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00:00Taking a flying disc off 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.
01:05The 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?
01:25June 2nd, 2009.
01:2812.40 AM.
01:30Two brothers step out their front door and take a few cautious steps towards a dark field across the street.
01:38They watch as a fleet of bright floating orbs drift across the patchy grassland.
01:47Suddenly, a car rounds the corner at the top of the road, flooding the street with light.
01:52The orbs instantly vanish.
01:56The brothers watch the car pass, stepping closer to the field as the glowing objects return.
02:02The lights move in sweeping, hypnotic circles, never dipping lower than a few feet above the ground.
02:11Then, one light in the center of the field turns a bright green.
02:16It begins to spin, faster and faster.
02:18Just when it seems the object couldn't rotate any quicker, it shoots up towards the sky.
02:27The rest of the mysterious lights follow, vanishing rapidly among the stars.
02:34Plunged into sudden darkness, the youngest boy begins to shake.
02:39His brother comforts him, reassuring him the lights are nothing to be scared of.
02:44This isn't the first time UFOs have been spotted moving across his family's land.
02:55On this night, the strange sightings over Dulce prove harmless.
02:59But could they be linked to a rise in shocking reports that came just several decades earlier?
03:08June 16th, 1976.
03:11Police officer Gabe Valdez arrives at a ranch on the outskirts of town.
03:18The ranch owner, Manuel Gomez, has called to report a strange death.
03:24Not a human's, but a cow's.
03:29Officer Valdez carefully approaches the body.
03:33The cow has been torn open.
03:35But these aren't the hungry marks left by a normal predator.
03:38These are precise, almost surgical wounds.
03:44Some of the cow's organs appear to have been removed, and the wounds cauterized, as if by a laser.
03:51A few feet from the cow's body, Officer Valdez notices strange scorch marks on the grass.
03:59Almost as if a three-legged object had stood there, burning the ground beneath it.
04:04Valdez is baffled.
04:07Neither he nor Manuel Gomez have ever seen anything like this.
04:12But this grisly scene on the Gomez ranch will be the first of many.
04:17Over the next few months, Officer Valdez will personally investigate more than 30 cattle mutilations in this small corner of New Mexico.
04:26And each scene will be stranger than the last.
04:30What Officer Valdez describes is an absolutely bizarre scene.
04:37So we have the dead cattle, but around them are all sorts of detritus, like gas masks, glow sticks, and other bits and pieces that are largely inexplicable.
04:50One of the things that Valdez found right within one of the mutilated cattle was a fetus, unidentified.
04:58He would assume that it would be a cow fetus, but he said it actually had a mix of features that he identified with a monkey, even, or frog-like, reptilian-like.
05:09Something clearly that he'd never seen before, that we don't know to exist.
05:15And then, of course, the strangest thing of all was that it seemed to have no bones left.
05:19There was no skeletal structure left in it.
05:21It was actually just filled with liquid.
05:25The story defies credulity.
05:28I mean, you can't even picture the scene.
05:30It's just so grim to imagine what or who could have done this.
05:35Unexplained livestock mutilations have plagued farmers around the world for centuries.
05:44In 1606, hundreds of sheep were found dead in the area surrounding London, England.
05:51Each of the animals was left with their wool intact and only their internal organs missing.
05:57These mutilations continued throughout the 18th and 19th centuries across Europe and North America,
06:03leaving experts and farmers struggling to find an explanation.
06:09These unexplained animal deaths remain a relatively small story, largely ignored until the 1970s,
06:16when a wave of bizarre cattle mutilations gripped the United States.
06:20The cattle mutilation is a very disturbing phenomenon.
06:27This involves cattle or horses being surgically operated on amputations,
06:35removal of blood, things like that.
06:38All of these activities would normally leave a trail of evidence.
06:43But apparently, these particular mutilations, there was no such trail of evidence.
06:48So it seems as if someone with a very malicious purpose and very advanced technology
06:56was manipulating these creatures and killing them.
07:01Accounts of these mysterious mutilations spread over Minnesota, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico.
07:11One of the figures given at the time was of 10,000 cattle being mutilated and killed.
07:20Now, it has to be said, that figure is pretty unreliable.
07:25It's hard to find a verifiable source for it.
07:28But nevertheless, it whipped up a national frenzy.
07:32Cattle ranchers as well, they often reported unidentified helicopters or planes
07:39that were hanging around their ranches, and in some cases, even as extreme as chasing them
07:45and even firing at them.
07:46As outrage in the area grew, residents were left with two crucial questions.
08:00Why were these bizarre animal mutilations happening?
08:05And who could be behind them?
08:07This was a time of economic chaos in the 1970s, when inflation was roaring upwards,
08:17when beef prices were being capped.
08:19Smaller ranchers, in particular, were basically facing going bankrupt.
08:25And in this atmosphere of panic and gloom,
08:29people almost convinced themselves that their cattle had been mutilated.
08:33One of the things that happens is insomnia,
08:38is the inability to sleep well across nights.
08:41And we know that when you're having disrupted sleep over a long period of time,
08:47it does cause changes in the brain.
08:49Without enough REM sleep, you can think you're sleeping every night,
08:52but if those disruptions keep you from getting through REM states
08:56through the three to five cycles a night that you actually get through the full set of REM sleep,
09:01it can lead to hallucinations.
09:06After months of investigations,
09:08the apparent epidemic of cattle mutilations was simply attributed to natural predators.
09:15But ranchers in New Mexico refused to accept it.
09:19You have, on the one hand, local ranchers who know their animals well,
09:24who have been in the area for generations,
09:27and generally have a very good knowledge of the kinds of activities that take place on their property,
09:32and they're saying that this is not matching what they've seen in the past.
09:35This is inexplicable to them.
09:37And then on the other hand, you have experts who are often not in the rural areas,
09:44who are usually in urban centers, scientists, government officials,
09:48who say quite a different narrative that actually this is really natural,
09:53there's nothing weird going on here.
09:55It's a combination of bacteria causing natural death,
09:59scavengers doing the things the scavengers do,
10:02going for a soft tissue first,
10:04and then maybe the environment causing effects to the corpses
10:08that you maybe wouldn't see in other places.
10:10And all this together creates quite a natural phenomenon that's easily explainable.
10:15If we think about how bacteria behave in the whole process of decomposition,
10:22the way that bacteria goes for softer tissue,
10:25and in a sense, if you want, hollows out a dead cow going for the organs first,
10:31this might explain why some people on coming across these dead cows
10:37came to believe that they'd somehow been ritually disemboweled and mutilated.
10:42In April, 1979, New Mexico Senator Harrison Schmidt
10:57announces a public hearing to discuss the ongoing spate of cattle mutilations in the state.
11:04One of the 80 attendees at this gathering is local Dulce resident Paul Benowitz.
11:09Though he didn't know it at the time,
11:13Benowitz would soon find himself at the center of a truly terrifying conspiracy.
11:19Benowitz was a World War II veteran,
11:22and he became an engineer, a radio and electronics engineer,
11:25which is also oddly common for those interested in UFOs.
11:30They're very interested in the nuts and bolts of how UFOs work.
11:33Using his own camera and radio equipment,
11:37Paul Benowitz embarked on a mission to track down any suspicious UFO activity in the Dulce area.
11:46And it didn't take long for him to find it.
11:48He took out radio and electronics equipment to try to gather signals of various kinds.
11:57And he was assuming, I think, that he was going to find this information coming from the skies,
12:02given what they knew about UFOs at the time.
12:06But to his surprise, it all seemed to be coming from underground.
12:09The interesting thing about radio waves is objects tend to be less opaque to radio waves.
12:20So where light won't go through a wall, to a certain extent, radio waves will go through the wall.
12:26Having said that, radio waves are still attenuated or decreased in intensity
12:32when they do go through solid objects.
12:35So radio waves don't travel through rock and concrete and glass and water particularly well.
12:42So when somebody thinks they found a radio signal coming from underground,
12:47it would be considered very strange.
12:50In October 1980, Benowitz reports his findings to officials at Kirtland Air Force Base,
12:58200 kilometers south of Dulce, on the outskirts of Albuquerque.
13:02Following his report, the United States Office of Special Investigations
13:09sends Special Agent Richard Doty to meet with Benowitz.
13:13Doty starts giving Benowitz information that confirms a lot of what Benowitz is starting to conclude,
13:22that based on his work, there's some kind of top-secret underground base
13:26connected to UFOs, possibly connected to catamulations in some way.
13:30What Doty tells Benowitz convinces him not only that there is an underground alien base
13:39at Dulce, New Mexico, but that it's part of a network of alien bases all around the world.
13:48In 1988, Benowitz publishes his findings in a paper called Project Beta.
13:54In it, he lays out the approximate size and location of the supposed Dulce UFO base,
14:02as well as any blind spots that could make the installation susceptible to an attack.
14:08But following publication of the report, Benowitz's life begins to unravel.
14:14The information that Doty is giving to Benowitz really convinces him, along with his own continuing investigations,
14:22that this phenomenon is totally real, that there is something top-secret and quite nefarious going on,
14:29and it really starts to affect his life.
14:31He believes that his wife has an alien implant of some description.
14:37He barricades himself in his own room and eventually, exasperated,
14:43his family has him committed to a mental institution for a while.
14:48Benowitz never really fully recovers from this experience,
14:51and a few years later, he dies, and it's possible that the cause of death was suicide.
14:59Even to keen UFO watchers,
15:02Paul Benowitz's claims of an underground alien base seemed far-fetched.
15:08That is, until 2013,
15:11when Richard Doty comes forward with a startling revelation
15:14that helps to explain why Benowitz was so convinced of alien involvement in the region.
15:19If Benowitz detected some nefarious activity in catamulations in his thoughts about top-secret bases,
15:28in a sense, he was absolutely correct.
15:31Because it comes out later that the intelligence official that he meets,
15:37that he's interacting with, Richard Doty,
15:39allegedly was assigned to misdirect Benowitz directly,
15:44that this was his mission,
15:45was to feed Benowitz and the larger UFO community by extension
15:49misinformation or disinformation,
15:52very specifically targeted to put people off the track.
15:58But if Doty was deployed to misdirect Benowitz
16:01and steer him away from the real reasons
16:03for the strange apparitions and cattle mutilations in the area,
16:07the question is, why?
16:09What is it the United States authorities were trying to hide?
16:30If I was going to shoot a movie on another planet,
16:33I would probably go shoot it in New Mexico
16:34because it has what looks like a pretty alien landscape.
16:39The vegetation, the mountain ranges,
16:41the colors that you see there,
16:43the rock formations,
16:44these are pretty unique.
16:46You don't see these elsewhere.
16:49New Mexico's striking landscape
16:51is due in large part to the process of erosion.
16:54Over millions of years,
16:57exposure to wind and rain
16:59have gradually carved through the rocks and desert sands,
17:03molding the land into spectacular natural formations.
17:07It's like airborne sandpaper running across the geography
17:13and it wears away the rocks,
17:17the softer rocks,
17:18until you're just left with a core of harder rock
17:22that looks like a pillar,
17:25and they're called buttes.
17:28One of the most striking collections of buttes
17:31appears around 150 kilometers from Dulce
17:34in the Bistie Denizen Badlands.
17:37They don't look like natural formations to most people.
17:40They look possibly intentionally done.
17:43And so New Mexico is a great place
17:45for UFO stories, frankly.
17:48The Bistie Denizen Wilderness,
17:51like much of northwestern New Mexico,
17:53lies on the very edge of the Colorado Plateau.
17:57It's the largest plateau in the United States.
18:02The Colorado Plateau is an area of land,
18:06240,000 square miles,
18:09and it is simply an area of land
18:14that's higher than the land around it.
18:17But towards the edges of the plateau,
18:20the rocks begin to slant downwards.
18:23And one of these depressions is the San Juan Basin,
18:27home to some of New Mexico's
18:29most fascinating archaeological sites.
18:31Millions of years ago,
18:36this basin was covered by an inland sea
18:39which divided the North American continent.
18:42As the sea gradually receded,
18:44the area was transformed into wetlands.
18:48During this period,
18:49ancient species like dinosaurs and reptiles
18:52thrived here.
18:53Here, encased in layers of rock,
18:59are some of the world's richest fossil beds,
19:02sites that could hold the key
19:04to Earth's ancient past.
19:07The most dramatic fossil recorded
19:10in this region to date
19:11has been affectionately called
19:13the Bistie Beast,
19:15a 75-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex
19:19discovered in the late 1990s.
19:22The preservation of ancient animals
19:26is extraordinarily rare.
19:29Even though we think of fossils
19:31as something that we find everywhere,
19:33there are probably millions of species
19:36that we will never know anything about
19:39because those bodies didn't preserve very well
19:42or the exact geological situation
19:45wasn't perfect to preserve those bodies.
19:48and the snapshots that we do have,
19:53we are so lucky to have,
19:55to understand the changes
19:57that life on Earth
19:59and our Earth itself has gone through.
20:03A few miles west of the Bistie Badlands
20:06lies another crucial archaeological site.
20:09Goat Hill is the imposing rock formation
20:12overlooking the small city of Raton.
20:15And it was here
20:16that American scientists
20:17Lewis and Walter Alvarez
20:19discovered a thin layer
20:21of iridium-rich rock
20:22that would spark a revolutionary idea.
20:26And knowing that iridium is found
20:28in things like meteorites
20:30that fall to Earth,
20:31they were able to connect
20:32these ideas together
20:33and develop a theory
20:34that potentially was a giant impact
20:37that deposited this layer of iridium
20:38that also may have caused
20:40the destruction of the dinosaurs.
20:42Because iridium is found
20:44not as abundantly on Earth
20:47as it is in, say,
20:49bodies like meteors or asteroids,
20:51we can extrapolate
20:52that that was most likely
20:54an impact from a very large celestial body.
21:00The remarkable discoveries
21:02made in these New Mexican deserts
21:04have made the region
21:05a hotbed of scientific exploration.
21:07To this day,
21:10researchers continue to map
21:11the Earth's history
21:12through the layers
21:13of ancient exposed rock
21:14in the San Juan Basin.
21:16The question is,
21:18are we the only ones
21:19doing the mapping?
21:23June 1st, 1997, 11 p.m.
21:27A man raises his binoculars
21:29for some routine stargazing
21:31a few miles south of Raton.
21:33He spots what he believes
21:34to be a satellite,
21:36tracking its movements
21:37through the night sky.
21:38But he realizes
21:39the object is far too fast
21:42to be a satellite.
21:43He watches as two other
21:45strange crafts join the first,
21:47accelerating into a triangle formation
21:49before vanishing over the horizon.
21:54September 21st, 2007,
21:5710.35 a.m.
21:59A family traveling north
22:01through the Bistie Badlands
22:03notices a strange white cigar-shaped craft
22:06hovering only 100 meters from the road.
22:09As they watch,
22:10the object suddenly rockets upwards,
22:13disappearing into the sky without a trace.
22:16Whether it's human beings
22:18or an advanced civilization
22:19who wants to understand the Earth's past,
22:22who wants to understand the Earth's story
22:24and possibly its future,
22:26need to do research
22:28in places like the Badlands.
22:31Residents in the small town of Dulce
22:33wonder whether the answers
22:35to these mysterious phenomena
22:37could lie in a far more modern structure
22:40buried deep in the ancient desert rock.
22:42So, during the Cold War,
22:47especially post-Hiroshima,
22:49we changed our perspective
22:50on what a military base needs to be.
22:54We realized that in a nuclear war,
22:57essentially, life at ground level
22:59would cease to exist
23:00if it was a significant war.
23:03So, nations around the world
23:04built underground military bases
23:07and bunkers.
23:07They wouldn't be directly affected
23:09by a nuclear blast
23:11if you tried to bomb them
23:12directly, they're deep enough
23:14that they're not going to be
23:15significantly affected
23:16and that you would have enough
23:18food and water
23:19to sustain the people there,
23:22at least through the initial portion
23:23of the nuclear winter.
23:25If you want to hide military secrets
23:28or other things,
23:29you would build an underground base
23:31so that people can't spy on you,
23:33they can't see what you're doing,
23:35satellites can't really see
23:36what's going on.
23:42In July 1979,
23:49explosives engineer Phil Schneider
23:51arrives at a top-secret military installation
23:54in the New Mexico desert.
23:56He's been brought here
23:58to help build a new military facility,
24:00an enormous seven-story complex
24:03housed entirely underground.
24:05As soon as he arrives,
24:10Schneider is struck
24:11by the unusually large number
24:13of U.S. special forces
24:14guarding the camp.
24:16He guides his team
24:17to begin drilling holes
24:19deep into the sandy earth.
24:21But what emerges
24:22isn't the typical rock dust
24:24Schneider and his team
24:25are expecting.
24:27Instead,
24:29he claims he came face-to-face
24:31with visitors from outer space.
24:33When Schneider goes underground
24:36to investigate,
24:39he comes across
24:41a group of aliens,
24:44which he said
24:45were something like
24:46seven foot tall,
24:48gray-skinned,
24:49and the thing that really struck him
24:51was the pungent odor
24:53that they were admitting.
24:55It's a bit unclear why,
24:56but he felt the need
24:57to immediately pull out his gun
24:58and start blasting away.
25:00And so he says
25:01that he potentially shot
25:02and killed a couple of them
25:05before one of them
25:07made almost like
25:08a dismissive flick
25:09of their hand
25:10and sent some kind of
25:11shockwave energy
25:12towards Schneider.
25:14And this resulted in him
25:16losing several fingers
25:18off of his hand
25:19and presumably meant
25:21his almost certain death,
25:23except that luckily for him,
25:26one of the green berets
25:27that he said
25:27was stationed around
25:28came to his rescue
25:30and heroically sacrificed himself,
25:33pushing Schneider
25:34into an elevator
25:35that sent him back
25:36to the surface.
25:39For a decade after
25:40his alleged encounter
25:41with the mysterious
25:42gray aliens,
25:44Schneider claimed
25:45that the Dulce base
25:46remained a hotbed
25:47of UFO activity,
25:49a holding center
25:50for extraterrestrial visitors
25:52and their highly advanced technology.
25:55And according to Schneider,
25:56this was only the tip
25:58of the iceberg.
26:02It launches a career
26:03of sorts for Schneider.
26:05He very quickly becomes
26:06a coveted speaker
26:07on the UFO circuit,
26:09giving accounts
26:10of this encounter
26:11and has also happened
26:13with previous UFO stories.
26:15It starts to add more details,
26:17maybe embellishes it
26:19a little bit,
26:19depending who you ask.
26:21And so no longer
26:22is it just this one battle.
26:24He starts to tell tales
26:26that the U.S. government
26:27is doing some
26:28quite nefarious stuff
26:29to do with
26:30alien-human hybrids,
26:32that they are actively,
26:33presumably capturing
26:34people, citizens,
26:36and taking them underground
26:37and subjecting them
26:40to experiments
26:41and hybridization,
26:43and that the U.S. government
26:44is actively covering
26:45all this up.
26:47He goes on to assert
26:48that there are
26:49hundreds of these bases
26:52across the United States
26:54funded by the American government.
26:57He estimates
26:58that each of these bases
26:59cost about $17 billion
27:03funded out of the U.S. government's
27:06black budget,
27:07as he calls it.
27:12Schneider's claims
27:13send shockwaves
27:14through the UFO
27:15investigative community.
27:16Even for committed
27:18UFOlogists,
27:20the story,
27:21much like Paul Benowitz's claims,
27:23is hard to believe.
27:26Conspiracy theorists
27:27like to think
27:28there's something
27:28nefarious going on
27:30and that it needs
27:31to be hidden
27:32from the public eye.
27:34The best way
27:35to hide things
27:36from the public eye
27:37is to make them invisible.
27:39And really,
27:40the only reasonable way
27:41to do that on Earth
27:42is to put them underground.
27:44For months,
27:48Schneider had allegedly
27:49warned his family
27:50that his story
27:51may endanger his life.
27:53Then,
27:54in 1996,
27:56Schneider is found dead
27:57in his home.
27:58The cause of death,
28:00as with Paul Benowitz,
28:01is likely suicide.
28:03The interesting thing
28:05is that before his death,
28:07Schneider said to his wife
28:08that if I end up dead
28:10and it appears
28:11to be a suicide,
28:12it's not.
28:13It's not as it seems.
28:15And so,
28:16that will immediately fuel
28:17all kinds of speculation.
28:19If you belong
28:20to the community
28:21which thinks
28:22that there is indeed
28:23some kind of
28:24human-alien-type base
28:27in Dulce, New Mexico,
28:30then you're going to think
28:31that now measures
28:32are being taken
28:33to eradicate
28:34everyone
28:36who knows about this.
28:37In the decades
28:39since the deaths
28:40of Paul Benowitz
28:41and Phil Schneider,
28:42theories about a possible
28:44underground military base
28:45containing UFO technology
28:47have continued
28:48to circulate.
28:52December 13, 2004.
28:56A local hiker
28:57clicks through the photographs
28:58of her trip
28:59to the Archuleta Mesa.
29:00Squinting at her
29:04small digital camera,
29:05she can see
29:06a strange object
29:07clearly outlined
29:09against the blue sky.
29:10For years,
29:12the hiker has heard
29:13rumors of the UFOs
29:14over Dulce.
29:16Now,
29:16she believes
29:17she has photographic evidence.
29:19November 21, 2018.
29:25A local woman
29:26spots a strangely bright star
29:28in the night sky.
29:30As she watches,
29:32the star seems to grow,
29:34swelling and changing colors
29:36as it begins to move,
29:38surveilling the area
29:39in giant loops
29:40before finally
29:41disappearing from view.
29:45To this day,
29:47local residents
29:48are left wondering
29:49whether there could be
29:50any truth
29:50to the rumors
29:51of a secret
29:52Dulce subterranean base.
29:54In terms of
29:55underground government activity,
29:58actually,
29:58during the
29:59President Eisenhower years
30:01at the height
30:02of the Cold War,
30:03the government
30:04had what was called
30:06a continuity
30:07of government program
30:08where bunkers
30:10and tunnels
30:10were created
30:11so that senior
30:13government officials,
30:14civil servants,
30:15and so on,
30:16will be able to
30:17basically,
30:18literally,
30:19go underground
30:20and continue
30:21the business of government
30:22as a nuclear war
30:24raged overhead.
30:26And so when you take
30:26that into account
30:27that these bunkers
30:28do exist,
30:29they are underground
30:30and some of them
30:31quite extensive,
30:32it lends credence
30:33to the idea that,
30:34well, maybe there are
30:35other bunkers out there
30:36as well
30:36that we simply
30:37don't know about.
30:37It is now public knowledge
30:40that in 1950,
30:42work began
30:43on a deep underground facility
30:45at Raven Rock Mountain
30:46in Pennsylvania.
30:48In just 10 months,
30:50almost 400,000 cubic meters
30:52of granite
30:53are secretly blasted
30:54out of the mountain
30:55to make room
30:56for a new structure
30:57dubbed
30:57the Underground Pentagon.
30:59This network
31:01of three underground buildings
31:03would be able
31:03to house
31:043,000 people,
31:06forming the core
31:07of the U.S. government's
31:08continuity plan
31:09in the event
31:10of a national emergency.
31:13In the late 50s
31:14and early 60s,
31:15two more underground
31:16complexes
31:17are built under
31:18Bear Mountain
31:19in Massachusetts
31:20and Cheyenne Mountain
31:21in Colorado.
31:23Hardened to withstand
31:24a nuclear blast,
31:25these command centers
31:26would be linked
31:27to form the North American
31:28Aerospace Defense Command
31:30or NORAD.
31:32A fourth underground base
31:34is constructed
31:34in 1959
31:35in Blue Ridge, Virginia,
31:38acting as the control center
31:39for the Federal Emergency
31:40Management Agency.
31:42From here,
31:43the United States president
31:44would be able
31:45to access
31:46the nation's
31:47emergency alert system
31:48in the event
31:49of a nuclear attack.
31:51To this day,
31:52the Mountain Weather
31:53Emergency Operations Center
31:54is still a prominent
31:56relocation site
31:57for high-level civilian
31:58and military officials
32:00in the event
32:01of active conflicts
32:02and national emergencies.
32:04I mean,
32:04the very nature
32:05of military work
32:07means that some
32:08of that work
32:08will be secretive.
32:10And to facilitate secrecy,
32:11there are all kinds
32:12of military facilities
32:14built,
32:15and some of them
32:16are underground.
32:17So this leads people
32:19to think that,
32:19well, there may be more
32:20to this story.
32:21If they're not telling us
32:22anything about it,
32:23if they're being
32:24so secretive about it,
32:25there must be something
32:26nefarious going on
32:27over here.
32:29Along with these
32:30elaborate underground
32:31operation centers,
32:33the United States military
32:34also oversees
32:35several subterranean
32:36storage facilities,
32:38each one charged
32:40with housing
32:40some of America's
32:41deadliest weapons.
32:44One of the largest
32:45of these bunkers
32:47is the underground
32:48munitions maintenance
32:49and storage complex
32:50at Kirtland Air Force
32:51Base, New Mexico.
32:52Could this be the source
32:55of the strange phenomena
32:56which have been
32:57so frequently seen
32:58in the area?
33:00I think it can't
33:01be underestimated
33:02how alluring
33:03it might be
33:04for a UFO enthusiast
33:06to pay attention
33:07to the underground
33:08nuclear storage facility
33:10at the Kirtland
33:11Air Force Base.
33:12It alone is
33:13over 50 acres large.
33:15To see a space
33:16like that
33:16and to not really
33:17see anything
33:18given that it's underground
33:19is eerie.
33:20It's unsettling
33:21to know that
33:22that's all under there.
33:29Since the end
33:30of World War II,
33:32UFO researchers
33:33have become
33:33increasingly interested
33:35in an apparent link
33:36between UFO sightings
33:38and nuclear activity.
33:40Something that makes
33:41the link between
33:42nuclear power,
33:44nuclear facilities
33:44in America
33:45and UFOs
33:46potentially a little clearer
33:47is one incident
33:48from 1967
33:49in Montana
33:50when a missile operator
33:53at an Air Force base
33:54that was equipped
33:55with nuclear missiles
33:56started receiving messages
33:58from colleagues
33:59saying that there was
34:00a UFO sighted
34:01above,
34:02around the base itself,
34:04which is cause
34:05for concern,
34:06certainly if you're
34:07in that kind of position.
34:08But then the particularly
34:09strange part
34:10is that very shortly
34:12after possibly seemingly
34:14caused by the UFO,
34:16all of the nuclear missiles
34:17go completely offline.
34:19They deactivate entirely
34:20and nobody at the base
34:21has done this
34:22and there's no explanation
34:23really forthcoming
34:24about how this occurred.
34:28In 1986,
34:31during the Chernobyl
34:33nuclear reactor meltdown,
34:35when there was
34:35some people reported
34:37seeing a UFO
34:39hovering over the facility,
34:42shining a light down on it.
34:45And what's remarkable
34:47about this
34:48is that
34:49there were reports
34:50of a reduction
34:51in ionizing radiation
34:54after the UFO
34:56had appeared.
35:05To this day,
35:06unidentified flying objects
35:08are regularly reported
35:09in the vicinity
35:10of U.S. Army
35:11and Air Force bases.
35:14The very earliest
35:15of these dates back decades
35:17when a group
35:19of highly trained
35:20military officers
35:21witnessed a remarkable sight.
35:26March 22nd, 1950.
35:29Eleven members
35:30of the 4,925th Test Group
35:33gather outside
35:35Kirtland Air Force base,
35:36New Mexico.
35:38They're looking intently
35:39up at the clear morning sky,
35:41tracking a strange object
35:43flying nearly 8,000 meters
35:45above them.
35:46It isn't like
35:47any conventional aircraft.
35:49The men can make out
35:50a disc
35:51or a flying wing
35:52with the tan color
35:55fading out
35:56to a darker brown
35:57along its edges.
35:59The officers watch
36:01as the aircraft
36:02travels steadily northwest
36:03before altering its course
36:05to due north
36:06and accelerating away
36:08with a sudden
36:08burst of energy.
36:15In the days that follow,
36:17all 11 crew members
36:19are interviewed extensively
36:20by military personnel.
36:25Their stories never waver,
36:28leaving their commanders
36:29with a string
36:30of troubling questions.
36:33What was the unidentified craft?
36:37And what was it doing
36:39so close to the Kirtland Air Base?
36:41And Kirtland Air Force base
36:44has a pretty story history
36:47to begin with.
36:49It was one of the main hubs
36:51connecting the nation
36:52with the Manhattan Project,
36:54which was America's crash program
36:56to build the atomic bomb,
36:58one of the most well-known uses
36:59for atomic energy, of course,
37:01and nuclear capability.
37:03And so if UFOs
37:05are interested in this,
37:06the interest may go back
37:07quite a ways,
37:08given that there were
37:09integral components
37:11of both atomic bombs
37:12that were eventually dropped
37:13on Japan
37:14that moved through this space.
37:18In 1954,
37:21nine years after dropping
37:22the first atomic bomb,
37:24the United States
37:25carried out
37:26the most powerful
37:27nuclear detonation
37:28in the nation's history
37:29over the Marshall Islands.
37:32The resulting blast
37:33was more than
37:34a thousand times
37:35more powerful
37:36than the bombs dropped
37:37on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
37:41Within moments,
37:43nuclear fallout began
37:44to rain down
37:45on the surrounding area,
37:47exposing hundreds
37:48of civilians
37:48to one of the most
37:50dangerous forms
37:51of energy on Earth,
37:53ionizing radiation.
37:55When we get
37:55to ionizing radiation,
37:57that radiation
37:58is intense enough
37:59that it causes
38:01chemical changes
38:03within the organic compounds
38:05in our body.
38:05So ionizing radiation
38:07can be x-rays,
38:09gamma rays,
38:10and potentially
38:11nuclear events
38:13that produce neutrons
38:14or other fast-moving particles.
38:16These things
38:17have the potential
38:17to penetrate our body,
38:20do damage,
38:21and potentially
38:22cause cancer.
38:22after the Second World War,
38:26people were
38:27really paranoid
38:29about the fact
38:29that there was going
38:30to be another
38:32major confrontation,
38:33this time
38:34between the United States
38:36and the Soviet Union,
38:37and these powerful weapons,
38:40nuclear weapons,
38:41hydrogen bombs,
38:42this was the weaponry
38:44which these two giants
38:46would use against each other
38:47in the event
38:48of a Third World War.
38:49On the night
38:52of July 8, 1962,
38:54across Hawaii,
38:56groups gathered
38:57to drink,
38:58share food,
38:58and monitor
38:59the night sky.
39:01These happy gatherings
39:03planned for days
39:04are referred to as
39:05Watch the Bomb Parties.
39:08They were there
39:09to witness
39:10the Starfish Prime
39:11High Altitude Experiment,
39:13the largest nuclear test
39:15ever carried out
39:17in outer space.
39:17The Starfish Prime
39:19High Altitude Experiment
39:21involved the detonation
39:23of a 1.4 megaton bomb
39:26about 250 miles
39:27above the Earth's surface.
39:29So in this case,
39:30what we saw
39:31was a very vivid
39:32light display
39:33in the sky.
39:34It was very brilliant,
39:35and then it dissipated.
39:36And this is different
39:37from what we see
39:38in terms of nuclear
39:39detonations on Earth
39:40because on Earth,
39:42there's material
39:43to be kicked up.
39:44And so on Earth,
39:45we see something
39:45that's more like
39:46the typical mushroom cloud
39:48that we've seen
39:49in videos from the past.
39:53In 1962 alone,
39:55the United States
39:56and the Soviet Union
39:58would detonate
39:58a further six
39:59high-altitude nuclear explosions,
40:02releasing massive amounts
40:04of nuclear radiation
40:05into outer space.
40:07Only 30 years later
40:09would the seismic effect
40:11of these detonations
40:12become clear.
40:15In 1993,
40:16United Nations scientists
40:18made the rather depressing
40:20announcement
40:21that as a result
40:23of nuclear atmospheric testing,
40:27the world's population
40:28had been exposed
40:29to 50 times more radiation
40:32than resulted
40:33from the Chernobyl disaster.
40:35This era
40:39of fierce
40:40and highly destructive
40:41competition
40:41has led some
40:43to wonder
40:43whether the potential
40:44for a global catastrophe
40:46may have alerted
40:47another
40:48as yet unknown
40:49civilization.
40:52If human beings
40:53start playing around
40:54with nuclear weapons,
40:55it's not unlikely
40:56that an advanced
40:58extraterrestrial species
41:00begins to pay attention
41:02to what's going on
41:03on planet Earth.
41:05After more than a decade
41:07of nuclear detonations
41:09and growing concern
41:10over their long-term effects,
41:12the United States
41:13and the Soviet Union
41:15grudgingly agree
41:16to end their testing programs.
41:18In 1992,
41:20work starts
41:21on the 56-acre
41:22underground munitions complex
41:24at the Kirtland Air Force Base.
41:26This warehouse
41:27holds the majority
41:30of the U.S.'s nuclear stockpile.
41:33But despite
41:34the mothballing
41:36of deadly weaponry,
41:37reports of UFO sightings
41:38keep coming.
41:41June 20, 2006,
41:4312 p.m.
41:44A cluster of people
41:46on the outskirts
41:46of Albuquerque
41:47gaze up at a huge disk
41:49floating impossibly
41:50above the Kirtland Air Base.
41:52As they watch,
41:53it slowly disappears
41:55from view.
41:56September 13, 2007,
41:597.30 p.m.
42:00Another small crowd
42:02of people
42:02gathers on the street
42:03of Farmington,
42:04less than 16 kilometers
42:06from Kirtland.
42:07They watch in awe
42:08as a large red aircraft
42:10floats through the sky,
42:12orbited by four smaller,
42:13equally mysterious objects.
42:16November 28, 2014,
42:18could it be
42:19that decades
42:20of nuclear development
42:21have acted as a beacon
42:23to extraterrestrials
42:24in the universe?
42:26One of the explanations
42:27that some UFO enthusiasts
42:29have proposed
42:29to explain their presence
42:31is that maybe
42:32they detected
42:33this amount of radiation,
42:34a very unusual,
42:36unnatural amount
42:37of radiation
42:37coming off the Earth.
42:39Ever since the 1970s,
42:42rumors surrounding UFOs
42:43in northwestern New Mexico
42:45have centered around
42:46fear, secrecy,
42:48and in the cases
42:49of Paul Benowitz
42:50and Phil Schneider,
42:51feverish paranoia
42:52and outlandish theories.
42:54If you think about it,
42:56Schneider draws first,
42:58as they say
42:58in the Wild West.
42:59He doesn't wait
43:01to see what the alien
43:02is going to do.
43:03He assumes
43:04the alien is going
43:05to attack him
43:06and maybe that's really
43:07a sad comment
43:09on us as a species,
43:11that we meet
43:12another species,
43:14we meet aliens
43:15and we automatically
43:17assume they're going
43:18to kill us.
43:21So one of the concerns
43:22is that any advanced
43:24civilization visiting us
43:25might have the motive
43:26of exploiting the resources
43:29of Earth.
43:29I suspect this is unlikely
43:31and the reason for this
43:32being that there's
43:34a limited number
43:34of important resources
43:36like rare earth metals
43:38on Earth
43:39and even as a species
43:41long term,
43:43there's not enough
43:43on Earth
43:44to supply demand.
43:45There's also a degree
43:51of arrogance
43:52on the part
43:53of humanity
43:53where we assume
43:55that an alien
43:56is going to be
43:57a kind of variation
43:58on us.
44:00In fact,
44:00an alien may be
44:01something
44:02unrecognizably different.
44:05As UFO sightings
44:06above the Kirtland
44:07Air Force Base
44:08continue to be reported,
44:10as well as at other
44:11military facilities
44:12around the world,
44:14the thought
44:15that these crafts
44:16may be appearing
44:16to help
44:17rather than hinder
44:18or to protect
44:19rather than harm
44:21is for many
44:22a much more logical
44:23and reasonable explanation.
44:26The only reason
44:27that I think
44:29that aliens would come
44:30to check out Earth
44:31is because it has life.
44:33And that is,
44:35I think,
44:35what makes
44:35our planet so special.
44:36is for the
45:06within the
45:25Lunar
45:26of Milt
45:28of Milt
45:30of Milt
45:30of Milt
45:32of Milt
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