《揭露时代》上2025年_纪录片

今天,在首都山頂,有一個反對派的呼籲 要求更多的政府透明度 對於UFO或是軍方所謂的 不明飛行物體的現象 UAP 這些物體已經被偵測出 基本上所有的軍事行動 在世界各地都在進行 我們面臨的科技 比我們目前擁有的任何東西還要高 或是我們將擁有的 在下個十到二十年 不明飛行物體 是一個可能的國家安全威脅 他們需要被這樣處理 美國政府 收集了許多 關於UAP的資訊 但卻拒絕 和美國人民分享 這是錯誤的 此外,也造成了誹謗 我曾經在美國軍隊 擔任戰鬥飛行員11年 我曾經在美國軍隊擔任戰鬥飛行員18年 我曾經在美國軍隊工作20年 他們並非人類 有其他智慧 擁有高級的 智慧工藝 與人類群體的互動 他們在這裡 這是真實的 正在發生 現今正在發生 非人類智慧存在 它與人類互動 它在這片地球上已經一段時間 我們不是唯一智慧的生命體 在宇宙中 有智慧的東西 比我們還要智慧 這是人類歷史上最大的發現 我的名字是盧·亞利桑德 2009年,我的生命變得永恆 那時我被聘請到 高度敏感的政府計劃 調查不明飛行物質 UAP 也被普遍稱為UFO 我的工作對於美國政府 已經接近30年了 我加入了美國軍隊 從那時起 我被聘請到 各種軍事智慧計劃 在我的職業中 我在世界各地服務 管理和指導任務 包括對抗毒品、對抗偷竊、對抗恐怖分子 和對抗恐怖分子 在我的職業後 我開始操縱美國政府的特殊資訊 在某些情況下 我正式向美國政府和國安法會報告 在某些情況下 16年 我在不明飛行物質的議題上 我在美國政府工作了 在某些情況下 八個戰鬥部隊 包括伊拉克和阿富汗 在我加入軍事智慧學院後 我在美國軍事智慧學院 I was the chief of air and space warfare inside of the defense warning office It was at the DIA that my colleagues and I started getting reports of what are now called UAP We went all over the government, the Pentagon, every intelligence agency Anywhere we could think to try to find the UAP program assuming there was one As far as we could tell, no one in the United States government had a UAP program So my colleagues and I began a new program which ultimately became ATIP The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, ATIP The funding for this effort was sponsored by then Senate Majority Leader, Senator Harry Reid And together myself, Jay Stratton and our team For nearly a decade investigating UAP incidents around the world Based on hard evidence and data, we learned that UAPs present serious national security concerns And a potential existential threat Simply put, transmedium crafts, vehicles that have the capability to operate in space, air and water And seemingly defy all that humanity knows about physics Have been operating with complete impunity around the world since at least the 1940s At ATIP, we had access to some of the most sensitive videos in the Department of Defense inventory If you could be in my shoes and see what I've seen and folks like Jay Stratton There would be zero shadow of a doubt that these things are real and they are not made by humans The things that I've seen, the clearest videos, the best evidence that we have That these are non-human intelligence remain classified The classified data that we had access to when we joined the program was indisputable There's 80 years of this data that the public isn't even aware of I have seen with my own eyes, non-human craft and non-human beings For 23 years and 10 months, I was in the United States Air Force as an A-10 pilot And while I was at NORAD, I witnessed an event that I will remember forever There was an unknown object we were tracking on radars And the commander says, I want that target That means intercept it Fighters all the way down the eastern seaboard were scrambled And none of the fighters were successful in intercepting or running it down We were unable to maintain air sovereignty over North America On November 14, 2004, we were on board the USS Nimitz, which is a nuclear aircraft carrier I was the most senior person in the squadron flying I had launched off Nimitz to do an air defense exercise off the coast of San Diego, California And I ended up chasing a UAP known as the TIC-TAC UAP It was about 40 feet long And just sitting there in space, you can kind of see it start to accelerate And as it gets in front of us, it's gone This thing was doing 32,000 miles an hour So obviously that technology is not the United States As we were watching this TIC-TAC object maneuver in this bizarre way It was obvious that it wasn't conventional This was defying those laws of physics, laws of gravity That as pilots we live and die by We literally had these things stalking Navy vessels on deployment The frequency in which UAP were being reported to us was increasing They were ubiquitous We were seeing them nearly daily out there And then we actually almost had a midair with one of these objects This now became a safety issue Two aircraft from my squadron were flying out in close proximity to each other In section formation, so about 150 feet apart or so One of these objects went right in between those two aircraft Right past the lead aircraft And the lead aircraft was able to visually see the object And he simply described it as a dark gray or a black cube Inside of a clear sphere To be clear, non-human intelligence has been actively conducting ISR Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Of some of our most sensitive U.S. military facilities and nuclear sites They have both deactivated and activated nuclear weapons With both the United States and Russia The nuclear weapons that were activated in Russia Were pointed at us And from that perspective The stakes really could not be any higher This is an emerging and disruptive threat for the United States And truly a national security concern And by the way, this isn't just happening here in the United States This is happening all over the world And it's occurring with greater frequency When I met Lew Elizondo in the Pentagon He made me aware Not only that this phenomenon was real But it was an ongoing, persistent phenomenon The Secretary of Defense didn't know The Congress didn't know Senior policymakers didn't know And nobody was doing anything about it Other than Lew and a handful of colleagues I was shocked and I was stunned And immediately was concerned about Intelligence failures that have occurred in the past And the disasters that have ensued And determined immediately to do whatever I could To help get Lew to the Secretary of Defense To move that information forward Each time, Jay and I and others Tried to raise the alarm bells And bring this issue up to the appropriate level We were met with fierce resistance The stigma alone and the taboo of the topic The historical association of UFOs Was something that for most people In leadership positions Was too big of a pill to swallow In fact, the stigma was so strong That people either believed A, the topic wasn't real Or B, the stigma was going to somehow Taint or tarnish their careers So they didn't want to touch it We couldn't get the leadership in the Pentagon To look at the actual scientific data That showed that there is A strong national security threat They were more worried about the impact On their reputation Than they were about the safety of the nation On top of that, we were shocked to find We were getting pushback From people in the Pentagon Based on their religious beliefs There really were Religious fundamentalist extremists Within the Pentagon That had a severe adversity to this topic These are national security experts Senior members of the national intelligence community Who are putting their religion Above national security A senior DOD official Actually stopped me in the hallways In the Pentagon And told me that we were doing the devil's work I had to deal with people Who were senior to me Who were telling me in their world That these are demons And we are poking demons And messing in Satan's world And all these other things That to me I was like I can't believe this is coming out of your mouth I'm briefing about an advanced aerospace vehicle That has been detected on multiple sensors That's absolutely there And you're telling me That you think these are demons And that we shouldn't even look at them And study them My mind was blown While we were trying to overcome All of these hurdles We discovered another deeply hidden And much larger UAP program This program was so sensitive That it was withheld From the Secretary of Defense Congress And even the President of the United States This program is referred to as The Legacy Program This program had been capturing Retrieving and reverse engineering UAPs Since at least 1947 On numerous occasions These retrievals included The bodies of non-humans Some sort of intelligence Intelligent being that is not human When Jay and I began knocking on doors And trying to get access Into the Legacy Program There was this Almost like an immune response By the Legacy Program And antibodies came out of everywhere To try to shut us down We began communicating with scientists Involved in the Legacy Program But their leaders When they learned of this Shut it down aggressively Not only were we met with Fierce resistance and stonewalling We actually had people angry at us That were even asking the question itself As in, you know, what right do we have To inquire about the Legacy Program Despite the fact That we were running ATIP Put yourself in my shoes I'm conducting investigations Of ongoing UAP activity And there's this Legacy Program That has at least 80 years of information That could help us Better understand this problem And protect national security And they refused to give it to us When it became clear That we couldn't work through the system I knew from experience Having worked with The Senate Armed Services Committee What it takes to move this oil tanker Think about this Immense, immense ship That has massive inertia And you're trying to get it To change course When it comes to The Department of Defense Only Congress has the wherewithal to do that And the way to get Congress' attention Is first and foremost through the press I knew we had to get the press engaged To help get the Hill engaged To then get back to Changing the Defense Department To study this problem To figure out Is there a threat Where are these things coming from And how do they work As government employees We're not allowed to talk to the media So Lou and I strategize On how to overcome this hurdle There were really only two choices The first choice was Make peace with silence And sit on what is Humanity's greatest secret All the while keeping Americans in the dark Or two, I could resign my position in protest And fulfill my obligations To the American people By telling the truth About what I know about UAP There was this difficult moment Where Lou had to decide Do I throw in the towel Do we give up on this Do we ignore this Or does he fall on his sword I couldn't nor would I ever Reveal classified information But I knew that if I could say just enough At the unclassified level To make the media aware And our government officials aware Of the reality of the UAP topic Then Jay hopefully would be able To use that momentum To go ahead and achieve the goals That we set out to achieve Inside the government And we had a number of Difficult conversations Because Lou was giving up A very promising career He loved what he was doing He was very good at what he was doing It's such a profound life decision For Lou to make For himself and his family During one of my routine Hellish commutes back home As I was stuck in traffic Looking in front of me and behind me And seeing thousands of cars I had this profound sense of isolation A feeling I had never felt before in my life A feeling that I was completely alone I might as well have been living On the dark side of the moon None of these people around me In fact no one anywhere Had any idea of what was Actually going on around them Not a clue I thought to myself These individuals Deserve to know the truth The mere fact that We're not alone in the universe How can any one organization Institution, religion or government Control that or censor that Or gatekeep that No one has the right To keep fundamental truths Away from the American people And humanity CNN has learned the Pentagon Had a secretive program To research UFOs The existence of a secret Government program To investigate UFO sightings A recent report by The New York Times Unveiled the existence of A real life X-Files department Their secret government program To investigate mysterious Flying objects This seems potentially like One of the biggest stories Of my lifetime These aircraft We'll call them aircraft Are displaying characteristics That are not currently Within the U.S. inventory Nor in any foreign inventory This is a very serious National security issue Something is in our skies It has been there For quite some time You have objects That are doing things Maneuvering in ways Without any obvious Sign of propulsion My submission is that What we are looking at Is truly by definition Exotic technologies Beyond next generation technologies And the bureaucracy In the Department of Defense Really limited our ability To keep leadership informed Of what we're doing And what we're saying As soon as the media Started paying attention Congress started paying attention I started getting calls From the Hill for briefings Senators received A classified briefing About UFOs at the Pentagon Senator Mark Warner Who is the Vice Chair Of the Intelligence Committee Said, look, I think it's important That the military is taking This more seriously now Than they did in the past Senator Rubio and Senator Warner To their great credit Put national security Above their own Personal political careers And took the risk Of engaging publicly On this issue When they began to engage The Defense Department Had to admit to the world That this was real And it was happening And that immediately Took the entire credibility Of the issue up a huge notch The U.S. Navy has finally Acknowledged that video Is appearing to show UFOs Flying through the air are real Commander David Fravor Describing it like A 40-foot long Tic Tac 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 2 seconds And disappear Is something I had never seen in my life We've had repeated instances Of something operating In the airspace Over restricted Nuclear facilities And it's not ours And we don't know Whose it is That alone Just that statement alone Deserves inquiry Deserves attention Deserves focus If you have objects in the sky That you cannot identify That's a problem Because it could be China It could be Russia It could be any adversary Well, any explained phenomenon Could pose a national security threat That's the way You have to treat those things There's something Violating our airspace There's something Fouling our ranges That even the people We've tasked In the executive branch To understand this Cannot provide an explanation So I would say In addition to the National security implications This has implications For basic trust and confidence In the American government We just simply don't know The origin of the phenomenon And we're gonna try To get to the bottom of it Because for national defense purposes Some of these have been in areas That we train These have been in areas Where we've got Some of our best equipment And yet our best equipment Has not been able to tag these things We've not been able To go in and catch them No matter what they are They're invading our airspace And we don't know Exactly why they're doing it What their intent is And what their capabilities are In addition to the National security concerns This violation of All nation's sovereign airspace Presents a safety of flight concern For all military and civilian aviation And the even scarier thing is that The Federal Aviation Administration Stopped using radar To track our air travel They only track aircraft Predominantly commercial and civilian That are squawking So they're actually putting A signal into the system Saying here's where I am The only way they know The UAP are there Is if the pilot See something and says something The fact that the FAA Is not tracking UAP Is putting American lives At risk every day I'm Brad Feddersen I served as the Director of Aviation Security In the National Security Council And as the acting director For the Federal Aviation Administration's National Security Programs Office I can say through my experience That we are absolutely not alone In this universe The biggest thing that concerns me With UAP's Is the national security concern It's the unknown It's the fact that this technology Does stuff that we can't do And if we can't figure out What it is or what it wants Or what it's being used for It keeps me up at night In the idea that We're behind the power curve We want to be able to maintain The cutting edge technology And the advantage Here in the United States So that we can Sleep comfortably at night And feel the safety of What the American government Has provided There's sort of, I think Four hypotheses out there One of which is that This is foreign adversary technology That we simply don't understand Or weren't aware of And that would amount to Probably the biggest intelligence failure In modern American history The second of which is that This is a robust Counterintelligence program To cover up for a U.S. government effort That has fallen kind of away From congressional oversight A third hypothesis is obviously That this is interdimensional Or extraterrestrial And then the fourth Could be a combination Of the previous three Some of the biggest Strategic blunders in human history The foundation of those blunders Were a lack of imagination The belief that an adversary Or whoever Could not do something Because it had never been done before The U.S. thought it was safe For those ships in Pearl Harbor Because we didn't think that The Japanese could get there Much less have torpedoes That could navigate Such a narrow strait And hit these ships Until they did We never thought In our wildest dreams That terrorists would strike us In the homeland By training for a year To become pilots And then hijacking Commercial aircraft And crashing them into buildings And they did The thing that always Keeps me up at night Something in the human psyche That says I don't have time or energy To sort of prepare for the unforeseen Or what I've never seen done before And that leads to strategic surprise And sometimes strategic surprise Changes the course of human history There was one classified briefing That I gave to members of the House and Senate Where I took military pilots To tell them the story Of their encounters with UAP Those stories left them so rattled That they had trouble sleeping that night The United States' most trusted Military service men and women And irrefutable data From our intelligence collection systems Have been observing UAP for decades Everything observed Can be categorized By five distinct Performance characteristics At ATIP We call these the observables The first observable Is hypersonic velocity Our current fastest aircraft Can go roughly 4,600 miles per hour However, the UAP we are observing Are traveling at 40,000 miles per hour And sometimes faster The next observable Is instantaneous acceleration A sudden change in velocity At full speed The SR-71, known as the Blackbird Requires roughly half the state of Ohio To complete its turn What we are seeing with UAP Are vehicles that can make Immediate right-angle turns Instantaneously accelerating And stopping on a dime At speeds up to 10 times faster Than the SR-71 If you're in a sustained fight You can get up to 7.5 Gs It gets physically painful Over time to be under That amount of gravity And that's just going From zero to 200 miles an hour In about 2.5 seconds Now think of going Zero to thousands of miles an hour In less than a second What the force would be on your body The human body Can only take so much Before the internal organs Start to separate themselves From everything they're hooked to Which is usually bad Even if it was a drone It would rip the drone The unmanned vehicle apart The next observable Is low observability All modern technology Have a signature For example Most aircraft Leave visible contrails as they fly We usually hear a sonic boom Associated with the sound barrier Being broken UAP however Leave almost no observable signatures Our airplanes actually Throw out exhaust behind it And thrust behind it To push it forward Whatever these things are They're not doing that There is no exhaust No particles coming off of them That we can see The next observable Is trans-medium travel UAP have been observed Operating in space In air and underwater And they are moving seamlessly Through each of these environments Without any normal signature And without compromising performance We've observed A trans-medium capability Of these phenomena To move from space To the atmosphere To the ocean In the Aguadilla, Puerto Rico case A DHS helicopter Caught this spherical object flying It entered the water And exited the water So trans-medium Without losing any velocity It goes into the ocean And makes no splash or wake At 74 miles per hour I calculated how much force You would require Just to propel a basketball Under the water at 74 miles per hour And you would need A Bezos 7 rocket motor Or two Learjet engines That would turn the water up like crazy So this is a technology That's frictionless The next observable Is antigravity UAP seemed to be defying The natural effects of Earth's gravity Without any obvious means of doing so No signs of propulsion or lift Meaning no wings No control surfaces Or ability to maneuver In 2014 to 2015 We were operating off The coast of Virginia Beach Off the eastern seaboard It was during this time That we upgraded our radar From the APG-73 To the APG-79 radar And this allowed us to Essentially see more objects We weren't expecting to see And there's a particular case Of one of these objects Maintaining a complete stationary position Inside of 120-knot winds Essentially inside of a hurricane It just seems like they're not Affected by the environment The way we are They were tracking them From above 80,000 feet So for those that don't know Above 80,000 That's where you start getting into space So these things were coming down They would sit for like three hours And they would go back up Which to my knowledge We don't have anything That has the capabilities As far as the energy required To come down Hang out for three hours And go up The observed UAP capability Exceeds that of even the most advanced Human technologies That are developed In classified black programs From our exposure I mean there's nothing We have that comes close There's actually a sixth observable Which is not a flight characteristic That is biological effects I got started working on this Actually in this office There was a knock at the door And two individuals Who represented themselves As being with the CIA In an aerospace company Came to me and asked for my help They had data of military personnel Intelligence officials And others associated with The Department of Defense Who had direct interactions with UAP And because of that Direct interaction Suffered some kind of medical harm They wanted my help To look at the so-called Inflammatory secondary events That might be measured in the blood Anything from the horrific burns That I've seen On some of the individuals That leads to secondary problems With autoimmune diseases And sclerosis, etc. And then the internal scarring That I've seen on some individuals These people had scarring Inside of their bodies And inside of their brains And if you think about it If you get too close To the back end of a jet engine Or for instance If you get too close To the transformer system That's just powering Your neighborhood There's energy coming out Of those things I mean those are just Human technologies Now imagine you've got something Which is a more advanced technology Which is generating Some kind of field That allows these objects to move You can imagine If you get too close to it You're going to get harmed I spent 10 years As an intelligence officer For the Navy And before that About 6 years As Air Force intelligence And I spent time On the UAP task force I'm one of the Intelligence officials That has experienced Biological effects Of encountering UAP Since my first encounter I've observed other craft Orbs We call it exotic energy fields Unfortunately Those of us Who have investigated it We become part of the investigation Or investigated by our colleagues The population had about A 25% mortality rate Within 7 years Of having an interaction Probably important that The public understands That this is more than just An aerial phenomenon When you have an anecdote That is accompanied by medical data That's something that I can hand To another scientist Another doctor and say Here it is You explain it We can argue about What the conclusion is But we can't argue That the data is real The deputy director Of naval intelligence Who understood The national security concerns of UAP Directed me to start Quietly building out A whole government Interagency effort That ultimately became The UAP task force This new program Was much bigger than ATIP ever was Our mission was to detect Analyze and catalog UAPs That pose a threat To U.S. national security I had handpicked members From all 16 agencies Of the intelligence community The secretary of defense Formally announced The UAP task force In August of 2020 Naming me the first director Everyone in authority Was paying attention to this topic One very distinctive moment for me Was briefing then secretary of treasury Steve Mnuchin I got through my briefing And at the end of the brief He sat back in his chair And he said, you know, Jay You may wonder why I asked for this briefing And he said What are the economic impacts Of the president Going to the microphone And telling the world We're not alone I have to think about Those kinds of impacts In order to prepare If the president Were to make that move Meanwhile, Chris Mellon and I Were working with the Senate Behind the scenes To craft UAP legislation That was then Taken by Marco Rubio And pushed into the Coronavirus relief bill When President Trump Signed this legislation into law It then forced The Pentagon and the UAP task force To provide written reports To Congress Both classified and unclassified The long-awaited Pentagon report On UFOs Has finally been released The director of national intelligence Just a few days ago Released a new report On 144 sightings When we talk about sightings We're talking about objects That have been seen By Navy or Air Force pilots Or have been picked up By satellite imagery Frankly, there are A lot more sightings Than have been made public The report clarifies That most incidents Over the past two decades Are not from the U.S. military Or other advanced U.S. government technology So the issue now is Why are they here? Where are they coming from? And what is the technology Behind these devices That we're observing? As noisy As that first unclassified report was It barely scratched the surface The few elected officials That actually got to read The classified version of the report It really opened their eyes To the national security concerns Surrounding this topic There's enough obvious evidence here That we need to take this seriously Not downplay it I don't believe they're coming From foreign adversaries If they were Why that would suggest That they have a technology Which is in a whole different sphere Than anything we understand And frankly, China and Russia Just aren't there And neither are we, by the way They say trillions of galaxies out there So who knows What might have developed somewhere else Does the United States believe That there may be life outside of Earth? What we believe Is that there are Unexplained aerial phenomena That have been sighted and reported By pilots, Navy and Air Force That these phenomena have In some cases Had an impact on our training ranges On our pilots' ability To fly, frame, operate And stay ready That alone Makes it a national security issue Worth looking at We don't know We don't have the answers About what these phenomena are As we continue to make progress A very powerful Disinformation campaign began This effort was to Destroy my reputation and credibility Full stop When the government started running This despicable Disinformation campaign against Liu I actually received an email one day From the Pentagon Public Affairs Office With this narrative That they were providing back to the media That was completely false And I replied all to that email And said this is wrong And they ran with it anyway They actually told the American people That Liu Elizondo did not work there And that was an outright lie My family and I suffered greatly for it All you have in your life Is really your credibility and your word It's heartbreaking They don't want anybody That's based on facts Being involved in this So what do they do? They go online and try to belittle Elizondo and me And anybody else That's trying to do it A scientific way As hard as it was I was still being privately encouraged By former members of AATIP To continue the fight And so that gave me the motivation To continue to press forward And the fire that we started Continued to spread After decades of public denial The Pentagon now admits There's something out there And the U.S. Senate Wants to know what it is UFOs Unidentified flying objects Are real The government has already stated For the record that they're real I'm not telling you that The United States government Is telling me that There's footage and records Of objects in the skies That we don't know Exactly what they are What's your viewpoint On what these objects That seem to defile Laws of physics are? Well, first of all That's a legitimate question There are lots of mysteries out there It should keep us humble There's a lot of stuff We don't know There have been sightings All over the world And when we talk about sightings The other thing I will tell you is It's not just a pilot Or just a satellite Or some intelligence collection Usually we have multiple sensors That are picking up these things There's always the question of Is there something else That we simply do not understand That might come extraterrestrially I think it's a bit presumptuous And not arrogant for us to believe That there's no other form of life Anywhere in the entire universe Well, I've seen some of those videos From Navy pilots And I must tell you That they are quite eyebrow-raising And might in fact be Some type of phenomenon That is the result of something That we don't yet understand And that could involve Some type of activity That some might say Constitutes a different form of life We don't know If the non-human intelligence That is already here Is exclusively extraterrestrial Or perhaps some sort of Crypto-terrestrial Some people who are into The physics of time travel Think maybe they're time travelers Even some sort of proto-human That somehow branched off From the human family tree long ago And is as natural To this planet as we are Some ancient civilization That's sequestered away Somewhere on the earth Or on the seabed We've heard testimonials from pilots As well as civilians From different countries Having seen things come from the ocean Unexplained things And these aren't missiles They aren't rockets They aren't aircraft or submarines These are otherworldly things That are performing maneuvers That haven't been seen In fact we have tracked UAP underwater Going at speeds in excess Of several hundred miles an hour But without the associated signatures I retired as the oceanographer of the Navy Being the senior advisor For the chief of naval operations In the Pentagon Our knowledge of the ocean Is rather limited We haven't even explored 80% of the ocean volume We have mapped the surface of Mars And the moon to a higher resolution Than the earth's seafloor Is it possible that whatever we're seeing Isn't from out there It's from down there Are we looking at an entire world Underneath the water I think it's very safe to say That with so much of the ocean volume unexplored And the seafloor unmapped That if any intelligence were to arrive here And not want to be detected It would stay in the ocean All these possibilities Could come with different intentions And motivations Whoever it is They're here And they're operating here And they have been operating here For a long time In 2022 We started pushing Congress hard To hold public UAP hearings And that's when disclosure Started to get to the next level House panel is holding a public hearing On mysterious flying objects The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Describes this as one of the great mysteries Of our time And it's a big day for all of these people Who have spent so many years Pushing for more transparency Into this topic Out of everything in Congress And everything happening currently In our country and world right now The UAP topic has been One of the only topics That's received this level of bipartisan support It's just not an issue At least doesn't yet In this country That lends itself to some sort of Partisan or ideological divide Democrats and Republicans We just want to understand What's going on This hearing and oversight work Has a simple idea at its core Unidentified aerial phenomena Are a potential national security threat And they need to be treated that way UAPs are unexplained, it's true But they are real They need to be investigated And many threats they pose Need to be mitigated There is something there Measurable by multiple instruments And yet it seems to move in directions That are inconsistent With what we know of physics or science More broadly There are a number of events In which we do not have an explanation In which there are flight characteristics Or signature management That we can't explain We know that our service members Have encountered Unidentified aerial phenomena And because UAPs pose Potential flight safety And general security risks We are committed to a focused effort To determine their origins The capabilities, systems, processes And sources we use to observe, record Study or analyze these phenomena Need to be classified at appropriate levels We do not want We do not want potential adversaries To know exactly what we're able to see Or understand Or how we come to the conclusions we make Therefore, public disclosures Must be carefully considered On a case-by-case basis The hearing was a historic bipartisan effort Towards transparency But it left both the American public and Congress With more questions than answers I was making progress I learned that the legacy program Was quietly behind the scenes pushing back And they were creating bureaucratic hurdles They were somehow able to block the funding That was approved for the UAP task force I can't describe it any other way Than I was just angry There's this hidden hand That is blocking all of these actions And things that I'm doing A subversive government Overriding the real government It's so bad that We really aren't going to make progress Until someone shines the light on them And then the staff and the members Start to dig in more They begin to understand the landscape They begin to understand How much secrecy there is How much resistance there is To come in clean on this As Congress began hearing from whistleblowers In classified settings They came to the realization Of the existence of the legacy program The main players in the legacy program Have long been The Central Intelligence Agency The United States Air Force The Department of Energy And major defense contractors The Central Intelligence Agency Is responsible for the oversight Of the overall effort You might think of them As a little bit of As a headquarters element The Deputy Director of Science and Technology At the CIA controls The UAP crash retrieval portfolio The United States Air Force Is responsible for field operations These are the folks That are responsible for deploying Within moments notice Anywhere in the world To go secure and retrieve Crashed UAP We have intelligence teams Quickly notified If there's some UAP event That might involve a crashed vehicle Or pieces from a crashed vehicle The United States Air Force Uses their own special forces But they also coordinate With other special forces In the other branches Of the U.S. military They are so well organized That they basically Can get to a site Gather material Whatever it is And once it's in their possession They have the authority To classify it And therefore make Any information about it Unavailable to the public Even admission that it exists Unavailable to the public The defense contractors They are responsible for The exploitation And the reverse engineering And analysis of the materials They provide technical And advisory services That the government doesn't have And last but not least Is the Department of Energy They are the world's experts In anything that is related To either atomic or nuclear technology Or anything that gives off radiation But there's another advantage Because the Department of Energy Has its own security Classification system Well outside the overview And oversight if you will Of traditional classification systems Like the Department of Defense Or the intelligence community They use the security And classification language In the Atomic Energy Act To hide the legacy Crash retrieval program The intelligence officials That have briefed on these Crash retrievals Have talked about A number of different species Having been observed To be associated with the crash Bodies recovered Are not all the same type I'm aware of at least two Advanced non-human species One of which made contact With the legacy Crash retrieval program The other of which The bodies were recovered By the crash retrieval program In various crashes One of the questions Is often raised If they're so advanced Why are there crashes But of course I mean Cars are well made And people drive them carefully But there are crashes It can happen Another option That's being considered Is that maybe some of these Were not quote really crashes But that they were left here For us to examine In order to advance Our technology forward At a faster pace So in that sense They can be seen as gifts From more intelligent species One of the questions That would then be raised Would be well Are gifts distributed differently Among different nations Or more or less homogeneously To see who survives And makes progress the fastest It could be a giant IQ test You might say As we brought whistleblowers To Congress We learned that the legacy program Was involved in a long running Secret war with other nations To collect and reverse engineer Vehicles not made by humans In this secret theater war The U.S. has both allies We would certainly prefer A situation where The retrieval is either In international waters Or some other uncontested location Or maybe in an allied country But every country in the world Would do everything in their power To try to retrieve An exquisite piece of technology The first country That cracks the code On this technology Will be the leader For years to come This is similar to The Manhattan Project We developed the atomic weapon We won the war And it made us a superpower For almost a century now This is the atomic weapon On steroids Some of the craft observed Could be the result of Say our legacy program Or on the other hand It might be the result of Advancements made By potential adversaries We have seen Highly credible U.S. government intelligence On the Soviet recovery Of a crashed UAP in 1989 They recovered A tic-tac shaped UAP That was twice as big As the tic-tac That was encountered By the USS Nimitz Carrier strike group And they did recover Four bodies of humanoid aliens The Soviet scientists Took apart the recovered craft And discovered A very advanced Directed energy weapon China is at the top Of everything For a second That they wouldn't consider Using it to achieve Their ends of domination We'll wake up one day And realize I don't know how they got there But they got there ahead of us And now we're screwed This technology Can absolutely Either revolutionize The way we do things Or completely destroy Everything that we know It often reminds me Of the famous speech By President John F. Kennedy When we were right at the threshold Of entering into a new era Of discovery in space There is new knowledge to be gained And new rights to be won And they must be won and used For the progress of all people For space science Like nuclear science and all technology Has no conscience of its own Whether it will become a force For good or ill Depends on man And only if the United States Occupies a position of preeminence Can we help decide Whether this new ocean Will be a sea of peace Or a new terrifying theater of war Some of this is so secret There have been very, very few people In our entire government That have been allowed Or provided access to it Some presidents have been briefed On the basic facts About the situation But they are not provided With all the details I think there's this assumption That presidents can walk In the Oval Office on day one And say, all right, take me to Roswell Show me the alien bodies I want to see the video of the autopsy I want to see the whole thing Open it up I think that really is A naive understanding Of how our government works Even presidents have often been Operating on a need-to-know basis That's certainly true From a historic standpoint The rationale The justification was The president shouldn't know About these things Because that way The president always has deniability All they need is a nod In this direction or in that direction But that begins to Ramp out of control Frankly, I don't even know A president would know who to ask You could go to the director of the CIA Nowadays, the director Of national intelligence And ask them And even that person may not know Because those people rotate But the people Three layers underneath them That are there for 30 years To them It's like I've seen These people come and go I have no obligation To tell them it exists It just never percolates out A lot of people have this assumption That the director of CIA Is right on to everything And knows everything The director of CIA Is a political appointee Quite frankly They're temporary help Whereas the director of Science and technology at CIA This is a career Intelligence professional That's where you're going to Put the program I had a few private conversations With former president George Herbert Walker Bush in 2003 In which he told me That when he became The CIA director In the Ford administration He was not briefed On the legacy UAP Crash retrieval program But he later found out about it And he informed me That there were a number Of crash retrievals That had taken place Since the mid-1940s And he also informed me Of a UAP event That took place at Holloman Air Force Base in 1964 Where three UAPs Approached the Air Force Base One of them landed on the tarmac And a non-human entity Deboarded the craft that landed And interacted with Uniformed Air Force And civilian CIA personnel And when he asked for more details He was told that he did not Have a need to know I served over 30 years As an Army Green Beret In the United States Army I ended my career As Secretary of Defense Some intelligence official decided I, the acting Secretary of Defense Did not have a need to know About the UAP topic Several of my colleagues Participated in a panel Organized by the George Bush administration When the administration Contemplated going public With disclosure What it was A group of 10 or 12 people From intelligence agencies From the military Some business people And they said Here's what's going on The Americans, the Russians And the Chinese All have crash retrieved craft From some other civilization And there's some belief At this point That maybe this should be Revealed to the public And we want to know What would the consequences be This is a topic that has a potential To create serious ontological shock