Transcript for #1574 - Jacques Vallée & James Fox
SPEAKER_00
00:04 - 00:05
The Joe Rogan experience
SPEAKER_01
00:14 - 01:05
Gentlemen, James, Jacques. Welcome. Thanks for being here. We'll explain what this is all about because on the new Spotify podcast, we don't really have an intro the same way the old ones did. James, you produced a phenomenal documentary on the phenomenon on what's going on with UFOs and I just sent you an article that my friend Sager sent me today about a photograph, a very clear photograph that they've taken of this triangular UFO. So there's something that we'll be talking about in a little bit, Jacques Valle, you have been studying this most of your life. True long. True long. We discussed it last night at dinner. that your interest in this came from an experience that you actually had as a child, you actually saw a UFO.
SPEAKER_02
01:05 - 01:41
As a teenager, with two other witnesses, one of the witnesses was half a mile away with binoculars. So I'm pretty sure that that object was real and it was a classic disc, middle of the afternoon, clear sky, absolutely clear. At the time I became convinced that it might be a prototype of something that would be coming out later and you know, we're here many years later and we still don't have anything like that. It was just hovering and it was there.
SPEAKER_01
01:41 - 01:53
And you've been studying this for so long and this was something you guys talked about in the film that you were actually the character that the French UFO researcher in close encounters of the first kind of the third kind rather was modeled after.
SPEAKER_02
01:54 - 02:20
Steven Spielberg felt. Spielberg was intrigued with the idea of a character that was not quite as weird as, you know, the ETs, but was a lot weirder than, you know, the people on the ground in the US trying to make sense of this and the military and so on. So he needed this intermediate character. He thought, you know, Frenchman was a right thing to do.
SPEAKER_01
02:20 - 02:25
And so, did you talk to him about the film? Did you talk to him about when he was putting it together? Yeah.
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02:25 - 06:08
I, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh He was, at the time he was looking for a transition between the time when they know the big thing is coming, the mothership is coming and they don't know where and the mothership is sending signals but they can't decipher. the signals. And he said, you know, he had spent the morning at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. And he said, he couldn't make any sense of all the mathematics they had. And I said, well, maybe you could have, you know, two screens that give you an angle and the angle tells you where the thing is. And he said, now that's too complicated, you know, and takes too long, right? And it's got to be just a few minutes in the film. And then I thought of a photograph that was on the desk of Dr. Heinrich, you know, Dr. Jay Heinrich, who was the Air Force consultant on UFOs at the time, and I was working with him building databases and so on. And on that photograph, there were three guys, you know, really well dressed on ladders around a huge sphere of the earth in the lobby of some building somewhere with pieces of string that they were they were putting the string over the earth. And I told Dr. Hyde, I can said, Alan, you know, what's the story behind this? And he said, well, the when the first picnic was launched, you know, October 57. Nobody had a computer program to compute an orbit. But they knew where the sputnik had been seen. Nobody expected the Russians to come up with this and they needed to know where it was going next. So the New York Times called the director of Harvard Observatory. saying can you give us a comment on the Russian satellite and the guy said hey it's clear crack in the morning you know what Russian satellite and so they got dressed in a hurry and they were trying to compute the orbit by putting a string around the around the model of the earth in the lobby of Harvard. And I thought it was so funny. And Spielberg said that's it. You know, that's it. The general says, come on, you know, the, you know, the, the choreographer, who is the interpreter of the French guy, says, well, it looks like it's somewhere in Wyoming, you know, but where in Wyoming, you know, where should we go? And the general says, you mean we've got $10 billion worth of radar and cameras and everything else. Nobody's got a map of Wyoming and they break into the lobby of the building next door and they come back with this globe. And, you know, they've got the globe and they look at it and get the coordinates. And because they, it turns out the geography tells them, you know, those signals, they look like a longitude and a latitude. So they, they, they crisp, you know, they get the point where it's going to be. And that piece that was missing in the movie. So I was really proud of that, you know, it was really fun. Well, so it's the one funny part in the movie.
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06:08 - 06:50
Yeah, it's a great movie. It is probably the movie that got me most excited about UFOs when I was a kid. And I remember thinking, If UFOs were coming here from another planet, one thing that I remember thinking is, why would they even bother talking to the government? Like, what do they care who the government is? Like, if I was looking at an ant colony, I'm not going to ask the ant colony, which one's the elected official? That's in charge of all the other ants. You don't give a shit. You're just trying to study the ants. And I felt like if something was coming here from another planet that was so sophisticated it could either travel from another dimension or travel from another galaxy. Why would it care, like who the president is or who the generals are?
SPEAKER_02
06:50 - 07:40
You know, not only that, but the witnesses don't talk to the government either. You know, by now the witnesses are tired of being ridiculed, by scientists, you know, by and told that those things don't exist. So they don't talk. So they don't talk to, you know, people like you, people like me, because they trust me and in Silicon Valley, you know, you wouldn't believe the number of people who come to me including CEOs of companies that I've worked with who tell me about sightings that people in their family have had or sightings they had including sightings and Vietnam for example and so on when they were in the military that have never been reported and the government isn't getting that.
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SPEAKER_03
10:38 - 11:48
So I had a really good friend of mine who was a high school buddy, Skyran A. We traveled around Europe together after we graduated from high school. And in our early 20s, he told me about this UFO crash in Roswell in New Mexico. And I literally thought at the time, I'm going to have to write this guy off. I've lost my best friend. He's lost his mind. And that was that. And I sort of walked away thinking, God, we've had such a great friendship. I'm so sorry this guy's gone. And I brought it up with a guy that I was mentoring. He was my mentor at a production facility in California. It's got Richard and he goes, oh yeah, Roswell. Yeah, that was an alien spaceship. It crashed. I mean, the government admitted it. I mean, they put the story out themselves. It's guys with a the only bomb unit in the world, the 509th, exclusively responsible for the deployment of atomic weapons. These guys would not mistake in every day weather balloon for a flying saucer. He goes, that actually happened. And I went, really? So then I started looking into it before I knew it. I started making a movie.
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11:48 - 11:57
Wow. So when you heard about Roswell and you've investigated it now and you've gotten into, what do you think that was?
SPEAKER_03
11:58 - 12:33
Well, I can only go by the people that were there and Major Jesse Marcel was one of the first military officers on the scene. He's part of the 509th. And Major Marcell said the debris was strewn over an extremely large area. And it was material that was not of this earth. And he described the material was one chunk in particular. It was three to four feet long, three feet wide. Light is a feather. You could barely feel it in your hands when you carried it. But they couldn't destroy it with a blow torch. They couldn't destroy it with
SPEAKER_01
12:34 - 12:44
This photo you're showing us right now, Jamie is the debris that they threw on the floor. That was clearly just aluminum foil and sticks and that stuff from a weather balloon.
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12:44 - 12:45
That's the fake debris.
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12:45 - 13:42
Well, there's two stories, right? There was a story that came out the first day that said we've recovered across UFO. And then there's a story that came out the second day. Whoops, it was a weather balloon. And this was after they had taken the wreckage and they flew it to Wright Patterson Air Force Base. And it wasn't what you would do with wreckage from a weather balloon. What they had done is they had flown it in two separate jets or planes. I don't know if they were even jets back then. Two separate planes to make sure that they had at least some of it. Like if one of them crashed, at least had some of this stuff. And to this day, there's people that were there that swear that this was something that was from an alien world. And then you've got all the debunkers and all the other people that's where that it's nonsense and that people are just making things up and they get a lot of attention from this. And so they've been telling these stories for decades and they might even believe it themselves, but it's all bullshit.
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13:44 - 14:43
Well, my approach to that is, you know, no single case. And I think the scientists are not completely too blame there. No single case can prove either that we're being visited or even that there is a phenomenon here on Earth that we still need to be discovering. You need to have been trained to look for patterns. You know, my background is in artificial intelligence and computer science and you look for patterns, whether it's in medicine, in business, in other fields, in physics. And one case, even as good as was, well, is, that doesn't do it. So I've been looking for other cases that can reinforce with pattern and reveal what is really behind it. because the idea that it's just E.T. coming here that doesn't really answer all the questions we have.
SPEAKER_01
14:43 - 15:05
Well, it seems like there's been so many reports over time and it's so difficult to find out who's telling the truth and who's not because many of these are just anecdotal stories. They're just eyewitness accounts and we know people are occasionally or quite often full of shit. That's just a part of people. They lie and they make things up.
SPEAKER_03
15:05 - 15:17
I wanted to put the cap on Roswell because what people don't realize is that they announce to the world that they recovered a flying saucer. There had been a whole massive wave in the 40s and late 40s.
SPEAKER_01
15:17 - 15:26
And this is following the detonation of the first atomic bombs, the tests, the atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan.
SPEAKER_03
15:27 - 16:29
Yeah, so we had the Trinity site, 1945, and then there were two bombs dropped, and that was from the Anola Gay, which was stationed at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 when this incident occurred. They announced and told the truth to the world. That's a fact. They were flying the debris to write Paris in Air Force Base. There was no cover up. It was all out in the open with a quick stop and Fort Worth. When they got to Fort Worth, they had a debris filled in their B-29 bomber. General Marcell gets off the airplane and General Roger Ameys. There's a flurry of press activity and he says, keep your mouth shut. Let me handle this. Grab some debris from an everyday weather balloon, throws it on the floor, keep your mouth shut, and they pose with Debose, Colonel Debose, and with Major General Marcell and General Amy. Two out of the three people came clean on camera before they died and said that was a fake press conference that was fake debris. What we recovered was the initial story that came out was true. It was not of this world.
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16:30 - 16:35
Now what is the current understanding of what happened to that debris?
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16:44 - 19:54
You know, in back in Silicon Valley, we're sort of, you know, there's a group of people who are getting really interested in this because we've got new technology to analyze materials. And we've got materials from a number of similar incidents. Again, what we're looking for, and it's how to do. It's only now that we've really got equipment, scientific equipment that can really look at this. The characteristics of materials are the same throughout the universe. I mean, iron from miles is just like iron from the earth. The isotopes would be the same ones. The isotopes are the components that define the orbits of the atom and what goes into the nucleus of the atom. They would be the same ones in outer space and they are on the earth. What could change would be if somebody was altering artificially the ratio of the isotopes within the elements. So it gets pretty complicated. We are doing a survey of all the samples that we have from a number of crashes likewise. was well was not unique. It was not unique in New Mexico and now we have we have samples from Europe or samples from South America. There are a number of people who have started to look at that. There were publications by a professor from Stanford. office of Sturac 30 years ago about material recovered from Brazil, where, again, the isotopes were measured. I'm the guy who, he, the French volunteer to measure the isotope ratios and I carried that, you know, that precious little sample to, to Paris to get it to the people who were, were doing the experiments. The jury is still out. Obviously, somebody could take, you know, common elements, refine the isotopes and put them back together. Of course, that was done for the atom bomb, you know, it would be between different isotopes of uranium, you know, and you have to differentiate between, you know, which, what goes into really making the bomb. And now you can buy, for medicine, for example, you can buy radio isotopes in small quantities, but they cost an enormous amount for a few grams. So if we find that some of those samples have been altered, that's a revolution, because it means that there is somebody somewhere either on Earth or off planet who has a technology to do that for a particular purpose. If we find that, that's a revolution.
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19:55 - 20:05
But did they find that with Roswell? Is there any record of what happened with the wreckage, what was studied, what they discovered?
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20:05 - 23:01
You have to go into the directions. First, you don't need something, you know, three feet by five feet to do that. You can do it on a few grams. We've got instruments now, new instruments that were created by some of the people that I work with that can just do it at the biological level, almost a level of a few grams or a few milligrams. So, we're in the process of doing that. And in fact, the book that I'm preparing is going to talk about that. The other thing is, you know, where would the big thing go? You know, we don't have the big thing. Well, you know, after a few years people talk, and again, both in Silicon Valley and other places, scientists need to talk to each other. And I've had discussions with people who handle that material. One of them I can tell you about was a very high level engineering manager in a large company that has research labs in Silicon Valley. He was asked 30 years ago to look at some material and he described to me what that was and actually he showed it to me. He said it was a matrix of awful silicates and he could not understand the structure. I mean, he could analyze it in his land. He was a man who developed the magnetic coating for desks and tapes. So I don't need to tell you how many billions of dollars of business those companies that he worked with, you know, made based on his patents. So he had a good lab and he was able to do the analysis. He could not understand the deep structure of that material. Now, the problem that the people who have those vehicles have is they will, because it stops secret, they have to compartmentalize everything. So one company would get the material, another company might get some descriptions of maybe the beings, another company might get something that looks like fiber optics or electronics, so they wouldn't But only a few people would be able to put all the information together. That's not a good way to do research. Not a good way to do science. We've got to get that stuff to the scientific community and open it up.
SPEAKER_01
23:01 - 23:29
Well, this is what Bob Lazard said about working in an area S4 that that was the problem they were having. One group was working on propulsion, the other group was working on metallurgy. But this material that this gentleman had seen where he couldn't identify the structure, what was that and where was it from? It was from a crash. From a crash where? He didn't tell me. He didn't tell you. But they had and he had gotten it through what method?
SPEAKER_02
23:29 - 23:44
He had been asked on the secret project to do the analysis. So this had been something that government had brought to them. That was unique in the United States. And you know, that was, he was your appropriate guy.
SPEAKER_01
23:44 - 23:56
Is it possible that this could have been some material that was created by a foreign government that has an extremely advanced understanding of these materials?
SPEAKER_02
23:56 - 24:12
if it had been that material would have been used by now, and we've never seen that material again. And what year was this when he did the study? I don't know when he did the study. He's bad now, so he's not going to be. Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01
24:12 - 24:13
And because this is all Tom James.
SPEAKER_02
24:17 - 25:38
Look, in Silicon Valley, people from different companies and so on, get together, and they look at things together, if they trust you, because then you need to get different minds on the same page. So that conversation was over 20 years ago. I've never forgotten it. Another conversation with a military man who retired. Now, who told me that he was brought in to a large hangar where there were pieces of things that looked like a vehicle and there was a wing. that would have been the size of this table, and he could lift it with one hand. Again, very light, like what James was saying about Wasrael, extremely light material that was very, very strong. Well, still today, we don't have anything like that. We've got fancy, titanium things and so on, but he knew what technology went into our advanced aircraft. He was with the Air Force. And he couldn't believe that he could lift that entire metal surface with one hit.
SPEAKER_01
25:38 - 25:55
So what is the current speculation on where the wreckage from Roswell went? Like as far as people know what people do talk, like clearly if there was some material that was recovered, that was from an alien spacecraft, must be somewhere.
SPEAKER_02
25:55 - 26:55
Well, typically the way You know, a secret project works if you look at other projects that we know now how they were handled like the submarine or the Russian submarine that was recovered. And it would go to different places because you'd send different parts to the best experts. Absolutely the best world experts in those people you already have under contract. And you might not tell them, you know, where it comes from. You might tell them, this is something, you know, one of our guys got this out of Czechoslovakia, you know, and we think it's Russian stuff from the MIG, you know, and why don't you analyze it? They wouldn't necessarily tell you that it comes from a UFO, whatever UFOs are.
SPEAKER_03
26:55 - 26:57
Ask Jacques or the bodies are.
SPEAKER_01
26:57 - 27:12
Okay, but hold on. Does anybody speculating as to where the material from Roswell is? Is there a legend? Is there rumor?
SPEAKER_02
27:12 - 28:17
Not something that would pass, you know, that scientists would really, really look at. You know, In the forties, there were people working on advanced materials for ultra light aircraft for rockets. You know, the transistor people say, look at the transistor. We must have gotten this from the aliens. Well, the packing for the transistor is a German packing from 1934. You know, the German scientist discovered the transistor effect and he described it. But nobody had any need for that. There was no electronics. Nobody really had any need for it. And then the electronics was in glass tubes. So that was rediscovered by the labs, by the people who patented the transistor.
SPEAKER_01
28:17 - 28:44
And that was one of the big UFO conspiracy theories. Was that some of the technology that was recovered from Roswell was used and back engineered to create transistors. And they did this at Bell Labs. And there was a company called the American Computer Company that had a whole website. dedicated to explaining where some of the technology that we currently use came from and they were all in on this conspiracy that it came from Roswell.
SPEAKER_02
28:45 - 29:33
I don't think you would find too many people in Silicon Valley who would believe that because some of the people from Bell Labs came west and some of them are still alive and they would tell you how it happened. And when you look at the old films, the old movies from Bell Labs, You can see what they were doing. It's kind of laughable. I mean, it's high school physics, whooping up the thing with big wires. This was not really advanced stuff. They understood the transistor effect, which was known since the 30s. It was not new science. It was just something that had never being required.
SPEAKER_01
29:33 - 29:34
There was no application for it.
SPEAKER_02
29:34 - 29:44
To develop because, you know, the NP fires worked fine, you know, and there was no real need for it. When there was a need, then they started working on that.
SPEAKER_01
29:44 - 29:47
That's one of the big rumors, all right, is the transistor.
SPEAKER_02
29:48 - 31:38
Well, that was one of the fibers, you know, antibiotics. Kendall Koso, who was someone I, you know, respect and admire, revealed that he was in charge for the army. of getting, he got a lot of, and somebody gave him a, you know, a cardboard box, literally, full of stuff that came from places like Roswell. And they were fibers. And when you put a light at one end, you know, the light would go to the end of the fibers. Well, that effect has been known in physics for a long time. So again, that does prove anything. I had that conversation, we've also spent two days with him. Thanks to Mr. Biguro. We brought him to Las Vegas to talk to the science board of Biguro Aerospace. And then I had some private conversations with him about some other things that were not in his book. But the fiber, you know, I told him frankly, you know, fibers, glass fibers were known before World War II. People use them for in lab work and so on. So that's not really no. I'm not a scientist, you know, I'm a military guy. That I was asked by, you know, the head of the lab to preserve this and to what he did is to give it to different labs, you know, give it to MIT, give it to, I don't know, but tell, give it to a few others. And what happened when he did that? I don't know what happened.
SPEAKER_03
31:38 - 32:39
I interviewed Colonel Corso, do you believe him? Yes. Okay, so I interviewed Colonel Corso on camera in 1997 and Roswell. It was right at the 50th anniversary of the Roswell event. There was a lot of who plough around what had happened. And he told me on camera A that he saw these bodies that he assumed were childlike with these big heads and eyes, you know, in a warehouse somewhere. But he described the materials, what he said to me, and I'm not saying this is true or not true, but what he said to me, was that they were shocked at the lack of provisions on the craft that the bodies had no reproductive organs, slits from owls, no vocal cords. There were these little pen-like things that laser turned out to be later turned out to be lasers. There was this filament stringy stuff that was later to be determined to be fiber optics. and that the material had this you could crumple it up with light as a feather and then it would regain its original form. That's what he told me on camera. I think he died later.
SPEAKER_02
32:40 - 33:42
It told that also to Powell Harris, who traveled with him in Europe. And published his book in Italy and other languages. His English book was censored by the publisher. And he died really. I mean, he was given the You know, the proof, he had 24 hours to check the proof. He didn't check everything. He didn't have time. And there were parts that were missing. And parts that he had told me, fortunately, I can testify to what he told me. But a lot of what he knew wasn't in the book that was published in the US. It's in books that were published in other languages. You know, thanks to power. about a house who preserved all that, but there was still at that stage, there was some tricks being played, not to get all the information out.
SPEAKER_01
33:43 - 36:11
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SPEAKER_02
36:11 - 36:14
President wouldn't necessarily be cleared. That's hilarious.
SPEAKER_01
36:17 - 36:30
Number one, I obviously, I don't know the fact, but you think of the top office of the United States that you would get access to that, but I guess because it's transient because they're in it now.
SPEAKER_02
36:30 - 38:03
It's not the matter of curiosity, it's the matter of need to know and you also want to protect the president. It also the president changes every four years. And also there are three different classes of secrets. There are secrets that are under the control of the president. There are secrets that under the control of the state department that have to do with foreign intelligence that don't go through the same channels. And then there are the atomic secrets. And the Clarences, over the years, I've occasionally been cleared. I was cleared for the best project, and Mr. Regulo, Mr. Bigulo. the Clarences for atomic secrets are the P Clarences, the Q Clarences, the R Clarences, they are completely segregated from the kind of Clarences that we had as part of the the the the the the the the best project or the ATIT project. So those people would not have been cleared for some of the scientific information. And I think we're getting to the point where we need to somebody needs to open up the doors and the windows and get the scientific community involved.
SPEAKER_01
38:03 - 39:21
Well, it does seem like there's more openness now from the penthouse, right? There was the one person who worked at the pentagon that was saying that there's they've recovered crafts that are off-world vehicles not from this earth like that was a that was a direct quote and then these photos that supposedly exists now from this new article that's out that are top secret but people are trying to get these photographs released the general public that show this triangular UFO this but just these kind of statements and just the release of the GoVass video and the other videos from the the gimbal video that show these vehicles that are being observed by these fighter jet pilots that are watching these things in real time going holy shit what is that And you get to hear their words, you get to see the video, you see the actual object, jetting across the surface of the ocean, and they don't know what it is. And they're trying to figure out why they're watching it. That's never existed before. There's never been this much openness. So there's a new level of at least admitting that there's an issue that there's a phenomenon that didn't exist before. You're talking about the US.
SPEAKER_02
39:21 - 42:22
Yes. In other countries, people have been a lot more open. including Russia, you know, I mean, and certainly including France. I mean, there was one incident 1978, a mirage, you know, guy flying a mirage. Fulcano, French Air Force. The Mirage doesn't have any weapons. It's just coming in to digital, you know, digital where the mustard comes from. Okay. Well, they happen to have, you know, a base, an atomic base there. And the Mirage is our fighter bombers, so they can take nuclear ammunition. He was unarmed, he's flying at late afternoon early evening. No problem. Caesar liked that he's two o'clock position. Right light, doesn't know what it is, gets bigger. He thinks he sees a structure behind the light that he was never really sure. There seems to be an object there. Solid object. But the light goes around him and stops up on his tail, which is a kill position, you know, for a fighter jet. He doesn't like that. It takes evasive action, which he wasn't prepared to do. I mean, he didn't have special suits or anything. He dives. The object starts moving again, grows around him, makes her 360 degree circle at high speed. And he can't believe it. I mean, number one, there couldn't be a pilot because a pilot could be crushed. But there is nothing that can move that fast. And the thing is back on his tail, he has to dive a second time. Okay, he lands in Dijon, writes a report. The report would probably not have come out except that there was a number of people on the ground who saw this app, saw the whole thing. And there was a John Dam, you know, who was French police, a branch of a little parallel to the French police, who wrote a report and that report was public. So they interviewed, they found the pilot, they interviewed him, I mean, there is no question that happened, and this was 1978. So, I mean, what else is new, okay, that we've got those things? Well, what's new is we have footage, you know, and some of the footage that James had in his movie. that actually proves it, but actually, you know, footage doesn't prove anything, because you can fake the camera. But when you have the pilots themselves and the footage and the instrumentation and the radar, I mean, that thing was tracked on radar, that saw the whole thing. You know, you don't really do that to a nuclear bomber.
SPEAKER_01
42:23 - 42:24
What, you have something?
SPEAKER_03
42:24 - 44:46
Yeah, so this is a breaking story and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Chris Romellan, literally sent this to me about 15 minutes ago and he wanted me to read it verbatim. So I was going to read this as pretty startling stuff. So I'll read it. In the last 48 hours, the public has learned of two stunning incidents captured on film. by US Navy carrier pilots earlier this year. One of the cases features a photo of a bizarre flying sphere and a black cube inside that is identical to dozens of other reports by Navy pilots. These strange objects have been shadowing East Coast naval ops since 2015. They sometimes maneuver information and have occasionally been reported achieving supersonic speeds. The other incident produced a stunning detailed photograph of a massive triangular shaped vehicle that emerged from the ocean and flew vertically straight up and out of sight just past a Navy F-18 operating off the U.S. aircraft carrier. These iPhone photos taken by the pilots should be released to the public as there are no sources and methods to protect and the national security benefits of raising awareness regarding this issue vastly outweigh any conceivable benefit from concealing the information. It is hard to believe that in the face of such radical and incredible technology within our vast defense department The only we only have a so-called task force consisting of two individuals with no budget who are still being off our stiff armed for access to relevant and timely information by the Air Force and other security organizations. By comparison, 60 years ago in response to Sputnik, America entered the space race which led to landing on the moon. Our government needs to wake up and address the far greater technology gap that these and many other incidents are revealing. There is obviously a glaring strategic mismatch between the current task force and the technology that has been identified. Why did he send you this? Because he felt it's a developing story and he wants people to be aware that there's really compelling evidence right now photographically that needs to be released.
SPEAKER_01
44:47 - 44:51
And so you told him you were coming on here, and that's when he sent it to you?
SPEAKER_03
44:51 - 45:23
Yes, and he said that these people need to feel some pressure. They need to know that we are requesting not demanding, but requesting further government transparency on this issue. And he's very passionate about it. He knows of these photographs, the governments We got the story, I think it was yesterday, and the government is refusing to release these photographs. The pilots want these photographs released. The people involved with the incident want the photographs released. And so we, he wants the public to know that these photographs exist, and that they should be released.
SPEAKER_01
45:23 - 45:26
And they're currently in the possession of, he wouldn't reveal that.
SPEAKER_03
45:26 - 45:33
He knows the person, but he said that the government is not wanting them released, and he feels that we have a right to these photographs.
SPEAKER_01
45:33 - 45:36
And there's video that came with this story as well.
SPEAKER_03
45:36 - 45:53
Well, remember this comes from the very guy who was strategic, Chris Romellan, in getting those video taped evidence from the cockpits of those F-18 fighter jets on the East Coast as well as off the West Coast in 2004, 2015, and ended up with that big story on the front page of the New York Times in 2017.
SPEAKER_01
45:55 - 46:58
Yeah, see, that's a new thing because if you went to like 24 or 2004 when this all happened, no one was really talking about UFOs in a serious manner. It was still something that would be mocked and ridiculed, but to have it on the front page of the New York Times and to have this spokesperson for the Pentagon say that they've recovered off-world vehicles, not from this earth, not made on this earth. This is a change, right? I mean, even though it doesn't receive that much public attention because it's all happening during a pandemic and everyone's just, and also the new cycle today, so bizarre, something gets into the new cycle and then it's gone tomorrow because the new scandal or people find out Ellen's mean or whatever it is. There's always something new that's coming out. And these things, though, it seems to be there's more of them and more of them coming out. And with each new story that comes out, people feel more emboldened to tell their story.
SPEAKER_03
47:00 - 47:25
You know, I think personally everything changed in December of 2017 when that page of front page of the New York Times revealed that Secret A tip program. And I know personally because I've gotten ridiculed for decades for the work I do a lot less so recently. People are certainly raising the eyebrow going, wow, there's clearly something more to this and just, you know, radar weather balloons and miss identified aircraft.
SPEAKER_01
47:25 - 48:08
Jimmy pulled up the video of that's in that article. There's a there's an actual YouTube video to one from 94 one from 2013 Let's go with the 2013 one. But these videos are very strange. You see these objects. What's interesting, too, is that, okay, this is the one that I didn't see, but that this thing, the way it moves and behaved, the one, I guess it was from the 94 one. This is the 2013 one. This is the one from Puerto Rico. So it's just kind of cruising across the sky. It's hard to track here and this block and what there it is. Does it estimate how fast is things supposedly going?
SPEAKER_00
48:08 - 48:19
It looks like they were near some sort of like military base or something. Mm-hmm. And on Ogwood Dea, which is like the West Coast.
SPEAKER_01
48:19 - 48:24
But so weird to see, but it's not clear what this thing is.
SPEAKER_03
48:24 - 48:28
So one of the things that I think it's really good to establish.
SPEAKER_01
48:28 - 48:33
Go, go, I'm sorry, but go, go further ahead in this video to see if maybe there's a better version of it or a better sort of check.
SPEAKER_00
48:33 - 48:35
The other one has a little clear video.
SPEAKER_01
48:40 - 48:49
Yeah, there you go. That's much clearer. Like, what is that? Well, that's not a bird. Like, yes, moving through the clouds.
SPEAKER_03
48:49 - 49:34
One of the things I wanted to make a distinction of is the technology, the observed technology that these guys are talking about. So you've got objects. with no wings, no visible means of propulsion. The ability to hover accelerate from a standstill to add a sight in the blink of an eye, right angle turns at high speed, and fly rings around our fastest jets. That is the technology that cannot be confused or explained away as something conventional. So anytime you see an object like we're looking at here, if it performs or exhibits that technology, maybe it shoots off at high rate of speed, does the right angle turn at high speeds? No wings, no tail, no propulsion, no sonic boom, almost no sound.
SPEAKER_01
49:34 - 50:06
That's, and they try to get a close up on this thing to see get a better idea what the shape is. It's very hard to tell. But these objects also one of the weird things is it moves around the same way, command or flavor described, that thing moving around, that was hovering over the ocean, that it kind of darts around left and right, right and left, almost like it's just not connected to whatever our atmosphere is. It's like it's moving into this weird zigzag sort of a way.
SPEAKER_02
50:07 - 50:13
This is an infrared image, right? It's not visible. It's at a normal camera.
SPEAKER_01
50:15 - 50:18
I don't know. I don't know what it is. Is that what it looks like?
SPEAKER_02
50:18 - 50:37
It's the same type of camera that has the one from the Nimitz. So you're looking at heat signature. You're not really looking at the visual picture. Right. So that's why it's not, you cannot get a clear definition of it.
SPEAKER_01
50:37 - 50:51
Well, they need better cameras. So did you go further along in the video? It does they do get a better view of it. There it is. There you go. Like what the hell is that?
SPEAKER_03
50:51 - 53:25
You know that was one of the more startling moments of producing the film The Phenomenon for me was when I met with Senator Harry Reid who spearheaded the eight tip program the advanced aerospace threat identification program that wind up on the front page of the New York Times. I wasn't quite sure when I met with him how where his comfort zone was and so I was really kind of cautious for the first half an hour of the interview. but then I started we started to relax and get more comfortable with each other and I decided to kind of push it a little bit and I said hey Senator I met with Gordon Cooper who later became Mercury astronaut who told me on camera that there was a landing incident that took place, it Edwards Air Force Base, circa 1957, where they happen to have a camera crew out of near the dry lake bed, capturing the installation of a new landing facility for F-86 fighter jets, and it was broad daylight, and all of a sudden this disk appears out of nowhere, and the camera crew turned their cameras on it, and they filmed the landing of this flying saucer on the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base. And I'm telling the story to send a read thinking, you know, I don't know how he's going to react when I, but this is what I have in one camera. And I, and I said he has the film footage developed. It was good footage. He held it up. He looked at it. It was a disc, you know, blah, blah, blah. And eventually he gets a courier jet from Washington, D.C. that flies in, pick up the footage. Senator Reed goes, and it was never seen or heard from again. And I said, yeah, exactly. And I said, did you guys own cover stuff like that? He goes, oh, yeah, it's all there. We have it. It's all there. And then he goes to change the topic and talk about something else. And I said, well, hold on, Senator, are you saying that there's evidence that hasn't seen the light a day? And he looked at me. And he kind of pauses and he picks up his water bottle and drinks his underwater and that moment seemed like an hour, but it was probably just a second or two. And he puts his water bottle down and he says, I'm saying that most of the evidence hasn't seen a light a day. So that That for me was such a powerful moment because I'm going, look at who this is coming from. This is the former head of, you know, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying that the vast majority of evidence hasn't seen the light of day. And if the president of the United States can't get access to it, as I found out when I interviewed all the people around President Clinton, who can, who has the authority to have this stuff released. And that's something that I would love to know and I've been trying to find out.
SPEAKER_01
53:27 - 53:42
So someone does someone in some position of government or some intelligence agency, someone in the Pentagon, someone or some group at the highest level of clearance has access to this information and knows about it.
SPEAKER_03
53:42 - 54:11
Absolutely. Senator Reed said they uncovered all this stuff. We're doing the program. And he said the level of resistance that he got from the intelligence agencies was insane. Like I mean, they did not want this project going forward at the Pentagon. But they pushed and they pushed and they got it through. It started in 2007. It went all the way up until ended up on the front page of the New York Times in 2017. And of course, now we know that there's another project. But, Jacques, do you know who has the authority to release this stuff to the general public?
SPEAKER_02
54:14 - 54:33
No, no, not in this particular case. Where are the bodies from Roswell? I don't know. I mean, you know, all you have on rumors, you know, Walter Reed Hospital in the basement. You know, I can't get to the basement of Walter Reed Hospital.
SPEAKER_01
54:33 - 54:39
Have you ever talked to anybody that's reputable? Anybody that you believe that seems to know? Yes.
SPEAKER_02
54:39 - 55:58
Well, now, you know, there are physicians in the who with clearances who have tried to to get that information and to my knowledge because they don't they don't think to tell me everything but if there was You know, if there is material evidence, like the kind of thing, I've got, okay, that witnesses have given to me, you know, that I went, went out and dug it up, okay. So I know where it comes from, okay. But if we found that it was really very strange, even beyond our ability to manipulate the isotopes, that still doesn't prove that there isn't somebody who is smarter than we are, somewhere on earth, making that stuff. So I still couldn't stand at the Academy of Sciences and say, look, this proves it. But if we have bodies, I would think that if they have a different structure, from any organism that we know, you know, from biology on Earth. I mean, I would have to think that would be a revolution. The strange thing, essentially, I mean, people would be controlled with it.
SPEAKER_01
55:58 - 56:19
The strange things that the iconic image of an alien seems consistent. That's one of the weird things, is that there's different versions of aliens that people claim to see, but the iconic, close encounters of the third kind, large-head, large eyes, very thin body with no musculature, no genitals. That all seems to be very consistent.
SPEAKER_03
56:21 - 56:24
You're like the African landing case and it was in Bobway, 1994.
SPEAKER_01
56:24 - 57:20
That is a crazy part of your documentary because you see these children that are going to school in Africa. This thing lands and then they draw pictures of it. The children are all consistent and then 20 years later they all meet and talk about it again and now when people lie A lot of times when people lie when they're making up a crazy story like being abducted by UFO, they want to be special. They want to be different. Like I was the one they chose. There's none of that from these kids. They all have the same story. They all have the same, you know, they didn't have the best drawing skills, but they all drew something that's incredibly similar. It was all classic looking UFO, flying saucer type vehicle. and a classic look in iconic creature that is just like the close encounters of the third time. They all describe something that looked like it was wearing a black wet suit. They all describe something that had the large eyes and a large head for its body.
SPEAKER_03
57:21 - 01:00:08
I was doing my first documentary back in 1997 when I was just naive enough to think I can get an interview with Steven Spielberg. We had a mutual friend involved this woman Janet and she gets back to me and she's like, yeah, so Spielberg's definitely not going to meet with you, but he knows you're working on this UFO documentary. He thinks you should look into this landing case that happened in Africa at the school. And I said to myself at the time and remind you guys that I was making a film on UFOs and I dismissed it so quickly because I thought there's no way that a mass landing with the sheer volume of eyewitness testimony at a school in broad daylight could happen in the whole world not know about it. So I just walked away from that story for about 10 years. 10 years later, I'm doing an event at the National Press Club with Leslie Kane who was part of the article of New York Times that came out in 2017. And she introduced me to this guy, Randall Nicherson, and she's like, oh, he's working on this landing case in Africa. Long story short, he's working on a film. Now, I think it's coming out next year, specifically on just that case, Dan Ferra's producing it. And he said, I'm working on the case and if you want to do something with me on it, a small piece, I could. So I got back into it. I licensed some of the footage that Dr. John Mac, the Harvard psychiatrist that came and interviewed the school children on camera within a week of it happening. He unfortunately looked the wrong way and London got run down by a car and died. So I contacted the Institute with the help of Randall Nicholson. I licensed the archival footage. We tracked down the witnesses today. We flew them in from all different corners of the world, brought them together. A lot of them were standing right next to each other. They came face to face and one of the things I realized was that there were roughly 100 kids in the playground, broad daylight, aerial school, rose and bobway, 1994, and they got within arms, arms, some of them with an arms length of these beings and brought these witnesses together for the first time in 20 years and a lot of them hadn't even told their, you know, significant others just because they said they were tired of having to defend this and I myself didn't believe it when I first heard about it back in 1997 and That segment of the film is the most in my opinion is the most powerful segment because very compelling You've got all these children saying what they saw on camera. I'd rather it happen and then you see them 20 years later and then we go to Africa and we meet with the headmistress Well, she was a teacher at the time We went with other witnesses. We go to the landing site to talk to people at the school That case is absolutely and it was witnessed by lots of other people in and around the area for several days before it shows a school to land
SPEAKER_01
01:00:10 - 01:01:07
It's so compelling because the children are all clearly, they're not actors. So as there are adults later, they're all talking about this moment and it's like they had a religious experience together. They're all sharing it and talking about it and you could tell it's like it's a deeply moving experience. If they were actors, they wouldn't have been able to do such a good job because to convey the reality of that moment to them, to to be able to have this interpretation of this event where they're all consistent in the story, and they're all clearly still shook by this moment. It's really interesting because if you had that scene in a movie, it would take like a really good actor to pull it off. And they'd probably need multiple takes. They'd probably want to get the best one. But those kids, the way they were talking about it, the way they were drawing it, you're like, Wow, it really does seem like something happening to that.
SPEAKER_03
01:01:07 - 01:02:01
I know how credible that the testimony the children is because my partner Rebecca, she's never had much of an interest in what I do making documentaries on UFOs. I do other things as well, but when I was reviewing in the studio, the archival interview of the children, she just dropped off a cup of coffee and she stopped in Oh my god, those children are not lying. This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen because look, I ask your audience to don't take it for me, just suspend judgment for a moment and imagine hypothetically if A UFO or several UFOs landed at a school in broad daylight in Ruiz and Bobway Africa and interacted telepathically with nearly 100 school children. Not all of them had telepathic but seen the incident. How significant of a story would you give that?
SPEAKER_01
01:02:01 - 01:02:26
Well, not only that, they had the same message, but the telepathic message was that technology is a real problem. Yes. And there's things that people are doing with technology that are going to ruin the Earth. Yes. And they were trying to relate this to children, which is very strange. Yes. You know, I mean, maybe they just thought they were adults because they were the same size as the aliens. I mean, do you think they knew that they were children? Do you think they understood that it was a school? I mean, this is all speculation.
SPEAKER_03
01:02:26 - 01:03:44
Yeah. But I know I definitely had to ask myself, look, during the production of the film, Paula Harris actually turned me on to another landing case that happened in Australia in 1966. at a school, and this time there were roughly 300 witnesses that saw a disc land right outside of a playground in Australia. And we went to Australia and investigated that case, went to the land inside, talked to eyewitness testimony, people that jumped the fence at the school playground and ran over to where this thing landed. And then we even interviewed a guy who snapped a photograph of a disc, a polaroid back in 1966, two days prior to the incident. So it's very Probably that we have a photographic evidence. We have eyewitness testimony and for the first time we've got testimony from a science teacher. So why do these things land at schools? It seems like, and I'm just totally speculating here, but it seems like if I were going to do that, it seems like a pretty benign environment. We have testimony for military guys that we take a fairly hostile position towards things that penetrate sensitive military installations. And so maybe I'm just saying maybe they safe, you may be safe.
SPEAKER_02
01:03:44 - 01:05:01
We have to stop reacting to intrusions by UFOs as a threat. I mean, that's the whole thing behind this new task cross. And as much as I respect the task cross, My colleagues and I want to cooperate with them to the extent that we can bring information or resources to what they do. But there is more. This is not, should not be looked at specifically as a threat. With the phenomenon that we observe, I mean, if they wanted to blow up those F-18s, I could do it. Obviously, that's not what it's all about. And this idea of just labeling it all as a threat because it's unknown, that's a wrong idea. 90% of the information comes from the public, comes from children, comes in very, very little of it is made up. You know, in France, I mean, the data we get at the French space agency comes through channels where if people reported something that's found to be untrue, they're going to be called by the police. Now, you know, they may have some penalties associated with that.
SPEAKER_01
01:05:01 - 01:05:09
Now, you said that they can blow them up, but there's never been any evidence of a UFO attacking anything, right? Like the thing that there has been.
SPEAKER_02
01:05:09 - 01:05:09
Really?
SPEAKER_01
01:05:09 - 01:05:10
Yes.
SPEAKER_02
01:05:10 - 01:06:55
What has been people killed? I apparently fall no reason. Very rare though. Where was the ten twelve cases? I went to Brazil four times and I got to know Brazil and the data there pretty well. And I spoke to people in the armed forces, people in the Brazilian air force and the police. They have been a number of cases where people died. and where witnesses died. And also cases where witnesses were chased through the jungle by objects with beams. And I was really interested in those beams because those beams were extensible. Well, it's hard to make an extensible. If you turn on the light or a laser, you know, it's going to keep going. It doesn't go 10 feet and just stop in me there. Those beams stop, which means it's not just light. It's something else. And also they will pin you to Hamak, for example, some of the people who are asleep, you know, Hamak, they wake up and they see this light and the light comes down and pins them to the bed or to the Hamak. And I've published pictures of injuries with people sustained as a result of those beams. So, you know, this is at least a demonstration of You know, the power that number one we don't quite understand the technology and number two we don't understand why that is.
SPEAKER_01
01:06:56 - 01:09:21
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SPEAKER_02
01:09:21 - 01:10:16
So, yes, I am amazed that, you know, I mean, in the 50s and 60s, There was all that science fiction about aliens from other planets and so on and all these movies. So that was, frankly, when I started looking at the statistics, trying to make sense, trying to build those databases. do AI on top of it, I was looking for, you know, ET extraterrestrial. Now we've got so much more data that contradicts that. Things coming through the wall of a bedroom, okay, as a light, and the light turns into something else, and it has information in it, or it turns into something physical. You know, this is not this is way off. I mean, this I'm not just very corals that come from somewhere else.
SPEAKER_01
01:10:16 - 01:10:23
So it could be, there are a number of contradictions in there. It could be there's a number of different non-related phenomena.
SPEAKER_02
01:10:23 - 01:12:02
Well, you know, to some extent, I mean, we keep saying the scientists are skeptical and so on, that if you look at physics today, I mean, People will tell you there's probably more than there must be more than four dimensions, you know, of space time. There must be to explain, you know, atomic phenomena to explain quantum mechanics to explain all those things. There could very well be there. Fairies that are published in physics journals about multiple universes, about universes, interpreting each other, maybe channels between those universes. There could be another universe with a room like this, five minutes ahead of us. We would never see them, we would never detect them. There could be another earth, five minutes ahead of us. in another universe. And we physics today. Authorizes us to think about those things. Now, they think about those things, not because of UFOs. They consider it because it makes sense in the theories they have to build to explain what they see in the lab. In the particle labs, in the accelerators, in detecting all these other layers of matter of nature. But it implies that this isn't just, you know, not only the other planet, but this isn't the only universe.
SPEAKER_03
01:12:02 - 01:12:38
I was going to say, Jacques, one of the assets that Jacques brought to this film, the phenomenon, and he became involved through Lee Spiegel. And you could, you know, talk in a minute about your reluctance to get involved. And initially, Jacques was like, OK, well, participate. This is one little section. And eventually, I lure Jock out to the studio and we were editing the film at the end of this dirt road. In a very remote area, we had a place that had no running water, no internet, no toilet. It's a long story. I was going to get a better space, but I just couldn't find one and we just got someone to work them in this space. I decided to just edit the whole movie here.
SPEAKER_02
01:12:38 - 01:12:54
But it was a little cabin in there was on the California coast. It was gorgeous full of flowers and so on, but no facility. No. Just electricity, some of the time. Yeah. And there were times when you, yeah, it wasn't even electricity.
SPEAKER_03
01:12:54 - 01:13:58
So a joke would say, OK, I'm coming out for the weekend. We do these marathon edits with us. And he said, I got my face paint. I got my compass coming out. And, and one of the first cases, I think that you got involved with speaking of beings, was, Cicorn, New Mexico, that involved the police officer in April of 1964. This is considered to be the most well-documented, close encounter of the third kind. That's when the witness described seeing beings associated with the craft in US history. turns out when Jock found out that I'd already spent five years investigating this case. I interviewed the wife. I interviewed his co-workers. I interviewed his son, his daughter, and I went to the National Archives. And I got all these new documents. I revealed some of them in the movie. Jock said to me, and I showed him this stuff. He said, my gosh, I can't believe you're doing this case. He said, I was at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in April of 1964 with Dr. Heinek. And you were telling Heinek take it over about these closing counter cases.
SPEAKER_02
01:13:58 - 01:16:43
Well, about all the cases we had in France, but I had in my computer catalog. And that's when he wanted me to move to North Western, you know, from Texas. My first year in this country was here in Austin. So it's always fun to come back to Austin. Austin has changed since 1962. I can tell you, I can tell you, I can tell you, I can change since 99 when I first got there. Yes. And so I told Alan, let me look really carefully at the air force files. And you've got to have close encounter cases. In those days, we were calling them landing cases because there were traces on the ground. And that's where you could do some physics. There is more than a testimony. The guy says something landed in my backyard, it left his halls. You don't have to believe him. You can go see the hall, so you can measure them. You can look at the temperature, you can look at radiation, you can look at all these things. And he said, no, well, we don't have those kinds of cases. So I convinced him, you know, but to let me look at the files. And he said, look, I'm going to write a person where Project Blue Book was headquartered at the Foreign Technology Division, which is an intelligence branch of the Air Force. It looks at foreign materials. It was a logical place to put it. And what's funny is everybody assumes that that project was stopped secret. I mean, even in the movie production, the series now, the top secret blue book, blue book was never top secret. There were a few cases individually that were secret because of that radar was classified at the time. But the observation itself wasn't classified. And in those days, I wasn't, I didn't have a clearance. And I wasn't even an American citizen. I had only been in the US for a couple of years. So he said, that's no problem. We'll get you just a clearance for two days to go. to get to the base. But the archives themselves were, you know, any French scientist who wanted access could have had access. In the American scientist, and they, what frustrated the Air Force was that, you know, Carl Sagan never went there. All these scientists who said that who pulled the whole idea of UFOs, they never went to look at the archives. They never looked at the testimonies, at the wires, at the teletypes, you know.
SPEAKER_01
01:16:43 - 01:16:59
We talked about cross-eagan last night and you felt that Carl Sagan was pressured by ridicule. And that was some of the things that he had speculated that actually turned out to be true, like water on the moon and possibly even some form of life that existed in the past or currently on Mars.
SPEAKER_02
01:16:59 - 01:19:39
Yes, he was willing to, they speculated. They had interesting discussions between high and high and high. Heinek, you know, was kept talking about the Air Force Files and say, say again said, you know, if we've got no red, no red looks at everything with radar covering the United States, you know, completely. So if they are these things, no red must be detecting them. So, Heinrich said, well, you know, go ask him. So, say good, went to Naurad. And he went to, you know, mountain where the headquarters are and control system, Cheyenne Mountain. And he's explained that, you know, I understand, you guys must have UFOs, they said no. And he said, but, you know, you're tracking everything. We've got these people, you know, high-naked tells me it's got these reports about. And you know, you must have UFO reports. You must be detecting something. They said, yeah, but we don't call them UFOs. So we have no UFOs. It doesn't show up in the fires. Somebody says, keyword, UFO. No right doesn't have anything. So Carl Sagan said, what do you guys call them? And we said, we call them UCTs. And he said, what's the UCT? And he said, doctor, it's an uncorrelated target. And he said, how many uncorrelated targets do you get a month? They said about 10,000. What does that mean now? Well, that means that what the Earth is said, look, we're here to look for incoming trajectories of ballistic missiles from Russia. So if there is one data point, system doesn't care. If there are two data points, system starts looking. If there is a third one, It computes a trajectory. If the trajectory looks like an incoming thing, for example, from Alaska over towards Montana, we're going to alert all the fighters. Otherwise, it could be a flock of birds. It could be a weather balloon. It could be anything else. We're not paid to try 10,000 other things. We are here to defend the United States. Well, so who is looking at the other 10,000?
SPEAKER_03
01:19:39 - 01:20:14
Well, that's one thing I was going to say is that you said earlier that you felt that Project Blue Book was fairly transparent, but one of the things that I uncovered when I was investigating this landing case, which was a close encounter of the third kind, witnessed by a police officer in Sir Corne, in Mexico, 1964, was that the military was on scene within less than an hour. It was Richard T. Holder from White Sands, a hall of an Air Force Base area, He documented the landing prints from the landing gear of the spaceship, the so-called craft, documented with photographs. Yeah, they took photographs.
SPEAKER_01
01:20:14 - 01:20:14
Yes, photographs exist today.
SPEAKER_03
01:20:14 - 01:20:46
Yeah, they're in the movie. Yeah. He documents the footprints that corresponded to exactly where the eyewitness reported, the on-duty police officer, where he saw these little childlike beans. They document it all this and yet they downplayed that aspect of the phenomenon. They of the encounters so much and I know that because the line is a more of the police officer said he was told not to talk about it because it's one thing to explain away and unidentified craft. It's another thing to have to explain away beings on the ground.
SPEAKER_01
01:20:46 - 01:20:48
And how did they describe these beings?
SPEAKER_03
01:20:48 - 01:21:21
He said they were small childlike with any images. Yeah, so this yeah, so that's officer Lonnie Zamora that's said they placed rocks around the landing gear imprints to preserve the fresh ground traces and then there were four of them those rocks are still here today like you know from 1964 today you'll still see those rocks there more in the ground at this point But they documented and I have the diagrams the footprints of the creatures as well. So the new is a closing counter of the third kind.
SPEAKER_01
01:21:21 - 01:21:22
How do they describe the creatures?
SPEAKER_03
01:21:22 - 01:22:38
They were, there were these tiny little, they looked like children and they had white fitting suits on. White fitting or tight fitting white suits. What I was going to say to you is, what were their heads like? There were bigger heads, but the description of the beans was that. There was only a couple of newspaper articles that came out regarding the beans because the Air Force wanted to really downplay the fact that it was a close account of the third kind. But that aspect of the encounter leaked out before the author and military got there to the local newspapers. The officer Lonezmoor had cut out those articles describing his description of the beans and he kept them in a black duffle bag, which I discovered at his home. And I feature those as well in the film. But again, then you had congressional hearings two years later, where you had people at Project Blue Book, Kintanilla, denying the fact that there was any substantial evidence that would prove we're not alone. That was a lie. And Kintanilla lied. And Dr. Heinrich told the party line during his entire time, but then afterwards he left in 1969 the Air Force and he founded Kufos, which basically proves that he believed he did a 180 and he believed that we were not alone.
SPEAKER_02
01:22:38 - 01:23:21
Well, that was, he was waiting for a case like that, you know, I kept telling him, I kept showing him reports from all over the world, okay? And he still said, I can't You know, I believe those reports, I believe we have the same thing in the US. I convinced him that he was waiting for a case where he could convince, say, and manzo, and, you know, Dr. Manzo, had Harvard and his colleagues in science. Because he knew those guys. And they would believe Quintanilla rather than believing Heinrich. And, you know, the problem at Socorro was there was only one witness.
SPEAKER_03
01:23:22 - 01:23:25
One witnesses are the beings, but there are a number of witnesses that saw the craft.
SPEAKER_02
01:23:26 - 01:23:53
So the craft, yes, and there were theories that this was an experimental thing from white sense. White sense is 30 minutes away. And it's full of things. And there was the other explanation. It was, it's a test for lunar landing system. It doesn't look anything like the lunar lander. And there was a lunar lander. But it was in California. It wasn't in New Mexico.
SPEAKER_03
01:23:53 - 01:24:06
Exhape craft. It was white. I remember Fraver describing a tic-tac. I was investigating when that story broke. I was still working on Cicoro. Cicoro, he described as an egg. I don't know. Do we have tic-tac back in 1964? Maybe we did.
SPEAKER_02
01:24:06 - 01:24:09
Pretty close. But tic-tac egg, please subscribe to it.
SPEAKER_03
01:24:09 - 01:24:52
No wings, no tail. It had a blue flame, but when it got to 20 feet off the ground, it went completely silent. No exhaust vents, no wings, no tail. It had a little insignia on it, which we actually show in the film. This is supposedly that's a fake that's not the real symbol that's a fake symbol that was that was Richard E. Holder got to the site told Lonnie to put a different symbol because they could quickly identify a hoaxner if they were able to. We found the real symbol at the National Archives that was written in Dr. Heinrich's own handwriting, which I shared with you, which is an inverted V, they say an A, two lines here and one line across the top. It's an A. It's featured in the movie. So, but that was a fake symbol.
SPEAKER_01
01:24:52 - 01:24:56
So, someone put a fake symbol on just to see if people were hoaxing it?
SPEAKER_03
01:24:56 - 01:25:14
Well, what he did was he he said to the witness, but they did rather they did the meal it was a good idea actually he said look Let's change the symbol that way if there's anybody else claims to have seen this thing and they say yeah, that's the symbol will build a quickly identify a hoaxter So that was that was the point behind this. That's pretty clever. Yeah, that's pretty clever.
SPEAKER_01
01:25:14 - 01:25:25
Did these things the beings the way he described them did they have the archetypal alien appearance a very small bodies large eyes Did they have all the characteristics that you're hearing from these other
SPEAKER_03
01:25:26 - 01:25:59
He described them as being small childlike and then he's and then I interviewed the wife and fortunately Lonnie had died before I got to him But I got interviews with him that were done earlier on radio, but Lonnie's wife said Whatever my husband saw, changed him forever. He was never the same. And he went straight to the church right after it happened. I mean, the military was on the way to the scene when he was at the church talking to the pastor about this incident. But she said, it changed my husband. He apparently got eye contact with one of the two beings that was standing at the base of the craft.
SPEAKER_02
01:26:00 - 01:26:26
He wouldn't talk to Heineck until he had gone to the church and spoken to. And it changed his life. It changed Heineck. I mean, at that point, Heineck came back and said, you know, you're right. We have those things. And we have to take it into consideration. So that's really the case. He was waiting for
SPEAKER_03
01:26:28 - 01:27:07
So, to stop working yet, then there was another landing case that happened in 66 in Michigan. So, two years after the landing case, it's a quarrel and this one was witnessed by police officers and a whole bunch of people in a college and reporters, that was the infamous Michigan landing and the Dr. Heinek had a huge press conference and explained it as swamp gas. He later said it was one of his biggest regrets. And then Congressman Gerald Ford, who became president of the United States, was like, so up in arms about this, that he was screaming from the hilltop, you know, how could you, it was his constituents, and they, they pushed for congressional hearings of the United States. A lot of people don't know that.
SPEAKER_01
01:27:07 - 01:27:08
He was up in arms in what way.
SPEAKER_03
01:27:08 - 01:27:40
He said he was so angry. He was so angry at the Air Force for dismissing it as swamp gas that he pushed for congressional hearings, which we had. Congressional hearings. And here's the crazy part. And this is something we realized in the edit studio. Right at the end of the hearings, the congressional hearings in 1966 in Washington, D.C. as they were departing the building from those hearings. Um, there are a UFO flying saucer landed at a school in Australia in the outside of the world. That was happening as they were walking out of the building. It's crazy. It was just one of those things that we were at. Wait a minute, the time.
SPEAKER_01
01:27:40 - 01:27:44
Yeah, that was. Does it appear that these things happen in clusters?
SPEAKER_02
01:27:47 - 01:28:49
Yeah, and you know, so Coral happened. Yeah. The day after Heinrich and I left the Air Force Base in Dayton, okay? Right, Patterson. We were there for essentially three days, okay? But we went all day in the vault, you know, looking at the files, so on. And then after that we flew back, you know, both of us flew back to Chicago. And next day, from Quintanila to Ridec, how soon can you be in New Mexico? And he said, why would I go to the Mexico? He said, to something landed in Socorro, and you were there. They landed when it happened, just when we were leaving the Air Force base. And I mean, there is nothing you can do about that. I mean, those are coincidences, you know, information coincidences, it just happened.
SPEAKER_03
01:28:50 - 01:29:53
I would love to take this opportunity to any of your audience out there. I came across a memos when I was at the National Archives regarding Kintanilla talking to Heinek and Kintanilla was very concerned about a film crew that arrived in Sukkorn, New Mexico shortly after the incident. They didn't really want him talking. but he participated with the film crew and he even said to Ironic in this memo. He goes, would be too obvious if I show up there, but want it you be passing through to Ironic in 1964 or 65 and just find out what the hell's going on. Why is this police officer? We told him not to talk about it. Participating with the film crew. The film is called Phenomenon 7.0. 7 and it was done by a guy named Michael Moosto and I can't remember the other guys I mean it's called phenomenon 7.7 empire studios I spent four years trying to find this film if anybody out there knows where they can get their hands on it. It's color film 16 millimeter of the entire they interviewed Lonnie and all the people run them in just months after that incident. It's the best case in America
SPEAKER_02
01:29:53 - 01:30:11
Well, you found some incredible footage, like the UN, the testimony footage. I live through that with them watching what James was doing to try to, by any means, get to the real actual footage and that's incredible.
SPEAKER_03
01:30:11 - 01:30:45
We spent, my, my sister Kelly Fox worked as an archivist for several years digging up never before seeing archival footage. And one of them, the very man Lee Spiegel who put on the 1978 United Nations event with you and Heinrich and Cohen and handful of others, the footage is never seen a lot of data. It's just gone and called the grouper. and Gordon Cooper and we found that my sister found that footage and it was the one of the pinnacle moments of production. This footage that had been missing for 40 years and it's in the movie and it's in the color and it's clear.
SPEAKER_02
01:30:45 - 01:30:46
Yes.
SPEAKER_03
01:30:46 - 01:30:55
Sound is clear and it's perfect. And once we found it, it took a year to get our hands on it. Remember all this stuff we had to go through? Oh my god, your audience's eyes would glaze over.
SPEAKER_01
01:30:55 - 01:30:57
What is it show specifically?
SPEAKER_03
01:30:57 - 01:31:02
There was a, well, you tell us about the event at night in nations. It's amazing.
SPEAKER_01
01:31:02 - 01:31:04
But this footage, where does this footage that you found show?
SPEAKER_03
01:31:04 - 01:32:06
Oh, well, I, you talking about the film? Yeah, it's, it's a film crew that had a budget from Empire Studios in Los Angeles, traveled to Sequornu, Mexico shortly after the most uh... signal phenomenon 7.7 Michael moose though empire empire film studios i can not find this film you have no idea how often i went and found the guys wife he's dead she i befriended her i spent a year and a half getting to know where she finally let me into her husbands archives he and all these like storage facilities. It's 110 degrees with no windows. I'm inside there, while she's balling her eyes out because her husband had just died. And I'm digging through all of his stuff. I looked through there. I contacted the head of the studios. I found out where Empire Studios got bought by other companies. I literally spent the better part of five years. I could not find this film. But it's the best documentation of the best close encounter of the third kind in US history. So, and it's all filmed in color.
SPEAKER_01
01:32:07 - 01:32:54
One of the things we talked about last night at dinner is Betty and Barney Hill, and I told you that Angela Hill, who's a top UFC fighter, is the granddaughter of Barney Hill, which is crazy. And she didn't tell me until after the podcast. And I was like, what? Like I almost wanted to start our podcast back up again and have her just talk about that. I just wanted to talk about her mixed martial arts career and then that came up and I was like, I can't believe this is real. Like you're telling me something you're related to your grandfather was the most famous abduction story ever. him and his wife, Betty and Barney Hill, the most famous UFO ducks in the story ever. And that was in what year was that? 61.
SPEAKER_02
01:32:54 - 01:33:00
Yeah, September, September, 1961. New Hampshire.
SPEAKER_01
01:33:00 - 01:33:08
Yeah, and that is a story. Again, that featured the same sort of iconic beings, right? It was a very similar.
SPEAKER_03
01:33:08 - 01:33:11
Jacques, you were there with them. You interviewed them.
SPEAKER_02
01:33:11 - 01:37:02
Well, About a year old so later, they contacted me and Dr. Heinek saying that Betty thought that she was, she had some contact with, you know, the phenomenon that might manifest. It might happen again. And she wanted to do sort of an experiment. So they had some land close to a big lake where they had a little summer place. And so Heinek couldn't go there and asked me to go there. And the Batian Barney, who were there, and Dr. Simon, who was the psychiatrist from Boston, who did the hypnosis of both of them separately, and really broke the case, was with us. And so we drew a big circle in the grass. And I had a telescope with me. I had a little table set up and spent the night there waiting for UFOs and fighting mosquitoes because the time of year in New England you're going to get mosquitoes. We didn't get any aliens, but we had a lot of time to talk and And the next day, spend the next day with Betty and Barney and went through the wrong thing, we listen to the tapes again. And you know, the tapes are terrifying. And there is no question. I mean, people are coming now and saying, well, maybe it was a test, maybe they were, you know, maybe there was a psychological experiment that's not true. I think these people were, their story checks out completely from beginning to end. And I took Dr. Simon aside, and you know, there are lots of stories of people being regressed, hypnotically by whoever, you know. But Dr. Simon was, you know, psychiatrist during World War II for the Army, and he was an expert in hypnosis, and he was a licensed hypnotist. He wasn't just some euphalogists who decided to hypnotize people. which is very harmful by the wind. I don't know why people allow that to happen to that. So I took him aside and I said, Doctor, if I had been sitting there in their car, on the back seat and here is Barney and driving and betting next to him. And they see that, would I have seen the craft stop and all these little beings and the UFOs stopping them on the road and dragging them out? And he said, I have no way of answering that. I can tell you that by the hypnosis that my patients are telling the truth as they experienced it. I cannot tell you what we would have seen if you and I had been there. I cannot make the jump And I've never forgotten that, I mean, there could be a type of experience that some phenomena induce that, you know, just are not reproducible. And that's a toughest type of testimony. And how do you make sense of it? Even if you have physical data, the car did stop. I've never forgotten that dialogue with him.
SPEAKER_03
01:37:09 - 01:37:15
a little over a decade later, you have Travis Walton, Snowflake, Arizona.
SPEAKER_01
01:37:15 - 01:37:38
Before we go there, there's a lot more questions. So when you say this, that if you were there, you might not have experienced it. Well, you're saying that like this could have been something that they only experienced, that maybe even witnesses would not have seen. that this could have been unique only to them. Like, they were chosen for this experience. They were abducted.
SPEAKER_02
01:37:38 - 01:39:15
And I've spoken to quite a few witnesses who said that their car stopped on the road. There's a case, you know, two years ago in France that I investigated. Again, the witness didn't report it to the French authorities. because you know, witnesses don't want to be laughed at. So they think it's useless because the scientists are blogged, they will never look at it. So they just keep it to themselves. But what happened is she was in a car with two teenage girls, her daughter, the daughter of another family. And they were driving and they saw this thing. And I asked her, did you? see any other cows and she said no. And well, this was an expressway in France in broad daylight. There must have been other cows. And that often happens, you know, they suddenly all the sounds stop. You know, the birds don't sing anymore. They don't know dogs barking, you know, in the country side. You know, it's like there's a bubble around you. And this thing happens. You have an experience. And we know there were other cars on that expressway. I mean, there's got to be. And it's like it's a nice, solidity thing outside of, you know, as if there was another time in space.
SPEAKER_01
01:39:15 - 01:39:22
So you're looking perhaps a phenomenon that we will, we just don't have the capability of understanding.
SPEAKER_02
01:39:22 - 01:39:31
But you know, it's a gold mine for science. I mean, this is why we need to get the academia. You know, involved.
SPEAKER_01
01:39:31 - 01:39:34
But you just don't have any anecdotal descriptions.
SPEAKER_02
01:39:34 - 01:39:55
We just look at the, you know, the fighter pilots and say, well, it's a threat because it went around the fighter by, you know, how many experiences like this, though, are similar, where people have these similar stories where out of nowhere, hundreds, you can talk to any of the groups that gather that kind of data around the world.
SPEAKER_01
01:39:55 - 01:40:11
And it's similar in that everything stops. Yes. And so what this is like a constant, really, one of the constants. So what this might be describing is some sort of an ability to control space in time that we don't understand.
SPEAKER_02
01:40:11 - 01:40:24
This is control, dimension, consciousness, human consciousness, long enough to create an experience. That's what Dr. John Mac, you know, I got to know him quite well.
SPEAKER_01
01:40:24 - 01:40:27
And I read his book many years ago.
SPEAKER_02
01:40:29 - 01:40:39
Well, his book Passport to the Cosmos is an homage to Passport to Magonia, which was my book of many years. We had those conversations.
SPEAKER_01
01:40:40 - 01:41:14
And his take on it was, he did a lot of hypnotic regression as a psychiatrist with alien abductees. The thing that was disturbing to me about that was actually recommended to me by my friend Mora. She read it. She's like, you gotta read this. This is crazy. These people, they're all having the same story. And she, she might have even given me the book. But when I read it, that was the thing that struck me, like how similar the stories were. They were all of them had a pattern that you could follow. And they didn't know each other. They're from different parts of the world.
SPEAKER_02
01:41:18 - 01:41:33
And that's what I'm looking for. I'm not looking for individual cases. I'm a computer science guy. I try to look at patterns and things that will take you to the next level of understanding and to take one case at a time.
SPEAKER_01
01:41:33 - 01:41:37
I mean, what was John Max conclusion after all his years?
SPEAKER_02
01:41:37 - 01:42:55
John changed. I mean, initially he was, you know, he got interested because there were all these books about hypnosis and so on. done by amateurs or people who are not trained in hypnosis. And he started sort of retraining himself to do hypnosis. I asked him if he had used hypnosis in his practice as a psychiatrist. And he said, no, he had a cross in hypnosis of one week. But he never really practiced it. He's relearned hypnosis with some of the euphalogists who were hypnotizing people. And then gradually found that what they did was very shardy, and was really completely unscientific. I mean, there were some of those books. They were planting the idea, you know. Tell me about the rural areas that you talked to. Yeah. And you don't, if you do hypnosis, you don't lead the witness, you don't do that. So he got disgusted with that and re-did it, started to redo it his way and, unfortunately, that's when he was killed.
SPEAKER_01
01:42:55 - 01:42:57
What was his initial idea about what was going on?
SPEAKER_02
01:42:58 - 01:43:24
He bought initially, he bought the idea that these are aliens from somewhere. I mean, why not? And that they are here to probe our consciousness to understand humans. And then he gave up on that as he learned, as he did more and more interviews. understood more the process and looked at the data.
SPEAKER_01
01:43:24 - 01:43:28
And what did he decide it was after that when he was giving up on the idea that there were people?
SPEAKER_02
01:43:28 - 01:43:33
I think he was on and you whole new track of research.
SPEAKER_01
01:43:35 - 01:43:39
but what was the line of that research?
SPEAKER_02
01:43:39 - 01:44:07
I think he was, you know, he was coming to maybe I influence him a little bit, but he was coming to my idea that we have to look at more than the extraterrestrial that we see in movies from the 1950s, you know, from the 1950s, that this is not it. I mean, we need something more complex if we're going to get the scientific community involved.
SPEAKER_01
01:44:07 - 01:44:16
meaning not just space travel from space as I know. I'm super rocket that comes here. Something interdimensional is more, more possible.
SPEAKER_02
01:44:16 - 01:44:52
And they are not explorers coming here to pick up a few stones because you know, if they've been, we have 200,000 you know, well, this crowd cases. So why would you come from, and we're exploring Mars, you know, now we're sending a probe, you know, we're sending a couple of probe to the moon, we're bringing back the stones. But we don't do that, you know, every Friday. I mean, once you've done it, you've got it. I mean, why would you keep doing it?
SPEAKER_01
01:44:52 - 01:44:55
So what is your speculation? What do you think is happening?
SPEAKER_02
01:44:56 - 01:46:10
I don't see myself as the scientist to speak on that because I know too much about the work of teams. I've worked with many teams in Silicon Valley. I've financed a number of companies there in medicine, in space research, in computing, of course. The, it takes a team. We need to get what, what I can do is I can bring some of the history like, you know, the so-called thing where I try to help you in, in the movie. But because I know the history, I've met many of these people. I've met the researchers. I know what they went through, including the Air Force officers. I mean, they were under extraordinary pressure. So I can bring that context. I can bring, I would know how to put the AI component on top of the files. But when all the other people would have to work with it to come to a theory.
SPEAKER_01
01:46:10 - 01:46:19
I understand that, but about all the years of studying, surely you must have developed some sort of an idea of what you think this is.
SPEAKER_02
01:46:19 - 01:46:45
Well, I'm a student of that material. There is some form of consciousness out there that's teaching us something. You can, I could show you teaching us something. Yeah. Not teaching us something. Like, you know what you have in the movie with those kids. I mean, I asked for the kids are saying.
SPEAKER_03
01:46:45 - 01:48:37
I asked Jock this exact question. I remember where I was when I did it. It was in a cafe in Silicon Valley. I was with Dr. Peter Sturk regarding some metal stuff. And I looked at you and I said, Jacques, you know, can you please tell me what's going on? And you said regarding government secrecy is two points. And I'll get to yours in a quick second and correct me if I'm wrong here. But you said to me, James, look at the government secrecy this way. It's not so much a question of what they know. It's more of a question of what the government doesn't know. They can reveal that we have structured craft of unknown origin that that exhibit flight characteristics that are light years at fans from anything we have. They have no wings, no tail, no visible means of propulsion. They can go from a standstill to add a sight the blink of an eye. So there's some reports they can travel underwater at hypersonic speeds. They go into space. We don't know who they are, where they come from or what they want. There's no governing body that wants to disclose that nature of reality because suddenly, and I'm not saying it's threat because clearly if it was, we'd know about it. that, you know, we can't, the fly rings are on our fastest chess. We don't, we can't disclose that type of information. And the other thing you said to me, correct me if I'm wrong again, because this is what you're getting at. What's the bigger picture? What's going on? And you said, think of it this way, James, is an omnipresent intelligence, okay, that has the ability to manifest itself in a multitude of ways. It's nuts and bolts, but it's also psychic. That flavor talked about that object went to his cap point. I mean, he said it made the hair on the back of his neck stand up straight because those coordinates weren't known.
SPEAKER_01
01:48:37 - 01:48:41
Explain what you're saying to people, so this is a standalone podcast. So they know what you're talking about?
SPEAKER_03
01:48:41 - 01:49:34
So sorry. Yeah. So David Fraver, who's the Navy pilot that had that dramatic encounter with a tick attack off the coast of San Diego, back in 2004 that was also documented with the radar and visual confirmation, but also filmed on another subsequent flight just moments afterwards. But he said that this object, first of all, reacted to him when he was flying down to intercept it, but then after it flew rings around him, and we said it made a joke out of the fastest plane that Navy had at the time. It went to their cap point, which is the predetermined Latin longitude strategic point of the military exercise. So how on earth, he said, how on earth could this object know where that point was? So what I'm saying is there's a psychic. It's a nuts and bolts phenomenon, but it's also psychic. Is what I'm saying, a fairly accurate assessment of what's going on?
SPEAKER_01
01:49:34 - 01:49:38
Absolutely. What gives you the impression that they're teaching us something?
SPEAKER_02
01:49:42 - 01:54:36
Well, I could give you a couple of quick reactions. I mean, they're appearing to children. Those children are going to grow up. And they will remember what they've seen and so on. But there is another analytical answer that one of the things I did when I had good databases filtering out. I think we all agree that 90% of the cases I'm not true UFOs, okay? So, you know, there are things that the moon seem through a layer of clouds, ball light and what a ball light thing. What if all the things that the scientists say, yeah, that's true. 90% of it should be removed. Very, very few hoaxes, by the way, very, very few. Because if you're going to come up with a hoax, you're going to come up with something better than that. You can reveal and you can laugh and so on. This is not it. You don't hoax about something that's terrifying that people can shake. I started looking at patterns the way you look at patterns in science. In other words, you do regressions. The phenomenon is not constant. It goes through waves two months of three months over a country like France, over Florida, over Japan, and it's very intense. After about two or three months, they go somewhere else and they disappear. So you have this structure. And I started looking at the structure to see if it correlated with anything we know. So I started looking at, does it correlate with Mars? Mars right now is in the sky because it's close to us. It's a conjunction of Mars. And maybe when Mars is closest to us, we can It's easier for them to come here or something. There is something that happens at Facilitates. That broke down. That correlation didn't quite work. It looked like it was almost correlated but not quite. There is something in psychology called the schedule of reinforcement. If you want to teach, say a chimp, to do something, for example, pick up a ball or something. Every time he picks up the ball, you give him some fruit. So you reward every good action. Works with kids too. I mean, works really well with human beings. That's why we have advertising. But you're reinforced the action that you want to encourage. except that if you reinforce every instance where the chimp picks up the ball, after a while he goes play with something else. And he forgets the experiment. If you want to induce a behavior that will stay there forever, that will never be forgotten. You have to have some randomness. In other words, you don't always reinforce the same thing. And sometimes he picks up the ball, fine, and he doesn't get the food. And, you know, so you make it random. And that, you know, that the psychologists today don't experiment. was Kinder, Dr. Skinner, published all these experiments, and that became gospel for the psychologists, for a lot of psychological experiments. I ran that way of reinforcement of behavior, and behavior control, and that got applied to a lot of different fields. Well, that's what the schedule of UFO cases, if you look around the world, not that just one country, not just that Air Force pilots, or the Navy, or something. You have to look at the whole thing if you want to see that pattern. The pattern is a worldwide reinforcement of behavior. The behavior seems to be You need to let go of some of the things you're doing, and you need to let go of technology that's harmful, and you need maybe to be prepared to go into space.
SPEAKER_01
01:54:36 - 01:54:45
I mean, not by now. Where are you getting this interpretation? from what aspect of these experiences is given you that opportunity.
SPEAKER_02
01:54:45 - 01:55:27
So places where that reinforcement that's taken place and the appearance of the phenomenon, because the phenomenon is just at the border of what we can recognize, it's a little bit weird. But they are basically humanoid. I mean, they're not monsters with tentacles and so on. They are humanoid. And the people like, you know, Lani, Lani Zamora, and they think that there is a communication. They can look at the eyes of that creature and they get something. They get that reinforcement.
SPEAKER_03
01:55:29 - 01:57:23
I want to say something about the Africa case because I was in China a couple of times doing filming for the phenomenon. And I learned of this landing case, it's known in China as Mongja Gua. And I didn't prep any of the Chinese people that I was hanging out with about what I'd filmed already in Africa, the landing case and the telepathic messes that these beings allegedly gave the children. And I got this interpreter, it was telling me what this landing case in Africa, 1994, same year in China as in Africa. And this guy, Mung jog walk up the same environmental message in China at the children got. And I got goose bumps. I'm sitting there going, you got to be kidding me. And here's another crazy part. that one of those wild moments in the film, I was in Africa meeting with Judy Bates, who's now the headmistress. And she said, well, coming to my studio, I'm going to show you some drawings. I keep them in a very special place of what the kids saw that day. And she's taking these drawings out of these beans. And the quintessential big black eyes and big head. And even at one point, it had these two indicating these two little apostrophes that would indicate some sort of brain telepathic wave going out from the head. And, uh, fascinating. I took photographs of my iPhone. About two months later, I was in Australia doing the landing case in 1966. And I came across these cave paintings that I was learning about from locals from the one Gina. And I saw these drawings that were thousands of years old. of the exact same means that I just saw in Africa and I literally had the hair in the back of my neck and I'm going wow this is the one kina they were driving these they were drawing these cape how could what is the name of these these photos one jina one jina yeah nice not sure exactly but it's australia cave paintings are cave art you see in the one jina you did the book on on
SPEAKER_01
01:57:25 - 01:57:45
has there been a cataloging of various crafts and various beings and how many versions of them are there? How many versions of crafts have been seen? I know there's a square that appears inside of a circle. There's the ones that like, yeah, the triangles. There's the ones that look the tic tac. There's the discs.
SPEAKER_03
01:57:46 - 01:57:59
There's a cigar cigar right I've got video footage of one of those that the guy took consent to me really impressive You have it here. So light a Colorado 1995 Tim Edwards. He can look it up. You'll see.
SPEAKER_01
01:57:59 - 01:58:00
It's available somewhere.
SPEAKER_03
01:58:00 - 01:58:09
Yeah, so these are the one team Yeah, yeah, yeah, see look at that one down at the bottom there look at those I mean, he said these are from Australia.
SPEAKER_01
01:58:09 - 01:58:11
Yeah, those are from Australia. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03
01:58:11 - 01:58:33
Real some more. And I literally saw the drawings and there's one in particular that was just really gave me goosebumps. And I don't know exactly where it is, but it had the face and it had these two kind of repositories indicating some sort of communication telepathic. Just crazy. I mean, that's what the children had drawn. Look at those eyes. Those were thousands of years old.
SPEAKER_01
01:58:34 - 01:59:34
thousand if you're very strange isn't it crazy there's this also this thought that human beings will one day be something different right we used to be some sort of an ancient hominid now where this and if you extrapolate if you go from what we used to be we're hairy and muscular and you know very ape-like to what we are now which is softer our heads are larger we're far more intelligent if it just keeps going in that direction and if we keep with our integration with technology and electronics like that we might be something very different in the future and it's probably going to look like an iconic alien. There's a lot of speculation that when we're looking at is us in the future and that these things are what we are going to become or what we are if there are multiple timelines that are running simultaneously and different dimensions that these things are what a human being becomes in these other timelines a million years from now, a hundred thousand years from now, whatever it is.
SPEAKER_03
01:59:34 - 02:00:42
You know, you guys were talking earlier about the time freezes during encounters. This is a little side story I want to tell you about when I brought the children together in Africa as adults. They had time to process their encounter and, you know, there were adults that could articulate better. They'd had 20 years to think about it. And they said, I said, put me there. I just want to be there. It's such an exciting moment to hear from people who got within three feet of a potential being for another world. And they said, well, If you've ever been out in the remote wilderness and you come across and you have a rare sighting of a wild animal there's this moment of intrigue and curiosity almost like time stops and the what you're looking at is just as curious and intrigued about you as you are of them and they said That's what it was like with these beings that they were literally standing there and the beings were looking at all the children their eyes were scanning just moving and there was this moment of curiosity they did not feel threatened it was a benign encounter but their time had stopped and it was just mystery entry curiosity
SPEAKER_02
02:00:43 - 02:03:14
So with some of my colleagues we decided to go back to re-investigate some of the primary cases because there is something missing in all this. We are missing some clues. And so we are about to publish a book called The Best Kept Secret, because some of it, some of what we've uncovered, was kept secret and is still secret. even from, you know, the euphalogists who've really researched all that stuff. It's going to be published, you know, early next year, but we're pre, you know, people can pre-order it on Amazon. It's called the best-capped secret. And what we've done is to go back to some of the key cases and some new cases where we found that there may have been some superficial information about it, but most of the information was kept hidden by the witnesses. Now, you know, we keep talking about cover up by the government, which is true. But the witnesses are not stupid. They don't want to be, you know, laughed at by scientists, you know, six o'clock news. So they meet, give you some report, because they think it's their duty to report something to the police or the Afrosan son. But they won't tell you the whole story. And if you want to know the whole story, you've got to go there, which may take a couple of days. You've done that. And you've got to gain their trust and sit in the kitchen. And if you're lucky, they give you a cup of coffee and you talk. and you talk to their kids and you get to know them and they get to know you and if you're genuine, if they can see that you're not playing any games, you will eventually get the whole story and we've been doing that. And that's what the book is about. And it's going to change history. It's going to change the history of the of the phenomenon. How's it? It builds on the human element.
SPEAKER_01
02:03:14 - 02:03:17
The human element. The human element. But how's it going to change history?
SPEAKER_02
02:03:18 - 02:04:14
How is it going to change it? That number one, the structure of the information is amazing, the real structure, not just what the police blotter or the air force teletype. It's not necessarily about the object. It's not necessarily about what somebody heard. You've got to look at and we found especially one case that's extraordinary. The people had never talked. And it came to us and we've been studying it carefully from every angle. And then we've been looking for patterns around that case. Again, that's the best kept secret. People can pre-order it.
SPEAKER_01
02:04:14 - 02:04:23
But what is it about the structure? What is so astonishing about the structure of the information that you're getting from these accounts?
SPEAKER_02
02:04:27 - 02:05:20
I mean, you have to read the book, okay? Well, people read the book, but she would find was a commonality of the structure has to do with the intrusion in the life of someone. This is not something that all by the way I sort of flying saucer yesterday, you know, and now I'm going about by business. how profound the information goes inside the consciousness. Even those pilots are changed. They are changed permanently. And the information that the things stays with them, and you can talk to the witness for years later, which we've done. And it brings back, I mean, their memories completely clear. They know exactly where they were, what they were doing.
SPEAKER_01
02:05:20 - 02:05:27
because it's such a profound experience, right? It's what about the structure of the information that's so astonishing that's going to change history.
SPEAKER_02
02:05:29 - 02:07:34
They both the materials, and we continue to look at the materials at that level, not simply that, oh, goody, we can take it to the lab, we'll analyze it and we'll pat it and resell it as a new weapon, which is the stupid way of looking at this. These materials earth materials, most cases, we are looking at where the complexity is. and where why they were there at that particular time. That's only one aspect of it. We don't understand why these materials would be associated with an instrument or a vehicle that does what those things do. The situation also is structured in such a way that it ties into our culture. And, you know, in most cases, there is no anthropologist, you know, with the team that goes out there, whether it's a military or scientist or euphalogist, they don't bring in an anthropologist. When you look at the at the traditions, the local traditions. When you look, you can begin to tie the details of the sightings to what would be in the conscious. I saw that in Brazil. In Brazil, you can't just go there and ask people to fill out a questionnaire about how many degrees to the left of the North Pole was it? It doesn't work that way. You have to get into the culture and the phenomenon works on the culture at a very deep level. I think that's what we're showing. So they're taking a part that mechanism.
SPEAKER_01
02:07:34 - 02:07:57
These beings are having these interactions with people. They're teaching these people something. and that this is becoming more and more prevalent and we're learning something from this experience and the more you have stories like the 2017 store in the New York Times, the more this comes, it's almost like a slow trickle effect of getting the information out.
SPEAKER_02
02:07:59 - 02:08:01
and changing our behavior.
SPEAKER_01
02:08:01 - 02:08:11
Do you think it's preparing people for more frequent or more prominent visits? I can't answer that.
SPEAKER_03
02:08:16 - 02:09:03
Well, one of the things that I'm very optimistic about is that we're living an extremely divided times right now. And this is a story that transcends politics, transcends religion and borders, whether people believe it or not they're curious. And I think ultimately when this story is starting to come out and there are people behind the scenes working diligently to get it to come out. that it's going to have a very unifying effect on humanity. I mean, I sound like a, you know, group hug moment here, but I actually do believe that it'll force us to look at ourselves as who we really are. One race, one planet. And that there seems to be this external consciousness that is affecting our evolution somehow.
SPEAKER_02
02:09:03 - 02:09:50
And a planet that's extraordinarily fragile. I mean, it could be impacted, literally, physically by a lot of things and impacted by our stability. There were three cases in history where the alert went to go bomb the Soviet Union. I mean, three cases where the bombers were recalled, because one guy thought, this doesn't make sense. I mean, he had images, involvement, he left the compound to go outside and, you know, sort of re-adjust and realized that what he was looking at was a simulation of a Russian attack and that the bombers were up and ready to open the other
SPEAKER_03
02:09:51 - 02:09:54
In other words, they mistook the phenomenon on for a threat.
SPEAKER_02
02:09:54 - 02:10:05
For a threat. But everything in the defense establishment is oriented towards a threat. You should not have a threat, you don't need all that.
SPEAKER_01
02:10:05 - 02:10:21
That's the problem with the way you were describing the way we're approaching this phenomenon, that we're approaching it like it's a threat. And that instead of the military looking at this, there should be the scientific community that has access to this information.
SPEAKER_02
02:10:22 - 02:10:53
The military has very, very good platforms for observation. You know, like those infrared cameras, like the radar, like all the sophistication that they have, the tracking systems are satellites. That's very useful. But, you know, I'd rather have a cup of coffee with the The guy in his trailer who has seen something and can show me the traces in his backyard, you know, because I can do something with that.
SPEAKER_03
02:10:53 - 02:12:18
What was going to say is, you know, you look at what they do, but you also look at what they don't do. And one of the huge moments for me and you could extrapolate on this is what I met with Senator Reed. He kind of accidentally drops his huge bombshell where he talks about The most astonishing aspect of the phenomenon as far as he determined from a tip that secret Pentagon program was that they were not only observed over super sensitive military weapons installations, but they were shutting our nukes off. And Senator Reed went as far as to say in a couple of cases that he looked into. If the president of the United States wanted to launch, he couldn't have launched. And I interviewed one of these officers, Colonel Robert Salas, who's a launch control officer, and during the height of the Cold War, and he said, well, the message was pretty clear as far as I was concerned. I said, what do you mean? Because it's kind of like them taking matches out of the hands of a baby. I mean, it's kind of interesting. They give these messages to the children. Look, I'm not saying that definitively one way or the other. This is exactly what's going on, but I get. message to the children, the landing cases with children, then you get these benign encounters and then shutting our nukes off. I don't know. I mean, that's, that has to mean something, right?
SPEAKER_02
02:12:18 - 02:12:23
Well, it's a powerful, it's a very, it's a powerful signal.
SPEAKER_03
02:12:23 - 02:12:28
Is it a show of force or is it a show of, hey, you shouldn't be playing around with these things? Or is it both?
SPEAKER_02
02:12:30 - 02:13:29
You know, far away, I mean, we're testing those facilities. So far away, when I was bringing that up, people would say, well, you know, we've got incursions over those platforms to see if the guards are really reacting to detecting a threat and so on, again, the threat. But that's one thing to fly over a nuclear facility or storage area. where you have nuclear bombs, it's another to overcome the code of the missiles one by one. And you have cases in your movie where all the missiles, all the silos will turn off one by one. And as you said, if they had wanted to launch, they couldn't have launched the missiles. That's not something that, you know, is just an exercise. You know, and I'm sure he says a Russian said the same thing.
SPEAKER_03
02:13:29 - 02:14:37
Yeah, and this is something that the general public is always because I'm Joe public myself. I mean, my guy, a civilian, and they just wanted to get to the bottom of it. I sort of stumbled upon this thing accidentally. And now I can't walk away from it because I'm going, this is like the biggest story of modern history. I think that every man, woman in child is entitled to know this. But I would always ask these generals every time I'd meet with these military guys. And I've asked them all around the world, why are you guys covering this up? And they said, look, man, you can't look at that way. You have to understand from our perspective. We are employed by the public to protect you. For us to disclose that we have these unidentified objects whizzing around in our airspace with impunity, flying rings around our fastest jets, You know, we don't know who they are, where they come from. That's just not in our nature to disclose that to the public. You know, that's going to open up the floodgate to a bunch of questions of which we don't have answers. So you can kind of justifiably so see why the secrecy is lasted as long as it has. But it's starting to come out now. And I think we're living pretty exciting times with it all. I really do.
SPEAKER_02
02:14:38 - 02:16:53
You know, I don't think I've ever mentioned this to you. It's a little anecdote, but I had a friend who was one of the early researchers in France, an engineer named Amy Michelle, was something of a philosopher, and he was compiling all these data, and he went to the Air Force, and the French Air Force was pretty open with their cases. And the man was a Colonel Claire one. I remember his name. This was from the mid-60s. And they would have lunch, you know, which is a thing you do in France, you know, you have lunch with somebody and then you talk. And he convinced Claire one that, you know, go to your superiors and find out, you know, we should tell the public about this and we should open it up, you know, We should tell them this is going on, okay? And the claim one said, well, you know, it's a good idea. Let's have lunch again in one month, you know, I'll tell you what I find out. They get to the same restaurant a month later, and Amy Michelle says, what did you find out from your superiors? Said, it turned out, I, my superiors told me to go to the Americans. So I went to the U.S. embassy in Paris and I talked to my counterpart in the military and we're not going to open the fires. And the initial said, why not? He said, well, the Americans think that there would be it would open up to many things, you know, that we couldn't control. That society is not ready. That people would be scared, people would panic, You know, religious ideas would float around people with fight each other about, you know, what's happening in their consciousness and in their faith and in their life and we couldn't control it. And, you know, they told us to shut it up.
SPEAKER_03
02:16:53 - 02:16:55
How long ago is this? 64, 64.
SPEAKER_02
02:16:55 - 02:16:57
So the time is right.
SPEAKER_01
02:17:00 - 02:17:05
It's crazy that this has been going on for so long and it's so remarkably consistent.
SPEAKER_02
02:17:05 - 02:17:09
I just talked to people on the streets, you know, they're not scared of this.
SPEAKER_03
02:17:09 - 02:17:13
And the vast majority of people believe that the government knows a lot more than what they're admitting.
SPEAKER_01
02:17:13 - 02:17:16
Well, they're admitting they know a lot more than they ever admitted before.
SPEAKER_03
02:17:17 - 02:18:48
They are, exactly. And one of the things I really wanted to establish, if you'll notice, I have a very dramatic encounter at the beginning of the film, which occurs in 1955. It was with Colonel William T. Coleman, who later became public spokes officer for Project Blue Book, which is the Air Force's Vescutorial Armed for UFOs. And you listen to his account. of this encounter, this really dramatic encounter, it started at the duration of about nine minutes, it started at 9,000 feet, it ended at treetop level at what he called maximum continuous power in a B-2-5 bomber of Alabama in 1955. And he describes like he had three engineers in the plane with them. They're at treetop level flying flat out and they literally thought they're going to hit this disk and they're looking right at it and broad daylight going, Where are the wings? Where are the exhaust ports? Where's the propulsion? How on earth is this object flying? And you listen to his description of it. And then you fast forward because we put it, we bookend it to David Fraver off the coast of San Diego. And there are description of the flight. The observed technology is identical to what was documented in 1955. We're clearly dealing with a, with a technology that's light years at advance. It's the same description of witnesses back in the 40s and 50s. It's what's happening exactly today. So I just wanted to, I wanted to mention that because a lot of people are like, oh, clearly it's some, you know, some technology that skunk works were working on. I'm like, no, no, no, no. This is the same stuff that's been going on in the 40s and it's happening today.
SPEAKER_02
02:18:49 - 02:19:24
But we have to make sure that if there is, quote, disclosure, that it's not just the next chapter of the cover-up, because there are things that haven't come out, you know, like Senator Reed told you on your movie. There are things that have not come out that should come out. that have been, again, kept hidden, again, for fear that people would overreact on something. Is there a concern that they haven't told their own superiors?
SPEAKER_01
02:19:24 - 02:19:30
Is there a concern that some of it would be disinformation that they would make up some sort of a story to try to cover things up?
SPEAKER_02
02:19:35 - 02:20:08
I don't know, but you could orient it to a message that would be both interesting, but reassuring superficially. And again, organize it around the threat. And again, that message of reacting to the threat makes sense for the military, but the cases that they are working on are only 10% of the database. should look at the other 90%.
SPEAKER_03
02:20:08 - 02:21:40
You know, I interviewed this general, Parvise Jafari. He was an Iranian general. He had that dramatic UFO encounter over Tehran in 1976. And at the time I wasn't, I was more focused on the encounter itself and how extraordinary it was. And then Parvise Jafari, while piloting this F-4 Phantom Jet, tries to shoot at the UFO. And he suddenly realizes, maybe that wasn't such a good idea. And his controls freeze up on him. And he has this really dramatic encounter where he talks about he was going to reject the plane. And like, you know, why did I try to shoot that this thing? I mean, it knew he was about to shoot at it, according to him. And 10 years after I interviewed Pervis de Farie, just looking for some sort of additional material for the credit roll at the end. I found this really powerful statement from Parvise and he goes, he was reflecting back on the incident. And he said, my biggest regret was that I tried, instead of making peaceful contact, instead of trying to make peaceful contact, I tried to shoot this thing. And I wish I could go back and have tried to make peace. It's a really powerful statement coming from an Iranian general about an incredibly dramatic encounter. You know, just reflecting back on why is it that we have this this stance of hey anything that's unidentified in our airspace must be seen as a threat and We have to go after it and shoot at it. I mean, that's not the kind of contact I'd like to I don't want that representing me.
SPEAKER_02
02:21:40 - 02:21:49
You know, so I don't think it would work very well No, but there have been cases where they shot
SPEAKER_01
02:21:50 - 02:21:54
Well, they shot what? Are you hopeful? There's someone shot a UFO?
SPEAKER_03
02:21:54 - 02:22:09
Yeah. Well, 1952 over the White House. Yeah. I almost put this in the movie and Joc and I went back and forth on this for a long time. I'm so glad you brought this up. Yeah, because I said did you have that fight? Yeah, we kind of did.
SPEAKER_02
02:22:09 - 02:28:54
Please tell us a story because it's amazing. You were right to keep it at that level because In the 80s, they were congressional hearings, not about UFOs, but about something that I was doing professionally, which is building civilian computer networks for crisis management, for industrial crisis management. And we were funded, the company I created, was funded to develop essentially the equivalent of computer conferencing we have today on Facebook. This was way before the web was invented. Again, the mid-80s, to link together all the nuclear power plants in the major countries, five countries including Japan. when it was against the Japanese law to have Japanese data outside Japan and to for them to be on that network, the data had to be on our computer, which was in California. We operated that network for three years and this was a closed network. It wasn't accessible by people outside. It was just operated by the international, you know, industry, essentially, of atomic power. And we, by the way, detected a number of flaws. And this was after the three-mile island accident, you know, that was could have done a lot of damage. And people were scared, and they wanted to share the information. And we were essentially the Facebook equivalent to that industry. So I was asked to testify at the algorithm hearings on emergency management. And another little company, where the only civilians were, are the only non-government people there. All the others were from the three letter agencies, CIA, the NRO, the other agencies, or a FEMA. emergency administration and so on. And that was extraordinary, because those were the top people who would manage an emergency other than war. I mean, they told us, don't even go into the nuclear war thing, because even in nuclear war, most of the damage is environmental damage, which I didn't know. And it's the amount of dust that kills you. It's not necessarily the bomb that kills you. It's what happens after the bomb. So we were just looking at civilian casualties and civilian crises. And there I met a number of people who were the people in the government who would be handling nationwide or international crises. like the Berlin crisis, the people who had been there in the days of the Berlin crisis were there and so how do you structure the information to get all the people who need to know? I mean everybody goes inside into a bunker and then the bunker communicates somehow and then you get in touch with other countries and get their experts and then you try to manage the situation. Like, you know, suppose a big meteorite falls, okay, it's the size of half of Chicago. You know, what do you do after that? And government needs to continue. One of the people there was an expert who had worked under five administrations, managing the structure of crisis management for the U.S. government. He introduced me to Arthur Lundell. Arthur Londow was a legendary member of the intelligence community. He was knighted by the Queen of England. He's one of two or three Americans who were knighted. And then his buddies at the CIA used to call him Sir Arthur of the Light Table, because a lot of the things he did was with negatives, you know, with satellite photographs that were on the light table. He is a one who discovered the missiles in Cuba. and briefed President Kennedy showed him where that was and why there were missiles and not just trees. It takes a lot of training. It turns out you can just look at one of those pictures and see. Ah, you know, that's a missile. He was he one who told, who was sent by the US to brief Charles the Gold, President the Gold. about the U2 shutdown over the Soviet Union. And we became friends. We became friends because I was introduced by the people from the Algor hearings. They knew what I was working on. And he had been a pioneer within the intelligence community in getting all the He started the Air Force's Image Interpretation Center in Washington. For the Navy, the Air Force, CIA and the other places. He told me about 1952. He was very interested in UFOs because he had seen photographs. I mean, he was the Armed Forces Photo Interpretation Center, epic. He was getting all those things. He had all the clearances from all the services. He didn't tell me the whole story, but he told me number one that those things had been photographed. He told me that at the Robertson hearings, he had the Mariana movie. He gave it to the committee. The committee took it somewhere and analyzed it. They said they were sea goals. When he got the film back, the first, the first 20 frames were missing from his film. From the CIA film, the CIA laboratory analysis of the film.
SPEAKER_03
02:28:54 - 02:28:56
Very famous film footage of a UFOs back in 1950.
SPEAKER_02
02:28:56 - 02:30:26
So that's actually the level of the cover-up at that point that they would do that to their expert. And then we talked about 1952. The 1950 to the official explanation came from Dr. Manzol and Harvard. Those were inversions of temperature over Washington. We'd get hot over Washington. And this photographs of these, right? There was no phone. There was no photographs of what's not appeared over the White House. But there were no, there were, you know, They were striking, radar tracking on it, and they interpreted the radar as being inversions of temperature multiple times. But they sent, of course, they sent the Afros after it. Well, he said one of the pilots got permission to shoot, was authorized to shoot, and shot a piece of metal out of one of the disks. Those were disks, were flying. They didn't care about the defenses, they flew over the White House, They flew over the major facilities down to Washington that are forbidden. I mean, there is no law of a flight. And so they had to do something and they shot it. The thing was recovered.
SPEAKER_03
02:30:26 - 02:30:27
The piece of metal.
SPEAKER_02
02:30:27 - 02:30:49
the piece of metal was recovered. He told me, you know, I really shouldn't talk about what happened after that. There is no question that there was a piece of metal recovered from that encounter and then it was shut off, you know, flying this over Washington in 1952. And all the explanations that were given to the scientists and to the public were BS.
SPEAKER_03
02:30:51 - 02:32:03
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we feature this case in the film. And we have the guy that was actually in the radar room, this guy Al-Chop. And we had testimony from the gentleman that interviewed him Tom Toulion back in 1990 something. And it's very rare, extremely rare footage of an interview with a very man who was in the radar room listening to the cockpit, listening to the pilot as he was surrounded by UFOs right over the, you know, Washington, DC White House Capitol Building. And he was terrified. I mean, he suddenly found himself traveling at 600 miles an hour through the pitch black darkness and he was surrounded by unknowns. And he literally radios down to the tower and says, they're completely surrounded me. What do I do? And they were speechless. They didn't know what to tell the pilot. They could see on the radar, all the disks, all these UFOs around the surrounding this plane. And Joc said, well, I know, and we feature this in the film, you probably remember that part. And then Joc said, well, it goes a bit further. We actually did shoot at them. And one of the pieces of the debris from the UFO fell to the ground. It was recovered. And where is that piece? We went back and forth on whether to include that in the movie.
SPEAKER_02
02:32:03 - 02:33:17
And I finally said, I kept, you know, maybe at some point out, be able to tell you where the where it is the the piece but those are things when when would you be able to do it yeah do it now why when you what was you want to wait i i think some of the you know i i respect the need for certain things to be managed in a particular way. And it wouldn't really add to the story to talk about that. In the book, we go a lot further in talking about what those materials are, what the questions are, what the questions are from science, but also what the questions are for disclosure, it varies over disclosure. But there isn't going to be one big disclosure that says, we've got contact with aliens from Alpha Centauri. These closures come in layers. Everybody needs to get around.
SPEAKER_01
02:33:18 - 02:33:22
You're all the truth. But this piece of metal from the 1950s isn't it about time?
SPEAKER_03
02:33:22 - 02:33:40
Yes, so we've got others. You can answer his question indirectly by that memo, the cross memo that we did feature in the film and who wrote it? He was a metallurgist and what lab was he working at?
SPEAKER_02
02:33:40 - 02:39:52
So, you know, the last time I left in 1952. 1952 was a disaster for the Air Force, because they realized that their lines of communication, which were already a network, it was a network of teletypes. were saturated by people reporting UFOs, including Air Force bases reporting UFOs. And somebody thought if the Russians were to simulate a UFO thing, by throwing artificial things in the sky or whatever, and they could saturate the communication and we couldn't deploy the defense system. So we've got to do something about it. to reduce the level of reports from the public. So they created, they called together five of the top scientists in the land, you know, felt on page, Lou Alvarez, people like that. Nobel Prizes, people who knew the nuclear secrets from the days of up and high marines, and they brought them to discuss what they should do, and the be briefed by Artlundal. That's where he lost his 20 pictures, which were the best pictures from the beginning of the film. He never saw again. That's where Heinek testified that Heinek was, as he says, cooling his heels in the anti-Chember in the Arabi, and they would only bring him in for a couple of things before the scientists. The long story short, the outcome was a classified recommendation to explain a way most of the phenomena to the public, to reduce a number of reports. So the idea wasn't to make the problem go away. It was to make the reports go away because the reports were clogging up the communication channels that were vital to the defense of the country. That bit sense. I mean, there is usually some reason why the military does something. Sometimes it's not obvious, but in this case it was logical. So Heinek was there and Heinek had a bunch of papers from his testimony and so on. After my PhD at Northwestern, I had an office at the Computing Center. There's a whole summer coming, and I offered to Dr. Heinek to reorganize these files, which were a complete shambles. And so he says, sure, I mean, that would be great. You can put it in new folders. So I buy new clean folders and I start going for all the files because we had copies of, you know, essentially 20,000 reports from the Air Force that were unclassified. And so I make these new things, and I put everything back in order. I also punch the cards for that, so that we have the database at the same time, which I still have. And with the names of vertices, by the way, which I find this folder, which is full of stuff, and in it there is two pages, an onion skin, everybody. I mean, your audience, I'm sure your audience has no idea what an onion skin is. You know, when you have a typewriter, a hand typewriter, and you want to make several copies, you put a carbon between, and the first page is your letter, and the others are, you know, thin paper, you know, that thin paper is called an onion skin. Of course, now we have computers, so we don't, we don't need carbon copies, so it's a carbon copy of a memo. From somebody I've never heard of, to somebody in the intelligence community, saying we should not have that panel, because we are not ready. And which is interesting by itself. I mean, who are these people who want to stop the stop level scientific panel of, you know, the state's defense establishment? I mean, who do they think they are? The other thing about the memo is that it's step secret. At that point, I still have a French passport, and I have a green card. So I'm legally in the United States, but I'm not even a U.S. citizen. I became a U.S. citizen. You had to wait five years before you could be applied for a citizenship. But I certainly didn't have any reason to look at the secret memo. But I started reading it. Because I need to tell Heinek that this shouldn't be here, shouldn't be in my five. Heinek told me that he had not only had the forgotten that memo, but he didn't think he had ever seen it. That if he had seen it, that would have changed some things. Well, it turned out that group turned out two things. Number one, that Robinson panel was not brought together by the Air Force, was brought together by other people in the intelligence community. The Air Force was recovered. The scientists were never told that. They didn't know that. So you bring together the top, you know, top clearance, top physicists in the US, including a couple of Nobel Prizes, and you don't tell them who you are. Wow, okay. This, this, this, this.
SPEAKER_03
02:39:52 - 02:40:29
Can I step in just for a quick sec because this was something that we featured and it was really complicated story. So basically what Jacques is saying leading up this, we had a really difficult time deciphering this. So basically, There was that massive sighting in 1952 over Washington. The Air Force had to do something. They decided to convene a panel of the most smartest minds on how to deal with this. It was called the Robertson panel. The Robertson panel was then told not to happen by this This memo that you find, which basically is an unknown government agency with more power, more influence in the CIA.
SPEAKER_02
02:40:29 - 02:41:50
It wasn't even a nation's speech, it was a contractor. The contractor, they had a contractor to look at UFOs. And what they were saying is, you know, it's a good idea to bring these edges, but this is premature. We're not ready to tell them about their patterns. It's always about these were top-level computer people in 1954. They were working with punch cards, but punch cards work, I mean, you know, there's nothing wrong with punch cards. They wanted to bring the best information and then had ideas that they wanted to discuss about how to test their hypotheses about what UFOs are. The Robertson panel went on, ignored that memo, it went on, and it concluded that they should discount the reports from the public, and they should look at instrumentation from the military, which is what people are doing now. We see the military with these advanced cameras, the limits, all those things that are in your movie. and they've discounted reports, they kept Project Blue Book growing so that the public would have a place to write if they saw something, but it was a very low level thing.
SPEAKER_01
02:41:50 - 02:41:56
But we got to this because you were saying about the examination of the metal. Yes. We never got to that.
SPEAKER_02
02:41:56 - 02:43:33
Well, the memo, so when I discussed it with Heinig, and I got only one other person in the confidence, the memo came from an organization in Ohio called Batel Memorial Institute. Top organization on the analysis of metals. They were the ones who invented titanium aluminum. They were the ones who invented some of the coatings and some of the metals used in spy planes, like that were used later in the U2, in the SL-71, in those undetectable airplanes and so on. They were at that time the experts. They were also the experts on UFOs because they had a contract with the Air Force. And I think that memo, which I really didn't want to expose, but I would have written that memo. I mean, that conference was an attempt to cover up the reality. And what the battle scientists were saying was, wait a minute. We need to look on the ground. We need to simulate a UFO wave. See what the statistics are. That's going to take another year. Don't convene that meeting now. And they were over-written.
SPEAKER_03
02:43:34 - 02:43:50
But Joe's question is, where would that piece of metal that was shot off the UFO? That memo revealed it was written by a metallurgist from the Memorial Institute. So if he had that metal in the possession, it would have been analyzed by a metallurgist at the Memorial Institute.
SPEAKER_02
02:43:50 - 02:43:56
Yeah, but at that point, the different palaces were not communicating.
SPEAKER_01
02:43:56 - 02:44:01
But did they examine the metal?
SPEAKER_02
02:44:01 - 02:44:20
I shouldn't talk about that. I think the book talks about how complicated it is to get, once you get the metals or the samples or whatever, what do you do with it and what does it mean?
SPEAKER_01
02:44:20 - 02:44:24
Why shouldn't you talk about whether or not the test of the metal?
SPEAKER_02
02:44:24 - 02:45:07
Well, because I'm not, I don't have the complete information. Obviously, that was classified. I'll turn down, tell me that because number one, he knew that I knew the rest of the story, Number two, I had just testified before a congressional panel on crisis management for the United States of America. So he knew that I understood how those things happened, you know, how they are managed. But there is plenty of other metal. I mean, I don't really care about that particular metal.
SPEAKER_01
02:45:07 - 02:45:24
If you don't care about that particular metal. Well, there's a piece of metal that we shot out of. But if there's a piece of metal that was shot off of a UFO in 1952 that's proven to be of a consistency or with some sort of a, we have others. We have others.
SPEAKER_02
02:45:24 - 02:45:47
What do we have? With others from Argentina from Brazil, you said there was something from Russia, but has it been proven you were talking about? When I say we talking about my buddies and the lab we have in Silicon Valley, but these other people have similar things.
SPEAKER_01
02:45:48 - 02:45:56
Right, but these medals have they been proven to be of a structure that we can't replicate?
SPEAKER_02
02:45:56 - 02:45:58
Not when I've looked at so far.
SPEAKER_01
02:45:58 - 02:46:01
What have you looked at so far, they're easy to believe they're extra terrestrial?
SPEAKER_02
02:46:03 - 02:46:13
The condition under which they were found and the reports from the witnesses about what they did.
SPEAKER_01
02:46:13 - 02:46:30
Okay, but if you're talking about something that doesn't seem obviously extraterrestrial, how do you know how do you know that this is an extraterrestrial piece of metal if it has the same characteristics of metal that you would find here on Earth?
SPEAKER_02
02:46:33 - 02:47:04
the characteristics of the metal arguing to be the same ones that we find on earth because iron from from mouse or Venus is like right iron you can pick up but let's go back to the time we talk about that one particular silicone if it is made she neared yes at the atomic level for saying 1954 at a level where our technology hadn't evolved to the point of, for example, separating the isotopes.
SPEAKER_01
02:47:04 - 02:47:08
And you've found things like this?
SPEAKER_02
02:47:08 - 02:47:31
Yes, not me, but some of my colleagues believe that they found things like that. but they only had a tiny amount. I went to Argentina and I got more of this stuff because there is still some stuff there. And I brought back test tubes with enough material that we are going to be testing it again.
SPEAKER_01
02:47:31 - 02:47:38
So they haven't tested anything that shows that it's clearly extraterrestrial. no one has any concrete evidence from any of these samples.
SPEAKER_02
02:47:38 - 02:48:17
The the the metal that was found in in Brazil where people described an object flying over and then an explosion that showed some of it fell in the water some of it fell in the sand on the beach some of it fell on rooftops and so there was a lot of stuff And for a long time, we only had a pinhead where for stuff. Which is good enough for one measurement. But people told me you can't come here with one measurement. You need 20 different machines, different things, different techniques if you want to do it right. So that's what we're doing.
SPEAKER_01
02:48:18 - 02:48:32
But do you understand what I'm asking? Is there one smoking gun? Is there one piece of metal that you can say this? This was made at a time or this is from 1952. There was no technology to recreate this metal then. We didn't know how to make this.
SPEAKER_02
02:48:33 - 02:49:02
Well, the one that I'm talking about was 57, over Ubatuba in Brazil, and other groups have the similar thing, and will compare notes. But what was found was that one of the components of the magnesium, one of the isotopes of the magnesium, was way over what it would be in nature, in the natural magnesium, which means somebody took it apart and reformulated the magnesium.
SPEAKER_01
02:49:02 - 02:49:06
The magnesium is very light and very strong, unusual.
SPEAKER_02
02:49:06 - 02:50:22
Yes, and also ignites in contact with air. So it blows up easily. And the reason our sample doesn't blow up is that there is oxide. It oxidizes very quickly. So there is a layer of magnesium oxide on top of it. And the analyses, some of the analyses that have been done We indicate that, number one, it's extremely pure, pureer than the Dow standard for magnesium. But again, if you go to see a physicist, you'll say, well, I can buy the Dow standard, and I can't we find it further. In my lab, it's Dow chemical, they supply metals to everybody. They never had a commercial need for that. But if I have a need for that, I can do it. So that doesn't prove anything. But if we can verify it, and if we can look at the ratio of the other isotopes and so on, highly precisely, which we can do now. But that hasn't been done yet. No. No. We'll do it in the next few months.
SPEAKER_01
02:50:22 - 02:50:31
Okay. So the answer is, if I can round this out, there's no real clear evidence that any of this metals extraterrestrial.
SPEAKER_02
02:50:31 - 02:50:31
Correct.
SPEAKER_01
02:50:32 - 02:50:42
So when you say we have lots of metal that seems to have come from a UFO, what would lead you to think that if none of this has been proven to be extraterrestrial?
SPEAKER_02
02:50:42 - 02:50:45
Well, because people solve the thing crash.
SPEAKER_01
02:50:45 - 02:50:51
Yeah, but people don't always tell the truth. Right. Isn't part of the problem is that people don't always tell the truth?
SPEAKER_02
02:50:52 - 02:51:08
Yeah, but if they come up with if they say this thing crashed, you know, you've got ordinary people in Brazil in that little town. You've got the police. You've got the, you know, telling you that this thing fell and hearings were stuff. You take the stuff to the left.
SPEAKER_01
02:51:08 - 02:51:18
That is the stuff you clearly manufactured. Is it clearly refined and manufactured? Yeah. So this is not something that could have come from an asteroid. No. Okay. No, I asked the same question.
SPEAKER_03
02:51:18 - 02:52:04
I was in the lab with him and Gary Nolan. And I was exactly like you. I was like, well, what do you, I'm, I'm, where's the evidence? Yeah, I need to know. And Gary said to me, and some of which had to be edited down a little bit, because it was, he, he went a little beyond the comfort zone of Stanford University. He said to me that what we're looking at has an isotopic value that he didn't understand, that if it was to be recreated on earth, it would be in the billions of dollars to do it. That's better. Yeah, then he said to me, we don't understand it. It's engineered at an atomic level. We're learning that with this new device that we haven't silicon valley. We don't understand it. We want to understand it and we feel like it could be revolutionary breakthrough technologically if we could
SPEAKER_01
02:52:04 - 02:52:25
Understand it and this other material that in the Silicon Valley that they were had discovered 20 years ago that your friend had analyzed and he said There's nothing like it and we've seen nothing like it since then yeah, but this yes, it was given right that sample right and we don't know where that is now right we don't know where it is we don't know
SPEAKER_02
02:52:25 - 02:52:57
But he said an awful matrix of awful silicate that he couldn't probe within his lab. And obviously, but there would have been a logical place to look at that because they had all the people who signed that memo were metallurgists. So that makes you think of something.
SPEAKER_03
02:52:57 - 02:53:50
I get frustrated with the two because I went to the lab and I saw the machine. I saw the metal samples, which you carried around like this. You never let them out of your sight and I said, Jesus, are you paranoid or what are you worried about? You said these things I was thinking of. They have a way of disappearing. And I asked the same questions you were asking me, what do we know? And they're very, you know, he's concerned that he's going to make a statement. that's going to be premature, that the further scientific analysis, that the scientific journals and the peer review hasn't happened yet, and therefore he's being really conservative, but basically what he's telling me is the substance engineered at an atomic level, it would be in the billions of dollars to recreate if we could even recreate it, and we're talking about pieces that recovered as early as 47 and 57, and you know, et cetera. So it's extremely exciting, but it's too early to make any
SPEAKER_01
02:53:51 - 02:54:15
concrete state okay but that's much better the least you're saying that there is something some evidence that shows that there's something and whether or not it's made from materials that exist as we know it currently on earth it's made in a way that there's no way anyone can make it today without like some insane budget and not much less likely than 1940s yes
SPEAKER_02
02:54:16 - 02:55:13
Well, again, this is human testimony. Yes. You know, this scientist from that company with that matrix of orthosilicate, the Air Force Colonel who told me about the thing he could lift with one finger, you know, a whole wing. You know, Colonel Kroso with the stuff that he recovered, that he was given by the army. I mean, initially the Army had had the project to analyze this and write that to the war and that he gave to the different labs. What we need to do is go through the normal scientific publication process. Why hasn't this happened? Every time somebody tried, Dr. Heinek tried, they wouldn't publish it.
SPEAKER_01
02:55:13 - 02:55:33
But in 2020, don't you think there'd be more likely to be interested in possibly publish this? When, when found out? So you still have all these metals in your possession or in someone's possession? Yes? What other kind of evidence is there? Is there anything else that's compelling?
SPEAKER_02
02:55:33 - 02:55:49
I don't know of any biological evidence. That's what would like a body you mean. Well, we don't even need a body. I mean, you need a saliva from a mouth. I mean, we can do the DNA.
SPEAKER_03
02:55:49 - 02:57:24
I brought this up with Chris Romellan recently. And because you hear that same old argument, you know, oh, you know, the skept... And I think it's perfectly healthy to be skeptical. I'm going to be the first one to tell you that the vast majority of UFO reports can and have been explained away in sort of down to Earth conventional terms. But there's that core 10 or 15 percent of cases that truly after careful scientific investigation, defy a terrestrial explanation. And those are the cases that we focus on. And I asked Chris for mellon, what do you say to the skeptic that says, oh, there's clearly just anecdotal evidence says to the reality of UFOs. He's like, well, we put that to bed a long time ago. You've got visual confirmation, radar confirmation. ground air, visual, and ground air radar. You've got photographic evidence from the cockpit of these military aircraft. You've got landing prints in the ground. You've got soil sample analysis from the propulsion. You've got plants and soil samples. There's a preponderance of evidence of cases all around the world. You know, the only question is, you know, who are they? What do they want? Where do they come from? I mean, that seems to be where we need to set our sights. And Senator Reid says something really interesting to me. He's like, look, just because we don't understand something, it doesn't mean we should shy away from it. It doesn't mean, you know, we should you know, focus and the scientific community and get to the bottom of it and put the necessary resources in place and stop treating this like a taboo subject that we have to all, you know, shy away from.
SPEAKER_01
02:57:24 - 02:57:36
Well, whoever has a string of hold on the information, the intelligence community, seems to be in a position where a lot of what they have is, I don't know. Yeah, they're also, they don't want to say that.
SPEAKER_03
02:57:36 - 02:58:12
They're also sitting on footage of, you know, apparently, according to all the people that military guys I've talked to, crystal clear photographic evidence, landing film, footage evidence, cockpit film recorded evidence. I mean, there's that statement I read earlier from about this latest story breaking about two Navy pilots getting one triangular shape UFO that came out of the water. They've got a crystal clear photograph of that. They're not releasing to the public. So I think we should get the pressure on for further government transparency. I really do, and I think that the more tangible solid compelling evidence needs to get released.
SPEAKER_01
02:58:13 - 02:58:17
It's so fascinating and everybody wants to see something like this, you know?
SPEAKER_03
02:58:17 - 02:58:36
It's a big story ever. I mean, the cockpit recordings that Chris Romellan snuck out of the Pentagon, the end up on the page of the New York Times, that was huge. Everyone is waiting for that type of evidence. We know it's there. We've had confirmation from the streaming high-level government officials, people in the intelligence agencies, and saying it's there, we just have to get it released.
SPEAKER_02
02:58:39 - 03:02:03
At the Agore hearings, about emergency management, the question of the satellites came up. And somebody said one of the Congress people. We pay you guys to deploy these satellites and you look at the Earth all the time with 10 centimeters resolution. So if you see something you should be able to, that could be a crisis, you should be able to tell us if it's going to threaten the population of the United States. There was one guy there who didn't laugh because he was respectful of the committee, but he said, we will do respect. I cannot enter this audience. I cannot tell you where I work, but there are three letters to my employer. What I can tell you is that I measure Every morning, the amount of snow that has fallen on the nose of the statue of Georgian ski in downtown Moscow in front of their headquarters of the KGB. I can measure, I can tell you how much snow fell that night because I measured. So that tells you the kind of instrument that we have. I'm by regulation, by law, I must turn off my satellite when it flies over the United States. I'm not spying on your house. If you authorize me to run the satellite, to run the, you know, acquisition, I could tell you when there is going to be a flood in Arizona. because I measured the amount of the snow that fell on the rockies last night. And we've got these climate prediction schedules. We can approximately tell you where it might melt and where it's going to go when it melts and how big the reservoirs are going to be. And when the reservoirs are going to overflow, that I'm not authorized by law to And if I looked at it, I wouldn't be authorized to disclose it to you because you're not cleared for the characteristics of my resolution of my device. you know in March I'm going to be sitting with my wife and my kids looking at the TV and I'm going to see this woman in Arizona with her two babies in her arm up to here in a kitchen up to here in water because they dance and it's flooded because it happens every winter because snow melts so it comes down But I'm not authorized to tell her. And even if I told her, I would have to tell the governor. The governor would have to tell the sheriff. And the sheriff would have to disclose, you know, send somebody in the house. But did he say? Now four levels of management.
SPEAKER_03
03:02:03 - 03:02:04
Did he indicate they were picking up UFOs?
SPEAKER_02
03:02:06 - 03:02:09
No, no, no. Well, we were not talking about you.
SPEAKER_01
03:02:09 - 03:02:09
I know.
SPEAKER_02
03:02:09 - 03:02:11
We were not talking about.
SPEAKER_01
03:02:11 - 03:02:18
Right. But you were saying that if we have these satellites that can do these incredible things, why are we not picking up UFOs?
SPEAKER_02
03:02:18 - 03:02:27
Well, No, I'm saying why if they're picking up your phone, why they're not telling us? They can't even tell us when they're going to be a flood in Arizona.
SPEAKER_01
03:02:27 - 03:02:35
Okay, so they might be a good reason. They might be picking up these UFOs, but they're not giving us the data.
SPEAKER_02
03:02:35 - 03:02:37
That's not how long that was saying about
SPEAKER_01
03:02:42 - 03:02:51
The other compelling story of a production that you had briefly brought up for a second before we were still on the Betty and Barney Hill story was Travis Wall.
SPEAKER_03
03:02:51 - 03:10:13
We interviewed Travis for potentially for the film and then opted to kind of avoid that aspect of, I don't consider the Travis Walton and an abduction so much as an encounter that didn't end well and he probably was taking a board to get recovered. But what do you mean? Well, he, they were in the woods, right? Snowflake Arizona, I think it was 1970. It was a logger, right? It was a logger. They had a contract with the government. to log a certain area or to clear a certain area and it was late and they were behind on the schedules that were working a little bit later than the normally would and they all got in the truck they had four door trucks that had like seven of them driving out and they saw a light in the sky that was a fire And as they got closer to it, it was this perfect disc hovering about three top level right out the window. I mean, they said they could have hit with a rock. And he told the driver, Travis Wolne, stop truck. I'm going to jump out and they all against their will. Don't do that Travis. And he just left out of the truck and started running towards this thing thinking it was going to just shoot off. But it didn't. It stayed there. And as he got closer to it, he started to kind of freak out a little bit. And it started making a weird sound like it was spooling up or something. And so he tucked down behind a log. It was on the ground. And they're screaming at him in the truck. Get back, get back here. What are you doing? And he realized he was dangerously close to this thing. So he was going to make a run for the truck. And he got up as this thing was spooling up according to him. And he tried to make a run for the truck. And some kind of energy force hit him and knocks him like a rag at the end all all the way across like 60 feet and he landed and those guys took off they can they were next and they left them for dead out there in the woods and they're driving down the road high tail in and out of there and then the driver realizes like we can't leave Travis man we gotta go back and get Travis And they were all freaked out thinking that they were going to be next. Finally, they argued and he said, look, man, I'm going back to get Travis. Whether you guys are with me or not. And if you want, you guys can stay here. I'll come back and get you. They're like, no, no, let's tick together. So they all stick together in the truck. They turned around the way back. UFO gone. Travis gone. They go down into town, and they have to tell the authorities. You can imagine, 1975, they're telling the local authorities, and there's a small enough town where everybody kind of knows everybody. Hey, our buddy got abducted by flying saucer and he's gone. They're like, yeah, you guys are all under arrest for homicide. We'll start at an intense search the next day with helicopters, dogs. It made world dudes all across. You know, as you can imagine, these guys took a lie detector test. They said, you know, they stuck to their story even though they knew that people wouldn't believe them. They thought they'd killed Travis and they'd buried them somewhere in the hills. So they're all doing this five day intensive search. We'll travel Travis Walton reappears five days later with facial growth. Here's the really fascinating part of this story that I find incredible because again, don't look at what the phenomenon does. Sometimes you look at what they don't do. Well, they didn't drop them off where they picked them up. That was the most, I've been out there. It's a really remote area in the mountains in the forest. He would not have made it back alive. drop him off in the middle of town they didn't do that either but they dropped him off right on the outskirts of town so he could a they would they did it in a little valley so they minimize any possibility of their exposure they dropped him off in a place where he could get help but they would minimize being seen they did it night and five days later he reappears and of course he he's back and he recounts the same story and he's been recounting the same story and what is his story story as he woke up It's funny actually. I met with Travis a handful of times and I sat down with him and a lot of times when I really wanted to absorb a story I closed my eyes and then there were words recreate the visuals for me so I see it and so that's what I did with Travis at dinner just the two of us and I closed my eyes and he told me he woke up on board. He was on a table and there were and he was kind of blurry eyed but he could see these little beans and initially thought What am I looking at here? Where am I? And he saw these little beans and typical beans. diminutive body, big head, big almond shape, black eyes, and he was absolutely terrified. And he grabbed some sort of instrument that was on the table and he said that he even touched one of them and he goes, I was surprised at how light it was. It moved really easily. And he sort of aggressively swinging some instrument that he found on the table towards these things. And then they skirt off and left the room. He went off, they went to the right, he went left. And he was walking down a hallway and he said, you can imagine Like polished aluminum, there were no seams, no rivets, no weld marks, but it was all solid, like one solid piece, and he said it was tight. And my shoulders were rubbing on either side of this hallway, and I was rubbing down the hallway. Totally freaked out that no way it was, and you could have having a hard time breathing. and he took a left and he went into this room and there was a command chair and in the he sat in the command chair and he started playing with buttons he was trying to get out he just wanted to get out and all of a sudden there was a holographic projection of like a star chart that was holographic that that appeared and he was moving with these buttons and everything started to move and he thought my god if I'm on a spaceship I could crash this thing I know what I'm doing and then two very humanoid looking people beautiful angelic people with these glass bulbs came in with tight fitting suits on and he said oh my god you guys are here to save me thank god and but they wouldn't talk with them They just took him by the arm and they escorted him out. He went down a ramp and then he said, I was either in a hanger or I was in a big, huge, another spaceship. I don't know if it was a huge hammer hanger on the ground or if it was another spaceship. But there were lots of disks. of different sizes parked inside this hanger looking thing, but it was indoors, and they escorted him out with another woman. I said, well, how you know is a woman? He said, it was a woman. He had a glass bulb, and they took something over his mouth. And he kind of fought, but he said he was weak. And the next thing he knew, he woke up in a field and looked up, and the desk was just leaving, departing, and it was five days later. Yeah, there was a movie made about it called Fire and Sky, but the ending was Tracy Tornway wrote that in the ending of the film was changed last minute. It was inaccurate. Yeah, because the fucking I know Hollywood exactly. Yeah, I know. And he fought it and they said, look, you want the movie to get made? There were change in the ending. But that's the real ending in the movie. That was right from Travis Walton to me. Wow. But I decided in the movie is still alive. Yes he is. Where's he live? No, like Arizona. I believe he still lives there. Wow. Yeah, he's great. His story is exactly the way. How old is he now? He's probably maybe late 60s. Yeah. And I went to the actual site with him. We actually drove out to that site. And I tell you, man, when we got there, he got out of the car. And he was just running towards the spot. And it had recently snowed. There was snow in the ground. And I could keep up with him. But he was running to go to the exact location where, and I could see him reliving the whole thing. I mean, it was a really powerful moment. with him and it was a very very remote area of of the Mount Range.
SPEAKER_01
03:10:14 - 03:10:15
It's a very compelling story.
SPEAKER_03
03:10:15 - 03:10:29
It's a really compelling story and they all passed and I interviewed a number of the eyewitnesses that were with him at the time. And there's a movie made about it called Travis, I believe. It should definitely look into it, but a documentary. But he was really funny. He was working at like a Walmart.
SPEAKER_01
03:10:29 - 03:10:33
I'm going to say, pass a polygraph test. Yeah, they all did.
SPEAKER_03
03:10:33 - 03:12:28
Yeah. But I was talking to one of the witnesses on there to get this and he and I was like, what did you see? Can you describe what the disc looked like? He goes, He ever seemed like a brand new Corvette, like that beautiful brand new Corvette. And I said, yeah, I had to go say it was more perfect than that. It was just this perfect disc. And he said it was lit up like you could see these almost little windows in it. And it just suspended in this darkness. And it was kind of just wobbling there. But the way he described it, he made the Corvette a brand new Corvette in that funny. Yeah, and yeah, it's a fascinating case. And I decided that this is the first film that I was dealing with, it's my fourth one, that I dealt with close encounters of the third kind, which is one that the witnesses claim to report beans. And that was about as far as I wanted to go with it, because I was concerned about the mainstream participation I was getting with, like, Harry Reid, Modesta, and Governor Bill Richardson, and those Christopher Melon, Shockvolet. I was concerned not to go too far with it and to take baby steps and one of the things that's been incredibly exciting for me to see for the first time keep in mind is my fourth film on the topic is that not only are we seeing A, we've got people like Dan Ferra who's a mainstream, you know, you've produced ready player one with Steven Spielberg who's a touch and he's the latest producer who's associated himself with this film. But you're getting like Harry Reid and all these household names that are not only looking at it, participating, but publicly endorsing it. And that is extremely exciting because that is an indication that people are getting ready for this story to come out, you know, what I'm saying. And I felt it was important to take those baby steps and not go too far because there's some aspects of the phenomenon. that if you're unfamiliar with it, might be a bit of a stretch.
SPEAKER_01
03:12:28 - 03:12:38
Well, it seems like the public is more interested and more open to it now than ever before. And it seems less ridiculous. Oh, totally. No. No question about it.
SPEAKER_03
03:12:38 - 03:12:42
Yeah. The New York Times thing really made the difference. I really believe that.
SPEAKER_01
03:12:42 - 03:12:55
Yeah. I did for sure, did. Because it was sent to me by a bunch of my friends that are like legitimate intellectuals, professors, scholars, like people that are really, really smart, like, look, this is right up your alley. Like, look at this, New York Times now. Uh-huh. Exactly.
SPEAKER_03
03:12:55 - 03:13:45
And I have people that have been ridiculed me. Really killing me for decades. Go, oh my god. I mean, like the guy that lives across the street from where I grew up, his Walter Merch senior. He edited Apocalypse Now. Okay. He's like the pinnacle of success editor. And he's always kind of made little jabs at me over the years. And then he finally goes, boy, James, you might have been, you might be right. Yeah, but that was really satisfying for me. And then the C. Lu Elizondo, publicly endorsed the film. And we're talking about like, if you think about it, that you've got people endorsing a film that take my name off it. It's just stories that we reported on, but that deals with potential close encounters of the third kind. That's so amazing. I mean, if you walk down the street and you meet average doing, you say, hey, did you hear about the UFO, the land in Africa? The occupants got out of it. Communicate it, tell them I can't get the fuck out of here. Get the fuck out of here.
SPEAKER_00
03:13:45 - 03:13:46
You're crazy.
SPEAKER_03
03:13:46 - 03:14:10
Go so crazy somewhere else. Like you would. But it's happening. We feature it. We were in the edit room for three and a half four years and we said, where are we going? We're on the road to Rua. That was our mantra. Road to Rua. What we meant was let's compile the evidence and let's build our case. So we can allow the audience to walk away at the end of the film saying that landing case in Africa might have actually just happened. And I think we succeed.
SPEAKER_01
03:14:10 - 03:14:35
Think about all these cases whether it's Travis Walton or Betty and Barney Hill or the African cases. If you weren't there and you've never experienced anything like it, it was just this one unique thing that happened. It's so hard for anyone to accept unless you see with your own eyes, unless you're actually there, unless you experience it, it's so hard and it's so easy to be incredulous.
SPEAKER_03
03:14:35 - 03:14:39
It's so easy to be skeptical. But when you get people like David Fraver, yeah.
SPEAKER_01
03:14:40 - 03:14:41
Like I, you know, he's so compelling.
SPEAKER_03
03:14:41 - 03:14:54
He's so compelling. You listen to his testimony and then you listen to the parallels of the observed technology, the no wings and how powerful he was with the whole thing. And then you hear the stories the same, this technology back in the 40s and 50s ago.
SPEAKER_01
03:14:54 - 03:15:30
You should listen to him on, I don't know if you've listened him on Lex Freedman's podcast. No, it's amazing because Lex, you know, Lex is, he does, he did artificial intelligence work with MIT. Brilliant guy and him and David Fraver go on forever. Wow. About the experience of the encounter and also just his understanding and knowledge of aircrafts and and of just of air travel and it's a it's an insane story. Like I had him on my podcast with Jeremy Corbyl and that was great, but it was even better on Lex Freemann's podcast because it was just Lex and David together and they went deep into the weeds by the story.
SPEAKER_03
03:15:31 - 03:15:38
Yeah, I mean, apparently it was an object under the water, which we were like, ah, did we cover that? We kind of mentioned it quickly in the film to show a lot of aspects of that.
SPEAKER_01
03:15:38 - 03:16:02
The thing is, you can only see the water breaking over the top of it. You couldn't see the actual object itself, but there's many stories about things that are in the water. If you wanted to have a base, or you wanted to have some sort of a, of a mothership, and you wanted to hide it and plane view. I mean, 90% of the earth's ocean is undiscovered or unexplored. I mean, it's You could easily hide something in there and no one will ever see it.
SPEAKER_03
03:16:02 - 03:16:46
That's one thing Chris Romellan said. He was disappointed with the New York Times, and I thought, well, gosh, the New York Times did something pretty brave, I think, and the due diligence they did apparently according to the authors was insane. They had to cross-check everything, make sure they had to speak to Harry Reid, they had to see the government documents, they had to verify the existence. of A-Tip. I mean, they really worked hard at it. But Chris Romellan said, well, they kind of missed it. I said, what do you mean they missed it? He goes, well, it's great. They revealed the A-Tip program, that secret Pentagon program. But the bigger story was, these things are real and they're here. This is happening now. They've been going in and out of our oceans for 270 days at a 365 in 2015. And that they, the Navy finally just said, we can't stop them. We've tried to intercept them. They fly rings around us. This is a leave malone.
SPEAKER_01
03:16:48 - 03:17:00
That's crazy. That's what David Fraver was communicating with. Was it the ship? Well, who's he communicating with? It was telling the nimmets. We've been seeing these. Yes. On the radar. Go on. From which space? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03
03:17:00 - 03:17:18
They would go from outer space. 80,000 feet. It was the highest we could detect them. And then they'd shoot down to like five feet over the water. like that. Yeah. Yeah. And then just, you know, boo, boo, you know, shooting around. And then they post getting visual confirmation. But they didn't even do anything for like, was it days or weeks? Yeah. They didn't after that.
SPEAKER_01
03:17:18 - 03:17:38
Yeah. Crazy. Well, listen, you're documenting fantastic. I really enjoyed it. I watched it twice. It's excellent. Your contribution in it is amazing too. And I really appreciate you guys coming down here and talking about it. And I can't recommend the documentary enough. If you're into UFOs, like I am obviously it's the phenomenon. It's on I got it off iTunes, Apple.
SPEAKER_03
03:17:39 - 03:18:07
All is going to save me. Thank you for that. I really appreciate you saying that. But if you want to rent it, rent it. But if you want to buy it for the same price on iTunes or Vimeo, they offer three hours of bonus free material. So if you're going to purchase it, do it from iTunes or Vimeo, don't think it to rate. And I want to put a shot out to Ernie Klein. He's got ready to play or two out right now. He's been incredibly supportive of us. He's right here from from Austin, Texas. And my writing partner, Mark Barrish has been incredibly healthy.
SPEAKER_01
03:18:07 - 03:18:11
Jamie just didn't just start reading ready player one and the ready player two rather the new one.
SPEAKER_02
03:18:11 - 03:18:26
Yeah, I think we can preorder you know the best kept secret and when will that be another one it will be probably Q one or early Q two of twenty two beautiful.
SPEAKER_01
03:18:26 - 03:19:31
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