Episode summary
Jesse Michels reunites two former US Air Force security policemen—Mario Woods and Michael Johnson—nearly 50 years after Woods says they experienced a UFO encounter while guarding Minuteman missile facilities near Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota in November 1977. The episode includes a recorded first phone call in which Johnson quickly identifies the remembered event as “that UFO”, and later gives a distance estimate placing the object within roughly 50 feet.
Both men describe physical effects and missing time: Johnson says he was “frozen on the steering wheel” while hearing Woods speak but being unable to respond, and Woods recounts a close encounter involving a bright field of light, a smaller “black ball” moving around the truck, and figures approaching while repeating “do not fear”. They describe being recovered hours later miles away near a reservoir dam, then questioned separately.
The programme centres on a filmed hypnotic regression of Johnson conducted by hypnotherapist Ivonne Smith, during which he describes being handled and examined by non-human entities; these descriptions remain unverified and are presented as recollection under hypnosis. Woods alleges unusual medical and investigative attention afterwards, including a flight surgeon clipping burned skin into a sealed container and Johnson saying “sodium pentathol” was mentioned during his treatment.
The episode also highlights a purported physical discrepancy: Woods says he discovered a missing right-hand glove after Johnson separately recalled seeing it on a “shiny floor”. Michels further discusses claims about official secrecy, alleged disinformation tactics, and the broader folklore linking UFO reports to nuclear sites.