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Fire!

[ Man Narrating ]
A people torn apart'.

[ Man ] Not a household
in the North or the South...

was not touched by blood
in this conflict.

[ Narrator] A no' the future of a nation
hanging in the balance.

[ Man ]
That Union, for it to fail...

that meant that the concepts
of democracy...

would fail throughout the world.

[ Narrator] The Civil War nearly
destroyed the great experiment...

known as the United States of America...

but might there have even been
more at stake than we know?

Could it be that the preservation
of the Union...

was ensured
by extraterrestrial beings?

[ Man ] it's possible that extraterrestrials
have been visiting America...

since its foundation...

and did steer the outcome
of the Civil War.

[ Narrator]
Millions of people around the world...

believe we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens
really help to shape our history?

And if so,
might they have even influenced...

the outcome
of the American Civil War?

[ Narrator]
Jackson County, Missouri.

1831.

Thirty years before the Confederate cannons
fired on Fort Sumter...

marking the start
of the American Civil War...

Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith...

brought many of his followers here...

declaring this location to be
the site of the New Jerusalem.

He also stirred up controversy
with his comments on slavery...

in this long-established slave state.

Joseph Smith, when he takes
his Mormon colony to Missouri...

he actually makes
some statements about slavery.

He thought that the slavery issue
would cause discord.

He also came out and said
that the slaves...

would eventually rise up
against their masters.

[ Narrator]
Eight years earlier...

Joseph Smith claimed that
a strange figure named Moroni...

came to him in the night,
enveloped in light...

and professing to be
from the Pleiades star cluster.

It was also Moroni who directed him...

to the golden tablets that would
become the Book of Mormon.

Joseph Smith also reported that
the angel Moroni continued to visit him...

and three others amongst his congregation
also reported similar visits.

[ Narrator]
According to Smith...

Moroni appeared to him numerous times
over the course of his life...

and in 1832...

he came bearing an ominous prophecy.

On December 25, Smith passed
this prophecy on to his flock, stating...

“Wars will shortly come to pass...

beginning at the rebellion
of South Carolina...

which will eventually terminate
in the death and misery of many souls.

[ Horse Whinnies ]

For behold, the Southern States shall
be divided against the Northern States.”

[ Man ] Now, there's some people that say
this is a prophecy, this is a vision, by Smith.

Whatever way it was, it really did portend
what came about in the 1860s.

[Wilcock ] What we're seeing
is a human-looking being...

with brilliant light coming off of it...

who conveyed an intelligent message
to Joseph Smith.

There are some speculations
that Joseph Smith...

was, in fact, visited by
an advanced extraterrestrial being.

[ Narrator] Did Joseph Smith
really receive a prophecy...

that predicted the coming
of the Civil War?

A no' if so,
ho w did an otherworldly entity. . .

Know that the war would begin
in South Carolina...

nearly 30 years in advance?

Is it possible that the angel Moroni...

this perhaps extraterrestrial being...

was very concerned
about the Civil War...

and that's why it gave Joseph Smith...

an advanced prophetic glimpse
into what was coming?

Was this another one
of the efforts to intervene...

and to try to steer our history...

towards the most favorable outcome...

perhaps not just for us,
but also for the extraterrestrials themselves?

[ Narrator] But Joseph Smith
is not the only person...

who is said to have been visited
by an otherworldly being...

foretelling of a future civil war.

Stories have emerged
that during the American Revolution...

if) 7777...

George Washington had
a similar encounter at Valley Forge.

[ Henry] The story is,
is that while at Valley Forge...

General Washington had given his men
orders not to disturb him.

And suddenly,
there's a being standing there.

And this being is described
as being extremely luminous.

And next thing we know is this being
starts giving Washington a prophecy...

about the future of America.

[ Narrator] According to the story,
this luminous being...

not only gave Washington
a vision of the future United States...

but also warned that the Union
would be tested by Civil War.

Is it possible that both
George Washington and Joseph Smith...

were visited by extraterrestrial beings...

who somehow knew
that the Civil War would take place?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and suggest even stronger evidence
can be found...

with strange encounters
that were reported...

not by lone individuals,
but by entire communities.

While UFO sightings were
extremely rare before the 1900s...

a number were reported during
the final years leading up to the war.

[ Man ]
One of the best early UFO encounters...

is from Wilmington, Delaware,
from 1860...

where witnesses reported seeing
this vast 200-foot-long object...

flying through the sky.

And it had like a trail of globes
or balls of light behind it.

One of them was actually
ejected from the object.

Now, this sounds almost like a rocket.

Certainly, nobody should have
been flying a rocket in 1860.

[ Narrator]
An even more striking UFO encounter...

was reported in Shreveport, Louisiana,
that same year.

A group of people saw
an enormous craft 300 yards long...

hovering just above the tallest trees.

This thing was described as having a color
like a glowing red stove.

And out of the center
of this massive object...

there were rays, like rays of the sun,
that reached toward the sky.

Incredibly, this thing was seen
for an hour without changing at all.

People got a very good look
at this thing...

and nobody could even hazard a guess
as to what it was.

[ Narrator] Less than a month
before the start of the war...

another major sighting
was reported in New York City.

New York at that time
was very different.

It was a cramped urban setting
before the age of tall buildings.

In that setting, a witness,
Mrs. T. Richard Kinder...

looked out of an upper window
in her house on Baxter Street...

and she saw an object in the sky.

She described it as luminous,
glowing, shaped like a cross...

flying in the air.

Startled, she awoke her husband.

He saw the glowing cross too.

This ongoing presence
strongly suggests...

that extraterrestrials were not
just taking a backseat approach...

to what was happening on Earth...

but they were actively involved
and they were monitoring us.

[ Narrator] How is it that in an era
when UFO sightings were rarely reported...

three mass UFO encounters occurred...

within a year
of the start of the Civil War?

Is it possible that extraterrestrials
really did monitor the United States...

during this time?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and claim that even stranger than
the encounters leading up to the war...

are those that were reported
once the fighting began.

[ Narrator]
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.

April 12, 1861.

At 4:30 in the morning,
Confederate cannons fire on Fort Sumter.

Three days later,
President Abraham Lincoln declares...

that an insurrection exists...

and calls for 75,000 volunteers
to put down the rebellion.

The American Civil War has begun.

People on both sides assumed
that there would be one great battle...

that would decide everything,
winner take all.

One great battle fought somewhere probably
between Richmond and Washington.

But that doesn't happen.

People actually came out from Washington...

with picnic baskets and champagne
to watch the battle.

But this war would be a horrible war...

a war that no participant
would ever forget.

It cost more American lives
than all other wars combined.

750,000 people, it is now believed...

perished during the war.

The Civil War was felt everywhere
in America...

because it is that war that defines
what type of nation we're going to be.

[ Narrator] It was not just the future
of the United States that was at stake.

This was a War over different'
philosophies of go government...

with the fate of a people
caught in the cross fire.

And according
to ancient astronaut theorists...

there may have been
even more at stake than we know.

[ Narrator]
New York City.

April 19, 1861.

Responding to
President Lincoln's call to action...

the Seventh New York Militia
travels by steamboat...

to Annapolis, Maryland.

While en route, they witness
a very strange occurrence in the sky.

While these men and sailors
were on board...

they saw what was described
as the moon...

suddenly soaring clear into the sky...

and around it, clearly defined...

three circles of light.

Now, of course, we know
that it's not possible...

for the moon to change position
in the sky that way.

And looking at this sighting
as it was reported...

this would have to be classified
as a UFO.

If UFO sightings represent encounters
with alien spaceships...

then it seems certain that UFOs
were watching over America...

during the Civil War.

[ Narrator] Is it possible that the men
of the Seventh New York Militia...

really did have an encounter
with some type of alien craft...

just days after the start
of the Civil War?

And if so, is it a sign...

that extraterrestrials had an interest
in this turning point in our history?

There's an intriguing pattern
that we see within UFO reports...

and that's an increase in sightings
when wars break out.

First World War, Second World War,
Vietnam, the Korean War-

they all had their UFO incidents.

And another example
is the American Civil War.

[ Pittman ] it could be that aliens
might simply be interested...

in observing historical events.

It's also possible that extraterrestrials
might be trying to influence...

the course of events
or simply to warn people in some way.

[ Narrator] While there were numerous
UFO sightings reported during the Civil War...

even more common
are stories of soldiers...

encountering strange beings
on the battlefield.

It happened all the time
in the Civil War...

that soldiers reported seeing ghostly figures
or ghosts of famous people.

Soldiers reported seeing
all kinds of strange things...

when the heat of battle was on.

[ Narrator] Also reported were
bizarre dreams and premonitions...

some of which proved to be prophetic.

One of the most notable was published
in a Kansas newspaper...

on March 27, 1862.

According to the account,
General George B. McClellan...

chief of the Union Armies...

was visited in his sleep by
the ghostly figure of George Washington...

who warned him that Confederate forces
were closing in on the capital.

The vision reportedly caused McClellan...

to change his plans
and fend off the attack.

There are many soldiers
and politicians during the Civil War...

that have premonitions,
premonitions of death.

Nathaniel Lyons at the Battle
of Wilson Creek actually said...

“Today I will die.”

[ Gunshots ]

And he is going to be shot in the chest
during the battle...

trying to rally his men.

[ Narrator] But what can explain
all of these bizarre incidents?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

that the strange dreams
and UFO sightings. . .

Are evidence that extraterrestrials
were, in fact, present in America...

during the Civil War.

[ Man ] it would seem that
throughout the history of this planet...

certain civilizations and nations...

have been watched very carefully
by the extraterrestrials...

and nurtured by them.

And in ancient times, this could
well have been the Egyptians...

and the Chinese and the Sumerians.

And really, in our own era...

it's the United States of America...

that is the country that these extraterrestrials
are the most interested in.

[ Narrator] Could it be
that extraterrestrials took an interest...

in the success
of the United States of America?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
the answer may lie...

with the man who was tasked
with preserving the Union...

Abraham Lincoln.

[ Narrator]
Springfield, Illinois.

November 7, 1860.

The morning after hearing
the triumphant news...

that he has been elected
president of the United States...

Abraham Lincoln
wakes up from a deep sleep...

and gazes into a full-length mirror
in his bedroom...

and has a startling vision.

He saw two images of himself in the mirror.

One face was healthy and well.

The other was a pale, ghostly image of it.

He got up, looked at the mirror...

checked it to see
if there was something wrong...

then he laid down again thinking,
well, it's just my imagination.

[ Narrator] Thinking his mind
was playing tricks on him...

Lincoln checked the mirror
a second time.

Each time,
his two faces confronted him-

one five times paler than the other.

Lincoln told his wife Mary
about the vision.

[Coleman ]
Lincoln relied on Mary quite a bit.

When he told her about the vision,
she became deathly afraid...

because she interpreted it to mean...

that he would have two terms
as president.

One, he would be healthy and well...

and the second term,
he would die in office.

[ Narrator] If the ghostly reflection
in the mirror was not a hallucination...

then what was it?

It's not too big of a stretch to think...

that perhaps President Lincoln
was somehow influenced...

by otherworldly beings
during the course of the war.

It was that important.

It took on immense cosmic significance.

[ Narrator] Was Abraham Lincoln
actually able to receive messages...

from an extraterrestrial realm
that helped him anticipate the future?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and point out
that the president himself...

believed he was the instrument
of a higher power.

Abraham Lincoln
is such a mystery still to us...

even though dozens and dozens and dozens
of books have been written about him.

But Lincoln himself
was something of a mystic.

I think he had a belief
in the supernatural.

At least three different times
during the war...

he told friends
that he had had a dream...

about being on a boat with no rudder...

with no sail, with no tiller.

It's adrift.

He is powerless to steer it,
and it's heading toward a shore.

[ Coleman ]
Every time he had that dream...

something important happened
during the war, mainly the battles.

Antietam, Stones River...

Shiloh, Gettysburg.

Lincoln believed he was psychic.

He believed in the paranormal.

He had a strong belief
in his own destiny.

[ Narrator] Is it really possible
that Abraham Lincoln...

was given premonitions about the war
by extraterrestrial beings?

Could he have been chosen
because he represented the best hope...

for preserving the Union
and ensuring the continuation...

of the great American experiment?

Abraham Lincoln saw the United States
as this great experiment in democracy.

That for it to fail...

that meant that the concepts
of democracy would fail...

throughout the world.

Lincoln is infused with a desire...

to keep the Union together.

And he himself said...

“lf I could keep the Union together
by freeing all the slaves, I would do it.

If I could keep the Union together
by not freeing the slaves, I would do it.”

His paramount focus
is restoring the Union.

[ Narrator]
In addition to his own premonitions...

some say that Lincoln
may also have been influenced...

by the visions of a spiritualist
named Nettie Colburn.

In December of 1862,
during the darkest days of the Civil War...

Nettie became a spiritual adviser
for Mary Todd Lincoln...

who was a devout' believer
in mysticism.

She claimed to have attended Seances
with Lincoln multiple times...

and, while in a trance, claimed to
have advised him on the war.

Now, proving that is sometimes difficult...

but in my research,
I did find on several points...

Nettie's story does check out.

[ Narrator]
According to Nettie's autobiography...

otherworldly beings used her...

to communicate with President Lincoln
during séances...

and even advised him
to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

And another mystic, J.B. Conklin...

claimed these voices
actually dictated to the president...

a first draft of the historic document.

[Woman ]
Things that not only Nettie did...

but other people
in the spiritualist movement did...

was they were giving him messages...

about how important
the Emancipation Proclamation was.

And it was something that Lincoln took
as divine sort of guidance.

And so it appears to have played
a role in his decision making.

[ Henry] it's quite possible
that at one of these events...

he received messages
from otherworldly beings...

possibly even extraterrestrial beings...

in order to preserve the Union...

as part of this immense
master plan for humanity.

What that leads us to
is the possibility...

that some of the same extraterrestrials
that were being seen...

in numerous UFO sightings
before and during the Civil War...

were able to form
a direct contact to Lincoln...

through Nettie Colburn Maynard...

to give him the messages
that he needed...

to be able to steer the outcome
of the Civil War.

[ Narrator] Was Abraham Lincoln
literally destined for greatness?

Might aliens have been guiding him...

through his dreams and visions
during the Civil War?

If so, what was their purpose?

Perhaps the answer can be found
with an incredible encounter-

Fire!

At Gettysburg.

[ Narrator]
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

July 2, 1863.

Two years and three months
into the Civil War...

337,000 men lie dead-

over 13 times as many casualties...

as the United States suffered
during the Revolutionary War.

But after so much bloodshed,
neither side has a clear advantage.

The majority of the fighting
has taken place in the Southern states...

but Confederate General Robert E. Lee...

who is gaining a reputation
as being in vincible...

decides to make an aggressive move
and advance into Union territory.

[ Lewis] Robert E. Lee decides
that he will take the war north...

for a couple of reasons.

Number one: it's gonna relieve pressure
on the farmers in Virginia...

who are trying to grow crops,
feed themselves, feed the army.

And second, politically.

He knows that there is a lot of pressure
on Abraham Lincoln to win this war.

Northern voters,
northern politicians are angry...

that this war is carrying on so far.

[ Narrator] If Lee won here,
the door to Washington...

and ultimately, victory, was open.

While the Confederates
were massing for attack...

reinforcements from the 20th Maine
Volunteer Infantry Regiment...

were called in, commanded
by Colonel Joshua Chamberlain.

Chamberlain rushes his troops
towards the Little Round Top...

but he comes to a crossroads.

And he said there was
an eerie figure in a tri-corner hat...

pointing the way to the Little Round Top,
the right road to take.

And he said
it looked like George Washington.

[ Narrator]
George Washington?

Could this ghostly vision
have been merely an illusion?

Although the story sounds incredible...

Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
appointed a member of his staff...

to speak with a number of the men
who experienced this vision...

and it is said that he gathered
unwavering testimony...

claiming that the encounter was real.

In the end, the 20th Maine...

would repel the Confederate attack
on Little Round Top...

and save the day for the Union Army.

So you have to ask yourself-

Did extraterrestrials
in some way influence this battle...

by disguising themselves as a familiar figure,
like George Washington...

and then guiding the troops
to a certain position...

where they knew this would turn
the tide of the battle?

It would seem
that something like this happened.

[ Narrator]
Is the story of George Washington...

appearing to soldiers at Gettysburg...

the ultimate proof that alien beings...

really did intervene to influence
the outcome of the Civil War?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and suggest that
the United States of America...

has had a connection with extraterrestrials
since its very beginning.

We do have clues
that Thomas Jefferson...

and Benjamin Franklin
and George Washington...

all believed in extraterrestrial life.

Thomas Jefferson
gave a famous lecture...

about the unusual UFO sighting...

by a person named William Dumbarton...

in Baton Rouge in 1800.

Benjamin Franklin wrote
in his Poor Richard is Almanac...

about life on other worlds...

and, apparently,
was a believer in that.

And George Washington
had a very famous angelic vision...

at Valley Forge...

and so it would seem
that George Washington...

Thomas Jefferson
and Benjamin Franklin...

were very much believers
in extraterrestrials...

and life on other planets.

[ Narrator]
Is it possible that extraterrestrials...

have been guiding
the course of America...

since it's very beginning...

and intervened in the Civil War...

to ensure that
the great experiment would continue?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
further evidence...

that an otherworldly force
was present at this point in history...

can be found
by examining a recurring dream...

that Abraham Lincoln had
of his own death.

He sees a body on the catafalque
wrapped in mourning clothing.

The body is being guarded
by Union soldiers.

He asks one of the soldiers,
“Who is dead in the White House?”

And one of the soldiers says,
“lt's the president.

He's been killed by an assassin.”

[Coleman ] Lincoln's belief
that he would rise to greatness...

and then die prematurely...

was something that was
of long standing...

and it's a testament to his courage
that he fulfilled his destiny.

He believed that he was
uniquely suited to become president...

to carry the country through
the great crisis of disunion...

and part and parcel with that belief
in his destiny to become president...

was his belief that he would be slain.

[ Gunshot]

Abraham Lincoln is said
to have had prophetic dreams, visions.

If aliens are coming here
to visit Earth...

certainly it seems reasonable to wonder...

if they might have tried to influence
the course of events...

through Abraham Lincoln,
possibly through his dreams and visions.

[ Narrator]
Could it be that extraterrestrials...

were the source
of this recurring dream...

and that they were testing
Abraham Lincoln...

to see if he would fulfill his destiny...

even knowing that it would lead
to an early grave?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

that further clues can be found...

by examining the life of one
of the war's most extraordinary soldiers...

Ambrose Bierce.

Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia.

June 23, 1864.

While leading a skirmish line
on Confederate troops...

Union Army Lieutenant Ambrose Bierce
is shot in the left temple by a sniper.

Miraculously, the bullet travels
around the side of his skull...

and ends up behind his left ear...

leaving Bierce injured, but alive.

After being shot in the head...

Bierce went on to become
one of the most prominent authors...

of the post-Civil War era...

and was a pioneer of science fiction...

influencing such writers
as Ra y Bradbury. - .

Roald Dahl and Kun' Vonnegut.

But could his genius as a writer
have been in some way connected...

to the injury to his head?

In the case of brain injuries,
when you suddenly display a new ability...

I'm not so sure that it's something
that was there all along...

and you're uncovering.

More so, that it's a new ability,
re-circuitry, if you will.

We are all disconnected
from our core...

unaware of the greater realm
of pure potential...

and Ambrose Bierce
may have gotten the right nudge...

to give him
an interesting window...

into that realm...

allowing him to get closer to it
than most of us normally ever do.

[ Narrator] Ambrose Bierce
is best known for short stories...

that involve paranormal incidents,
strange disappearances...

and incongruencies of time.

One of the most famous is
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”...

in which a Confederate sympathizer
is being hanged for treason.

At the moment of the man's hanging...

the rope breaks
and he falls into the water below.

Escaping to dry land...

the hero travels through
a seemingly unending forest...

to his home 3O miles away.

But once he arrives
and runs towards his wife...

he feels a searing pain in his neck.

[ Man ] Suddenly,
he was back on the bridge again...

with a noose around his neck,
and then he fell, he was executed.

He hung by the neck.

[ Soldier]
About, face!

And Bierce was trying to tell us
that alternate realities exist.

Alternate worlds.

And we see this pattern
all throughout his writings...

where he believed that
inter-dimensional travel was a possibility.

[ Narrator]
Another short story that Bierce wrote...

for the San Francisco Examiner
in 7888...

titled “The Difficulty of Crossing a Field”...

is reportedly based on an actual event...

that occurred in Selma, Alabama,
in July of 1854.

[ Ringing ]

[ Hawkes] it was about
a plantation owner, a farmer...

who, in the broad daylight,
sitting on his porch...

talking to his neighbors...

walked across the road into the field
and suddenly disappeared...

with a number of witnesses watching.

So as they walked over to the point
where he disappeared...

they could still hear his voice faintly,
but they couldn't see him.

He never returned.

[ Narrator] Ambrose Bierce
interviewed the locals...

who searched for the lost farmer...

as well as scientists
with theories on the disappearance.

One claimed the farmer had
entered another dimension.

Is it possible that Ambrose Bierce
was, in fact...

contacted by extraterrestrials...

that this is why luminous beings
appear in his fiction...

and this is why vanishings
appear in his fiction?

[ Narrator] Could it be that the head injury
Ambrose Bierce suffered...

allowed him to receive information
from an otherworldly source?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and suggest the strongest evidence
may not be found...

in his stories of strange disappearances...

but with how he disappeared himself.

In December of 1913,
Bierce left the country...

and headed to Chihuahua, Mexico.

He was never seen or heard from again.

It's quite interesting to note
that he met...

with another famous
adventurer-traveler...

an Englishman
named Frederick Mitchell Hedges.

Mitchell Hedges was the man who claimed
to discover the first crystal skull.

And that's significant because
they both were interested in crystals...

and inter-dimensional subjects.

The last letter that we know of
he ever sent to anyone...

was to his secretary that said...

“I go tomorrow to a destination
of which I may not return.”

And the theory is he may have gone
with Mitchell Hedges to the Crystal Cave.

The Crystal Cave being a place
that Mitchell Hedges believed...

you could contact beings
from another dimension.

[Wilcock ]
it's possible that extraterrestrials said...

“You helped steer the outcome
towards a more favorable determination.

In the future, people will be
more comfortable with us.

You've set the stage
by writing all these sci-fi stories.

Come live with us.

Come to this place,
and we'll meet you there.”

[ Narrator]
Might the stories of Ambrose Bierce...

and his strange disappearance...

all point to a connection
with extraterrestrials?

And if so, were these alien beings
simply observing the Civil War...

or might they have even intervened?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say the answer might be found...

in Washington, DC...

standing high atop the Capitol dome.

[ Narrator]
Washington, DC.

December 2, 1863.

It has been exactly five months
since the battle of Gettysburg...

and the tides of the Civil War
are beginning to turn in the Union's favor.

At the start of the war...

construction of the giant dome
that would sit atop the Capitol Building...

had been halted...

but President Lincoln convinced Congress
to provide the funding to finish it...

saying the dome would act as a sign
that' the Union would go on.

Upon its completion,
a statue was placed on top of it...

with the final section raised
to a salute of 35 guns-

answered by the guns
of the 12 forts around Washington.

Weighing nearly 15,000 pounds...

and standing 19 and a half feet tall...

this bronze statue features a woman with
a Native American-style fringed blanket...

thrown over her left shoulder...

and an elaborate headdress
made of eagle feathers...

and ringed with stars.

It is called the Statue of Freedom...

and according
to ancient astronaut theorists...

it may represent
an extraterrestrial being.

The symbolism they chose
is completely and totally cosmic.

A goddess cloaked in stars...

suggesting she's a celestial,
or a star being.

[ Childress ] When you look at it
and even have the natives explain it to you...

they say things like, “Oh, yes, these
are the star people coming from the sky.”

[ Narrator] Is it really possible
that there is a depiction...

of an extraterrestrial
standing atop the Capitol dome?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and suggest the evidence can be found
by looking back to the Founding Fathers.

In the 1730s to the 1760s...

Benjamin Franklin published
a series of pamphlets...

he cal/ed The Indian Treaties.

One of the best-selling
of these pamphlets...

chronicled the Iroquois creation story
of the Sky Woman.

Native Americans believed
that the Sky Woman came to Earth...

when there was nothing here
but water and animals...

and that she was the mother
of the very first human beings.

Native Americans had beliefs
in people who lived in space.

Many of the Founding Fathers believed
in the plurality of worlds.

And these ideas, these stories...

would have matched up very well
with their concepts...

about plurality of worlds
and extraterrestrials from space.

And you have to wonder
if there wasn't some kind...

of extraterrestrial influence here.

And did they have some connection
to these star people?

Was this basically
a message for aliens?

[ Narrator] Did Abraham Lincoln
and the Union leaders...

erect the Statue of Freedom...

as a tribute to star beings
that they believed...

might be watching over the country?

Were they reinstating a symbol
of our cosmic heritage...

during the time of our greatest crisis?

And if extraterrestrials
really did have a vested interest...

in the outcome of the Civil War...

are they still watching over
the great American experiment today?

It really seems that extraterrestrials
have been monitoring the United States...

since its very inception.

We've seen this really
from the American Civil War...

and right at the very beginning
of the American Revolution.

And I think that this
is still going on today.

The nurturing of the United States...

as an inclusive, spiritual
and technically advanced country...

is very important
to the extraterrestrials...

and ultimately for the entire planet Earth.

It's possible that extraterrestrials
have been visiting America...

since its foundation...

and have been, in fact, steering
the outcome this whole time.

And why might they want to do that?

You would want to see society moving
in a direction of greater freedom...

greater openness,
greater acceptance...

so that in time, this allows them...

to have a much more warm welcome
than they otherwise would have.

There is every reason to believe that
extraterrestrials are still watching over us...

and are having a key impact
in the events that unfold on Earth today.

[ Narrator]
Is it possible that extraterrestrials...

really were present here on Earth
during the Civil War?

If so, were they simply
passive observers...

waiting to see if our fragile democracy
could survive this test?

Or did they take an active role...

in order to preserve the Union?

Perhaps the great American experiment...

is part of a larger cosmic agenda...

and once we fully realize
the ideals put forth- . .

By men like George Washington
and Abraham Lincoln...

we will finally come face-to-face
with our alien ancestors.