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NARRATOR: Unexplained sightings.

MAN: The first responders on the scene reported a UFO.

NARRATOR: Miraculous appearances.

Inside the tilma was the Virgin Mother.

NARRATOR: And visions that changed the world.

WOMAN: This extraordinary sign from the heavens

becomes one of the crucial turning points in human history.

NARRATOR: Stories of strange encounters accompany many

of history's major events.

Is it merely coincidence?

Or might it be evidence of extraterrestrial intervention?

MAN: It appears that there is an ongoing plan

in place, a hidden hand in history that is manipulating

events for a certain given outcome.

NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world believe we

have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And if so, might mankind's greatest moments have been

influenced by alien encounters?

NARRATOR: Japan.

March 11,2011.

Emanating 43 miles off the eastern coast

of the Oshika Peninsula...

one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history...

A magnitude 9.0... Shakes the earth.

The massive movement of two tectonic plates instantly

moves the entire Japanese mainland some 8 feet,

ripping down buildings, setting fires, and killing

thousands of people.

But the worst is yet to come.

The earthquake also triggers enormous tsunamis.

Waves as high as 130 feet begin smashing ashore

with devastating consequences.

MAN: One wave in particular

struck the Fukushima Daiichi power generating plant

and overwhelmed the safety systems, which caused

the plant to enter a critical phase and release radioactive

material into the atmosphere and into the water.

NARRATOR: With the nuclear power plant's reactors melting

down and radiation seeping into the atmosphere,

the authorities evacuate the region.

The only people who remain are employees who struggle

for days to prevent a larger catastrophe from occurring.

But according to eyewitnesses on the scene, these workers

were not alone.

There were UFO sightings reported in some

significant numbers in that area in the weeks and the days

leading up to the earthquake and tsunami.

And there were a number of UFO sightings reported

in the immediate area directly afterward.

MAN: And this suggests the possibility that

extraterrestrials were involved in stabilizing

that situation.

Because had that Fukushima plant melted down, it would

have made a large swath of Asia uninhabitable for a very

long time.

DIFFERENT MAN: Is it possible that

extraterrestrials became aware of this meltdown and they did

something to lessen the impact of this disaster

and ultimately save mankind from what could have been

a much worse cataclysm?

NARRATOR: Could extraterrestrials really have

been present at the Fukushima meltdown,

and might they have

helped to prevent it from being an even more

catastrophic disaster?

Ancient astronaut theorists point out that similar

accounts of strange objects seen in the sky were also

reported 25 years earlier during the meltdown

at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

CHILDRESS: A number of witnesses reported that there

were UFOs hovering around the power station

and that even beams of light

were coming down from these UFOs and doing

something to the nuclear power plants, and keeping them from

having a much worse meltdown than they did have.

PITTMAN: Some have speculated that the UFOs that were seen

during the crisis may have been, perhaps, protecting us,

trying to stave off a horrifying nuclear explosion.

Or if not protecting us, at least protecting our world.

NARRATOR: Was it simply good fortune that the nuclear

accidents at Fukushima and Chernobyl weren't far

more deadly?

Or is it possible that the UFOs eyewitnesses spotted were

responsible for averting these catastrophes when humans were

powerless to do so?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe these encounters

weren't random occurrences, but part

of an extraterrestrial agenda that has been in place

on Earth for thousands of years.

It appears that there is an ongoing plan in place,

a hidden hand in history that is manipulating events,

that we are interacting with an alien civilization

and that we are experiencing the fruits of what they are

offering us because our history is being intelligently

guided and directed to steer us towards

a particular outcome.

NARRATOR: But if alleged alien encounters really are evidence

that extraterrestrials are intervening in human affairs,

what is their purpose?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the answer can be

found by looking back at the very earliest alien encounters

ever recorded.

Mt. Sinai, the 15th century B.C.

According to the Bible's Book of Exodus, it was on the peak

of this holy mountain that Moses met with God.

But ancient astronaut theorists believe Moses'

encounter may have been with a different kind

of otherworldly entity.

There's an interesting legend passed down

from temple times itself that when Moses ascended to.

Mt. Sinai to speak with God, a cloud came down from heaven

and told Moses, "Come into the cloud to ascend to God."

A door opened in the cloud, and Moses walked in and it

closed behind him and he ascended.

DIFFERENT MAN: The Lord descends with smoke, fire,

loud noise, trembling and so on.

All religions speak about the same thing.

They use different names and the stories change,

but the basic stories are always the same:

Somebody descended with loud noise, smoke, fire.

The humans could not understand what it was.

They misinterpreted and believed that this was God

or the gods.

It's just a misinterpretation.

I am absolutely sure... there's no doubt that we were visited

by beings from outer space.

NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists, such

accounts of unearthly encounters can be found

in every major religion, including Islam, where the

angel Gabriel, also known as Jibril, was said to be

the intermediary between the prophet Muhammad

and the Muslim god Allah.

Jibril normally would come and dispense wisdom to

Muhammad inside this cave that he was dwelling in.

But on two occasions, Muhammad did not meet Jibril

in the cave in person; Muhammad went outside the

cave, and it was at this time that something absolutely

fantastic happened.

What did Muhammad see when he went outside the cave?

The records show that there was a magnificent shining

object there in front of him.

It was said to have 600 wings, and it was burning as if it

was on fire.

What do we know of in modern times that could add up to

a sighting like that?

It's obvious.

A craft that would be hovering there in front of him, giving

off brilliant white light that he interpreted as fire.

And when he went out and saw this magnificent shining

object, the same wisdom that he was getting from Jibril was

imparted to him, though he could not see any being; He

only could see this object.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that many of the stories of gods

and angels descending from the heavens are not actually

divine events, but extraterrestrial visitations?

And if so, are they purposely guiding our future?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe further evidence can

be found by examining a famous vision so important,

it changed the course of human history.

NARRATOR: Rome.

October 27, 312 A.D.

Just north of the city, the emperor Constantine leads his

troops toward the Milvian Bridge and a decisive battle

with Maxentius to reclaim his throne.

At stake is control over the western part of the vast

Roman Empire.

According to an account from the historian Eusebius,

on the eve of the battle, Constantine looks up into the

sky and sees what he believes is a divine vision.

Constantine and his followers saw

in the sky what their chroniclers say was a huge,

white, fiery cross.

Now, his followers didn't know what to

make of this, but Constantine decided that this was

the Christian cross.

WOMAN: Constantine feels, after viewing this

extraordinary sign from the heavens, this lighted cross

in the sky, that he will go forth the next day and he will

conquer the Roman Empire, and this is exactly what he does.

This vision becomes one of the crucial

turning points in human history.

NARRATOR: After winning the brutal

battle of Milvian Bridge, Constantine consolidates his

power and begins a campaign of religious tolerance across

the empire, and he himself converts to Christianity.

But what exactly did Constantine see in the sky

that ended up changing the course

of Western civilization?

Was it a divine vision or something else?

Don't we all see crosses up in the sky

when we look at planes?

Because you have lights on the sides and at the front.

And if you have a little bit of light shining on it,

sometimes they look like crosses.

So we have to ask ourselves: Is it possible that this was

absolutely no Christian symbol at all, but that it was

adapted over time after something that was witnessed

up in the sky?

NARRATOR: Is it possible that extraterrestrials were

responsible for Constantine's vision?

Ancient astronaut theorists say one compelling piece

of evidence that aliens have tried to manipulate mankind

through religious visions still exists today.

Mexico City.

December 1531.

According to an account called the "Nican Mopohua," published

in the Aztec language of Nahuatl, a peasant named Juan

Diego was walking in the countryside when he heard

a beautiful voice singing on the other side of a hill.

Diego climbed the hill and saw an angelic vision:

A woman in white garments that shone like the sun.

And she said to him, "Juan Diego, I am the."

"Virgin Mary, and I'm asking you to build a sanctuary"

"for me here on this hill."

Well, Juan Diego fell to his knees in awe, and he said,

"Great lady, I will do as you desire."

NARRATOR: But according to the story, Juan Diego couldn't

convince the local bishop that he had actually seen the.

Virgin Mary, so he went back to the hill, where he again

saw the vision.

MAGLIOCCO: He says, "Lady, please give me a sign",

"because nobody believes me when I tell them that I"

"have seen you."

And she says, "Juan Diego, take off your cloak."

And he does, he takes off his cloak, and she fills his

cloak with roses.

MAN: He took the roses to the bishop, and the bishop

fell down on his knees, because it wasn't the roses as

to why he believed the story from Diego, but inside

the tilma was a painting of the Virgin Mother.

And the bishop believed, and they built the church

on that hill.

NARRATOR: This cloak still exists today, and despite its

frail fabric, it has reportedly remained

in pristine condition despite the cruel ravages of time.

Right now you can go to the church and see

the tilma hanging there.

And it has not degraded over the 400-plus years that

they've had it.

It's been through a fire, it's been through an explosion,

where purportedly an iron cross was twisted from

the explosion, but the tilma right next to the cross was

still fine.

NARRATOR: Could this sacred image on the cloak really be

evidence of a visitation by the Virgin Mary?

Or might it have a different, otherworldly explanation?

In addition to the tilma inexplicably enduring

for hundreds of years, those who have studied it have found

other unexplainable qualities.

Most bizarre of all are the eyes of the image.

Approximately 7 to 8 millimeters wide, what we see

inside those eyes is a highly enigmatic mystery, because it

appears that there are characters in the eyes, the

faces of the people who were there at the time that

the tilma was unveiled by Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531.

NARRATOR: But if Our Lady of Guadalupe really does have

otherworldly origins, did it come from a heavenly realm or

somewhere else?

Not only do ancient astronaut theorists believe Juan Diego's

vision was an extraterrestrial encounter, but even some

members of the church claim that it was something other

than a religious experience.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is definitely

a heavenly visitor.

In my opinion, though, what her story said disagrees

with what the Bible says.

In fact, she said she would protect the people that

worship at the church.

What that does is really deify Mary when the Bible is very

clear that only God can protect those that serve him.

And so any otherworldly being that demands worship or

respect, it cannot be an angel from God.

Juan Diego may have witnessed not just

an apparition but an actual live extraterrestrial

appearing through some sort of advanced technology whose

mission was to impart spiritual faith and a thirst

for the divine.

NARRATOR: Could it be that some of history's most

significant religious visions have actually been produced by

alien beings carrying out a secret mission?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and believe further

proof that extraterrestrials have been guiding our future

can be found in the story of a mysterious magician that may

have helped propel humanity into the modern age.

NARRATOR: The English Channel. 1588.

King Philip ll of Spain has dispatched an enormous armada

of ships to invade England.

They are reportedly filled with more than 20,000 soldiers

and scores of medieval torture devices.

According to some historians, Philip, a devout Catholic,

wants to bring the brutal Spanish Inquisition to England

to punish Queen Elizabeth I and her subjects for leaving

the Catholic Church.

MAGLIOCCO: Philip was a Catholic, and England had been

turned Protestant by Elizabeth's father, Henry VIII,

when he broke with the Catholic Church in order to

marry Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn.

So, to Philip, the English were sinners and their ways

needed to be reformed.

So he sent a great armada, a great fleet of over 130 ships.

There had never been anything like it before.

England didn't have a lot of money, and a lot of their

vessels were not even official government vessels.

They were whatever merchant seamen and sailors could

cobble together.

NARRATOR: The Spanish Armada seemed invincible

and the British severely over-matched.

But when the two forces finally met, superior English

tactics and strategy forced the armada to retreat.

But the number of Spanish ships was so overwhelming that

the English couldn't score a decisive victory until a freak

storm struck.

The English ships were more maneuverable

than the Spanish ships.

In order to counter this, the Spanish cut their anchors.

They figured, "Well, let's get rid of some of this dead"

"weight," so to speak.

But when the winds hit, they had no way to find a mooring,

and then therefore the winds blew their ships all over

the place, including into the coast.

They lost roughly half of their fleet due to

the weather.

McGOWAN: From the point of view of the English people,

this extraordinary storm that destroys the Spanish Armada is

a miracle, destroying the might of Spain when mankind

cannot do it.

NARRATOR: The English believed this miraculous storm was the

work of God, but some ancient astronaut theorists claim

there is evidence that suggests it may have actually

been the work of otherworldly beings.

Their first clue comes from one of Queen Elizabeth's

closest advisers, a mysterious man named John Dee.

John Dee was the court astrologer,

mathematician, philosopher, medical doctor at the court

of Queen Elizabeth I.

He was an extraordinarily learned man for his time.

BEIRICH: He dealt with magic and potions and what we might

call spells to try to effect change.

John Dee was a Hermetic thinker.

Hermetic thinkers believed that there was a contemporary

of Moses by the name of Hermes Trismegistus who

lived in Egypt.

And, just as God revealed the Ten Commandments to Moses, God

revealed to Hermes the secret knowledge of how nature worked

and that with the proper mind-set and proper tools that

one could uncover essentially what God was thinking by

reading the world.

NARRATOR: According to legend, John Dee used this knowledge

of the natural and supernatural worlds to predict

the storm that would ultimately thwart

the Spanish Armada.

BEIRICH: The story goes that John Dee told Queen Elizabeth

not to worry because a storm would destroy

the Spanish fleet.

And then, when it happened, it confirmed his knowledge

of the world and what lay beneath it.

NARRATOR: But if John Dee really did make such

a prophecy, what was the source?

Was it something divine?

Or is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists contend,

that this mysterious man was using Hermetic wisdom to

establish communication with extraterrestrial beings?

MAN: John Dee was very interested in the occult

and seemed to spend a lot of time harnessing or finding

a way to communicate to life forms beyond this Earth.

We really don't understand the influence over John Dee as to

how he was able to interpret such accurate information.

It's very possible that John Dee was receiving his

information from an outside source that was possibly

an extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR: But if John Dee's pursuit of Hermetic wisdom

gave him insights into the alien agenda on Earth, what

did he find?

And why would extraterrestrials want to sink

the Spanish Armada?

It is possible these extraterrestrials had a vested

interest in preserving the monarchy of Queen Elizabeth,

in seeing that the monarchy was not overthrown, and they

repelled any such invading forces in order to make sure

that this carefully constructed power structure

was kept fully intact.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

extraterrestrials were not acting to favor Protestants

over Catholics but may have wanted to preserve the great

cultural and scientific developments that would occur

in England in the coming centuries.

PHILLIPS: What happened in England after Queen.

Elizabeth's time was nothing less than miraculous.

We had the Scientific Revolution.

We had people like Isaac Newton.

And we had other great scientists develop what

eventually became the Industrial Revolution, steam

trains, electricity, and the modern world.

NARRATOR: The period that followed also gave rise to

champions of the scientific method, like Francis Bacon

and John Locke, and led to an age of exploration that would

give rise to a greater investment in the still

fledgling new land of America.

If the Spanish had succeeded in conquering.

England, they would have brought the Inquisition

with them in a period of darkness and torture.

And, likely, the Industrial Revolution never would

have happened.

NARRATOR: Might some otherworldly entity really

have intervened in the Spanish invasion, sending a storm to

destroy their ships and ensure the future of England?

And if so, is this a sign that aliens really do have

an interest in our future?

Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the vision

that inspired one of the world's newest religions.

NARRATOR: Manchester, New York.

September 21, 1823.

As he settles into bed,

a 17-year-old farmhand named Joseph Smith begins to say

his prayers.

Suddenly, without warning, an overpowering light envelops

his room, and a robed figure appears.

According to Smith's account, "Not only was his robe"

"exceedingly white, but his whole person was glorious"

"beyond description."

Speaking from the center of the light, the angel, whose

name is Moroni, sends Smith on a quest for several sacred

texts hidden near a local tree.

BEIRICH: Upon locating the tree, Joseph dug and indeed

found the texts, but they recorded a language which he

could not read.

A second visitation from Moroni told Joseph Smith where

he could find what we might call a device of some kind

that would allow him to read the texts.

TSOUKALOS: Joseph Smith was given this translating stone,

the Urim and the Thummim, with which he was able to not only

write down this text, but also

to be able to translate it.

BEIRICH: He then translated the texts into English, which

become The Book of Mormon.

And it depicts, among other things, that after Jesus

ascended into heaven, he came to the Americas and ministered

to the native peoples here, to convert them to his way

of life, and that at some point the texts that become.

The Book of Mormon are deposited here so that Joseph

Smith could find them.

NARRATOR: 7 years later, Smith publishes these texts as

part of The Book of Mormon, establishing The Church

of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a denomination

with more than 15 million followers today.

Many religions worldwide have been founded

with the help of angels.

Whether they're representatives of Christian,

Muslim, or Buddhist gods, these apparitions are thought

to be a way the gods intervene on Earth with humans.

MAGLIOCCO: Angels, when they appear in religious legends

and in myths, generally are messengers between

the heavenly realm and the human realm.

PETERSON: Throughout the Bible, we have stories

of angels and demons appearing to mankind.

In fact, Paul says that, "You be careful how you entertain"

"strangers because some of you entertain angels unaware."

The Bible is very clear that angels can take on human form

and appear in the likeness of man.

NARRATOR: But ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that sometimes these heavenly visions and apparitions may

not actually be angels sent by an omniscient god.

And curiously, the so-called angel that led Joseph Smith to

the sacred texts that would become The Book of Mormon did

not profess to have heavenly origins, but claimed to be

from another part of the universe.

WILCOCK: Now, Moroni did not say that he was an angel.

He said that at one time he had lived on Earth, but that

now he came from the Pleiades star cluster.

And he said there were many others like him.

When we look at the background of The Book

of Mormon, we see some very interesting parallels to what

could be an extraterrestrial tale.

This angel, Moroni, that appears to Joseph Smith seems

to be more than just chance.

It's very possible that Joseph Smith was interacting

with a type of extraterrestrial.

WILCOCK: These extraterrestrials may be

giving these messages to world leaders and to prophets

and seers and mystics to let us know that we are the

product of an extraterrestrial interbreeding, and an ongoing

contact with these other people who were not

born on Earth.

And we have lost touch with that history only because we

refuse to believe the truth that is recorded in our

historical books and see what's right in front of our

faces, even now with the encounters that are happening

in the modern world.

NARRATOR: But if an extraterrestrial being really

did inspire Joseph Smith to found the Mormon church, why?

Joseph Smith's encounter ultimately led the Mormons to

migrate west to establish a new holy land in Utah, which

has led some to speculate that aliens, once again, were

guiding the course of humanity.

BEIRICH: Moroni let Joseph Smith know that he would be

the prophet, and he would lead his people to

the new Jerusalem.

WILCOCK: Mormonism is another example, potentially, of

an extraterrestrial influence steering the course of our

humanity, and helping steer the outcome of historical

events here on Earth.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Joseph Smith, the founder

of the Mormon religion, was guided by

an extraterrestrial being?

And if so, was this alien encounter another attempt to

guide us into a more enlightened age?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and believe further

evidence can be found by examining a dream that helped

defeat one of the 20th century's most

diabolical dictators.

NARRATOR: Olympia, Greece.

This valley on the Peloponnesus Peninsula, once filled

with temples, altars, and statues, is where the ancient.

Greeks came to pay tribute to their gods.

Near the temple to Zeus, the king of the gods, was

a sanctuary dedicated to the Moirai, the only beings that

Zeus was said to fear.

These mythical figures were believed to control destiny.

English speakers call them "The Fates."

In ancient times, fate and human destiny were

thought to be in the hands of the gods.

There was much less this idea that we're in charge of our

own destiny and that we make our own lives through choices

and decisions and action.

The idea was that human destiny was in someone

else's hands.

It was in the hands of the fates.

There were three supernatural creatures:

Clotho, who spun the thread of life; Lachesis, who wove it;

And Atropos, who cut the thread at the moment of death.

In the ancient times, gods and goddesses were thought to be

able to influence people's destiny, and that they were

constantly interfering in human affairs.

They were constantly messing with humans.

They could make humans do all kinds of things.

They could disguise themselves.

They could trick humans.

They could persuade humans.

And yet, that final moment of destiny was still in the hands

of the Fates.

NARRATOR: Other ancient cultures had similar beliefs.

The Egyptians personified fate as the god Shai who was said

to control the actions of humans,

while the Vedic texts

of ancient India talked about a universal order called Rta.

There was a similar legend in ancient Mesopotamia.

And it was of the Mamitu, who was a goat-headed goddess who

lived with the Anunnaki in the realms of the sky.

The Mamitu was also in charge of our fate.

So you have to wonder, was the Mamitu and these other gods

of fate some kind of extraterrestrials that were

controlling our lives?

NARRATOR: Is it possible, as some ancient astronaut

theorists suggest, that the gods who were said to control

our fate were actually members of an advanced

alien civilization?

And if so, how were they able to interfere in people's

lives undetected?

Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest that

extraterrestrials not only communicate with us through

visions and physical encounters, but even through

our dreams.

New York City.

Spring, 1940.

At the Bell Laboratory complex in Manhattan, a young engineer

named David Parkinson is using a device called

a potentiometer to track the varying electrical voltages

that course through a telephone when people use it.

Parkinson's work with potentiometers seems

unimportant compared to the big news of the day.

REPORTER: The Nazis have begun their shattering blitz

on Britain.

[Air raid siren blaring]

NARRATOR: The Nazis have

conquered most of Europe, forcing the Allies to flee the

continent in a ragtag flotilla of civilian boats after

the Battle of Dunkirk.

McGOWAN: The Nazis were almost undefeatable at this time

in the war, and there was a tremendous despair and fear

amongst the Allied forces.

And the story goes that David Parkinson had a dream one

night, and in the dream he was standing beside a certain

type of gun.

And that gun was hitting every Nazi plane

with absolute accuracy.

NARRATOR: Parkinson's dream gave him a brilliant idea.

He could use the same technology that tracked

electrical charges flowing through a telephone to track

enemy airplanes flying through the sky.

McGOWAN: And in the dream, he was able to see the technology

that was created to make this gun so accurate.

And it is said that when he awoke, he went back to the

labs and he ultimately created the technology that was

necessary to shoot down Nazi aircraft.

NARRATOR: Parkinson's dream inspired him to create the M-9

electrical gun director, which allowed Allied anti-aircraft

guns to hit moving targets like the dangerous V-1 rocket

with incredible accuracy.

But how could such an advanced weapon be completely realized

in a single dream?

The weird part about it is this guy was

a scientist, but he knew nothing about aeronautics.

Because David Parkinson had no background in aerodynamics,

his contemporaries, other scientists, and the military

were literally taking him not seriously at all.

But he insisted, and he even spent a lot of his own time

creating prototypes, which eventually were found to work.

Throughout human history, there are amazing

stories of how mankind has been inspired through their

dreams and through their visions.

I think we have to ask ourselves, what is the source

of this inspiration?

Where do these dreams and visions come from?

Is it possible that we are being communicated with by

otherworldly beings?

NARRATOR: Could extraterrestrials really be

using dreams to convey ideas and information to

the human race?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and claim the proof

that dream manipulation is a real possibility can be found

in the human brain.

NARRATOR: Throughout history, many of mankind's greatest

thinkers have been inspired by their dreams.

Scientist James Watson claimed the double helix structure

of DNA came to him through his dream of a spiral staircase.

Friedrich August Kekulé discovered the chemical

structure of benzene when he had a dream

of a group of snakes swallowing their tails.

Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose mathematic principles are

still being used by quantum physicists today, said that he

obtained these mathematic theorems in dreams implanted

in his mind by the Hindu goddess Namagiri.

WILCOCK: We are seeing an ongoing pattern of dreams

being used to communicate information.

This is a widespread phenomenon.

It's been going on for many thousands of years,

and it continues right straight through to

the present day.

NARRATOR: Is it really possible that extraterrestrial

beings could actually manipulate our dreams?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes; And as evidence, they

point out that modern science is already starting to

understand how to interpret and manipulate dreams.

Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist who studies human brainwaves.

In one of his experiments, he shows pictures to test

subjects while they're awake and analyzes how their brains

process the images.

CERF: So each of those little squares here

corresponds to a cell in Matt's brain.

So, right now, Matt has 128 electrodes in his brain.

They come from all various parts

of his brain... right, left and so on.

All of those wires going to this computer,

and what we see here are the activities of those little

cells in his brain.

So if I pick cell number 36 and I double click on that,

what you see here is the activity inside his brain.

This is like a microphone sitting next to one cell

in his brain.

NARRATOR: Dr. Cerf can determine which cell stores

the memory of a particular picture, like movie star Cary

Grant, by analyzing which cell reacted when he showed it to

his test subject.

Once he's figured this out for dozens of cells, Dr. Cerf

waits for his patients to go to sleep and then watches

for signs that they're dreaming about the images he

has shown them.

In a very basic way, he can see his patients' dreams.

But in the future, Dr. Cerf may actually be able to

dictate our dreams by stimulating the set of cells

that store our memories about a person or event.

If I really map the entire sequence, if I know all

the, say, one million cells that encode Cary Grant in your

brain and know exactly what they are, and I activate all

of them, I stimulate all of them, then, we believe, you

are going to actually see Cary Grant.

NARRATOR: If aliens really have been coming to Earth

for thousands of years, could they be using similar

technology to manipulate our dreams?

Is it possible that the extraterrestrials don't

want to directly interfere in our society

but to guide us from behind the scenes?

And even though they have to push us along in certain

directions, we need to have the feeling that we're doing it,

even if it does include some extraterrestrial guidance.

HENRY: But they continue to communicate with humans

through dreams and visions and other methods of indirect

communication in order for them to provide guidance,

but also to provide this guidance in a hands-off way.

WILCOCK: Is it possible that they withdrew from our reality

because we had to modernize?

It could be that the purpose of this was to give us

the opportunity to follow them without being pushed.

And if they forced it upon us, we would simply worship them

as gods and we would have learned nothing.

But by doing it ourselves, we form our own path.

We actually make our own ascension experience.

And we become much more like them in the process.

NARRATOR: Has life on Earth been influenced by alien

encounters for thousands of years?

Are divine visions, prophetic dreams, and modern-day UFO

sightings all signs that we are being manipulated by

a more advanced race of beings?

Could it be that these encounters are not meant

for them to get to know us, but for us to get to know them?

And if so, what are they guiding us towards?

Perhaps we are getting closer to our ultimate destination,

and when we reach it, we will once again be reunited

with our alien ancestors.