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- [Narrator] On December 16th, 2017,
footage shot by the U.S. Navy
spread panic among the American population.
Until then classified as a top secret defense matter,
three videos of unidentified flying objects
filmed by F-18s were made public.
They would be authenticated by the Pentagon in April 2020.
The first video dates from November 2004.
It was filmed by a patrol
flying near the U.S. aircraft carrier, Nimitz.
In the footage, a capsule-shaped object
is performing maneuvers that defy the laws of physics.
On that same day,
the radars of the missile cruiser, USS Princeton,
confirmed the presence of several flying objects.
An F-18 patrol was immediately dispatched to the spot
and filmed one of what are commonly known as UFOs,
but what experts prefer to refer to as UAPs,
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
Around the same time,
the serious and respected New York Times
revealed the existence of a secret program.
- [Anchor] Tonight, CNN has learned
the Pentagon had a secretive program to research UFOs
like the one Fravor spotted.
The project was called
the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program
run by an official named Luis Elizondo.
Tens of millions of dollars
for the project were pushed through
by former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
- I was a leader of the Senate at the time,
and I went and talked to Senator Inouye from Hawaii,
Senator Stevens from Alaska.
They were the two leading members of Corporations Committee
that determined where money would be spent for defense.
They also controlled what is called the dark money,
the black money, that didn't show up any place.
It was secretive, it was classified.
And so, I asked them to meet in a secure room
in the United States Capitol.
And I said, "Give a little bit of background."
I said, "I want to spend some money trying figure out
what the hell is this all about."
- [Narrative] the U.S. media leapt on these revelations.
The disclosure of the existence of a secret program
to study UFOs at a cost of $22 million
was taken very seriously.
Alain Juillet is the former head of intelligence
for the French Secret Service Overseas.
(speaks in foreign language)
- [Interpreter] The fact that it was a US Senator
who insisted on this inquiry
shows that there was a very real problem.
And the American authorities decided,
due to the senator's request,
to carry out this inquiry.
And it did so because there were
a certain number of phenomena
about which American pilots, along with some others,
were asking very serious questions
due to the images they had filmed or seen.
- [Narrator] In the States, the story hit the headlines,
and David Fravor, one of the F-18 pilots
flying during the Nimitz case,
gave his account on CNN at peak viewing time.
- Well, the first thing is it had no wings,
so you think, "Okay, it's a helicopter."
But there's no rotor wash in the water.
There's no rotors.
This was extremely abrupt, like a ping pong ball
bouncing off a wall.
It would hit and go the other way,
and change directions at will.
And then the ability to hover over the water,
and then start a vertical climb from basically zero
up towards about 12,000 feet,
and then accelerate in less than two seconds and disappear
is something I had never seen in my life.
I believe, as do the other folks
that were on the flight, when we visually saw it,
that it was something not from this world.
- [Narrator] For the experts,
this eyewitness account was mind-blowing,
and legitimized the film.
Until then, the military had rarely given its opinion.
a massive shift had just taken place in the United States.
- The United States military has said,
okay, there's no need trying to keep all this secret.
So pilots can report these phenomenon
without fear of not being promoted.
They can report these to their superiors.
They couldn't do that before.
- [Narrator] But the Americans aren't the only ones
to study this subject seriously.
Across the globe, a number of countries
have established organizations or programs
to carry out research into UAP.
In France, the SIGMA 2 commission
examines the most credible incidents like the Nimitz case.
- [Interpreter] So we tried to reconstruct
what had been observed during the Naval exercises
carried out around the Nimitz, the Princeton, et cetera,
between November 10th and 13th, 2004.
A certain number of repeated detections
were picked up by the radars between eight and 20 miles
to the South of Catalina Island off California
at 80,000 feet and moving at about 100 knots.
Now, 100 knots is extremely slow
for an aircraft flying at such an altitude.
- [Narrator] Formed in 2013, SIGMA 2
was made up of fighter pilots, engineers,
military officials, and even astronauts
such as Jean-Francois Clervoy.
As for Pierre Bescond, he's a former director
of the space center in Kourou French Guiana,
where the famous Ariane rockets were launched.
- [Interpreter 1] I don't agree with scientists
who immediately say it's baloney.
No.
If observations are made by those
whose job it is to make observations,
like fighter pilots, for example,
then what they've seen isn't baloney.
If you don't understand something,
then you put it on a shelf
and wait till there's a better scientific understanding
of the physical phenomenon,
until the correct study of it can be carried out.
But you don't just discard it as baloney.
In my mind, that's nonsensical.
- [Interpreter 2] It's not a question of believing
in UFO's or UAPs or not.
Serious research is being carried on on the subject.
This radar detected 14 echoes
spread uniformly over a distance of about 100 miles
at altitudes of between 28,000 feet and 500 feet.
And these readings correlate with those from other radars.
- [Narrator] SIGMA 2 works closely with the CNES,
the French National Center for Space Studies,
and more precisely with one of its branches, GEIPAN,
Group for the Study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
For more than 40 years, they've been trying to shed light
on the origin of certain UAPs.
- [Interpreter] GEIPAN is tasked with collecting,
examining and analyzing sightings made by eyewitnesses
on French soil.
- [Narrator] Indeed, it was one such incident in France,
very similar to the case revealed by the U.S. Navy,
which was behind the founding of GEIPAN.
A former head of the group Jean-Jacques Velasco
in charge for 21 years and now an independent expert,
clearly remembers the unsolved case
at the origin of the group's creation.
- [Interpreter 1] In France one siting in 1951
involved the air force.
Fighter pilots out on a patrolling mission
observed over the town of Orange
an object moving at the same speed as their own planes.
when they flew alongside to intercept it,
it suddenly accelerated
and flew off at incredible speed.
A report was submitted to the air force chief of staff.
And it went all the way up to the minister.
And then recommendations were made
to create a French agency
to collect and analyze data on UAPs.
And that's how Claude Poher, the ufologist and astronomer
at CNES was given the task of founding GEIPAN.
- [Interpreter 2] It was a very brave move
by the CNES at the time
to decide to respond to such questions and create GEIPAN.
It was very brave because it was a scientific approach.
Certain phenomena are cited that we don't understand,
so we'll question the people who saw them,
said about studying them and try to find some answers.
It was a very scientific approach.
- [Interpreter 1] At first patrol was sent out
to about 60 miles from the Nimitz.
A trace of foam was observed at sea level.
So one of the F-18s made a fast downward move
towards this area of foam.
There was an object described as a big Tic Tac,
which changed course and began to climb.
So there was a maneuver
which could be considered intelligent.
A second patrol was sent out,
but it wasn't until the third group
of F-18s reached the area equipped with infrared cameras,
that they could capture the famous images.
- [Narrator] And along with the images,
the comments of the stupefied U.S. Navy pilots.
- [Pilot] There's a whole fleet of them. Look on the S.A.
My gosh.
They are going against the wind.
The wind is 120 miles to the west.
Look at that thing, dude.
That's not a (indistinct), is it?
Look at that thing!
It's rotating.
- [Interpreter] Here was something undeniable as it were,
the pilots saw it, the cameras filmed it,
the control tower picked it up.
Suddenly there was a real problem.
- [Interpreter] A certain number of cases
clearly show interaction with the planes.
And this was proven.
When you take the number of aerial cases worldwide,
officially recorded cases, there were about 2,000 of them,
and 140 of these feature the same stereotypes
that have been reported since 1947,
objects with speeds that can go from zero
up to 10,000, 20,000 kilometers an hour recorded by radars.
Absolutely phenomenal accelerations.
Trajectories, which are totally impossible for our planes.
Spinning around our planes, climbing vertically,
then zooming off horizontally.
- What I say is this:
we originally thought these were confined to the air,
but that's not what we know now.
There have been a very unusual occurrences
in the water, in the ocean,
not once, but numerous times now.
people reporting strange things happening to ships.
Sometimes our communication is just terminated.
So yes, I think it's extremely important
that we do everything we can
to find out what this is all about.
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- [Interpreter] Periodically, Pentagon
and the U.S. air force chief of staff
show interest in UFO's,
because there are regular alerts that pose big questions.
This is very worrying for the military,
because soldiers like to know who they are facing.
So if you're faced with something you don't understand
and therefore can't master, it's only natural for them
to try to understand and set up commissions
to find out what exactly was going on
with some of the sightings.
- [Narrator] And these worries aren't recent.
Since the end of World War II, the U.S. authorities
have established several commissions
to investigate such phenomena,
notably project Blue Book,
for which the famous astronomer J. Allen Hynek
was the scientific consultant.
He didn't believe in UFO's, but after several years of study
he began to have doubts and finally validated the reality
of these unexplained phenomena.
At the time, the U.S. military was already forced
to communicate on these very special cases.
- I am here to discuss the so-called flying saucers.
The air force interest in this problem
has been due to our feeling of an obligation
to identify and analyze to the best of our ability
anything in the air that may have the possibility of threat
or menace to the United States.
In pursuit of this obligation, since 1947,
we have received and analyzed between one and 2,000 reports.
However, there have been a certain percentage
of this volume of reports
that have been made by credible observers
of relatively incredible thing.
It is this group of observations
that we now are attempting to resolve.
- [Narrator] Today, the U.S. is still driven
by the same preoccupations.
Nothing has changed. They fear for homeland security.
They must protect their population from a potential attack.
Like in the 1950s, this concern motivated officials
to analyze new footage shot by the U.S. Navy
in recent years.
This was the reason behind the famous ATIP program.
- There are scores and scores of occurrences
that are reported.
And not only that, our technology
has gotten much better on airplanes,
and they can take pictures of these things.
And we've got some stunningly good pictures of them.
Are they a threat? I don't know.
But I do know that we can't turn our heads
and pretend they don't exist, because they do exist.
- [Pilot 1] (mumbling) object on the-
- [Pilot 2] Oh my god, dude! (laughing)
- [Pilot 1] Roger.
- [Pilot 2] Look at this right here!
You got to (indistinct).
- [Pilot 1] No, I took (indistinct).
- [Pilot 2] Oh, okay.
- [Pilot 1] Oh my gosh, dude.
- [Pilot 2] Wow, what is that? (indistinct)
- [Interpreter] After World War II,
a lot of Americans believed
that the Russians were behind UFO's.
They thought the reds have discovered new technologies
and they're using them to spy on us.
If it were one of the super powers behind UFO's,
the U.S., Russia or China,
since the beginning of these incidents,
there would certainly have been a leak at some point
to show that this was the case.
But no intelligence has ever come out on this subject,
neither confirming, nor refuting
that it's the Russians, the Americans, or the Chinese.
So I don't believe that. I think it's something else.
- [Narrator] Something else? Then what?
While those in charge are asking questions,
so too is the general public.
And that's the mission of Mufon.
Since the 1950s, this network of scientists and engineers
have collected piles of eyewitness accounts
from across the United States.
It even has branches in Europe.
It has a long reaching network
with investigators in every state.
Mufon is taken very seriously
even by the American government.
It was one of its reports that drew the interest
of Senator Harry Reid
and gave rise to the famous AATIP program.
- Based on the information in the Mufon database,
that information was used to justify to Congress funding
for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification program,
which is what was revealed
in the December 16th, 2017 Times' front page article
about the Pentagon secret UFO development.
It was the Mufon data that was used
to justify getting that program in place.
10 years later, when the story broke
on the front page of New York Times,
that was really the beginning of disclosure, in my opinion,
for this being a real phenomenon
and for people paying attention to it.
- [Narrator] Disclosure, the key word.
Was this revelation involuntary or organized?
In effect, since December 16th, 2017,
military officials and politicians
have regularly appeared in the media.
- [Interpreter] There is undeniably
a communication operation.
It's hard to imagine, in the United States army offices,
former Pentagon officials et cetera,
are communicating like this in a totally free
and unbridled way, without there being
some kind of framework behind them.
- [Interpreter] The moment that you have
a communication campaign with expert professionals
explaining things, the least that you can say
is that it's an awareness campaign
for the American population.
The least you can say.
It could also be preparation for a new reality,
with the authorities telling people,
this is how it really is, so that we're all ready for it.
Imagine us simply being told, okay, we're now certain:
our world is visited by beings from other worlds,
or passages between several worlds have been opened up.
That would cause a huge problem
and get a lot of people thinking,
because humankind would be entering unchartered territory,
territory where we're no longer in control of things.
We think they're friendly, but we're not really sure.
That means being confronted with something we can't master.
And human beings, today more than ever,
hate being in situations where they have no control.
- [Narrator] This is clearly what the American experts
inside Mufon think.
Paul Hynek is well-placed to know it.
He's the son of the scientific consultant
of the famous project Blue Book in the '50s and '60s
J. Allen Hynek.
He was raised amid piles of UFO reports
and he now sees a shift in the recent communication policies
of the American government.
- The disclosure of the existence of the AATIP program,
Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program,
and their recent disclosures about what the Navy has seen
and admitted that they've been seeing
for over nine month periods of UFOs every day almost.
And they can't explain them,
and to be frank, they need some help.
That's rather startling.
It's very candid confession on the part of the government.
So it certainly seems, and my friend Richard Dolan
is very convincing in a presentation he makes
of sort of the timeline of events leading up
to what may be a grand disclosure.
There certainly seems to be activity
by the U.S. government recently
that's consistent with that of a government
that's acclimating the populace
to a potential grand disclosure.
- [Narrator] Paul Hynek and the other members of Mufon
are convinced: in 2018 they even invited
the former head of AATIP, Luis Elizondo, as a guest speaker.
He confirmed their intuitions.
- I think disclosure already occurred.
I don't think necessarily disclosure is an event.
I think it's a process.
And I think that process began.
This is real.
This is what your $22 million worth of tax money
was spent on.
And there's a lot of it.
- [Narrator] But what purpose did this $22 million serve?
What light has been shed on unidentified aerial phenomena?
What studies exactly
did the Americans carry out within AATIP?
Work was essentially overseen by Bigelow Aerospace,
a company run by Robert Bigelow,
a businessman with strong views
who's convinced extra terrestrial life exists.
- I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it.
- Do you also believe that UFO's have come to earth?
- There has been and is an existing presence,
an ET presence.
- Where exactly?
- It's just like right under people's noses.
Oh my gosh. Wow.
- [Narrator] Why did Senator Reid decide to work
with Bigelow Aerospace?
A choice that may seem surprising
and one that earned him a good deal of reproach.
Today, he still backs his decision.
- I wanted to spend this money.
I indicated $22 million.
But we couldn't direct that money to someone.
So we put it out for bid,
and everybody had the opportunity
that was interested to bid on it.
Bigelow bid on it and the United States military thought
his bid was the best.
And so that's why he undertook this.
And he did it for a number of reasons.
First of all, he's been interested in these objects
for many, many years.
And because of that, he was willing
to provide a lot more than any that of the bidders would do.
I mean, office space and space for technology.
He did a good job of appearing for his bid
and he got the bid, and I'm glad he did.
- [Narrator] So what fields did Bigelow Aerospace work in?
This document recently declassified
by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
reveals the research carried out by the company.
In all 38 ultra complex fields of study
covering futuristic technologies
we've yet to master today.
For example, anti-gravity, nuclear propulsion in deep space,
wormholes allowing us to pass into parallel universes,
negative energy, and magnetohydrodynamics.
It wasn't down to chance that this cutting edge research
was carried out by Bigelow Aerospace.
In 1995, even before founding his company,
Robert Bigelow had created the National Institute
for Discovery Science with the aim of shedding light
on a number of scientific mysteries, including UFOs.
He invested millions from his private fortune.
It's simple to the experts:
Robert Bigelow is a national hero.
- Robert Bigelow has spent more money
than any other individual in the world, his private money,
to fund UFO research.
So he's actually a hero within the UFO community,
in my opinion.
And he's a stellar guy and he runs the Bigelow Aerospace
out in Las Vegas,
which builds inflatable habitats for space, right?
So I think I'm happy to hear him being successful
in his work with NASA and his work with his space program.
I thank him for the time we spent together.
And I think it's all leading us in the right direction
in terms of disclosure.
So I'm excited about it.
- [Narrator] Over the years, serious unimpeachable figures
have worked with Bigelow: Dr. John B. Alexander,
the pillar of the military research lab at Los Alamos,
and Edgar D. Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon.
And after years of research, their verdict is unequivocal.
- [Edgar] I happen to be privileged enough
to be in on the fact
that we have been visited on this planet,
and the UFO phenomenon is real,
although it's been covered up by our government
for quite a long time.
- [Interviewer] Whoa! Hang on a minute!
Well, this is big.
So, whoa, all of this is quite a shock to me.
- [Edgar] Well, I'm sorry.
Have you not been reading the papers recently,
it's starting to open up quite a bit.
- [Interviewer] So you're telling me, (chuckling)
well, there's a lot of information to take on board.
Hang on a minute.
I mean, listen, I've heard like, you know, crazy UFO nuts
tell me this kind of thing before.
I've never had Dr. Ed Mitchell,
you know, the sixth man to walk on the moon,
a respected scientist in his own right
announce to me that we've been visited
by aliens from other planets
and that they definitely are out there,
there's no debating it.
- [Edgar] Well, that's your first time
you've ever talked to me
or I'd have told you about it before.
(interviewer chuckling)
- [Narrator] And for Edgar Mitchell,
along with many other specialists,
the nuclear industry has a close link with the phenomenon.
- [Interpreter] Nuclear nuclear testing
was a very scary thing, because 540 nuclear
or thermonuclear bombs have been exploded in the atmosphere,
which is a lot.
And that corresponds mainly to the period 1960 to '61,
when there was one explosion every three days
carried out by the Americans or the Soviets.
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(explosion booms)
- [Commentator] This is atomic energy.
- [Interpreter] In 1949, there were already clues
as to why these surprising phenomena were reported
in certain geographical areas.
Nuclear sites in particular were irregularly flown over.
For two top secret commissions,
since disclosed to the public,
Edward Teller, the scientific advisor to the White House,
was a participant.
He was the father of the hydrogen bomb.
He claimed that UFO's had flown over several nucleus sites,
notably Oak Ridge, where plutonium was manufactured.
A missile test range White Sands,
Roswell were a nuclear bombers were once based,
basically a whole host of things
pointing to UFO's flying over these places.
- For example, I learned that a number of our missile bases
in the Midwest, Dakotas, up that way,
that they had been shut down.
They would come out at night, almost always at nighttime,
and they would look up and see these objects in the air,
and they shut off all the communications
in the missile site.
It didn't happen once, it happens quite a few times.
- [Narrator] One of the most disturbing cases
was in 1967, over Malmstrom air force base in Montana.
We met with one of the last surviving eye witnesses
of the events.
Like many others, he remained silent for 30 years
before the case was finally divulged.
Lieutenant Robert Salas was in charge of launching
intercontinental ballistic missiles.
- It was a underground facility, about 60 feet underground.
My commander's name was Fred Meiwald.
We were taking turns staying on alert status.
And sometime in the evening, I get a phone call
from my top side guard, we had six guards upstairs,
and he said, they'd been seeing strange lights in the sky
flying very fast, stopping in mid air and reversing course.
He couldn't hear any engine noise,
strictly lights in the sky,
but they were very strange lights.
He didn't think they were airplanes.
He was screaming into the phone, babbling,
telling me that there was some orange reddish light
hovering above the front gate.
And he had all the guards out there with their weapons
and asked me what he should do.
And of course, I was shocked by this report.
He was obviously frightened.
I told him, as I recall, "Just make sure nothing comes in
the fenced area, use whatever force necessary."
And then he hung up. He said, "I had to go,
because one of his guards was injured."
I went to wake up my commander.
And as I was telling him about the phone calls,
our missiles shut down.
We had a 10 missiles under our control
and all 10 of them, what we call no-go,
they couldn't be launched, they couldn't be used.
So that's basically the story.
Of course, we reported to a command post.
- Some would go even further,
not hesitating to speak officially
about extraterrestrial encounters on their missions.
For three years, Paul Hellyer
was Canada's national defense minister.
- During the Cold War, 1961, there were about 50 UFO's
in formation, flying south from Russia across Europe.
And the Supreme Allied Commander was very concerned
and about ready to press the panic button,
when they turned around and went back over the North Pole.
So they decided to do an investigation,
and they investigated for three years
and they decided with absolute certainty
that four species, four different species, at least,
had been visiting this planet for thousands of years.
So, we have a long history of UFO's,
and of course, there's been a lot more activity
on the last few decades, since we invented the atomic bomb.
And they're very concerned about that
and the fact that we might use it again,
because the whole cosmos is a unity
and it affects not just us, but other people in the cosmos.
They're very much afraid that we might be stupid enough
to start using atomic weapons again.
And this would be very bad for us and for them as well.
- [Interpreter] He says it clearly: aliens exist.
They came here to stop us, et cetera.
I'm not at that stage.
I simply say there a phenomenon, controlled objects,
which confront us with a certain number of questions.
Is that a signal?
I'm simply saying that on a scientific level,
to put things into perspective,
our satellites are capable of detecting explosions
of supernovas dozens of light years away.
So why couldn't a civilization more advanced than ours
have the capacity to detect nuclear explosions on Earth?
Because a nuclear explosion has all the elements
of the electromagnetic spectrum
and enters the field of the microwave spectrum
via ultraviolets and infrareds.
Consequently, this signal is an artificial one
that could be detected a long, long way away.
And this could explain why there have been
such a huge number of sightings over nuclear sites.
The question remains.
- [Narrator] In France, Michael Vaillant,
an expert data consultant for GEIPAN for more than 12 years,
clearly links the sightings of UFO's
and civil and military facilities in a study
he published under the aegis of the University of Toulouse.
- [Interpreter] When we worked
with the Toulouse mathematics laboratory,
we did a study in 2015,
which showed there was a large statistical significance
in the breakdown of unexplained aerial phenomena data
and nuclear facilities.
But also polluted sites.
So there are questions to be asked
about the kind of intelligence observing these places,
and why intelligent extraterrestrials
are watching our nuclear and polluted sites.
I think it's pretty weird but pretty tasty at the same time.
- [Narrator] Whether it's to monitor humans
playing with nuclear fire or for some other reason,
the number of politicians, scientists, and engineers
who dare to speak out about non-human intelligence
is clearly growing.
- My personal, I can't speak on behalf of the government,
obviously, I'm not in the U.S. government anymore,
my personal belief is that there's very compelling evidence
that we may not be alone.
Whatever that means.
- The reason we had so much secrecy
is people acknowledged they couldn't understand
what it was all about.
And rather than make people afraid,
they just ignored it, hoping it would go away.
But it hasn't gone away.
And now they're being forced to do something about it,
because there are so many occurrences now,
because people who are flying airplanes
are no longer afraid of telling people what they saw.
- [Interpreter 1] Those who take it most seriously today,
are the scientists, because they're saying aliens do exist.
And asking where they're from, what makes them tick.
And that's very interesting.
- [Interpreter 2] It's only imaginable
through the idea of technology
that's far more advanced than ours.
And as we're not able to do it,
then it must come from elsewhere, from space.
- [Narrator] Intelligent life coming from space,
what made the scientific community snicker for decades
has now become a true subject, and for good reason:
in just 25 years, astronomers have discovered the existence
of 4,000 exoplanets, some of which are similar to Earth
and could therefore be home to forms of intelligent life.
And why not a civilization more advanced than ours?
(solemn music)
Avi Loeb is the chair of the astrophysics department
at Harvard university.
He's also head of two institutes working on mathematics
and black holes with numerous eminent physicists,
astronomers and mathematicians as their members,
which goes to show that he's one of the most serious
and respected researchers in his field in the world.
He and his teams has studied
one of the most surprising phenomenon
ever observed in our solar system:
the arrival of an unidentified interstellar object
with very unique properties.
Its name Oumuamua, which in Hawaiian means messenger.
- Oumuamua was discovered on October 19th, 2017.
It was the very first object that we identified
near the Earth that originated
from outside the solar system.
And it was clear that it's unbound to the Sun,
because it moves too fast near the Earth.
At first, the astronomers thought
that it's a rock, an asteroid, or perhaps a comet.
So it was monitored only for one week.
And then it was realized
that it has some strange properties.
For one thing, as it spun around every eight hours,
it changed its brightness by a factor of 10.
And that implies that its area on the sky
changes by a factor of 10,
because all we see is reflected sunlight.
And what it implies is that it's at least 10 times longer
than it is wide, much more extreme in shape
than any other object that we have seen
from within the solar system before.
And then astronomers looked at it a little more
the following month,
but they didn't much pay attention to it.
And by January it was too faint for us to look at.
But the data that was taken earlier was analyzed,
and then it was realized that in fact Oumuamua
deviated from an orbit
that is shaped just by the Sun's gravity.
And there was an extra force pushing it away from the Sun.
This could have been the result of outgassing
the way we see in comets,
where water ice on the surface of the comet evaporates
due to the illumination by sunlight.
But in the case of Oumuamua, we didn't see any evidence
for a cometary tail.
There was no gas that was traced around it.
And there were very tight limits derived
by the Spitzer space telescope on carbon based molecules
in the vicinity of this object.
And so it was very puzzling, what gives it this extra push?
And so in a paper that we wrote, we suggested
that perhaps the push is given by sunlight,
and in order for sunlight, as it off the object,
to give it enough push, the object needs to be very thin,
less than a millimeter in thickness, similar to a sail
that is being pushed by wind on a sailboat.
And in fact, our civilization is currently developing
the technology of flight sales,
where a push on a lightweight sail with light
and as a result, as the light bounces off the sail,
it gives it a push that can propel it to very high speeds,
up to the speed of light potentially.
And so it's possible, we said, that this is some device
that was sent, that was made artificially
that was sent by an alien civilization.
And we just mentioned that as a possibility,
simply because the alternative, a comet,
seem to be inconsistent with the data.
- [Narrator] Although Avi Loeb's solar sail
is still an exotic yet possible hypothesis,
the technologies that could explain
the unparalleled performances of such objects
are inspiring scientists, the military,
and private companies.
So are these research programs smoke screens
for a fiercely competitive race for tomorrow's technology?
- [Interpreter] The technology used by these objects,
apparently in the case, is one that we don't master,
because clearly, if we could obtain the technology
that enables a UFO to go from zero speed
to staggering speeds,
whilst performing complicated maneuvers,
then everyone would be interested.
Because it would change the fighter plane
among other things.
After all, if we discovered it,
we could use it to defend France.
So the two things go hand in hand:
it's great to understand the phenomenon
and then, why not benefit from it?
- [Narrator] So was the goal of Bigelow
and the famous American $22 million project
to discover the technology of these phenomena,
so as to benefit from them?
The Senator at the origin of the program
seems to confirm it.
- Do I believe that technologically
the program we've spent money on has been helpful?
The answer is yes.
Do we have any answers?
Yes, we have answers, but not too many.
I'm interested in science.
I believe we have to know what causes these,
where do they come from.
And I think we also have to do it to be competitive.
Other countries, including France, have done work,
trying to figure this out.
And I'm confident China has, I'm confident that Russia
which is run by former head of the KGB,
I'm sure they're doing work on it.
That's why I think that we need to do work,
we as the United States.
- [Narrator] In the race the Americans seem
to have gotten off to a good start.
Looking again at the list of Bigelow's fields of study,
many of them are on things we're yet to master,
but their applications would be revolutionary.
Among the most sensitive: anti-gravity,
or the ability to free ourselves
from the laws of Newtonian physics, and notably weight,
so as to fly an object with no physical resistance
and nothing pulling it downwards.
These futuristic technologies require the designing
of new materials called metamaterials.
Recently, a private company signed a contract
with the U.S. armed forces for the research
and development of these technologies.
In June, 2018, dr. Hal Puthoff, co-founder of the company
and a former AATIP member
made some surprising comments on the subject.
- It was a multilayered bismuth and magnesium sample,
bismuth layers of less than a human hair,
magnesium samples, about 10 times the size of human hair,
supposedly picked up in the crash retrieval
of an advanced aerospace vehicle.
It looks like it's been in the crash.
- [Narrator] In Las Vegas in June, 2018,
physicist Hal Puthoff implied
that this strange metamaterial object
came from a crashed UFO, but he's not certain.
Puthoff and his colleague, Dr. Eric Davis,
are on the verge of identifying a number of small parts,
which appear to be beyond man's fabrication capacities.
This sample was created with layers finer than microns
using a process unknown on earth,
and with an aim we can only guess at.
- Nowhere could we find any evidence
that anybody ever made one of these.
When we talked to people who, in the materials field,
who should know, they said, "We don't know why anybody
would want to make anything like this."
- [Narrator] So it's no longer
just a matter of understanding the origin of UFO's,
but of benefiting from them.
These metamaterials might have exceptional properties
which could prove useful and profitable.
- They definitely have metamaterials.
I've seen the photographs of it.
I've talked to them about that.
They're trying to figure out how they operate.
It appears that if you put a frequency into these materials,
they actually can levitate.
I mean, that's what I'm being told.
I haven't seen it, I don't know the details behind it,
but they're trying to understand
exactly how these are created,
it's a bismuth kind of a material
and it's stratified, so it's new stuff to us
and we're trying to figure out how it works.
- [Narrator] This know-how could also help us solve
our ecological problems and ward off global warming.
- Energy and propulsion systems are two things right away,
because there seems to be this sort of tantalizing promise
of limitless free environmentally impact-free energy
that we could tap into,
whether it's anti-gravity
or something beyond even photonic propulsion,
teleportation, or something of that nature,
such that we could sort of master the physical universe
in ways that we can't even dream so far,
which would move us well past fossil fuels
and solar energy and nuclear power
to limitless abundant energy for all
that can do things so far beyond what we're able to do now.
- [Narrator] Mastering new technologies,
bringing radical ecological solutions,
genuine issues for all governments
but the stakes are also high for humankind.
- The fundamental question is, are we alone?
And the second question, if we find that we are not alone,
are we the smartest kids on the block?
There might be civilizations
that are far more advanced than we are
and they have the technologies
that we could potentially develop,
but over a very long time.
And when we establish contact
or see evidence for those civilizations,
the evidence we shock us.
It would just be like a caveman looking at the cell phone
and trying to interpret it as a piece of fraud.
A very advanced technological civilization
is a good approximation to God.
It can do things that we cannot imagine.
And so we could learn a lot from such an encounter.
We can also develop a sense of modesty,
because right now we think that we are the smartest.
And in fact, along human history, we thought
that we are at the center of the physical universe,
that the sun revolves around the earth.
And eventually we realized that we are not at the center
of the physical universe.
The Earth moves around the sun
and the sun moves around the center of the Milky Way galaxy
and the Milky Way galaxy is moving in some random direction
in a universe that is full of such galaxies.
So we have no special position in the universe.
Nevertheless, many scientists still prefer to believe
that we are at the center of the biological universe,
the living universe, that life is unique to Earth.
And in particular, intelligent life is unique to Earth.
And I think one way by which we can become modest
is by collecting evidence about what is going on out there.
- [Narrator] If such a reality exists,
will we be able to grasp it correctly
and really enter into contact
with intelligent life from elsewhere?
Michael Vaillant has worked on the different waves
of past UFO sightings.
- [Interpreter 1] Waves of sightings haven't really been
that numerous in the history of mankind.
They pretty much started after World War II.
They've tended to occur in large regions of the earth,
like the United States and Europe.
And over a few days, hundreds of people report sightings
of unexplained phenomenon.
When usually in France, for example,
you just get one sighting every two days or so.
That's already a lot, but during a wave, it skyrockets.
Jacques Vallee and other scientists have posited
what they call control theory.
Maybe since external intelligence
could be behind these waves,
controlling how they're organized,
and behind this control theory
is the notion of learning theory,
where the phenomenon teaches humans about their presence.
There are what we call spaced in time learning methods,
which allow you to undergo a kind of apprenticeship
on an individual rather than a societal basis,
during which you learn to save time and energy
when learning something.
For example, if I'm a lazy person
who must learn a list of words,
I want to save energy rather than senselessly repeating
the list of words sequentially.
So every day I'll space the time between learning sessions,
and this will follow a law of power,
a law measured on a human scale,
and generally a lot of the power of two.
This means that time will double with each learning session.
One, two, four, eight, 16, 32, et cetera.
And we observed this same law with waves of sightings.
Only here these waves follow a law to the power of 2.04
to be very precise.
This precision is extremely important,
because it allows to anticipate
the date of the next wave of sightings.
And next one, following a period of great inactivity today,
should be in October, 2035.
It's not tomorrow, but it isn't in the too distant future.
- [Interpreter 2] This is an area
that is very, very complicated
and is rejected by many upholders
of mathematical progress and rationalism.
Will we have more surprises in the future?
That's another question.
- [Interpreter 1] If the U.S. government
still has things to disclose, it should do so now,
because I think people may be ready
to receive this information.
- I believe, without any question
that research scientifically
on these uninvited flying objects
is really good for humanity,
not only for the United States, but the world.
I think if I had my druthers, what I would do
is other countries who are doing work on this,
let's meet together, let's share information,
let the United States share with France,
let United States share with China, Russia.
We should, because it's an issue we don't understand,
we should work together and make it more public
and share it, it's important not only to our country,
but all civilization.
- In the next year, we are gonna have
a fundamentally different conversation
than we're having today.
I think there's gonna be additional fidelity
to a lot of the things that have come out recently,
that are gonna help us have a better understanding
of what it is we're actually seeing here.
(audience applauds)
- [Interpreter 1] It will certainly bring upheavals
to our biggest societies.
You'll ask a lot of questions of philosophies,
religions, and even science.
- [Interpreter 2] In 2035, if man's understanding
of the subject is stable,
we might even enter into contact,
contact that takes into account
the idea behind these waves and behind our apprenticeships,
which is to avoid at all costs
what we call cultural ethnocide,
meaning to prevent humans from being at a total loss
and in shock at the confirmation
of extra terrestrial phenomenon or intelligence.
But I think that in about 10 years time,
and almost certainly before, we'll have discovered life
in the solar system.
Not intelligent life, but life all the same.
And that alone would enable us to lay the foundations
of an intellectual edifice that will allow us
to explore further.
That's certainly true for scientists who dare to believe
that beyond simple life, intelligent life exists too.
This will help mentalities to progress
and eventually acceptance will become more mainstream.
- There are more Earth-like planets that are habitable
in the observable volume of the universe
than there are grains of sand on all beaches on earth.
To me, it sounds very reasonable
to search for other civilizations,
not necessarily here on Earth,
not necessarily in the solar system, but well beyond that,
and make it a central theme of future research,
because the consequences of finding evidence
for life out there would be tremendous.
It would change our conception
about our place in the universe.
It could teach us about advanced technologies
that we have never dreamt of developing,
and it can also provide us with an important lesson
about how to behave as a civilization to make us feel
as one team that is learning something together
from another team
that went through a similar process in there.
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