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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: A UFO sighting over multiple cities.

MAN: I don't know what the hell that is.

TSOUKALOS: An extraterrestrial event

that changed the course of history.

And an alien abduction

witnessed by no less than six people.

OnAncient Aliens, we've investigated

dozens of extraordinary encounters

from among the thousands that have been reported.

Here's what I consider to be the most compelling stories:

my top ten alien encounters.

Each one adds to the growing body of proof

that we have been visited by extraterrestrials

for thousands of years.

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*ANCIENT ALIENS* Season 17 Episode 06

Episode Title: "The Top Ten Alien Encounters"

Aired on: October 01, 2021.

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People tell me about their UFO sightings all the time,

and let me tell you, I've heard some really incredible stories.

In fact, there are thousands of UFO sightings

reported every year.

Unfortunately, most are single-witness testimonials

that can't be corroborated or verified.

But in 1982, along New York's Hudson River,

there was a flood of UFO sightings

reported over multiple days by hundreds of eyewitnesses.

Number ten on my countdown of the top alien encounters:

The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings.

NARRATOR: Kent, New York.

New Year's Eve, 1982.

Just a few miles from the Hudson River,

New Year's Eve revelers spot

a gigantic V-shaped craft

throbbing with red, white and green lights.

As they watch in amazement, the colors vanish,

replaced by white lights so bright

they illuminate the ground.

Over the next months, authorities are bombarded

with hundreds of similar reports.

MAN: Oh, good God.

- WOMAN: What's that? - MAN: I don't know.

- WOMAN: It's not a plane. - MAN: I don't...

I'll be... I'm gonna tell you something, honey.

I don't know what the hell it is.

PHILIP IMBROGNO: Usually, UFOs just appear

to a small number of people, and they disappear.

In this case,

people were stopped on the highways.

People were running out of their houses

watching this enormous object pass over

the size of a football field.

NARRATOR: The sightings continued

for more than six years

and became the most widely reported in American history.

DAVID CHILDRESS: The Hudson Valley UFO sightings

continued well up to 1988.

It's estimated that

as many as 5,000 people called in

and made reports

of this very large, lit up UFO.

NARRATOR: But why were so many UFO encounters reported

in this one particular area?

MAN: There are six,

and the lead one has his three lights on.

Everybody else only has two.

TSOUKALOS: Some have suggested the reason

why these sightings have happened at the Hudson Valley

is because they are on top of a vortex.

Now, what's a vortex?

Well, there are varying opinions of what that is.

Some have suggested that they are

magnetic points

that are part of the Earth's magnetic grid.

They also represent

the combination of Earth energies

kind of congregating into one spot,

these telluric currents

and these magnetic Earth currents.

And, so, one suggestion is that they create

portal-type effects or vortexes.

Entrances into the otherworld.

NARRATOR: Could the Hudson Valley UFO sightings

be evidence of a hidden power vortex

and even a portal through time and space?

You have places around the world

that are known for their vortexes.

Stonehenge is said to have a vortex.

Sedona, Arizona has a number of vortexes,

and it's famous for them.

And, so, it's thought that the Hudson Valley

is also a vortex area.

So, you have to wonder there if these UFOs

have been attracted to the Hudson Valley.

And still to this day, no one has come up

with a-a good explanation of what was happening

in the Hudson Valley during this time.

MAN: They're heading north-northwest.

Holy good God.

Just 150 miles east of the Hudson Valley,

another extraordinary encounter took place in 1961.

And what makes it so unique

is that it is the first documented report

of an alien abduction.

My number nine alien encounter:

The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill.

NARRATOR: Lancaster, New Hampshire.

September 19, 1961.

Betty and Barney Hill are driving late at night

when a large flying saucer intercepts them

and hovers over their car.

Above them, the Hills observe otherworldly figures

in the windows of the craft.

Days later, the couple reports missing time,

and after participating in hypnotic regression,

they claim to realize

that they were abducted by extraterrestrials.

Under hypnotic regression...

Separately, by the way,

so they each wouldn't contaminate the other's story...

Betty and Barney told the exact same story.

The object hovered over the car, then landed in front of them,

and they were yanked out of the car

by these small four-and-a-half-foot beings

and dragged into a clearing, where they boarded a spaceship.

KEN STORCH: Betty pleaded with her captors,

if you will, that...

not to harm her, uh, as she laid on this table

and experiments were done on her,

like a needle being inserted into her stomach.

Barney relates a number of skin samples

and sperm being taken from him.

JASON MARTELL: The beings described

by Betty and Barney Hill

fit the classic case of a Grey.

Now, there are variations to size

and dimensions of these beings,

but they all seem to have the same characteristics.

Slim, spindly bodies.

Large oval heads.

Large oversized eyes.

NARRATOR: In the years since their reported abduction,

Betty and Barney Hill's encounter

has become legendary.

But what was not well-known was that Betty and Barney Hill

were not the only members of their family

who have been abducted.

Betty Hill was my aunt, my mother's sister.

Something that we have never revealed before

is that my mother had a close encounter in 1958.

She saw this huge cigar-shaped craft

hovering over a field.

She had no explanation for what had happened

as far as she knew.

She had gone shopping, and she had driven home.

My mother eventually underwent hypnosis,

and through hypnosis,

she recalled having been abducted,

as well.

And I also had this uncanny

sort of dreamlike experience

of being taken to a craft.

It appears that this is generational in my family.

My Aunt Betty was taken,

my mother was taken,

and there's a good chance that I have been taken, as well.

NARRATOR: Could it be

that extraterrestrial beings are abducting

not only individuals

but also families?

And if so, why?

NICK POPE: It seems that specific bloodlines

are involved here.

And if that's the case,

it raises the intriguing possibility

that the extraterrestrials are interested in human biology,

that they are monitoring specific genetic lines

for some purpose.

One of the most important factors I consider

when it comes to evaluating a UFO encounter

is how credible is the witness?

And to me, there is no better expert than a pilot

when it comes to reporting on a flying craft.

The next encounter on my list took place in 1947

and helped launch the modern UFO era.

Number eight: The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting.

NARRATOR: Washington state.

June 24, 1947.

Aviator and businessman Kenneth Arnold

is piloting a private plane near Mount Rainier

when he suddenly spots nine fast-moving objects

flying in tandem.

As he was flying around the mountain,

he suddenly caught sight

of a squadron of strange-looking objects.

He could not figure out what they were.

RICHARD DOLAN: He was able to measure

the speed that they were going at by...

'cause he knew the distance between two particular peaks

which were about 15 miles apart.

And he timed the passage of these objects by the peaks

and came to something like 1,200 miles per hour,

which, in 1947, was just not done at all,

anywhere close to that.

He later described the objects

as being somewhat delta-shaped

and flying as if you were to skip a saucer

across a body of water.

And this gave rise to the term

"flying saucer."

NARRATOR: The U.S. Air Force

formally categorized Kenneth Arnold's experience

as a mirage, but it emboldened

others to come forward

with their own unexplainable encounters,

and a flurry of UFO reports quickly followed.

When you look at the year 1947, the statistics are

that there were at least 800 reports

to police and airports

of people saying that they were seeing something in the sky

and they didn't know what it was.

It was actually required that all officers

fill out a form if they saw anything

that might be regarded as a UFO or a flying saucer.

And in addition to that, they were told not to discuss

their sighting or what was on their report

with anyone.

NARRATOR: Kenneth Arnold's encounter

marked the beginning of the modern UFO era,

but there are also those who believe it gave rise

to a massive government cover-up.

We became aware in the '40s...

of these extraterrestrial biological entities

and that the government's been trying to hide it

for all of these decades...

and that the same question of intent

and agenda

and exactly who from where and why

are the same questions today.

On October 13, 1917,

over 30,000 people in a small town in Portugal

witnessed an incredible event

that the Catholic Church declared to be

of supernatural character.

At the center of the event were three children

who, for months, had reported receiving messages

from a lady in the sky.

Number seven on my countdown of the top alien encounters

is the Miracle of the Sun at Fátima.

NARRATOR: Fátima, Portugal.

May 1917.

Three young children walking through a sheep pasture

are stopped in their tracks

by what appears to be a glowing angel.

As the figure begins to speak,

they believe she is the holy Virgin Mary

sent to deliver a very important message.

CHILDRESS: These three children

claimed that they were visited by the Virgin Mary,

who appeared to them in the sky

and told them that she had

certain prophecies for them

and that over the next six months,

she would return to them and give them

these prophecies.

And so on the-the 13th of each month,

these three children

would gather on this hillside in Fátima,

and, according to them, the Virgin Mary

would appear to them and tell them these stories.

NARRATOR: During one of these visits,

the children claimed that the apparition told them

she would return to perform a miracle

on October 13th.

They reported the encounter to the local Catholic bishop,

and on October 13, 1917,

over 30,000 people gathered to witness the event.

A huge crowd gathered,

and they said that they witnessed,

uh, the Sun moving in the sky.

IMBROGNO: They saw the Sun spinning like a disk

and then coming down to the planet Earth,

and people got very frightened.

NARRATOR: The incident

was labeled an event of supernatural character

by the Catholic Church.

But as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

it was a very different type of otherworldly encounter.

This whole event took place for eight minutes,

not eight seconds.

They had time to look it.

It was not the Sun.

It was a UFO because it turned,

it changed its color all the time.

This object appeared in the sky in front of the Sun, I believe.

I read all the reports.

And colors of light spread out

from the object to the ground.

To me, it indicates contact

with an extraterrestrial intelligence.

Encounters reported by a group of people

can make strange sightings hard to deny.

And when a UFO sighting is reported

by thousands of residents of a major metropolitan city,

in my opinion,

that's about as undeniable as it gets.

The number six alien encounter on my top ten countdown:

The Phoenix Lights.

NARRATOR: Henderson, Nevada.

March 13, 1997.

At 6:55 p.m.,

local police receive a report

of a massive V-shaped object traveling southeast

across the night sky.

Over the next three hours,

the craft is witnessed by thousands of people

as it journeys down through Arizona

and into Sonora, Mexico.

With most of the reports coming from Phoenix

as well as photographs and video footage,

the incident becomes known as the Phoenix Lights.

DOLAN: The entire city of Phoenix was able to see

this half-a-mile-long display of lights over the city

in a very, very distinctive pattern.

It was a triangularish-shaped object

seen very reliably

by quite a large number of witnesses.

Who's our best witness to that?

The best one?

Governor Fife Symington of Arizona.

As a pilot and a former Air Force officer,

I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble

any man-made object that I'd ever seen.

BIRNES: He says, "Yeah, I really did see the UFO."

And he describes it. He actually was

maybe a hundred feet away from that flying triangle

and could see through it and the stars above.

DOLAN: Governor Symington was a qualified pilot

and in the Air Force Reserve, as well.

I think he knew what he was seeing.

But some of these other witnesses said,

"Yeah, I could've almost thrown a baseball and hit it,

it was that low over the... over our heads."

NARRATOR: The governor of Arizona

described a strange, triangular UFO

that appeared translucent,

camouflaging itself amidst the star field above.

BIRNES: They were seen by hundreds of people.

But when they looked between the lights,

what they could see were the stars.

But it wasn't just the night sky as if there was nothing there.

They were wavy as if something was getting in the way

of the direct light from the stars.

So, it's stealth. It's camouflaged.

NARRATOR: Camouflaged?

Could the descriptions of the Phoenix Lights

indicate that witnesses were observing

some type of stealth alien technology

that, whether intentional or not,

momentarily revealed itself?

And if so,

could there be far more extraterrestrial aircraft

in our skies than we ever imagined?

People think of disclosure

as being the archetypal landing on the White House lawn.

What if aliens are already here

and then disclosure,

open first contact

is the day when they reveal themselves?

People often ask me,

"Why aren't there any UFO sightings

before the 20th century?"

And my answer is, "Of course there were."

History is filled with alien encounter stories.

But our ancestors didn't have the words

like "aliens" and "UFOs,"

and, of course, this was long before

they had built flying machines.

What their stories describe

is what I call misunderstood technology,

like this UFO sighting that took place

in the fourth century AD

and forever altered the course of humanity.

Number five on my countdown:

Constantine's Vision.

NARRATOR: Rome.

October 27, 312 AD.

At the Milvian Bridge on the north side of the city,

deposed Emperor Constantine

prepares to reclaim his throne from Maxentius.

In the sky,

he witnesses what he believes is a divine vision.

Constantine and his followers

saw in the sky

what their chroniclers say

was a huge, white, fiery cross.

Now, his followers didn't know what to make of this,

but Constantine decided

that this was the Christian cross.

At that point, he made a vow to Christ

that if he won the battle,

he would convert to Christianity for good,

and he would make Christianity

the state religion of the Roman Empire.

WILLIAM BRAMLEY: The vision of Constantine

was extremely significant.

They thought it was some kind of message.

"Fight this battle and establish this form of Christianity."

KATHLEEN McGOWAN COPPENS: Constantine feels,

after viewing this extraordinary sign from the heavens,

this lighted cross in the sky,

that he will go forth the next day,

and he will conquer the Roman Empire.

And this is exactly what he does.

This vision becomes

one of the crucial turning points in human history.

NARRATOR: Constantine's victory at the Milvian Bridge

was the first step in Christianity

becoming Europe's dominant religion,

and the world was changed forever.

But was the cross-shaped object

Constantine claimed to have seen in the sky

really a sign from God?

Or might it have been some other extraordinary force?

BRAMLEY: It looked like the shape of a cross, but the shape

of a cross could have been airplane-type objects

because the fuselage and the wings will look like a cross

to somebody who's looking up.

And, of course, they had no concept

of these things back then.

TSOUKALOS: Now, it was not just Constantine's vision

because it is described

that the army of Constantine

also saw something up in the sky.

POPE: This was a pivotal moment.

The adoption of Christianity

as the official religion really changed the world,

and that's now a large part of the world we live in.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that a 1,700-year-old UFO encounter

was responsible for one of the greatest turning points

in human history?

So, the question is

is this one of the earliest UFO encounters

that we have on record?

And, in my opinion, yes, it is.

Remember when I said earlier

that the case of Betty and Barney Hill

was the first alien abduction ever reported?

Well, that's because the term "alien abduction"

did not exist thousands of years ago.

In fact, one of the most compelling abduction accounts

I've ever read is ancient

and can be found in a text that might surprise you:

the holy Bible.

Number four on my countdown:

Elijah's Chariot.

NARRATOR: Northern Israel.

The ninth century BC.

According to Old Testament texts found in the Hebrew Bible,

it was here that the prophet Elijah

had several encounters with both angels and God

during which he was given prophetic warnings

of drought and cataclysm.

One of the most important, uh, prophets

in-in Israelite tradition, of course, is-is Elijah.

Elijah predicts some rough things coming,

and, of course, they do.

There is a very special role

in communicating God's designs

and sometimes his condemnation.

So, Elijah is met with rather divine-like figures.

NARRATOR: In his final encounter with God,

it is written that Elijah is met by a chariot of fire

and horses of fire

that take him up to heaven in a whirlwind.

PATRICK COOKE: Elijah's experience

details a spinning object

or a whirlwind that came over him

and a chariot of fire.

So, the question is

was it the chariot of fire that was spinning?

Or was it

a beam that came down and took him up?

It's not a far stretch to say that this was

an actually, uh, spinning object that was above him

that took him up into it.

REDFERN: Could the-the fire have been some sort of engine?

When he's taken up in a whirlwind,

you know, you only have to look at, for example,

when the space shuttle takes to the skies.

MAN: Four, three, two...

REDFERN: You know, you have these rumbling,

roaring jet flames, et cetera, et cetera.

If you look at it in that context,

you could really place this into a UFO category.

COOKE: Definitely, these are, uh, characteristics

that we see of abductions

where people are taken up into objects.

NARRATOR: Could it be that a story found

in one of the earliest books of the Hebrew Bible

is, in fact,

an account of an alien abduction

that occurred thousands of years ago?

And if so, what might it reveal

about extraterrestrial intervention on Earth?

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: We see from the biblical record

that mankind has a purpose and a destiny.

There clearly are extraterrestrials,

and they are clearly interacting with us

and guiding us and directing humanity

towards this predestined end.

When it comes to alien abduction reports,

most rely on the testimony of the abductees themselves.

It's very rare for an abduction to be witnessed by anybody else.

But in this next case, there were multiple witnesses

who saw the abduction as it happened.

This is one of the most fascinating

and famous accounts on record.

Number three on my list of the top ten alien encounters:

The Travis Walton Abduction.

NARRATOR: The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona.

November 5, 1975.

22-year-old forestry worker Travis Walton

is driving home after sundown along with six coworkers

when suddenly, a strange light appears in the sky.

We'd just finished a long, hard day,

and it was starting to get dark.

So, uh, we loaded up our equipment.

We were headed home.

And 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.

Allen Dalis in the back yelled out,

"It's a flying saucer!"

And I said, "Mike, stop."

[tires screech]

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.

As I got closer to it, the sound it was making,

it was a sound you-you both heard and felt.

And, uh, the crew said

they could feel the vibration in the truck.

They said it seemed like something was about to happen.

[chuckles]: And it was.

That's when this energy hit me.

The crew said that it was like I'd stepped on a land mine.

Like an explosion

so violent that, uh, they thought

it, uh, it had killed me.

When this beam of 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.

I don't know whether I came to soon after I was taken aboard.

But I know I was on

some kind of an elevated gurney or operating table.

I was looking straight into the face of this creature,

and I just flipped out.

POPE: He saw these hideous entities that scared him.

Maybe quite similar to the modern idea

of the so-called alien Greys.

And he fought, and he panicked.

And then these aliens seemed to go away,

and then their place was taken

by much more humanlike aliens,

and he calmed down.

WALTON: In the case of these 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 in a nearby town.

I was lying facedown outside in the dark,

and there was a light above me.

And I saw the bottom of the craft there

right before it shot up into the sky.

NARRATOR: When details of Travis Walton's close encounter

were revealed to authorities,

they dismissed his account as a possible hallucination.

But Travis has no doubt

that what he and his coworkers experienced

was 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.

Every now and then, an encounter is so compelling

that it turns skeptics into true believers.

That's exactly what happened in the early 1970s

when a NASA scientist set out

to prove Erich von Daniken wrong.

But, in fact, he ended up supporting

one of Erich's theories so strongly

that he even wrote a book about it.

Number two on my countdown:

The Wheels of Ezekiel.

NARRATOR: Northeast Syria.

The Khabur River.

According to the Hebrew Bible,

it was here, in the sixth century BC,

that divine beings descended from heaven

and made contact

with a Hebrew priest named Ezekiel.

Ezekiel was by the River Khabur,

and he said a great whirlwind came toward him.

He described it as a fire enfolding itself,

and out of the fire

was the color of amber,

which is the Hebrew word

which means "polished specter of metal,"

which implies that it's metallic and that it's spinning.

And it lands in front of him,

and suddenly, out of this whirlwind

come four creatures.

NARRATOR: In the Bible, the prophet Ezekiel

calls these spiritual beings cherubims

and describes them as having four faces, four wings

and skin that shone like polished bronze.

DOWNING: Ezekiel says that he was taken up

into the sky and taken to different places

where he could see different things.

And then he was told

some of the future things that were going to come.

This was a huge image of hope

that came to Ezekiel during his experience.

NARRATOR: But is this the story of a divine encounter?

Or could Ezekiel's description

of metallic wheels descending from the sky

in a whirlwind of fire

and strange beings with skin like polished bronze

point to a different type of otherworldly contact?

He's got the best description of a UFO

that's anywhere in the Bible...

because he basically says

that the thing looked like a wheel within a wheel, uh,

kind of a classic flying saucer description.

TRAVIS TAYLOR: Ezekiel describes

that the outside of the wheel doesn't spin.

The inside of the wheel spins.

So, he's telling us that's the engines.

None of this necessarily has to be magic.

This could all be technology.

COPPENS: It's basically the account

of a guy who's been abducted who has been told certain things

and who's then returned to the place of origin.

It would be what we today would describe

as an abduction account.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the prophet Ezekiel's account

of a heavenly close encounter might have been something else?

Perhaps one not involving heavenly beings

but visitors of another interplanetary nature?

This concept was put forth to the public

by the ancient astronaut theory pioneer Erich von Daniken

in his 1968 book Chariots of the Gods?

And after hearing Erich speak

at a conference in the early 1970s,

NASA engineer Josef Blumrich

was determined to debunk his controversial interpretation.

I had a speech at NASA in Huntsville,

and I spoke about Ezekiel.

And the chief engineer of that time,

Mr. Joe Blumrich,

came to me and said, "Erich, this was very interesting.

"But in the Bible,

you will definitely not find any technology."

But he still said,

"I will read originally in the Bible Ezekiel."

NARRATOR: Blumrich set out to find flaws

in von Daniken's theory,

but when he read the Book of Ezekiel,

he was shocked to find himself agreeing

with the controversial author.

So much so, in fact,

that he wrote a book called The Spaceships of Ezekiel

in which he provided a blueprint

for a practical landing module

based on the description found in the biblical story.

Several years later,

a German structural engineer named Hans Herbert Beier

also sketched out a blueprint

of the second section of the Book of Ezekiel

where Ezekiel is told

to construct an open-topped building

to house the flying chariot.

TSOUKALOS: Hans Herbert Beier

sent the blueprint to Erich von Daniken.

Within five minutes of looking at these blueprints,

Erich was on the phone with Joe Blumrich.

And he said, "Hey, Joe,

can you bring a model of your spaceship of Ezekiel?"

And then he called Hans Herbert Beier,

and he said, "Can you bring a model

of your construction of Ezekiel's temple?"

Both models were created to the same ratio.

And guess what?

Ezekiel's spaceship fit into the temple construction

that Hans Herbert Beier recreated

according to the biblical measurements.

NARRATOR: As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the biblical account of Ezekiel

provides conclusive evidence

of an alien encounter.

But more importantly,

it may also reveal that for thousands of years,

the destiny of humankind

has been directed by extraterrestrials.

This may be one of the oldest alien encounter stories,

but for me, it is still the most compelling.

Written over 3,000 years ago,

it was banned from the Bible

because this ancient text describes in detail

humankind's extraterrestrial origins.

My number one alien encounter:

Enoch's Ascent to Heaven in a Chariot of the Gods.

NARRATOR: Khirbet Qumran, Palestine.

In 1946,

a collection of ancient manuscripts

known as the Dead Sea Scrolls

is discovered hidden in clay jars

deep inside a cave.

Among the manuscripts

is the Book of Enoch,

a so-called lost biblical text.

In the Bible's Old Testament,

Enoch is the seventh of ten patriarchs

who lived before the Great Flood

and the great-grandfather of Noah.

But where the Hebrew Bible only mentions Enoch briefly,

the Book of Enoch,

which consists of more than 100 chapters,

greatly expands on his story.

In it is a curious passage

that details Enoch's ascent to heaven.

VON DANIKEN: According to the Book of Enoch,

he says he was 12 years old.

The whole community of his village wanted to sleep,

but then they hear the noise in the sky.

Two angels came down from the sky.

One of the two beings said to Enoch,

"Don't be afraid, human."

Then they went up to the so-called heaven.

WILLIAM HENRY: And in the Book of Enoch, we learn

Enoch himself is taken into the heavens in a fiery chariot.

VON DANIKEN: Enoch goes up to the so-called sky,

and there Enoch sees

something over the Earth which he cannot describe.

He has no word like "spaceship" or something.

He says it looked like houses of crystal.

TSOUKALOS: It is described that he sees

planet Earth underneath him.

He actually describes his arrival,

how he has to walk through these different rooms

where he sees

jewels and he sees shiny surfaces

and blinking lights.

It is an eyewitness account.

It's, "I, Enoch, did this. I, Enoch, saw that."

The Book of Enoch is one of the first abduction accounts

written down by a fellow human being.

NARRATOR: Does the Book of Enoch really describe

an actual abduction event?

One that took place

thousands of years ago?

And if so,

might this incredible close encounter

be documenting communication

with otherworldly beings?

ROBERT CARGILL: Enoch, he was said

to be at the right hand of God.

In fact, Enoch was said to be God's scribe

in later tradition.

So, God would decree things, and Enoch

was the one who recorded everything that went on.

So, Enoch was the keeper of all knowledge of heaven.

HENRY: This is one of the reasons

why the Book of Enoch is so controversial.

Enoch was the first human to ascend

to the throne of God,

where he is given powerful universal knowledge

by angelic beings or extraterrestrial beings.

NARRATOR: If Enoch was given information

from extraterrestrial beings to share with mankind

as ancient astronaut theorists contend,

what truths about our otherworldly past

might be waiting to be revealed?

The extraterrestrials want that in a far future of mankind,

we start to see these things.

We start to translate these books.

And now we start to ask questions.

We start to ask, for example, how can we explain that?

Have we maybe been visited by extraterrestrials?

And I think it's important to think in this way,

because these extraterrestrials have promised to return.

And one day, they will return.

POPE: I was taught not to believe in coincidence.

I was taught to look for patterns.

When you have all these encounters,

these sightings,

these descriptions we have from biblical times onwards,

it tells you there's something going on.

Doesn't necessarily tell you what it is,

but it tells you there's something there.

Well, that concludes my list for now.

But considering what is written in the Book of Enoch,

perhaps, as Erich von Daniken likes to say,

the most important encounter of all is yet to come.

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