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UFOs have been spotted in our skies since the mid-20th century.

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Some even believe they helped spark man's technology revolution.

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Now, new evidence suggests high-ranking government officials

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have been concealing their knowledge of UFOs.

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The rumors were true.

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There were indeed entities involved in the Roswell crash.

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Extraterrestrials that were definitely not human.

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We had in our possession a flying saucer.

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First, I thought it was a chow.

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The head was different. The arms were spindly.

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The body was gray.

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Scientists and private contractors with serious credibility,

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claiming to be eyewitnesses to alien beings and spacecraft.

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One of the CIA men told the people they would else want a secrecy,

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and he says, no, we don't tell the public about this.

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It would panic the public.

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Has this knowledge been continually suppressed

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in a conspiracy to hide it from the public?

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What you see is a pattern of secrecy, cover-up,

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conspiracy to keep us from knowing

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that there are extraterrestrials visiting this planet right now.

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Everything that you've been told about UFOs is actually for real.

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Finally, the truth is revealed.

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These statements are true.

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I'm willing to testify on our oath before Congress,

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and I will testify to this under oath.

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I'm prepared to go to Congress to swear before Congress

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that everything I've told you, people, and everything that is here

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is the truth. Thank you.

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New information is transforming what people believe

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about extraterrestrial spacecraft.

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Are UFOs really visiting our world?

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Is the government hiding the truth?

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And if so, did some of the brightest minds of the 20th century

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reveal an alien truth in their deathbed confessions?

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The New World

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July 7, 2003, 11.18 p.m.

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A NASA Delta II launch vehicle blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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On board is an exploration rover named Opportunity,

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destination Mars.

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When NASA launched the Opportunity rover,

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it was an extension of their long vision

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to understand everything they can about Mars.

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Mars could help science unravel the mystery of life in the universe.

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Six months after launch on January 20, 2004,

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Opportunity successfully lands in a level plane near the Mars equator.

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Immediately, the rover gets to work.

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According to NASA, the rover's mission is to gather scientific information

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in search of any traces of water.

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NASA follows this idea of we should follow the water.

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That's because all life that we know of on Earth

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needs water in its liquid form to exist.

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So when we go to other places, we want to find places with water.

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But UFO researchers believe the rover has a hidden mission.

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To search for signs of life that NASA knows already exists.

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I think that all of the missions to Mars that have been undertaken to date by NASA

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are totally controlled by U.S. national security protocols.

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So if they were to find something that is unusual or interesting,

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there's no way, I think, that they're going to report that to the rest of the world.

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NASA knows a lot more about Mars than they're learning of.

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I think they know that there's an advanced civilization that once flourished on the planet Mars

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that is no longer there. That's what all these missions are for.

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Originally, NASA scientists anticipated a brief mission for the rover.

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It was not expected to last long due to the harsh landscape

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and Mars' famous dust storms that often blanket the size of a continent

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and even the entire planet for weeks at a time.

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But strangely, as of January 2016, the Opportunity rover is still going strong,

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a fact that baffles most independent experts.

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A fascinating thing about the Mars Opportunity rover is that originally,

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they thought it would last about three months,

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but 12 years later, it's still running.

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The mystery of Opportunity's longevity can be seen in before and after pictures

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that show the rover caked in dust on one hand,

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but just two months later, looking clean and shiny.

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NASA scientists claim that electrostatic charge particles in Martian dust storms

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helped clean the rover.

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well, hey, maybe this is evidence that there's kind of electromagnetic charge

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in Mars' atmosphere and that perhaps somehow this is keeping the Mars Opportunity rover going.

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Mars was perhaps a base for extraterrestrials,

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that there was technology there,

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that this was perhaps a stopping off point on the journey to Earth.

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UFO researchers have even gone so far as to raise the question

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of whether or not the rover has been secretly outfitted with ultra-advanced technology

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from an unknown source, possibly one from a distant world.

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UFO experts believe NASA's rover is drawing energy not only from the Sun,

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but also from another more abundant unseen source from the Red Planet itself.

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And as proof, they point to a wireless planetary energy system built in 1904

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by one of the greatest minds of the late 19th and early 20th centuries,

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Nikola Tesla.

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Tesla's work has impacted on all of science.

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He was a revolutionary.

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His work in electricity was absolutely fundamental to everything we do with electronics nowadays.

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Born in Serbia in 1856,

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Nikola Tesla was an American inventor, electrical engineer and physicist,

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perhaps best known for designing the modern alternating current, or AC, electrical system.

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But Tesla was also famous for conceiving another groundbreaking electrical power source

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he called the World Energy System.

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One of Tesla's big ideas was pulling energy out of the atmosphere

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and using it to power things.

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And some people say that's exactly what happened with the Mars Opportunity rover,

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that somehow these solar panels were able to draw electrostatic charge from Mars

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and use it to power the rover in such a way that it didn't stop after three months, as had been predicted.

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He was really brilliant with all the ideas he had about wireless electricity

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and how we could transmit energy from one place to another

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without any sort of intervening medium and any loss of electrical power or potential.

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Could the rover's durability and longevity be based on technology Tesla developed well over a century ago?

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And if so, could this have something to do with the fact that when Tesla died at the age of 86 in his New York City apartment,

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his work was immediately confiscated by the U.S. government.

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When Tesla died, the government confiscated all of his papers.

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That should tell you everything you need to know about how brilliant and innovative Tesla's ideas were.

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The FBI ransacked his place.

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You're talking about one of the greatest geniuses who ever lived.

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But why would government agencies want Tesla's papers?

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Did they have reason to believe his brilliance was connected to otherworldly contact?

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As UFO experts believe.

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Some of Tesla's work was apparently taken to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

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Now, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is often associated with UFO stories.

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And indeed, some people claim that whatever was recovered at Roswell ended up at Wright-Patterson

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before eventually being sent to Area 51.

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Or maybe even Area 52.

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So again, one can draw some intriguing connections between all of this.

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You can take all these things.

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Tesla, Roswell, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area 51, Area 52.

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You can join the dots and begin maybe to piece together a coherent story.

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Could the technology used to sustain the Mars Opportunity Rover really have been based on Tesla's World Energy System?

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And if so, where might Nikola Tesla have gained the knowledge of a wireless worldwide energy system

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over a hundred years ago, in 1904?

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Further clues may be found in Tesla's own words and in the deathbed confessions of other prominent scientists.

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UFO investigators are searching for clues to the connections between renowned scientists and UFOs,

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as well as deathbed confessions and government conspiracy.

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Questions remain about the Mars Rover, named Opportunity,

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and how it managed to exceed by 12 years its ability to continue functioning in the harsh environment of Mars.

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For answers, UFO researchers turn to one of the greatest minds of the modern era, Nikola Tesla.

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Many believe Tesla's inventions and discoveries are connected to the Rover's astonishing performance and alien technology.

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Tesla was a scientist, regarded variously as perhaps one of the unsung scientific heroes of all time, as a mad genius.

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However you characterize him, he's sometimes known as the forgotten hero of electricity, who died in relative obscurity.

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After decades of accomplishments, by 1904, Tesla designed and built Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoram, New York.

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With this tower, Tesla intended to demonstrate the potential of a wireless electrical transmission system for worldwide use.

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His plan was to tap into the immense renewable reservoir of electrical power that he claimed sits dormant in Earth's atmosphere.

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Tesla believed that there was electrostatic potential in the Earth's atmosphere that could be tapped.

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He believed that there was power that could be drawn from the atmosphere that could give us, if not free energy,

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then certainly extremely cheap and clean energy.

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It almost looks now as if he was talking about wireless technology, tapping energy out of the ether,

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powering devices just from seemingly out of thin air.

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These are the sort of things he was talking about.

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Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower was tested several times during construction, and the results were encouraging.

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But the project soon devoured Tesla's personal savings, and even though General Electric and Westinghouse greatly benefited from his early inventions,

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they declined interest in the project.

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Within the year, Wardenclyffe was abandoned.

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Still, could there be a direct connection between Tesla's research into planetary energy,

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and the Mars Opportunity Rover, believed by UFO investigators to have captured electrical power straight from the red planet's atmosphere?

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And if so, where could Nikola Tesla have learned about such advanced energy concepts?

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He sometimes discussed his method of working, and he said he received what he called flashes of inspiration,

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and he was a little bit cryptic about where that inspiration came from.

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But some of his remarks almost imply that he was in contact with other worlds,

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that somehow through telepathy or through some other means, he had received greetings from other planets.

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He talked about his belief that he was guided telepathically or in some way by other intelligences,

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and this became a firm belief of his as his years went by.

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Who am I to say that Nikola Tesla did not have a communication with extraterrestrials when he himself believed it?

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Tesla claims to have been in communication with extraterrestrial entities, with beans from Mars.

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It's entirely possible he was telling the truth, and I think that given his path and his ideas of thinking the way he thought,

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it's entirely possible that he was influenced by outside forces, yeah.

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Could this mean, as UFO experts contend, that some of Tesla's work originated in extraterrestrial contact?

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Investigators believe the answer can be found in Tesla's papers, confiscated by government authorities.

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Some of Tesla's documents discussed his work being done at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

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Now Wright-Patterson is often associated with the Roswell crash.

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It's claimed that that's where the wreckage was taken for a time.

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Does this mean that Tesla was working with elements of the government on alien technology?

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Was Tesla part of a program to back engineer this extraterrestrial technology?

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The closer we look, the more you think, well, maybe there's something to this.

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Does the evidence suggest that Tesla helped the government and NASA develop technology originating from otherworldly sources, as UFO investigators suggest?

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There are theories that some of Tesla's ideas and concepts were actually adopted by NASA to help develop technology for the space program.

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The opportunity rover, which is still going 12 years later, which was supposed to last only really a few months,

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and you've got to ask yourself, how is it generating power after all this time?

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Is it pulling electricity from the atmosphere itself?

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There's all kinds of very exotic ideas that Tesla had that could have been incorporated into the solar cells and electrical systems of the Opportunity Rover.

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Supporting the theory that the government and NASA have spent decades conspiring to develop extraterrestrial technology,

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are the testimonies of prominent military officials and aerospace engineers

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who share their personal knowledge of UFOs and alien capabilities as they near the end of their lives.

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There are people who've had very sensitive clearances, for example, and have been exposed to sensitive information about the UFO phenomenon.

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And some of them have given what we would call a deathbed confession at the end of their life. They tell it all.

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One such deathbed confession was given by Walter Hout, a former Air Force Public Relations Officer.

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Walter Hout was the press officer at Roswell Army Airfield who wrote the original press release that the media picked up about the fact that they captured a flying saucer.

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Seen here for the first time on national television is Walter Hout's video, recorded by the Disclosure Project, a UFO research group, as he speaks about the 1947 Roswell press release.

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The story that I put out was given to me almost verbatim by Colonel Blanchard to the effect that we had in our possession of flying saucer.

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It was found on a ranch up north of Roswell, and he said, I want you to give it to the local newspapers and radio stations and do it, post-haced.

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Strangely, the very next day, the military retracted the statement.

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They said, no, no, no, we don't have a flying disc, we don't have a flying saucer. This is not alien, it's a weather balloon.

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And Walter Hout, on his deathbed confession, said that he did not believe that that press release was legitimate.

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He believed that the original intention was to essentially cover up a second crash approximately 30 miles away.

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I think that there was lots and lots of cover-up. I can't verify that.

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In addition to his video confession, Walter Hout also signed a sealed affidavit in 2002. It was revealed to the public only after his death in 2005.

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He wrote that he sat at a table where they brought in much of the debris that had fallen, Roswell, that he was able to touch the material, that he was able to essentially crumple the pieces of metal in his hand.

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It would essentially go back to its original form. This was not technology that was man-made according to Walter Hout.

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His deathbed testimony was that, yes, the rumors were true. There were indeed entities involved in that crash.

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He described seeing these entities, which had apparently been killed as a result of the crash, and he described them as being small, almost childlike in size.

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Now, this is interesting because it ties in with testimony from the local mortician at the time, Glenn Dennis, who claimed that the mortuary was contacted by the base at Roswell, and they were asked to supply a number of child-sized coffins.

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It was indeed, as people had claimed all along, the crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

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Deathbed testimony from high-ranking military personnel like Walter Hout continued to fuel conspiracy theories and raise questions about the existence of UFOs.

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And the list of those coming forward with still more stunning claims about UFOs and extraterrestrial contact continues to grow.

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For decades, the U.S. government has shown a fierce commitment to keeping from the public what UFO researchers claim is smoking-gone evidence of extraterrestrial visitation.

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It's not simply that we're dealing with an inherently mysterious phenomenon, which we are. We are also dealing with U.S. government and military obfuscation and secrecy, and that's just the fact.

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United States top-secret security clearances are designed to be ironclad. The unlawful disclosure of such classified information is punishable by steep fines and up to 10 years imprisonment.

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But when death is imminent due to illness or failing health, some have chosen to breach their security clearances and go public with their knowledge of UFOs.

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One such story involves Ben Rich, a renowned engineer and former senior director at Lockheed Martin. Known as the father of the stealth fighter and bomber, Ben Rich was also head of the legendary Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin's secret research and development program.

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During the last decade of Ben Rich's life, he made a number of public statements about UFOs. And we have to remember, Ben Rich was one of the most prominent individuals in the aerospace community in existence.

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In 1993, Ben Rich gave a lecture at the UCLA School of Engineering for the alumni there. It was a basic history of the stealth fighter and so forth, and then he ended it with this statement, we now have the technology to take E.T. home.

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There are a number of people who have said Ben Rich knew much more about UFOs and aliens than he ever let on. He also once apparently said, we have the technology to travel to the stars.

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Ben Rich was also reported to have said there are UFOs that we make and there are UFOs that they make. Rich apparently used the phrase hand-me-downs, talking about things like stealth and drones as being hand-me-downs, presumably from extraterrestrial craft.

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Was Ben Rich claiming that our most advanced aerospace and military technologies, many he himself helped develop, were originally engineered by extraterrestrials?

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His work also has played into the space shuttle program, the drone program, unmanned aerial vehicles. There's a real track record here of somebody who has been involved with almost every highly advanced aerospace and space program we've had.

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Adding to the list of high-profile confessions is Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso, who is once a part of the U.S. National Security State. A decorated veteran who served in the Eisenhower White House, Corso's eyewitness accounts shocked the UFO research community.

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I would hazard to guess that Philip J. Corso is probably the single most controversial UFO witness slash whistleblower that we've had. This is a man who had a legitimate, genuine military career and a good one. He was a colonel.

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Toward the end of his life, in 1997, he published a book called The Day After Roswell.

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In the book and in a video recorded by the Disclosure Project, Corso speaks about an extraordinary event he experienced in 1947 while working as the on-duty officer at Fort Riley, Kansas, where he claims to have seen a lifeless alien body just a few days after the reported Roswell UFO crash.

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There were five trucks coming through here from an airfield in New Mexico, and they're heading for Wright-Pattis, near Fort. They told me to be careful to watch this area because you have a sense of something sensitive here.

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He said, you want to see it, sir? I said, yeah, let's go look. First, I thought it was a child because it was small. Then I looked at this head and all.

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By the way, this was only half a meter second. Then I put the end back down. The head was different. Arms were spindly. The body was gray.

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So right that moment, I figured, I don't know what this thing is.

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In 1961, Corso became chief of the Pentagon's foreign technology desk in army research and development.

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When I came to research and development, I inherited the reports, the autopsy reports from Walter Reed Hospital. Now, Walter Reed, there was a laboratory there, which was our laboratory, and we financed. That's who did the autopsy for us.

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According to Corso, the autopsies detailed in the reports were of the alien bodies recovered at Roswell.

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When I saw the body, there was nothing else to go on. Later on, though, I got the autopsy reports that experts had done, our own experts.

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They cut it open, the brain and all. The brain was different, and most of the body was different. But no nose, no mouth, no ears, no vocal cords, no digestive system, no sex organs.

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We just kept it to ourselves. Only some certain people knew about it.

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The head, brain, the brain, no paper trail.

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In his book, the former Pentagon official also reveals what his position at the foreign technologies desk actually entailed.

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Colonel Corso said it was his job to slowly disperse into the private sector to big corporations, some of the alien technology that had been acquired over the years, starting at Roswell, 1947, but going on to his day.

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The result of all this was the integrated circuit chip, fibre optics, night vision goggles, lasers, Kevlar body armour.

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Now, Corso headed up this foreign technology desk, but in this context, Corso said foreign meant extraterrestrial.

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Phillip Corso also wrote about turning over alien technology to a top secret private sector global entity.

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Taking this technology outside of government, putting it in the private sector, does a couple of things.

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Firstly, it makes congressional oversight more difficult. Secondly, it takes it outside the scope of the Freedom of Information Act.

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So there's a real genuine advantage in moving these highly classified projects out of government altogether.

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When we gave the information out, we gave it out and insisted they take the patents.

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But also we put a little bit of a requirement on there, a requirement feed it back to us for the competitive edge of the army.

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The theme that runs through an awful lot of these guys that give us these deathbed confessionals, that our help came from somewhere else.

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In other words, we didn't get to this point of incredibly advanced technology without somebody else intervening and helping us along the way.

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For UFO researchers, one question remains. If the government is withholding evidence pointing to otherworldly contact, how long do they plan to conceal the truth?

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To think that this lie can last forever is the height of foolishness, in my opinion. It's coming out. We're never going to be ready for the truth of this, but that will never stop it from happening.

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Although many regard these so-called confessions as questionable, there was an astonishing event at which gathered, for all to see and hear, reputable former military and government officials and scientists at a first-ever press conference in Washington, D.C.

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Where explosive claims were raised about secrets and UFOs, the government does not want you to know.

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According to deathbed confessions of highly regarded members of the scientific and military communities, the U.S. government has been concealing for decades its contact and interaction with UFOs.

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Recently, many more highly credentialed people have also stepped forward.

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May 2001, a first-of-its-kind press conference is held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

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Former government, military, intelligence personnel spoke about knowledge that they'd acquired about UFOs, and in some cases, things that they had seen and experienced themselves.

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The National Press Club event is a very important event in the history of the UFO movement.

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It was really the first time that such a powerful group of people with such reputations behind them came together in a structured conference and talked about their experiences.

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Some of the more potent pieces of testimony were very, very compelling. FAA official John Callahan was one.

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He talked about deliberate coverup by the CIA, for example, over UFO data. In one particular case, it took place over Alaska in 1986.

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My name is John Callahan. I'm a retired FAA employee. I was the division manager for the Accidents, Evaluation and Investigation Division in D.C.

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Callahan's testimony regarding what came to be known as the Anchorage Incident involved a UFO encounter over Alaska with a Japan Airlines jet en route from Paris to Tokyo on November 17, 1986.

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I received a call from Alaska region where the region wanted to know what to tell the media. When I questioned tell the media what, he says about the UFO.

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I told him what any government employee would do, tell them it's under investigation.

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The encountering question had been reported by the JAL flight crew, who said that as many as three UFOs, one that appeared to be four times the size of the jetliner, had tracked them in very close proximity.

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Fearing for their safety, the crew requested and were granted an emergency landing in Anchorage, Alaska, where air traffic controllers confirmed the sightings on radar.

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The next day, my immediate boss set up a meeting for me to give a Dorgan Pony show to President Reagan's scientific staff and to hand off all that data to them.

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That morning in the FAA round room, men from Reagan's scientific staff, three CIA people, three FBI people, along with all the FAA experts.

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We had all the data there, we had all the printouts, they got all excited over it.

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When it was all done, one of the CIA men told the people they were now sworn to secrecy that this meeting never happened and this event never happened.

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I said, well, you're going to tell the public about it. And he says, no, we don't tell the public about this. It would panic the public.

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All evidence of the Anchorage incident was confiscated and Callaghan was told by government authorities not to speak of it.

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The event was never disclosed nor discussed by the government again.

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A retired Air Force radar controller also appeared at the conference.

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My name is Michael Smith. While I was assigned to Claim with Falls, Oregon, arrived at the radar site and they were watching a UFO on a radar that was hovering at about 80,000 feet.

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It sat there for about 10 minutes and then slowly descended until it dropped off the radar. It was gone for about 5, 10 minutes.

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And then it instantly reappeared at 80,000 feet stationary. The next week of the radar, it was 200 miles away stationary.

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It hovered there for about 10 minutes and redid the whole cycle twice more.

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Officer Smith followed Air Force protocol and reported the sightings to the North American Aerospace Defense Command or NORAD.

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Once again, the government stepped in to ensure the incident was kept under wraps.

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I asked them what I should do about this. They said, nothing, don't write it down. And you keep it to yourself. It's a need to know basis only.

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One of the most dramatic testimonials came from Officer Dan Willis, who handled top secret documents for the U.S. Navy.

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I worked in the code room at the Naval Communication Station in San Francisco.

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I held a top secret, crypto level 14, extra sensitive material handling security clearance.

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In 1969, I received a priority message from a ship near Alaska that was classified as secret.

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The ship reported a brightly glowing reddish-orange elliptical object approximately 70 feet in diameter,

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emerging out of the ocean, shot into space, traveling at about 7,000 miles per hour.

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The UFO was tracked on radar and the sightings corroborated by naval officers on board the ship in Alaska.

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Willis immediately reported the sightings to his superiors and was told not to discuss it.

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One after another of these people got up and told the assembled members of the media, you know, this is not just hoax and misinformation.

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This is real. We experienced it and we now want to put our story on the record.

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I'm prepared to go to Congress to swear before Congress that everything I've told you people and everything that is here is the truth.

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And I will testify to this under all of these statements are true. I'm willing to testify under oath before Congress. Thank you.

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Are we really to believe that all these professional, distinguished, credentialed individuals with decades of experience across a range of agencies just got up there and lied? Well, I don't think so.

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When you understand that all of these people have incredible credibility, they all had access and they all tell these stories of various different secrets that are being kept by the U.S. government at different levels, at different times and in different ways.

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What you see is a very consistent pattern of secrecy, cover-up, conspiracy by the U.S. government to keep us from knowing that there are extraterrestrials visiting this planet right now.

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As the mainstream press began to research and report on the incredible testimony given at the conference, the public began to take notice. But this dramatic new UFO evidence was soon overshadowed.

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Tragically, a few months later, 9-11 happened and all of this was suddenly no longer news.

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What would change for society if evidence that UFOs exist is proven real?

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Clearly, we're going to be getting into a lot of questions about how this lie has corroded and infiltrated and damaged the very institutions that we have relied on for truth.

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And what might the repercussions be for a government responsible for hiding UFO evidence from the public for so long?

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Not only would we be faced with the undeniable reality of extraterrestrial visitation, but governments have known about this for decades and every single administration has lied and lied and lied about this.

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And what's this going to do to our confidence in our political systems? Is it going to stretch them or is it going to break them?

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Could the government be hiding evidence proving the existence of UFOs and alien technology in use today? Evidence that could change the world, as UFO investigators claim?

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And if so, might such a conspiracy cause serious concerns about security? And perhaps even a worldwide threat?

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According to UFO researchers, evidence from deathbed confessions and prominent scientists indicates that UFOs may actually exist and suggests there may also be serious security implications.

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While there are many who do not believe there has been any alien contact or threat from UFO encounters, UFO investigators point to history and alternate readings of some of the world's most revered and sacred texts that may hold more ominous clues of possible alien contact.

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Many of the world's religions make reference to the end of times or a day of reckoning.

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Versions of Armageddon or Judgment Day are found in Christian, Jewish and Islamic scriptures. Even ancient cultures like the Maya describe the return of star beings.

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Indigenous people of the American Southwest, like the Hopi, also tell of sky people returning to Earth to lift the tribe's faithful on the day of purification.

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The return of the gods is a mythology with all religions all across the planet.

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I believe that we've been visited many, many times. We've been watched and observed and I do believe that from time to time they do come back and they spread knowledge.

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Who are these gods? Are they extraterrestrial beings?

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But is it possible, as some UFO researchers believe, that these ancient connections are not just proof that UFOs are real, but that there is an implicit warning to them?

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If they do return, are they going to return in large numbers?

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Very likely that that's the case. And if they do, that means that all these prophecies that have been told throughout history are true.

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People will try to relate this to the extraterrestrial reality, that the extraterrestrials are the gods and they're going to come back and there'll be a day of reckoning.

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You know, we are filled with one apocalyptic prophecy after another, after another and after another. This has been going on for thousands of years.

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Other UFO researchers suggest that if extraterrestrials do exist, they're not coming back at all. Because very likely, they never left.

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It's quite logical that any technologically advanced and high-minded extraterrestrial civilization would abide by something very much like the prime directive.

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It's the anthropological argument. You would want to study the human race, but not interact with them in such a way that would contaminate them as a society.

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It's no different from what anthropologists and scientists do every day here on planet Earth. Is it so hard to conceive that others might be doing something similar to us?

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But one if one day, UFOs do return or reveal themselves beyond what UFO researchers have pointed out.

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It's interesting to speculate what would happen if suddenly there was a mass event, undeniable, UFOs hovering over major cities, a landing even.

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Is there an alien invasion war plan somewhere in government? Well, they say there isn't, but I'd find it inconceivable that someone somewhere hadn't thought, you know, we'd better have a what-if plan.

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Some UFO researchers believe a plan to combat an alien invasion does exist.

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Undeniably, the US government has rules of engagement for dealing with UFOs, whether you're an astronaut, you know, in the space station, whether you're flying a space shuttle, or whether you're a fighter pilot.

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That there's definitely a policy towards dealing with interaction with alien beings.

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We have a very limited ability to perceive our reality, all right? Our brains work in a certain way. You know, it's like we're fishing a pond.

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Our pond is our space-time reality. But if there are beings that are able to understand our reality better than we do, that are able to enter and leave our space-time reality as it were, then maybe that is part of the strangeness of this UFO phenomenon that we struggle to grasp.

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Just by virtue of what we are as biological creatures inside these brains of ours.

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There is a continuing drumbeat that is changing the global conversation about UFOs.

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Confessions and claims by noted officials and people of high scientific reputation are adding to this conversation.

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I had the evidence a crash did happen here. Of course, then I kept the clause for 35 years.

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We watched four or five blue lights come down and completely surround this beam.

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Perhaps these new revelations will bring us closer to the truth that UFOs do exist.

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As our quest to discover intelligent life continues, perhaps we'll realize another profound truth.

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That we have already been discovered by them.