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00:27The Pentagon has confirmed the existence of the
00:29Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that studied UFOs, and they released video.
00:35There's a whole fleet of them. My gosh.
00:38For eight years, Lou Elizondo ran a secret UFO investigation for the U.S. military.
00:44But in 2017, he quit in protest.
00:47I put my entire future on the line because I believe in what I believe in.
00:51Now he's joined an elite group of former government insiders.
00:54Their mission, reveal what they say is the truth about UFOs.
00:58U.S. airspace is being violated by vehicles of unknown origin with advanced capabilities.
01:04It's rotating.
01:05The investigation has uncovered two astonishing encounters between UFOs and U.S. Navy carrier strike groups, years apart.
01:14We were all clamoring to get on the radio. Do you see in the water what the f*** is that?
01:19If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I don't know if I would have believed in either.
01:24In each case, the Navy carrier is for nuclear power.
01:27Is that why these things might be interested in carrier groups?
01:31For decades, UFOs have allegedly been hovering near nuclear assets in the American heartland.
01:36It shot straight up in the air and was gone in a second.
01:40And overseas.
01:41The beams went down into the weapons storage area.
01:44And I'm thinking, oh my God.
01:46Is there a connection between the appearance of these unidentified craft and America's most powerful weapons?
02:08President Bill Clinton wanted to know about UFOs.
02:11Ronald Reagan had an interest in UFOs.
02:13We know that Jimmy Carter, as a candidate, made a promise.
02:16If I'm elected, I'm going to find out what's going on with UFOs.
02:19And then he never said another word about them.
02:21Even presidents find out that they don't have the power to automatically release all this information.
02:32Today, I'm going to be meeting a former sheriff of a small town here in North Dakota.
02:36He had an interesting encounter some time ago.
02:39What makes this particularly interesting, I think, this incident is that, A, he's a law enforcement officer.
02:44B, he's former military.
02:46And C, there were other eyewitnesses.
02:48I mean, I don't want to speculate, but there seems to be a lot of sightings of something.
02:51What that something is, we don't know.
02:55At one time, this area had more nuclear silos than just about anywhere else in the United States.
03:14Well, hello.
03:15How are you, sir?
03:15Good. How are you doing?
03:16Pleasure to meet you.
03:17Pleasure to meet you, Lou.
03:18Come on in.
03:19All right.
03:19Larry Gessner served for 11 years as a weapons specialist.
03:22At nearby Minot Air Force Base.
03:24He was responsible for loading nuclear weapons on bombers.
03:28And after retiring from the Air Force, he was sheriff of Sheridan County.
03:32I have been waiting 15 years before I get to tell this event.
03:36This is the first time he's talking publicly about his UFO encounter.
03:52One night in 2003, he and another eyewitness saw something they couldn't explain.
03:58If you look over there, if you look over there, that would have been right where it came over.
04:03Okay.
04:04144 degrees.
04:05So we're looking at almost due southeast.
04:08Okay.
04:09Copy.
04:09The thing that stood out the most to me was that instead of a horizontal plane for the lights, you
04:17know, which you would see on an aircraft, they were vertical.
04:19It was like this.
04:20Yeah.
04:20And so I said, I don't know any aircraft.
04:23It was confusing.
04:24I kept saying to myself, this isn't making any sense.
04:26And as it got closer, the lights became more prominent.
04:29We could discern that there was larger lights along the front edge, the rounder, you know, the bigger lights.
04:35And then there were smaller lights on the outside edge.
04:38As it got to this point here, now all of a sudden I realized there's windows.
04:41There was a thickness to the wall of the craft.
04:43I got right over the top and that's when I said, you know, about up in here.
04:47Now I can see the bottom of this thing and it's a diamond shape.
04:51It came to a stop, the lights went out, and then this white glow showed up on the back of
04:57the craft.
04:58And it shot straight up in the air and was gone in a second.
05:04You know what looks diamond to me?
05:05The F-117.
05:08That's kind of diamond shape.
05:12Maybe you were witnessing that.
05:13No.
05:14Well, the size of this craft, it was probably close to 200 feet in the air and 100 feet wide.
05:21Okay, so this is a sizably different thing.
05:23Lou, I was an instructor for seven years.
05:27I had to teach people the weapons system on the aircraft.
05:31So I had to know the aircraft inside now.
05:33That was a huge, huge thing.
05:36Absolutely, or in combat.
05:37So, so, so, is it, I don't put words in your mouth.
05:40Have you ever seen in the history with your time in the Air Force or afterwards,
05:45any aircraft before, during, or since that remotely resembles what you saw that night?
05:52No, absolutely not.
05:54That thing was much larger than any aircraft I've ever seen in my entire life.
06:03Okay, so here's my close.
06:04You're here, right?
06:05Correct.
06:05What you're saying is that it was heading in the opposite direction,
06:10which is, in fact, certainly within the trajectory here,
06:14where you saw it and where it ended up and then shot up
06:19is, in fact, towards Minot.
06:21Minot Air Force Base lies 75 miles to the northwest.
06:27Since the beginning of the Cold War,
06:29Minot has been one of the most weaponized places on Earth.
06:33It's America's only base that can launch both nuclear missiles and nuclear-armed long-range bombers.
06:40There are a lot of nuclear sites between where you are and Minot.
06:46I mean, I'm counting here, and there's probably 30 or 40, and I've got three maps.
06:51But between here and here, there's a hell of a lot of stuff here.
06:54Yeah.
06:55Nuclear.
06:55This isn't the first time Elizondo's investigation has found a link between UFOs and U.S. nuclear assets.
07:02We seem to see these things around U.S. nuclear equities, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and nuclear technology.
07:13There definitely seems to be some sort of correlation.
07:16And if I see something that potentially has the ability to either threaten or disable our strategic nuclear capability,
07:25I have to consider that a threat.
07:28The progress that's been made in the last year is incredible.
07:31But there are still big secrets being kept.
07:34If that can be leaked out or released, even if it's a dribble, it changes everything.
07:40Next, Elizondo stops in Las Vegas.
07:43He is here to meet with investigative journalist George Knapp.
07:47Knapp has uncovered documents that may reveal a connection between UFO sightings and America's atomic arsenal.
07:53If anybody is going to be able to shed some light and help me better understand that relationship, I think
08:00it's you.
08:00Over the years, Knapp has filed Freedom of Information requests with the Departments of Defense and Energy.
08:06This is from 1985.
08:08And interviewed scores of government eyewitnesses.
08:11These go way back.
08:12And these are reports of reported incidents?
08:14UFO incidents.
08:15This is from way back in 1948.
08:17That's over Los Alamos.
08:21Another unknown object in New Mexico.
08:25Interesting.
08:25That's during the Manhattan Project.
08:33During the 1950s, the Air Force detonated more than 100 atomic bombs
08:37and above-ground tests in the Nevada desert.
08:39I had more than a dozen people who had worked out there at the test site during the height of
08:45the above-ground testing period who said UFOs were commonplace.
08:49There were employees assigned to monitor UFO activity in connection with the tests.
08:55Sometimes they'd appear before the tests.
08:57Oftentimes, they'd appear after it.
08:59And once in a while, they would appear during these tests.
09:04All of the nuclear facilities, Los Alamos, Livermore, Sandia, Savannah River, all had UFO incidents.
09:12This says, if it's firmly indicated there is no domestic explanation, the objects are a threat and warrant more active
09:18efforts at identification and interception.
09:21Doesn't that sound familiar?
09:22And all copies were supposed to be destroyed.
09:25Three, two, one.
09:28In 1959, the U.S. introduced a deadly new addition to its nuclear arsenal, the ICBM, or Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.
09:37These nuclear-tipped missiles could strike targets more than 3,500 miles away.
09:43According to Knapp, UFOs now began to be seen at the new ICBM launch sites across the Midwest.
09:48What would be an example of one of the more compelling incidents?
09:54In Minot Air Force Base, UFOs appear over these missiles.
09:57Something enables the missile, and it's ready to go.
10:00In 1966, military personnel say a UFO appeared over Minot Air Force Base, 75 miles from Larry Gessner's sighting.
10:09They claim one of Minot's nuclear missiles allegedly activated as a UFO hovered above, then deactivated when it disappeared.
10:17A year later, a similar incident allegedly happened at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.
10:22Military personnel there say a glowing red, oval-shaped object hovered over its missile silos,
10:28and all 10 of the base's nuclear missiles were disabled.
10:31They don't know what's causing it.
10:32They don't know how to stop it.
10:34That puts it all on the line.
10:36That tells you how serious this matter is.
10:39Over the next two decades, multiple U.S. nuclear launch sites would report alarming UFO incidents.
10:44But no one can explain why.
10:47One of the most frustrating parts of pursuing the UFO mystery is the response from the government,
10:53from the military in particular, is that this is not an issue that concerns us.
10:57This is of no interest in national security.
10:59When in fact, the very best documented and most impressive UFO incidents and cases always involve the military.
11:07They all involve military assets, military bases, facilities, nuclear facilities.
11:12Those are the ones that are really intriguing.
11:14I am sympathetic to our military and our government in terms of how you explain this.
11:20I think in the beginning of the modern UFO era they didn't know what the hell they were dealing with.
11:25They didn't know where these things were from.
11:26They didn't know whether they represented a threat to national security or not, but they didn't know.
11:31And, you know, they didn't know how to tell us about it.
11:35I don't sympathize with them in that they have ruined careers and threatened people and imposed secrecy
11:41and have lied to the American public about it.
11:43People have been seeing these things all over the planet for as long as humans have recorded history.
11:49But the best and most interesting cases of the modern UFO era involve military assets.
11:55It's no surprise if these are from somewhere else and they're trying to check us out and what our capabilities
12:01are.
12:01Those are the assets that they would take a look at, that they would inspect.
12:05When you have Project Blue Book being canceled in 1969 for the reason that these are not of interest in
12:11national security.
12:12They're no threat. We're not going to study them anymore.
12:14You know damn good and well that's not true because the best cases do involve military facilities, military personnel and
12:21military assets, in particular nuclear bases.
12:24Just think about this synopsis.
12:25At the facilities where we were first designing and building nuclear weapons, there were UFOs.
12:30At the facilities where we were testing the weapons, there were UFOs.
12:34At the bases where we deployed those weapons, on the ships, the nuclear submarines, all those places,
12:40all the people working there have seen these things.
12:43Are they all crazy?
12:44Because if they are, they shouldn't have their hands on nuclear weapons.
12:48Agreed.
12:48Either mass delusion or they're all right, but either way, we need to look into this.
12:53Yeah.
12:54Coming up on Unidentified.
12:56There it is.
12:57Hey, I see it too.
12:58What is it?
12:59We don't know, sir.
13:01I'm thinking, is this a warning?
13:03Or is this some kind of communication?
13:05I couldn't believe what was happening.
13:06I started having health issues immediately after the incident.
13:09That's fascinating.
13:10You mean we have people in uniform who have actually may have been injured
13:14by coming up close and personal to one of these things?
13:25The colonel of an American air force base and a lot of his airmen claim that something
13:31from outside the Earth's atmosphere landed at their air force base.
13:35They inspected it.
13:37They photographed it.
13:38They took tests on the ground where it had been and found radioactive traces.
13:43There are only two explanations for what happened that night.
13:48One explanation is that it actually happened, as Colonel Holt reported.
13:52The other is that Colonel Holt and all his men were hallucinating.
13:58Surely, to any sensible person, either of those explanations is of the utmost defense interest.
14:05This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation
14:09and not the subject of rubbishing by tabloid newspapers.
14:13I couldn't agree more.
14:15Lou Elizondo is in Virginia to continue investigating the link between UFO sightings
14:21and America's nuclear arsenal.
14:24Can we go back one more slide, too, to the nuclear power plant?
14:26Sure.
14:27So this is the nuclear power plant, and this facility was there while you were there?
14:31Oh, yes. It was there before I was there, even.
14:33Elizondo's reexamining one of the most notorious UFO incidents in history.
14:37In 1980, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Holt was second in command of America's largest airbase
14:43in Europe, RAF Bentwaters, 100 miles northeast of London.
14:50Cold War tensions were high, and the base was a pivotal part of NATO's defenses.
14:55RAF Bentwaters is the largest tactical fighter wing in the free world.
14:59We had A-10s.
15:01The mission of the base was if the Eastern Bloc countries came into Germany,
15:05the A-10s would go kill tanks and carry the war to the enemy heartland.
15:09Bentwaters often housed advanced test aircraft and experimental weapons.
15:13It was a stressful time.
15:15But hidden deep under the base was one of the Cold War's most guarded secrets.
15:20Twenty-five fortified bunkers filled with lightweight but highly powerful nuclear bombs,
15:26always at the ready to repel a Soviet invasion of the NATO Bloc.
15:30This information wasn't made public for decades.
15:34As deputy commander, Holt's top priority was protecting the base from terrorists and communists,
15:40not UFOs.
15:41Tell me what you experienced back in 1980.
15:46We were having our Christmas party.
15:48We just finished main meal, and we're getting ready for dessert.
15:52When the on-duty police lieutenant came in, white as a sheet,
15:54and he said, we saw lights in the forest.
15:56There was something out there.
15:57We don't know what it was, so we came to get you.
16:01Oh, my.
16:03Space commander said, go put this thing to rest.
16:07Holt led a team into nearby Rendlesham Forest
16:09and began recording what he was experiencing on a small tape recorder.
16:32Holt and his men began to see a series of lights flying above
16:35and then into the forest around them.
16:39The object comes into the forest a bit,
16:41and it moves horizontally through the trees, avoiding the trees,
16:45obviously under some type of intelligent control.
16:48It appears that you may be moving a little bit this way.
16:50Yes, it's part of that handstand.
16:52No.
16:52It's coming its way.
16:53It is definitely coming its way.
16:55This is weird.
16:59Soon the lights were right on top of them,
17:01leaving Holt and his men paralyzed with fear.
17:03Now we've got an object about ten degrees directly south.
17:07Here he comes from the south.
17:09He's coming towards us now.
17:11Now we're observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground.
17:16This is unreal.
17:19The beam is not like an ordinary light.
17:21It doesn't radiate.
17:22It was like a laser beam.
17:24It was focused.
17:24It landed right 10, 15 feet away from us at our feet.
17:28I was literally in shock.
17:30Could you tell from your perspective how high in the sky they were?
17:33My guess is about 3,000 or 4,000 feet, but I can't tell for sure.
17:37Meantime, we noticed two glowing white objects, very bright objects to the south in the sky.
17:43Holt claims the craft, then flew north toward the base.
17:46We could hear the chatter on the radios that the beams went down into the weapons storage area.
17:51And I'm thinking, oh, my God.
17:55Holt feared the craft was targeting the base's secret nuclear storage bunkers.
17:59It wasn't the comet.
18:01It wasn't the meteor.
18:02I mean, three of them moving in synchronization.
18:04They weren't coming down.
18:05They were moving in the sky.
18:07And I keep telling them where to look, and they keep telling me nobody can see anything with the radar.
18:12I'm thinking, is this a warning?
18:14Is this a weapon?
18:15Or is this some kind of communication?
18:18I couldn't believe what was happening.
18:24The next day, Holt reported his experiences to his superiors.
18:29The response mirrored a pattern that became familiar to Elizondo when he ran America's secret UFO program.
18:35I went into the office that morning.
18:37I think it was Sunday morning.
18:38The wing commander drove up.
18:40He said, that was some light you had last night, wasn't it?
18:43I said, it sure was.
18:44I said, I made a small tape recording of some of it.
18:47And he said, what?
18:48Let's hear it.
18:52He said, wow, let me have it.
18:57I thought, there goes my career.
19:00He took the tape.
19:01And of course, I worried all week.
19:04Wednesday, when he came back from the staff meeting, he said, I played the tape for the
19:07general and the staff.
19:08And the general, in his infinite wisdom, said, happened off the base.
19:12It's a British affair.
19:13Case closed.
19:14Wow.
19:18Hoping to catch the attention of someone up the chain of command, Holt drafted a memo detailing
19:23the events in Rendlesham Forest.
19:27I wrote the infamous memo and kind of cleaned it up a little bit.
19:30I didn't call it UFOs.
19:32I called it unexplained lights.
19:34When Holt's report leaked, it would make the Rendlesham incident worldwide news.
19:38Witnesses claimed that the Rendlesham Forest was the landing site of an unidentified flying
19:43object.
19:44And locals would come forward to bolster Holt's account that something strange had happened.
19:48The closer it got, the more I realized it was not an aircraft.
19:52I really intend it was gone.
19:53But over the years, debunkers have claimed the incident was merely a hoax or something
19:58even more sinister, a secret American weapons test gone wrong.
20:02I did everything I could to stay in the background.
20:06I really didn't want the attention.
20:08It certainly wasn't career enhancing.
20:10It didn't help my career either.
20:11By the way, there's not a damn thing we can do about it.
20:13Once you touch it, you got it.
20:15Right, yeah.
20:15You bought it.
20:19In the past, I could see why people didn't want to address it.
20:23How do you have a conversation about a threat that you don't know what it is and how it
20:26works and you can't do anything about it?
20:29When you have other concerns like nuclear war, that's why it's important that we talk
20:34to eyewitnesses.
20:35That's why with Rendlesham, you'd want to collect the eyewitness testimony.
20:39You want to pretty much collect anything and everything you can.
20:41So, John, you obviously had a very successful career.
20:44What I'd like to do is ask you a few questions about an experience you supposedly had.
20:49Lou Elizondo is meeting with an Air Force veteran who served under Lieutenant Colonel Charles
20:53Hall during the Rendlesham UFO event in 1980.
20:57The object comes into the forest and it moves horizontally through the trees, obviously under
21:01some type of intelligent control.
21:03I won't ask you anything that requires a sensitive answer.
21:07If you can't answer it, just simply say, Lou, I'd prefer not to answer that.
21:10Right.
21:11John Burroughs was a military policeman on the RAF Bentwaters base in Eastern England.
21:17Among his duties, protecting the base's secret arsenal of nuclear weapons.
21:23To the best of your recollection, tell me what happened.
21:27It was Christmas night, came on duty at 2300.
21:32When I went down to the staging area, the halt was out in the forest.
21:36Okay.
21:36If you listen to the halt tape, you'll hear my name on it.
21:39What is it?
21:40We don't know, sir.
21:42What is it?
21:42Two other personnel requesting you to find a movement in your cell location.
21:46Tell them negative at this time.
21:48We'll tell them when they can come out here.
21:50Is it the sample?
21:51You're going to walk the sample?
21:51While Lieutenant Colonel Halt and a team investigated reports of mysterious lights
21:55in the nearby forest, from the base, Sergeant Burroughs listened to the unfolding events
22:00on the radio.
22:01This is weird.
22:03Okay, here.
22:03Here he comes from the south.
22:04He's coming toward us now.
22:06The beam is not like an ordinary light.
22:08It doesn't radiate.
22:09It was like a laser beam.
22:10It was focused.
22:11It landed right 10, 15 feet away from us at our feet.
22:14Now we're observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground.
22:19Later that night, another set of lights appeared.
22:22This time, Burroughs and another military policeman, Sergeant Jim Penniston, were sent into Rendlesham
22:28forest.
22:31This orange light all of a sudden appeared in the distance.
22:35It started coming down.
22:36Are you in the forest?
22:37We're in the clearing area.
22:39And I'm like, I'd like to get a closer look.
22:41The sergeant was with me.
22:42He looked at me and he says, go for it.
22:45As we started moving towards it, it looked like it started moving towards us.
22:50As they approach the light, Burroughs says it suddenly flew over him and his partner.
22:56Whatever it was came over the top of me.
22:58I phased away and was gone.
23:03Burroughs says he has no memory of what happened next.
23:06But Sergeant Penniston told him he appeared to vanish into thin air.
23:10So let me see if I've captured this correctly.
23:13Just remember coming there and then all of a sudden, bam, gone.
23:17And then all of a sudden, he tells you that you were here and you basically disappeared.
23:24And then I was back.
23:26We start walking back.
23:27And there's where it even gets stranger.
23:30Neither one of us remember anything until the next day.
23:33That's very interesting.
23:35And so what was Holt's reaction to all this?
23:38Don't really know.
23:39I have no memory from that point until the next day.
23:42Do you think there was some loss of time somewhere?
23:46Well, I mean, that's where I try to be careful with this.
23:49I don't understand.
23:50People have said I was abducted, I was taken, all that.
23:53Maybe I was.
23:53I honestly do not know what happened.
23:56That's what I mean my whole life.
23:58Immediately after the incident, Burroughs says he started to experience health problems.
24:02I had some eye issues and then at one point my gums turned white.
24:06That's fascinating.
24:09Coming up on Unidentified.
24:12Nukes, UFOs, and allegations of a cover up.
24:15I went in to see the doctor.
24:16She goes, well, there's an issue here.
24:19And I go, what's the issue?
24:20She says, well, you weren't in the Air Force when you said this event happened.
24:31When you were there at the base, did we already have nuclear capabilities in or around the area?
24:37I'm not at liberty to comment on what was the resources were,
24:40but I'm not at liberty really to comment on any base I was ever at.
24:43I mentioned that because for whatever reason, wherever these things occur,
24:47there is some sort of nuclear connection.
24:51What that connection is at this point, we can only speculate,
24:54but we're trying to figure that out.
24:56John Burroughs was a military policeman
24:58on one of America's most secret nuclear weapons bases in 1980
25:02when he says he came into contact with a UFO in England's Rendlesham Forest.
25:07Whatever it was came right over the top of us.
25:09I go, what the hell just happened?
25:11He goes, I'm not really sure, but I got knocked to the ground.
25:16Burroughs says after his encounter,
25:17he began experiencing serious health problems and went to a hospital.
25:22I went in there, and when the doctor saw me, he started doing a normal checkup.
25:27He put the stethoscope on my chest.
25:29He looked at me strange and says,
25:30what's the Air Force have to say about your heart murmur?
25:33And I'm like, heart murmur? I don't have a heart murmur.
25:36He goes, oh, yes, you do.
25:37Doctors had discovered life-threatening scarring on his heart.
25:40There are people who are reporting when they come near,
25:45they come close to or observe a phenomena, that there are changes occurring.
25:51Burroughs says his injuries were just the beginning of his problems.
25:54Can I read that?
25:56Sure.
25:56In 2012, he filed a claim to get Veterans Administration disability benefits.
26:02But he was shocked to find his military file had been classified as top secret.
26:06So I went in to see the doctor.
26:08So I sit down, and she starts asking me questions about what my claim is about.
26:14And so I answer two or three questions, and she says, hold on a second.
26:18And I look at her, and I say, what?
26:19She goes, well, there's an issue here.
26:21And I go, what's the issue?
26:22She says, well, you weren't in the Air Force when you said this event happened.
26:26And I go, what do you mean I wasn't in the Air Force?
26:28She says, according to our records, you didn't enter the Air Force until 1982.
26:34We have no medical records going back before 82.
26:39And that's when the stonewalling started.
26:43Burroughs needed help, and he got it from an unlikely source.
26:51I'm going today to meet a former senior staffer for the late Senator John McCain.
26:58This is Cheryl.
26:59How are you?
27:00Pleasure to meet you.
27:01Pleasure to meet you.
27:02How are you?
27:03I am doing wonderful.
27:04Cheryl Bennett was able to use her skills navigating the military bureaucracy
27:07to get Burroughs' disability benefits.
27:10Out of all of the veterans that I have worked with,
27:13and I have had at least 200 veterans that I worked for,
27:16never had a problem with getting any records.
27:18Getting information for John Burroughs was like pulling teeth.
27:22It was literally the most painful thing I've ever had to do.
27:25Do you think there was a concerted effort to say, okay, this file we do not want to share?
27:31Yes.
27:32Or was it?
27:32Yes.
27:33It was the higher-ups that were blocking John from getting his care.
27:36The Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, they were all being very reluctant.
27:40But John's case was extraordinary because he had gone years trying to get help and nobody was there for him.
27:48Had you heard about the Rendlesham incident prior to him talking to you?
27:52Never.
27:52And did he explain to you in general terms what that incident was about?
27:58In great length.
27:59I don't care what you're trying to cover up.
28:01This guy's life is on the line here.
28:04Why are you deceiving him?
28:07It happened.
28:07And he has results of his heart and his eye to show it happened.
28:13Was this a purposeful effort to squelch John's record from being made public?
28:20Oh, I would adamantly say yes, 100% it was deliberate.
28:24I mean, to this day, he still doesn't have his medical records and they weren't given to him.
28:29What do you think they're afraid of?
28:30The incident that took place.
28:32They literally had proof and evidence and they didn't want the world to know.
28:37Which is kind of scary.
28:39Because you don't know what else they're covering up or they don't want us to know.
28:45John Burroughs is one of only two U.S. servicemen to receive military benefits after exposure.
28:50to one of these unidentified objects.
28:52The other is the man who was with him in Rendlesham Forest that night.
28:56Sergeant Jim Penniston.
28:58If the U.S. military really tried to cover up what happened in Rendlesham,
29:02was this part of a much larger pattern that went on for decades?
29:07I mean, there's a very checkered history of the Pentagon using the military as guinea pigs.
29:13It's not inconceivable that there is some secret test program of advanced aircraft that's using our active-duty military folks
29:20basically as test subjects without telling them.
29:24It's almost like the Kennedy assassination.
29:26There's so much evidence pointing at something, but nobody knows exactly what it is.
29:30But something really did happen. The people really were affected.
29:34There's no argument about that.
29:42Lou Elizondo's investigation has uncovered new details of recent UFO encounters with nuclear-powered U.S. Navy ships.
29:50But the connection between UFOs and America's nuclear assets stretches back decades.
29:54There were employees at the test site assigned to monitor UFO activity in connection with the tests.
30:05Investigative journalist George Knapp has told Elizondo that UFOs were seen near U.S. nuclear tests dating back to the
30:111950s.
30:14All of the nuclear facilities, Los Alamos, Livermore, Sandia, Savannah River, all had UFO incidents.
30:22I am here to discuss the so-called flying saucers.
30:27There's a news conference that was recorded on film after the UFO flap in 1952, two weekends in a row.
30:35UFOs are seen on radar. They're seen visually.
30:38We have received and analyzed between 1,000 and 2,000 reports that have come to us from all kinds
30:45of sources.
30:46We've been able to explain them as hoaxes, as erroneously identified friendly aircraft, as meteorological or electronic phenomena, or as
30:57light aberrations.
30:59General Samford speaks to the media and says it was a weather inversion. Now that's a lie.
31:04We know that there have been investigators that have been on the scene of some of these instances where they've
31:10collected physical evidence and it's squirreled away.
31:16So what are these unidentified objects?
31:19One theory has persisted.
31:21The entire UFO phenomenon is in fact a U.S. government disinformation campaign to draw attention away from its own
31:28next generation weapons.
31:30In the past, the American government hasn't always been very forthcoming.
31:35There have been sins in the past that the American government has been guilty of committing against the American people.
31:40No wonder people don't trust the government.
31:43For decades, the military's counterintelligence divisions used the public's fascination with UFOs to disguise nuclear weapons research and top secret
31:52aircraft testing.
31:54RAF Bentwaters near Rendlesham Forest hit one of the U.S. military's largest stockpiles of Cold War nuclear weapons.
32:01And some say what happened there in 1980 was merely a military test gone wrong.
32:08That same year, at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, another series of strange events unfolded that raised even
32:14more questions about the government's role in the UFO story.
32:17In 1980, Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico was still one of the centers of storing nuclear weapons and
32:24parts for nuclear weapons inside a big mountain that was hollowed out.
32:28Greg Bishop is a UFO expert who wrote a book about the Kirtland case.
32:32It was a place of secrets. It was a place of black projects.
32:36And the Air Force would rather that people not figure out what was going on.
32:42As technology began to rapidly progress in the early 1980s, so did a new arms race with the Soviets to
32:49develop advanced weapons and aircraft.
32:52Kirtland was home to a massive nuclear weapons stockpile, but it was also one of America's most classified weapons testing
32:58facilities,
32:59where early versions of stealth jets and unmanned drones began to take shape.
33:04A lot of the military technology is at least 10 and sometimes 20 years ahead of public awareness. They have
33:11to be. That's the way, you know, you keep ahead of the enemy.
33:14One local man began documenting the strange lights flying above the base and started recording the Air Force's radio communications.
33:21He was listening to radio transmissions from the base. Microbursts and communications having to do with defense programs.
33:30He calls up the Air Force and he says, do you know you guys have these lights flying around the
33:34base?
33:34They said, this is very interesting to us. Why don't you come down to the base and talk about it?
33:39The Air Force assigned a counterintelligence operative named Richard Doty.
33:44I began a dialogue trying to find out everything he had. We had to decide on what we were going
33:50to do then.
33:51Were we going to allow this to happen or we were trying to convince him otherwise?
33:56Doty says he began telling the man what he was seeing was actually aliens and even gave him a computer
34:01loaded with what appear to be messages from an alien race.
34:04This computer starts spitting out the most insane stuff you can imagine. We're on a dying planet and we need
34:10your help and we want to exchange technology.
34:14He got more and more paranoid and Doty actually encouraged this paranoia.
34:19We planted to see that what he was seeing and what he was hearing and what he was collecting was
34:24in fact probably maybe UFOs.
34:27But Richard Doty's covert mission wasn't just to confuse civilians about what was happening at Kirtland.
34:33The operation was also intended to spread disinformation to Soviet spies looking to steal America's most advanced military technology.
34:41The Air Force put out UFO stories to see if the Russians would start, you know, seeing Chum in the
34:49water and show up at U.S. military bases or in different places where they might be trying to spy
34:55on us.
34:55But it's a very difficult subject to get to the bottom of and have any real sense of where you
35:02are in this hall of mirrors.
35:05There's probably about 80% of false information being presented, about 20% of factual information.
35:12Unfortunately, the UFO community doesn't know which is which.
35:15Many have questioned whether Lou Elizondo is another Richard Doty and his new UFO crusade is part of a larger
35:24disinformation campaign.
35:26Before he ran the Pentagon's secret UFO unit, Elizondo was assigned to protect highly classified military technology just like Doty.
35:33Lou Elizondo has a background in effectively government-sanctioned disinformation.
35:40That's what you do in the counterintelligence business. You spread lies for a purpose.
35:45Coming up on Unidentified.
35:48I've been a counterintelligence officer my entire career, since the day I went into the Army. That's what I do.
35:53Do you understand why some in the American public see that as a negative in your message now?
36:13Look, this is real. We know it's real. We need to look at it. We need to apply more attention,
36:21more resources into this.
36:22Lou Elizondo and his partner Chris Mellon insist they're not part of a UFO disinformation campaign. They're fighting for disclosure.
36:29It's actually against the law to conduct a covert action against our own people.
36:35There's a difference between what has occurred on some occasions in the past where individuals such as Richard Doty allegedly
36:45confuse or sow some disinformation,
36:48but we're in there trying to promote transparency, trying to get more information out.
36:54There's no pressure on the government to release any information until we came along.
37:00Our combat pilots are encountering these things. It's confirmed by radar. It's not responsible to walk away from this.
37:07It's what 99% of the people in the department did. Lou was not one of those people.
37:25Wow. This is a picture when I was a very young man. That's my dad. He's the one who told
37:33me anything worth loving is worth also dying for.
37:38After 20 years of serving his country as a military counterintelligence officer, Lou Elizondo is still adjusting to life as
37:45a civilian.
37:47Lou, how did it feel when you had to ask your family to pick up and leave?
37:52It felt terrible.
37:54The point of sacrifice is not necessarily being a martyr, but it's being willing to give everything you have for
38:01the right reason.
38:02And that is so others may live and in peace.
38:07I've been a counterintelligence officer my entire career, since the day I went into the army.
38:11Counterintelligence and human operations, that's what I do.
38:14Do you understand why some in the American public see that as a negative in your message now?
38:22People who say, well, you know, you've been trained to deceive. Well, yeah, to some degree deceive the enemy. You're
38:28not my enemy.
38:29But, you know, the government's made up of people. Good people, bad people, people in between.
38:34Some of these people have agendas, some of these people don't.
38:37It's no different than a church or a company or a school.
38:41And where do you land on that scale?
38:44Well, I hope I land on the good guy side.
38:48I mean, you know, I'm going to sit here and toot my own horn. I don't like that.
38:52But I think time will tell.
38:55I think just because someone is in the intelligence field doesn't mean that the person's bad.
39:00You need intelligence out there. You need people out there on the wire doing that type of work.
39:05It is absolutely vital. It saves lives. It finds bombs before they blow up and rip people's legs off it.
39:10It stops people from getting in ambushes. It stops people from having buildings blown up and the floors dropping out
39:16below them.
39:17CI is very, very important when used responsibly. But it's like anything else.
39:21A kitchen knife can make a fantastic five-course meal or it can be used to, you know, hurt people.
39:27So, you know, it is what it is. It's just a skill like anything else.
39:30I've dedicated my career and adult life to protecting Americans and our way of life.
39:35And not deceiving them.
39:41There was a time that the U.S. government definitely applied its counterintelligence assets against the American people.
39:46But we've learned our lesson. And if I was ever asked to do this type of things, I wouldn't do
39:50it. Period.
39:55Over the past year, Elizondo has discovered what he sees as a disturbing pattern.
40:00UFOs have allegedly appeared above America's atomic test sites.
40:04Air Force bases stockpiled with nuclear weapons.
40:09The beams went down into the weapons storage area. I'm thinking, is this a warning?
40:13And nuclear-powered aircraft carriers across the globe?
40:17You've got an object that just shows up at will, does what it wants, in a battle group on one
40:23of the most powerful warships in the world.
40:25And you actually get a man-fighter, two of them, that are eyewitnesses. And then nothing gets done.
40:31So what if they're E.T. or they want to hang out? Then it's all good. You know, we're all
40:35going to do a group hug and sing kumbaya. But what if they're not?
40:40At the facilities where we were first designing and building nuclear weapons, there were UFOs.
40:45On the ships, the Nimitz, the Roosevelt, all the people working there have seen these things. Are they all crazy?
40:52Either mass delusion or they're all right. But either way, we need to look into this.
40:58Elizondo is now more certain than ever that these unidentified craft pose a serious threat to national security.
41:04And there's a link between UFOs and U.S. nuclear assets.
41:08If it's a threat, it's a threat. You're telling me you know it's a threat and you're telling me to
41:13ignore it.
41:14You're telling me to turn my back to it and pretend it's not there.
41:21But the ultimate question remains, how do you explain these seemingly unexplainable events?
41:32There's basically three possible explanations.
41:35If you're just a rational, objective-minded person.
41:39First, this is a foreign country that has made some sort of breakthrough.
41:44China, Russia, Israel.
41:46There's only a handful of countries that probably would have the capability, potentially, to do this.
41:52Second, it is a secret U.S. government program.
41:54These are advanced military aircraft that only a very few number of government officials and defense contractors know about.
42:02And that could explain why the government sort of doesn't want to talk about it.
42:07Because they want to shield these secret military aircraft programs.
42:10The third possibility is the pilots reporting these have just lost their mind and they're hallucinating.
42:18Lou Elizondo and his team believe none of these theories can explain the multitude of UFO encounters with the U
42:24.S. military they have investigated.
42:26Dating back seven decades.
42:30We have to at least look at the damn data, stop actively suppressing it and stop criticizing people who want
42:37to come out and have the conversation.
42:38And they can't discount another possibility.
42:40One few in the military establishment appear even willing to consider.
42:45That what we are dealing with is something else entirely.
42:50On the next Unidentified.
42:52The distance between the Earth and the nearest other star is a few light years.
42:57A spaceship could make this journey. We don't know of any reason why it's impossible.
43:00I would like to see what you have. That's what I'd like to see.
43:03We assembled more than 13,000 cases.
43:09It should arrive that destroyed helicopter wings.
43:14I can show you the photograph.
43:17These are all their events. I've got the whole thing here.
43:21This may indeed be something that we are completely unprepared for.
43:25It's chilling.
43:27For decades, thousands of people experienced unidentified flying objects.
43:30And nothing has been done about this instance.
43:32We need to confront the truth.
43:35So Tom, this just hit the wire. This is a political article.
43:39The title is U.S. Navy Drafting New Guidelines for Reporting UFOs.
43:44This is the story of the millennia.
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