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Mysterious stories of extraterrestrial contact.

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If we were to know the truth, society as we know it would collapse.

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Secret messages from alien beings.

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If it wasn't our technology, and it certainly wasn't the Russian technology, then whose technology was it?

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And inexplicable events hidden from the public.

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Just because something is a cover-up doesn't mean you can't reach the truth.

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All around the planet, evidence points to proof of otherworldly visitors.

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Yet governments continue to deny their existence.

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Most of them are afraid of it and they run away from it. They don't know anything.

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So their only option is lie, lie, lie.

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Millions of people around the world believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

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What if it were true?

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Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

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And if so, what is the truth behind aliens and cover-ups?

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The truth is that they are not the only ones who can help us.

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The truth is that they are not the only ones who can help us.

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The truth is that they are not the only ones who can help us.

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The truth is that they are not the only ones who can help us.

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The truth is that they are not the only ones who can help us.

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Omaha, Nebraska.

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Strategic Air Command, Offit Air Force Base, October 1973.

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As cold war tensions between the United States and Russia simmer, the world remains on edge.

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Suddenly, an object picked up on SAC radar sends the base onto high alert.

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Sergeant Ken Storch was part of the Strategic Air Command's top secret Trident Defense.

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This alarm went off on the computer and at the very top of the message it said,

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Alert, alert, alert, this is not a drill.

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Five unidentified objects had been picked up coming in over the Pacific Northwest.

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Joint Chiefs of Staff initially felt that it was a preemptive strike by a Russian submarine

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and that they had launched ballistic missiles.

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According to Storch, the unidentified objects flew over the entire Canadian territory in less than two minutes.

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The UFOs then made a course correction that defied conventional physics.

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Could it be, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe, that these objects were extraterrestrial crafts visiting Earth?

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These five objects went across the Bering Sea into the Soviet Union.

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Richard Nixon was the president at the time.

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He picked up what we call the Bat phone and called the Kremlin and Nixon said they are not ours.

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Is it possible that both nations knew the unexplained aircraft were piloted by extraterrestrials?

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Might the alien craft have actually wanted to be seen?

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But if so, why?

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The next day, CIA and Air Force investigators moved to block the story from becoming public.

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I had to sign a security contingency form.

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This one was specific to this incident that I would not talk about it for 30 years.

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That I would keep my mouth shut and I did.

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Could this incident involving two of the world's most powerful nations be one of hundreds of UFO events that have been known to governments the world over,

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but covered up as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

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And might this be additional evidence of a long history of extraterrestrials attempting to contact and communicate with the human race?

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Los Angeles, California, February 25, 1942.

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In the early morning hours, something ignites a firestorm that lights up the sky.

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That was the famous Battle of Los Angeles.

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And this photograph that's been all around the world showing all of those arc lights coming up to it.

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Those arc lights were aimed at a diamond, lozenge eyewitnesses said.

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The nearly 2,000 round of army anti-aircraft artillery was fired.

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They could tell nothing was interacting. It was as if it had a force field around it.

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We fired thousands of rounds. Unfortunately civilians lost their lives.

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The next day no sign of this craft could have been extraterrestrials.

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All the evidence points to some type of craft not of this world.

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According to researchers, five years later a UFO crash landed outside Roswell, New Mexico in July of 1947.

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Following this incident and numerous other UFO sightings, the public demanded to know who or what was behind these unexplained objects seen in the skies.

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The government responded not by answering the question, but by creating the National Security Act.

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Six weeks after the Roswell incident, the National Security Act that Harry Truman signed essentially says to you as an American citizen,

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we, the government, don't have to answer that question in the interest of national security.

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The sightings and close encounters only continued and the mysterious visitors appeared to grow even bolder.

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But was there a message behind these increasing contact events?

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Washington, D.C. July 19, 1952.

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In the skies over the heart of the United States government, multiple unidentified flying objects are picked up on radar by air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base.

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There were jets scrambled to intercept them. When the jets would get there, they would disappear. When the jets would land, they would reappear again.

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Basically it was all over the news, all over the entire world.

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So it happened twice on two consecutive weekends, meaning that more and more people saw the same thing.

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They were flying over the heart of Washington, so that is essentially the equivalent of landing on the White House lawn.

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According to ancient astronaut theorists, there was a reason that alien beings chose the nation's capital to make contact.

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We had a series of UFO sightings that were buzzing the White House, the U.S. Capitol. I think in an attempt to make a very symbolic direct contact saying, hey, we'd like to talk to you guys.

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But it just seems to me like somehow we didn't get the message.

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In the days following the mysterious sightings over the nation's capital, the U.S. government refused to acknowledge any extraterrestrial connection.

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We have, as a date, come to only one firm conclusion, and that is that it does not contain any pattern of purpose or of consistency that we can relate to any conceivable threat to the United States.

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In 1952, the Air Force created Project Blue Book to investigate the growing number of sightings and contact events.

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But was this simply an attempt on the part of the U.S. government to suppress the truth?

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You've got too many tangible, objective sightings. And of objects, by the way, that were doing things, it was just utterly, just incredibly extraordinary.

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We've got a physical phenomenon. It's real. The question is why, and that's something we don't have the answer to.

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If the United States government and others around the world knew that extraterrestrials were real, why was this information being covered up?

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Could it be that authorities feared the threat that these unconventional spacecraft represented to national security?

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There's a long litany of reports that the U.S. government has authored on UFOs, and many of them show dramatic UFO evidence for real.

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And yet, their conclusion was, as either hoaxes or mistake in sightings of natural phenomena and so forth, that's the history of U.S. government studies on UFOs.

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In modern times, there's the idea that there's a secret and small elite body of people who are covering up the truth from the rest of society.

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That aliens from space have visited planet Earth, but nobody else is allowed to know about it.

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In 1969, the Air Force abruptly terminated Project Blue Book. Could it be that the government denials regarding extraterrestrial contact were failing to convince the public?

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Or is it possible that officials knew far more than they admitted about these events that were being reported again and again?

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One of these scientific advisors for the Air Force's Project Blue Book was J. Allen Heineck. Heineck became disenchanted with the fact that certain cases were not being followed up on

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and that there appeared to be some sort of cover-up going on.

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According to researchers, the United States government and others around the world have continued to secretly investigate alien encounters that now number in the tens of thousands.

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But might extraterrestrial contact actually have been documented and covered up for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years?

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Luxor, Egypt. Along the east bank of the Nile River lie the ruins of the Karnak Temple complex dating to the 32nd century BC.

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Here, in ancient Egyptian society, the pharaohs were considered perfect humans to be worshiped above all others as supreme living gods.

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This religious hierarchy was in place for over a thousand years until one pharaoh came into power and changed everything.

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His name was Akhenaten.

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According to legend, Akhenaten descended from the stars and when he came to power, the worship of multiple gods ended.

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The pharaoh replaced the old deities with a single sun god that some believe had interacted with and gave birth to Akhenaten.

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This god was called Atten.

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What we have with Akhenaten is a very brief period of time when Egypt radically departs from its standard behavior.

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We see Akhenaten is becoming obsessed, saying that he can contact the gods.

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Also, he is remodeling the way he looks, not physically, but on his monuments.

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Akhenaten looked very odd and the other statues that were created during that time all featured elongated heads, bizarre bodies and chicken legs.

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The whole reign of Akhenaten leads us to think that he had contact with extraterrestrials.

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Akhenaten's wife, Queen Nefertiti, and their children were also depicted with similar elongated heads.

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But might there be a specific reason why the pharaoh and his descendants were illustrated in this way?

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Clearly, Akhenaten and various other people were confronted with deities who had these elongated skulls.

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And so they reshaped their heads because this somehow would bring them closer to the gods and maybe even in contacting or being amongst the gods.

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Could the sun god Aten have been an alien being that visited Earth as some ancient astronaut theorists contend?

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Or is it possible that Akhenaten himself had an extraterrestrial origin?

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Might Akhenaten have received messages from Aten?

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Messages that would have had a profound effect on Egyptian society during the pharaoh's reign.

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They visited him, he had actual physical contact with them.

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And so that was the reason why he instituted this one god rule.

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And another theory is also that Akhenaten himself was in fact half human, half extraterrestrial.

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Akhenaten ruled for 17 years, but upon his death the magnificent city he built to the sun god was partially destroyed.

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And his mysterious depictions were defaced or obliterated.

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Aten, the god who some believe may have delivered messages to the pharaoh, was also virtually erased from the records.

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Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists contend, that the pharaoh's relationship with extraterrestrial beings was covered up for nearly 1,000 years?

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All the other pharaohs left wall descriptions and describing their glory and brilliance, but for some reason around Akhenaten it was all scribbled out.

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As if to hide them like an ancient cover-up, could this be because Akhenaten was perhaps actually extraterrestrial?

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Might contact with alien messengers have been kept secret by the ruling elite around the world for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years.

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Perhaps further evidence of this contact can be found where science and religion met and struggled with the truth, or as some believe, tried to deny it.

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Rome, Italy.

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February 17th, 1600.

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Here, astronomer and philosopher Giordano Bruno spent his last day in prison during the Roman Inquisition.

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Among his alleged crimes, the scientist had asserted his belief that the earth was not the center of the universe and that the cosmos is filled with life.

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In the 16th and 17th century, the Catholic Church was against certain developments in science.

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And among these heresies made by Giordano Bruno was the idea that there's a lot of life out there.

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Bruno believed in the existence of extraterrestrial beings.

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We also know that the Vatican is able to cover up this material extremely well.

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So this is just one example of almost two-thousandths of years of Vatican power.

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Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists claim, that Giordano Bruno had been visited by extraterrestrial beings?

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And might these same beings have shared messages with Bruno and other scientists, including Copernicus and Galileo?

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Messages that the Vatican learned of and greatly feared.

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In the Renaissance, scientists like Galileo and Copernicus were excommunicated because the Catholic Church had a very strong interest in controlling information.

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So of course they did everything they could to silence scientific discoveries.

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Bruno's revolutionary assertions included the belief that the universe was made up of an infinite number of worlds, which were populated by intelligent beings.

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The problem with all these statements was that they violated one of the basic tenets of religion at that point, which was, we were the center of creation.

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We were the crown of creation. We were top dog in the cosmos.

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Bruno angered scholars and theologians across Europe with his teachings, and the scientist was finally arrested by order of the Vatican.

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He endured eight years locked in a dungeon and was tried for heresy.

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But Bruno refused to recant his beliefs.

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For his crimes against the Catholic Church, Bruno was burned at the stake.

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But is it possible that the Vatican knew Bruno had been receiving messages from alien beings?

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And might it be that the Vatican wanted to deny the existence of extraterrestrial life, a species that far exceeded human capabilities and eluded the Vatican's control?

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The existence of this cover-up feeds our worry today that government and science could be engaged in a cover-up to hide the evidence of contact with extraterrestrial life.

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Bruno's writings were condemned by the Catholic Church and banned for decades.

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Many of his works were destroyed, and researchers believe they included revelations of messages he had received and that the Vatican wanted to erase.

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But might the information Bruno may have received from extraterrestrials still be locked away?

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And if so, does it remain a threat to Catholic doctrine?

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Does the trial of Bruno point to a cover-up by the Vatican?

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Perhaps the answers can be found in a small village in western Portugal and the story of a miracle that could offer proof that we are not alone.

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The Vatican

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Vatican City, Italy

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In the 17th century, Pope Paul V ordered select documents of the Catholic Church move from the Vatican Library and closed to outsiders until 1881.

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Today, the Vatican's secret archives are closely guarded, and some researchers believe they contain revelations so explosive that they threaten the doctrine of the Catholic Church.

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You have to wonder if the secret library at the Vatican, which they acknowledge exists, doesn't have records or chronicles about extraterrestrial contacts that the Catholic Church has recorded and knows happened, but is keeping a secret.

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Might the Vatican's secret archives contain the details of messages Giordano Bruno may have received from extraterrestrials?

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Information that supports his pronouncements about the universe.

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When we look at certain specific examples like Giordano Bruno, we know that there was so more to it than this.

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The Vatican archives, whenever they're going to be opened, are going to reveal extraordinary levels of details.

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According to researchers, the Vatican's secret archives holds hidden evidence connected to the miracle of Fatima.

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It was here in 1917 that three children claimed to have received messages from what some Catholic theologians believe was the Virgin Mary.

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In Fatima, children saw an apparition they said was the Virgin Mary.

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In 1970, people came to this same sheep pasture.

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And people said that they saw a spinning silver disc.

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The Catholic Church, for a very long time, would not acknowledge what was happening with the children or Fatima.

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The extraterrestrials give to the children a telepathic message saying you are not alone on this planet.

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We are here. We have been here some thousands of years ago. We observe you.

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Please prepare mankind that we will return again.

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All this story of Fatima went to the Vatican.

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But is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists contend, that the Catholic Church censored the messages that were received in Fatima?

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The kids were given three messages and the Pope refused to release the third message.

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The third message apparently talks about extraterrestrial life.

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Now that is sensational.

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Because to me, to deny the revelation of that particular message, and that is exactly what the Pope did.

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And I wonder why?

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Some contend that the miracle of Fatima is one of many events that describe visitations from extraterrestrial messengers.

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Researchers also point to the voices described by Joan of Arc.

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Visions received in Lourdes by Bernadette Subaros.

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And countless stories depicted in the Hebrew Bible, in which similar events are described.

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Perhaps the Vatican knows far more about life in the universe than they have acknowledged.

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But does a belief in alien life question the omnipotence of a supreme being?

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Of course the Vatican knows about extraterrestrial life.

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But to suggest that because extraterrestrials exist, that means there is no God is total nonsense.

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Safered, Arizona. 130 miles northeast of Tucson.

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The Mount Graham International Observatory.

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Here, the Roman Catholic Church quietly operates a massive telescope that scans the heavens day after day.

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As does another telescope in Rome.

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What do they expect to find?

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We're doing all kinds of research work into various aspects of the heavens.

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So from the very nearest around planets, nearby.

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Our own solar system.

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Out through to our galaxy.

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Galaxies beyond that and then the universe as a whole.

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Might the Catholic Church be monitoring our cosmic neighbors?

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And preparing for the day when science and governments acknowledge their existence.

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The Vatican Observatory on Mount Graham is very near the San Francisco peaks.

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Which is the sacred mountain to the Hopi and Zuni Indians.

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Where the sky people come and go from.

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I find it very interesting that the Vatican should have an observatory right at this very sacred and crucial spot.

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Also well known as a corridor for UFO activity.

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If you are a Vatican, a government and you have secret knowledge that there's other life in the universe.

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They're going to be forced into public statements.

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Consistent with a Catholic view of the divine.

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In 2008, the Vatican stunned the world when it announced that the possibility of extraterrestrial life was not in conflict with church teachings.

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Might they know something? We don't.

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Do you think they came forward with such a statement out of thin air willy nilly?

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No, there was a deliberate calculation behind releasing such a statement.

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All you have to do is open your eyes and it becomes quite clear we've been visited and the Vatican knows that.

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The Vatican does not have a specific stance on extraterrestrial life.

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If extraterrestrial life was found, then the church would react as it does with any data.

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What's about it to learn?

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A living experience would be the experience of extraterrestrials.

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Might the growing accounts of messages shared with a select few here on Earth have prompted the Vatican to begin acknowledging other life in the universe?

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And if extraterrestrials are delivering messages to humans, could they be signaling a reunion with our ancient ancestors?

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Suffolk, England.

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The decommissioned American Bentwaters Air Force Base. December 2010.

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Two retired airmen have returned here, still searching for answers to a mysterious event they claim to have witnessed 30 years earlier.

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It went from a sleepy, boring night to all of a sudden, within a matter of minutes, we were dealing with something we didn't know what it was.

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The incident has haunted them for three decades and compelled them to finally revisit the site of their close encounter. But why?

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Our journey has begun.

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John and I knew we were going to do this years ago.

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I came to rationalize my own mind that it was an aircraft crash.

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There was a weird feeling in the air. It's hard to explain. It just felt like there was an electricity or something in the air.

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When we got into this clearing, there was something there.

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And the whole area just lit up in a bright white light.

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I was downfounded by what was going on. I started seeing a silhouette of a triangular craft. It was completely black in color, except for these occasional bits of blue and orange light and yellow light running through it.

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It appeared to me like there was something there making us feel like we wanted to get closer.

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I was running towards it. It came over the top of me and then it exploded into blue objects and lights, but I disappeared into what it was.

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Then the next thing I know I was standing in the field and I had no idea what had happened.

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As Peniston approached the object, he observed strange hieroglyphic inscriptions on its side.

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Reaching out to touch it, his mind suddenly became bombarded by images of numbers.

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It's like someone was holding a picture of this zeroes, ones after another. I could see it in my mind's eye.

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Whether it be me, I don't know. The craft was on the ground approximately 45 minutes, then there was a bright flash of light.

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I don't know, the craft just took off.

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Jim and I both had watches on and it was behind. In other words, when we were finished, it showed like 45 minute difference in what time it really was.

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But the 45 minutes of missing time actually came from the shift commander and some other people saying that for a while what they attributed to was they lost radio contact with us.

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The next day, James Peniston was compelled to write down the strange series of numbers in his notebook. It filled an astonishing 12 pages.

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I pull up my notebook and it started writing on it. I think the part that was okay for me is that once I did that, they went away then.

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Did I tell anybody? No way I'm not going to tell anybody that.

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Peniston and Burroughs were ordered by their superiors to document the events they witnessed in Rendlesham Forest.

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But both men claimed they were pressured to leave out certain details of the event, especially those suggesting the craft may have been extraterrestrial.

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What I remember is a triangular craft, you know, they didn't have most sharp edges to it at all. It was equally on all sides, black in color, warm to touch.

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I had to give this sanitized story. I left out everything from the feeling of the electricity, feeling of being drawn into it, also the scripture of the craft.

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There's a lot of detail that was left out. And truth by admission is not the truth. It was a lie.

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It didn't want to appear like the government was trying to cover it up, but I clearly felt that they didn't want me to go into all the details.

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For the next two evenings, more mysterious sightings were reported by other soldiers stationed at Bent Waters.

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It virtually nothing was recorded except for a top secret report written by Deputy Base Commander, Colonel Charles Halt.

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What makes the Rendlesham incident important is really the military witnesses who were involved in this.

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There are probably several hundred people who are either direct witnesses to the UFO or were involved in a more peripheral sense.

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But few witnesses stationed at Bent Waters were willing to go on record about what they saw.

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The event was kept from the public and no mention of the triangle UFO was divulged until years later.

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Rumors had been spreading about this incident for some time, but it was not until 1983 that the story actually broke in the media after a Freedom of Information Act request.

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Most were interested, some were more skeptical, but this was definitely a big story.

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When pressed for comment, military officials claimed the men mistook a nearby lighthouse for a UFO or perhaps fabricated a hoax.

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We're living in a world that until governments and police authorities say this happened and speak in microphones for TV and radio and print, it becomes a non-event.

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They know how to control the media.

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Peniston and Burroughs retired from the military in the mid-1990s, but each were plagued with nightmares for decades.

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In the fall of 2010, after three decades of trying to forget the incident, Peniston and Burroughs reconnected for the first time in many years.

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Something was compelling them to return to Rendlesham Forest.

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We couldn't explain how we got from point A to point B.

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I don't know how we got there.

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Nope, we needed to do it.

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Well, the best thing would be for us to go back out and go step by step.

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That's what we needed to do.

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Come right up to where we were, right where we had it happen.

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We need to do that.

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I know what we're doing.

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There's a drive in us.

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This says we have to go.

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I suppose we'd like to have some closure.

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The situation never leaves you.

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I mean, it is life changing event that happened there at Ben Waters.

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I would gladly give that to somebody else to be burdened with all their life.

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One of the things that always bothers you is, who are they?

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What was it?

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What were they doing?

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What are their intentions?

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And what would happen if they did come back?

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Why would Peniston and Burroughs want to revisit the site of a 30-year-old nightmare?

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Is it possible that by returning, they will discover who or what they had encountered in the forest?

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And the key to decoding the mysterious message they had received?

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They had received.

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Suffolk, England December 26, 2010

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On the 30th anniversary of their close encounter while stationed at Ben Waters Air Force Base,

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James Peniston and John Burroughs were compelled to return to the place that left them with reoccurring dreams

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and many unanswered questions.

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We know this is different.

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Yeah.

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The gate wasn't here.

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It was all the way down to the end of that perimeter.

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Accompanied by journalist Linda Moulton-Howe,

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the men hoped that revisiting Rendlesham Forest, where they encountered the triangle UFO,

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would confirm their memories.

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Well, let's go down this road and see if that meets up with Eastgate Road

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and see if there's a logging road between here and Eastgate Road.

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Yeah, sounds good.

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You lead the way.

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We got to walk out into the forest with them and see if they could remember.

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We were trying to find the exact spot where they think that all of this occurred.

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So this is the airy feeling. This is the trees I remember.

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This is it?

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Yeah, this is exactly what I remember.

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John Burroughs seemed to begin to actually recall details of what he remembered.

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This is right where the whole thing started.

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At one point, the white lights were emitting right off to this whole forest was lit up.

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The whole forest was lit up.

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And I think you saw that too, right? From the gate.

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It was brilliant, wasn't it?

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It was just a really white light.

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Yeah.

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And Jim Peniston, he really did seem to start going back to that time,

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remembering touching those symbols and having his mind filled with his zeros and ones.

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It was dead silent out here. There was no sound at all.

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It went around from the front side, it would appear to be front.

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I started touching it back here. It was warm.

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Then I noticed up here on the left side, there's an inscription or something.

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And I touched them.

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And then there's like intense light again.

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I got images in my head that I can't explain.

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And it took at least two days for things to start focusing down through their minds.

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But it is a testimony to the nature of this phenomenon that it can come, it can be here,

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it can interact with humans, and humans are left 100% in the dark about what happened.

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Later that evening, Peniston, Burroughs, and a team of researchers returned to the site

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at the exact time and place where they were 30 years earlier.

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But what retracing their steps reveal new details about the craft and its purpose?

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Watching.

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Feeling like something might happen.

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There is a feeling of anticipation.

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Yes.

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It's not like something's gonna happen.

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As you can clearly see tonight, whatever it was, wasn't the lighthouse or anything else that's out here.

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It had to been something that came into the area.

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I saw the lights in the sky and the beams coming down.

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And this is where the beam shot at us.

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I think everything's much clearer.

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It's obvious that we had the answers to begin with.

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I think this is necessary for us to come back out here and clarify it.

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I know that it is the beginning.

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We have a lot of things we've got to do.

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This is not over.

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Although Peniston and Burroughs recalled long forgotten memories of the encounter,

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the investigation failed to answer the questions that have haunted them for decades.

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But is it possible that the answer lies not in the forest,

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but remains locked in the brain of James Peniston?

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And in the notebook, which contains the hundreds of ones and zeros,

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he was compelled to write down.

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Two months before the return to Runtersham Forest,

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computer programmer Nick Siskie attempted to decode the mysterious number sequence

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found in five pages of Peniston's notebook.

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But could this random string of zeros and ones really contain an alien message?

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After I decoded the binary, there appeared to be a message that read,

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exploration humanity.

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And then it says,

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continuous for planetary advance.

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And then some numbers that included coordinates.

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When I looked those coordinates up, they were off the west coast of Ireland.

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So if I were to interpret this message,

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it would seem to be that this alien race has come to explore humanity and help us along.

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Does this prove that?

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Well, I don't know.

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Could the remaining pages contain even more vital information from an extraterrestrial source?

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I mean, it seemed like it was supposed to happen.

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So I don't know.

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Maybe I was just the one along with John and we were supposed to be out there.

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I cannot explain to you what we were dealing with and how it did what it did.

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And the last thing would be why us.

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What is the secret of the Bentwaters incident?

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And what was so important that both the U.S. and British military needed to cover it up and hide it from the public?

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And why have so few witnesses been willing to come forward?

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There seems to be a concerted effort to really cover up evidence that aliens have been coming here

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and interacting with humans for thousands of years.

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There does seem to be some type of international cover-up taking place.

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Tangible evidence of some type of craft in the sky that's possibly not from this world.

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This is a global phenomenon where we're being visited by extraterrestrials.

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I think we've evolved to the point where we're able to understand and accept interaction with another extraterrestrial.

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It's out there. If you go looking for it, the evidence is there.

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Will we ever really learn the truth about the possibility of extraterrestrial visitors to our planet?

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And if they are real, why do governments and religions throughout the world continue to deny their existence?

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Perhaps we are like peniston and burrows compelled to keep exploring the mystery of our past.

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Because only then will we come ever closer to discover our future.