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- Carol, you ready?

I want you to close your eyes

and take some slow deep breaths for me.

- I don't like the camera, Dr. T.

- No, I know you don't,

but I need a visual record of your case

so that I can show it to my colleagues, remember?

Okay.

Come on now, close your eyes for me.

There you go.

It's okay.

I'm gonna count backwards from five.

And I want you to remember

you're in a safe place.

Five, clear everything from your mind

except the sound of my voice.

Four, with each breath,

allow your mind to clear and let go of your thoughts.

Three, and you feel the weight of your body

on the chair beneath you.

Two, you're in your car now.

You can feel the seat's cushion beneath your body.

One, you're driving down a desert highway.

It's dark, and there are no other cars in sight.

Your husband's there.

He's asleep in the passenger seat next to you.

I want you to look outside of the car

and tell me what you see.

- It's dark.

It's a long dark road.

And there's a light ahead.

- Okay, what kind of light?

- It's coming from the sky.

It's really bright.

- Are you still driving?

- Okay, the light is getting bigger now,

it's closer, it's getting closer now.

- Breathe, keep breathing, just listen to my voice.

- It's coming straight at us,

it's blinding, I can't see.

- Try to describe it, you can see.

- I'm gonna pull over now.

Dan, wake up.

Dan?

Dan, wake up!

No, I don't know what's happening right now.

What is going on?

Everything, I don't know,

the light, it's all around us, they're everywhere!

I don't know!

This is not happening!

I don't know, something is wrong!

This can't be happening, this isn't real,

we have to get out of here!

Dan, wake up!

Oh my god, where did you go, Dan?

Where did you go?

Oh my god!

Get them off of us!

- I'm Dr. Mia Jansen.

This is day one and the fist video log

for my clinical psychology research grant

from California University.

This video journal will serve as both my notes

on upcoming case findings,

as well as supporting documentation

for my research analysis by both myself, Cal U,

and my fellow peers for later evaluation.

The intention of my research is to investigate, interview,

and as often as possible, record individuals

who claim to have experienced encounters

with phenomenon relating to extraterrestrials.

Commonly, UFO sightings, alien visitations,

and in my opinion, most importantly,

alleged alien abductions.

I will attempt to formulate a strong scientific theory

behind this ongoing mass psychological phenomenon

of alien-related self-deception

that have spanned decades, if not longer.

So, with the help of filmmakers Charlie Cera

and Rex McDunn, we aim to create

an accompanying documentary

with the hopes of compiling footage

that paints a clear narrative

of the potential connections of these shared delusions

that affect possibly millions of people

in the United States alone.

Basically, if we can find common personality traits,

disorders, traumas, or even experience-based threads

as to the potential sources of these shared psychosis,

we can begin to explain the similarities

of their common beliefs of varied alien exposures.

And if we can do that,

we can hopefully help a lot of sick individuals

and the people who love them.

- All right, camera is speeding, sound is speeding.

- Okay, and action?

All right, Rex, I don't think we need me in this shot here.

All right, Mia, why don't you start the documentary off

by telling us where we're going and what we're doing?

- Okay.

We are driving out to one of the meccas of UFO insanity

to document some of the many areas.

- Stop. - What?

- I don't think UFO insanity is the right way

to start this documentary

or a way to paint your research-based analysis

about this, so, serious, restart.

- We are leaving Los Angeles, California,

and heading to Roswell, New Mexico.

Roswell has been a mecca

for UFO and alien encounter conspiracists

since an alleged UFO crash coverup in 1947.

This will be a great place for us to start

our investigation of subjects

who subscribe to these beliefs.

And if we're lucky, we'll get to interview some locals

with personal experiences of their own.

- Sounded good to me, Rex?

- Sound good.

- All right.

- Just checking out the infrared.

Looks pretty good, man, you wanna take a look?

- No.

- How you feeling up there?

You look a little tired.

Wanna try and find a hotel soon?

- Yeah.

You getting all this?

- Yeah, yep.

Just getting some B-roll.

- Listen man, Mia wants us to stop at her father's house

on the way to Roswell, all right?

This guy was a total UFO nut.

He's the entire reason that we're doing this project,

he's probably the entire reason that she's doing her study.

So, before she mentions it, before we get there especially,

I just wanna give you a heads-up.

Tread lightly, all right?

- Copy that.

- So, all right.

Do you want anything from the rest area?

- Just some candy or something.

The hell is that?

- It's the aliens!

- Jesus fucking Christ, dude.

- What are you staring at?

- Not quite sure, look at this right here.

There's like a circle, a perfect circle,

a ring, you see that?

- Yeah, I see it.

- What is that?

- I don't know, fireworks?

- Do you hear fireworks going off?

- It's pretty far away.

- I've never seen anything like that from fireworks.

- I don't know.

It's just a giant ring, I guess, man.

I don't know, it's just smoke.

- Huh.

- Well, I need some money for the vending machine.

- Wow, feels so weird being here.

- Get this light going when we walk in.

- Wait, lemme just put the light on.

- Yeah, Rex, do you wanna set up the other camera,

and just start getting some B-roll?

Mia, do you wanna come back and tell us where we are

and what we're doing here?

- Where do you want me, like in the middle?

- Yeah, that's good, just up in there.

Okay, go ahead.

- Okay.

This was actually my dad's house.

I guess, technically my house now.

But yeah, I haven't been back here in years.

Yeah, it doesn't seem like it changed much.

- And the pictures on the mantle, is that you?

- Yeah.

My parents.

- Tell us about 'em.

- My mom passed away when I was five.

She had cancer.

That's when my father moved us here.

- And your dad?

- He's dead, at least I'm pretty sure he is.

- Yeah, tell the story for context.

- He had a study; if there was anything useful to us,

it would be in there.

Shit, it's locked.

Okay, one sec.

- Got that camera going?

- Good ol' Dad.

Okay.

Whoa.

- Oh shit.

- Holy shit.

- Wow.

- Jesus.

That is some real serial killer shit right there.

This is crazy.

- Yeah, he was obsessed with his clients' cases

and his conspiracy theories, but I never saw him like this.

Where do we even start?

Look at this.

Okay, so, it would take us a week to go over all this,

but there's actually a goldmine of material here.

Names, locations, photographs,

and a myriad of theories behind each reported abduction

within a 200-square-mile radius of this house.

There's even a list of relatives

of all the reported abductees.

I mean, if a fraction of these leads pan out for us,

we've literally got everything we need right here.

Guys, this is .

- I don't know, man.

Honestly, I'm a little freaked out by this.

- What's crazy is just how much stuff there is.

- None of this bothers you, dude?

- I mean, it's all movie makeup and props,

none of it's real.

- I don't know, Mia's father clearly spent a lot of time

organizing and cataloging all this stuff

that he felt was evidence to something.

- Yeah, his own paranoid delusions,

and for us, the perfect map into this whole alien hysteria.

- I don't know, none of this feels hysterical to me.

This feels organized, it feels calculated.

- Okay, let's listen to one of these tapes

and show you organized and calculated.

Dr. Thomas Jansen,

September 10, 2002.

After leaving a patient's house today,

I felt very strongly as if I were being followed.

I'm not sure yet by whom, but I need to be more careful.

I don't feel safe.

- The last few years he was alive,

he'd call me to give me constant warnings

of what was happening,

to tell me to stay away from this house

and to never come back home.

- Oh, great.

- Look, Charlie, you remember how it was

when we were together.

I mean, he always thought he was being followed

and that his life was in danger.

He'd call from payphones and only stay on for 30 seconds

at a time to avoid being traced.

They gave him a psych leave from his job.

A psych leave.

Does that sound sane to you?

- I mean, what if he was being followed?

- Mia, on the tape, he said doctor.

- Yeah, I told you, he was a professor

at the University of New Mexico.

- Yeah, but then he also said patient.

- He was a psychiatrist,

but he got his license taken away,

and then he was teaching until his obsession

got him fired from that too.

Look, my dad is the exact type of person

this entire project is about.

What drives someone to such lengths to become so paranoid

and to wanna believe any of this, to need to?

It's insanity.

- What did he teach?

- Abnormal psychology.

Apple doesn't fall far.

- I'm sorry, but what exactly happened to your father?

- He called me almost two years ago.

Said he was giving up,

that maybe he could save me if he sacrificed himself.

He said he tried to figure out another way, but couldn't.

He told me he loved me, said goodbye,

and reminded me to never come back.

- I'm sorry, Mia.

Guys, let's just take a break, huh?

- We saw this yesterday.

- Wait, you saw that?

- Well, something like it.

- No, we saw exactly this.

- Where?

- When we stopped on the way.

We talked about coming here.

- Extraterrestrial Highway 375.

Rod Taylor.

- Hello?

- Hi, I'm looking for a Rod Taylor.

- Who's this?

- My name is Dr. Mia Jansen.

Is this Rod?

- What do you want?

- I got your number from my father, Dr. Tom Jansen.

I'm doing a documentary and study.

- You're Tom's daughter?

- That's right.

- This is Rod, what can I do for you?

- Great, Rod, I'm calling about a photograph

I think you may have taken.

It looks like a ring of smoke in the sky.

Can you tell me anything about it?

- Yeah, I took it all right,

and I can tell you quite a bit about it.

- Oh, that's fantastic.

Would it be possible for us to talk for a bit?

- I could show you instead.

- Great, that'd be great.

- Someone's waving a light up there.

- Yeah, I see 'em.

It's too far away for me to get a zoom in on it.

- It's a pickup truck.

- That's them.

- See, these guys both have guns on 'em.

- Bro, dude, fuck this.

- I'm turning around.

- Wait, hold on.

Rod?

- Mia?

- Yeah, hi.

- Bring out a lantern, Gary.

It might seem a little awkward,

but can I see your driver's license?

- Sure.

- I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Well hello, Dr. Mia Jansen, daughter of Tom.

Follow us, it's right up ahead.

- Great, thanks.

- Okay, this is clearly where we get murdered.

You guys saw what happened in Deliverance, right?

- I think we're okay,

I think these conspiracy theory-types

are always a little on edge.

- Yeah, I'm a little on edge now myself.

- Yeah, no shit.

- Hey Gary, set that time lapse on 15 seconds,

I don't wanna miss anything tonight, all right?

- Copy.

- Thank you again for meeting with us.

- Absolutely.

Your dad's a straight shooter, and I respect him,

he knows what the hell's really going on out here.

- Sure.

- This documentary study that you're doing,

are you trying to really bust things open,

or you just wanna talk to some crazies?

- I think we're just asking some questions,

seeing where that takes us.

- All right, that's fair enough, okay.

You sure are smart, like your dad.

Okay, Gary, dial the brightness down on those monitors,

'cause you got another camera shooting,

I don't want it to just blow out

where she can't see anything.

- Copy that. - Thank you, buddy.

- So, why don't you tell us about this photograph,

and also why you wanted to meet us here

in the desert, in the middle of the night?

- You don't know where you are?

Oh my god, this is the famous ET Highway!

That is the infamous Medlin Mailbox,

the most photographed mailbox in the world.

- And what's the significance?

- It's the only landmark on this highway for 40 miles,

this is the mecca, the hotbed of ET activity.

Thousands of people travel here a year.

Why, ask me why.

- Why? - That is Area 51.

Look at that, we have a third-quarter harvest moon,

it's a special moon, it's a special night.

This is the demarcation, it's the line in the sand.

This is where we watch from, right?

Illegal over there, right?

And right up there, that's where I took that photo.

And you're here.

Area 51.

- Great, why don't we--

- Let's get on it!

Ride shotgun, how about that?

Gary?

- Yeah?

- Young lady wants to know if you've ever been evaluated

for post-traumatic stress.

We're not crazy, doc.

Well, not like that.

- And what are you hoping to capture out here with all this?

- Anything out of the ordinary,

and there's a hell of a lot out of the ordinary out.

Holy shit.

- What was that?

- Well, this is an active missile test site,

like White Sands.

- White Sands?

- Oh, come on.

Where they set off the first nuke in the '40s,

and hundreds of others before the test ban.

Come on.

The fireworks?

That's what I think attracted them.

- I see, and are we at a safe distance?

- Rod, check out the monitor.

- Are you recording?

- Roger that.

- What is it, a plane?

- It's a no-fly zone, sweetheart,

and whatever that is is flying in very high.

- Could it be a satellite?

- Planes and satellites don't have the ability

to stop in midair!

Look at that!

- Okay.

- And they don't have the ability to disappear!

Planes and satellites don't disappear!

- Then where did it go?

- It just went.

Poof!

And when it did, I bet it left a ring of smoke in the air,

just like the photo I took.

- So what?

A UFO then?

- Yes, a UFO then!

And now you've seen one too!

Welcome to the crazy club.

Gary will get you a hat and a book of matches.

- We got it!

- We got it!

- Okay, so, there's aircrafts leaving marks in the sky

because they're moving at such a speed

that they're what, singeing the air molecules around them?

- It's an explanation from two conspiracy theorists

that spend their spare time in the middle of the desert,

filming the night sky.

- Yeah, a couple conspiracy theorists,

which both happen to be ex-military,

one of which has an aerospace engineering degree,

specializing in space navigation.

- Yeah, also two textbook examples of PTSD.

I mean, both these men experienced

heavy military combat situations.

Now, they're clearly transferring wartime stress

and enemy paranoia to a new enemy that doesn't even exist.

It's a collective imaginary threat.

- That blip on the radar was not imaginary,

and neither was the sonic boom, which we all heard.

I mean, come on, Charlie.

If there is life forms out there,

and they're traveling to Earth,

they're not using a '68 Chevy with a 350.

They're using magnets, or fusion, like Rod said, or nuclear.

- Rex, we're talking about Area 51, right?

This is the most top-secret, most guarded air force base

in the world.

- Anyone who caught a glimpse of of the U-2 spy plane

back in the day, or the stealth bomber,

reported seeing UFOs in the desert.

- Exactly.

So, Rod could be out there recording our own

experimental technology.

- Yeah.

Or aliens.

- All right, let's not get insane

with conspiracy theories, all right?

Our job is to stick to filming.

- Okay.

- No, Charlie's right, we have to focus on the psychology

and the facts behind these beliefs, and their psychosis.

Not the conspiracies themselves

behind the underlying disorders.

- 100%.

So, with that said, what's next?

- Why don't we talk to some of these people

who reported being abducted?

Maybe one of them would be willing to go on record.

- That's a great idea.

- Yep.

Thank you again for letting us film you.

Could you please give us your name for the record?

- Bernie Stanton.

- And Bernie, can you tell us about your encounter?

- You mean the first one?

- Yeah, the first one.

- I was in White Sands,

I'm camping.

So, me and my girl, romantic, quiet.

I got up in the middle of the night and felt really sick.

Came on all of a sudden.

I felt like my skin was on fire.

And everything around me was vibrating.

So, I was completely disoriented,

and I stumbled outside the tent for air.

The last thing I remember is this light all around.

It was so bright.

- And then what happened?

- Wake up in an oil field outside San Antonio, Texas,

600 miles away.

No one saw or heard from me in three years, three days.

Felt like three years.

- And you have no recollection of what happened

over that time, nothing?

- No.

Not at first.

Not until the nightmares came.

Then I saw what happened.

What they did to me.

- And what did they do exactly?

- You ever seen a frog getting dissected in science class?

- And I'm assuming you told the authorities about this?

- Of course, I told anybody who'd listen.

- And?

- What do you think?

My girl left me, my parents disowned me.

My friends, like everyone else,

think I lost my goddamn mind.

- And Bernie, did you have an traumas

or problems before this incident?

- I saw a therapist, doc.

I went down that why you so crazy path.

But the fact always remained:

I was perfectly fine before the grays got me.

- The grays?

- Yeah.

Them.

Big eyes, thin, gray?

Fucking grays.

- I see, and you told the doctors

specifically about the grays?

- You bet your ass I did, but nobody believed me.

Not until I got a call from Dr. Jansen.

Your old man believed me.

He sent me to see a specialist in Albuquerque for scans.

- My father sent you for scans?

- Yeah.

See that?

They found a piece of metal in my fucking head.

But no explanation how it got there.

Said I should have brain damage

or something like that in there.

I don't know.

Maybe I do.

What do you think?

- That's really not my expertise,

but thank you, this was very helpful.

- Seriously, just look at this list alone,

the amount of names on here?

- And the notes on these patients are incredible.

Everything Bernie said, he had already told to my father

almost word for word.

- Well, what do you think the next move is?

Do you wanna keep going through these lists,

find another Bernie, do more testimonials?

- What about White Sands?

- It is the second time it's come up.

- I mean, we should probably see it for ourselves, right?

- Yeah, honestly, worst case scenario,

we get some really good B-roll

to support the Bernie and Rod interviews.

- Campgrounds?

- Camping White Sands.

- Yeah!

- Alone in the dark, looking for aliens.

- What's the worst that could happen?

- I don't know.

- Yo, if I were you, I'd stay the hell outta White Sands.

- Yeah, and why's that?

- Consider it a friendly warning.

- Oh, thanks a lot, friend.

- In fact, I'd end this whole little investigation

you're doing, head back to California

before somebody gets hurt.

- Listen man, we really appreciate your concern.

Now, why don't you kindly fuck off?

- You wanna get outta here while you can.

Trust me on that.

- What the hell was that?

- Locals being locals, I guess.

- Fuck that guy.

- No, seriously, fuck that guy.

Well.

Honestly, wish she'd forget.

- Let's actually get this lens away from the fire

so we don't get any flare.

- Yeah, copy that.

All right.

Well, let's just try to be diligent

about keeping the lens clean over here.

- Oh my god, yeah, I'll put UV filters on all the lenses,

that oughta keep all the sand out.

- All right, perfect.

- Well, let's just shut this light down

and see if we can catch some UFOs.

Hey Mia, I'll help you with that.

- It's okay.

- More?

- I'm freezing!

- Guys, we have six hours until sunrise,

we're gonna be out of wood in two.

- Well, what can I say, I'm not rugged.

- That is absolutely true.

- Hey!

Who wants the wine?

- I do!

- I think there's another bottle in the front seat.

- I'm on it.

- Really?

- If we're gonna stay out here

waiting for some UFO to show up,

we might as well have some fun.

- All right.

- Here we go, all right, here we go, ready?

And do the little.

- Okay wait, start again.

You got this.

- I got it, ready?

♪ 'Cause we're falling apart

- All right, hold on, wait!

- Charlie!

- I wanna film it!

- Rex finally got it right!

- Whoa, what do you mean finally got it right?

- You know what I'm saying.

- Unbelievable, man, the abuse!

- Come on, let me get it.

Come on, make it good one.

Make it a good one!

- I will make it a good one.

Here we go, count me in, please.

- Okay.

One, a-two, a-three, a-go.

♪ 'Cause we're falling apart just like in the start ♪

♪ Come out now

♪ You make it so hard just to fall back down ♪

♪ Come out now

♪ We're falling apart like in the start ♪

♪ Come out now

- What?

- Oh my god, I just saw something!

I saw something right there!

Right there in the dune, right there!

- Here, hold the camera, come on.

- Wait, I'm not staying here alone.

It was right here.

- Rex, do you see anything?

- No, I don't see anything.

- Mia, do you think your eyes

were playing tricks on you?

- No, it was right here, I saw it, plain as day.

- Why do you keep saying it?

- Wait.

Put the light down here?

There's footprints.

- I told you.

- Whoa.

Dude, they just end.

- How do they just end?

- What the fuck?

- Mia, do you think it could've been the guy from the diner?

- No.

- If it was the guy from the diner.

- It wasn't the guy from the diner.

- Maybe we should just get the fuck outta here.

- Don't gotta tell me twice, man.

Fuck this.

- Mia, why don't you try to tell us what you think you saw?

- I told you.

I saw the silhouette of something standing on that dune.

- And it definitely couldn't have been the guy

who told us not to come out here in the first place?

- And by the way, how did that guy know

that we were from California,

and that we're out here investigating something?

- He either overheard us talking,

or he saw Mia's Cal U shirt,

or he saw the license plate on the car.

- Guys, it wasn't the guy from the diner, okay?

It just wasn't him.

- Why do you keep saying it?

- Yeah, right?

- I don't know.

The person just seemed really thin,

like a really thin man or woman, I don't know.

- Well, what was it wearing?

- I didn't see any clothes.

- So, you think you saw a naked thin woman

in the middle of White Sands?

- No.

- Listen, it was a glimpse over a campfire

in the middle of the night after a ton of wine.

You could've saw anything.

- Yeah, anything that leaves

disappearing footprints in the sand?

I think we had an alien sighting.

I'm serious.

- Whoa, did you see that?

- See what?

- There was girl on the side of the road

over there. - Shut up.

- No, I'm being dead serious.

- Oh, do you think we should go back

and check on her?

- Of course.

- Oh my god.

This isn't the worst idea ever or anything.

- What side of the road was she on?

- She was over there on the shoulder.

- You sure?

- Yeah, positive.

- Where do you think you saw her?

- She was standing right there.

- I don't see anything, Charlie.

- Me neither.

- Guys, I know what I saw.

- Okay, look.

I propose that we turn ourselves back around

and head back the way we were going.

This is too crazy.

- Yeah, I agree with Rex.

Come on, Charlie.

Let's go.

Come on.

- I saw a girl, guys.

- Look, maybe we're all just tired right now.

- Yeah, maybe.

- Yeah.

Or maybe some weird-ass shit's going on around here,

and guys don't wanna admit it.

- Rex, why don't we turn the camera off, okay?

Let's just take a break from all this

and talk about something else.

Why don't we just change the subject,

and I don't know, talk about something fun?

- All right.

- Okay.

- Wait!

- What?

- There she is.

- Charlie, that's impossible.

We're going 50 miles an hour in the opposite direction.

- Dude, that's her.

- Rex, can you see that?

- Yeah, I see her, but that can't be the same girl.

The hell is she doing?

What?

Oh, she looks fucking weird.

- Are you okay?

- Can I come in?

- What did she say?

- I don't know, this is not right.

- Charlie, I don't like this, bro.

- Where are your parents?

Are you all alone?

- Can I come in?

- What is she saying?

- Charlie.

- Dude, this is not right.

- Hey, little girl, are you okay out there?

- Can I come in?

- What are you doing, holy shit!

Did you see her face?

- Rex, check on Mia.

- Shit.

- Hey, Mia!

- Mia, you okay?

Dude, she's not--

- I think she passed out.

Hey, Mia!

Here you go, buddy.

- Thank you.

- And here you go.

How you feeling?

- I'm good, thanks.

- I've never seen anybody faint before.

- Yeah, well, I've never fainted before.

- Well, what the hell happened back there?

- Everything in my body was telling me we were,

I don't know.

- Well, I do know.

In danger.

- I admit, the girl on the side of the road was creepy.

- Yeah, that's what I've been saying.

- What do you think?

- I mean, we could just be freaking ourselves out.

Technically speaking, SPD, shared psychological delusion,

basically that we've become so paranoid

because we're now on the mindset of these topics

and these cases, it's like telling some ghost stories

in the middle of the night, and then all of a sudden,

everyone starts hearing and seeing things.

It's like a shared induced fear, basically.

- Are you serious?

That girl was real, we all saw her.

What about what you saw back at the dunes?

Come on, Charlie.

- Yeah, the girl on the side of the road was weird.

- Yeah, she was weird.

Everything about her was weird.

The way she looked, the way she acted,

where she was in the middle of the night.

- Okay, fine, but how weird?

Alien weird?

And honestly, I don't know what Mia saw back there,

if anything.

- Okay.

What about the footprints?

- Rex, the footprints could've been days old,

the wind could've blown them away.

What we saw was what was left of it.

It's exactly like Mia said.

We're out there, alone, in the dark,

our minds start playing tricks on us.

- Okay.

Look, I didn't wanna bring this up,

but honestly, it's been freaking me out.

When were at Mia's dad's house, I saw a photograph of a girl

that looked exactly like the girl

we just saw on the side of the road.

- Exactly? - Exactly.

- Okay, then I think we should go check it out.

Right?

Let's go back.

- Great, thank you.

- Let's go back.

- Here.

- BEK, black-eyed kid, Highway 545.

BEK, black-eyed kid, Alamogordo, New Mexico.

BEK, black-eyed kid, Sonora, Mexico.

BEKs, or black-eyed kids,

have been reported and photographed

mostly in the southwest region of the United States

since the early 1990s.

In every case, they appear calm

and in need of some sort of assistance.

On some occasions, very young BEKs have shown up

at people's doorsteps, asking to come in.

These BEKs are not human, at least not 100% human.

- Asking to come in, not 100% human.

- This has to be a hoax.

Locals trying to get people going,

sell museum tickets in Roswell,

get conspiracy theorists out to White Sands.

- So, what do you think, it's an amusement park out there?

Mia, for God's sake,

we saw this!

This is real!

- What, why would someone be at the door?

- Does anybody know we're here?

- No.

- Maybe it's a neighbor?

- Yeah, or maybe not.

- Wait, Charlie.

- Oh, you're gonna love this.

- Is it a fucking BEK?

- Grab a camera.

- Wait, Charlie.

- I'm guessing it's not a wild coincidence

that you're here, unless you guys just moved in next door.

- Charlie, listen to me.

- How the fuck do you know my name?

The fuck you guys doing here?

And why the fuck has he been following us?

- All right, I know.

- You wanna get that outta my face?

- I know this looks bad,

and I would react exactly the same way you are

if I were in your position,

but actually, I'm on your side.

- I didn't know we were on a side.

- You are now.

- Okay, who are you, and what do you want?

- My name is Dr. Gustaf Berchum,

and actually, we've met before, Mia, you were quite young.

I was the oncologist treating your mother, do you remember?

I was younger too, of course.

This is my son, Siggy.

And I am so sorry for your meeting

under such undesirable circumstances.

- Oh, you mean when he threatened us?

- My utmost apologies, please,

it was a desperate ploy from a desperate man.

- A ploy for what?

- There's a safe in your father's office.

I would very much like for you to open it.

The combination is 32-27--

- 27-32-18.

- Is it 27-32-18.

- And what's inside?

- Please.

May we come in?

I have so much I have to explain to you.

Please?

- We're here to help.

- You're all being very cautious, that's good.

You should be.

- Charlie?

Here you go.

- Oh, thank you so much.

You have grown into such a beautiful young woman.

You look so much your mother, do you know that?

- Okay, why don't we get started?

Gustaf, who are the people in these files?

- Are your cameras, are they ready to go?

- I'm rolling.

- Why do you want us to film this?

- What you're setting out to do,

what you have already gotten yourself into,

it's bigger than anything you could possibly imagine.

But it's all of the utmost importance.

And as I said, we're on the same side.

- What's so important, and what side do we have in common

with a cancer specialist?

- Was a cancer specialist.

- And what are you now?

- A seeker of truth,

and you will become an exposer of that truth

if we can succeed.

- And what are we exposing, exactly?

- Since you have been here,

have you seen many things that you cannot explain?

- Perhaps difficult to explain, yes.

- I believe, as did your father,

that you, just by being here,

are in great danger.

And honestly, I don't know if there's any way to avoid that.

So, we have to do something different,

we have to do something drastic, we have to face the danger.

- What danger are you talking about?

- If I try to show you something

that is far more than you could've bargained for,

would you be willing to see through?

- Yes, of course.

- Well then, let's get started, shall we?

- Okay, first I need to know something,

how did you know we were here,

and how do you know Charlie's name?

- Siggy installed cameras and audio

throughout this entire house.

At your father's request, naturally.

Often, there are signs leading up to an abduction.

Most of them don't pay any attention.

Sometimes, these signs are so subtle,

most people wouldn't even notice.

- And what are these signs?

- The obvious ones?

Crop circles, smoke rings in the sky,

encounter with BEKs, craft sightings,

animals behaving strangely,

paranormal-like activity, animal mutilations,

and sometimes, it's all of these things in succession.

For argument's sake,

why would an intelligent entity show these signs,

give warnings, what would be the point?

- We don't know.

But the important thing right now

is that we have to prove that it is actually happening.

- Yeah.

I don't know what to make

of some of what we've seen or heard on this trip.

Most of it can be explained away,

but some, not so easily.

And so far, there are now tangible psychological connections

behind the cases of the believers we've seen,

which brings us on to our next case.

There's a family that Gustaf wants us to meet.

We'll document them around the clock

in order to uncover what might be going on there,

whatever they might be experiencing.

I mean, this is ultimately what we came out here to do,

right, fully submerse ourselves.

But I do wanna be mindful of not being swayed

into seeing through Gustaf's eyes.

He is a true believer,

and a whole case unto himself.

So, I guess we'll just head down tomorrow to this ranch

near the border of New Mexico and Mexico,

and we'll see what we can get, right?

Okay, let's go to bed.

Okay, I guess this is it.

Rex, you got it?

- Yeah.

- I want everyone to follow my lead.

This family has just suffered a tremendous loss,

and they're still under a great deal of stress, okay?

Now, they have allowed us to document

what's been happening here,

and they very dearly want someone to help them

get to the bottom of it, okay?

Having said that, be mindful, all right?

- Got it.

- Oh, and listen, I think we should hold off

on bringing any equipment in right away.

As a matter of fact, why don't we just shut everything down?

Yeah, let's do that for now.

- Shut her down.

- And rolling and speeding.

- I'm rolling.

- Thank you so much for having us here,

and for allowing us to film this.

- Thank you for coming.

- Of course.

- Do you really think you can help explain

what's been going on around here?

- There's nothing going on.

Just some kids playing some pranks.

- Our entire chicken coop being slaughtered,

that circle in the field, Dad died like that?

Kids' pranks?

- We don't need some strangers in our house

filming our business.

- She's right, they should go.

- Just be quiet, please, okay?

You're embarrassing me.

- Some of us still have some work to do around here.

- Then go do it.

- I'm so sorry.

- Okay, please don't apologize.

To be honest with you,

I don't know if we'll be able to explain anything

that might help you, but we are here,

and we would very much like to try.

- All right, where do we start?

- I suppose at the beginning.

- So, about a month ago, my dad woke up

in the middle of the night, ran out here,

ran back to the house, woke me up,

and was talking about this field.

He said that there was something out here,

he wanted to show me markings or something.

- Did you see them?

- No, I thought he was just having a bad dream,

and walked him back to his room.

The next morning, I couldn't find him,

so I walk out here, and there he is,

just laying in the middle of the field.

And it looked like it had been burned flat.

All of our crops were gone.

- What prompted him to go outside in the first place?

- I asked him that, and he said

that he heard a humming sound.

Like a vibration all around the house.

- And no one else heard it?

- Did your father see anything else,

anything that could explain the burnt field?

- I woke him up, and I brought him back in the house,

and to be honest, he really wasn't making any sense

at that point; he just kept mumbling

about bright lights, and my mom, and thin men.

- And your mother, where is she now?

- She passed away when I was young.

- I understand how difficult that must've been.

- Did your father say anything else

when you got him back inside the house?

- He got so sick the next morning,

we couldn't get anything else out of him.

- Sick?

Sick how?

What happened?

- His skin turned red

and began to bubble up like a bad burn.

The next morning, all his hair fell out,

and then he began to bleed from his nose and his ears.

He passed away two days after that.

- Oh, I am so sorry for your loss.

Siggy, I want you to get a soil sample as well.

What is it, what?

- The EPA and the CDC already checked everything.

- The EPA and the CDC were here?

- Yeah, they came by right after

we took Dad to the hospital.

They said that they sent over some guys

to make sure everything was safe.

- And what did they say?

- They said everything was okay.

- These levels aren't toxic now,

but I'd stay out of this area.

- Well, why would they say it was okay?

- Sigmund?

- I'd like to set up audio and visual,

and set up multiple cameras in this area specifically,

that way, I can monitor frequencies in the waves.

I'd also like to canvas the inside of the house.

- Would it be all right if we set up cameras

inside your house?

- Yeah, sure, everywhere?

- I think that would be best, yes.

- Okay, whatever you guys think will help.

- Okay, thank you.

Come.

- So, we had about 20 or so chickens in here.

My grandmother used to sell eggs

to the local market on Thursdays

to just, I don't know, keep herself busy.

But I come out here one morning a few weeks ago,

and they were all dead, except not just dead.

It was like they were chopped up into little pieces,

except that there was no blood.

Just the pieces.

- Did you call the police?

- No, my grandmother didn't want to.

She said that we'd had enough fuss around here.

I guess she's old-fashioned,

doesn't really like too much going on,

and I don't think she's really been okay

since my dad died, losing a son,

I don't think any of us have been okay.

- That's perfectly normal.

- I did take pictures, though.

It just didn't seem possible.

And we didn't even hear anything from the house.

I butchered chickens before, doctor.

It's never quiet or clean.

- When did you decide to call Dr. Berchum?

- Three days ago.

Things have just been getting weirder and weirder,

and I told you what my grandmother said.

- What did she say?

- She came into my room in the middle of the night,

and she grabbed my arm, and she said,

"It's happening again.

"I think the thin men are coming to take you away from us."

I know it's crazy, it's just some old Mexican woman

with a bunch of superstitions and folklore in her head,

but the look in her eyes, it just really scared me.

And then she started to cry,

and I've never seen that woman cry in my entire life.

So, I went on the internet, and I found a book.

The Theories of the Unexplained: The Grays, the Thin Men,

by Dr. Gustaf Berchum.

Thin men.

That's just like Papa and Abuela said.

I mean, what does that even all mean?

- Well, it's complicated.

- Do you think we could talk to grandmother

about what she said?

- I mean, I could ask her, but I doubt it.

She's not really too keen on you guys being here.

- Yeah, I'm guessing that's the general consensus.

- Yeah.

She'll warm up, but it's probably best

if I just get you guys settled for the night.

- Of course.

- All right, so, we're just gonna watch your step.

- All right, I'm gonna give you the abridged version.

Did you know that 2,300 people go missing

every single day in the United States alone?

Yeah?

It's pretty staggering, isn't it?

That's almost 900,000 people every year.

- How is that possible?

- In his work, your father began to discover

that he had patients who had similarities,

some of which were blackouts,

gaps of lost time.

Sometimes, these people were even,

they were reported as missing at least once

at some point in their lives.

And no one could ever remember where they were

during these gaps.

Now, through his therapy,

many were eventually able to process their memories,

and they could remember a series of signs

leading up to their experiences.

And some of his patients were not only affected emotionally;

many of them were physically ill.

Now, people who claim to have had

a close-proximity UFO encounter,

they had actual physical signs.

And some of them had severe

or very rare cancers,

which of course is the way that our paths

started to cross.

- My mother.

Wait, are you saying my father thought

she had a UFO encounter?

- No, I'm saying your father was certain of it,

and her cancer was the rarest I'd ever come across

in my career.

Now, Thomas cautiously told me

what he thought about the origin of her condition.

And then after a while, we started sharing our casework,

and we started coming up with parallels,

and we were trying to come up with theories.

- What were those theories?

- Your father felt that he had found a distinct connection,

a pattern of multi-generational experiences.

Family cases.

And these patterns always led

to the same eventual conclusion.

- Which was what?

- Ultimately, a missing person.

I believe, and I am certain that your father

would agree with me,

someone from this family is going to be taken,

and with the extreme amount of evidence we have here,

I don't think they'll be coming back.

- Got everything set up.

Multiple cameras covering all the angles in the house,

one running outside covering the exterior.

- Very good, Sig, thank you.

- I'll show you where to plug in

if wanna download the raw footage.

- Yeah, thanks, man.

- Yeah, listen, it's been a long night.

I think we all should try to get some sleep.

- Thank you so much.

- Charlie.

- Got the camera.

- What's going on?

- We don't know.

Are you okay?

- What's happening?

- I think she just had a really bad nosebleed.

- Oh my god, okay, everybody, let me just, please.

Okay, how you doing?

Are you losing a bit of blood here, sweetie?

Do you feel dizzy?

- I don't know, maybe, I don't know.

- Okay, Siggy, could you run downstairs

and bring up some orange juice?

- Yes.

- Hey, should we be filming this?

- Here, bring the light in closer, okay, so I can see.

And what I wanna do is I wanna pull the towel away

just so I can see what we have here, okay?

Very slow.

- Okay, all right, honey, all right, head forward.

Put a little pressure.

Okay, you're gonna be all right.

Now, what I wanna do is, very slowly, get you to your feet,

and we're gonna take you to the hospital, okay?

Yeah, listen, you lost a bit of blood here,

they might need to cauterize your nose.

But we don't know, but it's better safe than sorry, okay?

All right.

All right, everybody, out of the room right now, please.

Just give us a minute.

Everything's fine, sweetie, don't panic.

Here, let's get up real slow.

Just hold on to me, real slow.

That's a girl.

- How is she?

- Oh, she's fine, she'll be okay now.

- What did they say?

- Well, it could be that her nosebleed was brought on

by severe false labor contractions.

- Contractions?

- Sofia had a miscarriage.

- Oh my god, I'm so sorry,

I didn't realize she was pregnant.

- Well, neither did she.

Apparently, it's only about two months along.

- Is that uncommon?

- Not terribly, but she told me

that she has not had sexual relations in over five months.

And there's something else.

She has bruises, prints, on her arms and legs.

Yeah, I think it might be best

if you were to speak to her about her ordeal

after she's had a little rest, of course,

instead of me.

- Of course, yes.

- Listen, I'm tired, everybody's,

let's go back to the motel, get a little rest

before we head back to the ranch.

Is that good?

- Yes, thank you so much.

- Sure, I'll see you there.

- All right, thanks Gustaf.

- Do you think someone could be hurting her?

Like Alex?

- I don't know.

I think we should check Siggy's footage

on the surveillance cameras at least,

see if that comes up with anything.

- Yeah.

- All right, this is it.

- What are we looking at?

- Oh.

- That distortion.

Again, we'll just watch it again.

See that?

- How are all the security cameras

having distortions at the same time?

- Do you think it's some sort of interference

with the wireless signal?

- I mean, it's something.

- The timing is curious.

- You wanna see curious?

Tell me what you see.

- It looks like he's being held down.

- That's exactly what I said.

- Okay, you guys ready?

- Yeah.

- Are you sure you're up for this?

- Yeah, I don't think I can be laying down anymore.

I guess I'm staying put.

- Probably for the best.

Sofia, the camera Siggy installed

shows that your nose didn't start bleeding

until after you woke up.

So, do you remember anything about last night,

why you may have woken up screaming like that?

- No.

Actually, that's funny,

I just remembered something just now, after you asked.

I was having a dream.

- A dream?

- Yeah, I was laying in our field, and I couldn't move,

and there were these deer standing up all around me,

like six or seven of them.

All of them, they're just staring at me.

So strange.

They're just staring and nothing else,

but I was terrified.

And I remember I tried to scream,

but I realized my mouth wouldn't work.

That's weird, isn't it?

And then I remember this warm liquid pouring over my body,

and then I realized it was my own blood,

and the next thing I remember is Abuela

covering me in a towel, saying I was okay.

- Sofia, you also apparently had a miscarriage.

- No!

We're not going to speak about it.

- Stop it, Abuela, it's okay.

- What is she saying?

- No, Sofia.

I promised you.

- Okay, should we stop?

- Yeah, thank you, I'm so sorry.

- No, of course.

You get some rest.

- Thank you, Mia.

- Of course.

You ready?

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay.

So, Gustaf, Sofia talked about a strange dream

she had last night.

She saw a group of deer standing above her.

- Yeah, I've heard of that before.

Deer, owls.

It may be a way for the brain

to try to translate something that's just too overwhelming.

Or it may be a way that they try to make our brains

forget about something that actually happened.

- Okay, so you absolutely believe

Sofia was visited by something, or someone,

from another world last night?

- Well, signs are this clear,

and happening at such a rapid pace?

Absolutely.

I mean, at this point, I think we all probably were.

- How?

If this was really going on,

how wouldn't anyone know about this?

With all the technology the government has,

you would think that--

- Well, what if they do?

- They why wouldn't they do something about it, or tell us?

- Well, what if they can't do anything about it?

What if they're completely powerless against it?

- Our entire government,

an entire global community, powerless?

- Look, if a comet were on its way

to obliterate the earth, and all the news media

got out there and they warned the whole world about it,

can you imagine what kind of chaos,

right up to the final impact, can you imagine?

- Yeah, a total anarchy, I'm guessing.

- You're right, absolutely.

And if that comet were 10, 20, or 30 years away,

do you tell people about it?

Do you warn society about it,

or do you watch your society and your financial institutions

just completely fall apart?

And people going every day and every year,

knowing that the clock is ticking down

on life as we know it,

not to mention the religious implications.

Or do you just go along with the status quo,

knowing that there's absolutely nothing you can do

to affect the final outcome?

- Gustaf, you're implying that people, or things,

from another planet are here to what?

Take over?

- All I'm saying is I believe.

I personally deserve the right to know the truth,

either way, and I believe

everybody else has that same right.

What do you think?

- Okay, if Sofia has some memory,

or at least what seemed like a dream to her,

Alejandro might have some recall

of what happened last night as well,

how he felt while his sister was screaming bloody murder

right down the hall, as he laid still in his bed,

seemingly trapped, while the rest of us just ran to her.

'Kay, do you wanna check the barn?

It's super dark out.

Alex?

Alex!

Okay, Sofia told us he'd be out here.

Where the hell is he?

Alex, I just wanna ask you something.

Do you see him up there?

- Uh-uh.

- Where the hell is he?

- Oh, shit!

- What?

- Alex was standing right here.

- What do you mean, where?

- He was right here.

Look!

What the fuck?

How the fuck did he get all the way over there?

- Charlie, there's no way you saw him here.

- He was here a second ago, I'm telling you.

- What is he doing?

- He's trying to scratch the back of his head,

do you see that?

Just like Sofia.

- Shit.

We have to go back in, come on.

This is insane, okay?

There's no way you saw him here.

- What the fuck is going on?

- Okay, I told Gustaf about Sofia

scratching at the back of her neck,

and also how weird Alex was acting with us.

Gustaf seemed really concerned.

I wanna check the back of Alex's head tonight

while he's sleeping.

- What?

That is terrible idea, for the record.

- I can't argue with that, Mia.

- If there's some physical evidence

that we can actually point to,

to prove or disprove what Gustaf is saying,

we have to do it, right?

- What, like an implant, like Bernie?

- A secondary case with a foreign object

supporting some kind of narrative, yes.

- This is beyond invasion of privacy

we're talking about here, guys.

Not to mention that Alex will never let us

use this footage without his permission.

- Look, are you guys with me or not?

Okay, good.

Tonight then.

- Dude, tell me you're not thinking about doing this.

Guys, again, this is a very bad idea.

- All right, listen.

Are we really gonna find something,

or probably get kicked outta this house

in the middle of the night?

- Yeah, well, fucking both.

- What is it, what?

Oh my god.

Get in here.

- What the fuck?

- Wait, did you hear that?

- Dude, we shouldn't be in here, man, fuck this.

- Get closer.

- No fucking way, man.

- Gimme the camera.

- The start.

- Oh my god.

Wait, what did he just say?

- Come out now.

- How would he know we sang that?

- Your father is here.

- What about my father?

What about my father, Alex?

Oh my god. - Be afraid.

- Okay guys, we've seen enough.

- Did you hear that?

We are right in the middle of something,

maybe something historically important.

You guys really wanna leave now?

- Yeah.

Listen, what's happening here is real, okay?

I don't have any doubt of that anymore.

Now, I know you have an invested interest

to try to find out what happened to your father,

or something to prove to yourself,

but I honestly believe we need to put as many miles

between us and this place as possible, okay?

Now, everything I care about is in this room,

and no story and no amount of footage

is worth having anyone get killed over.

- You're right.

It's not worth it.

- Yeah, let's go.

- Yeah.

I really don't know what to say.

- Just say whatever's on your mind

while it's still fresh.

- Okay.

We're packing up the car and heading back to LA.

Neither my thesis nor our documentary are conclusive,

much less from a psychology standpoint.

But overall, I do think we've captured evidence

of something else entirely.

I'm not sure what we do with this or where we go from here,

but we don't feel safe here anymore.

Too many unexplainable things have happened on this trip,

and Charlie, Rex, and myself,

we've decided to go home for now.

Everyone else in the house is still sleeping,

so I guess we'll just call them

from the road tomorrow to explain.

I just feel like I'm letting everyone down,

especially Sofia.

She's more afraid than we are right now,

and we're just running off.

- All right, let's just cut it

and call it a night, right?

- Okay.

That's not good.

- What?

Dude, please don't tell me this car's not starting.

- Shit.

Oh, Jesus.

- Is that fucking cut?

- Who the fuck would've done this?

- Wait, is everything okay?

- No, everything is definitely not okay.

- Shit.

What?

- What the fuck are we gonna do now?

- I'm worried everything has progressed here

further than is within our ability to intervene.

I would advise for all of us to leave,

but I honestly think it's too late now, even for that.

Sigmund has captured surveillance camera video

and footage of Alejandro transmitting cryptic messages,

clearly not of his own volition.

And last night,

I discovered a bump on my neck,

near the posterior scalene,

and with Sigmund's help, I cut into the soft tissue,

and there was a small metal object inside.

I attempted to remove it,

but it had remarkably rooted its way up

into my temporal bone, and actually begins to retreat

when I get too close to it.

I cannot even emphasize how disturbing this is.

And with everything that we have seen here,

and with Alejandro, I don't even know if we're in control

of our own actions, or if we can even trust our own thoughts

to actually perceive reality at this point.

I hope someone will see this,

and that you will allow this video to at the very least

serve as a warning as to what has happened to us.

- Did you disable our car?

- Dude, what are you talking about?

No, we didn't.

- Then who did?

- I don't know, man, chill the fuck out.

- Yeah, fuck you man.

- Fuck you!

- Maybe you disabled the car, Charlie.

- No, I did not!

- How do you know that for sure?

- What does that mean, and what are you guys doing here

filming right now?

- Wait, what's going on?

- I'm sorry we woke you, Sofia,

we're just trying to figure out--

- It's fine, what's happening, why are we yelling?

- All right, everybody, just can we sit down,

and we can discuss this?

- If you have something to say, Gustaf, just say it.

- All right, fine.

Siggy was awake, he was watching the security cameras,

and he saw you walk into Alex's room,

and we were just filming a warning video.

- A warning video?

- What's wrong with Alex?

- All right, I for one am done listening to this bullshit,

and I'm not sticking around any longer.

- Shh, do you hear that?

- I don't hear anything.

- Shh, do you hear it?

- What's going on?

- It's probably just a breaker,

lemme get a flashlight.

- Hold on, nobody move!

- Oh, what is that?

- Listen!

- All right, my camera's back up.

- He's not breathing!

- Someone call 911!

- I don't have any signal!

- Me neither, Charlie?

- I don't either.

- It's too late; he's gone.

- Jesus Christ.

♪ Well I need you on the scene

♪ That girl is all you need

- They're here.

- Abuela?

- Sofia, wait!

Oh my god!

- Jesus.

- Sofia, wait!

- Stay here!

Oh, shit.

- Sofia.

- You guys okay?

- Yeah, what the hell's going on, man?

- I have no fucking clue.

- Stay here.

- Christ, did you guys fucking see that?

- See what?

- There was just something up there,

you guys didn't see that?

- Sofia!

- Stay, Mia, stay here!

- Charlie, stop!

Listen, Charlie, take this camera

and look at the fucking footage.

You didn't see what I just did, please!

- All right.

- Sofia!

- All right, stay here.

- Charlie!

Oh my god, Rex, what's happening?

Tell me what's happening!

Oh my god, Charlie!

Charlie, wait, Rex, we gotta go!

Rex, oh my god, Rex, where are you, Rex?

Rex?

Wait, Charlie!

Charlie, oh my god, Charlie, no!

Sofia!

Charlie?

Oh my god!

Charlie!

Charlie!

Oh my god, what's happening?

Charlie?

Oh my god, I'm losing my fucking mind.

What the fuck?

Charlie!

Oh my god.

Where are you?

Oh my god!

- Mia?

I'm gonna film this session for our record of your case.

Mia?

Okay.

For the record, this is Mia Jansen, patient number 347.

Mia, could you tell me one more time, in your own words,

about your experience?

- The footage.

Charlie filmed everything.

The truth.

- What was that?

Could you speak up a little?

What happened to your friends that went missing, Mia?

You mentioned Charlie.

Charlie Cera, right?

Where is he?

- They took him.

Took all of them.

They're coming for everyone.

Who took him, Mia?

Who's coming?

- No.

Not coming, they're not coming.

They're already here!