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MAN: Fire!

NARRATOR: A people torn apart...

RICHARD LEWIS: Not a household in the North or the

South was not touched by blood in this conflict.

NARRATOR: ...and the future of a nation hanging in the balance.

JOHN V. QUARSTEIN: 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?

DAVID WILCOCK: 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.

30 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.

QUARSTEIN: Joseph Smith... when he takes his Mormon colony

to Missouri, he actually makes some statements about slavery.

He taught 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. WILCOCK: 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.

For behold, the Southern States shall be divided against the

Northern States." LEWIS: There are 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?

And if so, how did an otherworldly entity know that

the war would begin in South Carolina nearly 30 years in advance?

WILCOCK: 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, in 1777, George Washington had

a similar encounter at Valley Forge.

WILLIAM 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 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. NICK REDFERN: One of the best

early UFO encounters is 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.

PITTMAN: 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.

PITTMAN: 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. WILCOCK: 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. LEWIS: 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. QUARSTEIN: 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 government, with the fate of a people caught

in the crossfire. And according to ancient

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

New York City. April 19, 1861.

Responding to President Lincoln's call to action, the 7th New York Militia travels by

steamboat to Annapolis, Maryland.

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

PITTMAN: 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 7th 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?

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

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

The 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.

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. QUARSTEIN: There are many

soldiers and politicians during the Civil War that have

premonitions, premonitions of death.

Nathaniel Lyon at the Battle of Wilson's Creek actually said,

"Today I will die." 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. CHILDRESS: It would seem that

throughout the history of this planet, certain civilizations

and nations have been watched very carefully by the

extraterrestrials and 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 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.

CHRISTOPHER COLEMAN: 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?

HENRY: 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.

LEWIS: 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...

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?

QUARSTEIN: 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.

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 advisor for Mary Todd Lincoln,

who was a devout believer in mysticism.

COLEMAN: She claimed to have attended s?ances 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 s?ances 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. DIANE POWELL: 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.

WILCOCK: 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...

MAN: Fire! NARRATOR: ...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 invincible, 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, uh, 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. QUARSTEIN: Chamberlain rushes

his troops towards the Little Round Top.

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. CHILDRESS: 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.

CHILDRESS: 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's 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 its 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.

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

The body's being guarded by Union soldiers.

He asks one of the soldiers,

"Who is dead in the White House?"

And one of the solder says, "It's the president.

He's been killed by an assassin."

He believed that he was uniquely

suited to become president, to carry the country through the

great crisis of disunion. And he, part and parcel with

that belief in his destiny to become president, was his belief

that he would be slain. PITTMAN: Abraham Lincoln is

said to have had, uh, 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, uh, 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.

NARRATOR: 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

Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, and Kurt Vonnegut.

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

connected to the injury to his head?

KIRSTEN FISHER: In the case of brain injuries, when you

suddenly, uh, 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

recircuitry, if you will. WILCOCK: We're 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 30 miles away.

But once he arrives and runs towards his wife, he feels a

searing pain in his neck. LOGAN HAWKES: 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.

OFFICER: About face! HAWKES: 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 interdimensional travel was a

possibility. NARRATOR: Another short story

that Bierce wrote for The San Francisco Examiner, in 1888,

titled "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field," is reportedly

based on an actual event that occurred in Selma, Alabama, in

July of 1854. 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.

WILCOCK: Is it possible that Ambrose Bierce was, in fact,

contacted by extraterrestrials? 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. HAWKES: 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 interdimensional 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.

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.

HENRY: The symbolism they chose is completely and totally

cosmic... a goddess cloaked in stars,

suggesting she's a celestial or a star being.

CHILDRESS: And 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 called The Indian Treaties.

One of the best selling of these pamphlets chronicled the

Iroquois creation story of the Sky Woman.

PITTMAN: Native Americans believed that the Sky Woman came

to Earth when there 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. CHILDRESS: 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?

CHILDRESS: 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. WILCOCK: 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, it 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.

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