NARRATOR: Imagine an encounter of the third kind.
I was thinking to myself, they're gonna kill me.
Coming face to face with an extraterrestrial being.
Turns round, points toward the roof and shoots it.
Witness explain, it has happened to them.
What do these visitors want?
11 people go inside and report that a UFO,
a flying saucer, has landed behind their house.
Whoa.
Do they come in peace?
I call this the great American horror story.
BEN VOICEOVER: I'm Ben Hansen, a 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.
Contained 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 Kissimmee, Florida,
on my way to meet with a woman
who claims that she has an encounter with an alien life form.
She was truly terrified.
She said this thing was in her backyard.
J Allen Hynek defined this
as close encounter of the third kind.
In order to classify sightings,
Project Blue Book investigator, Dr Hynek,
developed an identification scale.
Simply get close to an unidentified object
is a close encounter of the first kind.
If the unidentified object left physical evidence,
such as scorched earth,
or impressions on the ground,
it is a close encounter of the second kind.
The top of the scale is an encounter with an actual entity,
known as a close encounter of the third kind.
One woman claims to have recently experienced
this type of rare encounter, in Southern Florida.
Today, I'm gonna meet with Trish Bishop.
She agreed to meet me at the backyard
where she said her encounter happened.
Hi, Trish.
Hey, nice to meet you. I'm Ben.
You too. Hi.
Thank you so much for meeting me here.
So, you lived over in this house in this direction over here.
That's correct. How long did you live there for?
Since February of 2013 to July of 2019.
And this even happened when?
February 28th of 2013.
So, take me back to what was the first thing
that you noticed that was unusual about your property?
What was going on?
It was a Thursday afternoon,
and I get home from work,
and I go out on the back porch just to relax.
I had seen what appeared to be this wavy thing.
It was above the trees.
It was about 10-12ft in length
and it just sounded like
something was walking over there by the edge of the woods.
Something large?
Yeah.
And I'm sitting there and I'm like,
"What in the world is that?"
I'm not thinking alien.
I'm not thinking any of that.
That's not going through my head.
And, all of a sudden, I can see him.
This thing was a human body.
6-2, 6-3.
Very, very well built.
Military type body.
But he had a creature's head.
And he had these massive,
very pronounced jaw bones.
When I saw his eyes, I thought, he can't... that...
that can't possibly be his eyes, 'cause he can't close them.
There's no way to close 'em.
And I thought, if he knows I can see him,
he's gonna kill me.
Because of the look, stature,
and height of the alien being,
Trish felt threatened immediately.
She created a digital sketch of what she saw.
I created something off the Internet.
Oh, my gosh. And this is really close.
Trish, this would be terrifying.
And I'm like, he's gonna kill me.
So, I thought if I pretend that I don't see him,
then I might be safe.
So, I just kept playing with my phone,
you know, and he just stared at me,
and then he turned round, he looked into the woods again.
And, turned back around, he took a couple more steps.
All I kept thinking was if...
if I dial 911
and the police show up
and they see all those cops and everything coming here,
he's gonna annihilate us.
So, he takes about five or six,
seven steps forward towards that wavy thing.
When he enters that wavy thing, everything disappears.
So, what I did was, I sat there for a couple minutes.
After a couple minutes, I got up,
I wanted to see if I could see that UFO.
Couldn't see it, I couldn't see it anywhere.
Did you tell anybody about this after the event?
No.
I didn't tell anybody for four years.
I work with government contractors, I have a clearance.
It's not something that you just go out and tell people,
"Oh, I saw an alien."
I could possibly lose my job.
Though Trish stayed silent for years,
she never forgot the encounter in her backyard.
Eventually, she came across the Mutual UFO Network,
or MUFON, online.
Their speciality, deciphering UFO sightings.
So, it also had a link to report.
Uh-huh.
And I thought, I'm gonna tell.
I know what I saw.
I... I don't have to justify anything to anybody.
I got an email back from John Gagnon
with MUFON,
and he started talking to me,
and he came out here.
We did a walk through the woods and everything.
I showed him where I saw the alien.
So, he walked around with me and everything,
and he said, "Why don't you get a... a hunting tracker?"
And I did, I bought one.
Trish installed a hunting tracker,
a motion triggered camera used to track game,
in her backyard.
Aimed at where she had seen the alien.
A few weeks later, it captured something shocking.
I did get a really good photo of a UFO?
Really? And I can...
I can show you a picture... I would...
..of that online. ..I would love to see that, please.
Trish's trail cam was triggered to take this photo
after detecting rapid motion.
The UFO appears to be streaking away at a near perfect vertical ascent.
Photo analysis conducted
by MUFON concluded that
this object was 27ft wide and 12-13ft long,
with no visible means of propulsion.
Other UFO's sighted in American air space
had behaved similarly.
Namely the Tic Tac craft that was filmed
by US Navy pilots in 2004.
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The Tic Tac was reported to hover in space,
almost unnaturally,
before taking off in whatever direction
it pleased
at near supersonic speeds.
What part of the sky did you take this with?
I mean, where was your trail cam pointed
in relation to the sky here?
This trail cam was on the crepe myrtle tree
where I saw the alien.
OK.
And it was pointed west,
towards Kennedy Space Centre.
Well, Trish, you've given me a lotta great information.
I can tell this was a very impactful event for you,
and I appreciate you taking me back.
Trish's story is incredible.
So, the firsthand witness testimony is crucial,
but I also like to get a balance from an investigators point of view.
So, I wanna talk to John,
and hopefully he can fill me in on what he did here.
John Gagnon is the Chief MUFON Investigator for Florida.
Over the course of his career,
his job has been to separate fact from fiction
in sightings all over the state.
If Trish's sightings ring authentic, John will know.
So, John, could you tell me
when did you first interact with Trish?
I was a chief investigator for MUFON,
and so all reports come to me from Florida.
Trish submitted a sighting report.
And I started reading the report, and the...
the first line was,
"You're not gonna believe this, but I saw an invisible spaceship."
And I'm thinking, oh, boy, here we go.
Yeah, you probably get a lotta that, right?
And you're thinking here's another one.
We... we, we get enough of it, yeah.
I started reading it, and something just got my attention.
I started reading the actual report and I'm thinking,
I've got to get in touch with this lady.
What was it about the report that really caught your attention?
It sounded very sincere.
It wasn't rambling, like most of those type reports are.
And was she pretty detailed in the account?
She was.
Um-mm.
John was impressed
by Trish's account,
but he was also impressed
by her background.
If she was fabricating a sighting,
she was putting a lot on the line.
For the majority of her life she'd been a security specialist,
working for government contractors.
She had a top secret security clearance.
When I found out what her background was,
it's like, OK, this lady's not sitting here lying.
Like, she had nothing to gain by making up a story like this.
Exactly, I drove a little over an hour
to where she lived at the time.
We talked for quite a while.
We walked down in the woods and she told me what she saw.
I took pictures.
John's takeaway was the same as Ben's.
Trish was a highly credible witness
with a lot to lose,
who encountered something
extremely threatening.
Well, with all that you've done,
and people witnesses that you've talked to,
where does this case rank as far as credibility?
It's probably one of the top three.
We looked at a photo that she had taken.
Is this from the trail cam?
Yes, this was from the trail cam.
As it turned out,
there had been a sighting about six months earlier
by somebody else, 11 miles away.
Don't you think it's the same object?
I would say there's definitely a possibility.
So, was any analysis done on the photo?
Yes.
We sent it to the photo analyst,
he was able to determine it was maybe 27ft long,
12 or 13ft high.
He couldn't tell how wide it was, because of the angle it was passing.
There was no visible means of propulsion.
No wings on it.
No rotor blade.
Moving very slowly.
It's like, OK,
why is it staying up there?
Why doesn't it fall?
John, do you have any opinions on why you think the...
the creature was here and visiting?
It definitely had a purpose for being here.
That wasn't the first time it was here,
and it probably won't be the last time.
So, there is a reason for it being here.
Is it here for food?
Possibility.
Is it here to monitor these rocket launchers that we have?
A possibility.
Alright.
Well, you've given me a lot to think about.
Now, I've gotta kinda compile this and... and try to make sense of it.
So, thank you so much for your time.
Absolutely, thank you.
You're welcome. Very nice to meet you.
After talking to John,
it seems highly likely that
Trish had an authentic
close encounter of the third kind.
Ben believes it's possible she experienced
a genuine close encounter of the third kind.
But, what was this creature's purpose?
Have there been other sightings like
Trish's that have caused witnesses to feel threatened?
To find out, Ben decides to research
the historic archives of Project Blue Book.
And Mark O'Connell has offered to lend his expertise.
Hey, Mark. Hey, Ben.
So, I've been down in Florida,
looking into this case of Trish Bishop.
Now, Trish claims that in her own backyard
she had a very terrifying encounter, OK?
I guess what we'd call
a close encounter of the third kind.
There was this craft
that came down in a wooded area.
And, as she watched from the corner of her house,
she saw this massive figure.
At first she thought it was a human,
except that as she kept watching this thing,
she quickly realised that the eyes,
the mouth and jawline,
and everything was definitely not human.
In fact, it's quite terrifying.
She kind of took some photo editing
and created the best version of what she believed she saw.
So, Trish is like, "What just happened here?
"Is there something that is visiting or living in the woods?"
And I'm wondering if there are any other stories
in the Blue Book era where people have been so impacted by a...
a close encounter of a craft and occupants,
maybe even in their own backyard?
There is a...
a case that fits the bill of what you're talking about.
Took place in 1955.
It involved a farm family
that was besieged by strange creatures.
It was a terrifying incident,
but it wasn't just terrifying, it actually became quite violent.
Wow.
These are people who take care of themselves.
These are people who reach for their gun
when there's trouble.
Right, right. They, they don't go to the police.
So, imagine you are the desk sergeant
at the police department that night.
11:00 at night,
two pickups come racing into...
into the parking lot, skidding to a stop.
11 people go inside and report that a UFO, a flying saucer,
has landed behind their house,
and that they've been attacked by little creatures.
16 law enforcement officers,
the local police, the county sheriff,
the state police, they all send people
to the farm to see what they can find.
And they find lots of evidence that this shootout really happened.
There are holes in the screens.
There's shot embedded in the window frames.
There's shell casings scattered all over the ground.
And, one more piece of evidence was that
there was a bald spot in the grass, in the gully behind the farmhouse.
So, this is where Billy Ray had first seen the...
the object float down from the sky and land on the ground.
There was a bald patch there that nobody ever investigated.
Well, that's something to follow up on, definitely.
Anything that could possibly be still there,
as far as physical evidence?
'Cause it sounds like military, the law enforcement, botched it.
It just raised too many tough questions.
Questions they just didn't wanna deal with.
But, you're telling me the police took it seriously.
They came there, yet they didn't really do an investigation.
The military shows up.
What did the military conclude?
Was the Air Force or Blue Book then involved after this?
The Air Force's involvement in this case is...
is totally schizophrenic.
They were all over this case, but publicly, they had no interest.
Wow.
In addition,
and this is what the Air Force doesn't want you to remember,
in addition, there were four military police men
from Fort Campbell, which is about 20 miles away.
They were there almost instantly.
There were also two men,
two agents from a government agency,
that was never named,
but they were wearing civilian clothes.
But these two men showed up the day after the...
the sighting and starting asking a lotta questions.
Nobody knows who they were.
Nobody knows who they represented or who they worked for.
But they were on the scene asking questions.
So, it's just one more layer of government involvement
that they were just really trying to cover up.
Well, once again,
we might have a possible connection with the military base nearby.
Right?
I don't know what they were doing at Fort Campbell at the time,
but Trish Bishop, in Florida,
has a view of some of the rocket launchers,
the shuttle launches,
and things that happen in Cape Canaveral.
Yeah.
It's something to look at that
perhaps there's a connection
to the activity happening at Fort Campbell.
Is there any way that I could talk to anyone
who might be related to the family still?
I think you could talk with Geraldine Sutton.
She's the daughter of Lucky Sutton,
who was kind of the, the...
the main witness in the alien invasion case.
She wasn't alive at the time it happened,
but she's heard the stories from her family
about that incident.
I think you could learn a lot from her.
Oh, I would absolutely love that,
and especially because this is such a...
a fantastical story,
she would be the one to... to get the details from.
Yeah.
Thank you, Mark, once again.
Alright, thanks for stopping by.
It's always a pleasure.
Just like Trish Bishop,
the Sutton family felt threatened
by the presence of these creatures on their property.
So, much so, that they opened fire on the beings.
What was attracting these aliens
to the private property of American citizens?
And why are they displaying aggressive behaviour?
I'm on my way to Kelly, Kentucky.
The Sutton family encountered something quite freakish.
The, the description of these creatures
is so strange, but in a way, it's similar to what Trish reported.
Definitely not human.
The craft landed somewhere near the property, in the backyard.
And then you also have the fact that
a similar tic tac shaped UFO was seen 11 miles away.
Now, I don't know if that has
anything to do with a pattern that...
that might emerge as being relevant, but I'm here to find out.
Hopefully, by meeting with Geraldine Sutton,
I can get more details.
Hey, Geraldine.
Hey, Ben.
Nice to meet you. It's good to meet you.
You too, you too.
So, this is it, huh?
This is the great community of Kelly, Kentucky.
Wow, wow.
I don't imagine much has... has changed, has it?
No, not really. Uh-huh.
Past that house right there...
Wow. ..it's just field and trees.
So, Geraldine, tell me about that night.
It was 1955.
Who was there at this...
this farmhouse, and what happened?
Geraldine was not yet born when the encounter took place,
but her father recounted the story in detail many times.
I call this the great American horror story
for a reason,
because it was total terror, chaos and horror that night.
My dad and his wife at the time, Vera,
and their friends Billy Ray and June Taylor,
they worked with the travelling carnival.
They were stationed like two hours away in Evansville.
They were so close, they decided to come in.
"Let's go home, let's see mom."
It was a Sunday evening,
so my grandmother had gotten back from church.
The sun was going down.
Billy Ray decided to go out to the well.
As he was going out, he heard something,
looked up toward the sky and saw something going across it.
Round, oval in shape.
Silver.
According to Geraldine's father,
Billy Ray found himself face to face with a UFO.
He bolted back to the house
and told the others what he had just seen.
So, my dad says, "Billy Ray, let's go out to the well.
"You show me where you saw this at."
Billy Ray and Geraldine's father, Lucky, returned to the well.
There they saw something beyond their wildest imaginings.
Lo and behold,
from the back of the woods
comes this little 3, 3.5ft tall being.
Arms almost touching the ground.
Though the alien beings were not as imposing
as the alien Trish saw,
Geraldine's father and brother felt threatened.
So, here you got two grown men
running into the house,
screaming, "There is something out here."
Well, my dad told my grandmother, "Mom, there's something out here.
"We saw it."
Well, she knew it was really getting serious
when one grabbed a rifle,
one grabbed a shotgun,
one went to the front door, and one went to the back.
All of a sudden,
you can hear your nails going across the tin roof.
The Sutton's had hear enough.
They believed they were under a full-scale attack.
It was time to shoot first and ask questions later.
Somebody screamed,
"There's one in the big tree!"
He turns, shoots it.
You know, they keep coming up to the windows and the doors.
The Sutton's continue to open fire on their extraterrestrial attackers.
They split up their offensive.
With Billy Ray taking the fight to the creatures.
But, once outside, he was exposed.
Ben Hansen is investigating a close encounter
of the third kind in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
In 1955, Lucky Sutton and his family, 12 people in all,
came face to face with what they believed
were hostile aliens.
Geraldine Sutton was not yet born,
but will never forget her father's harrowing story,
the moment when the beings reached their house, clawing to get in.
And her family opened fire.
Well, you've got the girls crying.
Everybody's hysterical.
They don't know what these
things are.
So, my dad's trying to calm everybody down.
And he tells them, "As soon as we can,
"we're gonna hit those cars
"and we're going into Hopkinsville and get help."
They high tail it down the 41 here,
get into Hopkinsville, which is about 7 miles from here.
Lucky Sutton told his story to the sheriff,
and the local police sprung into action
to investigate the scene.
In the middle of the night, they search the buildings they had,
they searched the house up and down.
Could not find anything.
Although the Sutton family assured
the local police their encounter was real,
they were not taken seriously.
Nothing was done, you know. Nothing was roped off.
No samples taken or anything.
The only thing they could do is, the chief told my grandmother,
"Miss Glennie, I'm so sorry, but there's nothing here.
"There's nothing we can do for ya."
That's horrifying... Exactly.
..to be there trying to protect your children.
Yes.
These things are coming and you don't know what they want,
and you hear the sound of talons and scratching.
My grandmother was scared to death.
She sold the farm in two weeks.. Wow.
..two weeks... Wow.
..and moved to Hopkinsville into an apartment complex,
because she felt she was safer there.
I mean, it's... it's a hard thing to move.
To pack everything up and to sell something that quickly,
really adds credibility to the story that they were terrified.
Yes.
They thought there's something out here.
Did, did they feel like it was out to get them?
Why did they think that these visitors
came to their farmhouse?
They don't know.
That's just it, they don't know why they chose them.
But, the story doesn't end there.
Years after her family said they encountered the aliens,
Geraldine was approached by a stranger
who claimed to have information
about a top secret government investigation
that took place the night of the attack.
He said, "I had a friend that knows
"exactly what happened to the green men."
He said, he was in the military, he was on his death bed,
and he says, "I've got to tell you something before I die.
"The Kelly green men are real."
After this had happened, after they had left Kelly,
they crash landed 3 miles away.
Really?
He said, "Wright Paterson came in
"and took it all away.
"Somebody found something. Picked it up.
"Hid it in the back of the truck, the truck took off."
What was it?
The military was officially... Yes.
here, but the, the, the reports say
that they didn't do any investigations.
You will not hear that.
You will hear that from people that lived around here
that know that fact.
Sounds like enough people are coming forward
and saying, "No, military was here.
"Military was 3 miles away to pick up a crashed."
If the military was involved, why do you think
they would continue to cover up and...
and say, "Hey, we... we weren't here."
For some reason, they just did not want anything
to do with this.
I don't know why.
We'll never know what that object was that was picked up.
If that did happen, if a spacecraft did crash...
Um-mm.
..they're good at covering things up.
They're afraid to tell people that such things exist.
You have a lotta people coming forward now
and telling you little bits of information
to fill in the gaps here.
Is there anyone who's still around here, still alive,
that maybe I could talk to that experienced this?
There actually is. He was a teenager.
My dad took under his wing, believe it or not.
Actually taught him to shoot and all kinds of stuff,
when he was a kid.
Do you think you could arrange for me to meet him?
I'm sure he'd love to.
Bill Thomas was a friend
of Geraldine's family
at the time of the attack.
He remembers first hand details of that night
that could prove vital to Ben's investigation.
Well, Geraldine, this is, this is great,
'cause this is starting to open up for me.
If you could put me in touch,
then I would like to interview him and see what he remembers,
and then go from there.
Well, I will give him a holler and we'll see what we can get done.
Alright, thank you so much for your time.
Thank you.
Geraldine provided a lot of information
directly from the family, which is key,
because none of the family members are still alive.
Some official agency did do more than just look around the property.
Somebody says they... they saw them
pick up some material
and take it back to the truck.
We know the military was here.
So, why would they deny being involved
if there wasn't anything to hide?
I wanna talk to collateral witnesses.
Geraldine has arranged a meeting between
Ben and her father's old friend, Bill Thomas.
Bill was in the area at the time
and witnessed the gun battle from afar.
Hi, you must be Bill?
I'm Bill Thomas, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, too.
And thank you, Geraldine,
for setting this up.
You are so welcome.
Geraldine was telling me
that you grew up in the area at the time of this event,
and you had some firsthand knowledge of...
of what took place?
Did you know the Sutton family before this event?
Yes, Lucky was my friend,
and I am honoured to be known as his friend.
So, tell me, that night, what were you doing?
It was later in the evening.
I wanted to stop and see my little sweetheart.
At 14, you're not...you're just popping up, whatever.
We was sitting out on the porch
talking about a little bit of everything,
and was hearing noise
coming from what was called the Sutton Place.
They was hollering and screaming.
She said, "Oh, my god, what was that?"
And I said, "It was a bullet."
We sat there on the outside a little bit, police come by.
State Troopers.
Looked like the sheriff, I don't know.
Little while after that, Fort Campbell started coming by.
So, didn't know what happened.
Was concerned about Lucky and the folks.
The next morning, fairly late, Lucky came by.
The minute he saw Lucky,
Bill knew his friend had seen something terrible.
The man was so scared,
had goosebumps actually on his arms
and tears in his eyes.
We're talking about a man that...
that's left to deal with it when it come right down to it.
Ben Hansen is investigating the Sutton family's
near deadly close encounter of the third kind.
They keep coming up to the windows and the doors.
They're shooting at 'em, trying to keep 'em out.
Now, he's getting a firsthand account
from a witness who believes
there's more to the story than we know.
And he was really upset,
because people was thinking
that he was doing something to get attention,
to get advertisement.
And that family did not have enough money
to destroy their own house.
It would not have made any sense.
Right.
Lucky asked Bill to come to the scene of the encounter,
to see if they could find any proof of the attack.
And they found that place back there that was,
I don't know, 200 or 300 yards
behind the house and slightly to the left.
When I seen it, it looked like
somebody had literally shaved the grass off to clay,
and it was clay.
So, somebody definitely was interested
and did take samples,
contrary to what
the official statement was, right?
That, hey, we didn't have a... an official investigation.
Rightly so.
So, we've established the military was there.
Your personal opinion,
why do you think the military would deny their involvement?
And what was the...
the purpose of them not coming clean about why they... they investigated?
This is blunt,
I have no proof that this garbage had happened in Roswell, New Mexico.
They told the story about that
and then they siphoned it all down to where it was a weather balloon.
Get real.
The military lied about it,
covered it up, call it whatever you wanna call it.
I think it happened.
I think it happened here.
And I also think it continues to happen,
and for what purpose, I don't know.
And we have proof that somebody went back there.
I imagine they didn't have a random trespasser
come and dig a patch out of their grass being unnoticed.
Right? Right.
Something happened that night.
Whether it be extraterrestrial,
whether it be paranormal,
something happened to my family in that house that night.
I would love to go out to the actual property,
if it's possible to... to access it,
and to kinda walk through how it happened, if that's OK?
Yeah, that's great. Oh, good.
We can go back there and look around.
I always like to kinda do a survey to see the layout,
because it goes along with the story and can help support the account.
Sounds good.
Alright, thank you so much, Bill.
You're welcome, my pleasure.
Before heading to the Sutton property,
Ben digs into the files from the CUFOS library on the case.
The Sutton family claimed there was a burnt patch of land,
where the UFO allegedly landed.
But it's since been lost.
If I could find it,
I might be able to uncover
other lost evidence.
Here's a map.
OK.
Map of the Sutton farm showing fields and gully.
The gully where object is suppose to have landed,
about 300ft from the house.
So, if this craft had mechanical problems,
and if this is still a very rural area,
it is possible that there's something
that's been overlooked.
While the government claimed there was no official investigation
into the Sutton case, Bill's account says otherwise.
Luckily, CUFOS did an investigation of their own.
They interviewed family members,
compiled testimony, and even mapped out the event.
This map shows, in exacting detail, where the craft might have landed.
If Ben can investigate this location,
he might prove once and for all that the Sutton account was factual.
After talking to Geraldine,
getting all the information from her family's account,
and then talking to a collateral witness, with Bill,
who supports everything that was in that account,
I wanna now go to the site itself.
See if we can actually get in there,
get a layout of the land, and see if that turns up anything.
Maybe we'll find pieces of information
that verify the account.
Possibly physical evidence.
The Sutton family farmland is now in the possession
of Geraldine's sister, Glenda.
She has agreed to allow Ben to continue
his investigation on her property.
Hello. Hello.
Glenda is it? I'm Glenda.
Ben, nice to meet you. Hi, it's nice to meet you, Ben.
So, I understand that your house sits on the property
that your grandmother owned?
Right. Yes.
OK.
Do you mind kinda walking me
through the different parts of the property...
OK. ..and things that we can still see?
OK.
We can go down here,
see parts about where the old house sat.
The alleged landing spot of the UFO is just over 300ft
from the old Sutton farmhouse.
It's said to be down a ravine
and hidden deep in an overgrown patch of forest.
Ben aims to leave no stone unturned in his quest to find it.
Well, if we turn this like this way,
OK, so here's the... the rail-road track.
Right.
So, I'm imagining most of the shooting's
gonna happen in this direction?
Yes. Out towards the back.
Yes, exactly.
But, if you look here,
it says it's up to 300ft backwards
is the gully where they believed that the object may have landed.
And I wonder if we could locate where this gully might be.
I think so, we can try.
OK.
Well, they were estimating the object supposedly land
at about 300ft from the house.
So, a football length back.
If we go back there and go around,
I bet you that will place us right there.
Um-mm, I believe so.
Are you up for an adventure?
We're up. Let's do it.
OK, I could use your help.
So, this is the backside of the property where it ends.
Yes.
Here's the fence.
Can I see the map for a second?
Now, according to the memory of when they drew this,
about 300ft from the house,
the object supposedly landed in a gully.
So, I'd actually like to measure this.
I've got a tape measure here.
We can measure back from the house and that would put us a lot closer.
So, we'll just kinda lay it out, kinda back towards that way.
OK.
If one of you could maybe hold this for me?
I got you.
By measuring 300ft from the farmhouse,
Ben can determine where exactly the aliens emerged from the forest.
If any evidence of the landing remains,
it should be around that part of the woods.
Well, that's about 300ft.
So, from the back to the house right here,
yeah, it matches up with the map.
I wanna take a look at it, though,
to see where that place is in the forest.
So, we're really close.
I mean, this is practically 300ft.
So, my estimate, if this map is, you know, cl...
close to... to real scale,
is that there probably is that depression somewhere in here,
just a little bit further north.
If Ben can find the depression where the craft landed,
it could be proof that the Sutton story was true.
Are you guys up for going in there to check it out?
Sure. Sure.
In 1955, the Sutton family claimed
they were attacked by an alien force.
Using details from their accounts,
Ben is trying to track down where exactly the attackers landed,
and if any evidence remains.
Hey, watch your step.
Just wait a minute.
You remembered something?
What?
How sparse this is and how skinny the little trees and stuff are.
See how brown it is?
There's not as much growing out there...
Yeah. ..compared to everywhere else.
Geraldine has located a clearing in the woods
without any old growth trees.
Could this have been where the craft landed?
Well, these are definitely new trees.
I think we're in it.
Hold on.
Are you seeing what I'm seeing?
This is a patch of bare earth
that looks a lot like what Bill described.
It looked like somebody
had literally shaved
the grass off to clay.
The circular patch of exposed soil
doesn't match anything in its surroundings.
And Ben can find no sign of what could have caused
such an odd circle to form here naturally.
Ben believes he could have found the location
of the UFO's alleged landing.
Now, he wants to scan the old growth trees in the area.
If this was the direction the Sutton's were shooting,
bullets might still be embedded in the trees.
These trees should have no metal in them,
unless somebody shot them.
Ooh, what was that?
Incredibly, Ben detects signs of metal in the trees.
Potentially bullets covered by decades of growth.
Between the discovery of the depression,
the cleared ground, and the positive scans on the trees,
the Sutton story could be plausible, but it's getting dark.
I have a flash-light, you guys don't.
I'm just gonna go a little further in.
Good? OK, sounds great.
You know your way out?
Yes. Yes.
If I'm not out in like another hour, send someone in.
With guns, please.
Though the light is fading fast,
Ben searches for more physical evidence
from the craft.
Or the creatures themselves.
Is that us?
You guys didn't do that?
You guys can stay there, I just gotta look.
There's something huge over here. Right.
It's probably as far as I can get.
It's getting dark.
There's something in there.
OK, coming back.
I went back as far as I could go,
and had to stop because there's something big
walking around in there.
I wanna ask the ladies if there's bear
in this part of Kentucky, because it's not a deer.
It may have nothing to do with this case,
but I think I'd better call it a night.
And I think we came really close,
if not actually found the place where the...
the craft allegedly landed.
OK.
I got out of there
towards the last little bit kinda fast,
because there was something big in there.
Do you have bearing this part? No.
No we do not have bear in this part. No? OK.
'Cause that felt like it was maybe something my size.
I didn't see a person. Oh.
I didn't see anything. But, it moved, I moved.
It got really close to where we were trying to get to.
So, I don't know if it has anything to do with this,
but we very well could have found that gully spot
that they indicated was where the craft
had possibly landed.
To me, this was a big success,
because any time that we can find historic documentation,
right, of the witnesses of what it looked like,
to compare it so many years after-ward.
And I think it's definitely possible that your family
had an encounter of the third kind that night.
Well, I'm going to gather up everything
that we've done here.
See if I can come to anymore conclusions.
OK, good deal.
Alright, thank you.
Wonderful. Thank you, Ben. Thank you.
The best cases have a variety of evidence going for it,
and we have a lot in this case.
We have direct witness testimony from the family itself,
that's been recorded by Geraldine.
You also have a collateral witness.
You have the police involvement and the files and the reports.
You got Project Blue Book, which followed up later.
All of that, you compile it together with the location,
the map, everything that we discovered
that seems to line up and mesh.
Now, I just need to go and process this,
see if I can come to any conclusion.
While Trish and the Sutton's encounters
might seem random,
a pattern has emerged in the interviews Ben has done.
Each sighting took place near some sort of government facility.
Trish's took place near a NASA site.
This trail cam was on the crepe myrtle tree
where I saw the aliens.
And it was pointed west, towards Kennedy Space Centre.
The Sutton's took place near a military base.
A little while after that, Fort Campbell started coming by.
And some of the most compelling UFO sightings
have come from military pilots.
Ah, man, look at this ---.
A pattern throughout history seems to be emerging.
Close encounters of the third kind,
focused on military and government targets.
Why do these UFO's
focus on these targets?
What are their plans?
Do they pose a threat?
The search for the truth continues.
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