Air Force Veterans Abducted By Aliens Reunite After 50 Years [EMOTIONAL]

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What is the story behind Mario Woods’ search for his missing partner Michael Johnson?

Mario Woods 0:00
You remember me. We were on November five, November the eighteenth, nineteen seventy seven. Do you remember what we encountered at one o'clock in the morning on November five? No, no, no, no, no, we're not fine. What's that UFO? What's that UFO?
Jesse Michels 0:20
Imagine you're twenty-three years old, tasked with guarding a nuclear missile site in the heart of the Cold War. It's midnight, and while on duty, you and your partner witness a giant glowing spear hovering over a live thermonuclear weapon. Four strange-looking beings glide towards the window of your truck.
Unknown 0:45
Do not fear. Michael, Michael!
Jesse Michels 0:48
you're taken aboard a craft. Examined with sharp instruments while receiving telepathic messages. And all the while you hear the shouts of your partner somewhere close by. When you finally come to, five hours have passed. Your partner is frozen to the steering wheel, completely unresponsive. November five! And you're parked beside a reservoir dam more than eight miles away from the missile site. Bewildered, you're taken back to the base and separately interrogated. Then the Air Force transfers your partner, and you don't see him again for 50 years. Now you can stop imagining because this is the true story of Air Force security policeman Mario Woods. My name is Mario
Woods. I served in the Air Force from nineteen seventy-five to nineteen eighty-three.
Jesse Michels 1:44
Mario has told this story countless times. Mario's been on the History Channel, Discovery Plus, News Nation, This Show, over 40 appearances. And each time he asked the audience to find one person, Michael Johnson. Michael Johnson,
Michael Johnson, Michael Johnson, Michael Johnson. Money has been spent trying to locate Michael Johnson. We've looked in hospitals, we've looked in
Jesse Michels 2:07
Can't find him anywhere. No, sir. The one person who could validate his experience and corroborate his story, Don, seemingly forever. Here's the thing about hunting for a man named Michael Johnson. It's one of the most common names in America. Good luck finding Michael Johnson in a sea of Michael Johnson's. Many start to wonder whether this long-lost partner of Mario's was a figment of his imagination. Mario hired private investigators. He consulted the FBI. Online amateur sleuthers went nuts. He says Arrow, the Pentagon's official UFO office, has promised him that they would look, but they all came up dry. If anything, my guess is that a lot of these people and organizations probably saw Mario as a liability.
Jesse Michels 2:56
And Mario and Michael as people to keep compartmentalized. Someone to corroborate a story they'd rather remain stigmatized. Kept in limbo. Because all it took for our fledgling operation at American Alchemy to beat a multi-agency manhunt was some online searching and basic outreach. That's right, a fan of the show, Shout Out Jason Miller, hit us up with a Facebook page. A page just sitting there. And lo and behold, it was for a 70-something-year-old Michael Johnson living in South Carolina, fitting Mario's description perfectly. Michael had even posted these words: My boys in South Dakota on Ellsworth, 75 to 77. So he tasked a very talented recruiter to find him. And he did in about a week. I couldn't even sleep, man.
Jesse Michels 3:51
I haven't I've only slept maybe an hour. You are about to witness history. Fifty years of these two Air Force veterans being apart, and now they get to relive one of the most extraordinary nights of their lives. You know, you're bringing two pieces of a story that have never met for
Unknown 4:08
forty-nine
Jesse Michels 4:09
years and Now they're like getting to share notes. And we're not just going to interview Michael Johnson. He courageously agreed to go through a full hypnotic regression on camera.
Yvonne Smith 4:20
This is a very safe time to remember.
Jesse Michels 4:29
Without further ado, maybe the most inspirational episode to date with two of the best men I know, this week's courageous American alchemists, Mario Woods and Michael Johnson.
Unknown 4:43
Ignition sequence five. How is this possible? Nothing too unusual about that.
Yvonne Smith 4:53
Their existence cannot longer be denied.
Jesse Michels 5:17
Hey, is this Michael? Yeah. June 26th, 2026. 626-26. I call a man I've never met at his job in the middle of his workday, and I explain only part of my motivation for reaching out.

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