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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.
01:02UAD 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.
01:14The government is not prepared.
01:17Are we being mapped?
01:21July 4th, 2002.
01:24A retired police officer near Chicago, Illinois,
01:27and his wife celebrate Independence Day.
01:30Their eyes are fixed on the sky,
01:32where fireworks light up the night.
01:35Amid the exploding colors,
01:37something strange catches their attention.
01:39Three bright orbs glow red.
01:43Unlike the surrounding fireworks,
01:45they maintain a V formation as they glide across the night sky.
01:50They wait for the familiar boom of a firework and shower of sparks,
01:54but instead, the flying V moves towards them in silence.
01:59As it passes overhead,
02:01lights disappear to reveal what witnesses describe
02:03as a triangle with rounded edges.
02:06It's unlike any aircraft they've ever seen.
02:10While their experience is undoubtedly unsettling,
02:14for residents of the surrounding Tinley Park,
02:16the unnerved feeling of watching something unexplained hovering overhead
02:20is all too familiar.
02:22Home to around 50,000 people,
02:25Tinley Park is located 48 kilometers south of Chicago,
02:29in Cook County, Illinois.
02:30A little over a month later,
02:34at approximately 10 p.m.,
02:36a neighbor yells for Bill Dooley to look up to the sky.
02:41He witnesses three bright lights cruising toward him
02:44that appear to be stacked on top of each other.
02:49Suddenly, they maneuver into the shape of a triangle
02:52and hover in place.
02:53The mesmerizing event lasts for roughly 30 minutes
02:57before the UFO disappears into the night.
03:00This is no ordinary aircraft.
03:05Around the same time,
03:07Tinley Park resident TJ Japkin
03:08is at a party with his family a few blocks away
03:11when he sees something that stops him in his tracks.
03:17Three lights moving northwest in a triangle formation.
03:21They stop and hover right above him.
03:24T.J. Japkin has a camcorder,
03:27so he hurtles back indoors,
03:30grabs the camcorder,
03:31and starts to film.
03:33And what he films is unbelievable.
03:35What he sees in the sky are these three very disturbing orb-like shapes,
03:51and they're not moving across the sky.
03:54These objects are just still,
03:57almost as if they're observing.
04:00What could these orbs have been?
04:03Was it a plane?
04:04Was it a helicopter?
04:06Or was it something else?
04:10Beyond Tinley Park,
04:11police stations are flooded with reports
04:13from Oak Forest,
04:15Orland Park,
04:16Mokenna,
04:17Madison,
04:18and Frankfurt,
04:19all claiming to have seen the exact same thing.
04:21It is very surprising to learn how many sightings there are
04:26of UFOs in the Illinois area,
04:29that it is indeed a UFO hotspot.
04:33At the center of the American heartland,
04:36Illinois has become a focal point of inexplicable phenomenon
04:39and a beacon of UFO activity.
04:43With upwards of 4,000 sightings reported from 2000 to 2015 alone,
04:49the question isn't if some unidentified object
04:52is flying through their airspace,
04:54but rather,
04:56where did it come from,
04:57and when will it return?
05:00Something is going on in Illinois.
05:03Something is attracting our extraterrestrial friends.
05:08Could these sightings be explained by science or the supernatural?
05:13Thousands of people claim to see these orbs hanging in the sky.
05:18Now, there's two explanations.
05:20If you're a skeptic,
05:21you might say,
05:22well, this is some kind of crowd psychology.
05:24Everybody wants a piece of the action.
05:27But alternatively,
05:28there's something there,
05:30and there's something there that a lot of people saw.
05:33To determine what it might have been in the air,
05:36you'd have to eliminate all the other possibilities
05:40and hopefully come up with a conclusion.
05:42If you remove everything else from the equation,
05:45then what's left is either unexplainable or perhaps a UFO.
05:51For UFOlogists,
05:53mass sightings are incredibly valuable,
05:55as they can be used to find consistencies.
05:59When researching the unknown,
06:01identifying consistencies in sightings and reports is key.
06:05The repeated observation of the phenomena
06:09adds some credibility to the witness's initial accounts.
06:13The typical UFO sighting is just a light in the sky,
06:16and it lasts for a few seconds,
06:18usually very, very quick,
06:20very unidentifiable,
06:22to say the least.
06:23And when you get that kind of sighting that's really interesting,
06:25but you just can't really do very much with it.
06:27But these Tinley Park sightings lasted for around 30 minutes in the sky,
06:32which is a very, very long time for a UFO sighting.
06:35There's immediately something more there.
06:39In the days and weeks that follow the events of August 21st,
06:42the region is abuzz with talk about the mysterious lights.
06:46No one claims responsibility,
06:48and no one can say for certain what caused the aerial anomaly.
06:53That same day,
06:54Chicago hosted its annual air and water show.
06:57With so many planes and different varieties en route to different airports,
07:01could locals have mistaken the glowing lights for a specialty plane?
07:05Probably the most typical way that people try to debunk UFO sightings
07:08is to just say it was a plane.
07:10And I am very sympathetic to that,
07:12and I think many UFO sightings actually are, in fact, just planes.
07:16But again, a plane has a particular characteristic to it.
07:20It moves, first of all.
07:22You can generally see it moving across the sky.
07:24And this isn't really what happened with the Tinley Park sighting.
07:27These orbs were stationary for the most part.
07:31That I think would generally throw the plane theory out the window.
07:36Other explanations for the Tinley Park sightings include weather balloons,
07:42flares,
07:42and stray lanterns.
07:44The explanation that I find the least convincing to debunk the Tinley Park sighting
07:50is the flare theory.
07:52Just because flares are very predictable.
07:54They have a certain motion in the sky.
07:57They go up,
07:58they fall down,
07:59and then, of course,
08:00they flare out.
08:01And this is simply not what happened with the Tinley Park sighting.
08:04There's flares that are shot from flare pistols
08:07that are used for identification.
08:10Very rare these days.
08:12And only in an emergency if the aircraft they're dealing with has no radio at all.
08:16You'd have to say,
08:17why would this be being done over a populated area?
08:22Another debunking theory that goes back a long time
08:25is that UFO sightings are balloons.
08:27And some of them definitely are,
08:30or have been.
08:31Balloons move throughout the air,
08:34not as fast as a plane.
08:35They don't necessarily fall like a flare,
08:37but they generally move.
08:39They don't necessarily stay stationary for quite as long.
08:43Less than two months later,
08:45on October 31st, 2004,
08:4877 people reported sightings eerily similar to those made on August 21st.
08:54It was a sign the lights have returned.
08:57What are the chances that so many people
09:01are seeing the same phenomenon as TJ Japkin
09:06and that they are making some kind of mistake
09:09when in fact their stories all appear to corroborate each other?
09:14They return again on October 1st, 2005
09:17and make a further appearance on October 31st, 2006.
09:23Despite hundreds of eyewitness accounts,
09:26these events remain unexplained.
09:30Why would someone or something
09:31make a return visit to this part of the state?
09:34Are they just passing through?
09:36Or is there something drawing these UFOs to Tinley Park?
09:40To have any intelligent life come back to a location
09:44over and over again,
09:46there must be some reason.
09:47Illinois sits on the shores of Lake Michigan,
09:54a body of water with a long history of unusual weather events,
09:58unexplained disappearances,
10:00and unprecedented sightings of UFOs.
10:03Stretching across four U.S. states,
10:06Lake Michigan is the largest source of freshwater in North America.
10:09It spans approximately 50,000 kilometers square
10:13and reaches depths of about 280 meters,
10:17making it the second largest Great Lake by volume.
10:20The Great Lakes themselves are inland oceans,
10:23which tend to heat up at a different rate as the land,
10:26so they have a massive influence
10:28on the kind of weather that we get.
10:30I mean, if you think about the wintertime, snow squalls,
10:33but if you sort of jump over to the summertime,
10:37the thunderstorms we get in and around the Great Lakes
10:40are as violent as the ones we get in areas like Tornado Alley.
10:45That's two seasons.
10:47There's another season.
10:48In the fall, we can get squall lines,
10:50which are just these lines of violent storms
10:53that will come sweeping across the Great Lakes,
10:56and they can be moving as fast as 100 to 120 kilometers an hour.
11:01Those are the kind of systems that can surprise people,
11:04and I have been through more than a few.
11:07Those who live around the lake
11:10claim to see bright bursts of light over the water.
11:13Some attribute it to shooting stars
11:15made clear by the lack of light pollution over the lake.
11:19Meanwhile, others attribute the phenomena
11:21to paranormal activity,
11:23or even proof that visitors from another planet
11:26are drawn to the water.
11:28The Great Lakes is in general a magnet
11:31for some high strangeness.
11:33It's known for lots of UFO sightings.
11:36It's known for some cryptozoology even.
11:40And there's been a lot of talk of
11:41strange otherworldly vortexes
11:44in the Great Lakes that bring down ships.
11:47Lots of strange incidents out on the water
11:50that can't necessarily be accounted for
11:52by conventional means.
11:54There's a lot of mystery.
11:55I think people would be surprised
12:00at how violent the weather is
12:02in and around the Great Lakes,
12:04especially over areas like Lake Michigan.
12:07March 8, 1994.
12:10Around 9 p.m., 911 dispatchers
12:13are bombarded with over 300 calls
12:15from concerned citizens,
12:17describing strange objects
12:19hovering over the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.
12:21Any time you see strange lights
12:47over, especially a lake,
12:49over a body of water,
12:51it poses a certain number of questions.
12:53The basic one being,
12:53what could this possibly be?
12:55Why might they be moving
12:56in that particular way?
12:58Why that color?
12:59Why that shape?
13:00Where are they headed?
13:01What is unique about
13:02that particular body of water
13:04or general region
13:06that might be attracting them?
13:08By most accounts,
13:09the event lasts for 15 minutes.
13:12The objects are tracked
13:13moving towards Chicago.
13:15This would become
13:16one of the most widespread UFO sightings
13:18in history.
13:19In response,
13:21the 911 service alerts
13:23police forces in the area
13:24to take a look,
13:26to investigate what is going on.
13:29Eventually,
13:29the National Weather Service
13:31is contacted
13:32and they're put on the case
13:34to see if they can find
13:36something going on
13:37in the skies
13:38over this great lake.
13:40Around 10 p.m.,
13:43Jack Bishong,
13:44a meteorologist
13:45working at the
13:46National Weather Service,
13:47receives a call
13:48from the Ottawa County
13:49911 dispatch.
13:51They ask if his radar systems
13:53have picked up
13:53anything unusual.
13:55He was looking
13:56at his radar screen
13:57and seeing something
13:58tracking at 100 miles an hour
14:00and he wasn't sure
14:03what he was looking at.
14:06Bishong decides
14:06to take matters
14:07into his own hands.
14:09He takes manual control
14:10of the radar system
14:11and begins to scan
14:13the coastline.
14:14Something catches his eye.
14:16What the meteorologist
14:17sees next
14:18is absolutely incredible.
14:20It defies reason.
14:23The object splits into three
14:26and it moves
14:27at incredible speed.
14:29It shoots high into the air.
14:32It's moving in an erratic way.
14:34This is not
14:35a terrestrial craft.
14:38This is something
14:39from out of this world.
14:41If it was a physical object
14:43of any size,
14:44any dimensions,
14:45and it was traveling
14:46low in the atmosphere,
14:48it would,
14:48A, probably burn up
14:50and, B,
14:51it would create
14:52a sonic boom
14:52that the whole shore
14:53of Lake Michigan
14:54would have heard.
14:57I think he saw
14:58something else.
14:59It's at this moment
15:01Bishang realizes
15:02he is tracking
15:03something unprecedented.
15:04To give you an idea
15:06of just how bizarre this is,
15:08this craft,
15:09which is split into three,
15:12ascends to 60,000 feet
15:15in no time at all.
15:17I mean,
15:17this is something
15:18that an earthbound
15:20terrestrial vessel
15:21cannot do.
15:22I'm not afraid
15:23to say that
15:24there was probably
15:25something there.
15:26What it is,
15:27we don't really know.
15:29The more that we get
15:30sightings like this,
15:31the more physical evidence
15:32we get,
15:33possibly the closer
15:34we get to some
15:35kind of answer.
15:36So even if we are left
15:37not knowing
15:38what this is,
15:39it's still compelling,
15:41it still adds
15:41to what is a pretty
15:43large mountain
15:44of data
15:45about UFOs
15:46by this point.
15:47The three objects
15:48appear to jump forward,
15:50rearranging themselves
15:51in a triangular formation,
15:53and then hover in place
15:55for some time.
15:57Bishang can't take
15:58his eyes off his monitors.
16:00He tracks the strange objects
16:01for over two hours.
16:03At one point,
16:04dozens more objects
16:06appear on screen.
16:07He checks for any
16:08technical issues
16:09with his systems
16:10or unusual weather phenomena,
16:12but nothing makes sense
16:14of what he is seeing.
16:15If I was given a sighting,
16:17by a meteorologist
16:19or someone
16:20in that kind of position,
16:21especially if this
16:22were operated
16:22by a radar reading,
16:25I'm more inclined
16:26to think that this
16:27is something
16:28to be investigated.
16:30The National Weather Service
16:31would subsequently
16:32confirm the presence
16:33of large objects
16:34above the lake
16:35that night.
16:36But officially,
16:37they do not say
16:38what those objects were.
16:40What kind of phenomena
16:42are we dealing with
16:43over here?
16:44Is this something natural
16:45or is this
16:46something which has
16:48intelligence behind it?
16:51Many have seen
16:52Lake Michigan
16:53as a source
16:53of inexplicable,
16:55even paranormal activity.
16:57Its history is long
16:58and sinister,
17:00prompting some
17:00to compare it
17:01to the Bermuda Triangle.
17:03An invisible border
17:04from Ludington
17:05to Benton Harbor, Michigan
17:06to Manitowoc, Wisconsin
17:08creates what some refer to
17:11as the Lake Michigan Triangle.
17:13It is an area
17:14that has become known
17:15for a number of shipwrecks
17:16and plane crashes
17:17that have all occurred
17:19under unexplained circumstances.
17:21Coupled with sightings
17:22of UFOs,
17:23it is one of the most
17:24mysterious bodies
17:26of water on Earth.
17:27This might be the location
17:28of what some have
17:29called a vortex.
17:30And we are familiar
17:33with the word vortex
17:33in some cases
17:35in bodies of water
17:36as well,
17:37that it's, you know,
17:38a swirling area
17:39of the water
17:40caused by natural phenomena.
17:42But the vortexes
17:43that people typically invoke
17:44to explain something
17:45like the Bermuda Triangle
17:47or the Lake Michigan Triangle
17:48are often of a more
17:50supernatural,
17:51paranormal nature,
17:52that these are caused
17:54by very unnatural phenomena,
17:56possibly extraterrestrials,
17:58possibly something
17:58deep underwater.
18:01Within this Lake Michigan Triangle,
18:04for centuries,
18:05ships have gone missing.
18:07In more recent times,
18:09aircraft as well.
18:10And it's reached such a scale
18:12that there have been
18:13official investigations
18:15to find out
18:16what has happened
18:18to these ships,
18:19to these planes,
18:21and the poor souls
18:22never seen again.
18:24The idea of triangles,
18:26these devil's triangles,
18:27or these mysterious triangles,
18:29comes from the work
18:30of Ivan Sanderson,
18:31who postulated
18:33that there are
18:33these vile vortices,
18:35which means areas
18:37of the Earth
18:38where the geomagnetism,
18:40the energy,
18:41is all messed up
18:42in a way
18:43which it will affect
18:44weather patterns,
18:46navigation instruments,
18:47and so forth.
18:48So this is especially
18:49treacherous territory
18:51for navigation.
18:54One of the most
18:55fascinating tales
18:56attached to the Lake Michigan Triangle
18:58is the disappearance
19:00of the two-masted schooner,
19:02the Rosabelle.
19:03On October 30th, 1921,
19:06a crew of 11
19:07board the Rosabelle
19:08on High Island
19:09and set sail
19:10for Benton Harbor.
19:11The vessel is found
19:12awash,
19:1368 kilometers
19:14from Milwaukee.
19:16A thorough search
19:17turns up no sign
19:18of the 11-strong crew.
19:19The people
19:20that simply went missing
19:22who almost vaporized,
19:24just disappeared.
19:26Now,
19:26it could have been
19:27that the ship
19:28crashed into another vessel,
19:29but we have no record
19:30of that other vessel,
19:33which really begs
19:34the question,
19:35did something very unusual
19:37happen here
19:37within the Lake Michigan Triangle?
19:40Could these people
19:41and this vessel
19:42have encountered
19:44something from out
19:45of this world?
19:47While some see
19:49the vanishing vessels
19:50and crew
19:50as casualties
19:51of the unpredictable nature
19:52of wide-open waters,
19:55stranger cases
19:55of missing people,
19:57missing planes,
19:58make the idea
19:59of some sort of portal
20:00to another dimension
20:01all the more intriguing.
20:04One story
20:05that I think
20:06particularly highlights
20:08the strangeness
20:09of Lake Michigan
20:10and the Triangle
20:11that some people believe
20:12is there
20:13is an old story.
20:15It's quite a spooky story
20:16from 1937
20:17of the ship
20:19Owen McFarland
20:20that was on its mission
20:21and Captain Donner
20:23goes below decks
20:24to his quarters
20:25and the crew
20:27later finds
20:28that he has completely
20:28disappeared wholesale
20:30from his quarters
20:31and there's no explanation
20:32for this.
20:33It's extremely odd.
20:35No trace of Captain Donner
20:37ever shows up again
20:38and nobody really understands
20:40what has happened.
20:42Was there a mutiny
20:43on board?
20:44Was he forced
20:44to walk the plank
20:46with the crew
20:47just covering
20:47what they'd done?
20:49Had he slipped off deck?
20:51I mean,
20:51entirely feasible?
20:52These things happen.
20:54Well, the crew were adamant
20:55that that was not the case,
20:57that he'd been seen
20:58going into his cabin
20:59and then when they went in,
21:01almost like a magic trick,
21:03he'd gone.
21:05Now, this poses
21:05the question,
21:07had somebody
21:08or something
21:09taken the captain away?
21:14Another similarly mysterious
21:15disappearance
21:16occurs 13 years later
21:18in 1950.
21:21Northwest Airline
21:22Flight 2501
21:23is on its way
21:24from New York
21:25to Minneapolis
21:26when the plane
21:27enters a section
21:28of extreme
21:28and unexpected turbulence
21:30caused by
21:31an electrical storm.
21:32Just before 10 p.m.,
21:35Captain Robert Lind
21:36makes his second request
21:38to descend
21:38to the cruising altitude
21:39of 2,500 feet,
21:42but he is denied.
21:43Lind decides
21:44to steer south
21:45to dodge
21:45the worst of the storm.
21:47What he and his crew
21:48don't realize
21:49is that they're headed
21:50straight for the
21:51Lake Michigan Triangle.
21:54Shortly after 11.37,
21:55the time of their
21:56last communication,
21:58the plane disappears.
21:59The plane
22:00is never really found.
22:02There are
22:03little bits
22:03and pieces
22:04of the plane
22:05that are found
22:06by rescue teams,
22:08but nothing substantial,
22:10nothing that you
22:10would expect
22:11from what people
22:13assume is
22:14the fact that
22:14the plane crashed,
22:16that it went down.
22:17There's no engine found.
22:18There's no large pieces
22:20of the plane found.
22:21It's just the smallest
22:22little bits
22:23here and there,
22:24which is unusual.
22:25In the 1950s,
22:27we don't have
22:28the same modern
22:29technology we have today.
22:30So we're not going
22:32to have a lot
22:33of warning
22:33about large
22:35and intense storms.
22:36We may not be aware
22:37of how fast
22:38those storms
22:39can develop.
22:40And we're still
22:41relying primarily
22:42on our compasses
22:43and on our
22:45analog gauges
22:47to tell us
22:47where we are.
22:48The pilots
22:49and navigators
22:50still have to make
22:51a lot of decisions
22:52about where we're going.
22:53But when you fly
22:54into an electrical storm,
22:56specifically a large
22:57thunderstorm or supercell,
22:59it's really difficult
23:01to know where you're going.
23:02The electromagnetism
23:04that's generated
23:05in the storm
23:05by the generation
23:07of charges
23:08as a result
23:09of a thunderstorm
23:09can play havoc
23:10with compasses
23:12and with direction.
23:13The wind field
23:14in a storm,
23:14whether you're having
23:15downbursts
23:16or rising air masses
23:18or sudden wind gusts,
23:20can change a lot
23:22of what the pilots
23:23are seeing
23:23on the speed gauges
23:24and can lead
23:25to very confusing
23:27information
23:28to the pilots.
23:29If the pilots
23:30are relying
23:31on how they feel,
23:32it very quickly
23:33can lead
23:34to a plane crash.
23:36Two hours
23:37after the plane's
23:38last communication,
23:40two police officers
23:41report seeing
23:41a strange red light
23:43hovering over
23:43Lake Michigan.
23:45Despite ongoing efforts,
23:47the flight of 2501
23:49remains a mystery.
23:50Lake Michigan
23:53is hundreds
23:53of miles long.
23:55It's tens of miles wide.
23:57There's thousands
23:58of square miles
23:59of surface area
23:59on this lake.
24:00It's a very difficult
24:02search and rescue operation.
24:09For many of these
24:11disappearances,
24:12no concrete answers
24:13are ever found.
24:15However,
24:16some scientific explanations
24:18have been proposed
24:19to make sense
24:20of why so many crashes
24:21are occurring here.
24:22The Earth has
24:23a magnetic field
24:25and there's lines
24:26of force
24:27that literally run
24:28from the North Pole
24:29to the South Pole.
24:31And when you put
24:32a compass
24:32in those lines
24:34of magnetic force,
24:35it will point
24:36in a certain direction.
24:37And when you get
24:39a little bit of deviation
24:40from those lines,
24:41the compass needle
24:42will change a little bit.
24:44For UFOlogists
24:46and those who study
24:47paranormal energies,
24:48the explanation
24:49for these anomalies
24:50lies deep within our Earth
24:52in what have become
24:53known as ley lines.
24:55One interesting theory
24:56that has been proposed
24:57to explain some of the weirdnesses
25:00around the world,
25:02like triangles,
25:03like vortexes,
25:04is the theory of ley lines.
25:06And this was developed
25:07in the 1920s
25:08by Alfred Watkins,
25:09an Englishman,
25:10who was fiddling around
25:13with the map one day
25:14and realized
25:15that if you draw
25:16certain lines,
25:17straight lines
25:17across the map,
25:19that they will intersect
25:20most,
25:21if not all,
25:22of the ancient sites
25:24that he was interested in.
25:25And these are ancient sites
25:27that typically people
25:27in this community
25:29have associated
25:30with supernatural activity
25:32or just unnatural phenomena
25:34of one kind or another.
25:35These energy vortexes
25:38have been associated
25:39with such ancient wonders
25:40as the pyramids of Giza,
25:42Chichen Itza,
25:43and Stonehenge.
25:44All are situated
25:46along ley lines.
25:47It's believed
25:48the presence
25:49of these powerful sources
25:50provided the inspiration
25:52and energy
25:52required to create structures
25:54that were far ahead
25:55of their time.
25:56Monuments that once
25:57defied the laws
25:58of architecture
25:59and continue
26:00to mystify us today.
26:02Ley lines have also
26:04been associated
26:04with both physical
26:05and psychological ailments
26:07like insomnia,
26:09nausea,
26:10headaches,
26:10and other issues
26:11that could cause
26:12disorientation.
26:13Could this be
26:14why those who enter
26:15the Lake Michigan
26:16and Bermuda Triangle
26:17feel as if time and space
26:19have been warped
26:20around them?
26:20By connecting
26:21these sacred sites,
26:23they channel
26:24a kind of sacral energy
26:27and to be
26:28at the kind of
26:29interconnections
26:30or along these ley lines,
26:32you experience
26:33something yourself
26:34as a human being.
26:36Then researchers
26:37took this idea further
26:38and then saw
26:39that possibly
26:41the nodes,
26:42which means
26:43the place
26:43where the ley lines
26:44connect,
26:45that there's supposed
26:46to be very powerful places
26:48which can make you
26:50change your way
26:52of thinking.
26:53They can bring about
26:53physical changes
26:55as well as people
26:56have postulated ideas
26:57like that there are
26:59portals to other dimensions.
27:01things outside
27:03of ordinary experience
27:05can take place here.
27:07UFOlogists theorized
27:09that these ley lines
27:10could act as a guide
27:11to possible landing sites
27:12for UFOs.
27:14One of these lines
27:16runs almost directly
27:17down the middle
27:18of Lake Michigan.
27:18that if these ley lines
27:21truly are
27:22channeling
27:23immense energy,
27:24if you're
27:25an extraterrestrial
27:26traveling across space
27:29looking for
27:30potential energy
27:31sources
27:32in your long
27:33odyssey,
27:34they're almost like
27:35gas stations.
27:36They're somewhere
27:37to stop
27:38and recharge
27:39and maybe
27:40this is why
27:41they interest
27:42extraterrestrials
27:43so much.
27:44One theory
27:46connected with
27:47the ley lines
27:47suggests that
27:48strange events
27:49and numerous sightings
27:50around Lake Michigan
27:51point to some kind
27:53of alien base
27:54hidden there.
27:57There is
27:58potentially
27:58some more
27:59credibility
28:00in the idea
28:01that UFOs
28:02would have
28:03bases underwater
28:05rather than
28:06in space
28:06given that we have
28:07satellites
28:08and telescopes
28:09in space
28:10that could probably
28:11pick that up.
28:12We actually,
28:12interestingly,
28:14know more
28:15about outer space
28:16than we know
28:16about deep water
28:18on Earth.
28:19The ocean
28:20is vastly
28:21unexplored.
28:23It would frankly
28:24be probably
28:24easier to hide
28:25a UFO underwater
28:26than anywhere else.
28:28If this is true,
28:30we have to wonder
28:31what are they
28:32doing here?
28:34I like the question
28:35why would
28:36aliens want
28:38a base
28:38on Earth?
28:39We do that
28:40ourselves.
28:41We have bases
28:42all over the place.
28:43There is a race
28:44to colonize space
28:46that's been ongoing
28:47for some time.
28:48So if we're thinking
28:49of aliens having
28:50at least some
28:51similar interest
28:52to us,
28:53then it just
28:53simply makes sense.
28:54It's the next
28:55logical step
28:55that if they're
28:56going to study
28:57Earth for
28:58its resources
28:59like we do,
29:00then having
29:01some kind of base
29:02is going to be
29:03helpful for that.
29:04and the more
29:05worrying part
29:07about it
29:07is that
29:08do these bases
29:10have a purely
29:12research goal
29:13in mind
29:14or is there
29:15something more
29:15nefarious?
29:19Some believe
29:20evidence of alien
29:21intent
29:21can be found
29:22in mysterious
29:23monoliths
29:24deep below
29:24the surface
29:25of our lakes
29:25and oceans.
29:26In 2007,
29:29a team of divers
29:30sets out
29:31to examine
29:32old boat wrecks
29:33in Grand Traverse
29:34Bay,
29:34Lake Michigan.
29:35What they discover
29:36has been billed
29:37as the Lake
29:38Michigan Stonehenge.
29:40These are
29:41vertical,
29:42pillar-like stones
29:43arranged in a
29:44specific way
29:45and one of them
29:47even has
29:48the petroglyph
29:49of a mastodon
29:50on it.
29:51How did they
29:51end up there?
29:52That's
29:53really intriguing.
29:55It's believed
29:56that these stones
29:57have been in place
29:59for something
30:00like 10,000 years.
30:01Now,
30:01if we take
30:02into consideration
30:03the whole theory
30:04of ley lines,
30:06these lines
30:07across the planet
30:08linking sacred sites,
30:10could it be
30:11that this ring
30:12of stones
30:13at the bottom
30:14of Lake Michigan,
30:15it's a marker
30:16for where
30:17ley lines
30:18intersect?
30:20It was put there
30:21deliberately
30:22for that purpose.
30:24We have
30:24magnetic anomalies
30:25we have
30:27strange
30:28underwater
30:29monoliths.
30:30Is there
30:30some UFO-type
30:31phenomena
30:32underneath
30:33Lake Michigan
30:34which is
30:35the root cause
30:37behind all
30:38of these
30:38anomalous
30:39and strange
30:39occurrences?
30:41Roughly six
30:42hours south
30:43in Hardin County,
30:44southeastern Illinois,
30:46is a geological
30:47feature that could
30:48hold the answer.
30:49Spanning 12
30:52kilometers in
30:53diameter,
30:53the state's
30:54one and only
30:55dormant volcano,
30:56Hick's Dome.
30:58Hick's Dome
30:59is a really
31:00interesting structure.
31:01It's basically
31:02a volcano
31:03that didn't come
31:04fully to fruition.
31:06Basically,
31:07magma rose up
31:08and forced
31:09the rocks
31:10upward,
31:11creating
31:11Hick's Dome.
31:12The limestone
31:14at the surface
31:15where Hick's Dome
31:16is located
31:17fractured
31:18and the magma
31:19infiltrated
31:20those fractures
31:21creating
31:22igneous rocks.
31:23So we see
31:24a really
31:24unusual structure
31:25in that we have
31:26both sedimentary
31:28rocks and
31:29igneous rocks
31:30within Hick's Dome.
31:31This structure
31:32formed about
31:33270 million
31:35years ago.
31:35Despite its
31:37long history,
31:39geologists
31:39have only
31:40known about
31:40Hick's Dome
31:41since the
31:42late 80s.
31:43Since then,
31:44a handful of
31:45projects have
31:45been carried
31:46out to collect
31:47drill core
31:47samples and
31:48study the
31:49minerals in
31:49and around
31:50the dome.
31:51Igneous rocks
31:52often contain
31:53high levels
31:54of iron-bearing
31:55minerals like
31:56magnetite.
31:57Magnetite is
31:58highly magnetic
31:59and it
31:59intensifies
32:00the Earth's
32:01magnetic field.
32:03So when we
32:04fly aircraft
32:05with magnetometers
32:06over Hick's Dome,
32:07we see that
32:09there's a
32:09magnetic anomaly
32:10here and it's
32:11likely associated
32:12with that
32:13incipient volcano
32:15that was forming
32:16below Hick's Dome.
32:19Aside from an
32:20unusually forceful
32:21magnetic aura,
32:22the subterranean
32:23explosions that
32:24created this
32:25geological marvel
32:26were also
32:27responsible for
32:28creating a
32:29hotbed of
32:30valuable mineral
32:30deposits.
32:32The most
32:32important find
32:33is a surprising
32:34amount of
32:35REEs or
32:37rare earth
32:38elements.
32:39These elements
32:39were discovered
32:40in 1952 by
32:42companies drilling
32:43for oil.
32:44Rare earth elements
32:45can have a lot
32:46of different
32:46properties and
32:47they actually are
32:48becoming more
32:49and more common
32:50in our everyday
32:50life.
32:51There's rare earth
32:52elements in your
32:53telephone to help
32:54with the antenna.
32:55There's actually
32:56rare earth elements
32:57in the magnets
32:58in your cell phone
33:00that allow it to
33:01have that intense
33:02vibration when you
33:03do get a phone
33:04call.
33:05Now, could it
33:06be that beings
33:08from another
33:09planet or another
33:10solar system could
33:12be using or
33:13could want to
33:14mine these elements
33:16for their own
33:17technology, that
33:18they have seen
33:19where these rare
33:20earth elements are
33:21and they want
33:22them, they need
33:24them in order to
33:25continue their
33:26mission?
33:27O'Hare International
33:30Airport, located in
33:32Chicago, Illinois, is
33:34a bustling aviation
33:35hub known for its
33:36strategic position in
33:38the heart of the
33:39United States and its
33:40role as one of the
33:41world's busiest and
33:43best connected
33:44airports.
33:45I call it an
33:46aerial zoo.
33:47There are so many
33:48airplanes in the area
33:49that absolute control
33:51over every one of
33:53them is vital for the
33:55functioning of the
33:55airport and for the
33:56safety of not only
33:58the people in the
33:59air, the pilots and
33:59the crew and the
34:00passengers, but
34:01people on the
34:02ground.
34:05On November 7, 2006,
34:08at approximately 4.15
34:10p.m., passengers and
34:12crew for flight 466
34:13are stunned by what
34:15appears to be a
34:16flying saucer hovering
34:17above them.
34:19We have 12 employees
34:22at O'Hare Airport
34:23airport, who look up
34:25into the sky.
34:27It's about 4.15 in the
34:28afternoon.
34:28It's November.
34:30So it's starting to get
34:32dark.
34:33In the sky, they claim to
34:34see a circle of lights.
34:37It's the kind of classic
34:39flying saucer.
34:41And this thing moves at
34:42incredible speed.
34:43It ascends at incredible
34:45speed.
34:46And they are unable to
34:47account for what they've
34:49seen.
34:50It's silent.
34:51That's a hallmark of
34:53UFO sightings because
34:55they're often posited to
34:56be powered by energy
34:57unknown to us.
34:59And then especially for
35:00it to shoot up into the
35:01sky and disappear is a
35:03very classic UFO sighting,
35:04but nevertheless remains
35:06compelling because we
35:07just don't have any
35:08technology like that.
35:10UFOlogists, including
35:12those from the Illinois
35:13Mutual UFO Network, or
35:15MUFON, consider this an
35:16especially unusual case
35:18because so many of the
35:20witnesses are trained
35:21aviation observers.
35:23Airports are highly
35:24controlled airspace.
35:25You have multiple planes
35:26taking off, coming in.
35:28And so air traffic control
35:30typically knows exactly
35:31what's in the air, what
35:33should be in the air, and
35:34what should not be in the
35:35air.
35:36So to have a craft of this
35:38kind right at the airport
35:39and making these kinds of
35:41motions without anybody
35:42really even noticing it
35:43until it was there, not
35:45noticing it coming in, and
35:46then to have a shoot-off
35:47like that, it's very, very
35:49strange, very unusual.
35:52Initially, United Airlines
35:54and the Federal Aviation
35:55Authority denied any
35:57official information on the
35:58alleged sighting.
36:00Unsatisfied with their
36:01response, the Chicago
36:02Tribune files a Freedom of
36:04Information Act request
36:05forcing details of the event
36:07to be publicly disclosed.
36:09Phone calls from the United
36:10Airlines supervisor to a
36:12manager at the FAA come to
36:14light.
36:15You've got a United Airlines
36:17supervisor contacting the
36:20FAA and asking, have they
36:22seen this unusual circular
36:25disk-like object with all
36:28these lights in the sky?
36:29Now, it seems unlikely that in
36:32the kind of environment of an
36:34airport, somebody is going to
36:35waste the time of the FAA by
36:37making this kind of report.
36:39Why are they trying to withhold
36:41this information?
36:42Why did it take a Freedom of
36:43Information request to get this?
36:46Despite multiple witnesses
36:48claiming to see a solid silver
36:50disk floating in the sky, the
36:52FAA's official stance is that
36:54the incident is a weather
36:55phenomenon.
36:56No further investigations are
36:58made.
36:58Located in southwestern Illinois,
37:06Scott Air Force Base's strategic
37:08location places it at a crossroads
37:10of major transportation routes,
37:12making it a pivotal center for
37:14coordinating and facilitating
37:16military operations and logistics
37:18on a global scale.
37:19A very common theory to explain
37:22UFO sightings is that it must be
37:24some kind of advanced top secret
37:26military technology that's in
37:28development.
37:29And this is certainly a good
37:32theory, I think, as far as it
37:33goes, because that's been the
37:35case in the past.
37:36There have been projects in
37:37development that then later become
37:39public knowledge.
37:40And so I totally understand the
37:42impulse to explain UFO sightings
37:44away as top secret military
37:46technology, especially because UFO
37:49sightings often are close by
37:51military bases.
37:53Scott Air Force Base is located
37:56in the county of St. Clair,
37:57Illinois, home to one of the most
38:01famous mass UFO sightings in the
38:03state's history.
38:06At 4 a.m. on January 5, 2000,
38:10Melvin Noel stops by his miniature
38:12golf course in Highland, Illinois
38:14to check everything is secure.
38:16As he walks back to his truck, he
38:19looks up to see what he thinks is a
38:21star heading towards him.
38:23He was wrong.
38:24What Melvin Noel is now confronted
38:27by is this vast object up there in
38:31the sky.
38:32It's the size of a football field.
38:35It's kind of darkish gray with red
38:38lights underneath it.
38:40And he is transfixed.
38:41He has no idea what the hell he's
38:44looking at.
38:45Knoll is just one of many St. Clair
38:48residents to report a strange sighting
38:50that night.
38:52By morning, units from eight police
38:54departments are inundated with calls.
38:57Officer Ed Barton is one of the first to respond.
39:00Officer Barton essentially backs up what
39:03Knoll has claimed.
39:05And this thing to Barton is absolutely real.
39:08There is no doubt about it.
39:09It's there, it's happening, and it's from out of this world.
39:14Barton continues to watch as the massive triangular craft
39:18pivots in place before darting towards the town of Shiloh.
39:22Shiloh officer David Martin radios moments later,
39:25describing his own experience, which is virtually identical to Officer Barton's.
39:30Again, the slow-moving object stops, suddenly accelerates, and vanishes in another direction.
39:38By now, the unusual radio transmissions had piqued the interest of officers on early
39:43morning duty in nearby small towns, each sharing similar stories of their encounters.
39:49Skeptics trying to make sense of the sighting suggest witnesses may have been misidentifying
39:54an advertising blimp.
39:55Blimps are actually really highly maneuverable aircraft.
39:59They basically have thrusters, and these are kind of like fans that we can change the angle
40:08and pitch on so that we can actually control the aircraft to cause it to move forward, to
40:15cause it to almost spin on a single point.
40:18So while these aircraft are huge and slow, they're actually quite maneuverable.
40:25So we can actually hover, we can actually stay in place, we can back up, we can almost turn
40:31in the same space that we're occupying.
40:34So very, very maneuverable aircraft.
40:38What the UFO was may be less important than what it was doing.
40:43The frequent stops and hovering behavior suggest whoever was piloting it was performing some sort of surveillance.
40:49Could someone have been trying to get a lay of the land near Scott Air Force Base?
40:56I think it raises some inevitable questions.
40:59Are they actually surveilling the military base?
41:01Is that possible?
41:02And I think absolutely, given again that humans do that.
41:05We did that all through the Cold War, for instance.
41:08We are intensely interested in the military bases of other nations.
41:12Is this a case of espionage where some other than earthly power is keeping tabs on what's
41:19going on in terms of armament and military equipment?
41:24If this is true, might these sightings be connected to the Tinley Park lights or the mysterious
41:30aircraft that appeared at the O'Hare Airport?
41:33Researchers studying the Black Triangle sightings reach out to the Scott Air Force Base in hopes
41:41of making sense of the situation.
41:43Scott Air Force Base has the radar tower in the area that could have confirmed that this
41:49thing was in the sky.
41:51But they're shocked when they're told that the radar tower was not working that night,
41:58that it was closed for maintenance.
42:00Now, that seems mightily convenient.
42:04I mean, that's going to arouse anybody's suspicion.
42:07Just when the police need confirmation about this incredibly unusual phenomenon in the sky
42:13seen by multiple people, including police officers, the one place that can confirm it, this air
42:21base, says our radar wasn't working that night.
42:24Radar systems are mechanical things and electronic things, and they do break.
42:31Sometimes they're down for routine maintenance.
42:34If we assume that these were some kind of extraterrestrial craft, then it's very likely that any intruder
42:43would like to mask his presence.
42:46So it's possible that they generated some sort of electromagnetic disturbance, which broke down the radar or other surveillance abilities off this installation.
42:57The base insists they know nothing about the UFO, leading some to believe their denials are all the more suspicious.
43:06Given the amount of reports of unexplained aerial phenomena over Illinois, it's no surprise that commonalities have emerged.
43:14These consistencies lead us to wonder, are we seeing the same UFOs conducting some sort of long-term observation over the state,
43:23returning periodically to check on human activity or military buildup here?
43:27If there was some perceived conflict in the future with some kind of space-faring race, they would be equally interested in our bases and our capabilities,
43:37and that's certainly one way to find out about them is to surveil them from the air.
43:44You have the Lake Michigan Triangle, which could be exuding some kind of energy from that area.
43:52You have the Hex Dome, which could be a source of badly needed minerals for these UFOs.
44:01And you also have the presence of military bases.
44:04And we know from other UFO hotspots that military bases are of particular interest to beings from outer space.
44:14I would say that Illinois is not typically on the UFO enthusiast's radar,
44:20but it probably should be, because it has a number of unique aspects to it that draw in a lot of strangeness, a lot of strange sightings.
44:29Despite years of eyewitness accounts, both from locals and credible professionals,
44:35the answers to many of Illinois' greatest mysteries continue to elude us.
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