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Reports of strange objects in the sky that were once ridiculed are now seen as having potentially serious national security implications. leslie kean, who broke that story, says the stigma attached was intentional. there was actual sort of a policy to use ridicule to kind of damp the whole thing down — that goes back to the �*50s, and it became just part of a culture and since then, we were just kind of left with this attitude of ridicule and the culture, and we weren't hearing anything about it from our government. not only was that damaging to witnesses but also — say some who spent ye...

To witnesses, but also — say some who spent years working inside the pentagon — to security. this is a mammoth intelligence failure. we haven't suffered the consequences we did in pearl harbor and 9/11, but the problems are precisely the same. you had a radar operator seeing japanese bombers and fighters approaching. he didn't report it to anybody, the information didn't get up the chain. 9/11, we had cia and fbi not talking and not sharing information. in this case, it's worse — we've got more like ten agencies not talking and sharing information. we travelled to area 51, a military bas...

You had a radar operator seeing japanese bombers and fighters approaching. he didn't report it to anybody, the information didn't get up the chain. 9/11, we had cia and fbi not talking and not sharing information. in this case, it's worse — we've got more like ten agencies not talking and sharing information. we travelled to area 51, a military base deep in the nevada desert, which — like what the us government knows about ufos — is shrouded in secrecy. some believe — though have no evidence — that a ufo is being reverse—engineered behind the gates few have clearance to enter. thos...

There was a actual, sort of, a policy to use ridicule to kind of damp the whole thing down — that goes back to the �*50s, and it became just part of a culture, and since then, we were just kind of left with this attitude of ridicule and the culture, and we weren�*t hearing anything about it from our government. not only was that damaging to witnesses but also — say some who spent years working inside the pentagon — to security. this is a mammoth intelligence failure. we haven't suffered the consequences we did in pearl harbor and 9/11, but the problems are precisely the same. you had...

Commercial flight filled with its own citizens? >> reporter: well, norah, sources are telling us president trump was worried about this exact scenario playing out in iran. we know that plane was sending out a signal identifying itself as a commercial airliner. it was flying away from the conflict zone. and that radar operator that lit up the plane should have been able to see that it originated from the airport. one expert we talked to said common sense should have prevailed. it appears, instead, a horrific mistake, when tensions were running very high. >> o'donnell: incredibly horrific. kris,...