All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens S22E05 UFO Hot Spots

[Narrator] A county in England
where strange lights

have been reported
for centuries.

A region in Upstate New York

that has been the site
of mass UFO sightings.

And a volcano in Colombia

where pilots have reported
multiple accounts

of witnessing unidentified
anomalous phenomena.

♪ ♪

By now, the term "UFO" is
universally understood to mean

"unidentified flying object."

It describes
a variety of phenomena,

from metallic flying disks

to mysterious orbs of light

and even craft
the size of football fields.

And there are places
around the globe

that seem to have
an unusually high occurrence

of anomalous sightings.

These locations
have so much activity,

they've earned the name
"UFO hot spots."

[Narrator] San Diego.
July 15, 2019.

In the middle
of an otherwise peaceful night,

the USS Omaha Combat
Information Center records

an astonishing event off the
coast of Southern California.

An unidentified
oval-shaped craft is witnessed

performing mysterious maneuvers
in restricted airspace

around a U.S. Navy destroyer.

[Nick Pope] It is an amazing

piece of footage showing
a UFO hovering over the sea...

[Pope] ...and then apparently
descending into the ocean.

[Narrator] When the footage
is leaked to the public

by investigative filmmaker
Jeremy Corbell two years later,

its authenticity is quickly
confirmed by the Pentagon.

[Corbell] I knew
that it would strike a chord.

You can see the structure of the
craft being oval or circular.

You can see that it doesn't have
these plumes of exhaust

or heat trails
or any traditional propulsion.

What you're seeing
is a technology

that is so far advanced

from anything
that we have ever created

or shown in the theater of war,

which is where we show
our greatest technologies.

[Narrator] The strange incident
was more than intriguing

to UFO researchers

not only because
of how the craft maneuvered

but also because of the area
where it appeared.

[Andrew Collins] Off the coast
of San Diego in California

is somewhere that UFOs or UAPs

have been appearing regularly
for decades.

[Narrator] Since 1995,

more than 1,000 UFO sightings
have been reported

in the San Diego area.

[Ralph Blumenthal] All
these reports of sightings

were not just made-up.

They can be photographed.

There's something up there
and sometimes down in the water

that no one understands.

More and more,
the military is acknowledging

that it's interested,

giving credibility to the fact
that these things exist.

[Bill Birnes] When you realize
that the San Diego naval base

is one of the most restricted
naval bases,

restricted areas in the country,

UFOs are flying back
and forth over the ships,

over the base.

[Narrator] The number of UFO
reports occurring in San Diego

may appear quite significant.

However, it is just one

of several locations
around the globe

where similar incidents are
often reported and documented.

Locations that have come
to be known as UFO hot spots.

A UFO hot spot is
a physical space

where sightings of unusual
aerial phenomena are common.

There's usually a perceivable
unusual energy at the site.

There's been a long history
of sightings at these places.

[Collins] UFO hot spots
are places where UFOs occur

not just across a few years

but across decades.

And, of course,
the question becomes,

you know, why are
these places so important?

Why is it that UFOs
can appear at them

more frequently
than anywhere else?

[Craig Campobasso] Marfa is
this mountain range in Texas,

and it's these strange
anomalous lights

that nobody has ever been able
to figure out.

It's such a hot spot

that the actual state of Texas
built a viewing station

where people can stop and rest

and watch the Marfa lights
at night.

[Henry] The Bermuda Triangle

is also a well-known hot spot
as well.

Wiltshire, England, is another.

Sedona has become
a very popular hot spot.

And Skinwalker Ranch
in Northern Utah

is an outstanding example
of a hot spot.

Native Americans have said
for centuries that this

is a place where supernatural
UFO activity occurs.

Seems that a large proportion
of sightings of UFOs or UAPs

in the modern world
do take place at-at hot spots.

[Narrator] The perception
of so-called UFO hot spots

emerged in the aftermath

of two of the most highly
publicized UFO incidents

in U.S. history,

which both took place in 1947.

On June 24,

near Mount Rainier
in Washington State,

pilot Kenneth Arnold
reported seeing

nine saucer-shaped craft
flying in a coordinated pattern

at a speed of approximately
1,200 miles per hour.

Just one month later,

the infamous report
of a UFO crash took place

in Roswell, New Mexico.

[Linda Moulton Howe]
The July 8,

1947, headline

went around the world.

In the Roswell Daily Record--

"Flying saucer crashes
into a pasture near Roswell."

You start looking
at the timeline

and what was happening
through 1947 and beyond.

Our government
and other governments

were developing gigantic,
huge storage and files

and folders and departments

that were dedicated
to the secret study

of UFOs and E.T.s on our planet.

[Narrator] Over
the next two decades,

thousands of additional
UFO sightings

were reported around the world,

prompting the U.S. government
to launch

an investigation
into the phenomenon.

The study was given
the code name Project Blue Book.

And while the program's official
findings were not definitive,

a startling trend
appeared in the data.

[Mike Ricksecker] The renowned
J. Allen Hynek

of Project Blue Book fame wrote

there's a statistical analysis

that showed when and where
these occurrences happened.

And a pattern started to emerge,

such as UFO sightings,

lights in the sky,
anomalous activity

in the American Southwest,
the Northeast,

the Mississippi Valley.

And UFO researchers
took notice of this

and began to flock to those
areas to conduct their research.

Researchers in the '50s
and the '60s,

they went back through the data,

and sometimes literally
they would get out a map

and "X" marks the spot.

And then they would notice,

wait a minute,
there are these clusters,

these strange hot spots.

Areas where...

these events
seem-seem to pile up

for no apparent reason.

[Birnes] What researchers
realized

was that 60% to 70%
of UFO sightings in America

turn up in the same spots
over and over again.

And they realized

that there was something
about those spots

that was drawing UFO.

[Ricksecker] If we're trying
to solve a mystery,

you want to go to a location
that has the most clues.

And these are the locations
that could have the clues

to connect our ancient past
to our modern reality

and perhaps give us
the answers we're seeking.

Stretching almost 2,500 miles

across
the Southern United States

is a mysterious region
that is known for UAP sightings,

cattle mutilations,
and alien abductions.

In fact, these events
are reported with such frequency

that this hot spot
has become known

as the UFO Superhighway.

[Narrator] Trinidad, Colorado.

August 22, 2011.

At 11:46 p.m.,

this small town is rocked
by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake,

the most powerful to hit
Colorado in more than a century.

A little over 12 hours later,

an even more violent
5.8 magnitude earthquake

strikes the area
of Piedmont, Virginia.

While the unlikely epicenters
of these two seismic events

are 1,400 miles apart
from each other,

they both occur
along the same line of latitude,

the 37th parallel.

This detail captures
the attention

of former sheriff's deputy and
UFO researcher Chuck Zukowski

and sparks a revelation

regarding his research into
unidentified aerial phenomena

and mysterious
animal mutilations.

[Daniel Zetterstrom] The fact
that this earthquake activity

lays along the 37th parallel
leads Chuck Zukowski

to look at trends
and patterns in the data

that he'd been collecting
over various investigations.

Chuck found that sightings
and phenomena

such as cattle mutilations,
various other things

all lined up along this one line

that we refer to
as the 37th latitude.

[Ryan Sprague] Chuck Zukowski
for many, many years

had been taking down reports of
all types of paranormal activity

that were happening
both in Colorado

and all the way
stretching to Virginia.

And Chuck actually has a sister
who is also a UFO researcher.

So he called her up

and they started to look
at each of these points

of where all these different UFO

and paranormal activity
were taking place.

[Narrator] Zukowski's sister,
Debbie Ziegelmeyer,

is the director
of the Missouri branch of MUFON,

or the Mutual UFO Network.

Over the years,

the two have amassed data
on thousands of UFO sightings.

In 2011,

my brother Chuck called me
one evening and we started

pinpointing the different
locations on a map.

We have a lot of activity
going on,

especially starting
with my state of Missouri.

And then we started
expanding farther out.

We noticed activity in Colorado.

Then we started spreading
farther out.

It turned out
that all but one event

was near the 37th parallel.

And we thought, "Well,

this is way bigger
than what we thought."

[Narrator] Like all lines
of latitude,

the 37th parallel
is just 69 miles wide.

So Zukowski and Ziegelmeyer
found it extraordinary

that nearly every case
they had documented

happened either on
or very near this line.

Chuck Zukowski is a highly
respected UFO investigator,

uh, with a lot of "boots
on the ground" experience,

as is his sister Debbie.

And they presented to the world

the idea that you could draw
a straight line

linking all these different
incidents at different times--

UFO sightings, abductions,

cattle mutilations,
paranormal phenomena.

Of course, it was
a real attention-getter.

So the 37th parallel

has become known
as a sort of UFO superhighway.

[Narrator] Could
a so-called UFO superhighway

really exist
along the 37th parallel?

For UFO researchers,

the evidence is
highly compelling,

because among the events that
Zukowski and Ziegelmeyer cite

are some of the most significant
UFO reports on record,

including one
of the only encounters

in which a witness
lost his life.

[Narrator reads on-screen text]

At Clinton County
Army Air Field,

eyewitnesses report seeing
a circular object in the sky

that is described
as "a flaming red cone

trailing a gaseous green mist."

Alarmed by the sightings,

the Army instructs a squad
of airborne F-51D Mustangs

under the command of Captain
Thomas Mantell to investigate.

Four fighters led by
Captain Mantell were dispatched

to try to follow
or intercept this object.

The object was massive.

It was about 300 feet
in diameter

and traveling
at about 500 miles per hour.

[Sprague] When they attempted
to intercept this object,

it was too fast.

And it was also climbing
in altitude.

[Zetterstrom] Everyone except
Mantell stopped ascending

at a certain point
due to problems with oxygen.

Mantell pushed his plane,

climbing higher and higher
towards the object.

However, radio contact
with Mantell was lost.

[Narrator] According to reports,

as Mantell pursued the UFO,

he lost control of the plane
and crashed into the ground.

The Mantell incident
is an important one,

and that is because
it involves a UFO fatality.

And it was because
of this UFO fatality

that the Air Force began
Project Blue Book to look into

these UFO incidents.

[Narrator] The Mantell incident
occurred over a stretch

of many miles,
mostly along the 37th parallel.

With official military
involvement,

multiple witnesses,
and even a fatality,

the Mantell incident
is considered

one of the most compelling
UFO encounters ever recorded.

The mystery of the 37th parallel

also includes a UFO incident
that occurred 25 years later

and lasted for months.

One of the most
fascinating areas

along the 37-degree parallel
line is Piedmont, Missouri.

The sightings
actually started in 1973.

But the one main sighting
that people began focusing on

happened on February 21,
to be exact.

Coach Reggie Bones was at
a basketball game with his team.

As they were coming back home
at about 8:30 at night,

they saw strange lights
in the distance.

And they were
colored lights flashing.

They saw that the lights weren't
just a single pillar in the sky

but were distinct
colored lights--

red, green, amber and white.

Other residents in the area
also saw the lights.

[Narrator] The Mantell incident
and the Piedmont sightings

are just two of hundreds
of UFO encounters

that Zukowski and Ziegelmeyer
have documented

along the 37th parallel.

Also found along this latitude
is Cape Girardeau, Missouri,

where a UFO crash
was reported as early as 1941.

And one of the most famous
UFO incidents on record,

the 1947 Roswell crash,

occurred just over 100 miles
south of this line.

[Tsoukalos] It's pretty amazing
to think that two

of the biggest UFO events
that essentially kicked off

the modern ufology field,

Roswell and Cape Girardeau,

happened to be on
or around the 37th parallel.

So you have to wonder why.

Is it some sort
of a supernatural force?

Or could it be something to do
with extraterrestrials?

South America is
a veritable treasure trove

for the ancient astronaut
theory.

The entire continent is loaded
with megalithic structures

and mythological traditions

that point to extraterrestrial
contact in the distant past.

In addition to this history,

the nation of Chile
continues to report

so much anomalous activity

that it has become famous
as a UFO hot spot.

[Narrator] Santiago, Chile.

1990.

After a 17-year rule,

Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet steps down...

...ushering in a period
of reform across the country.

With a new spirit of government
transparency and social freedom,

the media,
as well as military personnel,

begin to openly investigate
Chile's unrivaled UFO phenomena.

[Hidalgo] Now,
when it came to UFOs,

this is not something new
in Chile.

In Chile, we have had sightings
long before Pinochet.

So, after Pinochet,

when the democracy comes back,

the military forces
were making an effort

to change the public opinion
about them.

[Narrator] Following
the country's newfound openness

to UFO sightings,

control tower personnel
observed a flurry

of mysterious aerial activity
in Chilean airspace.

Unidentified objects
were flying dangerously close

to Chilean aircraft.

I do believe it's our right to
know exactly what we are seeing,

what our military is seeing
all over the world.

[Narrator] Several notorious
near-miss incidents

elevated Chile's UFO activity

from harmless curiosity to
an issue of national security.

As a result, in 1997,

the Chilean government
instituted

the Committee on Studies
of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena,

or CEFAA.

CEFAA started as a result
of pilot sightings.

Pilots, navigators,

radar operators

were reporting UFOs.

Some of these objects came
dangerously close to aircraft.

The Chilean government
decided to act.

So this is unique.

It's government, it's military,

and, importantly, it's the
scientific community as well,

all working together
with one common aim--

find out
what these sightings are.

Who's responsible?
What's going on?

[speaking Spanish]

[translated] CEFAA gets reports
from all citizens,

from the far north
down to Antarctica.

And these reports
are made via our website.

In the last 22 years
of investigation,

we have received
almost 900 reports.

Our process and our manner
of looking at these phenomena

has been very rigorous,

because we owe it
to our community.

Instead of secrecy
and cover-ups and conspiracies,

we have an atmosphere
of openness,

where people
are almost encouraged

to come forward and report.

The default position of CEFAA

after their investigations
is to publish,

release the case files,

tell the people
what you've discovered.

This is astonishing
and refreshing.

[Narrator] CEFAA insists that
governments around the world

should take a similar approach
to accelerate our understanding

of these aerial anomalies
and reveal their true origin.

[speaking Spanish]

[translated] To us,
it is important

that more organizations
or institutions or countries

get involved in the study
of this phenomenon.

The phenomenon clearly exists.

We don't know exactly
if there is only one explanation

for its origin.

Without a doubt, however,
when other countries

or other states
create institutions like ours,

they contribute to the security
of airspace operations.

We have more good documented
video evidence out of Chile

than almost any other nation
I can think of.

[Narrator] On March 13, 2012,

the Chilean government
unveiled footage

of a curious event
caught on camera

above the prestigious El Bosque
Air Force base in Santiago.

Crowds were gathered
to celebrate the change

of Chilean Air Force command
in 2010...

[applause]

...recording fighter jets

performing acrobatic maneuvers
overhead.

After investigating the footage,

CEFAA concluded
that the jets were not alone.

The El Bosque was one that CEFAA
was very excited about.

And when they slowed down
the videos,

you could see these objects
zipping by at incredible speeds.

[speaking Spanish]

[translated] This case
acquired notoriety

once the videos were viewed.

In these videos,
there was a dark object

that crossed the lines of flight
of these squadron formations.

Now, this is where
it gets really intriguing,

because the official conclusion

was that this UFO
was traveling at a speed

of around 4,000 miles an hour.

The British Isles are home
to legends of powerful wizards,

magical swords
and flying dragons.

For ancient astronaut theorists
like me,

these stories
aren't just fairy tales,

they're possibly encounters with
extraterrestrial technology.

And today,
England is still a UFO hot spot,

where an enormous amount
of advanced aerial phenomena

has been documented
by alien investigators.

[Narrator] Yorkshire, England.

This historic county

is the largest
in the United Kingdom.

Known for medieval abbeys,
Norman castles

and stunning national parks,

the vast landscape here
is also rich

with legends of strange beings,

bizarre lights in the sky

and even UFOs.

Yorkshire is in
Northern England,

and it's a county that is famous

for strange events
going back centuries.

Reports of little people,

mysterious lights up in the sky,

people seeing these strange,
werewolf-like figures,

Bigfoot-type creatures
that come and go.

It's a very strange place.

[Graham Phillips] There is
an ancient burial mound

in Yorkshire

called Willy Howe.

And back in the 1200s,

a man had been
walking home one night...

...and he saw lights
coming out of this mound.

And he went into the mound,

where he saw strange beings.

Fairy folk, if you like.

He claimed to have seen these
inside the mound.

[Lynn Picknett] England
has a very rich tradition

of fairy folk, um, going back
into the mists of time.

And it's interesting, though,

that the way encounters
with these fairy folk,

or whatever one might call them,

the way they're expressed
is very, very similar

over the years

to descriptions
of encounters with aliens.

[Narrator] Reports
of mysterious phenomena

in Yorkshire are found

throughout
the historical record,

from ancient times
right up until the present day.

In an effort
to better understand

what has been happening here,

private investigator
Paul Sinclair and his team

began researching

and surveilling the area
in 2009.

I originally spent a lot of time

on the East and North
Yorkshire Wolds,

because farmers in the area

reported seeing
the anomalous lights,

the structured-type crafts.

But then, I got speaking
to Coast Guard,

fishermen, trawlermen,
people walking the coastline,

and they started
reporting seeing

strange anomalous lights,
UFOs, all manner of things.

Going back through the local
archives of the newspapers

reveals that lots and lots
of unexplained phenomena

have been seen
and are reported there.

Not just in recent times,

not just since
I've been researching it,

but going back
decades and decades,

there's a long history of
strange and anomalous phenomena.

Paul Sinclair has been
researching this area

for a very, very long time

and come up with
some remarkable video footage

of lights in the sky, UFOs

and everything else
you could think of.

[Narrator] Paul and his team
set up cameras

around the cliff tops
along the North Sea

to try and document the objects
seen near the coastline.

During one night in 2020,

what they captured
was particularly intriguing.

It were just a typical night
by the team.

We go up there,
we set up cameras

and we hope that the phenomena
might present.

-[Sinclair] There.
-And on this occasion, it did.

But these lights, very often,
they're a bright amber color.

Or red, or-or white, and, uh,

the white ones
that you can see in the film

were actually more
of an amber color.

But the lights
present as one light

that doesn't fly from anywhere,

and then it punches
into a multiple

of four, five and six,

switches off.

So, luckily, we managed to film
that little sequence of events

on "Lights Filmed Off Bempton,"

and it's quite exciting
when you do actually see

these unexplained phenomena.

[Narrator] Sinclair and his team

have not only captured
strange lights above the sea

but have also documented
orbs of light

submerged below
the surface of the water.

I was walking along
the cliff tops with my friend

and former police officer
Dave Barnes.

And Dave saw the object
rise out of the water.

Stopped momentarily and told me.

I had the camera in hand,
started filming,

I think,
soon as it started to move.

Now it seems to turn in
and drop into the sea.

[Sinclair] So we've got
an object that's gone

below the surface,
risen from the sea,

traveled six miles
and then gone below the surface.

We have footage of objects

beneath the surface
of the water,

or luminous light
beneath the surface,

and we've no explanation
for that.

We've filmed that
on three occasions.

Paul Sinclair has got,
uh, videos of these UFOs

and lights, you know,
going into the water.

So, that makes you wonder,

is there possibly
some underwater UFO base

in Yorkshire that has been there
for thousands of years?

In the 1980s, a peaceful
community in Upstate New York

was transformed
into a UFO hot spot

when extraordinary
V-shaped objects

were seen flying overhead.

But witnesses didn't just report
the strange craft in the sky,

they were equally concerned
about bizarre sounds

coming from deep underground.

[Narrator] Kent Cliffs,
New York,

New Year's Eve, 1982.

Shortly before midnight
in this small town

just north of New York City,

New Year's Eve revelers
are struck by the sight

of an unusual aircraft
in the sky.

The ship appears to be
as large as a commercial jet,

but has a V shape, moves slowly
and makes no sound.

The incident is the first
in a wave of UFO sightings

that would shake
the surrounding area

known as the Hudson Valley.

[Imbrogno] The Hudson Valley
is your classic

hot spot.

Here, UFOs appeared
from 1983 to 1986,

and was witnessed
by thousands of people.

A triangular,
boomerang-shape object,

very well lit, flew very low
over the community,

and it was
photographed, videotaped,

and it was seen from people
from all walks of life

who were sure
they saw something strange

that was not from this planet.

This caused people to pull off
the side of the road

and actually start calling home,

thinking there was
some type of an invasion.

And they were executive--
doctors, uh,

scientists and so on,
meteorologists,

and they all reported something

that they have
never seen before.

[Narrator] Over the span
of three years,

officials received
more than 9,000 reports

from eyewitnesses describing
the same V-shaped craft.

Not only was there a UFO
sighting in Hudson Valley

but it came back
night after night after night.

[Imbrogno] These are people

who would not normally
come forward

to say that they saw a UFO.

[Imbrogno] Yet, what they saw

was so convincing
and so frightening to them,

that they went on record
to report what they saw.

I mean, it's just amazing.

[Narrator] During
the two-year wave

of UFO sightings
in the Hudson Valley,

author Philip Imbrogno
investigated the area

on behalf
of the Center for UFO Studies,

which was founded
by J. Allen Hynek

after his work
with Project Blue Book.

Imbrogno conducted
hundreds of interviews

with residents of the area,

and even witnessed
the V-shaped craft himself.

[Imbrogno] This object,

whatever it was--
the size of a football field--

came over the highways
and hovered

and, at times, projected down
a brilliant beam of white light.

Usually, UFO researchers

don't see the UFO
that they're investigating.

I saw this object three times.

So, it was amazing.

[Narrator] As Imbrogno spent
months crisscrossing the area,

he noticed something curious:

the volume of mysterious reports
during this time

were not only focused
on a strange craft in the sky,

but also on bizarre sounds

coming from somewhere
deep below ground.

[Henry] People start to wonder,
"Why are these hot spots

hot spots?"
and one explanation is that

what is actually going on
is underneath the ground.

That these hot spots
are, in fact, entrances

to vast underground caverns
or even secret bases.

[Campobasso]
In the Hudson River there,

especially in the '80s,

I spoke to a few researchers,

and they said that the locals
used to hear things

coming up from underground,

and they weren't really
quite sure what it was,

but they figured
there was a base below ground.

A military/alien base.

[Narrator] Arguably,
the most famous sighting

in the Hudson Valley hot spot

concerned beings
from underground,

as was the case

with best-selling horror
novelist Whitley Strieber,

who wrote about
his own experience

in his book Communion.

[Strieber] My wife and I
had bought a cabin

in the western extreme edge
of the whole Hudson Valley.

And in December of 1985,

I woke up in a room,
not my bedroom,

in the middle of the night,

and the room was filled with
two kinds of figures, these...

willowy figures
with big black eyes,

and dark blue short figures.

Then I began
to hear a voice say,

"What can we do to help you
stop screaming?"

And I thought, "I'm screaming?"
and I was screaming.

And the next morning, I woke up

extremely confused
and disturbed,

without any real understanding
of what happened to me.

[Narrator] While many presume

that Streiber's alien abductors
descended from the skies,

in fact, he described them
as coming up from below,

and their presence
was marked by sounds

deep beneath his mountain cabin.

[Strieber] We used to hear

drilling in-- underground.

[distant pulsing, drilling]

And we could hear this
taking place under the cabin.

[Narrator] The idea
that hot spots

mark entrances to the underworld

is a phenomenon
seen across the planet.

[Childress] This can be
what's happening

in, say, Lake Titicaca.

And then you have other places
like, say, Mount Shasta,

or certain volcanoes in Mexico,

where UFOs are seen
and there's a lot of activity.

When you think
about UFO hot spots,

you might picture
mysterious orbs

above a thick forest

or along a deserted stretch
of highway,

but for the people
of the South American country

of Colombia,
strange craft in the sky

can be seen
in a very unlikely place.

[Narrator] Colombia,
January 28, 2020.

An Airbus A320
is cruising at 30,000 feet

on a routine flight
en route to Bogotá.

As it approaches
a prominent volcano

called Nevado del Tolima,

the pilot notices
something strange in the clouds.

The plane is on autopilot.

When the pilot sees
what's out his cockpit window,

he picks up his phone,

and what he filmed
was extraordinary.

It's an object zipping along
towards his plane.

So the pilot is able to use
the close-up on his camera

and sees that the object
is actually a flying cube

that is coming towards him
and flying right past his plane.

[Narrator] Two years later,
in May 2022,

a private pilot also flying
near the same Tolima volcano

captures footage of a metallic
diamond-shaped object

speeding past his aircraft.

And the next year,

a passenger on board a flight
from Bogotá to Salento

films a metallic, orb-like
object in the same location.

Three incredible UFO videos
in just four years,

all shot near Nevado del Tolima.

These are three
extraordinary videos of UFOs.

In fact, one has been called
the best UFO video of all time.

All three were taken
in broad daylight.

All three show
what could only be described

as a metallic craft.

And all three were filmed
near the Tolima volcano.

You have to ask yourself,
"What is going on here?"

[Narrator] Could these three
remarkable sightings

around the Tolima volcano

be evidence
of extraterrestrial activity?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest clues may be found

by examining the volcano's
mysterious history.

[Pamela Smith] The Tolima
people of Colombia hold

their volcanic mountain
of the same name

in great reverence

because, in their telling,

it is the place
where the life of Earth meets

the sky deities,
the life of the above land.

The legends tell us
that this was a place

where humankind
could meet and mingle

with the so-called gods.

And what's interesting to me
is that

very curious ancient artifacts
were found at Tolima.

[Narrator]
In the late 19th century,

tomb robbers exploring
the base of Nevado del Tolima

stumbled upon a gravesite
that dated back 1,500 years.

Among the funerary objects
found there were hundreds

of small two-to-three-inch-long
gold figurines.

[Tsoukalos]
According to archaeologists,

in the ancient culture
of the Tolima,

they specialized in creating
thousands of little gold objects

that they would put in the tombs

of the deceased,

essentially,
to pay off the journey

from the land of the living
to the land of the dead.

They were all in the shape
of fish, birds, frogs,

anything you can imagine.

But 17 look like
modern-day planes.

We can clearly see
that the wings are attached

at the bottom of the fuselage,

and in the back of the fuselage,
you actually have stabilizers.

This is not anything
that exists in nature.

[Narrator] Could it be that
the ancient gold artifacts

found at the base
of Nevado del Tolima

are really depictions
of flying vehicles?

[Childress] The idea that people
could actually envision

modern airplanes at that time,

just as a-a speculation,

seems pretty, uh,
fantastic, really.

And you would think
that they are really making

these gold airplanes

after something
they had genuinely seen.

[Tsoukalos] The ancient
astronaut theory suggests

the reason why they were
commemorating these things

is because they witnessed craft

flying in and flying out
of these volcanoes.

And you have to wonder
if maybe our ancestors

were seeing the same things
we're seeing today.

For many of us,

the possibility
of actually seeing a UFO

is a thrilling,
once-in-a-lifetime event,

so it's really exciting to think
that there are places

around the world
where people frequently witness

unidentified
anomalous phenomena.

From vast stretches of land
like the 37th parallel

and mysterious orbs
over Great Britain

to military encounters
and civilian sightings,

perhaps one day,

we will solve the mystery
of just who

or what is appearing

at these UFO hot spots.

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