There it is!
It's been called the Roswell of Northern New Mexico.
A small town said to be harboring one of the darkest...
...most disturbing secrets in UFO history.
An alien underground facility...
...bizarre genetic experiments...
...egg-shaped UFOs.
Does this space really exist?
There's a hole on the other side...
...of that Archuleta mountain.
Has our Government known all along?
Did they help build it?
Dulce is an underground base.
Ben Hansen is on a mission to find out.
You see at the top of the ridge...
...it's like spilling out like heat.
I'm Ben Hansen, former Federal Agent.
My grandfather worked at a highly classified Air Force base...
...and convinced me we are not alone in the universe.
Then I had my own encounter that changed my life forever.
Welcome to UFO country.
Now I've gained access to a top secret archive...
...from Project Blue Book...
This planet has been under surveillance for centuries...
...containing reports of over 10,000 UFO sightings...
...investigated by the US Government.
We could very well be standing on the exact place...
...where a UFO crashed.
My mission is to uncover the truth.
I'm in a remote area of Northern New Mexico.
I'm following up on a wave of UFO sightings.
When it comes to UFOs,
New Mexico is best known for one incident in particular,
Roswell 1947.
But that infamous case is just the beginning...
...when it comes to UFO activity in this region.
Since then there's been abductions...
...cattle mutilations...
...even stories of human experimentation.
I've heard rumors that...
...the Government has had a hand in these incidents.
Before I came out here I spoke with Laura Eisenhower...
...the great-granddaughter of President Dwight D Eisenhower...
...and what she told me about alien activity on our planet...
...was mind blowing.
-Hey Laura. -Hey, Ben.
I'm on my way to Dulce, New Mexico...
...to follow up on a recent UFO sighting...
...and I was told that the locals...
...a lot of them believe in this idea that...
...there's an underground alien base...
...in co-operation with humans...
...the Military, there.
Do you think there's any truth to...
...the idea of an underground base?
Uh Dulce is an underground base.
There's a lot of sightings that people have experienced...
...and they really do back up the claims.
Do you feel that these underground bases might be related to...
...these treaties that your great-grandfather...
...allegedly took place in with extraterrestrials?
Yes.
Laura believes her great-grandfather,
President Eisenhower...
...entered into a treaty with an alien race know as The Grays.
One of the theories is that we would exchange technology.
They would give us their information on...
...how to advance our technology in trade...
...for allowing them to do experimentation.
Yes.
We talked about the extraterrestrials coming from Space
...and having a particular interest in maybe a town...
...maybe a military base and that could be true...
...but could it also be true there's an increase in activity...
...because they're already here...
...and that they're underground and...
...they're actually coming out?
Yes, they've been here a really long time.
What are their intentions...
...you know is...
...is something to ponder and there's a lot to uncover.
I'm actually convinced it exists and I,
I'm--I'll be interested to hear...
...what you have to share when you get back.
The people of Dulce...
...and the surrounding Jicarilla Apache nation reservation...
...have been witnessing strange UFOs for decades.
But recently...
...one man claims to have captured photographic proof.
Ben is on his way to meet him now.
Could this be evidence of underground alien bases?
I discovered a photo which an amateur photographer took...
...a Dory Vigil.
Dory was taking pictures of a...
...a flat top mountain named the Archuleta Mesa.
And I wanna know if the photo might have...
...anything to do with these reports of a base.
-Hey Dory. -Hey, how are you doing? -Good.
Ben, nice to meet you.
Dory, along time Dulce resident...
...grew up hearing all sorts of whispers about Archuleta Mesa...
...but in 2015 all those rumors would become shockingly real.
So what were you doing that day?
Late one afternoon,
Dory was helping a friend trim trees.
On his way home he pulled over to take some photos.
I had a brand new camera.
I was trying to take pictures.
I took a picture of the football field...
...I took a picture of the church.
All of a sudden...
...there it was.
This little black thing in the sky.
-So do you happen to have that photo with you? -Yeah.
I can see. Okay, there's that little dip.
I can see now, it's so--...
...with this perspective though...
...that actually looks pretty close to you.
Dory wasn't the only one...
...who saw the strange flying object that evening.
Other witnesses recalled an even stranger detail.
There's other people around town that says...
...they seen the same UFO coming from the mesa.
From the Archuleta Mesa.
There is about maybe five accounts saying that it opened up.
Opened up?!
And a light came out or whatever or something and then this...
...there's stuff that went in and went out...
...and then it closed up and everything.
Have you had people like coming to you and saying...
...that you hoaxed it and--?
There's people in our town trying to say that but I told 'em...
...no it's not, it's not a bird.
It's not--it's just a real thing right here.
I mean if this were a bird or something...
...it would have to be the very perfect moment...
...where it's wings were folded up...
...right because it doesn't--
-Not to me, it doesn't look like a bird. -If you see a light,
I mean a, a object going by you would have a streak on it.
This one didn't really have a streak.
But other than that though it was there...
...you know and it was plain as day.
-Yeah, okay. -it's real.
And while, while you were there though there was no sounds...
...there was no anything...
...if I would've known I would've went straight for it...
...and look around you know...
...around and investigate it a little bit...
...with your own you know eyes you know.
So do you, do you think then that it's...
...it's possibly not from this world?
It's not military.
It's not from here for sure.
It's hard to say, you know. It's hard to say.
According to all the stories from the history...
...from grandma to cousin...
...they told me that when they was small...
...they used to see the spacecraft and everything.
If the Eisenhower treaty was signed seventy years ago...
...it would explain why these rumors...
...have been around for so long.
So we're talking at least maybe a hundred years or more.
Yes.
Ben's eager to investigate the Archuleta Mesa for himself...
...but access will be a challenge.
So if I wanna go visit any part of the Mesa up in tis area...
...what would I need to do?
Ben heads to the Jicarilla Apache Nation to plead his case.
If he can't get permission to access the land...
...his investigation is over before it's really started.
I'm on my way to meet with some of the Elders of...
...the Jicarilla Apache Nation...
...to get their permission to move freely about the reservation...
...to talk to some of the UFO witnesses...
...hear their experiences.
It's a matter of respect and I need that permission from them.
The tribe has turned down requests...
...from dozens of UFO investigators.
You'll have to turn the camera off now.
After several hours Ben re-emerges with good news.
He has secured unprecedented access...
...provided he works with a local...
...resident and former detective,
Avery Tafoya.
Thank you for taking your time to go with me because...
...as an outsider I know that this...
...is kind of a sensitive issue.
You're welcome.
I have always wanted to come to this part of New Mexico...
...because this, this gentleman Dory was telling me...
...people are watching things silently going in and out...
...is that true?
Yes.
People in the community have been seeing flying saucers,
UFOs.
Where do they think that these UFOs come from?
Well it's rumored that they're probably...
...coming out of the base.
So you've heard that too?
Yeah.
The secret alien underground base was...
...allegedly built in the fifties...
...after Eisenhower drew up a treaty with the alien entities.
But UFO lore has it that in the 1970s...
...a Government security guard from...
...Archuleta's underground base...
...came forward to expose...
...all the horrifying secrets hidden in the mountain.
His account became known as the Dulce Papers.
This long sought after report has alluded...
...UFO researchers for decades...
...but incredibly Avery claims to know all about it.
So have you looked through the Dulce Papers yourself?
Yes, I have. I've looked through the Dulce Papers.
Until now, Ben had only rumors to go on.
But now he's found someone that actually has seen the Papers.
-Really? -Yeah, but it's a while back.
I used to work with the Police Department...
...we were in our Squad Room drinking...
-...coffee on the night shift... -Huh-huh...
...and there was a cabinet in the coffee room...
...so we kinda looked through it and checked and...
...we actually found a copy of the Dulce Papers in there.
Like, like, like in a case file?
Yeah. It wasn't labeled.
I do have a copy if you'd like to see?
I would love to take a look at that.
It seems the Tribal Police kept their...
...own copy of the entire report.
Ben can't believe what he's seeing.
The allegations are horrifying.
The paper describes a seven level deep laboratory...
...run by humans and alien Grays.
The depict twisted genetic experiments...
...aimed at producing hybrid organisms.
Wow.
This is like a vat of you know aliens inside of them...
...like it looks like growing them or preserving them, right?
And detailed sketches.
Very interesting.
So this researcher writes "genetic acceleration...
...period of gestation three to five months".
There's some strange symbols here...
...it says "computerized wall and computerized tanks".
Interesting.
This is an incredible account but Ben needs more evidence.
Is there anyone else around town or...
...are the stories that you've heard...
...that kind of corroborate you know...
...that there is an underground base?
Yes, there's a woman named Merna Hanson.
A 28-year old bank teller, Merna...
...and her son, Shawn...
...were driving home to Eagle's Nest...
...just three hours from Dulce.
What followed would change their lives forever.
Ben Hansen is investigating reports of...
...a hidden human alien research laboratory...
...conducting genetic research near Dulce, New Mexico.
In 1980 a woman named Merna Hanson claimed...
...she and her son were abducted...
...by Grays and taken to the base.
Her and her six-year old son were driving home...
...and they observed some flying saucers in the sky.
The next thing she remembers after that was...
...her and her son were in their car.
It had no gas and it wasn't running.
On May 5th, 1980...
...sitting just outside the town of Dulce...
...she realized she'd lost a full six hours.
Does she recall anything of...
...of what happened in the missing time.
At the time she didn't but she had--gone back...
...to do some regression hypnotism.
During the time that she did that...
...she found out what had happened.
They were taken to an underground base.
-Really? -Yes.
Apparently after they were through...
...with examinations and procedures...
...they took Merna and her son into another room.
She describes seeing big baths of liquid...
...with body parts in it and she was not sure...
...if they were human or animal
Merna Hanson also claims she saw the aliens conduct...
...bizarre and painful experiments on cattle...
...and then she and her son's memories were erased.
They were subject to flashes of bright lights...
...apparently the bright lights wiped...
...their memory of the abduction.
Wow.
Okay, it seems like hypnosis helped.
Yes.
Do you think there's a real possibility that there is a...
...an extraterrestrial base underneath Dulce?
I do.
Based on what Avery's told me...
...there are a lot of eyewitnesses in Dulce.
We're on our way to meet Geri Julian...
...a Jicarilla Elder who lives on the outskirts of town.
-Her husband, Larry... -Huh-huh...
...they used to stay down here a lot...
...watched their cattle.
So a lot of times they would just sit outside...
...and that's when they started seeing stuff.
-Hello. -Hello.
Hello.
-I'm Ben. -I know. Okay. -Nice to meet you. You must be Geri.
Yes.
So Avery has been telling me here that you have had...
...some incredible experiences out here at your property...
...because you keep cattle here.
And I wanted to kinda hear what's been going on.
Geri claims to have had her first encounter with...
...the Dulce aliens in 1986.
A couple of years ago we were working up over there...
...at Archuleta mountain, that way.
We just sat at the end gate.
And then all of a sudden from there we saw like...
...something coming down on the Archuleta mountain...
...going towards the road.
Some white.
On top there was like a dome like this.
It was huge.
And egg-shaped craft similar to what her fellow tribal member,
Dory, saw was getting closer.
My husband he looked at me and then he tells me...
...right away he said, "Get in the truck!"
And then I say, "I wanna see it too."
He said, "No, get in the truck."
So I put the end gate back up and then I got in the truck.
And then the truck wouldn't start.
Really?
As Geri's husband struggles to get the truck started...
...the couple suddenly notice there's figures approaching.
Two small people are already climbing down.
Finally.
At that point we took off.
Although Geri didn't get a close look...
...she saw the figures go back to their egg-shaped UFO...
...and fly back towards the mountain.
Wow. Wow.
And it went back on top of Archuleta mountain to where the...
...the hole is. That way.
The hole? What's the hole?
There's a hole on the other side of the Archuleta mountain.
It's got a hole in it or do you mean that it's actually open?
They made it!
Whoever it is, they made it!
-Wow. -But this is not the end of Geri's story.
That night the beings came back and...
...this time she saw them up close.
At my house at night I woke up...
...while it was dark in my room...
...there were two small people...
...they were trying to pull me off...
...the bed and I couldn't scream.
So I was holding onto the mattress down here...
...and they were trying to pull me off.
Ben Hansen is in Dulce, New Mexico...
...on a mission to dig up the Archuleta Mesa's darkest secrets.
Is this table-top mountain hiding a jointly operated...
...human/alien genetic research lab?
Jicarilla Apache Elder,
Geri Julian, describes her close encounter...
...with what she believes were aliens from inside the mountain.
Two small people they were trying to pull me off the bed...
...and I couldn't scream.
And she has a specific name for her would-be abductors.
The Star people.
I was holding on to the mattress down here...
...and they were trying to pull me off.
And then my husband like moved and then they let me go.
And then all day the next day I couldn't get it off my mind.
What if they come again tonight?
What if they really take me?
They're, they're the Star people.
So is that what you believe is that they're...
...they're extraterrestrial?
Well Geri, thank you so much for your time and...
...and agreeing to meet with us and...
...some of your experiences sound quite frightening.
But it, it matches up with a lot of...
...what other people are telling me.
So I want to thank you for your time.
Everybody in town has some sort of story that...
...they've seen something here or they know somebody.
UFO craft coming and going in the mountain.
I believe Dory.
I believe that he didn't hoax this photo.
What it is is still unidentified.
It's, it's a true UFO.
And does it support some of the other...
...stories of people in town?
Yeah. They've been witnessing strange objects...
...like this for many, many years.
I really had no idea there was...
...so much activity reported in this part of New Mexico.
To find out what's really hiding in New Mexico,
Ben will need to dig further into the past.
He's been granted special access...
...to the top secret archives...
...that Dr. J. Allen Hynek...
...lead investigator for the Air Force's...
...Project Blue Book program.
It was Blue Book's mission to explain...
...away strange UFO phenomenon...
...but Dr. Hynek soon realized...
...some of these strange sightings could not be debunked.
I'm in Kalamazoo, Michigan going to the CUFOS Library.
I wanna get to the bottom of whether...
...the Archuleta Mesa is housing an underground base.
-Hey, Ben. -Hey, Mark.
And UFO historian, Mark O'Connell, has agreed to help.
So everyone knows that
New Mexico is a hot-spot for UFO activity, right?
I've been researching rumors of a jointly operated...
...human and alien underground base in Dulce, New Mexico.
It's a facility where allegedly our Government allows aliens...
...to experiment on humans...
...in return for their advanced technology.
There have been reports of egg-shaped UFOs flying...
...in and out of the mountain and I've spoken to one witness...
...who says she was nearly abducted.
Historically have there been any other sightings in that area?
The big one would be the Socorro case.
It involved a traffic cop who saw a strange object...
...and watched it blast off into the sky.
So we have a couple of tapes here.
The first one is an interview with the traffic copy...
-...Lonnie Zamora, -...the man who saw the UFO.
Let's have a listen to it.
But when Zamora arrived on the scene...
...he didn't find an exploded shack...
...instead he saw something he couldn't fathom.
Zamora's first instinct was to go to their aid.
You know what I love about this story?
He's giving the details that are very pertinent...
...that don't fit that typical UFO sighting.
It's egg-shaped and these men or creatures in white coveralls.
Right, it's, it's unlike any other case...
...that I've really heard and then the flame.
So it's like why--if you're gonna make up a story...
...you now to get people to believe you...
...why wouldn't you just make up your typical...
...yeah, here's, here's my UFO encounter and leave it at that?
Especially when you consider that...
...he immediately called in for back-up.
If he was making this up there's...
...no way he's calling for back-up.
No. He wanted to let people know I'm not crazy, right?
Someone else has gotta see this.
You should listen to this tape as well.
This is Dr. Hynek talking about the Socorro case.
So it has the Dr. Hynek stamp of approval, right?
Very much so.
He, he doesn't come out very often and say "I'm puzzled,
I can't figure this one out."
This was one of Hynek's favorite cases...
...if not his absolute favorite...
...and he really got into conflict...
...with the Air Force in this one.
The Government's explanation not only upset Hynek...
...but it defied common sense.
Here's the official Project Blue Book conclusion of the case.
They say it was unexplained but mostly likely...
...a prototype NASA lunar lander.
I don't know that I'd buy that.
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Has the Government been covering up the truth...
...behind the Archuleta Mesa?
Did Lonnie Zamora witness one of the egg-shaped crafts...
-...coming from the underground base? -And like Geri...
I couldn't scream...
...did he narrowly escape abduction?
There it is!
Ben's investigation into the secret UFO base at Archuleta Mesa...
...has revealed another unexplained...
...mystery in New Mexico's past...
...the Socorro case.
In which patrolman, Lonnie Zamora...
...swore he saw an egg-shaped spacecraft...
...manned by two small beings.
Incredibly the Government claimed...
...what Zamora saw was simply a lunar lander.
So this is 1964 right?
-Yeah. -I, I can't be certain...
...but I'm going to guess there's no confirmed documentation...
...that we were testing the lunar module in Socorro...
...which is a small town in New Mexico.
They would have no business doing it out there in the desert.
I've never bought that story for a couple of reasons.
First of all we all remember from the Moon landings that...
...when the lunar lander blasted off...
...it left it's landing gears behind.
This craft that Officer Zamora saw...
...didn't leave anything behind.
-The second thing is, -...when the lunar lander took off it...
-...could only travel in one direction, -...straight up.
The object that Officer Zamora saw...
...blasted straight up and then went horizontally...
...across the landscape until it disappeared...
...behind the mountains.
So if it was ours it had capabilities beyond...
...what our lunar module had three years later...
...which doesn't make sense.
Well there's a reason why this case was Dr. Hynek's favorite.
There was evidence here that...
...something really significant had happened.
Hynek didn't get to the bottom of it but it's worth exploring.
Well if Hynek thought it was intriguing...
...and something didn't smell right that's enough for me.
I wanna go check it out for myself.
Not only was Lonnie Zamora deemed by Hynek...
...to be a highly credible witness...
...his encounter happened just south of the region...
...where Dory Vigil snapped his photo of an...
...egg-shaped object streaking across the sky.
Is it possible that spacecraft based inside the Archuleta Mesa...
...have been flying through New Mexico skies for decades?
Ben is heading back to New Mexico to find out.
I'm in Socorro, New Mexico.
I'm checking out this 1964 case.
It was very unique.
Socorro was a small remote town in Central New Mexico.
It has a population of just over 8000 people...
...and it's surrounded by desert in every direction for miles.
So I'm going to talk with Ben Moss, he's a UFO researcher.
He's been kind of passed the torch...
...from the original investigator...
...so he knows all about it.
He's gonna tell me how this case fits into the big mystery...
...which is what exactly did Zamora see...
...and has it returned to this region?
Ben.
Ben Hansen, I presume.
-Yes. Thank you for meeting me out here. -Sure.
It's good to finally meet you.
Wonderful day for an investigation.
I'm excited because I've heard so much about this, this case...
...the location.
-Is it close to here? -It's right over this burn behind us.
-Do you wanna jump in, -Sounds good.
-we'll go check it out. -Alrighty.
The Bens are headed to the exact site...
...where Zamora said the egg-shaped craft had landed.
So on the right here is the memorial...
...that the city built to Lonnie Zamora.
Look at that.
When did they put that up?
After he died in 2009.
Which is really kind of unusual...
...that any Government agency you...
-...know recognizes a UFO sighting. -Definitely. Definitely.
And Lonnie was a very respected citizen.
Surprisingly this hasn't changed since 1964.
-Right here? -Yes. -Let's do it.
When Blue Book investigators arrived on scene 56 years ago...
...they placed stones around the impressions...
...left by the spacecraft's four landing pads.
Decades later those hollows have filled in...
...but the rocks remain marking the exact...
...position of the UFO's landing.
Here we are.
I've got a measuring tape here.
I'm curious how far apart these would be.
So between here and there.
That in the center here we have thirteen feet.
And then would this be another one?
That would be another one.
I got twenty feet here.
Okay, so this is a substantial craft.
Yes. Dr. Hynek took some measurements...
...and estimated that the craft had to weigh about...
...nine tons to make those depressions.
-Nine tons. -Nine tons.
That's a nuts and bolts like physical heavy object.
That's a very heavy craft to have sitting down here...
...and I would imagine the only way...
...you would get something down here...
...like that would be to fly it and drop it in.
Wow! Wow!
When you cross section this the flame came out directly...
...in the center of the four landing pads.
Look like it surgically--almost...
...like you had taken a blow torch...
...and cut this creosote bush in half...
...which is really hard to do with these resinous plants...
...it requires a lot of heat.
I have this original photograph taken...
...by Blue Book at the scene...
...and this is the creosote bush that was burned in half.
And you can see quite clearly it's almost sliced precision.
Oh, wow, yeah! Yeah.
And it even said if you took a blow...
...torch you couldn't recreate this.
-No, it would just set the thing on fire. -Exactly.
And did anyone else witness this?
Well the case it gets more interesting.
In the north direction from here...
...there are initially three witnesses independently called...
...into the dispatch scene.
"I see an object with a blue flame heading towards Socorro."
This testimony doesn't just corroborate Zamora's account...
...it suggests that the spacecraft came...
...from the exact direction of the Archuleta Mesa
And then other people arrived.
Did they take photos?
Another officer who always carried a camera...
...he came and took,
I believe about nine shots.
Dr. Hynek later confirmed that the...
...film was fogged by radiation.
Yeah, a lunar lander wouldn't cause radiation.
That is, that is really odd.
You know I, I do have a Geiger counter.
-Why don't go and grab that. -Great. Let's do that.
Radiation is said to be a telltale...
...sign of an extraterrestrial craft.
While most aircraft are powered by conventional fuels...
...it's believed that alien ships run...
...on some sort of nuclear technology.
Okay so, so let's see if there's still any radiation here.
I always do like to kinda scan the area.
Oh, wait! Wait a minute, here we go.
Whoa! We're definitely getting something here.
Wow, okay.
So I can tell you the radiation is quite a bit...
...by far more than what I normally find.
You know with top soil like this though
I wouldn't expect there to be any trace after this many years.
But I'm definitely getting a hit...
...and an experimental lunar lander...
...would not have left any radiation.
The levels are higher than normal background.
We probably could have in 1964 created a craft...
...that weighed nine tons, looked like an egg...
...sits on landing gear...
...but we couldn't have replicated how this things moved.
Nor is there a logical explanation...
...for the radiation left behind.
Lonnie Zamora claimed after the object rose off the ground...
...it immediately sped into the distance...
...and disappeared over the mountains...
...reaching unheard of speeds.
It came up using jet propulsion system...
...lots of noise, roaring...
...blue flame coming out and then it goes silent and...
...and it sails off.
We do not, still to this day...
...have such conventional aircraft.
-Dory, -Merna, Geri, Zamora...
...all claim to have seen egg-shaped UFOs in New Mexico...
...but were they all flying in and out of an underground base...
...that conducted genetic experiments?
Ben Hansen is investigating rumors of egg-shaped UFOs...
...seen flying in and out of an alleged...
...underground base in Dulce,
New Mexico.
He's come across similar sighting in Socorro,
250 miles south.
The Government claim the UFO was actually a lunar lander...
...but even Project Blue Book investigator,
Dr. Hynek had his doubts.
Ben Hansen is visiting the local Socorro newspaper archives...
...to see if there are any more clues...
...about Zamora's strange encounter.
We're here to look at the archives, we called earlier.
You can go right ahead.
I appreciate it, thanks a lot.
While Ben Moss reviews copies of the local paper,
Ben Hansen searches for articles from other New Mexico towns.
Found some goodies?
Yeah. Yeah, looks like it.
Right, let's check this out.
So what have you got there?
I've got 1964, El Defensor, news articles.
So it came out what, a couple of days after the day.
So we're looking for April 28th.
-Bingo! -Oh yeah.
A young Dr. Hynek.
He's wearing a bolo tie...
...kinda, kinda fit in with the locals here.
Dr. Hynek feels Zamora's account is solid not a hoax.
This article dated just a few days after the Zamora incident...
...proves Hynek didn't buy the lunar lander cover-up.
He believed Zamora saw something other worldly.
That's a big recommendation from a Blue Book Investigator.
But Lonnie Zamora wasn't the only person...
...who claims to have seen a UFO back in 1964.
I found some other things in here...
...that wasn't just on this case.
Here's one talking about people reporting seeing...
...something landing north of Espanola.
Look at this.
"A boy set afire by a blob."
His grandmother was inside and she heard a weird sound...
...like something whizzing by really fast.
She looked around and he's covered in black...
...and his hair's standing on end and it's burning.
Whatever Zamora saw...
...it seems he wasn't it's only target.
-Wow. -And he talks about a...
...an object that looked like a top...
...that came down and basically hovered over him...
...and shot flames out.
Sound familiar?
Flames!
Look at that, there's another one.
A ten-year old girl says she was burned...
...while watching a strange egg-shaped thing...
...in the sky yesterday afternoon.
This happens in Hobbs...
...which I think is over by Roswell, right?
What we have evidence of is it's not just here in Socorro.
So many towns would be lit up...
...with sightings that are quite frightening.
This thing was everywhere.
I uncovered something that was not very well known...
...and that was two cases where UFOs...
...allegedly came so close to children...
...that it caused physical harm.
You know what is going on?
I wanna know if there's any truth to the rumors around Dulce.
Is it possible there's a secret alien base?
Merna Hanson continues to be the only eyewitness...
...who has set foot inside the base.
So Ben does a deep dive into the background of her account.
What's interesting is that...
...all the records from Merna were destroyed, ironically...
...but I did discover one person who was key to this...
...who reviewed the regression hypnosis of Merna Hanson...
...and his name is Paul Benoit.
Paul is, is a key figure to this.
He was convinced the Merna did find...
...evidence of an underground base there at the Mesa.
In his papers he's quoted as saying,
"Their base is on the west slope of Mount Archuleta.
The base it stands north of this...
...peak to the edge of the cliff.
I would guess it is an underground launch egress facility.
They are not to be trusted.
They must be stopped and have to get off...
...before we find time has run out."
He was absolutely entrenched in the...
...information coming to him but...
...the thing was he was the subject of...
...an Air Force disinformation campaign.
We know that.
I talked to one of the officers who was involved in it.
We knew it was not from this earth...
...extraterrestrial.
Those particular sightings we had to disinform the public.
Before he died in 2003...
...he was convinced there was an underground base...
...underneath the Archuleta Mesa.
Geri, Dory, Avery...
...they're all taking a path walked...
...by Benoits and Zamora decades ago.
I'm headed back to Archuleta Mesa to...
...figure out where that path ends...
...and maybe the entrance to that base.
There's a hole on the other side of that Archuleta Mountain.
Got a hole or do you mean that it's actually open?
They made it!
-So you, -Whoever it is, they made it.
Ben's investigation has him convinced...
...there's something very strange happening...
...around the town of Dulce and the Archuleta Mesa.
But is it really possible that there could be...
...an underground base within a mountain?
Ben has enlisted the help of Jicarilla Apache Tribe member,
Avery Tafoya to see for himself.
The road is so narrow...
...that I can barely squeeze by without...
...riding up over the embankment.
It's pretty far a way down so we gotta go really slow.
She's crabbing though, she's crabbing.
She wants to go left.
There you go.
Whoa ho ho! Ho ho ho ho ho!
Come on.
Notice I'm starting to shed clothes, this is very stressful.
We gotta be very careful here.
Oh boy.
-Let's get out and take a look. -Alright.
This isn't good.
Look at this.
Somebody else tried coming up and then backed out.
If we come up here, it still quite a ways up isn't it?
-Yes, it is. -Might be our only option.
Alright.
This has gotta be some of the most difficult terrain
I've ever traveled four-wheeling.
I am getting a little run on it so hold onto your hat.
Oh, shoot!
We, we have a drone...
...we got thermal and I wanna start hiking...
...just at least to the base here.
I know a lot of people talked about evidence...
...that something is built underground.
Why don't we put up the drone.
Well this is just really cool to be...
...up around here and looking around.
We should see the radio towers here in just a second.
There we go...
...so here's, here's our radio towers.
On top of the mountain is the Jicarilla...
...Apache owned radio towers.
According to Avery they're unmanned.
There's no sign of anyone up there.
There's no vehicles which is like we said.
Now what I was hearing from people is that you...
...you pan around the other side that's...
...where they're seeing lights.
So a base could be anywhere in there...
...it's pretty secluded coming up from that side...
...and as we found out at certain times of the year...
-...it's really kinda treacherous coming up this way. -Yes.
I mean that's, that's the idea.
I also have a thermal camera that-- it's pretty cold out...
...so anything that might be giving off heat like a vent...
...might show up in the thermals.
Despite scanning around the entire Mesa,
Ben doesn't see the hole or entrance...
...but if the Government had a part to play in building...
...a jointly operated underground base,
Ben suspects the entrance is well hidden.
There's people actually being harassed by the military...
...or anyone while they're up here?
Well just been told the story about that a couple were up here...
...and some military pulled up on them...
...they told 'em to get off the mountain...
...and they followed them down.
It's almost one of those situations...
...where you wanna demand their credentials.
Under what authority are you kicking me outta here?
Probably the authority of that AR-15 pointing at you.
So I'm gonna record on thermal.
So you can see right here...
...the top of the mountain is actually...
...twenty degrees Fahrenheit.
So I'm imagining anything that's...
...you know ventilating heat or air...
...from a facility down below is gonna show up.
Look at this...
...you got 21 degrees, that's the hillside itself, Fahrenheit.
Yellow and the lighter colors here are gonna be hot.
So red is gonna be the hottest.
Look at that red area coming off the top of the ridge.
Wow!
-It's to the left of the towers. -Yes.
It looks like it's coming like right...
...up off the ridge, it's hot.
You see the top of the ridge...
...it's like spilling out like heat.
Yeah, like hot air blowing out.
Yeah, exactly.
That red area is growing and growing...
...as if it's coming off, off the ridge.
Wow! What is that?
But why is that ridge so much warmer than surrounding?
Something has to be causing that heat.
Is it possible that the heat is coming from something...
...that is venting from underground like a facility?
Sorry, don't wanna break the force of law but look at this.
Ben has discovered some truly compelling evidence...
...of an underground base...
...but as the sun goes down he and Avery...
...need to get off the mountain.
People talk about it being remote here...
...difficult to get up to, especially this time of year.
But I could see if you were to build a secret base...
...this would be the ideal location.
You know the Dulce Papers are quite controversial...
...but after talking to a lot of witnesses...
...who claim to have seen aircraft coming out of the mountain...
...there might be some sort of facility here.
So much of this little corner of New Mexico...
...remains shrouded in mystery...
...but it's clearly a UFO hot-spot
...and it's secrets won't stay buried forever.