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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
A UFO sighting over multiple cities.
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MAN: I don't know
what the hell that is.
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TSOUKALOS:
An extraterrestrial event
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that changed
the course of history.
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And an alien abduction
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witnessed by no
less than six people.
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OnAncient Aliens,
we've investigated
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dozens of
extraordinary encounters
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from among the thousands
that have been reported.
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Here's what I consider to be
the most compelling stories:
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my top ten alien encounters.
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Each one adds
to the growing body of proof
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that we have been
visited by extraterrestrials
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for thousands of years.
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[♪]
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*ANCIENT ALIENS*
Season 17 Episode 06
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Episode Title:
"The Top Ten Alien Encounters"
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Aired on:
October 01, 2021.
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Sync corrections by srjanapala
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People tell me about their
UFO sightings all the time,
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and let me tell you, I've heard
some really incredible stories.
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In fact, there are
thousands of UFO sightings
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reported every year.
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Unfortunately, most are
single-witness testimonials
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that can't be
corroborated or verified.
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But in 1982, along New
York's Hudson River,
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there was a flood
of UFO sightings
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reported over multiple days
by hundreds of eyewitnesses.
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Number ten on my countdown
of the top alien encounters:
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The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings.
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NARRATOR:
Kent, New York.
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New Year's Eve, 1982.
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Just a few miles from
the Hudson River,
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New Year's Eve revelers spot
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a gigantic V-shaped craft
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throbbing with red,
white and green lights.
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As they watch in
amazement, the colors vanish,
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replaced by white
lights so bright
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they illuminate the ground.
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Over the next months,
authorities are bombarded
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with hundreds
of similar reports.
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MAN: Oh, good God.
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- WOMAN: What's that?
- MAN: I don't know.
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- WOMAN: It's not a plane.
- MAN: I don't...
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I'll be... I'm gonna tell
you something, honey.
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I don't know
what the hell it is.
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PHILIP IMBROGNO:
Usually, UFOs just appear
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to a small number of
people, and they disappear.
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In this case,
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people were stopped
on the highways.
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People were running
out of their houses
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watching this enormous
object pass over
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the size of a football field.
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NARRATOR:
The sightings continued
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for more than six years
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and became the most widely
reported in American history.
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DAVID CHILDRESS: The
Hudson Valley UFO sightings
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continued well up to 1988.
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It's estimated that
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as many as
5,000 people called in
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and made reports
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of this very large,
lit up UFO.
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NARRATOR: But why were so
many UFO encounters reported
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in this one particular area?
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MAN: There are six,
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and the lead one has his
three lights on.
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Everybody else only has two.
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TSOUKALOS: Some
have suggested the reason
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why these sightings have
happened at the Hudson Valley
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is because they are
on top of a vortex.
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Now, what's a vortex?
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Well, there are varying
opinions of what that is.
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Some have
suggested that they are
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magnetic points
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that are part of the
Earth's magnetic grid.
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They also represent
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the combination
of Earth energies
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kind of congregating
into one spot,
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these telluric currents
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and these magnetic
Earth currents.
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And, so, one suggestion
is that they create
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portal-type effects or vortexes.
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Entrances into the otherworld.
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NARRATOR: Could the
Hudson Valley UFO sightings
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be evidence of a
hidden power vortex
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and even a portal
through time and space?
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You have places
around the world
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that are known
for their vortexes.
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Stonehenge is said
to have a vortex.
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Sedona, Arizona has
a number of vortexes,
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and it's famous for them.
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And, so, it's thought
that the Hudson Valley
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is also a vortex area.
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So, you have to wonder
there if these UFOs
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have been attracted
to the Hudson Valley.
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And still to this day,
no one has come up
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with a-a good explanation
of what was happening
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in the Hudson Valley
during this time.
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MAN: They're heading
north-northwest.
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Holy good God.
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Just 150 miles east
of the Hudson Valley,
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another extraordinary
encounter took place in 1961.
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And what makes it so unique
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is that it is the first
documented report
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of an alien abduction.
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My number nine alien encounter:
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The Abduction of
Betty and Barney Hill.
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NARRATOR: Lancaster,
New Hampshire.
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September 19, 1961.
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Betty and Barney Hill
are driving late at night
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when a large flying
saucer intercepts them
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and hovers over their car.
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Above them, the Hills
observe otherworldly figures
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in the windows of the craft.
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Days later, the couple
reports missing time,
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and after participating
in hypnotic regression,
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they claim to realize
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that they were abducted
by extraterrestrials.
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Under hypnotic regression...
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Separately, by the way,
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so they each wouldn't
contaminate the other's story...
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Betty and Barney told
the exact same story.
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The object hovered over the
car, then landed in front of them,
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and they were
yanked out of the car
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by these small
four-and-a-half-foot beings
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and dragged into a clearing,
where they boarded a spaceship.
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KEN STORCH: Betty
pleaded with her captors,
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if you will, that...
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not to harm her, uh,
as she laid on this table
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and experiments
were done on her,
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like a needle being
inserted into her stomach.
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Barney relates a
number of skin samples
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and sperm being taken from him.
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JASON MARTELL:
The beings described
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by Betty and Barney Hill
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fit the classic case of a Grey.
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Now, there are
variations to size
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and dimensions of these beings,
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but they all seem to have
the same characteristics.
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Slim, spindly bodies.
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Large oval heads.
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Large oversized eyes.
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NARRATOR: In the years
since their reported abduction,
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Betty and Barney
Hill's encounter
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has become legendary.
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But what was not well-known
was that Betty and Barney Hill
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were not the only
members of their family
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who have been abducted.
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Betty Hill was my
aunt, my mother's sister.
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Something that we have
never revealed before
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is that my mother had a
close encounter in 1958.
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She saw this huge
cigar-shaped craft
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hovering over a field.
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She had no explanation
for what had happened
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as far as she knew.
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She had gone shopping,
and she had driven home.
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My mother eventually
underwent hypnosis,
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and through hypnosis,
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she recalled having
been abducted,
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as well.
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And I also had this uncanny
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sort of dreamlike experience
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of being taken to a craft.
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It appears that this is
generational in my family.
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My Aunt Betty was taken,
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my mother was taken,
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and there's a good chance
that I have been taken, as well.
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NARRATOR: Could it be
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that extraterrestrial
beings are abducting
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not only individuals
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but also families?
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And if so, why?
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NICK POPE: It seems
that specific bloodlines
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are involved here.
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And if that's the case,
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it raises the
intriguing possibility
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that the extraterrestrials are
interested in human biology,
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that they are monitoring
specific genetic lines
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for some purpose.
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One of the most
important factors I consider
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when it comes to
evaluating a UFO encounter
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is how credible is the witness?
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And to me, there is no
better expert than a pilot
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when it comes to
reporting on a flying craft.
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The next encounter on
my list took place in 1947
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and helped launch
the modern UFO era.
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Number eight: The
Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting.
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NARRATOR: Washington state.
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June 24, 1947.
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Aviator and businessman
Kenneth Arnold
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is piloting a private
plane near Mount Rainier
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when he suddenly spots
nine fast-moving objects
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flying in tandem.
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As he was flying
around the mountain,
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he suddenly caught sight
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of a squadron of
strange-looking objects.
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He could not figure
out what they were.
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RICHARD DOLAN:
He was able to measure
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the speed that they
were going at by...
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'cause he knew the distance
between two particular peaks
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which were about 15 miles apart.
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And he timed the passage
of these objects by the peaks
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and came to something
like 1,200 miles per hour,
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which, in 1947, was
just not done at all,
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anywhere close to that.
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He later described the objects
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as being somewhat delta-shaped
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and flying as if you
were to skip a saucer
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across a body of water.
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And this gave rise to the term
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"flying saucer."
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NARRATOR: The U.S. Air Force
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formally categorized
Kenneth Arnold's experience
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as a mirage,
but it emboldened
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others to come forward
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with their own
unexplainable encounters,
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and a flurry of UFO
reports quickly followed.
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When you look at the
year 1947, the statistics are
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that there were at
least 800 reports
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to police and airports
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of people saying that they
were seeing something in the sky
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and they didn't
know what it was.
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It was actually
required that all officers
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fill out a form if
they saw anything
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that might be regarded
as a UFO or a flying saucer.
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And in addition to that,
they were told not to discuss
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their sighting or what
was on their report
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with anyone.
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NARRATOR: Kenneth
Arnold's encounter
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marked the beginning
of the modern UFO era,
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but there are also those
who believe it gave rise
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to a massive
government cover-up.
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We became aware
in the '40s...
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of these extraterrestrial
biological entities
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and that the government's
been trying to hide it
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for all of these decades...
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and that the same
question of intent
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and agenda
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and exactly who
from where and why
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are the same questions today.
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On October 13, 1917,
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over 30,000 people in
a small town in Portugal
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witnessed an incredible event
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that the Catholic
Church declared to be
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of supernatural character.
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At the center of the event
were three children
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who, for months, had
reported receiving messages
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from a lady in the sky.
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Number seven on my countdown
of the top alien encounters
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is the Miracle of
the Sun at Fátima.
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NARRATOR:
Fátima, Portugal.
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May 1917.
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Three young children walking
through a sheep pasture
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are stopped in their tracks
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by what appears to
be a glowing angel.
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As the figure begins to speak,
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they believe she is
the holy Virgin Mary
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sent to deliver a very
important message.
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CHILDRESS:
These three children
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claimed that they were
visited by the Virgin Mary,
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who appeared to them in the sky
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and told them that she had
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certain prophecies for them
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and that over the
next six months,
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she would return to
them and give them
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these prophecies.
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And so on the-the
13th of each month,
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these three children
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would gather on
this hillside in Fátima,
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and, according to them,
the Virgin Mary
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would appear to them
and tell them these stories.
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NARRATOR: During
one of these visits,
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the children claimed that
the apparition told them
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she would return
to perform a miracle
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on October 13th.
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They reported the encounter
to the local Catholic bishop,
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and on October 13, 1917,
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over 30,000 people
gathered to witness the event.
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A huge crowd gathered,
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and they said that
they witnessed,
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uh, the Sun moving in the sky.
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IMBROGNO: They saw
the Sun spinning like a disk
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and then coming down
to the planet Earth,
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and people got very frightened.
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NARRATOR: The incident
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was labeled an event
of supernatural character
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by the Catholic Church.
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But as far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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it was a very different type
of otherworldly encounter.
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This whole event took
place for eight minutes,
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not eight seconds.
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They had time to look it.
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It was not the Sun.
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It was a UFO because it turned,
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it changed its
color all the time.
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This object appeared in the
sky in front of the Sun, I believe.
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I read all the reports.
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And colors of light spread out
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from the object to the ground.
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To me, it indicates contact
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with an extraterrestrial
intelligence.
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Encounters reported
by a group of people
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can make strange
sightings hard to deny.
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And when a UFO
sighting is reported
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by thousands of residents
of a major metropolitan city,
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in my opinion,
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that's about as
undeniable as it gets.
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The number six alien encounter
on my top ten countdown:
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The Phoenix Lights.
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NARRATOR: Henderson, Nevada.
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March 13, 1997.
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At 6:55 p.m.,
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local police receive a report
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of a massive V-shaped
object traveling southeast
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across the night sky.
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Over the next three hours,
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the craft is witnessed
by thousands of people
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as it journeys down
through Arizona
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and into Sonora, Mexico.
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With most of the reports
coming from Phoenix
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as well as photographs
and video footage,
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the incident becomes
known as the Phoenix Lights.
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DOLAN: The entire city
of Phoenix was able to see
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this half-a-mile-long
display of lights over the city
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in a very, very
distinctive pattern.
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It was a
triangularish-shaped object
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seen very reliably
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by quite a large
number of witnesses.
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Who's our best witness to that?
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The best one?
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Governor Fife
Symington of Arizona.
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As a pilot and a
former Air Force officer,
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I can definitively say that
this craft did not resemble
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any man-made object
that I'd ever seen.
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BIRNES: He says, "Yeah,
I really did see the UFO."
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And he describes it.
He actually was
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maybe a hundred feet
away from that flying triangle
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and could see through it
and the stars above.
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DOLAN: Governor
Symington was a qualified pilot
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and in the Air Force
Reserve, as well.
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I think he knew
what he was seeing.
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But some of these
other witnesses said,
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"Yeah, I could've almost
thrown a baseball and hit it,
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it was that low over
the... over our heads."
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NARRATOR: The
governor of Arizona
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described a strange,
triangular UFO
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that appeared translucent,
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camouflaging itself
amidst the star field above.
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BIRNES: They were seen
by hundreds of people.
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But when they looked
between the lights,
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what they could
see were the stars.
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But it wasn't just the night sky
as if there was nothing there.
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They were wavy as if
something was getting in the way
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of the direct light
from the stars.
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So, it's stealth.
It's camouflaged.
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NARRATOR: Camouflaged?
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Could the descriptions
of the Phoenix Lights
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indicate that witnesses
were observing
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some type of stealth
alien technology
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that, whether
intentional or not,
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momentarily revealed itself?
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And if so,
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could there be far more
extraterrestrial aircraft
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in our skies than
we ever imagined?
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People think of disclosure
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as being the archetypal
landing on the White House lawn.
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What if aliens are already here
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and then disclosure,
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open first contact
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is the day when they
reveal themselves?
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People often ask me,
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"Why aren't there
any UFO sightings
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before the 20th century?"
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And my answer is,
"Of course there were."
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History is filled with
alien encounter stories.
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But our ancestors
didn't have the words
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like "aliens" and "UFOs,"
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and, of course,
this was long before
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they had built flying machines.
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What their stories describe
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is what I call
misunderstood technology,
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like this UFO
sighting that took place
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in the fourth century AD
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and forever altered
the course of humanity.
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Number five on my countdown:
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Constantine's Vision.
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NARRATOR:
Rome.
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October 27, 312 AD.
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At the Milvian Bridge on
the north side of the city,
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deposed Emperor Constantine
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prepares to reclaim his
throne from Maxentius.
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In the sky,
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he witnesses what he
believes is a divine vision.
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Constantine and his followers
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saw in the sky
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what their chroniclers say
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was a huge, white,
fiery cross.
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Now, his followers didn't
know what to make of this,
399
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but Constantine decided
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that this was the
Christian cross.
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At that point, he
made a vow to Christ
402
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that if he won the battle,
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he would convert to
Christianity for good,
404
00:20:02,926 --> 00:20:04,702
and he would make Christianity
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00:20:04,787 --> 00:20:08,147
the state religion of
the Roman Empire.
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WILLIAM BRAMLEY:
The vision of Constantine
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was extremely significant.
408
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They thought it was
some kind of message.
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00:20:15,006 --> 00:20:18,796
"Fight this battle and establish
this form of Christianity."
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KATHLEEN McGOWAN
COPPENS: Constantine feels,
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after viewing this extraordinary
sign from the heavens,
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this lighted cross in the sky,
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that he will go
forth the next day,
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and he will conquer
the Roman Empire.
415
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And this is exactly
what he does.
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This vision becomes
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one of the crucial turning
points in human history.
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NARRATOR: Constantine's
victory at the Milvian Bridge
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was the first step
in Christianity
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becoming Europe's
dominant religion,
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and the world was
changed forever.
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But was the cross-shaped object
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Constantine claimed
to have seen in the sky
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really a sign from God?
425
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Or might it have been some
other extraordinary force?
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BRAMLEY: It looked like the
shape of a cross, but the shape
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of a cross could have
been airplane-type objects
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because the fuselage and
the wings will look like a cross
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to somebody
who's looking up.
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And, of course,
they had no concept
431
00:21:19,369 --> 00:21:20,761
of these things back then.
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TSOUKALOS: Now, it was
not just Constantine's vision
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because it is described
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that the army of Constantine
435
00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,999
also saw something
up in the sky.
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00:21:33,112 --> 00:21:35,034
POPE:
This was a pivotal moment.
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The adoption of Christianity
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as the official religion
really changed the world,
439
00:21:41,666 --> 00:21:45,605
and that's now a large
part of the world we live in.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
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that a 1,700-year-old
UFO encounter
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was responsible for one of
the greatest turning points
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00:21:53,660 --> 00:21:55,307
in human history?
444
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So, the question is
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is this one of the
earliest UFO encounters
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that we have on record?
447
00:22:01,771 --> 00:22:04,164
And, in my opinion,
yes, it is.
448
00:22:07,006 --> 00:22:08,750
Remember
when I said earlier
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that the case of
Betty and Barney Hill
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was the first alien
abduction ever reported?
451
00:22:14,456 --> 00:22:17,317
Well, that's because
the term "alien abduction"
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00:22:17,402 --> 00:22:20,261
did not exist
thousands of years ago.
453
00:22:20,378 --> 00:22:23,809
In fact, one of the most
compelling abduction accounts
454
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I've ever read is ancient
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00:22:26,156 --> 00:22:29,495
and can be found in a
text that might surprise you:
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the holy Bible.
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Number four on my countdown:
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Elijah's Chariot.
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NARRATOR: Northern Israel.
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The ninth century BC.
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According to Old Testament
texts found in the Hebrew Bible,
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it was here that
the prophet Elijah
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had several encounters
with both angels and God
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during which he was
given prophetic warnings
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of drought and cataclysm.
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One of the most
important, uh, prophets
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in-in Israelite tradition,
of course, is-is Elijah.
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00:23:07,522 --> 00:23:09,936
Elijah predicts some
rough things coming,
469
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and, of course, they do.
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There is a very special role
471
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in communicating God's designs
472
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and sometimes his condemnation.
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So, Elijah is met with
rather divine-like figures.
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NARRATOR: In his
final encounter with God,
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it is written that Elijah
is met by a chariot of fire
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and horses of fire
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that take him up to
heaven in a whirlwind.
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PATRICK COOKE:
Elijah's experience
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details a spinning object
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or a whirlwind
that came over him
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and a chariot of fire.
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So, the question is
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was it the chariot of
fire that was spinning?
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Or was it
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a beam that came
down and took him up?
486
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It's not a far stretch
to say that this was
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an actually, uh, spinning
object that was above him
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that took him up into it.
489
00:24:05,253 --> 00:24:08,303
REDFERN: Could the-the fire
have been some sort of engine?
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When he's taken
up in a whirlwind,
491
00:24:10,326 --> 00:24:12,568
you know, you only have
to look at, for example,
492
00:24:12,653 --> 00:24:14,528
when the space
shuttle takes to the skies.
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MAN: Four, three, two...
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00:24:17,180 --> 00:24:18,837
REDFERN: You know,
you have these rumbling,
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00:24:18,921 --> 00:24:21,796
roaring jet flames,
et cetera, et cetera.
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If you look at it
in that context,
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you could really place
this into a UFO category.
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COOKE: Definitely, these
are, uh, characteristics
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00:24:31,846 --> 00:24:33,701
that we see of abductions
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where people are
taken up into objects.
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NARRATOR: Could
it be that a story found
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in one of the earliest
books of the Hebrew Bible
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is, in fact,
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an account of an alien abduction
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00:24:45,904 --> 00:24:48,725
that occurred
thousands of years ago?
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And if so,
what might it reveal
507
00:24:51,748 --> 00:24:55,743
about extraterrestrial
intervention on Earth?
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RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
We see from the biblical record
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that mankind has a
purpose and a destiny.
510
00:25:01,612 --> 00:25:03,736
There clearly are
extraterrestrials,
511
00:25:03,869 --> 00:25:07,072
and they are clearly
interacting with us
512
00:25:07,353 --> 00:25:10,635
and guiding us and
directing humanity
513
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,651
towards this predestined end.
514
00:25:18,323 --> 00:25:21,370
When it comes to
alien abduction reports,
515
00:25:21,455 --> 00:25:25,901
most rely on the testimony
of the abductees themselves.
516
00:25:25,987 --> 00:25:30,683
It's very rare for an abduction
to be witnessed by anybody else.
517
00:25:30,767 --> 00:25:34,558
But in this next case,
there were multiple witnesses
518
00:25:34,643 --> 00:25:37,611
who saw the abduction
as it happened.
519
00:25:37,901 --> 00:25:39,743
This is one of the
most fascinating
520
00:25:39,827 --> 00:25:42,026
and famous accounts on record.
521
00:25:43,076 --> 00:25:47,277
Number three on my list of
the top ten alien encounters:
522
00:25:47,362 --> 00:25:49,909
The Travis Walton Abduction.
523
00:25:53,299 --> 00:25:56,919
NARRATOR: The Apache-Sitgreaves
National Forest, Arizona.
524
00:25:57,969 --> 00:26:01,581
November 5, 1975.
525
00:26:02,878 --> 00:26:06,315
22-year-old forestry
worker Travis Walton
526
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,010
is driving home after sundown
along with six coworkers
527
00:26:10,095 --> 00:26:13,754
when suddenly, a strange
light appears in the sky.
528
00:26:14,557 --> 00:26:16,476
We'd just finished
a long, hard day,
529
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:17,607
and it was starting to get dark.
530
00:26:17,691 --> 00:26:19,783
So, uh, we loaded
up our equipment.
531
00:26:19,867 --> 00:26:21,120
We were headed home.
532
00:26:21,456 --> 00:26:22,965
And I noticed, uh,
533
00:26:23,053 --> 00:26:25,667
some little glimmers of light
coming through the trees,
534
00:26:25,995 --> 00:26:28,183
and the light
seemed to be coming
535
00:26:28,267 --> 00:26:30,464
from higher than where
ground level would be.
536
00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:34,503
It was only when we
got to where this light
537
00:26:34,588 --> 00:26:35,766
was crossing the road
538
00:26:35,851 --> 00:26:39,031
that we had an
unobstructed view of the craft.
539
00:26:39,682 --> 00:26:41,717
Allen Dalis in the
back yelled out,
540
00:26:41,802 --> 00:26:43,167
"It's a flying saucer!"
541
00:26:43,252 --> 00:26:44,953
And I said, "Mike, stop."
542
00:26:45,038 --> 00:26:46,346
[tires screech]
543
00:26:46,431 --> 00:26:49,420
It was a clearly visible,
544
00:26:49,505 --> 00:26:52,378
clearly defined metallic object,
545
00:26:52,509 --> 00:26:55,515
a disc, hovering there,
outlined against the sky.
546
00:26:55,839 --> 00:26:57,691
I threw open the door,
547
00:26:57,775 --> 00:27:00,284
thinking I'd get a closer
look before it took off.
548
00:27:00,369 --> 00:27:03,114
As I got closer to it,
the sound it was making,
549
00:27:03,199 --> 00:27:06,336
it was a sound you-you
both heard and felt.
550
00:27:06,620 --> 00:27:08,876
And, uh, the crew said
551
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,425
they could feel the
vibration in the truck.
552
00:27:12,932 --> 00:27:16,927
They said it seemed like
something was about to happen.
553
00:27:17,253 --> 00:27:19,245
[chuckles]: And it was.
554
00:27:19,330 --> 00:27:22,542
That's when this energy hit me.
555
00:27:23,783 --> 00:27:28,159
The crew said that it was
like I'd stepped on a land mine.
556
00:27:28,421 --> 00:27:30,370
Like an explosion
557
00:27:30,455 --> 00:27:33,965
so violent that,
uh, they thought
558
00:27:34,050 --> 00:27:35,737
it, uh, it had killed me.
559
00:27:36,807 --> 00:27:39,745
When this beam of energy
hit me,
560
00:27:39,834 --> 00:27:42,448
I felt like a physical blow,
561
00:27:42,533 --> 00:27:46,057
but with a sort of a tingling,
sort of an electric shock
562
00:27:46,142 --> 00:27:48,464
sort of feeling
at the same time.
563
00:27:49,339 --> 00:27:53,456
I don't know whether I came to
soon after I was taken aboard.
564
00:27:54,620 --> 00:27:55,909
But I know I was on
565
00:27:56,041 --> 00:27:58,651
some kind of an elevated
gurney or operating table.
566
00:27:59,043 --> 00:28:02,050
I was looking straight into
the face of this creature,
567
00:28:02,175 --> 00:28:04,245
and I just flipped out.
568
00:28:05,582 --> 00:28:09,589
POPE: He saw these
hideous entities that scared him.
569
00:28:09,939 --> 00:28:13,548
Maybe quite similar
to the modern idea
570
00:28:13,633 --> 00:28:16,074
of the so-called alien Greys.
571
00:28:16,181 --> 00:28:18,737
And he fought, and he panicked.
572
00:28:20,367 --> 00:28:23,210
And then these aliens
seemed to go away,
573
00:28:23,295 --> 00:28:25,558
and then their place was taken
574
00:28:25,643 --> 00:28:28,912
by much more humanlike aliens,
575
00:28:28,996 --> 00:28:30,745
and he calmed down.
576
00:28:31,510 --> 00:28:34,092
WALTON: In the case of
these human-looking ones,
577
00:28:34,176 --> 00:28:36,659
I started to have
serious misgivings
578
00:28:36,743 --> 00:28:38,008
that this was a rescue.
579
00:28:38,092 --> 00:28:41,135
And that's when they put
this mask over my face,
580
00:28:41,294 --> 00:28:43,589
and I just blacked
out real quickly.
581
00:28:46,884 --> 00:28:48,324
POPE: Now, the suspicion here
582
00:28:48,409 --> 00:28:51,326
was that, actually, these
weren't different aliens.
583
00:28:51,410 --> 00:28:53,111
These were the same aliens,
584
00:28:53,195 --> 00:28:56,288
but they were capable
of shape-shifting
585
00:28:56,487 --> 00:29:00,456
into something else
specifically to calm him down.
586
00:29:04,229 --> 00:29:05,818
NARRATOR: Crews
searched everywhere
587
00:29:05,903 --> 00:29:07,784
for the missing forest worker.
588
00:29:09,712 --> 00:29:12,644
But it wasn't until five
days later that Walton
589
00:29:12,729 --> 00:29:15,175
reappeared in a nearby town.
590
00:29:16,093 --> 00:29:19,659
I was lying facedown
outside in the dark,
591
00:29:19,744 --> 00:29:21,737
and there was a light above me.
592
00:29:22,518 --> 00:29:24,878
And I saw the bottom
of the craft there
593
00:29:24,963 --> 00:29:27,183
right before it shot
up into the sky.
594
00:29:30,133 --> 00:29:32,977
NARRATOR: When details of
Travis Walton's close encounter
595
00:29:33,062 --> 00:29:35,116
were revealed to authorities,
596
00:29:35,647 --> 00:29:39,397
they dismissed his account
as a possible hallucination.
597
00:29:41,304 --> 00:29:43,291
But Travis has no doubt
598
00:29:43,375 --> 00:29:46,294
that what he and his
coworkers experienced
599
00:29:46,378 --> 00:29:49,906
was a genuine
extraterrestrial encounter.
600
00:29:50,218 --> 00:29:52,187
WALTON: What no one asked
601
00:29:52,272 --> 00:29:54,886
was, you know,
"What about the rest of the crew?"
602
00:29:54,971 --> 00:29:57,671
How do seven people have
an identical hallucination?
603
00:29:58,382 --> 00:29:59,578
And besides that,
604
00:29:59,663 --> 00:30:01,483
they were given
lie detector tests
605
00:30:01,567 --> 00:30:04,015
by state police,
which they passed.
606
00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:06,583
There's real-life things
that occur out there
607
00:30:06,716 --> 00:30:08,452
that need to be understood.
608
00:30:08,537 --> 00:30:11,991
So, take a look at the
facts a-and then judge.
609
00:30:12,444 --> 00:30:15,687
I don't know
the purpose that they had.
610
00:30:15,890 --> 00:30:17,976
All I know is
what happened to me.
611
00:30:18,071 --> 00:30:19,812
This was unmistakable.
612
00:30:24,577 --> 00:30:28,194
Every now and then,
an encounter is so compelling
613
00:30:28,308 --> 00:30:31,546
that it turns skeptics
into true believers.
614
00:30:31,716 --> 00:30:35,549
That's exactly what
happened in the early 1970s
615
00:30:35,695 --> 00:30:38,296
when a NASA scientist set out
616
00:30:38,381 --> 00:30:40,473
to prove Erich von
Daniken wrong.
617
00:30:40,729 --> 00:30:42,905
But, in fact, he
ended up supporting
618
00:30:42,990 --> 00:30:45,124
one of Erich's
theories so strongly
619
00:30:45,209 --> 00:30:47,382
that he even wrote
a book about it.
620
00:30:48,701 --> 00:30:50,576
Number two on my countdown:
621
00:30:50,660 --> 00:30:52,733
The Wheels of Ezekiel.
622
00:30:57,991 --> 00:30:59,819
NARRATOR: Northeast Syria.
623
00:31:00,171 --> 00:31:01,866
The Khabur River.
624
00:31:02,929 --> 00:31:04,720
According to the Hebrew Bible,
625
00:31:04,882 --> 00:31:07,976
it was here,
in the sixth century BC,
626
00:31:08,068 --> 00:31:10,741
that divine beings
descended from heaven
627
00:31:11,358 --> 00:31:12,414
and made contact
628
00:31:12,499 --> 00:31:15,788
with a Hebrew
priest named Ezekiel.
629
00:31:16,802 --> 00:31:19,358
Ezekiel was
by the River Khabur,
630
00:31:19,601 --> 00:31:22,300
and he said a great
whirlwind came toward him.
631
00:31:23,997 --> 00:31:26,945
He described it as
a fire enfolding itself,
632
00:31:27,030 --> 00:31:28,577
and out of the fire
633
00:31:28,819 --> 00:31:30,851
was the color of amber,
634
00:31:30,982 --> 00:31:32,569
which is the Hebrew word
635
00:31:32,654 --> 00:31:35,218
which means
"polished specter of metal,"
636
00:31:35,303 --> 00:31:39,187
which implies that it's
metallic and that it's spinning.
637
00:31:39,317 --> 00:31:41,444
And it lands in front of him,
638
00:31:41,579 --> 00:31:44,851
and suddenly,
out of this whirlwind
639
00:31:44,937 --> 00:31:46,788
come four creatures.
640
00:31:48,408 --> 00:31:50,804
NARRATOR: In the
Bible, the prophet Ezekiel
641
00:31:50,889 --> 00:31:53,788
calls these spiritual
beings cherubims
642
00:31:54,380 --> 00:31:58,300
and describes them as
having four faces, four wings
643
00:31:58,423 --> 00:32:01,601
and skin that shone
like polished bronze.
644
00:32:01,686 --> 00:32:04,474
DOWNING: Ezekiel
says that he was taken up
645
00:32:05,601 --> 00:32:08,897
into the sky and taken
to different places
646
00:32:08,982 --> 00:32:10,897
where he could
see different things.
647
00:32:12,476 --> 00:32:14,268
And then he was told
648
00:32:14,352 --> 00:32:16,780
some of the future things
that were going to come.
649
00:32:17,209 --> 00:32:20,186
This was a huge image of hope
650
00:32:20,271 --> 00:32:23,312
that came to Ezekiel
during his experience.
651
00:32:24,678 --> 00:32:28,412
NARRATOR: But is this the
story of a divine encounter?
652
00:32:28,497 --> 00:32:30,371
Or could Ezekiel's description
653
00:32:30,455 --> 00:32:33,505
of metallic wheels
descending from the sky
654
00:32:33,589 --> 00:32:35,158
in a whirlwind of fire
655
00:32:35,242 --> 00:32:38,684
and strange beings with
skin like polished bronze
656
00:32:38,768 --> 00:32:43,512
point to a different type
of otherworldly contact?
657
00:32:44,365 --> 00:32:47,109
He's got the best
description of a UFO
658
00:32:47,194 --> 00:32:48,299
that's anywhere in the Bible...
659
00:32:49,518 --> 00:32:51,446
because he basically says
660
00:32:51,531 --> 00:32:54,668
that the thing looked like
a wheel within a wheel, uh,
661
00:32:54,753 --> 00:32:57,843
kind of a classic flying
saucer description.
662
00:32:59,781 --> 00:33:01,337
TRAVIS TAYLOR:
Ezekiel describes
663
00:33:01,422 --> 00:33:04,236
that the outside of
the wheel doesn't spin.
664
00:33:04,321 --> 00:33:06,681
The inside of the wheel spins.
665
00:33:06,785 --> 00:33:09,571
So, he's telling us
that's the engines.
666
00:33:11,365 --> 00:33:13,645
None of this necessarily
has to be magic.
667
00:33:13,730 --> 00:33:15,645
This could all be technology.
668
00:33:16,778 --> 00:33:18,018
COPPENS:
It's basically the account
669
00:33:18,111 --> 00:33:21,458
of a guy who's been abducted
who has been told certain things
670
00:33:21,543 --> 00:33:23,802
and who's then returned
to the place of origin.
671
00:33:23,916 --> 00:33:26,379
It would be what we
today would describe
672
00:33:26,464 --> 00:33:28,239
as an abduction account.
673
00:33:30,036 --> 00:33:32,825
NARRATOR: Could it be that
the prophet Ezekiel's account
674
00:33:32,910 --> 00:33:36,427
of a heavenly close encounter
might have been something else?
675
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,006
Perhaps one not
involving heavenly beings
676
00:33:40,090 --> 00:33:43,661
but visitors of another
interplanetary nature?
677
00:33:44,974 --> 00:33:47,927
This concept was
put forth to the public
678
00:33:48,011 --> 00:33:51,794
by the ancient astronaut
theory pioneer Erich von Daniken
679
00:33:51,879 --> 00:33:55,756
in his 1968 book
Chariots of the Gods?
680
00:33:56,019 --> 00:33:57,802
And after hearing Erich speak
681
00:33:57,887 --> 00:34:00,317
at a conference
in the early 1970s,
682
00:34:00,481 --> 00:34:03,116
NASA engineer Josef Blumrich
683
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,160
was determined to debunk
his controversial interpretation.
684
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,786
I had a speech at
NASA in Huntsville,
685
00:34:12,458 --> 00:34:15,395
and I spoke about Ezekiel.
686
00:34:15,599 --> 00:34:18,479
And the chief
engineer of that time,
687
00:34:18,723 --> 00:34:20,325
Mr. Joe Blumrich,
688
00:34:20,410 --> 00:34:23,553
came to me and said, "Erich,
this was very interesting.
689
00:34:23,638 --> 00:34:24,616
"But in the Bible,
690
00:34:24,700 --> 00:34:27,314
you will definitely not
find any technology."
691
00:34:27,700 --> 00:34:29,185
But he still said,
692
00:34:29,270 --> 00:34:32,724
"I will read originally
in the Bible Ezekiel."
693
00:34:33,067 --> 00:34:35,479
NARRATOR: Blumrich
set out to find flaws
694
00:34:35,580 --> 00:34:37,367
in von Daniken's theory,
695
00:34:37,974 --> 00:34:39,805
but when he read
the Book of Ezekiel,
696
00:34:40,044 --> 00:34:42,155
he was shocked to
find himself agreeing
697
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,349
with the controversial author.
698
00:34:45,779 --> 00:34:47,388
So much so, in fact,
699
00:34:47,473 --> 00:34:50,779
that he wrote a book called
The Spaceships of Ezekiel
700
00:34:50,864 --> 00:34:52,693
in which he provided a blueprint
701
00:34:52,778 --> 00:34:54,559
for a practical landing module
702
00:34:54,643 --> 00:34:58,020
based on the description
found in the biblical story.
703
00:34:59,349 --> 00:35:00,775
Several years later,
704
00:35:00,953 --> 00:35:04,544
a German structural engineer
named Hans Herbert Beier
705
00:35:04,629 --> 00:35:06,373
also sketched out a blueprint
706
00:35:06,458 --> 00:35:08,942
of the second section
of the Book of Ezekiel
707
00:35:09,238 --> 00:35:10,270
where Ezekiel is told
708
00:35:10,355 --> 00:35:12,209
to construct an
open-topped building
709
00:35:12,294 --> 00:35:14,325
to house the flying chariot.
710
00:35:15,541 --> 00:35:16,938
TSOUKALOS:
Hans Herbert Beier
711
00:35:17,023 --> 00:35:19,464
sent the blueprint
to Erich von Daniken.
712
00:35:19,833 --> 00:35:24,389
Within five minutes of
looking at these blueprints,
713
00:35:24,474 --> 00:35:27,489
Erich was on the
phone with Joe Blumrich.
714
00:35:27,769 --> 00:35:29,723
And he said, "Hey, Joe,
715
00:35:29,808 --> 00:35:33,974
can you bring a model of
your spaceship of Ezekiel?"
716
00:35:34,216 --> 00:35:36,035
And then he called
Hans Herbert Beier,
717
00:35:36,119 --> 00:35:39,139
and he said, "Can
you bring a model
718
00:35:39,224 --> 00:35:41,954
of your construction
of Ezekiel's temple?"
719
00:35:42,247 --> 00:35:46,006
Both models were
created to the same ratio.
720
00:35:46,091 --> 00:35:47,403
And guess what?
721
00:35:47,488 --> 00:35:53,248
Ezekiel's spaceship fit
into the temple construction
722
00:35:53,333 --> 00:35:56,316
that Hans Herbert
Beier recreated
723
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,075
according to the
biblical measurements.
724
00:36:01,575 --> 00:36:05,131
NARRATOR: As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,
725
00:36:05,216 --> 00:36:07,225
the biblical account of Ezekiel
726
00:36:07,310 --> 00:36:09,068
provides conclusive evidence
727
00:36:09,152 --> 00:36:11,247
of an alien encounter.
728
00:36:12,005 --> 00:36:13,333
But more importantly,
729
00:36:13,417 --> 00:36:16,834
it may also reveal that
for thousands of years,
730
00:36:16,919 --> 00:36:18,841
the destiny of humankind
731
00:36:18,926 --> 00:36:22,685
has been directed
by extraterrestrials.
732
00:36:28,317 --> 00:36:32,263
This may be one of the
oldest alien encounter stories,
733
00:36:32,348 --> 00:36:35,333
but for me,
it is still the most compelling.
734
00:36:35,418 --> 00:36:38,255
Written over 3,000 years ago,
735
00:36:38,347 --> 00:36:39,872
it was banned from the Bible
736
00:36:39,957 --> 00:36:44,106
because this ancient
text describes in detail
737
00:36:44,255 --> 00:36:47,841
humankind's
extraterrestrial origins.
738
00:36:48,824 --> 00:36:51,747
My number one alien encounter:
739
00:36:51,832 --> 00:36:55,794
Enoch's Ascent to Heaven
in a Chariot of the Gods.
740
00:37:02,091 --> 00:37:04,998
NARRATOR: Khirbet
Qumran, Palestine.
741
00:37:06,145 --> 00:37:08,298
In 1946,
742
00:37:08,383 --> 00:37:10,218
a collection of
ancient manuscripts
743
00:37:10,303 --> 00:37:12,264
known as the Dead Sea Scrolls
744
00:37:12,430 --> 00:37:14,594
is discovered
hidden in clay jars
745
00:37:14,679 --> 00:37:16,250
deep inside a cave.
746
00:37:17,093 --> 00:37:18,571
Among the manuscripts
747
00:37:18,656 --> 00:37:20,015
is the Book of Enoch,
748
00:37:20,177 --> 00:37:23,023
a so-called lost biblical text.
749
00:37:23,311 --> 00:37:25,304
In the Bible's Old Testament,
750
00:37:25,394 --> 00:37:27,844
Enoch is the seventh
of ten patriarchs
751
00:37:27,929 --> 00:37:29,973
who lived before the Great Flood
752
00:37:30,057 --> 00:37:32,437
and the
great-grandfather of Noah.
753
00:37:32,795 --> 00:37:35,953
But where the Hebrew Bible
only mentions Enoch briefly,
754
00:37:36,150 --> 00:37:37,328
the Book of Enoch,
755
00:37:37,444 --> 00:37:40,250
which consists of
more than 100 chapters,
756
00:37:40,335 --> 00:37:42,681
greatly expands on his story.
757
00:37:42,898 --> 00:37:45,375
In it is a curious passage
758
00:37:45,460 --> 00:37:48,344
that details Enoch's
ascent to heaven.
759
00:37:48,902 --> 00:37:50,594
VON DANIKEN: According
to the Book of Enoch,
760
00:37:50,679 --> 00:37:53,249
he says he was 12 years old.
761
00:37:53,479 --> 00:37:55,789
The whole community of
his village wanted to sleep,
762
00:37:55,969 --> 00:37:58,133
but then they hear
the noise in the sky.
763
00:37:59,382 --> 00:38:02,055
Two angels came down
from the sky.
764
00:38:02,140 --> 00:38:04,278
One of the two
beings said to Enoch,
765
00:38:04,363 --> 00:38:05,835
"Don't be afraid, human."
766
00:38:05,919 --> 00:38:09,277
Then they went up to
the so-called heaven.
767
00:38:09,487 --> 00:38:11,449
WILLIAM HENRY: And in
the Book of Enoch, we learn
768
00:38:11,534 --> 00:38:15,261
Enoch himself is taken into
the heavens in a fiery chariot.
769
00:38:15,363 --> 00:38:17,848
VON DANIKEN: Enoch
goes up to the so-called sky,
770
00:38:17,933 --> 00:38:19,544
and there Enoch sees
771
00:38:19,628 --> 00:38:22,675
something over the Earth
which he cannot describe.
772
00:38:22,877 --> 00:38:25,709
He has no word like
"spaceship" or something.
773
00:38:25,794 --> 00:38:28,972
He says it looked
like houses of crystal.
774
00:38:31,140 --> 00:38:34,079
TSOUKALOS: It is
described that he sees
775
00:38:34,164 --> 00:38:36,417
planet Earth underneath him.
776
00:38:36,502 --> 00:38:39,481
He actually
describes his arrival,
777
00:38:39,566 --> 00:38:42,903
how he has to walk
through these different rooms
778
00:38:42,988 --> 00:38:44,527
where he sees
779
00:38:44,612 --> 00:38:47,075
jewels and he
sees shiny surfaces
780
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:48,925
and blinking lights.
781
00:38:49,010 --> 00:38:51,597
It is an eyewitness account.
782
00:38:51,682 --> 00:38:55,253
It's, "I, Enoch, did
this. I, Enoch, saw that."
783
00:38:56,135 --> 00:39:00,236
The Book of Enoch is one
of the first abduction accounts
784
00:39:00,321 --> 00:39:03,574
written down by a
fellow human being.
785
00:39:04,238 --> 00:39:06,941
NARRATOR: Does
the Book of Enoch really describe
786
00:39:07,026 --> 00:39:09,105
an actual abduction event?
787
00:39:09,261 --> 00:39:10,692
One that took place
788
00:39:10,777 --> 00:39:12,902
thousands of years ago?
789
00:39:13,456 --> 00:39:14,511
And if so,
790
00:39:14,596 --> 00:39:16,950
might this incredible
close encounter
791
00:39:17,035 --> 00:39:18,953
be documenting communication
792
00:39:19,038 --> 00:39:21,426
with otherworldly beings?
793
00:39:22,588 --> 00:39:23,966
ROBERT CARGILL:
Enoch, he was said
794
00:39:24,051 --> 00:39:25,304
to be
at the right hand of God.
795
00:39:25,389 --> 00:39:27,612
In fact, Enoch was
said to be God's scribe
796
00:39:27,696 --> 00:39:28,787
in later tradition.
797
00:39:28,871 --> 00:39:31,497
So, God would decree things,
and Enoch
798
00:39:31,582 --> 00:39:34,367
was the one who recorded
everything that went on.
799
00:39:35,325 --> 00:39:39,534
So, Enoch was the keeper
of all knowledge of heaven.
800
00:39:40,709 --> 00:39:41,887
HENRY: This is
one of the reasons
801
00:39:41,971 --> 00:39:44,302
why the Book of Enoch
is so controversial.
802
00:39:44,822 --> 00:39:48,364
Enoch was the first
human to ascend
803
00:39:48,456 --> 00:39:50,185
to the throne of God,
804
00:39:50,270 --> 00:39:53,711
where he is given powerful
universal knowledge
805
00:39:53,796 --> 00:39:57,544
by angelic beings or
extraterrestrial beings.
806
00:39:59,750 --> 00:40:02,016
NARRATOR: If Enoch
was given information
807
00:40:02,101 --> 00:40:05,629
from extraterrestrial
beings to share with mankind
808
00:40:05,814 --> 00:40:08,427
as ancient astronaut
theorists contend,
809
00:40:08,864 --> 00:40:11,395
what truths about
our otherworldly past
810
00:40:11,479 --> 00:40:14,013
might be waiting to be revealed?
811
00:40:14,660 --> 00:40:18,967
The extraterrestrials want
that in a far future of mankind,
812
00:40:19,208 --> 00:40:21,607
we start to see these things.
813
00:40:21,692 --> 00:40:23,915
We start to translate
these books.
814
00:40:24,230 --> 00:40:26,114
And now we start
to ask questions.
815
00:40:26,216 --> 00:40:29,716
We start to ask, for example,
how can we explain that?
816
00:40:29,801 --> 00:40:32,919
Have we maybe been
visited by extraterrestrials?
817
00:40:33,498 --> 00:40:36,722
And I think it's important
to think in this way,
818
00:40:36,854 --> 00:40:39,668
because these extraterrestrials
have promised to return.
819
00:40:40,902 --> 00:40:44,079
And one day,
they will return.
820
00:40:44,427 --> 00:40:47,224
POPE: I was taught not
to believe in coincidence.
821
00:40:47,388 --> 00:40:49,427
I was taught to
look for patterns.
822
00:40:49,512 --> 00:40:51,561
When you have all
these encounters,
823
00:40:51,954 --> 00:40:53,466
these sightings,
824
00:40:53,551 --> 00:40:57,602
these descriptions we have
from biblical times onwards,
825
00:40:57,799 --> 00:41:00,021
it tells you
there's something going on.
826
00:41:00,106 --> 00:41:02,270
Doesn't necessarily tell you
what it is,
827
00:41:02,486 --> 00:41:04,880
but it tells you
there's something there.
828
00:41:06,403 --> 00:41:08,888
Well, that concludes
my list for now.
829
00:41:08,973 --> 00:41:11,933
But considering what is written
in the Book of Enoch,
830
00:41:12,018 --> 00:41:14,806
perhaps, as Erich von Daniken
likes to say,
831
00:41:14,919 --> 00:41:19,044
the most important encounter
of all is yet to come.
832
00:41:19,128 --> 00:41:20,575
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