All language subtitles for Ancient.Aliens.S20E19

NARRATOR: In the alien abduction
phenomenon,

there are those who say

they have been taken
dozens of times.

BILL BIRNES: These were not
one-time abductions.

They continued
for the rest of his life.

NARRATOR:
Some have discovered mysterious
implants beneath their skin.

WHITLEY STRIEBER:
My initial paranoia about it
was really intense.

I wanted it out of me.

NARRATOR: And others say
they can summon UFOs

just by thinking about them.

NICK POPE:
He's pointing and saying,

it's gonna come
from this direction.

And bang, there it was.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that certain
people are being chosen

to carry out
an extraterrestrial agenda?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
These abductions may be

part of this giant project

that's been going on
for thousands of years.

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.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: Astronomer
J. Allen Hynek publishes

The UFO Experience:
A Scientific Inquiry.

From 1948 to 1969,

Hynek acted
as scientific advisor

for a series
of UFO investigations

conducted by
the U.S. government,

known as Project Sign,

Project Grudge

and Project Blue Book.

In his new book,

he draws on his decades
of experience researching UFOs

to establish a classification
for close encounters.

A close encounter
of the first kind

is where you see an object
within 500 feet or so.

A close encounter
of the second kind

has some type
of physical evidence.

A radar corroboration,

sunburned face,
broken tree branches, et cetera.

And a close encounter
of the third kind

is where you actually see
some type of creature.

NARRATOR:
In 1990, Hynek's
close friend and protégé,

Jacques Vallée, added two more
classifications to the scale.

A close encounter
of the fourth kind

is an event in which a human
is abducted by a UFO

or its occupants.

And a close encounter
of the fifth kind

involves an alien abductee
receiving some manner

of physical effect
from their close encounter.

For Vallée, the large number
of reports of alien abductions

merited the additions
to Hynek's scale.

TSOUKALOS:
The fact of the matter is

that there are hundreds
of thousands

of abduction reports
all around the world.

Clearly, something is going on.

And there's no doubt in my mind

that these abductions
are happening.

NARRATOR: According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

not only
are alien abductions real,

but they have been happening
throughout human history.

When we talk about the
modern-day abduction phenomenon,

what's so interesting to me

is that they're not just
modern-day occurrences,

but that they've also existed
for thousands of years.

In ancient times, you have
multiple abduction stories

where earthlings
were taken up into the sky

in certain vehicles--

Elijah, Enoch, Abraham, Baruch.

And there are other stories
that are not even biblical.

For example, in Cambodia,
we have Preah Pisnokar

who went up into the heavens
to visit Indra's Palace,

which in
the ancient astronaut opinion,

it was an orbiting
space station.

And then in
ancient Greek mythology,

Hercules was taken up
from Mount Olympus

in a flashy black cloud

that is described
in ancient Greek mythology.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that extraterrestrials

have been abducting humans
for thousands of years?

And if so, for what purpose?

Some researchers believe
clues can be found

by examining the cases of people

who claim to have been
abducted not just once,

but multiple times.

One of the first
repeat alien abductees

to capture
the public's attention

was a rancher
whose experiences started

not with himself,
but with his livestock.

Bosler, Wyoming.
August 30th, 1976.

Cattle rancher Pat McGuire

discovers one of his calves
dead on his property.

Upon closer inspection,

he notices bizarre mutilations
to the animal's body,

including the ears and nose

which appear to have
been surgically cut off.

Later that night,
McGuire and his cousin

stake out the property

in hopes of catching
the culprit.

POPE:
McGuire camped out,

effectively on his own property,
keeping watch,

and he saw
multiple orbs and lights

moving very strangely.

RICHARD DOLAN:
There's something
that zipped by,

kind of low altitude,
over his property.

He goes to chase after it.

They can't really see
what this was.

But the next morning,
they find another dead cow.

So, this seems to be connected.

NARRATOR:
Following this incident,
McGuire filed a report

with the Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization,

claiming visits
from extraterrestrials

occurred regularly on his ranch.

(cattle mooing)

Three years later,
in September 1979,

investigative journalist
Linda Moulton Howe

brought a TV crew
to McGuire's ranch

to interview him for
a documentary she was producing

on animal mutilations
called A Strange Harvest.

HOWE: Who or what is killing
and mutilating these animals?

I've traveled through Wyoming,

New Mexico and Colorado
exploring this mystery.

NARRATOR:
According to Linda,

the moment that she
and the crew arrived

at McGuire's ranch, they had
their own close encounter.

Pat McGuire and his family
came out to greet us.

And we're hardly out of the car,

and my cameraman,
"Oh, my God, look at that!"

It was bright red,
and it's glowing.

It is slowly moving.

It stops.

And the next thing it does

is it starts going back down

exactly from where it came.

Pat McGuire said,

"This is what I'm telling you.
We see it most nights."

And Pat said,
"I have a drawing."

PAT McGUIRE:
I've drawn a picture
of the spacecraft,

what I seen that night.

It was a pure white
and then it turned

to a fluorescent orange,
the whole ship did,

and it stays this color,
and of course it'll glow

the whole area up
right around where the cow was.

POPE: McGuire went on to say
that these encounters continued.

He said that, you know,
maybe 20 or 30 times

these things landed
on his property,

and that he was abducted
on multiple occasions.

KATHLEEN MARDEN:
He said that the non-humans
began to take him.

They gave him information,

information about the coming
environmental collapse.

About the danger of nuclear war.

He was shown images
of fires, of floods.

NARRATOR:
Pat McGuire
could not say for certain

why he was shown
what he interpreted

as warnings about the future,

but similar visions
have been reported

by other repeat experiencers.

Some humans,
when they have been examined

by an extraterrestrial
biological entity...

...they have telepathy
into their minds

that what is happening
has something to do

with our survival
and their survival.

That is a theme that runs
through the human abductions.

POPE: Is it certain people
being chosen for a mission?

Or because there's something
special or different about them?

We don't know.

But if we could find out
what connects these people,

I think that would
be very useful,

because that would give us
a massive insight

into the extraterrestrial
agenda.

NARRATOR:
Could the experiences
of people like Pat McGuire,

who claim to have been
abducted multiple times,

reveal not only
that extraterrestrials

are present on Earth,

but that they have
an agenda for humankind?

According to one
repeat experiencer,

the answer is a resounding yes.

And, as evidence,
he points to his own...

alien implant.

NARRATOR:
Ulster County, New York.

December 26, 1985.

Best-selling author
Whitley Strieber

is living with his wife Anne
and their young son

in a remote cabin
in the Hudson Valley.

On this night,
he will experience

a harrowing close encounter.

The first of many
that will occur

throughout
the course of his life.

I remember December the 26th,
1985 like it was yesterday.

I woke up
in the middle of the night

in an incredibly
peculiar situation.

I became aware of the fact

that there was a lot
of movement around me.

I felt strange,
and I opened my eyes,

and this thing looked in my face

with big black eyes.

Like a big insect,
is what I perceived.

I thought, my God,
I'm having a nightmare.

And it was absolutely appalling.

I just was completely paralyzed.

And finally, it ends.

I just wake up
the next morning in bed,

distraught without knowing why.

That was the beginning
of the rest of my life.

NARRATOR:
In the days following
his traumatic encounter,

Strieber searched for a way
to explain what he experienced.

I went into a kind of mental
decline, really a tailspin.

I went to the doctor.

I told him what I remembered.

And we did an MRI scan
for temporal lobe epilepsy,

which causes
lucid hallucinations.

And the bottom line was,

I was quite healthy except
I was very much under stress.

NARRATOR:
Having ruled out the possibility
that his experience

was caused
by epileptic hallucinations,

Whitley began to wonder

if his encounter really was
of an extraterrestrial nature.

My brother had sent me a book

called Science and the UFOs

by Jenny Randles for Christmas.

And then I get to the end of it,

and there's
a description of an event

that was very much
like what happened to me.

And I thought, holy moly,
have I been abducted by aliens?

Is that what happened to me?

NARRATOR:
Based on what he learned
in the book,

Streiber reached out
to Budd Hopkins,

one of the country's leading
researchers on alien abductions.

Hopkins had developed
a process that used hypnosis

to help abductees recover
memories of their encounters.

Budd Hopkins proceeds
to get Dr. Donald Klein,

the best, most practiced--
with proven case success--

forensic hypnotist in the world.

BIRNES:
They believed that
under regressive hypnosis,

people who've been abducted will
remember their missing time.

And they began
a program of talking

to alien abductees,
hypnotizing them,

and under that regression,
learning what happened.

NARRATOR:
Under hypnosis,
Strieber revealed details

of numerous experiences
with extraterrestrials.

These close encounters
became the basis

for his best-selling memoir,
Communion,

and it was only the beginning.

In 1989, four years
after his initial encounter,

Whitley had another
strange experience.

STRIEBER:
It was about 11:00 at night,

when suddenly...

...there's pressure
pushing down on my left ear.

(grunts)

Like that, into the pillow.

And I can't do
anything whatsoever about it,

and I can't make a sound.

NARRATOR:
Disturbed by his encounter,

Strieber asked his wife Anne
to examine his ear.

It became clear to Anne and I

that there was something
in my ear, immediately,

because you could feel it.

And, uh, it hadn't
been there the day before.

I said, "Annie, they put
an implant in my ear."

And initially my response is,

I've got to get it out of here.

NARRATOR:
Whitley's wife Anne,
however, convinced him

he should leave
the implant alone.

STRIEBER:
She says, "Don't do it.
Don't take it out.

You signed on for this."

I had started going out
in the woods after I

f-figured out
this was somehow real.

And I had signaled to them
that I was here to do this.

And so she
was basically s-saying,

"Fulfill your promise."

And she was right.

NARRATOR: Eight years after
receiving the implant,

Whitley finally decided
to have it removed

so it could be studied.

STRIEBER:
So here's what would happen.

My ear would turn bright red
and get hot,

and I would hear
a buzzing sort of sound,

like an old-fashioned modem
when it goes, "ehh,"

like that, in your ear.

And that would happen
from time to time.

But that was all, for years.

So we find a doctor,
he says,

"Yeah, it feels like
a little cyst in there.

I can take that out easily."

STRIEBER: There was
an attempt to remove it.

Then he tries to
touch it with his scalpel,

and it runs down from here

down into the bottom,
into the, you know,

into the earlobe from up here,

on its own right under the skin.

STRIEBER:
At this point, he says,

"Well, I'm gonna
have to pull out."

Two days later,
it goes up from here,

back up to here
and where it stayed.

NARRATOR: Both Whitley
and the doctor were shocked

to witness
this mysterious implant

move around on its own.

But what could it be?

After trying
to have the implant removed,

Whitley started
to notice something

very strange happening,

which he attributes
to the implant.

This slit opened up
in my right eye.

And you can see
words flashing past

and like someone was typing
at breakneck speed.

I couldn't read the words,

but I knew they were helping me
in my writing somehow.

POPE:
Whitley talks about his implant

in terms of being
not a tracking device,

but a communications device.

And this is
a fascinating possibility

that the abductees
are implanted with these devices

so that they can communicate.

There's a program here.

The extraterrestrials
are doing something

with individuals and perhaps
with humanity as a whole.

This is 30-plus years on,

and I've probably seen
the visitors

in that period of time 50 times.

And so I have ended up
being their ambassador.

I am trying to communicate
their presence to the world.

A world which is
very, very dubious

about the whole idea still.

But nevertheless, they are here.

NARRATOR:
Strieber's experiences,
while incredible,

are not entirely unique.

Much like the esteemed author,

there is another
repeat experiencer

who claims to have
had telepathic contact

with entities
from another planet.

And he says that he can
summon UFOs from the sky

simply by thinking of them.

NARRATOR:
While on a fishing trip

on the banks
of the Cape Fear River,

Chris Bledsoe decides to step
away from his friends and son

to take a walk alone
through a nearby field.

Suddenly, he spots something
incredible in the sky above.

Chris sees a bright red ball,

what looks like the Sun.

And as he continues
walking up the hill,

his perspective widens

and he sees a second ball
of light-- red--

and there's flames
coming off of these balls.

Chris is looking at these orbs

for what he thinks
is 20 minutes.

Turns out, it was actually--

he was missing
for about four hours.

This is a classic case
of missing time

in connection
with this phenomenon.

And that's how this story began.

NARRATOR:
According to Bledsoe,
the encounter

had a profound effect on him,

both mentally and physically.

Chris had been
a highly successful businessman,

a builder, a pilot,

but he had an illness
in which he had become disabled.

So, on that night
he had been healed

from that debilitating illness.

NARRATOR:
Unable to explain what he saw
or his remarkable recovery,

Bledsoe became convinced he had
an otherworldly encounter.

He reported the event
to the Mutual UFO Network,

and word of his experiences
spread quickly.

MARDEN:
When the story went public,

he was made out to be a liar,

he was rejected
by his community.

It's a very sad situation
when this happens to people

who have these experiences,
but it's not uncommon.

NARRATOR:
According to Bledsoe,

his sightings
of mysterious orbs continued

and he became convinced
he could summon them.

One person who was intrigued
by Bledsoe's story

was his friend
Colonel John Alexander.

And when Colonel Alexander went
to visit Chris at his home,

he had his own UFO encounters.

Colonel John Alexander

investigated UFOs
for the U.S. government.

He knows Chris quite well,
has visited his property,

and on one occasion

actually witnessed Chris
pointing and saying,

"It's gonna come
from this direction."

Bang, there it was.

-BLEDSOE: Look, wow, wow.
-ALEXANDER: Yeah, I see it.

POPE:
So he knew that this UFO
was going to show up.

Again, it's indicative

of there being
a connection between the UFOs

and the abductees themselves.

BLEDSOE:
There's an orb right here.

They're embarking.

POPE:
It's not just maybe that these
people are passive victims.

They are participants,

active participants
in an extraterrestrial agenda.

BLEDSOE:
Man, is it bright.

NARRATOR:
In 2012, five years
after his first sighting,

Bledsoe claims
he had another encounter,

and this one had an even
more profound effect on him.

Chris is outside one evening,
and all of a sudden

right in front of him,
this portal opens,

and out of this portal

appears this beautiful lady

and she's hovering up
off the ground.

He refers to her as the Lady.

She's wearing
a glorious garment of light.

TOK:
She says to Chris,
"You know why I'm here.

"You are to tell your story,

"and if you tell your story,
I'll be here with you.

"I'll guide you,

I'll help you."

NARRATOR:
Because of his encounter

with the being
he calls the Lady,

Bledsoe believes--

like many other
repeat UFO experiencers--

that he has been chosen
for a special purpose.

Chris Bledsoe starts to view
this through a religious lens.

He's thinking suddenly
that he's a prophet,

he's a chosen one.

He's somehow connected
with a, a revelation

or a disclosure that's
about to happen on Earth.

And he connects
the UFO experience with God.

There are different models

of the abduction experience,

and one of them basically says

it is religious.

That's a classic motif
or, or pattern that we see

in the history of very
extreme religious experience.

And today, of course,

it's not framed
in religious terms,

it's framed
in science fiction terms

or astrophysical terms.

But I think these experiences
have a consistency to them.

And I think human beings
have been interacting

with these entities
for a long, long time.

In ancient times
we hear the same stories.

For example,
Enoch very specifically says

that the reason why
he was chosen is

because the so-called
guardians of the sky,

the angels, imparted
certain knowledge to him.

In every ancient culture,

all origin stories
tell us someone was chosen

to relay important knowledge,

important information
to the rest of the world.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that the numerous
otherworldly apparitions

recorded in religious texts
around the world

are firsthand accounts
of encounters

with extraterrestrial beings?

As far as
Chris Bledsoe is concerned,

his encounters with
glowing orbs and angelic beings

are of both an extraterrestrial
and spiritual nature.

In January 2023,
he published a book

about his ongoing experiences
called UFO of God.

POPE:
He believes that God
is inextricably linked

with this whole
extraterrestrial visitation.

In all of this,
we have to remind ourselves

that these are just labels
we're putting on something

that's interacting
with humanity.

But these are our words,
our labels.

The reality
may be quite different.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that Chris Bledsoe

has been chosen
to be a messenger?

Could he be
carrying out an agenda...

BLEDSOE:
See that?

NARRATOR:
...to enlighten humankind

about an otherworldly presence?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining incredible
claims that have been made

about a galactic federation.

NARRATOR:
Retired L.A. Times journalist

and Pulitzer Prize winner
Phillip Krapf

gives a presentation
at an event held

by the Mutual UFO Network

and describes a remarkable
encounter he experienced.

I wake up in the middle
of the night,

and the room is filled
with a kind of a bluish

white iride-iridescent light.

I get up out of bed
and I head for the wall switch

controlling the lamp
in the room.

And I got no more
than two or three feet

when all of a sudden,
I-I no longer felt

my feet against
the carpeted floor.

And the next thing I know,
I feel like I'm rising.

It was only momentarily
I felt like I'm rising.

I found myself
in this room full of, uh,

very, very strange creatures.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
Krapf has written
all about his abduction

in his 1998 book
The Contact Has Begun.

Krapf had a lot of credibility.

He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist.

He had been writing for the
L.A. Times for over 25 years.

And people knew him
and respected him.

Most of his friends
had known him as, you know,

something
of a skeptic, apparently.

NARRATOR:
According to Phillip Krapf,

the mysterious beings
he encountered have

a specific agenda
for our planet.

KRAPF:
It turned out,
I was there as a person

who had been recruited
to perform a particular task.

MARDEN:
They told him

that they had been monitoring us

for thousands of years.

Their mission was to, uh,

lead an intergalactic
federation of planets

who were finding other planets
that had intelligent life

and to monitor them
and only permit them

to join the federation
when they had matured

to a certain level.

And that they had
ambassadors on our planet

who had important positions,

who could speak
to other people on the planet

about their presence.

Phillip Krapf was selected

because he's a writer
and he's able

to communicate their message.

NARRATOR:
In 2001, three years
after the publication

of The Contact Has Begun,
Krapf published a second book

called The Challenge of Contact
in which he detailed

two more
extraterrestrial encounters.

POPE:
One thing Krapf recalled

about all this was

that the extraterrestrials
seemed to know him

very well already.

He didn't need to tell them
anything about him.

Perhaps they'd always known.

And that's fascinating
because, again,

this is a theme
that comes up multiple times

with different
people's accounts,

the idea of the aliens
as watchers...

...that they're
watching humanity

but also they're selecting,

they're choosing
certain individuals.

In Krapf's experience,

he didn't have
just one encounter.

He had multiple encounters.

And this affirmed to him

that he was indeed
chosen for this mission

and that he ultimately
will be a spokesperson

or messenger
for this federation.

NARRATOR:
Could Phillip Krapf's
extraordinary statements

about a galactic
federation be true?

While it might seem far-fetched,

other notable figures have come
forward with similar claims.

In 2013, former Canadian
Minister of National Defense

Paul Hellyer declared that
the United States government

and other governments
around the world

are working with an organized
federation of extraterrestrials.

Paul Hellyer was really a senior
political leadership figure,

and he essentially came out and
said extraterrestrials are real,

they are visiting Earth,
and that Earth was on the point

of being accepted into
the galactic federation.

NARRATOR:
Paul Hellyer is not
the only government official

to come forward
with alleged knowledge

of a federation of
extraterrestrial races.

DOLAN:
In 2020, former head
of the Israeli space program

Haim Eshed came out with

a very remarkable statement
on UFOs and aliens,

and basically stating
the aliens are real,

governments around
the world know about it,

and that there was this entity

known as
the galactic federation.

POPE:
Haim Eshed talked about

a federation and talked about

how planet Earth
was being readied

to join this federation

when there's open contact.

This is a theme, again,
that comes up quite frequently.

I've never given much...

NARRATOR:
Should the claims

of people like Phillip Krapf,

Paul Hellyer and Haim Eshed
be believed?

Have certain people been chosen

to prepare humanity
to join a galactic federation?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and they suggest
there is evidence of

an alien agenda

that is not only about
disseminating information

but also directing

the evolution of humankind.

NARRATOR:
In the alien abduction
phenomenon,

many people
have reported experiencing

telepathic communication
with their abductors,

having strange devices
implanted beneath their skin,

and receiving messages
about the future.

But perhaps the most
disturbing accounts

are those of alleged
abductees who report

that they have been the subjects
of alien experimentation.

Most experiencers are left with

some physical markings.

It's either puncture wounds,

it could be, uh, patterned marks

that are burned
into their flesh.

We don't know why.

Experiencers, for years,

have reported

that ova, that sperm,

has been extracted
from their bodies.

Some humans,

when they have been examined

by an extraterrestrial
biological entity

and they see them clearly...

...and what is
happening to them,

they are harvesting
sperm and eggs from humans

in many of the abductions.

NARRATOR:
If reports of experimentation

on abductees are true,

why might this be happening?

According to some researchers,

it is just one part

of a larger alien agenda

for humankind.

The extraterrestrials
usually are performing

some sort of examination,

and it has something
to do with genetics.

Perhaps they are

trying to upgrade
the human genome

to the higher level
of awareness,

to be able not just

to evolve and thrive

but also
take care of the planet.

NARRATOR:
If extraterrestrials
are abducting people

to carry out
some agenda for humanity,

could it also involve
a genetic upgrade?

Some researchers suggest

further evidence
of genetic manipulation

of the human race

can be found
by examining children

who display
astonishing abilities,

sometimes referred to
as the star children.

An offshoot
of the abduction phenomena

is the belief that
there are hybrid offspring

that have resulted
from these abductions.

These children
have special abilities,

psychic abilities,
healing abilities,

knowledge and understanding

way beyond their years.

TSOUKALOS:
There is this concept of
the so-called star children,

and it's usually kids

until the age of about 12, 14,

and they are
highly, highly gifted.

Like, for example,
they have telepathic abilities,

ESP abilities,

and certain other things

that are abnormal

to what regular human beings

are capable of.

And so, what's going on?

NARRATOR:
The idea of so-called
star children

has been part of Native American
traditions for centuries.

But in 1980, it became
an international story

when the Chinese government
launched a nationwide search

for children
with psychic abilities

such as telekinesis,
telepathy and clairvoyance.

In total,
Chinese officials identified

more than 2,000 children

who possessed
what researchers referred to

as exceptional human function.

CORY:
I've interviewed
so many star children

who will tell me stories

and describe
in such great detail

how the universe works,

how minds are all connected.

Some really,
really profound information

that the average five-year-old
or six-year-old wouldn't have.

So, you have
this genetic encoding

in certain children,

a new race of upgraded humans

that will allow

this more advanced
extraterrestrial lineage

and help evolve humanity.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that extraterrestrials

are not only
choosing certain people

to relay messages to humanity

but upgrading our DNA?

TSOUKALOS:
The fact that we have abductions

and the fact that we have these

stories of star children

leads me to think

that extraterrestrials

have been invested
in our survival

for thousands of years

and that this is something

that's been going on

for a very long time.

CHILDRESS:
When we look back at
all of these incidences

and experiences of people

and their
meeting extraterrestrials

or having their DNA
sampled and analyzed,

what the aliens are doing

is still a mystery.

You know, we're getting
snippets of information

that helps us
build this picture,

but still we... we don't know

what is going to happen

or why the extraterrestrials
are doing this.

BIRNES:
What if the star people
have an agenda?

Which they do.

Their agenda is,
"We've colonized you.

"We want you to survive.

"Why? Just because we like you?

"No, you are us.

"We're the star people,

"you're the star children.

"We want you to survive
and maybe

inhabit other planets
in different systems."

NARRATOR:
Could these star children,

like repeat experiencers,

be evidence
that extraterrestrials

have chosen certain individuals

to help usher in
a new era of humankind?

And if so, are we on the verge

of first contact?

NARRATOR:
The All-domain
Anomaly Resolution Office

at the Pentagon announces

that it has received
over 800 reports

of unidentified objects
from military personnel,

up from just 144 in 2021.

The office states
that it is receiving

more new cases
at a staggering rate,

and UFO researchers say
reports of anomalous activity

are on the rise
among civilians as well,

including claims
of alien abduction.

TRAVIS TAYLOR:
Today we have

so many people saying
that they're being abducted

and experimented with
or tested or so on

by someone from not here.

And we simply want to say
that they're crazy

and-and-and not even
think about it.

From a scientific perspective,

the phenomena is something

that absolutely
has to be studied,

not necessarily because
I do or don't believe

that aliens are coming down
and abducting people,

doing experiments on them.

That's really beside the point.

There are plenty of people
who do believe it's happening.

And so, we have to
take that serious enough

to study it and understand

why they perceive this,

why this is happening to them.

BIRNES:
The contact has increased

and the messaging has increased.

Why would we
be seeing this increase

in UFO contact,
in UFO selection,

in these messages? Why?

POPE:
We ask, well,
what's the big picture?

And, of course, there
are lots of different theories

doing the rounds:

breeding program,

testing program,

people who are chosen.

But if any of this is real,

it's a large-scale,
long-term program

whereby an extraterrestrial race

is interacting with humanity,

perhaps to help us
into a new age.

And of course, there,

what I'm talking about
is first contact.

Something much more
up close and personal.

Interaction between

extraterrestrials and humanity.

HENRY:
I think the big agenda
is about humanity.

It's about humanity
being taken into the stars,

and all of these abductees
are harbingers, ultimately,

of the future of where
the human race will end up.

NARRATOR:
Are alien visitors

choosing certain people
to help prepare humanity

for the day when
we will be introduced

to other intelligent
beings in the cosmos?

According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

the answer is a resounding yes.

TSOUKALOS:
From the perspective

of the ancient astronaut theory,

our human genome,

at some point
in our distant past,

has been changed artificially

by extraterrestrials.

So, if they did this

thousands upon thousands
of years ago,

then why would they

not continue this
in modern times?

And so, is it possible

that these abductions

may be part of
this giant project

that's been going on
since times immemorial?

HOWE:
Whatever is happening,

this is a new step for humans.

And I hope, before
I pass to another dimension,

that it will
finally be announced:

What is the huge
penetrating relationship

between Homo sapien sapien

and extraterrestrial
intelligences?

NARRATOR:
From biblical patriarchs

to modern-day alien abductees,

throughout history

there have been
people who claimed

they were chosen
by otherworldly beings

to deliver important
messages to humanity.

Are they helping to carry out

an extraterrestrial agenda?

Perhaps we will
soon learn the truth

when we are reunited
with our alien ancestors.

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