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Buckle up for a wild ride through the most jaw-dropping claims by UAP whistleblowers! From secret government programs to alleged alien encounters, we're diving deep into testimonies that challenge everything we thought we knew about extraterrestrial life and hidden technologies.
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00:00That's an egg-shaped UAP suspended from a 150-foot long line.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks
00:10for the most mind-boggling allegations made by UAP whistleblowers.
00:14Let's freeze frame here to look at one of the clearest images of a UAP ever taken.
00:21This is no blurry light in a distant sky,
00:25the source of the footage putting themselves at incredible risk to record this UAP retrieval.
00:33Edgar Mitchell's extraterrestrial technology claims.
00:37In 1971, Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell spent approximately nine hours working on the lunar surface,
00:44earning him the distinction of being one of only 12 people to walk on the moon.
00:49Mitchell boasted an impressive resume, having served in the Navy before being selected to work at NASA.
00:55But to the surprise of some, he later became a ufologist.
00:59Mitchell went on record multiple times to say that he was confident
01:03that many of the reported UAP sightings since the 1940s were likely extraterrestrial visitors.
01:10Being in the military and an aviator for many years,
01:14I knew that pilots all over the world, military pilots, airline pilots, encountered them all the time.
01:21Because I grew up in Roswell, I know most of the predominant investigators in UFO field
01:28because of those Roswell connections.
01:30He also asserted that technology provided by extraterrestrial sources
01:35had proven very useful to the U.S. government in the past,
01:38but that the government was purposely covering up the existence of such technology.
01:43I would not be surprised if we are under surveillance by alien visitors.
01:52Paul Benowitz's Dulce Base allegations.
01:55In the mid-1970s, a bizarre series of cow mutilations perplexed ranchers throughout the U.S.
02:02Theories to explain the killings ranged from there being a satanic cult active across the country
02:07to the cows being linked to top-secret government operations.
02:10As the cases mounted, rumors of extraterrestrial involvement grew.
02:14In response, the businessman Paul Benowitz started a self-funded study into UAP activity.
02:20My supervisors told me, listen, we don't want him to go out to the public,
02:25go on camera and say, hey, I just tapped into a secret laser on Kirtland Air Force Base.
02:31Obviously, we can't have that happen.
02:32He recorded several strange radio transmissions and unexplainable lights above Kirtland Air Force Base.
02:39Later, based on his research, Benowitz became convinced that there was a secret underground facility
02:45jointly operated by aliens and humans near Dulce, New Mexico.
02:50The area, dubbed the Dulce Base, quickly emerged as a hotspot for many of the most compelling UFO sightings.
02:57I'm really happy to hear Garth's feedback about the makeup of the mesa.
03:01And it does seem like he thinks it is possible to have an underground base there,
03:05even given the massive size of this thing.
03:08Clifford Stone's extraterrestrial retrieval work.
03:11In recent times, we've seen headlines worldwide relating to prominent ex-military figures coming forward to reveal the truth.
03:19But actually, this isn't the first wave of testimonies like this.
03:22In the early 2000s, the retired army sergeant Clifford Stone became one of the UFO community's loudest voices,
03:30at times collaborating with the famed ufologist Stephen Greer and his organization, the Disclosure Project.
03:36Now we find that there were quite a few objects of unknown origin that did not correlate with any known space launches
03:43or impact times of any known space debris falling back to Earth.
03:49We also find out that there was never a report filed by our government that we had recovered these objects.
03:59Stone claimed that during his time with the Army, he visited numerous UFO crash sites
04:04and saw both living and deceased alien beings.
04:08He reportedly catalogued more than 50 distinct alien species as part of his work.
04:13Even more shocking, Stone claimed that many of the life forms he observed were humanoid in appearance
04:19and could perhaps walk among us without detection.
04:22We have been very foolish in how we have done certain things and we have harmed ourselves.
04:28We now realize that we have harmed ourselves and we are trying to take corrective action.
04:33And that right there is the one thing that they are checking on.
04:37Gary McKinnon's NASA Hack
04:39For 13 months in the early 2000s, Scottish hacker Gary McKinnon gained access to as many as 97 US military and NASA computer systems.
04:49His actions were a huge deal at a time when America was on red alert for security breaches.
04:54McKinnon was searching for proof of UFO activity and of government knowledge of alien technologies.
05:00And he reportedly found what he was looking for in a file labelled unfiltered,
05:05which McKinnon says contained satellite images and photos of alien spacecraft.
05:10Even more shocking, McKinnon claims to have uncovered classified military personnel documents
05:15listing quote non-terrestrial officers as well as evidence of the government's suppression of free energy technologies.
05:22As well as officers' names, it had ship names.
05:26None of these were ocean-going ships.
05:28It was astounding. They're not Navy, they're not in the Army and not even Air Force.
05:33So to me, I was thinking there must be an off-planet space force or space fleet at least.
05:39But before he could download anything to his personal computer, he was noticed on the system and his connection was cut.
05:45Unfortunately, today the arrest warrant is still live and I'm still on the Interpol red list, so I can't travel.
05:52Philip Corso's Roswell account
05:55In 1997, a book by Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso, titled The Day After Roswell, was published.
06:02In it, Corso discloses several shocking secrets about his involvement in the infamous Roswell incident.
06:08According to him, aliens did, in fact, crash in Roswell in 1947 and the government covered up all of the evidence.
06:16At the time of the incident, Corso was stationed at Fort Riley in Kansas.
06:20Following the incident, he was allegedly assigned to a secret military group tasked with collecting information about the alien technology recovered from the crash site.
06:42This intel was subsequently used in the development of several groundbreaking innovations such as fiber optics and Kevlar.
06:49Corso claimed that while working, he stumbled upon a perfectly preserved alien body concealed within a wooden case.
07:14David Fravor's tic-tac encounter
07:16Testifying before Congress in 2023, retired fighter pilot David Fravor detailed his 2004 encounter with a strange, fast-moving object off the coast of Southern California.
07:27At the time, Fravor was the commander of the F-A-18F squadron on the USS Nimitz, an aircraft carrier in the US Navy.
07:35On November 14th, 2004, he detected a potential target and decided to investigate,
07:41especially as another ship, the USS Princeton, had been tracking similarly unusual activity in the same area just two weeks beforehand.
07:59The now-infamous object that Fravor witnessed far exceeded the known aeronautical capabilities of the time.
08:05He estimated that it was around 40 feet long. It was oval-shaped, completely white without any markings, and it didn't have wings.
08:13When Fravor went in for a closer look, however, the object zoomed away so quickly that it seemed to disappear altogether.
08:21Luis Elizondo and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
08:26Beginning in 2009, Luis Elizondo was reportedly recruited to work for the US government in the top-secret now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP.
08:38The official purpose of AATIP was to investigate UAP sightings and activity, and from 2010 to 2017, Elizondo claims to have served as its director.
08:49Unfortunately, the government is not this huge colossal machine, if you will. It's segregated into these little fiefdoms, if you will.
08:58And unfortunately, they don't always coordinate and talk with one another.
09:02Before Congress in 2024, Elizondo testified that the government had secretly experimented on materials and technology gathered from non-human craft.
09:11He further alleged that the government's extreme secrecy concerning the research had led to, quote,
09:16grave misdeeds, including career-ending threats leveled against anyone who agreed to give classified testimony about UAP encounters.
09:25We would have to have a conversation in a closed session, ma'am.
09:28I signed documentation three years ago that restricts my ability to discuss specifically crash retrievals.
09:34Jake Barber's UAP retrieval footage.
09:37This extraordinary footage clearly shows an egg-shaped object dangling in a sling below the belly of a helicopter.
09:46After a surge in UAP whistleblowing in 2023 and 2024, another big story landed in January of 2025.
09:53The former U.S. Airman Jake Barber was at the center when he spoke to Ross Caltart for NewsNation, revealing that he'd personally worked on secret UAP retrieval missions.
10:04Because things would come from the ground, like from the earth, from a ridge, from a mountain, or could pass through.
10:13His claims were accompanied by a short piece of footage showing an egg-shaped UAP as seen from the military helicopter tasked with retrieving it.
10:22Barber's testimony went further still as he also alleged that America runs a secret team of psionics whose role it is to find and communicate with UAP.
10:31Psionics are a select group of people said to have psychic-like abilities.
10:36Their role essentially amounts to remote viewing, something that it's long been rumored the Pentagon is involved with.
10:42Watch how it rolls, almost graceful, as it hits the ground, despite being wrapped in the ropes and canvas from the cradle as it's dropped for pickup.
10:53The UAP's final destination still unknown.
10:57Bob Lazar's Area 51 Revelations
11:00In 1989, Bob Lazar achieved international infamy when he claimed that he'd previously worked as part of a top-secret government operation at Area 51.
11:10He says that, throughout the 80s, he assisted with the reverse engineering of alien technology, particularly inside a facility known as S-4.
11:19He claims to have witnessed alien spacecraft and alien bodies, as well as the development of anti-gravity technology made possible through the use of a mysterious substance known as Element 115.
11:31The skinny bespectacled guy comes out. We had to hide his identity, silhouette. We used a pseudonym and we started interviewing.
11:40And out spills this story of a secret facility built up in the Area 51 complex.
11:47Many of Lazar's revelations have long come under scrutiny, and there are no records of his purported links to the government or military.
11:54But Lazar insists that that's only because those records have been erased.
11:59Bob Lazar ultimately revealed his identity. And once he did, his life would never be the same.
12:07Bob Lazar, he was ripped apart for this information. In fact, it got so bad where his house was broken in. He was harassed. His family was threatened.
12:20Jesse Marcel Jr.'s Roswell debris memories. As the first Air Force officer to investigate the 1947 Roswell incident, Jesse Marcel Sr. is inextricably tied to UAP lore.
12:34The official story provided by the government to explain Roswell was that a weather balloon had crashed in the area.
12:40And for a long time, that story went uncontested until Marcel came forward in the late 1970s with his own account.
12:47Roswell researchers suggest a government sanctioned bond of secrecy has prevented witnesses of the crash and retrieval from coming forward publicly.
12:59But many did choose to come forward later in life, including the first military officer to arrive at the Roswell crash site, Major Jesse Marcel.
13:09In short, he believed that what he observed in 1947 was not of this world.
13:15The legend was added to by Marcel's son, Jesse Marcel Jr., who subsequently claims to remember his father bringing home debris from the crash site.
13:24Marcel Jr. is on record claiming that among the items his father retrieved, there was a purple beam covered in unusual hieroglyphics.
13:33There's a pretty famous picture of him holding a piece of debris, which is China's piece of foil, basically.
13:38And it was weather balloon material. He grudgingly went along with the story, held it.
13:42And if you take a look at that, you'll notice that he's not looking at the camera. He's looking up somebody barking him orders.
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14:05David Grush's Retrieval Program Testimony
14:08During the 2023 congressional hearing on UAPs, the former Air Force intelligence officer David Grush testified that the government had conducted highly secret alien retrieval operations for decades.
14:20Grush, who claims to have interviewed at least 40 individuals in relation to the matter over a four-year period,
14:26alleged that the U.S. was also in possession of non-human biologics and numerous alien spacecraft.
14:33These are retrieving non-human origin technical vehicles, you know, call it spacecraft if you will.
14:40Non-human, exotic origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed.
14:45We have spacecraft from another species.
14:48We do, yeah.
14:49When questioned about how the top secret retrievals operated, Grush asserted that they were, quote,
14:54above congressional oversight and funded through covert and dishonest means.
14:59Grush has long maintained that he's in possession of further information to support his bombshell testimony.
15:05However, much of that information is, at the moment, too sensitive to publicly disclose.
15:10I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program.
15:19What's your verdict on these whistleblower claims?
15:22The truth is out there, so let us know in the comments.
15:25Look, we've established in history and documents through the Freedom of Information Act,
15:29the CIA and the military complex as a whole has really aimed to essentially mislead the public when it comes to UFOs.
15:38Tell them something that necessarily is not the truth.
15:41We've seen it time and time again, through the decades, over and over.
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