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NARRATOR: An incredible eyewitness account

of unidentified flying objects.

It wasn't just, uh, one light, it was a series of lights.

NARRATOR: A sensational report of an alien crash.

They had the debris out here in the hangar area.

NARRATOR: Ancient depictions of extraterrestrial visitation.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: I'm arguing that what

we are looking at here is someone visiting from the sky.

NARRATOR: For more than a decade,

Ancient Aliens has followed investigators across the globe

as they've gone directly to the sites where unusual,

unexpected and unexplained incidents have been reported.

Now we take a look back

at the most extraordinary encounters.

Encounters that, according to ancient astronaut theorists,

reveal overwhelming evidence

of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth.

♪ ♪

On Ancient Aliens, we've traveled around the world

investigating extraordinary encounters with UFOs,

strange beings and other unexplainable phenomena.

But make no mistake, alien encounters

are not simply a modern-day occurrence.

They've been happening for thousands of years.

And when I visited the Mediterranean island

of Sardinia, I found some of the most compelling evidence

that I've ever seen.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

is meeting Oak Island treasure hunter Marty Lagina

to explore the island's mysterious legends

of otherworldly visitors.

Giorgio!

-Hey. -How crazy is this place?

-Isn't this something? -So great to meet you here

-in Sardinia. -Great to meet...

NARRATOR: To begin their investigation,

Giorgio and Marty travel

to the National Archaeological Museum in Cagliari,

where some of Sardinia's oldest and strangest artifacts

are on display.

TSOUKALOS: It's just all weird.

He's got a helmet on, those weird eyes.

NARRATOR: Featured in the museum's collection

are a number of enormous stone statues

known as the Giants of Mont'e Prama.

They were first discovered in 1974

when a local farmer stumbled upon a large carved stone

protruding from the ground.

Archaeologists quickly took over the site,

recovering more than 5,000 broken remnants.

Mainstream historians suggest the statues were carved

by the Nuragic people, a civilization

that is believed to have inhabited the island

for 2,000 years, emerging in 1800 BC

and mysteriously disappearing around 200 AD.

But what also makes the statues so mysterious

is the strange way in which the faces are carved.

Not so much resembling humans,

but what some might describe as robots.

JASON OSEQUEDA: The giant statues found at Mont'e Prama

were approximately seven and a half to eight feet tall.

You have warriors and boxers and archers.

The statues themselves are just noted for their size,

and it's thought that they represent the Nuragic people,

that this is actually what we might have that looks like them.

LAGINA: If he's a model of that, why doesn't he have disc eyes?

Because he doesn't have disc eyes, and he certainly could.

What I find intriguing is that the Giants of Mont'e Prama,

although they were discovered in the 1970s,

were not put on display until sometime near the year 2000.

And I believe that these statues simply do not conform

to the conventional archaeological narrative

on the island, and instead point to the reality

that there was something very unusual

happening on this island.

This is very human, except it has weird eyes...

-TSOUKALOS: And disproportioned, uh... -And disproportions.

ANDREW COLLINS: When you look at these stone figurines,

they are extremely peculiar, and they give the impression

of actually being giants.

The strange thing about the statues

is that they have these very strange circular eyes

that almost give them an otherworldly feel.

NARRATOR: After their visit to the museum,

Giorgio and Marty meet at a nearby restaurant

with archaeological tour guide Maria Paola Loi...

-TSOUKALOS: Paola? -...who has offered to share with them

some of Sardinians' local legends.

How are you? Ciao. Pleased to meet you.

-Welcome to Sardinia. -Piacere. Grazie.

-Fantastic. Okay. -So-- Yeah.

-Did you go to the museum? Oh. -MARTY: We did.

Yeah, tell me what you think about the finds

that are displayed there.

I mean, up until about six months ago,

-I had no idea about these statues here. -No idea, huh?

So now, when I saw

these statues of the Giganti for the first time,

not only did the eyes remind me of, uh, C-3PO

-from Star Wars, but also... -LAGINA: They did, right.

...there are these giant-eyed statues in Tell Asmar,

from the ancient Sumerian and Babylonian times.

LOI: Originally,

the archeologists, and also scholars,

uh, who mentioned the Nuragic civilization

said that these people probably arrived from Mesopotamia.

-So the Anunnakis? -Right.

NARRATOR: The Anunnaki?

The race of winged giants as described

in ancient Sumerian texts, and frequently depicted

on the temples and icons of ancient Babylon?

COLLINS: There are a lot of connections

between the Sardinian language,

uh, and the different languages of Mesopotamia.

Suggesting that-that Sumerians did actually come to Sardinia.

They would've brought with them the traditions

to do with the Anunnaki, the gods of heaven and Earth,

uh, which many people believe were celestial beings.

NARRATOR: Might the mysterious giants of Mont'e Prama have been inspired

by encounters with extraterrestrial visitors?

Ancient astronaut theorists not only say yes,

but they believe that dozens of carved stones

found scattered across Sardinia known as menhirs

tell the story of how these beings arrived on planet Earth.

During their trip, Giorgio and Marty arranged to meet

with archeological guide Ivana Malu

-at the Menhir Museum in Laconi... -Wow.

...to get an up close look

at some of these strange standing stones.

IVANA MALU: Look at the very strange circle with the spear.

What do you think, Marty? What is that?

I'm not sure what that is and I'm not sure

what this is, either.

Now, you tell me, please, what should I be seeing?

It's a guy going down.

-To go into another dimension. -Mm.

MALU: Do not ask me where, or which other world.

But he's going on a trip, on a journey,

going from point A to point B.

Whatever it really symbolizes, it was very important.

This took an enormous amount of work,

just this-- I mean, it's very heavy,

it-it's done in relief, which is the hard way to do a carving.

TSOUKALOS: I-I think it's, uh...

What do you think that represents?

TSOUKALOS: We have people with two wings on each side.

You know, it's almost like an early version

of some type of an angel.

I'm arguing that what we are looking at here

is someone visiting from the sky.

You know what I find beyond fascinating

is this shape down here,

which mainstream archaeology suggests

is some type of a weapon, some type of a dagger.

Which makes perfect sense.

But in conjunction with this symbol right here,

and that, one could argue that this is a representation

of some type of misunderstood technology

that illustrates some type of a flying craft.

-Fascinating.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the imagery

carved onto the menhirs of Sardinia,

as well as the stone giants of Mont'e Prama,

tell a story of extraterrestrial visitation in the distant past,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, could these mysterious figures

be the same beings that some people believe

are visiting mankind today?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining a modern-day report of a crashed UFO.

When it comes to extraordinary encounters,

TSOUKALOS: When this light appeared, did it seem to you

we are living in the most exciting time,

because governments all around the world are finally admitting

that there are unidentified aerial phenomena

that simply have no conventional explanation.

But this hasn't always been the case.

And when I visited the site of a UAP report in Wales,

I was completely blown away

by what the government tried to cover up.

NARRATOR: Late in the evening,

this quiet rural village in the Berwyn Mountains

is rocked by an enormous explosion.

14-year-old Huw Lloyd is in his home watching television

when he feels the impact,

and then receives call after call from his neighbors,

most claiming to have seen an incredibly bright light

falling from the sky and then glowing on the mountainside.

Today, Huw Lloyd still works

on his father's ranch in Llandrillo.

-Are you Huw? -LLOYD: Yep.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

and Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator

for the British Ministry of Defence,

met up with Huw to get his take

on what really happened that night.

Can you tell us your experience?

Your neighbors called you to ask you if you're okay.

So, they pretty much had similar experiences?

So you're not the only one?

And what time of evening was this?

So, you know, some people have suggested

that, well, it was nothing else but an earthquake.

-Yeah. -Which, I don't subscribe to this idea,

but have you had any earthquakes around here?

But you saw that light, and it was much, much brighter

than people lamping.

I mean, it was something almost blinding?

Wow.

NARRATOR: The community of Llandrillo

was shaken by the mysterious event,

which became known as the Berwyn Mountains incident.

That night, dozens of residents

called the region's emergency line

to report a bright light followed by a mysterious object

seen streaking across the night sky.

Curiously, approximately 30 minutes

after the reports were made,

a police officer arrived at the home of eyewitness Huw Lloyd.

-Right, so a senior officer. -Yeah.

-Not-not one of the local... -Mm-mm, no.

NARRATOR: A plane crash?

For Nick Pope, who worked at the Ministry of Defence

and has seen the file on this incident,

this is a surprising new detail.

The official report only mentions a meteor,

and nothing about a plane.

The theory initially that this was a plane crash,

and that this police and military operation

was a search and rescue...

-Yeah. -...or search and recovery, that's fine.

But I mean, you know, we know where our planes are.

There is 24/7 radar coverage,

-civilian aircraft to carry... -Even back then.

Yeah, a-absolutely.

Planes don't just drop out of the sky.

And-and if they do,

immediately, everyone knows which aircraft it is.

So it seems odd.

NARRATOR: The officer commandeered the family's truck

and drove with Huw to the crash site.

Nick and Giorgio were taken

on the exact same journey that was made that night.

POPE: How high is the mountain?

You know, one thing that struck me

is this is a pretty difficult drive.

So you've got to be pretty determined

to get a whole bunch of people up here.

TSOUKALOS: Yes, and for what purpose?

Unless it's really something of importance.

POPE: Yeah, this-this is not

-to be undertaken lightly, is it? -No. No.

NARRATOR: According to Huw, the police inspector

directed him to stop at this spot,

although the inspector was allegedly not familiar

with the area and seemed to have no reason for doing so.

It was at this location that he witnessed

an incredibly bright light in the distance.

So, down there?

-Yeah. -Okay.

TSOUKALOS: When this light appeared,

did it seem to you as if it was an explosion?

POPE: And how long was it shining for?

NARRATOR: According to Huw, the inspector wanted to get a closer look

at the mysterious light,

but then received a curious command from his superiors.

So, it sounds like it was a "stand down" call.

POPE: Yes.

NARRATOR: In the days following the incident,

Royal Air Force personnel, scientists, journalists

and UFO enthusiasts combed the surrounding land

and interviewed locals at length.

Curiously, the official explanation for these events

provided by the Ministry of Defence

did not include either fox hunters or a plane crash,

as was told to Huw that night.

And the story they did provide

involves an incredible coincidence.

The story is apparently that there was an earthquake

that hit the village.

But at the same time,

there was a bright fireball meteor

breaking up in the Earth's atmosphere.

So, not one extraordinary event,

but two at exactly the same time.

Over the years, the UFO community has become convinced

that this was indeed a UFO crash,

that the military launched a secret operation

to secure the crash site,

to recover the wreckage and maybe bodies,

and to take it to a secure facility.

NARRATOR: More than four decades since the Berwyn Mountains incident,

the residents of Llandrillo are still convinced

that the British government is hiding the truth

about what really happened that night.

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

it is part of a global effort to keep the public in the dark

about alien activity on Earth,

and it all started after the U.S. Army itself

reported the crash of a flying saucer.

On Ancient Aliens, we have covered

some pretty incredible encounters,

including the most famous of all,

the Roswell incident in New Mexico.

And one of the most exciting places I've ever visited

was the airplane hangar where some say

the wreckage from the Roswell crash was taken.

NARRATOR: Washington, D.C., April 2011.

The FBI releases

thousands of files as part of its online FBI Vault.

One particular file draws the attention

of the media and independent researchers.

The memo, dated March 22, 1950,

is a briefing to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover

regarding informant information about three "flying saucers"

that were recovered in New Mexico.

Investigators immediately connect the memo

to the infamous Roswell incident,

a purported UFO crash that many people believe

was covered up by the military in 1947.

But this document is just the latest in a series

of government files that have been released in recent years,

suggesting there may be more to the Roswell crash

than the public was told.

As an investigative reporter, I think what I am amazed by

is how many leaked documents from the 1940s

have actually come out into the world,

and lay out details about what really happened at Roswell.

On July 4th, a rancher named Mac Brazel

finds all kinds of strange silver debris.

He knows he doesn't understand what he's walking through.

He decides to go into Roswell and tell the sheriff,

"Something has crashed on my ranch."

Intel coming out of Roswell Army Airfield

get assigned to go to the debris field.

And these men are told that they are to pick up

every single thing that is in the debris field

on the Mac Brazel ranch.

Everything is to be picked up.

NARRATOR: On July 8, 1947,

the headline on the front page of the Roswell Daily Record

reports that the military had retrieved a flying saucer.

But the following day, the official story

is suddenly changed to suggest

it was nothing more than a failed weather balloon.

POPE: Roswell was the home

of the 509th Bomb Crew.

This was the only atomic bomb-capable squadron

anywhere in the world.

These people were the best of the best.

The idea that intelligence personnel at this base

would mistake a weather balloon for something exotic

is preposterous.

So that, arguably, is the start of the UFO cover-up.

The world was told, "Nope, just a weather balloon."

And for more than 30 years, that's where it was left,

until witnesses started to surface,

saying, "No, it was actually an extraterrestrial craft."

And people saw alien bodies.

NARRATOR: In April of 2014,

ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

traveled to the Roswell International Air Center

in New Mexico

to meet with the city's mayor, Del Jurney,

and to get a rare look at the hanger

where the Roswell wreckage and extraterrestrial bodies

were allegedly first taken.

Wow.

-So... -This is huge.

JURNEY: So what do you think?

TSOUKALOS: Man, I have goose bumps right now.

I mean, we're walking on history.

JURNEY: It's amazing, isn't it?

Are you, are you familiar with where the spot is?

-Where they actually put them? -Well, y-you know,

the information that I have

says that it's probably right over here in the corner.

Uh, they took them over there,

did an examination of the bodies.

TSOUKALOS: So this is where it was.

JURNEY: This is it. Yeah, come on in.

They had the debris out here in the hangar area

and they bring the bodies inside this room.

TSOUKALOS: I-I really don't know what to say,

'cause, I mean, if this was it...

-You're standing where... -Yeah, yeah.

...where extraterrestrial beings...

-TSOUKALOS: Were. -...might have been.

Where did the debris go? Where did it end up?

Well, it ended up with the government, of course.

My understanding is that they took the bodies

to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,

certainly, probably took the debris as well,

and have it well-preserved in a military installation someplace.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that an alien craft really did crash in Roswell,

and was covered up by the U.S. government,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

Perhaps such encounters are harder to ignore

when the witness is running for president of the United States.

On Ancient Aliens, we have examined

the most extraordinary encounters on record,

and believe it or not, there are thousands

of new UFO sightings reported every year.

Of course, skeptics dismiss these accounts

as misinterpretations or outright hoaxes,

but on one episode of Ancient Aliens,

Nick Pope investigated a UFO sighting

made by a witness who's as credible as it gets,

because this witness went public with his encounter

while running for president of the United States.

NARRATOR: During the Democratic primary debate at Drexel University,

moderator Tim Russert turns and addresses

presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.

TIM RUSSERT: Congressman Kucinich, a serious question.

Shirley MacLaine writes in her new book

that you sighted a UFO over her home in Washington state,

that you found the encounter extremely moving,

that it was a triangular craft.

Now, did you see a UFO?

Uh, I did, and, uh, the rest of the account...

-(laughter) -Oh, I-I didn't, I--

It was an unidentified flying object, okay?

It's like, it's unidentified. I saw something.

Now... And also, you have to keep in mind

that more, that Jimmy Carter saw a UFO,

and also, that more people in this country,

uh, uh, have seen UFOs

than I think approve of George Bush's presidency.

NARRATOR: The debate moment made national headlines.

While Kucinich was not a front-runner,

many political commentators proposed that this admission

undoubtedly had a negative impact on his campaign.

JOHN PODESTA: I think, for most people,

it's been the notion that you are even discussing UFOs

tends to be viewed as a career ender.

You know, people think you're a little bit whacky

if you're, uh, taking the phenomena seriously.

NARRATOR: But just what did Dennis Kucinich experience?

Former British Ministry of Defence

UFO investigator Nick Pope

has arranged to meet with Dennis Kucinich

at the location of his 1982 UFO encounter,

the former home of Academy Award-winning actress

Shirley MacLaine.

The home, which has since been sold, overlooks Mount Rainier,

the site of the infamous Kenneth Arnold

flying saucer incident

that ignited the UFO craze in 1947.

-Hey there, welcome. -KUCINICH: Hi. -POPE: Hi.

NARRATOR: The current owner agreed to allow Nick and Dennis

to take a look around.

-HOMEOWNER: Come on in. -Go ahead. -Thank you.

-Wow. -Yeah, really.

(both chuckle)

-POPE: What a fabulous view. -KUCINICH: Oh, look,

-there's nothing like this. -This is, of course,

the location where you had your UFO sighting.

Can you tell me about it?

Well, uh, Nick, I was seated at a dinner table

with myself and two friends,

and I noticed a-a light in the distance.

Came from a hill directly over the house.

-Come on, let me show you. -Okay.

-Wow, fabulous. -So I was standing out here,

the-the scope was here.

I-I brought it up here...

...so that I could get a look at the light.

And when I looked at it, I saw that it wasn't just,

uh, one light, it was a series of lights,

like a grid, one stacked on another.

I went back and I looked, and then I saw something

that was extraordinary.

I-I said, "The lights were separating."

They were definitely moving in this direction.

So at that point, came right to the edge here

and I looked out into the hills to watch

what proved to be three crafts moving in this direction.

Just to be clear, first seen over there,

-to directly over the house. -Right.

Right in the hills in the distance,

and then in a straight line.

That straight line would just go right overhead here.

And then above the house.

And then, and then, quickly...

-POPE: Right, and then "whoosh." -...accelerating out of sight.

Just like that, gone.

-And that was the last you saw of them? -Oh, yeah.

NARRATOR: The next day, Kucinich described the experience

to Shirley MacLaine.

He would say nothing more about it for 26 years.

And then, when running for the Democratic nomination in 2008,

his private UFO sighting would become a public event,

affecting presidential politics in a most unexpected way.

When the question was asked,

I-I think there was mention of, you know, feeling almost a...

an emotional connection, that it spoke to you,

I mean, not in a literal sense, but feelings.

I don't know that I ever communicated that to anyone,

but I will tell you this: that it was, it was extraordinary.

It was exciting. How could it not be?

I mean, anybody who would see anything like that

would have to be excited, and was I?

Uh, yeah.

NARRATOR: As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

accounts of UFO sightings from high-level politicians

like Dennis Kucinich are particularly intriguing.

Not only is he seen as a credible witness,

but he was so amazed by what he saw that he was willing

to risk his political career to talk about it.

Perhaps the only encounter more compelling

would be one reported by multiple witnesses

that involved not a UFO but an alien entity.

On Ancient Aliens, we have traveled the globe

investigating reports of incredible encounters.

And there are some locations that seem to be hot spots

for strange and unexplained activity.

In 2020, William Henry got the rare opportunity

to visit one of these hot spots where, for hundreds of years,

people have reportedly seen otherworldly beings.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist William Henry,

along with author and historian Dustin Naef...

-It's down this path here. -...set out to explore

a series of underground lava tubes, known as Pluto's Cave

several miles north of Mount Shasta.

HENRY: That is just spectacular.

NARRATOR: It is here where numerous eyewitnesses

claim to have encountered mysterious beings,

as well as seen evidence

of possible interdimensional portals.

Pluto's Cave is one of several natural wonders,

known as lava tubes, that crisscross the region.

ROBERT SCHOCH: Mount Shasta is a volcanic mountain.

So volcanic lava tubes are formed

when you have fast-flowing lava

and it cools on the surface of the flow,

so it actually builds a crust,

but the lava continues to flow in the middle.

And it forms literally a tube.

HENRY: Check it out, man.

Awesome.

Awesome.

NAEF: So, almost all of the mythology and legends

around the place, it all takes place underground

in the caves and tunnels which surround the area.

If you were able to look underground,

you'd just see tunnels radiating out in every direction.

There are actually Native-authored stories

that you could travel clear into Oregon completely underground.

HENRY: Yeah.

Look at that, Dustin. That's awesome.

Beautiful skylight.

NAEF: There's a really big subculture

here in Mount Shasta that has always believed that these caves

and tunnels contain a civilization

full of people just like you and I.

And they come back and forth through portals

hidden in these caves.

I've had people actually contact me and tell me

they've seen people in this very cave

walk right into a wall and vanish.

What-what were these people like? What did they look like?

They look just like us.

That's how they're able to travel back and forth

and mingle with humans.

Wow.

NARRATOR: One of the most famous reports

of a being emerging from within Mount Shasta

was made in 1930 by Guy Warren Ballard.

Ballard, a mining engineer who worked in the area,

claimed he was surveying the slopes of the mountain

when he encountered a mysterious glowing figure.

Guy reported that when he was hiking on Mount Shasta

in the early 1930s, he encountered

some extraordinary, mysterious teacher,

which he later identified as the Ascended Master.

JONATHAN YOUNG: This is a-a radiant being dressed in white.

And they get into a long conversation.

And this teacher, this guru,

this otherworldly character teaches Ballard

the secrets of enlightenment.

NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,

Ballard's description of a radiant being

is reminiscent of accounts from ancient times

of similarly luminous figures.

In Irish legend, we learn of the Tuatha Dé Danann,

or the Tua Dé Dann.

These are luminous humanoid beings

who are considered to be beings of immense wisdom

who are also called the Shining Ones.

NARRATOR: Similar to the Shining Ones of the Celtic tradition,

the ancient Sumerian gods known as the Anunnaki

were also described as glowing figures.

Might these accounts, including those made

about Mount Shasta, be true?

If so, can William Henry

find any evidence to help verify them?

If you look on the USGS charts,

there's an immense negative magnetic anomaly

that surrounds Mount Shasta.

HENRY: That's the ley line they describe here, right?

NAEF: Yeah, a lot of psychic and paranormal phenomena

actually occurs in places that have magnetic anomalies.

And used as a, as a portal

between the inner Earth realm and the stars?

Yeah, yeah, it...

Anything capable of generating

energy like that could be a portal.

NARRATOR: Might the lava tubes found

at the base of Mount Shasta be the location

where extraterrestrial beings

can travel between planet Earth and the stars?

And if so, does this explain the strange sightings

of otherworldly entities reported in the area?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they believe that at the site

of another incredible encounter,

undeniable evidence of alien contact was left behind

by an extraterrestrial technology.

Of all the unexplained phenomena we've investigated

on Ancient Aliens,

the formation of crop circles is simply baffling.

Crop circles have been reported in over 50 different countries

and on every continent except Antarctica.

And one night in Wiltshire, England,

two people believe they actually witnessed

a strange formation being created by something

that was not human.

NARRATOR: Local paralegal and crop circle researcher Gary King

spends the night camping out on Knap Hill,

an area known for sightings of mysterious orbs

and other strange occurrences.

It was the 7th of July 2007,

so because it was kind of an auspicious date, the 7-7-7,

we decided we'd come here.

I came here with my girlfriend to do a night watch.

So we arrived here and about 3:00 in the morning,

we had a big white flash of light,

which completely encompassed the sky.

And about 20 minutes after that, we looked and we could see

this crop circle laid out in front of us.

The field it appeared in was this field,

here to the right, that's yellow now.

It was actually in wheat the year that it occurred,

but they rotate the crops.

And it started from way back at near those trees,

and came over the brow of this hill.

It was absolutely enormous.

NARRATOR: The crop formation

extended 1,033 feet long

and 490 feet wide.

The over two-acre design

contained 150 individual circles,

the largest: 164 feet across.

I have no idea what made it.

I'm completely open to the fact that it could be aliens.

What I do know, though, is that people didn't make this.

NARRATOR: Gary King's experience

is just one of many firsthand accounts

of designs that mysteriously appear

in a short period of time.

And crop circle researchers cite

that many of these eyewitness accounts

include sightings of strange lights

in and around the formation.

In 1991, local photographer Steve Alexander

caught on camera an orb of light floating above a crop formation

in Wiltshire, England.

-STEVE ALEXANDER: What is it? -KAREN ALEXANDER: I don't know.

CHARLES MALLETT: His camera caught sight of what seemed to be

a white orb of light flying right across this field

right next to a crop circle.

That orb of light, whatever it was,

flew directly over a tractor working in the next field down,

and later on, that farmer was contacted and he said,

"I saw this weird orb of light

"about the size of a melon or something

fly over my tractor."

I was so intrigued by Gary King's story

and the bizarre events

surrounding the crop circle phenomenon

that I had to go see it for myself.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

is meeting with crop circle researcher Dr. Eltjo Haselhoff,

to discuss a scientific paper Dr. Haselhoff published

in January of 2000, suggesting that the crop circle formations

might be created by an unknown electromagnetic energy source.

By measuring the length of the growth nodes

found along the plant stems within a crop circle

and comparing them with the nodes

on the undisturbed plants in the field,

Dr. Haselhoff was able to predict

what he thinks could be creating this phenomenon.

So, you've actually done scientific analysis

on some of those formations.

So, what were some of your conclusions?

The hypothesis is that somehow, electromagnetic energy

is involved in the creation of these crop circles,

and that somehow this energy causes node elongation.

So the nodes in the stems get longer.

And the more energy, the longer the nodes are.

And that is very interesting, because all you need to do

is take a cross section across a circle, like this,

and measure the node length in each of these positions.

And actually, this is what you see.

This is in-- at the perimeter.

See these nodes, these dark areas?

This is somewhere halfway, and that's in the center.

So, you see, there is a huge difference in node length.

TSOUKALOS: I mean, it's a huge-- I mean, this is fascinating.

This is incredible.

HASELHOFF: It is not just a little bit.

It's a difference in size between a horse and an elephant.

It's very, very significant.

Yeah, I mean, what, uh, what would do this?

-That's, uh, quite weird. -Well, in this case, it was very interesting,

because this crop circle, uh, actually had an eyewitness

when it was-- when it formed.

And the eyewitness says, "I saw a ball of light,"

and it was standing still.

And that is very important, because when a ball of light

is standing still, we can very accurately predict

how the energy will be distributed on the ground,

and we know there that will be more energy in the center

and the more energy, the longer the nodes are.

And in this case, it was a perfect match.

Wow.

Amazing, isn't it?

Now, this is where I get the goose bumps,

because clearly, there is something there.

And no one denies that many of them are man-made,

but then, there is something bizarre.

Do you have any idea how...

or who might be behind it?

That's a very difficult question.

What I can say about that is...

...I don't know.

So it is something that remains a giant question mark.

Absolutely, yes.

NARRATOR: Does Dr. Haselhoff's scientific research

provide evidence that not all crop formations

are the product of hoaxers?

And if so, could there be an otherworldly origin to them

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

Each and every one of the extraordinary encounters

we've investigated on Ancient Aliens

truly defies conventional explanation.

And when you examine them together,

it becomes abundantly clear

that we are not alone in the universe.

These events can no longer be explained away

as weather balloons or hoaxes.

So, what are we left with?

To me, there is only one answer: extraterrestrial visitation.

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