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NARRATOR: Mysterious encounters

reported in the same locations

for thousands of years.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: In Delphi, you see

aerial phenomena that can be traced back

all the way to ancient times.

NARRATOR: Places where mass UFO sightings

are a common occurrence.

WILLIAM HENRY: The Hudson Valley

exploded with sightings of UFOs.

PHILIP IMBROGNO: We're not talking about one or two people seeing something.

The number of witnesses go into the thousands.

NARRATOR: Areas known for even stranger

and often disturbing phenomena.

Skinwalker Ranch is a place

that produces anomalous lights,

we have cow mutilations,

portals opening up,

giant wolves coming out of these portals.

NARRATOR: Could so-called UFO hot spots

reveal important clues about

an alien presence on Earth?

NICK POPE: I think these hot spots

are hugely significant

for our understanding of UFOs.

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

San Diego. July 15, 2019.

In the middle of an otherwise peaceful night,

the USS Omaha Combat Information Center

records an astonishing event

off the coast of Southern California.

An unidentified, oval-shaped craft

is witnessed performing mysterious maneuvers

in restricted airspace around a U.S. Navy destroyer.

It is an amazing piece of footage

showing a UFO hovering over the sea.

POPE: And then, apparently, descending into the ocean.

NARRATOR: When the footage is leaked to the public

by investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell two years later,

its authenticity is quickly confirmed by the Pentagon.

JEREMY CORBELL: I knew that it would strike a chord.

You can see the structure

of the craft being oval or circular.

You can see that it doesn't have these plumes of exhaust

or heat trails or any traditional propulsion.

What you're seeing is a technology

that is so far advanced

from anything that we have ever created

or shown in the theater of war,

which is where we show our greatest technologies.

NARRATOR: The strange incident was more than intriguing

to UFO researchers,

not only because of how the craft maneuvered,

but also because of the area where it appeared.

ANDREW COLLINS: Off the coast of San Diego in California

is somewhere that UFOs or UAPs

have been appearing regularly for decades.

NARRATOR: Since 1995,

more than 1,000 UFO sightings

have been reported in the San Diego area.

RALPH BLUMENTHAL: All these reports of sightings were not just made up.

They can be photographed.

There's something up there,

and sometimes down in the water,

that no one understands.

More and more, the military

is acknowledging that it's interested,

giving credibility to the fact that these things exist.

BILL BIRNES: When you realize that the San Diego Naval Base

is one of the most restricted naval bases,

restricted areas, in the country,

UFOs are flying back and forth over the ships, over the base.

NARRATOR: The number of UFO reports

occurring in San Diego may appear quite significant.

However, it is just one

of several locations around the globe

where similar incidents are often reported

and documented.

Locations that have come to be known as UFO hot spots.

A UFO hot spot is a physical space

where sightings of unusual aerial phenomena are common.

There's usually a perceivable unusual energy at the site.

There's been a long history of sightings at these places.

COLLINS: UFO hot spots are places where UFOs occur

not just across a few years but across decades.

And of course the question becomes,

you know, why are these places so important?

Why is it that UFOs can appear at them

more frequently than anywhere else?

IMBROGNO: One well-known hot spot in the United States

is the Hudson Valley in New York state.

Here, we not only have dozens of witnesses,

but over a period of years,

we have thousands of witnesses.

CRAIG CAMPOBASSO: Marfa is this mountain range

in Texas,

and it's these strange anomalous lights

that nobody has ever been able to figure out.

It's such a hot spot

that the actual State of Texas

built a viewing station

where people can stop and rest

and watch the Marfa lights at night.

HENRY: The Bermuda Triangle

is also a well-known hot spot as well.

Wiltshire, England is another.

Sedona has become a very popular hot spot.

And Skinwalker Ranch in northern Utah

is an outstanding example of a hot spot.

Native Americans have said for centuries

that this is a place where supernatural

UFO activity occurs.

It seems that a large proportion

of sightings of UFOs or UAPs

in the modern world do take place at-at hot spots.

NARRATOR: The perception of so-called UFO hot spots

emerged in the aftermath

of two of the most highly publicized UFO incidents

in U.S. history, which both took place

in 1947.

On June 27, near Mount Rainier in Washington State,

pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing

nine saucer-shaped craft

flying in a coordinated pattern

at a speed of approximately 1,200 miles per hour.

Just one month later, the infamous report

of a UFO crash took place

in Roswell, New Mexico.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: The July 8,

1947, headline

went around the world.

In the Roswell Daily Record,

"Flying saucer crashes

into a pasture near Roswell."

You start looking at the timeline,

and what was happening through 1947

and beyond.

Our government,

and other governments, were developing

gigantic, huge storage

and files and folders and departments

that were dedicated to the secret study

of UFOs and ETs on our planet.

NARRATOR: Over the next two decades,

thousands of additional UFO sightings

were reported around the world,

prompting the U.S. government

to launch an investigation into the phenomenon.

The study was given the code name "Project Blue Book,"

and while the program's official findings were not definitive,

a startling trend appeared in the data.

MIKE RICKSECKER: The renowned J. Allen Hynek,

of Project Blue Book fame,

wrote there's a statistical analysis

that showed when and where these occurrences happened,

and a pattern started to emerge,

such as UFO sightings,

lights in the sky, anomalous activity,

in the American Southwest, the Northeast,

the Mississippi Valley, and UFO researchers

took notice of this

and began to flock to those areas

to conduct their research.

Researchers in the '50s and the '60s,

they went back through the data,

and sometimes, literally, they would get out

a map, and X marks the spot.

And then they would notice,

wait a minute, there are these clusters,

these strange hot spots.

Areas where these events

seem-seem to pile up

for no apparent reason.

BIRNES: What researchers realized

was that 60% to 70%

of UFO sightings in America,

turn up in the same spots over and over again.

And they realized

that there was something about those spots

that was drawing UFO.

RICKSECKER: If we're trying to solve a mystery,

you want to go to a location that has the most clues.

And these are the locations that could have the clues

to connect our ancient past to our modern reality,

and perhaps give us the answers we're seeking.

NARRATOR: Could there really be certain locations on Earth

that attract extraterrestrial visitors,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining what reportedly took place at one such location,

not in modern times,

but thousands of years ago in Israel.

NARRATOR: October, 2000.

While building a road just east of the city,

a construction crew discovers the entrance

to an ancient limestone cave dwelling.

Archaeologists soon begin

excavating the site, known as the Qesem cave,

and are shocked to determine

that it was inhabited by human beings 400,000 years ago.

COLLINS: What archaeologists found

was a time capsule of human activity

from around 400,000 years ago,

down to about 200,000 years ago.

And when they started to investigate the cave,

they realized that the so-called Qesem people

were practicing shamanism at this early stage.

NARRATOR: Evidence from the cave shows that the Qesem people

had skills considered impossible for that time,

including the ability to make and use fire at will,

craft stone tools

and even preserve food.

But why did early humans with such advanced abilities

choose to inhabit this particular cave,

and live there for more than 200,000 years?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer may lie

in the fact that the Qesem cave

sits in the shadow of Mount Gerizim,

where mysterious aerial phenomena

have been reported for thousands of years.

NEWMAN: Mount Gerizim in Israel

was considered the original dwelling place of God

in the old Hebrew Bible.

And God's presence would take the form of a Shekinah,

or some kind of bright light

that would emanate from this mountain.

The earliest biblical patriarchs

came to this mountain,

and had visions of the blinding lights,

what we'd call UFOs or UAPs today.

Mount Gerizim has been a hot spot

where mysterious lights appear

both in modern times and historically.

For example, in the 1720s an English cleric

by the name of Thomas Shore

was exploring the vicinity of Mount Gerizim,

and he and his team saw this

incredible light phenomena around the mountain.

COLLINS: He referred to it as "ignis fatuus,"

which means, "The foolish fire."

And he observed this for hours,

changing different forms, coming forward, going backwards.

NARRATOR: Thomas Shore's encounter at Mount Gerizim

is just one of many

that have been reported over the centuries,

including sightings in modern times.

COLLINS: An English journalist

by the name of Wilkins

wrote a book entitled Flying Saucers Uncensored.

And this talks about a group of Bedouin

in the vicinity of Mount Gerizim in the 1950s,

encountering this strange object

which was interpreted

in terms of a flying saucer.

Wanting to confirm that UFOs are still seen

in the area of Mount Gerizim today,

I climbed the mountain,

and I was able to speak with one of the highest-ranking priests

of the Samaritan community who lived there to this day.

And he was able to confirm that,

indeed, strange, mysterious lights are seen there.

NARRATOR: Considering the long history

of strange lights being reported over Mount Gerizim,

is it possible that extraterrestrials

have been visiting the same locations

for thousands of years?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest that UFO hot spots can even help explain

several mysteries of the ancient past,

including why certain sites

are designated as places of spiritual worship,

and why some of the most enigmatic temples

and monuments in the world were created.

RICKSECKER: In ancient times, strange lights

were seen repeatedly in the same locations,

and in a number of cases, these areas were marked

by some sort of monuments to memorialize

these beings and these gods visiting the people.

TSOUKALOS: The reason why Delphi, Greece,

became a place of worship

is because local legends say

that someone descended from the sky there

and imparted knowledge.

Now, in my opinion,

you would not build something of that scale

if it really didn't happen.

And in the area of Delphi,

to this day, you see aerial phenomena

that are very strange.

NARRATOR: Much like Delphi,

the ancient site of Stonehenge is a place

where UFOs are frequently reported today.

A photo of a disk-shaped object

hovering over the megalithic structure

was even included in a British Ministry of Defence file

that was declassified in 2009.

Stonehenge is a great example

of a UFO hot spot in England.

Over the lifetime

of the Ministry of Defence's UFO project,

there have probably been several hundred,

if not low thousands, of sightings

recorded around Stonehenge

in the county of Wiltshire.

NARRATOR: Ancient Native American sites

where petroglyphs depict strange beings

often identified as "star ancestors,"

have also become UFO hot spots in modern times.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Rock art at these ancient sites

depicts a multitude of strange beings,

large eyes, elongated heads,

often looking like some kind of extraterrestrial creation.

And it would seem that these ancient sites

have been having UFO activity for thousands of years.

And this UFO activity is continuing even today.

COLLINS: One very good example is Lake Titicaca,

on the borders between Peru and Bolivia.

There's an island there

by the name of the Island of the Sun,

and this is well-known for strange lights

rising up out of it.

They've been seen, uh, by locals,

they've been seen by visitors.

The Island of the Sun is also seen

as the point of creation

by the local Aymara and Quechua peoples of the region,

and what they say is that the sun

rose up out of that island, into the air.

BIRNES: There are ancient hot spots that are modern hot spots,

and when you draw a map

of all the hot spots around the world,

what you find is that the ancients

and the moderns are the same.

It never went away.

POPE: Is there something about these sites

that attracts UFOs?

It's maybe why the ancients built them

in those locations in the first place.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that mysterious ancient sites

such as Mount Gerizim,

Stonehenge,

Chaco Canyon,

and many others

offer evidence that extraterrestrials

may have been visiting Earth for thousands of years

at very specific locations?

If so, why?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

that the answer may be found

by looking not toward the sky,

but deep underground.

NARRATOR: Kent Cliffs, New York,

New Year's Eve, 1982.

Shortly before midnight in this small town

just north of New York City,

New Year's Eve revelers

are struck by the sight

of an unusual aircraft

in the sky.

The ship appears to be as large as a commercial jet,

but has a V-shape,

moves slowly, and makes no sound.

The incident is the first in a wave of UFO sightings

that would shake the surrounding area,

known as the Hudson Valley.

The Hudson Valley is your classic hot spot.

Here, UFOs appeared from 1983 to 1986,

and was witnessed by thousands of people.

A triangular, boomerang-shape object,

very well-lit, flew very low

over the community,

and it was photographed, videotaped,

and it was seen from people from all walks of life

who were sure they saw something strange

that was not from this planet.

This caused people to pull off the side of the road

and actually start calling home,

thinking there was some type of an invasion.

And they were executive doctors,

scientists and so on, meteorologists,

and they all reported something

that they have never seen before.

NARRATOR: Over the span of three years,

officials received more than 9,000 reports

from eyewitnesses describing the same, V-shaped craft.

Not only was there a UFO sighting in Hudson Valley,

but it came back night after night after night.

IMBROGNO: These are people who would not normally come forward

to say that they saw a UFO.

IMBROGNO: Yet, what they saw

was so convincing and so frightening to them,

that they went on record to report what they saw.

I mean, it's just amazing.

NARRATOR: During the two-year wave

of UFO sightings in the Hudson Valley,

author Philip Imbrogno investigated the area

on behalf of the Center for UFO Studies,

which was founded by J. Allen Hynek

after his work with Project Blue Book.

Imbrogno conducted hundreds of interviews

with residents of the area,

and even witnessed the V-shaped craft himself.

IMBROGNO: This object,

whatever it was, the size of a football field,

came over the highways and hovered,

and, at times, projected down a brilliant beam of white light.

Usually, UFO researchers

don't see the UFO that they're investigating.

I saw this object three times.

So, it was amazing.

NARRATOR: As Imbrogno spent months crisscrossing the area,

he noticed something curious:

The volume of mysterious reports during this time

were not only focused on a strange craft in the sky,

but also on bizarre sounds

coming from somewhere deep below ground.

HENRY: People start to wonder why are these hot spots

hot spots?

And one explanation is that

what is actually going on is underneath the ground.

That these hot spots are in fact entrances

to vast underground caverns, or even secret bases.

CAMPOBASSO: In the Hudson River there, especially in the '80s,

I spoke to a few researchers,

and they said that the locals used to hear things

coming up from underground,

and they weren't really quite sure what it was,

but they figured there was a base below ground.

A military/alien base.

NARRATOR: Arguably, the most famous sighting

in the Hudson Valley hot spot

concerned beings from underground,

as was the case

with best-selling horror novelist Whitley Strieber,

who wrote about his own experience

in his book, Communion.

WHITLEY STRIEBER: My wife and I had bought a cabin

in the western extreme edge of the whole Hudson Valley.

And in December of 1985,

I woke up in a room, not my bedroom,

in the middle of the night,

and the room was filled with two kinds of figures.

These willowy figures with big black eyes,

and dark blue short figures.

Then I began to hear a voice say,

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

And I thought, "I'm screaming?" And I was screaming.

And the next morning, I woke up

extremely confused and disturbed,

without any real understanding of what happened to me.

NARRATOR: While many presume that Streiber's

alien abductors descended from the skies,

in fact, he described them as coming up from below,

and their presence was marked by sounds

deep beneath his mountain cabin.

STRIEBER: In the cabin,

we used to hear drilling underground.

And we could hear this taking place under the cabin.

In fact, it was so loud one day,

I was sitting with one of my neighbors

and this sound kept coming up,

and you could kind of feel it in your teeth.

It was not pleasant.

(low buzzing)

NARRATOR: The idea that hot spots mark entrances to the underworld

is a phenomenon seen across the planet.

CHILDRESS: This can be what's happening

in, say, Lake Titicaca.

And then you have other places like, say,

Mount Shasta,

or certain volcanoes in Mexico,

where UFOs are seen, and there's a lot of activity.

POPE: Where do people allege

that there are underground bases?

Well, in New Mexico, of course.

And what do you have in New Mexico? Roswell.

And it's alleged that there is

a secret underground base

off the coast of San Diego.

And, of course, that's the focus

of a lot of the modern UFO activity

involving the U.S. Navy.

NARRATOR: Could the strange sounds reportedly emanating

from beneath the Hudson Valley,

and many other hot spots, be evidence

of hidden underground structures, as some speculate?

Or might there be another explanation

for these areas of high UFO activity?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining the power

of Earth's magnetic field.

NARRATOR: In this small town outside of Paris,

numerous eyewitnesses report several mysterious

oval-shaped craft above the Seine River,

traveling at great speeds

before suddenly vanishing into thin air.

It is the first of more than 300 UFO incidents

that would take place in France during the year.

Journalist Aimé Michel begins studying

the reported flight paths of many of these accounts,

and makes an astonishing observation.

NEWMAN: All these UFO sightings appeared to move

in dead straight lines, often crisscrossing.

And as he kept getting reports coming in,

and he kept plotting them,

he kept finding the same system happening,

the same lines, the same movements of these UFOs.

NARRATOR: In 1958, Michel published his research

in a book called Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery.

In the book, he introduced a principle he called orthoteny,

which held that clusters of UFO activity

over a short period of time

usually occur along straight lines that often intersect.

COLLINS: What Aimé Michel

started to realize was

that there seemed to be a pattern

in where these objects were appearing,

and also their flight paths.

He saw that they actually use specific lanes,

which he felt were connected

with the magnetic forces of the Earth.

HENRY: He's noticing that these UFOs are traveling in straight lines,

using latitudes, and that, in fact,

this can be extrapolated into an entire grid

that encapsulates the entire planet.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Aimé Michel

successfully identified a grid pattern

across the Earth of highly magnetized regions

that have come to be known as UFO hot spots?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe that further clues

can be found by examining an area that has become notorious

for mysterious phenomena and strange disappearances...

The Bermuda Triangle.

TSOUKALOS: With the Bermuda Triangle,

it is an irrefutable fact

that planes and ships of various sizes

have disappeared without a trace.

You also have UFO and UAP stories.

NARRATOR: In the last century, roughly 50 ships

and 20 airplanes have vanished without a trace

within this infamous 500,000-square-mile stretch

of the Atlantic Ocean.

According to Scottish biologist

and paranormal researcher Ivan T. Sanderson,

the Bermuda Triangle is just one of a strange

and disturbing kind of UFO hot spot

that he described as the world's 12 "vile vortices."

He was able to identify, he believed,

certain spots like the Bermuda Triangle,

the Dragon's Triangle,

places like the Great Pyramid,

and other huge monument areas,

and there was activity going on at these places,

disappearing ships and airplanes,

UFO activity,

lights and unusual phenomenon

that were occurring constantly.

NARRATOR: In his 1972 article entitled

"The 12 Devil's Graveyards Around The World,"

Sanderson mapped these sites at equidistant points

above and below the equator,

and discovered they formed a mysterious

geometrical pattern on the Earth's surface.

RICKSECKER: There are 12 of these across the globe.

Now, five of them are within the Tropic of Cancer,

five of them within the Tropic of Capricorn,

the other two, the North Pole and the South Pole.

What's interesting is if you connect all of these

through the sphere of our globe,

they make an icosagon, or a 20-sided polygon.

So, this is showing us how all of these

type of hot spots are connected to each other.

NARRATOR: The hot spot sites Sanderson identified

share more than just a unique history and geometry.

Many of these so-called vile vortices have strong

magnetic anomalies caused by variations or disturbances

in the Earth's magnetic field.

If you take a look at the Earth,

the Earth has a magnetic field like a bar magnet.

The field of the magnetism

comes out from the North Pole and goes into the South Pole.

It comes from the fact that inside the Earth,

there is churning electricity.

And we now know that there are anomalies there.

It's as if our entire Earth

is one gigantic battery.

And if one were to argue

that the entire planet is a battery,

well, what's it used for?

I think our planet could serve

to power whatever exotic device

extraterrestrials use to get here and leave.

NARRATOR: Incredibly, powerful magnetic anomalies

are found at many UFO hot spots,

including the San Diego Bay,

the Bermuda Triangle,

and the Hudson Valley.

Perhaps a lot of this has to do with interstellar travel.

Maybe these hot spots

are where they get that energy.

Maybe the UFOs can literally

suck up the power,

the power that the ancients, for example, could sense

when they built these monuments in the first place.

NARRATOR: Are all UFO hot spots

part of a natural worldwide power grid?

Could learning how to access the energy

at these sites one day equip mankind

with advanced extraterrestrial technology and capabilities?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and believe that extraterrestrials

are already using this electromagnetic energy,

not to travel to UFO hot spots,

but possibly through them.

NARRATOR: The Uintah Basin, Utah.

Skinwalker Ranch is a 512-acre property

where, for more than two centuries,

mysterious and terrifying

phenomena have been reported,

including UFOs,

cattle mutilations

and otherworldly creatures.

Skinwalker Ranch in northern Utah

is an outstanding example of a hot spot.

It's one that is a crossover location

because Native Americans have said for centuries

that this is a place where supernatural activity occurs,

and it's still occurring today, and is now being

very well-documented and thoroughly studied.

NARRATOR: In 2019,

astrophysicist Dr. Travis Taylor

joined a team of scientists and researchers

to investigate the bizarre phenomena on the property.

-MAN: To the south. -There it is!

MAN 2: It's moving real slow.

MAN: That thing is big and spherical.

TRAVIS TAYLOR: Yes, it is, and it's got a black dot in the center of it.

That ain't an airplane!

Since I've been out there at Skinwalker Ranch,

I've seen so many different things

that before, I would have not really believed they existed.

MAN: Travis, you got to see this.

Okay. Well, there's the lasers.

-Yeah, I'm doing instant playback. You see this? -Oh. Yeah.

TAYLOR: Wow. What the crap is that?

And I can say that I'd never seen a UFO

before I went to Skinwalker Ranch,

and now I've seen so many, I can't count them.

BRANDON FUGAL: Skinwalker Ranch is, without question,

the most scientifically studied

hot spot on the planet.

To be able to take a more advanced scientific effort

forward to better understand

what is really happening there,

I mean, it's...

it's the greatest science project of our time.

NARRATOR: Between 1996 and 2016,

the federal government helped fund investigations on the ranch

that were led by aerospace entrepreneur

Robert Bigelow and his organization

known as the National Institute for Discovery Science.

THOMAS WINTERTON: People ask me, hey, what did Bigelow find?

And the interesting thing is, is that we haven't received any,

not a single bit of data,

from the previous team, so it must be classified.

Bigelow never shared it with us.

NARRATOR: Although much of what the Bigelow Team discovered

has never been released to the public,

it has been suggested

that some of the hot spot phenomena

witnessed on the ranch may be related

to a portal through spacetime.

TAYLOR: Skinwalker Ranch appears to be the epicenter

of some really strange energy measurements,

strange electric and magnetic field.

There's been a lot of speculation

that Skinwalker Ranch is the site of a portal

or a wormhole where alien civilizations,

or maybe even extra-dimensional creatures,

are using as a transit station.

They're moving in and out.

NARRATOR: Could wormholes really be an explanation

for why hot spots like Skinwalker Ranch

exist where they do?

The idea of a wormhole--

a shortcut through time and space--

was proposed in 1935

by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen.

Using the theory of relativity,

they showed that these pathways

could exist as a tunnel structure,

connecting two very distant points through space and time...

...making travel to the most remote parts of the universe

a theoretical possibility.

POPE: Some believe that extraterrestrials

would use wormholes,

and UFOs would then, apparently,

arrive out of nowhere, seemingly,

and disappear into nowhere,

which is very often what you get

at locations that are UFO hot spots

like Skinwalker Ranch.

What do you find? The idea that there's a portal there.

It's within the laws of physics

to use the wormhole as a gateway

to another distant part of the galaxy

faster than the speed of light.

We don't have that kind of technology.

But perhaps an advanced civilization

already mastered this technology,

and use it to crisscross the galaxy.

That cannot be ruled out.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that advanced intelligent beings

exist in other parts of the universe

who have the technology to create portals

through time and space?

And if so, could UFO hot spots be gateways

where they are able to reach Earth?

It might explain why, on our Earth,

that places where UFOs

of any shape, size, color,

are seen on a repeated basis,

it's exactly the same thing.

They're coming in and out of

electromagnetically created portals,

and that's why there seems to be

a pattern of coming and going on this planet.

They are with us on our planet.

NARRATOR: Could it be that extraterrestrials

are actually traveling to Earth through wormholes or portals?

If so, where are they coming from?

There are those who believe that it may not be

from distant points in the cosmos,

but possibly from other dimensions.

NARRATOR: Famed author and Ufologist John Keel

publishes his second book:

UFOs Operation Trojan Horse.

In the book, Keel asserts

that Earth is being visited by extraterrestrials,

not from distant planets,

but from parallel universes.

He believed this could be the real explanation

for UFO hot spots.

POPE: John Keel believed that these visitors

were from other dimensions,

but that in the past,

they had been misperceived

as gods, devils, angels, demons,

other sorts of supernatural entities.

But he said this is something that has always been with us.

It's just that they don't come from

where we think they come from.

HENRY: John Keel said

those beings are not from other planets.

They're from other dimensions.

And this is called the interdimensional hypothesis.

And when they do appear in our reality,

they can violate our laws of physics.

They can travel faster than light.

It's because they're coming from

higher dimensional realms.

NARRATOR: According to the interdimensional hypothesis,

hot spots are simply locations on Earth

where the dimension we inhabit crosses over into another.

It may sound like science fiction,

but it actually fits neatly into a branch of theoretical physics

known as string theory.

In string theory we play with different

kinds of universes in different dimensions.

There are tunnels that connect one universe

with another universe.

And how many universes are there in string theory?

Perhaps an infinite number.

NARRATOR: In the end, hot spots remain an enduring mystery.

Are UFO hot spots gateways to other dimensions?

Portals to other places in the universe?

The locations of underground alien bases?

Or is it possible that all three are true?

There's no, you know, theory of everything

when it comes to this sort of phenomena.

It seems like there are a lot of different reasons

as to why a UFO may be attracted to something,

why activity happens over here.

There are a variety of different reasons, and not just one.

POPE: I think these hot spots are hugely significant

for our understanding of UFOs.

There might be a dimensional solution to this.

There could be multiple explanations,

and these aren't mutually exclusive.

So it's perfectly possible to have

visiting extraterrestrials, interdimensional intrusion

and time travelers from the future.

HENRY: We don't fully understand hot spots.

However, there's never been

a time in history that I'm aware of

where so much science and technology

has been directed now in trying to figure them out.

And what will be the benefit of that?

Well, we will come to a conclusion

about who we are, where we came from,

and ultimately where we go from here.

TSOUKALOS: If one day the mainstream accepts the idea

that these UFO hot spots

do have an extraterrestrial connection,

then that would be

a profound conclusion in the history of humanity.

NARRATOR: Could UFO hot spots hold the key

to understanding strange phenomena

that has been witnessed on our planet

for thousands of years?

Might these locations contain portals

that lead not only to other worlds,

but also to other dimensions?

If so, perhaps one day

we will be able to harness

the power of these hot spots ourselves,

and discover a reality far beyond

what we ever believed was possible.

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