That's insane.
NARRATOR: 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!
BEN VOICEOVER: 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 60 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 7:00 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 Harbour 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.
20,000 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, OK.
"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.
So, if it wasn't that, the alternative is...
it's from somewhere else.
That's right.
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 30 feet over my head
and I remember thinking, "I could hit this with a rock."
30 feet?
David was paralysed in fear
as the large imposing UFO flew right above his head.
It was gun-metal grey
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 30 feet under how wide would it be?
My guess was a mile to a mile and a half.
Whoa!
From tip to toe.
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 Centre
for UFO Studies
to talk with historian.
Mark O'Connell.
So, Ben.
I 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 30 feet above their head.
And as it passed by I watched it till it went out of sight.
I just started crying.
Oh.
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 Arbour.
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 neighbouring 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 localised 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.
Right.
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, the more you'll 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."
OK.
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....
Oh, boy, yes! ..he was just...
You know, it didn't take an idiot to figure it out.
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 her 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 colours?
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 accidence.
Alright, so, the water here it's a little bit iced over.
I need to get far enough in to submerge this whole this.
Whoa.
OK, 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.
Mm-hm.
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 high-tailing 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...
Oh, no. ..or maybe a 1,000.
That's ridiculous.
The Mannors, the Hillsdale college students
and numerous other Dexter residents all stated
they saw three fixed distinct lights of different colours.
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 colours.
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 50 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 am. I'm Ben.
Hi, Ben. Nice to meet you. Thank you.
Thank you for agreeing... Come on in.
..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.
Mm-hm.
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.
OK.
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...
OK.
..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 30 feet of it
and could see the details of the craft.
That is not funny.
No, it's not and, and it was not like him at all.
Fife has no sense of humour.
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 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
which shows a group of lights with no visible craft.
Richard Curtis claimed he recorded a details 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 France's 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, "OK, 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.
Neighbours 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. Not 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...
Mm-hm.
..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!
OK.
I was stationed in Area 51 in the '80s.
You were! I have a badge to prove it.
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 dis-inform people
who have had UFO sightings.
And there's manuals
that governs exactly how we, we do that.
It's actually written policy like how to go about doing this?
Yes.
And I have some information here
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 dis-inform 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 we was assigned to 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 dis-informed people or dis-informed 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 defence.
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.
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