"[whoosh]" "male narrator:" "DECEMBER 12, 2009." "RESIDENTS OF BARSTOW," "CALIFORNIA, REPORT THE SUDDEN" "APPEARANCE OF A UFO SKIMMING" "OVER THEIR ROOFTOPS IN THE" "PREDAWN SKY." "WITNESSES CLAIM THAT THIS" "UFO STREAKED ACROSS THE" "NEIGHBORHOOD, AND THEN IT" "TOUCHED DOWN IN A DESERT ACROSS" "THE HIGHWAY." "SO WHAT THEY DECIDED TO DO WAS" "WALK OVER AND SEE WHAT WAS GOING" "ON." "narrator:" "BUT THE RESIDENTS" "QUICKLY FIND THAT THE STRANGE" "CRAFT IS NOT THE ONLY UNUSUAL" "ARRIVAL THAT DAY." "THE CITIZENS ARE MAKING THEIR" "WAY TOWARDS THE LIGHTS." "THEY'RE COMING OUT OF THEIR" "HOUSE IN THE EARLY MORNING, AND" "THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, A FLEET OF" "SUVs BARREL RIGHT PAST THEM" "TOWARDS THE SCENE." "THOSE SUVs WERE HEADING" "TOWARDS THE UFO." "NOBODY EVER GOT OUT AND SAID" "THAT, YOU KNOW, "WE'RE FROM AN" "OFFICIAL AGENCY." "WE'RE GOVERNMENT."" "THEY DIDN'T ACKNOWLEDGE THEM." "narrator:" "WITNESSES CLAIM" "THE VEHICLES ENCIRCLED THE" "GROUNDED UFO, SHINING THEIR HIGH" "BEAMS OUTWARD AND BLINDING THE" "ONLOOKERS." "ANY DETAILS OF THE DOWNED CRAFT" "ARE LOST BEHIND A GLARE OF" "HEADLIGHTS." "BEFORE ANYBODY CAN GET A GOOD" "LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON, A" "FLATBED TRUCK ROLLS IN, AND" "ABOUT 10 MINUTES LATER, ALL THE" "CARS PULL OUT." "AND WHAT WAS ON THIS FLATBED" "TRUCK IS ABOUT THE SIZE OF A" "VW BUG, BUT OF COURSE, IT WAS" "COVERED IN THE TARP." "narrator:" "THE CONVOY" "DISAPPEARS AS QUICKLY AS IT" "ARRIVED, LEAVING THE RESIDENTS" "OF BARSTOW WITH FAR MORE" "QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS." "AND THAT'S IT." "THE WITNESSES CONTACT THE POLICE" "AND THE MILITARY, AND THEY HIT" "DEAD END AFTER DEAD END." "NO EXPLANATION IS GIVEN." "narrator:" "COULD THIS BE" "ANOTHER UFO INCIDENT LOCKED" "AWAY IN A CLASSIFIED FILE?" "THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS A" "LONGSTANDING HISTORY OF" "COVERING UP UFO INCIDENTS." "SO WE HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION," ""WHY?"" "WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO GAIN FROM" "CONCEALING THIS FACT FROM THEIR" "OWN CITIZENS?" "narrator:" "THROUGHOUT" "HISTORY, NUMEROUS UFO CRASHES" "HAVE BEEN REPORTED, AND TO" "DATE, NONE HAVE BEEN OFFICIALLY" "ACKNOWLEDGED." "WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GOVERNMENT" "CONCEALING, AND WHY?" "MUFON OPENS ITS FILES TO REVEAL" "MORE OF THESE INCREDIBLE STORIES" "AND INVESTIGATE THE EXTREME" "METHODS THAT GO INTO COVERING" "THEM UP." "THE MUTUAL UFO NETWORK, KNOWN AS" "MUFON, IS AN INDEPENDENT" "ORGANIZATION NOT BOUND TO ANY" "GOVERNMENT." "THEY INVESTIGATE REPORTS OF UFO" "SIGHTINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD." "OVER THE PAST FIVE DECADES, THEY" "HAVE COLLECTED MORE THAN 70,000" "FILES STORED AT A SECURE" "LOCATION KNOWN AS HANGAR 1." "NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, MUFON" "IS GRANTING ACCESS TO THEIR VAST" "ARCHIVE." "THESE ARE THE FILES OF HANGAR 1." "INSIDE HANGAR 1, MUFON" "INVESTIGATORS REVIEW THOUSANDS" "OF UFO SIGHTINGS EACH YEAR." "THE BARSTOW INCIDENT IS JUST ONE" "CASE." "THAT DOWNED UFO IS CORDONED OFF" "AND REMOVED BY THE MILITARY" "WITHOUT EXPLANATION." "VERY FEW OF THESE STORIES EVER" "REACH THE PUBLIC." "BUT THIS WAS NOT ALWAYS THE" "CASE." "MUFON FILES CONTAIN A LONG" "HISTORY OF REPORTED UFO CRASHES" "AND COVER-UPS, INCLUDING ONE OF" "THE FIRST RECORDED INCIDENTS IN" "THE UNITED STATES:" "BACK IN 1897," "WHEN A UFO CRASH WAS SIMPLY" "REPORTED AS EVERYDAY NEWS AND A" "LONE GRAVESTONE MARKED THE" "EVENT." "APRIL 17, 1897." "A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER IN THE" "SMALL FARM TOWN OF AURORA," "TEXAS..." "UNTIL EYEWITNESSES REPORT A" "FLYING AIRSHIP TRAILING FIRE" "ACROSS THE MORNING SKY." "IT COMES FLYING DOWN INTO" "THIS RURAL TOWN, IT HITS A" "WINDMILL, AND IT CRASH-LANDS ON" "A FARMER'S PROPERTY." "narrator:" "JUDGE J.S." "PROCTOR'S WINDMILL IS DESTROYED" "BY THE UNUSUAL CRAFT." "ALLEGEDLY, THIS UFO CRASH WAS" "WITNESSED BY THE ENTIRE TOWN," "BUT IT HAPPENED IN 1897." "HOW DO YOU VERIFY SOMETHING LIKE" "THAT?" "WELL, MUFON LAUNCHED AN" "INVESTIGATION." "IN 1973, MUFON CONDUCTED A" "SEARCH FOR SURVIVING AURORA" "WITNESSES." "narrator:" "THE 1973" "INVESTIGATION TURNS UP SEVERAL" "LIVING WITNESSES EAGER TO SHARE" "THEIR STORIES." "ONE 83-YEAR-OLD MAN, CHARLIE" "STEVENS, REMEMBERS WITNESSING" "THE CRASH AS A CHILD." "THERE WERE WITNESSES TO THIS." "THE 10-YEAR-OLD BOY ACTUALLY SAW" "THE CRASH OCCUR WORKING ON HIS" "FATHER'S FARM." "OUR INVESTIGATORS TRACKED DOWN A 91-YEAR-OLD WOMAN." "SHE WAS 15 AT THE TIME, AND SHE" "SAW IT." "narrator:" "MARY EVANS TELLS" "MUFON THAT THE 1897 INCIDENT" "WAS THE TALK OF THE TOWN, AND" "THAT TALK WASN'T JUST ABOUT THE" "UFO, BUT WHAT TOWNSPEOPLE FOUND" "INSIDE THE CRAFT." "MULTIPLE TOWNSPEOPLE ARE" "ACTUALLY ON RECORD AS HAVING" "SEEN AN ALIEN BODY, AND THESE" "WITNESS REPORTS ARE CORROBORATED" "BY LOCAL NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS" "UNCOVERED BY MUFON." "narrator:" "THE AURORA" "NEWSPAPER RUNS A VIVID ACCOUNT" "OF THE UFO CRASH FROM LOCAL" "REPORTER S.E. HAYDON." "THIS IS ODDLY MATTER-OF-FACT" "COVERAGE FOR SUCH AN UNUSUAL" "EVENT, BUT THE ARTICLE GETS EVEN" "STRANGER WHEN WE COME TO THE" "AFTERMATH." "narrator:" "THE NEWSPAPER" "ACCOUNT STATES THAT THE PILOT" "IS "BADLY DISFIGURED" AND "NOT" "AN INHABITANT OF THIS WORLD."" ""NOT AN INHABITANT OF THIS" "WORLD."" "THIS ARTICLE CASUALLY MENTIONS" "THAT ALIENS CRASHED." "IT'S JUST IN THE NEWSPAPER IN" "BLACK AND WHITE." "IN 1897, NOT ONLY WAS THE" "PUBLIC TRUSTED WITH THIS" "INFORMATION, THE PUBLIC WAS ALSO" "INVITED TO THE ALIEN'S FUNERAL." "narrator:" "FOR NEARLY 80" "YEARS, A SIMPLE TOMBSTONE" "STANDS AS A REMINDER OF THE" "AURORA CRASH." "IT BEARS NO NAME AND IS ONLY" "MARKED WITH A SMALL CARVING" "DEPICTING A FLYING SAUCER." "YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT, AT" "THE TIME OF THE AURORA CRASH," "OUR OWN PLANET STILL HELD A LOT" "OF MYSTERY." "IT WASN'T SCARY TO THEM BACK" "THEN TO HAVE MYSTERIES." "IT'S US TODAY THAT CAN'T ACCEPT" "THE UNKNOWN AND THE UNEXPLAINED." "WE'RE FRIGHTENED BY THAT." "BUT IN AURORA, IN 1897, THIS WAS" "NOT A SCARY EVENT." "narrator:" "DURING MUFON'S 1973" "INVESTIGATION IN AURORA, THEY" "ATTEMPT TO RECOVER EVIDENCE AND" "EXHUME THE REMAINS OF THE ALIEN." "IT WOULD SEEM LIKE A SUREFIRE" "WAY TO DEBUNK OR CONFIRM THE" "STORY WOULD GO DIG UP THE" "EVIDENCE, LITERALLY." "SO WE WENT TO THE SMALL AURORA" "CEMETERY TO DO JUST THAT:" "DIG IT UP." "narrator:" "INVESTIGATORS" "ARRIVE AT THE AURORA CEMETERY" "WITH METAL DETECTORS." "AS THEY WENT FROM GRAVE TO" "GRAVE, ONLY ONE GRAVE SITE" "REGISTERED ANOMALOUS READINGS:" "THE GRAVE OF THE ALIEN PILOT." "narrator:" "MUFON SUBMITS AN" "OFFICIAL REQUEST TO EXHUME THE" "GRAVE." "IT IS DENIED." "WE'RE DENIED ACCESS TO THE" "GRAVE BECAUSE IT'S ON CHURCH" "PROPERTY." "THE FOLLOWING DAY, WE COME BACK" "FOR ONE LAST LOOK BEFORE GOING" "HOME." "THE GRAVE WAS EXHUMED THE NIGHT" "BEFORE." "THERE'S YOUR PROOF." "THERE'S YOUR SMOKING GUN." "SO WHATEVER WAS BURIED THERE" "IS NOW LOST, AND THE HEADSTONE" "IS MISSING AS WELL." "narrator:" "IN LESS THAN 80" "YEARS, IT APPEARS THE OFFICIAL" "ATTITUDE ON UFOs SHIFTS FROM" "OPENNESS TO SECRECY." "THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE" "OF THE KIND OF COVER-UP THAT WE" "FIND IN THIS SORT OF" "INVESTIGATION." "OVER THE COURSE OF 100 YEARS," "UFO REPORTS HAVE EVOLVED FROM" "OPENNESS AND TRANSPARENCY TO" "SECRECY AND DENIAL." "THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF HOW MUCH" "THINGS HAVE CHANGED." "narrator:" "BUT WHY HAVE" "THINGS CHANGED SO DRASTICALLY?" "COULD THERE BE DANGERS THAT WE" "ARE UNAWARE OF?" "narrator:" "HANGAR 1 CONTAINS" "THOUSANDS OF FILES, EACH ONE A" "RECORD OF UFO ACTIVITY FROM" "AROUND THE WORLD." "ONE FILE TELLS THE STORY OF AN 1897 UFO CRASH IN AURORA, TEXAS," "WHERE RESIDENTS HELD A PUBLIC" "FUNERAL FOR A DEAD ALIEN." "BUT 80 YEARS LATER, A MUFON" "INVESTIGATION INTO THAT CRASH" "HITS A DEAD END." "IS IT POSSIBLE THAT UFO" "INCIDENTS ARE STILL ROUTINELY" "COVERED UP?" "ANOTHER FILE DOCUMENTS A UFO" "CRASH IN MEXICO THAT SOME" "BELIEVE TO BE THE SUBJECT OF AN" "INTERNATIONAL COVER-UP." "TEXAS, 1974." "UNITED STATES AIR DEFENSE RADAR" "DETECTS AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING" "OBJECT OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO" "RAPIDLY APPROACHING U.S." "AIRSPACE." "ACROSS THE BORDER, MEXICAN" "AUTHORITIES ARE ALERTED." "[Spanish radio chatter]" "RIGHT FROM THE START, WE HAVE" "INDEPENDENT CONFIRMATION IN THIS" "INCIDENT." "THE SAME OBJECT IS BEING TRACKED" "BY BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND" "MEXICO." "narrator:" "THE OBJECT SHIFTS" "COURSE AWAY FROM THE U.S. AND" "ROCKETS BACK TOWARD MEXICAN" "AIRSPACE." "RADAR OPERATORS ON BOTH SIDES OF" "THE BORDER ARE STUNNED." "WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THIS" "KIND OF MOVEMENT, IT WOULD HAVE" "TO BE UNDER SOME KIND OF" "INTELLIGENT CONTROL." "narrator:" "REPORTEDLY, THE" "U.S. MILITARY TRACES THE UFO'S" "PATH TO COYAME, A SPARSELY" "POPULATED MEXICAN BORDER TOWN," "WHERE IT SUDDENLY VANISHES FROM" "RADAR." "AT THE SAME MOMENT, MEXICAN" "AUTHORITIES RECEIVE A DISTRESS" "CALL." "THEY RECEIVE A RADIO" "BROADCAST THAT A CIVILIAN" "AIRPLANE HAS CRASHED IN THE" "VICINITY, POSSIBLY DUE TO A" "MIDAIR COLLISION." "IN THE SAME LOCATION WHERE" "THIS UFO WENT OFF RADAR, A" "CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT COLLIDED WITH" "SOMETHING IN FLIGHT." "WELL, WHAT DID IT COLLIDE WITH?" "narrator:" "MEXICAN" "AUTHORITIES ARRIVE AT THE CRASH" "SITE AND DISCOVER THE REMAINS" "OF A SMALL CIVILIAN PLANE." "BUT THERE ALSO APPEARS TO BE" "WRECKAGE FROM A SECOND CRAFT" "AT THE SCENE." "THERE WAS ANOTHER REPORT OF A" "SECOND CRASH, AND THIS IS" "INTERESTING." "THEY SAID IT WAS DAMAGED, BUT IT" "WAS PERFECTLY INTACT." "IT WAS DESCRIBED AS SAUCER," "METALLIC SHAPE WITH NO MARKINGS." "narrator:" "THE MEXICAN" "MILITARY DOES NOT KNOW WHAT TO" "MAKE OF THE UNUSUAL CRAFT." "THEY CALL IN A REPORT AND THEN" "GO RADIO SILENT." "BUT WORD OF THE CRASH HAS" "ALREADY REACHED U.S." "AUTHORITIES." "THE MEXICAN BROADCAST WAS" "INTERCEPTED BY THE CIA, AND" "THEY WANTED TO BRING THEIR OWN" "CRASH RETRIEVAL SPECIAL TEAM" "DOWN TO MEXICO, BUT THE MEXICAN" "AUTHORITIES FLAT-OUT DENIED THAT" "A CRASH EVEN OCCURRED." "narrator:" "WITHIN HOURS," "CIA RECONNAISSANCE CAPTURES" "IMAGES OF THE MEXICAN CONVOY" "DEPARTING THE COYAME CRASH SITE." "AT THIS POINT, THE CIA KNOW" "ABOUT THE CONVOY, AND THEY" "DEFINITELY KNOW THAT THERE'S A" "SALVAGED CRASHED UFO ON THE BACK" "OF THAT TRUCK." "narrator:" "IN THE FILE ARE" "CLAIMS THAT THE CIA DISPATCHES" "A SMALL, COVERT TEAM TO" "INTERCEPT THE MEXICAN CONVOY" "AND GET A CLOSER LOOK AT THE" "UFO." "THE U.S. TEAM ARRIVES, AND" "SURPRISINGLY, THEY'RE MET WITH" "ZERO RESISTANCE FROM THE" "MEXICAN ARMY." "THE MEXICANS SUDDENLY WANT" "NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS UFO" "ANYMORE, AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE" "WHOLE SITUATION HAS TAKEN A DARK" "TURN." "[military radio chatter] narrator:" "THE AMERICANS" "ENCOUNTER A GRIM SCENE." "WHEN THE CIA FINALLY" "ARRIVE, THEY COME UP ON THE" "CONVOY AND THEY SEE FOUR" "SOLDIERS LAYING DOWN IN THE" "DIRT." "narrator:" "IT'S CLEAR THAT" "THE MEXICAN SOLDIERS ARE DEAD." "WHAT'S NOT CLEAR IS HOW THEY" "DIED." "ALL OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS HAD" "MADE CONTACT WITH THE UFO WHILE" "TRYING TO REMOVE IT FROM THE" "CRASH SITE." "IS IT RADIATION?" "EXTRATERRESTRIAL BACTERIA?" "WE DON'T KNOW." "THE MEXICANS REALIZE HOW" "DANGEROUS THIS CRAFT WAS, AND" "THE CIA MANAGED TO CONVINCE" "THEM THAT THEY HAD MORE" "EXPERIENCE CONTAINING THIS SORT" "OF THREAT." "narrator:" "IT IS BELIEVED THE" "AMERICAN TEAM TAKES POSSESSION" "OF THE UFO AND TRANSPORTS IT" "BACK TO MISSOURI'S WHITEMAN AIR" "FORCE BASE." "THE INCIDENT IS KEPT SECRET" "UNTIL IT IS UNEARTHED BY A MUFON" "INVESTIGATION." "THE COYAME INCIDENT OCCURRED" "IN 1974, BUT IT DIDN'T REALLY" "COME TO OUR ATTENTION UNTIL 1992 THROUGH AN ANONYMOUS" "REPORT THAT WENT TO RUBEN" "URIARTE, ONE OF OUR FIELD" "INVESTIGATORS." "IT DETAILED THIS CRASHED SAUCER" "AND THE SUBSEQUENT COVER-UP." "narrator:" "RUBEN URIARTE'S" "INFORMANT PROVIDES A FULL" "REPORT, DETAILING THE COYAME" "CRASH AND ITS SUBSEQUENT" "COVER-UP BY AUTHORITIES." "THE REPORT PROVIDED A GOOD" "PLACE TO START AN INVESTIGATION." "IT WAS A CREDIBLE ACCOUNT, AND" "IT DROVE US TO SEEK FURTHER" "EVIDENCE." "RUBEN URIARTE WAS ABLE TO GET" "FLIGHT LOGS, COMMUNICATION LOGS," "AND RADAR LOGS THAT SYNCH UP" "PERFECTLY WITH THIS SIGHTING" "REPORT." "THE BIGGEST FIND WAS THAT" "URIARTE WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO" "CONFIRM THE NAMES OF THE DEAD" "MEXICAN SOLDIERS." "THIS IS HUGE." "I MEAN, HE NOW HAD PROOF THAT" "THESE FOUR SOLDIERS DIED AT THE" "EXACT SAME TIME, DURING AN" "INCIDENT THAT OFFICIALLY NEVER" "OCCURRED." "narrator:" "BUT EVEN WITH THIS" "EVIDENCE IN HAND, THE" "INVESTIGATION IS STONEWALLED." "SO RUBEN WAS ABLE TO TRACK" "DOWN THE NAMES OF THE DEAD" "SOLDIERS, BUT THE GOVERNMENT" "DENIED THAT THEY'D EVER EXISTED." "SO AGAIN, WE HAVE A CLASSIC" "EXAMPLE OF COVER-UP." "WE HAVE EVIDENCE." "WE HAVE WITNESSES." "YET WITH EVERY PIECE OF EVIDENCE" "WE'VE GOT, THERE'S CONTINUING" "PUSHBACK AND DENIALS." "narrator:" "IS THE COVER-UP OF" "THE COYAME CRASH LINKED TO THE" "UNKNOWN DANGERS ENCOUNTERED WHEN" "RECOVERING THE UFO?" "PERHAPS, BECAUSE THE FILES" "REVEAL THAT A MORE RECENT CRASH" "IN BRAZIL LED TO SIMILAR" "CASUALTIES." "WE HAVE VERIFIED SIGHTINGS OF" "UFOs IN VARGINHA." "WE HAVE E.T.s WALKING AROUND IN" "THE TOWN." "AND WE HAVE A DEAD BODY." "THE EVIDENCE IS PILING UP." "narrator:" "ANOTHER SWIFT AND" "FORCEFUL COVER-UP LEADS TO THE" "QUESTION, HOW MANY UFO CRASHES" "WILL IT TAKE BEFORE THE TRUTH" "IS FINALLY REVEALED?" "narrator:" "INSIDE HANGAR 1," "MUFON HAS OPENED ITS 70,000" "FILES, WHICH REVEAL STORIES" "FROM AROUND THE GLOBE OF UFO" "CRASHES..." "AND AUTHORITIES DETERMINED TO" "CONCEAL ALL EVIDENCE." "A DEADLY UFO CRASH IN COYAME," "MEXICO, MAY HAVE BEEN COVERED UP" "BY BOTH U.S. AND MEXICAN" "OFFICIALS, AND THIS PATTERN" "CONTINUES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD." "FROM BRAZIL COMES THE STORY OF" "ANOTHER EXTRATERRESTRIAL" "ENCOUNTER THAT IS DERAILED BY" "COVER-UPS AND SUPPRESSION." "THERE'S A TENDENCY TO BELIEVE" "THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS" "BEHIND EVERY UFO COVER-UP, BUT" "THIS IS JUST NOT THE CASE, AS" "WE SEE FROM A NUMBER OF CASES" "IN OUR FILES." "narrator:" "JANUARY 20, 1996." "LOCAL POLICE RESPOND TO REPORTS" "OF A WILD ANIMAL RUNNING LOOSE" "IN THE TOWN OF VARGINHA, BRAZIL." "EARLIER THAT MORNING, A GROUP" "OF THREE GIRLS WERE STARTLED BY" "THIS STRANGE CREATURE THAT WAS" "LOCATED BEHIND AN AUTO BODY" "SHOP." "AND WHAT THEY DESCRIBED IT AS," "IT WAS A SMALL CREATURE WITH A" "LARGE, DISPROPORTIONATE HEAD," "LIDLESS EYES, AND IT WAS" "SNARLING AND GROWLING AT THEM." "AND OFFICER MARCO CHERESE" "DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE." "[animal snarling] narrator:" "BY EVENING, THE" "TOWN IS CONSUMED WITH STORIES" "THAT A DEVIL CREATURE IS ON THE" "LOOSE... [animal yowl]" "BUT WHAT OFFICER CHERESE" "EVENTUALLY ENCOUNTERS IS ALL" "TOO REAL." "[animal snarling]" "OFFICER CHERESE TRACKS DOWN" "THIS CREATURE, AND WHEN HE COMES" "TOWARDS IT, HE COULD TELL THAT" "IT ALMOST SEEMS LIKE IT'S HALF" "DEAD, ALMOST DYING." "SO HE DECIDES TO PICK IT UP, AND" "THE THING PUSHES HIM." "AND IN DOING SO, IT MADE CONTACT" "WITH HIS UNGLOVED HAND, WHICH HE" "DIDN'T THINK VERY MUCH ABOUT" "DURING THE TIME." "narrator:" "OFFICER CHERESE" "AND HIS PARTNER TAKE THE" "CREATURE AND TRANSPORT IT TO A" "LOCAL HOSPITAL." "BY THE TIME THE OFFICER" "ARRIVES AT THE HOSPITAL, IT'S" "ALREADY SWARMING WITH MILITARY" "PERSONNEL." "AND WHAT HE DIDN'T KNOW WAS THAT" "A RADIO CALL WENT OUT OF ANOTHER" "ENTITY, A SECOND ENTITY THAT WAS" "TRACKED AND CAPTURED BY THE" "MILITARY." "THEY BAGGED IT AND TAGGED IT AND" "THREW IT IN THE BACK OF THE" "TRUCK." "THAT SECOND CREATURE WAS" "EXAMINED IN THE SAME HOSPITAL." "OFFICER CHERESE HAD TO BE" "WONDERING, "WHAT'S GOING ON" "HERE?"" "THE ARMY WOULDN'T BE INVOLVED" "IF IT WAS JUST A WOUNDED ANIMAL." "SO WHAT'S EVEN MORE" "INTERESTING--ON JANUARY 13TH," "THE WHOLE WEEK BEFORE THIS" "INCIDENT, NORAD GAVE THE" "BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT A HEAD UP" "THAT A UFO WAS TRACKED COMING" "DOWN OVER THE HILLS OF VARGINHA." "WAS THIS A CRASH?" "WERE THESE ALIEN PILOTS?" "WHEN OFFICER CHERESE TRIES TO" "INVESTIGATE THESE CREATURES EVEN" "FURTHER, HE IS TOLD TO BACK OFF," "FORGET ABOUT IT, AND PRETEND" "LIKE IT DIDN'T EVEN HAPPEN." "AND THAT WOULD'VE BEEN OKAY." "HE PROBABLY WOULD'VE, BUT THEN" "SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED." "narrator:" "TWO WEEKS AFTER" "HIS ENCOUNTER, OFFICER" "CHERESE'S DOCTOR FINDS" "SOMETHING UNUSUAL ON HIS ARM IN" "THE EXACT SAME SPOT WHERE THE" "CREATURE TOUCHED HIM." "OFFICER CHERESE STARTS" "FEELING REALLY ILL AND SICK." "HE STARTS COMPLAINING OF BACK" "PAINS, HIGH FEVER, RESPIRATORY" "FAILURE, AND HE'S HOSPITALIZED." "narrator:" "REPORTEDLY, ONE" "WEEK LATER, THE 23-YEAR-OLD" "POLICE OFFICER IS DEAD." "THE AUTOPSY REVEALED THAT HIS" "BODY WAS RIDDLED WITH" "INFECTIONS, AND IT'S ODD THAT A" "YOUNG MAN WOULD CONTRACT SO MANY" "INFECTIONS ALL AT THE SAME TIME." "narrator:" "EVEN THE DOCTOR" "CONFIRMS THAT THIS IS A STRANGE" "DEATH WITHOUT RATIONAL" "EXPLANATION." "WE HAVE VERIFIED SIGHTINGS OF" "UFOs IN VARGINHA." "WE HAVE E.T.s WALKING AROUND IN" "THE TOWN." "AND WE HAVE A DEAD BODY." "THE EVIDENCE IS PILING UP," "RIGHT?" "WRONG." "narrator:" "JUST DAYS AFTER" "THESE EVENTS, MYSTERIOUS" "STRANGERS ARRIVE IN THE TOWN." "ALL THE WITNESSES TO THIS" "EVENT--THE THREE GIRLS, EVEN" "THEIR PARENTS AND THE POLICE" "CAPTAIN--WERE VISITED BY FOUR" "MEN WHO STRONGLY INTIMIDATED" "THEM AND ENCOURAGED THEM, "DO" "NOT DISCUSS THIS IN PUBLIC."" "WE DON'T KNOW WHO THESE MEN" "WERE OR WHO THEY REPRESENT." "IT WOULDN'T MAKE SENSE FOR THEM" "TO BE MILITARY BECAUSE THEY ALSO" "CONFRONTED MILITARY PERSONNEL." "WITH SOME WITNESSES, THEY" "THREATENED." "OTHERS, THEY OFFERED BRIBES." "narrator:" "ACCORDING TO THE" "FILE, BRAZILIAN AUTHORITIES" "EXPLAINED THE VARGINHA INCIDENT" "WITH A CONTROVERSIAL REPORT." "THE OFFICIAL STORY ABOUT THE" "BODIES RECOVERED FROM VARGINHA" "WERE THAT THEY WERE DWARVES." "DWARVES!" "THAT WAS THE BEST THEY COULD" "COME UP WITH WHEN HALF THE TOWN" "HAD SEEN THESE CREATURES." "AND SINCE WHEN DOES THE MILITARY" "ROUND UP DWARVES?" "NO MENTION OF A UFO." "IT'S PAPER THIN, ABSOLUTELY" "RIDICULOUS, BUT THAT'S THEIR" "STORY." "AND ONCE AGAIN, WE MAY NEVER" "KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED" "BECAUSE THE WITNESSES HAVE BEEN" "SILENCED." "narrator:" "COULD THIS BE" "ANOTHER INCIDENT IN A PATTERN" "OF UFO CRASHES AND COVER-UPS?" "AND IS IT POSSIBLE TO SILENCE" "EVERY WITNESS, EVEN WHEN THAT" "WITNESS IS A HIGH-PROFILE" "POLITICAL FIGURE?" "IF SOMEONE OF THIS STATURE" "AND INTEGRITY WERE TO GO PUBLIC," "IT WOULD HAVE AN INCALCULABLE" "EFFECT ON THE MEDIA AND THE" "PUBLIC REGARDING THE TRUTH WITH" "UFOs." "narrator:" "HANGAR 1'S FILES" "CONTAIN HUNDREDS OF STORIES OF" "UFO WITNESSES WHO CLAIM TO BE" "INTIMIDATED BY AUTHORITIES." "THEIR AGENDA:" "TO COVER UP ALL" "EVIDENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL" "ENCOUNTERS, A PATTERN SEEN IN" "CASE FILES FROM BARSTOW," "CALIFORNIA;" "COYAME, MEXICO;" "AND VARGINHA, BRAZIL." "BUT SOMETIMES, WITNESSES MAY" "EVEN FEEL PRESSURE TO CENSOR" "THEMSELVES, SUCH AS ONE CASE" "INVOLVING A UFO ABDUCTION" "ALLEGEDLY OBSERVED BY ONE OF THE" "MOST PROMINENT MEN IN THE WORLD." "1989." "MANHATTAN, NEW YORK." "LINDA CORTILE AWAKENS AT 3:00" "A.M. AND IS ASTONISHED TO FIND" "HERSELF HOVERING 12 STORIES" "ABOVE THE STREET OUTSIDE HER" "APARTMENT WINDOW." "THE WITNESS, LINDA, THINKS" "SHE'S DREAMING, BUT THIS IS NO" "DREAM." "HERE SHE IS, FLOATING OVER THE" "NEW YORK SKYLINE." "narrator:" "LINDA CLAIMS THAT" "SHE IS BEING PULLED TOWARDS A" "GIANT UFO." "SHE DESCRIBED IT AS A SORT OF" "TRACTOR BEAM PULLING HER THROUGH" "THE NIGHT SKY." "narrator:" "AS LINDA IS PULLED" "INTO THE UFO, THE SURROUNDING" "NEIGHBORHOOD EXPERIENCES A" "MAJOR POWER OUTAGE." "AND NOT JUST IN THE" "BUILDINGS, BUT ON THE STREET" "ALSO." "CARS WERE DYING RIGHT IN THE" "MIDDLE OF THE STREET." "[sirens wailing]" "ONCE ON BOARD, LINDA FALLS INTO" "A DREAMLIKE TRANCE AND THEN," "MANY HOURS LATER, FINDS HERSELF" "BACK IN HER APARTMENT." "narrator:" "IN THE DAYS TO" "COME, LINDA IS TRAUMATIZED BY" "HER EXPERIENCE AND SEEKS HELP." "SHE EVENTUALLY MEETS WITH FAMED" "ABDUCTION INVESTIGATOR BUDD" "HOPKINS." "BUDD HOPKINS WORKED FOR YEARS" "IN THE UFO FIELD WITH ABDUCTEES," "TAKING THEIR STORIES, PUBLISHING" "THE RESULTS OF HIS" "INVESTIGATIONS, AND BASICALLY" "REALLY BEING A PIONEER IN THE" "WHOLE FIELD OF ABDUCTION" "RESEARCH." "BUDD FOUND LINDA'S CASE" "EXTREMELY INTERESTING," "PARTICULARLY AFTER DOCTORS FOUND" "A SMALL METAL OBJECT IN HER" "SKULL SHORTLY AFTER HER" "ABDUCTION." "THIS IS AN INTRIGUING STORY," "BUT THERE'S NOT MUCH TO BASE OUR" "INVESTIGATION ON OTHER THAN" "LINDA'S MEMORY OF THE EVENT, AND" "THERE ARE NO WITNESSES TO" "CORROBORATE IT." "narrator:" "BUT THIS STORY" "CANNOT BE EASILY DISMISSED," "BECAUSE THE FILES REPORT THAT" "ONE YEAR AFTER THE INCIDENT," "TWO SURPRISE WITNESSES" "COME FORWARD." "BUDD HOPKINS RECEIVES A" "LETTER FROM TWO INDIVIDUALS," "RICHARD AND DAN." "THEY CLAIM TO HAVE WITNESSED THE" "ABDUCTION OF LINDA." "narrator:" "RICHARD AND DAN" "IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS NEW YORK" "CITY POLICE OFFICERS WHO WERE" "PROVIDING PRIVATE SECURITY FOR A" "VIP CLIENT AT THE TIME OF" "LINDA'S ABDUCTION." "THE MEN DESCRIBE THE EXACT" "SAME STORY THAT LINDA" "EXPERIENCED." "THEY SAW A WOMAN FLOATING IN THE" "SKY ABOVE THEM, SLOWLY DRIFTING" "TOWARDS A MASSIVE, OVAL-SHAPED" "CRAFT." "narrator:" "BUT THE CASE TAKES" "A BIZARRE TURN WHEN THE MEN" "REPORTEDLY REVEAL THE IDENTITY" "OF THEIR VIP CLIENT." "THESE MEN REVEAL THAT THERE" "WAS A THIRD WITNESS, THE VIP" "CLIENT THEY WERE PROVIDING" "SECURITY FOR, AND HE HAPPENED TO" "BE PEREZ DE CUELLAR." "narrator:" "AT THE TIME," "JAVIER PEREZ DE CUELLAR IS THE" "SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UNITED" "NATIONS." "THE OTHER TWO WITNESSES HAD" "ALREADY TOLD BUDD HOPKINS THAT" "THE THIRD MAN WAS TRAUMATIZED BY" "WHAT HE HAD SEEN THAT NIGHT." "MAYBE BECAUSE OF HIS HIGH-LEVEL" "POSITION, HE DIDN'T KNOW WHERE" "TO TURN." "narrator:" "ACCORDING TO" "REPORTS, BUDD HOPKINS REACHES" "OUT TO JAVIER PEREZ DE CUELLAR." "BUDD IS OVERWHELMED WITH THIS" "REVELATION." "IF SOMEONE OF THIS STATURE AND" "INTEGRITY WERE TO GO PUBLIC, IT" "WOULD HAVE AN INCALCULABLE" "EFFECT ON THE MEDIA AND THE" "PUBLIC REGARDING THE TRUTH WITH" "UFOs." "AND IT IS TRUE THAT BUDD" "HOPKINS DID COMMUNICATE AT LEAST" "ONE TIME WITH JAVIER PEREZ DE" "CUELLAR ON THIS, AND DE CUELLAR" "ABSOLUTELY DID NOT WANT TO GET" "INVOLVED PUBLICLY ON THIS MATTER" "WHATSOEVER." "narrator:" "SECRETARY GENERAL" "JAVIER PEREZ DE CUELLAR HAS" "NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED THIS STORY," "AND WE MAY NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH." "CLEARLY, JAVIER PEREZ DE" "CUELLAR, ONE OF THE MOST PUBLIC," "PROMINENT MEN IN THE WORLD AT" "THAT TIME, KNEW FULL WELL THERE" "WAS NO WAY HE WAS GOING TO COME" "OUT AND PUBLICLY SAY, "YES, I" "TOO WAS INVOLVED IN THAT UTTERLY" "FANTASTIC ABDUCTION EXPERIENCE."" "IN THE DE CUELLAR CASE, WE" "SEE AN EXAMPLE OF" "SELF-CENSORSHIP." "IT'S NOT ALWAYS THE MEDIA OR THE" "GOVERNMENT." "SOMETIMES IT'S US." "IF YOU FLY IN THE FACE OF PUBLIC" "OPINION, YOU RUN THE RISK OF" "LOSING JOBS, LOSING FRIENDS," "LOSING CREDIBILITY." "narrator:" "NEXT, THE FILES" "EXAMINE THE CASE OF A UFO CRASH" "IN KECKSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA." "THIS CRASH DRAWS THE ATTENTION" "OF THE U.S. MILITARY..." "AN ENORMOUS NUMBER OF" "PEOPLE--MILITARY, DIFFERENT" "TYPES OF BRANCHES OF THE" "MILITARY--COMBED THE WOODS," "SEALED OFF THE WOODS FROM THE" "PUBLIC." "narrator:" "LEADING TO A" "COVER-UP THAT SOME BELIEVE" "COSTS ONE UFO INVESTIGATOR HIS" "LIFE." "narrator:" "HANGAR 1 FILES" "REVEAL A POSSIBLE PATTERN OF" "UFO COVER-UPS, FROM GOVERNMENT" "DENIALS AND SECRECY TO THE" "SELF-CENSORSHIP OF WITNESSES" "AFRAID TO SPEAK OUT." "A UFO CRASH IN 1965 IS BELIEVED" "BY SOME TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST" "CASES OF A UFO INVESTIGATOR WHO" "SEARCHES FOR THE TRUTH AND PAYS" "THE ULTIMATE PRICE." "DECEMBER 5, 1965." "KECKSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA." "DOZENS OF EYEWITNESSES REPORT A" "UFO STREAKING ACROSS THE SKY" "OVER CANADA, MICHIGAN, AND OHIO." "THE F.A.A. LOGS SIGHTINGS FROM 23 PILOTS ALONG THE UFO'S" "FLIGHT PATH." "FINALLY, THE RESIDENTS OF" "KECKSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, OBSERVE" "A FIERY OBJECT PLUMMETING FROM" "THE SKY AND INTO THE WOODS." "PEOPLE IN TOWN DESCRIBE" "SEEING THIS FIREBALL-SHAPED" "OBJECT, AND IT SUDDENLY CHANGES" "COURSE AND CRASHES IN THE WOOD" "LINE." "SO THE KECKSBURG CASE IS" "EXTREMELY INTERESTING BECAUSE" "YOU HAVE AN ENTIRE TOWN THAT" "SEES AN OBJECT COMING OUT OF THE" "SKY AND CRASHING INTO THE WOODS." "SO THEY ALL COME OUT TO TAKE A" "CLOSER LOOK." "A LOT OF PEOPLE WENT OUT TO" "THE WOODS TO INVESTIGATE, AND" "THEY GOT THERE FIRST BEFORE" "ANYBODY ELSE DID." "A COUPLE OF THE GUYS DESCRIBED" "IT AS A ACORN SHAPE THAT WAS" "EMBEDDED INTO THE DIRT, AND" "THERE WAS A OUTSIDE" "CIRCUMFERENCE, WHAT THEY" "DESCRIBED RESEMBLED EGYPTIAN" "HIEROGLYPHICS." "narrator:" "IN THE MIDDLE OF" "THE SCENE, A LOCAL REPORTER," "JOHN MURPHY, IS CAPTURING THE" "EVENTS WITH HIS CAMERA." "JOHN MURPHY WAS A REPORTER" "AND NEWS DIRECTOR FOR WHJB, A" "RADIO STATION IN NEARBY" "GREENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA." "SO WHILE THIS IS GOING ON, HE'S" "SNAPPING PICTURES OF EVERYTHING." "narrator:" "IT IS NOT LONG" "BEFORE THE AUTHORITIES SHOW UP." "JOHN MURPHY WAS JUST SNAPPING" "AWAY, TAKING PICTURES OF THE" "OBJECT." "THE MILITARY SHOWS UP AND TELLS" "HIM, "THIS IS NOW A RESTRICTED" "AREA." "YOU GUYS ARE ORDERED OUT OF" "HERE."" "THEY CONFISCATED HIS CAMERA," "AND THEY TOLD EVERYBODY TO GET" "THE HELL OFF THE PROPERTY." "THEY WERE ALL PUSHED BACK, AND" "ALL THE MILITARY TRUCKS PULLED" "IN." "THIS IS A SMALL TOWN A FEW" "MILES FROM WHERE I LIVE." "THERE WERE DOZENS OF WITNESSES" "ON THE STREET." "THE ARMY BROUGHT IN A FLATBED" "AND DID A CRASH AND RETRIEVAL," "AND THEN THEY LEFT." "narrator:" "THE OFFICIAL" "GOVERNMENT REPORT ON THIS" "INCIDENT STATES THAT ONLY THREE" "MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY WERE" "SENT TO INVESTIGATE THE SCENE." "THE KECKSBURG CRASH OF 1965," "THAT'S A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THIS" "DISPARATE NATURE BETWEEN WHAT" "OFFICIALLY HAPPENED AND THEN" "WHAT REALLY HAPPENED." "A TEAM OF THREE INDIVIDUALS GO" "INVESTIGATE IT, AND THAT'S ALL" "SHE WROTE." "WHAT EVERYONE IN THE TOWN OF" "KECKSBURG KNOWS IS THAT AN" "ENORMOUS NUMBER OF PEOPLE" "MILITARY, DIFFERENT TYPES OF" "BRANCHES OF THE MILITARY" "PROBABLY OVER 100 OUTSIDE" "PEOPLE CAME IN, COMBED THE" "WOODS, SEALED OFF THE WOODS" "FROM THE PUBLIC." "AND YET WHAT'S INTERESTING IS" "THAT THERE'S NO OFFICIAL" "ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY THE MILITARY" "SERVICES THAT THEY DID THIS" "TYPE OF THING." "THINK ABOUT IT." "YOU SEE SOMETHING HAPPEN WITH" "YOUR OWN EYES." "YOU KNOW HUNDREDS OF MILITARY" "PERSONNEL SWARMED A SMALL TOWN." "YET THIS IS OUTRIGHT DENIED" "BY THE GOVERNMENT." "WHEN YOU GET THAT KIND OF" "FIRSTHAND LOOK AT HOW THESE" "COVER-UPS WORK, YOU'RE GOING TO" "BE HUNGRY FOR THE TRUTH." "SO NOW THE TOWN WAS JUST" "SITTING AROUND WITH ALL THESE" "RUMORS OF WHAT THE HECK IS GOING" "ON." "narrator:" "KECKSBURG BUZZES" "WITH STORIES ABOUT THE" "MYSTERIOUS OBJECT IN THE WOODS," "AND JOHN MURPHY, THE REPORTER" "AT THE SCENE, DECIDES TO" "INVESTIGATE." "SOME PEOPLE HEARD THAT IT WAS" "A MISFIRED ARMY MISSILE." "OTHERS THOUGHT IT WAS A" "SATELLITE THAT CAME CRASHING" "DOWN." "AND BECAUSE THIS WAS AT THE" "HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR, SOME" "EVEN THOUGHT THAT IT COULD BE A" "SOVIET SPY PLANE THAT WAS SHOT" "DOWN." "narrator:" "BUT THE OFFICIAL" "STORY ENDS HERE, WITH" "AUTHORITIES DENYING THAT ANY" "UFO WAS INVOLVED." "THE FALLEN OBJECT IS REPORTED TO" "THE PRESS AS A METEORITE, BUT NO" "METEORITES OR FRAGMENTS WERE" "RECOVERED FROM THE SCENE." "THE KECKSBURG CASE IS" "IMPORTANT, I THINK, BECAUSE IT" "INVOLVED THE LANDING OR CRASHING" "OF A PHYSICAL OBJECT." "SO IT MEANS THAT THERE IS A" "PHYSICAL OBJECT." "IT WAS TAKEN AWAY BY THE" "MILITARY AND PUT SOMEWHERE, AND" "THERE AREN'T THAT MANY UFO CASES" "THAT INVOLVE SOMETHING PHYSICAL" "LIKE THAT." "LEAVING JOHN MURPHY AND OTHER" "WITNESSES TO WONDER, "WHAT" "BECAME OF THE EVIDENCE?"" "SO THE FACT THAT ALL THESE" "PEOPLE WITNESSED A PHYSICAL" "OBJECT COME DOWN--SOME SAW IT IN" "THE WOODS ON THE GROUND, OTHERS" "SAW IT ON THE FLATBED TRUCK" "BEING TAKEN AWAY--MEANS THAT" "THERE IS A HUGE EVIDENTIAL THING" "THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT" "HAS SOMEWHERE." "SO YOU HAVE THIS VERY BLACK AND" "WHITE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN WHAT" "THE OFFICIAL LINE WAS AND WHAT" "ACTUALLY HAPPENED." "narrator:" "HOWEVER, THE" "JOURNALIST AT THE SCENE, JOHN" "MURPHY, IS DETERMINED TO" "UNCOVER THE TRUTH." "BUT IS IT POSSIBLE THAT JOHN" "MURPHY'S SEARCH FOR ANSWERS" "REGARDING THE KECKSBURG UFO" "COULD ULTIMATELY LEAD TO HIS" "UNTIMELY DEATH?" "narrator:" "INSIDE HANGAR 1," "MUFON FILES REVEAL THE STORY OF" "A UFO CRASH IN KECKSBURG," "PENNSYLVANIA, IN 1965." "THE FILE DESCRIBES A UFO SEIZED" "BY THE MILITARY AND THE" "SUBSEQUENT SUPPRESSION OF ALL" "EVIDENCE, UNTIL A LOCAL REPORTER" "THREATENS THE COVER-UP." "1965." "JOHN MURPHY BEGINS GATHERING" "EVIDENCE ON THE KECKSBURG CRASH." "JOHN MURPHY DECIDED TO DO A" "RADIO DOCUMENTARY, AND WHAT HE" "NEEDED TO DO WAS GO AROUND AND" "TALK TO ALL THE WITNESSES TO GET" "ALL THE PIECES OF THE STORY" "TOGETHER." "narrator:" "THE REPORTER" "BELIEVES THAT THE GOVERNMENT'S" "ACCOUNT IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM" "ACTUAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS." "RIGHT AWAY, MURPHY NOTICES" "SOMETHING." "THERE ARE MANY WITNESSES, YET" "THEIR DESCRIPTIONS OF THE UFO" "ARE CONSISTENTLY SIMILAR." "AND THIS WASN'T A TYPICAL FLYING" "SAUCER." "THIS WAS A VERY SPECIFIC KIND OF" "CRAFT WITH UNUSUAL DETAILS." "JOHN MURPHY ACTUALLY FEELS" "LIKE HE'S ON THE VERGE OF" "SOMETHING HERE, AND HE'S POURING" "ALL HIS ENERGY AND EFFORT INTO" "THIS RADIO BROADCAST, AND HE'S" "TELLING ALL HIS FRIENDS THAT" "HE'S UNCOVERED SOMETHING HUGE." "HE CONDUCTS THIS THOROUGH" "INVESTIGATION, AND IS ABOUT TO" "REVEAL HIS FINDINGS TO THE" "WORLD, AND THIS IS WHEN THINGS" "TAKE A DARK TURN." "narrator:" "THE FILE REPORTS" "THAT ON THE EVENING BEFORE THE" "RADIO DOCUMENTARY IS TO AIR," "JOHN MURPHY RECEIVES SOME" "UNANNOUNCED VISITORS." "SO TWO MEN SHOW UP AT THE" "RADIO STATION." "THEY DON'T IDENTIFY THEMSELVES" "AS MILITARY OR POLICE OR ANY" "TYPE OF INVESTIGATOR." "JOHN MURPHY NEVER DISCLOSED" "WHAT THE MEN ACTUALLY TOLD HIM," "BUT THEY CLEARLY CONVINCED HIM" "THAT IT WAS IN HIS BEST INTEREST" "TO KEEP QUIET ABOUT THE WHOLE" "THING." "THEN THEY CONFISCATED HIS" "RECORDINGS AND OTHER EVIDENCE" "HE'D OBTAINED." "MURPHY WAS FORCED TO RE-CUT" "HIS DOCUMENTARY AT THE 11TH" "HOUR, AND THE VERSION THAT AIRED" "WAS A CHILLING TESTAMENT TO HOW" "BADLY THESE VISITORS HAD" "INTIMIDATED HIM." "narrator:" "THE DOCUMENTARY" "THAT AIRS IS SIMPLY AN ACCOUNT" "OF A POSSIBLE METEOR STRIKE." "IT CONTAINS NO NEW EVIDENCE," "MAKES NO REFERENCE TO THE" "MILITARY, AND DOES NOT MENTION A" "UFO." "THIS GUY IS ABSOLUTELY" "DEVASTATED." "AFTER POURING HIS HEART AND SOUL" "INTO A POTENTIALLY" "WORLD-CHANGING INVESTIGATION," "IT GETS SNATCHED AWAY AT" "THE LAST MINUTE." "HE LOSES HIS JOB AND SPENDS THE" "NEXT THREE YEARS COMPLETELY" "BEATEN DOWN AND DEJECTED, UNTIL" "HE DECIDES TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT" "IT." "narrator:" "IN 1967, MURPHY" "REPORTEDLY CONFIDES TO A FRIEND" "THAT HE WANTS TO REOPEN HIS" "ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION." "JOHN MURPHY EVENTUALLY" "CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT THIS" "STORY HAD TO BE TOLD, AND" "APPARENTLY, HE NO LONGER" "BELIEVED HE WAS IN ANY DANGER." "BUT HE WAS WRONG." "narrator:" "TWO DAYS AFTER" "REPORTEDLY REOPENING HIS" "INVESTIGATION INTO THE" "KECKSBURG CRASH, JOHN MURPHY" "CROSSES THE STREET AND IS KILLED" "BY A HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER." "THE DRIVER IS NEVER FOUND." "IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO" "CATEGORICALLY STATE THAT HE WAS" "KILLED BECAUSE OF WHAT HE KNEW" "ABOUT KECKSBURG AND TO PREVENT" "HIM FROM DISCLOSING HIS" "INFORMATION, BUT IT'S CERTAINLY" "CAUSE FOR ALARM." "JOHN MURPHY IS FAR FROM BEING" "THE ONLY UFO WHISTLEBLOWER TO" "DIE UNDER MYSTERIOUS" "CIRCUMSTANCES." "narrator:" "SOME WONDER IF" "THERE IS A PATTERN OF UFO" "INVESTIGATORS WHO HAVE" "SEEMINGLY MET UNTIMELY DEATHS." "THERE'S BEEN A LONG LIST OF" "UFO INVESTIGATORS THAT HAVE DIED" "UNDER MYSTERIOUS" "CIRCUMSTANCES--FAST-ACTING" "CANCERS, CAR ACCIDENTS," "SUICIDES--ALL WAY BEFORE THEIR" "NORMAL LIFESPAN SHOULD'VE ENDED." "JAMES E. MCDONALD." "HE TESTIFIED BEFORE CONGRESS" "TWICE." "HE ENDS UP DYING OF A SUICIDE." "JOHN MACK, HE GETS HIT BY A CAR." "JOHN MURPHY OF THE KECKSBURG" "CASE, HE GETS HIT BY A CAR." "IT GOES ON AND ON, UFO" "INVESTIGATORS ALL MEETING AN" "EARLY DEATH." "BETWEEN THE DESIRE TO KEEP" "A LID ON UFO SIGHTING REPORTS" "AND THE TREATMENT OF THE" "WITNESSES AND THE DATA THEY" "SHARE, THERE'S A STRONG PROGRAM" "IN PLACE TO SUPPRESS CREDIBLE" "UFO INFORMATION." "narrator:" "HOW FAR THIS" "DESIRE TO SUPPRESS GOES IS" "IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW." "MUFON FILES CHRONICLE A LONG" "HISTORY OF UFO CRASHES AND" "COVER-UPS, BUT IT SEEMS THE" "PUBLIC STILL KNOWS VERY LITTLE" "ABOUT MANY OF THESE EVENTS, AS" "WITNESSES CONTINUE TO BE" "SILENCED AND EVIDENCE IS LOCKED" "AWAY." "BUT SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE FILES" "OF HANGAR 1 IS THE TRUTH."