Mysterious Nuclear UFO Sightings | Expedition X | Discovery

Phil, you copy?
I’ve got something to D.

got something?
you got something?

what direction?
it’s traveling east to west, so heading inland.
it just disappeared on my end.
do you see it?

I can’t tell if there’s just something out of the corner of my eye.
I’ve got a big sun flare in my eyes, so it’s kind of hard to see.

holy, um…
wait, hang on, I think I—
what the—
what is that?

give me a second, I think I got something.
it should be right by you.

oh my God, it’s pretty far, faint white dot moving across the sky.

what the hell?
and there’s two jets coming in right now.
you seeing that?

so we have two jets?
oh my God, I think we see it—
it’s a white dot slowly moving across the sky.
are you seeing those two jets come across right now too?

I caught something on the dab; it was headed towards the west.
I don’t see it with my eyes, but I mean, we’ve got it.
I’m recording.

what the is happening up here?

one of the most important engineers in Japan’s history
took the study of UFOs very seriously.
engineer Jiro Hoshi designed the Zero fighter plane
used in the attack on Pearl Harbor,
and he also researched UFOs.

Hoshi’s fascination with flying saucers began,
as it did for many,
when he heard the account of American pilot Kenneth Arnold.
Arnold was jetting over Washington State
on June 24th, 1947,
when he observed a string of nine bright, saucer-like objects.

shockingly, the unidentified objects appeared to travel
at 12,200 mph—
twice the speed of any plane at the time.

news of Arnold’s sighting spread around the world
and inspired the term “Flying Saucer.”
June 24th became known as World UFO Day,
and to celebrate it, in 2021,
the International UFO Lab in Eno first opened its doors.

Jess, I think I lost it.
I have no idea where we just saw up here.
I’m losing you; I’m sorry, I can’t copy.
I think we’re too far.

how are we doing on flight time?
we got to go; we’re going to go back.

Jess, not sure if you copy me,
but we’re running low on fuel; we got to head back.
all right, go ahead and land.
heading back.

oh yeah, they’re out; we got it on the dep, though.
and I swear to God I heard Phil say that he got something,
so I think we’re good.

it just looked like a white, kind of metallic dot up in the sky,
and at first I thought maybe just a planet reflecting
or a satellite reflecting,
but it was moving at a steady pace,
and then these two jets go right across from it.

as the UFO phenomenon has grown over the decades,
so too has the international response trying to engage them.

one of the most famous examples of fighter jets
tracking an unidentified aerial phenomenon
is this video of a 2004 incident
dubbed the Tic Tac event.

taking aboard a US Navy aircraft over the Pacific,
the pilots encountered a cylindrical flying object
moving at unfathomable speeds.

but the growing wave of aerial engagement
is not exclusive to the US military.
in early 2023, it was reported
that there have been 45 separate incidents
where the Russian military has scrambled fighter jets
to follow UFOs.

now, was that just coincidental
that that happened to be the flight path of those jets?
I don’t know,
but then it also makes me wonder
if the Japanese military just scrambled something
to try to figure out what’s up there.

I don’t know what’s happening right now.