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- [Narrator] In times past,

alien visitations were apparently very common.

Tribes in North and South America documented such visits

with cave and rock drawings,

legends passed down through the generations, and sculptures.

These legends speak of people

coming from the stars to help mankind.

Almost all Native American tribes have such legends

and all appear to be true.

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Throughout antiquity, legends speak of travelers

from the stars who helped mankind on Earth.

American tribes say these travelers were benevolent beings

and tales of their existence are still told today.

The Hopi believe their ancestors came from the Pleiades,

the place or people they call Chuhukon

or those who cling together,

a reference it seems to that tightly grouped starry cluster,

as it appears to the naked eye.

Likewise, early Dakota legends speak of the Pleiades

as the abode of the ancestors.

Other native oral histories or legends

speak of an origin, if not in the Pleiades,

then in the stars generally or other constellations.

The Cree for example arrived on earth

from the stars as spirits and then became human beings.

Other native legends including those of the Lakota

speak not necessarily of Star People,

but of mysterious beings coming from above

as spheres of light that in turn abduct children,

a reference to popular folklore

about alien abduction and breeding programs

that are not for the faint hearted.

The Zuni Indians offer one of many belief systems

if not actual experiences related to ancestors

who came from the sky,

a phrasing that has since morphed

into the more new age Star People reference

as opposed to Sky People.

A Lakota legend speaks of seven maidens

being chased by a bear.

On their knees, they prayed for divine intervention.

The result being that the ground beneath them erupted

high into the air, lifting them out of harm's way

as the bear clawed at the risen ground.

The result was Devil's Tower, Wyoming.

The bear's claws having carved

vertical geological features into the rock

and the seven maidens have been installed above

as the Pleiades.

Clifford Mahooty, a Zuni elder

and member of the Kachina Society,

tells us that his grandfathers taught him

about a very direct connection his people have had

with beings from space.

Mahooty at the same time explains that the language

of his grandfathers, his elders,

was not, of course, English,

and that he has interpreted their words and concepts

into modern phrasings that nonetheless

accurately represent the old beliefs.

A concept that has gained a foothold

in some quarters of modern Native American thought,

that the ancestors were extraterrestrial aliens

and that they continue to visit and interact

with people to this day.

The modern unidentified flying object or UFO craze

began in the late 1940s

when a wave of people reported seeing strange objects

in the skies above America.

Indeed, it was in 1947, the term flying saucer

entered the popular consciousness

after Pilot Kenneth Arnold witnessed

several brightly-lit saucer-like objects

waving in and out of distant mountain peaks

while he was flying in Washington State.

This was the first wave of UFO sightings.

However, an earlier wave occurred in Britain in 1909

when hundreds of people described flying objects

shaped like dirigibles and emitting beams of light

carrying out extremely advanced maneuvers overhead.

A decade later, throughout 1896 and 97,

there was a rash of similar sightings in the United States,

but these weren't the first accounts

of alien spacecraft on record.

Legends of godlike beings coming from the heavens

exist in many cultures.

Throughout North America,

there are numerous caves that date back thousands of years.

These paintings, figures, and objects

much like the modern imagery of alien and flying saucers.

One intriguing legends comes from

the First Nations people of central Ontario.

Their Sky Man tale may in fact

be one of the earliest alien encounters on record.

According to the story recorded in 1917

by Colonel G.E. Laidlaw,

500 years ago there was a large village,

about 550 native people living somewhere in that region.

One day a pair of them stumbled upon a stranger

sitting on the grass in a field.

This figure, a male, was notably clean and shining bright.

The natives approached the stranger and asked who he was

and how he came to be in the field.

"I am not one of you, I do not belong to this land.

"I drop down from above," the stranger explained.

Showing unusual hospitality,

the Ojibwa invited him back to their village.

The stranger agreed but on one condition.

"Go home and clean the place where I will stay

"and when you come back for me,

"I will go with you for a few days."

Agreeing, the Ojibwa men went back to their community,

told their fellow villagers about their experience,

and cleaned the hut where they would house the Sky Man.

The stranger did in fact accompany them to their village,

but he was clearly restless.

He watched the skies often and told people

that in two days something would come and get him

to take him back to the sky.

One afternoon, Sky Man looked up and said, "It is coming."

The villagers craned their necks and turned their eyes above

and saw something that looked like a bright shining star

streaking down from the heavens and hover near the ground.

This was the most beautiful thing any of them had ever seen.

Sky Man entered the shining star and disappeared from view.

The shining star then shot back into the sky and faded away.

This tale seems to be a description of an encounter

with an ancient astronaut as seen in many cultures

and popularized by Swiss theorist Erich von Daniken

of Chariots of the Gods fame.

Many modern UFO theorists believe Sky Man

was a marooned extraterrestrial astronaut

whose own craft was somehow damaged or destroyed.

They point to the fact Sky Man

clearly entered the glowing star

as proof the object was a spacecraft of some sort.

Was he clean and shining bright

because he wore a silvery pressure suit?

Did he request his hosts clean his quarters

out of fear of contracting human viruses

against which he had no immunity?

Many researchers believe Sky Man was no mythological tale,

but rather an actual encounter of the first kind

between an ancient alien and an entire tribal community.

Of all the native North American tribes,

one appears to have a direct connection

to the stars and aliens, that is the Hopi tribes.

Hopis call themselves Hopitu, the peaceful people.

Hopis meaning good, peaceful, or wise

live in the northeastern Arizona area

at the southern end of the Black Mesa.

A mesa is the name given to a small isolated flattop hill

with three steep sides called the first mesa,

the second mesa, and the third mesa.

On the mesa tops are the Hopi villages called pueblos.

Pueblo of Oraibi or the third mesa starting in 1050

and is the oldest in North America

that has lived in continuity.

Evidence suggests that the Hopi

consist of the descendants of various groups

that entered the country from the north,

the east, and the south,

and that a series of movements

covered a period of probably three centuries

and perhaps considerably longer.

Related to people of the various pueblos in the east,

the Hopis never actually had a single group identity.

They were independent villages sharing with the Zuni

and the pueblos a basic culture and view of the sacred

while sharing among themselves their own language base.

Native Americans believed in constellations.

In many cases, they believed in the same formations

for stars that we do.

Their constellations seemed to be marked

by the same knowledge that western civilization

on the other part of the globe was aware of.

They called them by different names,

but the star arrangements are very similar.

They believed in maps that have been drawn that they existed

at the center of the earth or Turtle Island,

that beyond them was the sky,

and that beyond the sky were dimensional portals

or sky holes as they called them.

Beyond the dimensional portals

was an area that they call the ocean of pitch

where the beauty of the night sky

and the galaxies spun out towards them.

Beyond that were the boundaries of the universe

and that set along the rim at the boundaries of the universe

were four different extraterrestrial groups.

They believed in Achivas,

the sacred ceremonial places to honor the earth.

These are the places that Shaman would go into the earth

to do their most sacred work.

The reason that Achivas are built into the earth

for sacred work is because according to legend,

at the destruction at each of the ages of mankind,

the people that were pure of heart

went down into the buxom of the earth

and remained there protected.

According to them they dwelt in the center of the earth

with a group of beings that they call the ant people.

Drawings of the ant people are remarkable similar

to the gray aliens of today,

large heads, little stocky bodies, long spindly fingers,

in some cases, four, five, or six digits.

Some of these drawings have the indication

of telepathic thought waves

coming from the beings' heads themselves.

The Native Americans believed that the home of the Kachinas

was on top of a mountain

where there were great cloud formations.

Today, some believe that UFO's often hide

in what we call lenticular clouds

which are cloud formations that seem to be produced

to conceal the ships from the visible eye spectrum.

Real lenticular clouds move with the rest of the clouds

whereas the UFO clouds do not,

often sitting five hours in one place.

Hopi Indian legends tell of a sure certainty in the future

that the tribe's faithful will be lifted to other planets

on the day of purification

and they watch and wait for the UFOs

that will take them there.

Is this reminiscent of the Christian version of the rapture?

The legend is borne of an ancient rock carving in Arizona

depicting a dome-shaped saucer object and maiden

that has become a core part

of the tribe's religious beliefs.

Elders in the Hopi community have said they perceive UFOs

as having a direct connection

with the old petroglyph drawing

and the foretelling of visitors from space

who arrive for the Day of Purification.

On that day, "All wicked people and wrongdoers

will be punished or destroyed," said Chief Dan Katchongva.

He said that we believe other planets are inhabited

and that our prayers are heard there.

The arrow on which the dome-shaped object rests

stands for travel through space.

The Hopi maiden on the dome-shaped drawing

represents purity.

Those Hopi who survive purification day

will travel to other planets.

"We, the faithful Hopi have seen the ships

"and know they are true."

He said the first division occurred in 1906

when Chief Yukiuma was driven

from the old town of Oraibi to Hoteville.

"The second division," said the chief,

"happened in 1969 when contact was made with a flying saucer

"that whispered a message to the tribe."

The third division is said to be the precursor

of the purification day, and until it arrives,

the chief said, "Many Hopi men wear their bang haircuts

"that represents a window from which they continue to look

"for the true white brother who will arrive

"with matching pieces of the stone petroglyph."

But the chief won't see the day come or perhaps he will,

he's been missing since 1972.

Lost to the tribe while walking to a valley

where a UFO had been seen.

Kachinas are also used in Hopi tribes.

They are connected to powerful ancestor spirits

called to bring rain to help the crops grow.

There are over 300 different Kachinas.

There is a prophecy about the return of the Blue Kachina

to herald in the fifth age of man.

Hopi prophecies are very famous,

but as with all prophecies, their timeline became invalid

after 1939 when space-time altered.

The concepts are fundamentally correct,

but the timeline for them to play out is undetermined.

The Hopi Indians are the record keepers

of the Native Americans.

The people of the southwest along with the southeast

had full-time religious leaders

with shrines or temple buildings.

Most Native Americans believe that in the universe

there exists an almighty,

a spiritual force that is the source of all life.

The almighty belief is not pictured as a man in the sky,

but is believed to be formless and exist in the universe.

The sun is viewed as the power of the almighty.

They are not worshiping the sun,

but praying to the almighty

and the sun is a sign and symbol for that.

Native Americans show less interest in an afterlife

unlike the Christians.

They assume the souls of the dead

go to another part of the universe

where they have a new existence

carrying on everyday activities like they were still alive,

they are just in a different world.

The religious and ceremonial life of the Hopi

centers in the kiva, which is simply a room,

wholly or partly subterranean and entered by way of ladder

through an opening in the flat roof.

While the membership of the kiva consists

principally of men and boys from certain clan or clans,

there is no case in which all the members of a kiva

belong to one clan,

a condition inseparable from the provision

that a man may change his kiva membership

and in fact made necessary by the existence

of more clans than kivas.

It is probable, nevertheless, that originally

the kivas were clan institutions.

Further south in Central America, there are mysteries

that have befuddled modern man for centuries.

Around the year 900 BC,

something new had appeared in the jungles and wilderness

of what is now Guatemala and Southern Mexico, civilization.

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For about the next 2,000 years that civilization flourished.

The Maya built cities, invested in farming and in trade,

and created a calendar.

The population soared with some estimates suggesting

that there were, at one time, as many as 22 million Mayans.

There were farmers, merchants, performers,

students, artists, musicians

and then at some point it seemed as if

the whole Mayan civilization simply vanished.

Mayan cities were abandoned,

the people's traditions forgotten,

and their languages lost forever.

What made them leave and where did they go?

Some experts think the Maya

were victims of a natural disaster,

perhaps a massive earthquake or a volcanic eruption,

but the cities left behind by the Maya were intact,

none of the temples or stone buildings

had any mark of damage.

Other historians blame drought and famine.

The Maya were good farmers,

but as their population grew,

it became harder to feed everyone

and so, the theory goes, they left their cities behind

in search of food.

Other researchers suggest

that the Maya destroyed themselves,

perhaps through a civil war,

but there are no records of such a conflict

in the records they left behind.

In 2012, the Mexican government released

some never-seen-before Mayan artifacts,

statue, masks, plaques, and documents

found in the inner spaces of a temple in Mexico.

They claimed, rather startlingly,

that the Maya had apparently

had contact with extraterrestrials.

"We believe for certain that aliens worked with the Mayans,"

said Luis Augusto Garcia Rosado,

the minister of tourism for the Mexican state of Campeche.

Was it possible that the Maya

were themselves space travelers

and that when they disappeared,

they quite simply gone back to their home planet?

Throughout Mayan history,

its rulers often claimed to be descended

from the stars and the planets.

One such king, Pakal of Palenque

came to the throne when he was 12

and ruled for the next 68 years

until his death at the age of 80.

In a time without modern medicines,

the very fact he lived to such an age

is surprising in itself, in humans, at least,

But even more surprising is the ruler's tomb.

When Pakal was buried, a unique design was carved

into the lid of his sarcophagus.

It appears to show the king sitting in a type of cockpit.

Could that be an oxygen mask on his face,

levers in his hands and pedals at his feet?

Outside the cockpit is a flame shooting from an exhaust,

Was this very detailed illustration

meant to depict the king returning to the mother planet?

What's perhaps most startling is that this is a tomb

that was carved over a thousand years ago.

How could Mayan people have created images

of space travel if they hadn't seen it?

Others believe that the Mayans' huge temples

aligned with solar and lunar activity,

they were in fact some sort of

ancient landing pads for spaceships

or a way of communicating with beings on other planets.

For believers, this explains how the Mayans

had such advanced knowledge for their time.

Was extraterrestrial intelligence the reason

for their advanced farming techniques?

And why did they appear to have

such in-depth understanding of the solar system

including planets yet to be discovered?

Astrophysicist Carl Sagan argues that while many legends,

artifacts, and purported out-of-place artifacts

were cited in support of this ancient astronauts idea,

very few require more than a passing mention

and can easily be explained more conventionally.

Still, there has yet to be a definitive.

Using the Mayan calendar, doomsday theorists predicted

the end of the world was scheduled

for 21st of December 2012.

Those who believed that the calendar

gave the date of the end of the world

had theories as to how we would meet our doom

such as a mysterious planets

on a collision course with Earth

or a reverse in the Earth's rotation.

Some gathered at ancient Mayan sites to await the end,

others stocked up on water and canned goods

hoping to survive.

The day passed without incident

and it seems we're still here.

The modern notion that humankind

may have been influenced in ancient times

by an intelligence far exceeding our own

is not only popular,

it's almost enigmatic to western culture.

Among the faithful believers in paleo-contact

as Carl Sagan termed it, mankind's earliest innovations

were the result of an alien intervention,

either by beings who showed us techniques

that could lead to the formation of a civilized society

or by direct manipulation of our genetic substructure

for purposes of speeding along

the natural evolutionary process.

The paleo-contact approach is most often invoked

by those who seek to find common ground

between UFO reports, abduction encounters,

and the mythologies of ancient Indians.

However, a recent book on the subject,

Encounters With Star People,

looks at the phenomenon from both an historic perspective

as well as from the standpoint that modern day encounters

with what many Natives call Star People

are still occurring today.

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Ancient astronaut theorists maintain that Star People

have been visiting Earth since the beginning of time.

To support their claims,

they often portray the legends of American Indian tribes

as proof of human interaction with the Star People.

There are also many Modern stories of UFO encounters,

crashes, and extraterrestrials

by adventurers, cowboys, military men,

and miners in the Northern Plains.

One of the stories described in the book

details the story of Chauncey, an aging Native,

whose story is a strange encounter with a spaceman

who kindly attempted to take Blue Son,

his faithful family dog.

The story goes that a small exploration craft,

some variety of small UFO, had apparently landed

behind a butte near Chauncey's home

and subsequently a thin, ghostly pale man appeared

who apparently conversed with him.

After their visit, Chauncey and Blue Son

walked the visitor back to his vessel.

At which time the alien being was said

to have taken interest in the fact

that the dog obeyed when Chauncey commanded it to heel.

At this point, the spaceman gestured in such a way

as to suggest that the creature

board his vessel and join him.

At which point Chauncey had laid his gun across his arm,

merely as a measure of intimidation,

expressing that the visitor be along his way

and without Chauncey's dog.

The more modern reports of alien interaction

and UFO sightings detailed in the book

are all very unique in this regard,

especially since they often seem to express

an ongoing interaction between Natives and the Star People

to the point that almost becoming commonplace

in their culture and society.

A number of reports also appear in the book

that cover aspects of ufology

that have more conventional parallels

including UFOs hovering over weapons sites,

underground bases, alien abduction,

and popular myths associated with space-faring alien beings

working as liberators of humankind in some capacity.

If you have seen the movie

Close Encounters of the Third Kind,

then you're familiar with Devils Tower in Wyoming.

It's the first national monument

declared in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt.

The name Devils Tower came from an 1875 mistranslation

of a Native American name for the site.

It was mistakenly said that the name in English

meant Bad God's Tower which was twisted into Devils Tower.

Native American tribes had many different names for the site

which included Aloft on a Rock, Grizzly Bear's Lodge,

Bear's Teepee, and the Tree Rock among others.

Devils Tower has been a sacred site for Native Americans

since they happened open it centuries ago.

Different tribes have different stories,

but they're all very similar.

The Lakota and the Kiowa tell a tale of two young girls

who while out playing were spotted by several enormous bears

who began to give chase.

The girls, in an attempt to escape,

climbed to the top of Devils Tower,

and then fell to their knees and prayed to the Great Spirit

to save them as the bears began to scale

the rocks behind them.

The Great Spirit raised the rock to the heavens

and as the cliff grew steeper, the bears fell backwards,

their claw marks as they tried to hang on

being the ridges on the side of the tower.

Once the rock reached the sky,

the girls were turned into stars,

the constellation we know today as the Pleiades.

There are dozens of stories, legends, and myths

surrounding Mount Shasta in northern California,

adding to its mystery and allure.

The Native Americans have always felt that the mountain

was the sacred center of the universe.

They even have stories that talk about it

being the home of the creator.

Mount Shasta straddles the territories of the Shasta,

Wintu, Achumawi, Atsugewi and Modoc tribes.

Not surprisingly, the imposing mountain shows up

in a lot of tribal myths and stories.

It's especially important to the Wintu tribe

who trace their people's origin back

to a sacred spring on the mountain.

They have always done their sacred ceremonies there

and they continue to do them to this day.

Every August they do their ceremonies

for just the tribe and their invited guests.

Finally, there's the legend of Telos.

According to researchers,

Telos is a crystal city inside the mountain

inhabited by higher-dimensional beings called Lemurians

from the ancient continent of Lemuria

that was in the north Pacific Ocean

many thousands of years ago.

As the story goes, Lemuria and Atlantis

got into a thermonuclear war and sank their continents.

The Lemurians fled into Mount Shasta

and that's where they've remained ever since.

Stories from the 1940s say the Lemurians

were actually seen walking into town.

They were seven feet tall,

dressed in long white robes and sandals.

They went to the general store to buy supplies

and paid for their purchases with chunks of gold.

The shopkeeper would take the gold,

turn around and try to give them change,

and the Lemurians would be gone.

Today, no one reports eyewitness accounts

of Lemurians in the flesh,

but some locals believe the smooth,

saucer-shaped lenticular clouds

that often gather at the summit of Mount Shasta

are engineered by the Lemurians

to camouflage alien cargo ships docking at Telos.

From seven foot tall Lemurians,

we visit the smaller ant people.

The Hopi Indians have been living

in the high desert of Arizona for thousands of years.

They are the direct descendants of the mysterious Anasazi,

the Ancient Ones, a civilization that flourished

between the 5th and 13th century AD

before suddenly disappearing.

According to legend, they were led to their current home

by a curiously shaped cloud during the day

and a moving star by night.

During the third cycle, the Hopi describe a period

during which the earth ruled by an advanced civilization

that had technology far superior to our own.

A key element in these legends is represented

by the flying shields, the patuwvotas.

The advanced flying shields had the ability to travel

quickly between distant places

and they also carried fearsome weapons

that could level entire cities.

They are strikingly similar to what we call today

unidentified flying objects.

In Hopi legend, the world has gone through

several phases or cycles already

and we are in this time living in the fourth world.

In the original world which was according to legend

destroyed by fire,

the benevolent alien ant people

sequestered everyone underground with them

and shared what they had.

The people were safe from the fire and destruction above.

It is said that the ant people

even sacrificed their own food to aid the people.

As the sky god Sotuknang systematically

destroyed the world above,

the people waited patiently for the fires to burn

and the earth to cool before they came up.

When the earth was completed,

the sky god gave them blessings

and told them to love and nurture the earth,

so that destruction was not warranted again.

The ant people took their place as ants

and new life began in the second world.

Humanity being what it is,

there have been two worlds destroyed since then

and this, the fourth world, is set for the appearance

of the fifth and final world.

This can be compared to the Christians awaiting the rapture

where the creator comes back

and the ultimate world begins.

This was prophesied to happen near the Blue Kachina

or the blue star appeared.

This was to signify the end of the fourth world

and would be foretold by the kachinas removing their masks

and becoming one with the powerful beings

they are said to represent.

In another part of the world,

drawings and carvings support the theory

of a race of beings that were here to teach humanity

about the land in ancient Sumeria.

This race was believed to be superior

and was thought to originate from the skies.

It was through their teachings that the Sumerians

were able to learn how to live in the world

and take care of it until the gods of creation returned.

Just like the Ant People of the Hopi,

they were there to teach mankind about their planet

and how to use its resources.

An interesting note is that the Hopi word for ant is Anu.

The word for friends is Naki.

There is also the similar pronunciation

of the Hopi ancestors, the Anasazi.

Again, we see this phrase in another belief

in another part of the world.

The depictions of the ant people

closely resembled the grays in modern ufology.

Whether there is an actual connection

between the Hopi of the Southwest

and the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians or not,

it certainly gives one pause

that creation stories were very similar.

It also makes the point that celestial communication

has been a curiosity of mankind

for much longer than UFO sightings in the 20th century.

UFO skeptics and believers are locked in a fierce debate

over the existence of aliens once again

following three apparent sightings recently.

Sightings have been caught on camera

in Chile, Bolivia, and Brazil

and it's fair to say a lot of people

are losing their minds over them.

The latest of these sightings

was filmed in the Chilean capital of Santiago

with four glowing orbs seen hovering

above skyscrapers in the city.

It has been viewed over 100,000 times

and has split the online community

on whether it's actually genuine.

Commentators on YouTube were quick to give their opinion

with many believing that an alien invasion is in the cards.

While others thought it was either

military planes or helicopters,

neither seemed entirely convincing.

This came after more eerie footage emerged

earlier in the month

in a rural neighborhood in Bolivia

where a giant flying saucer was captured on film

above mountains in El Alto,

a city in the northwest Bolivian region of La Paz.

The clip shows an unusually shaped object

flying through the sky

before disappearing and then reappearing in the clouds.

It was uploaded to a UFO spotting website

dedicated to gathering evidence of alien sightings

and has now been shared worldwide.

Cynics believe that the footage is a hoax

to increase online traffic for the filmmaker's website

and has simply been created using a digital editing program.

Believers were getting yet another chance of hope

in southern Brazil, too,

when a very similar looking UFO appeared in their skies.

The Express reports a woman named Marmel

posted a picture online

showing another blurred disc-shape in the sky

which she didn't even notice while taking a scenic photo.

Could this be evidence that the Kachinas are returning?

South America has some of the most amazing

UFO encounters on record.

Especially remarkable is the sheer variety of the sightings

which range from straightforward accounts of flying objects

to abductions, landings, cattle mutilation,

as well as contactee accounts

and strange beings that emerge from oddly-shaped craft.

In addition, there are particularities to these sightings

that are uniquely South American twists

to the tales that are to be found on no other continent.

Undoubtedly, the best one of the South American encounters

occurred in 1957.

A Brazilian farmer by the name of Villas Boas

was working his fields with a tractor

when he claims he was abducted by aliens

and taken aboard a spacecraft.

There he claims to have had intercourse

with a beautiful fair-skinned girl

with high cheekbones, a very pointed chin,

and vivid blue Chinese-type slant eyes

who stood about 4 feet 8 inches high without helmet.

The case was thoroughly investigated

and researchers admitted feeling impressed

at the clarity of Boas evidence.

In the ensuing months and years,

the details were checked and rechecked

by dozens of separate people

without revealing any contradiction

into the nature of the farmer's story.

As such it merits its notoriety

as one of the most riveting abduction accounts on record.

Significantly the Villas Boas incident

is far from being the only reported case of abduction

within that same providence of Minas Gerais.

In fact, this is a region which according to Jerry Randles

has one of the highest concentrations

of claimed abduction anywhere in the world

In August 1962 for example, there was an incident

that made even the Boas case look tame.

Unfortunately on this occasion,

the victim did not survive to tell the tale.

Briefly the facts are these.

On the 19th of that month, two glowing red spheres

the size of footballs are reported to have flown over

the hut of a poor diamond prospector

named Rivalino Mafra da Silva.

Later two aliens approximately 1.5 feet in height

entered the hut and peered at the family as they lay in bed.

The next day one of the man's sons

was surprised to discover two strange balls beside the hut.

One was entirely black and the other black and white.

When the father came out to look at them,

they apparently rose up at him

and enveloped him in a cloud of yellow smoke.

He was never seen again.

Shortly afterwards, the son was reported

to have been taken into custody by the Brazilian army,

some say as a means of silencing him.

Another astonishing encounter occurred in 1973

near the town of Catanduva, Brazil.

The 70s were to prove the heyday

of South American encounters

and this is perhaps one of the most sensational.

A traveling salesman returning home in a torrential downpour

suddenly found his car radio cut out on him,

followed shortly afterwards by the engine of his car.

Almost immediately a blinding beam of blue light

then shone down from above,

and overwhelmed by a great sense of heat,

the driver panicked and fled from the car.

The salesman was later to testify

that his vehicle became transparent

and his skin began to burn

as he lapsed into unconsciousness.

Hours later he was discovered spread-eagled

in the road by people in a passing car

who called the police.

Taken to hospital he was quickly discharged,

but later strange blotches developed on his abdomen.

The examining doctors opinion was that

they were caused by strange rays.

The amazing corollary to this story

is that a year later the same man disappeared for six days

before being found over 500 miles away

sitting on a hill completely soaked.

He later claimed to have been abducted by aliens

and medically examined aboard a UFO.

Then as before doctors were impressed by his lucidity

and were happy to pronounce him fully compos mentis.

In 1965, around 50 Indians of the Toba tribe

were astonished to see three tall beings

emerge from two saucer-like craft

that came down close to the Argentinian town of Formosa,

near the border with Paraguay.

The beings appeared to have

luminous haloes around their bodies

and the Indians knelt down and worshiped them.

Witnesses speak of verbal contact

being established with the aliens

who informed the Indians

that the Space People would eventually

come in greater numbers.

An Indian who made a close approach to the craft

was warned off

and eventually the beings returned to the craft

which took off in a dazzling burst of light.

Police who hurried to the scene

are believed to have taken numerous photographs

which are reputed to show

at least three landed saucers and five aliens.

Beings that emerged from an egg-shaped craft

assured a local hunter that before long

the whole world would come to know them.

The hunter named Felipe Martinez

claims to have met the aliens

on no fewer than three occasions.

The first time in 1949, he ran toward a hovering object

revolving above the trees

only to be paralyzed by a mysterious burst of energy.

From a door in the object,

a small being then descended down a ladder.

Standing no more than a meter in height,

the being was described as wearing a helmet

and clothes like a diver's costume.

In an interview, Martinez claims to have been taken aboard

one of the alien vessels

which oddly was piloted by a crew of four beings

around a meter in height

and another blonde haired being

just over six feet tall.

He claims to have been placed in a space suit,

but this had an alarming effect on his heart-rate

and the suit was quickly removed.

Conversation with the aliens was slow and difficult,

but according to Martinez the alien's name

for their craft was a sil.

In 1963 in Parana State, Brazil,

a crowd of onlookers was amazed

to see a bright zinc-colored object

descend into the flames of a major forest fire.

Even more astonishing was that after quarter of an hour

several tall beings were seen to emerge from the craft

and strode around in the flames completely untouched

by the furnace-like heat that surrounded them.

Even more perplexing was the fact that the beings

seemed intent on collecting charred rocks

and other material from the fire

which they then took back to the waiting space ship.

This done, the craft then departed as silently as it came.

Witnesses described it as a basin shaped craft,

35 meters in diameter and around eight meters in height,

In 1954, near the Venezuelan capital Caracas,

two men claimed to have wrestled with a hairy creature

that was seen to emerge from a luminous craft.

One of the men Gustav Gonzalez

says he was thrown 15 feet through the air

by a tiny dwarf-like creature

who despite its size possessed incredible strength.

It also proved impervious to a knife blade thrust.

Gonzalez who lunged at the creature with a sharp knife

saw to his astonishment that the blade

just glanced off the body as though made of steel.

Apparently angered the creature's eyes

literally glowed in the dark,

sending out a blinding flash of light

that left both men dazzled and disoriented.

Before the craft took off,

Gonzalez's friend noticed

that two other creatures of similar description

were gathering earth and rocks

and loading them aboard the hovering sphere.

The craft was reportedly 10 feet in width

and throughout the incident remained hovering

just several feet from the ground.

When later examined in hospital,

Gonzalez was found to have several

deep red scratch marks down his side.

For several days afterwards he remained under heavy sedation

as both men struggled to come to terms

with their terrifying ordeal.

Barely two weeks later,

a similar incident occurred in the same locality.

On this occasion, two young hunters came across

a luminous machine around 10 feet wide

hovering just two feet from the ground.

Four or five beings were seen to emerge from the craft

and then attempted to drag both youths inside.

Fighting them off as best they could,

one of the young men lashed out with his rifle butt

bringing it down on the head of one of the aliens.

Incredibly the weapon broke into fragments

as if it had been struck on a rock.

Finally managing to break free of the aliens,

both youths ran off to summon police

who later reported signs of a struggle.

As in the previous incident,

both youths required hospital treatment

and remained in a highly agitated state

for some time afterwards.

In Argentina, the year 1965 brought a series

of abortive abduction attempts

where aliens attempted to take people by force.

The national press published numerous reports

of these incidents which bear evidence

of a widespread trend of which relatively few cases

were adequately investigated.

Of those that were,

an incident in the province of Corrientes

tells of five luminous craft observed flying low overhead.

One vessel proceeded to land near a farm house

and five beings around two meters tall

were then seen to emerge.

On their heads were instruments giving off flashes of light.

The focus of the beings attention

was immediately directed at the farmhouse.

Forcing their way inside,

they attempted to overpower the owner and drag him away.

Fighting the aliens as best he could,

the farmer eventually broke free of his attackers

who fled when other villagers rushed to his assistance.

Several days later,

the aliens returned and attempted to abduct another man.

Once again villagers turned out in force,

firing rifles which although not able to injure the aliens

was sufficient to drive them away again.

The association of Latin America with sky visitors

who arrive from the stars goes back thousands of years.

To native Indian cultures these beings brought with them

the rudiments of civilization,

initiating major developments in science,

agriculture, astronomy, and masonry.

By the shores of Lake Titicaca,

the ancient ruins of Tiahuanaco bear

a mysterious reflection of these ancient beliefs.

Here the imposing Gate of the Sun

contains enigmatic hieroglyphs

that some have interpreted as advanced astronomical data.

The best selling author Erich Von Daniken

found the place highly indicative of alien influence.

He wrote, What does legend say

"about the mysterious city of Tiahuanaco?

"It tells of a golden ship

"that came from the stars," he continues.

"What titantic forces where at work here and to what end?

Von Daniken concludes, "What secret does this city conceal?

"What message from other worlds awaits its solution

"on the Bolivian plateau?"

Equally evocative of mysterious influence

are the Nasca lines etched in the Peruvian desert

close to the town of Ica.

Here dead straight lines traverse the desert

for dozens of miles.

Other shapes include depiction's of monkeys,

whales, and decorative birds.

At ground level, the patterns are barely perceptible

and only really become apparent when viewed from the air.

Since the antiquity of the lines

goes back thousands of years,

the question has been asked and re-asked,

why would an ancient people go to such immense effort

to construct a line system only visible from the air?

Who was meant to see it?

Inevitably Von Daniken saw the answer in terms of aliens.

He interpreted the lines as markers or landing strips

for alien spacecraft.

While this may appear a farfetched explanation,

the Indians of that area have other ideas.

Their traditions frequently make mention of strange visitors

who descend from the sky aboard fiery craft.

Visitations which they insist

have carried on down to this present day.

There has always been a connection between Native Americans

and beings from other parts of the universe,

referred to as star people or visitors from space.

In Utah's nine mile canyon lies the heaviest concentration

of rock art in the world.

These depict beings that appear to be

not quite completely human.

They can be seen next to a disc-shaped object.

Other beings of a more human form

are raising their hands to these beings near the object

Near Christina Lake, British Columbia, Canada,

there is a picture of a white disc with black wings

hovering over four human figures on their knees.

There are lines coming from the top of the disc

which could be rays of light.

Longer, more irregular lines

come down from the bottom of the object.

A rock painting at Cayuse Creek, Idaho

depicts what appears to be a cone-shaped rocket

with smoke or flames trailing behind it.

In the cone is a humanoid figure

apparently holding on to the inner walls.

A pictograph near Kootenay Lake in British Columbia

also shows an enclosed vehicle

holding a single humanoid figure.

It depicts what appear to be sections of the vehicle

and two objects closely resembling

retractable legs for landing.

Numerous depictions of egg-shaped objects

with wavy lines emanating from them have been found.

These could be an effort to show the object in motion

or some sort of light or heat.

If this were to depict the sun,

lines would typically be found all around

the circumference of the circle.

In these cases, they come only from the bottom side.

In certain Cherokee legends said that their people

originated in the Pleiades long, long ago.

They claim to have come to this world as star seeds

to bring light and knowledge.

If the stories are true,

then modern day Cherokee as well as other Native Americans

and many of us with Native American blood

contain Pleiadian genes.

Many native legends place either their origins

or visitation from the Pleiades,

it's possible that within this star cluster,

there are planets where life could exist.

Scientists say it's very plausible.

Analyzing deep infrared images

obtained by the Spitzer Space Telescope

and Gemini North telescope,

astronomers discovered that one of the cluster's stars,

HD 23514, which has a mass and luminosity

a bit greater than that of the Sun

is surrounded by an extraordinary number

of hot dust particles

and this could be evidence

for planet formation around the star.

Other stars with the cluster

also have sunlight characteristics.

The cluster is only about 118 parsecs away from Earth.

Is it possible that aliens from another star system

came to Earth ages ago

and helped the tribal people of our planet?

Evidence around the world seems to suggest

it is not only possible, but that it indeed happened.

Ancient astronaut theorists point to many

artifacts and structures that early man

could not have created.

Wall paintings depict the arrival

and association of the star people all across the Southwest,

having visited in circular vehicles

and bringing man safety and even technology.

Many tribes believe that they are either star people

or are descended from them.

Native people are often shy

about talking about extraterrestrials.

Their race has endured much over the years

and they do not want to share many of their sacred beliefs.

Many of their believes have been lost as well over time

or only a few elders know the legends of their people.

Suffice it to say, there is an abundance of evidence

that early tribes of natives did indeed have contact

with one or more races from the stars.

Almost all of them say that one day when the world is ready,

these star people will return.

Perhaps then all who inhabit this planet,

the natives of our Earth will be ready,

physically, mentally, and spiritually,

to greet these ancient travelers from the stars.