a million UFO sightings are reported each year most can be debunked but 5% remain unexplained these are the close encounters [Music] [Music] just across the Canadian border is the luring Air Force Base it's the largest Strategic Air Command bomber base in [Music] America it was the largest in terms of the amount of nuclear weaponry that was kept on that base and this was during the Cold War when there was always the danger of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union for that reason security is airtight anyone breaking the base Perimeter at luring
would be in serious trouble even some of the soldiers on the base were not always aware of the nuclear weapons that were hidden on the base just outside the weapons storage area staff sergeant Danny Lewis works the night shift Lewis is a member of the security Detachment at luring Air Force Base he's out doing his job and he sees some lights in the sky uh moving back and forth uh maybe beyond the perimeter of the base but close to the base he could not determine exactly what type of aircraft was approaching it moves like a
helicopter it goes up and down like a helicopter would it's moving in the kind of things you'd expect a helicopter to do it's not really on the base it's just maneuvering around the base and this was of grave concern because no aircraft is supposed to come on the base without authorization to this is wsf Patrol over wsf Patrol Tower over are you tring uh be a helicopter East Northeast few miles out wsf patol Roger that just getting it now East Northeast but no t let me get back to you on that over please identify yourself
it's okay wsf Patrol we cannot get a tank on that aircraft we have an object now that's approaching a restricted military base that is not replying to contacts have been made L's next move is to communicate with the command post let them know that there's something going on base commander this is wsf Patrol tracking uh helicopter East Northeast few miles out Lewis reaches the base commander who races to the top of the viewing Tower he's worried about things penetrating his weapon storage facility it's on the Move [Music] sir the object that they're watching circles around
the base and then it disappears Sergeant Lewis is sent out to investigate to this is wsf Patrol [Music] moving they rushed all of the K9 and MPS into the area to inspect everything to make sure that no one had gotten into the base they could find no indication that anyone on the ground had Disturbed the weapon storage site or any other of the facilities 24 hours later the base is still on high alert and Sergeant Lewis returns to his post at the weapon storage area the next night Lewis is outdoing his Patrol again and just
like in the first night he sees an object approaching the base from the Northeast but this time it's moved right over the base itself and is headed straight for the weapon storage facility command post wsf Patrol if it was a helicopter you'd expect to see light reflecting off the rotor blades you'd expect to see the navigation lights you'd hear the noise from the engine it was quiet command post to wsf patrol go ahead sir we have an intruder it's within 300 yd of the nuclear weapon storage facility you're going to want to check this out
they don't know if it has weapons they don't know it's intent [Music] B post wsf Patrol an unidentified aircraft moves over a US Air Force Base sir we have an intruder and is hovering near its nuclear weapons Arsenal it's now penetrated the floring base now it's become something much more important than it was they don't know if it has weapons they don't know it's intent any craft who flies into restricted military airspace is at risk of being shot down but that ultimate decision rests with the base commander sir there there are protocols that have to
be observed before you can fire upon something what if it turned out to be a civilian helicopter and they fired at it there would be all kinds of ramifications they've lost the sight of The Craft they don't know what happened to it it disappeared from sight outside the nearby B-52 hangers sergeants ikner and Jones are oblivious to the latest security breach Jones you want to get me to 38 Sure Thing comeing Up sergeant nner and Sergeant Jones are B52 mechanics they're doing their work on on the base hey ikner get out here you're going to
want to check this out what is it I don't [Music] know ikner and Jones now the fifth and sixth witness in the strange sighting follow the light as it once again circles the [Music] base control tower the base commander the object is Back Sir near the hangers sir it looks like it may have landed the object leads aniker and Jones to an off liit restricted area [Music] you sure about this they think well maybe we ought to get out of here because we're not supposed to be in this specific area suddenly they see the object
directly in front [Music] of iar and Jones here the security police and decide to exit the restricted area as quickly as possible but right now the last thing on Lewis's mind is Iker and Jones the lights go out the object disappears again it appears to be heading north sir [Music] [Music] now it's left our airspace [Music] sir the object heads back again towards the Northeast towards the Canadian border and disappears off radar very similar to what happened the night before [Music] the MPS continue to search the base to make sure no one has physically landed
on the [Music] [Music] base this is the one case where the United States government admitted that some unknown aircraft penetrated US nuclear facilities and they were not able to determine either where they came from or whose aircraft they [Music] were immediately after the last event luring Air Force Base sends priority messages to the Pentagon the Air Force chief of staff and Strategic Air Command headquarters informing them of the incidents one message recommends that Northern Tier bases employ a security option three alert along the US Canada Border 3 years later New York journalist Barry Greenwood learns
about the incident and makes inquiries using the Freedom of Information Act the Department of Defense releases documents revealing that 3 days after the event at Loring a similar object was spotted hovering over a weapon storage areaa at wsmith Air Force Base nearly 18800 km away Witnesses also report seeing unidentified objects over Air Force bases in Montana North Dakota and Ontario was flying straight into the lake for Swedish farmer canot linback lake kyar is key to his way of life he drinks from it eats from it and uses it for daily travel can had a very
small farm very near the shore of Lake Kar they raised their own meat and they grow their own vegetables they were very much living from that Cano's boy Bjorn is ready to help with the daily chores this was the very first year after the war people were trying to get back to normality I went to lulio in the very North of Sweden to interview cut linbeck to listen to him tell me about the story World War II may be over but swedes are still very wary of any loud explosions overhead in 1946 the Soviet Union
is is bent on world domination there attempting to take over many of the countries in Europe Sweden is worried about what the Soviet Union is going to do can's Farm is less than 500 km from the Russian border an air strike is always a possibility Sweden has always been a little aware of of Russia because of the threat from from the East and swedes were very much aware of what was flying in the [Music] skies when I interviewed cut he told me that he heard a tremendous strange noise from the heavens he was looking up
at that noise and trying to find out what was coming the Lick's first thought was that it was a great storm but it doesn't look like any storm cloud he saw the windows rattling he looked up into the sky and saw an elongated rocket likee object with two fins pointing out from the Sweden still remembered the war and the V bombs that Nazi Germany sent over Sweden but those Rockets were aimed at major cities kilar is in the middle of nowhere do was flying straight into the lake a blast wave causes a violent ripple effect
something hit the bottom of the lake and exploded in the Swedish Countryside a mysterious object races towards canut lyback's Farm something hit the bottom of the lake and exploded the impact triggers a massive ripple effect part of the bottom from this Lake was thrown on the shore that do okay do okay Cano suspects they've been hit with a V1 bomb linbeck as many other tweets knew about the V bombs from the war the V1 was kind of an airplane with a big rocket pot on the top and it would fly more or less straight level
it's sort of what we would call a cruise missile today but according to can the object didn't look like a V1 canut linbeck described to me a very strange formation really it was not as you would expect pointed nose it wasn't stub nose on this object Cano decides to row out to the point of impact can told me that he was really startled about this but he was also curious he wanted to know what had crashed into the lake given the mass of collision Cano expects to find the waters littered with pieces from the shattered
object when we bombs crashed in Sweden there were 2,000 3,000 kilos of debris to be found but there was nothing of that sort not a scrap of metal nothing since Lake Kumar is only 2 me M deep Cano checks to see if he can feel any debris below the water if you're looking at the bottom of a lake and you see something fall of the lake and it's heavy enough and it's traveling deep enough it may bury itself in the silt at the bottom of the lake so you would probe around with an ore as
canut lindic did [Music] [Music] but still no trace of the [Music] wreckage nothing has recovered from that so we don't know what fell into that Lake the mystery extends Beyond Lake Yar the crash on July 19th was one of four crashes within 5 hours without exception all of them land in remote lakes and that's very strange because Sweden is as many other countries are not only Lakes you know some of them should have crashed on land to me this is an enigma this is a puzzle it doesn't fit with rockets it doesn't fit with really
anything that we could suggest today [Music] the day after the object crashed the first military was sent to the lake they searched the lake for 2 weeks and they found nothing the Swedish military sends a team of soldiers and Engineers to scour Lake Kumar with electrical probes mining equipment metal detectors and Geer counters they collect 35,000 samples but all are identified as local materials as many as 30 similar crashes are recorded across Sweden in the summer of 1946 in all cases no debris is ever recovered because they leave no Trace behind and are never identified
the Swedish military classify these mysterious objects as ghost Rockets a special ghost rocket committee is set up to study them more closely while while the committee determines that some of these sightings are in fact meteors others like the sighting at Lake Kolar remain unexplained [Music] [Music] o [Music]
