Alien Chronicles: Top UFO Encounters (2020)

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- 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.

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.

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.

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 w*r
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 k*lled 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 sh**ting 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-w*r
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 cl*max 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 c*ck 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.

c*ck 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
c*ck 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.

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.

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 p*stol
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.

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.

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 m*rder.

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.

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.

g*n 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.

- 10, nine,
ignition sequence start,

six, five, four,
three, two, one.