The UnXplained: Leaked Classified UFO Videos Stun the Public!
SHATNER: The existence of a top secret military program known as AATIP, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Its purpose: to identify and investigate UFOs. Congress was informed about AATIP in a letter dated January 2018. The Defense Intelligence Agency wrote to Congress and said, “The AATIP program was designed to look at far-term aviation threats to the United States out to maybe 40 years into the future from Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, secret prototype aircraft, missiles and drones.”
But there was an attachment to the letter that stated, “Please find attached a list of all the products produced under the AATIP contract.” Among them: antigravity, invisibility, warp drive, wormholes, stargates. When I looked at this list, it was astounding.
In the weeks that followed, a number of previously classified videos were leaked to the public. Among them is footage of an encounter that took place in 2004 between a squadron of fighter jets and an unidentified flying craft that appears to be not of this world.
TAYLOR: Whatever this thing is in this video, it goes from a couple hundred miles per hour to thousands of miles per hour like that. That’s the equivalent of going many hundreds of miles per hour and hitting a brick wall. So, what would that do? It would turn your brain to mush. It would turn your body to Jell-O. I mean, it would kill you instantly. So, there’s a technology in there that would protect a biological entity if it’s a biological thing in there. We don’t have that type of technology yet.
We now know much more about the AATIP program and government UFO investigations more generally than we knew a couple of years ago. We have pilots involved in these incidents, radar operators, and former intelligence officers who handled this, all going public and saying this is real.
SHATNER: Is the footage proof that UFOs not only exist, but that they employ technology that far surpasses our own? It’s certainly a far-fetched notion, but according to one man who was there, the answer’s yes.
On the day of the incident, Petty Officer P.J. Hughes was stationed on the nearby USS aircraft carrier from which the fighters were launched. His job was to facilitate the storage of radar data by an E-2C Hawkeye aircraft that was in the air at the same time that the fighter jets encountered the UFO.
HUGHES: The easiest way to explain what an E-2C Hawkeye is, is by saying it’s the quarterback of the air wing. It has a bunch of sensors and communications equipment. We were doing some testing, and before that exercise was actually able to start, the object came up, so everybody got a good look at it, and then it just took off. I wasn’t in the plane, so the information I’m getting is secondhand from the multitude of sources who’ve seen it.
It’s a giant white cylindrical object, roughly 48 feet, 49 feet, somewhere in there. No windows, no engines, no flight control surfaces, a smooth object, basically. It looked like a white Tic Tac. No visible means of propulsion, but it could go from full blast to zero in a time we can’t measure.
When the Hawkeye left, it was recording. When it came back, the recording was stopped. I took the bricks—they’re classified hard drives that record everything it saw. I went down, put them in our safe. Twenty minutes after I locked them in that safe, my executive officer shows up at my door with two uniformed Air Force officers and asks me for all the hard drives that were in that Hawkeye that went flying. Normally, we’d sign them out in a logbook, saying, “XO took these—these serial numbers.” As I started to write, he said, “Don’t do it.” So, I handed them over, and away they went, and I never knew what happened to them.
SHATNER: On April 27, 2020, the Pentagon officially released the three now-famous AATIP videos. By doing so, they acknowledged that the UFOs depicted were genuinely of unknown origin, although they stopped short of admitting they might also be extraterrestrial.
HUGHES: The fact that the government wants to know more about things that we encounter in the sky and that the pilots see—there’s something to it. The universe is way too big for us to be alone. There’s something else out there.
SHATNER: Tucked away in the shadow of a rocky plateau is a 512-acre property that is famous for having a long history of eerie UFO sightings. This mysterious place is known as Skinwalker Ranch.
WINTERTON: Skinwalker Ranch may look like any other ranch on the surface, but you get to the ranch, and you realize that just below the surface lies one of the strangest and most unexplainable places in the world. Skinwalker Ranch is a hot spot for many reported phenomena, such as a large number of UFO sightings, along with strange energies, cattle mutilations, and all kinds of unexplainable phenomena.
ERIK BARD: Through the years, folks have reported unusual atmospheric phenomena and UFOs, or what we call UAPs today. But also, so-called “orbs,” balls of light moving around on the property or in the sky. There are a lot of strange things that affect human beings viscerally. This has been going on for quite some time, and so there must be something unseen that makes this a very special place.
The lore associated with the ranch goes back at least as far as the Native American tradition of the skinwalker, from which the ranch receives its name.
WINTERTON: The story is told that back in the early 1800s, a Navajo shaman cursed this particular piece of ground with the Curse of the Skinwalker. The skinwalker is this shape-shifting, demonic being that can take on the form of many different animals, including that of a man. We have stories of the skinwalker traversing Skinwalker Ridge, which runs the entire east/west length of the ranch.
SHATNER: For more than a century, local Indigenous tribes have firmly believed that Skinwalker Ranch is cursed by a shape-shifting creature. In modern times, many people consider the property to be a UFO hot spot. The ranch attracted so much attention that in 1996, billionaire aerospace tycoon and UFO enthusiast Robert Bigelow bought the ranch to try and solve the long-standing mystery of this remote location.
After the ranch was sold to Robert Bigelow, he created the National Institute for Discovery Science, hiring excellent scientists to set up a genuine scientific investigation of the phenomena occurring there.
DENNETT: Robert Bigelow was able to record a lot of UFO activity of all kinds. However, they were never able to discover the mechanism behind this or what is truly going on at Skinwalker Ranch.
SHATNER: In 2016, Robert Bigelow sold Skinwalker Ranch, effectively ending his UFO investigation there. The property was purchased by real estate mogul Brandon Fugal, who assembled a team of scientists and investigators that has spent the last several years conducting the most comprehensive investigation of Skinwalker Ranch in history.
FUGAL: Our team has demonstrated an unequaled dedication to finding the truth at Skinwalker Ranch. We may be embarking on some of the most important work of our time. We are looking for the nature of the universe, and I truly believe that Skinwalker Ranch is a place where some of these questions may be answered or at least better understood.
TAYLOR: I’m a scientist looking at the question of what are the UAPs and UFOs, and are we alone in the universe? There are so many different phenomena that happen at Skinwalker Ranch. We have physical evidence of these phenomena existing, with actual, real scientific equipment. Previous researchers depended on VHS technology for recording things in time-lapse format. We’re using full, high-definition video with a combination of bullet cameras—PTZ or pan, tilt, zoom cameras—that allow us to look around and zoom in on features of interest to discern between the mundane and the exceptional.
SHATNER: An unidentified object slams into a hill.
DOLAN: They went out there eight miles northeast of the Kingman Airport. Within moments, the United States military springs into action. This time, they won’t repeat the mistake they made at Roswell by letting the public find out about it.
BIRNES: The Army descends on that hill, locks it down. Onlookers are trying to climb the hill to see it. Nope, can’t see it. The Army puts up a tent but invites different scientists to examine it. It was estimated to be about 14 feet high, classic flying saucer shape, with rows of lights along the perimeter. They were all told to examine this site and provide their assessment. Then they were told, “You are to take an oath, and you are never to talk about this again.”
SHATNER: Unlike the crash at Roswell six years earlier, the U.S. military’s response to the Kingman incident was so swift that it wasn’t until years later that the world knew anything had occurred there. But how was an event of this apparent magnitude kept secret for so long?
In my experience of government, there would need to be what we would call a standard operating procedure. It’s claimed that one was drawn up for UFO crashes after Roswell, and it seems that this was used in 1953 regarding the Kingman UFO crash.
SHATNER: An operations manual on how to deal with UFO crashes? As far-fetched as it sounds, UFO researchers believe that such a handbook not only exists but was put in place to avoid the mistakes the U.S. military made trying to contain the earlier crash at Roswell in
