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00:14in 2017 this New York Times headline shocked the world a clandestine US
00:21government program have been investigating UFOs the Pentagon has
00:27confirmed the existence of the advanced aerospace threat identification program
00:30that studied UFOs and they released video for eight years the secret program
00:39was run by this man Lou Elizondo time and time again we were coming up with
00:44these mystery objects performing in a way that defies logic frustrated by what
00:50he says was a cover-up Elizondo quit and joined forces with an elite group of
00:55former government insiders we're gonna figure out how to get to the bottom of
00:59it now they have one mission to expose what they say is the truth about UFOs
01:06US airspace is being violated by vehicles of unknown origin with advanced
01:10capabilities it was raining UFOs I put my entire career and future on the line
01:15because I believe in what I believe in Carl Sagan once famously said extraordinary
01:23claims require extraordinary proof he was absolutely right but now we have the proof
01:48Lou Elizondo is on his way to interview a key eyewitness to one of the most stunning UFO events in
01:54recent history
01:55we're trying to build a case here for the jury and so when you're building a case
01:58for the jury there is nothing more compelling than eyewitness testimony they
02:03were there and by the way they're trained observers these are people who can
02:06think critically and this particular pilot has never given an interview about
02:10this incident ever in 2004 this Navy fighter pilot was training for deployment
02:17on board the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier now a high-ranking officer this is her
02:22first on-camera interview about the incident she wants to keep her identity
02:26hidden due to the sensitivity of what she's about to say I want to make sure
02:31that everybody in this room understands that her identity is to remain
02:35protected at all times so when that even includes when you're writing notes on
02:37email back to executives hey that was a great interview with don't write that
02:42don't put it in there just say the pilot wingman pilot would be appropriate okay so
02:47that's not with the wingman pilot well I still have a security clearance so as a
02:51result we will not be discussing anything classified at all during this
02:55interview it's in fact if at any time anything is discussed at classified we
02:59will stop the interview right there and then sure Elizondo was still bound by
03:04note of secrecy so he hopes testimony like this will force the government to
03:09acknowledge UFOs are a threat to national security and to take action because this
03:14issue is such kryptonite inside the national security establishment he
03:18needed to figure out a way to do it so that what he's gathering could be made
03:22public these are not crazy people that are reporting this stuff these are the
03:26people that we entrust our security to why don't we just start from the
03:29beginning we were operating off the coast of California and a designated
03:33military working area with our carrier strike group
03:40we had launched to perform a practice fight against each other to rehearse our
03:47maneuvers on November 14th 2004 this pilot took off from the deck of the Nimitz as
03:53the wingman to a second jet flown by her squadron commander
04:00she soon found herself in the middle of one of the most significant UFO encounters on
04:05record it was daylight oh yeah it was in the middle of the night clear blue skies
04:09middle of the day normally fighter pilots are directed by a radar plane known as a
04:15Hawkeye
04:17but the two fa-18 Super Hornets are suddenly redirected by controllers on the
04:22USS Princeton we were interrupted by a ship-borne controller their tone was urgent
04:28and their requests were unusual this is not an exercise this is a real-world
04:37intercept didn't have much experience I thought maybe it's a drug runner or
04:43something coming up the coast of Mexico and I thought wow that would be cool with
04:47no information about their target as the two jets arrive at the designated location
04:52they're confused my heart sank there was something in the water there was a churning and I went from
05:00being sort of giddy excited to thinking oh my god now we're on scene commanders of a wreck
05:05somebody's crashed and you know this aircraft is sinking and this is when you notice an object
05:14we were all clamoring to get on the radio do you see in the water what is that a bizarre
05:24craft is hovering over the churning water
05:27what does it look like no windows no flight surfaces so no wings at all no wings no smooth white
05:37no intakes no smoke trail
05:41it looked like a giant tic-tac give me a rough size maybe 40 feet okay 40 feet fair enough
05:49large enough to scare the
05:51out of me it was so unnerving because it was so unpredictable high G rapid velocity
05:59rapid acceleration so you're wondering you know how can I possibly fight this we have no
06:06ordinance on board you know unless one of us ram this thing which the way it was maneuvering would
06:11have been impossible so I stayed high cover the wingman watched from above as her commander flies
06:19directly at the strange craft now Elizondo is on his way to interview the other pilot in the air that
06:34day
06:34the wingman's commander these are reports from military pilots they've been in combat and this
06:42is something that they cannot explain and it's shaking them up to the point that they're willing
06:47to risk their professional standing by coming forward and talking about it brother Dave how are you
06:53how you doing man I'm doing better than I deserve how you doing good boy you live in a castle
06:58man
07:00retired US Navy commander David Fravor led the black aces squadron flying combat missions over the
07:06Middle East and Africa he now works in the private sector as an aeronautics consultant
07:11sudden instantaneous acceleration commander Fravor is a very rare breed he's one of the few folks that
07:18actually run towards danger not away from it Fravor was the wingman's commanding officer that day over
07:24the Pacific he had that fighter instinct so it wasn't surprising his actions on that day I really
07:34wanted to see what it was I mean if I could have joined right up on it and you know
07:39got like Blue
07:39Angel close then I probably would have done that as Fravor attempted to get a closer look his wingman
07:45watched from above this object seemed to recognize that we were there and went from this very low altitude
07:55to maneuvering in an erratic very rapid manner so the hair on the back of my neck is standing up
08:05I'm thinking I'm gonna be watching a disaster here coming up on unidentified how does the story end
08:14this rapidly accelerates and it's gone the government needed to discredit this phenomenon get your
08:20government to do what it's supposed to do and find out what this is wake up this is real wake
08:26up
08:37most of my questions are going to be focused on the five interrogatives right the who what when where
08:42how and why just like we're doing a terrorism or espionage investigation Lou Elizondo may be the
08:47most significant US official to ever claim the UFO phenomenon is real for two decades he served as a
08:54counterintelligence officer for the Department of Defense Lou is in many ways an enigma here was a guy who
09:02had spent decades really in the intelligence community whether it was the Taliban or as Al Qaeda or as ISIS
09:09or as Guantanamo Bay he had a deal with all of it Lou Elizondo has the most insane career you
09:16would
09:16ever hear he started out in special operations with the US Army and then he moved his way up into
09:22all
09:22these shadow organizations doing all these all that really secret crazy stuff you see in the movies and
09:30then he ended up becoming the guy that's in charge of all those programs Lou is the rare exception who
09:36was
09:36willing to stick his neck out and take risks you know that is not usually rewarded in the bureaucracy
09:41the strategy that most people adopt is to keep their heads down and you know go along to get along
09:47don't draw attention to yourself keep that pension in mind and Lou was a guy who was willing to to
09:54really
09:54engage and stick his neck out and and try to be a change agent he was handling some very sensitive
10:01issues and he had the kind of savvy that you need to be successful at that level because you're really
10:09dealing with areas that are that are gray areas oftentimes where there's no clear authority to get
10:14things done you have to persuade people and you've got to be someone with some character personality and
10:20willingness and ability to engage people and and Lou had all of those attributes Lou is not somebody who
10:28you would think would come up with these fanciful stories about UFOs but as I got to know him as
10:34I
10:34met with him several times over a couple of months I came to believe that he was someone who had
10:40come
10:40into this issue very skeptical and came out of it almost a religious believer that wow this stuff is
10:46really happening these are really credible reports from pilots from other people that are not wacky and
10:53so I think he became a convert and not just a convert but someone who felt that it was his
10:58job to
11:00try and get more senior leaders in the Pentagon to pay attention to this in 2009 Elizondo took over the
11:0622
11:06million dollar advanced aerospace threat identification program or a tip that
11:11investigated encounters between UFOs and the US military is this three reports this is five reports
11:21we were made aware of many many many many incidents it remains a sensitive number those numbers are
11:28increasing on a regular and routine basis some of these incidents are very very recent and very
11:34compelling but in 2017 he made the shocking announcement he was walking away from a 20-year
11:40military career and going public I had tried in vain to work within the silos of the organization but I
11:49ultimately left the Department of Defense because of my loyalty to the department and to the secretary not
11:56disloyalty for the past year unidentified cameras have had exclusive access to Elizondo and his new team as they
12:04track down military personnel willing to go on the record with their incredible encounters with UFOs
12:17you are able to provide a play-by-play of what actually went down those moments that you were
12:24encountering that tic-tac that's correct so all that's going to be hugely important he's meeting
12:29with one of the Navy's top former fighter pilots who came face to face with a tic-tac shaped UFO
12:34in 2004.
12:40Flying a Navy fighter is probably one of the most spectacular jobs you could ever have in the entire
12:45world it's like a roller coaster times 10,000 and I got to do it in some semblance of a
12:52tactical
12:53airplane for 18 years. On November 14th 2004 commander David Fravor and his wingman pilot took
13:02off from the USS Nimitz which was on maneuvers south of San Diego. I was the commanding officer of strike
13:10fighter squadron 4-1 the black aces we're flying brand new super hornets. The nuclear-powered USS Nimitz was
13:18the lead vessel of a carrier strike group that included the destroyers USS Higgins and Chafee,
13:23the attack submarine USS Louisville and the radar-equipped missile cruiser USS Princeton.
13:29If you asked any senior military officer what is the crown jewel of the American military arsenal they
13:35would say the aircraft carrier battle group. If we have to go into combat sometime quickly it's likely
13:41going to be a carrier battle group that's going to be there first and it's going to be in action
13:45first.
13:47It was an air defense exercise two good guys against two bad guys probably 70 miles 60 miles off the
13:56coast in the gap between San Diego and Ensenada. Suddenly the pilots are contacted by radar operators
14:03on the Princeton. The Princeton control comes up and says we're going to suspend training we have real
14:09world passing. The pilots are re-vectored to a new destination but aren't told why. So we start
14:15heading off to the west the other airplane is on my left hand side. I was the junior pilot trying
14:23to
14:24keep up with the senior pilot and the lead aircraft. We're looking we don't see anything on our radars at
14:30all and we're talking to each other trying to figure this out. The Princeton's Aegis SPI-1 radar system
14:35is powerful enough to track an object as small as a baseball at an altitude of 80,000 feet but
14:41the jets
14:41are flying blind. We tried to see what was out there which is difficult when you know what you're
14:46looking for. It's even harder when you don't know what you're looking for. So it goes down 60, 50, 40,
14:5330, 20 gets all the way down. They get to a point where they can't separate us from the blimp.
14:58They call it
14:59merge plot which means you're in the same space as whatever you're looking for and you got to start
15:03looking outside because the radar can't help you anymore. Then far below in the water they see
15:09what looks like a plane crash or a submerging submarine but the weapons officer in the rear
15:14seat of Fravor's jet spots something else. I hear hey Skipper do you see and as he's saying that I
15:22noticed the tic-tac. It's white it has no wings it has no rotors. I go holy what is that
15:31and he goes I
15:32don't know. According to this leak summary of the incident contact was made here 30 miles off the
15:38coast 70 miles south of the U.S. Mexico border. At first the strange craft stays close to the surface
15:46moving unlike anything the pilots had ever seen. This thing would go instantaneous from one way to
15:51another similar to if you throw a ping pong ball against the wall and we start to kind of orbit
15:56because
15:57now we're going to watch this thing. We start a right-hand turn and we're going from a clock code
16:01the object is in the middle of the clock and we're at six o'clock and we're driving around the
16:06circle.
16:07So we get to about nine o'clock and it's just still doing its little erratic thing kind of moving
16:11around
16:11this disturbance in the water and and I go hey I'm gonna go check it out I'm gonna go down
16:18there.
16:19As we're coming down nice and easy we get to about the 12 o'clock position and all of a
16:22sudden it goes
16:23and it kind of turns and it's now it's mirroring us and it starts coming up. We're like okay now
16:28it knows we're here. It seemed to be aware and it seems to recognize him. It goes from basically
16:33just almost a hover into a pretty aggressive climb up to our altitude so there's a bit of fear because
16:38now you're out there dealing with something that you have no idea what it is. It's actually reacting
16:43to what we're doing. I'm kind of pulling nose you know to where he's going to be and he's coming
16:51up
16:52he just rapidly accelerates beyond anything that I've ever seen crosses my nose and it's gone
16:58and I'm like whoa. The tic tac appears to have vanished but as the jets streak towards a pre-arranged
17:06rendezvous location known as the cap point the radio chatter becomes frantic. The controller from the
17:12Princeton comes up right as we're doing all this and says hey sir you're not going to believe this.
17:16He goes but that thing is at your cap point. According to Fravor the tic tac accelerated from
17:24a standing position and flew approximately 60 miles in under a minute as fast as 3,700 miles an hour.
17:32How did the tic tac know the pilot's cap point and how did it accelerate so quickly?
17:37You got something that can accelerate and disappear and then show up 60 miles away.
17:41Kind of in awe a little bit because you go whoa we don't have that you know and I'm talking
17:45we're
17:46flying a one of the premier airplanes on the planet. What was this? There was a capability out there
17:53don't know where it's from not saying it's from outer space but not saying it's from here either.
17:59Back on the Nimitz the pilots tell the rest of the squadron what just happened. The next crew is
18:05getting ready so we're talking to him about this and they're like you got to be kidding. They took us
18:09seriously and the wizzo the guy in the back seat said I'm going to go find it.
18:16The next jet to launch had a targeting pod with an infrared sensor and camera.
18:23It jammed the radar but he got a lock on it and that's the video that you see.
18:30That doesn't weird you out. I don't know what does.
18:34Coming up on unidentified.
18:37I have no idea what that thing is and it's not acting like a
18:41aircraft. It's not acting like anything I've ever seen.
18:50It's not acting like anything. It's not acting like anything I've ever seen.
18:51Hey guys how are you? Good Lou how are you? Good.
18:53Hopefully you can shed some light on a few things.
18:58On November 14th 2004 two pilots launched from the USS Nimitz and intercepted a UFO over the Pacific
19:05south of San Diego. What does it look like? No windows, no flight surfaces. It looked like a giant
19:13tic-tac. They believe this video recorded later that day by a pilot from their squadron shows the
19:19UFO they saw. It's one of three Department of Defense UFO videos Lou Elizondo helped get released to the
19:26public. When the three videos came out there was this shock by the world community that oh my gosh
19:34these are real videos. This effort that we are embarking on I think is going to change a conversation
19:39forever. Now Elizondo is meeting with two leading aviation experts to analyze the videos and see if
19:46they can help explain the pilots extraordinary encounters. What I'd like to do is go through
19:53these videos very carefully and get your thoughts on these. The providence on these videos is very
19:59well established. They are genuine DoD military videos. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Chris Cook is a top
20:06gun pilot who spent a career flying the military's most sophisticated fighter jets. Ross Amer flew
20:12commercial aircraft for more than four decades and works as a consultant for the National Transportation
20:17Safety Board. It's the first time the three men have spoken. So the first video I'm going to show you
20:23this afternoon was taking it into 2004 time frame. The first video shows the tic-tac shaped object seen by
20:32the
20:33Nimitz pilots captured by an F-18 infrared camera. If you look at it out of context you think oh
20:38this
20:38is just another UFO video but from my perspective he absolutely captured what we saw earlier in the day.
20:45The grainy 90 second video shows the tic-tac flying slowly then sipping away at what appears to be a
20:53high
20:53rate of speed. The altitude is 20,000 feet. We're in the tv mode now so it's visual. The display's
21:03indicators are familiar to the pilots
21:06but the image on screen is confusing. It doesn't appear to have any characteristics of any normal aircraft
21:12that I've witnessed flying. The experts wonder how the craft is staying airborne without wings.
21:19No flight control surfaces. I don't see that. It does not look like an aircraft to me.
21:24But in these images of a fighter jet also shot with an infrared camera, the heat from the engine
21:29is clearly visible. Everything we know about propulsion systems is they create an intense
21:34amount of heat. So if it was a conventional type aircraft you would most most definitely see
21:41some type of an IR signature plume behind the airplane. If you want to defy Earth's gravitational
21:51force the way to do it is with either a propeller to mechanically displace air, a jet engine to compress
21:59air and to create an equal and opposite reaction, or a chemical explosion like a missile or a rocket.
22:04Each one of those has a tall tale signature. Yet here are things that are able to seemingly effortlessly
22:09defy Earth's gravitational force and maneuver in ways that are complete contrary to anything that we
22:15would presume should be able to fly. The ability to fly without wings or an engine is one of five
22:23distinct characteristics Elizondo's Pentagon team discovered. He calls them the observables and
22:30considers them the program's breakthrough discovery. Anti-gravity, the ability to fly without
22:36apparent means of propulsion or lift. Instantaneous acceleration, the ability to reach a high rate
22:42of speed in a short amount of time. Hypersonic velocity, speeds over 3700 miles per hour, five times the speed
22:51of sound. Low observability, the capacity to cloak or conceal. Transmedium travel, the ability to move through
23:01space, air and water. Any one of these, mind you, would be an absolute strategic game changer for
23:07any foreign adversary to have. And yet, here we have things doing all five.
23:16Nobody that I know is aware of some breakthrough that we've made in technology that could
23:21allow aircraft to do what these reportedly are doing. Brian Bender is one of the reporters who broke
23:28the story of the Pentagon's secret UFO program. These aircraft seem to defy all of the known
23:34aerodynamic properties that we're familiar with. So let's let's let the film keep rolling. The object
23:40the Navy pilot is tracking suddenly seems to get bigger. So what just happened there? What is he
23:46doing? He's changing the zoom. The object then appears to accelerate rapidly, disappearing off screen.
23:53That's a significant rate of acceleration in a horizontal plane off to the left. That's very fast.
24:04The object appears to perform a similar maneuver to what the pilots witnessed.
24:09We're all amazed at how fast this thing just took off and disappeared. Instantaneous acceleration at this
24:14rate would produce a force of gravity or g-force so extreme it would crush a human being.
24:20I have no idea what that thing is and it's not acting like a...
24:26Aircraft. It's not acting like anything I've ever seen.
24:29Yeah. If there are vehicles out there, aircraft that are doing things aerodynamically that we've
24:35never even thought of, then I think we potentially could have real trouble down the road.
24:42Aircraft. There was another F-18 that was flying with Commander Dave Fravor that day. And for the first
24:54time, frankly ever, we were able to talk to that individual. There was some frustration. Frankly,
25:02there was a little bit of fear. Lou Elizondo is briefing his team on new information he's learned
25:08about the USS Nimitz incident. This elite group of former government insiders was formed in 2017,
25:15bound by their conviction that the craft in these videos must be investigated.
25:20We can make a difference and do things because we have the connections and the network. And if we can
25:25continue to establish credibility with people in the Hill and the executive branch, we might be able to take
25:30this the next step. Chris Mellon served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
25:36Steve Justice was a top aviation engineer at Lockheed Martin's Legendary Skunk Works.
25:42Al Putoff was a scientist for the CIA. If you were trying to come up with the A-team
25:49of former high-level government officials who would come forward on this issue, you can't really think
25:55of a better team. Lou Elizondo, Chris Mellon, these are guys who still have security clearances.
26:00Still have networks in Washington. Still are in the business, if you will. Chris Mellon has put his
26:05entire family's reputation on the line to do this. Steve Justice left a very lucrative job at
26:10Lockheed Skunk Works to do this. But by far the most unlikely member of Elizondo's new team
26:16is the man who brought them all together. The last show I played was in front of 100,000 people.
26:23The lights and the pyrotechnics and all that stuff was going on right behind me. And then they
26:28wonder why I'm not doing that now. So back it up. Introduce yourself.
26:34Tom DeLong, Yeah.
26:36Tom DeLong, My name is Tom DeLong. A lot of people know me from my band Blink 182. I started
26:41that band when I was 16. But I got to that point where my daughter was two years old and
26:47I was gone
26:48for two years straight. And I really, really needed a break. The only other thing I was ever interested
26:54in was UFOs. I was so fascinated with this topic specifically because I think it was like an escape
27:02from growing up in a broken family in suburbia. The idea of who we are and how we see ourselves
27:09and
27:09where we're going and where we're from and what this is all about, that all seemed to be wrapped up
27:14in
27:15this idea of unidentified flying objects. And a lot of people would ask why. I said, well, you know,
27:21you're dealing with a subject that has science and that has religion and it has government secrecy
27:29and national security and it has physics and consciousness. There's like you, there's like
27:34a never ending rabbit hole in any one of those things. DeLong walked away from stardom and dedicated
27:40himself to disclosing what he believes is the truth about UFOs. I needed to get into the government and I
27:46needed to find the people that deal with this subject and let them know what I'm thinking of doing.
27:52DeLong says he was able to secure a meeting with a high level aerospace executive with deep
27:57connections to the military. All of a sudden out of nowhere, I had an opening and I just go,
28:02I am not naive to this subject. I understand the national security implications of this subject,
28:08but I am asking for your help because I need guidance. I just need somebody to help me and give
28:13me advice.
28:14And he leans back and he goes, okay, that's when my life changed completely.
28:21Soon DeLong was covertly communicating with powerful people, including General William McCaslin,
28:26the former head of a billion dollar air force research lab, and John Podesta, the former
28:31presidential advisor who once said his biggest regret in the White House was not releasing the
28:36government's UFO files. Tom called me out of the blue, sort of, who is this fellow and why is he
28:42calling me? And we began to chat. And I began to chat with some of the other people he was
28:46talking
28:47to, and he clearly was establishing a network of people who had serious credentials. There are people
28:53like me who see this as an incredible mystery and enigma that needs to be resolved. DeLong says they were
29:02all part of an elite group of high-ranking officials dedicated to UFO disclosure, but they wanted to remain
29:08in the shadows. Do you think there's a way over time that we can open up some of these discussions,
29:14declassify material? We ought to be serious about investigating what's going on. Other countries
29:18have done that. Other countries have declassified the information they've had. He's one of the most
29:22tenacious individuals I've ever met. He got to the highest levels of the U.S. government to include
29:26Podesta. Hello, South L.A. But in October 2016, on the eve of the heated presidential election,
29:35DeLong was thrust into a media storm. WikiLeaks released more emails. The result, it appears,
29:40of massive hacks into the National Democratic Committee, private email account of Clinton
29:44campaign chair John Podesta, and who knows who else? DeLong's communications with John Podesta
29:49and others were stolen by Russian hackers and published online by WikiLeaks.
29:56The one rule they had is we will help you,
30:01but don't go out and tell anybody who we are. That's the only rule.
30:05Overnight, DeLong found himself at the center of the decades-old debate about UFOs.
30:12I think a lot of people thought that Tom DeLong was being used, was being used as a tool.
30:16They'll tell him some stuff that's not true, and it'll be a diversion,
30:21and we'll fool the Russians or fool the Chinese.
30:24George Knapp is an investigative journalist who has reported extensively about UFOs.
30:29I'm just going to ask you point blank. Is Tom DeLong being controlled by a small group of powerful
30:34insiders? No. No, I think Tom DeLong has plotted out his own course. He's got some really good
30:42advisors who are not part of the government. All of these events that have happened are because Tom
30:47DeLong used shoe leather, knocked on doors, made phone calls. What Tom has started in the last year
30:54is unprecedented, I think, in the history of the study of this field.
31:01By the fall of 2017, DeLong had assembled his team.
31:05Thanks for joining us live today. Then he learned the head of the Pentagon's secret UFO program
31:10had resigned in protest and wanted to join forces.
31:15It was Luis Elizondo. It was the guy that I wasn't supposed to know his name ever. It was the
31:21guy that
31:21worked at the office of the director of national intelligence. And they said, but there's one other
31:26thing. There's the first three videos of UFOs are going to be declassified for the first time in U.S.
31:35history.
31:42Coming up on Unidentified. I was at Area 51 talking to some guys there and I said,
31:48do you guys ever see anything really strange? And much to my surprise, these guys said, yeah,
31:54we've seen some really strange stuff here at night.
32:06Chris Mellon understands what it means for America to be under attack. On 9-11, he was one of the
32:12highest ranking officials inside the Pentagon. I have lived through and survived intelligence
32:16failures, including the attack on the Pentagon. This was a group of 20 guys with no special skills
32:23or capabilities or technology and they were able to wreck massive havoc on our country.
32:32To me, what is most interesting about this case, most pilots don't report these kinds of incidents
32:38where people are bringing information and cases to us, which is a sign that, you know,
32:43we're establishing some credibility and some presence. Now, Mellon's out of government,
32:48part of an elite team of investigators raising the alarm about what they see as another potential aerial
32:54threat. What is really motivating me right now is the Nimitz case. We had multiple naval aviators in what
33:02they saw in broad daylight over an extended period of time was corroborated by the most sophisticated
33:10sensor systems, air defense systems on earth. Any reasonable person would have to conclude defies
33:18present understanding of what aircraft are capable of doing. It was clearly something beyond the pale.
33:26Chris Mellon is an interesting character. He's never been very public. His jobs have sort of
33:29demanded him to work behind the curtain. Mellon hails from one of America's richest and most powerful
33:35families. The Mellons made fortunes in oil, aluminum and banking and wielded power for generations.
33:43But Chris Mellon found his calling in intelligence, overseeing the budgets for some of America's most
33:49secret programs.
33:50I was at the Senate Armed Services Committee and a report emerged indicating the United States had lost
33:55a nuclear weapon. So they sent me to try to find out what happened to the missing nuke warhead.
34:01Back when I was a junior person in the Department of Defense, we all knew who Christopher Mellon was.
34:07This was a man who had all the secrets. He is by far one of the most astute and intelligent
34:12individuals I've ever had the privilege to work with. He is a true legend, a living legend. He was an
34:19individual that was highly regarded as being one of the most proficient and professional individuals
34:24in the Department. Chris Mellon has spent decades working not only in the Department of Defense but
34:30also with the Senate, but at the highest levels. One of his large accomplishments being putting
34:35together the Joint Special Operations Command Bill, which is merging all of our special operations
34:41into one kind of division that reports all the way up to the President. It's a major,
34:45major piece of legislation. He truly is a master strategist and so understanding how government works
34:50and how the intelligence community works and how Congress works. That takes a level of expertise
34:55you don't find every day. Chris Mellon was a former staffer for the Intelligence Committee on Capitol
35:00Hill. He was an intelligence official inside the Pentagon. And in the beginning, it was a very
35:06opaque sort of process. In other words, he had something he was working on, something that
35:12was bubbling up that was going to soon be ready for prime time, ready to be shared with the public,
35:16was I interested in talking about it. And of course, I was intrigued because I cover the Pentagon and
35:22anything from the intelligence world that may be coming out of the shadows into the light.
35:29I was at Area 51 talking to some guys there, working some programs. And I said,
35:34do you guys ever see anything really strange? I was almost embarrassed to even ask about it because of
35:39the stigma surrounding the topic. And much to my surprise, these guys said, yeah, we've seen some
35:45really strange stuff here at night. The deeper Mellon looked into the controversial subject,
35:50the more he began to question why the government was doing nothing about it.
35:54Here's a guy who presumably would know or be able to find out if these sightings were related to some
36:01very secret military program that these Nimitz pilots, for example, were not aware of. And clearly,
36:07Chris doesn't seem to think that these instances were military aircraft being tested, you know,
36:15out of the shadows, when it's not really in his DNA to do that.
36:20Chris Mellon and Lou Elizondo weren't the only officials within the government
36:24concerned about a potential threat. The Pentagon's secret UFO unit, AATIP, was established by a small
36:31group of senators, including former astronaut John Glenn, World War II veterans Daniel Inouye and Ted
36:38Stevens and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. It's amazing that an individual who worked at such
36:48a high level for so long as the majority leader of the United States Senate would choose this among all
36:54of the myriad of issues that he engaged on with all of the challenges confronting our country today.
37:00And this is one that he chooses in the twilight of his career to try to carry forward.
37:06In 2009, Reid sent this letter to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, arguing America needed to study the
37:13potentially groundbreaking technology behind these bizarre craft before it got into the hands of our
37:17enemies. Reid requested a small unit with one of the highest levels of secrecy. It was the birth of AATIP.
37:26He's making that case and that the strategic implications are so great that we have to
37:30accord it special protection. This wasn't the first time the U.S. government studied UFOs.
37:37The Air Force launched Project Blue Book in 1952, when a rash of UFO sightings put the nation on edge.
37:44This is David Brinkley in the radar room at Washington National Airport. On these radar screens
37:51last Saturday, they saw something strange and unusual and at the moment unexplainable. It was
37:56not an airplane. It was not a cloud. Nobody knows what it was. For the next 17 years, the Air
38:02Force
38:03studied over 12,000 UFO sightings and found 701 cases that couldn't be explained. But they concluded
38:10the incidents posed no national security threat and officially shut Project Blue Book down in 1969.
38:16It wasn't lack of compelling information. It was actually the result of compelling information.
38:22Ultimately, they determined that they needed to tamp down the concern, the public concern,
38:28in part because during the Cold War, this could create some kind of hysteria and overwhelm our air
38:34defense systems. So the government behind the scenes concluded that they needed to discredit this
38:40phenomenon. Mellon Claims Project Blue Book created a stigma around UFOs that continues to this day
38:46inside the military. I talked to people in the Pentagon who had relayed that they were concerned it was
38:53going to make the Defense Intelligence Agency look bad. They were more concerned about the optics of it.
38:58I wonder if at some point this is going to go down as a historical document where people are going
39:02to look back and say, you know, it doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on. That was heroic.
39:12I was never formally debriefed and I wasn't taken seriously for years.
39:21For over a decade, the accounts of two Navy fighter pilots of an encounter with an unidentified
39:27craft south of San Diego were dismissed by the U.S. Navy.
39:31If I had been a single seat pilot and I had encountered it by myself, I probably wouldn't
39:36have said anything. I wouldn't want to risk my security clearance. I wouldn't want to risk people
39:41thinking I was a freak or crazy. You actually get four people that are eyewitnesses to the performance
39:46of this thing and then nothing gets done. So the frustration that comes out of that is why?
39:52It was not only ridicule, but then the intel people didn't seem to be interested in their story.
39:57It was the worst of both worlds. For months, Lou Elizondo and former assistant deputy secretary
40:05of defense for intelligence Chris Mellon had been working behind the scenes to organize a meeting
40:10between the two pilots and members of Congress. If people see the evidence, they'll understand
40:15and they'll find it compelling. Sometimes it's only by bringing the information public and bringing
40:22the attention of Congress that you get action. Elizondo is driving across the country when one
40:29of the pilots, retired Navy Commander David Fravor, calls to tell him the unprecedented meeting has just
40:35taken place. Fantastic. And they asked you some hard, good questions? On the record? Oh my God. Phenomenal.
40:42Fravor tells Elizondo that he and his wingman pilot met in secret with members of Congress
40:46Congress responsible for national security. The senators don't want their names revealed because
40:56of the sensitivity of the issue. The press was not informed and the meeting is not found on any
41:02official schedule. Do you feel positive that it was well received? Well, congratulations,
41:08you just made history, brother, again. For the first time in history, U.S. senators were briefed for
41:15the record on UFOs affecting U.S. military aircraft and operations. For Elizondo, this meeting is the
41:24first step in an effort to wake lawmakers up to a serious threat to national security.
41:32How does the story end? I have no idea who it was or what it was. Maybe it's Elon Musk
41:37or somebody out
41:38there coming up with some, you know, disruptive technology that's going to change our lives like
41:43an iPhone. You know, if you'd show me an iPhone when I was in high school, I would have thought
41:46it
41:47was voodoo magic. I hope it ends peacefully. You have to ask yourself, is it ET or is it Independence
41:54Day?
41:54You know, what's the intent? And right now, we don't know.
42:08I promise I will try not to yammer on too long. I don't think necessarily disclosure is an event.
42:14I think it's a process. And I think that process began. We trust the American people to know that
42:20there are certain countries that have nuclear warheads pointed at New York and Los Angeles
42:24that could wipe out millions of people in an instant. And yet, we don't trust the American people to know
42:29that there's something in our airspace that we don't know what it is. There's a lot more I don't know
42:34than I do know. But that's okay. That's why we have to continue to seek to find the answers and
42:38collect the data. Because ultimately, the data will speak for itself.
42:43I think the public is closer to understanding the UFO mystery than at any time in my lifetime.
42:49It's astonishing. And yeah, it's a little bit scary.
42:56What's worst case scenario? Have you thought about it?
42:59I would tell you already, it's too late because it's here. So we have a choice. We can live with
43:04our heads buried in the sand and hope it goes away. Or we can take our head out of the
43:08sand and try to
43:08figure out how it works. But it doesn't really care what we think in this room because it's here.
43:15This season on Unidentified. There's a whole fleet of them. Oh my gosh. Oh my man.
43:22I never forget those voices. You know those voices? I know those guys, yeah.
43:25Elizondo's mission to track down more eyewitnesses. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I don't know
43:30if I would have believed it either. Choo, choo, choo, choo. It was raining UFOs. Leads him to reveal a
43:35disturbing pattern. They disappeared down off the coast. I can tell you the Latin one. I saw a little
43:39sphere. Suddenly, it shoop. It moved. Like that. Fast. And to expose an even larger threat.
43:45These UFOs had an intense interest in anything nuclear. What are they? And where are they from?
43:51The beams went down into the weapons storage area. And I'm thinking, oh my god.
43:56Now these objects have a global presence.
44:00Helicopter arrived and they quested all the dead reporting. They didn't want the world to know,
44:05which is scary. You don't know what else they're covering up.
44:09Unidentified vehicles are operating at will in restricted airspace just minutes from the nation's
44:13capital. Thousands of people have experienced unidentified flying objects.
44:19It's time to look into it. You can't ignore facts.
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