(THE X-FILES THEME SONG PLAYS)
No, no, no, no. I said UFO.
Yeah, I have proof.
(PHONE LINE BEEPS) Oh!
Oh, why do they always hang up on me?
Me - a self-appointed expert in the field of UFO-lia.
(SIGHS) Well, they won't be laughing
when they see this video of an actual UFO.
Actually, it's already been released,
and, yeah, it's actually a UFO
that was captured by US Navy pilots.
So, you know what that means.
Aliens!
Um, not quite.
You see, a UFO doesn't necessarily mean
there are aliens involved.
It literally just means unidentified flying object,
although the US military prefer the term
'unidentified aerial phenomena'.
Anyway, a UFO is what you call something
when it's flying and you don't know what it is.
This UFO vision isn't new.
It was actually leaked a few years ago,
and it got a lot of people speculating
that maybe the US government was covering up evidence
that aliens were zooming among us,
but the US government says that's not the case.
They released the videos to clear things up
and show they have nothing to hide.
Nothing to hide?!
Well, what about my best friend's cousin Vicky?
He saw one.
Not to mention all the thousands of other people
who've reported seeing one.
You're not wrong.
Over the years, stacks of people have claimed
to have caught a glimpse of a UFO.
A famous example happened on 24 June 1947.
Kenneth Arnold was flying his small plane
in Washington in the US,
where he claimed to see nine high-speed UFOs fly through the sky.
He later described their movements to be
like a saucer if you skip it across the water,
which is where the whole flying saucer thing came from.
While we're not sure what Kenneth actually saw,
some have speculated maybe it was a mirage
or even a flock of pelicans -
super fast pelicans.
The same year, a farmer named Mac Brazel
found piles of strange debris on his farm in Roswell
in New Mexico in the US.
After contacting authorities,
officials from the nearby Army Air Force Base
cleared the wreckage
and claimed it was a weather balloon that had crashed.
But not everyone was convinced,
and speculation grew that it was actually the work of aliens.
Eventually, in the '90s, the US government revealed
that it wasn't a weather balloon after all, but was actually...
..a surveillance device that was used to spy on the Soviet Union.
Australia has also had a few UFO sightings.
Wycliffe Well, in the NT,
is apparently the country's UFO capital.
Since the '80s, hundreds of people have headed there
to try and catch a glimpse of mysterious bright lights
that would appear in the sky every night.
These days, many governments have departments
responsible for investigating reports of UFOs.
In most cases, they end up being things like satellites
or bright stars,
but they do take reports very seriously,
not because they believe in aliens, but because there's always a chance
that UFOs could be high-tech enemy aircraft.
(THE X-FILES THEME SONG PLAYS)
And while this UFO might not be proof of alien existence,
there are still plenty of people who believe alien UFOs are out there.
Oh, the truth is out there.
Maybe.
Surely.
Mm, I hope so.