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00:00Are you hearing something about these lights that are hovering up here?
00:04They're using a flying disc out by C-17.
00:07Among the quiet towns and bustling epicenters around the world,
00:11reports pour in of unusual aerial phenomena.
00:14It shoots high into the air. It's moving in an erratic way.
00:19This is not a terrestrial craft.
00:22Flying discs, hovering orbs, strange biological substances falling from the sky.
00:27To determine what it might have been, you'd have to eliminate all the other possibilities.
00:34The sensational becomes credible once it's crowdsourced.
00:37Thousands of people claim to see these orbs.
00:41UFO hotspots light up on the map.
00:43What's made these places the target of otherworldly attention?
00:47This might be the location of the vortex.
00:50As vessels reappear in the same locations,
00:53can we use the earthly to guess at otherworldly motives?
00:56Are these mysterious visitors friends or foe?
01:00And should we fear their return?
01:02All over the world, repeat sightings of UFOs baffle researchers.
01:07UAP are in our airspace, but they are grossly underreported.
01:10A pattern begins to emerge.
01:12These sightings are not rare or isolated, they are routine.
01:15What is the meaning behind these hotspots?
01:17I can't go beyond what I've already stated publicly.
01:20The government is not prepared.
01:22Are we being mapped?
01:23February 9th, 2023, 9 p.m.
01:33At the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, in Colorado.
01:38Radio operators have picked up an unusual object floating over northern Alaska.
01:43They have no idea what it is, but it poses a serious threat to U.S. airspace.
01:48Cruising at an altitude of 39,000 feet, the object is within the typical altitude range for civilian aircraft.
01:56Alaskan authorities hurriedly order an airspace closure,
02:00and within hours, a small fleet of F-35 fighter jets is en route to investigate.
02:05But their testimonies only complicate the mystery.
02:11According to some pilots, the car-sized craft appears to be moving through the air with no visible means of propulsion.
02:19They have no idea how it's staying airborne.
02:22Other pilots have trouble even approaching the object, claiming that it interfered with their sensors.
02:28The following morning, two F-22 fighter jets take off from Elmendorf-Richardson Air Base, Alaska.
02:36They have been given permission by the President of the United States to engage and destroy the mysterious flying object.
02:43A short-range air-to-air missile sends the unknown craft hurtling into the frozen waters of the Arctic, just off the Alaskan coast.
02:55Recovery operations would go on for 39 days,
02:58though bad weather and limited daylight would mean most of the unidentified object would be lost to the frozen waters forever.
03:05News of the 2023 Alaska high-altitude object would make international headlines,
03:12but this is far from the only encounter in Alaska with unknown aerial phenomena.
03:1976 years earlier, in August 1947,
03:23FBI HQ in Anchorage receives a remarkable witness statement.
03:28It begins,
03:29Two army officers reported to the office of the Director of Intelligence at Fort Richardson, Alaska,
03:35claiming that they had witnessed an object passing through the air at a tremendous speed,
03:40which they could not judge as to miles per hour.
03:43The two pilots are traveling across Alaska when they see this large spherical object
03:51that is soaring through the sky, leaving no exhaust trail.
03:56There's a slight discrepancy in terms of the account of the size of this flying craft,
04:03with one of the pilots believing that it was further away and larger, something like 10 feet long,
04:10the other believing that it was closer and a lot smaller, only about 2, 3 feet.
04:14If you are airborne and you see another object,
04:18unless you're familiar with that object, you have no idea how far it is away,
04:21because you don't know how big the object is if you're standing next to it.
04:25Unless you're familiar with that shape and that size of airplane,
04:28it's very difficult to sort, and that's why the two pilots disagreed.
04:33This extraordinary account jolts the Anchorage FBI into action.
04:38The cable FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover's office,
04:41reporting that this is the second sighting of an unidentified aircraft in the region in as many months.
04:47A month before the two military pilots had their sighting,
04:53a civilian pilot going over Anchorage claimed to have seen another rather strange object.
05:00This one shaped like a wing that was flying through the sky.
05:04The interesting thing about this other sighting is that, like the two army pilots reported,
05:09this wing-shaped, V-shaped UFO also left no trail of exhaust of any kind.
05:15After moving away from this strange craft,
05:19he then radios the Civil Aeronautic Administration,
05:23only to be told there is nothing else in the sky around him.
05:29Throughout the 1950s, strange sightings in Anchorage and the Alaskan tundra
05:34continue to confound military observers.
05:37Pilots and ground radar operators are haunted by mysterious ghost readings
05:44as objects appear and disappear impossibly from one moment to the next.
05:50Naval officers patrolling the Alaskan coast offer numerous accounts
05:54of unidentified red and orange lights flitting erratically across the sky.
06:00When civilians, pilots, or people on the ground see UFOs,
06:04one of the examples or reasons that have been given for it in the past
06:07is these are just military aircraft.
06:09When a military pilot or the military is coming out and saying things,
06:13then that lends to a different level of credibility or belief
06:16because you'd expect that military pilots on the base
06:19would know what type of military vessels are being tested.
06:23If a combat-ready fighter pilot sees something in the air,
06:26he's probably in a little better position to give a theory on what it might have been.
06:31The military pilot is trained to judge distance of a potential adversary,
06:36closing rate, intercept angles,
06:39all the things that go with their combat maneuvers.
06:42Just their level of training is quite a bit higher.
06:45And this is important because it adds credibility to any sighting,
06:48but it also is indicative of the fact that the stigma of the UFO phenomenon
06:52has not yet set in that people in the military
06:55are very much willing to report these things
06:57and there is no procedure yet to clamp down on this.
07:02None of these early accounts will quite match the remarkable circumstances
07:06surrounding Japanese Airlines Flight 1628
07:10flying over Alaskan airspace in November 1986.
07:14A telephone rings in the Federal Aviation Administration offices.
07:23Chief of Accidents and Investigations, John Callahan, answers the call.
07:28The voice on the other end crackles,
07:30We got a problem.
07:32The problem in question is the startling testimony
07:35of former fighter pilot-turned-commercial operator, Kenju Terauchi.
07:40Terauchi was piloting a Japanese commercial cargo plane
07:44on a long-haul flight from Paris to Tokyo
07:46with a stopover in Anchorage.
07:49As the pilot enters Alaskan airspace,
07:53he notices a very strange bright object alongside.
07:58At first, he dismisses it as, well, just another plane as you would,
08:03but after a few minutes, it's still there
08:06and it doesn't look like another plane
08:09and he starts to ask himself some very searching questions.
08:14Terauchi radios the Anchorage Air Traffic Control Centre
08:17to confirm the presence of the strange aircraft.
08:21Anchorage confirms they have picked up an object on radar
08:24eight kilometres behind the flight,
08:26though they can't confirm what it is.
08:29Terauchi says the radar readings are wrong.
08:31The objects are not behind him.
08:33In fact, they've moved and are now directly in front of him.
08:37They're so close that Terauchi can feel the warmth
08:41from the unidentified lights shining into his cockpit.
08:44The interesting thing about this UFO encounter,
08:48to me, is that feeling of heat.
08:50In most encounters, they tend to be one-dimensional,
08:55vision and vision only.
08:57Feeling the heat, that's something new and something rare.
09:00It's at this point that air traffic control radioed
09:04to the Regional Operations Command Centre
09:07and asked them whether they can see anything strange
09:11or untoward near this aircraft.
09:15So the Regional Operations Command Centre
09:17does confirm that there may be something there,
09:21but they have absolutely no idea what it could be.
09:25And then, very strangely, the pilot gets a message back
09:29from air traffic control that whatever it is
09:32that has shown up in the radar that the pilot is seeing
09:35has just disappeared altogether.
09:37This thing which you're observing with your eyes
09:40is just not there.
09:43Radar has a sensitivity to it.
09:46If you have multiple objects in close proximity,
09:49it may interpret that as a single object.
09:51Also, depending on the conditions,
09:53you may just not have a great signal quality.
09:56So your signal from a single object
09:58may not be strong enough to really say
10:00it's here versus here
10:02because the atmosphere in between
10:04or other noises interfering
10:06with getting a really good fix on that aircraft.
10:10Tereushi and his crew continue to watch in amazement
10:13as the objects dart forward and back,
10:15disappearing behind the plane.
10:17As he glances back, expecting to see the crafts tailing him,
10:22Tereushi sees something far more ominous.
10:25To his horror, there is what appears to be
10:28a mothership right behind,
10:31and it is the size, he says, of an aircraft carrier.
10:35This is an enormous craft that is now bearing down on him.
10:40The pilot is instructed to take evasive maneuvers at this point.
10:43They drop 4,000 feet, circle the plane,
10:46trying to shake off this craft, whatever it is,
10:49but are actually unable to do so.
10:51It sticks with them.
10:52Finally, after 640 kilometers and nearly 50 minutes,
10:57Tereushi and his crew lose sight of the mysterious mothership.
11:01Exhausted and nearly out of fuel,
11:03Flight 1628 finally touches down in Anchorage.
11:07The FAA conducts an investigation, rightly so,
11:10into this matter, given how unusual it is,
11:13and sends its report and its results to Washington,
11:16where it has a briefing with members from the CIA and the FBI.
11:21And interestingly, the FAA is reported to have been told
11:25to keep this under wraps, not to let this out to the public.
11:29If it's true, there's two ways of reading the situation.
11:32One is, obviously, the government decided to avert panic,
11:36to keep this story, as it were, under control.
11:40But, of course, to the UFO community,
11:43this is red flags all over the place.
11:45I mean, why is it that the government is hushing up
11:49an incident like this,
11:51when you've got an experienced pilot
11:53who claims to have seen something so incredible?
11:56The Japan Airlines incident remains an enduring mystery.
12:01What were these mysterious aircrafts,
12:04and what was it about the frozen Alaskan wilderness
12:07that could have attracted them?
12:08Alaska is renowned for its extraordinary otherworldly aerial phenomena.
12:21The most famous of these is a force powerful enough
12:25to send dangerous currents surging through major power grids,
12:29disrupt global satellite navigation,
12:31and even affect the human brain.
12:33The Aurora Borealis is one of the most incredible phenomena
12:39I have ever seen.
12:42I have stood underneath the northern lights
12:45in the Northwest Passage
12:47and watched the lights dance above my head.
12:51They move, they shimmer, they change so quickly,
12:56and the colors that you get from them,
12:59it's almost like a dream.
13:00It's just an incredible thing.
13:01What you're actually seeing
13:03when you see an Aurora Borealis
13:05is you're actually seeing particles
13:07that were emitted from the sun in a solar flare
13:10that have traveled to Earth,
13:12been redirected by the Earth's magnetic field,
13:15and are interacting with gases in our upper atmosphere
13:18to produce plasma
13:19and give rise to these beautiful colors and moving patterns.
13:24We have two things that protect us.
13:26The atmosphere,
13:27which protects from harmful radiation from the sun,
13:31UV radiation, et cetera,
13:34and then you also have the magnetosphere,
13:36which protects us against the sun's highly charged particles,
13:39which can also be harmful to life on Earth.
13:41If those charged particles were able to penetrate
13:44through our atmosphere,
13:45they would cause an immense amount of ionizing radiation
13:48at ground level,
13:50potentially, you know, killing off life on Earth.
13:53While beautiful to look at,
13:56the Aurora Borealis is a remarkably violent phenomenon,
13:59with its origins far from our own planet.
14:02But severe electromagnetic disturbances,
14:05even in our own atmosphere,
14:07can produce electrical currents
14:09capable of traveling down to the Earth's surface.
14:11If you get a strong enough solar storm,
14:16it can mess up everything.
14:21In early September 1859,
14:24amateur astronomer Richard Carrington
14:26joins a growing number of astronomers
14:28studying a newly observed phenomena
14:30on the sun's surface called sunspots.
14:34Sunspots are basically cooler regions
14:38on the surface of the sun.
14:41They appear dark because they're cooler
14:44with respect to the surrounding regions.
14:46Sunspots can occur in regions
14:49of intense magnetic activity,
14:52and they're also correlated with things
14:54like solar eruptions, solar storms,
14:58coronal mass ejections,
14:59that all involve the release of highly charged particles,
15:03which will eventually go out into space
15:04and find their way to us,
15:06and potentially cause the beautiful aurora.
15:09As Carrington sketches the dappled sun
15:11through his telescope,
15:12he is suddenly blinded by an explosion of white light.
15:16He doesn't know it yet,
15:18but he has just become one of the first people
15:20to witness a coronal mass ejection,
15:23a massive expulsion of plasma
15:25from the outermost part of the sun's atmosphere.
15:28Those areas can literally blast out mass,
15:32like literal bits and pieces of the sun
15:35towards the Earth.
15:36In just 17 hours,
15:38this mass of volatile material
15:40strikes the Earth's magnetic field.
15:42This is the beginning of what became known
15:45as the Carrington event.
15:47This event was on the order of tens of thousands of times
15:51of any aurora that we've really experienced since.
15:55The Borealis actually extended into the tropics.
15:59As south as Cuba and the southern tip of Japan,
16:03people saw these auroras because of this solar flare.
16:09If suddenly the aurora borealis,
16:11which is for the most part a northern phenomena,
16:14is visible in southern regions,
16:17especially in the 19th century,
16:19it's going to be alarming.
16:21It's going to seem like something supernatural,
16:24something divine.
16:25One of the crazy things about coronal mass ejections
16:30and particles traveling to Earth
16:32is that they do carry a charge with them.
16:35And when a charge passes by anything metallic,
16:39we actually generate electricity.
16:42So you have telegraph poles sparking,
16:45catching fire,
16:46you have operators experiencing shock.
16:49The disruptions from the Carrington event lasted for days,
16:53with telegraph poles and offices
16:55struggling to repair the widespread electrical damage.
16:59Long-distance communication became virtually impossible.
17:03But as destructive as this remarkable storm was,
17:06a similar event today
17:08would cause an unprecedented global crisis.
17:11To put into perspective,
17:13if an event like this was to happen now,
17:15it would cost $2.6 trillion in the United States alone.
17:20It could literally wipe out disk drives
17:23on the face of the planet
17:24so nobody has any magnetic media storage anymore.
17:27It could destroy entire electrical infrastructure.
17:31It could knock all the satellites
17:33out of service around Earth.
17:34That would have massive impacts on humans
17:37for decades and potentially even centuries to come.
17:40The Aurora Borealis have the potential
17:44to cause serious damage to any electrical component,
17:47but are considered safe because of their altitude.
17:51Occurring between 80 and 640 kilometers above the Earth,
17:55these dazzling displays are far too high
17:58for conventional aircraft to reach.
18:00And yet, the Aurora over Alaska
18:02remain an unlikely hotbed
18:04of unidentified aerial activity.
18:08Wasilla, Alaska.
18:10Less than 50 kilometers from Anchorage.
18:13In 2013, a man drives west along E. Seldon Road.
18:18His son gazes through the passenger side window,
18:21watching waves of light dance across the night sky.
18:24They haven't been this bright in weeks.
18:27The man pulls over.
18:29Then, he sees something strange.
18:31Dozens of floating red crafts
18:33emerge from the pink and green glow.
18:36They group together, forming an enormous circle.
18:39From the side of the road,
18:41he and his son can make out the shapes of the aircraft.
18:44They're triangular, moving slowly eastward as a pack.
18:48If aircraft or lights or something is seen emerging
18:52from the Aurora Borealis,
18:53we know that it's not a human artifact.
18:56Human aircraft do not fly at that height
18:59and cannot fly at that height.
19:01More cars are stopping now.
19:03As drivers gather by the side of the road,
19:05they begin to ask one another questions.
19:08What is this bizarre fleet of aircraft?
19:11Where did they come from?
19:12And could they have anything to do
19:14with the Aurora Borealis above?
19:16One of the stranger things about the Aurora Borealis is that
19:19it has been connected to the UFO phenomenon in the past.
19:22People have reported sightings of UFOs
19:25in and around the Aurora coming out of it.
19:28What kind of relationship is there between the Aurora
19:30and the UFO phenomenon?
19:33Some UFO enthusiasts question whether or not
19:36the Aurora creates energy, as it were, for alien craft
19:41or whether it guides them in.
19:44It's like the lights on a runway.
19:47Auroras as well aren't something that just happen on Earth.
19:50Auroras can be seen throughout our solar system.
19:53The gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune,
19:57all have strong magnetic fields and dense atmospheres
20:01producing their own Aurora formations.
20:03Planets beyond our solar system may host
20:06even more remarkable phenomena
20:08as a result of the interplay between their atmosphere
20:11and that of the nearest star,
20:14though these are too dim for us to see.
20:16The Aurora appear 64 to 305 kilometers above the Earth's surface,
20:21where our atmosphere meets outer space.
20:24This zone is called the ionosphere.
20:27The ionosphere is a layer of Earth's atmosphere
20:30that is composed primarily of charged particles called ions,
20:34and it exists between 50 to 600 miles above the Earth's surface.
20:39It's particularly interesting in the context
20:41of long-distance radio communication
20:44because it allows radio signals that are sent off from the surface
20:48to kind of bounce back down
20:50and travel around to other points on the surface.
20:53This region is notoriously difficult to study.
20:57The atmosphere is too thin for weather balloons to reach it,
21:00but too thick for satellites to orbit through it.
21:03In 1993, the United States military sets its sights on a new project,
21:09one that will probe further and deeper
21:11into the mysteries of the ionosphere than ever before.
21:16The barren stretches surrounding Gakona, Alaska
21:20become a hub of strange activity.
21:23Rows of antennae rise out of the forest,
21:25reaching up towards the sky above.
21:27This remote installation is called HAARP,
21:31Alaska's high-frequency active auroral research program.
21:36HAARP is like an enormous car park
21:39in the middle of a beautiful landscape
21:41with loads of radio antennae in rows along it.
21:46This towering arrangement makes up
21:49HAARP's ionospheric research instrument.
21:51This high-power, high-frequency transmitter
21:54emits strong radio signals
21:56to temporarily agitate parts of the ionosphere.
22:00The resulting effects allow researchers
22:03a small yet unprecedented window
22:05into ionospheric properties.
22:07How charged particles interact with our atmosphere,
22:12how they interact with the magnetosphere of the planet,
22:16how that protects us from the solar winds.
22:19If that wasn't there, life would not happen on Earth.
22:22I mean, if you go over to Mars,
22:23it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere,
22:25and literally the atmosphere was blown away
22:28by the solar winds.
22:30Aside from its primary research function,
22:33HAARP has sparked controversy across the world.
22:36Any time we have a piece of technology
22:39that is sending signals outwards beyond our Earth,
22:43there is a potential connection to be made
22:45by those who are really interested in UFOs
22:47that perhaps there is an alien race
22:50picking up those signals.
22:52There is an element of fear among some people
22:55who believe that trying to reveal our location
22:58to extraterrestrial intelligence
23:00is not the smartest thing to do
23:02because we do not know anything about the motivations
23:05of this extraterrestrial intelligence if it exists.
23:08It's almost like leaving our home address on the Internet.
23:13On the other hand, there are the optimists
23:15who believe that it's very important
23:17that we reach out and try to communicate
23:20with this extraterrestrial intelligence,
23:22and they think that the assumption
23:24that these beings will be malicious
23:27or harmful to human beings is an unfair assumption.
23:31As theories continue to circulate
23:34about how life on other planets might appear,
23:37some astronomers are keen to prepare
23:39for the most advanced possibilities.
23:42Dr. Douglas Vokocz is the president
23:44of the Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence Program,
23:48or METI, in California.
23:50He has long defended the practice
23:52of sending messages into outer space
23:55in an effort to explore an unusual idea
23:57known as the zoo hypothesis.
24:00According to what's termed the zoo hypothesis,
24:05we are essentially an animal in a cage
24:08as far as passing UFOs are concerned,
24:12and they're not really interested
24:14unless the animal in the cage does something interesting.
24:18I mean, if you were in a zoo
24:19and you walked past the elephant enclosure,
24:22you might just think, oh, another elephant.
24:25But what if the elephant suddenly said,
24:27you know, I really like reading Aristotle?
24:29Then you go, okay, I need to take a closer look here.
24:33Now, one theory runs that the activity from HAARP
24:37is something that might fascinate passing UFOs,
24:41that they see this interaction with the ionosphere
24:44and they wonder what's going on.
24:47So they zoom in to take a closer look.
24:50And that is what makes Alaska a UFO hotspot.
25:00The strange occurrences around the HAARP installation
25:03may be in part due to its location
25:05right at the heart of one of Alaska's most treacherous regions.
25:09Most people have heard of the infamous Bermuda Triangle,
25:14but not as many people know about the Alaska Triangle.
25:18The state of Alaska is vast,
25:21measuring more than 1.5 million square kilometers in total area.
25:26It is by far the largest state in the United States,
25:29And yet, of its 365 million acres of land,
25:34only 160,000 acres are inhabited by humans,
25:38less than one-twentieth of one percent of the state.
25:42In any given year,
25:43between 500 and 2,000 people vanish in Alaska,
25:47twice the national average.
25:49You're sitting right near the Bering Strait,
25:52which has some of the worst storms in the world
25:54that easily get on land there.
25:56All the various creatures that would love to eat you.
26:00That part of the world is just super dangerous.
26:04Like, you can't just walk into the Alaska wilderness
26:07and expect to do it on your own.
26:08You are not going to survive.
26:10In 2007 alone,
26:132,833 people disappeared.
26:17Many of these missing persons are never found,
26:20lost forever to the unforgiving Alaskan landscape.
26:24The rate of disappearance in Alaska is simply jaw-dropping.
26:29One has to wonder,
26:30is there something else which is stalking people in Alaska?
26:35Alaska and any parts of the north
26:38are absolutely primed for vanishing people.
26:41Simply because if you go out into the wilderness
26:45and you pass away,
26:48one, that is a really big area to try and find you in.
26:52And number two,
26:54there is a lot of scavengers
26:56that would love to find a body.
26:58And that body gets scattered everywhere very quickly.
27:03In a state notorious
27:04for the rate of its mysterious disappearances,
27:06no place is more infamous
27:09than the Alaska Triangle.
27:11People report a kind of feeling of unease,
27:15auditory hallucinations,
27:17visual hallucinations.
27:19It's something about the spirit of the place
27:21which unnerves people.
27:24Anchorage,
27:25Juneau,
27:25and Utqiagvik
27:26form the three points of the Alaska Triangle,
27:29an enormous area
27:31stretching from the state's southernmost coast
27:33to its northernmost point,
27:35just 1,300 kilometers from the North Pole.
27:39This massive area
27:40is defined by some of the most treacherous wilderness
27:43in the world,
27:45ranging from craggy mountain peaks
27:46to snow-filled crevices
27:48deep enough to swallow unlucky travelers.
27:53October 16th, 1972.
27:55A small airplane
27:57carrying House Majority Leader Hale Boggs
28:00and Representative Nick Begich
28:01seemingly vanishes
28:03into thin air over Alaska.
28:05The two politicians and their aide
28:08board the light aircraft in Anchorage.
28:11It's a short flight to Juneau,
28:13nothing they should be worrying about.
28:15Off they go
28:16and they disappear.
28:18On that day,
28:19the weather was good.
28:21The plane had just had
28:23a maintenance check.
28:24Everything was great.
28:26In short,
28:27really,
28:27nothing should have gone wrong.
28:30I'll bet you any money
28:31if the weather was nice,
28:33they were sightseeing.
28:34Because if that's the case,
28:35they would have been close to the water,
28:37close to the shore,
28:38showing off the congressman
28:39and the senator
28:40or the beauties of Alaska,
28:41whatever.
28:42They could have hit a flock of geese
28:44and do awful damage to an airplane.
28:47The 39-day search
28:48for the missing Cessna
28:49covers an area
28:51roughly the size of South Carolina.
28:53Over 82,000 square kilometers.
28:56Given the high profile
28:57of those on board,
28:59hundreds of aircraft
29:00and dozens of ships
29:02are mobilized
29:04to try and find
29:05any sign of wreckage
29:07or bodies,
29:09but to no avail.
29:11Hard enough to find
29:12an airplane that size
29:14if it crashed on land,
29:15because the trees
29:16are very, very tall.
29:17and unless you find the scar,
29:19the crash path
29:20that leads to some shiny metal,
29:23you could fly over that site
29:25a dozen times
29:26and never see a thing.
29:27If it went into the water
29:28and sank,
29:30not a hope.
29:33Thousands have vanished
29:35without a trace
29:36in the Alaska Triangle.
29:38Many of these unsolved cases
29:39involve skilled outdoorsmen
29:41with years of experience
29:43battling the harshest environments.
29:46In 2006,
29:48Richard Lyman Griffiths
29:49takes to the hills
29:50of St. Elias National Park
29:52to test his latest invention,
29:54a wilderness survival cocoon.
29:57After more than a year
29:58in the Alaskan wilderness,
30:00Griffiths is finally reported missing.
30:02But after so many months,
30:05any trace of him
30:06or his specialized gear
30:07are long gone.
30:09In 2013,
30:11Alan Foster,
30:12an expert pilot
30:13with nearly 10,000 hours experience,
30:16takes off from Yakutat
30:18in his single-engine aircraft.
30:20But just eight minutes
30:21into the flight,
30:22the plane vanishes
30:23from local radar,
30:25never to be seen again.
30:27There is no distress call,
30:29no sign of any trouble.
30:31Years later,
30:32his disappearance
30:33remains unsolved.
30:35These few cases
30:36represent a mere fraction
30:38of the 16,000 people lost
30:40to this enormous,
30:42inhospitable region
30:43over the past three decades.
30:45The obvious things
30:47like dying of hypothermia
30:48in the mountains,
30:50being buried by snow.
30:51But it has made many speculate
30:54on whether there's other reasons
30:56for these people going missing.
30:59One possible answer
31:00to these enduring mysteries
31:02comes from the work
31:03of Scottish biologist
31:05and writer
31:05Ivan Terence Sanderson.
31:08In 1968,
31:10Sanderson first theorizes
31:11a new phenomenon,
31:13which he coins
31:14the vile vortex.
31:15This is the idea
31:16that at equidistant places
31:19around the world,
31:20there's a certain number
31:21of vortexes
31:22that have some kind
31:23of malevolent character
31:24to them.
31:25And these are places
31:26where there's anomalous activity,
31:29there could be UFO sightings,
31:30that the vortex could be
31:32in a body of water,
31:33so it could result
31:34in shipwrecks,
31:35planes disappearing
31:36or crashing.
31:38These vile vortexes,
31:40ranging from Stonehenge
31:41in England
31:42to the Devil's Sea
31:43in Japan
31:43and the notorious
31:45Bermuda Triangle,
31:46are epicenters
31:47of the unexplained.
31:49In the Alaska Triangle,
31:51mysterious magnetic
31:52disturbances
31:53and strange apparitions
31:54have indicated
31:55that it may well be
31:57among these vile vortexes.
31:58In Alaska,
32:01we hear about people
32:01having trouble
32:02with their compass
32:03because it's not
32:04pointing directly north.
32:06And that's because
32:07the north pole
32:09isn't exactly
32:10where the magnetic pole is.
32:13And the closer you get
32:14to the magnetic pole,
32:15the further off
32:17true north is going to be.
32:19And to add all to that,
32:21the magnetic pole
32:22actually moves.
32:23If you're down
32:24in sort of the temperate regions
32:25closer to the tropics,
32:27it's not really going
32:27to matter that much.
32:28But when you're up
32:29very close to it,
32:30you can have a big deviation.
32:32And that will make things
32:34seem really weird.
32:36On the personal level,
32:37people sometimes
32:38attribute this
32:39to the physiological feelings
32:41they have of nausea,
32:44of auditory sensations
32:45that are strange,
32:47the sound of buzzing bees
32:49in their ears,
32:49and so on.
32:51The other thing
32:51that happens is
32:52if it is actually covered
32:53in snow and ice,
32:54you get a lot of reflections
32:56from all sorts of directions.
32:57And that causes disorientation.
32:59It can also cause
33:00hallucinations.
33:02The theory of vile vortexes
33:04continues to intrigue
33:05scientists and laypeople alike.
33:07But research has yet to confirm
33:09whether they could exist or not,
33:12prompting some to contemplate
33:13even stranger possibilities.
33:16Some also believe
33:17that these vortexes
33:18are portals
33:19to other dimensions.
33:21Let's just say
33:22that an alien base
33:24is being built
33:26somewhere in the United States.
33:28Where better to do it
33:30than sparsely populated,
33:33inhospitable Alaska?
33:37The strangest theories
33:38about the Alaska Triangle
33:40center around
33:41some of the state's
33:42most dramatic landmarks,
33:44its mountains.
33:45Around Alaska's
33:47main city of Anchorage,
33:48there is this crescent
33:50of huge snow-capped mountains,
33:54the Alaska Range.
33:56And this crescent
33:57extends for about
33:58600 miles
33:59of these jagged
34:01and truly monumental mountains.
34:04The highest peak
34:06in the eastern Alaska Range
34:07is the magnificent
34:09Mount Hayes.
34:10It's renowned
34:11for its brutal climate,
34:13with temperatures
34:13regularly dropping
34:1530 degrees below zero
34:16and long,
34:17intensely snowy winters.
34:19This ancient mountain's
34:21unexpected link
34:22to the extraterrestrial
34:23came in 1970,
34:25when authors
34:26Sheila Ostrander
34:27and Lynn Schroeder
34:28published a book
34:29entitled
34:30Psychic Discoveries
34:32Behind the Iron Curtain.
34:33So this book
34:35alleges that Soviet scientists
34:38were training people
34:40to kind of psychically
34:43project themselves
34:44over large distances.
34:47So you're in Moscow,
34:49you psychically project yourself
34:51into the Pentagon
34:52and you see all the juicy files
34:55that the Kremlin wanted to see.
34:57That was the idea.
34:58If the Americans got word
35:00that the Soviets
35:01were working on something
35:02that could be as powerful
35:03as remote viewing,
35:05the onus was on them
35:06to investigate this.
35:08Following the book's publication,
35:10the United States
35:11leapt into action.
35:13In 1972,
35:14work begins
35:15at the Stanford Research Institute,
35:18or SRI,
35:19in Menlo Park, California.
35:21Over the course
35:21of decades of research,
35:23several psychics
35:24emerged as especially gifted.
35:27One of these star performers
35:28is former Burbank police officer
35:30Pat Price.
35:31in 1974,
35:34Price is brought
35:35into the research center
35:36to test his remote
35:37viewing capabilities.
35:39During this test,
35:40Price was secluded,
35:43placed in a room
35:44with no contact with others,
35:47and he was asked
35:48to make psychic contact,
35:50as it were,
35:50with a location
35:51where a field agent
35:52was based,
35:54where there were two pools,
35:55and he described these
35:58with pinpoint accuracy,
36:00so it seemed,
36:01except he let himself down
36:04on one detail.
36:05He mentioned
36:05a water filtration system
36:08that wasn't there.
36:10But then,
36:10interestingly,
36:10years later,
36:12the analysts come across
36:13a historical image
36:15of the site,
36:16and lo and behold,
36:17they see the water tanks
36:19that Price was describing.
36:20This is far from Price's
36:23most dramatic vision.
36:25His remote viewing capabilities
36:26apparently enabled him
36:28to access one of America's
36:29most closely guarded
36:31secret programs,
36:32its extraterrestrial
36:33monitoring unit.
36:34One morning,
36:37in 1973,
36:39Price enters the offices
36:40of Hal Puttoff,
36:42one of the program directors,
36:43and drops a file
36:44on his desk.
36:45He simply says,
36:47you might be interested
36:48in these UFO bases.
36:51In a secret program
36:52that is already amongst
36:53the most bizarre
36:54that the American government
36:56has ever engaged in,
36:57this only really ramps up
36:58the stakes.
36:59This gets very,
37:00very strange.
37:02Price's accounts
37:03describe several alleged
37:04extraterrestrial bases
37:05scattered across
37:07every continent.
37:08Third on the list
37:09is a base buried
37:10deep in the heart
37:11of Mount Hayes.
37:13This alien base
37:14is something straight
37:16out of science fiction.
37:17It's bristling
37:18with security mechanisms
37:20to prevent access to it,
37:22and it has antennas
37:23reaching right to the top
37:24of the mountain.
37:25This is a fortress.
37:28Not only does Price claim
37:29to see this strange location
37:31inside the mountain,
37:32he claims he can see
37:33its inhabitants as well.
37:36Humanoid creatures
37:37of some kind
37:38that's operating
37:39the computers.
37:41While no proof
37:42of an extraterrestrial base
37:44has ever been discovered
37:45on Mount Hayes,
37:46the legacy of the United States
37:48Psychic Research Program
37:49continues to fuel speculation
37:51that it may be the reason
37:53behind Alaska's remarkable
37:54extraterrestrial activity.
37:56In the 1990s,
38:03a new startling story emerged
38:05that sparked interest
38:06in a new location
38:07in Alaska.
38:13Denali is the extreme
38:15in an extreme place.
38:17It is one of the highest mountains
38:20in the world,
38:20depending on how you measure.
38:22It is a place
38:24which is so formidable
38:25that only half
38:26the climbers
38:27are able to be successful.
38:29More than 100 people
38:30have perished
38:31in trying to ascend Denali.
38:35On May 27, 2020,
38:3841-year-old Nathan Campbell
38:40waves goodbye
38:41to the small charter plane
38:42that has just dropped him off
38:43on the shores of Cary Lake
38:45in Denali National Park.
38:46It's an unforgiving place,
38:49riddled with towering
38:50sharp alder thickets
38:52and murky ponds.
38:53It would take him
38:54at least a week
38:55of brutal bushwhacking
38:57to reach the nearest town,
38:58Lake Minchumina,
39:00population 13.
39:03Campbell takes stock
39:04of his supplies.
39:05Basic camping gear,
39:07a hefty food supply,
39:08and a two-way
39:09satellite communicator.
39:11These will be the keys
39:12to his survival.
39:14He is on a discovery mission
39:16determined to find
39:17one of Alaska's
39:18strangest phenomena,
39:20the infamous Black Pyramid.
39:22He will never be seen again.
39:25The pyramid holds
39:27a really interesting place
39:29in UFO lore,
39:31but also conspiracy theory
39:32more generally.
39:33A lot of theorists
39:34have claimed that
39:36pyramid structures
39:37and shapes provide
39:38healing powers,
39:40for instance,
39:40or that they are
39:42repositories or sources
39:44of really otherworldly
39:45power.
39:47The story of the Black Pyramid
39:49begins in Lopner,
39:50a vast dry sea basin
39:52in Central Asia.
39:54Here on the 22nd of May,
39:561992,
39:58China sets off
39:59its largest ever
40:00underground nuclear test.
40:02The explosion is estimated
40:04to have 70 times
40:06the explosive power
40:07of the atom bomb
40:08dropped over Hiroshima
40:09in 1945.
40:10Shortly after the nuclear test,
40:14three scientists
40:15go on television
40:17to say that
40:17while studying
40:18the shockwaves
40:19from the nuclear blast,
40:21they detected
40:22a huge pyramid-like structure
40:25underneath Mount Denali.
40:27This is a structure
40:28far bigger
40:29than the Great Pyramid
40:30at Giza.
40:31It's just absolutely
40:32mind-boggling.
40:33One of the things
40:34that we can do
40:35to image
40:36what's happening
40:37within our Earth
40:38is map
40:39the motion of sound waves
40:41within the planet itself.
40:42And if you have
40:43seismometers
40:45located at various points
40:46on the Earth's surface,
40:47you can measure
40:48the timing
40:49when those sound waves
40:51reach those sensors.
40:53And you can actually
40:54start building pictures
40:55of what the structure
40:57in the Earth
40:58actually looks like.
40:58As word of the
41:00mysterious structure
41:01slowly spreads,
41:03retired counterintelligence
41:04agent Doug Mutchler
41:05takes notice.
41:07After the reports
41:08of this pyramid
41:09underneath the mountain,
41:11he remembered
41:12seeing maps
41:14of the area
41:15where parts of the map
41:17had been mysteriously
41:19whited out.
41:21So when he sees
41:22the news report,
41:23he begins to wonder
41:25whether or not
41:26the U.S. government
41:27has been hiding something.
41:29If you want,
41:30the dots
41:31start to connect.
41:33Waiting eagerly
41:34for further details
41:35about the strange discovery,
41:37Mutchler is disappointed
41:38when none come.
41:40A year later,
41:42in 1993,
41:43he arrives at
41:44Fort Meade, Maryland
41:45to look at the base's
41:46detailed collection
41:47of military records.
41:49He's directed
41:50to a cabinet
41:51filled with redacted files,
41:53but his research
41:54is rudely interrupted.
41:56Two men
41:56suddenly appear
41:57and pull the files
41:59away from him
42:00and tell him
42:00that he has
42:01no authority
42:02to look at those files.
42:04Mutchler finding himself
42:06blocked
42:06moves increasingly
42:08into conspiracy theorist circles
42:11and also conspiracy theorist views.
42:15If we take seriously
42:16the theory
42:17that there is
42:18a Black Pyramid
42:19under the mountain,
42:20it's a very short leap
42:21given the nature
42:22of that,
42:23given the nature
42:23of the kind of cover-up
42:24that would be required
42:25for that
42:26to jump
42:27to UFO activity.
42:29Is it something
42:30that could be
42:30an alien base?
42:31Is it something
42:32that attracts aliens?
42:34What is it?
42:35Does it have
42:35extraterrestrial significance?
42:37While it may be tempting
42:40to dismiss
42:41the legend
42:41of the Black Pyramid
42:43and possible connection
42:44to UFOs,
42:45the United States'
42:47military and intelligence
42:48history of cover-ups
42:49and disinformation
42:50suggests it's worth
42:52a closer look.
42:53One of the reasons
42:54why people
42:55will not be dissuaded
42:56by the lack of evidence
42:57or the lack of records
42:59is because governments
43:00have a history
43:01of erasing
43:02inconvenient truths.
43:04The Manhattan Project
43:05was a huge project
43:07that was entirely secret
43:08and there are
43:09much more nefarious
43:10things they've done
43:11such as the MKUltra program.
43:13The veil of secrecy
43:14surrounding the alleged
43:16Black Pyramid
43:17continues to frustrate
43:18paranormal
43:19and extraterrestrial
43:20researchers
43:21to this day.
43:22But as the demand
43:23for information
43:24about unidentified
43:25objects increases,
43:27new protocols
43:28may finally shed light
43:30on these enduring mysteries.
43:31There seems to be
43:32some kind of shift
43:33happening,
43:33a sea change perhaps
43:34in the way that UFOs
43:36are handled or understood
43:37or at least
43:38the receptiveness to it
43:39given that
43:40as recently as 2023
43:42the Pentagon
43:43actually put out a call
43:44to current
43:45and former employees
43:47who may have
43:49knowledge of programs
43:50that were associated
43:51with UFOs
43:52in some way.
43:53The fact that
43:54congressional committees
43:55are even prepared
43:56to discuss UFO sightings
43:59suggests that
44:00there's a greater
44:01openness
44:01to the whole question
44:03of whether or not
44:04UFOs exist
44:05even within
44:07the highest reaches
44:08of government.
44:09All these attempts
44:10at making revelations
44:11about UFO data
44:13or taking UFO data
44:14seriously
44:15are basically
44:16a way of
44:17misleading the public
44:19in a way in which
44:19the attention
44:20is turned around
44:21from other
44:21geopolitical issues
44:22or it may be
44:25a way to further
44:26obfuscate
44:27the issue of UFOs
44:28so that people
44:29really can't figure out
44:31what's going on.
44:32As a new era
44:33of unidentified
44:34phenomena research
44:36and monitoring
44:36dawns,
44:38the decades
44:38of surreal encounters
44:39in the United States'
44:41last frontier
44:42prompt us to wonder
44:43what if we aren't
44:45just being visited
44:46by extraterrestrials
44:47for the first time?
44:48What if
44:49they're already here?
45:21What if
45:23we're already here?
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