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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: A
UFO sighting over multiple cities.
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MAN: I don't know
what the hell that is.
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TSOUKALOS: An
extraterrestrial event
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that changed the
course of history.
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And an alien abduction
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witnessed by no
less than six people.
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On Ancient Aliens,
we've investigated
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dozens of
extraordinary encounters
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from among the thousands
that have been reported.
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Here's what I consider to be
the most compelling stories:
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my top ten alien encounters.
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Each one adds to the
growing body of proof
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that we have been
visited by extraterrestrials
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for thousands of years.
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?
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People tell me about their
UFO sightings all the time,
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and let me tell you, I've heard
some really incredible stories.
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In fact, there are
thousands of UFO sightings
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reported every year.
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Unfortunately, most are
single-witness testimonials
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that can't be
corroborated or verified.
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But in 1982, along New
York's Hudson River,
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there was a flood
of UFO sightings
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reported over multiple days
by hundreds of eyewitnesses.
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Number ten on my countdown
of the top alien encounters:
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The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings.
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NARRATOR: Kent, New York.
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New Year's Eve, 1982.
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Just a few miles from
the Hudson River,
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New Year's Eve revelers spot
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a gigantic V-shaped craft
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throbbing with red,
white and green lights.
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As they watch in
amazement, the colors vanish,
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replaced by white
lights so bright
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they illuminate the ground.
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Over the next months,
authorities are bombarded
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with hundreds
of similar reports.
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MAN: Oh, good God.
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- WOMAN: What's that?
- MAN: I don't know.
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- WOMAN: It's not a plane.
- MAN: I don't...
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I'll be... I'm gonna tell
you something, honey.
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I don't know
what the hell it is.
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PHILIP IMBROGNO:
Usually, UFOs just appear
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to a small number of
people, and they disappear.
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In this case,
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people were stopped
on the highways.
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People were running
out of their houses
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watching this enormous
object pass over
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the size of a football field.
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NARRATOR: The
sightings continued
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for more than six years
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and became the most widely
reported in American history.
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DAVID CHILDRESS: The
Hudson Valley UFO sightings
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continued well up to 1988.
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It's estimated
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that as many as
5,000 people called in
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and made reports
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of this very large, lit up UFO.
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NARRATOR: But why were so
many UFO encounters reported
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in this one particular area?
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MAN: There are six,
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and the lead one
has his three lights on.
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Everybody else only has two.
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TSOUKALOS: Some
have suggested the reason
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why these sightings have
happened at the Hudson Valley
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is because they are
on top of a vortex.
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Now, what's a vortex?
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Well, there are varying
opinions of what that is.
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Some have
suggested that they are
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magnetic points
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that are part of the
Earth's magnetic grid.
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They also represent
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the combination
of Earth energies
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kind of congregating
into one spot,
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these telluric currents
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and these magnetic
Earth currents.
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And, so, one suggestion
is that they create
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portal-type effects or vortexes.
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Entrances into the otherworld.
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NARRATOR: Could the
Hudson Valley UFO sightings
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be evidence of a
hidden power vortex
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and even a portal
through time and space?
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You have places around the world
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that are known
for their vortexes.
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Stonehenge is said
to have a vortex.
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Sedona, Arizona has
a number of vortexes,
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and it's famous for them.
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And, so, it's thought
that the Hudson Valley
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is also a vortex area.
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So, you have to wonder
there if these UFOs
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have been attracted
to the Hudson Valley.
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And still to this day,
no one has come up
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with a-a good explanation
of what was happening
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in the Hudson Valley
during this time.
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MAN: They're heading
north-northwest.
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Holy good God.
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Just 150 miles east
of the Hudson Valley,
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another extraordinary
encounter took place in 1961.
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And what makes it so unique
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is that it is the first
documented report
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of an alien abduction.
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My number nine alien encounter:
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The Abduction of
Betty and Barney Hill.
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NARRATOR: Lancaster,
New Hampshire.
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September 19, 1961.
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Betty and Barney Hill
are driving late at night
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when a large flying
saucer intercepts them
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and hovers over their car.
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Above them, the Hills
observe otherworldly figures
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in the windows of the craft.
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Days later, the couple
reports missing time,
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and after participating
in hypnotic regression,
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they claim to realize
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that they were abducted
by extraterrestrials.
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Under hypnotic regression...
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Separately, by the way,
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so they each wouldn't
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Betty and Barney told
the exact same story.
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The object hovered over the
car, then landed in front of them,
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and they were
yanked out of the car
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by these small
four-and-a-half-foot beings
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and dragged into a clearing,
where they boarded a spaceship.
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KEN STORCH: Betty
pleaded with her captors,
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if you will, that...
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not to harm her, uh,
as she laid on this table
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and experiments
were done on her,
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like a needle being
inserted into her stomach.
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Barney relates a
number of skin samples
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and sperm being taken from him.
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JASON MARTELL:
The beings described
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by Betty and Barney Hill
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fit the classic case of a Grey.
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Now, there are
variations to size
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and dimensions of these beings,
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but they all seem to have
the same characteristics.
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Slim, spindly bodies.
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Large oval heads.
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Large oversized eyes.
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NARRATOR: In the years
since their reported abduction,
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Betty and Barney
Hill's encounter
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has become legendary.
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But what was not well-known
was that Betty and Barney Hill
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were not the only
members of their family
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who have been abducted.
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Betty Hill was my
aunt, my mother's sister.
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Something that we have
never revealed before
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is that my mother had a
close encounter in 1958.
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She saw this huge
cigar-shaped craft
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hovering over a field.
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She had no explanation
for what had happened
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as far as she knew.
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She had gone shopping,
and she had driven home.
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My mother eventually
underwent hypnosis,
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and through hypnosis,
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she recalled having
been abducted,
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as well.
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And I also had this uncanny
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sort of dreamlike experience
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of being taken to a craft.
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It appears that this is
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My Aunt Betty was taken,
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my mother was taken,
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and there's a good chance
that I have been taken, as well.
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NARRATOR: Could it be
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that extraterrestrial
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not only individuals
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but also families?
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And if so, why?
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NICK POPE: It seems
that specific bloodlines
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are involved here.
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And if that's the case,
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it raises the
intriguing possibility
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that the extraterrestrials are
interested in human biology,
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that they are monitoring
specific genetic lines
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for some purpose.
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One of the most
important factors I consider
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when it comes to
evaluating a UFO encounter
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is how credible is the witness?
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And to me, there is no
better expert than a pilot
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when it comes to
reporting on a flying craft.
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The next encounter on
my list took place in 1947
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and helped launch
the modern UFO era.
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Number eight: The
Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting.
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NARRATOR: Washington state.
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June 24, 1947.
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Aviator and businessman
Kenneth Arnold
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is piloting a private
plane near Mount Rainier
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when he suddenly spots
nine fast-moving objects
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flying in tandem.
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As he was flying
around the mountain,
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he suddenly caught sight
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of a squadron of
strange-looking objects.
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He could not figure
out what they were.
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RICHARD DOLAN:
He was able to measure
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the speed that they
were going at by...
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'cause he knew the distance
between two particular peaks
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which were about 15 miles apart.
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And he timed the passage
of these objects by the peaks
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and came to something
like 1,200 miles per hour,
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which, in 1947, was
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anywhere close to that.
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He later described the objects
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as being somewhat delta-shaped
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and flying as if you
were to skip a saucer
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across a body of water.
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And this gave rise to the term
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"flying saucer."
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NARRATOR: The U.S. Air Force
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formally categorized
Kenneth Arnold's experience
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as a mirage, but it emboldened
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others to come forward
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with their own
unexplainable encounters,
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and a flurry of UFO
reports quickly followed.
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When you look at the
year 1947, the statistics are
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that there were at
least 800 reports
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to police and airports
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of people saying that they
were seeing something in the sky
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and they didn't
know what it was.
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It was actually
required that all officers
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fill out a form if
they saw anything
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that might be regarded
as a UFO or a flying saucer.
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And in addition to that,
they were told not to discuss
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their sighting or what
was on their report
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with anyone.
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NARRATOR: Kenneth
Arnold's encounter
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marked the beginning
of the modern UFO era,
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but there are also those
who believe it gave rise
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to a massive
government cover-up.
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We became aware in the '40s...
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of these extraterrestrial
biological entities
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and that the government's
been trying to hide it
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for all of these decades...
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and that the same
question of intent
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and agenda
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and exactly who
from where and why
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are the same questions today.
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On October 13, 1917,
A huge crowd gathered,
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over 30,000 people in
a small town in Portugal
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witnessed an incredible event
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that the Catholic
Church declared to be
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of supernatural character.
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At the center of the
event were three children
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who, for months, had
reported receiving messages
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from a lady in the sky.
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Number seven on my countdown
of the top alien encounters
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is the Miracle of
the Sun at F�tima.
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NARRATOR: F�tima, Portugal.
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May 1917.
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Three young children walking
through a sheep pasture
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are stopped in their tracks
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by what appears to
be a glowing angel.
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As the figure begins to speak,
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they believe she is
the holy Virgin Mary
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sent to deliver a very
important message.
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CHILDRESS: These three children
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claimed that they were
visited by the Virgin Mary,
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who appeared to them in the sky
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and told them that she had
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certain prophecies for them
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and that over the
next six months,
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she would return to
them and give them
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these prophecies.
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And so on the-the
13th of each month,
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these three children
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would gather on
this hillside in F�tima,
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and, according to
them, the Virgin Mary
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would appear to them
and tell them these stories.
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NARRATOR: During
one of these visits,
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the children claimed that
the apparition told them
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she would return
to perform a miracle
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on October 13th.
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They reported the encounter
to the local Catholic bishop,
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and on October 13, 1917,
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over 30,000 people
gathered to witness the event.
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A huge crowd gathered,
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and they said that
they witnessed,
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uh, the Sun moving in the sky.
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IMBROGNO: They saw
the Sun spinning like a disk
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and then coming down
to the planet Earth,
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and people got very frightened.
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NARRATOR: The incident
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was labeled an event
of supernatural character
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by the Catholic Church.
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But as far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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it was a very different type
of otherworldly encounter.
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This whole event took
place for eight minutes,
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not eight seconds.
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They had time to look it.
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It was not the Sun.
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It was a UFO because it turned,
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it changed its
color all the time.
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This object appeared in the
sky in front of the Sun, I believe.
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I read all the reports.
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And colors of light spread out
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from the object to the ground.
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To me, it indicates contact
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with an extraterrestrial
intelligence.
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Encounters reported
by a group of people
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can make strange
sightings hard to deny.
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And when a UFO
sighting is reported
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by thousands of residents
of a major metropolitan city,
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in my opinion,
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that's about as
undeniable as it gets.
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The number six alien encounter
on my top ten countdown:
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The Phoenix Lights.
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NARRATOR: Henderson, Nevada.
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March 13, 1997.
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At 6:55 p.m.,
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local police receive a report
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of a massive V-shaped
object traveling southeast
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across the night sky.
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Over the next three hours,
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the craft is witnessed
by thousands of people
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as it journeys down
through Arizona
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and into Sonora, Mexico.
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With most of the reports
coming from Phoenix
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as well as photographs
and video footage,
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the incident becomes
known as the Phoenix Lights.
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DOLAN: The entire city
of Phoenix was able to see
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this half-a-mile-long
display of lights over the city
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in a very, very
distinctive pattern.
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It was a
triangularish-shaped object
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seen very reliably
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by quite a large
number of witnesses.
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Who's our best witness to that?
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The best one?
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Governor Fife
Symington of Arizona.
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As a pilot and a
former Air Force officer,
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I can definitively say that
this craft did not resemble
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any man-made object
that I'd ever seen.
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BIRNES: He says, "Yeah,
I really did see the UFO."
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And he describes
it. He actually was
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maybe a hundred feet
away from that flying triangle
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and could see through
it and the stars above.
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DOLAN: Governor
Symington was a qualified pilot
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and in the Air Force
Reserve, as well.
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I think he knew
what he was seeing.
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But some of these
other witnesses said,
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"Yeah, I could've almost
thrown a baseball and hit it,
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it was that low over
the... over our heads."
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NARRATOR: The
governor of Arizona
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described a strange,
triangular UFO
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that appeared translucent,
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camouflaging itself
amidst the star field above.
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BIRNES: They were seen
by hundreds of people.
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But when they looked
between the lights,
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what they could
see were the stars.
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But it wasn't just the night sky
as if there was nothing there.
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They were wavy as if
something was getting in the way
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of the direct light
from the stars.
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So, it's stealth.
It's camouflaged.
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NARRATOR: Camouflaged?
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Could the descriptions
of the Phoenix Lights
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indicate that witnesses
were observing
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some type of stealth
alien technology
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that, whether
intentional or not,
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momentarily revealed itself?
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And if so,
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could there be far more
extraterrestrial aircraft
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in our skies than
we ever imagined?
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People think of disclosure
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as being the archetypal
landing on the White House lawn.
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What if aliens are already here
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and then disclosure,
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open first contact
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is the day when they
reveal themselves?
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People often ask me,
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"Why aren't there
any UFO sightings
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before the 20th century?"
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And my answer is,
"Of course there were."
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History is filled with
alien encounter stories.
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But our ancestors
didn't have the words
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like "aliens" and "UFOs,"
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and, of course,
this was long before
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they had built flying machines.
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What their stories describe
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is what I call
misunderstood technology,
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like this UFO
sighting that took place
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in the fourth century AD
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and forever altered
the course of humanity.
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Number five on my countdown:
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Constantine's Vision.
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NARRATOR: Rome.
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October 27, 312 AD.
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At the Milvian Bridge on
the north side of the city,
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deposed Emperor Constantine
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prepares to reclaim his
throne from Maxentius.
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In the sky,
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he witnesses what he
believes is a divine vision.
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Constantine and his followers
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saw in the sky
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what their chroniclers say
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was a huge, white, fiery cross.
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Now, his followers didn't
know what to make of this,
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but Constantine decided
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that this was the
Christian cross.
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At that point, he
made a vow to Christ
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that if he won the battle,
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he would convert to
Christianity for good,
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and he would make Christianity
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the state religion of
the Roman Empire.
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WILLIAM BRAMLEY:
The vision of Constantine
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was extremely significant.
404
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They thought it was
some kind of message.
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"Fight this battle and establish
this form of Christianity."
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KATHLEEN McGOWAN
COPPENS: Constantine feels,
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after viewing this extraordinary
sign from the heavens,
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this lighted cross in the sky,
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that he will go
forth the next day,
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and he will conquer
the Roman Empire.
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And this is exactly
what he does.
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This vision becomes
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one of the crucial turning
points in human history.
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NARRATOR: Constantine's
victory at the Milvian Bridge
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was the first step
in Christianity
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becoming Europe's
dominant religion,
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and the world was
changed forever.
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But was the cross-shaped object
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Constantine claimed
to have seen in the sky
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really a sign from God?
421
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Or might it have been some
other extraordinary force?
422
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BRAMLEY: It looked like the
shape of a cross, but the shape
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of a cross could have
been airplane-type objects
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because the fuselage and
the wings will look like a cross
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to somebody who's looking up.
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And, of course,
they had no concept
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of these things back then.
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TSOUKALOS: Now, it was
not just Constantine's vision
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because it is described
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that the army of Constantine
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also saw something
up in the sky.
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POPE: This was a pivotal moment.
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The adoption of Christianity
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as the official religion
really changed the world,
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and that's now a large
part of the world we live in.
436
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
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that a 1,700-year-old
UFO encounter
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was responsible for one of
the greatest turning points
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in human history?
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So, the question is
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is this one of the
earliest UFO encounters
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that we have on record?
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And, in my opinion, yes, it is.
444
00:22:06,542 --> 00:22:08,327
Remember when I said earlier
445
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that the case of
Betty and Barney Hill
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was the first alien
abduction ever reported?
447
00:22:13,810 --> 00:22:16,552
Well, that's because
the term "alien abduction"
448
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did not exist
thousands of years ago.
449
00:22:19,686 --> 00:22:23,385
In fact, one of the most
compelling abduction accounts
450
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I've ever read is ancient
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and can be found in a
text that might surprise you:
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the holy Bible.
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Number four on my countdown:
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Elijah's Chariot.
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NARRATOR: Northern Israel.
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The ninth century BC.
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According to Old Testament
texts found in the Hebrew Bible,
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it was here that
the prophet Elijah
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had several encounters
with both angels and God
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during which he was
given prophetic warnings
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of drought and cataclysm.
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One of the most
important, uh, prophets
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in-in Israelite tradition,
of course, is-is Elijah.
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Elijah predicts some
rough things coming,
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and, of course, they do.
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There is a very special role
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in communicating God's designs
468
00:23:17,047 --> 00:23:19,310
and sometimes his condemnation.
469
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So, Elijah is met with
rather divine-like figures.
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NARRATOR: In his
final encounter with God,
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it is written that Elijah
is met by a chariot of fire
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and horses of fire
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that take him up to
heaven in a whirlwind.
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PATRICK COOKE:
Elijah's experience
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details a spinning object
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or a whirlwind
that came over him
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and a chariot of fire.
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So, the question is
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was it the chariot of
fire that was spinning?
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Or was it
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a beam that came
down and took him up?
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It's not a far stretch
to say that this was
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an actually, uh, spinning
object that was above him
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that took him up into it.
485
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REDFERN: Could the-the fire
have been some sort of engine?
486
00:24:08,142 --> 00:24:09,665
When he's taken
up in a whirlwind,
487
00:24:09,709 --> 00:24:12,146
you know, you only have
to look at, for example,
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- when the space shuttle takes to the skies.
- MAN: Four, three, two...
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REDFERN: You know,
you have these rumbling,
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roaring jet flames,
et cetera, et cetera.
491
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If you look at it
in that context,
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you could really place
this into a UFO category.
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COOKE: Definitely, these
are, uh, characteristics
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that we see of abductions
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where people are
taken up into objects.
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NARRATOR: Could
it be that a story found
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in one of the earliest
books of the Hebrew Bible
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is, in fact,
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an account of an alien abduction
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that occurred
thousands of years ago?
501
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And if so, what might it reveal
502
00:24:51,141 --> 00:24:55,319
about extraterrestrial
intervention on Earth?
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RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
We see from the biblical record
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that mankind has a
purpose and a destiny.
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There clearly are
extraterrestrials,
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00:25:03,066 --> 00:25:06,374
and they are clearly
interacting with us
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00:25:06,417 --> 00:25:09,769
and guiding us and
directing humanity
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towards this predestined end.
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00:25:19,605 --> 00:25:22,172
When it comes to
alien abduction reports,
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most rely on the testimony
of the abductees themselves.
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It's very rare for an abduction
to be witnessed by anybody else.
512
00:25:30,050 --> 00:25:34,010
But in this next case, there
were multiple witnesses
513
00:25:34,054 --> 00:25:37,187
who saw the abduction
as it happened.
514
00:25:37,231 --> 00:25:39,320
This is one of the
most fascinating
515
00:25:39,363 --> 00:25:41,409
and famous accounts on record.
516
00:25:42,628 --> 00:25:46,632
Number three on my list of
the top ten alien encounters:
517
00:25:46,675 --> 00:25:49,852
The Travis Walton Abduction.
518
00:25:52,376 --> 00:25:56,424
NARRATOR: The Apache-Sitgreaves
National Forest, Arizona.
519
00:25:57,599 --> 00:26:01,211
November 5, 1975.
520
00:26:02,430 --> 00:26:06,086
22-year-old forestry
worker Travis Walton
521
00:26:06,129 --> 00:26:09,872
is driving home after sundown
along with six coworkers
522
00:26:09,916 --> 00:26:13,615
when suddenly, a strange
light appears in the sky.
523
00:26:13,659 --> 00:26:16,052
We'd just finished
a long, hard day,
524
00:26:16,096 --> 00:26:17,203
and it was starting to get dark.
525
00:26:17,227 --> 00:26:19,360
So, uh, we loaded
up our equipment.
526
00:26:19,403 --> 00:26:20,404
We were headed home.
527
00:26:20,448 --> 00:26:22,624
And I noticed, uh,
528
00:26:22,668 --> 00:26:25,322
some little glimmers of light
coming through the trees,
529
00:26:25,366 --> 00:26:27,760
and the light
seemed to be coming
530
00:26:27,803 --> 00:26:30,458
from higher than where
ground level would be.
531
00:26:30,501 --> 00:26:34,331
It was only when we
got to where this light
532
00:26:34,375 --> 00:26:35,594
was crossing the road
533
00:26:35,637 --> 00:26:38,858
that we had an
unobstructed view of the craft.
534
00:26:38,901 --> 00:26:41,295
Allen Dalis in the
back yelled out,
535
00:26:41,338 --> 00:26:42,949
"It's a flying saucer!"
536
00:26:42,992 --> 00:26:44,733
And I said, "Mike, stop."
537
00:26:44,777 --> 00:26:46,126
[tires screech]
538
00:26:46,169 --> 00:26:48,998
It was a clearly visible,
539
00:26:49,042 --> 00:26:52,001
clearly defined metallic object,
540
00:26:52,045 --> 00:26:55,091
a disc, hovering there,
outlined against the sky.
541
00:26:55,135 --> 00:26:57,267
I threw open the door,
542
00:26:57,311 --> 00:27:00,053
thinking I'd get a closer
look before it took off.
543
00:27:00,096 --> 00:27:02,882
As I got closer to it,
the sound it was making,
544
00:27:02,925 --> 00:27:06,102
it was a sound you-you
both heard and felt.
545
00:27:06,146 --> 00:27:08,452
And, uh, the crew said
546
00:27:08,496 --> 00:27:11,020
they could feel the
vibration in the truck.
547
00:27:12,195 --> 00:27:16,504
They said it seemed like
something was about to happen.
548
00:27:16,547 --> 00:27:19,333
[chuckles]: And it was.
549
00:27:19,376 --> 00:27:22,945
That's when this energy hit me.
550
00:27:22,989 --> 00:27:26,993
The crew said that it was
like I'd stepped on a land mine.
551
00:27:28,168 --> 00:27:30,561
Like an explosion
552
00:27:30,605 --> 00:27:33,521
so violent that,
uh, they thought
553
00:27:33,564 --> 00:27:34,783
it, uh, it had killed me.
554
00:27:35,741 --> 00:27:39,701
When this beam of energy hit me,
555
00:27:39,745 --> 00:27:42,399
I felt like a physical blow,
556
00:27:42,443 --> 00:27:45,794
but with a sort of a tingling,
sort of an electric shock
557
00:27:45,838 --> 00:27:48,449
sort of feeling
at the same time.
558
00:27:48,492 --> 00:27:52,888
I don't know whether I came to
soon after I was taken aboard.
559
00:27:52,932 --> 00:27:55,717
But I know I was on
560
00:27:55,761 --> 00:27:58,981
some kind of an elevated
gurney or operating table.
561
00:27:59,025 --> 00:28:01,288
I was looking straight into
the face of this creature,
562
00:28:01,331 --> 00:28:03,551
and I just flipped out.
563
00:28:05,118 --> 00:28:09,165
POPE: He saw these
hideous entities that scared him.
564
00:28:09,209 --> 00:28:13,126
Maybe quite similar
to the modern idea
565
00:28:13,169 --> 00:28:15,650
of the so-called alien Greys.
566
00:28:15,694 --> 00:28:18,871
And he fought, and he panicked.
567
00:28:19,959 --> 00:28:22,788
And then these aliens
seemed to go away,
568
00:28:22,831 --> 00:28:24,964
and then their place was taken
569
00:28:25,007 --> 00:28:28,489
by much more humanlike aliens,
570
00:28:28,532 --> 00:28:30,534
and he calmed down.
571
00:28:30,578 --> 00:28:33,668
WALTON: In the case of
these human-looking ones,
572
00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:36,236
I started to have
serious misgivings
573
00:28:36,279 --> 00:28:37,585
that this was a rescue.
574
00:28:37,628 --> 00:28:41,241
And that's when they put
this mask over my face,
575
00:28:41,284 --> 00:28:43,199
and I just blacked
out real quickly.
576
00:28:46,420 --> 00:28:47,769
POPE: Now, the suspicion here
577
00:28:47,813 --> 00:28:50,903
was that, actually, these
weren't different aliens.
578
00:28:50,946 --> 00:28:52,687
These were the same aliens,
579
00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:55,864
but they were capable
of shape-shifting
580
00:28:55,908 --> 00:28:59,912
into something else
specifically to calm him down.
581
00:29:04,351 --> 00:29:05,415
NARRATOR: Crews
searched everywhere
582
00:29:05,439 --> 00:29:07,397
for the missing forest worker.
583
00:29:08,572 --> 00:29:12,098
But it wasn't until five
days later that Walton
584
00:29:12,141 --> 00:29:15,710
reappeared in a nearby town.
585
00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:19,453
I was lying facedown
outside in the dark,
586
00:29:19,496 --> 00:29:21,803
and there was a light above me.
587
00:29:21,847 --> 00:29:24,501
And I saw the bottom
of the craft there
588
00:29:24,545 --> 00:29:26,765
right before it shot
up into the sky.
589
00:29:30,029 --> 00:29:32,379
NARRATOR: When details of
Travis Walton's close encounter
590
00:29:32,422 --> 00:29:34,773
were revealed to authorities,
591
00:29:34,816 --> 00:29:39,125
they dismissed his account
as a possible hallucination.
592
00:29:40,691 --> 00:29:42,868
But Travis has no doubt
593
00:29:42,911 --> 00:29:45,871
that what he and his
coworkers experienced
594
00:29:45,914 --> 00:29:49,483
was a genuine
extraterrestrial encounter.
595
00:29:49,526 --> 00:29:51,877
WALTON: What no one asked
596
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,575
was, you know, "What
about the rest of the crew?"
597
00:29:54,618 --> 00:29:57,447
How do seven people have
an identical hallucination?
598
00:29:57,491 --> 00:29:59,058
And besides that,
599
00:29:59,101 --> 00:30:01,060
they were given
lie detector tests
600
00:30:01,103 --> 00:30:03,845
by state police,
which they passed.
601
00:30:03,889 --> 00:30:06,413
There's real-life things
that occur out there
602
00:30:06,456 --> 00:30:08,807
that need to be understood.
603
00:30:08,850 --> 00:30:11,810
So, take a look at the
facts a-and then judge.
604
00:30:11,853 --> 00:30:15,552
I don't know the
purpose that they had.
605
00:30:15,596 --> 00:30:17,946
All I know is what
happened to me.
606
00:30:17,990 --> 00:30:19,469
This was unmistakable.
607
00:30:25,519 --> 00:30:28,957
Every now and then, an
encounter is so compelling
608
00:30:29,001 --> 00:30:32,482
that it turns skeptics
into true believers.
609
00:30:32,526 --> 00:30:36,399
That's exactly what
happened in the early 1970s
610
00:30:36,443 --> 00:30:39,359
when a NASA scientist set out
611
00:30:39,402 --> 00:30:41,535
to prove Erich von
Daniken wrong.
612
00:30:41,578 --> 00:30:44,016
But, in fact, he
ended up supporting
613
00:30:44,059 --> 00:30:46,061
one of Erich's
theories so strongly
614
00:30:46,105 --> 00:30:47,465
that he even wrote
a book about it.
615
00:30:48,237 --> 00:30:50,152
Number two on my countdown:
616
00:30:50,196 --> 00:30:52,502
The Wheels of Ezekiel.
617
00:30:56,811 --> 00:30:58,987
NARRATOR: Northeast Syria.
618
00:30:59,031 --> 00:31:01,903
The Khabur River.
619
00:31:01,947 --> 00:31:04,297
According to the Hebrew Bible,
620
00:31:04,340 --> 00:31:07,561
it was here, in the
sixth century BC,
621
00:31:07,604 --> 00:31:09,868
that divine beings
descended from heaven
622
00:31:09,911 --> 00:31:11,913
and made contact
623
00:31:11,957 --> 00:31:15,874
with a Hebrew
priest named Ezekiel.
624
00:31:15,917 --> 00:31:18,920
Ezekiel was by the River Khabur,
625
00:31:18,964 --> 00:31:21,836
and he said a great
whirlwind came toward him.
626
00:31:23,533 --> 00:31:26,319
He described it as
a fire enfolding itself,
627
00:31:26,362 --> 00:31:27,842
and out of the fire
628
00:31:27,886 --> 00:31:30,018
was the color of amber,
629
00:31:30,062 --> 00:31:32,586
which is the Hebrew word
630
00:31:32,629 --> 00:31:34,936
which means "polished
specter of metal,"
631
00:31:34,980 --> 00:31:38,809
which implies that it's
metallic and that it's spinning.
632
00:31:38,853 --> 00:31:41,073
And it lands in front of him,
633
00:31:41,116 --> 00:31:44,163
and suddenly, out
of this whirlwind
634
00:31:44,206 --> 00:31:46,078
come four creatures.
635
00:31:48,210 --> 00:31:50,473
NARRATOR: In the
Bible, the prophet Ezekiel
636
00:31:50,517 --> 00:31:53,912
calls these spiritual
beings cherubims
637
00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:57,916
and describes them as
having four faces, four wings
638
00:31:57,959 --> 00:32:01,876
and skin that shone
like polished bronze.
639
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,748
DOWNING: Ezekiel
says that he was taken up
640
00:32:04,792 --> 00:32:08,665
into the sky and taken
to different places
641
00:32:08,709 --> 00:32:10,624
where he could
see different things.
642
00:32:11,755 --> 00:32:13,844
And then he was told
643
00:32:13,888 --> 00:32:16,151
some of the future things
that were going to come.
644
00:32:16,195 --> 00:32:19,763
This was a huge image of hope
645
00:32:19,807 --> 00:32:23,593
that came to Ezekiel
during his experience.
646
00:32:23,637 --> 00:32:27,989
NARRATOR: But is this the
story of a divine encounter?
647
00:32:28,033 --> 00:32:29,948
Or could Ezekiel's description
648
00:32:29,991 --> 00:32:33,081
of metallic wheels
descending from the sky
649
00:32:33,125 --> 00:32:34,735
in a whirlwind of fire
650
00:32:34,778 --> 00:32:38,260
and strange beings with
skin like polished bronze
651
00:32:38,304 --> 00:32:43,048
point to a different type
of otherworldly contact?
652
00:32:44,049 --> 00:32:46,486
He's got the best
description of a UFO
653
00:32:46,529 --> 00:32:47,835
that's anywhere in the Bible...
654
00:32:49,054 --> 00:32:51,708
because he basically says
655
00:32:51,752 --> 00:32:54,929
that the thing looked like
a wheel within a wheel, uh,
656
00:32:54,973 --> 00:32:58,063
kind of a classic flying
saucer description.
657
00:32:59,064 --> 00:33:00,935
TRAVIS TAYLOR: Ezekiel describes
658
00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:03,546
that the outside of
the wheel doesn't spin.
659
00:33:03,590 --> 00:33:06,419
The inside of the wheel spins.
660
00:33:06,462 --> 00:33:09,248
So, he's telling us
that's the engines.
661
00:33:10,901 --> 00:33:13,034
None of this necessarily
has to be magic.
662
00:33:13,078 --> 00:33:15,384
This could all be technology.
663
00:33:15,428 --> 00:33:17,604
COPPENS: It's
basically the account
664
00:33:17,647 --> 00:33:21,086
of a guy who's been abducted
who has been told certain things
665
00:33:21,129 --> 00:33:23,784
and who's then returned
to the place of origin.
666
00:33:23,827 --> 00:33:26,004
It would be what we
today would describe
667
00:33:26,047 --> 00:33:27,353
as an abduction account.
668
00:33:29,572 --> 00:33:33,011
NARRATOR: Could it be that
the prophet Ezekiel's account
669
00:33:33,054 --> 00:33:36,101
of a heavenly close encounter
might have been something else?
670
00:33:36,144 --> 00:33:39,582
Perhaps one not
involving heavenly beings
671
00:33:39,626 --> 00:33:43,978
but visitors of another
interplanetary nature?
672
00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:47,503
This concept was
put forth to the public
673
00:33:47,547 --> 00:33:51,551
by the ancient astronaut
theory pioneer Erich von Daniken
674
00:33:51,594 --> 00:33:55,511
in his 1968 book
Chariots of the Gods?
675
00:33:55,555 --> 00:33:57,557
And after hearing Erich speak
676
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,733
at a conference
in the early 1970s,
677
00:33:59,776 --> 00:34:02,692
NASA engineer Josef Blumrich
678
00:34:02,736 --> 00:34:06,696
was determined to debunk
his controversial interpretation.
679
00:34:07,784 --> 00:34:11,266
I had a speech at
NASA in Huntsville,
680
00:34:11,310 --> 00:34:14,748
and I spoke about Ezekiel.
681
00:34:14,791 --> 00:34:18,056
And the chief
engineer of that time,
682
00:34:18,099 --> 00:34:20,449
Mr. Joe Blumrich,
683
00:34:20,493 --> 00:34:22,886
came to me and said, "Erich,
this was very interesting.
684
00:34:22,930 --> 00:34:24,192
"But in the Bible,
685
00:34:24,236 --> 00:34:26,890
you will definitely not
find any technology."
686
00:34:26,934 --> 00:34:28,805
But he still said,
687
00:34:28,849 --> 00:34:31,852
"I will read originally
in the Bible Ezekiel."
688
00:34:31,895 --> 00:34:35,073
NARRATOR: Blumrich
set out to find flaws
689
00:34:35,116 --> 00:34:36,944
in von Daniken's theory,
690
00:34:36,987 --> 00:34:39,381
but when he read
the Book of Ezekiel,
691
00:34:39,425 --> 00:34:41,731
he was shocked to
find himself agreeing
692
00:34:41,775 --> 00:34:43,951
with the controversial author.
693
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:46,693
So much so, in fact,
694
00:34:46,736 --> 00:34:49,913
that he wrote a book called
The Spaceships of Ezekiel
695
00:34:49,957 --> 00:34:52,133
in which he provided a blueprint
696
00:34:52,177 --> 00:34:54,135
for a practical landing module
697
00:34:54,179 --> 00:34:58,183
based on the description
found in the biblical story.
698
00:34:58,226 --> 00:35:00,446
Several years later,
699
00:35:00,489 --> 00:35:04,232
a German structural engineer
named Hans Herbert Beier
700
00:35:04,276 --> 00:35:06,060
also sketched out a blueprint
701
00:35:06,104 --> 00:35:08,236
of the second section
of the Book of Ezekiel
702
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:09,977
where Ezekiel is told
703
00:35:10,020 --> 00:35:11,631
to construct an
open-topped building
704
00:35:11,674 --> 00:35:14,634
to house the flying chariot.
705
00:35:14,677 --> 00:35:16,549
TSOUKALOS: Hans Herbert Beier
706
00:35:16,592 --> 00:35:19,073
sent the blueprint
to Erich von Daniken.
707
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:23,730
Within five minutes of
looking at these blueprints,
708
00:35:23,773 --> 00:35:26,733
Erich was on the
phone with Joe Blumrich.
709
00:35:26,776 --> 00:35:29,301
And he said, "Hey, Joe,
710
00:35:29,344 --> 00:35:33,348
can you bring a model of
your spaceship of Ezekiel?"
711
00:35:33,392 --> 00:35:35,611
And then he called
Hans Herbert Beier,
712
00:35:35,655 --> 00:35:38,266
and he said, "Can
you bring a model
713
00:35:38,310 --> 00:35:41,530
of your construction
of Ezekiel's temple?"
714
00:35:41,574 --> 00:35:45,273
Both models were
created to the same ratio.
715
00:35:45,317 --> 00:35:47,101
And guess what?
716
00:35:47,145 --> 00:35:52,193
Ezekiel's spaceship fit
into the temple construction
717
00:35:52,237 --> 00:35:55,892
that Hans Herbert
Beier recreated
718
00:35:55,936 --> 00:35:58,852
according to the
biblical measurements.
719
00:36:00,636 --> 00:36:04,336
NARRATOR: As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,
720
00:36:04,379 --> 00:36:06,686
the biblical account of Ezekiel
721
00:36:06,729 --> 00:36:08,644
provides conclusive evidence
722
00:36:08,688 --> 00:36:10,820
of an alien encounter.
723
00:36:10,864 --> 00:36:12,909
But more importantly,
724
00:36:12,953 --> 00:36:16,174
it may also reveal that
for thousands of years,
725
00:36:16,217 --> 00:36:18,524
the destiny of humankind
726
00:36:18,567 --> 00:36:22,354
has been directed
by extraterrestrials.
727
00:36:29,230 --> 00:36:33,365
This may be one of the
oldest alien encounter stories,
728
00:36:33,408 --> 00:36:36,324
but for me, it is still
the most compelling.
729
00:36:36,368 --> 00:36:39,371
Written over 3,000 years ago,
730
00:36:39,414 --> 00:36:41,329
it was banned from the Bible
731
00:36:41,373 --> 00:36:45,246
because this ancient
text describes in detail
732
00:36:45,290 --> 00:36:48,902
humankind's
extraterrestrial origins.
733
00:36:49,859 --> 00:36:53,036
My number one alien encounter:
734
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,083
Enoch's Ascent to Heaven
in a Chariot of the Gods.
735
00:37:01,436 --> 00:37:05,005
NARRATOR: Khirbet
Qumran, Palestine.
736
00:37:05,048 --> 00:37:07,790
In 1946,
737
00:37:07,834 --> 00:37:09,792
a collection of
ancient manuscripts
738
00:37:09,836 --> 00:37:11,838
known as the Dead Sea Scrolls
739
00:37:11,881 --> 00:37:13,753
is discovered
hidden in clay jars
740
00:37:13,796 --> 00:37:16,234
deep inside a cave.
741
00:37:16,277 --> 00:37:17,887
Among the manuscripts
742
00:37:17,931 --> 00:37:19,585
is the Book of Enoch,
743
00:37:19,628 --> 00:37:22,718
a so-called lost biblical text.
744
00:37:22,762 --> 00:37:24,981
In the Bible's Old Testament,
745
00:37:25,025 --> 00:37:27,157
Enoch is the seventh
of ten patriarchs
746
00:37:27,201 --> 00:37:29,464
who lived before the Great Flood
747
00:37:29,508 --> 00:37:32,554
and the
great-grandfather of Noah.
748
00:37:32,598 --> 00:37:35,557
But where the Hebrew Bible
only mentions Enoch briefly,
749
00:37:35,601 --> 00:37:37,211
the Book of Enoch,
750
00:37:37,255 --> 00:37:39,518
which consists of
more than 100 chapters,
751
00:37:39,561 --> 00:37:42,172
greatly expands on his story.
752
00:37:42,216 --> 00:37:45,567
In it is a curious passage
753
00:37:45,611 --> 00:37:48,309
that details Enoch's
ascent to heaven.
754
00:37:48,353 --> 00:37:50,311
VON DANIKEN: According
to the Book of Enoch,
755
00:37:50,355 --> 00:37:52,966
he says he was 12 years old.
756
00:37:53,009 --> 00:37:55,360
The whole community of
his village wanted to sleep,
757
00:37:55,403 --> 00:37:58,101
but then they hear
the noise in the sky.
758
00:37:58,145 --> 00:38:01,627
Two angels came
down from the sky.
759
00:38:01,670 --> 00:38:03,629
One of the two
beings said to Enoch,
760
00:38:03,672 --> 00:38:05,326
"Don't be afraid, human."
761
00:38:05,370 --> 00:38:08,895
Then they went up to
the so-called heaven.
762
00:38:08,938 --> 00:38:11,245
WILLIAM HENRY: And in
the Book of Enoch, we learn
763
00:38:11,289 --> 00:38:14,770
Enoch himself is taken into
the heavens in a fiery chariot.
764
00:38:14,814 --> 00:38:17,164
VON DANIKEN: Enoch
goes up to the so-called sky,
765
00:38:17,207 --> 00:38:19,035
and there Enoch sees
766
00:38:19,079 --> 00:38:22,387
something over the Earth
which he cannot describe.
767
00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:25,303
He has no word like
"spaceship" or something.
768
00:38:25,346 --> 00:38:28,306
He says it looked
like houses of crystal.
769
00:38:31,396 --> 00:38:33,572
TSOUKALOS: It is
described that he sees
770
00:38:33,615 --> 00:38:36,226
planet Earth underneath him.
771
00:38:36,270 --> 00:38:38,838
He actually
describes his arrival,
772
00:38:38,881 --> 00:38:42,145
how he has to walk
through these different rooms
773
00:38:42,189 --> 00:38:44,365
where he sees
774
00:38:44,409 --> 00:38:46,672
jewels and he
sees shiny surfaces
775
00:38:46,715 --> 00:38:49,022
and blinking lights.
776
00:38:49,065 --> 00:38:51,372
It is an eyewitness account.
777
00:38:51,416 --> 00:38:54,810
It's, "I, Enoch, did
this. I, Enoch, saw that."
778
00:38:54,854 --> 00:38:59,728
The Book of Enoch is one
of the first abduction accounts
779
00:38:59,772 --> 00:39:03,645
written down by a
fellow human being.
780
00:39:03,689 --> 00:39:06,692
NARRATOR: Does the
Book of Enoch really describe
781
00:39:06,735 --> 00:39:08,389
an actual abduction event?
782
00:39:08,433 --> 00:39:10,043
One that took place
783
00:39:10,086 --> 00:39:12,393
thousands of years ago?
784
00:39:12,437 --> 00:39:14,003
And if so,
785
00:39:14,047 --> 00:39:16,702
might this incredible
close encounter
786
00:39:16,745 --> 00:39:18,704
be documenting communication
787
00:39:18,747 --> 00:39:22,011
with otherworldly beings?
788
00:39:22,055 --> 00:39:23,535
ROBERT CARGILL:
Enoch, he was said
789
00:39:23,578 --> 00:39:24,816
to be at the right hand of God.
790
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,103
In fact, Enoch was
said to be God's scribe
791
00:39:27,147 --> 00:39:28,278
in later tradition.
792
00:39:28,322 --> 00:39:31,412
So, God would decree
things, and Enoch
793
00:39:31,456 --> 00:39:34,241
was the one who recorded
everything that went on.
794
00:39:35,416 --> 00:39:39,072
So, Enoch was the keeper
of all knowledge of heaven.
795
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:41,398
HENRY: This is
one of the reasons
796
00:39:41,422 --> 00:39:44,425
why the Book of Enoch
is so controversial.
797
00:39:44,469 --> 00:39:47,863
Enoch was the first
human to ascend
798
00:39:47,907 --> 00:39:49,778
to the throne of God,
799
00:39:49,822 --> 00:39:53,303
where he is given powerful
universal knowledge
800
00:39:53,347 --> 00:39:57,220
by angelic beings or
extraterrestrial beings.
801
00:39:59,397 --> 00:40:01,703
NARRATOR: If Enoch
was given information
802
00:40:01,747 --> 00:40:05,315
from extraterrestrial
beings to share with mankind
803
00:40:05,359 --> 00:40:08,188
as ancient astronaut
theorists contend,
804
00:40:08,231 --> 00:40:10,886
what truths about
our otherworldly past
805
00:40:10,930 --> 00:40:14,412
might be waiting to be revealed?
806
00:40:14,455 --> 00:40:18,459
The extraterrestrials want
that in a far future of mankind,
807
00:40:18,503 --> 00:40:21,331
we start to see these things.
808
00:40:21,375 --> 00:40:23,638
We start to translate
these books.
809
00:40:23,682 --> 00:40:26,249
And now we start
to ask questions.
810
00:40:26,293 --> 00:40:29,296
We start to ask, for example,
how can we explain that?
811
00:40:29,339 --> 00:40:33,126
Have we maybe been
visited by extraterrestrials?
812
00:40:33,169 --> 00:40:36,434
And I think it's important
to think in this way,
813
00:40:36,477 --> 00:40:39,132
because these extraterrestrials
have promised to return.
814
00:40:40,089 --> 00:40:43,571
And one day, they will return.
815
00:40:43,615 --> 00:40:46,835
POPE: I was taught not
to believe in coincidence.
816
00:40:46,879 --> 00:40:49,229
I was taught to
look for patterns.
817
00:40:49,272 --> 00:40:51,361
When you have all
these encounters,
818
00:40:51,405 --> 00:40:53,276
these sightings,
819
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:57,411
these descriptions we have
from biblical times onwards,
820
00:40:57,455 --> 00:40:59,718
it tells you
there's something going on.
821
00:40:59,761 --> 00:41:01,894
Doesn't necessarily tell you
what it is,
822
00:41:01,937 --> 00:41:04,331
but it tells you
there's something there.
823
00:41:05,854 --> 00:41:08,596
Well, that concludes
my list for now.
824
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,425
But considering what is written
in the Book of Enoch,
825
00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:14,297
perhaps, as Erich von Daniken
likes to say,
826
00:41:14,341 --> 00:41:18,476
the most important encounter
of all is yet to come.