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NARRATOR: A people torn apart...
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RICHARD LEWIS: Not a household
in the North or the South
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was not touched by blood in this conflict.
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NARRATOR: ... and the future of
a nation hanging in the balance.
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JOHN V. QUARSTEIN: That union,
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for it to fail, that meant
that the concepts of democracy
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would fail throughout the world.
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NARRATOR: The Civil War nearly
destroyed the Great Experiment known
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as the United States of America,
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but might there have even been
more at stake than we know?
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Could it be
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that the preservation of the Union
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was ensured by extraterrestrial beings?
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DAVID WILCOCK: It's possible
that extraterrestrials
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have been visiting America
since its foundation
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and did steer the outcome of the Civil War.
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NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world
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believe we have been visited in
the past by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And if so,
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might they have even influenced the outcome
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of the American Civil War?
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NARRATOR: Jackson County, Missouri.
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1831.
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30 years before the Confederate
cannons fired on Fort Sumter,
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marking the start of
the American Civil War,
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Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith
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brought many of his followers here,
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declaring this location to be
the site of the New Jerusalem.
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He also stirred up controversy
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with his comments on slavery
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in this long-established slave state.
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QUARSTEIN: Joseph Smith... when he
takes his Mormon colony to Missouri,
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he actually makes some
statements about slavery.
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He taught that the slavery
issue would cause discord.
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He also came out and said that the slaves
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would eventually rise
up against their masters.
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NARRATOR: Eight years earlier,
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Joseph Smith claimed that a
strange figure named Moroni
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came to him in the
night, enveloped in light
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and professing to be from
the Pleiades star cluster.
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It was also Moroni
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who directed him to the golden tablets
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that would become the Book of Mormon.
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WILCOCK: Joseph Smith also
reported that the angel Moroni
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continued to visit him
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and three others amongst his
congregation also reported similar visits.
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NARRATOR: According to Smith,
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Moroni appeared to him numerous
times over the course of his life...
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and in 1832,
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he came, bearing an ominous prophecy.
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On December 25,
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Smith passed this prophecy on to his flock,
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stating: "Wars will shortly come to pass,
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beginning at the rebellion
of South Carolina,
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which will eventually terminate in
the death and misery of many souls.
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For behold,
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the Southern States shall be
divided against the Northern States."
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LEWIS: There are some people
that say this is a prophecy,
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this is a vision by Smith.
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Whatever way it was, it really did
portend what came about in the 1860s.
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WILCOCK: What we're seeing
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is a human-looking being
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with brilliant light coming off of it,
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who conveyed an intelligent
message to Joseph Smith.
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There are some speculations
that Joseph Smith was in fact
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visited by an advanced
extraterrestrial being.
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NARRATOR: Did Joseph Smith
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really receive a prophecy
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that predicted the coming of the Civil War?
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And if so, how did an otherworldly entity
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know that the war would begin in South
Carolina nearly 30 years in advance?
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WILCOCK: Is it possible
that the angel Moroni, this
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perhaps extraterrestrial being,
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was very concerned about
the Civil War, and that's why
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it gave Joseph Smith
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an advanced prophetic
glimpse into what was coming?
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Was this another one of
the efforts to intervene
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and to try to steer our history
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towards the most favorable outcome,
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perhaps not just for us
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but also for the
extraterrestrials themselves?
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NARRATOR: But Joseph Smith
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is not the only person who is said
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to have been visited
by an otherworldly being
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foretelling of a future Civil War.
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Stories have emerged that
during the American Revolution,
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in 1777,
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George Washington had a similar
encounter at Valley Forge.
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WILLIAM HENRY: The story is, is that,
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while at Valley Forge, General Washington
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had given his men orders
not to disturb him.
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And suddenly, there's a...
a being standing there.
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And this being is described
as being extremely luminous.
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And next thing we know,
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is this being starts
giving Washington a prophecy
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about the future of America.
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NARRATOR: According to the story,
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this luminous being
not only gave Washington
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a vision of the future United States,
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but also warned that the Union
would be tested by Civil War.
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Is it possible that both George Washington
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and Joseph Smith were visited
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by extraterrestrial beings
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who somehow knew that the
Civil War would take place?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
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and suggest even stronger
evidence can be found
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with strange encounters that were reported
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not by lone individuals,
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but by entire communities.
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While UFO sightings were
extremely rare before the 1900s,
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a number were reported
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during the final years
leading up to the war.
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NICK REDFERN: One of the
best early UFO encounters
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is Wilmington, Delaware, from 1860,
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where witnesses reported seeing
this vast 200-foot-long object,
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flying through the sky.
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And it had, like, a
trail of globes or balls
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of light bind it.
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One of them was actually
ejected from the object.
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Now, this was almost like a rocket.
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Certainly nobody should have
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NARRATOR: An even more
striking UFO encounter
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was reported in Shreveport, Louisiana,
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that same year.
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PITTMAN: A group of people
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saw an enormous craft, 300 yards long,
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hovering just above the tallest trees.
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This thing was described as having
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a color like a glowing red stove.
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And out of the center
of this massive object
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there were rays, like rays of the sun,
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that reached toward the sky.
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Incredibly, this thing
was seen for an hour,
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without changing at all.
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People got a very good look at this thing,
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and nobody could even hazard
a guess as to what it was.
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NARRATOR: Less than a month
before the start of the war,
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another major sighting was
reported in New York City.
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PITTMAN: New York at that
time was very different.
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It was a cramped, urban setting,
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before the age of tall buildings.
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In that setting, a witness,
Mrs. T. Richard Kinder,
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looked out of an upper window,
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in her house on Baxter Street,
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and she saw an object in the sky.
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She described it as luminous,
glowing, shaped like a cross,
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flying in the air. Startled,
she awoke her husband.
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He saw the glowing cross, too.
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WILCOCK: This ongoing presence
strongly suggests that extraterrestrials
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were not just taking a backseat
approach to what was happening on Earth,
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but they were actively involved
and they were monitoring us.
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NARRATOR: How is it
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that in an era when UFO
sightings were rarely reported,
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three mass UFO encounters occurred
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within a year of the
start of the Civil War?
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Is it possible that extraterrestrials
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really did monitor the United
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
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and claim that even stranger than
the encounters leading up to the war
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are those that were reported
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NARRATOR: Charleston
Harbor, South Carolina.
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April 12, 1861.
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At 4:30 in the morning,
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Confederate cannons fire on Fort Sumter.
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Three days later, President
Abraham Lincoln declares
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that an insurrection exists
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and calls for 75,000 volunteers
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to put down the rebellion.
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The American Civil War has begun.
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LEWIS: People on both sides assumed
that there would be one great battle
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that would decide
everything... winner take all...
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one great battle fought
somewhere probably between
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Richmond and Washington.
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QUARSTEIN: People actually
came out from Washington with
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picnic baskets and champagne
to watch the battle.
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But this war
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would be a horrible war,
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a war that no participant
would ever forget.
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It cost more American lives
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than all other wars combined.
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750,000 people, it is now believed,
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perished during the war.
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The Civil War was felt
everywhere in America,
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because it is that war that defines
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what type of nation we're going to be.
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NARRATOR: It was not just the future
of the United States that was at stake.
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This was a war
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over different philosophies of government,
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with the fate of a people
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caught in the crossfire.
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And according to ancient
astronaut theorists,
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there may have been even
more at stake than we know.
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New York City.
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April 19, 1861.
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Responding to President
Lincoln's call to action,
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the 7th New York Militia
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travels by steamboat
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While en route, they witness
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a very strange occurrence in the sky.
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PITTMAN: While these men
and sailors were on board,
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they saw what was described as the moon
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suddenly soaring clear into the sky,
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and around it... clearly defined...
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three circles of light.
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Now, of course, we know that
it's not possible for the moon
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to change position in the sky that way.
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And looking at this
sighting, as it was reported,
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this would have to be classified as a UFO.
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If UFO sightings represent
encounters with alien spaceships,
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then it seems certain that UFOS were
watching over America during the Civil War.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that the
men of the 7th New York Militia
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really did have an encounter
with some type of alien craft,
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just days after the start of the Civil War?
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And if so, is it a sign
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that extraterrestrials had an interest
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in this turning point in our history?
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REDFERN: There's an
intriguing pattern that we see
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within UFO reports.
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And that's an increase in
sightings when wars break out.
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The First World War, Second World
War, Vietnam, the Korean War...
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they all had their UFO incidents.
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And another example is
the American Civil War.
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PITTMAN: It could be that
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aliens might simply be interested
in observing historical events.
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It's also possible that
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extraterrestrials might be trying
to influence the course of events
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or simply to warn people in some way.
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NARRATOR: While there were numerous UFO
sightings reported during the Civil War,
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even more common are stories of soldiers
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encountering strange
beings on the battlefield.
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NARRATOR: Also reported, were
bizarre dreams and premonitions,
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some of which proved to be prophetic.
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One of the most notable was
published in a Kansas newspaper
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on March 27, 1862.
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According to the account,
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General George B. McClellan,
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chief of the Union Armies,
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was visited in his sleep
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by the ghostly figure of George Washington,
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who warned him that Confederate forces
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were closing in on the capital.
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The vision reportedly caused McClellan
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to change his plans
and fend off the attack.
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QUARSTEIN: There are many soldiers
and politicians during the Civil War
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that have premonitions,
premonitions of death.
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Nathaniel Lyon at the
Battle of Wilson's Creek
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actually said, "Today I will die."
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And he is going to be shot in the chest,
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during the battle shot in
trying to rally his men.
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NARRATOR: But what can explain
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all of these bizarre incidents?
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Ancient astronauts theorists suggest
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that the strange dreams and UFO sightings
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are evidence that
extraterrestrials were, in fact,
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present in America during the Civil War.
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It would seem that throughout the
history of this planet, certain
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civilizations and nations
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have been watched very carefully
by the extraterrestrials and...
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and nurtured by them.
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And in ancient times, this could
well have been the Egyptians
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and the Chinese and the Sumerians.
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And really, in our own era
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it's the United States of America
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that is... is the country
that these extraterrestrials
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are the most interested in.
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NARRATOR: Could it be that extraterrestrials
took an interest in the success
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of the United States of America?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say the answer may lie
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with the man who was tasked
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with preserving the Union: Abraham Lincoln.
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NARRATOR: Springfield, Illinois.
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November 7, 1860.
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The morning after hearing
the triumphant news
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that he has been elected
president of the United States,
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Abraham Lincoln wakes up from a deep sleep
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and gazes into a full-length
mirror in his bedroom
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and has a startling vision.
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CHRISTOPHER COLEMAN: He saw two
images of himself in the mirror.
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One face was healthy and well.
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The other was a pale, ghostly image of it.
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He got up,
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looked at the mirror, checked it,
to see if there was something wrong,
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then he laid down again thinking,
"Well, it's just my imagination."
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NARRATOR: Thinking his mind
was playing tricks on him,
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Lincoln checked the mirror a second time.
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Each time, his two faces confronted him,
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one five times paler than the other.
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Lincoln told his wife
Mary about the vision.
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COLEMAN: Lincoln relied
on Mary quite a bit.
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When he told her about the vision,
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she became deathly afraid, because
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she interpreted it to mean
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that he would have two terms as president.
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One he would be healthy and well,
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and the second term,
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he would die in office.
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NARRATOR: If the ghostly reflection
in the mirror was not a hallucination,
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then what was it?
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HENRY: It's not too big
of a stretch to think that
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perhaps President Lincoln
was somehow influenced
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by otherworldly beings
during the course of the war.
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It was that important.
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It took on immense cosmic significance.
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NARRATOR: Was Abraham Lincoln
actually able to receive messages
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from an extraterrestrial realm
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that helped him anticipate the future?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
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and point out that the president himself
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believed he was the
instrument of a higher power.
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LEWIS: Abraham Lincoln is such
a mystery still to us even though
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dozens and dozens and dozens of
books have been written about him.
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But Lincoln himself was
something of a mystic.
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I think he had a belief
in the supernatural.
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At least three different
times during the war,
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he told friends that he had had a dream
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about being on a boat
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with no rudder, with no sail,
with no tiller. It's adrift.
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He is powerless to steer it,
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and it's heading toward a shore.
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COLEMAN: Every time he had that dream,
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something important happened
during the war, mainly the battles.
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Antietam, Stones River,
Shiloh, Gettysburg...
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NARRATOR: Is it really
possible that Abraham Lincoln
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was given premonitions about the
war by extraterrestrial beings?
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Could he have been chosen
because he represented
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the best hope for preserving the
Union and ensuring the continuation
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of the Great American Experiment?
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QUARSTEIN: Abraham Lincoln
saw the United States
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as this great experiment in democracy.
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That for it to fail,
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that meant that the concepts of
democracy would fail throughout the world.
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NARRATOR: In addition
to his own premonitions,
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some say that Lincoln may
also have been influenced
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by the visions of a Spiritualist
named Nettie Colburn.
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In December of 1862,
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during the darkest days of the Civil War,
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Nettie became a spiritual
advisor for Mary Todd Lincoln,
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who was a devout believer in mysticism.
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COLEMAN: She claimed to have attended
s�ances with Lincoln multiple times
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and, while in a trance, claimed
to have advised him on the war.
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Now, proving that is sometimes difficult,
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but in my research, I did
find, on several points,
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Nettie's story does check out.
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NARRATOR: According to
Nettie's autobiography,
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otherworldly beings used her
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to communicate with President
Lincoln during s�ances
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and even advised him to issue
the Emancipation Proclamation.
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And another mystic, J.B. Conklin,
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claimed these voices actually
dictated to the president
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a first draft of the historic document.
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DIANE POWELL: Things
that not only Nettie did,
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but other people in the
Spiritualist movement did,
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was they were giving him messages
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about how important the
Emancipation Proclamation was,
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and it was something that Lincoln
took as divine sort of guidance.
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And so it appears to have played
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a role in his decision making.
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HENRY: It's quite possible
that, at one of these events,
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he received messages
from otherworldly beings,
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possibly even extraterrestrial beings,
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in order to preserve the Union
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as part of this immense
master plan for humanity.
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WILCOCK: What that leads us to is
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the possibility that some
of the same extraterrestrials
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that were being seen in
numerous UFO sightings
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before and during the Civil War
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were able to form a
direct contact to Lincoln,
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through Nettie Colburn Maynard,
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to give him the messages that he needed
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to be able to steer the
outcome of the Civil War.
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NARRATOR: Was Abraham Lincoln
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literally destined for greatness?
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Might aliens have been guiding him
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through his dreams and
visions during the Civil War?
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If so,
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what was their purpose?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
with an incredible encounter...
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MAN: Fire!
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NARRATOR: ... at Gettysburg.
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NARRATOR: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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July 2, 1863.
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Two years and three
months into the Civil War,
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337,000 men lie dead,
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over 13 times as many casualties
as the United States suffered
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during the Revolutionary War.
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But after so much bloodshed,
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neither side has a clear advantage.
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The majority of the fighting
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has taken place in the Southern states,
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but Confederate General Robert E. Lee,
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who is gaining a reputation
as being invincible,
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decides to make an aggressive move
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and advance into Union territory.
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LEWIS: Robert E. Lee decides
that he will take the war north,
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for a couple of reasons. Number one,
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it's gonna relieve pressure on the farmers
in Virginia, who are trying to grow crops,
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feed themselves, feed the army.
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And second, politically,
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uh, he knows that there is a lot of
pressure on Abraham Lincoln to win this war.
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Northern voters, Northern politicians
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are angry that this war
is carrying on so far.
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NARRATOR: If Lee won here,
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the door to Washington,
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and ultimately victory, was open.
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While the Confederates
were massing for attack,
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reinforcements from the 20th
Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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were called in, commanded by
Colonel Joshua Chamberlain.
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QUARSTEIN: Chamberlain rushes his
troops towards the Little Round Top.
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He comes to a crossroads,
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and he said there was an eerie figure,
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in a tri-corner hat pointing
the way to the Little Round Top,
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the right road to take.
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And he said it looked
like George Washington.
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NARRATOR: George Washington?
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Could this ghostly vision
have been merely an illusion?
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Although the story sounds incredible,
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Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
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appointed a member of his staff
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to speak with a number of the
men who experienced this vision,
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and it is said that he
gathered unwavering testimony
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claiming that the encounter was real.
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In the end, the 20th Maine
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would repel the Confederate
attack on Little Round Top
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and save the day for the Union Army.
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CHILDRESS: So you have to ask yourself:
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did extraterrestrials in some way
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influence this battle...
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by disguising themselves as
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a familiar figure like George Washington,
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and then guiding the
troops to a certain position
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where they knew this would
turn the tide of the battle?
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It would seem that
something like this happened.
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NARRATOR: Is the story of George Washington
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appearing to soldiers at Gettysburg
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the ultimate proof that alien
beings really did intervene
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to influence the outcome of the Civil War?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
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and suggest that the
United States of America
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has had a connection with extraterrestrials
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since its very beginning.
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CHILDRESS: We do have clues that
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Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin
Franklin and George Washington
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all believed in extraterrestrial life.
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Thomas Jefferson gave a famous lecture
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about the unusual UFO sighting by
a person named William Dumbarton,
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in Baton Rouge, in 1800.
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Benjamin Franklin wrote, in his
Poor Richard's Almanac,
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about life on other worlds and,
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apparently, was a believer in that.
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And George Washington had
a very famous angelic vision
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at Valley Forge,
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and so it would seem
that George Washington,
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Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin
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were very much believers in
extraterrestrials and life on other planets.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that extraterrestrials
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have been guiding the course of
America since its very beginning,
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and intervened in the Civil War to ensure
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that the Great Experiment would continue?
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
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further evidence that an otherworldly force
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was present at this point
in history, can be found
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by examining a recurring
dream that Abraham Lincoln had
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of his own death.
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LEWIS: He sees a body on the catafalque
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wrapped in mourning clothing.
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The body's being guarded by Union soldiers.
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He asks one of the soldiers,
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"Who is dead in the White House?"
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And one of the solder says,
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"It's the president.
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He's been killed by an assassin."
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He believed that he was uniquely
suited to become president,
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to carry the country through
the great crisis of disunion.
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And he, part and parcel with
that belief in his destiny
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to become president, was his
belief that he would be slain.
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PITTMAN: Abraham Lincoln
is said to have had,
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uh, prophetic dreams, visions.
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If aliens are coming here to visit Earth,
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certainly it seems reasonable to wonder
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if they might have tried to
influence the course of events
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through Abraham Lincoln,
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uh, possibly through
his dreams and visions.
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NARRATOR: Could it be
that extraterrestrials
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were the source of this recurring dream,
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and that they were testing Abraham Lincoln
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to see if he would fulfill his destiny,
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even knowing that it would
lead to an early grave?
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
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that further clues can be found
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by examining the life of one of the war's
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most extraordinary soldiers:
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Ambrose Bierce.
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NARRATOR: Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia.
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June 23, 1864.
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While leading a skirmish
line on Confederate troops,
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Union Army lieutenant Ambrose Bierce
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is shot in the left temple by a sniper.
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00:29:35,467 --> 00:29:36,752
Miraculously,
504
00:29:36,836 --> 00:29:39,413
the bullet travels around
the side of his skull
505
00:29:39,572 --> 00:29:42,038
and ends up behind his left ear,
506
00:29:42,294 --> 00:29:45,006
leaving Bierce injured but alive.
507
00:29:49,151 --> 00:29:51,010
After being shot in the head,
508
00:29:51,225 --> 00:29:56,444
Bierce went on to become one of the most
prominent authors of the post-Civil War era,
509
00:29:56,647 --> 00:29:59,448
and was a pioneer of science fiction...
510
00:29:59,642 --> 00:30:02,794
influencing such writers as Ray Bradbury,
511
00:30:02,914 --> 00:30:04,128
Roald Dahl,
512
00:30:04,428 --> 00:30:05,939
and Kurt Vonnegut.
513
00:30:06,687 --> 00:30:08,819
But could his genius as a writer
514
00:30:08,854 --> 00:30:12,870
have been, in some way, connected
to the injury to his head?
515
00:30:14,284 --> 00:30:15,865
KIRSTEN FISHER: In the
case of brain injuries,
516
00:30:15,878 --> 00:30:19,070
when you suddenly, uh,
display a new ability,
517
00:30:19,084 --> 00:30:21,639
I'm not so sure that it's
something that was there all along
518
00:30:21,652 --> 00:30:23,409
and you're uncovering...
519
00:30:25,008 --> 00:30:28,888
more so that it's a new ability;
re-circuitry, if you will.
520
00:30:30,447 --> 00:30:33,525
WILCOCK: We're all
disconnected from our core,
521
00:30:33,645 --> 00:30:37,476
unaware of the greater
realm of pure potential,
522
00:30:37,502 --> 00:30:41,559
and Ambrose Bierce may
have gotten the right nudge
523
00:30:41,679 --> 00:30:46,087
to give him an interesting
window into that realm,
524
00:30:46,207 --> 00:30:50,685
allowing him to get closer to it
than most of us normally ever do.
525
00:30:55,922 --> 00:30:59,348
NARRATOR: Ambrose Bierce is
best known for short stories
526
00:30:59,370 --> 00:31:01,661
that involve paranormal incidents,
527
00:31:01,890 --> 00:31:03,934
strange disappearances,
528
00:31:04,308 --> 00:31:06,642
and incongruencies of time.
529
00:31:08,523 --> 00:31:10,029
One of the most famous
530
00:31:10,091 --> 00:31:12,491
is "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge,"
531
00:31:12,526 --> 00:31:14,543
in which a Confederate sympathizer
532
00:31:14,579 --> 00:31:16,667
is being hanged for treason.
533
00:31:22,335 --> 00:31:24,067
At the moment of the man's hanging,
534
00:31:24,186 --> 00:31:27,714
the rope breaks and he
falls into the water below.
535
00:31:31,955 --> 00:31:33,827
Escaping to dry land,
536
00:31:33,889 --> 00:31:39,534
the hero travels through a seemingly
unending forest to his home 30 miles away.
537
00:31:40,454 --> 00:31:43,357
But once he arrives and
runs towards his wife,
538
00:31:43,529 --> 00:31:46,123
he feels a searing pain in his neck.
539
00:31:46,748 --> 00:31:49,924
LOGAN HAWKES: Suddenly he
was back on the bridge again
540
00:31:50,167 --> 00:31:52,855
with a noose around his neck, and then
541
00:31:53,070 --> 00:31:54,158
he fell,
542
00:31:54,361 --> 00:31:56,845
he was executed, he hung by the neck.
543
00:31:57,215 --> 00:31:58,822
OFFICER: About face!
544
00:31:59,416 --> 00:32:01,350
HAWKES: And Bierce was trying to tell us
545
00:32:01,470 --> 00:32:04,569
that alternate realities exist...
546
00:32:04,961 --> 00:32:06,634
alternate worlds...
547
00:32:06,841 --> 00:32:10,718
and we see this pattern all throughout
his writings, where he believed that
548
00:32:10,775 --> 00:32:13,691
inter-dimensional travel was a possibility.
549
00:32:16,276 --> 00:32:18,390
NARRATOR: Another short
story that Bierce wrote
550
00:32:18,412 --> 00:32:21,781
for The San Francisco
Examiner, in 1888,
551
00:32:21,953 --> 00:32:24,785
titled "The Difficulty
of Crossing a Field,"
552
00:32:24,979 --> 00:32:27,819
is reportedly based on an actual event
553
00:32:27,939 --> 00:32:32,572
that occurred in Selma,
Alabama, in July of 1854.
554
00:32:33,694 --> 00:32:36,002
HAWKES: It was about a
plantation owner, a farmer
555
00:32:36,311 --> 00:32:38,354
who, in the broad daylight,
sitting on his porch,
556
00:32:38,376 --> 00:32:39,843
talking to his neighbors,
557
00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:42,098
walked across the road into the field
558
00:32:42,111 --> 00:32:43,481
and suddenly disappeared
559
00:32:43,653 --> 00:32:45,542
with a number of witnesses watching.
560
00:32:46,141 --> 00:32:47,705
So as they walked over
561
00:32:47,739 --> 00:32:51,250
to the point where he disappeared,
they could still hear his voice faintly,
562
00:32:51,558 --> 00:32:53,378
but they couldn't see him.
563
00:32:53,498 --> 00:32:54,879
He never returned.
564
00:32:59,575 --> 00:33:02,099
NARRATOR: Ambrose Bierce
interviewed the locals
565
00:33:02,103 --> 00:33:04,222
who searched for the lost farmer,
566
00:33:04,623 --> 00:33:08,415
as well as scientists with
theories on the disappearance.
567
00:33:08,961 --> 00:33:12,908
One claimed the farmer had
entered another dimension.
568
00:33:17,598 --> 00:33:19,030
WILCOCK: Is it possible
569
00:33:19,347 --> 00:33:23,791
that Ambrose Bierce was, in fact,
contacted by extraterrestrials?
570
00:33:23,857 --> 00:33:26,680
This is why luminous beings
appear in his fiction,
571
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,662
and this is why vanishings
appear in his fiction.
572
00:33:31,049 --> 00:33:34,351
NARRATOR: Could it be that the
head injury Ambrose Bierce suffered
573
00:33:34,419 --> 00:33:38,850
allowed him to receive information
from an otherworldly source?
574
00:33:39,832 --> 00:33:42,651
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
575
00:33:42,721 --> 00:33:47,122
and suggest the strongest evidence
may not be found in his stories
576
00:33:47,144 --> 00:33:49,143
of strange disappearances
577
00:33:49,263 --> 00:33:51,794
but with how he disappeared himself.
578
00:33:56,127 --> 00:33:58,562
In December of 1913,
579
00:33:58,774 --> 00:34:02,442
Bierce left the country and
headed to Chihuahua, Mexico.
580
00:34:02,614 --> 00:34:05,768
He was never seen or heard from again.
581
00:34:08,027 --> 00:34:10,142
HAWKES: It's quite
interesting to note that he met
582
00:34:10,305 --> 00:34:13,824
with another famous adventurer,
traveler, an Englishman named
583
00:34:13,890 --> 00:34:16,295
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges.
584
00:34:16,621 --> 00:34:20,347
Mitchell-Hedges was the man who claimed
to discover the first crystal skull,
585
00:34:20,536 --> 00:34:23,544
and that's significant because
they both were interested in
586
00:34:23,570 --> 00:34:27,252
crystals and inter-dimensional subjects.
587
00:34:28,925 --> 00:34:31,660
The last letter, that we know
of, he ever sent to anyone,
588
00:34:31,690 --> 00:34:33,496
was to his secretary that said,
589
00:34:33,616 --> 00:34:36,038
"I go tomorrow to a destination
590
00:34:36,412 --> 00:34:38,024
of which I may not return."
591
00:34:39,645 --> 00:34:43,229
And the theory is he may have gone with
Mitchell-Hedges to the Crystal Cave...
592
00:34:43,652 --> 00:34:47,634
the Crystal Cave being a place that
Mitchell-Hedges believed you could
593
00:34:47,656 --> 00:34:50,127
contact beings from another dimension.
594
00:34:51,801 --> 00:34:54,372
WILCOCK: It's possible
that extraterrestrials said,
595
00:34:54,381 --> 00:34:58,882
"You helped steer the outcome towards
a more favorable determination.
596
00:34:58,886 --> 00:35:01,291
In the future, people will
be more comfortable with us.
597
00:35:01,304 --> 00:35:04,334
You've set the stage by writing
all these sci-fi stories.
598
00:35:05,866 --> 00:35:06,990
Come live with us.
599
00:35:07,110 --> 00:35:09,566
Come to this place and
we'll meet you there."
600
00:35:14,636 --> 00:35:17,309
NARRATOR: Might the
stories of Ambrose Bierce
601
00:35:17,344 --> 00:35:19,318
and his strange disappearance
602
00:35:19,401 --> 00:35:23,070
all point to a connection
with extraterrestrials?
603
00:35:23,263 --> 00:35:24,471
And if so,
604
00:35:24,591 --> 00:35:26,373
were these alien beings
605
00:35:26,373 --> 00:35:28,682
simply observing the Civil War
606
00:35:28,756 --> 00:35:31,359
or might they have even intervened?
607
00:35:31,835 --> 00:35:35,931
Ancient astronaut theorists
say the answer might be found
608
00:35:35,977 --> 00:35:37,982
in Washington, DC,
609
00:35:38,102 --> 00:35:39,889
standing high atop
610
00:35:40,263 --> 00:35:41,725
the Capitol Dome.
611
00:35:47,124 --> 00:35:48,749
Washington, DC.
612
00:35:49,159 --> 00:35:52,335
December 2, 1863.
613
00:35:53,246 --> 00:35:57,853
It has been exactly five months
since the Battle of Gettysburg,
614
00:35:58,258 --> 00:36:00,447
and the tides of the Civil War
615
00:36:00,483 --> 00:36:03,257
are beginning to turn in the Union's favor.
616
00:36:05,754 --> 00:36:07,234
At the start of the war,
617
00:36:07,454 --> 00:36:09,330
construction of the giant dome
618
00:36:09,383 --> 00:36:12,871
that would sit atop the Capitol
Building had been halted,
619
00:36:13,708 --> 00:36:15,046
but President Lincoln
620
00:36:15,121 --> 00:36:18,483
convinced Congress to provide
the funding to finish it,
621
00:36:18,562 --> 00:36:23,311
saying the dome would act as a
sign that the Union would go on.
622
00:36:29,252 --> 00:36:30,714
Upon its completion,
623
00:36:30,744 --> 00:36:33,292
a statue was placed on top of it,
624
00:36:33,631 --> 00:36:36,481
with the final section raised to a salute
625
00:36:36,498 --> 00:36:38,184
of 35 guns
626
00:36:39,259 --> 00:36:43,526
answered by the guns of the
12 forts around Washington.
627
00:36:47,517 --> 00:36:51,291
Weighing nearly 15,000 pounds and standing
628
00:36:51,349 --> 00:36:53,560
19 and a half feet tall,
629
00:36:53,632 --> 00:36:56,027
this bronze statue features a woman
630
00:36:56,093 --> 00:36:58,643
with a Native American-style
fringed blanket
631
00:36:58,661 --> 00:37:00,484
thrown over her left shoulder,
632
00:37:01,325 --> 00:37:04,294
and an elaborate headdress
made of eagle feathers
633
00:37:04,325 --> 00:37:06,078
and ringed with stars.
634
00:37:07,738 --> 00:37:10,438
It is called the Statue of Freedom,
635
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:13,208
and according to ancient
astronaut theorists,
636
00:37:13,243 --> 00:37:16,819
it may represent an extraterrestrial being.
637
00:37:18,811 --> 00:37:22,448
HENRY: The symbolism they chose
is completely and totally cosmic...
638
00:37:22,801 --> 00:37:25,426
a goddess cloaked in stars,
639
00:37:25,448 --> 00:37:29,451
suggesting she's a
celestial or a star being.
640
00:37:30,274 --> 00:37:33,463
CHILDRESS: And when you look at it, and
even have the natives explain it to you,
641
00:37:33,529 --> 00:37:34,736
they say things like:
642
00:37:34,745 --> 00:37:37,682
"Oh, yes, these are the star
people coming from the sky."
643
00:37:41,579 --> 00:37:43,029
NARRATOR: Is it really possible
644
00:37:43,059 --> 00:37:45,703
that there is a depiction
of an extraterrestrial
645
00:37:45,734 --> 00:37:48,130
standing atop the Capitol Dome?
646
00:37:49,961 --> 00:37:52,749
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
647
00:37:52,869 --> 00:37:56,480
and suggest the evidence
can be found by looking back
648
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,215
to the Founding Fathers.
649
00:38:03,113 --> 00:38:06,394
In the 1730s to the 1760s,
650
00:38:06,698 --> 00:38:09,612
Benjamin Franklin published
a series of pamphlets
651
00:38:09,636 --> 00:38:11,905
he called The Indian Treaties.
652
00:38:12,088 --> 00:38:14,350
One of the best-selling of these pamphlets
653
00:38:14,395 --> 00:38:18,127
chronicled the Iroquois
creation story of the Sky Woman.
654
00:38:19,611 --> 00:38:21,933
PITTMAN: Native Americans
believed that the Sky Woman
655
00:38:22,056 --> 00:38:25,168
came to Earth when there... there
was nothing here but water and animals
656
00:38:25,224 --> 00:38:28,131
and that she was the mother
of the very first human beings.
657
00:38:29,277 --> 00:38:32,075
Native Americans had beliefs in
658
00:38:32,304 --> 00:38:34,242
people who lived in space.
659
00:38:34,964 --> 00:38:38,424
Many of the Founding Fathers
believed in the plurality of worlds.
660
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,229
And these ideas, these stories
661
00:38:41,307 --> 00:38:44,587
would have matched up very
well with their concepts about
662
00:38:44,622 --> 00:38:47,990
plurality of worlds and
extraterrestrials from space.
663
00:38:52,076 --> 00:38:53,314
CHILDRESS: You have to wonder
664
00:38:53,614 --> 00:38:58,943
if there wasn't some kind of
extraterrestrial influence here.
665
00:38:59,608 --> 00:39:04,230
And did they have some
connection to these star people?
666
00:39:04,350 --> 00:39:06,957
Was this basically a message for aliens?
667
00:39:10,578 --> 00:39:13,527
NARRATOR: Did Abraham
Lincoln and the Union leaders
668
00:39:13,548 --> 00:39:15,388
erect the Statue of Freedom
669
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,432
as a tribute to star
beings that they believed
670
00:39:18,463 --> 00:39:21,053
might be watching over the country?
671
00:39:23,787 --> 00:39:27,148
Were they reinstating a
symbol of our cosmic heritage
672
00:39:27,321 --> 00:39:30,119
during the time of our greatest crisis?
673
00:39:31,042 --> 00:39:37,158
And if extraterrestrials really did have a
vested interest in the outcome of the Civil War,
674
00:39:37,334 --> 00:39:41,679
are they still watching over the
Great American Experiment today?
675
00:39:43,060 --> 00:39:45,738
CHILDRESS: It really seems
that extraterrestrials have been
676
00:39:45,763 --> 00:39:48,128
monitoring the United States
677
00:39:48,248 --> 00:39:50,009
since its very inception.
678
00:39:52,109 --> 00:39:53,800
We've seen this, really,
679
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:55,720
from the American Civil War
680
00:39:55,959 --> 00:39:59,409
and right at the very beginning
of the American Revolution.
681
00:39:59,617 --> 00:40:02,333
And I think that this
is still going on today.
682
00:40:03,654 --> 00:40:07,766
The nurturing of the United
States as an inclusive,
683
00:40:08,055 --> 00:40:12,642
spiritual, and technically advanced country
684
00:40:12,833 --> 00:40:15,201
is very important to the extraterrestrials
685
00:40:15,363 --> 00:40:18,245
and ultimately for the entire planet Earth.
686
00:40:21,628 --> 00:40:23,929
WILCOCK: It's possible
that extraterrestrials
687
00:40:23,979 --> 00:40:27,516
have been visiting America
since its foundation
688
00:40:27,555 --> 00:40:31,448
and have been, in fact, steering
the outcome this whole time.
689
00:40:31,613 --> 00:40:33,748
And why might they want to do that?
690
00:40:34,044 --> 00:40:37,906
You would want to see society moving
in a direction of greater freedom,
691
00:40:37,994 --> 00:40:40,343
greater openness, greater acceptance,
692
00:40:40,421 --> 00:40:43,186
so that, in time, it allows them
693
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,924
to have a much more warm welcome
694
00:40:45,973 --> 00:40:47,182
than they otherwise would have.
695
00:40:48,519 --> 00:40:49,978
There is every reason to believe
696
00:40:49,995 --> 00:40:52,546
that extraterrestrials
are still watching over us
697
00:40:52,624 --> 00:40:54,766
and are having a key impact
698
00:40:54,886 --> 00:40:57,863
in the events that unfold on Earth today.
699
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,948
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that extraterrestrials
700
00:41:04,983 --> 00:41:08,637
really were present here on
Earth during the Civil War?
701
00:41:10,977 --> 00:41:11,981
If so,
702
00:41:12,167 --> 00:41:14,426
were they simply passive observers,
703
00:41:14,466 --> 00:41:19,109
waiting to see if our fragile
democracy could survive this test?
704
00:41:22,232 --> 00:41:24,352
Or did they take an active role
705
00:41:24,409 --> 00:41:26,700
in order to preserve the Union?
706
00:41:28,507 --> 00:41:30,709
Perhaps the Great American Experiment
707
00:41:30,793 --> 00:41:33,560
is part of a larger cosmic agenda,
708
00:41:33,929 --> 00:41:36,988
and once we fully realize
the ideals put forth
709
00:41:37,162 --> 00:41:40,607
by men like George Washington
and Abraham Lincoln,
710
00:41:40,727 --> 00:41:45,776
we will finally come face-to-face
with our alien ancestors.
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