1 00:00:01,686 --> 00:00:05,019 (soft mysterious music) 2 00:00:09,691 --> 00:00:11,840 - [Narrator] A troubling and persistent phenomenon 3 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,110 has been occurring throughout history 4 00:00:14,110 --> 00:00:16,890 to people on Earth for centuries. 5 00:00:16,890 --> 00:00:19,440 The belief that they are being taken by beings 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,090 from some other place, 7 00:00:21,090 --> 00:00:23,823 perhaps outer space or another dimension. 8 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:27,750 These people have real memories 9 00:00:27,750 --> 00:00:30,510 of being taken secretly against their will 10 00:00:30,510 --> 00:00:32,860 by apparently non-human entities 11 00:00:32,860 --> 00:00:35,300 and subjected to complex physical 12 00:00:35,300 --> 00:00:37,243 and psychological procedures. 13 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,960 People claiming to have been abducted 14 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,877 are usually called abductees or experiencers. 15 00:00:46,660 --> 00:00:48,570 There are famous modern cases, 16 00:00:48,570 --> 00:00:51,150 such as the Betty and Barney Hill abduction, 17 00:00:51,150 --> 00:00:54,170 the Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker abduction 18 00:00:54,170 --> 00:00:56,123 and the Travis Walton abduction. 19 00:00:57,270 --> 00:01:02,250 However, for every well-documented abduction case on record 20 00:01:02,250 --> 00:01:05,030 there are hundreds of less-known cases 21 00:01:05,030 --> 00:01:08,893 where people have experienced alien abductions. 22 00:01:10,250 --> 00:01:12,180 Each have unique differences 23 00:01:13,770 --> 00:01:16,033 but all have a common thread. 24 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:22,300 - The term abductee has been used a lot over the years 25 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:26,500 to explain how some unknown intelligence, 26 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:28,380 it might be extraterrestrial, 27 00:01:28,380 --> 00:01:31,030 might even be from another dimension or another time, 28 00:01:31,950 --> 00:01:34,730 that these entities have come to take people 29 00:01:34,730 --> 00:01:36,730 against their will, do things, 30 00:01:36,730 --> 00:01:39,010 they take them away, they do things to these people 31 00:01:39,010 --> 00:01:41,010 that are very unpleasant 32 00:01:41,010 --> 00:01:43,740 and the whole thing leaves the person 33 00:01:43,740 --> 00:01:48,740 that went through this type of experience very victimized 34 00:01:48,890 --> 00:01:53,890 but the term experiencer is a bit more loose. 35 00:01:54,420 --> 00:01:58,980 It is just indicating that somebody's encountered 36 00:02:00,070 --> 00:02:02,550 an intelligence but not necessarily 37 00:02:02,550 --> 00:02:05,000 been traumatized by it in all cases, 38 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,820 not necessarily been taken in all cases, 39 00:02:08,820 --> 00:02:11,800 just they've come into contact with it. 40 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,110 The term contactee actually was another term 41 00:02:14,110 --> 00:02:17,980 that was used back in the '50s, a little bit in the '60s. 42 00:02:17,980 --> 00:02:19,810 That kind of the thing is no longer in vogue. 43 00:02:19,810 --> 00:02:24,180 But experiencer is, I think, the proper term for it 44 00:02:24,180 --> 00:02:25,770 because not everybody's taken 45 00:02:25,770 --> 00:02:28,853 and those who go are not always taken against their will. 46 00:02:30,549 --> 00:02:33,882 (soft mysterious music) 47 00:02:40,383 --> 00:02:42,590 - [Narrator] The study of the alien abduction phenomemon 48 00:02:42,590 --> 00:02:46,570 often begins with a UFO sighting. 49 00:02:46,570 --> 00:02:48,880 The sighting make occur in childhood 50 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,840 and the individual will have UFO encounters 51 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:53,213 throughout their lives. 52 00:02:55,930 --> 00:02:58,810 Many abductees remember their encounters 53 00:02:58,810 --> 00:03:02,177 but some require hypnosis regression 54 00:03:02,177 --> 00:03:05,534 to draw out details of their experience. 55 00:03:05,534 --> 00:03:08,867 (soft mysterious music) 56 00:03:11,566 --> 00:03:16,096 Often they do not realize that an early childhood encounter 57 00:03:16,096 --> 00:03:19,679 has led to a lifetime of alien experiences. 58 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,020 - My whole family were going to bed at 11 o'clock 59 00:03:26,020 --> 00:03:29,470 and I looked out the window from my bedroom 60 00:03:29,470 --> 00:03:34,380 and I saw this green, shimmering light in the sky 61 00:03:34,380 --> 00:03:39,380 and below the clouds, a small point in the sky 62 00:03:40,470 --> 00:03:45,470 maybe 500, tops 1,000 feet in the air. 63 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,790 So it was will within our atmosphere. 64 00:03:48,790 --> 00:03:50,880 And the smoke was blowing out 65 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,810 with green shimmering lights behind it. 66 00:03:53,810 --> 00:03:57,407 I called to my mother, "The sky is green." 67 00:03:58,340 --> 00:04:00,490 And she comes in and she looks. 68 00:04:00,490 --> 00:04:02,610 Sure enough the sky was green 69 00:04:02,610 --> 00:04:07,220 and pretty soon my whole family, 70 00:04:07,220 --> 00:04:09,510 my parents, my sister and myself 71 00:04:09,510 --> 00:04:12,330 were out on the front lawn. 72 00:04:12,330 --> 00:04:15,310 So it was summer, because we were still in our pajamas 73 00:04:15,310 --> 00:04:16,507 and I wasn't cold. 74 00:04:16,507 --> 00:04:18,810 My father didn't know what it was. 75 00:04:18,810 --> 00:04:22,400 My mother said, "It's the second coming." 76 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,600 Very religious woman 77 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,640 and she thought it was the second coming 78 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:31,210 'cause none of us had any clue as to what it was. 79 00:04:31,210 --> 00:04:34,510 But it was a huge craft, perfectly silent, 80 00:04:34,510 --> 00:04:38,380 huge round lights of various colors, 81 00:04:38,380 --> 00:04:43,380 none of which were FAA standard, and just sat there. 82 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,520 And then we looked up to the left 83 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:51,520 and here's a little funnel cloud of smoke coming down. 84 00:04:52,370 --> 00:04:56,620 - The room was lit up completely but my eyes were closed. 85 00:04:56,620 --> 00:05:00,100 I knew somehow not to open my eyes. 86 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:02,450 There was something telling me don't open your eyes 87 00:05:02,450 --> 00:05:05,400 because you don't want the light, you won't be able to see. 88 00:05:06,460 --> 00:05:08,340 Eventually I did open my eyes 89 00:05:08,340 --> 00:05:10,340 because I could hear noise in the room, 90 00:05:10,340 --> 00:05:12,460 there was like scuffling on the floor. 91 00:05:12,460 --> 00:05:17,163 I open my eyes, there were three small, gray beings 92 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,800 with big black eyes, big heads 93 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,083 and very skinny spindly limbs. 94 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:29,200 They pulled me up out of the bed and then with one behind me 95 00:05:31,860 --> 00:05:34,710 and one each side of me holding my elbows 96 00:05:34,710 --> 00:05:37,510 walked me towards the window. 97 00:05:37,510 --> 00:05:39,840 And I'm thinking, well the windows are closed guys 98 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:42,790 so you better open them before we go any further. 99 00:05:42,790 --> 00:05:46,250 So there was this rationality-irrationality going on 100 00:05:46,250 --> 00:05:47,183 at the same time. 101 00:05:48,730 --> 00:05:51,793 - And it was later. 102 00:05:52,860 --> 00:05:57,290 My sister just didn't pay any more attention after that. 103 00:05:57,290 --> 00:06:00,750 And under hypnosis, it was revealed that 104 00:06:01,810 --> 00:06:05,410 this little tornado of smoke that came down 105 00:06:06,369 --> 00:06:08,263 had a craft, a smaller craft in it, 106 00:06:09,770 --> 00:06:13,453 and small, gray beings came out of the craft, 107 00:06:14,540 --> 00:06:17,000 took me and then took her, 108 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,870 she remembers them taking me and then taking her, 109 00:06:20,870 --> 00:06:22,694 to be examined. 110 00:06:22,694 --> 00:06:23,970 She doesn't know what happened with me 111 00:06:23,970 --> 00:06:26,640 but she knows what happened with her. 112 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:28,210 And then returned us. 113 00:06:28,210 --> 00:06:30,690 We don't know if our parents were taken or not 114 00:06:30,690 --> 00:06:34,660 because when she was returned, 115 00:06:34,660 --> 00:06:38,390 I was back on the lawn and so were my parents. 116 00:06:38,390 --> 00:06:43,390 We were all just looking up, like we were frozen in time. 117 00:06:43,390 --> 00:06:44,223 Okay? 118 00:06:45,846 --> 00:06:49,670 - And as we approach the window, I closed my eyes 119 00:06:49,670 --> 00:06:53,760 and as I did, I felt this stickiness. 120 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,570 It was like, it was a stickiness and a feeling 121 00:06:57,570 --> 00:07:00,470 of something being pulled very slowly across my face. 122 00:07:00,470 --> 00:07:03,363 It wasn't painful, just very very weird. 123 00:07:04,570 --> 00:07:07,800 The next, I open my eyes because I felt cold, 124 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,770 I felt wind on my face and I was aware 125 00:07:10,770 --> 00:07:14,380 that I was now floating outside of the window 126 00:07:14,380 --> 00:07:17,810 three stories up, looking down at the car park 127 00:07:17,810 --> 00:07:20,610 with a very bright light above my head. 128 00:07:20,610 --> 00:07:22,500 I couldn't really see what was above my head. 129 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:25,230 I was just very aware of this very bright light. 130 00:07:25,230 --> 00:07:29,090 One little gray on each elbow, I was aware of them. 131 00:07:29,090 --> 00:07:32,290 And we floated up into the craft. 132 00:07:32,290 --> 00:07:34,040 - And then I can only assume 133 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,730 this is the missing time phenomenon, okay? 134 00:07:36,730 --> 00:07:40,193 So when we were all back in place, 135 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,233 we were switched back on, so to speak, 136 00:07:45,300 --> 00:07:46,650 and the craft had departed. 137 00:07:46,650 --> 00:07:48,733 All there was left was that smoke. 138 00:07:50,143 --> 00:07:53,476 (soft mysterious music) 139 00:08:06,730 --> 00:08:09,813 (gentle piano music) 140 00:08:20,260 --> 00:08:22,880 - [Narrator] The late professor John Edward Mack, 141 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:26,230 a respected Harvard University psychiatrist, 142 00:08:26,230 --> 00:08:29,840 was asked to investigate an experiencer's case 143 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,830 and became so perplexed by the phenomenon 144 00:08:32,830 --> 00:08:35,530 that he devoted a substantial amount of time 145 00:08:35,530 --> 00:08:38,123 to investigating additional cases. 146 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:46,153 His desire was to understand objectively what was going on. 147 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,310 Professor Mack eventually concluded 148 00:08:50,310 --> 00:08:52,840 that the only phenomenon in psychiatry 149 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,040 that adequately explained the patient symptoms 150 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,470 in several of the most compelling cases 151 00:08:59,470 --> 00:09:02,143 was post-traumatic stress disorder. 152 00:09:02,980 --> 00:09:06,250 This would imply that the patient genuinely believed 153 00:09:06,250 --> 00:09:09,070 that the remembered frightening incident 154 00:09:09,070 --> 00:09:11,380 had really occurred. 155 00:09:11,380 --> 00:09:13,530 - These people have been examined by myself, 156 00:09:13,530 --> 00:09:15,190 they've been tested psychologically, 157 00:09:15,190 --> 00:09:18,060 they are of above average intelligence, 158 00:09:18,060 --> 00:09:19,100 they are of sound mind, 159 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:22,180 they've been shown as of superior mental functioning 160 00:09:22,180 --> 00:09:25,140 by the testers, so there is not indication 161 00:09:25,140 --> 00:09:26,900 of any kind of psychiatric condition 162 00:09:26,900 --> 00:09:28,960 that can account for this that I've been able to find. 163 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,280 In fact, when one abductee 164 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,520 hears the story of another abductee, 165 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:34,610 they react with shock 166 00:09:34,610 --> 00:09:36,390 because they don't want to believe it's true. 167 00:09:36,390 --> 00:09:38,150 They would rather believe it's a dream 168 00:09:38,150 --> 00:09:39,320 or a form of mental illness 169 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:40,550 than that this is something real 170 00:09:40,550 --> 00:09:43,770 because it's so shuttering to their notion of reality 171 00:09:43,770 --> 00:09:46,350 and that's happened over and over again 172 00:09:46,350 --> 00:09:48,350 among the people I've been working with. 173 00:09:49,661 --> 00:09:52,578 (soft piano music) 174 00:09:56,230 --> 00:09:59,300 - [Narrator] Alien abductions can occur at any time 175 00:09:59,300 --> 00:10:01,740 throughout an individual's life. 176 00:10:01,740 --> 00:10:03,993 They are rarely a one time event. 177 00:10:05,049 --> 00:10:07,966 (soft piano music) 178 00:10:10,750 --> 00:10:15,360 Many abductees have endured encounters their entire lives, 179 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,413 including when they were very young. 180 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:25,660 These experiences have a profound effect on the individual 181 00:10:25,660 --> 00:10:27,700 with some being traumatic 182 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:30,033 while others are completely benign. 183 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,520 - My very first memory in life is actually of an encounter. 184 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:41,070 I was two years old, I was in my crib late at night 185 00:10:41,070 --> 00:10:45,710 and a face came in to the room and stared down at me 186 00:10:45,710 --> 00:10:46,760 at the foot of the crib. 187 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:48,770 It was kind of skeletal, 188 00:10:48,770 --> 00:10:51,770 that's how I was able to put it into some context 189 00:10:51,770 --> 00:10:55,000 'cause at the tender age of two 190 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,540 you don't really have a background 191 00:10:57,540 --> 00:10:59,400 in saying, oh that's an alien. 192 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,070 Well, maybe today's television. 193 00:11:02,070 --> 00:11:06,590 Back in 1973, that was the closest I could equate it to. 194 00:11:06,590 --> 00:11:09,490 But it wasn't a dream, it didn't go away. 195 00:11:09,490 --> 00:11:13,060 I started to scream and it continued to stare down at me 196 00:11:13,060 --> 00:11:15,480 and my parents in the other room, 197 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:17,137 I could hear my mother's voice saying, 198 00:11:17,137 --> 00:11:19,920 "Go back to sleep, go back to sleep, it's okay." 199 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,100 And she never came to the room. 200 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:25,460 And after a few moments, the face just got up 201 00:11:25,460 --> 00:11:27,250 and left the room. 202 00:11:27,250 --> 00:11:29,620 I say face, there was a body attached to it 203 00:11:29,620 --> 00:11:32,030 but it was so dark I really couldn't make it out 204 00:11:32,030 --> 00:11:34,070 and I could tell it was on its way 205 00:11:34,070 --> 00:11:35,370 over to my brother's room. 206 00:11:39,368 --> 00:11:42,285 (soft piano music) 207 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,410 - [Narrator] The origins of these beings 208 00:11:54,410 --> 00:11:58,337 are sometimes disputed by alien experiencers. 209 00:11:59,650 --> 00:12:02,380 The most common and accepted theory 210 00:12:02,380 --> 00:12:05,500 is that aliens are from outer space 211 00:12:05,500 --> 00:12:08,693 and are traveling here from some distant planet. 212 00:12:09,830 --> 00:12:12,100 They are here to observe humans 213 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:14,560 and abductions are situations 214 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:16,700 whereby the extraterrestrials 215 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:19,380 are conducting medical examinations 216 00:12:19,380 --> 00:12:21,823 to better understand our species. 217 00:12:23,150 --> 00:12:26,440 However, a recent and more complex theory 218 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:30,890 involves the aliens using an inter-dimensional corridor 219 00:12:30,890 --> 00:12:32,300 to reach Earth 220 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:36,193 and many may not even be from out universe at all. 221 00:12:38,180 --> 00:12:43,180 - We were watching as the sky seemed to be giving birth 222 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,283 to this huge craft. 223 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:49,140 The lights were there 224 00:12:49,140 --> 00:12:53,600 and it just kind of came through a vortex 225 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,430 and that's why I believe extraterrestrials 226 00:12:57,430 --> 00:13:00,440 come from other planets and/or other dimensions 227 00:13:01,420 --> 00:13:02,577 through a vortex. 228 00:13:04,155 --> 00:13:07,610 Instead of going from point A to point B, they fold time 229 00:13:07,610 --> 00:13:12,282 and leave their spacetime and arrive at our instantaneously. 230 00:13:12,282 --> 00:13:15,560 (mysterious music) 231 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:17,230 - [Narrator] Not only are the origins 232 00:13:17,230 --> 00:13:19,660 of extraterrestrials a mystery, 233 00:13:19,660 --> 00:13:23,853 their motivations are also a subject of much conjecture. 234 00:13:25,050 --> 00:13:27,890 Clearly they are interested in our bodies 235 00:13:27,890 --> 00:13:31,090 as most abductees describe procedures 236 00:13:31,090 --> 00:13:33,580 that appear to be medical in nature 237 00:13:33,580 --> 00:13:36,053 and focus on our genetic makeup. 238 00:13:36,970 --> 00:13:38,910 Yet they also appear to be concerned 239 00:13:38,910 --> 00:13:41,050 with our psychological makeup 240 00:13:41,050 --> 00:13:44,660 and our attitudes towards the environment, society 241 00:13:44,660 --> 00:13:47,293 and even our spiritual development. 242 00:13:48,470 --> 00:13:51,540 Often, the extraterrestrials will intervene 243 00:13:51,540 --> 00:13:56,540 and direct an experiencer's life in a direction they prefer, 244 00:13:56,770 --> 00:14:00,023 rather than allowing nature to take its course. 245 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,090 - The teen years were definitely the height 246 00:14:04,090 --> 00:14:05,410 of what had happened to me 247 00:14:05,410 --> 00:14:06,913 but in my early 20s, 248 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,200 there were still a lot of things going on in my life. 249 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:13,450 At that age, in my early 20s, 250 00:14:13,450 --> 00:14:15,420 they became very interested in things 251 00:14:15,420 --> 00:14:18,490 like whom I was dating, that kind of a thing. 252 00:14:18,490 --> 00:14:22,530 In fact, they had, it seems very intentionally, 253 00:14:22,530 --> 00:14:25,430 scared away a woman that they thought wasn't right for me. 254 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:31,600 She and I were out in a fairly secluded part of some woods 255 00:14:32,330 --> 00:14:35,240 and, doing some stargazing, 256 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:38,920 and suddenly we were both paralyzed 257 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,840 and they approached us, three little gray guys 258 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,970 and they started very harshly inspecting her. 259 00:14:46,970 --> 00:14:51,540 Not touching her, just staring at her very fiercely 260 00:14:51,540 --> 00:14:53,530 and they were like, no, she's no good. 261 00:14:53,530 --> 00:14:55,010 Not this one, no no. 262 00:14:55,010 --> 00:14:58,520 And then they left and the paralysis broke 263 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,010 and we hightailed back at the car 264 00:15:01,010 --> 00:15:05,230 and she broke with me immediately after, 265 00:15:05,230 --> 00:15:07,530 although I hadn't told her yet 266 00:15:07,530 --> 00:15:09,280 because we'd only been dating a couple of months 267 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:10,663 about my experiences. 268 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:13,490 It seemed like she understood 269 00:15:13,490 --> 00:15:14,870 that what had just happened to us 270 00:15:14,870 --> 00:15:16,400 had everything to do with me 271 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,653 and she was right in that respect. 272 00:15:22,677 --> 00:15:25,760 (gentle piano music) 273 00:15:33,810 --> 00:15:35,940 - [Narrator] The majority of abductees 274 00:15:35,940 --> 00:15:40,240 do not appear to be deluded, confabulated, whine, 275 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:45,240 self-dramatizing or suffering from a clear mental illness. 276 00:15:45,510 --> 00:15:47,660 While psychopathology is indicated 277 00:15:47,660 --> 00:15:50,950 in some isolated alien abduction cases, 278 00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:54,040 assessment by both clinical examination 279 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,200 and standardized tests has shown that, 280 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,370 as a group, abduction experiencers 281 00:16:00,370 --> 00:16:03,980 are no different from the general population. 282 00:16:03,980 --> 00:16:07,680 Psychologists have argued that abductees' mental health 283 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,963 is no better or worse than the average individual. 284 00:16:13,970 --> 00:16:16,850 The abduction phenomenon has been going on 285 00:16:16,850 --> 00:16:21,083 for a very long time, perhaps even in antiquity. 286 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,860 Cave paintings made by our ancestors 287 00:16:24,860 --> 00:16:29,853 are strikingly similar to modern-day descriptions of aliens. 288 00:16:30,750 --> 00:16:35,730 History is replete with mystical tales that sound very much 289 00:16:35,730 --> 00:16:39,833 like alien abductions or extraterrestrial encounters. 290 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:45,223 Such tales are often found in our holy texts. 291 00:16:46,830 --> 00:16:50,820 For example, the Bible contains many stories 292 00:16:50,820 --> 00:16:55,053 that could be interpreted as alien encounters. 293 00:17:01,310 --> 00:17:03,460 - The biblical UFO hypothesis 294 00:17:05,190 --> 00:17:07,630 tries to examine the connection 295 00:17:07,630 --> 00:17:12,630 between anomalous aerial phenomenon 296 00:17:12,940 --> 00:17:17,100 that was witnessed 2,000-4,000 years ago 297 00:17:17,100 --> 00:17:21,220 by Ezekiel, a wheel within a wheel, 298 00:17:21,220 --> 00:17:25,430 Moses' pilar of cloud, pilar of fire. 299 00:17:25,430 --> 00:17:26,263 Chariots of fire, 300 00:17:26,263 --> 00:17:30,350 the Romans used to cal them flying shields 301 00:17:34,552 --> 00:17:36,080 because they looked like the shields 302 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,053 that they went off into battle with in the sky. 303 00:17:41,430 --> 00:17:46,430 So my theory and, it wasn't my original theory actually. 304 00:17:49,510 --> 00:17:54,130 Erich Von Daniken has said, in his Chariots of the Gods, 305 00:17:54,130 --> 00:17:56,490 these things were in fact 306 00:17:57,650 --> 00:18:00,373 forerunners of today's UFO phenomena. 307 00:18:01,230 --> 00:18:06,230 And what they were seeing then were the same type 308 00:18:06,470 --> 00:18:11,157 of other-dimensional beings that would come 309 00:18:11,157 --> 00:18:16,157 and just like when Columbous arrived on American shores, 310 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:19,423 just like when Captain Cook arrived in Hawaii, 311 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,100 they all revered them as gods 312 00:18:23,100 --> 00:18:27,193 because they came over the flat Earth, 313 00:18:28,590 --> 00:18:31,080 over the horizon in these huge canoes 314 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,820 with the sheets to catch the wind, 315 00:18:33,820 --> 00:18:38,820 strange-looking men with different kind of clothes, 316 00:18:39,930 --> 00:18:41,503 different colored skin. 317 00:18:42,670 --> 00:18:43,963 They must be gods. 318 00:18:44,813 --> 00:18:47,563 (dramatic music) 319 00:19:30,150 --> 00:19:32,710 - [Narrator] The Bible is not the only holy text 320 00:19:32,710 --> 00:19:36,090 that contains references to aliens. 321 00:19:36,090 --> 00:19:39,160 The Hindu Mahabharata describes weapons 322 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:41,590 reminiscent of guided rockets, 323 00:19:41,590 --> 00:19:45,210 beam weapons and nuclear devices being used 324 00:19:45,210 --> 00:19:48,433 in an ancient war between alien races. 325 00:19:49,290 --> 00:19:51,930 Technologies that, from their description, 326 00:19:51,930 --> 00:19:55,600 could only be advanced propulsion systems as well. 327 00:19:57,564 --> 00:20:00,147 (gentle music) 328 00:20:29,630 --> 00:20:31,400 During medieval times, 329 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,600 tales of the Succubus and other fairy creatures 330 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,840 are reminiscent of extraterrestrial visitations. 331 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:43,520 In fact, throughout history, references to aliens, gods 332 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:48,113 or other beings having come from the stars are quiet common. 333 00:20:53,310 --> 00:20:55,990 Many researchers today are beginning 334 00:20:55,990 --> 00:20:59,710 to piece together a theory that we ourselves 335 00:20:59,710 --> 00:21:02,963 may be the product of alien intervention. 336 00:21:07,540 --> 00:21:12,460 Humans could be a hybrid created by the extraterrestrials 337 00:21:12,460 --> 00:21:14,110 and left here on Earth 338 00:21:14,110 --> 00:21:18,003 to be monitored in some long-term experiment. 339 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,930 - But there are species that we look just like. 340 00:21:41,930 --> 00:21:44,060 The reason we look just like them 341 00:21:44,060 --> 00:21:46,810 is because I believe that that particular race 342 00:21:46,810 --> 00:21:51,810 or a race like them came to Earth how many millennia ago, 343 00:21:55,360 --> 00:22:00,360 and through genetic engineering used their DNA, 344 00:22:02,210 --> 00:22:07,210 mixed their DNA with a simian creature Earth-bound being 345 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,490 and created our species. 346 00:22:13,490 --> 00:22:15,120 So yes, they are our creators. 347 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:17,120 Then you go back to the book of Genesis, 348 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:20,940 Orthodox religion's gonna say 349 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,900 God said he made us in his image. 350 00:22:24,900 --> 00:22:26,073 Well, no, it doesn't. 351 00:22:28,330 --> 00:22:33,190 God said let us make them in our image. 352 00:22:33,190 --> 00:22:35,193 Well, who's got talking to? 353 00:22:36,030 --> 00:22:39,010 So the apes and the monkeys that we see today 354 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,410 were not part of this hybridization. 355 00:22:43,410 --> 00:22:44,243 We are. 356 00:22:47,841 --> 00:22:52,841 (suspenseful piano music) (thunder roaring) 357 00:23:00,980 --> 00:23:03,930 - [Narrator] Alien abductions are often benign. 358 00:23:03,930 --> 00:23:07,460 Some even report them to be enjoyable. 359 00:23:07,460 --> 00:23:10,500 However, a large number of experiencers 360 00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:13,940 tell tragic tales of being taken. 361 00:23:13,940 --> 00:23:16,230 Harsh medical examinations, 362 00:23:16,230 --> 00:23:19,600 invasive physical and psychological procedures, 363 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,380 as well as sinister techniques 364 00:23:22,380 --> 00:23:25,500 used by the extraterrestrials. 365 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:28,430 - When I was seven I woke up 366 00:23:28,430 --> 00:23:33,430 and saw a big black hole hanging above my head in the bed 367 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:40,240 and out of that a metallic cable came out through the portal 368 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:47,240 that was above my head and started kicking off electricity 369 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:51,020 and just whipping around above my head 370 00:23:51,020 --> 00:23:55,530 and as it did that, I felt a high vibration 371 00:23:55,530 --> 00:23:59,440 running, pulsing through me and it was very heavy. 372 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,310 It almost fell like I could just explode. 373 00:24:02,310 --> 00:24:07,310 And as it revved up, I started to feel engulfed 374 00:24:08,559 --> 00:24:12,310 by what was this black hole in front of me 375 00:24:12,310 --> 00:24:14,530 and then suddenly I found myself onboard 376 00:24:14,530 --> 00:24:16,800 what appeared to be a craft. 377 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,450 I didn't go through the front door, so to speak, 378 00:24:19,450 --> 00:24:22,930 I came in however this contraption allowed me 379 00:24:22,930 --> 00:24:26,060 to transmit over to the craft 380 00:24:26,060 --> 00:24:29,510 and I was in a small room with two little gray guys. 381 00:24:29,510 --> 00:24:33,440 They led me into what appeared to be an examination room 382 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,160 and there was another little gray in there 383 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,370 and then they left me alone in the room. 384 00:24:37,370 --> 00:24:40,090 Now normally when I'm taken I'm paralyzed, 385 00:24:40,090 --> 00:24:42,380 they keep me under close watch. 386 00:24:42,380 --> 00:24:44,140 But I was like, this is strange. 387 00:24:44,140 --> 00:24:46,470 They just kind of left me alone here in this room 388 00:24:46,470 --> 00:24:49,950 and they don't seem to care that I'm here 389 00:24:49,950 --> 00:24:53,090 so I'm gonna see what's in that door there. 390 00:24:53,090 --> 00:24:57,400 So I walked off and I exited a door from the room, 391 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,360 walked down a hallway and I look back 392 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:01,540 and they were following me. 393 00:25:01,540 --> 00:25:05,350 It seemed like they very quickly realized I left the room 394 00:25:05,350 --> 00:25:07,750 but just wanted to see what I would do 395 00:25:07,750 --> 00:25:10,660 and as I walked around the sort of curving hallway 396 00:25:10,660 --> 00:25:14,460 I came to a dead end so I had to come back 397 00:25:14,460 --> 00:25:16,920 and as I started back towards them 398 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,990 a door on my right opened up 399 00:25:18,990 --> 00:25:22,540 and I could tell that's where they actually wanted me to go. 400 00:25:22,540 --> 00:25:25,910 We went into this room, there was a big metal chair 401 00:25:25,910 --> 00:25:29,483 in the center of the room and they had me sit in it. 402 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,150 And the little gray guys that were following me around, 403 00:25:33,150 --> 00:25:36,420 they were about three foot tall, kind of a charred gray, 404 00:25:36,420 --> 00:25:38,480 and they ushered me into a room 405 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,740 where there was a slightly taller being 406 00:25:40,740 --> 00:25:43,370 that looked a lot like them but had lighter skin, 407 00:25:43,370 --> 00:25:45,150 he was about five feet tall, 408 00:25:45,150 --> 00:25:50,150 and had a very doctor type of feel to him. 409 00:25:50,310 --> 00:25:53,167 And as I sat in the chair he looked at me and he said, 410 00:25:53,167 --> 00:25:57,040 "Okay, be very good and you'll get to see the color blue." 411 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,080 Now as a kid you expect, be very good you get ice cream, 412 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,640 soccer, some kind of treat, something like that 413 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:04,763 but the color blue. 414 00:26:05,690 --> 00:26:07,290 These guys don't really understand 415 00:26:07,290 --> 00:26:08,710 children very well, do they? 416 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,583 (gentle music) 417 00:26:27,420 --> 00:26:29,660 - [Narrator] Simply being taken against your will 418 00:26:29,660 --> 00:26:33,880 is frightening enough but what if our own government 419 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:38,630 is aware of abductions and are powerless to prevent it 420 00:26:38,630 --> 00:26:41,240 or even more frightening is the theory 421 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,890 that they are in league with the aliens 422 00:26:43,890 --> 00:26:47,720 and have signed treaties to allow humans to be taken 423 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:52,260 and used as the aliens see fit. 424 00:26:52,260 --> 00:26:55,890 If the government is aware of the abduction phenomenon 425 00:26:55,890 --> 00:26:57,763 would it matter to an abductee? 426 00:26:59,590 --> 00:27:04,590 - I believe that the government knows so much more 427 00:27:04,630 --> 00:27:08,360 about this phenomenon than they're letting on 428 00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:12,670 that even finding out the tip of the iceberg 429 00:27:12,670 --> 00:27:15,950 of what they know is going to put people in shock 430 00:27:17,210 --> 00:27:22,010 but as I'm actively involved 431 00:27:22,010 --> 00:27:25,010 in the local MUFON chapter in Michigan 432 00:27:25,010 --> 00:27:27,900 we get currently about 200 sightings a year 433 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:30,170 just in Michigan. 434 00:27:30,170 --> 00:27:33,970 And that is enough to fill your plate several times over 435 00:27:33,970 --> 00:27:37,710 with UFO cases so to me it's almost at a point 436 00:27:37,710 --> 00:27:40,120 where I don't care what the government knows 437 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:41,060 and what they're hiding. 438 00:27:41,060 --> 00:27:43,510 I've got in an embarrassment of riches here 439 00:27:43,510 --> 00:27:47,590 with the number of UFO cases coming into our local chapter. 440 00:27:47,590 --> 00:27:50,610 I don't need them to try to hide anything 441 00:27:50,610 --> 00:27:53,650 because it's all just flowing freely now, 442 00:27:53,650 --> 00:27:56,500 people are talking about what's happening to them openly. 443 00:28:00,846 --> 00:28:03,429 (gentle music) 444 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:13,900 - [Narrator] While alien abductions 445 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:18,430 did not achieve widespread attention until the 1960s, 446 00:28:18,430 --> 00:28:23,430 there were many similar stories circulating decades earlier. 447 00:28:23,550 --> 00:28:25,810 These early abduction-like accounts 448 00:28:25,810 --> 00:28:28,240 have been dubbed paleo-abductions 449 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,023 by UFO researcher Jerome Clark. 450 00:28:33,930 --> 00:28:38,780 In an 1897 edition of the Stockton California Daily Mail, 451 00:28:38,780 --> 00:28:43,630 Colonel HG Shaw claimed he and a friend were harassed 452 00:28:43,630 --> 00:28:46,780 by three tall slender humanoids 453 00:28:46,780 --> 00:28:50,323 whose bodies were covered with a fine dainty hair. 454 00:28:51,580 --> 00:28:54,180 Colonel Shaw reported that these beings 455 00:28:54,180 --> 00:28:56,213 tried to kidnap the pair. 456 00:28:58,130 --> 00:29:02,050 The 1955 publication of Harold T. Wilkins 457 00:29:02,050 --> 00:29:04,420 Flying Saucers Uncensored, 458 00:29:04,420 --> 00:29:08,230 declared that Karl Hunrath and Wilbur Wilkinson 459 00:29:08,230 --> 00:29:11,490 who had claimed they were contacted by aliens 460 00:29:11,490 --> 00:29:15,240 had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. 461 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,870 Wilkins reported his speculation that the duo 462 00:29:18,870 --> 00:29:23,653 was the victims of alleged abduction by flying saucers. 463 00:29:26,730 --> 00:29:31,710 A wave of contactee cases emerged in the 1950s as well. 464 00:29:31,710 --> 00:29:36,300 These individuals claimed to have been contacted by aliens. 465 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:40,350 However, the substance of contactee narratives 466 00:29:40,350 --> 00:29:43,340 is often regarded as quite different 467 00:29:43,340 --> 00:29:45,423 from alien abduction accounts. 468 00:29:46,777 --> 00:29:49,360 (gentle music) 469 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,340 Widespread publicity was generated 470 00:30:13,340 --> 00:30:17,983 by the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case of 1961. 471 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,910 The Hill incident was probably 472 00:30:21,910 --> 00:30:26,470 the prototypical abduction case and was perhaps the first 473 00:30:26,470 --> 00:30:28,890 in which the claimer described beings 474 00:30:28,890 --> 00:30:33,100 that later became widely known as the grays 475 00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:37,820 and in which the beans were said to explicitly identify 476 00:30:37,820 --> 00:30:39,893 as extraterrestrial origin. 477 00:30:45,010 --> 00:30:48,740 An entire subculture has developed around the subject 478 00:30:48,740 --> 00:30:51,960 with various groups and a detailed mythos 479 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,173 explaining the reasons for abductions. 480 00:30:56,070 --> 00:30:58,520 The very various aliens, the grays, 481 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,640 reptilians, Nordics and so on 482 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:06,640 are said to have specific roles, origins and motivations. 483 00:31:08,470 --> 00:31:10,550 Abduction claimants do not always 484 00:31:10,550 --> 00:31:12,980 attempt to explain the phenomenon 485 00:31:12,980 --> 00:31:17,310 but some take independent research interest in it themselves 486 00:31:17,310 --> 00:31:21,940 and explain the lack of greater awareness of alien abduction 487 00:31:21,940 --> 00:31:25,350 as the result of either extraterrestrial 488 00:31:25,350 --> 00:31:27,113 or governmental interest. 489 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,630 Often abductees share experiences 490 00:31:35,630 --> 00:31:39,240 or recall meeting on board a spacecraft. 491 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:43,230 However most alien abductions occur to individuals 492 00:31:43,230 --> 00:31:46,653 with no way to prove what has happened to them. 493 00:31:48,870 --> 00:31:53,130 - There's a couple different ways where other people 494 00:31:53,130 --> 00:31:55,640 are involved in these types of experiences. 495 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,620 Sometimes you find yourself aboard a craft 496 00:31:58,620 --> 00:32:02,060 or in some situation where you run into other people. 497 00:32:02,060 --> 00:32:06,270 I've never been one of those people to be in that situation 498 00:32:06,270 --> 00:32:09,510 where I've been aboard anything and I've seen anybody else. 499 00:32:09,510 --> 00:32:11,270 Although it's not uncommon. 500 00:32:11,270 --> 00:32:13,570 In fact there's a lot of stories 501 00:32:13,570 --> 00:32:16,430 that are from people I know quite well 502 00:32:16,430 --> 00:32:20,430 who have been aboard a craft, have met somebody 503 00:32:20,430 --> 00:32:22,730 and then later in life have actually met 504 00:32:22,730 --> 00:32:23,930 that person in real life 505 00:32:24,860 --> 00:32:29,640 and then they were like, oh yes, we've met somewhere before 506 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,573 and they figure out it was on board. 507 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,620 I have been involved in experiences along with other people, 508 00:32:37,620 --> 00:32:40,063 like seeing UFOs with other people present. 509 00:32:40,980 --> 00:32:44,440 There was the time where I was dating a girl 510 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,310 and they came up and paralyzed us both 511 00:32:48,310 --> 00:32:52,040 and that experience was definitely a shared one 512 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,880 so it doesn't always happen when somebody's alone. 513 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,260 I mean go figure Betty and Barney Hill, 514 00:32:57,260 --> 00:32:59,060 one of the most infamous cases of course 515 00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:01,120 was about a couple being taken. 516 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,760 So sometimes there are other people involved. 517 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,800 Most of the time, they just isolate you 518 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,083 and take you, the individual. 519 00:33:19,030 --> 00:33:20,670 - [Narrator] Dr. Ronald Sprinkle, 520 00:33:20,670 --> 00:33:23,650 a University of Wyoming psychologist, 521 00:33:23,650 --> 00:33:28,560 became interested in the abduction phenomenon in the 1960s. 522 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:33,260 For some years he was probably the only academic figure 523 00:33:33,260 --> 00:33:36,240 devoting any time to studying 524 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,440 or researching abduction accounts. 525 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,150 Sprinkle became convinced of the phenomenon's reality 526 00:33:43,150 --> 00:33:46,400 and was perhaps the first to suggest a link 527 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,800 between abductions and cattle mutilations. 528 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,590 Eventually Sprinkle came to believe 529 00:33:52,590 --> 00:33:56,540 that he had been abducted by aliens in his youth. 530 00:33:56,540 --> 00:34:01,173 After that, he was forced from his job in 1989. 531 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,640 Being an abductee often has repercussions 532 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,120 on an experiencer's career and social life. 533 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,770 Some have even turned the experiences 534 00:34:11,770 --> 00:34:15,853 into ways of expressing themselves and educating others. 535 00:34:17,050 --> 00:34:19,693 - It has not affected my career or social life. 536 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,050 I didn't talk much. 537 00:34:23,050 --> 00:34:25,120 I was at a die maker 538 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,280 and I didn't talk much about UFO phenomenon. 539 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,960 In fact, after I retired in 2000, 540 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,773 I got a show, Comcast Cable TV, 541 00:34:37,540 --> 00:34:38,793 called We Are Not Alone. 542 00:34:40,090 --> 00:34:44,580 And some of the guys saw me and just could not believe that. 543 00:34:45,971 --> 00:34:50,817 Look, David Twitchell's on TV talking about UFOs. 544 00:34:52,626 --> 00:34:55,860 Well, some percentage of them were into that. 545 00:34:55,860 --> 00:34:58,630 A bigger percentage were not. 546 00:34:58,630 --> 00:35:02,610 But I did that show, that TV show for 10 years 547 00:35:02,610 --> 00:35:07,580 before I gave it up and now I've been on WHFR Radio 548 00:35:09,060 --> 00:35:12,300 for the past six years doing the same show, 549 00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:13,623 one-hour interviews. 550 00:35:14,946 --> 00:35:16,480 - I worked several places where 551 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,000 when they found out about what had happened to me 552 00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:23,830 I could feel a distance suddenly. 553 00:35:23,830 --> 00:35:27,410 I was never really openly ridiculed at work, 554 00:35:27,410 --> 00:35:30,710 though I do think that at one of the places I worked at 555 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,263 they let me go when they found out about my experiences. 556 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:43,960 But as time went on, I found myself working at a college 557 00:35:43,990 --> 00:35:46,640 a very open-minded environment, 558 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,700 and as I've sort of come out there about my experiences, 559 00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:54,140 to some degree, they've been very supportive 560 00:35:54,140 --> 00:35:57,210 and it's been a wonderful experience 561 00:35:57,210 --> 00:36:01,120 being able to actually talk about that other side of my life 562 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,120 that it happened to me all these years 563 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,970 so I feel fairly blessed in that respect. 564 00:36:05,970 --> 00:36:09,430 My family has had a number of unusual experiences as well 565 00:36:09,430 --> 00:36:12,170 so they've always been supportive 566 00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:16,950 and socially my friends from high school have, 567 00:36:16,950 --> 00:36:20,180 I've told them all along what's happened to me 568 00:36:20,180 --> 00:36:21,530 and they're still right behind me 569 00:36:21,530 --> 00:36:25,150 and I've been, again I would say blessed 570 00:36:25,150 --> 00:36:26,940 that I've been fortunate enough 571 00:36:26,940 --> 00:36:29,290 to be able to share what's happened to me 572 00:36:29,290 --> 00:36:31,323 without too much backlash. 573 00:36:34,524 --> 00:36:37,607 (gentle piano music) 574 00:36:47,610 --> 00:36:49,080 - [Narrator] The late Budd Hopkins, 575 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,610 a painter and sculptor by profession, 576 00:36:51,610 --> 00:36:55,500 had been interested in UFOs for some years. 577 00:36:55,500 --> 00:37:00,500 In the 1970s, he became interested in abduction reports 578 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:04,760 and began using hypnosis to extract more details 579 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,450 of dimly remembered events. 580 00:37:07,450 --> 00:37:09,680 Hopkins soon became a figurehead 581 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,333 of the growing abductees subculture. 582 00:37:16,670 --> 00:37:20,080 The mid and late 1980s, saw the involvement 583 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,080 of two esteemed academic figures, 584 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,630 Harvard psychiatrist John Mack 585 00:37:25,630 --> 00:37:28,423 and historian David M. Jacobs. 586 00:37:29,660 --> 00:37:31,810 This decade brought a major degree 587 00:37:31,810 --> 00:37:34,700 of mainstream attention to the subject. 588 00:37:34,700 --> 00:37:38,140 Works by Budd Hopkins, Whitley Strieber, 589 00:37:38,140 --> 00:37:41,100 David M. Jacobs and John Edward Mack 590 00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:45,233 presented alien abduction as a genuine phenomenon. 591 00:37:46,660 --> 00:37:50,160 Jacobs and Hopkins argued that alien abduction 592 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,000 was far more common than earlier suspected. 593 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,780 They estimated that tens of thousands of North Americans 594 00:37:57,780 --> 00:38:01,830 had been taken by unexplained beings. 595 00:38:01,830 --> 00:38:05,150 Furthermore, Jacobs and Hopkins believed 596 00:38:05,150 --> 00:38:08,300 that there was an elaborate scheme underway 597 00:38:08,300 --> 00:38:11,740 that the aliens were attempting to create 598 00:38:11,740 --> 00:38:14,113 human-alien hybrids. 599 00:38:15,330 --> 00:38:19,610 - It seemed a lot of things that were psychological, 600 00:38:19,610 --> 00:38:24,610 more mental than physical, in some cases. 601 00:38:24,723 --> 00:38:26,840 In other cases they just seem like, 602 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,953 let's grab this body, do something to it and dump it back. 603 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:35,230 Very traumatic, an awful time trying to sleep at night. 604 00:38:35,230 --> 00:38:39,870 It was usually with the light on, TV or radio. 605 00:38:39,870 --> 00:38:41,850 We'd usually have the dog in the room. 606 00:38:41,850 --> 00:38:43,730 I would put stuff in front of the door 607 00:38:43,730 --> 00:38:46,420 so that nobody could get in, that kind of a thing, 608 00:38:46,420 --> 00:38:49,243 and it continued into my early 20s. 609 00:38:50,794 --> 00:38:53,711 (mysterious music) 610 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,800 - [Narrator] Though the motives for hybrids where unknown, 611 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,390 there were incidental reports of phantom pregnancy 612 00:39:06,390 --> 00:39:11,390 related to UFO encounters, at least as early as the 1960s. 613 00:39:13,790 --> 00:39:17,490 Budd Hopkins and especially David M. Jacobs 614 00:39:17,490 --> 00:39:20,740 were instrumental in popularizing the idea 615 00:39:20,740 --> 00:39:25,060 of widespread systematic interbreeding efforts 616 00:39:25,060 --> 00:39:28,370 on the part of the alien intruders. 617 00:39:28,370 --> 00:39:30,760 Jacob's presents this scenario 618 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:34,343 as not only plausible but self-evident. 619 00:39:35,410 --> 00:39:39,417 Dr. David Jacobs, author of The Threats says, 620 00:39:39,417 --> 00:39:44,327 "The entire abduction event is precisely orchestrated. 621 00:39:44,327 --> 00:39:47,620 "All of the procedures are predetermined." 622 00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:51,430 There is no standing around and deciding what to do next. 623 00:39:51,430 --> 00:39:54,230 The beings are task-oriented 624 00:39:54,230 --> 00:39:56,840 and there's no indication whatsoever 625 00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:01,220 that they've been able to find of any aspect of their lives 626 00:40:01,220 --> 00:40:05,203 outside of performing the abduction procedures. 627 00:40:06,780 --> 00:40:10,283 Alien abductions follow a standard scenario. 628 00:40:14,150 --> 00:40:16,140 First, the capture. 629 00:40:16,140 --> 00:40:19,220 An abductee is rendered incapable of resisting 630 00:40:19,220 --> 00:40:21,640 and taken from terrestrial surroundings 631 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,663 to an apparent alien spacecraft. 632 00:40:26,170 --> 00:40:28,410 Then the examination. 633 00:40:28,410 --> 00:40:31,450 Physiological and psychological procedures, 634 00:40:31,450 --> 00:40:35,173 training and testing or sexual liaisons. 635 00:40:36,450 --> 00:40:38,280 Next is the conference. 636 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,390 The objectors communicate with the abductee 637 00:40:41,390 --> 00:40:45,270 or direct them to interact with specific individuals 638 00:40:45,270 --> 00:40:49,403 for some purpose, usually instructed telepathically. 639 00:40:50,380 --> 00:40:54,573 In some cases, abductees are then given a tour of the ship. 640 00:40:55,630 --> 00:40:58,190 Abductees often rapidly forget 641 00:40:58,190 --> 00:41:00,530 the majority of their experience 642 00:41:00,530 --> 00:41:05,173 either as a result of fear, medical intervention or both. 643 00:41:06,510 --> 00:41:09,080 The abductees are returned to Earth 644 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,450 occasionally in a different location 645 00:41:11,450 --> 00:41:16,323 from where they were allegedly taken or with new injuries. 646 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,890 - But as I sat there I was just sort of staring 647 00:41:21,890 --> 00:41:25,780 at his giant, giant, big black liquid eyes 648 00:41:25,780 --> 00:41:29,250 and I felt a sharp pain on my right arm 649 00:41:29,250 --> 00:41:32,960 and when I looked down I saw there was a cut across my arm. 650 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,090 And then I saw it heal right before my eyes, 651 00:41:36,090 --> 00:41:37,480 right when I was looking at it. 652 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:38,980 I don't know what caused the cut, 653 00:41:38,980 --> 00:41:41,360 I didn't actually see a scalpel or a laser 654 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,670 or any type of device cutting it. 655 00:41:43,670 --> 00:41:46,230 I just saw, felt the pain and I saw the cut 656 00:41:46,230 --> 00:41:49,060 and then I looked and I saw it heal up into a scar. 657 00:41:49,060 --> 00:41:51,560 And I look back at the being 658 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:56,120 and suddenly his black eyes turned a bright backlit blue, 659 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,720 very bright blue, like had these lights 660 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:00,450 almost right in front of its head 661 00:42:00,450 --> 00:42:02,980 and it was very bizarre 662 00:42:02,980 --> 00:42:06,380 but at the same time it was beautiful. 663 00:42:06,380 --> 00:42:11,380 His eyes were such a wonderful deep lustrous Cerulean blue 664 00:42:12,110 --> 00:42:15,360 and it was very tranquilizing, it was very calming, 665 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,320 it was peaceful, it was wonderful 666 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,570 and I just lost myself in these eyes. 667 00:42:20,570 --> 00:42:23,710 And then I woke up in bed the next day 668 00:42:23,710 --> 00:42:28,440 and I had this scar there and I still have the scar. 669 00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:33,440 In fact, later that same day, the story wasn't over yet. 670 00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,340 I was playing in the backyard with a friend of mine, 671 00:42:36,340 --> 00:42:38,950 six-year-old from a few doors down, 672 00:42:38,950 --> 00:42:41,430 and this mist rolled into the backyard 673 00:42:41,430 --> 00:42:42,950 and there was a little gray guy in it 674 00:42:42,950 --> 00:42:46,061 and he just came to check up on me, make sure I was fine, 675 00:42:46,061 --> 00:42:49,420 and it only took a second for him to figure out I was 676 00:42:49,420 --> 00:42:51,190 and then the mist, then the little gray guy 677 00:42:51,190 --> 00:42:52,820 just continued down through the backyard 678 00:42:52,820 --> 00:42:55,700 of the next-door neighbors and kept going. 679 00:42:55,700 --> 00:42:57,700 My friend didn't even seem aware 680 00:42:57,700 --> 00:42:58,920 that there was anything in the mist. 681 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:03,120 We definitely saw the missed but only I saw the little guy 682 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,170 and then that was probably about the end of that one 683 00:43:06,170 --> 00:43:07,563 but I still have the scar. 684 00:43:09,010 --> 00:43:11,330 - [Narrator] Many experiencers describe 685 00:43:11,330 --> 00:43:14,920 unusual feelings after an abduction. 686 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,030 They may have a profound sense of love, 687 00:43:18,030 --> 00:43:21,880 a high similar to those induced by certain drugs, 688 00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,350 or a mystical experience 689 00:43:24,350 --> 00:43:27,460 accompanied by a feeling of oneness with God, 690 00:43:27,460 --> 00:43:31,260 the universe or their abductors. 691 00:43:31,260 --> 00:43:34,770 Whether this is the result of a metaphysical change, 692 00:43:34,770 --> 00:43:38,660 Stockholm Syndrome or prior medical tampering, 693 00:43:38,660 --> 00:43:40,183 remains a mystery. 694 00:43:41,650 --> 00:43:45,300 The abductee must then cope with the psychological, 695 00:43:45,300 --> 00:43:48,740 physical and social effects of the experience. 696 00:43:55,090 --> 00:43:57,640 If alien abductions are happening 697 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,870 shouldn't we see an effect on society 698 00:44:00,870 --> 00:44:03,240 or would something so subtle 699 00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:06,323 be difficult to emerge in social behavior. 700 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,690 The UFO phenomenon has been with us for centuries. 701 00:44:11,690 --> 00:44:16,240 Is it possible that our society is being directed 702 00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:18,163 by the extraterrestrials? 703 00:44:19,190 --> 00:44:24,190 Could genetic changes in us alter our behavior? 704 00:44:24,290 --> 00:44:27,000 And our attitudes toward the phenomenon 705 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:32,000 changing dramatically since the modern era of UFOs began. 706 00:44:33,940 --> 00:44:37,864 - Sadly I don't see much of a change in people 707 00:44:37,864 --> 00:44:42,864 from years ago, from centuries ago. 708 00:44:44,460 --> 00:44:45,300 I really don't see it. 709 00:44:45,300 --> 00:44:47,970 I see a change in technologies. 710 00:44:47,970 --> 00:44:49,773 I see a change in weaponry. 711 00:44:51,670 --> 00:44:55,190 I see a change in intelligence 712 00:44:55,190 --> 00:44:59,010 as to the knowledge of the world around us, 713 00:44:59,010 --> 00:45:01,283 the Universe in which we live. 714 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:07,107 But I don't see a change in human attitude, sadly. 715 00:45:09,650 --> 00:45:12,743 And all you have to do is read the paper to learn that. 716 00:45:16,110 --> 00:45:18,200 - [Narrator] Some proposed psychological 717 00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,970 alternative explanations of the abduction phenomenon 718 00:45:21,970 --> 00:45:26,520 have included hallucinations, temporary schizophrenia, 719 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:31,290 epileptic seizures and parasomnia, near sleep mental state 720 00:45:31,290 --> 00:45:35,150 such as night terrors and sleep paralysis. 721 00:45:35,150 --> 00:45:37,620 Sleep paralysis in particular, 722 00:45:37,620 --> 00:45:40,570 a theory often accepted by skeptics, 723 00:45:40,570 --> 00:45:42,680 is accompanied by hallucinations 724 00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,690 and a particular sensation of malevolence 725 00:45:45,690 --> 00:45:49,500 or a neutral presence of something in the room. 726 00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:52,570 Though usually people experiencing it 727 00:45:52,570 --> 00:45:56,370 do not interpret that something as aliens. 728 00:45:56,370 --> 00:46:00,100 - You can write it off to the abduction phenomenon, 729 00:46:00,100 --> 00:46:03,440 write it off to sleep paralysis. 730 00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:04,660 Sleep paralysis. 731 00:46:04,660 --> 00:46:06,900 Yes, there's such a thing as sleep paralysis. 732 00:46:06,900 --> 00:46:11,900 Everybody's awakened half awake, half asleep 733 00:46:12,170 --> 00:46:14,320 and thought they saw something in the room. 734 00:46:15,290 --> 00:46:16,600 This has happened. 735 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:20,960 At the same time, a goodly number, 736 00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:25,583 I think the late Budd Hopkins said it was like 33%. 737 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:28,563 One third of these cases, 738 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,990 were abductions that happened at work 739 00:46:32,990 --> 00:46:37,750 while a person was wide awake and conscious. 740 00:46:37,750 --> 00:46:42,390 For example, my sister walked into her bedroom 741 00:46:43,300 --> 00:46:46,890 perfectly conscious, and the lights are out 742 00:46:46,890 --> 00:46:49,163 but this is one of her weird experiences, 743 00:46:51,110 --> 00:46:53,263 there was a blue light in her room. 744 00:46:54,750 --> 00:46:57,430 Her room was illuminated with his blue light 745 00:46:57,430 --> 00:46:58,883 although the lights were off. 746 00:47:00,260 --> 00:47:02,040 She walked in and she looked around. 747 00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,560 She said, what is this blue light 748 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:05,990 as she stood in the doorway 749 00:47:07,470 --> 00:47:11,040 and the next thing she knows there's no light in the room, 750 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,427 she's sitting on the end of the bed. 751 00:47:14,547 --> 00:47:17,423 Now she just gets up, gets ready for bed and goes to bed. 752 00:47:18,460 --> 00:47:20,577 Being it no more tension. 753 00:47:20,577 --> 00:47:22,994 (soft music) 754 00:47:33,530 --> 00:47:36,240 - [Narrator] Proving alien abductions is difficult 755 00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:39,250 without obvious physical evidence. 756 00:47:39,250 --> 00:47:41,960 When an experiencer is returned, 757 00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,570 all he has to prove his encounter 758 00:47:44,570 --> 00:47:49,570 are the fragments of memories left intact by the aliens 759 00:47:49,610 --> 00:47:52,850 though throughout the history of UFO studies, 760 00:47:52,850 --> 00:47:55,390 countless cases have occurred 761 00:47:55,390 --> 00:47:58,910 that do indeed present physical evidence. 762 00:47:58,910 --> 00:48:01,160 Many are not aware of this 763 00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:05,160 or the facts of a case are simply ignored. 764 00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:08,010 Details in each case often are the proof 765 00:48:08,010 --> 00:48:09,850 an encounter happened 766 00:48:09,850 --> 00:48:14,370 but even with specific details we're left with the account 767 00:48:14,370 --> 00:48:16,623 and the sincerity of the witness, 768 00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:20,790 - I think a lot of people if they don't see it 769 00:48:20,790 --> 00:48:22,840 and it doesn't affect their life, 770 00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:26,690 they have the luxury of ignoring the phenomenon. 771 00:48:26,690 --> 00:48:29,360 I mean, if they buy into it 772 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,510 and it questions what they've been taught 773 00:48:31,510 --> 00:48:33,700 in their religion for example, 774 00:48:33,700 --> 00:48:36,490 why would they entertain that 775 00:48:36,490 --> 00:48:39,960 if they're comfortable with their religious teaching. 776 00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,773 If it doesn't affect their life in any other respect, 777 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,690 they can choose to ignore it, 778 00:48:47,690 --> 00:48:51,790 unless it comes knocking at your door. 779 00:48:51,790 --> 00:48:54,480 I think a lot of people say I don't have time 780 00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,260 or space for this in my life 781 00:48:57,260 --> 00:49:00,520 and until it becomes an issue 782 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,960 where it's going to affect my world 783 00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,740 then I'm just going to ignore it. 784 00:49:05,740 --> 00:49:08,720 - If the evidence that has presented itself 785 00:49:10,072 --> 00:49:14,390 are both circumstantial and direct evidence 786 00:49:16,430 --> 00:49:20,070 is not enough to sway people's opinion 787 00:49:20,970 --> 00:49:23,490 then nothing's going to prove their existence 788 00:49:23,490 --> 00:49:26,870 except maybe, and I say maybe, 789 00:49:26,870 --> 00:49:29,580 them landing on the White House lawn 790 00:49:29,580 --> 00:49:32,440 which almost happened a couple times, 791 00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,822 earliest as '52, I believe, '54. 792 00:49:35,822 --> 00:49:40,822 I think it was 1952 when they overflew the White House. 793 00:49:41,870 --> 00:49:44,363 That's when Truman shoot them down. 794 00:49:48,090 --> 00:49:50,050 Well, he's in Washington 795 00:49:50,050 --> 00:49:52,873 and there's a crash out in Roswell, New Mexico. 796 00:49:54,290 --> 00:49:55,730 That's alright, we'll deal with that. 797 00:49:55,730 --> 00:49:59,490 But when they start overflying my house, shoot them down 798 00:49:59,490 --> 00:50:01,040 if they don't answer your call. 799 00:50:07,100 --> 00:50:10,140 - [Narrator] California podiatrist Dr. Roger Leir 800 00:50:10,140 --> 00:50:14,933 claims to have removed alien implants from patients. 801 00:50:16,060 --> 00:50:19,990 Alien implants is a term used in ufology 802 00:50:19,990 --> 00:50:24,520 to describe a physical object placed in someone's body 803 00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:28,370 after they have been abducted by aliens. 804 00:50:28,370 --> 00:50:32,830 Claimed abilities of the implants range from telepresence, 805 00:50:32,830 --> 00:50:35,920 mind control and bio telemetry, 806 00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,923 the way we tag wild animals for study. 807 00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,610 As with UFO subjects in general, 808 00:50:42,610 --> 00:50:47,500 the idea of alien implants has seen very little attention 809 00:50:47,500 --> 00:50:50,301 from mainstream scientists. 810 00:50:50,301 --> 00:50:52,770 - We found in several cases that they put out 811 00:50:52,770 --> 00:50:56,070 an electromagnetic field measurable on a Gauss meter 812 00:50:56,070 --> 00:50:57,950 of about six milligauss. 813 00:50:57,950 --> 00:51:00,480 And if anybody's into electronics and radio 814 00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:04,270 you'll know that's a pretty strong magnetic field. 815 00:51:04,270 --> 00:51:07,530 When they're taken out of the body, they don't do anything. 816 00:51:07,530 --> 00:51:09,880 Also on an instrument called a trimeter 817 00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,570 we get a mid-range reading on a combined scale 818 00:51:13,570 --> 00:51:16,490 electrical scale and magnetic scale, 819 00:51:16,490 --> 00:51:18,980 and that's also a pretty strong reading. 820 00:51:18,980 --> 00:51:20,820 We have electrical engineers 821 00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:25,010 and he has designed a special probe 822 00:51:25,010 --> 00:51:27,030 that's connected with an oscilloscope 823 00:51:27,030 --> 00:51:29,527 so we can read the wave and see what it looks like 824 00:51:29,527 --> 00:51:31,960 and it says there's a good indication 825 00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:33,730 that there's something going in 826 00:51:33,730 --> 00:51:36,060 and there's something coming out 827 00:51:36,060 --> 00:51:40,610 so obviously these objects are in communication 828 00:51:40,610 --> 00:51:42,560 with somebody at some distance. 829 00:51:43,574 --> 00:51:46,157 (gentle music) 830 00:51:56,090 --> 00:51:58,790 - [Narrator] One recommendation from skeptics 831 00:51:58,790 --> 00:52:03,570 is to try to trick the aliens into presenting evidence, 832 00:52:03,570 --> 00:52:07,460 such as bringing back something from the spacecraft 833 00:52:07,460 --> 00:52:11,660 or set up a camera trap to record in abduction. 834 00:52:11,660 --> 00:52:14,360 This has been tried and in each case 835 00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,780 the cameras simply failed 836 00:52:16,780 --> 00:52:19,610 and the experiencers are so closely watched 837 00:52:19,610 --> 00:52:22,380 and controlled during an abduction, 838 00:52:22,380 --> 00:52:25,530 taking something is impossible. 839 00:52:25,530 --> 00:52:29,150 - I've never done anything like set up a camera 840 00:52:29,150 --> 00:52:31,840 or any sort of recording device 841 00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:35,870 to try to track my experiences 842 00:52:35,870 --> 00:52:38,970 since they happen so infrequently. 843 00:52:38,970 --> 00:52:41,200 It would be a very disciplined effort 844 00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:43,620 to try to set up a camera 845 00:52:43,620 --> 00:52:46,510 for something that maybe happens only 846 00:52:46,510 --> 00:52:49,360 even at the peak of when I was having these experiences 847 00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,623 every few months, which is still a lot. 848 00:52:53,276 --> 00:52:56,160 In the past decade or so I really haven't had 849 00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:59,460 the same types of experiences that I had prior to this 850 00:52:59,460 --> 00:53:01,460 to try to do it now. 851 00:53:01,460 --> 00:53:04,110 But yeah, it it happens so infrequently 852 00:53:04,110 --> 00:53:06,880 that I was never really able to set anything up 853 00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:08,750 that I thought would catch anything. 854 00:53:08,750 --> 00:53:13,090 - I find that the best cases are cases were people 855 00:53:13,090 --> 00:53:18,090 are coming forward after 20, 30, and 40 years. 856 00:53:18,670 --> 00:53:21,854 They're finally coming forward with these cases 857 00:53:21,854 --> 00:53:24,810 where they had lived at the time in Michigan 858 00:53:26,084 --> 00:53:28,853 and saw this, had a very close encounter, 859 00:53:29,750 --> 00:53:34,750 like myself, like my family with a UFO. 860 00:53:35,070 --> 00:53:37,090 Not just the light in the sky, 861 00:53:37,090 --> 00:53:42,090 but a close encounter where it's a couple hundred feet away 862 00:53:42,550 --> 00:53:45,350 and you can see it's perfectly silent, 863 00:53:45,350 --> 00:53:50,350 it has no visible sign of propulsion, 864 00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:54,833 has no wings, has no rotors, makes no sound. 865 00:53:55,970 --> 00:53:56,803 What is it? 866 00:53:56,803 --> 00:54:00,890 And then it hovers, shoots off. 867 00:54:00,890 --> 00:54:05,890 What do we have that would cancel out the inertia 868 00:54:07,070 --> 00:54:11,210 to where the pilot would not be a grease spot on the wall 869 00:54:11,210 --> 00:54:12,193 when it takes off. 870 00:54:13,260 --> 00:54:18,260 So I've seen, I've heard of a lot of cases 871 00:54:19,550 --> 00:54:24,140 with Michigan MUFON, some have good evidence. 872 00:54:24,140 --> 00:54:29,140 But personally all I can say is my sighting. 873 00:54:31,300 --> 00:54:35,260 Now I can't convince you, I can't convince your viewers 874 00:54:35,260 --> 00:54:37,210 that my family actually saw this thing 875 00:54:38,630 --> 00:54:41,260 but what would be my motivation? 876 00:54:41,260 --> 00:54:43,250 I've written three books. 877 00:54:43,250 --> 00:54:44,630 Is it to sell books? 878 00:54:44,630 --> 00:54:47,360 Trust me you don't get rich selling books on UFOs. 879 00:54:49,810 --> 00:54:54,810 But the purpose of the books is to get the word out there. 880 00:54:55,550 --> 00:54:57,300 To let people know we're not alone. 881 00:55:07,430 --> 00:55:10,570 - [Narrator] If the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth 882 00:55:10,570 --> 00:55:14,240 is made known or the aliens themselves 883 00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:17,840 reveal their interaction with people of Earth 884 00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:22,060 what would be the reaction of the general populace? 885 00:55:22,060 --> 00:55:25,790 Would you be able to handle the truth? 886 00:55:25,790 --> 00:55:27,190 - I've written a book called 887 00:55:28,678 --> 00:55:31,610 The Global Implications of UFO Reality 888 00:55:33,370 --> 00:55:37,490 and in it I kind of theorize, speculate 889 00:55:37,490 --> 00:55:40,373 as to how this world will take the news. 890 00:55:41,490 --> 00:55:44,470 Well, France's come out with the Cometa Report 891 00:55:44,470 --> 00:55:48,410 where their top scientists and military men 892 00:55:48,410 --> 00:55:53,410 have investigated some of the cases in Europe and in France 893 00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:58,320 and it was kind of like an honest Project Blue Book. 894 00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:01,963 Our Project Blue Book I call Project Whitewash. 895 00:56:03,870 --> 00:56:07,400 But the Cometa Report investigated 896 00:56:08,388 --> 00:56:12,947 these good quality sightings and abduction cases 897 00:56:15,010 --> 00:56:19,490 and they have concluded that it is something real. 898 00:56:19,490 --> 00:56:21,130 - If it ever gets to a point 899 00:56:21,130 --> 00:56:24,490 where it's officially acknowledged, 900 00:56:24,490 --> 00:56:26,913 I think we're in for some rough times. 901 00:56:28,820 --> 00:56:32,000 When I found out about the LA riots, 902 00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,650 just a very very small percentage of people 903 00:56:34,650 --> 00:56:37,420 that rioted in LA so many years ago 904 00:56:37,420 --> 00:56:39,800 and what they were able to do to the city 905 00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,700 I think a very very small people 906 00:56:42,700 --> 00:56:45,200 will handle something like this very badly. 907 00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,640 They won't be able to accept it, it'll turn violent 908 00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:52,450 and even again just with a very small percentage of people 909 00:56:52,450 --> 00:56:54,640 they can cause a lot of mayhem, 910 00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:59,640 and I think that with the modern media being Internet-based 911 00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:04,670 that all sorts of opinions on it 912 00:57:04,670 --> 00:57:08,040 are gonna be clashing with each other for years. 913 00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:11,200 I think it's just gonna be awful unfortunately. 914 00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:13,880 I mean, it's not to say that it shouldn't happen 915 00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,460 because it's a growth thing. 916 00:57:16,460 --> 00:57:19,950 We need to get beyond this close-minded view that we have 917 00:57:19,950 --> 00:57:21,893 that we're the only ones but, 918 00:57:23,290 --> 00:57:26,080 yeah, those are going to be some tough times I think. 919 00:57:38,580 --> 00:57:39,880 - [Narrator] A precise number 920 00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,440 of alleged abductees is uncertain. 921 00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:46,620 One of the earliest studies of abductions 922 00:57:46,620 --> 00:57:50,230 found 1,700 claimants 923 00:57:50,230 --> 00:57:54,070 while other surveys argued that 5% to 6% 924 00:57:54,070 --> 00:57:57,993 of the general population might have been abducted. 925 00:57:59,370 --> 00:58:04,203 If true that would be a huge number of people being taken. 926 00:58:05,460 --> 00:58:07,973 - Best evidence I have found is my own sighting. 927 00:58:08,940 --> 00:58:09,953 Seeing is believing. 928 00:58:13,570 --> 00:58:18,570 Most researchers have lot better cases than I have, 929 00:58:20,547 --> 00:58:22,100 the Betty and Barney Hill case, 930 00:58:22,100 --> 00:58:27,100 the Peter Robbins doing the Rendlesham Forest case. 931 00:58:29,220 --> 00:58:32,030 In Michigan, I am from Michigan of course, 932 00:58:32,030 --> 00:58:33,930 and I'm with Michigan MUFON, 933 00:58:33,930 --> 00:58:37,363 we get a lot of I-saw-a-light-in-the-sky cases. 934 00:58:38,210 --> 00:58:41,620 These light-in-the-sky cases, there's a lot of them 935 00:58:41,620 --> 00:58:43,970 because these people are convinced 936 00:58:43,970 --> 00:58:47,880 that they're seeing something anomalous 937 00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:49,603 when it's just a light in the sky. 938 00:58:50,860 --> 00:58:54,670 - I think that the best evidence, 939 00:58:54,670 --> 00:58:58,880 and I do get asked occasionally what's the best evidence 940 00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:02,660 for the reality of extraterrestrial, 941 00:59:02,660 --> 00:59:05,550 if that's where they're from, visitation 942 00:59:05,550 --> 00:59:08,290 and I just think it's the wrong number of people 943 00:59:08,290 --> 00:59:11,710 that have had these types of experiences. 944 00:59:11,710 --> 00:59:14,260 There are those who are open about it 945 00:59:14,260 --> 00:59:17,650 but that's a minority for certain. 946 00:59:17,650 --> 00:59:21,030 A lot of people that I speak to will come up to me 947 00:59:21,030 --> 00:59:25,060 and say I've never told anybody this before but, 948 00:59:25,060 --> 00:59:26,810 and there are a lot of people 949 00:59:26,810 --> 00:59:29,690 that deny having these types of experiences 950 00:59:29,690 --> 00:59:32,040 when they know themselves that they've had them 951 00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:35,550 and it continues, it continues. 952 00:59:35,550 --> 00:59:38,030 It doesn't stop, it doesn't let up 953 00:59:38,030 --> 00:59:42,750 and generations in the past and generations to come it seems 954 00:59:42,750 --> 00:59:44,670 unless some major change happens 955 00:59:44,670 --> 00:59:46,740 are gonna continue on the same course 956 00:59:46,740 --> 00:59:50,410 of having these types of experiences regularly. 957 00:59:50,410 --> 00:59:55,410 And whether people choose to acknowledge it or ignore it 958 00:59:55,430 --> 00:59:59,010 it doesn't matter to the phenomenon. 959 00:59:59,010 --> 01:00:01,170 The phenomenon will just continue. 960 01:00:01,170 --> 01:00:02,340 You can't make it go away, 961 01:00:02,340 --> 01:00:04,383 it's not a fad or anything like that. 962 01:00:07,710 --> 01:00:10,260 - [Narrator] We may never know the full agenda 963 01:00:10,260 --> 01:00:14,490 of the beings responsible for alien abductions. 964 01:00:14,490 --> 01:00:16,670 Further research is needed. 965 01:00:16,670 --> 01:00:20,820 However, with each new case we gain more knowledge 966 01:00:20,820 --> 01:00:24,850 of the alien agenda and we become better prepared 967 01:00:24,850 --> 01:00:29,123 for the day when we will have full disclosure. 968 01:00:30,712 --> 01:00:33,462 (dramatic music) 969 01:00:38,850 --> 01:00:41,433 (gentle music) 970 01:00:49,776 --> 01:00:51,609 - [Kid] Reality films.