Ordinary people who have had terrifying life-changing encounters with UFOs and alien life can now come forward without the fear of ridicule. Encounter: UFO s1e3
Missing time, lost memory, deep emotional and sometimes physical trauma … They are all too real. ibid.
But many abductees are reluctant to tell their story. ibid.
Scotland, 1980: Helen [Moon], her parents and her three children went on their annual road-trip to Scotland. But their idyllic journey would soon turn to terror. What they say they witnessed would impact them for the rest of their lives. ibid.
‘It was a black craft. It was triangular and it just slowly rose through the trees. It was totally totally silent.’ ibid. Helen
A new dimension of fear when they are seen at high altitude from the window of an aircraft. Astonishing footage of mile-high controntations captured by pilots and passengers have given us a new up-close look at the unimaginable. Encounter: UFO s1e4
‘I assumed at the time they were a new formation or a new type of jet … So I was baffled by the fact that they did not have any tails … They passed almost directly in front of me.’ ibid.
‘Mass sightings are cases on steroids where we don’t just have one or two individuals, we may have dozens if not hundreds, perhaps evens thousands of people encountering something in the same time frame.’ Encounter: UFO s1e5, comment
Phoenix Lights: One of the biggest sightings in UFO history happened in the desert state of Arizona. But what hundreds of people saw was no mirage. ibid.
Farmington, New Mexico: ‘Hundreds of people saw hundreds of UFOs over their town.’ ibid. comment
‘Spherical oval-shaped objects that were intelligently moving across the sky.’ ibid.
Phoenix Lights: The massive object didn’t look or behave like anything from our planet. ibid.
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, 1967: ‘Lo and behold here comes this orange orb … ten feet above the water tracing the shoreline.’ ibid. Chris Styles
The strange foam on the water’s surface, the piercing smell of sulphur, locals start to wonder, What was this craft? ibid.
Houston, Texas, 2014: ‘I was seeing some crazy stuff up there in the sky … I knew then and there I had something extraordinary … I’m going to let the world tell me what this is.’ ibid. Andrew Pena
Validated by dozens of eye-witnesses around Houston all reporting the same thing: a cluster of bright lights in the sky. ibid.
Did these craft choose to be seen? ibid.
What happens when someone encounters a UFO close up, one that actually landed here on Earth? And potentially life threatening. Encounter: UFO s1e6
This region of Wales is also known for its frequent sightings of aircraft that are completely silent. ibid.
Broad Haven Wales, February 4th 1977: Its most famous case involved an actually UFO landing that garnered a flurry of media attention nationwide. ibid.
‘The drawings that the children produced were very similar.’ ibid.
Pentyrch Incident, 2016: A triangluar-shaped craft … ‘Like it came through a veil into our world.’ … The large triangular-shaped craft appears to be landing. Caz then hears more military aircraft approaching. ibid. witness Caz Clarke
‘I was stood in shock. I was so afraid for my safety … It turned my hair white overnight. Completely white.’ ibid. Caz
Caz had the landing site tested for radiation. ibid.
Scattered across our planet are powerful spots that experience high levels of UFO activity and repeated visits. From an island off the coast of California to ancient English fields to a remote valley in Norway. Something about these places seems to attract mysterious visitors. Encounter: UFO s1e7
They keep coming back and we don’t know what they want. ibid.
Catalina Island, USA: ‘Off the coast of California. And for many many years inexplicable craft have been seen above the island as well as in the waters around it.’ ibid. Zimmermann
Catalina Island: ‘They were moving. It wasn’t a plane. At that point those three lights held their position. They had definitely got closer to us …’ ibid. Jonathan Fox camping with friends
Wiltshire was also home to a frightening UFO encounter. The town of Warminster: 1964: ‘The most atrocious sounds like their chimney exploded and their entire roof was ripped off. They couldn’t find a cause for it and it continued month after month. What began with these sinister sounds progressed into actually sighting UFOs.’ ibid. Zimmermann
‘It wasn’t just UFO sightings. There were all kinds of weird sounds, mysterious explosions, vibrations, buzzing noises …’
Even more disturbing, there is proof that these harrowing encounters with suspected extraterrestrial craft and alien beings are real. Encounter: UFO s1e8
Ozarks, USA: ‘They were all about three, three and a half feet tall. They were all grey.’ ibid. Terry Lovelace
For Terry Lovelace a camping trip turned into a UFO abduction nightmare when he finds himself aboard an alien craft. ibid.
Colares Island, Brazil, 1977: One of the strangest and most terrifying UFO cases in Brazil’s history.
‘In 1977 people would see UFOs, and one type of craft would attack them using a beam of light. Their blood was sucked out of their bodies.’ ibid. A J Gevaerd, UFO researcher
‘These beams of light did not only burn, they left puncture wounds.’ ibid. Zimmermann
[Mellon]: ‘We are not alone in the universe, have not been at all throughout this time.’ The Phenomenon 2020
The US Navy made a startling announcement. Images captured by its pilots of objects exhibiting vastly superior technology were authentic. ibid.
We must examine a body of evidence long-suppressed. A parallel history to the one we think we know. ibid.
Reporters interviewed United Airline’s pilot E J Smith who also flew the northwest route. He joked Arnold had likely been fooled by a cockpit reflection. Until he too became a witness a few weeks later. He and his stunned crew had watched as nine discs manoeuvred in formation for a full 45 minutes. ibid.
They described the object slowly hovering before it abruptly sped away. Life Magazine picked up the story [Farmer Trent’s Flying Saucer] and the McMinnville UFO became a global sensation. ibid.
Socorro, New Mexico, April 24th 1964: The Case That Changed Everything [Officer Zamora]: ‘By the time I got there I could see a big white object sitting in the arroyo. I couldn’t tell what it was at first. My radio was dead. It didn’t work at all. I could see some figures, looked like they were walking around the craft there’ … [narrator]: They appeared to be dressed in white coveralls, and were ‘childlike, that is, small’ … [Zamora]: ‘One was in front, the other in back … When I got out of the car about 50 feet from it, I guess they saw me ’cause they started their motor or whatever it is. I could see a big blast of fire coming from right under it. So I was behind some bushes there, behind my car. I could see it and I could feet that heat. That really got me scared, you know?’ ibid.
These witnesses are some of the most highly vetted military officers in charge of the world’s most devastating armaments. If what they are reporting is accurate, then the pattern is hard to avoid: UFOs have been making incursions into top security nuclear facilities decade after decade. ibid.
‘If you picture a tic-tac about forty feet long … Nothing accelerates that fast.’ ibid. military jet pilot in pursuit
‘The Phenomenon … could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life.’ The Program, John Brennan, former CIA director, Amazon 2024
‘I and my colleagues know many secrets that have been kept for decades and they can be kept.’ ibid. insider
‘There are now close to 400 reports from military personnel of possible UFO encounters.’ ibid. news
In 2017 Congress began learning about a half-century-plus cover-up of an ultra secret program dealing with UFOs, now referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAP. ibid. narrator
‘They had a craft, an intact craft they believed could fly’. ibid. Wilson memo
They represent just a small portion of legitimate UAP whistleblowers wishing to testify under oath. ibid.
Photograph of the Century: In August of 1990, two hotel employees left after their shift for a late afternoon hike in the town of Calvine just a few miles away … ‘They then saw a large diamond-shaped craft hovering.’ ibid.
‘Something happened to them … They’ve seen something. Whoever came out of the car scared the absolute crap out of them.’ ibid. Richard Grieve, hotel co-worker
After four weeks they vanished without a trace. ibid.
In April 2020, the United States’ Department of Defense took the unprecedented decision to declassify and release to the world’s media three previously classified recordings made by US Navy pilots, showing what the Dod described simply as ‘unexplained aerial phenomena’. UFO Conspiracies: The Hidden Truth, Amazon 2020
Mount Ranier, Washington State: Kenneth Arnold, 1947: On June 24th 1947 a civilian pilot named Kenneth Arnold was flying his light aircraft in search of a downed Marine Corps’ transport plane, for which the Air Force was offering a reward. Instead of the transport plane, Arnold encountered a series of strange lights which as he approached them appeared to be saucer-shaped craft flying in formation at incredible speed. Arnold provided a report of the incident to the Air Force, who, he said, took it seriously. He also spoke to reporters and the subsequent news stories are thought to represent the first-ever published use of the term flying saucer, based on Arnold’s descriptions. However, the subsequent Air Force report into the incident was dismissive. ibid.
When the CIA did undertake investigations, secrecy and outright deception were standard operating procedure. ibid.
‘The three Air Force projects – Sign, Grudge and Blue Book – basically ran for 22 years, but by ’69 it closed.’ ibid. Gary Heseltine
The Rendlesham Forest incident is considered by UFO researchers to be second only to Roswell in terms of its significance. It began on December 26th 1980 at RAF Woodbridge, a military base in southern England, which was at the time being used by the American Air Force. A security patrol near the east gate of the base saw strange lights in the sky, which appeared to be descending into nearby Rendlesham Forest. The next day, servicemen searching the forest found three small impressions on the ground in a triangular pattern, as well as burn marks and broken branches on nearby trees. All indications that some kind of triangular craft had made a landing in the forest. Even more dramatically, the following night a small team led by the deputy base commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, went out to the site with a Gieger-counter to check for radioactivity. Halt was recording the event using a small dictaphone when something incredible happened:
[Halt]: ‘3.05. We see strange strobe-like flashes to the er rather sporadic but there’s definitely something, some kind of phenomenon. 3.05 at about 10 degrees horizon, directly north, we’ve got two strange objects er, half-moon shape, dancing about with coloured lights on ’em at we guess to be about five to ten miles out, maybe less … … ‘Pieces of it are shooting off. There is no doubt about it. This is weird!’