(rock music) - [Narrator] During
1896 and 1897, seven years before the Wright
brothers would take flight, several cigar shaped
airship reports appeared in newspapers across
the United States. One account appeared in the
April 19th, 1897 edition of the Dallas Morning News. It was written by S.E. Haydon. The account reported that
an airship crashed into the property of J.S. Proctor
at 6:00 a.m. on the 17th. The pilot was described
as not of this world and had died on impact. Debris from the crash was
spread across several acres when the craft collided
with Mr. Proctor's windmill. Wreckage from the craft was
dumped into a nearby well and the pilot was buried at
the local Aurora Cemetery. T.J. Weems, a United States
signal service officer from nearby Fort
Worth viewed the body and referred to
pilot as a martian. Mr. Weems, who is also an
astronomer, would be become the first United
States government
official to observe an extraterrestrial and report
back to the government. Papers found on the pilot
were assumed to be a journal of his travels, but were written in an unknown
hieroglyphics type script and could not be deciphered. It's likely these papers
returned to Fort Worth with Mr. Weems and fell into the
hands of government officials. The beginning of the
UFO coverup was at hand. The first official
observation of an alien. The crashed remains of a
craft and all the reports of airships from the previous
months would cause serious concerns in Washington. How the government would
handle this information will have repercussions on the
entire world til present day. (dramatic music) - Visits by little green
men and flying saucers. The stuff of science fiction
or drive-in theaters maybe? Think again. In 2003 with over 400
visits by alien craft or alien creatures
in British Columbia, it seems as though we're
under some sort of invasion. That July, two women from
Kelowna, British Columbia had a visit of the
terrifying kind. - My friend Linda and I
were sitting at the computer late the night before she left
to go back to Albertsfert. She suddenly said to me,
"Why don't we go stargazing?" I mentioned to her that
it was getting quite late. It was around midnight,
I was really tired. Could we possibly think about
doing this the next time she was up but she
really insisted on going. - Look at the stars, come on.
- Okay. - [Narrator] The women
got into Corina's car and pretty soon found themselves
on a back road looking for a secluded area shielded
from the city lights. Corina was new to the area
and wasn't sure where to find a good spot for stargazing. They soon found themselves
on a road that runs between Kelowna and Vernon. There was no moon that
night so it was very dark. Corina stopped her car somewhere
beside Kelowna's landfill. - Come on.
- Okay. - [Narrator] Corina pulled
out a large spotlight she had in the car and pointed it
down the road ahead of them. - Oh, wow. - [Narrator] As Linda watched
through her binoculars she noticed a group of three stars
in the shape of a triangle. She pointed them out to Corina. Neither of them could figure
out what the lights could be. They both agreed on one thing, they weren't lights
from a plane. There was no engine sound. The lights started to
move ahead of their car, changing color from
white to green. The air, which had been
warm, turned musty and cold. It took a second for
Corina to register what they were looking at. These weren't anything from
this planet staring back at them from out of the dark. They began to move
towards the two women. They ran back to the car
as fast as they could, but it was like moving
through quicksand. It was as if the whole
world around them was slowing down to a crawl. Corina remembers having a
hard time getting her hands to open the car door. Once they were inside the car
she tried to get it started. The lights inside the car
flashed on and off randomly. It was as if the
car had gone crazy. Corina finally got
the car started and speed back towards town. As they drove along,
Corina remarked to Linda that she felt weird
as if electricity had been zapped
through her whole body. As if by a charge
from a battery. Linda took comfort from the fact that they both
felt the same way. That's when she looked
at the dashboard clock. (eerie music) - Oh my gosh. - [Narrator] As they
continued their drive home, Linda commented on the time. The women felt they
hadn't been out of the car for more than a few minutes, but according to the clock
it had been almost an hour. - [Corina] You know
what, we just got out. - [Narrator] Where did
that missing time go? - There is something
really wrong here. - [Narrator] Suddenly, they
both saw another large orb low in the sky on the
far side of a field. Corina stopped the car. Could this be one of the same
orbs they had seen earlier? Corina tried to convince Linda the orb was just a low flying
aircraft or helicopter. Even with both windows down,
neither one of them could hear any noises from
the mysterious orb. It started to move further
away from their vehicle. To prove her point that
it was just a plane, Corina held up her spotlight
out of the car window and flashed it three
times directly at the orb. To her horror it
stopped dead in midair, then came flying down
directly at them. Terrified, Corina panicked
and took down off the road. She headed for home
trying to ignore the celestial object high above. The next morning, as
Corina got out of bed, she discovered a large
bruise on her left breast. She also felt nauseous and
had severe head pressure. As she sat at her kitchen
table drinking coffee, Linda joined her. Linda also complained
about feeling sick and suddenly her right
nostril started to bleed. - That is really. - [Narrator] Corina grabbed
a towel and tried to staunch the flow of blood. After they'd stopped
the nosebleed, Linda left to take a
shower and clean up. - [Corina] Get some ice on that. - [Narrator] Corina's daughter
then came down to the kitchen she too felt nauseous and
complained of a stuffed up nose. Then just like Linda, her
nose began to gush blood from the right nostril. Corina helped her
stop the bleeding and not wanting to
alarm her daughter, she told her nose bleeds can
happen when someone feels sick. - What's going on?
- I don't know. - [Narrator] But she suspected
that her encounter the previous ending hadn't
ended at the front door. (dramatic music) - [Host] It began with two
nights of UFO sighting in 1987. Green and white balls of light
that formed into all sorts of shapes hovered directly
above the zoo and caused the animals to become
greatly disturbed. Due to budget cuts and because
they were police in the park all night long, caretakers and
other zoo employees were no longer present at the
zoo all night long. The last one would leave
around 11 o'clock at night and show up again around 7:30
in the morning to open up the zoo for the other employees. On the morning after the two
nights of UFO sightings in 1987, the caretaker and several
other employees opened the zoo and were horrified to find
every animal in the zoo dead. Not just dead, but
strangely mutilated. The caretaker and
other employees told
me that all of the animals were still locked
or secured in their pins and exhibits with no sign
of force or keyed entry. It was not like someone went
and just broke in there. Although they were unable to
photograph any of the animals, they said all of them looked
as though they had been surgically autopsied
or examined. Despite the deaths
and apparent relation, little of no blood was present. Needless to say, the zoo was
closed without explanation and no trespassing sighs
where placed near the entrance and on fences surrounding it. Parks department personnel
and policed were summoned. The zoo was closed and within
hours all of the dead animal carcasses where removed. The zoo employees
that spoke to me said, that the animal deaths and
mutilations where eventually explained the way as the work
of vandals or ritualistic killers in an internal report. However, they point out that
the vandals would've made all kinds of noise trying
to kill the animals, had to break into most
of the pins and exhibits. It would've left a
significant amount of blood and other evidence behind. None of these
things were present. No alarms went off and the
park police and other employees working in nearby areas
on the night in question heard nothing. The only reason that
the caretaker and
employees contacted me with their stories was
because they felt that the possibility existed. That the same thing could
happen again and they found the previous explanation for
the death and mutilations to be absolutely ridiculous. - Whatever happened that
night, I don't know, I wasn't there, but it was something
that terrified my father til the day he died. - There was many times he'd
be telling me the story and just get cracked up. He'd turn white as a
sheet and just quit and say nothing else about it. He just wouldn't
talk about it at all. - [Narrator] This story
happened in Christian County, Kentucky on a little
farm outside of Kelly. Just eight miles north of
the city of Hopkinsville. Hopkinsville in Christian
County in the mid 1950s was principally a Protestant
community of blue collar and professional workers. Community, not real
stoutly committed to change in those days. Keep in mind also that this
event accorded in the midst of August when it was hot
as the hinges of Hades. People tended not to get
terribly excited about things when it was hot weather,
they would get even hotter. There was a police officer at
nearby Shady Oaks restaurant. Maybe three miles from Kelly. This police officer indicated
that sometime just prior to the reported landing of
this spacecraft at Kelly that he saw a series, maybe
three meteors streaking northeasterly across the sky
in the general directional pattern of Kelly. It was a Sunday night, August
21st, 1955, at about 7:30 p.m. Billy Taylor went out
to the outdoor privet and while out there observed
a spaceship hovering 40 or 50 feet above the
ground and observed it land in about a 40 foot ravine
or gully behind the house. Of course concerned about it,
he came on back into the house and told the members
of the Sutton family who he was visiting
about this event. Billy's reputation was
noted for being creative, to put it in a nice way. And so the family
played little attention. - [Narrator] About
20 minutes later, Lucky looked out the
window and what he saw would haunt him for
the rest of his life. Coming up towards the house
from the gully were several creatures unlike anything
he had ever seen before. - When members of the Sutton
family first saw the creatures approaching the house, they
described them as little human like figures three to four
feet tall with pointed ears, but the most prominent
feature of their entire makeup was the large round eyes
that appeared not to blink. - [Narrator] A few
minutes later, one of
the alien creatures came right up to the
window and looked in. Lucky Sutton grabbed his shotgun and fired through the window. The face disappeared. Lucky and Billy Ray,
now armed as well, decided to go outside to
find out what happened to the creature they'd shot. As Taylor stepped
out onto the porch, a huge hand reached
down from the overhang, grabbed him by the hair
and tried to pull him up. Taylor managed to get free and
both he and Lucky retreated into the house and loaded
their guns with ammunition. Now the two men started
firing at these little beings as if they were in the
fight of their lives, but what happened when they
fired was even more terrifying. - When the firing started,
these little creatures were knocked off their feet
or would do a somersault and bounce right
up and float off. - [Narrator] Inside the house,
there was absolute chaos. The women and children hid
under the bed in terror while Lucky and Billy Ray
kept shooting at the advancing aliens through the walls and
window screens of the house. - Stay there!
- Are we going to be okay? - [Male] Stay there! - [Narrator] The terrifying
attack went on for hours. Each time Billy Ray or
Lucky hit their mark, the creatures would
react by floating away, as if they were surrounded
by an invisible force field and then they would crawl
back towards the house. At around 11:00 p.m., about
three hours after the battle started there was
a brief respite. Without wasting a moment,
Billy Ray and Lucky loaded everyone into cars and drove
to the nearest police station in Hopkinsville to get help. - When the investigating
officers arrived, they made a thorough
search of the house. They were joined soon there
after by personnel from the sheriff's office and even
some military personnel from nearby Fort Campbell. A thorough search
was made of the house and the grounds
surrounding the house and never did they find
anything in the way of evidence. - [Narrator] Other than bullet
holes and the emotional state of the terrified family members,
the investigating officers found no concrete evidence. Some reports suggest that
police found a strange luminous stain in the grass where
one of the creatures fell after being shot but
no one took a sample and by morning
there was no trace. (rock music) - [Host] Jackie Gleason will
always be remembered as one of American's greatest
comedy talents. Born in Brooklyn, New York
City, I guess you could say that he was a graduate of the
school of Hard Knocks. Maybe that's why he always
seemed to work harder than everyone else around him. When it came time for
him to get a show on TV, he wanted to own it. Unheard of in the days
of early television, Gleason often penned deals that
provided him with huge sums of money and allowed him to
produce many of his own shows. Everything Gleason did,
he did with great passion. Every script for the TV shows had to be just the
way he envisioned it. No one was ever allowed
to step out of character. Camera shots and angles
were always set up the way he wanted them. His passion also extended
into his personal life. Fascinated by flying
saucers and the unexplained, he ultimately assembled
one of the world's greatest parapsychological libraries. The bulk of it resides today at the University
of Miami library. In 1982 I was guest on a talk
show at a Miami radio station. The subject was UFOs
and the paranormal. After the show, I was handed
a note by the receptionist. This often happens when
I do radio guest stops because some people prefer
to share their own UFO or paranormal experiences
with me off the air. While walking to my car, I
took a quick look at the note that said, please
call Mr. Gleason at and it gave the phone number. When I arrived back in my hotel
room, I called the number, asked for Mr. Gleason
and gave my name. An assistant got on the
phone and informed me that Jackie Gleason wanted to speak
to me if possible the next day at a Fort
Lauderdale location. Needless to say, I
accepted the invitation. The meeting location was a
bar at the Jolly Roger Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. I don't know if
Gleason owned the hotel or merely had friends there. After stopping by the front
desk, I was escorted to a small bar that was closed to the
public at that time of day. Gleason sat at a table
like a king holding court, but looked older and weaker
than I had imagined he would. I wondered why
Gleason hadn't met me in one of his
favorite Miami bars but it may be that he just
wanted to keep a low profile. Either way, I knew that Gleason
was a serious guy who hated small talk and I wasn't
about to ruffle his feathers. After a brief handshake,
Gleason asked me a number of questions about my UFO and
paranormal investigations. We talked for about an
hour and a half, actually, he asked questions
and I answered them. He said to me, "You know,
I get your newsletter", he said knowingly, "Good stuff." He was especially interested
in articles that covered the topic of crashed UFOs. At that time a lot of
buzz had been created by formal military officers
who'd begun to speak out about their involvement with
the coverup of UFO crashes. Out of the blue, Gleason told
me how that Richard Nixon was a good friend of his. In fact, he had supported
Nixon in every possible way during his successful bid
for the presidency in 1968. In 1971 Gleason's efforts where
rewarded when he attended a small White House dinner
in Gleason's honor. After dinner, Gleason spoke
privately with Richard Nixon. He asked the president if
they was anything that Nixon could tell him about UFOs. Where they real? Where they alien spacecraft? According to Gleason,
Nixon told him, "Well Jackie, if you
could arrange to arrive at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa
sometime over the next few days, I'll arrange to have
you shown some things that may help answer some
of your questions." Gleason arrived in Tampa,
Florida a day and a half later. After calling a phone
number provided to him by someone on Nixon's staff, he headed out to
MacDill Air Force Base. After arriving on the base, he was taken to a
dark colored building that appeared to be some
sort of a storage facility. Once inside, he had to pass through
several levels of security. Finally, Gleason was escorted
to a large room where some strange debris lay on the floor. An officer told him this
material is from Roswell. No emotion, just a
matter of fact statement. The officer handed
Gleason a small piece, which seemed almost
weightless and very flexible. Just then a light came on in
the center part of the room. Gleason was astonished to see
what looked like a large piece of a broken disk just floating
a few feet above the floor. Warned not to approach it,
Gleason still got an eye full. But the surprises weren't over. After just a few minutes, Gleason was escorted
to another room. Three containers of glass
plates for viewing greeted him. These were the occupants found
near the object you just saw. Again, with little emotion
the officer gave Jackie a one sentence description
that spoke volumes. The beings were about
four to five feet tall. Two of the bodies
where badly damaged, but one was in very good shape. As Gleason looked at
it, the officer said, "This one died later." It had large oval eyes,
grayish skin and looked male. "Are they all males?",
Gleason asked. "Your guess is as good as ours." He answered Jackie
with a slight smile, but it was time to go. The experience of seeing
the object and bodies effected Gleason more
then her first realized. (dramatic music) - [Narrator] The great Los
Angeles air raid occurred on February 24, 1942 when
a UFO strayed too close to the coastline. It was less than three months
after the United States entered World War II
as a result of the Japanese Imperial Navy's
attach on Pearl Harbor and one day after
the bombardment of
Ellwood of the 23rd. Something flew
over the coastline causing the military
to go on alert. Air raid sirens sounded
throughout Los Angeles County on that night. A total blackout was ordered
and thousands of air raid wardens were summoned
to their positions. At 3:16 a.m., the 37th Coast
Artillery Brigade began firing 12.8 pound anti-aircraft
shells into the air. Over 1,400 shells would
eventually be fired. Pilots of the Fourth
Interceptor Command were alerted but never ordered to fly. The artillery fire continued
sporadically until 4:14 a.m. To this day, no one knows for sure what
they were shooting at. Images taken on that night
clearly show a saucer shaped object hovering within
the intense beams of the military spotlights. - My whole family was
going to bed, 11 o'clock and I looked out the
window of my bedroom and I saw this green
shimmering light in the sky and billowing clouds, a
small point in the sky maybe 500, tops 1,000
feet in the air, so it was well without
our atmosphere. The smoke was billowing out and green shimmering
lights behind it. I called to my mother,
"The sky is green." She comes in and she looks,
sure enough the sky was green. Pretty soon, my whole
family, my parents, my sister and myself where out on the
front lawn, so it was summer, because we were still in
our pajamas and housecoat. Father didn't know what it was. My mother said, "It's
the second coming." Very religious woman and she thought it
was the second coming. None of us had a clue
as to what it was, but it was a huge
craft, perfectly silent,
huge round lights of various colors, none of
which were FAA standard. Just sat there. We looked off to the left and
here's a little funnel cloud of smoke coming down. It was later, my sister just didn't pay
anymore attention after that. Under hypnosis it was revealed
that this little tornado of smoke that came down had
a smaller craft in it, and small, gray beings came
out of that craft, took me and then took her, she
remembers them taking me and then taking
her to be examined. She doesn't know what
happened with me, but she knows what
happened with her. Then returned us. We don't know if our
parents were taken or not, because when she was returned,
I was back on the lawn and so were my parents,
we're all just looking up. Like we were frozen in time. Then I can only assume this is
the missing time phenomenon. When we were all back in place,
we were switched back on, so to speak and the
craft had departed, all that was left
was that smoke. We were watching as the sky
seemed to be giving birth to this huge craft. The lights where there and
it just came through a vortex and that's why I believe the
extraterrestrials come from other planets and/or other
dimensions through a vortex, instead of going from point
A to point B, they fold time and leave their space time and arrive at ours
instantaneously. (eerie music) - [Host] In 1939, Cordell
Hull, secretary of state for President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, decided to show his
cousin a little surprise. Hull brought his cousin, the
reverend Turner Hamilton Holt into a sub-basement of the US
Capital Building to show him something that would
shake him to his soul. Hull consequently made his
cousin swear to never reveal what he was about to see. Hull took Holt into a room in
that basement that contained four large glass containers
into which a child could easily fit. In each of the containers was a creature of
horrendous visage. The tiny humanoid like
creatures were floating in some sort of chemical preservative. According to the reverend
Holt, Cordell Hull told him that this had to be kept secret
to prevent widespread panic among the American public. Holt asked his family to
wait until both he and cousin Cordell were both dead before
revealing this information. Holt's children did just that. At 7:00 a.m. on the 30th
of June in 1908 near the lower Tunguska River in Siberia,
a large explosion occurred. The explosion was so massive
that it caused damage 400 miles away and was
heard even further. For several nights all
over Northern Europe, the sky glowed enough to
light the streets of London. At first, it was assumed
that a massive meteorite had collided with the earth. However, after the
second World War and the bombing of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, photos of the cities were
compared with ariel photos of the Tunguska blast and
they were stunningly similar. As a result of this, various
scientist speculated that a nuclear explosion had
taken place over the area and because no nation possessed
a nuclear device at that time the logical conclusion was
that it was from an exploded alien nuclear powered craft. (dramatic music) (speaking in foreign language) - [Interpreter] My name
is Eduard Albert Meier, but all around the world
I am simply called Billy. I received the name in
Taran, when I was on the road and since then this name
has remained with me. - [Host] Billy Meier is a soon
to be 70 year old man living in Switzerland. Meier had one arm, he lost
his arm in about 1965. He started to take
photographs of UFOs in 1964. He claims that his first
contact with extraterrestrials took place when he was
only a five year old boy. That there is more photographic
evidence and video evidence for this particular case
than any other existing case. It's almost so good that
you're just like, holy cow. - [Male] Using the very same
film the skeptic refers to, we can see that
the UFO does indeed partially go behind the hill. Since the hill is some
distance from the camera, perhaps a quarter mile, it's impossible that the
UFO is a small model. - I personally showed
Meier's UFO photos and films to the owners of the company
that won the Academy Award for special effects. When I asked them if
these were models, these photos and
films, they said, "No, we know models and
those aren't models." I asked, can you duplicate
Meier's films and they said, "If we could, we'd
have to go to CGI." I reminded them that in 1976
and 78, there was no Photoshop, no CGI, no home computers. - [Interpreter] I once made
recordings of the whirring sounds of some yazays beamship. (whirring) - In the original preliminary
investigation report done on this case, eight different
sound engineers had the opportunities to analysis
the sounds on oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers. These included three different
laboratories including US Naval Undersea Labs. They could find no
sound source of record that could produce these sounds? In 1958, Meier sent to
the 25 European Countries, about 115, 120
specific predictions. The United States of American
will be engaged in two wars with Iraq, the second war
will be conducted under a president who is the son
of a former president. The second war will lead
to unbelievable disaster. Perhaps the most startling of
what I call the prophetically accurate information in the
Meier case pertains to Meier's astronomical information
about numerous planets, but especially Jupiter,
it's rings, it's moons. Meier specifically said that
Io was the most volcanically active body in the solar system. He published that five months
before we discovered it. More than a year after he
published the information on a ring of Jupiter being
composed of ionized sulfur. particles, science magazine
publicized that information in January of 1980. The skeptics would like us
to believe that this man with no resources, working as
a night watchman on a partial disability pension with
one hand is not only a master model maker,
filmmaker, photographer, digital and special effects person,
videographer, metallurgist, electronics genius,
sound recording engineer, knowledgeable topography
and map making, geography, ancient history, mining,
ores, agriculture and 30 other disciplines that
he's brought to bare in terms of the information of this case. They will credit him with
that, but they won't say, "Hey, the guy's
telling the truth, he's the one that's
meeting with these people." (dramatic music) - [Narrator] Then in 1947,
the United States government would become mired in secrecy
when an alien spacecraft crashed near
Roswell, New Mexico. The Roswell incident, seemed
just to involve debris from a craft of some sort as no main
part of the craft could be found on the brazel ranch. This lead to speculation that
the main part of the craft had managed to travel on
before coming to rest. Later, the second section
of the saucer was found. It came down in an area
west of Socorro, New Mexico known as the Plains
of San Agustin, where witnesses discovered
a strange metallic object and several dead bodies. The bodies and
wreckage were sent to Wright-Patterson Air
Force base for study. Many speculate it remains
there to this day. (dramatic music) - [Host] One of the things
that really shocked the allied forces
during World War II was the technology
possessed by the Germans. The B2 rocket, basically a
1940s version of most any modern intercontinental ballistic
missile was at least 30 years ahead of what every other
government had available. German aircraft were the first
to use swept wing technology despite the fact that we're
told such aircraft cannot fly in the stable manner without
computers which did not exist in a form that could be placed
aboard aircraft in the 1940s. According to the US Army's
official history of World War II some German planes
even used television and radar guided weapons. The Germans were the
first to fly jets and the only ones to use
them during World War II. Some were made of exotic
composite materials carefully held in place by special
radar absorbing glue. America's B2 Stealth Bomber
bares a striking resemblance to some of the German
jets of World War II and is assembled in
much the same way, but those jets were assembled
and flown in the 1940s. The question is, how
did Germany, which
had been forced to disarm after World War I,
develop so much technology in such a short period of time. The answer is, they
may have had help. German plans for saucer shaped
craft found and examined after World War II by the
Allied Intelligence Services suggest that the Germans may
have had access to one or more crashed UFOs which had gone
down somewhere in Germany at a much earlier date. The circular craft which Germany
never had time to actually produce that we know of,
would've been powered by a sophisticated gravity drive
using powerful magnetic fields. Was Germany able to
glean enough technology from crashed UFOs to jump
ahead of the rest of the world in electronics,
engineering and weaponry. Considering the fact that the
United States spent the next 30 years after World War II
ended relearning and copying what Germany already knew
in terms of technology, the answer might just be yes. - [Narrator] If the United
States government somehow was inexplicably unaware
of the existence of extraterrestrial
life up to the 1950s, then on July 29th, 1952, they
would be forced to concede the issue when a squadron of
UFO's overflew the capital. The Washington National Airport
sightings were not just a single night of UFO flyovers. From July 12th to July 29th,
the capital was buzzing with UFO activity on a nightly basis. On July 19 at 11:40 p.m., air traffic controller
Edward Nugent spotted several craft 15 miles
southwest of the capital. There were no scheduled aircraft
in the area and these craft were not flying any
established flight paths. He wrote in his report that
their movements were completely radical compared to those
of ordinary aircraft. Other controllers in the area
confirmed the radar blips and observed the orange ball type
UFOs outside their windows. The story made
front page headlines and alarmed the
Truman administration. The president himself
personally called Captain Edward J. Rupert, the
supervisor of the Air Forces Project Blue Book investigation
into the UFO mystery and asked for an explanation
of the sightings. The president was told it
was a temperature inversion. However, the Air Force
placed several jet pilots on nationwide alert with
orders to shoot down any UFO that ignores orders to land. To this day, there is not
explanation for this incident. The government accepted the
weather related explanation because it was easy to
tell this to the public rather than admit they knew
the craft were alien in origin. (fast paced music) - [Host] CBS was
making a special
documentary about the UFO phenomenon in 1973. Veteran news anchor,
Walter Cronkite was approached with the idea. Though the program was to be
hosted by several CBS news reporters, Cronkite
would do the interviews. By 1973, I'd already
been investigating UFOs for several years. As it happened Walter Cronkite
read a small piece that I wrote for a now debunked UFO
publication about the Air Force coverup of UFO information. Cronkite was making a list of
people he wanted to interview for the CBS special and
the article interested him. In September of 1973 I
received a letter from CBS News indicating their
interest in my work. After a few phone calls I
was actually able to meet and speak with the man himself. On a cool New York city day
in late September, I sat down and had an informal lunch
with Walter Cronkite. As we lunched, Cronkite told
me about the CBS special and indicated that he
might want to interview me. He wanted a younger person's
perspective on the phenomenon. Most of the UFO researchers
in those days were older and had taken up the topic
as a retirement project. Cronkite was especially
interested in some
of the Air Force stories I had collected
about the coverup. After about 30 minutes of
back and forth conversation, Cronkite said to me, "Let
me tell you my UFO story." For the next five minutes
I sat in stunned silence as he told me what had happened. In the 1950s, Cronkite was
part of of a pool of news reporters brought out to a
small South Pacific island to watch the test of a
new Air Force missile. The reporters had been
warned that photography and audio recordings
were forbidden. They would have to give a
written account of the event. As Air Force security personnel
walked around the perimeter of the test area with guard dogs and the news reporters watched. The missile fired up and
about to be released. Just then, a large disk type
UFO appeared on the scene. Cronkite guessed that the object
was about 50 to 60 feet in diameter, a dull gray color and had no visible
means of propulsion. Because the noise of
activity around him and the missile
engine was so loud, he couldn't tell whether
the disk made any noise. He didn't notice any coming
directly from the object. As Air Force guards ran toward
the UFO with their dogs, the disk hovered about 30
feet off of the ground. It suddenly sent out
a blue beam of light, which struck the missile. It also struck a guard and
a dog at the same time. The missile was
frozen in midair, about 70 feet from the
launcher as it had taken off and the guard was frozen in
mid step and a dog frozen in midair as he jumped at the disk. Cronkite reminded me that all
this happened within a very short space of time, probably
about five minutes or less. Suddenly, the missile exploded. After that, the disk vanished. The guard and dog
looked all right, but were quickly taken
away by medical personnel. At the same time, guards
rapidly ushered the reporters into a concrete
observation bunker. After about 30 minutes of
sitting in that hot box, they were brought out
into the air again and address by an
Air Force colonial. The officer told them it
was all part of the test. Obviously making it
up as he went along, the colonial said the event
was staged to test meteor reaction to the UFOs. He reinforced the usual
line to the reporters that flying saucers were
probably not extraterrestrial but what people where actually
seeing was secret planes being tested by the Air Force. This test was designed to
show the media how shocking it could be to suddenly
view a new technology. Cronkite was certain that what
he viewed was indeed a new technology but he was also
sure it was not an earthly one. He didn't believe he Air
Force explanation then and he didn't believe
it at the time that he told me the story. (dramatic music) - [Narrator] In the early
1950s, astronaut Gordon Cooper was assigned to a jet
fighter group in Germany. While stationed there, he
remembers very vividly the week an entire formation of circular
objects passed over the airbase on a almost
daily routine. But that's not all. While a project manager
at Edward's Air Force Base just three years before entering
America's space program, Cooper has assigned a team of
photographers to an area of the vast dry lake
beds near Edwards. The former astronaut disclosed
that while the crew was deployed they spotted a
strange looking craft above the lake bed and they
began filming it. Cooper says the object was
very definitely hoovering above the ground and
then it slowly came down and sat on the lake
bed for a few minutes. During this time, the motion
picture cameras were filming. There were varied estimates
by the cameramen on what the actual size of the object was,
but they all agreed that it was at least the size of
a vehicle that would carry normal sized people in it. Colonial Copper was not
fortunate enough to be outside at the time of this
incredible encounter, but he did see the films
as soon as they were rushed through the development process. It was a typical, circular
shaped UFO he recalls. Not too many people saw it
because it took off at quite a sharp angle and just climbed
straight on out of sight. Where are these films today? Why would Gordon Cooper,
a respected and honorable American hero make
up such a story. According to him, UFOs
were seen regularly at Edward's Air Force Base. Perhaps the most damning
evidence that the United States was activity participating
in a government coverup comes from Lieutenant
Colonial Philip Corso. Corso was the chief of the
Pentagon's Foreign Technology desk in Army Research and
Development working under Lieutenant General
Arthur Trudeau. He was on the staff of
President Eisenhower's National Security Counsel
for four years between 1953 and 1957. In his book, The Day After
Roswell, Corso claims that technology gleamed from the
Roswell crash helped kickstart technological advancements
in accelerated particle beam devices, fiber optics, lasers,
integrated circuit chips and Kevlar material. Corso's duties at the Pentagon
required him to oversee the storage of physical evidence
and files on the Roswell crash and to leak this material
to corporations for the advancement of our technology. Corso also claimed the
strategic defense initiative or Star Wars was meant to
achieve the destructive capacity of electronic guidance systems
in incoming enemy warheads as well as disabling enemy
spacecraft including those of extraterrestrial origin. (dramatic music) - [Host] Some of
the most compelling
evidence that UFOs are here and hail from somewhere
else comes from encounters involving the military itself. One such encounter
involves the USS FDR. Crewman Chester Grusinski
describes what happened. In the year 1958, we were on
a shakedown cruise when there was a small light that
was following our ship. Then the light came right up
to us, came in close enough to us so that you could see
the shape of the object and also see that there
were figures inside of it. The impression that I got
was that those figures where not human beings. I was down below when I
was told to go up top side to see something strange. I went up and couldn't
believe my eyes. I saw a bright
white ball of light. It headed straight for us and
getting bigger and bigger. It was spherical, about
75 to 100 feet long. It turned red orange and I
could feel the heat on my face. I could see silhouettes
of figures looking at us. They had no features and you
could tell they weren't human. Then the bottom
turned cherry red and it vanished in a flash. Soon after the incident, crew members who talked
about it where transferred. Then the CIA came onboard
to investigate a so called gambling problem. It was a massive
coverup, notes Grusinski. There was no gambling. (loud, dramatic music) - [Narrator] Something
unexplained is going
on in the skies over the Hudson River
Valley in New York State. Strange happenings
torment those who drive it's dark highways. Bizarre time lapse
experiences which are relieved as nightmares. It's a place where
contact with other worlds is as close as a track
in the nearby wood. - I was driving home and
night and my car just stalled. It's never done that before. For God's sake. I popped the hood and I
got out and I looked up and I saw this
formation of lights. I kept looking, it was
actually this gigantic vessel. I couldn't hear it,
didn't know what it was. Very odd. When I got home that night,
I saw on the news that 3,000 people in the Hudson valley
had seen the same thing. When 3,000 people saw
the same thing I did, it's more than
just a coincidence. - [Narrator] As early as 1948,
the government already knew the UFO secret. In that year the United States
Air Force produced it's top secret and highly controversial
estimate of the situation. An official report concluding
flying saucers to be interplanetary in origin. General Nathan Twining, head
the Air Material Command stated that flying
saucers where real and not visionary or fictitious. That they had metallic or
light reflecting services were circular or elliptical
in shape, flat on the bottom and domed on top and were
sometimes sighted in well kept formation flights varying
from three to nine objects. A top secret Canadian government
document dating from 1950 written by Wilbert
Smith, the head of the Canadian Government's
UFO Research Project,
entitled Magnet, quotes Mr. Smith saying, By 1969, after multiple
secret studies have concluded that flying saucers were
very real the United States government closed it's
public study on UFO's. Project Blue Book ended with
assurance from the government that the UFOs represented no
threat to national security. (dramatic music) (rock music)
