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Tonight on Unidentified.

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We had been hearing rumors that there was a senior navy official in the Italian government

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who may be interested in speaking with us.

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In Sicily, a craft appeared and it should arrive.

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This is nice.

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These are all their top.

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These are all their events.

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This is it.

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This is the briefing.

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This is just now cross the line to a true national security threat.

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This is a worldwide phenomenon.

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Is it interdimensional?

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Is it from another planet?

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Oh my god!

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For eight years, Lou Elizondo ran a secret UFO investigation for the US military.

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But in 2017, he quit in protest.

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I put my entire future on the line because I believe in what I believe in.

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Now he's joined an elite group of former government insiders.

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Their mission, reveal what they say, is the truth about UFOs.

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This is real and we're going to get to the bottom of it.

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For the past year, Elizondo's investigation has produced shocking revelations from military

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eyewitnesses.

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That is something I have never seen.

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Two Navy fighter pilots told him they came face to face with a Tic Tac shaped UFO in

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2004.

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High G, rapid velocity, rapid acceleration.

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How can I possibly fight this?

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And a Navy radar operator said he tracked an entire fleet of the unidentified craft

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flying over the Pacific.

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I had these objects raining out of the sky.

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If these things are hostile, then we're screwed.

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But these stories were just the beginning.

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They're up there when we take off and then we land and my buddy that takes off an hour

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later seeing the same things.

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Lou Elizondo discovered a different class of UFOs.

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Allegedly stalked Navy fighter pilots off the East Coast in 2015.

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It seemed like they were aware of our presence because they would actively move around us.

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And they even followed the pilots to the Middle East.

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We really have no idea what we're dealing with.

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But there's one thing his investigation has never found.

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Until now.

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Tell me about your journey and what it's been like so far.

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What's the meaning of the government?

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I don't know if it was a journey more or less than an odyssey that hasn't finished yet.

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It was probably one of the most difficult decisions I ever made in my life.

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With the ramifications, I could be potentially disastrous.

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You know, it's not just me I got to worry about.

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I got to worry about my wife, my two daughters.

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I gave it all up to do what I thought was right.

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Half the people that I know think I'm crazy.

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The other half of the people I know don't understand.

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At the end of the day, I hope that people a lot smarter than me will come out of the shadows

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and tell the government what they know.

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I did this because I needed our leadership and government to finally take notice.

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The only way I could fix the system was to fix it from the outside.

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Lou Elizondo and his partner Tom DeLong are on their way to Rome, Italy.

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When I was in the government, I just couldn't go to France or Italy

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and have a conversation about UFOs with their National Defense apparatus.

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They've been invited to a private meeting with senior Italian military officials

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concerned about UFO encounters.

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He had been hearing for a while, rumors that there was a potential attack on an Italian aircraft.

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This is the first time that myself, even being an ATIP, was ever aware of an actual hostile act.

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Italy is one of the few nations that openly investigates UFOs.

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When Tom and myself first came to Italy, it was made very clear to us that this is not an Italian phenomenon.

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It's not an American phenomenon. It is indeed a global phenomenon.

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We believe that investigating and communicating the subject can help pull people of all nations together.

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Every government wants to keep extremely secret any information.

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Clairbrunov-Riuccio is a scientist and was a commander in an elite unit of the Italian Navy.

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For 15 years, he's been investigating unidentified craft with a team of researchers.

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So I know several information, but my government don't want to know.

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Because if my government know, they must do something.

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Absolutely. I would like to see what you have. That's what I'd like to see.

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If I tell you something that is restricted, you must give us something of restricted.

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We are not Russian. We are brothers. You have to give me something of the same weight.

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I still have to be cognizant of the security clearance I hold.

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So please do not confuse my speaking in generalities as trying to avoid a question.

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During our time in the ATIP program, we were focused on only two primary objectives.

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Those two objectives, what is it and how does it work?

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We still don't know what they are, but we have a much better understanding now of how they work.

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We assembled more than 13,000 cases during the last 70 years and we have a database.

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The Italians have accumulated one of the world's largest collections of data on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP.

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Unfortunately, if this is not shared with other people outside Italy, it's useless.

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There's one incident in particular the officials want to discuss.

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In 2014 Sicily, a craft appeared a few hundred meters behind the Coptor Tail, and it shot a raid that destroyed helicopter wings.

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I can show you the photographs.

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That's what I'd like to see.

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Clarbruno Virguccio was a commander in the Italian military's equivalent of the US Navy SEALs.

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He's describing a harrowing 2004 encounter between one of his military helicopters and a UFO.

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We can't use missiles against this device, so you know, we can't launch missiles or the missile will be sent back.

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So this was deliberate, you believe that it was deliberate?

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Absolutely.

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In 2004, a series of spontaneous fires broke out across northern Sicily, destroying homes and forcing evacuations.

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The Italian military sent a helicopter to investigate.

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Officials say the copter was chased by a saucer-shaped UFO, that shot a powerful electromagnetic beam at its rotor.

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The helicopter was severely damaged, but able to land.

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The incident was photographed by a local resident.

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Locals had also reported seeing mysterious objects in the helicopter.

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For months, the military investigators were baffled, but they were able to piece together a few key details.

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This signal was absolutely directional.

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It was a beam, which we could see on a certain frequency band.

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We discovered that when they used their energy weapons, they must go outside the stealth mode.

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Only in that moment, we could see the depleted uranium weapons.

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And now, what you say to me?

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Militaries around the world have electromagnetic pulse weapons that produce quick bursts of energy that can destroy electrical systems.

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But the Italians claim the pulse fired in the attack on their helicopter destroyed its rotor.

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No known military has that capability.

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They were very pointed in matter of fact that these things had been kind of plaguing them for some time.

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One individual in particular provided some very, very detailed information to include some analysis on frequency.

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I hate to say it, but they may have more information than we do even in the U.S. potentially.

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The Italians say the spontaneous fires in northern Sicily were also caused by an electromagnetic beam, which they say came from the ocean.

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So the target was found at a distance of around 80 kilometers.

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And the source was in the open sea.

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Do we have an altitude?

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Because it was in the bottom of the sea.

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Elizondo has heard reports of UFOs in the ocean before.

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We all very quickly realized that there was something in the water.

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The lights are under the water.

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And suddenly they are in the water.

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In the water?

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You could use the same frequency to provide a radio beacon to call them first.

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To attract them.

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To show them that we have understood their technology.

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Communication.

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This was next level.

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One of our international friends may have even figured out a way to communicate.

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We didn't get that far, eh, to have that for damn sure.

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Have you ever tried an approach with who to pilot these jets?

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I can't answer that question.

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Of course. It's quite justified.

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I cannot speak on behalf of if other efforts had existed within the U.S. government.

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In Russia, and now even in China, there is the tendency to organize at a government level

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in order to study such phenomena and to find results from these studies.

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You are aware of this?

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I am.

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I think we're all in the same boat.

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So my hope is with the help of you all and everybody else, we can move this topic forward.

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This affects humanity. This doesn't affect just one country.

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And so the question is in which way our association can help you.

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Thank you.

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As the meeting winds down, Elizondo DeLong and the Italian officials agree to form a global partnership.

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If their governments won't take the threat seriously, they'll work together outside the system.

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The last moment or the last hour of our engagement with the Italian government, we were afforded a thumb drive.

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A thumb drive that has a tremendous amount of data on it about UAPs and here, particularly in Italy.

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These are all their... Tom.

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These are all their events.

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I've got the whole thing here.

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These are all the events since 1901 here in Italy.

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All the reports, the entire spreadsheet, the lat-longs and everything.

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Look at these historical ones.

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This is nuts.

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Look, you got some analysis.

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Oh, man.

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This is the incident that happened down in Sicily.

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There it is. Look at that.

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That is incredible.

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This is it.

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And this is where they had the helicopter.

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Son of a bitch, this is the briefing.

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There it is, right behind it, right?

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And then when you come over here, this is the actual top secret investigation they did.

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Here's the rotors and here's a close-up.

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Had any foreign adversary attacked a military helicopter of another nation,

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that could be a sign of aggression for sure and maybe potentially an act of war.

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So that's a big deal.

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It is incumbent upon any government to protect its people.

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And if there's any military aircraft that is interfered with,

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that could be a sign of vulnerabilities.

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And that's a huge issue.

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Hey, hey Steve.

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Lui Alessando was back from Italy.

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He's meeting up with his partner, Steve Justice.

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Justice is the former director of Advanced Systems

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for Lockheed Martin's legendary Skunk Works Division.

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Here's the bottom line, there's three options.

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It's a foreign technology.

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The second option is it's our technology.

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Something that we have managed to keep under wraps for a super long time.

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The third option is that this is something else.

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Where does that leave us?

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Over the past year, Alessando and Justice have met to explore possible explanations

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for the incredible accounts of U.S. military encounters with UFOs.

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They discussed whether UFOs could actually be top secret American military test aircraft.

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And the pilots they interviewed were merely unwitting test subjects.

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I can't completely eliminate the fact that those type of velocities

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potentially, potentially are achievable with certain technologies we have.

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It's possible, it could be because, you know, it was an operational test.

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You know, not everybody gets to know everything.

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They also considered whether these UFOs could be advanced aircraft from a foreign adversary.

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A foreign adversary, they would have to send in something that's super sophisticated and fast

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that can get in, look at what it is we're doing, and then get back out, right?

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My greatest fear is that an adversary did figure it out, and we are just way, way, way, way, way behind.

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The third and most controversial theory is that these unidentified craft are not of this world.

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These things that we're seeing, they don't have wings, they don't have tails,

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they don't really have any cockpits that we can see.

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They don't have anything that we would normally associate with the traditional aircraft.

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Right.

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We can create systems that do pieces of each of these, and not a single system that does all of these.

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Precisely.

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When we were at ATIP, we had some really smart people.

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These were scientists, academics, who had put a lot of time and effort into trying to figure out the physics of this.

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We were looking at what are these things, and what will it take to explain them, and then to exploit them, and be able to build them.

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Although we were focused on the nuts and bolts, we were trying to look at all potential possibilities and options of what this could be.

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Part of that was a commissioning of several studies that has now become quite public.

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37 studies.

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Right.

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This declassified list of studies, Elizondo's secret UFO program commissioned, was released to the public in 2019.

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Thanks to the efforts of the late Senator, John McCain.

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I'm going to pull up real quick here. This is a letter.

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Oh, this is the McCain?

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Yeah, so I think it's important we put this into context.

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This is the response by DIA to the late Senator, John McCain.

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Senator McCain has been there, done that, fought for this country, for him to take the time to do this.

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I think it's very telling.

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And at this point in time, he knew what his fate was as well.

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And so it's clear he wanted to accomplish some things.

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In July 2018, Senator McCain sent a request to the Defense Intelligence Agency for all non-classified documents from Elizondo's secret program to be released to the public.

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Now that the list of studies has been released by the US government, we really weren't looking at aircraft 40 years in the future.

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We were looking at a paradigm changing technology to try to help explain the phenomenon.

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Correct. The biggest obstacle these things have to overcome is a lot of these were typically classified as pseudoscience.

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Right.

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The studies explored complex theoretical topics like invisibility, wormholes, and anti-gravity, subjects many believe to be science fiction.

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This technology is for all intents and purposes magic.

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So, you know, we would like to get it.

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Whoever cracks the code and figures this stuff out first would have a tremendous advantage over our other adversaries.

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What will your feelings be if it turns out that it is not a foreign technology capability and is not a US capability?

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Then what?

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Then it's something else.

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Because it's hard to say it's not there.

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The studies examined cutting-edge theories, but they did not address the question that has shadowed the UFO community for decades.

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The possibility that intelligent life from another solar system has arrived on Earth.

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The question has been debated for decades with no hard proof.

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The question of whether or not there's extraterrestrial life is certainly a scientific question that deserves investigation.

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Matthew Kleban is a leading theoretical physicist at New York University.

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We now know that our own galaxy contains of order 100 billion stars and there are of order 10 or 100 billion other galaxies that we can observe within the observable part of our universe.

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So you multiply those two numbers together and it's a staggering, huge figure.

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With the help of deep space telescopes, astrophysicists estimate that not only do billions of solar systems exist in our observable universe,

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up to one in four contain a planet that could sustain life.

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It would be naive to think that we could be the only ones out there and I get that.

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What I'm always fearful of is in people focusing in on aliens.

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Now you start going down the roads of, is it from another planet?

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Is it interdimensional?

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Is it spiritual?

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What is those things?

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It opens up so many cans of worms that I just, I just don't allow myself to go down that path.

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I mean, I think it's disingenuous to say it's not an option.

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It's so unknown that we really have no idea what we're dealing with.

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What's going on actually?

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What's phone calls and emails on our favorite subject?

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So, things are happened and very much looking forward to seeing Senator.

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Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Chris Mellon, is on his way to meet with a president.

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Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Chris Mellon, is on his way to meet with a powerful ally in his mission to give the government to take the UFO threat seriously.

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Former Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid.

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Harry Reid was convinced by doing his own research that this was something as an elected official he should probably care about.

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And he clearly convinced some of his colleagues in the Senate that it was important enough to look into and that's how this Pentagon program got started in the first place.

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Senator Reid was the driving force behind the creation of the Pentagon's secret UFO unit known as ATIP.

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Reid retired from the Senate in 2017, but he's still working behind the scenes to push the U.S. government to study what he believes is a clear and present danger to national security.

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There's a lot of very profound, very deep issues that individuals like Harry Reid is acutely aware of that he's been deeply involved with.

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And for him to devote time to this issue in the twilight of his career, you know, it's fascinating.

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We've been in a quandary. We have these very, very proficient, best trained pilots in the world, and they see these strange occurrences.

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And in the past, they've been afraid to say anything to anyone for fear they would be looked at as a little strange, a little weird.

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So for decades, nothing has been done about these instances.

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What I wanted to do today initially is provide an update.

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Mellon wants Reid to know about the increasingly dangerous military encounters with UFOs. His team has uncovered.

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We've learned that beginning in 2015, there were scores of encounters off the east coast of the United States between U.S. naval fighters and unidentified flying objects of different kinds.

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And this was within minutes of a flying distance from the nation's capital. This is still unresolved and this is still continuing.

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And active duty pilots have approached us and shared these stories with us.

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Wherever we were, they were there. So that could mean two things. That could mean they were already there or they were following the strike group.

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One of the extraordinary things we learned from these pilots is that when their carrier battle group deployed across the Atlantic, they continued to encounter these things all the way across the Atlantic into the Middle East and even over Syria.

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We hear so much about off the coast of Florida and especially Virginia. People think that's the only place these unusual things happen. It's not true.

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It's all over the world where we have battle groups. So this isn't anything that just is limited to the United States. It's a worldwide phenomenon.

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But we're finding in both these legislative and executive branch this still lingering concern about a stigma.

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But I never hid from it. I acknowledge it. I thought it was an important thing for our country. And I think people who will run from this are absolutely wrong.

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Senator Reid secured funding for the Pentagon secret UFO program in part because he and others had come to believe America's adversaries were gaining the advantage.

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Since I got interested in this has been KGB Putin. He was head of the KGB and I guarantee you that he's got a lot of information on this.

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And I would bet that Russia is ahead of us in looking into this scientifically.

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Yes sir. And we absolutely share your concern. And one of the things that is very frustrating to me as a former Defense Department official myself.

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It's not even being examined. It's sitting on computer servers.

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You know why they're not looking at it. They don't want to. It's another issue that they're trying to ignore. And that's what's happened over the years. And that's too bad.

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We now have the technology. What else is going on in space that we're the information is coming in. It's all stored someplace in a computer bank and it could be pulled up.

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We're in an environment right now where there's sort of unprecedented distrust of our government. Do you have any reason to believe that there is a government cover up of the UFOs that that behind the scenes the government actually really does know the answers and has.

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I think the government doesn't know the answers. But over the decades rather than try to find the answers they've tried to cover up what the answers might be.

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In an effort to find answers. Reed brought in aerospace entrepreneur Bob Bigelow and Bob Bigelow has been very open about his views that he believes there are intelligent beings from some other place that have visited here.

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Bigelow is one of the few high profile people involved in the Pentagon secret program to say he believes the unidentified craft are from another world.

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Bob Bigelow recently said on national TV that he absolutely believes not only that alien life exists but that aliens are here that aliens are visiting Earth. You share that view.

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I feel it would be from a congressional standpoint. It would affect my credibility if I started talking about everything I know.

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OK so it's a huge week for us. This is a really big moment. So talk to me a little bit about today and the people were meeting.

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I'll be introducing you to an individual that worked with me when I was with a tip.

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Lou Elizondo and Tom DeLong are in Washington D.C. for a series of secret meetings with government officials.

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The reason for this meeting is to basically de-conflict and coordinate where are some of the areas that we can continue help inform and push the cause.

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And they are going to also let us know what they're doing on their end. We want to make sure we don't step on each other's toes and we can help each other out.

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Since he left the Pentagon Elizondo has been working to convince the military to create a formal process for pilots and others to report their encounters with UFOs.

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Just a year ago if I wanted to have a conversation in the halls of the Pentagon about this I had to go into a vault that was located inside a skiff.

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I had to shut the door turn on noise makers and then I had to whisper in a very quiet voice because of the nature and the sensitivity and the stigma that was associated with this portfolio.

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And I think that's important because I think the conversation about this requires transparency requires collaboration and it requires honesty.

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When you come across a game changing technology it's very very important that you report that up through the chain of command.

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The Department of Defense says Elizondo secret UFO program officially shut down in 2012. But Elizondo says the investigation continues in the D.O.D. there's two things that occur when you have an organization.

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There's paperwork when you start a program and there's paperwork when you end a program. You won't find any paperwork that ended at it.

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Over the past year he's been communicating behind the scenes with a new team of Pentagon intelligence officers who are studying UFOs.

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E-Tip is no longer run by a single office. There's now several offices that are engaged in this effort. We meet with people regularly involved in this effort. And that's about all I can say. Let's roll.

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Elizondo and DeLong had to a meeting with three military intelligence officers.

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These are individuals that have to remain very very much protected. There are extremely qualified people whom I trust whom I personally know that are still running this effort.

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And it is being run with official blessing. And that is what I'm prepared to say. I cannot go into any more than that.

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The meeting lasts for over an hour.

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Right before the meeting concluded I was pulled aside and shared some private information that there is still some degree of animosity regarding my departure.

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I didn't ask for this portfolio. It was given to me and I committed myself to it from day one. You know you're given a mission that you believe in and your job is to finish that mission.

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Since he went public Elizondo has been able to bring military eyewitnesses out of the shadows and on the record.

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We finally have people having conversations about this enigma.

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When I get called to go to the Pentagon and provide a now serious debrief it's a little surreal.

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People have testified before Congress. These are active duty military personnel.

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Other people have had this issue as well so it's not a one off with me.

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They have informed Congress we have the executive department engaged.

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So far this group of individuals have made more progress in getting this issue into the mainstream and taken seriously that anybody has in a very very long time if ever.

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There's a growing awareness in Congress about this but I don't anticipate that anytime soon we're going to have UFO hearings on Capitol Hill.

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It really goes against my DNA to have gone quote unquote public with this.

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Do I think it was the right decision. I think it was the only decision because otherwise we'd still be able to get this issue into the mainstream.

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We'll be where we were a year ago which is nowhere.

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Something unexplained is happening in the skies above the United States even the US Navy isn't certain what is going on.

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In April 2019 the US Navy made an unprecedented announcement.

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It's creating a new protocol for pilots to report UFO sightings.

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For Chris Mellon the announcement is a major victory.

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Chris Mellon is a former Pentagon intelligence official thanks very much for coming on.

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Thank you Tucker it's an extraordinary turnaround and it's really the result of an interaction between Congress and the Navy.

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And the fact that this has gotten on on Congress's radar began some discussions which elevated an issue that before this time had been smothered and kept at low levels of the bureaucracy.

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This is probably single handedly one of the greatest things that the Navy could do for this country.

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For Lou Elizondo the new Navy policy is confirmation of everything he's worked for over the past year.

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It's also an admission the UFO phenomenon is real and needs to be studied.

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They're writing policy that rather than keeping people quiet will will encourage people to come forward.

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Keep in mind that the topic of UAP's just a year and a half ago people were snickering and laughing.

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That was relegated to be Hollywood movies and cheap TV shows and now people are having a real conversation.

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The Navy's new UFO policy was first reported by Politico's Brian Bender.

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Lou Elizondo, Chris Mellon and others have come forward to try and get the Pentagon leadership to do more about this.

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To apply real resources to try and figure out is it real? Is it an adversary? Is it something else?

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The way that will lead I think remains to be seen.

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Howdy, Jens. How are you? I hate to break up the party. But Tom normally wouldn't do this.

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But if you've got a couple minutes I need to give you a quick update on a recent development.

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Let's do it.

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So Tom, this just hit the wire. This is a political issue.

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I'm going to go ahead and get the phone out of the way.

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I'm going to get the phone out of the way.

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I'm going to get the phone out of the way.

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I'm going to get the phone out of the way.

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This just hit the wire. This is a political article.

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The title is US Navy Drafting New Guidelines for Reporting UFOs.

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Can you read the subtitle?

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That's insane.

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The fact that they're coming out now and they're saying that this is real and there's incursions over our sensitive sites.

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We're putting together a national security policy to track them. It's like insane to me.

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So you're absolutely right. I think you can break it down to three things.

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My heart's beating fast and saying to me, I'm like crazy.

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I'm pretty energized.

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There's three pieces to this article that I find most captivating.

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A, that the Navy is taking this seriously.

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B, it's establishing an official reporting mechanism.

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And C, that they have been talking with members of Congress and their staff.

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It not only vindicates a lot of the hard work that's been going on behind the scenes.

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But also I think it's a testament to the brave men and women in the US Navy who want to figure out what these things are.

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I mean, Tom, this has been the culmination of all my personally, all my effort.

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You know, I never did this for fame or status or damn sure not a paycheck.

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I'm doing this because I was trying to fix a broken system, right?

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And as I've told people before, the only thing I managed to accomplish in my entire new career moving forward is getting a reporting mechanism established

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so people can report these things without fear of any type of retribution or any type of consequences professionally,

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losing their security clearance or losing their flight status, right?

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All the things that were bottlenecking me before from having reports come out.

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That is the only thing I ever truly, that was mission success for me.

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And here we are literally a year and a half later of you coming on stage and telling the world you're going to do this.

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It happened.

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It's absolutely wild.

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Exciting stuff.

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Let's see.

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The Air Force's interest in this problem has been due to our feeling of an obligation to identify and analyze to the best of our ability anything in the air

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that may have the possibility of threat or menace to the United States.

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At this point, these things are coming up close and personal.

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We are being forced to address it.

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We don't have the luxury to sit back anymore as a country and say, let's not pay attention to that.

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We have to pay attention to it.

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Because now it appears to be stalking some of our DoD assets.

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At base, these are reports from pilots, from military pilots in the Navy today or very recently in the Navy that have seen these phenomenon and reported them.

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I was a witness to something.

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It's something that I happened to encounter.

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I don't know what it was.

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People ask me, what do you think it was?

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Do you think it was of this earth?

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Do you think it was aliens?

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These things are out there.

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We know they're out there.

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There's enough credible that says there's things that we don't understand.

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I can tell you that the other people that were involved all feel the same way.

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Not everyone is talking.

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Some of them are still on active duty.

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But we all would love to know what it is.

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I would love to fly it.

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This is the story of the millennia.

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This is changing the world stuff.

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This really is in my heart.

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Like, I am a part of something.

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I created something that has an opportunity to change the world.

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And I really feel that.

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That is why I'm doing this.

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For the first time in the history of our country and in the history of the subject,

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the stigma and the taboo nature about it just got shattered to a thousand pieces in the wind.

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We have an intelligence collection apparatus that is global in nature and exquisite from 22,500 miles above the earth's surface

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to virtually the deepest levels of the ocean that may already have answers to many of the questions that we have.

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My hope is that members of Congress will simply ask the right questions.

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We have an opportunity when this information is provided to them to respond to it and act on it.

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I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.

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The day will come when this occurs to you that it's real, that there's some other intelligence here,

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that it's far more advanced than us, that it could do whatever it wants to us and we'd be powerless against it.

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At the end of the day, I don't care if you believe it, I know what I've seen.

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This stands as a reminder for everything that we do and how important it is.

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The job of every man and woman and civilian, sailor, soldier, airman in the military, we do what we do because of this.

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And this is a reminder of that sacrifice.

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I'm extremely optimistic that in a very short period of time, we're going to finally have answers and resolution to some long-standing questions.

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We have access to people, to efforts like never before, to places we could never go before.

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Maybe we can even build some things.

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I think we're going to have new events that America has never been made aware of.

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We're going to build this case so airtight that not only is it a beyond reasonable doubt situation, it will be irrefutable.

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I think we're upon a precipice. I think the time has finally come.

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One last question. Do you think the public can handle the truth?