UFO Sightings at Nuclear Bases (Full Episode) | UFOs: Investigating the Unknown

[@NatGeo]

Mysterious flying objects. Claims of crashed alien spacecrafts. The U.S. has spent decades inquiring into the unknown-here's what they've learned: on.natgeo.com/3rUkW24

[@marcgottlieb9579]

The timing of the recent disclosure had a reason of its own...There are a lot of anomalies in the sky currently..Thinggs that move around..The disclosure of something out there the government will never disclose..They claim they are looking for something but claim they haven't found..Looking for something gien many names over the years like Planet 9...The fact is found long ago and now in the very last stage of not only knocking at the door but a fly-by before the end of this year..The other shoe dropping to the alien agenda is distruction Planet Earth..

[@scienceMicroguy77]

Thank you for taking this seriously and covering it. We are not alone. The truth is out there.

[@marcgottlieb9579]

That photo is Avi Loeb's Intergalactic ROCK.. It is part of the debris field of a semi-destroyed planet named Tiamat..Tiamat is one of seven in our binary star system...That system is and has been the biggest nondisclosure to the public than aliens..It will do its damage both to the Earth and most humans and species in the last 12,000 years..U, bought it hook worms, and fish

[@donrisley947]

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[@AtlCloud]

cur nunc, post omnia?

[@somedude2420]

Was stationed at Grand Forks AFB, 1996-1998. Worked in a highly sensitive area and very unable to go reporting "UFO's". One morning while driving back to base from Northwood, ND. Driving on Highway 15 to 31st Street. Something came up from behind me. It was a moonless night but I could see the stars in my rearview mirror become obscured by something. I stopped, expecting some Close Encounters of the 3rd kind stuff. Looking out my driver's side window and up. Something at least 50' tall, maybe 200' across the back, shaped like a triangle. Flew over me, maybe 200' off the ground. Never made a noise. No engines. No air disturbance. Just my truck engine. Along the back were three exhausts, which had a faint red crackling appearance through a heavy blackening to reduce visibility. Like when you see lava with that blackened top and hints of red lava just barely being seen underneath? It moved steadily, quietly and was gone within 30 seconds. No super speed, just a constant speed that should have made noise. Believe my story or not, worries me none. I know I saw something very unexplainable and these current revelations only support my belief of what I saw.

[@DarkSygil666]

I'm just a random person on the internet, but for what it is worth, I believe you. I feel more and more that evidence is leaning towards the presence of non-human intelligence. I hope I live long enough to find out something really cool and interesting about humanity and whether or not it is alone in this vast universe.

[@ToddiusMaximus]

I’ve seen something that I don’t know how to explain. I believe you

[@mikesteen9201]

I was 8 years old living in Los Lunas, new Mexico. I was staring at the stars one night, and saw what looked like a shooting star. Moving high in the sky, but extremely fast. But, then it stopped. It hung in the same place long enough for me to call for my mom and point it out. Then it shot off, the next day my mom brought me a newspaper article about how a weather balloon had been seen near our area. It seemed ridiculous to me, and I was 8.

[@paladro]

you think you saw something, that much is true.

[@paladro]

@@DarkSygil666 what's the actual evidence then? i'll wait... mostly i hear stories, endless stories, no video, no physical evidence. what we do get is about once a decade, some new face pops up and claims to be a whistleblower... ask yourself this, if they were actual whistleblowers, why aren't they being charged for revealing secrets? i mean remember chelsea manning? or any of the intelligence whistleblowers like snowden? that's how actual whistleblowers are treated, this is more likley some distraction operation that's been going on for a long, long tiime. certain arms of the government want to function unhindered, getting you to look elsewhere while they do what they want is the real goal.

[@Livingsamsara]

I respect NatGeo for making this available. It's time to stop the *oogie woogie* & the belittling of everyday people who have seen or experienced UAP.

[@YouTube-tied]

This episode as well as the other recent ones about ufos aired on tv and was on the NatGeo online channel back in February of this year.

[@boosterhikes1841]

What I want to know is how you made oogie woogie in bold.

[@Yusuke_Denton]

@@boosterhikes1841 surround with **asterisks**

[@paladro]

@@boosterhikes1841 there are codes you insert with text, search yt for how.

[@Molon_Labe1776]

​@@boosterhikes1841You place an asterisk before and after the word(s) you want to be in bold text. I just found this out this week!

[@LadyAdakStillStands]

As a human being on Earth 65 years so far, I'm sure tired of being lied to by other human beings.

[@CesarHernandez-mo5vw]

You are the person lying to others. You are not 65

[@jaylol7226]

You and me both, brother... And it's only been 32 for me. Seriously, growing up, I've always known that I would be lied to and made to be some unimportant, unintelligent person. It's happened to me over and over again. But this is one subject I will absolutely NOT accept anymore. I know what I saw was not normal. I know that I'm not crazy or misinformed. I look at the sky, I took astronomy classes, I've studied physics, I've studied the Universe and everything we know about it... Nothing. Nothing can explain what I saw, except these stories we're left with.

[@WalkwithGod4eternity]

​@jaylol7226 We've absolutely been lied to for many years. You know it because your soul doesn't lie and your soul comes from the God of Heaven not from the god of this world. You will find in time that what you saw directly connects to God and His angels, angels of the LORD 👽 🛸. Keep fighting for truth. Never give up. Seek God and the knowledge of God. Look at ancient history and all religious texts. Look everywhere for knowledge amd wisdom because you will one day be enlightened and understand why you saw what you saw.

[@rhettlee]

At 35, I feel like the lies are basically for the uninformed or to do some CYA. It’s a reality my generation is ready for, but the establishment is not.

[@DR.DisInfect]

And by your profile pic you're not human

[@lechuck475]

These are known stories for some, but the fact that a channel like National Geographic is publishing this one day after the hearing is quite interesting :D

[@observer7418]

My first thought was that the reputation of National Geographic was going the way of the "History" channel or the "science" channel

[@sethaost4212]

Top comment this week here bro 🎉

[@Ulysses.S.Grant.For.The.Union.]

The pentagon has shared UFO videos and said they don’t know what they are. I say that’s time for America to take it very serious. It’s either truly unknown or more CIA like games at our expense. Either ways it’s serious.

[@Jan96106]

They want views. Everyone is cashing in on this.

[@georgewashington-cv4gr]

No it's not. Disney owns 3 quarters of National Geographic. They also own at least HALF the History Channel, which is 99% UFO material. This isn't their first video either. They're making this documentary after the hearing so they can stay relevant, news stations and other youtube channels are doing similar things. Also if you're following Disney you'd know they have almost a 2 billion dollar LOSS from there last 9 films. They're clinging on to ANYTHING to stay profitable, even UFOS.... Didn't you notice that KZbin censored UFO information the last 8-9 years so when you search up UFO what mainly pops up? THE HISTORY CHANNEL. Pay attention my brother

[@jimwest6571]

I was stationed at an Air Force nuclear missile base in the early 70's. Our crew lived in these missile bases for 2-3 days a week on a rotating schedule. One night we had a report of one of the missile cops went missing in the field. I was at one launch control facility and off duty. My security police partner and I were ordered to go out and look for him. He was missing for about 2 hours. When he was finally found I was ordered back to my post. When I asked what happened? I was told none of your business and do not ask again. The airman in question was relieved of duty and within 2 weeks he disappeared from the base, re-assigned or discharged. The occurred 50 years ago. After this incident a bunch of us began seeing strange lights in the missile field on several occasions.

[@joshrawlings2621]

Ever tried to find him or as a group Do something….?

[@David-wc5zl]

Sure, buddy.

[@stephenmorton8017]

chilling fictional account with heaps of tangible proof!

[@JCO2002]

Out there whacking his tack, probably.

[@327delta]

I believe you 👍🏾

[@BartholomewCounty]

At 18 I joined the A.F. in 1973. I never heard anything about UFOs, but I can tell you that the military has a ton of secrets they are protecting and they do a very good job doing it. The whistleblowers are the ones we must depend on for new data.

[@michael-4k4000]

The only secret the Air Force ever kept was "don't ask don't tell"

[@justinjones5824]

Its all cap tv😂

[@ToddiusMaximus]

@@syrious_kash8268really? What reaction would you expect? Tell the whole world that our nuclear arsenal has just been deactivated and they have no idea how? That’s ridiculous

[@kimrok1]

The moon landing being at the top of the list.

[@paladro]

well aren't you a brave story teller... so let me get this straight, you are claiming the military and government keep things secret? hmmmm.... its ok to be slow and stupid, but if i were you, i wouldn't leave comments verifying that.

[@raechelstaffel7298]

Thank you for encouraging people who believe that we can do better through curiosity and exploration of our world.

[@sherrylandgraf556]

Thank you! Mr. Hynek deserves respect and admiration for our history.

[@nerfherder3553]

i have know all these stories for years because of my grandfather, it's so wild to see people just learning about all this and really opening their paradigm. i'm ready for the truth, are you ?

[@paladro]

you are ready to be distracted from real life... keep chasing clouds

[@mortalclown3812]

I think we're at the point of collective acknowledgement vs needing disclosure. Humanity is a lot scarier than the UAP the fear-mongers are trying to demonize.

[@taylormcdaniel603]

Distracted? My good sir this is our reality. The truth of the matter couldn't be any more real. Those who subject others to ridicule are the only ones "chasing clouds"

[@ginagarrison5339]

Yes

[@budgreen7894]

​@@taylormcdaniel603Their naivety will be their downfall.

[@daffidavit]

'You can't convince a person who has had a UFO experience that he hasn't had it". Words that are so true.

[@emzywillrich7243]

This is such vindication for us who have spend a lifetime of study of this subject, to find out the conclusions we came to as children were indeed correct. We are not alone in the universe.

[@rudybriskar5267]

Great video! I saw a UFO in 1975. It was disk shaped and made no sound. It made right angle turns. When it left it shot off and stopped over an adjacent island five miles away. It took less than two seconds to move five miles.

[@Charky32]

my dad had a similar experience too in 1975, from Australia

[@davonjohnson5528]

@@Charky32was he born human cuz I call CAP 🧢

[@Meriysi]

What part of the country? What city?

[@livgarces6935]

Oh my gosh this is so sad😢 Those poor guards. The trauma this has caused for everyone involved. You can see on their faces

[@jsmith434w]

him and people like him have spent the last 100 of years lying to you about the nature of reality. they get what they deserve. if this world wasnt so full of liars, only the truth would be left.

[@nomadtv6009]

A great and important coverage of many of the more legitimate aspects of this subject. Good to see NatGeo taking it seriously.

[@paladro]

sad to see natgeo cashing in on clickbait... haven't watched this video, because i know ahead of time, they will share stories without proof, which isn't very compelling.

[@montanamangum4026]

​@@paladrothe congressional hearings of alot of these people in which Congress concluded they were telling the truth and has acknowledged the existence of UFOs you don't have to take the history channels word for it, your obviously not very intelligent 😂

[@paladro]

@@montanamangum4026 if you knew anything then, they aren't what you say, rather UAP... tsk, tsk, tsk.

[@montanamangum4026]

@@paladro here's your sign!

[@David-wc5zl]

​@@montanamangum4026LOL. Idiocracy right here

[@flashkraft]

The quality of this doco is very good.

[@USlisa50]

Saw one myself in 1979, it vanished in the blink of an eye

[@stageiii1]

I remember in 1979.... I didn't.

[@paladro]

how do you know it wasn't a hallunication or visual artifact, given it happened in a blink of an eye... seems exactly like what would happen if i had a eye floater and mistook it for something it wasn't.

[@tjolofree1134]

i believe you, fully. i saw one, too. 100 percent true. wake up nonbelievers, its real.

[@fifteenbyfive]

This is really a documentary about Dr. Hynek more than "UFO sightings at nuclear bases."

[@Hyumanity]

Thank you!

[@blaneharrison6341]

I'm 48...13 years ago I witnessed about 50 low flying silent objects flying from east to west past the Napier airport in New Zealand...I can't have been the only person to see this

[@daffidavit]

My good friend was with a security guard one winter evening in Northern N.J. keeping company while securing the Wanaque Reservoir, not far from Greenwood Lake and near the Hudson River. The lake was frozen. As they approached the fence to check in at a security point, they saw a low flying bright light come from across the lake and approach them. My friend said a craft just like a stereotypical "flying saucer" stopped about 500 ft. in front of them about 50 ft over the frozen surface. Suddenly a bright light came from the bottom of the object and burned a hole in the ice before it disappeared straight up. I guess they need water too. He said that while standing there, he felt "as if I was there, but then again, I felt like I wasn't there." The security guard got into the Jeep and drove away leaving my buddy alone by the lake. My friend died from Covid but I used to quiz him many times about this sighting. He would get angry with my if I joked with him or suggested he was making up a story.

[@frederickbaugher8361]

I have two possible theories for what happened at the US missile silos. 1. They were outside of the box military conducted stress tests to evaluate how well the men in the launch bunkers would react to a potential threat that they had not been trained for. The guards on duty that night were ordered to inform the men in the bunker that orbs were hovering over the base. I believe that is possible Because in an interview with one of the men in the bunker at Minot, He said that when he went up top to speak with the guards who saw the orb, they were reluctant to speak with him. He said they quickly climbed in a military vehicle and left the scene. 2. I suspect that regardless what planet they come from all military organizations devote most of their time and resources to training the troops. The United States armed forces spent over two years preparing for D-Day. My second theory is that the incident at Minot and the other US nuclear bases were ET training sorties. If a military unit is responsible for preventing earthlings from possibly nuking themselves into oblivion someday, The training would be intense and unyielding. There are no second chances for a failed mission of that nature.

[@YouCannotDenyMe]

Very interesting theories! I think your first theory is extremely compelling, but information about that kind of testing seems to have been kept from Congress, which makes it less plausible to me. I would expect stress testing to be valid and not be hidden or kept from cleared congressmen, but during one of the briefings with Congress, when the Pentagon was asked about these incidents, they responded that they didn't have data about those incidents, and wouldn't expand on whether data existed elsewhere. They also didn't offer to speak about it in the closed session. They just dismissed it with that response.

[@frederickbaugher8361]

@@YouCannotDenyMe I would assume that, if a military stress test of the nature I described in the comment occurred it would be classified in perpetuity. The reason being that the experiment does not end until the soldier dies. They would study him for years in order to measure the long-term effects that the test had on the soldiers psyche.

[@Arclite100]

Very safe reasoning, I think you should stick with it.

[@ManyfiresWoman]

Professor Michio Kaku, physicist and one of the smartest scientists on the planet, firmly believes that we are regularly visted by UFOs. That these 'visits' need to be seriously investigated to find out 3 things: who are they, what do they want and how advanced are they? I agree.

[@zacharymikell1847]

I don’t just believe that they are visiting us but they are also already here and more established than we can even imagine, both in the ocean and under ground and multiple different species and races etc… specifically reptilians and greys

[@tysonrinker5958]

Well obviously, but that guy is a tool

[@jimfisk4474]

I'm 85 now and I was a roofing contractor of 35 years and back-end 1982 one of my Roofing customers said a flying saucer a spaceship was hovering over her house, and the military got wind of it and came to question her, which was after the military Air Force government stated they had discontinued investigating UFOs in the late 70s, twice! Our government in various forms, and lies to us all the time, especially about ET spacecraft! I myself just a common person have had 40 sidings in the sky that I could not explain with my five senses, from 15 years old to 81 years old.

[@paladro]

jim fisk, that's funny... careful jogging.

[@mortalclown3812]

​@@paladro Curb your inner Karen.

[@twinnpower]

In what state do you live

[@hook-x6f]

@@mortalclown3812 Hello you must be Darren. Karen's wife.

[@juu2356]

darren is a boy's name. @@hook-x6f

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Thank you!

[@jaymeselliot8181]

ive seen a massive triangular craft in the sky. Thought i was losing it, but i saw this triangular thing, with a light at every point in the triangle, it was huge, maybe the size of two city blocks, completely silent, and moving slowly, then more lights appeared on it to mimic the sky and it disappeared....

[@sMVshortMusicVideos]

That was awesome, I have always had the swamp gas quote burned into my memory but i need to let that go and I need to read his book.

[@jbx.7995]

You don't need be a scholar to see what going on..the truth is that U.F.O's are real and have a history with the planet earth 🤔

[@paladro]

people been selling all kinds of stories for the entier human existence... sometimes being scholarly can help you discern the wheat from the chaff, know what i mean?

[@hook-x6f]

I feel like we're the gorillas on Animal Planet where they send in a decoy baby Gorilla with a camera.

[@ronanzann4851]

Then again........being "scholarly" can often times (BOX YOU IN), insulating you from a truth.

[@jimlangley840]

I've had a first kind, in DC during the fireworks, July 4th 1972 or 1973

[@davonjohnson5528]

Maybe you seen something strange but Aliens are a myth. Maybe you seen a spiritual beings and got it mixed up in your head!

[@invisiblecollege893]

Thank you for covering this very important field

[@anamositykilla2190]

I seen a ufo flying over Hanford, WA... the nuclear base in Washington State 5 a.m. the other morning. It was the biggest star like object you ever did see in the sky. I have it recorded.

[@1mgofepinephrine120]

Can u share that video?

[@Elev8_901]

Upload it!!

[@Elev8_901]

The only ufo I could record was an orb like phenomenon. I was hanging out with my buddy and this giant glowing "orb" appeared in the sky, so we recorded it, it's on my channel & my most viewed video. I wish I could've had the 3 other sightings I've had on video. The first one was a group of 6 or 7 ships in an L formation, flying north to south in Memphis TN. They were like metalic spheres that had this illuminated cores, thats the best way I could describe it.. unlike anything I've ever even imagined. The 2nd time was a very quick, silent black triangle shaped craft. The last time was the orb I got on video, its a very interesting topic for me. I just wanna know why we see these craft & whats really going on, why is it all getting covered up?? We all deserve answers.

[@v.britton4445]

Lord knows how many times they have saved us from ourselves.

[@jeffreyjamesgourlay2856]

I think they tried put us here through the ages . We got ATE mostly and offed in Cataclysms usually but finally we grew brains and took this mf over

[@paulmurray8734]

It was the Galactic Federation of Worlds that deactivated the missiles !

[@dw-fe2ww]

I would love to hear that entire episode of To Tell the Truth, and the questions the panel asked.

[@paladro]

they can tell you whatever they want, because they can't prove it and neither can you.

[@hook-x6f]

@@paladro I can prove it but it takes a brain to understand get one let me know

[@davidflitcroft7101]

@ 16:34 is reference to a case that suggested the use of Nuclear Powered engines in a crashed vehicle. since human-kind is on the cusp of developing such an engine for interplanetary flight, this should have been taken more seriously, to put it mildly.

[@nothingbutthisthatandtheother]

US: "How, Why did they shut down our Missiles???" Aliens: Because children shouldn't play with fire arms for the same reason humans shouldn't play with Nukes

[@ninderninder2689]

good job . writers and editor needs a raise

[@charleswest6372]

USAF stationed at Dugway UT 2002. Witnessed a large craft about 150 ' dia. 6 others were w me. It approached us to 200m away and sped off silent

[@DonB.-Mulefivefive]

Worked BLM at Elko. For fun I'd go out and sit in the mountians that over looked Dugway. What's out there is not ours. 3X. Not a one of them were ours. Not at that rate of climb.

[@gamingwithjessika]

with all the airborne chemical testing going on at Dugway you probably got a whiff of some funny gas.

[@DonB.-Mulefivefive]

@@gamingwithjessika Wrong. Try reading, you'll get farther.

[@gamingwithjessika]

@@DonB.-Mulefivefive Imao, whatever you say idiot

[@berndbuchholz]

do they still start these surveilance blimps from dugway...?

[@gluonone]

I never saw a UFO. But my dad did along with his friends while they were playing football or something outside somewhere. They said they noticed something that looked cigar shaped in the sky and then it zipped off at a high speed

[@JonnoPlays]

Anyone else get the "Close Encounters" keyboard sequence stuck in their head after watching this? 🎹 🛸

[@analogalbacore7166]

Never seen the movie

[@boosterhikes1841]

@@analogalbacore7166please do yourself a favor and watch it. It’s one of the 100 best American films of all time according to the AFI.

[@WeTheLittlePeople]

Glad its NatGeo rather than History Channel, on there the UAP news is like a minor footnote to their grandious narratives.

[@craigwoollett2523]

The History channel is now a tabloid

[@MentalWanderings]

Don't stop doing the right thing.

[@StonedustandStardust]

I have been happy so far with Nat Geo's UFO's: Investigating the Unknown. J Alan Hynek was a National Treasure.

[@mikelee923]

would be great if other nations also put out this to the public and let the whole world know if UFO is real

[@JonHolmerud]

Russia and other countries already have.

[@paladro]

so what specifically in this video is actual proof?

[@tylerlormand5644]

if were the ones seeing them why are we asking others

[@mortalclown3812]

Several other nations have been much more forthcoming - for years now - than the US in terms of disclosure.

[@1mgofepinephrine120]

@@paladroproof of what? Proof the event happened? Theres witnesses and a paper trail for that. Proof UFOs are aliens? Nobody is making that claim. Proof that UFOs are anomalous? There’s very many cases where the electronic sensor data is public, along with witness testimony and paper trails. Nobody is saying UFOs are aliens. We’re saying this is a real phenomenon that needs to be investigated, and the decades of gov data needs to be released.

[@ThomasKissel-w1p]

Thank You National Geographic, for this great Show/Series, about the UAP Topic. Outstanding.

[@cyrussukhia]

the witness photograph at 29:20 is really pretty compelling. I've never seen that one before

[@brettlott570]

Yeah that is a great photo. I have always wondered why do the UFO’s even need lights?

[@KoolT]

Missed this one. Thank's folks 😅

[@bigboomer3841]

The fact that other countries have all decided to track and approach the ufo's and our government is like...."yeah, we see them everyday and do nothing". Makes me think that they know it's ours, or they already know it non human.

[@SleepyJoesDiaper]

It’s reported that the Russians have engaged ufo craft with their fighter jets. Our pilots have said that the radar and weapons always shut down if they get too close. Crazy.

[@Lisa-pl6gv]

Look up LTAs (lighter than air) ships. Our military conducts regular exercises with them for backup communication systems and to transfer medical supplies between VA hospitals. These are unmanned but there are also companies working with them for commercial air travel purposes. They're largely hydrogen powered, but some are solar.

[@bigboomer3841]

@@Lisa-pl6gv aka blimps....those are not the things traveling at 2000mph and turning on a dime and then head to space and then back to the water. Sorry those are not LTA's.

[@Lisa-pl6gv]

@bigboomer3841 Oh I realize that. I think they account for some of the sightings but not those.

[@1mgofepinephrine120]

@@Lisa-pl6gvblimps don’t perform right angle turns at Mach speeds.

[@kamakaziozzie3038]

The reason the US government doesn’t seem to take this seriously is because I suspect they already know what the phenomenon is

[@ncjay08]

The question "Are We Alone?" has an answer, even if nobody seems to want to openly discuss it. I find it odd that as a world, we don't want to acknowledge this and soo many people want to keep it quiet. I wish more people would openly talk.

[@aquicktake]

Funny how a lot of mainstream media are starting to jump on the bandwagon. I get the feeling like they're thinking: we better get on this before it's too late and happens.

[@JustGRIPPO]

I would have hoped that there was also mentioned that nuclear power plants are routinely visited by UFO's. This also makes me ask - Have they cruised / scanned over the particle collider in Europe?

[@paladro]

how is it then, given all the security around nuclear facilities, not one camera or camera phone owning bystander has definitive proof? no hard evidence, like remains of craft or beings, claims of it yes, but no pictures, no video, just some outlandish claims... of the video clips produced, its usually edited clips, where is the rest of the footage? showing a snippet means there is more, so are they releasing these limited clips, because out of context and without full video, its easy to distort what you are seeing and make grandiose claims. now i personally believe intelligent life exists in the universe, beyond ourselves(very arrogant and myopic to think we are alone and special), but i also need proof, either with my own eyes(which admittedly can fail you and your mind can trick you to see things that aren't)... but, i also believe governments keep secrets through a variety of means, many of which would seem appalling to a rational mind, some grand 'ufo hoax' is exactly the kind of thing that would cover top secret rocket and aircraft testing nicely. as for so-called sightings in antiquity, many atmospheric phenomena, we barely grasp in the modern era could easily be interpreted as omens, gods or aliens. all my cynicim and skepticism aside, i do believe in 'aliens', its just i think our limited understanding on a great many things coupled with eons of religious propaganda, has done great harm in their attempts to co-opt these events for their own ends or even more disturbing, the 'aliens' aren't visiting, they are tending a farm, a petri dish, a zoo or anything else we might do to a less advanced intelligence.

[@JustGRIPPO]

@@paladro I can certainly understand and relate to your cynicism. My viewpoint was summarily altered with my own sighting. But this was pre-cell phone days and also there was no time to react. That being said, I would ask, though there have been many personal and mass sightings - some posted across various forums, Why would a superior intelligence want to contact our primitive species? ( except maybe for scientific study) I shudder to think that our species could ever reach another inhabited planet without somehow ruining it like we have already done to this planet. Not to overlook that we can't even get along as humans - imagine the pre conceptualized bigotry that we already would transport across space.

[@MrJohnnyLighting]

​@@paladro I'd like to know why you think there isn't crystal clear photos available and also why you would think this wonderful government of ours would show it to us. Also the videos and pictures that civilians post are never believed...so there's that😂

[@Lisa-pl6gv]

I live near a coal fired plant in Kansas and there is some weird phenomena in the sky around there as well.

[@1mgofepinephrine120]

@@paladrothere are THOUSANDS of videos taken by private citizens all over the world. Some are garbage, some impressive and some fakes. Since we can’t tell which are the fakes, and which are legit, they’re not considered good evidence. The best real evidence we have is electronic sensor data from multiple platforms, backed with eye witness testimony. There is no shortage of those cases available. Nothing proved aliens are here, but there is enough to prove something Anomalous is in the skies.

[@stevesick1]

I don’t think there are enough commercials maybe you should add more!!

[@maEkOrwellfictionagain]

I've seen UFO 5 times. Last time was at 8:00am on the inter Coastal waterway in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida with a co-worker. A Metallic sphere with a mettalic donut shape following about30 yards behind the sphere?

[@juliecullom6955]

This is extraordinary! I could tell Hieneck was chocking down those words he was forced to say.

[@RuthmarieHicks]

I was in lower Westchester in college at the time of the sighting wave. I had saw the "hoax" pilots flying in formation with one of my friends. We contacted the Westchester County Airport and they scoffed at it and said they were regular pilots that were proving that people could be easily fooled. Or something to that effect. But it did pour a bucket of cold water over ALL the sightings. According to them, ALL the sightings were all bunk.

[@CaliforniaBushman]

Right before the Hudson Valley Lights flew over the Yorktown Police stn in Spring of 1984, it flew right over my house. I called the whole family outside to the side porch. We all watched it fly over at around 300 ft above us. But after 5 - 10 seconds we all simultaneously turned & walked back inside without a word. Why? We could hear the whining hum of the ultralight engines. We could see individual planes shift slightly out of V formation from our close view directly to underneath. All flying colorful, non flashing illegal lights. None of us even discussed it immediately afterwards. I watched it continue to fly slowly southward out my brother's bedroom window afterward where it then flew over the police stn depicted in an old Unsolved Mysteries episode. Later in June 84, myself & multiple witnesses saw it flying in that 'O' formation with the one trailing light several miles West near the Hudson River from outside the front entrance of Yorktown High School after a performance. I remember telling others it was Ultralight Pilots Spoofing everybody. None of this should detract from the real UAP reports and testimony we're seeing today, however.

[@notmyworld44]

They are angelic. 2//3 good, and 1/3 very bad.

[@budgreen7894]

1988 i was 9 yesrs old riding in the car with my mom and saw a saucer shape with different color lights pulsing around it. My mom (busy driving) kept saying its probably an airplane. 30 min later its all over the news that dozens of people including a cop saw the same thing. She probably wished she looked when i said something. It was flying slow because it was visible for probably 8 second before it went over the tree line

[@actthree7810]

I'm surprised I had not heard of the Hudson Valley and Belgium waves before.

[@anjadeprekel6071]

I live in Belgium and at the time the UFO s has been witnessed by a lot of people they tried to explain it afterwards with the explanation of a new type of American aircraft ( Stealth) and now in this video it was said that America denied that there were Stealths in the air. Sorry for my bad English.

[@actthree7810]

@@anjadeprekel6071 Thanks for your insight. Your English is fine.

[@robertspence831]

Nice to see the clips from "Silent Running" Saw it in the theater as a kid.

[@theonetruemorty4078]

31:02 Midsummer 2022, clear night, stargazing, saw this. Delta wing, 9 lights, front underside, came over my barn next to me then directly over. Flash flash, pause, flash flash, pause... so bright it almost hurt to look at it. I probably could have hit it with a thrown rock. 40-60ft across, maybe 5-10mph, heading SSE, never changed course, flew perfectly straight and even as if air resistance was meaningless. Completely silent. Froze in place and watched it until it disappeared over the nearby tree line. Probably 5 mins total. There was no mistaking what I was looking at and I think about it regularly. Wish I'd had my smartphone on me, but there was no way I was running inside and missing even a second of what I was seeing.

[@edgarfigueiredo579]

Sounds just like the arizona triangle of lights from about a decade ago also, if no one else remembers that. Its definitely on youtube.

[@kgsphinx]

When was this originally aired?

[@brandondavis3431]

Part of a five episode series aired in February. It’s currently on Disney+ in the United States

[@ericcomfort6228]

The show Project Bluebook was fascinating

[@jeanneelliott7243]

ETs, Please beam the nukes out, neutralize, and send to the sun for disposal. 🙏 Thanks🖖🏼

[@jayfro8340]

Love the "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" thumbnail

[@FelixTruvere]

We weren’t ready to become aware of their existence back then. Today we are. Every movie you ever watched by design has prepared you for a new level of consciousness perspective we’re about to evolve to.

[@hhheidi1121]

2023 every thing is coming to light !!

[@clays1507]

The question. Is why?!

[@dolphfren]

The fact that people chose to trust the government when the government has lied so many times is mind boggling

[@RainbowYak]

As a sceptic, I have one big issue with UFO sightings. We now live in a world where literally everyone walks around with a device in their pocket that possesses a high-resolution camera and direct access to the internet. Yet, most people who claim to have seen an UFO "forgot" to take pictures or make video recordings during their experience. And the few videos we do have all look as though they were recorded with a potato. On KZbin, you can find the most random, unlikely events captured on camera, often in great quality. There exists sharp footage from the 911 attacks where eye witnesses pulled out a camera. That was more than 20 years ago when smartphones weren't even a thing. Yet, we can't get a single, high-resolution video recording of an extraterrestrial spacecraft? Doesn't that seem awfully convenient?

[@seitanbeatsyourmeat666]

I keep thinking this too. Where are the videos? They should be everywhere, yet here we are with a few grainy 20+ year old “sightings” (and some quality fakes). I know someone credible that claims to have seen one, but again… where’s the video?!

[@utherpendragon4227]

My guess, is that it’s not a physical object reflecting light, but a spiritual manifestation, maybe inter dimensional in its nature, like fallen angels from the Bible stories. That’s what I believe anyway, so there could be times when it only wants that one person to see it, for whatever reasons they have…which I suspect are all bad for us.

[@encinobalboa]

That's the Bigfoot argument. Subject is never filmed clearly for more than a second or two and when in frame, camera shakes horribly. Argument in favor is pervasive and persistent reports of flying objects from a wide variety of people.

[@zacharymikell1847]

Skeptic* im pretty sure you don’t want to be claiming to be a sceptic lol 💩

[@frankjamesbonarrigo7162]

try recording something in the sky with your iPhone zoomed in. Its not as good as you think

[@hookywookywithmalarkyman704]

We are not alone in this vast vast universe .

[@lonewolfartisan661]

It's great to hear these documentations and stories, they're fun to consider. Too bad nowadays with all the various company-owned contraptions, etc., launched in the heavens that it's kinda harder to guess what is "UFO", and what's earth-originated UFO. I wonder how many people bother looking up still because of all the traffic up there.

[@SEAZNDragon]

That seems to be the Belguim reaction in the video. It wasn't, "oh my god aliens!" it was "who's plane is? C'mon fess up, you can't just fly in our airspace without a reason."

[@paladro]

background light or light pollution has ruined the night sky if you live around population centers... still quite vivid the more off the beaten track you get. i don't know how many videos i've seen claiming ufo's on some distant object with blinking lights, never once questioning why those blinking lights are exactly the same configuration as commercial aircraft safety lights.

[@chasecreamer727]

That’s true, it is harder to tell airplanes and drones apart from UFOs. That’s when troubleshooting comes in separating aircraft and drone behavior to UFOs (especially some rocket launches). If an object that is stationary for a long time, flashing many colors all at once, is silent, and capable of physically defying speed and maneuverability, then it’s likely a UFO. And not a normal aircraft or drone.

[@dougjamesvandals]

LOL...they put us here!!! We are them

[@MarkHurlow-cf2ix]

Close Encounters of the third Kind was the coolest movie in the 1970’s my sister took me with her to see it because she thought it might be scary ,,,, she was 10 and I was 7 ,,,lmao

[@mortalclown3812]

😂 Can't think of a film that I liked more.

[@jerryburns22]

Early eighties off the west coast of California fast movers in the water the Navy was catching on sonar!

[@Joez86]

Well done

[@TomTech24]

Hello National Geographic, did you have a french version of this full episode. Thanks !

[@BelgianSquirrel]

Sur mon gsm Android, en utilisant l'app KZbin, je peux faire apparaître le petit engrenage pour les réglages et dans "Sous-titres" Il y a "traduction automatique" qui propose le français

[@nevster7437]

im eating chicken nuggets rn

Finally!

[@jwill3419]

I wasn't even there, it's just common sense they're telling you not to use nuclear warheads

[@davidnorman179]

The original air date or recording date would be helpful in putting some of the commentary in context. Maybe I missed the date somewhere but I don't see it in text description anywhere.

[@bonecrone411]

Under the main headline. There is a ...more. you find the org date of broadcast.

[@SPAZZYok]

Each missile has individual triple redundancy. Which means there are three generators on every missile in case of failure. And they are also independent from each other so one missile isn't connected to other ones. These UFOs shut down entire flights of ten. In Ukraine a UFO hovering over a launch facility figured out the launch codes to a missile base and for 15 seconds their missiles where ready to launch.

[@WeAreNotAmused]

They say that we aren't able to defend ourselves against them but yet every time there's been any kind of attack against them and they weren't harmed they still fled which means there's a point where they're resistance doesn't last

[@KreateInRealLife]

One Air Force witness from the Minuteman Airbase and another witness from Project Bluebook. It’s very convincing.

[@frndlystrangr]

UFOs prove just how primitive we still are as a species because we are not visiting them, but they sure are visiting us and are intrigued enough to keep coming back. Based on all the different descriptions, sizes and speeds of the crafts, their capabilities, and sightings all over the world, just prove we are not alone. We never have been. I love the idea that they exist. I will never stop believing. No government has the right to quash our beliefs and I believe the topic of UFOs needs to keep being told.

[@userrg7325]

At 15:00, the clip labeled Chicago 1974 is actually Cleveland. That's the Soldiers and Sailors monument in Cleveland's Public Square.

[@DRUNKBEATZ]

makes you wonder about the credibility of the other photos and "facts"

[@andresmerchan6709]

nice

[@duaanekobe2773]

I had/have one of the highest security clearances there is: I not only seen "eyes only" info but disseminated them. I talked to real MIB teams but was required to twice a year. One opened up to me that to see a UFO I just needed to go somewhere a nuclear test or tech was happening and look up.

[@DR.DisInfect]

That's part of the disinformation act if you really want to see one look down... they are in our oceans that's the reason our government keeps us looking up they've explored more of space then our own oceans

[@vinnyheaphy1372]

WOW! I got something better by actually riding in a UFO disk in 1996 to help my Star brother! His name was: Ralph U. Meaney, deceased now, but he was a UFO Investigator for MUFON!! His Evil sister was compiling a fraudulent case against him and I was taken by a flying saucer to remove that file from the Tampa Florida Courthouse at night. The ship parked against the wall as I and a crew member opened the wall for me to walk through to that room with the filing cabinets were and pulled his file out and took it back to the ship! That saved my brother from losing everything!! Since then, I have flown in many different space ships and have even been in outerspace above Earth and other planets!! Sorry, NO photos allowed for security reasons!!!

[@johnwood9764]

BS. there is no eyes only security clearance used in the US.

[@scottschultz6573]

​@@vinnyheaphy1372Say what?

[@Subuzgreatest]

​@@scottschultz6573He's bluffing to seem like crazy. The saucers are used for surveillance, not to travel. Too much G-Forces exerted on the human body.

[@Kenneth-yu4hc]

This is as real as it gets!!!!!!

[@prasannagurung4450]

The characters in this documentary should be in a movie..May be it will be a greatest movie about how to lie..

[@MayimHastings]

We are being prepared for the reveal, folks. That’s why all of these incidents and and all of the media coverage has been escalating steadily for so long. I’m normally a skeptic, and i never really believed any of this stuff until this year. At some point Achem’s Razor and cold logic can only lead to one conclusion: It’s true.

[@paladro]

or, get this, its just further continuation of a long running distraction operation... you don't find it odd, about once a decade, some new face claiming to be a whistleblower pops up, plenty of stories, zero proof. yet the government never prosecutes these so-called whistleblowers and they are supposedly revealing the most secret things, right? that's why i call bull on these individuals and their particular stories. the most likely answer is distraction from other privileged programs not meant for public consumption... so if you were to catch a glimpse of mlitary test vehicles, its beneficial to have already gaslit the more reactionary and emotional citizens to spread the word about 'ufo's & aliens' to cover experimental craft. or, even more mind blowing, aliens are real, this is actually their planet and we are livestock or specimens in their reality.

[@marcthomas5641]

Yep. Truth.

[@lynnekincaid9087]

Proves..information is power! Keeping secrets gives you power.

[@davedillon1372]

At 19 minutes in, re Carter's sighting - that's what honest, bravely decent to-a-fault people would do.

[@FrankAndrewI]

Whoa those conscientious objector aliens from Tabby's star got some technical swag

[@GarrickHolmed]

I saw one stop almost above my house early in the morning. It looked like a unmanned U shaped drone with parts glowing green blue and red. I saw it so clearly. After it stopped for a minute maybe it then swirled into what looked like particles of light. I went inside and Kaye’s down and soon felt paralyzed. I was stuck in the bed for days and a lot of weird stuff happened. It was a rough year after that

[@glarielys2]

Im sorry you had to go tru that all alone 😢

[@paladro]

could also be a mental collapse or some cerebral activity that you haven't found an answer for.

[@davonjohnson5528]

😅 stop the BS

[@GarrickHolmed]

@@davonjohnson5528 it’s really not BS

[@GarrickHolmed]

@@paladro definitely could have been. I wish I would have recorded it so I would know for myself.

[@detlefh.7090]

Thank you Nat'l Geographic for putting these old film documents together and thank you even more Leslie for your explanations which link the film cuts together with respectful words of what's to be seen. BUT, sometimes and more often as I would have liked the word and film snippets were poorly linked together making it hard for me to understand or follow the continuity of the plot/subject.

[@BrickSallday-yw4km]

Clickbait. This is about one dude. Not what the title says. Clickbait as usual.

[@JohnGrahamWilson]

The constant conjunction between sightings and known weapon stations should make us think about what the ETs want.

[@Bingpot_Cowabunga]

US Governement doesn't investigate because it doesn't need to. My wife says she thought she saw a candy bar in the fridge and could I go an check if there is one. I don't need to, it's my candy bar and I put it there. I'm not telling people about it becaues I want it for myself.

[@KalLif-k3i]

Lol😂 now I feel like going over and ask if there’s a candy bar in that fridge or not 😂😂😂😂😂

[@DRUNKBEATZ]

29:19 so is there any evidence that this photo real and not CGI or is another "trust me bro" case ?

[@ALFA_813]

It seems as the aliens want to preserve the earth and protect it