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The Air Force Base here in Roswell, New Mexico, was the center of a controversy back in 1947

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that over 40 years later still remains unsolved.

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The events of a mysterious craft were found on a remote ranch allegedly stored here in Hangar 84.

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To this day there are many who believe it was a UFO.

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When we first heard of the incident at Roswell, we assumed it was just another UFO sighting

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that could be easily explained, a distant aircraft, an air missile, or perhaps it was just a hoax.

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However, eyewitness accounts and disturbing evidence suggest that something strange happened here at Roswell,

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something that cannot be easily dismissed.

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July 2, 1947, a violent electrical storm sweeps over the desolate plains of south central New Mexico.

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At this time of year these storms are almost nightly occurrences.

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At his remote ranch house, Mack Brazel patiently waits out the fury of the storm.

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Mack was a... he was just an old time cowboy, I guess you'd say, and he was pretty serious.

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If he told you something you could pretty well depend on it.

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Apparently Mack Brazel heard a thunder clap that night that somehow sounded different.

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The story is that Mack Brazel supposedly heard a loud crash at some point during the storm

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and didn't know if it was related to the storm or not.

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According to his son, Mack was on the range the next day looking to see which fields

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may have gotten precipitation the night before so they could move the livestock to those fields

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because the grass would be better there.

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And in his process of looking to see where the rain had come down,

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he found the debris fields spread out near his ranch house.

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It was obvious that something had crashed in one of his pastures the night before.

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Whatever it was was broken up beyond identification.

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The debris field was approximately three quarters of a mile long,

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maybe as much as two or three hundred feet in width.

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Scattered along there were a few of the other fields that he had been to.

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Maybe as much as two or three hundred feet in width.

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Scattered along there were bits and pieces of material.

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We refused to call it metal because from the descriptions we have,

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it was more of a plastic-like material, very strong, very lightweight.

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The pieces of it were described as being three or four feet long,

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but as light as a feather, as thin as newsprint.

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There were metal beams that were slightly flexible but very strong

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and it was spread out all over the field.

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Some of the metal pieces appear to have strange qualities and unusual tensile properties.

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Later that day, Mack drove over to his closest neighbors,

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Floyd and Loretta Proctor, who lived ten miles away.

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Good afternoon, Floyd.

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Good afternoon, Loretta.

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Hi, Mack. What brings you all the way out here?

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For Mack, he was excited.

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You know, he was wanting somebody to go down and check it out.

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And we should have.

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We didn't.

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Take a look at that.

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Light a match to see what I'm talking about.

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And he brought a little sliver of wood-looking stuff

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and him and my husband tried to cut it and burn it,

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but it wouldn't whittle and it wouldn't burn.

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Well, Mitt, that's pretty damn odd.

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Now I would say it looked like plastic back then,

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why, you know, we didn't have plastic

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and I guess it was more like some kind of a lightweight wood.

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The Proctors urged Brazill to go to the authorities.

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The following Monday, Brazill reported his discovery to the sheriff

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who informed New Yorkers that he had been in the city for a long time

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and that he had been in the city for a long time.

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And the next day, he was discovered to the sheriff

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who informed nearby Roswell Army Air Base.

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That afternoon, Mack Brazill led two Army intelligence officers

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to the crash site.

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One of the officers was Major Jesse Marcell Sr.,

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an experienced combat pilot,

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I wanted to stay there, Mr. Brazill. Lieutenant?

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Even with his experience, Marcell was unable to identify

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what kind of craft it was.

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Marcell died in 1982,

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but before his death, he gave the following interview

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for a documentary film about UFOs.

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There were just fragments strewn all over the area,

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an area about three-quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet wide.

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So we proceeded to pick up the parts.

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I tried to bend the stuff. It will not bend.

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I even tried to burn that. It would not burn.

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That stuff weighs nothing.

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It's not in there thicket and tinfoil and a pack of cigarettes.

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We even tried making a dent in it with a 16-pound sledgehammer.

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Still no dent in it.

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One thing I was certain of, being familiar with all the activities,

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that it was not a weather balloon, nor an aircraft, nor a missile.

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It was something else, which we didn't know what it was.

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Late on the night of July 7th,

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Major Marcell drove back to Roswell.

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His car loaded down with the unusual remains found on the ranch.

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Before going onto the base, he stopped by his home.

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He wanted to show his family what he had found.

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When he came back to the house,

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he had had a bunch of wreckage with him at the time.

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He brought the wreckage into the house,

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actually awakened my mother and myself out,

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so we could view this because it's so unusual.

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It's about two o'clock in the morning, as I recall, right?

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He spread it out so we could get some basic idea

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of what it looked like, what it was.

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Jesse Marcell Jr. was 11 years old at the time

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and remembers the incident vividly.

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He is one of the few people still alive,

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known to have handled pieces of the debris.

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We were all amazed by this debris that was there.

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Probably because we didn't know what it was, you know, just the unknown.

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Look at this writing. What do you think that is?

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The most remarkable fragment was a short piece of eye-beam,

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which was covered with strange symbols and embossed markings.

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Looks like some kind of hieroglyphics.

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This writing could be described as like hieroglyphics,

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Egyptian-type hieroglyphics, but not really.

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The symbols that were in the eye-beams were more of a geometric-type configuration

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in various designs.

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It had a violet-purple-type color

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and was actually an embossed part of the metal itself.

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Years after this incident happened,

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we would talk privately among ourselves

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about what the possibilities of this, what this thing was.

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And I feel that we, well, I know that we came to the conclusion

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that it was not of earthly origin.

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If I had not actually held pieces of it in my hand,

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I would not think that it would be possible.

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But because I happened to see this, that's the only reason I believe it.

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Major Marcel took the wreckage to the Roswell base where he was stationed.

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Roswell was home to the 509th Bomb Squadron,

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the Air Force's sole atomic bomb group at the time.

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It was a closed base, and personnel stationed there

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required a high security clearance.

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The following morning, it is believed that some of the pieces were flown

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to Wright Field, near Dayton, Ohio,

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with a short stop at Carswell Air Base at Fort Worth, Texas.

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That same morning, Colonel William Blanchard,

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the commanding officer, made a crucial decision.

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He went public with the story of the discovery made by Mac Brazel.

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The press release read in part,

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The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday,

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when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Squadron

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was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc

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through the cooperation of a local redshirt.

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The press release was immediately picked up by newspapers across the country.

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The story created a furor.

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That same day, it was reported that an engineer

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for the Soil Conservation Service made another remarkable discovery.

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Barney Barnett of Socorro, New Mexico, died in 1969,

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but he may have been the person who discovered

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what was perhaps the first positive proof

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that there was other life in our universe.

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Barney was just a real straightforward,

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just what you would call a real straight guy.

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He wouldn't tell you one story out of color or nothing.

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That's why I was really surprised when he related this information to me

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about Christ's author.

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He told me that he came onto this spaceship, it was during the daytime.

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It was in oval shapes, similar to what had been identified,

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you know, in different sightings and so on.

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And it had crashed and it had broken open.

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There was beings laying, about four beings laying on the ground,

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not in the spaceship, laying on the ground.

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He did describe that the heads were larger than the bodies by proportion.

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And they had some type of clothing on that looked a little bit different,

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not exactly like our spacesuits or that sort of thing.

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But the four were laying on the ground.

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And they were scattered not too far from the object.

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Barney told Verne that he reached the crash site

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about the same time as a group of archaeology students

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who had seen the wreckage from their nearby dig.

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The military had also apparently discovered the second crash site

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after an aerial search, but they arrived too late to secure the area.

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Sergeant, get those people out of there and in front of this jeep now.

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Barney Barnett and the students had a clear and detailed look

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at the craft and its occupants.

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When the army showed up, they immediately escorted these people from the scene.

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And then at that time they gave them a warning

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not to relate any information to anybody.

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From that time on, Barney never mentioned it to anybody

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until the time that he told me about the thing.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is my duty to inform you

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all efforts to track down the members of the archaeology dig have been unsuccessful.

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This is a restricted area.

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While the Barnett story has only been told secondhand,

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many believe there is just too much supporting

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circumstantial evidence to completely dismiss it.

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When he first told me I was a sort of flabbergast, I didn't know what to say,

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but I believed it because of his integrity.

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I'd stake my life on his reliability.

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He would never concoct any story.

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That's why I believe it should be true.

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On July 8, 1947, newspapers across America published accounts

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that a UFO had supposedly crashed in New Mexico.

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That same day, according to some investigators,

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a cargo plane carrying the debris from the crash site

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arrived at an airbase in Fort Worth, Texas.

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At almost the same moment, the army received the news of a second crash site,

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where alien bodies may have been found.

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Brigadier General Roger Raimi was the ranking commander

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of the Eighth Army Air Force at Fort Worth.

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Within hours, Raimi's office issued a new press release,

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stating that the material recovered in New Mexico was not a UFO,

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but in reality, the wreckage of a U.S. Army weather balloon.

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Dad said, obviously, it was a cover-up story.

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It was not a weather balloon.

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He was a little disturbed about that, but he had his own intelligence

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and security classification to protect.

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He could not really go public with,

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hey, this is not the real thing.

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I mean, this is not a weather balloon.

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So he had to keep that to himself.

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But the UFO incident was still very much alive from Mac Brazel.

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At the time rumors surfaced that Brazel was held at the Roswell base

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until after the new cover story had been circulated and generally accepted.

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By the time Brazel returned to his ranch,

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all traces of the Roswell incident had apparently been removed from the area

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and taken to Wright Field and Dayton, Ohio.

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Everything went to Wright Field.

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That's where the Air Technical Intelligence Center was.

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That was where they could make the studies.

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Subsequent to that, we think that the material has been sent elsewhere.

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We think one of the bodies has gone to Langley, CIA headquarters.

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We think another has gone to MacDill,

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which is an Air Force base in Florida,

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where they have an aerospace medicine facility.

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We don't know where other stuff is gone.

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We think some of it is still left at Wright Field.

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I think the reasons for the initial cover-up are pretty straightforward

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when you stop to think about it.

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Remember, this is two years after the worst war the planet had ever seen.

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You didn't think in terms of nice guys here to say hello kind of thing.

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They didn't know how to deal with them.

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What could you tell the public?

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It would have been totally irresponsible to say,

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by the way, we thought you'd like to know that there are alien visitors to planet Earth,

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that we can't do a darn thing to prevent them from flying over the country.

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We don't know what they want or where they're from,

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but we thought you'd like to know.

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For this group of people at that time to do that would have been totally irresponsible.

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In spite of the circumstantial evidence,

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there was no real proof to dispute the Army's contention

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that the wreckage was in fact a weather balloon.

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Then, more than 30 years later,

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UFO researchers obtained a document

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which many contend proves the Roswell incident actually occurred.

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In 1984, this top-secret document known as the MJ-12 memo

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was mailed anonymously to a UFO researcher.

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Operation Majestic-12, or MJ-12 as it's called,

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was a group of 12 people apparently established by the president

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to deal with the wreckage from Roswell and the whole problem that that created.

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How did these things work? Where did they come from?

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How can we get more information?

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How can we analyze the wreckage in the bodies and so forth?

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And how do we interact with the rest of society having that knowledge?

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The contents of the report stunned researchers.

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In part, it read,

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On 07 July 1947,

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a secret operation was begun to assure the recovery of the wreckage.

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Aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings

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had apparently ejected from the craft,

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about two miles east of the wreckage site.

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All four were dead.

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Civilian and military witnesses in the area were debriefed,

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and news reporters were given the effective cover story

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that the object had been a misguided weather belief.

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The government has consistently refused a comment on the MJ-12 memo,

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and there is still no proof of its origin.

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But if we are to believe the MJ-12 document and the other accounts,

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then we must ask ourselves a fantastic question.

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Did our government in 1947

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really discover evidence that there is life in the universe outside our own atmosphere?

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Apart from Barney Barnett, there is only one man

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who has ever admitted to having seen these aliens.

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My husband, Oliver Henderson,

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otherwise known as Pappy in the Air Force,

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he was interested with many of this country's top secrets,

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and they were safe with him.

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He never told anything that he wasn't supposed to.

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And therefore, it was 34 years after this incident happened that I heard about it.

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Captain Pappy Henderson was the man who piloted the plane

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that took the first pieces of wreckage out of Roswell.

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In 1981, two years before he died,

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he told his wife that in spite of military denials,

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the Roswell incident really happened.

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My husband told me the bodies were small, smaller than human bodies.

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The heads were larger, and the eyes were rather sunken and a little slanted.

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Clothing was of material unlike anything he'd seen before.

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They were strange.

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They were not of this earth.

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When my husband, first pilot, aircraft commander, tells me this story, I believed him.

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More than 40 years have passed since that hot summer night

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when a violent thunderstorm swept over the Brazel Ranch.

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The military declared that the remnants found in that remote field

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came from a downed weather bowl.

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But the people who actually saw and held the wreckage disagreed.

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Perhaps it was an experimental aircraft

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that the military wanted to keep top secret at all costs.

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But perhaps, just perhaps, it was something else.

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For almost 50 years, the events that took place at Roswell

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in the official explanation of fuel suspicion and charges of cover-up

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as recently as September 8, 1994, the Air Force released yet another report

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stating that the rumors of alien contact were groundless.

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In spite of these assertions, witnesses continued to come forward

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insisting that the reports are true.

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Of all the new accounts, the story related by a man named Glenn Dennis

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is too compelling to be ignored.

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In 1947, Glenn Dennis was 22 years old and just out of college.

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That summer, he was working as a mortician's assistant

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at a funeral home in Roswell.

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Two days before the saucer's story broke,

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Dennis received a strange phone call from the Roswell Air Base.

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Ballard, funeral home.

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Mr. Ballard, please.

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He's not in, but this is Glenn Dennis. Can I help you?

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Glenn, this is Captain Meiser. I'm the mortician, mortuary officer over at the base.

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Yes, sir.

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He was wanting to know what size hermetically sealed baby caskets did we have.

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Did we have specifically three feet, six inches,

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or did we have maybe no larger than a four-foot hermetically sealed casket?

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That afternoon, Glenn Dennis was called to transport an injured airman to the Roswell Base.

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When he arrived, he was surprised to find the base infirmary surrounded by MPs.

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Two ambulances parked at the curb immediately drew Glenn's attention.

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I looked into the ambulance.

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I saw quite a bit of wreckage of some type.

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It looked like stainless steel that had become in contact with a high degree of heat.

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It was a purplish-bluish color.

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I noticed one large piece of the wreckage could look like there was some Egyptian hieroglyphics.

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The confusion at that day that I was out there was so great

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that I don't think anyone really knew what the other man was doing.

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And I don't think they even knew each other.

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I think they were brought in from different military bases or whatever.

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Sir, is there anything you want me to do?

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Can I help you?

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I'm Glenn Dennis with the Ballard Funeral Home and we have a contract with the base.

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Well, this area is off-limits today.

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Yeah, but there was a crash outside. Do you want me to go back and get ready or anything?

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Son, this is an off-limits area today. You're not allowed in here.

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Sergeant, escort this man back to the funeral home?

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2MPs came up and said, sir, we have to escort you back to your mortuary.

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Hold it right there. Bring that man back here.

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And you get this straight. When you get back to town, you didn't hear anything

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and you didn't see anything because nothing happened here. Do you understand me?

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That's not true. I just saw a crash outside.

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Nothing happened.

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You can't tell me what to do. I'm a civilian.

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Oh, really?

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And that's when he said, let, mister, somebody will be picking your bones out of the sand

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if you go start a lot of rumors.

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You got me? Get him out of here.

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There's a door opened into one of the supply room

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and the nurse that I knew personally was coming out.

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You better get out of here. You're going to get in a lot of trouble.

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Get him out of here!

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Something very drastically was wrong at the base.

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Hold that door!

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Naturally, I, you know, was curious and mad

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and couldn't believe what was happening.

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So the first person I thought I was to contact the nurse to see what she might know

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and could she bring me up to date on what was going on?

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You have to promise me that you will not mention my name.

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The next day, the nurse agreed on the condition that Glenn never revealed her identity.

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Yesterday, I went into the supply room to pick up some bandages

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and there were two officers there who ordered me to take notes during this...

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What she said that she saw, that they were doing a partial autopsy.

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And there were these two old hospital gurneys with these two little crash bags on top.

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There was a crash bag that was open and there was two very mutilated, very small bodies.

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But they weren't children. I never seen anything like that.

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And then one of the officers had these long forceps.

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They turned a hand over that had been severed

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and they were explaining that it was a very fragile hand, only four fingers.

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Let me draw it for you.

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It's like an arm with four fingers with little suction cups.

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The head was very large, the eyes were set back.

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They didn't have the ear lobes or anything.

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There was like two canals, like two ear canals.

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There was only two offices where the nose...

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The mouth she explained and what she said she wrote down was only like an inch slit.

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They described there was no teeth, that it was just like a piece of cartilage, maybe.

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Then they opened the next back and there was a whole creature in there that wasn't mutilated.

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It was just horrible. I'd never seen anything like that in my life.

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In all, the nurse claimed to have seen three bodies.

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She was adamant that none of them was earthly in origin.

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After Glenn left the nurse, he returned to his office.

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When he casually unfolded the newspaper on his desk,

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it was the infamous edition of the Roswell Daily Record.

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Glenn never saw the nurse again.

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A few weeks later, rumors circulated that she had died in a plane crash

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after being transferred out of the country.

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To this day, Glenn Dennis remains convinced that the details of her story are true.

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There had to be some type of a body presence.

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There had to be something there.

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I don't think the nurse lied about it because I don't think she knew how to lie in the first place.

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And I just think something happened very unusual and I doubt very seriously

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if the world will ever know what happened.

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I'm absolutely convinced that the Roswell events crystallized government secrecy about UFOs.

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I think Roswell became important to the military because possibly for the first time

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they actually could get their hands on the remains of a flying saucer.

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They had the debris. They had bodies.

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They had possibly the remains of a propulsion unit.

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This was an unprecedented opportunity.

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600 miles west of Roswell, somewhere in the midst of the vast Nevada desert,

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is a top secret military installation.

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It's been called the ranch, the funny farm, dreamland, groom lake, and most commonly area 51.

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It doesn't appear on any map and although it can be seen with a naked eye from an adjoining ridge,

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the Air Force insists that area 51 does not exist.

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It's been there since the 1960s and it's a site where extremely advanced aviation technology

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is tested usually under cover of darkness.

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Some of these objects actually look like what people have reported as UFOs.

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This amateur video was shot near area 51 using a special digital zoom lens.

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Skeptics say the strange lights seen here and in other videos are experimental military aircraft,

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but others remain convinced that they are in reality the test flights of alien spacecraft.

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The only thing I was told is that I was going to be working on an advanced propulsion system.

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Bob Lazar says he worked for six months at a secret installation near area 51.

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Something different than a jet or rocket, something different than a propeller,

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which I thought was fantastic, that was exactly what I was interested in.

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I had no idea that this was of extraterrestrial origin.

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As astonishing as it may seem, Bob Lazar claims that the United States government is in possession of alien spacecraft.

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One of them, nicknamed the Sport Model, measures 52.8 feet in diameter.

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Lazar claims he witnessed a test flight in March of 1989.

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The flight of the disk was short. The bottom of the disk itself glowed a very faint blue.

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As it rose to about 20 or 30 feet, the sound dissipated and it was completely silent

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and hung silently in the air, which was quite a sight for something that size.

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It moved very slowly over to the left, very slowly over to the right, and then sat back down.

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It was very uneventful. Well, as uneventful as a flying saucer test could be.

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While some charge at Bob Lazar is a fraud and lacks scientific credentials, others maintain that his story is essentially true.

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In the five years I've been working on this, I've accumulated approximately two dozen other witnesses who will corroborate the story.

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Some of them who worked at Groom Lake in Area 51 in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s,

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all of whom have different bits and pieces that would tend to corroborate.

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People who have seen the flying disks, people who have worked at the base and watched the tests,

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people that have been told by the superior officers that these things came from somewhere else.

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When Unsolved Mysteries asked the Air Force about Area 51, they refused to acknowledge its existence.

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Bob Lazar believes that the shroud of official secrecy is hiding much more than alien spacecraft.

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I did have the opportunity to view autopsy photos, and when they were taken I couldn't even guess.

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They were black and white, the being was dead.

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It was only an upper chest photograph of the being.

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The image of the being was cut in a T-Fashion with the skin pulled back, and what was removed was one large organ.

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I think the situation has become more complex as the years have passed,

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since there seems to be a possibility that we're dealing not just with one species of extraterrestrial,

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but possibly several who may have several motives.

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Any discussion of the possible motives of extraterrestrials who may be visiting the Earth is purely speculative.

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We have no way of knowing, but if UFO reports are taken literally,

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they certainly do suggest that we are dealing with a technological civilization,

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in other words a civilization with an advanced scientific knowledge.

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You don't get advanced scientific knowledge without a great degree of curiosity.

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I would expect that an extraterrestrial civilization would visit the Earth for exactly the same reason

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we visit the remote outposts of our own planet, to learn things.

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The quiet beauty of New York's Hudson River Valley,

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a life's location is 40 miles north of the bustling streets of Manhattan.

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The Valley is home to upscale professionals and retirees.

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They tend to be well educated and cosmopolitan, hardly the type of people you'd expect to be swept up by UFO fever.

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Yet that is exactly what happened to more than 5,000 area residents between 1983 and 1989.

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The epidemic of sensational UFO sightings in the Hudson River Valley lasted six years.

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Ultimately the entire episode was largely dismissed as a hoax, perpetrated by a group of local stunt pilots.

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However to this day, many of the eyewitnesses maintain that what they saw could not have been a handful of airplanes.

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Dennis Sant, a husband and father of five, has worked in local government for 17 years.

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He is currently the highest ranking deputy in Putnam County.

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On March 17, 1983,

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Sant's home in Brewster was the site of an extraordinary event.

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It was a very large object.

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The structure of it was very dark gray, metallic, almost girder type looking.

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Girls, girls come out here and see this.

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The objects seemed to be very silent.

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The lights were iridescent, bright.

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They stood out in the sky in three dimension.

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It looked like a city of lights just hung in the sky of all brilliant colors.

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At that time the girls became very frightened and they ran inside the house.

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Then my son and I were just drawn underneath it.

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I felt very good about encountering a visual contact with the object.

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We followed the object around to the backyard.

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At that point a feeling of fright came upon me.

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Thoughts started to flood my mind.

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Thoughts of the craft touching ground.

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Thoughts of an encounter with an alien being.

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Thoughts of being abducted.

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All types of fearful thoughts started to enter into my mind.

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And it seemed only to be seconds before the object started to move again.

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But the feelings were overwhelming.

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From beginning to end, the 19 or 20 minutes that I had viewed that craft

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was also a time of self-examination of myself and who I was.

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Dennis Santana's family were not the only ones mesmerized by the extraordinary light formation.

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A few miles away, traffic screeched to a halt on Interstate 84

473
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,520
as a mysterious object hovered overhead.

474
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,520
The Hudson Valley sightings had only just begun.

475
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:36,520
I was sitting there looking at it and I wasn't afraid.

476
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,520
I was just amazed. I was in awe of it. I didn't know what it was.

477
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,520
Officer Andy Sadoff, a 10-year veteran of the New Castle police,

478
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,520
is also an instructor in criminal child abuse procedures.

479
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,520
On March 24th, one week after Dennis Sant's sighting,

480
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,520
Officer Sadoff was working routine traffic patrol.

481
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:07,520
I was working a 4 p.m. to midnight tour and assigned to set up some radar to look for speeding cars.

482
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:16,520
I had the radar set up and I looked up into the sky and saw, coming from east to west,

483
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,520
there was a series of lights. And at first I thought it was a plane.

484
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:23,520
It was quite a distance, quite far away, but it was really quite large.

485
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:29,520
As I recall, there were mostly white lights, but there were green lights also.

486
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,520
It was alternating green and white lights.

487
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:38,520
It approached my vehicle and as it approached the vehicle, it stopped and it seemed to hover.

488
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:45,520
There was no sound and I'm looking at this thing thinking, what is it?

489
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:51,520
When I put my head out the window and I'm looking up at it, it was huge.

490
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,520
The thing that I recall the most is I was amazed that there was no noise.

491
00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:01,520
There was no humming, there was no engine, no low sound to it.

492
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,520
It was absolutely silent.

493
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:08,520
Just seconds later, the eerie silence was broken.

494
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,520
Another eyewitness report.

495
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,520
Could you please send somebody else? I'm observing something incredible.

496
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:22,520
Unit 5 to base, I'm seeing it too. It's hovering above my car.

497
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,520
It's heading towards town, I'm following it.

498
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,520
At the base, I saw a car.

499
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:38,520
At the time that we started to transmit over the air, that was about the time that it started to move.

500
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,520
It moved very slowly, almost floated.

501
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,520
We followed it until it disappeared off into the hills.

502
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,520
I was mostly curious as to what it could be.

503
00:39:52,520 --> 00:40:00,520
Excited to try and figure out, maybe it's this or maybe it's a government thing.

504
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:04,520
But I wasn't frightened of it, no. There really wasn't time to be frightened of it.

505
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:09,520
I was spending most of my time trying to figure out why there was no noise coming out of this thing.

506
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:14,520
It was truly a flying city, if that's the way you want to call it.

507
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,520
I mean, it was huge.

508
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,520
Computer engineer Ed Burns is a retired senior manager for IBM.

509
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:26,520
At the time of the sightings, Burns handled the company's contracts in Japan and South America.

510
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:37,520
On the night of March 24th, at virtually the same time Officer Sadoff was pursuing the mysterious object,

511
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:43,520
Ed Burns was driving home on the Takanik Parkway, 10 miles north of Sadoff's location.

512
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,520
I have nowhere. I got a lot of static on the radio.

513
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,520
I thought maybe I was on the wrong number and then I went over to turn the dial again,

514
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:58,520
and that's when I looked up and saw this craft.

515
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:14,520
It was a triangular chevron ship, and the back of that chevron had to be as large as a football field at least.

516
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:21,520
It was one solid piece of a chevron shape, and there was no noise.

517
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:26,520
It seemed so close to the ground.

518
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:31,520
It seemed like I could have thrown a rock at it maybe.

519
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:38,520
Ed Burns pulled off the highway and joined a group of motorists by the side of the road.

520
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:42,520
All were gazing skyward, seemingly dumbstruck.

521
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:48,520
It was so shocking. This one fellow that I was talking to never did answer me a bit.

522
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:54,520
Isn't that incredible? Have you ever seen anything so huge?

523
00:41:55,520 --> 00:42:00,520
He was just staring at this thing, and I remember his size of his eyes were so huge,

524
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:04,520
and he never did answer me at all. It seemed like I'd talked for an hour, it was probably only a minute,

525
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:09,520
but I was so excited about it, I wanted to share whatever I was feeling at the time.

526
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:16,520
Where was it from? I'm not into astronomy, Mars, I mean I don't know the solar systems,

527
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:22,520
but what I had witnessed that night was not from this planet.

528
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:33,520
The eyewitness reports indicated the object was slowly moving north over the Hudson River Valley.

529
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,520
Officer Sadov and at least 12 others saw it in Newcastle.

530
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:47,520
10 minutes later, Ed Burns and at least 20 motorists saw it near Millwood.

531
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:54,520
10 minutes after that, the phones began ringing off the hook in the police station at Yorktown.

532
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,520
Yorktown PD Officer Wolfe, no ma'am, everything is fine.

533
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,520
No, we've had several reports, everything is under control.

534
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:07,520
Every line kept going, every single line constantly. Answer the phone, another line, another line.

535
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,520
Answer the next line, another line, another line.

536
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,520
I've heard about it, sir, there's really nothing to worry, please hold, sir.

537
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:18,520
I got to the point, I got a call of the Connick Parkway being stopped, the people were all out in the cars.

538
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,520
It was starting to get really crazy.

539
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:22,520
Go ahead, Soravilla.

540
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,520
I'll be 10, 17.

541
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,520
I tried calling the cars to find out if they saw anything.

542
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:33,520
And the only one that called with the cars was Kevin, said that he would stop in.

543
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:40,520
Officer Kevin Soravilla had also seen the dazzling lights reported by dozens of Yorktown residents.

544
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:45,520
The object was extremely large, and it was estimated to be close to 300 to 400 yards wide.

545
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:50,520
We stood out in front facing to the north, and in approximately about five minutes,

546
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,520
the object began to appear from the northern horizon.

547
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,520
Look at that thing, man, unbelievable.

548
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:04,520
Officers Wolfe and Soravilla were standing side by side under the same sky,

549
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:08,520
yet their accounts are entirely contradictory.

550
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:10,520
It's got to be a group of planes or something.

551
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:11,520
I don't think so.

552
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:12,520
Yeah, I think I see a wing in there.

553
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:15,520
I don't think so, they don't look like planes.

554
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:22,520
Officer Soravilla is convinced that what he saw was one large object with a number of small lights.

555
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:30,520
I was, say, approximately 16, 18 lights running in a V formation, approximately 200 to 400 yards wide.

556
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:35,520
I was standing between the lights to see any type of a solid structure

557
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:39,520
where he may have basically been staring at the lights themselves.

558
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,520
They look like airplanes to me, I says, Kevin.

559
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:45,520
I says, you know, I live near an airport, so I see these airplanes every day.

560
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:49,520
So as they were coming over, he says, well, you can't hear anything.

561
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:55,520
I said, listen, with that, when we started hearing a drone, it wasn't one big solid unit.

562
00:44:55,520 --> 00:45:00,520
But if you looked at it for like a couple of minutes or even a fraction as it was coming over,

563
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,520
I could see where some people would have gotten upset.

564
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,520
Suddenly the Hudson Valley sightings had taken a dramatic turn.

565
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:16,520
It appeared that the UFOs were a hoax, nothing more than small aircraft flying in precise patterns.

566
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:21,520
But this earthly explanation was lost in an avalanche of additional sightings

567
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,520
which continued unabated month after month.

568
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:31,520
Is anywhere from upwards of 7 to 10 aircraft that do fly around in formation?

569
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,520
And this is visible from our tower.

570
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,520
Anthony Capaldi has been an air traffic controller for just under 10 years.

571
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:47,520
In the summer of 1983, he made an observation that seemed to settle a UFO controversy once and for all.

572
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:54,520
The first time I observed the formation flying, it looked a little peculiar.

573
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,520
What's that over Stormville?

574
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:04,520
And from our vantage point in the tower, they just appeared to be just one big light

575
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,520
because they are flying in tight formation.

576
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:16,520
To estimate the size, maybe two football fields wide.

577
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:28,520
I imagine it's possible at first glimpse that an observer may not be fully aware of what this formation is.

578
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:35,520
But I don't think if this formation flew over an individual's head at 1,000 feet,

579
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,520
that there's any way you can misdiagnose it for anything.

580
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:43,520
But formation flying due to the sound of the aircraft engines,

581
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:48,520
and I imagine at 1,000 feet, you could really determine that it's aircraft.

582
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:53,520
The UFO was surely seen before these Hoaxter pilots began their night flights.

583
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:58,520
And after these Hoaxter's began their night flights,

584
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,520
people would call me up who had seen the UFO in previous dates and said,

585
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:06,520
well, I saw something strange in the sky, but it wasn't the same thing that I saw a week before.

586
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,520
It definitely was planes.

587
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:12,520
So you had people who saw the UFO, and then you had people who saw the planes

588
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:18,520
and were able to identify each as being something strange and something totally explainable.

589
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,520
Holy, good God.

590
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:23,520
I don't know.

591
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:24,520
Not plane.

592
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,520
I'll be talking to you something funny.

593
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,520
I don't know what the hell it is.

594
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:33,520
This home videotape showing a light formation above Brewster, New York,

595
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:38,520
was taken July 24th, 1984 by local resident Bob Puzzwally.

596
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:42,520
Philip Mbrogno is convinced it shows a UFO.

597
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:48,520
Being a scientist myself, I'm still waiting for it to be proved 100%,

598
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:52,520
although it has been looked at by a number of photographic experts

599
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:57,520
who indicate that the movement of the object on the video seems to be one rigid object

600
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:00,520
and not individual objects.

601
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:06,520
Plus there were hundreds and hundreds of witnesses who saw the UFO and said it was something strange,

602
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:10,520
but the night that the airplanes were seen, there were also dozens of witnesses

603
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:14,520
who said in fact that they did see airplanes.

604
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:21,520
This image was videotaped in June of 1984, also by Bob Puzzwally.

605
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:26,520
Skeptics and believers all agree that it shows a squadron of small planes

606
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,520
that some say are military aircraft.

607
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:39,520
If you look at that video, you can see that the lights are shifting position in relation to each other.

608
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:44,520
The fellow who videotaped it is talking about, he can hear the engines,

609
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:48,520
he can see the stars as the object is passing over him.

610
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,520
As a matter of fact, when that videotape was made of the airplanes,

611
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,520
no one came forward to say they had seen a UFO.

612
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,520
People called me and said they had seen airplanes flying in formation,

613
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,520
but the night of the UFO sighting when the videotape was made,

614
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:08,520
I had hundreds of phone calls to different telephone lines of people who had in fact seen a UFO.

615
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:16,520
What is the truth about the spectacular light formations that cruise the Hudson River Valley,

616
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:23,520
where the aerial stunts performed by sophisticated pranksters are UFOs of unknown origin?

617
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:28,520
Even those who saw the same object at the same time cannot agree.

618
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:34,520
I personally think that it was an airplane where people who were playing games,

619
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:39,520
trying to get a rush and an excitement out of making people feel,

620
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:47,520
hey, there's somebody from another world here, where in fact, they were just fooling people's mind.

621
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:53,520
If it was ultra-light, I'm a little amazed by the precision flying.

622
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:59,520
I have to see it again to believe it. I'm not too sure. I'm not too sure about it.

623
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:08,520
In a man's life, particular things unfold that make an impression for the rest of their life.

624
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:15,520
This was one of those moments in my time that made a very dramatic impression upon me.

625
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,520
What I saw was not planes in formation.

626
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:28,520
There was no shaking or movement or rocking back and forth of any of the lights.

627
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:33,520
It was perfectly still. I'm not trying to say what it was. I don't know what it was.

628
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:35,520
I know it wasn't an airplane.

629
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:41,520
I tell the story a lot to certain friends that I can trust that'll believe me.

630
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:46,520
My wife, I think, believes me because she loves me and respects me.

631
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:50,520
I don't know of my children do, but they love and respect me.

632
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:55,520
But they also read the papers, I guess, and I guess about five other airplanes.

633
00:50:55,520 --> 00:51:01,520
Maybe they equated to that, but boy, I'll tell you, I'll never forget that as long as I live.

634
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:04,520
In five airplanes, it was not.

635
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:13,520
In preparing to film this story, unsolved mysteries asked the alleged hoaxers to recreate one of their flights during daylight hours.

636
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,520
No one was willing to be publicly identified.

637
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:22,520
This may be because when flown at night, some of the maneuvers violate FAA regulations.

638
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:28,520
According to Tony Capaldi, most of the formation flights took place on Thursday nights.

639
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:34,520
It is interesting to note that less than one-third of the UFO sightings occurred on Thursday nights.

640
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:39,520
The World of Brussels

641
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:56,520
Brussels, Belgium, is known as the capital of capitals, an ancient city of charm and elegance.

642
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:04,520
It would seem unlikely that old world Brussels would be the focal point of a very contemporary controversy.

643
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:14,520
Since the fall of 1989, several thousand people from all walks of life have reported that Belgium is being invaded from the skies.

644
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:23,520
Basically what we saw was this big triangle object with three bright white lightings in the corners.

645
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:27,520
And it was immobile above the motorway.

646
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,520
In the middle was a flashing red light.

647
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:36,520
It passed by approaching the roofs since it was flying so low.

648
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:43,520
You could see three white lights which formed an equilateral triangle.

649
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:49,520
What exactly is it that thousands of people have been seeing in the night sky over Belgium?

650
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:54,520
These drawings were generated from the testimony of hundreds of eyewitnesses.

651
00:52:54,520 --> 00:53:02,520
Almost without fail, they describe an immense triangular object with bright lights at the corners and another light in the center.

652
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:09,520
Then on July 11, 1991, an extraordinary press conference was held.

653
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:17,520
High-ranking members of the Belgian military briefed the media on a UFO which Air Force jets had attempted to chase down

654
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:20,520
and remarkably had recorded on the radar screens.

655
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,520
This is the footage that was presented at that conference.

656
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:33,520
UFO sightings here in the United States have traditionally been met with skepticism.

657
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:37,520
In most cases justified by government and military officials.

658
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:41,520
The reports have elicited either denials or in most cases a simple no comment.

659
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:44,520
But you are about to see as a first.

660
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:51,520
This story was filmed with a complete cooperation of the Belgian Air Force and the Jean-Dame Rie, a national law enforcement agency.

661
00:53:54,520 --> 00:54:00,520
Belgium lies on the southeast edge of the North Sea, bordered by Germany, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

662
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:06,520
The mystery of the Belgian UFOs began on the night of November 29, 1989,

663
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:11,520
just outside of the small town of U-Pan, less than seven miles from the German border.

664
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,520
Jean-Dame's Heinrich Niko and Hubert von Montigny were on a routine patrol.

665
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:26,520
As we approached the crossroads at Neurose Road, our attention was drawn to an unusual sign.

666
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:30,520
We saw a field near the road that was all lit up.

667
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,520
It was like lights on a huge road.

668
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:38,520
The road was a little bit more narrow than the road.

669
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:41,520
The road was a bit more narrow than the road.

670
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:44,520
The road was a bit more narrow than the road.

671
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:46,520
The road was all lit up.

672
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:50,520
It was like lights on a huge football field.

673
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:57,520
We thought it was strange and we wanted to know what was causing those lights.

674
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:03,520
So we pulled over to the side of the road.

675
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:09,520
There was a huge triangular platform and underneath it, strong headlights.

676
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:13,520
And in the middle was this blinking, pulsating orange light.

677
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,520
The whole thing was floating in the air.

678
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:25,520
Nikol and von Montigny immediately called the dispatcher and he put the lights on.

679
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,520
He said, I'm going to call the dispatcher.

680
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:34,520
Nikol and von Montigny immediately called the dispatcher and he called Albert Kreuz.

681
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:43,520
Suddenly they told me they were seeing a strange object in the sky.

682
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:46,520
It made no noise.

683
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:53,520
We joked about it and said it might be Santa Claus trying to land.

684
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:02,520
We called the dispatcher to sign a military order.

685
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:08,520
Kreuz noted the unusual report in his log but remained skeptical.

686
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:23,520
The gendarmes followed the unknown object as it soared across the Belgian countryside toward Uphol.

687
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:29,520
We could see it clearly because the headlights were very strong.

688
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:34,520
We could also see the flickering orange ball underneath.

689
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:43,520
We were driving very slowly because it seemed like there was someone in that object

690
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:48,520
and that someone was trying to observe what was happening on Earth.

691
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:54,520
Moments later, a strange light flashed across the window of Kreuz's office in Uphol.

692
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:09,520
Often the distance I could see something bright but I didn't know what it was.

693
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:15,520
Suddenly I saw something that looked like a laser beam, shoot out of the light

694
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:19,520
and then come back to the light.

695
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:28,520
We continued to observe the object as it circled over the city of Uphol.

696
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:32,520
It appeared to be heading toward the forest.

697
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,520
Gendarmes Nikol and his partner were mesmerized.

698
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:45,520
They began to suspect that this visitor had some special purpose.

699
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:53,520
On each side of the object there was a kind of laser beam and a ball that was leaving the object

700
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:57,520
and coming back as if the ball were trying to measure something.

701
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:01,520
So it was easy for us to keep track of it in the sky.

702
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:09,520
When Nikol next called into dispatch, Kreuz reported that he had contacted four local airports.

703
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:13,520
Each had reported no unusual activity in the skies.

704
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:22,520
For a full 30 minutes the Gendarmes watched in awe as the object hovered in the distance.

705
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:26,520
Then the remarkable episode took another unexpected turn.

706
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:33,520
All of a sudden it came out of nowhere.

707
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:36,520
Another spacecraft. We were a little frightened.

708
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,520
The one we'd been following was still over there

709
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:44,520
and our second one was rising up into the sky.

710
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:47,520
At a given moment it tilted slightly.

711
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:52,520
We could see again the shape of a triangle with bright headlights and one in the middle.

712
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:54,520
It was exactly like the first object.

713
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:57,520
We could see some kind of dome on the top with two or three small windows

714
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,520
and there was a light inside the object.

715
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:03,520
By the time we realized what it was, the object flew away.

716
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:12,520
A moment later, whatever doubts dispatcher Kreuz still had evaporated.

717
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:22,520
Through the open window I saw a strange machine floating about 500 feet away from me.

718
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:26,520
It looked like a large ship floating in the air.

719
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:32,520
It drifted in front of me for a few seconds then flew away in the direction of La Calamine.

720
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:35,520
It was a beautiful thing to see.

721
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:45,520
Six minutes later, two other Gendarmes encountered a similar object in the small village of La Calamine,

722
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:47,520
eight miles to the north of the island.

723
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:49,520
The Gendarmes were very surprised.

724
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:53,520
They were surprised by the fact that the object was floating in the air.

725
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:57,520
They saw a small village of La Calamine, eight miles to the north.

726
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:08,520
We had heard our colleagues talking about this flying object.

727
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:12,520
In the beginning, we thought it was some sort of joke,

728
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:14,520
but then we saw something.

729
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:16,520
It wasn't fun anymore.

730
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,520
Both of us had a strange feeling.

731
01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:30,520
It was impossible to explain what the object was.

732
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:35,520
We thought it was an American airplane or something.

733
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:40,520
We had no other explanation for what it might be,

734
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:44,520
but it was real and it was above us.

735
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:52,520
All four of these extraordinary sightings occurred within 20 miles in one hour of each other.

736
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:59,520
That same day, 11 other Gendarmes and more than 100 private citizens came forward with similar reports,

737
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:03,520
all describing a similar triangular object.

738
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:08,520
Then in April of 1990, this extraordinary photograph was taken.

739
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:14,520
It shows the same array of lights which was described by the eyewitnesses.

740
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:21,520
By using a computer to enhance the film's contrast, the triangular shape becomes clearly visible.

741
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:28,520
That remarkable image is currently being analyzed by scientists in Belgium.

742
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:34,520
It offered what many believe is the first photographic evidence that UFOs were frequenting the Belgian sky.

743
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:40,520
In the last two years, Belgian authorities have been deluged by thousands of sightings.

744
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:45,520
The difficult task of deciphering and coordinating the reports has been undertaken by a privately funded organization

745
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:49,520
of scientists and citizens known as SOBEPS.

746
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:55,520
Working hand in hand with the Belgian military in the Gendarmes Ries,

747
01:01:55,520 --> 01:02:00,520
SOBEPS opened lines of communication and set up procedures anticipating future encounters.

748
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:03,520
They did not have to wait very long.

749
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:10,520
In March of 1990, the next wave of Belgian UFO sightings began.

750
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:15,520
Captain Jacques Passon, the Gendarmes Ries, was called to a residence outside of Brussels

751
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:20,520
when dinner guests reported a series of strange lights in the sky.

752
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:30,520
These points of light were very different than the other stars.

753
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:35,520
They were much bigger and much brighter and not the color of stars.

754
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:40,520
The main colors were reddish or yellow and the others were green.

755
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:46,520
Later, they began to travel short distances in an erratic manner.

756
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:53,520
Thirty miles away at a NATO tracking station, radar had detected an unknown object

757
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:57,520
at the exact location the dinner guests had reported seeing the lights.

758
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:04,520
It showed up as a small circle with a tail in the lower left quadrant of the radar screen.

759
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:12,520
We found two other civilian and military radar sites like Zemmelsack, Burton, Saint-Hubert

760
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:17,520
and they had precisely the same echo at the same place.

761
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:25,520
We were unable to identify this echo as being either enemy, either friendly.

762
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:30,520
It was not very clear for us that it was an aircraft.

763
01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:36,520
With confirmations from four different radar stations, the Belgian Air Force was now on alert.

764
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:41,520
Something very unusual was in the skies over Belgium.

765
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:51,520
Two F-16s from the Belgian Air Force were immediately deployed.

766
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:55,520
Their mission? To locate and identify the object.

767
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:03,520
The pilots gave chase and soon locked onto the object with onboard radar.

768
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:07,520
Delta 5-7. This is to confirm that we now have a lock on.

769
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:13,520
But after just five seconds, the object bolted out of range at a blistering speed.

770
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:21,520
We measured some exceptional accelerations which cannot be related to conventional aircraft.

771
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:24,520
That is clear.

772
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:32,520
For the next hour, the pilots reported that the object seemed to be playing a high-tech game of cat and mouse.

773
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:37,520
Each time they achieved lock on, the object darted out of range.

774
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:46,520
The pilots confirmed that it was impossible for them to accelerate as quick as the target was doing.

775
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:52,520
An examination of the onboard radar footage astonished the military.

776
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:56,520
This is a portion of the actual footage recorded that evening.

777
01:04:56,520 --> 01:05:01,520
The UFO appears in the center of the screen as a diamond shape.

778
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:07,520
The figure in the upper right hand corner indicates the altitude of the object in thousands of feet.

779
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:12,520
When the pilots first locked on, the object was at 7,000 feet.

780
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:16,520
But within seconds, it had climbed at 10,000 feet.

781
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:22,520
Then incredibly, the object plummeted to just 500 feet in a span of only five seconds.

782
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:32,520
At the same time, the object accelerated to 990 knots, more than 1,000 miles per hour, or one and a half times the speed of sound.

783
01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:39,520
This fantastic combination of acceleration and descent would have been fatal to a human pilot.

784
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:45,520
And there is yet one additional oddity.

785
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:51,520
Even though the craft exceeded the speed of sound, remarkably, no one on the ground ever reported it.

786
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:59,520
The data then, at all these performances which were registered during the lock-on of the radar,

787
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:05,520
it was totally outside of the normal performance envelope of any airplane.

788
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:11,520
Despite the fact that the UFOs have been observed by thousands of eyewitnesses,

789
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:15,520
despite the fact that they have been recorded on military radar,

790
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:19,520
and despite the fact that one unknown object is in the air,

791
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:25,520
and despite the fact that one unknown object has easily evaded sophisticated high-tech fighter jets,

792
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:31,520
skeptics continue to dismiss the sightings as nothing more than mass UFO hysteria.

793
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:38,520
They believe that the radar reports can be attributed to false echoes or changes in atmospheric conditions.

794
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:44,520
Some people don't believe us and the things we have seen.

795
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:46,520
Well, they are free not to believe us.

796
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:51,520
It doesn't matter to me, but I have seen something and what else can I say?

797
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:54,520
It was not some invention of my mind.

798
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:59,520
I saw it and it was very real, and it happened just as I have said.

799
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:04,520
I got out of the car and hovering over us was a big black triangle.

800
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:06,520
It was very dark.

801
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:13,520
The triangle had a large light on top of it and the light circled around while the triangle remained suspended in the air.

802
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:17,520
There have been thousands of observations in Belgium,

803
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:24,520
and I think it's our job to try to find out if there is really something in the air,

804
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:30,520
where it comes from, what the origin is, and what the intentions are.

805
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:36,520
Indeed, there is something going on in Belgium which is beyond our control.

806
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:42,520
There is one curious fact which bears mentioning.

807
01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:50,520
Despite thousands of sightings in Belgium, there have been just a handful of UFOs reported in the neighboring countries of France, Germany, and the Netherlands.

808
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:55,520
For skeptics, this is additional proof that the sightings are nothing more than fantasy.

809
01:07:55,520 --> 01:08:01,520
However, some people speculate that the objects may be attracted to Belgium's highway system,

810
01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:07,520
which is so brightly lit at night that it was visible even to the astronauts on the moon.

811
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:21,520
Every year, there are thousands of reports of unidentified flying objects.

812
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:27,520
As the rule people who admit to having an encounter with a UFO open themselves to ridicule and derision.

813
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:32,520
Some will call them crazy, others will openly accuse them of concocting a hoax.

814
01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:42,520
In this story, the person involved is a simple, unassuming man who is always skeptical about UFOs until he had his own close encounter.

815
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:50,520
Stephen Michalak and his wife came to Manitoba, Canada from Poland after the Second World War.

816
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:58,520
Stephen found work as an industrial mechanic in a cement plant, and life was happy and uneventful for nearly 20 years.

817
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:08,520
Stephen was an amateur rock hound who spent every spare moment in the beautiful natural woodlands of Manitoba.

818
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:20,520
I love nature, I love birds, animals, and also I have interest in nature's old rocks.

819
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:31,520
Every weekend, the long weekend, I usually travel, go out in the country and snooping in the rocks.

820
01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:39,520
On May 20, 1967, Stephen was prospecting approximately 100 miles east of Winnipeg.

821
01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:45,520
Suddenly, he was distracted when a flock of geese in the pond below kicked up an unusual racket.

822
01:09:46,520 --> 01:10:01,520
Looking on the tree, I notice a two-cigarette-like shape thinks with the hump in the middle.

823
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:06,520
What the hell is that?

824
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:14,520
One stay in the air and the other one is coming down, down, down.

825
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:27,520
I start looking for marks.

826
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:34,520
I never see anywhere or NASA or something written on it.

827
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:38,520
No, nothing like I didn't see anything on it.

828
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:47,520
But still I was thinking that probably experimenting with a vehicle from the United States.

829
01:10:49,520 --> 01:10:55,520
Stephen Michalak says that he made this sketch of the strange craft just after he saw it land.

830
01:10:55,520 --> 01:11:02,520
I do remember one description that he gave at the time. He said that the skin of the craft, the outside of the craft was flawless.

831
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:06,520
Stan Michalak was 10 years old in 1967.

832
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:13,520
No, nothing. It was as though you had milled out of a solid block of steel this disk, this saucer with the dome on top.

833
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:20,520
Stephen Michalak told his son that after a few moments, the door of the craft slowly opened.

834
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:34,520
When the gate opened, there was a kind of shrieky talk like a kid's in problem or something.

835
01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:45,520
Thinking of USA, I said, okay, young boys, seems to me you are in trouble.

836
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:49,520
You got troubles, I'll help you.

837
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:55,520
When his English received no response, Stephen tried Russian.

838
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:57,520
I'll help you.

839
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:01,520
Then Polish.

840
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:09,520
And finally German.

841
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:18,520
Come out here. I'll help you.

842
01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:23,520
Please, come out here.

843
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:27,520
I'll help you.

844
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:35,520
Stephen says that as he drew nearer the door, the light was so bright he had to snap down the visor on his safety goggles.

845
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:45,520
After a few moments, the door suddenly shut.

846
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:55,520
According to Stephen, the craft rotated counterclockwise, knocking him backwards and setting his shirt on fire.

847
01:12:55,520 --> 01:13:01,520
After he was in the car, he was in the car.

848
01:13:01,520 --> 01:13:05,520
He was in the car, and he was in the car.

849
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:09,520
He was in the car, and he was in the car.

850
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:25,520
After igniting with the fire, the craft lifts up 30 to 40 feet in vanishing.

851
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:32,520
And then I decided, I said, now is the time for me to buzz off from here, go out.

852
01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:35,520
So I started going.

853
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:40,520
He started feeling strange and threw up several times.

854
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:53,520
At the same time, he was experiencing spots in front of his eyes, which could be after effects from the brilliant lights emanating from what appeared to be ducts or ports in the top of the alleged craft.

855
01:13:54,520 --> 01:14:05,520
When Stephen checked his compass, trying to find his way southeast to the road, he says a needle went haywire.

856
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:13,520
Disoriented and badly burned, Stephen took his best guess at the direction.

857
01:14:13,520 --> 01:14:23,520
Nine hours later, he'd finally arrived back home and win a peg, or his story made local headlines, and apparently left doctors baffled.

858
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:31,520
At that point in time, the diagnosis, if you can call it that, was burns.

859
01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:35,520
And sure, they were burns, yes. Heat caused burns.

860
01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:42,520
What they couldn't diagnose and didn't have a clue about was what appeared below the chest on the abdomen.

861
01:14:42,520 --> 01:14:55,520
The exact same pattern of holes that was on the grid on the side of the craft in the same order, in the same rows, in the same number, appeared as red spots on his lower abdomen, red dots.

862
01:14:57,520 --> 01:15:01,520
Stephen was released from the hospital, but he says his symptoms worsened.

863
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:06,520
The nausea continued, and his body seemed to emit a sulfuric stench.

864
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:12,520
There was this sulfur ozone electric burning motor stink about him.

865
01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:17,520
It's like he's carrying an aura of the smell. Whenever you walked and you got close to you, you could smell this.

866
01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:21,520
Not bad showers wouldn't take it out. That lasted for weeks.

867
01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:30,520
I remember seeing him in bed constantly, tired, nauseous, headachey, not feeling well, losing a lot of weight.

868
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:41,520
Stephen Micolak was tested for radiation poisoning. The results were negative, yet no one could explain the source of the strange burns on his torso.

869
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:47,520
The physicians were actually unable to determine many of Micolak's ailments.

870
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:53,520
They knew, for example, he was physically thermally burned. His chest was burned and singed.

871
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:57,520
But the pattern lower down on his chest was very, very unusual.

872
01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:08,520
It was eventually determined that it was a chemical burn, not a radiation burn, although he did have some symptoms that might have suggested that some people had some sort of radiation effects might have been involved.

873
01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:17,520
On June 30th, six weeks after the encounter, Stephen and a friend went looking for the site.

874
01:16:20,520 --> 01:16:26,520
After several hours, they found a burned-out circle with a radius of more than 15 feet.

875
01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:30,520
This is it! I knew it! I told you!

876
01:16:30,520 --> 01:16:36,520
On this barren patch of rock was a circular, roughly circular ring of vegetation.

877
01:16:36,520 --> 01:16:45,520
Dead pine needles, dirt, leaves, that sort of thing. The rock had been swept clean except for this ring which was surrounding this area.

878
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:58,520
They also noticed that a few of the trees appeared to have dead branches as if something had either come in and touched them or brushed by them with an intense heat or some other effects.

879
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:08,520
Within days, a team of experts from the United States working in cooperation with the Royal Canadian Air Force converged on the site.

880
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:13,520
They took measurements, cataloged soil samples, and checked for radiation.

881
01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:19,520
The levels appeared alarmingly high and the Health Department considered quarantining the area.

882
01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:26,520
Later, however, they discovered that the high levels were caused by a vein of radium which ran under the entire region.

883
01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:38,520
Meanwhile, Stephen's burns, which had appeared to be healing, suddenly flared up again.

884
01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:44,520
According to Stephen, his doctors remained mystified.

885
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:57,520
After every three months, my burns from legs and here we're coming back, showing up again and burning.

886
01:17:57,520 --> 01:18:02,520
And burning and vomiting. Anything I eat, bingo, goes.

887
01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:15,520
To this day, you can, if you let you, can press into his skin and feel subcutaneous scar tissue in the form of those burns on his chest which he playfully calls his buttons.

888
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:19,520
And it's there. You cannot deny this. This is there.

889
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:22,520
Look at these cracks.

890
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:30,520
On May 19, 1968, one year after Stephen Michalak's close encounter, he and a friend returned to the site.

891
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:39,520
Just about a little north of center, the Geiger counter rose very, very dramatically.

892
01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:53,520
At that point, within an 18 inch section of the crack, they scooped out a hole, almost half a jar full of what appeared to be molten rock or molten metal of some sort.

893
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:59,520
Subsequently, we found out what it was, but at that time it was unclear, but it was quite radioactive.

894
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:08,520
According to Ed Barker, an analysis revealed that the material was an extremely pure grade of silver that is difficult to obtain.

895
01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:13,520
It had been coated with pitch-blendore, which contains both uranium and radium.

896
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:24,520
This is what we found, three identical bars of what appear, at first glance, to be silver alloy of some sort.

897
01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:32,520
They were obviously manufactured somehow. It was considerably radioactive.

898
01:19:32,520 --> 01:19:36,520
Now it's perfectly safe to handle.

899
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:45,520
This is one of the biggest mysteries and one of the biggest puzzles, and skeptics have pointed to this as the reason why the case should be discounted.

900
01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:53,520
Why would particles and metal fragments of this size and radioactivity have been missed by all previous investigators?

901
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:57,520
And this is one mystery that we don't have definite answers to this day.

902
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:05,520
Ed Barker believes a silver was planted by someone who may have wanted to lend credence to Stephen Micolack's story.

903
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:20,520
...planted on the site, saying that I do not believe Micolack had anything to do with this, but I do believe that it was planted.

904
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:27,520
I'd like to think that one day we'll get a letter from the U.S. government and it'll say,

905
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:31,520
we have the two craft in our hangar over here and we were experimenting with them at the time.

906
01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:37,520
Sorry, and I'd want to go and see them. And I'm sure Dad would too, and that would be great.

907
01:20:37,520 --> 01:20:43,520
What would be worse is to have this thing drag to a point and drag on where it's never explained.

908
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:52,520
Today Stephen Micolack is 76 years old. He and his wife continue to live in Manitoba.

909
01:20:53,520 --> 01:20:57,520
Stephen still is not sure what it was he saw back in 1967.

910
01:20:57,520 --> 01:21:05,520
He says doctors have never been able to explain the burns on his chest or the mysterious symptoms which resembled radiation poisoning.

911
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:12,520
Since no other explanation is forthcoming, Stephen Micolack is willing to entertain the notion,

912
01:21:12,520 --> 01:21:17,520
no matter how far-fetched, that he saw something not of this earth.

913
01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:29,520
Here at Un-Saw Mystery, we profile a number of people who've experienced remarkable recoveries from serious illness.

914
01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:35,520
In most cases, these turnarounds are attributed to the power of the human spirit or to the power of faith.

915
01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:41,520
But the woman you're about to meet believes she is alive today because of something far more incredible.

916
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:44,520
A miracle that came from outer space.

917
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:48,520
This is Lynn Plaskett of New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

918
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:53,520
A former county councilwoman, Lynn is one of the most respected members of her community.

919
01:21:55,520 --> 01:22:01,520
In 1981, Lynn saw a television program about UFOs which featured a clip from the Mike Douglas show.

920
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:06,520
During the broadcast, she was told that she had been a member of the U.S. military.

921
01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:10,520
She was told that she had been a member of the U.S. military.

922
01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:13,520
She featured a clip from the Mike Douglas show.

923
01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:17,520
During the broadcast, she heard the sound of what was said to be an alien spacecraft.

924
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:21,520
For Lynn, it triggered a deep subconscious memory.

925
01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:28,520
When this sound came across the TV, I sat straight up in my seat.

926
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:37,520
Chills came over my whole body and I said, oh my God, oh my God, that's the same sound that I heard that night in my room.

927
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:42,520
And that's when I knew for sure that that experience had actually happened to me.

928
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:48,520
By all accounts, Lynn Plaskett should have died in 1975.

929
01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:55,520
She was 24 years old, recently separated from her husband and raising a three-year-old son on her own.

930
01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:59,520
Then a routine physical through Lynn's life into turmoil.

931
01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:04,520
They said that there's carcinoma in your uterus.

932
01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:10,520
We want to prepare you for possible hysterectomy, mentally, physically, and of the like.

933
01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:13,520
So even though I didn't want any more children at that time,

934
01:23:13,520 --> 01:23:18,520
when they tell you that they may take everything that you have, you start having second thoughts.

935
01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:25,520
During a presurgical exam, Lynn's doctor made another disturbing discovery.

936
01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:29,520
Tomorrow we'll go ahead with the cone biopsy, and then depending on what that shows,

937
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:31,520
you might need to do the hysterectomy.

938
01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:32,520
Okay.

939
01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:37,520
How long have you had this?

940
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:38,520
What?

941
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:39,520
Just a little lump here.

942
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:41,520
I don't know.

943
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:44,520
Lynn's doctor decided to take a biopsy of the growth.

944
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:47,520
At the same time, he performed the uterine biopsy.

945
01:23:47,520 --> 01:23:48,520
I'm not gonna take that out as well.

946
01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:49,520
Just take a look under the microscope.

947
01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:53,520
Upon coming out of the surgery, the doctors came to me and said,

948
01:23:53,520 --> 01:23:55,520
well, we have some good news and some bad news.

949
01:23:55,520 --> 01:23:58,520
The good news is, is that we didn't have to perform the hysterectomy.

950
01:23:58,520 --> 01:24:00,520
And I'm thinking, that's great.

951
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:02,520
And I said, so what's the bad news?

952
01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:07,520
The lymph node in your neck did turn out to be what's known as a T-cell lymphoma.

953
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:12,520
A T-cell lymphoma is an extremely rare form of cancer.

954
01:24:12,520 --> 01:24:17,520
Lynn says she was told there were only three known cases on record in the United States.

955
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:21,520
All three were newborns who died within a year of diagnosis.

956
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:23,520
And that's also involved with the disease.

957
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:29,520
The doctor told me that, in their opinion at that time, that I had three months to live.

958
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:34,520
This had infiltrated my lungs, my liver.

959
01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:39,520
It was basically, my understanding at that time, it was pretty much engulfed my entire body,

960
01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:44,520
except for my stomach and my brain, and they weren't too sure about those, those two places.

961
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:51,520
That afternoon, Lynn's doctor allowed her to leave the hospital, provided she returned the next morning.

962
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:54,520
When Lynn got home, the house was empty.

963
01:24:54,520 --> 01:24:57,520
Her sister had taken her son out for the day.

964
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:04,520
And that is when it all came and hit me.

965
01:25:07,520 --> 01:25:09,520
I started crying for my three-year-old son.

966
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:13,520
And I thought, you know, he is too young.

967
01:25:13,520 --> 01:25:16,520
The only thing he will remember is that I left him.

968
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:23,520
In the midst of her anguish, Lynn says she experienced an episode that was nothing short of phenomenal.

969
01:25:27,520 --> 01:25:32,520
I heard what sounded like an electrical or a buzzing type sound.

970
01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:38,520
And then the room started filling up with a fog-like smoke.

971
01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:47,520
Lynn says she suddenly found herself being lifted from the bed, levitated into thin air.

972
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:55,520
It was not a frightening experience, even though I didn't understand, you know, what was happening to me.

973
01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:57,520
It was very pleasant.

974
01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:01,520
Next, Lynn says a truly extraordinary occurred.

975
01:26:07,520 --> 01:26:13,520
A small disc-shaped object about eight inches in diameter came into the open window.

976
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:20,520
It had a raised portion on the top and multicolored lights.

977
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:25,520
It went from my head, passed down to my feet.

978
01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:31,520
It never actually touched me.

979
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:36,520
However, I felt as if, for some reason, it was almost examining me.

980
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:46,520
And as far as I can remember, I just rolled over and went to sleep.

981
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:54,520
I never got up. I never thought, oh my God, what was that?

982
01:26:54,520 --> 01:27:01,520
I just automatically just felt so relaxed that I just rolled over and went to sleep.

983
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:05,520
When I woke up the next morning, I was like revived.

984
01:27:05,520 --> 01:27:08,520
I just knew that I was going to be all right.

985
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:14,520
That same morning, Lynn began a rigorous chemotherapy program.

986
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:19,520
It was a last desperate attempt to prolong her life, if only for a few months.

987
01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:27,520
My doctor told me, even if I took the experimental drugs, that I would never see my 26th birthday,

988
01:27:27,520 --> 01:27:32,520
that some of the effects from these drugs would make my bones so brittle

989
01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:36,520
that I would be an old woman, any young woman's body.

990
01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:41,520
But remarkably, just four days after Lynn's first treatment,

991
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:47,520
she says her doctor discovered that a malignant tumor in her chest had drastically shrunken size.

992
01:27:50,520 --> 01:27:53,520
Four months later, Lynn was in total remission.

993
01:27:53,520 --> 01:27:57,520
For all intents and purposes, she was cancer-free and has been ever since.

994
01:27:57,520 --> 01:28:04,520
It may seem unbelievable, but Lynn has no doubt that she was cured by a visitor from beyond the stars.

995
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:13,520
The way they explained it to me was that this is medical journal type of healing cure.

996
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:16,520
I mean, it was phenomenal to them.

997
01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:26,520
And my doctor explained to me that, in his opinion, 99% of my cure was my mental attitude towards the disease.

998
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:28,520
What else could they say?

999
01:28:28,520 --> 01:28:34,520
Lynn's original physician declined to be interviewed for this segment.

1000
01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:40,520
We asked cancer specialist Dr. Rex Green to offer his opinion on Lynn's dramatic recovery.

1001
01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:47,520
Whatever she experienced, I don't second-guess or judge what my patients tell me,

1002
01:28:47,520 --> 01:28:55,520
is whatever she experienced. I can't comment on it, but I certainly find chemotherapy a better explanation for what happened.

1003
01:28:55,520 --> 01:29:00,520
I know what happened to me. I'm alive today. I'm living proof that this occurred to me.

1004
01:29:00,520 --> 01:29:04,520
And I'm just happy to be able to share this with other people.

1005
01:29:06,520 --> 01:29:14,520
If you believe in something, no proof is necessary. And if you don't, no proof is sufficient.

1006
01:29:16,520 --> 01:29:21,520
I believe that without that experience, I would not be here at all.

1007
01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:27,520
Even taking the chemotherapy, without that experience, I would not be here sitting and talking to you now.

1008
01:30:21,520 --> 01:30:23,520
Thank you.