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Cowboys with six-shooters...

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covered wagons crossing the the
plains, and Native Americans

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wearing war paint and feathers.

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These are the images most people
associate with America's Old West.

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The Wild West as we know
it tends to come from Hollywood movies.

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And that's a very cleaned up, sanitized
version of what the West was really like.

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But might there
be more to the story?

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Much, much more?

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When we think
of the Old West, the last thing

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we think about would be Billy the Kid
chasing a flying saucer across the desert.

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From cowboys, to lawyers, to
doctors, to housewives washing

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the clothes and taking care of
the sheep-- people were seeing

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things in the sky they
couldn't explain.

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This is a
replica of one of the bars that

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was in one of the light ships.

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And they're guarded
by the Star People.

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Ancient aliens
have been around for tens

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of thousands, if not
millions of years.

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Why would they avoid the
American Southwest?

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Millions of people
around the world believe we have

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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 did the cowboys and natives
of America's Wild West actually

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come in contact with alien beings from
another-- much more distant frontier?

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Sync by n17t01
www.addic7ed.com

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What kind of a man goes around
blowing up other people's cows?

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You got to believe me.

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There's white lights!
There's bright lights!

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So there was
this big light, and you fell

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in the river, and when you come back, two
of my best hands has just disappeared.

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There weren't no
lightning this evening.

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In the 2011 film, Cowboys and Aliens,
a man awakens in the desert, with no

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clue to his past, except for a mysterious
metal device shackled to his wrist.

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This may provide the key-- not
only to his identity but to

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his ability to protect the town of
Absolution from a deadly attack

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by alien spaceships.

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Based on the graphic novel
by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg

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and directed by visionary
filmmaker, Jon Favreau...

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Cowboys and Aliens skillfully
blends the conventions of the

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classic Hollywood Western with the futuristic
effects of an alien invasion film.

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But although Cowboys and Aliens it's the
product or their creators imagination,

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there are those who believe

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this story might have a few
roots in historical fact.

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Aurora, Texas.

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This rural southwestern town covers an
area of just over three square miles.

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Headstones at the
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mark the final resting places of the
area's hard-working ranchers and farmers.

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But one body allegedly buried
here has no marker at all.

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The Aurora's cemetery
was founded in 1861

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right at the start of the
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Texas' State Historical Commission
has a marker here

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that states the cemetery is
well known because of the legend

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that a spaceship crashed nearby in 1897,
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was buried here.

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50 years before, the United State's
Army announced that a

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There was a report of a
strange unidentified object

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that crashed on the property
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On an April morning
in 1897 an airship

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supposedly run into a
windmill on the property

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of a gentleman
named Judge Proctor.

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The ship exploded in flame and was
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There was an explosion.

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In those days-- this is before
television, before jet

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aircraft-- any big noise
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Plus, the ground shook, and so

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they knew something
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A local reporter
arrived on the scene; he

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reported that there was a large
debris field, and also that

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there was the charred remains of
what appeared to be to him an

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alien from another planet.

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The occupant described
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was given a Christian burial
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In 1897, this was
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the Wright Brothers
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craft work.

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So, uh, this is why I consider
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smoking gun of the UFO
controversy, because this

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occurred six years before there
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Witnesses claimed
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recovered by local law enforcement
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Others claim that Judge Proctor
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of a deep well.

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For decades, the incident
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until, in 1945, a man named
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Procter's land, reportedly was
cleaning out the debris from the

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well when he later developed
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arthritis, which he claims
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contaminated water.

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He believed that the
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some sort of element to it that
gave him a severe case of

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arthritis.

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It was a bad enough case of
arthritis that it eventually

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killed him.

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So a lot of people today wonder
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with some sort of radioactive
agents, which was the rationale

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agents, which was the rationale
behind his, uh, his arthritis.

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We find that people who are
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is that the descendants of these people
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The incident at Roswell in 1947
also begins steering controversy

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about the Aurora incident.

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This time, concerning the
strange body supposedly still

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resting in an unmarked grave.

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We, searchers, wanted
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but the local cemetery association
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My first question is, why not?
What's it gonna hurt?

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As a historian it makes me suspicious

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when somebody is trying to hide
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Tells you you can't, you can't
do something.

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I first got onto the
Aurora story back in 1973, and

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was, uh, there before the
tombstone went missing, and

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actually probably one of the few
people around who still remember

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where the actual grave site was.

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The grave was
located right here.

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It was a short little grave.

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That of a child or a
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And the teeny little headstone,
the marker, was right about there.

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A few years ago,
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ground penetrating radar
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had been a short grave here.

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Now, back in 1973, Bill Case was
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Dallas Times Herald.

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I was working for
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We met up here.

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He had a metal detector, and we
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the grave.

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A couple of months after the
headstone went missing, Bill

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invited me to meet him up here.

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We went over the grave, and there
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He showed me three little holes
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Somebody had extracted the
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further investigation of the
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inconclusive evidence, including
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aluminum at the bottom of the
now-sealed well where Judge

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Proctor had supposedly
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Could the events that happened
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hours of April 17, 1897, really
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encounter?

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Could it have been the first such
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western region?

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Or was it only one of many?

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Adams Country, Ohio.

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At the end of the 1700s, President George
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unchartered land beyond the
Appalachian Mountains to

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Revolutionary War veterans-- in
600-acre parcels-- as payment

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for their service.

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But when the settlers arrived,
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covered with thousands
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And one of these was very
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Imagine when you're
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you find this gigantic ephic
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What you have is a gigantic structure
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of a fairy interesting landscape.

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Serpent mound was one of the
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found by the first that came
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There are thousands of mounds, but
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Like the Nazca lines in Peru,
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prehistoric structure that looks as though
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When you see the
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is massively huge.

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And it can't really be appreciated
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looking at it. What we have here is
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It's mysterious in the fact that
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unconcealed from the world.

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Unless you're flying over in a plane,

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and it's on very uneven ground.

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And really, to lay that out and
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to be above, looking down to get

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it right, which is a mystery.

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This 1,330 foot long structure winds across
the land and depicts a coiled

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snake, eating what
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It is the largest effigy mound
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unlike most Native American
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was not constructed for burials.

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Serpent Mound had no burials.

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It's one of those mysterious mounds that
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but on the property there were
burial mounds dated from

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about very early period,
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Another curious
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the ancient Native Americans
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outside swell of a five-mile
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300 million years
ago, a meteor came into this

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area and struck the Earth going
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The Serpent Mound is built right
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And there's magnetic anomalies
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Serpent Mound and that the
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them, and they could feel the positive
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If you bring a
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there are certain spots were the
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So, obviously, we have some
weird magnetic fields there and

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also some gravitational
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The myth has it
that the Native Americans, when

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they came here, could see birds
similar to passenger pigeons, or

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homing pigeons, circling
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Because within the skull of the
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hematite, or magnetite, and
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Can you imagine millions of birds
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In addition to
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meteor also deposited a number
of elements not indigenous to

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the area, including one of the
rarest elements on Earth-- iridium.

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When we look at the
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we find that not only that there
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but also iridium.

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Iridium can withstand
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It is non-corrosive.

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And it's actually been used
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A lot of
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outer space rather than
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There is a use of iridium for
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These deep-space probes include

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actually a radioactive source,
because it's the only thing that

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can provide enough power when
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there's no sunlight and
there's no nothing.

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We have iron,
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substances which definitely
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of any use to Native Americans.

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The question then is,
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Ancient
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extraterrestrials may have come
to this site to mine iridium for

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their spacecraft, and point to
numerous caves found in the

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crater swell beneath the
mound as evidence of this.

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Right here, we
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It's pretty large.

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And since this site is believed
to be many, many, millions of

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years old, there's a chance that
there are many, many caves.

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But if alien
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mine iridium and other elements,
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Serpent Mound was built on a scale that
made its shape visible from the sky?

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The Serpent Mound
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to the Shawnee Indians.

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They're convinced that space travelers
are using Serpent Mound as a marker.

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According to Zuni
Elder Clifford Mahooty, the

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Shawnee aren't the only Native
Americans who believe Serpent

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Mound has an
extraterrestrial connection.

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The Star ancestors
talked the American Indians

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about where they came from.

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And how they're supposed to
carry out their rituals.

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The mound builders I believe were
those indian tribes that had contact

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with the extraterrestrials.

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It's the essence of our culture,
and the mounds were a place

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where we would practice and learn
from those beings that come in from

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outside of this world to visit.

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Ancient astronaut theorists also point
to the placement and shape of the Great

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Serpent Mound as proof of its
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The serpent itself
was aligned to a constellation

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that had its apex at the height
of the night sky 5,000 years ago.

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The constellation Draconis-- it was
used to align the Great Pyramid.

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In addition to
lining up with the stars of

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Draconis, the coils of Serpent
Mound also align with the solar

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events of the solstice and equinox,
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Could these precise astronomical
alignments suggest that the

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Serpent Mound served a greater purpose
than just acting as a marker?

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Some believe that because of its
magnetic anomalies, this site

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may also have been used
to harness energy.

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These magnetic anomalies,
these faults, attract lightning.

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The Serpent Mound
is right on the edge of an

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outcropping of pure limestone or
dolomite, which is even better

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than the limestone they built the
Great Pyramid from, and it's

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highly semi-conductive.

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This is what I call the
Serpent Mound stone.

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It's an unusual feature that
seems to be made of a different

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kind of dolomite than what exists on the
outcropping of the general serpent.

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This stone could've been placed
in the center of the oval.

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Therefore, you wouldn't get a
lot of random strikes, so much

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as you would a lot of strikes that
would tend to come to the stone.

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Could the Serpent Mound have been a
source of great energy?

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Might it have held an advanced alien
technology that was somehow lost?

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When I look at a history
of building ancient monuments

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like Stonehenge, the Sphinx,
the Pyramids, the Mayan temples,

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what it tells me is no matter how
technologically advanced we are today

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we've lost a knowledge
of something tremendous

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that came thousands and
thousands years ago.

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And it's a tragedy that not only
have we forgotten how to utilize

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it, but we've relegated it to the
realm of folklore and mythology.

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When the lightning
lamps were eliminated, the

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native culture fell into the darkness
again, about 5,000 years ago.

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But we know that if their prophecies
hold true, the Serpent Mound will be

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reactivated again one day.

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And when that re-activation
occurs, that'll be the beginning

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of the restoral of the earth.

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Was the Great Serpent Mound
really a hub of ancient extraterrestrial

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visitation?

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If so, perhaps there is also
truth in legends of other, even

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more bizarre, alien encounters

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in the American West.

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Palmyra, New York.
September 21, 1823.

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In the upstairs bedroom of a
log cabin, just south of this

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small, rural village,
17-year-old Joseph Smith had a

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vision of someone, or
something, not of this world.

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It was late at night,
it was dark, and the room filled

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with a very very bright light.

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And this personage was floating in
midair, his feet was off the ground.

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And he identified
himself as Moroni.

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After talking with Joseph Smith
for a while, Moroni seemed to

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ascend into the air, completely
leaving the room again dark.

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The next morning, also, Moroni
came back to Joseph Smith to

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show him the hidden golden book,
which is what we know as the

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Book of Mormon today.

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According to
the Book of Mormon, Moroni

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identified himself to Joseph
Smith as a man who lived in

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America in the late fourth
and early fifth centuries.

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But America was not Moroni's
home-- he claimed to have much

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more distant origins.

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Moroni claimed to be
from the Pleiades star cluster.

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So a church today, nine million members
strong, believe that their church

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may have originated not of this world,
but of another world.

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According to Joseph Smith, not only the
Moroni claimed to be from another planet

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he also directed him to dig up the
golden plates from the hill Cumorah.

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What Scholars believe is a reference
to an ancient native american mound,

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much like the Serpent mound.

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We have since found out that in
burial mounds and other mounds

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across the Native American region
we have such plates.

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These written tables have been found,
and not just in North America,

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but also in South America.

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This entity tells Joseph Smith
to go on a physical search for

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an object, which we know could have
been an archeological finding.

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But if Moroni was a
spiritual or metaphysical being,

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why would he give Joseph Smith
physical objects with which to

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translate the plates?

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According to ancient astronaut
theorists, Moroni may, in fact,

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have been a Star Being-- an
extraterrestrial whose mission

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was to pass down to Smith and
his followers the advanced

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knowledge of the mound builders.

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In Mormonism, actually a lot
of their theologist is directly related

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to this idea of God and various angels and
various spiritual beings live on

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different planets.

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According to Native American legends,
the Star Beings left Earth thousands of

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years ago, at about the same
time ancient astronaut theorists

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believe extraterrestrials
left Egypt.

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But if Joseph Smith's vision of
Moroni was real, might this have

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been not so much a spiritual encounter
as an extraterrestrial one?

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If so, perhaps there were other
such alien visitations-- ones,

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which in turn, fueled an increased interest
in the stars throughout the 1800s.

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In the 19th century,
people were very interested in astronomy

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There was some thought that there
might be life on other planets.

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So, often times, lights in the
sky were attributed to possibly

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visitors from another world.

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Joseph Smith felt
such a strong connection to the

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Native Americans that he
believed they could help guide

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him to a new holy land, which

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he called "the new Zion."

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Although Smith died in 1844

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the victim of mob violence--
his successor, Brigham Young,

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ultimately led the Mormons
further west to Utah.

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In 1849, when the Mormons
arrived in the area of Parowan

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Gap, local Ute leader, Chief
Wakara, told them they had

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entered "God's own house" and
showed them proof in the form of

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petroglyphs dating back
thousands of years.

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All throughout
Utah, petroglyphs depict

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hunters with bows and
arrows going after buffalo.

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Very ordinary, daily life occurrences.

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But there are also some other
depictions, which are very odd.

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And they look like spaceships.

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They look like
beings with halos.

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They look like beings with
antenna on their heads, or

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beings that wear
some type of a suit.

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For all intents and purposes,
they look like depictions of

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they look like depictions of
spacemen.

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Great Falls, Montana.
October 19, 1865.

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Six months after the assassination of
President Abraham Lincoln, a fur trapper

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reports what might be the first
documented UFO crash in the Old West.

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In 1865, the Missouri Democrat

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reported that a trapper saw a
light traveling through the sky

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at night.

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It flew over his camp, broke apart and
crashed in the forest some miles away.

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The next day he tracked it down,

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found a large stone imbedded
in the side of a mountain.

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It was hollow, it was cracked
open; he claimed there were

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chambers inside of it, and there
were hieroglyphic markings

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on it.

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And there was also some mysterious
liquid spilled around the area.

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But the newspaper, you know,
went so far as to suggest that

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these were meteoric conveyances of
aliens from Mercury or Uranus.

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So, the whole idea
of UFO crashes was

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explored in the 19th century
almost a hundred years

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before Roswell.

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But what makes this story even

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more intriguing to Ancient
Astronaut theorists is the

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location of the sighting-- along
the upper Missouri River.

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This is the home of the Blackfoot
Indians, a tribe whose

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ancient legends include strange
tales of Star Beings visiting

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the region from other worlds.

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The Blackfoot
have very profound legends in

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myth relating switch quite
clearly * to * come down from

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some kind of sky-* to Earth

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and in these sky vehicles.

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And the way that they are
described, these can be modern

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ideas of flying saucers or UFOs.

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Could the object that the Montana fur
trapper claimed to

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have found really have been one
of the alien crafts described

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in Blackfoot legends?

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And might the markings have been
the same as what Joseph Smith

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found on the golden plates?

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To some Native Americans, like
Chief Standing Elk of the

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Yankton Dakota Tribe, Star
Beings are still very much

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amongst us-- and they are still
making contact with humans.

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A lot of our relatives
that come from the stars they speak

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on a telepathic level and there
are some that came to me and

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showed me a bar with symbols on there.

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They talked to me, and I
understood them very, very well.

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This is the replica of one of
the bars that was in one of

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the light ships.

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And they represent
the universal laws.

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And they're guarded
by the Star People.

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So these are universal laws.

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Did early Americans really encounter what
the natives called Star Beings as they

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crossed the frontier?

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And what other strange
encounters might they have

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experienced as they made their

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way further west?

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Tombstone, Arizona.

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In 1881, this mining boomtown
was the home of Wyatt Earp and

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the site of the gunfight
at the O.K. Corral.

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Less than ten years later, it
would become the location of

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one of the most bizarre
UFO sightings in history.

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According to a story
in the Tombstone epitaph in 1890

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two ranchers were out in the desert
of Arizona when they saw

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some sort of monsters with
a huge wings. The body was

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described as being like an alligator
and wings were described as

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memberness. There's another version
of the story told by the

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cowboys when they were very old,
they never really, they just

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shot at the bird and it got away.
It was literally bullet proofed.

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There were a number of reports
of big birds that cowboys

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would shoot at or chase for
great distances

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And they reported the bullets would
bounce off the leathery skin.

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But was the story of
this giant bird simply a hoax,

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as many believe?

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Or was there some
degree of truth to it?

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In the Old West, we have
stories of these creatures that

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resided in mines.

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The ghost rider, which was
this cowboy that was flying

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across the sky, but
also of ghost trains.

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So, were all of those stories
just campfire stories that were

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invented on the spot?

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Or were they based in
some type of truth?

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For many Americans
living in the early and

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mid-1800s, the vast western frontier
offered both opportunity and profound

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sociological change.

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Freed of the constrictions
of European tradition and

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Judeo-Christian fundamentalism,
the early pioneers could now

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experiment with political,
social and religious

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philosophies which their Eastern
counterparts had frowned upon.

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One such newly emerging philosophy
was called Transcendentalism.

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Transcendentalism
was perhaps the leading philosophy

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developed in America
in the 19th century.

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One of the founding figures in
it was Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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It was belief in
extraterrestrial life that led

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him to depart from Christianity,
and another author who is part

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of that is the
poet Walt Whitman.

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His most famous book 1855
was "The Leaves of Grass."

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And in "The Leaves of Grass," there
are like 200 references to astronomy.

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He believed strongly
in extraterrestrials.

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In a nutshell, transcendentalism
reminded young America that

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all things are not knowable and that
some things are knowable but not

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through the five senses.

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So it opened up Easterners as they
went west to new ideas and new sights.

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Another strong influence
on the way 19th century Americans

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viewed the world was the
emergence of a new genre of

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literature, science fiction.

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I think the image
that has come down to us from

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lots of movies and TV shows,
that the cowboy is kind of a

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rough, illiterate character.

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Most cowboys were extremely literated.
Face it, there was a lot of entertainment

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out in the plains.

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One of the first great
American science fiction writers was

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Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce,
who believed strongly in

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the possibility of
life beyond our world.

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Ambrose Bierce was an author
of some very strange short stories.

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"The Difficulty of Crossing a
Field" was about an Alabama

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farmer who one day was taking a walk
across the field when he just disappeared.

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He was gone.

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And years later, his wife would
say that she could hear his

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voice from time to time, coming from
the circle, but he wasn't there.

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Ambrose Bierce was trying to
show us that this man traveled

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inter-dimensionally
to another place.

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And while he was still
there, he wasn't there.

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It is thought by many
scholars and historians that Bierce--

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as well as other authors of early
fantasy fiction-- had been influenced

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by Native Americans
and their folklore.

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In addition to belief in Star Beings,
they believed in the existence

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of inter-dimensional gateways or portals,
which would enable visitors to

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travel between time and space.

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If you're thinking about
like people suddenly disappearing through

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a hole in space time into another dimension
at the surface of it when we think

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about out modern theory of relativity
and that you can bend space and time

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it seems not so crazy, because we know
mathematically how to describe

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holes in the space-time that connect
different regions of space.

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The mystery of whether such portals
really exist may have been

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♪♪ by Ambrose Bierce himself.
When he ventured south of the

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border into the Mexican desert.

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At the very early part of 20th
century Ambrose Bierce was

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in northern Mexico, in this area
that's known for strange phenomenon,

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called the Keymay, this area too
is thought to be another one these

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interdimensional portal areas.

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One theory is that Bierce may not have
traveled into Mexico alone.

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Another very colorful figure by the
name of F.A. Mitchell Hedges

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may have traveled
with him into Mexico.

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Mitchell Hedges was a great
British adventurer, most noted

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for his discovery of a
Mayan crystal skull.

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The ancient city of Paquime is just a
few miles away from the Crystal Cave.

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The largest crystal deposits
in the world are found here.

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Mitchell Hedges believed that
his skulls were capable of

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psychically communicating with a
person and interdimensionally

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transferring that message to
an extraterrestrial being.

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The theory is that Hedges, along
with Bierce, may have discovered

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or mastered the method of
speaking through the crystals or

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employing their power, and may
have transported, as in his

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stories, to an interdimensional space,
never to be heard from again.

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While there, he sent
his last communication that we

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know of, which was a letter, and
that letter ended with this

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"As for me, I leave
tomorrow for an unknown destination."

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The man who
wrote about so many strange

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disappearances was never
seen or heard from again.

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Did Ambrose Bierce meet with
foul play, or did he find an

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interdimensional portal, like the
ones described in his stories?

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Perhaps the answer can be
found in a mysterious lake in

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California, one thought by many
to be an actual gateway to another world.

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Elizabeth Lake.
Southern California.

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This high desert body of water
sits at the junction of the

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tectonic plates that form the
powerful San Andreas fault.

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The Mexicans who colonized
California in the 1700s called

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it Laguna del Diablo,
Lake of the Devil.

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And it was said that the devil's
own pet would come into this

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world through a portal at
the bottom of the lake.

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Local legend says that at
the bottom is actually an entrance

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to the underworld. They call
it the Lake of the Devil.

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And it's said that in the middle 18th
century from upon 'till about

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1880's something was happening there
which frightened locals.

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Some of the rich land owners built
ranches there, these ranchers

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claimed to have been harassed and
tormented by some sort of

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monsters beast that would
come out of the water

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and steal cattle and
menace the locals.

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The ranchers who
claimed to have witnessed this

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beast called it, "The Thunderbird," and
their description of it was nearly

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identical to that of the giant bird
witnessed by cowboys in Tombstone in 1890.

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Eventually, one of
the landowners got it in his

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head that he was going to hunt
this creature down and sell it

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to the circus, so according to
the story, this rancher was able

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to actually fire a few shots at
this creature, which seemed to

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be bulletproof and metallic.

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The bullets bounced off.

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And after that encounter, the
bird flew east, never to be seen

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again in California.

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Could this
so-called Thunderbird really

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have been the same creature that
cowboys shot at in Tombstone?

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And why was it referred to by
locals as, "The Devil's Pet"?

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They didn't have the
vocabulary that we have today.

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So when things happened that
they couldn't explain,

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there was called the Devil's Lake,
there was called the Devils' this

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or the Devil's that.

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Take it away from legend and you
might find that this was a portal to

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another dimension. Which locals
knew about and might have something to do

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with the fact that this mysterious entity
was present at that very specific location.

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If a portal to another dimension
or another part of the universe

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does lie at the bottom of
Elizabeth Lake, might it also

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be possible that the Thunderbird was
not really a creature at all,

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but something even more incredible.

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The Thunderbird was enormous,
it made enormous noises,

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so the thunder part of it,
it could sound like a jet engine.

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Was able to literally pierce
and emanate fire.

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We have this large flying wing creature
which gives us a thunder sound,

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and lights fly from it's eyes.
That to me says it has to

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be dealing with some sort of craft.

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Native Indians in North America
they know of course the bird.

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But now something different arrived.
An object which could fly,

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which is bigger than the eagle
but at the same time makes

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tremendous noise. So you have the
creation of the Thunderbird.

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Even when the airplanes started
going out up in the sky here

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in the southwest, they referred them
as metal birds, as a matter of fact,

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wen the first wing craft landed
in, the indians that were there

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actually went out there and
worshiped the airplane.

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It makes me think of a concept called
cultural tracking, which is the UFOs

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can mask themselves to appear
as almost anything, you go back

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ancient China and they talk
about the flying dragons,

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you go back to the ancient Egyptians
and they talk about flying boats.

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You go to the Roman times and they
talk about flying **.

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Perhaps that was just their
interpretation or perhaps

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that's what they actually saw.

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Did the cowboys in Tombstone, Arizona
and ranchers at Elizabeth Lake

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witness an alien vehicle?
One that may have been visiting

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North America for
thousands of years.

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The truth of the matter is
there are some very interesting

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and incredible stories that come
from the 1800s about flying objects

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and strange encounters and events.

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The Old West was not only
deadly, bloody, but it was also mysterious.

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It was a time when people
often encountered things

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that they didn't understand and had
to make up stories to account for it.

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And you see this in nearly
every society.

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How many things do we know today
that were thought to be just impossible?

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I always try to keep an open mind
when I hear a story and

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I may not believe, I don't
disbelieve either.

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Aliens invade
a quiet Western town, and

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terrified residents scramble
for their guns in a valiant

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attempt to defend themselves.

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A mere product of Hollywood's
high-concept imagination?

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Or are films like Cowboys and
Aliens actually inspired by

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historical events?

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Stories that challenge everything
we know or Stories that challenge

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everything we know or
believe about ourselves?

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As we continue to explore the
vastness of the universe and

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examine more and more of the
mysteries of the Earth, are we

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getting closer to unlocking
the secrets of our past, and

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opening a doorway to our future?

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