Project UFO 2x07 - Sighting 4020 The Island Incident
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00:00These are unidentified flying objects.
00:29Are they proof that we are being visited by civilizations from other stars?
00:46Or just what are they?
01:46I think I got your favorite, how about that, all right, one can always tell when your husband has returned.
02:09Hi honey. First patient please Peter.
02:46Finished? About 10 minutes.
03:06Where are you going? Out the beach.
03:10We haven't talked yet and you said after work. I'm making plans Don, I told you that.
03:17Hello Dr. Ted. Evening Timmy.
03:28Good night for fishing. The moon, yes.
03:34When I first came to the island the fishing was better. We catch them all.
04:16Excellent Lyra, distant star, you have returned. I, Manakou, chief of Torotupa, beg of you, grant us a new road of life. Now, please.
05:17Boroboro means to crumble. Borowai is easy game. Borobaku, cats and dogs. It's raining borobaku. Borobako means cardboard box. Borokuso means to disparage. What does disparage mean? Borokuso.
05:43Sergeant, you're not really planning to learn the entire Japanese language in one day.
05:48Trying my best sir. The grasp of the Japanese language might come in handy when we get to our eyewitness interviews.
05:54Yeah, I'm looking forward to Japan myself. Never been there. Well, I'm looking forward to our layover in Hawaii.
06:01All those luau's, all those grass skirts. We have a radio message for you Captain Ryan. Oh, thank you.
06:08On arrival at Hickam, you're to report to Brigadier General Barnwell, Director of Operations, Headquarters PACAF.
06:38Gentlemen, your trip to Japan has been delayed. At ease, Sergeant. Yes, sir. Here's the reason for the delay.
06:58The doctor's name is Sanders. They call him the Schweitzer of the South Pacific.
07:02So you have credibility going. I've heard of him. This twix came in for you two from right pat this morning.
07:09We'll be making a little detour, sir. About 2,400 miles. Tora Tupa, Marshall Islands.
07:17Captain, I don't have to tell you this sighting has already generated a lot of publicity.
07:20People are bombarding us with questions. Blue Book better come up with some answers, sir.
07:25That's the drift. General, it says here that three additional witnesses were present at the sighting.
07:30Native fishermen. Dr. Sanders will interpret for you if necessary. However, diplomacy during all
07:36interviews. It's their island. Yes, sir. It is part of the U.S. trust territory. Isn't that correct, sir?
07:42Yes. So you will have complete authority to conduct an investigation. However, I say again,
07:47local customs must be respected at all times. Understood, sir. Good. There's more. We have a
07:53number of important military installations in the area. Tracking stations and so on. If any of them
07:58are affected at any time, we want to know at once. Yes, sir. You'll be taking a C-130 to Guajilin.
08:04From there, you'll catch a chopper for your final destination.
08:11Tarantula.
08:27That should do it. Now, Chief Monaco, you be sure that your granddaughter stays off this foot as
08:32much as possible until it's completely healed. This island, Chief. Always listen to advice of doctor.
08:38Yes, you usually do, Monaco. Oh, by the way, some officers from the American Air Force will be
08:43arriving here soon to investigate what the men and I saw on the beach. I'm counting on your help.
08:50If you wish. Thank you.
09:02We just crossed it. Just past Guajilin. What? Crossed what? International date line, sir.
09:08Tuesday is Wednesday. Happy Wednesday. No, you don't get it, sir. We pick up a day's pay for
09:15nothing. When we come back and Wednesday becomes Tuesday, we lose a day's pay for nothing. You got
09:21any better, Peter? You can hang out your own shingle and put me out of business. I don't think
09:26anybody will ever do that, Dr. Ted. I'll see that he gets home.
09:35Why don't you let him? What? Peter's perfectly capable of taking care of this place until
09:41another doctor arrives. If you're tired, bored, island happy, just take a vacation. Hawaii, Japan,
09:49the States even. Honey, I am not talking about boredom or a holiday.
09:57I'm talking about a way of life. So am I.
10:04There she is. Tora Tupa.
10:49Dr. Sanders, I presume. Welcome to Tora Tupa, Captain Ryan. Sergeant Harry Fitts. Sergeant.
11:04My colleague, Peter Awecki. How are you? Good to meet you, gentlemen. Peter? No, thank you.
11:18Hello.
11:41Tatula. That means hello, welcome, love. Well, thank you. You certainly heard that a lot in the
11:47jeep. It's a friendly island. Tatula, Sergeant. Well, thank you, ma'am. I found him. Hi. Hi. This
11:56is Alex and Michael, the youngest. Oh, boys, how you doing? Fine. Hi, Alex. Hi, Michael.
12:02You sure are living in paradise. Sir? Sergeant. Sir, Sergeant? No, just Sergeant, Alex.
12:14Can we talk about airplanes? Why, sure. We don't see many out here. We don't see anything out here.
12:21Michael. The boys were born and raised on the island. You sound like you're apologizing for it,
12:27Donna. There's no better place to raise children. Pure air, pure water, all the food organic,
12:33from coconuts to fish. Not to mention the no museums, no art galleries, no libraries,
12:39no music. We have things to discuss, Donna. Yes, of course. Come on, boys. See you later, boys.
12:49Well, shall we get started, Doctor? Yeah, sit down.
12:54Way to begin. Do you remember what you were doing just before the sighting?
13:01Yes, I just finished working in the clinic. I'd gone down to the beach for a walk.
14:39And I was there for a while, and then I came back, and then I was there for a while, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back,
15:09and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back, and then I came back
15:39finally I realize the other minute returned and we're watching me and
15:46that brought me back down to earth you discussed deciding with them yes we were
15:53frightened and you weren't well yes and no I don't know what it was it was just
16:00something I felt as I watched the object a kind of inner peace tranquility
16:06Suddenly I had no problems, no worries. Everything was calm.
16:11Had you ever seen anything like it before? Any such shape or brilliance?
16:15No. Never.
16:18Let me show you something.
16:22After the sighting, all of us came back here.
16:25The three natives and I, I mean.
16:27And I put each into a separate room
16:30and asked each to draw what he remembered of the object.
16:36It's pretty remarkable, doctor.
17:01Very seldom when witnesses agree so closely on the details of a sighting.
17:05Yeah.
17:07You can imagine my relief when I collected these drawings from the other three witnesses.
17:11I knew for certain then that I hadn't been seeing things.
17:14Have you ever had hallucinations?
17:17Never.
17:19Vivid dreams?
17:21No.
17:22This was no dream, no hallucination, nothing like that.
17:26I don't drink, I don't use drugs.
17:28Well, we'd like to interview the other three men if we may.
17:31Of course.
17:32Would you mind if we keep these sketches for a while, doctor?
17:35Keep them for as long as you like.
17:38Monica, please come in.
17:40Perhaps you forgot our appointment to discuss the health program of the island, Dr. Ted.
17:45Oh, yes, I did.
17:47We'll discuss it tomorrow, Monica. My apologies.
17:51Now I'd like you to meet some new friends.
17:53These are the Air Force investigators I told you about.
17:55Captain Ryan, Sergeant Fitz.
17:57May I introduce Manuku, chief of Tortupa.
18:00I am pleased to meet such important men.
18:03We're pleased to meet you, sir.
18:05You have a beautiful island here, chief.
18:08Will you help us with the investigation, Manuku?
18:11As I have spoken before, doctor, I do not approve.
18:15Yes, but these gentlemen simply want to interview Timi, Anther and Maki.
18:21Captain, I can bring the men to you tonight, if you wish.
18:25We would appreciate it, sir.
18:28Thank you, Manuku.
18:35He doesn't seem too enthused about the idea.
18:38Or is that just a way of a chief?
18:41In this case, I'm not quite sure, Captain.
18:44We need to know about any aircraft movements,
18:47and if you had any weather balloon launchings on or about that date.
18:50We also need some detailed charts of the area, over.
18:53That'll take a day. I'll fly the data over to you in one of our choppers, over.
18:57Much obliged.
18:59Oh, by the way, could we borrow your chopper again for a couple of hours, over?
19:02Roger. Just give us a buzz when you need a lift, over.
19:05Thank you, Captain.
19:07You're welcome.
19:09Could we borrow your chopper again for a couple of hours, over?
19:12Roger. Just give us a buzz when you need a lift, over.
19:14Thank you. Will do.
19:16Ryan out.
19:21Okay, let's begin with the small saucer.
19:24How large was it? Like this? Larger?
19:28What saucer?
19:30The one that came from the mothership.
19:32I saw no saucer.
19:34Okay, no saucer.
19:36What did you see?
19:38A white light up in the sky.
19:40Light move.
19:47They sound a little rehearsed to you, sir?
19:49No more than the Rockettes.
20:09What do you make of that?
20:12It's his island.
20:19You remember these?
20:22Yes. We made these pictures.
20:25That shows a good deal more than a little white light.
20:27We drew these pictures after we'd seen Dr. Ted's.
20:31You copied Dr. Sanders' sketch?
20:34Copied?
20:36Yes, that's the word.
21:07Whoo!
21:14Whoo!
21:17Whoo!
21:36Whoo!
21:59What's all this wonderful food?
22:01That's chicken and that's papaya.
22:03Wonderful.
22:05Splendid.
22:06And that's eel.
22:08Copied? I don't believe it.
22:11Yes?
22:13I've known those men for years.
22:15I don't understand it.
22:18Captain, I swear I saw a flying object just as I described it.
22:23We certainly believe you saw something.
22:27Perhaps there are other reasons for the discrepancies.
22:30Yes, the men are lying.
22:32Why would they lie?
22:33I have no idea.
22:38I must say something.
22:41I also saw an object.
22:43A flying object.
22:45When?
22:48It happened two nights ago.
22:50Tell me about it. What did you see?
22:55It was just after sunset.
22:57I was coming home from visiting a patient who lives near the mountain.
23:03A storm was beginning to set in.
23:09To save time, I cut through the ruins.
23:34Instead of coming over and talking about the lights,
23:38he just walked away.
23:40Without a word.
23:45Next day, I tried to talk to Manuku about the sighting.
23:50We just wouldn't discuss it.
23:53I don't believe it.
23:55I don't believe it.
23:58I don't believe it.
24:00I don't believe it.
24:03Of course you wouldn't.
24:05You were on sacred grounds at the ruins.
24:07What exactly are the ruins?
24:10It's Tortupa's old religious and cultural center,
24:13built over a thousand years ago.
24:15This...
24:16Tapu area.
24:19Could it cause three fishermen to change their story?
24:24It could indeed.
24:34TORTUPA
24:38TORTUPA
25:02Incredible.
25:03Three years ago, a team of American archaeologists came over here.
25:06They did carbon-14 tests.
25:09That's how we know the age of the ruins.
25:12There's the mountain.
25:15That's where the lights came from?
25:20Did anything happen to him because of the Tapu?
25:24One of them developed a severe case of rash.
25:28He was allergic to mangoes.
25:32Harry, take a look at these two rocks.
25:34It's the left of the peak.
25:38That's a possibility, with the diffused rays at sunset.
25:41Striking at just the right angle.
25:43That's where I saw the lights.
25:45We'll have to get up there to get a closer look.
25:47I wouldn't do that if I were you.
25:49There is still Maluku.
25:51And he is chief of the island.
26:05TATULA
26:13Tatula, Captain.
26:14Tatula, Maluku.
26:16Could we talk to you about your meeting with Peter Ruecki three days ago?
26:19Meeting?
26:20At the ruins.
26:22Oh, yes. I did pass Peter there.
26:24But I was on my way to the village.
26:26Sir, Peter said he saw some lights at the top of the mountain.
26:29Did you see them?
26:31Or anything out of the ordinary, sir.
26:33No, I saw nothing unusual.
26:35Just storm clouds and great lightning in the sky.
26:41Sir, would you have any objection if we climbed the mountain, took a look around?
26:44Yes, I would.
26:46I forbid it.
26:47It is sacred ground. Stay away.
26:52Well, still this island.
27:04Timmy, what made you change your story?
27:06You didn't copy my drawing of the flying object.
27:08None of you did. We went into separate rooms.
27:11Are we intruding?
27:12No, I'd like you to hear this.
27:14Now, did somebody order you to change your stories?
27:22You're lying.
27:23How dare you lie to me?
27:33Timmy.
27:52I still can't get over it.
27:54They lied to my face. Those boys grew up with me.
27:58Well, are you sure they were lying?
28:01Maybe you just imagined it.
28:02I didn't imagine anything.
28:03Not what I saw, what I heard, what I felt.
28:05They lied, Donna.
28:07Ted, listen to me.
28:08I gotta get back to work.
28:10Have you made a decision?
28:12About leaving the island? No.
28:16Ted, honey.
28:18Please tell me.
28:21I'll understand.
28:23Are you afraid to leave here?
28:25Afraid to leave? What are you talking about?
28:27Of course I'm not afraid.
28:29Donna, these people need me here.
28:31It's as simple as that.
28:32What I'm doing here is a lot more important
28:34than dispensing pills in a high-rise office in Chicago.
28:37What about the children?
28:39What about them?
28:41My...
28:44If only I could have been raised like this.
28:46It's paradise.
28:48How happy we've been here.
28:51Working, playing, loving.
28:56Oh, look at me, Donna.
28:59Ted.
29:00A 727 leaves Kwajalein
29:03for the States at the end of the month.
29:06I intend to be on it.
29:09With the boys.
29:11I mean it.
29:13Where we headed, Captain?
29:15Tapu Mountain.
29:17Way out of bounds.
29:43How close you want it?
29:45Sit on it.
29:46But don't touch it.
29:48Roger.
30:14Look, Captain.
30:23Lightning strike.
30:33Gentlemen, I think we just solved part of this puzzle.
31:13Let's go.
31:29Captain.
31:30You went to the mountain?
31:32No, sir. We just circled it.
31:34You're no longer welcome on this island.
31:38What was it the General said back in Hawaii?
31:42Quote.
31:44I say again, local customs will be respected at all times.
31:48End quote.
32:08Evening, Miss Sanders.
32:10Hello, Sergeant.
32:11Please come in.
32:14Hi, Mrs. Sanders.
32:15Captain.
32:16I can only stay a minute.
32:18I just came by to ask how your investigation is coming along.
32:21Oh.
32:22We're getting close.
32:23Good.
32:25Could we get you a cold drink or something?
32:27No, thank you.
32:30Um.
32:35Well, I...
32:36I guess the best way is just to say the words.
32:40I, um, suppose you know my husband...
32:43wants to stay on the island and I want to leave.
32:46There are many reasons on both sides.
32:49Miss Sanders, there's no...
32:51Please hear me out.
32:53It might explain a few things.
32:55What things?
32:59I believe my husband may not have seen anything the other night.
33:03It could have all been...
33:05a hallucination.
33:07Why?
33:09What makes you say that, ma'am?
33:12Because my husband is upset.
33:14Confused.
33:16He knows it's time for all of us to leave here.
33:19Part of him wants to go.
33:22The other part doesn't want to leave his people...
33:25or this beautiful island.
33:27Yeah.
33:29It's a tough decision.
33:31Well, that's only part of it.
33:35A lot has happened in medicine in the States.
33:38Can he go back after ten years and...
33:41pick up, fit in?
33:43Can he make a living...
33:45and be somebody, be somebody important the way he is here?
33:53One more thing.
33:58This island is strange, gentlemen.
34:00Choose your own word.
34:02Haunted, bedeviled.
34:05The other night at the luau...
34:09people were so unconcerned about the tapu.
34:14But let me tell you something about Alex, my son.
34:20A couple of years ago, he was up on that mountain.
34:23At his boy's will, he was throwing stones.
34:27And he hit a kingfisher.
34:29And he killed it.
34:31Poor thing.
34:33He cried and he cried.
34:37But that's all he could do.
34:39Cry.
34:42For he couldn't speak any longer.
34:44He couldn't talk?
34:54Monaco came...
34:56as if we had called him.
34:59And he knew all about it.
35:02The kingfisher is a sacred bird.
35:04And he told Alex about it and asked him where the bird had fallen...
35:07and Alex showed him.
35:10Then Monaco went away.
35:14The next morning, Alex could speak again.
35:18For Monaco had buried the bird.
35:21My point, gentlemen, is...
35:26that we have to get off this island.
35:29We've been here too long.
35:31I know it. So does Ted deep inside.
35:34But he's torn because he loves the island very much.
35:36Torn?
35:38He's ripped wide open.
35:42Ted Saunders, bless his heart, never saw anything.
35:47Good night, gentlemen.
35:49Good night, Mrs. Saunders.
35:51Good night.
35:55Well...
35:59what do you think, Captain?
36:01Is it a hallucination, as she says?
36:06No.
36:08No, he saw something.
36:29We are where we want to be.
36:59It's a piece of a weather balloon.
37:01We found it draped over some rocks.
37:03You're telling me, Captain, that what I saw the other night on the beach...
37:06was a weather balloon, too?
37:08Yes, sir. Partially inflated, in the air.
37:10Does this look like a weather balloon to you?
37:14No, sir, but that drawing doesn't prove that you saw a UFO.
37:17It doesn't disprove it, either.
37:19All we can do here, Doctor, is wait.
37:21We'll see what happens.
37:23We'll see what happens.
37:25We'll see what happens.
37:27It doesn't disprove it, either.
37:29All we can do here, Doctor, is tell you some facts...
37:31and see how they fit.
37:33I'm listening.
37:35An hour before you saw the UFO...
37:37the Air Force Station at Lorap Island...
37:39launched a weather balloon carrying an instrument package.
37:48According to Captain Wilson, the officer in charge...
37:51the balloon malfunctioned somehow.
37:53Instead of rising high into the atmosphere...
37:56it got to only a thousand feet...
37:58then started drifting west...
38:00towards this island of Tora Tupa.
38:03That night you'd worked late and were tired.
38:06The particular model that we recovered...
38:08has a bright white tracking light.
38:10It would light up most of the gas bank.
38:37By the time the balloon reached the beach...
38:39it would have been nearly deflated and unrecognizable.
38:42Remember, you were looking at an object...
38:44you weren't conditioned to see.
38:46Under the circumstances, it wouldn't be too surprising...
38:48if your imagination played a few tricks.
38:50I don't buy it. Remember, three other witnesses also saw this.
38:53You said you talked to the fishermen...
38:55before you came back here to make the drawings.
38:57Maybe subconsciously they drew what you wanted them to draw.
39:00No.
39:02The Tora Tupans are a friendly people.
39:05Actually, we just don't know about the sketches.
39:07Since you told us one thing and the fishermen told us another...
39:10we really can't consider the sketches as evidence.
39:13What you're saying, then, is that I saw a weather balloon...
39:15and then hallucinated the rest.
39:18Imagined it.
39:23It's all right. Donna told me that she talked to you last night.
39:29Doctor, I'm sure you're aware of how much a person's emotional state...
39:32can affect their judgment.
39:34Yes, I am, and I know what I saw that night.
39:37Captain, what about the lights on the mountain?
39:40Remember, at first we thought it might be sunlight...
39:42reflecting off the flat rocks at the top of the mountain.
39:45Then Sergeant Fitz saw this.
39:52It's a coconut palm.
39:54Yes, ma'am. Split by lightning.
39:56And that was on the day of my sighting?
39:58We think so.
40:01We checked meteorology.
40:03That evening, severe thunderstorms blanketed the area.
40:06There was all kinds of electrical activity in the atmosphere.
40:10The humid air around the mountain must have been highly ionized.
40:14Conditions were perfect then for what probably happened next.
40:19Peter, we think you may have seen...
40:21one of nature's rarest phenomena, ball lightning.
40:24Although we don't know exactly how it's formed...
40:26we do know it can appear immediately after a lightning strike.
40:29You said your sighting was brief.
40:31Yes, maybe 20 seconds.
40:33Ball lightning has a lifespan of roughly 10 to 30 seconds.
40:37That could be it, then.
40:39Monaco, what do you think?
40:41I was on my way to the village.
40:43I saw no lights on the mountain.
40:49Is this meeting over?
40:53If you wish, sir.
40:55Then will you excuse me?
40:57Monaco.
41:01No matter what comes of this...
41:03what is proven or not proven...
41:05I want you to know you will always have my deepest respect...
41:08and my love.
41:10For 10 years now, you have been my chief, too.
41:16Tatula, doctor.
41:18Tatula, Monaco.
41:24Wilson.
41:26We can't disprove what you say you witnessed.
41:29All we can put in our report is that your sighting is an unknown.
41:32Unknown?
41:34After all you said about my imagination, all that?
41:37You possibly could have seen it, sir.
41:39In spite of all we said.
41:41I did see it, sergeant.
41:46Captain.
41:50I did.
41:57We're going back, boys.
41:59Oh, Mom!
42:01Just for a leave.
42:03A nice long leave.
42:05We're going to take the Kwajalein flight back the end of the month.
42:08Well, have a good flight back.
42:10Thanks, doctor.
42:12Oh, I'll be right back.
42:14Hope to see you again someday.
42:16Oh.
42:18Same here.
42:20Unofficially, captain.
42:23Oh.
42:25Tatula, captain.
42:29Tatula, sergeant.
42:31Bye, everybody.
42:33Tatula.
42:53Think we'll ever know for sure what Dr. Sanders saw that night, captain?
42:56I doubt it.
42:58Not unless those three fishermen decide to talk.
43:00I don't think they ever will.
43:02Monaco's seen to that.
43:04I wonder why.
43:22I, Monaco,
43:24chief of Toro Tupo,
43:26beg of you,
43:28grant us the new rod of light.
43:31Now, please.
43:52TORO TUPO
44:22TORO TUPO
44:52TORO TUPO
45:22TORO TUPO
45:52TORO TUPO
45:54TORO TUPO
45:56TORO TUPO
45:58TORO TUPO
46:00TORO TUPO
46:02TORO TUPO
46:16We are most grateful for this rod of light,
46:20like all of the others.
46:50When the good doctor operates with this calpel,
46:54there will be no loss of blood.
46:57With these instruments,
46:59no sutures will ever be required.
47:03When Dr. Ted returns to this island,
47:07we will present these surgical instruments to him.
47:11He will be able to perform the surgery himself.
47:15We will present these surgical instruments to him.
47:19He will see that he has not fallen behind
47:22in his practice of medicine.
47:25He will be many thousands of years ahead,
47:29just as those who came before him.
47:33Dr. Michael, Dr. Albert,
47:36Dr. Christian,
47:39all have the infinite medical powers
47:42of the rod of light
47:45from the year 5081.
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