Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation

‐ The objects were bright white,

and there was absolutely no sound whatsoever.

‐ Tonight on Unidentified,

‐ It was around sphere, the exterior of it was gaseous.

‐ Lue Elizondo tackles

the most controversial question of all,

are we being visited?

‐ The atmosphere in the truck

got really, really thick.

Like, couldn't breathe.

‐ The following morning I found blood on my pillow.

‐ We were both startled awake by a bright light,

and I could hear what sounded

like someone moving around upstairs.

‐ US military veterans report

terrifying close encounters.

‐ I was burned on my face and on my hand.

‐ Even injuries,

‐ We ought to be able to follow

the data wherever it goes.

‐ Does the evidence hold up?

‐ Sounds exactly like a textbook case of sleep paralysis.

‐ Is proof we're not alone?

‐ If it turns out that you have something

that is coming down and taking people

against their own free will,

that's potentially an act of war.

‐ Everything we know about UFOs is changing.

Thanks to a team led by

former Pentagon UFO investigator, Lue Elizondo.

‐ That is real whatever that is.

‐ And former top

intelligence official Chris Mellon.

‐ This is a current continuing phenomenon,

it's happening, it continues to happen.

‐ They discovered five unique characteristics,

that UFOs have in common, called the five observables.

They also released groundbreaking videos

that force the Navy to admit its pilots,

were coming face to face with unidentified objects.

‐ The US Navy made a shocking admission today.

‐ Strange flying objects

caught on tape by their own fighter pilots are in fact UFOs.

‐ Now a new wave of military witnesses

is coming out of the shadows.

‐ I'd never seen anything moves like that.

Shape, size, speed's clearly identified.

‐ The team is united on a new mission.

Connect the dots to reveal the truth about UFOs.

‐ This thing had

no capability like anything on earth.

‐ And warn the world

about the dangers they might represent.

‐ Carl Sagan once famously said

"extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof".

He was absolutely right, but now we have the proof.

‐ One of the most disturbing things

Lue Elizondo studied at the Pentagon,

were reports of close encounters with UFOs.

The cases are controversial.

But Armed Forces personnel swear they not only happened,

but cause lasting physical and psychological effects.

If real Elizondo considers these effects,

a kind of sixth observable.

This first account happened over 40 years ago.

‐ My name's Mario woods.

I served in the Air Force from 1975 to 1983.

And I was in Security Police.

In 1977, I was a team member on a security response team

at Ellsworth Air Force Base at South Dakota.

‐ During the Cold War, Ellsworth Air Force Base

formed a key part of the so called

northern tier defense system.

Operating hundreds of nuclear tipped

Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles.

‐ I guess it was about 10:30 quarter to 11,

on this particular night, and then that's when we got a call

from the Launch Control officers,

that November five had alarmed

and it was a SIT four which was a serious alarm,

it means that exterior alarm's penetrated.

I told my team leader Michael Johnson.

‐ Mario Woods and his team leader,

were ordered to investigate the disturbance

at a missile silo, codenamed November Five.

‐ So, immediately we are dispatched.

As we go to highway 79 the entire atmosphere

was just lit up, it was just super bright

like the sun was rising.

And as we rounded the bend,

this object was sitting over November Five,

about 5, 10 feet off the ground max.

And it was just huge.

It's as big as any Walmart building I've ever seen.

The atmosphere in the truck got really, really thick.

Like, couldn't breathe.

It was a round sphere and on that sphere,

it looked like the exterior of it was gaseous.

And the colors were floating around it.

Wasn't a craft like with hard edges or anything like that,

it was completely round.

‐ The object hovering

over the nuclear missile silo,

appear to be exhibiting one of the five observables.

Anti‐gravity, the ability to fly

without visible means of propulsion.

‐ You know, when I was at AATIP,

we were under the presumption

that there was definitely nuclear connection.

Are we once again seeing some sort of connection

between UAP activity and our nuclear capabilities

along the northern tier?

‐ My partner Michael Johnson,

he was just frozen to the wheel,

looking straight ahead out that windshield.

And I kept hollering at him Michael, Michael,

and he didn't answer me.

I took my Maglite and I pulled myself out

on the window sill of that truck

and a flashbomb Maglited this thing.

But as soon as I did that, the pressure stopped.

It was like, okay, you can breathe now.

And we're slumping back down into the seat.

Then I remember just blacking out.

And that's the last thing that I remember,

until that radio came back to life.

And all I heard was a wing security controlled,

November one that was us, our call sign.

And I heard it three, four times.

And I turned to Michael Johnson,

I said, you're gonna get that?

And he still just frozen in his position.

And I couldn't figure it out

'cause there was a wall right here

and it went up as far as I could see,

and it was the back side of a Lake Newell reservoir.

We went from November five to Newell Lake.

And that's between five and seven and a 1/2 miles.

There were no tire prints or anything.

It was just our vehicle in the middle of the mud

and it started to get light.

‐ Wood says they have lost several hours.

An unexplained gap in time where they had no memory

of where they were or what was happening to them.

‐ So when I got back on the radio,

I told WSC that there's, spot of white wall.

So they said, continue to talk,

we're triangulating your location.

Maybe 20 minutes past.

So this backup alert team came

and I said, I don't know where I am,

I don't know where we are, and don't know how we got here.

I said, what's happened?

He goes, I can't talk to you about it,

just stay right there.

So I kept trying to communicate with Michael Johnson,

he wouldn't answer me in any way.

He was just frozen in this position,

looking straight ahead.

I had to have another guy help me

slide him over to the passenger seat and seat‐belted him in.

‐ Woods and his partner

were relieved of their weapons

and told to follow the backup alert team to the main base.

‐ We were taken directly to the wing commander's office.

And then the wing commander said,

Sergeant Woods he said,

I need to ask you what happened out there?

I told him what had happened

and he asked me to describe the size of it.

He goes, do you have any idea how you got to where you were?

I said no sir.

He said, we're gonna send you over to the base hospital.

We have a doctor wants to take a look at you

and we just make sure that you all right.

Doctor examine my eyes, my ears, nose, all that stuff.

He says I need to take a skin sample.

And I said why skin sample?

He says because you have some burns on you.

‐ I think most everybody is aware of the five observables.

But we looked at other things

and that six observable was biological effects.

And they can be anything from subtle to severe.

I was burned on my face and on my hand.

And the items that they used to take the skin samples,

they went right into a vile about that big,

and they put a cork on top of it.

And then they were laying on a silver tray.

‐ Two weeks later,

Michael Johnson showed up at Wood's door.

‐ He said, man, what did you see?

What do you remember?

I tried, I went through everything that I knew.

And then he described it too

and he said he was scared to death.

We thought we'd talk about it further,

but that was the last time I ever saw him.

I've been trying to find him ever since.

‐ Elizondo says he's cataloged

reports of burns in other close encounters.