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00:00Take a flying disc out by C-17.
00:02Among the quiet towns and bustling epicenters around the world,
00:06reports pour in of unusual aerial phenomena.
00:09It shoots high into the air.
00:11It's moving in an erratic way.
00:14This is not a terrestrial craft.
00:17Flying discs, hovering orbs,
00:19strange biological substances falling from the sky.
00:23To determine what it might have been,
00:25you'd have to eliminate all the other possibilities.
00:28The sensational becomes credible once it's crowdsourced.
00:32Thousands of people claim to see these orbs.
00:36UFO hotspots light up on the map.
00:38What's made these places the target of otherworldly attention?
00:42This might be the location of the vortex.
00:45As vessels reappear in the same locations,
00:48can we use the earthly to guess at otherworldly motives?
00:52Are these mysterious visitors friends or foe?
00:55And should we fear their return?
00:57All over the world, repeat sightings of UFOs baffle researchers.
01:02UAP are in our airspace, but they are grossly underreported.
01:05A pattern begins to emerge.
01:07These sightings are not rare or isolated.
01:09They are routine.
01:10What is the meaning behind these hotspots?
01:12I can't go beyond what I've already stated publicly.
01:15The government is not prepared.
01:17Are we being mapped?
01:24February 9th, 2023, 9 p.m.
01:28At the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, in Colorado.
01:33Radio operators have picked up an unusual object floating over northern Alaska.
01:37They have no idea what it is, but it poses a serious threat to U.S. airspace.
01:43Cruising at an altitude of 39,000 feet,
01:47the object is within the typical altitude range for civilian aircraft.
01:51Alaskan authorities hurriedly order an airspace closure,
01:55and within hours, a small fleet of F-35 fighter jets is en route to investigate.
02:03But their testimonies only complicate the mystery.
02:07According to some pilots,
02:08the car-sized craft appears to be moving through the air with no visible means of propulsion.
02:14They have no idea how it's staying airborne.
02:17Other pilots have trouble even approaching the object,
02:21claiming that it interfered with their sensors.
02:23The following morning,
02:26two F-22 fighter jets take off from Elmendorf-Richardson Air Base, Alaska.
02:31They have been given permission by the President of the United States
02:35to engage and destroy the mysterious flying object.
02:40A short-range air-to-air missile sends the unknown craft
02:44hurtling into the frozen waters of the Arctic,
02:47just off the Alaskan coast.
02:50Recovery operations would go on for 39 days.
02:53Though bad weather and limited daylight would mean
02:56most of the unidentified object would be lost to the frozen waters forever.
03:01News of the 2023 Alaska high-altitude object would make international headlines.
03:07But this is far from the only encounter in Alaska with unknown aerial phenomena.
03:1276 years earlier, in August 1947,
03:18FBI HQ in Anchorage receives a remarkable witness statement.
03:23It begins,
03:24Two Army officers reported to the Office of the Director of Intelligence at Fort Richardson, Alaska,
03:30claiming that they had witnessed an object passing through the air at a tremendous speed,
03:35which they could not judge as to miles per hour.
03:37The two pilots are traveling across Alaska when they see this large spherical object
03:46that is soaring through the sky, leaving no exhaust trail.
03:51There's a slight discrepancy in terms of the account of the size of this flying craft,
03:57with one of the pilots believing that it was further away and larger, something like 10 feet long.
04:05The other believing that it was closer and a lot smaller, only about 2, 3 feet.
04:09If you are airborne and you see another object, unless you're familiar with that object,
04:14you have no idea how far it is away,
04:16because you don't know how big the object is if you're standing next to it.
04:20Unless you're familiar with that shape and that size of airplane,
04:23it's very difficult to sort, and that's why the two pilots disagreed.
04:28This extraordinary account jolts the Anchorage FBI into action.
04:33The Cable FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover's office,
04:36reporting that this is the second sighting of an unidentified aircraft in the region in as many months.
04:43A month before the two military pilots had their sighting,
04:48a civilian pilot going over Anchorage claimed to have seen another rather strange object.
04:55This one shaped like a wing that was flying through the sky.
04:59The interesting thing about this other sighting is that, like the two army pilots reported,
05:04this wing-shaped, V-shaped UFO also left no trail of exhaust of any kind.
05:10After moving away from this strange craft,
05:14he then radios the Civil Aeronautic Administration,
05:18only to be told there is nothing else in the sky around him.
05:24Throughout the 1950s, strange sightings in Anchorage and the Alaskan tundra
05:29continue to confound military observers.
05:32Pilots and ground radar operators are haunted by mysterious ghost readings
05:39as objects appear and disappear impossibly from one moment to the next.
05:45Naval officers patrolling the Alaskan coast
05:48offer numerous accounts of unidentified red and orange lights
05:52flitting erratically across the sky.
05:54When civilians, pilots, or people on the ground see UFOs,
05:59one of the examples or reasons that have been given for it in the past is
06:02these are just military aircraft.
06:04When a military pilot or the military is coming out and saying things,
06:08then that lends to a different level of credibility or belief
06:11because you'd expect that military pilots on the base
06:14would know what type of military vessels are being tested.
06:18If a combat-ready fighter pilot sees something in the air,
06:22he's probably in a little better position to give a theory
06:25on what it might have been.
06:26The military pilot is trained to judge distance
06:29of a potential adversary, closing rate, intercept angles,
06:34all the things that go with their combat maneuvers.
06:37Just their level of training is quite a bit higher.
06:40And this is important because it adds credibility to any sighting,
06:43but it also is indicative of the fact that the stigma of the UFO phenomenon
06:47has not yet set in, that people in the military
06:50are very much willing to report these things,
06:52and there is no procedure yet to clamp down on this.
06:57None of these early accounts will quite match
07:00the remarkable circumstances surrounding Japanese Airlines Flight 1628
07:05flying over Alaskan airspace in November 1986.
07:11Washington, D.C.
07:13A telephone rings in the Federal Aviation Administration offices.
07:19Chief of Accidents and Investigations, John Callahan, answers the call.
07:23The voice on the other end crackles,
07:25we got a problem.
07:28The problem in question is the startling testimony
07:31of former fighter pilot-turned-commercial operator,
07:34Kenju Terauchi.
07:36Terauchi was piloting a Japanese commercial cargo plane
07:39on a long-haul flight from Paris to Tokyo
07:41with a stopover in Anchorage.
07:43As the pilot enters Alaskan airspace,
07:48he notices a very strange bright object alongside.
07:53At first, he dismisses it as, well, just another plane as you would.
07:58But after a few minutes, it's still there,
08:01and it doesn't look like another plane.
08:04And he starts to ask himself some very searching questions.
08:09Terauchi radios the Anchorage Air Traffic Control Center
08:12to confirm the presence of the strange aircraft.
08:16Anchorage confirms they have picked up an object on radar
08:19eight kilometers behind the flight,
08:21though they can't confirm what it is.
08:24Terauchi says the radar readings are wrong.
08:27The objects are not behind him.
08:29In fact, they've moved and are now directly in front of him.
08:33They're so close that Terauchi can feel the warmth
08:36from the unidentified lights shining into his cockpit.
08:39The interesting thing about this UFO encounter, to me,
08:44is that feeling of heat.
08:45In most encounters, they tend to be one-dimensional,
08:50vision and vision only.
08:52Feeling the heat, that's something new and something rare.
08:55It's at this point that air traffic control radio
08:59to the regional operations command center
09:02and ask them whether they can see anything strange
09:06or untoward near this aircraft.
09:10So the regional operation command center
09:12does confirm that there may be something there,
09:16but they have absolutely no idea what it could be.
09:21And then, very strangely,
09:23the pilot gets a message back from air traffic control
09:26that whatever it is that has shown up in the radar
09:29that the pilot is seeing has just disappeared altogether.
09:32This thing which you're observing with your eyes
09:35is just not there.
09:38Radar has a sensitivity to it.
09:41If you have multiple objects in close proximity,
09:44it may interpret that as a single object.
09:46Also, depending on the conditions,
09:49you may just not have a great signal quality.
09:51So your signal from a single object
09:53may not be strong enough to really say it's here versus here
09:57because the atmosphere in between
09:59or other noises interfering with getting
10:01a really good fix on that aircraft.
10:05Terauchi and his crew continue to watch in amazement
10:08as the objects dart forward and back,
10:10disappearing behind the plane.
10:12As he glances back,
10:14expecting to see the crafts tailing him,
10:17Terauchi sees something far more ominous.
10:19To his horror, there is what appears to be a mothership right behind,
10:26and it is the size, he says, of an aircraft carrier.
10:30This is an enormous craft that is now bearing down on him.
10:35The pilot is instructed to take evasive maneuvers at this point.
10:38They drop 4,000 feet, circle the plane,
10:41trying to shake off this craft, whatever it is,
10:44but are actually unable to do so.
10:46It sticks with them.
10:47Finally, after 640 kilometers and nearly 50 minutes,
10:52Terauchi and his crew lose sight of the mysterious mothership.
10:56Exhausted and nearly out of fuel,
10:58Flight 1628 finally touches down in Anchorage.
11:02The FAA conducts an investigation, rightly so,
11:05into this matter, given how unusual it is,
11:08and sends its report and its results to Washington,
11:11where it has a briefing with members from the CIA and the FBI.
11:16And interestingly, the FAA is reported to have been told
11:20to keep this under wraps, not to let this out to the public.
11:24If it's true, there's two ways of reading the situation.
11:27One is, obviously, the government decided to avert panic,
11:31to keep this story, as it were, under control.
11:35But, of course, to the UFO community,
11:38this is red flags all over the place.
11:40I mean, why is it that the government is hushing up
11:44an incident like this when you've got an experienced pilot
11:48who claims to have seen something so incredible?
11:52The Japan Airlines incident remains an enduring mystery.
11:56What were these mysterious aircrafts?
11:59And what was it about the frozen Alaskan wilderness
12:02that could have attracted them?
12:08Alaska is renowned for its extraordinary,
12:10otherworldly aerial phenomena.
12:12The most famous of these is a force powerful enough
12:20to send dangerous currents surging through major power grids,
12:24disrupt global satellite navigation,
12:26and even affect the human brain.
12:28The Aurora Borealis is one of the most incredible phenomena I have ever seen.
12:37I have stood underneath the northern lights in the Northwest Passage
12:42and watched the lights dance above my head.
12:46They move.
12:47They shimmer.
12:48They change so quickly.
12:51And the colors that you get from them,
12:54it's almost like a dream.
12:55It's just an incredible thing.
12:57What you're actually seeing when you see an aurora borealis
13:00is you're actually seeing particles
13:02that were emitted from the sun in a solar flare
13:05that have traveled to Earth,
13:07been redirected by the Earth's magnetic field,
13:10and are interacting with gases in our upper atmosphere
13:13to produce plasma
13:14and give rise to these beautiful colors and moving patterns.
13:19We have two things that protect us.
13:21The atmosphere,
13:23which protects from harmful radiation from the sun,
13:26UV radiation, etc.
13:28And then you also have the magnetosphere,
13:31which protects us against the sun's highly charged particles,
13:34which can also be harmful to life on Earth.
13:37If those charged particles were able to penetrate through our atmosphere,
13:40they would cause an immense amount of ionizing radiation at ground level,
13:45potentially, you know, killing off life on Earth.
13:49While beautiful to look at,
13:51the aurora borealis is a remarkably violent phenomenon,
13:54with its origins far from our own planet.
13:58But severe electromagnetic disturbances,
14:00even in our own atmosphere,
14:02can produce electrical currents
14:04capable of traveling down to the Earth's surface.
14:07If you get a strong enough solar storm,
14:11it can mess up everything.
14:16In early September 1859,
14:19amateur astronomer Richard Carrington
14:21joins a growing number of astronomers
14:23studying a newly observed phenomena
14:25on the sun's surface called sunspots.
14:29Sunspots are basically cooler regions
14:33on the surface of the sun.
14:36They appear dark because they're cooler
14:39with respect to the surrounding regions.
14:42Sunspots can occur in regions of intense magnetic activity,
14:47and they're also correlated with things like
14:50solar eruptions, solar storms,
14:53coronal mass ejections,
14:54that all involve the release of highly charged particles,
14:57which will eventually go out into space
14:59and find their way to us,
15:01and potentially cause the beautiful aurora.
15:03As Carrington sketches the dappled sun
15:06through his telescope,
15:07he is suddenly blinded by an explosion of white light.
15:11He doesn't know it yet,
15:13but he has just become one of the first people
15:15to witness a coronal mass ejection,
15:18a massive expulsion of plasma
15:20from the outermost part of the sun's atmosphere.
15:23Those areas can literally blast out mass,
15:27like literal bits and pieces of the sun,
15:30towards the Earth.
15:31In just 17 hours,
15:33this mass of volatile material
15:35strikes the Earth's magnetic field.
15:37This is the beginning of what became known
15:40as the Carrington event.
15:41This event was on the order of tens of thousands of times
15:46of any aurora that we've really experienced since.
15:50The aurora borealis actually extended into the tropics.
15:54As south as Cuba and the southern tip of Japan,
15:58people saw these auroras because of this solar flare.
16:04If suddenly the aurora borealis,
16:06which is for the most part a northern phenomena,
16:09is visible in southern regions,
16:12especially in the 19th century,
16:14it's going to be alarming.
16:16It's going to seem like something supernatural,
16:19something divine.
16:22One of the crazy things about coronal mass ejections
16:25and particles traveling to Earth
16:27is that they do carry a charge with them.
16:30And when a charge passes by anything metallic,
16:34we actually generate electricity.
16:37So you have telegraph poles sparking,
16:40catching fire,
16:41you have operators experiencing shock.
16:44The disruptions from the Carrington event lasted for days,
16:48with telegraph poles and offices struggling to repair
16:51the widespread electrical damage.
16:54Long-distance communication became virtually impossible.
16:58But as destructive as this remarkable storm was,
17:01a similar event today would cause an unprecedented global crisis.
17:06To put into perspective,
17:08if an event like this was to happen now,
17:10it would cost $2.6 trillion in the United States alone.
17:15It could literally wipe out disk drives on the face of the planet
17:19so nobody has any magnetic media storage anymore.
17:22It could destroy entire electrical infrastructure.
17:26It could knock all the satellites out of service around Earth.
17:29That would have massive impacts on humans
17:32for decades and potentially even centuries to come.
17:35The Aurora Borealis have the potential to cause serious damage
17:40to any electrical component,
17:42but are considered safe because of their altitude.
17:46Occurring between 80 and 640 kilometers above the Earth,
17:50these dazzling displays are far too high
17:53for conventional aircraft to reach.
17:55And yet, the Aurora over Alaska
17:57remain an unlikely hotbed of unidentified aerial activity.
18:02Wasilla, Alaska.
18:05Less than 50 kilometers from Anchorage.
18:08In 2013, a man drives west along E. Seldon Road.
18:13His son gazes through the passenger side window,
18:16watching waves of light dance across the night sky.
18:19They haven't been this bright in weeks.
18:22The man pulls over.
18:24Then, he sees something strange.
18:26Dozens of floating red crafts emerge from the pink and green glow.
18:30They group together, forming an enormous circle.
18:35From the side of the road,
18:36he and his son can make out the shapes of the aircraft.
18:39They're triangular, moving slowly eastward as a pack.
18:43If aircraft or lights or something is seen emerging
18:47from the Aurora Borealis,
18:48we know that it's not a human artifact.
18:51Human aircraft do not fly at that height
18:54and cannot fly at that height.
18:56More cars are stopping now.
18:58As drivers gather by the side of the road,
19:00they begin to ask one another questions.
19:03What is this bizarre fleet of aircraft?
19:06Where did they come from?
19:07And could they have anything to do
19:09with the Aurora Borealis above?
19:11One of the stranger things about the Aurora Borealis
19:14is that it has been connected
19:15to the UFO phenomenon in the past.
19:17People have reported sightings of UFOs
19:20in and around the Aurora coming out of it.
19:23What kind of relationship is there
19:24between the Aurora and the UFO phenomenon?
19:27Some UFO enthusiasts question whether or not
19:32the Aurora creates energy, as it were,
19:35for alien craft or whether it guides them in.
19:39It's like the lights on a runway.
19:42Auroras as well aren't something
19:43that just happen on Earth.
19:45Auroras can be seen throughout our solar system.
19:48The gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune,
19:52all have strong magnetic fields and dense atmospheres
19:56producing their own Aurora formations.
19:59Planets beyond our solar system
20:01may host even more remarkable phenomena
20:03as a result of the interplay
20:05between their atmosphere and that of the nearest star,
20:09though these are too dim for us to see.
20:11The aurora appear 64 to 305 kilometers
20:15above the Earth's surface,
20:16where our atmosphere meets outer space.
20:19This zone is called the ionosphere.
20:23The ionosphere is a layer of Earth's atmosphere
20:25that is composed primarily of charged particles called ions,
20:29and it exists between 50 to 600 miles
20:32above the Earth's surface.
20:34It's particularly interesting in the context
20:36of long-distance radio communication
20:39because it allows radio signals
20:42that are sent off from the surface
20:43to kind of bounce back down
20:45and travel around to other points on the surface.
20:48This region is notoriously difficult to study.
20:52The atmosphere is too thin
20:53for weather balloons to reach it,
20:55but too thick for satellites to orbit through it.
20:58In 1993, the United States military
21:01sets its sights on a new project,
21:04one that will probe further and deeper
21:06into the mysteries of the ionosphere
21:08than ever before.
21:11The barren stretches surrounding Gakona, Alaska
21:15become a hub of strange activity.
21:18Rows of antennae rise out of the forest,
21:21reaching up towards the sky above.
21:23This remote installation is called HARP,
21:26Alaska's high-frequency active auroral research program.
21:30HARP is like an enormous car park
21:34in the middle of a beautiful landscape
21:36with loads of radio antennae in rows along it.
21:41This towering arrangement
21:43makes up HARP's ionospheric research instrument.
21:47This high-power, high-frequency transmitter
21:49emits strong radio signals
21:51to temporarily agitate parts of the ionosphere.
21:54The resulting effects allow researchers
21:58a small yet unprecedented window
22:00into ionospheric properties.
22:03How charged particles interact with our atmosphere,
22:07how they interact with the magnetosphere of the planet,
22:11how that protects us from the solar winds.
22:14If that wasn't there,
22:15life would not happen on Earth.
22:17I mean, go over to Mars,
22:18it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere,
22:20and literally the atmosphere was blown away by the solar winds.
22:26Aside from its primary research function,
22:28HARP has sparked controversy across the world.
22:32Anytime we have a piece of technology
22:34that is sending signals outward beyond our Earth,
22:38there is a potential connection to be made
22:40by those who are really interested in UFOs
22:43that perhaps there is an alien race picking up those signals.
22:46There is an element of fear among some people
22:50who believe that trying to reveal our location
22:53to extraterrestrial intelligence
22:55is not the smartest thing to do,
22:57because we do not know anything about the motivations
23:00of this extraterrestrial intelligence if it exists.
23:03It's almost like leaving our home address on the Internet.
23:08On the other hand, there are the optimists
23:11who believe that it's very important
23:13that we reach out and try to communicate
23:15with this extraterrestrial intelligence,
23:17and they think that the assumption
23:19that these beings will be malicious
23:22or harmful to human beings
23:24is an unfair assumption.
23:26As theories continue to circulate
23:29about how life on other planets might appear,
23:32some astronomers are keen to prepare
23:34for the most advanced possibilities.
23:37Dr. Douglas Vakoch
23:38is the president of the Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence Program,
23:43or METI, in California.
23:45He has long defended the practice
23:47of sending messages into outer space
23:50in an effort to explore an unusual idea
23:52known as the zoo hypothesis.
23:55According to what's termed the zoo hypothesis,
24:00we are essentially an animal in a cage
24:03as far as passing UFOs are concerned.
24:07And they're not really interested
24:09unless the animal in the cage
24:11does something interesting.
24:13I mean, if you were in a zoo
24:14and you walk past the elephant enclosure,
24:17you might just think,
24:18oh, another elephant.
24:20But what if the elephant suddenly said,
24:22you know, I really like reading Aristotle?
24:25Then you go,
24:25okay, I need to take a closer look here.
24:28Now, one theory runs
24:29that the activity from HAARP
24:32is something that might fascinate
24:34passing UFOs,
24:36that they see this interaction
24:39with the ionosphere
24:39and they wonder what's going on.
24:42So they zoom in to take a closer look.
24:46And that is what makes Alaska
24:48a UFO hotspot.
24:50The strange occurrences
24:56around the HAARP installation
24:58may be in part due to its location
25:01right at the heart
25:02of one of Alaska's most treacherous regions.
25:05Most people have heard of
25:07the infamous Bermuda Triangle,
25:09but not as many people know
25:10about the Alaska Triangle.
25:13The state of Alaska is vast,
25:15measuring more than
25:171.5 million square kilometers
25:19in total area.
25:21It is by far the largest state
25:23in the United States.
25:24And yet,
25:25of its 365 million acres of land,
25:29only 160,000 acres
25:31are inhabited by humans,
25:33less than one-twentieth
25:35of one percent of the state.
25:37In any given year,
25:38between 500 and 2,000 people
25:41vanish in Alaska,
25:42twice the national average.
25:45You're sitting right near
25:46the Bering Strait,
25:47which has some of the worst storms
25:48in the world
25:49that easily get on land there.
25:51All the various creatures
25:53that would love to eat you.
25:55That part of the world
25:56is just super dangerous.
25:59Like, you can't just walk
26:00into the Alaska wilderness
26:02and expect to do it on your own.
26:03You are not going to survive.
26:06In 2007 alone,
26:082,833 people disappeared.
26:12Many of these missing persons
26:14are never found,
26:15lost forever
26:16to the unforgiving
26:17Alaskan landscape.
26:19The rate of disappearance
26:21in Alaska is simply jaw-dropping.
26:24One has to wonder,
26:25is there something else
26:27which is stalking people
26:28in Alaska?
26:30Alaska and any parts of the North
26:33are absolutely primed
26:35for vanishing people.
26:36simply because
26:38if you go out
26:40into the wilderness
26:40and you pass away,
26:43one, that is a really big area
26:45to try and find you in.
26:47And number two,
26:49there is a lot of scavengers
26:51that would love
26:52to find a body
26:53and that body gets scattered
26:55everywhere very quickly.
26:57In a state notorious
26:59for the rate
27:00of its mysterious disappearances,
27:02no place is more infamous
27:04than the Alaska Triangle.
27:06People report
27:07a kind of feeling
27:09of unease,
27:10auditory hallucinations,
27:12visual hallucinations.
27:14It's something about
27:15the spirit of the place
27:16which unnerves people.
27:18Anchorage,
27:20Juneau,
27:20and Utqiagvik
27:21form the three points
27:23of the Alaska Triangle,
27:25an enormous area
27:26stretching from
27:26the state's southernmost coast
27:28to its northernmost point,
27:30just 1,300 kilometers
27:32from the North Pole.
27:34This massive area
27:35is defined
27:36by some of the most
27:37treacherous wilderness
27:39in the world,
27:40ranging from
27:40craggy mountain peaks
27:41to snow-filled crevices
27:43deep enough
27:44to swallow unlucky travelers.
27:48October 16, 1972.
27:51A small airplane
27:52carrying House Majority Leader
27:54Hale Boggs
27:55and Representative Nick Begich
27:57seemingly vanishes
27:58into thin air
27:59over Alaska.
28:01The two politicians
28:02and their aide
28:03board the light aircraft
28:04in Anchorage.
28:06It's a short flight
28:07to Juneau,
28:08nothing they should
28:09be worrying about.
28:10Off they go
28:11and they disappear.
28:13On that day,
28:14the weather was good.
28:16The plane had just had
28:18a maintenance check.
28:19Everything was great.
28:21In short,
28:22really nothing
28:23should have gone wrong.
28:25I'll bet you any money
28:26if the weather was nice,
28:28they were sightseeing.
28:29Because if that's the case,
28:30they would have been
28:31close to the water,
28:32close to the shore,
28:33showing off the congressman
28:34and the senator
28:35or the beauties of Alaska,
28:36whatever.
28:37They could have hit
28:38a flock of geese
28:39and do awful damage
28:40to an airplane.
28:42The 39-day search
28:43for the missing Cessna
28:44covers an area
28:46roughly the size
28:47of South Carolina,
28:48over 82,000 square kilometers.
28:50Given the high profile
28:52of those on board,
28:54hundreds of aircraft
28:55and dozens of ships
28:57are mobilized
28:59to try and find
29:00any sign of wreckage
29:02or bodies,
29:04but to no avail.
29:06Hard enough to find
29:07an airplane that size
29:09if it crashed on land,
29:10because the trees
29:11are very, very tall.
29:12And unless you find
29:13the scar,
29:14the crash path
29:15that leads
29:17to some shiny metal,
29:18you could fly over
29:19that site a dozen times
29:21and never see a thing.
29:22If it went into the water
29:23and sank,
29:25not a hope.
29:28Thousands have vanished
29:30without a trace
29:31in the Alaska Triangle.
29:33Many of these unsolved cases
29:34involve skilled outdoorsmen
29:36with years of experience
29:38battling the harshest environments.
29:41In 2006,
29:43Richard Lyman Griffiths
29:44takes to the hills
29:45of St. Elias National Park
29:47to test his latest invention,
29:49a wilderness survival cocoon.
29:52After more than a year
29:53in the Alaskan wilderness,
29:55Griffiths is finally
29:56reported missing.
29:58But after so many months,
30:00any trace of him
30:01or his specialized gear
30:02are long gone.
30:04In 2013,
30:06Alan Foster,
30:07an expert pilot
30:08with nearly 10,000 hours experience,
30:11takes off from Yakutat
30:13in his single-engine aircraft.
30:15But just eight minutes
30:16into the flight,
30:17the plane vanishes
30:18from local radar,
30:20never to be seen again.
30:22There is no distress call,
30:24no sign of any trouble.
30:26Years later,
30:27his disappearance
30:28remains unsolved.
30:30These few cases
30:31represent a mere fraction
30:33of the 16,000 people
30:35lost to this enormous,
30:37inhospitable region
30:38over the past three decades.
30:40The obvious things like
30:42dying of hypothermia
30:44in the mountains,
30:45being buried by snow.
30:46But it has made many speculate
30:49on whether there's
30:50other reasons
30:51for these people
30:52going missing.
30:54One possible answer
30:55to these enduring mysteries
30:57comes from the work
30:58of Scottish biologist
31:00and writer
31:00Ivan Terence Sanderson.
31:02In 1968,
31:05Sanderson first theorizes
31:06a new phenomenon,
31:08which he coins
31:09the vile vortex.
31:10This is the idea
31:11that at equidistant places
31:14around the world,
31:15there's a certain number
31:16of vortexes
31:17that have some kind
31:18of malevolent character
31:20to them.
31:21And these are places
31:21where there's anomalous activity,
31:24there could be UFO sightings,
31:25the vortex could be
31:27in a body of water,
31:28so it could result
31:29in shipwrecks,
31:30planes disappearing
31:31or crashing.
31:33These vile vortexes,
31:35ranging from Stonehenge
31:36in England
31:37to the Devil's Sea
31:38in Japan
31:38and the notorious
31:40Bermuda Triangle,
31:41are epicenters
31:42of the unexplained.
31:44In the Alaska Triangle,
31:46mysterious magnetic
31:47disturbances
31:48and strange apparitions
31:49have indicated
31:50that it may well be
31:52among these vile vortexes.
31:54In Alaska,
31:56we hear about people
31:56having trouble
31:57with their compass.
31:58Because it's not
31:59pointing directly north.
32:01And that's because
32:02the north pole
32:04isn't exactly
32:06where the magnetic pole is.
32:08And the closer you get
32:09to the magnetic pole,
32:11the further off
32:12true north is going to be.
32:14And to add all to that,
32:16the magnetic pole
32:17actually moves.
32:18If you're down
32:19in sort of the temperate regions
32:20closer to the tropics,
32:22it's not really
32:22going to matter that much.
32:23But when you're up
32:24very close to it,
32:25you can have a big deviation.
32:27And that will make things
32:29seem really weird.
32:31On the personal level,
32:32people sometimes
32:33attribute this
32:34to the physiological feelings
32:36they have
32:37of nausea,
32:39of auditory sensations
32:40that are strange,
32:42the sound of buzzing bees
32:44in their ears
32:44and so on.
32:45The other thing
32:46that happens is
32:47if it is actually covered
32:48in snow and ice,
32:50you get a lot of reflections
32:51from all sorts of directions.
32:52And that causes disorientation.
32:54It can also cause
32:55hallucinations.
32:57The theory of vile vortexes
32:59continues to intrigue
33:00scientists and laypeople alike.
33:02But research has yet
33:04to confirm
33:04whether they could exist
33:05or not,
33:07prompting some
33:07to contemplate
33:08even stranger possibilities.
33:10Some also believe
33:12that these vortexes
33:13are portals
33:14to other dimensions.
33:15Let's just say
33:17that an alien base
33:19is being built
33:21somewhere
33:21in the United States.
33:23Where better to do it
33:25than sparsely populated,
33:28inhospitable Alaska?
33:32The strangest theories
33:34about the Alaska Triangle
33:35center around
33:36some of the state's
33:37most dramatic landmarks,
33:39its mountains.
33:40Around Alaska's
33:42main city of Anchorage,
33:43there is this crescent
33:45of huge snow-capped mountains,
33:49the Alaska Range.
33:51And this crescent
33:52extends for about
33:53600 miles
33:55of these jagged
33:56and truly monumental mountains.
34:00The highest peak
34:01in the eastern Alaska Range
34:03is the magnificent
34:04Mount Hayes.
34:05It's renowned
34:06for its brutal climate,
34:08with temperatures
34:08regularly dropping
34:1030 degrees below zero
34:11and long,
34:13intensely snowy winters.
34:15This ancient mountain's
34:16unexpected link
34:17to the extraterrestrial
34:18came in 1970
34:20when authors
34:21Sheila Ostrander
34:22and Lynn Schroeder
34:23published a book
34:24entitled
34:25Psychic Discoveries
34:27Behind the Iron Curtain.
34:28So this book
34:30alleges that
34:31Soviet scientists
34:33were training
34:34people
34:35to kind of
34:37psychically
34:38project themselves
34:39over large
34:41distances.
34:42So you're in Moscow,
34:44you psychically
34:45project yourself
34:46into the Pentagon
34:47and you see
34:49all the juicy files
34:50that the Kremlin
34:51wanted to see.
34:52That was the idea.
34:53If the Americans
34:54got word
34:55that the Soviets
34:56were working on
34:57something that could
34:58be as powerful
34:58as remote viewing,
35:00the onus was on them
35:01to investigate this.
35:03Following the book's
35:04publication,
35:05the United States
35:06leapt into action.
35:08In 1972,
35:09work begins
35:10at the Stanford
35:11Research Institute,
35:13or SRI,
35:14in Menlo Park,
35:15California.
35:16Over the course
35:17of decades of research,
35:18several psychics
35:19emerged as
35:20especially gifted.
35:22One of these
35:22star performers
35:23is former
35:24Burbank police officer
35:25Pat Price.
35:26in 1974,
35:29Price is brought
35:30into the research
35:31center to test
35:32his remote viewing
35:32capabilities.
35:34During this test,
35:35Price was secluded,
35:38placed in a room
35:39with no contact
35:40with others,
35:42and he was asked
35:43to make psychic contact,
35:45as it were,
35:45with a location
35:46where a field agent
35:47was based,
35:49where there were
35:49two pools,
35:51and he described
35:52these with pinpoint
35:54accuracy,
35:55so it seemed,
35:57except he let himself
35:59down on one detail.
36:00He mentioned
36:01a water filtration
36:02system that wasn't
36:04there.
36:05But then,
36:05interestingly,
36:05years later,
36:07the analysts come
36:08across a historical
36:09image of the site,
36:11and lo and behold,
36:12they see the water
36:13tanks that Price
36:15was describing.
36:16This is far
36:17from Price's
36:18most dramatic vision.
36:20His remote viewing
36:21capabilities apparently
36:22enabled him to access
36:23one of America's
36:24most closely guarded
36:26secret programs,
36:27its extraterrestrial
36:28monitoring unit.
36:31One morning,
36:32in 1973,
36:34Price enters the offices
36:35of Hal Puttoff,
36:37one of the program
36:37directors,
36:38and drops a file
36:39on his desk.
36:41He simply says,
36:42you might be interested
36:43in these UFO bases.
36:45In a secret program
36:47that is already
36:48amongst the most
36:48bizarre that the
36:50American government
36:51has ever engaged in,
36:52this only really
36:53ramps up the stakes.
36:54This gets very,
36:55very strange.
36:57Price's accounts
36:58describe several
36:59alleged extraterrestrial
37:00bases scattered
37:01across every continent.
37:03Third on the list
37:04is a base buried
37:05deep in the heart
37:06of Mount Hayes.
37:08This alien base
37:09is something
37:10straight out of
37:11science fiction.
37:12It's bristling
37:13with security mechanisms
37:15to prevent access to it,
37:17and it has antennas
37:18reaching right to
37:19the top of the mountain.
37:21This is a fortress.
37:23Not only does Price
37:24claim to see
37:25this strange location
37:26inside the mountain,
37:27he claims he can see
37:28its inhabitants as well.
37:31Humanoid creatures
37:32of some kind
37:33that's operating
37:34the computers.
37:35While no proof
37:37of an extraterrestrial base
37:39has ever been discovered
37:40on Mount Hayes,
37:41the legacy of the
37:42United States
37:43Psychic Research Program
37:44continues to fuel
37:45speculation
37:46that it may be
37:47the reason behind
37:48Alaska's remarkable
37:49extraterrestrial activity.
37:56In the 1990s,
37:58a new startling story
37:59emerged that sparked
38:01interest in a new
38:02location in Alaska.
38:05Denali is the extreme
38:10in an extreme place.
38:12It is one of the
38:14highest mountains
38:15in the world,
38:15depending on how
38:16you measure.
38:17It is a place
38:19which is so formidable
38:20that only half
38:21the climbers
38:22are able to be successful.
38:24More than 100 people
38:25have perished
38:26in trying to ascend Denali.
38:28On May 27th,
38:322020,
38:3341-year-old
38:34Nathan Campbell
38:35waves goodbye
38:36to the small
38:36charter plane
38:37that has just
38:38dropped him off
38:39on the shores
38:39of Cary Lake
38:40in Denali National Park.
38:42It's an unforgiving place,
38:44riddled with
38:45towering sharp
38:46alder thickets
38:47and murky ponds.
38:48It would take him
38:49at least a week
38:50of brutal bushwhacking
38:52to reach the nearest town,
38:54Lake Minchumina,
38:55population 13.
38:57Campbell takes
38:58stock of his supplies.
39:00Basic camping gear,
39:02a hefty food supply,
39:03and a two-way
39:04satellite communicator.
39:06These will be the keys
39:07to his survival.
39:09He is on a discovery mission
39:11determined to find
39:12one of Alaska's
39:13strangest phenomena,
39:15the infamous
39:16Black Pyramid.
39:17He will never
39:18be seen again.
39:20The pyramid holds
39:22a really interesting place
39:24in UFO lore,
39:26but also
39:26conspiracy theory
39:27more generally.
39:29A lot of theorists
39:29have claimed
39:30that pyramid structures
39:32and shapes
39:33provide healing powers,
39:35for instance,
39:36or that they are
39:37repositories
39:38or sources
39:39of really
39:40otherworldly power.
39:42The story
39:43of the Black Pyramid
39:44begins in Lopner,
39:46a vast dry sea basin
39:47in Central Asia.
39:49Here on the 22nd of May,
39:511992,
39:53China sets off
39:54its largest ever
39:55underground nuclear test.
39:57The explosion
39:58is estimated
39:59to have 70 times
40:01the explosive power
40:02of the atom bomb
40:03dropped over Hiroshima
40:04in 1945.
40:06Shortly after
40:08the nuclear test,
40:09three scientists
40:10go on television
40:12to say that
40:12while studying
40:13the shock waves
40:14from the nuclear blast,
40:16they detected
40:17a huge pyramid-like structure
40:20underneath Mount Denali.
40:22This is a structure
40:23far bigger
40:24than the Great Pyramid
40:25at Giza.
40:26It's just absolutely
40:28mind-boggling.
40:29One of the things
40:29that we can do
40:30to image
40:31what's happening
40:32within our Earth
40:33is map
40:34the motion of sound waves
40:36within the planet itself.
40:37And if you have
40:38seismometers
40:40located at various points
40:41on the Earth's surface,
40:42you can measure
40:43the timing
40:44when those sound waves
40:46reach those sensors.
40:48And you can actually
40:49start building pictures
40:50of what the structure
40:52in the Earth
40:53actually looks like.
40:54As word of the
40:55mysterious structure
40:56slowly spreads,
40:58retired counterintelligence
40:59agent Doug Mutchler
41:00takes notice.
41:02After the reports
41:03of this pyramid
41:04underneath the mountain,
41:06he remembered seeing
41:08maps of the area
41:10where parts of the map
41:12had been mysteriously
41:14whited out.
41:16So when he sees
41:17the news reports,
41:19he begins to wonder
41:20whether or not
41:21the U.S. government
41:22has been hiding something
41:24if you want
41:25the dots
41:26start to connect.
41:28Waiting eagerly
41:29for further details
41:30about the strange discovery,
41:32Mutchler is disappointed
41:33when none come.
41:36A year later,
41:37in 1993,
41:38he arrives at
41:39Fort Meade, Maryland
41:40to look at the base's
41:41detailed collection
41:42of military records.
41:44He's directed to a cabinet
41:46filled with redacted files,
41:48but his research
41:49is rudely interrupted.
41:50Two men suddenly appear
41:52and pull the files
41:54away from him
41:55and tell him
41:55that he has
41:56no authority
41:57to look at those files.
41:59Mutchler finding himself
42:01blocked
42:01moves increasingly
42:03into conspiracy theorist circles
42:06and also conspiracy theorist views.
42:10If we take seriously
42:11the theory
42:12that there is
42:13a black pyramid
42:14under the mountain,
42:15it's a very short leap
42:16given the nature of that,
42:18given the nature
42:18of the kind of cover-up
42:19that would be required
42:21for that
42:21to jump to UFO activity.
42:24Is it something
42:25that could be an alien base?
42:26Is it something
42:27that attracts aliens?
42:29What is it?
42:30Does it have
42:31extraterrestrial significance?
42:34While it may be tempting
42:35to dismiss
42:36the legend
42:37of the black pyramid
42:38and possible connection
42:39to UFOs,
42:40the United States'
42:42military and intelligence
42:43history of cover-ups
42:44and disinformation
42:45suggests it's worth
42:47a closer look?
42:49One of the reasons
42:49why people will not
42:50be dissuaded
42:51by the lack of evidence
42:53or the lack of records
42:54is because governments
42:55have a history
42:56of erasing inconvenient truths.
42:59The Manhattan Project
43:00was a huge project
43:02that was entirely secret
43:03and there are
43:04much more nefarious things
43:05they've done
43:06such as the MKUltra program.
43:08The veil of secrecy
43:09surrounding the alleged
43:11black pyramid
43:12continues to frustrate
43:13paranormal and extraterrestrial
43:15researchers to this day.
43:18But as the demand
43:19for information
43:19about unidentified objects
43:21increases,
43:22new protocols
43:23may finally shed light
43:25on these enduring mysteries.
43:26There seems to be
43:27some kind of shift happening,
43:28a sea change perhaps
43:30in the way that UFOs
43:31are handled or understood
43:32or at least
43:33the receptiveness to it
43:34given that
43:35as recently as 2023
43:37the Pentagon
43:38actually put out a call
43:39to current
43:41and former employees
43:42who may have knowledge
43:44of programs
43:46that were associated
43:46with UFOs in some way.
43:48The fact that
43:49congressional committees
43:50are even prepared
43:51to discuss UFO sightings
43:54suggests that
43:55there's a greater openness
43:56to the whole question
43:58of whether or not
43:59UFOs exist
44:00even within
44:02the highest reaches
44:03of government.
44:04All these attempts
44:05at making revelations
44:07about UFO data
44:08or taking UFO data
44:09seriously
44:10are basically
44:11a way of misleading
44:13the public
44:14in a way in which
44:14the attention
44:15is turned around
44:16from other geopolitical issues
44:18or it may be
44:20a way to further
44:21obfuscate the issue
44:22of UFOs
44:23so that people
44:24really can't figure out
44:26what's going on.
44:27As a new era
44:28of unidentified phenomena
44:30research
44:31and monitoring dawns,
44:33the decades
44:33of surreal encounters
44:34in the United States'
44:36last frontier
44:37prompt us to wonder
44:38what if we aren't
44:40just being visited
44:41by extraterrestrials
44:42for the first time?
44:44What if
44:44they're already here?
44:46in the United States'
45:16state of the world
45:17in the United States'
45:18one, two, three, one,
45:19two, three, two, one.
45:19Tampa Bay
45:20on the United States'
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