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NARRATOR:
Mysterious encounters

reported in the same locations

for thousands of years.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
In Delphi, you see

aerial phenomena
that can be traced back

all the way to ancient times.

NARRATOR:
Places where mass UFO sightings

are a common occurrence.

WILLIAM HENRY:
The Hudson Valley

exploded with sightings of UFOs.

PHILIP IMBROGNO:
We're not talking about one
or two people seeing something.

The number of witnesses
go into the thousands.

NARRATOR:
Areas known for even stranger

and often disturbing phenomena.

Skinwalker Ranch is a place

that produces anomalous lights,

we have cow mutilations,

portals opening up,

giant wolves coming
out of these portals.

NARRATOR:
Could so-called UFO hot spots

reveal important clues about

an alien presence on Earth?

NICK POPE:
I think these hot spots

are hugely significant

for our understanding of UFOs.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

San Diego. July 15, 2019.

In the middle of
an otherwise peaceful night,

the USS Omaha Combat
Information Center

records an astonishing event

off the coast of
Southern California.

An unidentified,
oval-shaped craft

is witnessed performing
mysterious maneuvers

in restricted airspace
around a U.S. Navy destroyer.

It is an amazing piece
of footage

showing a UFO
hovering over the sea.

POPE: And then, apparently,
descending into the ocean.

NARRATOR:
When the footage
is leaked to the public

by investigative filmmaker
Jeremy Corbell two years later,

its authenticity is quickly
confirmed by the Pentagon.

JEREMY CORBELL:
I knew that it would
strike a chord.

You can see the structure

of the craft being
oval or circular.

You can see that it doesn't
have these plumes of exhaust

or heat trails or any
traditional propulsion.

What you're seeing
is a technology

that is so far advanced

from anything that
we have ever created

or shown in the theater of war,

which is where we show
our greatest technologies.

NARRATOR:
The strange incident
was more than intriguing

to UFO researchers,

not only because of
how the craft maneuvered,

but also because of
the area where it appeared.

ANDREW COLLINS:
Off the coast of
San Diego in California

is somewhere that UFOs or UAPs

have been appearing
regularly for decades.

NARRATOR:
Since 1995,

more than 1,000 UFO sightings

have been reported
in the San Diego area.

RALPH BLUMENTHAL:
All these reports of sightings
were not just made up.

They can be photographed.

There's something up there,

and sometimes down in the water,

that no one understands.

More and more, the military

is acknowledging
that it's interested,

giving credibility to the fact
that these things exist.

BILL BIRNES:
When you realize
that the San Diego Naval Base

is one of the most
restricted naval bases,

restricted areas,
in the country,

UFOs are flying back and forth
over the ships, over the base.

NARRATOR:
The number of UFO reports

occurring in San Diego
may appear quite significant.

However, it is just one

of several locations
around the globe

where similar incidents
are often reported

and documented.

Locations that have come
to be known as UFO hot spots.

A UFO hot spot is
a physical space

where sightings of unusual
aerial phenomena are common.

There's usually a perceivable
unusual energy at the site.

There's been a long history
of sightings at these places.

COLLINS: UFO hot spots
are places where UFOs occur

not just across a few years
but across decades.

And of course
the question becomes,

you know, why are
these places so important?

Why is it that UFOs
can appear at them

more frequently
than anywhere else?

IMBROGNO: One well-known
hot spot in the United States

is the Hudson Valley
in New York state.

Here, we not only have
dozens of witnesses,

but over a period of years,

we have thousands of witnesses.

CRAIG CAMPOBASSO:
Marfa is this mountain range

in Texas,

and it's these
strange anomalous lights

that nobody has ever
been able to figure out.

It's such a hot spot

that the actual State of Texas

built a viewing station

where people can stop and rest

and watch the Marfa lights
at night.

HENRY: The Bermuda Triangle

is also a well-known
hot spot as well.

Wiltshire, England is another.

Sedona has become
a very popular hot spot.

And Skinwalker Ranch
in northern Utah

is an outstanding
example of a hot spot.

Native Americans
have said for centuries

that this is a place
where supernatural

UFO activity occurs.

It seems that a large proportion

of sightings of UFOs or UAPs

in the modern world
do take place at-at hot spots.

NARRATOR:
The perception of
so-called UFO hot spots

emerged in the aftermath

of two of the most highly
publicized UFO incidents

in U.S. history,
which both took place

in 1947.

On June 27, near Mount Rainier
in Washington State,

pilot Kenneth Arnold
reported seeing

nine saucer-shaped craft

flying in a coordinated pattern

at a speed of approximately
1,200 miles per hour.

Just one month later,
the infamous report

of a UFO crash took place

in Roswell, New Mexico.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
The July 8,

1947, headline

went around the world.

In the Roswell Daily Record,

"Flying saucer crashes

into a pasture near Roswell."

You start looking
at the timeline,

and what was happening
through 1947

and beyond.

Our government,

and other governments,
were developing

gigantic, huge storage

and files and folders
and departments

that were dedicated
to the secret study

of UFOs and ETs on our planet.

NARRATOR:
Over the next two decades,

thousands of
additional UFO sightings

were reported around the world,

prompting the U.S. government

to launch an investigation
into the phenomenon.

The study was given the code
name "Project Blue Book,"

and while the program's official
findings were not definitive,

a startling trend
appeared in the data.

MIKE RICKSECKER:
The renowned J. Allen Hynek,

of Project Blue Book fame,

wrote there's
a statistical analysis

that showed when and where
these occurrences happened,

and a pattern started to emerge,

such as UFO sightings,

lights in the sky,
anomalous activity,

in the American Southwest,
the Northeast,

the Mississippi Valley,
and UFO researchers

took notice of this

and began to flock
to those areas

to conduct their research.

Researchers in the '50s
and the '60s,

they went back through the data,

and sometimes, literally,
they would get out

a map, and X marks the spot.

And then they would notice,

wait a minute,
there are these clusters,

these strange hot spots.

Areas where these events

seem-seem to pile up

for no apparent reason.

BIRNES:
What researchers realized

was that 60% to 70%

of UFO sightings in America,

turn up in the same spots
over and over again.

And they realized

that there was something
about those spots

that was drawing UFO.

RICKSECKER:
If we're trying
to solve a mystery,

you want to go to a location
that has the most clues.

And these are the locations
that could have the clues

to connect our ancient
past to our modern reality,

and perhaps give us
the answers we're seeking.

NARRATOR:
Could there really be
certain locations on Earth

that attract
extraterrestrial visitors,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining what reportedly
took place at one such location,

not in modern times,

but thousands
of years ago in Israel.

NARRATOR:
October, 2000.

While building a road
just east of the city,

a construction crew
discovers the entrance

to an ancient
limestone cave dwelling.

Archaeologists soon begin

excavating the site,
known as the Qesem cave,

and are shocked to determine

that it was inhabited by
human beings 400,000 years ago.

COLLINS:
What archaeologists found

was a time capsule
of human activity

from around 400,000 years ago,

down to about 200,000 years ago.

And when they started
to investigate the cave,

they realized that
the so-called Qesem people

were practicing shamanism
at this early stage.

NARRATOR:
Evidence from the cave
shows that the Qesem people

had skills considered
impossible for that time,

including the ability
to make and use fire at will,

craft stone tools

and even preserve food.

But why did early humans
with such advanced abilities

choose to inhabit
this particular cave,

and live there
for more than 200,000 years?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer may lie

in the fact that the Qesem cave

sits in the shadow
of Mount Gerizim,

where mysterious
aerial phenomena

have been reported
for thousands of years.

NEWMAN:
Mount Gerizim in Israel

was considered the original
dwelling place of God

in the old Hebrew Bible.

And God's presence would take
the form of a Shekinah,

or some kind of bright light

that would emanate
from this mountain.

The earliest biblical patriarchs

came to this mountain,

and had visions
of the blinding lights,

what we'd call
UFOs or UAPs today.

Mount Gerizim
has been a hot spot

where mysterious lights appear

both in modern times
and historically.

For example,
in the 1720s an English cleric

by the name of Thomas Shore

was exploring the vicinity
of Mount Gerizim,

and he and his team saw this

incredible light phenomena
around the mountain.

COLLINS:
He referred to it
as "ignis fatuus,"

which means, "The foolish fire."

And he observed this for hours,

changing different forms,
coming forward, going backwards.

NARRATOR:
Thomas Shore's encounter
at Mount Gerizim

is just one of many

that have been reported
over the centuries,

including sightings
in modern times.

COLLINS:
An English journalist

by the name of Wilkins

wrote a book entitled
Flying Saucers Uncensored.

And this talks
about a group of Bedouin

in the vicinity of
Mount Gerizim in the 1950s,

encountering this strange object

which was interpreted

in terms of a flying saucer.

Wanting to confirm
that UFOs are still seen

in the area
of Mount Gerizim today,

I climbed the mountain,

and I was able to speak with one
of the highest-ranking priests

of the Samaritan community
who lived there to this day.

And he was able to confirm that,

indeed, strange, mysterious
lights are seen there.

NARRATOR:
Considering the long history

of strange lights being
reported over Mount Gerizim,

is it possible
that extraterrestrials

have been visiting
the same locations

for thousands of years?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and suggest that UFO hot spots
can even help explain

several mysteries
of the ancient past,

including why certain sites

are designated as places
of spiritual worship,

and why some of
the most enigmatic temples

and monuments in the world
were created.

RICKSECKER:
In ancient times, strange lights

were seen repeatedly
in the same locations,

and in a number of cases,
these areas were marked

by some sort of
monuments to memorialize

these beings and these gods
visiting the people.

TSOUKALOS:
The reason why Delphi, Greece,

became a place of worship

is because local legends say

that someone descended
from the sky there

and imparted knowledge.

Now, in my opinion,

you would not build
something of that scale

if it really didn't happen.

And in the area of Delphi,

to this day,
you see aerial phenomena

that are very strange.

NARRATOR:
Much like Delphi,

the ancient site
of Stonehenge is a place

where UFOs are frequently
reported today.

A photo of a disk-shaped object

hovering over
the megalithic structure

was even included in a British
Ministry of Defence file

that was declassified in 2009.

Stonehenge is a great example

of a UFO hot spot in England.

Over the lifetime

of the Ministry
of Defence's UFO project,

there have probably been
several hundred,

if not low thousands,
of sightings

recorded around Stonehenge

in the county of Wiltshire.

NARRATOR: Ancient
Native American sites

where petroglyphs
depict strange beings

often identified
as "star ancestors,"

have also become UFO
hot spots in modern times.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
Rock art at these ancient sites

depicts a multitude
of strange beings,

large eyes, elongated heads,

often looking like some kind
of extraterrestrial creation.

And it would seem
that these ancient sites

have been having UFO activity
for thousands of years.

And this UFO activity
is continuing even today.

COLLINS:
One very good example
is Lake Titicaca,

on the borders between
Peru and Bolivia.

There's an island there

by the name of
the Island of the Sun,

and this is well-known
for strange lights

rising up out of it.

They've been seen,
uh, by locals,

they've been seen by visitors.

The Island of the Sun
is also seen

as the point of creation

by the local Aymara and Quechua
peoples of the region,

and what they say
is that the sun

rose up out of that
island, into the air.

BIRNES:
There are ancient hot spots
that are modern hot spots,

and when you draw a map

of all the hot spots
around the world,

what you find
is that the ancients

and the moderns are the same.

It never went away.

POPE:
Is there something
about these sites

that attracts UFOs?

It's maybe why
the ancients built them

in those locations
in the first place.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that
mysterious ancient sites

such as Mount Gerizim,

Stonehenge,

Chaco Canyon,

and many others

offer evidence
that extraterrestrials

may have been visiting Earth
for thousands of years

at very specific locations?

If so, why?

Ancient astronaut
theorists believe

that the answer may be found

by looking not toward the sky,

but deep underground.

NARRATOR:
Kent Cliffs, New York,

New Year's Eve, 1982.

Shortly before midnight
in this small town

just north of New York City,

New Year's Eve revelers

are struck by the sight

of an unusual aircraft

in the sky.

The ship appears to be
as large as a commercial jet,

but has a V-shape,

moves slowly,
and makes no sound.

The incident is the first
in a wave of UFO sightings

that would shake
the surrounding area,

known as the Hudson Valley.

The Hudson Valley
is your classic hot spot.

Here, UFOs appeared
from 1983 to 1986,

and was witnessed
by thousands of people.

A triangular,
boomerang-shape object,

very well-lit, flew very low

over the community,

and it was
photographed, videotaped,

and it was seen from people
from all walks of life

who were sure
they saw something strange

that was not from this planet.

This caused people to
pull off the side of the road

and actually start calling home,

thinking there was
some type of an invasion.

And they were executive doctors,

scientists and so on,
meteorologists,

and they all reported something

that they have
never seen before.

NARRATOR:
Over the span of three years,

officials received
more than 9,000 reports

from eyewitnesses describing
the same, V-shaped craft.

Not only was there a UFO
sighting in Hudson Valley,

but it came back night
after night after night.

IMBROGNO: These are people who
would not normally come forward

to say that they saw a UFO.

IMBROGNO:
Yet, what they saw

was so convincing
and so frightening to them,

that they went on record
to report what they saw.

I mean, it's just amazing.

NARRATOR:
During the two-year wave

of UFO sightings
in the Hudson Valley,

author Philip Imbrogno
investigated the area

on behalf of
the Center for UFO Studies,

which was founded
by J. Allen Hynek

after his work
with Project Blue Book.

Imbrogno conducted
hundreds of interviews

with residents of the area,

and even witnessed
the V-shaped craft himself.

IMBROGNO:
This object,

whatever it was,
the size of a football field,

came over the highways
and hovered,

and, at times, projected down
a brilliant beam of white light.

Usually, UFO researchers

don't see the UFO that
they're investigating.

I saw this object three times.

So, it was amazing.

NARRATOR: As Imbrogno spent
months crisscrossing the area,

he noticed something curious:

The volume of mysterious
reports during this time

were not only focused on
a strange craft in the sky,

but also on bizarre sounds

coming from somewhere
deep below ground.

HENRY:
People start to wonder
why are these hot spots

hot spots?

And one explanation is that

what is actually going on
is underneath the ground.

That these hot spots
are in fact entrances

to vast underground caverns,
or even secret bases.

CAMPOBASSO:
In the Hudson River there,
especially in the '80s,

I spoke to a few researchers,

and they said that
the locals used to hear things

coming up from underground,

and they weren't really
quite sure what it was,

but they figured there
was a base below ground.

A military/alien base.

NARRATOR:
Arguably, the most
famous sighting

in the Hudson Valley hot spot

concerned beings
from underground,

as was the case

with best-selling horror
novelist Whitley Strieber,

who wrote about
his own experience

in his book, Communion.

WHITLEY STRIEBER:
My wife and I had
bought a cabin

in the western extreme edge
of the whole Hudson Valley.

And in December of 1985,

I woke up in a room,
not my bedroom,

in the middle of the night,

and the room was filled
with two kinds of figures.

These willowy figures
with big black eyes,

and dark blue short figures.

Then I began
to hear a voice say,

"What can we do to
help you stop screaming?"

And I thought, "I'm screaming?"
And I was screaming.

And the next morning, I woke up

extremely confused
and disturbed,

without any real understanding
of what happened to me.

NARRATOR:
While many presume
that Streiber's

alien abductors
descended from the skies,

in fact, he described
them as coming up from below,

and their presence
was marked by sounds

deep beneath his mountain cabin.

STRIEBER:
In the cabin,

we used to hear
drilling underground.

And we could hear this
taking place under the cabin.

In fact, it was so loud one day,

I was sitting with
one of my neighbors

and this sound kept coming up,

and you could kind of
feel it in your teeth.

It was not pleasant.

(low buzzing)

NARRATOR:
The idea that hot spots mark
entrances to the underworld

is a phenomenon
seen across the planet.

CHILDRESS: This can be
what's happening

in, say, Lake Titicaca.

And then you have
other places like, say,

Mount Shasta,

or certain volcanoes
in Mexico,

where UFOs are seen,
and there's a lot of activity.

POPE:
Where do people allege

that there are
underground bases?

Well, in New Mexico, of course.

And what do you have
in New Mexico? Roswell.

And it's alleged that there is

a secret underground base

off the coast of San Diego.

And, of course, that's the focus

of a lot of the modern
UFO activity

involving the U.S. Navy.

NARRATOR:
Could the strange sounds
reportedly emanating

from beneath the Hudson Valley,

and many other hot spots,
be evidence

of hidden underground
structures, as some speculate?

Or might there be
another explanation

for these areas
of high UFO activity?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining the power

of Earth's magnetic field.

NARRATOR:
In this small town
outside of Paris,

numerous eyewitnesses
report several mysterious

oval-shaped craft
above the Seine River,

traveling at great speeds

before suddenly vanishing
into thin air.

It is the first of
more than 300 UFO incidents

that would take place
in France during the year.

Journalist Aimé Michel
begins studying

the reported flight paths
of many of these accounts,

and makes
an astonishing observation.

NEWMAN:
All these UFO sightings
appeared to move

in dead straight lines,
often crisscrossing.

And as he kept getting
reports coming in,

and he kept plotting them,

he kept finding
the same system happening,

the same lines, the same
movements of these UFOs.

NARRATOR:
In 1958, Michel
published his research

in a book called Flying Saucers
and the Straight-Line Mystery.

In the book, he introduced
a principle he called orthoteny,

which held that clusters
of UFO activity

over a short period of time

usually occur along straight
lines that often intersect.

COLLINS:
What Aimé Michel

started to realize was

that there seemed
to be a pattern

in where these objects
were appearing,

and also their flight paths.

He saw that they actually
use specific lanes,

which he felt were connected

with the magnetic forces
of the Earth.

HENRY:
He's noticing that these UFOs
are traveling in straight lines,

using latitudes,
and that, in fact,

this can be extrapolated
into an entire grid

that encapsulates
the entire planet.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that Aimé Michel

successfully identified
a grid pattern

across the Earth
of highly magnetized regions

that have come to be
known as UFO hot spots?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe that further clues

can be found by examining an
area that has become notorious

for mysterious phenomena
and strange disappearances...

The Bermuda Triangle.

TSOUKALOS:
With the Bermuda Triangle,

it is an irrefutable fact

that planes and ships
of various sizes

have disappeared
without a trace.

You also have
UFO and UAP stories.

NARRATOR:
In the last century,
roughly 50 ships

and 20 airplanes have vanished
without a trace

within this infamous
500,000-square-mile stretch

of the Atlantic Ocean.

According to Scottish biologist

and paranormal researcher
Ivan T. Sanderson,

the Bermuda Triangle
is just one of a strange

and disturbing kind
of UFO hot spot

that he described as
the world's 12 "vile vortices."

He was able to identify,
he believed,

certain spots like
the Bermuda Triangle,

the Dragon's Triangle,

places like the Great Pyramid,

and other huge monument areas,

and there was activity
going on at these places,

disappearing ships
and airplanes,

UFO activity,

lights and unusual phenomenon

that were occurring constantly.

NARRATOR:
In his 1972 article entitled

"The 12 Devil's
Graveyards Around The World,"

Sanderson mapped these
sites at equidistant points

above and below the equator,

and discovered
they formed a mysterious

geometrical pattern
on the Earth's surface.

RICKSECKER:
There are 12 of these
across the globe.

Now, five of them are
within the Tropic of Cancer,

five of them within
the Tropic of Capricorn,

the other two, the North Pole
and the South Pole.

What's interesting is
if you connect all of these

through the sphere of our globe,

they make an icosagon,
or a 20-sided polygon.

So, this is showing us
how all of these

type of hot spots are
connected to each other.

NARRATOR:
The hot spot sites
Sanderson identified

share more than just
a unique history and geometry.

Many of these so-called
vile vortices have strong

magnetic anomalies caused
by variations or disturbances

in the Earth's magnetic field.

If you take a look at the Earth,

the Earth has a magnetic
field like a bar magnet.

The field of the magnetism

comes out from the North Pole
and goes into the South Pole.

It comes from the fact
that inside the Earth,

there is churning electricity.

And we now know that
there are anomalies there.

It's as if our entire Earth

is one gigantic battery.

And if one were to argue

that the entire
planet is a battery,

well, what's it used for?

I think our planet could serve

to power whatever exotic device

extraterrestrials use
to get here and leave.

NARRATOR:
Incredibly, powerful
magnetic anomalies

are found at many UFO hot spots,

including the San Diego Bay,

the Bermuda Triangle,

and the Hudson Valley.

Perhaps a lot of this has
to do with interstellar travel.

Maybe these hot spots

are where they get that energy.

Maybe the UFOs can literally

suck up the power,

the power that the ancients,
for example, could sense

when they built these
monuments in the first place.

NARRATOR:
Are all UFO hot spots

part of a natural
worldwide power grid?

Could learning how
to access the energy

at these sites
one day equip mankind

with advanced extraterrestrial
technology and capabilities?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and believe
that extraterrestrials

are already using this
electromagnetic energy,

not to travel to UFO hot spots,

but possibly through them.

NARRATOR:
The Uintah Basin, Utah.

Skinwalker Ranch is
a 512-acre property

where, for more
than two centuries,

mysterious and terrifying

phenomena have been reported,

including UFOs,

cattle mutilations

and otherworldly creatures.

Skinwalker Ranch
in northern Utah

is an outstanding
example of a hot spot.

It's one that is
a crossover location

because Native Americans
have said for centuries

that this is a place where
supernatural activity occurs,

and it's still occurring today,
and is now being

very well-documented
and thoroughly studied.

NARRATOR:
In 2019,

astrophysicist Dr. Travis Taylor

joined a team of
scientists and researchers

to investigate the bizarre
phenomena on the property.

-MAN: To the south.
-There it is!

MAN 2:
It's moving real slow.

MAN:
That thing is big and spherical.

TRAVIS TAYLOR:
Yes, it is, and it's got
a black dot in the center of it.

That ain't an airplane!

Since I've been out there
at Skinwalker Ranch,

I've seen so many
different things

that before, I would have not
really believed they existed.

MAN:
Travis, you got to see this.

Okay. Well, there's the lasers.

-Yeah, I'm doing instant
playback. You see this?
-Oh. Yeah.

TAYLOR:
Wow. What the crap is that?

And I can say that
I'd never seen a UFO

before I went
to Skinwalker Ranch,

and now I've seen so many,
I can't count them.

BRANDON FUGAL:
Skinwalker Ranch is,
without question,

the most scientifically studied

hot spot on the planet.

To be able to take a more
advanced scientific effort

forward to better understand

what is really happening there,

I mean, it's...

it's the greatest science
project of our time.

NARRATOR:
Between 1996 and 2016,

the federal government helped
fund investigations on the ranch

that were led by
aerospace entrepreneur

Robert Bigelow
and his organization

known as the National Institute
for Discovery Science.

THOMAS WINTERTON:
People ask me, hey,
what did Bigelow find?

And the interesting thing is,
is that we haven't received any,

not a single bit of data,

from the previous team,
so it must be classified.

Bigelow never shared it with us.

NARRATOR:
Although much of what
the Bigelow Team discovered

has never been released
to the public,

it has been suggested

that some of
the hot spot phenomena

witnessed on the ranch
may be related

to a portal through spacetime.

TAYLOR:
Skinwalker Ranch appears
to be the epicenter

of some really strange
energy measurements,

strange electric
and magnetic field.

There's been
a lot of speculation

that Skinwalker Ranch
is the site of a portal

or a wormhole where
alien civilizations,

or maybe even
extra-dimensional creatures,

are using as a transit station.

They're moving in and out.

NARRATOR:
Could wormholes really
be an explanation

for why hot spots
like Skinwalker Ranch

exist where they do?

The idea of a wormhole--

a shortcut through
time and space--

was proposed in 1935

by physicists Albert Einstein
and Nathan Rosen.

Using the theory of relativity,

they showed that these pathways

could exist as
a tunnel structure,

connecting two very distant
points through space and time...

...making travel to the most
remote parts of the universe

a theoretical possibility.

POPE:
Some believe
that extraterrestrials

would use wormholes,

and UFOs would then, apparently,

arrive out of
nowhere, seemingly,

and disappear into nowhere,

which is very often what you get

at locations
that are UFO hot spots

like Skinwalker Ranch.

What do you find? The idea
that there's a portal there.

It's within the laws of physics

to use the wormhole as a gateway

to another distant
part of the galaxy

faster than the speed of light.

We don't have
that kind of technology.

But perhaps
an advanced civilization

already mastered
this technology,

and use it to
crisscross the galaxy.

That cannot be ruled out.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that
advanced intelligent beings

exist in other parts
of the universe

who have the technology
to create portals

through time and space?

And if so, could
UFO hot spots be gateways

where they are able
to reach Earth?

It might explain why,
on our Earth,

that places where UFOs

of any shape, size, color,

are seen on a repeated basis,

it's exactly the same thing.

They're coming in and out of

electromagnetically
created portals,

and that's why there seems to be

a pattern of coming
and going on this planet.

They are with us on our planet.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that
extraterrestrials

are actually traveling to Earth
through wormholes or portals?

If so, where
are they coming from?

There are those who believe
that it may not be

from distant points
in the cosmos,

but possibly
from other dimensions.

NARRATOR:
Famed author and
Ufologist John Keel

publishes his second book:

UFOs Operation Trojan Horse.

In the book, Keel asserts

that Earth is being visited
by extraterrestrials,

not from distant planets,

but from parallel universes.

He believed this could
be the real explanation

for UFO hot spots.

POPE:
John Keel believed
that these visitors

were from other dimensions,

but that in the past,

they had been misperceived

as gods, devils, angels, demons,

other sorts
of supernatural entities.

But he said this is something
that has always been with us.

It's just that
they don't come from

where we think they come from.

HENRY:
John Keel said

those beings are not
from other planets.

They're from other dimensions.

And this is called
the interdimensional hypothesis.

And when they do
appear in our reality,

they can violate
our laws of physics.

They can travel
faster than light.

It's because they're coming from

higher dimensional realms.

NARRATOR: According to
the interdimensional hypothesis,

hot spots are simply
locations on Earth

where the dimension we inhabit
crosses over into another.

It may sound like
science fiction,

but it actually fits neatly into
a branch of theoretical physics

known as string theory.

In string theory
we play with different

kinds of universes
in different dimensions.

There are tunnels
that connect one universe

with another universe.

And how many universes
are there in string theory?

Perhaps an infinite number.

NARRATOR:
In the end, hot spots
remain an enduring mystery.

Are UFO hot spots gateways
to other dimensions?

Portals to other
places in the universe?

The locations of
underground alien bases?

Or is it possible
that all three are true?

There's no, you know,
theory of everything

when it comes to this
sort of phenomena.

It seems like there are
a lot of different reasons

as to why a UFO may be
attracted to something,

why activity happens over here.

There are a variety of different
reasons, and not just one.

POPE:
I think these hot spots
are hugely significant

for our understanding of UFOs.

There might be a dimensional
solution to this.

There could be
multiple explanations,

and these aren't
mutually exclusive.

So it's perfectly
possible to have

visiting extraterrestrials,
interdimensional intrusion

and time travelers
from the future.

HENRY:
We don't fully
understand hot spots.

However, there's never been

a time in history
that I'm aware of

where so much
science and technology

has been directed now
in trying to figure them out.

And what will be
the benefit of that?

Well, we will
come to a conclusion

about who we are,
where we came from,

and ultimately
where we go from here.

TSOUKALOS:
If one day the mainstream
accepts the idea

that these UFO hot spots

do have an
extraterrestrial connection,

then that would be

a profound conclusion
in the history of humanity.

NARRATOR:
Could UFO hot spots hold the key

to understanding
strange phenomena

that has been
witnessed on our planet

for thousands of years?

Might these locations
contain portals

that lead not only
to other worlds,

but also to other dimensions?

If so, perhaps one day

we will be able to harness

the power of these
hot spots ourselves,

and discover
a reality far beyond

what we ever believed
was possible.

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