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NARRATOR:
A military base
that was targeted by a UFO.
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A plane that was hijacked
by an otherworldly technology.
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And an encounter in rural Texas
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that defies explanation.
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On Ancient Aliens,
we've examined dozens
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of unexplained encounters
that have left witnesses
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not only astonished,
but terrified.
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Now, we're counting down
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the ten most frightening
encounters ever reported.
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Encounters that add to
the growing body of evidence
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that Earth has been visited
by extraterrestrials.
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Every year, thousands of
UFO sightings are reported,
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and experiencers are often
left wondering
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what they actually saw.
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But some incidents are
so intense and so terrifying
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that the witnesses are certain
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that what they encountered
is not of this world.
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On this countdown,
we're featuring
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some of the most frightening
contact events
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we've ever examined
on Ancient Aliens.
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And this first one was certainly
a heart-stopping incident.
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At number ten on our list of
the top ten scariest encounters:
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The UFO Hijacking.
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NARRATOR:
Some of the most compelling
and harrowing UFO accounts
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are those reported by pilots
who witness strange craft
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while flying thousands of feet
above the Earth.
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Instead of seeing a small disk
or light way up in the sky,
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pilots often encounter UFOs
at close range.
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And they have
the experience to know
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if they're looking
at man-made craft
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or something else.
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TSOUKALOS:
You have countless commercial
and private airline pilots
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who spend an exorbitant
amount of time up in the sky.
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And, in my opinion,
I think they're the best people
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to discern what is natural
and what is not.
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NARRATOR:
According to some pilots,
not only is there
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an extraterrestrial presence
in our skies,
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but they present
a serious danger.
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Zihuantanejo, Mexico.
May 3, 1975.
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Pilot Carlos de Los Santos
takes off
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from the local airfield
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on a routine flight
to Mexico City.
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One hour into his journey,
he witnesses something unusual:
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a gray, wingless object
off the right side of his plane.
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RICHARD DOLAN: As he approaches
Mexico City, he notices,
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basically, a small flying saucer
just above his left wing.
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It's not as large
as his aircraft.
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He's flying a fairly
small aircraft.
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And he's like, what is this?
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And then he looks over
to his right
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and he sees another one.
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And then he looks ahead of them,
and there's one coming at him.
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It goes below his aircraft.
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And he feels a bump
under his aircraft.
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And he's scared out of his mind.
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Anyone would be.
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He then realizes that he's not
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really in control
of his aircraft.
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BILL BIRNES:
The theory is that
the UFO that came
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under the plane
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took control of his plane.
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And the UFO's own
magnetic envelope
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is lifting the plane higher
and higher and higher.
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De Los Santos is in a panic.
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He's giving Mayday calls.
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NARRATOR:
As the small aircraft races
towards a mountainous area,
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the three UAPs disengage
and veer off
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toward the Mount Popocatépetl
volcano at lightning speed.
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As the objects
disappear from sight,
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Carlos regains control
of the plane.
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So he lands his aircraft,
and the story doesn't end here.
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Now, he would've had
his whole career,
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reputation ruined, probably,
with this,
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except for the fact that
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Mexican air traffic control
tracked these objects also.
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And this came out
to support him.
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This story became
a huge news story in Mexico.
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It's just one of the most
incredible aviation UAP stories
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that you're ever gonna hear.
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To me, pilots are some of the
best UFO witnesses out there,
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because they are trained
to discern
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between different objects
flying through the sky.
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Which is what makes our next
encounter even more frightening.
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It involved a cargo plane
that reported
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an alien craft
of enormous proportions.
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Number nine on our list:
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Japan Airlines Flight 1628.
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NARRATOR:
Alaska. November 17, 1986.
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Japan Airlines Flight 1628
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is carrying cargo
from Paris, France,
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to Narita International
Airport near Tokyo.
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The three-person crew is led
by Captain Kenju Terauchi,
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an ex-fighter pilot with over
10,000 hours of flight time.
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As the 747 approaches Anchorage,
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Captain Terauchi notices
two strange lights
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out of his cockpit window.
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It's dark. It's, uh, very early
morning before sunrise.
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These lights
are clearly maneuvering.
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And they move directly
in front of his aircraft.
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Now, he's flying at
about 500 miles per hour.
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These things are pacing him.
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Captain Terauchi radios
Anchorage air traffic control
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and reports
the lights are strange,
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oval-shaped flying objects,
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and they are getting dangerously
close to his aircraft.
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As the pilot attempts
a series of evasive maneuvers
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to avoid a potential collision,
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the two UFOs suddenly disappear.
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In their place is
another object.
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One so large it dwarfs the 747.
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DOLAN:
His words for describing
it were "gigantic spaceship."
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The size of maybe two aircraft
carriers. Just immense.
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Terauchi sees this
massive thing in the sky,
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and he's scared.
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NARRATOR:
On the ground, radar specialists
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confirm a mysterious object
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is in fact in the sky
near Captain Terauchi's plane.
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
This incident is more than just
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the witnesses on the plane.
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We have radar
spotting the craft.
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We have discussions
between air traffic control
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and the pilots,
and them describing this.
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So, we have other people
also on the ground
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who can back up this sighting.
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We don't know, really,
what it was.
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But it may well have been
an extraterrestrial craft
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flying right over Alaska.
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There is no doubt
that Alaskan pilots
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are some of the bravest
aviators around.
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They can adapt to sudden storms
and dangerous conditions
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on a moment's notice.
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But even a pilot
like Theo Chesley,
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who's been flying over Alaska
for nearly four decades,
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found his heart racing when
he encountered multiple objects
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in the sky that resembled no
aircraft he'd ever seen before.
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Number eight on our countdown
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of the top ten
scariest encounters:
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The Mount Shishaldin Incident.
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NARRATOR:
Anchorage, Alaska,
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October 19, 2022.
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Author and researcher
David Childress has traveled
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to a local airfield
to meet with pilot Theo Chesley.
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In 2019,
Chesley encountered a UFO
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while flying near
Mount Shishaldin,
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an active volcano on
Unimak Island in the Aleutians.
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While the event left him shaken,
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Chesley took
several photographs.
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CHILDRESS:
So, when was this occurrence?
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Well, uh, we had a flight
back in October of 2019.
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We were northeast
of the mountain.
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Ah, we were probably
30 miles from the mountain.
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We spotted something in the sky.
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And this is what we saw.
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CHILDRESS:
Did it seem to have
a cloud around it, or no?
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CHESLEY:
It had, like, a tail on it,
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a little bit of a wisp
coming out of the back.
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So I'm looking at it,
going, okay, what is that?
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As we started to come towards
the mountain and fly by it,
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this horizontal disk
turned vertical
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and came over and sort of parked
by the mountain,
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and held its shape.
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So, it had been moving,
and then it stopped?
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CHESLEY:
It stopped by the volcano.
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Then we had something fly
out of the mountain.
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-Now, the mountain--
-A second object?
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CHESLEY:
A second object.
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So, this object flies
out of the mountain.
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And at the same time,
we're still watching the sphere
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that's vertically parked.
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And we, like,
looked at that, and I said,
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"No, we're done here.
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We're... we are
leaving the scene here."
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And to be honest, you know,
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my concern level was going about
through the roof at that point.
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Wow, that's fascinating.
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NARRATOR:
As an experienced pilot,
Theo Chesley cannot explain
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the two events he experienced.
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I've seen a lot of things.
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I've been through
a lot of storms.
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Some great flights,
some not-so-great flights.
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But I'm one of
those kind of guys
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that have to see something
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that's extraordinary
to believe it.
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And what I saw was just not
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anything ordinary at all.
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a disturbing phenomenon
,
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has been reported
across the country.
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Ranchers have discovered
livestock dead in their fields
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that appear to have been killed
by a mysterious
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and possibly
extraterrestrial force.
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Number seven on our countdown
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of the top ten
scariest encounters:
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Animal Mutilations.
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NARRATOR:
San Luis Valley, Colorado.
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1967.
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On the King family ranch,
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a horse named Lady
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is found dead in a pasture.
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The skull is stripped
so clean of flesh
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that it appears to have been
exposed to the elements
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for weeks.
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Yet the King family
had seen Lady alive
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just two days earlier.
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Even stranger,
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no blood or animal tracks
of any kind
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are found near the corpse.
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Authorities are shaken
and perplexed.
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The skeleton was
completely clean and white.
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Even brain tissue was gone.
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But the rest of the horse
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looked as if
it should get up and walk.
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It was that fresh.
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NARRATOR: The incident likely
would have been lost to history,
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were it not for the fact
that near-identical slaughters
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soon became commonplace
across the American heartland.
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You had farmers and ranchers
getting up in the morning
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and finding their animals
dead in the fields.
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And these were clearly
not attacks by mountain lions
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or coyotes
or anything like that.
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The farmers actually reported
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how blood was drained
from the animals,
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organs were removed,
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and it seemed as if the bodies
of the cattle had been opened up
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by some sort of
high-heat weapon or device.
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NARRATOR:
While mainstream medical
professionals are unsure who
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or what could be responsible
for these attacks,
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ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
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the answer may be found
by examining strange findings
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reported at other
mutilation sites.
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Sometimes, the animals
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are lying on top
of charred patches of ground.
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Sometimes those charred patches
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are exactly the same size
and shape
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as the animals themselves.
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And very often, there have been
reports of strange lights
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in the sky or on the ground
in and around the time
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where the mutilations
are taking place.
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HOWE:
The deeper you get, and the more
people you interview--
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and I have literally
interviewed thousands now--
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you hear,
"I saw this kind of light.
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"I saw this beam
lowering an animal
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to the pasture,
and it was mutilated."
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Somebody else,
"I saw this animal coming up
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in a beam of light, and later,
it was found mutilated."
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It was my work investigating
animal mutilations
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that took me to the conclusion
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that the phenomena
that is behind
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the global animal mutilations
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of the last...
at least a hundred years,
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are extraterrestrial
biological entities.
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When it comes to encounters
that defy explanation,
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there are none more confounding
than what happened
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in the mountains
of Russia in 1959.
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A group of nine hikers
ascended a mountain
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that is actually named
"Do Not Go There."
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And what happened to them
was so shocking,
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researchers are still trying to
solve the mystery to this day.
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Number six on our list:
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The Ural Mountains Encounter.
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NARRATOR:
A group of nine mountaineers
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embark on a winter trek
into Russia's Ural Mountains.
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Their destination,
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a mountain called Otorten,
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which, in the local
Mansi language, means,
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"Do Not Go There."
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PAUL STONEHILL:
Among them were three
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experienced engineers,
the rest were students.
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They were all young,
though I think the oldest
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was, like, 37 years old.
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They had conducted
other hard treks to the area,
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they were all experienced,
strong-willed,
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determined people.
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NARRATOR:
On their fourth night out,
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bad weather forced the hikers
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to camp atop an area
called Kholat Syakhl,
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which, in Mansi, translates
to "the mountain of the dead."
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STONEHILL:
It was a very inhospitable,
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very strange,
very, very hard place to be.
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Snow, cold, freezing winds
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and very few
living things around.
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NARRATOR:
Ten days later,
when the nine adventurers
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failed to show up
at their destination,
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military rescue teams
searched the area.
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They found
the campsite abandoned
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and a tent that had been
torn to pieces.
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Curiously,
the investigators determined
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that the tent was cut
and ripped open from the inside,
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and the hikers appeared
to have fled in socks
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and with bare feet.
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STONEHILL:
Something was pushing them
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to run away without
taking any clothing with them,
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without taking any supplies.
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They were behaving like
they were in a daze, confused.
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NARRATOR:
The investigators
followed the trail
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to the edge of the forest.
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But what they eventually
found...
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...was beyond belief.
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BIRNES:
All nine hikers died.
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They were discovered
by Soviet troops
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in various stages
of what can only be described
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as being mutilated.
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Their bodies were burned,
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some suffered
radiation poisoning.
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In one case,
a hiker's tongue was missing.
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They had prematurely aged,
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their skin was orange,
their hair had turned grey.
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What could've explained this?
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STONEHILL:
Three of them had injuries
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that could be sustained
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when somebody is hit
by a speeding car,
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except the injuries were inside.
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Their ribs were crushed
like eggshells.
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But there was no effect
on their skin.
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NARRATOR:
The official explanation
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was that the nine hikers
died from hypothermia.
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But years later, members
of the search party spoke out.
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According to their testimony,
at the time of the incident,
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a mysterious ball of light
was seen floating in the sky.
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BIRNES:
This wasn't a craft
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like a plane, it wasn't
a craft like a rocket.
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It was a glowing,
bright ball of light.
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One theory is that orbs,
they're like cameras.
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They travel around,
they surveil the area--
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as if they're surveilling
our dimension
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from another dimension--
and then they disappear.
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NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the strange orb
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seen in the Ural Mountains
was not of this world?
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And if so,
could there be a connection
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between it and the mysterious
deaths of the Russian hikers?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and suggest further evidence
of extraterrestrial visitation
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can be found
in a close encounter
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that left physical evidence.
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e
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of extraterrestrial contact
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comes from the most
harrowing events.
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Like in the case of three people
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whose dramatic encounter
with a UFO
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left them not only traumatized,
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but with lasting
physical injuries.
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Number five on our list
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of the top ten
scariest encounters:
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The Cash-Landrum Incident.
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NARRATOR:
Dayton, Texas.
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December 29, 1980.
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Seven-year-old Colby Landrum
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is with his grandmother
and her friend
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driving along
a desolate two-lane road
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when they have
a life-changing experience.
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Betty Cash, my grandmother
Vickie Landrum, and myself
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headed back home towards Dayton.
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It was real late at night,
nobody else on the road,
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and we encountered
a bright object.
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It actually was, like,
about the size of a water tower.
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100 foot across, 100 foot tall,
but in a diamond shape.
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I just panicked.
I got on the floorboard.
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VICKIE: This is Vickie Landrum
from Dayton, Texas.
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JAMES:
Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum
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stopped the car to investigate,
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and the local environment
is actually being heated
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by this object to the point
where they try to touch
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their car
and it's hot to the touch.
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LANDRUM:
You could feel
the heat off of it.
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The heat was very intense.
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It was hot enough for--
When she grabbed
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the dash when we stopped,
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I mean, it was an indention
of where her hand was sitting.
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JAMES:
Now, what makes this unique
is that, when they get home,
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after a couple of days,
they start to show symptoms
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of being exposed
to ionized radiation.
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NARRATOR:
After the incident,
all three witnesses
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were treated
for radiation exposure.
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LANDRUM:
I got nauseous and sick.
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It probably lasted
two or three days with me.
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My grandmother,
she had the same symptoms,
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but she also had
blisters on her skin.
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They would bust open,
and she'd have sores
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for several years after that.
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Betty Cash suffered
the most severe part of it.
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She was out of the car
the longest.
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According to the doctors,
she had the most exposure to it.
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CHILDRESS:
The women blamed
the U.S. government for this.
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And this then became
a very well-known court case,
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where they were suing
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the U.S. government,
essentially.
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NARRATOR:
For help with their case,
Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum
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turned to investigators with
MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network.
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NICK POPE:
MUFON investigators
got the witness statements,
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gathered the evidence, including
things like medical records,
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which were central
to the legal case.
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And, although the witnesses
didn't win their case,
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what's important was that
that gets it on the record.
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NARRATOR:
Today, the Cash-Landrum incident
is one of the most famous,
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00:22:19,375 --> 00:22:23,000
and harrowing, UFO encounters
in recent history.
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LANDRUM:
I remember being there,
and I know what happened.
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I want somebody to come forward
and actually, you know,
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admit that something
happened there.
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I just want to know the truth.
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To me, the most intriguing
UFO encounters
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are those that
can be corroborated
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by multiple witnesses.
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00:22:46,458 --> 00:22:49,667
One mass sighting that
I find particularly compelling
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happened to a group
of school children
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in rural Oklahoma,
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00:22:54,375 --> 00:22:56,708
and the experience
was so intense,
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it left them fearing
for their lives.
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At number four:
The Miracle Mountains Incident.
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NARRATOR:
Hartshorne, Oklahoma. 1975.
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Randy Young is
a ten-year-old student
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at the Miracle Mountains
Boarding School.
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One day, his normal routine
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is shattered
by a terrifying event.
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RANDY YOUNG:
My brother and I,
we were out in the sandbox,
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and we saw this circular, uh,
shining light that was
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probably 2,000 or so feet
up in the air.
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And it didn't have the movements
of an airplane.
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Um, it was just hovering.
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And, as it got darker,
this craft got closer.
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It had lights that
went through the midsection,
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all the way around,
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and it had this classic,
um, saucer-type shape.
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We called the adults out.
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There were a few children
that were frightened to death
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of the thing.
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And we heard
one of the girls scream.
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Seems to have been a landing.
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Some people say
there are entities there.
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At one point,
one of the older children
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got onto the roof with a-a gun
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because they were that concerned
about what was happening.
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It was a rifle, and that was
the end of the story for us
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'cause it took off,
and we never saw it again.
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NARRATOR:
Almost 50 years later,
several people who attended
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the Miracle Mountains
Boarding School
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shared their story with MUFON
in chilling detail.
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I first reached out to Randy
and interviewed him.
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The next person I spoke to
was Philip Buchanan.
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Philip was one
of the older children
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at the school at the time.
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And then I spoke
with the teacher via e-mail.
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And the teacher described
that some of the kids
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were hiding under the beds
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because they were
very terrified,
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and some of the kids were
looking out the window.
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They reported to see
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shapeshifting entities
out there.
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What Mindy found out,
after doing all that work,
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is that these kids were
recalling the exact same thing.
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As these witnesses were telling
their stories years later,
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one of the things
Mindy asked them to do
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was to actually draw the UFO
that they'd seen.
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And the consistency is amazing.
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And not only are they
telling the same story,
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but they're describing
the same craft.
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TSOUKALOS: This cold case is one
of the most fascinating cases,
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because students, they had not
spoken to each other since 1975,
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and they all replied
with the same answers,
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which indicates
that something happened,
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and everybody saw
the same thing.
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YOUNG:
It was something that will
always be a memory for us.
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And I've never seen anything
like that ever again.
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I almost wish that it would
never have happened.
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ll-documes
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in history was reported
by members of the armed forces.
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Over the course of two nights,
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multiple servicemen
not only saw a mysterious craft,
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but some claimed to have had
an experience
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that haunts them
to this very day.
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Number three on our countdown:
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The Rendlesham Forest Incident.
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NARRATOR:
In Suffolk County, England,
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there is a remote forest
in the village of Rendlesham
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that has become famous
for being the site
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of one of the most extraordinary
and frightening
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UFO encounters ever reported.
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The event occurred
on December 26, 1980.
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Airman John Burroughs
was performing
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00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:01,708
a routine security check
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at a U.S. Air Force Base
when he received orders
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to investigate
a possible downed aircraft.
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JOHN BURROUGHS:
My supervisor called me
on the radio and asked me
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to meet up with him
so we could check the east gate.
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We're driving down the road
leading to the east gate
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to check on it when,
all of a sudden,
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he saw some strange lights
in the forest.
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00:27:21,083 --> 00:27:23,292
So I decided to call it in
and let them know
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00:27:23,458 --> 00:27:25,042
something strange was going on.
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00:27:25,208 --> 00:27:28,292
They decided to send
one of the security units down,
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00:27:28,458 --> 00:27:30,542
which was Sergeant Penniston.
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00:27:30,750 --> 00:27:32,667
He got down there and
he saw the same strange lights
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that we were seeing.
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PENNISTON:
I could see all these
multiple color lights
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and things like that,
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and the air felt different.
496
00:27:40,958 --> 00:27:44,417
I don't know how to...
really explain that,
497
00:27:44,583 --> 00:27:47,458
but it did feel like
there was electricity
498
00:27:47,583 --> 00:27:49,417
on our skin and hair and stuff,
499
00:27:49,583 --> 00:27:52,208
but that progressively
got worse the closer
500
00:27:52,375 --> 00:27:55,083
we got to the tree line,
and it got more intense.
501
00:27:56,417 --> 00:27:59,750
NARRATOR:
As the servicemen
approached the strange lights,
502
00:27:59,958 --> 00:28:03,458
Sergeant Penniston
reportedly saw a large craft
503
00:28:03,625 --> 00:28:05,917
just beyond the tree line.
504
00:28:06,083 --> 00:28:08,167
PENNISTON:
The craft
was triangular in shape,
505
00:28:08,333 --> 00:28:12,500
measuring about six to seven
feet high, black in color.
506
00:28:12,708 --> 00:28:15,125
I'd come around
to the far side of the craft,
507
00:28:15,292 --> 00:28:16,917
and that's when I noticed
that there was, you know,
508
00:28:17,083 --> 00:28:18,500
an inscription on the side.
509
00:28:18,708 --> 00:28:20,167
You know, it is
about three feet long,
510
00:28:20,375 --> 00:28:22,042
maybe six inches high.
511
00:28:23,958 --> 00:28:25,542
Instead of something familiar,
512
00:28:25,708 --> 00:28:28,292
I see these
pictorial-type glyphs.
513
00:28:28,458 --> 00:28:31,208
And got running my hand
over the side of the craft.
514
00:28:32,458 --> 00:28:34,167
I don't know how
to explain this.
515
00:28:34,333 --> 00:28:36,042
It's like someone was holding
a picture up, okay?
516
00:28:36,208 --> 00:28:38,458
There was this feeling
of being drawn into it,
517
00:28:38,542 --> 00:28:40,167
or being pulled into it.
518
00:28:40,375 --> 00:28:43,083
Like someone was holding
a picture up of zeroes and ones
519
00:28:43,250 --> 00:28:44,833
in my mind's eye.
520
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,167
NARRATOR:
The strange visions
521
00:28:46,333 --> 00:28:49,167
Sergeant Penniston had
upon touching the craft,
522
00:28:49,292 --> 00:28:54,833
has made this one of Britain's
most famous UFO encounters.
523
00:28:55,042 --> 00:28:58,167
But ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
524
00:28:58,375 --> 00:29:01,667
that even more compelling
is what happened after.
525
00:29:01,875 --> 00:29:04,792
Over the following two evenings,
526
00:29:04,917 --> 00:29:07,583
U.S. Air Force Colonel
Charles Halt
527
00:29:07,750 --> 00:29:10,333
reported further
strange sightings.
528
00:29:10,458 --> 00:29:15,167
He led his own search party
to put an end to the confusion.
529
00:29:15,333 --> 00:29:18,750
But instead of finding
a logical explanation,
530
00:29:18,917 --> 00:29:22,042
they discovered high levels
of radioactivity
531
00:29:22,208 --> 00:29:24,375
where Burroughs and Penniston
had previously
532
00:29:24,542 --> 00:29:27,000
seen the strange craft.
533
00:29:27,125 --> 00:29:30,125
They then spotted a light
in a nearby field
534
00:29:30,292 --> 00:29:34,417
that suddenly came towards them
through the trees at high speed.
535
00:29:35,542 --> 00:29:37,500
CHARLES HALT:
While we're walking around,
we also notice
536
00:29:37,708 --> 00:29:39,250
four or five objects in the sky.
537
00:29:39,417 --> 00:29:42,875
Then one came at high speed,
stopped directly overhead--
538
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,958
3,000, 4,000, maybe 5,000 feet--
539
00:29:45,125 --> 00:29:46,917
and sent down
a concentrated beam
540
00:29:47,083 --> 00:29:48,792
about eight or ten feet from us.
541
00:29:49,750 --> 00:29:51,833
I was really concerned then.
542
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,500
At that point, I was thinking,
543
00:29:53,708 --> 00:29:55,292
"Why did I ever get involved
in this?
544
00:29:55,458 --> 00:29:56,833
How will I ever explain this?"
545
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,625
POPE:
Now, I did a cold case review
546
00:29:59,792 --> 00:30:01,250
for the Ministry of Defense.
547
00:30:01,417 --> 00:30:04,833
I am still subject
to the Official Secrets Act,
548
00:30:05,042 --> 00:30:09,542
but I can tell you, chances
are these craft were real.
549
00:30:09,750 --> 00:30:14,833
And if they're real, they might
actually be extraterrestrial.
550
00:30:16,458 --> 00:30:20,250
NARRATOR:
Today, the frightening
encounter in Rendlesham Forest
551
00:30:20,417 --> 00:30:24,042
is known in the UFO community
as Britain's Roswell.
552
00:30:25,708 --> 00:30:28,792
For Airman Burroughs
and Sergeant Penniston,
553
00:30:28,958 --> 00:30:32,167
the event wasn't easy
to leave behind.
554
00:30:33,125 --> 00:30:37,125
Both men had lasting physical
and psychological effects
555
00:30:37,333 --> 00:30:39,125
from the encounter.
556
00:30:40,042 --> 00:30:44,125
After the incident, I started
having throat and eye problems.
557
00:30:44,292 --> 00:30:46,750
At one point,
my gums turned white.
558
00:30:46,917 --> 00:30:49,000
I also had vision problems,
and when I went
559
00:30:49,167 --> 00:30:51,375
and saw the doctor,
one of his first questions
560
00:30:51,542 --> 00:30:54,167
was had I been ever
exposed to radiation.
561
00:30:55,125 --> 00:30:58,083
I've definitely had dreams
about it,
562
00:30:58,208 --> 00:31:01,542
and I still have feelings
about what happened.
563
00:31:01,708 --> 00:31:04,000
Prior to the incident,
564
00:31:04,125 --> 00:31:06,167
uh...
565
00:31:06,375 --> 00:31:09,833
my views on any kind
of phenomena like UFOs,
566
00:31:09,958 --> 00:31:12,000
things like that--
they didn't exist.
567
00:31:12,167 --> 00:31:14,333
I never believed
that kind of stuff.
568
00:31:14,542 --> 00:31:17,792
But after the life-changing
event of December 1980,
569
00:31:17,958 --> 00:31:18,917
my views were different.
570
00:31:19,125 --> 00:31:21,792
It opened up the possibility
571
00:31:21,958 --> 00:31:24,125
that we're not alone.
572
00:31:29,542 --> 00:31:32,042
scaris
573
00:31:32,208 --> 00:31:34,500
we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens
574
00:31:34,667 --> 00:31:36,458
are abduction events.
575
00:31:36,625 --> 00:31:40,042
And one of the most famous
involved multiple witnesses
576
00:31:40,208 --> 00:31:42,958
who watched in terror
as their friend
577
00:31:43,042 --> 00:31:45,958
was abducted
right before their eyes.
578
00:31:46,875 --> 00:31:48,958
Number two on our countdown:
579
00:31:49,083 --> 00:31:51,542
The Travis Walton Abduction.
580
00:31:54,375 --> 00:31:57,125
NARRATOR: The Apache-Sitgreaves
National Forest,
581
00:31:57,292 --> 00:31:59,542
Arizona.
582
00:31:59,708 --> 00:32:02,917
November 5, 1975.
583
00:32:03,083 --> 00:32:06,833
22-year-old forestry worker
Travis Walton
584
00:32:07,042 --> 00:32:08,625
and a group of co-workers
585
00:32:08,792 --> 00:32:11,333
are driving home after sundown
586
00:32:11,542 --> 00:32:15,333
when suddenly a strange light
appears in the sky.
587
00:32:16,125 --> 00:32:17,833
I noticed, uh,
some little glimmers
588
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,417
of light coming
through the trees.
589
00:32:19,542 --> 00:32:22,875
And the light seemed
to be coming from higher
590
00:32:23,042 --> 00:32:24,917
than where ground level
would be.
591
00:32:25,083 --> 00:32:28,083
It was only when we got
to where this light
592
00:32:28,250 --> 00:32:30,208
was crossing the road
that we had
593
00:32:30,417 --> 00:32:32,958
an unobstructed view
of the craft.
594
00:32:34,042 --> 00:32:36,833
It was a clearly visible,
595
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,833
clearly defined metallic object.
596
00:32:40,042 --> 00:32:43,542
A disc hovering there,
outlined against the sky.
597
00:32:43,708 --> 00:32:45,958
I threw open the door,
598
00:32:46,167 --> 00:32:48,542
thinking I'd get a closer look
before it took off.
599
00:32:49,792 --> 00:32:51,917
That's when this energy hit me.
600
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,625
I felt, like, a physical blow,
601
00:32:55,792 --> 00:32:58,208
but with a sort of
a tingling sort of
602
00:32:58,375 --> 00:33:00,375
an electric shock
sort of feeling
603
00:33:00,542 --> 00:33:02,167
at the same time.
604
00:33:02,333 --> 00:33:04,833
REDFERN:
Walton basically got zapped
605
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,167
by this blinding light.
606
00:33:07,375 --> 00:33:10,292
The crew just hot-footed it
out of the area quickly,
607
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:13,167
uh, then thought,
"Well, we've got to go back.
608
00:33:13,375 --> 00:33:15,333
You know,
we've got to get Travis."
609
00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:18,542
Went back, whatever
this object was, was gone.
610
00:33:18,708 --> 00:33:20,542
And he was gone as well.
611
00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:23,458
NARRATOR:
According to Travis Walton,
612
00:33:23,625 --> 00:33:27,583
the mysterious beam of light
rendered him unconscious.
613
00:33:29,208 --> 00:33:31,750
And when he awoke,
he found himself in a room
614
00:33:31,917 --> 00:33:34,875
surrounded by strange beings.
615
00:33:35,750 --> 00:33:38,500
I was looking straight into the,
the face of this creature.
616
00:33:40,917 --> 00:33:44,500
These, uh, small beings
were humanoid.
617
00:33:44,708 --> 00:33:47,958
But so unhuman.
618
00:33:48,042 --> 00:33:49,667
It was just terrifying.
619
00:33:49,792 --> 00:33:51,000
And I just flipped out.
620
00:33:51,167 --> 00:33:52,875
It was just horrible.
621
00:33:53,042 --> 00:33:56,167
It was like they were looking
right into me.
622
00:33:56,375 --> 00:34:00,833
POPE: He saw these hideous
entities that scared him.
623
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,750
Maybe quite similar
to the modern idea
624
00:34:04,917 --> 00:34:07,833
of the so-called "alien Greys."
625
00:34:08,042 --> 00:34:10,875
And then these aliens
seem to go away.
626
00:34:11,083 --> 00:34:13,333
And then their place was taken
627
00:34:13,458 --> 00:34:16,667
by much more human-like aliens.
628
00:34:16,833 --> 00:34:18,500
And he calmed down.
629
00:34:19,542 --> 00:34:22,000
WALTON: In the case
of the human-looking ones,
630
00:34:22,167 --> 00:34:24,375
I started to have
serious misgivings
631
00:34:24,542 --> 00:34:25,750
that this was a rescue.
632
00:34:25,917 --> 00:34:27,667
And that's
when they put this mask
633
00:34:27,875 --> 00:34:29,167
over my face.
634
00:34:29,375 --> 00:34:31,417
And I just blacked out
real quickly.
635
00:34:33,583 --> 00:34:36,792
POPE: Now the suspicion here
was that actually these
636
00:34:36,875 --> 00:34:39,208
weren't different aliens,
these were the same aliens,
637
00:34:39,417 --> 00:34:42,667
but they were capable
of shape-shifting
638
00:34:42,833 --> 00:34:47,042
into something else
specifically to calm him down.
639
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,167
NARRATOR:
Crews searched everywhere
for the missing forest worker,
640
00:34:53,375 --> 00:34:56,042
but it wasn't
until five days later
641
00:34:56,208 --> 00:35:00,042
that Walton reappeared
outside of a nearby town.
642
00:35:00,208 --> 00:35:03,667
When I woke up,
I was lying face down
643
00:35:03,875 --> 00:35:06,250
outside in the dark,
in the cold.
644
00:35:07,375 --> 00:35:09,917
I was on a highway in the middle
of the woods.
645
00:35:10,083 --> 00:35:12,042
I looked around,
I recognized the lights
646
00:35:12,208 --> 00:35:13,958
of the town down below.
647
00:35:14,083 --> 00:35:17,167
And I ran down into the town
648
00:35:17,292 --> 00:35:21,083
and, uh, found a telephone
and called my family for help.
649
00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:24,667
NARRATOR: Travis Walton's
story has become
650
00:35:24,875 --> 00:35:29,000
one of the most famous alien
abduction cases ever reported,
651
00:35:29,208 --> 00:35:33,667
and was even adapted
into a movie in 1993.
652
00:35:33,875 --> 00:35:37,500
While some dismiss his account
as a hallucination,
653
00:35:37,708 --> 00:35:40,167
Travis has no doubt
654
00:35:40,333 --> 00:35:44,417
that he experienced a genuine
extraterrestrial encounter.
655
00:35:45,417 --> 00:35:46,667
WALTON:
What no one asked
656
00:35:46,875 --> 00:35:49,417
was, you know,
what about the rest of the crew?
657
00:35:49,583 --> 00:35:52,375
How do seven people have
an identical hallucination?
658
00:35:52,583 --> 00:35:55,000
And besides that,
they were given
659
00:35:55,208 --> 00:35:57,042
lie detector tests
by state police,
660
00:35:57,208 --> 00:35:59,333
which they passed.
661
00:35:59,542 --> 00:36:02,208
There's real life things
that occur out there
662
00:36:02,417 --> 00:36:03,833
that need to be understood.
663
00:36:03,958 --> 00:36:07,458
So, take a look at the facts,
a-and then judge.
664
00:36:07,625 --> 00:36:11,250
I don't know the purpose
that they had.
665
00:36:11,417 --> 00:36:13,667
All I know is
what happened to me.
666
00:36:13,833 --> 00:36:16,250
This was unmistakable.
667
00:36:18,458 --> 00:36:20,875
We're just moments away
from revealing
668
00:36:21,083 --> 00:36:22,958
number one on our countdown.
669
00:36:23,125 --> 00:36:27,208
And as far as I'm concerned,
it is one of the most incredible
670
00:36:27,375 --> 00:36:29,875
close encounters
ever reported.
671
00:36:33,708 --> 00:36:36,000
t Aliensd
672
00:36:36,167 --> 00:36:38,833
some of the most terrifying
alien encounters
673
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,208
ever reported,
674
00:36:40,375 --> 00:36:43,333
but this one
truly gives me chills.
675
00:36:43,500 --> 00:36:46,333
It's one of the most vivid
abduction accounts on record.
676
00:36:46,542 --> 00:36:48,875
And the experience didn't end
677
00:36:49,042 --> 00:36:50,875
after just one incident,
678
00:36:51,042 --> 00:36:54,333
but has persisted
for nearly 40 years.
679
00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:57,375
Number one on our countdown
680
00:36:57,542 --> 00:37:00,458
of the top ten
scariest encounters:
681
00:37:00,542 --> 00:37:03,583
The Abduction
of Whitley Streiber.
682
00:37:06,333 --> 00:37:08,500
NARRATOR:
Ulster County, New York.
683
00:37:09,792 --> 00:37:14,208
December 26, 1985.
684
00:37:15,250 --> 00:37:17,125
Best-selling author
Whitley Strieber
685
00:37:17,292 --> 00:37:19,250
is celebrating Christmas
686
00:37:19,417 --> 00:37:22,000
with his wife
and young son at their cabin.
687
00:37:22,125 --> 00:37:24,208
In the middle of the night,
688
00:37:24,375 --> 00:37:28,042
he is awoken
by a disturbing feeling.
689
00:37:28,208 --> 00:37:31,000
I felt that there
was something around me.
690
00:37:31,167 --> 00:37:32,083
In other words,
there was movement
691
00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:33,708
that shouldn't have been there.
692
00:37:33,833 --> 00:37:35,667
And I opened my eyes
693
00:37:35,875 --> 00:37:37,958
and I saw these big,
694
00:37:38,125 --> 00:37:39,875
black eyes staring at me.
695
00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:45,875
And I had no idea where I was.
696
00:37:46,083 --> 00:37:47,875
It was a little round room.
697
00:37:49,042 --> 00:37:51,458
And I began to scream.
698
00:37:51,625 --> 00:37:55,542
This automatic voice
turned on, saying,
699
00:37:55,750 --> 00:37:57,917
"What can we do
to help you stop screaming?"
700
00:37:59,167 --> 00:38:00,333
There were these other figures,
701
00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:03,042
dark blue little figures
darting around,
702
00:38:03,208 --> 00:38:05,417
and they assaulted me,
basically.
703
00:38:05,625 --> 00:38:08,625
It was not easy. It was
a very terrifying experience.
704
00:38:09,667 --> 00:38:12,500
NARRATOR:
To process the traumatic event,
705
00:38:12,667 --> 00:38:14,833
Whitley wrote
about his close encounter,
706
00:38:15,042 --> 00:38:18,167
which became the basis
of his best-selling memoir,
707
00:38:18,333 --> 00:38:19,583
Communion.
708
00:38:19,750 --> 00:38:22,667
He hoped the experience
was behind him,
709
00:38:22,875 --> 00:38:25,000
but in May of 1989,
710
00:38:25,125 --> 00:38:28,542
Whitley had another
strange nocturnal encounter.
711
00:38:28,708 --> 00:38:32,917
I'm on my side,
on my right side.
712
00:38:33,083 --> 00:38:37,625
And there's a hand pressing
down on my left... temple,
713
00:38:37,750 --> 00:38:40,833
pressing it into the pillow
in, like, waves, like this.
714
00:38:41,042 --> 00:38:43,417
And I can't struggle.
715
00:38:43,625 --> 00:38:45,875
I can't move a muscle.
I can't see anything.
716
00:38:46,042 --> 00:38:48,958
I am completely immobilized.
717
00:38:50,625 --> 00:38:53,500
After a few seconds, that ends.
718
00:38:53,667 --> 00:38:55,833
And I think, "Was it a dream?"
719
00:38:57,667 --> 00:38:59,333
Then the next day
or the day after,
720
00:38:59,542 --> 00:39:01,500
my ear started hurting.
721
00:39:01,625 --> 00:39:04,667
I reach up and I feel
this bump here on my ear.
722
00:39:05,667 --> 00:39:08,583
And I thought, "Oh, my God,
it's an implant."
723
00:39:09,667 --> 00:39:11,500
WOMAN: Oh!
Look at that white thing.
724
00:39:11,667 --> 00:39:14,375
STRIEBER: There was
an attempt to remove it.
725
00:39:17,833 --> 00:39:19,500
STRIEBER:
It failed because the implant
726
00:39:19,708 --> 00:39:22,083
went from here,
right down into here
727
00:39:22,208 --> 00:39:24,000
on its own.
728
00:39:26,250 --> 00:39:28,167
STRIEBER:
And the doctor pulled out.
729
00:39:28,333 --> 00:39:30,708
Two days later,
it went from my ear lobe
730
00:39:30,875 --> 00:39:33,000
back up
to where it is to this day.
731
00:39:34,208 --> 00:39:36,167
NARRATOR:
Could extraterrestrials really
732
00:39:36,292 --> 00:39:38,000
have implanted
some kind of device
733
00:39:38,167 --> 00:39:40,750
inside Whitley Strieber's ear?
734
00:39:40,875 --> 00:39:43,375
And if so, why?
735
00:39:43,542 --> 00:39:45,250
According to Whitley,
736
00:39:45,375 --> 00:39:47,333
whatever the implant is,
737
00:39:47,500 --> 00:39:50,458
it has had
a profound effect on him.
738
00:39:50,625 --> 00:39:53,583
In 2015, I noticed a slit
739
00:39:53,750 --> 00:39:55,542
opened up in my right eye.
740
00:39:55,708 --> 00:39:58,542
And you could see words
racing through it.
741
00:39:58,708 --> 00:40:02,292
But they were like someone was
typing very quickly and racing.
742
00:40:02,458 --> 00:40:05,708
And it had something to do
with my writing.
743
00:40:05,875 --> 00:40:10,125
Because at the same time,
my ability to do research
744
00:40:10,292 --> 00:40:13,750
changed dramatically
and weirdly.
745
00:40:13,917 --> 00:40:17,583
I found that if I just thought
about something I needed,
746
00:40:17,708 --> 00:40:21,042
no matter how obscure, one way
or another, it would come to me.
747
00:40:22,375 --> 00:40:24,000
NARRATOR: Since receiving
the alleged implant,
748
00:40:24,167 --> 00:40:25,958
Strieber claims to have had
749
00:40:26,167 --> 00:40:29,875
regular interaction
with otherworldly beings.
750
00:40:30,083 --> 00:40:32,333
STRIBETER: The visitors are
a part of my life now.
751
00:40:32,417 --> 00:40:34,000
Very much so.
752
00:40:34,167 --> 00:40:36,250
Uh, I don't think
753
00:40:36,417 --> 00:40:38,417
I would be comfortable working
754
00:40:38,583 --> 00:40:41,083
without knowing that there was--
755
00:40:41,208 --> 00:40:44,167
using the implant,
that there was a connection.
756
00:40:44,292 --> 00:40:47,833
Now, what do they want from us?
757
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,792
That is a very big
unanswered question.
758
00:40:54,042 --> 00:40:56,833
Much like Whitley Strieber,
we are all left
759
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,917
with unanswered questions
by these incredible incidents.
760
00:41:01,042 --> 00:41:04,333
As far as I'm concerned,
there is no doubt
761
00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:07,417
that extraterrestrials
are visiting our planet.
762
00:41:08,458 --> 00:41:10,500
But what do they want?
763
00:41:10,625 --> 00:41:13,667
Perhaps only through the careful
study of these
764
00:41:13,833 --> 00:41:16,208
and other
extraordinary accounts,
765
00:41:16,375 --> 00:41:18,583
whether they are
mass UFO sightings,
766
00:41:18,750 --> 00:41:20,333
animal mutilations,
767
00:41:20,542 --> 00:41:23,375
or even frightening abductions,
768
00:41:23,542 --> 00:41:25,708
the truth may finally
be revealed
769
00:41:25,875 --> 00:41:30,167
about Earth's
extraterrestrial visitors.
770
00:41:30,292 --> 00:41:33,000
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