NARRATOR: Washington, DC.
October, 2017.
After Luis Elizondo resigns from his position with a tip
and leaves the Pentagon, he shares
three declassified videos recorded by Navy pilots
with his new colleagues at To The Stars Academy.
The first object, known as Tic Tac,
was caught on radar in 2004 off the USS Nimitz
at an altitude of 80,000 feet.
As Navy F-18s approached the object,
it descended to within one foot of the water in seconds.
We don't have this capability of dropping
80,000 feet within a matter of seconds,
hitting a velocity of Mach 20.
So we now know that there's some kind of propulsion system
that exceeds the capability of our own rocket.
NARRATOR: Naval aviator Lieutenant Chad Underwood
was ordered to pursue the object in an F-18
equipped with a sophisticated FLIR video system.
The object looked featureless, and that's
why I called it the Tic Tac.
It looked like a tic tac.
It had no wings, no method of propulsion,
and on your Forward Looking Infrared Pod, all it is
is tracking heat.
So you would typically see engine
exhaust coming out of one of the ends of the aircraft.
Not seeing any of it.
The object was changing altitude, airspeed, things
that my FLIR and my radar were having difficulty tracking.
And then at the end of the encounter
is when you see it dart off to my left on the FLIR pod,
and that's when I was like, whoa.
What just happened?
NARRATOR: The other two videos Elizondo brought
to his colleagues at To The Stars Academy
were equally groundbreaking.
Known as Gimbal and Go Fast, both videos
were taken by Navy Jets from the USS Theodore Roosevelt
near the Florida coast in 2015.
All three videos show objects moving in ways that
defy the known laws of physics.
These objects can zig zag effortlessly, defying
the known laws of aerodynamics.
These objects can effortlessly accelerate up to 20 times
the speed of sound.
They have no visible means of propulsion.
So what could it be?
Well, the short answer is we don't know.
The phenomena had unusual flight characteristics,
unusual factors.
Speed, being able to hover and move.
The fact that the Chinese or the Russians or anyone else
would have that kind of capability
and we wouldn't know about it is pretty slim.
NARRATOR: As head of AATIP, Elizondo
was able to have the videos declassified,
but they had never been made public.
His involvement in To The Stars Academy
offered a new opportunity to share
the remarkable information collected at the Pentagon.
To The Stars, their goal was that they were going to crack
it all open and they were going to open up the truth
that the government knows about these unidentified aerial
phenomena that have a technology that does not exist
in terms of human production.