Secret satellites, death stars, the weaponisation of outer space. Are governments the world over preparing for an alien attack? And if so, why are we being kept in the dark? Conspiracy Files Unsealed e18: Secret Alien Attack
Douglas Macarthur: ‘We deal now not with things of this world alone … of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy.’ ibid.
In 1995 a short black and white film was shown to a specially selected audience in a private cinema in London. It claimed to show an authentic autopsy on the body of an extraterrestrial being that had been recovered from a flying disc which had crashed near Roswell New Mexico on June 2nd 1947. The audience were astonished. History’s Greatest Hoaxes s1e1: Alien Autopsy
The man who owned the autopsy footage hosted the screening in London and then sold the clips to Fox and other broadcasters around the world is Ray Santilli, a music and record promoter based in London. ibid.
Todmorden: ‘This object completely blocking the road … diamond-shaped, hovering five feet off the ground.’ The Unexplained Files s2e5: Death from the Sky & Mexican Chupacabra, Alan Godfrey, Science 2014
Alan’s next memory is sitting in his car: 40 minutes has passed which he cannot recall and he is over 160 feet further up the road. ibid.
Todmorden: A mysterious cold case: June 1980 … A body is found lying on top of a coal pile next to a busy railway line … There are no signs of footprints around the body and he looks as though he has been hastily dressed by someone else; stranger still, burn marks are found on the body’s head and neck; some of the burns are covered with a green ointment. And the dead man is lying face up staring at the sky … He has been missing five days. ibid.
What could be so terrifying that it scares Adamski to death? ibid.
With credible eye-witness reports of UFOs seemingly overwhelming, what do aliens want with us? The Unexplained Files s2e12: Aliens, Monsters & Demons
Washington DC April 29th 2013: 50 witnesses from government agencies around the world have come together to give evidence that military bases are being targeted by UFOs. ibid.
On a lonely rural highway in northern New Hampshire a couple reportedly has a close encounter with something not of this Earth. Betty and Barney Hill believe they are being followed along Route 3 by what initially looks like a moving star. They stop the car and realise that the light is actually a disc-shaped craft. At 10.15 p.m. everything suddenly goes black. The Hills believe that at that moment they were abducted. UFO Hunters s1e3: Abductions, History 2008
A hovering craft eighty feet wide with double windows. ibid.
They’ve somehow lost hours of time. ibid.
A couple driving in New Hampshire encounters a UFO and become the first alien abductees to make national headlines. For the first time on television the story of coworkers taken captive by aliens. And the secret police recordings of what happened. And leading-edge science and surgery reveal shocking evidence of extraterrestrial implants inside abductees. UFOs: The Lost Evidence s2e3: UFO Abduction
September 19th 1961 upstate New Hampshire, just south of Lancaster in the Franconia Notch. At about 10pm Betty and Barney Hill are driving home from a vacation in Niagara Falls. What they never could have imagined was that this drive would lead to one of the most famous alien abduction cases in history. ibid.
The Air Force actually confirms the UFO sightings were noted on the same night in radar reports made by two separate aviation facilities. ibid.
‘So there were two hours of missing time.’ ibid. Nick Pope
After six months of hypnosis therapy, Betty and Barney believe they’ve uncovered the truth about their close encounter. In time they accept what’s happened and move on with their lives. ibid.
But to travel the length of the country would have been impossible for one of these early steam-powered craft. Were the people in America seeing an advanced prototype or was it completely other-worldly? Another key angle to the Aurora story is the legend of the alien buried in the local graveyard. UFO Hunters s2e4: Aurora First Contact
On April 24th 1964 at 5.45 p.m. Officer Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro New Mexico Police Department ... saw something entirely different: a shiny metallic object that had landed to the side of the road in the desert. He estimated it to be about thirty feet wide and said that the egg-shaped craft had four landing supports at its base. UFO Hunters s2e7: Lost UFO Files
The indentations are not the only physical evidence the craft left behind: according to Zamora bushes were left burning and rocks smouldering. ibid.
‘I was abducted by aliens.’ These terrifying works have been spoken by people who claim to have had close encounters with little grey beings. UFO Hunters s3e3: The Greys Conspiracy
If we’re invaded by a hostile alien invasion we’re doomed unless we can defeat them … This is going to be one huge challenge … We need the weapons and a strategy for a counter-attack. Michio Kaku, Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible s2e5: Alien Invasion, Science 2009
Making contact with an alien species will be the most mind-blowing event in the history of civilisation. Michio Kaku, Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible s2e6: First Contact
In reality extraterrestrial contact cases rarely fit with the stereotypical portrait. Shaun Ryder on UFOs s1e2, History 2013
Peru’s Nazca Lines may be the most famous but geoglyphs are truly a global phenomenon. Of the 5,000 or so geoglyphs strewn across this barren corner of northern Chile, the Atacama Giant is by far both the most impressive and mysterious. In fact it’s the largest prehistoric geoglyph figure in the world. ibid.
Atacama Desert: Chile’s most notorious alien abduction … Corporal Armando Valdes … On the night of 25th April 1977 while serving in the Chilean army Valdes was stationed at a remote outpost close to the border with Peru when he is alleged to have been abducted by a UFO. ibid.
‘My mind is totally blank. They saw I vanished right before their eyes. They looked for me for about 15 minutes … It was if I had been swallowed by the light.’ ibid. Valdes
‘He came back with a five-day beard.’ ibid. witness
America’s most famous abductee: Travis Walton ... A privilege to have him on board ... 1975: On November 5th while working with a logging crew in a remote corner of Arizona, Walton claims to have been abducted by a UFO, and then witnessed by six of his colleagues. Shaun Ryder on UFOs IV, History 2013
Over the years he has passed numerous polygraph tests. ibid.
Stars and planets each have a unique radio signature. Alien Contact: Outer Space, Netflix 2017
Is there anyone out there listening? And if so, are they trying to contact us? ibid.
The entire signal sequence lasted 72 seconds … To date the ‘wow signal’ is considered the best candidate for an alien radio transmission ever received. ibid.
Are we alone? Science tells us that is improbable. If alien life does exist beyond our planet, then surely it’s only a matter of time before we have evidence here on Earth. Mexico: a creature that for more than five years has left scientists unable to explain its origin hides a dark secret. The Andes of Peru: a skeleton was uncovered that many claim is a being from a planet other than our own. Long Island: hideous remains were found of a monster with alien and familiar attributes leaving residents suspecting a government conspiracy. Alien Mummies, Netflix 2012
Mexico 2007: a creature born of a nightmare. The disturbance startled a young ranch-hand … what he discovered in one of the rat-traps horrified everyone who saw it … The creature was said to be conscious … The Metepet creature has been the subject of worldwide controversy [buffy tufted marmoset] … ibid.
Cusco Peru: The discovery of the Cusco mummy hit news headlines. ibid.
A creature discovered off the south coast of Long Island New York baffled those who found it. Washed up on the shore, the specimen provoked worldwide curiosity. ibid.
The grisly discovery of a third [Long Island] creature was too much to ignore … ‘It is the carcass of a raccoon’ … Many people are not convinced. ibid.
Another creature found north of Panama City also near water was reported to be alive … ‘Photographs of a really weird alien-like carcass appeared online’ … Is there a much simpler answer? … Could the boys have actually seen a hairless sloth? ibid.
Mysterious unexplained lights in the sky. Tales of strange extraterrestrial beings. This is not just the stuff of science fiction: there are now millions of people in Britain today who genuinely believe it to be real. And that there’s an ongoing monumental conspiracy to keep the truth from us, with shadowy powerful agents pulling the strings behind the scenes. Dan Schreiber, The Great UFO Conspiracy, History 2019