in our recent Arizona border special. Bob Thompson is an army veteran who served for 14 years
with the US Customs and Border Protection as part of the Tucson Arizona Sector's Special
along the US border with Mexico. And it's in the course of that important work that he came
what has become known as the Rubber Ducky. Inside Border Patrol, Bob became concerned that his
superiors weren't that concerned about these unexplained objects hovering near the border,
concern if unidentified objects are hovering in our airspace near the border. He wrote a report
Thompson. Bob, let's establish your credentials. Who are you? What was your role in border protection?
So I am a retired Border Patrol agent. I worked for the United States Border Patrol for 14 years,
Sector of Border Patrol. I started in January of 2008 and retired in January of 2022.
including ATVs, mountain teams, border awareness and intelligence teams, and like I said,
the last part of it I was flying for the Border Patrol and also had the ability to help out and
to involve all the flight stuff that was in Tucson Sector of Border Patrol. Your job required you
classified top secret. You were a respected Border Patrol. Yes, sir. Yeah, I worked as a
one of the three tiers of the special operations for Border Patrol. So I was kind of our team medic,
and the good guys. Before you got into this topic, what was the attitude inside the Border Patrol
border with Mexico, ensuring the border was secure, but you were also adjacent to some key
the Berry Goldwater Range and a lot of the military areas of operation along the border are
the border with Mexico, there's also a flight safety issue.
border protection who had seen anomalous objects? At least a hundred. At least a hundred. Wow.
the desert. So this is being discussed inside border protection amongst the guys, yes. As an
working for Border Protection, aren't you? You are. I'm retired now. I just want to make that.
terrorists is coming over the border, you guys would be, that would be hot-truck. You'd be
be making the notifications to the right people. I don't think the border patrols capable of
extremely sensitive nuclear facility. Was that an issue in Homeland Security to border protection?
Well, nuclear power plants are a little outside our purview, but stuff along the border
encounter with a UAP in the southern part of the state in the border with New Mexico the year before.
something going on in Arizona along the border areas, more than just illegal immigration.
feet? None that I know of, at least when I was working for the Border Patrol, we did not have
heading south. That would be my guess. That's a little far north of the border. Casa Grande's a
military drones, do they? No, they don't. And typically the border patrol agents aren't looking
in the border protection force with homeland security. And nobody's talking to each other.
adjacent to the border with Mexico. By definition, that's a national security flight safety
your border patrol officers were seeing was being corroborated at the same time by the US Air Force.
rust because I had to medically retire from the border patrol. So I'm hoping that got carried on
border that were concerned that probably should be on people's radar. And by definition,
two-sign sector at least. So you had support from your bosses inside border protection.
been kept by border protection? Well, they weren't necessarily kept. They were kind of just
cartel drones, organized crime drones coming over the border. Apparently there are now, yes.
reaction inside Border Protection when it became public that these videos were now sitting on a
were your bosses hostile? No, they weren't hostile at all. So there's no cover-up inside Border
lens for him. Nobody told you off. No one told me off. Well, full marks and credit to Border
research knowing that you were doing this work for border protection and say, look, in the interests
the border patrol agents might be the first one out there as well. So I'm jumping ahead a little
about from your operatives in the field and the border protection? Well, absolutely, especially
they're a border protection aircraft with sophisticated imagery systems? What better place to do it
The US Customs and Border Protection did do a release. Kind of a document dump per se. They
doing. So what was it in the documents that were released by Customs and Border Protection
and Border Protection. No findings at all. It's finding what that object was. It was a very vague
that the objects that were reported to you by Border Protection officials and indeed videoed
border protection officials describe around Sedona, a place tantalisingly described as secret
special interest in during your work as a border protection official are the Native American
UAPs reported. Now Bob, I just want to ask this investigation that you did for border protection.
I don't just respect to you, but if I was a boss in border protection and I've got
black triangle that's 100 foot wide, coming close to the border with Mexico. I would regard that
a nexus to smuggling. I don't think it's in the Border Patrol's wheelhouse. So I don't buy that.
the Border Patrol has other things to worry about right now and they're just not it would appear
worried about. The cartels smuggling people and drugs over the border. They're dangerous people.
That's what they were worried about. That's what the Border Patrol's worried about. They've got
as a covert operator inside border protection. You made the decision to go public with information
like that. But honestly, Russ, I'm so far removed from the border patrol right now. I wouldn't have
So, let's talk about the petroglyphs. I'm fascinated in your work as a border protection officer,
this data on unidentified anomalous objects. It's so important, because you're the border protection
Would this incident have been kept and recorded on file somewhere inside border protection?
Maybe with the platform that it was recorded from, not with border protection itself, because as you
hundreds of reports from Border Patrol agents. Clearly suggesting this is something that was
across the border to distract you. It appears just to be drifting erratically in a straight line.
show much. But the cool thing about this video was that for the first time from the border
border protection. I said there was a border patrol agent in the X-rock. Sit next to the sensor operator.
human eyes, the Border Patrol Agent, the Sensor Operator, they've reached the conclusion based on
operatives inside border protections sufficiently that they gave it to you.
but once that once it was looked at enough times by other border patrol agents,
their customs border protection, was there any attempt to explain it away? No, and there wasn't
thing is you know about this because this was detected by border protection. Do we know if the
talked about. Which does suggest that they became aware of it from someone in border protection.
Someone from border protection or maybe it was the pilot that reported it and it just took a
over that border? Well, if it is, it certainly distracted your border patrol operatives, hasn't it?