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Flying saucers and alien invasions.

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Once the stuff of science fiction.

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Not anymore.

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We're all going against the wind.

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The wind's a hundred and twenty knots to the west.

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Oh, thank you.

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I do not have an explanation for what this object is.

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But in the land down under,

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UFO sightings aren't one-off events.

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They're happening almost daily.

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I have no idea what this thing is.

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Australia and New Zealand.

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Isolated countries floating in an ocean of blue

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are attempting location for first contact.

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I've seen some weird things in my life that have been so weird.

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Called a flying saucer, called a UFO, called a UAP.

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One thing's for sure, it's not a plane.

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Using eyewitness accounts.

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It's like a bloody flying saucer.

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And expert commentary.

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That was physical evidence.

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For the first time, the Southern Hemisphere's

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UFO encounters are under the microscope.

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Is this seriously a UFO?

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Is there something going on that will change what we know

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about our universe?

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In this investigation, we travel to both sides of this vast continent.

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From New South Wales, home to the iconic city of Sydney,

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to Western Australia's capital, Perth,

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one of the most isolated cities on the planet.

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No matter where you are in this wide, brown land,

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there are UFO encounters.

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But some are more than just sightings.

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In our investigation, we examine close encounters of the fourth kind.

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When aliens make physical contact.

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This is the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.

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The city of Newcastle and its surrounds.

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Famous for its coal mining history and its great wines.

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With its miles of remote beaches, it's a surfer's paradise.

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My name is Bridget Sinclair.

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I'm 39 and I'm a mature, a junior student at the moment.

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I live in Newcastle.

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We're a pretty no-nonsense town.

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The 31st of May, 2020, was the day Bridget saw UFO.

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It was late afternoon, about quarter past five in the afternoon.

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So just coming into sunset.

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It was very cloudy.

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And when I got onto my back veranda,

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we had a really good view.

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And as soon as I walked out the door,

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I could see this really bright light.

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It was a UFO. It was a seriously UFO.

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Look, it was moving quickly at times, very quickly.

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It would go sort of behind the clouds,

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but it wasn't dimming in the right ways.

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Like, it sort of, it would go behind a thick cloud,

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and then it would brighten up again.

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It was very bright.

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It didn't follow sort of a logical pattern.

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There was just something, yeah, just very unusual.

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About it, I didn't hear any sound.

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Bridget lives near Williamtown Air Force Base,

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Australia's pilot training school.

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She's used to seeing all kinds of aircraft in the sky.

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Yeah, we did get a lot of planes and helicopters and things fly over,

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so I sort of was looking at it

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and just trying to figure out, is it a chopper or what is it?

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yeah, just the way it was moving, it definitely wasn't a chopper.

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And in terms of a plane, there's just, there's no plane.

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No size of a plane that could have maneuvered

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the way that it was maneuvering.

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Yeah, so I sort of cancelled out those two options pretty quickly.

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It wasn't going from A to B, like it was sort of floating around

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and doing all these weird things,

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and it wasn't really moving the way that a drone does move.

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Our investigator, Roger Stankovic,

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has agreed to take a look at Bridget's footage.

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So this witness captured this video evidence

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near Williamtown Air Force Base,

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close to a military facility again,

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typical of UFOs to hang around in.

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It could be that they're interested in how we're developing our technology

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in terms of aerospace.

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So it's a fascinating case.

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It's a light and an almost light moving in and out of the clouds.

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It's obviously not anything man-made.

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For a minute, then I thought someone was projecting something onto the clouds,

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but it's obviously not that because it goes into the cloud now.

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Very unusual, as far as I'm concerned, it's an unknown.

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That's a UAP.

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It didn't seem huge, but I mean, it was really hard to tell how far away it was,

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because of the brightness.

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It literally could have been the size of the basketball,

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or it could have been the size of the car.

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It was just really hard to gauge.

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It stayed within my line of sight the entire time.

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I was still trying to be logical when I first saw it,

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but it was sort of like the more it did,

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the more it sort of convinced me that it was something very unique.

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I went through the footage afterwards,

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gone through and just sort of gone through frame by frame.

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There were times that it was just a ball of light.

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There were other times where it almost looked like a little pink triangle

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and a little green triangle,

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and then just a circle again, almost like the sun.

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It was so bright, just this really illuminated thing.

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and it was sort of more like pinkish hues.

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A lot of the time, probably the best thing I've ever caught on film, I reckon.

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Without sounding too crue-cue,

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just sort of on a wavelength with it or something.

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It was a playful feeling, absolutely no fear whatsoever.

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It clearly wasn't a threatening force, I suppose.

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This was Bridget's first UFO encounter.

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But since childhood, she's been curious about life existing beyond Earth.

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When I was about eight,

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I figured out how to get up onto my roof at home.

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So I would climb up there at night and look at the stars.

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Wonder, you know, is there someone like me, you know,

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a million light-years away looking up at the same time?

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What do I believe I saw?

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I believe I saw something from another planet.

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Next on Close Encounters Down Under,

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the Western Australian couple who have endless UAP on film.

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We've joked that we've got a, you know, UFO superhighway going through.

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And they just keep coming.

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We've got so many different photos with so many different ships.

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Perth, Western Australia, boasts the beautiful Swan River,

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which flows through the city into the vast Indian Ocean.

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It's the gateway to the riches of Australia's iron ore industry.

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But our next investigation takes us to the hills behind Perth, to Darlington,

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where we meet primary witnesses, science teacher Rob Hartland and his wife, Shelley.

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They came here for the view, for the vast expanse of a cloudless sky.

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What they didn't know when they moved here was that they'd be living under an alien superhighway.

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My name is Rob Hartland. I'm a science teacher.

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I'm Shelley Hartland. I was retail manager all my life,

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but at the moment I'm semi-retired and living the good life.

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In 2012, the couple's part-time photography hobby turned into an obsession

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after unintentionally capturing strange objects in the sky.

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We started taking photos of the sky, and that's where we spotted our first ship in a photo.

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And we've been certainly taking photos of the sky ever since, right up to this day.

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So our journey really started in 2012, when I photographed some really interesting

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wispy clouds in the sky.

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it looked like there was this disc-shaped ship in there.

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And that's what really started off this journey,

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because from then on I started taking more and more photos of the sky,

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especially when there were interesting clouds in the sky.

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And we'd been photographing ships and other objects,

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especially when there were interesting clouds in the sky.

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And we'd been photographing ships ever since.

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Rob believes these ships can instantly hide themselves.

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I take photos, a whole series of them, like two frames per second, of the sky.

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And they might decloak in just one image.

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When you get unusual objects or ships in there, that's when it gets really exciting.

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They love to play in the clouds, it seems, over the years as we've looked at thousands of photographs.

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You get a feel for what we feel is genuine and what's a bird or an insect.

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This is an image that I took on the 9th of February 2018,

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one frame out of a series at two frames per second.

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And it's a ship, it's quite colourful, it's semi-decloaked,

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and it's got like multiples, like three spheres almost connected to each other.

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It's fascinating, absolutely fascinating.

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We haven't had that one appear very often, like sometimes we'll get multiple.

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Over the years we'll go, oh yes, we've photographed this particular craft or ship before.

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And this one is really unique and it just feels like it's full of light.

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And when you get colour and light, and it just has a really nice feel about it and unique shape to it as well.

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It's really a pretty ship that one.

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We've got so many different photos with so many different ships,

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there are all different kinds of ships, all different kinds.

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As a science teacher, Rob has a career based around factual and critical thinking.

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So how does he assess the validity of his own evidence?

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It's a mind-boggling thing, so especially when you have a science background.

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And for that reason I tended to be more left-brained and analytical.

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And I suppose that side of things has been brought into my photography to be able to,

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I want to see what's there before a ship appears in a frame and what's after.

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And I want to be able to see things moving in and moving out and things like that in the analysis of it.

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With these craft often appearing in a single frame amongst a sequence of frames,

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one theory suggests there is a portal above Darlington for interdimensional travel.

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From my perspective I feel they can be from elsewhere, but at the same time also high-dimensional.

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And also they have a means to obviously make themselves visible

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so they can cloak or decloak when they want to.

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So, you know, we feel that they are high-dimensional beings.

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So in that sense they are extraterrestrial, but I also feel they are high-dimensional.

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Australian National University astrophysicist Dr. Brad Tucker says the science is still out

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on aliens conducting interdimensional travel.

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A lot of people jump to the idea, yeah, parallel universes or multiple dimensions.

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And, you know, string theory does say there are potentially 11 dimensions.

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M-theory says even more out there and maybe there's some weird funny things happening.

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You know, I think that's a harder idea than just aliens exist.

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Like, I'm a lot more comfortable saying aliens exist than there's multiple dimensions with things bouncing in and out.

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You know, that physics is so poorly understood.

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It's not to say that people aren't working on it and that there isn't theories that can happen.

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E.T.'s warping time and space to conceal themselves is a plausible theory.

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If you've got a vehicle that can actually warp space-time, it's just like bending lights under great gravitational forces.

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During the eclipse of the sun, basically the mass of the sun could actually be seen bending the light rays from distant stars.

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So if you've got a gravitational field, it can actually bend light to the extent that you can cloak an object.

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Not sure whether that's the mechanism that they use to cloak, but some people have suggested that it could be.

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Whatever the reason, Rob and Shelley are just happy they chose their house,

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giving them front-row seats to this cavalcade of interstellar craft.

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We really don't know why we get so many above our house.

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We joke that we've got a UFO superhighway going through, whether it's because, I don't know, we're not afraid, we're open-hearted.

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Over the last ten years, Rob and Shelley have accumulated hundreds of photos.

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But in January 2022, Rob captured on video perhaps the most compelling evidence yet of an alien craft.

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What are we seeing, something like this? Well, what could it be?

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It's quite common for us to go outside at night and take some photos.

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So we went outside, this would have been the 21st of January this year, and we went outside on our veranda.

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And very quickly, I saw there was this light. It looked like something was just hovering, an object was hovering.

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I said, well, what is this? And I actually ran inside and got binoculars because I wanted a closer look.

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And I could see that it was basically a series of lights, red, green and white lights,

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that were randomly flashing in different orders. It was pretty random the way that it was flashing. There's no pattern to it.

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And Shelley couldn't actually see it because it was going to pass all the way over our roof towards the east.

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So we decided to go out the front of our place and stand on the road.

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And actually we could actually see it above the trees, looking down the road towards Glen Forest.

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And then we made sure that we were videoing this. It's been really interesting enough, managed to stitch several videos together.

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And do some slow motion shots of it as well.

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It's pretty rare to get something happening for over 30 minutes in front of you. It's just really rare, I feel.

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You know, we feel blessed just to get a little flash or a streak in the sky or something good on our photographs.

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The plane has just gone behind the other one.

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To be filming something with beautiful colours and there was no noise. The plane went behind it.

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It really shows, you know, it wasn't moving. It was amazing in the colours and the randomness of it.

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For 30 minutes it was really exciting.

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Too much to be a drone.

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I think you're going...

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It's not normal plane behaviour.

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It was certainly way bigger than a small drone.

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Well, what could it be?

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We may have felt it was perhaps helicopter size, but of course it was completely silent.

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And as Shelley mentioned, it's very interesting that there was a plane that actually went directly behind it.

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And I got that on video as well.

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So you see the flashing lights of a plane.

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Directly behind this object.

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The plane I felt was quite a bit further away from us, whereas this object was a lot closer to us.

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Moving to the right now.

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Rob and Shelley feel a deep, almost evangelical connection with these UFOs.

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This is what tends to happen.

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We just have to go on our veranda and they come to us.

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With my photography, I believe that it's really important to have a resonance.

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So in other words, it helps for me to be in a high vibrational state like in a joyful state.

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Yeah, open-hearted.

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To be able to connect with beings that are, you know, are dimensional.

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That are also in this high vibrational state.

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That's where they exist.

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So we're not keen to go out there if you're in a bad mood to start photographing

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because chances are you're going to then connect and we don't want to do that.

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So it's very important to have this resonance where you're connecting with high vibrational beings.

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We just prefer to hopefully connect with the ones that give us a warm feeling from the photos.

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And, you know, I think they're around quite a lot.

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Robin Shelley understand that by sharing their story, they risk mock and ridicule,

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but are prepared to be brave.

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What are we seeing sometimes?

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I mean, it's not for the faint hearted. We didn't go into sharing this lightly

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because it's not mainstream.

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I'm not sure why we see them, but, you know, we're blessed.

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We feel blessed that they fly over and sometimes you don't get anything.

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It's not as if every time Rob takes the camera out that we get.

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We're not scared about this at all.

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I don't think any of us really know why they're here or why we're managing

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to have this chance to photograph them.

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But we certainly feel the warmth and we feel familiarity in a lot of what comes up in our photos.

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That's part of our life to photograph them, I guess.

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Next, on Close Encounters Down Under, getting personal with an alien.

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Like, straddling me basically. Very personal.

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And just cut the back of my head and pulled me towards it.

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And wait until you hear about the extraordinary evidence left behind.

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When I got a bag, put him in a bag, it was my evidence that I could show people.

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From his first profound experience as a child to a full blown physical encounter as an adult in Australia,

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Peter Curry's story is one you'll balk at until you hear about the evidence that backs it up.

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This investigation starts on the other side of the world, in Lebanon,

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where Peter had his first UFO experience.

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My name is Peter Curry.

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I've had experiences since my childhood.

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My first UFO sighting was when I was about seven years old.

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I didn't even know it was a UFO sighting at the time.

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Believe it was about 1972.

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I was in Lebanon at the time.

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I was playing in the street with a bunch of kids.

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One of the kids called out and I said, let's go across the road.

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And play on the neighbour's roof.

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The houses there don't have pitch roofs with tiles on them.

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So they're flat roofs so you can go out there and play.

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But as I stepped onto the roof, I noticed that a couple of the kids in front of me,

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there was about seven or eight of us at the time.

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And I noticed that every single one of them that got on the roof before me,

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because I was the last one there, they were frozen in time.

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They were like mannequins.

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You can't stand that still and not get a reaction.

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So I started to tickle them to get a reaction out of them and there was nothing.

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They were just switched off.

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So as I looked up, I noticed an object about 20 metres above us.

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And this object was,

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I think it was a little bit of a shock.

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I was like, I'm going to get out of here.

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And this object was air shaped.

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It was on a 45 degree angle.

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And this thing was shining, the sun was reflecting of it.

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And then it had a massive black windscreen.

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It was oval shaped windscreen.

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And this thing was definitely not a helicopter.

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It had no propeller, it had no propulsion system that I could see it.

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But through that, I could see silhouette of two figures, very skinny, very tall,

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but I couldn't see any features, it was just a black silhouette.

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They look at each other, sort of communicate and then look over towards us,

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looking straight at us.

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All of a sudden this thing just dropped about, I'd say, 5 to 10 metres.

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Peter recalls seeing the UFO so close he could almost touch it,

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but the rest is blank.

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The next memory I have is we're sitting at the bottom of the steps on the ground floor.

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We're sitting there and we're asking each other, how did we get here?

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Like we were on the roof, not one of us had any recall of walking down the stairs

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and making our way down.

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We hear our parents on the street calling out to us, calling out our names.

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Peter and his friends, like many others who report UFO encounters, had completely lost time.

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They're questioning us and they're like, where have you been?

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We're like, we're playing on the roof.

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They're like, well you couldn't be on the roof because we've been looking for you

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for about two hours, three hours maybe.

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Calling out to you, if you heard us, if you were on the roof, you obviously heard us,

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but you ignored us, so it made them even more upset with us.

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We got grounded, we couldn't play with each other for a few days.

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Thinking he wouldn't be believed, Peter buried the story.

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But your past has a habit of catching up to you,

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and as is often the case with many alien contactees, it isn't just an isolated incident.

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The aliens come back for more.

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But why are they selected?

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What is special about these people, or is it just a coincidence?

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Peter Curry moved 8,000 kilometers, but alien encounters followed him.

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In July 1992, now in suburban Sydney, Peter was involved in a dramatic encounter.

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In this investigation, the physical evidence left behind is key to believing the unbelievable.

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I would have been lying in bed for maybe three to five minutes, no longer.

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Peter was wide awake and was about to get ready for work.

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My case isn't sleep paralysis. My case didn't happen at three in the morning.

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It happened at 7.15 a.m.

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I felt like something had jumped on the bed.

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And as I sat up to have a look and see, I realized I wasn't under the quilt anymore.

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The best way I can describe it is, as I sat up, my astral body, my soul, my spirit, whatever you want to call it,

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sat up before me so I was separate from my physical body.

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I could see this blonde female sitting on my bed.

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Elongated face, high cheekbones.

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Her eyes looked two to three times bigger than a human milky white skin.

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As my body and my soul became one again,

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instantly she cut the back of my head with both her hands like that and just cut the back of my head

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and pulled me towards her like straddling me basically.

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Peter wasn't keen to go into details about what transpired.

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But he did reveal the experience was of a sexual nature.

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The blonde female touches her stomach, her own stomach and then points up.

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I look up and the blonde female vanished.

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Gone, disappeared.

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When I looked closer, I noticed there were two hairs.

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When I got a bag, put him in a bag, sealed it and wrote a note on it.

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It was my thing to me that was my evidence that I could show people.

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Peter told scientists and UFO investigator Bill Chalker about the encounter

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and most importantly about the physical evidence he had kept.

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The epitocurator had a number of experiences but the most interesting one from a scientific point of view

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was one that afforded this air sample.

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Evidence like this was incredibly rare.

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Bill Chalker jumped at the opportunity to get the hair tested.

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He knew a geneticist at the CSIRO, Australia's leading government scientific research organization.

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And Peter agreed to have the hair samples forensically analyzed.

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And from that DNA work, we were able to get some pretty unusual DNA correlations.

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Next on Close Encounters Down Under, we hear the astonishing results Bill Chalker received from the government lab.

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It was certainly compelling. It was an extraordinary investigation.

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And then, researchers use hypnosis to reveal alien encounters.

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All three are controlling the system. So when you put these driving consoles on, you become proud of the vehicle.

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Primary witness Peter Curry believes he had a physical encounter with an alien at his home in Sydney.

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Crucially, evidence was left behind and scientifically examined. The results stunned researchers.

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That hair sample is optically clear and blonde and totally unlike his partner's DNA.

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We did a DNA analysis optically transparent hair sample and yet it gave some pretty strange Asian kind of

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phenotypes and DNA types. And we were struck by that. Why was an optically pure blonde hair sample giving us rare Asian DNA?

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The scientists involved had never seen anything like it. They concluded that the DNA was not entirely human nor animal.

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Could it have been alien?

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How you could get two sets of DNA sequences that are totally different in the same shaft of hair, be it the shaft and the root,

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that in itself gave the impression that we're dealing with a hybrid hair sample that did not make this look as though it was a presaic human donor.

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The fact that we had this hair sample giving us clear evidence that we're dealing with what seemed to be the results of an advanced cloning technique.

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And that seems to be something that informs the alien abduction controversy that maybe there's some sort of hybrid program going on creating a hybrid.

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The physical evidence recovered and analyzed in this case has opened a Pandora's box of possibilities for abductees.

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Are their aliens actually studying victims or is there a breeding program happening? Is it perhaps cloning or could it be something else entirely?

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It's happened to me when I was a child, it's happened to me now.

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I realize that now I'm actually what they call an abductee, someone who's been taken by aliens and has had some contact and not knowing why, you know, anything like that.

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If I was chosen, I think I was chosen for a reason and that reason is because I am outspoken and if I believe in a cause, no one or nothing is going to stop me to talk about it.

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To the debunkers, to the skeptics, non-believers, whatever, come and have a look at the hair. The DNA results are there. You explain it to me and if you can explain it to me, I'll accept it.

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Peter Curry will never be the same after his experience.

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It's left an indelible mark on him.

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For many like Peter, who have earth-shattering encounters, there's nowhere to go.

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Who's going to listen? Who will take them seriously?

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Luckily, there's one person who will.

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I'm Mary Rodwell and I'm a counselor and hypnotherapist who helps those that believe they've had contact with non-human intelligences.

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Mary Rodwell is based on the east coast of Australia and has been assisting people with their contact experiences for more than 30 years.

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I think I'm pretty normal, you know, in most cases. You know, I think I am and I know this sounds strange, but you know, I don't just buy into anything simply because somebody tells me.

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It's got to feel right and I've got to look into it and I try and make sense of it.

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Mary helps people process what happened to them by hypnosis or regression.

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She deals mainly with close encounters of the fourth kind, those that involve alien abduction and sometimes physical contact.

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Her hypnosis technique on alien abductees was pioneered by Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack.

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And he came in as a skeptic. He did all the psychological testing and was convinced at the end of it that this was a reality.

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When you tap into the subconscious, it doesn't edit. Everything it's remembering is their saying.

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Whereas if you examine it with left brain, you start to say, oh, I can't say that because that's not real or that's not real or whatever.

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So in fact, it has more integrity, not less if you're tapping into the subconscious and that's really important.

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UFO investigator Asperle and Arder is also a proponent of John Mack's research.

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If you can't believe a Harvard professor in psychiatry saying to you that this is a real, you know, blood and guts thing that's happening to people, then who are you going to believe?

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Mary has released for our investigations a recording of one of her hypnosis sessions with a man who is being haunted by memories and dreams of an alien abduction.

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He was very articulate. He's an intelligent man. He had done all the questioning. He'd done his own research and what have you. And he knew how it sounded.

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Here Mary's patient is under hypnosis. The hypnotic state is described as having a calming and relaxing effect on patients.

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So they take me into this room. These walls are very fascinating. Every time they want to go through it, they just go, and open up and then close up again. It's like, what do we call it?

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Mary's patient begins to describe an alien craft.

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The very nature of the fabric of these craft, they're all varieties of craft and some of them are actually grown. They're like a cultured organism.

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And by that, what I mean is that instead of having a war and you actually have, you know, it's just like we have meridians and nerves and noughties and veins and muscles.

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It's not just craft. They're literally growing. So when you put these driving console on, what actually happens is you become part of the vehicle.

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They have very interesting vehicle.

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So it's a kind of living organism. Even though it's a material extraction, they actually essence of it.

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Optic fibers that are ingrained into the material are actually living.

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Living is actually plug into and thought comes out of squatting.

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He is then able to go on and explain the extraordinary mechanics of the craft and how it moved through space and time.

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I've explained to me about this polarity using it as an example. Magnetic polarities and how these things bounce along magnetic lines and that's why they skip rock skipping stands.

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On the craft, there are several different varieties. One is the one that I'm looking at is the three pole axis and what happens is the frequency, the electromagnetic field frequency that spins between these poles creates a higher vibrational frequency.

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So therefore in a molecular condition, everything breaks down to second time or quantum particles. So therefore movement through time and space.

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That's why things do materialize and when materialize, when people say it will disappear and disappear and disappear and disappear and disappear.

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When you're watching it in the sky, you see it live and then it dims and lights up again and this is what's happening. It's the vibrational frequency that's matching the earth frequency.

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Something that then becomes visual.

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I found myself on a treatment table but it wasn't a bomb or it was more material. There were these little zippers there that was full of them. That's what I helped when I got out.

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And I could see that I meant by how much.

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The patient could not only recall the ship and its occupants in meticulous detail. He also recalls waking with unexplained injuries and scarring.

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Waking up with marks on his body, shaved areas and whatever on his legs. He said, you know, when I wake up and I find this on my body, I know it's real.

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Do you think in your imagination you'd have come up with that story? And they'll go, not in a million years.

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Well, that sort of tells you that it's not your imagination, isn't it? But the truth is imagination is different because you are creating something as you go along.

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When I'm in taking somebody in hypnosis, I'm saying, what are you seeing?

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UFO investigator Jamie Leonardo is a former counselor. He knows the impact these events can have on witnesses.

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Even though these scenarios are so exotic and beyond our level of understanding, the better it's going to be for these people to realize that what they're dealing with is not part of their own mental psychology, but is a real-time event.

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How do they integrate such a profound experience into their everyday life? And that's really one of the major reasons that motivates me, because these people are so isolated.

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More and more witnesses are coming forward, and they will always need someone or somewhere to have their voices heard.

442
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I have seen enough evidence to believe that people are becoming extremely traumatized by these experiences, that they're generational, and that seems to be a profound reality to them.

443
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But for their acceptance into the mainstream mind think, it's way too complicated and fraught with so many issues.

444
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What disturbs me about modern psychology is still this lack of acceptance of the non-physical realm, that you're alright as long as you can physically see it, but heaven forbid you listen to your intuition or your knowing or your feeling or your sensing, because that's not real, is it?

445
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Close encounters of the fourth kind are hard to wrap your head around. Someone being taken up onto an alien vessel, probed and experimented on. It sounds far-fetched. But how then do all of Mary's clients repeatedly describe the same thing?

446
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Mary encourages everyone to keep an open mind. You never know when it might happen to you.

447
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I'm really going to shake the bottle here a little bit by saying, we just don't know yet what is reality, ultimately. We don't know. And you don't know what you don't know, guys. So you can't say it's impossible, can you? Because you don't know what's impossible. So get over it.

448
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I'm going to take a look at the other two.

449
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I'm going to take a look at the other two.

450
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I'm going to take a look at the other two.

451
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I'm going to take a look at the other two.

452
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I'm going to take a look at the other two.

453
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I'm going to take a look at the other two.

454
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I'm going to take a look at the other two.

455
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I'm going to take a look at the other two.

456
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I'm going to take a look at the other two.