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Narrator: In Bucks County, Pennsylvania,

the skies have become

a question no one can quite answer.

There have been a lot of speculation about whether UFOs

and UAP have been particularly haunting this area.

Something unusual is going on in Bucks County.

Narrator: They showed up while families relaxed in their yards,

while people were at work, while walking the dog.

Eric Mintel: We're interviewing witnesses that have had

these encounters, and when their voices are,

like, cracking and getting goosebumps

and they can't get the story out,

you know something really profound happened to them.

Narrator: Overhead has become a gallery of the strange.

Murray Toews: You don't know who's watching you, right?

Who's testing you?

Who's testing your atmosphere?

Narrator: And whatever they are, they keep coming back.

Eric: There's a good 10 cases that are out there now

that are legit.

Narrator: What does Bucks County, Pennsylvania

have that they want?

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Narrator: Summer, 2008, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

It's sort of halfway between Philadelphia and New York.

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Chris: It's fairly densely populated.

One would not be surprised to say

that they've seen objects in the air,

whether these are aircraft or something else

remains to be seen.

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Narrator: Strange lights appear in the heavens.

Local witnesses report hovering crafts and orbs.

That year, a staggering 138 UFO sightings ripple

across Pennsylvania, from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia,

but one region stands out: Bucks County.

77 reports, a concentrated flashpoint of the unexplained.

About 200 or 250 witnesses that came forward with sightings

of triangles, boomerangs, all kinds of different shapes

and sizes of crafts.

One of them particularly I remember was a police officer

that was a very good witness, and did say he saw a boomerang.

There was another fellow that claimed to see a mothership.

One of the very first reports that came in

was that someone was saying that there was

an octopus type of looking thing in the sky

above this restaurant.

So an officer was dispatched to go check it out,

and he looks up and he sees this thing,

and it was like this weird--it had, like, tentacles,

and it was this weird coloured lights,

and then it was gone.

Then it disappeared.

So from that point on,

then people were seeing that more and more

as the days went on, and as the weeks went on.

Narrator: MUFON, the world's largest civilian

UFO research group,

dispatches its top investigators to examine

the evidence, interview witnesses,

and determine whether Bucks County sightings

can be explained.

Neil Lavoie: I'm not really a radar expert per se,

but anything that's small would be very difficult to pick up.

So a small drone would be very difficult to pick up.

Birds would be hard to pick up.

It's designed to pick up large objects.

In order to pick up small objects,

you'd really have to crank up the gain

so it would actually receive these things.

We tend to filter out small little objects

because you're looking for something bigger.

Narrator: Among the many reports, one stands apart.

Denise Murders.

She describes a boomerang-shaped craft

with three bright headlights hovering in the night sky.

She had seen this object over an apartment complex

that she was living in,

and the weirdest thing was not only seeing the object,

it spewed, like, this weird glitter-type material

onto this tree.

Narrator: Then the glitter is pulled upward

into the waiting craft,

which silently lifts off and vanishes.

Eric: So what they found later is that it had some kind of

radioactive materials to it, and there was a baby robin

in that tree, and the next morning

it was all dead and shrivelled.

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Chris Rutkowski: Now investigators diligently

took samples of the leaves and tested them

and found that there were some anomalies in the leaves,

that the vegetation actually had higher than normal levels

of elements like boron and antimony

and things like that.

Narrator: While some remain skeptical

of Denise's photographs,

the discovery of elevated levels

of boron in the surrounding foliage.

With extensive testing done, magnesium

also turns up in leaf samples,

but not in any of the surrounding soil

or in any of the control samples collected nearby

leaves even seasoned investigators unsettled.

Something unusual happened in Bucks County.

That was the beginning of this crazy sighting where people

are seeing this thing, multiple lights,

a large object moving very fast.

And then it actually did come up to Doylestown area too as well.

There was a contractor.

It was a stormy night and against the lightning,

he could see this object.

It was like a big octagonal platform just floating

in the sky.

Narrator: As strange lights filled the skies

over Bucks County, seen by dozens, maybe hundreds,

one couple sat on their back deck

and watched together as something unexplainable

moved silently across the night sky.

Mitch Sherman: We live in Oxville, Pennsylvania.

We're out in the country surrounded by farmland.

We're up on a plateau

about 550 feet above sea level.

Eric: So where Mitch and Robin are it's amazing,

because they have a really beautiful piece of sky there

and there's no light pollution or anything like that.

Mitch: This was during the pandemic in 2020.

We were hanging out back on our porch in May,

middle of May of 2020,

and Robin looked up in the northern sky

and said, .What's that thing? /

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Robin Sherman: It was sort of like a triangle shaped,

and from what I recall, it was--had some

different colours, like a reddish, white and a green.

And it just was flickering.

It was nothing like that I've ever seen before.

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Mitch: And it appeared to be kind of twitching a bit.

It was moving around like a plane coming straight at you

and with motions but never arriving.

And we watched that for a couple of hours that night.

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It made a pattern in the sky.

It started not up high in the sky

but fairly low over a tree

over our next door neighbour's house,

and then it dropped and did kind of a semi U-shape

before it dipped down below the tree line

over a two or three hour period.

And we saw the object every clear night

for about a month thereafter.

Ashley Kircher: It would come back the same time of year

around May and it would stay there

for a couple of months

and move--eventually after two or three hours, it moved off

to the side.

And he bought a telescope, and he hooked up his telescope

to a camera and was able to film this thing.

It's very bright.

It's beautiful.

It looks like it has a halo around it,

and it's glittering different colours,

but it turned out that it was the star Capella.

Apparently, Star Capella is one of the brightest stars

in the sky,

and it's a double star.

So even in a telescope, it looks like one star,

but it's actually a double star.

And that's why it was shone so, so brightly.

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Narrator: With their interest piqued

by the astrological misunderstanding,

Mitch and Robin Sherman begin to watch the night sky

more and more, but they aren't the only ones

seeing something out of this world.

I kind of had joint encounter with me and my wife.

And we're just staring off into the sky, just kind of chilling,

hanging out, having a conversation.

Like out of nowhere, like this--these like two orbs that

were like attached, it looks like an--literally an eight.

It just popped out of the sky and turned, rotated,

and evaporated.

And it seemed, like, it came up right away,

right after it disappeared.

It popped up again and then turned, rotated,

and just was gone.

And we both were like at the same time, .Did you see that? /

It was crazy.

It was--it was very--I don't know.

It was wild.

It didn't look like a--like a craft of any kind.

It was just like the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

It really was.

It was like two orbs, just boom, boom, turn, gone,

and then up somewhere else in the sky,

a totally different spot.

Strange.

Kinda got that feeling they were connected,

but again, like I said, couldn't tell.

But they they moved together.

They moved like a kind of a structured thing.

Narrator: This was not to be Nicole Weber's last sighting.

Flash forward to 2021.

Now, the skies are up to their old tricks.

My second encounter was, I was at work

and all the patients had left and I'm looking out.

We have windows that I would look out

from the nurses' station, and I saw these three lights.

Then they were just in this triangle formation.

They were moving but very slowly,

and then they went into a line,

and then they went back into a triangle formation.

I mean, feel like they were all together,

like they were meant to be all together,

and the one in the middle was larger.

Now I don't know if it was just depth,

like, if it was closer than the other two,

or if it was just larger than the other two.

The one that I saw with Joe was more of like a white colour,

translucency colour.

The one that I saw on my own was more of like

a gold, goldish colour.

It was like a bright light.

That's what it was for the way to describe it.

It just kind of faded away.

That's--kind of they were there, and then they just disappeared.

Like, slowly disappeared.

Joe Weber: It could have been an energy, you know,

the way it kind of moved.

So--and looked like it was translucent in a way.

White translucent. Strange.

It was really crazy.

We were just kind of flabbergasted,

I guess you would say.

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Joe: We were like, .Did we see a UFO? /

We're talking about it, like, you know, just kind of casual.

It's funny, because when you see one of these things,

you're like--you think it'll change your life.

But we were just like, .Wow, did you see that? /

Made a joke about it and kept hanging out, you know?

But it was--it was definitely cool.

I mean, obviously memorable.

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Narrator: The sky above Bucks County, Pennsylvania

continued to showcase anomalies and lights,

and the Sherman's encounter

more mysterious objects in the sky.

Robin Sherman has a particularly profound experience.

Chris: There were some closer observations.

In fact, if you watch this bright object

over a number of weeks,

said that as she was watching one night,

suddenly the object or another object

moved towards her,

and took up a position almost right in front of her

and scared the bejeebers out of her.

Murray: What was particularly intriguing to me,

and I have to go right to this, is that Robin Sherman

witnessed an actual orb

come down to her face, it was a finger-sized orb

that just sort of hovered over her face for a moment

and then zipped off.

And so that kind of proximity to an anomalous event

is very, very intriguing to me.

Mitch: I think it was the last night,

I'm gonna call it Capella, was visible,

we were on our back porch and I went in to do something

and Robin started yelling in a voice I hadn't heard before,

.Get out here, get out here now. Now! /

Robin: And I was just sitting out on our porch

and I was looking out at that object

and the next thing I know, I see this white object from far away.

It's like the size of my finger, and that shape,

it's coming at me

and it was kind of coming at me slow.

And stopped in front of her face.

And when she started screaming for me,

then it turned and was gone before I came out.

Ashley: She said it came from the sky

and it went back up to the sky.

So it's not like a neighbour

or someone came out

with a laser pointer or a flashlight.

It didn't sound like that at all.

Robin: It was white.

It didn't blind me.

It didn't make me squint.

It finally came right up to me, and as fast as it came up to me

it just took off.

I would love to know why, and what it was.

I just felt calm.

I was amazed.

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Narrator: In May 2021, the Shermans come home

from a party at about 1 am,

and witness a very different phenomenon.

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Mitch: I took the dog out back,

and then I saw these formation of bright white,

like plasma-white orbs flying single file

from the west to the east in the northern sky.

They crossed about, I want to say, a 70 or 80 degree arc

directly underneath a cloud, lightly clouded,

and these things were illuminating

the underside of the cloud.

They were out in the open.

They were independent, not so much orb-like,

but more Tic Tac like,

but they were bright, plasma white, single file,

and they crossed this arc of sky in about three or four seconds

with no sound at all.

And I kind of froze,

and they appeared to be independently controlled.

They had a light wisp of ionized air

that kind of streamed off of each one,

so they looked a little like a pearl necklace

as they went by.

They didn't appear to be disturbing the cloud at all.

They were far enough away from it to illuminate it.

I'm not a mathematician,

but I'm thinking they were going hypersonic

to cross that arc of sky in three or four seconds.

Based on a quick calculation that I did,

I came up with roughly 7,200 miles per hour.

That's pretty fast.

A typical commercial airliner travels around

500 to 600 miles per hour.

So we're doing more than 10 times that.

That's excessive.

And you would be having a lot of physical properties

with the air.

That would be a pretty big challenge at that point

if you're within the atmosphere.

So to travel at that speed,

you'd wanna be outside of the atmosphere.

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Christian Bohm: Bucks County, Pennsylvania,

it's a basin-shaped trough that's filled with sediments.

That happened, like during the Triassic, Jurassic periods,

let's say 250 million years ago.

So Pangaea, the supercontinent, broke up.

And if you break up a supercontinent, if you rift

pieces off the continent,

you start forming oceanic basins.

Narrator: If this basin was shaped

by the violent tearing of a supercontinent,

what might it be pulling toward it?

Strange lights?

Silent craft?

Glitter from falling trees?

These skies aren't just active, they may be responding.

Narrator: If the land beneath Bucks County hides traces

of rare materials and ancient forces,

could it also be hiding something

others are searching for?

What if the strange lights in the sky aren't just watching,

but harvesting?

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Something or someone is interested in something

because they don't have it,

or because they have had it and need it,

or because they know it and possibly even know it better

or in different ways than we know it.

If something comes from an exoplanet,

maybe they have been using that same material

and ran out of it,

and now are looking for it elsewhere.

Or they don't have this material,

but somehow know or sense that it could be useful for them

and want it, or want to know about it,

to study it.

And it's not only the material itself.

Oftentimes the key even for us is how to access it

and more importantly, how to process it.

Finding it is one way.

Oftentimes there is some sort of like extraction,

separation, chemical, physical, commonly a combination

to actually purify it,

to get it out in the form we want it.

And that technology around the processing

is oftentimes the tricky part that makes all the difference.

And if somebody manages to find their way to us, you know,

from far away, they probably know things that we don't,

and so that may also apply to processing,

to accessing resources.

Narrator: Earth is unique in its dynamism,

and perhaps that's the real beacon calling something here;

a laboratory of life that no other world can replicate.

Maybe they're looking for a pristine environment

to extract all of the resources that we have

that maybe are lacking on their planet.

Christian: Because Earth is such a geodynamic place

where we have eight tectonics, weather systems,

so it's kind of like everything is constantly turning around

and recycling and renewing itself,

which is essential for life too.

But that makes planet Earth so unique.

We haven't quite found another example yet where this exists

and then leads to having like all these different environments

that life can actually form in the atmosphere, on the surface,

beneath the surface, under the water, in the ice,

microbial in rocks even.

Those are only the forms we know about

and somewhat understand.

So the interest could simply just be to study

what's going on on Earth

and makes for those environments

and allows for those life forms.

Like Mars, for example, it used to be tectonically active,

but since it's kind of like stalled,

it's cooled off too much,

and the dynamo is not going as much,

or not anymore to allow these cycles to reoccur.

Maybe there was life on Mars

when it was more similarly working like planet Earth,

but since it's in a more dormant

or hidden forward fashion

that life exists the same could exist for exoplanets,

which I believe, you know,

some of the lifespan of exoplanets can be much greater

than a planet like Earth in the solar system.

So we're talking about timeframes

that are much beyond our thinking even,

where we could have been studied or visited,

or observed by unexplained objects.

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Narrator: But while geologists look for answers underground,

others look to explanations in the sky,

with some saying that the lights may have something to do

with the string-of-pearls effect caused by satellites.

Neil: In order for satellites or anything to produce

a string-of-pearls effect,

you'd almost have to have them all in a nice line,

like pearls on a necklace.

And that would give you that string-of-pearls effect.

Ashley: To me, that was kind of perplexing

because I know for a fact that satellites

fly above clouds.

They're like way up in the atmosphere.

And I've never heard of satellites sort of chasing

from the back and joining in with another line of lights.

If his observations are correct,

if they indeed were below the clouds,

and he was seeing them the way they actually were presenting,

I can't say they were satellites.

I am not aware of any known technology

that would actually cause orbs to occur or change shape

or colour in any way.

That is not anything that I'm aware of in aerospace

or aviation.

So for me, that's a phenomenon.

Ashley: I think they're observing.

If they're aliens, I think they're observing.

They maybe want to be seen.

They might want people to start to get used to the fact

that they're around, and at some point,

they're going to come and tell us

what they wanna tell us,

or show us what they wanna show us.

I don't see any other reason, because it's all very nebulous

all the time.

They're there, they're gone, some people say,

.Oh, it was this. /

So I'm hoping, and I'm thinking maybe,

that this is just a display right now

and that it's going to progress to something better.

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Narrator: As the mystery deepens, not just witnesses,

but seasoned investigators take to the fields

and rooftops of Bucks County, testing, probing,

even daring to signal the lights themselves.

Some claim the objects respond.

Others warn of misinterpretations.

Objects together in a triangular formation,

for example, were witnessed

and video were taken of these objects.

And when there are three objects in the sky,

they will naturally form a triangle,

and in the case of some of the videos

where three objects were seen in the sky,

and then they said they moved to form a line,

well, that suggests they weren't on a solid object,

they were actually on three separate objects.

Another interesting thing about the Bucks County cases

is that a number of investigators

have taken their own crack at looking at

what's going on and investigating

and trying to sort out what people have been seeing.

One of them went with one of the witnesses to take a look at

what they were seeing,

and laser pointer was actually used

to point out one of the objects in the sky,

and the object seemed to respond in some way.

The problem with laser pointers is that it's illegal

to shine laser pointers,

especially at objects like aircraft.

Now a lot of investigators and UFO witnesses

insist that they know the difference between aircraft

and UAP or UFOs.

The problem is that the FAA, and in Canada Transport Canada,

record dozens and dozens of laser attacks on aircraft

every month by people who are shining lasers from the ground

at lights in the sky they believe to be UFOs.

Narrator: But even as skeptics offered ordinary explanations,

the patterns in the sky grew harder to dismiss

and more like a signal from something

not of this world.

There's no question that some unusual objects

were seen over Bucks County in the 2000s,

the 2010s, and into the 2020s.

Eric: My girlfriend and I were going over this bridge

outside of New Hope, Pennsylvania,

going over into Stockton, New Jersey,

again crossing over the Delaware.

And out of the corner of my eye,

I saw five orange orbs just appeared out of nowhere.

And she saw it too, and we're looking at this thing,

and in my rational mind,

I'm like, .Well, there's a restaurant there.

Maybe they just sent off Chinese lanterns,

or somebody's getting married, / or something like that.

Nope, it was a Wednesday night.

Was cold.

It was like January 2016, and it was cold.

Nobody's getting married.

So, of course, try to take my phone out.

You know how it is,

and you've got that little window.

So I'm trying to take a picture

and the flash goes off in the car.

So I take the flash off, and I was able to get one shot

of this object.

But it was weird.

They appeared, they were only a couple of hundred feet

above the bridge,

and it looked like they did a search pattern over the water,

and then one by one they just disappeared.

It was the weirdest thing.

And these were not drones, they were not flares.

And just because it's a populated area,

I'm thinking it couldn't be there.

But since then, I've seen the same video objects

that people send me, same thing.

I don't think the phenomena has stopped since 2008.

I think it's just kept going.

And I think people at some point got to the point of like,

.Oh, well, there it is again, / you know?

Now that the government's saying, .Hey, folks,

the UFOs you're seeing are real,

we just don't know what they are. /

I mean, over 70 years now, we've been doing this or millennia,

again, people have been seeing these things.

Go back to cave drawings and whatnot,

and they've always been here.

So I think we're in a rich period right now

as far as all of these things that are coming to light now.

Narrator: If these lights aren't of this world,

then where could they have come from?

It's only speculation, but some believe the clues

may lie far beyond our solar system,

on a world that mirrors our own,

in ways we're only beginning to imagine.

Narrator: They appeared not once,

not twice over Bucks County, but again and again.

Some appeared silently above rooftops,

others shimmered above the tree lines,

or danced in unison across the sky.

Orbs, boomerangs, each sighting different,

yet strangely familiar.

Accepting the producer's challenge for this episode,

our team of experts use TEEGARDEN Star B

as our exoplanet

to hypothesize the visitors coming to Bucks County.

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Nathalie Ouellette: TEEGARDEN Star B is in a system

with another planet,

TEEGARDEN Star C,

and both are actually very interesting

in terms of their habitability.

So they orbit a star very close in,

and so they're potentially tidally locked

where they're always facing the star with the same side.

They won't have the same kind of day/night cycle

that we have here.

They'll have a day side and a night side.

So we do need to contend with these differences

when we're looking at these exoplanets,

but it's sort of a logistical requirement right now,

because the farther they are from their star,

the less frequent they're going to be passing

in front of their star and making that transit.

That means that instead of being able to study them

every six days when it's passing in front,

we have to wait every 100 days,

or imagine if something was like the Earth,

we'd have to wait a whole year in order for it to pass.

So we're getting fewer and fewer signals.

And for the longest time, TEEGARDEN Star B actually had

the highest Earth Similarity Index, or ESI,

of all the exoplanets ever discovered,

very close to the size and the mass of the Earth.

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Nathalie: The issue with TEEGARDEN Star B is, over time,

as we've collected more data and done more modelling,

we think that there's only a 2% to 3% chance

that it might have retained its atmosphere.

So that would be sort of like a difficulty for habitability.

It shows that just because you're in the habitable zone

and you have an Earth-like planet

doesn't mean that you're necessarily gonna be able

to develop life.

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Narrator: Given the chance to imagine the origins of these

visitors, our experts' theories venture boldly

into that imaginative unknown, where science

meets speculation.

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Dr. Masters: TEEGARDEN Star B is another one of these planets

that piques our interest

in the context of the potential for life,

because it's another one that has a relatively high ESI,

the Earth Similarity Index, which takes into account

all of these variables that help us deduce

whether or not it's like our own planet.

And since we've developed the intellect and complexity

to talk about these questions, obviously,

that's of interest to us.

So this one is about 12.5 light years away.

It's about the same radius.

It's about the same mass as Earth,

and so it checks a lot of boxes.

It certainly indicates that there could be something

that's similar to life on this planet.

It orbits a pretty quiet M dwarf star.

It's really close to its star,

but because it is relatively quiet,

it's not necessarily a huge problem.

It orbits very quickly, something like 98% closer

to its star than we are to our own star, the Sun.

So really, I mean, it's a pretty exciting planet

in a lot of ways.

Being that close to even a relatively weak inactive star,

it would still create a lot of problems with flares.

You need that atmosphere to protect the life,

and to really spread out the heat,

especially because this might be another

tidally locked planet.

And if it is, you know, you have that terminator zone,

you have that area where you could have life evolve

because it's a little more conducive to what

we would expect to have, environments that were conducive

to highly intellectual, complex life.

There are also a lot of issues given the low probability

that it has an atmosphere.

It's somewhat of a question mark to say the least.

If it does have an atmosphere, then it's absolutely

on the table as a prime candidate for not just life,

but potentially even intelligent, complex life.

It's just there's so many extreme environments.

It's hard to imagine how you would get something

that would evolve in a similar way as we did.

Narrator: If someone out there wanted to know us, our air,

our oceans, our signals,

would they risk crossing the void in person

or simply watch from afar?

Perhaps the lights over Bucks County are not visitors at all,

but instruments, quietly gathering

everything they need to know.

If you can think of it this way,

there's such a great divide between us

and something else that's evolved entirely different.

You would use a camera like, let's say, a wormhole camera

or a worm cam, to get all these little pieces of information

you can't if you plunk a large ship,

everyone sees it, you gotta go through

all this tedious alien paperwork,

you know, duck them.

But this way, it's much easier.

You just go in, you take some remote shots, you get some data,

and you're out.

It's nice and fast.

But they would learn a lot about us.

And we, as human beings, when we land ships on Mars

or other worlds, Voyager, Pioneer,

all of those things had sensors,

they learn a lot just from the basic data that they gather,

either from alien atmospheres, from the particulate of space,

cosmic radiation levels, everything.

That data that comes in, someone on the other end

can just take that for whatever reason,

and use it, and build their own models

based in their own theories of what we're all about.

So I think that, in my mind, that's a more effective tool

to learn about us than an entire ship landing,

and just getting some skin samples or whatever leaving.

Narrator: Because there are so many types of UAPs

in Bucks County,

perhaps some are not just tools or probes sent to explore.

Some could indeed be life forms, just not life forms we know.

It's possible extraterrestrial beings are themselves beings

made up entirely of light,

the variable form we see them in,

simply the variations within their own species.

These light beings may view us through wormholes,

a four-dimensional fold.

In reality, it could appear to us as nothing more than

a glowing sphere.

They might come in quietly, collect their data,

then disappear.

Murray: If it is in fact a wormhole,

then there will be some interaction

with the surrounding atmosphere that can give off

a hissing sound or any kind of noise.

Or a hum.

Things like that are absolutely possible,

because, again it's a hole,

but it's a four-dimensional hole,

which looks like a sphere to us or an orb.

Narrator: If a wormhole appears as a glowing sphere,

quiet, radiant, and impossibly near,

then the finger shaped light that flew

into Robin Sherman's face wasn't just light, it was

an opening when something not from here

reached directly into her world and looked back to theirs.

But what's intriguing about it to me

is that it potentially could be something explainable,

at least within physics as we understand it.

She said it was like finger-shaped light

that shifted.

I believe that was the description.

I think there were some colour changes in that too,

but it was orb-like though, but not perfectly orb-like.

I think it had a bit of like a glowy plasma

or something around it too.

I think what's interesting about that incredibly hypothetical,

but if you were to somehow manufacture a device

or a machine,

or say you were of a technological race

that could actually manufacture,

like, incredibly powerful machines

that could actually pinch space and time.

I'm a big fan of Arthur C. Clarke,

which I have to reference, a book that he did

calledLight of Other Days.

And in that book, they talk about manufacturing wormholes.

And not in a traditional sense where you have

a massive black hole above the event horizon

causes bending of space and time

and create effectively a hole four-dimensional hole

from one part of the universe to the other,

but one that is manufactured.

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You could, with a tremendous amount of energy,

create a big enough wormhole that you could manipulate.

And then from one point, you may have a camera

or you may be viewing,

and then from the other end of that wormhole,

you could move it through space and effectively even time,

because you're dealing with the fourth dimension here, right?

So you're creating this wormhole,

the space using exotic matter or some other technology,

and then maneuver it through space.

In effect, what you're creating is a remote camera,

remote viewing camera,

that can look around and investigate.

And from our perspective, a hole in the fourth dimension

is a sphere.

So any light passing through it on the other side

or our side would fall into it,

travel down the wormhole onto the other side, and vice versa.

So the activity of seeing that machine doing that thing

would be a mystery to us.

From their perspective, they would very likely be looking at

specific things that you can't really get

a very, very good look at.

The human face is one of them.

That close, maybe they thought that she was

a fetching human being,

they wanted to get a nice profile of her face.

Maybe they're learning about humans

by examining their irises,

and then they're able to check their reactions

so they get a nice close reaction of them.

Narrator: Some witnesses weren't just looking at the lights.

They felt the lights were looking back.

Nicole: I never felt that they were a threat to me.

They just kind of felt that they were there almost,

like, observing, like just kind of seeing what was going on.

And even with the figure eight too, that was the same thing.

I didn't feel like they were trying to interrupt

what was going on on Earth.

Narrator: The sky over Bucks County, Pennsylvania

doesn't just appear to host one kind of visitor,

it hosts a gallery.

Some say this could point to multiple civilizations,

each manifestation a question,

each form a different consciousness.

Many of these sightings may be nothing, optical tricks,

misidentified aircraft, or natural phenomena.

But if you have a way of stirring the imagination,

consider the lights are not piloted ships at all,

but living entities, each shape and glow a different being,

a different purpose, sweeping over our communities,

gathering whatever it is they came for,

orbs that taste the essence of our world,

triangles that open channels between dimensions,

pulsing lights that shift and adapt

like sentient thought made visible.

Visitation by visitation, being by being,

they might be experiencing our planet

in different ways with the awareness

of a species that exists beyond our understanding

of form itself.

We send machines to distant worlds

because we are bound by flesh and distance.

But what if another intelligence transcends

those limits entirely?

What if earth isn't being visited by travellers,

but witnessed by observers, like a living gallery,

or a consciousness worth studying?

The lights in the sky wouldn't be all the same.

They'd embody different intentions,

manifested for different purposes.

Some wouldn't need to be seen at all.

Others could even be designed to awaken something within us.

I feel like they come around more

when things are happening.

I don't know if it's technology,

because technology is the way it is now,

that they seem to be more present.

Narrator: We followed the lights,

wondered at their purpose.

But maybe the better question is, who are they?

Not just visitors or observers,

but intelligence born under alien skies

and shaped by entirely different rules.

Narrator: The visitors over Bucks County, Pennsylvania

may be searching for something, either from us

or something beneath the ground.

But perhaps not every light being arrives with intention.

What if some of these presences aren't conscious visitors,

but residue?

The variety might not reflect different beings,

but our limited perception, trying to grasp

what cannot be contained in three dimensions.

Or maybe they are choosing to appear as symbols,

messages, projections,

or echoes bleeding through from another plane of existence.

The variety of forms seen over Bucks County

could be a language we cannot yet read,

but there are those who believe that

there was nothing there to begin with,

that the phenomena so many have witnessed

is something else altogether.

For researchers trying to make sense of what's been reported,

the challenge isn't just what people saw,

but how to measure it.

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Narrator: Their world would be locked in eternal light

on one side

and endless darkness on the other.

Such extremes would shape life into forms

we can barely imagine.

Creatures evolved in a place where day and night

never trade places.

Perhaps they are not flesh as we know it,

but flexible, half-organic, half-machine,

able to draw power from starlight on one side,

and store it in the other.

An ability developed to adapt to an atmosphere

of both heat and cold.

They could be scientists, archivists,

or even gardeners of some cosmic project,

gathering data, sampling air and oceans,

recording our signals.

Again, being careful of selection bias

with our sample size of one confirmation bias

by only looking at this planet.

But we know what happened here too,

so we can't discount that.

We know that life arose here.

We know that we've had a long history on this planet.

We're in this accelerating curve of technological

and cultural development.

We're expecting that to continue going into the future.

I think we can also extrapolate and know that

because it happened here, if we find similar conditions

on other planets, even if they're slightly different

because of tidal lock in

or a different distance from its sun,

if it has an environment that's conducive to life,

knowing that it happened here

and knowing that we reached a point where we can even have

these types of conversations, it could certainly happen

on a planet like this with high ESI.

Narrator: Maybe the question isn't, what are they?

Maybe the better question is, what are we being studied for?

And if we're being studied, what do they see when they see us?

While it's pure speculation, it's possible that when

these beings or intelligences observe us,

we may look more like the harmonic

or magnetic auras that we naturally emit.

Since we are theorizing that these beings

are travelling via portal, we can assert

that we are seeing them in their raw form as energy,

and they in turn see us the same.

These light-emitting intelligences

may see the visible light spectrum as washed out,

and the surrounding landscape as overexposed,

with only our auras being colourful.

Because of the complexity in these accounts,

there are various factors that could affect witnesses

are seeing.

Neil: In order to think that something is real or not,

or it's something that's a technology

that we have currently

or doesn't exist,

you need to have a few of the parameters.

Does it follow physical laws, for one, that I'm aware of

or that there are general physical laws?

Does it follow aerodynamic properties?

Those are important features.

Does it make abrupt maneuvers suddenly?

Does it have the ability to glow?

I generally look for whatever evidence I can find

when it comes to something along those lines.

The environmental conditions are a concern.

The properties of movement are a concern.

The amount of sound is a concern.

All of these things all add up as well as other properties.

Any information I can find is what I'm looking for.

Murray: We're still stuck on the idea that there's scientists

that are looking at us,

or they're what are they exactly?

What is the real intention?

Maybe they're just monitoring us.

I'm going to jump to, you know, a huge leap of thought here,

but maybe we're just part of some galactic reality TV show,

and then we're just watching us mess up our lives,

and we're hugely entertaining.

Narrator: Just as we watch dolphins through tinted glass,

perhaps they are watching us, waiting to see how we behave,

how we evolve, what we do when we notice the watchers.

Maybe they are peering through interdimensional wormholes

and trying to say hello,

and we're meant to see just enough

to know they're watching.

If someone is watching you and you're worthy

of being watched or observed or you see,

it's a celebration for human beings

to go, .Wow, I'm not alone in the universe. /

Neil: I think it's always worth to have a good study

on many of these things

because you never know what actually has been seen.

Without looking into it,

you have no idea of what actually occurred.

So it's always best to do a little research,

see what you can figure out,

and what you cannot figure out, sometimes it's a mystery.

Narrator: They came in countless forms, triangles,

orbs, pulsing lights, and silent shadows

that slipped between the trees.

Some blinked in formation, others vanished without a sound.

But all of them, each strange visitor over Bucks County,

left something behind: Questions.

Chris: In The United States, there are somewhere around

10,000 to 20,000 separate UAP or UFO reports recorded every year,

and that's a lot of reports and we suspect that we only hear

about 10% of all the observations.

So given that,

it's not at all surprising

that there are so many cases

and especially in an area with so much population.

In fact, we do know that about 10% of the population

believe they've seen UFOs,

and only 10% of that number actually report them.

So when you think about it, it's actually surprising

we don't hear more reports of UAP.

Narrator: One thing is certain, the skies above Bucks County

have become a gallery of the unexplained,

beautiful, bewildering, and utterly unforgettable.

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Eric: I'm really a firm believer now

that there's a real thin veil from here to there.

And at the end of the day, I always say people

are seeing something.

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