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- [Narrator] The modern era of UFO sightings began in 1947
when Kenneth Arnold, a businessman and pilot from Idaho,
spotted what he believed was a formation
of flying saucers near Mount Rainier in Washington.
Encounters with unidentified flying objects
have been recorded since ancient times
but Arnold's sighting hooked the American public.
It was the encounter that launched a thousand theories.
Some 6,000 UFO encounters are reported every year.
98% or more of sightings are basically misidentifications.
They're airplanes or Chinese lanterns
or a variety of different things.
What's left are the truly unexplained and mysterious
and those become the top UFO encounters of all time.
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We begin with the oldest known photograph of a UFO.
The photo was taken in 1870
at Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
This was originally a stereo photograph
which would be difficult to manipulate.
At that time the term UFO didn't exist
nor did Photoshop or other image manipulation techniques.
The object is huge, oblong
and flying against a cloud background.
No more information about the photo or object is known.
Because of the date it was taken
and it's obvious flying capabilities
it is one of the most mysterious UFO encounters
caught on film.
In the 1890's,
other mysterious aircraft began to be reported.
Mystery air ships or phantom air ships
are a class of unidentified flying objects
best known from a series of newspaper reports
originating in the western United States
and spreading east during the late 1896 through 1897 period.
Air ship sightings were reported worldwide
during the 1880's and 1890's.
Mystery air ship reports are seen as a cultural predecessor
to modern claims of extraterrestrial piloted
flying saucer type UFO's.
Typical air ship reports involved nighttime sightings
of unidentified lights,
but more detailed accounts reported ships
comparable to a dirigible.
Reports of the alleged crewmen and pilots
usually described them as human looking,
though sometimes the crew claimed to be from Mars.
It was popularly believed that the mystery air ships
were the product of some inventor or genius
who was not ready to make known of his creation public.
For example, Thomas Edison was so widely speculated
to be the mind behind the alleged air ships
that in 1897 he was forced to issue
a strongly worded statement denying his responsibility.
During the 1896 to 1897 timeframe,
numerous sightings of a cigar shaped mystery air ship
were reported across the United States.
One of these accounts appeared in the April 17, 1897 edition
of the Dallas Morning News.
Written by a Dallas Morning News stringer S E Haydon,
the alleged UFO is said to have hit a windmill
on the property of Judge J S Proctor
two days earlier at around six AM local time
resulting in its crash.
The pilot, who was reported to be not of this world
and a Marsian according to a reported Army Signal Service
officer named TJ Weend from nearby Fort Worth
did not survive the crash
and was buried with Christian rights
at the nearby Aurora Cemetery.
The cemetery contains a Texas Historical Commission marker
mentioning the incident.
Reportedly wreckage from the crash site
was dumped into a nearby well
located under the damaged windmill
while some ended up with the alien in its grave.
Adding to the mystery was the story of Mr. Braw-ley Oates
who purchased Judge Proctor's property around 1935.
Oates cleaned out the debris from the well
in order to use it as a water source
but later developed an extremely severe case of arthritis,
which he claimed to be the result of contaminated water
from the wreckage dumped into the well.
As a result, Oates sealed up the well with a concrete slab
and placed an out-building atop the slab.
To this day, the cemetery still contains the burial site
of the alien, however the county will not allow
anyone to dig it up.
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On April 12th, 1941 in Cape Girardeau
the Reverend William Huffman was called
to what he thought was a plane crash
to read the last rights of the passengers.
A car arrived at his house and they drove
about 18 miles or so outside of Cape Girardeau
closer to the Chaffee area.
When they showed up on the scene, it was not a plane crash.
It was allegedly a flying saucer.
Classic, silver, round disc that had crashed
that had started a fire.
There were police and firemen there
to take care of the scene,
put out the fire on a local farmer's field.
The reverend arrived and saw a classic flying disc
with part of the side ripped open
and two alien bodies that were dead
and one that may have been dying.
It may have been alive but couldn't breathe.
The reverend looked inside the flying saucer
and saw wires and components of some sort of alien design.
There were strange hieroglyphics
and bizarre knobs and dials.
The reverend knew that he couldn't give the last rights.
About that time the Army Corps arrived from Sikeston Field
and cordoned off the area and swore everybody to secrecy,
then tried to confiscate all cameras.
There were pictures allegedly taken that night
of men holding one of the alien bodies
and somewhere out there those pictures exist.
The story came through Charlotte Mann
who was the reverend's granddaughter
who began to give accounts of the story in the late 70's.
It was a document of a deathbed confession
by the reverend himself.
Reverend Mann told the story to his granddaughter
and she had seen some of the pictures.
To this day, no one knows where the photos are now
but many families in the area remember the event.
It could be the first UFO crash in North America
and certainly is one of the top UFO mysteries of all time.
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A photo published in the Los Angeles Times
on February 26, 1942 has been cited by some ufologists
and conspiracy theorists as part of evidence
that an extraterrestrial visitation happened.
They assert that the photo clearly shows
searchlights focused on an alien spaceship.
The Battle of Los Angeles is an incident that occurred
less than three months after the United States
entered World War Two in response
to the Imperial Japanese Navy's surprise attack
on Pearl Harbor and one day after the bombardment of Ellwood
on February 23rd.
Initially the target of the aerial barrage
was thought to be an attacking force from Japan.
The photo clearly shows a saucer craft
in the searchlight's crossed beams.
Several buildings and vehicles were damaged
by shell fragments and five civilians died
as an indirect result of the anti-aircraft fire,
three killed in car accidents in the ensuing chaos
and two of heart attacks attributed to the stress
of the hour long action.
The incident was front page news along the US Pacific coast
and across the nation.
To this day, no one knows what they were shooting at
and no wreckage was ever found.
Many believe this was a UFO
that appeared at the wrong place and at the wrong time.
The modern day UFO phenomenon began in 1947
with the aforementioned Kenneth Arnold UFO sightings.
Private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed
that he saw a stream of nine
shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Ranier
at speeds that Arnold estimated at a minimum
of 1,200 miles per hour.
This was the first post-war sighting in the United States
that garnered nationwide news coverage
and is accredited of being the first of the modern era
of UFO sightings, including numerous reported sightings
over the next two to three weeks.
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Of all the top UFO encounters,
one would be remiss without mentioning Roswell, New Mexico.
In July 1947, something happened northwest of Roswell
during a severe thunderstorm.
Was it a flying saucer?
Was it a weather balloon?
What happened?
The answer is nothing, for many years,
until leading UFO researcher Stanton Friedman
came across the story in the early 1980's
and began to search for information and witnesses.
That research brought him to Roswell,
looking for the public information officer
who had been at Roswell Army Airfield in 1947.
That officer was Lieutenant Walter Haut.
He still lived in Roswell and remembered the press release
and the orders from his commanding officer.
Friedman's investigation also led to many others,
both military and private, who had information
to add to the Roswell incident story.
Stepping into the picture very strongly in the late 1980's
were Don Schmitt, Kevin Randall and Tom Carey.
Since then, Schmitt and Carey
have dedicated their research to Roswell.
The debris recovered by rancher WW Mack Brazel
was gathered by the military from the Roswell Army Airfield
under the direction of base intelligence officer,
Major Jesse Marcel.
On July 8th, 1947, public information officer
Lieutenant Walter Haut issued a press release
under the orders from base commander
Colonel William Blanchard which said basically
that we have in our possession a flying saucer.
The next day another press release was issued,
this time from General Roger Ramey
stating it was just a weather ballon.
That was the start of the best known
and well documented UFO cover up.
Once it became public
the event known as the Roswell Incident,
the crash of an alleged flying saucer,
the recovery of debris and bodies
and the ensuing coverup by the military
was of such magnitude and so shrouded in mystery
that 70 years later
there's still more questions than answers.
Books have been written
and TV documentaries have been filmed.
Witnesses have come forward,
skeptics have issued rebuttals to the incident
and the debate continues.
The tiny town of Roswell flourishes
due to the incident to this day.
It is a mecca for UFO enthusiasts and truth seekers.
Some say the government still has the saucer and aliens
hidden away in some bunker somewhere.
Deathbed confessions continue to get reported
by people who were there and Roswell has a firm place
in the top UFO encounters.
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On January 7th, 1948, 25 year old Captain Thomas F Mantell,
a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot,
died in the crash of his P-51 Mustang fighter
after being sent in pursuit
of an unidentified flying object.
The event was among some of the most publicized
early UFO incidents.
Later investigation by the United States Air Force
Project Blue Book indicated that Mantell may have died
chasing a Skyhook balloon,
which in 1948 was a top secret project
that Mantell would not have known about.
Mantell pursued the object in a steep climb
and disregarded suggestions to level his altitude.
At high altitude he blacked out from a lack of oxygen.
His plane went into a downward spiral and crashed.
In 1956, Air Force Captain Edward J Ruppelt,
the first head of the Project Blue Book,
wrote that the Mantell crash was one of three
classic UFO cases in 1948
that would help to define the UFO phenomenon
in the public mind and would help convince
some Air Force intelligence specialists
that UFO's were a real physical phenomenon.
The other two classic sightings in 1948
were the Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter
and the Gorman dogfight.
Historian David M Jacobs argues the Mantell case
marked a sharp shift in both public
and governmental perceptions of UFO's.
Previously the news media often treated UFO reports
with a whimsical or flip attitude
reserved for silly season news.
Following Mantell's death, however,
Jacobs notes the fact that a person had died
in an encounter with an alleged flying saucer
dramatically increased public concern about the phenomenon.
Now, a dramatic new prospect entered
throughout the UFO community.
They may not be only extraterrestrial
but potentially hostile as well.
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The Aztec, New Mexico UFO incident,
sometimes known as the other Roswell
was a flying saucer crash alleged to have happened in 1948
in Aztec, New Mexico.
The story was first published in 1949 by Arthur Frank Scully
in his variety magazine columns
and later in his 1950 book, Behind The Flying Saucers.
Beginning in the 1970's,
some ufologists resurrected the story in books
claiming the purported crash was real.
In 2013 and FBI memo claimed by some ufologists
to substantiate the crash story was dismissed
by the Bureau as a second or third-hand claim
that we never investigated.
According to Scully,
in March 1948 an unidentified aerial crash
containing 16 humanoid bodies
was recovered by the military in New Mexico
after making a controlled landing in Hart Canyon
12 miles northeast of the city of Aztec.
The craft was said to be 99 feet in diameter,
the largest UFO to date.
Scully named as his sources
two men identified as Newton and Gebauer,
who reportedly told him the incident had been covered up
and the military had taken the craft for secret research.
Scully wrote that the crashed UFO
along with other flying saucers captured by the government
worked on magnetic principles.
According to Scully,
the inhabitants stocked concentrated food wafers
and heavy water for drinking purposes
and every dimension of the craft
was divisible by nine.
In the late 70's author Leonard Stringfield purported
that not only was the incident real
but that the craft involved was one of many captured
and stored by the US military.
In later years, many alleged first hand accounts
of the Roswell crash contained the Aztec crash story
with some claiming the craft was made of a material
impervious to all heat
while other claiming the craft was damaged by the crash.
The supposed humanoid bodies were said to measure
between 36 inches and 42 inches in height
and weighed about 40 pounds.
Ufologists claim that shortly after the craft was downed
the military cleared the area of evidence
including the bodies, subsequently taking it to Hangar 18
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The Aztec UFO crash is certainly one of the top
UFO encounters of all time.
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The McMinnville UFO photographs were taken on a farm
near McMinnville, Oregon, United States in 1950.
The photos were reprinted in Life Magazine
and in newspapers across the nation
and are often considered to be among
the most famous ever taken of a UFO.
UFO skeptics believe that the photos are a hoax
but many ufologists continue to argue
that the photos are genuine
and show an unidentified flying object in the sky.
In 1975 the negatives were found
in files of the News Register by Bruce Maccabee,
an optical physicist for the US Navy and a ufologist.
After completing his own study of the photos,
Maccabee assured that the original negatives
were finally returned to the Trents.
Maccabee analyzed the photos and concluded
that the photographs were not hoaxed
and showed a real physical object in the sky
above the Trent farm.
Much of his analysis is based on densitometric measurements,
similar to the photometric analysis done by Hartmann.
Maccabee argued that the brightness
of the object's underside suggested it was
at some distance from the camera,
not a smaller object close to it.
Maccabee also analyzed the position
of various objects in the image
as well as an image prepared by Hartmann
when he visited the site in June of 1967.
Based on this, Maccabee argued that the line of sight
of the two images intersected some distance
behind the power lines seen in the photos
provided further evidence in his opinion
that it was not a small model suspended from the lines.
Maccabee stated that his analysis of the object
did not find any evidence of a thread or strings
suspending it from the power lines.
The McMinnville UFO photographs remained
among the best publicized in UFO history.
Skeptics continued to explain the two photographs
as being hoaxes and or faked.
Ufologists continue to argue that the Trent photos
are credible evidence that UFO's are real,
a physical phenomenon.
Evelyn Trent died in 1997 and Paul Trent in 1998.
Both insisted until the end of their lives
that the sighting and the photos were genuine.
The interest surrounding the Trent UFO photos
led to an annual UFO festival
being established in McMinnville.
It's now the largest such gathering in the Pacific Northwest
and is the second largest UFO festival in the nation
after the one held in Roswell, New Mexico.
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The Lubbock Lights were an unusual formation of lights
seen over the city of Lubbock, Texas
in August and September 1951.
The Lubbock Lights incident received national publicity
in the United States a genuine UFO sighting.
The Lubbock Lights were investigated
by the US Air Force in 1951.
The Air Force initially believed the lights
were caused by a type of bird called a plover.
Eventually concluded that the lights weren't birds
but they weren't space ships.
The Lubbock Lights have been positively identified
by a very commonplace and easily explainable
natural phenomenon.
However, to maintain the anonymity of the scientist
who had provided the explanation
the Air Force refrained from providing any details
regarding their explanation for the lights.
The first publicized sighting of the lights
occurred on August 25th, 1951 at around nine PM.
Three professors from Texas Technological College,
now Texas Tech University, located in Lubbock,
were sitting in the backyard of one of the professors homes
when they observed the lights fly overhead.
A total of 20 to 30 lights as bright as stars
but larger in size flew over the yard
in a matter of seconds.
The professors immediately ruled out meteors
as a possible cause of the sighting
and as they discussed their sightings
a second, similar group of lights flew overhead.
The three professors, Dr. AG Oberg, chemical engineer,
Dr. WL Ducker, a department head and petroleum engineer
and Dr. WI Robinson, a geologist,
reported their sightings to the local newspaper,
the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
Following the newspaper's article,
three women in Lubbock reported
that they had observed peculiar flashing lights
in the sky on the same night of the professors' sightings.
Dr. Carl Hemminger, a professor of German at Texas Tech,
also reported seeing the objects,
as did the head of the college's journalism department.
The three professors became determined
to view the objects again
and perhaps discover their identity.
On September 5, 1951, all three men
along with two other professors from Texas Tech,
were sitting in Dr. Robinson's front yard
when the lights flew overhead.
According to Dr. Grayson Mead
the lights appeared to be about the size of a dinner plate
and they were greenish-blue, slightly fluorescent in color.
They were smaller than the full moon at the horizon.
There were about a dozen to fifteen of these lights.
They were absolutely circular.
It gave all of us an extremely eerie feeling.
Mead claimed that the lights could not have been birds
but he also stated that they went over so fast
that we wished we could have had a better look.
The professors observed one formation of lights
flying above a thin cloud of about 2,000 feet.
This allowed them to calculate
that the lights were traveling at over 600 miles per hour.
The photo was taken well before drones existed
and remains one of the most mysterious
and top UFO encounters of all time.
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The 1952 Washington DC UFO incident,
also known as the Washington National Airport sightings
or the invasion of Washington
was a series of unidentified flying object reports
from July 12th to July 29th in 1952 over Washington DC.
UFO's flew over and around the White House and Capitol.
The most publicized sightings took place
on consecutive weekends, July 19th through 20th
and July 26th through 27th.
UFO historian Curtis Peebles called the incident
the climax of the 1952 UFO flap.
Never before or after did Project Blue Book
and the Air Force undergo such a tidal wave of UFO reports.
At 11:40 PM on Saturday, July 19th, 1952, Edward Nugent,
an air traffic controller at Washington National Airport,
which is today Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport,
spotted seven objects on his radar.
The objects were located 15 miles
south-southwest of the city.
No known aircraft were in the area
and the objects were not following
any established flight paths.
Nugent's superior, Harry Barnes,
a senior air-traffic controller at the airport,
watched the objects on Nugent's radarscope.
He later wrote we knew immediately
that a very strange situation existed.
Their movements were completely radical
compared to those of ordinary aircraft.
Barnes had two controllers check Nugent's radar.
They found that it was working normally.
Barnes then called National Airport's
radar-equipped control tower.
The controllers there, Howard Cocklin and Joe Zacko,
said that they also had unidentified blips
on their radar screen and that they had seen
a bright light hovering in the sky.
It took off, zooming away at incredible speed.
Cocklin told Zacko, "Did you see that?
"What the hell was that?"
At this point other objects appeared
in all sectors of the radarscope
when they moved over the White House
and the United States Capitol.
Barnes called Andrews Air Force Base,
located 10 miles from National Airport.
Although Andrews reported that they had no unusual objects
on their radar, an airman soon called
the base's control tower to report
the sighting of a strange object.
Airman William Brady, who was in the tower,
then saw an object which appeared to be
like an orange ball of fire.
It was unlike anything I had ever seen before.
As Brady tried to alert the other personnel in the tower,
the strange object took off at an unbelievable speed.
On one of National Airport's runways,
S.C. Pierman, a Capital Airlines pilot,
was waiting in the cockpit of his DC-4
for permission to take off.
After spotting what he believed to be a meteor,
he was told that the control tower's radar
had detected unknown objects closing in on his position.
Pierman observed six objects,
white, tailless, fast-moving lights over a 14-minute period.
Pierman was in radio contact with Barnes
during his sighting and Barnes later related
that each sighting coincided
with a pip we could see near his plane.
When he reported that the light
streaked off at a high speed, it disappeared on our scope.
At Andrews Air Force Base, meanwhile,
the control tower personnel were tracking on radar
what some thought to be unknown objects
and others suspected might be simply stars and meteors.
However, Staff Sgt. Charles Davenport
observed an orange-red light to the south.
The light would appear to stand still
then make an abrupt change in direction and altitude.
This happened several times.
At one point both radar centers at National Airport
and the radar at Andrews Air Force Base
were tracking an object hovering over a radio beacon.
The object vanished in all three radar centers
at the same time.
At three AM, shortly before two United States Air Force
F-94 Starfire jet fighters from New Castle Air Force Base
in Delaware arrived over Washington,
all of the objects vanished from the radar
at National Airport.
However, when the jets ran low on fuel and left,
the objects returned which convinced Barnes
that the UFOs were monitoring radio traffic
and behaving accordingly.
The objects were last detected by radar at 5:30 AM.
UFO's flying over our nation's capital
is of course very disturbing and makes this sighting
one of the top UFO encounters of all time.
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First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Jr, presumed dead,
was a United States Air Force pilot
who disappeared while performing an air defense intercept
over Lake Superior in 1953.
This is sometimes known as the Kinross incident
after Kinross Air Force Base where Moncla
was on temporary assignment when he disappeared
chasing a UFO radar blip.
On the evening of November 23, 1953,
Air Defense Command Ground Intercept radar in Michigan
identified an unusual target near the Soo Locks
designated a UFO.
An F-89C Scorpion jet from Kinross Air Force Base
was scrambled to investigate the radar return.
The Scorpion was piloted by First Lieutenant Moncla
with Second Lieutenant Robert L Wilson
acting as the Scorpion's radar operator.
Wilson had a difficult time tracking the object
on the Scorpion's radar,
so ground radar operators gave Moncla directions
towards the object as he flew.
Moncla eventually closed in on the object
at about 8,000 feet in altitude.
Ground Control tracked the Scorpion
and the unidentified object as two blips
on the radar screen.
The two blips on the radar screen grew closer and closer
until they seemed to merge.
Assuming that Moncla had flown either under
or over the target,
Ground Control anticipated that moments later
the Scorpion and the object would again appear
as two separate blips.
Donald Keyhoe reported that there was a fear
that the two objects had struck one another
but the single blip continued on its previous course.
Attempts were made to contact Moncla via radio
but without success.
A search and rescue operation by both
the United States Air Force and the RCAF
was quickly mounted but failed to find a trace
of the plane or the pilots.
Weather conditions were a factor in hampering the search.
To this day, Moncla is presumed dead
and his aircraft was never recovered.
Did First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Junior
encounter a UFO?
Was he taken by the occupants of the UFO?
No one knows and this one remains a mystery
in the annals of top UFO encounters.
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Betty and Barney Hill were an American couple
who claim they were abducted by extraterrestrials
in a rural portion of the state of New Hampshire
from September 19th to September 20th of 1961.
It was the first widely publicized report
of an alien abduction in the United States.
The incident came to be called the Hill Abduction
and the Zeta Reticuli Incident
because the couple stated they had been kidnapped by aliens
who claimed to be from the Zeta Reticuli system.
Their story was adapted into the best-selling 1966 book
The Interrupted Journey
and the 1975 television movie The UFO Incident.
In September 2016, plans were announced to make a film
based on the events with an unknown release date.
Most of Betty Hill's notes, tapes, and other items
have been placed in the permanent collection
at the University of New Hampshire, her alma mater.
In July 2011, the state Division of Historical Resources
marked the site of the alleged craft's first approach
with a historical marker.
According to a variety of reports given by the Hills,
the alleged UFO sighting happened on September 19th of 1961
around 10:30 PM.
The Hills were driving back to Portsmouth
from a vacation in Niagara Falls and Montreal.
Just south of Lancaster, New Hampshire,
Betty claimed to have observed a bright point of light
in the sky that moved from below the moon
and the planet Jupiter upward to the west of the moon.
While Barney navigated US Route three,
Betty reasoned that she was observing a falling star,
only it moved upward.
Since it moved erratically and grew bigger and brighter,
Betty urged Barney to stop the car for a closer look,
as well as to walk their dog, Delsey.
Barney stopped at a scenic picnic area
just south of Twin Mountain.
Betty, looking through binoculars,
observed an odd-shaped craft flashing multi-colored lights
travel across the face of the Moon.
Through binoculars, Barney observed what he reasoned
was a commercial airliner traveling toward Vermont
on its way to Montreal.
However, he soon changed his mind
because without looking as if it had turned,
the craft rapidly descended in his direction.
This observation caused Barney to realize
this object that was a plane was not a plane.
They quickly returned to the car
and drove toward Franconia Notch,
a narrow, mountainous stretch of the road.
Approximately one mile south of Indian Head,
they said the object rapidly descended toward their vehicle
causing Barney to stop in the middle of the highway.
The huge, silent craft hovered approximately 80 to 100 feet
above the Hills' 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air
and filled the entire field of view in the windshield.
It reminded Barney of a huge pancake.
Carrying his pistol in his pocket,
he stepped away from the vehicle
and moved closer to the object.
Using the binoculars, Barney claimed to have seen
about eight to 11 humanoid figures,
who were peering out of the craft's windows,
seemingly looking at him.
Red lights on what appeared to be bat-wing fins
began to telescope out of the sides of the craft,
and a long structure descended from the bottom of the craft.
The silent craft approached and Barney observed
the beings were not human.
Barney tore the binoculars away from his eyes
and ran back to his car.
In a near hysterical state he told Betty,
"They're going to capture us!"
He saw the object again shift its location
to directly above the vehicle.
He drove away at high speed
telling Betty to look for the object.
She rolled down the window and looked up.
Almost immediately, the Hills heard a rhythmic series
of beeping or buzzing sounds,
which they said seemed to bounce off
the trunk of their vehicle.
The car vibrated and a tingling sensation
passed through the Hills' bodies.
The Hills said that they experienced the onset
of an altered state of consciousness
that left their minds dulled.
A second series of beeping or buzzing sounds
returned the couple to full consciousness.
They found that they had traveled nearly 35 miles south,
but had only vague, spotty memories of this section of road.
After the encounter Betty began to have a series of dreams
where she remembered details of the UFO incident,
including being abducted and a medical examination.
Through hypnosis, both Betty and Barney
separately recalled vivid memories of the encounter
as well as a star map Betty was shown by the aliens
and a pregnancy test that didn't exist in 1961.
Barney passed away in 1969 while Betty lived to 2004.
The Hill abduction is one of the most extensive
and exhaustive UFO investigations of all time.
The star map Betty described was proven to be
an actual map of the Zeta Reticuli star system.
She drew it well before any astronomers on earth
knew it existed.
Many have tried and failed to debunk the Hill case
and it remains one of the top UFO encounters
of modern times.
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On the evening of October 11th, 1973,
coworkers 42 year old Charles Hickson
and 19 year old Calvin Parker
told the Jackson County, Mississippi sheriffs office
they were fishing off a pier on the west bank
of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi
when they heard a whirring, whizzing sound.
They saw two flashing blue lights
and an oval shaped object 30 to 40 feet across
and eight to 10 feet high.
Parker and Hickson claim that they were conscious
but paralyzed while three creatures
took them aboard the object and subjected them
to an examination before releasing them.
Within days, Pascagoula was the center
of an international news story
with reporters swarming the town.
Ufologist James Harder of the Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization and J. Allen Hynek
interviewed the two men.
Harder attempted to hypnotize them
and concluded Hickson and Parker
experienced an extraterrestrial phenomena,
while Hynek believed they had a very real,
frightening experience.
Hickson later appeared on talk shows,
gave lectures and interviews, and in 1983
authored a self-published book UFO Contact at Pascagoula.
Hickson claimed additional encounters with aliens in 1974,
alleged that the aliens told him they were peaceful.
Parker later attended UFO conventions
and has written two books about his encounter
as well as appeared in a documentary including others
who witnessed the UFO that night.
Charles Hickson died of a heart attack at age 80
on September the 9th, 2011.
Charlie told his story until he died,
claiming it was in fact all true.
Calvin continues to make appearances at UFO conventions
and his story remains solid.
He says he will tell the truth of the encounter
till the day he dies.
The Pascagoula UFO abduction continues
to baffle debunkers to this day.
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The Travis Walton UFO incident
was an alleged alien abduction
of an American forestry worker, Travis Walton,
by a UFO on November 5th, 1975,
while he was working near Snowflake, Arizona.
Walton reappeared after a five-day search.
The Walton case received mainstream publicity
and remains one of the best-known alien abduction stories.
Walton wrote a book about his purported abduction in 1978
called The Walton Experience,
which was adapted into the 1993 film Fire in the Sky.
According to Walton, on November 5th, 1975,
he was working with a timber stand improvement crew
in the forest near Snowflake, Arizona.
While riding in a truck with six of his coworkers
they encountered a saucer-shaped object
hovering over the ground approximately 110 feet away
making a high-pitched buzz.
Walton claims that after he left the truck
and approached the object,
a beam of light suddenly appeared from the craft
and knocked him unconscious.
The other six men were frightened and supposedly drove away.
Walton claimed that he awoke in a hospital-like room,
being observed by three short, bald creatures.
He claimed that he fought with them
until a human wearing a helmet led Walton to another room,
where he blacked out as three other human looking beings
put a clear plastic mask over his face.
Walton has claimed he remembers nothing else
until he found himself walking along a highway
with the flying saucer departing above him.
The encounter was extensively investigated
as Walton was missing for five days
and his coworkers came under scrutiny of murder.
All took and passed lie detector tests
and remained solid that their encounter did happen
even though many of the parties do not get along.
The Allagash Abduction is a purported UFO sighting
and alien abduction claimed to have occurred
in Allagash, Maine, United States, in 1976.
Brothers Jim Weiner and Jack Weiner
with friends Charles Foltz and Charles Rak
claimed that they were abducted by aliens
during a camping trip in Allagash, Maine,
on August 20th of 1976.
According to the four men,
hypnotic regression enabled them to recall
being taken aboard a circular UFO
and being probed and tested by four-fingered beings
with almond-shaped eyes and languid limbs.
The men all claimed that when they set out fishing
on Big Eagle Lake the evening of the UFO sighting
they had left a large fire burning at their campsite
as a beacon to guide them back to shore
during the pitch black night.
However, when they returned to the campsite,
the fire had burned down much faster
than they thought it should have
given the amount of time that they thought
they had spent out on the water.
This led to understanding the men
had experienced missing time
and the encounter occurred during that time.
In a later interview by St. John Valley Times,
Charles Rak changed his story,
saying he saw strange lights during the camping trip,
but the abduction part of the story was a total fabrication
and he went along with the narrative for financial gain.
The other members of the group stand by the abduction story.
According to Jim Weiner, Jack, Charlie, and I,
after all these years, are still in agreement
with the Eagle Lake event as we three remember it.
We also accept the results
of the hypnotic regression sessions
and subsequent polygraph tests
as supportive of an abduction scenario.
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The government had three official projects
to investigate UFO's and in 1969
they closed Project Blue Book
and claimed they did not investigate UFO's any longer.
This was not true.
The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program,
or A-tip, was a secret investigative effort
funded by the United States government
to study unidentified flying objects
or unexplained aerial phenomena.
The program was first made public on December 16th of 2017.
The program began in 2007 with funding of $22 million
over the five years until the available appropriations
were ended in 2012.
The program began in the US Defense Intelligence Agency.
Although the official A-tip program has ended,
a related group of interested professionals
have extended the effort founding
a public benefit corporation and entertainment company
named To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
A-tip came to a broader public attention
on the 16th of December, 2017 in three news stories
in the Washington Post, Politico and the New York Times.
Gun camera footage of a UFO known as the Tic Tac UFO
came to light and the pilot confirmed it was a UFO.
At least six Super Hornet pilots made visual
or instrument contact with the UFO on November 14th, 2004.
Later, under pressure, the government had to concede
that it did indeed run the program
and that all the footage leaked or released
was in fact genuine.
Since then, a plethora of government officials,
politicians, military personnel
and those who worked on the project have come forward.
It's pretty clear the government takes UFO's seriously.
What is not known is if the government will finally admit
UFO's are alien and what measures are being taken
to ensure our air space is protected.
Captain Max Clark, commanding officer of the USS Nimitz
has said it is important his ship and everybody on it
is kept safe from UFO's.
From my perspective we have an obligation
to make sure the air space is clear
whether it's UAP, unidentified aerial phenomenon,
or UAV's, unmanned aerial vehicles.
This comes just weeks after the Office of Naval Intelligence
revealed the existence of a classified,
unreleased UFO video.
The video was related to the notorious
USS Nimitz Carrier Group 2004 encounter
with a Tic Tac shaped UFO.
The encounters remain a mystery
and the object's incredible speed and movements
have led to speculation that it was extraterrestrial.
Could it be we're getting closer to a complete disclosure
that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth?
Are we on the verge of a worldwide acknowledgement
of the true nature of the flying craft?
As more UFO encounters occur,
eventually the truth will be told.
When it does, that will be the greatest
UFO encounter of all time.
[intense music]
- [Man] 10, nine, ignition sequence start,
six, five, four, three, two, one.