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I don't know where this object drops out from the sky,

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zipped off the crevice beam.

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It was the sighting that stunned the world.

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We were all clamoring to get on the radio.

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What the f*** is that?

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Unidentified objects captured on video by US Navy pilots.

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Somebody has mastered aeronautical technologies

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that are far superior to anything we possess.

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Now a new development, possibly more troubling than the objects themselves,

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is their conspiracy to hide the truth.

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He comes in, asks for the hard drives that were on that plate.

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Doesn't it seem odd to you that the Air Force hasn't spoken up?

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Does the trail lead to America's most secret base?

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We created UFOs out of here at the one.

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Are these UFOs made in the USA, or are they truly unidentified?

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This is a flight safety issue or a potential.

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If we're going to face a flight safety issue or a potential threat to national security,

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then we need to know about it.

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Everything we know about UFOs is changing.

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Thanks to a team led by former Pentagon UFO investigator, Luella Zonda.

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That is real, whatever that is.

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And former top intelligence official Chris Mellon.

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This is a current continuing phenomenon.

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It's happening. It continues to happen.

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They discovered five unique characteristics that UFOs have in common, called the five observables.

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They also released groundbreaking videos

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that forced the Navy to emit its pilots becoming face-to-face with unidentified objects.

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The US Navy made a shocking admission today.

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Strange flying objects caught on tape by their own fighter pilots, or in fact, UFOs.

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Now a new wave of military witnesses is coming out of the shadows.

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I've never seen anything move like that.

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Shape, size, speed, it's clearly unidentified.

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The team is united on a new mission.

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Connect the dots to reveal the truth about UFOs.

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This thing had no capability, like anything on Earth.

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And warned the world about the dangers they might represent.

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Carl Sagan once famously said,

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extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

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He was absolutely right.

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But now we have the proof.

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The US Air Force is being violated.

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The US Air Force is being violated.

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The US Air Force is being violated.

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Lou Elizondo and the team have been haunted by what Navy pilots encountered over the Pacific in 2004

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and over the Atlantic in 2015.

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US airspace is being violated by vehicles of unknown origin with advanced capabilities.

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The objects were captured on video that Tom DeLong was determined to show the world.

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I was like, there's three videos coming.

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The first three videos of UFOs to be declassified in US history.

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The first video was taken by pilots from the USS Nimitz who chased down the tic-tac shape object.

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It's white, it has no wings, it has no rotors.

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Maybe 40 feet.

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Large enough to scare the enemy.

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The other two videos were believed to be recorded in 2015 over the Atlantic by stunned pilots from the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

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There's a whole fleet of them, look on the assay.

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My God.

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Elizondo and his partners are still grappling with the implications of what these Navy pilots saw.

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This is an evolving story.

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Story, I think we realize now that the USS Nimitz incident may be actually far more comprehensive than any one of us initially thought.

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There's been some whispers now for the last six months that other individuals in the Navy on board the vessels

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and possibly other aircraft actually saw the tic-tac with their own eyes.

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I want to get to the bottom of it.

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One of those individuals is now coming forward.

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Omar Lara was an enlisted sailor who worked on the Nimitz's aviation fuel systems.

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Jets would come in, park.

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We'd fuel them up, they'll disembark.

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In November 2004, the Nimitz led a carrier strike group on a training exercise off the Southern California coast that included an attack submarine

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and the advanced radar equipped USS Princeton.

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Several days after the infamous tic-tac video was taken, Lara says he was on the Nimitz deck responding to what turned out to be a false alarm of a man overboard.

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All the jets had left except for the personnel who take care of maintenance and the work centers on board the aircraft carrier.

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And a sailor had fallen overboard.

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And at that time a man overboard was called and everyone needs to report in person.

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So we ended up on the fan tail, starboard side, looking towards out to the vast oceans, a beautiful panoramic view.

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And out of nowhere, this object drops out from the sky.

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An incredible speed just plants itself right above the ocean.

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The object itself was this white, luminescent object.

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This thing did not stop or slow down up until maybe 100 feet above the waterline and it stopped on a dime.

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Then it zipped off to our right at incredible speed with no sonic boom.

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You had to literally move your torso.

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A slight turn to your right to follow it.

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The speed and the maneuverability of this object is nothing I've ever seen in my 10 years in the United States Navy.

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Mr. Lara's testimony is very important because Mr. Lara is reporting the same type of maneuvering that was described by the pilots.

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You have Mr. Lara substantiating instantaneous acceleration.

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You also have hypersonic velocities and this ability to seemingly defy gravity.

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You don't have wings and you don't have any obvious means of propulsion.

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I do not believe that what I saw was made on this planet.

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If it wasn't made by us then you can count us off as the number one superpower.

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This thing just basically made you feel smaller.

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It's a paradigm changer.

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But perhaps what's most striking about Lara's alleged sighting is that it was unknown until the videos were made public.

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16 years after the Nimitz incident, the team investigates evidence of a cover-up.

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Gentlemen, great to see you all again.

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The team is following a trail that could lead to the US military's own black projects.

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This last year and a half, two years has been pretty monumental in what we've been able to collectively achieve regarding the topic.

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You have an acknowledgement by the Department of Defense that the videos were authentic.

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And you also have an acknowledgement now from the Navy that these things that are depicted in these videos are truly unidentified aerial phenomena.

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We have to figure out what that is.

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Jim Semavan spent 25 years working as an operations officer for the CIA.

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It's a fundamental issue for the intelligence community.

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It's a fundamental issue for the FBI for having sex, for the CIA, for the CIA.

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For them to have that level of ignorance is astonishing.

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We have irrefutable evidence of an intelligently controlled vehicle,

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defying science, something operating beyond what we even thought was possible.

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The Pentagon officially said that there was nothing else involving the USS Nimitz incident, nothing to see here.

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But there is indeed more information involving the Nimitz. I think that's a big deal.

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The Pentagon says it has more evidence from the Nimitz encounter, video and other data,

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but won't release it because of national security concerns.

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You still have the Department of Defense to some degree dragging their feet.

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Just recently they acknowledged the fact that there were more videos in their possession

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and they also had some classified briefings that they were not going to release to the public.

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It might be something like, okay, we have another picture of that same tic-tac at the same location,

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but from a different system. It was a classified system.

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I think it's interesting because it shows that there's still a segment within the U.S. government

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that is for some reason hesitant or resistant to have a conversation.

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The team is especially interested in one branch of the armed forces.

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Doesn't it seem odd to you that the Air Force hasn't spoken up? I'm quite puzzled.

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Chris has voiced that concern as well, where the hell is the Air Force in this entire conversation.

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I mean, we can only speculate while they're being quiet.

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Lou Elizondo has just heard testimony from a new eyewitness to the 2004 Nimitz UFO encounter.

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Now he's digging deeper into allegations of a military cover-up.

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Howdy. Hey, sir, how are you? Good, how are you? Good. I'm Lou. Nice to meet you.

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Thank you for allowing me to invade your house here. Anytime.

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Love to know a little bit about yourself. You were in the Navy. Yes, sir. It was just under 11 years.

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I was a Navy on-exec-technician, primarily on the E-2 Hawkeye.

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On November 14, 2004, F-18s from the USS Nimitz took off on a routine training exercise.

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It was a workup cycle for our 2005 deployment. They were doing air defense exercises that day.

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The planes go out and basically play a laser tag with each other.

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A good guy versus a bad guy to get their training back on.

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Patrick Hughes' job, power up and launch an E-2 Hawkeye. The exercise is airborne quarterback, which will direct the jets maneuver.

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We control emissions. We control pretty much everything that goes on once those planes leave the carrier deck.

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Shortly after the exercise began, radar technicians start tracking a strange object, prompting the now famous sequence of events.

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Commander Fravor and his wingman intercept the object.

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But then it flies off, appearing to travel hundreds of miles in the blink of an eye.

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While the E-2 Hawkeye monitors the action from afar, another F-18 captures the incredible Tic Tac video.

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After the Hawkeye lands, Hughes could tell something wasn't right.

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Normally when the crew walks out of the airplane, whoever the mission commander was, will stop and let you know how the mission was.

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But they didn't stop to talk to anybody this time. They just bolted down below.

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I know, thanks to talking to a crew, that the actual Tic Tac object formed up in the Hawkeye.

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And the five guys in that crew all saw real close.

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Pleasants were very long, but they all saw it.

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I was not aware that people in the Hawkeye actually had eyes down on the Tic Tac.

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It begs the question that at the time when I was at E-2, why wasn't that little bit of information shared with us?

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Maybe it was a trust tissue.

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The Hawkeyes alleged Tic Tac sighting might also have been kept secret because of the data captured by its sensors.

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That plane, when it left the deck, was recording everything they saw on those screens.

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All the information, all the button touches, basically everything they do.

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And there's been some contention about that, but I know for a fact it was recording because I hit the button and I turned it off when it got back.

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You specifically remember turning on that piece of equipment that day and again upon recovery turning it off.

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Correct. That is interesting.

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The plane's recordings could contain key evidence of the Tic Tac's capabilities.

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It sees what the Princeton saw. It saw what the Nimitz saw, it saw what some other stuff saw.

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So it's recording a big picture of everything that's going on that day.

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Okay, interesting.

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I do our post-flight checks on the airplane, make sure everything's turned off, take all our classified hard drives out, we keep them in our safe.

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We don't leave those in the airplane.

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And normally that's the end of it.

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After I'd gotten back downstairs, my commanding officer comes to our workspace door.

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But his commanding officer wasn't alone.

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With them are two guys in Air Force Flight Suits. I don't remember the ranks, but there's a very big difference between a Navy Flight Suit and the Insignia in an Air Force Flight Suit.

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So you were confident these were Air Force representatives?

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Yes, sir.

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It seemed unusual to Hughes to encounter Air Force personnel who didn't identify themselves. What happened next was even stranger.

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He comes in, asks for the hard drives that were on that plane.

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So we go, get them out, start logging them out in our little live book, and he stops me.

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It's like, just give them to me.

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No hand-received?

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Nope, nothing.

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How much time transpired from the time you retrieved those hard drives off the Hawkeye until the time that the CEO's not going on your door with two Air Force people?

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All in all, I'd say probably about a half hour.

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The Nimitz wasn't the only ship that day from which data was taken. Chris Mellon previously heard a similar account from a radar technician on the nearby USS Princeton, which had been tracking strange objects for days before the encounter.

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A helicopter arrived. People got off the helicopter. They came in and they requested all the data recording.

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And right after that, I was requested to hand over all the data recording tapes and anything that wasn't recorded on during the event I was to erase.

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How unusual was this request to destroy and erase this data? It was completely unprecedented.

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While both accounts suggest a possible cover-up, Hughes's story is a first-hand account of possible Air Force involvement. But why would the Air Force confiscate Navy flight data of a UFO?

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It brings this vision of the men in black showing up. There was obviously data and information that was recorded on those E2 Hawkeyes that somebody wanted.

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Tim McMillan is a journalist who spent months investigating the Nimitz incident.

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We can assume that it was taken somewhere to be analyzed. That's the big key, because there's a significant amount of data there that should give us a lot more definitive conclusions about what this is.

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Now, if you consider that with the aspect that 15 years later they say it's unidentified, that makes even more intriguing.

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Did the Air Force remove the data because it wanted to study the unidentified object? Or were they collecting information on their own top secret creation?

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It's equally possible that the Navy has no clue what it is, and it's an Air Force project that they didn't tell the Navy about. You know, the left hand does not always know what the right hand is doing.

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Hughes also believes there's a good reason why they would test a top secret craft on the Navy.

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I have this new super technology I want to test about it. I'm going to throw it at the best we have. And the Nimitz strike group was pretty much the best we had.

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I mean, somebody out there knows a lot more than we do. They may have a very, very good reason for not sharing it.

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When I was in the Pentagon, we only had a small shot in time of what we referred to as a Nimitz incident. But now more and more people are feeling enjoined to come forward and say it wasn't just the four pilots or a blip on a screen.

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And I saw something strange.

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Lou Elizondo has just heard from a former U.S. Navy crewman who says two mysterious Air Force officers showed up on the USS Nimitz after its famous Tic Tac UFO encounter and confiscated flight data that could prove its existence.

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The explosive theory, Air Force officers wanted to see how the Tic Tac performed because the Tic Tac was actually a top secret Air Force craft.

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Following that lead, Elizondo speaks with a man who worked at the most secretive Air Force facility of all.

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Hello, sir. Mr. Barnes.

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Yes, how are you doing today?

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T.D. Barnes is a former CIA engineer who spent most of his career working on classified technology, often at Area 51.

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Sixty years later, Barnes is willing to speak for the first time on camera about the electronic warfare systems he created and their possible connection to the Nimitz event.

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I think Nimitz is interesting because so many people saw the same thing that whether or not it was a real event, I think that's beyond question.

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The question is what was it?

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And if it was some sort of electronic warfare capability, fine, but then that information didn't get to the right people.

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If they actually saw something, that's a different ballgame.

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If it just, electronically, we could play games, but your actual vision, you know, who knows.

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But you know, that's something, of course, we created UFOs out of Area 51.

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We call them a technology demonstrator or proof of concept.

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One of the programs Barnes worked on was called Project Palladium.

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The Cold War technology used electronic signals to trick the Soviets into seeing whole squadrons that weren't there.

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They'd make them turn on the radar.

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And then we would electronically answer it, make them think they're tracking one plane, two planes, ten planes.

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We should do anything we wanted to go to the plane. We did it all the time.

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To Elizondo, this sounds eerily familiar.

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Radar operator Kevin Day previously told Elizondo he tracked a group of strange aircraft in the days leading up to the Nimitz event.

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I started noticing these anomalous contacts on the radar.

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There was like 10 or 12 objects.

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And it was kind of watching them on display. It was like watching the snow fall in the sky.

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The objects were seen on Day's radar, but seemingly nowhere else.

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So I just kind of monitored, I watched them and I was wondering, how come no one's seeing these things?

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Could what day saw be phantoms caused by radar spoofing technology?

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And what accounts for the Tic Tac object seen by Nimitz pilots up close?

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It released a bunch of balloons with different sized metallic spheres in it.

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Palladium used metallic balloons to reflect radar signals.

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A lot of people assumed it was UFO and they were reported as UFO.

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And that happened an awful lot.

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I'm kind of curious from your perspective, going back to the Tic Tac and these balloons as I were part of Palladium,

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is it possible that the balloons, not only were you testing different sized balloons, but maybe even different shapes of balloons?

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I wouldn't be surprised on that.

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That's fascinating. So from your perspective,

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the incident that occurred here in 2004 may be some sort of U.S. technology.

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Yeah, even then we could and you can only imagine what you do now.

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This raises a troubling question.

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Would the Air Force test top secret technology on Navy pilots without their knowledge?

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And the way these things work, no one but maybe the Cassin, those shipwrecks, no one got it.

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The pilots would never know what the test was.

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We call them drivers. They had no idea what the results were, what they were thinking to do.

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Right. Nothing. Unless you had a need to know, you weren't in the loop.

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One theory is what the Nimitz pilot saw was related to a 21st century version of what TD Barnes developed for the Air Force.

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Tim McMillan spent months investigating if any known technologies might explain the Tic Tac.

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Early 2000, FORGE funding has jumped up. Technologies are being boosted.

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A lot of the older subs were being retrofitted, whether some of the missile tubes are being altered to launch drones.

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A submarine launched drone could potentially explain another detail from the Nimitz sighting.

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One of the fascinating things with the 2004 incident was this frothy white wash.

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The pilots who first encountered the Tic Tac reported seeing it hovering over disturbance in the ocean.

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We all very quickly realized that there was something in the water churning, like boiling.

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One of my theories was that a submarine that surfaced launched something and was re-submerging.

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McMillan believes he found enticing clues to the Tic Tac's possible origins, but nothing that can explain its incredible flight characteristics.

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And what about the objects caught on tape by pilots from the USS Roosevelt ten years later?

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McMillan thinks those sightings could be related to a more recent program known as Nemesis.

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Nemesis is a fascinating technology. We know exist very similar to Palladium.

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They're injecting multiple false targets. And the idea is that you've got one plane, we want to make it look like 50,

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in hopes that they're not going to pick out the right one.

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Nemesis was originally developed by the Navy and uses swarms of drones that emit signals to fool enemy radar.

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There's some very close time frames in terms of when the Nemesis system was being tested and when these pilots,

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during the Roosevelt encounter, said that they observed the objects.

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Could this technology, or a similar system, account for what F-18 pilots from the USS Roosevelt say they witnessed on their target tracking screens?

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But what about the objects other pilots reported seeing up close?

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It was basically a cube inside of a sphere where the points of the cube were touching outside of the sphere.

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McMillan believes the cubes might have a simple explanation.

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In the few visual observations, the least I'm aware of, with the cubes inside of a sphere type thing, that sounds consistent with the radar reflectors.

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But Chris Mellon believes few, if any, of these sightings can be explained by current U.S. technology.

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I've been out of the Defense Department for quite a while. Electronic warfare was old then. It's even older now.

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It's a never-ending game of cat and mouse. However, it's not an explanation for what happened in the Nimitz incident or what was happening in 2015 off the East Coast.

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That's what we need to remind people. It has very little to do with the UAP phenomenon.

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And for Mellon, the Navy's public statement that pilots are encountering unidentified aerial phenomenon is proof positive that what they're seeing is not U.S. technology from the Air Force or anyone else.

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It's really a stretch for people to try to suggest these incidents.

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It could be explained by some secret program that was being used against our own people behind the backs of Congress who were briefed for all these programs.

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The military wouldn't be going up to Capitol Hill saying publicly these are not ours if in fact it was an electronic warfare program. That wouldn't be happening.

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But even if Navy personnel were guinea pigs in the top secret test, what can explain this next sighting?

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Louis Elizondo has uncovered information that the UFO seen by the Nimitz pilots could be related to U.S. Air Force tests, but not everyone believes it.

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He's been contacted by a new witness about an incident involving a military helicopter.

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I have been an investigator for the DOD for 20 years. The entirety of my career has been as an investigator with the goal of attempting to discern foreign threats to our equities.

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This Defense Department investigator asked to have his identity protected. He says he personally investigated the UFO encounter.

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Around 2013-2014 there were two helicopters conducting maneuvers in the southeast. The pilots were test pilots. They were conducting some pretty stressful maneuvers.

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He won't reveal the exact location of the incident.

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It was really in a corridor you could say from northern Tennessee, southern Kentucky, southern Alabama, and then out east towards around the middle of Georgia.

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I know that that's a large swath of territory, but again we're talking about helicopters which can cover a large swath of territory when they're training.

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The pilots were testing brand new attack helicopters when one witnessed something unexplained.

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It's broad daylight. What happens is one of the pilots looks out the right side of their aircraft and they notice three glowing orbs that are in a triangular formation just within the vicinity of the aircraft.

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These orbs maintained the same altitude, the same speed with the helicopter. Then it really started to get interesting because as the pilot is conducting the maneuvers to put this brand new helicopter under its stress test,

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he experiences a power fluctuation and when he experiences this power fluctuation, he starts to descend rapidly, which we would call a total failure.

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The pilot looked over to the right side again, noticed these three orbs descending with the helicopter.

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And then all of a sudden the helicopter starts going into an uncontrolled descent at which point he grabs the stick, works up, and these orbs are gone.

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He associated those lights as being somehow correlated to the event that occurred and then only when those things were gone did the helicopter behave normally. Is that correct?

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That was the conclusion he came to in the interview.

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Elizondo says it's also not the first time he's heard of unidentified objects exhibiting this behavior.

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From personal experience, I'm aware of the relevance that some of these UAP have regarding our national security assets and equities.

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Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to go into a whole lot of detail on that, but what I can say is that this is nothing new and I'm not surprised at all to hear that there was three points of light that seemed to be flying in a consistent formation and pattern.

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The investigator says he reported it to his superiors and a committee was formed to dig further.

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He says they uncovered at least seven other similar incidents involving helicopters and orbs, but he was shocked at their conclusion.

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The committee discussed the results of us looking into this and basically coming forward with seven or eight other incidents. Everybody just kind of scratched their heads and was like, well, we don't know what it is.

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We're not in a position to figure it out and then that was that.

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After this event occurred, you learned that there was actually other reports of similar type activity occurring perhaps seven or eight other times to the point where they actually established a committee, an internal committee to try to figure this out.

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And holding when they didn't have any answers, did they wind up scratching their head, closing the books and say, well, nothing to see here, folks.

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That was part of the strangeness of the consensus was like, all right, we don't know what it is. All right, make it know maybe somebody will pay attention at some point.

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But if we have no data points coming in, then we're just spinning our wheels.

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Why wouldn't the military keep probing?

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Were they hiding another test of a top secret electronic countermeasure?

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Or is it evidence of an unknown technology the government doesn't want to acknowledge because it doesn't understand it?

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You now have pilots flying helicopters and now coming into contact with these, we'll call them orbs, if you will.

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And all of a sudden now there's a correlation between these orbs and equipment failure.

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You could have an issue where you potentially could collide with one of these things.

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There is something occurring. There are transgressions of restricted military airspace and of U.S. borders that are going on that our own military has acknowledged publicly.

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They wouldn't be saying that if they owned the very programs that were causing those sightings.

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In the wake of reports that the Pentagon may have covered up UFO sightings by the U.S. Navy and didn't pursue reports of orbs seen from a U.S. Army helicopter,

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Lou Elizondo gets guidance from a man he trusts, a man who's been seeking the truth about what the government knows about UFOs for years.

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Colonel John Alexander was a godfather of everything spooky and weird at the Pentagon.

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Great to see you, my friend. How are you?

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John Alexander ran a lot of the programs that the U.S. government pretended like we didn't have.

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John, thank you very much for allowing me to come into your home. This is for me a great honor and privilege.

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First and foremost, you're a legend. I knew about you, whether you knew it or not, a long time ago.

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I knew a little bit about your, how shall we say, adventures.

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Adventures, yes.

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In the 1980s, Alexander studied the paranormal for the U.S. military.

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What was the name of your program at the time?

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Oh, we called it Intentionally Advanced Theoretical Physics.

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And we did that because the FOIA at that time was just becoming a hot issue.

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And we figured that people may ask for UFO data, but they're not likely to ask for data on advanced theoretical physics.

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So John, is there any advice you can give me as to where I should go from here, what I should do, and potentially what I need to watch out for?

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Well, I think you've probably stepped on many of the minds already. In fact, the reason that you're in the civilian sector is part of that.

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Very true.

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The biggest thing that has to happen and is happening, and I think your key piece of this, is getting information and making it acceptable in the civilian sector.

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That's what they're really afraid of.

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I do suspect you're going to get blowback.

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There are going to be people who come in and say, you know, these are just aerial phenomena that are explainable.

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But when you get done with all of the cases, you end up with a core set that simply cannot be explained by any traditional means.

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We're moving away from the allegory of tinfoil hats and, you know, Elvis on the mothership to no kidding, there's something there. These things are real.

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Elizondo questions why the military still won't release everything it knows.

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We don't like things we can't explain. And that's one of the reasons for classifying some of the stuff. You don't want to be potentially embarrassed.

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We have, as you know, hundreds, thousands of these kinds of incidents that have been recorded. It's much easier to just discard the data.

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And unfortunately, terrible thing that we have done that for decades.

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Some experts claim that the military isn't covering up information about UFOs, but is actually feeding the UFO myth to hide secret programs.

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If you've got an aerial platform that is highly advanced and the public who happens to get a glimpse of the thing from time to time, if they're convinced that it's from Venus and there's no way it could be our military, well, hey, you know, that's awesome. Hell yes.

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Walter Bosley was an agent with the Air Force's secretive office of special investigations.

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If I'm the agent running the protection for that particular program and that's helping me cover something for years, I might even feed the fire.

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Bill Scott is a former Air Force Flight Test Engineer and editor at Aviation Week Magazine. He claims a high-ranking officer at Area 51 admitted to him how the military used the media to spread disinformation about UFOs.

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Some of the people that I would approach would give me clues. One of the more intriguing responses I got was, well, if you really want to know what's going on, read the rags at the supermarket checkout.

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I like the Enquirer and the Globe and all these things. I said, you got to be kidding me.

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He said, when you see a picture of Bill Clinton standing there in front of one of these black airplanes with his arm around the alien being, he said, forget what's in front and look what's behind.

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I said, come on. So what you're really telling me is that in order to hide real, highly classified stuff, is that you basically paint it with the UFO brush.

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And I said, why would you do that? And he said, to keep people like you from looking any farther. I said, Doc, come on, does it really work? He said, it worked for 50 years. Why would we change now?

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For decades, the National Enquirer and Weekly World News were published by Genaroso Pope Jr., who pushed the paper's sensational stories about UFOs and aliens.

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Pope's job just before taking over? Psychological warfare officer for the CIA.

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Author Mark Pilkington believes the Nimitz and Roosevelt cases are part of this long history of media manipulation.

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It's about perception management. The technologies exist that may not explain precisely what we're seeing, but are analogous to the things that are seen.

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The Nemesis combines swarms of drones with complex multi-system countermeasures that are simultaneously operating against aircraft, satellite systems, ship-based systems.

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Certainly these would have been something that was outside the sphere of familiarity for the pilots involved and could certainly have led to confusion.

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Elizondo doubts evidence of the Tic-Tac is part of a disinformation campaign meant to cover up a classified program.

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Could the Nimitz incident and other UAP-related incidents possibly involve some sort of super-secret U.S. technology?

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Is it possible? It's absolutely possible. Is it plausible? No, it's not plausible.

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And the reason why I say that is because at the time I had one of the highest levels of security clearance in the U.S. government, and I was briefing people who were read on to just about anything and everything in the U.S. government.

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There's no reason to believe that the Air Force is today seeking to promote confusion between UAPs and classified Air Force programs or using the UAP phenomenon as a cover for Air Force programs.

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Lua Elizondo has been investigating what the military might be hiding about recent UFO encounters. Could the objects be Air Force top-secret craft tested unwittingly on other branches of the military? Or is the truth more fantastic?

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This is something that we need to figure out. If this is a flight safety issue or a potential, an outlier reiterate potential threat to national security, then we need to know about it.

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The team reconvenes in the hopes of putting together the pieces of the puzzle.

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So, gents, I appreciate you guys taking a few moments to sit with me this afternoon.

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They begin by discussing whether these unidentified objects could be explained by radar spoofing technology.

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There's always been effort since time began and man has been at war to deceive the enemy. And there are all sorts of ways to deceive the enemy. Back in World War II, we had light deception.

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You had something called window, which we now know is chaff to screw up radars. It just filled radars with images.

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I think when we come up with programs to deceive the enemy and they come up with programs to deceive us, it's usually in one particular domain. So it's to spoof radar or it's to trick this or to trick that.

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Since we attack sensors kind of one at a time, when you have a multi-spectral confirmation, radar, infrared, visual, the odds of something spoofing the same in all those domains is pretty much the same.

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Radar spoofing doesn't give you a visual. Radar just displays on your console. It doesn't create anything out the cockpit. You wouldn't see that. You wouldn't see that. There wouldn't be a tic-tac out there flying around.

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The team doesn't believe the objects are related to radar spoofing. But could they be some other advanced technology being tested by the Air Force on Navy pilots?

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If you're talking about conducting tests with a carrier battlegroup, you're not blindsiding the commander of the carrier battlegroup. There's multi-million dollar aircraft and safety and lives at stake. You're not using these people like guinea pigs.

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You don't want to test something super classified in front of a bunch of people that are not read onto a program and all of a sudden are now talking about this thing in the open saying what the hell is that? I mean that's not a great way to keep a secret.

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Correct. All those radar operators going talking about what happened. That's not what you'd want if you were trying to protect that capability.

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If the objects aren't top secret technology the government wants to keep hitting, then what are they?

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If we ask ourselves if someone else has made a fundamental, radical, technological breakthrough, how would that appear to us? What might that look like? It would look like magic. It would look like magic to us.

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It is baffling to a degree that is almost magical. How could you possibly have a sphere-safe object with a cube inside that goes at supersonic speeds, can loiter all day, or a tic-tac that could descend from 80,000 feet to 50 feet and then shoot off at insane speeds that would tear apart anything that ever built by man.

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It's magic. It's magic.

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And then come to a complete hover. Right? And so what we're seeing really looks a lot like what you might expect to see if somebody had had a fundamental breakthrough, the leapfrog that's far, far ahead of anything that we've devised.

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The team believes the mounting evidence proves these incidents are not U.S. military tests and are possibly something altogether extraordinary.

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We're very confident these are not some form of experimental U.S. aircraft because of the position the Navy's taking, but also the fact that these vehicles are operating in such close proximity to Navy fighters and carrier battle groups.

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There is a profound mystery here. Are we alone in the universe? And we may be the first generation in the history of our species that can answer this question and do so definitively.

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And getting the answer to this mystery motivates me to no end. Whatever it takes to try to answer that question.

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We always want to have a nice neat little bow on things and say, well, it's got to be then extraterrestrial. But, you know, there's a lot of other options. It could actually be a combination of both U.S. and adversarial.

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It could be that it's extraterrestrial. There's an entire universe of physics that we're just now beginning to unlock and understand.

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Maybe there's options that we've never even considered before simply because we don't have the technology or the science yet or the understanding to even ask the right question.