INCIDENT AT EXETER- UFO Encounter that haunted a region.

0:00 Speaker 1: Welcome to total disclosure. For UFOs, cover ups and conspiracy

0:07 Speaker 1: collide with truth. If you're ready to go deeper, don't forget.

0:13 Speaker 1: Like this video, share it with someone who's curious and

0:16 Speaker 1: follow for more. And if you're listening on Apple or Spotify.

0:21 Speaker 2: Leave us a review.

0:22 Speaker 1: It helps bring it these hidden stories to more eyes

0:26 Speaker 1: and ears.

0:27 Speaker 2: Let's get started.

0:33 Speaker 1: Today's retelling is one that is truly amazing. The incident

0:41 Speaker 1: at Exeter, a UFO that was seen by several people,

0:47 Speaker 1: including two police officers, one of them a US Air

0:51 Speaker 1: Force veteran. Not located far away from the incident itself

0:56 Speaker 1: was p's Air Force piece, home to the B two bomber.

1:13 Speaker 1: The Northeast has always carried a strange allure for the unexplained.

1:18 Speaker 1: Maybe it's the isolation pockets of wilderness where the night

1:22 Speaker 1: truly is dark.

1:25 Speaker 2: Maybe it's the water, vast.

1:27 Speaker 1: Networks of lakes, rivers and the jagged Atlantic coast, or

1:33 Speaker 1: maybe it's something else. Nineteen sixty one, just four years

1:38 Speaker 1: before Exeter, Betty and Barney Hill reported being abducted by

1:44 Speaker 1: non human beings in the White Mountains of New Hampshire,

1:49 Speaker 1: a case so detailed and haunting it became one of

1:52 Speaker 1: the most famous in history. Go back further eighteen seventy

1:59 Speaker 1: you'll find the first known photograph of a UFO, taken

2:03 Speaker 1: atop Mount Washington, a strange cigar shaped object floating in

2:09 Speaker 1: the sky. Over the decades, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,

2:18 Speaker 1: they've all produced reports that line up eerily well, almost

2:23 Speaker 1: as if something is mapping this region, visiting it repeatedly,

2:29 Speaker 1: which brings us to Exeter. Late August nineteen sixty five,

2:34 Speaker 1: reports begin filtering in not one, not two, but dozens

2:40 Speaker 1: of sightings. Strange lights maneuvering low in the night sky,

2:46 Speaker 1: no sound.

2:47 Speaker 2: No clear source.

2:49 Speaker 1: Military aircraft scrambled from PA's Air Force base. Locals calling

2:55 Speaker 1: the police in hushed, uneasy voices. These were not single moments.

3:01 Speaker 1: This was a pattern, night after night, And then then

3:08 Speaker 1: came September third.

3:11 Speaker 2: Norman Muscarello.

3:13 Speaker 1: He was an eighteen year old man hitch hiking home

3:17 Speaker 1: to Exeter from Amesbury, mass It was after midnight, the

3:22 Speaker 1: road empty, just a dim glow of distant farmhouses. As

3:28 Speaker 1: he passed a darkened field, something caught his eye. Five

3:32 Speaker 1: brilliant red lights hovering above the trees. They weren't stationary.

3:39 Speaker 1: They moved in formation, swaying back and forth, dipping low

3:44 Speaker 1: towards the ground, and then they began moving toward him.

3:50 Speaker 1: He described them as brighter than anything he had ever seen,

3:56 Speaker 1: so bright they lit the trees in the ground around

3:58 Speaker 1: him in an other worldly read. Panicked, Norman dove into

4:05 Speaker 1: a roadside ditch, heart hammering in his ears, waiting for

4:09 Speaker 1: the light to pass, But they didn't vanish. They moved deliberately,

4:15 Speaker 1: like they were aware of him. When the lights finally

4:21 Speaker 1: disappeared over the tree line, Norman ran as fast as

4:25 Speaker 1: he could into Exeter, barging his way into the police station.

4:32 Speaker 1: He told Officer Reginald Toland what had happened. Toldan listened

4:38 Speaker 1: carefully and called in another officer.

4:41 Speaker 2: Eugene Bertrand, Junior.

4:44 Speaker 1: Bertrand's face changed as Norman spoke of the incident. Just

4:49 Speaker 1: hours earlier, Bertrand himself had been on patrol when he

4:54 Speaker 1: encountered a woman parked on the roadside.

4:57 Speaker 2: Terrified, she told him a.

5:00 Speaker 1: Huge, silent object with red lights had paced her car

5:05 Speaker 1: for miles before vanishing, stalking her vehicle.

5:11 Speaker 2: Bertrand had chalked it up to nerves until now.

5:17 Speaker 1: Officer Bertrand decided to take Norman back to the scene.

5:23 Speaker 1: Another officer, David Hunt, joined them. The three men drove

5:27 Speaker 1: out to the spot, Norman indicated, stepping out into the

5:31 Speaker 1: cool September night. At first nothing, then without warning, the

5:39 Speaker 1: lights appeared, five blazing red spheres, moving in unison, low

5:46 Speaker 1: and silent. They rose and fell in the sky with

5:50 Speaker 1: a strange but deliberate rhythm, tilting slightly as they moved.

5:56 Speaker 1: The officer swore it was no aircraft they'd ever seen,

6:01 Speaker 1: and Bertrand, a former Air Force gunner, later said it

6:06 Speaker 1: moved in complete silence, not the faintest hum of engines

6:11 Speaker 1: or roders, any discernible means of propulsion. They watched almost

6:18 Speaker 1: spellbound until the object suddenly shot away at an incredible speed,

6:24 Speaker 1: vanishing over the trees. All three men went on to

6:32 Speaker 1: file official reports that night. The Air Force got involved quickly.

6:38 Speaker 1: Exerter was only a short drive from PA's Air Force Base,

6:42 Speaker 1: home to nuclear armed B forty seven bombers Project blue Book.

6:48 Speaker 1: The Air force's official UFO investigation dispatched officers to interview

6:54 Speaker 1: the witnesses. The conclusion well the sightings are possibly due

7:02 Speaker 1: to the lights of an air Force KC ninety seven

7:05 Speaker 1: refueling plane.

7:07 Speaker 2: But there was a problem.

7:09 Speaker 1: The KC ninety seven was loud, very loud. These lights

7:16 Speaker 1: were silent. The maneuvers reported were impossible for a plane

7:20 Speaker 1: of that size, of any size, really, and no scheduled

7:25 Speaker 1: flights matched the exact time nor location of the exeter sighting.

7:34 Speaker 2: Was this a one off?

7:35 Speaker 1: No reports of glowing red lights, low silent craft came

7:41 Speaker 1: from nearby towns in the days before and after September third.

7:47 Speaker 1: Some hovered over farms, others were seen darting into wooded areas.

7:53 Speaker 1: In the Northeast corridor from the White Mountains down through

7:57 Speaker 1: Massachusetts has been a hotspot for decades, multiple cases, all

8:04 Speaker 1: of them involved in aircraft near water, whether it was rivers,

8:08 Speaker 1: lakes or the coastline. Some UFO researchers believe water is

8:13 Speaker 1: a key element, maybe a resource, a hiding place, or

8:18 Speaker 1: even a means of travel. With PA's Air Force base

8:23 Speaker 1: and proximity storing nuclear weapons during the Cold War, the

8:27 Speaker 1: possibility of yet another connection, this one to national security.

8:31 Speaker 2: Looms large.

8:35 Speaker 1: This was also just five years after the famous nineteen

8:39 Speaker 1: sixties wave of UFO sightings across the United States.

8:43 Speaker 2: In the military. They were on high alert. The Exeter

8:52 Speaker 2: incident stands.

8:53 Speaker 1: As one of the most credible UFO sightings in US history,

8:58 Speaker 1: multiple train deservers, physical proximity, corroborating reports, and yet no

9:05 Speaker 1: official explanation that matches any of the witness testimony, nor does.

9:10 Speaker 2: It explain any of it away.

9:13 Speaker 1: Today, almost sixty years later, Exeter embraces its place in

9:19 Speaker 1: UFO history with an annual festival where experiencers, researchers, and

9:26 Speaker 1: the simply curious gather under those same skies, skies that,

9:32 Speaker 1: if the reports are to be believed, still hold secrets

9:37 Speaker 1: and maybe, just maybe the lights will return. I'm Ty Robertson.

9:45 Speaker 1: This is total disclosure. The truth is out there, and

9:49 Speaker 1: sometimes it's closer than you think.

9:52 Speaker 2: I hope you.

9:53 Speaker 1: Enjoyed today's retelling of the Exeter UFO Incident. I wanted

9:59 Speaker 1: to tell this story in part because it is close

10:03 Speaker 1: to me and it is close to home, but also

10:07 Speaker 1: because the next episode that will come out on an

10:11 Speaker 1: audio feed is my live podcast from the stage at

10:17 Speaker 1: the Exeter UFO Festival. I was asked to participate, and

10:23 Speaker 1: since I don't give lectures, I decided a live podcast

10:27 Speaker 1: would be great. And it features Steve Bassett as well

10:31 Speaker 1: as Nat and Jeans Sticko. And then at the end

10:35 Speaker 1: we allow for some audience questions. I hope you enjoy

10:39 Speaker 1: the next couple episodes. MY name's Tyler.

10:43 Speaker 2: This is total disclosure.

10:45 Speaker 1: Keep looking up, but also look inside.