There have been many memorable alien encounters from Barney and Betty Hill in 1961 ("Zeta Reticuli Incident"), through the Travis Walton UFO Incident in 1975 to the recent Las Vegas “aliens in backyard” sighting with “men in black” in attendance—so, WTF is going on? Does a covert UFO retrieval program really exist, as former military intelligence officer/whistleblower David Grusch alleges?

Here’s how the recent 911 call to Emergency (on April 30, 2023) in Las Vegas went: “There’s like an eight-foot person, and it has big eyes and is looking at us. In my backyard. I swear to god this is not a joke. (So, there’s two people in your backyard?) Correct and they’re very large. They look like Aliens to us. They have big eyes, big shiny eyes. They’re 100% not human.”

Reporting on the story, NewsNation’s host Brian Entin said: “A potential UFO investigation was sparked from this Emergency 911 call in Las Vegas on April 30. A family claimed something crashed in their backyard…they claim they saw non-human beings walking around…The officers, who (eventually) went to their home, also reported seeing a flash in the sky right before the 911 call.”

A local news reporter added, “Elsewhere in (his 911) call, he truly sounds scared and anxious. (Afterwards) on the police bodycam, you hear the bewilderment in the voices of the officers (who had observed the flash in the sky). There was a follow-up, a few days later with the police, going to the home of that family, who reported seeing Government looking vehicles in the neighborhood—men in suits in dark glasses…”

A follow-up NewsNation story, with investigative journalist Doug Poppa, reported—"UFO investigator: Las Vegas Father, 2 brothers tell same story.”

We huddled with UFOlogist/filmmaker Stephen Zoller to discuss the two most noted and alleged alien abduction incidents; this most recent “aliens in backyard” incident; and what this could all mean to us eight billion denizens of Earth.

The Hills' Story was Widely Publicized in Books and the 1975 Television Film The UFO Incident. What is the Legacy of this Incident?

The Hills’ incident, as far as we know, is the first close encounter of the third kind, with contact and interaction with extraterrestrials, that has both real and compelling circumstantial evidence to back it up.  But the salient point for our purposes is that the interaction the Hills had with aliens was NOT voluntary but intrusive and led to serious mental problems for both of them down the road. Allegedly, Betty was medically probed and prodded by an alien that was humanoid and spoke English. Before being released Betty and Barney’s minds were “wiped” of any memories—at least so it was thought, because both suffered from mental trauma for years after which eventually led to their divorce.

Briefly, Tell Us the Significance of the Travis Walton Incident, an Alleged Alien Abduction of Five plus Days on November 5, 1975, while Walton was Working in the National Forests Near Snowflake, Arizona.

The Travis Walton incident is another close encounter with strong circumstantial evidence to support it. Walton says he awoke in a hospital-like room, being observed by short creatures. He says that he fought with them until a human wearing a helmet led Walton to another room, where he blacked out as three other humans put a clear plastic mask over his face. Walton says he remembers nothing else until he found himself walking along a highway five days later, with the flying saucer departing. At the time in the mid 70s when the Walton incident took place, the discovery of animal mutilations was frequent in the American south west. Cattle country. Curiously a few years later these intrusive incidents—mutilations, abducting humans—etc stopped!

Why?  Here's a theory that's trending in the chattersphere, and it’s a real doozy. The reason they stopped is because of an ultra-secret "out of this world" conference between officials from the Pentagon and a Federation of aliens, which was held on Mars.  I know, hello, it sounds insane and far-fetched but this is exactly what two former government (defense-related) employees Paul Hellyer (Canada) and Prof. Haim Eshed (Israel) have claimed. And they are not alone. The mind boggles at what sort of military top security group managed to keep this information at bay for so many decades. And, just who were those human attendees at the conference, and who/what gives them the right speak on behalf of eight billion Earthlings? This connects to the current whistleblower uprising. People brave enough to come forward may suggest that something is about to happen and it will be soon.

Is this Recent Vegas Encounter Just Popular Culture (“Men in Black” Films) Weaving into a Hoax. Or Does This Covert Retrieval Program Really Exist?

The recent Las Vegas incident may be connected to a story involving legendary entertainer Jackie Gleason (The Honeymooners)—alien and UFO literature was a major collection topic for Mr. Gleason. Reference to this story about Gleason and President Richard Nixon was made on the Joe Rogan Experience show—“Do you want to see an effing UFO, Jackie?” The story goes that they were friends, and Nixon knew that Gleason had witnessed a UFO and was a big collector of materials on the topic—Gleason even ended up building one home in the shape of a UFO. So, Nixon flew Gleason to a top-secret military facility in the desert where the producer/entertainer saw frozen biological entities—yes, UFO wreckage and proof of alien bodies on ice.  So, is this recent “eight-foot creatures” incident with the Latino family in Vegas a coincidence or are those creatures the family saw somehow linked to the secret military base Jackie Gleason was taken to in the desert? Crazy but so is everything else about this overall story.

Where Could all this be Heading with New Whistleblower Stories and with Ever-Increasing UFO/UAP Sightings?

More and more insiders will step up and there’ll be a growing call for full disclosure. As scary as it may be, I think we're headed for game-changing times for humanity. There are already Internet sites sprouting all over, demanding this full disclosure. People are awakening to the fact that we've been lied to for decades. What's the secret? Who are the keepers of the secret? And, will all this lead to a positive or negative change for humanity? Stay tuned.

Graphics by Stephen Zoller. And, also refer to other UFO interviews/stories posted on BBN Times by author Ashley Jude Collie and filmmaker/UFOlogist Stephen Zoller.

“Hiding in Plain Sight—Air Force Whistleblower Suggests that U.S. has UFO Retrieval Program” — “UFOlogist Zoller Reports that Israel’s Professor Eshed says Alien Contact has been Made” — “UFOs Watching as the Earth Stands Still” — “UFOs & Close Encounters of the Real Kind” — “Filmmaker says Truth about UFOs is not about Little Green Men but is Hiding in Plain Sight”