Original subtitles

Narrator: UFOS HAVE BEEN SEEN ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE.

NOW, ACCORDING TO SOME, SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE

SUGGESTS MANKIND HAS ACTUALLY INTERACTED WITH UFOs

AND OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS THROUGHOUT HISTORY.

Man: WHEN YOU LOOK AT ANCIENT MYSTERIES,

CAVE DRAWINGS, PETROGLYPHS,

IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR A VERY LONG TIME.

Narrator: EGYPTIAN PHARAOHS, THEIR TOMBS

AND TEMPLES REVEALING ASTONISHING SECRETS.

Woman: WHEN YOU HAVE A RULER WHO IS HALF GOD,

HALF MAN, WAS HE, IN FACT,

EXTRATERRESTRIAL AND HUMAN?

Narrator: ROYAL BLOODLINES AND DISTORTED SKULLS

EXPOSING A LINK TO ALIEN

BEINGS LONG HIDDEN THROUGH THE AGES.

Man: DNA TESTING SHOWS THAT THEY'RE NOT HUMAN.

THAT WOULD MEAN THAT THEY'RE NOT FROM THIS PLANET.

Narrator: EVEN IN THE RENAISSANCE,

POSSIBLE SECRETS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.

Man: THERE'S A MAN STARING UP AT IT

JUST LIKE ANYONE SEEING A UFO

WOULD STARE UP AT A UFO.

Narrator: AND, MORE RECENTLY,

A UFO EVENT CAPTURED IN STUNNING

DETAIL IN THIS FOOTAGE REVEALS A CENTURIES-LONG RELATIONSHIP

WITH SKY BEINGS.

Man: THE 1997 PHOENIX LIGHTS CASE

REMAINS ONE OF THE LARGEST COMPLETELY UNEXPLAINED MASS UFO

SIGHTINGS IN NOT ONLY U.S. HISTORY BUT IN WORLD HISTORY.

Narrator: NEW INFORMATION IS TRANSFORMING

WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT.

ARE UFOs REALLY VISITING OUR WORLD?

IS THE GOVERNMENT HIDING THE TRUTH?

AND, IF SO, COULD A RENEWED LOOK AT UNEXPLAINED ANOMALIES

IN EARLY ARCHAEOLOGY,

ARTWORK AND BIOLOGY PROVIDE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE

OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN HUMANS AND UFOs

THROUGHOUT HISTORY?

-- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com

CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS

Narrator: JUNE 8, 2016 --

CAIRO, EGYPT.

THE MUSEUM OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES RELEASES

A REPORT THAT BECOMES WORLDWIDE BREAKING NEWS.

IT CLAIMS THAT KING TUTANKHAMUN,

THE YOUNG PHARAOH WHO DIED AT 19,

WAS ENTOMBED WITH ONE OF THE MOST MYSTIFYING ARTIFACTS

EVER DISCOVERED IN THE ANCIENT WORLD.

IT'S ONLY VERY RECENTLY THAT IT'S EMERGED,

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF ONE OF THE DAGGERS

THAT WAS BURIED WITH HIM.

Narrator: THIS DAGGER, MADE FROM EXTRAORDINARILY RARE METALS,

HAS INCREDIBLE SIGNIFICANCE TO UFO EXPERTS.

THE RECENT FINDING IS ALL THE MORE ASTONISHING

BECAUSE KING TUT'S MUMMIFIED REMAINS

AND THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS FOUND

IN HIS TOMB HAVE BEEN CLOSELY STUDIED

EVER SINCE THEIR DISCOVERY ALMOST A CENTURY AGO.

IN 1922, HOWARD CARTER,

UH, OPENED KING TUTANKHAMUN'S TOMB

AFTER IT'D BEEN SEALED FOR OVER 3,000 YEARS.

WHEN THEY CRACKED OPEN THE TOMB,

THEY FOUND CHARIOTS.

THEY FOUND A -- A GOLDEN THRONE. THERE WAS THE TOMB ITSELF,

WHICH WAS THIS INCREDIBLY ORNATE STRUCTURE.

Narrator: INSIDE THE NOW FAMOUS SOLID GOLD COFFIN,

THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND

THE YOUNG PHARAOH'S MUMMIFIED CORPSE.

SO MUMMIFICATION IN EGYPT DATES BACK TO ABOUT 5,000 YEARS AGO.

WHAT YOU DO IS YOU GOTTA GET RID OF ALL

OF THE MOISTURE IN OUR BODIES.

Narrator: BUT DID THE EGYPTIANS REALLY PREPARE THE KING

FOR A JOURNEY TO ANOTHER REALM OR FOR A FUTURE ENCOUNTER

WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL ANCESTORS,

AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

NOW, THE DAGGER,

DISCOVERED WITH AN ORNATE GOLD HANDLE AND SHEATH,

IS WHAT INVESTIGATORS ARE FOCUSED ON.

Man: HIS BODY WAS FOUND WITH SEVERAL WEAPONS,

INCLUDING DAGGERS.

AND ONE OF 'EM WAS REALLY INTERESTING

BECAUSE IT WAS MADE OF IRON.

IRON WAS A REALLY VERY UNUSUAL SUBSTANCE FOR THE EGYPTIANS.

AND IT'S VERY BIZARRE THAT, THOUSANDS OF YEARS LATER,

YOU HAVE THIS IRON KNIFE THAT HAS ABSOLUTELY NO RUST.

THAT IS, IN OF ITSELF,

AN INDICATION THAT THE IRON

MAY HAVE COME FROM SOME UNUSUAL SOURCE.

Narrator: EARLY TESTS ON THE IRON DAGGER'S COMPOSITION

WERE INCONCLUSIVE.

BUT, IN 2016, A RESEARCH TEAM

RE-EXAMINED THE DAGGER WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY.

USING AN X-RAY FLUORESCENT SPECTROMETER,

THEY DETERMINED THE METAL'S ELEMENTAL MAKEUP.

AND THE RESULTS WERE STUNNING.

THE IRON CAME NOT FROM THE EARTH

BUT FROM THE COSMOS.

YOU KNOW, KING TUT WAS DISCOVERED IN THE 1920s.

AND WE'RE JUST LEARNING THIS NOW THAT,

IN ADDITION TO A GOLD DAGGER,

WHICH HE WAS BURIED WITH,

WAS A DAGGER OF METEORIC ORIGIN.

AT THE VERY LEAST, YOU HAVE TO SAY

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS UNDERSTOOD

THAT THIS WAS A VERY RARE THING.

AND I DO THINK IT'S RATHER INTERESTING THAT HE WAS BURIED

WITH AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL ARTIFACT.

SO THE EGYPTIANS KNEW

THAT THIS IRON HAD COME FROM SPACE.

IT HAD COME FROM THAT PLACE BEYOND THE STARS

THAT THEY ALL WANTED TO GO TO WHEN THEY PASSED.

AND, CLEARLY, THEY KNEW THE KING'S DAGGER

WAS OF INCREDIBLE RARITY AND SIGNIFICANCE.

Narrator: BUT DID THE IRON IN KING TUT'S DAGGER

SIMPLY FALL FROM THE COSMOS AS A METEORITE?

OR, AS MANY UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE,

COULD IT HAVE EXTRATERRESTRIAL IMPLICATIONS?

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS BELIEVED THAT THE PHARAOHS

WERE COSMIC DEITIES, HALF MAN AND HALF GOD.

WHEN YOU HAVE A RULER WHO IS VIEWED BY THE PEOPLE

AS HALF MAN, HALF GOD,

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

COULD THERE BE SOME SORT OF GENETIC ALTERING?

WAS HE, IN FACT, EXTRATERRESTRIAL AND HUMAN?

Man: KING TUT HIMSELF WAS ACTUALLY NAMED

AFTER HIS FATHER, AKHENATEN.

AND THE PURPOSE OF NAMING HIM

THAT WAS TO CONNECT HIM WITH THE SUN GOD, ATEN.

TUTANKHAMUN'S NAME ACTUALLY MEANS, LITERALLY,

THE LIVING IMAGE OF ATEN.

Narrator: TUT'S FATHER, AKHENATEN,

WAS A CONTROVERSIAL PHARAOH OF EGYPT'S 18th DYNASTY

WHO WORSHIPPED THE SUN GOD,

ATEN, AS THE CREATOR, GIVER OF LIFE

AND NURTURING SPIRIT OF THE WORLD.

STRANGELY, DEPICTIONS OF AKHENATEN

AND HIS WIFE, NEFERTITI,

HAVE RAISED MANY QUESTIONS IN THE UFO COMMUNITY.

AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI HAD

A VERY UNUSUAL PHYSICAL APPEARANCE.

THEY HAD EXTREMELY LONG NECKS,

ELONGATED SKULLS FREQUENTLY COVERED WITH HATS.

ALTHOUGH THEY WERE PHYSICALLY VERY BEAUTIFUL,

IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THEY HAD SOMETHING MORE TO THEM

THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON.

THERE'S SOME INTERESTING HIEROGLYPHS THAT SHOW AKHENATEN

AND NEFERTITI HOLDING UP A CHILD, WHICH WAS PROBABLY TUT.

AND THEY'RE HOLDING UP THE CHILD TO THIS VERY,

VERY BRIGHT OBJECT IN THE SKY

AS IF THEY'RE RECEIVING SOME SORT OF ENERGY,

TRANSMISSIONS, PERHAPS INFORMATION,

FROM SOME HIGHER SOURCE.

WHETHER THAT HIGHER SOURCE IS THE SUN OR THE SUN GOD

AS IT'S DEPICTED IN THE IMAGE OR WHETHER IT'S ACTUALLY A --

A -- A SPACECRAFT OF SOME KIND IS --

IS HIGHLY DEBATABLE.

Narrator: ADDING TO THE ALREADY BIZARRE PHYSICAL TRAITS

OF HIS PARENTS, X-RAYS AND CT SCANS

OF KING TUT'S MUMMIFIED BODY

REVEAL THAT THE BOY KING HAS SIGNIFICANT

PHYSICAL DEFORMITIES SIMILAR TO HIS ROYAL FAMILY.

KING TUT HAD X-RAYS

AND CAT SCANS TAKEN OF HIS SKULL IN LONDON.

NOW, THE INTERESTING THING

THAT WE SEE RIGHT AWAY IS THIS ELONGATED SKULL.

A NORMAL HUMAN SKULL WOULD CROP HERE.

ALL THAT'S EXTRA.

AND WE WONDER IF HE WAS NATURALLY BORN THIS WAY

OR IF IT WAS DONE TO HIM FOR SOME CRUEL REASON.

THIS IS NOT A NORMAL SKULL.

Narrator: FOR UFO RESEARCHERS, CRUCIAL QUESTIONS REMAIN.

HOW DO WE EXPLAIN THE UNUSUAL PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES

OF KING TUT AND HIS ROYAL PARENTS?

AND COULD THERE BE FURTHER EVIDENCE

OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONNECTIONS BEYOND THE DAGGER?

Man: KING TUT'S DYNASTY IS A VERY SIGNIFICANT

ONE IN ANCIENT EGYPT.

AND THERE WERE ACTUALLY ALSO SOME INTERESTING UFO SIGHTINGS,

AT LEAST ONE THAT'S RECORDED,

FROM THAT SAME DYNASTY,

OF A LARGE FIERY OBJECT THAT APPEARS,

IS THERE FOR SEVERAL DAYS.

NO ONE REALLY KNEW WHAT TO DO WITH THIS.

AND THEN, EVENTUALLY, THE, UH, THE FIERY OBJECT,

UH, WENT AWAY.

Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE SUPPORT THE THEORY PROPOSED

BY UFO EXPERTS THAT THE EGYPTIAN ROYAL FAMILY

COULD HAVE HAD INTERACTIONS WITH OTHERWORLDLY ENTITIES?

AND, IF SO, MIGHT KING TUT'S IRON DAGGER

HAVE SIMPLY BEEN HANDED TO HIM IN LIFE LIKE A GIFT

BY BEINGS THAT ARRIVED HERE

IN WHAT WE CALL UFOs?

YOU HAVE THIS PATTERN WHERE THE BLOODLINES,

THE DNA, SUPPOSEDLY DESCENDS FROM THESE GODS OF ANCIENT EGYPT

WHO MAY HAVE BEEN ACTUALLY NOT GODS AT ALL

BUT PEOPLE FROM ANOTHER WORLD

WHO CAME HERE FOR THEIR OWN REASONS.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DAGGER AND THE ELONGATED SKULLS

AND THE CARVINGS ON THEIR TEMPLES,

I BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE ALL CONNECTED.

SO I BELIEVE THAT THEY DID, IN FACT, INTERBREED WITH ALIENS.

AND, WHEN THEY DIED, THEY WERE GONNA GO BACK

TO THEIR HOME PLANET IN THE AFTERLIFE.

Narrator: FOR MANY, THE THEORY THAT EGYPT'S ROYAL FAMILY

COULD BE CONNECTED TO INTERSTELLAR

BEINGS COULD SEEM FAR-FETCHED.

BUT UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THERE IS EVEN MORE EVIDENCE

THAT RAISES FURTHER QUESTIONS

UNEXPLAINED BY SCIENCE,

EVIDENCE FOUND HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD

LINKING UFOs TO 3,000-YEAR-OLD

REMAINS UNEARTHED IN PERU.

ator: THE MYSTERY OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MUMMIFICATION

AND ELONGATED SKULLS AND QUESTIONS

ABOUT THEIR POSSIBLE CONNECTION TO OTHERWORLDLY ENTITIES DEEPENS

WHEN UFO RESEARCHERS DISCOVER

HIGHLY UNUSUAL ANCIENT CARVED DEPICTIONS.

HERE, 25 MILES NORTHEAST

OF THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS,

ALONG THE NILE RIVER, LIES ABYDOS, EGYPT,

AND THE ANCIENT RUINS OF THE SETI TEMPLE.

ABYDOS IS A CITY IN EGYPT ABOUT 150 MILES FROM CAIRO

WHERE A LOT OF THE ANCIENT KINGS ARE BURIED.

A LOT OF THE ANCIENT PHARAOHS AND THEIR WIVES ARE BURIED.

AND IT'S A VERY BIZARRE PLACE

BECAUSE THERE'S ALL THESE TEMPLES SET UP

TO THESE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GODS

AND GOD-KINGS.

Narrator: INSIDE EGYPT'S MOST EXTRAORDINARY TEMPLE,

THERE EXISTS STRANGE AND HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL

STONE RELIEFS CARVED INTO THE WALLS

AND SUPPORT BEAMS THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.

Man: ABOUT 15, 20 YEARS AGO,

A PANEL ACTUALLY FELL OFF ABOVE ONE OF THESE COLUMNS.

AND IT REVEALED A MUCH OLDER PANEL BEHIND IT, IN FACT,

A PANEL THAT MAY HAVE GONE

ALL THE WAY BACK TO 10,000 YEARS AGO.

AND, ON THIS PANEL,

YOU CAN SEE WHAT ARE CLEARLY

TECHNOLOGICAL WAR MACHINES.

Man: PEOPLE LOOK AT IT BECAUSE THEY SEE

WHAT LOOKS LIKE A HELICOPTER AND OTHER TYPES OF MACHINERY.

UH, SOME PEOPLE THINK ONE THING LOOKS LIKE

A SUBMARINE AND SO FORTH.

Man: THESE SETI TEMPLE IMAGES ARE FASCINATING.

IT WOULD APPEAR THAT WE WERE,

AT SOME STAGE IN THE PAST,

VISITED BY SOMEBODY WHO HAD ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THESE IMAGES SHOW.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS IN THE MIND'S EYE

OF WHOEVER CREATED THOSE IMAGES,

WHETHER THEY'RE LITERAL

OR JUST SOMETHING FROM THE IMAGINATION.

Narrator: MAINSTREAM SCHOLARS ARE AT A COMPLETE LOSS

TO EXPLAIN HOW SUCH IMAGES

COULD HAVE BEEN IMAGINED THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.

YOU HAVE OBJECTS THERE THAT,

BY ALL CONVENTIONAL TERMS,

WOULD LOOK LIKE MODERN-DAY AIRCRAFT.

HOW COULD THIS BE?

WERE THEY SOMETHING THAT THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS SAW?

Narrator: EXPERTS IN THE UFO COMMUNITY BELIEVE

THE MYSTERY CAN BE EXPLAINED BY TAKING A CLOSER LOOK

AT THE REASON THE SETI TEMPLE WAS BUILT.

THE ENTIRE TEMPLE AT ABYDOS

IS ESSENTIALLY A TEMPLE TO THE EGYPTIAN GOD, OSIRIS,

THE GOD OF THE AFTERLIFE, THE DEAD,

JUDGEMENT AND RESURRECTION.

Narrator: IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN WRITINGS,

KNOWN AS THE PYRAMID TEXTS, OSIRIS IS SAID TO BE

TRAVELING WITH THE SUN GOD AMONGST THE STARS.

WHAT DOES THIS REALLY MEAN?

Man: THE IDEA OF GODS COMING FROM THE SKY IS --

IS NOT UNIQUE -- ALL THE ANCIENT CULTURES HAVE THAT.

BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT, AS YOU DIG INTO THEM,

WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT

ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT LEGENDS OF THESE GODS

THAT COME FROM THE SKY,

THEY SEEM TO COME IN,

NOT LIKE DESCENDING AS ANGELS,

BUT ACTUALLY COMING ON PHYSICAL CRAFT,

THINGS THAT ARE DESCRIBED AS FLAMING SHIELDS

OR DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROCKETS.

Narrator: IN THE SETI TEMPLE,

OSIRIS IS COMMONLY DEPICTED AS A PHARAOH

WITH A STRIKING PHYSICAL COMPLEXION.

Man: OSIRIS IS FREQUENTLY DEPICTED WITH GREEN SKIN.

AND THIS APPEARS TO BE A REPRESENTATION

OF HIS EXISTENCE AFTER HIS DEATH,

THAT HIS SKIN HAS TURNED GREEN,

THAT HE'S THE DEAD AND RESURRECTED OSIRIS.

AND, FREQUENTLY, HE'S DEPICTED ON HIS THRONE

WITH VARIOUS SCEPTERS

AND VARIOUS INSTRUMENTALITIES

THAT HE APPEARS TO BE WIELDING.

Narrator: STRANGELY, DEPICTIONS OF OSIRIS

ARE EERILY SIMILAR TO KING TUT

AND HIS ROYAL PARENTS, AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI.

DO SUCH SIMILAR PHYSICAL TRAITS LEND CREDENCE

TO THE THEORY SUGGESTED

BY UFO RESEARCHERS THAT OSIRIS

AND THE EGYPTIAN ROYAL FAMILY

ARE OF THE SAME RACE OF ALIEN BEINGS?

OR DID OSIRIS BREED WITH EGYPTIAN ROYAL ANCESTORS

AND PASS ON ALIEN PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS?

Man: THERE'S THIS DEEP CONNECTION

BETWEEN EGYPT AND THE SKY AND SPACE AND ALIENS.

AND YOU COULD ARGUE THAT, LIKE, OSIRIS WAS,

IN FACT, AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL.

THESE ANCIENT GODS THAT CAME AND INTERACTED

WITH THE PHARAOHS,

IS THERE SOME KIND OF GENETIC MANIPULATION

GOING ON TO MAKE THESE DEMIGODS?

IF SO, WHAT WOULD BE THE PURPOSE OF CREATING

A RULING CLASS

TO BUILD THEIR TEMPLES AND THEIR PYRAMIDS?

FOR WHAT REASON IS UNKNOWN.

Narrator: FOR UFO EXPERTS,

THE STRANGE SKULLS DEPICTED

IN THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CULTURE

ARE A CLEAR INDICATION OF PHYSICAL INTERACTION

BETWEEN EGYPT'S ROYALS AND UFOs.

BUT WHAT GETS EVEN MORE INTERESTING IS

WHEN YOU TRAVEL OVER 7,000 MILES,

HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD,

TO DISCOVERIES MADE NEARLY

90 YEARS AGO IN PARACAS, PERU.

HERE, IN 1928,

IN AN ANCIENT GRAVEYARD,

ARCHAEOLOGISTS MAKE A SHOCKING DISCOVERY,

ONE THAT MAY FOREVER CHANGE

HOW WE LOOK AT OUR ANCESTORS

AND OUR ORIGINS.

THE ELONGATED SKULLS ARE BELIEVED

TO BE AT LEAST 3,300 YEARS OLD,

ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS KING TUTANKHAMUN'S MUMMY.

SO CRANIAL SHAPING OR CRANIAL DEFORMATION

IS VERY COMMON IN ANCIENT CULTURES,

IN ANCIENT EGYPT, ANCIENT PERU FOR THE INCA AND THE MAYA.

AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SEE

IN MANY DIFFERENT ANCIENT CULTURES

AS A WAY, AS A MARK FOR THE ELITE.

Man: MANY CULTURES HAVE HAD

A TRADITION OF BINDING THE HEAD OF AN INFANT.

AND THIS PRODUCES THESE ELONGATED SKULLS THAT WE SEE.

I THINK WE HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT THE BRAIN,

THAT'S INEXTRICABLY LINKED WITH INTELLIGENCE --

SO ENLARGING THE HEAD MIGHT BE AN ATTEMPT

TO PRODUCE SOMEBODY WHO IS SMARTER.

Woman: EVEN WITH SKULL-BINDING TECHNIQUES

THAT WE SEE SOMETIMES IN ANCIENT CULTURES,

YOU STILL CAN'T CHANGE THE VOLUME OF THE HEAD.

Narrator: HOWEVER, THE PARACAS SKULLS

HAVE VERY UNUSUAL CRANIUMS.

Man: THESE PARACAS, PERU SKULLS,

THEY'RE ALSO 25 PERCENT LARGER

AND 60 PERCENT HEAVIER THAN THE AVERAGE HUMAN SKULL.

NOW, THAT PUTS THEM IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CLASS.

Narrator: IN 2014, PRELIMINARY DNA TESTING

ON THE SKULLS WAS PERFORMED.

THE RESULTS PROVED HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL

WHEN IT WAS DETERMINED THAT SOME OF THE SKULLS

HAVE A UNIQUE DNA PATTERN

THAT SCIENTISTS ARE AT A LOSS TO EXPLAIN.

Man: DNA TESTING IN 2014

SHOWED THAT THESE SKULLS HAVE MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

THAT IS UNRELATED TO HUMAN BEINGS

OR ANY OTHER MAJOR PRIMATE OR ANIMAL.

WITH THE RECENT DNA TESTING ON THESE SKULLS

THAT SHOWS THAT THEY'RE NOT HUMAN,

THAT WOULD MEAN THAT THEY'RE EXTRATERRESTRIAL.

AND THEY'RE NOT FROM THIS PLANET.

Narrator: MORE RECENTLY,

A SECOND ROUND OF TESTING PROVES

JUST AS CONTENTIOUS.

Man: EVEN MORE BIZARRELY, THEY FOUND

THAT THE SKULLS WERE OF MIDDLE EASTERN

ORIGIN WHICH WOULD, AGAIN, GO BACK TO ANCIENT EGYPT.

HOW DID THEY END UP IN PERU?

NOBODY KNOWS THE ANSWER TO THAT BECAUSE,

ACCORDING TO THE HISTORY BOOKS,

THERE WAS NO COMMUNICATION,

NO TRAVELING BETWEEN THESE TWO CONTINENTS.

Narrator: FOR UFO INVESTIGATORS,

THE EVIDENCE OF ELONGATED SKULLS

AND THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL DAGGER CLEARLY INDICATES CONTACT

WITH UFOs IN THE DISTANT PAST.

AND THEY SAY THERE ARE MORE RECENT EXAMPLES,

THE CONTINUOUS, STEADY DRUMBEAT SUPPORTING THE IDEA

OF CONTACT THROUGHOUT HISTORY.

FURTHER EXAMPLES CAN BE FOUND

HIDDEN SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS

AND STUDIED ARTWORK OF THE RENAISSANCE.

Narrator: UFO EXPERTS BELIEVE THE ROYAL BLOODLINE

OF EGYPTIAN PHARAOHS

AND ELONGATED SKULLS FOUND IN PERU

MAY WELL HAVE EXPOSED THE TRUTH

OF HUMAN INTERACTION WITH UFOs.

FLASH FORWARD TO THE RENAISSANCE,

A PERIOD IN EUROPEAN HISTORY

FROM THE 14th TO THE 17th CENTURY,

WHERE INVESTIGATORS SUSPECT A CLOSER LOOK

AT SOME OF MANKIND'S MOST REVERED ARTWORK

MAY REVEAL FURTHER SECRETS OF UFO CONTACT

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.

Man: THE RENAISSANCE WAS AN EXPLOSION

OF CREATIVITY AND OF THOUGHT.

IN MANY WAYS, IT WAS A REACTION

AGAINST THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

AND IT WAS A PERIOD WHICH BEGAN TO SEE

THEIR AUTHORITY DECLINE SOMEWHAT.

Man: PEOPLE WERE THINKING FOR THEMSELVES,

CHALLENGING THE ORTHODOXY, UH, THE PARTY LINE,

A VERY HUMAN THING.

EGOS GOT INVOLVED.

AND THE CHURCH WAS PUT ON THE DEFENSIVE.

Man: MANY OF THESE NEW IDEAS

WERE EXTREMELY CHALLENGING TO THE CHURCH.

AND THEY FELT THAT THEY HAD TO FIGHT BACK

AGAINST THIS FOR FEAR

THAT IT WOULD ERODE THEIR AUTHORITY.

Narrator: IN AN EFFORT TO PRESERVE ITS DOMINANCE,

THE CHURCH IMPOSED STRICT RULES AND HARSH PUNISHMENT

FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN SCIENTIFIC LEARNING

AND NEW IDEAS ABOUT THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.

THE CATHOLICS HAD ALSO IMPOSED VERY,

VERY STRICT RULES

AGAINST SCIENTIFIC LEARNING AND SCIENCE IN GENERAL.

THEY DIDN'T WANT PEOPLE LIKE GALILEO TO TELL US

THAT THE, UH, EARTH REVOLVED AROUND THE SUN

AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

Man: THE CHURCH'S REACTION TO THAT KIND OF --

OF OVERVIEW OF THE RENAISSANCE

WAS BRUTAL AND SWIFT.

PEOPLE BURNED AT THE STAKE FOR SUGGESTING

THAT THERE MAY BE LIFE ELSEWHERE

BECAUSE THEY WERE LOSING THEIR INFLUENCE.

AND THEY WERE LOSING THEIR CONTROL.

Man: IT'S A FACT THAT THE CHURCH OF THE MIDDLE AGES

WOULD HAVE YOU PUT TO DEATH

IF YOU PUT FORTH A THEOLOGY

THAT WAS IN CONTRADICTION

TO WHAT THEY STATED WAS THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE.

IN FACT, UH, IN THE 16th CENTURY,

THEY BURNED A MAN NAMED GIORDANO BRUNO ALIVE

AT THE STAKE FOR, UH,

SUGGESTING THAT THERE WAS LIFE BEYOND PLANET EARTH,

LIFE JUST LIKE OURS.

AND THEY KILLED HIM.

Narrator: STILL, THE RENAISSANCE SAW AN EXPLOSION

IN MAN'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE NATURAL WORLD.

Man: THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF WHAT EVENTUALLY

BECAME THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

WHERE SCIENCE BEGAN TO DISPLACE RELIGION

AS OUR WAY OF EXPLAINING OUR POSITION IN THE COSMOS.

Narrator: BUT WAS THIS GIANT LEAP FORWARD

SIMPLY THE RESULT OF MAN'S GROWING INTELLECT?

OR IS THERE MORE TO THE STORY?

IN SUCH A HOSTILE CLIMATE,

IS IT POSSIBLE TO FIND,

IN SOME WORKS OF ART FROM THE RENAISSANCE,

HINTS OF UFO CONNECTIONS OR AT LEAST CLUES

TO THINGS THAT POINT BEYOND THE KNOWN WORLD?

ONE SUCH PAINTING CALLED "THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST,"

CREATED BY AERT DE GELDER,

DEPICTS THE BIBLICAL SCENE WHERE JOHN THE BAPTIST

IS BAPTIZING JESUS IN THE RIVER JORDAN.

IN "THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST," CLEARLY,

INSTEAD OF SEEING SOME SORT OF SPIRITUAL

BEING AS YOU WOULD EXPECT,

IN THE PAINTING, THERE IS A --

A SPHERICAL-TYPE OBJECT EMITTING RAYS DOWN TO CHRIST.

WHAT IS THIS OBJECT?

I MEAN, IT'S NOT A CLOUD.

IT'S NOT THE SUN. IT'S NOT GOD'S FACE.

IT'S A DISC-SHAPED OBJECT.

AND THERE'S REALLY NO DISPUTING THAT.

IT APPEARS TO BE SAYING THAT JOHN THE BAPTIST'S INSPIRATION,

AS WELL AS JESUS' INSPIRATION,

CAME FROM SOMEBODY ON BOARD THESE CRAFT.

THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO THESE THINGS END UP

IN THESE RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS?

WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO TELL US?

Narrator: EVIDENCE OF UNORTHODOX KNOWLEDGE,

SECRETLY EMBEDDED IN RENAISSANCE ARTWORK,

ACCORDING TO UFO EXPERTS,

CAN BE FOUND HIDDEN IN

"THE MADONNA WITH SAINT GIOVANNINO,"

COMPLETED IN THE 15TH CENTURY.

Man: IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE VIRGIN MARY, IT JUST LOOK --

LOOKS LIKE A CRAFT IN THE SKY.

AND, NOT ONLY THAT, BUT YOU SEE, IN THE BACKGROUND,

THERE'S A MAN STARING UP AT IT

JUST LIKE ANYONE SEEING A UFO

WOULD STARE UP AT A UFO.

AND, NOT ONLY THAT, BUT SO IS HIS DOG.

NOW, WHY WOULD THAT BE IN A PAINTING FROM THIS ERA

UNLESS SOMEBODY'S SEEN IT THEMSELVES?

THEY WERE LEAVING CLUES

FOR US IN THE FUTURE OF WHAT THEY WERE SEEING

AND WHAT WAS NOT ACCEPTED AT THE TIME.

Narrator: EXPERTS SAY FURTHER EVIDENCE OF UFO INTERACTION

WITH HUMANKIND CAN ALSO BE FOUND

IN KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA,

IN A MEDIEVAL MONASTERY WHERE A FRESCO ENTITLED,

"THE CRUCIFIXION," PAINTED IN 1350,

HANGS ABOVE THE ALTAR.

Man: YOU SEE THESE OBJECTS IN THE SKY.

AND THEY DO LOOK SOMETHING LIKE, UH,

AN AERIAL VEHICLE WITH SOMEBODY IN THEM.

MAYBE IT'S JUST A REPRESENTATION OF A --

A STAR OR A COMET.

BUT IT MIGHT REPRESENT A LITERAL TRUTH.

IT MAY BE THAT THAT'S WHAT THE ARTIST SAW.

Man: THESE CRAFT LOOK LIKE

THEY'RE BEING PILOTED WITH CONTROLS

AND HAVE DIRECTION.

THEY'RE VERY SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER.

HOW COULD PEOPLE OF THAT TIME DEPICT SUCH CRAFT

IF THEY DIDN'T EXIST?

OR MAYBE THEY DID.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS,

SUCH IMAGERY REFLECTS THE SPIRITUAL CONNECTION

BETWEEN GOD AND MAN

AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH UFOs.

BUT IS THIS REALLY THE CASE?

Man: IF THERE WERE UFO SIGHTINGS BACK IN THAT ERA, IT --

IT WOULD MAKE SENSE, WOULDN'T IT,

THAT YOU'D WANNA BE VERY CAREFUL

ABOUT PUTTING THAT INFORMATION OUT THERE.

UH, IT REALLY WOULD BE,

UH, UH, LITERALLY A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.

AND IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THERE WERE

SOME BRAVE ARTISTS OF THAT ERA,

UM, WHO WERE SEEING THINGS IN THE SKY.

AND THEY DECIDED, "I'M GOING TO DEPICT THEM

IN MY OWN WAY, UH, FOR POSTERITY."

IN THE PIECE, "MIRACLE OF THE SNOW,"

SEVERAL DIFFERENT CYLINDRICAL-TYPE

OBJECTS ARE OBSERVED ABOVE THE MOUNTAINS.

THESE OBJECTS ARE FLAT ON THE BOTTOM

AND SLIGHTLY ROUNDED ON THE TOP,

WHICH ARE VERY SIMILAR TO THE DISCS

THAT WE SEE IN PHOTOGRAPHS TODAY.

IS THIS, PERHAPS, UH, A FLEET OF UFOs IN THE SKY?

Man: LOOKING AT SOME OF THESE RENAISSANCE IMAGES,

THERE ARE THOSE WHO SUGGEST THESE ARE LITERAL UFOs.

AND PERHAPS THE ARTISTS,

MINDFUL OF THE REACTION OF THE CHURCH,

THOUGHT THAT INCORPORATING THESE IMAGES

SUBTLY INTO A PAINTING AND PERHAPS SAYING,

"IT -- IT'S A REPRESENTATION OF DIVINITY,"

IS THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN PASS ON THIS KNOWLEDGE

OF WHAT THEY REALLY SAW

OR WHAT THEY BELIEVED TO BE TRUE.

Narrator: IN SOME CASES,

INVESTIGATORS SUGGEST IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE

THAT SOME ARTISTS SIMPLY MISINTERPRETED UFO SIGHTINGS

AND GAVE THEM SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE IN THEIR PAINTINGS.

THE PAINTERS OF THAT PERIOD, DURING THE REN--

DURING THE RENAISSANCE,

WERE CLEARLY HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT THE CONNECTION

BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY

AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL RACES, STAR PEOPLE.

CALL IT WHAT YOU WILL.

THOSE PAINTINGS ARE A TESTAMENT.

IT'S EVIDENCE.

Narrator: UFO EXPERTS CLAIM

SUCH INTERPRETATIONS SUGGEST

THAT THIS AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

MAY HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY INTERACTION

WITH AN OTHERWORLDLY PRESENCE HOVERING

AT THAT TIME IN THE SKIES ABOVE EUROPE.

HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD,

THAT SAME ALIEN PRESENCE MAY HAVE ALSO BEEN WITNESSED

BY THE NATIVE PEOPLE OF NORTH AMERICA

IN AN AREA WE NOW CALL ARIZONA.

EY HAVE FOUND EVIDENCE

THROUGHOUT HISTORY OF CONTACT

WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS.

NOW, INVESTIGATORS ARE FOLLOWING

THE TRAIL OF CLUES TO NORTH AMERICA,

SPECIFICALLY ARIZONA,

WHERE EARLY NATIVE PEOPLE MAY HAVE WITNESSED

WHAT THEY REFER TO AS SKY BEINGS.

BUT, STRANGELY, THE CONNECTION WAS ONLY REVEALED RECENTLY,

ON MARCH 13, 1997, 8:30 P.M. LOCAL TIME,

WHEN, ARGUABLY, THE MOST COMPELLING

UFO EVENT IN HISTORY OCCURS.

Man: WHAT WE CALL THE PHOENIX LIGHTS,

IN FACT, STARTED IN HENDERSON, NEVADA.

WITNESSES THERE SAW AN OBJECT THAT WAS CLEARLY GOING SOUTH.

IT WENT ALL THROUGH THE STATE OF ARIZONA.

THERE WERE, I THINK, HUNDREDS OF WITNESSES

WHO'D REPORTED THIS GOING SOUTH DOWN THE STATE.

Man: PEOPLE WITNESSED THIS CRAFT

GO COMPLETELY OVER THEIR HEADS VERY, VERY SLOWLY.

THIS CRAFT WAS V-SHAPED

AND HAD MULTIPLE LIGHTS LONG THE EDGE.

THESE LIGHTS COULD BE LIGHTS.

OR THEY COULD BY SOME KIND OF PROPULSION.

WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE,

IT WAS LARGE, SILENT AND INTIMIDATING.

Man: THE PHOENIX LIGHTS INVOLVED,

UH, MULTIPLE WITNESS

SIGHTINGS OVER A WIDE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA

IN ARIZONA GOING PRETTY MUCH ALL THE WAY DOWN TO TUCSON.

SOME WITNESSES THOUGHT THIS WAS

A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT OBJECTS FLYING IN FORMATION.

BUT OTHERS SAID, NO, THESE WERE LIGHTS

ON THE UNDERSIDE OF ONE SINGLE MASSIVE CRAFT.

Narrator: AS THE ENORMOUS OBJECT APPEARS OVER PHOENIX,

PHONE CALLS FLOOD INTO AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NEWS MEDIA.

ONE EYEWITNESS, DR. LYNNE KITEI,

RECALLS HER EXPERIENCE VIVIDLY.

ONE WALL OF OUR BEDROOM IS A WINDOW.

AND WE LIVE HIGH ON THE MOUNTAIN

AND HAVE A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CITY SKYLINES.

WHEN MY HUSBAND FIRST CALLED ME TO THE WINDOW

TO SEE THESE ORBS

IN A TRIANGLE FORMATION, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF,

"IF I DON'T GET A PICTURE OF THIS,

NO ONE'S GONNA BELIEVE IT."

SO I GO TO MY CLOSET TO GRAB A 35-MILLIMETER CAMERA.

AND I STEPPED OUT ON THE BALCONY,

GOT A QUICK PICTURE OF THE --

THE ORBS AND NOTICED IMMEDIATELY AN EERIE SILENCE

AS IF TIME HAD STOPPED. IT WAS JUST BIZARRE.

Narrator: IN ADDITION TO STILLS,

DR. KITEI ALSO CAPTURES

A VIDEO OF THE PHOENIX LIGHTS

WHILE THEY ARE DIRECTLY OVER THE CITY.

Woman: AFTER HAVING AN EXPERIENCE,

IT'S JUST MIND-BOGGLING IN AND OF ITSELF.

AND CAPTURING 35-MILLIMETER PHOTOGRAPHS

OF THESE ANOMALOUS AERIAL PHENOMENA,

HAVING THOUSANDS SEEING THE SAME THING

THAT I WAS WITNESSING AND DOCUMENTING ON FILM,

I FELT OBLIGED TO SHARE

AND LET PEOPLE DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES.

Man: THERE'S THIS KIND OF CLICHED IDEA

THAT UFO SIGHTINGS HAPPEN

ON THE LONELY COUNTRY ROAD LATE AT NIGHT.

AND PEOPLE WILL SAY, WELL,

WHY DON'T THEY EVER FLY DIRECTLY OVER A CITY?

WITH THE PHOENIX LIGHTS, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.

I HAD ONE PERSON TELL ME THAT, ALMOST LITERALLY,

THE STARS SEEMED TO BE GOING OUT ONE BY ONE.

AND HE LOOKED UP. AND THEN HE REALIZED

THE REASON THEY WERE GOING OUT WAS THIS MASSIVE CRAFT

WAS JUST PASSING BETWEEN THEM.

AND IT WAS SO BIG,

IT WAS LIKE A FOOTBALL FIELD PASSING OVERHEAD.

Woman: IT WAS SO UNNERVING THAT I CALLED AROUND,

FOUND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS

AT SKY HARBOR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

WHO SAW THE SAME THING.

THEY LOOKED ON RADAR, DIDN'T SHOW UP ON RADAR.

THEY TOOK THEIR BINOCULARS TO LOOK.

AND, IN THEIR OWN WORDS, THEY SAW SEVEN POINTS OF LIGHT,

TOTALLY EQUIDISTANT FROM EACH OTHER,

MASSIVE SPAN, OVER A MILE WIDE,

AND SAID THAT THE WHOLE THING

TURNED AS A UNIT AGAINST THE WIND

AND THEN ELEVATED SLOWLY AND MOVED BEHIND SOUTH MOUNTAIN.

Narrator: THAT EVENING,

DESCRIPTIONS OF THE UNIDENTIFIABLE OBJECT

ARE REPORTED IN A 300-MILE CORRIDOR

FROM THE NEVADA STATE LINE

THROUGH PHOENIX TO THE NORTHERN EDGE OF TUCSON.

IN THE DAYS TO FOLLOW,

THERE WAS SUCH A DEMAND FOR ANSWERS

THAT THEN-ARIZONA GOVERNOR

FIFE SYMINGTON RESPONDS IN A PRESS CONFERENCE.

Man: I'VE DISCUSSED THIS WITH THE FORMER GOVERNOR,

FIFE SYMINGTON -- HE WAS A QUITE CONCERNED.

THERE WAS ALMOST A STATE OF HYSTERIA TAKING HOLD.

SO HE JUST MADE A JOKE ABOUT IT, A PRESS CONFERENCE.

HE GOT HIS CHIEF OF STAFF TO DRESS UP IN AN ALIEN SUIT.

Man: AT THE TIME, HE SAID HIS JOB WAS TO MINIMIZE PANIC.

AND THEY WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY

TO RIDICULE THE PHENOMENON,

TO JOKE ABOUT IT AND TO KIND OF BRUSH IT ASIDE.

Narrator: THE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT EXPLANATION

FOR THE STRANGE OBJECT IN THE NIGHT SKY

IS EVENTUALLY PRESENTED BY THE U.S. AIR FORCE.

Man: IT WAS THE MILITARY WHO FIRST CAME UP WITH

THE EXPLANATION THAT THIS WAS JUST FLARES

DROPPED FROM AIRCRAFT

ON THEIR WAY TO BARRY GOLDWATER RANGE.

BUT THE EXPLANATION DIDN'T STACK UP.

THE FLARES WERE MUCH LATER.

AND, INDEED, SOME SUGGESTED THE AIR FORCE

HAD DELIBERATELY SCRAMBLED JETS

TO DROP FLARES

SO THAT THIS COULD THEN BE USED AS A DEBUNKING EXERCISE.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,

THE MILITARY ATTEMPTED TO CONFUSE

IN THE MINDS OF THE POPULATION

WHAT THEY HAD WITNESSED EARLIER THAT EVENING

BY DROPPING FLARES IN A PATTERN

THAT APPEARED TO BE SIMILAR TO THE UFO LIGHTS

SEEN IN THE PHOENIX SKY.

Man: THE RESIDENTS OF PHOENIX HAVE SEEN FLARES

AT THE MILITARY BASES AROUND THERE MANY, MANY TIMES.

THEY'RE USED TO THAT. FLARES DON'T LAST THAT LONG.

THEY DON'T HAVE THAT KIND OF PATTERN

THAT STAYS TOGETHER AS IT MOVES.

Narrator: FOR RESEARCHERS,

THE EVENT IS A WATERSHED MOMENT

IN THE FIELD OF UFO STUDY.

ONE LASTING QUESTION, HOWEVER, CONCERNS

THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE.

WHY DID THEY ATTEMPT TO DIVERT ATTENTION

WITH SUCH A COVER-UP STORY?

THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND

THAT THERE ARE AGENCIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT THAT KNOW THE TRUTH,

THE FULL TRUTH, ABOUT UFOs.

THERE WAS ONE MEMBER OF THE PHOENIX CITY COUNCIL

NAMED FRANCES BARWOOD

WHOSE CAREER WAS DESTROYED BY HER INSISTENCE

ON LOOKING INTO THE PHOENIX LIGHTS.

AND, AS SHE SAID LATER,

SHE RECEIVED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT

OF POLITICAL AND, I BELIEVE,

SHE SAID MILITARY PRESSURE

FOR HER TO STAND DOWN FROM LOOKING INTO THIS.

AND SHE WAS ESSENTIALLY RUN OUT OF POLITICS

IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF HER INQUIRY INTO THIS.

Narrator: STILL, THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE PHOENIX LIGHTS

RAGES FOR YEARS.

THEN, A DECADE LATER, ON MARCH 23, 2007,

BREAKING NEWS REPORTS THE FORMER

ARIZONA GOVERNOR, FIFE SYMINGTON,

REVERSES HIMSELF ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.

Man: HE CONFESSED THAT, NOT ONLY DID HE BELIEVE

THAT THE UFO INCIDENT ACTUALLY HAPPENED,

BUT HE SAID THAT HE HAD SEEN IT, TOO.

HE'S A FORMER PILOT. AND HE SAYS,

"LOOK, I KNOW AIRCRAFT WHEN I SEE THEM.

AND I KNOW FLARES WHEN I SEE THEM.

AND THIS WAS NOT THAT."

Man: THE PHOENIX LIGHTS CASE, IT REMAINS ONE OF THE LARGEST

COMPLETELY UNEXPLAINED MASS UFO

SIGHTINGS IN NOT ONLY U.S. HISTORY BUT IN WORLD HISTORY.

IT'S A HUGE CASE.

AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE.

THERE'S NEVER BEEN A SUFFICIENT EXPLANATION

FOR EXACTLY WHAT THE PHOENIX LIGHTS WERE.

Narrator: IF THE PHOENIX LIGHTS REALLY WERE ALIEN SPACECRAFT,

AS UFO EXPERTS BELIEVE, WHY ARE THEY HERE?

AND WHAT COULD EXPLAIN SUCH EVENTS

IN THE SKIES OVER ARIZONA?

COULD THESE MODERN SIGHTINGS BE CONNECTED TO POSSIBLE

UFO CONTACT SEEN THROUGH HISTORY?

PERHAPS FURTHER EVIDENCE

MAY BE FOUND IN THE NEARBY MOUNTAINS

WHERE LOCAL LEGENDS SPEAK

OF A CENTURIES-LONG RELATIONSHIP

BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND SKY BEINGS.

OVERING

WHAT MOST UFO RESEARCHERS REGARD

AS POSSIBLE EVIDENCE

OF UFO CONTACT WITH HUMANS

THROUGHOUT HISTORY,

INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THE EVENTS OF MARCH, 1997,

KNOWN AS THE PHOENIX LIGHTS,

POINT TO A HISTORIC WORLDWIDE

LINK BETWEEN MODERN AND ANCIENT CULTURES AND UFOs.

AND, IN PHOENIX, THE MYSTERIOUS

SIGHTINGS CONTINUE FOR YEARS TO COME.

Man: WHILE THE PHOENIX LIGHTS IN 1997 ARE PERHAPS

THE BEST-KNOWN SIGHTINGS FROM ARIZONA,

THERE WERE ALSO SIGHTINGS IN 2007,

2008, AND, IN FACT, OTHER OCCASIONS, TOO.

THE QUESTION ARISES,

WHY SHOULD ARIZONA BE SUCH A HOT SPOT

FOR THIS UFO ACTIVITY?

Narrator: ON EACH OCCASION,

WITNESSES SAY THE LIGHTS SEEM TO TRAVEL

A SIMILAR PATH FROM HENDERSON, NEVADA,

SOUTH THROUGH PHOENIX, TOWARD TUCSON.

BUT WHY WOULD UFOs APPEAR TO BE PATROLLING

THE SAME CORRIDOR OF ARIZONA SKIES?

INVESTIGATORS LOOK FOR ANSWERS IN THE REGION'S MYSTERIOUS

CONNECTION TO THE ANCIENT PUEBLO PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR,

THE NATIVE AMERICAN HOPI.

Man: MANY PLACES WHERE STRANGE LIGHTS HAVE BEEN SEEN,

OR STRANGE CRAFT,

TOOK PLACE IN ARIZONA

OVER LAND OF THE TRIBES

OF THAT AREA AND ARE SACRED.

Man: IN THIS AREA, THERE'S A VERY LARGE

NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATION,

INCLUDING THE HOPI AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.

AND, OF COURSE, THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE

A VERY CLOSE RELATIONSHIP

WITH THE GREAT SPIRIT AND THE STAR PEOPLE.

Man: MIGRATION INTO THE NEW WORLD

REALLY BEGAN AROUND 15,000 YEARS AGO.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND EVIDENCE

OF PEOPLE LIVING IN SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

DATING TO ROUGHLY 12,000 YEARS AGO.

Narrator: LIKE THE EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE CONTACT

UNCOVERED IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND PERU,

ANCIENT ARTIFACTS FOUND IN THE MOUNTAINS

OF ARIZONA BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS

MAY CONNECT THE EARLY NATIVE PEOPLE

TO OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS.

HERE, THE EVIDENCE IS FOUND IN MYSTERIOUS PETROGLYPHS,

OR PICTURES ETCHED ON STONE CANYON WALLS.

Man: THERE ARE PETROGLYPHS ALL OVER THE AREA

THAT WERE CARVED BY THE ANCIENT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

OF THE REGIONS THAT SHOW, CLEARLY,

OBJECTS THAT APPEAR TO BE FLYING DISCS

OR FLYING SAUCERS OF SOME KIND.

THEY SHOW BEINGS THAT ARE CALLED THE STAR PEOPLE

THAT BEAR A STRONG RESEMBLANCE

TO THE MODERN-DAY GREY ALIENS

THAT WE SEE TODAY.

AND YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE ACTUAL INDIAN LEGENDS

TO SEE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THEM.

AND WHAT THEY SAY IS THAT THESE ARE THE STAR PEOPLE.

THESE PETROGLYPHS THAT DEPICT BEINGS,

ARE THEY PRIESTS?

ARE THEY OTHER TYPES OF BEINGS?

WE DON'T REALLY KNOW. THEY'RE MYSTERIOUS.

THEY GO BACK CENTURIES.

BUT IT IS TRUE THAT NATIONS THEMSELVES HAD

A LONG HISTORY OF TALKING

ABOUT THEIR CONNECTION TO THESE SKY BEINGS,

THAT THEY WERE CREATED BY

OR WERE TAUGHT BY THESE SKY BEINGS.

Man: PEOPLE SAY THEY'RE DOODLES OR INDIAN GRAFFITI.

IN MY EYES, THEY'RE TRYING TO DEPICT SOMETHING

THEY'D ACTUALLY SEEN,

SOMETHING OTHERWORLDLY, TO A FUTURE GENERATION.

THE PETROGLYPHS, THEY BASICALLY TELL THE STORY OF OUR PEOPLE.

THE IMAGES ARE THE TEACHERS OF OUR PEOPLE.

Narrator: IF THESE DEPICTIONS ARE EVIDENCE

OF HUMAN INTERACTION WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS

IN THE DISTANT PAST, COULD THEY REALLY BE CONNECTED

TO SIGHTINGS OF UFOs MORE RECENTLY?

WHEN THE PHOENIX LIGHTS WERE SEEN

IN THE SOUTHWESTERN SKY OVER THE CITY,

THEY WERE TRAVELING OVER THE ESTRELLA MOUNTAINS.

IN THE SHADOW OF THESE MOUNTAINS

LIES THE GILA RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION,

HOME OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

Man: NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST

HAVE TALKED ABOUT SEEING UFOs IN THE SKY FOR CENTURIES.

THE MOUNTAINS CALLED THE ESTRELLA MOUNTAINS,

WHICH MEANS STAR MOUNTAINS,

THE WORD COMES FROM, UH, WHEN THE --

THE SPANISH ENTERED THAT AREA.

THEY LEARNED, FROM THE LOCAL PEOPLE,

THAT THIS IS WHERE THE STAR BEINGS WOULD COME FROM.

IT SOUNDS A LITTLE BIT

LIKE THEY'RE DESCRIBING KIND OF A PLACE

OR MAYBE A PORTAL WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM TO MEET

WITH THE LOCAL PEOPLE.

Man: THE ESTRELLA MOUNTAINS, WE BELIEVE, ARE SACRED,

ARE PORTALS TO OTHER DIMENSIONS.

OUR PEOPLE WERE GOING THERE

AND EXCHANGING INFORMATION WITH THE TEACHERS.

Man: THE HOPI HAVE A LONG TRADITION OF BELIEF.

THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY ORIGINALLY CAME FROM THE STARS

AND THAT, ONE DAY, PERHAPS, THEY WILL GO BACK TO THE STARS.

DOES THIS MEAN THAT THE HOPI AND OTHER TRIBES

IN THAT AREA WERE INTERACTING WITH THESE VISITORS

AND PERHAPS HAVE BEEN FOR MILLENNIA?

IT BLEW ME AWAY TO LEARN THAT NATIVE CULTURES BELIEVE

THAT THESE PHENOMENA ARE OTHER INTELLIGENCES

COMING TO GIVE THEM GUIDANCE, INSPIRATION AND KNOWLEDGE.

SO, WHEN I NOTICED THESE PHENOMENA, I CALLED THEM UP.

AND I SAID, "DID ANYBODY SEE STRANGE LIGHTS ON MARCH 13TH?"

AND THEY STARTED TO GIGGLE. AND THEY SAID, "ARE YOU KIDDING?

WE'VE BEEN LOOKING UP AT THEM FOR CENTURIES."

THEY CALL THEM SKY PEOPLE, LIGHT BEINGS.

IT'S PART OF THEIR CULTURE.

AND THEY EMBRACE THESE PHENOMENA.

Narrator: LIKE THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CONNECTION

TO THE SUN GOD, HOPI LEGENDS TELL OF A FUTURE

WHERE THE TRIBE'S FAITHFUL WILL BE LIFTED

BY THEIR SO-CALLED GODS TO ANOTHER WORLD

ON WHAT THEY CALL THE DAY OF PURIFICATION.

WE BELIEVE THAT THERE'S GONNA BE A DAY OF PURIFICATION.

THE PEOPLE WHO STAY TRUE AND BELIEVE IN OUR TEACHINGS

AND OUR WAYS ARE THE ONES

THAT ARE GONNA MAKE IT INTO THE NEXT WORLD.

Woman: WHAT IS THIS OTHER PLACE?

IS IT ANOTHER PLANET? WE DON'T KNOW.

BUT IT IS VERY CURIOUS THAT,

NOT ONLY IN THE NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE,

BUT IN MANY OTHER RELIGIONS,

YOU SEE THE SAME TYPE OF THING.

THERE'S A MAJOR DESTRUCTION ON PLANET EARTH.

AND WE ARE GOING SOMEWHERE ELSE.

I'M NOT SURE WHERE THIS OTHER PLACE IS.

BUT THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT THAT IT'S OTHERWORLDLY.

Man: IN THE HOPI COSMOLOGY,

THERE'S THE GREAT JUDGMENT

IF WE'RE STILL AROUND WHEN THAT HAPPENS.

BUT, AT THE END OF THAT,

WHAT'S HOPEFUL IS THAT HUMANKIND GETS IT,

THAT IT USHERS IN A NEW AGE OF HARMONY.

Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THE HOPI

AND OTHER PUEBLO PEOPLE ARE WATCHING

AND WAITING FOR UFOs

THAT WILL TAKE THEM TO THE HOME OF THEIR ANCESTORS?

COULD THE PHOENIX LIGHTS REALLY BE SPACECRAFT

LIKE THOSE DEPICTED IN THE MIDDLE AGES?

AND COULD THE SKY BEINGS THAT VISITED THE EARLY

HOPI BE THE SAME ENTITIES THAT ONCE VISITED ANCIENT EGYPT?

UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE IT'S NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT VERY LIKELY.

WE TEND TO THINK OF THE UFO PHENOMENON AS SOMETHING MODERN.

BUT, WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THESE ANCIENT MYSTERIES,

WHETHER IT'S STRANGE IMAGES IN CAVE DRAWINGS,

PETROGLYPHS, RENAISSANCE ARTWORK,

IT'S INTRIGUING TO DRAW THOSE PARALLELS AND SAY,

"MAYBE WHATEVER'S GOING ON HAS BEEN GOING ON

FOR A VERY LONG TIME."

Narrator: WILL WE DISCOVER FURTHER CLUES

ABOUT MAN'S CONTACT

AND POSSIBLE INTERACTION WITH OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS?

AND, IF SO, WHAT ELSE WILL WE FIND?

WHAT OTHER EVIDENCE WILL BE REVEALED?

MAYBE, ONE DAY, WE MIGHT DISCOVER A PROFOUND TRUTH

ABOUT MAN AND OUR POSSIBLE CONTACT

WITH UFOs.

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