In 1980, three young military men were sent into a UK forest to investigate strange lights. They reportedly encountered a spacecraft of unknown origin. When one of the men touched it, he claims to have received telepathically a long sequence of binary code, which he later wrote down and translated. The military ordered them to never speak about the incident. Why do such UFO encounters continue to be kept under wraps, and what might they reveal about our ancient past?
Area 51
United States · Modern American
Reverse-engineered alien technology stored and studied at the facility
Rendlesham Forest
United Kingdom · Modern/Historical British
Ancient Aliens references the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident where military personnel reported encountering a spacecraft and receiving binary code telepathically. The show frames this as a UFO encounter being suppressed by military authorities.
Roswell
United States · Modern American
1947 crash of an alien spacecraft covered up by the US military