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Fire!
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[ Man Narrating ]
A people torn apart'.
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[ Man ] Not a household
in the North or the South...
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was not touched by blood
in this conflict.
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[ Narrator] A no' the future of a nation
hanging in the balance.
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[ Man ]
That Union, for it to fail...
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that meant that the concepts
of democracy...
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would fail throughout the world.
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[ Narrator] The Civil War nearly
destroyed the great experiment...
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known as the United States of America...
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but might there have even been
more at stake than we know?
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Could it be that the preservation
of the Union...
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was ensured
by extraterrestrial beings?
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[ Man ] it's possible that extraterrestrials
have been visiting America...
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since its foundation...
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and did steer the outcome
of the Civil War.
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[ Narrator]
Millions of people around the world...
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believe we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens
really help to shape our history?
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And if so,
might they have even influenced...
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the outcome
of the American Civil War?
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[ Narrator]
Jackson County, Missouri.
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1831.
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Thirty years before the Confederate cannons
fired on Fort Sumter...
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marking the start
of the American Civil War...
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Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith...
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brought many of his followers here...
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declaring this location to be
the site of the New Jerusalem.
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He also stirred up controversy
with his comments on slavery...
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in this long-established slave state.
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Joseph Smith, when he takes
his Mormon colony to Missouri...
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he actually makes
some statements about slavery.
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He thought that the slavery issue
would cause discord.
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He also came out and said
that the slaves...
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would eventually rise up
against their masters.
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[ Narrator]
Eight years earlier...
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Joseph Smith claimed that
a strange figure named Moroni...
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came to him in the night,
enveloped in light...
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and professing to be
from the Pleiades star cluster.
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It was also Moroni who directed him...
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to the golden tablets that would
become the Book of Mormon.
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Joseph Smith also reported that
the angel Moroni continued to visit him...
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and three others amongst his congregation
also reported similar visits.
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[ Narrator]
According to Smith...
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Moroni appeared to him numerous times
over the course of his life...
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and in 1832...
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he came bearing an ominous prophecy.
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On December 25, Smith passed
this prophecy on to his flock, stating...
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“Wars will shortly come to pass...
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beginning at the rebellion
of South Carolina...
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which will eventually terminate
in the death and misery of many souls.
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[ Horse Whinnies ]
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For behold, the Southern States shall
be divided against the Northern States.”
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[ Man ] Now, there's some people that say this
is a prophecy, this is a vision, by Smith.
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Whatever way it was, it really did portend
what came about in the 1860s.
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[WILCOCK ] What we're seeing
is a human-looking being...
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with brilliant light coming off of it...
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who conveyed an intelligent message
to Joseph Smith.
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There are some speculations
that Joseph Smith...
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was, in fact, visited by
an advanced extraterrestrial being.
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[ Narrator] Did Joseph Smith
really receive a prophecy...
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that predicted the coming
of the Civil War?
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A no' if so,
how did an otherworldly entity...
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Know that the war would begin
in South Carolina...
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nearly 30 years in advance?
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Is it possible that the angel Moroni...
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this perhaps extraterrestrial being...
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was very concerned
about the Civil War...
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and that's why it gave Joseph Smith...
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an advanced prophetic glimpse
into what was coming?
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Was this another one
of the efforts to intervene...
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and to try to steer our history...
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towards the most favorable outcome...
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perhaps not just for us, but also for
the extraterrestrials themselves?
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[ Narrator] But Joseph Smith
is not the only person...
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who is said to have been visited
by an otherworldly being...
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foretelling of a future civil war.
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Stories have emerged
that during the American Revolution...
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in 1777...
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George Washington had
a similar encounter at Valley Forge.
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[ Henry] The story is,
is that while at Valley Forge...
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General Washington had given his men
orders not to disturb him.
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And suddenly,
there's a being standing there.
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And this being is described
as being extremely luminous.
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And next thing we know is this being
starts giving Washington a prophecy...
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about the future of America.
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[ Narrator] According to the story,
this luminous being...
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not only gave Washington
a vision of the future United States...
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but also warned that the Union
would be tested by Civil War.
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Is it possible that both
George Washington and Joseph Smith...
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were visited by extraterrestrial beings...
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who somehow knew
that the Civil War would take place?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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and suggest even stronger evidence
can be found...
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with strange encounters
that were reported...
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not by lone individuals,
but by entire communities.
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While UFO sightings were
extremely rare before the 1900s...
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a number were reported during
the final years leading up to the war.
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[ Man ]
One of the best early UFO encounters...
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is from Wilmington, Delaware,
from 1860...
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where witnesses reported seeing
this vast 200-foot-long object...
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flying through the sky.
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And it had like a trail of globes
or balls of light behind it.
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One of them was actually
ejected from the object.
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Now, this sounds almost like a rocket.
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Certainly, nobody should have
been flying a rocket in 1860.
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[ Narrator]
An even more striking UFO encounter...
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was reported in Shreveport, Louisiana,
that same year.
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A group of people saw
an enormous craft 300 yards long...
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hovering just above the tallest trees.
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This thing was described as having a color
like a glowing red stove.
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And out of the center
of this massive object...
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there were rays, like rays of the sun,
that reached toward the sky.
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Incredibly, this thing was seen
for an hour without changing at all.
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People got a very good look
at this thing...
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and nobody could even hazard a guess
as to what it was.
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[ Narrator] Less than a month
before the start of the war...
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another major sighting
was reported in New York City.
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New York at that time
was very different.
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It was a cramped urban setting
before the age of tall buildings.
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In that setting, a witness,
Mrs. T. Richard Kinder...
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looked out of an upper window
in her house on Baxter Street...
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and she saw an object in the sky.
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She described it as luminous,
glowing, shaped like a cross...
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flying in the air.
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Startled, she awoke her husband.
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He saw the glowing cross too.
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This ongoing presence
strongly suggests...
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that extraterrestrials were not
just taking a backseat approach...
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to what was happening on Earth...
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but they were actively involved
and they were monitoring us.
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[ Narrator] How is it that in an era
when UFO sightings were rarely reported...
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three mass UFO encounters occurred...
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within a year
of the start of the Civil War?
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Is it possible that extraterrestrials
really did monitor the United States...
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during this time?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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and claim that even stranger than
the encounters leading up to the war...
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are those that were reported
once the fighting began.
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[ Narrator]
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
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April 12, 1861.
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At 4:30 in the morning,
Confederate cannons fire on Fort Sumter.
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Three days later,
President Abraham Lincoln declares...
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that an insurrection exists...
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and calls for 75,000 volunteers
to put down the rebellion.
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The American Civil War has begun.
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People on both sides assumed
that there would be one great battle...
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that would decide everything,
winner take all.
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One great battle fought somewhere probably
between Richmond and Washington.
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But that doesn't happen.
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People actually came out from Washington...
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with picnic baskets and champagne
to watch the battle.
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But this war would be a horrible war...
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a war that no participant
would ever forget.
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It cost more American lives
than all other wars combined.
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750,000 people, it is now believed...
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perished during the war.
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The Civil War was felt everywhere
in America...
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because it is that war that defines
what type of nation we're going to be.
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[ Narrator] It was not just the future
of the United States that was at stake.
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This was a War over different'
philosophies of go government...
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with the fate of a people
caught in the cross fire.
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And according
to ancient astronaut theorists...
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there may have been
even more at stake than we know.
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[ Narrator] New York City.
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April 19, 1861.
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Responding to
President Lincoln's call to action...
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the Seventh New York Militia
travels by steamboat...
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to Annapolis, Maryland.
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While en route, they witness
a very strange occurrence in the sky.
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While these men and sailors
were on board...
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they saw what was described
as the moon...
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suddenly soaring clear into the sky...
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and around it, clearly defined...
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three circles of light.
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Now, of course, we know
that it's not possible...
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for the moon to change position
in the sky that way.
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And looking at this sighting
as it was reported...
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this would have to be classified
as a UFO.
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If UFO sightings represent encounters
with alien spaceships...
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then it seems certain that UFOs
were watching over America...
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during the Civil War.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible that the men
of the Seventh New York Militia...
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really did have an encounter
with some type of alien craft...
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just days after the start
of the Civil War?
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And if so, is it a sign...
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that extraterrestrials had an interest
in this turning point in our history?
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There's an intriguing pattern
that we see within UFO reports...
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and that's an increase in sightings
when wars break out.
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First World War, Second World War,
Vietnam, the Korean War-
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they all had their UFO incidents.
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And another example
is the American Civil War.
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[ Pittman ] it could be that aliens
might simply be interested...
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in observing historical events.
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It's also possible that extraterrestrials
might be trying to influence...
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the course of events
or simply to warn people in some way.
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[ Narrator] While there were numerous UFO
sightings reported during the Civil War...
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even more common
are stories of soldiers...
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encountering strange beings
on the battlefield.
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It happened all the time
in the Civil War...
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that soldiers reported seeing ghostly
figures or ghosts of famous people.
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Soldiers reported seeing
all kinds of strange things...
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when the heat of battle was on.
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[ Narrator] Also reported were
bizarre dreams and premonitions...
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some of which proved to be prophetic.
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One of the most notable was published
in a Kansas newspaper...
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on March 27, 1862.
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According to the account,
General George B. McClellan...
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chief of the Union Armies...
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was visited in his sleep by
the ghostly figure of George Washington...
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who warned him that Confederate forces
were closing in on the capital.
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The vision reportedly caused McClellan...
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to change his plans
and fend off the attack.
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There are many soldiers
and politicians during the Civil War...
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that have premonitions,
premonitions of death.
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Nathaniel Lyons at the Battle
of Wilson Creek actually said...
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“Today I will die.”
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[ Gunshots ]
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And he is going to be shot in the chest
during the battle...
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trying to rally his men.
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[ Narrator] But what can explain
all of these bizarre incidents?
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...
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that the strange dreams
and UFO sightings. ..
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Are evidence that extraterrestrials
were, in fact, present in America...
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during the Civil War.
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[ Man ] it would seem that
throughout the history of this planet...
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certain civilizations and nations...
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have been watched very carefully
by the extraterrestrials...
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and nurtured by them.
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And in ancient times, this could
well have been the Egyptians...
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and the Chinese and the Sumerians.
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And really, in our own era...
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it's the United States of America...
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that is the country that these
extraterrestrials are the most interested in.
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[ Narrator] Could it be
that extraterrestrials took an interest...
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in the success
of the United States of America?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say
the answer may lie...
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with the man who was tasked
with preserving the Union...
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Abraham Lincoln.
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[ Narrator]
Springfield, Illinois.
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November 7, 1860.
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The morning after hearing
the triumphant news...
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that he has been elected
president of the United States...
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Abraham Lincoln
wakes up from a deep sleep...
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and gazes into a full-length mirror
in his bedroom...
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and has a startling vision.
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He saw two images of himself in the mirror.
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One face was healthy and well.
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The other was a pale, ghostly image of it.
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He got up, looked at the mirror...
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checked it to see
if there was something wrong...
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then he laid down again thinking,
well, it's just my imagination.
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[ Narrator] Thinking his mind
was playing tricks on him...
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Lincoln checked the mirror
a second time.
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Each time,
his two faces confronted him-
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one five times paler than the other.
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Lincoln told his wife Mary
about the vision.
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[Coleman ]
Lincoln relied on Mary quite a bit.
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When he told her about the vision,
she became deathly afraid...
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because she interpreted it to mean...
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that he would have two terms
as president.
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One, he would be healthy and well...
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and the second term,
he would die in office.
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[ Narrator] If the ghostly reflection
in the mirror was not a hallucination...
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then what was it?
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It's not too big of a stretch to think...
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that perhaps President Lincoln
was somehow influenced...
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by otherworldly beings
during the course of the war.
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It was that important.
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It took on immense cosmic significance.
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[ Narrator] Was Abraham Lincoln
actually able to receive messages...
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from an extraterrestrial realm
that helped him anticipate the future?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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and point out
that the president himself...
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believed he was the instrument
of a higher power.
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Abraham Lincoln
is such a mystery still to us...
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even though dozens and dozens and dozens
of books have been written about him.
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But Lincoln himself
was something of a mystic.
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I think he had a belief
in the supernatural.
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At least three different times
during the war...
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he told friends
that he had had a dream...
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about being on a boat with no rudder...
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with no sail, with no tiller.
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It's adrift.
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He is powerless to steer it,
and it's heading toward a shore.
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[ Coleman ]
Every time he had that dream...
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something important happened
during the war, mainly the battles.
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Antietam, Stones River...
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Shiloh, Gettysburg.
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Lincoln believed he was psychic.
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He believed in the paranormal.
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He had a strong belief
in his own destiny.
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[ Narrator] Is it really possible
that Abraham Lincoln...
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was given premonitions about the war
by extraterrestrial beings?
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Could he have been chosen
because he represented the best hope...
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for preserving the Union
and ensuring the continuation...
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of the great American experiment?
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Abraham Lincoln saw the United States
as this great experiment in democracy.
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That for it to fail...
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that meant that the concepts
of democracy would fail...
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throughout the world.
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Lincoln is infused with a desire...
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to keep the Union together.
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And he himself said...
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“lf I could keep the Union together
by freeing all the slaves, I would do it.
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If I could keep the Union together
by not freeing the slaves, I would do it.”
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His paramount focus
is restoring the Union.
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[ Narrator]
In addition to his own premonitions...
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some say that Lincoln
may also have been influenced...
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by the visions of a spiritualist
named Nettie Colburn.
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In December of 1862,
during the darkest days of the Civil War...
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Nettie became a spiritual adviser
for Mary Todd Lincoln...
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who was a devout' believer
in mysticism.
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She claimed to have attended Seances
with Lincoln multiple times...
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and, while in a trance, claimed to
have advised him on the war.
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Now, proving that is sometimes difficult...
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but in my research,
I did find on several points...
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Nettie's story does check out.
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[ Narrator]
According to Nettie's autobiography...
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otherworldly beings used her...
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to communicate with President Lincoln
during séances...
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and even advised him
to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
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And another mystic, J.B. Conklin...
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claimed these voices
actually dictated to the president...
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a first draft of the historic document.
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[Woman ]
Things that not only Nettie did...
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but other people
in the spiritualist movement did...
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was they were giving him messages...
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about how important
the Emancipation Proclamation was.
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And it was something that Lincoln took
as divine sort of guidance.
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And so it appears to have played
a role in his decision making.
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[ Henry] it's quite possible
that at one of these events...
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he received messages
from otherworldly beings...
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possibly even extraterrestrial beings...
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in order to preserve the Union...
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as part of this immense
master plan for humanity.
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What that leads us to
is the possibility...
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that some of the same extraterrestrials
that were being seen...
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in numerous UFO sightings
before and during the Civil War...
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were able to form
a direct contact to Lincoln...
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through Nettie Colburn Maynard...
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to give him the messages
that he needed...
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to be able to steer the outcome
of the Civil War.
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[ Narrator] Was Abraham Lincoln
literally destined for greatness?
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Might aliens have been guiding him...
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through his dreams and visions
during the Civil War?
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If so, what was their purpose?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
with an incredible encounter-
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Fire!
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At Gettysburg.
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[ Narrator]
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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July 2, 1863.
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Two years and three months
into the Civil War...
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337,000 men lie dead-
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over 13 times as many casualties...
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as the United States suffered
during the Revolutionary War.
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But after so much bloodshed,
neither side has a clear advantage.
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The majority of the fighting
has taken place in the Southern states...
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but Confederate General Robert E. Lee...
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who is gaining a reputation
as being in vincible...
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decides to make an aggressive move
and advance into Union territory.
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[ Lewis] Robert E. Lee decides
that he will take the war north...
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for a couple of reasons.
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Number one: It's gonna relieve pressure
on the farmers in Virginia...
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who are trying to grow crops,
feed themselves, feed the army.
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And second, politically.
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He knows that there is a lot of pressure
on Abraham Lincoln to win this war.
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Northern voters,
northern politicians are angry...
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that this war is carrying on so far.
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[ Narrator] If Lee won here,
the door to Washington...
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and ultimately, victory, was open.
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While the Confederates
were massing for attack...
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reinforcements from the 20th Maine
Volunteer Infantry Regiment...
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were called in, commanded
by Colonel Joshua Chamberlain.
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Chamberlain rushes his troops
towards the Little Round Top...
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but he comes to a crossroads.
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And he said there was
an eerie figure in a tri-corner hat...
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pointing the way to the Little Round Top,
the right road to take.
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And he said
it looked like George Washington.
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[ Narrator] George Washington?
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Could this ghostly vision
have been merely an illusion?
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Although the story sounds incredible...
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Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
appointed a member of his staff...
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to speak with a number of the men
who experienced this vision...
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and it is said that he gathered
unwavering testimony...
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claiming that the encounter was real.
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In the end, the 20th Maine...
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would repel the Confederate attack
on Little Round Top...
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and save the day for the Union Army.
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So you have to ask yourself-
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Did extraterrestrials
in some way influence this battle...
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by disguising themselves as a familiar
figure, like George Washington...
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and then guiding the troops
to a certain position...
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where they knew this would turn
the tide of the battle?
397
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It would seem
that something like this happened.
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[ Narrator]
Is the story of George Washington...
399
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appearing to soldiers at Gettysburg...
400
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the ultimate proof that alien beings...
401
00:26:42,310 --> 00:26:46,314
really did intervene to influence
the outcome of the Civil War?
402
00:26:47,649 --> 00:26:50,318
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
403
00:26:50,402 --> 00:26:53,280
and suggest that
the United States of America...
404
00:26:53,363 --> 00:26:58,285
has had a connection with extraterrestrials
since its very beginning.
405
00:26:59,661 --> 00:27:02,747
We do have clues
that Thomas Jefferson...
406
00:27:02,831 --> 00:27:04,833
and Benjamin Franklin
and George Washington...
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00:27:04,916 --> 00:27:07,085
all believed in extraterrestrial life.
408
00:27:09,796 --> 00:27:12,799
Thomas Jefferson
gave a famous lecture...
409
00:27:12,882 --> 00:27:15,552
about the unusual UFO sighting...
410
00:27:15,635 --> 00:27:17,929
by a person named William Dumbarton...
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in Baton Rouge in 1800.
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Benjamin Franklin wrote
in his Poor Richard is Almanac...
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about life on other worlds...
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and, apparently,
was a believer in that.
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00:27:32,068 --> 00:27:36,906
And George Washington
had a very famous angelic vision...
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at Valley Forge...
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00:27:40,076 --> 00:27:42,871
and so it would seem
that George Washington...
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Thomas Jefferson
and Benjamin Franklin...
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were very much believers
in extraterrestrials...
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and life on other planets.
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[ Narrator]
Is it possible that extraterrestrials...
422
00:27:57,719 --> 00:27:59,888
have been guiding
the course of America...
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00:27:59,971 --> 00:28:02,182
since it's very beginning...
424
00:28:02,265 --> 00:28:04,309
and intervened in the Civil War...
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to ensure that
the great experiment would continue?
426
00:28:09,272 --> 00:28:12,942
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
further evidence...
427
00:28:13,026 --> 00:28:17,072
that an otherworldly force
was present at this point in history...
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00:28:17,155 --> 00:28:20,283
can be found
by examining a recurring dream...
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00:28:20,367 --> 00:28:24,871
that Abraham Lincoln had
of his own death.
430
00:28:26,039 --> 00:28:30,752
He sees a body on the catafalque
wrapped in mourning clothing.
431
00:28:36,925 --> 00:28:40,053
The body is being guarded
by Union soldiers.
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00:28:42,806 --> 00:28:47,352
He asks one of the soldiers,
“Who is dead in the White House?”
433
00:28:47,435 --> 00:28:50,647
And one of the soldiers says,
“lt's the president.
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He's been killed by an assassin.”
435
00:28:56,820 --> 00:28:59,656
[Coleman ] Lincoln's belief
that he would rise to greatness...
436
00:28:59,739 --> 00:29:02,075
and then die prematurely...
437
00:29:02,158 --> 00:29:04,536
was something that was
of long standing...
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00:29:04,619 --> 00:29:08,665
and it's a testament to his courage
that he fulfilled his destiny.
439
00:29:11,376 --> 00:29:15,422
He believed that he was
uniquely suited to become president...
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00:29:15,505 --> 00:29:19,467
to carry the country through
the great crisis of disunion...
441
00:29:20,969 --> 00:29:25,890
and part and parcel with that belief
in his destiny to become president...
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00:29:25,974 --> 00:29:28,226
was his belief that he would be slain.
443
00:29:29,686 --> 00:29:31,980
[ Gunshot]
444
00:29:32,063 --> 00:29:36,651
Abraham Lincoln is said
to have had prophetic dreams, visions.
445
00:29:37,986 --> 00:29:40,280
If aliens are coming here
to visit Earth...
446
00:29:40,363 --> 00:29:42,740
certainly it seems reasonable to wonder...
447
00:29:42,824 --> 00:29:45,493
if they might have tried to influence
the course of events...
448
00:29:45,577 --> 00:29:49,706
through Abraham Lincoln,
possibly through his dreams and visions.
449
00:29:53,376 --> 00:29:55,879
[ Narrator]
Could it be that extraterrestrials...
450
00:29:55,962 --> 00:29:59,382
were the source
of this recurring dream...
451
00:29:59,466 --> 00:30:01,885
and that they were testing
Abraham Lincoln...
452
00:30:01,968 --> 00:30:04,888
to see if he would fulfill his destiny...
453
00:30:04,971 --> 00:30:07,849
even knowing that it would lead
to an early grave?
454
00:30:09,517 --> 00:30:11,936
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...
455
00:30:12,020 --> 00:30:14,814
that further clues can be found...
456
00:30:14,898 --> 00:30:19,986
by examining the life of one
of the war's most extraordinary soldiers...
457
00:30:20,069 --> 00:30:22,697
Ambrose Bierce.
458
00:30:29,954 --> 00:30:31,873
Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia.
459
00:30:31,956 --> 00:30:34,959
June 23, 1864.
460
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,964
While leading a skirmish line
on Confederate troops...
461
00:30:40,048 --> 00:30:45,053
Union Army Lieutenant Ambrose Bierce
is shot in the left temple by a sniper.
462
00:30:53,978 --> 00:30:57,857
Miraculously, the bullet travels
around the side of his skull...
463
00:30:57,941 --> 00:31:00,693
and ends up behind his left ear...
464
00:31:00,777 --> 00:31:03,613
leaving Bierce injured, but alive.
465
00:31:07,659 --> 00:31:09,619
After being shot in the head...
466
00:31:09,702 --> 00:31:12,956
Bierce went on to become
one of the most prominent authors...
467
00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:15,208
of the post-Civil War era...
468
00:31:15,291 --> 00:31:18,044
and was a pioneer of science fiction...
469
00:31:18,127 --> 00:31:21,381
influencing such writers
as Ray Bradbury. -.
470
00:31:21,464 --> 00:31:24,842
Roald Dahl and Kun' Vonnegut.
471
00:31:24,926 --> 00:31:28,888
But could his genius as a writer
have been in some way connected...
472
00:31:28,972 --> 00:31:31,891
to the injury to his head?
473
00:31:32,892 --> 00:31:37,397
In the case of brain injuries,
when you suddenly display a new ability...
474
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,983
I'm not so sure that it's something
that was there all along...
475
00:31:40,066 --> 00:31:42,151
and you're uncovering.
476
00:31:43,486 --> 00:31:46,823
More so, that it's a new ability,
re-circuitry, if you will.
477
00:31:48,992 --> 00:31:52,036
We are all disconnected
from our core...
478
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,790
unaware of the greater realm
of pure potential...
479
00:31:55,873 --> 00:31:59,919
and Ambrose Bierce
may have gotten the right nudge...
480
00:32:00,003 --> 00:32:02,797
to give him
an interesting window...
481
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,757
into that realm...
482
00:32:04,841 --> 00:32:09,220
allowing him to get closer to it
than most of us normally ever do.
483
00:32:14,517 --> 00:32:17,854
[ Narrator] Ambrose Bierce
is best known for short stories...
484
00:32:17,937 --> 00:32:22,609
that involve paranormal incidents,
strange disappearances...
485
00:32:22,692 --> 00:32:25,320
and incongruencies of time.
486
00:32:27,155 --> 00:32:30,950
One of the most famous is
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”...
487
00:32:31,034 --> 00:32:34,871
in which a Confederate sympathizer
is being hanged for treason.
488
00:32:40,752 --> 00:32:42,712
At the moment of the man's hanging...
489
00:32:42,795 --> 00:32:45,965
the rope breaks
and he falls into the water below.
490
00:32:50,553 --> 00:32:52,513
Escaping to dry land...
491
00:32:52,597 --> 00:32:55,308
the hero travels through
a seemingly unending forest...
492
00:32:55,391 --> 00:32:57,727
to his home 3O miles away.
493
00:32:58,936 --> 00:33:01,939
But once he arrives
and runs towards his wife...
494
00:33:02,023 --> 00:33:05,151
he feels a searing pain in his neck.
495
00:33:05,234 --> 00:33:07,945
[ Man ] Suddenly,
he was back on the bridge again...
496
00:33:08,863 --> 00:33:13,826
with a noose around his neck,
and then he fell, he was executed.
497
00:33:13,910 --> 00:33:16,120
He hung by the neck.
498
00:33:16,204 --> 00:33:17,830
[ Soldier] About, face!
499
00:33:17,914 --> 00:33:22,669
And Bierce was trying to tell us
that alternate realities exist.
500
00:33:22,752 --> 00:33:25,254
Alternate worlds.
501
00:33:25,338 --> 00:33:27,924
And we see this pattern
all throughout his writings...
502
00:33:28,007 --> 00:33:32,261
where he believed that
inter-dimensional travel was a possibility.
503
00:33:34,681 --> 00:33:36,808
[ Narrator]
Another short story that Bierce wrote...
504
00:33:36,891 --> 00:33:40,269
for the San Francisco Examiner
in 7888...
505
00:33:40,353 --> 00:33:43,356
titled “The Difficulty
of Crossing a Field”...
506
00:33:43,439 --> 00:33:46,275
is reportedly based on an actual event...
507
00:33:46,359 --> 00:33:50,863
that occurred in Selma, Alabama,
in July of 1854.
508
00:33:50,947 --> 00:33:52,532
[ Ringing ]
509
00:33:52,615 --> 00:33:54,677
[ Hawkes] It was about
a plantation owner, a farmer...
510
00:33:54,701 --> 00:33:56,703
who, in the broad daylight,
sitting on his porch...
511
00:33:56,786 --> 00:33:58,413
talking to his neighbors...
512
00:33:58,496 --> 00:34:01,833
walked across the road into the field
and suddenly disappeared...
513
00:34:01,916 --> 00:34:04,502
with a number of witnesses watching.
514
00:34:04,585 --> 00:34:07,338
So as they walked over to the point
where he disappeared...
515
00:34:07,422 --> 00:34:11,884
they could still hear his voice faintly,
but they couldn't see him.
516
00:34:11,968 --> 00:34:14,095
He never returned.
517
00:34:18,182 --> 00:34:20,435
[ Narrator] Ambrose Bierce
interviewed the locals...
518
00:34:20,518 --> 00:34:22,937
who searched for the lost farmer...
519
00:34:23,020 --> 00:34:26,482
as well as scientists
with theories on the disappearance.
520
00:34:27,567 --> 00:34:31,237
One claimed the farmer had
entered another dimension.
521
00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:39,954
Is it possible that Ambrose Bierce
was, in fact...
522
00:34:40,037 --> 00:34:42,206
contacted by extraterrestrials...
523
00:34:42,290 --> 00:34:45,084
that this is why luminous beings
appear in his fiction...
524
00:34:45,168 --> 00:34:48,004
and this is why vanishings
appear in his fiction?
525
00:34:49,589 --> 00:34:52,759
[ Narrator] Could it be that the head
injury Ambrose Bierce suffered...
526
00:34:52,842 --> 00:34:57,430
allowed him to receive information
from an otherworldly source?
527
00:34:58,306 --> 00:35:01,142
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
528
00:35:01,225 --> 00:35:04,437
and suggest the strongest evidence
may not be found...
529
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,607
in his stories of strange disappearances...
530
00:35:07,690 --> 00:35:10,485
but with how he disappeared himself.
531
00:35:14,697 --> 00:35:18,618
In December of 1913,
Bierce left the country...
532
00:35:18,701 --> 00:35:20,828
and headed to Chihuahua, Mexico.
533
00:35:20,912 --> 00:35:24,373
He was never seen or heard from again.
534
00:35:26,542 --> 00:35:28,836
It's quite interesting to note
that he met...
535
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,047
with another famous
adventurer-traveler...
536
00:35:31,130 --> 00:35:34,967
an Englishman
named Frederick Mitchell Hedges.
537
00:35:35,051 --> 00:35:38,971
Mitchell Hedges was the man who claimed
to discover the first crystal skull.
538
00:35:39,055 --> 00:35:42,767
And that's significant because
they both were interested in crystals...
539
00:35:42,850 --> 00:35:45,853
and inter-dimensional subjects.
540
00:35:47,396 --> 00:35:50,399
The last letter that we know of
he ever sent to anyone...
541
00:35:50,483 --> 00:35:52,151
was to his secretary that said...
542
00:35:52,235 --> 00:35:56,781
“I go tomorrow to a destination
of which I may not return.”
543
00:35:58,491 --> 00:36:01,494
And the theory is he may have gone
with Mitchell Hedges to the Crystal Cave.
544
00:36:01,577 --> 00:36:05,289
The Crystal Cave being a place
that Mitchell Hedges believed...
545
00:36:05,373 --> 00:36:08,709
you could contact beings
from another dimension.
546
00:36:10,294 --> 00:36:12,839
[WILCOCK ] it's possible that
extraterrestrials said...
547
00:36:12,922 --> 00:36:17,009
“You helped steer the outcome
towards a more favorable determination.
548
00:36:17,093 --> 00:36:19,679
In the future, people will be
more comfortable with us.
549
00:36:19,762 --> 00:36:22,849
You've set the stage
by writing all these sci-fi stories.
550
00:36:24,141 --> 00:36:25,643
Come live with us.
551
00:36:25,726 --> 00:36:27,603
Come to this place,
and we'll meet you there.”
552
00:36:33,276 --> 00:36:35,653
[ Narrator]
Might the stories of Ambrose Bierce...
553
00:36:35,736 --> 00:36:37,864
and his strange disappearance...
554
00:36:37,947 --> 00:36:41,158
all point to a connection
with extraterrestrials?
555
00:36:41,951 --> 00:36:47,206
And if so, were these alien beings
simply observing the Civil War...
556
00:36:47,290 --> 00:36:49,667
or might they have even intervened?
557
00:36:50,376 --> 00:36:54,338
Ancient astronaut theorists
say the answer might be found...
558
00:36:54,422 --> 00:36:56,632
in Washington, DC...
559
00:36:56,716 --> 00:37:00,386
standing high atop the Capitol dome.
560
00:37:07,810 --> 00:37:09,896
[ Narrator] Washington, DC.
561
00:37:09,979 --> 00:37:13,149
December 2, 1863.
562
00:37:14,108 --> 00:37:18,404
It has been exactly five months
since the battle of Gettysburg...
563
00:37:18,487 --> 00:37:23,826
and the tides of the Civil War
are beginning to turn in the Union's favor.
564
00:37:26,454 --> 00:37:28,122
At the start of the war...
565
00:37:28,205 --> 00:37:32,209
construction of the giant dome
that would sit atop the Capitol Building...
566
00:37:32,293 --> 00:37:34,420
had been halted...
567
00:37:34,503 --> 00:37:39,300
but President Lincoln convinced Congress
to provide the funding to finish it...
568
00:37:39,383 --> 00:37:44,180
saying the dome would act as a sign
that' the Union would go on.
569
00:37:50,019 --> 00:37:54,023
Upon its completion,
a statue was placed on top of it...
570
00:37:54,106 --> 00:37:59,111
with the final section raised
to a salute of 35 guns-
571
00:38:00,154 --> 00:38:04,116
answered by the guns
of the 12 forts around Washington.
572
00:38:08,371 --> 00:38:10,623
Weighing nearly 15,000 pounds...
573
00:38:10,706 --> 00:38:14,210
and standing 19 and a half feet tall...
574
00:38:14,293 --> 00:38:19,256
this bronze statue features a woman with
a Native American-style fringed blanket...
575
00:38:19,340 --> 00:38:21,926
thrown over her left shoulder...
576
00:38:22,009 --> 00:38:24,845
and an elaborate headdress
made of eagle feathers...
577
00:38:24,929 --> 00:38:27,098
and ringed with stars.
578
00:38:28,474 --> 00:38:31,310
It is called the Statue of Freedom...
579
00:38:31,394 --> 00:38:33,854
and according
to ancient astronaut theorists...
580
00:38:33,938 --> 00:38:37,566
it may represent
an extraterrestrial being.
581
00:38:39,485 --> 00:38:42,947
The symbolism they chose
is completely and totally cosmic.
582
00:38:43,030 --> 00:38:45,992
A goddess cloaked in stars...
583
00:38:46,075 --> 00:38:50,371
suggesting she's a celestial,
or a star being.
584
00:38:51,122 --> 00:38:54,458
[ CHILDRESS ] When you look at it and even
have the natives explain it to you...
585
00:38:54,542 --> 00:38:58,671
they say things like, “Oh, yes, these
are the star people coming from the sky.”
586
00:39:02,383 --> 00:39:04,844
[ Narrator] Is it really possible
that there is a depiction...
587
00:39:04,927 --> 00:39:08,931
of an extraterrestrial
standing atop the Capitol dome?
588
00:39:10,725 --> 00:39:13,394
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
589
00:39:13,477 --> 00:39:18,816
and suggest the evidence can be found
by looking back to the Founding Fathers.
590
00:39:23,904 --> 00:39:27,283
In the 1730s to the 1760s...
591
00:39:27,366 --> 00:39:30,244
Benjamin Franklin published
a series of pamphlets...
592
00:39:30,327 --> 00:39:32,747
he cal/ed The Indian Treaties.
593
00:39:32,830 --> 00:39:35,041
One of the best-selling
of these pamphlets...
594
00:39:35,124 --> 00:39:38,961
chronicled the Iroquois creation story
of the Sky Woman.
595
00:39:40,337 --> 00:39:43,424
Native Americans believed
that the Sky Woman came to Earth...
596
00:39:43,507 --> 00:39:46,052
when there was nothing here
but water and animals...
597
00:39:46,135 --> 00:39:49,930
and that she was the mother
of the very first human beings.
598
00:39:50,014 --> 00:39:55,561
Native Americans had beliefs
in people who lived in space.
599
00:39:55,644 --> 00:39:59,565
Many of the Founding Fathers believed
in the plurality of worlds.
600
00:39:59,648 --> 00:40:01,942
And these ideas, these stories...
601
00:40:02,026 --> 00:40:04,695
would have matched up very well
with their concepts...
602
00:40:04,779 --> 00:40:08,699
about plurality of worlds
and extraterrestrials from space.
603
00:40:12,703 --> 00:40:15,915
And you have to wonder
if there wasn't some kind...
604
00:40:15,998 --> 00:40:19,168
of extraterrestrial influence here.
605
00:40:20,419 --> 00:40:24,965
And did they have some connection
to these star people?
606
00:40:25,049 --> 00:40:27,718
Was this basically
a message for aliens?
607
00:40:31,347 --> 00:40:34,100
[ Narrator] Did Abraham Lincoln
and the Union leaders...
608
00:40:34,183 --> 00:40:36,310
erect the Statue of Freedom...
609
00:40:36,393 --> 00:40:39,188
as a tribute to star beings
that they believed...
610
00:40:39,271 --> 00:40:41,732
might be watching over the country?
611
00:40:44,527 --> 00:40:47,947
Were they reinstating a symbol
of our cosmic heritage...
612
00:40:48,030 --> 00:40:50,908
during the time of our greatest crisis?
613
00:40:51,617 --> 00:40:55,663
And if extraterrestrials
really did have a vested interest...
614
00:40:55,746 --> 00:40:57,998
in the outcome of the Civil War...
615
00:40:58,082 --> 00:41:02,753
are they still watching over
the great American experiment today?
616
00:41:03,379 --> 00:41:08,300
It really seems that extraterrestrials
have been monitoring the United States...
617
00:41:08,384 --> 00:41:10,594
since its very inception.
618
00:41:12,721 --> 00:41:16,559
We've seen this really
from the American Civil War...
619
00:41:16,642 --> 00:41:20,020
and right at the very beginning
of the American Revolution.
620
00:41:20,104 --> 00:41:24,316
And I think that this
is still going on today.
621
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,735
The nurturing of the United States...
622
00:41:26,819 --> 00:41:33,284
as an inclusive, spiritual
and technically advanced country...
623
00:41:33,367 --> 00:41:35,995
is very important
to the extraterrestrials...
624
00:41:36,078 --> 00:41:38,914
and ultimately for the entire planet Earth.
625
00:41:42,251 --> 00:41:46,005
It's possible that extraterrestrials
have been visiting America...
626
00:41:46,088 --> 00:41:48,340
since its foundation...
627
00:41:48,424 --> 00:41:52,303
and have been, in fact, steering
the outcome this whole time.
628
00:41:52,386 --> 00:41:54,763
And why might they want to do that?
629
00:41:54,847 --> 00:41:58,642
You would want to see society moving
in a direction of greater freedom...
630
00:41:58,726 --> 00:42:01,020
greater openness,
greater acceptance...
631
00:42:01,103 --> 00:42:03,856
so that in time, this allows them...
632
00:42:03,939 --> 00:42:08,027
to have a much more warm welcome
than they otherwise would have.
633
00:42:09,278 --> 00:42:13,240
There is every reason to believe that
extraterrestrials are still watching over us...
634
00:42:13,324 --> 00:42:18,579
and are having a key impact
in the events that unfold on Earth today.
635
00:42:23,042 --> 00:42:25,211
[ Narrator]
Is it possible that extraterrestrials...
636
00:42:25,294 --> 00:42:29,131
really were present here on Earth
during the Civil War?
637
00:42:31,759 --> 00:42:35,095
If so, were they simply
passive observers...
638
00:42:35,179 --> 00:42:39,558
waiting to see if our fragile democracy
could survive this test?
639
00:42:42,978 --> 00:42:44,897
Or did they take an active role...
640
00:42:44,980 --> 00:42:47,608
in order to preserve the Union?
641
00:42:49,318 --> 00:42:51,528
Perhaps the great American experiment...
642
00:42:51,612 --> 00:42:54,531
is part of a larger cosmic agenda...
643
00:42:54,615 --> 00:42:57,826
and once we fully realize
the ideals put forth- ..
644
00:42:57,910 --> 00:43:01,247
By men like George Washington
and Abraham Lincoln...
645
00:43:01,330 --> 00:43:06,293
we will finally come face-to-face
with our alien ancestors.
645
00:43:07,305 --> 00:43:13,744
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