GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Official reports of alien craft
suddenly retracted, UFO investigations
designed to spread disinformation,
government whistleblowers forced to conceal their identities.
Over the years, "Ancient Aliens" has investigated
the long history of government attempts
to cover up the truth about the extraterrestrial presence
on planet Earth.
And now we're going to take a look
at what I consider to be the most compelling and revealing
examples.
In England's southwest county of Wiltshire stands Rudloe Manor.
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.
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.
But back in the 1990s, and certainly going back
to the 1950s, the Provost and Security Services were heavily
involved in UFO investigations.
NARRATOR: In 2007, the Ministry of Defense
announced that Rudloe Manor was no
longer in use by the military.
But if that's true, why are the ground 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.
NICK POPE: There it is.
NARRATOR: Joining him in his search for the truth
was Nick Pope.
Wow.
We're here.
During your time at the MOD, what
did you learn about this place, or any type of UFO cases
that may have happened around this area?
Well this whole area is rich in UFO sightings.
UFO sightings were investigated by staff
based here at Rudloe Manor.
But for years, 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.
And so this building really was at the heart
of Britain's secret UFO research,
and particularly the underground facilities below us.
And the UFO community alleges that that's
where the UK keeps its alien hardware, crashed UFOs.
All sorts of secrets and research,
and investigation and projects went on
from this particular facility.
So then this was basically considered, or is considered,
the UK's Area 51?
Absolutely right.
Even rumors of alien bodies.
NARRATOR: Alien bodies?
Could the ultimate proof of government contact
with extraterrestrials be hidden in the tunnels right
beneath Nick and Giorgio's feet?
While Rudloe Manor is completely inaccessible,
another entrance to the underground facilities
is found two miles away at the equally
secretive installation known as the Corsham
Computer Center, or CCC.
Despite the fact that it, too, is not open to the public,
ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos
asked Nick Pope to take him to the CCC
for a firsthand look at the installation.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: All right.
Good luck.
Thank you very much.
NARRATOR: As a former employee of the Ministry of Defense,
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.
[music playing]
Here we are, the CCC.
And the lights are on.
And just like Nick explained, it's got barbed wire,
it is fence down, it's impenetrable.
Clearly, this entrance goes underground.
[siren]
NARRATOR: Within minutes of Giorgio's arrival
at the security gate, the crew is
met by a military police unit.
Unfortunately, the situation ends with filming being halted.
But why?
Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorist suggest,
that Rudloe Manor is not only used for secret government UFO
investigations but is housing extraterrestrial technology,
and even alien bodies?
Whatever's going on down there, it's big.
Still to this day, thousands of people work there.
And yet you can't get any real information
about what they're doing.
It's absolutely off limits.
NARRATOR: In July of 1947, an unidentified flying object
crashed to Earth in the desert just
outside Roswell, New Mexico.
It is, today, the most famous UFO event on record, in part
because it was the army itself that reported
the craft as a flying disk.
BILL BIRNES: July 8th and 9th, the newspaper
headlines, army captures flying disk outside of Roswell.
How did the newspaper get that story?
Walter Haut.
He was the official public information
officer at the Roswell 509, who gave
the story to the newspaper.
NARRATOR: But the military quickly walked back its story.
Within days, the mysterious Roswell UFO
was given an earthly origin when the government
claimed that the downed craft was merely a weather balloon.
Major Jesse Marcel, the head intelligence officer at Roswell
Army Airfield, traveled to Fort Worth, Texas,
where the debris recovered from the Roswell crash site.
He and Brigadier General Roger Ramey,
head of the Eighth Air Force, were scheduled to present
their findings to the media.
STEPHEN BASSETT: It came out that President Truman sent
orders to General Ramey, hold up something,
get some Reynolds wrap off the fish in your freezer.
And hold it up and say, that's what you found, not a disk.
Which is exactly what they did.
And the reporters basically just turned around, went home.
NARRATOR: For UFO researchers, evidence
that the actual wreckage from Roswell
was indeed replaced with a weather balloon
can be found within the notorious photograph,
along with clues as to what was being hidden from the public.
When General Roger Ramey was posing for photographs
with Jesse Marcel in the aftermath of all of this,
you can see him very clearly holding a piece of paper.
NICK POPE: General Ramey had a document in his hands,
the so-called Ramey memo.
Modern forensic document analysis
and photographic enhancement has enabled some researchers
to zoom in on this and to clarify at least
some portions of the text.
What it tells us is astounding.
Some of the phrases in the memo are "victims of the wreck,"
and "disc" which we will ship.
So clearly, something more than just a weather balloon
was involved here, and the memo might just be the smoking gun.
RICHARD DOLAN: We actually have evidence of an FBI memo
that made such a statement, that what was recovered
was being brought to Wright Field for analysis.
Well, you're not going to bring balloon parts
to Wright Field for analysis.
That's not going to happen.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that Wright-Patterson Air Force base
in Dayton, Ohio, is still housing
the remains of the object recovered from the New Mexico
desert more than 70 years ago?
And if so, could they be using the debris to try
and recreate extraterrestrial technology?
Even now, in the last few years,
there have been important UFO sightings around Dayton.
And witnesses in that area are looking out
over Wright-Patterson Air Force base,
and even in broad daylight, seeing unusual craft
hovering over the base.
This is a very distinct possibility
that supported by the fact that no jets are released
when these UFOs appear.
It's almost as if they know what they are.
Maybe it's because it's one of our own reverse engineered
craft.
NARRATOR: Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, March 16, 1967.
Before dawn, sentries and maintenance crews
near the base's nuclear missile silos
see mysterious lights flying back and forth across the sky.
These lights are so bright that the men on the ground
can't identify what they are.
But when one of them takes up a position just
outside the base's security fence,
a sentry calls his superior to report a UFO.
NICK POPE: One of the missiles suddenly went
off line, and then another, and another,
until the whole flight of missiles
was somehow mysteriously deactivated.
NICK REDFERN: This is highly disturbing because it suggests
in the event that UFOs one day become hostile,
our entire atomic arsenal may become completely inoperable.
NARRATOR: In June 2019, Giorgio Tsoukalos
arranged to meet up with one of the men who was stationed
at Malmstrom on the night of this historic UFO event,
retired Air Force missile launch officer Robert Salas.
While Malmstrom was deactivated at the end of the Cold War,
a nearly identical minuteman missile
facility in South Dakota is still accessible to the public.
Let's go in here.
Thank you very much.
NARRATOR: So Robert invited Giorgio
there to walk him through exactly
what he experienced in 1967.
Tell me what happened that night.
I got a phone call from the topside guard.
He's screaming into the phone.
I mean, he's really frightened.
[warning siren blaring]
And he said, I've got all the guards out here, weapons drawn.
And we see this gigantic red orange object, oval-shaped
hovering above the front gate.
And all of a sudden, we get klaxon's horns,
both look over at the control panel
here, and boom, boom, boom one right
after the other, all no-go.
I mean, it has to be incredibly
startling and disconcerting that someone
else with higher technology is able to disable our missiles.
Exactly.
And that's how I've come to the conclusion
that these were extraterrestrial objects,
or they were constructed off Earth
because we had nothing that could do anything like this,
either then or now.
And then was there a debriefing
or was there a discussion?
We were ordered to our squadron commander's office.
And then the guy next to him, he shoved this paper in our faces,
sign here.
I said, what is this?
He said, this is a non-disclosure statement
about the incident.
You are never to speak about it to anybody.
So you were given an order?
We were ordered to sign it, yeah.
And that was it.
I could not speak about this, and I didn't speak about this,
to anyone for about 27 years.
NARRATOR: Military officials have
never provided an explanation for the missile shutdown.
Was it caused by extraterrestrials?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, but suggest that we
may never know the full story.
Because for 50 years, the United States
military has covered it up.