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631: UFO Disclosure, Varginha, and the Captured Creature | Basement #005: James Fox
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Interviewer
He spent three decades investigating UFO cases and he's produced seven documentaries, including the Phenomenon, which hit number three in all genres when it dropped. And back in 2007, he organized what's still considered the most credible civilian UFO disclosure event in history. Fourteen military and government officials from seven countries, all at the National Press Club in Washington. But here's what makes James different. He doesn't chase headlines. He knocks on doors. He tracks down military records. He befriends witnesses for years before they'll even sit down with him. His latest investigation, the Virginia incident in Brazil, took him there four times in the last year. And what he found is significant. He found a neurosurgeon who claims he had face to face contact with a captured non human being. We learn about a military officer who died weeks after handling one of the creatures. And for the first time, all the locations that James talks about line up on Google Maps. We're going to get into all of it. Let's go downstairs. Today we're talking to James Fox.
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James Fox
This is exciting.
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Interviewer
One of the most prolific documentary filmmakers working in the UFO space. I don't call it UAPs. He got a start early assisting his father, writer and photographer Charles Fox, conducting interviews for Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Car and Driver, that foundation in rigorous journalism shows. In his work, James spent three decades, three decades investigating UFO cases, producing seven documentaries, including out of the Blue, I know what I Saw, the phenomenon, which is my favorite the program and in 2017 organized what's still considered the most credible civilian UFO disclosure event in history, bringing 14 military and government officials from seven countries to the National Press Club in Washington. His latest film, Moment of Contact, New Revelations, which is a follow up of moment of Contact One, expands on his nearly 30 year investigation into the Virginia incident in Brazil, a case involving non human beings, military capture, and one mysterious death. So remember, we're not here to convince or persuade anybody. We just want to hear the story. James, this is not a professional operation, but I am very excited to talk to you. Thanks for coming in.
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James Fox
Oh, that was a great intro. I got to meet this guy.
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Interviewer
You got to meet him. His name is, I think his name is Chatgpt.
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James Fox
Oh my gosh.
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Interviewer
Okay, so how do you, first, how do you go from working with your dad and interviewing Stephen Hawking to becoming like the preeminent UFO documentarian?
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James Fox
So funny. I've talked about this in the past because my father used to always say to me he was, he was a quadriplegic with Ms. And so I, very early on I was, I was kind of his legs, his secretary, his physical therapist, you know, his, his chauffeur. And he had to, you know, continue working because that's what he did. And he had to travel because that's what he did. And so I was his leg. So I got, very early on, I was driving like 11 years old, but I got to go and meet some of the subjects. And he had a wide range of stuff that he would do and oftentimes he would want to like, meet somebody. So he'd make up a story idea, propose it to various, you know, news organizations and get approval and we could travel on, you know, expense, you know, expense paid travel or whatever. And. But he always say to me, son, you know, whatever you want to do in life, I support it fully. I don't care if you want to be a janitor or a lawyer, you know, that's, that's what matters, that you're happy. And then when he found out that I was going to looking into UFOs, I was in my mid-20s. He was, he was so, he was so concerned about my future. And he was like, there's nothing to it. There's, it's a dead end street. Don't waste your life. He was pleading with me not to do it. Like, not only that, but he had members because I was born in England, a lot of my family lives in England. And then they married Frenchmen and Italian people, whatever. They're scattered across Europe and He had them writing me letters. Your father's very concerned. Maybe you should reconsider the path that you're taking in life. Like, you know, really, dad? Like, just because I said I'm kind of curious in this and I'm looking into it and, you know, and I thought, well, I'm gonna. I'm gonna show him. And so I was like, I'm making a documentary on, you know, UFOs. People are like, you out of your damn mind on what you know, And. And I did. It took me four years. It was 100 million times harder than I ever anticipated. I was like, jesus, editing is insane. Like, you know, B roll, I need B roll. B roll.
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Interviewer
Like, is this the one you discovery when you were 28?
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James Fox
Yeah, it was called UFOs 50 Years of Denial. Sorry, it's been so long since, since I did that one.
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Interviewer
I guess it's been 100 years of denial.
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James Fox
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. Now it's up to like 500 years of denial. Yeah, I did that. And I got to the end of it and I was like. But that was really hard. Like, really hard. Yeah, my God. And I had no money and I was, you know, I had met this guy that I'd done some PSA work, public service announcements with another company that I had apprenticed with to learn kind of video production and stuff like that. And he's like, oh, you're doing this documentary. He goes, you know, go out and, you know, do do this, this, this and this. And he gave me this whole list, laundry list of stuff I had to do. And he goes, 99.9% of the time when I told people to go do that, I'd never see them again. And I was happy about that. But he goes, son of a bitch. You came back a year later and you did everything I told you to do. He goes, so I felt obligated to help you. So he was sneaking. Bore Zuboff. He was sneaking me into this production facility that was like hundred dollars, hundreds of dollars an hour, right? It was, I mean, back then. And we'd come in on Friday, like, yeah, we're just going to do a couple of hours. And then we'd stay up all Friday night, all Saturday, all Sunday, just coffee and just like, you know, because, you know. And then we had to leave before, you know, it opened back up on Monday morning. And Boris, bless your heart, Boris, like, he really helped me make that, that film happen. And I was doing. I had a non linear editing, a non linear editing system called a Toaster flyer.
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Interviewer
Sure. On the Amiga.
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James Fox
Exactly. And I remember when I was setting that up, the guy goes at the store, he goes, winner's circle in Berkeley. It's funny, it's probably not even around anymore. He's like, well, I tell you what, James, I've got, I've got these two four gig drives. Or you can pull out all the stops and get the nine gig drives. Nine gigs? How much is nine gigs?
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Interviewer
We'll never fill it.
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James Fox
But it was $2,400 for one nine gig drive and I got two. And he let me pay in installments. So I was editing the movie in like 15 minute segments and then I'd bring them into, to this post production house and we, we spliced the film together with Digibeta and all that, you know. Anyway, so that was my first film and then I finished that.
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Interviewer
Well, hang on, did your dad get to see that?
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James Fox
Oh, sorry, yes. Getting back to that very good point, he did. And he was like, pretty damn impressed. But I'll tell you what got him. I'll tell you what got him. He was very impressed. My whole family was. I mean, I sold it to Discovery. My first documentary took me about four years and I sold Discovery. And I tell you, man, I felt like I climbed to Mount Everest. I mean, it was really taxing and really difficult. Way more work than I ever anticipated making a documentary. You know, I was like, point the camera. And, uh.
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Interviewer
You sold it.
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James Fox
I sold it. I know, it was incredible, right? I had put out requests for interviews during the time of production with that doc that they never got back to me and post doc and the release, I got accepted. I got invited to go to Russia and I got invited to meet with Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper. Well, Gordon Cooper was an iconic figure of my dad's generation.
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Interviewer
He was an amazing man.
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James Fox
Oh yeah. Last American astronaut to orbit the planet alone. And little tin can. And. And I thought, well, you know, normally I would travel with my father on assignment. This time I said, dad, how would you like to come with me and meet Gordon Cooper? So he came with, we got his wheelchair van loaded it up, me and a couple people got my camera gear. I did all my own audio and camera then. And we did this interview and my dad was looking in the eyes of Gordon Cooper and he was like, son of a bitch. Why would this guy lie? Had a landing at Edwards Air Force Base that was filmed. He talked about processing the film footage. He'd seen the film footage. Of course, as with all film footage, two men in suits showed up in a courier jet from Washington, D.C. and was never to be seen or heard from ever again. And then on top of that, he had these sightings of these disks in the 50s over Germany in these planes. And. And my dad just walked away from that going, this guy's not selling his story. He's not selling a book. He's iconic figure of my generation. He's a hero. He's not crazy. Why on earth? What would motivate him to lie? And that was a turning point for my father that really got him going. Shit, maybe my son's right. Maybe there is something going on here. When he died, he was one of my biggest fans.
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Interviewer
That's amazing. That's what justification for that?
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James Fox
Yeah, I know. Unfortunately, he wasn't around to see the phenomenon because I worked on that for eight years. I started the phenomenon right when he died, and then it took me eight years. Maybe it took me longer than eight years because I started it concept at 43, filming at 44, finished and promoting at 52. Yeah, that's a long time. And it's really funny. I had some editors come in with me because I edited for three or four years of that movie. It was a lot of work, cases all around the world, whatever. And. And this one editor, Ben Gallon, he goes. He goes, oh, dude, who's that? Who's that? Who's that guy? Who's that guy over there? And you're, you know, film footage. I was like, that's me. He goes, really? I was like, yeah, that's when I first started, like nine years ago, whatever, you know, all brown hair, sure. You know, you know, no wrinkle, you know, whatever. But you know what I mean? Yeah. Funny. I was like, yeah, that took the wind out of my sails on that one, you know. But, yeah, so. So that's. That's kind of how I got started. And I never anticipated, like, that I was going to be the UFO guy making UFO docs. Right.
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Interviewer
Well, what was the click that made you suddenly get interested in that?
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James Fox
Well, so I had a friend of mine, this guy, Renee Harris, from high school, and when we graduated from high school, I was like, hey, let's fly to Europe and let's drive across. Let's get a car in London and drive to Portugal. So we bought this, like, we flew to London together. He had way more money than I did at the time.
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Interviewer
Best friends to have.
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James Fox
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he. We bought a Fiat 131 and we drove. We painted the doors red. We thought, let's spice this Car up, it was white, so we like painted it red on the hood and the whatever. And then we drove it to Portugal and ended up having to ditch it. And Portugal came back. But we went across Europe together. Really, really good friends. And then he was like, you know, I'm just hungry all the time in Europe. He's this big guy and he's like, you know, the food portions are so small in Europe. I need more food. He's like, and everything's so expensive. And he wanted to go home. So he went home a little early. I stayed on for. Oh, man. I ended up becoming an au pair. I went to London, sold clothing door to door, sleeve clothing stall, the clothing store that comes to you, you know, had the door slammed in my face. And then I worked as an au pair in the French Alps, not speaking any French. And then when I came back to the States quite a bit later, you know, we kind of fell out. And then we reunited in our early 20s and he was into UFOs. And I was like, what a shame.
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Interviewer
This guy's nuts.
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James Fox
This guy's lost his mind. He's one of my best friends, and I'm gonna have to cut him loose. And I. He was talking about Roswell and this ufo. I just, I mean, I was like, oh, my God, this is tragic.
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James Fox
So then I brought it up with one of my people that I was working with at this. I was. I was apprenticing at this production facility in San Francisco, and this guy, Richard Van Sickle, and I looked up to him. He was. He was very. He was 10 years my senior and very experienced in production. He was great guy, very smart. I said, God, you're not gonna believe. No, no, no. My friend. And Roswell. And he goes, oh, James. Yeah. You didn't hear about Roswell? I'm like, well, yeah, I heard about it. But I mean, what do you know? I heard about it. And then he started getting like, oh, yeah, the military actually announced the recovery of a flying saucer and UFOs. And he was very well versed in everything, and I had a lot of respect for him. So I thought, well, I'll look into it. And the more I dug, the more I realized, oh, my God, there's something going on.
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Interviewer
And there was. The inspiration for the first doc came from that.
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James Fox
Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah. I mean, excuse me. Not that. Not that exact meeting, but I decided, okay, I'm gonna look into it. Just like Virginia. I reluctantly looked into that case. Sure. I mean, I heard about that case in the 90s. I heard about Rua through Steven Spielberg. When I was making my first documentary on UFOs in the 90s, we had a mutual friend, Janet Yang. Sorry, I had a head cold a couple of days ago, but Janet Yang was friends with Spielberg and I was making a UFO doc. And I thought, well, of course he's going to grant me an interview because I'm making a UFO doc, and I'm James Fox. And he got back to us and he's like, yeah, not going to meet with James, but he's doing a doc on UFOs. He should know about this landing case that happened in Africa and that was in ruin, Zimbabwe. Aerial School 94 I think he told me about it in 97, 96. And I was, I was like, yeah, I'm not going to waste any time on a. Yeah, sure. A UFO landed at a school. Occupants got out and interacted with the school children telepathically. I'm not wasting a second on that case. And I didn't. And the same thing with Virginia. I heard about Virginia in the late 90s when I was making my second UFO documentary. And my British friend and co producer at the time, Tim Coleman, very smart guy, he's like, oh yeah mate, we gotta, we gotta look into this. This, you know, because we map out the film. Generally speaking, it's like, hey, let's fuck. You know, Bentwater's 1980, you know, Tehran, Iran in 1975. How about we'll look into the Phoenix Lights case and how about, you know, I mean, we kind of map the film out that way and then stitch it together with narrative, whatever.
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Interviewer
The Australia case I think you covered.
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James Fox
Yeah, that was in the phenomenon. But any case at the time, I was, I was mapping it out and he was like, yeah, let's put this one on the chalkboard, you know, and you hear about this UFO crash in Brazil and the live aliens walking through the town. And I looked at him and I was like, I picked the wrong partner.
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Interviewer
It sounded nuts to me.
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James Fox
I was with my buddy Boris and he looked at me kind of sideways and I was looking at him sideways. And then I looked at Tim and I said to myself quietly, I think I picked the wrong partner. This guy's nuts. Like, you know, not only did I not look into the case for over 10 years, so I finished out of the Blue, then I did director's cut for out of the Blue. Okay. Years later, then I did a two hour special called I Know what I Saw. For I ended up selling that to A and E broadcast on the History Channel. And then I got invited to. And that was before. And I never looked into the Virginia. I refused to. And then I flew to. I got invited to Brazil, a place called Peruibi. And I met with aj, this guy AJ Javard, who's a Brazilian UFO researcher, magazine editor. And before I left, this guy named Jeff Saganski, I think he used to be head of like Sony Pictures. And he was always very instrumental behind the scenes helping me get distribution for my UFO films. And I was always really grateful because he never wanted a penny or anything, but. But he found out I was going to Brazil and this was like 2010, maybe I'd have to look at the exact 2010, 2011, something like that. And he's like, oh, James, you're going to Brazil. You got to look into that. You know that. I cringed. I physically. I cringed. But Jeff, I had so much respect for him. I was like, you know what? I'm not gonna sit there and tell Jeff he's nuts. Cause he's been too influential. He's too much of a nice guy. But I said, yeah, yeah, sure, Jeff. Yeah, yeah, sure. No, I'll definitely look into that. Yep, I'll report back for sure. Yeah. Bye. Click. And I was like, I'm not wasting a second on this case. So just to give your audience like. I understand. I see people online. There's no evidence, and there's the photographs. And I get it, because I had that. And I'm not out here trying to prophesize and get people to join my cult of believers. I really mean that when I say it. All I say is listen to the firsthand eyewitness testimony, because it's very compelling.
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Interviewer
Well, before we get into Virginia, which we'll definitely cover in detail.
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James Fox
Yes. How.
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Interviewer
How have you managed to stay.
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James Fox
Stay sane?
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Interviewer
No, I don't. I don't want to use the word credible because it's. Because it's. It's not really the right word. But how have you managed to just. You have so much integrity and respect from not just the UFO community from. But from everybody. How have you stayed that guy, The. The most. Probably the most trustworthy voice?
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James Fox
Well, you know, I've. I've made mistakes, you know, and I try. I really try hard to. If I don't believe something, I won't put it in a film. Right. And if I have any question, I'll say, you know, and generally speaking, I do as much background research as I possibly can. I reach out to as many people within the. That I trust within intelligence community, people that can do, like, full background checks. I call people up. I want to see their military records. I want to see. Like, for instance, there was a controversial character named Jason Sands. And Jason had an account of an alleged close encounter of the third kind that happened at Nellis Test range back in the 90s. Very compelling. Like, wow, it's. It's really compelling. And especially when you hear, you know, we know about close encounters of the third kind. You know, we know about. I've heard a number of reports of people that worked out at the base that claim for, you know, that there are entities out there. I. What am I? It's a tall. I don't know, but I checked his military records. I checked in with all the intel folks that I possibly could. I did background on the, on the UFO footage that leaked from that period. I even contacted his ex wife and I got. I had to pay her because she was like, I'm not. I have to go up in the attic and dig through all these box, dusty boxes, and I'm not doing that. She didn't like him, obviously.
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Interviewer
The horses are like that.
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James Fox
I'll give you $200 per picture. I had those pictures, like three days later, bam. You know, of him, exactly where he said he was in the, at the base. All the pictures, all of his military records. I talked to people in the Senate that sat in a skiff with him. They're like, I know he's got PTSD and he might say some off the wall stuff, but that guy was there. He is named classified, you know, legacy program. Names that we got in trouble just for asking about. They're like, I know he's got some issues, but that he's legit. He was where he says he was, and we think that encounter happened. So I decided to report on it. And I got lambasted by people out there like, you connect yourself with Jason Sands. It's like, that was a tough call. That was a tough call. I was the one that accidentally outed him. So I make mistakes. And did I make a mistake with that one? Would I do things differently? Maybe. But this is tough because we're now in an arena where we're having these incredible allegations of crash retrieval, legacy UAP crash retrieval programs. These are tough, you know, really serious allegations. Where's the proof? Right? So there's. There's no smoke without fire. We sense where there's people testifying under oath as to the existence of a crash retrieval legacy program. I've interviewed aerospace engineers and physicists that are directly involved, or claim to be directly involved, that would love to give us more information, but they need, you know, so I do the best I can. Sometimes I make mistakes and, and I'm trying to be kind to everybody and I try to stay in my own lane.
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Interviewer
Where are you with the whistleblowers and the current narrative? The folks coming out the Grush Elizondo, the guys that come from military intelligence that have clearance, they clear their talking points for dod. Where are you with this? Is it real? Is it disinformation?
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James Fox
Well, so here's what I say to the people out there that criticize these whistleblowers. Fair enough. Because they say, I'M sick and tired of hearing these allegations, and where's the proof? Instead of criticizing them, why don't we recognize the fact that they're saying that they want to tell us the classified details needed, but they are concerned about their personal safety, they're concerned about the consequences. They're concerned about their clearances. Those are legitimate concerns. So instead of criticizing them, why don't we figure out how to create a platform that will enable them to testify under oath to a bipartisan group of lawmakers publicly? Right? So that's like one of the questions that I'd asked aerospace engineer Dr. Eric Davis. He's making some incredible allegations, right? And he's like, look. I said, yeah, but this is really frustrating because you're telling me there's crash retrieval and there's pictures of aliens and all this other stuff, but where's the. He's like, look, you get President Trump tomorrow to wave the magic wand and give me immunity. I'll give you all the details you needed. So instead of focusing our attention on attacking these people, why don't we just call their bluff and say, I'll tell you what, let's push members of Congress is what I've been doing recently. I just met with members of Congress in the task force in Washington, D.C. like, 10 days ago. Yep. Right. And I'm trying to get them to look into the Virginia case. I'm trying to find out, like, how can we get hearings on more witnesses and how. What sort of environment can we get to create a platform for all these people that claim to have all this knowledge, that want to come forward, they're terrified of the consequences. Why don't we create that platform when we focus on that? Because whether you believe Grush or not, if it's true what he's saying, it's the biggest story in the history of mankind. Of course, let's call his bluff. Let's focus on getting the president, the executive branch, the, you know, to say, hey, wave the magic wand, Give these guys immunity. They're dying to testify. Let's do it. What are we waiting for?
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Interviewer
Even Eric Davis said he would. He'd say everything.
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James Fox
He said he would. He said to me on camera, because I was really frustrated, too. And I'm sitting there going, you know, and people just sit on the sidelines and criticize. I'm like, why don't we call their bluff? Why don't we focus more on resolving this issue as opposed to, like, that guy's lying. He's deep, you know, psyop and this, this, that person, it's like. I don't want to hear it. All I know is that people are testifying under oath, under oath, saying that the crash retrieval program, biologics, all that stuff. What about the, what was his name? The ICIG Intelligence Community Inspector General that apparently David Grusch said he'd given all the classified details needed to verify his claims in a scifold. Thomas Manheim. Thomas, is it? Thomas Mannheim, I think it was. But why don't we put him. Let's subpoena him and get him to give us those details. Why don't we focus on that? There's no talk of that. Do you see what I'm saying?
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Interviewer
Of course.
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James Fox
So it's like we need to all get together. We need to stop bickering with one another, criticizing online, and focus on a common goal, like to make this happen. And that's what I was trying to do in D.C. that's what I was trying to do with the press conference. What is it going to take? You know, Kirk McConnell was talking about it. He sat in on the skips with firsthand witnesses. That was pretty extraordinary. Talked about the environment. There are some people, like Christopher Mellon, for instance, is saying that Congress actually has the authority to do this.
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Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
Not even, of course, the executive branch, for sure. The President of the United States can just wave his magic wand and what does he got? What's he got to lose?
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Interviewer
Nothing.
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James Fox
There'd be statues of him all around the world. There would be.
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Interviewer
Not everywhere, but. But I agree.
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James Fox
But if he, you know, but where's the resistance?
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Interviewer
Where's the resistance coming from? Who's in charge?
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James Fox
Well, so I talked to people in the task force. Just like 10 days ago, we had a closed door meeting, which actually Leslie Keane and Ralph Blumenthal just wrote about it today. That story came out in the debrief. I would highly recommend you viewers go check it out 100% because it got pictures and very detailed account of what happened. But they said that the pushback they're getting from the DoD is significant. The intelligence agencies significant. Like what's happening and some of the threats, you know, I mean, grush. I mean, I've heard. I can't reveal what I've heard, but what I've heard was if it's true. That's pretty scary. What? You know, like basically coming in your house while you're gone and leaving notes and other things.
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Interviewer
Sure.
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James Fox
You know, just like, you know, we can touch you anywhere kind of stuff.
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Interviewer
Well, I mean, wherever you stand on someone like Lazar, believe it or not, the government made his life difficult for a good long time.
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James Fox
Yeah, for sure.
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Interviewer
So what do you mean, yeah, George.
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James Fox
I trust George Knapp's reporting on that.
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Interviewer
I do as well. I trust him more than anyone.
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James Fox
I really do. I have tremendous respect for him.
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Interviewer
So why don't they want us to know there's some advantage that they have?
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James Fox
Okay, so let's just live in an alternate reality for a moment, okay? And let's just imagine that this is all true. Okay? Let's imagine that UFOs have crashed. Let's imagine that we have biologics. We have. We've captured some alive. Let's imagine that we have this technology in a lab somewhere. Let's just say that the observed technology, you know, with UFOs, and it's well documented for over 80 years and someday it goes way back. But whatever, we'll just talk about the modern UFO wave. These things exhibit a technology that's light years advanced from anything we have in our possession even today. Listen to David Fravor. Listen to the various pilots over the years talk about flying rings around their fastest jets. And they got no wings and no tail and no visible means of propulsion. They can hover, accelerate from a standstill to out of sight, blink of an eye, right angle, turns at high speed. I mean, they go. Kirk McConnell talked about the radar tapes that mean we have radar of these objects with no wings. These tic tac shaped objects, they're in space, they drop down to sea level faster than a second, like.
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Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
You know What I mean? 22,000 GS, 80,000ft in less than a second. Okay, so whatever these things are and who's ever piloting these things, if you could weaponize that technology, you're gonna, you're gonna control. And of course, that's how the military thinks. So let's just, again, in this alternate reality, let's just imagine that that's all true right now. Do you think that those in control of this technology, whether they've figured it out or not, there's a lot of controversy on both sides. Some people say we have, some people say we haven't. Some people understand the technology. We wouldn't quite know how to replicate it because the power it would take to generate, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But what incentive would the Defense Department or the various agencies that are in control of the special access, you know, super ultra secret programs, how would they benefit by sharing that technology with the rest of the world?
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Interviewer
They would not.
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James Fox
Okay, so, well, how about, like imagining if that technology got out to the Russians or the Chinese, Right. And they weaponize it, they put a nuke on it, like, you know, I could see that being an issue of national security.
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Interviewer
Sure.
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James Fox
So we've been slightly pivoted a little bit. But the so called biologics, they call them biologics, the non human intelligent beings, that should not be an issue of national security. So we're kind of pivoting to that. We've talked about that at the event. But they would have to admit that Earth is under some sort of observation. We have definitive proof that we're not alone. We have biologics. We've been lying to you guys for 80 plus years. Roswell was real, Magenta was real. 30s in Italy. We don't know who they are, where they come from, or what their agenda is. I don't see an incentive to disclose that either.
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Interviewer
Okay, that's a fair answer.
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James Fox
Yeah. And I don't agree with that. And a lot of people don't agree with that. People have a fundamental right. Right. And what we're talking about, that's happening in the United States, it's a global issue. This is gonna impact the whole world. You know what I mean? I remember when I met with. This is probably one of the first times that I actually thought about the implications. And, and I'm all for disclosure. I don't care. The truth is the truth and people should know. And if the technology has to stay a national security issue for all the reasons we just discussed, then fair enough. But at least confess that you have it.
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Interviewer
So say we have it. Look, we're not sharing it. We can't let our enemies have it. But we do have it.
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James Fox
Yeah. I think that there should be an admission of that. I really do. I met with Robert Bigelow. That was right after I did. I know what I saw. And I got a, an email from his. I still have the email. I got an email from his secretary and she's like, oh, Mr. Bigelow wants to congratulate you on a job well done. My film, I know what I saw. And I was like, oh my God, Robert Bigelow. This guy could fund my next. You know. And so we ended up having lunch in Las Vegas and at his house. And he's like, you know, you know, kid, because I was probably in my late 30s or maybe very. Or maybe I was 40, but yeah, probably maybe 40. He's like, you know, kid, he goes, you know, we looked into it. I probably poured more money into the phenomenon. I had intellectual heavyweights in the scientific community and NIDs and this. And little did I know he was working on OS app and atep at the time. He was contract from, from Harry Reid, who was. But he didn't, he didn't tell me about that. But he's like, you know, and do you understand, like the impact that disclosure would have and blah, blah, blah. And I was thinking to myself, like, you know, no, what I mean. Kumbaya. Group hug. Wow. We're not alone. It's gonna disunify, you know, global, you know, that's, that's the way I always looked at it. I thought it'd be really cool. We'd see ourselves for who we really are as one race, one species, one planet. How cool would that be, right? And he just looked at me and he's like, man, we did a study on this and this. The impacts would be significant. He's like, you take every. And he said that. And I don't know, I'm starting to think that maybe, maybe he's right or maybe it's just the thing that the world needs right now.
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James Fox
You know, because. Yeah, I think it would have a unifying. It might be initially quite shocking ontological shock or maybe religions might have some issues with it.
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Interviewer
They might. But I think the Vatican is a little more open to this idea now.
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James Fox
It's really funny you should say that because we reached out to someone to speak at our event. I probably won't mention her name, but she's like, oh, it's really funny that you, you know, that you reached out and made requests for me to present at your. At your event in dc. She goes, because high level people at the Vatican are just telling me about this new witness that you found on the Virginia case. They think it's really significant. And they said, you gotta watch this, you know, you gotta watch this video because if true, it's the most significant development in the history of the phenomenon. And. And I have to say, I think it is. So anyway, I agree.
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Interviewer
Where do you stand? My favorite landing video is the Holloman Air Force Base video.
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James Fox
Yeah, I mean, the, the video that we don't have.
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Interviewer
We don't have. Which we do. We do have it, but we don't. What do you think about that? What happened there?
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James Fox
Oh, just like every other case that I've ever investigated, including Socorro and Rua and Virginia. I don't know. I used to always think like, that's impossible. And I remember the first time I was the first real serious time that I'd heard about the Holloman landing case. I laughed it off pretty quickly. And then I started investigating Socorro. And that Socorro is very close, stone's throw. I started reading articles from a woman named Corral Lorenzen of the UFO Bulletin. And she had described some media and she was apparently a pretty reputable source during her time. She had described some interviews that she'd done with people at Haldeman Air Force Base that had described this incident. One from the air, one from the ground, some other people, very good articles. And I thought, hmm, that's interesting. Continued my investigation into Socorro and I ended up stumbling upon that documentary UFOs Past, Present and Future with Emanager and Sandler, and I'll make this story quick, but I met with both of them, and Emanager was, like, absolutely convinced that it had happened. And they were producing their documentary in the early 70s, and they were working with a guy at the Pentagon named Colonel William T. Coleman, who I interviewed. And he was basically giving them carte blanche to do this UFO doc in the early 70s and giving him unprecedented access to all these bases and norad. And, like, it was incredible what happened back in the 70s. And apparently this is one of the reasons why I believe this happened. And I was sticking my teeth into it kind of as a side project. I didn't even report on it because I was just like, whoa, let me check this out. You know, as I was doing other stuff, making the phenomenon, and I got to know Alan Sandler, I went to his house. I was going after some footage that he actually still has of an incident that happened at VANDENBERG in the 1960s of an Atlas rocket and a UFO going around. And he had that. He actually made a deal with me to buy it. I was going to give him, like, 25 grand, and then he was going to show it to me. I had to put the money in an escrow account, and he was going to show it to me. And if I didn't, if I liked it, and it was everything he said it was going to be, he kept the money. I took the thing off. I go, and the last one, I got the money, and the last minute he pulled the carpet out and he's like, you know, I talked to my lawyers, and it's really risky. And this had the other thing, and I'm really well off, and I don't need the risk. I was like, dude, really? So I've been, you know, anyway, during this time, and I was also interviewing Coleman and Emanager, which I'm going to release all those interviews pretty soon for free on the Internet. And Alan's like, oh, I saw that footage. And I was driving my car when he told me this. I was like, excuse me. What, you saw the footage from Vandenberg? No, no, I saw the landing at Holloman. I said, okay, hold on a second. Pull the car over. Stopped, engine off. Okay, you're telling me, Alan Sandler, that you saw the landing at Holloman? He goes, yeah, I sure did. It was shown to me by a guy named Paul Shartle at Norton Air Force Base. Okay, so why is it that Emmenager doesn't know that? That's weird. So I closed my eyes And I got him to give me the description. Now he was like, this was clearly not fake. It was a real film footage of a real flying saucer that really flew and really landed. And. And he goes, james, just like in a sci fi movie. The door opened. It didn't have any seams or anything. It just opened up and plump. And he was like. I think it was, you know, our technology back in the 70s. We have a flying saucer and we set it up as, like, a training video as to what we do if we made contact. I don't agree with him, and neither is Emma Nager, neither did Paul Shartle. But I don't know if he knew. And he was just trying to, like, who knows? But that's what he said. So I said, so you're telling me it's not a special effect? He goes, no, man, this is real footage. It was shown to me by Paul Shartle. Emmenager happened to not be at the base that day. And the very next morning, two men in suits showed up. You never saw this, like, da, da, da. And it took the footage and it was gone. And so for whatever reason, you know, Alan didn't tell Emonager. And I got. Actually got on the phone, I got the interview somewhere, and I was like, all right, Emonager, I'm here with Alan. Or maybe I was with Emmenager and had Alan on the phone. I was with Emmenager, and I was like, do you know that Alan saw the footage? Why didn't you tell me? You know, so Allen saw that footage and described to me in vivid detail. And if you want me to tell you what he described, of course I'm happy to tell you I've seen the
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Interviewer
landing, but I haven't seen the doors open.
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James Fox
So. Okay, I. Okay, I have not seen the landing. So I haven't seen any of it. But in any case, this is what he told me.
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Interviewer
It's gorgeous. Oh, man.
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James Fox
He said that there were three disks coming over, escorted by military jets coming over Holloman Air Force Base. I can't remember. It was daytime, but I can't remember if it was afternoon or morning. I'm sorry, I just can't remember.
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Interviewer
But it was day, it was daytime.
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James Fox
No question about that. So there are three discs coming in at rather high altitude, and that two, when it got to a certain proximity of the base, two of them peeled away and one came down. And he said it came down almost like a leaf, like, kind of like it was unstable and maybe had some issues. You Know, whatever. I was like, yeah, that's kind of how they fly. Came down and he goes, landed on some pods. I said, well, was the camera like on a tripod? Did they anticipate it coming? And I believe he said it was cameras on the tripod. So they were expecting it, so called, I guess they would be. And. And he goes, James, he goes, the most incredible part, this is the part I never forget. He goes, there was no door like it just like a scene, there was no seam, just opened like he goes and just dropped down. Two entities I guess came out. He didn't really describe what those look, those ones looked like because I should have asked. But he did describe what the other one looked like. And it had like Egyptian head thing, Egyptian tight fitting suit, I think he said, big eyes with the vertical slits, very small nose, very insignificant mouth. And it had what, what appeared to be some sort of, what would be a communication device in his hand. And that came off. Met with some base people at the base with a jeep. That one got in the jeep and off they went and that. And I said, well, what happened? And he said, well, the film footage stayed for a minute and then it just cut. And the disc was still sitting there when it cut. And they were in the steps out and it cut. That was it. And I was like, maybe this footage does exist. And then I started talking to other people about it, you know, Hal Puthoff and Eric Davis and Christopher Mellon, like, what? You know, and to this day Alan's in his 90s and he's like, if you know where to look, it's probably still in the archives. I don't know if Arrows found it. I know that. Did Eric Davis say he saw it or he knew someone that did see it? President George W. Bush apparently was aware of that footage and they had a conversation about it. So I actually believe that footage exists. Obviously I can't prove that, but that's my background on that story.
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Interviewer
Have you come across anyone who could describe what the reason for that meeting was?
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James Fox
Absolutely no idea.
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Interviewer
It's connected to the Project Serpo story, but it's just so wrapped up in disinformation. It's really hard to know what, why they were there.
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James Fox
Well, the information that I just discussed with you I feel is pretty damn solid, like really solid. That is like enough for me to go, am I positive the film footage exists? No, one can never be positive unless you see it for yourself. But I would say high level of probability that footage is real and it does exist. And they almost got to use it. And I think, I don't know how it got out. And Paul Shartle had gotten a call from Colonel Coleman. He was like, hey, these guys are coming to the base. Make everything available. And I guess he had just processed it and he was like, this shit was real. Like this is not an act, this was. Paul Shartle was convinced of it. He ended up dying in a head on collision with his wife. Both died. But he did go on one TV show and talk about it with Emmenager. And Emmenager was absolutely convinced that the footage existed. He was absolutely convinced. They almost got to use it in their film. And the recreations were based on exactly what that footage shows.
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Interviewer
So the military there was clearly anticipating that meeting. How far back do you think that goes? The communication coordination with the military. Does this go back to Roswell?
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James Fox
I just have no idea. It's all speculation. All I can tell you is what I know, what I personally investigated.
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Interviewer
Well, that's why we all trust you, is because you say I don't know.
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James Fox
Yeah, I don't. Just like people go with the Virginie case. Well, this happened here. And there was seven days later the girls saw. I'm like, yeah, I know, that's odd. Were there multiple crashes? Did the creatures hang out? Did they have an escape pod? Did they go travel through the water? How did they get there? It's a few miles away, several miles away. Like I don't know, you know, the girls described this creature and I believe those girls. I mean this is one of the reasons why I really started digging into the Virginia case.
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Interviewer
We're still teasing that one. We're still teasing that. And actually when we get into that case, because you're such a magical storyteller, if I step on like any punch lines, if you're building the story, let me know and I'll let you do that for this segment which we're only going to do for another five, 10 minutes. So what's the earliest case that you believe? Do you believe Roswell? Do you believe the multiple crash theory?
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James Fox
Oh, I know. I could tell you why I believe Roswell.
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Interviewer
Okay.
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James Fox
If you want. Yeah, yeah. So first of all, I really believe you know Jesse Marcel.
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Interviewer
Yes.
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James Fox
I was friends with his son who handled the debris, Jesse Marcel Jr. Who was a medic in the, in the military.
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Interviewer
And he had the debris that had markings on it, didn't he?
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James Fox
Yeah, yeah, he. Well, the dad came back from the ranch with Mac Brazil.
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Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
And one other military guy and he woke his kid up in the Middle of the night, like, you got to see this stuff. I'm waking you up. You got to see this. And he showed him the material, the paper, the I beams with the symbols, blah, blah, blah. And I knew him, so I knew someone who handled the debris. There are still pieces out there, by the way, because I knew other people that when I. When I would go to Socorro, there were the plains of San Augustine and Magdalena and Dal and that whole area. We're talking about remote high desert, like planes. Wow. Beautiful. But I talked to a gentleman out there, and he's like, yeah, there's still some of those pieces of Roswell out here. I said, how do you know? He goes, because I know the ranchers that have it. In fact, I got to touch one of them. I was like, really? Do you think they'd talk to me? He goes, I don't think so. They don't talk to outsiders, and they don't talk to anybody about that. So I had a lead on that. I don't have the guy's name, but that's a side story. Roswell, of course. You look into it. They announced. They make the announcement that they recover this thing, then they recant, whatever. How many hours later they have that press conference. They throw debris down on the ground, right? Well, two out of the three, you know, Raimi and dubose and Marcel. Raimi kept shut, but dubose and Marcel both went on the record later. That was a cover story for what really crashed. It was not of this Earth. Like, you know, I cover it in the. In the phenomenon quite extensively. But I was making probably out of the blue. Probably. It was probably out of the blue or might have been my first UFO doc in San Francisco, I was telling you about. And my. My partner at the time, Boris Zuboff, lived in this apartment complex on the top floor with a view of Dolores Park. Really nice. And one day, he goes, my landlady, she's in her 80s, wants to have tea with you. And it was in the 90s. I said, what about? He goes, I don't know. She found out we were doing a documentary on UFOs, and she wanted to have tea. I was like, okay, I'll have tea with her. Sure.
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Interviewer
I love tea.
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James Fox
Yeah, I love tea. I'm English. I was born in England. My dad drinks. We used to drink 20, 30 cups a day. I used to jokingly see, like, how many cups of tea can I bring my dad before? He says, you know, he doesn't want to. One day I just bought him, like, cup after cup, after cup. Because he's always asking. It's kind of a pain in the ass to make him a tea even. And I got to like 25, like. And he's like, I'm good. You know, it's like, wow. Yeah. So anyway, we have tea and she says, you know, I, I don't want to, you know, I don't want to go public or anything. I just, I found out you're doing this documentary on UFOs. And I want you to know that I think it was her husband or someone that she was, I think, I think it was her husband that was deeply. And he was a high level scientific researcher for the, for the government. And back in the back in 1950, he told me, and she goes, I haven't talked to anybody about this. She was in her 80s telling me this. She didn't want any money. She didn't want to like go on the wreck. Just wanted me to know. He said that a ufo, a flying saucer, crashed in the desert of New Mexico and there were aliens recovered. He told me that in 1950. Nobody was talking about that. She goes, I've held it in all this time. And she goes, this guy was like so solid and so credible and so honest. And he told me that like that happened. And I thought, why would she make that up?
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Interviewer
No reason to make it up.
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James Fox
You take that with all the rest of the stuff that's going on and all the military, I had the distinct advantage. I got to go to the 50th anniversary of the Roswell crash. And at the time it was 1997, July, you know, there were a lot of people still alive because if you're in your 20s or 30s, you're in your 70s and 80s, right? A lot of people that I got to meet, I was so glad I got to go that firsthand witnesses of all different walks of life, you know, witnesses of the debris and whatever. So that's, that's primarily why I'm totally. Of course, I've talked to and tell folks. I even know where the. I was told where the alien bodies were from Roswell. And the individual that told me where they were in California Southern, that's where they went. That's what it was said to me. And I said, I understand. Oh, yeah. No, And I said to this individual, I can't reveal this individual's name. But we were at dinner having wine and it slipped out. And I was like, well, I was thinking that I thought they'd be on the East Coast.
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Interviewer
Really, you should Always bring wine to interviews.
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James Fox
Totally. And then the next day I brought it up, and the individual was like, no, I didn't. I said, you did. Actually, I heard it loud and clear. No, I didn't. You did. No, no, I didn't. Isn't that funny? It's just, like, slipped out. So apparently there's somebody, at least one body from the Roswell in Southern California. Not sure exactly where, but I heard Southern California.
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Interviewer
Yeah. I heard one went to. I went to Los Alamos.
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James Fox
Would have gone to the East, I thought, because I was told recently that. That I don't know if it was alive entities or the entities in general on the East Coast. I got that much out of this individual. It's like, well, where? You know? Because I want to know where the damn bodies from. From Virginia went.
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Interviewer
Right?
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James Fox
And. Oh, you know, I think I know. And I was like, can you tell me more? Like, East Coast? And I went. And then the individual's like, that's. That's all I'm giving you. I'm not saying anything more. Oh, God. And because I'm, like, curious, too. Like, even if I can't report on it publicly, I still want to know.
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Interviewer
Yes.
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James Fox
Right. So I was asking this.
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Interviewer
And then we give you wine.
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James Fox
Yeah. We were together at the Age of Disclosure premiere in New York City, and we watched the movie, and there was a Q and A. And then afterwards, there were drinks at a bar and, like, light food or whatever. And I saw this person I've been really wanting to talk to, and I talked to him once before, standing over the bar with a drink. I was like, good sign. Went over there, got myself a little whiskey. Hey. You know, we start chatting it up, and I didn't want to be too forceful because I can be a little overwhelming sometimes because I'm so curious, and I. You know, I get so excited. But I was. I was like. I was like, ah. You know, I. I heard that, you know, there's not really, like, that many people, like, in the real know, like, that with the percentage of, you know, how many people really know the bigger picture. He goes, say about 10. 10 people on the planet at the bigger picture.
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Interviewer
Wow. Whoa.
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James Fox
What would you consider, like, where you're at? He's like, probably one of 30.
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Interviewer
Wow.
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James Fox
And I was like, okay, what about, like, Hal Puthoff? Because Hal Puthoff told me. He goes, you know, James, this is how much I know. This is how much I've shared with you. He's like, Hal's probably one of 50. I would say, my God, So I
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Interviewer
said, al shows up in all these stories.
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James Fox
There's other things about Hal that I can't really discuss with you, but I had some weird telepathic stuff with him
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Interviewer
that you, like, mind melded with Alp. I'd like to do that.
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James Fox
Let me stay on point with this one, because I can't really. So I said, because I. You know, and I didn't want to pry too much because, you know, you people clam up. Sure. When you're. When you're too aggressive.
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Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
But I was. But I was really dying and actually saw Leslie Kane on the other side of the room, and she was hanging out with people from, like, either the CIA or the FBI. I can't remember. People's task force. I'll tell you that story later because that was funny.
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Interviewer
Oh, the guy's serving drinks for CIA.
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James Fox
Yeah. No, they were knowingly out, like, we're here, like, you know, and I see Leslie look at me, and she saw that look on my face. Leslie's known me for a while, like, probably almost 30 years, a little under. But she looked at me and she saw. She goes, I know that look because I was, you know, I was really focused. I really wanted to hear from this person. So I said, oh, you know, a couple sips. I heard that. I don't know. Some people say the bigger picture is a little scary.
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Interviewer
A little scary?
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James Fox
A little scary. He's like, yeah, yeah, I could see that. I'm thinking, you can see that. Like, why can you see that? Like, how? So I said, I, like, pause and, like, you know, try to be measured and calm. And I said, well, like. Like, how scary? Well, you don't need to be worried. Okay, well, what do you mean by scary? Well, intent.
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Interviewer
Intent is scary.
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James Fox
That's what he said.
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Interviewer
Oh, you gotta give more.
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James Fox
I'm right on the cusp of, like, all right, what's the intent? That was my next question, of course. But I was like, you know. And this person with a cocktail came up and slipped in between the two of us, and, oh, my God, I've been wanting to talk to you and. Da, da, da, da, my. So now that's on hold.
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Interviewer
I told you, you can't trust those bartenders, man.
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James Fox
I just want to. I just want to know what the hell's going on. We all do, you know, I want to know what's going on. And.
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Interviewer
Well, let's take a. I don't know,
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James Fox
maybe if I'll ever know what's going on.
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Interviewer
I don't know if we ever Will, if anyone will. You'll get to it. We'll take a quick break, we'll come back, we'll talk about Virginia. Fascinating.
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James Fox
Perfect.
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Interviewer
All right. All right. Back with James Fox. When I first heard about the Virginia case in Brazil, I thought, there's no way there's anything to this. It's a brown slippery alien when there's nothing to it. And then I started doing some research. Of course, my primary source was Moment of Contact. And I was like, this happened. This story happened. I know that your newest doc is sort of an addendum to the first one. Do you want to tell the original story or would you rather us cut it in?
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James Fox
Well, you know, I've got some clips too. I'll show those in a little bit.
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Interviewer
Okay.
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James Fox
But first of all, I want to say I completely acknowledge and respect that position. I see it online, I get attacked all the time, you know, and I, George Knapp told me, he goes, don't read the comments. Generally speaking, I try not to read the comments. And every now and again you read them and kind of don't do it because some people are just like, you know, it's really rude. Like, you can have a spirited debate and you could be skeptical, that's fine. But don't be an, you know, like,
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Interviewer
if you're on Reddit, you don't know what you're talking about.
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James Fox
Just really rude. Like, just really rude. It's like, how many times have you been to Purcell? So many times.
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Interviewer
So many.
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James Fox
Four times in the last 12 months. Four times.
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Interviewer
Wow.
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James Fox
In the last 12 months. I was just there a couple days ago and that's why I look like. And, but so I totally respect that opinion and I'll say I myself was there. And again, I'm not putting this out as the gospel. I am clearly saying that as someone who's investigated UFOs for over 30 years, investigated this particular case on and off for over 16 years, I feel that at the very least, even those most skeptical can look at this firsthand. Eyewitness testimony. Even Michael Shermer said to me, well, that's pretty compelling stuff. Like Michael Shermer, Skeptic magazine, pretty compelling stuff. Why can't we agree to like, say, hey, something significant happened. People saw UFOs, people saw UFO crash, people saw UFO in distress. People saw strange creatures that were intelligent beings with large heads, big almond shaped eyes. The doctor described one of the creatures as being more, more white, with the same eyes, same big teardrop shaped head, same telepathic communications through the eyes. The Girls described something, you know, more brown, suffering hot heat. The other one was an air conditioned environment in the icu. Are they chameleons? Can they just. Are there different species on one? I don't know.
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Interviewer
Now I know this story well, so if you find me stepping on any of your reveals, let me know. Because you're a storyteller and I think that's why your documentaries are so good, is because you clearly are a storyteller. It doesn't sound like, I don't want to insult you. It doesn't feel like journalism. It feels like you unwrapping this story and the mystery for us, which I
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James Fox
love, I think it's really important that it's beautiful. David west, who's my dp, he's as into the photography and the B roll as I am. The topic and the subject matter. It was really nice combination. Film should be entertaining, it should be beautiful. It should be an experience, right? It should be. But it also should be educational like and with a serious tone. And I like to have fun too as well because like without humor, like, you know, come on, we didn't make some funny jokes in the outtakes and stuff.
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Interviewer
The outtakes at the end, yeah, great.
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James Fox
But I also think about like the skeptic in the room and that's great. There should be. We shouldn't just believe. Nobody should disbelieve me because I'm saying a UFO crash and live villains. I don't expect you to. And I, and I remember when I got back from the last trip when I made moment of contact, it was like 2021, late 2021, or maybe it was early 2022 or something like that. And I had CNN at my house in Vermont and with Leslie Kane and they were gonna do a little piece on me for the show they were doing and they were like, oh, you just got back from Brazil, it's so exciting. We heard that you're investigating and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, we'd love to talk to you about this on camera. And I said, yeah, that's not gonna happen. Why not? I said, I'm happy to talk about the phenomenon, I'm happy to talk about out of the blue, whatever. I said no, because you guys are going to look at me like, you know, you need to up the dosage of the medication that I'm not even on. And I'll wait for the film to come out and if you guys want to cover it, then that's fine. And I'll remind your audience when, when the first Cut of moment of contact dropped. People were looking at me like. I mean, people that I was really close to. I mean, I had a reputation of doing the phenomenon, right.
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Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
I. Interviewing high level intelligence officials. I was the only one to get to Harry Reid on camera before he was diagnosed with cancer. Like, you know, that was. I had a level of access that I never had before and success that I'd never really had before. That film really transcended the UFO community into a much broader, more mainstream audience, which was one of my objectives. And so I kind of.
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Interviewer
That was a top 10 doc when it came out, I believe.
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James Fox
Yeah. No, it was number three in all genres, right? Number two or number three in all genres? In all genres, yeah.
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Interviewer
Now, wasn't Virginia supposed to be. So. So you looked into it and you said, oh, I gotta go.
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James Fox
Looked into it for years, and I filmed and I cut it all out.
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Interviewer
You said, I need to do a whole.
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James Fox
I need more. I didn't. I said, we need to find the crash witness. We need to find more of this witness. We need to. Da, da, da, da, da, da.
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Interviewer
Thank goodness.
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James Fox
Yeah. And I was like. And my counterparts in Brazil were devastated when they found out absolutely the work we'd done already. And I said, marco, sit tight. I promise you we're gonna go back to the drawing board. We're gonna do just this film needs an entire dedication to just this. This case needs to be a film on its own. We need to go back and do more, you know, research. And we've been investigating. So the film dropped at a time when we hadn't had congressional hearings, we hadn't had David Grush talk about.
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Interviewer
This is 23 when it dropped?
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James Fox
No, I dropped this in 2022.
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Interviewer
Okay.
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James Fox
Yeah. I can't remember the exact date. I'm sorry. But I dropped it in 2022, which
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Interviewer
is an eternity in this field.
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James Fox
And we had the first congressional hearings either, earlier that year, but then no mention of crash retrieval. It was Andre Carson. Representative Andre Carson. Put this on. There were no, like, witnesses in the audience. It was, like, really sterile and. But it was still, you know, a hearing. And then. But we hadn't had David Grush. We hadn't had all these crash retrieval allegations, you know, bodies. You know, I remember when I was not even done with the case. I mean, the film yet. Lou Elizondo was contacting me, and he was like, I need a copy. I was like, well, Lou, it's not done yet. I don't care. I need a copy. I need it now. I was like, okay, I was telling my partner, Boris, hey, can you do an export with a, with a security? You know? And he's like, yeah, you know, what's going on? I was like, I don't know. Apparently it's really urgent. He goes, you have no idea who's watching this right now. And what he was doing was he was trying to demonstrate the Americans involvement. So he was particularly interested in the second half of the film, just so he can show various people, like, hey, this is real. This is serious. This is happening. Look at this case in particular. Not that he was basing everything on that one particular case, but he was showing that case. And then, little did I know there was a bill to that huge congressional hearing with David Grusch. I mean, that was a pivotal moment.
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Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
You know, and I, I had people telling me, like, you're really going to jeopardize the reputation that you've spent so long you know, putting together and your access to tell folks. And now you're going to report on this alleged crash and these live aliens walking through the town, like, dude, really? And I said, man, I'm telling you, I've been, I've been going there for years. I've been knocking on doors. I've been meeting with the firsthand witnesses. I'm telling you, there's something to this. Just hear me out, you know, And I put my neck out and I dropped that film. And
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James Fox
I would say it did moderately well and it was brought up on a number of occasions. And Joe Rogan had had me on for the program and I know we sent this other film out for him, but he didn't watch it because he felt the same way I did. This is bullshit. As if anybody else would. And then a couple people on his show, they were like, james Fox's new film. Like, you know, I was watching it happen because people are like, you know, they're talking about your movie on Joe Rogan and it was like one and then another person brought it up. Then there was like a little, another little mention. And then a couple weeks go by and I'm in workout class. A bunch of middle aged dudes get together older than middle age. And we all just get together. Dudes only workout class.
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Interviewer
We're doing pool exercise.
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James Fox
Oh, wait, whatever. Yeah, just, you know, we have fun and we put music on and we work out really hard and we all have a good, good laugh and, you know, and every now and again I'll check my phone because sometimes I, my son's got an issue at school or something. And I check my phone and it's Rogan. And he's like, he's like, oh, bro. Oh my God. I just watched Moment of Contact. Holy. Like that. I was like, oh, thanks so much. I'm really glad you liked it. He goes, he goes, you want to come on my podcast next week? And I was like, does the pope, Is the pope Catholic? And he puts, lol. Like, he was really funny. And so that really kind of catapulted it. And then of course, you know, the congressional hearings and all that stuff started happening and it all started going down. And I remember when I was watching the congressional, it was one of the first times that my son wanted to go Play with me. And I was, I sat there in this chair and I was watching it live because I couldn't be there from my phone. And I just had tears flowing down my face. Just constant flow, like a waterfall. All the whole time watching it going, all the ridicule, all the laughter, all being made fun of. And now this is starting to come out and I can't tell you what that felt like for me. Someone who's just been ridiculed and laughed at. And that's why it's like, today I'm getting heck old and people are complaining about the, you know, there's no photographic evidence and it's bullshit. You know, it's like, okay, so what are you doing? Are you going to Brazil four times in the last 12 months? Are you knocking on doors? Are you meeting with neurologists, neurosurgeons and forensic pathologists and all these different, you know, firsthand witnesses, tracking down military, like, what are you doing? Like, I understand. You don't think that I want the photographic evidence. You don't think that I'm going after that with everything in my might. I'm going on every big podcast across Brazil. We have the biggest. We're getting mentioned right now on the biggest platforms in all of Brazil. The events that we just did at the National Press Club and the film and the Italo's testimony is exploding across Brazil right now. 23 million followers. 20 million followers. It's like it's happening, right? We have one of the biggest platforms in all of Brazil. They invited me on it, but I couldn't be there because I was, I was here to be with you. And I need to go home because my kid hasn't seen me forever. But Italo is going and other people, part of my team are going. So it's exploding across Brazil. I'd love to see. You know, we did, we did this big event at the National Press Club where we flew in witnesses to meet. We also had that meeting I told you about earlier with closed door meeting with members of city, members of congress, people in the task force and just saying, hey, man, you don't have to believe these witnesses. They were very impressed with those witnesses. Neurosurgeon, forensic pathologists. You know, it's like, okay, what did you see? Yeah, face to face.
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Interviewer
Contact anyone who watches.
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James Fox
Yeah. Launch an investigation. Sorry.
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Interviewer
Watch the last. Stick around for the last scenes of your second cut because they're so touching. But it really drives home that these folks are telling the truth.
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James Fox
I tell you, man, like, we. There's People are like, well, Dr. Italo, you know, in a video statement, said that, you know, he only saw the video. I was like, yeah, that was us. We were going after him two years ago because we have someone who's been, you know, you need to talk to this doctor. So we've been doing that. We follow, believe me, I follow every lead. We've been going after Marco Leao, my partner, was really boots on the ground. I'm always helping support his operations when I'm back in the States and he gets finally an interview, just a meeting with Dr. Italo. And it was on a Zoom call. We'd heard that he'd seen the video and so that's what we're going after. Who showed you the video? Where's the video today? Like that, that was my, my sole purpose in life during that meeting on Zoom was. And he, he confesses that he did see the video. And we found out the name of the person that shot it, unfortunately died of a heart attack. But that person had a widow. He had a mistress who had a child with that mistress. We befriended them, we befriended the window widow. We were digging through her deceased husband's affairs in his office, bought his computer home. Like people have no idea, like what we're doing behind the scenes. There's other operations that are happening right now that I can't even talk about. But I have a laser like focus now. After that meeting, Italo, I didn't think to even ask him if he saw the creature. I didn't.
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Interviewer
Well, but take us back to 96 first.
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James Fox
I will just wrap this up. And Dr. Italo said, yeah, I saw the creature. And then he sat down very briefly with my partner and he said, I didn't see that he was out. Did you see the bean? He goes, no. But then he had a heart attack and he had, you know, cancer, health issues. And that's when he decided a year later, I'm going full multi and went out. But yeah, let's back up.
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Interviewer
So what is it? January 96. Yeah, if I remember, there's a farmer and his wife see a cigar shaped school bus shaped object floating over their field.
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James Fox
Enrico and Aurelina de Fretas.
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Interviewer
Yes, Defretas. And so that happens. And then we get very believable. And then there's Carlos d'. Souza.
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James Fox
Right, Carlos d'. Souza. And the new witness, Fabio. Fabio Fortado.
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Interviewer
Oh, right.
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James Fox
That we just got right. And for the first time ever, we got Google Maps. Now you don't know how things are going to line up. Google Maps. Like, that's. That's impressive because it was like, well, this person, where do they live? Well, where did these guys. And where's. You know, and where did Carlos say? And for the first time ever in this new cut, we, like, we got Google Maps and we were like, oh, my God. Boom, boom, boom. Right here. Like, it's right there. I get goosebumps because. And the same thing for. I mean, yeah, I did the drone shots, and I would get locations for different various interviews. Oh, you saw the blockade here. You're the media that had the blockade. Okay. It was here. The girls had the encounter here. That makes perfectly good sense why they'd have the blockade.
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Interviewer
Sure. And that's three blocks away.
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James Fox
Yep, just a couple blocks away. And then the capture. Guess what? Just a couple blocks away. Then the family of doctors that we interviewed, we got a full aerial view with the drone just a few blocks away. The family that night saw an operation of a disk flying slow and low over the area. This is the first time we put it together. Like, holy shit. Was this an extraterrestrial rescue operation? Like, I'm sorry, I know this is really hard to swallow, but if the accounts would be believed, that's exactly what it was. And we actually have a footage of a disc taken at night. It's one of the best night disc footage. It's in the documentary. And we repackaged it because I was like, well, hold on a second. That was shot here. How far away is that? Two months after 1996. Oh, wow. Could be connected. Don't know. But this family describing this disc flying, they were like, always looking for something. I said, how do you know I was looking for something? The whole family. Because it was super slow and it was going to the end, stopping, coming back, going in, stopping. I'm like, wow, that's true. That was an extraterrestrial search and rescue operation. And guess what? It was right over where the girl saw the bee. If it was going to be looking for anything, that's the spot where it would be looking.
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Interviewer
So take us through d', Souza, the girls, the blockade, and then the capture.
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James Fox
Yes. So January 1996. There are sightings of a cylindrical shape object. Like, people described it as a big school bus or like a cigar shaped. And it was like a metallic kind of polished aluminum, whatever, and had no. Didn't make any very little, little to no sound at all. And it didn't have any visible means of propulsion. Almost all the witnesses described had a gash in the back of it. One guy the new witness, Furtado, Fabio Furtado, he said that he clearly was in trouble and it was making some kind of weird noise. It seemed to be in trouble, but he looked at it from above so he didn't see the gash. But they, they see this thing in distress. They're all expecting it to crash. Carlos de Souza, who's an ultralight pilot and a geography teacher, is driving up to the north from Sao Paulo, going up to Teres Carsones, I believe it was. It's in the state of Minas Gerais. And very early in the morning he's going to go meet his buddies. Going to go flying ultralights early in the morning, 5 o' clock or something. And he's driving on Fernando Diaz, I think it was freeway. And he sees just outside Virginia, this farm called the Maiolini Farm. He sees this scar shaped object just. He's like, what the hell is that? Like it's struggling. He's like, whatever it is, it's barely staying in the sky. Like it's coming, looks like it's coming down. He thought maybe this is some sort of experimental military thing or maybe it's a blimp or like, what the hell? And then it staggers and then it just goes boom and hits this field in this myelin, goes off the freeway, drives up this dirt road, gets to the impact site. He's like, oh my God, whoever's flying this thing, they need help. That's what he was thinking.
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Interviewer
He's a pilot.
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James Fox
Yeah. He gets out of the car and he, he said, james. The first thing I noticed, which I wasn't expecting is normally with a plane crash, you'd smell like kerosene or, you know, jet A fuel or whatever. You know, that that's the kind of anticipated smell you'd get from, from a plane crash. He goes, this wasn't like that. This was like ammonia and, and like really strong rotten eggs or something. He goes, james. It was so strong and my eyes were watering. I had grabbed my shirt and I pulled my shirt over my mouth, my nose, like, Jesus Christ, what the hell? And he's looking around, he's looking at it and he picks up a piece. What? He said it was like just like aluminum looking. And he shaped kind of like this. And he picks it up and he was, James. It was light as a feather. It was like barely feel it in my hands. And just when that was happening, he was going to put it in his pocket. The military trucks came in from the opposite direction, but he said he crumpled it and Then when he released it, it went right back in its shape, which reminds me very much of Roswell.
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Interviewer
Yes.
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James Fox
So this happens. He gets threatened at gunpoint. He leaves, terrified, like really threatened, seriously threatened. I mean, those guys threatened everybody. Everybody that we interviewed, either the blockade or even the media for asking questions. You ask one more question, you go into jail. You know, this is a national security issue. They say that across the board, to everybody. He leaves, he's totally freaked out. At the time, he was still thinking, like some sort of experiment. He saw something he shouldn't have seen, obviously, but he wasn't thinking extraterrestrial. He just wasn't. He stopped at a gas station a few miles down the road just to calm, get a coffee. He goes in, he orders a coffee. And then in this black, kind of dark blue or whatever, car pulls up, two men in suits get out. Tall suits. And they knew his name. They knew where he lived, they knew his wife's name. All this stuff. You didn't see what you saw. You talk about this, you're going to have some serious problems with your life. Like, da, da, da, da. And threatened him and then left. And one of the witnesses at the gas station apparently said, you can't let those people talk to you like that. You need to get their lice plate number. And here, take this piece of paper and go get their lice plate number and report them. He goes out there and there's no license plate on the car and it's gone. So he hears, he starts hearing reports in the media about these girls, saw this strange creature. And that's when he was like, shit, maybe that's connected to what I saw this UFO crash. Like, oh, my God, maybe it was not of this earth. So he meets with a researcher named Claudio Kovo. Claudio Kovio gives one on camera statement from him, then he vanishes for 26 years. And that was one of the things when I was talking to my partner, Marco Leal, co producer, I said, we got to find Carlos. And they did. We did ultimately did find him after 26 years. And I don't know how long. How long it took him to finally meet with me in Sao Paulo. And then I said, would you be willing to go on camera back to the site for the first time in 20. Whatever it was, 26 years. And. And he's like, yeah, yeah, I'll do that. I'll come with.
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Interviewer
You guys convincing.
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James Fox
Oh, well. We massaged the friendship for a while. Sure. Hell yes. Are you kidding me? The guy didn't have. There was Nothing to gain and everything to lose. But Marco developed a friendship. We slowly just like, hey, we're taking this investigation seriously. We really want to talk to you. I'd have to talk to Marco, but it was months and months and months. And then I came there in 2021 and that's when I said, hey, maybe you'll come meet us in Sao Paulo. We stayed at a hotel in Sao Paulo. You met with us, we talked, got to know each other a little bit. And then I asked him, hey, we really love to take you out to the site. To the site. And we did. So Anyway, fast forward. January 20th, which was like almost a full week later. And these girls, Katya, Valkyria and Liliani, ages 14, 16 and 21 were walking through, taking a shortcut, walking through this field. It was like 3:20 in the afternoon. January 20th is hot. That's her summertime, really hot day. And they said that I was just at the cinder block wall. They said that there was some graffiti on the cinder block wall in this field they were going through. And that kind of caught their eye. They're looking at this graffiti and then they looked, they were like that, a statue, like what the hell is that? And there was like this creature, like kind of slumped over and just looking, I mean, not really moving, just kind of sitting there up against the wall. The wall was here and they're right here, right there, 10ft away, maybe 8ft away. And all of a sudden I think Liliani, who's 16, she like screams like, oh my God, what is that thing? And it turns and it looks at them lock size. And as there's communication with the eyes. Liliani is 16, she's got a younger sister, Valkyria. She grabs her younger sister. I mean there she said there was communication. This thing was stressed, it was terrified, it was suffering, it was like really wanting help. But they thought it might be the devil. It had red eyes, like, you know, it was oily and suffering and the heat and really suffered. This thing was suffering, grabs her younger sister, Valkyria leaves Katya, who's 21, they hightail it out of there. She gets I don't know how far, 100ft, 150ft. She's like, we left Katya. So she's like, you stay here, Valkyria. And she left her 14 year old sister there and she ran back and Katya had just locked eyes with this being like for a prolonged period. She grabs Katya, yanks her out of there. And Katya, to this day I was Just with her a couple days ago. Katya is like, I was going to help it because it was saying to me, either help me or leave me be. Like, don't hurt me, help me or leave me be. She's like, I wanted to help it. And she's like, and I didn't. And I ran away from it. And then it got captured and I feel so bad. I don't know what happened to it. She really said that. She's like, I think about it all the time. So anyway, the girl's hightailing out of there at about 5, 5:30. Two military police officers, one by the name of Eric Lopes. People pronounce his name differently. Lopes, Lopes, L, O, P, E, S. They're on patrol for something unusual. I don't think they said an ET is roaming around, but it was definitely some kind of strange creature, some whatever. Just pawn patrol. And his friend and fellow police officer, military police officer Marco Shariz, was off that night. But he called him up and he said, hey, I got this crazy, like, you know, assignment I'm supposed to be looking, you know. Oh, you want to come with me? Sure. Gets in the car and three blocks, two or three blocks away from where the girls had seen it. A couple hours later, that creature goes right across the road in front of him, screeches the brakes. Marco Shariz, without a moment's hesitation, leaps out the back car and he grabs it with his bare hands and puts it in the car and they take it to. They take it to Bone Bonaparte. I just learned the exact hotel. I'm sorry, I can't remember the name of the hospital. The first one, apparently some person came out, some doctor came out and took a look at the creature, like, get that thing out of here. I don't know what that thing is. And so they go to Regional Hospital. Yes, they drop it off at Regional Hospital. And then Marco. Now there's speculation because the autopsy report, Marco got like scratch under his arm. They weren't sure if it was a previous existing abscess and that maybe the bacteria that killed him from the creature came from his nail or came from the whatever open cut, or that he got scratched by the nail of the ET in the process of. It wasn't aggressive. It didn't put up hardly any bit of a fight. But he got this infection. He was hospitalized within a week or two and he was dead within a little, three weeks, something like that. And we've interviewed his sister. We interviewed just recently in the new cut of moment of contact. New revelations of alien encounters. It's the first time I've ever really put that kind of blatant thing in a title. But, but it really is alien in the sense that, you know, we've got now this neurosurgeon describing face to face contact all the girls with a creature that was alien to them and alien to everything they'd ever seen. But we have the two forensic pathologists, one that did the autopsy and then the other one, Dr. Giannini, who owned the company IPD Labs, that did the analysis on the tissue samples. And he's like, it's a rare bacteria on Earth. But this had evolved in a way that was super resilient to any kind of antibiotics or any kind of treatment. He goes, I've never seen it behave in that fashion anywhere on Earth. And I've done over 50,000 autopsies in my business, that bacteria. And he says it on the record, like, you know, and then he gives a statement which you can provide your, your audience with. So that's pretty unprecedented, you know. And then the number one resolution for
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Interviewer
Terms.
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James Fox
Well, I don't know if you want to go into. We got the capture and then. And then now for the first time, because we didn't really know what had happened to the creature that was dropped off. And there were multiple. At least two. And now we're thinking there's possibly more because more reports coming in, more details. Got the chief of police, Pedro Aguiar, who got his testimony for the first time ever, and he died just months later. Thank God we got that and we're working with his family.
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Interviewer
And he didn't testify in the first cut, did he?
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James Fox
No, no, no, no, no. He kept. He was like a bar soap in the bathtub. Cause we had heard that he had a photograph and that's why we were going after him. Because I was going after. Honestly, mate, like, I was going after. I had enough. In my opinion, there was enough credible firsthand eyewitness testimony in the first cut for me to go, all right, now the only thing missing is that photograph or that video piece. That's what I was. That's what I had. A laser, like I still do. But that led us to a bunch of people, a whole bunch of people, some of which I still need to remain nameless because it's ongoing and I don't want, you know, the military to get there before I do. So I'm having to be kind of somewhat secretive. But I can assure your audience, there's no one on the planet that wants that more than I do. Trust me. And if I sat there and explained to you the lengths that I'm going to, that our team is going to. Aline Cross, by the way, is a new producer on the new cut. Throw a shout out to her because she's amazing. I'm working with someone who's actually completely bilingual now with Marco. I love him to death, but his English is not. So it's really frustrating. But now I'm getting crystal clear communication with all the people. It's like, oh, my gosh, this is amazing. But we were led to him. So the chief of police buy photographic evidence, and then as it turns out, we find out that he too, participated in the event and saw the creature. So, like, More and more stuff comes out, and we're now starting to think that the creature that Dr. Italo, the neurosurgeon at Regional Hospital saw was the first capture, because he saw it during the morning of the 20th. And there was the capture by the to. There was a fire department. And when you're in the fire department or the police department, you're with the military. It's all connected to the military. And so we now have details of the chief of police, Pedro Aguilar, both from three of his children, his wife and his lawyer, all on camera for the first time. And now we have vivid details of what he saw, that first capture. And we think that that possibly is the one that. That what the girl saw was not the same creature as what neurosurgeon Italo saw. Because I was like, well, wait a minute, when were you at the hospital? He was like, I saw that thing in the late morning. Well, that capture happened in the morning and that was also alive. So now we.
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Interviewer
They're both alive, right?
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James Fox
They're both alive. Yeah, yeah, they're both alive. So now we're thinking. But there's also reports of a dead one. We got the guy at Regional Hospital that did the X rays, that wanted to be anonymous.
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Interviewer
Yes.
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James Fox
Marco went after him for five, six years when he was still working at the hospital. No, no, no, it was just. No, no, confirmed. Yeah, yeah, I participated, I took X rays of it. It was in a bag, blah, blah, blah. But we finally got him to go on the record, thank God, and he's vanished ever since then. And then we got military acts, so we knew.
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Interviewer
Didn't they steal his or grab or.
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James Fox
Yeah, they took all of it. Confiscated all of it. All of it, he said, first time in history. And they were like, thank you very much. Shut your pie hole. Yeah, so. But anyway, sorry, I'm rambling because there's so many little bits of details that I'm learning, but I'm thinking now that we have that first morning capture on the 20th that took place with the firemen, now we have vivid details of that for the first time as of three days ago, that that's probably the ET that Italo saw. Now, were they different races or species? Slightly different variations of. They all have the big teardrop shaped head or are they like chameleons? Can they change when they're suffering? Do they smell when they're scared and suffering in the hot heat? Maybe they excrete. I really don't know. It's all speculation. Right.
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Interviewer
Can you describe like what, what the creatures look like. Because these weren't typical grays.
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James Fox
Yeah. So what? The girls came within a few steps of. In broad daylight. All three of them was a. About 3 1/2ft tall creature. Spindly arms, spindly legs. Some people say that like it had like toes like this. With another one that maybe came out the side for stability.
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Interviewer
Right.
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James Fox
Maybe in. Unless they're walking. And it had big teardrop shaped red eyes, big head, tiny mouth, slit for a nose. No real ears to speak of. And the girls described it as like an organ, like almost like a heart. Like the skin was like a heart. Oily. Excuse me. Like that. But like no hair.
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Interviewer
The oiliness is the strangest detail to me.
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James Fox
Yeah. I wonder, like, they all said it was suffering in the hot. It was a really hot day in the summer, all sunshine. It was suffering, cowering, frayed. Did it exude that? Did it change color? I don't know.
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Interviewer
But one of your witnesses made a really interesting statement about that that I hadn't considered that maybe. He said it looked like latex or silicon.
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James Fox
Yeah.
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Interviewer
So maybe it was a suit of some kind.
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James Fox
No, it definitely was a skin because I. Because we interviewed military ex who'd seen it in the hospital. That one was dead and that was at Humanitas Hospital. There are other. We have names of other doctors at Humanitas that are aware of it and are not. According to my context. I'm really in with the medical community now. I'm like, I mean, I just flew them to D.C. i mean, we're like family now. We go to the local restaurants, we hang out with all these top neurologists and forensic pathologists and, and so. And they know what's going on, believe me. And I'm knocking on their doors and, and I think it's. I think they're seeing that Dr. Italo, who by the way has everything to lose and nothing to gain. And if he's lying and he was
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Interviewer
in the room with this thing, face
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James Fox
to face contact for three or four minutes with a live being of non human intelligence. Communication through the eyes limited. But he said that despite being in captivity, it had control of the room.
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Interviewer
His testimony is.
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James Fox
It's so riveting and riveting and gut wrenching. He said that he, you know, da, da, da. I was like, all right, well, let's just say he wasn't ready to fully. The fact that he admitted seeing the video a year or so earlier was incredible. He wasn't ready to come out. I mean, the implications of a neurosurgeon who runs the department at this are significant for a number of reasons.
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Interviewer
And Virginia is a military town.
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James Fox
Yeah. And his like, okay, you just have to look for a motive. Right? He's not selling a book, he's not selling a doc, he's not selling his story. He would have to be lying because I'm friends with all of them now. He'd have to be lying to his wife. He has to be lying to his kids, both his daughter and his son who just became a father a couple days ago. His co workers, his colleagues of 45 years in the medical community, cardiologists, neurosurgeons, forensic pathologists, lying to all of them. In fact, I have a video that I'd like to show for you because I brought the doctors together just a few weeks ago. First time, the known doctors, the ones known involved with the case. Dr. Cesario, who worked on the military police Officer Marco Shoes before he died, he's like, I threw the kitchen sink in him and I've never seen bacteria not respond to any of the antibiotics we gave him. He's like, it just doesn't happen.
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Interviewer
I confirmed it independently. They shut down that hospital for days.
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James Fox
That was another. That's where they did the X rays. Yeah, but, so we got Dr. Cesario, we got Dr. Italo, the neurosurgeon. Dr. Cesario, I think is a cardiologist. Doctor, Dr. Janini, who founded IPD Labs, who studied the tissue samples, who said that he's never seen a variant of this bacteria in his life. He gave a statement on that. You can feature that. Then the guy that did the autopsy of the deceased military brought them all together for the first time. How long have you known? Italo, how long have you known? Just like 35 years. 45 years. This is like, do you believe him? And they're all just like, yeah, why? Where's the motive? He's not asking for a dime. He's lying to the whole community. He's still doing brain surgery at the hospital. All of his staff, his wife, his daughter, his son, his co workers, his colleagues. Not asking for a dime, not selling anything.
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Interviewer
The most compelling, what's his motive?
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James Fox
And if it's true, and I'm pretty damn convinced it is, because it lines up with everything. If it's true, it's the most significant development in the history of the phenomenon. We've never had it before. Where you've had face to face contact with a captured alien, no testimony particularly of his stature. It doesn't exist. You know, it's like people that pooh, pooh this case. It's like, if you look into it, there's never been this much firsthand eyewitness testimony in the history of any UFO crash cases ever before.
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Interviewer
Didn't Dr. Italo hear it in his mind? Didn't it communicate with it?
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James Fox
He said there's a lot to learn from the eyes of that being, that it had the most tranquil, peaceful, compassionate, nonjudgmental stare that he's ever seen from anything. And then he kept describing it as a higher level of intelligence. He also revealed some details because I really went through it before. We did this event at the National Press Club, which you guys can watch on. I think it's News Nation covered it live. It's out there for free. You can just watch it on YouTube, whatever. But I really hammered him hard on because I wanted to get every possible detail I could in the short period of time at the National Press Club. And he was like, yeah, the bean. My first time I looked at it, because he was like. He goes, well, first of all, my partner, Marcos Veneses, did a little procedure. I think it was like a suture, whatever, a little stitch or something. And he goes, I was in there for an unrelated issue in the hospital, and my partner, Marcos Venises, fellow neurosurgeon, grabbed me. And normally he goes, normally when he grabs me in the hallway, it's like, someone's dying. I need your help immediately. He goes, it was urgent. Grabs him and takes him into the icu. And there was a makeshift ICU with like a. Like a makeshift curtain kind of thing. And then before that, he's got a video that he's showing him on this screen of some procedure he just did. And he was like, what the hell am I looking at? What is that? And he described, maybe children get this really weird thing where their heads can really swell up and weird deformities. Whatever he's looking at, he goes, yeah, man, it doesn't look like it's from. What the hell is that? And the Dr. Marcos Venises goes, it's right there. So he draws the curtains or goes around the other side. And he goes, I said, how long was it before you knew it wasn't this Earth non human? He goes, the second I looked at it, I was like, holy. Like. And he looked at it and he goes, my medical profession was initially like, okay, I look at a patient, is it in distress? Is it breathing? Is it. You know? And he did a quick evaluation, and he was like, determined that like it was. It was okay, it was stable, whatever. He's looking at it, and then the creature looks out the window, and it was a blue sky, and looked out the window, like, longingly, like it wanted to be out there. And then it looked back him in the eyes. And that's when he said he got the real communication that happened. What he was no longer looking at as a patient, he was looking at it as an entity, as a higher level advanced intelligence entity. And he said it just had. Like, it was looking at him as though he was a child. Do you know what I mean? And here we got a neurosurgeon who's like, running the whole department, operates on people's brains, plays piano like Mozart. And he goes, it was looking at me almost like a child, not condescendingly, but like it was so advanced, so much higher, like an angel. So he described it as an angel.
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Interviewer
He did.
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James Fox
And I just say to people out there, it's like, you know, you have to look, first of all, we tracked him down and we wore him down. And then he had a heart attack. And he was lying in the ICU staring at the ceiling after we'd already confronted him on the video. Because that's when I was. I was after the video, and he. He's like, if I. If I come through this, I'm. I'm not. Because Marcos Vinicius died of a heart attack in 2018. He goes, I'm not going to let the story to the grave. The younger generation needs to know this happened. And I'm a firsthand witness. And so we went back. We went back, as I do, in January of 2020. Was that 2025 or January 2025? Was that a year ago? Yeah, we went back and that's when we. We interviewed the two forensic pathologists. And we've been trying to get a hold of Italo because we knew, like, the video, you know, didn't know that he had a heart attack. Didn't know that he had, like, prostate cancer and surgery and all this other stuff. And we got the other. He would respond and then he would disappear. And it was like, you know, I jokingly said it was like grabbing a bar soap in the bathtub because he was like, poo, poo, poo, you know, like, ah, he was just there. And then, Dr. Armando, credit to you, mate, who. Who did the autopsy on the deceased military officer and provided the tissue samples to Dr. Janini. He's like. I was like, yeah, you know, and while we're here, we really want to talk to Dr. Italo and he keeps like, kind of responding, then disappearing like he wants to, or he seems conflicted, like. And then he was, oh yeah, and right there in the middle of the interview, just walking and he, you know, talking and he's like, tomorrow morning, go to the hospital and he wants to meet you around the backside. 10 o' clock time it was.
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James Fox
Okay, what's he going to, you know, we're like, shit. Get all the camera crew ready. And that's when he snuck us through the maternity ward, down the corridors to the hospital. All cameras rolling. Put on some gear. I'm like, what's happening? Why am I putting this gear on? Takes Us into the icu. That's where it happened.
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Interviewer
In that room.
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James Fox
In that room.
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Interviewer
Oh my goodness.
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James Fox
All on film. We captured it as it happened. Honestly, I don't even think he was prepared to go full monty until like that the morning of. And like our partner, Aline, production partner, she's been amazing and she's got a really. So does Marco, but she has a really a wonderful non threatening presence about her. You just look her in the eyes and you just go, okay, I'm in good hands here, you know, And I know that he grabbed her hand and he. And she was looking at me like, okay, I'm just, you know, here I go. Took us through various corridors. Then all of a sudden I'm putting on medical, you know, mask and what am I doing? Like, I don't understand. Everything's happening so quickly. We're all just takes us into the icu. And it was like, this is where the video. No, this is where the creature I saw. Huh. I was like, it all came out and then the staff of the managers and everything came and started screaming at him and he was like, fuck, I think I might have just lost my job. And it was like, oh my God. I'm just trying to process what just happened. Holy shit. We have a neurosurgeon who just confessed that he had direct contact with one of the beings in captivity for three or four minutes in that bed right there. You know what I mean?
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Interviewer
Yep. I don't think he was prepared for how emotional he was going to get.
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James Fox
So then we get kicked out. Like, he's like, I think I might have just lost my job. We get, we go out, we're like, well, let's carry on this conversation. Where are we going to go? We walk out. We're on the sidewalk now. How about this cafe? Boom. Walk into a cafe. We take over the cafe, we all sit up, set up shop. And I was trying to get more out of him and, and I was like, I'm just trying to process. We all were. At one point, I think it was David. No, I don't know who. Maybe it was me. Grabbed a camera. I think I did. I actually grabbed the camera from Dave west, my dp and I just panned it across because I was like, I need to see everybody's faces right now because this is incredible. And you look at, look carefully. Even the sound guy who was somewhat skeptical when he started on this journey with us. And now he's like, holy shit. And you see Marco wipe his forehead. We're all processing and then I said to him, what does it feel like after 29 years to come to talk about this? And he was like, I feel I want to cry. And he started to cry. And then the camera turned on me. And I was trying to talk, but the words weren't coming out. And I really didn't want to. Like, I was like, I didn't want to cry because I. You know what I mean? Like, you want to keep it together and stay composed. But I couldn't talk. Like, I was like, I wouldn't be doing this for all these years, all the laughter, all the ridicule, all the hecklers if I didn't really believe this. Like, life is too short. You know what I mean?
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Interviewer
It was the most touching part of the whole film.
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James Fox
Die. Like life's too short for bullshit. And I'm not saying, like, you have to believe this case. Don't. Don't believe it. Check it out. Listen to the testimony. If it's true, and I'm putting my career on the line here, but if it's true, this is the case that's gonna prove it once and for all.
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Interviewer
Remember Carlos's reaction when you took him to the scene?
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James Fox
Yeah.
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Interviewer
How emotional he got. You can't fake that.
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James Fox
You don't need Leonardo DiCaprio or Brad Pitt anymore. And then I get choked up. And then it's like, I've known this doctor. I mean, we met on the phone. He jokingly calls me. Oh, my God. Because when he confessed to seeing the video, he was. I was like, oh, my God. Because.
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Interviewer
Video.
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James Fox
Yeah. So. Well, we could talk about that in a minute.
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Interviewer
Okay.
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James Fox
You know, he hugs me right there on camera, and he holds me, like, holding my hands, like, really, like, we bonded right there in that moment. Like, you imagine the weight off his shoulders, like, and the risk. Like, he's got everything to lose. And again, I'll tell your audience, like, this guy's not selling anything. No. He hasn't asked for a dime for a story. He's still doing brain surgery. He's like, I'll take a public lie detector test tomorrow with my hand and a Bible. Whatever you want. I saw this thing. And the younger generation need to know they're real.
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Interviewer
That coffee shop conversation was the lie detector test. Incredible. Unbelievable.
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James Fox
How do you. You know? So, again, I understand the skepticism, and I know the. The need for videotape, photographic evidence. There's nobody in the world trying harder than I am, okay? I promise you that. And I can tell you that the military is. Is following me, following this case, no question about it. We're just trying to get to the people first. And I have a proton email which I'd actually like to provide to you because I'm telling you. Any witnesses? Because before, people were getting in touch with me on regular email. And I'm thinking that's not a good idea. No, I'm under surveillance, like. So we got a proton email now. And I'll provide that to you.
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Interviewer
Yeah, we'll put it on the screen.
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James Fox
Flash it on the screen. People can reach out to me because we're looking for folks on the American side. We're looking for videotaped evidence. We've announced a very large reward for said evidence. I've done it on huge podcasts all across Brazil. We're doing more podcasts right now, TV episodes. And we're stronger together and courage is contagious. And I've been saying that to people. We're stronger together and courage is contagious. And believe me, there are other doctors and there are people that are watching very carefully what's happening right now.
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Interviewer
Are there any videos you want to show us? We have about 15, maybe 20 before the next break.
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James Fox
Okay, I think this is important. Sorry, I'm gonna wipe my nose here. This is just a couple weeks ago. I happened to be with Amar from Yes Theory. His team actually filmed this in Varginha, Brazil. And we're at Dr. Armando's house. Who was the guy that did the autopsy on the deceased military officer. And it was the first time in history we brought all the known doctors together. And so I just wanted you to share this little video and I'll play it for you. Question. I'd like to. I'd like to ask Janine how long. Janini. Oh, it's okay. I don't need to hear it.
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Interviewer
Yeah, and I thought we had subtitles, boys.
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James Fox
It's all in English. Oh, yeah, some of it's not. So, basically.
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Interviewer
And where did you shoot this?
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James Fox
I shot this at Dr. Brazil just a few weeks ago. That's Dr. Janini, who studied the tissue samples analysis. Forensic pathologist. The guy to the right is Dr. Arnold. He did the autopsy. And then Dr. Italo is right there grabbing his arm. He had face to face contact with a living entity at regional Hospital on January 20, 1996. And I'm asking these guys, how long have you known him? Do you guys believe him? And everyone's like, I've done him 45 years. I've known him 35 years. He's still Doing brain surgery. Like, you know, I just think it's important that their wives there. All their wives are there. Their children are there. Like, this is, like, real, you know, I mean, like, these guys. I just can't imagine why. How he would benefit from lying.
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Interviewer
Yeah, right.
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James Fox
Okay. Yeah. So that's. And anyway, I don't have to go through all of these, but I want you to, if you're seeing this or not. But we don't need to watch this.
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Interviewer
But whatever you play, we'll see.
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James Fox
Yeah, so this is. I'll just describe this. This is. I took video statements from firsthand witnesses. Children, wives. That's one of the sons of a firsthand witness that was in military police. This is his daughter, this is his wife, all saying, yeah, my husband was a firsthand witness. He saw the creature. And it's important because he said he was a firsthand witness. His name is Pedro Aguiar. He was the former chief of police, and he's the one that participated in our film and then died. Now, he told us on film that he was the first. He did see the creature. He did participate in the event, but he didn't go into any specifics. But it's one thing to, like, you know, go on camera and say that, but then when he tells his wife and he tells his children, yeah, man, this happened. This is real. I participated. And then we talk to his lawyer. It just changes everything. And this is the actual site. So on the other side, I might actually play this kind of fun. So, you know the cinder block wall where the girls came within 8 to 10ft of that creature in broad daylight. So on the other side of that wall, just like that far away, is a mechanic shop. So we went over to the mechanic shop, and we actually got one of the. One of the witnesses who was on the other side of the wall while the ET was there. And he talked about, like, he got there right after the girls had seen it and saw the imprint where it was. He smelled the smell, like pneumonia, the sulfur, everyone. Yeah, I smelled it. He smelled it. Yeah, there he is right there in the blue shirt. Exact location that girl saw the creature. And this guy's a mechanic. That's the cinder block wall. And then right on the other side of that wall was a mechanic shop. He was there that day. Isn't that crazy? Unbelievable military activity. And he's like, oh, yeah, I walked right over here. I saw the thing on the ground. I smelled it. I. I missed it. So he was working on a car when the girls were looking at an et like right there, you know, it's so crazy, you know. Anyway, there's a bunch of other statements that so we. I had Liliani Valkyria and Katya apply for visas. We had military acts who drove the creature, all of his military records, all of his photographs of the truck that he was in the operation driving the creature. We had Marta, the sister of the deceased military officer. We had.
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Interviewer
What about Marco's wife, the officer who died? It was Marco, right?
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James Fox
Yeah. Well, I'll get to that. One second. I hired an immigration lawyer. They were going to come. The military guy who drove the bloody creature was going to come. And he goes, look, I'll meet with members of Congress behind the scenes, full identity, show them who I am, I drove the creature, blah, blah, blah. And I'll also go up to the podium, but I'm going to go up there with a mask. And I was like, that's yeah, great.
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Interviewer
And I've told the audience before, I was able to track down who that guy was. He's a legitimate. He's legitimate.
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James Fox
I've seen all the photographs. He's. I actually got a statement from him with showing me all the photographs. I'll probably be releasing that soon for free so people can see. But I'll have to blur certain things out and change his voice. But all their visas, unfortunately got denied. It was like six. As we go through all the different names, but, yeah, devastating. And I even had Congressman Burleson's office working on getting their approval. One was approved. Katya was approved on this on the spot. They all went together. Lily. Let's see. Liliani was denied, Marco was denied. And then there was military ex, Marta and Katya. They were under additional review. So it was like 302 denied, three under additional review, and then one approved. So that was a pretty good ratio. So, yeah.
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Interviewer
But denied on what grounds?
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James Fox
Who knows, man? They don't really say anything. Just like ask a couple of questions. No. So anyway, but then we get Congress involved, immigration lawyer, and we're going back and forth. And then after, they kept waiting to like, that was like, could you guys. Where are you guys? Like, I'm doing this event, you know, I'm doing this event. Like could, you know. And then, long story short, they waited, waited, waited, waited, waited, waited till the last possible. Like towards the end of December, in fact, I got back. I got back on Christmas Day. My son's like, where do you get me for Christmas? I said, me? Yeah. And. And so, God, maybe the 20th, 15th. I don't know of December, even the one that was approved. All done. So we flew back to Brazil and I did statements, and those are some of the statements. If you want. I provided them to you. You guys can show the various statements. It's at a podium. The city of Virginia, with help with the mayor, gave us this official space with the Brazilian flags. It's a great backdrop. And we did, you know, short 90 second statements from the various people that had their visas denied and other people as well, that. Anyway, you should play some of those.
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Interviewer
We'll put those in. We'll put in the autopsy photos. But I want to know about Eric Lope Lopez. Did you ever get a hold of him? Because his scene in the first cut was unbelievable. We threatened to shoot you guys if you didn't leave the property.
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James Fox
Well, I got a new development just a couple days ago. There was another security guy that met with him and he said that he was. He was like, you know, I wasn't. I don't think I would have shot James, but I was seconds away from taking my gun out and pop. Because he. He did have a gun, as we suspected. He did. But he was gonna shoot a couple in the sky first. That's what he. That's what he said. But we did get a hold of his. His wife. Now his wife, funny story. His wife is the sister of Marco Sharice, the deceased military officer. Yes.
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Interviewer
Marta.
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James Fox
No. Oh, Marta's the. Sorry. Yeah. Marta is Marco. Yeah. So sorry. Marco Sharees, who handled the creature and died, had two sisters.
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Interviewer
Okay.
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James Fox
Marta and his other sister. I'm sorry, I don't remember her name, but she married Eric Lopes after his death because they were. They were really good friends and they'd known each other, right? And so I contacted her through Marta. Somehow I got her number. We went through either Marco or somebody else. What is it going to take to get. And this is after he threatened to shoot us. What is it going to take to get your husband to come forward? She said, bring my brother back to life and he'll come forward. But we're still working on him. We're still working on him. Other people are working on him. The mayor sent a police officer around to his house a week ago. A police officer liked to talk to him. And he didn't want to talk, but he might. He might talk. He might at some point talk.
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Interviewer
If he sees what Dr. Italo did.
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James Fox
He might. He might. He might. It's getting more attention now than ever before. And yeah, again, I just say that this is, you know, this We've had this debate for decades. Crash retrieval, Roswell, all this stuff, all the congressional hearings, all the allegations from top, you know, aerospace engineers, physicists, that we have a crash retreat, a legacy crash retrieval program. And this case could really settle the debate once and for all.
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Interviewer
It really could. We'll take another quick break. When we come back, we'll talk about whatever you want, but I would like to get into how suddenly the United States Air Force shows up on this case.
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James Fox
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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Interviewer
All right, we'll be right back. Back with James Fox.
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James Fox
Has a nice ring to it, does it?
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Interviewer
A big turning point for me in Moment of Contact because I was riveted. And then we get to, I don't know, about two thirds through and suddenly you're interviewing someone who was a aircraft controller.
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James Fox
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Interviewer
And now the US Air Force enters the picture.
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James Fox
Yeah.
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Interviewer
So it seems like we've got Virginia Campinas, ESA and usaf, as they call it. Usaf, yeah.
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James Fox
Did you see the FOIA request that we did in 2022 and we got a response in 2025 from the CIA?
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Interviewer
Yes.
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James Fox
And the response was, yeah, access or we can neither confirm nor deny due to the national security act of 1949, your request is denied. It's like, CIA. What the hell was the CIA would say?
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Interviewer
What?
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James Fox
Really weird. Yes. So I think it was 2021 when I was shooting for the whatever umpteenth time. And that's when we finished shooting for Moment of Contact. The first version of it has been going on for 16, almost 17 years. My God. And the flight control officer, Marcos Ferreres Ferris F E R E S came forward on podcast. He's like, yeah. And he's friends with this other flight control officer. They were their friends. And he said, yeah, this, you know, honor. Around the 20th of January, this USAF flight was coming in. I was like, ooze, United States Air Force, usaf, excuse me. And. And he goes, it didn't have. All planes coming in from outside the country have to have government, Brazilian government authorization to land this plane didn't have that. And he goes, I have to deny a plane without this authorization. A high level Brazilian military official came in the room and said, let the plane land. And it landed at an airport in Campinas. I have the name of the airport when we talk about the movie, but. And either one helicopter or two helicopters came out of it. It was probably a C17. According to all the Air Force people that I've talked to. It was a cargo plane. Helicopter went to Brazil, came back, it was Two helicopters came to Brazil, came back, loaded some stuff. Excuse me, loaded some stuff on the plane and buying border is what he said. Went back to America, undisclosed location. So we filed a FOIA for all incoming flights from the US into Campinas in January. I think I put like maybe January 10th or something to the end of the month.
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Interviewer
It was all like two weeks or something.
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James Fox
Yeah, for a two, three week window window discover our base went like a week extra on both sides. And honestly the response came so late I forgot that we even sent the FOIA. And then in 2025 we get a response from the CIA and that's when they, you know, denied. So now we actually made this plea at the National Press Club last week, was it last week, 10 days ago, whatever. A United States Air Force colonel spoke and retired, also a fighter pilot had a really dramatic encounter with UFO in 1980 over Europe, Northern Europe. It's an incredible story. But he, he's like, look, let me just tell you the, the. And he talked to members of Congress too. He's like, let me just tell you if that flight happened, and I suspect it did, there's going to be paper trails. And he went through all the different scenarios like the, you know, the flight, you know, the flight distance of full tanks is 2500 miles. The distance is 4500 miles. Therefore it had to have air support. That's going to be a paper trail. When it landed, had refuel, there's a receipt who paid for the fuel, that's going to have a car. And I don't care if it's a classified mission, it's got to have a flight plan going back. There's another paper trail and goes through all the various things. And we did that primarily for members of Congress or ourselves. Like, hey, you don't have to believe this case. You can find it compelling enough to dig a little deeper. So now we have members of Congress that are willing to part of the task force. Hey, let's go find those flight records. Let's see what we can turn up. So now it's just like, hopefully, you know, they're not. They probably are. Of course they are aware of the fact that we're going after these records. So hopefully they're not like getting rid of them, you know, so.
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Interviewer
Yeah. Did you say you have tail numbers or any identifying information on those?
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James Fox
We, yeah, so we, the, the colonel identified every single C17 in the fleet at that time. And there were, I don't know, there were a handful of them from various bases and got Every single tail number. Because we have photographs of what could have been one of the flights. Because there was somebody in 1996, but it wasn't at Campinas. It landed somewhere else to refuel, and some Amazon researcher told me about it. So we want to see if we can read that picture carefully enough that we could make out a couple of numbers. So the Air Force colonel has been finding all the tail numbers. Now he's getting flight records for all those. This is all happening right now. So we're trying to find that specific plane, flight landing, where it landed, because we could find out, like, where it landed. We could find out potentially, like, who the crew were, how many people are on board, where those people are today. Right?
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Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
He estimates that 30 to 40 people, at minimum, Americans, would know about that flight, were involved with that flight, directly or indirectly. So that's where we're making a plea to anybody on the American side, because wouldn't that be great?
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Interviewer
Yeah. What do you think was loaded on that plane? The bodies, E.T.
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James Fox
and two bodies. I don't know how many bodies? I don't know how many bodies. I would say at least two. At least two. And probably some of the debris, I would imagine.
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Interviewer
But I don't know what gives United States military jurisdiction over that.
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James Fox
You know, a reporter asked a question, that very question a couple years ago to an intelligence official. You know what they said? Because we can write a check or we're coming in, we're gonna get it.
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Interviewer
We're coming in the easy way or the hard way.
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James Fox
Yeah, I mean, we just took out a president in Venezuela. True.
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Interviewer
Yeah, true.
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James Fox
So we got a UFO crash. My understanding is that the Americans were aware of these. This UFO coming in and alerted the military officials in Brazil. And I've heard that from a number of researchers. In fact, I've even gotten close to getting a name of who provided that. But anyway, I've heard that from a number of pretty credible sources.
- [124:53]
Interviewer
Yeah, I was able to track down some information about craft being seen in that area over that time. And then it kind of goes dark. So my suspicion is that. That there were some radar hits about those craft in that area, or at least one of them. And then someone got involved and said, stop tracking it. We got it. You guys don't need to worry about it. That's my suspicion.
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James Fox
Yeah, I'm optimistic. I mean, you know, only takes one courageous American to come forward, you know, and reveal that we get the flight numbers. Maybe they don't come forward publicly. Maybe they come forward in a skiff with certain members of Congress, part of the UAP task force. There are a handful of Congress people that I, that I actually trust that I think really do want to get this information out to the public that are really seriously and authentically interested in knowing more and being more transparent because they feel like everybody has a right to know about this stuff. And so I'm optimistic on that front. And you know, like I said, like we had meetings in Leslie Kane's article that people should look up. Leslie Kane and Ralph Blumenthal in the debrief gives a very detailed account of our meetings, our closed door meetings on the Hill with firsthand witnesses on the case and our plea to them, like, hey, you don't have to believe these guys. They found their testimony very compelling and they were very, very interested in what the doctor had to say, I can assure you, and really asking very detailed questions to him. When is it you have a neurosurgeon describing face to face contact with a live entity from non human intelligence? Right. Yep. Never before in history. So there seemed to be a genuine concern, a genuine willingness to do some digging behind the scenes. And then Congressman Berthelsen attended the conference and spoke, as did a senator from Brazil. So, you know, this could be the beginning of the beginning. It could be, could be the beginning of the beginning.
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Interviewer
What is it about Brazil? Because we have compelling cases going back to at least the 70s, like the Claris case.
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James Fox
50s to the 50s. Ubatuba uba.
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Interviewer
That's right.
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James Fox
Yeah. There's actually metal material.
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Interviewer
That's right.
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James Fox
High level, high 100% magnesium. I can't remember what the. But it's very unusual and it would be, it would. The. I'm told, I'm not a metal metallurgist, but I'm told by like, I think it was Gary Nolan and Jacques Vallee who studied the metal samples. Isotope. Isotope. They look down into the microscopic level.
- [127:24]
Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
That it would be extremely expensive to replicate what they found on that beach in 1957. It was reported something exploded and it rained down all this debris on a beach in ubatuba. That was 1957.
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Interviewer
That's right. It was, it was witnessed by, by a fisherman, actually rained onto his boat and killed his dog.
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James Fox
Oh, really? I didn't hear that part. Yeah, yeah.
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Interviewer
Some of that metal was tested and they found using an electron microscope that it was arranged in a lattice that could serve as a, as a waveguide for electromagnetic spectrum in the terahertz range, which is something that we couldn't, we couldn't do that in the 50s.
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James Fox
I just remember Gary Nolan telling me that it would cost so much money to replicate even today. Right, so that was impressive. But then you have kolaris in the 70s. Very fascinating case. First case I've ever heard of where there seemed to be some level of hostility.
- [128:18]
Interviewer
That's right. Well, tell us about the case. Tell us what you know.
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James Fox
Well, what I know is I haven't done a deep dive into this case. Jacques Vallee has. I think Jacques Fillet has probably written a book about it. There were. This was. This went on for a while. It might have been the whole year of 1977, it might have been longer. But there were UFOs seen. There were beams coming down from some of the UFOs attacking some of the people in the village, burning their skin. Or maybe they were taking skin samples or blood samples, I don't know. That's what was reported. There's other testimony. The Americans got involved and they came and there was film footage of an object the size of a football field, shape of a triangle, coming out of the Amazon. That footage apparently exists. There are a bunch of photographs that I actually feature in the first cut of Moment of Contact. Original photographs that were released by the Brazilian Air Force.
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Interviewer
Yep. Over a thousand photographs.
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James Fox
There was also. Exactly. In all kinds of documentation. All kinds of stuff come out of that case. Yeah.
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Interviewer
If you guys want to look at photographs, if you want to look this up, this is Operation Prato.
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James Fox
Which means.
- [129:23]
Interviewer
Which means saucer.
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James Fox
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Plot. Operation Plateau. Yeah, it's a plate or whatever, a disc. And. And there was a military gentleman actually feature his testimony in the first cut of Moment of Contact. And he went on camera and he had died under extremely mysterious conditions. He apparently had a close encounter of the third kind. He actually saw the entities. And that was in the 70s. They hanged himself in this hotel or something crazy. You have to look it up. But hung himself from the.
- [129:55]
Interviewer
Almost the base of his bed. It's very strange. And I think that was just about two or three weeks after he gave
- [130:01]
James Fox
testimony of that on camera. Testimony to.
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Interviewer
To. To Javert.
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James Fox
Yeah, yeah. Really good. I mean, thank God for. I know, it's terrible. So that's that case. Then you had UFOs over Brazil in 1986.
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Interviewer
Was that the year of the saucer?
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James Fox
It's called UFOs over Brazil.
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Interviewer
Yeah.
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James Fox
So that's kind of what it's known. 1986. And they had a press conference. They had the pilots. I mean, quite honestly, it was very similar to the two consecutive weekends in Washington, D.C. in 1952.
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Interviewer
The ruts, right?
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James Fox
It was like an, almost like an invasion, you know, and they, they engage with them in the airplanes again. I feature some of that in the first cut of moment of contact if you guys want to check it out. And then of course, you've got Virginia, which quite honestly, I think I can't think of a better crash retrieval case, particularly involving the Americans known in the world. I think it's the best, most well documented, and it's getting better by the day.
- [130:57]
Interviewer
It is.
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Interviewer
terms. There's something about the Amazon that intrigues me, you know.
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James Fox
Yeah. And I apologize to your audience for this. I mean, the only case that I know extremely well and I've done sort of a glance at the other cases, but the one I put a laser like focus on is Virginia. I know that case pretty well. I've been really digging my. And I learned new stuff every day. More pieces of the puzzle and there's still missing pieces. But like I said earlier, I think this is a case that could settle the debate for sure.
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Interviewer
How long did it take the US Air Force to get involved in that?
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James Fox
Almost immediately.
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Interviewer
Really?
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James Fox
Yeah. Because according to the flight controller, it was on or around the 20th. So it would have been the same day or maybe the next day after the girls saw the creature. Like all that activity and hoopla. I don't know the exact date, but it was on or around the 20th of January. And the flight came in. And all the military people I talked to, everybody involved in the case all say, I can't say this for sure, but rumor has it the Americans came. The Americans came. The Americans came. The Americans came. They came to Kim Penis. And we have the very gentleman that was one of the people in operation of the transport of one of the beans, possibly two of the beans from Humanitas Hospital and went to as a military base. Apparently they backed the trucks up to the wall for, I don't know, a few hours of the night. And then they continued their journey on Dom Pedro, I think it's called freeway, all the way down to Espasex Military base in Campinas. And then that's when the Americans landed. And actually, it's so funny too, because you hear all the accounts of the people that we talked to is like, yeah, they all even including the military chief of police, he said the same thing. Campinas. And that's when the Americans came in. So it's like everything makes sense, you know, it does. The accounts of the plane came in here, this is where I dropped it off. It all went here. Like, it just big cargo transport, plane, helicopter coming out the back, going to Virginia. It's like, what the hell else were they doing there?
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Interviewer
Was that was Dr. Italo's patient. Was that being still alive? Yes, it still was alive.
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James Fox
Fully alive? Well, yeah. I mean, I don't know how long it stayed alive, but it was fully alive and fully doing well on the 20th.
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Interviewer
Wow. So when you spoke to Eric Davis, he talked about alien species. He talked about the grays, the Nordics, a lot of these. So what's the taxonomy of this particular alien that was in Virginia? I mean, how many species? I know, we're speculating. This is a storytelling show.
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James Fox
Yeah, yeah. This is really. This Is okay, so there's a segment with Jacques Vallee because he was unable to attend the Press Club meeting that we had. And it was January 20th, the 30th anniversary of the incident. And that's when we held it in Washington D.C. and we presented because Jock couldn't be there. And Jock goes out on a limb and describes various cases and different types of creatures or beings or non human intelligence, whatever you want to call them. And I think that you should, you should show your audience that clip because it's very interesting. He talks about exactly what you're, what you're mentioning.
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Interviewer
Now do you get a sense of, are these beings from other planets or are they here? What do they want?
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James Fox
I wish I knew.
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Interviewer
Speculate. Well, I mean, it's, I, I mean
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James Fox
from all the different people that I've talked to and all the different alleged firsthand witnesses to close encounters of the third kind, there seems to be different races, different agendas, different. I mean, because you got, you know, the quintessential, you know, almond shaped eyes, black eyes, gray spindle, the arms, spindle legs that seems to be, you know, the worker bee or whatever. Some of them think that they're biologically engineered, you know, entities with intelligence. What do I know? You know, that seems to be. Some people describe brown skin or white skin or gray skin, but the big eyes, the big teardrop shaped head, the three digits, the three fingers and a thumb seems to be fairly consistent. But then you've got people like Travis Walton describing creature, human looking, you know, like beautiful blonde, blue eyes, humans, very attractive. I guess they call them the Nordics.
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Interviewer
The Nordics, the tall whites.
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James Fox
Charles Halls.
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Interviewer
Yeah,
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James Fox
you've got those types and then you've got, you know, if the account is to be believed, you've got, you know, Jason Sands and his convoy in 1994 talks about this and he was really odd, is that, you know, he was dressed in military outfit and Jason said they were all like looking at his boots and his boots and he's been walking through the dry desert, dusty desert. His boots were immaculate, like spotless. But he described the big eyes, but they weren't almond shaped. They were just really big and dark and. No, no real ears. Yeah, no ears. No. You know, and that's a different type. And was that entity, if it's true, was that entity capable of projecting how it wanted to be seen? Sometimes you wonder about that, like, why was his military outfit spotless right in the desert, according to the witness? You know, so we could be dealing with all the above we could be dealing with like interplanetary. Maybe there's some that live under the oceans. Maybe, maybe they live on the backside of the moon. Who knows? You know what I mean? Like maybe they're right here. Maybe they're interdimensional. They come in and out, right? Just like tune, you know, change the frequency a little bit. I really don't know. I'd love to know, I'd love to know how many different species or races. I'd love to know what their agenda is. I'd love to know why they don't make their, their presence more overtly known. Because you look at like I've, I've studied a number of different, like, you know, so called Lanning cases, whatever, you know, I can go into detail with that, but please do. Well, like I. Okay, I'll just go into a little bit. 1964 was April 24, 1964. There's a police officer by the name of Lonnie Zamora. He was in hot pursuit of a speeding car. It was like late afternoon. It was around coming up on 5:00. And he saw this egg shaped, white egg shaped thing whiz across the road in front of him. Like maybe off in the distance, some kind of flash. He thought maybe it was like the dynamite shack that might have, I don't know, something he needed to go investigate. So he terminates his police chase, takes a right and he goes up this dirt road and down in arroyo he sees an egg. Basically it could be a Tic Tac, right? An egg shaped object had a little symbol on it and two small childlike creatures stepping around on the bottom. Just like, you know, outside on the ground. Excuse me. He's like looking, he's like, God damn, is that like a car crash? Two kids, like, what the hell am I looking at? And one of them, excuse me, one of them looks him right in the eyes and he's startled. The creature was startled, Lonnie was startled. So Lonnie breaks contact and he drives because like so the, the road, let's say the road is like here, right? The road wraps around like that. He's here and he sees the landed craft and the entities and he gets base contact. By the time he got around to here to get a closer look, the craft was still sitting on the ground spooling up. But the hatch had closed because he heard a thump and the creatures were gone and the craft departed. Now if you look at where the craft landed just on the outskirts of town, I don't know if it had A problem. If they were gathering soil samples, God only knows, I have no idea. But they did it in a spot that would minimize any potential exposure. They landed in this little recessed arroyo, Right. So they would minimize the chance of being seen. And where they were spotted, they were evasive and they got in and left. They could have established some level of communication. Sure. Could have driven over there. They could have, you know, they didn't do that. They left. Now, if you look at the Travis Walton case, which I consider a very credible case because there were like seven witnesses, seven witnesses of the craft and his alleged, I would say, abduction, I think, I don't think it was an abduction. I think that he got into the way of the propulsion of the craft and affected him somehow. And they came back and got him, brought him back to life and then dropped off. Now, if you look at where, where they dropped him off, where they took him was a very remote area in Snowflake, Arizona, up in the mountains. I've been there several times. It's remote. Okay. He would have died if they would have dropped him off where they picked him up. They didn't do that. They dropped him off on the outskirts five days later on the outskirts of town, if the accounts are to be believed. They dropped him off on the outskirts close enough to like, a payphone or, you know, where he can get help. But they did it at night and they did it in an area that was a dip down where they could like, drop him off and then get the hell out of there to minimize any potential for any exposure. So they cared enough to. For his well being, but they also didn't want their presence known, widely known. Do you know what I mean?
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Interviewer
I do.
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James Fox
So you look at, like cases like that, and you go, all right, well, you look at what they do, what they do, and then you look at what they don't do. And sometimes what they don't do is evidence of potentially their objectives or their agenda. You know, because if they wanted to make their selves overtly known, they just hover over the next football game or, you know, super bowl, whatever. Game over.
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Interviewer
Yeah, take me to your leader.
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James Fox
But they don't do that.
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Interviewer
Nope.
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James Fox
They did some pretty bold maneuvers. I call it like the show of force during the 1940s and 50s when they were fleets of them flying over America. I mean, all the newspapers, especially 52, the 52 wave was phenomenal. And you look at the White House buzzing the capitol building in 1952, two consecutive weekends, scramming military jets. That's Pretty provocative, right? You look at the case in, what was it? June 13, 1997. Don't quote me on the exact date. Sorry. March. March 13, 1997. In Phoenix. That craft, even according to the governor, Fife Symington.
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Interviewer
Oh, this is the Phoenix Lights.
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James Fox
Phoenix Lights gates. I investigated that on and off for 10 years. And I interviewed families that said they were lying on the front lawns watching this colossal mammoth, like a floating city, like, float over the top. Big boomerang shaped thing where they could look up and see metal compartments, blah,
- [143:59]
Interviewer
blah, blah, for hours. This thing was up.
- [144:01]
James Fox
Oh, yeah, it went from the north all the way down to the south. Ended up like Tucson. Flew over Interstate 10. I mean, it was witnessed by so many people, including the governor.
- [144:10]
Interviewer
Right.
- [144:11]
James Fox
And that's pretty provocative, like flying low and slow. And it was done at a time when everyone was out under the night sky trying to get a glimpse of the hell Bob comet. So that's provocative. I mean, that's. That's something, right? And you got Hudson Valley sightings. You got the Belgian sightings in the late 80s, early 90s. Provocative. I mean, I interviewed a police officer who was involved in the Hudson valley in the 70s. I don't know the exact year, but he said this massive triangular shaped, size of a football field object was floating over the top of him. I talked to the police officer myself. He goes, I was kind of curious. I took my flashlight out and flashed it at the, at the object. This is in the 70s. And he goes, son of a bitch. That thing responded. Bam. Laser beam, light down at my feet.
- [145:04]
Interviewer
Wow.
- [145:04]
James Fox
Like, shit. I wasn't know if that was like a friendly gesture or if that was like a shot across the bow. Like, so there's been some very provocative. Do you know what I mean? I do, but they don't make themselves overtly known, which also makes me wonder, you know. Yeah. Like I said, you look at what they do and you look at what they don't do. We've got.
- [145:27]
Interviewer
Clearly something's happening. Clearly the military or someone knows what's going on. Do you ever find yourself frustrated that you're almost playing a cat and mouse game?
- [145:36]
James Fox
Very much so, yeah. I mean, like, you know, the Virginia case, like, you know, I'm all in on that right now. Yeah. And there's nobody on planet Earth it would like to find that photograph, find that piece of video footage. Now we have names and people that had it from people that have seen it. I just got a new name a couple days ago from a doctor, a neurosurgeon and we were texting back and forth with them and like, well, I'll talk about whatever, but I don't want to talk about, you know, Virginia, you know, it's like. But he. This individual confessed that he was shown the video for Marcus Venises was, but not on the record yet. But we're going to continue working on him. So we have names. We're hoping that people are watching all the attention this case is getting and that people are going to, you know, decide, hey, man, if I'm ever going to come forward, now's the time. Because people in their 40s are now in their 70s. People in their 50s now in their 80s, you know, I mean, like, now's the time. So it would have been 30 years ago. So how old would have Dr. Italo been? He's 74. So he would have been what, 40, 50, 60. He'd been 44, right? About 44 when it happened. You know, he's 74. So someone in their 40s, they're, you know, they're on the cusp of retirement, you know, probably a lot less to lose wanting their grandchildren to know the truth. So I'm encouraged. I think it's ripe. Now is the time that this stuff could come out, and it is coming out, but more. We just need a few more doctors. We need the video and we need the American side to come forward. And then we've got a slam dunk.
- [147:16]
Interviewer
That's the American side. I think that's the bottleneck there.
- [147:19]
James Fox
We're working on it.
- [147:20]
Interviewer
I hope that video still exists because a lot of people are invested in making sure it never sees the light of day.
- [147:25]
James Fox
That's for damn sure. As for sure, we were in contact with people after. After the first cut came out. We were contacted by a number of people. Sometimes, you know, you can kind of tell because I've been contacted for years by witnesses. You can just kind of tell when you get one that you, okay, this is. Weighs in an eyebrow. And that's when you know, someone will. It's very short. It'll be like, I've got what you're looking for, you know, kind of thing, as opposed to writing me like a novel. It's like, you know what it's like. And. And they could have been joking, but you get back in touch with them and they're just gone. It's like, well, why did they, you know, and so makes me paranoidly thinking, like, am I being watched again? We did a proton email, which you're going to put on the screen for people to get in touch with us, particularly anybody on the Americans, anybody who witnessing the Virginia case. And not to be rude, but if you have a whole UFO story that's unrelated, please save it for another time. I just want to put a laser like focus on Virginia video or any participation in the flight from Campinas back to the States. I did get contacted by one individual via email. He said, it's been weighing on me and my family for decades. I was like, oh, my God, we did it. You know, and then I was like, you contact me like this, I'll show you the email. You contact me like this. Just, you know, conversations terminated. So I did everything he told me to do. Waited about 36 hours after he sent me. The first email, was like, oh, my, this isn't who you think it is. My email got hacked and I don't know anything and goodbye. So I just thought, really. So I waited like six months and then I sent a separate email, not part of that thread, based on the email address. Hey, this is so and so tree service. You know, I'm coming to cut your hedges. Because I was hoping, like, maybe he'd be sure, I just need to meet with you to give you an estimate, you know. And I was like, do you know what I mean? Yeah, because I thought, well, maybe. And then I finally got some little response and I thought. And then it was just,
- [149:37]
Interviewer
how do you. How do you vet your stories? How do you.
- [149:39]
James Fox
How well you gotta go meet the people? I mean, you know, also, you know, I tell people because I had people telling me just last year, like, we've got. I've got the video. As a woman, I got the video. You need to come. I. I'm giving it away for free. I just, I can't. This is a burden. I don't want this in my life anymore. I want it out of my life. Like, just get it away. It was her husband's or something. And I said, hell, I'll come. But I said, I can't just drop everything in the middle of editing movie Fly. Excuse me, fly all the way to south, blah, blah, blah, in Brazil without any kind of proof. Like, I, you know, I'm just, I'm sorry, I can't do that. And we went back and forth for a long time. And I said, just show me, like two frames, just one picture, and I'm on a plane tomorrow. And then after like months of back and forth, like, if you don't come down, and that was it. That person's gone. Did she have it. Was she bluffing? I don't know. But I wasn't willing to fly away to Brazil just because someone said they had it.
- [150:36]
Interviewer
Right.
- [150:36]
James Fox
Maybe she did have it, I don't know. But why wouldn't you show me one screen, send me one screen and I'm there.
- [150:43]
Interviewer
What, what pictures have you seen that, that you were convinced, like, this is legit?
- [150:48]
James Fox
I would say one of the best photographs ever. It's in my film, the program, which you can watch for free on YouTube movies. And it's bloody good, man. We got the bat. We got a bit of background on it as well. Taken in 1990, Calvine, Scotland. And David Clark is the researcher that uncovered it. And it's a long story, but I'd heard about this case because I interviewed Nick Pope, who was part of the mod UFO desk in the 90s, and I probably interviewed him in the early 2000s. Well, I talked to him in the early 2000s, probably very early 2000s. I was like, oh, you're at the UFO desk. What was the best case? You know, like, what did you see? You know, Nick Pope goes, oh, there was two hikers in Scotland. He didn't say Calvine, he just said scotland, broad daylight, six princess, beautiful, like diamond shaped, you know, like craft hovering in the sky with a military jet going around. I was like, you gotta be kidding me.
- [151:58]
Interviewer
You can see this online if you guys want to look at the combine ufo.
- [152:01]
James Fox
I pestered him and I pestered him and I pestered him and he goes, we had a big poster of it on the wall and the UFO desk. He goes, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. And I said, nick, no one threw that picture away. It's still somewhere. Like, what about the names of the guys that you worked with? They're retired. Where are they now? Like, I pestered them, pestered and pestered them. They could never, excuse me, I could never get it out of them. And then this researcher, David Clark, he finds some FOIA documents, released documents from the British, from the Ministry of Defense. And one of them was like redacted. It was like the Royal Air Force press officer blacked out in blah blah blah, Scotland. He's like, who is the Royal Air Force press officer in Scotland? Oh, Craig Lindsay. So he contacts Fred Lindsay and long story short, which went on for a while, Craig Lindsay had gotten a call from a local newspaper. Maybe it was like the Scotland Yard or Daily something. Anyway, look it up. And they said, oh, you know, we're, we're Here, trying to, you know, get a quote from the RAF about this. About this UFO photograph. And he's like, I don't know what you're talking about. What are you talking about? They said, well, there's these two mates, these two guys that are going to publish this story, and we just want to comment on what this might. What this could possibly be. It's got a military jet. He goes, well, I haven't seen it, so I don't know what you're talking about. They. So they said, well, we'll send you a print. So they sent him a print. He's like, holy shit. Like, this is. It's good. And so he immediately, I think he can't. What? Yeah, does contact the mod, and then the model contacts him and he starts to investigate. He meets with the witnesses at a hotel. They tell him their account. They said it was hovering, it was silent. They were terrified. They were cowering beneath the tree when it was hovering there. They were like, what are we looking at? They had a camera. And he said, they said that a military jet came in and at that point, they got enough courage. The military jet did a full pass. It went in around the tire object and the six, I think it was like six or seven prints. It was picture. So all the pictures is relatively the same object, same spot, same tree, all that ground, everything with the jet in a different position. So, you know, Craig was like, well, what kind of noise did it make? And the witnesses were like. But didn't make any noise at all. I was just completely silent. He's like, well, I don't know. He's a Royal Air Force press officer. I don't know any planes, anything without any wings, any visible, you know, blah, blah, blah. And then as he's in the middle of this investigation, he gets a call from the mod. And they were like, we'll take it from here, thanks. And that was the end of that. Well, he keeps that print in a book and kind of forgets about it. Then he retires and it's whatever, 30, 33, 34 years later, and he finds the damn thing and he gives it to. He gives it. That's the only reason why we have that photograph.
- [155:25]
Interviewer
Yep.
- [155:25]
James Fox
Thank God to Craig Lindsay, because they buried that story. And. And I interviewed Nick Pope and he's like, they wanted to bury it, and they did. And then. And then at the last possible, like, minute of production with the program, the documentary I was just talking about, there was a guy, I always get his name wrong. Greaves, Richard Greaves. And he's like. He's like, you're. He called me. He's like, you're mispronouncing my name. Is it Greaves? He's like, no, it's Greaves. Greaves. And he. And he describes what happened. He goes, I. I knew those blokes. I was, you know, he was up there. And he said they were on a cigarette break. Couple days after, they were about to go public. Black car rolls up. There are these men in black again. Heard about him a thousand times.
- [156:15]
Interviewer
Yep.
- [156:17]
James Fox
And he said they came up, they got out of the car. And the way he describes the guy smoking behind the wheel, it's the funniest thing. Richard Greaves should be a comedian because the way he described this guy smoking, I was like, I've never heard anybody describe the way. Inhaling so hard it lit up the whole cabin on the inside of the car. Just really sucking the cigarette down. And then he's. The driver stays in. It was a Mercedes. Two guys get out. Cigarette breaks over. Yeah. Take the two guys. Pissing rain outside in the pissing rain, talking to them. They're all the other workers that were not participating in the event itself. Didn't take the pictures, didn't witness. They were looking through the window watching this whole thing. Pissing rain, it was raining so hard. And they were just standing in the pissing rain getting drilled by these two men in dark suits, long overcoats. He said, they came back in. And I'll never forget this. He's like, why is a ghost just, you know, Scared the shiza out of these two witnesses started drinking heavily, sleeping in their cars at night at the. At. At the hotel. And then they vanished after a couple of weeks. They're, to this day, they've never been seen again.
- [157:26]
Interviewer
Oh, that story.
- [157:28]
James Fox
Yeah. That is such a good case. Now, the pilot, it was the Harrier jump jet. That's what I was told. It's in the picture, most likely. They said it's pretty likely to be a Harrier jump jet. That pilot would have been, what is. That was 1990. So that would be like, what, 36 years ago? Coming up on 36 years. So 36 years. Let's say the pilot was in his mid-30s. Could have been up to 40, maybe 35. 35. 30, 35. Well, it would be a 65 now. Maybe 70. 65 or 70. If you're out there listening, you've got my proton email. Give us a call, because I can guarantee you he got a hell of a view of that thing. Oh, yeah, he flew all the way around it. And he probably had gun cam rolling. Mm.
- [158:17]
Interviewer
That's. That. That's right.
- [158:18]
James Fox
They buried that picture. Vanished. The witnesses, those guys wanted to come forward. They were at the local newspaper. They were. They were getting their story out with all those prints. Really good story. And that's another Men in Black story. I'm like, oh, my God, how many times are going to hear this?
- [158:38]
Interviewer
It's why it's so hard to even reach out to you, because it could be the last email you ever send.
- [158:45]
James Fox
Well, yeah, yeah, I. You know, I'm being watched. There's no question about that.
- [158:50]
Interviewer
Sure you are.
- [158:51]
James Fox
No question. Funny, because I was at. This is really funny. I was at the premiere for Age of Disclosure, and Leslie was. Leslie Kane, she was hanging out with. Met a bunch of dudes in suits, just as typical looking, you know, I think they said they're from the agency. I'm pretty sure that's what they said. But definitely, like, you know, And I was like, hey, nice to meet you. Hello. Blah, blah. You know, we're talking, like, whatever. I'll talk to anybody. You know, people are people. I'm not hiding anything. They know what I'm up to. So I'm talking to the guy and was chatting it up, and I was like, yeah, because I. I did this film on this UFO crash and in Brazil. They're all. We know exactly who you are.
- [159:30]
Interviewer
Sure they did.
- [159:31]
James Fox
Yeah. I was like, oh, my God. I mean, it was a little creepy, but. But it was funny, too, you know? And when I did the event at the National Press Club just a couple days ago, Whatever week. I can't. I've been to Brazil and all over the damn place. Not that long ago. This is the 20th of January. What are we, 20? Whatever. Okay. So I see three dudes in suits come in, and I knew two of them because. Yeah, because I've been in touch with some of the people within the task force. You know, I went.
- [160:00]
Interviewer
Sure.
- [160:00]
James Fox
I went into a SCIF with John Kosklowski and people from the Air Force Office of Special Investigators.
- [160:05]
Interviewer
They let you into a skiff?
- [160:07]
James Fox
Took me into a scif. Yes.
- [160:08]
Interviewer
What did you see in there?
- [160:10]
James Fox
I'll talk about that in a second.
- [160:11]
Interviewer
Okay.
- [160:12]
James Fox
These guys showed up at the event, and I saw them come in, and I was like, hey. And they're like. They just kind of looked at me and kept going. So about, like, 15 minutes later, things are getting going. Everyone's settling down and getting ready to present. And I was with my sister Kelly, and I was like, hey, Kelly, Get a picture of me with these, you know, So I walked up and he was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no photo, dude, not now. Like, no, but we're here, you know, and yeah, we went back, get started. But the, the other thing was I was invited. I probably won't reveal who, who made the arrangements because I don't, I don't know if that's okay or not, but I was invited into a skiff, which is super weird because me, like, they did a 20, 48 hour background check and then all the security. And I was, I was flying back to Vermont from Washington, D.C. and I checked out of my hotel when I was, when I had the appointment. And I went, I went into, it was not far from the Pentagon. I went into this building, met in a parking lot and walked through this building, went to, I had to go through security, took all my stuff. Oh my God. And I go through. And then, then there were these glass tubes. I think I left. Did I leave my bags there? I probably did. There were these last two things. One side opened and you stepped in it. That closed. Another side open. It was just like seen out of a movie or something.
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James Fox
Went down these corridors and we got to an area where he goes, all right, now you need to get rid of all your electronics. I need to put them in this locker. I said, can I use the bathroom real quick? Because I want to take pictures of the pass, which I did.
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Interviewer
You did?
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James Fox
Yeah, I took a picture of the pass I got.
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Interviewer
Where can we see that?
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James Fox
I'll show it to you. Okay. I'll share it with you. You can show it on the thing.
- [163:38]
Interviewer
Okay, yeah.
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James Fox
It says,
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Interviewer
it says do not take photos.
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James Fox
Court required. Just like that. I'll show you.
- [163:45]
Interviewer
Okay.
- [163:46]
James Fox
I took it in the bathroom. They're probably gonna find out about that. Whatever. Sorry.
- [163:50]
Interviewer
Last gift.
- [163:51]
James Fox
Had to do it. I'll send it to you for sure. So. So then take all my, you know, everything I had. Electronic gone. Then just vault looking door. Just exactly the door you'd expect, right? You know, opens it up, big thick thing. Go inside. I'm like, fuck, I'm in a scare for shit. And it was, it was a big room. Like, it was big, like cubicles and all kinds of hallways and shit. He's like, yeah, this entire area is a skiff. It's all part of the task force. The head of the UAP task force, John Kosklowski. So we walked down this hallway.
- [164:26]
Interviewer
What building are you in? Where are you?
- [164:27]
James Fox
Shit, man. I'm not far from the Pentagon. Yeah, not far from the Pentagon. I thought it was actually at the Pentagon. It was just really, really close. And take me down a hallway. I can't give you this guy's name. I would gladly. I can only give something. He wouldn't appreciate it. Go down this hallway and there's an open door on my left and a closed door on my right. And he's like, I'll be right back. And he leaves me there. I'm saying there, and I see a table maybe about the size of this. I think it was more oval shaped or maybe was round camera. But I was like, probably a couple girls and a couple of guys and they're all in Suits and they're talking and I'm tuning, I'm tuning in because I'm like, might as well. You know, the brain has an incredible capacity to like, filter out anything else and just really hone in on.
- [165:13]
Interviewer
No, I could see you sidling over. Yeah.
- [165:15]
James Fox
So I'm listening to the conversation. Like, I'll give you an example. Like, if you ever take a, like a tape recorder to a restaurant dinner, it's not recording what you heard, it's recording all. Because it doesn't filter it out. Right. But I was able, you know, we can do that. We can filter out surround noise and really focus on what we want to hear. So I'm like tuning into these guys. I'm like, oh, what are they? You know, what are they on about? Then one of them abruptly gets up, comes over the door and closes, you know, And I was like. So then one guy who met me outside suits, he comes, opens up the door, and then John Koskowski comes in. And they wanted to show me this footage that they were going to possibly release. I said, don't release. That's ridiculous. It's not going to gain you any credibility. You guys cannot do that. And then we talked about, I talked about, you know, Rua, I talked about Virginia, I talked about Socorro. I talked about. I was just like, you know, and this and this. And you guys know that, you know, ultimately what we're dealing with is a certain percentage of these things is non human intelligence. And what's the plan to tell the public, you know, we're not going anywhere. This story's not going away. What's the plan? And John Klosklowski, the head of Arrow right now, goes, james, I can't part my hair without approval from the DoD, and you can quote me on that. So basically what he was saying is his hands are tied and it doesn't matter what he ultimately finds or uncovers or learns. Right. I'm convinced that, you know, they clearly found the. The Legacy. God. I could tell you another story, too. The Legacy UAP Crash Retrieval Program.
- [167:08]
Interviewer
Now you've got to tell the other story.
- [167:10]
James Fox
Yeah, well, I just, you know.
- [167:12]
Interviewer
Well, what is the plan, do you think? Before you get into that, I think
- [167:16]
James Fox
there are some people that want it out and some people that don't want it out, and the people that are in possession of the goods don't want it out for the most part. But I really think it's important that, you know, the people in the UFO community, I mean, we don't need the government against us. Everybody's bickering among each other, which is absurd. We should focus on a common goal. But I'm really, like, pivoting to the point where, like, I want to say to people, look, you don't have to believe Grosch or Lou or Chris or whoever. How about, you know, we call their bluff and we create. We help create. We help support Congress. Congress really needs to hear from you. Like, they've made that abundantly clear. We need to know that our constituents and other people, that we have your support in putting our necks out. But. But to figure out a way how we can get immunity to the witnesses that want to come forward and how we can provide additional witness whistleblower protections. That's very, very important because there are threats. People feel, even if it's just their security clearance, they lose that they have no job. Right. So the threats have taken away their security clearance. Some people are concerned about their personal safety. There's. There's those issues, and they lose their job. It's like, you know, they lose. They can't support. They can't feed their family. You know, so it's like, now they're talking about a fund that. That we could put in place. So if they do lose everything, they get financial compensation because. And people are like, oh, well, that's not really fair. They're getting taxpayer dollars. It's like, well, if what they're saying is true, that's the biggest story ever. Everybody should have a right. I don't think, you know, that people would have that big of a problem with getting some compensation to some of these potentially the most significant witnesses in the history of mankind. So anyway, these are all initiatives and things that I feel strongly that we should. We should support and put pressure on, whether you believe it or not. Like, you might say, like, wow, what's this guy have to gain by coming forward? What does David Grush have to gain? Quite honestly, I don't really see anything. He had to retire early. He didn't get any of his pension.
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Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
You know, like, you know, you got all these threats, and, I mean. I don't know. I mean, call his bluff.
- [169:28]
Interviewer
Yeah. I think the Pentagon walked back a lot of even what he said.
- [169:30]
James Fox
Oh, of course they did. That's what they do.
- [169:33]
Interviewer
I don't. Do you feel like it's a. Is it a slow. Are they preparing us for an actual disclosure? Is this a limited hangout, or is it like, well, we'll give them a little. Here, we'll give them a little.
- [169:50]
James Fox
I think it has to come. It's come from we, the people. We have to start really continuing the pressure. It's one of the reasons why, you know, like, I had to move mountains and walk on water. I told you earlier to do that event at the National Press Club. And I'd love to see the government do something like that. They're doing exactly the opposite. But it was really hard. Like, we hired a PR firm, we had a former White House press secretary, assistant press secretary, all sending out the press conference, all the various news outlets. And, you know, we had really good attendance. And we had a handful, very small hand. Well, we had a lot of cameras, There were influencers there, but only a handful of news outlets. I mean, we did the best we could. You know, like I said at the time, I was like, it was a very solid base hit. But, you know, we had a story that was going to go out in a very big news organization. It would have been really historic. And. And that got squashed at the last second to the point where we couldn't pivot to somebody else. And it was about closed door hearings. But there is a. Again, I'll remind your audience, there's a great story out in the debrief by Leslie Kane and Ralph Blumenthal. Go check it out. It's free, it's online, it's got photographs, details of the meetings. Yeah, it's good. Yeah.
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Interviewer
Well, I think you're doing the right thing by doing the podcast circuit, because these shows, we have a larger audience than the major news outlets.
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James Fox
It's amazing.
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Interviewer
You're speaking directly to people now.
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James Fox
You know, it's like I started thinking about it and I was like, we don't even really need the mainstream media anymore. We're just going straight to the people.
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Interviewer
James, this is the mainstream media.
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James Fox
I know. It's crazy, right? It's. It's nuts. I was hanging out with this guy the other day, and he's like, yeah, man, I got 10 million followers. I was like, you have 10 million followers?
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Interviewer
I know. Eat your heart out, Sandy.
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James Fox
Yeah. Unbelievable. And then, then I was, you know, podcast coverage that's happening right now in Brazil. Right now in Brazil. 22.8 million followers. Another one. 30 million followers. Like, that's a significant amount of people that you have outreach to. You know, look at Rogan.
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Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
You know, you guys.
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Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
It's extremely impressive. And that we're doing it organically, we're doing it grassroots, we're doing it. We the people. You know, that's what I was telling you earlier. I really appreciate, you know, I appreciate the support and I'm not asking anyone to categorically believe this happened. But, but hey, how about support for additional investigation? How about, wow, there's a lot of really compelling eyewitness testimony. Let's dig a little further.
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Interviewer
There is. You're a very important person. I have two things I want to get to before I let you go, but.
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James Fox
You got it.
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Interviewer
When you were talking about the skiff, you said, oh, I can tell you another story. Do you remember what that was?
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James Fox
Yeah, it was such a tease. Okay, well, so how can I tell you without revealing this person's identity,
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Interviewer
their position, what, their role?
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James Fox
No, if I do, that'll give a dead giveaway.
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Interviewer
Then just tell the story.
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James Fox
Okay, well, so when I investigated Socorro, New Mexico case, I was, you know, I really, I do a deep dive. Like I, you know, you look at someone like Richard Dolan or, or stand in Friedman or you know, some of these really serious, you know, researchers and authors of very detailed books. And they're. Historical perspective was like a walk in encyclopedia. And these guys are incredible. I am extremely familiar with a handful of cases that I personally have investigated. Boots on the ground in Africa or China or wherever the hell I am. South America. And I, and I stick my teeth into a case, minimum five years, sometimes 10, sometimes 20, whatever. And I was investigating the Socorro case and I got to know his wife Mary, his daughter Diane, his son Michael, his co workers. It's all over a five year period. And every time I came to Socorro, and particularly to Mary Zamora's house, I'd see this beautiful white Ford pickup truck parked out in front. Flat tires, hood popped, ajar. Whole cabin filled with garbage. Bullet hole through the cab back. They had a beautiful truck though. It was a step side. 1972, I think. 72, wooden bed. It was kind of rotted out, but nice. I mean the body was in pretty good shape. It didn't have any really rust because it was in a dry desert environment. I kept looking at that truck. I'm like, damn, that thing is gorgeous. Needs work, but wow. Long story short, I bought the truck off Mary.
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Interviewer
Okay.
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James Fox
And I've been slowly fixing it up and, and it runs great. I, after five years I put it, I had the engine rebuilt, but it's the same engine. 360, big block.
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Interviewer
72. What?
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James Fox
Oh, 100.
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Interviewer
Okay.
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James Fox
And I, I got all the wood for the bed and I, I was, I was under, under that thing for like weeks with the Sawzall because I was Working on it, you know, as much time as I had during the production of the phenomenon. And I was under the truck with the sawzall, cutting all the little nuts off. They were all frozen. And it was raining down. Like I should have had goggles on. And I. And I put new wood in the bed with a buddy of mine, Mike Aiken. And it was funny because I ordered the kit and then I put it all. It was a huge undertaking. My God, that was difficult. We had to paint it with like marine based, you know, lacquer, whatever. Anyway. And the metal strips in between the woods started rusting out within a week or two. And so I was like, what the hell, man? I just thought, I mean, okay, it's a truck and it's outside, but I just did this like, come on. So I contact the company and they're like, wow, you know, you didn't ask for the stainless. I was like, well, you guys didn't even give me an option. Like, how did I suppose it now? So anyway, so I'm slowly fixing the truck up. I had the original seat reupholstered. The guy was like, this was really challenging. I had to rebuild all the springs and I got a new dashboard because you could poke your finger the dashboard from the hot sun. Seriously, you just poke your finger right through. I did the headliner and the floor carpeting myself, and I did a terrible job and didn't get that done. But for overall and had the engine rebuilt. It's a beautiful truck. So I had an individual come that investigated UFOs in an official capacity for the United states government from 2017 to 2020, whatever the hell. And we took my truck out to dinner because, I don't know, for some reason I didn't have the other car. My partner Rebecca might have taken it. I was like, hey, I just got this truck. He's like, oh, I love old trucks, you know, and this is great. It was really cool because just like this is long as a Morris truck, you know, we're driving this old 72 truck out these country roads and we go out to a lovely dinner, we have some drinks and. And afterwards, you know, we kind of loosen up a little bit. We go back to drop this individual off at his. At his hotel and get to the hotel and it's dark. I don't have a cabin light. I don't have. It does work, but the doors are closed, it's dark. We park the hotel and the door guy or the valet door guy comes out and he's like, hey, can I get you. I said, oh, no, I'm just dropping him off, and. And he left. The engine's off. Lights are out. It's pretty dark. A little bit of light coming from the hotel, but we were pretty far away, so it was like, almost like just silhouetted a little bit inside the cabin. It was dark. We had a whispered conversation, and it was like that moment when maybe you're on a date and you drop, you know, you drop the girl off or the guy, whatever, and there's an awkward moment where you're not sure, like, you know, where we should come. Do I go, you know, you invited me in, or whatever.
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Interviewer
Worst moment ever.
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James Fox
You know what I mean? Like, that awkward little moment, you know? But it was kind of like that. I remember it was like, all right, well, are you getting out, or do I, you know? You know, and just silhouettes. It was like a scene out of a movie. I'll never forget it so long as I live. Just silhouettes in the truck. Dark. And it was like. We found the Legacy program. Yeah, we found it. And it was like, you know, and then some more details, and I just sat there quietly going, can't.
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Interviewer
Tell us the details.
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James Fox
No, I can't. I just can't.
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Interviewer
Why do we call that Legacy program? Did that end, or did you.
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James Fox
Legacy program? I guess because it's been going on for such a long period of time, I guess.
- [178:38]
Interviewer
But is that the still ongoing program,
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James Fox
or do you guess it would be, I'm assuming. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Senator Rubio, he talks about. I mean, you know, you read between the lines. I mean, the latest cut of moment of contact. We have Senator Rubio on News Nation saying that, you know, extremely credible people firsthand, you know, claim to be firsthand working on the stuff and the Legacy program, like, I mean, very.
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James Fox
You know what I mean? It's happening. It's amazing how many people are not paying attention, you know, all the congressional hearings. How many people even know. Very few congressional hearings.
- [179:15]
Interviewer
No, very few.
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James Fox
It's just so. It's so incredible to me, you know, that more people aren't like, I know that life's tough and, you know, we're working, paying bills. You know, I get all that. But this. I can't believe more news outlets aren't focusing on this. Like, we got, you know, president, you know, sexual. Excuse me, Peccadillo's like, you know, they put so many resources into it. Like, you know, whether it's Trump or Clinton or whatever, like, they're just fixated and, like, millions of dollars. Like, you know what I mean?
- [179:48]
Interviewer
I think it's intentional.
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James Fox
You got, like, what could be the biggest story in history, and. No. And they're not doing anything.
- [179:54]
Interviewer
I think they want us fighting about politics because that way we don't see what's going over here.
- [179:58]
James Fox
60 Minutes finally does a little thing on UFOs. I'm told it was the most popular thing they've ever done. I'm pretty sure if it's not number one, it was number two. Most popular thing they've ever done. Okay. New York Times, 2017, one of the most popular stories they've ever gone to print. Yep. Do you not recognize that? New York Times and cbs. Hello. Like, what are you guys doing? Do some digging. Is it take people like me to do your guys's work? Like, really? Could you imagine if we had the full force of, like, you know, media to take this seriously and really stick their teeth into it? And all the financial, like, come on, man. I'm. I used to be not convinced about the connection between mainstream and, like, DoD intelligence, the influence there, but now I'm like, that's all.
- [180:47]
Interviewer
It's all wrapped up.
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James Fox
It's got to be connected.
- [180:49]
Interviewer
Of course.
- [180:50]
James Fox
It just kind of has to be. I mean, I don't want to. You know, it just. It feels that way.
- [180:55]
Interviewer
Yeah. It has to come from out here.
- [180:57]
James Fox
It feels that way. And it might be just as simple as, like, hey, you know, all those connections and stories that we're feeding you. Yeah. You just go ahead and leave this to the side. Otherwise, we're done. You know, and someone needs to grow a pair and just start and do it. Just do it. The support would be incredible.
- [181:12]
Interviewer
Yeah. But they'd have to do it really publicly because these people do disagree.
- [181:15]
James Fox
Would be doing well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. That's kind of. That's kind of freaky, too.
- [181:23]
Interviewer
Tell me about. About Gary McKinnon, his story, what you think about him.
- [181:28]
James Fox
I love that guy.
- [181:29]
Interviewer
He's amazing.
- [181:31]
James Fox
He was great. I finally got to meet him, and he's in the program as well. Did you see the program?
- [181:36]
Interviewer
I did.
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James Fox
You can also watch that for free on YouTube movies.
- [181:39]
Interviewer
Stop saying for free.
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James Fox
Go. Well, no, no, it's a great platform. They've got 300 million, whatever, followers, and it's a great platform.
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Interviewer
Your work needs support.
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James Fox
Anyway, so somebody got in touch. Somebody. Somebody I knew knew him. I wish I could remember who that person was, but give us a quick
- [181:57]
Interviewer
recap on what Gary did with NASA.
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James Fox
One second. Because it catapulted in the mainstream in the late 90s, early 2000s, I think it was. Oh, my God. It was everywhere. He was in the news. The presidents were talking about him.
- [182:08]
Interviewer
All the prime minister, prime minister talking
- [182:10]
James Fox
about him and always. But he was way too inundated at the time. They were making songs about him. He was working with all these famous art news musicians. It was incredible. Free Gary McKinnon. So somebody reached out to him. He hears my name and he gets right in touch with me. And he's like, oh, my God, my hero. I'm like, dude, me, you like, you know.
- [182:33]
Interviewer
Right, right.
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James Fox
We're both super stoked, you know, so Gary McKinnon, based on probably the. One of the claims from a NASA alleged. Sort of a NASA employee to remember the woman's name. But he. She had testified at 2001 press conference that Dr. Stephen Greer had done. And she basically gave a specific location where photographs are, you know, manipulated from NASA that show, you know, UFOs.
- [183:02]
Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
Excuse me. So he was like, you know, I'm gonna go find out. So he started hacking.
- [183:11]
Interviewer
Now, hold on. He didn't. He just found computers that would. Accident. He didn't, like, illegally. I'm trying to. I'm trying to help Gary out. I'm trying to help Gary out.
- [183:22]
James Fox
He'll admit this now.
- [183:23]
Interviewer
Okay.
- [183:24]
James Fox
Yeah. It's water under the.
- [183:25]
Interviewer
Is he in the clear? He's in the clear now because Obama wanted his neck.
- [183:28]
James Fox
I know. They couldn't have. They could not have. Okay, well, okay, let me get into the store real quick and I'll just go into it. It's one of the biggest computer hacks, allegedly in history. And he said that. I think it went on for a while. I don't know if it was a year or two years. I can't remember. It was a while. And he goes, you know, I was going through. I would go. And he talks about it like. It's like, oh, yeah. It's like, you know, walk in the park. He was like, of course. You just, you know, I was like. I was like, yeah, maybe easy to use somebody like me. I don't know what that. You're talking gibberish. I don't know. But you go through these servers in the States from different. You know, maybe a library or maybe whatever, right? And he would. So that would be the signals and that would. It would end there. So. And then he'd go from there and he'd go into, like, NASA, nsa, CIA, whatever. And he goes. He started getting lazy and just going around and Going straight. And he got into something. It's Johnson Space Center. I think it was kind of where the woman said that these things. These things would be. And he was on dial up and he hit pay dirt. And he said there was this cylindrical. Interestingly enough, cigar. Shapecraft. Yeah, Cylindrical shape craft in like outer space. He goes, it could have been the Earth. I think it was the Earth, but I couldn't say for sure. It was a clouds, blah, blah. But it was coming down, coming down. And he was just sitting there with bated breath going, oh, my God. God, this is like, oh, this is my Uri. We called it his eureka moment. And he goes. I was like, oh, my gosh. And it's just like this cylindrical shaped thing. He goes, it clearly had no. He's like, it was other world, you know. And then I think it was going down, going down, going down, going down. And then the cursor moved.
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James Fox
And the screen went blank.
- [185:18]
Interviewer
Yes.
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James Fox
Like, it was my eureka moment. And also my. What have I just done? Like, I don't know how long it was that he woke up to men in suits over his bed in London.
- [185:30]
Interviewer
Over his bed.
- [185:31]
James Fox
Over his bed.
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Interviewer
I didn't know that. Wow. Yeah.
- [185:37]
James Fox
And then it was like. And they took him into custody, didn't they? Oh, yeah. Are you kidding me? They wanted to extradite him and lock him up for 70 years. Yeah, 60 or 70 years now, I think, and this is speculation and Gary might agree with this. I don't know. I think that ultimately, because the British and the Americans go along generally together, I think that ultimately the Americans, they wanted to extradite him publicly, but had that happened, he would have had due process. It would have been a big spectacle and there would have been a revelation of everything that he saw. It's a very public court case. Yeah.
- [186:23]
Interviewer
He has to tell his side.
- [186:24]
James Fox
So this is just. Again, this is me speculating here.
- [186:28]
Interviewer
Sure.
- [186:28]
James Fox
That, you know, the may. The Americans said to the British, hey, look, we're going to push for his extradition. You're going to deny it? Because we don't want a big public hearing, because that's what it'll be. He was everywhere in the news. Anybody just Google Gary McKinnon?
- [186:41]
Interviewer
Oh, yeah.
- [186:41]
James Fox
Yeah. So they ultimately denied him, but he said he was ready to take his own life.
- [186:46]
Interviewer
He did.
- [186:46]
James Fox
He did. He's like, I'm not going to go rot in a prison for the next 65 years. He was already. I think he had. He had the. He had. He knew how he's going to do it. He's like, yeah, I was going to take my own life. I'm not going to go sit in prison for 60 years. Hell no.
- [187:00]
Interviewer
Did he talk to you about the, the list that he found about the office fleet?
- [187:04]
James Fox
Yeah, he talked about they were non terrestrial officers.
- [187:08]
Interviewer
Yes.
- [187:08]
James Fox
And it's funny actually because. And again speculation here. I started thinking about the alleged encounter at Nellis test range in 1994 of this non terrestrial officer. He's in officer gear, he's got. He's clearly not of this planet, so called. It did make me think of him. It did make me think of him. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, because I don't know, I was like, is that what they're referring to, non terrestrial officers or are they talking about astronauts?
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Interviewer
Well, they had names.
- [187:48]
James Fox
Yeah, you did. Yeah. I don't think he remembered those names, but yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if he remembered all that. But anyway, it's a fascinating, fascinating case. Fascinating case. And it goes along with like all the people that have been talking about this Cadra of high resolution, you know, some case, 4K super clear. Photos of UFOs, of craft that are just God knows. We have sensors everywhere, right. All these drones with high res cameras and everything like that. It's like, yeah, of course they would be there. We got, yeah, sure, we got phones and cell phones and pickers show up all the time on the Internet. But how do you know what's real and what's fake and who's got the time to go through it all? Do you know what I mean?
- [188:33]
Interviewer
Yep.
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James Fox
But the military, they've got the sensors, they've got the cameras. I mean if anyone's gonna have that kind of data, it would be the military. And everyone says they have it. And Gary McKinnon found some of it.
- [188:46]
Interviewer
He sure did.
- [188:47]
James Fox
He got to see it.
- [188:49]
Interviewer
What was your, what was your, I guess it's now infamous interaction with Buzz Aldrin.
- [188:54]
James Fox
Oh, God. Excuse me. Jesus.
- [188:58]
Interviewer
You don't have to fold your arms. You can relax. This is a place for sharing.
- [189:05]
James Fox
I'll give you the short version.
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Interviewer
He didn't punch you in the mouth.
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James Fox
Put your hand in Bible. Okay, so I worked on a movie set called the Legend of Obie Taggart and it would have been probably mid-90s, my guess. Yeah, I was working on my first UFO doc, I think I was working on. Yeah, and Mickey Rooney, his wife Jan Rooney. And there was another actor, is it Ned Beatty that got. That was in now you Go and do some praying, boy. And you better pray good. You remember that one?
- [189:47]
Interviewer
Was that Deliverance?
- [189:48]
James Fox
Deliverance, yes, sir. Okay. He was there and I just seen Deliverance like a year or two earlier. So I couldn't help but think about. I was like, dude, I just saw you.
- [189:57]
Interviewer
You didn't squeal like a pig.
- [189:59]
James Fox
Oh God. God, that scene was like brutal. Oh, my Lord, no, please don't Google. I remember the first. I had no idea what it was. One of the. I watched it in England.
- [190:09]
Interviewer
Oh.
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James Fox
In the 90s. Ah. And they're like, we're gonna watch Deliverance. I was like, deliverance. I remember, it's like. And it got to that scene. I was like, oh, Jesus, no, God, please. Anyway, so I was an extra on this movie. I was a prison guard for Mickey, for Gen and one of the Root Rooney. And as usual, they're like, oh, so you know what, what else are you up to? And I was like, oh, I'm doing a UFO documentary. And they were like, oh, I was, I was kind of expecting the typical, you know, laughter and ridicule, whatever. But he's like, oh, you know, my wife and I are really good friends with Buzz Aldrin. And yeah, he told us some pretty crazy stuff. Like he's seen some stuff. I was like, really? Yeah, you know what, we'll get you in touch with him. So that happened. And then a friend of mine in Kentfield, California was. He was bartending an event. It was an art sale. It's an art deal of sale, whatever. And there was a woman named Fayan Potter there and she was Buzz Aldrin's sister. So between her and I met her at a place called the west bank, the Left bank, sorry, Lar Gauche. And. And then Jan Rooney, and Jan Rooney's dad was a general in the. I think it was the Air Force. And he talked about Roswell a little bit to her. But any case, between those two, they set up an interview with me with, with Buzz Aldrin and he. He ultimately agrees to give me an interview about his UFO sighting. And he goes, but I'm going to be on book tour. I'm going to be in the south of France. So I borrowed some money, got a little crew. He was like, this is where I'll be. Come down and I'll meet with you. So I arrived there in Monte Carlo, and Monte Carlo is probably the most expensive place on earth and I had a small budget and I was chewing up that money every day and I kept, you know, getting in Touch with them and it's like, you know, traveled all this way, blah, blah, blah. Oh yeah, you know, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. So I finally got to like, I don't know, whatever, fourth day. And I said, Mr. Aldrin, I can't be too busy because, you know, I said, Mr. Aldrin, with all due respect, I, you know, I traveled all this way. You did agree to an interview and you know, I can't stay here forever. This place is really expensive. I traveled all the way down here. He goes, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Meet me in my hotel lobby tomorrow morning. Whatever, nine o', clock, whatever time it was. No cameras. No, no, no, no. Won't have any cameras. Rolling. So the next morning we got there a little early and we're having like a croissant, this really fancy hotel. And I was like a ten dollar cup of coffee back then. And the concierge comes up to me, he says, Mr. Fox? I said, yeah, you have a telephone call over there. And it's buzzing. He's like, I can't do it. He goes, paul Allen has just invested in seti. Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Very conservative those guys are looking for, all the way across it, you know, and he goes, I can't jeopardize. I'm trying to develop a rocket to get citizens into space, yada, yada, yada, I'm working with Congress, I can't do it. And how, how's my story going to change anything anyway?
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Interviewer
Oh, come on.
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James Fox
And I said, well, with all due respect, sir, it takes people of your stature to come forward and help elevate this topic. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- [193:44]
Interviewer
Edgar Mitchell did it.
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James Fox
Yeah, but Ed Mitchell wasn't a firsthand witness. But he met with first hand witnesses and he knew about Roswell. But there's another reason why I believe Roswell. But you know, he didn't deny any, like, you know, he didn't say, hey, I had a sight in the way of the moon. The sister told me that he had chased a disc, I think it was in the 50s, yeah, probably late 50s. Chase. The disc rattled apparently. Sister said he was rattled. He chased this thing up to as high as his plane would go. Couldn't catch it. And then they saw something a little less, a little more ambiguous or something that was something that followed them to the moon, something like that. But I never got a story. And then I went on Larry King with him in like 2007, maybe 2006. 2007. And it was like, I don't know, eight years later, something like that. Couldn't tell you exactly, but I look at my records, and I went on with Fife Symington, the former governor of Arizona. And to my unbelievable shock, I went into the green room and there he was getting his makeup put on. I was like, holy, I'm about to go live with Buzz Aldrin and the former governor. So I take a picture of him. Probably did it with my phone. Yeah, 2007. Yeah, sure, I did with my phone. I have the picture. I got it somewhere on my computer. And she's like, you're. Sir, you're not supposed to take pictures in the green room. I was like, oh, I'm sorry. Kept it. Yeah. And he's like. Looks at me, he's like, you know, he's kind of like. And. And then he goes on. And I was like, I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going to really get this guy. Because I was still pissed about what happened, and Fife was like, you know, this guy's. You know, he's very respected and land on the moon with Neil Armstrong. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Really be careful. Yeah, I know. Allegedly. I know people. I know. There's that whole debate. My. My really good friend, one of my best friends, and he's my neighbor. We're so tight, and he's like, we didn't go to the moon. And we would always have these debates, and we loved each other. We didn't care. It was like, you know, cool, you know, but he just sat there and he lied.
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Interviewer
He just sat there and lied.
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James Fox
Just sat there and lied. And I just sat there and just watched him lie.
- [195:53]
Interviewer
You couldn't say it poked a little bit.
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James Fox
There's a guy, Darcy Weir, who did a film that covered it. He. He found the. Amazingly enough, he found the clips of me on. On the show.
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Interviewer
And yeah, I know Darcy interviewed me about it.
- [196:06]
James Fox
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But, yeah, that's. That's my story.
- [196:10]
Interviewer
Oh, what a shame.
- [196:11]
James Fox
I know. Can you imagine that was in the 90s?
- [196:14]
Interviewer
Yep. Any other astronauts?
- [196:17]
James Fox
Edgar Mitchell?
- [196:19]
Interviewer
Any first. First hand witnesses?
- [196:21]
James Fox
Yeah, there was. Was that Mercury astronaut guy that took a picture of a UFO that. It was pretty incredible.
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James Fox
Trying to remember his name. Sorry. I'm exhausted. I've been up. I've just barely been getting sleep lately. I mean, I always been. I had the national Press club event and I flew to Brazil and I was sick in Brazil and I was all that stuff. Then I flew back here like boom, boom, boom. So I'm sorry if I seem a little tired.
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Interviewer
No, no, you're good.
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James Fox
But yeah, there is a guy. It was in the 60s, it was part of the Mercury program and he took a pretty damn good picture of a ufo. And I think it might have been some filmed footage too. Dosh, Garnett, Darnet.
- [198:44]
Interviewer
That's okay. We'll find him.
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James Fox
Yeah, you guys will find it. It was Mercury Mission and I know his name, but I just. I'm at a loss right now. Anyway.
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Interviewer
Well, then the last thing, we'll let you go.
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James Fox
Yes, sir.
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Interviewer
Are there any. Are there any UFO photos stories or anything that's out there that. That people tend to believe that you don't. That you say that's not it?
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James Fox
Yes, Billy, he's in Switzerland. And I'm always told, billy Myers.
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Interviewer
Yes.
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James Fox
And, you know, some people can criticize me. It's fair to have a, you know, look, we can have opinions and we can agree to disagree.
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Interviewer
That's all I'm asking.
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James Fox
I'm not going to be disrespectful to anybody.
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Interviewer
Everyone can make up their own mind.
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James Fox
My personal opinion, based on what I've seen, I haven't met the guy, so I have to add that to the story. But my personal opinion is that, that he has definitely presented some fake photographs. Now, some people say, well, yeah, because some of the earlier stuff was legit, but then it dried up and so he wanted to keep getting attention, so he faked some stuff. And I was like, well, if you faked one, you faked two. Ah, it's kind of tough for me to go, well, was he telling the truth? Yeah, I don't know. But. But I'm also told that there's a certain force field because a lot of people go, why is it always blurry? It's a little fuzzy. There's a. There's a field around that that kind of affects the environment.
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Interviewer
Sure.
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James Fox
Gravity field or something. I'm not a physicist. I don't tell you. But in Age of Disclosure, Hal Puthoff has talks about the nature of propulsion and how the bends warps folds the space around it when it causes it to be a little blurry. And I was told that a long time ago that if there's a crystal clear, like defined edge around the craft, generally that's considered to be fake.
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Interviewer
Yep. Excuse me. Yeah, because they're warping.
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James Fox
Yeah, it's a little fuzzy because you
- [200:41]
Interviewer
see a lot of discs where the surface is almost moving.
- [200:44]
James Fox
Those. I tend to believe you'll see that too, but. No, but even like, you know, 1950, McMinnville, Oregon. The Trents. You look at that photograph and boy, that's pretty damn good. But people that had the. Some of the original prints and zoomed in on it, you can see it's blurred around the edge. So it's pretty authentic. And you got two witnesses, broad daylight, multiple angles, points of reference. Very good photograph.
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Interviewer
Is there anything that we didn't cover today about Virginia or any of your other work? You want to get out there?
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James Fox
If you support my work, please go watch Moment of Contact. New Revelations of Alien Encounters. I worked so hard to get that out there in timely fashion. Included a very quick snapshot of some of the relevant aspects that's been happening in transparency, pushing for transparency in the US government. The first 20 minutes is all new and then some of the most compelling firsthand eyewitness testimony in the history of phenomenon. If you believe it. I tend to. I believe Dr. Italo because I can't find a motive. He's not selling a doc, he's not selling a book, he's not asking for money for his story. He's still, still the lead neurosurgeon at the hospital still to this day. And I'm sitting there going, I've met his wife, I met his kids, I met his co workers. I went, had a whole tour at the hospital, all the people he's been working with. So he'd have to be lying to everybody.
- [202:05]
Interviewer
There's no way he was too. He was so affected by it.
- [202:08]
James Fox
See why he would do that? And he goes, I'll take a lie detector test tomorrow with my hand and a Bible. Like, what does this guy have to win by? Why would he do that in his twilight years? I just gotta look him in the eyes, man. The tears holding on to me. He's like, I'm telling the truth, man. I'm coming forward because younger generations need to know this is real.
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Interviewer
Moment of contact. Definitely want to watch that. I bought it on Apple tv. I'm assuming it's everywhere.
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James Fox
It's on Amazon, Apple, Google, Fandango. Yeah, I think I gave your coffee crew a link that hopefully will be in the video.
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Interviewer
We'll put all of that.
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James Fox
It's a genius link and you just click on it. It'll take you to various platforms. I appreciate you having me on. I really appreciate it. Oh, sure.
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Interviewer
We've got your Proton email. Anywhere else that we can find you?
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James Fox
Oh, yeah, good idea. Thank you. Find me on X, formerly known as Twitter. It's James. It's Ames C as in Charlie Fox. Amesc Fox. And you can I post all, everything relevant that I do there? I do have an Instagram account but I got a couple 20 year olds running that one so I don't take it as often as I should have.
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Interviewer
All.
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James Fox
How do I do this?
- [203:15]
Interviewer
I'm in the same boat. James, thanks so much for coming in. This has been a joy.
- [203:18]
James Fox
Thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it.
- [203:20]
Interviewer
All right, bye everybody. So that's James Fox's investigation into Virginia. Now here's what we can verify. The incident that happened in January 1996. Multiple witnesses, civilian and military, reported seeing both a craft in distress and strange creatures in and around the town. A military Police officer named Marco Sherz died about three weeks after allegedly capturing one of the beings. His official cause of death was listed as sepsis and pneumonia and what doctors called benign bacteria, though they never identified its source and that's documented in the autopsy. The big claim here is Dr. Italo Venturelli's testing testimony. He's a practicing neurosurgeon at regional hospital in Virginia, 45 years in medicine, still performing brain surgery. He says he had three to four minutes of face to face contact with a live non human entity in the ICU on January 20, 1996. He's not selling a book, he's not asking for money. His colleagues, other doctors who've known him for decades, all went on camera and vouched for him. Now what I keep coming back to is what James said about motive. If Dr. Italo is lying, he's lying to his wife, his children, his colleagues, his entire community. Why would he do that? There's no upside. And he's offered to take a public lie detector test with his hand on a Bible. Something he doesn't take lightly. This is either the most significant testimony in the history of UFO research, or it's an elaborate hoax with no motive. But I think it deserves serious investigation.
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James Fox
Investigation.
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Interviewer
Either way, you can watch James's documentary Moment of Contact. New Revelations, it just dropped. And his National Press Club event from January 2026 is on YouTube for free. And if you have any information about the Virginia case, James has set up a secure proton mail for tips. Until next time, be safe, be kind and know that you are appreciate.
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James Fox
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