1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Between 1981 and 2011, NASA's space shuttles flew 135 missions. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:15,000 The space shuttle cameras, manned and unmanned, have recorded astounding footage of UFOs that 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,000 many experts find hard to explain. 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:25,000 People say NASA are covering up the truth about UFOs and when they're asked, well, where's 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:32,000 the proof, they cite NASA's own films. 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 What do NASA's films really show? 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Explainable phenomena or something else? 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Join us as we investigate key space shuttle encounters that many believe show UFOs flying 9 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:54,000 dangerously close to Earth. 10 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,000 A global effort has begun. 11 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Secret files hidden from the public for decades detailing every UFO account are now available 12 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 to the public. 13 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,000 We are about to uncover the truth behind these classified documents. 14 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Find out what the government doesn't want you to know. 15 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Unsealed, alien files, exposing the biggest secret on planet Earth. 16 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:31,000 In 1981, NASA launches its first space shuttle, Columbia, marking a new era in space exploration. 17 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:38,000 It really kind of gave us a floating laboratory in the sky versus the older Apollo rockets 18 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 that you would just strap in and essentially hope for the best. 19 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,000 The space shuttle was a much more controlled environment for human space flight. 20 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,000 They were used to launch and to repair satellites. 21 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 They were used for cutting-edge scientific research. 22 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:02,000 And of course, they played a hugely pivotal role in the construction of the International Space Station. 23 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:08,000 For the first time, mankind establishes a permanent presence in space. 24 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,000 It has been continuously occupied since the year 2000. 25 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:20,000 The space shuttle was instrumental in creating our next steps in human space flight, 26 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 getting beyond the moon and essentially towards Mars and beyond. 27 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Two years before the first mission to build the International Space Station, 28 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:36,000 a NASA shuttle captures stunning video of what many consider to be a UFO. 29 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Unsealed case file, the Tether incident. 30 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,000 On December 22, 1996, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 31 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Space Shuttle, Columbia is launched on its 19th mission. 32 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:58,000 The goal is to deploy an experimental satellite system into orbit on a conducting tether. 33 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:08,000 The tether incident from the Space Shuttle mission STS-75 is one of the biggest conspiracy theories involving NASA. 34 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:16,000 The Space Shuttle's mission was to launch a more than 12-mile-long space tether out from the Shuttle cargo bay. 35 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Now, this thing stretched for 12 miles, but it actually ended up breaking before it could extend to about a 12.8-mile length. 36 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Strange objects were seen, and some believe that these objects were UFOs, 37 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:38,000 perhaps monitoring what NASA was doing with this satellite and this tether. 38 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:46,000 This is actual live footage recorded by NASA of the STS-75 tether incident. 39 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:56,000 As the astronauts continued to film the tether, you saw these mysterious objects that seemed to be flying behind this focal point on the film. 40 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Now, we know for a fact that this was 12 miles long, and yet it appeared that these craft were passing behind it. 41 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Now, math can deduce that these objects were huge, and nobody could explain them. 42 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,000 But NASA is quick to dismiss the incident as space debris. 43 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,000 There's a huge amount of debris out there in space. 44 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:31,000 The space-tracking radars that are located at various locations on Earth track literally thousands of these pieces. 45 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Some of them just inches across, but others defunct satellites, for example. 46 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Scientists have estimated that there are more than 20,000 objects bigger than a softball that are in orbit around Earth. 47 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,000 They're going more than 17.5 thousand miles an hour. 48 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,000 So you're talking about bullets going everywhere around trying to fly an airplane. 49 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:59,000 That creates quite a challenge for safe human spaceflight. 50 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,000 I don't think people realize just how much is out there. 51 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Spanners and gloves dropped by astronauts on previous missions, bits of foam, all sorts of debris. 52 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:18,000 If any of this directly impacts a satellite, it could take it out. 53 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:23,000 If any of it directly impacts an astronaut, it could be fatal. 54 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:31,000 But some experts are not convinced that the object seen in the STS-75 footage are space debris. 55 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,000 When you look at the evidence, the real evidence, you look at the videos, 56 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:40,000 you see that a lot of times these objects appear to be intelligently controlled. 57 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 That they're making right-angle turns. 58 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,000 They're not just slowly floating off into space and then they go away. 59 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 I mean, these are things that appear time and time again. 60 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:55,000 One theory is that the shuttle released large pieces of debris from its cargo bay 61 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,000 minutes before the UFOs appeared on screen. 62 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:04,000 But critics claim the space shuttle rarely sheds any debris from its cargo bay. 63 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Once the STS-75 footage in the Tether incident really came to light, 64 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,000 people were very excited over this because I think that this was, to many, 65 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:18,000 undeniable proof that there was something massive flying in space that wasn't us. 66 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,000 NASA are effectively live-streamed. 67 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,000 A lot of its missions. 68 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,000 And so this footage was all being recorded and was getting out there. 69 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,000 And there are a whole bunch of, I guess you would call them, space geeks 70 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:38,000 who would tap into this, record it off the NASA feed, 71 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:45,000 and then go back and try and analyze and interpret it, literally frame by frame. 72 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,000 You see these gigantic objects that appear to pass behind the Tether. 73 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Doing that math, some scientists, some experts, 74 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,000 they postulate that these objects were miles in diameter. 75 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 And that's not anything that we've put up there. 76 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Many in the UFO community believe NASA's live feed may have captured 77 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,000 compelling footage of UFOs in Earth's orbits. 78 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:17,000 But are the objects extraterrestrial spaceships or a trick of the camera? 79 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Many years ago NASA decided to start broadcasting their camera feeds from space. 80 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:30,000 It's very difficult for people that really don't know anything about space photography 81 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:36,000 and the way in which things look in space to really get a true handle on what's going on. 82 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,000 The ordinary person can't judge distances. 83 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,000 They can't judge the sizes of objects. 84 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Those amateur researchers then would go in and start analyzing frame by frame by frame. 85 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:53,000 And they made some fascinating discoveries that it wasn't just space stars 86 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 and a few debris things hanging around outside. 87 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:03,000 That it appeared to have evidence of craft being seen outside the space station or the space shuttle. 88 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Compelling footage of what may be extraterrestrial craft 89 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:12,000 has been recorded from multiple cameras mounted on the International Space Station 90 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 and on the now decommissioned space shuttles. 91 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:23,000 There are fixed cameras mounted on some of the space shuttles and the rockets, for example. 92 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:30,000 The astronauts, of course, themselves have handheld cameras 93 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:37,000 so they can point and shoot at specific things as situations arise. 94 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000 And in many cases, astronauts are following orders from mission control. 95 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Indeed, if you look at mission control itself, there are fixed cameras in the room 96 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,000 recording all the time what's going on at mission control. 97 00:08:53,000 --> 00:09:02,000 So the multiple levels of this, the central philosophy running through all of this is don't miss anything. 98 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Unsealed case file, the abrupt turn. 99 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:13,000 September 15th, 1991. Kennedy Space Center, Florida. 100 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Space Shuttle Discovery launches into orbit to deploy several satellites. 101 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:27,000 It completes 81 orbits of Earth and travels over 2 million miles, surveying vast swaths of space. 102 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:33,000 During the mission, one of its cameras catches an unusual sight. 103 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:38,000 As the astronauts were filming outside the window, they see multiple objects. 104 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:43,000 There are bright objects just drifting in straight lines. 105 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Hundreds of objects that are floating all around outside of their spacecraft. 106 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,000 And then, something even more strange occurs. 107 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:58,000 All of a sudden, in the film, you see this bright flash of light that appears to have come from the surface of Earth. 108 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,000 And a split second later, you see one of the objects. 109 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,000 And then you see that object make a right-angle turn. 110 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:14,000 And again, that may be a weapon of some kind, just shoots right by the UFO. 111 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Some experts believe the objects change direction, as if under intelligent control. 112 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Not so point out the skeptics. 113 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:31,000 If one piece of debris hits another, as will happen from time to time just through the laws of chance, 114 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,000 then of course there will be this change of direction. 115 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Others are not convinced. 116 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:42,000 And so NASA tried to say, well, the flash of light you see is the shuttle thruster. 117 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,000 And when they file the thruster, that's when you see the object make a move. 118 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:54,000 But on close inspection, some of the objects in the film are moving in multiple directions. 119 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:01,000 And so when you would fire a thruster like that, common sense tells you everything will essentially go the same way. 120 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 And that's not the case with the STS-48 footage. 121 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 At the end of the day, I think we may have more questions than answers. 122 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:17,000 The UFO community follows NASA's Space Shuttle program night and day. 123 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:25,000 And over the course of 135 missions, Space Shuttle cameras have captured unidentified objects, 124 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,000 turning many amateur enthusiasts into investigators. 125 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:34,000 I don't think they quite expected for amateurs to start tapping into those feeds 126 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:40,000 and literally recording 24 hours a day whatever those shuttle cameras were seeing. 127 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Unsealed case file, the smoking gun. 128 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:49,000 November 19th, 1996, Earth's orbit. 129 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Space Shuttle Columbia is on what will become the longest shuttle mission in history, 17 days. 130 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:05,000 The STS-80 mission is something that's also excited a lot of people in the UFO community. 131 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,000 And they refer to this sometimes as the smoking gun incident. 132 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:17,000 190 nautical miles above the Earth, Space Shuttle Columbia's cameras point toward the Earth's upper atmosphere. 133 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:25,000 During STS-80, the astronauts were filming outside of the window at a massive hurricane that had formed here on Earth. 134 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:32,000 And in the process of filming this hurricane, they saw an unknown object appear seemingly out of the clouds 135 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:37,000 and start moving towards the lightning in this massive storm. 136 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:47,000 And there are a series of flashes and then there seem to be these strange objects just drifting across the field of vision. 137 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Surrounded by what some say appears to be a plasma field, the unidentified object decelerates, 138 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:59,000 hovers, and then turns and continues down across the Earth. 139 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Now the question is what exactly is this object? Because you can then see what lightning looks like because it's going on at the same time. 140 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,000 So you can rule that out. 141 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:15,000 These points of light, I mean that some UFO believers seize upon and say an alien spacecraft. 142 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:21,000 I mean to me, this is just part of the huge amount of dust and debris that's out there. 143 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Whatever this object was, was circular in nature and it seems like it was almost attracted to what was going on inside the storm. 144 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,000 And it's something that really lacks any explanation whatsoever. 145 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,000 But some experts think they may have the answer. 146 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:45,000 None of these things seem to really behave in a way that would indicate that they were under intelligent control. 147 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:53,000 I mean pretty much all these things just drift in a straight line at a constant speed. 148 00:13:53,000 --> 00:14:04,000 NASA experts quickly dismiss any UFO speculation, suggesting that the thrust of Columbia's RCS jets pushed ice crystals into its wake. 149 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:10,000 NASA in their typical fashion wanted to explain away the STS-80 footage as simply being ice crystals. 150 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:20,000 NASA often says that many of these so-called anomalous images that show up on so many of these films are ice crystals. 151 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:32,000 And this has become almost a standing joke in the UFO community that, oh well, NASA dismissing these UFOs that we see right in front of us here are more ice crystals. 152 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,000 But some see much more than ice crystals. 153 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:46,000 When you look at it, it looks undeniably like some type of craft or something that is much farther in the distance than an ice crystal could ever be seen at. 154 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:53,000 NASA and the government and the military, they come out with these explanations that are so off the wall ridiculous. 155 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,000 You can't help but think, why don't they just not address it at all? 156 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Because that would be less conspiratorial than them trying to go over the top and say, 157 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:08,000 oh yes, that massive what seems to be 12 mile in diameter spaceship is simply an ice crystal. 158 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Nothing makes sense whatsoever. 159 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:20,000 On board the Space Shuttle Columbia at the time is payload specialist and veteran astronaut, Story Musgrave. 160 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Musgrave witnesses the object, stating, quote, 161 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:29,000 I don't know what it is. It appears to come from nowhere. It's really impressive. 162 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:36,000 A lot of people in the UFO community have seized on this and said, oh well, he must know something. 163 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Musgrave has also gone on record as saying that he does not believe that we are alone in the universe. 164 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,000 But I don't think he has any evidence that we're being visited. 165 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:52,000 It would be kind of crazy to assume that we're alone in the universe and that is just his belief system. 166 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:59,000 If NASA really was the gatekeeper here, the guardian of this great secret about UFOs, 167 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:05,000 there's no way that they'd be putting this footage out for the public to see in the first place. 168 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Many in the UFO community believe that cameras documenting NASA's space missions 24 hours a day, 169 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,000 seven days a week, have captured UFO activity. 170 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:24,000 There have been some cases where NASA's live feed has been cut. 171 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:31,000 And I think believers and conspiracy theorists say, wait a minute, something must have happened 172 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,000 and NASA didn't want the world to see. 173 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:44,000 But despite consistent denials, one such incident in January 2015 leaves more questions than answers. 174 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:50,000 In January of 2015, NASA was streaming their live feed from the International Space Station 175 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:55,000 when a mysterious object appeared in the background of the shot. 176 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Now, a split moment later, all of a sudden the feed cuts. 177 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Everything goes offline. 178 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:08,000 After about five minutes, the feed comes back and you see in the video that this object, whatever it is, is now gone. 179 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:13,000 NASA also employs a standard broadcast delay on its live feed. 180 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:20,000 If something catastrophic were to happen, arguably if we look back at the space shuttle disasters, 181 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,000 the families don't necessarily want to see that live. 182 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:32,000 I think another point is there's no secret in the fact that there are classified military satellites, for example. 183 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:41,000 And maybe again, sometimes these broadcast delays are just to ensure that one of these secret projects 184 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,000 isn't inadvertently exposed to the world. 185 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:52,000 But how can NASA publicly appear transparent and still maintain the highest level of secrecy? 186 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:59,000 It's safe to assume that after all these cases and sightings, all these videos that are being live fed to the world, 187 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:05,000 where anybody can sit and watch them in real time as they occur, is problematic. 188 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:11,000 And so they're probably broadcasting these live feeds, what they claim live feeds, 189 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,000 but probably with a massive delay. 190 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:18,000 And then that will kind of bring down the amount of evidence that investigators are collecting, 191 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,000 because let's face it, the evidence is absolutely mounting up. 192 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,000 It's something is going on.