacting some sort of extraterrestrial life. 193 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:25,000 There are reports of NASA lying about the time and the place astronauts were available for conversations, whether they were in communication with the spacecraft or not. 194 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:32,000 There's all kinds of things you can go through the record and find that NASA was duplicitous on, at the very least, and certainly not completely honest. 195 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:40,000 Could the space race really have been a race to contact extraterrestrials the government already knew existed? 196 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Further evidence may be found by reexamining NASA's missions to the moon, and newly discovered original recordings that have been long hidden by the government. 197 00:19:53,000 --> 00:20:01,000 UFO sightings have occurred in our skies and beyond in early NASA missions into space. 198 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:08,000 But shocking evidence may be found in the space agency's greatest achievement, the moon landings. 199 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000 July 20, 1969. 200 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:20,000 A new era in space exploration is launched when a massive Saturn rocket lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. 201 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:28,000 The Apollo program was all about going to the moon, and the culmination of that effort was the Apollo 11. 202 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:34,000 The Apollo 11 mission had three astronauts, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong. 203 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:45,000 And the lunar module went down to the surface of the moon and outstepped two astronauts, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, to touch the surface of another world for the first time. 204 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:53,000 That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. 205 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Every moment of their lunar encounter makes history worldwide. 206 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:07,000 But it's what wasn't made public, according to one former NASA communications engineer that continues to rock the UFO community today. 207 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:20,000 In 1975, six years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, Maurice Châtellin came forward with an extraordinary claim in his book, Our Cosmic Ancestors. 208 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Maurice Châtellin is a retired NASA communications specialist, and he went public with sensational claims that when Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon, there were UFOs there watching their every move. 209 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Châtellin had stated that he was in a secret room during the Apollo 11 moon landings, and that he witnessed a recording from the surface of the moon of the astronauts talking about the fact that they weren't alone. 210 00:21:49,000 --> 00:22:01,000 According to Châtellin, after the astronauts had stepped out onto the moon for the first time, they reported seeing two UFOs hovering overhead at about 15,000 feet in altitude. 211 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:13,000 And there's reference to these objects just watching what's unfolding. This is a pivotal point in human history, and it seems that extraterrestrials were there to watch. 212 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Is it conceivable that NASA and the US government decided to keep this incredible encounter a secret? As many critics of this theory are quick to point out, how would that even be possible with TV cameras rolling non-stop and billions of people on Earth watching the event on live TV? 213 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Incredibly, there is a gap in what was broadcast to the public. 214 00:22:39,000 --> 00:23:03,000 There's two minutes of silence in this transmission, two missing minutes. And NASA says this was just an equipment malfunction caused by overheating cameras. The suspicion must be that some sort of classified secret conversation was going on during these two minutes, which still to this day has not been made public. 215 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:14,000 All official details of what the government may have learned about UFOs during the two missing minutes on the moon have remained ultra top secret. 216 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:25,000 Incredibly, Châtellin also claims in his book that up until the moon landings, all Apollo and Gemini missions were followed by UFOs. 217 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:32,000 And each time, the astronauts were ordered by NASA to never speak about their encounters. 218 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:48,000 The problem with Châtellin's story is he wasn't actually working for NASA during the Apollo moon landings. What's the truth? Is NASA lying about when he was there? Is Châtellin lying? Nobody really knows for sure. 219 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:56,000 But at least there were a couple pieces of evidence that were starting to come together that shows maybe there was much more than the public story. 220 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:03,000 Still, Buzz Aldrin himself has lent credibility to the claims of his UFO sightings. 221 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Aldrin, over the years, has certainly confirmed that he's seen some strange things that he couldn't explain. 222 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:23,000 When Buzz Aldrin published his book and he talked about a UFO that they saw on approach to the moon outside of their capsule window, I think that lends a lot of credibility that maybe there is more to the story. 223 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:36,000 Does the evidence suggest that Armstrong and Aldrin really encountered UFOs on the moon? And if so, did they make contact with an alien intelligence as UFO researchers believe? 224 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:47,000 I don't think NASA knew that there was somebody else on the moon when we first landed. But when we got to the moon, I think we were being observed the entire time. 225 00:24:48,000 --> 00:25:01,000 There is indeed a theory that extraterrestrials would only be interested in making contact with us at the point at which we've developed viable space travel, and landing on the moon might just be the trigger point. 226 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:14,000 If NASA is aware of the lunar UFOs, why are they keeping it secret? Is it possible the government is trying to covertly make contact with extraterrestrial beings? 227 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:27,000 Were these astronauts sent there to intercept something, to meet with something? Did they know that they were actually going to see these objects? And why don't we know this information? 228 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Further clues may be found in the years after the moon landings, during the height of NASA's Space Shuttle program. 229 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,000 Two, one, we have booster ignition and lift off. 230 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:48,000 The Space Shuttle's chief mission was to carry large payloads into orbit, maintain satellites, and perform scientific experiments. 231 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:58,000 But UFO investigators have recently learned that on March 13, 1989, something extraordinary happened aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. 232 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Space Shuttle has always had a certain number of very classified components to every one of its missions. There are public missions and there are classified missions. And we don't really know what they're doing up there. 233 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:25,000 Just over 20 hours into the mission, at 6.42 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, the following message was sent by 47-year-old shuttle commander Colonel John Blaha, a longtime Air Force pilot turned astronaut. 234 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:45,000 The astonishing admission of a UFO in close proximity to the Space Shuttle was recorded by a member of the Goddard Amateur Radio Club, which monitors all NASA space flights. 235 00:26:45,000 --> 00:27:02,000 After that, the public transmission ends abruptly. According to UFO investigators, that's when NASA switched frequencies to a secure mode. 236 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:18,000 Are the Space Shuttles being used in one way or another to observe or interact with these objects that are out there? I think it's totally possible. There are objects that do certainly appear to be maneuvering in Earth orbit. And these are not so simple to explain. 237 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:39,000 We have a witness, the caliber of the shuttle commander making statements like this. Then you throw on the fact that this isn't an isolated incident. So one has to surmise that there is actually something up there interacting with these astronauts. 238 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:50,000 There is just an exceptional amount of what we don't know about the cosmos. So yes, it could be some kind of a craft that they're seeing. Or it could be a natural explanation, something that we haven't discovered yet. 239 00:27:50,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Still, most researchers contend that despite NASA's best efforts, there is substantial evidence of the increasing number of UFO sightings in space. 240 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:11,000 You put everything together. You have the early Mercury observations by Gordon Cooper. You have the Gemini 7. You have Blaha's observations. You have this ton of evidence stacked up. 241 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:23,000 Yet, does NASA venture out on the International Space Station? Does it serve as a platform from which even more evidence is observed and gathered, as UFO experts suspect? 242 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:40,000 The International Space Station is the most complex scientific and engineering project in human history. And it is easily the largest structure mankind has ever put into space. 243 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:48,000 The International Space Station project began in 1998 and has been built upon since then. 244 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Permanently occupied by U.S. and international crews, the Space Station primarily serves as a research laboratory. 245 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:13,000 The Space Station is our orbiting platform. It's a place to study what space is like and perform scientific experiments in microgravity while still being able to get to Earth relatively quickly and bring things up relatively quickly. 246 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:22,000 But is it possible that one of the Space Station's real functions is to provide a platform from which to monitor the activity of the UFOs? 247 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:31,000 The Department of Defense and the United States, they look at everything as a potential military advancement, whatever it is. 248 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:38,000 So it's possible that on board the International Space Station, there is an entirely different mission statement than what we are told. 249 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:53,000 The International Space Station is important in terms of the UFO phenomenon because for around 20 years we've had these elite personnel, astronauts and scientists out there in the front line. 250 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:58,000 So when these people say that they've seen something, you can take that to the bank. 251 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:04,000 In April of 2004, a live streaming video feed was activated. 252 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:17,000 The high definition Earth viewing cameras on the International Space Station allow us to take pictures of the Earth and video of as the Space Station orbits every 90 minutes. 253 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:30,000 But routine viewing soon turns explosive when, on April 19, 2016, a UFO in the shape of a translucent square is seen in the Space Station's video. 254 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:36,000 It's a definite object that's out there. It seems unusual for sure in the distance. 255 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:43,000 And what's particularly interesting is that after a very short time of recording it, the video just goes blue. 256 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:50,000 And you could think once again this is a case of NASA just cutting short a transmission of something that shouldn't be there. 257 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:56,000 The astronauts have seen and continue to see objects in space that do not appear to be terrestrial. 258 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:02,000 They do not appear to be our technology. And then the question becomes whose technology are they? 259 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:11,000 And the evidence of unexplained sightings by NASA astronauts continues to grow. 260 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:19,000 On June 30, 2015, three separate UFOs are spotted leaving Earth's atmosphere and flying into space. 261 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:24,000 Some of the following video and photo evidence has never been seen on television. 262 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:29,000 It's obvious that they're moving at thousands of miles per hour. 263 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:39,000 It has to be. There's no other way. These are highly rapidly moving objects coming from Earth converging from radically different points of origin. 264 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:53,000 NASA has said that these are satellites transiting Earth. But these look like they're coming up from the Earth and coming up at angles that are just hard to explain as satellites. 265 00:31:53,000 --> 00:32:07,000 They're moving in unison with the same goal in mind. And I believe that this is excellent proof that there is something taking place in outer space that probably has intelligence behind it. 266 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:16,000 Moments after the three UFOs can be seen heading into the same sector of outer space, the video feed is lost. 267 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:26,000 NASA and some other imagery experts have suggested that quite a lot of these films actually show little more than dust or ice particles. 268 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:40,000 That it's very difficult for people to look at these sorts of films and be sure whether they're looking at a massive object far away or a very, very small object close to the lens. 269 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:48,000 Some researchers believe there are a variety of explanations for so-called UFO sightings. 270 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:59,000 The reality is there are literally tens of thousands of pieces of space junk, just trash that's literally littered our upper atmosphere that's in orbit. 271 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:15,000 And it includes pieces of dead spacecraft, satellites that have gone offline. So did they really see an alien craft? Or did they just see maybe one of the millions of different space debris objects that are up there? We may never know. 272 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:24,000 Then on July 9th, 2016, yet another UFO is seen entering Earth's atmosphere. And again, the video is interrupted. 273 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:49,000 It seems almost every time there's an intriguing piece of footage from the International Space Station, something goes wrong and the feed is mysteriously cut. Now, is this censorship? Is classified information being deleted, withheld from the public? Or is it just equipment malfunctions? We don't know. 274 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:59,000 NASA claims the video suffers regular outages, as the space station passes out of range of relay satellites. But is this really the case? 275 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:10,000 These issues have happened so many times, you have to draw the conclusion that they are really doing this to keep information from the public. 276 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:25,000 Does evidence gathered by the cameras of the International Space Station, or ISS, suggest that UFOs really do inhabit our world? UFO researchers believe NASA may have a hidden agenda. 277 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:42,000 Given the repeated accounts from astronauts of seeing these extraterrestrial craft, perhaps there is a very concerted attempt by NASA to establish communication with these beings. 278 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:53,000 I do believe the ISS is doing legit research, but I also believe that the ISS could be a platform for communication with non-human intelligences. 279 00:34:54,000 --> 00:35:05,000 The question has always been with the International Space Station. Does it have a secret mission? Is it up there doing more than just the public front view kind of stuff that they show us? 280 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:20,000 Is there a possibility that it is some sort of early space intruder-detector kind of craft that's designed to look for UFOs or alien spacecraft? That actually makes more sense than you might think, because there's a long history of NASA missions having secret agendas. 281 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:35,000 As humans continue to push out and explore the distant reaches of space, UFO researchers believe this will only increase the possibility for contact. Contact for which we may already have proof. 282 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:58,000 Sightings in Space by American astronauts have provided some of the most compelling evidence of the existence of UFOs. Is it possible that an alien intelligence is trying to communicate with us? Or have they already done so? 283 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:15,000 August 2005. NASA launches the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. On board is an advanced camera system, the high-resolution imaging science experiment, also known as high-rise. 284 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:22,000 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter orbits around Mars, taking images of its surface. 285 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:32,000 Its ultra-powerful telescope has allowed the orbiter to photograph hundreds of swaths of the Mars surface in unprecedented detail. 286 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:42,000 The high-rise instrument has a resolution of about one foot on the surface of Mars, so we get some really great pictures of Mars from this orbiter. 287 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:58,000 Then on July 13, 2016, major news outlets report that the astronomers using high-rise have discovered formations on Mars that bear a striking resemblance to Morse code. 288 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:12,000 Morse code was developed in the 19th century as essentially a binary code. It's a way of quickly encoding a lot of textual information through a series of dots and dashes. 289 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:26,000 The US military still trains a number of people each year in Morse code, and that's because it's still the easiest and most reliable way to transmit information over distance. 290 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:43,000 Images coming from the high-rise instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter saw dark dunes on the surface of Mars, some of them elongated and some of them more like dots. 291 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:49,000 Our best guess for what formed these is winds coming from different directions. 292 00:37:50,000 --> 00:38:02,000 Despite NASA's attempt to explain the phenomena, the government agency admits the dune formations are very complex, making it difficult to determine exactly what caused their formation. 293 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:14,000 Scientists don't really know exactly how to explain this. We don't have anything on Earth that looks like this. So the question is what causes it? Is it natural or is it artificial? 294 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:23,000 This is if somebody kind of dug up around a bunch of land and created this dot dash dot dash dot dash pattern. 295 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:36,000 Now, there's no explanation for this, geologically. NASA has described it, but NASA has a tendency to suggest that the description of something is the same thing, is explaining something. It's not explainable. 296 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:50,000 For UFO investigators, the satellite images raise significant questions. What if the strain's formations are the result of something other than the natural process of wind or geologic activity on Mars? 297 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:57,000 And what if they were created by an intelligent species that once lived on the Red Planet? 298 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:15,000 Now, is this Morse code proof of a past intelligence civilization or is this something that science just has yet to explain? We're dealing with an alien world. We don't know everything on the Martian surface. 299 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:26,000 If those features on the Martian surface are Morse code, then two questions arise. Firstly, who sent the message? And second, what does it say? 300 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:45,000 Now, experts in Morse code have actually looked at these Martian features and they've been unable to decode it. It doesn't seem to correspond to any language that we know, but maybe it's not written in our language at all. 301 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:51,000 Maybe it's written in somebody else's language and that we can only guess at. 302 00:39:52,000 --> 00:40:05,000 When the geologic explanations don't add up and yet you can't really say that it is something artificial, you're kind of stuck in the middle. It's a genuine mystery what that stuff is. And NASA's explanation certainly is not adequate. 303 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:21,000 We've been searching for life on Mars and we absolutely can't rule out that there was once life on Mars. We think about three and a half billion years ago Mars may well have had water at the same time that life was blossoming on Earth. 304 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:34,000 This compelling new evidence of the possibility of oceans, rivers and even lakes on Mars adds to an emerging picture of the Red Planet as once being a habitable world. 305 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:49,000 Given what we know that took place with the water billions of years ago on the planet, we have to take this into account that there could have been a civilization that's now extinct and there still might be life on that planet. 306 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:58,000 I do believe that Mars was inhabited at one point and what we see on the surface today is remnants of that civilization. 307 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:14,000 As mankind's interest in space exploration has gone well beyond Mars, today NASA has numerous satellites, space-based telescopes and even space probes looking at and listening to the far corners of the cosmos. 308 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:23,000 Curiosity seems to be inextricably linked with intelligence. We look out into the universe and we ask, what's out there? 309 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:28,000 And I think it's possible that others out there are looking back at us. 310 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:37,000 The UFO community believes that we need to look no further than our own skies and planetary backyard for evidence. 311 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:46,000 Pilot and astronaut sightings, interrupted NASA transmissions, all raising the specter of conspiracy and cover-up. 312 00:41:46,000 --> 00:42:00,000 For UFO researchers, the mountain of unexplained evidence combined with the government inadequately providing explanations all point to confirmation that UFOs are, in fact, real.