21x05 - The Top Ten Secret Projects

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Official government reports of
extraterrestrial contact.

A clandestine group tasked
with silencing UFO witnesses.

And secret research programs to reverse
engineer Alien technology.

For over a decade, Ancient Aliens has
investigated covert groups, bases and

research sites that are connected to the
extraterrestrial phenomenon.

Now, we're taking a look
back at ten of the most

incredible secret projects
we've investigated.

Projects that could provide evidence of
government contact with extraterrestrials.

As an Ancient Astronaut
Theorist, I think it's great that

UFOs are becoming a regular
subject of today's headlines.

And what I find even more exciting is that
for more than 80 years, witnesses have

claimed that the government
has top secret programs

designed to study extraterrestrials
and their technology.

We'll start our countdown
with a famous incident in New

Mexico that the government
still denies to this day.

At number ten on our list of the Top Ten
Secret Projects, the Roswell Cover-Up.

Washington, D.C., April 2011.

The FBI posts thousands of previously
classified files to its new online vault.

And one file in particular
draws immediate attention

from the media and
independent researchers.

The memo, dated March 22nd, 1950,
is a briefing to FBI Director

J. Edgar Hoover regarding
informant information about

three flying saucers that
were recovered in New Mexico.

Investigators immediately connect the memo
to the infamous Roswell incident,

a purported UFO crash
that many people believe

was covered up by
the military in 1947.

Perhaps the most famous UFO incident of
all time is Roswell.

Now this crash was brought to the attention
of the Army Air Force Base at Roswell.

And, famously, the base
actually put out a press

release and said a flying
disk has been recovered.

Just one day after this expl*sive
headline, the military changed its story

and claimed the recovered
debris had an earthly origin.

The world was told, nope,
just a weather balloon.

And for more than 30
years, that's where it was left.

Until witnesses started
to surface, saying,

in fact, it was an
extraterrestrial craft.

Is it possible that an Alien craft really
did crash near Roswell?

Ancient Astronaut Theorists
say yes, and suggest the

cover-up was part of a
secret government project.

As evidence, they point to
statements made 50 years after

the event by retired United
States Army Colonel Philip J. Corso

in his book, The Day After Roswell.

Philip J. Corso made an incredible claim that
he worked at the Foreign Technology Division

within the Army Research
and Development and had

key access to ET technology
from the Roswell crash.

According to Colonel Corso's account,
military scientists were tasked with

reverse engineering the
debris collected at Roswell.

After the 1947 crash
in Roswell, New Mexico,

our technology took
off just like a rocket.

Silicon chips, laser
technology, fiber optics,

all of this stuff came
after the Roswell crash.

Not only did Roswell spark public interest
in UFOs, according to allegedly top secret

documents, it also
inspired the creation of a

classified organization
that has a really cool name.

Number 9 on our
countdown, the Majestic 12.

Burbank, California, December 1984.

Movie producer and UFO
researcher Jamie Shandera

is anonymously sent a
mysterious document.

It is a top secret memo
allegedly sent in 1952

from the CIA to President-elect
Dwight Eisenhower.

The document reveals the
existence of a clandestine

government think tank
called the Majestic 12.

Majestic 12 is supposedly the government
body that has responsibility for securing

extraterrestrial technology, crash
retrievals and investigating UFOs.

It comprises senior figures in the
scientific community, the military

community and within government,
particularly intelligence.

No one anywhere outside of
this group is to know anything

about UFOs, crash retrievals,
ETs, bodies, any of it.

According to the documents,
President Harry S. Truman

established MJ-12 in 1947,
shortly after

the infamous UFO crash
in Roswell, New Mexico.

The files also include
detailed instructions explaining

how to handle the debris
from an extraterrestrial crash.

The documents talk about how debris from
UFOs could be collected and sent to

specific military facilities and how Alien
bodies could be preserved.

So the documents essentially is a
guideline to handle UFOs.

The most important
document is a restricted SOM


Special Operations Manual.

And when you go to
page 10, there is an

extraterrestrial technology
classification table.

This is solid confirmation that our
government knew and was dealing with

extraterrestrial entities
and technology in the 40s.

Of all the top secret projects we've
covered on Ancient Aliens, perhaps the

most nefarious is a group of clandestine
government agents who will do whatever it

takes to keep extraterrestrial
encounters quiet.

At number 8 on our list, The Men in Black.

Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1952.

World w*r II Air Force veteran Albert Bender
establishes one of America's first

UFO organizations, the International
Flying Saucer Bureau.

The IFSB publishes a quarterly
journal, Space Review, to

share stories of UFO sightings
with its 600 worldwide members.

But just one year after launching,
Bender claims he was visited by three

strange men in black
suits who threatened

both his fledgling
organization and his life.

Albert K. Bender coined the term Men in Black
to describe the people who cautioned him not

to talk about UFOs, not to talk about
flying saucers, and above all,

not to talk about extraterrestrials.

The Men in Black are, without doubt, the
most feared and sinister beings in ufology.

The Men in Black go around threatening
people who've seen UFOs, who've been

abducted, even in some cases, people
who've found crop circles.

Encounters with the Men in Black have been
reported for more than seven decades.

But just who, or what,
are the Men in Black?

There's a lot of Men in Black stories that
have occurred over the years.

Enough to make you conclude that there is
an agency involved, or agencies involved

over the years, that
from time to time have

felt it was important to
silence UFO witnesses.

Are the Men in Black a secret government
agency that is tasked with both

investigating and concealing an
extraterrestrial presence on Earth?

Based on Albert Bender's account of his
experience with the Men in Black,

some researchers
believe these intimidating

figures may even be
Alien entities themselves.

He said, late one night, when he was
working in his attic room, these three

shadowy, fedora-wearing
figures literally

materialized through
the walls of the bedroom.

And, of course, the three men
were the Men in Black.

He thought they were an
extraterrestrial police force.

If the Men in Black are, in fact,
of otherworldly origin, could it be that

the government is
working with extraterrestrials

to keep their presence
hidden from the public?

Whatever the truth may be,
many in the UFO community are

convinced these shadowy
figures continue to operate today.

UFO sightings haven't
stopped quite the opposite.

So, if UFO sightings are still going on,
there's no reason to suppose that Men in Black

aren't still going around speaking
to witnesses, and if they're successful in

their mission, we don't
get to hear about it.

It's quite possible that the Men in Black
are still operating, still intimidating

witnesses, and still being the gatekeepers
of the UFO secret.

For UFO researchers, one of the most
intriguing secret projects that studies

extraterrestrial activity
is located in England.

Its headquarters are rumored to be hidden
within a series of underground rooms and

tunnels found beneath
a quaint country estate.

At number seven on our countdown of the
Top Ten Secret Projects, Rudloe Manor.

In England's southwest county of Wiltshire
stands Rudloe Manor.

On the surface, it appears to be nothing
more than a charming English country house.

But deep beneath this structure lie an
astounding 2.2 million square feet of vast

caverns divided into
many smaller chambers.

Rudloe Manor is an extremely mysterious
place, and at the heart of it is a very

hidden base, one that
is so secret that very little

is known today about
what actually goes on there.

During World w*r II, the caverns and
chambers beneath the estate were used by

the British Royal Air Force as an
underground aircraft factory.

But while the underground complex once
served as a clever way to hide military

production from German
bombers, today it is used

to protect even more
clandestine activities.

To this day, the underground facility
carries out work, which is highly

classified, shrouded in
secrecy, and people cannot

get information about
what the true mission is.

It's absolutely off-limits.

For years, it was home to a group called
the Provost and Security Services.

They're kind of like the James Buns of the
British Royal Air Force.

They do espionage investigations,
counterintelligence programs, things like that.

One of the more thought-provoking
aspects of Rudloe Manor is

this claim that it's sort of the
British equivalent of Area 51.

Rudloe Manor earned its reputation as the
British Area 51 in 1955.

After celebrated American journalist
Dorothy Kilgallen published a story with

the International News Service
that claimed the

British Royal Air Force
had recovered a UFO.

Kilgallen heard a story that the British
government had got its hands on a crashed

UFO, and the military then decided to
start investigating it at Rudloe Manor.

Now, for years, the Air Force and the
Ministry of Defence denied that any UFO

investigations were
going on at Rudloe Manor.

Then a document got released, and it
showed that, actually, yes, UFO

investigations had been
done from Rudloe Manor.

And, of course, a lot of people say, oh,
wait a minute, now we're getting interested.

So all this, of course,
just fuels the idea that

maybe there is something
to hide down there.

And whatever's going on down there,
it's big.

One of the most compelling
stories we've investigated on

Ancient Aliens features another
top-secret project in England.

It involves the 30-year
cover-up of what some

are calling the greatest
UFO photo of all time.

At number six, the Calvine Cover-Up.

August 15, 2022.

Newsweek Magazine publishes the
provocative headline, Best UFO Picture Ever,

the Calvine Photo, found after 30 years missing.

This photograph from the Calvine Hills in
Scotland is crystal clear, it's in color,

and it shows this just
magical-looking, 100-foot-long

diamond-shaped craft
that is clear as a bell.

Not only that, we also see a Harrier jet
trailing the object.

As soon as this photo was released to the
public, people went crazy.

It was a big deal.

According to the article, the photograph
was taken 32 years earlier, in August 1990.

It is one of six photographs
allegedly taken by two

hikers outside the small
Scottish village of Calvine.

The two hikers brought
the photographs to

Scotland's largest
newspaper, the Daily Record.

But then, the photographs
mysteriously disappeared.

They had six photographs, and they go to
the local newspaper to have them published.

And for reasons that are still not clear
to this day, this Scotland newspaper,

instead of immediately putting these six
incredible photos on the front page,

which is what I would have done as a
reporter, somebody calls the Ministry of

Defence in London, and they
are ordered to send the photos and

the negatives from the newspaper
to somebody in the government.

Among the people who saw the six
photographs was former Ministry of Defence

UFO Investigator Nick Pope,
who was present

for classified briefings
regarding the images.

The photographs and the
negatives went to Jarrick, which

is joint-air reconnaissance
and intelligence centre.

This is part of the intelligence community
that specialises in imagery analysis.

Their opinion was
that this was not a fake.

These were genuine pictures.

The photographs would remain hidden from
public view for over 30 years,

until one of the photos was shared with
Newsweek for publication.

In 2022, a former Royal Air Force press
officer named Craig Lindsay actually came

forward and said that
he had in his possession

a copy of one of the
Calvin UFO photos.

And he decided he wanted
to release it to the public.

Craig Lindsay was the Royal
Air Force press officer who

interviewed the original
hikers, who took the photos.

While the photographs shared
by Craig Lindsay caused a

sensation, the five other Calvin
photos have yet to be revealed.

But why?

Is it possible that the British government
has a secret project to keep evidence of

UFOs and extraterrestrials
out of the public eye?

According to some government insiders,
it's a distinct possibility.

We had the photographs,
we had the negatives.

Now, the Ministry of Defence
has not commented on whether

the Craig Lindsay picture
is or isn't the real thing.

And therefore, because
I'm still bound by the

Official Secrets Act, I can't
comment on that either.

But the pictures out there
in the public domain and

people can look at these
images and decide for themselves.

We're coming up on the halfway point in our
countdown of the Top Ten Secret Projects.

And this next one is
absolutely mind-blowing.

According to one military whistleblower,
in the 1980s, a team of government

scientists challenged the laws of physics
and opened a portal to another world.

At number five, Project Jackknife.

Lincoln County, Nevada, 1984.

Counterintelligence
officer Richard Doty begins

a new assignment at
the Nevada test site.

A top-secret U.S.

military facility used for the development
of nuclear weapons in the 1940s and 50s.

According to Doty, he was part of an
operation codenamed Project Jackknife.

A military experiment that was attempting
to open a gateway to another world.

I got involved in it to protect the
operation against any kind of espionage.

This particular experiment used a high-energy
laser and a large magnetic field.

And when they generated
this beam through this

magnetic field, what I saw
was a wavy orb appearing.

The orb became larger and larger and
larger and larger.

And behind it, there was a flashing light.

And when I asked a scientist who was
standing right next to me, what did we

just see, he said, we just
opened a fabric of space.

If we go in that, then we can go to
another dimension.

They call that a portal.

Also known as wormholes or
Stargates, portals are bridges

through space and time that
can connect to other worlds.

According to Doty, this is only one of
many secret experiments the U.S.

government has conducted to try to create
these conduits.

Ever since the Central Intelligence
Agency, Office of Scientific Intelligence,

realized that there were theories about
portals, they engaged in a number of

operations over the years to try to prove
portals were possible.

And I can guarantee you, even today, that
there's some type of experiment going on.

Could it be that for the past 50 years,
the United States government has had a

secret project to develop a real,
traversable Stargate?

While it may sound like science fiction,
to Ancient Astronaut Theorists,

this technology is not only possible.

But there is evidence it was
used in the ancient world.

All around the world, we
have myths and legends

of beings coming and
going through gates.

The Anunnaki Gods
in ancient Sumeria were

constantly coming and
going through gateways.

In Egypt, we learn of the portals of Pata
and the Pharaoh scaling the ladder to

heaven and going through
the portal of the Gods.

The idea of the Stargate as a
transportation system has been proposed as

one of the ideal ways for these
extraterrestrial beings to travel.

Deep in the barren desert
of Nevada is a clandestine

military installation that is
the world's worst-kept secret.

It's a series of runways, nondescript
buildings and giant hangers.

And according to some
government insiders,

it's also home to
extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Number four on our countdown of the top
ten secret projects, Area 51.

Throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s, dozens
of reports surfaced that suggested the U.S.

government was hiding evidence of
extraterrestrials.

But for many UFO researchers,
the most important revelations

of all came in 1989 from a
physicist named Bob Lazar.

According to Lazar, he
worked on a top -secret

project at an Air Force
facility known as Area 51.

While there, he had a remarkable encounter
that he revealed to his close friend,

retired CIA pilot John Lear.

Bob Lazar used to
work at Los Alamos, had

the highest clearance
that you can get there.

And then he worked for two or four months
at Area 51.

It was December 6th of 1988.

He comes in, he sits down there at my
desk, and he said, I saw a disc today.

And I said, what?

He said, I saw a disc.

And I said, you saw a flying saucer?

He said, yeah, sure did.

If I saw them, I'd touch them.

They are real.

With Bob's permission,
Lear shared his story with a

reporter he knew at the local
KLAS TV station, George Knapp.

On May 15th, Knapp sat down with Lazar for
a live interview.

We'd have a five-minute live interview
segment every day on the five O'Clock

news, and we got a
cancellation at the last minute.

We got to fill this hole.

We call up Lear.

Hey, would your UFO buddy come on the air?

And Lear calls back in a little while.

Yes.

We go up to John Lear's house.

We put Bob Lazar on the air, blacked out
his face, and he told this incredible story.

Exactly what's going on up there?

Well, there's several, actually
nine flying saucers, flying

discs, that are out there
of extraterrestrial origin.

And they're being test flown and basically
just analyzed.

Could Bob Lazar's
extraordinary claims that there is a

secret program studying Alien
technology at Area 51 be true?

The idea struck many as far-fetched until
August 2013, when the CIA not only

acknowledged the existence of Area 51,
but admitted that scientists at the

top-secret facility had developed some of the
military's most advanced technology from

the U-2 spy plane to
the F-117 stealth fighter.

When this announcement was first made,
some people said, wait a minute,

if Bob Lazar was right about Area 51,
what else was he right about?

Finally, these years of rumors that the
UFO community and the conspiracy theory

community had been claiming to be true,
had been validated.

When it comes to the UFO
phenomenon, one of the most

astonishing secret projects
was revealed in 2002.

A computer hacker claimed to have uncovered
NASA documents that suggest that the U.S.

has been collaborating with
extraterrestrial beings for decades.

Number three on our countdown,
the Secret Space Program.

London, England, March 19, 2002.

Shortly after 8 A.M., the National High-Tech
Crime Unit arrives at the home of


engineer Gary McKinnon.

They are there to arrest him on behalf of
the United States Justice Department for

hacking into top-secret computers
at NASA and the Pentagon.

McKinnon not only admits to the crime, but
claims he uncovered evidence that the U.S.

government was working with
extraterrestrial beings.

I found the spreadsheet was actually titled
in the column, Non-Terrestrial Officers.

As well as officers' names, it had its
ship names.

None of these were ocean-going ships.

It was astounding.

They're not Navy, they're not in the Army,
and not even Air Force.

So, to me, I was thinking there must be an
off-planet space force, or space fleet,

at least.

According to McKinnon, the
most shocking file he came

across was on a computer at
NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Within a folder labeled Unfiltered,
he spotted a thumbnail image of a high-res

NASA satellite photo, which appeared to
depict an unusual spacecraft.

So, I double-clicked on an image,
and it came down slowly more and more.

But as it came down, you could see the
hemisphere of a planet.

And then, suddenly, a
ship started to appear.

It was tubular, or what we used
to call a cigar-shaped object.

Then, suddenly, that was it.

Blank screen.

So, it was my Eureka moment, and the same
moment I got caught, too.

Before he was arrested, Gary McKinnon
released what he had discovered online.

Could it be that his account
of what he saw when he

hacked into computers at the
Pentagon and NASA is genuine?

According to Ancient Astronaut Theorists,
the answer is a resounding yes.

It seems that what
he's talking about is real.

And even today, I mean, we have now the
space force of the American military.

And that would actually be combined in
with what Gary McKinnon was discovering

when he hacked into
the Pentagon's computers.

While there are many who question the
authenticity of Gary McKinnon's account,

other more notable figures have since come
forward with similar claims.

In 2013, former Canadian Minister of
National Defence, Paul Hellyer,

declared that the United States government
and other governments around the world are

working with organized
groups of extraterrestrials.

Paul Hellyer was really a senior political
leadership figure, and he essentially came

out and said
extraterrestrials are real, they

are visiting Earth,
and there is interaction.

I was privy to a lot of things,
and some of it, for me, very frightening,

very disturbing.

UFOs are real, the United States
government had been in contact with them.

Paul Hellyer is not the only government
official to come forward with alleged

knowledge of an extraterrestrial
presence on Earth.

Recently, the former Israeli Chief of
Space Security, Haim Eshed, came out and

said that there is a Galactic Federation,
and that indeed many world leaders know of

and are in talks with delegates
of the Galactic Federation.

Dr. Haim Eshed claimed that the
extraterrestrials in this Galactic

Federation were in contact with
governments around the world.

It's a fascinating idea, and
one that may well be true.

Is it possible that the so-called secret
space program, allegedly uncovered by Gary

McKinnon, is connected
to the supposed Galactic

Federation that politicians
have recently disclosed?

If Gary McKinnon's story is true,
it means that we have treaties with

extraterrestrials, and that we are up
there in space operating with them.

And that's an intriguing thought.

Without a doubt, one of the
most extraordinary government

projects to study extraterrestrials
came to light in 2017.

But this wasn't some wild
Internet rumor or conspiracy theory.

This classified program was featured on
the front page of The New York Times.

Number two on our countdown
of the Top Ten Secret Projects.

ATIP.

December 16, 2017.

The New York Times
publishes an expl*sive

story entitled, Glowing
Auras and Black Money.

The Pentagon's mysterious UFO program.

The story exposes a top-secret U.S.

government project.

To investigate UFO
reports, call the Advanced

Aerospace Threat Identification Program,
or ATIP.

The revelations
concerning the existence of

the Pentagon's ATIP
program are extraordinary.

It is the single biggest ever news in the
whole history of the UFO phenomenon.

It's not quite a spaceship
in a hangar smoking

g*n, but it's the
closest we've ever been.

The article reported that the program had
been run by a former Pentagon official

named Luis Elizondo,
a senior career

intelligence officer with
top security clearance.

It was Elizondo's job to investigate
reports of unidentified flying objects and

to measure what threat they
could pose to national security.

Luis Elizondo is a long-standing intelligence
officer in the Department of Defense.

He has made it clear that the
information that's come to ATIP

over the years is quite
extraordinary and not explainable.

And these most important statements have
been along the lines of, look,

if we've ever thought
that these were Russian

or Chinese, we'd be
going crazy right now.

To everyone who's
able to read between the

lines, he's essentially
saying UFOs are real.

Elizondo ran ATIP for eight years,
from 2009 until he resigned in 2017.

During this time, the
program collected several

extraordinary videos of
military encounters with UFOs.

Taken by forward-looking infrared cameras
mounted on Navy jets, they were perhaps

the most spectacular and credible UFO
videos ever released to the public.

One of these videos, at least,
comes from the g*n camera of an F-18.

And you don't just jump
out in your plane and fly

out and chase something
because you saw it go by.

You were told to do so, and it took a lot
of people to know this was going on.

These videos captured
the world's attention,

and suddenly it's like
we're in a new world.

We have these incredible videos shot by
Navy pilots, giving irrefutable evidence

that there is a technology out there that
is beyond anything our near peers have.

Perhaps the most shocking information to
come out about ATIP was that the

government had recovered strange metal
alloys of unknown origin.

Luis Elizondo has referred
to these as meta-materials.

The implication is that they're not
special magical elements or anything,

but they do seem to be materials that have
been studied.

According to Elizondo,
tests have been run.

The answer has come back.

Whatever these things were, they came from
space.

You know, for years and years,
UFO researchers had talked about crash

retrievals of UFOs, that elements of these
objects had been recovered and were being

studied, and skeptics would
laugh at these claims, you know,

how ridiculous such conspiracy,
paranoid fantasies were.

Well, guess what?

Now we have it confirmed.

Although the complete findings of ATIP are
still considered highly classified and may

never be released, its very existence
provides proof that the United States

military has been secretly investigating
unidentified flying objects for decades.

One of the really
interesting things about ATIP

is how much information
hasn't been released.

Are there more videos?

They were doing this for like five years
or maybe even a lot longer than that.

I bet you there's a lot more.

We've reached the top spot in our
countdown of the Top 10 Secret Projects.

And for Ancient Astronaut Theorists like
me, this last one truly stands apart.

It was the subject of a televised
congressional hearing, where rumors about

unidentified aerial phenomena
became public record.

At number one, the UAP Recovery Program.

June 5th, 2023.

The debrief, a science news
website, publishes a sensational

interview with military
intelligence officer David Grusch.

In the article, Grusch revealed that the
Pentagon has a top secret task force to

recover and reverse engineer crashed craft
of non-human origin.

It is simply known as the
UAP Recovery Program.

Grusch stated that there are multiple
craft, Alien craft, let's be clear,

that the United States
government or its

licensed private contractors
have possession of.

He speculated it could be as many as 10 or
more or dozen or more.

A lot.

According to Grusch, the UAP Recovery
Program had secured vehicles that were

made of exotic materials and suggests they
are non-human in origin.

Grusch claims he
learned about this secret

project while serving
on the UAP Task Force.

David Grusch served on the
unidentified aerial phenomena

task force under the
directorship of Jay Stratton.

And he was representative of the National
Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

While I was on the UAP Task Force,
Dave Grusch was given the job to go and

start interviewing people who worked on a
previous UFO program.

And see what they were willing to tell us.

And he found a lot of things.

The dramatic revelation of a
secret UAP recovery program

in the debrief article
turned heads on Capitol Hill.

And on July 26, 2023, just seven weeks
after going public, David Grusch and two

other whistleblowers testified before
a congressional hearing.

I am taking every step I can to cooperate
this evidence over a period of four years

while I was with the
UAP Task Force and do my

due diligence on the
individual sharing it.

This is because of these
steps I believe strongly in

the importance of bringing
this information before you.

During his testimony, Grusch refused to
divulge specific details about the UAP

recovery program as the
project remains highly classified.

If you believe we have
crashed craft stated earlier, do

we have the bodies of the
pilots who piloted this craft?

Biologics came with some
of these recoveries, yeah.

And was this documentary evidence,
this video, photos?

The specific documentation I would have to
talk to you in a skiff about.

When pressed for some of these details,
he would frequently say, look,

I am going as far as I can legally go with
you here in this environment.

If we go into a skiff that is a secured
compartment and information facility where

we can discuss these classified topics,
I can go further.

I will be happy to go further.

Millions of people are watching it and
they're hearing this beyond dramatic

testimony that for the first time we're
told what everybody knows to be true.

The U.S. government has been hiding
secrets about UFOs for over 70 years.

The sworn testimony of David Grusch seems to
confirm what many have proposed all along.

That secret projects to study
extraterrestrials have existed for decades.

But whether it's a UAP crash and retrieval
program, a covert laboratory in the

English countryside, or even attempts to
open portals to other worlds, unlocking

the truth behind these secret
projects may finally reveal a

long history of extraterrestrial
visitation here on Earth.