Unsealed: Alien Files (2012) s01e08 Episode Script

Top 10 Alien Encounters

Narrator: EVERY YEAR, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD REPORT STRANGE AND UNUSUAL ENCOUNTERS WITH VISITORS FROM ANOTHER PLANET.
THEY DESCRIBE MYSTERIOUS CRAFTS IN THE SKY AND TERRIFYING TALES OF ABDUCTION.
SOME ARE FANTASY, BUT THE STORIES YOU HEAR TONIGH JUST MAY BE TRUE.
10 TALES RECORDED IN HISTORY HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED AND WILL BE EXPLAINED Man: THE ARMY AIR FORCES HAS ANNOUNCED THAT A FLYING DISK HAS BEEN FOUND AND IS NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF THE ARMY.
Narrator: 10 EXPERIENCES SO STRANGE THAT THE ONLY ANSWER CAN BE ALIEN.
JOIN US AS THE TOP 10 ALIEN ENCOUNTERS OF ALL TIME ARE UNSEALED.
-- Captions by VITAC -- CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS SECRET FILES HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC FOR DECADES, DETAILING EVERY UFO ACCOUN ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.
WE ARE ABOUT TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND THESE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS.
FIND OUT WHAT THE GOVERNMEN DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
"UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES" -- EXPOSING THE BIGGEST SECRE ON PLANET EARTH.
OF ALL THE INCREDIBLE EXTRATERRESTRIAL EVENTS REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, ONLY 10 ARE ASTOUNDING ENOUGH TO BE INCLUDED IN OUR TOP ALIEN ENCOUNTERS OF ALL TIME.
WE BEGIN OUR COUNTDOWN WITH A TRIP TO A PLACE WHOSE NAME SAYS IT ALL.
Birnes: ON DECEMBER 5, 1945, A TEAM OF FIVE AVENGER TORPEDO BOMBERS WITH 14 CREWMEN IN ALL WERE ON A TRAINING MISSION OVER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN OFF BERMUDA IN AN AREA CALLED THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE.
NOW, THIS WAS AT THE SAME TIME THAT, AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II, AMERICAN FIGHTER PILOTS WERE SEEING THESE FLOATING BALLS OF LIGH CALLED FOO FIGHTERS.
Narrator: TOWARD THE END OF THEIR EXERCISE, THE FLIGHT TOWER AT FOR LAUDERDALE NAVAL AIR STATION RECEIVES SEVERAL CALLS FROM THE PILOTS.
THEY ARE SCARED AND DISORIENTED.
THE SCRAMBLED TRANSMISSIONS BECOME STRANGE, THEN CUT OFF.
THE CREW OF 14 AND THEIR FIVE PLANES DISAPPEAR, NEVER TO BE FOUND.
Birnes: SO, IF THIS WAS ACTUALLY A UFO ENCOUNTER -- IF A UFO INTERVENED AND INTERFERED WITH THE PLANES, THEN THIS WOULD GO DOWN AS THE LARGEST UFO ABDUCTION IN HISTORY.
ALL THAT WE KNOW FOR SURE IS THAT THE PLANES VANISHED -- VANISHED INTO THIN AIR, AS DID OTHER PLANES OVER THE YEARS.
Narrator: ALTHOUGH NEVER PROVEN, THE DISAPPEARANCES OF OVER 750 PEOPLE PASSING THROUGH THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE HAVE BEEN REPORTED.
IF THIS IS THE WORK OF ALIEN ABDUCTORS, THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE MIGHT BE ONE OF THE BIGGES EXTRATERRESTRIAL HOTSPOTS ON PLANET EARTH.
UP NEXT, THE NIGHT WE WENT TO WAR WITH A UFO.
ON FEBRUARY 24, 1942, SHORTLY AFTER THE UNITED STATES ENTERED THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 100,000 PEOPLE WATCHED AS AN UNKNOWN CRAF INVADED THE SKIES OF LOS ANGELES.
Man: ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNS RUN INTO ACTION AGAINST UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAF IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA.
SEARCHLIGHTS CLOSELY FOLLOWED THE OBJECT DOWN THE COAS AND KEPT IT CENTERED IN THEIR GLARE.
Narrator: 1,400 ANTIAIRCRAFT SHELLS ARE FIRED AT THE OBJECT, BUT IT REMAINS IN THE AIR UNTOUCHED.
Murillo: FROM THE CHAOS THAT THIS WHOLE EVENT CAUSED, ALL THESE ARTILLERY SHELLS GOING OFF, ROUGHLY FIVE PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE EVENT.
ONE OF THE THINGS SIGNIFICAN ABOUT THIS STORY IS THA IT'S ONE OF THE FIRST TIMES THAT OUR OWN DEFENSES DENIED THE POSSIBILITY OF A UFO AND WENT ON RECORD DOING SO.
Narrator: THE MILITARY CLAIMS THE OBJECT IS A WEATHER BALLOON, BUT OFFERS NO EXPLANATION FOR THE LACK OF DAMAGE TO THE CRAFT.
[ CHUCKLES .]
THE GREATES MILITARY FORCE IN THE WORLD COULDN'T SHOOT DOWN A LOST WEATHER BALLOON.
I MEAN, THE THING WAS JUST HOVERING THERE FOR ALMOST AN HOUR, AND THEY COULDN'T SHOOT IT DOWN? Murillo: WE DIDN'T KNOW IT AT THE TIME, BUT WHAT PEOPLE WERE EXPERIENCING ON THAT NIGH WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE FIRS MASS UFO SIGHTINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Narrator: MAY 23, 1964.
CUMBRIA, ENGLAND.
A FATHER TAKES HIS DAUGHTER TO A PARK OVERLOOKING THE QUIET INLE KNOWN AS SOLWAY FIRTH.
HE SNAPS A PHOTO OF THE LITTLE GIRL.
BUT IT'S WHEN THE FILM IS DEVELOPED THAT HE MAKES A CHILLING DISCOVERY.
JIM TEMPLETON TOOK A SERIES OF THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIS DAUGHTER.
ON TWO OF THE PHOTOS, NOTHING UNUSUAL WAS SEEN, BUT ON THE MIDDLE PICTURE, WHAT SEEMS TO BE A STRANGE FIGURE, WHITE-CLAD AND WEARING SOME SOR OF SPACE SUIT AND HELME IS VISIBLE IN THE BACKGROUND.
Narrator: THE PHOTO WAS SO PUZZLING THAT THE KODAK CORPORATION EVEN OFFERED A CASH PRIZE TO ANYONE WHO COULD DEBUNK THE IMAGE.
THAT PRIZE HAS NEVER BEEN CLAIMED.
TO THIS DAY, THE IDENTITY OF THIS STRANGE BEING IS UNKNOWN.
COMING UP NEXT THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES WHEN A UFO COLLIDES WITH EARTH, ALIEN BEINGS TAKE ON THE POLICE, AND LATER, THE NUMBER 1 ENCOUNTER THAT WILL LEAVE YOU SPEECHLESS.
THIS IS "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES" -- EXPOSING THE BIGGEST SECRE ON PLANET EARTH.
Narrator: WELCOME BACK TO "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES.
" FROM LURKING ALIEN BEINGS TO MASS ABDUCTIONS IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, THE TOP 10 ALIEN ENCOUNTERS OF ALL TIME HAVE THE POWER TO AMAZE AND TERRIFY, BUT THE COUNTDOWN HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN.
JOIN US AS WE CONTINUE WITH THE MOST INFAMOUS UFO CASE OF ALL TIME.
THE ROSWELL INCIDENT HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST WELL-KNOWN AND BIGGEST UFO CASES OF ALL TIME, BUT NOT MANY PEOPLE REALLY KNOW THE TRUE FACTS SURROUNDING THE CASE ITSELF.
Narrator: JULY 8, 1947.
ROSWELL ARMY AIRFIELD REPORTS THEY HAVE RECOVERED A CRASHED FLYING DISK ON A RANCH IN ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO.
THE STORY IMMEDIATELY HITS NATIONAL AIRWAVES.
Man: JULY 8, 1947.
THE ARMY AIR FORCES HAS ANNOUNCED THAT A FLYING DISK HAS BEEN FOUND AND IS NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF THE ARMY.
ARMY OFFICERS SAY THE MISSILE, FOUND SOMETIME LAST WEEK, HAS BEEN INSPECTED AT ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, AND SENT TO WRIGHT FIELD, OHIO, FOR FURTHER INSPECTION.
Narrator: DAYS LATER, THE MILITARY RETRACTS THEIR STATEMENT, CLAIMING WHAT WAS BELIEVED TO BE A FLYING SAUCER IS NOTHING MORE THAN A WEATHER BALLOON.
Birnes: THE STORY JUST DOESN'T HOLD UP.
SOLDIERS CAME FORWARD AND SAID THEY WERE ASSIGNED TO RECOVER DEBRIS FROM THE CRASHED DISK, THEY RECOVERED THE ALIEN BODIES, AND EVEN A LIVE ALIEN THAT WAS RECOVERED, BUT THEN THE BOMBSHELL DROPPED.
Narrator: IN APRIL OF 2011, THE FBI VAULT FINALLY RELEASES A DOCUMENT FROM 1950.
IT REPORTS FLYING SAUCERS FOUND IN THE NEW MEXICO DESER AND THE THREE-FOOT BODIES RECOVERED FROM THE CRASH.
THIS COULD BE THE FINAL CONFIRMATION WE NEED TO KNOW THAT THE ROSWELL STORY WAS REAL.
Narrator: ROSWELL MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT UFO CRASH IN AMERICAN HISTORY, BUT OUR NEXT ALIEN ENCOUNTER MADE A HUGE IMPAC ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD.
Birnes: ON JANUARY 29th, IN 1986 IN DALNEGORSK, RUSSIA, HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WITNESS A RED STREAK SHOOT ACROSS THE SKY AND CRASH INTO A MOUNTAIN KNOWN AS HEIGHT 611.
Narrator: WHAT INVESTIGATORS FIND AT THE SITE OF IMPAC IS IRREFUTABLE PROOF THAT SOMETHING CRASHED ON THE HILLSIDE AND HAS DISAPPEARED.
AFTER THE OBJECT CRASHED, ALL THAT WAS LEF WAS A THREE-METER-WIDE CRATER AND THESE STRANGE DARK GLASS BEADS.
WHERE DID THE REST OF IT GO? AND WHAT WAS THE NATURE OF THESE STRANGE GLASS-LIKE BEADS? Narrator: CHEMICAL ANALYSIS REVEALS THE BEADS CONTAINED SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS, BUT THAT'S NOT ALL.
Murillo: THE RUSSIANS THREW A LOT OF INTELLIGENCE ONTO THIS PROBLEM, AND THESE RESEARCHERS AND SCIENTISTS CLAIMED THAT THESE BEADS HAD STRANGE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES.
THEY SAID THAT THESE BEADS DID NOT REFLECT RADAR.
ONE BEAD ACTUALLY DISAPPEARED IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES.
SOME OF THESE RESEARCHERS CLAIMED THAT THESE BEADS EXHIBITED ANTI-GRAVITATIONAL PROPERTIES.
Narrator: THE ORIGIN OF THESE BEADS REMAINS A MYSTERY.
TODAY, THEY ARE BEING PROTECTED BY A PRIVATE FACILITY IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA.
SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO.
ON APRIL 24th, OFFICER LONNIE ZAMORA IS DRIVING THROUGH THE DESER OUTSIDE WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE.
SUDDENLY, HE SEES A DISK STREAK ACROSS THE SKY AND DISAPPEAR OVER A RIDGE.
Narrator: GOING OFF ROAD, ZAMORA COMES UPON A MASSIVE CIRCULAR CRAF LANDED IN THE DESERT.
HE STOPS 200 YARDS FROM IT.
AS HE STEPS OU FROM HIS VEHICLE, HE NOTICES TWO FIGURES BY THE SHIP DRESSED ALL IN WHITE.
HE SAW TWO VERY SHORT BEINGS OUTSIDE THE CRAFT.
WHEN THEY DISCOVERED HIM -- THAT HE WAS WATCHING -- IT WAS LIKE HE STARTLED THEM SOMEHOW.
THEY TURNED AROUND AND GOT BACK INTO THE UFO.
Narrator: IMMEDIATELY, THE CRAFT RAISES UP AND CHARGES STRAIGHT TOWARD ZAMORA.
IT FLIES OVER HIS HEAD AND AWAY.
Murillo: IT FLEW PRETTY CLOSE OVER HIS HEAD, AND IN FACT, HE EVEN SKETCHED AN INSIGNIA THAT HE SAW ON THE BOTTOM OF THE CRAFT.
Narrator: INVESTIGATORS FROM THE U.
S.
AIR FORCE AND THE FBI DESCEND UPON THE SCENE.
THEY FIND THE SAND IS SCORCHED AND FUSED TOGETHER.
IMPRESSIONS IN THE GROUND ARE NOT UNLIKE THOSE LEFT ON THE MOON BY SPACECRAFT.
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT THE SOCORRO INCIDEN IS THE WITNESS HIMSELF.
HE WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED, AND THERE WAS REALLY NO REASON FOR HIM TO PUT HIS JOB AND REPUTATION ON THE LINE TO TALK ABOUT THIS UFO.
IF TRUE, THE LONNIE ZAMORA SIGHTING WILL RANK AS ONE OF THE FIRST REPORTED CLOSE ENCOUNTERS IN MODERN UFO HISTORY.
Narrator: THE LONNIE ZAMORA SIGHTING IS NUMBER 5 IN OUR COUNTDOWN OF TOP 10 ALIEN ENCOUNTERS, BUT JUST WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE WHAT'S COMING UP NEXT -- FROM EXTRATERRESTRIAL MESSAGES TO TERRIFYING ABDUCTIONS AND ALIEN BEINGS CAUGHT ON CAMERA.
IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT THE NUMBER 1 ALIEN ENCOUNTER OF ALL TIME IS, PREPARE TO BE SHOCKED.
DON'T MISS THE FINAL 4.
THIS IS "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES" -- EXPOSING THE BIGGEST SECRE ON PLANET EARTH.
Narrator: WELCOME BACK TO "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES.
" WE'RE COUNTING DOWN THE TOP 10 ALIEN ENCOUNTERS OF ALL TIME.
YOU'VE SEEN SHOCKING STORIES OF SIGHTINGS, COVER UPS, AND UFO CRASHES, BUT YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT'S NEX AND WHAT MADE THE TOP OF OUR LIST.
JOIN US AS THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES WITH MARCH 13, 1997.
THE ENTIRE CITY OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA, IS PARALYZED BY AN INCREDIBLE SIGH IN THE SKIES ABOVE.
WHEN THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE OUTSIDE ON A VERY BEAUTIFUL NIGH LOOKING UP AT THE SKY FOR A GLIMPSE OF THE HALE-BOPP COMET, THEY ALSO CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF LIGHTS, ORBS, BALLS OF LIGH IN A "V" FORMATION OVER A MILE TO TWO-MILE WIDE.
THIS WAS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN THE SIXTH LARGEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES, AT THE TIME, DESCRIBING THIS STRANGE OBJECT.
THE UNITED STATES MILITARY DECIDED TO COME OUT AND SAY THAT THE PHOENIX LIGHTS WERE NOTHING MORE THAN AIRCRAFT FLARES LAUNCHED FROM MILITARY JETS OUTSIDE OF LUKE AIR FORCE BASE.
NOW, HERE'S A PROBLEM -- I FILED A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUES FOR ALL DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO ANY AIRCRAFT FLARES LAUNCHED THE EVENING OF MARCH 17th.
THEY TOLD ME SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING -- LUKE AIR FORCE BASE DIDN' LAUNCH ANY AIRCRAFT FLARES.
THEIR EXPLANATION SIMPLY DOESN'T ADD UP.
WE CAN'T EXPLAIN THE PHOENIX LIGHTS TO THIS DAY, AND THE MILITARY WON'T EVEN TOUCH IT.
Narrator: THESE INCREDIBLE LIGHTS MADE HEADLINES AS ONE OF THE LARGES MASS SIGHTINGS IN HISTORY.
BUT THE WITNESS IN OUR NEX ACCOUNT BECAME WORLD FAMOUS FOR A MUCH CLOSER ENCOUNTER WHEN HE WAS ABDUCTED AND TAKEN ON BOARD AN ALIEN SHIP.
THE TRAVIS WALTON UFO ENCOUNTER IS ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE UFO ENCOUNTERS IN HISTORY.
Narrator: IT WAS NOVEMBER 5, 1975.
THERE WAS A GROUP OF SEVEN OF US MEN.
WE WERE WORKING UP IN THE MOUNTAINS, IN THE WOODS.
Narrator: IT WAS NEARING DARK AS WALTON AND HIS CO-WORKERS HEADED HOME THROUGH ARIZONA'S DENSE APACHE-SITGREAVES FORES WHEN THEY NOTICE A LIGHT IN THE TREES.
Walton: WHEN I GOT UP TO I AND I WAS STANDING THERE LOOKING UP AT IT, THE SOUND SUDDENLY GOT LOUDER, AND IT STARTED TO MOVE, AND IT WAS MAKING THIS SORT OF A ROCKING MOTION.
RIGHT AT THAT INSTANT, SOMETHING HIT ME.
THE NEXT THING I KNEW, I WAS REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS, BUT I WAS IN A LOT OF PAIN.
I SAW THESE FORMS OVER ME, AND WHEN I FINALLY GOT I INTO FOCUS, I COULD SEE THIS CREATURE LOOKING AT ME, AND I COULD HARDLY MOVE, AND MY ARM FELT REAL HEAVY AND I WAS WEAK.
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?! COME BACK! WALTON'S FRIENDS HAD LEF SHOCKED AFTER HE DISAPPEARED INTO THE FOREST, BUT NOT AS SHOCKED AS THEY WERE WHEN HE REAPPEARED DAYS LATER.
Walton: I DIDN'T KNOW HOW MUCH TIME HAD GONE BY, AND THEY SAID, "HEY, FEEL YOUR FACE," AND I FELT, AND I HAD THIS, YOU KNOW, WEEK'S GROWTH OF BEARD, AND I WAS JUST TOTALLY SHOCKED BY THIS.
THEY SAID, "YOU'VE BEEN GONE FIVE DAYS.
" Narrator: WHAT TRAVIS WALTON EXPERIENCED WAS A CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FOURTH KIND -- ACTUAL ALIEN CONTAC AND ABDUCTION.
BUT THE SUBJEC OF OUR NUMBER 2 ALIEN ENCOUNTER NOT ONLY MADE CONTAC WITH A UFO, HE ALSO BROUGHT BACK A MESSAGE.
Birnes: ON DECEMBER 26, 1980, SECURITY PERSONNEL FROM RAF BENTWATERS IN THE U.
K.
WENT OUT INTO RENDLESHAM FORES TO INVESTIGATE A SERIES OF LIGHTS WHERE RADAR SAID AN AIRCRAF MIGHT HAVE GONE DOWN.
Narrator: UPON ENTERING THE FOREST, SERGEANT JIM PENNISTON AND A SMALL TEAM OF SOLDIERS ENCOUNTER A UFO THAT LANDS RIGHT BEFORE THEIR EYES.
HE APPROACHES THE CRAF AND PLACES HIS HAND ON THE SURFACE.
BUT AS HE DOES, PENNISTON IS FROZEN WHILE A MYSTERIOUS CODE IS BEAMED INTO HIS MIND -- A TELEPATHIC COMMUNICATION.
I HAD AN EXPLOSION OF WHITE LIGH WHERE I COULDN'T SEE.
I WAS BLINDED.
AND I STARTED SEEING ONES AND ZEROES FLASHING.
Narrator: IT WASN'T UNTIL 30 YEARS LATER THAT FELLOW WITNESS JIM BURROUGHS SAW THE CODE AND REALIZED WHAT PENNISTON HAD RECEIVED.
AS WE WERE GOING THROUGH THE BOOK, HE CAME TO SOME PAGES, HAD ZEROES AND ONES ON IT.
I LOOKED AT IT AND I SAID, "THESE ARE BINARY CODES.
" Narrator: THE TEAM HAD THE CODE DECIPHERED, REVEALING A SHOCKING MESSAGE.
"EXPLORATION OF HUMANITY," THEN LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES "CONTINUOUS FOR PLANETARY ADVANCE.
" THIS ALIEN MESSAGE MAY HOLD THE SECRE OF MANKIND'S FUTURE OR ITS PAST, BUT OUR NEXT SHOCKING ACCOUN COULD PUT US FACE-TO-FACE WITH ALIEN BEINGS.
NEXT, IT'S TIME TO REVEAL THE INCREDIBLE REAL-LIFE FOOTAGE BEHIND OUR NUMBER 1 ALIEN ENCOUNTER OF ALL TIME, AND YOU WON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES.
THIS IS "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES" -- EXPOSING THE BIGGEST SECRE ON PLANET EARTH.
Narrator: WELCOME BACK TO "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES.
" IN THE TOP 10 ALIEN ENCOUNTERS OF ALL TIME, YOU'VE SEEN AMAZING UFO CRASHES AND TERRIFYING TALES OF ABDUCTION, BUT NOTHING HAS PREPARED YOU FOR OUR NUMBER 1.
ON OCTOBER 14, 2008, A NIAGARA FALLS HOTEL MANAGER REPORTS SIGHTING A BLACK TRIANGULAR UFO TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES.
BUT THAT WAS JUST THE BEGINNING.
ON THE FOLLOWING DAY, THE MANAGER RECEIVED FRIGHTENED PHONE CALLS THAT TWO INHUMAN MEN HAD JUST WALKED INTO THE HOTEL.
Pope: EYE WITNESSES SAID THAT THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS DIDN'T HAVE EYEBROWS OR EYELASHES.
THEY DIDN'T BLINK.
ONE PERSON SAID IT WAS LIKE THEY COULD READ HER MIND.
THESE ARE THE MEN IN BLACK.
Narrator: LIKE ALL OF OUR ENCOUNTERS, THIS MAY BRING US CLOSER TO ALIEN LIFE THAN WE'VE EVER IMAGINED POSSIBLE, AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES THEM THE TOP 10 ALIEN ENCOUNTERS OF ALL TIME.
THIS IS "UNSEALED: ALIEN FILES" -- EXPOSING THE BIGGEST SECRE ON PLANET EARTH.

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