1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,640 For decades, dedicated civilians have attempted to prove the existence of aliens, putting 2 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:11,200 their reputations and lives at risk. 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,600 When witnesses are visited by men in black, they're interrogated, they're made to feel 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,040 scared either for their lives or their safety. 5 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,800 How far will governments go to hide their agenda? 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,720 And what price do whistleblowers pay to reveal it? 7 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:33,640 Join us as we investigate the war on truth and the watchmen who fight it on Unsealed 8 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,280 Alien Files. 9 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,480 A global effort has begun. 10 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:44,960 Secret files hidden from the public for decades, detailing every UFO account, are now available 11 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:45,960 to the public. 12 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:50,400 We are about to uncover the truth behind these classified documents. 13 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:55,400 Find out what the government doesn't want you to know. 14 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,320 Unsealed Alien Files. 15 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,160 Exposing the biggest secret on planet Earth. 16 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,760 April 2013. 17 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:09,560 Record numbers of UFO sightings pour in across the USA. 18 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:17,120 Over 50 sightings of glowing orbs and triangle-shaped crafts are reported in California alone. 19 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:24,360 In 30 days, over 200 reports flood in across seven states. 20 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:30,880 MUFON, the mutual UFO network, is on alert three status, the highest existing warning 21 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:32,520 level. 22 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:40,040 So many UFO sightings in such a short period of time might be a disturbing warning sign. 23 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:46,440 But if the US government will not investigate or alert the public, who will? 24 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:51,640 MUFON is America's largest private UFO organization. 25 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:58,160 They investigate in place of the authorities who claim no branch of the United States government 26 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:04,160 is currently involved with investigating unidentified flying objects. 27 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:09,680 MUFON dispatches field operatives to investigate reports of UFOs. 28 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:14,120 Antonio Parris has led many MUFON investigations. 29 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:19,800 He also heads up his own organization, the Aerial Phenomenon Investigations Team. 30 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:25,760 The intent of Aerial Phenomena is to investigate UFOs from a nuts and bolts perspective. 31 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,920 That is to look at what people are reporting and try to identify what that person saw. 32 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:37,040 Parris and his team have uncovered evidence that UFO witnesses have more to fear than 33 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,360 contact with alien life. 34 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:46,720 Niagara Falls, Canada, October 14th, 2008. 35 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:52,240 Employees of a popular hotel witness a large triangular object in the sky. 36 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:57,480 It hovers for some time and then silently vanishes. 37 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:02,000 But perhaps the most disturbing encounter was still to come. 38 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:07,520 The witness recontected us and told us that several months later his hotel was visited 39 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,560 by two unidentified men in black. 40 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:15,560 And these two came into the hotel, harassed the staff for about 30 minutes and simply 41 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,280 walked out. 42 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:23,920 The men in black are an unidentified group or an organization that would go around to 43 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:27,600 alleged sightings of where there was some type of UFO report. 44 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:33,440 And in most cases they try to collect the information that was reported by the witness. 45 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,560 Sometimes they actually threaten the witness for the information, especially if there's 46 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:38,040 some type of evidence. 47 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,440 Who do these unidentified men work for? 48 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:46,120 And what would they gain by intimidating UFO witnesses? 49 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:53,560 Hotel employees describe the men as terrifying, almost alien in behavior. 50 00:03:53,560 --> 00:04:00,320 The hotel manager reports the incident to police, but they launch no investigation. 51 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:04,600 Parris and his team break the story. 52 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:09,120 Civilian investigators like Antonio Parris have often broken through the barriers of 53 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,880 secrecy and forced by the government. 54 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:18,960 Elite government communique indicates civilian investigations present a threat to their monopoly 55 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:22,040 on UFO investigation. 56 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:29,280 Numerous alleged UFO sightings are reported directly to or collected exclusively by unofficial 57 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:33,080 UFO groups. 58 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:35,320 Unsealed case file. 59 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,960 The Pixley Case. 60 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:43,200 July 23, 1956, Pixley, California. 61 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:48,040 A C-131 transport plane takes off from Hamilton Air Force Base. 62 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:54,640 A massive impact, followed by a flash of light, knocks the pilot, major stenvers, completely 63 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:56,320 unconscious. 64 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:02,200 The plane spirals into a 9,000-foot nose dive. 65 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:06,200 Stenvers regains consciousness and seizes the controls. 66 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:12,760 He pulls the plane out of its downward spiral and brings it to an emergency landing. 67 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:19,040 Stenvers is interviewed by the local papers, saying, it was as if we struck a brick wall. 68 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,560 The story quickly disappears from the media entirely. 69 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,880 Even though an Air Force spokesman confirms the plane looked like something had struck 70 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,640 it from above. 71 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:35,560 Stenvers the story suppressed because the Air Force jet collided mid-air with an alien 72 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,800 craft. 73 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:39,920 1952. 74 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:46,640 UFO reports begin flooding in from southern Canada to Texas. 75 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:51,800 The U.S. government denies that any are UFO phenomenon. 76 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:56,440 Civilians are forced to search for the truth through a smoke screen of alleged government 77 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,840 cover-ups and secrecy. 78 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:07,560 But an incident in July of 1952 would be nearly impossible to deny. 79 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:13,560 Unsealed case file, the Washington, D.C. UFO incident. 80 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:19,200 Multiple objects are detected on radar by military bases across the Capitol. 81 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:24,240 They are grouped in formation and moving fast. 82 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:29,800 Phenomena has passed from one radar screen to another with a fair degree of certainty. 83 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,080 This was the same phenomena. 84 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:40,360 In July 1952 on two successive weekends, a fleet of UFOs invaded the airspace over Washington, 85 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,640 D.C. They flew over the Capitol, they flew over the Pentagon. 86 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,880 They were seen by hundreds of people. 87 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,920 They were chased by United States Air Force jet interceptors. 88 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,520 They were seen by air traffic controllers. 89 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:59,360 And the whole event over these two successive weekends was reported in the Washington Post, 90 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:00,400 the New York Times. 91 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:05,720 You can even see photos of UFOs over the Capitol today in photo archives. 92 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:12,960 Witnesses describe the UFOs as large balls of light moving at incredible speeds, leaving 93 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,920 a streak behind them. 94 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:22,360 An Air Force Colonel confirms the jet pilots are and have been under orders to investigate 95 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:29,040 unidentified objects and to shoot them down if they can't talk them down. 96 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:35,360 Despite a rapid deployment of fighter jets, no combat engagements are recorded. 97 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:39,600 President Truman meets with a team from Project Blue Book. 98 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:45,040 Without even conducting an investigation, Blue Book informs President Truman the strange 99 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:52,280 lights and photograph UFOs are nothing more than temperature inversion, warmer air occurring 100 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,200 beneath a bed of cooler air. 101 00:07:55,360 --> 00:08:00,160 Blue Book's explanation is questioned by virtually everyone. 102 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:05,640 Was Truman's government concealing the truth, even from him? 103 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:11,520 Not satisfied with Blue Book's explanation, Truman assembles the Robertson Committee. 104 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:18,120 At the time, their findings and existence are kept secret from the public. 105 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:23,160 What did the Robertson Committee learn that demanded top-level secrecy? 106 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,440 And would their true findings ever be made public? 107 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:33,600 Internal rumors of the existence of the Robertson Committee forced NICAP, the National Investigations 108 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:42,280 Committee on Aerial Phenomenon, to publicly demand access to all existing UFO documentation. 109 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:48,480 NICAP members include high-ranking military officers, among them the director, Donald 110 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,320 Kehoe. 111 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,840 These men aren't just challenging the establishment. 112 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:59,640 They are the establishment, and they are demanding answers. 113 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:05,240 The release of censored documents proves the government officially does not believe UFO 114 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,320 phenomena to be real. 115 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:14,120 Was the Robertson Committee looking for answers, or was it a smokescreen, maintaining a secret 116 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,880 government alien agenda? 117 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,800 January 22, 1958. 118 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:28,280 Armed with evidence he feels will disprove the Robertson Report, Donald Kehoe appears 119 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:33,400 on television to discuss the UFO phenomenon. 120 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,080 Kehoe is adamant. 121 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:41,320 Evidence exists that will absolutely prove that the UFOs are machines under intelligent 122 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,320 control. 123 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:49,840 But as Kehoe attempts to tell the world what he knows, TV executives cut the audio of the 124 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,080 live broadcast. 125 00:09:52,080 --> 00:10:00,200 A television executive explained, this program has been carefully cleared for security reasons. 126 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,720 What was Kehoe trying to tell the public? 127 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:11,960 Later the same year, Kehoe appears on ABC with Mike Wallace to again expose evidence of the 128 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,200 reported government UFO cover-up. 129 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:21,160 While on air, Kehoe claims it wasn't CBS censoring him on the earlier broadcast. 130 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:26,480 He states, it's the United States Air Force trying to silence him. 131 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:33,480 How far would those in power go to hide the truth about aliens? 132 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:39,040 Government secrecy surrounding alien contact forces civilian groups to investigate the 133 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,640 phenomena on their own. 134 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:49,760 In 1958, UFO activist Donald Kehoe exposes the government's Robertson Panel as a front 135 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:56,880 to debunk the UFO question and accuses the military of trying to silence him. 136 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:03,720 Kehoe publicly challenged those in power and that challenge would inspire someone else 137 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:08,640 to take on the American intelligence community. 138 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:15,160 1957, Ground Saucer Watch or GSW is formed. 139 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:22,400 A small UFO activist group headed by Arizona engineer William Spaulding. 140 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:27,520 Spaulding is investigating a government research installation that had allegedly recovered alien 141 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:35,480 technology from a 1953 UFO crash site in Kingman, Arizona. 142 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:41,440 Spaulding claims to have two signed affidavits from Air Force personnel who were driven four 143 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:48,040 hours north of Phoenix in the dead of night to investigate a disc-shaped craft half buried 144 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,000 in the earth. 145 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:57,280 The men allegedly saw two four-foot-tall alien corpses with large heads and brownish skin 146 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,840 being retrieved from the cockpit. 147 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:06,520 Spaulding lobbied the government for years to access information about the Kingman crash. 148 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,000 His efforts yield nothing. 149 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:15,940 How long would the veil of national security prevent him and other ufologists from accessing 150 00:12:15,940 --> 00:12:20,080 information in restricted files? 151 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:27,800 An unlikely chain of events would open the door to a brief moment of government transparency. 152 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:33,640 In the wake of the Watergate wiretapping scandal, a shamed Richard Nixon is forced to resign 153 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:35,360 from office. 154 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:41,240 The American public watch in shock as their elected leader is discredited and his cabinet 155 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,920 dismantled. 156 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:50,080 To win back the trust of the people, Congress passes the Privacy Act under the direction 157 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,160 of President Gerald Ford. 158 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:57,440 Spaulding's quest for the truth now has serious leverage. 159 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:04,240 He has given access to the restricted documents the CIA had denied him for so long. 160 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:08,920 What Spaulding finds shocks him to the core. 161 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,160 Unsealed case file. 162 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,800 The Durant Report. 163 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:20,320 The government publicly states UFOs are not worth investigating, but secretly monitors 164 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:25,040 civilian watch groups in search of extraterrestrial life. 165 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:30,320 Such organizations should be watched because of their potentially great influence on mass 166 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:35,080 thinking if widespread sightings should occur. 167 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:42,040 If aliens do not exist, why is the government spying on those who seek the truth? 168 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:48,040 Secretary of the Robertson Committee and author of the Durant Report is CIA operative Frederick 169 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:49,040 Durant. 170 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:55,720 It's revealed that both Durant and the Robertson Committee were tasked not with investigating 171 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:04,440 evidence but with establishing a protocol for debunking UFO sighting claims. 172 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:09,320 The conclusions of the Durant Report raise one key question. 173 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:16,400 Why has the U.S. intelligence community gone to such great lengths to debunk UFO phenomena? 174 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,280 If they are convinced it is pure fiction. 175 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:27,560 In 1977, William Spaulding, with the backing of the Citizens Against UFO Secrecy Group, 176 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:36,760 files a lawsuit against the CIA for violating the Freedom of Information Act and wins. 177 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:43,160 The CIA is forced to release over 9,000 pages of UFO files. 178 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:48,200 As they insisted on multiple occasions, they did not have. 179 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:54,360 Among the files are several sanitized versions of both the Durant Report and the Robertson 180 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,400 Panel Report. 181 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:05,800 The released CIA files expose a systemic policy of ridiculing witnesses and watchmen, spying, 182 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:12,840 intimidation tactics and control of public information on UFOs. 183 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:17,400 If there was any doubt that the government was taking the business of UFO investigations 184 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:24,280 seriously, the release of the CIA files proves they were deadly serious. 185 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:30,280 At the 2013 Citizen Hearing in Washington, D.C., Richard Dolan looks at a post-disclosure 186 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,360 world and the price the watchmen have been forced to pay. 187 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:39,720 Throughout our major news organizations in which an open belief in UFOs is a third rail 188 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:44,520 for one's career, throughout our scientific establishment for sure, and also throughout 189 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:46,960 our political structure. 190 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:50,800 All of these institutions and others have treated the UFO topic as nothing more than 191 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,440 a joke, something suitable for immature minds. 192 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:59,920 Can it really be that the professors throughout the United States uniformly have dismissed 193 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:04,920 this phenomenon without any cooperation from the intelligence community? 194 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,600 Ditto the world of science, politics and media. 195 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:14,760 The unending fight to reveal the truth about extraterrestrials has become more advanced 196 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,760 and more dangerous. 197 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:23,760 Modern whistleblowers often risk their lives to bring the truth to light. 198 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:29,800 In 2002, Gary McKinnon hacked one of the most sensitive systems in the American intelligence 199 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,600 infrastructure. 200 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:35,000 What he uncovers shocks the world. 201 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:40,480 Gary McKinnon is a British computer hacker that allegedly got into NASA computer systems 202 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:45,440 and found evidence that they were actively covering up an extraterrestrial presence in 203 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,080 the reality of the UFO phenomenon. 204 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:53,200 One of the documents that he said he saw was labeled non-terrestrial officers, which then 205 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,000 listed quite a few personnel. 206 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,920 The question is, what did this mean? 207 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:04,360 Could the reference to non-terrestrial officers refer to agents from another world? 208 00:17:04,360 --> 00:17:07,320 And if so, where are they? 209 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:09,760 And what are they doing? 210 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:15,960 Some experts believe the reference to non-terrestrial agents is evidence of a long held theory that 211 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:21,320 a secret base exists on the dark side of the moon. 212 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:28,760 Identified and eventually arrested, Gary McKinnon faces a possible 70 year prison sentence 213 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:33,000 for breaching American secrecy acts. 214 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:39,040 Gary McKinnon, an independent ufologist, uncovered proof that the United States government has 215 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:46,440 not only made contact, but is dealing regularly with extraterrestrials. 216 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:52,280 Without McKinnon's efforts, the public would still be in the dark about alleged non-terrestrial 217 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,600 agents engaged by government agencies. 218 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,020 We are the game changers. 219 00:17:59,020 --> 00:18:06,060 One day, and it won't be too long in the future, something is going to force someone's hand. 220 00:18:06,060 --> 00:18:12,380 Who will be the next civilian to risk everything and expose the truth? 221 00:18:12,380 --> 00:18:16,740 Will it be you? 222 00:18:16,740 --> 00:18:22,820 This is Unsealed Alien Files, exposing the biggest secret on planet Earth.