Ancient Aliens - Top Ten Alien Cover-Ups

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

Ancient Aliens is counting down the world’s top ten alien cover-ups, from the famous Roswell Incident to a secret military base rumored to be housing ET technology to recently released UFO videos captured by cameras on Navy fighter jets. Has there been a massive cover-up regarding the truth about an extraterrestrial presence on Earth?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Official reports of alien craft suddenly retracted. UFO investigations designed to spread disinformation. Government whistleblowers forced to conceal their identities. Over the years, ancient aliens has investigated the long history of government attempts to cover up the truth about the extraterrestrial presence on planet Earth. And now we're going to take a look at what I consider to be the most compelling and revealing examples as we count down my top 10 alien cover-ups There is a doorway in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question

everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes. We are not alone. We have never been alone. Here is ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Suclos. Many people believe that there is strong evidence that aliens have visited Earth and that for decades, even centuries, governments around the globe have been hiding information that has been classified as top secret. But is this just a conspiracy theory? That's what many had suggested until finally In December 2017, the New York Times published a front-page headline revealing that the U.S. government was funding a secret program to investigate UFOs. Number 10 on my countdown of the top cover-ups, A-Tip.

On December 16th, 2017, the New York Times ran an explosive story entitled, Glowing Ores and Black Money, the Pentagon's Mysterious, UFO program. It was the first time the American public learned of a top-secret U.S. government project, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, otherwise known as ATIP. Nick Pope is a former member of the UK Ministry of Defense. The revelations concerning the existence of the Pentagon's ATIP program are extraordinary. It is the single biggest ever news in the whole history of the UFO phenomenon. It's not quite a spaceship and a hangar smoking gun, but it's the closest we've ever been. The article reported that the program had been in operation from 2007 until 2012,

and it was run by a former Pentagon official named Louise Elizondo, A senior career intelligence officer with top security clearance. It was Elizando's job to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects and to measure what threat they could pose to national security. But while ATIP's funding officially ended in 2012, Elizondo claims he continued to work on the program out of his Pentagon office for the next five years. and with the help of officials from both the U.S. Navy and the CIA. In October 2017, Elizondo resigned to protest what he characterized as

excessive secrecy and internal opposition. I've sat down and had this conversation with Luis Alizondo face to face, and it's clear that there is no reason to believe that the Pentagon has any intention of declassifying and releasing any more material. So he's done some very important work in bringing this story out of the shadows and into the open. When Elizondo left the Pentagon, he was determined to make atyps years of investigation known to the public. He did so by helping to distribute three videos to the press that were released in conjunction with the New York Times' sensational front-page story. Taken by cameras mounted on Navy jets, they were perhaps the most spectacular.

incredible UFO videos ever released to the public. Dr. Travis Taylor is an astrophysicist and aerospace engineer. One of the really interesting things about ATIP is how much information hasn't been released. We hear things that are coming, I bet you there's a lot more. In June 2020, the government acknowledged what Luis Elizando had claimed for years, that the UAP investigations have continued uninterrupted, but under a new name, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

this recent disclosure only confirms their suspicions that the government continues to hide the full extent of its UFO investigations and that far more incredible revelations are yet to come. For years, government officials denied rumors of a, top secret military installation in the Nevada desert. But in 2013, one of the most significant cover-ups in American history was finally revealed. Number nine on my list, Area 51.

Langley, Virginia, August 15, 2013. After decades of secrecy, denials, and cover-ups, the CIA declassifies documents which acknowledge the existence of a top-secret military research facility known as Area 51. This was an historic announcement. Finally, these years of rumors that the UFO community and the conspiracy theory community had been claiming to be true, had been validated.

Mike Barra is the author of Hidden Agenda. The federal government was forced to acknowledge the existence of the Area 51 base because of a... because of a Freedom of Information Act request. It took them over a decade to actually respond, but in the end, they eventually had to admit what everybody already knew, which was that Area 51 did exist.

Since 1955, this top secret base, located in the remote desert in Southern Nevada, has been considered the epicenter of the military's most classified projects, from the U2 spy plane to the F-117 stealth fighter. But many believe that in the darkest corners of Area 51 lurks an even bigger secret, one that hides the ultimate evidence of extraterrestrial contact. Richard Dolan is the author of UFOs and the National Security State.

Over the years, there have been a number of claims by people who have been associated with Area 51, who have spoken to journalists or whistleblowers in which they have stated quite explicitly that there is extraterrestrial technology at Area 51. Linda Moulton Howe is an investigative journalist for Earth Files. So the United States began with a policy of lies in denial, let's call it for what it is, counterintelligence, UFOs and ETs have been at the top of the counterintelligence lists since World War II.

Our government doesn't want us to know the truth. The cover-ups we've looked at so far have been extraordinary, but what if I told you there was an even bigger one that occurred 1600 years ago? And it all revolved around which religious texts would be included or banned from the Holy Bible. In fact, it was one of those banned books that inspired Eric von Danikin to introduce the world to the ancient astronaut theory. 8 on my cover-up countdown, The Book of Enoch.

Central Anatolia Turkey, the 4th century, AD. A group of 30 clerics from the Christian Church hold the Council of Liodesia, a clandestine meeting to discuss the removal of certain books from the biblical canon. Among them is the book of Enoch. According to many biblical scholars, the reason for this was most likely the controversy. over the accounts of fallen angels descending to Earth in order to mate with the daughters of men. Accounts that people of the time had taken as fact.

Jonathan Young, PhD, is the founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives. There are references in the scriptures to rebellious angels who were in trouble with God came to earth, found the daughters of men attractive and married them, which is to say had sex with them, sex with them and produced offspring. Reverend Barry H. Downing, PhD, is the author of the Bible and Flying Saucers.

In the book of Enoch, it actually gives the numbers. It says 200 angels dissipate God and came to earth and mated with human women. Rabbi Ariel Bar Sadoch is the founder of the Kosher Torah School. If angels are what we think they are today, these non-human entities, what on earth. Why on earth? How on earth could there be any interest in a sexual relationship with human women? We must re-understand what these sons of God are. Indeed, it is recorded in ancient legend that these were some form of humanoid physical beings, something extraterrestrial. Eric von Danikin is the author of Chariots of the Gods.

We should translate the old texts with modern sense. Use a word extraterrestrials instead of the world of angel. Use a word of a leader of extraterrestrials instead of archangel. If you see something is brought to heaven, it's just space. It's time to wake up to see these things with modern eyes. Is it possible that stories found in the book of Enoch are really depicting alien beings coming down to Earth, to mate with humans and manipulate our genetic makeup.

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest that the Book of Enoch was removed from the biblical canon in order to cover up the truth about humankind's extraterrestrial past. In 1952, at the height of the Cold War, there was another secret government program whose purpose, as far as the public was told, was to get to the bottom of the UFO phenomenon, but was the real purpose to get to the truth

or to cover it up? One of the biggest disinformation campaigns ever is number seven on my countdown of the top 10 cover-ups. Project Blue Book Washington, D.C. March 1952. A number of high-ranking Air Force generals come together to launch a formal

investigation into UFO reports. Project Blue Book. Under the command of Air Force Captain Edward Ruppelt, this new top-secret agency would take UFOs and their potential threat to national security very seriously. Project Blue Book produced a standard form for people who wanted to report a UFO. What did it look like? Was there a sound,

They even had a chart for people to calculate the angle of elevation. If UFOs are nothing to worry about, why is the Air Force requesting so much information about the true nature of what the witnesses saw? In January 1953, after gathering hundreds of reported sightings, photographs, and interviews, Captain Ruppold and astronomer Dr. J. Allen Heineck prepared and presented their best 23 cases to a CIA formed panel of scientists led by Dr. H.P. Robertson. The Robertson panel concluded that the evidence could all be dismissed as natural occurrences and was not worth the effort of the government.

According to many researchers, including J. Allen Heineck's son, Paul Heineck, the government never really intended for Project Blue Book to uncover the truth behind the U.F. phenomenon in the first place, but instead set out to debunk it. The Air Force, their job was to find answers, not the truth. So the mission of Project Blue Book was to find and create and cram in as many answers as they could. The interesting thing though, even with that impetus to explain away every case they could, was out of the 12,000 odd cases that they officially examined, They admitted they couldn't explain over 700 or 5% of them.

In 1969, Project Blue Book was finally shut down on the grounds that there was no proof, the unidentified objects posed a national security threat or were of extraterrestrial origin. But was that really the end of the story? Or only the beginning? Even though Project Blue Book was terminated in 1969, We've seen with ATIP recently that these government agencies never really go away. They just sort of morph into another agency. So clearly the Air Force has admitted they have not stopped studying UFOs.

The mere disclosure of a government program such as Project Blue Book really makes you wonder just how many other top-secret government programs there might be. In 1984, another one of these secret programs was revealed when information on it was leaked to a Hollywood producer. Number six on my countdown of the top ten cover-ups, The Majestic Twelve. Burbank, California, December 1984. Movie producer and UFO researcher, Jamie Shanderay, arrives home to find a manila envelope has been dropped through the mail slot of a front door. The postmark indicates that it was sent from Albuquerque, New Mexico, but no return address is written on the envelope. Robert M. Wood, Ph.D., is a retired aerospace engineer.

And what he had received was this package right here. This is the original package. And inside the package, there was the roll of film inside this canister. And this is actually the role of film that he received. of this film, when copied properly, produce these eight pages of the Eisenhower briefing document. The Eisenhower briefing document is a memo that was allegedly written in 1952 by the first director of the CIA, Rosco Hillen Ketter, to President-elect Dwight Eisenhower. In it, Hillen Ketter writes that sitting President Harry Truman has formed a secret group within the U.S. government called the Majestic Twelve to examine crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft.

The document that he received basically reported that we had had previous crashes, including the one at Roswell. The bottom line recommendation to President Eisenhower was that this topic continued to be kept secret. March 1994. Almost a decade after Jamie Shanderay received the Eisenhower briefing document, Majestic 12 researchers are shocked when a second role of film surfaces. This time it is sent anonymously to a UFO group in Maryland from Quillan's drugstore in LaCross, Wisconsin.

Investigative journalist Linda Bolton Howe was among the first to examine these documents, and she has been conducting research on MJ12 for more than two decades. In April 2017, editor and researcher Georgio Succolos traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet with Linda and find out what she knows about these mysterious documents. So if I understand this correctly, somebody at some point took photos of a document that existed in paper form. Do we know who did this, who took those photographs? There are people who have served in the military or CIA, DIA, NSA, NRO, and they are angry. They feel that this story should come out. This might have been somebody who had this manual in their work, photograph that may be right there at the pharmacy, and the rest is history.

Of all the documents that I've ever seen and studied, it is this restricted Psalm 101, Majestic 12 Group Special Operations Manual, that I think, think is really confirmation. It goes beyond disclosure because this is April 1954, Majestic 12 Group. It's the War Office Stamp. It is real. And the title, extraterrestrial entities and technology, recovery and disposal, top secret, magic eyes only. And then when you start getting into what is in this book, you have the illustrations and sketches of different craft UFOs. I mean, that's incredible. Did the United States government learn about an alien presence on Earth in the 1940s

and devise a top secret committee to investigate this shocking revelation? While government officials continue to insist that the Majestic 12 never existed, those who have researched the documents remain convinced, of their authenticity and have found no evidence that MJ12 was ever discontinued. One of the most infamous UFO cover-ups happened on December 9th, 1965, when a bell-shaped object crashed to Earth in Kexburg, Pennsylvania. At number five on my countdown of the top 10 cover-ups, the Kexburgh UFO incident. Kexburg, Pennsylvania, December 9th,

Thousands of people watch as a brilliant fireball streaks across the night sky. Andrew Collins is the author of The Cygnus Key. And a large object was seen to come down in a wooded area, and witnesses actually claimed that this strange object, which was described as the size of a Volkswagen, a beetle, caused what appeared to be sonic booms, The phones went off in all of the volunteer fire departments all around. We have a plane crash in the woods at Kexper.

Well, there was a man named Jim Romansky, and I had a real privilege to talk with him directly in March of 1998 because he was one of only about 10 people in this whole saga who had 15 minutes in the forest close up officially as a volunteer fireman. walking around and trying to understand what are we looking at. And he said, it was like an acorn or a bell. And at the top, it was copper-colored. And then in the bottom was a band, about four inches wide,

and raised up, not carved in, were symbols that went around a portion of this craft. And he and others said, they look sort of like Egyptian hieroglyph. Just minutes after the firefighters arrived at the location of the crash, they were met by a convoy of military personnel and ordered to leave. Suddenly, the military entered the area, cordoned it off, and it was even suggested that a very large military vehicle

was seen carrying away this object to God knows where. And the whole thing was essentially hushed. Our government tried to explain everything away in Kexburg as a meteorite. And those men who stood around this object in that forest on December 9, 1965, knew it was no meteorite. They said at the time this was this big acorn or bell-shaped craft from outer space. What was it that was found in Kexburg? We may never know.

However, we do know what the U.S. military force found during another famous UFO event that took place in England. It's one of the most credible first-hand accounts of an alien craft on record. Number four on our countdown of the top ten cover-ups, Rendlesham Forest. Rindlesham Forest, Suffolk County, England. On December 26th, 1980, near an air base leased to the United States Air Force by the RAF, Strange Lights are reported on the horizon in what appears to be a possible downed aircraft. Two U.S. servicemen are dispatched the site.

Gary Heseltine is the founder and editor of UFO Truth Magazine. Strange lights were seen about three to 400 meters away from an area that was called the East Gate. And the patrolling officers at the East Gate saw the lights above the forest, and they thought potentially it was a downed aircraft or an aircraft in distress. So two of them, Sergeant Penison and Airman John Burroughs, went further into the forest. Once at the so-called crash site, the men observed a strange triangular craft on the ground, approximately three meters wide at its base. Here is Sergeant James Peniston.

I noticed that there was a inscription on the side of the aircraft. I was expecting to find, I don't know, USAF. something like that. And what I find is glyphs, pictorial glyphs, making no sense at all. And then I was running my hand over the side of the craft. It was very warm to touch. At this time, we were getting the feeling of electricity

that was just bouncing. It was much, much stronger. There was this feeling of being drawn into it or being pulled into it. The craft was on the ground approximately 45 minutes. And then there was a bright flash of light. And then the craft just, took off out of the area. I mean, it was just out of the area.

The following night, U.S. Air Force Colonel Charles Halt led his own search party to the location of this strange encounter. What they discovered were high levels of radioactivity where Burroughs and Penniston had previously seen the strange craft and three impact holes on the ground. Here is Colonel Halt. While we're walking around, we also noticed four or five objects in the sky. They moved at very high speed, made sharp angular turns, as though they were doing some type of a grid search. Then one came at high speed and stopped directly overhead,

three, four, maybe five thousand feet, and sent down a concentrated beam about eight or ten feet from us. We noticed the other object to the south sending on similar beams on Woodbridge Base. At that point, I was thinking, why did I ever get involved in this, How will I ever explain this? In spite of the compelling eyewitness testimony,

the Ministry of Defense soon declared the case closed. Peniston and Burroughs were ordered by their superiors to document the events they witnessed in Rendlesham Forest. But both men claim they were pressured to leave out certain details of the event, especially those suggesting the craft may have been extraterrestrial. This is Sergeant John Burroughs. I had to give this sanitized story. There's a lot of detail that was left out.

And truth by omission is not the truth. It's a lie. They didn't want to appear like the government was trying to cover it up, but I clearly felt that they didn't want me to go into all the details. Now, I did a cold case review for the Ministry of Defense. I am still subject to... am still subject to the Official Secrets Act. But I can tell you, chances are, these craft were real.

And if they're real, they might actually be extraterrestrial. Buried beneath an old English manor house in Wiltshire England is a maze of stone quarries excavated over a century ago, where it has long been rumored that the British government may have conducted secret UFO investigations. In 2017, I had the opportunity to investigate this site with former British Defense Ministry official Nick Pope. The number three cover-up on our top ten countdown, Rudlow Manor. In England's southwest county of Wiltshire stands Rudlow Manor. On the surface, it appears to be nothing more than a quaint English manor house.

But deep beneath this structure lie an astounding 2.2 million. million square feet of vast caverns divided into many smaller chambers. Nick Redfern is the author of The Real Men in Black. For years, it was home to a group called the Provost and Security Services. They're kind of like the James Buns of the British Royal Air Force. But back in the 1990s and certainly going back to the 1950s, the Provost and Security Services were heavily involved in UFO events. investigations.

In 2007, the Ministry of Defense announced that Rudlow Manor was no longer in use by the military. But if that's true, why are the grounds surrounded by chain-link fences, monitored by security cameras, and even protected by guard dogs? To find the answers, in January of 2017, ancient astronaut theorist Georgiosuclos traveled to the protected boundaries of Redlow Manor. Joining him in his search for truth was Nick Pope. During your time at the MOD, what did you learn about this place or any type of UFO cases that may have happened around this area? Well, this whole area is rich in UFO sightings.

UFO sightings were investigated by staff based here at Rudlow Manor, but for years, we denied it. We told Parliament, the media and the public that these things were of no interest, that Rudlow Manor had no involvement in this, and yet when the files were declassified, it turned out that people were right. Right here. Right here. And so this building really was at the heart of Britain's secret UFO research, and particularly

the underground facilities below us. And the UFO community alleges that that's where the UK keeps its... alien hardware, crashed UFOs, all sorts of secrets and research and investigation and projects went on from this particular facility. So then this was basically considered or is considered the UK's Area 51? Absolutely right, even rumors of alien bodies. Alien bodies could the ultimate proof of government contact with extraterrestrials be hidden in the tunnels right beneath Nick and Georgia's feet.

While Redlow Manor is completely inaccessible, another entrance to the underground facilities is found two miles away at the equally secretive installation known as Corsham Computer Center, or CCC. Despite the fact that it too is not open to the public, ancient astronaut theorist Georgia Succolos asked Nick Pope to take him to the CCCC. for a first-hand look at the installation. All right. Good luck. Thank you very much.

As a former employee of the Ministry of Defense, Nick did not feel it was appropriate for him to approach the facility himself without clearance. Here we are, the CCC, and the lights are on. And just like Nick explained, it's got barbed wire, it is fenced down, it's impenetrable.

Clearly this entrance goes underground. Within minutes of Giorgio Suclos' arrival at the security gate, the crew is met by a military police unit. I'm asking him if you're doing down here. Unfortunately, the situation ends with filming being halted. But why? Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that Rudlow Manor is not only used for secret government UFO investigation,

UFO investigations, but is housing extraterrestrial technology and even alien bodies. Whatever's going on down there, it's big. Still to this day, thousands of people work there, and yet you can't get any real information about what they're doing. It's absolutely off limits. There is one site that is arguably the most famous in UFO history, and for more than 70 years, the entire world has wanted to know the truth about what really happened that day in the desert of New Mexico. Number two on our countdown of the top ten cover-ups, the Roswell Incident. In July of 1947, an unidentified flying object crashed to Earth in the desert just outside

Roswell, New Mexico. It is today the most famous UFO event on record, in part because it was the army itself, that reported the craft as a flying disc. Bill Burns, PhD, is the co-author of The Day After Roswell. July 8th and 9th, the newspaper headlines, Army captures flying disc outside of Roswell. How did the newspaper get that story, Walter Hout? He was the official public information officer at the Roswell 509,

who gave the story to the newspaper. But the military quickly walked back its story walk back its story. Within days, the mysterious Roswell UFO was given unearthly origin, when the government claimed that the downed craft was merely a weather balloon. Major Jesse Marcel, the head intelligence officer at Roswell Army Airfield, traveled to Fort Worth, Texas, with the debris recovered from the Roswell crash site. He and Brigadier General Roger Ramey, head of the 8th Air Force, were scheduled to present their findings to the media. Stephen Bassett is the executive director at Paradigm Research Group.

It came out that President Truman sent orders to General Ramey, hold up something. Get some rentals wrap off the fish in your freezer and hold it up and say, that's what you found, not a disc, which is exactly what they did. And the reporters basically just turned around, went home. For UFO researchers, evidence that the airs, actual wreckage from Roswell was indeed replaced with a weather balloon can be found within the notorious photograph, along with clues as to what was being hidden from the public. When General Roger Ramey was posing for photographs with Jesse Marcell in the aftermath of all

of this, you can see him very clearly holding a piece of paper. General Ramey had a document in his hands, the so-called Ramey memo. Modern forensic document analysis and photographic enhancement has enabled some researchers to zoom in on this and to clarify at least some portions of the text. What it tells us is astounding. Some of the phrases in the memo are victims of the wreck and disk which we will ship. So clearly something more than just a weather balloon was involved here. and the memo might just be the smoking gun.

We actually have evidence of an FBI memo that made such a statement that what was recovered was being brought to Wright Field for analysis. Well, you're not going to bring balloon parts to right field for analysis. That's not going to happen. Is it possible that the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, is still housing the remains of the object recovered from the New Mexico Desert more than 70 years ago. And if so, could they be using the debris

to try and recreate extraterrestrial technology? Even now, in the last few years, there have been important UFO sightings around Dayton. And witnesses in that area are looking out over Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and even in broad daylight, seeing unusual craft hovering over the base. William Henry is an author and investigative mythologist.

This is a very distinct possibility that's supported by the fact that no jets are released when these UFOs appear. It's almost as if they know what they are. Maybe it's because it's one of our own reverse engineered craft. We finally reached the end of my countdown, and I believe this one is undoubtedly the most significant because it has the most serious implications. for humankind. According to former Air Force commander Robert Salas, back in the 1960s, UFO shut down one of America's key missile sites. How does he know this? Well, because he was there. My number one cover-up of all time, the Malmstrom nuclear missile crisis. Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, March 16th, 1960.

Before dawn, sentries and maintenance crews near the base's nuclear missile silos see mysterious lights flying back and forth across the sky. These lights are so bright that the men on the ground can't identify what they are. But when one of them takes up a position just outside the base's security fence, a sentry calls his superior to report a UFO. One of the missiles suddenly went offline, and then another and another, until the whole flight of missiles was somehow mysteriously deactivated. This is highly disturbing because it suggests in the events that UFOs one day become hostile, our entire atomic arsenal may become completely inoperable. In June 2019, Georgiosuclos arranged to meet up with one of the men who was stationed at Malmstrom on the night of this historic UFO event. Retired Air Force Missile Launch Officer Robert Salas. While Malmstrom was deactivated at the end of the Cold War, a nearly identical Minuteman missile facility in South Dakota is still accessible to the public.

So Robert invited Georgio there to watch. walk him through exactly what he experienced in 1967. Tell me what happened that night. I got a phone call for the top side guard. He's screaming into the phone. I mean, he's really frightened. And he said, I've got all the guards out here, weapons drawn. And we see this gigantic red-orange object oval shaped

hovering above the front gate. And all of a sudden we get claxons, horns, Both look over at the control panel here, and boom, boom, boom, one right after the other. All no-go. I mean, it has to be incredibly startling and disconcerting that someone else with higher technology is able to disable our missiles. Exactly, and that's how I come to the conclusion that these were extraterrestrial objects, or they were constructed off Earth because we had nothing that could do anything. like this either then or now.

And then was there a debriefing or was there a discussion? We were ordered to our squad and commander's office, and then the guy next to him, he shoved this paper in our faces, sign here. I said, what is this? This is a nondisclosure statement about the incident. You are never to speak about it to anybody. So you were given an order?

We were ordered to sign it, yeah. on it, yeah. And that was it. I could not speak about this, and I didn't speak about this to anyone for about 27 years. Military officials have never provided an explanation for the missile shutdown. Was it caused by extraterrestrials? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, but suggest that we may never know the full story, because for 50 years, the United States. military has covered it up. That concludes my top 10 list for the all-time greatest extraterrestrial cover-ups. But the questions still remain.

Why keep us all in the dark? Do they think it's for our benefit? Or could it be for other reasons? As far as I'm concerned, we the people must continue to search for the evidence and to demand to know the facts. It may be the only way that will finally get to full disclosure. I'm ready for the truth. Are you?