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00:12Coming up on Unidentified.
00:14Before I knew it, I had these objects raining out of the sky.
00:17It was raining UFOs.
00:19It wasn't an event. It was events.
00:22A helicopter arrived. They requested all the data recording.
00:25There's things right off Catalina that the U.S. military continue to encounter.
00:30We don't know what they are. We have an obligation to try to figure it out.
00:34We are getting our asses kicked.
00:36If these things are hostile, then we're screwed.
00:39The Pentagon has confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
00:44that studied UFOs, and they released video.
00:47There's a whole fluido. My gosh.
00:50For eight years, Lou Elizondo ran a secret UFO program for the U.S. military.
00:56But in 2017, he quit in protest.
00:59I put my entire future on the line because I believe in what I believe in.
01:03Now he's joined an elite group of former government insiders.
01:06Their mission, reveal what they say is the truth about UFOs.
01:10U.S. airspace is being violated by vehicles of unknown origin with advanced capabilities.
01:18This is real, and we're going to get to the bottom of it.
01:21Get your government to do what it's supposed to do and find out what this isn't.
01:24Wake up. This is real. Wake up.
01:41The gentleman we're going to talk to today, his name is Kevin Day.
01:44He was on board the USS Princeton the day of the Nimitz incident.
01:49And he's now coming forward to say, I saw something, I experienced something, I witnessed something that was remarkable.
01:56It's going to be really interesting if he corroborates some of the pilot's testimony.
02:03Kevin Day is the very first person who noticed these anomalous things in the sky.
02:10The further away we got from the city and the more remote it became, the more I realized that this
02:17is a person who decided to get away.
02:21And get away for a long time.
02:24Lou Elizondo and Tom DeLonge are on their way to interview a third military eyewitness to an alleged mass UFO
02:30sighting.
02:31A Navy veteran who says he has critical new information about the event.
02:51What's your day, sir?
02:52It must be Lou.
02:53I am Lou. How are you, sir?
02:54Come on in, guys.
02:54Thanks. This is Tom.
02:56How are you, bud? I'm Tom.
02:57Hi, Tom. Nice to meet you, man.
02:57Nice to meet you as well.
02:59I didn't know you were at the Top Gun course.
03:01Yeah, the air controllers go through school with the pilots.
03:03Getting them to the fight and back without getting shot down.
03:06Kevin Day was the chief radar specialist on the USS Princeton.
03:10Kevin Day was a senior enlisted guy in the Navy and you do not get the rank you got to
03:15unless you're very, very good.
03:20The intent of this interview is to get your perspectives. Of course, we don't want to do it at the
03:25sacrifice of national security.
03:26So, I won't ask you anything classified. I won't ask you to provide any information that's classified or sensitive.
03:31You bet.
03:31So, from beginning to end, tell me your story.
03:35I guess it was the best way to jump in. We were off the coast of San Diego Nimitz Strike
03:39Group getting ready to go on deployment.
03:43The Princeton was part of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group on a training mission southwest of San Diego.
03:50When Kevin Day dispatched two pilots to intercept an unidentified craft, he picked up on radar.
03:56It didn't fly like an aircraft.
04:01It's about 40 feet long. It's white. It has no wings. It has no rotors. It has no control surfaces.
04:06It's literally, think of a white tic-tac.
04:11This image of the tic-tac shaped object was captured by an F-18's weapon systems camera.
04:16It was so unnerving because it was so unpredictable.
04:24But the story began four days earlier, when Kevin Day says he started seeing strange tracks on his radar.
04:30Right around the evening of the 10th of November, all these contacts were popping up in my radar coverage right
04:36off Catalina Island by Los Angeles.
04:39At first, there was like 10 or 12 objects. Watching them on display was like watching the snowfall in the
04:45sky.
04:46Day says the ship's system tracked the unidentified objects dropping down from the upper atmosphere and then flying south.
04:53It would appear to be an organized formation at an altitude of 28,000 feet.
04:58The relative position didn't change from each other. They were going real slow. 28,000 feet at 100 knots.
05:05Which is extremely weird. Usually things that high don't travel that slowly because they'll fall out of the sky.
05:11Do me a favor. On this piece of paper, pretend this is the screen, okay?
05:17Okay, sure.
05:17Tell me what you're seeing.
05:19So you got the carrier, you got the Princeton, Chafee and the Higgins.
05:22And up here by Catalina Island, I see these objects like this.
05:25Look kind of just like that.
05:27And they're all going 100 knots, tracking to the south.
05:31If you added them all up, there was well over 100 contacts.
05:37According to Kevin Day, an entire fleet of UFOs was flying unimpeded through the Navy's exercise warning area off the
05:44west coast.
05:47The Princeton was equipped with the military's most sophisticated radar system.
05:51Known as the Aegis Spy 1, it provides a 3D 360 degree view of the entire battle space.
05:57The USS Princeton, if you will, is the eyes and the ears for the battle group.
06:02The Spy 1 can simultaneously track hundreds of air contacts and can identify virtually anything that flies.
06:09And eliminated the fact that they could have been a friendly aircraft of some kind or enemy aircraft of some
06:16kind.
06:16Nothing really fit.
06:18There's no recognized signature that you're picking up.
06:21Nope.
06:22It's becoming evident that these things are really UFOs.
06:26They are unidentified flying objects.
06:28I didn't have a better word for it.
06:29Right.
06:30I was just chomping at the bit.
06:32I just wanted to intercept these things.
06:34So Captain J.L. Smith comes down into combat.
06:37I said, sir, I think we should intercept these things.
06:40I reached out and I hooked one of them on the large screen display.
06:42But all of a sudden this object drops 28,000 feet down to the surface of the ocean.
06:48And I figured it out later.
06:49It's 0.78 seconds.
06:51If Kevin Day's calculations are correct,
06:54the object he saw would have been moving at the astounding speed of 24,000 miles per hour,
06:59over 30 times the speed of sound.
07:06So the captain said, yeah, let's intercept one.
07:08And I was like, hell yeah.
07:10After tracking the strange objects for days,
07:13on November 14, 2004, the Princeton's radar room finally took control.
07:19We grabbed one of the flights that was doing a check flight off the carrier.
07:22It just happened to be Commander Fravor's flight.
07:26The Princeton control comes up and says,
07:29hey, Fast Eagle 110, this is Poison.
07:31We're going to suspend training.
07:33We have real-world tasking.
07:35Commander David Fravor and his wingman pilot had been on a training run.
07:38when they received the order to intercept.
07:41They got into an area, what we call merge plot,
07:44where the pilot is in the visual arena with whatever they're intercepting.
07:48It was so unpredictable.
07:50High G, rapid velocity, rapid acceleration.
07:53So you're wondering, you know, how can I possibly fight this?
07:59And all of a sudden, over Grady we hear, oh my God, oh my God, I'm engaged, I'm engaged.
08:04I'm thinking I'm going to be watching a disaster here.
08:08Day says he watched as the Tic Tac escaped the fighter jets,
08:12climbing with an extraordinary burst of acceleration.
08:15Right back up to 28,000 feet.
08:19Day says the dramatic encounter was just the beginning.
08:22At that point, forget about your other aircraft,
08:24they're launching off the carrier,
08:25and all these other intercepts were happening.
08:27One of the jets was able to capture this video
08:30that would go on to make headlines around the world.
08:32Before I knew it, I had these objects raining out of the sky.
08:35Choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo.
08:37It was raining UFOs.
08:39Coming up on Unidentified.
08:41These things were going somewhere.
08:42They fell off my radar envelope down off the coast of Baja California.
08:46Okay.
08:46I can tell you the Latin one.
08:51And all these other intercepts were happening.
08:53And before I knew it, I had these objects raining out of the sky.
08:57Choo-choo-choo-choo-choo.
08:58It was raining UFOs.
09:00For eight years, Lou Elizondo ran the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,
09:05or AATIP, a secret Pentagon unit that investigated UFOs.
09:10Now he's working with a team of former government insiders,
09:13assembled by Tom DeLonge.
09:14Their mission? Reveal what they say is the truth about UFOs.
09:20They're starting with the Nimitz incident,
09:22the full story of which has never been told.
09:25Until now.
09:26I'm telling you, it was the most humbling experience of my life.
09:29In his first on-camera interview,
09:32this former Navy radar specialist
09:33claims he watched an entire fleet of tic-tac-shaped UFOs
09:37evade Navy F-18s.
09:39Not only do you have the pilots seeing this tic-tac,
09:43but you have another eyewitness that's 20 miles away on another ship.
09:47You've got to ask yourself,
09:48are the radars being spoofed and are the cameras faulty?
09:51Every time these things would get in the visual arena,
09:53they would fall out of the sky.
09:54Wait till the interceptor had left,
09:56and they'd pop right back up to 28,000 feet,
09:58right back where they were and continue going 100 knots.
10:01It was as if they wanted to be left alone.
10:07Later on shore, Kevin Day says he spoke with Commander David Fravor,
10:11a pilot who went head-to-head with the tic-tacs.
10:14And I was asking him, what the hell, man?
10:16What happened?
10:17He said, Mako, I got to tell you, that thing kicked my ass.
10:22And that kind of spurred me.
10:23I said, okay, that's enough.
10:24I'm going to write an after-action report.
10:26I got to document this.
10:28But when Day says he tried to document what happened,
10:30he searched the ship's computers for the radar data
10:32and communication recordings.
10:35Well, strangely enough, all the comms were gone.
10:40All of our external communications for that whole intercept were gone,
10:44which is supposed to be impossible.
10:46So either someone took the old disk and replaced it,
10:49or somehow it was actually erased.
10:51But the time code is there.
10:54Yeah.
10:54But the recordings were not.
10:56Right.
10:56So I'm trying to understand how, yeah, that's really...
10:59Wow.
10:59I don't have a good answer.
11:01I don't know.
11:03Day claims the files were gone,
11:05but he was able to write down a critical piece of information.
11:08These things were going somewhere.
11:10They fell off my radar envelope down off the coast of Baja, California.
11:14Okay.
11:14There's a little group of islands down off the coast,
11:17and right there they disappeared several hundred miles away.
11:19Were they all going to that same latin long down there?
11:21They all went to the same spot.
11:23Sure.
11:23I could tell you the latin long.
11:26The geographic coordinates where Day says the Tic Tacs
11:29disappeared off his radar lead here,
11:32180 miles south of San Diego, off the Mexican coast.
11:37Kevin Day adds a layer of expertise that we didn't have before.
11:42With those electronic eyes, Kevin Day can see things that the naked eye cannot.
11:48And he adds an entirely new dimension to this investigation.
11:53Did the captain seem concerned or agitated or...
11:58What was his reaction?
12:01I can only guess what he was thinking, but he didn't seem concerned at all.
12:05I think he was trying to resist the idea that there were UFOs.
12:09Let me ask you, why does anybody in the Navy want to resist the idea of UFOs?
12:17Because they don't want to get scoffed at.
12:19They want to get made fun of.
12:21Especially for a guy trying to make Admiral, you know?
12:23Sure.
12:24There's a lot of emotion.
12:26There's a lot of feelings behind this issue.
12:30And there's a lot of stigma.
12:31But it was this guy, Kevin Day, who had the courage to come forward and say,
12:36Boss, I don't know what these are.
12:39Let's figure this out.
12:41You know, I was looking around.
12:42I was like, you know, all the years, all the money and all the expertise and all the talent.
12:46Everyone around me in this whole strike group.
12:48And there's nothing we can do.
12:51If these things are hostile, then we're screwed.
12:53I'm telling you, it was the most humbling experience of my life.
12:56I mean, this is a guy who's been long retired.
12:59And you just look at him.
13:00And he still, I mean, he still has the Navy haircut.
13:03He still presses his shirts.
13:05He's still, I mean, man, the guy is still in the Navy, man.
13:07He's still serving his country.
13:09Thank you, my friend.
13:11You're welcome.
13:11Outstanding.
13:12And I mean it sincerely.
13:13It's been an honor and pleasure.
13:17Out of all the things I've heard about the Nimitz, I have not heard there were up to a hundred
13:21craft.
13:22That absolutely blew my mind.
13:24I mean, a Top Gun graduate using the most advanced technology on Earth.
13:28It doesn't get better.
13:28It doesn't get better.
13:29And he's the one that called for the intercept.
13:32Yeah.
13:32And now you know what else, too?
13:33He's got the lat-longs he provided us on where these things may have went.
13:38We don't know if they've kind of just fell off the radar or if there's something there.
13:43But either way, we've got to check it out.
13:49Back in Southern California, Elizondo was updating the team on his extraordinary interview with Kevin Day.
13:56Tom and I went to go visit an individual who was in the radar room at the time of the
14:01Tic Tac event.
14:02He was the senior most individual responsible for that radar.
14:07So here's the bottom line.
14:09It wasn't an event.
14:11It was events.
14:12And it occurred over a longer period of time than we thought.
14:17The other thing that is really interesting is he says there's data somewhere at some other server and he goes
14:24find that data.
14:25Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Chris Mellon, has tried to track down the records from the Nimitz
14:31fleet for that week.
14:32One of the frustrating but very intriguing things about this is that when I suggested to someone on the Hill
14:40that they try to obtain the deck logs from the Princeton for that date,
14:44the National Archives said the Princeton logs for that date are missing.
14:48Those deck logs should be there, and we know officially now that they're not, and it's not due to classification.
14:55It's unfortunate because if they had been there, that might be another way to corroborate some of these reports.
15:02What I would like to do in this case is be able to corroborate this with another witness from the
15:09radar room.
15:10I think it would be much to our advantage to find a second source.
15:16With the deck logs allegedly missing, Kevin Day's testimony may hold the key to unlocking a larger mystery one Elizondo
15:23was unable to answer when he was at the Pentagon.
15:26Why were these strange craft appearing just off the West Coast, and where exactly were they heading?
15:36It takes weeks, but Elizondo was able to find another witness from the USS Princeton, a radar technician who served
15:43with Kevin Day.
15:46There was nothing usual about all this, man. I mean, there was nothing normal about the whole situation.
15:51Wow. Let me ask you something. Would you be available to talk to you in person?
15:59Yeah.
16:01Coming up on Unidentified.
16:04We tracked it going from 30,000 feet down to sea level, like within, I mean, no time at all.
16:10Sonar said they got a hit.
16:22My hope is that we'll make a serious, credible effort to acquire and analyze data which can tell us whether
16:33this UFO issue actually does involve some other civilization,
16:38or reveals a breakthrough on the part of adversaries, or even potentially an ally.
16:46It's just sort of inexcusable to me that we don't make the small amount of effort required to answer such
16:51a profound question.
16:56Hey, Gary. Hey.
16:58Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Chris Mellon, is meeting the fourth Navy eyewitness from the USS Nimitz
17:05UFO encounter.
17:06The more eyewitnesses you can have, the better. We were successful in setting up a meeting with this individual.
17:13And so, Chris Mellon being a former, very senior person in the Department of Defense, I knew he would have
17:19some really good perspectives.
17:22Hope you like coffee strong.
17:24Oh, thanks so much.
17:25Gary Voorhees was a technician on board the Nimitz's radar ship, the USS Princeton.
17:30He's never spoken publicly about the strange events of November 2004.
17:34And what he has to say might provide a missing piece of critical information.
17:39Well, Gary, thanks again so much for taking the time.
17:43Yeah, without a doubt, it's definitely, there is something going on.
17:47What was the first indication something unusual was occurring?
17:50Um, the first indication I heard.
17:52Voorhees' story begins four days before the pilots intercepted the UFO.
17:56The spy guys came out, and it was like, oh, we got, we got clutter, and we got…
18:01The spy guys in terms of the radar system, guys?
18:03Yeah, the guys that specifically work on just the SPY-1 Bravo radar, they came down and asked me, you
18:07know, reset all the computer systems.
18:09The Princeton had already picked up three strange objects their Aegis SPY-1 radar couldn't identify.
18:16Thinking that the system was malfunctioning, the technicians rebooted the computers.
18:20Brought it all back up, and lo and behold, they're there still.
18:25And then we started getting confirmation from the other ships that they were seeing it too.
18:28What were you seeing at that point?
18:30We were just seeing three tracks.
18:31Three tracks?
18:33Were they hovering?
18:34Sometimes they were only going a couple hundred knots.
18:37Sometimes they seemed stationary.
18:39Sometimes they moved relatively fast.
18:41The way that they kinda went around us, it was almost like they were just monitoring us.
18:46Senior radar specialist Kevin Day says he watched as many as a hundred of the mysterious craft fly through the
18:52Navy's airspace with impunity over the coming days.
18:55It was raining UFOs.
18:57Finally, on the fourth day, he scrambled two F-18s to intercept one of them.
19:02And when one of the pilots arrived on the scene, she says she spotted a single UFO hovering over the
19:07water.
19:08There was something in the water.
19:09There was a churning.
19:11We were all clamoring to get on the radio.
19:14What the is that?
19:15We tracked it going from 30,000 feet down to sea level, like within no time at all.
19:21And sonar said they got a hit.
19:25Voorhees claims the ship's sonar operators had seen something else extraordinary.
19:29The object plunged into the ocean and then accelerated to a speed twice as fast as the Navy's fastest attack
19:35submarine.
19:37According to one of the sonar guys, they were going 70 plus knots under the water.
19:42The USS Louisville, a 6,000-ton nuclear-powered submarine, was patrolling just below the surface.
19:49Voorhees says he spoke with the sub-sonar team to try to understand what was happening.
19:54You heard firsthand from the sonar technicians that they got a hit.
19:56Yeah.
19:57Do you have names of those individuals?
20:00None of them want to talk about it.
20:01You've reached out to them and they don't want to?
20:03Yeah.
20:03Pretty much you got who will say anything.
20:05Okay.
20:07And it was only one sonar guy I could get a hold of, and he doesn't want to go on
20:11record.
20:11He doesn't want anything to do with it.
20:13As a matter of fact, he had asked me not to contact him ever again.
20:17Let's talk about how the tapes are normally handled.
20:22Well, strangely enough, all the comms were gone.
20:26Day claims the Princeton's communications for that week were erased, but he doesn't know how or why.
20:31Voorhees says something even stranger happened.
20:34A helicopter arrived.
20:36People got off the helicopter.
20:38They came in, and they requested all the data recording.
20:43And right after that, I was requested to hand over all the data recording tapes, and anything that wasn't recorded
20:51on during the event, I was to erase, just in case there was anything on it.
20:56And why was that? Were you provided an explanation?
20:59No. No, I wouldn't have been privy to any explanation. It was just expected of me to do it.
21:04How unusual was this request to destroy and erase this data?
21:08It was completely unprecedented. I'd never been asked to destroy data, ever.
21:12And there was no scuttlebutt about where these tapes were going?
21:16Nope.
21:16For what purpose or anything?
21:18Basically, it just understood that they were going.
21:20Gary Voorhees corroborates important details of the other eyewitnesses' dramatic accounts.
21:26But his story raises an even more troubling possibility, that the Navy was involved in a cover-up of a
21:32potential threat to national security.
21:34It's very curious, rather conspiratorial almost, the idea that a helicopter landed and he was asked to download the data
21:44and hand it off.
21:46That raises a whole host of questions about what's really going on behind the scenes.
21:59I am aware that there are other incidents that occurred involving military assets in and around this area.
22:05Before the USS Nimitz and, frankly, after the USS Nimitz.
22:09So the question is, how significant were they?
22:13And is there an explanation for what is being encountered in and around this area?
22:18Yeah.
22:21Lou Elizondo is on Santa Catalina Island, 47 miles off the coast of Los Angeles.
22:27He's come here searching for answers to why a fleet of UFOs allegedly first appeared off the island's shores.
22:38I'm looking on the radar, and up here by Catalina Island, I see these objects like this.
22:43They're all tracking to the south.
22:44Navy radar specialist Kevin Day told Elizondo a mysterious fleet of UFOs was first tracked over the Catalina Channel and
22:52then flew south through the Navy's training area.
22:54I had these objects raining out of the sky.
22:57Choo, choo, choo, choo.
22:59Why is there an interest here in and around these waters?
23:02Catalina Island apparently is attracting these UAPs.
23:06For whatever reason, we don't know yet.
23:09Hi.
23:09It was a pleasure to meet you.
23:10Very good to meet you.
23:12Parts of Catalina are off limits to the public, so Elizondo has met up with Hillary Holt, who works for
23:18the island's conservancy.
23:20See how Catalina is here?
23:22So this area called the continental borderland is kind of this hodgepodge of continental crust and oceanic crust.
23:30Everything to the west is on the Pacific tectonic plate.
23:33I don't think I could ever get tired of that view.
23:37Catalina was formed millions of years ago when two giant plates of the Earth's crust collided violently.
23:43That geology helped shape the 3,000-foot deep channel that isolates Catalina from the mainland.
23:50This is an actual geology map.
23:52That pink backbone right there is the tallest backbone on the island.
23:57Interesting.
23:58Okay.
23:58And so, wildlife.
23:59I know it sounds like a crazy question to ask, but are there any large indigenous birds, condors, anything like
24:06that you have in South America around here?
24:08I mean, my point being is, is it normal to see a flock of 50 birds heading down south?
24:13I don't know if I see flocks of 50 birds, but absolutely tons of migrants come through here.
24:19And there is a lot of history to be told, both around Blackjack here as well as the airport.
24:27We're already going to be at 2,000 feet.
24:29You pick up something on radar.
24:31Well, you're not taking off from the ground.
24:32You're picking up something from here.
24:34We know that there's these weird refraction phenomena that occur with radar over the, over the water.
24:39Sometimes radar signals bounce and you can be picking something up really, really far away that looks close or picking
24:45up something really, really close that looks far away.
24:47Could some of these tracks that they were picking up on radar with the Nimitz actually be just local aircraft
24:52taking off from the mountaintop here on Catalina Island?
24:56Is it possible?
24:58Yeah, it is.
25:00But is it likely?
25:02That's what I'm going to find out.
25:04And then we are, I believe, if you all wanted to head down to Little Harbor, which it's Little Harbor
25:11was where we have the oldest archaeological evidence on the island.
25:15And then we wanted to head out here to the Ben Weston Overlook, which we, there are some old Army
25:24Signal Corps installations.
25:25I would love to see that.
25:27Yeah.
25:27Orient me here for a second.
25:29Because I'm looking here and I feel like I'm almost surrounded by, by mountains.
25:33So LAX is over here.
25:36Exactly.
25:36LAX is pretty close.
25:38You've got a populated metropolitan area right there.
25:41Back in 2004, US Nimitz carrier battle group is right out there.
25:47Lights are being picked up in the sky and on radar and visually over there, most of the time at
25:5230,000 feet coming in over the water.
25:54Sometimes they're literally going from that side of the sky to that side of the sky in seconds.
26:00Historically, there have been several events right here.
26:03From a national security perspective, our job is to own the battle space.
26:08If we don't know what's in the sky or we don't know what's below the water, then that's a problem.
26:12And there's things that are right around here and we don't know what they are, we have an obligation to
26:18try to figure it out.
26:19Catalina has a secret of history that dates back to World War II.
26:23When the military built a network of fortifications to protect against an invasion of the mainland.
26:29There's absolutely different places across the island where you can find evidence of past military operations.
26:37And during World War II, Toyon Bay was a training center for the OSS, the precursor to the CIA.
26:45You can go down the road and there are old radio towers and radio bunkers.
26:50Being down here just reinforces to me the idea that Catalina Island is a strategic location and is a point
26:59of interest.
27:00When I was talking with people about doing this show, even just in the last week, you know, I had
27:08a lot of people say,
27:09Oh, I've seen something weird. I've seen something before.
27:18There was something or is something in this area that may be of significant strategic interest.
27:25Now, is that what's bringing UAPs? I don't know.
27:27And unless I look at it for myself, I'll never know.
27:32For decades, Catalina has been a hotspot for reports of unidentified aerial phenomena.
27:38The most credible sighting was reported by Kelly Johnson, the founder of Lockheed Martin's legendary skunkworks division and the mastermind
27:46of the SR-71 Blackbird.
27:49On January 20th, 1954, Johnson filed this official report with the Air Force in which he and two test pilots
27:57describe seeing a large craft flying north of Catalina.
28:00Kelly was at his ranch and the other gentlemen were up doing flight tests.
28:05So they saw it from two different vantage points, which is interesting. It wasn't just from a single vantage point.
28:10Steve Justice spent 31 years at Skunkworks as one of its top aviation designers and is now a key member
28:17of Lou Elizondo's team.
28:18In light of Elizondo's Nimitz investigation, he's taken a fresh look at his predecessor's account.
28:24The most significant part of Kelly's memo is the fact that it was profound enough that he felt compelled to
28:30write it down and send it to the Air Force.
28:36It tells me he considered it to be really, really important.
28:40The Air Force concluded Johnson saw a rare cloud formation.
28:45Justice says that explanation doesn't make sense.
28:48I've read a number of analyses online where they conclude it was lenticular clouds or something.
28:54There are some clouds that look that way, but they don't move that way, and that's why it sticks in
28:59my head.
29:00So what explains the reports of UFOs in this same area 50 years later?
29:06The answer may lie in Catalina's strategic location.
29:11180 miles north is Vandenberg Air Force Base, home to some of the military's most advanced aerospace programs,
29:18and recently, Elon Musk's private SpaceX rockets.
29:23Due south is the Navy's Whiskey 291 warning area, where the 2004 Nimitz encounter took place.
29:30Could the unidentified craft that appeared near Catalina be part of a top-secret military test?
29:36And were the pilots unwitting test subjects?
29:41Brian Bender was one of the first reporters to reveal Elizondo's secret UFO program.
29:46There's this reasonable hypothesis that these are advanced military aircraft that only a very few number of government officials know
29:55about,
29:55and they're being tested, and they're being seen, and they're being reported.
29:59And that could explain why the government sort of doesn't want to talk about it,
30:03because they want to shield these secret military aircraft programs.
30:07One of the pilots who encountered the tic-tac-shaped UFO during the Nimitz event
30:11questioned whether what she was seeing was part of an experimental aircraft test.
30:17When I got back to the ship, when I was frustrated that nobody was taking it seriously,
30:21one of my theories was, were we vectored into a live range?
30:25Was that a submarine that launched something and was resubmerging?
30:36I have to be careful, because I was part of AATIP.
30:39And, you know, I don't want to give the false conclusion that, you know,
30:42I'm trying to find an answer that I already have.
30:45But truth be told, I had access to a lot of information.
30:48I can tell you there are several antenna rays here
30:51that are absolutely connected to some sort of government activity.
30:55So the question is, did they play a role in the 2004 events?
30:58You must call it a real charge.
31:15Lou Elizondo has returned from his mission to Catalina island.
31:19Brother Steve, how are you?
31:20Good.
31:21Got a few minutes?
31:22Yes.
31:23He's meeting with his team member, Steve Justice,
31:25one of the most respected aviation experts in the U.S.
31:28I've got a couple questions for you.
31:30As the director of advanced technologies at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works,
31:34Justice led the highly classified development of America's F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter.
31:40Elizondo wants to explore the theory that what the pilots from the USS Nimitz and others witnessed
31:45was in fact a top secret government test that they hadn't been briefed on.
31:50Steve Justice worked at Lockheed Martin, which is entrusted with billions of taxpayer dollars
31:55to build some of the most advanced weapons systems in the world.
31:58It's possible in this case that there is some very secret military aircraft program
32:04that is so secret and is shared with so few people that Lou Elizondo doesn't know about it.
32:11So, Steve, I can't completely eliminate the fact that, you know, those type of velocities
32:18potentially, potentially are achievable with certain technologies we have.
32:25In the 2004 Nimitz incident, a tic-tac-shaped UFO had allegedly reached velocities as high as 30 times the
32:33speed of sound.
32:34Does this technology look like anything you worked on while at Skunk Works,
32:41and could this have been one of those technologies?
32:45No, I'm not going to talk about anything I did. Skunk Works.
32:48While his work at Lockheed Martin is classified, Justice is aware of a test flight
32:52that happened the same week as the Nimitz incident.
32:56When NASA launched a hypersonic unmanned craft, the X-43 scramjet in the same airspace.
33:03You know, the X-43 is interesting. You know, the fact that it flew in this time frame can make
33:09it a suspect.
33:10Let's sit back and analyze it from several perspectives.
33:13Here's a photo from NASA of the X-43 hanging on the wing of a B-52.
33:18You can see the work crews.
33:20Well, they said they saw a 40-foot vehicle. Whatever this tic-tac was, was 40 feet.
33:24And that is backed up by radar and the video.
33:27So the speed itself.
33:30The X-43 was hypersonic, which means it was Mach 5 or above.
33:34So here's what it takes to accelerate.
33:38That's a huge signature, man. I mean, that's just...
33:42Everybody's going to see that thing for 100 miles.
33:44So that, to me, disqualifies. That's a disqualifying element in and of itself.
33:52What altitude?
33:53Well, here's the strange part. It was seen at a lot of altitudes.
33:56Anywhere between 80,000 feet down the sea level.
34:00Okay. You know, hypersonic vehicles that we work on today want to be above 50,000 feet.
34:06As we step back and look at all the different pieces of evidence that we have,
34:10You know, this image that we have, you know, from that incident,
34:16You know, you don't see any exhaust plumes.
34:19And they would show up in this type of image.
34:24The shape is wrong.
34:26The flight regime, the point in the sky that it flies is wrong.
34:32How it flies is wrong.
34:34You know, the parts we have right are some hypersonic velocities.
34:38Without going into specific technologies, you did a lot of work for the Skunk Works.
34:43And I'm just kind of curious.
34:44Does this scenario fit a common pattern the way you guys test your classified programs?
34:53I'm not even going to talk about how you test classified stuff.
34:58It's possible, but it means that somebody would know.
35:01Doesn't mean everybody would know.
35:03But some people would know that you were going to be operating near that area.
35:08So it's possible.
35:12You know, if the admiral in charge didn't make a report, it could be because, you know, it was an
35:23operational test.
35:25You know, not everybody gets to know everything.
35:29I would love it if it turned out that these were secret US aircraft that were developed in some remote
35:36underground facility.
35:37And that we've achieved that kind of technological breakthrough.
35:40That would be fabulous.
35:42Here are the reasons that we don't think that is in fact the case.
35:44We do not operate test aircraft in the vicinity of carrier battle groups without some prior coordination.
35:52It would be completely uncharacteristic of the military to operate in such a strange, haphazard manner.
35:59If that did happen, it would probably happen only once.
36:02Those people would be replaced in a hurry.
36:05It's hard to conceive of a secret military test program that explains all of these instances.
36:11Not just here in the United States, but around the world.
36:13I would love it if it turned out to be the case that these were secret US aircraft that were
36:19developed in some remote underground facility.
36:23And that we've achieved that kind of technological breakthrough.
36:25That would be fabulous.
36:27Here are the reasons that we don't think that is in fact the case.
36:30First of all, the videos that were released were declassified and went through a formal declassification process.
36:35If those were secret US aircraft or vehicles, they wouldn't have survived that scrub and that review.
36:40Secondly, we do not operate test aircraft in the vicinity of carrier battle groups as a rule.
36:48Certainly not without some prior coordination.
36:50The military is extraordinarily careful to avoid incidents and mishaps.
36:56So it would be completely uncharacteristic of the military to operate in such a strange, haphazard manner.
37:04Thirdly, myself and my colleagues have pulled every thread and run every trap.
37:10I was on the committee that reviewed all of those programs.
37:13It was nothing like that on the drawing boards when I was in the Pentagon.
37:16Steve worked at the Skunk Works at Lockheed Martin.
37:18He's not aware of anything remotely like this.
37:21Lou ran all the traps in the Pentagon, checked with the Army, Navy, everybody.
37:25He said those are not ours definitively.
37:27So while we can't prove the negative, the evidence we have suggests these are not US vehicles.
37:38You've been out on the road a lot, okay?
37:40And it seems like more people are coming forward.
37:45Anything change your mind?
37:47No, it's only reinforced our original position, to be honest with you.
37:57We've come a long way in just eight months. A real long way.
38:00We have all the pilots that flew that day that were involved in the alleged Tic Tac incident have come
38:07forward.
38:08I think that's huge.
38:09Lou Elizondo, Tom DeLonge, Chris Mellon and the team have made major breakthroughs in their investigation of the 2004 Tic
38:16Tac event.
38:17We've actually learned some more information, believe it or not, what happened that day.
38:22Some very compelling information.
38:23I am delighted that we are able to give voice to these military personnel and their experiences.
38:31But these guys and what we're up against is overcoming this incredible stigma that surrounds this topic.
38:39The mysterious UFO encounters over the USS Nimitz carrier strike group are finally coming into focus.
38:46The team has corroborated the accounts of four military eyewitnesses.
38:51Two fighter pilots who say they were sent to hunt down one of the Tic Tac shaped UFOs.
38:57We couldn't help but admit that we saw it because we all saw it together.
39:02Do we want to not do anything and just hope they're nice?
39:06And two radar personnel who say they tracked an entire fleet of Tic Tacs over the course of four days.
39:12We are getting our asses kicked right here.
39:16According to one of the sonar guys, they were going 70 plus knots under the water.
39:20They pretty much just went wherever they wanted.
39:24When you look at this problem holistically, you start seeing patterns, patterns emerging.
39:29For over 70 years, the US military investigated UFO sightings.
39:35In thousands of documents, the UFOs are often described as saucers or discs.
39:40But there are also reports of shapes eerily similar to the 40-foot-long Tic Tac the Nimitz pilots encountered.
39:47This 1964 report describes a flying object shaped like a butane tank and as long as a telephone pole.
39:55The more similarities we can find, the more congruencies we can identify, the more congruencies we can identify,
40:01I think the more we'll be able to make an honest determination of what these things are doing.
40:07It wasn't until 2009 that Elizondo says the Pentagon was able to establish a larger pattern.
40:13In the early stages of AATIP, we're collecting anything and everything related to, frankly, the phenomenon.
40:17We had reports coming from the Navy, we had pilots reports, we had gun camera footage, we had radar returns,
40:23we had investigations that were done by highly trained people.
40:26Some of the observations began to really get into focus in 2009.
40:37Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Chris Mellon has obtained a briefing document
40:43created by the Pentagon's secret UFO unit.
40:46The presentation contains a global map of hotspots where U.S. and other military assets encountered UFOs.
40:53This is an example of the kind of data that is available and hasn't been pulled
40:58because nobody's in charge, nobody's analyzing the issues.
41:03The red dots are reported UFO activity, blue are military facilities.
41:09This official Department of Defense map has never been released to the public.
41:14Within this large circle is Baja, San Diego, and then the Navy's exercise operating area where they conduct fleet exercises.
41:24So, here we have a document that says the United States is defenseless against a threat that we have identified,
41:35an extraordinary and alarming report.
41:40And here we are 10 years later, essentially in the same position.
41:45The Pentagon unit suggested the U.S. military would be unable to defend itself against the UFO's hyper-advanced technology.
41:55Those hotspots were seen all the way back in 1950.
41:59The fact that we continue to see these things in our airspace over our military equities time and time again,
42:06and we still don't know what it is and where it's coming from.
42:08At this point, just throw the white flag up and give up.
42:11The briefing was created for a presentation to senior defense officials and warns if the government continues to ignore the
42:18threat,
42:19America's adversaries could crack the technology and develop deadly new weapons that would disrupt the balance of power.
42:25This is a live activity.
42:28We don't know what it is, even after all this research.
42:31If they are a potential adversary like Russia or China that's made some huge leap in technology, we better know
42:38about it.
42:39Given some of these capabilities they're demonstrating, they could very easily shut out the lights.
42:51We know this is happening now. We know it's real. And until we get some answers, we shouldn't rest easy.
42:58This is not a Navy problem. This is not an Air Force problem. This is not an intelligence community problem.
43:05This may be a much bigger, holistic, global problem.
43:09These guys are obsessed.
43:12They spent their life defending the country, and now they're confronted with a phenomenon
43:19that potentially could be threatening.
43:23Chris and Lou repeatedly say, listen, I know everybody thinks of little green men, but we're not there yet.
43:30What we got to do first is not treat it as this backwater issue that nobody wants to touch, nobody
43:36wants to look at.
43:41On the next Unidentified.
43:44Kevin Day provided us the latitudes and the longitudes that these things seem to be going towards.
43:50We can actually now go to the location and try to figure out if there's any type of correlation at
43:55all.
43:56This is a part of the Nimitz story that not only has never been told, has never really been explored.
44:01We got to make sure.
44:02That's what we got to do right now.
44:02We have to think of in the future withatson Pandora.
44:04We saw a harmony with the midfire.
44:04We have to think of a non-department or a insç®—ution alone.
44:04Maybe we want to survive versus case.
44:04We can break this up in the near future.
44:04No you're going to be elected.
44:04Seat.
44:05You're going to rush him.
44:05We're going to do something to do that.
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