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>> NARRATOR Demons... who seize

control of humans while they

sleep.

>> CHRIS O'BRIEN: Being unable

to breathe, feeling like you're

frozen... these are similar

things that happen to people in

the modern abduction phenomenon.

>> NARRATOR: Interplanetary

journeys... in space and time.

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: They go to

another world of supernatural

beings, and then they come back,

and missing time is involved.

>> NARRATOR: And entire cultures

that mysteriously vanish from

the Earth.

>> JASON MARTELL: We do know

that they were threatened from

something from the sky.

Could this be some type of

upwelling of energy that was

possibly utilized by ancient

aliens... in some fashion that

we still don't understand?

>> 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 might accounts of ancient

abductions reveal an incredible

agenda?

♪

>> NARRATOR: Central Arizona.

The Apache-Sitgreaves National.

Forest.

November 5, 1975.

At 6:30 p.m., a bright light

suddenly appears in the sky over

the central Arizona mountains.

Six U.S. Forest Service workers

driving home after their

day shift witness a large

silvery disc hovering in the

sky.

>> WALTON: It was smooth

as glass, but glowing and

reflective at the same time.

It just had a powerful look and

feel to it that was

just amazing.

This beam of energy hit me.

I felt like I'd been hit real

suddenly, like a physical blow,

but with a sort of a tingling

electric shock sort of feeling,

at the same time.

>> NICK REDFERN: Walton

basically got zapped by this

blinding light.

The crew just hot-footed out of

the area quickly, and then

thought, well, we've got to go

back; You know, we got to get

Travis.

Went back, whatever this object

was, was gone.

And he was gone as well.

>> NARRATOR: According to Travis.

Walton, the mysterious beam of

light rendered him unconscious,

and when he awoke, he found

himself in a room surrounded by

strange beings.

>> WALTON: I was looking

straight into the face of this

creature.

These small beings were

humanoid, but so un-human.

It was just terrifying.

And I just flipped out.

It was just horrible.

It was like they were looking

right into me.

>> NARRATOR: Crews searched

everywhere for the missing

forest worker, but it wasn't

until five days later that.

Walton reappeared

in a nearby town.

>> WALTON: I was lying facedown,

outside, in the dark, and there

was a light above me, and I saw

the bottom of the craft there,

right before it shot up

into the sky.

>> NARRATOR: When details of

Travis Walton's close encounter

were revealed to authorities,

they dismissed the accounts of

the young man's disappearance as

a possible hoax.

But researchers say the Travis.

Walton case is one of the most

credible abduction stories on

record.

>> COPPENS: Stories of alien

encounters, abductions to

different realms, are as old as

mankind itself.

Something truly enigmatic has

been happening with us and with

our ancestors.

And when you look at the modern

accounts of abductions, you find

that they are one and the same.

>> NARRATOR: Washington, DC.

December 1969.

The United States Government

suddenly terminates Project.

Blue Book, the Air Force

investigation into claims of UFO

sightings and contact with

extraterrestrials.

Though more than 12,000 reports

were investigated over a span of

20 years, the government

publically concluded that most

cases were misunderstood natural

phenomena.

But inside the organization,

Project Blue Book astronomer

J. Allen Hynek had been creating

a system of classifying the data

he believed provided scientific

evidence of alien encounters.

>> O'BRIEN: Hynek was actively

in charge of some of the

investigations.

And he realized early on, after

amassing so many cases and

having a database, that he

needed to organize it and

classify these types of reports,

so he came up with the close

encounter one-through-three

classification.

>> NARRATOR: As documented in.

Hynek's book The UFO Experience:

A Scientific Inquiry, a close

encounter of the first kind... or.

CE1... is described as witnessing

a UFO within 500 feet.

CE2 is when a UFO leaves behind

a physical trace of its

presence.

And CE3 includes seeing

occupants within the UFO.

>> REDFERN: Dr. J Allen Hynek

invented these three terms

which basically detailed the

distance of the person from the.

UFO and the nature of the

experience, and it was basically

designed as terms so that, you

know, we would have a good

understanding of whether

somebody saw an object at a

distance in the sky, further

close up, a UFO on the ground.

>> KEN STORCH: Close encounters

of the fourth kind is that the

occupants of this craft took the

observer aboard...

and either did some type of

experimental procedure on him or

implanted him with them.

And then close encounters of the

fifth kind is people that are

having some type of telepathic

communication with the occupants

of the craft, or E.T., per se.

>> NARRATOR: Since Travis.

Walton's close encounter of the

fourth kind, in which he was

taken aboard a craft, claims of

alien contact have been

increasing.

Perhaps most alarming, they say,

are details of abductions

claiming sexual interactions,

and even the creation of hybrid

humans.

>> SABINA MAGLIOCCO: Many of

these abduction stories are

really scary.

The abductee is not fully in

control of his or her own body.

The abductee has all kinds of

very painful things done to them

that he or she cannot control.

And they're deeply changed by

these experiences in ways that

are often detrimental to them,

and very disturbing.

>>DA MOULTON HOWE: I'm often

asked, do I have any kind of an

idea of who they are, what do

they want, why have they been

terraforming this planet and

manipulating genes, apparently,

in various life-forms and

interacting with humans in

the human abduction syndrome?

The phenomena, the high

strangeness, continues and

persists, defying human logic

and defying human understanding.

>> NARRATOR: Researchers claim

that alien abductions have been

occurring for millennia.

Could such extraordinary events

have been documented in the

ancient world?

According to ancient astronaut

theorists, evidence can be found

right in what many believe to be

the missing pages of the.

Judeo-Christian Bible.

Khirbet Qumran, Palestine.

In 1946, a collection of ancient

manuscripts, known as the Dead.

Sea Scrolls, is discovered,

hidden in clay jars deep inside

a cave.

Among the manuscripts is

the Book of Enoch, a so-called

"lost" biblical text, in which a

Hebrew prophet named Enoch

describes in great detail his

extraordinary encounters with

otherworldly beings.

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: Enoch

tells us about the guardians of

the sky who came down.

He doesn't use the word

"spaceship," but we have "came

down from the sky to Earth."

He is the only one who speaks in

the first person.

"I did, I thought, I flew, I had

contact with the so-called

guardians of the sky."

Enoch was taken away from our

planet Earth by the Lord in a

fiery chariot.

>> GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: They

were not angels, they were not

gods, they were flesh-and-blood

extraterrestrials who took him

up there in some type of a

vehicle in order to write down

"the knowledge of the universe,"

as he calls it.

Our ancestors thought that all

they were witnessing had

something to do with magic,

when, in reality, it was nothing

else but misunderstood

technology.

>> NARRATOR: Could the Book of

Enoch really be describing

an actual abduction event...

One that took place

thousands of years ago?

If so, might the Bible contain

other examples of

extraterrestrial encounters with

humans, and could these

incredible close encounters

betray another, perhaps less

benign, alien agenda... one that

involves controlling our

behavior and psychic abductions

to other dimensions?

>> NARRATOR: The Sinai.

Peninsula, Egypt.

In the Judeo-Christian Bible...

As found in the Book of Exodus...

Moses receives the Ten.

Commandments from God after

disappearing on Mount Sinai for

a period of 40 days and 40

nights.

When the prophet returns to his

people, his appearance has

drastically changed.

>> PATRICK COOKE: It's very

interesting.

He had been around this God for

so long, his face was glowing

and he had to literally cover

himself because people were

afraid of him because he had

changed... his countenance had

changed so much.

>> COPPENS: Basically his people

recognize him but also see that

he has physically changed,

and so, this is very interesting

because, if you were to take it

from a biblical perspective,

you would think that an

encounter with God is

something nice, something

phenomenal, but not that it has

physical effects.

In the case of the Moses

encounter, what you have

is something very physical,

something very specific,

suggestive that what happened to

him is a very physical encounter

with a deity...

an extraterrestrial being rather

than what we would generally

classify as divine.

>> REDFERN: If we look at it

from the context of today's

alien abduction stories, you

know, was God coming down from

the sky actually a UFO

descending?

Was he taken aboard, abducted

onto a UFO, and held for 40 days

and then returned?

I think, you know, if we look at

it in that context, we've got

what sounds like a classic

abduction.

>> NARRATOR: Could the biblical

accounts of Enoch and Moses

suggest an extraterrestrial

agenda... one where alien beings

communicate messages of peace

and harmony with humans?

Northeast Syria.

The Khabur River.

According to the Hebrew.

Testament, it was here, in the

sixth century BC, that divine

beings descended from Heaven and

made contact with a 30-year-old

Hebrew priest named Ezekiel.

>> COOKE: Ezekiel was by the.

River Chebar and he said a great

whirlwind came toward him.

He described it as a fire

enfolding itself, and out of the

fire was the color of amber,

which is the Hebrew word which

means "polished specter of"

"metal," which implies that it's

metallic, and that it's

spinning and it lands in front

of him, right directly in front

of him, and suddenly, out of

this whirlwind come four

creatures.

>> NARRATOR: In the Bible, the

prophet Ezekiel calls these

spiritual beings cherubims and

describes them as having four

faces, four wings, and skin that

shone like polished bronze.

>> REVEREND BARRY DOWNING:

Ezekiel says that he was taken

up into the sky and taken to

different places where he could

see different things.

And then he was told some of the

future things that were going to

come.

>> NARRATOR: But what, in fact,

was the mysterious object that

touched down in front of Ezekiel

and lifted him up to the sky?

And who were the strange beings

that emerged and shared a vision

of the future with the prophet?

>> REDFERN: He described it was

the likeness of a man, but they

seem to have different faces on

them of different animals, and

some people have interpreted

that as perhaps even like a

space suit.

You know, imagine the helmet,

oxygen mask, that kind of thing.

Could he have been actually

seeing something that was a face

but didn't look like a face

normally looks?

>> DOWNING: He's got the best

description of a UFO that's

anywhere in the Bible because he

basically says that the thing

looked like a wheel within a

wheel, kind of a classic flying

saucer description.

>> COPPENS: It's basically the

account of a guy who has been

abducted, who has been told

certain things, and who is then

returned to the place of origin.

It would be what we today would

describe as an abduction

account.

>> NARRATOR: Could it be that

the prophet Ezekiel's account of

a heavenly close encounter might

have been something else...

Perhaps one not involving

heavenly beings but visitors of

another, interplanetary nature?

If so, what might this suggest

about other biblical accounts of

similarly strange encounters?

>> JONATHAN YOUNG: In the Book

of Jonah, there is a character

that was called by God to do a

mission, but he didn't want to

do it.

He tried to travel away from his

destiny.

God intervened.

He brought a storm.

The sailors grew afraid and they

threw him overboard.

He was swallowed up by a great

fish.

He was in the belly for three

days and three nights and

finally coughed up on the shore.

>> TSOUKALOS: The story of Jonah

and the whale, where Jonah had

this transformatory experience...

In my opinion, it was some type

of a submarine or some type of a

craft, and what's even more

fascinating is that, in the

apocryphic texts, we can read

that the skin and the ribs of

that whale were made of shiny

bronze.

What Jonah described was, in

fact, some type of a mechanical

apparatus.

>> DOWNING: He is swallowed by a

big fish and lives in the belly

of the fish for three days.

This doesn't seem very probable,

and we do know that modern UFOs

do go in the water as well as in

the air.

They seem to be able to go

anywhere they want, so the idea

that a UFO might have swallowed

up Jonah instead of a fish...

It makes sense.

>> NARRATOR: Do the Old.

Testament stories of Ezekiel and

Jonah actually offer proof of

extraterrestrial contact with

technically advanced but

relatively harmless entities?

And o, then what are we to

make of similar accounts of

humans who are physically

abducted and taken to other

dimensions?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answers can be found

by taking a closer look at the

tale of Muhammad and his

encounter with an angelic being.

600 BC.

The ancient city of Mecca.

Historical Islamic accounts in

the Hadith say that Muhammad,

the last great prophet, was sent

by God to unite the Arabian.

Peninsula tribes under a single

religion of Islam.

Before forming Islam, Muhammad

is said to have retreated to a

mountain cave where he received

a series of revelations from.

God.

>> YOUNG: Muhammad would take a

period of time each year to

reflect and pray in a cave in

the mountains nearby.

During one of these retreats,

the angel Gabriel came to him

and had a prophecy for him and

was his guide throughout his

ministry.

>> COPPENS: The angel Gabriel

is somebody who is known in

the Old Testament.

He makes appearances there.

He also announces the birth of

Jesus and John the Baptist in a

Christian context.

Now, when it comes to Muhammad,

we're seeing that this angel is,

all of a sudden, far more

important.

>> NARRATOR: According to Muslim

legend, Muhammad formed an

intense relationship with

Gabriel.

During one of Muhammad's

retreats, Gabriel is said to

have given the prophet the

complete text to the Koran.

>> COPPENS: In the case of

Muhammad, what we're seeing is

he stays with him for 23 years.

He reveals the Koran to him.

And it really, once again, shows

you that there are thesemessenge

entities who come to us human

beings and say, "You are chosen."

If you're willing to listen to

us and work with us, we will

actually teach you information

"about the divine."

>> VON DANIKEN: Now, the angel

said to Muhammad, "I will take

you with me."

And they fly over the Earth.

He sees the whole planet.

They circle the Earth.

And then the angel brings

Muhammad back to the cave.

They were surrounding the Earth

very, very quick,

because it probably took one,

one and a half minute, the whole

surrounding around the Earth.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible, as

some ancient astronaut theorists

believe, that Muhammad was

repeatedly taken and seeded with

information over time in a

series of extraterrestrial

abductions?

Researchers t to one

particular interaction between

Gabriel and Muhammad, when the

prophet flees the holy city of.

Mecca in the direction of

Jerusalem.

>> YOUNG: The angel Gabriel came

to Muhammad with a creature, a

winged horse, the Buraq, who was

able to fly him to Jerusalem

some distance.

It was called "the farthest

mosque."

And they meditated there for a

time.

And then, after some time of

visit there, he went to heaven

and was able to visit with the

prophets... Abraham, Moses,

Jesus... and then with Yahweh,

Allah, God Himself, and get

insights and inspiration, then

came back from the heavens to

Jerusalem and back from

Jerusalem to Mecca, completely

inspired for his further

teachings.

>> COPPENS: It is said that he

goes from Mecca to Jerusalem in

a single night.

This is a physical

impossibility.

It simply cannot be.

Now, rather than take this

allegorically, if we take it

literally, we're actually given

the tools and the explanation as

to why this might have been

possible.

We're actually told that he did

this with the help of the angel

Gabriel.

>> NARRATOR: Might this tale

describe a physical abduction in

which Muhammad is taken to other

dimensions, including Heaven, by

the angel Gabriel?

Could there be more to this than

a misinterpreted account?

Ancient astronaut theorists say

the answer is yes and claim that

evidence is found in mysterious

disappearances documented in an

area of the Atlantic Ocean known

as the Bermuda Triangle.

>> NARRATOR: Fort Lauderdale,

Florida.

December 5, 1945.

Five Navy Avenger bombers flying

due east on a routine training

mission encounter something

strange over the Bermuda.

Islands.

About an hour and a half into

the flight, squadron leader.

Lieutenant Charles Taylor sends

a radio transmission that his

two on board compasses have

become inoperable.

>> REDFERN: Everybody got

totally confused as to where

they were.

They were totally lost in an

area where they should not have

been lost.

A whole squadron of U.S. Navy

aircraft just vanished.

The fact that it was in this

particular area obviously has

given rise to the theory, could

they have been abducted?

>> STORCH: Three hours later, a

rescue aircraft, a TVY Mariner

with a crew of 11 aboard,

disappeared with no trace.

And what that caused is one of

the most extensive search and

rescue operations in the annals

of the United States Navy.

And they never found a life

preserver, a piece of a wing or

anything from those aircraft.

Nothing.

And to this day we have no clue

as to what happened.

>> NARRATOR: But Flight 19 is

only one incident in allegedly

hundreds that have claimed

victims in what is commonly

referred to as the Bermuda.

Triangle.

And according to ancient

astronaut theorists, this site...

Which spans a 500,000

square mile area between

Florida, Bermuda and Puerto.

Rico... plays host to numerous

unexplained physical and

metaphysical phenomena...

strange energies that may help

to explain why pilots, sailors

and ship captains enter the

area and are never seen or heard

from again.

>> CHILDRESS: So you have to

wonder, what's happening to

these people?

Is there something about the

Bermuda Triangle?

It's some kind of portal that

aliens are using to come and

go through hyperspace.

And suddenly you and your

yacht or you and your plane

are sucked into some other

dimension.

And you're not coming back.

>> COPPENS: The Bermuda Triangle

is interesting for a number of

reasons.

First of all, it's not just one

plane which goes missing

somewhere.

This is several planes which

all disappear.

Now, the question is, where have

all of them gone?

It's not just the case that, on

occasion, one of them is found.

Really, an awful lot of what has

gone missing in the Bermuda.

Triangle has never been seen,

has never been heard of.

>> REDFERN: If an aircraft is

flying over or a ship's sailing

the ocean at the wrong time,

could it pull them down

underneath the water?

So, you know, we're looking at

possibly not abductions into the

sky but actually below the

ocean.

>> NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut

theorists say the legend of the

lost city of Atlantis may be

connected to the possible

abductions in the Bermuda.

Triangle.

According to legends, the

island of Atlantis was an

enormous ancient power that

thrived as far back as 9600 BC.

>> RICK RADER: The story of

Atlantis, which is one of the

most famous mysteries from

antiquity, the earliest sources

we have on it is Plato.

And the city was known for being

a sort of a technological marvel

in its own right.

And at some point, for reasons

that are not entirely clear,

there was an eruption

of some sort and the city...

disappea.

>> JOHN DE SALVO: We have no

archaeological artifacts from

Atlantis, and we don't know if

it's just mythology.

So is it possible, either

through evil intentions or by

accident, they sunk to the

bottom of the ocean in the

Bermuda area and that's why

we're experiencing, or pilots

experiencing, all kinds of

electrical interference when

they fly over the Bermuda.

Triangle.

>> NARRATOR: Might the ruins of

Atlantis lie below the waters of

the Bermuda and Bimini Islands?

And could this help explain the

disappearances and possible

abductions associated with the

Bermuda Triangle?

>> CHILDRESS: Atlantis was

destroyed in a day and a night.

It just completely vanished.

Is it possible that they were

all mass-abducted and left

the planet?

>> NARRATOR: Could it be

possible that Earth has hidden

vortexes that are causing

unexplained disappearances and

may have even swallowed up the

lost continent of Atlantis?

And if so, might this help

explain the fate of other

so-called "lost" civilizations,

empires whose populations and

technologies have also

mysteriously disappeared?

>> NARRATOR: Mesa Verde,

Colorado.

1888.

Rancher Richard Wetherill

discovers massive Native

American cliff ruins believed to

have been built by the Pueblo

people in the 12th century.

Wetherill chooses the Navajo

name "Anasazi," or "ancient

"ones," to describe the region's

former inhabitants.

>> O'BRIEN: The Anasazi are a

very mysterious people.

Initially, they built these

wonderful pueblos along the

river systems, but for some

reason, in the late 1100s, the

early 1200s... they moved up to

higher ground, as if they were

trying to create defensive

positions.

>> TSOUKALOS: And they had the

most sophisticated cities that

were built not on the ground,

not on the tops of canyons, but

actually built into

the rock walls.

Now, why would anyone in their

mind build their cities into a

rock wall?

So my question is: Who were they

hiding from?

And my answer is: Some type of

an aerial enemy.

>> NARRATOR: Pueblo Indian

legends describe the Anasazi as

having great spiritual power, as

well as an ability to control

natural forces.

But by 1350, many believe this

once-great people suddenly, and

mysteriously, disappeared... and

there are no graves to account

for the Anasazi civilization

that thrived here.

>> CHILDRESS: Throughout

history, there are civilizations

who just, essentially, vanished.

We have this with the Anasazi

in the Southwest... whole areas

just completely depopulated.

And exactly the causes for this,

um, remain a mystery.

>> MARTELL: We don't actually

know where the Anasazi went,

but we do know that they were

threatened from something from

the sky, and made decisions to

build their domiciles in these

cliffside homes.

Maybe the Anasazi were

protecting themselves on the

cliffside from something that

would be easily exposed on the

ground... aliens, UFOs looking

for people to abduct?

>> NARRATOR: If the Anasazi were

under siege from an

extraterrestrial threat, what

might have led the conflict to

escalate into mass abductions?

According to ancientronaut

theorists, the rich minerals

hidden in the ground of the

American Southwest may hold a

clue.

>> CHILDRESS: Perhaps there has

been literally a battle for our

planet's resources, over gold

and other minerals.

And during these wars, perhaps

there have been mass abductions

of, say, the Anasazi in the.

Southwest.

>> COPPENS: We know that the

area they lived in was rich,

where there is gold, which

really quite often the gods are

said to be interested in.

It might be that they indeed

ended up as other cultures which

had a specific focus and

emphasis on gold, which is...

they disappeared.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible,

as ancient astronaut theorists

believe, that hundreds of

people... even entire

civilizations, like the.

Anasazi and the people of

Atlantis... disappeared due to

mass abductions by

extraterrestrials throughout

history?

And if so, were they physically

called home to their place of

origin in the stars?

Perhaps further evidence can be

found in the so-called "psychic"

"abductions" that some believe

have an otherworldly origin.

>> NARRATOR: The Selma Plateau.

Oman.

100 kilometers from the capitol

city of Muscat, a treacherous

cavern lies deep beneath the.

Earth's surface.

Discovered in June of 1983, this

massive underground chamber is

known as Majlis al Jinn.

Translated as "Meeting Place of"

"the Jinn," it is one of the

largest caves in the world.

>> MAGLIOCCO: The jinn is like

an Arabic fairy... the genie in

the bottle of Aladdin

and his lamp.

The jinn can come out of the

bottle and grant you three

wishes, but those wishes might

not turn out the way that

you hoped that they would.

>> ROBERT SHOCH: In Arab and.

Islamic traditions, these were

a set of beings that were made

by God, and in some ways they're

sort of intermediate, between

humans and angels.

Could they represent a being

from another realm of the

universe that we're not used to?

We just don't know.

>> NARRATOR: According to

descriptions in the Koran,

the jinn are supernatural

entities from another dimension

that can appear and disappear

at will.

They are variously described as

being both benevolent and

malevolent to humans, and often

reveal themselves with messages,

which can be either good or

evil.

>> YOUNG: Mystical literature

from all over the world has

accounts of visitations from

magical creatures... angels,

gods, what have you.

Moses talked to a burning bush.

Jacob had angels coming down a

ladder.

So we have tales from our

familiar culture, and from many

others, of some kind of

supernatural creatures that

interact and interfere, that

represent some powers beyond our

understanding.

>> NARRATOR: Spirit beings with

sinister motives can also be

found in recorded history dating

as far back as 2400 BC.

The Sumerian King List, a

manuscript believed to be over

4,000 years old... describes a

demon named Lilu... a spirit

that seduces women in their

sleep.

Depictions of suatural

beings, also known as incubus,

and a female counterpart,

succubus, exist in the folklore

of various cultures.

In each account, incubus and

succubus can paralyze their

victims before having sex with

them.

>> O'BRIEN: A female, uh, entity

would come and, uh, have its way

with a male victim.

Uh, that would be the succubus.

An incubus would be a male

version of this.

Being unable to breathe, feeling

like you're frozen, these are

very, very similar things that

happen to people in modern

abduction phenomenon.

>> COPPENS: These stories

basically are about how these

malignant entities somehow come

to people in their sleep, at

nighttime.

And it is said that they have

sexual intercourse with these

beings.

>> VON DANIKEN: From time to

time, they made a landing, and

they simply captured

nice-looking girls, sometimes

nice-looking men, captured them

and take them away.

Sometimes, these

extraterrestrials had sex with

some of our humans, so you

have an offspring, and the

offspring still has part

of the blood of the

extraterrestrial.

>> NARRATOR: But might the

legends of jinn, incubus and

succubus be describing not

demons but alien visitors?

Beings with the ability to

seduce and psychically abduct

humans?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe that, throughout

history, humans have documented

numerous otherworldly

communications, both voluntary

and involuntary.

>> MAGLIOCCO: Human beings have

been having similar kinds of

experiences all along.

According to some

folklorists, the experience of

missing time, of having contact

with nonhuman humanoids is

the same.

It is historically

consistent whether people are

describing I being taken by

the fairies or whether people

are describing being taken by.

UFO aliens.

>> NARRATOR: According to.

Native American folklore, tribal

priests, known as shamans, are

able to reach a higher state of

consciousness by communicating

telepathically with the spirit

world.

>> SHOCH: Traditional shamans go

into altered states of

consciousness, and many of them

believe that they are dealing

now with spirits.

Could these actually be what

some people call "star beings"?

Beings that are living in

another dimension, another level

of reality.

>> CHILDRESS: There are many

descriptions of shamanic

experiences where shamans come

into contact with unusual

beings, psychically.

So, in many ways, shamans are

sort of being psychically

abducted.

You haome revelation of a

sort.

So, where's that coming from?

Is it possibly coming also from

extraterrestrials?

>> NARRATOR: Is is possible that

seductions and telepathic

messages may be a form of

abduction, as some believe?

And should humans be fearful of

what could very well be

considered a type of alien mind

control?

And might we look to the ancient

past for proof that otherworldly

contact is not only benign, but

even essential for our very

survival?

>> NARRATOR: Are abductions even

more prevalent than we know?

Some ancient astronaut theorists

believe that psychic abductions

with otherworldly beings have

provided inspiration to numerous

historical figures, including

Winston Churchill, Joan of Arc,

Alexander the Great, Mahatma

Gandhi, and one of the greatest

scientific minds of the

20th century, Nikola Tesla.

From 1884 until his death in

1943, Tesla was responsible for

groundbreaking scientific

discoveries, including

alternating current, radio,

X-rays, and lasers.

In a magazine article Tesla

authored in 1901, he described

receiving telepathic messages

from beings on Mars, a comment

that earned him the nickname.

"Mad Scientist."

>> REDFERN: Nikola Tesla was

involved in all sorts of highly

alternative research, science,

physics, et cetera.

There is a story that he

supposedly, when he was doing

some of his research, picked up

these strange signals, and

potentially was in contact with

some sort of higher nonhuman

entities.

>> STORCH: Nikola Tesla claimed

that a lot of his ideas and

knowledge came from telepathic

messages that he was receiving

from some type of

extraterrestrial, um...

that they were guiding him,

and that he was just a conduit

for that information.

>> NARRATOR: Might Tesla's

accounts of telepathic

encounters with otherworldly

beings provide proof of

abductions that not only

involves the physical but the

mental, as well?

Could it be that

extraterrestrials have a secret

agenda, a plan that may

involve preparing humans

for an intergalactic future?

Or, perhaps, as some suggest,

a desire to breed with us and

populate planet Earth with a new

hybrid race.

>> STORCH: The reason I think

that extraterrestrials are

kidnapping citizens, abducting

them, is for genetic purposes.

Somewhere along the line,

someone changed the genetic

code, and we became who we are

today.

And I believe that's still going

on today, whether it's out of

a survival mode, or we're an

experimental petri dish, or that

we are some kind of pet, I don't

know.

That remains to be seen, but I,

for one, think that you have to

go way back into ancient

historical documentation and

there lies the evidence, if you

will.

>> TSOUKALOS: The ancient

astronaut theory has never

suggested that

extraterrestrials only visited

in the remote past.

In fact, they have never left.

The evidence suggests that

there is a type of an abduction

scenario clearly going on in

this day and age.

>> MICHAEL DENNIN: Is there

some sort of hybridization or

cross-species interaction?

I think the natural thing is to

consider our interest in biology

of other species and what we do.

We obviously have zoos, we do

animal research, we use it for

drug testing.

How close would their biology

really be to ours, and how

useful could that be?

>> CHILDRESS: You have to ask

yourself if there is not some

big alien agenda for all of

these thousands of reported

abductions.

It's a... it's a preparation

for something to happen in the

future.

And all these abductions are a

way of preparing mankind for

this big event.

>> WALTON: I've come to, uh,

sort of redefine what happened

to me.

If I believe there's more than

one type of being coming, I

would have to say alien agendas,

in the plural.

And I think much of what's

referred to as an abduction

isn't really an abduction in the

truest sense of the words.

I think in many cases, at least

in my case, they were... they

were trying to help.

>> HOWE: And if we're dealing

with one or more intelligences,

that maybe they have different

agendas.

But maybe there is something out

there that has been an ally to

evolving hominids, and we're the

latest model.

>> NARRATOR: Might the numerous

accounts of alien abductions...

Not only recently, but

throughout the ancient past...

Really provide evidence of an

extraterrestrial agenda...

A plan not only to communicate

with us, but for us to

communicate through them?

If so, what is the message?

Are we being prepared for a

bright new future?

And might these so-called

abductions be a reunion with our

remote past?

One fact seems clear: Many

believe contact is being made,

and mankind's ultimate future

may be closer than we think.

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