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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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