(thunderous boom)
- [Narrator] Close your eyes.
Imagine you're waking up in 1950s America,
the sun peaked over the horizon,
the twilight skies a beautiful
shade of purple and blue.
You take a few moments
to soak in Mother Nature's masterpiece,
when you spot something
hovering in the distance,
an oval shaped object
flying among the clouds.
You grab your camera
and snap a few pictures,
documenting the weird phenomena up above.
You run to the nearest dark
room and develop your photos.
And you send them to the local newspaper,
already foreseeing the headlines.
UFO Sighting Reveals
Intelligence Of Extraterrestrial Origins.
But instead, you're laughed out of town,
labeled as another flying saucer frenzy
that burned rampant in the early 1950's,
with gray, bug-eyed aliens
finding themselves on bumper stickers
and UFO images being
hoaxed every other day.
It's stitched into the
fabric of our culture,
not just into America, but into the world.
Now, fast forward and
open your eyes to 2007,
where a similar controversy
appeared in Turkey.
But this time, it's not
just a fuzzy photograph.
It's a collection of
videotapes and investigations
that may change the course of UFO research
and understanding of life
away from Earth forever.
It's the Turkey UFO
phenomena from 2007 to 2009.
And get ready to be blown away.
For centuries, leading
up to the year 2007,
Turkey and it's surround locales,
were hotspots for UFO sightings
and other aerial phenomena.
Many citizens and tourists
claim to see lights or objects
flying in the Mediterranean skies.
But no one ever captured
anything concrete.
It's all remained urban
legend and folklore,
until the early morning
hours of June 22nd, 2007,
when Yalcin Yalman, a
retired Turkish citizen,
was conducting surveillance
as a security watchman
for the Yeni Kent housing facility
in the Aksaray Province.
He initially noted a sphere of light
hovering over the city skyline,
around the village of Kumburgaz.
And watched as it slowly
made it's way southward
in the direction of the sea.
Yalman, thinking the orb
to be out of the ordinary,
went with his gut and quickly
retrieved his Canon GR1 Mini Dv camcorder.
He ran to the shorelines
of the Sea of Marmara,
and filmed from the beach,
following the UFO as it drifted
over the water on the horizon.
The camera fitted with
a teleconverter lens,
with a 100 multiply zoom,
was able to push in really close
to the object up above.
What he captured took him,
and eventually millions
of people, by surprise.
Check this out.
(inaudible whispering)
For a while, before the video was taken,
Yalman claims he had seen
suspicious flying objects
above his father's house in Kamburgaz.
But had no way to gather proof,
so he went out and bought the camcorder.
It's why he was able to record the events
on June 22nd so easily.
Yalman repeatedly claims
the encounter was pure luck.
And was confident lightning would strike
more than once.
Over the next couple of months,
Yalman devoted much of his surveillance
to capturing the June 22nd UFO.
On July the 30th, and a few
days in mid-August of 2007,
Yalman once again recorded
the same disc-shaped phenomena
over the Sea of Marmara.
As well as another illuminated sphere
over top the village.
As summer turned to autumn,
the UFO sightings dwindled,
but it wouldn't be the end
of the phenomena for Yalman,
or the Turkish people.
In fact, those humid
summer happenings of 2007
were just the beginning.
Yalman stayed persistent
through the coming months.
When summer returned in 2008,
so did the incredible aerial events.
On June the 12th, Yalman
and his two friends,
set up the camcorders like old times,
after multiple residents
of the nearby area
claimed to see the UFOs again.
On June the 9th,
accompanied by strange orbs
of light in the sky,
at around 2 o'clock in the morning,
Yalman captured a similar flying object
to the disc shaped UFO
from the previous year.
This one appears to be
metallic, giving off a shine
underneath the moonlight.
A few days later, on June the 16th,
Yalman recorded a set of mysterious lights
hovering over the sea,
about where the UFOs had been lingering.
The dawn had arrived
but the lights could be
clearly made out against
the twilight background.
Curiously enough, the
lights were in a formation,
almost identical to the outlining
of the disc shaped object.
Wanting further proof
that the UFO and lights
were connected, Yalman continued filming.
And on July the 2nd, he recorded
a day and night comparison
of the phenomena,
catching the disc in
the early morning hours
and then capturing the
lights after sunrise
in the same spot an hour later.
With a second summer's worth of sightings,
Yalman's footage soon entered the sphere
of worldwide knowledge.
Becoming a hot topic
amongst Turkish newspapers
and even CNN.
One of the first legitimate professionals
to analyze Yalman's UFO
tapes was Haktan Akdogan.
Then the director of Sirius UFO
and Space Science Research Center.
He made sure to venture back
to the coastal town of Kamburgaz
and separately interview
all of the witnesses
who claimed to have seen
what Yalman recorded.
After Haktan collected the testimony,
he and a group of investigators,
a part of the same science board,
sat down and analyzed every
single frame of the videos.
Enlarging the images on giant screens
and dissecting the
minuscule pixels themselves.
After weeks of studies,
this was Akdogan's final conclusion.
After doing all the necessary analysis
which went on for several weeks,
the board came to a definite conclusion
with no doubt that these
are 100% genuine videos.
The objects sighted in
the aforementioned footage
that have a structure that is
made of a specific material
are definitely not made up
by any kind of computer animation,
nor are they from any special effects
used for simulation in a
studio or for a video effect.
Therefore, in conclusion, it was decided
that the sightings were
neither a mock up or hoax.
That these objects in the sightings,
that have physical and material structures
do not belong in any category such as:
planes, helicopters, meteors,
Venus, Mars, satellites,
fire balls, Chinese
lanterns, weather balloons,
natural or atmospheric phenomena
and but rather fall into
the category of UFOs.
Another Turkish institution,
the TUG National Observatory
Image Processing Unit,
did a similar video analysis
with multiple segments of different tapes
and reached the same conclusions.
The UFOs aren't computer graphics,
but are of a material not seen
in known aerial technologies.
Unfortunately not everyone
agreed with Akdogan
and the science board.
The Science and Technology
Research Board of Turkey
is a government owned
scientific establishment
with much respect from it's citizens,
and is seen as highly dependable.
Their researchers quickly labeled
Yalman's home movies as a hoax.
Going on national television
to discuss their claims with newscasters.
They never published a
full report like Akdogan,
or the national observatory,
but still persuaded the general public
and international followers
that they had been scammed into thinking
the UFOs were legitimate.
Luckily for Akdogan, and
his group of supporters,
Yalman's recordings continued into 2008,
capturing more disc shaped phenomena
over the Sea of Marmara.
This time however,
Yalman wasn't by himself.
During the International UFO Conference
held in Istanbul,
Ufologist Robert Leir
and seven other attendees
also witnessed the same aerial mystery
that Yalman had been recording
for the past couple of years.
From the night of May the 14th
into the morning of May the 15th,
Yalman and the others captured 33 minutes
of evidential footage.
A similar video was caught
a couple of days later
on May the 17th.
And it was the last major piece of footage
gathered by Yalman.
Since then, UFO enthusiasts, scientists,
and internet surfers alike
have done their due diligence
in solving the mystery of
the Turkish UFO phenomena.
A couple of incredibly
eerie, yet fascinating leads
have been discovered
by such investigators.
One of them is the study
of zoomed in frames
from the 2007 tapes.
Researchers have
discovered what seems to be
small people like figures
sitting behind a window of the UFO.
Some even go as far to say
that they're the gray, bug-eyed aliens
that is the first image
we think of in our alien pop-culture.
This hypothesis leads skeptics to believe
the images are fake,
because it seems there is no way on Earth
that such a stereotypical
extraterrestrial could exist.
Regardless, experts
maintain their opinions,
but the footage is 100% genuine.
And if you believe them,
then what do you think
the figures could be?
Another creepy incident
revolving around the controversy
is a secondary video
captured early morning
on May the 15th, 2009.
In the video, we see the series of lights
eminating from the source
of the flying object.
Down below on the beach is a dog
seemingly aware of the object in the sky.
Take a look.
(dog barking)
So why would a dog be barking
at a distant cruise liner?
As some have suggested it could be.
Or the lights of an airplane.
It's fair to believe something
was off about the UFO.
Possibly emitting high frequency signals
that only a dog's ear could catch.
We'll never know for sure,
but it does make you wonder,
just like so many other
aspects of this case.
As of today, many questions still linger
around the internet and UFO circles,
why did the supposed
craft keep coming back
to the same location?
If it was of alien origin,
the location of Kumburgaz, Turkey
has been notorious throughout the years
for being a hotspot for UFO sightings
dating back to the 14th
Century Ottoman Empire.
Through modern day Turkey,
it's quite possible that whatever this
unidentified flying object is
it's simply making rounds once again
back through familiar territory,
but that's up for you to decide.
Like many unsolved mysteries of our world,
we're no closer to solving the case
of extraterrestrial intelligent life
as we are to anything else.
UFOs and other aerial phenomena
may be the first key to discover.
And the Turkey UFO controversy could be
the unlocked door into a world of answers.
What do you make of it all?
So that's it for today's video.
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