Government Breaks Silence: Strange Encounters | UFO's Investigating the Unknown

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In 2021, the US government passed legislation mandating an official investigation into UFOs. This provocative series unspools the history leading up to this momentous change and reports on recent developments. It explores what the government made public versus what was kept hidden; citizens' push for transparency while confronting mass UFO sightings; Navy pilots' reports of unexplainable technology; new cutting-edge scientific efforts; and what the future might hold for this confounding mystery which is the focus of a deepening and expanding search for answers.
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[@nooodles939]

My wife witnessed The Phoenix Lights in 1997. Nobody can convince her that they don't exist, and that the lights were flares. She said the lights were attached to a MASSIVE craft moving silently for miles. I am beyond jealous she got to see them.

[@XSamsaX]

I'd love to have seen them myself, but then again, I think it would drive me insane.

[@lamewarrior]

@@XSamsaX Yeah, it would be a helluva thing to see, it would leave no doubt that some monumental truth is real. Aliens, military/secret gov't sitting on super-tech, humans capable of time travel, who knows. Make your best guess.

[@bernardhertz8381]

I would have loved to have seen that! I always knew they were not flares. Flares don't move that way, and they are not attached to anything. The best part is that THOUSANDS of people, from all walks of life saw it. Judges, police, doctors, plumbers, salesmen and women, window cleaners, everyone saw it. The governor saw it! Well he first made a joke of it, but he saw it! Kudos to your wife for seeing it! Keep your eyes in the sky!

[@P-39_Airacobra]

I've seen lights travel across the sky at high speed. Not a comet/metoer, or any sort of jet or rocket I'm aware of. I've seen all 3 of those. This was different and it was startling the way it moved.

[@fupopanda]

The fact that thousands saw it and yet society can still be gaslight into believing nothing happened is the most scary part of all this. The disinformation is the most troubling about this whole thing.

[@mysticwanderer4787]

I had a personal encounter with a UFO one night when traveling back from a fishing trip to Daytona Beach. Not of the third kind but of observing a cylindrical object hovering over orange groves and pastureland in Florida when I was a teenager. The object was silent as it hovered and moved from over the grove to the pasture. I would guess that it was at least 200-300 ft long and came within about 50 yards from where I was standing at some point. I saw it, my friend saw it, the other drivers who had pulled over the side of the road saw it, and the Florida State Trooper who had also pulled over, standing next to me saw it. This was in 1974 so nobody was going to say anything to anybody because of the stigma. The encounter lasted about ten to fifteen minutes. The object went from hovering over the cow pasture straight up at an astonishing speed and then stopped and took off headed south into the night sky and was gone in about three seconds without a sound. The government was saying that just about all UFOs reported in Florida were "swamp gas" at the time. What a crock. Fast forward to the Gulf War when I was serving on a Navy ship in the Persian Gulf where I observed several UAPs visually and knew that we had tracked objects that could not be identified doing things that the laws of physics say they can't do. Where do they come from? I don't know but it isn't here I can tell you that.

[@bl8388]

Sorry about that. I'm really embarrassed. I got this cheap orange kite when I was a kid. It was 300 feet long. I used to fly it at night in Florida. I didn't mean to cause any commotion.

[@danawelch3985]

It is a life form that has lived among us for thousands of years. Imposters and disguising themselves.

[@paulpaul246]

Fallen Angel technology see L.A. Marzulli

[@bl8388]

@@tomrapp2240 I'm just kidding. I can't really can't fly a 300 foot kite, and that happened before I was born. There are too many group reports to simply dismiss all these sightings. I was simply being cheeky.

[@thunderchief7]

The areas to the west of Daytona Beach, in particular the Ocala National Forest, have historically been a hotspot for UFO sightings.

[@rorybjorkman]

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

[@JokerFace090]

Two quotes about aliens exist. One is from Arthur C Clark, the other is by Carl Sagan. Both are equally overquoted by dull people.

[@mamabear1324]

​@JokerFace090 well that was rude and un called for

[@misspiggy1862]

STOP REPEATING THAT IDIOT PHRASE OMFG

[@chichi8920]

Ì had never read it before 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@joehirschfield6925]

YOU SURE YOU DIDNT EAT NO SHROMS THAT NIGHT & SEEN ALIENS 😂💯🙏🏻✔️✔️👄🐻💕BBY

[@JohnLaszkow]

“Many conspiracy theories start with a kernel of truth.” And some conspiracy theories start with a cornfield of truth

[@ETAisNOW]

And most start with a field of horse manure.

[@TheHighlanderprime]

At this point, we’re in a cornfield regarding this subject despite many rotten heads of corns. And it doesn’t have to be laboratory science evidence to be a cornfield.

[@luckydepot3674]

Anyone who thinks were the only advanced life that formed out there in an infinite universe is just delusional. I doubt the creator of all this would waste so much space on a few billion monkeys that cant even get along properly.

[@JokerFace090]

But nearly all of them are started by the voices in a schizophrenic person's head.

[@RJMStraya]

they're not always theories.

[@lelandarcher4760]

I'm a gold miner working in the jungle of Guyana South America, where I've seen numerous crafts in the night sky, I don't think they are of human technology. 😮

[@user-if7ow4xj3u]

Wow how did they looked like to my curiosity

[@LordKekus]

Tell more

[@LordKekus]

And tell about yourself a bit more please

[@mittensdCT]

Your cell service must be fire

[@rongike]

if they're showing themselves to you then you might be destined to become a contact person, that's how Darryl Anka got started

[@MrStiffy]

The idea that we are alone in the universe is absolutely insane. With that said, it is even more amazing that we have first hand accounts from people who have encountered UFOs or aliens and we still continue to live our daily lives as if this is an unimportant fact.

[@gilessteve]

Q: Do you know the probability of life arising on any particular planet capable of supporting it? A: No you don't, so your first sentence is not supported.

[@MrStiffy]

@@gilessteve The probability that you’re a controlling narcissist who beats their significant other then plays victim is very high.

[@gilessteve]

@@MrStiffy Probability doesn't tell you anything about the individual.

[@Pro4wheeler625]

@@gilessteveeven an extremely slim possibility becomes definite when you look at the sheer number of planets just in our visual range alone. There are other planets out there that support life, more than likely quiet a few just in the star systems we can see in the sky. Us as humans are still so early in our existence, we have so far to go technologically, now imagine a civilization with a million years on us.

[@neinsager3236]

Because the majority of people are ignorant morons. I am around them every day.

[@Birdtoes]

I saw a UFO over Maui Hawaii. I talked to a well-informed aerospace engineer with high military clearance. He confirmed that we have nothing that can move in the manner that this craft did. He also saw one, along with everyone else, over a Mississippi Air Force Base in 1950/51. I face ridicule every time I mention it, but I persist because I know how shocking it can be and that others need to know they are not alone.

[@oldandtiredshouldberetired3436]

Well what he means is he didn't need to know.

[@ThatGuyInVegas]

The public has been ready to hear the facts on this topic for decades.

[@5-minute-witness356]

We have been made ready by deceptive governments that would prefer we think "unidentified flying objects" are interstellar instead of 1) weather modification machinery, and 2) advanced military weapons, not necessarily made by the United States, which is now far behind China and Russia's cold war development.

[@5-minute-witness356]

My previous comment with clearer spelling is being removed. You have been intentionally led to be "ready" to hear what our governments intend you to consider "the facts". Unidentified Flying Objects are we at her mod if ication machines and advanced we ap on technology that it is not convenient for our governments to have people realize are in our skies.

[@allanshpeley4284]

@@5-minute-witness356 lol

[@thijsjong]

As long as we know nothing about the intentions of the controlers of the ufo s we can do nothing. We go about our business in business as usual. Act like they dont exist because the ufo s give us nothing to go on.

[@ricka1799]

Yea now unfortunately nobody believes a word the govt. says.

[@Evil0tto]

Me: "Oh, a UFO documentary? Hard pass. Wait... National Geographic? Suddenly intrigued."

[@richardcallihan9746]

Hope you don't listen to NPR or watch MSNBC

[@damionmarquis8073]

I said the same thing to myself!

[@ishaq9939]

Suddenly intrigued at dramatized stories from people being paid by them to tell those stories

[@retrokittydesign7974]

I had the same thought, but it still gives off History Channel, tinfoil hat vibes.

[@robhaney8568]

NG is in bed with the government agencies, they promote the war mongering agenda (look at the vid from 4 months ago and previous). "They'" have NEVER displayed a threat to our airspace or national security ... ever! These govt agencies are using the war threat to justify funding for the Military Industrial Complex (the most heinous of our govt agencies). (I had a Black Project clearance in the late 80s and in military aerospace before that, so no I'm not a random civilian)

[@griffith6621]

"our democracy is based on truth" already off to a bad start

[@hfrt29]

😂

[@echad6259]

Amen

[@Chris-ex5ed]

I think he means when it was first formed lmao these days definitely not

[@user-qi3xw5ix1v]

*Constitutional Republic

[@dmimz7691]

Lololololol

[@GlobeofBeauty]

The year of my encounter was probably 2010. My encounter was prom night, I wasn't old enough to go. My friends and I all laid on the trampoline in the backyard staring up at the night sky talking. When we all saw a disk shaped object about the size of two pick up trucks smashed together. It was spinning with lights on it flying right over us. It didn't make a sound, which was absolutely the strangest thing, it was flying unbelievable low, when you looked up directly below it it took about 70% of your field of vision. It wasn't going super fast but fast enough where you couldn't make too much detail out besides the moving lights and shape. All 6 of us freaked out at the same time screaming "what is that?!" "Oh my god!" We leaped off the trampoline and ran inside. Everyone was shaking, we had no idea what we just witnessed

[@MuscleJockTX]

Hello GlobeofBeauty: I’m a UFO non-fiction book author (2014) and spent over 4 decades researching the phenomenon before publishing my 462 page book (my research started at age 8 as the son of a scientist in Houston). Do you mind my asking: what was your physical location when you and your friends saw this disk?-i.e. city and state if in the US, or what locale in another country? Also, you said it was strangely silent-did the object not even make a quiet humming noise; and did you happen to hear about other people in your local area at this time also having similar sightings? I’d be very curious to know these things. I appreciate your sharing this UFO encounter experience. Thank you. -Wade Vernon / Austin, TX

[@TonyToledo22]

The size of 2 pickup trucks but it took up 70% of your field of vision? Either close enough to touch or much bigger.

[@shroompicn-shrooman]

​@@MuscleJockTXthat's awesome. I'd like to write a book about my experiences as a kid with UFOs 🛸

[@terryknorr5646]

I've been talking about Aliens since early childhood and am 75 now and I still know what my experiences have been and can't escape that knowledge.

[@tzortzkawaz6892]

Wow 50 years passed

[@Bradley.maloo0133]

We trust these pilots and four star generals with the safety of our country’s security, but if they see something new, we call em crazy all of a sudden.

[@user-nc9vv5se5u]

Yeah that's sad situation for humanity right now. Too much for many people to handle

[@johngeiger3770]

It's the long term effect of Project Blue Book. That military disinformation campaign did so much damage than we give it credit. Its influence spilled over to the media and entertainment industry and they have managed to perpetuate the stigma with their production. False witnesses also helped consolidate the stigma. It will take time for it to wear off.

[@richardwarner3705]

​@@user-nc9vv5se5u It's about greed.

[@Another-Address]

Not really..

[@richardwarner3705]

@@Another-Address Yea, pretty much really.

[@limolnar]

Thank you, National Geographic, for giving this topic the seriousness it deserves. Next step: official disclosure.

[@sdqsdq6274]

lol , they already release the footage from government videos , what disclosure u need

[@kathycox3972]

@@sdqsdq6274 lol

[@MisterHowzat]

The ultimate disclosure will be from ET themselves. You've been forewarned!

[@Daddy-1975]

​@@sdqsdq6274d'une annonce officielle par un président.

[@basharothman2807]

have you people ever heard of project blue beam?

[@jimmielittle4414]

"Government breaks Silence:" Get ready for some serious BS!

[@clayj2761]

National Geographics number 1 series for me. They Finally, put effort into a series.

[@mattfazilla7878]

I've worked in the North Sea , seen a lot of lights , strange aircraft with no noise and all kind of sh-its..😮

[@leonkarime618]

does the sea have weird creatures fr have u witnessed any..?

[@JG27Korny]

Not the only one.

[@orca1717]

Shhhhh… It’s a top secret 🤐 🤫 The question is why it has to be a top secret… 😮

[@JG27Korny]

@@orca1717 lol nothing is top secret as it is over the mass media

[@mattfazilla7878]

@@leonkarime618 rough seas almost 8 to 9 hours a day.... Sometimes the whole day .. You could not see anything , but those orbs triangle shape things that skip through water was unbelieveable...

[@captbad9313]

I don't know about anybody else, but i think there is a lot out there that we don't know about.

[@maryshahbazi5996]

Yes there is; I've seen to much over almost 70 yrs. read my comment above & will answer questions you might have on what's out there.

[@Dinco422]

=))) lol... Like what ?

[@Bluelightning23]

Wow you are so insightful, I thought we all knew everything.

[@fugyamofug]

​@@maryshahbazi5996 ? What are you referring to there is no above comment just this one im replying to -what have you seen?

[@maryshahbazi5996]

@@fugyamofug 1974 I was abducted by the grays for 10 hrs, I saw them inches from my face and from 1 ufo to the 2nd while in and out of trance. I hate grays and changed my life since.

[@ashishbairwa4466]

Pentagon: The reason why we are not revealing it..... China: Waiting with pen and paper so that we can copy ASAP

[@ZBB0001]

For fifty years I have worked on this, and this IS the farthest we've come by far. But we MUST NOT STOP! We can't let up for a minute, and we won't...

[@prepareid4909]

Indeed

[@maryshahbazi5996]

Since 1974 I've worked on trying to get past the 10 hrs. they abducted me. Greys are malevolent.

[@shnawdude03]

Saw an orange ball of energy, rise from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego 2006 USS Nimitz, VFA-14 Top Hatters. I was AD3 Byers and this is my Nimitz encounter, I was on the bridge with the air boss and a couple of sailors. After the ball of energy shot into the skies at Hollywood type speed. The air boss started freaking out, one sailor cried, one sailor started praying, I just stood there in shock. I was told to keep it to myself so I didn’t look crazy.

[@Andrew-tf8jt]

Um....was it the sun?

[@ALT-vz3jn]

@@Andrew-tf8jtthe sun doesn’t just shoot into the sky…

[@sdqsdq6274]

lol not a ufo , for sure

[@guandubridgety698]

so……did you report this to squadron commander David Fravor？

[@riskybusiness3413]

​@@ALT-vz3jn Maybe it was a different kind of sun.

[@robertd6179]

Pasadena, CA, July 2020, +/- 10:20 pm. Black Delta shaped object with three faintly glowing orangey-red circular areas on the underside. It was tracking steadily about 200-300 feet above the buildings roughly 30mph. It moved noiselessly and so smoothly it was as if it was on rails. No visible propulsion and Not pitched as a helicopter or drone might be, just perfectly level to the ground and steady in its motion. I thought it might be mapping or surveying but have no idea why it was there. It disappeared into the darkness.

[@kathleengillespie5983]

My dad was with the Airforce in the 50's. A true hardboiled computer scientist and mathematician. The most skeptical realist I'll ever know! Just before he died in 2013, I asked him about Roswell, Area 51, and the Airforce. He said, "90% probability it happened." Blew my mind. My POV on the subject is forever altered.

[@michaelmaddox7660]

We saw one! It was one light moving two or three hundred feet over our heads. It split into three lights and they moved apart from each other. they slowly moved away from us completely silent.Thats what scared us. NO SOUND and they were close!

[@Ryan-eu3kp]

Sure thing buddy 😂

[@haileywright7210]

I saw exactly this in Ontario canada

[@wefiaoiuoijawecnjwofuwnaox]

How did you measure the height?

[@haileywright7210]

@@wefiaoiuoijawecnjwofuwnaox it’s an estimated at an approximate height

[@AlexToussiehChannel]

​@@haileywright7210 why not in Sydney, Australia? 🦘 🌏 🍁

[@SubtleAsAGun]

It's strange how people can just disregard this topic in the face of radar data. Are our radar systems prone to displaying enduring false positive contacts?

[@ScottPalangi]

Radar data is data, information, not physical objects. Radar is better at picking up light and mathematical aberrations. UFOs are unexplained images. Musk, Sam Harris, and other intelligent people understand this. Just because Washington doesn't want to take the time to explain why it's reasonable for radar to pick up data that isn't based on something that's made of mass, it doesn't suggest they are hiding anything.

[@SD_Chosen]

We want clear pictures or videos Not fuzzy potato camera stuff 😁🤣

[@Deex26252]

@@SD_Chosenpotato camera 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SD_Chosen]

@@Deex26252 with A Potato skin Lenses 😁😂🤣🧐

[@kevinireland8020]

@ 12 minutes in no radar data has been shown and it has been jump cut after jump cut. National Geographic used to have integrity, this just gives me a headache.

[@dreadmoc12]

It doesn't matter what it is, if there's something endangering the lives of pilots and pilots are concerned about it we need to take those concerns seriously.

[@BryantAvant]

2024. We have telescopes that can literally see so clearly that they can see billions of years back in time yet we can’t get clear footage of uaps.

[@deanthonytoles8130]

Maybe its because they move so fast that the frame rate can't keep up with filming it in the definition it should...?

[@tahoeboulderingguides1864]

Yep. It’s all BS.

[@pierregraham8365]

Good anwers

[@Sanjithss]

Bro they have some cutting edge technology far more powerful than we already poses .in other words they were building space ships when we were building pyramids.

[@Peter-kk6rg]

In New Zealand along the West Coast of the North Island people are seeing sphere shape Ufos regularly too.

[@stanf7862]

Are they orange red I seen them in Atlanta Ga. around 2009.

[@Peter-kk6rg]

@@stanf7862The orbs that are been recorded at Skinwalker Ranch match the orbs recorded in New Zealand.

[@Peter-kk6rg]

@@stanf7862 You are right about the colors seen alot of glowing red and orange ufos out at sea.

[@chopchopchop5585]

@@stanf7862 that's the sunrise, bro.

[@richardmartinez5032]

​@stanf7862 I saw them on Long Island's north shore in Wading River, August 2011, just before and during Hurricane Irene. I last saw them in early September of 2021 in Mastic Beach, at my house overlooking Narrow Bay. I reported them to MUFON, along with video minutes I still have.

[@jacksparrow8589]

ryan graves and david fravour are true heroes for coming forward with this topic in my view !!!

[@jeffreypetree7163]

And Louis E.

[@Damaged7]

Need more people like them.

[@user-dm6qb5xy8f]

I saw that cube thing from a prison yard years ago. It traveled in a straight line and kind of stopped and then drifted up to the clouds and then it pour down raining

[@keithbell9348]

Cloud seeding

[@KingfishStevens-di9ji]

Helium balloon

[@2dach]

Orange Sunshine.

[@Silentanwa661]

Chocolate icecream.

[@bluelantern144]

Owl Hepburn

[@NextGenn]

1 year ago me And a friend had a encounter with a UFO we both encounter a flying object with a speed that is inhuman, we looked at each other and screamed because we couldn’t believe it

[@johndepauw9820]

I don't care what anybody says. When I was 12 years old, I was in a car with 2 other 12-year-olds and a Catholic priest. Maybe in his late 20's We stopped across the highway right outside of St. Louis Missouri and literally watched a ufo across the highway hover above the Cornfield we sat there for a good 5-10 min.. then the ship angled and at angle to beable get above the trees. Sit there for like a good 10+ seconds. And then was nothing but a dot in the sky Within a blink of the eye. When got to St. Louis He tried to call the Air Force to report what he had seen and they told hm all it was is a gas from the corn and reflecting the light. Did not make that Priest very happy. Then they told him to Just forget whatever he saw. Because I wanted to take a picture but, he was so freaked out. He said; nobody's doing anything. Roll up your windows and be quiet. And we just sat there until that UFO/UAP or whatever it was took off. That was in 1971. I Told him We should've taken that picture. We could've had the clearest picture especially at that time, that a civilian could've owned.😢

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

As a child, you should for Uranus sake, *never* argue with a priest.

[@maryshahbazi5996]

please read my comment above.

[@User-jr7vf]

@@MichaelWinter-ss6lx 🤣

[@tw9664]

@@MichaelWinter-ss6lxSad but true! Trust NO ONE!!!!

[@madmick6275]

three 12 year old's in a car with a priest sounds like the start of bad joke.

[@TheSenpai14]

we are not alone. We have never been ALONE

[@KieranDevine]

That alien that raped my ancestors, ISN'T GOD!!

[@bl8388]

Where did you come from?! (drops lunch on the floor)

[@thatguyoverthere8355]

All we are is alone

[@barr521]

​@@bl8388 He's from neptune, Jack! (Buckles up the booze up my boom)

[@howlingwaters2741]

Spiritual Warfare gearing up, my friends. Choose whom you will serve, but put this armor on first Ephesians 6:10-18.

[@natashaalicia2.0]

"Our entire democracy is based on the principles of truth." - He can't be serious😂

[@astrovewlix5929]

Some people just drank ALL of the Kool-Aid.

[@pierregraham8365]

youre right on truth

[@adamkulzg32]

Aviation agencies should protest against the government because the public is encouraged to trust these aviation radars and tech when flying but the government itself dismisses aviation techs. That's crazy.

[@mosesmathias7708]

Just finished watching why files, and now this.. i couldn't be more hyped

[@kevinfisher466]

you gotta wait six years. ask joe rogan.

[@manuellubian5709]

Same here. Hello, fellow fan. I just finished watching, "The Why Files", too.

[@tannerkirk4332]

Same. Just got done with the tall whites video lol. This was next on recommended

[@TydiriumPilot]

Yoooo! I literally just came here from They Why Files, lol.

[@lag757]

Love the why files! When is Joe going to have him on!

[@katsimmons1065]

I imagine that they probably think of us like an ant farm😂

[@JokerFace090]

This is the only speculation that makes any sense to me. They had the ability to travel without the lightspeed barrier making it so impractical to do so, but at the same time don't contact us or bother to hide themselves. Sounds like an ant farm.

[@H4GS]

What I find fascinating is that the MOST common similaritiy between nearly every mention of any type of personal UFO/UAP encounter is the sheer silence of the aircrafts. For people who have claimed to see one up close, they seem to always point out how eerily silent they are for being such massive/fast objects. That’s the other thing, the acceleration. I don’t know, the thought of us being the only ones here is just terrifying. Regardless of your thoughts on what might be in some of these released Navy videos, you can’t deny that an object moving at 5-15X the speed of light is simply not from Earth

[@ivobrick7401]

it is definetelly not silent, but you can't hear those frequencies

[@scottmcandrew9642]

20 years ago, while somewhat in the neighborhood of the Black Rock Desert. In the middle of the night. Nowhere near a county road. Let alone a paved road. I witnessed aircraft with one flashing red aircraft light on each of the craft’s tails. These jet planes were going around a thousand miles an hour. I base that on an incident I was involved in where two commercial jets came within one quarter of mile of each other. One going east one going west. At exactly the same altitude. I was looking out the window when the other involved jet went by at 400 some miles an hour while I was traveling in the opposite direction at much the same speed. The fighter style jets I saw in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, were going faster than the combined speeds of the two commercial jets. If I hadn’t been star gazing in exactly the right direction, at exactly the right time. I would have never been aware of their existence. They didn’t make one sound. No sonic boom no nothing. I saw the aircraft style flashing lights and the basic outline of the craft and then they were gone. Like a ghost or something

[@J-lc9bv]

Maybe bring a camera next time

[@User-jr7vf]

This reminds me of a huge ball of fire and a bright tail that I witnessed about 2 months ago , if I hadn’t been star gazing at the time I would have never seen it.

[@guillermoginorio4959]

They've been visiting us for thousands of years. Why's everyone activing like this is something new?

[@MrMelonsz]

Because they *haven’t* been “visiting us for thousands of years”. If that statement was as obvious and factual as you claim it is, we would have undeniable evidence for it by now. It would be common truth. But you don’t, nobody does, because it isn’t real evidence of “aliens”. Thats all I’m gonna say.

[@markbeames7852]

because most of us have only been around for a few decades. Not thousands of decades.

[@layeredwork]

And you know that... from where?

[@MrMelonsz]

Not true.

[@tikaalik]

😂😂😂

[@CarolynDarling1986]

I do not think that a camcorder on a fighter jet is crazy to imagine an object and then record it.. There was an orange spacecraft that flew over the Bahamas in 1980 and entered and submerged itself near Paradise Island, Bahamas that was covered up by the Government... Fishermen here have numerous reports here of Aliens and their Saucers fishing in Bahamian waters for food and sea water... Mr Nesley Louis 😮

[@GT-43]

An alien saw me at area 51, but nobody believes him.

[@zerocal76]

It was probably my ex gf. so much botox, hardly recognizable 🤔

[@tonyaxeman4381]

I had a sighting almost ten years ago. I am happy that I can say this without being called foolish.

[@heliarc5186]

Oh make no mistake. There is always that "mind melting point" when a skeptic finally sees one. Lmao I get off just imagining that alteration in their brains. Sounds cruel. But they've been cruel to us for decades. Same as seeing a ghost or poltriguist activity. Changes one forever. A ghost can be an illusion. But having to go close 13 cabinets that opened on their own isn't.

[@DanMorgan-bh5fv]

I don't think millenials or Gen Z think it's foolish at all to believe in UFO's anymore. There's enough evidence with everyone having smart phones albeit they might be blurry captures.

[@TamBramThankyouMam]

What a coincidence. I also almost had a sighting 10 years ago. What did you see?

[@clausbohm9807]

How about having a direct astral experience with one, now that is really mind blowing on many levels.

[@aryansrivastava4887]

Pls tell your story

[@Avatar_2025]

we are not alone. The universe, time and dimensions are full of life at different stages of evolution. We ourselves we don't even need vehicles to travel the cosmos as discovered by Robert Monroe and shared in his book," Journeys out of the body." and Dr. John C. Lilly and his research on floating in floatation tank. Just like Robert Monroe, John C. Lilly discovered that it is possible for one temporarily leave one's body, travel to other points in space, time, dimensions and even universes.

[@heliarc5186]

Can you imagine being able to physically tour the universe though? Through traveling (space) and time? Not only could you see mars, Venus, other star systems.. but also visit them at different times... would be incredible. Maybe in 100 more years

[@Avatar_2025]

@@heliarc5186 Just read Robert Monroe's book and you will realise like me that, you don't need hundred years.

[@heliarc5186]

@@Avatar_2025 Physically visiting somewhere VS Astral visiting not the same. Just like you would rather visit a beach in person VS astral projecting to the beach

[@barrywassel3899]

Fun arguments folks, but we don't know how all this works .............................. yet !

[@Avatar_2025]

@@barrywassel3899 Deep down we know who we are. Just think about this, all the characters you create and chat with in a dream are you. Imagine if they had life of their own in their dream world, will they ever know your world 100%? Just think about it.

[@lanceluxton-jh9mh]

They have been here longer than we have without a dout ,i have seen many things in the sky's during the day and at night that i couldnt explain . in 2010 in the month of may around 9:30 to 10:00pm i could go out side and see these things flying around for the whole month.

[@Jackie371]

Where the heck do you live? Where I live now and before here, I never saw anything. Although, I wouldn't want to encounter one that does experiments on people.

[@AliAbbas-ho2ye]

Let me guess, you dont own a video camera?

[@lanceluxton-jh9mh]

@@AliAbbas-ho2ye I do have A picture that I took

[@QsilverFpv]

We need to be looking in Ocean and the poles

[@PamalaClift]

Our human egos are to blame. We like to think we are the most intelligent entities in the universe. To understand that there is MORE intelligent entities making us the ants… people would not know how to deal with their egos.

[@jasonolinger7585]

speak for yourself, there are many of us who knew better and were the ones bringing this stuff up before it was mainstream media, back when people would laugh at the idea of UFO's. Now those same people are making these types of comments as if they are enlightened.

[@vadimbellous8313]

You are correct, It's the ego and sense of control that will crumble if these phenomena are acknowledged to be real. Some people can't handle the realization that we are not on top of the totem pole after all. Abduction reports are consistently clear that these entities have total control over our bodies and in some sense can manipulate what we perceive to be reality as a whole. I'm convinced we live in a simulation projected around us by our consciousness, stitched together collectively to produce this reality. That's hither here nor there.

[@DanMorgan-bh5fv]

I think more of us are on your page but the people at the very top have the most fragile ego's.

[@anthonydoyle7370]

@@DanMorgan-bh5fv Totally agree with you. Just look at all the times the so called "experts" have been proven wrong.

[@deanthonytoles8130]

Or maybe, it's just a government program that our government wants to keep secret so other countries and try to steal the technology.

[@atonavis5727]

Thanks Nat Geo for covering this subject

[@JohnSmith-uy7sv]

You could of read all about it in the New testament in the Bible. In the Book of Hebrews.

[@juniperabbott2614]

@@JohnSmith-uy7sv yes, all the answers are in the bible. the questions may be need different wording

[@JohnSmith-uy7sv]

@@juniperabbott2614 NLT... New living translation. Is the easiest to understand . Every day people language.

[@juniperabbott2614]

@@JohnSmith-uy7sv it's also deceptive, just like how there's so many denominations. best to read with Strong's Greek/Hebrew

[@JohnSmith-uy7sv]

@@juniperabbott2614 been reading NTL for over 35 years. best you read it. a child can understand it. denominations or religions are NOT mentioned in the Bible. Salvation is not about religions or denominations.

[@mitchmccarron8337]

One thing's for sure - we know virtually nothing about the true nature of our universe... UAPs may very well be from higher diimensions of reality, not 'outer space' as we understand it. Parhaps even unaware of their incursions into our timespace dimension, or the fact that intelligent beings exist here. We would do well to be humble and not confrontational or needlessly afraid of such unknown phenomena. Mitch, Australia

[@moonshadow7064]

If anything we are getting more and more aware of how preposterous it is that we are the lone intelligent life in the universe.

[@b21raider27]

We have been visited, likely for a long time (1000s of years). “Mysterious UFOs Seen by WWII Airman Still Unexplained They were cigar-shaped, glowed red and could turn on a dime. Which ruled out even the most sophisticated rockets of the time.”

[@janetdoe6726]

Harry Reid came from a little town called Searchlight, Nevada, just up the street from Cottonwood Cove by the Colorado River. I have family that used to own the Searchlight Nugget Casino, and we spent a lot of time there. The UAP were often seen by those spending time on the river. I'm sure that is why Harry Reid was interested in investigating the phenomena.

[@angelanelson5113]

As the video shows, their not just aircraft’s they can do just fine under water, and yes, the largest part of the earth’s surface holds more mystery than the stars in the sky. We have lots of underwater territory not fully explored and many mountains and land compositions not truly explored with the variety of modern tools that we have available. We aren’t the only living beings sharing this planet.

[@anarchycoww9019]

I’ve heard a fun theory that earth is used as a pit stop for aliens traveling through space. They come here, refuel with some of our planets valuable resources, have some quiet conversations or trades with our species and then go about their business or travels. I have nothing to back this theory up but it sure is fun and an interesting thought experiment.

[@hundun5604]

1:19 That one looks like the same UAP that we see in the tv-serie Skinwalker Ranch.

[@reverendbStaard]

i found out the hard way that you should never discuss the existence of ghosts with anyone whilst on active duty in the USAF. 50th TFW will send you for two days of mental health evaluations. Conclusion: anytime, anything, anywhere you sounded remotely dissatisfied about anything duty related is why you think you believe in ghosts as a way of coping with not being happy with your job assignment; your security clearance will be reviewed.

[@willstorm8331]

When you get out write a book without going to jail ?

[@maryshahbazi5996]

Read "Steward of God's Mysteries", author Mary Esther Shahbazi sold online world wide, true story, than you will get a grasp of many things paranormal that is ridiculed & called taboo.

[@reverendbStaard]

@@willstorm8331 🤣

[@user-fg2ts3wq9q]

😢

[@StevenStanleyBayes]

No, the object did NOT go into the water, just, disappeared, which, means there may not have been any physical object at all. When the two object reappeared, they look like one " object " split into two by camera problems, such as a drop of water or another prism.

[@debrathackerson8624]

My Dad and I watched as John Glenn bounced in and out of our atmosphere! One year later we saw a light that would look like a satellite "today", but this light made giant zigzags across the sky!! They are THAT more advanced than we are!

[@mikedevlin_bmx2446]

I’ve also recently have seen these zig zag “satellites”. I thought it was a satellite until it made a 90 degree turn then again and again then zipped away. I know what I saw.

[@debrathackerson8624]

@@mikedevlin_bmx2446 My Dad was a Los Angeles police officer at the time, and when I asked him what it was that we saw he said he didn't know and never spoke about it again! I guess it's true that some people are not prepared to know the truth! I AM THOUGH! 🤩

[@JohnSmith-gj8fd]

What the world should be focusing on are: solving hunger, solving pollution and climate change, solving cancer and other health problem, and development of space defense (asteroids and aggressive aliens if they exist).

[@bobwilson758]

Get some rest ! It will all be okay - Don’t be scared . 😮

[@conspiracy1914]

climate doesnt change as they say it does. there is some human forced tamperment but it doesnt change like they say. a few billions cows and planes will have no noticeable change permanently. this world regulates it self. even the life cycles of species. there is 2 things that doesnt follow that. humans and one other entities that people dont believe exist. things become exitinct because of human. other than that no other one species can take over fully. atleast thats how i see it or look to me

[@user-fg2ts3wq9q]

They might be able to help

[@JohnSmith-gj8fd]

@@user-fg2ts3wq9q Sadly I doubt it - if they exist - the probability is high that they come to conquer.

[@pierregraham8365]

Med-Beds

[@jamesmadison7551]

looks like aliens are watching us but, be like the prime directive from star trek, no encounter until they hit warp drive lol.

[@clausbohm9807]

Even after watching that genre people still don't get it ... sigh!

[@dankmemes7658]

idk if warp drive is the criteria per say but I agree with your sentiment. Personally I think they're waiting for us to become multi planetary

[@XSamsaX]

There's, let's say "rumors" that UFO sightings are increased in areas where nuclear catastrophes are happening. Fukushima and Chernobyl, just to name two, had sightings of UFOs, but of course those talks were dismissed. Then there is of course the events of Malmstrom AFB and a few other similar incidents, where nuclear arms where rendered inoperable after UFOs were seen. So it seems like they're specifically are interested in us not blowing the planet (or ourselves) up (with nukes). Then again, who really knows.

[@angiebear8727]

Light speed but yeah maybe

[@clausbohm9807]

@@angiebear8727 They are most likely not using travel as we know it through thrust and momentum. They are most likely using some kind of gravity manipulation to "cheat" time and space as they travel.

[@OhAwe]

I know lots of people in the military. The idea they're more reliable or trust-worthy than anybody else is bizarre. They are just people.

[@allanshpeley4284]

The idea that several Navy pilots with thousands of hours of flight time would suddenly hallucinate seeing an unknown craft that was also confirmed on radar is absurd.

[@OhAwe]

@@allanshpeley4284 According to the DOD 70% of active personnel are self identified Christians. So at least 70% struggle to separate reality from story books.

[@roblear9393]

I saw something in Seattle back in 1998 that turned night into day and came through a wall without leaving a hole. A couple years later one of my old neighbors started talking about that night, he saw something too, but he made it clear that if anyone ever asked what he saw he would just keep saying "I am not suicidal."

[@TravisInCanada1]

The only reason you hide something is because you have something to hide.

[@lisalee1264]

That's right 🙌

[@slicedbacon2861]

Hence, pants...😅

[@samuelchampagne5031]

Like reporting the location of nukes silo?

[@chopchopchop5585]

No, you hide something because you know that your population is uneducated and gullible so they will think it's Aliens.

[@gossamerglenn6714]

Yea kinda like when you want to stand up you stand up

[@arcru8338]

well we have all heard about the famous roswell crash ! but did you actually know that there were 2 crafts that crashed ! they crashed into each other during a lightning storm . it took the american military 2 years to find the second crash site.they were both recovered and ended up in area 51, these were the craft that bob lazar was asked to back engineer!

[@manuellubian5709]

Y would it take 2 yrs to find the 2nd crash? I thought a thorough investigation survey of the area was done at the crash site.

[@oldandtiredshouldberetired3436]

Roswell was most likely a Thallimide experiment.

[@gortnewton4765]

There are 3.5 billion phone cameras in use on Earth today. Where is ONE clear picture of a UFO??? Just one, that's all. Where is it.

[@SpatanTOPG]

TRUE!!!

[@CompaGuitarra]

Seems like people from all over the world are seeing them. Yet, no contact. They just appear and disappear. This has been going on for decades. If not centuries. Yet, no contact...

[@echospaw899]

Maybe we're viewed as 'dangerous', or 'monsters'? We're not the most pleasant, gentle creatures on the planet, after all. We're always "murdering one another". If in their shoes (if they wear shoes), would you really trust 'us' either??!

[@CompaGuitarra]

@echospaw899 If aliens landed on the ground, we wouldn't trust them either. And I don't see how they would see us as dangerous. One look at our way of living and they'd start laughing. Just because humans hurt humans doesn't mean it's a danger to them. If they exist, and they've been supposedly spotted for decades, by now they know everything about us. Strengths and weaknesses. Surely they'd have the upper hand. They're so scared of us they keep showing up? I've searched everywhere on the internet and I don't see anything so far that proves aliens exist. So for now I'll say aliens don't exist.

[@jordanmungomba9785]

I think there is a lot of people that believe in UFO’s , some force themselves not to believe it because the idea of having these strange creatures in our world is scary.

[@SuperUAP]

Fear causes Denial

[@SuperUAP]

Fear causes Denial

[@maryshahbazi5996]

read my comment above & you will know how scary it is.

[@paleshelter5376]

​@maryshahbazi59im im frightened by your comment..96

[@LootFreak]

Even being a kid in the 1990s and teen in the 2000s, there was ALOT of stigma about this subject. I'm so glad to be apart of the generation that helped end the stigma.

[@brendo7363]

Imagine thinking that the govt who won't even tell the truth about terrestrial matters is going to suddenly, for no reason at all, tell the truth about aliens.

[@maryshahbazi5996]

I don't need gov. tell me anything that I don't already know. 1974 abductee for 10 hrs. gave me way to much information on greys. Life changing event from malevolent creatures. I could tell gov. more than they might know.

[@BaldHeadedManc]

Comments on these videos are always incredible lmao

[@themaskedman221]

Yes, the little gray men cult are relentless. Still no empirical evidence of any ETs.

[@JonnyUnderrated]

The phenomena is very real. But yeah people are hilarious sometimes

[@ems4884]

It tends to draw complete loons. The answer to these questions lay in plain sight in American history for those with enough of a level head to see it.

[@richardwarner3705]

Yea! And the world is flat, Bald.

[@johndolan5076]

@@richardwarner3705 truth social could be in charge of this information

[@janetjohnson2162]

I grew up in Las Vegas and Harry was always ahead of his peers when police chief then governor and went on up the ladder. He's an awesome human being.

[@FortifiedMind]

The craft doesn't seem to go underwater, rather becomes invisible or camoflauges with it's background. You can still see a faint, light, blurry orb traveling above the water and accelerating slightly.

[@walkthedogs240]

Terrific documentary. My own position about UFO/UAPs is much like theirs. We know there's something physical there. We just don't know what it is, why it is or where it's from. In 2016, I saw a grouping of three UAPs flying together very slowly and very high in a ragged triangle over Greenwood Lake, NY on a cloudless night. They were so slow that a casual observer would have assumed they were just stars. I did at first until the person who called my/our attention to them (there were eight of us) reported that they seemed to be moving. They were, on a rough west-northwest heading. There was no sound nor navigation lights. An airliner flying at what I estimated to be 20-30,000 feet flew under them. Whether they were at 50,000 feet or 25 miles, I couldn't tell but it was a clue that they must have been quite large. After about five minutes suddenly another light shot up from behind a low mountain about two miles away towards the Hudson River. It was bright red, like a Roman candle. It hovered at around what I judged to be 2-3,000 feet for about ten seconds. Then it shot sideways to the north about a quarter mile and hovered again for a few seconds. I looked up at the three lights and saw that they had changed their heading due north and had picked up speed. I returned my gaze to the red UAP which suddenly shot up towards those three lights at incredible speed. It was so quick that my eyes couldn't even track it. When I looked up, all four had disappeared. Eight of us saw this. Half refused to talk about it again.

[@cmiltimore470]

This would be easier to understand, if you left the music out of it...

[@timsimmons9995]

Agreed. I am bewildered why content creators insist on loud, bass filled music that overcomes the actual content. So many do it ...

[@notapplicable761]

@@timsimmons9995smh, old people!

[@billyboy1093]

@@timsimmons9995 They think it gives the content added suspense, but all it does muck up the audio forcing the user to turn on the CC which is never correct and out of sync with the verbal content. The KZbin audio mix is absolutely the worst!!

[@chrisknepper5153]

36:01 Imagine if it was your job (you get paid) to be curious about these historic incidents and you decide, “I am not going to look into that. I can and I am even expected to. I know tens of thousands of people would LOVE to have the access I have but personally, I don’t care enough to put forth the effort.” If you’ve ever wondered how effective our government officials are, there is your answer. It’s no wonder we live in such a chaotic world.

[@dmmzz]

"Our entire democracy is based on the principles of truth" I love this idea!

[@88corinutza]

ALL these committee's do is have hearings blah blah and send OUR money to other countries

[@ilkoderez601]

This is a really good documentary. Fun to watch.

[@cg00000]

My dad used to see them out at sea in the Navy. What I find funny is the shape of some that they captured on video is what we called flying saucers as kids.

[@maryshahbazi5996]

shape I can metallic silver sun hat

[@vwPoloTDI]

mine was too ,same stories

[@queenofswords6463]

Cracks me up how this doco has top level Air Force and Naval personnel, who have witnessed this stuff, we are looking at the video footage from the aircraft and people in the comments are still like “Nup! Not true!” Some people love to live with their blinders on.

[@MohoKings]

I dont get why its hard to understand that our aggressiveness makes them not reveal. We respond to UFOs by sending war craft like a bunch of savages..

[@xxx...pyxidis]

Thank you so much National Geographic - this has to be investigated. I have followed this just about all my life. I'm in my 60's now. We are not alone.

[@ceejaycuevas6652]

I was hanging with some friends and I saw a similar tic tac looking object just floating in the sky then it zipped away. I thought no way until one of my friends goes wth was that!??! I said so it wasnt just me, good! Idk what that was but it does spark curiosity.

[@brightlight6887]

Your are not alone

[@FrederickHopkins-xb6me]

I was on a flight from Reno to Dallas and saw what I would only describe as a globule of mercury going in the opposite direction. On another business trip I was leaving a steakhouse in Fort Worth and saw a delta shaped pattern of amber lights in the sky which rotating around its centre and made a question mark then they went out.

[@LaVidaComida]

Sounds like an extraordinary moment

[@RandomExitsJT]

Here's what I don't understand. An object moving through air at a given speed for a given barometric pressure will break the sound barrier and cause a sonic boom. Even if the object has a force field around it, the force field will be the edge instead of the object itself. So why is nobody hearing sonic booms?

[@dopedmusic2228]

Disclosure project in full swing

[@l5r90]

NOWAY!!!.....WE ARE TRAAVELING THROUGH TIME AND TRYING TO HIDE IT WITH THESE VIDEOS of propaganda!!!....insane!!

[@amandawallace891]

Government's cannot tell their own citizens EVERYTHING, cause there are some things you wouldn't want your enemies to know. You tell you citizens you're telling the world really. Now I hate not being told things, but I understand why it's done.

[@user-ne3yw2cu6c]

The aliens are here and have been for thousands of years. They are observing our destruction of the planet which has affected them. They are preparing to take control from ALL the worlds Governments due to our Wars and Ecological disasters. We are planing to go back to the moon? They told us 50 years ago to get lost which is why we never established a base there. It's time for people to wake up and accept their existence. Humans are not capable of managing the planet anymore. We may think we are superior and intelligent, but compared to aliens and their advanced technology, we are nothing more than bacteria compared to them.

[@elizabethredmond4585]

My mom told me, " don't say anything people will think you are crazy." I'm so grateful that this is being investigated. I'm not alone!( but I still think its crazy!)

[@AstonSubstantive]

Fantastic content. Thank you, National Geographic.

[@donnadesmoulin1146]

The cube in a sphere reminds me a crop circles.

[@IloveElsaofArendelle]

More like a Borg cube

[@al1383]

I've seen some crazy lights in the sky do some crazy movements from OBX

[@t3kslaw]

..and I feel lucky to have seen the "St. Elmo's Fire" phenomenon off OBX.

[@JoshRichmanDesign]

Aren't these Radar Retroreflectors? Clear ballon with metal reflector inside.

[@oldandtiredshouldberetired3436]

Either that or drones

[@JoshRichmanDesign]

Yeah it’s a counter measure or way to spoof radar targets. We would use this. Deploy hundreds of radar retroreflector balloon targets to confuse the enemy.

[@user-er4qd6gq7f]

Well, not hating on em, but the size of the tick tac the Navy pilots saw was almost the same measurements of Chinese and Soviet weather balloons, they're bright silver, so with right moisture and sun position, would project movement from one horizon to the other. So, I'm just saying.

[@bruchadamo]

I have seen that cube-in-the-sphere while on a flight over Atlanta. It zip very close to the plane, stop momentarily (i.e. it paralleled the speed of the plane), and zipped off.

[@brightlight6887]

Wow

[@GonzaloArroyo-kt8ro]

Yea okay buddy

[@lb.9720]

This is very simple to unpack.... "Extraordinary claims require Extraordinary evidence." Carl Sagan

[@Katnea3]

I highly doubt Mr. Carl Sagan would make that same statement today if he was on the Nimitz! Or, when three high-ranking military officers testified before Congress last July 2023 saying UAP'S and Extraterrestrials are real.

[@danielwalters1521]

When he says that it doesn't make sense, it actually makes perfect sense when you realize they don't need to have reports because they already know. Reports and hearings about it only inform the people that don't know and that they don't want.

[@KepokLekor69]

actually im from Malaysia..and my phone dead that time..and i see actually no wings,just rounded no light, but i can see it because its reflection from the moonlight..

[@porshaz911]

We know more about outer space then our oceans!

[@atraeuskeenan627]

gotta love to know more about aliens or different species out there in the universe

[@maryshahbazi5996]

Wish I never knew about the greys that abducted me for 10 hrs. in 1974. Scary & life changing to this day. I hate greys & pray for so many yrs. to never encounter such malevolent creatures again.