for decades the government has told us

UFOs aren't real for decades they've

called it

misidentifications hoaxes or just

overactive imaginations but what if I

told you there's a timeline a hidden

history of UFO encounters that stretches

back farther than Roswell a decades long

pattern of sightings crashes and

coverups that has shaped the world

without us even realizing it this is not

just one story this is an entire series

dedicated to uncovering the truth

incident by incident Case by case

because the evidence is out there it

always has been and it might have

started on a quiet night in

1941 welcome to Divergent files the UFO

encounters miniseries

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if you think UFO history begins with

Roswell think again long before the term

Flying Saucer even existed before the

government started officially denying

everything there was a crash one that

most people have never even heard of a

pastor called to perform last rights a

wreckage that wasn't from this world and

a coverup so complete that the world

never even knew it

happened this is Cape Gerardo

1941 and this might be the moment the

UFO coverup Playbook was first written

let's

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begin it was a calm spring night in 1941

when Reverend William Huffman received

an urgent call

an accident had occurred just outside

Cape jardo Missouri as a man of Faith he

assumed he was being called to give

final prayers for a dying soul but when

he arrived what he saw wasn't anything

he was prepared for instead of a car

wreck Huffman found a strange metallic

craft seamless and disc-shaped partially

buried in the earth military personnel

were already swarming the area but the

real shock came when he saw the bodies

they weren't human according to later

accounts from Huffman's family the

beings were small with oversized heads

and large black eyes their features were

eerily similar to the gray aliens that

would later become infamous in abduction

stories but this was

1941 decades before those descriptions

became mainstream Huffman was sworn to

secrecy the wreckage was taken away and

that was supposed to be the end of it

but here's the thing about Secrets they

don't stay buried

forever years later Huffman's family

leaked what they knew and his

granddaughter recalled seeing a

mysterious photo one her grandfather

allegedly brought home from that night

it showed a lifeless humanoid creature

being held up by men in uniform but just

as quickly as it surfaced the photo

disappeared so here's the million-dollar

question was this the first first real

UFO crash in American history and if so

did this event set the stage for the

government's policy of denial and

coverups that would

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follow this wasn't just another strange

sighting this was the first time we see

a fullscale military intervention to

suppress an extraterrestrial encounter

before Roswell before project Bluebook

before any of it and if they were

covering things up this early how many

more stories were wiped from history

before we even had the chance to ask

questions oh sure they lost the only

known photo of an alien corpse what a

shocker look at this point I'm 90%

convinced the government's top secret

archives are just a warehouse full of

conveniently missing evidence either

that or they really really hate filing

paperwork and this this was just the

beginning because if Cape jardo was the

first then Roswell that was the

explosion that forced the world to start

paying attention and in our next episode

we're diving into the moment UFOs went

mainstream the crash that changed

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everything thanks for watching that

that's it for this episode of Divergent

files the UFO encounters miniseries if

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crew I'm Ralph that's wend who still

convinced humanity is on some alien

watch lists and we'll see you in the

next one you are truly appreciated if

they weren't watching before they sure

are now great job Ralph Real

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subtle do you ever feel like something's

off like there's a shadow just out

outside the

light they feed you answers keep you

numb but the questions man they don't

sleep at

night burn the dial crack the Cod what

if the stories were never just

stories what if the ghost The Whispers

the things that you dream are a go but

memories we ain't here to play it safe

we ain't here to close our eyes Ralph's

got the map window's got the match so

tell me how deep will you

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die lights and sky moving too

fast signals in the static calling from

the

past Footsteps in an empty

room and a name you don't remember

whispered in a voice you never

knew flip the page break the lock what

if the P Fame could pass that

all what is if we'll see in the

future and just don't recognize the

call we ain't here to play it safe we

ain't here to close our eyes rals got

the map Windows got the match so tell me

how deep will you die

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trick but a

warning like the glasses reaching

through the static trying to remind you

before we all go

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here

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we ain't here to play it safe we ain't

here to close our eyes this is diverg f

where stories don't

die so tell me how deep will you dive

truth was

lightting you already knew that didn't

you

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