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NARRATOR: An ancient land
known for unusual phenomena.

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LYNN PICKNETT: From fairies

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to weird little creatures

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to UFOs,

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you name it, England has it.

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NARRATOR: A modern-day hot
spot for UFO activity.

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WILLIAM HENRY: The Ministry of
Defence and the Royal Air Force

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are intently collecting data
about strange phenomena.

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NARRATOR: A royal family
obsessed with the unexplained.

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GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
For generations,

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that family has had
a high interest in UFOs.

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NARRATOR: Could it be
that, throughout history,

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the island of Great Britain

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has been a destination
for extraterrestrial visitors?

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NICK POPE: The U.K.
is ground zero

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for an awful lot
of alien activity.

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NARRATOR: Over the
course of a week,

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large unidentified drones
are sighted

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and recorded on smartphones at
multiple sites in Great Britain.

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Curiously, the incidents all
occur at U.S. military bases.

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HENRY: From November 20
through 26, 2024,

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a series of unauthorized
drone activities

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took place over four U.S.
Air Force bases in the U.K.

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These bases are critical to U.S.
military operations in Europe.

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And some of the drones
look more like orbs.

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POPE: Now, some of these...

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drones or UFOs

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or orbs or whatever
we want to call them

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were doing strange maneuvers.

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And some people thought, "Could
this be extraterrestrials?"

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The U.K. Ministry of Defence,
of course,

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says there's nothing
to see here.

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But they did not find
a definitive explanation.

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NARRATOR: Great Britain
is considered to be one

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of the most active
UFO hot spots on Earth,

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but government officials
have long insisted

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that they are not concerned
about the reports

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of strange activity in the sky.

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However, ufologists suggest

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the British government's
own files

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tell a very different story,

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one that came to light in 2008,

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when the Ministry of Defence
suddenly released its UFO files.

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The treasure trove of documents

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revealed that the
British government

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was far more interested in UFOs
than it was letting on.

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The MoD released 60,000
files on the subject.

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Which basically backs up
the assertion over the years

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that they've been researching

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all sorts of
anomalous phenomena.

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HENRY: The Ministry of Defence and
the RAF, the Royal Air Force,

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are intently collecting
data about UFOs.

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In fact, RAF personnel
are directly involved.

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Pilots, radar operators
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to investigate these sightings,

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and it's very clear that
the Ministry of Defence

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had taken UFOs very
seriously this whole time.

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NARRATOR: Today, the British
Ministry of Defence

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has files on military personnel
encountering UFOs

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going back more
than eight decades.

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And much like the
2024 drone sightings,

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the most famous occurred
at a Royal Air Force base

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where American soldiers
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(birds chirping)

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(owl hooting)
-Shortly after midnight,

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military personnel
at RAF Woodbridge,

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80 miles northeast of London,

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detect an anomalous object
on their radar.

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It was seen above
the nearby forest

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of this air base at
Woodbridge in Suffolk.

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And airmen were sent out
in a vehicle to investigate,

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and they came across
this clearing

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in which was this otherworldly
object surrounded with light.

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This object rose up slightly

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and then moved backwards
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(indistinct transmission) -And
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more and more sightings occurred.
-(beeping)

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This was an amazing sighting

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because, of course, it was
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(indistinct transmission) -There are
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who are either direct
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or were involved in a
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GRAHAM PHILLIPS: The whole episode
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by the deputy base commander,

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Lieutenant Colonel Halt.

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Now, that's very unusual.

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NARRATOR: The Rendlesham
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is one of the most discussed
UFO events on record.

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But it is only one of many
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near British military bases.

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In fact, two other
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were witnessed from a base
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from Rendlesham.
-(crickets chirping)

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On August 13, 1956,

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British Royal Air Force officers
stationed at RAF Bentwaters

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detected 15 unidentified flying
objects on their radar screen

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racing along the coastline.

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POPE: Military jets were scrambled
to try and intercept these things.

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At one point, one of the
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at speeds of around
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That was way faster than
anything anyone had at the time.

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And reliable witnesses,
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see them. They're simultaneously
tracked on radar.

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At one point, these things
are going in formation,

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and then they appear to converge
and form a single object.

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NARRATOR: Just one month
later, the Royal Air Force

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tracked another mysterious
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in the same area. -(beeping)

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radar operators at an RAF base

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picked up an 80-foot
cylindrical object.

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They scrambled jets
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When the jets arrived,
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at extreme speeds out of sight.

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POPE: This is just the
tip of the iceberg.

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You can dip into the
archive of files,

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and there's report after
report after report.

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NARRATOR: If the
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has witnessed so many
unexplainable events,

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why has the government
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to have no interest in UFOs?

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Ufologists say the answer
can be found by examining

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the earliest British military
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which were reported
during World War II.

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The crew of a Lancaster Bomber
based at RAF Syerston

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reportedly sees a massive,
torpedo-shaped object

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during a bombing mission.

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DAVID CLARKE: They were on a
bombing raid on Turin in Italy,

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and they saw what they described
as an enormous object.

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And it was surrounded
by red lights.

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It was about 200 feet
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And it seemed to sort
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And they saw it again
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NARRATOR: Files
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indicate that the
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received numerous reports
of mysterious flying objects...

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...including one witnessed by an
RAF reconnaissance plane in 1944

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that allegedly included
photographs.

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HENRY: The pilot and
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this mysterious metallic object

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that seems to be pacing
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It's spherical. It's smooth.

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It has no wings.

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There is no obvious mechanism

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for it to be moving
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And they take a
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this photograph makes its way up
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of the Ministry of Defence

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all the way to the desk
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ZETTERSTROM: Files released show
that Prime Minister Churchill

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was being briefed on these
encounters during World War II.

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He was worried that any
release of information

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would lead to mass hysteria,
public panic.

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So he covered up every
UFO sighting that happened.

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He put a blanket secrecy ban

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on reporting on UFOs
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NARRATOR: While
Winston Churchill

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wanted to hide UFO sightings
from the public,

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he also felt it was important
to study them

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and initiated government-funded
projects to do just that.

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HENRY: During the 1950s,
while the British public

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is told "there's
nothing to see here,"

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the RAF and the Ministry
of Defence

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are taking proactive action.

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They create the Flying Saucer
Working Party

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to document these sightings.

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This is immediately followed
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which lasted until 1953,

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which also was documenting
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DAVID CHILDRESS: This implies
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was taking UFO activity
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They were studying it,

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and they were keeping what
they knew about it secret.

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NARRATOR: While many
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the British government
is still keeping secret

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their most explosive UFO files,

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civilian research groups
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thousands of
unexplained incidents.

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And some of the most intriguing
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over the course of a decade.

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(crickets chirping)

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NARRATOR: Local resident
Mildred Head is startled awake

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by an unnerving noise coming
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At first, it resembles
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brushing against the roof tiles,

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but it quickly grows
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It sounded like thousands
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being ripped off and
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Utterly terrifying.

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And, also, there was a vibration
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CHILDRESS: It was like her
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by hailstones or something.

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But when she looked outside,
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you know, a clear sky.

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NARRATOR: The only explanation
Mildred could come up with

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for the frightening event

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was that the noise may
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of military testing at a
nearby Royal Air Force base.

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That is, until her
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had a strange experience
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POPE: The very next day,

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Marjorie Bye was going to church

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when she was assaulted by
a-a series of strange vibrations

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that she felt reverberating
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dozens of other witnesses

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in and around Warminster
reported the same thing.

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It was as if some unseen force

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was just taking hold of
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TSOUKALOS: Residents of
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humming or droning noises.

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They heard whistling sounds.

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They saw lights up
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NARRATOR: Unable to explain
what they were experiencing,

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more than 300 residents
assembled a town hall meeting

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demanding answers.

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The most disturbing factor is
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have been frightened
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If tonight we can contribute
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to the explanation
of these phenomena,

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it might be able
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you have nothing
to be alarmed about.

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NARRATOR: At a loss for what
to call the various phenomena,

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they simply referred to them
collectively as "the Thing."

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Eventually, the national papers
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People started flocking
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and they would do
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And very often, they would see

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these mysterious lights
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NARRATOR: Finally,
in September 1965,

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residents got their best glimpse
of the mysterious Thing.

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CLARKE: There was a classic
photograph of a disc-shaped object

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that was taken
by Gordon Faulkner.

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And the Daily Mirror immediately
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Big splash.

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Warminster became the place
to go and see flying saucers.

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It was the first sort of UFO
hot spot in the British Isles.

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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the frightening vibrations,

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strange sounds, and unusual
lights experienced in Warminster

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were caused by an
extraterrestrial presence?

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Some researchers believe

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further clues were provided
roughly a decade later

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when a mountain village
to the north witnessed

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what many suggest was
an otherworldly event.

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Llandrillo, Wales.

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January 23, 1974.

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It's a quiet evening
in this rural community

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when residents are
suddenly shaken

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by an extraordinary event.

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NICK REDFERN: A number of
people in the area perceived

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something anomalous
like a fleet of UFOs.

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Now, at the same time that
these strange lights were seen,

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whatever they were,

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there was an impact on
the Berwyn Mountains.

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NARRATOR: According
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the police and military

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showed up just minutes
after the impact.

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REDFERN: We have stories of convoys
of military personnel in the area,

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of roads being blocked off by
the military and by the police.

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The most controversial
story of all

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came from a British military
officer, James Prescott.

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Now, according to Prescott,

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the military recovered
the remains of a crashed UFO

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and a number of
dead alien bodies.

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NARRATOR: Dead alien bodies?

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Is it possible that the
impact in Llandrillo

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was caused by an
extraterrestrial spacecraft?

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And if so, does this lend
further support to the notion

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that the strange phenomena

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experienced in the nearby town
of Warminster

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have an otherworldly
explanation?

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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

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the answer is a resounding yes.

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And they claim another
high-profile UFO event

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provides compelling evidence
that this alien presence

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was well-known to the
British government.

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Two hikers are just outside

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the small Scottish village
of Calvine

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when they see something
unusual flying across the sky.

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Amazed, they quickly
grab a camera

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and snap several photographs
of the object.

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HENRY: This photograph
from the Calvine hills

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in Scotland is crystal clear,

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it's in color,

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it shows this just
magical-looking,

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100-foot-long
diamond-shaped craft

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that is clear as a bell.

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NARRATOR: The two hikers
brought the photographs

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to Scotland's largest newspaper,
the Daily Record,

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so they could share
their sighting with the public.

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LINDA MOULTON HOWE: They
had six photographs,

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and they go to the
local newspaper

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to have them published.

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And for reasons that are
still not clear to this day,

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this Scotland newspaper

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calls the Ministry of Defence
in London,

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and they are ordered to send
the photos and the negatives

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from the newspaper to
somebody in the government.

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NARRATOR: Among the people
who saw the six photographs

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was former Ministry of Defence
UFO Investigator Nick Pope,

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who was present for classified
briefings regarding the images.

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POPE: The photographs
and the negatives

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went to JARIC,

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which is Joint Air
Reconnaissance

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and Intelligence Center.

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This is part of the
intelligence community

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that specializes
in imagery analysis.

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Their opinion was that
this was not a fake,

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these were genuine pictures.

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NARRATOR: The sensational photographs
would remain hidden for decades,

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until August 15, 2022,

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when Newsweek magazine
published one of the photographs

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with the headline,
"'Best' UFO Picture Ever,

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the Calvine Photo,
Found After 30 Years Missing."

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In 2022, a former Royal
Air Force press officer

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named Craig Lindsay
actually came forward

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and said that he had
in his possession

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a copy of one of the
Calvine UFO photos,

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and he decided he wanted
to release it to the public.

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NARRATOR: The Warminster Thing.

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The Berwyn Mountains incident.

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The Calvine UFO photo.

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Is it possible that
otherworldly beings

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are somehow attracted
to the British Isles?

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Perhaps further clues
can be found

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by examining one area
of Great Britain

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that experiences UFO sightings
on a near-daily basis.

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NARRATOR: This historic county

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is the largest in
the United Kingdom.

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Known for medieval abbeys,

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Norman castles

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and stunning national parks,

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the vast landscape here
is also rich

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with legends of strange beings,

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bizarre lights in the sky

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and even UFOs.

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Yorkshire is in
Northern England,

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and it's a county that is famous

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for strange events
going back centuries.

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Reports of little people,

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mysterious lights up in the sky,

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people seeing these strange,
werewolf-like figures,

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Bigfoot-type creatures
that come and go.

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It's a very strange place.

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PHILLIPS: There is ancient
burial mound in Yorkshire

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called Willy Howe.

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And back in the 1200s,

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a man had been walking
home one night...

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...and he saw lights
coming out of this mound.

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And he went into the mound

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where he saw strange beings.

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Fairy folk, if you like.

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He claimed to have seen
these inside the mound.

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PICKNETT: England has
a very rich tradition

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of fairy folk, um, going back
into the mists of time.

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And it's interesting, though,

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that the way encounters
with these fairy folk,

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or whatever we might call them,
the way they're expressed

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is very, very similar
over the years

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to descriptions of
encounters with aliens.

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NARRATOR: Reports of mysterious
phenomena in Yorkshire

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are found throughout
the historical record,

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from ancient times right
up until the present day.

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In an effort to
better understand

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what has been happening here,

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private investigator
Paul Sinclair and his team

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began researching and
surveilling the area in 2009.

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I originally spent a lot of time

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on the East and North
Yorkshire Wolds,

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because farmers in the area

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reported seeing
the anomalous lights,

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the structured-type crafts.

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But then I got speaking
to Coast Guard,

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fishermen, trawlermen,
people walking the coastline,

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and they started reporting
seeing strange anomalous lights,

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UFOs, all manner of things.

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Going back through the local
archives of the newspapers

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reveals that lots and lots
of unexplained phenomena

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have been seen and
are reported there.

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Not just in recent times,

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not just since I've
been researching it,

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but going back
decades and decades,

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there's a long history of strange
and anomalous phenomena.

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Paul Sinclair has been
researching this area

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for a very, very long time

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and come up with some
remarkable video footage

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of lights in the sky, UFOs

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and everything else
you could think of.

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NARRATOR: Paul and his team set
up cameras around the cliff tops

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along the North Sea to try
and document the objects

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seen near the coastline.

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During one night in 2020,

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what they captured
was particularly intriguing.

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It were just a typical night
by the team.

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We go up there,
we set up cameras

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and we hope that the phenomena
might present.

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SINCLAIR: There!
-And on this occasion, it did.

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But these lights, very often,
they're a bright amber color.

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Or red, or-or white, and, uh,

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the white ones that you
can see in the film

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were actually more
of an amber color.

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But the lights
present as one light

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that doesn't fly from anywhere,

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and then it punches
into a multiple

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of four, five and six,

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switches off.

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So, luckily, we managed to film
that little sequence of events

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on "Lights Filmed Off Bempton,"

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and it's quite exciting
when you do actually see

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these unexplained phenomena.

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NARRATOR: Sinclair and his team

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have not only captured
strange lights above the sea

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but have also documented
orbs of light

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submerged below the
surface of the water.

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I was walking along the
cliff tops with my friend

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and former police officer
Dave Barnes.

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And Dave saw the object
rise out of the water.

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Stopped momentarily and told me.

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I had the camera in hand,
started filming,

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I think, soon as it
started to move.

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And the entire sequence
of events

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lasted about 90 seconds.

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So-- and we estimated the speed
to cover six miles in 90 seconds

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was about 240 miles per hour.

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Now it seems to turn in
and drop into the sea.

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SINCLAIR: So we've got an object
that's gone below the surface,

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risen from the sea,
traveled six miles

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and then gone below the surface.

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We have footage of objects

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beneath the surface
of the water,

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or luminous light
beneath the surface,

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and we've no explanation
for that.

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We've filmed that
on three occasions.

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Paul Sinclair has got,
uh, videos of these UFOs

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and lights, you know,
going into the water.

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So that makes you wonder,

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is there possibly some
underwater UFO base

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in Yorkshire that has been there
for thousands of years?

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NARRATOR: Sinclair has catalogued
hundreds of video recordings

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featuring similar anomalous
lights and craft in the area.

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You have to wonder, is there
something at Yorkshire

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or around Yorkshire
that is attracting

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these sightings and
making it a hot spot?

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Perhaps some kind of a portal

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or a gateway that leads
to other locations in the stars.

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NARRATOR: What can account
for the abundance of strange

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and perhaps
extraterrestrial activity

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that has been reported in
Yorkshire going back centuries?

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And is it possible that
there is a connection

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to the region's mysterious
earthen mounds?

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Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

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that the answer can be found

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in the ancient stone circles
of Britain.

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NARRATOR: England is home
to many iconic structures

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that stand testament
to a once-great empire,

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like Buckingham Palace,

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Big Ben

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and Windsor Castle.

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But perhaps the most famous site
in all of Great Britain

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is the ancient
megalithic stone circle

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known as Stonehenge.

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Constructed roughly
5,000 years ago,

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the mysterious monument
consists of massive monoliths

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that each weigh over 30 tons.

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It's an astonishing feat
of engineering,

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and exactly how it was built
remains unknown.

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NEWMAN: Stonehenge is unique,

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it's perfectly circular,

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it's designed with
precision-engineered carving

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and astronomical alignments,

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and it really stands out

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as the kind of symbol
of ancient Britain.

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NARRATOR: Stonehenge
is one of more than 1,300

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ancient stone circles

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that can be found throughout
the British Isles.

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But why they were built
remains a mystery.

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Some believe the stone circles

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were meant to act as calendars
and track celestial events,

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but some researchers suggest

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they served a far more
profound purpose.

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In 1979, engineer Michael W.
Saunders

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proposed that Stonehenge
is a cosmic map

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that is encoded with advanced
knowledge of our solar system.

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TSOUKALOS: With Stonehenge,
we have a representation

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of our entire solar system.

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Each circle corresponds
with one of our planets

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inside our solar system.

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In fact, in the
position of Pluto,

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there is a stone monument there.

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So, how is that possible?

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The ancient astronaut theory
proposes

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this knowledge was given
by visiting extraterrestrials

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that descended from the sky
in glowing orbs at that time.

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NARRATOR: Do ancient stone
circles like Stonehenge

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have a connection
to extraterrestrials?

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Curiously, visitors
to these mysterious sites

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often report encountering
otherworldly phenomena.

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What we find is that
these prehistoric sites

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seem to be located
where mysterious lights,

503
00:27:50,917 --> 00:27:55,542
plasma orbs, UFOs,
are seen on a regular basis.

504
00:27:55,708 --> 00:28:00,333
Not just in the modern day,
but historically, as well.

505
00:28:00,417 --> 00:28:05,125
So, it seems very clear
that places like Stonehenge

506
00:28:05,292 --> 00:28:09,167
were constructed
with this phenomena in mind.

507
00:28:09,292 --> 00:28:11,667
In other words, the ancients
may well have built

508
00:28:11,875 --> 00:28:14,458
these monuments
to actually connect

509
00:28:14,583 --> 00:28:16,125
with this type of phenomena

510
00:28:16,292 --> 00:28:18,750
and the intelligences
involved with them.

511
00:28:18,917 --> 00:28:23,500
NARRATOR: Could Great Britain's
many megalithic stone circles

512
00:28:23,625 --> 00:28:28,458
be somehow facilitating contact
with otherworldly beings?

513
00:28:28,625 --> 00:28:31,000
Perhaps further clues
can be found

514
00:28:31,208 --> 00:28:34,375
by examining other
mysterious circles,

515
00:28:34,542 --> 00:28:39,250
the kind that suddenly appear
in fields overnight.

516
00:28:39,417 --> 00:28:41,625
COLLINS: Crop circles
is a subject

517
00:28:41,792 --> 00:28:44,833
that is very much
associated with Britain.

518
00:28:45,042 --> 00:28:49,875
From the 1980s through
to the present day,

519
00:28:50,042 --> 00:28:52,333
hundreds of them
appear across the country,

520
00:28:52,542 --> 00:28:54,875
most of them focused in the area

521
00:28:55,042 --> 00:29:00,250
around the stone circles
of Stonehenge and also Avebury.

522
00:29:00,417 --> 00:29:04,000
But this is a historical
phenomenon as well.

523
00:29:04,208 --> 00:29:07,125
There are accounts
from the 17th century

524
00:29:07,292 --> 00:29:11,083
of the so-called
"devil circles" appearing.

525
00:29:12,542 --> 00:29:14,417
RICHARD TAYLOR: In terms of
the patterns themselves,

526
00:29:14,583 --> 00:29:17,625
they've been undergoing
this amazing sort of ramp-up

527
00:29:17,750 --> 00:29:19,333
in sophistication.

528
00:29:19,542 --> 00:29:23,833
You can find these huge,
what they call pictographs,

529
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,750
that span hundreds of feet
across a whole field

530
00:29:26,958 --> 00:29:29,458
and feature multiple components,

531
00:29:29,625 --> 00:29:33,458
and they're arranged
with mathematical precision.

532
00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:37,333
NARRATOR: While some crop
circles are man-made,

533
00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:41,208
many defy such
a simple explanation.

534
00:30:05,750 --> 00:30:09,042
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the phenomena

535
00:30:09,208 --> 00:30:11,917
reported at stone circles,

536
00:30:12,083 --> 00:30:14,958
along with modern
crop circle accounts,

537
00:30:15,125 --> 00:30:17,833
provide evidence that Britain
has long been a place

538
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,583
of alien visitation.

539
00:30:20,708 --> 00:30:24,667
TSOUKALOS: The fact that
you have Stonehenge,

540
00:30:24,833 --> 00:30:27,125
you have the Warminster Thing...

541
00:30:29,708 --> 00:30:33,458
TSOUKALOS: ...you have the
events happening in Yorkshire,

542
00:30:33,583 --> 00:30:36,375
to me, indicates that
something is going on,

543
00:30:36,542 --> 00:30:39,417
and it's been going on
for thousands of years,

544
00:30:39,583 --> 00:30:45,375
and our ancestors misinterpreted
these visitors as gods.

545
00:30:45,542 --> 00:30:49,417
They were not gods, they
were just space travelers.

546
00:30:51,042 --> 00:30:52,375
NARRATOR: Are the many
modern-day reports

547
00:30:52,542 --> 00:30:56,958
of UFOs and other strange
anomalies in Great Britain

548
00:30:57,125 --> 00:30:59,250
connected to alien contact

549
00:30:59,417 --> 00:31:02,792
that first happened
thousands of years ago?

550
00:31:02,958 --> 00:31:06,000
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

551
00:31:06,208 --> 00:31:08,458
and they believe
further evidence lies

552
00:31:08,667 --> 00:31:10,667
within the historical records

553
00:31:10,833 --> 00:31:13,375
of the royal family.

554
00:31:22,667 --> 00:31:25,417
NARRATOR: Thousands gather
outside Westminster Abbey

555
00:31:25,583 --> 00:31:30,417
to receive their newly
crowned queen, Elizabeth I.

556
00:31:30,542 --> 00:31:32,625
Queen Elizabeth's
monarchy will be

557
00:31:32,792 --> 00:31:35,917
one of the most consequential
in England's history,

558
00:31:36,125 --> 00:31:39,250
and mark the beginning
of the British Empire.

559
00:31:40,208 --> 00:31:41,667
Throughout her reign,

560
00:31:41,875 --> 00:31:43,542
she will rely heavily
on the counsel

561
00:31:43,750 --> 00:31:47,583
of her trusted advisor who
chose this coronation date,

562
00:31:47,750 --> 00:31:52,708
a famous astrologer
and alchemist named John Dee.

563
00:31:53,708 --> 00:31:58,208
PHILLIPS: John Dee told her to
build up the navy, she did.

564
00:31:58,417 --> 00:32:00,708
He said that they should
start to expand

565
00:32:00,875 --> 00:32:03,250
into North America,
which they did.

566
00:32:04,292 --> 00:32:06,875
Basically, his advice
to Queen Elizabeth

567
00:32:07,042 --> 00:32:09,083
began the British Empire.

568
00:32:09,292 --> 00:32:12,667
Now, apparently, the advice
didn't come from him.

569
00:32:12,833 --> 00:32:15,333
He said it came from "angels."

570
00:32:16,375 --> 00:32:19,375
COLLINS: John Dee would
communicate with angels

571
00:32:19,542 --> 00:32:23,292
coming through
and delivering messages.

572
00:32:23,458 --> 00:32:27,833
And not just simple messages
but a whole cipher system

573
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,167
of, like, this sort of angelic
alphabet was brought through.

574
00:32:33,208 --> 00:32:35,167
CHILDRESS: You have to
wonder, were these angels

575
00:32:35,375 --> 00:32:37,750
perhaps extraterrestrials?

576
00:32:37,875 --> 00:32:42,167
And these extraterrestrials
were encouraging Britain

577
00:32:42,375 --> 00:32:45,708
to colonize the entire planet?

578
00:32:49,083 --> 00:32:51,083
NARRATOR: Could it
be that John Dee

579
00:32:51,292 --> 00:32:54,208
received guidance from
extraterrestrial beings

580
00:32:54,375 --> 00:32:57,667
who were directing the course
of the British Empire?

581
00:32:57,875 --> 00:33:02,458
For ancient astronaut theorists,
it is a compelling possibility,

582
00:33:02,625 --> 00:33:06,083
especially when considering
that, throughout the history

583
00:33:06,250 --> 00:33:08,000
of the British royal family,

584
00:33:08,208 --> 00:33:11,167
numerous otherworldly encounters
were recorded,

585
00:33:11,333 --> 00:33:15,792
like a curious entry found
in the 19th-century diary

586
00:33:15,958 --> 00:33:17,667
of Prince Albert.

587
00:33:18,708 --> 00:33:22,500
Prince Albert was the consort
of Queen Victoria,

588
00:33:22,708 --> 00:33:26,625
probably one of the most famous
British queens of all time,

589
00:33:26,750 --> 00:33:32,083
and he went on the record to say
that he had seen strange lights

590
00:33:32,250 --> 00:33:34,792
dancing around in the skies.

591
00:33:34,917 --> 00:33:38,125
We didn't have the
term "UFO" then,

592
00:33:38,292 --> 00:33:40,542
but it's a UFO sighting.

593
00:33:40,708 --> 00:33:43,375
This is UFOs by
royal appointment.

594
00:33:44,958 --> 00:33:48,000
NARRATOR: Prince Albert's
grandson, Prince George V,

595
00:33:48,208 --> 00:33:52,250
also recorded a very
unusual sighting in the sky.

596
00:33:53,250 --> 00:33:56,250
POPE: On June 11, 1881,

597
00:33:56,375 --> 00:34:00,375
Prince George, who would later
become King George V,

598
00:34:00,542 --> 00:34:04,167
saw a UFO from a
Royal Navy ship,

599
00:34:04,333 --> 00:34:08,375
and he actually recorded this
in the ship's log.

600
00:34:09,542 --> 00:34:12,333
Two other vessels
also witnessed this,

601
00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:14,042
and signaled across, you know,

602
00:34:14,250 --> 00:34:16,417
"C-Can you see
these lights as well?"

603
00:34:16,583 --> 00:34:19,500
So, this was seen
from multiple angles,

604
00:34:19,583 --> 00:34:21,542
and it was there for some hours
and then, eventually,

605
00:34:21,708 --> 00:34:23,417
it disappeared.

606
00:34:25,458 --> 00:34:28,667
NARRATOR: The accounts of Prince
Albert and Prince George V

607
00:34:28,833 --> 00:34:31,583
are just two of many
strange encounters

608
00:34:31,792 --> 00:34:35,625
associated with members
of the British monarchy.

609
00:34:35,792 --> 00:34:39,708
And the royal family has
maintained an interest in UFOs

610
00:34:39,875 --> 00:34:43,750
and the unexplained right
up to the present day.

611
00:34:43,917 --> 00:34:48,125
When Prince Philip, the husband
of Queen Elizabeth II,

612
00:34:48,333 --> 00:34:51,167
passed away in 2021,

613
00:34:51,375 --> 00:34:54,500
it came to light that he had
a lifelong fascination

614
00:34:54,625 --> 00:34:57,458
with otherworldly phenomena.

615
00:35:00,417 --> 00:35:04,667
POPE: Prince Philip was
extremely interested in UFOs,

616
00:35:04,875 --> 00:35:07,333
clearly believed in them.

617
00:35:07,458 --> 00:35:11,083
He actually sent his royal
equerry, Sir Peter Horsley,

618
00:35:11,250 --> 00:35:14,458
to interview a number
of UFO witnesses.

619
00:35:15,958 --> 00:35:17,292
NARRATOR: Why has
the royal family

620
00:35:17,417 --> 00:35:19,750
maintained such a
strong interest

621
00:35:19,875 --> 00:35:22,250
in potentially
extraterrestrial phenomena

622
00:35:22,458 --> 00:35:25,167
for so many generations?

623
00:35:25,375 --> 00:35:28,667
Perhaps further clues can
be found by examining

624
00:35:28,833 --> 00:35:32,750
one of the British monarchy's
most mysterious traditions.

625
00:35:35,750 --> 00:35:39,333
May 6, 2023.

626
00:35:40,375 --> 00:35:42,417
Thousands of people
line the streets of London

627
00:35:42,542 --> 00:35:44,500
to watch as King Charles III

628
00:35:44,667 --> 00:35:47,750
travels to Westminster Abbey
for his coronation.

629
00:35:48,792 --> 00:35:52,000
The private ceremony
is rich with ancient traditions

630
00:35:52,167 --> 00:35:54,458
dating back thousands of years,

631
00:35:54,625 --> 00:35:59,958
and involves mysterious relics,
like the Stone of Destiny,

632
00:36:00,083 --> 00:36:01,833
believed to connect the new king

633
00:36:02,042 --> 00:36:03,750
to his divinely granted
authority.

634
00:36:05,250 --> 00:36:08,167
PICKNETT: King Charles
III was crowned

635
00:36:08,375 --> 00:36:10,458
sitting on a throne
that incorporated

636
00:36:10,625 --> 00:36:14,125
the Stone of Destiny,
or the Stone of Scone,

637
00:36:14,250 --> 00:36:17,292
which is a very
ancient tradition,

638
00:36:17,458 --> 00:36:19,167
and all British monarchs

639
00:36:19,375 --> 00:36:21,958
have been crowned
sitting on-on that.

640
00:36:23,375 --> 00:36:26,000
Now, there are all sorts
of incredible,

641
00:36:26,167 --> 00:36:28,375
mysterious, romantic rumors

642
00:36:28,542 --> 00:36:31,833
about where the Stone of Scone
comes from.

643
00:36:32,792 --> 00:36:34,500
COLLINS: According
to some accounts,

644
00:36:34,625 --> 00:36:38,417
it had been brought
from the Middle East,

645
00:36:38,625 --> 00:36:42,375
and was originally
the stone pillow

646
00:36:42,583 --> 00:36:45,667
that the biblical figure Jacob

647
00:36:45,833 --> 00:36:50,000
had actually rested his head on
and fallen asleep

648
00:36:50,125 --> 00:36:51,667
and seen the angels

649
00:36:51,792 --> 00:36:55,958
moving between Earth
and heaven on a ladder.

650
00:36:56,958 --> 00:36:58,958
TSOUKALOS: What is
this connection here?

651
00:36:59,125 --> 00:37:02,083
Is it possible that this stone

652
00:37:02,292 --> 00:37:06,083
was part of an event
long, long ago

653
00:37:06,250 --> 00:37:10,375
where a first contact scenario
happened with extraterrestrials,

654
00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:14,875
and this is why this stone
retains such power?

655
00:37:16,208 --> 00:37:18,083
And by power, I don't mean

656
00:37:18,250 --> 00:37:20,625
that the stone itself
is powerful

657
00:37:20,792 --> 00:37:23,625
The story behind it is powerful.

658
00:37:23,750 --> 00:37:27,167
NARRATOR: Could it be
that this ancient stone

659
00:37:27,375 --> 00:37:29,833
that has been used in
coronation ceremonies

660
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,833
for hundreds of years

661
00:37:32,042 --> 00:37:36,167
symbolizes a connection
between the British royal family

662
00:37:36,375 --> 00:37:39,167
and otherworldly beings?

663
00:37:39,375 --> 00:37:43,208
And if so, might the rise
of the British Empire

664
00:37:43,375 --> 00:37:47,375
have been part
of an alien agenda?

665
00:37:53,792 --> 00:37:55,792
NARRATOR: Today,
the United Kingdom

666
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,208
controls 14 small
overseas territories,

667
00:37:59,375 --> 00:38:02,792
in places like Bermuda
and Antarctica.

668
00:38:03,750 --> 00:38:06,208
But Great Britain
was once the center

669
00:38:06,375 --> 00:38:08,833
of history's largest empire.

670
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,417
POPE: The British Empire
was one of the greatest,

671
00:38:11,625 --> 00:38:15,833
perhaps the greatest empire
the world has ever seen.

672
00:38:16,875 --> 00:38:22,167
The map was largely colored red
with all our colonies.

673
00:38:22,375 --> 00:38:23,542
HENRY: By the 19th century,

674
00:38:23,708 --> 00:38:25,542
the British Empire was so vast

675
00:38:25,708 --> 00:38:27,667
and covered so many time zones

676
00:38:27,833 --> 00:38:30,083
that it was always
daylight somewhere.

677
00:38:30,292 --> 00:38:33,208
This gave rise to
this famous saying,

678
00:38:33,375 --> 00:38:36,542
"The sun never sets
on the British Empire."

679
00:38:37,542 --> 00:38:40,667
NARRATOR: At its
height in the 1920s,

680
00:38:40,875 --> 00:38:44,542
the British Empire ruled
over 400 million people

681
00:38:44,708 --> 00:38:48,875
and had territories
in 24% of the world.

682
00:38:49,042 --> 00:38:53,875
Its global reach was unlike
anything that had come before.

683
00:38:54,042 --> 00:38:57,042
But the heart of
this vast empire,

684
00:38:57,208 --> 00:38:58,792
the island of Great Britain,

685
00:38:58,958 --> 00:39:00,958
shares at least one
thing in common

686
00:39:01,083 --> 00:39:03,667
with the power centers
of the ancient world:

687
00:39:03,875 --> 00:39:09,458
an unusually high number
of encounters with UFOs

688
00:39:09,625 --> 00:39:12,083
and other strange phenomena.

689
00:39:13,042 --> 00:39:15,125
It's interesting
that when we look back

690
00:39:15,250 --> 00:39:17,917
at the world's
greatest empires--

691
00:39:18,083 --> 00:39:21,500
the Egyptians, the Greeks
and the Romans--

692
00:39:21,708 --> 00:39:25,042
these were places where there
were records of encounters

693
00:39:25,167 --> 00:39:28,708
with otherworldly beings
and supernatural energies.

694
00:39:29,833 --> 00:39:32,333
And this is true of
Great Britain as well.

695
00:39:32,542 --> 00:39:35,333
Maybe it's just my bias,
because I'm English,

696
00:39:35,458 --> 00:39:38,375
but it does seem to be
a particular hot spot

697
00:39:38,583 --> 00:39:40,500
for all manner of
anomalous phenomena

698
00:39:40,667 --> 00:39:44,042
from fairies to ghosts

699
00:39:44,208 --> 00:39:46,625
to aliens to UFOs.

700
00:39:46,792 --> 00:39:49,542
You name it, England has it.

701
00:39:50,583 --> 00:39:52,583
NARRATOR: Could it be more
than mere coincidence

702
00:39:52,708 --> 00:39:55,792
that this island that is home
to so many mysteries

703
00:39:55,958 --> 00:39:59,167
gave rise to an empire
that spanned the globe?

704
00:39:59,292 --> 00:40:01,667
Human history is about

705
00:40:01,875 --> 00:40:04,083
the rise and fall of empires,

706
00:40:04,250 --> 00:40:08,000
beginning with the Sumerian,
the Mesopotamian empire,

707
00:40:08,208 --> 00:40:10,708
running through Egypt,

708
00:40:10,875 --> 00:40:12,917
Greece,

709
00:40:13,083 --> 00:40:14,333
the Roman Empire,

710
00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:17,375
all the way up to
the British Empire.

711
00:40:17,583 --> 00:40:18,875
And in all of these instances,

712
00:40:19,042 --> 00:40:22,833
you find a remarkable,
consistent fact:

713
00:40:23,042 --> 00:40:25,833
these empires were influenced
by extraterrestrials

714
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,417
who had a hand in the
rise of the empire

715
00:40:29,583 --> 00:40:31,500
and the stability of the empire.

716
00:40:33,042 --> 00:40:36,292
POPE: What interest
could aliens have

717
00:40:36,458 --> 00:40:40,000
in establishing the
British empire?

718
00:40:40,125 --> 00:40:43,583
It comes back to the point
that extraterrestrials

719
00:40:43,708 --> 00:40:47,167
seem interested
in human society.

720
00:40:47,333 --> 00:40:51,000
Look at all the UFO hot spots,

721
00:40:51,125 --> 00:40:54,292
all the classic encounters,
and so many of them

722
00:40:54,417 --> 00:40:57,625
revolve around
ancient civilizations.

723
00:40:57,792 --> 00:41:01,000
Not necessarily individuals,
but civilizations.

724
00:41:01,208 --> 00:41:03,958
As if extraterrestrials
have an agenda.

725
00:41:05,042 --> 00:41:09,292
TSOUKALOS: So, what is the
underlying connection here?

726
00:41:09,458 --> 00:41:10,958
Your guess is as good as mine.

727
00:41:11,125 --> 00:41:12,542
But we definitely know

728
00:41:12,667 --> 00:41:16,167
that this contact is not new.

729
00:41:16,333 --> 00:41:18,750
And in the case of Britain,

730
00:41:18,917 --> 00:41:22,417
it's been going on
not for hundreds of years

731
00:41:22,583 --> 00:41:25,042
but for thousands of years.

732
00:41:26,708 --> 00:41:28,583
NARRATOR: Does Great
Britain's rich history

733
00:41:28,792 --> 00:41:30,958
of unexplained phenomena

734
00:41:31,125 --> 00:41:34,458
reveal that it has long been
a place of significance

735
00:41:34,625 --> 00:41:36,833
for otherworldly visitors?

736
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,833
Could it be that,
thousands of years ago,

737
00:41:41,042 --> 00:41:44,583
Britain's ancient stone circles
were built to mark sites

738
00:41:44,750 --> 00:41:48,083
of contact with
extraterrestrials?

739
00:41:48,250 --> 00:41:53,250
And might this interaction
be continuing to this very day?

740
00:41:54,292 --> 00:41:56,500
Perhaps this island
of ancient mysteries

741
00:41:56,708 --> 00:41:58,583
and modern UFO activity

742
00:41:58,708 --> 00:42:01,500
will be the place
where we will one day

743
00:42:01,667 --> 00:42:06,417
be reunited with our
alien ancestors.

744
00:42:06,542 --> 00:42:08,292
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