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00:07:29.160aaron carter versus lamar odom strange times texas is open i want to show a trailer here
00:07:36.820regarding uh the guest's work so this is a very exciting episode could be a pretty eerie episode
00:07:44.600depending on what angle you view it through but uh we're gonna play this documentary uh trailer
00:07:50.620right here for a movie a film called the phenomenon check this out and then i'm gonna bring the guest
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00:08:00.640breaking news for the front page of the new york times my gosh
00:08:04.200look at that thing we need to accept that we are not alone in the universe
00:08:11.900the federal government all these years has covered up everything it's very very bad for our country
00:08:20.480there have been visitation crashed craft material recovered it was not anything
00:08:27.140from this earth all i could do is keep a mouth shut
00:08:30.020the public has a right to know there's a tremendous resistance i guarantee every one
00:08:37.520of them knows that this event happened hiding these dark secrets even from elected presidents
00:08:44.300they came running up here in such a panic john can't make that up declassified government
00:08:51.740documents confirm ongoing ufo incursions at nuclear weapons sites are you saying that there's some
00:08:58.600evidence that still hasn't seen the light of day i'm saying most of it hasn't seen the light of day
00:09:04.180these things are real they're here this is happening now
00:09:09.400our guest today is a ufo expert and director of the groundbreaking documentary the phenomenon
00:09:18.240which features high-ranking government officials speaking on what many of us to believe to be true
00:09:22.440the alien spacecraft exist and have been visiting us for years he's brought with him never before
00:09:27.580scene materials please welcome James Fox this is nutty this is probably the most I've ever been
00:09:37.020excited yeah he's got he's got the secrets potentially even the secret to the universe
00:09:41.940what is it how did we get here welcome to impulsive James oh thanks so much for having me on you guys
00:09:47.180it's exciting of course so we've had a we've got a ufo expert on before dr. Greer whom I'm sure
00:09:53.300you're familiar with right i am and i'll just say it i loved dr greer and his entourage and he showed
00:09:59.340us some things that were pretty uh interesting to say the least he was convinced he had a picture
00:10:03.660of an alien kind of kind of looked like lights kind of looked like lights and you know he left
00:10:10.860and i was like yeah i'm acutely aware of that my own father was like son what are you doing so
00:10:18.760you cannot discuss anything that you can't prove in a court of law so you could have your personal
00:10:26.220beliefs but if you're going to go public with stuff you better be prepared to back it up with
00:10:31.140facts or enough compelling evidence to sway a jury in a court of law and that's what i do
00:10:35.700yeah and and and that's why i think your film uh is as world renowned as it is because you had a
00:10:42.660lot of testimonials from high-ranking government officials the evidence that you speak of um and
00:10:47.300And, you know, Dr. Rear, they do they do the CE5 where they summon aliens and they can meditate and stuff.
00:10:55.460And I guess what I'm saying is, like, I just don't know if I if I bought it, you know, and your stuff seems a bit more grounded in reality.
00:11:04.500Even, you know, this bit of the many articles have been written on you.
00:11:08.840This one here says it's from The Cut says the headline is my favorite hot UFO.
00:11:14.160while ufologist has a new documentary so and and so you you do seem a little more just grounded
00:11:20.380and hot you know so are you hot because you are looking for ufos or are you looking for ufos
00:11:27.420because you're hot you know i'm hot on the trail no honestly you guys i am just joe public that
00:11:35.820decided to do something about a potentially huge story and i picked up a camera years and years ago
00:11:41.340back in my 20s and i started to say i'm gonna make i'm gonna get to the bottom of this i'm
00:11:46.120gonna find out what's going on you know and i started going to conferences listening to military
00:11:50.100guys and um here i am all these years later four and a half films later um i've done some of the
00:11:57.020most uh what are considered some of the most credible civilian efforts for to push for
00:12:01.200government transparency and um i'm no closer to the truth today than i was 25 years ago i know
00:12:08.880I know, but I can tell you is that there are clearly structured craft of unknown origin
00:12:15.280whizzing around with impunity, and every government official will confirm that beyond a shadow
00:12:19.420of doubt, but anybody who says they know exactly what's going on is full of doggy doo-doo.0.95
00:12:24.520I'll tell you that right now, but you do the process of elimination if it's not the Russians,
00:12:30.320if it's not the Japanese, if it's not the Chinese, if it's no other, like, superpower.
00:12:53.240But your specialty, correct me if I'm wrong, is not so much extraterrestrial, other interplanetary life so much as it is unidentifiable flying objects, correct? UFOs.
00:13:05.700Yeah, so I've made a couple of other films.
00:13:08.260I did a film out of the blue, did a second version of it out of the blue director's cut, and then I did a film called I Know What I Saw.
00:13:13.840And I never, during the production of those films, touched on what are reported as close encounters of the third kind.
00:13:20.560So the very guy who investigated UFOs for the United States Air Force, whose name was Dr. Jalen Hynek, and he was a scientific advisor to the Air Force from 1947 to 69.
00:13:30.840And I don't know at what stage, maybe it was in the 50s, he was like, all right, we're going to classify UFO encounters into three categories.
00:13:38.260Close encounter of the first kind, somebody says, hey, I saw a UFO.
00:13:42.400Close encounter of the second kind, hey, I saw a UFO, and this UFO interacted with the environment.
00:13:47.220Maybe it burned someone's face, maybe it left marks on the ground, maybe it was photographed or picked up on radar.
00:13:52.760Close encounter of the third kind is when witnesses claim to see occupants associated with the craft.
00:13:58.440That's some next-level stuff, because there's one thing to identify a craft in the air and beans on the ground.
00:14:04.440Yeah. So this is the first film I've done where I've I've delved into Close Encounters of the Third Kind because I felt like it was a really slippery slope, you know, especially the fact that I'm dealing with high level government and military officials.
00:14:17.140I thought they're going to run for the hills when they found out I deal.
00:14:19.280I you know, I talk about a UFO landing in Africa where the occupants get out and reportedly interact telepathically with all these children.
00:14:25.660And I mean, it's a pretty out there story, right?
00:14:28.420Like a UFO lands at a school in broad daylight and and gets out of the craft at 1030 in the morning and they interact telepathically with a handful of kids.
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00:35:14.360He revealed some startling revelations on camera with me.
00:35:17.840and and uh he's he's like hey just so you know i've got about 48 minutes to meet with you and
00:35:22.440then i'm out of there i was like all right i get it so why that number specifically you know he was
00:35:26.860very precise like and he showed up for he showed up like 10 seconds before the interview and left
00:35:30.840like right on time he was out there he had a busy schedule so anyway about two or three minutes
00:35:35.780before the end of the interview i thought god i really need a b-roll shot of the two of us walking
00:35:39.400sort of an establishing shot so i was like senator um would you mind terribly would you have a minute
00:35:44.020we could do a quick b-roll shot and of course being a politician he knew exactly what i was
00:35:47.080talking about he goes sure so we go to the hallway we're walking down the hallway together and the
00:35:50.840security details like checking me out and i get too close to him it was kind of weird and um i said
00:35:56.640well i might as well take advantage of these two minutes walking with senator reed in the hallway
00:35:59.860i said if you don't mind me asking and he spearheaded this secret pentagon ufo program
00:36:04.760called atep that was lasted roughly 10 years i said what was one of the more astonishing aspects
00:36:09.540that you guys uncovered at this pentagon program and without hesitation he goes not just the fact
00:36:15.200that these uaps unidentified aerial phenomenon are penetrating super sensitive nuclear weapons
00:36:21.180facilities all around the world but in some instances they're shutting them off and he said
00:36:27.100in a couple cases if the president wanted to launch he couldn't have launched and i was like0.96
00:36:32.540holy shit like wow coming from him like the third most powerful man like he would have been you know
00:36:39.620so i was like i have to cover that aspect of the phenomenon in the film i went back to production0.98
00:36:45.100It's been another year. I contacted the number one researchers in the world, and I put together that National Press Club event that someone and I featured testimony, Robert Hastings, testimony after testimony after testimony from the highest level military officials exclusively responsible for the deployment of our atomic weapons, the most sensitive, all saying the same thing, and nuclear installation after installation after installation.
00:37:10.440Which was what we're, so we specialize not in Harry Reid, but in Riley Reid.
00:37:15.100So let's break this down a little bit for us, okay?
00:47:17.280If there is tangible evidence that would suggest we're not alone, being withheld from the general public, I feel that's unconscionable.
00:47:28.240I mean, whether it's a little scary or not, I feel like it's it's information that we're all should be entitled to.
00:47:33.980I really do. I believe that. I would love to see my six year old son grow up with this not being a secret, with this not being covered up with this.
00:47:41.920I think it would force the human race. And I sound a little wiggy here, but I'm serious to see ourselves for who we really are.
00:47:48.640And that's one race, one planet. I really believe that. I really do. I love that.
00:47:52.880And I think that we're all entitled. It's one of those topics that transcends religion. It transcends politics.
00:47:58.240We're living in incredibly divided times right now,
00:48:00.440and this is something we can all get behind and agree with
01:13:19.260And people have been banging on about it.
01:13:20.540I was like, OK, well, if I'm going to cover it, what I did was I was looking and I was looking into this incident called the Rockefeller Initiative.
01:13:27.480It was during the Clinton administration.
01:13:29.280And Lawrence Rockefeller at the time, a billionaire, was putting significant pressure on the Clinton administration saying, you're going to, you know, you're going to open up the files for UFO files.
01:13:40.640or I'm going to expose the fact in every newspaper publication
01:13:43.500across the United States that you're not going to do that.