All language subtitles for Skyman.2020.

So, with psychology
we can see the pattern

of the way logic
and process works.

And the brain is really good,

it's basically a really powerful

pattern recognition machine.

If humans see a space

that they don't know
about or it's confusing,

will take information around it

and complete the picture,

and we'll make
a constellation out of it.

That faith in, in the idea

that there's another life
form is validating,

and it feels like
it's an answer for them.

And it gives them hope in,
in a place

where they feel disconnected.

Typically there's
a specific type

of socio-economic profile.

Um, that lends them
more vulnerable

to believing in the idea.

Some research has shown that
nutrition, lack of nutrition

can affect the vulnerability
of those groups

trying to find
some sort of reason.

Um, and they are good people.

Uh, they may be just
a little bit lost, um,

and are looking for something
that science can't provide.

Can you say a few
words in the mic for me?

Oh, check, check,
one, two, three.

Okay, we're good.

State your name
for camera, please.

I'm... Sorry.

My name is Carl Merryweather

and, uh,
this is my sister Gina Campbell.

Um, her last name is Campbell
because, you know,

she was married
but now she's divorced.

And, uh, his name was Carl too,
so it got pretty confusing.

- And after we called him...
- Okay, Carl?

Carl, too much information.

Sorry.

How long have you lived

in California?

Most of my life, um,

let's see, uh,
first we lived in Wisconsin,

and then when I was five
we moved here to Apple Valley.

Um...

My dad was a...
sergeant in the Air Force,

so, we, he got stationed out
here at the logistics base.

And when did he pass away?

February 21st, 2010, yeah.

He had a heart attack.

Yeah, he was, uh,

he was carrying 60 pound bags

of shingles on the roof
the day he died.

Yeah... that was him,
Mr. Do it Yourselfer.

What about your mother?

She's at the Lamar Home,
in town, uh,

Gina works there, uh,
part-time as a nurse's aide.

Yeah, I work there,
but I'm also working

on getting my degree at night,

so I do both.

Yeah, um.

- Yeah, that's right.
- Yeah, she had a, a, she had a stroke

about a year ago

and, uh, it hit her pretty hard.

It was... pretty bad.

And you have
a brother too right?

Yeah, that's Kenny, um, we don't
see him too much anymore.

He, uh, moved to Alaska...

like,
shortly after our dad died, um.

Any other family?

Uh, no, just us.

And the turtles.

So, Carl,
can you tell us how you

became interested in UFOS?

Uh, well, to... I mean,
to state it as clearly as I can,

um... I was visited
by one when I was a kid.

At, uh...

It was like nothing
I've ever seen before.

The skies above Apple Valley

were filled with more than just

clouds last night.

News 6 lines were lighting up

with reports of an alleged
triangle shaped

UFO in the high desert.

I caught it out of the corner
of my eye really,

and I looked up and just over

these mountains right here.

It didn't have any
lights or anything.

It was,
it was just a big black triangle

and it just...
it just hung out there.

Super big and superfast,

and just went straight
across the sky here.

I don't know, I don't know
with the government.

You know, you never know
what they are doing.

They are always out there
doing something.

Some local residents
claimed to have seen

an Unidentified Flying Object
just after sunset last evening,

with one young man even
claiming to have been visited

by what he describes
as a Skyman.

So, this is
where I keep most of my stuff.

Gina hates to come out here,

says I'm a pack rat.

I'll find something
that's broken,

I bring it back here and fix it.

So, here I've got every UFO
magazine ever published

from number one in 1986
all the way to 158 in 2012.

Betty and Barney Hill,
Rendlesham Forest,

Travis Walton abduction,

Tom and Elise Gifford.

That happened right out here.

Well, I don't really
consider myself a collector,

I mean, it's, it's more about,
you know, my research, you know.

Um.

I've always had all this stuff,
you know,

I started getting them
when I was a kid after,

you know, after my encounter.

Oh, sure, I mean... I mean,
90% of this stuff is BS,

but there's truth
in the inconsistencies.

You know, you can, you can find
anything if you know how

to dissect... the information.

You know,
the way the visitors move,

the way they communicated,

uh, what's left on the ground
afterwards, you know.

All those things can...
can be used, you know,

help you figure things out.

Make you see things
more clearly.

What do you say to people that

say phenomenon
like UFOS and Bigfoot,

the paranormal et cetera,
are nothing more than our search

for meaning or purpose
in our lives?

Well, I think that's probably
true for a lot of people,

um, I only know my experience.

What I experienced is, it,
it's as real as

us having this conversation.

So, I,
I know what happened to me.

There's lists of people
that I've compiled over the past

couple of years of people
that have had very similar

experiences to mine and...
I've interviewed a few of them.

But a lot of them are just, you
know, strangers from, from all over.

There... A number of years ago I
went through, uh, hypnotherapy,

that's when things started to,
to become clear, um,

when I could go back...

and, and, uh, go back
to when I was ten years old,

and I had the encounter,
and I could sort of

slow things down.

That's when I realized
that... what they were,

or what the Skyman was,
was telling me,

and he was telling me that he,

that he was going
to come back for me.

You know Carl Merryweather?

Yes.

Um, he is a few years
younger than I am,

and he is...
He hung out with my brother,

I was in high school
back when they, uh,

used to run around together.

Uh, he used to work
in the garage

and around the yard doing

all kinds of little
things for us,

kind of tinkering around. Um,

he had a couple of projects
he liked to do at home too

which he kind
of would get engrossed there

and forget about us over here.

He's incredibly bright,
very smart guy.

He can fix anything.

There's nothing broke
enough he can't fix.

Because he didn't have a car,

so we didn't know
how he was coming and going.

So, uh, he got a little trailer
that we had here in the yard

and connected it to his bike.

And now you see him
roaming around town on it.

He's just a little
different because

he mostly just keeps to himself.

He doesn't bother anybody.

He stays busy, he works here
and there or wherever and...

He had this thing
for crossword puzzles,

always working on them.

So, my boss kind
of said one day,

"Um, we kind of don't need you
anymore, so don't come back in?"

He said he saw an alien,
but I don't know.

I mean,
there's no way to prove it,

but there's no way
to disprove it.

So, you believe that

he might have seen
something then?

Well, something happened,
I guess.

You know,
I thought it was me first,

but, um, the next day it was
a big deal in the news.

Now with Carl
because he was always

kind of tinkering
with different things,

you weren't really too sure.

I believe that we can't be
the only ones here.

I mean, really?

I guess you could
call me a prepper.

I mean, my dad he always
taught us self-reliance.

He wasn't one of those crazy

the world is going to end types.

He just liked to have a plan B.

He was in Vietnam, so...

he knew what could happen
when a country goes tits up.

You know, I tried to join
the Army during Desert Storm,

but they wouldn't let me in.

Because I'm almost
deaf in my left ear.

My eardrum burst
when I was a kid

and, uh... you know,
it got infected,

never really healed right.

So, once we get over this hill,
I think I'm going

to have you turn the camera off.

You know,
like my dad used to say,

you have got to maintain
operational security.

Right.

Here's the HGH.

So, we started out
with just the one container,

and then we added the PX.

They are both from China.

Super strong,
pretty much indestructible.

So, my dad lived in that camper
while he was fixing it up.

Can't live in it now.

There's the windmill we started.

This is mine and that's Kenny's.

We used to race
all over this front yard

before we got dirt bikes.

Bastard always won.

There we go.

Well, this is it, we spent
a lot of time here as kids.

You know, I think my dad
was trying to acclimate us.

What do you mean by acclimate?

You know get us used
to the whole container thing

and, you know, living out
in the desert off grid.

Here he is right here, Vietnam.

He was a chopper pilot,
damn good one.

When I got older
I helped him make

a lot of the improvements
in here.

We got solar panels, uh...

out back we have a water
catchment system for rain,

holds about 100 gallons.

You know,
you got everything here, fridge,

camp stove.

My dad picked this up
at a garage sale, like,

you know, 25 years ago,

and it's still working great.

Here's the kids room,

this is my bed.

My brother Kenny, of course,
got the top bunk.

This is Gina's bed.

And then my parents slept on

the pull out sofa
in the front room.

So, what was it
like being out here as kids?

You know, it was like camping.

Um, me and Kenny would
be running around and...

my dad taught us how to shoot,

so we did a lot
of hunting out here,

a lot of hunting.

Shower, toilet,
sewer runs out to a drain field.

This is my mom right here,

she was always trying to make,
you know,

make the place more homey,
you know.

She even, she even put up
wallpaper in the kitchen,

but, you know,
the heat just tore it to shreds.

How did
your mom take living out here?

She was good about it, you know,
at first, she was into it.

You know, she basically went

along with everything...
my dad did.

Except for the goats.

I was out hunting rabbits

with my new 22 that I got
for my birthday.

It was just me
and my dad out here.

He was back
at the High Ground House.

And I was out here shooting,
I didn't see any rabbits,

you know, but I was still
shooting trees and whatever.

The sun was going down
behind those hills,

it was getting dark,
so I figured I'd head back.

I turned to go back and then,
that's when I felt the hum.

You know, it was, it was

real low frequency, you know,
it was just constant low hum.

It came up from the ground
up through my legs.

And... I could start to hear it,
you know, it was vibrating,

I could hear it and,
and it surprised me

because I could even hear it
in my bad ear.

I looked up and there
it was just hovering.

A giant black triangle.

And that's when I saw him.

Right over there,
right about where that bush is.

He didn't look human.

I, I knew he wasn't a human.

He was, he was tall

and really skinny and that's
when I, I felt him.

I, I...
That's when I heard the voice.

It wasn't like words,

it was more like he was putting

ideas or pictures in my head.

He told me...
that I shouldn't be afraid...

and that he wasn't
going to hurt me.

He said...

He said that he was looking
for someone like me.

Carl has this tendency to fixate

on things if, uh,
you hadn't noticed.

And he used to really,
really get under Kenny's skin.

It would get bad, uh.

But, you know, he never
really bothered me that much.

I don't know,
I just kind of ignored him

when he went off
on his crazy tangents,

which was often.

Um.

Uh, yeah. No, no. She, um.

She wasn't happy
at all actually, uh.

You know, the neighbors
and everyone around town

always kind of thought
that Carl was different.

He is different, um,
but I think that UFO experience

just really, really sealed
the deal, you know.

You know Carl used
to draw a lot...

um, in his room?

He would kind of cover
all the walls

with the Skyman pictures,

and after a while mama
just stopped going in there.

And... I don't know, I always
felt kind of bad for him.

So, this is all
the stuff that I saved

from when my mom
ripped off my walls

and took out of my room
a lot of the drawings.

I got maps.

Here's a drawing
of the bug out shelter.

I did this one more recently

just because I really
wanted to get...

a sense of where
everything was then, and...

what's there now, because
it has changed quite a bit.

Oh, you'll like this one,

I did this right after
it happened when I was ten.

You really get a sense
of how tall and skinny he was

because this is actually...

a pretty good scale drawing,
like,

when you look at the...
Where the tree was,

and how much taller
he is than the tree.

Here's a close up.

Yeah, yeah.

I know it's not very good.

Let's see more...

some better drawings.

Here it is.

Right there.

"One of the more
striking testimonials was"

from ten year old
Carl Merryweather,

also an Apple Valley resident.

He was camping outside
of Lucerne Valley

with his father
in the high desert

when he allegedly
came into contact

with what he describes
as a Skyman.

He also details the same
triangle shaped UFO

reported elsewhere
flying overhead.

His father, Donald Merryweather,

described a humming
noise at the time,

"but was not present
during his son's encounter."

So, I'm, I'm so glad
I still have that.

Maybe two, three years, I mean,

it's good to go
and revisit things... I think.

I mean, there's some things that you,
you don't want to forget, you know.

Yeah, so, uh, he was
a chopper pilot in Vietnam,

and he would go on search
and rescue missions,

and... he was coming
back from an ex-fil,

and...

he was flying his chopper
back to the base.

And he had an encounter, uh,
with a craft...

uh, that just moved
every which way, and, um.

He said the gunner
and the copilot saw it too,

but they never reported it.

I guess back then, uh...
nobody really wanted to admit

if they had, um,

you know,
what they call battle fatigue,

so you didn't...
If you saw something strange,

you, you didn't say anything.

Here we are.

It's all right.

What are you doing?

I'm unplugging the fridge.

I'm real sensitive to,

you know, electromagnetic energy

and, uh... these fridges,

they, you know,
there's no shielding

in any of the wires
or motors or anything, so.

I just like to have it off,
so I can sleep.

So, we just
arrived in McMinnville,

what do you, what do you expect

to get out of the festival?

I definitely want
to meet some people,

you know, talk to some people.

You know, I've been thinking
that lately it it's time for me

to start talking
about my experience again.

Do you come
to these festivals a lot?

I went to the Monsters
of Rock music festival

a long time ago
when I was a kid,

but this is the first UFO
festival I've been to.

There's going to be...
you know, a panel of experts,

and there's going to be
a lot of presentations

on different things, so.

You know, it's all,
it's all for research

it's all for the research.

We should probably get going.

We're just going
to ask you a few questions

about what you are doing
here at the UFO festival.

Okay, what's this,
it's on YouTube?

It's on YouTube, yeah.

Can you introduce yourself
to us, please?

Yeah, hi, I'm Carl Merryweather

from Apple Valley, California.

Great and, uh, what brings you

to the UFO festival this year?

I've never been to one before,
so I just kind of

wanted to see what was going on.

And, uh, meet some people, uh,
ask some questions, you know,

figure some stuff out.

Nice.

Have you ever had any kind of

weird experience

or seen anything?

I, uh, I saw a spacecraft when I
was ten years old in the desert.

Um... I saw, uh, I saw an alien,
saw a life form.

Uh, what did the alien
do with you?

I wasn't abducted
or anything, um.

Just kind of, um, stood there

and, and, uh, sort of
talked to me, uh, in my brain,

but... that was about it.

It talked to you in your brain,

like telepathically?

- Yep, yep.
- Okay.

Yeah, I mean they are known
to do that, right?

I suppose so.

Have you seen any aliens here

that kind of looked like
the alien you encountered?

No, no,
no one here looks like that.

Um, I've seen some pretty
good costumes though,

but, uh,
no one looks like what I saw.

Oh. We were wondering
if you would you like

to take communion with us?

Is this just a regular cookie?

It's just cookie stuff.

Oh, I see.

Alright, well, it was,
it was nice to meet you.

Great to meet you, Carl.

Thank you so much.

- Well, that was weird.
- That was pretty weird.

Some people wanted
to interview me.

It was like a...
They just stopped me

and... gave me a cookie.

And then, uh,
asked about my alien experience.

I just told them the truth.

No reason not to.

Especially here.

I think we might be close.

So, why was it
important to come out here?

I mean, I kind of wanted to see
if I could... feel anything or.

This is definitely in, like,
the top five UFO sightings.

In a lot of ways that picture...
started a lot of stuff.

People started
to become aware of...

That other things were possible.

Do you think coming here...

and meeting
with other experiencers...

helped to validate what you saw?

Well, I don't, I mean, to me,

I've never needed validation,

you know,
because I know what I saw.

You know, I mean, yeah,
it's rough when people...

make fun of you and...

and stuff like that,
but you know.

I know... what I saw.

You know, so it's not really
about getting validation

from other people,

but it is nice to know
that I'm not alone.

I am not as alone as a I feel.

Carl says
the hypnosis helped him

to clarify things,
do you think it helped him?

You know, I can't really say

because, you know, I was,
I was, uh,

kind of going through my bad
relationship at the time, um.

So, yeah, I wasn't there,
I really wasn't.

Carl mentioned that something

on those tapes
during his sessions

made him want to go
back out to the desert.

Do you have any idea
what that might be?

No, I don't know, I don't know.

For the longest time I thought,
you know, it's a cry,

it's a cry for help, I mean,
he just wants

to connect back to our father.

That's what I thought,
I mean it was just logical.

And I still think that in a way,

but, I mean, what does he think,
that my father is up there

in space and he's going
to drop down and grab him?

You're working full time

and going to school at night.

How has that affected

your relationship
with your brother?

I had this whole
support system before,

but I don't have
any of that now.

Um.

It just kind of just feels
like... like now I'm on my own

and I'm trying to salvage
whatever of my brother I have,

you know, that can really
be here and present.

But he thinks that next weekend

he's going to go and get
picked up by an alien.

You know, I can't rely on him.

Hey, guys.

These are my guys
Barry and Donny.

How long have you had them?

About eight years.

Breakfast time.

I love to watch them eat,

they are like the perfect...
little animal.

I love to watch their tongues
come out, you know.

Everything has a tongue, it
makes me feel better

about the world.

Maybe these guys are the aliens.

Or maybe we're the aliens
and these guys,

it's their world
and we're just the aliens.

Up first, is a story
that set way up in space.

So, my dad almost bought this

hardware store we're going to.

He owned an equipment
rental company

with one of his friends
from the base.

And according to my mom
they were going to merge

with Andy's hardware,

but it turns out this so called
friend was embezzling from him.

He owed a lot of back taxes.

In six months they were broke.

Personally,
I think that had a lot

to do with my dad's
heart attack later on.

He'd be on board with it.

I just have to get Gina
on board with it

because I am going
to need her help.

My mother.

Hey, Marcus.

Hey!

You're up bright and early.

Well, you know me.

Is it cool
if these guys come in?

I mean,
just pretend they are not here.

- These guys are going to do a film on you?
- Yeah.

You really don't have
anything better to do

than follow this guy around?

Come on, go easy on them,
Marcus.

- I got your stuff back here.
- All right.

We're going to need
some more motion detectors too.

What we have is down
on the end of aisle five.

Okay.

MB750s.

I'd rather have black, all black
but we'll get some white ones.

We 're going to set up
a perimeter all around the HGH.

Fresh off the truck.

Don't forget to grab
a couple of SD cards

for the track cameras.

I got plenty at home.

You're still coming
with us right?

If you provide the beer,
I'll be there.

Great.

Yeah, I've known Marcus
since high school.

He's a good guy.

He's one of the only
people in this town

that doesn't think I'm crazy.

- Hey, Jen.
- Hi, Carl.

Your mother just
finished breakfast.

- Okay, thank you.
- Your welcome.

Hey, Mom, it's me.

- Hey.
- Hi.

I brought you some pistachios,

but don't eat too many, okay?
Or Dr. Craig will skin me alive.

Who the hell is that?

These are the film guys
I was telling you about...

- Oh, no.
- Remember?

- No, I don't.
- Okay, okay, okay.

Better go outside.
It'll just take a second.

Sure, let's go, let's go.

So,
you remember that day, right?

Well, I might have to if
this project doesn't work out.

I'm going out
to the HGH on my 40th birthday,

and there's going to be a big
event happening out there.

It's just something
I've been planning on doing.

Uh, hello.

Hello, Ms. Merryweather, well,
don't you look nice.

It's time for your meds.

No, no, not in front

of that damn thing, no, no.

Okay.

They gave her
15 milligrams of Raglan.

I hope the nurse didn't smell
the pistachios on her breath.

That woman loves her pistachios.

- Carl?
- Yeah?

Can I have a minute with you,
please?

I'll be right back.

They are cutting back
my mom's insurance.

Probably have to move into
a semi-private room.

And...

She's not going
to like that at all.

I mean, there's a bunch
of crazy old farts in there.

Maybe I can have
Gina talk to them.

She's good with stuff like that.

You're husband spends...
most of his adult life

serving his country,
and then when he's gone

they treat you like a,
like a bag of dirty laundry.

It's not right.

It's not right.

It should be
around here somewhere,

I buried it about a month ago.

There she is.

It can be used as a beacon
when it's not obscured

by an overhead power
source such as these.

I buried it out here
for safekeeping.

Might want to keep your
camera back a little bit,

this guy is very powerful.

There's a lot
of indication that UFOS

are attracted to...
magnetic fields.

Magnetic fields are natural
throughout the universe.

It makes sense
that you would design

your navigation system to hone
in on that kind of thing.

So, I'm going to use this
as a beacon for the HGH.

I told you it was powerful.

Yeah, trust me it's crossed
my mind more than a few times.

I guess I'll have to, uh,
re-evaluate my intuition.

Because that's,
that's what's really driving me,

uh, is,
is a gut feeling that I have.

Um, and maybe you'll...
A little help from you know who.

Did Gina tell you
to ask me that question?

I really don't understand
why I have to go with you, Carl.

I'm going to have
to give up a few shifts.

I mean, do you understand that?

- Witnesses, Gina.
- Oh, God.

The more I have the better.

You said Marcus is going
to be there and these guys.

If anything happens,
you'll get it all on camera,

good quality.

- Okay, all right.
- I'll see it.

It's really about Mom, right?

If something happens out there,

she wouldn't believe
Walter Cronkite.

But if she hears it from you,
she'll believe you.

She trusts you.

Okay, so then when nothing
happens what do I tell her then?

Well, then you don't have
to tell her a damn thing,

and everything
will stay exactly the same.

It's just for the weekend?

Yeah, we're going up Friday.

We're going to set
everything up on Saturday,

and then on Sunday, you know,
we'll see what happens.

So, you're just skipping
your 40th birthday altogether.

The big 4-0, you're ditching it.

We can party out there,

I mean we have plenty of beer,
and like you say,

you know, Marcus is going
to be there and these guys.

Come on, it'll be fun.

And you never know.

You might just get
to meet a real live alien.

Oh, well, perfect.

That's exactly what I need
in my life right now, Carl.

School, full time job, taking
care of a house and an alien.

Great.

Okay, if I go...

you have to fix
the disposal in the sink.

Seriously, Carl, you promised me
a month and a half ago.

Okay, Gina, as soon as
we get back I will do it.

- I promise. I promise!
- As soon as we get back.

You have to.

Okay.

So, what's that for?

There's an SD card in here
and a note for my sister.

I, uh, made a recording
of myself, sort of explaining,

you know,
why I want to make this film...

and, uh...
just sort of let people know

what my thinking
is behind all of this.

It's just another contingency

that I have in the mix
to make sure that everything...

That my story gets told.

I don't even know why she's
bringing all this stuff.

I mean we have plenty
of bedding out at the HGH.

Those beds are rock hard, Carl.

What's this?

Um, I'm sorry, some real food.

We're not going
to survive on MREs

and canned veggies all weekend.

- Okay, fine.
- And also I'm going to need

a bigger cooler, okay?

Why?

Because I have something else

to put in there.

You don't have to bring
the whole fridge, Gina!

Why are you bringing this thing?

I couldn't get the truck
to start this morning.

You know,
that thing hasn't run right

since you brought it
to JT in the first place.

I'll have a few words
when I get back, don't worry.

- Did you bring the stuff?
- It's in back.

Awesome,
you found your camera mounts.

Yeah,
they were over at Dickie's.

And you got the wire,
that's great.

How much do I owe you?

They were 7.98 each,
I got two of them, so.

17.22 with tax.

Alright, I'll pick up the beer
on the way out there,

and then we'll settle up
when we get there.

Sounds good.

The way Carl eats
his bacon is so weird.

I like to pre dip it.

You can't play around with
your food like that at my house.

You play around with that
food and they'd take it away.

By the way,
how are you guys going

to power all
that camera equipment?

Well, that stuff isn't
going to take much juice.

Well, I'm bringing the jenny
and the solar panels,

so we should be fine.

Gina!

Hey, Gary.

I haven't seen you
around in a while.

Yeah, yeah, I'm actually
at the Lamar home now, so.

Oh, why?

All those old people?

Yeah, well, you know, over there

they like to call them
retirees, but.

Well, a bedpan is a bedpan,
am I right?

Yeah, um,
I'm just paying my dues

until I get my nursing degree.

I've only got two semesters
left so, so close.

- Good for you.
- Thanks.

- What's up, Marcus?
- Hey.

Carl.

Hey.

Hey, it's good to see you.
We all miss you around here.

- Aw.
- That smile.

Oh, thank you, Gary,

that's sweet.

Yeah, really good to see you.

Yeah.

- See you.
- Bye, Gary, bye.

- See you, Shawn!
- Okay.

Asshole.

"A bedpan is a bedpan,
am I right?"

I've known him for a long time,
since we were kids.

He's always been a jerk.

I understand why Carl's
sensitive about it, I'd be too.

As he would come over
for like family dinners

and seemed like a great guy,
all this stuff.

I thought he was great to Carl.

Um, and then my mom
told me all this stuff

about how, like, he kicked
Carl off Kenny's football team.

How Carl would come
home crying about him.

How he would bully him
behind his back.

He was trying to steal Kenny
from Carl, all this stuff.

I, I couldn't take that. If you're
going to be mean to my brother,

and you're going to date me?

Nah.

That's a line.

I got some jerky, you want some?

I see that, I'm okay.

- Mm.
- You don't want any?

No, we just had breakfast
what are you talking about?

This gas station
has the best jerky.

Carl, that's so gross.

Do you know what's in that?

Whatever it is, it's good.

This place has a history.

A man named George Van Tassel
built the Integratron.

He felt that he was getting
communications from aliens.

I don't know, I mean, there's,
you know, they,

they built it over a,
a magnetic anomaly,

and that's been known to, to,
you know, draw UFOs.

I've been to this place
three times by myself.

The second time...

I started feeling like I did
when I was ten.

I could hear...
them talking to me again.

I'm not sure if...
if this place made it happen,

or if it was just
the right time, but.

They told me what I had to do.

And that's,
that's what we're doing.

And somehow it...

it all makes sense.

Carl, what are we doing here?

I've just got to go
take care of something.

- What?
- Just, just, wait up, okay?

It'll take just a second.

What's he doing?

I have no idea.

So, we're out here
at the Giant Rock,

not far from the Integratron.

So, it's been a while
since I've been out here.

But...
it's pretty much the same.

Well, I mean, uh, it's just,
it's nice to be out here.

I mean, there have been
UFO sightings out here.

I guess Howard Hughes
would come here

on the weekends sometimes,
and, uh,

they had UFO
conventions out here

because Van Tassel
wrote a few books

about his experiences with UFOS.

So, this seems like the perfect
place to, to bury this.

But I'm like, do I laugh or cry?

What is he doing?

It's his birthday,
what are you going to do, man?

- I know.
- It's his birthday.

I know.

I left word with

someone that I trust

that if anything
happens to all of us

while we're out there,
they'll come and get this, so.

All right, let's go.

What the hell was that?

It's a message,
I had to bury it.

It's got a marker over there,
you can find it.

What do you mean,
a message, Carl?

In case something happens,
you can come back and dig it up.

Are you kidding me?

That's why we drove
out to this rock?

Let's go, I'm hungry.

When are you going
to finish that windmill?

Oh, I don't know,

I had some lights
up there before,

but I took them down
because I didn't

want them to get stolen.

Who'd be crazy enough

to climb up on that thing?

I climbed it.

So, do you think
your mom liked it out here?

Uh, I mean she was definitely
reluctant at first, uh.

Wait, first I want to make
sure that toilet works

because I don't trust Carl.
One second.

What are you guys doing there?

It's a Faraday cage, it protects
the camera against EMPs.

You mean like from like a bomb?

Well, any
electromagnetic force really.

I mean, I don't know what
to expect from our visitors.

We don't want something
awesome to happen

and have nothing
but static to show for it.

Unless they zap us with
their death ray or something.

Well,
in that case it won't matter

because we'll be jelly toast.

These are going
to give us high def

footage all around the compound.

They record to SD cards,
they go forever.

Where's the remote?

Still in the box.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, that's on.

I'm going to record
a little bit to make sure

we know what we're getting.

There she is. This one's good.

- Here you go.
- Thanks.

I'm numbering all these
for each camera.

Sure.

Carl, I thought you said there
was cell coverage here.

I'm not getting anything.

You're standing in the middle
of a big metal box, Gina.

So?

You have to go outside.

Hey, yes, I'm calling about
Denise Merryweather records.

Well, I guess I'm just wondering

if, if I could get
those on Monday?

So, why don't you guys
have the cameras on now?

We don't need to,
they're not coming until Sunday.

Well, what if they come early?

They won't.

Okay, just so I can get
this straight, okay.

You're telling me
that these aliens.

Or whatever
we're going to call them,

are traveling
through space and time

across the entire universe

to get here
on your 40th birthday?

That's
what I've been saying, Gina.

Don't ask me how I know.

I just do.

Carl, you saw them 30 year ago.

I mean, right?

Yeah, that was 30 years
from our perspective.

When you calculate speed
of travel, time dilation.

- No.
- Gravity. I mean...

No, please, Carl.

It might've been
just a few weeks for them.

You know,
Einstein's theory of relativity?

Please, Carl, no boggle talk.

Einstein was probably
one of them.

Remember? Close Encounters.

Best film ever.

I cannot get across town on time

let alone the entire universe.

That's for sure.

Oh, shut up, Carl,
you know what I mean.

Shut your trap too, Marcus.

- What, I didn't say anything!
- You didn't have to.

What the hell was that laugh?

It said enough.

Dad used to call it
Gina time in high school.

Oh, no, seriously don't,
I hate that.

She'd say she's be home
at midnight on a weekend,

and he'd have to add two hours
to it every single time.

Okay, well,
sorry I had a social life, Carl.

I wasn't like you locked up
in your damn room all day.

I was busy, with my friends.

More like getting
busy with your friends.

Wow, I got to pee.

Assholes.

- Don't take too long.
- Oh, my God!

I like it out here.

You can go
for a really long time...

before you even...
see or hear a plane.

I don't know,

answers I guess.

Sometimes I wonder
how monkeys felt... you know,

the first time they saw humans.

We recognize ourselves in them.

You know, and they recognize...
themselves in us.

You can tell kind of, but.

You're really both
from two different worlds.

Morning.

Morning.

There's coffee.

So, we're getting
the perimeter set up.

These are great.

They are wireless.

Good range, low interference.

Hey, where did you say
you wanted this one?

On the far side
of the container.

Facing that way?

Yeah, hopefully...

these will all work
once we get them set up.

So, there's four zones,
north south, east and west.

Okay, Marcus,
head over to the next one.

Copy.

Okay, man, that's good, stop.

Carl, where are
the extra paper towels?

If it's not under there
you have to go the PX.

Okay, Marcus head to zone three.

- Stop.
- Where are the keys to the PX?

They are up there by the fridge
where they always are.

Okay, good, yeah, keep going.

Copy that.

I don't know.

Carl's always been
a little different.

But I've never
seen him like this.

With you guys
and all this equipment.

Who spends
200 bucks on a magnet?

There it is.

This is as close as I could
get to being on axis.

I took a bunch of compass
readings out here,

last time I was hunting.

And right about here
is where it flips over.

I'll show you.

See, see right there.
It's going wacky.

How's it doing that?

It could be a lot of things.

It's not that uncommon,

sometimes there's iron ore
in the rocks that goof it up.

I'm hoping to take advantage
of the anomaly with our magnet,

amplify it for our beacon.

Soon we'll be open for business.

I told you we've
got a full first

aid kit in the truck
and a nurse's aide right there.

We're covered.

I'm not talking about no cuts

or bruises, Carl.

What happens if they hit us

with some radiation
or something?

Oh, my God, Marcus, no.

- No
- Why would they do that?

I don't know maybe they get
pissed off real easy.

This isn't the movies Marcus,
they are not

running around with ray guns.

They are not running around

at all.

Look, I'm just saying,

if something serious happens,

what are we going to do,
way out here?

If something serious happens
we just call 911

and search and rescue
can be here in 15 minutes.

Carl, they can't.

They airlift stranded hikers

are out of these hills
all of the time!

They make you pay an arm
and a leg for that shit.

Look, if something happens,
I'll pay for it, okay?

Oh, that is a good one.

Marcus, we're fine. Seriously,

nothing is going to happen,
okay?

Hey, Carl, did you tell Kenny

that we were coming out
here for your birthday?

No.

He'd just think I was crazy.

Well, I think you're crazy.

Well, Marcus don't.

Well, Marcus is crazy too Carl.

Nothing ventured nothing gained,
Gina.

Oh, my God,
Dad's famous last words.

What's that supposed to mean?

Need I remind you of the house
boat that he built on Elm.

Don't start on that again.

Oh, well, yeah,
it was a sight to be seen.

Had about four bedrooms,
finished kitchen, working stove.

A diving board,
it had a diving board.

That diving board was nice.

Oh, yeah, it was so nice.

One tiny problem.

There was no way to get it
to the water.

It wouldn't fit on the trailer.

It wouldn't even
fit on the trailer.

And that is what happens
when you build a house boat

in the middle of the desert.

- It was very large.
- Enormous.

We turned it into a fort.

It took up the entire yard.

What's going on?

Something triggered
the alarm, right there.

- Carl, what is it?
- Probably a coyote.

It wasn't a coyote!

Come on, let's go check it out.

- Take your flashlight.
- I am.

Holy shit.

It's a goddamn owl.

Jesus.

There's another one,
there's two of them!

Will you look at that.

- Well, ain't that something.
- Carl, what is

- going on?
- Quiet, Gina.

There's a couple
of owls out here.

Seriously?

That's why you're up?

God, Carl,
you made it sound like

it was a goddamn mountain lion.

I'm trying to sleep.

These are messengers, Marcus.

What does that mean?

Owls are known
to show up to UFO events,

Mike Clelland wrote
a whole book about it.

They are supposed
to be some kind

of inter-dimensional scouts.

Marci said she saw an owl,

but the cops said
it was just coincidence.

This is no coincidence.

It's synchronicity.

They are here for a reason.

Happy birthday to me.

I'm the big 4-0.

Do you see anything?

No, then again I don't know
what I'm looking for.

Prints,
anything out of the ordinary.

If last night was
just a screen memory,

we might be able to find
some physical evidence.

It's when the mind replaces

something it can't explain
with something it can.

Like... substituting a couple
of owls for a couple of aliens.

I don't see anything, Carl.

Look for anything.
Scorch marks.

I mean,
I don't even see any owl tracks.

- Oh!
- What the hell, Gina.

- Get it out, get it out.
- -What is it?

I don't know,
it's a tarantula or something.

It's huge.

Get it out, don't kill it,

- just get it out.
- I won't kill it.

There he is.

Oh, shit.

It must have crawled in through

- the drain pipe opening.
- God, Carl!

Hey, Marcus,
go get me a bowl or something.

- Okay, I'll get it.
- That's a good one.

Got it.

Wash that out when you're done,

- wash it out.
- I will.

- Want to eat it for dinner?
- Oh, my God,

Carl, get it out!

There you go, Mr. Spider.

Go, find a girlfriend.

They are real active
this time of year.

It's mating season.

I was just about shit a brick

when I saw it in there.

Maybe it's good
you were next to a toilet.

- Oh, shut up, Marcus.
- Hey, hey.

It serves you right,
are you kidding me?

What's that?

I'm not falling for it.

No, no, no, somebody's coming.

Yeah, he's right.

I wonder who it is?

Maybe it's some
hikers or something.

I don't know.

I'm going to go tell them
they are on private property.

Well, that was some BS.

Carl, who were those guys?

They said
they were from Edwards.

Well, what did they want?

They wanted us to leave.

Off of our own property,
can you believe that?

- Well, they can't do that, Carl.
- -They said it's a precaution.

They are doing some exercises
over the next couple of days,

and they are just going
around telling everybody.

- That's not right.
- What kind of exercise,

it doesn't even make any sense.

They didn't say exactly.

They just asked us to clear off,

for our own safety.

I mean,
I guess they could be testing

some sort of chemical weapon,
but even that feels weird,

- why would they do that here?
- They are not testing anything, Gina.

- It's a part of the whole thing.
- What whole thing?

You know, the owls last night,

these government guys today.

Synchronicity,
it's all connected.

Something's going on, I know it.

Jesus, Carl,
they are a bunch of lackeys

from the base trying to get
some target practice in.

Nothings' going on!

Those were not lackeys, Gina.

One of them was SF,
I could tell.

And they are out here in a spit
clean government issue.

Way the hell out here?

He's got a point, Gina.

You don't send special
forces guys out for nothing.

All right, well then,
what do you want to do, Carl?

Huh, do you want to leave
for your birthday?

Is that what you want to do?

After all this?

Happy birthday by the way.

I don't know about you, guys,

but I am so sick of the
government jacking us around.

First,
it was mama's insurance papers,

which I'm still dealing with,
and then this shit.

It's bullshit and we don't
have to deal with it.

I just don't want
anyone to get hurt.

You weren't worried
about me getting zapped

with radiation a while ago.

Oh, come on, Marcus,
that's different.

- How is it different?
- Okay, okay, you two,

please, let's not get
into that right now.

The point is
this is our property,

and as long as we're not
doing anything illegal,

we can be out here
for as long as we want,

and last time I checked
it's not illegal

to look for aliens
on your birthday.

Am I right?

Yeah, I would be really
surprised if that was a law.

Okay, Carl...

I think you know
what dad would do.

He would tell those chumps

to shove their orders
up their asses.

- Yeah, he would.
- Yeah, he would.

Huh?

Okay, then.

We've got to lay low
if we're going to stay out here.

Marcus, can you move the cars
behind the containers,

and I'm going
to get the gas masks.

Gas masks,
what do you need those for?

Contingencies, remember?

So, what did he say?

He sounds a little spooked.

Well, there goes our sound guy.

Yeah, I guess
we can just hang on camera mics.

He's just spooked.

Hopefully,
he can find his way home.

There are things in this life

that just can't be
explained by science alone.

And if they can be it's...
it's a type of science

that we know nothing about yet.

Arthur C Clarke said...

"A sufficiently
advanced technology

is indistinguishable
from magic."

And I've always liked magic.

Okay, check this out, okay? Shh.

Get a good look.

It's like we at least need this.

But I hope that the candles
are going to stay lit.

Here we go!

Now blow out the candles!

I can't believe you made this.

Yeah, that's why I needed
the bigger cooler you dingus.

Oh, my God.

- Aw, man.
- Happy 4-0, old man.

- Thank you guys.
- Happy birthday.

Love you.

- It's cool, huh?
- Aw,

I can't believe it.

I wish Mom was here.

Yeah, yeah...

But you know what?
She probably would've been dead

if she saw that spider...

it's just as well.

You just
about died yourself, Gina.

Well, Marcus,
I was trying to take a pee,

and the thing almost
climbed up my hoo-ha,

what do you expect me to do,
it was huge!

It was probably more scared

of your hoo-ha
than you were of it!

- Oh!
- Oh, know what?

Fuck you.

That's why it was all curled up

and shaking in the corner.

You know what,
you two should really consider

doing open mic
night at Thorney's.

- And don't forget to tip your waitress.
- Mm-mm.

Reload.

I'll be back.

Are you okay, Carl?

Yeah.

I just hope this hasn't
been a big waste of time.

And money.

Hey.

You're doing
what you believe in.

You know?

Dad would have been
so proud of you.

And despite what happens.

That's all that matters.

And also...

you really got to fix
that disposal when we get back.

It's really important.

I will.

There she is.

Alright it's all powered up,

so maybe you want to hang
back a little bit,

you know you don't want
to zap your camera.

Alright.

Alright, come on,
you have got to see this.

It's completely demagnetized.

It's not doing anything, is it?

It's not doing anything.

I don't know
how that could happen.

Well, I don't know,

maybe I just got screwed
out of 200 bucks.

You order stuff
from those guys all the time.

Maybe it's defective.

I don't see how I've had it

buried for over a month,

and it worked find
when we set this up.

How does a magnet demagnetize.

Well, a few ways,
I mean rough handling for one.

But it's obvious this thing
hasn't moved since we set it up.

Heating it past
it's curie point,

but that's 580 degrees
Fahrenheit,

so that seems
out of the question.

Other than that.

An opposing magnetic field.

A very big one.

You guys!

What does she want now?

- Carl!
- We're coming!

- What's the matter.
- Didn't you guys hear that?

- No, hear what?
- That buzzing.

It was really, really loud,
Carl.

I didn't hear anything did you?

No, I didn't hear nothing.

I was literally
standing right here

and it happened
three or four times,

and I thought it was you guys,

and I went outside
and you weren't there.

And I was just, I was worried.

And then, I don't know,
I thought it could it be

like something electric,
like a light shorting.

I don't smell anything.

You guys are sure
it wasn't you two.

No, Gina, we were over
the hill by the beacon.

Well, that seems more likely.

I mean, we do get a lot
of stray signals out here.

Well, we better go out
and finish that.

Shit!

What the hell was that?

I'm going to go,
I'm going to go check it out.

- Carl, Carl!
- Carl, wait! Just hold on!

- Are you sure you...
- Carl!

Marcus, be careful!

Maybe a bird ran into it.

Or one of those owls.

Holy mother!

Guys come over here
look at this!

What is it?

It's our magnet,
or what's left of it.

It makes no sense.

What did you guys find?

What? How did it get over here.

It was propelled somehow.

It's been re-magnetized.

That's some shit, Carl.

That thing was 200 yards away.

I know, hell of a magnetic
field for this to happen.

Maybe it has something to do
with the buzzing I heard.

So much for our beacon,

no way it works now.

I don't know... maybe it already has.

Why would someone do that, Gina?

I don't know, Carl,

maybe it's the government
guys trying to scare us.

It seems likely.

That's now how they operate!

If they thought
we were still here

they'd come right up to the door

and tell us to leave.

- He's right.
- Something propelled

that thing over 200 yards.

Even Kershaw doesn't
have an arm that good.

So, what, you really
think aliens did that?

I don't know what to think,
Gina!

All I know is something
is going on around here,

and it is not human related!

That's what,
that's what I heard.

That's what I heard,
I told you guys.

I think that's...

it's happening.

My God, Carl.

Shh, shh, shh.

I'm going out there.

No, Carl, no!

Just wait, just wait!

Gina, if this is
what I think it is,

I want you guys to see it.

No, you don't even

know what you're looking...

Stop acting like Mama, Gina.

Well, then stop acting
like a goddamn child!

What do you think this is,
Gina, huh?

Do you think I'm having
fun out here, really?

What?

Going through my life
being looked at

like I'm some kind of freak.

Do you know what it's like
to be an embarrassment

to your family?

That is not true, Carl,
that is not true!

Okay, you made that up
in your head, it's not true.

I'm not embarrassed by you!

- I love you! Stay!
- Gina!

- That's not what this is about...
- Gina!

You have just got to stay here,

we're all in it together.

We have to be safe, okay?

Marcus,
keep an eye on the cameras.

Carl, what are you saying?

And turn on
the interior camera too.

- We'll go together, just stay!
- -Gina,

something is happening
and I need you here.

Carl, what,
what are you talking about?

Goddammit!

Marcus, go after him!

Grab the flashlight.

Carl, wait up!

Carl!

Carl!

What are you doing?

- What the fuck?
- What the hell was that?

Carl?

Carl!

Carl!

Carl, where are you?

Goddammit, Carl!

Carl!

Well, if he's out there,
he's not answering.

He kept telling us to stay back.

I know,
but I don't understand why.

Especially because
he asked us... to see it.

Whatever it is.

I don't understand.

My name is Carl
James Merryweather,

I am of sound mind and body.

I am making this film to record

my final days here
on this earth.

This is not a suicide note
in any way shape or form.

I am preparing
for an extraordinary occurrence

that will be happening
in a matter of a few weeks.

As many of you may already know,

I was visited
by an alien life form

on my 10th birthday while I was

camping in the desert
with my father.

It was a well-documented event.

Recently,
I have come into possession

of irrefutable knowledge
that the alien

I came into contact
with then will be returning

for a reunion with me
exactly 30 years later.

Yes, I hear you, just me.

My intention is
to record this event

to prove once and for all
that the Skyman is real.

Stay back, Marcus!

And extra-terrestrial
intelligent life

does, in fact, exist.

Stay back!

Mama, Gina, Kenny,

I love you.