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00:15In 2017, this New York Times headline shocked the world.
00:20A clandestine U.S. government program have been investigating UFOs.
00:26The Pentagon has confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that studied UFOs and they released video.
00:37For eight years, the secret program was run by this man, Lou Elizondo.
00:42Time and time again, we were coming up with these mystery objects, performing in a way that defies logic.
00:50Frustrated by what he says was a cover-up, Elizondo quit and joined forces with an elite group of former
00:55government insiders.
00:57We're gonna figure out how to get to the bottom of it.
01:00Now they have one mission, to expose what they say is the truth about UFOs.
01:06U.S. airspace is being violated by vehicles of unknown origin with advanced capabilities.
01:11It was raining UFOs.
01:13I put my entire career and future on the line because I believe in what I believe in.
01:20Carl Sagan once famously said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
01:25He was absolutely right, but now we have the proof.
01:49Lou 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 for the jury,
01:59there is nothing more compelling than eyewitness testimony.
02:02They were there, and by the way, they're trained observers. These are people who can think critically.
02:07And this particular pilot has never given an interview about this incident, ever.
02:13In 2004, this Navy fighter pilot was training for deployment on board the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier.
02:20Now a high-ranking officer, this is her first on-camera interview about the incident.
02:25She wants to keep her identity hidden due to the sensitivity of what she's about to say.
02:30I want to make sure that everybody in this room understands that her identity is to remain protected at all
02:35times.
02:36So that even includes when you're writing notes on email back to executives.
02:39Hey, that was a great interview with...
02:41Don't write that. Don't put it in there. Just say the pilot.
02:45Wingman pilot would be appropriate.
02:46Okay, so that's the wingman pilot.
02:49I still have a security clearance, so as a result, we will not be discussing anything classified at all during
02:54this interview.
02:55In fact, if at any time anything is discussed and classified, we will stop the interview right there and then.
03:01Sure.
03:03Elizondo is still bound by a note 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.
03:13Because this issue is such kryptonite inside the national security establishment, he needed to figure out a way to do
03:19it so that what he's gathering could be made public.
03:23These are not crazy people that are reporting this stuff. These are the people that we entrust our security to.
03:28Why don't we just start from the beginning?
03:30We were operating off the coast of California in a designated military working area with our carrier strike group.
03:40We had launched to perform a practice fight against each other to rehearse our maneuvers.
03:48On November 14, 2004, this pilot took off from the deck of the Nimitz as the wingman to a second
03:54jet flown by her squadron commander.
04:00She soon found herself in the middle of one of the most significant UFO encounters on record.
04:05It was daylight and it was in the middle of the night.
04:08Clear blue skies, middle of the day.
04:12Normally fighter pilots are directed by a radar plane known as a Hawkeye.
04:169-9, take overhead, Mother Angel 7.
04:17But the two F-A-18 Super Hornets are suddenly redirected by controllers on the USS Princeton.
04:23We were interrupted by a ship-borne controller.
04:27Their tone was urgent and their requests were unusual.
04:34This is not an exercise. This is a real-world intercept.
04:38Didn't have much experience.
04:40I thought maybe it's a drug runner or something coming up the coast of Mexico.
04:44And I thought, wow, that would be cool.
04:47With no information about their target, as the two jets arrive at the designated location, they're confused.
04:53My heart sank.
04:55There was something in the water.
04:57There was a churning.
04:58And I went from being sort of giddy excited to thinking, oh my God, now we're on-scene commanders of
05:05a wreck.
05:05Somebody's crashed and, you know, this aircraft is sinking.
05:11And this is when you notice an object.
05:14We were all clamoring to get on the radio.
05:17Do you see in the water, what the is that?
05:23A bizarre craft is hovering over the churning water.
05:27What does it look like?
05:29No windows.
05:30No flight surfaces.
05:32So no wings at all.
05:33No wings, no...
05:35Smooth.
05:37White.
05:39No intakes.
05:40No smoke trail.
05:41It looked like a giant tic-tac.
05:46Give me a rough size.
05:47Maybe 40 feet.
05:48Okay, 40 feet. Fair enough.
05:50Large enough to scare the shit out of me.
05:52It was so unnerving because it was so unpredictable.
05:57High G, rapid velocity, rapid acceleration.
06:00So you're wondering, you know, how can I possibly fight this?
06:05We have no ordnance on board.
06:07You know, unless one of us ram this thing, which the way it was maneuvering would have been impossible.
06:13So I stayed high cover.
06:15The wingman watched from above as her commander flies directly at the strange craft.
06:30Now Elizondo is on his way to interview the other pilot in the air that day, the wingman's commander.
06:38These are reports from military pilots.
06:40They've been in combat.
06:42And this is something that they cannot explain.
06:45And it's shaking them up to the point that they're willing to risk their professional standing by coming forward and
06:50talking about it.
06:52Brother Dave, how are you?
06:53How are you?
06:54How are you doing, man?
06:55I'm doing better than I deserve. How are you doing?
06:57Good. Boy, you live in a castle, man.
06:59I would call it a castle.
07:01Retired U.S. Navy Commander David Fravor led the Black Aces Squadron, flying combat missions over the Middle East and
07:07Africa.
07:08He now works in the private sector as an aeronautics consultant.
07:12...sudden and instantaneous acceleration.
07:14Commander Fravor is a very rare breed.
07:17He's one of the few folks that actually run towards danger, not away from it.
07:21Fravor was the wingman's commanding officer that day over the Pacific.
07:27He had that fighter instinct.
07:30So it wasn't surprising his actions on that day.
07:34I really wanted to see what it was.
07:36I mean, if I could have joined right up on it and, you know, got like Blue Angel close, then
07:40I probably would have done that.
07:42As Fravor attempted to get a closer look, his wingman watched from above.
07:47This object seemed to recognize that we were there and went from this very low altitude to maneuvering in an
07:57erratic, very rapid manner.
08:02So the hair on the back of my neck is standing up.
08:05I'm thinking I'm going to be watching a disaster here.
08:10Coming up on Unidentified.
08:13How does this story end?
08:14This rapidly accelerates and it's gone.
08:16The government needed to discredit this phenomenon.
08:19Get your government to do what it's supposed to do and find out what this is.
08:24Wake up.
08:25This is real.
08:26Wake up.
08:37Most of my questions are going to be focused on the five interrogatives, right?
08:41The who, what, when, where, how, and why.
08:43Just like we're doing a terrorism or espionage investigation.
08:45Lou Elizondo may be the most significant U.S. official to ever claim the UFO phenomenon is real.
08:52For two decades, he served as a counterintelligence officer for the Department of Defense.
08:58Lou is, in many ways, an enigma.
09:01He was a guy who had spent decades, really, in the intelligence community.
09:06Whether it was the Taliban or it was Al Qaeda or it was ISIS or it was Guantanamo Bay.
09:11He had to deal with all of it.
09:12Lou Elizondo has the most insane career you would ever hear.
09:17He started out in special operations with the U.S. Army.
09:20And then he moved his way up into all these shadow organizations,
09:24doing all these, all that really secret, crazy stuff you see in the movies.
09:29And then he ended up becoming the guy that's in charge of all those programs.
09:33Lou is the rare exception who is willing to stick his neck out and take risks.
09:38You 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.
09:49Keep that pension in mind.
09:51And Lou was a guy who was willing to really engage and stick his neck out and try to be
09:59a change agent.
10:00And he was handling some very sensitive issues.
10:02And he had the kind of savvy that you need to be successful at that level.
10:07Because you're really dealing with areas that are, that are gray areas oftentimes where there's no clear authority.
10:14And to get things done, you have to persuade people.
10:17You've got to be someone with some character and personality and willingness and ability to engage people.
10:22And Lou had all of those attributes.
10:25Lou is not somebody who you would think would come up with these fanciful stories about UFOs.
10:33But as I got to know him, as I met with him several times over a couple of months, I
10:36came to believe that he was someone who had come into this issue very skeptical.
10:42And came out of it almost a religious believer that, wow, this stuff is really happening.
10:47These are really credible reports from pilots, from other people that are not wacky.
10:52And so I think he became a convert.
10:55And not just a convert, but someone who felt that it was his job to try and get more senior
11:01leaders in the Pentagon to pay attention to this.
11:03In 2009, Elizondo took over the $22 million Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, that investigated encounters between UFOs
11:13and the US military.
11:18Is this three reports? Is this five reports?
11:21We were made aware of many, many, many, many incidents.
11:25It remains a sensitive number. Those numbers are increasing on a regular and routine basis.
11:30Some of these incidents are very, very recent and very compelling.
11:35But in 2017, he made the shocking announcement he was walking away from a 20-year military career and going
11:42public.
11:43I had tried in vain to work within the silos of the organization, but I ultimately left the Department of
11:51Defense because of my loyalty to the department and to the secretary, not disloyalty.
11:57For the past year, Unidentified's cameras have had exclusive access to Elizondo and his new team as they track down
12:05military personnel willing to go on the record with their incredible encounters with UFOs.
12:18You are able to provide a play-by-play of what actually went down those moments that you were encountering
12:24that tic-tac.
12:25That's correct.
12:26So all that's going to be hugely important.
12:28He's meeting with one of the Navy's top former fighter pilots who came face to face with a tic-tac
12:33-shaped UFO in 2004.
12:40Flying a Navy fighter is probably one of the most spectacular jobs you could ever have in the entire world.
12:45It's like a roller coaster times 10,000, and I got to do it in some semblance of a tactical
12:53airplane for 18 years.
12:56On November 14, 2004, Commander David Fravor and his wingman pilot took off from the USS Nimitz, which was on
13:05maneuvers south of San Diego.
13:06I was the commanding officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 4-1, the Black Aces.
13:13We're flying brand-new Super Hornets.
13:15The nuclear-powered USS Nimitz was the lead vessel of a carrier strike group that included the destroyers USS Higgins
13:22and 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 would say
13:35the aircraft carrier battle group.
13:38If we have to go into combat sometime quickly, it's likely going to be a carrier battle group that's going
13:43to be there first, and it's going to be in action first.
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.
14:00Suddenly, the pilots are contacted by radar operators on the Princeton.
14:05The Princeton control comes up and says, we're going to suspend training. We have real-world tasking.
14:10The pilots are re-vectored to a new destination, but aren't told why.
14:14So we start heading off to the west. The other airplane is on my left-hand side.
14:20I was the junior pilot trying to keep up with the senior pilot in the lead aircraft.
14:28We're looking. We don't see anything on our radars at all. And we're talking to each other trying to figure
14:32this out.
14:33The Princeton's Aegis SPY-1 radar system is powerful enough to track an object as small as a baseball at
14:38an altitude of 80,000 feet.
14:40But the jets are flying blind.
14:42We tried to see what was out there, which is difficult when you know what you're looking for.
14:47It's even harder when you don't know what you're looking for.
14:51So it goes down 60, 50, 40, 30, 20. It gets all the way down.
14:55They get to a point where they can't separate us from the blimp. They call it merge plot, which means
15:00you're in the same space as whatever you're looking for, and you've got to start looking outside because the radar
15:04can't help you anymore.
15:06Then far below in the water, they see what looks like a plane crash or a submerging submarine.
15:12But the weapons officer in the rear seat of Fravor's jet spots something else.
15:17I hear, hey, Skipper, do you see? And as he's saying that, I noticed the tic-tac.
15:25It's white. It has no wings. It has no rotors. I go, holy, what is that? And he goes, I
15:32don't know.
15:33According to this leaked summary of the incident, contact was made here, 30 miles off the coast, 70 miles south
15:40of the U.S.-Mexico border.
15:42At first, the strange craft stays close to the surface, moving unlike anything the pilots had ever seen.
15:49This thing would go instantaneous from one way to another, similar to if you threw a ping-pong ball against
15:53a wall.
15:55And we start to kind of orbit because now we're going to watch this thing.
15:58We start a right-hand turn, and we're going from a clock code, the object is in the middle of
16:03the clock, and we're at 6 o'clock, and we're driving around the surface.
16:07So we get to about 9 o'clock, and it's just still doing its little erratic thing, kind of moving
16:11around, this disturbance in the water.
16:14And I go, hey, I'm going to go check it out. I'm going to go down there.
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, and it kind of turns.
16:24And now it's mirroring us, and it starts coming up. We're like, okay, now it knows we're here.
16:29It seemed to be aware, and it seems to recognize him.
16:32It goes from basically just almost a hover into a pretty aggressive climb up to our altitude, so there's a
16:38bit of fear because now you're out there dealing with something that you have no idea what it is.
16:42It's actually reacting to what we're doing.
16:48I'm kind of pulling nose, you know, to where he's going to be, and he's coming up.
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.
17:01The Tic Tac appears to have vanished, but as the jets streak towards a prearranged rendezvous location known as the
17:08cap point, the radio chatter becomes frantic.
17:11The controller from the Princeton comes up right as we're doing all this and says, hey, sir, you're not going
17:15to believe this.
17:16He goes, but that thing is at your cap point.
17:21According to Fravor, the Tic Tac accelerated from a standing position and flew approximately 60 miles in under a minute,
17:27as 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.
17:45You know, and I'm talking, we're flying one of the premier airplanes on the planet.
17:49What was this?
17:51There was a capability out there.
17:53Don't know where it's from.
17:54Not 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.
18:04The next crew is getting ready.
18:06So we're talking to them about this, and they're like, you got to be kidding.
18:09They took us seriously, and the WIZO, 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.
18:42It's not acting like anything I've ever seen.
18:44Yeah.
18:50Hey guys, how are you?
18:52Good, Lou. How are you?
18:53Good. Hopefully, I can shed some light on a few things.
18:58On November 14, 2004, two pilots launched from the USS Nimitz and intercepted a UFO over the Pacific, south of
19:06San Diego.
19:07What does it look like?
19:08No windows, no flight surfaces.
19:10It looked like a giant tic-tac.
19:14They believe this video, recorded later that day by a pilot from their squadron,
19:19shows the UFO they saw.
19:21It's one of three Department of Defense UFO videos
19:24Lou Elizondo helped get released to the public.
19:27When the three videos came out,
19:29there was this shock by the world community that,
19:33oh my gosh, these are real videos.
19:35This effort that we are embarking on I think is going to change the conversation forever.
19:41Now Elizondo is meeting with two leading aviation experts to analyze the videos
19:45and see if they can help explain the pilots' extraordinary encounters.
19:51What I'd like to do is go through these videos very carefully and get your thoughts on these.
19:57The providence on these videos is very well established.
20:00They are genuine DOD military videos.
20:03Retired Lieutenant Colonel Chris Cook is a Top Gun pilot who spent a career
20:08flying the military's most sophisticated fighter jets.
20:11Ross Amer flew commercial aircraft for more than four decades
20:14and works as a consultant for the National Transportation Safety Board.
20:19It's the first time the three men have spoken.
20:21So the first video I'm going to show you this afternoon was taking it into 2004 time frame.
20:29The first video shows the tic-tac-shaped object seen by the Nimitz pilots,
20:34captured by an F-18's infrared camera.
20:36If you look at it out of context, you think, oh, this is just another UFO video.
20:40But 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,
20:50then sipping away at what appears to be a high rate of speed.
20:57The altitude is 20,000 feet. We're in the TV mode now, so it's visual.
21:02The display's indicators are familiar to the pilots, but the image on screen is confusing.
21:08It doesn't appear to have any characteristics of any normal aircraft that I've witnessed flying.
21:14The experts wonder how the craft is staying airborne without wings.
21:19No flight control surfaces. I don't see that.
21:22It does not look like an aircraft to me.
21:25But in these images of a fighter jet also shot with an infrared camera,
21:28the heat from the engine is clearly visible.
21:31Everything we know about propulsion systems is they create an intense amount of heat.
21:35So if it was a conventional type aircraft, you would most definitely see some type of an IR signature plume
21:45behind the airplane.
21:49If you want to defy Earth's gravitational force, the way to do it is with either a propeller to mechanically
21:56displace air,
21:57jet engine to compress air and to create an equal and opposite reaction,
22:01or a chemical explosion like a missile or a rocket.
22:04Each one of those has a tall-tail signature.
22:06Yet here are things that are able to seemingly effortlessly defy Earth's gravitational force
22:11and maneuver in ways that are complete contrary to anything that we would presume should be able to fly.
22:20The ability to fly without wings or an engine is one of five distinct characteristics
22:24Elizondo's Pentagon team discovered.
22:27He calls them the observables and considers them the program's breakthrough discovery.
22:33Anti-gravity, the ability to fly without apparent means of propulsion or lift.
22:39Instantaneous acceleration, the ability to reach a high rate of speed in a short amount of time.
22:45Hypersonic velocity, speeds over 3700 miles per hour, five times the speed of sound.
22:52Low observability, the capacity to cloak or conceal.
22:57Transmedium travel, the ability to move through space, air and water.
23:03Any 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 allow
23:22aircraft to do what these reportedly are doing.
23:25Brian Bender is one of the reporters who broke the story of the Pentagon's secret UFO program.
23:30These aircraft seem to defy all of the known aerodynamic properties that we're familiar with.
23:37So let's let the film keep rolling.
23:40The object the Navy pilot is tracking suddenly seems to get bigger.
23:45So what just happened there? What is he doing?
23:46He's changing the zoom.
23:49The 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.
24:01That'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.
24:12However, instantaneous acceleration at this rate would produce a force of gravity, or g-force,
24:17so extreme it would crush a human being.
24:21I have no idea what that thing is, and it's not acting like a...
24:26Aircraft.
24:27It's not acting like anything I've ever seen.
24:29Yeah.
24:30If there are vehicles out there, uh, aircraft that are
24:33doing things aerodynamically that we've never even thought of,
24:37then I think, uh, we potentially could have, uh, real trouble down the road.
24:48There was another F-18 that was flying with Commander Dave Fravor that day.
24:53And for the first time, um, frankly ever, uh, we were able to talk to that individual.
25:00Um, there was, there was some frustration.
25:02Frankly, there was, there was a little bit of fear.
25:05Lou Elizondo is briefing his team on new information he's learned about the USS Nimitz incident.
25:10This 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,
25:24and if we can continue to establish credibility with people in the Hill and the executive branch,
25:29we might be able to take this the next step.
25:31Chris 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 Putov was a scientist for the CIA.
25:46If you were trying to come up with the A-team of former high-level government officials
25:52who would come forward on this issue, you can't really think of a better team.
25:56Lou 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.
26:04Chris Mellon has put his entire family's reputation on the line to do this.
26:08Steve Justice left a very lucrative job at Lockheed Skunk Works to do this.
26:14But by far the most unlikely member of Elizondo's new team is the man who brought them all together.
26:20The 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,
26:27and then they wonder why I'm not doing that now.
26:31So back it up, introduce yourself.
26:34Tom DeLong, Yeah.
26:36My name is Tom DeLong. A lot of people know me from my band Blink-182.
26:40I started that band when I was 16.
26:43But I got to that point where my daughter was two years old and I was gone for two years,
26:49straight, and I really, really needed a break.
26:52The only other thing I was ever interested in was UFOs.
26:56I was so fascinated with this topic specifically because
27:00I think it was like an escape from growing up in a broken family in suburbia.
27:04The idea of who we are and how we see ourselves and where we're going and where we're from
27:11and what this is all about, that all seemed to be wrapped up in this idea of unidentified flying
27:18objects. And a lot of people would ask why. I said, well, you know, you're dealing with a subject
27:23that has science and that has religion and it has government secrecy and national security and it
27:31has physics and consciousness. There's like a never-ending rabbit hole in any one of those things.
27:38DeLong walked away from stardom and dedicated himself to disclosing what he believes is the truth
27:43about UFOs. I needed to get into the government and I needed to find the people that deal with this
27:49subject
27:49and let them know what I'm thinking of doing. DeLong says he was able to secure a meeting
27:54with a high-level aerospace executive with deep connections to the military.
27:58All of a sudden, out of nowhere, I had an opening. And I just go, I am not naive to
28:04this subject.
28:04I understand the national security implications of this subject, but I am asking for your help
28:09because I need guidance. I just need somebody to help me and give me advice. And he leans back and
28:16he goes, okay. That's when my life changed completely. Soon, DeLong was covertly communicating
28:23with powerful people, including General William McCaslin, the former head of a billion-dollar
28:28Air Force research lab, and John Podesta, the former presidential advisor who once said his
28:33biggest regret in the White House was not releasing the government's UFO files.
28:38Tom called me out of the blue, sort of, who is this fellow and why is he calling me?
28:43And we began to chat. And I began to chat with some of the other people he was talking to.
28:47And he
28:48clearly was establishing a network of people who had serious credentials. There are people like
28:54me 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
29:07wanted to remain in the shadows. Do you think there's a way over time that we can open up some
29:12of these
29:13discussions, declassify material? We ought to be serious about investigating what's going on. Other
29:17countries have done that. Other countries have declassified the information they've had.
29:21He's one of the most tenacious individuals I've ever met. He got to the highest levels of the US
29:25government to include Podesta. Hello, South LA! But in October 2016, on the eve of the heated
29:33presidential election, DeLong was thrust into a media storm. WikiLeaks released more emails. The result,
29:40it appears, of 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 and others
29:49were stolen by Russian hackers and published online by WikiLeaks.
29:56The one rule they had is, we will help you, but don't go out and tell anybody who we are.
30:03That's the only rule. Overnight, 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. They'll
30:17tell him some stuff that's not true and it'll be a diversion and we'll fool the Russians or fool the
30:22Chinese. George 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 advisors
30:42who are not part of the government. All of these events that have happened are because Tom DeLong
30:48used shoe leather, knocked on doors, made phone calls. What Tom has started in the last year is
30:55unprecedented, I think, in the history of the study of this field.
31:01By the fall of 2017, DeLong had assembled his team.
31:07Then he learned the head of the Pentagon's secret UFO program had resigned in protest and wanted to
31:12join forces. It was Luis Elizondo. It was the guy that I wasn't supposed to know his name ever.
31:20It was the guy that worked at the office of the director of national intelligence. And they said,
31:26but there's one other thing. There's the first three videos of UFOs are going to be declassified
31:33for the first time in U.S. history.
31:43Coming up on Unidentified. I was at Area 51 talking to some guys there and I said,
31:49do 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 or
32:23capabilities 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
32:38or people are bringing information in cases to us, which is a sign that, you know, we're establishing
32:44some credibility and some presence. Now Mellon's out of government, part of an elite team of
32:49investigators raising the alarm about what they see as another potential aerial threat.
32:55What is really motivating me right now is the Nimitz case. We had multiple naval aviators
33:02in what they saw in broad daylight over an extended period of time was corroborated by the most
33:09sophisticated sensor systems, air defense systems on earth.
33:15Any reasonable person would have to conclude defies present understanding of what aircraft are capable
33:20of doing. It was clearly something beyond the pale. Chris Mellon is an interesting character. He's
33:27never been very public. His jobs have sort of demanded him to work behind the curtain.
33:32Mellon hails from one of America's richest and most powerful families.
33:36The 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. I was at the Senate Armed Services Committee and a report emerged indicating
33:53the United States had lost a nuclear weapon. So they sent me to try to find out what happened to
33:59the missing nuke, Warhead. Back when I was a junior person in the Department of Defense,
34:05we all knew who Christopher Mellon was. This was a man who had all the secrets. He is by far
34:10one of the
34:11most astute and intelligent individuals I've ever had the privilege to work with. He is a true legend,
34:17a living legend. He was an individual that was highly regarded as being one of the most
34:23proficient and professional individuals in the department. Chris Mellon has spent decades
34:27working not only in the Department of Defense but also with the Senate, but at the highest levels.
34:33One of his large accomplishments being putting together the Joint Special Operations Command Bill,
34:38which is merging all of our special operations into one kind of division that reports all the
34:43way up to the president. It's a major, major piece of legislation. He truly is a master strategist and so
34:48understanding how government works and how the intelligence community works and how Congress works,
34:53that takes a level of expertise you don't find every day.
34:56Chris Mellon was a former staffer for the Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill.
35:01He was an intelligence official inside the Pentagon. And in the beginning, it was a very opaque sort of
35:07process. In other words, he had something he was working on, something that was bubbling up that was
35:13going to soon be ready for prime time, ready to be shared with the public, was I interested in talking
35:18about it. And of course, I was intrigued because I covered the Pentagon and anything from the intelligence
35:23world 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. 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,
35:44we've seen some really strange stuff here at night.
35:47The deeper Mellon looked into the controversial subject, the more he began to question
35:51why 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
36:00to some very secret military program that these Nimitz pilots, for example, were not aware of.
36:05And clearly, Chris doesn't seem to think that these instances were military aircraft being tested
36:12and, you know, in secret. He feels so strongly about it that he came out of the shadows,
36:16when 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,
36:30was established by a small group of senators, including former astronaut John Glenn,
36:36World War II veterans Daniel Inouye and Ted Stevens, and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
36:42It's amazing that an individual who worked at such a high level for so long as the majority leader
36:51of the United States Senate would choose this among all of the myriad of issues that he engaged on,
36:57with all of the challenges confronting our country today. And this is one that he chooses
37:03in 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
37:12study the potentially groundbreaking technology behind these bizarre craft, before it got into
37:17the hands of our enemies. Reid requested a small unit with one of the highest levels of secrecy.
37:23It was the birth of AATIP.
37:26He's making that case and that the strategic implications are so great that we have to accord
37:31it special protection.
37:33This wasn't the first time the U.S. government studied UFOs. The Air Force launched Project
37:38Blue 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.
37:49On these radar screens last Saturday, they saw something strange and unusual and at the moment
37:55unexplainable. It was not an airplane. It was not a cloud. Nobody knows what it was.
38:00For the next 17 years, the Air Force studied over 12,000 UFO sightings and found 701 cases
38:07that couldn't be explained. But they concluded the incidents posed no national security threat
38:12and 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,
38:27in 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.
38:41Mellon Claims Project Blue Book created a stigma around UFOs that continues to this day inside the
38:47military.
38:48I talked to people in the Pentagon who had relayed that they were concerned it was going to make the
38:53Defense 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
39:02going to look back and say, you know, it doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on.
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,
39:36I probably wouldn't have said anything. I wouldn't want to risk my security clearance.
39:40I wouldn't want to risk people thinking I was a freak or crazy.
39:44You actually get four people that are eyewitnesses to the performance of this thing
39:47and 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
39:54didn't seem to be interested in their story. It was the worst of both worlds.
40:01For months, Lou Elizondo and former Assistant Deputy Secretary of Defense for Intelligence,
40:06Chris Mellon, had been working behind the scenes to organize a meeting between the two pilots and
40:11members of Congress.
40:12If people see the evidence, they'll understand and they'll find it compelling.
40:17Sometimes it's only by bringing the information public and bringing to the attention of Congress that
40:24you get action.
40:27Elizondo is driving across the country when one of the pilots, retired Navy Commander David Fravor,
40:32calls to tell him the unprecedented meeting has just taken place.
40:37Fantastic. And they asked you some hard, good questions on the record? Oh my God. Phenomenal.
40:41Fravor tells Elizondo that he and his wingman pilot met in secret with members of Congress responsible for national security.
40:52Holy dude.
40:54The senators don't want their names revealed because of the sensitivity of the issue.
40:59The press was not informed and the meeting is not found on any official schedule.
41:03Do you feel positive that it was well received?
41:07Well, congratulations. You just made history, brother. Again.
41:11For the first time in history, U.S. senators were briefed for the record
41:15on UFOs affecting U.S. military aircraft and operations.
41:22For Elizondo, this meeting is the first step in an effort to wake lawmakers up to a serious threat
41:27to national security.
41:32How does the story end?
41:34I have no idea who it was or what it was. Maybe it's Elon Musk or somebody out there
41:38coming up with some, you know, disruptive technology that's going to change our lives like an iPhone.
41:44You know, if you'd show me an iPhone when I was in high school, I would have thought it was
41:47voodoo magic.
41:48I hope it ends peacefully.
41:50You have to ask yourself, is it ET or is it Independence Day? You know, what's the intent?
41:56And 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.
42:13I think it's a process. And I think that process began.
42:17We trust the American people to know that there are certain countries that have nuclear warheads
42:22pointed at New York and Los Angeles. That could wipe out millions of people in an instant. And yet,
42:27we don't trust the American people to know that there's something in our airspace that we don't
42:30know what it is.
42:32There's a lot more I don't know than I do know. But that's okay. That's why we have to continue
42:37to seek
42:37to find the answers and collect 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?
42:58Well, I would tell you already, it's too late. Because it's here.
43:03So we have a choice. We can live with our heads buried in the sand and hope it goes away.
43:06Or we can take our head out of the sand and try to figure out how it works.
43:09But it doesn't really care what we think in this room, because it's here.
43:15This season on Unidentified.
43:18There's a whole fleet of them. Oh my gosh. Oh my man.
43:22I'll never forget those voices.
43:23You know those voices?
43:24I know those guys, yeah.
43:25Elizondo's mission to track down more eyewitnesses.
43:27If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I don't know if I would have believed it either.
43:31Choo, choo, choo, choo.
43:32It was raining UFOs.
43:33Leads him to reveal a disturbing pattern.
43:35They disappeared down off the coast. I can tell you the Latin one.
43:38I saw a little sphere. Suddenly, it shoop, it moved.
43:41Like that. Fast.
43:43And to expose an even larger threat.
43:45These UFOs had an intense interest in anything nuclear.
43:48What are they? And where are they from?
43:51The beams went down into the weapons storage area.
43:53And I'm thinking, oh my god.
43:56Now these objects have a global presence.
44:01Helicopter arrived and they quested all the data reporting.
44:04They didn't want the world to know, which is scary.
44:07You don't know what else they're covering up.
44:08Unidentified vehicles are operating at will in restricted airspace.
44:12Just minutes from the nation's capital.
44:14Thousands of people have experienced unidentified flying objects.
44:19It's time to look into it.
44:22You can't ignore facts.
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