UFOS evidence is so Blinking eye-opening’
are a lot of unanswered questions about a lot of things going back thousands of years.
“In ancient Indian texts, for example, there’s descriptions of flying crafts with twisting engines, similar to what people have seen in the past 60 years.
“I have a feeling we are going to get to a place where our understanding of things such as the pyramids might change as we learn more about what these are and where they come from.”
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Tom has long been a believer in UFOS, and even recorded a song called Aliens Exist on Blink-182’s 1999 hit album Enema Of The State.
In 2017 he founded his research institution, To The Stars, and he is now one of America’s most prominent UFO researchers.
Last September, the US Navy even admitted some of the declassified videos published by To The Stars were in fact “unidentified
aerial phenomena”. Tom says: “People have asked me a lot if I feel vindicated because I was out there in the front taking arrows for everybody.
“I actually don’t. I signed up to be that person for a little bit of time until the facts came out and started turning the tide of public opinion.
“I’ve had a long time learning about this stuff and being around people such as Luis and my team who know a lot more about it than I do.
“It’s given me the ability to look at something that is hard to digest for a lot of people.
“So I don’t go around going: ‘Oh, I told you so.’ I go around saying: ‘Well if you thought that was a lot to digest, just wait for the next few years.’ I think there will be a lot more conversations and I don’t think now is the time to take a victory lap.”
Last year Tom worked on the first series of Unidentified with Luis, who headed up the Pentagon’s top-secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
The project, which cost £18million, was tasked with investigating UFO sightings in the US and the rest of the world.
This included at Rendlesham Forest, in Suffolk – one of the UK’S most famous alien hotspots, which is explored in Unidentified.
In 2012 Luis sensationally quit the Pentagon to become a freelance investigator, as he believed the US government was covering up the true extent of UFOS.
He now welcomes the fact this once-classified footage is being released, as keeping it hidden could be a major problem.
“This is a serious topic that affects us all,” says Luis. “We are now at a point where there is so much overwhelming evidence out there. The US government has started releasing these UFO videos as we are now at a point where sitting on it for years could be a liability.
“UFO sightings in the US picked up after the country started increasing its nuclear activities during World War Two.
“There is some information that shows unidentified aerial phenomena may have interest in our nuclear capabilities.
Damage
“If something is flying over your most sensitive facilities and has the ability to interfere with them, it can be a big problem.”
Tom says the final episode of the previous series particularly impacted him as being “really eye-opening”.
“I always tell people the whole of Unidentified is really incredible – but the last episode really stands out for me,” he explains.
“Luis and I met with members of the Italian government, which was really eye-opening.
“We spoke to one individual and his partner who were involved in an investigation in Sicily and the Mediterranean – and what they found was completely wild.
“They had photos of objects, they had some damage done to a helicopter, a lot of sightings.
“There were a lot of unknowns, but there was a pattern of things that had been happening around the world that were definitely going on there.”
Luis adds: “The last conversation Tom and I have on camera at the end of series one is: ‘Are the American people really prepared to handle what comes next?’
“We have now taken this conversation to the point where the Department of Defence and our military apparatus has acknowledged the reality of the phenomena.
“I think we are beginning to accept the fact there’s things in our airspace behaving in ways we don’t understand. We know these things are real.”
● Series One of Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation airs from tonight until Saturday at 9pm on Blaze as part of the channel’s UFO Week.