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NARRATOR: A military base that was targeted by a UFO.

A plane that was hijacked by an otherworldly technology.

And an encounter in rural Texas

that defies explanation.

On Ancient Aliens, we've examined dozens

of unexplained encounters that have left witnesses

not only astonished, but terrified.

Now, we're counting down

the ten most frightening encounters ever reported.

Encounters that add to the growing body of evidence

that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.

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Every year, thousands of UFO sightings are reported,

and experiencers are often left wondering

what they actually saw.

But some incidents are so intense and so terrifying

that the witnesses are certain

that what they encountered is not of this world.

On this countdown, we're featuring

some of the most frightening contact events

we've ever examined on Ancient Aliens.

And this first one was certainly a heart-stopping incident.

At number ten on our list of the top ten scariest encounters:

The UFO Hijacking.

NARRATOR: Some of the most compelling and harrowing UFO accounts

are those reported by pilots who witness strange craft

while flying thousands of feet above the Earth.

Instead of seeing a small disk or light way up in the sky,

pilots often encounter UFOs at close range.

And they have the experience to know

if they're looking at man-made craft

or something else.

TSOUKALOS: You have countless commercial and private airline pilots

who spend an exorbitant amount of time up in the sky.

And, in my opinion, I think they're the best people

to discern what is natural and what is not.

NARRATOR: According to some pilots, not only is there

an extraterrestrial presence in our skies,

but they present a serious danger.

Zihuantanejo, Mexico. May 3, 1975.

Pilot Carlos de Los Santos takes off

from the local airfield

on a routine flight to Mexico City.

One hour into his journey, he witnesses something unusual:

a gray, wingless object off the right side of his plane.

RICHARD DOLAN: As he approaches Mexico City, he notices,

basically, a small flying saucer just above his left wing.

It's not as large as his aircraft.

He's flying a fairly small aircraft.

And he's like, what is this?

And then he looks over to his right

and he sees another one.

And then he looks ahead of them, and there's one coming at him.

It goes below his aircraft.

And he feels a bump under his aircraft.

And he's scared out of his mind.

Anyone would be.

He then realizes that he's not

really in control of his aircraft.

BILL BIRNES: The theory is that the UFO that came

under the plane

took control of his plane.

And the UFO's own magnetic envelope

is lifting the plane higher and higher and higher.

De Los Santos is in a panic.

He's giving Mayday calls.

NARRATOR: As the small aircraft races towards a mountainous area,

the three UAPs disengage and veer off

toward the Mount Popocatépetl volcano at lightning speed.

As the objects disappear from sight,

Carlos regains control of the plane.

So he lands his aircraft, and the story doesn't end here.

Now, he would've had his whole career,

reputation ruined, probably, with this,

except for the fact that

Mexican air traffic control tracked these objects also.

And this came out to support him.

This story became a huge news story in Mexico.

It's just one of the most incredible aviation UAP stories

that you're ever gonna hear.

To me, pilots are some of the best UFO witnesses out there,

because they are trained to discern

between different objects flying through the sky.

Which is what makes our next encounter even more frightening.

It involved a cargo plane that reported

an alien craft of enormous proportions.

Number nine on our list:

Japan Airlines Flight 1628.

NARRATOR: Alaska. November 17, 1986.

Japan Airlines Flight 1628

is carrying cargo from Paris, France,

to Narita International Airport near Tokyo.

The three-person crew is led by Captain Kenju Terauchi,

an ex-fighter pilot with over 10,000 hours of flight time.

As the 747 approaches Anchorage,

Captain Terauchi notices two strange lights

out of his cockpit window.

It's dark. It's, uh, very early morning before sunrise.

These lights are clearly maneuvering.

And they move directly in front of his aircraft.

Now, he's flying at about 500 miles per hour.

These things are pacing him.

Captain Terauchi radios Anchorage air traffic control

and reports the lights are strange,

oval-shaped flying objects,

and they are getting dangerously close to his aircraft.

As the pilot attempts a series of evasive maneuvers

to avoid a potential collision,

the two UFOs suddenly disappear.

In their place is another object.

One so large it dwarfs the 747.

DOLAN: His words for describing it were "gigantic spaceship."

The size of maybe two aircraft carriers. Just immense.

Terauchi sees this massive thing in the sky,

and he's scared.

NARRATOR: On the ground, radar specialists

confirm a mysterious object

is in fact in the sky near Captain Terauchi's plane.

DAVID CHILDRESS: This incident is more than just

the witnesses on the plane.

We have radar spotting the craft.

We have discussions between air traffic control

and the pilots, and them describing this.

So, we have other people also on the ground

who can back up this sighting.

We don't know, really, what it was.

But it may well have been an extraterrestrial craft

flying right over Alaska.

There is no doubt that Alaskan pilots

are some of the bravest aviators around.

They can adapt to sudden storms and dangerous conditions

on a moment's notice.

But even a pilot like Theo Chesley,

who's been flying over Alaska for nearly four decades,

found his heart racing when he encountered multiple objects

in the sky that resembled no aircraft he'd ever seen before.

Number eight on our countdown

of the top ten scariest encounters:

The Mount Shishaldin Incident.

NARRATOR: Anchorage, Alaska,

October 19, 2022.

Author and researcher David Childress has traveled

to a local airfield to meet with pilot Theo Chesley.

In 2019, Chesley encountered a UFO

while flying near Mount Shishaldin,

an active volcano on Unimak Island in the Aleutians.

While the event left him shaken,

Chesley took several photographs.

CHILDRESS: So, when was this occurrence?

Well, uh, we had a flight back in October of 2019.

We were northeast of the mountain.

Ah, we were probably 30 miles from the mountain.

We spotted something in the sky.

And this is what we saw.

CHILDRESS: Did it seem to have a cloud around it, or no?

CHESLEY: It had, like, a tail on it,

a little bit of a wisp coming out of the back.

So I'm looking at it, going, okay, what is that?

As we started to come towards the mountain and fly by it,

this horizontal disk turned vertical

and came over and sort of parked by the mountain,

and held its shape.

So, it had been moving, and then it stopped?

CHESLEY: It stopped by the volcano.

Then we had something fly out of the mountain.

-Now, the mountain-- -A second object?

CHESLEY: A second object.

So, this object flies out of the mountain.

And at the same time, we're still watching the sphere

that's vertically parked.

And we, like, looked at that, and I said,

"No, we're done here.

We're... we are leaving the scene here."

And to be honest, you know,

my concern level was going about through the roof at that point.

Wow, that's fascinating.

NARRATOR: As an experienced pilot, Theo Chesley cannot explain

the two events he experienced.

I've seen a lot of things.

I've been through a lot of storms.

Some great flights, some not-so-great flights.

But I'm one of those kind of guys

that have to see something

that's extraordinary to believe it.

And what I saw was just not

anything ordinary at all.

a disturbing phenomenon ,

has been reported across the country.

Ranchers have discovered livestock dead in their fields

that appear to have been killed by a mysterious

and possibly extraterrestrial force.

Number seven on our countdown

of the top ten scariest encounters:

Animal Mutilations.

NARRATOR: San Luis Valley, Colorado.

1967.

On the King family ranch,

a horse named Lady

is found dead in a pasture.

The skull is stripped so clean of flesh

that it appears to have been exposed to the elements

for weeks.

Yet the King family had seen Lady alive

just two days earlier.

Even stranger,

no blood or animal tracks of any kind

are found near the corpse.

Authorities are shaken and perplexed.

The skeleton was completely clean and white.

Even brain tissue was gone.

But the rest of the horse

looked as if it should get up and walk.

It was that fresh.

NARRATOR: The incident likely would have been lost to history,

were it not for the fact that near-identical slaughters

soon became commonplace across the American heartland.

You had farmers and ranchers getting up in the morning

and finding their animals dead in the fields.

And these were clearly not attacks by mountain lions

or coyotes or anything like that.

The farmers actually reported

how blood was drained from the animals,

organs were removed,

and it seemed as if the bodies of the cattle had been opened up

by some sort of high-heat weapon or device.

NARRATOR: While mainstream medical professionals are unsure who

or what could be responsible for these attacks,

ancient astronaut theorists suggest

the answer may be found by examining strange findings

reported at other mutilation sites.

Sometimes, the animals

are lying on top of charred patches of ground.

Sometimes those charred patches

are exactly the same size and shape

as the animals themselves.

And very often, there have been reports of strange lights

in the sky or on the ground in and around the time

where the mutilations are taking place.

HOWE: The deeper you get, and the more people you interview--

and I have literally interviewed thousands now--

you hear, "I saw this kind of light.

"I saw this beam lowering an animal

to the pasture, and it was mutilated."

Somebody else, "I saw this animal coming up

in a beam of light, and later, it was found mutilated."

It was my work investigating animal mutilations

that took me to the conclusion

that the phenomena that is behind

the global animal mutilations

of the last... at least a hundred years,

are extraterrestrial biological entities.

When it comes to encounters that defy explanation,

there are none more confounding than what happened

in the mountains of Russia in 1959.

A group of nine hikers ascended a mountain

that is actually named "Do Not Go There."

And what happened to them was so shocking,

researchers are still trying to solve the mystery to this day.

Number six on our list:

The Ural Mountains Encounter.

NARRATOR: A group of nine mountaineers

embark on a winter trek into Russia's Ural Mountains.

Their destination,

a mountain called Otorten,

which, in the local Mansi language, means,

"Do Not Go There."

PAUL STONEHILL: Among them were three

experienced engineers, the rest were students.

They were all young, though I think the oldest

was, like, 37 years old.

They had conducted other hard treks to the area,

they were all experienced, strong-willed,

determined people.

NARRATOR: On their fourth night out,

bad weather forced the hikers

to camp atop an area called Kholat Syakhl,

which, in Mansi, translates to "the mountain of the dead."

STONEHILL: It was a very inhospitable,

very strange, very, very hard place to be.

Snow, cold, freezing winds

and very few living things around.

NARRATOR: Ten days later, when the nine adventurers

failed to show up at their destination,

military rescue teams searched the area.

They found the campsite abandoned

and a tent that had been torn to pieces.

Curiously, the investigators determined

that the tent was cut and ripped open from the inside,

and the hikers appeared to have fled in socks

and with bare feet.

STONEHILL: Something was pushing them

to run away without taking any clothing with them,

without taking any supplies.

They were behaving like they were in a daze, confused.

NARRATOR: The investigators followed the trail

to the edge of the forest.

But what they eventually found...

...was beyond belief.

BIRNES: All nine hikers died.

They were discovered by Soviet troops

in various stages of what can only be described

as being mutilated.

Their bodies were burned,

some suffered radiation poisoning.

In one case, a hiker's tongue was missing.

They had prematurely aged,

their skin was orange, their hair had turned grey.

What could've explained this?

STONEHILL: Three of them had injuries

that could be sustained

when somebody is hit by a speeding car,

except the injuries were inside.

Their ribs were crushed like eggshells.

But there was no effect on their skin.

NARRATOR: The official explanation

was that the nine hikers died from hypothermia.

But years later, members of the search party spoke out.

According to their testimony, at the time of the incident,

a mysterious ball of light was seen floating in the sky.

BIRNES: This wasn't a craft

like a plane, it wasn't a craft like a rocket.

It was a glowing, bright ball of light.

One theory is that orbs, they're like cameras.

They travel around, they surveil the area--

as if they're surveilling our dimension

from another dimension-- and then they disappear.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the strange orb

seen in the Ural Mountains was not of this world?

And if so, could there be a connection

between it and the mysterious deaths of the Russian hikers?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest further evidence of extraterrestrial visitation

can be found in a close encounter

that left physical evidence.

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of extraterrestrial contact

comes from the most harrowing events.

Like in the case of three people

whose dramatic encounter with a UFO

left them not only traumatized,

but with lasting physical injuries.

Number five on our list

of the top ten scariest encounters:

The Cash-Landrum Incident.

NARRATOR: Dayton, Texas.

December 29, 1980.

Seven-year-old Colby Landrum

is with his grandmother and her friend

driving along a desolate two-lane road

when they have a life-changing experience.

Betty Cash, my grandmother Vickie Landrum, and myself

headed back home towards Dayton.

It was real late at night, nobody else on the road,

and we encountered a bright object.

It actually was, like, about the size of a water tower.

100 foot across, 100 foot tall, but in a diamond shape.

I just panicked. I got on the floorboard.

VICKIE: This is Vickie Landrum from Dayton, Texas.

JAMES: Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum

stopped the car to investigate,

and the local environment is actually being heated

by this object to the point where they try to touch

their car and it's hot to the touch.

LANDRUM: You could feel the heat off of it.

The heat was very intense.

It was hot enough for-- When she grabbed

the dash when we stopped,

I mean, it was an indention of where her hand was sitting.

JAMES: Now, what makes this unique is that, when they get home,

after a couple of days, they start to show symptoms

of being exposed to ionized radiation.

NARRATOR: After the incident, all three witnesses

were treated for radiation exposure.

LANDRUM: I got nauseous and sick.

It probably lasted two or three days with me.

My grandmother, she had the same symptoms,

but she also had blisters on her skin.

They would bust open, and she'd have sores

for several years after that.

Betty Cash suffered the most severe part of it.

She was out of the car the longest.

According to the doctors, she had the most exposure to it.

CHILDRESS: The women blamed the U.S. government for this.

And this then became a very well-known court case,

where they were suing

the U.S. government, essentially.

NARRATOR: For help with their case, Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum

turned to investigators with MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network.

NICK POPE: MUFON investigators got the witness statements,

gathered the evidence, including things like medical records,

which were central to the legal case.

And, although the witnesses didn't win their case,

what's important was that that gets it on the record.

NARRATOR: Today, the Cash-Landrum incident is one of the most famous,

and harrowing, UFO encounters in recent history.

LANDRUM: I remember being there, and I know what happened.

I want somebody to come forward and actually, you know,

admit that something happened there.

I just want to know the truth.

To me, the most intriguing UFO encounters

are those that can be corroborated

by multiple witnesses.

One mass sighting that I find particularly compelling

happened to a group of school children

in rural Oklahoma,

and the experience was so intense,

it left them fearing for their lives.

At number four: The Miracle Mountains Incident.

NARRATOR: Hartshorne, Oklahoma. 1975.

Randy Young is a ten-year-old student

at the Miracle Mountains Boarding School.

One day, his normal routine

is shattered by a terrifying event.

RANDY YOUNG: My brother and I, we were out in the sandbox,

and we saw this circular, uh, shining light that was

probably 2,000 or so feet up in the air.

And it didn't have the movements of an airplane.

Um, it was just hovering.

And, as it got darker, this craft got closer.

It had lights that went through the midsection,

all the way around,

and it had this classic, um, saucer-type shape.

We called the adults out.

There were a few children that were frightened to death

of the thing.

And we heard one of the girls scream.

Seems to have been a landing.

Some people say there are entities there.

At one point, one of the older children

got onto the roof with a-a gun

because they were that concerned about what was happening.

It was a rifle, and that was the end of the story for us

'cause it took off, and we never saw it again.

NARRATOR: Almost 50 years later, several people who attended

the Miracle Mountains Boarding School

shared their story with MUFON in chilling detail.

I first reached out to Randy and interviewed him.

The next person I spoke to was Philip Buchanan.

Philip was one of the older children

at the school at the time.

And then I spoke with the teacher via e-mail.

And the teacher described that some of the kids

were hiding under the beds

because they were very terrified,

and some of the kids were looking out the window.

They reported to see

shapeshifting entities out there.

What Mindy found out, after doing all that work,

is that these kids were recalling the exact same thing.

As these witnesses were telling their stories years later,

one of the things Mindy asked them to do

was to actually draw the UFO that they'd seen.

And the consistency is amazing.

And not only are they telling the same story,

but they're describing the same craft.

TSOUKALOS: This cold case is one of the most fascinating cases,

because students, they had not spoken to each other since 1975,

and they all replied with the same answers,

which indicates that something happened,

and everybody saw the same thing.

YOUNG: It was something that will always be a memory for us.

And I've never seen anything like that ever again.

I almost wish that it would never have happened.

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in history was reported by members of the armed forces.

Over the course of two nights,

multiple servicemen not only saw a mysterious craft,

but some claimed to have had an experience

that haunts them to this very day.

Number three on our countdown:

The Rendlesham Forest Incident.

NARRATOR: In Suffolk County, England,

there is a remote forest in the village of Rendlesham

that has become famous for being the site

of one of the most extraordinary and frightening

UFO encounters ever reported.

The event occurred on December 26, 1980.

Airman John Burroughs was performing

a routine security check

at a U.S. Air Force Base when he received orders

to investigate a possible downed aircraft.

JOHN BURROUGHS: My supervisor called me on the radio and asked me

to meet up with him so we could check the east gate.

We're driving down the road leading to the east gate

to check on it when, all of a sudden,

he saw some strange lights in the forest.

So I decided to call it in and let them know

something strange was going on.

They decided to send one of the security units down,

which was Sergeant Penniston.

He got down there and he saw the same strange lights

that we were seeing.

PENNISTON: I could see all these multiple color lights

and things like that,

and the air felt different.

I don't know how to... really explain that,

but it did feel like there was electricity

on our skin and hair and stuff,

but that progressively got worse the closer

we got to the tree line, and it got more intense.

NARRATOR: As the servicemen approached the strange lights,

Sergeant Penniston reportedly saw a large craft

just beyond the tree line.

PENNISTON: The craft was triangular in shape,

measuring about six to seven feet high, black in color.

I'd come around to the far side of the craft,

and that's when I noticed that there was, you know,

an inscription on the side.

You know, it is about three feet long,

maybe six inches high.

Instead of something familiar,

I see these pictorial-type glyphs.

And got running my hand over the side of the craft.

I don't know how to explain this.

It's like someone was holding a picture up, okay?

There was this feeling of being drawn into it,

or being pulled into it.

Like someone was holding a picture up of zeroes and ones

in my mind's eye.

NARRATOR: The strange visions

Sergeant Penniston had upon touching the craft,

has made this one of Britain's most famous UFO encounters.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that even more compelling is what happened after.

Over the following two evenings,

U.S. Air Force Colonel Charles Halt

reported further strange sightings.

He led his own search party to put an end to the confusion.

But instead of finding a logical explanation,

they discovered high levels of radioactivity

where Burroughs and Penniston had previously

seen the strange craft.

They then spotted a light in a nearby field

that suddenly came towards them through the trees at high speed.

CHARLES HALT: While we're walking around, we also notice

four or five objects in the sky.

Then one came at high speed, stopped directly overhead--

3,000, 4,000, maybe 5,000 feet--

and sent down a concentrated beam

about eight or ten feet from us.

I was really concerned then.

At that point, I was thinking,

"Why did I ever get involved in this?

How will I ever explain this?"

POPE: Now, I did a cold case review

for the Ministry of Defense.

I am still subject to the Official Secrets Act,

but I can tell you, chances are these craft were real.

And if they're real, they might actually be extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR: Today, the frightening encounter in Rendlesham Forest

is known in the UFO community as Britain's Roswell.

For Airman Burroughs and Sergeant Penniston,

the event wasn't easy to leave behind.

Both men had lasting physical and psychological effects

from the encounter.

After the incident, I started having throat and eye problems.

At one point, my gums turned white.

I also had vision problems, and when I went

and saw the doctor, one of his first questions

was had I been ever exposed to radiation.

I've definitely had dreams about it,

and I still have feelings about what happened.

Prior to the incident,

uh...

my views on any kind of phenomena like UFOs,

things like that-- they didn't exist.

I never believed that kind of stuff.

But after the life-changing event of December 1980,

my views were different.

It opened up the possibility

that we're not alone.

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we've investigated on Ancient Aliens

are abduction events.

And one of the most famous involved multiple witnesses

who watched in terror as their friend

was abducted right before their eyes.

Number two on our countdown:

The Travis Walton Abduction.

NARRATOR: The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest,

Arizona.

November 5, 1975.

22-year-old forestry worker Travis Walton

and a group of co-workers

are driving home after sundown

when suddenly a strange light appears in the sky.

I noticed, uh, some little glimmers

of light coming through the trees.

And the light seemed to be coming from higher

than where ground level would be.

It was only when we got to where this light

was crossing the road that we had

an unobstructed view of the craft.

It was a clearly visible,

clearly defined metallic object.

A disc hovering there, outlined against the sky.

I threw open the door,

thinking I'd get a closer look before it took off.

That's when this energy hit me.

I felt, like, a physical blow,

but with a sort of a tingling sort of

an electric shock sort of feeling

at the same time.

REDFERN: Walton basically got zapped

by this blinding light.

The crew just hot-footed it out of the area quickly,

uh, then thought, "Well, we've got to go back.

You know, we've 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.

I was looking straight into the, the face of this creature.

These, uh, small beings were humanoid.

But so unhuman.

It was just terrifying.

And I just flipped out.

It was just horrible.

It was like they were looking right into me.

POPE: He saw these hideous entities that scared him.

Maybe quite similar to the modern idea

of the so-called "alien Greys."

And then these aliens seem to go away.

And then their place was taken

by much more human-like aliens.

And he calmed down.

WALTON: In the case of the human-looking ones,

I started to have serious misgivings

that this was a rescue.

And that's when they put this mask

over my face.

And I just blacked out real quickly.

POPE: Now the suspicion here was that actually these

weren't different aliens, these were the same aliens,

but they were capable of shape-shifting

into something else specifically to calm him down.

NARRATOR: Crews searched everywhere for the missing forest worker,

but it wasn't until five days later

that Walton reappeared outside of a nearby town.

When I woke up, I was lying face down

outside in the dark, in the cold.

I was on a highway in the middle of the woods.

I looked around, I recognized the lights

of the town down below.

And I ran down into the town

and, uh, found a telephone and called my family for help.

NARRATOR: Travis Walton's story has become

one of the most famous alien abduction cases ever reported,

and was even adapted into a movie in 1993.

While some dismiss his account as a hallucination,

Travis has no doubt

that he experienced a genuine extraterrestrial encounter.

WALTON: What no one asked

was, you know, what about the rest of the crew?

How do seven people have an identical hallucination?

And besides that, they were given

lie detector tests by state police,

which they passed.

There's real life things that occur out there

that need to be understood.

So, take a look at the facts, a-and then judge.

I don't know the purpose that they had.

All I know is what happened to me.

This was unmistakable.

We're just moments away from revealing

number one on our countdown.

And as far as I'm concerned, it is one of the most incredible

close encounters ever reported.

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some of the most terrifying alien encounters

ever reported,

but this one truly gives me chills.

It's one of the most vivid abduction accounts on record.

And the experience didn't end

after just one incident,

but has persisted for nearly 40 years.

Number one on our countdown

of the top ten scariest encounters:

The Abduction of Whitley Streiber.

NARRATOR: Ulster County, New York.

December 26, 1985.

Best-selling author Whitley Strieber

is celebrating Christmas

with his wife and young son at their cabin.

In the middle of the night,

he is awoken by a disturbing feeling.

I felt that there was something around me.

In other words, there was movement

that shouldn't have been there.

And I opened my eyes

and I saw these big,

black eyes staring at me.

And I had no idea where I was.

It was a little round room.

And I began to scream.

This automatic voice turned on, saying,

"What can we do to help you stop screaming?"

There were these other figures,

dark blue little figures darting around,

and they assaulted me, basically.

It was not easy. It was a very terrifying experience.

NARRATOR: To process the traumatic event,

Whitley wrote about his close encounter,

which became the basis of his best-selling memoir,

Communion.

He hoped the experience was behind him,

but in May of 1989,

Whitley had another strange nocturnal encounter.

I'm on my side, on my right side.

And there's a hand pressing down on my left... temple,

pressing it into the pillow in, like, waves, like this.

And I can't struggle.

I can't move a muscle. I can't see anything.

I am completely immobilized.

After a few seconds, that ends.

And I think, "Was it a dream?"

Then the next day or the day after,

my ear started hurting.

I reach up and I feel this bump here on my ear.

And I thought, "Oh, my God, it's an implant."

WOMAN: Oh! Look at that white thing.

STRIEBER: There was an attempt to remove it.

STRIEBER: It failed because the implant

went from here, right down into here

on its own.

STRIEBER: And the doctor pulled out.

Two days later, it went from my ear lobe

back up to where it is to this day.

NARRATOR: Could extraterrestrials really

have implanted some kind of device

inside Whitley Strieber's ear?

And if so, why?

According to Whitley,

whatever the implant is,

it has had a profound effect on him.

In 2015, I noticed a slit

opened up in my right eye.

And you could see words racing through it.

But they were like someone was typing very quickly and racing.

And it had something to do with my writing.

Because at the same time, my ability to do research

changed dramatically and weirdly.

I found that if I just thought about something I needed,

no matter how obscure, one way or another, it would come to me.

NARRATOR: Since receiving the alleged implant,

Strieber claims to have had

regular interaction with otherworldly beings.

STRIBETER: The visitors are a part of my life now.

Very much so.

Uh, I don't think

I would be comfortable working

without knowing that there was--

using the implant, that there was a connection.

Now, what do they want from us?

That is a very big unanswered question.

Much like Whitley Strieber, we are all left

with unanswered questions by these incredible incidents.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no doubt

that extraterrestrials are visiting our planet.

But what do they want?

Perhaps only through the careful study of these

and other extraordinary accounts,

whether they are mass UFO sightings,

animal mutilations,

or even frightening abductions,

the truth may finally be revealed

about Earth's extraterrestrial visitors.

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