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NARRATOR:
An incredible eyewitness account

of unidentified flying objects.

It wasn't just, uh, one light,
it was a series of lights.

NARRATOR:
A sensational report
of an alien crash.

They had the debris out here
in the hangar area.

NARRATOR:
Ancient depictions
of extraterrestrial visitation.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
I'm arguing that what

we are looking at here is
someone visiting from the sky.

NARRATOR:
For more than a decade,

Ancient Aliens has followed
investigators across the globe

as they've gone directly
to the sites where unusual,

unexpected and unexplained
incidents have been reported.

Now we take a look back

at the most
extraordinary encounters.

Encounters that, according
to ancient astronaut theorists,

reveal overwhelming evidence

of an extraterrestrial
presence on Earth.

♪ ♪

On Ancient Aliens,
we've traveled around the world

investigating extraordinary
encounters with UFOs,

strange beings and other
unexplainable phenomena.

But make no mistake,
alien encounters

are not simply
a modern-day occurrence.

They've been happening
for thousands of years.

And when I visited
the Mediterranean island

of Sardinia, I found some
of the most compelling evidence

that I've ever seen.

NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut
theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

is meeting Oak Island
treasure hunter Marty Lagina

to explore the island's
mysterious legends

of otherworldly visitors.

Giorgio!

-Hey.
-How crazy is this place?

-Isn't this something?
-So great to meet you here

-in Sardinia.
-Great to meet...

NARRATOR:
To begin their investigation,

Giorgio and Marty travel

to the National Archaeological
Museum in Cagliari,

where some of Sardinia's
oldest and strangest artifacts

are on display.

TSOUKALOS:
It's just all weird.

He's got a helmet on,
those weird eyes.

NARRATOR: Featured in
the museum's collection

are a number
of enormous stone statues

known as the Giants
of Mont'e Prama.

They were first
discovered in 1974

when a local farmer stumbled
upon a large carved stone

protruding from the ground.

Archaeologists quickly
took over the site,

recovering more than
5,000 broken remnants.

Mainstream historians suggest
the statues were carved

by the Nuragic people,
a civilization

that is believed
to have inhabited the island

for 2,000 years,
emerging in 1800 BC

and mysteriously disappearing
around 200 AD.

But what also makes
the statues so mysterious

is the strange way
in which the faces are carved.

Not so much resembling humans,

but what some might describe
as robots.

JASON OSEQUEDA:
The giant statues found
at Mont'e Prama

were approximately seven
and a half to eight feet tall.

You have warriors
and boxers and archers.

The statues themselves
are just noted for their size,

and it's thought that they
represent the Nuragic people,

that this is actually what we
might have that looks like them.

LAGINA:
If he's a model of that,
why doesn't he have disc eyes?

Because he doesn't have disc
eyes, and he certainly could.

What I find intriguing is
that the Giants of Mont'e Prama,

although they were
discovered in the 1970s,

were not put on display until
sometime near the year 2000.

And I believe that these
statues simply do not conform

to the conventional
archaeological narrative

on the island,
and instead point to the reality

that there was something
very unusual

happening on this island.

This is very human,
except it has weird eyes...

-TSOUKALOS: And
disproportioned, uh...
-And disproportions.

ANDREW COLLINS: When you look
at these stone figurines,

they are extremely peculiar,
and they give the impression

of actually being giants.

The strange thing
about the statues

is that they have these
very strange circular eyes

that almost give them
an otherworldly feel.

NARRATOR:
After their visit to the museum,

Giorgio and Marty
meet at a nearby restaurant

with archaeological tour guide
Maria Paola Loi...

-TSOUKALOS: Paola?
-...who has offered
to share with them

some of Sardinians'
local legends.

How are you? Ciao.
Pleased to meet you.

-Welcome to Sardinia.
-Piacere. Grazie.

-Fantastic. Okay.
-So-- Yeah.

-Did you go to the museum? Oh.
-MARTY: We did.

Yeah, tell me what you think
about the finds

that are displayed there.

I mean, up until
about six months ago,

-I had no idea
about these statues here.
-No idea, huh?

So now, when I saw

these statues of the Giganti
for the first time,

not only did the eyes
remind me of, uh, C-3PO

-from Star Wars, but also...
-LAGINA: They did, right.

...there are these giant-eyed
statues in Tell Asmar,

from the ancient Sumerian
and Babylonian times.

LOI:
Originally,

the archeologists,
and also scholars,

uh, who mentioned
the Nuragic civilization

said that these people probably
arrived from Mesopotamia.

-So the Anunnakis?
-Right.

NARRATOR:
The Anunnaki?

The race of winged giants
as described

in ancient Sumerian texts,
and frequently depicted

on the temples and icons
of ancient Babylon?

COLLINS:
There are a lot of connections

between the Sardinian language,

uh, and the different languages
of Mesopotamia.

Suggesting that-that Sumerians
did actually come to Sardinia.

They would've brought with them
the traditions

to do with the Anunnaki,
the gods of heaven and Earth,

uh, which many people believe
were celestial beings.

NARRATOR:
Might the mysterious giants of
Mont'e Prama have been inspired

by encounters
with extraterrestrial visitors?

Ancient astronaut theorists
not only say yes,

but they believe that dozens
of carved stones

found scattered across Sardinia
known as menhirs

tell the story of how these
beings arrived on planet Earth.

During their trip, Giorgio
and Marty arranged to meet

with archeological guide
Ivana Malu

-at the Menhir Museum
in Laconi...
-Wow.

...to get an up close look

at some of these strange
standing stones.

IVANA MALU:
Look at the very strange circle
with the spear.

What do you think, Marty?
What is that?

I'm not sure what that is
and I'm not sure

what this is, either.

Now, you tell me, please,
what should I be seeing?

It's a guy going down.

-To go into another dimension.
-Mm.

MALU:
Do not ask me where,
or which other world.

But he's going on a trip,
on a journey,

going from point A to point B.

Whatever it really symbolizes,
it was very important.

This took an enormous
amount of work,

just this-- I mean,
it's very heavy,

it-it's done in relief, which
is the hard way to do a carving.

TSOUKALOS:
I-I think it's, uh...

What do you think
that represents?

TSOUKALOS:
We have people with two wings
on each side.

You know, it's almost like
an early version

of some type of an angel.

I'm arguing that what we
are looking at here

is someone visiting
from the sky.

You know what I find
beyond fascinating

is this shape down here,

which mainstream
archaeology suggests

is some type of a weapon,
some type of a dagger.

Which makes perfect sense.

But in conjunction
with this symbol right here,

and that, one could argue
that this is a representation

of some type
of misunderstood technology

that illustrates
some type of a flying craft.

-Fascinating.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the imagery

carved onto the menhirs
of Sardinia,

as well as the stone
giants of Mont'e Prama,

tell a story of extraterrestrial
visitation in the distant past,

as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest?

And if so, could these
mysterious figures

be the same beings
that some people believe

are visiting mankind today?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining a modern-day report
of a crashed UFO.

When it comes to extraordinary
encounters,

TSOUKALOS:
When this light appeared,
did it seem to you

we are living in the most
exciting time,

because governments all around
the world are finally admitting

that there are
unidentified aerial phenomena

that simply have
no conventional explanation.

But this hasn't
always been the case.

And when I visited the site
of a UAP report in Wales,

I was completely blown away

by what the government
tried to cover up.

NARRATOR:
Late in the evening,

this quiet rural village
in the Berwyn Mountains

is rocked
by an enormous explosion.

14-year-old Huw Lloyd is
in his home watching television

when he feels the impact,

and then receives call
after call from his neighbors,

most claiming to have seen
an incredibly bright light

falling from the sky and then
glowing on the mountainside.

Today, Huw Lloyd still works

on his father's ranch
in Llandrillo.

-Are you Huw?
-LLOYD: Yep.

NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos

and Nick Pope,
a former UFO investigator

for the British
Ministry of Defence,

met up with Huw to get his take

on what really happened
that night.

Can you tell us your experience?

Your neighbors called you
to ask you if you're okay.

So, they pretty much
had similar experiences?

So you're not the only one?

And what time
of evening was this?

So, you know,
some people have suggested

that, well, it was nothing else
but an earthquake.

-Yeah.
-Which, I don't
subscribe to this idea,

but have you had
any earthquakes around here?

But you saw that light,
and it was much, much brighter

than people lamping.

I mean, it was something
almost blinding?

Wow.

NARRATOR:
The community of Llandrillo

was shaken
by the mysterious event,

which became known as
the Berwyn Mountains incident.

That night, dozens of residents

called the region's
emergency line

to report a bright light
followed by a mysterious object

seen streaking
across the night sky.

Curiously,
approximately 30 minutes

after the reports were made,

a police officer arrived at the
home of eyewitness Huw Lloyd.

-Right, so a senior officer.
-Yeah.

-Not-not one of the local...
-Mm-mm, no.

NARRATOR:
A plane crash?

For Nick Pope, who worked
at the Ministry of Defence

and has seen the file
on this incident,

this is a surprising new detail.

The official report
only mentions a meteor,

and nothing about a plane.

The theory initially
that this was a plane crash,

and that this police
and military operation

was a search and rescue...

-Yeah.
-...or search and recovery,
that's fine.

But I mean, you know,
we know where our planes are.

There is 24/7 radar coverage,

-civilian aircraft to carry...
-Even back then.

Yeah, a-absolutely.

Planes don't just drop
out of the sky.

And-and if they do,

immediately, everyone knows
which aircraft it is.

So it seems odd.

NARRATOR:
The officer commandeered
the family's truck

and drove with Huw
to the crash site.

Nick and Giorgio were taken

on the exact same journey
that was made that night.

POPE:
How high is the mountain?

You know,
one thing that struck me

is this is a pretty
difficult drive.

So you've got to be
pretty determined

to get a whole bunch
of people up here.

TSOUKALOS:
Yes, and for what purpose?

Unless it's really
something of importance.

POPE:
Yeah, this-this is not

-to be undertaken
lightly, is it?
-No. No.

NARRATOR:
According to Huw,
the police inspector

directed him to stop
at this spot,

although the inspector
was allegedly not familiar

with the area and seemed
to have no reason for doing so.

It was at this location
that he witnessed

an incredibly bright light
in the distance.

So, down there?

-Yeah.
-Okay.

TSOUKALOS:
When this light appeared,

did it seem to you
as if it was an explosion?

POPE:
And how long was it shining for?

NARRATOR:
According to Huw, the inspector
wanted to get a closer look

at the mysterious light,

but then received a curious
command from his superiors.

So, it sounds like
it was a "stand down" call.

POPE:
Yes.

NARRATOR:
In the days
following the incident,

Royal Air Force personnel,
scientists, journalists

and UFO enthusiasts
combed the surrounding land

and interviewed locals
at length.

Curiously, the official
explanation for these events

provided by the Ministry
of Defence

did not include either
fox hunters or a plane crash,

as was told to Huw that night.

And the story they did provide

involves an incredible
coincidence.

The story is apparently
that there was an earthquake

that hit the village.

But at the same time,

there was a bright
fireball meteor

breaking up
in the Earth's atmosphere.

So, not one extraordinary event,

but two at exactly
the same time.

Over the years, the UFO
community has become convinced

that this was indeed
a UFO crash,

that the military launched
a secret operation

to secure the crash site,

to recover
the wreckage and maybe bodies,

and to take it
to a secure facility.

NARRATOR:
More than four decades since
the Berwyn Mountains incident,

the residents of Llandrillo
are still convinced

that the British government
is hiding the truth

about what really happened
that night.

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

it is part of a global effort
to keep the public in the dark

about alien activity on Earth,

and it all started
after the U.S. Army itself

reported the crash
of a flying saucer.

On Ancient Aliens,
we have covered

some pretty incredible
encounters,

including the most
famous of all,

the Roswell incident
in New Mexico.

And one of the most exciting
places I've ever visited

was the airplane hangar
where some say

the wreckage from
the Roswell crash was taken.

NARRATOR:
Washington, D.C., April 2011.

The FBI releases

thousands of files as part
of its online FBI Vault.

One particular file
draws the attention

of the media
and independent researchers.

The memo, dated March 22, 1950,

is a briefing to FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover

regarding informant information
about three "flying saucers"

that were recovered
in New Mexico.

Investigators immediately
connect the memo

to the infamous
Roswell incident,

a purported UFO crash
that many people believe

was covered up
by the military in 1947.

But this document is just
the latest in a series

of government files that have
been released in recent years,

suggesting there may be more
to the Roswell crash

than the public was told.

As an investigative reporter,
I think what I am amazed by

is how many leaked documents
from the 1940s

have actually come out
into the world,

and lay out details about
what really happened at Roswell.

On July 4th,
a rancher named Mac Brazel

finds all kinds
of strange silver debris.

He knows he doesn't understand
what he's walking through.

He decides to go into Roswell
and tell the sheriff,

"Something has crashed
on my ranch."

Intel coming out
of Roswell Army Airfield

get assigned to go
to the debris field.

And these men are told
that they are to pick up

every single thing
that is in the debris field

on the Mac Brazel ranch.

Everything is to be picked up.

NARRATOR:
On July 8, 1947,

the headline on the front page
of the Roswell Daily Record

reports that the military had
retrieved a flying saucer.

But the following day,
the official story

is suddenly changed to suggest

it was nothing more
than a failed weather balloon.

POPE:
Roswell was the home

of the 509th Bomb Crew.

This was the only
atomic bomb-capable squadron

anywhere in the world.

These people were
the best of the best.

The idea that intelligence
personnel at this base

would mistake a weather balloon
for something exotic

is preposterous.

So that, arguably, is the start
of the UFO cover-up.

The world was told,
"Nope, just a weather balloon."

And for more than 30 years,
that's where it was left,

until witnesses
started to surface,

saying, "No, it was actually
an extraterrestrial craft."

And people saw alien bodies.

NARRATOR:
In April of 2014,

ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos

traveled to the Roswell
International Air Center

in New Mexico

to meet with the city's mayor,
Del Jurney,

and to get a rare look
at the hanger

where the Roswell wreckage
and extraterrestrial bodies

were allegedly first taken.

Wow.

-So...
-This is huge.

JURNEY:
So what do you think?

TSOUKALOS:
Man, I have goose bumps
right now.

I mean,
we're walking on history.

JURNEY:
It's amazing, isn't it?

Are you, are you familiar
with where the spot is?

-Where they actually put them?
-Well, y-you know,

the information that I have

says that it's probably
right over here in the corner.

Uh, they took them over there,

did an examination
of the bodies.

TSOUKALOS:
So this is where it was.

JURNEY:
This is it. Yeah, come on in.

They had the debris
out here in the hangar area

and they bring
the bodies inside this room.

TSOUKALOS:
I-I really don't know
what to say,

'cause, I mean,
if this was it...

-You're standing where...
-Yeah, yeah.

...where extraterrestrial
beings...

-TSOUKALOS: Were.
-...might have been.

Where did the debris go?
Where did it end up?

Well, it ended up
with the government, of course.

My understanding
is that they took the bodies

to Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base,

certainly, probably
took the debris as well,

and have it well-preserved in a
military installation someplace.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible

that an alien craft
really did crash in Roswell,

and was covered up
by the U.S. government,

as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest?

Perhaps such encounters
are harder to ignore

when the witness is running for
president of the United States.

On Ancient Aliens,
we have examined

the most extraordinary
encounters on record,

and believe it or not,
there are thousands

of new UFO sightings
reported every year.

Of course,
skeptics dismiss these accounts

as misinterpretations
or outright hoaxes,

but on one episode
of Ancient Aliens,

Nick Pope investigated
a UFO sighting

made by a witness
who's as credible as it gets,

because this witness went
public with his encounter

while running for president
of the United States.

NARRATOR:
During the Democratic primary
debate at Drexel University,

moderator Tim Russert
turns and addresses

presidential candidate
Dennis Kucinich.

TIM RUSSERT:
Congressman Kucinich,
a serious question.

Shirley MacLaine
writes in her new book

that you sighted a UFO over
her home in Washington state,

that you found the encounter
extremely moving,

that it was a triangular craft.

Now, did you see a UFO?

Uh, I did, and, uh,
the rest of the account...

-(laughter)
-Oh, I-I didn't, I--

It was an unidentified
flying object, okay?

It's like, it's unidentified.
I saw something.

Now... And also,
you have to keep in mind

that more,
that Jimmy Carter saw a UFO,

and also, that more people
in this country,

uh, uh, have seen UFOs

than I think approve
of George Bush's presidency.

NARRATOR:
The debate moment
made national headlines.

While Kucinich
was not a front-runner,

many political commentators
proposed that this admission

undoubtedly had a negative
impact on his campaign.

JOHN PODESTA:
I think, for most people,

it's been the notion that
you are even discussing UFOs

tends to be viewed
as a career ender.

You know, people think
you're a little bit whacky

if you're, uh, taking
the phenomena seriously.

NARRATOR:
But just what did
Dennis Kucinich experience?

Former British Ministry
of Defence

UFO investigator Nick Pope

has arranged to meet
with Dennis Kucinich

at the location
of his 1982 UFO encounter,

the former home
of Academy Award-winning actress

Shirley MacLaine.

The home, which has since been
sold, overlooks Mount Rainier,

the site of the infamous
Kenneth Arnold

flying saucer incident

that ignited
the UFO craze in 1947.

-Hey there, welcome.
-KUCINICH: Hi.
-POPE: Hi.

NARRATOR:
The current owner agreed
to allow Nick and Dennis

to take a look around.

-HOMEOWNER: Come on in.
-Go ahead.
-Thank you.

-Wow.
-Yeah, really.

(both chuckle)

-POPE: What a fabulous view.
-KUCINICH: Oh, look,

-there's nothing like this.
-This is, of course,

the location where
you had your UFO sighting.

Can you tell me about it?

Well, uh, Nick,
I was seated at a dinner table

with myself and two friends,

and I noticed a-a light
in the distance.

Came from a hill
directly over the house.

-Come on, let me show you.
-Okay.

-Wow, fabulous.
-So I was standing out here,

the-the scope was here.

I-I brought it up here...

...so that I could
get a look at the light.

And when I looked at it,
I saw that it wasn't just,

uh, one light,
it was a series of lights,

like a grid,
one stacked on another.

I went back and I looked,
and then I saw something

that was extraordinary.

I-I said,
"The lights were separating."

They were definitely
moving in this direction.

So at that point,
came right to the edge here

and I looked out
into the hills to watch

what proved to be three crafts
moving in this direction.

Just to be clear,
first seen over there,

-to directly over the house.
-Right.

Right in the hills
in the distance,

and then in a straight line.

That straight line would
just go right overhead here.

And then above the house.

And then, and then, quickly...

-POPE: Right, and then "whoosh."
-...accelerating out of sight.

Just like that, gone.

-And that was the last
you saw of them?
-Oh, yeah.

NARRATOR:
The next day, Kucinich
described the experience

to Shirley MacLaine.

He would say nothing more
about it for 26 years.

And then, when running for the
Democratic nomination in 2008,

his private UFO sighting
would become a public event,

affecting presidential politics
in a most unexpected way.

When the question was asked,

I-I think there was mention of,
you know, feeling almost a...

an emotional connection,
that it spoke to you,

I mean, not in a literal sense,
but feelings.

I don't know that I ever
communicated that to anyone,

but I will tell you this: that
it was, it was extraordinary.

It was exciting.
How could it not be?

I mean, anybody who would
see anything like that

would have to be excited,
and was I?

Uh, yeah.

NARRATOR:
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

accounts of UFO sightings
from high-level politicians

like Dennis Kucinich
are particularly intriguing.

Not only is he seen
as a credible witness,

but he was so amazed by
what he saw that he was willing

to risk his political career
to talk about it.

Perhaps the only encounter
more compelling

would be one reported
by multiple witnesses

that involved not a UFO
but an alien entity.

On Ancient Aliens,
we have traveled the globe

investigating reports
of incredible encounters.

And there are some locations
that seem to be hot spots

for strange
and unexplained activity.

In 2020, William Henry
got the rare opportunity

to visit one of these hot spots
where, for hundreds of years,

people have reportedly seen
otherworldly beings.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorist William Henry,

along with author
and historian Dustin Naef...

-It's down this path here.
-...set out to explore

a series of underground lava
tubes, known as Pluto's Cave

several miles north
of Mount Shasta.

HENRY:
That is just spectacular.

NARRATOR: It is here
where numerous eyewitnesses

claim to have encountered
mysterious beings,

as well as seen evidence

of possible
interdimensional portals.

Pluto's Cave is one
of several natural wonders,

known as lava tubes,
that crisscross the region.

ROBERT SCHOCH: Mount Shasta
is a volcanic mountain.

So volcanic lava tubes
are formed

when you have fast-flowing lava

and it cools on the surface
of the flow,

so it actually builds a crust,

but the lava continues
to flow in the middle.

And it forms literally a tube.

HENRY:
Check it out, man.

Awesome.

Awesome.

NAEF:
So, almost all
of the mythology and legends

around the place,
it all takes place underground

in the caves and tunnels
which surround the area.

If you were able
to look underground,

you'd just see tunnels radiating
out in every direction.

There are actually
Native-authored stories

that you could travel clear into
Oregon completely underground.

HENRY:
Yeah.

Look at that, Dustin.
That's awesome.

Beautiful skylight.

NAEF:
There's a really big subculture

here in Mount Shasta that has
always believed that these caves

and tunnels
contain a civilization

full of people
just like you and I.

And they come
back and forth through portals

hidden in these caves.

I've had people actually
contact me and tell me

they've seen people
in this very cave

walk right into a wall
and vanish.

What-what were these people
like? What did they look like?

They look just like us.

That's how they're able
to travel back and forth

and mingle with humans.

Wow.

NARRATOR:
One of the most famous reports

of a being emerging
from within Mount Shasta

was made in 1930
by Guy Warren Ballard.

Ballard, a mining engineer
who worked in the area,

claimed he was surveying
the slopes of the mountain

when he encountered
a mysterious glowing figure.

Guy reported that when he was
hiking on Mount Shasta

in the early 1930s,
he encountered

some extraordinary,
mysterious teacher,

which he later identified
as the Ascended Master.

JONATHAN YOUNG:
This is a-a radiant being
dressed in white.

And they get
into a long conversation.

And this teacher, this guru,

this otherworldly
character teaches Ballard

the secrets of enlightenment.

NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,

Ballard's description
of a radiant being

is reminiscent of accounts
from ancient times

of similarly luminous figures.

In Irish legend, we learn
of the Tuatha Dé Danann,

or the Tua Dé Dann.

These are luminous
humanoid beings

who are considered
to be beings of immense wisdom

who are also called
the Shining Ones.

NARRATOR:
Similar to the Shining Ones
of the Celtic tradition,

the ancient Sumerian gods
known as the Anunnaki

were also described
as glowing figures.

Might these accounts,
including those made

about Mount Shasta, be true?

If so, can William Henry

find any evidence
to help verify them?

If you look on the USGS charts,

there's an immense
negative magnetic anomaly

that surrounds Mount Shasta.

HENRY:
That's the ley line
they describe here, right?

NAEF:
Yeah, a lot of psychic
and paranormal phenomena

actually occurs in places
that have magnetic anomalies.

And used as a, as a portal

between the inner Earth realm
and the stars?

Yeah, yeah, it...

Anything capable of generating

energy like that
could be a portal.

NARRATOR:
Might the lava tubes found

at the base of Mount Shasta
be the location

where extraterrestrial beings

can travel between planet Earth
and the stars?

And if so, does this explain
the strange sightings

of otherworldly entities
reported in the area?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and they believe
that at the site

of another incredible encounter,

undeniable evidence
of alien contact was left behind

by an extraterrestrial
technology.

Of all the unexplained phenomena
we've investigated

on Ancient Aliens,

the formation of crop circles
is simply baffling.

Crop circles have been reported
in over 50 different countries

and on every continent
except Antarctica.

And one night
in Wiltshire, England,

two people believe
they actually witnessed

a strange formation
being created by something

that was not human.

NARRATOR:
Local paralegal and crop circle
researcher Gary King

spends the night
camping out on Knap Hill,

an area known for sightings
of mysterious orbs

and other strange occurrences.

It was the 7th of July 2007,

so because it was kind of
an auspicious date, the 7-7-7,

we decided we'd come here.

I came here with my girlfriend
to do a night watch.

So we arrived here and
about 3:00 in the morning,

we had a big white
flash of light,

which completely
encompassed the sky.

And about 20 minutes after that,
we looked and we could see

this crop circle
laid out in front of us.

The field it appeared in
was this field,

here to the right,
that's yellow now.

It was actually in wheat
the year that it occurred,

but they rotate the crops.

And it started from way back
at near those trees,

and came over the brow
of this hill.

It was absolutely enormous.

NARRATOR:
The crop formation

extended 1,033 feet long

and 490 feet wide.

The over two-acre design

contained
150 individual circles,

the largest: 164 feet across.

I have no idea what made it.

I'm completely open to the fact
that it could be aliens.

What I do know, though,
is that people didn't make this.

NARRATOR:
Gary King's experience

is just one of many
firsthand accounts

of designs
that mysteriously appear

in a short period of time.

And crop circle researchers cite

that many of these
eyewitness accounts

include sightings
of strange lights

in and around the formation.

In 1991, local photographer
Steve Alexander

caught on camera an orb of light
floating above a crop formation

in Wiltshire, England.

-STEVE ALEXANDER: What is it?
-KAREN ALEXANDER: I don't know.

CHARLES MALLETT:
His camera caught sight
of what seemed to be

a white orb of light flying
right across this field

right next to a crop circle.

That orb of light,
whatever it was,

flew directly over a tractor
working in the next field down,

and later on, that farmer
was contacted and he said,

"I saw this weird orb of light

"about the size of a melon
or something

fly over my tractor."

I was so intrigued
by Gary King's story

and the bizarre events

surrounding the crop circle
phenomenon

that I had to go
see it for myself.

NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos

is meeting with crop circle
researcher Dr. Eltjo Haselhoff,

to discuss a scientific paper
Dr. Haselhoff published

in January of 2000, suggesting
that the crop circle formations

might be created by an unknown
electromagnetic energy source.

By measuring the length
of the growth nodes

found along the plant stems
within a crop circle

and comparing them
with the nodes

on the undisturbed plants
in the field,

Dr. Haselhoff
was able to predict

what he thinks could be
creating this phenomenon.

So, you've actually done
scientific analysis

on some of those formations.

So, what were some
of your conclusions?

The hypothesis is that somehow,
electromagnetic energy

is involved in the creation
of these crop circles,

and that somehow this energy
causes node elongation.

So the nodes in the stems
get longer.

And the more energy,
the longer the nodes are.

And that is very interesting,
because all you need to do

is take a cross section
across a circle, like this,

and measure the node length
in each of these positions.

And actually,
this is what you see.

This is in-- at the perimeter.

See these nodes,
these dark areas?

This is somewhere halfway,
and that's in the center.

So, you see, there is a huge
difference in node length.

TSOUKALOS: I mean, it's a huge--
I mean, this is fascinating.

This is incredible.

HASELHOFF:
It is not just a little bit.

It's a difference in size
between a horse and an elephant.

It's very, very significant.

Yeah, I mean, what, uh,
what would do this?

-That's, uh, quite weird.
-Well, in this case,
it was very interesting,

because this crop circle, uh,
actually had an eyewitness

when it was-- when it formed.

And the eyewitness says,
"I saw a ball of light,"

and it was standing still.

And that is very important,
because when a ball of light

is standing still,
we can very accurately predict

how the energy will be
distributed on the ground,

and we know there that will be
more energy in the center

and the more energy,
the longer the nodes are.

And in this case,
it was a perfect match.

Wow.

Amazing, isn't it?

Now, this is where
I get the goose bumps,

because clearly,
there is something there.

And no one denies
that many of them are man-made,

but then,
there is something bizarre.

Do you have any idea how...

or who might be behind it?

That's a very
difficult question.

What I can say about that is...

...I don't know.

So it is something that remains
a giant question mark.

Absolutely, yes.

NARRATOR:
Does Dr. Haselhoff's
scientific research

provide evidence
that not all crop formations

are the product of hoaxers?

And if so, could there be
an otherworldly origin to them

as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest?

Each and every one
of the extraordinary encounters

we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens

truly defies
conventional explanation.

And when you examine
them together,

it becomes abundantly clear

that we are not alone
in the universe.

These events can
no longer be explained away

as weather balloons or hoaxes.

So, what are we left with?

To me, there is only one answer:
extraterrestrial visitation.

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