UFO's vs The Government (Documentary)

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[Music] [Music] for millennia<font color="#CCCCCC"> people have spotted</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mysterious objects in the sky most</font> witnesses<font color="#E5E5E5"> are ordinary sensible people</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">startled at what they see many now</font> report their encounters to government officials<font color="#CCCCCC"> who deny any knowledge</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of UFOs</font> conspiracy cover-up<font color="#E5E5E5"> or an ominous</font> miscalculation<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the power of the</font> unexplained [Music] <font color="#CCCCCC">1980</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">140 miles outside London on the east</font> coast of England<font color="#E5E5E5"> Woodbridge and</font> Bentwaters naval bases<font color="#E5E5E5"> under the command</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> United States Air Force</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> together</font> they formed the largest<font color="#E5E5E5"> Tactical Fighter</font> Wing<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the world</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the two bases were</font> separated by a<font color="#E5E5E5"> three-mile stretch of</font> heavy woods<font color="#E5E5E5"> known as Rendlesham forest</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the backdrop for one of the most</font> investigated UFO sightings in<font color="#E5E5E5"> history</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is what it looked like</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just after</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">midnight on December</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 27th</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Woodbridge</font> security supervisor<font color="#CCCCCC"> sergeant Jim</font> Penniston<font color="#E5E5E5"> rushed to the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> East Gate</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> where</font> sentries alerted him to<font color="#E5E5E5"> strange lights</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">my first thought on it was it was an</font> aircraft downing<font color="#CCCCCC"> a possible aircraft</font> crash there<font color="#E5E5E5"> was a color scheme of red</font> yellow and<font color="#CCCCCC"> white light it's the reaction</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> get with chemicals</font> Penniston radioed back to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the flight</font> supervisor and was given<font color="#CCCCCC"> permission to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">investigate he in the Sentry's advanced</font> into the<font color="#CCCCCC"> darkness</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> until they stumbled on</font> a site they could not explain<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> error</font> for<font color="#E5E5E5"> example</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had a feeling electricity in</font> it my feelings at the time<font color="#E5E5E5"> ran from</font> confusion<font color="#E5E5E5"> to disbelief I could not</font> understand for<font color="#CCCCCC"> the life</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of me what this</font> could be the craft<font color="#E5E5E5"> itself measured approximately</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">nine feet</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> by 9 feet triangular in shape</font> they had no cockpit<font color="#E5E5E5"> as far as I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> could</font> tell there<font color="#CCCCCC"> was no windows</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just a very</font> highly<font color="#E5E5E5"> shiny black glass-like material</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and I think the most</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fascinating</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> part of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it at least far as I was concerned</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as</font> the investigator was the fact that<font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font> had identifiable inscription symbols on the<font color="#CCCCCC"> side of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it Penniston says</font> he approached the craft<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was warm when</font> he touched it<font color="#E5E5E5"> suddenly it began to move</font> lifting up<font color="#E5E5E5"> silently right before his</font> eyes<font color="#E5E5E5"> and disappearing into the night sky</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Peniston claims he drew this sketch of</font> the craft at a debriefing<font color="#CCCCCC"> the next</font> morning with<font color="#E5E5E5"> the deputy base</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> commander</font> Lieutenant Colonel<font color="#CCCCCC"> Charles halt</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the next</font> night halt received word that the strange<font color="#E5E5E5"> lights had returned</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> well the</font> base commander and I looked at each other quite in<font color="#CCCCCC"> disbelief and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I said well</font> we both<font color="#E5E5E5"> agreed we needed to put this to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">bed eager to debunk the entire affair</font> halt collected a Geiger counter <font color="#CCCCCC">night-vision</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> star scope and a handheld</font> tape recorder<font color="#E5E5E5"> then with a few men from</font> the disaster preparedness unit he drove to the<font color="#E5E5E5"> area where Penniston had seen the</font> UFO<font color="#E5E5E5"> soon the portable lights they had</font> brought mysteriously flickered<font color="#E5E5E5"> and died</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">halt</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> concerned</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> safety of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his men</font> ordered several<font color="#E5E5E5"> of them back to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the east</font> gate<font color="#E5E5E5"> with the rest of his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> unit</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he walked</font> into the forest checking radiation levels he says they seemed unusually high suddenly<font color="#CCCCCC"> off in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the distance</font> halt spotted a glowing object<font color="#E5E5E5"> this is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the actual recording halt made of his</font> UFO<font color="#E5E5E5"> encounter that night</font> and there we stood<font color="#CCCCCC"> well we didn't know</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">quite what to think of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that but when we</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">looked</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> north suddenly there were</font> objects in the sky<font color="#CCCCCC"> and we watched us in</font> awe<font color="#E5E5E5"> suddenly the object came toward us</font> at high speed it moved directly toward us I can't estimate<font color="#E5E5E5"> the speed but it moved</font> very<font color="#E5E5E5"> rapidly</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> stop and send down a pencil</font> like beam at our feet and just as<font color="#E5E5E5"> fast</font> as<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> beam appeared it just clicked off</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">disappear</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I still have questions as to</font> what happened I really don't know what it was<font color="#CCCCCC"> I do know it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was something</font> strange something<font color="#CCCCCC"> that was controlled by</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">some type</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of intelligence</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and that's</font> about<font color="#E5E5E5"> all</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I really know</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> two weeks later</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">halt described the incident</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in a</font> one-page memo sent<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the British</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Ministry of Defence the British</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">government never responded to the memo</font> but<font color="#CCCCCC"> word</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the encounter spread three</font> years<font color="#E5E5E5"> later</font> UFO researchers pressured the Air Force <font color="#CCCCCC">commander</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to release the document under</font> the Freedom of Information Act<font color="#E5E5E5"> well he</font> released it and the<font color="#E5E5E5"> very next day I got</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> meet BBC One BBC</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> two</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ITV German TV</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Japanese TV every local radio station</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and they were waiting on my doorstep at</font> home and at the<font color="#E5E5E5"> office it was just</font> unbelievable news<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the Rendlesham incident also</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">generated enormous interest from UFO</font> researchers and<font color="#E5E5E5"> skeptics here was a case</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with highly credible witnesses trained</font> Air Force personnel<font color="#E5E5E5"> Tucson astronomer</font> and retired US<font color="#E5E5E5"> Air Force pilot James</font> McGaha<font color="#CCCCCC"> is a UFO skeptic</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> who investigated</font> halt and<font color="#E5E5E5"> peniston's alleged encounter</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Begay</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he insists halt mistook the beams</font> from<font color="#E5E5E5"> a lighthouse five miles away</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">spacecraft that object</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that was winking</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">at him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> which is on the tape</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is clearly</font> the lighthouse<font color="#CCCCCC"> now he's looking at the</font> lighthouse I think with the<font color="#CCCCCC"> starlight</font> scope<font color="#E5E5E5"> now remember here comes this beam</font> of light he's looking at this<font color="#E5E5E5"> light with</font> a hundred thousand times intensity what it's<font color="#CCCCCC"> gonna</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> do is it's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> gonna</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> burn out the</font> image in the center so it's gonna become black and that's what easily explains the beams<font color="#E5E5E5"> and these other things when</font> halts tape<font color="#E5E5E5"> is played against the</font> flashing from<font color="#E5E5E5"> the lighthouse</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this seems</font> to be<font color="#E5E5E5"> the case</font> I can't explain that<font color="#CCCCCC"> I really don't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> know</font> I never<font color="#E5E5E5"> gave it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> any thought I do know</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> the whole time we were</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> out there we</font> could see<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> lighthouse</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> lighthouse<font color="#E5E5E5"> was about 35</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> or 40 degrees</font> off to our right<font color="#E5E5E5"> from where this whole</font> thing<font color="#CCCCCC"> took place did area radar</font> operators confirm the UFO sighting halt says maybe they really didn't confirm they<font color="#E5E5E5"> found</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> anything</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> although later I</font> found<font color="#E5E5E5"> out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that when</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they reviewed the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tapes they did find some</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> things on the</font> tape<font color="#CCCCCC"> if he has a radar report I'd like</font> to see it because I investigated<font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and I couldn't find one</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">skeptics also suggest the Rendlesham UFO</font> might have<font color="#E5E5E5"> been a meteor bright stars or</font> a Russian satellite that fell<font color="#CCCCCC"> out of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> sky that<font color="#CCCCCC"> night</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I to me this is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just a</font> case<font color="#CCCCCC"> of where a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> number</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> people saw</font> some lights<font color="#CCCCCC"> got a little excited</font> thought about UFOs<font color="#CCCCCC"> and all of a sudden</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">everything they see is a UFO</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the first</font> night<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was a combination of a</font> satellite<font color="#CCCCCC"> reentry</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a meteor fireball and</font> a police car driving<font color="#E5E5E5"> around in the woods</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the second night it turns out to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">lighthouse</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> some microwave antennas and</font> some stars<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the sky we had a</font> controlled landing<font color="#E5E5E5"> apparently there was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">no crater</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we also had a craft that was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">able to take</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> back off with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> absolutely no</font> sound<font color="#E5E5E5"> which tells me high technology and</font> maneuver<font color="#E5E5E5"> back through the tree line rise</font> over the<font color="#E5E5E5"> trees</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hover momentarily</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">then take off at incredible speed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it's</font> just totally<font color="#E5E5E5"> ridiculous to even</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> consider</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that it was a Russian satellite or a</font> meteor<font color="#E5E5E5"> impossible in 1991</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> believing</font> serious questions were still unanswered the<font color="#E5E5E5"> British government finally responded</font> to the Rendlesham incident<font color="#CCCCCC"> Nick Pope</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">it's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> top UFO investigator reopened the</font> case<font color="#E5E5E5"> I've always felt that Rendlesham</font> forest<font color="#CCCCCC"> is a case which displays a lot of</font> important<font color="#E5E5E5"> factors all drawn together you</font> have a multiple<font color="#E5E5E5"> witness event those</font> witnesses are trained<font color="#CCCCCC"> military observers</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Defense radiological protection</font> service had no<font color="#E5E5E5"> explanation as to why the</font> radiation readings taken<font color="#E5E5E5"> by Colonel</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Holt's team were so high</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> undoubtedly</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">something very strange Pope requested</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">further investigation the British</font> government<font color="#E5E5E5"> said no and closed the file</font> perhaps<font color="#E5E5E5"> in part</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> due to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this fact</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">sergeant Penniston arrived at the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> site</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> approximately 1:00 a.m. and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Rhee</font> emerged from Rendlesham forest<font color="#CCCCCC"> after</font> dawn<font color="#E5E5E5"> but can only account for less than</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">an hour of his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> time</font> skeptics question how Penniston could make such an historic discovery<font color="#CCCCCC"> and yet</font> not report back to<font color="#CCCCCC"> the base</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for several</font> hours<font color="#CCCCCC"> what we had thought was apparently</font> only<font color="#E5E5E5"> maybe hours worth an investigation</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">time turned out to be four hours</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I got a</font> feeling<font color="#E5E5E5"> that might have been the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">adrenalin</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we were</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> pumped up at that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">point in time what is it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that Penniston</font> says he saw and<font color="#E5E5E5"> touched that night to</font> this day he<font color="#CCCCCC"> is perplexed by the entire</font> incident<font color="#E5E5E5"> something that can sustain a</font> control flight<font color="#CCCCCC"> something that has mass</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">something that makes no sound</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> something<font color="#E5E5E5"> that can take off at</font> incredible<font color="#CCCCCC"> speeds back up</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> into the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">atmosphere explain it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I can</font> [Music] unknown forms in the sky<font color="#CCCCCC"> surprise</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">alarm citizens below sometimes causing</font> governments to do battle with<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> unexplained<font color="#E5E5E5"> Belgium the center of Europe</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> focus of one of the most</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> famous</font> UFO encounters in history<font color="#CCCCCC"> on the evening</font> of November<font color="#E5E5E5"> 15th 1989 police officer</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Francis Mitchell's ik had completed a</font> few<font color="#E5E5E5"> hours of routine patrol in Anza</font> Belgian village near<font color="#CCCCCC"> the German border</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">when Mitchell success he looked up and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">became one of the first witnesses of the</font> Belgian wave<font color="#CCCCCC"> we must all get a dollar</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">CLE</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we saw a large mass</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in the sky a</font> triangular mass with three<font color="#E5E5E5"> lights</font> oriented downward about 200<font color="#CCCCCC"> metres from</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">our police</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mayor's City physically</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font> theme obedia the object was silent and <font color="#CCCCCC">immobile this object did not correspond</font> in any way to anything<font color="#CCCCCC"> we'd seen before</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a circle divided by C</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 2 weeks later D de</font> plume ins<font color="#CCCCCC"> a member of the Jean</font> dawn-marie<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Belgian</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> national police</font> force<font color="#CCCCCC"> heard over his police radio fellow</font> officers nearby<font color="#E5E5E5"> reporting a strange</font> object<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the night sky at first when we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">heard our colleagues talking</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> dispatching<font color="#E5E5E5"> we thought they were crazy</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">plume ins requested permission to</font> investigate<font color="#E5E5E5"> and when he reached the edge</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> town</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he says he witnessed an</font> astounding sight how he pissed off us that<font color="#E5E5E5"> he's out of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the pool we stopped right</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in front of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the nursing home and there was an</font> immense object over our heads<font color="#CCCCCC"> the object</font> had three lights<font color="#CCCCCC"> at its extremities and</font> a blinking<font color="#E5E5E5"> red</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> light in the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> center at a</font> certain point I saw a small<font color="#E5E5E5"> object leave</font> the large thing an object which<font color="#E5E5E5"> was also</font> flashing which came straight<font color="#CCCCCC"> down and</font> then turned<font color="#E5E5E5"> and flew around</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> the nursing home<font color="#E5E5E5"> after that the large</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">object transformed itself into a single</font> light and we followed it toward Germany <font color="#CCCCCC">belgian radio</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and TV soon were filled</font> with<font color="#CCCCCC"> reports</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of similar sightings</font> prompting hundreds of calls to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">office of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> top UFO research group in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Belgium known</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> by its acronym so</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> bets</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">over the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> next several months researchers</font> documented<font color="#E5E5E5"> more</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> than</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 800 so-called Close</font> Encounters <font color="#CCCCCC">so BAPS eventually published too thick</font> volumes on the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Belgian wave specific</font> characteristics<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the phenomenon</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> were</font> reported by many many many<font color="#CCCCCC"> people we</font> have hundreds<font color="#E5E5E5"> of reports of people who</font> mentioned something below a distance of <font color="#CCCCCC">hundred meters</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> then on March 30th 1990</font> the Belgian wave story took a dramatic <font color="#E5E5E5">twist</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> near midnight several police</font> officers called a NATO radar installation with reports<font color="#E5E5E5"> of a UFO</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">within an hour that facility and a</font> second radar station were both tracking <font color="#E5E5E5">an unknown flying object</font> people<font color="#CCCCCC"> die temple</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tremble</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the chief of</font> operations for<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Belgian Air Force</font> lieutenant colonel<font color="#E5E5E5"> wilfred de Brouwer</font> ordered ground command to scramble a pair of f-16 fighter jets<font color="#E5E5E5"> armed with</font> missiles <font color="#CCCCCC">a supersonic</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> high-tech cat and mouse</font> game ensued<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Jets radar locked on to</font> their targets<font color="#E5E5E5"> nine times but with each</font> lock on the object drastically changed its position<font color="#CCCCCC"> after an hour</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the f-16s</font> lost contact and returned to<font color="#E5E5E5"> base</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">weeks the encounter was kept under wraps</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but Colonel de Brouwer felt compelled to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">share what he knew during an interview</font> with<font color="#E5E5E5"> a reporter from</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> one</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of Europe's</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">most popular magazines</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Paris Match de</font> Brouwer described what<font color="#E5E5E5"> happened the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">story stopped the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> presses</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> within days</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> de</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Brouwer called a news conference and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">told reporters from around the world</font> what he knew and what he didn't know this is<font color="#CCCCCC"> what the pilots saw on their</font> radar the UFO appears as a diamond in the<font color="#CCCCCC"> center of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the screen</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">what this pilots detected was well</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">outside the normal flying envelope of an</font> airplane<font color="#E5E5E5"> in other words sometimes they</font> had what we call low counts<font color="#E5E5E5"> on a target</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">which gave a parameter is varying from</font> speeds<font color="#E5E5E5"> between 150 knots till 990 knots</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">an acceleration</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> which occurred in a few</font> seconds<font color="#E5E5E5"> these speeds would be impossible</font> to to tolerate for a human<font color="#E5E5E5"> being</font> Colonel de Brouwer never suggested the mysterious flying craft was from outer space<font color="#E5E5E5"> he only said its speed and rate of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">acceleration were unexplained over the</font> next few months<font color="#E5E5E5"> the sightings became</font> more sporadic<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the Belgian wave came</font> to an end did the skies<font color="#E5E5E5"> over Belgium become a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Waystation for alien spacecraft if not</font> what<font color="#E5E5E5"> did thousands of people witness</font> physical evidence is the key to proving <font color="#E5E5E5">the existence of UFOs the Belgian wave</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">despite hundreds of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> credible</font> eyewitnesses<font color="#E5E5E5"> has produced only one piece</font> of convincing evidence this photo<font color="#E5E5E5"> taken</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">by a civilian bystander in the town of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">petit rashon the photo was examined by</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">former NASA scientist Richard Haines</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> specialist in vision optics<font color="#CCCCCC"> and human</font> perception<font color="#CCCCCC"> my analysis of the petit</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Rochon photograph suggests very strongly</font> to me that the object<font color="#E5E5E5"> that was</font> photographed<font color="#E5E5E5"> does not obey laws of</font> physics as we know<font color="#E5E5E5"> them second point I</font> would<font color="#CCCCCC"> make is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it's not a forgery</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> finally I think<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there may be some</font> clues in<font color="#CCCCCC"> this photograph</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> having to do</font> with propulsion<font color="#CCCCCC"> and lift</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Belgian</font> scientists and skeptics tried to calm what they considered the UFO hysteria<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> the Belgian wave<font color="#E5E5E5"> a professor at the</font> astrophysics Institute at Belgium's prestigious<font color="#E5E5E5"> University of liège Pierre</font> mega decided to put the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Petit rashon</font> photo<font color="#E5E5E5"> to his chest we try to reproduce</font> this photograph and<font color="#E5E5E5"> we produce this this</font> picture which is<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> well very close to</font> the original<font color="#CCCCCC"> picture and so I think the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">only way to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> go ahead and to try to</font> understand more is<font color="#CCCCCC"> to is to do as we did</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to analyze the witness report together</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">with with the photograph</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and to see if</font> everything is consistent<font color="#E5E5E5"> and there are</font> so<font color="#E5E5E5"> many</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> inconsistencies that that it's</font> very hard<font color="#CCCCCC"> to believe</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it it's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a true it's</font> true<font color="#E5E5E5"> picture</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> see how someone</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">could recreate this down at the almost</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the grain level</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the film it would</font> take a Steven Spielberg<font color="#CCCCCC"> kind</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of a</font> capability<font color="#E5E5E5"> to do this in a technical</font> laboratory<font color="#E5E5E5"> the most convincing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> evidence</font> for<font color="#CCCCCC"> the skeptics position involved the</font> radar lock-ons by the f-16s<font color="#E5E5E5"> Belgium's</font> electronic war<font color="#CCCCCC"> center</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> analyzed the radar</font> tapes<font color="#CCCCCC"> and found that the object</font> descended<font color="#E5E5E5"> below ground</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> level at</font> points<font color="#CCCCCC"> a physical impossibility the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">center concluded that all but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> one of the</font> radar<font color="#CCCCCC"> lock-ons were really caused</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> by</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">electromagnetic interference or unusual</font> atmospheric conditions<font color="#E5E5E5"> eventually</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> even</font> so<font color="#CCCCCC"> BEPS agreed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but one major question</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">remains unanswered and unexplained</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">experts say that when ground-based and</font> air based radar<font color="#E5E5E5"> tracked the same object</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">simultaneously the object is real one of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the lock-ons a simultaneous tracking of</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> UFO by one of the f-16s</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and the</font> ground radar station<font color="#CCCCCC"> has</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> never been</font> explained if I remember<font color="#E5E5E5"> its</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> lock-on</font> number<font color="#CCCCCC"> nine which has some</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> very word</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">characteristics and this characteristics</font> doesn't fit with atmospherical explanation<font color="#E5E5E5"> not at all thousands of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">people still wonder if what they saw</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">came from another world others</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> asked if</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> single perplexing radar report is a</font> clue<font color="#E5E5E5"> to civilizations</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in distant</font> galaxies questions for those who find answers in the unexplained [Music] for years the<font color="#E5E5E5"> US government seriously</font> investigated sightings of UFOs<font color="#E5E5E5"> thousands</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of cases passed through the hands of</font> military and other government agencies <font color="#CCCCCC">most of these cases</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had rational</font> explanations<font color="#E5E5E5"> the rest remain classified</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">as unexplained</font> 50 year-old Polish immigrant and amateur geologist<font color="#CCCCCC"> Stephen mahalik looked forward</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> his weekend getaways alone in the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Falcon Lake area 90 miles east of his</font> home<font color="#E5E5E5"> in Winnipeg Manitoba</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">mahalik favorite prospecting site</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> around</font> noon on May 20th 1967<font color="#E5E5E5"> as he examined a</font> quartz formation mahalik was distracted by some unruly geese<font color="#E5E5E5"> he looked up and was transfixed he</font> says he saw<font color="#CCCCCC"> two cigar-shaped objects</font> glowing red in the sky<font color="#E5E5E5"> the following is</font> a recording mahalik later made of what he saw<font color="#CCCCCC"> next was amazing wind</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> speed I</font> just can't describe<font color="#E5E5E5"> amazing speed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mahalik says one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of them stopped</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">suddenly accelerated then disappeared</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> other land at about 50 yards away</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font> watched in awe Shh equipment on <font color="#CCCCCC">high-speed gray/pink</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it stainless steel and it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was pink hot</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and I can</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> feel the breeze on my face</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that that thing is parked outside there</font> was<font color="#CCCCCC"> my notebook there was more fancy</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">mahalik claims it was round</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> about 40</font> feet<font color="#CCCCCC"> long and about 10 feet high his</font> curiosity<font color="#E5E5E5"> took hold and he approached</font> the craft<font color="#E5E5E5"> he examined the outside of it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">slowly touching the glowing skin</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with</font> his gloved hand it was fiery hot<font color="#E5E5E5"> nearly</font> melting the palm of his<font color="#E5E5E5"> rubber glove</font> mahalik says the craft rotated turning its<font color="#CCCCCC"> grid like exhaust vent</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> toward him</font> the blast of<font color="#E5E5E5"> hot gas from the vent</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">knocked him to the ground</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> setting his</font> shirt and undershirt on fire<font color="#E5E5E5"> the craft</font> suddenly<font color="#E5E5E5"> lifted off the ground according</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to a holic and soared straight up he</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">threw his burning shirts to the ground</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">dazed and in severe pain from burns to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his chest and stomach</font> mahalik says he wandered around for<font color="#E5E5E5"> what</font> seemed like hours<font color="#E5E5E5"> before he managed to</font> gather up<font color="#CCCCCC"> his supplies</font> he found his<font color="#E5E5E5"> way out of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the woods caught</font> a bus<font color="#E5E5E5"> and later that night arrived back</font> in<font color="#E5E5E5"> Winnipeg still in pain he rushed from</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the bus station to nearby Misericordia</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Hospital where he was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> treated</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> first</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">degree burns</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mahalik claimed the blast from the craft</font> had edged a grid-like pattern into his abdomen that matched the<font color="#CCCCCC"> pattern on the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> exhaust</font> vent the next day<font color="#E5E5E5"> Sunday he was spirited</font> off to the st. Regis<font color="#CCCCCC"> Hotel</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">convincing the managing editor</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Winnipeg's highly regarded daily</font> newspaper<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Winnipeg Tribune</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that his</font> extraordinary<font color="#E5E5E5"> encounter was real at that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">time I said</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ok</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as any</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> newsman would have</font> done dried<font color="#E5E5E5"> I gave him a piece</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> paper</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> think that drawing<font color="#E5E5E5"> has become the most</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">famous UFO piece</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of evidence in the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">world today he sat down he drew it in</font> front<font color="#E5E5E5"> of me I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hid it I talked to him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font> called doctors<font color="#CCCCCC"> I called police</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and I</font> sure<font color="#CCCCCC"> as hell didn't one the Winnipeg</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Free Press getting the story</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Monday's</font> edition of<font color="#E5E5E5"> The Tribune led with this</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">headline mahalik soon became a sensation</font> worldwide what followed was one of the most intensely examined UFO<font color="#E5E5E5"> cases on</font> record<font color="#E5E5E5"> over the next two years</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mahalik</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> spurns kept</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> recurring and no one</font> could<font color="#E5E5E5"> explain why</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he was examined by</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">more than a dozen physicians in Canada</font> and the United States<font color="#E5E5E5"> including doctors</font> at the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Mayo</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Clinic</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> an investigation</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> by</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the Royal Canadian Air Force concluded</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that the abdominal burns sustained by</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mr. mahalik remain as unexplainable as</font> to the source<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the burn</font> the Mayo Clinic psychological report concluded that mahalik was not prone to <font color="#CCCCCC">delusions hallucinations or any type of</font> emotional disorder<font color="#E5E5E5"> perhaps the most</font> influential investigation was conducted <font color="#CCCCCC">under</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the auspices of the United</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> States</font> government<font color="#E5E5E5"> the chief investigator</font> physicist Roy Craig<font color="#E5E5E5"> is now retired and</font> raises llamas on his<font color="#E5E5E5"> Colorado ranch his</font> job was to examine UFO reports and find physical<font color="#CCCCCC"> evidence</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we responded to the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Falk and Lake report as soon as we could</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">now</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there's no value in in seeing a</font> landing site that somebody's had a chance to go back<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> prepare for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me to</font> look at<font color="#E5E5E5"> but if we could get</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> back and</font> find a landing site that had<font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> been</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">seen by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> anyone else or been altered by</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">human beings</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there may be something</font> there<font color="#CCCCCC"> that we could use as real evidence</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that he had a real experience I mean</font> comparable with<font color="#E5E5E5"> the appearance of human</font> beings on earth<font color="#CCCCCC"> two weeks</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after the</font> encounter Craig flew to Winnipeg<font color="#CCCCCC"> and joined</font> mahalik on his first return<font color="#CCCCCC"> to the</font> landing site<font color="#E5E5E5"> he guided us on what he</font> said was a big search for the site <font color="#E5E5E5">actually we just roamed around in in</font> haphazard<font color="#E5E5E5"> circles coming back to about</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">where we started and didn't go very</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> far</font> at all<font color="#E5E5E5"> he was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> trying to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> give us the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">impression of leading us on a search</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for</font> a site and we all<font color="#CCCCCC"> concluded that the</font> site<font color="#E5E5E5"> probably did not exist with no</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">apparent physical evidence</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Craig classified the case</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as without</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">merit the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> American investigation was</font> over University<font color="#E5E5E5"> of Manitoba</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> astronomer</font> Chris Rock Kowski believing the government<font color="#CCCCCC"> reports left many questions</font> unanswered<font color="#E5E5E5"> launched his own</font> investigation<font color="#CCCCCC"> in 1994 he published the</font> Falcon Lake case<font color="#E5E5E5"> to close an encounter</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in the respected</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> journal of UFO studies</font> the terrain around<font color="#E5E5E5"> the site is very</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">rugged very rocky the brush is very very</font> dense<font color="#E5E5E5"> the trees all look</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> alike the rocks</font> all look alike<font color="#E5E5E5"> and to a person</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> who's</font> disoriented not feeling very<font color="#E5E5E5"> well it</font> might be very<font color="#E5E5E5"> very difficult to find the</font> exact site after some period<font color="#CCCCCC"> of time</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> has</font> elapsed <font color="#CCCCCC">skeptics disagreeing with Rutkowski also</font> do<font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> believe that mahalik would make</font> physical<font color="#E5E5E5"> contact</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> an extremely</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hot</font> object he assumed<font color="#E5E5E5"> was a UFO but this</font> does<font color="#CCCCCC"> not surprise</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his son he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is the kind</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of fellow that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fear is not in his</font> vocabulary<font color="#CCCCCC"> not that he's a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fearless man</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> when he sees something he</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">doesn't understand he</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> doesn't fear it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font> just<font color="#E5E5E5"> chooses to understand it skeptics</font> wonder why no<font color="#E5E5E5"> one else saw</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the craft I</font> talked with the<font color="#E5E5E5"> people who were in</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">charge of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> managing the fire tower it was</font> man<font color="#E5E5E5"> at that time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> people were</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">absolutely</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> certain</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that there was no way</font> the two vehicles<font color="#CCCCCC"> like he described</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">glowing as they were could fly into that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">space and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> again there was no</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> way</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> that could happen without their</font> seeing it my<font color="#E5E5E5"> conclusion on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> case is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that all the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> evidence that I found</font> pointed toward<font color="#CCCCCC"> hoax rather than a real</font> experience<font color="#E5E5E5"> and not even a skillful hoax</font> of a very inept hoax mahalik became bedridden<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> incapacitated<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the 1980s was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">hard-working</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and devoted family man</font> capable of crafting such a hoax for my dad to fabricate something<font color="#E5E5E5"> as</font> large as this would<font color="#CCCCCC"> require more</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> than</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> think<font color="#E5E5E5"> he had more than he has he's a</font> simple man<font color="#E5E5E5"> he grew up and lived a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> very</font> straight hard life this was no<font color="#E5E5E5"> con man this was a man who</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">later went down a male</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they couldn't</font> figure it<font color="#E5E5E5"> out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I couldn't figure it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> out</font> the doctor I had<font color="#CCCCCC"> there couldn't figure</font> it<font color="#E5E5E5"> out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I am not about to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be taken by</font> anybody<font color="#E5E5E5"> this guy didn't take me this guy</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">what is legit Steven mahalik never</font> wavered from<font color="#CCCCCC"> his story he believed he</font> had<font color="#CCCCCC"> encountered a UFO Roy Craig and the</font> US government disagreed<font color="#E5E5E5"> but they never</font> classified<font color="#E5E5E5"> the case as solved the</font> official report lists mahalik sighting as unexplained in the past<font color="#E5E5E5"> the US government routinely</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">took a keen interest in reports of UFOs</font> now<font color="#E5E5E5"> it denies any investigative role</font> leaving only questions for witnesses of close<font color="#CCCCCC"> encounters with the unexplained</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font> the night<font color="#CCCCCC"> of March 8th 1994 something</font> strange was sighted<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the skies over</font> Holland Michigan<font color="#CCCCCC"> on the southeastern</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">shore</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of Lake Michigan witnesses were</font> startled<font color="#E5E5E5"> and called police</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> four or</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> five</font> lights and<font color="#E5E5E5"> they were all flashes right</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> off the top all the way down to</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> bottom the lights hovered over the</font> outskirts of<font color="#E5E5E5"> town near the home of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Holly</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Daryl graves their fifteen-year-old</font> son<font color="#E5E5E5"> Joey was sitting in the living room</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">watching TV out of the corner of my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> eye</font> I saw white and I looked out the<font color="#CCCCCC"> window</font> and there<font color="#CCCCCC"> was a round circle of light I</font> called my<font color="#E5E5E5"> parents and and they were</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sleeping they didn't they didn't know</font> what was<font color="#E5E5E5"> going on and my mom she called</font> 9-1-1<font color="#E5E5E5"> to get a cop or someone</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> here</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to look at it it looked like</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sphere</font> the lights were really weird<font color="#E5E5E5"> because</font> they change but they kind of faded<font color="#CCCCCC"> into</font> a<font color="#E5E5E5"> different color so it wasn't like</font> regular lights<font color="#E5E5E5"> so it was kind of weird</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">we watched it up to about a half hour</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">just slowly moving south</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">we were just in awe I think about the</font> whole<font color="#CCCCCC"> thing there was no noise it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> very<font color="#CCCCCC"> peaceful out we just</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> stood</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and watched this object at that moment</font> officer<font color="#CCCCCC"> veldt I was pulled in the</font> driveway <font color="#CCCCCC">what I saw were two bright lights their</font> movement was something<font color="#CCCCCC"> that really</font> caught<font color="#E5E5E5"> my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> attention</font> their speed accelerated and then it slowed down<font color="#CCCCCC"> again and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I decided to have</font> our 911 dispatcher contact a radar <font color="#E5E5E5">operator and thus</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> keegan michigan</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it was</font> a clear night<font color="#E5E5E5"> was about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 10 p.m. i was</font> alone on duty<font color="#E5E5E5"> and we had a call from the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">central dispatcher in Ottawa County</font> which is quite<font color="#E5E5E5"> common for the police</font> department<font color="#CCCCCC"> to call</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> us whenever they have</font> any<font color="#E5E5E5"> type</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of weather</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> questions</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Sean checked his radar</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for any images</font> what radar operators call returns [Music] [Music] Michigan what was<font color="#E5E5E5"> extraordinary about</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this case was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that radar apparently</font> detected the object at the same time witnesses saw it it is a level<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> confirmation<font color="#E5E5E5"> rarely achieved in reported</font> UFO sightings<font color="#E5E5E5"> airplanes look like</font> they're moving<font color="#E5E5E5"> these were just sitting</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">still and then a few minutes later they</font> would<font color="#E5E5E5"> disappear from one spot and show</font> up somewhere<font color="#CCCCCC"> else I really didn't know</font> what<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> strange lights in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the night</font> sky<font color="#CCCCCC"> moving at otherworldly speed the</font> image confirmed on a radar<font color="#CCCCCC"> screen</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this finally convincing evidence of a</font> technology far beyond our own had alien spacecraft paid a visit to Holland Michigan<font color="#E5E5E5"> there was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> no explanation</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">these sightings</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a reporter</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for the</font> Muskegon Chronicle Michael Walsh decided to<font color="#E5E5E5"> investigate for himself he too found</font> the story<font color="#E5E5E5"> remarkable we've had past</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">articles where people have</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> reported some</font> strange phenomena especially at this time<font color="#CCCCCC"> of year but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not once did we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ever</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">have any dual confirmations visual plus</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> the radar</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> others began looking into</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> incident fascinated by the radar</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">confirmation a professor of Natural</font> Sciences<font color="#CCCCCC"> and at the same</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> time the editor</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">of the Journal of UFO studies UFO</font> researcher<font color="#E5E5E5"> Michael swords met with radar</font> operator<font color="#E5E5E5"> Jack</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Busha we went</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> into the</font> radar room<font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> young fellow really knew</font> how<font color="#E5E5E5"> to use the equipment he would he</font> would show us the difference between a hard count<font color="#E5E5E5"> of something like an airliner</font> and a soft<font color="#CCCCCC"> response of something</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like a</font> storm<font color="#E5E5E5"> cloud and it was obvious this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font> an extremely<font color="#E5E5E5"> competent operator</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> skeptics</font> point out that<font color="#CCCCCC"> Bouchon was still a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Weather Service intern at the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> time of</font> the sighting California engineer and <font color="#E5E5E5">skeptic Robert</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Shafer thinks he can</font> explain what the images really<font color="#E5E5E5"> were the</font> National Weather Service<font color="#CCCCCC"> says that they</font> tracked a number of objects<font color="#CCCCCC"> over Lake</font> Michigan<font color="#CCCCCC"> but of course not</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> everything at</font> up on radar<font color="#CCCCCC"> is a solid object radar is</font> subjected to<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mirage conditions of</font> various kind<font color="#CCCCCC"> Schaefer believes that the</font> sightings over<font color="#E5E5E5"> the lake can</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be explained</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">by a natural phenomenon which</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> usually</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">happens over Lake</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Michigan in the spring</font> warm air moves over<font color="#CCCCCC"> the cold waters of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the lake the layer of cold air trapped</font> beneath the<font color="#E5E5E5"> layer of warm air creates a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mirror effect in the sky</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> by bending the</font> light this effect is called<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> temperature inversion<font color="#E5E5E5"> one of the</font> best-known investigators of UFO sightings<font color="#CCCCCC"> Philip</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> J class is a technical</font> journalist<font color="#E5E5E5"> for Aviation Week in space</font> technology and an expert on radar systems ground radar especially during temperature inversion conditions the<font color="#CCCCCC"> rays can be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> instead</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> going straight<font color="#CCCCCC"> out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they can be bent</font> downwards<font color="#E5E5E5"> so where you get echoes from</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> ground we're trained</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> know the</font> difference between temperature inversions and<font color="#E5E5E5"> for instance</font> precipitation because<font color="#E5E5E5"> they appear to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the same thing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> classes that since</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Bouchon was using old linear radar</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font> the newer<font color="#E5E5E5"> Doppler radar the images were</font> probably<font color="#E5E5E5"> atmospheric tricks it is a</font> weather radar<font color="#E5E5E5"> it is not designed</font> especially to<font color="#E5E5E5"> detect metal objects or</font> aircraft<font color="#CCCCCC"> these returns were not only</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">hard returns</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but they showed up in this</font> geometric pattern and that when say the <font color="#CCCCCC">lead</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> returned would move out into Lake</font> Michigan<font color="#CCCCCC"> the other two</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> would stay behind</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">then they would move</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to reform the</font> triangle<font color="#E5E5E5"> in fact according</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to Muskegon</font> Chronicle reporter Michael Walsh <font color="#E5E5E5">most of the UFO witnesses did report</font> strikingly similar patterns shapes and sizes<font color="#CCCCCC"> I believe that each of them</font> sincerely believed what they saw was something<font color="#E5E5E5"> extraordinary</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that's not to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">say that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> extraterrestrial or</font> paranormal<font color="#E5E5E5"> it may very well</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> very</font> physical manifestation of something<font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font> we don't yet know about<font color="#E5E5E5"> there is no</font> consensus on what the UFOs over Holland Michigan might have been skeptics<font color="#CCCCCC"> point</font> to a<font color="#E5E5E5"> temperature inversion</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> its</font> effect on both<font color="#E5E5E5"> the lights in the sky and</font> the radar<font color="#E5E5E5"> on the ground witnesses</font> including a<font color="#E5E5E5"> Weather Service radar</font> operator<font color="#E5E5E5"> say they know they saw</font> something<font color="#E5E5E5"> real but what was it I've no</font> idea<font color="#E5E5E5"> personally I'm not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sure what I saw</font> either<font color="#CCCCCC"> well it was a UFO</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I was like in</font> awe<font color="#CCCCCC"> do these eyewitness accounts and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">radar confirmation merit further</font> investigation the government answered that question long ago it says no leaving<font color="#E5E5E5"> this encounter one that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> may</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">forever remain unexplained since the</font> 1940s believers in the unexplained have charged the US government with conspiracy<font color="#CCCCCC"> and coverup</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in the 1990s</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">those charges concentrated on a super</font> secret military base [Music] in the heart<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the desert</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on the</font> outskirts of Las<font color="#E5E5E5"> Vegas</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sits Nellis Air</font> Force<font color="#E5E5E5"> Base 85 miles to the northwest is</font> restricted area for<font color="#E5E5E5"> 808 e popularly</font> known as<font color="#E5E5E5"> area 51 a jumble of mysterious</font> hangars and runways in one<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the most</font> desolate<font color="#E5E5E5"> places on earth officially it</font> does not<font color="#E5E5E5"> exist here the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> US tests</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> its</font> most exotic<font color="#E5E5E5"> and advanced flying machines</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> b-2 stealth bomber</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Blackbird and</font> the u2 the area<font color="#CCCCCC"> 51 control tower</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">identifies itself to area pilots only</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">dreamland there are no tours of area 51</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">instead soldiers carry loaded</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> machine</font> guns<font color="#E5E5E5"> with the authorisation to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> use them</font> this base<font color="#E5E5E5"> shrouded in secrecy has become</font> for<font color="#CCCCCC"> many the focus of the world's</font> fascination with UFOs and<font color="#CCCCCC"> its hope for</font> contact<font color="#E5E5E5"> with extraterrestrial</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> life</font> UFO fans from all over the world drive the<font color="#E5E5E5"> extraterrestrial highway a lonely</font> stretch<font color="#CCCCCC"> of road that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hugs the perimeter</font> of the base<font color="#E5E5E5"> to mailbox</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Road from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font> location<font color="#CCCCCC"> hundreds</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of UFO sightings have</font> been reported<font color="#CCCCCC"> the vast majority have</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">been explained as lights from the latest</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">earthbound military technology some</font> however<font color="#E5E5E5"> are harder to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> identify author</font> Chuck Clark<font color="#E5E5E5"> describes a remarkable craft</font> he says he has seen many times<font color="#E5E5E5"> it can go</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from a hover to several thousand miles</font> an hour<font color="#CCCCCC"> and back to a hover</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> instantly it</font> can make very sharp right angle turns and sharper than right angle turns I've seen 120 degree<font color="#CCCCCC"> terms at high</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> speed it</font> appears and disappears<font color="#CCCCCC"> in midair</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> things</font> that normal<font color="#CCCCCC"> RAF don't do UFO buffs</font> contend the<font color="#CCCCCC"> US is testing an</font> extraterrestrial craft<font color="#CCCCCC"> that area 51 but</font> skeptics and UFO researchers agree<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> area<font color="#CCCCCC"> 51 is a UFO bust</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> almost all the</font> sightings I hear about happen at night and at night<font color="#E5E5E5"> you can't judge distance</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">you can't judge easily</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> tight in the sky</font> you can't judge speed you can't judge actual performance<font color="#E5E5E5"> what I think is that</font> there are no UFOs there there are no UFOs being developed there there's no UFO<font color="#CCCCCC"> technology there today the</font> government<font color="#CCCCCC"> does</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not investigate UFO</font> sightings but<font color="#E5E5E5"> for years they were</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> vital<font color="#E5E5E5"> interest beginning in 1948 the US</font> Air Force<font color="#CCCCCC"> began what</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> became known as</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Project</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Blue Book the government's</font> official<font color="#E5E5E5"> UFO investigating arm but both</font> skeptics and UFO believers say Project Blue Book was<font color="#E5E5E5"> half-hearted at best</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as</font> time went on and<font color="#CCCCCC"> especially after the</font> year of 1952<font color="#E5E5E5"> Blue Book's</font> mission was changed<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was changed from</font> being a somewhat serious<font color="#E5E5E5"> look at</font> unidentified flying objects to be basically a<font color="#E5E5E5"> public relations office to</font> try<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> diffuse emotionalism that was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">occurring in the American public about</font> this so because this was a rather unsatisfying<font color="#E5E5E5"> task to the people at</font> wright-patterson Air Force Base <font color="#E5E5E5">they tried rather continuously from</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">mid-50s</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> onward to get rid of this task</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in 1966</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the US Air</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Force commissioned</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> University of Colorado</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to conduct a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">thorough evaluation of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the UFO</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">phenomenon the Condon</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Commission named</font> after its chairman<font color="#E5E5E5"> dr. Edward Condon</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">began an 18-month investigation that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">ended in controversy Condon was an</font> eminent physicist who ridiculed UFOs he didn't take it seriously<font color="#CCCCCC"> he didn't spend</font> time<font color="#E5E5E5"> on the project so the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> project went</font> wrong because<font color="#E5E5E5"> essentially from the top</font> not<font color="#CCCCCC"> the scientific staff but from the</font> top<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was designed to help the Air</font> Force get rid of the UFO problem<font color="#E5E5E5"> well</font> how could<font color="#E5E5E5"> it be designed to do that</font> unless<font color="#E5E5E5"> it said UFOs weren't important</font> weren't serious and weren't a scientific problem <font color="#E5E5E5">retired physicist and former</font> investigator for the Condon Commission Roy Craig strongly supports the Commission's<font color="#E5E5E5"> work</font> we'd have some<font color="#E5E5E5"> excellent reports come</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font> with all sorts of proof<font color="#E5E5E5"> that there was a</font> strange vehicle<font color="#E5E5E5"> there and each bit of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">evidence that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we checked out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> turned</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> out</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to not be what it really</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sounded like to</font> start with and the evidence just plain <font color="#E5E5E5">got less and less the more we learned</font> about<font color="#E5E5E5"> the case the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> less mysterious it</font> became the Commission considered whether UFOs were a threat to<font color="#E5E5E5"> America's airspace</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">demanding military investigation there</font> was no threats to our<font color="#CCCCCC"> security</font> therefore they really didn't<font color="#CCCCCC"> have to</font> interject themselves<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the</font> investigation they could leave this over to<font color="#E5E5E5"> civilian agencies</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we don't have any</font> national security<font color="#CCCCCC"> defense against</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font> anyway and if these characters wanted to do something really overtly and <font color="#E5E5E5">catastrophic</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> alina farías to us this</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">would probably go on on a long time ago</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the Condon Commission concluded that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> government should stop investigating <font color="#E5E5E5">UFOs as a result in 1969 after 21 years</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and 15,000 UFO reports including</font> thousands classified as unexplained<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Air Force closed down Project Blue Book</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but interest in UFOs remains high</font> despite the official<font color="#E5E5E5"> position taken by</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the government was the government</font> justified in terminating<font color="#E5E5E5"> its UFO</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">investigations most scientists and</font> researchers including astronomer Larry tupik<font color="#E5E5E5"> of Chicago's Adler Planetarium</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> say</font> yes we don't find that the stories of aliens in some government hangar<font color="#E5E5E5"> are</font> true we don't find pieces of<font color="#E5E5E5"> spacecraft</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I think when people</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> look</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the sky</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> they don't know what they're seeing<font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> tend to<font color="#CCCCCC"> think of unusual things and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they've heard reports so reports can</font> stimulate<font color="#E5E5E5"> them to make their mind</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> see</font> something they're<font color="#E5E5E5"> not really seeing I</font> don't reject the<font color="#CCCCCC"> idea that there are</font> flying saucers on earth from elsewhere <font color="#E5E5E5">on the basis</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that has always been given</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> our universe is so vast</font> that they couldn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> get here and</font> therefore<font color="#E5E5E5"> they aren't here we could not</font> because<font color="#CCCCCC"> of our ignorance of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our universe</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">say that other</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> other beings could</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> not be</font> here I think it's arrogance to make that kind of statement<font color="#CCCCCC"> on the basis of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our current</font> scientific<font color="#E5E5E5"> knowledge but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that doesn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mean that I think they are here</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">believe we've</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> been visited by</font> extraterrestrials<font color="#E5E5E5"> I've seen the evidence</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">for it yet so we say the question</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">very much</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> open and and should be studied</font> carefully<font color="#CCCCCC"> for 30</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> years I've been</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> looking</font> I have yet to<font color="#E5E5E5"> find a single</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> piece of</font> scientifically credible evidence<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> indicate<font color="#E5E5E5"> that we have alien visitors all</font> we have<font color="#E5E5E5"> are unexplained cases have we</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">been visited by extraterrestrials</font> could the<font color="#E5E5E5"> elusive evidence be</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> found in a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">small number of mysterious reports that</font> defy explanation<font color="#CCCCCC"> almost all of them turn</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">out to be things we as scientists can</font> identify<font color="#E5E5E5"> even though most people</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">couldn't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> now those last few are always</font> questionable because<font color="#E5E5E5"> neither we nor the</font> observers know what they are these<font color="#CCCCCC"> are</font> the unexplained people will<font color="#CCCCCC"> always stare at the sky and</font> wonder about<font color="#E5E5E5"> its mysterious images they</font> then will turn to their leaders for answers<font color="#E5E5E5"> the leaders turn to science in</font> the end<font color="#E5E5E5"> people have a choice</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> except the</font> answers of<font color="#E5E5E5"> science or embrace what lies</font> and the vast reaches of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the unexplained</font> [Music]
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Published: Wed Jan 24 2018
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