From Roswell to Area 51, the rumors persist. Is the government hiding alien technology? Join us as we explore the evidence, theories, and possibilities behind this intriguing question.
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00:00The smoke now around this UFO story is unbearable. It is it's choking. There is so much here.
00:08And again, from an analytic perspective, the system is blinking red.
00:12Welcome to WatchMojo. And today we're taking a closer look at the reported and rumored links
00:17between the U.S. government and alien life all the way up to the bombshell UAP hearings in 2025.
00:24Again, the smoke is overwhelming. And to your point, I think the tinfoil hats should now be
00:29worn by the people who are denying that there's something to this story. Number 10, a history of
00:36conspiracy. We're going to take Area 51 and the black mailbox in Nevada and down to Camp Verde,
00:42then to Apache Junction and then on down to Roswell, New Mexico, for the site of the famous
00:47crash of 47. Now, as everybody knows, stop it. It's an alleged site at this point. But why would
00:53they admit there was a crash if the crash happened somewhere else? Let's just agree to disagree.
00:58The U.S. government has long been the target for huge conspiracy theories. From the moon landing
01:02to the Kennedy assassination, the whispers of secret agendas and large-scale cover-ups are
01:07constant. And in some cases, such as with MKUltra, a CIA program of human experiments and attempted
01:14drug-induced brainwashing, the conspiracies turned out to be true. With alien life specifically,
01:20the modern allegations really begin in 1947 with the Roswell incident. Reports emerged in
01:26July of that year that a flying saucer had been retrieved in New Mexico after crash landing.
01:31There soon followed further claims that it was alien in origin, complete with extraterrestrial
01:36pilots. Can you say that again? The film showed the autopsy of an alien being.
01:51It was carried out at Roswell Air Base, New Mexico, in July 1947. The U.S. military also
01:59initially stated that it was a, quote, flying disc, before quickly backtracking to claim it
02:04was a weather balloon. Decades later, that was also revised, with the government saying the
02:09debris was actually from a downed nuclear surveillance balloon used at the time to
02:14monitor Soviet activity.
02:32Number 9. Project Blue Book. Do you believe in aliens? What do you mean, aliens?
02:39If nothing else, the Roswell incident fired up public speculation like nothing before. For many,
02:45the rushed-out weather balloon explanation just didn't hold up. It became the trigger point for
02:50a massive influx in UFO sightings and conspiracy theories. So much so that in the 1950s, the U.S.
02:56Air Force launched Project Blue Book, an official investigation into UFOs. Rather than combing
03:03through reports, Dr. Hynek personally investigated sightings and interviewed eyewitnesses across the
03:09country. Based on his research, he developed a new system to categorize UFO sightings. Blue Book
03:16ran from 1952 to 1969, during which time thousands of cases were investigated. The majority were
03:23dismissed, labeled as misidentifications, and usually as natural phenomena. However,
03:30a small percentage were officially classified as unexplained. In total, this amounted to 701
03:37UFO sightings and encounters that the government couldn't account for. Or at least, that was the
03:43official line. What my father was fascinated by were this irreducible core of 5% of cases that
03:53of 5% of cases that could not be explained. There was just something that was too legitimate to
04:01ignore. Number 8. The Majestic 12. I'm here to discuss the so-called flying saucer. The Majestic
04:0912 is an alleged top-secret group of high-ranking politicians, military figures, and scientists,
04:15formed in the late 1940s under executive order by then-President Harry Truman. It's said that
04:21its primary goal was to recover and study alien technology. The story erupted in the 1980s when
04:27multiple ufologists claimed to have uncovered US government documents, or proof of government
04:32documents, from the 40s and 50s, revealing the Majestic 12's existence. If true, it would mean
04:48that for decades, a super-select few in America will have been privy to genuine extraterrestrial
04:54material, the likes of which could alter the course of history forever. However, in this case,
04:59the Majestic 12 is a contentious issue, even in ufology circles. The documents that emerged in
05:05the 80s are typically thought to be fake. But for those who stand by them, that's just what they
05:11want you to believe. Hey man, what the hell is all this? Back in the mid-1950s, the government
05:16started a little underfunded agency with the simple and laughable purpose of establishing
05:20contact with a race not of this planet. Everybody thought the agency was a joke, except the aliens
05:28who made contact March 2, 1961, outside New York. There were nine of us the first night.
05:34Seven agents, one astronomer, and one dumb kid who got lost on the wrong back road.
05:38Number 7. Area 51. There were MPs on all corners of the craft. It's about a 40-foot
05:45diamond or disc-shaped craft that was perfectly intact. There wasn't a scratch on it.
05:50There were four beings associated with this craft, and they shipped it to Groom Lake.
05:56Groom Lake is the Area 51 region in Nevada, when Area 51 was just bare bones. If modern UFO
06:04allegations have a physical home, then it's surely along the isolated runways and inside the
06:09sprawling hangars of Homey Airport, otherwise known as Area 51, deep in the Nevada desert.
06:16The official line has long been that it's a highly classified facility used for testing and
06:20developing new vehicles and technologies, most likely for the military. However, its links to
06:27an alleged alien cover-up are world-famous. Bob Lazar made headlines in 1989 when he claimed to
06:34have previously worked in Sector 4, or S4, at Area 51, which he says was and is a high-security,
06:41top-secret underground lab. Lazar claims that he was tasked with attempting to reverse-engineer
06:47alien tech that the government had retrieved. Lazar says that a means of anti-gravity was
06:53central to that tech. The development of anti-gravity for human use is said to be a key
06:58goal for those who work at Area 51.
07:28From Roswell to S4, all of these alleged alien materials said to be hidden by America need to
07:40have actually come from somewhere. Because space is huge and our planet is just a tiny speck on
07:46the gargantuan canvas of the universe, there are endless possibilities. However, the name
07:51Zeta Reticuli comes up more often than most. Zeta Reticuli is a binary star system approximately
07:5839 light-years away from Earth. The Majestic 12 are said to have communicated with Zeta Reticuli.
08:04Bob Lazar claims to have read highly classified documents detailing how Earth has liaised with
08:09aliens from Zeta Reticuli for at least 10,000 years. The first prominent mention, however,
08:16dates back to the Barney and Betty Hill abduction incident in 1961. The Hills' alleged encounter with
08:23alien life supposedly saw them beamed up into an alien spaceship where they were experimented on.
08:29Afterwards, Betty Hill produced a star map she claims to have seen on board the ship,
08:34with her map bearing a close resemblance to Zeta Reticuli.
08:39They followed us for approximately 30 miles and then in an area called Indian Head,
08:46it left the top of the mountain, came out over the highway, and stopped mid-air on the highway
08:54right in front of us.
08:56Number 5. UFO Enlightenment
09:11In the 21st century, speculation has, if anything, sped up. In 2017, three videos
09:18made by the US military were leaked, all showing UFOs performing physically and
09:23technologically impossible feats. These became known as Gimbal, Go Fast, and the Tic Tac,
09:30and their authenticity was eventually confirmed by the Pentagon. A huge uptick in UFO interest
09:35followed, leading to the government coining a new term, Unidentified Aerial or Anomalous
09:41Phenomena, or UAP. Since the Roswell incident in 1947, many Americans have wondered about
09:48the dangers of unknown objects criss-crossing our skies, whether these are UAPs or weather
09:55phenomena, advanced technology from American allied or enemy forces, or something more
09:59out of this world. The 2017 leaks also led the way for revelations concerning secret UFO
10:05initiatives run by the government in the modern day. Between the years 2007 and 2012, there was
10:12the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the existence of which was primarily
10:17revealed by the whistleblower Luis Elizondo. On June 25, 2021, under mounting pressure,
10:25the US issued unofficial UFO report, in what some deemed to be an attempt towards transparency.
10:32However, the lack of substance to that report left many dissatisfied.
10:38Former President Obama a few years ago said that there, I'm going to quote as directly as I can,
10:43but there is footage and records of objects in the skies and we cannot explain how they moved
10:50and their trajectory. Number four, David Grush. Do you believe there's an active disinformation
10:56campaign within our government to deny existence of UAPs, yes or no? I don't have an answer to that.
11:03As previously stated publicly, yes. The UAP Task Force or UAPTF was set up by the Department of
11:10Defence in 2020 as something of a follow-on from the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification
11:15Program. However, soon it would be hugely questioned as well. David Grush, a US Air Force
11:21veteran who had previously worked on the UAPTF, went public in June 2023, sensationally claiming
11:28that the United States had been running a quote, multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse
11:34engineering program. Grush was questioned in depth at a Congressional hearing just weeks later,
11:40in July 2023. Do you believe that officials at the highest levels of our national security
11:44apparatus have unlawfully withheld information from Congress and subverted our oversight authority?
11:52There are certain elected leaders that had more information that I'm not sure what they've shared
11:57with certain gang of eight members or et cetera, but certainly I would not be surprised. There,
12:04he made reference to non-human biologics and claimed that he had a personal knowledge of
12:09people who've been harmed or injured in efforts to cover up or conceal America's UAP endeavors.
12:16In short, Grush is on record suggesting that America is in possession of extraterrestrial
12:22crafts and alien bodies. As I've stated publicly already in my News Nation interview,
12:27biologics came with some of these recoveries. Yeah. Number three, Immaculate Constellation.
12:33So a new whistleblower has come forward with a written report that this person has shared
12:40with some members of Congress and with me. And the report is quite extraordinary. It says that
12:47there is an unacknowledged special access program called Immaculate Constellation.
12:56On October 8th, 2024, the journalist Michael Schellenberger added yet another layer of
13:01intrigue. He published an explosive article revealing details about another, this time
13:06reportedly beyond top secret program, called Immaculate Constellation. Working from the intel
13:13of an at the time protected source from within the US government, Schellenberger wrote about,
13:18as his claimants described, the existence of a massive and purposely hidden database of UAP
13:23sightings and records. A key incident that's the most extraordinary is there are allegations made
13:29in the report that one of the top line fighters in the US, the F-22 Raptor, was actually boxed in
13:36by as many as three to six orbs and forced out of an airspace area. It's said that even most of the
13:43US government itself is unaware of Immaculate Constellation. It's an entirely off the books
13:49data bank, an unacknowledged special access program, but one that even Congress doesn't
13:55know about. If true, then Schellenberger says that Immaculate Constellation is constitutionally
14:01illegal. More specifically though, Schellenberger's whistleblower suggests that, as part of the
14:06program, those who do know about it have had access to alien crafts and technologies, and
14:13potentially again for decades. Basically there is this idea, and it is in the whistleblower report,
14:20that the United States government is in possession of a craft that it has itself made
14:28based on UAPs that it has captured and apparently using antigravity as the means for propulsion.
14:38Number two, return to Congress. Do you think that Americans will learn new information
14:44about UAPs or are you expecting massive revelations on Wednesday?
14:49I think we're going to learn some things. It's peeling back the layers of an onion.
14:53The one thing I think that will happen eventually is President Trump will move towards total
15:00disclosure. Early November 2024 was a turbulent period in American politics, the US having just
15:07decided its new president. Nevertheless, UAP transparency remained a pressing issue at the
15:13top of the agenda, with a long-awaited second major congressional hearing taking place on
15:18November 13th. At the hearing's beginning, Chairwoman Nancy Mace underlined the situation
15:24by highlighting how the transparency of the Defense Department and intelligence community
15:29had long been, quote, abysmal. While David Grush had previously been flanked by two others during
15:35his hearing, David Fravor and Ryan Graves, there were four key witnesses this time around. These
15:41were Dr. Tim Galladay, a former Rear Admiral in the US Navy, Michael Gold, a former NASA contractor
15:48who notably worked as part of an independent UAP study group for NASA, and then two people who
15:54we've already met in this video, Luis Elizondo, formerly of the Advanced Aerospace Threat
16:00Identification Program, and Michael Schellenberger, the journalist whose article first broke the news
16:05about Immaculate Constellation. Before we continue, be sure to subscribe to our channel
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16:20switch on your notifications. Number one, a disinformation campaign.
16:27Big hearing today. I feel like this is your Super Bowl, right? You live for these kind of moments.
16:32What are you hoping for, Nick? Yes, absolutely, Margie. Very exciting day. Very psyched for this.
16:39I think we're going to learn a lot. If onlookers had been hoping for the revelation of undeniable
16:45evidence of alien life or technology from the November hearing, then they'll likely have been
16:50disappointed. Rather, the four witnesses were grilled on their personal claims toward there
16:56being a large-scale cover-up of UAP information. Schellenberger again spoke of Immaculate
17:02Constellation, while Gold particularly drove home how NASA could serve to investigate UAP
17:08if only it were funded to do so. NASA personnel stepping forward and participating in such
17:14discussions would make a powerful statement to the scientific community that UAP should be taken
17:20seriously and researched accordingly. All witnesses were united, though, on the issue of stigma around
17:27UAP claims, with suggestions that this stigma was and is sown by a select few in the government as
17:34part of a disinformation campaign. Elizondo spoke of a culture of intimidation and of efforts by
17:41the Pentagon to destroy the credibility of anyone who comes forward. During questions, the issue of
17:46whistleblower resistance and ridicule was briefly discussed. And what I thought would be a 90-minute
17:52meeting just to meet with leadership turned out to be an hours-long influence operation on me, where
17:59they attempted to convince me of the validity of the very flawed and error-ridden historical
18:05records report. Schellenberger ended his opening statement by suggesting that the intelligence
18:11community was treating the public like children. While the hearing still didn't prove that the
18:16government has alien technology, it did highlight just how much is seemingly kept back not just from
18:22the American people but also from those on Capitol Hill. I'll show you this example here. This is a
18:29presentation from the UATP task force. This is completely absurd. It's nuts, this level of
18:36censorship, of redaction on a document. So, what do you think is really happening? Is the government
18:42hiding alien technology? If so, when, if ever, will we get full disclosure? Let us know your
18:49verdict in the comments. Makes you think, doesn't it? Where is everybody?
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