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How did the U.S. steal a sunken nuclear submarine? Right out from under the nose of the Soviet Union... Subscribe now: http://bit.ly/DarkDocs

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The Hughes Mining Barge, or HMB-1, is a submersible barge about 99 m (324 ft) long, 32 m (106 ft) wide, and more than 27 m (90 ft) tall. The HMB-1 was originally developed as part of Project Azorian (more widely, but erroneously, known as "Project Jennifer"), the top-secret effort mounted by the Central Intelligence Agency to salvage the remains of the Soviet submarine K-129 from the ocean floor.

The HMB-1 was designed to allow the device that would be used to grasp and lift the submarine to be constructed inside the barge and out of sight, and to be installed in the Glomar Explorer in secrecy. This was done by towing the HMB-1, with the capture device inside, to a location near Catalina Island (off the coast of California), and then submerging it onto stabilizing piers that had been installed on the seafloor. The Glomar Explorer was then maneuvered over the HMB-1, the retractable roof was opened, and the capture device lifted into the massive "moon pool" of the ship, all within clear sight of people on the beach

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DarkDocs is a new narrated documentary video from Dark5 taking an in-depth look at at some of the most mysterious stories on Earth. This week: Project Azorian, the Glomar Explorer, and the mysterious CIA to recover the lost Soviet submarine, K-129.

It’s March 1968. An unexplained event causes a Soviet Golf-II submarine known as the K-129 to sink to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean while enroute to its patrol station off the coast of Hawaii.

Publicly, no one in the world knew what happened, where the submarine was, or what secrets might be hidden on board. Behind the scenes, however, reporters caught wind of a classified US government operation to pry the wreckage from the floor with a giant claw and uncover whatever secret technology might be hidden within. The mission was codenamed Project Azorian, and it was launched from a covert ship named the Glomar Explorer.

Pressed for comment on the operation, a US government spokesman flatly replied, [quote] “We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the information requested but, hypothetically, if such data were to exist, the subject matter would be classified, and could not be disclosed…"

Inside the Soviet submarine, the crew could feel the impact of explosions shaking the walls. They waited for hours, enduring the intense pressure of U.S. depth charges, desperate to receive some kind of signal or call to action. Meanwhile, the air conditioning had malfunctioned, and the men aboard were overheated, exhausted, fevered with worry and anticipation. They knew it was their responsibility was to fire their nuclear-tipped torpedo in the event of an attack on Russia, and in the intense chaos they debated how to act. Had the crisis between John F. Kennedy, the U.S. President, and Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier, finally boiled over? How close had the world come to witnessing the atomic apocalypse feared by so many over the course of the crisis?

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Pictured: the KH-9 Hexagon spy satellite. It is rumored the space shuttle specifically was built to carry it and other top-secret payloads at the behest of US intelligence and the military... At the height of the US Space Shuttle program in the 1980s and 90s, NASA was never really in full control of its missions. At least 11 top-secret shuttle flights were conducted to honor a deal that dated back to 1969 with the National Reconnaissance Office, or NRO, an organization within the Department of Defense so secretive that its name could not be published at the time. The NRO reportedly requested many classified modifications of the shuttle’s design to suit its clandestine objectives against the Soviet Union in the space race, and the military even hand-picked and trained its own team of 13 shuttle astronauts who would be embedded as payload specialists. Little is known about about their missions, even today...

A James Bond style mission to sneak in and steal a Russian science station from the middle of the Arctic ice. This is Skyhook: Operation Coldfeet. Subscribe now: http://bit.ly/DarkDocs

May 1961. A U.S. naval aircraft conducting an aeromagnetic survey over the Arctic Ocean spots a Soviet research station on the ice pack below. This was North Pole 9, one in a series of mysterious scientific colonies built by the Soviet government to further their exploration of the remote arctic. The purpose of these stations was unknown at the time, and the prospect of infiltrating one was immediately intriguing to U.S. intelligence.

The challenge would be how to access NP 9, as it was buried too far into the impenetrable Arctic ice to reach by boat or helicopter. Landing an airplane on the unstable icepack was out of the question. The CIA, however, was undeterred. It would take a year of planning and extreme training to launch one of the agency’s most daring missions of the Cold War. Skyhook: Operation Coldfeet.

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It was the stuff of spy legends. Using stolen "ghost" identities, the suspects had managed to blend into the US, start families who had no idea of secret lives, and establish the appearance of being normal, law-abiding citizens...

An unidentified fighter jet, a top-secret flight squadron, and a mysterious Russian connection... what just crashed in 2018 near Area 51? A classified black project aircraft? Or something even stranger...? Click to subscribe to Dark Docs: http://bit.ly/DarkDocs

At around 6 pm on Tuesday, September 5th, 2017, an undisclosed aircraft fell out of the evening sky and into the Nevada Desert below. The vast tract of empty land it crashed down in is known as the Nevada Test and Training Range, 5,000 square miles of dry wilderness used by the Air Force for bombing, training, and stealth exercises. The crash site was located 100 miles northwest of the Nellis Air Force Base, in the vicinity of both Groom Lake Area 51 and the Tonopah Test Range Airport, facilities notorious for housing top-secret aircraft and weapons programs.

The pilot of the downed aircraft, Lieutenant Colonel Eric Schultz, was lost in the incident, and photos and documentation of the event have been actively hidden from the public. Given the intense secrecy of many flight activities in the area, rumors have since emerged that Schultz may have been piloting a highly classified aircraft. In the absence of official details, questions loom: What kind of aircraft had Schultz been flying that day? Was it from one of the U.S.’s own black project programs? Or, even more intriguing, was there an unusual Russian connection?