No blood. No tracks. Few clues. A mysterious murder scene so brutal, so bizarre, are humans capable of such an act? Or could this be the work of aliens on an intergalactic mission? Walk along the razor’s edge between science fiction and science fact. UFO Files s1e13: Cattle Mutilations, History 29th November 2004
Linda Moulton-Howe may know more about animal mutilations than any other researcher. ibid.
‘The animal mutilation phenomenon is really a global issue.’ ibid. Linda Moulton-Howe
With their deep dark eyes and grey-skinned bodies, they are pop-culture’s most familiar aliens. They’ve been dubbed the Greys. But what do we know about these presumed extraterrestrials? Eyewitnesses swear they have encountered these aliens. UFO Files s1e14: The Grays’ Agenda, History 6th December 2004
What do they want? What’s their agenda? ibid.
Years later Betty Hill produced the first alleged dipiction of the Greys since ancient times. ibid.
Hundreds of alien abductions have been reported. ibid.
The Majestic 12 documents detailed four types of spacecraft that aliens used: they include a disc, cigar, circular and triangular-shaped craft. ibid.
1938: Discovered deep within the mountains of China, 12,000-year-old stone discs inscribed with an encripted message from extraterrestrials called the Dropa. UFO Files s1e15: The Chinese Roswell, History 13th December 2004
These were no ordinary graves. ibid.
The harsh reaction from the academic community in China did not silence the Dropa Stones story. ibid.
Today we are left with only two verifiable photographs and a fantastic tale [of discs] supposedly written in alien hieroglyphs. ibid.
Since the beginning of recorded time mankind has seen unidentified flying objects in the sky. Have extraterrestrials influenced the course of human events? UFO Files s2e1: Ancient Aliens
The British government has kept secret files on each and every reported sighting. UFO Files 2e3: Britain’s X-Files
Britain’s best-documented UFO incidents: including what two pilots saw on a mission over south-west England; the mysterious shapes in the sky spotted by two Devon police officers; and the flying machine seen by American servicemen in a forest in Suffolk. ibid.
Nearly 40 years ago on an early December evening something strange is spotted in the sky above the village of Kecksburg Pennsylvania. Some believe they have witnessed a UFO crash; they say local officials and the military tried to conceal the mysterious object. UFO Files s2e4: Kecksburg UFO
Newsman John Murphy arrives on the scene. He sneaks into the woods and secretly takes a few photographs of the strange object. Accounts differ but those close to Murphy believe some key photographs are confiscated by officials. ibid.
The flatbed [truck] is no longer empty. And he [Robert Blystone] sees what the military is trying to hide. ibid.
About a dozen people near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, witness what they believe is a UFO crash. ibid.
For nearly 20 years UFO researchers and the government have disputed the authenticity of these documents. To some they are proof of a UFO cover-up. UFO Files s2e5: Majestic 12 UFO Cover-Up
A group of high-level scientists, military leaders and Intelligence officers. The memo indicates that these twelve men have been granted the nation’s highest security clearance to investigate the 1947 crash of an alien spacecraft. ibid.
July 1947, Roswell, New Mexico: Wreckage found in the desert outside this small town is believed by many to be a UFO. UFO Files s2e6: The Day After Roswell
Colonel Philip J Corso: The Day After Roswell [1997]: The material he presented in his book is still controversial. ibid.
The aliens, according to these witnesses, were four small human-like beings with four-fingered hands, thin legs and feet, an oversized head and large almond-shaped eyes … The documents have not been authenticated. ibid.
A shocking surgery to remove an alien implant caught on tape; a flying saucer fragment found; UFO landing sites located: all the work of a special breed of investigator. UFO Files s2e7: UFO Hunters
Is it possible for the military to keep secrets about UFOs from the president? What does the commander-in-chief really know about extraterrestrials? UFO Files s2e8: UFOs and the White House
Russia’s Roswell: A 50-year-string of mysterious incidents such as UFO crashes, dog fights, and underground reverse engineering, at the most top-secret of all fomer Soviet military bases: Kapustin Yar. Some even say that the base was site of a strange event that took place in 1948. A spectacular UFO crash-landing. UFO Files s2e9: Russian Roswell, History 31st October 2005
This is Kapustin Yar, a top-secret military facility 60 miles south-east of the former Stalingrad and 500 miles south of Moscow. ibid.
In the early evening of 19th June 1948 Kapustin Yar’s air traffic controller saw a strange object appear on his radar screen. At the same moment a Mig pilot about 7 miles down range from the base spotted a large silver cigar-shaped UFO directly in front of him. He radioed back to the base that he was being blinded by a bright light. ibid.
The pilot engaged the UFO for almost 3 minutes before launching a missile that was finally able to bring down the object. But unlike Roswell this crash never made the news. ibid.
Long before the 1948 crash, the area surrounding Kapustin Yar in the skies over Russia had been home to many other well documented and eerie encounters with UFOs, some dating back to a time before what we now know as Russia even existed. ibid.
In the 17th century Russia experienced a rash of UFO sightings. ibid.
Another extraordinary sighting took place over Moscow in 1892. ibid.
At approximately 7 a.m. on 30th June 1908 the tranquil Siberian forest of Tunguska was rocked by a deafening earth-shattering explosion. Large trees snapped like tiny twigs as the explosion decimated the dense forest. ibid.
Reports suggest that Stalin believed the Tunguska blast was the result of a UFO that had launched some sort of experimental weapon. ibid.
But the most shocking discovery came in the form of radioactive metallic fragments found at the site, debris uncharacteristic of any asteroid or meteor. ibid.
Where were the radioactive fragments from Tunguska taken? ibid.
A national hero, a cosmonaut, [Colonel Marina] Popovich says that she witnessed actuall battles between soviet pilots and UFOs. ibid.
This is the secret history of those attempts to harness the technology of the flying saucer to produce the ultimate military plane: the real UFOs. UFO Files s2e10: Real UFOs
Killing machines wielding deadly heat-rays and poison gas. The largest city in the world devastated within hours. This was the nightmare that H G Wells foretold more than a century ago. A story made even more terrifying by the fact that the marauders were creatures from Mars who fed on human blood. As fantastic as the story was, it struck a deep-rooted fear in everyone who read it. And much later caused legendary panic in the streets of America. UFO Files s2e11: Beyond The War of the Worlds, History 21st November 2005
When The War of the Worlds was published as a novel in 1898, it became an instant best seller. ibid.
Ecuador, February 1949: Tens of thousands of panic-stricken residents ran into the streets to escape deadly Martian gas-rays. ibid.
For the next decade pop culture kept the dream of life on Mars alive. ibid.
It is one of the most bizarre UFO stories ever told. Aurora, Texas, April 17th 1897: Witnesses reported a flying airship 5 years before the Wright brothers took flight. In the wreckage a small badly disfigured body is discovered, described in newspapers as ‘not an inhabitant of this world’. The pilot was buried in the local cemetery and a legend took shape. UFO Files s2e12: Texas Roswell, History 12th December 2005
Someone or some thing was inside the craft. ibid.
According to the Fort Worth Register the alien did not survive. They reported he was given a Christian burial in the town cemetery. ibid.
There were over a dozen different articles about the mysterious airships listed in the 19th of April edition of the paper [Dallas Morning News]. ibid.
Right-angle turns and rapid altitude changes like those described by witnesses. ibid.