1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,680
This program is about unsolved mysteries.

2
00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,280
Whenever possible, the actual family members and police

3
00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,280
officials have participated in recreating the events.

4
00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,280
What you are about to see is not a news broadcast.

5
00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,360
Tonight, all new stories on the season premiere

6
00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,720
of Unsolved Mysteries.

7
00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,360
In the 1980s, one UFO sighted a new world

8
00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,120
In the 1980s, one UFO sighting after another,

9
00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,760
numbering into the thousands, astounded residents

10
00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,200
of New York's Hudson River Valley.

11
00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,280
The controversy boiled over when Maverick's stunt pilots

12
00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,040
claimed they were responsible for the spectacular light

13
00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,440
formations.

14
00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,280
When she was just 17, Tammy Lynn Leepert had it all.

15
00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:49,640
She was a beauty queen.

16
00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:51,800
An accomplished model who was well on her way

17
00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:53,920
to a career in the movies.

18
00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,920
But in 1982, Tammy began to withdraw,

19
00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,960
growing increasingly paranoid until finally she vanished.

20
00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,240
In Paducah, Kentucky, a young stranger

21
00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:06,400
was seen loitering at the local airport,

22
00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,520
penniless and trying to talk his way onto a flight.

23
00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:11,560
People still wonder what drove him

24
00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:16,200
to make the desperate decision that would end his life.

25
00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,200
Join me for these intriguing stories on our season premiere.

26
00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,880
Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

27
00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:08,920
MUSIC

28
00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:18,920
APPLAUSE

29
00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:21,920
Tammy is 16 years old.

30
00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:24,920
It's five foot four and a half.

31
00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:28,920
1982, the Miss America Sunshine surfed

32
00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:31,920
beauty pageant in Orlando, Florida.

33
00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:34,920
The eventual winner will be Tammy Lynn Leepert.

34
00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:36,920
Incredibly, at the age of 16,

35
00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:40,920
Tammy has already competed in more than 300 beauty contests.

36
00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:44,920
She has won the crown 280 times.

37
00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:48,920
She was very loving, kind.

38
00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:50,920
She was always smiling.

39
00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:52,920
You never saw the child when she wasn't smiling.

40
00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:54,920
When, as young as I can remember,

41
00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:56,920
she woke up with a great big smile

42
00:02:56,920 --> 00:03:00,920
and the last thing I saw was she went to sleep with a big smile.

43
00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:04,920
Tammy Lynn Leepert was an uncommonly beautiful child.

44
00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:06,920
When she was just four years old,

45
00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:09,920
she was entered in her first beauty contest.

46
00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:12,920
Tammy's mother and father divorced when she was seven.

47
00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:16,920
Her fledgling career fell to the tender loving care of her mother,

48
00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:19,920
who was a theatrical and modeling agent.

49
00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:21,920
I was constantly busy running her around

50
00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:24,920
to where she had to go and what she had to do.

51
00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:26,920
And I enjoyed it.

52
00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:29,920
I enjoyed watching her excel because she always went

53
00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:33,920
for the best that she could go for, the highest level.

54
00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:35,920
In sports, the national...

55
00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:37,920
Wing Flanagan, one of Linda's clients,

56
00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:39,920
was just 11 when he began living at her house.

57
00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:41,920
I have to block my lipstick.

58
00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:43,920
He and Tammy were like brother and sister.

59
00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:45,920
I like it. I'm trying to watch TV.

60
00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,920
She would bend over and kiss me on the cheek

61
00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,920
and I couldn't quite ever get it completely off.

62
00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,920
It was rather, you know, embarrassing to walk around

63
00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,920
with this mark, but I think actually I learned

64
00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,920
to wear it proudly after a while

65
00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:02,920
because it was almost a status symbol.

66
00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:04,920
You know, Tammy.

67
00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,920
In July of 1982, Tammy Lynn was cast

68
00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,920
in the teen exploitation film Spring Break,

69
00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:14,920
which would go on to earn nearly $25 million

70
00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,920
at the box office.

71
00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,920
After Spring Break, Tammy went unshaperone

72
00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:22,920
to an out-of-town weekend party.

73
00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,920
She came back a different person.

74
00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,920
Sometimes I'd ask her, you know,

75
00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,920
what was on her mind if anything was bothering her.

76
00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,920
And she'd usually evade the question.

77
00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,920
She'd change the subject or she'd say,

78
00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,920
oh, nothing, you know, and then try to laugh it off.

79
00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,920
Soon, Tammy's behavior began to take on paranoid overtones.

80
00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:48,920
I'm not here. Don't tell anybody I'm here.

81
00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:49,920
Why?

82
00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:50,920
Just do it.

83
00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:51,920
All right.

84
00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:54,920
Hello?

85
00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:55,920
Is Tammy back?

86
00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:56,920
No.

87
00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:58,920
She's not here right now.

88
00:04:58,920 --> 00:04:59,920
Is she now?

89
00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:00,920
Yeah. Yeah.

90
00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:01,920
I'll call her back.

91
00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:02,920
All right. Bye.

92
00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:05,920
Happy now?

93
00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:09,920
Tammy, what's the problem?

94
00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,920
Honey, talk to me.

95
00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,920
Tammy, I saw something awful.

96
00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:16,920
What?

97
00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:17,920
Something really bad.

98
00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:19,920
Honey, what did you see?

99
00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,920
I wasn't supposed to see it.

100
00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,920
She said that she saw something so horrible

101
00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:26,920
that she couldn't talk about it.

102
00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:27,920
Sweetheart, talk to me.

103
00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,920
And she said, Mom,

104
00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:35,920
what would you say if I told you somebody was trying to kill me?

105
00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:36,920
What are you talking about?

106
00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:37,920
I wasn't supposed to see this.

107
00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:39,920
Tammy, I can't tell anybody.

108
00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:40,920
I can't.

109
00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:41,920
What do you mean you can't tell anybody?

110
00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,920
I kept trying to find out who they were.

111
00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:44,920
Tammy, talk to me.

112
00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:46,920
She never would tell me.

113
00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:47,920
Tammy?

114
00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,920
Tammy Lynn began a steady retreat into isolation.

115
00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,920
Linda and Wing had no way of ascertaining

116
00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:01,920
which of Tammy's fears were real

117
00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:03,920
and which were paranoid delusions.

118
00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:07,920
Once she called me over to the window,

119
00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,920
she said, look across the street and tell me what you see.

120
00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:13,920
I said, well, the neighbors got a new van.

121
00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,920
And she said, exactly.

122
00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:21,920
And I didn't know quite what she was getting at.

123
00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,920
And she said, the van has mirrored windows.

124
00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,920
That means that they can see us, but we can't see them.

125
00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,920
After two weeks of virtual seclusion,

126
00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,920
Tammy Lynn was offered a small part in the big budget Al Pacino

127
00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:46,920
film Scarface, which began shooting in Miami in March of 1983.

128
00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,920
She stayed with a family friend, Walter Liebowitz.

129
00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,920
All went well until the fourth day of filming.

130
00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,920
I received a call from the casting director

131
00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,920
to tell me that Tammy had a breakdown on the set.

132
00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,920
They said that there was a scene where someone

133
00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,920
was supposed to be shot and they had artificial blood spurred out.

134
00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,920
And they said, when Tammy was watching the scene,

135
00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:15,920
she started crying hysterically.

136
00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,920
And it got so bad that they had her take her to a trailer.

137
00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:29,920
She was in a tremendous state of fear, anxiety.

138
00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:31,920
It was bad.

139
00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,920
They'd blow my head off like an earthquake.

140
00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,920
Hysterically crying, saying something about money laundering.

141
00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,920
I don't know where to hide. Things of that nature.

142
00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:42,920
Oh my God.

143
00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:44,920
I was so scared.

144
00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:46,920
Tammy, look at me.

145
00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,920
What it was that caused this great fear in her, I don't know.

146
00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:52,920
Tammy, I want to help you.

147
00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:54,920
When I spoke with Tammy's mother,

148
00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,920
I told her that she should take Tammy to a doctor

149
00:07:57,920 --> 00:07:59,920
and also take her to the police to find out

150
00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:01,920
if the problem was psychological

151
00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:03,920
or if there was some basis in fact

152
00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:05,920
that someone was actually trying to kill her

153
00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:07,920
and get to the bottom of it.

154
00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,920
Tammy Lynn quit the film and went back to Cocoa Beach.

155
00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:13,920
At her mother's insistence,

156
00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:15,920
Tammy did talk to the local sheriff,

157
00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,920
but apparently never mentioned

158
00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,920
that she felt her life was in danger.

159
00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,920
Even with her family, Tammy's paranoia ran rampant.

160
00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,920
She became convinced that someone was trying to poison her.

161
00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:34,920
Taste this.

162
00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:36,920
Why?

163
00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:37,920
Just do it.

164
00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:39,920
Fine.

165
00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:54,920
There were good days and there were bad days.

166
00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:57,920
There were days when she was almost normal, almost.

167
00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,920
And there were other days when she was real edgy.

168
00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,920
She was not the Tammy that we know.

169
00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:08,920
We did not recognize this Tammy in personality.

170
00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,920
She even began to take on a different look.

171
00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:17,920
Kind of a wild look in her eyes and scared look is what it was.

172
00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,920
And if she really believed that somebody was going to try to kill her,

173
00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,920
scared is the feeling that we were seeing.

174
00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:29,920
On July 1st, 1983, Tammy Lynn finally snapped.

175
00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,920
What are you looking at?

176
00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:35,920
What are you looking at?

177
00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:36,920
Not you.

178
00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:38,920
I saw you looking at me.

179
00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:40,920
Why would I look at you?

180
00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:41,920
Well, don't.

181
00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:56,920
Let me in!

182
00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:58,920
Let me in the house!

183
00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:10,920
What are you doing?

184
00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:11,920
Stop!

185
00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:14,920
Hey!

186
00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:15,920
Why did you lock me up?

187
00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:16,920
Why did you lock me up?

188
00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:17,920
I did it!

189
00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:18,920
Please, please, please, please!

190
00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:19,920
What are you doing?

191
00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:20,920
I didn't do anything to you!

192
00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:21,920
Why did you lock me up?

193
00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:23,920
There was this completely crazy look in her eyes.

194
00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:24,920
She wasn't her.

195
00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,920
I don't think she really knew who I was.

196
00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:30,920
Tammy, it's mother!

197
00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:31,920
It's mother!

198
00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:32,920
I just kept saying it over and over again.

199
00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,920
Tammy, I love you.

200
00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,920
Until I finally saw recognition in her eyes.

201
00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,920
I knew then, right then, that I handled that incident.

202
00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,920
But I didn't know if I was going to be able to handle the next one.

203
00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,920
Linda checked Tammy into the Brevard County Mental Health

204
00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:00,920
Center for a complete physical and psychiatric evaluation.

205
00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,920
Doctors found no evidence of drug or alcohol use,

206
00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,920
and kept Tammy in the hospital for 72 hours of observation.

207
00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,920
After we took her home, she said,

208
00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,920
you've got to make me a promise.

209
00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:22,920
I said, if I can, she says, Mom, if anything happens to me,

210
00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:28,920
anything at all, I want you to get even with that person for me.

211
00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:30,920
Would you please?

212
00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,920
I said, what do you think is going to happen, Tammy?

213
00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,920
She said, I know you don't want to hear this,

214
00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:38,920
but he's still going to try to kill me.

215
00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:43,920
Rick Adams was Tammy's best friend.

216
00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,920
They went out the day after she was released from the hospital.

217
00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:52,920
At that time, Tammy, we got out of the van,

218
00:11:54,920 --> 00:12:01,920
and she looked at me, and she says, Rick, I love you.

219
00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,920
I said, Tammy, I love you too.

220
00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,920
And she said, I might be going away for a while.

221
00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:10,920
Yes.

222
00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:11,920
We will have a photographer.

223
00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:16,920
That next day, everything seemed to be extraordinarily normal.

224
00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,920
She seemed, I think, really trying to impress me that she was OK.

225
00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:23,920
Mom, I'll be back in a little bit.

226
00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:26,920
Right.

227
00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:27,920
I love you.

228
00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:28,920
Bye.

229
00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,920
I suddenly got frightened, real frightened,

230
00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,920
and I went to the door and opened it,

231
00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,920
and I just knew right then it was the last time I was going to see her.

232
00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,920
This friend picked her up at her home in Rockledge, Florida,

233
00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:53,920
and they drove to the beach.

234
00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:59,920
And we talked to him, and he basically stated that they'd come involved

235
00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:04,920
in a verbal argument that she had requested that he let her out

236
00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,920
near the glass bank in Cocoa Beach, and he complied.

237
00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,920
And as far as we know, that was the last person to see Tammy alive.

238
00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:12,920
Stop it.

239
00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:14,920
What do you want me to do?

240
00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:17,920
I just want you to shut up.

241
00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:24,920
According to Tammy's friend, he dropped her off at approximately 3 p.m.

242
00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,920
on July 6, 1983, five miles from her house.

243
00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,920
She was barefoot and carried no purse.

244
00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:37,920
She disappeared without a trace.

245
00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,920
We talked to some of her close friends.

246
00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,920
They felt strongly that Tammy was having problems at home

247
00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:48,920
and that she had left home, that she wanted to leave home.

248
00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,920
There's no conceivable way I would believe it,

249
00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,920
because first of all, she was getting ready to go to California for three months.

250
00:13:55,920 --> 00:14:00,920
That's as far away from me as you could get from Cocoa Beach to California.

251
00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:02,920
And she was really excited about going.

252
00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,920
What reason would she have for running away?

253
00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:08,920
Tammy saw something.

254
00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,920
Tammy saw something that she shouldn't have.

255
00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:17,920
Tammy knew something she shouldn't have about someone that she was very frightened of.

256
00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:27,920
Sometimes I feel if I had asked her, rather than told her

257
00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,920
that it was in her imagination, maybe she would still be here.

258
00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:36,920
What could a 17-year-old girl have seen that would cause it a fear for her life?

259
00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,920
During a breakdown on the set of Scarface,

260
00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:41,920
Tammy Lynn had mentioned money laundering.

261
00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,920
According to an official at the U.S. Custom Service,

262
00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:49,920
dozens of money laundering cases in Florida were under federal investigation at that time.

263
00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:51,920
Some call it sheer coincidence.

264
00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,920
Tammy's mother believes it is no coincidence that Tammy's mother believes it is no coincidence

265
00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,920
that Tammy's mother believes it is no coincidence that Tammy's mother believes it is no coincidence

266
00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:02,920
that Tammy's mother believes it is no coincidence at all.

267
00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:09,920
I think Tammy is either a victim of foul play,

268
00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,920
or she doesn't know who she is.

269
00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,920
I, as a mother, wanted to believe everything she told me,

270
00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,920
and I wanted to help her.

271
00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,920
If I had it all to do over again, I would go back and

272
00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:29,920
every single word she told me, and I would just hide her someplace until we found out what the truth was.

273
00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:32,920
But I can't do it over,

274
00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:36,920
and maybe she had to hide on her own, I don't know.

275
00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:43,920
No matter what happens, I would like for things to turn out for the best.

276
00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:48,920
This interview was taped in 1983 during Tammy Lynn's final beauty pageant.

277
00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,920
It seemed like the best aren't the best,

278
00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:58,920
and things that don't seem so good are the best.

279
00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,920
But I'll do my best no matter what.

280
00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,920
The quiet beauty of New York's Hudson River Valley

281
00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:28,920
belies its location just 40 miles north of the bustling streets of Manhattan.

282
00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:33,920
The valley is home to upscale professionals and retirees.

283
00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,920
They tend to be well-educated and cosmopolitan,

284
00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:41,920
hardly the type of people you'd expect to be swept up by UFO fever.

285
00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:47,920
Yet that is exactly what happened to more than one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

286
00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:56,920
That's exactly what happened to more than 5,000 area residents between 1983 and 1989.

287
00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:02,920
The epidemic of sensational UFO sightings in the Hudson River Valley lasted six years.

288
00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,920
Ultimately, the entire episode was largely dismissed as a hoax,

289
00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,920
perpetrated by a group of local stunt pilots.

290
00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:13,920
However, to this day, many of the eyewitnesses maintain that what they saw

291
00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:19,920
not have been a handful of airplanes.

292
00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:25,920
Dennis Sant, a husband and father of five, has worked in local government for 17 years.

293
00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:31,920
He is currently the highest-ranking deputy in Putnam County.

294
00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:40,920
On March 17, 1983, Sant's home in Brewster was the site of an extraordinary event.

295
00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:49,920
The scene was shot in a large, dark-gray, metallic, almost girder-type,

296
00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,920
with a very large object.

297
00:17:53,920 --> 00:18:00,920
The structure of it was very dark-gray, metallic, almost girder-type looking.

298
00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,920
What is it?

299
00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:08,920
Girls, girls, come on here and see this.

300
00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,920
The objects seem to be very silent.

301
00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:17,920
The lights were iridescent, bright.

302
00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,920
They stood out in the sky in three-dimension.

303
00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:27,920
It looked like a city of lights just hung in the sky of all brilliant colors.

304
00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:34,920
At that time, the girls became very frightened and they ran inside the house.

305
00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:41,920
Then my son and I were just drawn underneath it.

306
00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:48,920
I felt very good about encountering a visual contact with the object.

307
00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,920
We followed the object around to the backyard,

308
00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:04,920
and at that point, a feeling of fright came upon me.

309
00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,920
Thoughts started to flood my mind.

310
00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,920
Thoughts of the craft touching ground,

311
00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,920
thoughts of an encounter with an alien being,

312
00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,920
thoughts of being abducted,

313
00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,920
all types of fearful thoughts started to enter into my mind.

314
00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:26,920
And it seemed only to be seconds before the object started to move again,

315
00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,920
but the feelings were overwhelming.

316
00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:38,920
From beginning to end, the 19 or 20 minutes that I had viewed that craft

317
00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:43,920
was also a time of self-examination of myself and who I was.

318
00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:53,920
Dennis Santner's family were not the only ones mesmerized by the extraordinary light formation.

319
00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,920
A few miles away, traffic screeched to a halt on Interstate 84

320
00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,920
as a mysterious object hovered overhead.

321
00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:08,920
The Hudson Valley sightings had only just begun.

322
00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:14,920
I was sitting there looking at it and I wasn't afraid.

323
00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,920
I was just amazed. I was in awe of it. I didn't know what it was.

324
00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,920
Officer Andy Sadov, a 10-year veteran of the Newcastle police,

325
00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,920
is also an instructor in criminal child abuse procedures.

326
00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,920
On March 24th, one week after Dennis Sant's sighting,

327
00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:37,920
Officer Sadov was working routine traffic patrol.

328
00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,920
I was working a 4 p.m. to midnight tour

329
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,920
and assigned to set up some radar to look for speeding cars.

330
00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,920
I had the radar set up and I looked up into the sky

331
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:54,920
and saw coming from east to west there was a series of lights.

332
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,920
At first I thought it was a plane. It was quite a distance quite far away,

333
00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:00,920
but it was really quite large.

334
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,920
As I recall, there were mostly white lights, but there were green lights also.

335
00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,920
It was alternating green and white lights.

336
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:16,920
It approached my vehicle and as it approached the vehicle, it stopped and it seemed to hover.

337
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:22,920
There was no sound and I'm looking at this thing like thinking, what is it?

338
00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,920
When I put my head out the window and I'm looking up at it, it was huge.

339
00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,920
The thing that I recall the most is I was amazed that there was no noise.

340
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:40,920
There was no humming. There was no engine. No low sound to it.

341
00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,920
It was absolutely silent.

342
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,920
Just seconds later, the eerie silence was broken.

343
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:53,920
Another eyewitness report.

344
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,920
Unit 5 to base, I'm seeing it too. It's hovering above my car.

345
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,920
It's heading towards town. I'm following it.

346
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:15,920
At the time that we started to transmit over the air, that was about the time that it started to move

347
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:20,920
and it moved very slowly, almost floated, and we followed it.

348
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,920
We followed it until it disappeared off into the hills.

349
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,920
I guess I was mostly curious as to what it could be.

350
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:36,920
Excited to try and figure out, well, maybe it's this or maybe it's a government thing,

351
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:41,920
but I wasn't frightened of it. No, there really wasn't time to be frightened of it.

352
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:46,920
I was spending most of my time trying to figure out why there was no noise coming out of this thing.

353
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:52,920
It was truly a flying city, if that's the way you want to call it. I mean, it was huge.

354
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:57,920
Computer engineer Ed Burns is a retired senior manager for IBM.

355
00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:02,920
At the time of the sightings, Burns handled the company's contracts in Japan and South America.

356
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:13,920
On the night of March 24th, at virtually the same time Officer Sadoff was pursuing the mysterious object,

357
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:19,920
Ed Burns was driving home on the Takanik Parkway, 10 miles north of Sadoff's location.

358
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,920
I have nowhere. I got a lot of static on the radio.

359
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,920
I thought maybe I was on the wrong number and then I went over to turn the dial again,

360
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,920
and that's when I looked up and saw this craft.

361
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:50,920
It was a triangular chevron ship, and the back of that chevron had to be as large as a football field at least.

362
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:57,920
It was one solid piece of a chevron shape, and there was no noise.

363
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:08,920
It seemed so close to the ground. It seemed like I could have thrown a rock at it maybe.

364
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:14,920
Ed Burns pulled off the highway and joined a group of motorists by the side of the road.

365
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,920
All were gazing skyward, seemingly dumbstruck.

366
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,920
It was so shocking. This one fellow that I was talking to never did answer me a bit.

367
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:30,920
Isn't that incredible? Have you ever seen anything so huge?

368
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:36,920
He was just staring at this thing, and I remember his size of his eyes were so huge,

369
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,920
and he never did answer me at all. It seemed like I'd talked for an hour, it was probably only a minute,

370
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:45,920
but I was so excited about it, I wanted to share whatever I was feeling at the time.

371
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:52,920
Where was it from? I'm not into astronomy, Mars, I mean I don't know the solar systems,

372
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:58,920
but what I had witnessed that night was not from this planet.

373
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:09,920
The eyewitness reports indicated the object was slowly moving north over the Hudson River Valley.

374
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:15,920
Officer Sadov and at least 12 others saw it in Newcastle.

375
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:21,920
10 minutes later, Ed Burns and at least 20 motorists saw it near Millwood.

376
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:27,920
10 minutes after that, the phones began ringing off the hook in the police station at Yorktown.

377
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,920
Yorktown PD, Officer Wolfe. No ma'am, everything is fine.

378
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,920
No, we've had several reports, everything is under control.

379
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:40,920
Every line kept going, every single line constantly. Answer the phone, another line would light up.

380
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,920
Answer the next line, another line would light up.

381
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,920
Yes, sir. I heard about it, sir, there's really nothing to worry, please hold, sir.

382
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:51,920
It got to the point, I got a call of the Connick Parkway being stopped, the people were all out in the cars.

383
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,920
It was starting to get really crazy.

384
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:55,920
Go ahead, sir, fella.

385
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,920
I'll be 10, 17.

386
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,920
I tried calling the cars to find out if they saw anything,

387
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:06,920
and the only one that called with the cars was Kevin, said that he would stop in.

388
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:13,920
Officer Kevin Soravilla had also seen the dazzling lights reported by dozens of Yorktown residents.

389
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:19,920
The object was extremely large, and it was estimated to be close to 300 to 400 yards wide.

390
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:24,920
We stood out in front facing to the north, and in approximately about five minutes,

391
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,920
we did the object begin to appear from the northern horizon.

392
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,920
Look at that thing, man, unbelievable.

393
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:42,920
Officer's Wolf and Soravilla were standing side by side under the same sky, yet their accounts are entirely contradictory.

394
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,920
It's got to be a group of planes or something.

395
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:45,920
I don't think so.

396
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:47,920
Yeah, I think I see a wing in there.

397
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,920
I don't think so, they don't look like planes.

398
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:56,920
Officer Soravilla is convinced that what he saw was one large object with a number of small lights.

399
00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:04,920
I was, say, approximately 16, 18 lights running in a V formation, approximately 200 to 400 yards wide.

400
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:13,920
I was staring in between the lights to see any type of a solid structure where he may have basically been staring at the lights themselves.

401
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,920
They look like airplanes to me, I says, Kevin.

402
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,920
I says, you know, I live near an airport, so I see these airplanes every day.

403
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,920
So as they were coming over, he says, well, you can't hear anything.

404
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:29,920
I said, listen, with that, when we started hearing a drone, it wasn't one big solid unit.

405
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:40,920
But if you looked at it for like a couple of minutes or even a fraction as it was coming over, I could see where some people would have gotten upset.

406
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:46,920
Suddenly the Hudson Valley sightings had taken a dramatic turn.

407
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:52,920
It appeared that the UFOs were a hoax, nothing more than small aircraft flying in precise patterns.

408
00:27:52,920 --> 00:28:00,920
But this earthly explanation was lost in an avalanche of additional sightings which continued unabated month after month.

409
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:11,920
In addition, many claim this circular formation photographed as it swept over the area is also a UFO.

410
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:22,920
However, other eyewitnesses counter that the unusual lights they had seen were nothing more than small airplanes flying in wedge shaped formations.

411
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:29,920
Is anywhere from upwards of seven to ten aircraft that do fly around in formation?

412
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,920
And this is visible from our tower.

413
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:37,920
Anthony Capaldi has been an air traffic controller for just under ten years.

414
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:46,920
In the summer of 1983, he made an observation that seemed to settle a UFO controversy once and for all.

415
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:52,920
The first time I observed the formation flying, it looked a little peculiar.

416
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,920
What's that over Stormville?

417
00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:04,920
And from our vantage point in the tower, they just appear to be just one big light because they are flying in tight formation.

418
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:14,920
To estimate the size, maybe two football fields wide.

419
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,920
There's a B-6 aircraft flying in formation.

420
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:26,920
I imagine it's possible at first glimpse that an observer may not be fully aware of what this formation is.

421
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:36,920
But I don't think if this formation flew over an individual's head at a thousand feet that there's any way you can misdiagnose it for anything.

422
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:46,920
But the formation flying due to the sound of the aircraft engines and I imagine at a thousand feet, you could really determine that it's aircraft.

423
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,920
The UFO was surely seen before these Hoekster pilots began their night flights.

424
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:59,920
And after these Hoeksters began their night flights, people would call me up who had seen the UFO in previous states and said,

425
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:04,920
well, I saw something strange in the sky, but it wasn't the same thing that I saw a week before.

426
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:06,920
It definitely was planes.

427
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:16,920
So you had people who saw the UFO and then you had people who saw the planes and were able to identify each as being something strange and something totally explainable.

428
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,920
Holy, good God.

429
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:21,920
I don't know.

430
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,920
Not clean.

431
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,920
I'll be talking to you something, honey.

432
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,920
I don't know what the hell it is.

433
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:36,920
This home videotape showing a light formation above Brewster, New York was taken July 24th, 1984 by local resident Bob Puzzwoli.

434
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,920
Philip Mbrogno is convinced it shows a UFO.

435
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:46,920
Being a scientist myself, I'm still waiting for it to be proved 100 percent.

436
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:56,920
Although it has been looked at by a number of photographic experts who indicate that the movement of the object on the video seems to be one rigid object and not individual object.

437
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:11,920
Plus, there were hundreds and hundreds of witnesses who saw the UFO and said it was something strange, but the night that the airplanes were seen, there were also dozens of witnesses who said, in fact, that they did see airplanes.

438
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,920
This image was videotaped in June of 1984, also by Bob Puzzwoli.

439
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:26,920
Skeptics and believers all agree that it shows a squadron of small planes that some say are military aircraft.

440
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:37,920
If you look at that video, you can see that the lights are shifting position in relation to each other.

441
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:45,920
The fellow who videotaped it is talking about, he can hear the engines, he can see the stars as the object is passing over him.

442
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:51,920
As a matter of fact, when that videotape was made of the airplanes, no one came forward to say they had seen a UFO.

443
00:31:51,920 --> 00:32:05,920
People called me and said they had seen airplanes flying in formation, but the night of the UFO sighting when the videotape was made, I had hundreds of phone calls to different telephone lines of people who had, in fact, seen a UFO.

444
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:20,920
What is the truth about the spectacular light formations that cruise the Hudson River Valley, where the aerial stunts performed by sophisticated pranksters are UFOs of unknown origin.

445
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:25,920
Even those who saw the same object at the same time cannot agree.

446
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:44,920
I personally think that it was an airplane or people who were playing games trying to get a rush and an excitement out of making people feel, hey, there's somebody from another world here, where in fact, they were just fooling people's mind.

447
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:56,920
If it was ultra-light, I'm a little amazed by the precision flying. I have to see it again to believe it. I'm not too sure. I'm not too sure about it.

448
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:12,920
In a man's life, particular things unfold that make an impression for the rest of their life. This was one of those moments in my time that made a very dramatic impression upon me.

449
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,920
What I saw was not planes in formation.

450
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:27,920
There was no shaking or movement or rocking back and forth of any of the lights. It was perfectly still.

451
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:33,920
You know, I'm not trying to say what it was. I don't know what it was. I know it wasn't an airplane.

452
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:44,920
I tell the story a lot to certain friends that I can trust that'll believe me. I mean, my wife, I think, believes me because she loves me and respects me.

453
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:54,920
I don't know if my children do, but they love and respect me. But they also read the papers, I guess, and I guess about this five other airplanes. Maybe they equated to that.

454
00:33:54,920 --> 00:34:01,920
But boy, I'll tell you, I'll never forget that as long as I live. In five airplanes, it was not.

455
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:13,920
In preparing to film this story, unsolved mysteries asked the alleged hoaxers to recreate one of their flights during daylight hours. No one was willing to be publicly identified.

456
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:25,920
This may be because when flown at night, some of the maneuvers violate FAA regulations. According to Tony Capaldi, most of the formation flights took place on Thursday nights.

457
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:32,920
It is interesting to note that less than one-third of the UFO sightings occurred on Thursday nights.

458
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,920
In a moment, a young man dies under tragic circumstances.

459
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:50,920
September 30, 1991, Paducah, Kentucky.

460
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:56,920
Yes. Are you a pilot? No, I'm sure not. Do you know a pilot I can talk to? No, I sure don't.

461
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:03,920
Just after 6 p.m., a young man approached airport worker Wes Weaver at Paducah's small airfield.

462
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:10,920
Listen, I'm really in a bind. I really need to get out west. You've got to know somebody here that can help me out.

463
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:18,920
I kind of thought that maybe he was into something he wasn't supposed to be into running from something.

464
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:26,920
Because he honestly, he didn't act drugged up. I mean, he didn't act like he was drunk and he really didn't act crazy. Just kind of desperate.

465
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:33,920
Come on, man. I mean, look, I've got this jacket. Isn't there some way I could trade this jacket for a lift? You know, one of the pilots around here?

466
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:39,920
What began as an odd encounter soon evolved into a tragic and perplexing mystery.

467
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:49,920
I finally just kind of told him no and made it to the point where he should leave and he stood around for a little while and finally he went back through the hangar.

468
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,920
30 minutes later, Wes Weaver saw the stranger again.

469
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:08,920
And he had the jacket on and I thought it was kind of strange. So I kind of slowed down and watched and I saw him run across the ditch and jump up on the fence and jump over and run towards the plane.

470
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,920
And that's when I radioed. It's for someone to call security.

471
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,920
You better call security. We got a guy jumping over the fence at 2-2.

472
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,920
Two other witnesses saw the young man run across the airstrip.

473
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:32,920
Me and my husband was out in the yard and this plane, you know, pulled up and we saw this guy running in the field and he run over to another side of the plane.

474
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,920
Well, we never did see him no more.

475
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:40,920
The way he was running to it so fast, you know, he was up to something.

476
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:56,920
The only aircraft on the runway was commuter flight 2940, destination Memphis, Tennessee. Just before sunset at exactly 649, the plane was cleared for takeoff. Everything seemed normal.

477
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:07,920
It's a plane that got way up there. I stood there, you know, was watching. In a few minutes, I seen something fall.

478
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:13,920
And I told my husband, I said, there's something fell out of that plane.

479
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:23,920
As darkness fell, airport authorities mobilized an extensive search, looking for any sign of the man witnesses had seen.

480
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:37,920
At the northern end of the airfield, director of airfield services, Ron Jones, noticed a section of fence which had been damaged. Lying at the base was the body of the young stranger.

481
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:50,920
It really hit me then that this actually happened, that someone actually got onto an aircraft some kind of way and that someone had fallen to their death.

482
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:59,920
The man was found in the area. No identification of any kind was found on or near the body.

483
00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:05,920
As we examine the hand, we know that the nails appear to be manicured and well groomed.

484
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:11,920
Blood tests reveal no traces of drugs or alcohol in the victim's system.

485
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:16,920
We noticed that his body was well tanned and that there were not any tan lines.

486
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:23,920
The pubic hair was shaved in a swimmer's type style or of someone who may have been wearing tights.

487
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:32,920
We searched out leads with a male dancer, a troupe that was here, the Chippendale type dancers who were here the week prior.

488
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:43,920
And we based that on too, his well-developed physical appearance, his tan body, the shaved pubic area, and all of those leads were negative when they were researched.

489
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:50,920
This is a jacket worn by the young man. In one of the pockets, investigators found a pair of swimming goggles.

490
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:57,920
Sown into the collar was an ID tag inscribed Lieutenant L.F. Price, USAF.

491
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,920
A check of military records could find no such person.

492
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:17,920
When we go back and look at this series of events that led up to this incident, the individual had approximately 90 seconds to two minutes to climb over a 7.5 foot high fence,

493
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:30,920
traverse approximately 800 foot of terrain including one ditch system, run around the aircraft's tail section, and then climb on the aircraft although we have no actual witnesses to his climbing on the aircraft.

494
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:38,920
And again, the time interval was between 90 seconds and 120 seconds. It was quite an accomplishment.

495
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:47,920
Within seconds, Flight 2940 was barreling down the runway at 125 miles an hour.

496
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:53,920
One cerebral, the speed increased to more than 190 miles an hour.

497
00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:04,920
And that obviously is a substantial wind force upon anyone trying to stay on the wing of an aircraft with really no hand holes.

498
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:14,920
We judge at this point that he managed to stay on for approximately 3,000 to 3,500 feet after the aircraft departed the ground.

499
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:30,920
I wonder what was so important to make him take a chance on trying to catch a ride on the outside of an aircraft.

500
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:38,920
I think that there's an answer with his family. His family may not have even known that he was coming home.

501
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:45,920
And I think that that's probably, if we could just get over that hurdle there, I think we could find out why.

502
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:13,920
Join me next time for another edition on Solved Mysteries.

503
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,920
Solved Mysteries