That's insane.
The Phoenix lights event of 1997...
...is the largest mass UFO sighting...
...in our nation's history.
I saw six lights over the airport...
...in absolute uniform, in a 'V' shape.
It's unidentified.It's flying and it's six objects.
-But it's not the first time... -...this has happened.
I see the lights on either side.
The Government claims these UFOs were not...
...extraterrestrial and have come up with countless...
-...dubious explanations for the lights. -Swamp gas.
It's insulting to anybody's intelligence.
Why is the Government covering up these sightings?
Do visitors from outer space pose a threat...
...to our national security?
There's the Government you see...
...and there's a Shadow Government.
Whoa!
I'm Ben Hansen, former Federal Agent.
My grandfather worked at a highly classified Air Force base...
...and convinced me we are not alone in the universe.
Then I had my own encounter that changed my life forever.
Welcome to UFO country.
Now I've gained access to a top...
...secret archive from Project Blue Book.
This planet has been under surveillance for centuries.
Containing reports of over 10,000 UFO...
...sightings investigated by the US Government.
We could very well be standing on the...
...exact place where a UFO crashed.
My mission is to uncover the truth.
I'm in Phoenix, Arizona on my way to meet a woman...
...who recently took some video...
...of some extraordinary UFO lights in the skies.
This sighting happened in 2019 but there's been...
...strange activity here for over sixty years...
...and eye witnesses are convinced these...
...lights are not of this world.
-Dr Lynne. -So good to see you.
I hear that you had a really impressive sighting.
I was right in this area.
I was home.
This is before seven o'clock and it was dark...
...and I'm sitting in front of the TV.
The lights started to flicker...
...and then those lights went out.
Then the TV went off.
I saw huge balls of amber light.
Like nothing you've ever seen before.
So I grabbed my camera...
...and I started photographing them.
Can I see the, the photos that you took?
Absolutely.
First one and then another popped up so there were...
-...four altogether. -Yeah, I see there's four.
The lights all appeared in a line, a formation
as if they were connected to a singular craft.
They were so unusual.Technology wise...
...it seemed that there was an intelligence behind them...
...and I noticed an eerie silence, as if time had stopped.
It felt like something was watching me.
Wow!
It was extraordinary.
Where you seeing any lights like from aircraft in the area?
There were planes coming into the airports,
Sky Harbor International Airport, at the same time.
So we compare this, which we know is a plane...
...look how bright these are.
Quite different from any plane.
-So you have video of this as well? -I do! This is the video.
Oh, wow!
The video also shows the bright lights in formation...
...hovering in place.
They are too close to each other be helicopters...
...and too bright to be drones.
You got something really impressive...
-...like just hovering out there. -Exactly.
But there's more.
This is not the first time
Dr.Kitei has seen UFO's in the Arizona skies.
Almost 25 years ago
Dr Kitei filmed what has become known as the Phoenix Lights.
I've been seeing these phenomena...
...since March 13, 1997.
Among UFOlogists the Phoenix Lights have become one of the...
...most iconic UFO videos ever filmed.
Twenty thousand citizens reported...
...seeing the strange object pictured in Dr Kitei's video.
They described it as a mile wide...
...triangle shaped craft with six distinct lights.
It crossed roughly 300 miles of airspace...
...with reports coming in from Phoenix to Tucson...
...and one of the witnesses turned out to be a famous actor.
-Well one of the private pilots -...happened to be Kurt Russel.
I saw six lights over the airport...
...in absolute uniform, in a 'V' shape and I reported it.
And they said...
..."We're not panning anything, we're not showing anything.
" I said, "Well, okay.
I'm gonna declare it's unidentified.
It's flying and it's six objects.
That was the most viewed UFO event...
...over 20,000 people saw that.
Thousands of people, what's going on?
It could possibly be, I think the greatest...
...mass sighting in, in our country's history...
-...and you had a front row seat. -I did.
With so many witnesses to this event...
...the Government was forced to investigate.
Bringing about what is believed to be one of the...
...greatest UFO cover-ups in history.
They claim the lights were not attached to an alien aircraft...
...but were simply flares set off during a military exercise.
When they had to come out with something...
...they came out with the flare theory.
Flares drift haphazardly with the wind...
...have huge smoke trails.It, it was...
...it was bizarre.The next morning's headlines...
-That's really disappointing... -Phoenix Lights are flares.
It's like they bit it, hook, line, sinker and said...
...this is what the military said...
-...this is what we're going with. -They did.Exactly.
Military flares leave behind prominent...
...smoke trails as they fall...
...which rules them out as a suspect.
But others saw the static hovering lights.
Dr Kitei has assembled a group of witnesses...
...to the 1997 Phoenix Lights event.
Fearing retaliation a few have asked...
...to remain anonymous.
Wow...
...thank you guys for coming here.
I understand you're all witnesses to the Phoenix Lights.
What did you feel like when they come out with this...
...official explanation in the newspapers...
...flares?
It's interesting you say that. My father fought in the high...
...core area in Vietnam in '68 and '69.
He concurred the same thing. He said aviation flares...
...they drop slowly
Well do you think we could all agree then on what it was not?
These were not flares...
-...right? -They were not lanterns either.
They were not lanterns, they were not conventional craft.
-They were silent. -They were not holograms.
So if it wasn't that, the alternative is...
-...it's from somewhere else. -Correct.
Two of the eyewitnesses claim they had...
...close encounters with the 1997 UFO.
-Right. -I saw the same thing.
-Where did you witness it? Where were you? -I was on the I60...
...was driving home from work...
...and I saw this huge...
...boomerang-shaped craft flying towards me.
I slammed on the brakes...
...I jumped out of my truck as it came up over me.
It was about thirty feet over my head...
...and I remember thinking, "I could hit this with a rock.
Thirty feet?
David was paralyzed in fear as the large imposing UFO...
...flew right above his head.
It was gun-metal gray...
...and there was like thousands and...
...thousands of thumb prints in it.
It just meandered.This huge craft...
...that took up 70% of the horizon.
-So from you being thirty feet under how wide would it be? -My...
...guess was a mile to a mile and a half.
-Whoa! -From tip to tip.
But there was no-one else around, I looked...
...'cause I wanted to have some validation for what I saw.
But the nearest light I could easily see right into.
And out of that port what look like lava...
...and as it poured down about...
...four to six feet it stopped...
...and then it went right back up in.
And then more would come down.
And I remember thinking I'm gonna get burned...
...because I was that close to it...
...but there was no heat.And there was no sound.
And I stood there and as it passed by...
...and I watched it until it went out of sight.
I just started crying.
It was overwhelming and that has stuck with me from that day...
-...from that moment. -Wow.
Could the lights have been visitors from another world...
...and if so, what do they want with us?
To find out about any other mass UFO...
...sightings in American history,
Ben is headed to the Center for UFO
Studies to talk with historian. Mark O'Connell.
-So, Ben. -have talked to so many witnesses...
...who saw the Phoenix Lights.
You know it's 1997...
...there were thousands of people who saw the triangle.
I talked to people who saw this thing...
...as close as thirty feet above their head.
And as it passed by I watched it till it went out of sight.
I just started crying.
None of it made sense.
All I know for certain...
...is I believe that there was the dis-information campaign.
I'm baffled and I, I wanna know does this...
...type of thing have precedence?
Has there been other cases where there's been a mass
UFO sighting and the Government is so adeptly...
...able to come in and just take over and silence them?
-Let me show you a file that I've been looking at. -Alright.
This is the official Michigan '66 Flap.
Swamp gas flap.
Dr.J.Allen Hynek was the lead scientific advisor to
Project Blue Book, a government funded investigation of
The nation's UFO sightings...
...from 1952 to 1969.
According to Mark, in 1966...
...the Air Force sent Dr.Hynek to Dexter, Michigan
A small town outside of Ann Arbor.
There he investigated reports of a UFO seen by a farmer,
Frank Manor and his son, Ron.
There are a lot parallels between the Phoenix Lights...
...and the infamous Dexter, Michigan "swamp gas" sightings.
Dozens of witnesses.
The Government getting involved in strange...
...and misleading ways.
So here's a recording of an interview with
Frank Manor who was one of the witnesses.
We were watching television, we have...
...six dogs here and they started raising a fuss.
I went outside on the porch,
I looked to the north and...
...it looked like a falling star coming down.
I looked at it and I thought I was seeing things...
...and a, a blue and a white light come on it.
Frank and Ron weren't the only ones to witness the lights...
...hovering above the swamp near his farm in Dexter.
In the neighboring town of Hillsdale...
...college students also reported seeing a flying saucer...
...with three lights in a row...
...much like the Phoenix Lights of 1997.
When I saw it I just wanted to stay there and...
...keep my eyes glued to it, I couldn't leave.
Well when I was looking out the window
I saw what looked to be shaped like a pie.
I could see the lights on the either side...
...and in the rim...
...like it was sorted of packing a glow over the whole thing.
It becomes a huge, huge national headline...
...much like the Phoenix Lights did, right?
-Yeah, yeah. -I mean Air Force...
...hates it when a UFO story becomes too big.
-Yeah. -So what does the Air Force do?
They send Hynek to Michigan...
...he interviews the Mannor family.
But get this, he's getting pressure from his boss
-Really? -...to make this case go away quickly.
Everybody wants Hynek to say "spaceships, little green men"...
...and instead he says, "What these witnesses describe...
...could've been swamp gas.
The official explanation swamp gas...
...flares caused by the burning of gases...
...bubbling up from the area swamp.
Mr Mannor, the farmer, the lights...
...they saw were localized to the swamp area...
...and it's when this green fog comes...
...and the gases can be-- can bubble up...
...from below and get released.
The gases can ignite spontaneously...
...and they flicker all over the place. They'll...
...flicker at one place and then go out and...
...suddenly appear some place else which gives the...
...illusion of motion.
Everybody just went crazy when he said "swamp gas".
But none of it really adds up.
The country's leading UFO expert just said...
...everybody in Michigan is an idiot...
...who can't tell swamp gas from a flying saucer.
So that's kind of along the lines in Phoenix.
It was really the defining moment...
...in Dr.Hynek's career.
So the Government's gonna say it was swamp gas.
Can we prove that it wasn't?
There's a lot of, of witness testimony.
I, I'd actually like to see if any...
...of these people are still alive.
I think the more you dig, more you will find evidence that...
...the Air Force, of course during the Blue Book days...
...but even beyond that...
...that the Air Force has really been up to no good.
It's a little bit disturbing.
I'm in Dexter, Michigan on my way to see Sheriff Harvey.
Now Sheriff Harvey has long since retired but...
...in 1966 he was the Sheriff in charge...
...when Dr.Hynek was sent to investigate the Dexter UFO.
Sheriff Harvey, pleasure to meet you.
I'm so excited to talk to you about this case because...
...it's been one of those iconic cases I read about as a kid...
...and I hope that you can kinda fill in some blanks...
-...for me and get to the bottom on this. -I will do my utmost.
I have some of the original documents...
...it might help jog your memory.
First of all if I could take you back now to 1966.
I was a young Sheriff, the second youngest sheriff...
...in the State of Michigan
That time there was one sighting after another in Dexter.
I understand you spent a lot of time with
Dr.Hynek when he came into town.
I'd never heard of Professor Hynek. Didn't know who he was.
-Yeah. -But I knew that you know he...
...had to be somebody important.
My curiosity got the best of me...
...and I said, "Dr.Hynek, what have we got?"
And I remember him saying to me, "
I don't know.
I found that very strange, you know.
When we got back to my office...
...he said, "I gotta call Washington.
" It stuck with me so much, "I, I gotta call Washington.
Okay.
He was in there for quite a while...
...then he came out.
-"Professor, what have we got? -What have we got?"
He said, "It's swamp gas.
" I literally died, swamp gas.
So he was pretty definitive about this...
-...he was just--? -Oh, boy...
...yes! You know it didn't take an idiot to figure it out.
-Yeah. -I get a call from Washington and Washington is saying,
"You'd better say it's swamp gas.
Get your butt out of there and come on back to Washington.
You think about that for a minute.He had no idea...
...but then when he makes a call to Washington...
...all of a sudden he...
...he comes up with "It's swamp gas.
-How frustrating. -Wow.
Yes.I was disgusted.
What is swamp gas?
-I've never seen it. It's like-- -Yeah...
...insulting to anybody's intelligence.
I think they could've come up with something better than that.
But there's more.Sheriff Harvey has...
...never before revealed information.
Something that doesn't appear in any of Dr.Hynek's Project
Blue Book reports.
Hours before the news conference...
...and Hynek's call to Washington,
Sheriff Harvey and Dr.Hynek visited...
...the swamp on Frank Mannor's farm and found something.
We got to the Mannor farm.
Dr.Hynek got out the car...
...and in the back field the grass was down...
...in a, like a circle.
It was matted.Matted down.
You know like something just laid on it.
And Dr.Hynek walked right up to it.
It's not in any of the reports.
I don't see any mention of it, so...
...is it possible that, that Hynek purposely left that out?
He left out what you had seen with him, the depression.
I know that I seen it and so did Hynek.He went up to it.
To Sheriff Harvey...
...the possibility that a UFO landed here is real.
Sheriff Harvey, the college students,
Frank Mannor and his son, Ron...
...all either saw the UFO...
...or direct evidence of it's presence...
...and Ron Mannor is still alive and willing to talk about it.
I'm on my way to talk to Ron Mannor.
Now Ron and his dad Frank are the family that witnessed...
...the object hovering over the swamp.
Ron was 18 at the time.
I don't think he's actually talked about it since 1966.
You must be Ben, come in.
Nice to meet you. Thank you so much.
After all these years...
...this is still one of the most iconic cases.
You have so many witnesses...
...incredible event and the the Government steps in...
...and says, "Yeah, that, that wasn't what it was.
It wasn't what you guys experienced.
" So could you kinda just take me back to that evening.
I was on the back porch...
...looking at the lights down in the swamp.
So I sat there and watched it for a while.
I told my dad.
"They shouldn't be there, but let's go see what it is.
" So we walked down there...
...and you could see lights, three lights...
...amber one, a red one and a blue one.
Did they move independently?
-No. -I would've thought if it was three different lights...
...it would probably have moved some...
...some, something would've--
-Changed out of position? -Yeah. You would've thought.
-So it's possible that it was part of one structure? -Yeah.
Ron thinks it's possible the lights were attached to one UFO...
...just like the Phoenix Lights
And so we couldn't get a real good look at...
...it so I suggested we get up on this big hill...
...so we could look down into the swamp.
We got over there...
...and when we looked back the lights were gone from there.
And then they send out Dr. Hynek.
He spoke with your father.
So then Dr. Hynek makes this press release...
...and he says that it's swamp gas.
What did your dad feel like when Hynek came out and said that?
I think he felt a little betrayed...
...you know, they were just making him look bad.
Well I know it's a real phenomenon...
...but do you think it's at all possible...
...that what you and your father saw was swamp gas?
Not possible.
Not with three distinct different lights, no.
-Not a chance. -Not a chance.
No.
With Hynek's burning swamp gas story looking unlikely,
Ben comes up with an idea.
With Ron's permission to access the property...
...he heads to the swamp to conduct an experiment.
Does methane gas rising from the swamp...
...burn and give off different colors? And if so...
...will the flames rise up high enough...
...to be mistaken for bright lights on a flying object?
This is really cool to be here.
You can see it's a little bit frozen over.
To think a UFO could've been here back in 1966.
Joining him at the site is a pyrotechnics expert...
...who will help Ben recreate the swamp gas...
...that Dr. Hynek alleged in his report.
Can't say that I've ever tried to make swamp gas before.
I've seen it once down in Louisiana.
-Oh, really? -Yeah and it was pure accident.
Alright, so the water here it's a little bit iced over.
I need to get far enough in to submerge this whole thing.
Whoa. Okay, well now we know how deep it is...
-...and it stinks like siler. -Yeah.
Oh yeah we definitely will have some methane.
-You see the bubbles already flowing. -Oh, yeah.
-Look at the bubbles that are flowing. -Look at that.
There it goes, there it goes. There see.
I can feel the pressure building up against my thumb.
Methane is flammable.
Any ideas how it spontaneously combusts?
It'd have to be like a arc from a amber.
-Could it be lightening? -Lightening hitting a tree.
Almost there.
Here we go.
Alright, I feel the pressure building up...
...thinking maybe we should just give it a try.
-Are you ready? -So you go ahead and light.
Three, two, one.
Take a step back.
Whoa!
In 1966, witnesses claim they saw a UFO...
...with three bright lights flying over Dexter, Michigan.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the UFO Investigator...
...for the Air Force's top secret Project Blue Book...
...claimed the lights came from burning swamp gas fires.
Ben Hansen is conducting an experiment...
...to prove Dr. Hynek wrong.
-So you go ahead and light it. -Three, two, one.
-Whoa! That would freak me out if I was in the swamp. -Yeah.
I would never report that as a UFO...
...but I would be hightailing it outta there that's for sure.
This is exactly what would happen with swamp gas.
And see that's the problem
I have with the official explanation of this incident.
A lot of witnesses are reporting this up to 500 feet above...
...or maybe a thousand.
Oh, no. That's ridiculous.
The Mannors, the Hillsdale college students...
...and numerous other Dexter residents all stated...
...they saw three fixed distinct lights of different colors.
There were three lights...
...a amber one, a red one and a blue one.
In fact Sheriff Harvey's deputies claim to have chased...
...the craft down a country road.
Well it moved very rapidly in the direction it wanted to go.
None of their descriptions comes close to the flames Ben...
...has created in this swamp.
This is really intense.
So we've, we've reached the max capacity of, of this effect...
...and yet we're still so far beneath...
...what the witnesses were saying as far as height...
...as far as different colors.
-Oh, yeah. -What we've just done...
...is debunk the idea that this could be swamp gas.
Nature could not have created what these witnesses saw.
I'm firmly convinced that is not what took place in 1966.
So I have a Geiger counter for a couple of reasons.
This is the, the location where the UFO incident took place...
...and any time that we have...
...the actual location pinned down
I like to do just a baseline sweep...
...see if there's anything unusual...
...about this geography...
...that might attract whoever they are to come here...
...or if there's anything residual left.
It's been over fifty years.
But the other reason is because a swamp...
...is basically decomposing organic material.
If there's any truth to the idea that this was swamp gas...
...another side effect of that we could say...
...would be that the decomposing material...
...might give off radioactivity.
Actually get down into the water here where the...
...the most decomposition is happening.
The needle's not really fluctuating at all.
You can smell the decomposition here.
This is really nasty stuff.
-Alright. -I am getting a little bit.
There's a tiny bit of background radiation, very small.
To be honest though I generally get more radiation...
...coming from just going into a forest than I am seeing here.
All of this material is decomposing underneath me here.
I'm absolutely getting nothing.
Which is unusual.
It's completely opposite.
I would expect there to be a little bit.
Now that doesn't mean that...
...there's no radioactivity here but it is a little strange.
Something right here, it's just so minute though.
My conclusion of the investigation of the site...
-...of the Dexter incident is that, number one...
...there's nothing I'm able to find that's quite unusual...
...about this location now.
I've tested radiation, it seems to be you know baseline.
I, I tried to kick up some methane...
...and we tried an experiment to try and light.
Now it doesn't mean there's not any here.
In the end...
...I do not believe this is what those witnesses saw in 1966.
This was not swamp gas.
Ben feels confident this proves...
...the Government covered up the existence...
...of the Dexter UFO in 1966.
But what about the Phoenix Lights UFO of 1997?
Can Ben prove the Government tried to cover that up as well...
...and the lights were attached to a UFO...
...and not caused by flares set off...
...during a military exercise?
One local Arizona politician claims to have valuable information.
Frances Barwood was a councilwoman...
...at the time of the incident.
-Hi, you must be Frances? -I'm Ben.
Hi, Ben. Nice to meet you.
-Come on in. -Thank you for agreeing to meet with me.
So I talked to Dr. Kitei...
...and I was in a room filled with people...
...who have seen strange objects and lights just recently...
...and then also back in 1997 when the event took place.
Can you tell me your journey through...
...what happened in your exploration trying to find the truth?
Well I was approached by a reporter...
...and he said he wanted to talk to me about this...
...object that went over Phoenix.
Can you find out if anybody's investigating?
Well his article appeared in Saturday's paper...
...and then I get into the office on Monday...
...and my voice mail was filled.
-Oh, wow. -And it was like this was overwhelming...
...I got like over 700 people calling...
...and I started calling them all back...
...and what was amazing to me...
...they were all the same description.
How many people that you know can...
...describe the same thing unless it's--...
-...they actually saw it? -Yeah.
Each one of those people I talked to...
...it was with many others...
...when you add it all up it's thousands.
And so I asked for an investigation.
-Okay. -Councilwoman Barwood took the formal steps to initiate...
...a Government-backed investigation into the Phoenix Lights.
But she was stonewalled by the State's Governor at the time,
Fife Symington.
I got this memo and it said, "this is a non-issue".
They didn't wanna touch it.
That's so odd. I don't know why they would do that.
After hitting a dead end with the local politicians,
Frances appealed to the public...
...to apply pressure to the Government.
I told everybody to call the Governor's office...
-Okay.-...because you know he's the Head of State...
...he could maybe help.
The flood of calls couldn't be ignored...
...and the Governor had to make an announcement...
...at an emergency press conference.
In response I suggested that it was time to end...
...months of speculation on the question
And he said and we caught one of the perpetrators.
Escort the accused into the room...
...so that we may all look upon the guilty party.
And this just goes to show that you...
...guys are entirely too serious.
It's shocking to me.
It's like they're making a joke of this.
I imagine this was not funny at all...
...to the people who actually witnessed
I've talked to people who were within thirty feet of it...
...and could see the details of the craft.
That is not funny.
No, it's not and...
...and it was no like him at all.
Fife has no sense of humor.
There is no way that he put that all together.
I think he did it because they put pressure on him.
Like Dr. Hynek in 1966...
...it seems Governor Symington was pressed...
...to deny the existence of UFOs.
Councilwoman Barwood...
...was more convinced of the cover-up than ever...
...ever and days later she was contacted by a local veteran...
...who claimed to possess irrefutable evidence.
I got a phone call...
...from a man named Richard Curtis...
...and he said he got this all on video.
Unlike the video shot by Dr. Lynne Kitei
Richard Curtis claimed he recorded a detailed...
...video that showed the lights were part of one space craft.
Richard promised to send a copy of his video evidence...
...to Frances' office...
...but when he called back a week later...
...it was clear someone in the shadows...
...had other plans.
He goes, "What did you think of the video?"
I said, "I didn't get a video.
" He said, "Oh, well they came from your office."
Two men claiming to be from Frances' office...
...convinced Richard to hand over the only copy of the video.
I don't have a man working in my office.
I have three women.
Oh, my gosh!
So I said, "Okay, what did they look like?"
"They were in three-piece suits with hats.
" Now mind you this is July, it's 110 degrees out...
...and so it was like, "Oh, my goodness.
Well then Richard Curtis got really sick...
...and they took him out by ambulance...
...and nobody's ever seen him again.
-Nobody knows where he is? -No.
Neighbors of his said
they changed his medication...
...he had a bad reaction...
...they had to take him to the hospital
and he never came back.
Do we, do we know if he's in the obituaries?
-If, if he's passed? -Nothing.
No more information.
And I'm thinking...
...how did they know he called me? It was kinda creepy.
According to Frances, a private investigator...
...checked her home phone line and made a shocking discovery.
He said, "You have a tap on your line...
...it's coming from the Government, Federal Government.
Are you serious?!
Somebody was tapping your phone...
...intercepted a conversation you had with a witness...
...and then showed up saying that...
...they were coming on your behalf...
...to get possibly the only clear video...
-...of the event that's out there. -Right.
It usually got to be face-to-face meetings a lot.
In an effort to protect her witnesses,
Frances handed off her notes to a friend.
It was put in his safe and they were...
...broken into and it was taken.
Are you serious?
And I imagine you discussed that on the phone...
...that you were gonna bring it to him?
Before I knew.
Before you knew you were being tapped.
I'm sorry, it's, it's-- it really, really frustrates me.
It was very frustrating because it's, it's like--...
...in, in my own self I feel like I've failed.
The investigation wasn't completed. There was no answer...
...and there was nothing more I could do.
There was nobody else I could go to.
Nothing.
Do you, do you have any idea who these people might...
...be that are tapping your phone?
Well I was told a long time ago...
...that there's the Government you see...
...and there's the Shadow Government.
It's not elected officials.
It's not the hired officials.
It's beyond that.
But the question remains...
...why is the Government covering up the existence of UFOs.
Frances believes they are afraid.
Why do you harass and...
...and wire tap...
...and take away the evidence from people who saw it?
Because the Government knows that it's not them.
That's my only theory.
And so they're afraid of losing power.
Yeah.
I believe that the Phoenix Lights event...
...was not only a massive Government...
...cover-up but a smear campaign.
Frances Barwood led this whole crusade...
...her phone was wire tapped.
The Government and whoever the secret keepers...
...are did a very effective job in covering this up.
To uncover how the conspirators deploy...
...and enact their disinformation campaign,
Ben arranges a sit down with a man...
...who recently identified himself as a Shadow
Government pawn...
...who was consistently deployed...
...to cover up Government secrets.
Rick, thank you for meeting me here.
If someone had a legit sighting they wanted...
...to dissuade or distract the public...
...the person that they would call to do that is you?
It would be us. Special agents were the Air Force Officer...
...of Special Investigations Counter-Intelligence Division.
Wow! Okay.
I was stationed in Area 51 in the eighties.
-You were?! -I have a badge to prove it.
Wow! You don't think it still works, do you?
No, I don't think it still works.
The civilian sightings were done by
Project Blue Book investigators...
...but the real mysterious cases...
...were handled by the Air Force Office...
...of Special Investigations.
If someone has a legitimate UFO sighting...
...and the Government comes in to discredit them...
...how do they go about doing that?
-That was part of our job. -We went out...
...tried to disinform people who have had UFO sightings.
And there's manuals that governs exactly how we, we do that.
It's actual written policy like how to go about doing this?
Yes.
And I have some information here that will astound you.
Wow! Wow!
Cause I've always suspected...
...but I didn't know that there was a play-book.
There's a play-book.
That manual particularly dictates...
...some other thing that the Air Force can blame it on...
-...and exactly how we try to discredit people. -Oh, my gosh!
There were incidents where the sighting was in fact a UFO.
We knew it was not from this earth...
...extraterrestrial.
Ben Hansen is meeting with Rick Doty...
...a former Agent of the Shadow Government.
He claims he was one of the Air Force Special Agents...
...sent out to cover up the existence of UFOs.
There were incidents where the sighting was in a fact a UFO.
We knew it was not from this earth...
...extraterrestrial.
Those particular sightings we had to disinform the public.
We gotta make those people, make them think...
...that what, what they saw was something other than a UFO...
...such as Mars or Venus or a swamp gas.
That is incredible.
I've been investigating the case from 1966 in Dexter, Michigan...
...and a lot of people there were made to believe...
...that this incident was nothing more than swamp gas.
Do you think the Government was involved?
Yes.
It sounds like the, the Government was involved in that.
For example, the Phoenix Lights, more recently 1997.
They come out and say "flares".
Do you see the same pattern repeating here?
Yes.
There's a special unit and they're now...
...classified as the Men in Black.
These people are trained to go...
...out and then collect intelligence in a...
...in a very mysterious manner.
They were the master of disguises...
...and then they'll come in more secretly.
They won't come in as...
...as spreading out their badges and credentials.
Are you familiar with...
...with a lot of the details of the Dexter case?
Yeah, I saw it in a classified report, yes.
Because I talked to Ron Mannor, who's the son of Frank Mannor...
...and both father, son saw this object.
Is it possible that someone came to his dad...
...and kinda helped him change his story?
That sounds like something USAF would do.
Over time, Frank Mannor's account of the Dexter UFO incident...
...changed and the public lost faith in his story.
But is it possible he was one of the victims...
...of a Government campaign to hide the truth?
You know I investigated a lot of incidents where
I disinformed people or disinformed the public.
I believed that we had a mission...
...and we were doing what we were supposed to do...
...and we were protecting society...
...and we were protecting the national defense.
But the reason I come and speak now...
...is because I don't believe that we did it right.
There's this thread of disinformation...
...that is making it very difficult for us to know...
...what is true and what is not.
Why is the Government covering up these UFO sightings?
They're not gonna go to the public and say, "You know what...
...we just had an incident in Dexter and it was an unknown.
" Imagine what the American people...
...especially people around Dexter, would think?
My God, are we being invaded?
They had to cover it up. It's an unknown.
It's about time the public knows.
They need to know. They deserve to know.
I thank you so much for filling me...
-...in and giving me these insights. -This, this is amazing.
After hearing Rick's disclosure,
Ben decides to call Frances Barwood...
...and update her with what he's uncovered.
Frances, hi, it's Ben Hansen. How are you doing?
I'm doing good, Ben.
I have some very interesting information for you.
Somebody who actually worked for the Air Force...
...his name is Rick Doty.
Rick tells me that his job...
...was to actually contact witnesses...
...who believed they'd seen UFO sightings...
...and to discredit them to the degree that...
...they even had them believing that...
...they themselves were crazy.
I was just blown away by, by his disclosure.
How does that make you feel?
And, and that's what I wanna ask you, what are they afraid of?
Do you think the Government believes...
...that UFOs are a national security threat?
Thank you so much for your courage...
...and your efforts in this...
...and taking these witnesses seriously...
...and bringing their statements forward.
-Thank you. -Alright.
Talking with Frances Barwood and telling...
...her what Rick Doty said it...
...it really brings everything full circle.
I fully believe that what she experienced...
...with these men in black...
...and the video being taken and her...
...her phone being tapped...
...could possibly be exactly the type of thing that Rick Doty...
...was working on with the Air Force in his special duties.
This is what the Government does to cover up the UFO story
We have seen this decade after decade.
If you go back from 1966 in Dexter, Michigan...
...to 1997 the Phoenix Lights...
...till now, we've confirmed that...
...the Government has provided disinformation.
Swamp gas!
Interfered with the UFO investigations...
...tampered with the witnesses and...
...they're controlling the media.
The Government comes out with such a ridiculous explanation.
Whoa!
It insults the intelligence of these very credible witnesses.
There was a sense of kind of a,
a betrayal.
And after all of this, for what?
It's absolutely shocking...
...it's disheartening
...and to think that it still might be going on today.