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NARRATOR:
Strange lights

suddenly appearing
out of thin air.

These mysterious lights

appear to be
intelligently directed.

NARRATOR:
Supernatural apparitions

manifesting from the shadows.

MIKE RICKSECKER:
These figures

materialized through his wall,

and they smelled like sulfur.

NARRATOR:
And bizarre rituals

designed to access other realms.

In these ceremonies,

the curtains
between realities vanish.

NARRATOR:
Could there be another plane of existence

just beyond our comprehension?

One in which
parallel worlds exist

completely undetected

alongside our own?

MICHIO KAKU:
We take for granted

that we live
in a three-dimensional universe.

In fact, the quantum theory

makes higher dimensions
a distinct possibility.

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.

Pisgah National Forest.

Burke County, North Carolina.

As darkness descends
on the Brown Mountains,

strange glowing orbs
materialize on the horizon.

They hover over the range
for a few seconds at a time

and then mysteriously vanish.

JONATHAN YOUNG:
The Brown Mountain lights

have been observed
for centuries.

There are Indian accounts
as early as the 13th century.

Back in the antebellum days,

some plantation owner
was hunting there, disappeared.

Some of the people
from his plantation--

slaves, we would presume--
went looking for him,

they disappeared,
never explained.

But that night
these lights were seen.

For decades, these lights have
been talked about, studied,

and no one is sure exactly
what causes these lights.

There are many theories
about them,

but nobody really knows
for sure.

There's the very curious story

of a person named Ralph Lael,

who claimed
that he was following

the Brown Mountain light
one night...

...and that it led him

into a secret cave
full of crystals,

and a booming voice
then told him

about extraterrestrials...

...and that they have
the technology

to go from one dimension
to another,

to appear and disappear.

NARRATOR:
Extraterrestrials

appearing and disappearing?

Moving between dimensions?

While it may sound
like a fanciful story,

the Brown Mountain lights
have confounded attempts

at conventional explanation
for centuries.

And this phenomenon,
while baffling,

is not entirely unique.

All over the world,

there are these
anomalous lights.

One of the most famous is
the Marfa lights in West Texas.

There's an area
of the Mekong River

between Thailand and Laos

where lights appear
on the river every spring,

and it's a well-known phenomenon
in that area.

We have these lights, too,

that appear
in the Bay of Bengal,

and fishermen believe
that they are the lights

of dead fishermen
who are sometimes

guiding them to their deaths,

or, conversely, they're helping
them get back to shore.

These incredible occurrences
of mysterious lights

that appear
to be intelligently directed,

as if they're alive,
and people have the sense

that they're coming
from somewhere else.

Coming from other planets,
perhaps even other dimensions.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
When these lights are seen, in my opinion,

it's the result
of a technological process.

Some type of technology
is involved,

and that technology would have
to be extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR:
Could there really be an alien connection

to these seemingly
intangible orbs,

often referred to
as "ghost lights"?

Might they offer a brief glimpse
into other worlds,

possibly within other dimensions
beyond our reality?

Were they extraterrestrial,
from another planet?

Were they ultra-dimensional,
from a different dimension?

That all depends who you ask.

But the one thing
that all held in common

was, there is a greater reality
in which we exist.

NARRATOR:
In the modern world,

there is an invisible sea
of wireless data.

Radio waves, microwaves,

and various other frequencies
exist everywhere that go unseen.

And, in fact, what humans
are able to perceive

with the naked eye
is extremely limited.

The human visible spectrum

goes only from 380
to 770 nanometers.

This means that humans
are only capable

of perceiving one octave of
light of this entire spectrum.

The fact that we cannot see
the rest of the spectrum

does not mean it's not there.

NARRATOR:
Technology has enabled humankind

to become aware of much
that cannot be perceived

with the five senses.

But could there be
far more that exists

even outside the range

of humanity's most
sophisticated technology?

Perhaps even hidden dimensions
and alternate universes

that exist
right next to our own?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and point to cutting-edge
scientific research

that may have located proof

of these alternate,
unseen worlds.

Pasadena, California.

October 2015.

A team of scientists

at the California Institute
of Technology

utilizes data collected

by the powerful
Planck Satellite Telescope

to examine physical evidence
of the big bang.

To their astonishment,
they also discover evidence

of so-called "hot spots"--

places where our universe
could actually be coming

into contact with others.

MICHAEL DENNIN:
Picture two balloons being blown up

really close together,

and they happen to touch
or bounce off each other,

or even just come very close
enough to interact.

That will leave an imprint
in our universe

that will show up in this cosmic
microwave background signal.

JOHN BRANDENBURG:
This raises the question:

would we perceive

other dimensions

and other universes
with other dimensionalities?

This also raises the question

of whether life
and intelligence could exist

in these parallel universes,

and would we perceive this
as like a ghost

or a spirit, an angel?

CHILDRESS:
When we think of the Brown Mountain lights,

it's quite possible
that they are interdimensional

or even from another universe.

And it makes you wonder,

what other unseen energies
are everywhere

that we're unaware of
and can't detect?

NARRATOR:
Could the Brown Mountain lights

actually be emanating
from a parallel universe?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and they suggest
that intimate knowledge

of these inhabited worlds
can be found

in the world's
most sacred texts.

NARRATOR:
Seaford, New York.

February 1958.

In a relatively unassuming
suburban ranch home,

an unseen force begins

to terrorize
the Herrmann family.

(screaming)

Screw tops mysteriously
pop off bottles.

- Objects fly across the room.
- (whimpering)

NARRATOR:
Furniture topples over.

CHRIS BADER:
After this phenomena went on

for several weeks,
the Herrmanns became confused,

perhaps even
a little bit frightened.

They reported the phenomena
to the police department.

A couple of police detectives
came over.

YOUNG:
A psychological investigation would look

into the family dynamics.

Is there something happening

at this particular point
in their journey

that causes distress
they are not aware of

so that the physical vibrations
would affect their surroundings?

BADER:
Eventually,

the parapsychology lab
at Duke University came in

to investigate the case.

The Duke lab talked
about poltergeist phenomena

as possibly the release
of emotional energy,

particularly from adolescents
or young children

or kids going through puberty.

The idea being
that they were confused,

they didn't know what was
happening to their bodies,

they had emotional energy
and trauma.

They were operating
under the assumption

that the poltergeist phenomena
was due

to telekinetic energy
being released

by the young boy in the family.

These things were seen
by a whole group of people.

Even some of the experts
saw the phenomenon.

Can this be something
from another dimension?

It's not clear.
Is this a group hallucination?

Are they somehow channeling
the sighting to each other?

The psychic expert said
it's often an adolescent girl,

so she watched the girl to see

if somehow it was happening
when she was there,

but it didn't really pan out.

So it didn't follow
classic lines, and yet

there were lots
of witnesses, experts, and

no explanation was ever found.

Years later,
Steven Spielberg wove the tale

into a fine movie
that was a big hit--

Poltergeist.

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NARRATOR:
If this poltergeist event was not simply the result

of telekinetic energy,
as some investigators suspected,

then what can explain it?

Was the Herrmann family
really haunted by ghosts?

Or could they have encountered
an entity

from another dimension?

We know science has been able
to measure all sorts

of invisible things--
the electromagnetic field,

the heat signature
of objects and people.

So the fact that we don't see it
doesn't mean it's not there.

Any contact that we have

with an interdimensional being
is actually happening

beyond our normal
visual spectrum.

There is no question in my mind

that there is more
than one species

right here on the Earth

that is operating

within different
frequency ranges.

That's why
we don't really see them.

Most of our extraterrestrial
encounters are interdimensional.

These beings are not coming
from far away.

They are actually
within our human plane,

only existing
in another dimension.

And all we're doing

is crossing
from one dimension to another

within this earthly reality.

It doesn't mean that all
extraterrestrial encounter

is interdimensional.

In fact, I believe it's both.

NARRATOR:
Could the Herrmann poltergeist and others like it

have been caused by beings
from another dimension?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest

that such an audacious concept
is possible

and believe this could also
help explain the existence

of everything from so-called
ghosts to angels and demons.

For their proof, they point

to a particular phrase found
in multiple religious texts--

a phrase in the Hebrew Talmud,
as well as the Koran,

which details the existence

of seven levels
of heaven and earth.

TZADOK:
What are the seven levels of heaven?

Some associate them
with the different planets

of our solar system.

But others refer to them

as being parallel dimensions.

So, when we speak
of the other worlds,

which people
have interacted with

throughout the centuries,

maybe we're not really dealing
with extraterrestrials

from outer space

but ultra-terrestrials coming
from parallel space.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that what are commonly understood

to be ghosts are not spirits
of the deceased

but entities
from other dimensions

that, while able
to manipulate things

in our world, cannot be
fully perceived by humans?

Jabal al-Nour.

Six miles north
of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

602 AD.

While in deep meditation
within the Hira Cave,

the Prophet Muhammad is visited
by an otherworldly messenger--

the Archangel Gabriel.

HENRY:
Muhammad was meditating in a cave when suddenly,

as if out of nowhere,

the Archangel Gabriel
manifested.

In the Koran,
they describe Gabriel

as standing on
or between horizons.

This is a tip-off
that we're dealing

with an interdimensional being.

'Cause in ancient texts,
it means

that they had the ability
to phase

in between dimensions,
to take on a physical form,

and then to revert back
to their light body form.

NARRATOR:
According to the Islamic tradition,

Gabriel provided Muhammad
revelations direct from Allah.

These teachings
would inform the Koran

and become the basis
for the Muslim faith--

the second largest religion
in the world.

Might it really be

that the messenger Gabriel was
an interdimensional being

from an unseen realm
here to assist humankind?

CHILDRESS:
Here we have

an angel who's basically acting
like an extraterrestrial,

who even has
some kind of aircraft

that he's flying Muhammad
around in.

When we think of space travel

and encounters
with extraterrestrials,

it's quite possible

that they are using
some interdimensional way

of traveling,
but it doesn't mean

that they are necessarily
interdimensional

or even from another universe,

but they have the technology

to go from one dimension
to another,

to appear and disappear,

and it all has to do
with technology.

NARRATOR:
Could it really be

that religious prophets
have gained access

to parallel dimensions
beyond our known reality?

Dimensions from which they

and other advanced beings
might access our world

via interdimensional highways
that allow them

to move without any space
or time restrictions?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and suggest
further evidence can be found

by examining modern accounts

detailing unsettling encounters
with the so-called

"shadow people."

NARRATOR:
Vientiane, Laos.

December 2, 1975.

In the wake of the Vietnam War,

the Hmong people--
a group of Indigenous Laotians--

are forced to flee their country

as the Communist Party seizes
political control.

Thousands of displaced
Hmong people immigrate

to the United States.

But as they become settled
in their new communities,

they face an unexpected
and much more mysterious threat.

CHILDRESS:
There was

a very strange rash
of deaths of Hmong men,

who suddenly died
in their sleep.

And medical technicians
could find no reason

for these strange deaths.

If you look at the statistics,

suddenly, when the Hmong people
arrived in the United States,

their death rates skied.

Why? Nobody knows why,

because they didn't have
any symptoms. They just died.

NARRATOR:
After numerous inconclusive autopsies,

mystified doctors were unable
to find a cause of death,

but gave the phenomenon a name--

Sudden Unexpected
Nocturnal Death Syndrome.

All but one of the 117 men
who died were in good health,

with a median age of 33.

So, while
some doctors now speculate

that the deaths
might be explained

by an obscure
genetic cardiac arrhythmia,

the Hmong believe
there is another explanation.

Modern medical science
could not explain these deaths.

But among the Hmong,
they knew it was because

they couldn't practice
their original religion.

In Laos, there is a belief

that there are night spirits
that are dangerous,

but if you have done
your rituals,

your prayers, your ceremonies,

and have your ceremonial objects
near your bed, you're fine.

It's all under control
when you're in Laos.

But when you're brought
to another country

and you're working odd shifts
and things,

maybe your rituals get
a little off.

So you're in trouble,

and the night spirits get you,
and you die,

which is just so strange.

I mean, these are night spirits.

That's superstition,
but they died.

The deaths are real.

NARRATOR:
These shadowy night spirits are known

by the Hmong people
as Chochua,

and are often described
as "pressure demons--"

that is, demons
that exert pressure

by sitting
on their victims' chests

until they can
no longer breathe.

The Hmong people talked
about some of the symptoms

they experienced--

not just nightmares but visions

and a terrible pressure
on their bodies

because their ancestral spirits
were no longer protecting them.

CHILDRESS:
The Hmong themselves

explained it
as these shadow entities

were killing and punishing them

for not having done
their rituals correctly.

HENRY:
The reason why we know

that they believed
they were dying from this is

because medical experts,
researchers talked

with the family members,
and that's what they said.

NARRATOR:
The Hmong people's description

of their interaction
with the pressure demons

known as Chochua
bears a striking resemblance

to what ancient
astronaut theorists describe

as mysterious entities
called shadow people.

An extraordinary experience
has been reported

by thousands
of people worldwide.

They're asleep, suddenly

they wake up,
and there's this dark,

humanoid figure that's opaque.

It appears to be made
of some ethereal substance

that reflects no light.

RICKSECKER:
Shadow entities can be a lot

of different things.

But in general what we see

with these shadow entities
are some common traits,

such as no facial features--

everything is black
and dark in nature.

Some may be very solid,

some may be very translucent,

but we're not
getting any detail.

NARRATOR:
Due to their shadowy nature,

experiencers
have difficulty making sense

of just what these entities are.

But for most,

the encounters
are terrifyingly real.

Los Angeles, California.

February 2011.

On a quiet night,

journalist Paul Christensen
is asleep in bed

when, suddenly,
he's jolted awake

by a jarring physical sensation.

It was like being chained
to the bottom of the ocean.

You can't move,

you can't breathe.

You open your eyes,

and there is a presence
in the room with you.

You can't make out
who it is, what it is.

It looks like

just a dark entity.

The air behind them--

I don't know how
to describe this--

it's kind of fuzzy.

It's kind of moving.

And then I was just trying
to make something move

or come out of me,
and it ended in

just the most
bloodcurdling scream

that I could
get out of my mouth.

(screams)

And as soon as I screamed,

my girlfriend that was
laying next to me woke up,

and I turned the light on...

...and it was gone.

NARRATOR:
Paul is uncertain how long the encounter lasted,

but it was only
the first of several

that would take place
over the next five years.

Each left him
paralyzed with fear.

CHRISTENSEN:
At the time these were happening,

I was frightened for my life.

Part of me feels like

there's some kind of
demonic presence around them.

I've never felt that they were
there for good intentions.

It's always come with
a heavy feeling of darkness.

That they were there for

something other than
anything good.

NARRATOR:
While Paul's encounters with shadowy beings

have left him frightened
and desperate for answers,

his experience is not unique.

In 2001, author Heidi Hollis
released The Secret War,

in which she shared
her own startling experiences

with entities
she called "shadow people."

HEIDI HOLLIS:
I don't even know how to describe that level of fear

because it was
absolutely hulking over me.

And this started
my whole journey into

the topic of shadow people.

I'm a person that's
not afraid to say

I've experienced something.

I'm like, "Bring it out
into the light,

and let's talk about it."

From the start, when I finally
got the book published in 2001,

thousands of people
from around the world,

from priests to schoolteachers,

have written me, seeking help.

So my goal is to try to
help people to understand

that you can keep
these things at bay.

NARRATOR:
According to Heidi's research

collecting and studying
people's encounters,

these dark entities
can appear as

various shapes and figures.

The experiences that I receive

often involve a person

waking up,

and they feel a presence
is in the room.

And if they spot it,

the thing comes even closer

and pins them down,

and they're paralyzed.

They often come at nighttime
because your guard is down,

so they're taking
advantage of you

when you're not at your best.

So they're sneaky,
they're deceptive,

and they evoke
a lot of horrific things

into people's lives.

NARRATOR:
The dark, humanoid appearance of shadow beings

has caused some to identify
them as apparitions or ghosts.

But many researchers
believe the shadow people

are a much different
type of entity.

A ghost is a human spirit

that is taking
some sort of corporeal form.

With a ghost, we get a lot
of detail in the apparition.

We can see facial features.
We can see clothing.

We can see details in the hair.

Where with shadow entities,
we get almost nothing.

NARRATOR:
While many psychologists

continue to dismiss
the phenomenon

as a symptom of sleep paralysis,

researchers point out

that people have
reported encounters

that happened
when they were wide awake.

In my own personal experience
with the shadow people,

I was getting ready
to go to sleep,

sitting up in bed,
and all of a sudden

this black humanoid figure
enters into the room,

walks across the room.

I follow it and watch it,
and it just vanishes.

I didn't experience any fear.

I was totally perplexed
by what I've seen

and thought,
"Wow, what was that?"

HOLLIS:
Believe it or not,

the first shadow people
experience that I had

was witnessing it following
another friend of mine

in broad daylight.

And I saw this entity,

this big, hulking black mass--

it kind of looks like a man

with its head directly
connected to its shoulders--

going tree to tree

and bush to bush
as we're walking along.

And I was just beside myself.

The whole way that we go,
we see this thing.

I really thought, you know,

I just witnessed
one crazy thing,

and that was it.

I trust myself and I know
what it is I experienced,

and I know what was going on.

NARRATOR:
If the so-called shadow people are not merely

a trick of the mind
but very real

and possibly dangerous entities,

what exactly are they?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

similar accounts
that were recorded

thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR:
Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma.

This nearly
seven million-acre territory

is home to Native people

who have occupied North America

for more than 4,000 years.

The Choctaw continue to carry on
the centuries-old traditions

of their ancestors to this day.

And one story
that continues to loom large

is that of the Nalusa Chito,

which the Choctaw
describe as a shadow being.

This Nalusa Chito is

a demonic entity.

And the Choctaw believe that
if you're having bad thoughts,

that this will attract
the Nalusa Chito to you.

YOUNG:
The Nalusa Chito would get you

by creeping inside you
and eating your soul.

The Choctaw were so
afraid of this creature,

they would not say the name.

And many people would move along

and abandon huts and things
because of the fear

of this shadow figure.

BIRNES:
We see the shadow people in the stories

of other Native American people.

On Native American reservations,

particularly the Jicarilla
Apache reservation

in Dulce, New Mexico,

they talk about
the shadow people

as if they are
their regular companions.

The legend is this:
if a shadow person,

who's really a spirit, sees you

and that shadow people
attaches itself to you,

it will be with you
for the rest of your life.

NARRATOR:
The traditions of these Native American tribes

originated centuries ago.

And as ancient astronaut
theorists point out,

accounts of shadowy entities

can be found in the legends

of ancient cultures
all around the world.

While there are stories of
shadow people in modern times,

what I find interesting is,

there are also references to

what seem to be shadow people
in ancient texts,

and, frankly, they're
very strange accounts.

Shadow beings go far back
into antiquity,

all the way back to
the time of ancient Sumer,

where in that culture,
you see accounts of Al�,

which is a type of udug,

which in their culture
was a type of demon.

Now, Al�, in the way
that he would appear to people,

it was very much like
our shadow entities of today,

where he was
very dark in nature.

He had no facial features,
no eyes, no nose, no mouth,

and he would hover over
people at night.

YOUNG:
Of course, there are many accounts

of demons in the scriptures,

the Christian Bible
and the Talmud.

In Jewish lore, there is
the shadow of death

or the death shadow.

There is this idea
that there are

malevolent spirits
that could harm you.

NARRATOR:
Commonly compared with the shadow people

is an entity known
in Islam as the jinn,

supernatural creatures
that are often invisible

and have the ability
to shapeshift.

The derivation of "jinn"

comes from an Arabic, uh, root,

J-N-N, which literally
means to hide or to conceal.

The jinn are
created of smokeless fire.

Our English word "genie,"
you know, the mythical spirit

that lives inside of a lamp,
comes from the word "jinn."

RICKSECKER:
The jinn are considered more trickster in nature.

They have some
interesting abilities,

such as they can
instantly transport

from one place to another.

They also seem to appear
very dark and shadowy in nature.

They were these big
looming type of characters

when they enter the room.

As a Muslim, you know,
I believe the jinn to be real.

Jinn can be angelic.
They can be demonic.

And so this idea is that

you have to be careful with them

because they are
these powerful figures.

They are these
literally supernatural figures.

And so, across the Muslim world,
in the present day,

particularly in places
like North Africa,

you may wear an amulet,

you may have things
to ward off the jinn.

You may have, you know,
certain things that you do

to protect you from the jinn

because the idea is
that the jinn,

when they're in their
demonic capacity,

will do things
that can be harmful

or tormenting to human beings.

What I find fascinating
is that you have

a myriad of cultures
from all over the world

that have very,
very similar beliefs

about these shadow entities.

Now, they may
call it something different,

but you see in Turkey,
the karabasan,

the dark presser,
as a very, very similar entity

as to the kana tevoro in Fiji,

as to the pisadeira in Brazil.

They're all talking
about the same type of being,

the same type of entity,

and it calls into question,

how are these beings
visiting all of these

different cultures
from all over the world

since they did not have
any contact with each other?

GEORGE NOORY:
Historically, since the beginning of time,

we have had creature stories
of strange beings,

of shadows, of the bogeyman,

and they somehow echo
some of the reports

that we're hearing today.
They're somewhat similar.

I don't think
they've ever gone away.

They're still here
on the planet.

NARRATOR:
Have separate cultures around the world,

and throughout history,

been haunted by
the same dark figures?

And if so, just what kind
of entities are they?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining eyewitness
accounts of strange energy

when face-to-face
with shadow people.

NARRATOR:
Virginia City, Nevada.

October 28, 2016.

Researcher Michelle LeBaron
and a group of colleagues

are investigating reports
of a shadowlike entity

at a historic saloon
called the Washoe Club.

RICKSECKER:
She and another woman

ventured into
one particular room,

and between her and her friend,

this large shadow loomed up.

She described it as about
six-five, six-six in height.

But, again, very, very
dark in nature,

so there was no detail.

At one point, she thought

it had completely
engulfed her friend,

and they ended up screaming
and running out of the room.

Now, this woman,
a few minutes later,

after they collected themselves,

walked back over to the hall,

and there stood again
this very tall, dark shadow,

but it started doing
something very unusual.

There was this pulsating energy

that was emanating forth
from it,

like a whoop-whoop-whoop.

And she could hear it
as well as feel it.

In many cases,
people feel a certain energy

projecting out
from these beings.

And in this
particular woman's case,

it was this
pulsating-type energy.

With other people,
it may be more constant.

So people are experiencing
different types of energy

from these beings,
but with each of them,

energy nonetheless.

JASON OFFUTT:
I have interviewed people

who have encountered
shadow beings,

and they've heard what sounded
like electricity buzzing.

Uh, and-and the sound
would disappear when

the shadow people left the room.

RICKSECKER:
There was another woman I interviewed

who saw a flash of light
out in her hallway.

And all of a sudden this
shadow man ran into her room,

jumped on top of her

and pressed her down
into the bed.

And the shadow man
jumped back off,

ran back out into the hallway

and she saw another
flash of light.

The next morning,
when she woke up,

she noticed that all the
electronics in that room

had been absolutely fried.

And she had to call
the fire department

for them to come
and inspect everything.

NARRATOR:
In addition to hearing and feeling surges of energy,

witnesses often report

another curious detail
about the shadow people,

the appearance of glowing eyes.

HENRY:
A lot of the shadow people

have no facial features
whatsoever,

just blackness,

but some do have glowing eyes,

and in particular it's the one

with the red glowing eyes

that appear to be
the most malevolent.

OFFUTT:
When it comes to shadow beings with eyes,

especially blazing red eyes,

people also experience

a fear that is deeper

than just,
"There's an entity in my room."

And they feel that
these entities

are-are up to nefarious means.

NARRATOR:
So many reports of shadow encounters

are associated with
pulsating energy,

glowing eyes and
electronic disturbances

that researchers wonder
if some shadow entities

might actually be
misunderstood technology.

HENRY:
It's often discussed that powerful alien technology

can influence human
electronics and technology.

This is definitely
something that is reported

with the shadow people
experiences.

RICKSECKER:
There's also an interesting idea in which

these extraterrestrials
may be using some sort

of cloaking device

to hide themselves
from our view.

But since they may not
quite understand

the physiology of our eyes,

it comes off
more of like a shadow.

So, what we may be seeing

is an imperfect type
of alien technology.

OFFUTT:
I've interviewed two different people

who have described to me
what sounds like

it could be some sort
of cloaking technology.

One person in particular
said that he saw

a cloak open and
saw beyond the disguise.

And what he saw, he said,

was reptilian scales.

Uh, I spoke with someone else

who saw something similar

but described the skin
as more, like, slick.

Like-like a frog's but gray.

TSOUKALOS:
Could it be that we're not talking about shadow people

but some type of a technology

that appeared like a shadow,
and it may be, you know,

some time
a technology didn't work?

It would reveal that person
underneath the cloak

or underneath the device.

And so they will be seen

for maybe a fraction
of a second.

NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,

the notion that
the shadow people

might be some form of
misunderstood technology

is an intriguing possibility,

but what many consider
an absolute certainty

is their connection
to extraterrestrials.

As evidence,
they point to the many accounts

linking the shadow people
phenomenon and alien abduction.

There are a lot
of common denominators

with people who experience
shadow figures

and those who are abducted.

You wake up
in the middle of the night.

You are taken by surprise.
You are paralyzed.

You cannot move.
You cannot speak.

You are helpless.

You feel that this entity
has taken over you.

It is projecting
some sort of energy

that you cannot control.

In my professional,
uh, experience

as an investigative reporter,

talking with maybe
about 3,000 people

in the abduction syndrome
over about four decades,

one of the common experiences

that you will hear
from abductees

is that they feel paralyzed
in the presence of

something in their room,
usually an entity.

A few call them "shadow people."

In March of 1991, in my mail,

I received an envelope
that contained

illustrations
and an audiocassette

and a letter from a woman

who lived in
Porterville, California.

And part of the story
was her encounter

with shadow people,

and I would like
to read a little bit

about what she wrote.

"I was in bed asleep
when something woke me up.

"The room was filled, this time,

"with an orange glow,

"and at the center of the room
was a hole out of which

"two well-formed,
seemingly three-dimensional,

"solid shadow people
were stepping.

"The two shadow men grabbed me
and pulled me toward the hole.

"That is the last I remember,

"and later I realized
that the little guy,

"the gray guy
that I call the Creep,

"was standing off to the right,

"watching my reaction
to the whole thing.

He also seemed to be in charge
of what was happening."

NARRATOR:
Could the accounts of alleged alien abductees

reveal that reports
of shadow people are,

in fact,
extraterrestrial encounters?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining a shadowy being

often encountered
by UFO witnesses:

an entity known as the Hat Man.

NARRATOR:
Shadow people witnesses

often describe
the entities they encounter

as appearing vaguely humanoid

with no discernible features,

but in some accounts

they take a curiously
recognizable form.

RICKSECKER:
One of the most mysterious types of shadow entities

is what people refer
to as the Hat Man.

This type of entity

may be wearing
a fedora-type hat with

an accompanying trench coat.

It may be a top hat
with or without the cape.

But we don't see a lot
of detail with the Hat Man.

We see that vague outline.

OFFUTT:
The Hat Man appears just like any other shadow being.

There's no definition.

You-you can't see,
uh, a nose, a chin,

uh, the eyes.

You see the outline of a fedora.

RICKSECKER:
Many times people report these hat-wearing entities

coming into their bedrooms
at night, sometimes flanked by

two humanoid type
of shadow entities.

And they strike fear into
the person there, lying in bed,

and, like an energy vampire,
feed off of that fear.

HOLLIS:
There's confusion out there between different entities.

Something I once
called Hat Man shadow.

He is not a shadow person.

He can take on
different forms, yes,

as far as being able
to blend into a shadow.

But he could step out
and he could be very solid.

So he's a very
different type of entity.

But people think
he directs the shadow people.

So, shadow people
are essentially minions

to Hat Man.

NARRATOR:
Could reports of the so-called Hat Man

shed new light on
the shadow people phenomenon?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

one of the very
first reported encounters

with these dark entities.

Bridgeport, Connecticut.

1953.

Albert K. Bender,

the nation's top
UFO investigator,

receives a threatening visit

that will bring his research
to an abrupt and premature halt.

RICKSECKER:
Albert K. Bender founded

the International
Flying Saucer Bureau.

This was
during the big UFO flap of 1952

when flying saucers were
witnessed over Washington, D.C.

and many other areas
around the world.

And this organization blew up
big within that first year.

However, just a year later,

he suddenly ended

the International
Flying Saucer Bureau,

and people wondered why.

And what happened was
that he came home one night,

went into his bedroom,
and suddenly

these three dark,
shadowy figures materialized

through his wall,
into his bedroom.

They were wearing the hats
and the overcoats.

They had glowing eyes
and they smelled like sulfur.

NARRATOR:
According to Bender,

the three entities communicated
with him through telepathy,

warning him
to discontinue his UFO research

and stop publishing
his influential magazine,

the Space Review.

Afterwards, he became ill
and didn't eat for three days.

HENRY:
After this experience,

Bender was repeatedly visited,
he said.

They gave him headaches, they
controlled him telepathically,

and he ultimately gave up
his UFO researches

and stopped publishing
the Space Review,

in which
he documented UFO sightings

throughout the world.

He told the people
that had been subscribers

and he was working with,

"They told me, 'We come

"'from a very, very far
distant place in this universe.

"'And we have been
coming and going

"'from your planet
for some time.

"'And we cannot allow you
or anyone to interfere.

"'And, in fact,
we have taken many humans

"'from this planet

to cover up our operations
until we are done.'"

RICKSECKER:
This is a very influential point in our history,

especially
in the ufology community,

in which
shadow entities interfered

and thwarted
somebody's research,

and possibly set the field
back a number of years.

NARRATOR:
The visitors Albert Bender encountered

match descriptions of what
is today known as the Hat Man,

but he called them
by another name--

the Men in Black.

While the Men in Black
are often portrayed

in pop culture
as government agents,

many who claim
to have encountered them believe

they are something
other than human.

HENRY:
The Men in Black are

mysterious
and nefarious entities.

They're shadowy,
they wear black clothing.

Many people believe

that they're either
extraterrestrials or somehow

they're working
for extraterrestrials

to prevent humans
from learning the truth

about extraterrestrials
on Earth.

OFFUTT:
They talk to UFO witnesses.

Some people have reported,

they seem to not know things
that are common,

like, you know,
which end of a pen to use,

or, uh, if they're offered
something to eat or drink,

they don't know how
to eat or drink it.

HENRY:
Both the Hat Man

and the Men in Black are known
for wearing a hat.

They both influence people
telepathically,

they both appear
to be sometimes malevolent,

and they could, in fact,
be the same type of a being.

There's a theory
that the Hat Man

and the Men in Black are
actually the ringleaders

of the shadow people and that,

in fact,
they direct the shadow people

to influence humans,
in particular

to keep them from investigating
UFO experiences.

NOORY:
There's no question

that the stories
of shadow people,

Men in Black,
and other visitations

are all mixed in together.

Are they the same? Possibly.

But what I think what is really
happening on this planet is,

mass hysteria of real events

that are happening
to real people.

And they can't understand
what's going on.

Who knows what's happening?

NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,

the wide variety of reported
shadow people encounters

makes finding an explanation
for the phenomenon

all the more difficult.

But some researchers suggest

that we may come closer
to the answer

by asking the question
"Where do they come from?"

NARRATOR:
One of the most common

and most curious
observations reported

by shadow people experiencers

is that these entities are able

to make physical contact
with them

but then often disappear

as though
they are merely holograms.

OFFUTT:
Generally, the shadow people will leave the room.

Either they will dissolve
in a puff of smoke,

or they will walk
through a door,

and they may
or may not be material,

have mass, have structural form.

And there's been talk about,

maybe they come
from some other dimension.

We take for granted that we live
in a three-dimensional universe.

The quantum theory makes
higher dimensions possible.

Think of fish living in a pond,
for example.

The pond is two-dimensional,

the fish are stuck
in a two-dimensional world.

They cannot visualize
a third dimension,

but you could lift one
of these fishes

into the third dimension,
and they'd be shocked,

shocked to realize
there's a whole universe

in the third dimension
beyond their pond.

Well, we physicists,
some of us believe

that we are the fish.

We spend all our life
in a three-dimensional pond

thinking
that that's all there is,

when right above us,

there could be
higher dimensions,

hyperspatial dimensions
up to 11.

RICKSECKER:
Theoretically, we have up to 11 dimensions.

There may be other entities
and other life-forms

living within these dimensions.

Now, how would they look to us

if they crossed
over those dimensions

and entered into our world?

Well, maybe
a shadow entity is one

of these interdimensional beings
that has crossed over

from some other place
in space-time into our world,

and we're seeing them
as a shadow

because their energy
and their personal resonance

doesn't quite adhere
to the energy

and the resonance of our planet.

NOORY:
If shadow people exist, and it's very possible

that they do,
I think they're coming

from other dimensions
within our universe.

I think there are entities
that somehow leak through

because some of them
even look disoriented,

like they-they don't know
where they are.

Somehow they're coming through
another dimension into ours,

and we're stuck with them.

NARRATOR:
Could it be

that shadow people experiencers
are witnessing entities

that are capable of traveling
between dimensions?

According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

there is evidence

that certain places on Earth act

as interdimensional portals.

RICKSECKER:
We see shadow entities

in these certain locations
around the world,

in which they seem
to appear more often.

There are locations
around our planet

where there's more
of that earth energy

that is rising
out of the ground.

You know, Stonehenge,
the pyramids, Carnac,

places with that ancient energy
that's rising from the ground.

Now, an interdimensional being
may be using those locations

to enter into our domain.

NARRATOR:
Some researchers believe

it is also possible
that shadow people

can alter the human mind
to see into other dimensions.

BIRNES:
Ancient peoples believe

that shadow people
have the ability

to enter a person's mind

and change
that person's perception

so the person
can see the spirit.

They've entered
from their world into our world.

NARRATOR:
According to ancient astronaut theorists,

the notion that the human mind
can be altered

to access other dimensions

is supported by experiments

with a powerful hallucinogen
called dimethyltryptamine,

or DMT.

Between 1990 and 1995,

scientists at the University
of New Mexico administered DMT

to 60 volunteers
and were surprised to find

that many of them had
very similar visions,

including encounters
with strange beings.

Experiments with electric
stimulation of the brain

have also caused people

to have
unexplainable encounters.

OFFUTT:
There was a study

done, uh, in-in Sweden,

where these scientists
put electric charges

in certain parts of the brain,

just to see how
the subject would react to them.

And a young undergrad was
sitting there with a notebook.

And when
they increased the voltage

to a certain part of her brain,

she starting pulling away

from something
that wasn't there.

And afterwards, uh,
when she was asked

by the scientist
to describe what was going on,

she said that she saw
a shadow entity behind her.

And when the voltage was
at its highest,

she said it was trying
to take the notebook

and pen out of her hands,
and she was jerking

to keep it from removing them.

So, is it some part of our brain
that needs an electrical charge

to help us see
what's already there?

Very possibly.

NARRATOR:
Are shadow people witnesses

encountering entities
from other dimensions?

Some ancient
astronaut theorists suggest

there is an even more
profound explanation--

that just outside the range
of human perception,

Earth is inhabited
by a great multitude

of otherworldly beings.

The dark, hulking figure
that comes in the night

and paralyzes its prey
remains the most common

shadow people experience.

But reports of these entities
appearing in broad daylight,

as well as other types
of shadow people accounts,

make it difficult
for investigators

to pin down exactly
what this phenomenon is.

When it comes to the different
types of shadow entities,

their behavior, to me,

differentiates one
from the other.

The ones that don't pay
any attention to people at all--

they could be interdimensional.

The ones that are spying on us
could be extraterrestrial.

The ones that instill fear
could be demonic entities.

So, even though
they look the same generally,

I-I don't think
a lot of them are.

HENRY:
The multifactorial explanation

makes a lot of sense.

It could explain why
some of them instill fear,

and some of them don't,

why some of them appear
during daytime,

and some of them only appear
at nighttime.

The fact is, we just don't know
enough about the shadow people,

and a lot more research needs
to be done.

NARRATOR:
While answers remain elusive,

one popular new theory is

that the shadow people exist
outside the limits

of human perception,

not occupying
an alternate dimension

but vibrating at a frequency

we are not normally able
to perceive.

TSOUKALOS:
It's a scientific fact

that the human eye
can only see certain things.

For example, we cannot see
the infrared light spectrum.

So you have to wonder
if shadow people operate

in a spectrum

that we humans
simply cannot see.

And perhaps
there are certain people

whose brains operate
in a different way,

and they're able to process

more of the reality
that we currently experience.

CORY:
There are other spectrums that continue

on past our physical brain
and our physical self.

And so, why is it so difficult

to imagine that these entities
could be existing?

That these entities exist
in these other spectrum

and tap into our spectrum
at will and upon command?

NARRATOR:
If unseen entities can effortlessly cross

into our reality,

is it possible for us

to similarly journey
into theirs?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and suggest
further evidence can be found

by examining
a shamanistic practice

in Australia that dates back

thousands of years-- dreamtime.

NARRATOR:
The Australian Outback.

Located hundreds of miles

from the bustle
of the major city centers

of Sydney and Melbourne,

this sparsely populated region
of the continent

is home
to an Indigenous population

that can trace their roots
back over 40,000 years.

Through ceremonial trances,
elders claim to be able

to freely access a realm

where they connect
with ancestral beings.

They refer
to this alternate reality

as the dreaming, or dreamtime.

YOUNG:
The task of the traveler, the dreamer,

is to connect the two worlds,

is to bring the reality
of the dream,

which they consider superior

to the reality
of what we call waking life,

to bring that over

because it is full
of guidance and treasures.

Dreamtime allows

the Indigenous people
of Australia

to travel back in time,
or at least visit

with ancestors
very far back in time,

they say back
to their original ancestors.

NARRATOR:
The aboriginal artwork depicts these ancestors

with oblong heads
and large eyes--

an appearance

that ancient astronaut theorists
find eerily similar

to modern-day accounts
of Grey aliens.

But Australia's dreamtime
is not an isolated anomaly.

In fact, shamans and holy men

in numerous other world cultures

speak of alternate realms.

Throughout Asia,

Hindus and Buddhists believe
in the existence

of infinite universes.

The Yoruba
of West Africa believe

another realm exists
above the physical realm.

In the Kabbalah, it is taught

that there are 125 levels
between humans and the Creator.

And even in North America,

many Native tribes
perform ceremonies

that connect them
with unseen entities.

But if spiritual leaders
really are able

to see into other dimensions,

is it possible
that there may be a way

for all humans
to obtain such vision?

The Upper Amazon region
of South America.

For hundreds of years,

medicine men here have utilized
a plant-based drug

called ayahuasca for healing

and to access
otherworldly realms.

YOUNG:
In these ceremonies

and altered states
that are conjured up

in the Amazon and other places,

there is information
that seems to be of great value.

Ayahuasca makes the curtains
between realities vanish.

Such journeys are central to
shamanistic initiatory rituals.

Whether they are breaking
through to parallel realities

or exploring
the hidden dimensions

of their own inner worlds,

these experiences
are dramatically significant

in the lives of the travelers.

HENRY:
One of the great revelations

of the ayahuasca experience
is that

they experience
ancient ancestors

as well
as extraterrestrial beings,

suggesting that,
in fact, the ancestors

and the extraterrestrials
are the same beings.

NARRATOR:
The ayahuasca brew is made from two ingredients--

a root from one specific plant

and a leaf from
an entirely different species.

The active ingredient

in the prepared concoction
is dimethyltryptamine, or DMT.

This powerful
psychedelic chemical is found

in small quantities
within the human body.

The substance is believed
to be released

into the human endocrine system

and floods the pineal gland
upon death

and during
near-death experiences.

While mainstream scientists
consider the action

of the ayahuasca
to be purely hallucinogenic,

some modern researchers believe

the substance can open doorways
to new realities.

McQUEEN:
DMT seems to be able

to alter our brain wiring

in a way
that allows us to perceive

in more than four dimensions.

Dimethyltryptamine might be
the mechanism

to allow our perception

of these other
alternate realities.

It's like the key to a receiver.

You pop the key
into the receiver,

and it activates
not just a part of the brain,

it literally reorients all
of the receivers in the brain

to pick up more information.

NARRATOR:
The question of just how ancient healers

stumbled across
this particular combination

in a jungle containing
tens of thousands

of plant and vine species
remains a mystery.

CHILDRESS:
What we're looking at here

are incredible,
remarkable plants

that are using receptors
in our brains

to help us have
these otherworldly experiences,

contact otherworldly beings.

So, who has created
this incredible

biological catalyst

for humans to use?

You have to wonder

if extraterrestrials themselves
didn't have a hand in this.

NARRATOR:
Could it really be

that our ancient ancestors

were given the key
to access hidden worlds

by extraterrestrial beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and suggest
that modern-day research

may be rediscovering
the potential

of these psychedelic substances.

Psychologists

at the Center
for Medicinal Mindfulness

explore the therapeutic benefits
of psychedelic agents

in cases of trauma,

depression and addiction.

Along with psychedelic cannabis,

researchers explore the effects
of DMT on the human mind.

Curiously,
experiencers often claim

to not only be able
to see alternate realities

but also
to have two-way communication

with inhabitants
of these hidden worlds.

Some people have experiences
of angelic beings,

some people have
what would be considered

classical
alien abduction experiences,

where they feel like
they're being pulled into space,

either operated on,
healed in some way,

and then some are experiencing

a hyper-technological
civilization

that has somehow evolved
beyond four-dimensional spaces,

and that they're helping us
wake up

to that capacity in ourselves.

NARRATOR:
Many who use these drugs

believe they connect them
to an even greater reality,

allowing them
to channel communication

from unseen realms
that exist all around us.

But is it possible

that some people are able

to access other dimensions
without the aid

of psychedelic agents
or spiritual ceremonies?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes and, as evidence,

point to modern-day seers
who claim to be able

to observe events
that are happening

in another place and time.

Professional remote viewer
John Vivanco claims

to have the ability

to access unseen realms

through psychic,
out-of-body experiences.

VIVANCO:
I worked with corporations, uh,

as a professional remote viewer
on these projects.

Corporations, intelligence,
uh, counterterror

for the FBI after 9/11.

Remote viewing fits into ESP.

But remote viewing
is also kind of like the, uh,

Swiss Army knife
of psychic functioning,

because it kind of uses all of
these different aspects of ESP

in order to get information
on things.

NARRATOR:
A key part of remote viewing involves entering

a trancelike state,

which John does
by listening to specific sounds.

We have brain waves.

And in the thinking,
monkey-mind state

that we're-we're normally in,

that is beta.

If you think about an EEG,

there's very high peaks
and valleys--

da-da-da-da-da-da-da--
moving fast.

That's not a very good place
to remote-view from.

So when we listen
to the binaural beats,

they move us down into alpha,

which is a little bit slower
and meditative,

and also down into theta.

And we-we like to stay
in the alpha to the theta zone,

using that tool in order to get
the best information.

(birds chirping)

CORY:
During a trance state,

the brain begins to relax,

going down from beta to theta
to alpha state,

which is between four
and eight hertz.

Prophets and seers tap into
the theta layer of reality,

where they are
extremely relaxed,

which allows them
to receive visions and imagery

beyond the normal
human perception.

NARRATOR:
While working as a remote viewer,

Vivanco claims to have gathered
more than just information.

He has also encountered
otherworldly beings.

I'm at home, and...

I'm having this crazy dream.

So, I open my eyes,

I sit up,
and there's this thing...

...I'd say, like,
six feet away from me.

It's got a head shaped
like a-a football on its side,

two eyes.

It's got
these sort of spindly legs.

So I start backing up
and I'm starting to go,

"Whoa, whoa, whoa."

And it telepathically
communicated with me.

And they said, "We are here

to help you,
and we want you to help us."

NARRATOR:
John was not the only remote viewer on his team

to have such an experience.

VIVANCO:
Now, the other viewers started to experience the same thing.

And so that's
when we started to, "Okay,

now, you know,
I'm not hallucinating."

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that remote viewers such as John Vivanco

possess the capability
to access other realms,

realms inhabited
by otherworldly entities?

Might this ability offer insight

into mysterious
vanishing lights,

shadowy figures

and encounters
with extraterrestrial beings?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by putting psychic spying
to the test.

? ?

NARRATOR:
Menlo Park, California.

The 1970s.

The United States
Central Intelligence Agency

enlists scientists at
the Stanford Research Institute

for a highly classified
and controversial study.

They want to test

whether psychics
can be effectively used

for intelligence gathering.

VIVANCO:
Remote viewing was developed

in the early 1970s
at the request of the CIA.

And what they found
was that, yes,

they could turn psychics
into spies.

This developed into a
full protocol and a methodology

in order to send people
to remote locations

that they could not send
physical people

and get information,
bring it back.

NARRATOR:
Five decades later, many law enforcement agencies

continue to consider
remote viewing

a valuable tool.
But just how it works

remains a mystery.

The way that I perceive
remote viewing to work

is outside of space-time.

We move through
another dimension, in a sense,

outside of our 3D physical
reality to gain information.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that remote viewers

are able to witness events
happening in distant locations

because they are
actually traveling

not physically but mentally
through other dimensions?

Does the key to accessing
alternate realms

exist within the mind?

In May 2019,

former British
intelligence officer Nick Pope

visited the ECETI Ranch
in the Pacific Northwest

to witness this theory
being put to the test.

ECETI is home
to the Enlightened Contact

with Extraterrestrial
Intelligence organization.

UFO hunters consider it
a major hot spot

for unexplained
aerial phenomena.

Over the past 33 years,

scientists from Boeing, NASA
and Lockheed Skunk Works

have come to ECETI to research
the activity in the sky.

But what sets ECETI apart from
other UFO watch organizations

is that their most powerful
observational tool

is not a telescope--

it's remote viewers.

I was in charge
of the British government's

real-life X-Files project.

We looked at UFOs,
crop circles, alien abductions.

Anything mysterious
and unexplained, I did it.

Remote viewing might be tapping
into unknown dimensions.

I know this sounds
like science fiction,

but actually it isn't.

Some of the work
being done at places

like the Large Hadron Collider

are now quite seriously looking
at the concept

of other dimensions.

NARRATOR:
At ECETI, ex-government remote viewing expert John Vivanco...

- Hi there.
- ...and UFO sky watcher Peter Slattery

lead a team of remote viewers.

Today they are working
on an experiment

that will combine human
observation and remote viewing

in an attempt
to better understand

what has become a recent
increase in UFO sightings

over Washington State's
Mount Adams.

So let me know, please, what are

your respective backgrounds
with this?

I am a remote viewer.

I've been, uh, doing this
professionally for 20 years.

Over 20 years now. And I run
a team of remote viewers,

and we work operational-type
projects for clients

and we look at different types
of phenomena

that can't be explained
through conventional means.

I'm known
as an experiencer/contactee,

but also
I hold sky watch events.

So we're gonna do a sky watch
and just see what happens.

- Where are we gonna do that?
- We're just gonna go out to the sky watch field here.

So let's go and check it out.

Okay, great.

NARRATOR:
As Nick joins Peter to conduct field surveillance,

John has stationed two remote
viewers in a windowless room,

armed with nothing more
than a pencil and a drawing pad.

The way it works is that
a remote viewer is given

a random eight-digit number

connected to what
they're supposed to remote-view.

Now, they don't get what
they're supposed to remote-view,

only the number. That's it.

They're gonna be at the location
of whatever it is,

through the mind,
describing exactly what that is.

So, what are
these remote viewers

actually gonna be doing
in there?

It's not so much viewing.

We get visual snippets

and a lot of body sensations.

Basically, they're gonna be
drawing and writing

a lot on papers.

And afterwards,

once we've got the data,

how are we actually going
to analyze it?

So, I will collect
that information

from them when they're done.

And then, in the morning,
we can meet up

and see if we can come up
with, uh,

some explanation
for what went on.

Well, great. That sounds good.

I hope
that we're gonna have some

interesting
and meaningful results.

NARRATOR:
After discussing the details of the evening's plans,

Peter and Nick
part ways with John

and join the rest of
the sky watch team in the field.

Pete, I see the team
has grown somewhat.

SLATTERY:
We've got Adam here with us.

He's gonna be helping out
with the satellite tracker

and-and monitoring the gear.

Just very important
to be very quick off the mark,

knowing what's what.

Sometimes we can have two things
in the sky at the same time,

and one of 'em could be
a satellite, the other not.

People can mix it up.

So when we're focused
on the sky, it's great

that somebody's focused
on the satellite tracker.

Great. So we're
essentially making sure

- we don't miss anything.
- Oh, definitely, yeah.

We don't want
to muddle things up.

NARRATOR: The team gets to work,

setting up the watch station

before the sun goes down
for the evening.

They will be using
various technology,

including infrared cameras,
in order to capture

any anomalies in the sky.

The location for their watch
overlooks Mount Adams,

the largest active volcano
in Washington State

and a hot spot
for UFO sightings.

In fact, Mount Adams
is associated

with the first UFO case to
ever make nationwide headlines.

In June of 1947,

aviator and businessman
Kenneth Arnold claimed

to have witnessed
nine UFOs flying in tandem

from Mount Rainier
at incredible speeds.

He reported that they performed
a number of unusual maneuvers

and then disappeared
into Mount Adams.

As night sets in,

the team has all eyes glued
to the sky

and on the lookout

for any objects
that might cross their path.

Utilizing real-time
satellite tracking data,

they can anticipate the arrival
of all man-made traffic

passing over their airspace...

- SLATTERY:
Hey, is that a satellite? - WALLBERG: Yeah.

...including
the International Space Station,

- or ISS.
- POPE: Adam,

how are we on the timing
with the ISS?

WALLBERG:
Uh, one more minute.

POPE:
And which direction? West?

Uh, it's gonna be coming from
the west, moving to the east.

Look at how bright
this thing is.

Whoa! Oh, there it is there!

See?

- That's the space station.
Can you see that? - WALLBERG: That is the ISS.

- Yeah.
- POPE: Okay.

NARRATOR:
While the field team watches the sky,

the remote viewers are sketching

visual representations
of whatever comes to them.

Incredibly,

as the International
Space Station passes overhead,

both women begin to draw

virtually identical
rectangular objects.

Well, it's not a UFO,

but it's still
a pretty spectacular thing.

Yeah, it's pretty epic to see.

NARRATOR:
After spotting a few other satellites in the sky,

Nick and Peter notice
a mysterious fast-moving object,

one that does not appear
to be a satellite.

SLATTERY:
There's one right there right now.

Look how quick it is.
Is that a satellite?

I've got it on camera.

- WALLBERG: Where you at?
- East...

southeast.

WALLBERG:
I see nothing on the tracker.

SLATTERY:
Can you see it up here, guys?

Okay, I definitely saw it up
in that section of the sky

with my naked eye.

It-it just caught my attention
out of the corner of my eye.

I turned round,
saw it for a few seconds

and then it faded.

That's exactly what I saw.

POPE:
And there was nothing

on the monitor at all?

Nope. Nothing at all.

That section of the sky
was clear.

POPE:
And that's, uh, satellites. What about

aircraft and flight paths?

- WALLBERG:
Nope, everything was clear. - Okay.

Well, it was something.

NARRATOR:
No satellites or aircraft on the tracking monitor?

Is it possible
that the team just saw

an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

And if so, was it also recorded

by the remote viewers?

(birds chirping)

? ?

NARRATOR:
ECETI Ranch.

Trout Lake, Washington.

The morning
after successfully capturing

an anomalous object during their
evening sky watch session...

John, good to see you again.

Good to see you, Nick.

...Nick Pope meets up
with John Vivanco

to see how the remote viewing
portion of the experiment went.

Nick is eager to discover

if the remote viewers picked up
the same objects in the sky

that he witnessed
with his own eyes

and perhaps even perceived
additional details.

(crickets chirping)

So, the remote viewers

were tasked on
two different things last night,

and I wanted them to describe

the first object
on the sky watch

that was determined
to be a satellite.

Right. So they have no idea
that you are asking them

- to look at a satellite.
- None.

- The-the satellite
is-is almost the target? - Exactly.

So you ready
to go through the first one?

- Yes.
- Okay.

So, this right here is energy.

This is determined to be energy
by this remote viewer.

And talking about
how it's crackling,

hits and bounces of burst.
It's like static.

So this is a mixture,
essentially, of, uh,

almost like
a stream of consciousness,

- what they are describing here
in words. - Right. Exactly.

Right.

POPE:
And then a visual representation

- of it.
- Mm-hmm. Right.

Let me show you the next scan.

This subject is talking
about a dense material,

thick gray, cylindrical object.

Now, this different viewer is

getting the same type of box.

- It's got lights blinking.
- And these are

completely independent
from each other?

- Right.
- Wow.

One, two-- pretty much the same.

- VIVANCO: Pretty much the same.
- (chuckles) Wow.

Impressive.

So, but let me
show you this here.

There's a burst
of communication,

is what I find interesting.

And you have these, uh...

almost looks like
solar panels on it.

POPE:
Now, we actually saw the International Space Station

last night, and it actually has
those two separate light panels.

It-it-- Like,
what makes it different

from most
conventional satellites.

Could this be
what we're looking at here?

VIVANCO:
Absolutely. If what you saw first identified as a satellite,

- then, yeah, absolutely.
- Wow.

NARRATOR:
Two separate remote viewers,

both depicting objects

that are consistent
with the makeup

of the International
Space Station.

It is an impressive coincidence.

But not as impressive
as what John Vivanco

is about to reveal to Nick Pope

as concerns the mysterious UFO
they spotted in the night sky.

So that's a bona fide UFO.
We can't explain that.

And it blinked out.

It completely disappeared.

What was
the first thing you saw?

Well, the first anomalous thing
we saw

was a flash of light

in the sky. I saw it myself.

We had a satellite tracker
up and running.

We eliminated that possibility.
There was no satellite.

So this was anomalous.

That's interesting.
So, we get to this page here.

Now they're getting
an energy and a structure.

It's this reflective,
metallic-feeling thing,

almost like a mirage.

A glowing blue color.

Very faint pinging sound.
That's interesting.

POPE:
This is a visual representation?

Visual representation, so...

- And it says "energy."
- Energy, right.

Energy seems to be moving
outward in many directions.

So I think what
they're trying to do here

- is display the energy,
the ball. - Right.

All right, you prepare
to be weirded out here.

POPE:
Okay.

And this subject is described
as a crystal blue color.

It's angelic and floaty.

Wow.

POPE:
So, is this a person? What is this?

VIVANCO:
I'm not sure what this is.

This subject here,
I mean, this-this is

clearly some sort of person,
I mean, or is it?

I mean, if we're talking
about something anomalous,

is the possibility here
that if this was a UFO,

that this is
some sort of occupant?

There is that possibility.

NARRATOR:
An occupant?

Did this remote viewer
actually see inside the object

that the field team
witnessed from the ground?

And if so, could this confirm
that what they saw

was an extraterrestrial
spacecraft?

This remote viewer is
also getting a subject here,

and they are calling
this flash of light

a subject, which is curious.

And when you see this uppercase
"P" and a lowercase "P,"

they mean that subject is
a paraphysical,

which means, in remote viewing,

it is something outside
of our 3D reality.

So this subject,
according to this remote viewer,

is a flash of light
on the mountain,

and this subject exists
outside of our 3D reality.

- That is spooky.
- Yeah.

I mean, we saw a flash
of light on the mountain.

Are we saying here that this
flashing light on the mountain,

and that these sessions
suggest that this is,

like, something to do
with extraterrestrials?

You know, all I can say is

what the remote viewers got.

And from my perspective...

- I think you've got
a true anomaly there. - Wow.

NARRATOR:
If what both the field team and the remote viewers observed was,

in fact,
an extraterrestrial craft,

did it suddenly appear
and then disappear

because it was
entering our world

from another dimension?

And do the sketches made
by the remote viewers

suggest that they may
have perceived not only

this craft
but even its occupants?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes...

...and suggest
we may be close to becoming

interdimensional beings
ourselves.

Soviet cosmonauts Oleg Atkov,

Leonid Kizim,
and Vladimir Solovyov

send an odd and alarming
transmission back to Earth.

They claim that seven enormous
winged humanoid beings,

around 90 feet in height
and emanating ethereal light,

suddenly appeared
outside the space station.

They remained there
for ten minutes

and then appeared to fade away.

I think that somewhere
out there, there's a highway--

a highway containing the souls
of millions of aliens

that are traveling
across the galaxy

at the speed of light, looking
at the wonders of the universe

at the maximum velocity
allowed by Albert Einstein.

And if it's right next to us,

could we humans detect
this superhighway?

No.

NARRATOR:
But if alien entities are able to cross over

from their universe into ours,

how long will it be
before we discover

how to cross over into theirs?

TZADOK:
Right now contact between dimensions is limited.

Right now we're in exile
from one another.

But the future is to
bring the worlds together

so that human consciousness
will exist

in dual dimensions naturally.

The only way we're
going to get there is if

we understand the laws
of physics differently.

Or if we include new laws
of physics

that combine the visible
and the non-visible,

the physical
and the nonphysical.

And approach reality
from a multidimensional,

interdimensional perspective,

not from a linear perspective.

TZADOK:
Everyone will know the truth.

There will be enlightenment
for all.

The unseen will be seen.

NARRATOR:
As scientists continue to unravel the secrets

of the universe, will they
discover irrefutable evidence

of a multiverse?

And if so, might this explain
the numerous paranormal

encounters humans have reported
having with mysterious orbs,

shadow people,
and other supernatural beings?

Perhaps the notion of
aliens landing on Earth

in spaceships
is an old-fashioned one.

Instead, should we
consider the possibility

that extraterrestrials
can travel

and even communicate
in unseen ways

that we have yet to understand?

If so, we may one day find

that our otherworldly neighbors

are much closer than we think.

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