19x14 - The Top Ten Alien Craft

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Mysterious orbs of light

reported all over the world.

Enormous cylindrical objects

hovering high above the Earth.

And massive triangular craft

that appear out of thin air.

Throughout history,

people have witnessed objects

of all shapes and sizes

up in the sky.

Now, we're going

to take a look back

at the top ten examples

of what ancient astronaut

theorists suggest

are, in fact, alien craft

craft that just

may hold the proof

that Earth has been visited

by extraterrestrials.

People love to tell me about

their favorite UFO sightings,

and some of them are

pretty astonishing.

But you may be surprised to hear

that many of the flying craft

that we're seeing today

may have also been seen

thousands of years ago.

This countdown takes a look

at the various types of objects

that have been witnessed

in the sky again and again.

At number ten on our list

of the top ten alien craft

the Flying V.

Kent, New York.

New Year's Eve, 1982.

A group of partygoers spots

a gigantic

V-shaped craft overhead

with red, white,

and green lights.

The colors suddenly vanish,

and then the object

illuminates the ground

with a blinding white light.

Over the next few months,

Hudson Valley authorities are

bombarded with similar reports.

Usually, UFOs just appear

to a small number of people,

and they disappear.

In this case, people were

stopped on the highways.

People were running

out of their houses

watching this enormous object

pass over,

the size of a football field.

It's estimated

that as many as 5,000 people

called in and made reports

of this giant V.

And the witnesses said that

this flying triangle

was completely silent.

And that it was flying

very slowly, if at all,

and was often just hovering

right in place

and then would slowly turn,

and then ultimately fly off

in another direction.

So that these were not some

hoaxers with their airplanes

flying in formation,

but something

completely different.

The sightings of large V-shaped

craft in Upstate New York

made headlines

in The New York Times.

Then, in 1997,

an identical craft was spotted

in Phoenix, Arizona.

It was

a triangular-ish shaped object

seen very reliably by

quite a large number

of witnesses, including

the governor of the state

at the time, Fife Symington,

who was a qualified pilot and in

the Air Force Reserve as well.

As a pilot and a former

Air Force officer,

I can definitively say that

this craft did not resemble

any man-made object

that I'd ever seen.

While the V-shaped craft

flying over the Hudson Valley

and Phoenix are

the most well-documented

mass UFO sightings in history,

they are far from the first.

More than 400 years ago,

in 1561,

the citizens of

the Bavarian city of Nuremberg

reported a commotion in the sky

that was unlike anything

they had ever

experienced before.

People went outside and they saw

what they described as

a celestial battle.

The witnesses observed

seeing hundreds

of these strange-shaped objects.

What were these strange shapes

that they were describing?

The aerial scene,

illustrated in a woodcut,

is described

in the accompanying text

as "a very frightful spectacle."

A large, black, V-shaped object

appeared in the sky

and seemed to launch projectiles

as onlookers below

watched in amazement.

This was actually witnessed

by thousands of people.

Had it been a meteor shower

or something like this,

then the reports

would have been,

"Okay, this happened before

because we've seen this before,"

but that was new.

The witnesses wouldn't

have had a conception of

some kind of

a mechanical spacecraft.

But that seems to be exactly

what they were describing.

And this has to be one of

the greatest mass sightings

of a UFO phenomena

in all of recorded history.

To me, there is no doubt

that the people of Nuremberg

witnessed an alien craft

they just didn't have

the language

to accurately describe

what they saw.

But that should come as

no surprise,

because even today,

strange objects are seen

in our skies

that defy explanation.

Like the number nine entry

on our countdown

Orbs of Light.

U.S. Navy pilots with

the 415th Night Fighter Squadron

report seeing "eight to ten"

"bright orange lights

off the left wing

flying through the air

at high speed."

Neither the radar

operator in the air

nor ground control

could identify

anything in the area

that fit their description.

The strange orbs of light are

observed by hundreds of both

Axis and Ally pilots

all over Europe and Asia

throughout the w*r and

become known as "foo fighters."

Foo fighters were first seen

in the Second World w*r

by pilots flying not actually

that high off the ground,

between 800 or 10,000 feet.

Usually pilots were

flying at night

and they reported seeing lights

in formation on the horizon.

They would be

moving together or flashing,

kind of tracking them for a bit,

and then it would disappear

as soon as it came.

They were called "foo fighters"

after French feu,

meaning "fire,"

'cause they were flaming balls.

In 1945,

a B-29 bomber,

over the South Pacific,

saw a foo fighter off its wing.

B-29s were very heavily armed.

It trained its machine g*ns

on the device,

fired on it,

and the foo fighter blew up

into a million pieces.

That story was covered

in TIME magazine.

Whatever they were

they disappeared

and have now gone into legend.

While reports of encounters

with foo fighters ended

after World w*r II,

mysterious orbs of light

have been reported

hovering around

m*llitary testing sites,

nuclear plants,

and even crop circles.

But what they are

remains a mystery.

Foo fighters exhibited

performance characteristics

beyond any other aircraft

in the skies at the time.

There were pilots that, uh,

reported foo fighters

traveling at

unimaginable speeds.

That were capable of maneuvering

in the air in ways that

no other aircraft could do.

These are hypersonic devices.

They can also zigzag,

and the amount of

zigzagging is so great

that the gravitational forces

inside these objects

as they jerk through

space and time

would crush

any living individual.

In my opinion,

whatever these objects are,

they're guided either

by remote control

or by an autonomous

cybernetic system.

Are the mysterious orbs of light

encountered around the world

a type of

extraterrestrial spacecraft?

Ancient astronaut

theorists say yes,

and suggest further evidence

that alien craft are

visiting our planet

can be found hidden

in the jungles of Mexico.

On January 5, 2000,

dozens of people in Illinois

witnessed a mysterious craft

that didn't show up on radar

and appeared to be cloaked

in some type of camouflage.

Sneaking in at number eight

on our list of alien craft

Stealth UFOs.

St. Clair County, Illinois.

January 5, 2000.

Just after 4:00 a.m.,

three large, triangular objects

flying silently in the night sky

are seen by multiple witnesses,

including police officers.

I looked up in the sky

and observed

this huge, arrow-shaped,

triangular-shaped object.

The flying triangles

are observed

for at least two hours

as they travel

over multiple towns.

This is known as the famous

Southern Illinois

flying triangle.

We have about four

different police officers.

What they describe seeing

are three distinct,

arrowhead-shaped craft.

Officer Craig Stevens was

directly below

one of these triangles.

And he said that

it was trying to cloak

or camouflage itself

against the night sky,

and was projecting

the star field above it

on the bottom surface,

allowing it to effectively

blend in with its background.

The ability of triangular-shaped

objects to hide in plain sight

reminds many observers

of modern stealth technology.

Developed by the U.S. m*llitary

in the 1970s and '80s,

stealth technology

can make aircraft

nearly invisible to radar,

sonar, and other

detection methods.

To make

something invisible to radar,

all you have to do is make sure

that the radar doesn't

reflect back to the receiver.

This all comes down to mostly

the shape of the planes.

You want it shaped in a way

so that the radar either

scatters in random directions

or literally just bounces off

in a completely opposite way.

Could the cloaking effect

that witnesses observed

in the Illinois flying triangle

be a type of stealth technology

more advanced than our own?

Curiously,

the U.S. stealth technology

was developed at Area 51

the same secret m*llitary base

believed to contain the remains

of a UFO that crashed

in Roswell, New Mexico.

The official Area 51,

now admitted by the government,

is this facility where aircraft

were developed and test flown

The U-2 spy plane,

the SR-71 Blackbird,

and, of course, more recently

stealth technology.

A lot of people say

this is actually something

we've back-engineered from

extraterrestrial technology.

I think there's no question

that we have reverse-engineered

or have looked at

the shapes of these craft

and have tried to create it

for ourselves.

Look at some of

the new stealth jets

that are coming out right now.

They're amazingly close

to what we saw

20 years ago from UFO reports.

One of my favorite places

to explore is Egypt.

On Ancient Aliens,

we've investigated pyramids,

tombs and even evidence

of advanced technology.

But the most important symbol

in Ancient Egypt

is a pyramid-shaped object

that was said to represent

a craft that

descended from the sky.

At number seven on our list

the Benben Stone.

Luxor, Egypt.

The Karnak Temple Complex

is home to the tallest

standing obelisk in Egypt.

The 97-foot-tall monolith

is carved from

a single piece of granite.

And crowning

this remarkable obelisk

is a pyramid-shaped object

called a Benben stone.

The Benben stone

or the pyramid-shaped structure

that is on the top of

an obelisk or a pyramid

it is there

to receive the messages

from the Sun god

and deliver it to its people.

According to Egyptian mythology,

the Benben was a vehicle

which Atum,

the god of all creation,

used to travel back and forth

between the heavens and Earth.

One of the origin stories says

that a Benben stone

descended from the sky,

out of which

the first creator gods emerged

and started

Egyptian civilization.

It was a flying craft.

The Benben stone was not

just symbolizing

a connection to the heavens

it was actually memorializing

an extraterrestrial visitation.

Could the first Egyptians have

witnessed an alien craft

in the shape of a pyramid?

As far as ancient astronaut

theorists are concerned,

the argument for this notion

became stronger

in July 2019,

when, just off the coast

of San Diego,

Navy personnel aboard

the USS Russell

recorded an incredible event.

The ship's photographic

interpretation

and Examination

captured an 18-second

night vision video

of several pyramid-shaped

objects hovering in the sky.

The video showed

a pyramid-shaped object,

a literal, 3D,

pyramid-shaped object,

floating above the USS Russell

off the West Coast.

And it wasn't just one pyramid.

There were apparently

swarms of these things,

about 700 feet above

this Navy destroyer,

completely silent,

making no noise

and darting off

at immeasurable speeds.

It's a fascinating idea

that perhaps

extraterrestrials

first arrived in Egypt

in these small,

pyramid-shaped craft,

like we're seeing in this video.

Clearly, what we see

in this footage of today

is three-dimensional pyramid

floating in the sky.

Providing the footage is real,

providing

it is extraterrestrial,

providing

it is extraterrestrial,

then one could argue

that the same visitors

that we've had back then

are showing themselves again.

What's fascinating to me

is that in many

parts of the world,

we can find ancient

illustrations of objects

that people

allegedly saw in the sky

that look identical

to modern spacecraft.

Coming in at number six

on our countdown of

the top ten alien craft

Rocket Ships.

Palenque, Mexico.

Archaeologist

Alberto Ruz Lhuillier discovers

the pyramid tomb of King Pakal,

who ruled the ancient Mayan

city from 615 to 683 AD.

Inside, he discovers

one of the most remarkable

Mayan artifacts ever found:

a highly decorated sarcophagus.

Pakal's sarcophagus lid is

very rich in detail.

It shows what appears to be

a world tree,

and a vision serpent,

as the Mayans refer to it,

that snakes its way up

this tree.

The glyphs that are

attached to it say that

this tree is shimmering

or shining.

It's reflective.

Mainstream scholars believe

the sarcophagus lid

portrays King Pakal

on a journey to Xibalba,

the land of the dead.

But ancient astronaut

theorists suggest

the carving depicts

something very different.

In the center of the frame,

King Pakal is sitting

bending forward

almost like a,

a racing motorcyclist.

He has something like a mask,

an oxygen mask on his nose.

You clearly see his two hands.

He manipulates some control.

He's sitting on a chair,

and outside of the frame,

you see something like a flame.

It looks like an exhaust.

It looks like some sort

of space shuttle.

The idea of King Pakal

sitting at the controls

of a rocket ship might sound

like science fiction.

But ancient astronaut

theorists suggest that

nearly identical carvings

can be found in India.

In Ajanta caves,

there are many carvings

of Buddha inside stupas.

From the front,

it appears as though Buddha is

standing inside

an elaborately carved arch,

but the fact is

what we are seeing

from the front

is a cross section of a stupa

inside of which

Buddha is standing.

And what is a stupa?

It is nothing

but some kind of a vehicle.

A stupa, by definition,

is a vehicle with which to reach

the realm of the gods.

That is the definition

of a stupa.

Well, just change the wording:

"a vehicle

with which to reach space."

These stupas can be seen

for example,

in the Ajanta Cave

with smoke and fire

at the bottom.

If we had one or ten or

even 20 examples like that,

you could be like

"All right, interesting."

But what if I told you there are

millions of the same motif

in India about celestial beings

depicted in something

that could be interpreted

as some type of

a rocket vehicle.

There are countless examples

of ancient artwork depicting

what many think

could be aerial vehicles,

and in some cases,

you can even find figures

wearing what looks like

flying gear

right on their bodies.

At number five

on our countdown

Jet Packs.

La Venta, Mexico.

American archaeologists

Matthew Stirling

and Philip Drucker

begin an excavation of

an ancient pyramid mound.

Over the next two decades,

they unearth

extraordinary statues,

carvings and mosaics from

a previously unknown culture:

the Olmecs,

a civilization that

emerged around 1400 BC.

The discovery is

a major archeological find

and produced a sensational

piece of evidence

for the ancient

astronaut theory.

At the Museum of Natural

History in New York City,

there is an Olmec figurine,

and in my opinion,

it is the smoking g*n

of our ancestors having access

to aviation technology

because if you look

at this figurine,

you can tell that this guy is

wearing some sort of a suit,

he has some type of controls

with tubes on his chest,

and on the side you have

six wings coming out of him.

So you have to wonder

what is depicted here.

Now, if you look at

a modern jet pack,

humans are ascending

and descending

in a vertical position.

Now imagine if that was

shown to our ancestors.

How would they react?

The technological frame

of reference of our ancestors

was not the same as

our technological frame

of reference today.

So of course they would have

carved something like this

when they had never

seen a vehicle

with which to go to space.

Could it be that a figurine

made more than 2400 years ago

is a depiction of someone

wearing the equivalent

of a modern-day jet pack?

Ancient astronaut

theorists say yes,

and suggest other figures

have been found

that appear to be wearing

some type of flying apparatus

like the 13-foot-tall statues

at the Temple of Quetzalcoatl

in Tula de Allende, Mexico.

There are figures

on the main pyramid.

And they're some of

the most magnificent statues

that we can find

on planet Earth.

Because it's as if

these guys are standing

inside some pressurized suits,

they have helmets on,

and they have these

jet packs on their chest.

On the opposite side

of the globe,

at the Ellora Caves in India,

is a 1200-year-old carving

of a demon king named

Ravana depicted in a scene

from the ancient Hindu text

called the Ramayana.

In the scene, Ravana is

being att*cked by a bird

while ascending into the sky,

and according to the story,

the curious object on his back

is a flying contraption

called a pushpaka vimana.

Ravana does

appear in many Hindu texts

like epics, uh,

Mahabharata, Ramayana,

and many other puranas,

which is Hindu Hindu texts.

We are told that,

you know, he constructed

a pushpaka vimana,

this flying machine.

This pushpaka vimana is

made of gold.

It is like a jet pack

that you could put it on

and you could start flying.

We have jet packs now,

but, interestingly,

almost all these machines

were mentioned

5,000 years ago in Mahabharata.

Is it possible that

the mysterious figures

depicted wearing

what appear to be jet packs

are evidence our ancestors saw

extraterrestrial spacecraft

in the distant past?

Ancient astronaut

theorists say yes,

and suggest further evidence

can be found

in ancient descriptions

of flying chariots.

Some of the best descriptions

of ancient UFOs can be found

in the Sanskrit texts of India.

The sensational stories are

filled with accounts

of celestial beings

and flying chariots.

But the craft described

in these texts

look remarkably similar

to some modern UFO reports.

At number four on our list

Acorn-Shaped Craft.

Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.

December 9, 1965.

Thousands of people watch

as a massive fireball

streaks across the night sky

and crashes into

a nearby forest.

A large object was seen

to come down in a wooded area.

And witnesses actually claimed

that this strange object,

which was the size

of a Volkswagen Beetle,

looked like what

appeared to be a giant acorn.

The phones went off,

and all of the volunteer

fire departments all around,

"We have a plane crash

in the woods of Kecksburg."

Well, there was a man

named Jim Romanski,

and I had a real privilege

to talk with him directly,

in March of 1998

because he was one of

only about ten people

who stood around this object,

in that forest officially,

as a volunteer fireman

walking around

and trying to understand,

"What are we looking at?"

And he said,

"It was like an acorn.

"And at the top,

it was copper-colored.

"And then in the bottom,

it was a darker color.

"And there was a band,

about four inches wide,

"and raised up not carved in

were symbols that went around

a portion of this craft."

Suddenly, the m*llitary

entered the area,

cordoned it off,

and the whole thing was

essentially hushed up.

The official report from NASA

stated that

the object was debris

from a Russian satellite,

even though witnesses claimed

it changed direction

several times.

Today, a monument to

the acorn-shaped craft

stands in the town of Kecksburg.

For ancient astronaut theorists,

this UFO event is

particularly intriguing

because the object's

unusual shape

bears a striking resemblance

to flying objects described

in ancient Indian texts.

The craft itself is

an acorn-shaped craft.

Immediately,

that's reminiscent of

what the ancient Indian texts

described as the vimana,

which were acorn-shaped craft.

In the Mahabharata and at

many of the ancient Vedic texts,

they speak about

the so-called "vimanas."

The vimanas were flying vehicles

with which to reach

the celestial realm.

In the ancient

Sanskrit epics of India,

there are highly-detailed

descriptions of the vimana,

which carried the gods

and other important figures

through the sky.

The acorn-shaped craft were

even incorporated

at the very top

of many Hindu temples.

In Hindu texts,

such as the Ramayana

or the Mahabharata,

the vimana is primarily

a flying ship

that God used to travel

back and forth between spaces

in heaven from one planet

to another planet,

from one universe

to another universe,

and also come to Earth.

When we match up

eyewitness accounts

of the acorn-shaped craft

with the ancient vimanas,

we have to be open to seriously

question if these are, in fact,

ancient craft that are now

appearing in our modern world.

Some vimanas are portrayed

as small objects

that could travel

at incredible speeds.

But these weren't

the only flying machines

in Hindu mythology.

The ancient Sanskrit texts

also described ships in the sky

that were simply massive.

Number three on our list

Floating Cities.

To the more than

one billion Hindu faithful,

India's oldest Sanskrit texts,

known as the Vedas,

are accounts given directly

to humans by the gods.

These sensational stories

describe divine beings

arriving from palaces

up in the sky.

All these Vedic texts

speak of a time

when three cities were

orbiting Earth

and from these cities,

smaller vehicles were used

in order to reach

the realm of the Earth.

Even extraterrestrials,

with their advanced technology,

would have to arrive

with a larger mother ship.

And this is why

we have these stories

of palaces up in the sky.

Could it be that

the people of ancient India

witnessed enormous mother ships

that they interpreted as

floating cities or palaces?

Curiously, in modern times,

there have been reports

and even recordings

of what look like actual cities

appearing high up in the sky.

One such event occurred

in Foshan, China,

on October 7, 2015,

when the apparition of

a cityscape

remained in the sky

for several minutes

long enough to be captured

on video.

The video footage was broadcast

on Chinese television

and subsequently disseminated on

social media across the globe.

Numerous people reported seeing

what looked like

skyscraper-type buildings

in the clouds high in the sky.

It was an amazing spectacle.

There's just no other way

to describe it.

Now, just a few days later,

over 800 miles away,

we had another sighting

of this exact same phenomenon.

So it stands to reason

there could in fact have been

some type of a large mother ship

or some craft in the sky.

Is it possible

that the floating city reported

in two locations in China was

a massive alien mother ship?

And if so,

could it be the same craft

described

in ancient Hindu texts?

Ancient astronaut theorists

say yes and suggest

further evidence that our planet

is being visited by alien craft

further evidence that our planet

is being visited by alien craft

can be found

by examining striking images

captured not on Earth

but in outer space.

One of the most important

factors

to consider when evaluating

a UFO sighting

is the credibility

of the witness.

And perhaps there are

no better experts

on objects in the sky

than the men and women

of the space program.

Which is why our next example

is so exciting,

because they have been seen

not only on Earth

but deep in our solar system.

At number two on our list

of the top ten alien craft

Cigar-Shaped Objects.

Mount Washington,

New Hampshire, 1870.

During a meteorological

expedition in the area,

photographers capture

a strange black object on film

that appears to be floating

among the clouds.

The very first photo

that we have of a UFO is of a,

a huge cylindrical craft

over Mount Washington

in New Hampshire

taken in 1870, right at the

very beginning of photography.

You see this cloud formation

up at Mount Washington

and you see this very obvious

cigar-shaped object.

Is the photograph authentic?

And turns out it is.

Since the Mount Washington

photograph,

cigar-shaped craft

have been reportedly seen

all over the world.

Like in December of 1978,

when two Chilean pilots

on a training mission

at an elevation of

35,000 feet detected

a massive cigar-shaped object

on their radar.

They encountered, visually

and on their airborne radar

an absolutely enormous

object in the sky.

In fact, two separate

ground-based radars

tracked this object.

As the pilots approached

this object,

one of them described it

as an elongated object

swathed in smoke.

As it got to a certain distance,

this thing,

according to their report,

instantly accelerated

to the west,

in the direction of the ocean,

and was just gone.

Over 40 years later,

another cigar-shaped craft

was reported almost

7,000 miles away in Hawaii.

On December 29, 2020,

people could see

a huge, cigar-shaped craft

hovering off the coast

and took photos of it,

and, eventually,

this craft then plunged

into the ocean.

And the Navy went out there

to also look for

possible wreckage of some craft

crashing into the ocean

and found nothing.

Could these strange,

cigar-shaped objects

belong to visitors

from another world?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answer can be found

by examining

a curious radar image

taken more than

130 million miles from Earth.

On March 25, 1989,

a Soviet probe was approaching

the Martian moon Phobos

when it beamed back

an astonishing image to Earth.

As they got closer with Phobos

we see one last frame

that seems to have showed up

a very large,

cigar-elongated shape,

as if it's possibly

a large craft of some kind

hovering above the surface.

We really have to consider

the possibility here

that the Soviets did encounter

genuine, non-human UFO

during that mission.

Is it possible that

the strange cigar-shaped object

photographed by

the Soviet probe was

an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

Incredibly, another massive

cigar-shaped object was spotted

traveling through

our solar system in 2017.

Astronomers discovered that

it came from a distant star,

and gave it

the Hawaiian name "Oumuamua,"

which means "messenger

from the distant past."

Oumuamua doesn't look like

a typical asteroid.

It's more the big cigar-shape

that's seen often.

And there were a lot of

astronomers and scientists

who studied Oumuamua

and it looks like

it could possibly

have been a probe

from some other civilization

outside our solar system.

We're just moments away

from the final

alien craft on our list.

And we've saved

the best for last.

Can you guess what it is?

As we've seen,

throughout history

there have been reports

of unidentified aerial vehicles

of all shapes and sizes.

But for most people,

when they hear the word "UFO,"

the first thing they think of

is the number one entry

on our top ten list of

alien craft

the Flying Saucer.

Private pilot Kenneth Arnold

is on a solo flight

near Mount Rainier.

As he approaches the mountain,

he suddenly spots

a group of nine

silver, disc-shaped objects.

As he was flying

around the mountain,

he suddenly caught sight of

a squadron of

strange-looking objects.

He could not figure out

what they were.

They were flying

at incredible speeds

and performing maneuvers

that essentially would k*ll

any regular pilot

in a normal aircraft.

He described them as

skipping through the air

like a saucer, he said.

And this is really where

the term "a flying saucer"

arrives in English language,

is from Kenneth Arnold's

description.

Arnold's account became

an international sensation

and his experience emboldened

others to come forward

with their own

unexplainable encounters.

In a few short months,

hundreds of flying saucers were

reported across the country.

When you look at the year 1947,

the statistics are that

there were at least 800 reports

to police, and airports,

of people saying that they were

seeing something in the sky,

they didn't know what it was.

Ufologists may say

that the modern UFO era

began in 1947.

But flying saucers

have been around

ever since the dawn of time.

For example,

in the ninth century, there were

UFOs flying over England.

The Romans saw UFOs.

What's our actual first

major UFO description?

The first one?

It's in the Bible.

According to the Hebrew Bible,

a priest named Ezekiel

received a mysterious visitor

from the heavens.

Ezekiel was by the River Khabur,

and he said a great whirlwind

came toward him.

He described it as

a fire enfolding itself

and out of the fire

was the color of amber,

which is the Hebrew word

which means

"polished specter of metal,"

which implies

that it's metallic.

And that it's spinning,

and it lands in front of him.

And suddenly,

out of this whirlwind

come four creatures.

Ezekiel describes that

the outside of the wheel

doesn't spin.

The inside of the wheel spins.

So he's telling us

that's the engines.

None of this necessarily

has to be magic.

This could all be technology.

By far, the most famous report

of a flying saucer

occurred on July 8, 1947,

when the U.S. Army itself

announced that one crashed

outside Roswell, New Mexico.

July 8 and 9,

the newspaper headlines,

"Army Captures Flying Disc

Outside of Roswell."

How did the newspaper

get that story?

Walter Haut.

He was the official

public information officer

at the Roswell 509th,

who gave the story

to the newspaper.

Within days, the m*llitary

walked back the story

and suggested the flying saucer

had an earthly origin.

The initial story was that

the Army recovered

one of these flying disks.

Now, by the next day,

a lot of other major newspapers

came out with the story that,

"Nope, all a mistake.

Just a weather balloon, people."

Did a flying saucer really crash

outside of Roswell, New Mexico?

Ancient astronaut

theorists say yes,

and as evidence,

they point to a sensational file

released by the FBI in 2011.

The document contains

a 1950 briefing

given to FBI Director

J. Edgar Hoover

about three flying saucers

that were recovered

in New Mexico.

So, what's really

happening at Roswell?

Was it

an extraterrestrial craft?

It's a fantastic thought,

but it's possible.

Well, that's the end of our

top ten alien craft countdown.

And while it literally flew by,

we're left with

a burning question:

Why has mankind witnessed

so many mysterious craft

in the sky

for thousands of years?

Perhaps, as we continue

to study these encounters,

the truth will finally

be revealed.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.