1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 They're our first line of defense in the darkest of times, 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 and they're often the first responders to threats from 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 another world. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Over the past 70 years, the world's military forces have 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:20,000 come face to face with thousands of unidentified objects. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Yet the details of these encounters remain classified, 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,000 but some of these armed showdowns have proven too big 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,000 or too explosive to contain. 9 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Join us as we countdown the top 10 military encounters 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:46,000 between Earth's armed forces and UFOs on Unsealed Alien Files. 11 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 A global effort has begun. 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Secret files hidden from the public for decades, 13 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,000 detailing every UFO account, are now available to the public. 14 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:02,000 We are about to uncover the truth behind these classified documents. 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Find out what the government doesn't want you to know. 16 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Unsealed Alien Files. 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Exposing the biggest secret on planet Earth. 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Number 10. The Cosford Incident. 19 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Cosford, England, March 30, 1993. 20 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Military police on patrol at Royal Air Force Base Cosford 21 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,000 catch sight of something extraordinary. 22 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:38,000 It's an enormous UFO, speeding silently across the night sky. 23 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 The Ministry of Defense UFO hotline is suddenly flooded with calls 24 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,000 from area residents. 25 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,000 In charge of the department at the time is Nick Pope. 26 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,000 There were several dozen witnesses, including numerous police officers 27 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 and Air Force personnel. 28 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Two Air Force bases in the UK were directly flown over by a UFO. 29 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,000 The airmen watch as in terror as the giant crab creeps slowly toward the base 30 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,000 while shining a narrow laser-like beam of light at the ground. 31 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Then, without warning, it suddenly deactivates the beam 32 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 and darts off beyond the horizon. 33 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 The sheer number of witnesses to the Cosford Incident 34 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,000 leaves the Ministry with no choice but to admit that 35 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:33,000 an unidentified object or objects of unknown origin was operating over the UK. 36 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Number 9. The Battle of Los Angeles. 37 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Los Angeles, California, February 24, 1942. 38 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Less than three months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 39 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:59,000 an unidentified aircraft appears in the night sky over Los Angeles. 40 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Fearing another surprise attack, American anti-aircraft batteries immediately open fire. 41 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Hundreds of witnesses watch in terror as the Army fires 42 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:14,000 over 1,400 shells at the UFO to no effect. 43 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:20,000 But then, just as quickly as it appeared, the craft vanishes into the night, 44 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 leaving the city in a state of panic. 45 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:31,000 The following morning, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announces the UFO was in fact a weather balloon 46 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:37,000 and blames the fiery response on a bad case of collective war nerves. 47 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:42,000 The government explanation that it was simply a balloon, a surveillance balloon or a weather balloon 48 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,000 that blew off course simply makes no sense. 49 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:52,000 After 60 years, we still have no explanation for what appeared in the skies 50 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:00,000 over Southern California in February, 1942. 51 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Number 8. The Laredo Crash. 52 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,000 The Southwestern United States, July 7, 1948. 53 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:21,000 American radar picks up an unidentified object streaking across the sky at over 2,000 miles an hour. 54 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:28,000 The signal appears to be that of a meteor, until it makes an unexpected 90-degree turn 55 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 in the direction of Laredo, Texas. 56 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Two jets take off in pursuit of the UFO. 57 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:43,000 According to reports, they open fire on the object, which falls from the sky just south of the border with Mexico. 58 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:51,000 In an unprecedented move, the military dispatches a unit across the southern frontier to recover the wreckage. 59 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Arriving at the crash site, the troops are shocked to discover a silver disc over 90 feet in diameter 60 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,000 made of a seemingly indestructible metal. 61 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:10,000 When the team is at last able to breach the hull, they find the badly burned body of an alien being, 62 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:20,000 4.5 feet tall, with hands showing only four claw-like fingers and a distinctly non-humanoid skull. 63 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:28,000 According to the famous independent ufologist Leonard Stringfield, who brought forth new eyewitness accounts in 1978, 64 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:35,000 the wreckage and body are then whisked away to San Antonio Air Base for examination. 65 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:40,000 But their current location remains unknown. 66 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:50,000 We are counting down the top 10 military encounters with UFOs. 67 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Number 7 68 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Flight 19 69 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Fort Lauderdale, Florida. December 5, 1945. 70 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:15,000 Five US Navy Avenger torpedo bombers carrying 14 crewmen take off on a routine training mission over the Atlantic Ocean. 71 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:24,000 Partway through the mission, the base receives a troubling message from the flight's commanding officer. 72 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:32,000 They claim everything looked strange. The compasses went crazy as if they couldn't find true north anymore. 73 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:43,000 These Avenger torpedo bombers, again with 14 crewmen in all, simply disappeared into the ocean right off the map, never to be seen again. 74 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:53,000 The Navy immediately launches a flying boat on a search and rescue mission. But this too vanishes, along with 13 crewmen. 75 00:06:53,000 --> 00:07:03,000 A passing ship reports seeing a mid-air explosion and finding an oil slick. But no bodies or wreckage are ever found. 76 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:09,000 How could 6 aircraft and 27 naval airmen disappear without a trace? 77 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Today, many experts believe the men of Flight 19 and its rescue mission were the victims of a mass alien abduction. 78 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:27,000 It's the first of many mysterious disappearances that would soon earn this stretch of ocean a now infamous name. 79 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:32,000 The Bermuda Triangle. 80 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Number 6 81 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Operation High Jump 82 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Antarctica, December 1946. 83 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:54,000 U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd leads a multinational task force of 13 ships to the South Pole. 84 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Publicly, the mission's objective is to establish a research station and test the Allied Forces' ability to operate in polar conditions. 85 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Secretly, Operation High Jump's goal is to destroy the remnants of a secret Nazi base in the wake of the Second World War. 86 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:23,000 But according to unofficial reports, Byrd and his men are astonished to find a startling secret. 87 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Admiral Byrd's fighter squadron found the entrance to inner Earth. 88 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:35,000 This was a wide enough entrance where the planes flew in in fighter formation. 89 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,000 They were attacked by flying saucers. 90 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Most of them were shot down. 91 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Byrd was actually captured and he was told, we will let you go. 92 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,000 You go back to your leaders and you say you found nothing. 93 00:08:53,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Returning home, Byrd never speaks of the encounter, but he does offer a cryptic warning that the world must always be ready to face an attack from the world's polar regions. 94 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Number 5 95 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Rendlesham Forest 96 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 South of England, December 27th, 1980. 97 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:33,000 American airmen stationed at the twin RAF pentwaters and RAF Woodbridge air bases see strange lights emanating from nearby Rendlesham Forest. 98 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Sergeant John Burroughs and Jim Penison are sent to investigate what they believe to be a crashed aircraft. 99 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Instead, the team is astounded to discover a triangular UFO resting on the forest floor. 100 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:54,000 They allegedly get close enough to make note of strange markings on the hull. 101 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Deputy Base Commander Charles Halt is skeptical until two days later when word comes that the UFO has returned. 102 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Colonel Halt was not able to debunk this UFO nonsense because he himself ended up seeing the UFO. 103 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:19,000 What follows is a sound recording made by Halt as he approaches the craft. 104 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:28,000 It reveals a veteran military man driven to a state of near panic by a close encounter of the second kind. 105 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:33,000 I see it too. It's coming this way. It looks like an eye winking at you. He's coming towards us now. 106 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,000 No, we're observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground. 107 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Despite the compelling testimony of credible witnesses like Charles Halt, the British government dismisses all claims of a UFO at Rendlesham Forest. 108 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:57,000 We are counting down the top ten military encounters with UFOs. 109 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Number four, the Tehran Diamond. 110 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Tehran, Iran, September 19, 1976. 111 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Reports flood in of a strange light in the sky over the nation's capital. 112 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,000 The Imperial Iranian Air Force dispatches a fighter jet to intercept. 113 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:34,000 But as the jet reaches the strange diamond-shaped UFO, its instrument panel shuts down and its radio signal is jammed. 114 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Moments later, a second fighter jet is ordered to take off in pursuit. 115 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:48,000 In response, the UFO reveals even more otherworldly phenomena. 116 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:54,000 As the F-4 Phantom crew was approaching the object, a second UFO actually appeared out of the first one. 117 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,000 And it actually shot straight towards the incoming F-4 Phantom jet. 118 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,000 Now the pilot thought this was some kind of offensive maneuver. 119 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:10,000 As he goes to arm his missile, he decides to fire and the minute that he goes to press the button, everything shuts down. 120 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:23,000 The pilot takes evasive action, only to watch in horror as the UFO releases a glowing orb that he describes as looking like the moon, a round, bright light. 121 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:31,000 He fears the orb is some kind of weapon that will blast him from the sky and quickly retreats back to base. 122 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:38,000 But the diamond-shaped UFO and the orb disappear without a trace. 123 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Number 3. The Monstrum Missiles 124 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Monstrum Air Force Base, Montana, 1967 125 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:59,000 The installation is home to a fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles. 126 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:04,000 It's part of America's nuclear defense against the Soviet Union. 127 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:09,000 The weapons are armed and ready to launch at a moment's notice. 128 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:18,000 On the morning of March 16th, two guards see a shooting star moving in a bizarre zigzag pattern across the sky. 129 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Seconds later, another appears. The two men watch in disbelief as the stars begin speeding toward the base. 130 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Suddenly alarm bells start to ring and each and every nuclear missile becomes inoperable. 131 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:42,000 It was like whatever this craft or UFO was, it was strategically shutting down this nuclear missile silo. 132 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:49,000 But then, just as suddenly as the UFO appeared, it disappears into the distance. 133 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:57,000 A declassified report on the incident states that there were no unusual discrepancies in the missile control circuits. 134 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:03,000 According to the report, the system shut down for no reason whatsoever. 135 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:12,000 It's a terrifying demonstration of alien supremacy over our most powerful weapons. 136 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Number 2. The Usavov Incident 137 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Usavov, Ukraine, October 4th, 1982 138 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Villagers and resident military personnel report strange lights in the sky over a long-range nuclear missile base in south-central Ukraine. 139 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:44,000 They dart back and forth in a series of dazzling moves. 140 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:51,000 At the same time, in the underground bunker, the missile control panel suddenly springs to life. 141 00:14:52,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Someone or something appears to be remotely inputting the series of complex launch codes. 142 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000 The missiles are preparing to fire. 143 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:14,000 For 15 heart-stopping seconds, base personnel watch helplessly as the world teeters on the brink of Armageddon. 144 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:26,000 But then, just as suddenly as it switched on, the control panel shuts down while at the same time, the lights outside disappear into the night. 145 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:32,000 No earthly explanation for the chilling incident is ever found. 146 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:44,000 We are counting down the top 10 encounters between Earth's armed forces and UFOs. 147 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Among the thousands of reported incidents, one event towers above the rest in terms of both the sheer amount of evidence and its continuing impact on the world today. 148 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Number 1. 149 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Roswell. 150 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Roswell, New Mexico, July 7, 1947. 151 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:20,000 Multiple witnesses report a UFO crashing in the desert outside Roswell, New Mexico. 152 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:28,000 The army dispatches a team to the crash site, but nothing could have prepared them for what they would find. 153 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:41,000 We learned right then that it wasn't a plane. The craft was open in the kind of half way, and one body was inside. 154 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Then we radioed in to have a truck, a flat, then the crane and everything else just come out to the site. 155 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:53,000 And we prepared them to clear everything off. 156 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:59,000 The American military has just discovered proof of alien life. 157 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:05,000 The next day, it issues a press release that will change the course of human history. 158 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:13,000 The army has announced that a flying disk has been found and is now in the possession of the army. 159 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:20,000 The human race is about to enter a brave new chapter in its existence. 160 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:31,000 But just one day after the landmark announcement, the military abruptly changes its story, claiming the craft to be nothing more than a standard issue weather balloon. 161 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:37,000 The Roswell case is considered closed. 162 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:44,000 In the decades that follow, the United States would dominate the skies with a fleet of high-tech aircraft. 163 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Many experts believe were built from technology recovered at Roswell, with help from the aliens themselves. 164 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Today, Roswell remains the most famous government reversal on the existence of UFOs, spawning more conspiracy theories than any other single event in UFO history. 165 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:18,000 This is Unsealed Alien Files, exposing the biggest secret on planet Earth.