Is The Government Hiding Something BIG From Space? (+ Past Government Betrayals)
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00:00 Do you trust your government?
00:02 Can you imagine that they might not always be telling the truth, or that figures on the
00:06 inside might know something world-changing while the rest of the world is wholly unawares?
00:12 In this video, we're taking a closer look at the modern UAP phenomenon, plus an in-depth
00:17 view of Element 115, the supposedly crucial substance that could be the key to it all.
00:23 Finally though, we're counting down 10 of the most prominent, significant, and frankly
00:27 disturbing examples of when the government certainly has hidden something massive in
00:31 the past.
00:33 Not all of these are space-related, but they serve to show exactly what our global powers
00:37 are capable of.
00:39 This is Unveiled, and today we're answering the extraordinary question; is the government
00:44 hiding something big from space?
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00:55 Are we alone in the universe?
01:02 Is there life beyond Earth?
01:04 And if there is, then could the powers-that-be really be keeping it a secret?
01:18 Non-human technology.
01:20 In the first half of 2023, it became the buzzword for alien hunters, UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy
01:25 theorists - for anyone with even an inkling that the government might be trying to cover
01:30 something up.
01:31 But why?
01:32 And what has changed in UFO science to so dramatically accelerate our search for the
01:36 truth in recent times?
01:38 The latest push for disclosure arguably started with the efforts of one David Grush, an increasingly
01:44 high-profile whistleblower who had previously worked within the US military and government.
01:49 Among many senior positions held by Grush, he had been involved with the Unidentified
01:53 Aerial Phenomenon Task Force - an investigative branch of the government, in short, set up
01:58 to explore the credibility of UFO - or now UAP - sightings and reports.
02:04 The American authorities have received more and more such reports in recent years, and
02:08 so have been forced into channeling more time, money and resources to them - and Grush had
02:13 essentially been working at the very heart of all of that.
02:17 Many believe, then, that his claims carry a great deal of weight and legitimacy.
02:22 But what exactly has he said?
02:24 Grush first went public with what he alleged to know in an explosive June 2023 article
02:29 for "The Debrief", written and researched by the noted and respected UFO journalists
02:34 Leslie Kane and Ralph Blumenthal.
02:37 In the article, and in various subsequent interviews, Grush insisted that, contrary
02:42 to what they'd have you believe, the US government knows full well that there are
02:46 aliens out there.
02:48 It knows it because it has had continuous access to an untold amount of information
02:53 and material since at least World War Two.
02:56 For example, Grush alleges that toward the end of World War Two, a craft of non-human
03:02 origin that had been previously uncovered by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was
03:07 sent to and stored in the United States for further study during the post-war years.
03:12 It suggested that multiple intelligence agencies were involved here, and even that the Vatican
03:17 had had a hand in what happened.
03:19 Although it's unclear what ultimately came of the craft in question in this particular
03:23 case, clearly a lot of time has passed in the decades since the late 1940s.
03:28 Knowledge has grown, developments have unfolded, and opinions have evolved.
03:32 But Grush, again in the debrief article and in interviews afterwards, reckons that not
03:37 much has changed in terms of the deep-rooted secrecy at the heart of official UFO study.
03:43 Claiming to have heard first-hand from various, mostly unnamed sources within the government
03:48 or close to, Grush has suggested that the US has long run dedicated initiatives to find
03:54 and recover things like crashed UFOs, bits broken off of passing UFOs, and even dead
04:00 UFO pilots.
04:02 There are then suggestions that most of this is entirely unknown because, actually, even
04:06 most of the government is unaware.
04:08 Grush has insinuated that there are multiple figures or groups "on the inside" that
04:13 have consistently and deliberately withheld key information or evidence from various flagpole
04:18 UFO research groups.
04:19 So, if the claims are true, it could yet be that while some in the government are hiding
04:24 proof of what's out there, many are just as in the dark as the rest of the watching
04:28 public.
04:29 The information has simply never been let out.
04:32 This is by no means the first time that such allegations have been laid at the door of
04:36 Washington.
04:37 Perhaps the most infamous and long-lasting UFO claimant against the US government is
04:41 Bob Lazar.
04:42 In a story that Lazar has defiantly stood by for upwards of thirty years, he alleges
04:47 that he worked on top-secret government projects in the early 1980s.
04:52 And as part of that work, Lazar claims to have been tasked with "reverse engineering
04:56 alien tech".
04:58 Specifically, he says that he saw "anti-gravity technology", the likes of which wasn't
05:03 just unknown at the time, but was seemingly impossible as per the human understanding
05:08 of the laws of nature and physics.
05:11 While the testimonies of Lazar and David Grush have yet to explicitly cross over, the kinds
05:15 of things that Lazar has always insisted he saw and did are quite similar to those that
05:20 Grush now seems intent to reveal.
05:22 Are we now on the brink of full disclosure?
05:25 And will that finally reveal that aliens do exist?
05:28 What do you think could happen in the coming weeks, months or years?
05:31 A little more than a year prior to David Grush and the debrief, the Pentagon seemingly bowed
05:36 to growing public pressure by publishing a "Preliminary Assessment on UAP", a short
05:42 but sweet nine-page document that outlined 144 cases, 143 of which it described as remaining
05:51 "unexplained".
05:52 For many, it was something of an anti-climax.
05:55 Unclassified, yes, but inconclusive?
05:58 Definitely.
05:59 However, the official story has since been built on quite significantly, with the release
06:04 of the 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.
06:08 Here, the authorities ran us through 510 officially registered UAP cases in total.
06:14 This included the 144 discussed before, plus 366 new ones.
06:20 The annual report was longer than its preliminary forerunner, but only just.
06:24 An 11-page document, it was mostly dedicated to outlining new and improved methods and
06:29 procedures for collecting UAP data and cataloguing it.
06:33 There was no direct mention of alien spaceships, alien pilots, crashed UFOs, etc.
06:39 The reports did concede, though, that any UAP might pose a threat as either quite "flight
06:44 hazards" or as potential "adversary collection platforms".
06:48 So far, as per the still-limited information that the US authorities have made public,
06:53 the establishment of the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or the ARRO, is billed
06:58 as a key development.
06:59 It's said to be a wide-reaching arm with scope enough to properly coordinate UAP reports
07:05 and research, linking up all or most other defence and security government branches.
07:11 Interestingly, though, the ARRO is a successor to the UAP Task Force that had existed beforehand
07:16 - the same task force that David Grush had worked closely with.
07:20 Could the restructuring, then, be another attempt to squirrel away information, in line
07:25 with what Grush has claimed?
07:27 Or is it genuinely a revised and more effective effort to get to the bottom of UAP once and
07:32 for all?
07:33 Let us know what you think in the comments.
07:36 In the aftermath of Grush's various claims, the Department of Defence and NASA both released
07:41 statements, and perhaps unsurprisingly, neither supported the whistleblower.
07:46 The DoD said, "To date, ARRO has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate
07:52 claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse engineering of any extraterrestrial
07:57 materials have existed in the past or exist currently."
08:01 NASA said that it "has not found any credible evidence of extraterrestrial life, and there
08:07 is no evidence that UAPs are extraterrestrial."
08:11 That said, there are some major investigations ongoing.
08:15 Certainly, the conversation has been moved along a lot in just the last couple of years,
08:19 with even the term "UFO" swiftly being replaced by the seemingly broader, and arguably
08:24 less taboo, UAP.
08:27 But the increasingly used qualifier "non-human" is a far thornier one, particularly for the
08:33 government and official sources to entertain.
08:36 While the claims made by David Grush might well be described as still quite vague and
08:41 ambiguous, this turn of phrase means that, no matter how often the authorities try to
08:45 persuade otherwise, no matter that the government reports rarely if ever mention extraterrestrials
08:51 specifically, the talk of aliens just isn't dying down.
08:55 What's your verdict here?
08:57 If the government were keeping something as massive as alien life a secret, then it would
09:01 surely take a monumental effort to do that.
09:04 So do you think it's possible?
09:06 Or is even the notion of the state having any kind of wider knowledge or control just
09:10 too far-fetched to believe?
09:14 We're always discovering new chemical elements and how to best use chemistry in increasingly
09:23 novel ways.
09:24 This intriguing, incredible, and sometimes bizarre scientific field has changed everything
09:31 from physics to medicine, and is the foundation for much of modern technology.
09:37 But are there still some things within chemical study that the government would rather we
09:43 didn't know about?
09:54 Much has been made of the mysterious and elusive Element 115.
09:59 First described by the noted conspiracy theorist Bob Lazar in the 1990s, it's claimed by some
10:05 that Element 115 is being kept top secret by the United States government in Area 51,
10:12 no less.
10:13 Lazar has said that it is the vital ingredient in the propulsion drives of alien spacecraft
10:19 that have allegedly crashed down in America.
10:23 Lazar says the reason he knows this is because he used to work at Area 51 himself, reverse
10:29 engineering alien tech.
10:31 Uncooperated as these claims were and still are, in 2003, Element 115 was successfully
10:40 synthesized in a laboratory, apparently proving that Lazar's story rings true.
10:46 But what exactly is this element, in legend and in real life?
10:51 Why did it take us so long to discover?
10:54 And does the real thing have or trigger all the miraculous properties that Lazar has claimed,
11:01 like antigravity and advanced cloaking?
11:04 Most importantly of all, how did Lazar seemingly predict the future and is there a cover up
11:11 afoot?
11:12 Let's take a look at Element 115 itself, which is now more widely known by its formal name,
11:18 Moscovium, after the Russian capital, Moscow.
11:22 It was first synthesized in 2003 by a group of Russian and American scientists based at
11:28 the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, which is headquartered in Dubna, a town just
11:33 north of Moscow, and is a major academic institution when it comes to novel chemical elements.
11:40 115 is simply Moscovium's atomic number, referring to the 115 protons in the atom's
11:48 nucleus.
11:49 However, we've never actually observed a normal atom of Moscovium.
11:54 All so far have been Moscovium isotopes, meaning that they have different numbers of neutrons.
12:01 These isotopes have also proven extremely unstable, with even the most stable isotope,
12:08 Moscovium-290, decaying completely in around a second.
12:13 More broadly, Moscovium is what scientists call a "super-heavy" element because its
12:18 atomic number is so high.
12:20 The lightest element of all and the oldest and most abundant in the universe is, of course,
12:26 hydrogen with its atomic number of 1.
12:30 Moscovium, element 115, by extreme contrast, is heavy and rare.
12:35 To a point, heavier elements are created in the cores of stars, under incredible temperatures
12:41 and pressures through stellar fusion.
12:44 In stars, hydrogen gets fused into helium, for example, which has an atomic number of
12:50 2.
12:52 Hydrogen and helium might then combine to make increasingly heavier elements like oxygen,
12:58 nitrogen, and so on.
13:00 Everything else effectively descends from that process and is, in a roundabout way,
13:06 a product of stellar fusion.
13:09 But still, Moscovium itself wasn't born in a star.
13:14 So how do we get from there to heavier elements like Moscovium being brewed in a lab?
13:21 Essentially, by mimicking the process of fusion here on Earth.
13:26 But that's extremely difficult, and any atom that doesn't appear naturally, i.e.
13:31 isn't to our knowledge produced in stars, is almost inescapably unstable as a result.
13:39 Which is why even the most stable Moscovium isotope is here and gone in a couple of moments.
13:46 The impermanence does create some level of mystery, but there's no cover-up or top-level
13:52 secrecy at play here.
13:54 That's just how the science works.
13:56 Again, in the decades since Moscovium's first discovery, not one even remotely stable
14:03 isotope like the one Bob Lazar describes has been witnessed.
14:08 So in this way, Lazar didn't predict the future.
14:12 His Element 115 and the real 115 are totally different, and even if we could maintain a
14:20 true atom of 115, it's still not expected that it would inspire these kinds of things
14:26 that Lazar's claimed product could, like the bending of light for invisibility or the
14:32 general messing up of physics.
14:34 Ultimately, predicting the future, at least in terms of a periodic table, actually isn't
14:40 all that difficult.
14:41 It's been done before, many times, and often with success.
14:46 It was the Russian scientist Dmitry Mendeleev back in 1869 who first devised and wrote up
14:53 the periodic table of elements, although it has been revised a handful of times since
14:58 then.
14:59 Mendeleev had the brainwave to order the known chemical elements by their atomic weights,
15:04 in doing so, and even back then, he was able to identify blank spots for certain elements
15:10 that he believed to exist, based on his method, but which hadn't yet been discovered.
15:16 In time, many of those elements were eventually found, and stranger yet, Mendeleev was able
15:24 to use his deep knowledge of chemistry to not only predict their existence, but also
15:29 correctly guess how they might behave.
15:33 For example, one element predicted by Mendeleev, technetium, was eventually discovered in 1937,
15:40 a whole 30 years after Mendeleev had died, and more than 60 years since he'd first decided
15:47 that it must exist.
15:49 Technetium was also the first true synthetic element, serving to prove that humans could
15:55 create as-yet-unseen chemicals in labs.
15:59 Fast forward back to 2003, and that's the context for how the true Element 115, Moscovium,
16:07 became possible, by almost filling in the gaps of the periodic table and adding to it
16:13 based on the easily predictable progression from lighter to heavier elements.
16:19 No aliens necessary, nor stripped-down alien spaceships.
16:23 The general feeling, then, is that we would have arrived at 115 regardless of Bob Lazar's
16:29 earlier shapings of it as some kind of ET keystone.
16:34 That the most likely true story behind it is simply that, at the time Lazar started
16:40 talking about it, a decade before it was synthesized, Element 115 was still an unknown that was
16:47 just out of reach, an element on the periodic table theorized to exist, and one that, according
16:54 to those who are more cynical about Lazar's claim, was perfectly placed to give weight
17:00 to his ideas.
17:01 In a similar vein, it's possible that an Element 119 exists too, but also hasn't
17:08 been discovered yet.
17:10 Could it one day become the crucial ingredient to an alleged alien cover-up as well?
17:16 The wider scientific consensus has for a long time laid major challenge to Bob Lazar's
17:23 claims.
17:24 Unsurprisingly, the official line continually does not back him up, and while there are
17:30 reported discrepancies, such as Lazar's name apparently appearing in a phone directory
17:36 for a lab that, officially, he never worked for, the story of Element 115 remains split,
17:43 split between what really happened in 21st century science and what Lazar and the resulting
17:49 conspiracy theories claim to have happened.
17:53 Many scientists insist that most of what Lazar has said about Moscovium is patently untrue,
18:00 that 115 can't be used to harness any of the claimed powers, from gravity waves to
18:06 invisibility cloaks, and we know that now more than ever because we have actually seen
18:13 the stuff in action, even if only as an isotope and only for a few seconds.
18:19 To boot, remember the discovery of Moscovium was officially a joint scientific endeavor
18:25 between the Russian and US governments.
18:29 It's not alone either, with other super-heavy elements having been synthesized in the same
18:34 lab in Russia, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, including, for instance, Element
18:40 117, Tennessine, which was discovered in 2010 and named as per the American state.
18:47 There are few signs that 115 has ever been kept particularly secret or hidden then, not
18:54 since it was first synthesized in 2003, at which point Lazar's until-then-mythical substance
19:02 was brought out into the open, and frankly, it disappointed anyone who had expected what
19:08 Lazar had promised.
19:10 This wasn't the birth of antigravity and ET capabilities just yet, it was just the
19:16 adding of another element to an ever-growing table.
19:20 If such an element with such incredible properties did exist, it's arguably easy to imagine
19:26 the US or Russian governments hiding it, but perhaps less easy to imagine them sharing
19:32 the ruse with each other.
19:35 And what's more, if there is anything out there that's known to us and capable of
19:41 even some of what's been claimed, then why keep it secret at all?
19:45 It would surely make an extremely useful and profitable commercial technology.
19:51 For now, all the evidence suggests that while Element 115 does exist, it doesn't yet bring
19:58 any world-changing revelations.
20:01 An unstable radioisotope among many, this super-heavy element is certainly still interesting,
20:08 but as science, and not conspiracy, currently understands it, it's perhaps not of alien
20:15 origin.
20:16 Maybe Lazar was simply mistaken, and what he saw was actually something different, or
20:21 maybe, the entire tale is highly questionable from the beginning.
20:27 What's your verdict?
20:32 Why was the government doing this?
20:34 What were they trying to find out?
20:36 Well, the First World War had been a chemical war, and there was every expectation that
20:42 the Second World War would be one as well.
20:45 This is Unveiled, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 discoveries
20:49 the government hid from the public.
20:51 For this list, we'll be looking at events, atrocities, and scientific discoveries various
20:55 governments swept under the rug but were later uncovered.
20:58 Would this piece of celluloid finally provide the definitive evidence for which monster
21:03 hunters had been waiting since 1933?
21:07 What's the craziest thing your country's government has hidden from its people?
21:10 Be sure to share with us in the comments below!
21:23 Number 10.
21:24 Laika's Cause of Death
21:37 The space race between the US and the Soviet Union resulted in the unfortunate deaths of
21:41 several animals, but the most famous was Laika.
21:44 The adorable dog was found on the streets of Moscow as a stray and recruited to the
21:48 space program.
21:50 Scientists knew she would perish on her voyage to space, and one even took her home before
21:54 her tragic mission, so she could experience a bit of peace.
21:58 Laika became the first animal to orbit the Earth in 1957.
22:02 The government hid Laika's cause of death from the public, making it seem like she passed
22:06 from oxygen depletion or was euthanized.
22:09 However, in 2002, it was revealed that Laika passed due to overheating mere hours into
22:14 the trip.
22:15 It proved a point of tremendous importance – that life could continue in space.
22:21 Fly high, sweet pup!
22:23 Number 9.
22:24 POTUS' Secret Hit List
22:26 As one of the most powerful people in the world, the President of the United States
22:29 has special clearance and access to hidden documents.
22:32 However, as the New York Times reported in 2012, the President can also keep a top-secret
22:37 document of their own.
22:39 Interviews with several former and current advisors uncovered President Obama's process
22:44 for approving top targets that were unknown to the general public.
22:47 The list was filled with known and suspected terrorists of varying backgrounds, and the
22:52 President took it upon himself to personally oversee counterterrorism efforts.
22:57 While President Obama took a more direct approach than most other presidents, the discovery
23:01 does shine light on the power and secrecy of the Oval Office.
23:04 "The President understands the gravity of these issues.
23:07 That is why he is committed to taking very seriously his responsibilities in this."
23:14 Number 8.
23:16 Protecting the Loch Ness Monster
23:18 Last week, Japanese scientists placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness
23:25 to blow Nessie out of the water.
23:29 Sir Corr Godfrey of the Nessie Alliance summoned the help of Scotland's local wizards to
23:34 cast a protective spell over the lake and its local residents and all those who seek
23:40 for the peaceful existence of our underwater ally.
23:44 The mysterious cryptid colloquially known as Nessie is the subject of much debate.
23:48 Although it has been the subject of folklore for centuries, Loch Ness Monster mania reached
23:53 a fever pitch after the now-debunked "surgeon's photograph" was released in 1934.
23:59 In 2010, previously hidden documents revealed that Scottish police once made moves to find
24:04 the creature and protect it from hunters.
24:07 In the 1930s, police officers requested help from Britain's Parliament to confirm the
24:11 Loch Ness Monster's existence.
24:13 "There has never been any shortage of eyewitness sightings offering evidence that the monster
24:19 or monsters exist."
24:21 Local officials worried that if the creature was found by monster hunters, it would be
24:25 destroyed or seriously injured.
24:28 Although the documents were hidden for decades, they show just how far officers were willing
24:32 to go to protect Nessie and give new hope to cryptozoologists around the world.
24:36 And one thing hasn't changed since the Nessie heyday of the 1930s.
24:42 The lure of an encounter with the unknown.
24:45 Number 7.
24:46 Effects of radioactive elements.
24:48 Scientists have been studying the effects of radiation on the body for over a hundred
24:52 years so we know quite a bit about how radiation interacts with living tissue.
24:57 Researchers studying radioactive elements carried out experiments to test their effects
25:01 and controlled conditions on at least 30 human subjects between 1945 and 1947.
25:08 The civilians were each injected with americium, plutonium, polonium, and uranium at four different
25:13 hospitals around the United States.
25:17 Researchers studied various samples from the test subjects to determine how long radioactive
25:21 material remained in the body and how much was needed to damage various organs.
25:25 "Then what you're saying is that the amount of plutonium inside me could be three times
25:31 less than you even think?"
25:33 "Or three times greater."
25:35 The experiments and their findings were kept under wraps for decades, but the Department
25:40 of Energy finally released detailed reports in 1995.
25:44 Although all of the subjects had sadly passed away, their families received compensation
25:49 from the federal government.
25:50 Number 6.
25:52 Operation Paperclip.
25:53 "Does accomplishment cancel out past crimes?"
25:57 "That I think is the conundrum of Operation Paperclip."
26:00 As the U.S. and the Soviet Union emerged as global superpowers after World War II and
26:04 entered the Cold War, the U.S. developed a top-secret intelligence program called Operation
26:10 Paperclip.
26:11 Between 1945 and 1959, the United States government took in more than 1,600 scientists formerly
26:18 employed by Nazi Germany, including former leaders in the Nazi Party.
26:23 These scientists made discoveries and developed technology for their former enemies, especially
26:28 in the fields of aeronautics and rocketry.
26:30 Additionally, the United States employed leaders of the nightmarish Unit 731 of Japan for biological
26:36 warfare research in exchange for immunity.
26:39 The scientists' pasts were swept under the rug even after their deaths, and many of them
26:44 completely evaded any consequences tied to their crimes against humanity.
26:48 Number 5.
26:49 Mustard Gas Effects.
26:51 Chemical warfare is horrifying enough, but using damaging substances on your own soldiers
26:56 is almost unthinkable.
26:58 During World War II, 60,000 United States soldiers were subjected to tests to discover
27:04 the effects of mustard gas and lewisite.
27:06 "The First World War had been a chemical war, and there was every expectation that
27:11 the Second World War would be one as well.
27:14 So the Allied governments, Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, all prepared
27:20 for a chemical war."
27:22 The soldiers were exposed to the chemical agents in a variety of ways, but they all
27:26 resulted in significant damages, for which the soldiers did not receive medical care.
27:31 To add an even more diabolical level to the experiments, the soldiers were divided into
27:35 groups based on race to supposedly test the effects of mustard gas on different skin colors.
27:41 The soldiers who underwent these terrible experiments were sworn to secrecy and could
27:45 not reveal the effects of the tests for decades afterwards.
27:49 Number 4.
27:51 Project MK-Ultra.
27:52 "It's a lot easier to break a man than you might think, Dr. Olsen.
28:02 Confusion to the enemy."
28:03 Methods of extracting confessions can range from mild to mortifying, and this top secret
28:08 human experimentation project by the United States CIA definitely tipped the scales to
28:13 the latter.
28:14 Between 1953 and 1973, the CIA carried out a series of mind control experiments on thousands
28:21 of people to discover the effects of hypnosis, torture, abuse, and psychoactive drugs such
28:27 as LSD.
28:28 "With a dose of mere micrograms, the mind becomes confused.
28:32 Perception is distorted.
28:34 Personal identity is called into question.
28:36 The results can be euphoric bliss or deadly panic."
28:40 During one particular experiment, called Operation Midnight Climax, the agency set up brothels
28:45 in San Francisco and studied the combined effects of sex and drugs behind one-way mirrors.
28:52 Despite the CIA's attempts to destroy evidence in the wake of Watergate, Project MK-Ultra
28:57 and many of its atrocities and findings eventually came to light.
29:00 "Here they took this drug, LSD, and thought that they were going to be able to use it
29:05 to control people's minds and the unbelievable irony is that LSD is a drug that does exactly
29:12 the opposite.
29:13 It frees your mind."
29:14 Number 3.
29:16 Churchill and UFOs
29:17 "So everything at that time, particularly if they suspected it was a German weapon,
29:22 would have been kept secret."
29:23 From Area 51 to Soviet astronomers calling for investigations into UFOs in the 1960s,
29:29 unidentified flying objects have had a not-so-secret past with many of the world's governments.
29:35 According to documents released in 2010, Winston Churchill apparently ordered that reports
29:40 of UFO sightings and encounters be covered up during World War II.
29:44 "During the war, lots of Lancaster bomber crews, for instance, came back and reported
29:49 having been followed by what they described as 'balls of fire.'"
29:52 During one incident, a Royal Air Force bomber crew encountered and photographed a hovering
29:57 metallic UFO.
29:59 Churchill allegedly even went a step further and had the documents covered up for at least
30:03 50 years to avoid creating mass panic.
30:06 Unfortunately, many first-hand accounts were destroyed before they could be declassified,
30:11 creating even more mystery.
30:12 "Winston Churchill took a UFO encounter during the Second World War so seriously,
30:17 he ordered the information be kept quiet.
30:19 The incident was said to have involved an RAF plane flying over the English coastline
30:23 intercepted by a strange metallic object."
30:26 Number 2.
30:28 Impacts of Biological Warfare.
30:39 During the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. government conducted several experiments on its own citizens
30:45 to discover the impacts of biological warfare.
30:48 In 1950, the U.S. Navy carried out Operation Sea Spray by spraying bacteria two miles off
30:55 the coast of San Francisco to study how a city of its size would respond to bioweapon
31:00 attacks.
31:01 The Navy believed the particular bacteria they used could not harm humans.
31:05 However, several Bay Area citizens suffered from serious urinary tract infections due
31:10 to the experiment, with one patient even passing away after three weeks of suffering.
31:22 Despite the deadly consequences of Operation Sea Spray, the experiment and its impact were
31:27 hidden until 1976.
31:30 Number 1.
31:32 Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
31:40 As we've discussed, the U.S. government has carried out quite a few unethical studies
31:45 and experiments on its own citizens, but this is the most horrifying of them all.
31:50 Between 1932 and 1972, the CDC and the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a study on
31:57 hundreds of African Americans who had syphilis under the guise of providing health care.
32:02 By the late 1930s and early '40s, large numbers of men on the study were dying.
32:09 Public Health Service documents show that the death rate of those in the study was now
32:13 twice that of the non-syphilitic black population of Macon County.
32:17 The officials hid the patient's syphilis diagnosis from them and withheld known effective
32:22 treatments such as penicillin, causing massive devastation over the decades.
32:28 News of the study finally broke in 1972, causing it to finally be terminated.
32:33 By the time the study ended, more than 100 people had died, dozens more had been infected,
32:39 and at least 19 children were born with congenital syphilis.
32:43 I treated a number of these patients and still have a few who were in the study.
32:51 And the federal government has such a guilty conscience that they will buy them a 10-speed
32:55 bicycle if I say it's medically necessary.
32:58 So what do you think?
32:59 Is the government hiding something big from space?
33:02 As we've seen, there certainly is precedent for the authorities withholding key information
33:07 over the last few decades.
33:09 So could there be yet more national and international secrets that are being kept under wraps?
33:34 What's clear is that over the coming years, the push for disclosure will become more and
33:38 more prominent.
33:39 Not only for matters relating to space, but there surely is a growing interest in anything
33:44 extraterrestrial in particular.
33:46 Are we on the verge of a massive revelation?
33:48 Or the uncovering of a deeply entrenched mystery?
33:51 The knowledge of the future is always just over the horizon.
33:55 What do you think?
33:56 Is there anything we missed?
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