Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified (2021) s01e03 Episode Script

[narrator] One of the most debated issues
of the UFO phenomenon
concerns the possible existence
of alien vessels,
which have crash-landed on Earth
and are now kept in secret military bases.
If they do exist,
how far have scientists
progressed in their efforts
in understanding
and replicating technologies
that may be tens of thousands
of years ahead of ours?
Such programs do not officially exist
and are kept under such tight security
that the chances of information leaks
are practically zero.
[Masters] And that they're trying
to guard those secrets.
They're trying to guard
their proprietary technology,
that they're one of the only ones
that have it.
And that might help explain
why the US is so different
than many of these other countries,
that they're guarding the resources.
[Dolan] Having access to this knowledge
that the rest of the world is denied,
gives you a certain amount of power.
It gives you the ability
to study technology secretly
and give you advantages that the rest
of the world might lack, that's powerful.
[Fleischer] This is the kind
of military approach to the subject.
They are not interested
in extraterrestrial life
and what it means for mankind
and all this, you know?
They're interested in the technology.
Propulsion systems, acceleration
and all of this.
[narrator] Could the US military's desire
to reverse-engineer
UFO technology for its own ends
be behind its continuing reticence
to disclose information
about its UFO monitoring program?
[opening theme music playing]
[narrator] Early in the 20th Century,
Nikola Tesla, the ingenious inventor,
entertained the idea of harnessing
huge bursts of electrical energy,
which, in the case of new technologies,
would make it possible to build vessels
with extraordinary flight characteristics.
The same characteristics
that today are associated
with anti-gravity propulsion,
biosensors and artificial intelligence,
which are most likely
the basis of UFO technology.
After Tesla's death,
his extensive scientific archive
was partially destroyed.
The remainder was confiscated by the FBI.
U.S. Army Colonel Philip J. Corso
devoted an entire chapter of his book
The Day After Roswell to Tesla to this.
But what he claims to have observed,
when he was a major
at Fort Bliss army base in July 1947,
is much more significant.
[intense music plays]
July, 1947.
Fort Riley, Kansas.
[narrator] In May 1998,
an unusual affidavit is filed
with the U.S. District Court
in Scottsdale, Arizona.
[tense music playing]
It concerns a dispute
between Colonel Philip J. Corso
and the U.S. military.
Corso, a highly decorated officer,
claims under oath that on July 6th, 1947,
while at Fort Riley in Kansas,
he saw the contents of a special cargo
that had been secretly
brought in that day.
I lifted one up and here's this body there
floating in fluid.
And I looked at it about 10, 15 seconds,
not much more than that.
[narrator] In one of the elongated boxes,
he saw the dead body
of a non-human creature.
He described the corpse
as a four-foot tall creature
with bizarre-looking four-fingered hands,
thin legs and an oversized
incandescent light bulb-shaped head
with no eyebrows or any facial hair.
The creature only had
a tiny flat slit for a mouth,
which was completely closed,
resembling more of a crease
or indentation between the nose
and the bottom of the chinless skull,
than a fully functional orifice.
[Corso] I put it back down and I said,
"Sarge, come on. Get out of here now.
I don't want to get you in trouble."
"Because I am the duty officer,
I can go around, walk around here
but you might get in trouble
for coming back.
Come on, let's go. Come out with me."
So we went out and I told him,
"Where did it come from, Sergeant?"
He said, "Well, five trucks came through
They were coming through here
from an airfield in New Mexico."
[narrator] In 1961,
Corso, by this time
a colonel based at the White House,
claimed he received a file,
which contained, among other things,
reports of an autopsy
he witnessed in Fort Riley in 1947
and of technological fragments
from an alien craft
that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico
at the same time that year.
He later described attempts to extract
and analyze that technology
and use it for human advancements.
He said when he was working
at the White House
that his job was to take
some of the technology
and take it to corporations
for them to reverse engineer it into UTA
and Teflon fiber optics, the digital chip.
[Richard] What I would generally say
is that ET tech probably gives us ideas.
It gives us impetus for trying things.
And one thing that I think
I could say pretty confidently
from everything that I've studied
and the people that I've talked to,
is that their materials and science
is way, way beyond ours.
So they have the ability to create,
manufacture materials
at a very, very, very fine level
that we're only now beginning
to be able to approximate.
[narrator] Have we reached a point
where the scientific community
has become polarized?
Where one faction is using scientific
procedures and quantum physics
to try to understand the prospect
of life in other parts of our universe
or universes beyond,
while the other is engaged
in secret projects
examining alien crafts here and now?
Some of the best brains on Earth
are inventing telescopes and satellites
for space exploration,
while others are trying to understand
the incomparable technologies
of extraterrestrial origin.
[Emery] I don't have a definitive date
of when the first reverse engineering
ever started.
Umm but I do know that
ETs had been coming here way before us
and after visiting the Vatican
and going into their classified museum
and their library,
there were some
very ancient devices and relics.
So, you know, it's been going on
since we've been here.
If you tell the world that
you've recovered their technology,
you may be pressured
to share that technology.
And what if you don't want
to share the technology?
The United States didn't want
to share its atomic technology in 1947.
That was a very big issue at the time.
Uh there are certainly no way
the United States would want to share
its extraterrestrial technology.
[narrator] Not surprisingly,
there are very few testimonies
from people who claim
to have had a chance to witness
or directly participate
in secret programs associated
with probable alien craft
and their reverse engineering.
Due to their degree of secrecy,
it is difficult to find another person
participating in the same program,
who could support the credibility
of these testimonies.
[Mary] I think we just have
to be very discerning
in terms of the information we take on.
I need to get plenty
of information about something
before I start to believe
that that's a possibility.
But I keep an open mind to everything
because you can't say
categorically anything
because that would not be
very intelligent.
[intense music playing]
[narrator] 1971.
Groom Lake, Nevada.
One of those who arouses controversial
opinions among the UFO researchers
is David Adair.
According to his story and his claims,
he is probably the only person
to refuse participation
in a secret UFO
reverse engineering program.
The moment in 1971
he comes up with the idea
of electromagnetic fusion
rocket propulsion,
is the moment he lands in the sights
of military and US intelligence services.
Soon after receiving
his prestigious award
from the U.S. Air Force,
he is taken to Groom Lake,
to visit the base now known as Area 51.
Adair also claims he met
with General Curtis Le May,
then Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force.
And in the high security underground
section of the Area 51 military base,
he is shown an engine
about the size of a school bus.
[David Adair] The one thing that
they showed me at Area 51
was an electromagnetic
fusing attainment engine also,
but they didn't build it.
Mine was about
a meter long.
This thing was the size
of an 18-wheel semi.
Gigantic. It was not built by us
because the manufacturing techniques
that was on this thing
are beyond our capabilities.
As big as it was,
it did not have a single bolt,
screw, rivet or weld or seam line.
It looked like an eggplant.
[narrator] David Adair described
the inside of the engine
as similar to a frog's belly.
The surface appeared wet and slippery,
but was smooth to the touch.
Even stranger is that
it responds to touch.
Like something from a sci-fi movie.
Adair realized that this was
no terrestrial propulsion system.
Could it have been salvaged from a UFO?
Or the remains of one?
[David] They've got alien technologies
from all over the planet.
They're trying to reverse engineer stuff.
And if you notice,
they talk about technology in general,
and it is said that
in the last 15, 20 years,
we have quadrupled the technology
from the previous 5,000 years combined.
How could we do so much so fast?
We cheated. You didn't earn it.
You stole it.
So that would explain how
in the last 15, 20 years,
we equaled all the technology
of 5,000 years before.
[narrator] The most convincing testimony
related to reverse engineering
is that of Bob Lazar.
Not only because he comes up with
his revelations earlier than anyone else,
but above all, because of its consistency
and verifiable detail.
His story has been followed up
and researched for years
by renowned journalists and filmmakers,
who are convinced,
Bob Lazar is telling the truth.
George Knapp, the holder of a number
of prestigious journalistic awards,
is one of them.
I spent 30 years working on this story.
If I did not believe that it was true,
I wouldn't still be working on it.
[narrator] Robert Lazar, initially under
a pseudonym and later under his real name,
shares details of his experiences
at the Area 51 base in the S4 sector,
where he says
he was given the job of working
on reverse engineering efforts
on nine recovered flying saucers.
It is the first time that someone
involved with the secret project
is willing to risk his career or even
his life by opening up to the media.
Until now,
the world has practically known nothing
about Area 51.
The story of Bob Lazar is fascinating
and I must say,
I've changed my mind on this
as the story has evolved.
I think when he first came out
and spoke about it,
I was fairly skeptical and I thought,
well this is, this is just crazy.
[man] I believe Bob Lazar,
but I believe him based upon
an information pool that I have
that the majority just don't have.
That's because I went after the case
following in George's footsteps,
who broke it.
So imagine him, you know,
over 30 years of following this story,
what has he been exposed to
about Bob Lazar
and his story and his account?
What have I been exposed to?
What has the general public?
[Bob] I had access and was permitted
to view and look at the operation
of this main level,
where the gravity amplifier is,
and the level below, anti-gravity mirrors.
I tried to make a movie
to show people who Bob Lazar is.
Same story, same story
he told George Knapp 30 years ago,
but again,
we're living in a different world.
Through the lens of 30 years,
it should be obvious that what
Bob Lazar told you is most likely correct.
[chuckles]
[Richard] I don't believe that
Lazar ever claimed
that we had actively recreated
an alien craft.
Other people have made that claim.
What I think is the case
is that we have been trying
to replicate alien craft
since the 1940s or '50s
but that our science has not gotten us
to the capability
where we can truly do what they do.
[narrator] In a 1989 interview,
Bob asserted that alien spacecraft
were powered by the Element 115.
At the time, the mainstream
science community ridiculed him,
claiming there was no such element.
In August 2013,
European scientists conducted experiments
that proved Element 115 was real.
[Richard] So Bob Lazar talked
about Element 115 as being the fuel
that would allow these flying crafts
to bend space-time around them,
to create a fold in space-time,
as he called it,
to allow them to do what they do.
We don't have a way of making it.
Lazar always said that
the extraterrestrials
had a supply of this.
Maybe from a supernova.
Maybe they manufactured it.
I don't know how they got it.
But there's a certain amount
of that supply
and that we don't know
how to make it.
In a laboratory, years after
Bob Lazar came out with his story,
scientists did in fact manage
to create Element 115.
It's real, it exists.
Now, it's not stable yet.
You can't, you can't kind of see it
in solid form and say, here it is.
[narrator] Is Element 115
in effect the key
to electromagnetic
anti-gravity propulsion?
Yet Colonel Corso,
during his service at the Pentagon,
saw photocopies of documents
proving Nikola Tesla's research
into anti-gravity propulsion.
He had apparently been
many decades ahead of his time.
Four atoms were fabricated
in Russia. Great.
There are 37 different isotopes for gold.
One of them is stable.
That's the one that
you make a ring out of.
Same thing with Element 115.
We always thought that there would be
a way to find that stable isotope.
However, the fabrication of any quantity
or amount is so restrictive
by cost and time and energy and power.
[narrator] The disclosure
of the Pentagon's secret
Advanced Aerospace Threat
Identification Program
or AATIP in the new millennium,
leaves no doubt of the U.S. military's
long-standing interest
in the development of so-called
"exotic technologies."
With the latest deep space research
into behavior of wormholes,
and anti-gravitational principles,
it would be difficult to disguise
recovered extraterrestrial technologies.
Our government is actively
and currently interested
in how the propulsion systems work
of these craft, of these vehicles.
How can they go 20,000 miles per hour
without burning jet fuel?
How is that possible?
Well, it's possible,
and I'm telling you this
as a non-scientist,
for the material of the craft itself
to be constructed in such a way
that it serves as
what is called a wave guide
for high frequency
electromagnetic radiation
that essentially converts to an anti
it becomes like an anti-gravity effect.
[Bassett] Jack Sarfatti, the one
of the great rogue physicists in America,
he makes it very powerful case
about the fact
that once you have anti-gravitic system,
we call it anti-gravitic system,
that allows you to negate gravity
in your area.
So essentially the craft weighs nothing.
You could fly their thing around
with some five-volt batteries.
Think about it.
Imagine if you could make
a 747 weighed virtually nothing.
Uh you could run the thing
with a couple of propellers.
And so, it may not take that much energy
to make them do the maneuvers.
However, the anti-gravitic system
has got to take energy.
There's got to be energy involved there.
So, I am still hoping that
they have made major strides
in developing, reengineering
paradigm shifting energy systems
derived from these vehicles.
And if that is true,
then that absolutely is something
that has got to get in the public domain
as soon as possible.
[narrator] What specific events
could reinforce claims
that the United States military
has at its disposal
a propulsion system obtained
from extraterrestrial crafts?
Apart from whistleblower testimonies,
the most compelling evidence comes
from a top-secret project
code-named Aurora.
The U.S. military continues
to deny the existence of this program,
despite references to it
in documents obtained
under the Freedom of Information Act.
Most often, it is associated
with the development
by the U.S. military-industrial complex
of a state-of-the-art
stealth fighter aircraft,
called Dark Star or Astra.
[Michael] And the Aurora Project
involves multiple craft.
There's the SR-75, which is a craft
that can travel using scramjets,
up to high altitudes,
100,000 feet.
And using their scramjets,
they are able to achieve
a hypersonic velocity of Mach 5.
And then it piggybacks.
Um, on its back is a SR-74,
which is a craft that is capable
of breaking into Earth's orbit.
It's capable of achieving speeds
of above 40,000 kilometers per hour.
And so this was technology
that was developed out of Area 51
to give the Air Force
an ability to be able
to send craft into Earth's orbit
at very short notice.
That we have exo-atmospheric technology
that is light years
behind or beyond any fighter aircraft
that we could see at our local airshow.
That's the bottom line.
[Richard] Some of those secret
technologies can be perhaps moved
into private industry
and you've got some wonderful
ground-floor investment opportunities.
So there's really no incentive,
honestly, for giving that secret up
once you have it,
its power and its wealth.
[archival footage narrator]
The Lockheed Advanced Development Projects
nicknamed "the Skunk Works"
since the early '40s,
well-known for its ability to produce
in a tight security atmosphere,
was selected to proceed
with this highly sensitive program.
[narrator] In the late 1990s,
inside the Skunk Works building,
there was a large chart depicting
the lineage of Skunk Works aircraft
over the decades.
From the XP-80 to the U-2,
the SR-71 Blackbird,
the F-117A Stealth Fighter,
past the YF-22 and Dark Star
to what Lazar says
was something called Astra.
Sitting at the top of the tree,
Astra looked like an ultra-high-speed
reconnaissance aircraft.
Ben Rich was director
of Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991,
so at this time, he had been out
of the top slot for two years,
but naturally, he still had a firm grasp
of the development of secret prototypes.
Connected to this presentation,
within the walls of Skunk Works,
is a remarkable part of Ben Rich's lecture
to the UCLA School of Engineering in 1993.
Ben Rich began his talk with 40 slides,
the last of which showed a black disk
heading off somewhere into space.
He ended his speech with the words,
"We now have the technology
to take ET home,"
which made many of the audience
sit up and take notice.
Was this related
to some top-secret project?
After the speech, Rich told one
of the attendees outside the lecture hall
that the vessel worked on the principle
of ESP, extrasensory perception.
Although, it wasn't entirely clear
how it was connected
to the propulsion of the craft.
Rich merely hinted mysteriously that
all points in space-time were connected.
The TR-3B ASTRA has been described
as a triangular,
nuclear-powered aircraft
developed under the Aurora Top Secret
Projec t for Strategic Defense Initiative
and first tested in the early 1990s.
According to leaked specifications
of the Astra,
it is a noiseless aircraft,
capable of achieving both radar
and optical invisibility.
It has a Magnetic Field Disrupter
which neutralizes the effect of gravity.
From the late 1980s
up to the present day,
many sightings have been reported
of a V-shaped aircraft
remarkably similar
to the descriptions of the Astra,
of an aircraft
that does not officially exist.
[David] It's probably the most
sophisticated aircraft we have today
and it's really fast, flies really high
and probably has the ability
to be stealth.
In other words, you can't even see it.
But yeah, it's real.
Nobody's ever really seen it
or known where it's at.
But it's out there.
You'll never see it
unless they want you to see it.
[narrator] Reports of these triangular
craft come in from all over the world.
Common aspects of the descriptions
are that they move silently
and are massive in size,
comparable to a football field.
That's a very interesting wave
of UFO sightings
that took place in 1989, 1990
in the German, uh, Belgian area
near the German border.
[intense music playing]
[narrator] November, 1989.
Belgium.
[police sirens]
[lively music playing]
[narrator] In November 1989,
Belgian soldiers were picking up
unidentified flying objects
on their radar screens.
At the same time,
several Belgian police officers
reported sightings of a triangular UFO
with three powerful light sources.
They see a red light flashing irregularly
on the craft's bottom.
Another 150 witnesses observe the craft
and this is just the beginning.
[lively music continues]
Four months later,
on March 30th, 1990,
the entire incident is repeated.
At 23:00 hours, unknown objects
again appear on radar screens.
F-16 fighters are scrambled
from Beauvechain Air Base
under the code NV-90.
Shortly before making visual contact,
the UFO accelerates from about 270
to 1,745 kilometers
per hour in seconds
and performs incredible maneuvers
contrary to all known laws of physics.
The investigating officer,
Colonel Wilfried De Brouwer states that,
"No American Stealth aircraft
or any other U.S. or NATO aircraft
were operating
in Belgium at that time."
On February 3rd, 1990,
a football match
in the town of Spa is interrupted
when a massive triangular object
flies over the heads
of the astonished spectators.
It is the size equal to that
of the football stadium.
This so-called Belgian UFO
is later observed in, among other places,
Germany,
as well as the Czech Republic.
[Michael] What they reported is
a low-frequency electrical humming noise.
Uh, keep in mind this thing
was as big as a football field across,
in fact two football fields.
And there was a red light
on the bottom that detached itself
and then came back to the craft.
And they reported these tubes,
pipes and cylinders
on the bottom of the craft,
low frequency electrical humming noise.
And then on each terminating corner
of the craft itself,
it had a white light that was shining down
on the people below or like empty fields.
[Robert] And it's very interesting
because there were police officers
who saw it.
There were military people who saw it.
The Belgian military actually scrambled
fighter jets to intercept this phenomenon.
They had stuff on their radar.
They registered flight characteristics
way beyond everything we have.
[Michael] Uh, they fairly
closely approximate
what insiders have said about the TR-33B,
these flying triangles operating
out of Area 51.
And so they used anti-gravitic technology,
which meant that they could fly anywhere
over the planet very, very quickly,
so they could get from Area 51 in Nevada
to a place like Belgium very quickly.
[narrator] To this day,
the U.S. military denies the existence
of Project Aurora and the Astra aircraft,
which merely fuels the conviction
of researchers that the TR-3B Astra
is the most closely guarded
prototype aircraft in US history.
Reported sightings of UFOs
have accumulated over the years
that are consistent in many aspects.
What makes these observed
flying objects unidentifiable,
even by professional pilots
and other trained personnel,
is that they exhibit
flight characteristics
that we are as of yet incapable
of achieving or competing with.
We simply don't have publicly acknowledged
technology capable of enabling aircraft
to change direction at such high speeds
or stop dead in mid-air.
Such maneuvers would mean certain death
for a human pilot.
So who, if anyone,
is actually piloting these craft?
That is the question that
since 2008 has been plaguing a man
by the name of Luis Elizondo.
[intense music playing]
2008, Washington, D.C.
[mysterious music playing]
In 2008,
at the U.S. State Department of Defense,
Luis Elizondo, a man with extensive
experience in anti-terrorism
and intelligence operations,
receives an unexpected visit.
Two men without
any official identification,
enter his office unannounced.
They ask him a peculiar question,
"What do you think about UFOs?"
And that's how he becomes a team member
of a UFO monitoring program,
whose outcome clearly shows
that the U.S. military,
despite its claims,
is still investigating UFOs.
Elizondo sees secret army videos
at first hand
and watches incredible things.
Even after five years
of the program's existence,
the team still has no answers
to basic questions
and Elizondo resigns.
At the end of 2017, he meets
with New York Times journalists
in a hotel in Washington.
And soon the whole world sees the videos
which Elizondo says prove his claims.
[mysterious music continues]
Is this another carefully orchestrated
leak of information
by US government agencies designed
to bleed information
about UFO encounters
into the public domain?
Or is it an unanticipated
and unwelcome security breach
about new propulsion systems
and technologies reverse engineered
from recovered UFOs?
I am only prepared to vaguely refer
to perhaps the potential
of nuclear and water.
Uh, and not necessarily having
to be related, nuclear and water,
but there are some patterns there.
I am not prepared to go and tell you
more detail on that at this point,
but there are some congruencies.
[pilot] Is this a drone, bro?
[narrator] The footage shot
by the US Navy in 2004
and published in 2017
is exceptionally compelling.
The Navy's admission that the recordings
were made by instruments on its aircraft
leaves no room for doubt
about the truthfulness of the testimonies
of witnesses
to the USS Nimitz UFO incident,
an encounter reported
by U.S. fighter pilots and Navy personnel
of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group.
It's not just a video.
It's the testimony of the pilots
who are trusted to protect our nation.
They have the highest
security clearances in our nation.
They are trusted to defend us
from all adversaries.
They say it was real, that pursuit was
real, that they encountered these craft
and they performed in a way
that we've never seen before.
[Jeremy] This is now not a secret.
This is out there.
It's admitted. Ground radar, air radar,
ground visual, air visual.
Everything has come together to a point
where our technology itself is better
capable of detecting these things.
The government has admitted it to you.
[narrator] Experts believe
that the number of sightings
of these unidentified aircraft at sea
is no coincidence.
[intense music playing]
November, 2004.
Pacific Ocean, off the coast of San Diego.
[man] These objects, um,
based on the way they were flying,
most certainly it's not Newtonian physics.
It's non-classical physics.
So based on that, I'd have to say, yeah,
they probably are a trans,
a trans medium type of craft
where they can go from space
to atmosphere, to the water, seamlessly.
And I have to say,
it could have been not from this Earth.
[narrator] Kevin Day, a U.S. Navy officer
on board the USS Princeton
is one of those witnesses
who observed the strange activities
of unidentified aerial phenomena
over a period of two whole weeks.
The ship's cutting-edge military
technology alerted him
that unknown vessels were moving
through the military airspace,
and it was he who scrambled
Commander Fravor's fighter squadron.
[Kevin] And I noticed
these really odd tracks on the radar.
I couldn't really understand it.
I had never seen anything
like this before.
Between five and six tracks
and they were tracking real slow
from north to south at 28,000 feet,
going about a hundred knots,
which is really strange.
Usually things that high in the sky
don't travel that slowly
cause they'll fall straight out
of the sky.
So we tried our best and the whole
the whole combat team tried their best
to identify what these things were.
And I, we weren't really concerned
about them
because we were way off
doing our own thing
and these things
could have been unrelated to us.
They weren't emitting any type
of electronic signals.
And they were very anomalous.
I had never seen anything like that.
On November 14th,
we had an air defense exercise scheduled.
We call it ADEX,
in which the strike fighter interceptors
from the USS Nimitz were gonna launch.
And it happened
to be Commander Fravor's flight.
He's one of the squadron skippers
off the Nimitz.
Uh, his flight was called
Fast Eagle flight.
I have his comms up
in the overhead speaker.
He screamed out, "Oh my God, Oh my God,
I'm engaged, I'm engaged."
[pilot 1] Is this a drone, bro?
[pilot 2] There is a whole fleet of them.
Look on the ASA.
[pilot 1] My gosh!
[pilot 2] They're going against the wind.
The wind is 120 knots to the west.
[pilot 1] Look at that thing, dude.
[Kevin] And we watched
this object on our radar scope.
It went from 28,000 feet
down to the surface of the ocean
in 0.78 seconds,
I found out the next day.
Less than a second. No sonic booms.
So he left his wingman up at altitude.
He went down to chase it
and he said, "Oh, Charlie, I"
"I think we might have
a downed aircraft in this position."
"I'm seeing some sort
of disturbance in the water."
At that At time, he saw
the Tic Tac-looking object
hovering right above
the surface of the ocean.
And he then later described it as looking
like a giant Tic Tac candy mint.
It was pure white, no doors, no windows,
no wings, no obvious means of propulsion.
And they're pretty shocked by it.
There was no time ever
when I thought they were hostile,
I had the impression that
they were acting like a flock of birds.
Just like If you throw a rock at a flock
of birds, they scatter and they rejoin?
That's exactly what they did.
This is really strange behavior
and I don't know what these things are.
And strangely enough, all of our
communications data was missing.
I couldn't write the message,
and the same thing
with all the radar data that was missing.
I didn't have no evidence
to write a message with.
And I never received any explanation
of where that data went.
[narrator] The question also arose
as to whether it might have been a test
of new US military technologies
based on reverse engineering,
without the Navy being aware.
[Kevin] I don't know who in their
right mind would try to test it against us
without briefing us, just due to this.
If I could just,
if I could describe a Navy training
in one word, it would be safety.
If that was a deliberate test
on top of our exercise,
it was not safe.
And I have a very hard time
accepting that, that premise.
[narrator] In late 2019,
To The Stars Academy,
an organization composed
of former high-ranking military
and intelligence service personnel,
including Luis Elizondo,
admitted openly that it plans
to collaborat e with the U.S. Armed Forces.
They plan on analyzing
and reengineering metamaterial samples
that according to many indicators,
do not originate on our planet.
[Robert] Just imagine
a private company comes out and says,
"We have material from a crashed UFO."
Everyone would laugh.
But then the United States military
makes a contract with this private company
in order to be able to investigate,
to do research with these materials
that are allegedly from a crashed UFO.
So that's where everybody stops laughing.
Because then it becomes quite evident
that there must be something to it, right?
Why would the U.S. military
seriously consider investigating stuff
from a crashed UFO
if there weren't a slight chance
that it may be true.
So, that is the most interesting
development for me in years.
I think the same time next year
we're gonna have fundamentally
different conversation.
I think,
I think disclosure already occurred.
I don't think, necessarily, disclosure
as an event. I think it's a process.
And I think that process began.
If we could figure out
how that technology works,
if our private companies,
the aerospace companies,
or the Department of Defense
could figure out how it works
and duplicate it, it's game over.
We would rule the world.
We would have an advantage
over any of our adversaries.
The other part
of that coin is if China, if Russia,
if another country is able
to make a breakthrough on that technology,
we would be in bad trouble.
The United States would be in bad trouble.
Whoever has that technology
controls the world, so there is a race.
It's an arms race of sorts
to figure it out.
[Richard] So for example,
they'd been setting artifacts
that are nano-engineered
at the angstrom level,
which is one-tenth of a nanometer.
So in other words,
at a much tinier area of manufacture
than what we are currently able to do.
And this artifact, allegedly,
is from the 1940s, we're told.
So if that's true,
and I tend to believe this,
then someone was manufacturing
angstrom-level metamaterials in the 1940s.
We're not even close to that now.
[narrator] Whatever or whomever they are,
they evidently have technology that
allows them to go anywhere they choose,
whether it's the depths of the ocean
or the upper atmosphere,
and that it is capable of surpassing
any security or surveillance system.
Is it up to these visitors alone
to decide when the time is ripe
for the Disclosure Day?
For the unveiling
of the greatest mystery in human history?
Or can we piece the truth together
from the information provided
by whistleblowers,
government employees and hackers?
Just how impenetrable
is the veil of secrecy?
If we get away
from vector jet propulsion
and we're able to use
electromagnetic force
to counter the force of gravity,
there's huge ramifications.
There's huge applications with that.
Uh, it would revolutionize
the airline industry.
We could all move about the world
much more quickly.
So I think because of the applicability,
the importance of this technology,
if we did get something
in that crash in 1947,
we would work very hard
to try to develop that
for all of these different applications.
In my view,
what we really need to be doing is,
looking at the evidence that we can
actually analyze and debate about.
To me that evidence shows
there is an overwhelming
presence of intelligence
of vastly greater capabilities
than what we have
in the global technology that we're using.
They've got capabilities
that we lack and they are here.
That's the first thing
that we need to get out,
is to have that public discussion.
Really, worldwide discussion.
[tense music playing]
[narrator] According to some Ufologists,
this government collaboration
with a private company,
that appears consistently transparent
in publishing information
indicates a behind-the-scenes strategy
of preparing the public
for complete disclosure.
Facts that have been concealed for decades
will be revealed gradually,
and the mysteries hidden from scrutiny
since the postwar years
will be allowed to trickle down slowly
into public awareness.
Once the public has absorbed
the information that scientists
are examining samples
of metamaterials from space,
it will be less shocked by the revelation
that entire extraterrestrial vessels
are being examined,
and have been for many decades.
[Stephen] Our military intelligence
deep black programs are studying
and trying to understand every aspect,
every little thing they ever gotten
from an ET craft.
And if they've actually dealt with ETs,
which still remains to be seen,
and interviewed them somehow,
they're working with all of that.
They never stop.
This is the most important and
the most classified program in the world.
[closing theme music playing]