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00:00Taking 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.
01:14The government is not prepared.
01:17Are we being mapped?
01:23February 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.
02:00But their testimonies only complicate the mystery.
02:07According to some pilots, the car-sized craft appears to be moving through the air
02:12with 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, two 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, just off the Alaskan coast.
02:50Recovery operations would go on for 39 days.
02:53Though bad weather and limited daylight would mean most of the unidentified object
02:57would 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.
03:1476 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
03:28at Fort Richardson, Alaska,
03:30claiming that they had witnessed an object passing through the air
03:33at a tremendous speed,
03:35which they could not judge as to miles per hour.
03:38The two pilots are traveling across Alaska
03:42when they see this large spherical object that is soaring through the sky,
03:49leaving no exhaust trail.
03:51There's a slight discrepancy in terms of the account of the size of this flying craft,
03:58with one of the pilots believing that it was further away and larger,
04:02something like 10 feet long.
04:04The other believing that it was closer and a lot smaller, only about 2, 3 feet.
04:10If you are airborne and you see another object,
04:13unless 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,
04:25and that's why the two pilots disagreed.
04:27This 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
04:41in 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.
04:54This one shaped like a wing that was flying through the sky.
04:59The interesting thing about this other sighting is that,
05:02like 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,
05:13he then radios the Civil Aeronautic Administration,
05:18only to be told there is nothing else in the sky around him.
05:24Throughout the 1950s,
05:26strange sightings in Anchorage and the Alaskan tundra continue to confound military observers.
05:34Pilots 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.
05:55When 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 on what it might have been.
06:26The military pilot is trained to judge distance of a potential adversary,
06:32closing 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,
06:48that people in the military are 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 the remarkable circumstances
07:01surrounding Japanese Airlines Flight 1628
07:05flying over Alaskan airspace in November 1986.
07:09Washington, D.C.
07:14A 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.
07:27The problem in question is the startling testimony
07:31of former fighter pilot-turned-commercial operator,
07:34Kenju Terauchi.
07:35Terauchi was piloting a Japanese commercial cargo plane
07:39on a long-haul flight from Paris to Tokyo
07:42with a stopover in Anchorage.
07:44As 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.
08:26The 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,
08:43to me, is 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 Operations Command Center
09:12does confirm that there may be something there,
09:16but they have absolutely no idea what it could be.
09:20And then, very strangely, the pilot gets a message back
09:24from air traffic control that whatever it is
09:27that has shown up in the radar that the pilot is seeing
09:30has 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
09:55it's here versus here
09:57because the atmosphere in between
09:59or other noises interfering
10:01with getting a really good fix on that aircraft.
10:05Tereushi 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,
10:17Tereushi sees something far more ominous.
10:20To his horror,
10:22there 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
10:32that 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,
10:52Tereushi 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,
11:22not to let this out to the public.
11:24If it's true,
11:25there's two ways of reading the situation.
11:27One is, obviously,
11:28the 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
11:41that the government is hushing up
11:44an incident like this
11:46when you've got an experienced pilot
11:48who claims to have seen something so incredible?
11:51The 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
12:18is a force powerful enough
12:20to send dangerous currents
12:21surging through major power grids,
12:24disrupt global satellite navigation,
12:26and even affect the human brain.
12:29The Aurora Borealis
12:31is one of the most incredible phenomena
12:34I have ever seen.
12:37I have stood underneath the northern lights
12:40in the Northwest Passage,
12:42and watched the lights dance above my head.
12:46They move, they 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
12:58when you see an Aurora Borealis
13:00is you're actually seeing particles
13:02that were emitted from the sun
13:04in a solar flare
13:05that have traveled to Earth,
13:07been redirected by the Earth's magnetic field,
13:10and are interacting with gases
13:12in our upper atmosphere
13:13to produce plasma
13:14and give rise to these beautiful colors
13:17and moving patterns.
13:19We have two things that protect us.
13:21The atmosphere,
13:23which protects from harmful radiation
13:25from the sun,
13:26UV radiation, etc.
13:28And then you also have the magnetosphere,
13:31which protects us against the sun's
13:33highly charged particles,
13:34which can also be harmful to life on Earth.
13:36If those charged particles
13:38were able to penetrate through our atmosphere,
13:40they would cause an immense amount
13:42of ionizing radiation at ground level,
13:45potentially, you know,
13:47killing off life on Earth.
13:48While beautiful to look at,
13:51the Aurora Borealis
13:52is a remarkably violent phenomenon,
13:54with its origins far from our own planet.
13:57But severe electromagnetic disturbances,
14:00even in our own atmosphere,
14:02can produce electrical currents
14:04capable of traveling down
14:05to the Earth's surface.
14:07If you get a strong enough solar storm,
14:12it 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
14:26called sunspots.
14:29Sunspots are basically
14:31cooler regions
14:33on the surface of the sun.
14:37They appear dark
14:38because they're cooler
14:39with respect to the surrounding regions.
14:42Sunspots can occur
14:43in regions of intense magnetic activity,
14:47and they're also correlated
14:48with things like
14:50solar eruptions,
14:51solar storms,
14:53coronal mass ejections,
14:54that all involve
14:55the release of highly charged particles,
14:58which will eventually
14:58go out into space
14:59and find their way to us,
15:01and potentially cause
15:02the beautiful Aurora.
15:04As Carrington sketches
15:05the dappled sun
15:06through his telescope,
15:07he is suddenly blinded
15:09by an explosion of white light.
15:11He doesn't know it yet,
15:13but he has just become
15:14one of the first people
15:15to witness a coronal mass ejection,
15:18a massive expulsion of plasma
15:20from the outermost part
15:22of the sun's atmosphere.
15:23Those areas can literally
15:25blast out mass,
15:27like literal bits and pieces
15:29of the sun towards 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
15:38of what became known
15:40as the Carrington event.
15:41This event was on the order
15:44of tens of thousands of times
15:46of any aurora
15:48that we've really experienced since.
15:50the Borealis actually extended
15:52into the tropics.
15:54As south as Cuba
15:56and the southern tip of Japan,
15:58people saw these auroras
16:01because of this solar flare.
16:04If suddenly the Aurora Borealis,
16:06which is for the most part
16:08a 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
16:17something supernatural,
16:19something divine.
16:22One of the crazy things
16:23about coronal mass ejections
16:25and particles traveling to Earth
16:27is that they do carry
16:29a charge with them.
16:30And when a charge
16:32passes by anything metallic,
16:34we actually generate electricity.
16:37So you have telegraph poles
16:39sparking, catching fire.
16:41You have operators
16:43experiencing shock.
16:44The disruptions
16:46from the Carrington event
16:47lasted for days,
16:48with telegraph poles
16:49and offices struggling
16:51to repair the widespread
16:52electrical damage.
16:54Long-distance communication
16:55became virtually impossible.
16:58But as destructive
16:59as this remarkable storm was,
17:01a similar event today
17:03would cause
17:03an unprecedented global crisis.
17:06To put into perspective,
17:08if an event like this
17:09was to happen now,
17:10it would cost $2.6 trillion
17:13in the United States alone.
17:15It could literally
17:16wipe out disk drives
17:18on the face of the planet
17:19so nobody has any
17:20magnetic media storage anymore.
17:22It could destroy
17:24entire electrical infrastructure.
17:26It could knock
17:27all the satellites
17:28out of service around Earth.
17:29That would have
17:30massive impacts
17:31on humans
17:32for decades
17:33and potentially
17:34even centuries to come.
17:35The Aurora Borealis
17:38have the potential
17:39to cause serious damage
17:40to any electrical component,
17:42but are considered safe
17:44because of their altitude.
17:46Occurring between
17:4780 and 640 kilometers
17:49above the Earth,
17:50these dazzling displays
17:52are far too high
17:53for conventional aircraft
17:54to reach.
17:55And yet,
17:56the Aurora over Alaska
17:57remain an unlikely hotbed
17:59of unidentified aerial activity.
18:01Wasilla, Alaska.
18:05Less than 50 kilometers
18:06from Anchorage.
18:08In 2013,
18:10a man drives west
18:11along E. Seldon Road.
18:13His son gazes
18:14through the passenger side window,
18:16watching waves of light
18:17dance across the night sky.
18:20They haven't been
18:20this bright in weeks.
18:22The man pulls over.
18:24Then,
18:24he sees something strange.
18:26Dozens of floating red crafts
18:28emerge from the pink
18:29and green glow.
18:30They group together,
18:33forming an enormous circle.
18:35From the side of the road,
18:36he and his son
18:37can make out
18:38the shapes of the aircraft.
18:39They're triangular,
18:41moving slowly eastward
18:42as a pack.
18:43If aircraft or lights
18:45or something
18:46is seen emerging
18:47from the Aurora Borealis,
18:49we know that
18:49it's not a human artifact.
18:51Human aircraft
18:52do not fly at that height
18:54and cannot fly at that height.
18:56More cars are stopping now.
18:58As drivers gather
18:59by the side of the road,
19:00they begin to ask
19:02one another questions.
19:03What is this bizarre
19:04fleet of aircraft?
19:06Where did they come from?
19:07And could they have
19:08anything to do
19:09with the Aurora Borealis above?
19:11One of the stranger things
19:13about the Aurora Borealis
19:14is that it has been connected
19:15to the UFO phenomenon
19:16in the past.
19:17People have reported
19:18sightings of UFOs
19:20in and around the Aurora
19:21coming out of it.
19:23What kind of relationship
19:24is there between
19:25the Aurora
19:26and the UFO phenomenon?
19:28Some UFO enthusiasts
19:30question whether or not
19:32the Aurora
19:33creates energy,
19:34as it were,
19:35for alien craft
19:36or whether it guides them in.
19:39It's like the lights
19:40on a runway.
19:42Auroras as well
19:43aren't something
19:43that just happen on Earth.
19:45Auroras can be seen
19:46throughout our solar system.
19:48The gas giants,
19:50Jupiter,
19:51Saturn,
19:51and Neptune,
19:52all have strong
19:53magnetic fields
19:54and dense atmospheres
19:56producing their own
19:57Aurora formations.
19:59Planets beyond
20:00our solar system
20:01may host
20:01even more remarkable
20:03phenomena
20:03as a result
20:04of the interplay
20:05between their atmosphere
20:06and that of the nearest star,
20:09though these are
20:09too dim for us to see.
20:11The Aurora
20:12appear 64 to 305
20:14kilometers above
20:15the Earth's surface,
20:17where our atmosphere
20:18meets outer space.
20:19This zone
20:20is called the ionosphere.
20:23The ionosphere
20:24is a layer
20:25of Earth's atmosphere
20:25that is composed
20:26primarily of
20:27charged particles
20:28called ions,
20:29and it exists
20:30between 50 to 600 miles
20:33above the Earth's surface.
20:34It's particularly
20:35interesting in the context
20:36of long-distance
20:38radio communication
20:39because it allows
20:41radio signals
20:42that are sent off
20:43from the surface
20:43to kind of bounce back down
20:45and travel around
20:46to other points
20:46on the surface.
20:48This region
20:49is notoriously
20:50difficult to study.
20:52The atmosphere
20:52is too thin
20:53for weather balloons
20:54to reach it,
20:55but too thick
20:56for satellites
20:57to orbit through it.
20:58In 1993,
21:00the United States military
21:02sets its sights
21:02on a new project,
21:04one that will probe
21:05further and deeper
21:06into the mysteries
21:07of the ionosphere
21:08than ever before.
21:09The barren stretches
21:13surrounding Gakona, Alaska
21:15become a hub
21:16of strange activity.
21:18Rows of antenna
21:19rise out of the forest,
21:21reaching up towards
21:21the sky above.
21:23This remote installation
21:24is called HAARP,
21:26Alaska's high-frequency
21:27active auroral research program.
21:30HAARP is like
21:32an enormous car park
21:34in the middle
21:35of a beautiful landscape
21:36with loads
21:37of radio antenna
21:39in rows along it.
21:41This towering arrangement
21:43makes up HAARP's
21:44ionospheric research instrument.
21:47This high-power,
21:48high-frequency transmitter
21:49emits strong radio signals
21:51to temporarily agitate
21:53parts of the ionosphere.
21:55The resulting effects
21:56allow researchers
21:58a small yet unprecedented window
22:00into ionospheric properties.
22:03How charged particles
22:04interact with our atmosphere,
22:07how they interact
22:08with the magnetosphere
22:10of the planet,
22:10how that protects us
22:12from 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
22:19of a magnetosphere,
22:20and literally,
22:22the atmosphere was blown away
22:24by the solar winds.
22:26Aside from its primary
22:27research function,
22:28HAARP has sparked controversy
22:30across the world.
22:32Anytime we have a piece
22:33of technology
22:34that is sending signals
22:35outward beyond our Earth,
22:38there is a potential
22:39connection to be made
22:40by those who are really
22:41interested in UFOs
22:43that perhaps there is
22:44an alien race
22:45picking up those signals.
22:47There is an element
22:48of fear among some people
22:50who believe that
22:51trying to reveal
22:52our location
22:53to extraterrestrial intelligence
22:55is not the smartest
22:56thing to do
22:57because we do not know
22:59anything about
22:59the motivations
23:00of this extraterrestrial
23:02intelligence
23:02if it exists.
23:03It's almost like
23:05leaving our home address
23:06on the Internet.
23:08On the other hand,
23:09there are the optimists
23:11who believe
23:11that it's very important
23:13that we reach out
23:14and try to communicate
23:15with this extraterrestrial
23:16intelligence,
23:17and they think
23:18that the assumption
23:19that these beings
23:20will be malicious
23:22or harmful to human beings
23:24is an unfair assumption.
23:26As theories continue
23:28to circulate
23:29about how life
23:30on other planets
23:30might appear,
23:32some astronomers
23:33are keen to prepare
23:34for the most advanced possibilities.
23:37Dr. Douglas Vakoch
23:39is the president
23:39of the Messaging
23:40Extraterrestrial Intelligence Program
23:43or METI
23:44in California.
23:45He has long defended
23:47the practice
23:47of sending messages
23:48into outer space
23:50in an effort
23:50to explore
23:51an unusual idea
23:52known as
23:53the zoo hypothesis.
23:55According to
23:57what's termed
23:57the zoo hypothesis,
24:00we are essentially
24:01an animal
24:02in a cage
24:03as far as
24:04passing UFOs
24:07are concerned,
24:07and they're not
24:08really interested
24:09unless the animal
24:10in the cage
24:11does something
24:12interesting.
24:13I mean,
24:14if you were in a zoo
24:15and you walk past
24:16the elephant enclosure,
24:17you might just think,
24:18oh, another elephant.
24:20But what if the elephant
24:21suddenly said,
24:22you know,
24:22I really like reading
24:23Aristotle?
24:25Then you go,
24:25okay,
24:26I need to take
24:27a closer look here.
24:28Now, one theory runs
24:29that the activity
24:31from HAARP
24:32is something
24:33that might fascinate
24:34passing UFOs,
24:36that they see
24:37this interaction
24:39with the ionosphere
24:40and they wonder
24:41what's going on.
24:42So they zoom in
24:43to take a closer look,
24:45and that is what
24:47makes Alaska
24:48a UFO hotspot.
24:50The strange occurrences
24:56around the HAARP
24:57installation
24:58may be in part
24:59due to its location
25:01right at the heart
25:02of one of Alaska's
25:03most treacherous regions.
25:06Most people have heard
25:07of the infamous
25:08Bermuda Triangle,
25:09but not as many people
25:10know about
25:11the Alaska Triangle.
25:13The state of Alaska
25:14is vast,
25:16measuring more than
25:171.5 million square kilometers
25:19in total area.
25:21It is by far
25:22the largest state
25:23in the United States,
25:24and yet,
25:25of its 365 million acres
25:28of land,
25:29only 160,000 acres
25:31are inhabited
25:32by humans,
25:33less than 1 20th
25:35of 1% of the state.
25:37In any given year,
25:38between 500
25:39and 2,000 people
25:41vanish in Alaska,
25:42twice the national average.
25:44You're sitting right
25:46near the Bering Strait,
25:47which has some
25:48of the worst storms
25:48in the world
25:49that easily get on land there.
25:51All the various creatures
25:53that would love
25:54to eat you,
25:55that part of the world
25:56is just super dangerous.
25:59Like,
25:59you can't just walk
26:00into the Alaska wilderness
26:02and expect to do it
26:03on your own.
26:03You are not going
26:04to survive.
26:06In 2007 alone,
26:082,833 people
26:11disappeared.
26:12Many of these
26:13missing persons
26:14are never found,
26:15lost forever
26:16to the unforgiving
26:17Alaskan landscape.
26:19The rate of disappearance
26:21in Alaska
26:22is simply jaw-dropping.
26:24One has to wonder,
26:25is there something else
26:27which is stalking people
26:28in Alaska?
26:30Alaska
26:30and any parts
26:32of 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,
26:43that 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
26:54and that body
26:54gets scattered
26:55everywhere very quickly.
26:57In a state notorious
26:59for the rate
27:00of its mysterious
27:00disappearances,
27:02no place is more infamous
27:04than the Alaska Triangle.
27:05People 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.
27:19Anchorage,
27:20Juneau,
27:20and Utqiagvik
27:21form the three points
27:23of the Alaska Triangle,
27:24an enormous area
27:26stretching from
27:26the state's
27:27southernmost coast
27:28to its northernmost point,
27:30just 1,300 kilometers
27:32from the North Pole.
27:33This massive area
27:35is defined by
27:37some of the most
27:37treacherous wilderness
27:39in the world,
27:40ranging from
27:40craggy mountain peaks
27:42to snow-filled crevices
27:43deep enough
27:44to swallow
27:45unlucky travelers.
27:48October 16th, 1972.
27:51A small airplane
27:52carrying House Majority Leader
27:54Hale Boggs
27:55and Representative
27:56Nick Begich
27:57seemingly vanishes
27:58into thin air
27:59over Alaska.
28:01The two politicians
28:02and their aide
28:03board the light aircraft
28:05in 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,
28:21really,
28:22nothing should have
28:23gone 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
28:45covers 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,
30:18the plane vanishes
30:19from 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
30:42like dying 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
31:57having 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
32:09you get to the magnetic pole,
32:11the further off
32:12true north
32:13is 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,
32:26you can have
32:26a big deviation.
32:27And that will make
32:29things seem 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.
32:46The other thing
32:46that happens is
32:47if it is actually
32:48covered in 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 scientists
33:01and laypeople alike.
33:03But research has yet
33:04to confirm
33:04whether they could exist
33:05or not,
33:07prompting some
33:07to contemplate
33:08even stranger possibilities.
33:11Some also believe
33:12that these vortexes
33:13are portals
33:14to other dimensions.
33:16Let's just say
33:17that an alien base
33:19is being built
33:21somewhere in 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,
33:44there is this crescent
33:45of huge snow-capped mountains,
33:49the Alaska Range.
33:51And this crescent
33:52extends for about 600 miles
33:55of these jagged
33:56and truly monumental mountains.
33:59The highest peak
34:01in the eastern Alaska range
34:03is the magnificent
34:04Mount Haze.
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
34:31that Soviet scientists
34:33were training people
34:35to kind of
34:37psychically project
34:39themselves
34:39over large distances.
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.
35:21One of these star performers
35:23is former Burbank
35:24police officer
35:25Pat Price.
35:27In 1974,
35:29Price is brought
35:30into the research center
35:31to test his remote
35:32viewing capabilities.
35:34During this test,
35:35Price was secluded,
35:38placed in a room
35:39with no contact
35:41with others,
35:42and he was asked
35:43to make psychic contact,
35:45as it were,
35:45with a location
35:46where a field agent
35:48was based,
35:49where there were
35:50two pools,
35:51and he described
35:52these with
35:53pinpoint accuracy,
35:55so it seemed,
35:57except he let himself
35:59down on one detail.
36:00He mentioned
36:01a water filtration system
36:03that wasn't there.
36:05But then,
36:05interestingly,
36:06years later,
36:07the analysts
36:07come across
36:08a historical image
36:10of the site,
36:11and lo and behold,
36:12they see the water tanks
36:14that Price was describing.
36:16This is far
36:17from Price's
36:18most dramatic vision.
36:20His remote viewing
36:21capabilities
36:21apparently enabled him
36:23to access
36:23one of America's
36:25most closely guarded
36:26secret programs,
36:27its extraterrestrial
36:28monitoring unit.
36:31One morning,
36:32in 1973,
36:34Price enters
36:35the offices
36:35of Hal Puthoff,
36:37one of the program directors,
36:38and drops a file
36:39on his desk.
36:41He simply says,
36:42you might be interested
36:43in these UFO bases.
36:46In a secret program
36:47that is already
36:48amongst the most bizarre
36:49that the American government
36:51has ever engaged in,
36:52this only really ramps up
36:54the stakes.
36:54This gets very,
36:55very strange.
36:57Price's accounts
36:58describe several alleged
36:59extraterrestrial bases
37:01scattered across
37:02every 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
37:16to it,
37:17and it has antennas
37:18reaching right
37:19to the top
37:19of 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.
37:36While no proof
37:37of an extraterrestrial base
37:39has ever been discovered
37:40on Mount Hayes,
37:41the legacy
37:42of the United 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
38:00that sparked interest
38:01in a new location
38:02in Alaska.
38:03Denali 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
38:28Denali.
38:28On May 27, 2020,
38:3341-year-old Nathan Campbell
38:35waves goodbye
38:36to the small charter 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 towering
38:45sharp alder 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.
38:56Campbell takes stock
38:59of his supplies.
39:01Basic 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 be seen again.
39:20The pyramid holds
39:22a really interesting place
39:24in UFO lore,
39:26but also conspiracy theory
39:27more generally.
39:29A lot of theorists
39:29have claimed that
39:31pyramid structures
39:32and shapes provide
39:33healing powers,
39:35for instance,
39:36or that they are
39:37repositories or sources
39:39of really otherworldly power.
39:42The story of 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,
39:52China 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.
40:07Shortly 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
41:07seeing maps
41:09of the area
41:10where parts of the map
41:12had been mysteriously
41:14whited out.
41:16So when he sees
41:17the news report,
41:19he begins to wonder
41:20whether or not
41:21the U.S. government
41:23has 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.
41:35A 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.
41:51Two men suddenly appear
41:52and pull the files
41:54away from him
41:55and tell him
41:55that he has no 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
42:12the theory
42:12that there is
42:13a Black Pyramid
42:14under the mountain,
42:15it's a very short leap
42:17given the nature of that,
42:18given the nature
42:19of the kind of cover-up
42:20that would be required
42:20for that
42:21to jump to UFO activity.
42:24Is it something
42:25that could be
42:25an 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.
42:48One 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
42:57inconvenient truths.
42:59The Manhattan Project
43:00was a huge project
43:02that was entirely secret
43:03and there are
43:04much more nefarious
43:05things they've done
43:06such as the
43:06MKUltra program.
43:08The veil of secrecy
43:09surrounding the
43:10alleged Black Pyramid
43:12continues to frustrate
43:13paranormal and
43:14extraterrestrial researchers
43:16to this day.
43:17But as the demand
43:19for information
43:19about unidentified
43:20objects increases,
43:22new protocols
43:23may finally shed light
43:25on these enduring
43:26mysteries.
43:27There seems to be
43:27some kind of shift
43:28happening,
43:28a sea change perhaps
43:30in the way that
43:31UFOs are handled
43:32or understood
43:32or at least
43:33the receptiveness to it
43:35given that
43:35as recently as 2023
43:37the Pentagon actually
43:39put out a call
43:39to current
43:41and former
43:42employees
43:42who may have
43:44knowledge of
43:45programs that were
43:46associated with
43:47UFOs in some way.
43:48The fact that
43:49congressional committees
43:50are even prepared
43:51to discuss
43:52UFO sightings
43:54suggests that
43:55there's a greater
43:56openness to the
43:57whole 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
44:12misleading the public
44:14in a way in which
44:14the attention
44:15is turned around
44:16from other
44:16geopolitical issues
44:18or it may be
44:20a way to further
44:21obfuscate
44:22the issue of UFOs
44:23so that people
44:24really can't figure
44:25out what's going on.
44:27As a new era
44:28of unidentified
44:29phenomena research
44:31and monitoring
44:31dawns,
44:33the decades
44:33of surreal encounters
44:34in the United
44:35States' last frontier
44:37prompt us to wonder
44:38what if we aren't
44:40just being visited
44:41by extraterrestrials
44:42for the first time
44:43what if
44:44they're already here?
45:12you
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