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NARRATOR: Strange carvings--

They predate any known
civilization in the Americas.

NARRATOR: Mysterious sightings--

There are things in this
country that nobody's even

dreamed of.

NARRATOR: And
unexplained phenomena.

But when you see
radar tracings,

ground-based eyewitness
reports, there's something going

on here.

NARRATOR: Is there more to
America's past than is found

in our history books?

And could the mysterious
stories and relics

found throughout
the land be evidence

that the American continent
has extraterrestrial origins?

DAVID CHILDRESS
[VOICEOVER]: America

is, really, a very mysterious
place, with all kinds

of strange legends.

And some of the
explanations may have

to do with extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world

believe we have been
visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so, can the proof
be found in America?

[music playing]

Stephenville, Texas.

On the cloudless evening
of January 8th, 2008.

MAN [RADIO]: [inaudible].

More than a dozen people,
including a police officer

and a private pilot, spot
a luminous spherical object

floating silently
across the sky.

It was very
intense bright lights

and they spanned a wide area.

It was so fast
when it took off.

You know, and it
made not a sound.

NARRATOR: Radar reports
released by the FAA

confirm an object without a
transponder, exactly where

ground observers see the UFO.

The January 8, 2008
encounter of a giant UFO

over Stephenville, Texas is
particularly interesting.

A number of people saw this
giant glowing ball of light

moving through the sky.

It was picked up on the radar.

NARRATOR: According to
reports, for two hours,

the UFO slowly moved some
70 miles across the Texas

countryside.

Military aircraft are
in the air nearby.

But curiously, radar records
show that they initially

made no overt action towards
the unidentified object.

The first government
report said that this was not

anything, except for some
bizarre optical phenomena,

such as a reflection
of light in the sky.

But when you see people
who have radar tracings,

ground-based eyewitness reports,
that's not a reflection.

There's something going on here.

Stephenville, Texas
certainly implies

that UFOs are a commonplace
occurrence in America

and the military
stays out of the way.

NARRATOR: In the United States,
there are over 6,000 UFO

sightings reported every year,
more than any other country

in the world.

But why?

Is there an explanation for such
a high number of UFO sightings?

Could aliens have a special
interest in America?

According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

not only are aliens watching
over North America today,

but in fact they
have been visiting us

for hundreds and possibly
even thousands of years.

And they claim the evidence can
be found in the strange sights,

structures, and monuments
that lie in every corner

of the continent.

America is, really, a very
mysterious place with all kinds

of strange legends.

So trying to put all of
these things together,

in context, shows
us that we're living

in a very unusual continent
full of magic and mystery.

NARRATOR: Serpent Mound
in Adams County, Ohio.

The Kivas at Chaco
Canyon, New Mexico.

Big Horn Medicine
Wheel, in Wyoming.

Many Native American tribes say
that at these ancient sites,

and countless others, entities,
that they call Star Beings,

came down from the sky
to teach their ancestors.

CLIFFORD MAHOOTY [VOICEOVER]:
To the Zuni people

and other tribes, there's
a spiritual connection

with the Star Beings.

They're the ones that
actually rule the--

the universe or the
world that we're on.

If you look at the
petroglyphs, there's

a lot of references to
those type of entities.

NARRATOR: According to tribes,
like the Zuni and Hopi,

stories of these other
worldly visitations

exist not only in the oral
traditions passed down

from their ancestors, but also
in petroglyphs carved into rock

all across America.

On the Zuni Pueblo
in New Mexico,

there are literally
thousands of ancient carvings

that most outsiders
have never laid eyes on.

And the Zuni claim that
some of these petroglyphs

depict visitations
from Star Beings.

There is definitely evidence
that aliens visited North

America in the distant past.

And there are petroglyphs
throughout this part

of the country carved by ancient
Americans that depict just

that.

What can you tell me about
this petroglyph right here?

You know, if you can
see on top of that,

where maybe a head would
be, it's kind of eroded off.

But on the next part of it,
there's four compartments.

Look like extension of
something sticking out.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Yeah.

Almost like legs.

It could be something
that they saw in the air.

Isn't there a legend
that beings visited

on top of this mountain?

Oh, yes.

On all of the mesas.

In conjunction with all
the stories of Star People

descending from the sky in
fiery shields and things

like this, when I see a pattern
like that, I always think,

what if this is something that
they saw and then they carved

onto a rock?

CLIFFORD MAHOOTY [VOICEOVER]:
And a lot of these

are sacred drawings.

They're just not graffiti,
like a lot of people say there.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: No.

Never.

There is no such thing
as that in those days.

Look at the triangle up there.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: And
you've got the dots around it

that have been carved into the
rock that remind me like stars.

NARRATOR: Could the ancient
people in this part of America

really have been trying
to depict encounters

with alien spacecraft?

There are legends and myths
all around the world that

can be interpreted
as having been visits

by extraterrestrials.

And many think that such stories
don't exist here in the United

States.

But the fact is that there
are things in this country

that nobody's even dreamed of.

NARRATOR: According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

there is evidence that
otherworldly beings were not

only witnessed by
Native Americans,

but also by the
European colonists.

And curiously, one of the
earliest UFO sightings

reported in the colonies
occurred in an area

that the local Wampanoag nation
claimed was a point of contact

with Star Beings.

The Hockomock Swamp,
southeastern Massachusetts.

Located 25 miles
south of Boston,

in and around the suburban
town of Bridgewater,

this vast wetland is
infamous for being the heart

of the Bridgewater Triangle.

According to Native
American legends,

this 200-square mile region has
been a hotbed of UFO sightings,

dating back to before Columbus
arrived in the New World.

CHRIS PITTMAN [VOICEOVER]:
Within the Bridgewater

Triangle, a huge amount of
interesting paranormal activity

has been reported, including
very high numbers of UFO

sightings.

Some people speculate
that maybe it's

the presence of the
Hockomock Swamp.

The very name Hockomock means
"place where evil spirits

dwell."

European colonists settled
this area in the 17th century.

But the stories of
paranormal activity

here go back long
before that time.

Time and time again,
we see stories

about beings that
live in the sky,

fly in canoes, what are
apparently spaceships

that land, people that
get out and interact

with the Native Americans.

NARRATOR: On May 10th, 1760,
in this same area where

Native Americans say Star
Beings interacted with humans,

European colonists reported
seeing mysterious lights

in the sky.

The account appeared
in a publication

that was read throughout the
English speaking world called

"The Gentleman's Magazine."

According to historical
records, at 10 AM,

a sphere of fire appeared that
emitted a light bright enough

to cast a shadow
in bright sunlight.

And this object
was reported to be

seen not only in Bridgewater,
but also in Roxbury, over 30

miles away.

Now, that's interesting
to me, because the fact

that people in two
different cities

reported seeing the same
thing at the same time, to me,

says that they
really saw something.

It was seen by a
huge number of people.

And one observer remarked that
the sounds that this giant ball

of light made was heard more
in the middle of its travel

than at the beginning,
which I think

is a very interesting
detail that does correlate,

to some extent, with
more modern UFO reports.

The Bridgewater
sighting of 1760

is just one of many
incredible events

that took place in
colonial America.

It was mysterious.

It was the frontier.

Something was up
there in the sky, way

before any powered
flight had been invented

by modern humanity.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the strange lights seen

over the Bridgewater
Triangle were produced

by the same alien
beings that exist

in Native American legend?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say, yes

and claim that a recent
archeological find

suggests that extraterrestrials
have not only been visiting

America from the time of our
earliest known civilizations,

but even centuries before
recorded history began.

Western Nevada, 2013.

On the West side of the
dried up Winnemucca Lake,

researchers take samples from
a layer of white carbonate,

covering petroglyphs carved
into limestone boulders.

Radiocarbon tests performed
by the University of Colorado,

Boulder reveal that the
petroglyphs were etched

between 10,500 and 14,800 years
ago, making them the oldest

petroglyphs ever found
in North America.

Winnemucca Lake in
Nevada is the site

of petroglyphs that date all
the way back to 8,000 BC.

That is amazing.

Because, right here
in America, we now

have absolute proof of a
civilization that predates

the Fertile Crescent
of Mesopotamia

by over 3,000 years, minimum.

And there's nothing
else like it.

Looking at some of
these petroglyphs,

you've got to wonder if
these aren't being drawn

by early Americans
who are interacting

with extraterrestrials and then
drawing what they think they

see.

DAVID WILCOCK [VOICEOVER]:
When we look at the petroglyphs

themselves, the actual
designs, we also

find very unusual formations,
including spirals.

This is something that
we see very consistently

in many ancient cultures,
which is often associated

with the shape of the galaxies.

They may be aware that they
were a part of a galaxy.

Who gave them this information?

How did they obtain this?

Why would they make
these illustrations?

This has given rise to the
theory that could there have

been civilizations not
dissimilar to ours,

but thousands of years ago
or tens of thousands of years

ago, that have now become
lost to the fog of time?

This inevitably sort
of raises the question,

does the human
race go in cycles?

You know, we're a
war-like species.

Will we one day be somebody's
memory and somebody's folklore

and they think
they're the first?

NARRATOR: Could these
petroglyphs that

predate even the earliest
known Native American tribes be

evidence of an ancient
lost civilization?

And if so, might other even
more profound secrets lie hidden

in North America waiting
to be discovered?

The Grand Canyon, located
in the American Southwest.

This enormous gorge is 277
miles long and a mile deep.

Much of it is remote
and rarely traveled.

In 1909, an explorer named
GE Kinkaid was boating

through the Canyon on
the Colorado River,

when he noticed stains
in the sediments

on the east wall
of a canyon gorge.

According to his account, when
he stopped to get a closer

look, he found the
entrance to what

appeared to be a man-made cave.

DAVID CHILDRESS
[VOICEOVER]: Kincaid

saw what he thought was
an ancient goldmine.

As he climbed up onto
the walls of the Canyon

to investigate it, what
he really discovered

was not an ancient mine, but a
labyrinth of rooms and tunnels

cut into the side of the Canyon
that went back hundreds, even

thousands of feet.

GARY A. DAVID [VOICEOVER]:
There were passageways radiating

from this main chamber.

He found stone tablets with
Egyptian-style hieroglyphics.

He also came to another
chamber and it contained

a marble carved statue of Buddha
sitting in a Lotus Posture,

holding a lotus in each hand.

There was all kinds of statues
made of bronze and mummies

as well.

He described them as Egyptian
and Tibetan kind of things.

So therefore, he believed he
had discovered some vast secret

city and treasure
inside the Grand Canyon.

NARRATOR: Anxious to spread the
news of his extraordinary find,

Kincaid reportedly made
his way to Phoenix,

where he told his
story to a reporter

for the local newspaper.

He then contacted his employer,
the Smithsonian Institution.

DAVID CHILDRESS [VOICEOVER]:
They sent an archaeologist

named Jordan.

And Jordan then
examined the caves.

The Smithsonian allegedly
began excavating and removing

the artifacts out
of the secret caves.

And supposedly, they were all
sent back to Washington DC.

NARRATOR: But
mysteriously, there

was no follow-up to the story.

And GE Kincaid was
never heard from again.

DAVID CHILDRESS [VOICEOVER]:
The caves were apparently

sealed up, metal doors
and gates put over them.

The National Park now denies
any knowledge or existence

of these caves or
cave entrances.

And if you talk to
the Smithsonian today,

they will deny any knowledge
of the secret city in the Grand

Canyon or that an archaeologist
named Jordan worked

for the Smithsonian.

And in fact, essentially,
the knowledge

of the secret city
in the Grand Canyon

has completely
disappeared from history.

NARRATOR: How is it that
such an incredible story

that the Arizona
Gazette reported

in two separate
articles dated a month

apart was suddenly dropped?

Was Kincaid the
victim of a cover up?

And if so, what was it that the
American government didn't want

the public to know?

According to his
own description,

Kincaid's cave lies
in one of the most

remote and inaccessible
parts of the Grand Canyon.

And since a government
permit is required

to enter this
treacherous terrain,

few people have ever been
able to explore the area

where this cave was
allegedly found.

If in fact, there are
artifacts that exist from Egypt

or from the Orient
in the United States

and they predate
history as we know it,

it would completely
change everything

we know about our own history.

We'd have to rewrite
our history books.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that GE Kincaid really

did find Egyptian and
Oriental artifacts

in a cave in the Grand Canyon?

And if so, how
did they get here?

Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found

by examining the stories of
the Native American tribes

of the Southwest,
who say there is

a connection between the
Grand Canyon and Star Beings.

According to the Hopi, just
before a catastrophic event

struck the area where
their ancestors lived,

these Star Beings
led them to safety.

The Native Americans followed
an object in the sky, night

and day, to the Grand Canyon,
where they found refuge.

LOGAN HAWKES
[VOICEOVER]: The Hopi

believe that they were taken to
an underground or subterranean

city, where they were nurtured
and progressed through levels

to emerge, eventually, on
the surface of the Earth.

They emerged through a
hole called a sipapu.

It's a very holy place
to the Hopi Nation.

The sipapu in the Grand Canyon,
we know there is such a place.

This is our Garden of
Eden, where we had an--

the beginning of
the present world.

We hold the Grand Canyon
as a very reverent place

they came out after
the last catastrophe

into the present day
systems that we have.

NARRATOR: The Hopi elders only
recently revealed the Grand

Canyon as the sight
of their sipapu,

causing some to question whether
this might be the same cave

dwelling GE Kincaid claimed
to have found in 1909.

But the exact location
remains a mystery.

Supposedly, the entrance
into this underground city

of the Grand Canyon is
on this Eastern part,

on these slopes right over here.

We were able to get to the edge
of the Canyon to look down.

But it's hundreds of
feet straight down

on cliffs into this area
of the Grand Canyon.

It's just almost impossible
to get a good look

or see what is in this park.

NARRATOR: Could
extraterrestrials really

have led ancient
Native Americans

to this nearly inaccessible
area of the Grand Canyon?

Whether Kincaid's cave really
exists remains a mystery.

But some ancient
astronaut theorists

believe indisputable proof
of extraterrestrial contact

can be found today,
thousands of miles away,

in the American Midwest.

Henry County, Missouri.

July 19th, 2013.

Driving across her land,
rancher Lynn Mitchell

comes upon a horrific sight.

One of her black angus cows
lies dead and maimed in a field.

CHRIS PITTMAN [VOICEOVER]:
The tongue had been removed.

The udders, the anus, and
the reproductive organs

had also been removed.

The veterinarian ruled out blunt
trauma as a cause of death.

In fact, no cause of death
at all could be determined.

NARRATOR: The Mitchell
event is just the latest

in a half century long
epidemic of mysterious animal

mutilations that have
occurred all across America.

Although experts say they don't
know exactly how many animals

have been affected,
they estimate

the number ranges from
1,000 to 2,000 a year,

for the past 20 years.

Investigative journalist
Linda Moulton Howe

was working for CBS News in
Denver, Colorado in 1979,

when she witnessed, firsthand,
the strange precise injuries

inflicted on animals.

We flew down to
San Luis, Colorado,

because I had gotten a phone
call from a Sheriff there.

And he's telling me,
you need to see this.

We start crossing a field.

And using our arms
to get through thick

willows, pushing
the tree branches.

And when we got into this
space underneath these trees,

it didn't seem possible.

Here was a black and white
steer and it was lying perfectly

like it should get up.

There's no violence, but
there was a perfect circle

around that left eye that's up.

The hide had been removed,
just down to the bone.

And then, the left jaw
was perfectly removed.

The tongue is removed.

And there is not a
single broken branch.

NARRATOR: Curiously, researchers
say that in almost every animal

mutilation case, the organs
appear to be the target.

CHRIS PITTMAN [VOICEOVER]: These
are very carefully removed.

Not torn out, not chewed away,
but precisely and carefully cut

away with what appear to
be surgical-type incisions.

There was never any blood
found near these carcasses.

In fact, most times, there is
no blood within the carcasses

themselves.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE
[VOICEOVER]: When you're

dealing with natural
predators, such as coyotes,

you're dealing
with lots of blood.

It's an entirely
different process

and it does not produce these
clean, bloodless incisions.

NARRATOR: Are these
animal mutilations

truly extraordinary?

Or our farmers and
ranchers simply mistaken

about how the animals died?

Dr. Jim Reynolds is a
Professor of Livestock Medicine

at Western University
in Pomona, California.

Over the course
of his career, he

has seen thousands
of animal injuries.

After closely examining
pictures of these mutilations,

he believes many of the animals
died from ordinary disease

or natural predator attacks.

But he says other pictures, like
this one, taken in Caldwell,

Kansas, in 1992, are
harder to explain.

Just looking at the
picture, I can't--

I can't explain
how this happened.

What's strange about
it is that there's

no evidence of hemorrhage or
bleeding around the-- the area.

We don't see any
blood on the tissue.

As a longtime
field veterinarian,

I've not seen this on a
dead cow in my career.

NARRATOR: Another
mutilation case from 1982

also raises questions
for Dr. Reynolds,

because of the surgical fashion
in which the body parts looked

to have been removed.

I can't really explain
the removal of this ear.

It could have been chewed
off by a scavenger.

But I can't really explain.

I would expect, if this
had been chewed off,

that there would be a little
more tissue damage and probably

fresher tissue.

I'm not sure about this one.

NARRATOR: While mainstream
medical professionals

are unsure who or what could be
responsible for these attacks,

ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the answer may be found

by examining strange findings
reported at other mutilation

sites.

Sometimes the animals are
lying on top of charred patches

of ground.

Sometimes those charred
patches are exactly

the same size and shape
as the animals themselves.

Very often, there have been
reports of strange lights

in the sky or on the ground,
in and around the time

where the mutilations
are taking place.

I have come to the
conclusion, the phenomena that

is behind the global animal
mutilations of the last,

at least, 100 years are
extraterrestrial, biological

entities.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that extraterrestrials

are behind the cattle
mutilation phenomenon?

Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

that the evidence
for this conclusion

dates back much further
than just the past 50 years.

The oldest case that
I've been able to discover

is from England in 1606.

This is mentioned in
James I court records.

Hundreds of sheep were
being found strangely slain

and parts were taken away.

But the meat was left behind.

And the particular
passage in the record

has a very interesting
quote at the end.

It said that these cases
or incidents "tendeth

toward fireworks."

NARRATOR: But why would alien
beings that are presumably

thousands of years more
advanced than humans

choose to abduct
and maim animals?

What could they want with
these extracted body parts?

Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe that the explanation

behind this
frightening phenomenon

may be that extraterrestrials
are actually conducting

experiments to
benefit humankind.

One intriguing theory
of the cattle mutilations

is that extraterrestrials might
be monitoring the cattle herd

to try and determine if there
are emerging viruses that could

jump from species to species.

That's to say, they
infect fact the cattle.

And then, when eat cattle
in the form of beef.

And then, we get infected,
which is exactly what happened

with mad cow disease in Britain.

NARRATOR: Could animal
mutilations really

be proof that alien beings are
still present in America today,

continuing to
monitor our progress

and even intervening
in earthly affairs?

Perhaps further
clues can be found

by examining strange events
witnessed by the United States

military.

Malmstrom Air Force
Base, Montana.

March 16th, 1967.

Before dawn, sentries
and maintenance crews

near the base's
nuclear missile silos

see mysterious lights flying
back and forth across the sky.

These lights are so bright
that the men on the ground

can't identify what they are.

But when one of them
takes up a position, just

outside the base's
security fence,

a sentry calls his
superior to report a UFO.

CHRIS PITTMAN
[VOICEOVER]: The people

on the ground were trying to
make sense of this sudden wave

of sightings.

Alarms started going off.

The nuclear weapons
were going off

alert, which means they were
moving into a state in which

they could not have been fired.

When one missile seemed to shut
itself off, it was a huge deal.

There was an uproar.

People thought, well, there are
maintenance crews at this site.

Maybe they're doing work on it
that require taking the missile

offline.

They didn't notify us.

They didn't follow protocol.

But when the other missiles
started to go offline

in rapid succession, they
realized something really

unusual is happening.

In fact, they brought
in teams of engineers

later to try to figure
out what had happened.

STEVEN GREER [VOICEOVER]: This
was documented in memoranda

that went back and forth
between that facility

and NORAD about how
could this happen?

They were trying to
explain how in the world

this has happened, because this
is obviously something that

would be of im--
immense interest

to the national security people
in charge of our weapons.

DON DONDERI [VOICEOVER]:
Boeing, who made the missiles,

could not find what
was wrong with them.

They could duplicate the fault
by sending electronic signals

into one part of the electronic
system of the missile.

But that system was protected
by shielded cables and the rest.

So how they were taken offline
is not known to this day.

NARRATOR: But who, or what, was
responsible for the seemingly

inexplicable nuclear shutdown?

The Washington-based
Disclosure Project

has done detailed research on
encounters between the military

and UFOs.

And based on the evidence, they
are convinced this incident was

an alien encounter.

A UFO, somehow, took offline
and rendered unlaunchable

at least 16 and maybe up to
20 intercontinental ballistic

missiles.

The men who were
there had told me

that it wasn't just that
there was the effect.

They actually did see the UFO.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
aliens at Malmstrom Air Force

Base were trying to
send us a message?

Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe that the high number

of UFO sightings reported
near military installations

indicates that aliens are
not only present in America,

but that they have taken
measures to shape our future.

3, 2, 1.

Ever since we detonated
the first atomic weapon,

UFOs have taken an interest
in our nuclear facilities.

They are wanting to see,
to what extent, we might be

a risk to this planet and to
others who may be out in space

who are peaceful.

Could it be that
extraterrestrials have been

visiting us now in
much greater numbers

since we developed the
capability to annihilate

the planet with nuclear weapons,
specifically to ensure that we

do not do so?

NARRATOR: When a
flurry of UFO sightings

started being reported in
the late 1940s and '50s,

some Native Americans
took it as a warning sign,

based on their own
stories of Star Beings.

In 1948, a Navajo writer named
Oge-Make wrote a magazine

article drawing parallels
between the modern UFO

phenomenon and the experiences
of the Native people

who lived in the Death
Valley area of California.

It describes a past
of the Paiute Indians.

And there was a species of
human who lived in the mountains

on the west side of
Death Valley, who

had a marvelous and
complicated civilization.

It contained vast
rowing boats, as they're

described in this myth,
vast flying machines.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS
[VOICEOVER]: Oge-Make questions

white man's thinking that
stories of flying saucers

and mystery ships
are something new.

And he says, and I quote,
"if you had red skin,

you'd know that
this is not true."

He writes that his people
have been seeing objects

like this in the sky
for thousands of years.

And he basically says
that, for his people,

the idea that aliens
have visited Earth

is not merely a theory,
but it's a fact.

The elder Paiute chief who
told this story said that they

believe that these UFOs have
an interest in our Earth

and that they don't want to
see our environment, our world

destroyed by the actions of man.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the UFOs spotted at Malmstrom

Air Force Base in 1967
were the same entities

that many Native American
tribes refer to as Star Beings

and that they
caused the shutdown

of the nuclear missiles
to send us a message?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say, yes,

and claim that aliens may even
have played a decisive role

in the War of 1812.

According to the Colorado-based
Mutual UFO Network, the largest

UFO investigative
organization in the world,

in the first week of 2012,
reports of UFOs in the United

States suddenly skyrocketed,
with a staggering 233 reports

coming in from 36 states.

And ever since, the numbers
have continued to grow.

If there really are aliens
still visiting Earth today,

have they taken a special
interest in America?

And might they even be helping
to determine our future?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer may be found

by looking back at one of
the most important events

in American history.

Washington DC, 1814.

Two years into the
bloody War of 1812,

the American hopes for victory
over the invading English army

seem to be dying.

And now, the unimaginable
is happening.

A foreign army is poised
to enter Washington DC.

DAVID CHILDRESS [VOICEOVER]:
It was a very hot summer

that year.

The British forces were
able to completely overwhelm

the very young United
States Army at the time.

And they marched
into Washington DC.

President Monroe and all
the other politicians

had left the capital.

And at that time,
the British forces

were finding it basically
a deserted city.

So they began to set
fire to Washington DC,

starting with the White House.

And they were basically gonna
just burn down our nation's

capital.

NARRATOR: The United
States of America,

then just a few decades old,
is on the verge of going down

in flames.

But then, something
strange happens.

That summer day was
a very hot, sultry day.

And at first, they thought this
would really help burn down

Washington DC.

There weren't any
clouds in the sky.

But suddenly, the weather
changed very, very drastically.

Big storm clouds moved in.

It began pouring rain.

And then, suddenly out of
nowhere, this tornado formed.

And it went straight
at the British troops

and forced them to retreat.

And at the same time,
the pelting rain

put out all of the fires.

And Washington DC was saved.

CHRIS PITTMAN
[VOICEOVER]: History books

record this as a stroke
of incredible good luck

for the Americans.

But some ancient alien theorists
believe that perhaps this was

a UFO encounter, that it was an
extraterrestrial intelligence

that created that
storm and changed

the course of that battle
and perhaps American history.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the storm that

helped the United States
win the War of 1812

was actually produced
by extraterrestrials?

And if so, were they
trying to protect

the fragile American experiment?

It's interesting to
speculate that perhaps there

was something about America
that an extraterrestrial

intelligence took interest
in, whether it was freedom

of religion, new ideas about
democracy, about a republic,

or something else that drew
the attention of aliens

and might have made them want
to help this country become

a success.

And I think that that would
really be because the United

States is-- as a country,
was prophecied to exist,

in a sense.

And the extraterrestrials
very much

nurtured the-- this
young United States

and watched its
growth very carefully,

like a parent watching a child
growing up and being very

protective of it too.

And when the extraterrestrials
saw this moment

where the United States could
lose this war and be occupied,

they decided to step
in and change history.

NARRATOR: Could the mysterious
sightings and strange incidents

that have been reported
throughout our history

be evidence of America's
extraterrestrial heritage?

Since the beginning of
recorded history in North

America, we've heard
of these sightings.

And we, today, in
our modern world,

are re-encountering
these same creatures.

And you have to ask, are
they the same beings?

Are they the same creatures that
have been seen for thousands

of years and now we're being
asked to find a place for them

in our world?

I'm totally convinced that
the evidence makes it true,

beyond reasonable doubt, that
we are being reconnoitered

by extraterrestrial
civilizations.

NICK REDFERN [VOICEOVER]:
And the big question

is, why is this?

My personal view is that they
could be teaching us, trying

to upgrade us.

You know, we're pretty
warlike species.

Possibly somebody
from out there might

want to try and harness and
rein in our warlike abilities,

in the event that one day
we head out there as well.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
aliens have been visiting

America and watching
over its inhabitants

throughout human history?

Could there be
evidence that is yet

to be discovered hidden in
caves, on remote cliffs,

or even in the Grand Canyon?

If there really are
extraterrestrials

still visiting Earth
today, might they

be slowly revealing their
presence in an attempt

to prepare us for their return?