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It was like being inside a nightmare,

then I realized this was not a dream.

NICK REDFERN: There is some sort of infiltration

of society going on.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: I think these abduction stories

are all part of a larger plan.

There is a reason why these people are being returned.

GEORGE NOORY: There are people who are going to bed tonight

who have no idea

that they'll do something that they've been programmed to do.

That's pretty scary.

NARRATOR: Since the dawn of civilization,

mankind has credited its origins to gods

and other visitors from the stars.

What if it were true?

Did extraterrestrial beings

really help to shape our history?

And if so, could the truth lie

with those who have been taken and returned?

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NARRATOR: Elista, Kalmykia, Russia.

July 16, 2007.

The President of the Kalmykia Republic,

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov,

discloses in an international primetime television interview

for Al Jazeera that nearly a decade prior,

he was abducted by extraterrestrials.

I-I was taken by my apartment in Moscow

to this spaceship.

Ilyumzhinov claimed he'd been taken aboard a UFO

by extraterrestrials dressed in these yellow outfits,

and essentially sort of given a tour of the UFO

onto which he was taken.

It's never been clear exactly how long

he was gone, but he said it was almost a day

where he was taken far away.

He said to another star,

on this massive vessel.

And this is his claim.

And, it's, I mean, an unbelievably outrageous claim.

But the problem is that this is a man

who is a very accomplished individual.

And when you listen to him speak about this,

he's very open about it.

He doesn't sound crazy,

except for the content of what he's saying.

There's an interesting theory about his story.

Given his position and his standing within the government,

when somebody like him speaks out,

it actually adds a great deal of weight to the UFO subject.

So an argument was made that

perhaps extraterrestrials abducted him

with the very hope that he would go public with the story,

expose more and more people to the existence

of the UFO phenomenon.

NARRATOR: Ilyumzhinov is the highest profile individual

to come forward with an admission

of being abducted by extraterrestrials

and subsequently returned to Earth.

However, he is just one of tens of thousands of people

that have made such claims,

dating back to the infamous case of Betty and Barney Hill,

who were allegedly abducted from their vehicle

on a New Hampshire road in 1961.

Purported extraterrestrial abductions involve men,

women and children of various cultures

and religious backgrounds.

This is a global phenomenon.

I've had people write to me from all around the world

about their abduction events.

It has nothing to do

with countries and everything to do with being human.

There are some themes in these abduction stories

that are universal or at least recur.

Some report being paralyzed.

Many report shifts in time.

Some lose vast amount of time.

TSOUKALOS: It would be one thing

if there were only ten or 20 abduction stories worldwide.

The fact of the matter is that there are

hundreds of thousands of abduction reports

all around the world.

DAVID WILCOCK: The real question we need to ask ourselves

is not whether abduction is taking place.

It's very obvious that it's taking place.

We need to try to crack into the mystery

and understand why this is happening.

What makes us so interesting to these people

that they want to be bringing us up there,

performing what appear to be medical experiments,

and then putting us back down on Earth?

NARRATOR: Could it be that hundreds of thousands of people

worldwide have been taken off-planet

only to be placed back into society?

But if so, for what purpose?

Perhaps clues can be found by exploring the age-old accounts

of human abductions by otherworldly beings

that can be found in nearly every culture

throughout the world.

The stories of the representative of humanity

who is taken to another place permrmte mythic lore.

This is a great universal story.

We have Moses going up onto the mountain

and getting the Commandments and bringing them down.

We imagine they're on tablets, and somehow

this is going to be the guidance of the future of the people.

The prophet Enoch,

the prophet Ezekiel going up into heaven

and learning all of the things of heaven.

The fairies or fae, in Celtic mythology,

draw you into an adventure.

Often, there is some seduction.

Sometimes, it's a demon who will force you

away from your path into something, some kind of hell,

but you somehow escape later

and come back with new knowledge,

new skills, new strengths.

ARIEL BAR TZADOK: What's curious is, when we look

at the situations, the stories as described

in ancient literature, and looking at modern experiences

interpreted as alien abductions, they seem to be identical.

These stories, these legends have been around

for centuries.

They can't all just be made up.

There's too many of them.

They're too prolific, they're too widespread.

There has to be some basis to them.

For what purpose have these things been happening

throughout history?

Who knows?

KATHLEEN MCGOWAN: Perhaps the most important thread

that runs through the abduction stories

is that all of these people are returned.

They're not kept.

They're allowed to come back.

They are brought back.

So the question is: Why?

NARRATOR: Might what we refer to today

as alien abductions trace back thousands of years?

If so, are those that are returned

part of a bigger extraterrestrial plan?

Perhaps more evidence can be found

by examining an ancient abduction

that took place in the jungles of Southeast Asia.

Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia.

1860.

A group of missionaries

traveling through the Cambodian jungle

stumble across the largest

and most elaborate religious complex in the world,

Angkor Wat.

The Khmer people mysteriously abandoned the ancient site

in the 15th century.

It was enveloped by the surrounding vegetation

and lay forgotten for centuries.

Archaeologists believe construction likely began

under the rule of King Suryavarman II

in 1116 A.D.

Cambodian lore credits its design

to Preah Pisnokar, a half-human, half-divine architect

who is said to have been taken off-planet

and returned to Earth

with the plans to build this advanced complex.

Preah Pisnokar's legend is one of the best stories

you could ever imagine for the ancient astronaut theory.

Because in the legend,

he is taken to what's called Indra's heaven,

that was orbiting the Earth

as described in the ancient Vedic texts.

When Preah Pisnokar first was introduced

to go to Indra's heaven,

he was exposed to this blue light

where he himself describes

how he felt his entire body being rejuvenated.

And the question is,

could it be that that was some type

of a decontamination pod?

CHILDRESS: It's quite curious that

an ancient Cambodian legend like this would contain

a scene where the main character

has to go through some decontamination process,

and one that's done in space.

It's done in this celestial home of the gods.

He underwent this intense education program

and weeks later, he was rejoining his people,

and he essentially imparted all this knowledge

that was given to him by the extraterrestrials to his people.

NARRATOR: Upon his return,

Pisnokar is said to have designed Angkor Wat.

It was built as a replica of the heavenly original

in anticipation of the return of the gods.

CHILDRESS: He's returned to the Earth

to give humans all of this amazing knowledge,

and to help humans advance.

And, in his case,

by building an amazing temple city

that is one of the wonders of the world today.

The one issue that people don't focus on too much

is the matter of

the abductees being returned from where they were taken.

We can look back in countless religious texts

where contactees are given rules and regulations

and ideas to follow

in terms of elevating the human race.

And sometimes they would build structures for the gods,

doing their bidding, whatever that might be.

It could well be an ongoing program that hasn't stopped.

It's just that we don't realize, necessarily, what's going on.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that the story of Preah Pisnokar is true?

Are select humans being taken off-planet

and inserted back into society, even today?

But if so, to what end?

Perhaps more clues can be found

by exploring the details of modern alien abductions.

NARRATOR: Harvard University.

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1991.

Dr. John E. Mack,

a Harvard professor and renowned psychiatrist

working with trauma patients,

is convinced by a colleague

to examine those who claim to have been abducted

by extraterrestrials.

He started, according to him,

having his clients tell him these very, very detailed

and traumatizing, in many cases, accounts

of beings coming and taking them,

and doing experimentation,

and even this discussion of alien hybrids

that were produced from experimentation.

And in the beginning,

he talks about how he had a lot of trouble

considering this to be even close

to being in the realm of possibility.

You know, he's an ardent academic.

And his job is to find the rational approach

to what's really going on here.

And, of course, he started trying to analyze

what's the state of mind of these people?

Are there any connections between the type of people

that are recounting these stories?

You know, so that way, he can develop a psychological profile.

But what he found was that that's not the case.

These stories were coming from a wide demographic of people,

people from all over the world.

TSOUKALOS: John Mack was a skeptic.

At first, he didn't believe a single thing,

but after five or six encounters with experiencers,

he changed his tune.

So, for a skeptic

to all of a sudden change 180 degrees,

that's amazing.

Because John Mack applied all of his clinical knowledge

on those experiencers, and due to that,

because it is a science, he had to conclude

that extraterrestrial visitations

are not a likelihood, but a certainty.

He also said the abduction phenomenon

is not a modern day occurrence only.

NOORY: He was convinced,

beyond a shadow of a doubt,

that people were being abducted by extraterrestrials.

He was ridiculed,

scorned by his colleagues,

laughed at, but he did not stop.

He continued to try to get these answers

as to what was happening to these people.

REDFERN: During the course of his research,

Dr. John Mack came to realize

that the alien abduction phenomenon

wasn't one of scarcity.

It was essentially an epidemic.

Reports were coming from all across the planet.

But more importantly, there were people who had had vague dreams

and memories of something going on,

but clearly didn't realize they'd been abducted.

And this suggested to John Mack

that there were what we could call "silent abductees."

NOORY: Most people who are being abducted

don't even know it. They don't think about it.

They don't dream about it.

They're unaware of it.

Because, I believe, the extraterrestrials

have somehow washed their memory.

However, in hypnosis,

when you regress somebody,

you may be able to pick up things

where they do recollect what has happened.

It happened in the original case of Barney and Betty Hill,

where the psychiatrist, Dr. Benjamin Simon,

put them under via hypnosis.

And that's when they started talking

about the things that had happened.

You cannot erase the mind permanently,

and-and the ETs know that,

but in terms of just full consciousness,

they're able to knock it out.

There are people who are going to bed tonight

who have no idea

that they may be abducted by extraterrestrials.

They won't remember it, and they won't recall it,

and they won't even know.

The big question is why?

NARRATOR: While researchers suggest

that many individuals that have been returned

may never be identified,

they believe clues to the extraterrestrial motive

may be found in the specific characteristic traits

of those being taken.

1999.

The International Community for Alien Research

begins conducting the largest and most in-depth study

into the specific characteristics of abductees.

MONTALDO: The International Community for Alien Research

was founded by about a half a dozen ufologists

who were not satisfied with what was going on

in the field at the time.

There wasn't new legitimate abduction research being done.

Started with the questionnaire,

which is now going on about 13 years now.

I believe about 18,000 contactees

have taken the study.

What this has told us is it's showed us similarities

in all of these abductions.

We've learned that abductions start pre-birth

and it starts in family lines.

NARRATOR: The findings of the study also showed

a greater percentage of individuals with hazel

or green eyes are being abducted,

as well as those having Rh negative blood types.

"The Rh Factor"

refers to the presence of specific proteins

or antigens in the blood.

Most humans have these antigens,

and are considered Rh positive.

MONTALDO: About 25,000 to 35,000 years ago,

out of the blue, no scientist today understands why,

Rh negative emerged on the scene.

Most people don't realize,

but man was just positive blood until then.

There was no Rh negative.

Really what's funny about this is,

is why would Mother Nature create Rh negative?

What's odd about both the Rh negative

and the green eyes is they're mutations.

They're both rare.

Rh negative is only 15% of world population.

Green-eyed people, I think, make up two or three percent

of the world's population.

But almost 50% of contactees have hazel or green eyes.

We don't think the color, per se, has anything to do with it.

It's the fact that it's a mutation,

and for some reason the extraterrestrials either

created it or if they didn't create it,

they seemed to have an extreme interest in it.

NARRATOR: Could there really be

a genetic component at play

in the extraterrestrial abduction phenomenon?

And might these lineages trace back

to the ancient accounts of otherworldly encounters?

If so, does this provide

insight into a long-term agenda?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by extracting what lies buried in the memories

of those that have been returned.

And by examining what might also be hidden

beneath their skin.

NARRATOR: Ulster County, New York.

December 26, 1985.

Best-selling fiction author Whitley Strieber

is vacationing at his cabin when he experiences

a strange event that will forever change his life.

STRIEBER: I woke up in the middle of the night,

right after Christmas,

in an incredibly peculiar situation.

It was like being inside a nightmare,

and at the time, I was a horror novelist,

and I thought, "Oh, good," but only for a second

because then I realized this was not a dream.

It was not going away.

I had these big-eyed creatures in front of me,

like big insects, and I was in a little round room.

And these other darting, dark-blue figures were there.

It degenerated very quickly into

what amounted to a kind of assault.

I, then, found myself the next morning, waking up

feeling pretty beat up and very, very confused.

What could've happened?

Was it a nightmare?

What was it?

NARRATOR: According to Strieber,

these strange abductions continued to occur.

And after one of his experiences,

he was returned with physical proof.

STRIEBER: My ear began to hurt,

the top of my ear, and I felt it,

and it was a little lump.

That lump...

had not been there before.

I went to a doctor,

and he said, "It's a little cyst.

I'll take care of it."

When he opened it up, he said,

"It's a disk."

Then he touched it with his scalpel,

and it went down into the peanu-- the bottom of my ear.

And he pulled out, immediately said,

"I don't know what to do about this,"

and closed it up.

NARRATOR: Could it be that people are being returned

with objects implanted in them?

Objects of otherworldly origins?

NARRATOR: Houston, Texas.

Former law enforcement officer and investigator, Derrel Sims,

has spent three decades collecting evidence

left behind at abduction scenes throughout the country.

SIMS: I treat it as a crime scene.

And to do that you need to know what to look for.

In some of these cases, we'll find a burn mark,

and in rare cases, radiation traces where a UFO has landed.

People will come back with a scar

like a dermatological scoop mark.

And sometimes we find some type of implant.

Thank you for coming by, Giorgio.

NARRATOR: In April 2016, Giorgio Tsoukalos

met with Derrel Sims to get a closer look

at some of the hard evidence that Sims

has collected through the years.

One of the things we found

on these abductees is

-alien leaves like a fingerprint on them. -Really?

And when they touch them, it leaves

a subdermal mark on you in the form of fingerprints,

-or of long fingers. -Mm-hmm.

And here's an example.

It impacts the body subdermally.

TSOUKALOS: This is amazing.

SIMS: It-it literally goes into the skin.

And you can't wash it off, you can't get it off

with any kind of solvent or anything.

And here is another good example.

Mm-hmm.

Here are some other handprints

that we've found around the world.

This is in Chile.

The lady who got touched by this entity

with huge prints on both front and back.

And left caustic burns on her body.

-So this was visible light. -Okay.

This same handprint literally shows up

in several other cases as well.

A little girl shows the same exact hand.

This was fluorescence.

TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.

SIMS: A police officer gets abducted.

The entity actually comes through the glass window

and left the holographic imagery in the glass.

TSOUKALOS: Very odd.

SIMS: Here's one that fascinates me.

This is a print that came off a wall in Pennsylvania.

The entire family are abductees

with the exception of one person

and this one touched the wall and you can see

the fluorescence there where we lit it up.

-Mm-hmm. -This is the case of,

uh, a lady that this is our long fing--

You see the huge, long fingerprints

and the suction cups on these forefingers.

And this is on her headboard.

That's fantastic.

You've now spent many years studying this.

And you see fingerprints like that, handprints,

and you know, residue,

what is your theory what we are looking at here?

SIMS: My estimation as a former police officer

is that there was an oil-like substance

that apparently exudes from the body of the entity.

TSOUKALOS: That's bizarre.

There's some actual implants...

NARRATOR: Perhaps the most intriguing pieces of evidence

in Sims' collection are the alleged extraterrestrial

implants retrieved from various victims.

I want to show you something rather remarkable.

You can see the little objects here--

the perfect T and the one off to the side?

TSOUKALOS: Yes.

So we had them surgically excised.

And here's what we found.

-There's a good look at them. -Oh, wow!

-After they're taken out. -Okay.

SIMS: There was a biological cocoon

surrounding these originally.

TSOUKALOS: This is bizarre.

And-and what did they determine this is?

We had this done in a blinded study--

Los Alamos, New Mexico Tech.

They did a qualitative and quantitative analysis.

And they found-- Giorgio, you're not gonna believe this.

It turns out that the objects are meteoric in origin.

What's your opinion then?

And how did it get into the woman's body?

In my opinion,

what we're looking at are objects that have been

installed inside these people.

Someone is doing this.

This is entity-related.

So, in my opinion, we're looking at real, actual evidence

of these cases.

TSOUKALOS: Well, this is amazing.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the implants collected

from the bodies of alleged abductees

are of extraterrestrial origin?

But if so, what is their purpose?

-Are aliens tracking humans -(rhythmic heartbeat)

on whom they've performed medical experiments?

Or might their ultimate agenda

be even more profound?

Perhaps further clues can be found by exploring

what many researchers believe

is the most compelling abduction account in modern history.

NARRATOR: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1998.

Investigative Journalist Linda Moulton Howe publishes

Glimpses of Other Realities Volume II: High Strangeness.

In it, she includes material on human interactions

with extraterrestrial beings and what she considers

one of the most compelling abduction cases on record.

As a reporter

who has always been investigating issues

having to do with science, medicine and the environment,

which is how I came into finding myself talking with people

in the human abduction syndrome.

I remember it was 1995 at the Eureka Springs Ozark

UFO Conference

and I was introduced to Jim Sparks.

And he unfolded

one of the most amazing human abduction stories

I've ever heard.

With Jim,

he was aware of literally going through the ceiling,

going through the roof.

Many people in the abduction syndrome will describe this.

And he could see trees.

He could see the land receding.

But then, there would be a blackout period.

And then, he would be in the world of what he calls

"the Grey beings"

of which there are many different types.

And, he said one day, he remembered a computer screen

in front of him.

And that he knew that they were trying to make him

learn an alien symbol.

They wanted him to trace, for example, "A,"

the letter "A" in the alphabet.

It would be a line drawn from right to left,

left to right, right to left.

And it was the motion,

let alone just looks like a line.

But he said every one of their symbols and numbers

had embedded frequencies.

NARRATOR: In yet another encounter,

Sparks claimed to have been presented

with a sequence of images

depicting past lifetimes,

including scenes of ancient Rome

and culminating with images of primitive humans.

HOWE: When they went to an image

and showed him primates,

like in a forest,

he finally got it.

They have manipulated DNA and already evolving primates

to create something that was a hybrid of them,

and that life-form on this planet.

And it made him angry.

I think that he began to think

inside of his own mind,

"What if it's not all positive?

"What if there is some sort of a scheme,

"some sort of evolutionary strategy,

"that Earth life is being made by these beings

"for a reason that is self-serving to them

and not self-serving to the Earth and humanity?"

CHILDRESS: When you look at his account,

you have to wonder if these abductions of humans

by extraterrestrials don't go back

many thousands and thousands of years,

and in fact certain human beings were selected,

brought perhaps to a space station,

or an orbiting spaceship, or a city of the gods,

given a special education,

and then returned to the Earth.

NARRATOR: Jim Sparks would later claim

that extraterrestrials are somehow manipulating

abductees' so-called junk DNA,

the 97% of human DNA

for which scientists have not been able to find any purpose.

HENRY: Geneticists used to believe

that a large percent of our DNA was unused.

Recent discoveries have proven, however,

that there are hidden switches.

There are hidden signals within that junk DNA

that is gonna ultimately reveal a treasure trove

of new human capabilities.

NOORY: Jim believed that people who are being abducted

are being programmed that at any given time,

the ETs

(snaps) will send a signal,

and these people will react and do something,

almost like a sleeper-soldier.

They'll immediately do something

that they've been programmed to do,

whatever that might be.

That's pretty scary.

JACOBS: Early on, when I started doing abduction research,

people would tell me, I think something is gonna happen

in the future and I'm gonna have to do something.

Serious people who I've worked with for a long time

have told me that, uh, they have been injected with knowledge,

they're not sure what it is,

but it will be switched on eventually

when the time comes and they will know it.

And I have come to think that that is actually correct.

That that is true.

NOORY: It's an all-encompassing thing.

The sleeper-soldiers will start to get things ready.

Those who are already here will start to get things ready.

And also don't forget the millions of hybrids

that they have been making since the beginning of time,

that they've probably got on some mothership somewhere

just ready to start bringing them in.

NARRATOR: Could it be that some abductees

have been returned as preparation by extraterrestrials

for some future mission?

A mission that has been in the works for hundreds,

if not thousands, of years?

And might it involve the integration

of alien-human hybrids on Earth?

Some abduction experts suggest that such hybrids are,

in fact, already here.

NARRATOR: Pacific Palisades, California.

July 17, 2015.

5:00 p.m.

Police are alerted that inside an abandoned SUV

parked on a residential street is a dead body.

The badly decomposed corpse is sent to the coroner's office

so that identification of the victim can be made.

-(indistinct radio chatter) -Although foul play

is not suspected,

-(siren wails) -as police continue to investigate,

the case takes a bizarre turn.

The body is identified by his fiancée

as 60-year-old Jeffrey Alan Lash.

Los Angeles police find more than 1,200 guns

and seven tons of ammunition,

along with numerous militarized vehicles

and $230,000 in cash inside of his home.

His fiancée reports that Lash had proclaimed to be

an alien hybrid secretly working for the government.

NOORY: It's the weirdest story I think I've ever heard.

His girlfriend, and she seems to be pretty normal and legit,

claims that he's an alien hybrid.

That he was placed on this planet

to do something specifically.

Nothing adds up about his case.

Nothing.

NARRATOR: When examining the body,

the coroner's office

could not find any fingerprints,

even though fingerprints

are the last skin tissue to decompose.

Lash apparently had no fingerprints.

His fiancée believed that he was an alien hybrid.

And we have to wonder who this guy was.

Was he really an alien hybrid as he said?

Why did he have all these weapons?

Within the UFO research community,

there's been a great deal of controversy

surrounding Lash's story,

because there's been a suggestion

that his father, Jeffrey Lash,

may have worked on the Roswell incident crash.

That's to say he was a scientist who may have been brought in

to study the wreckage, and so for that reason,

the story's been elevated to an even bigger level

that there was some sort of infiltration

of society going on.

CHILDRESS: A number of people who have claimed

that they have been abducted by extraterrestrials

also claim that they've witnessed

what they say are alien-human hybrids.

And this would indicate

that the extraterrestrials have a program

of manipulating people and their DNA

to genetically alter us slightly.

And perhaps this has been

going on for thousands of years.

And that even as we are today,

we've been manipulated subtly

by extraterrestrials.

And this is still going on.

HOWE: As more and more people around the planet

have been experiencing,

whether they are seeing lights, whether they are being taken,

whether they have missing time,

there is a global evolution of a relationship

with an alien presence that by the 21st century

has moved from creatures from outer space

to human-ET hybrids that are a combination

of something alien and something human.

And in that evolution,

we are now seeing a hybridization program

on this planet.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Lash's claim

to be an alien hybrid might actually be true?

For the last decade, self-proclaimed abductees

have been coming to Dr. David Jacobs

in rapidly increasing numbers,

with alarmingly similar stories

of alien hybrid integration into society.

What I've had now recently is people

who have befriended hybrids

who have come down to live here.

The hybrid looks absolutely human.

There is no difference whatsoever,

except one major, major, major difference.

They are telepathic

and they are neurologically controlling.

They can control people's minds.

They can make people think or do or act any way they want.

And we can't do that.

That would make us a second-class species.

The question is are we dealing with hybrids

who will replace humans

or who will live alongside humans and control them?

I don't really know the answer to that.

NARRATOR: Could it be that there really are

alien hybrids currently living amongst us?

As fantastic as it may sound,

recent statements made by some

of the world's most powerful leaders

may just point to such a scenario.

NARRATOR: Moscow, Russia.

December 7, 2012.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev

gives a primetime network television interview.

But after the interview is over,

he makes a shocking statement,

not realizing that his microphone is still on.

DOLAN: He said, "When you become President of Russia,

"you're given information on aliens in our country,

and the human groups that are monitoring them."

And you know, what's interesting about this video,

the journalist that he was talking with,

she was laughing nervously while he was doing this.

But he was totally with a straight face

during all of this.

MICHAEL SALLA: Here he is on film saying

that extraterrestrials live amongst us.

And I don't think this was an accident.

I believe that what he was doing was part of a policy

that the Russian government has begun

implementing at the highest level

to prepare its citizens for the truth.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that there are already aliens

living among us and that our governments

are fully aware of this?

Could this be the culmination

of years of extraterrestrial abductions?

WHITEHEAD: Our decisions here as a species

could very well be affecting these other civilizations.

So they may be in a sense intervening on their own behalf.

They might not really care about whether we make it or not.

HOWE: If invasion and takeover of the planet

were the goal of these extraterrestrial

biological entities, they are so advanced,

it could be done easily.

Therefore, invasion

and takeover of the world cannot be their goal.

And if that is not the goal,

then what is the goal?

What is the alien agenda?

CHILDRESS: You have a sort of dichotomy of

are we being invaded by terrible extraterrestrials

who are trying to take over our planet?

Or are the extraterrestrials really trying to help us

and that this has been an ongoing thing

for many thousands of years?

TSOUKALOS: I think

these abduction stories are all part of a larger plan.

A plan going on for a very long time.

What we are experiencing now is the next step,

where we are now learning that we are not alone,

and that they soon will come back,

because that is what they promised in the ancient texts.

NARRATOR: Are extraterrestrials

really coming to Earth

in order to capture

and examine human specimens?

And if so, is their plan to join us

or replace us?

Perhaps the final outcome will be determined

by how ready we are

to welcome them

and how well we treat

each other.

One thing appears certain--

mankind's very existence hangs in the balance.

And the time for answers could be sooner...

than we think.

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