1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,500 A UFO sighting over multiple cities. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,600 I don't know what the hell it is. 3 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:10,380 An extraterrestrial event that changed the course of history 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:16,580 and an alien abduction witnessed by no less than six people. 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:18,820 On Ancient Aliens, we've investigated 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,720 dozens of extraordinary encounters 7 00:00:21,820 --> 00:00:24,920 from among the thousands that have been reported. 8 00:00:25,020 --> 00:00:28,900 Here is what I consider to be the most compelling stories. 9 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,400 My top 10 alien encounters. 10 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:35,640 Each one adds to the growing body of proof 11 00:00:35,740 --> 00:00:38,700 that we have been visited by extraterrestrials 12 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,100 for thousands of years. 13 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,920 People tell me about their UFO sightings all the time. 14 00:00:53,020 --> 00:00:56,720 And let me tell you, I've heard some really incredible stories. 15 00:00:56,740 --> 00:01:00,680 In fact, there are thousands of UFO sightings reported 16 00:01:00,780 --> 00:01:02,020 every year. 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,560 Unfortunately, most are single witness testimonials 18 00:01:05,660 --> 00:01:08,420 that can't be corroborated or verified. 19 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,160 But in 1982, along New York's Hudson River, 20 00:01:12,260 --> 00:01:14,460 there was a flood of UFO sightings 21 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:20,440 reported over multiple days by hundreds of eyewitnesses. 22 00:01:20,540 --> 00:01:25,040 Number 10 on my countdown of the top alien encounters, 23 00:01:25,060 --> 00:01:27,700 the Hudson Valley UFO sightings. 24 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:38,340 Kent, New York. 25 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,780 New Year's Eve, 1982. 26 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,480 Just a few miles from the Hudson River, 27 00:01:44,580 --> 00:01:48,320 New Year's Eve revelers spot a gigantic V-shaped craft 28 00:01:48,420 --> 00:01:51,820 throbbing with red, white, and green lights. 29 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,420 As they watch in amazement, the colors 30 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:55,420 vanish. 31 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:57,880 Replaced by white lights so bright, 32 00:01:57,980 --> 00:02:00,080 they illuminate the ground. 33 00:02:00,180 --> 00:02:02,480 Over the next months, authorities 34 00:02:02,580 --> 00:02:06,520 are bombarded with hundreds of similar reports. 35 00:02:06,620 --> 00:02:09,620 Holy, good God. 36 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,120 I don't know. 37 00:02:11,220 --> 00:02:12,560 Not playing. 38 00:02:12,660 --> 00:02:14,860 I'll be talking to you something, honey. 39 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,760 I don't know what the hell it is. 40 00:02:17,860 --> 00:02:22,040 Usually, UFOs just appear to a small number of people, 41 00:02:22,140 --> 00:02:23,500 and they disappear. 42 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,360 In this case, people were stopped on the highways. 43 00:02:27,460 --> 00:02:29,220 People were running out of their houses, 44 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,200 watching this enormous object pass over 45 00:02:32,300 --> 00:02:34,200 the size of a football field. 46 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:42,140 The sightings continued for more than six years 47 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:46,840 and became the most widely reported in American history. 48 00:02:46,940 --> 00:02:52,380 The Hudson Valley UFO sightings continued well up to 1980. 49 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,880 It's estimated that as many as 5,000 people 50 00:02:56,980 --> 00:03:06,360 called in and made reports of this very large, lit-up UFO. 51 00:03:06,460 --> 00:03:09,700 But why were so many UFO encounters reported 52 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,500 in this one particular area? 53 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:18,400 There are six, and the lead one has his three lights on. 54 00:03:18,500 --> 00:03:20,400 Everybody else only has two. 55 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:25,100 Some have suggested the reason why these sightings have 56 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:30,340 happened at the Hudson Valley is because they are on top 57 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:31,540 of a vortex. 58 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:33,080 Now, what's a vortex? 59 00:03:33,180 --> 00:03:36,180 Well, there are varying opinions of what that is. 60 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:40,080 Some have suggested that they are magnetic points that 61 00:03:40,180 --> 00:03:44,260 are part of the Earth's magnetic grid. 62 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:48,960 They also represent the combination of Earth energies 63 00:03:49,060 --> 00:03:52,060 kind of congregating into one spot, these telluric. 64 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,160 These magnetic Earth currents. 65 00:03:55,260 --> 00:03:58,780 And so one suggestion is that they create portal type effects 66 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:03,780 or vortexes, entrances into the other world. 67 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,320 Could the Hudson Valley UFO sightings 68 00:04:06,420 --> 00:04:10,780 be evidence of a hidden power vortex and even a portal 69 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,220 through time and space? 70 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:15,920 You have places around the world that 71 00:04:16,020 --> 00:04:19,320 are known for their vortexes. 72 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,180 Stonehenge is set to have a vortex. 73 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:26,420 Sedona, Arizona has a number of vortexes 74 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,720 and is famous for them. 75 00:04:28,820 --> 00:04:31,360 And so it's thought that the Hudson Valley is also 76 00:04:31,460 --> 00:04:33,500 a vortex area. 77 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,100 So you have to wonder there if these UFOs have been 78 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,860 attracted to the Hudson Valley. 79 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:41,660 And still to this day, no one has come up 80 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:45,040 with a good explanation of what was happening in the Hudson 81 00:04:45,140 --> 00:04:46,640 Valley during this time. 82 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:49,760 They're heading north, northwest. 83 00:04:49,860 --> 00:04:50,840 Oh, good God. 84 00:04:54,140 --> 00:04:58,240 Just 150 miles east of the Hudson Valley, 85 00:04:58,340 --> 00:05:02,820 another extraordinary encounter took place in 1961. 86 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,520 And what makes it so unique is that it is the first documented 87 00:05:06,620 --> 00:05:10,660 report of an alien abduction. 88 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,200 My number nine alien encounter, the abduction 89 00:05:14,260 --> 00:05:15,700 of Betty and Barney Hill. 90 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:25,840 Lancaster, New Hampshire, September 19, 1961. 91 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,900 Betty and Barney Hill are driving late at night 92 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,380 when a large flying saucer intercepts them 93 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,920 and hovers over their car. 94 00:05:37,020 --> 00:05:40,520 Above them, the hills observe otherworldly figures 95 00:05:40,620 --> 00:05:43,320 in the windows of the craft. 96 00:05:43,380 --> 00:05:46,620 Days later, the couple reports missing time. 97 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,720 And after participating in hypnotic regression, 98 00:05:49,820 --> 00:05:52,520 they claim to realize that they were abducted 99 00:05:52,620 --> 00:05:55,620 by extraterrestrials. 100 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,320 Under hypnotic regression, separately, by the way, 101 00:05:59,420 --> 00:06:02,740 so they each wouldn't contaminate the other story, 102 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:06,500 Betty and Barney told the exact same story. 103 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,380 The object hovered over the car, then landed in front of them. 104 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:10,680 And they were yanked out of the car 105 00:06:10,700 --> 00:06:12,540 by these small, 4 and 1 half foot beings 106 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:17,640 and dragged into a clearing where they boarded a spaceship. 107 00:06:17,740 --> 00:06:21,180 Betty pleaded with her captors, if you will, 108 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:23,820 that not to harm her. 109 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,320 As she laid on this table and experiments 110 00:06:27,420 --> 00:06:31,700 were done on her, like, a needle being inserted 111 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,800 into her stomach, Barney relays a number of skin samples, 112 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:39,640 hands, sperm being taken from him. 113 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:41,940 The beings described by Betty and Barney Hill 114 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,100 fit the classic case of a gray. 115 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,100 Now, there are variations to size and dimensions 116 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:48,680 of these beings, but they all seem 117 00:06:48,780 --> 00:06:51,240 to have the same characteristics, slim, 118 00:06:51,340 --> 00:06:55,980 skindly bodies, large oval heads, large oversized eyes. 119 00:06:59,580 --> 00:07:02,220 In the years since, they're reported abduction. 120 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,020 Betty and Barney Hill's encounter has become legendary. 121 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,460 But what was not well known was that Betty and Barney Hill 122 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,780 were not the only members of their family 123 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,120 who have been abducted. 124 00:07:14,220 --> 00:07:18,320 Betty Hill was my aunt, my mother's sister. 125 00:07:18,420 --> 00:07:21,760 Something that we have never revealed before 126 00:07:21,860 --> 00:07:26,760 is that my mother had a close encounter in 1958. 127 00:07:26,860 --> 00:07:33,540 She saw this huge cigar-shaped craft hovering over a field. 128 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,280 She had no explanation for what had happened 129 00:07:37,380 --> 00:07:38,640 as far as she knew. 130 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:43,100 She had gone shopping, and she had driven home. 131 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,600 My mother eventually underwent hypnosis, 132 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:50,240 and through hypnosis, she recalled 133 00:07:50,340 --> 00:07:53,640 having been abducted as well. 134 00:07:53,740 --> 00:07:59,480 And I also had this uncanny sort of dream-like experience 135 00:07:59,580 --> 00:08:03,520 of being taken to a craft. 136 00:08:03,620 --> 00:08:07,160 It appears that this is generational in my family. 137 00:08:07,220 --> 00:08:10,880 My aunt Betty was taken, my mother was taken, 138 00:08:10,980 --> 00:08:14,020 and there's a good chance that I have been taken as well. 139 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:20,260 Could it be that extraterrestrial beings are 140 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,860 abducting not only individuals, but also families? 141 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:28,200 And if so, why? 142 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:33,300 It seems that specific bloodlines are involved here. 143 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,840 And if that's the case, it raises the intriguing possibility 144 00:08:37,620 --> 00:08:41,920 that the extraterrestrials are interested in human biology, 145 00:08:42,020 --> 00:08:45,360 that they are monitoring specific genetic lines 146 00:08:45,460 --> 00:08:46,460 for some purpose. 147 00:08:50,460 --> 00:08:53,560 One of the most important factors I consider 148 00:08:53,660 --> 00:08:57,060 when it comes to evaluating a UFO encounter is, 149 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,900 how credible is the witness? 150 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,900 And to me, there is no better expert than a pilot 151 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,700 when it comes to reporting on a flying craft. 152 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:11,040 The next encounter on my list took place in 1947 153 00:09:11,140 --> 00:09:15,680 and helped launch the modern UFO era. 154 00:09:15,780 --> 00:09:18,920 Number eight, the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting. 155 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:30,900 Washington state, June 24, 1947. 156 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,800 Aviator and businessman Kenneth Arnold 157 00:09:33,860 --> 00:09:36,760 is piloting a private plane near Mount Rainier 158 00:09:36,860 --> 00:09:40,360 when he suddenly spots nine fast-moving objects flying 159 00:09:40,460 --> 00:09:42,100 in tandem. 160 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:43,900 As he was flying around the mountain, 161 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,600 he suddenly caught sight of a squadron 162 00:09:46,700 --> 00:09:48,280 of strange-looking objects. 163 00:09:48,380 --> 00:09:51,340 He could not figure out what they were. 164 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:55,540 He was able to measure the speed that they were going at 165 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:58,280 because he knew the distance between two particular peaks, 166 00:09:58,380 --> 00:09:59,880 which were about 50 miles apart. 167 00:09:59,980 --> 00:10:03,120 And he timed the passage of these objects by the peaks. 168 00:10:03,180 --> 00:10:05,540 And came to something like 1,200 miles per hour, 169 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,780 which in 1947 was just not done at all, 170 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:10,780 and he were close to that. 171 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:15,020 He later described the objects as being somewhat delta-shaped 172 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,520 and flying as if you were to skip a saucer across a body 173 00:10:18,620 --> 00:10:20,260 of water. 174 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:25,760 And this gave rise to the term flying saucer. 175 00:10:25,860 --> 00:10:29,300 The US Air Force formally categorized Kenneth Arnold's 176 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,000 experience as a mirage. 177 00:10:32,060 --> 00:10:34,220 But it emboldened others to come forward 178 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,020 with their own unexplainable encounters, 179 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,860 and a flurry of UFO reports quickly followed. 180 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:45,800 When you look at the year 1947, the statistics 181 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:50,800 are that there were at least 800 reports to police and airports 182 00:10:50,900 --> 00:10:53,800 of people saying that they were seeing something in the sky 183 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:55,340 and they didn't know what it was. 184 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,740 It was actually required that all officers fill out a form 185 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:00,280 if they saw anything that might be regarded as a UFO 186 00:11:00,660 --> 00:11:01,860 or a flying saucer. 187 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:04,460 And in addition to that, they were told not to discuss 188 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:09,800 their sighting or what was on their report with anyone. 189 00:11:09,900 --> 00:11:12,600 Kenneth Arnold's encounter marked the beginning 190 00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:14,700 of the modern UFO era. 191 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,440 But there are also, though, so believe it gave rise 192 00:11:17,540 --> 00:11:20,800 to a massive government cover-up. 193 00:11:20,900 --> 00:11:27,180 We became aware in the 40s of these extraterrestrial 194 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,520 biological entities in that the government's 195 00:11:29,660 --> 00:11:34,800 been trying to hide it for all of these decades. 196 00:11:34,900 --> 00:11:39,300 And that the same question of intent and agenda 197 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,200 and exactly who, from where, and why 198 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:43,740 are the same questions today. 199 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:55,480 On October 13, 1917, over 30,000 people in a small town 200 00:11:55,580 --> 00:11:58,760 in Portugal witnessed an incredible event 201 00:11:59,060 --> 00:12:03,000 that the Catholic Church declared to be of supernatural 202 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:04,200 character. 203 00:12:04,300 --> 00:12:08,300 At the center of the event were three children who for months 204 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:14,800 had reported receiving messages from a lady in the sky. 205 00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:19,020 Number seven on my countdown of the top alien encounters 206 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,580 is the miracle of the sun at Fatima. 207 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:33,960 Fatima, Portugal, May 1917. 208 00:12:34,060 --> 00:12:37,060 Three young children walking through a sheep pasture 209 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:38,800 are stopped in their tracks by what 210 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:40,700 appears to be a glowing angel. 211 00:12:43,540 --> 00:12:45,840 As the figure begins to speak, they 212 00:12:45,940 --> 00:12:48,480 believe she's the holy Virgin Mary, 213 00:12:48,580 --> 00:12:53,180 sent to deliver a very important message. 214 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,960 These three children claimed that they were visited 215 00:12:56,980 --> 00:13:01,460 by the Virgin Mary, who appeared to them in the sky 216 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:07,360 and told them that she had certain prophecies for them 217 00:13:07,460 --> 00:13:09,860 and that over the next six months, 218 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:14,660 she would return to them and give them these prophecies. 219 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,800 And so on the 13th of each month, 220 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:20,600 these three children would gather 221 00:13:20,700 --> 00:13:22,480 on this hillside in Fatima. 222 00:13:22,580 --> 00:13:25,180 And according to them, the Virgin Mary 223 00:13:25,180 --> 00:13:28,280 would appear to them and tell them these stories. 224 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,880 During one of these visits, the children 225 00:13:34,980 --> 00:13:36,980 claimed that the apparition told them 226 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:41,620 she would return to perform a miracle on October 13. 227 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,820 They reported the encounter to the local Catholic bishop. 228 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:49,800 And on October 13, 1917, over 30,000 people 229 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:52,540 gathered to witness the event. 230 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,640 The huge crowd gathered. 231 00:13:55,740 --> 00:14:00,940 And they said that they witnessed the sun moving 232 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,140 in the sky. 233 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,280 They saw the sun spinning like a disk 234 00:14:05,380 --> 00:14:07,640 and then coming down to the planet Earth. 235 00:14:07,740 --> 00:14:10,380 And people got very frightened. 236 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:14,020 The incident was labeled an event of supernatural character 237 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:15,960 by the Catholic Church. 238 00:14:16,060 --> 00:14:19,520 But as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 239 00:14:19,580 --> 00:14:24,680 it was a very different type of otherworldly encounter. 240 00:14:24,780 --> 00:14:30,520 This whole event took place for eight minutes, not eight seconds. 241 00:14:30,620 --> 00:14:32,520 They had time to look at it. 242 00:14:32,620 --> 00:14:34,020 It was not the sun. 243 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,720 It was a UFO because it turned. 244 00:14:36,820 --> 00:14:39,460 It changed its color all the time. 245 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:42,200 This object appeared in the sky in front of the sun, 246 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:44,400 I believe, at the Red All the reports. 247 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:49,140 And colors of light spread out from the object 248 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,460 to the ground. 249 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:55,640 To me, it indicates contact with an extraterrestrial 250 00:14:55,740 --> 00:14:56,500 intelligence. 251 00:14:59,540 --> 00:15:02,040 Encounters reported by a group of people 252 00:15:02,140 --> 00:15:05,580 can make strange sightings hard to deny. 253 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,820 And when a UFO sighting is reported 254 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:12,220 by thousands of residents of a major metropolitan city, 255 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:17,460 in my opinion, that's about as undeniable as it gets. 256 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:21,760 The number six alien encounter on my top 10 countdown, 257 00:15:21,860 --> 00:15:22,920 the Phoenix Lights. 258 00:15:30,060 --> 00:15:32,160 Henderson, Nevada. 259 00:15:32,260 --> 00:15:38,400 March 13, 1997, at 6.55 PM, local police 260 00:15:38,500 --> 00:15:41,980 receive a report of a massive v-shaped object traveling 261 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,080 southeast across the night sky. 262 00:15:45,140 --> 00:15:47,740 Over the next three hours, the craft 263 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,240 is witnessed by thousands of people 264 00:15:50,340 --> 00:15:54,840 as it journeys down through Arizona and into Sonora, Mexico. 265 00:15:54,940 --> 00:15:57,680 With most of the reports coming from Phoenix, 266 00:15:57,780 --> 00:16:00,580 as well as photographs and video footage, 267 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,520 the incident becomes known as the Phoenix Lights. 268 00:16:04,620 --> 00:16:07,960 The entire city of Phoenix was able to see this half a mile 269 00:16:08,060 --> 00:16:10,260 long display of lights over the city 270 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,300 in a very, very distinctive pattern. 271 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,620 It was a triangular-shaped object, 272 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:20,360 seen very reliably by quite a large number of witnesses. 273 00:16:20,460 --> 00:16:23,360 Who's our best witness to that? 274 00:16:23,460 --> 00:16:28,800 The best one, Governor Fife Simington of Arizona. 275 00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:31,900 As a pilot and a former Air Force officer, 276 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,340 I can definitively say that this craft did not 277 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,180 resemble any man-made object that I'd ever seen. 278 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:38,980 He says, yeah, I really did see the UFO. 279 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:40,080 And he describes it. 280 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:44,320 He actually was maybe 100 feet away from that flying triangle 281 00:16:44,420 --> 00:16:47,520 and could see through it and the stars above. 282 00:16:47,620 --> 00:16:50,060 Governor Simington was a qualified pilot 283 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,200 and in the Air Force reserve as well. 284 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:54,160 I think he knew what he was seeing. 285 00:16:54,260 --> 00:16:56,200 But some of these other witnesses said, yeah, 286 00:16:56,300 --> 00:16:57,900 I could have almost thrown a baseball and hit it. 287 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,800 It was that low over our heads. 288 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:05,280 The governor of Arizona described a strange triangular UFO 289 00:17:05,380 --> 00:17:08,840 that appeared translucent, camouflaging itself 290 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,340 amidst the star field above. 291 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,440 They were seen by hundreds of people. 292 00:17:15,540 --> 00:17:18,920 But when they looked between the lights, 293 00:17:19,020 --> 00:17:22,580 what they could see were the stars. 294 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,860 But it wasn't just the night sky as if there was nothing there. 295 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,520 They were waving as if something 296 00:17:28,620 --> 00:17:32,660 was getting in the way of the direct light from the stars. 297 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,060 So it's stealth. 298 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:35,060 It's camouflage. 299 00:17:36,020 --> 00:17:37,460 Camouflaged? 300 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:39,720 Could the descriptions of the Phoenix lights 301 00:17:39,820 --> 00:17:43,300 indicate that witnesses were observing some type of stealth 302 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,900 alien technology that, whether intentional or not, 303 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,440 momentarily revealed itself? 304 00:17:50,540 --> 00:17:54,940 And if so, could there be far more extraterrestrial aircraft 305 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:58,440 in our skies than we ever imagined? 306 00:17:58,540 --> 00:18:00,540 People think of disclosure as being 307 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:02,680 the most dangerous thing in the world. 308 00:18:02,740 --> 00:18:06,540 People think of disclosure as being the archetypal landing 309 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,180 on the White House lawn. 310 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:12,680 What if aliens are already here? 311 00:18:12,780 --> 00:18:16,320 And then disclosure, open-first contact, 312 00:18:16,420 --> 00:18:18,760 is the day when they reveal themselves. 313 00:18:24,860 --> 00:18:27,360 People often ask me, why aren't there 314 00:18:27,460 --> 00:18:30,800 any UFO sightings before the 20th century? 315 00:18:30,860 --> 00:18:33,420 And my answer is, of course there were. 316 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,860 History is filled with alien and counter stories. 317 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,500 But our ancestors didn't have the words like aliens and UFOs. 318 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,540 And of course, this was long before they 319 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,640 had built flying machines. 320 00:18:45,740 --> 00:18:49,140 What their stories describe is what I call 321 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,980 misunderstood technology, like this UFO sighting that 322 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,680 took place in the fourth century AD 323 00:18:55,780 --> 00:19:00,020 and forever altered the course of humanity. 324 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,240 Number five on my countdown, Constantine's vision. 325 00:19:09,180 --> 00:19:15,220 Rome, October 27, 312 AD. 326 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,820 At the Milvian Bridge on the north side of the city, 327 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,360 deposed emperor Constantine prepares 328 00:19:21,460 --> 00:19:24,600 to reclaim his throne from Maxentius. 329 00:19:24,700 --> 00:19:27,640 In the sky, he witnesses what he believes 330 00:19:27,740 --> 00:19:28,800 is a divine vision. 331 00:19:31,020 --> 00:19:35,680 Constantine and his followers saw in the sky 332 00:19:35,780 --> 00:19:42,960 what their chroniclers say was a huge white fiery cross. 333 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:49,260 Now, his followers didn't know what to make of this, 334 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:54,500 but Constantine decided that this was the Christian cross. 335 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,340 At that point, he made a vow to Christ 336 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,660 that if he won the battle, he would convert to Christianity 337 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:05,500 for good, and he would make Christianity the state 338 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,740 religion of the Roman Empire. 339 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,640 The vision of Constantine was extremely significant. 340 00:20:12,740 --> 00:20:14,640 They thought it was some kind of message. 341 00:20:14,740 --> 00:20:19,480 Fight this battle and establish this form of Christianity. 342 00:20:19,580 --> 00:20:23,020 Constantine feels after viewing this extraordinary sign 343 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:26,420 from the heavens, this lighted cross in the sky, 344 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,640 that he will go forth the next day, 345 00:20:28,740 --> 00:20:31,280 and he will conquer the Roman Empire. 346 00:20:31,380 --> 00:20:34,780 And this is exactly what he does. 347 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:38,520 This vision becomes one of the crucial turning points 348 00:20:38,620 --> 00:20:39,720 in human history. 349 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,020 Constantine's victory at the Milvian Bridge 350 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:49,820 was the first step in Christianity becoming Europe's 351 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,580 dominant religion, and the world was changed forever. 352 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,320 But was the cross-shaped object Constantine claimed 353 00:21:00,420 --> 00:21:04,160 to have seen in the sky really a sign from God? 354 00:21:04,260 --> 00:21:08,960 Or might it have been some other extraordinary force? 355 00:21:09,060 --> 00:21:10,600 It looked like in the shape of a cross, 356 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:13,660 but the shape of a cross could have been airplane-type objects 357 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,200 because the fuselage and the wings 358 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:17,500 will look like a cross to somebody who's looking up. 359 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,780 And of course, they had no concept of these things back then. 360 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,740 Now, it was not just Constantine's vision 361 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,440 because it is described that the army of Constantine 362 00:21:28,540 --> 00:21:32,500 also sowed something up in the sky. 363 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,600 This was a pivotal moment. 364 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:39,380 The adoption of Christianity as the official religion 365 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,880 really changed the world, and that's now 366 00:21:42,980 --> 00:21:45,580 a large part of the world we live in. 367 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,920 Is it possible that a 1700-year-old UFO encounter 368 00:21:50,020 --> 00:21:53,020 was responsible for one of the greatest turning points 369 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:54,980 in human history? 370 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,480 So the question is, is this one of the earliest UFO encounters 371 00:21:59,580 --> 00:22:00,780 that we have on record? 372 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,180 And in my opinion, yes, it is. 373 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,820 Remember when I said earlier that the case of Betty and Barney 374 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,660 Hill was the first alien abduction ever reported? 375 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,160 Well, that's because the term alien abduction did not 376 00:22:17,260 --> 00:22:19,500 exist thousands of years ago. 377 00:22:19,580 --> 00:22:22,740 In fact, one of the most compelling abduction accounts 378 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:27,320 I've ever read is ancient and can be found in a text that 379 00:22:27,420 --> 00:22:31,380 might surprise you, the Holy Bible. 380 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,960 Number four on my countdown, Elijah's chariot. 381 00:22:38,460 --> 00:22:43,160 Northern Israel, the ninth century, BC. 382 00:22:43,260 --> 00:22:47,840 According to Old Testament texts found in the Hebrew Bible, 383 00:22:48,780 --> 00:22:52,480 it was here that the prophet Elijah had several encounters 384 00:22:52,580 --> 00:22:56,620 with both angels and God, during which he was given 385 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:01,280 prophetic warnings of drought and cataclysm. 386 00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:03,460 One of the most important prophets 387 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,600 in Israel's tradition, of course, is Elijah. 388 00:23:07,700 --> 00:23:10,700 Elijah predicts some rough things coming, 389 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,760 and of course they do. 390 00:23:12,860 --> 00:23:15,960 There is a very special role in communicating 391 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,700 God's designs and sometimes his condemnation. 392 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:25,240 So Elijah is met with rather divine figures. 393 00:23:25,340 --> 00:23:27,900 In his final encounter with God, 394 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,040 it is written that Elijah is met by a chariot of fire 395 00:23:31,140 --> 00:23:36,380 and horses of fire that take him up to heaven in a whirlwind. 396 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:41,360 Elijah's experience details a spinning object 397 00:23:41,460 --> 00:23:44,320 or the whirlwind that came over him 398 00:23:44,380 --> 00:23:46,380 and a chariot of fire. 399 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,520 So the question is, was it the chariot of fire that 400 00:23:49,620 --> 00:23:55,860 was spinning, or was it a beam that came down and took him up? 401 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:00,260 It's not a far stretch to say that this was an actually 402 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:05,140 spinning object that was above him that took him up into it. 403 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,100 Could the fire have been some sort of engine? 404 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,440 When he's taken up in a whirlwind, 405 00:24:10,540 --> 00:24:12,380 you only have to look at, for example, 406 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,140 when the space shuttle takes to the skies. 407 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,440 You know, you have this rumbling, roaring jet flames, 408 00:24:20,540 --> 00:24:21,780 et cetera, et cetera. 409 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,420 If you look at it in that context, 410 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,960 you could really place this into a UFO category. 411 00:24:28,860 --> 00:24:31,500 Definitely these are characteristics 412 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,000 that we see of abductions, where people are taken up 413 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:37,400 into objects. 414 00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:40,800 Could it be that a story found in one of the earliest books 415 00:24:40,820 --> 00:24:44,720 of the Hebrew Bible is, in fact, an account of an alien 416 00:24:44,820 --> 00:24:48,860 abduction that occurred thousands of years ago? 417 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,700 And if so, what might it reveal about extraterrestrial 418 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,800 intervention on Earth? 419 00:24:55,900 --> 00:24:58,880 We see from the biblical record that mankind 420 00:24:58,980 --> 00:25:01,180 has a purpose and a destiny. 421 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,440 There clearly are extraterrestrials, 422 00:25:03,540 --> 00:25:07,080 and they are clearly interacting with us, 423 00:25:07,140 --> 00:25:10,240 and guiding us, and directing humanity 424 00:25:10,340 --> 00:25:12,940 towards this predestined end. 425 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,920 When it comes to alien abduction reports, 426 00:25:21,020 --> 00:25:25,560 most rely on the testimony of the abductees themselves. 427 00:25:25,660 --> 00:25:28,000 It's very rare for an abduction to be 428 00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:30,300 witnessed by anybody else. 429 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,140 But in this next case, there were multiple witnesses 430 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,400 who saw the abduction as it happened. 431 00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:40,000 This is one of the most fascinating and famous 432 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:42,800 accounts on record. 433 00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:46,980 Number three on my list of the top 10 alien encounters, 434 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,920 the Travis Walton abduction. 435 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:57,720 The Apache Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona. 436 00:25:57,820 --> 00:26:02,520 November 5, 1975. 437 00:26:02,580 --> 00:26:05,980 22-year-old forestry worker Travis Walton 438 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,580 is driving home after sundown along with six co-workers 439 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:14,320 when suddenly a strange light appears in the sky. 440 00:26:14,420 --> 00:26:16,020 We just finished a long, hard day, 441 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:17,360 and it was starting to get dark. 442 00:26:17,460 --> 00:26:19,460 So we loaded up our equipment. 443 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,060 We're headed home. 444 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,700 And I noticed some little glimmers of light 445 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,740 coming through the trees. 446 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,140 And the light seemed to be coming from higher 447 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,900 than where ground level would be. 448 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,620 It was only when we got to where this light was crossing 449 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:39,300 the road that we had an unobstructed view of the craft. 450 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,800 Dallin Dallos in the back yelled out, it's a flying saucer. 451 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:45,940 And I said, Mike, stop. 452 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:52,180 It was a clearly visible, clearly defined metallic object, 453 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,480 a disk hovering there, outlined against the sky. 454 00:26:55,580 --> 00:26:58,580 I threw open the door, thinking I'd get a closer look 455 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,020 before it took off. 456 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,640 As I got closer to it, the sound it was making, 457 00:27:02,740 --> 00:27:06,720 it was a sound you both heard and felt. 458 00:27:06,820 --> 00:27:12,520 And the crew said they could feel the vibration in the truck. 459 00:27:12,620 --> 00:27:16,760 They said it seemed like something was about to happen. 460 00:27:16,860 --> 00:27:19,000 And it was. 461 00:27:19,100 --> 00:27:23,360 That's when this energy hit me. 462 00:27:23,460 --> 00:27:28,300 The crew said that it was like I'd stepped on a landmine. 463 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:36,360 Like an explosion so violent that they thought it had killed me. 464 00:27:36,460 --> 00:27:39,360 The windless beam of energy hit me. 465 00:27:39,460 --> 00:27:44,200 I felt like a physical blow, but with a sort of a tangling, 466 00:27:44,300 --> 00:27:48,940 sort of an electric shock sort of feeling at the same time. 467 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:54,280 I don't know whether I came too soon after I was taking a board. 468 00:27:54,380 --> 00:27:56,920 But I knew I was on some kind of an elevated gurney 469 00:27:56,940 --> 00:27:58,840 or operating table. 470 00:27:58,940 --> 00:28:01,840 I was looking straight into the face of this creature. 471 00:28:01,940 --> 00:28:05,380 And I just flipped out. 472 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,780 He saw these hideous entities that scared him, 473 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:14,960 maybe quite similar to the modern idea of the so-called alien 474 00:28:15,060 --> 00:28:16,060 graves. 475 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,060 And he fought and he panicked. 476 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,860 And then these aliens seemed to go away. 477 00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:28,500 And then their place was taken by much more human-like aliens. 478 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,100 And he calmed down. 479 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,680 In the case of these human-looking ones, 480 00:28:33,780 --> 00:28:37,680 I started to have serious misgivings that this was a rescue. 481 00:28:37,780 --> 00:28:40,980 And that's when they put this mask over my face. 482 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:42,980 And I just blacked out real quickly. 483 00:28:46,580 --> 00:28:49,680 Now, the suspicion here was that actually, 484 00:28:49,780 --> 00:28:51,020 these weren't different aliens. 485 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,980 These were the same aliens. 486 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,920 But they were capable of shape-shifting 487 00:28:56,020 --> 00:28:59,720 into something else, specifically to calm him down. 488 00:29:03,820 --> 00:29:09,160 Cruz searched everywhere for the missing forest worker. 489 00:29:09,260 --> 00:29:11,500 But it wasn't until five days later 490 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,600 that Walton reappeared in a nearby town. 491 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:19,140 I was lying face down outside in the dark. 492 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,940 And there was a light above me. 493 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,900 And I saw the bottom of the craft there right before it 494 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,040 shot up into the sky. 495 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,540 When details of Travis Walton's close encounter 496 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,480 were revealed to authorities, they dismissed his account 497 00:29:36,580 --> 00:29:40,880 as a possible hallucination. 498 00:29:40,980 --> 00:29:44,920 But Travis has no doubt that what he and his coworkers 499 00:29:45,020 --> 00:29:49,060 experienced was a genuine extraterrestrial alien 500 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:50,360 encounter. 501 00:29:50,460 --> 00:29:54,800 What no one asked was, what about the rest of the crew? 502 00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:58,440 How do seven people have an identical hallucination? 503 00:29:58,540 --> 00:30:01,280 And besides that, they were given lie detector tests 504 00:30:01,380 --> 00:30:04,040 by state police, which they passed. 505 00:30:04,140 --> 00:30:06,620 There's real life things that occur out there 506 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,480 that need to be understood. 507 00:30:08,580 --> 00:30:12,460 So take a look at the facts and then judge. 508 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,860 I don't know the purpose that they had. 509 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,160 All I know is what happened to me. 510 00:30:18,220 --> 00:30:19,160 This was unmistakable. 511 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:28,160 Every now and then, an encounter is so compelling 512 00:30:28,260 --> 00:30:31,660 that it turns skeptics into true believers. 513 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,500 That's exactly what happened in the early 1970s 514 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,540 when a NASA scientist set out to prove 515 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,640 Eric Fondanikin wrong. 516 00:30:40,740 --> 00:30:43,880 But in fact, he ended up supporting one of Eric's theories 517 00:30:43,980 --> 00:30:47,120 so strongly that he even wrote a book about it. 518 00:30:48,220 --> 00:30:51,620 Number two on my countdown, the wheels of Ezekiel. 519 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:02,260 Northeast Syria, the Kabul River. 520 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:07,400 According to the Hebrew Bible, it was here in the 6th century BC 521 00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:10,740 that divine beings descended from heaven 522 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:16,080 and made contact with a Hebrew priest named Ezekiel. 523 00:31:16,140 --> 00:31:19,380 Ezekiel was by the river Chebar, and he said, 524 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,480 a great whirlwind came toward him. 525 00:31:23,580 --> 00:31:26,280 He described it as a fire enfolding itself, 526 00:31:26,380 --> 00:31:30,220 and out of the fire was the color of amber, 527 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:34,020 which is the Hebrew word, which means polished spectrum 528 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:38,800 metal, which implies that it's metallic and that it's spinning, 529 00:31:38,900 --> 00:31:40,860 and it lands in front of him. 530 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,360 And suddenly, out of this whirlwind, 531 00:31:44,420 --> 00:31:47,820 come four creatures. 532 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,260 In the Bible, the prophet Ezekiel 533 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,820 calls these spiritual beings cherubimms 534 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,860 and describes them as having four faces, four wings, 535 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,340 and skin that's shown like polished bronze. 536 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:06,040 Ezekiel says that he was taken up into the sky 537 00:32:06,140 --> 00:32:11,980 and taken to different places where he could see different things. 538 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,780 And then he was told some of the future things 539 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,480 that were going to come. 540 00:32:16,580 --> 00:32:21,080 This was a huge image of hope that came to Ezekiel 541 00:32:21,180 --> 00:32:23,880 during his experience. 542 00:32:23,980 --> 00:32:27,720 But is this the story of a divine encounter, 543 00:32:27,820 --> 00:32:31,220 or could Ezekiel's description of metallic wheels 544 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,600 descending from the sky in a whirlwind of fire 545 00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:38,060 and strange beings with skin like polished bronze 546 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,400 point to a different type of other worldly content 547 00:32:41,420 --> 00:32:45,160 that he could see in a completely contact? 548 00:32:45,260 --> 00:32:48,600 He's got the best description of a UFO that's 549 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:52,260 anywhere in the Bible, because he basically 550 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,040 says that the thing looked like a wheel within a wheel, 551 00:32:56,140 --> 00:32:57,800 kind of a classic flying saucer description. 552 00:33:01,140 --> 00:33:03,980 Ezekiel describes that the outside of the wheel 553 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,680 doesn't spin, the inside of the wheel spins. 554 00:33:07,780 --> 00:33:09,520 So he's telling us that's the engines. 555 00:33:11,460 --> 00:33:13,760 None of this necessarily has to be magic. 556 00:33:13,860 --> 00:33:16,620 This could all be technology. 557 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,800 There's basically the count of a guy who's been abducted, 558 00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:21,960 who has been told certain things, and who's then 559 00:33:22,060 --> 00:33:23,900 returned to the place of origin. 560 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,240 It would be what we today would describe 561 00:33:26,340 --> 00:33:27,680 as an abduction account. 562 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,780 Could it be that the prophet Ezekiel's account 563 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,780 of a heavenly close encounter might have been something else? 564 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,120 Perhaps one not involving heavenly beings, 565 00:33:40,140 --> 00:33:45,020 but visitors of another interplanetary nature. 566 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,860 This concept was put forth to the public 567 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,760 by the ancient astronaut theory pioneer Eric von Daniken 568 00:33:51,860 --> 00:33:56,200 in his 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods. 569 00:33:56,300 --> 00:34:00,600 And after hearing Eric speak at a conference in the early 1970s, 570 00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:04,640 NASA engineer Joseph Blumrich was determined to debunk 571 00:34:04,740 --> 00:34:08,480 his controversial interpretation. 572 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,380 I had a speech at NASA in Huntsville, 573 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,540 and I spoke about Ezekiel. 574 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:20,320 And the chief engineer of that time, Mr. Joe Blumrich, 575 00:34:20,420 --> 00:34:23,460 came to me and said, Eric, that was very interesting. 576 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,460 But in the Bible, you will definitely 577 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,560 not find any technology. 578 00:34:27,660 --> 00:34:30,900 But he still said, I will read originally 579 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,040 in the Bible Ezekiel. 580 00:34:33,140 --> 00:34:37,840 Blumrich set out to find flaws in von Daniken's theory. 581 00:34:37,860 --> 00:34:39,940 But when he read the book of Ezekiel, 582 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,100 he was shocked to find himself agreeing 583 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,740 with the controversial author. 584 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,580 So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book called 585 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,520 The Spaceships of Ezekiel, in which he provided a blueprint 586 00:34:52,620 --> 00:34:55,720 for a practical landing module based on the description 587 00:34:55,820 --> 00:34:59,360 found in the biblical story. 588 00:34:59,460 --> 00:35:03,360 Several years later, a German structural engineer named Hans 589 00:35:03,460 --> 00:35:07,360 Herbert Bayer also sketched out a blueprint of the second section 590 00:35:07,380 --> 00:35:10,520 of the book of Ezekiel, where Ezekiel was told to construct 591 00:35:10,620 --> 00:35:15,420 an open-topped building to house the flying chariot. 592 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:19,860 Hans Herbert Bayer sent the blueprint to Eric von Daniken. 593 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,240 Within five minutes of looking at these blueprints, 594 00:35:24,340 --> 00:35:27,700 Eric was on the phone with Joe Blumrich. 595 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:32,640 And he said, hey, Joe, can you bring a model of your spaceship 596 00:35:32,740 --> 00:35:33,940 of Ezekiel? 597 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:35,580 And then he called Hans Herbert Bayer, 598 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,400 and he said, can you bring a model of your construction 599 00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:42,340 of Ezekiel's temple? 600 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,180 Both models were created to the same ratio. 601 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:47,420 And guess what? 602 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:53,280 Ezekiel's spaceship fit into the temple construction 603 00:35:53,380 --> 00:35:56,920 that Hans Herbert Bayer recreated according 604 00:35:57,020 --> 00:35:58,220 to the biblical measurements. 605 00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:05,260 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 606 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,680 the biblical account of Ezekiel provides 607 00:36:07,780 --> 00:36:11,960 conclusive evidence of an alien encounter. 608 00:36:12,060 --> 00:36:14,160 But more importantly, it may also 609 00:36:14,260 --> 00:36:16,960 reveal that for thousands of years, 610 00:36:17,060 --> 00:36:21,740 the destiny of humankind has been directed by extraterrestrials. 611 00:36:28,340 --> 00:36:32,280 This may be one of the oldest alien encounter stories. 612 00:36:32,340 --> 00:36:35,440 But for me, it is still the most compelling. 613 00:36:35,540 --> 00:36:39,840 Written over 3,000 years ago, it was banned from the Bible 614 00:36:39,940 --> 00:36:45,280 because this ancient text describes in detail humankind's 615 00:36:45,380 --> 00:36:48,780 extraterrestrial origins. 616 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:53,860 My number one alien encounter, Enoch's Ascent to Heaven 617 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,400 in a chariot of the gods. 618 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:06,400 Kirbet, Qumran, Palestine. 619 00:37:06,500 --> 00:37:10,200 In 1946, a collection of ancient manuscripts 620 00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:14,640 known as the Dead Sea Scrolls is discovered hidden in clay jars 621 00:37:14,740 --> 00:37:17,240 deep inside a cave. 622 00:37:17,340 --> 00:37:20,140 Among the manuscripts is the book of Enoch, 623 00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:23,340 a so-called lost biblical text. 624 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,880 In the Bible's Old Testament, Enoch 625 00:37:25,980 --> 00:37:28,080 is the seventh of 10 patriarchs who 626 00:37:28,180 --> 00:37:32,080 lived before the great flood and the great grandfather of Noah. 627 00:37:33,180 --> 00:37:36,180 But where the Hebrew Bible only mentions Enoch briefly, 628 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:40,180 the book of Enoch, which consists of more than 100 chapters, 629 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,820 greatly expands on his story. 630 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:48,820 In it is a curious passage that details Enoch's Ascent to Heaven. 631 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:53,400 According to the book of Enoch, he says he was 12 years old. 632 00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:55,860 The whole community of his village wanted to sleep, 633 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,340 but then they hear the noise in the sky. 634 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,060 Two angels came down from the sky. 635 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,200 One of the two beings said to Enoch, 636 00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:05,800 don't be afraid, human. 637 00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:09,600 Then they went up to the so-called heaven. 638 00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:12,240 And in the book of Enoch, we learn Enoch himself 639 00:38:12,340 --> 00:38:15,340 is taken into the heavens in a fiery chariot. 640 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,880 Enoch goes up to the so-called sky, 641 00:38:17,980 --> 00:38:20,920 and there, Enoch sees something over the earth, 642 00:38:21,020 --> 00:38:22,920 which he cannot describe. 643 00:38:23,020 --> 00:38:25,720 He has no word like spaceship or something. 644 00:38:25,820 --> 00:38:28,420 He says it looked like houses of crystals. 645 00:38:30,340 --> 00:38:35,300 It is described that he sees planet earth underneath him. 646 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,540 He actually describes his arrival, 647 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:42,040 how he has to walk through these different rooms, 648 00:38:42,140 --> 00:38:45,880 where he sees jewels, and he sees shiny surfaces 649 00:38:45,980 --> 00:38:47,980 and blinking lights. 650 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,620 It is an eyewitness account. 651 00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:52,260 It's I Enoch did this. 652 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,020 I Enoch saw that. 653 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,700 The book of Enoch is one of the first of the three 654 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,600 first abduction accounts written down 655 00:39:01,700 --> 00:39:04,200 by a fellow human being. 656 00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:06,860 Does the book of Enoch really describe 657 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,740 an actual abduction event, one that 658 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,540 took place thousands of years ago? 659 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,940 And if so, might this incredible close encounter 660 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:22,680 be documenting communication with other worldly beings? 661 00:39:22,780 --> 00:39:25,420 Enoch, he was said to be at the right hand of God. 662 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,620 In fact, Enoch was said to be God's scribe 663 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:28,840 in later tradition. 664 00:39:28,940 --> 00:39:31,340 So God would decree things, and Enoch 665 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,280 was the one who recorded everything that went on. 666 00:39:35,380 --> 00:39:40,820 So Enoch was the keeper of all knowledge of heaven. 667 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,660 This is one of the reasons why the book of Enoch 668 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,760 is so controversial. 669 00:39:44,860 --> 00:39:50,260 Enoch was the first human to ascend to the throne of God, 670 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,640 where he is given powerful universal knowledge 671 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,800 by angelic beings or extraterrestrial beings. 672 00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:03,800 If Enoch was given information from extraterrestrial beings 673 00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:07,380 to share with mankind, as ancient astronaut theorists 674 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:11,540 contend, what truths about our other worldly past 675 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,680 might be waiting to be revealed? 676 00:40:14,780 --> 00:40:19,160 The extraterrestrials want that in a far future of mankind, 677 00:40:19,260 --> 00:40:21,560 we start to see these things. 678 00:40:21,580 --> 00:40:24,220 We start to translate these books. 679 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,220 And now we start to ask questions. 680 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,560 We start to ask, for example, how can we explain that? 681 00:40:29,660 --> 00:40:33,520 Have we maybe been visited by extraterrestrials? 682 00:40:33,620 --> 00:40:36,760 And I think it's important to think in this way, 683 00:40:36,860 --> 00:40:40,960 because these extraterrestrials have promised to return. 684 00:40:41,060 --> 00:40:44,500 And one day, they will return. 685 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,240 I was taught not to believe in coincidence. 686 00:40:47,340 --> 00:40:49,380 I was taught to look for patterns. 687 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:53,100 You have all these encounters, these sightings, 688 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:57,740 these descriptions we have from biblical times onwards. 689 00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,880 It tells you there's something going on. 690 00:40:59,980 --> 00:41:02,440 Doesn't necessarily tell you what it is, 691 00:41:02,540 --> 00:41:06,280 but it tells you there's something there. 692 00:41:06,380 --> 00:41:09,080 Well, that concludes my list for now. 693 00:41:09,180 --> 00:41:11,920 But considering what is written in the book of Enoch, 694 00:41:12,020 --> 00:41:14,880 perhaps as Eric van Dänneken likes to say, 695 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:19,300 the most important encounter of all is yet to come.