UFO Disclosure Already Happened in THIS BOOK!

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Maybe the best way to expose the real UFO truth isn't in this Department of War data dump,
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but in a sci-fi book written by whistleblower and former American Alchemy guest, Jake Barber.
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It's so blatant and in your face and so real, it doesn't register as exciting, you know, in that format.
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Who is Jake Barber, you ask?
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He's a pilot, former Air Force, Gracie Black Belt, and he's an all-American badass.
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On paper, he was an Air Force aircraft mechanic, but that was just a cover.
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He held a NATO top-secret security clearance, deployed on presidential support missions,
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hunted war criminals in Bosnia, and later slipped into the shadows as a contractor
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flying UFO crash retrievals as a helicopter pilot.
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And according to Jake, one of those crafts that he retrieved seemed to be alive,
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with a consciousness of its own attached to it.
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And for a few terrifying moments mid-flight, that consciousness possessed him.
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Jake was the black hand of an unnamed aerospace giant.
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He won't say who, but here's a clue.
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Look, man, if you took two guesses, you'd get both of them right on the first try.
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There you go.
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When I interviewed Jake, his claims were so wild and so ahead of the curve
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that most people's brains just bounced right off them and into the comments section
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to roast Logan Paul's cameo instead.
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And what happened there is kind of the point.
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Jake's novel is called Sentinels of Ether,
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and it's written by a ghostwriter under the pen name Alva Douglas.
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I'm linking the manuscript in the description of this video.
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This was a novel deemed so dangerous by the Pentagon
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that they spent six months reviewing just 20 pages of the book.
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They escalated it to subject matter experts in classified special access programs
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and came back with seven pages of redactions.
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And that was just from 10% of the full 120,000-word manuscript.
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Why would the Pentagon redact fiction?
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Maybe it's because it wasn't.
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The best-kept secrets don't need to be classified.
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They're just too insane to be taken seriously.
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They're self-stigmatizing.
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So when the truth is just too strange, you disguise it as fiction.
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Before we hit play on Sentinels of Ether,
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we need to roll the tape back on Jake Barber.
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We were running operations, let's say, more attuned for the UAP.
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Because before there was ever a manuscript, there was an operation.
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Jake worked for a private company embedded inside legacy aerospace.
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Need-to-know operations.
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No questions asked.
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But Jake's routine missions for his employer gradually evolved into something more ominous.
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He was sent on what looked like a high-stakes scavenger hunt,
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tracked down some missing Panasonic Toughbooks,
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ruggedized laptops meant to endure extreme environments.
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And it was believed on these Toughbooks was highly sensitive information
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that was evidence to see our programs.
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Sensor data and video footage that might be classified and incriminating.
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Proof of UFO crash retrieval operations.
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We received human intelligence that gave us the intel package we needed to pursue
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where we thought the first set of Toughbooks might be.
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A recovery team was sent and we found the Toughbooks.
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I'm not going to say where.
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And we returned them to our employer.
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The Toughbooks were missing the hard drives.
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We then set out to recover the hard drives.
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Our human asset led us to another location high in the Sierras,
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which was a glacier lake.
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And the hard drives were sealed in a steel container like 25 feet underwater.
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Don Paul Bales, a 25-year military and law enforcement veteran,
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later confirmed that he worked under Jake on this same operation.
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Technically, I did not work for them.
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I worked for Jacob.
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And by the next mission, something felt off.
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He was given a new intel contact, new coordinates, a new chain of command.
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The whole operation had a different fingerprint.
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When his team finally reached the target location, an ambush was waiting.
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The next mission we went out on, I'll just tell you that shots were fired.
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And we called bullshit.
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And that's when we began to backtrack and set out with our own effort
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to find out exactly who we were working for and what they were interested in.
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From an insider leak, we now know that the programs documented on these tough books
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used temporary flight restrictions to clear the skies,
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lure UFOs in, and bring them down with EMP weaponry.
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For the uninitiated, EMP means electromagnetic pulse.
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It's basically the electromagnetic fallout you would experience with a nuke without the nuclear blast.
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But it gets even darker.
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Apparently, civilian aircraft had also been taken down after entering this restricted airspace,
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with the bodies and wreckage disposed of.
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If even a fraction of that was sitting on those tough books, they were a massive liability.
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Not only did Jake's employer want to destroy the tough books with evidence of crash retrievals,
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they also wanted to destroy him.
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The plausible deniability button that people at the top can hit in order to protect themselves
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would sever us as the hidden hand.
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So Jake does what any good operative does when the mission burns.
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He burns it back.
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He and his teammate turned their special ops spycraft back against their own employer,
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and indirectly, the UFO legacy program itself.
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Jake's weapon of choice isn't a gun.
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It's a manuscript.
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And DOPSR, the Defense Department pre-publication review, is the system designed to silence him.
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For most people, it's a muzzle.
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But Jake turns it into a Trojan horse.
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He teams up with a ghostwriter and begins crafting the manuscript,
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then slices it into 20-page chunks and feeds them to DOPSR.
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The first round took six months and came back with seven pages of redactions.
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Instead of killing his story, the redactions only served to confirm it.
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You see, Jake used the redaction process backwards as a discovery tool.
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Normally, you know it's classified and you avoid it.
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But Jake submitted material he suspected was classified,
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then watched what the Pentagon blacked out.
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By drip-feeding chapters, he could see which lines made the Pentagon flinch,
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adjust, probe, and slip real facts about the UFO legacy program into the public domain
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under the camouflage of fiction.
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The manuscript becomes a Trojan horse.
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The Pentagon's own bureaucracy becomes the delivery mechanism.
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And buried in the pages is a trail of breadcrumbs hidden in plain sight.
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For most readers, it's just a thriller.
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But for those who know what to look for,
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it's a cipher waiting for the right eyes to crack it open.
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And the clock starts ticking.
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Alex McEwen, Tier 1 operator.
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11 years in America's most elite units.
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Tonight, he's alone.
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Escorting two dozen refugees through jagged desert terrain.
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Women and children who will die if he doesn't get them to extraction.
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Scout, this is H1.
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We are here for extract.
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LZ is 100 meters to the south.
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Do you copy?
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They're early, and his team is still behind him somewhere.
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Extraction without the unit wasn't the plan.
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H1, I copy. What is your 20?
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Alex hits them with a code that's known as a verbal IFF,
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a code only people on this classified op should know.
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Match box.
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He gets the right answer.
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So he waves the refugees forward.
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We'll try it.
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But here's what Alex doesn't know.
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These refugees weren't just lucky enough to have a Tier 1 escort.
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Someone very powerful wanted them here.
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Barber claims that some of these black aerospace programs
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had a very specific need.
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People untouched by modern civilization,
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often from third world countries,
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psychically uncorrupted.
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And displaced people?
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Refugees?
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Victims of natural disaster?
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They're perfect.
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No passport.
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No paper trail.
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No one who'd know if they went missing.
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Fed into a UFO legacy operation
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that most people will never hear about.
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All the program would need
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is a reason for them to disappear
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that no one would question.
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A natural disaster works just fine.
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So does border crossing.
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So does geopolitical conflict.
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That's when Alex sees it.
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A second helicopter.
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Even bigger.
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Carrying a steel Konex shipping container
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with a mini-split HVAC unit bolted to its roof,
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slung beneath the chopper like a coffin on a hook.
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According to Barber,
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this is how they moved them.
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These refugees aren't being rescued.
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They are the cargo.
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Stop it.
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What were you talking about?
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Three figures materialize from the dust.
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Email! Email!
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They move fast, efficient, predatory.
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Alex knows immediately.
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These aren't friendlies coming to help.
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Their gear is a Frankenstein mashup
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of high-end helmets, comms, and lightweight armor.
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One guy's pants are tucked into his Converse All-Stars.
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Does this sound at all like military to you?
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There is a gun.
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Two men beeline for him
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as the third heads up a hill
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and shoulders a rifle
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aimed at Alex's skull.
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And then something happens
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that chills Alex's blood.
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They call him by name.
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Alex!
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Alex!
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His stomach drops.
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That's when things go sideways.
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They rip the rifle from him
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and break it down like a pit crew
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before tossing it.
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Don't even fucking blink, bro.
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He's outgunned three to one
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with a rifle pointed directly at his head
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from elevation.
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They blindfold Alex
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and zip-tie his wrists.
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One of them pulls out
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a strange handheld device.
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Something like a bioscanner.
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He sweeps Alex with it
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from head to toe.
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A wand hunting for trackers
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and biometric chips?
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These guys are professionally trained,
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not random desert smugglers.
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He doesn't have it.
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Man one steps close.
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Man three holds the high ground,
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rifle steady.
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Man one raises his hand,
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gives a silent signal,
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and somewhere above,
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a trigger is pulled.
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A 7.62 round tears through Alex's right shoulder,
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clavicle pulverized,
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shattering bone and flesh.
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A second signal,
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and a second shot.
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His throat explodes,
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drowning in his own blood.
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A third signal,
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third shot.
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His face is obliterated.
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His body drops back,
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cold,
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lifeless,
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face to the stars.
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Or what's left of his face,
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that is.
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The entire universe of Alex McEwen
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blinked out like a dying star,
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sudden and violent.
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Children bury their faces.
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Some of the women don't look away.
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It's almost as if they've seen worse.
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Alex McEwen,
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tier one operator,
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patriot,
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now just a corpse in the Chihuahuan desert.
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He believed he died serving his country,
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but the men who killed him
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were clearly serving something else.
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Cut to Pope Air Force Base.
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North Carolina.
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We're inside Joint Special Operations Command,
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or JSOC,
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their operations center.
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Everyone's frozen.
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The Secretary of Defense himself
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is on the other end of the call.
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And he is not happy.
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Dale,
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what in the fuck
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just happened out there?
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General Dale Steinmaker,
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commander of Joint Special Operations Command,
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is wondering the exact same thing.
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Uh,
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Mr. Secretary,
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do you have agency guys
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in Coyame,
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Mexico?
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Why the fuck would I?
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Everyone's at war.
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Nobody should be in goddamn Mexico.
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But the drone feed
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tells a different story.
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Someone just took out
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an entire special mission unit
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on JSOC's watch.
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The Predator drone
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had caught the whole ugly scene.
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Alex's execution,
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the refugees being loaded
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into the shipping container,
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and now the helicopters
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lifting off into the desert,
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human cargo in tow.
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Are you suggesting
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this is Blue on Blue?
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Black on Black, sir.
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Excuse me, gentlemen.
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The difference here matters.
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Blue on Blue is friendly fire.
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Tragic,
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but explainable.
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Black on Black is a nightmare.
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Covert operators
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killing covert operators.
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Shadow versus shadow.
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Whoever did this
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wasn't supposed to be there.
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The thermal signatures
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of six bodies
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cool in the sand.
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The combat controller
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called for air support,
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but bled out
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mid-sentence.
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All right,
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Vector F-18s
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out of white sands.
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I want every eye in the sky
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on those helicopters.
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Wherever they're going,
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we're going there first.
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Within minutes,
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satellites pivot over Koyame.
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Half a dozen airborne assets
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spin up and vector south.
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Restricted Area 5107,
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the largest military installation
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in America.
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3,200 square miles
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of nothing but sand and secrets.
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This is where they detonated Trinity,
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the first atomic bomb.
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July 16th, 1945.
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Since then,
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it's been a war game's wasteland.
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Eagle 1 and Eagle 2.
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Top Gun graduates
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yanked off a training mission
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and thrown straight
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into the real thing.
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Eagle flight,
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what is your loadout?
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Sorry, gang.
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We're fast,
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but not fatal.
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Negative for ordinance.
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How about a show of force instead?
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Translation?
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Scare the hell out of them
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and force them to land.
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Just don't kill them.
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They want answers,
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not corpses.
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Five miles out,
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the helicopters dropped
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into a descent.
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They sink below the canyon walls
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and vanish.
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Back in the war room,
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the radar blip blinks out.
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They lost radar contact.
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Radar is line-of-sight technology.
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Terrain blocks it.
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Fly low enough,
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hug the Earth tight enough,
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and you disappear.
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In skilled aviation circles,
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this is called
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nap of the Earth flying,
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and these pilots know
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exactly what they're doing.
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Eagle 1 drops to 8,000 feet.
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Night vision goggles on.
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Scanning.
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Bingo.
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Tally 2.
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Two helicopters,
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and beneath the bigger one,
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still spinning on its cable,
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the container full of human cargo.
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Eagle 1 calls them out
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over guard frequency 243 megahertz,
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the international emergency frequency,
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and orders them to land.
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Copter flight of two
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with the external load
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east of Koyama in Mexico.
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This is a United Navy F-18.
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You are instructed
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to land immediately.
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But the helicopters hold course,
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refusing to ID yourself
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and ignoring a Navy intercept?
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Ballsy.
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If this part is true,
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we know more about
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where to knock
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and who to use
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the Freedom of Information Act on.
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NORAD,
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under U.S. Northcom,
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JSOC,
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through U.S. Special Operations Command,
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plus the Navy.
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And we know what to ask for.
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Incident reports
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and air defense logs
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on unknown aircraft
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in the Koyama Corridor
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in 2004
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that ignored guard frequency
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243 megahertz
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and blew off a Navy intercept.
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After the intercept doesn't work,
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Eagle 1 decides
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to get their attention
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the old-fashioned way.
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But as he lines up the pass,
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something's wrong.
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The gorge deadends
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into a mountain so massive
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it eats the stars.
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1,500 feet of vertical rock.
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No way around,
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no way over,
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no escape.
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So what is this?
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A suicide run?
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Then everything goes wrong at once.
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In the war room,
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the drone feed dies.
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At the same time,
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Eagle 1's cockpit goes black.
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Flight controls,
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dead.
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Engines,
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dead.
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200 feet from the ground,
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at near supersonic speed,
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the jet becomes a dead weight.
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He has milliseconds to choose.
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Ride the coffin
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into the mountain
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or punch out at speeds
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that can rip human bodies apart.
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The math is ugly
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and an homage
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to the first man
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to ever eject
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from a cockpit
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at supersonic speeds.
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He double grips the handle
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and pulls.
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8,000 feet above,
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Eagle 2 can't breathe.
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His oxygen system is dead.
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So are his generators.
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He rips off his mask,
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fighting through
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his own electrical failure.
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Systems flicker back online.
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He looks down.
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The jet's gone,
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but the helicopters
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are still flying
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straight at the face
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of Mount Mexico.
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Nice one.
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Here we go.
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Here we go.
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Here we go.
[0:20:16 - 0:20:16] ▶
Here we go.
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Here we go.
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The mountainside starts to pixely.
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It dissolves from 3D
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to 2D
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to nothing
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as the helicopters
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slip through
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and vanish
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from one world
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into another.
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Entering a massive chamber
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made of stone
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and steel beams.
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Outside,
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the electromagnetic force field
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re-energizes
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to the illusion
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of solid rock.
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To the outside world,
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it looks like they vanished.
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But inside,
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they've just arrived.
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Home.
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Call it a black site,
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a breakaway base,
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or something worse.
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We don't have a name
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for it yet.
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What we do have
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is a body count
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that shouldn't exist
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and a story
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that leaves more questions
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than answers.
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An elite American operator
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executed in the desert
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by unknown forces
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using U.S. authentication codes.
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A JSOC mission
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burned from the inside out.
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A weapon system
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that can surgically blast
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drones and F-18s
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with an electromagnetic pulse.
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Missing refugees,
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human beings,
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loaded into a shipping container,
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ferried by unmarked helicopters
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across the desert,
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and chased by U.S. fighter jets
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to a holographic mountain
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in Mexico
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that isn't a mountain,
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but a door.
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And behind it,
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a secret underground facility.
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The fact that the general
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is asking the secretary of defense
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if another agency
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is running an unsanctioned op
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in Mexico
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tells us their worst fear.
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The enemy isn't foreign.
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It's domestic.
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But it's not under
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normal chains of command.
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And if that's true,
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then this isn't just
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a botched mission
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in the Koyame Desert.
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It's the tip
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of something much bigger.
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