Ancient Aliens

So, right underneath our feet

there are tunnels and facilities?

Miles, absolutely miles of tunnels.

It really is like something out of a James Bond movie.

Could a secret base in England

hold evidence of extraterrestrial visitation?

If there was anywhere in the United Kingdom,

any secret facility

where crashed UFO debris would have been brought,

would've been right here.

Is the British government

in possession of an alien spacecraft?

The more I looked into these claims,

the more I realized, "Wait a minute,

there's something going on here."

And did they even develop one of their own?

I had about five minutes,

and then a police car showed up and he said, "Well,

I think it's time for you to leave."

London, England.

2007.

The British Ministry of Defence, or MOD,

makes a startling announcement.

They are releasing the entirety of their UFO files

to the National Archives of England.

My belief is that the MOD's motive

was to have people stop asking them questions.

They could get away from all these difficult

Freedom of Information Act requests

that people were making.

And they framed it in a way

that it was all about cost cutting.

But in reality, it was almost as if they just didn't want

anything to do with the subject anymore.

I still believe they take a very active interest in the subject,

but they don't want to be seen publicly to take that interest.

After a rollout that took more than a decade,

it came to light that the Ministry of Defence

had accumulated over 60,000 documents

pertaining to UFO encounters.

But researchers sorting through the archives

were able to determine that 18 key files were missing.

There were a number of very famous cases

where people have taken some really good photos,

some really good film imagery that the MOD can't now find.

Large parts of their files were seemingly destroyed.

And it seems they have a very good,

uh, history on losing really important bits of information.

After a request was submitted,

Ministry of Defence officials located the missing files.

Each file, by the way,

contains upward of maybe a hundred, 200 documents.

So, we're talking thousands of documents.

They sent those files to the National Archives

and everyone was expecting an imminent release.

But in an unprecedented move,

the Ministry of Defence then recalled the files.

Now, I've never heard of this happening before.

To date, these 18 files remain under lock and key.

So, something very mysterious is going on.

Why would the British Ministry of Defence

send UFO files to the National Archives

and then suddenly recall them without explanation?

Some government insiders have suggested

that the files were moved for safekeeping

while another even more secure facility

was being prepared.

When the National Archives returned the files

to the British government,

they were spirited away to an undisclosed location.

There are those who believe that location

is a former Royal Air Force base

in the southwest county of Wiltshire,

called Rudloe Manor,

a site that the Ministry of Defence

used to perform UFO investigations

dating back to the 1940s.

On the surface, it appears to be nothing more

than a quaint English manor house.

But deep beneath this structure

lie an astounding 2.2 million square feet

of vast caverns divided into many smaller chambers.

These underground quarries were excavated in the 19th century

to mine Bath stone,

a type of limestone used to build the nearby city of Bath

and several other English cities.

One century later, in 1939,

England was drawn into World War II

and the British Royal Air Force

took over the depleted quarries,

transforming them into an underground aircraft factory.

At the end of the war, many such facilities

were returned to civilian control,

but Rudloe Manor and its over two million square feet

of secret tunnels and chambers were never surrendered.

For years, it was home to a group

called the Provost and Security Services.

They're kind of like the James Bonds

of the British Royal Air Force.

They do espionage investigations,

counterintelligence programs,

things like that, even terrorism investigations.

But back in the 1990s and certainly going back

to the 1950s, the Provost and Security Services

were heavily involved in UFO investigations.

Now, for years, the Air Force and the Ministry of Defence

denied that any UFO investigations

were going on at Rudloe Manor.

Then, a document got released

and it showed that actually, yes,

UFO investigations had been done from Rudloe Manor.

And the staff there

had been working hand in glove with those of us

in the headquarters building in London.

Shortly before the Ministry of Defence

released their UFO files in 2007,

they announced that Rudloe Manor

was no longer in use by the military.

But if that's true, why are the grounds

surrounded by chain-link fences,

monitored by security cameras,

and even protected by guard dogs?

To find the answers, in January of 2017,

ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

traveled to the protected boundaries

- of Rudloe Manor. - There it is.

Joining him in his search for the truth

was Nick Pope, who in the early 1990s,

worked for the Ministry of Defence

investigating UFOs.

We're here.

During your time at the MOD,

what did you learn about this place

or any type of, uh, UFO cases

that may have happened around this area?

Well, this whole area is rich in UFO sightings.

Rudloe Manor was the headquarters of a unit

known as Provost and Security Services.

- Mm. - Now, this is all tied up

with Air Force security and intelligence.

UFO sightings were investigated by staff

based here at Rudloe Manor.

But for years, we-we denied it.

We told Parliament, the media

and the public that these things were of no interest,

that Rudloe Manor had no involvement in this.

And yet, when the files were declassified,

it turned out that people were right.

- Right here? - Right here.

- Okay. - And-and so, this-this building

really was at the heart of Britain's secret UFO research

and particularly, the underground facilities below us.

All sorts of secrets

and research and investigation projects

went on from, uh, this particular facility.

While the manor house was the face of Rudloe Manor

and the headquarters for Britain's UFO investigations,

access to the underground facilities

is found two miles away

at the equally secretive installation known as the C.C.C.

It's close to where we are.

It's all part of the underground facility,

so there are tunnels

which start right underneath the manor house here

and go to e C.C.C.

No one knows exactly how many people work down there,

but it's thousands.

Mm-hmm. -Nobody knows exactly what they do.

And I worked for the government,

for the Ministry of Defence for 21 years and I don't know.

Right. -So, and even if I did, I wouldn't be able to tell you.

Of course.

Are the UFO files

withheld by the Ministry of Defence

being kept at Rudloe Manor,

as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

And could even greater secrets be hidden

at the mysterious site known as the C.C.C.?

Officially, it's called the Corsham Computer Centre.

And you can't get in there. It's absolutely off-limits.

Whatever's going on down there, it's big.

It says here, "Before opening this gate

"to allow someone to enter,

you must ensure that they are authorized."

Anybody know what the secret code is?

Despite the fact

that it is not open to the public,

ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

asked Nick Pope to take him to the C.C.C.

for a firsthand look at the installation.

- All right. - Good luck.

Thank you very much.

As a former employee of the Ministry of Defence,

Nick did not feel it was appropriate

for him to approach the facility himself without clearance.

I'll see you later, Nick.

- Yes. - Take care.

Here we are. The C.C.C.

The lights are on.

And, uh, just like Nick explained,