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Narrator: A couple driving in New Hampshire

encounters a UFO

and become the first alien abductees

to make national headlines.

Barney became terrified, screaming to Betty

that they had to get out of there

Or they were going to be captured.

Narrator: For the first time on television,

the story of co-workers taken captive by aliens...

...And the secret police recordings of what happened.

He levitated me, and we started going to the craft.

To be taken forcibly on board a craft is terrifying.

Narrator: And leading-edge science and surgery

reveals shocking evidence

Of extraterrestrial implants inside of UFO abductees.

Smith: During hypnotic regression,

they will describe something being put in their bodies.

Narrator: Could these implants finally provide

the smoking-gun proof that alien abduction is real?

September 19, 1961, upstate New Hampshire,

just south of Lancaster, in the Franconia Notch.

At about 10:00 P.M., Betty and Barney Hill

are driving home from a vacation in Niagara Falls.

What they never could have imagined

was that this drive would lead

to one of the most famous cases of alien abduction in history.

The moon was about three-quarters full,

and Betty began to wonder if she was seeing a satellite.

So she asked Barney to stop

so that she could look at this thing through binoculars.

Narrator: Kathleen Marden is the niece of Betty and Barney,

and she recalls that night with all the emotion of the story

as told to her directly by her aunt and uncle.

Marden: They sat there and continued to watch the UFO

as it came closer and closer and closer.

This really sparked her curiosity.

And then it started bouncing back and forth in the sky

In a very unusual pattern.

Narrator: A UFO skeptic, Barney finds it hard

to explain the movement of the strange light.

Marden: He also wanted to get home.

He didn't want to admit that he was wrong,

that this was an unusual flying object.

Narrator: Betty and Barney continue their drive,

following the unusual light.

Then, a mile north of Lincoln,

suddenly the UFO rapidly descends in front of their car.

Dolan: They realize it's coming lower, very low,

so much to the point that Barney stops the car and he gets out.

In fact, Betty was calling after him,

and he's just, like, saying, "hang on."

He goes out there.

He had the binoculars, and he looked up at that craft,

and what he saw was what he described

as looking like a huge pancake.

There were lights that he could see along the front edge

of this huge pancake craft.

Narrator: And as it descends within 100 feet,

Barney can see windows in the craft

where several figures stared back at him.

Barney became terrified.

He was looking at one figure staring down at him,

and he thought that figure had a plan to capture him

like "a bug in a net."

He ran screaming to Betty that they had to get out of there.

He got into the car and starts speeding down route 3.

Narrator: As they race away, the UFO craft follows.

When Betty looks back,

she sees the craft following right behind them.

Then it seems to disappear.

She thought that the UFO had left the area.

He told Betty to roll down the window and look up

because he thought that it might now be above their vehicle.

She didn't realize immediately that it was hovering

just above their vehicle.

All of a sudden, they felt a tingling sensation

pass through their bodies.

The car vibrated, and the next thing they knew,

they were 35 miles down the highway

with no memory of what had occurred in the interim.

Narrator: But as they continued to drive,

Betty and Barney Hill are overcome

With a growing uneasy feeling

that something is terribly wrong.

By the time the Hills arrive home,

their uneasy feeling turns to shock

when they realize it's two hours later then they expected.

Even more disturbing, they have no memory of what happened

during the two missing hours.

One of the components of what I investigate

is what we call missing time,

and this is exactly what Betty and Barney experienced.

They were missing two hours.

And this was something that kind of bothered them.

We have tens of thousands of these reports.

And what we find is when there's missing time, you know,

they haven't fallen asleep on the side of the road.

Marden: Barney immediately went into the home

and checked his body out.

He had vague memories of something

being placed on his body that he didn't like at all.

Narrator: Betty discovers her dress is torn

in several places, but has no memory of how or why.

Dolan: I met Betty back in 2002, and she had the dress with her.

Like, this was something that was very important for her,

and I got to see it myself personally,

and it obviously had different kinds of markings.

It looked like it was damaged.

All of that was true.

Narrator: The next day, the Hills are reluctant

to share news of their encounter with anyone.

Betty and Barney did not want to bring this story

to the public for several reasons,

but one of those was that she was white and he was black.

They didn't want to draw attention to themselves.

Dolan: They were an interracial couple in an era

where that was still very unusual.

We're talking early 1960s here.

Barney was an active member of the NAACP.

Betty Hill was a social worker.

Also very equally active and engaged in the community,

and a lot of people knew them and really respected them,

so they had everything to lose and nothing to gain

by putting their story out there.

Narrator: Then, two days after the incident, on September 21st,

the Hills call Pease Air Force base

in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,

to report their encounter, and while on the phone,

The Air Force actually confirms that UFO sightings

were noted on the same night in radar reports

made by two separate aviation facilities.

Still, over the next few days, the Hills continue to wrestle

with the feeling that a part of their encounter is missing.

But when those memories began to emerge,

what they had experienced would prove

shocking beyond imagination.

Marden: She started to have dreams

that seemed too real to be dreams.

Pope: What emerged was that this object actually landed

and they were forcibly taken.

Narrator: While driving home just south

of New Hampshire's Franconia Notch,

Betty and Barney will encounter a UFO.

And in following weeks, they begin having nightmares

about terrifying events

that may have occurred during two hours of missing drive time.

This was a five-hour drive, and yet it took seven hours.

So there were two hours of missing time.

What happened in those two hours?

That question, of course, gets to the heart

of the alien abduction mystery.

In my experience working with these cases

is that partly it's the subconscious mind

blocking some of these memories

and then bubbling up to the surface eventually.

And partly it could be the alien beings

are programming people not to remember.

Narrator: Increasingly disturbed by fragmented memories

of their encounter and recurring nightmares,

Betty and Barney seek the help of a noted psychiatrist,

Dr. Benjamin Simon.

Dr. Simon interviewed Betty and Barney separately and together,

and then he began six months of separate hypnosis sessions.

Narrator: Dr. Simon uses a then revolutionary technique

known as hypnotic regression,

a process by which Betty and Barney

are put under a trance

and then are encouraged to recall memories

that are not available to the conscious mind.

Smith: When I have a person in hypnotic regression,

they will relive this experience.

Men and women will go through

what they went through back then --

The trauma, the fear, they're crying.

Narrator: In sessions lasting over six months,

Dr. Simon uncovers shocking facts

about the first ever modern account

of an alien abduction.

Audio recordings of hypnosis sessions never before heard

on national television reveal the frightening moment

when Betty and Barney are taken.

[ screaming ]

Pope: Betty Hill told me she resisted.

She described it to me as almost like getting in a fistfight

with these entities, whatever they were.

She became terrified when they tried to take her.

And she fought for her life.

Smith: It was very frightening

Because they saw these beings approach the car,

and they took them out of the car

and led them into the craft.

Narrator: According to their own words,

once inside the craft,

Betty and Barney are taken to separate sterile environments.

They are placed on tables

where extraterrestrials begin to examine them.

Marden: First, they wanted to remove her dress,

but they didn't know how to operate a zipper.

They tried to pull it apart.

It tore the stitching and it tore the thick zipper fabric.

They examined their hands, their feet, their joints,

and they seem to do a test of their nervous systems.

They seem to be counting his vertebrae

as they would push on his spine with something.

For Betty, she believed it was part of her neurological test,

so they underwent the same type of examination separately.

[ shouting indistinctly ]

Marden: At the end of Betty's examination,

The examiner produced a very large needle,

and he plunged the needle into her naval,

causing so much trauma,

so much pain that dr. Simon had to end the session early.

Narrator: Betty and Barney's sessions

are incredibly disturbing,

And yet their stories are remarkably similar.

Pope: Whatever happened to Betty and Barney Hill,

they believe that it happened, and they are reporting it

as accurately and truthfully as they know how.

Now, dr. Benjamin Simon didn't go so far as to say it's real

and they've been on a spaceship,

but his point was they believe that it's real

and they've been on a spaceship.

Narrator: After six months of hypnosis therapy,

Betty and Barney believe they've uncovered the truth

about their close encounter.

In time, they accept what happened

and move on with their lives.

Marden: Betty and Barney decided to tell the family,

close friends,

and they spoke to scientists

and UFO investigators who were interested.

They also spoke to the Air Force,

and they made a Project Blue Book report.

Narrator: The hills' encounter becomes the first

widely publicized credible report

of alien abduction in history.

Parker: I noticed some blue lights coming across.

We stood up, looked around,

and a door on the craft had just slid open.

Narrator: Years after Betty and Barney's UFO encounter,

two co-workers experience a landmark case of abduction

that is the most compelling and horrifying of all.

[ screaming ]

Narrator: The alleged abduction of Betty and Barney Hill

is an extraordinary case made all the more credible

because it involved more than one person,

even though details were recalled

only while under hypnosis.

But what about a shocking case

where co-workers remained conscious

and able to recall their entire terrifying experience?

October 11, 1973, Pascagoula, Mississippi.

It's 6:00 P.M. When 42-year-old Charlie Hickson

And 19-year-old Calvin Parker get off work.

The men are looking for a spot to go fishing here

Along the west bank of the Pascagoula river.

Only a teenager at the time,

it would take Calvin nearly 50 years

to finally come to terms with what happened

that October night,

and for the first time ever on national television,

Calvin Parker shares the story

of what he wishes never happened.

Parker: October 11th I remember the rest of my life.

So, we had got up and I seen the trespassing signs,

and I had told Charlie,

"I don't think we need to fish here.

They got no trespassing."

And he said, "Aw, don't worry about it, son.

I fish here all the time."

We got sat down, and I remember sitting on the pier

and casting out.

Narrator: It's a clear night,

and the moon is already out as the two men

drop their lines in the water.

Then something very strange begins to happen.

Parker: I noticed some blue lights coming across,

and that was the same color lights -- hazy blue lights --

that the police department always had.

I just knew we was gonna get took to jail or run off.

And I stood up, turned around.

The door on the craft had just slid open.

That's when I seen the bright lights.

And I couldn't figure out what was going on.

I actually thought to myself they're shining

a spotlight on us.

Narrator: In a tape recording made later that evening

with the local sheriff,

Charlie Hickson, who has since passed away,

describes the scene.

Parker: It was so bright, it was blinding.

We couldn't see nothing until it got right up on me,

and then I seen it was something not from this world.

And that's when I knew I was scared and needed a place to go.

The craft, I would say, was from 80 to 100 foot long.

It was probably 8 foot tall.

It wasn't very tall.

And it kind of shaped oblong, like a football.

And I remember two windows being in the front of the craft

Right there.

The description of the craft is really interesting.

This oval, almost tear-drop-shaped craft.

This is not a shape that I recognize

from a science-fiction film.

This is not even something

that I've really seen in the UFO literature.

If these people had been making this story up,

you would've expected them to have sourced it

from something that's been seen before.

Narrator: Disoriented by the craft's piercing lights,

Calvin Parker and Charlie Hickson

are feeling trapped.

And the lights was coming from inside that craft,

and that blinded us from seeing what was going on.

What had happened when we got to where we could see,

it was three robotic-looking beings

that was coming toward us.

Narrator: These illustrations of the creatures are based

on descriptions from Parker and Hickson.

They looked very unusual, and to me,

there is no other case in UFO history

where the beings looked quite like this.

Parker: They had wrinkled skin, like kind of on an elephant --

Gray, wrinkled skin.

I couldn't tell if they had clothes on

or anything like that.

They had a move like robotic-looking move, you know.

Lukes: The idea that biological life forms

wouldn't be able to transfer space

but would send robots to do that is becoming much more accepted.

And yet, back in 1973, Parker and Hickson said

that's what they encountered.

Parker: I know that one got ahold of me.

Two of them got ahold of him.

He levitated me, and we started going to the craft,

to the front door of it.

Narrator: Once inside the craft, Hickson and Parker are sedated.

Parker: And they laid me on an examination table.

I was looking in there, rolling my eyes.

I couldn't move my head,

'cause I was able to see and I was conscious of my hearing,

my sight, my smell, but I wasn't able to turn my head.

All I could do was just look whichever direction

they pointed me.

And the light just appeared to illuminate out of the walls.

You couldn't see any light fixtures or anything,

And it was still bright.

While they were in the police station,

the officer on duty secretly recorded their conversation.

These guys were 100% telling the truth.

Narrator: While fishing along the Pascagoula river

in Mississippi,

Charlie Hickson and Calvin Parker

Claim to have been abducted by alien creatures

and taken into an alien spacecraft.

To be taken forcibly on a craft against your own will

and to be subjected to strange experiments

is one of the most terrifying things

anybody would have to deal with.

Narrator: As Parker lies scared and immobilized on a table,

extraterrestrial androids begin their examination.

That's when the old big, ugly creature --

And I describe him as a grayish-looking,

mechanical, robotic-looking creature.

I couldn't tell if it had on any space suit.

He stepped back, and when he did,

there was another feminine --

I call this a female.

Narrator: Parker describes the two gray droids

as having crab-like claws.

But the feminine humanoid has five finger-like talons.

Parker: Then she took a finger and run it down my throat,

Tried to come up through my nasal cavities,

and that's when I started trying to come back to.

You know, I wanted to beat her to death

'cause that was painful.

Narrator: In fact, the pain is so unbearable

that Parker thinks the alien is going to kill him.

Then, all of a sudden -- I wore a white t-shirt at the time --

It was already blood running down.

and she backed up out of the way,

and then the old, big, ugly one come in,

one that was mechanical-looking, and I think he was a soldier.

And they mumbled, and he grabbed me by the arm,

and it must've injected something into it again

'cause I got relaxed all at one time again.

Narrator: Then, right away, the droid soldier lifts Parker

in his claws and moves toward the door.

Parker: That's when he picked us up

and took us back out to the river,

about exactly at the same spot.

That's the first time I had heard Charlie or even seen him.

And I looked, and this thing -- the lights went off,

and it picked up off the ground a little bit

and just shot straight up into the air and disappeared.

Narrator: Later that night,

Parker and Hickson do something extraordinary.

For the first time in history, UFO abductees

go immediately to the police after the encounter

to file a report, thus creating

an almost real-time record of their experience.

Parker is taken into one room for questioning.

Hickson is taken into another and interviewed

by sheriff Fred Diamond.

Tindal: The Hickson/Parker case from 1973

is extremely interesting.

What I think makes the case extremely credible

is the evidence that we have of a secret recording

that was done after the interview.

Narrator: After being questioned separately,

The men are brought into a third room

And left alone together.

Unknown to them, there is a hidden microphone.

While they were in the police station,

the officer on duty --

This is a very interesting thing he did.

He said, "I'm gonna leave the room for a minute,"

and he secretly left a tape recorder

going to record their conversation

because I think he was suspicious, like,

"were they making something up or not."

Narrator: This is the actual conversation

Between Calvin Parker and Charlie Hickson.

Then I read the transcript

of when they were having a conversation with each other,

And Calvin was just --

You know, he was out of his mind with fear.

And I think he had a pretty hard time for a while

after his experience.

Narrator: The secret audio tape made without their knowledge

confirms for UFO researchers the credibility of Parker

and Hickson's encounter.

Pope: Calvin Parker had only just arrived in Pascagoula,

and this was his first day of work,

and this got him fired.

So who is going to put themselves in that situation?

It seems impossible to believe.

Dolan: And what you really get from the recording

is that these guys were 100% telling the truth.

Like, they were in a state of bewilderment and fear

over what they had experienced.

Skeptics can just say some people want attention

or it's sleep paralysis or it's some kind of fantasy,

but the problem is, like, that's almost never the reason.

That's almost never what's going on.

Narrator: According to recently uncovered evidence,

Hickson and Parker report the incident

to nearby Keesler Air Force base the very next day,

and in a stunning revelation, the official transcript notes

that two additional people corroborated their story

by reporting a UFO at approximately the same time.

One of them was a Pascagoula law enforcement officer.

Later that week, Pascagoula becomes the center

of an international media frenzy.

And in the weeks that follow,

Calvin Parker is eventually hospitalized

for an emotional breakdown.

38 years later, in 2011, charles Hickson dies at age 80,

having never changed any details of his story.

And neither has Calvin Parker.

The reason I want everybody to know now

is my family, my friends,

and the general public that lives around me

won't think I'm crazy for a neighbor.

Narrator: For UFO researchers,

the abduction of Calvin and charles,

who remained conscious during their ordeal

and reported it to police,

built powerfully on the evidence that abductions were real,

as first established by the hypnosis revelations

of Betty and Barney hill.

But as compelling as these cases are,

could it be that we've finally uncovered the smoking-gun

evidence that proves these stories once and for all?

Pope: Dr. Roger Leir claims that alien abductees

Had been implanted with small devices.

The cocoons were, in fact,

impossible to be inside the body.

Narrator: For UFO researchers,

first-person accounts of alien abduction offered

compelling evidence that these are harrowing stories were true.

But what they lacked was smoking-gun proof

of extraterrestrial involvement.

Or at least they did until 1995.

That's when Derrel Sims,

a leading expert on alien abduction,

is approached by a woman named Patricia,

who claims that she too

had been the victim of an alien abduction.

Patricia told me about a remarkable experience

with her family and herself involving a UFO

and apparently missing time or contact

as some people refer to it.

Narrator: In an exclusive first-hand account,

Derrel Sims shares what he's been doing

to bring these stories to the public.

Sims: Patricia had a splinter in her foot,

and her doctor -- he said, "well, let's just take an x-ray

and just make sure everything's okay."

He took an x-ray, and he came back puzzled.

He said, "when did you get these surgical clips in your feet?"

And she said, "what are you talking about?

What surgical clips?"

And he said, "Well, it looks like you've had an osteotomy.

They've put surgical clips in your feet."

And she's like, "I've never had a surgery in my entire life."

Narrator: To solve the mystery,

Sims flies with Patricia to california to see a specialist.

Dr. Roger Leir was a podiatrist, a foot and ankle surgeon,

who specialized in looking into claims

that some of these alien abductees

had been implanted with small devices of some kind.

Narrator: After examining Patricia,

Dr. Leir agrees to perform exploratory surgery.

In short order, he locates

and removes a foreign object from her foot.

Leir: That's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it.

I got it.

Narrator: Surprisingly, he finds the hard object

surrounded by a biological cocoon of tissue.

The biological tissue, yes, will eventually be removed

and then it'll be sent in for separate analysis.

That's before we get to the metal.

Later that same day,

dr. Leir removes a second foreign object from another patient.

The people that Roger Leir dealt with

were people who came to him

because they had the strong feeling

that they'd had an alien abduction experience.

Narrator: Again, dr. Leir finds a foreign object

surrounded by a similar strange cocoon.

When you look at the objects on x-ray,

all you see is metal objects inside the body,

next to the bone.

When we surgically opened these people up,

we didn't see the metal at all.

It was hidden inside these cocoons

of each of these two people.

So we took the objects to the pathologist,

and to his shock and amazement,

the cocoons were, in fact, cocooned of a material

that he said was impossible to be inside the body.

He said, "This is a keratin-esque material."

I said, "What does that mean?"

He said, "Keratin is your fingernails,

your surface skin, your hair."

It doesn't exist inside the body next to bone.

So that's our first hint that, in fact,

there may be something alien-related here.

Narrator: Going deeper for answers,

Dr. Leir turns to Steve Colbern,

A chemist and material scientist,

to conduct further tests.

Colbern: This is one of the implants

at 10-times magnification

after it was removed from the body,

before any dissection of the skin layer had been done,

and you can see that dark area --

That's the metallic core underneath.

Narrator: For colbern,

the objects are clearly very strange.

There's no inflammation around the objects,

and that's almost unheard of.

There's nerves growing into the devices,

and that's very unusual.

Narrator: According to Colbern, a connection between the object

and the human nervous system

indicates a sophisticated interface

between the implant and its recipient.

But that's not all.

Once the metallic core is exposed to air,

it soon turns reddish in color.

I decided to compare it to an actual meteorite.

You can see from these pictures how similar they are

in tone and color and general appearance.

We found out that the metallic core

was made of meteoritic iron.

That was one of the most unusual things about it

and really stood out.

Narrator: Could the implant really be made of iron

from outer space?

For Derrel Sims, Colbern's incredible analysis leads to

an intriguing opportunity to double-check the results.

I was contacted by the National Institute for Discovery Science,

and I went before 18 scientists.

Narrator: Based in Las Vegas, Nevada,

The National Institute for Discovery Science

was a privately financed research group

founded by Bob Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace,

and according to the New York Times'

breaking news on December 16, 2017,

Bob Bigelow had been working with the Pentagon's secret

UFO research project.

Sims: So, Bob Bigelow had the object sent off

to Los Alamos labs.

They found 11 different elements

that did not belong on this particular metal.

So I said, "What's so unusual about the metal?"

Well, the metal is from a rare meteorite.

Los Alamos was so stunned with this study,

they shipped them off to New Mexico tech

For further evaluation.

New Mexico tech found some of the metal

To be as hard as the hardest steel known to man

and other parts of the metal to be soft carbon and magnetic.

What they found specifically in the metal objects

that were retrieved from these people

was that the metal was off-world.

Narrator: An off-world metal implanted in humans?

What could possibly account for this stunning conclusion?

What the scientists found is that these metal objects

found inside these people were extraterrestrial in origin.

They obviously came from outer space.

Narrator: For UFO researchers, leading-edge scientific scrutiny

finally offers physical proof that alien technology

is being implanted into the bodies of UFO abductees.

Coming up, an even closer look reveals

how these implants may be influencing the human mind.

Narrator: According to UFO researchers,

off-world metal surgically removed

by dr. Roger Leir provides physical evidence

that aliens placed implants into the bodies of UFO abductees.

There have been a number of these

that have been extracted from people.

The real question to get into is why this happens.

But UFO researchers believe

that there is an alien implant phenomenon.

Narrator: After receiving implant specimens from dr. Leir,

scientist Steve Colbern begins his groundbreaking analysis.

Viewed with an electron microscope

at nearly 75,000-times magnification,

the results are nothing short of stunning.

Colbern: The shot on the left is a shot of the metallic core

of the object.

The picture on the right is a little bit higher magnification

shot of what looks like a carbon nanotube wire

that might be one of the main connections of the device.

That is a view of fibers that were found inside the object.

They turned out to be carbon nanotubes.

Narrator: Artificially engineered,

carbon nanotubes consist of a single atomic layer

of carbon atoms rolled into a tube,

measuring only a billionth of a meter in diameter.

Thought of as beyond cutting-edge technology,

carbon nanotubes provide for extreme electrical conductivity

and super-efficient transmission of electrons.

They can also boost energy storage by a factor of 10,000.

Nanotechnology is the science of building machines

at the molecular level.

We're only just beginning to experiment with this technology.

If this is nanotechnology

and if these devices are turning up inside of people

who claim to have had alien abduction experiences,

what's going on?

Narrator: Upon further investigation,

what Steve Colbern finds shakes him to his core.

Colbern: Something in the device acts as an antenna to allow it

to broadcast radio waves,

and any small object that is emitting radio signals

has to be something that's a device,

rather than just an inert piece of material.

Dolan: I think there's a very good case to be made

that they're tracking devices.

These objects do emit an RF frequency

that would presumably be useful to find someone.

It'd be like an RFID chip in a sense

where you can store a certain amount of information on it,

like your medical record and history type of thing,

and some of these implants could, indeed,

be used to not just track, but maybe influence.

Who knows?

Narrator: For UFO investigators,

Colbern's astonishing findings are persuasive evidence.

I look at all the evidence together,

and I think it's proof positive that someone is coming here

from beyond earth and putting these objects in people.

Pope: If ever there was hard evidence

that these UFO encounters,

these alien abduction claims are real, then it's the implants.

For somebody like dr. Roger Leir to conduct

these surgeries and remove these objects,

I think, really takes the whole story to a different level.

This could be the smoking gun.

Narrator: Could the evidence of alien implants really be

undeniable proof

that we are being visited by extraterrestrials?

And might this also confirm that alien abduction is real?

No one really knows the exact amount

of how many contact events happen,

but we have government as well as some anecdotal evidence

that suggests to us that it's in the thousands every year.

Having been in the CIA for a two-year period

in covert operations,

I absolutely do know that there, in fact,

is a "alien program" ongoing.

Narrator: Overwhelming evidence continues to mount

that stories of alien abduction are real --

From terrifying memories

of being taken revealed by hypnosis...

...to gripping accounts of fully conscious abduction

reported to police...

...to smoking-gun evidence of alien implants in UFO abductees.

Leir: That's it.

Narrator: But proving the truth of these stories still leaves

unanswered the most unsettling questions of all.

Why have they come for us?

And what are their intentions?

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