NARRATOR: Earth has a surface
area of almost 197 million square miles, and more than
2/3 of it is covered by water. To this day, a great majority
of our oceans and seas remain vastly unexplored. We know more about the secrets
and enigmas of the lunar surface than we do about
the world's waters. For as long as there have been
eyewitness reports of UFOs in our skies, there have
been similar reports of so-called USOs or
Unidentified Submerged Objects in our oceans. A USO is a UFO that
goes into or out of water. In fact, UFOs and USOs are
probably the same things. A UFO becomes a USO when it's
no longer flying and submerges. NARRATOR: For the first
time ever, explore more stories of this most
elusive class of UFO. STANTON FRIEDMAN: It'd be
nice if the Navy would tell us about all their
observations of such craft. MARKO PRINCEVAC:
It is definitely possible to have an underwater
vehicle at supersonic speed. NARRATOR: From reports that
the lost city of Atlantis is a secret base for USOs-- PAUL STONEHILL: The
legend of Atlantis is based on knowledge that
such a base exists today. NARRATOR: --to an eyewitness
account recorded in Christopher Columbus' journal in 1492. They saw it going up
and down in the night. NARRATOR: --to world's only
government documented USO incident, a dramatic event
off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. CHRIS STYLES: On the
night of October 4, '67, a UFO was seen to hover over
the waters of Shag Harbor, tilted to a 45-degree
angle, and descended rapidly to the water's surface
producing a flash and the sound of an explosion. NARRATOR: According
to researchers, deep sea UFOs continue to lurk
through the uncharted waters of Earth. Have UFOs visited our planet? Or are they already here? [theme music] This is the Santa Catalina
Channel, a 26-mile wide stretch of the Pacific Ocean separating
the city of Los Angeles from Catalina Island. According to experts,
these waters, portions of which might be as
deep as Mount Everest is high, may contain some of the
world's darkest mysteries. You are seeing an
unidentified flying object. It is not a hoax. It is real. The film was taken
by Leland Hanson while filming Catalina
Island from a helicopter. NARRATOR: In recent
years, escalating reports of unidentified
submerged objects or USOs flying into and
out of the Channel have caused great concern
to local residents and researchers. PRESTON DENNETT: The
whole area here is just a huge hotbed of UFO activity. I've uncovered probably
200 or 300 cases of refers flying over the
mountains and over the water here. It's just a huge hot spot. NARRATOR: Preston
Dennett is the author of "UFOs Over California." He has been investigating
USO activity in this area for almost 20 years. PRESTON DENNETT: Actually, there
was a huge wave of sightings over the Santa Monica Mountain
Range on June 14, 1992. Witnesses counted a total
of about 200 objects. What's interesting
about this case is these objects
came from below. Normally when
someone sees a UFO, it comes out of the
sky like a star. They see a star like
object come swooping down. These came from below to above. NARRATOR: June 14,
1992, 10:24 PM. For almost two minutes, the
waters of the Pacific Ocean explode with light as hundreds
of bright disk-like craft are witnessed flying out
of the water together. Similar to other reports
of USOs exiting the water, these craft emerge
from the Pacific in almost complete silence. They reportedly
hover for a moment before bursting into space. Reports of this incident
were phoned into local police departments as far
away as Malibu. The following is an actual call
that was placed on that day. According to
Dennett, the incident was also reported to the
US Coast Guard sector in Long Beach, which ultimately
declined the search request. This 1992 event was the second
in Los Angeles in three years. On the dark foggy morning
of February 7, 1989, scuba divers, boats
sonar systems, and people on the shore witness
a long, dark, unidentified craft dive out of the Pacific. For about 90 seconds, the USO
rests just above the surface before emitting about a dozen
smaller fast-moving objects. 60 seconds later, the craft
dives back underwater. Its last reported
sonar heading was south toward the Santa Catalina
Channel before it disappeared. And it involved dozens of
objects which were seen off the coast of Marina Del Rey. On occasion, some of these
craft would emit smaller craft about 20 feet in diameter. And these were seen moving
underneath the surface of the ocean, and they were
come in and out of the water. NARRATOR: As the 1947
incident at Roswell sparked worldwide curiosity
about flying saucers, these events near Los Angeles
have sparked a current wave of research into the
capabilities and threats of so-called USOs. DON LEDGER: The oceans of
the world covered, you know, 70% of the planet. They hide a lot of history
and a lot of mystery. There's a very good reason for
a whole society of creatures, sentient creatures, advanced
creatures living underwater because they can, because
nobody goes there. STANTON FRIEDMAN: It's
fascinating to think of the underwater
UFOs because they know a lot about this planet
that you and I don't know. NARRATOR: Unique to
the USO phenomenon is the reported ability of these
craft to multiply and break apart. One such astounding case has
become known as the Golfo Nuevo event. On February 8, 1960,
the Argentinean Navy is on alert as they tracked
two unidentified submarine-like objects in its waters,
thought to be American subs. Then according to reports,
the underwater objects are seen on sonar to break
apart and fly out of the water. Sonar contact 173. 438 yards. It's gone bad. Sonar contact 173, 438 yards. PAUL STONEHILL: Two
gigantic submarines cited by the Argentinean Navy
in 1960 inexplicably multiplied through to six other
submarine objects. The Argentinians were never able
to catch them or destroy them because the objects
simply disappeared. NARRATOR: The case even caught
the attention of the Soviet Union's most senior officials. PAUL STONEHILL:
Nikita Khrushchev who was the leader of the
Soviet Union at the time was so much intrigued
by the whole story that he sent his diplomatic
attache in Buenos Aires to find out what's
been going on. NARRATOR: While some researchers
contend that these reported cases might be nothing more
than military submarines firing torpedoes, others argue
that submarines were not capable of firing six
or more objects in 1960. Late USO researcher Ivan
T Sanderson's 1970 book, "Invisible Residents", was
the first to analyze the USO phenomenon. He reports on another remarkable
example of USO behavior. In March 1963, a US
Navy submarine exercise is progressing as planned
100 miles off Puerto Rico. Suddenly, one Navy sub abruptly
breaks from its assigned route after picking up an unidentified
object traveling at speeds in excess of 150 knots. The submarines are
astonished by the depth at which the unidentified
craft is moving-- 20,000 feet underwater. BRUCE MACCABEE: It gave
the acoustic signature of a single propeller type
of motion through the water. And it was tracked at
depths down to 20,000 feet, whereas a typical crushed
up for a submarine would be 7,000 feet. So this thing, whatever
it was, was exceeding the technical capabilities
of submarines at that time and even today. NARRATOR: The vessel is
tracked for almost four days by the entire carrier group. The object would
reportedly propel away at impossible
speeds and then stop and rest, allowing for
continued tracking by the Navy. Reports about this
event were sent back to Sinclair Fleet Headquarters
in Norfolk, Virginia. However, an official
determination into what was seen on sonar
that afternoon was never made. But according to reports, the
Navy lost track of the craft after midnight on
the fourth day. It was never picked
up on sonar again. BRUCE MACCABEE: Nobody advanced
a theory as to how something could move that fast. We have reports of USOs going
into and out of the water. But we don't have any
of the technical data. Flying saucers that are above
the ground, people see them. But what's underwater,
the Navy sees it, and the Navy isn't talking
about what it's finding. [music playing] Inflating an immense balloon
aboard the USS Norton Sound, the Navy prepares
for further study of the elusive cosmic rays
somewhere in the Pacific. That's the news. A secondary
consideration clears up the mystery of the
so-called flying saucers. Or it is these monsters
which rise 19 miles and attain diameters of 100
feet that have been mistaken for the apparitions
called flying saucers. At great altitudes,
they tell us, these are elongated enormities
flatten out like plates. Mystery ended. [music playing] NARRATOR: But reports from
around the world continue. Another extraordinary
case is reported in the international press
beginning on November 11, 1972. A fast-moving
submarine-like object is picked up on sonar
in the Sognefjord, off the West Coast of Norway by
the Norwegian Navy, which hunts it for two weeks. A fleet of surface ships and
specially-equipped sub-hunter helicopters are assembled
to find the object. On November 20, 1972,
the USO is seen visually for the first time. It was described as being a
massive, silent, cigar-shaped object. A Navy ship promptly fires
its guns and torpedoes at the craft. Some ship actually saw it on
the surface and fired at it, but it dived. And then they started
dropping depth charges. Although all the articles
treat this as a submarine, the fact of the matter is
nobody was able to identify it as a submarine. NARRATOR: After tracking the
object for almost two weeks, the Navy devises and executes
a plan to blockade the fjord and trap the USO. BRUCE MACCABEE: They tried
to seal off this fjord so nothing could get in or out. Nevertheless, after 14 or 15
days, this thing disappeared. So that may mean that this
object, whatever it was, that was tracked by the
Navy was not a submarine at all but an unidentified
submerged object. NARRATOR: October 11, 1492,
10 PM, a calm, clear night. Christopher Columbus
and his crew moves slowly across
one of the deepest ravines of the Atlantic, and
through the Bermuda Triangle. Below them is almost
4 miles of water. Suddenly, unearthly lights are
seen flashing across the bottom of the ocean. BILL BIRNES: One of
the earlier cases comes all the way back from the
day before Columbus Day in 1492 before there was a Columbus Day. And it happened on
the Santa Maria. This person's name
was Gutierrez. And Gutierrez was on the
Santa Maria with Christopher Columbus, and noticed an
object rising out of the water, a disk-shaped object. NARRATOR: A great flash of
light with a level of brilliance unlike anything
known at the time suddenly erupts from the sea
to the sky, startling Columbus and his crew of 120 aboard
the three-ship Spanish fleet. In less than five hours, they
would discover the new world. CARL FEINDT:
Christopher Columbus maintained a log in the ship. It describes what could be
interpreted as a UFO event. They saw in the description
given in the logbook the flickering of a wax candle
going up and down in the night. It couldn't have been
a campfire on ground because it was
beyond the horizon. NARRATOR: This
possible USO incident is more than just
legend and lore. For the first time
ever, original text from Columbus' log has been
made available to the History Channel by archivists at
Fordham University, custodian of a rare handwritten
copy of the journal. The October 11, 1492 sighting
was not an isolated occurrence. Over the two-month
journey, Columbus' log exhibits a consistent pattern
of cryptically reported peculiar incidents including
unexplained sightings and unusual events
in outer space. The following is from an
entry on September 10, 1492, the halfway point of the voyage. "The crew of the
Nina stated they had seen a grajao
and a water-wagtail, but these birds never go farther
than 25 leagues from the land." From an entry
September 11, 1492. "Saw a large fragment
of the mast of a vessel, apparently of 120 tons,
but could not pick it up." Entries on both September
17th and September 20th indicate that stars or other
unidentified lights in the sky are seen to move. "The cause was that the
star moved from its place. But the needles
remain stationary." And from the infamous
entry of October 11th. "The Admiral at 10
o'clock that evening, standing on the quarter
deck, saw a light. Calling to Pero
Gutierrez, he told him he saw a light and bid him look
that way, which he did, and saw it. The Admiral again
perceived it once or twice, appearing like the light of a
wax candle moving up and down." Is it possible that these
strange events recorded during the most fabled
nautical journey in history with a result of
otherworldly vessels tracking Columbus' fleet? Some suggest, however,
that any interpretations or rationalizations that might
be gleaned from Columbus' log are not the whole truth. If Christopher Columbus
saw a strange thing come out of the water fly around
his ship and then take off, would he have told
anybody about it? They'd have locked him
up in the brig instantly. The guy's crazy because
things can't do that. NARRATOR: One of the earliest
USO reports comes from 329 BC. After witnessing what
he described as shining shield-like objects flying
into and out of the Jaxartes River in India,
Alexander the Great was so convinced that he
witnessed otherworldly vessels. He spent the final six years of
his life searching for evidence of these objects in a
diving bell, believed to be the world's first submarine. Some conclude, however,
that Alexander's underwater adventures
had a greater goal, finding and conquering the one
kingdom that had eluded him-- Atlantis. KATHRYN MORGAN: Well, Atlantis
first enters literary history in the philosophical
dialogues of Plato. These are the
Timaeus and Critias. MARCELINO CANINO
THROUGH INTERPRETER: [non-english speech] The
gods, bothered by the attitude of the Atlanteans decided
to destroy Atlantis. In one day and one night, they
destroyed it with a cataclysm and it sank. NARRATOR: To this
day, researchers continue to speculate
about Atlantis as a hub of USO activity. PAUL STONEHILL: The legend
of Atlantis definitely is based on knowledge,
probably lost by today, of some secret
underwater civilization. NARRATOR: Atlantis' supposed
location in the Mediterranean would have provided USOs a
convenient position from which to monitor human civilizations
and their shipping routes to and from Asia Minor,
Rome, and Athens. The Mediterranean was the
cradle of ancient civilization. The Phoenician traders
traveled back and forth between the Middle
East and Greece across the Mediterranean. If there were a culture
of either aliens or original inhabitants
of planet Earth who wanted to seed the planet,
to seed humanity with myth, the Mediterranean is a natural
base for them to set up an underwater facility. BRUCE MACCABEE: I
don't know if Plato was talking about unidentified
submerged objects. He came up with
Atlantis, but I suppose there are people who, number
one, assume that Atlantis is real. Number two, it's
somewhere in the Atlantic. Number three, is buried under
thousands of feet of water. NARRATOR: The ancient
Athenians, however, were not the first to record
stories of unidentified objects in the oceans. Experts believe the
ancient Egyptians may have even recorded sightings
in their hieroglyphic drawings. In ancient Egypt in the
temple at the city of Abydos, somebody made an inscription
a depiction of a submarine. There was another
depiction of an object that looks like a helicopter. Who made it? How did the ancient
Egyptians know about it? We have no idea. NARRATOR: One of the
earliest European cases is a series of reported English
sightings in the 11th century. CARL FEINDT: One of the oldest
cases I have on the site goes back to the year 1067. It has to do with this
people in the countryside seeing something flaming in the
sky that came down to Earth, lit up the countryside, and
then went up again, and then into the sea. NARRATOR: Carl Feindt has been
researching USO phenomenon for almost a decade. His internet site,
waterufo.net, has an archive of over 900 current and
historic USO reports. According to Feindt, one of
the 20th century's first cases was reported in detail in
the Philadelphia Inquirer on August 1, 1904. A British cargo
ship, the Mohican, en route to Philadelphia
was, according to the paper, enshrouded in a strange
metallic vapor which glowed like phosphorous. CARL FEINDT: I have
found out recently that that case is
a heck of a lot more detailed and scary
than originally shown. The captain and the crew
confirm that an object came across the ocean, a
cloud, approached the ship and was glowing. Not a meteor, going
straight down, just coming across the sea. As it came towards
the ship, the captain was trying to distract the crew
to get them to do something different, you know,
and get over the fear. They couldn't move
anything while the cloud was around the ship. NARRATOR: The Inquirer further
reports that during the event, the ship's compass revolved with
the speed of an electric motor. And the sailors were unable
to raise pieces of steel from the magnetized decks. The story goes on to quote, the
Mohican's Captain Urquhart, who confirms that the
account is vouched for by every man of the crew. But perhaps the most
astounding USO-related event, according to experts, is
a Canadian case from 1967. CARL FEINDT: The Shag Harbor
case is the most important USO case in documentation. The UFO moved underwater
to a different point. A second UFO joined it. [music playing] DON LEDGER: 38 years ago
today, October 4th, 1967, approximately 11:20 in
the evening, something happened in Shag Harbor
that became quite memorable in later years. The night of October 4, '67
has become known as the Night of UFOs among many
UFO researchers. The Shag Harbor incident has
become the best known aspect of that night. NARRATOR: Chris
Styles and Don Ledger have spent the past decade
researching the 1967 Shag Harbor USO incident. The case widely reported
throughout Canada at the time had been largely forgotten
in subsequent years. Their 2001 book, "Dark
Object", reopened the case, shedding new light on
the many reported USO events of that night
and the weeks following. CHRIS STYLES: The reason that
the Shag Harbor incident came to the forefront and kind
of eclipsed the importance of the other sightings
from the Night of UFOs is simply the fact that it's
the one case where something came down to the sky and
crashed into the water. You know, it made a
noise, it made a flash. It's also unique in the sense
that nobody reported a UFO. Several calls came in very
quickly to the nearby Royal Canadian Mounted
Police Detachment, and those reports said
simply that people had seen lights or perhaps an aircraft
had crashed into the waters of what they call it the sound. The interest and the concern
was totally for the possibility of survivors. Nobody reported UFO. [music playing] I'm not surprised now that I
had seen something in the sky that night because
all over Nova Scotia, the night of the
Shag Harbor instance, there were many, many,
many UFO reports. CHRIS STYLES: Just
up around the bend, we'll be coming
in to Shag Harbor and the sight crowd gathered
and watched whatever it was that happened
here 38 years ago today. NARRATOR: Each year, Ledger and
Styles make an anniversary trip to Shag Harbor to meet with
Norm Smith, one of only three surviving witnesses. See the island out there? That's where it all took
place, right off that. That's where we've seen
the light in the water. Good day, sir. how have you been? Good. It's been a while?
- How's it going? Same old, same old. NORM SMITH: The three of us
stood on the lawn watching the lights. Eventually, it started going--
it looked like it was moving to us and then on a downward
slope towards the ground. We thought it was a plane crash
so we jumped in the vehicle in my old man's
car and my uncles. And we went up to
this spot right here by the Irish moss plant. And when we got here, there was
probably 10, 12 other people. We watched the
lights on the water for a period of two
or three minutes, and then the lights disappeared. NARRATOR: What happens
next is indisputable. Before midnight on
Wednesday, October 4th, the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police officers who witnessed the event
from the shoreline searched the water on
boats until 3:00 AM with the help of
several local fishermen, including Norm Smith. At noon on Friday October
6th, Canadian Navy divers from Halifax arrive and search
the area through the weekend. Eventually, seven
divers were dispatched from the fleet diving
unit in Halifax and taken down to Shag Harbor. The search effort continued
through all the daylight hours of Saturday and Sunday. And by Monday morning,
that search was officially terminated in
Ottawa, and they just simply say unidentified
flying object and circle it and underline it. NARRATOR: According
to government reports, the object travels
from the south to the north along the
Nova Scotia shoreline. At one point, it
stops and hovers. Then at approximately
11:20 PM, it enters the water at a 45-degree
angle, 300 yards offshore. NORM SMITH: Directly behind me
where we've seen the lights, right at Von Portage
island, directly behind me. CHRIS STYLES: When the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police officers that had
responded to the call arrived at the shoreline
of old Highway #3, the UFO was still moving upon
the surface of the water. The object also
appeared to be leaving a trail of dense yellow foam. NARRATOR: In the weeks
following October 4th, the story becomes
even more mysterious. The case is frontpage
news across Canada. And as Ledger and Styles
report in their book, in the days just prior to
the Canadian military's official classification of
this incident as a UFO event, a second craft enters
the waters of Nova Scotia to rendezvous with
the first craft. DON LEDGER: Then this thing
resumed its head way back down this way at about
4,400 miles an hour, and came down through
northern New Brunswick straight down over
the Bay of Fundy across the southwestern tip of
Nova Scotia, across this way, and went down in the water here. CHRIS STYLES:
Authorities already knew the object was no longer
there, that it had moved under the water, and had
come to rest on the seabed. It sat there for almost
a week right to the hour. And after that time, it
began moving under the water to the Gulf of Maine with the
aid of a second craft that was helping repair it. And the two of them broke
the surface of the water and flew away over
the Gulf of Maine. Interestingly enough,
there is the second report of a sighting one week in Shag
Harbor of two sets of lights-- one orange, one yellow-- leaving
the water and flying away. NARRATOR: This case
continues to inspire debate and continued research into
the events of October 4, 1967. There are a large amount
of primary documents that support interpreting
Shag Harbor as a crash scenario of a UFO. And in one of the
paragraphs that actually says a preliminary investigation
has been conducted, and it has been discovered
that this object is not the result of a flare float
down to aircraft, or in fact any known object. NORM SMITH: I think, you
know, I didn't know Dan back 30 odd years ago, I didn't
know whether it was a UFO or what it was. Nobody will ever make me
believe that there was nothing there because it was. A region with perhaps the
longest legacy of USO activity is the area around Puerto Rico. As the mysterious southern
point of the Bermuda Triangle, the island has been at
the center of USO debate for decades. PRESTON DENNETT: Puerto Rico
is a hotspot for underwater UFO activity, and it seems to match
the pattern of other cases. REINALDO RIOS AYALA
THROUGH INTERPRETER: Puerto Rico is considered
in all of the Americas to be the place where there's
the greatest number of USO sightings. NARRATOR: Members of the Puerto
Rican-based ufology group Project Argus agreed to lead
a tour of some of the island's more notable USO-related areas. Laguna Cartagena
is an isolated lake near the southwestern
corner of the island. It has become linked to much
of Puerto Rico's reported USO activity. REINALDO RIOS AYALA
THROUGH INTERPRETER: [non-english speech] I have
been conducting investigations for years in Laguna Cartagena
where there's also a lot of secrecy about USOs. CARLOS TORRES
THROUGH INTERPRETER: Laguna Cartagena since 1930
has been a place where hundreds of cases were reported of
flying objects coming and going from the Earth. NARRATOR: October 8, 2002,
approximately 9:00 PM. Puerto Rican police officer
and Project Argus member Carlos Torres witnesses a red
glowing USO fly out of the waters of
Laguna Cartagena at an incredible speed. Then it stops and hovers
just above the water. CARLOS TORRES
THROUGH INTERPRETER: [non-english speech] I was a
witness of an object suspended over Laguna Cartagena. [non-english speech] The
military got involved because they were
also witnesses. The object flew away and
then back from Monte Indio. And it stopped and hovered
over Laguna Cartagena. [non-english speech] NARRATOR: After hovering for
several minutes over the area, the object was seen to
crash back into the lake. Another Argus member
Guiseppe Quinones believes he captured the same
object on videotape in 2004. GUISEPPE QUINONES
THROUGH INTERPRETER: [non-english speech] I took
a video on November 20, 2004 in the immediate
area of Laguna Cartagena. [non-english speech] NARRATOR: Seen for the first
time, possible video evidence of a USO near this
enigmatic lake. The brightly lit
craft-like object was seen emerging from the water. Here, it hovers for almost
one minute before flying away. GUISEPPE QUINONES
THROUGH INTERPRETER: [non-english speech]
In mid-1990s, several attempts to disprove
the USO activities were made despite hundreds of witnesses
that said they saw lights going in and coming out of the water. [non-english speech] They have
been seen all over Puerto Rico, specifically the most mentioned
places are Laguna Cartagena and Route 303. [non-english speech] NARRATOR: The region of Lajas
through which Route 303 runs has been another source
of significant USO and UFO reports, including a possible
1997 crash on Monte Indio that left behind a scorched
Earth impact zone, and many unanswered questions. WILSON SOSA THROUGH
INTERPRETER: In May 5, 1997, a UFO crashed there,
burned many lands on the top of the mountains. There was federals that night,
and day opened something that we don't know, a UFO? NARRATOR: After
this 1997 incident, local government officials began
to take USO and UFO reports more seriously. As a direct result,
the mayor of Lajas, Puerto Rico recently
designated the roadway through the heart of
Puerto Rico's UFO country as UFO Route 303. But for now, other USO-related
events around the island are far more
pressing for experts. In the hills around Lajas, a
mysterious government aerostat, a tethered balloon-borne
radar, is frequently launched up to 3
miles in the air, ostensibly to monitor
air traffic and weather. However, USO researchers believe
the balloon's real function is actually covert-- to observe and record
UFO and USO activity. REINALDO RIOS AYALA
THROUGH INTERPRETER: [non-english speech] There
was a government document in the legislature where
a secret investigation was conducted. Not public, but secret, about
the USO events in the waters. But the document states that
they do not pose any danger to humans. [non-english speech] NARRATOR: The volume
of USO reports from around this small island
have prompted many to speculate that the deep waters directly
below the southern tip of the Bermuda Triangle
just offshore conceal more than USOs. Experts and researchers
from around the world believe they possibly obscure
a major USO base as well. JOSE MARTINEZ
THROUGH INTERPRETER: [non-english speech] It is
suspected that there's a base between La Parguera in
an area near Cabo Rojo. It is also supposedly
very deep and cavernous, and it goes as far
as Laguna Cartagena. [non-english speech] GUISEPPE QUINONES
THROUGH INTERPRETER: [non-english speech] The motive
for them coming in and out of the water is so that they
are able to enter in one area and come out in a different
area in the underwater bases. [non-english speech] NARRATOR: Could all
of these events simply be tied to local mysticism
or perhaps the cultural sway of the Bermuda Triangle? MARCELINO CANINO
THROUGH INTERPRETER: [non-english speech] In
Puerto Rican culture, the majority of the people here,
even though they talk about the chupacabra and
the Bermuda Triangle, they do not believe
in any of this. [non-english speech] NARRATOR: Or is there
possibly something more? GUISEPPE QUINONES THROUGH
INTERPRETER: It's a reality. The USOs in Puerto
Rico are real. There are hundreds of
testimonies and witnesses. It's all real. CARLOS TORRES
THROUGH INTERPRETER: I think that the UFO
phenomenon is real. Here in Puerto Rico, there
have been hundreds of cases. That is a reality. [music playing] It is believed that unidentified
submerged objects are able to move through
our oceans and seas in ways that defy all
principles of modern physics. Experts are confounded by
the ability of these vessels to reportedly travel
at extreme depths, pass through ice with
impunity, and traverse water at supersonic speed. These kinds of
craft ostensibly can travel underneath
the water because they are impervious to water
just like they're impervious to gamma rays, cosmic rays,
impervious to anything that gets in the way of their
traveling in space. REINALDO RIOS AYALA
THROUGH INTERPRETER: [non-english speech]
According to all information, we are dealing with a
very advanced technology. CARL FEINDT: They encircle ships
and next thing you know, dive into the water. It's not a barrier to them
they just go from one medium to another. NARRATOR: In late
1969, while conducting their regular operation
Deep Freeze ice breaking exercises near Antarctica, US
Navy sailors aboard the USS Calcaterra reportedly witness
an unidentified submerged object with some extraordinary
capabilities. BRUCE MACCABEE: Ivan Sanderson
in Argosy Magazine, where he talks about an event
somewhere in the Arctic when an object came
up through the ice and took off, really sort
of burrowed his way through. NARRATOR: A large
submarine-shaped object at least 100 feet long
is seen bursting out of the frozen ocean through
several yards of solid ice at an incredible speed. But this case,
however, is only one of many similar
incidents reported by navies around the world. VLADIMIR AJAJA
THROUGH INTERPRETER: [non-english speech] I know
of one case that occurred near Leningrad. In the winter in 1976, a USO
broke down through the ice. [non-english speech]
Maneuvered under water, and then again broke
back out through the ice. [non-english speech] They do melt ice. Now, if you had a meteor,
the dynamics of the thing would break the ice into
chunks and scatter them all over the place. With the UFO, it's a clean hole. NARRATOR: USO
witnesses have also reported seeing waterspouts
beneath USOs as they exit the water, including Ed Walters,
a resident of Gulf Breeze, Florida who snapped this
never-before-seen Polaroid picture of what
appears to be a USO above a tornado-shaped
waterspout on July 7, 1988. So he was looking
North towards Gulf Breeze across the Santa Rosa Sound, the
distance of about 7,000 feet. He noticed that the water
down beneath the object started to get all
foamy or something. He could see it
dancing around, and all of a sudden, this
column of water went up and contacted
the bottom of it. The picture that he took
actually shows that. NARRATOR: Such cases
have caused some experts to assert that USOs might
possibly use water as a fuel source. There are those
who feel that water is essential for
the fusion process. PRESTON DENNETT: There are a
lot of cases where UFOs hover over reservoirs and
small bodies of water, not only large bodies of water. It does seem to be some
evidence that it can use water to help the craft in some way. BRUCE MACCABEE: They
may use water as a fuel. When these cases where they
talk about objects hovering over the water and seeming
to suck water up in, it certainly sounds like they
need a big drink or something to keep going. NARRATOR: Modern
scientific theories abound about how USOs
developed the ability to propel themselves through
water with great efficiency. Researchers envision everything
from massive jet-like propulsion systems to
frictionless bubbles that cocoon the objects. So the engines wouldn't be
engines as you and I would imagine engines. They would be generators
generating a magnetic force, creating a magnetic envelope
around the craft that repels the Earth's natural magnetism. Hence, allowing
them to accelerate, decelerate, climb, fall, and
navigate through the water. By exerting forces at the
surrounding fluid, seawater, nice electrically
conducting fluid, you can control the drag, you
control the flow the speed, the lift, you can get around
all the problems of high speed motion under the water. A magneto aerodynamic
system would work similar to the
electromagnetic submarine that was successfully tested. NARRATOR: An
electromagnetic submarine was in fact built and tested by
the University of California, Santa Barbara in the mid-1960s. It took advantage of salt
water's natural ability to conduct electricity. The first successful test of
an electromagnetic propulsion system was conducted
on Earth in 1966 when this electromagnetic
submarine was first demonstrated. This electromagnetic
submarine moves through the water as a result
of electromagnetic forces. It has absolutely
no moving parts. STANTON FRIEDMAN:
The principle here is that seawater is an
electrically conducting fluid. You push against the
seawater by Newton's laws, elementary physics, it
pushes back, and off you go. NARRATOR: Is it possible
that USOs take advantage of this natural
capability of our oceans to reach supersonic speed? BILL BIRNES: Water is a
great magnetic conduit. In fact, if they were traveling
using a process called diamagnetism, which is
a weak repellent force, then water would
enhance that force which would explain why these
craft are able to navigate in water so well. NARRATOR: One
researcher theorizes that USOs might move
rapidly through the water and avoid catastrophic damage
using the same principles as a common light bulb. CARL FEINDT: UFO is the
filament in this particular case and the bulb is the field,
and that protects the UFO. It keeps the water from coming
onto it when it goes in. They move it though and
it never touches the UFO. And that can be achieved
by creating so-called supercavitating bubble
around the whole object. In that way, a whole
object travels together with a bubble of water vapor. NARRATOR: Marko
Princevac is a professor of mechanical engineering at
the University of California, Riverside. He devised an experiment
for the History Channel demonstrating the physics behind
possible supersonic movement through the water. MARKO PRINCEVAC:
Basically, the only thing that you can play with is
the shape of a vehicle. And it will deviate from
standard shapes of submarine. NARRATOR: To demonstrate how
different shapes can produce the conditions for
supersonic underwater travel, Princevac and his team force
an underwater current along with green dye and
high-powered lasers around different
submersed objects. MARKO PRINCEVAC: So if
we have something called the streamlined body,
we see that fluid flows undisturbed around that body. NARRATOR: This
red-streamlined object represents the perfect shape
for a fast-moving underwater vessel. In direct contrast,
the cube that is tested creates massive resistance
all around the object. MARKO PRINCEVAC: Good shape
for underwater supercavitating vehicle would be something
similar to a return capsule of Soyuz or other
space missions. NARRATOR: The laws of earthly
physics changed dramatically underwater. Propelling an oceanic
vehicle to supersonic speeds requires an amount of
power greater than what man has currently invented. A vehicle that has
a 5-foot diameter, and we want to go over the
speed of sound in the air, we would need an engine that
can produce 15,000 horsepower. For the same vehicle to
reach the speed of sound under the water, we would need
an engine that can produce around 1 million horsepower. NARRATOR: While it might
be scientifically possible for USOs to prowl the
oceans at supersonic speed, how have these craft developed
the technology required to achieve this milestone? The many mysteries
of these craft may never be fully understood,
but that is exactly what provokes the greatest debate
and distress among investigators and researchers. I think it's easier for
us to land a man on the moon or even create a moon base than
to land a man on the bottom of the ocean. BILL BIRNES: If they're
hostile and have come here to conquer Earth, they
would have done it a million years ago. We might be their
creations for all we know. The Earth is conquered, we
work for them, they live here, this is their planet. [music playing]
