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The men in black are one of the most perplexing mysteries

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we've ever come across.

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Cloakton's secrecy, they show up without warning.

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State their business, then banish as quickly as they appeared.

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No one knows who the men in black are, where they come from,

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or who they represent.

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There's no real proof that they even exist.

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But hundreds of eyewitness accounts

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give us good cause to investigate

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this most unusual phenomenon.

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Meet Ray Munoz of Austin, Texas.

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Ray owns and operates his own auto-tinting shop

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on the outskirts of town.

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A rather ordinary job for a man who

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claims to have had several extraordinary experiences.

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Since he was nine, Ray says he's had five separate encounters

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with UFOs.

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As a result, Ray has now become a sort of local celebrity.

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Because of all the experiences that I have or have had,

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I thought it necessary for me to start looking into all of this.

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So I started this show here in Austin,

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this local cable access show called Project UFO.

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I mean, what?

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World Power.

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That's kind of general.

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Every week, Ray speaks to other people

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who say they've had firsthand alien encounters.

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In June of 1996, one of Ray's viewers

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sent him this home video, which supposedly

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shows an unidentified spacecraft in the sky

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over Georgetown, Texas.

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Man, look at that.

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Is it UFO, man?

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And on the video, you can see a radio station tower, which

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has three red lights on it.

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Right next to this tower is this huge UFO

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that's just hovering there, like parked.

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No.

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Those ain't no airplanes.

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They're getting close.

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Several days after he received the tape,

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Ray says some unexpected visitors showed up at his shop.

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They were dressed in black suits, black ties,

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the black glasses, the whole nine yards.

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Mr. Munez?

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Yes.

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Great honor, Munez.

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Yes.

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I have a summons.

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A summons?

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Internal revenue service.

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Am I being audited?

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Just show up.

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I showed the paper to my worker just for a moment,

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because it looked official and everything.

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Well, I walked back out to see where they had gone to,

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and there wasn't anything out there.

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There was no time for them to drive away in a car or walk away.

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It was very strange.

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Not wanting to take any chances, Ray

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hurried to the downtown address listed on the summons.

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There he claims he encountered another man in black.

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I took my box of my papers and everything, all my text up,

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and I laid it down on the guy's desk.

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I said, well, here it is.

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He looked at me and said, OK, thank you.

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You can leave now.

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I said, excuse me?

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He said, thank you.

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You can leave now.

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And I said, aren't you going to look at my stuff?

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He said, no, thank you.

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You can leave now.

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Ray says he returned home to find his video collection ransacked.

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He now believes this was the reason for his visit

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from the men in black.

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They wanted me at a certain place at a certain time

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so they could go to my house and look for that tape.

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They didn't find the tape.

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I still have the tape.

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So it's either something that was government

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that they didn't want people to know about, some new aircraft,

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or it was a UFO that they don't want people to know about.

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The men in black may be either a human intelligence operatives

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working from deep level black book projects

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that their entire agenda is to silence UFO witnesses

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and experiencers to relating to the public what they may

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have encountered.

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There are also, I believe, men in black that are non-human in origin

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who have taken upon themselves the job in order

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to do the same thing that the human men in black are,

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in other words, to silence or to control the output of information

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regarding the UFO phenomenon.

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I was feeling frightened.

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I was concerned for my safety.

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I felt a little bit harassed, if you can put it that way.

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And I did not know what to expect, so I was on guard.

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Colette Peters of San Juan Capistrano, California

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is a highly accomplished figure skater who has garnered

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several national awards.

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Colette claims that during her life she's

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had two UFO experiences and one unnerving encounter

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with a man in black who she is certain was something

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other than a man.

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When I was approximately 19 or 20,

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I was in New York City walking down one of the main avenues.

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And I started to encounter a very, very bizarre feeling.

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It was pure evil.

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And when I looked up, what I saw was a very tall, lanky man

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walking towards me.

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But he seemed out of place and quite odd.

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His skin, to me, did not look normal.

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You couldn't see any facial hair

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or if he had shaved or any imperfections.

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It was a smooth, shiny, plastic-looking jaw.

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Seemed to fit the criteria of what people call the men in black.

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The only difference is, in my case,

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they did not directly come up and threaten me.

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I don't feel that he had conveyed any message to me

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except by the presence that he kept.

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The sinister, evil nature that generated from him

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is the only way I could really describe it.

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I think people have had genuine experiences, which

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are anomalous and unusual.

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It does not mean, however, that I think

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that they are extraterrestrials that are telling them

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to be quiet about something or what have you.

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In my opinion, they are disinformation agents

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using a combination of physical alteration

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of their appearance with some of these electronics.

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And these are electronic systems, which

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have been reverse engineered from extraterrestrial devices.

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And it is intended to simply set people off from looking

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in the direction of what's really going on with the UFO

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or extraterrestrial issue.

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There is, of course, another possibility.

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Skeptics have said that the men in black

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are merely the product of a few overactive imaginations.

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I'm a got to touch it, feel it, see it, type of person.

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I was there.

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I saw.

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I felt.

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You know, I mean, why would I put my life in danger for a lie?

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I don't feel that it could have been a figment

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in my imagination because of the physicality of it.

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The feelings that I felt, I'm not talking

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about emotional feelings.

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I'm talking about the hair actually raising up on your skin.

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It was quite unique.

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It was something I'll never forget.

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We asked the Air Force and the Department of Defense

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if there were covert units that fit the MO of the men in black.

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The Air Force issued a blanket denying.

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The Department of Defense said we've never heard of such a thing.

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Then added, you might try the Air Force.

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The Canadian township of West Carleton

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lies 40 miles north of the Canadian United States border

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in the province of Ontario.

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Life in West Carleton is usually unremarkable.

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But late in 1991, one resident had an extraordinary experience.

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On August 18, at around 10 PM, Diane Laboneck

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had just put her children to bed.

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Her husband was out running an errand

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when the dogs began to howl.

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I walked right to the window and I saw flames right on the back

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of the field, extremely red flames and lots of smoke.

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It didn't look like a fire.

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I know what a fire looks like when you start a fire out there

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and the grass was very dry.

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So if you start a fire, you will see it moving,

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whether this way or closer to the woods.

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And the fire was standing on one spot only.

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I saw a ship coming down close to the flames.

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Right on top of the ship, I saw a blue flashing light.

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And another light was on the bottom, very bright.

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I didn't know what to do.

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I was looking at it for about 10 minutes or so.

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And then the ship went a little bit back over the trees

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and it disappeared.

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I saw all the flames turn out at the same time.

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I don't think I'd like to see it again.

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It's very scary.

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I live here for many, many years

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and I have never been so scared in my life.

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It did enter my mind to phone the police.

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When this was all over, I came to the telephone

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but I said, what am I going to tell them?

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I'm going to tell them I have seen flares out there

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at 10 o'clock or past 10 o'clock at night

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and there was a ship up there.

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Who is going to say, OK, Diane, that's fine.

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We're coming over.

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So that's why I didn't call.

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According to Labanek, 10 minutes after the mysterious lights

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abruptly blinked out, a helicopter appeared,

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just as unexpectedly.

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The unmarked craft flew low to the ground

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over the field where the unexplained lights had appeared.

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After crisscrossing the area, it flew over Diane's house

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and rushed off into the night.

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At the crack of dawn, Diane Labanek

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ran out to the empty fields which surround her house,

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searching for evidence of the previous night's events.

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I searched everything.

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There was no marks.

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There was no spots.

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There was no matches.

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There was just nothing.

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The only person I told is my mom and my husband.

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The 1991 sighting was a second unusual event

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Diane Labanek had witnessed in West Carleton.

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In 1989, she was one of several residents

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who observed a sudden explosion of extraordinarily brilliant

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light over a nearby swamp.

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Labanek might have remained silent about the 1991 episode,

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if not for this controversial videotape, which

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seems to verify her account.

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In February of 1992, six months after Labanek's sighting,

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a package from Canada arrived at the Edgewater Maryland

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office of Bob Exler, a former NASA mission specialist.

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Exler is now a well-known UFO researcher.

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The package had no return address.

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Inside were documents, pictures, a map, and the videotape,

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all pertaining to the 1991 incident at West Carleton.

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Most unusual, there seemed to be somewhat of a symbol

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with regard to the videotape.

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On the label was the name Guardian,

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and it was accompanied by a fingerprint.

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Guardian, to me, was an enigma.

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Certainly nothing I had heard about in the UFO literature.

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So it was a mystery starting from scratch.

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At the time, Exler was unaware of Labanek's sighting,

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but he would later find that the video depicted

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what she has reported was stunning accuracy.

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The tape showed a cluster of brightly burning red flame

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similar to flares.

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To the right, hovered a dark, disk-like object,

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emitting a bright glow from its underside.

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The object was capped by a rapidly strobing blue light.

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It is among the most convincing documentations of a UFO

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Exler had seen in his 12 years of research.

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It was clearly a disk-looking shape.

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We could resolve that because the flashing light on top

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would reflect off of the curved surface of the disk.

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I got a sense initially that this was a real event occurring

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in a field as opposed to some prop set up in a room somewhere.

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It had such an extraordinary amount of luminosity

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characteristic to it that I kind of

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had a sense I might be dealing with something that

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was potentially authentic here.

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The map set with the videotape shows

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the area of West Carleton, Canada,

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as a location where the tape had been made.

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Extra wet to West Carleton, along with UFO researcher,

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Graham Lightfoot.

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Diane, can you tell us exactly what you saw that night?

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Together, they interviewed Diane Labanek,

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whom Lightfoot had met when he investigated her 1989

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sighting.

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Yes, I've seen a bright light.

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What time of the day was this?

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This was at night, eh?

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Yes, it was at night.

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I would say about 10 o'clock.

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To their surprise, Labanek described exactly what

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the two researchers had seen on Guardian's videotape.

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When we talked to Diane about the sighting,

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asked her had she seen anything,

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her description was so vivid that it's something

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I didn't think she could have made up.

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She had not seen a tape.

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She had no idea what we knew.

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And yet she was able to describe things

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that we already knew from the tape.

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And when he showed me the tape, it was exactly what I've seen.

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And it was still scary for me, but at least I

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had something to go by, something that

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know I can tell the people, because know I have little bit

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more evidence.

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That's one of the clearest videos I've seen at show,

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a structured object.

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Dr. Bruce McAbee, a US Navy physicist and photoanalyst,

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has studied UFOs for years.

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Here's the beacon light, the blue light evidently,

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a reflection down here on the body of the craft,

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the outline of the object itself that you can see,

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some sort of dark lines that appear,

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some brightness structure indicating something

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generating light is hanging down below the object.

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It's generating green light as well as blue light.

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Probably there is other structure in here,

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which however the glare from this bright light is blurring out.

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Dr. McAbee, who believes the tape is not a hoax,

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was particularly intrigued by the bright strobing light.

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Now first of all, it's an unusual one because it's blue,

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and it's very fast.

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It was running about seven cycles per second.

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This is much faster than ordinary flashing beacons

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on aircraft, for example.

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It typically run about one flash per second,

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or maybe two flashes per second.

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The section of the video which shows the object just sort

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of appearing over a rise is quite convincing to me,

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as it would be what you would expect if somebody were

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in the field trying to get closer to it,

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and not knowing how close he could get.

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And so he turns on his camera while he's walking.

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He knows he's going to come up over a rise and see it,

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and you can see in the video farther and farther down

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until you see the whole device.

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Suddenly the light coming towards him gets brighter

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and brighter, you get a great big diffuse reflection

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or image in the camera, which suggests to me

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that this object shine a beam, a blue beam right at him.

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Dr. Maccabee estimated the unknown object

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to be 20 to 30 feet in diameter.

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According to Echslur, the object's apparent size

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argues against it being a hoax.

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It appeared to be so large that it would not

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be logical to try to set all this up at night under darkness.

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There would have been evidence during the day of movement,

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generators of somebody hauling cables,

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maybe a big apparatus or something,

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that they would have had to bring in there for that night.

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Clearly, if there was a hoax involved,

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Diane would have seen evidence of it in advance.

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Audio analysis of the tape revealed only

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the distant barking of dogs, perhaps those reported

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by Diane Labanek.

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The craft itself seemed to be silent.

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There was no audible trace of power generators,

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which if the object was staged would

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have been necessary to run its massive lights.

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Dr. Robert Nathan of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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reviewed the tape in a non-official capacity.

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Dr. Nathan could not explain the images,

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nor could he categorically dismiss the tape as a hoax.

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In a puzzling coincidence, low-flying helicopters

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are cruised over West Carlton regularly

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since the August 91 incident.

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According to Labanek and other local residents,

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the helicopters are black, green, or maroon in color.

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They are unmarked with darkly-tended windblows.

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The Canadian military denies any involvement in this incident.

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The American military is not aware of the fact

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that the American military is not aware of the fact

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where the helicopters come from,

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what they are searching for remains a mystery.

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The helicopters that are used in this area of Canada

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do not fly low in that area.

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We have designated flying training areas about 30 miles

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west of here.

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We also have them north.

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Therefore, there are no requirements

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for our military helicopters to go and fly

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near private citizens' property like that.

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Either this is one extraordinary elaborate hoax,

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a military operation on private property,

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or something that's very unusual in the UFO category,

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something suggesting perhaps non-human technology.

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The key to the entire episode lies with a person

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using the name Guardian, the presence

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of this mysterious informant in a remote field late at night

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with video camera in hand just in time for a UFO sighting

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can hardly be ascribed to luck.

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According to Bob Axler, whether the event was real

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or an elaborate hoax, Guardian had prior knowledge

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that it was going to happen.

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I think Guardian has to be connected to the event in some

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way.

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I don't see any way Guardian could have just happened onto this.

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I don't see Guardian as a UFO investigator.

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Guardian is much more involved in this than the evidence

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even suggests, in my opinion.

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Virtually nothing is known about Guardian's true identity.

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Curiously, the secretive informant

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is contacted UFO researchers only in connection

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with the two sightings reported by Diane Labanek and others

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in West Carlton.

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When we started looking into the events,

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it would be simple to say that it was a hoax

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because Diane was involved in both of them.

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But when you get to know Diane and see the way she lives

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and the circumstance, it's apparent

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that she wasn't involved in any way other than being

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an observer.

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But purported military documents that

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arrived with a videotape raised serious questions

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about Guardian's credibility.

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Among other preposterous claims, the papers

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allege far-reaching conspiracies involving UFOs,

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red China, and nuclear weapons.

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There was some question immediately

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with regard to the authenticity of the documentation.

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It didn't look like it was a typical government document,

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even Canadian government documents of which

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I had no familiarity at the time.

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This document is clearly a fabrication.

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There are way too many errors in the document

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to make it authentic.

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Someone with very little effort could have come a lot closer

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than this.

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Also included on the videotape are obscure images,

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which Guardian claimed show an alien being.

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Clearly, this could have been someone dressed up in a costume.

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But that posed a major question.

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If, in fact, the video images of the disc were authentic,

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why would anyone contaminate such an extraordinary event

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with fake images of alien creatures?

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In spite of the dubious images and questionable documents,

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many experts believe that the event shown on the tape

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did indeed take place.

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What really happened in the fields of West Carlton?

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In the wake of its brief appearance

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during the summer of 1991, the strange luminous object

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left only questions.

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Questions perhaps the person called Guardian alone

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can answer.

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This is either an extraordinary top secret flying vehicle

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of somebody's government, or it is of a non-human origin.

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Having no contact with Guardian is probably

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the biggest frustration to an investigation like this.

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We don't know who Guardian is, what Guardian represents.

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We don't know if Guardian was sent or went on his own.

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We have no idea what the solutions to many of these mysteries

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are going to be.

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We may never know.

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Stonehenge, the great megalithic monument in southern England.

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Stonehenge is only one of hundreds of such monuments

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scattered throughout Britain.

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For centuries, these puzzling formations

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have baffled scientists and laymen alike.

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But recently, scientists have identified another phenomenon

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that may relate to the mysterious British monuments,

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wheat circles.

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This photograph was taken recently in England.

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It shows circles and wheat fields.

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Seems simple enough.

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But in fact, they are not simple at all.

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No one knows how these enigmatic circles got there.

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Molded gently from unbroken stalks of wheat and corn,

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they may just represent one of the most intriguing unsolved

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mysteries of the century.

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Nearly 95% of the circles occur within 30 miles of Stonehenge.

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And all the rest are near other stone monuments

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similar to Stonehenge.

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Are the circles caused by something

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we can explain, like whirlwinds?

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Or are they caused by something we cannot even

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begin to understand?

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Charity down, a farm two hours drive from London, England.

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In the early morning hours of June 15, 1988,

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37-year-old farmer Chris Wood slowly drove a tractor

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through one of his wheat fields.

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Just after sunrise, he saw something in the field

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that he had never seen before.

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He couldn't explain it.

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A huge circle had appeared in the wheat.

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It's really, really amazing how the actual crop was laying

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on the ground.

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And it was so, so perfect, really.

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The circle Chris Wood found that morning

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has never been explained.

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During the last 12 years, more than 750 large, perfectly

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symmetrical circles, some of them as big as 100 yards

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in diameter, have formed overnight in seemingly random fields

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of wheat, corn, and other crops.

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The question no one can answer is,

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how did the circles get there?

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The most wonderful thing about it

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is when you actually go out the night before to look

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for a circle, and there's nothing there.

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It's just a lovely field of growing corn.

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And then the following morning, when

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you get up early in the morning in the first light of day,

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and suddenly there is the circle, you just can't believe it.

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The circles are never cut.

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They are pressed down in a swirling pattern

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that runs both clockwise and counterclockwise.

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The crop is not damaged.

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It continues to grow and can be harvested normally.

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Strangely, no unusual footprints or tire tracks leading up

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to the circles have ever been found.

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Some circles occur with a smaller satellite circle.

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Others appear in groups of three or four.

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Intricate symmetrical patterns like this one

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have five small circles arranged around the larger one

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in a cross pattern.

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Other circles are surrounded by concentric rings.

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Most amazing of all are the circles

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with both satellites and rings.

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We've got a flare here, a radial flare here.

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And of course, by moving the axis,

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you've got the opposite coming in from the other end.

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That's right.

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And that seems to be the heart of all these spirals,

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whether it's a pluripotent.

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Pat Delgado, an electromechanical design engineer,

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has written a book about the circles,

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along with Colin Andrews.

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The two men have spent over a decade studying the phenomenon.

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There you go.

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The number of circles are increasing dramatically.

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We were receiving reports in the order of two or three a year

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in the late 70s, 10, 11, 12, 15 or so in the early 80s.

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Then last year, we saw a dramatic increase,

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98 circles in five months of last summer.

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This year, we have now got in southern England

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270 formations.

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And we have fields in which we don't have five or six,

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but 28 of these circles have appeared in a period of four

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or five weeks.

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They occur in all weather conditions.

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We have found no correlation in meteorological data at all

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to connect them with any particular meteorological weather

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condition or weather phenomenon.

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We have invited many professional scientists

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of various disciplines to help us in this investigation.

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And quite rightly so, they start off

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with considering that it could be a hoax.

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One of the scientists, respected astronomer Dr. Archibald Roy

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of Glasgow University in Scotland,

524
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:35,080
began studying the circles in 1980.

525
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,680
No one really knows why these circles are appearing.

526
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,320
And I think that the interesting thing

527
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:46,120
is that no one theory so far seems to fit the bill.

528
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,040
There are quite a number of them.

529
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:53,520
There is the frankly unacceptable one of circles

530
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,600
being formed by hundreds of hedgehogs all marching

531
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,040
around in circles.

532
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,040
Another one is that they are the foot pad marks of flying

533
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,360
saucers.

534
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:08,920
Another is that they are due to the downdrafts of helicopters

535
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,880
or that they are caused by whirlwinds

536
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,520
or that they are hoaxes by human beings.

537
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,560
There are so many of them.

538
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,280
I think that it's very reasonable for a person to say,

539
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,720
look, these are hoaxes because they look so artificial.

540
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,280
But I don't think that the hoax theory can be held very

541
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,520
strongly because there are so many of these circles.

542
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,840
Now in eight or nine years, it's logged about 700, 250

543
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,160
this year, this summer alone.

544
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,280
The amount of time that have to be spent

545
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,800
by a very big team of people making those circles

546
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,200
is getting quite enormous.

547
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,160
I simply don't see the hoax theory

548
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:49,880
as a very strong contender.

549
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,640
As part of a televised experiment,

550
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,480
British military personnel attempted

551
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,000
to create an artificial crop circle.

552
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,000
In all instances where something mechanical is used

553
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,960
to flatten the crop, you will damage it.

554
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:12,640
And we can walk into a circle and very, very quickly

555
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,800
determine whether it's hoaxed, that is mechanically made,

556
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:21,160
or it is a naturally created one.

557
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,200
When we examine a naturally made circle,

558
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,400
the portion of plant that just comes out of the ground

559
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:32,240
must be softened, bent over, and then hardened up again.

560
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,800
So not only is a mystery in the circle itself,

561
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:42,120
but what is it that is softening the plants, bending it over,

562
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:43,840
and then hardening up again?

563
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,600
This is a real mystery.

564
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,800
If the circles are not a hoax, what is creating them?

565
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,280
Several theories have been put forward and discarded.

566
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,040
There is no evidence of a fungus or other natural organic

567
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,640
cause.

568
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,600
Aerial infrared photography has shown

569
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,600
that there are no underground formations,

570
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,200
neither sinkholes nor rocks nor foundations

571
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,840
of ancient buildings that might create the patterns.

572
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,760
Some scientists have theorized that whirlwind vortexes might

573
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,360
create the circles.

574
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,280
But other scientists, as well as farmers,

575
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:16,720
believe that whirlwinds could not

576
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:21,120
create such neat, punched out shapes.

577
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,080
Regardless of what causes the circles,

578
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,880
they all seem to form overnight.

579
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,240
Their appearances often linked, after the fact,

580
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,400
to sightings of bright lights in the night sky.

581
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,560
One such sighting occurred on July 6, 1985,

582
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,120
when Pat and Jack Collins were driving through a stretch

583
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,600
of farmland near Stonehenge.

584
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:45,240
We'd been out for the evening, and on our way back,

585
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:52,720
about 11 o'clock at night, we saw this circle with lights

586
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,120
all the way around the edge.

587
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,640
He said, cool, look at that.

588
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:57,840
I said, good gracious.

589
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,640
I said, whatever can it be?

590
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:05,320
And so we said, it couldn't be a flying saucer or anything,

591
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,920
because, well, not knowing what one would look like,

592
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:15,840
but I mean, it was our feelings that it could have been one.

593
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,720
Colin Andrews believes that the colored lights Jack and Pat

594
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,800
saw in the night sky were related to two different sets

595
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,200
of crop circles.

596
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,960
The same night as they saw this extraordinary clustering

597
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,960
of lights over that site, a quintuplet set

598
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:36,800
appeared in a field just a few miles to the east near Oldsford.

599
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,280
And the same kind of formation was found just a few days later

600
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,080
in a very remote spot south of Andover.

601
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,360
And the alignment of those two sites

602
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,520
took us directly over the top of the Collins' particular

603
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,200
sighting.

604
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:52,960
Having said that, we haven't actually

605
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,120
seen one of these this year.

606
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,960
In an attempt to find out how, in fact, a crop circle does

607
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,000
form, 50 British scientists convened last summer

608
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,320
for a surveillance operation.

609
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,120
We have been told so many times that all these circles

610
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:08,360
are hawksies.

611
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,960
And so all we had to do was to find one circle created

612
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,240
in circumstances where no human beings were around

613
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,000
to disprove that theory.

614
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,280
And so we set up a watch with electronic equipment,

615
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,680
video cameras, light and densification, and so on,

616
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:28,080
for eight days and nights on a field where circles had appeared

617
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,480
most years out of the past, eight or nine.

618
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,400
And we hoped that a circle would appear

619
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,760
under those circumstances.

620
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,000
It didn't.

621
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,960
And the fascinating thing to me is that during the eight days

622
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,400
of the watch on that field, not only did no circle appear

623
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,960
in that field, but as far as we know,

624
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,960
no circles appeared elsewhere in the south of England,

625
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,640
although the 91 had appeared before the watch was set up.

626
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,680
And since the watch has been set up,

627
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,360
something like 150 have appeared.

628
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:03,480
I think it's almost certain that whatever is creating

629
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,360
the circles was aware of the watch.

630
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:11,360
And that means that there must be some sort of intelligence

631
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:12,720
at work.

632
00:34:12,720 --> 00:34:15,880
And of course, then you say, well, what is it?

633
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,640
And I haven't a faintest idea.

634
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,320
That's a terrible noise, just as you stand in the center.

635
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:23,760
You're getting a noise there.

636
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,280
Very, very bad.

637
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,040
Although no crop circles formed,

638
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,040
the project did produce one significant finding.

639
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,760
And I was coming and going as you move.

640
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,360
Well, what happened was that Pat and myself

641
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,360
were being interviewed in the largest circle we'd ever seen

642
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:43,640
when the sound man detected an electronic warbling noise

643
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,960
which came onto the sound equipment.

644
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:47,760
I know what it did.

645
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:48,760
I could feel it.

646
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:53,040
And Pat, who was stood just off of the center

647
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,320
of the formation inside the circle,

648
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:59,040
could actually physically feel an energy field right

649
00:34:59,040 --> 00:34:59,840
alongside him.

650
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,440
When he stepped into that energy field,

651
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:06,720
the noise picked right up.

652
00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:12,000
And when Pat stood out of the barrier, it diminished.

653
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,520
It was very extraordinary.

654
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,400
It is very significant.

655
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,040
We do now have a noise component associated

656
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,920
with this extraordinary phenomenon.

657
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,080
There has to date been no photographic evidence

658
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,800
of circles occurring outside Britain,

659
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,400
but experts speculate that there might be crop circles

660
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,640
in other countries.

661
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,840
We would ask any farmer, any landowner, any member

662
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,560
of the public, military or otherwise, in America,

663
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,200
to report sightings of these extraordinary ground markings

664
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:42,960
back to us.

665
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:44,400
It is most important.

666
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,240
It is most significant.

667
00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:50,160
I haven't the faintest idea what is causing these circles.

668
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:54,800
I find them a most intriguing and entertaining mystery.

669
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,640
If we don't know something, then it

670
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,800
means that our model of reality, our model of the world,

671
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,320
is inadequate.

672
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:06,240
And so as a scientist, I feel that they should be studied.

673
00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:09,000
In elucidating what is causing them,

674
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,040
we must learn something, if only about the psychology

675
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,560
of human beings, for example.

676
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,520
Since we originally broadcast this story,

677
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,640
over 500 new circles have been discovered,

678
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,000
not only in English wheat fields, but in crop fields

679
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,240
in several other countries, including the United States.

680
00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:31,840
In some cases, the formations have grown more elaborate

681
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,320
in design.

682
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,600
One of the most interesting of the new formations

683
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,080
was found last May in Wiltshire County in Central England.

684
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,160
For the first time, the mysterious circles

685
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,160
were accompanied by large, deeply furrowed rectangles,

686
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,640
creating a symmetrical design.

687
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,720
We're told by the British Museum that pictogram is the term

688
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:52,960
that we should be using.

689
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,880
And that was the first pictogram ever.

690
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,240
Last June, an even more elaborate formation

691
00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:01,680
appeared overnight in a field, which witnesses say

692
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,920
was completely untouched the day before.

693
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,120
What we were looking at here was three pictograms,

694
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,960
giving us the largest formation ever seen anywhere

695
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,720
in the world.

696
00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:15,960
Due to the sheer size and elaborate design

697
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,360
of this formation, Andrews is convinced

698
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,640
that it is not man-made.

699
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,040
We were looking at a marking, which

700
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,200
was about 1 1⁄8 of a mile long.

701
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,320
Now, if you consider that under controlled conditions,

702
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,400
it takes a team of 12 people to create something

703
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,880
like a 100-foot diameter circle, a straightforward,

704
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,200
simple circle takes something like six hours for them

705
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,560
to construct this.

706
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:43,400
We were looking at a huge team of people working that night

707
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,120
in the hours of darkness, which are only seven hours

708
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,520
at this time of the year, in a location which

709
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,640
can be seen from vantage points all around.

710
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:55,360
We had gamekeepers covering that area over on four farms.

711
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:56,920
Nobody saw anything.

712
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,720
In an attempt to capture the creation of a circle on film,

713
00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:05,560
a surveillance project known as Operation Blackbird

714
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,000
was organized this past July.

715
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,280
For three weeks, scientists and other experts

716
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,120
monitored one of the most active locations.

717
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:17,200
Amazingly, four circles did form while cameras were rolling.

718
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,160
Although two of the formations were dismissed as hooks,

719
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,480
the other two appeared to be legitimate.

720
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,880
We had two genuine circles appeared

721
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,960
in front of the monitoring equipment,

722
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,160
and the footage secured during those events

723
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,880
are now being enhanced and are being analyzed.

724
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,440
This footage will not be released until the analysis is complete.

725
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,040
Botanists recently studied the cellular structure

726
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,600
of plant samples removed from inside the circles

727
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,080
with plant samples found outside the formations.

728
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,240
When scientists compared the samples,

729
00:38:57,240 --> 00:39:00,080
they were amazed at the difference.

730
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,120
Samples taken from outside the circles

731
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,000
had cloudy crystals in an erratic pattern.

732
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,560
Plant samples taken from inside the formations

733
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,400
had distinctively clearer crystals

734
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,400
and a much more deliberate pattern.

735
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:18,600
I think the discrepancies are caused by some supernatural force

736
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:23,600
which has been applied to that particular part of the ground,

737
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,800
which produces these patterns.

738
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,640
We have here a structure of a plant which has changed.

739
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,680
Human feet cannot do that.

740
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,960
The downwash from a helicopter cannot do that,

741
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,880
and nor can a stationary whirlwind.

742
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,160
So we're looking here at major clues

743
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,160
in the last few months of this year.

744
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,000
Perhaps the most amazing development in this case

745
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,280
is the discovery of these mysterious circles

746
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:51,600
outside of England.

747
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,080
We're picking up increases in the states,

748
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,600
in Australia in particular,

749
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,000
even one or two more in the Arctic Circle.

750
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,280
It's most important now that researchers around the world

751
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:09,600
group, regroup and coordinate our approach to this

752
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,200
extraordinary but very exciting mystery.

753
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,560
Often an unexplained phenomenon is simply dismissed as a hoax

754
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,720
for the product of someone's overactive imagination.

755
00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:24,400
But in the case of these crop circles,

756
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,320
there is irrefutable physical evidence

757
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,400
which suggests that some intelligence is at work.

758
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:33,680
But who and why remains an unsolved mystery?

759
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:37,280
Space.

760
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,280
The last great frontier.

761
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,280
The ultimate mystery.

762
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,280
Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope has allowed us

763
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,280
to probe further into the heavens than ever before.

764
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:51,280
We can now see spectacular celestial events

765
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,280
that provide a window to the darkened sky.

766
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,280
The space is the largest space in the world.

767
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,280
The space is the largest space in the world.

768
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,280
The space is the largest space in the world.

769
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,280
The space is the most powerful evidence that provide a window

770
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,280
to the dawn of our own creation.

771
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,280
But each new image gives rise to an age old question.

772
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,280
Is there life elsewhere in the cosmos?

773
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,280
Without proof, we could only wonder.

774
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:23,280
Many of us imagine that proof would come in science fiction form,

775
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,280
a futuristic spacecraft carrying alien beings

776
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,280
from a far away civilization.

777
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,280
We never imagined possible proof would be hidden

778
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,280
in the meteorite, label rock number 8401.

779
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:42,280
Today, rock 8401 speaks to us

780
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,280
across all those billions of years and millions of miles.

781
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,280
It speaks to the possibility of life.

782
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,280
If this discovery is confirmed,

783
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,280
it will surely be one of the most stunning insights

784
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:59,280
into our universe that science has ever uncovered.

785
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,280
The rock came from the planet Mars

786
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,280
and traveled millions of miles over millions of years

787
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,280
until it slammed into Earth.

788
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,280
A small piece of history that may forever change

789
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,280
the way we view the universe.

790
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,280
This meteorite, if it should prove true,

791
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,280
would be literally one of the turning points,

792
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,280
one of the defining epochs

793
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,280
and all of human exploration of discovery.

794
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:30,280
I think it would be almost an icon for the 20th century.

795
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:35,280
It still shocks me that we have found what we found

796
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,280
and were able to present it

797
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,280
and able to capture people's imagination

798
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,280
the way that we have with this.

799
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,280
I would have never dreamed anything like this in a million years.

800
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,280
Did life, as we know it, once flourished on another planet?

801
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,280
If so, the repercussions are staggering.

802
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,280
The speculation endless, almost unbelievable.

803
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:01,280
In fact, some of the arise of the seas for life on Earth

804
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,280
were planted by microorganisms from Mars.

805
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,280
Ironically, what may prove to be the most remarkable discovery

806
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,280
in the history of mankind

807
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,280
began with a completely unremarkable event.

808
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:19,280
Antarctica, December 1984.

809
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:23,280
A team of American scientists, including Dr. Roberta Scor,

810
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:27,280
was on a geological expedition searching for meteorites.

811
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:33,280
Half buried in an ice field was a rock now known as number 8401.

812
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:39,280
It weighs only 4.2 pounds and is the size of a large potato.

813
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,280
No one paid it any special attention.

814
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:46,280
And for eight years, it literally sat on a shelf, gathering dust.

815
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,280
This meteorite was essentially misclassified,

816
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,280
or not very carefully classified, as an ordinary Earth meteorite.

817
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,280
And only later on when a geologist named David Middelfeld

818
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,280
looked at it more carefully, did he realize,

819
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,280
no, this is characteristic of a Martian meteorite.

820
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,280
It is just the precise ratio of certain isotopes

821
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,280
that make it clear that it came from Mars.

822
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:15,280
As it turned out, rock 8401 was only the 12th Martian meteorite ever found.

823
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:20,280
Its significance stemmed from its age, 4.5 billion years.

824
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,280
Almost as old as the solar system itself,

825
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:27,280
and predating life on Earth by at least one billion years.

826
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:35,280
A team of NASA scientists conducted a detailed analysis of the rock.

827
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:39,280
What they discovered was beyond their wildest dreams.

828
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,280
Deep within the rock,

829
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,280
for what appeared to be signs of life,

830
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:49,280
the fossilized remains of dozens of microorganisms.

831
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:56,280
If you were to pull out one of your hairs and look at it,

832
00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:02,280
that is about 50 microns across the width of the hair.

833
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:07,280
Now, if you divide that into 50 parts, you're at one micron.

834
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:12,280
And then if you take that micron and divide that into 20 more parts,

835
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:16,280
you're down into the size of these little organisms.

836
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,280
They're just incredibly tiny.

837
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:25,280
What's so interesting about these grains is that they're in the same size range,

838
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:30,280
and they have a crystal structure that reminds us,

839
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:34,280
or is very similar to what bacteria on the Earth produce.

840
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,280
It's not a smoking gun, as we've said in our paper.

841
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:44,280
We have not found proof of living biogenic activity in this Martian sample,

842
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:47,280
but we have a trail of evidence.

843
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:52,280
For a scientist, a trail of evidence is like a map to buried treasure.

844
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,280
This trail suggested a remarkable journey

845
00:45:55,280 --> 00:46:00,280
which began on the surface of Mars four and a half billion years ago.

846
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,280
Imagine you could travel back to the very origins of the solar system.

847
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:10,280
At the same time that rock 84001 was being formed,

848
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:14,280
Mars was being bombarded by a catastrophic meteor storm.

849
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:18,280
Its surface was left riddled with craters and crevices.

850
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:23,280
Early in the history of Mars, we feel it was warmer and it was wetter.

851
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,280
There was abundance of water on the surface of the planet.

852
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,280
The atmosphere was more dense.

853
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,280
Liquid water moved across the surface of the planet.

854
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,280
It also percolated down through the cracks.

855
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,280
Over the next 500 million years,

856
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,280
chemical reactions in this primeval soup

857
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,280
apparently gave rise to a primitive life form.

858
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:53,280
As the water evaporated, the microscopic life forms were encased in rock

859
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,280
and became fossilized.

860
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:59,280
One such rock may have been number 84001.

861
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:04,280
Then it sat on the surface of the planet for a period of time

862
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,280
up until 16 million years ago

863
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:12,280
when a large meteorite or comet possibly slammed into the surface of Mars

864
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:18,280
with enough energy that it caused it to be lifted off the surface of Mars

865
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,280
and escape the gravitational field of the planet.

866
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,280
It traveled through space for 16 million years

867
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:30,280
and 13,000 years ago fell on the ice fields of the Antarctic.

868
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:34,280
It lay on the ice fields until 1984

869
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:38,280
where Robbie Scorer picked it up and the rest is history.

870
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:45,280
It's at this point that some believe history takes a totally incredible turn.

871
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:50,280
While the organisms in rock number 84001 have been fossilized,

872
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:55,280
it's quite possible other meteorites carried living organisms all the way to Earth.

873
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:59,280
Organisms which became the basis for life on our planet.

874
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:04,280
To put it simply, the human race may in fact be Martian.

875
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,280
There's no doubt that life could have originated on Mars

876
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,280
and come to Earth billions of years ago

877
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:16,280
in this kind of process where something hits Mars and knocks pieces loose

878
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,280
and likewise, it's just as possible more or less

879
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,280
that life could have originated on Earth and come to Mars.

880
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:27,280
So then, are we partially Martians or is life there partially terrestrial?

881
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:33,280
Could it be that there's cross-contamination, long been suspected, might possibly be true?

882
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:39,280
The possibilities are enough to excite the most skeptical of scientists

883
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:46,280
but even they caution that rock 84001 does not provide definitive proof of life on Mars.

884
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,280
What we don't want to do is to say it looks like it, therefore it is.

885
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:57,280
What we really need to do is to send a sample return mission, perhaps by the year 2003,

886
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:03,280
dig up Martian soil, dig up a rock, ideally from a meter or two beneath the soil,

887
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:08,280
bring it back, chemically analyze it at Pristine Lab, find a cell, it's done.

888
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:11,280
Left off, left off.

889
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:15,280
Over the next decade, NASA plans to do just that.

890
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:22,280
The first stage will come later this year when we launch our most ambitious space mission since the moon landing.

891
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:29,280
An unmanned craft known as Pathfinder is scheduled to land on Mars next July

892
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,280
and collect samples of Martian soil.

893
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:40,280
We're really intrigued with the possibility that life may still exist on Mars

894
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:46,280
and if it does exist, it almost has to exist underneath the surface.

895
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:50,280
Now that doesn't mean little green men or UFOs or anything like that

896
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,280
but it does mean that scientists really do believe that life does exist in other places.

897
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,280
We just have to find it.

898
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:05,280
I never dreamed that I would have the opportunity to work on a problem of this magnitude.

899
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:13,280
To be able to say, I participated in a study that has changed the whole thinking

900
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:19,280
of not only myself and my teammates but the man on the street.

901
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:31,280
This is a tremendous awakening to mankind that, hey, we may not be alone in this vast universe which we reside.

902
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:37,280
Perhaps there are people out there on these other bodies that are also searching for life.

903
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:45,280
Adrift in a vast universe, mankind as we know it is no more than a grain of sand

904
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:50,280
and our space exploration to date is akin to the first step taken by a baby.

905
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:56,280
What we will find next cannot be known. It can only be imagined.

906
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:05,280
The Night Sky

907
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:14,280
At one time or another we have all looked up at the night sky and seen something which we just cannot explain.

908
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,280
Recently there has been a rash of such sightings.

909
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:22,280
Unidentifiable lights and objects. It seems a move like nothing known to man.

910
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:29,280
Some say they are UFOs. Others speculate that they are a new generation of sophisticated military aircraft.

911
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:36,280
This video was shot by a camera crew hired by Aviation Week magazine.

912
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:41,280
Eye witnesses say it shows a pencil-thin aircraft trailing balls of golden light.

913
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:46,280
Some believe it is evidence of an exotic new propulsion system.

914
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:56,280
In this footage, a conventional airplane seen here was being filmed when a mysterious object suddenly appeared.

915
00:51:56,280 --> 00:52:01,280
The object traveled at a high rate of speed and exhibited pinpoint maneuverability.

916
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:11,280
In this haunting image, several eye witnesses observed an unusual light source, possibly an aircraft hovering over the Nevada desert.

917
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:20,280
And here, an unknown wedge-shaped object which made no noise flies over Roswell, New Mexico.

918
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:25,280
The footage was shot by a man named Stephen Douglas of Amarillo, Texas.

919
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:33,280
Stephen Douglas spends much of his time trying to unravel the mystery of these unidentified aircraft.

920
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:39,280
Douglas is an aviation enthusiast and journalist who publishes a newsletter called Intercepts.

921
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:45,280
Douglas believes that the mysterious lights are in fact experimental military jets,

922
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:51,280
which are being kept under wraps just as a legendary stealth fighter was for nearly a decade.

923
00:52:52,280 --> 00:53:01,280
Until it was publicly unveiled in 1988, the Air Force for National Security reasons would not confirm rumors that the stealth was being tested.

924
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:09,280
Recently, there's been similar speculation about a new spy plane, reputed to travel-less speeds exceeding Mach 6.

925
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:16,280
In 1992, Stephen Douglas obtained what he believes is evidence that the plane may actually exist.

926
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:24,280
This is probably about 11 a.m. and the house began to rattle.

927
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:30,280
Let me call you back. This house just really shook. I'm going to go find out what it is and I'll give you a call back.

928
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:35,280
It was more of a vibration that was felt, I'm not heard.

929
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:42,280
So I went outside and there was this aircraft flying by over the house incredibly fast.

930
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:49,280
I've seen a lot of aircraft crisscross the skies around here, but this thing, I couldn't believe how fast it was moving.

931
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:57,280
And behind it, it left a contrail that was unique, what they call a donuts on a rope contrail.

932
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:08,280
Stephen Douglas took this photograph of the contrail. Some aviation researchers believe it might have been made by what is known as a pulse detonation wave engine.

933
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:13,280
An experimental technology allegedly used in the spy plane.

934
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:20,280
The Air Force was unable to identify the source of the contrail in the photograph, which raises an intriguing question.

935
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:24,280
If it is not one of our planes, whose is it?

936
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:29,280
A year later, Douglas had another unusual sighting.

937
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:37,280
He and his father-in-law, Elwood, were in Roswell, New Mexico to videotape military airplanes that were participating in mock wargames.

938
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:44,280
Shortly after a group of B-1 bombers took off, an unidentified aircraft entered the area.

939
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,280
Can you tell what that is?

940
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:50,280
Elwood noticed an aircraft coming towards us from the southwest.

941
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:59,280
As soon as I started shooting tape, the battery light in the camera told me that the batteries were about exhausted.

942
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:05,280
I got approximately 7 to 10 seconds before the batteries quit in the camera.

943
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:13,280
We couldn't hear any sound at all. This aircraft made no sound at all. It was just super quiet.

944
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:18,280
It looked like a flying triangle.

945
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:23,280
And immediately I knew it must have been TR-3A Black Manta.

946
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:32,280
The TR-3A Black Manta is another high-tech aircraft that is widely rumored to exist.

947
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:38,280
The matter is thought to be a reconnaissance plane, which operates in tandem with a stealth fighter.

948
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:43,280
But in a statement issued to Unsolved Mysteries, the Air Force said of the matter, quote,

949
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,280
It has no basis in reality.

950
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:54,280
When the Air Force analyzed Douglas' footage, they believed the aircraft might be a Navy EA-6B Prouler.

951
00:55:54,280 --> 00:56:00,280
However, the Navy could not identify the plane, citing the poor quality of the videotape.

952
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:06,280
A computer enhancement of a frame from the videotape appears to show a triangular-shaped wedge.

953
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:12,280
Douglas claims the object was virtually silent and moves slower than conventional military aircraft.

954
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:19,280
But if the aircraft does not belong to the Air Force and cannot be identified by the Navy, the same question remains.

955
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,280
Who's is it?

956
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:28,280
One of the intriguing aspects of this story is that the airport where Douglas shot his footage

957
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:35,280
is in the same area where one of the most controversial UFO episodes took place more than 40 years ago.

958
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:42,280
Music

959
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:53,280
In 1947, Army investigators from Roswell Air Base went public with the shocking news that a flying saucer had crashed on a ranch in rural New Mexico.

960
00:56:53,280 --> 00:57:01,280
A few days later, the Army reversed itself and claimed that what had actually been found was a downed weather balloon.

961
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:08,280
Nevertheless, many people are convinced that the Army did recover the wreckage of a craft from somewhere other than Earth,

962
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:19,280
and that now, even more incredibly, the military has somehow managed to glean the secrets of the UFO to achieve a breakthrough in aviation technology.

963
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:26,280
These aircraft are doing things which a lot of physicists have generally said are not possible.

964
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:30,280
They're not the maneuvers, they're the way they fly, how fast they are.

965
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:34,280
And the real mystery is how they made the leap.

966
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:53,280
There are some that speculate that maybe this technology was gleaned from alien technology that somehow either we have recovered or has been here for a while.

967
00:57:53,280 --> 00:58:00,280
UFO technology to power the next generation of military aircraft? At best it is difficult to accept.

968
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:06,280
Stephen Douglas believes that planes he has seen were developed by our military using conventional technology.

969
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:12,280
Yet the military says such aircraft do not exist. Is there another explanation?

970
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:19,280
If the Pentagon has the answer, they are not saying. And perhaps, just perhaps, it is better that way.

971
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:35,280
It came from the skies to wreak havoc on the Earth. Strange blob-like droplets that look something like this.

972
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:46,280
It sounds like a bad science fiction movie, but for a small town in the Pacific Northwest, there was nothing entertaining or fictional about the scourge at Befelden in 1994.

973
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:57,280
Six times it rained down from above, leaving dozens of local residents ill and several pets and small animals dead.

974
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:11,280
It all happened in Oakville, Washington, population 665. Here in Oakville, clouds fill the sky daily, bringing rain some 275 days a year.

975
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:20,280
So when it began pouring on the morning of August 7th, 1994, no one was particularly concerned until they realized it wasn't raining rain.

976
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:31,280
It was raining tiny blobs of gelatinous goo. It came down in torrents, blanketing 20 square miles and brought with it something of a plague.

977
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:36,280
I got sick. My wife got sick. My daughter. Everybody that lived here got sick.

978
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:45,280
Everybody in the whole town came down with like a flu. Only it was a really hard flu. It didn't last like seven days. It lasted like seven weeks, two or three months.

979
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:56,280
A local police was among the first to report the perplexing precipitation. Officer David Lacey was on patrol with a civilian friend at 3 a.m. when the downpour began.

980
00:59:57,280 --> 01:00:06,280
It's on the window there. I don't know. I don't know. Is that inside the car?

981
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:17,280
We turned our windshield wipers on and it just started smearing to the point where we could almost not see. And we both looked at each other and we said, you know, Jesus isn't right.

982
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:22,280
I mean, we're out in the middle of nowhere basically and where did this come from?

983
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:32,280
Officer Lacey pulled into a gas station to de-go his windshield. As an added precaution, he put on a pair of latex gloves.

984
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:45,280
The substance was very mushy. It's almost like if you had jello in your hand and, you know, you could pretty much squish it through your fingers.

985
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:58,280
We knew it wasn't something that we would normally see because we had never experienced it before. So we did have some bells go off in our heads that basically said that this isn't right. This isn't normal.

986
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:08,280
Local resident Dotty Hearn was equally baffled. By the time she stepped outside that morning, the storm had ended. But the blobs were everywhere.

987
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:21,280
It looked like hail laying on top of a wood box and everywhere else. So I just went over and I touched it and it wasn't hail. It was a gelatinous like material.

988
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:28,280
By mid-afternoon, Officer Lacey had inexplicably taken ill.

989
01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:46,280
That was to the point where I could hardly breathe. I started to put together that possibly whatever the substance was, it made me violently sick, you know, and ill, like I'd never had been before to the point where, you know, it just totally shut me down.

990
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,280
Across town, Dotty Hearn wasn't faring much better.

991
01:01:52,280 --> 01:02:01,280
I started feeling dizzy. Everything started moving around and around and it got worse and as it did, I became increasingly nauseated.

992
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:10,280
An hour later, Dotty's daughter and son found her sprawled on the bathroom floor.

993
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:30,280
She was cold, drenched with perspiration, pale. My mom had been vomiting. She had extreme vertigo. She complained that she had difficulty with her vision. Her vision was blurring.

994
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:37,280
Dotty would spend the next three days in the hospital. The diagnosis? A severe inner ear infection.

995
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:58,280
For some reason, as we were going out the door, I remembered the substance and I wondered if perhaps it might have had some sort of an effect on her, if it might have made her sick. So I opted at that moment to take a sample of this gelatinous material to the hospital.

996
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:10,280
A lab technician found the first startling clue. The substance contained human white blood cells, but exactly what it was and why it fell from the sky could not be determined.

997
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:17,280
The goo was probably forwarded to the Washington State Department of Health for further analysis.

998
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:33,280
It was very uniform. There was no structure that we could see visibly or with microscope. I set it up on various microbiological media and attempted to isolate bacteria.

999
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:42,280
Mike McDowell discovered that the sample was literally teeming with two species of bacteria, one of which makes its home in the human digestive system.

1000
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:56,280
The initial speculation was that it might have been human waste from an airliner. And that would make sense. You would expect to find something like a human white blood cell in human waste.

1001
01:03:56,280 --> 01:04:10,280
However, the FAA ruled that out because under the regulations, human waste is dyed blue. The substance was not blue. It was crystal clear in color.

1002
01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:20,280
All told, the blobs rained down upon Oakville six times over a three-week period. Dozens of people took ill.

1003
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:30,280
Several dogs and cats reportedly died after coming in contact with a toxic droplets. Included in the death toll was Sunny Barcliffe's eight-week-old kitten.

1004
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:38,280
But the nature of the substance and any connection it may have had with the outbreak remained a mystery.

1005
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:43,280
Here we have sample number 12876.

1006
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:50,280
Nearly a year after Dottie Hearn's illness, she took a sample of the material she had stored in her freezer to a private research lab.

1007
01:04:52,280 --> 01:05:05,280
I saw what I think was a eukaryotic cell, which is basically a cell that has a definable nucleus and is found present in by-law, in most animals.

1008
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:20,280
Translation, the goo was alive. But how in the world did living matter make its way into the clouds? The explanations are as mind-boggling as a substance itself.

1009
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:28,280
Perhaps inevitably, the finger of suspicion was soon pointed directly at the military.

1010
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:40,280
Someone theorized that since the Navy had been conducting live bombing runs at sea, they might have blown up a school of jellyfish.

1011
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:57,280
And of course, this jellyfish would have been thrown up into the air and floated 50 miles inland, and over a period of three weeks, fallen six times in the month of August 1994.

1012
01:05:57,280 --> 01:06:00,280
I find that somewhat preposterous.

1013
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:08,280
Now, if that were jellyfish floating around up there for that long, they would have smelled a heaven.

1014
01:06:09,280 --> 01:06:16,280
The Air Force confirms that practice bombing runs are being conducted over the Pacific in August of 1994.

1015
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:24,280
However, they deny any knowledge of the unknown substance or any involvement in creating or dispersing it. The locals don't buy it.

1016
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:33,280
We had a significant amount of military aircraft flying over the home prior to this happening.

1017
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:43,280
Every day almost, slow flying bombers, helicopters, all black in color. And we kind of thought maybe it might have come from them.

1018
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:52,280
They let off things in the air all the time here. Testing. There's testing done all over the place. There's a lot of places you can't go into.

1019
01:06:52,280 --> 01:07:03,280
Maybe we were a biological experiment of some kind, a small one. Maybe just get people a little bit sick to find out, say if an enemy did come over here with a biological bomb or something and dropped it.

1020
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:07,280
Maybe just a test run to see how it would happen.

1021
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:20,280
Translation. Germ warfare. However, that seems unlikely, given the severe international restrictions regarding experiments with biological weapons in populated areas.

1022
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:33,280
The present is impossible to say what the strange goo was or where it came from. Unfortunately, all samples of the substance are gone, making further study impossible.

1023
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:42,280
Perhaps the answer will come someday soon, when the skies open up over another small community and the blobs once again fall to us.

1024
01:07:43,280 --> 01:08:02,280
During the past five years, unsolved mysteries has broadcast a number of stories dealing with unidentified flying objects. Viewed in retrospect, they chronicle the history of UFO sightings in America and Europe.

1025
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:11,280
Today, most of us take tales of UFO sightings for granted, yet the phenomenon was virtually unheard of until just after World War II.

1026
01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:23,280
1947. The genesis of UFO sightings unfolded in the New Mexico Desert near Roswell Army Air Base.

1027
01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:30,280
Military investigators were called in to examine the debris of an unknown aircraft.

1028
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:35,280
The incident was thoroughly documented and even publicized.

1029
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:43,280
Incredibly, a few eyewitnesses claimed that alien light forms were also recovered.

1030
01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:51,280
Ultimately, the authorities denied the entire affair and insisted the UFO was nothing more than a downed weather balloon.

1031
01:08:52,280 --> 01:09:01,280
18 years later, in 1965, residents of a small Pennsylvania village observed a fiery object streak through the sky then fall to Earth.

1032
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:13,280
Many witnesses saw an Air Force radar squadron hauling the object away. The military dismissed the sighting as a meteorite and insisted that nothing was ever recovered.

1033
01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:22,280
Over the next 25 years, reports of close encounters proliferated. Many of them on or near military bases.

1034
01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:33,280
One of the most remarkable occurred on December 26, 1980 at Bentwater's, an American Air Base in England.

1035
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:39,280
There's definitely something up there.

1036
01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:48,280
A beam is coming down from an object in the ground near our feet.

1037
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:54,280
According to eyewitnesses, the sightings continued in various forms until December 28.

1038
01:09:57,280 --> 01:10:03,280
The next day, a continent away in Texas, a woman named Betty Cash suffered severe radiation burns.

1039
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:06,280
She claimed she had been in a state of emergency.

1040
01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:13,280
Most recently, between 1989 and 1991, thousands of people in Belgium reported a literal invasion of strange unearthly crafts.

1041
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:19,280
The first of them was a woman named Betty Cash.

1042
01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:24,280
She claimed she had been exposed to the energy field of a bizarre flying object.

1043
01:10:28,280 --> 01:10:35,280
Most recently, between 1989 and 1991, thousands of people in Belgium reported a literal invasion of strange unearthly crafts.

1044
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:47,280
Amazingly, the Belgian Air Force is able to capture, on radar, the swift and erratic movements of an unidentified craft which defied the laws of known physics.

1045
01:10:54,280 --> 01:11:00,280
For those of us who've never encountered a UFO, reports of such events often sound far-fetched.

1046
01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:05,280
In fact, some eyewitnesses who go public risk becoming the object of ridicule and scorn.

1047
01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:07,280
Others are simply ignored.

1048
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:16,280
In either case, an acknowledged UFO sighting can profoundly change a person's life in ways that he or she never imagined possible.

1049
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:26,280
Withville, Virginia, population 8,000 is nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

1050
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:32,280
Country music station WYVE calls itself the voice of Withville.

1051
01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:41,280
On most days, life here is peaceful, unpretentious, none eventful, but that was about to change.

1052
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:43,280
Good morning, Sheriff, Danny Gordon.

1053
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:51,280
On October 7th, 1987, radio reporter Danny Gordon checked in as usual with a county sheriff and heard an unbelievable tale.

1054
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:55,280
Over near, uh, Austinville?

1055
01:11:55,280 --> 01:11:56,280
Huh?

1056
01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:57,280
All right.

1057
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:59,280
Got anything else?

1058
01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:05,280
You're kidding me.

1059
01:12:05,280 --> 01:12:11,280
Three With County Sheriff's deputies, all former military men, claimed they had seen a UFO.

1060
01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:13,280
Well, when was that?

1061
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:17,280
Okay, Danny, you're on in 3, 2, 1.

1062
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:22,280
Unidentified flying objects have been sighted over With County on Monday and Tuesday evenings.

1063
01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:23,280
The With County Sheriff's...

1064
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:28,280
There was a filler piece that came on at the end of the news, which I usually relegate to something that's maybe unusual,

1065
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:32,280
like we had a one-place officer who killed five chickens once with two shots,

1066
01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:35,280
and that was a story that ran as kind of a ha-ha piece,

1067
01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:43,280
and this was another ha-ha piece, and being a very skeptical newsman, it was definitely not in my lead part of my news.

1068
01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:48,280
Danny Gordon's fluff story sparked unprecedented listener reaction.

1069
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:52,280
Reports of UFO sightings poured into WYVE.

1070
01:12:52,280 --> 01:13:00,280
With a switchboard jam, Gordon finally set up a special calling program for the evening of October 19th, 1987.

1071
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:03,280
Hello, this is Danny Gordon. You're on there. Go ahead, please.

1072
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:08,280
What follows is based on verbatim transcripts of the actual telephone calls.

1073
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:13,280
It was very, very huge. It was long and it didn't have any sound.

1074
01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:17,280
It had a big light on the front, one in the center, and one in the back.

1075
01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:21,280
Well, it kind of looked something about like an egg shape to me.

1076
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:25,280
What we could see was red, green, and white sort of flashing lights.

1077
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:32,280
We saw a plane go by with, you know, red, red flashing lights. We knew it wasn't a jet of any sort.

1078
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:34,280
Okay, well, I appreciate that. Thanks a lot.

1079
01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:40,280
Being a brass-tax journalist, I always believed there is a plausible logical explanation.

1080
01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:48,280
And I felt at that time that it was military of some nature and that we would find the reason in a short period of time.

1081
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:57,280
Danny Gordon thought the UFOs were most likely experimental aircraft being tested out of Virginia's Langley Air Force Base.

1082
01:13:57,280 --> 01:14:02,280
But he was repeatedly told by the military that there was no testing going on.

1083
01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:08,280
As more and more residents had sightings, the military did come up with one explanation.

1084
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:16,280
Everybody had been telling us that what people were seeing were planes refueling.

1085
01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:20,280
And so I said, well, I didn't know that's how they did that.

1086
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:24,280
And then I thought, well, why are they doing that down over my house?

1087
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:30,280
You know, isn't this something they should be doing away from populated areas?

1088
01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:39,280
I called the Pentagon and talked to the Air Force General there who told me if they were refueling under 13,000 feet, then somebody's butt's in a sling.

1089
01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:43,280
And to this day, we don't know if they were refueling at 5,000 feet.

1090
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:51,280
But at the same time, I have asked if it is military, then I'll back off the story and leave it alone if you tell me because I'm a patriot.

1091
01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:56,280
And each time I'm told it's not us, we're not doing it, and we haven't been doing it.

1092
01:14:57,280 --> 01:15:02,280
On October 21st, just two weeks after the original report,

1093
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:09,280
Danny Gordon and a friend, Roger Hall, drove to the area south of Withville where most of the sightings had occurred.

1094
01:15:09,280 --> 01:15:14,280
They brought along a 35-millimeter still camera as well as a video camera.

1095
01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:20,280
We were headed home after two hours of fruitless searching, about a quarter to nine,

1096
01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:29,280
on route 21 south coming into Withville, and just happened to look to my left and saw a very unusual object coming across the horizon.

1097
01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:32,280
What's that?

1098
01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:33,280
What?

1099
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:37,280
Over there, some lights or something. I'm going to pull over.

1100
01:15:37,280 --> 01:15:52,280
I pulled off to the side of the road in a hurry, jumped out, he got out of the right side, and as he got out, I noticed the craft was coming at me.

1101
01:15:52,280 --> 01:16:02,280
It was very large. It had a dome shaped to the top of it, had no wings, and had what appeared to be a strobe putting out multicolored lights on the right side of the craft.

1102
01:16:02,280 --> 01:16:04,280
What the hell is that?

1103
01:16:04,280 --> 01:16:06,280
I don't know.

1104
01:16:06,280 --> 01:16:13,280
It was probably less than a thousand feet away and a thousand feet high at the maximum.

1105
01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:19,280
We guessed it would be in at least two football fields in diameter.

1106
01:16:19,280 --> 01:16:26,280
You could see three huge, looked like picture windows in the back of it that were lit from the inside out.

1107
01:16:26,280 --> 01:16:33,280
As I watched the sky from the left came a red ball.

1108
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:40,280
As a big mothership went into a small skiff of clouds, the red ball docked with the craft.

1109
01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:47,280
It was like you were watching a computer game and watching these things develop on the video screen.

1110
01:16:52,280 --> 01:16:54,280
Did you get a picture of that?

1111
01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:56,280
No, didn't you?

1112
01:16:56,280 --> 01:17:00,280
I left the camera on the trunk. Where's your camera?

1113
01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:02,280
In the car. I was driving.

1114
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:12,280
We looked at each other and realized no pictures. The camera was not in my hand, the camera was not in his hand, and we both knew we blew it.

1115
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:22,280
The only thing I can say is we were just all struck by it or just dumb, whichever one. I'm not sure which, but we sure didn't get any pictures of it.

1116
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:31,280
The next night, Gordon and Hall would go out again, this time they would take photographs.

1117
01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:39,280
With the film still undeveloped, the press conference was called for the following day, October 23rd, 1987.

1118
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:45,280
The night before the press conference I received a phone call from somebody who refused to identify himself,

1119
01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:51,280
and they said that I need to be aware that the CIA and the federal government were very much interested in the kind of UFOs.

1120
01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:57,280
I started to wonder what I had stepped into, and my wife was urging me to back off to leave it alone,

1121
01:17:57,280 --> 01:18:02,280
and I also was receiving some anonymous phone call saying, you know, it's something you need to leave it alone,

1122
01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:05,280
because it's not your place to be messing in defense matters.

1123
01:18:13,280 --> 01:18:14,280
Becky?

1124
01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:19,280
After the press conference, Gordon discovered that his house had been broken into.

1125
01:18:22,280 --> 01:18:23,280
Becky?

1126
01:18:24,280 --> 01:18:29,280
Oddly, nothing was stolen, and Gordon is convinced that someone was looking for the photographs.

1127
01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:34,280
When developed, the pictures revealed only vague streaks of light in the sky.

1128
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:42,280
But Danny Gordon would soon have another opportunity to photograph the UFOs.

1129
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:49,280
Six weeks later, on December 2nd, Danny, his wife and daughter were leaving the local mall

1130
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:52,280
when they encountered some unexpected visitors.

1131
01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:59,280
We looked very quickly and saw what I thought was one large object which later appeared to be four flying disc shapes.

1132
01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:02,280
As soon as the objects were photographed, they disappeared from view.

1133
01:19:08,280 --> 01:19:12,280
The first thing I saw was a picture of a man in a car.

1134
01:19:12,280 --> 01:19:17,280
I saw a picture of a man in a car, and I thought, you know, he was a man.

1135
01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:20,280
As soon as the objects were photographed, they disappeared from view.

1136
01:19:24,280 --> 01:19:29,280
When the pictures came out, and they had a lot of grain, but they showed definite four shapes of objects in the sky.

1137
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:39,280
But the most impressive point in the four photographs, the objects appeared to change shape or light formations within one click of the camera.

1138
01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:43,280
They go from a teardrop shape to a round ball shape.

1139
01:19:43,280 --> 01:19:49,280
Then they go to a flying saucer like disc shape, and then they go to an edge shape as they go out of sight.

1140
01:19:52,280 --> 01:19:56,280
The people of Withville knew that something extraordinary was happening in their town.

1141
01:19:56,280 --> 01:20:00,280
By the end of December, the sightings numbered well over 1,500.

1142
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:06,280
One of the first occurred here, near Interstate 81, a mile from downtown Withville.

1143
01:20:07,280 --> 01:20:11,280
Eyewitnesses said the craft resembled a brilliantly lit hurling carousel.

1144
01:20:11,280 --> 01:20:14,280
Immediately, other sightings cropped up.

1145
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:17,280
I'm not mistaken about what we saw. Absolutely not.

1146
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:22,280
Because we had never seen this before. We didn't have any reason to make any stories up.

1147
01:20:22,280 --> 01:20:24,280
I kept a journal.

1148
01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:29,280
Atricia Acres had ten sightings, all of them here, eight miles north of Withville.

1149
01:20:29,280 --> 01:20:35,280
The best way I can describe them is that they sort of look like a cross between a helicopter and an airplane.

1150
01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:38,280
With no noise, no or very little noise.

1151
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:41,280
To be so large, I don't know how they stayed up.

1152
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:48,280
I'd say that the educated psychologists and psychiatrists,

1153
01:20:48,280 --> 01:20:53,280
debunking what we've seen and everything, they've never been here. They've never seen it.

1154
01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:57,280
I was skeptical until I started seeing this stuff.

1155
01:20:58,280 --> 01:21:03,280
Rita Marie Vaught saw a UFO behind this ridge, half a mile from her house.

1156
01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:09,280
I've seen the circle of objects in the sky, all different colors that kept going around and around.

1157
01:21:09,280 --> 01:21:16,280
It would be sort of looking like a carousel, but it didn't scare me. None of this has scared me.

1158
01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:21,280
Until I see the little green men walking around, I won't be scared.

1159
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:31,280
You just had this feeling of something really, really big, just moving, just drifting over your head in no sound or anything.

1160
01:21:31,280 --> 01:21:37,280
Mary Jean Williamson sightings occurred directly above her house in the center of Withville.

1161
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:43,280
It had all the white lights in the front, just a big semicircle of white lights, and it was just huge.

1162
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:52,280
I mean, it was just absolutely huge, but you couldn't actually see an outline or anything like that.

1163
01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:57,280
I know it wasn't the planet Venus, and I know it was not atmospheric phenomena.

1164
01:21:57,280 --> 01:22:03,280
These were some kind of craft moving over our house.

1165
01:22:04,280 --> 01:22:09,280
Eventually, I got around to calling the Pentagon and talk with the spokesman for defense of the Pentagon,

1166
01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:15,280
and he speaks for all the defense branches, and he told me, quote, twice,

1167
01:22:15,280 --> 01:22:23,280
we do not deny UFOs exist. The government confirms they exist, but we deny they pose a threat to the populace of With County.

1168
01:22:23,280 --> 01:22:28,280
And my question was, how do you know this? And he said, I can't tell you, but there's no threat to you.

1169
01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:33,280
So that's the reason we're not sending convoys of aircraft down there to protect With County.

1170
01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:40,280
On March 19, 1988, Danny Gordon was packing for a broadcasters conference in Virginia Beach,

1171
01:22:40,280 --> 01:22:43,280
where he was to speak about his UFO coverage.

1172
01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:48,280
I received a phone call at home from a retired military intelligence officer,

1173
01:22:48,280 --> 01:22:54,280
and first he told me to make sure that I'd take the conversation so he could put the date and everyone to be aware.

1174
01:22:54,280 --> 01:23:00,280
And I said, why do you want to take this? And he said, I want your friendship, though, something happens to you that I forewarned you.

1175
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:05,280
What I'm telling you, Danny, is I've been showing this link for many, many years.

1176
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:09,280
Like I say, I saw my son dying, but who came here?

1177
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:14,280
He told me that because of his investigations into the UFO field, that they had hit his son

1178
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:18,280
and caused his son to die with some kind of virus connected to leukemia.

1179
01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:20,280
Danny, who is it?

1180
01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:21,280
It's not...

1181
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:24,280
He said that he had information to the federal government.

1182
01:23:24,280 --> 01:23:27,280
He was not very happy with my UFO investigations.

1183
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:33,280
And they felt like I was too loud of a voice to quieten by just killing me, which made me very happy.

1184
01:23:33,280 --> 01:23:36,280
And he said, they want to quieten you in a different fashion.

1185
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:45,280
What I'm telling you is they will try to hit you if they think it's possible for their purposes to keep you from fervent investigation.

1186
01:23:45,280 --> 01:23:48,280
And most of my food being done through skin contact chemicals.

1187
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:57,280
If they come from the door knob in the car or on the steering wheel, they could also come up with something, do something to your children.

1188
01:23:57,280 --> 01:24:01,280
You know, it's one thing for someone to threaten myself.

1189
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:04,280
When you threaten my family, you're trading on very thin water.

1190
01:24:04,280 --> 01:24:12,280
So when I found out that he could be believed, just could be, it scared me at the same time made me mad.

1191
01:24:12,280 --> 01:24:15,280
Because I had to try to protect my family, protect myself.

1192
01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:23,280
And at the same time, because I believe in free speech, I was refusing to allow this man to stop me from going to Virginia Beach to talk.

1193
01:24:23,280 --> 01:24:25,280
Well, I am going to Virginia Beach.

1194
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:28,280
You're coming at the time, you think I'm going to crack the monster?

1195
01:24:28,280 --> 01:24:30,280
No, I appreciate it. I appreciate it.

1196
01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:32,280
Thank you for calling.

1197
01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:37,280
What was that about?

1198
01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:39,280
Oh, nothing, honey.

1199
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:43,280
Oddly enough, it was the same weekend that there was a hepatitis epidemic in Virginia Beach.

1200
01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:49,280
Had I come down with hepatitis, I would have believed and everyone would have believed they had gotten to me.

1201
01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:54,280
But I came back with no problems and the children were in good shape.

1202
01:24:56,280 --> 01:25:02,280
Less than one month after the disturbing phone call, Gordon had two surprise visitors at his home.

1203
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:07,280
I'm going to ask you a few questions if you don't mind about these recent UFO sightings.

1204
01:25:07,280 --> 01:25:09,280
No, I'll be fine.

1205
01:25:09,280 --> 01:25:10,280
Okay, great.

1206
01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:18,280
They remained for approximately 45 minutes, one interviewing Danny Gordon, the other roaming through the house snapping photographs.

1207
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:23,280
They had told me when they left they would send me a copy of the article so I could peruse it.

1208
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:28,280
And when I didn't receive one, I called the newspaper and they said, well, these two guys are not on our payroll.

1209
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:29,280
They don't work for us.

1210
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:36,280
So who they were, I don't know, but they were in my house, saw my picture, saw my negatives, talked to my family, took pictures and then left.

1211
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:38,280
But they were not with the newspaper.

1212
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:41,280
I think we've got everything we need, Mr. Gordon. Thank you very much for your time.

1213
01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:42,280
Thank you.

1214
01:25:42,280 --> 01:25:43,280
Thank you.

1215
01:25:56,280 --> 01:26:02,280
A few weeks later, Danny Gordon sat down to organize and catalog his UFO photographs.

1216
01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:18,280
When I got to the canister which had the UFO negatives, I quickly opened it up and found some UFO negatives, but the one negative with the shot from the shopping mall was missing.

1217
01:26:18,280 --> 01:26:21,280
I felt like maybe there was something in those photographs that I was not seeing.

1218
01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:24,280
So I took the photographs to some other people to look at.

1219
01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:26,280
We used magnifying glasses.

1220
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:30,280
We measured angles trying to find out why these photographs were so important.

1221
01:26:30,280 --> 01:26:38,280
And we've yet to discover why anyone would want to steal that one Pacific set of four in a series of photographs of the UFOs.

1222
01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:42,280
Danny Gordon had nearly reached the end of his rope.

1223
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:44,280
His house had been broken into.

1224
01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:48,280
He had received countless late night phone calls, some of them threatening.

1225
01:26:48,280 --> 01:26:51,280
Bogus reporters had visited his home.

1226
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:55,280
Finally, his UFO negatives disappeared.

1227
01:26:56,280 --> 01:27:01,280
Two months later, the stress caught up with Danny Gordon.

1228
01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:10,280
Somebody help me!

1229
01:27:10,280 --> 01:27:13,280
He just healed over. He was getting a little work. I think he's having a heart attack.

1230
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:15,280
I'm not having a heart attack.

1231
01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:21,280
Doctors would later determine that the attack had been brought on not by heart problems, but by severe exhaustion.

1232
01:27:22,280 --> 01:27:28,280
Danny Gordon was cautioned that continued involvement with the UFO controversy could jeopardize his health.

1233
01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:39,280
I myself have not had a sighting since December 1990, but purposely I don't go out and look because it's upset my life enough.

1234
01:27:39,280 --> 01:27:43,280
I would just assume never see a UFO again in my lifetime.

1235
01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:49,280
If I had my choice, I'd not report the UFO story again.

1236
01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:52,280
It's just been too hard on my life and created too many problems.

1237
01:27:54,280 --> 01:28:01,280
Don't look up because once you look up and you tell somebody what you saw, your life has changed forever.

1238
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:06,280
In late 1987, Danny Gordon received an average of 500 telephone calls about UFOs each month.

1239
01:28:06,280 --> 01:28:10,280
Today, the calls at Dwindle do approximately 50 per month.

1240
01:28:10,280 --> 01:28:14,280
The UFO heyday in Withville is apparently drawn to a close.

1241
01:28:14,280 --> 01:28:17,280
Danny Gordon's health and life are back to normal.

1242
01:28:17,280 --> 01:28:22,280
But if history is any indicator, sometime soon in another small town,

1243
01:28:22,280 --> 01:28:27,280
someone else will look up and his or her life will never be the same.

1244
01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:54,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1245
01:28:54,280 --> 01:28:56,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1246
01:28:56,280 --> 01:28:58,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1247
01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:00,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1248
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:02,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1249
01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:04,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1250
01:29:04,280 --> 01:29:06,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1251
01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:08,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1252
01:29:08,280 --> 01:29:10,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1253
01:29:10,280 --> 01:29:12,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1254
01:29:12,280 --> 01:29:14,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1255
01:29:14,280 --> 01:29:16,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1256
01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:18,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1257
01:29:18,280 --> 01:29:20,280
The UFOs are in the same place.

1258
01:29:20,280 --> 01:29:22,280
The UFOs are in the same place.