Project UFO - 1x01 - The Washington D.C. Incident
A woman on a Virginia farm reports a strange object in her yard and a robot-like creature that communicates with her. Also, a U.S. Air Force pilot chases a UFO and dies. Based loosely on both the 1952 Washington D.C. UFO incident and the Mantell UFO incident.
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00:00Ezekiel saw the wheel. This is the wheel he said he saw. These are unidentified flying
00:26objects that people say they are seeing now. Are they proof that we are being visited by
00:33civilizations from other stars? Or just what are they? The United States Air Force began
00:41an investigation of this high strangeness in a search for the truth. What you are about
00:46to see is part of that 20 year search.
01:16Eastern Kentucky, 0416 hours, 14 July.
02:12Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woo
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04:42Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
05:00Good morning, Sergeant Major
05:02Glad you could make it
05:03I tried your barracks where they find you
05:05In love
05:06Still, or again?
05:07Constantly
05:09They call Libby?
05:10On her way
05:15You know, Major, I knew it
05:16I told you last night Venus was gonna be in full bloom
05:18Yeah, I didn't know you were talking about the sky
05:21Very good, sir
05:22I like that
05:23What we got?
05:25Farmer named Anderson and his wife saw a light dancing in the sky
05:29About 04.15
05:32Eastern Kentucky, ten miles south of Flat Ridge
05:35Any confirms?
05:36Not yet
05:37I called Fort Campbell
05:38They dispatched an intelligence team to interview
05:40They'll teletype us
05:41Next, about 04.40
05:43Truck driver on Route 119, just south of Charleston, West Virginia
05:46Says something came out of the sky, grabbed his truck and shook it like a baby's wrap
05:50Something shook his truck?
05:52Call came from Charleston General Hospital
05:54They had to put him under sedation
05:55Good morning
05:56Hi, Libby
05:57Good morning
05:58Where is it?
05:59Talk about timing
06:01Blue Book
06:02Check out those two sightings and see if we got anything in between
06:04Yes, sir, go ahead
06:06See if we got ourselves any nice, shy folks who saw something and didn't think it was worth reporting
06:10Let's just hope there's none of those folks from the Laughing Academy
06:13Thank you, sir
06:15A police captain in Estabrook, Virginia
06:17A lady called in, said a flying saucer landed in her front yard about five o'clock this morning
06:22Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia
06:27They've had a busy morning
06:30Silver Hill radar site, Washington, D.C.
06:340602 hours, 14 July
06:41Hey, Gus, a Caribbean island, 10 letters
06:44Um...
06:46Hey
06:48You got something?
06:49Thought you said we'd have no traffic for another 20 minutes
06:52I did
06:53I'll say it again
06:54Air Atlantic 52 from Kansas City, ETA, our control zone 0622
07:01ETA's now 018 minutes
07:04Must have cut a monster of a tailwind
07:06If he did, he lost it somewhere
07:08Moving slower now
07:09I make him just under 200 miles an hour
07:11Ah, it's too slow for a 727, that can't be our commercial
07:15Probably some cowboy coming back from a party
07:18Didn't file a flight plan
07:21That's no weekend flyer
07:23I paint it big and solid, Jerry
07:25Airbus, I'm painting a target bearing 275 degrees
07:29No reported traffic in that area
07:31Roger
07:32Give me distance and course
07:34I'm on a hundred mile scale, I read 90 miles
07:37Steering 089 degrees
07:39Right, work up his ground speed
07:44Radar, need altitude on a bogey at 90 miles
07:47Coming in on a 278 degree radial
07:54Gus, you sure your bogey's not Atlantic 52?
07:56We'll make sure
07:58Washington Center to Atlantic 52
08:01You read me, 52, this is Washington Center, over
08:05Roger, Washington, this is Air Atlantic 52, go
08:08Uh, we're painting a target approximately 80 miles from us
08:13Closing slowly
08:14Do you see anything out there, over?
08:17Negative, Washington, we see nothing
08:21We show 145 miles for you, on flight plan and schedule, over
08:26Roger, can you give me your altitude and airspeed, over?
08:2952 here, flight level 330, speed 295 knots
08:34Intercept the target, over
08:36Roger, I'm on it
08:38Roger, I'm on it
08:40Roger, I'm on it
08:42Flight level 330, speed 295 knots
08:46Inbound, nodding MFIX, 278 radial
08:49Atlantic 52, squawk 2438, over
08:53Roger
08:57Squawking 2438
09:01Atlantic 52's still way out of range
09:03We still got her unknown
09:06Radar, still waiting for a readout on our bogey
09:09Roger, thanks
09:12Our unknown is at 6,000 feet
09:14Let's ask Atlantic 52 to take another look-see
09:16A real careful look
09:18This is Washington Center to Atlantic 52
09:21We confirm your flight level 330
09:25Start your descent to flight level 200
09:28Report out of 330, over
09:30Roger, Washington, Atlantic 52
09:33Coming out of flight level 330 right now
09:36Kind of early, aren't we good, buddy? Over
09:38Fly now 270 radial Nottingham
09:41We want you south of present course
09:44We'll turn you shortly and have you over the Oxon fix
09:47When you approach to runway 36
09:49When you level at 200
09:51Look for visual at 10 o'clock low, over
09:54Roger, Washington, what exactly are we looking for?
09:57You tell us
09:58We still paint that same unknown at 6,000
10:01Bearing 279 degrees, eyeballed carefully
10:09No smoking seatbelts, sir
10:13Roger, Washington, at flight level 200 right now
10:16Experiencing some turbulence
10:18You should tell us about that, good buddy, over
10:2152, we have no report of any turbulence, over
10:31Roger, Washington, we believe we see...
10:34Say again?
10:35You see what, 52?
10:37I don't know
10:38Looks like a big ball of light hanging in the sky below us
10:43It's more like a football
10:45Shall we go down and take a closer look? Negative, 52
10:48We've got a load of passengers who want to get home without a side trip
10:51Continue your approach to runway 36
10:53Contact approach control now at 217.4
10:57Roger, Washington, will do
10:59Roger, Washington, will do
11:07Morning, Charlie
11:09Morning
11:10How'd you like to start your day with a real keen problem?
11:13Yours or mine?
11:14Mine now, yours maybe
11:16We have an unidentified slow mover at 6,000
11:19Confirmed by a visual sighting from a commercial airliner
11:21What'd he see?
11:22A blob of light, but it's moving in our control zone
11:25Just one?
11:29Boss, you better come over and take a look at this
11:31What's the matter?
11:33This thing just took off straight up at about 1,000 miles per hour
11:37Is it still climbing?
11:38No, sir
11:39The radar high finder indicates the target's hanging at 20,000
11:42Hanging?
11:43Yes, sir
11:44The high pain ground speed at just under 100 knots an hour
11:46There's no plane, nothing that can operate at 20,000 feet at under 100 an hour
11:50That's close to hovering
11:51You're so right
11:52Now stay on it
11:53Build and maintain a 20-mile buffer zone around that UFO
11:57No more observations from commercial aircraft or anybody else
12:00except military interceptors
12:06Defense Operations Center, Fort Lee
12:08Go ahead, Washington
12:09We paint a UFO entering our control region
12:11No flight plan, no radio response
12:14Roger
12:15Course and altitude?
12:17Flight level 200, 278 radio
12:20Maneuvering erratically
12:22Estimate it could be over any DC target in 20 seconds
12:25Roger, tell Andrews to intercept and identify
12:35Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland
12:380617 hours, 14 July
12:56Air Force Base, Maryland
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13:25Air Force Base, Maryland
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13:31Air Force Base, Maryland
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13:37Air Force Base, Maryland
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13:43Air Force Base, Maryland
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13:49Air Force Base, Maryland
13:53Air Force Base, Maryland
13:56Andrews Tower, Delta Red Leader
13:58Airborne climbing 070
14:01Roger, Red Leader
14:02Do you read Delta Red 2?
14:04Delta Red 2, I read
14:06Roger
14:08Switch now to Silver Hell Radar
14:10219.4
14:22Roger
14:44Washington, DC
14:450620 hours, 14 July
14:530620 hours, 14 July
15:06Silver Hell, Delta Red Leader
15:08Hydraulic failure
15:10A warning, returning to base
15:12Roger, Red Leader
15:13Delta Red 2, continue intercept
15:15Delta Red 2, deep burn
15:230620 hours, 14 July
15:43Silver Hell, I have radar lock on ahead and above
15:47High speed, I'm bending the throttle
15:530620 hours, 14 July
15:56Roger, Delta Red 2
15:58We confirm, we show you 10 miles from target
16:01Roger, 10 miles holding lock on
16:22I've lost the bogey
16:33Delta Red 2, we show loss of target
16:35Confirmed?
16:36Negative, negative, I still have a lock on
16:53Roger
16:56I'm at lock 1.2, going through 20,000
17:02He's staying ahead of me, almost straight out
17:13What the hell's he flying?
17:16There's nothing there
17:19Delta Red 2, we do not copy your target
17:22I say again, you have no target
17:24I'm on him big and heavy, I tell you, I see him, I see him
17:31Roger, Delta Red 2, what do you see?
17:34I see him
17:37We repeat, Delta Red 2
17:40What do you see?
17:42We repeat, Delta Red 2, what do you see?
17:45Over
18:07Delta Red 2, Silver Hell, do you read? Over
18:13Delta Red 2, Silver Hell, do you read? Over
18:24I think he's still climbing
18:26He'd be above his service ceiling
18:28He can't be climbing straight up
18:30No, Charlie, he's going straight down
18:42Roger
19:07Charleston, West Virginia
19:090750 hours, 14 July
19:13Anyway, I was beat, I couldn't even see through the windshield
19:16So I pulled off onto the shoulder to take a break, you know
19:20I'm just about to light up a smoke
19:23When I see this light, you know, like a hunk of fire
19:28And it was barreling right at me like a red hot bowling ball
19:40And the next thing I know, I wake up here
19:45Major Gatlin, your secretary's calling, long distance
19:48Excuse me, I'll be right back
19:54This is kind of crazy, huh, Sarge?
19:56I mean, the doctors will tell you, I was not drinking
20:00I mean, no pills, no nothing
20:02Mr. Burke, is there a possibility that your truck was hit by lightning?
20:06Is there a possibility that your truck was hit by lightning?
20:09Lightning? Come on, I've seen lightning hit trees, houses, maybe a hundred times
20:14I mean, it's zap and done
20:16No, sir, this thing came right at me like it had a mind of its own
20:21Barry, we'll see you here
20:25It came right at me, Sarge
20:27Yes, sir, thank you
20:30It knew what it was doing
20:32Silver Girl radar picked up a UFO this morning
20:35Oh, I'm getting that feeling
20:37It's starting to grow big
20:38Libya called the Carlyle woman in Virginia
20:40He said she saw the saucer land and postponed our interview
20:43We've been ordered to Washington
20:45Right now?
20:46Andrew sent out two interceptors
20:48One of them reported he'd seen an unknown up close
20:50Next he went down, Mach 1.5
20:53Eleven hundred miles an hour, he must have made a real tall hole
20:56Andrew's Air Force Base, 0915 hours, 14 July
21:36This is Harry Fritz, I'm gatling Project Blue Book, Sarge
21:40Coleman, Delta Red leader
21:42I'm Graham, sir
21:43Delta Red 2
21:44Who was he?
21:46Gary McNair, First Lieutenant
21:48The remains have been sent to pathology
21:51Where'd you find his body?
21:52Strapped in the cockpit
21:54Got any early ideas on what happened to him, Captain?
21:57Not yet, they don't have very much to work with
22:00If I could have stayed with him, maybe we'd know
22:02Why did you abort?
22:04Why had to, sir
22:05Hydraulic failure, lost pressure
22:08McNair married?
22:09Yes, sir
22:10No children
22:11We haven't been able to find the plane's canopy
22:14If it flew at that height, it could be anywhere
22:17Why should it? He didn't eject
22:19No
22:20And that's a very large, why not?
22:23His ejection mechanism was sound, no failure there
22:27But if he lost his canopy at 60,000
22:30That's right at the aircraft service ceiling
22:32Is he some kind of hot dog?
22:34No, sir, I checked that
22:36His rating was excellent
22:37Then it's a good bet he must have been chasing something at that altitude
22:41I understand that National Airport reported to Silver Hill Radar
22:44That they had identical readings on that unknown
22:47Is that confirmed?
22:49Confirmed, sir
22:50There's no canopy, so we obviously lost it
22:52The depressurization at 60,000
22:54Hits him like a blunt instrument and it's all over
22:57Yes, sir, might have happened that way
22:59Yeah, might have
23:00I think we gotta do better than that
23:01Let's find that canopy
23:06Washington, D.C., 1219 hours, 14 July
23:11Gary James McNair, 26 years old
23:14Joined the Air Force after four years at Cal Berkeley
23:16When was his last physical?
23:18Seven weeks ago
23:19Including psychiatric?
23:20Routine
23:22You beginning to think he might have blown it up there?
23:25I don't know
23:27He reported chasing a target when ground radar showed nothing
23:30You tell me, Harry
23:31Air Force 19, this is Andrews Motor Pool
23:3519, go ahead
23:37We have a telephone patch for Major Gatlin from Captain Graham
23:41Affirmative, go ahead
23:44Gatlin here
23:46Graham, sir
23:47We found that F-106 canopy four miles from the crash site
23:50It's in the lab now
23:51Outstanding, Captain
23:52How soon can you have it for us?
23:54We've gotta make dye tests, Magnaflux
23:56We need a day, sir
23:58Can you make it any sooner?
23:59No, sir
24:00Not if you want qualified answers
24:02Sorry
24:03All right, thanks, Captain 10-4
24:05Ever think of retiring, Major?
24:07We could open up a live bait store in Death Valley
24:29This way
24:49Mr. McNair?
24:50This is Harry Fitz
24:52I'm Jake Gatlin
24:59I'd like to extend your deepest sympathies
25:03Yeah
25:04The, uh...
25:08The chaplain and the base commander were here this morning
25:12I know it's very difficult for you, but we have to ask you some questions
25:16If you could just tell us how your husband felt yesterday
25:21We're just trying to reconstruct your husband's frame of mind when he got in that airplane this morning
25:25My husband is dead
25:28Now you leave me alone
25:31Miss McNair, we're just trying to determine if...
25:33Something happened up there, didn't it?
25:35You're hiding something from me
25:39You'd better tell me what you're hiding from me
25:42You tell me
25:45You tell me what killed my husband
25:49You tell me
25:57Andrews Air Force Base, 0916 hours, 15 July
26:05The cracks marked in green indicate those fractures we believe were caused when the canopy struck the ground
26:10The ones marked in red we believe occurred during flight
26:13Die tests are not infallible, am I right?
26:15Yes, sir, they run about 75% accurate
26:18If that other 25% we're interested in
26:21Yes, sir
26:23The pilot did not eject, he didn't blow the canopy
26:26Yet it was separated from the aircraft during the flight
26:29We found it four miles from the crash site
26:31Sir, what caused it to separate during flight?
26:33Simple loss of pressure, the canopy fractured, cracked
26:37It was ripped right off the aircraft
26:39What caused it to fracture? Structural fatigue?
26:42No, sir, not according to our periodic maintenance check two weeks ago
26:46The aircraft had eight flights prior to the crash, no write-ups
26:49Then, sir, what caused the canopy to crack during flight?
26:52This piece of hardware fell 60,000 feet to the ground
26:56The major said it
26:57Die tests are not infallible, but that's what happened
27:00Has to be
27:01Has to?
27:04What else could it be, Major?
27:16North Central Virginia, 1005 hours, 15 July
27:21And then it settled down, right here
27:26It was the same flying saucer I read about in the newspapers, the one over our nation's capital
27:31You know, your pilot must have been unfriendly
27:34He had to be
27:36Yes, they never would have shot him down
27:38No one is saying the pilot was shot down, Mrs. Carlyle
27:41Everybody knows that, and that's exactly what I told those reporters
27:46It landed here, ma'am?
27:48Yes, sir, right here in Estherbrook, Virginia
27:51No, ma'am, I mean, did it land in this particular spot?
27:54Not really, it never really seemed to touch the ground
27:58Mrs. Carlyle, would you please tell us exactly what you saw?
28:02Yes, I'm happy to
28:05I was asleep, and then I was awake
28:08And there was no sound, no sound at all
28:12And I was drawn to the window
28:16Now, don't ask me why
28:19And then I saw
28:46And then I saw
29:16And then I saw
29:46And then I saw
30:16And then I saw
30:40No
30:42No, I'm not afraid
30:44Thank you
31:14Thank you
31:44And as quickly as it came, it was gone
31:48Why did you say, no, I am not afraid, thank you?
31:51Oh, because he spoke to me
31:54I didn't hear the words, but I understood as if he did
31:57He told me they were visitors
31:59And they meant us no harm
32:01Yes, ma'am
32:02Oh, I felt wonderful after they left, Doc
32:05Tingly and excited, full of energy
32:07Oh, excuse me, that's a telephone
32:10Excuse me, gentlemen
32:12Let's take a sample, check it for radiation
32:15Do you believe her?
32:17I don't know what to believe, Harry
32:19I don't know what other people see
32:22I don't know what that dead pilot saw on his radar that people on the ground didn't see
32:26Or what he saw in the air that made him fly at it
32:29Or what happened to him because he saw it and the rest of us didn't
32:34You know, I'm coming to one real conclusion about this job
32:37What's that?
32:38We got more unanswered questions than a Senate subcommittee
32:50Harry, check on those construction workers and have a talk with them
32:52And check on Andrews Metro
32:54Pull together a weather profile from Kentucky through the crash site
32:57Including any activity over Charleston, West Virginia
32:59You got it, but where's that going to take us?
33:01Maybe someplace we haven't been
33:05Oh, Major, Mrs. McNair
33:08Please come in
33:19Have a seat
33:20Major, they've sealed the casket
33:22We're just trying to make it easy for you
33:24Then make it easy
33:25Let me see my husband's body
33:28Mrs. McNair
33:30Your husband's aircraft hit the ground over a thousand miles an hour
33:32I don't think you want to see him
33:34Not according to the autopsy report
33:39A newspaper man came to see me after you left
33:43He's been following these UFO things for years
33:46He says that my husband could have been snatched right out of that plane
33:49Before it ever crashed
33:51He says that the Air Force is afraid to admit
33:54That it's helpless against some power from another world
33:59Now that Carlisle woman in Virginia, she saw the thing
34:02He's using you
34:04Believe me, I've seen it before
34:08Hang on to your husband's memory, don't turn it into a sideshow
34:12I just want to know what happened to Gary
34:15I think something might have happened to his aircraft
34:19How, Major?
34:21They're still machines
34:22That's it?
34:24That's all you've got to tell me?
34:26That's all we know so far
34:31Mrs. McNair
34:34All that newspaper man will tell you is what you want to hear
34:38Maybe
34:40But not what you want to read
34:42I promise you
34:45Major
34:46Major Gatlin
34:47You're wanted at the Pentagon
35:00One moment, Major Gatlin
35:03Sir, your ID will be returned to you when you leave
35:06Your badge, Major?
35:09Brigadier General Colburn will escort you from here, Sir
35:12Good day, Sir
35:13Follow me, Major
35:19Stand behind me, please
35:25Sir?
35:26Major Gatlin, Project Lubo
35:28Sir?
35:29Major Gatlin, Project Lubo
35:32All right now, Major
35:33Please be good enough to tell us what in hell is going on
35:35No definite explanation, Sir
35:37Not yet
35:38Your opinion, Major
35:39Was there something up there?
35:41I don't know, Sir
35:43I know there was one object sighted
35:45There were no prior sightings here in the Washington area
35:48One UFO could mean a reconnaissance mission
35:50The next question would be
35:52Reconnaissance of what?
35:53When this was first reported
35:54We upgraded some of our air defense units to a high state of readiness
35:58I ask you now, Major Gatlin
35:59In your view
36:00Does this UFO sighting pose a threat to our national security?
36:04Until we investigate further
36:06I cannot say that it does not
36:08Are there any other opinions before I advise?
36:15Gentlemen
36:16When we first initiated this Lubo program
36:19We did so to avoid technological surprise
36:22And to properly evaluate our threat analysis
36:26Major?
36:27Yes, Sir
36:28Until you and your people have had further opportunity
36:30To investigate these UFO sightings here over Washington
36:33I'm going to put us on a standby to upgrade our defense posture
36:37Agreed?
36:38Yes, Sir
36:41This is John W.
36:43In view of the current unknown sightings
36:45And in the event that they persist
36:47I would like to advise that effective now
36:49We will remain on standby condition
36:51To bring all air defense interceptor units east of the Mississippi
36:55To a higher state of readiness
36:57We will stand ready to upgrade to DEFCON 3
37:02That is correct
37:06Gentlemen
37:07Standby to move to a 15 minute alert
37:10Move
37:16Is that your leader deplaning the Pentagon Express?
37:19That's him
37:20Been down to operations, right?
37:22About that Washington jazz, them UFOs
37:24That's what he's been talking about, right?
37:26Uh-uh, wrong
37:27He was down there getting you the good conduct medal
37:29For tending to your own business
37:40That thing's going operations
37:42Got everything east of the Mississippi
37:44On the verge of a 15 minute alert
37:46Tell me about those construction workers
37:47Well, the first thing they saw were the two F-106s
37:50Delta Red Leader and McNair flying formation
37:54One aircraft, Delta Red Leader
37:57Pilled off, leaving McNair
38:00He began a series of acrobatics
38:07According to the two construction guys
38:09He was in a real dogfight
38:12Only one thing missing
38:14The enemy
38:15McNair was all by himself up there
38:18Then suddenly he went into a steep climb
38:21Straight up
38:22A few seconds later, they saw McNair again
38:25Heading straight down
38:29They see anything else?
38:30They saw the flame from the crash
38:31And they heard the double sonic boom
38:32Well, if we believe them, then why shouldn't we?
38:34Then those construction men didn't see the same thing
38:36That McNair thought he saw
38:37Well, maybe Lieutenant McNair saw something
38:39That wasn't where he saw it
38:41Did you get that weather profile from Andrews Metro?
38:43Yes, sir, you ask and you got
38:44Skew T log P tells us there was a well of an inversion
38:47All the way from Kentucky through the crash site
38:49Heavy isolated thunderstorm activity
38:51Smack over Charleston, West Virginia
38:55Do you have a rush?
38:56What's a rush?
38:57Gamblers talk when you feel you're getting lucky
38:59I'd call it a notion
39:00Well, where's your notion taking us?
39:02Silver Hill radar
39:03I'll brief you on the way
39:07Can your computers figure out the exact elevation angles
39:19From the UFO on your radar scopes
39:21To the ground receiver here?
39:23Why?
39:24Because maybe the signal bounced
39:26Say again?
39:27Bounced or reflected
39:29There was a heavy temperature inversion
39:30From 6 to 20,000 feet
39:32All the way from Kentucky through the crash site
39:35Including isolated thunderstorms
39:36Over the Charleston, West Virginia area
39:38We get our copy of Skew T log P
39:41Just what are you saying?
39:42We're saying that maybe
39:44Just maybe your signal bounced
39:46Off that inversion
39:48Hit something on the ground
39:49And came back to you the same way
39:51No sale
39:52Is it possible?
39:53Let me ask you
39:54That pilot locked onto something up there
39:57And he died trying to prove it
39:59We had a visual sighting from a commercial aircraft
40:02Andrew's radar
40:03National Airports and ours
40:05We all painted the same bogey
40:07Are you saying we're all wrong?
40:09We're asking you to tell us
40:10It'll take time to work out those elevations
40:13If it's even possible
40:14Look, sir
40:15The Air Force is sitting on the edge of a third stage alert
40:18Now if there was or is anything up there
40:21We damn well have to know and now
40:25We'll go after it, Major
40:27What is a one in a million shot?
40:29That's all we need, just that one
40:40Stand behind me, gentlemen
40:46Sir
40:47Major Gatlin, Sergeant Harry Fitz
40:49Project Blue Book
40:52Major, we've reviewed your findings
40:54Concerning the various reported sightings
40:56And the McNair incident
40:57Anything further to add?
40:58No, sir
40:59All right
41:00Scrub the standby condition
41:01Return all units to normal posture
41:03Defense condition five
41:05Yes, sir
41:08All right, gentlemen
41:09Take it to the people
41:17Our investigations lead us to believe
41:18That you people may have seen reflected light
41:21The reflection could have been caused
41:23By a rare weather condition
41:24That existed that morning
41:26Experts call it a temperature inversion
41:29The actual source of that light
41:31Could have been many miles from your farm here
41:33How is that?
41:35Have you ever shined your flashlight into a mirror
41:38And seen it reflect on an opposite wall?
41:48The wife don't believe you
41:51I can't figure out the ignition here
41:54It sure ain't been the same since that night
41:57That may have something to do with what we believe
41:59Happened to you on the night of the 14th
42:01Oh? How so?
42:03You remember how severe the storm was that night?
42:06There was a great deal of electrical activity
42:08All around the Charleston area
42:10We think you may have witnessed
42:11A very rare weather phenomenon
42:14Not many people have seen it
42:15But it does exist
42:16And it could be what you saw
42:18Whatever it was
42:20It knew what it was up to
42:22We examined your truck
42:23While you were in the hospital
42:24We found burn marks on the hood
42:26Yeah, I noticed them
42:28You could have been struck by ball lightning
42:30Never heard of it
42:31It's extremely rare
42:32But it's been known to occur
42:33In heavy electrical storms
42:35Scientists tell us
42:36It could have been caused
42:37By a very rare weather condition
42:39That existed that morning
42:41How is that?
42:42Have you ever shined your flashlight into a mirror
42:44And seen it reflect on an opposite wall?
42:47Scientists tell us that ball lightning
42:49Has been known to cut wire fences
42:51Explode in chimneys
42:52Chase people
42:53Even find its way into houses
42:55Through keyholes and cracks in the floor
42:57My goodness
42:59Tell me, uh
43:00Either one of you ever seen it?
43:02No, sir
43:03Never have
43:04Don't
43:10There's no way we can tell you
43:12That you did not see
43:13What you tell us you saw
43:15However, we found
43:16No physical evidence
43:17To confirm your sighting
43:19Well, I don't need any proof
43:21I saw what I saw
43:23Yes, ma'am
43:24But we found no evidence
43:25Of radiation here
43:27Now, what's that supposed to mean?
43:29The machine you say you saw
43:30Would have to be powered
43:31By some means
43:33Most likely possibility
43:34Would be a system
43:35That would leave behind
43:36Traces of radioactivity
43:38To the best of our knowledge
43:40Uh-huh
43:41To the best of our knowledge
43:43Why?
43:44We didn't use it
43:45To get to the moon
43:47No, ma'am
43:48But we did leave evidence
43:49Of our visit behind
43:51Because we didn't have the means
43:52To bring back
43:53All those expensive gadgets
43:55Now, did we?
43:57Since we didn't use
43:58Atomic energy
44:00Why should we believe
44:01That they do?
44:03Isn't it possible
44:04They could be ahead of us?
44:05The great distances
44:06That would have to be traveled
44:07To reach our planet
44:08Would require a propulsion system
44:10Far more sophisticated
44:11Than we now know
44:12We can only assume
44:13That it could be
44:14Some form of atomic power
44:16There you go again, Major
44:18Assuming
44:20Without positive physical evidence
44:21We have no choice
44:23Well, neither do I
44:24And I have all the positive
44:26Physical evidence I need
44:28It landed right there
44:31I saw it
44:33And it left
44:34Without leaving a trace
44:35Of anything behind
44:38Now
44:39Let's have some more lemonade
44:42I assume my invitation
44:43Had something to do
44:44With this morning's newspaper
44:46We read it
44:47Small story on page 14
44:49Something about Pilot's wife
44:50Refuses to blame the Air Force
44:53I think they mentioned your name
44:57Are you all right now?
44:59The funeral was yesterday
45:03No, I can handle it
45:06You know what I cry about now?
45:09That we didn't have a baby
45:11At least one
45:14It's gonna hurt for a long time
45:19Do you know anything more
45:20About what happened to Gary?
45:21A little
45:23A couple of airline pilots
45:25May have seen what your husband saw
45:26But we can't be sure
45:28We believe we're dealing
45:29With a temperature inversion
45:30That created a series of reflections
45:32That were transmitted
45:33From a far distant point
45:35I don't understand
45:36We think Lieutenant McNair saw something
45:38But he wasn't sure what he saw
45:40Even though the radar scopes
45:41Indicated something up there
45:43At least for a period of time
45:45Those radar scopes
45:46And the airliner saw something
45:48But we're not certain what they saw
45:53That temperature inversion
45:54Could have caused a reflected light
45:55From a distant ground source
45:58Your husband and the flight leader
46:00Were scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base
46:02In an effort to confirm
46:03What the radar saw
46:05And what the airliner saw
46:28Gary saw it
46:33But he didn't know what he was seeing
46:34Is that what you're saying?
46:36If the major or I had been up there
46:38It's entirely possible
46:39That we would have seen the same thing
46:41And we wouldn't have known
46:43There's a great deal
46:44About weather phenomena
46:45That we don't know
46:46But we're learning
46:48The radar
46:50I still don't understand
46:51How it could be wrong
46:52Radar's not infallible
46:54There are known cases
46:55Where it's been fooled before
46:57However, our computers do tell us
46:59That that radar signal
47:00Would present what would appear to be
47:02A moving solid target
47:04Due to that abnormal weather condition
47:06If the signal was misdirected
47:08Due to the temperature inversion
47:09If, Major?
47:11If
47:12That's as close as we can come
47:16How many UFO sightings
47:17Have you investigated?
47:19We've lost count
47:21Project has looked into over 12,000
47:23And I suppose a fair number of them
47:24Are unexplained
47:26Yes, ma'am
47:27Roughly 30%
47:31Well
47:32Thank you for the dinner
47:34It was very thoughtful
47:40My husband, Major
47:42Are you satisfied?
47:46No
47:47I'm not
47:51Thank you
47:53You're welcome
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