It sounded like the end of the world. But became an ongoing mystery. What erupted in the sky on April 16th 2008 over this small town in America’s heartland? Does the evidence point to a police conspiracy? A secret military mission gone wrong? Or something completely different? UFO Hunters s2e3: Heartland Explosion
On April 16th 2008 ... 10.30 p.m. Without any warning a thunderous explosion ripped through Kokomo ... Was a UFO responsible for this explosion? Within seconds the emergency operators were overwhelmed with calls from terrified citizens. After the explosion people in Indian Heights, Sharpsville and as far south as Westfield saw a string of lights hovering over the horizon. ibid.
Strings of light appearing in the sky are a common UFO phenomenon. One of the best known cases occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1997. Seen by hundreds if not thousands of people, the Phoenix Lights are one of the best documented string-of-lights sightings. What makes Kokomo different is the terrifying booming noise. ibid.
Audio accounts from the emergency teams on the night of the incident: recordings captured frantic calls between the police and telephone operators of a downed unidentified craft. ibid.
This is one of the greatest mysteries in UFO history. A well on a lonely Texas prairie and an old cemetery may harbour proof that we are not alone. In 1897 something allegedly crashed in Texas six years before the invention of the aeroplane. Someone or something was found in the wreckage. Who or what was buried here in an unmarked grave? Crash debris was sealed in a well. Until now. UFO Hunters s2e4: Aurora First Contact
April 17th 1897 ... A cigar-shaped aircraft travelling north-south over the town. According to several witnesses the craft appeared to be in difficulty; it finally careered into a windmill high on a ridge. The collision and resulting explosion rained flaming debris over acres of farm land ... A diminutive and unearthly corpse. ibid.
This was no isolated event. Newspapers all over America published similar accounts of unworldly airships being sighted. ibid.
Roswell is the UFO case that dominates all others. But it may be only half the story. In July 1947 something crashed outside Roswell, New Mexico. Some days before, strange objects were seen in the sky close to the nearby army airfield. Now the Roswell mystery takes a new turn: recently discovered physical evidence suggests that there wasn’t one crash but two. Artefacts from the supposed location of the second crash have come to light. After all these years a new witness has come forward. The real story of Roswell waits to be unearthed. UFO Hunters s2e5: The Real Roswell
In recent years more and more UFO researchers have been paying closer attention to a second reported crash that occurred in the same week as Roswell two hundred and fifty miles away on the Plains of San Agustin. ibid.
What was the debris that Earl Fulford and the other soldiers picked up that day in 1947? ibid.
Both Earl and Jesse have identified acetate as the material that resembles most closely what they handled back in July 1947. ibid.
It may be the largest mass UFO sighting ever seen over America. March 13th 1997: the skies above Arizona lit up. Fiery globes watched by thousands. Reports of a silent aircraft apparently as large as a battleship. UFO Hunters s2e6: Arizona Lights
But the ten o’clock lights were only part of a complex story: earlier that evening reports of more sightings flooded in from across Arizona. ibid.
The boomerang-shaped craft was allegedly spotted as early as 7.55 p.m. in Henderson Nevada. ibid.
Lights in the sky over Phoenix are not new. Carved into these mountain rocks are enigmatic symbols. ibid.
The March 13th sightings in Arizona are complicated: they consist of several different events across the state. They include an immense boomerang-shaped aircraft and ... a series of red or orange orbs above the city of Phoenix. ibid.
Hidden away in an underground archive are rows of files – the life’s work of history’s greatest UFO hunter. And they may contain proof we are not alone ... This is case #54103: The Lost UFO Files. UFO Hunters s2e7: Lost UFO Files
Over the next sixteen years McDonald interviewed over five hundred witnesses, uncovered important government documents, and gave presentations of UFO evidence to huge crowds across the United States. ibid.
Dr Ted Ackworth will dig into one of McDonald’s most compelling cases. The RB-47 UFO sightings of 1957 where a UFO reportedly pursued an Air Force crew for over ninety minutes and seven hundred miles. The file includes three verifiable sources: the pilot, a ground radar station and the aircraft’s state-of-the-art electronic counter-measure technology. ibid.
Some claimed it was an extraterrestrial craft. Others a secret weapon test gone wrong ... What type of sighting could cause burns and illness? Now nearly thirty years later clues emerge. And another surfaces – a police car that hit a UFO head on. A family with symptoms of radiation poisoning and a strange collision. UFO Hunters s2e8: Alien Fallout
December 29th 1980: the pine woods of Huffman, Texas ... The light descended and revealed itself to be a diamond-shaped object. The three occupants of the car felt its heat, and the two women were burned. ibid.
Jerry also reveals that he became ill soon after the incident. ibid.
Betty probably received the highest dose as she got out of the car. ibid.
Bill [Birnes] learns that a crew was seen at the site just days after the incident digging up the road. ibid.
Who authorised the helicopters seen by numerous witnesses that evening? ibid.
In the summer of 2008 Britain came under siege from the skies. In the space of only two moths nearly two hundred UFOs were sighted nationwide. UFO Hunters s2e9: UFO Storm
In Liverpool thirteen strange orbs; in Ramsgate a giant flying triangle; in Bristol a hovering silver object; and in Birmingham three low flying discs. ibid.
On June 7th 2008 not far from Barry, Glamorgan, a police helicopter was preparing to land at MOD St Athan when it was struck by a UFO. ibid.
Could the MOD’s release of classified files be a smokescreen for ongoing investigations? ibid.
An extraordinary photograph showing a tornado and a UFO has surfaced in Lancashire. ibid.
In 2007 four thousand feet about the English Channel, a pilot and his passengers watched as enormous objects flew by. While a few years earlier the captain of another commercial aircraft witnesses a large disc fly under his plane and disappear. UFO Hunters s2e10: Giant UFOs
Giant UFOs: On April 23rd 2007 at approximately 3 p.m. a pilot for Aurigny Airlines was flying over the English channel when suddenly in the distance he saw a brilliant yellow light and immediately radioed Jersey’s Air Traffic Control. He’d just spotted something colossal – something he said that was almost a mile wide. ibid.
Jersey Air Traffic Control then confirm the object on radar before receiving another sighting from a second pilot with a different airline. Shortly after this, a second enormous object was sighted by the original pilot. ibid.
Encounters with giant UFOs are rare but not unheard of. In 2000 a woman in the Derbyshire Peak District claimed to witness a nearly three-mile-wide pink and white disc. In 1996 over a one-hundred-and-thirty-four-mile stretch of highway in Canada’s Yukon territory more than twenty witnesses confirmed seeing an enormous saucer-shaped object. Triangular data later revealed the object to be at least half a mile wide. And in 1986 the pilot of a Japanese aircraft travelling between Iceland and Anchorage Alaska reported three objects trailing his 747 ... He referred to the largest object as a mother ship. ibid.
Are massive UFOs tracking our commercial aircraft? ibid.
On January 12th 2007 ... two US Air Force F-15s based at RAF Lakenheath were asked to intercept a target picked up on radar. ibid.
At airports around the world something is happening. Airlines and government agencies deny it. But control tower recordings reveal the truth. UFOs may be penetrating our most vulnerable airspace. But what could blast a one and half mile hole in a cloud? Be invisible to radar? And elude the human eye? UFO Hunters s2e11: Aliens at the Airport
November 7th 2006 4:15 p.m. Chicago O’Hare International Airport was busy ... A dove-grey disc-shaped object ... The alleged UFO was reported by as many as a dozen. ibid.
It’s not the first time witnesses to possible UFO sightings have reported seeing strange holes made in the clouds: it happened in Newfoundland in 1947, in Warwickshire in 1977, and as recently as 2002 in Ventura, California. ibid.
Watched by several eye witnesses a burning object crashed to Earth. And over two thousand miles away another strange impact occurred. UFO Hunters s2e12: Alien Crashes
May 14th 2008, Needles, California: In the early morning darkness approximately 3 a.m. a local fisherman saw something he says he’ll never forget: a turquoise ball of fire suddenly lit up the Colorado river. Seconds later it crashed into the desert. ibid.
Witnesses saw the fleet of aircraft leaving – they were carrying something ... and it was still burning. ibid.