1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,800 On this edition of Sightings, 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,840 scientists one step closer to a Bigfoot encounter. 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,720 It's a very tough task to find one of these things. 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,840 I think we're the people who are going to find one, almost certainly. 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,320 A paralyzed boy, praised for death. 6 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:17,840 It was definitely, it was possessed. 7 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,120 A supernatural light guides him home. 8 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:21,960 I came back and I was a different man. 9 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,880 Man, alien abduction. Could you be next? 10 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,480 In the beginning, I thought I was going crazy. 11 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:29,480 I know something has happened to me, 12 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,000 but I was in extreme denial. 13 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,600 And later, these people have seen a vision of their future lives. 14 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,480 I was a little afraid the first time when I experienced my death in this life. 15 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:12,480 Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White. 16 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:19,480 In business, competition and secrecy are par for the course. 17 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,480 Well, the same holds true for paranormal investigators. 18 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,480 That's a problem, especially for investigators in search of Bigfoot, 19 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,480 who need to keep track of sightings and possible migration patterns. 20 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:35,480 Now, one organization is trying to collect every report, footprint and eyewitness account 21 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:37,480 into one communal database. 22 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:48,480 It's called the Bigfoot Research Project, 23 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,480 headquartered here in the heart of Bigfoot Country, 24 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:53,480 the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. 25 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,480 For the first time, Sasquatch is online, 26 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:02,480 and every possible sighting, noise, footprint, hair sample and anecdote is being checked out, 27 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:04,480 cross-referenced and rechecked. 28 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,480 Already, the computer analysis is paying off. 29 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:12,480 This color film was shot by Roger Patterson in 1967. 30 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,480 It has never been proven to be a hoax. 31 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,480 These are footprints shot on videotape just weeks ago. 32 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,480 They were discovered in the same area the Patterson footage was shot, 33 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:29,480 and the size of the prints and the length of the stride correspond exactly to the creature discovered 25 years earlier. 34 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,480 One of the questions that arises is, when is one going to be found? 35 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:35,480 There's no answer to that. 36 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,480 Today, a week from now, 10 years from now, nobody knows. 37 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,480 There are no guarantees. 38 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,480 The way we're going with our project, which is a very sophisticated project, 39 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,480 I think we're the people who are going to find one, almost certainly. 40 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:51,480 The project is receiving grant money from the Academy of Applied Science in Boston, Massachusetts. 41 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,480 This prestigious institution believes Peter Byrne deserves a chance to bring one in alive. 42 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,480 It's not easy. It's a very tough task to find one of these things. 43 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:05,480 We're dealing with something which is shy, elusive, very wary of man, 44 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:10,480 which has an enormous area to live in and to hide in, and it's not going to be found easily. 45 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:14,480 While sightings were shooting this interview, a call came in to the project. 46 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,480 Independent eyewitnesses were reporting something moving at the base of Mount Hood. 47 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,480 Byrne's team responded immediately. 48 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,480 They're clearly visible, and they definitely are primates of some kind. 49 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,480 They are walking upright, and they're moving fairly fast. 50 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:34,480 And the time we've been here, they've moved about 200 yards, maybe 250 yards. 51 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,480 Analysis identified the two lower dark areas as rocks. 52 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:43,480 Above these rocks, two shapes were moving at approximately two miles an hour. 53 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:50,480 There were no reports of hikers at that time, but the distance was too great to confirm this as a big-foot sighting. 54 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:54,480 It will be used to corroborate any other sightings in the same area. 55 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:59,480 Photographs like this one come in every day, but Byrne quickly rules out all but a very few. 56 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,480 This is a fake footprint. It's very square. You can see the line of the turrets across the top here. 57 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,480 It's simply straight, which is wrong. They should be angled. 58 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,480 And then the sides are dead straight, and it's recognizable as a fake footprint, 59 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,480 probably made with a wooden mold or some kind. 60 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:17,480 This is an important videotape. The Bigfoot Research Project is concentrating on right now. 61 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:22,480 It's from Northern California, and it's from late last year. 62 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:29,480 And the photographers say that in here, in the center of the picture, they're just there. 63 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:30,480 The dark area? 64 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,480 The dark area. You can see something, and you can see something moving. 65 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:40,480 Independent Bigfoot researchers Scott Harriet and Darrell Owen captured these images in Northern California. 66 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:45,480 It was their first face-to-face encounter with an elusive creature they've been tracking for 10 years. 67 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,480 I can see him pointing at something after about 29 seconds. 68 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,480 He then lowered the camera, looked at me, and started crying. 69 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,480 I mean, he literally had a little minor break, started crying and said, let's get out of here. 70 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,480 I was very scared at that point as well. We went down the hill. 71 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:06,480 I'm crying at this moment, so excuse my voice. It's right here. You can see it. Okay. 72 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:14,480 The footage is being analyzed at Wonderfilm Design. Here, advanced computer enhancement technology allows researchers to take a closer look. 73 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:20,480 Right here would be the head in the arm down this way. And let me rock back and forth here. 74 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:28,480 And as you can see, that it's something right there is moving while everything else in the picture stays static. 75 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,480 There is something unusual moving in the thick woods of the Cascade Range, 76 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,480 but the Bigfoot Research Project remains cautious in their optimism. 77 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:42,480 Hokes' are rampant in a field where film and videotape are considered still the best evidence. 78 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:48,480 Especially in the 1960s and 70s, it seemed like everyone with a first suit and a lot of spare time 79 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:52,480 was coming up with supposedly authentic photographic evidence. 80 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,480 Only a few pieces of photographic evidence have deserved serious attention. 81 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:01,480 But even these compelling images are enough to satisfy scientists. 82 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:05,480 I have to say that I'm a skeptic regarding the Sasquatch. 83 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:12,480 It would probably be if we were able to verify its existence, the most exciting biological find of the century, 84 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:17,480 until we find physical evidence that's indisputable. 85 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:24,480 I think that all scientists have to take a rather pessimistic view as to its existence. 86 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:34,480 Wildlife biologist John Bindernagel is one scientist who no longer shares the pessimistic view of his mainstream colleagues. 87 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:39,480 I was very slow to come out of the closet, very slow to talk about this. 88 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:45,480 I was concerned about my employability. Biologists weren't really accepting this as an actual animal. 89 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:50,480 So I still remain very quiet. I'm not sure why in the end I came out. 90 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:58,480 I guess I found in the last few years talking to people that people weren't as disbelieving as they used to be. 91 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:04,480 One reason may be the overwhelming number of anomalous tracks recently cited in Washington state. 92 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:11,480 Down through here, there's a heel spot right here. It's about 3-4 inch wide here. 93 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:17,480 It comes up across and here's a toe down through here. 94 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:24,480 In this area, there are two that are hanging in this area here. 95 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,480 They've been here for better than a year now that they've had people who have seen them. 96 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:36,480 Skeptical scientists put Bigfoot into the same mythological creature category as leprechauns, fairies and gnomes. 97 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:41,480 But Bigfoot researchers ask, when was the last time you saw color film of a leprechaun? 98 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,480 Have you ever seen the footprints of a gnome? Well, of course not. 99 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:53,480 Bigfoot is different, they insist. He's out there somewhere and finding him is just a matter of timing, patience and luck. 100 00:07:53,480 --> 00:08:00,480 You would think that every inch of the Pacific Northwest would have been scoured by now, but since 1948, 101 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:05,480 over 50 airplanes have crashed in Washington state, never to be seen again. 102 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:11,480 If large reflective metal craft have remained undetected for as long as 50 years, 103 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:16,480 perhaps it's not so far-fetched that researchers have yet to recover a Bigfoot. 104 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:22,480 Coming up, a young boy's encounter with a supernatural light saves him from certain death. 105 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:27,480 It was very dark and lonely and that was just replaced by a brilliant light. 106 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,480 What happened to Will Barton was nothing short of a tragedy. 107 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:40,480 After a serious fall, doctors told the 16-year-old that it would be a miracle if he ever walked again. 108 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:48,480 Will Barton believes that first angels and then a near-death experience created that miracle in his life. 109 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:55,480 Will's transformation began here on the family's thousand-acre ranch in Carmen, Idaho. 110 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:02,480 They call it God's Country, a clean, safe place to raise a family, a place that tragedy usually forgets. 111 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:08,480 We were having a family reunion and all of my brother and sisters were together for the first time in probably five years. 112 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,480 And we were having a really enjoyable time together. 113 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:19,480 We had decided that we would have Christmas before everybody went home and William was assigned to get the Christmas tree. 114 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:26,480 Will and his friend Matt volunteered to drive into the mountains in search of the perfect Christmas tree. 115 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:32,480 And just boom, I saw the tree I wanted. It was just beautiful. 116 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:39,480 Will wanted to climb the tree and cut off just the top, but his friend warned him it was too dangerous. 117 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:45,480 I didn't see any danger. The hill was very, very steep. The tree was very, very tall. 118 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:51,480 And it was starting to get dark. It was definitely like I was possessed to get the tree. 119 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:56,480 After a brief breathtaking moment at the top, Will's life changed forever. 120 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:06,480 I just was enjoying the beauty when I could feel my arms scrambling out, trying to find branches, but I didn't have any control. 121 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,480 I remember hitting the ground, but it wasn't very intense. 122 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:15,480 Like you might think, it was just like jelly spotting on the floor and I couldn't feel anything. 123 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:21,480 Will had fallen 50 feet into a steep ravine. His friend Matt needed help to rescue him. 124 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:31,480 We were all in the home. Some of us were playing games, playing with the kids, and all of a sudden one of the brothers ran in and said, somebody's been hurt. 125 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:36,480 So we started putting up a search and we searched and we searched and we searched and finally we found him. 126 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:43,480 Will's sister Julie and brother Brad scrambled down the rocky slope. The temperature was dropping rapidly and there was snow. 127 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,480 They struggled to carry Will up to the road but couldn't. 128 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:51,480 They needed more strength and stopped on the cliffside to ask for that strength through prayer. 129 00:10:51,480 --> 00:11:07,480 Will told us later that he saw several what he perceived to be white men, angels, so to speak, just come out of heaven and just carry him up the rest of the way out of the mountain. 130 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:12,480 And it was incredible. Our strength was totally renewed and we just went up the rest of the way. 131 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:20,480 This angelic vision and his rescuers renewed strength may have been key to Will's survival. 132 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:26,480 Will was rushed from the scene to a local hospital and the nightmare was just beginning. 133 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:35,480 When Will arrived in the emergency room he was hypothermic, meaning he had a low body temperature from lying in the snow for a couple of hours. 134 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,480 He was totally paralyzed although he was breathing on his own. 135 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:54,480 We did a portable neck x-ray after he had been stabilized and that x-ray revealed a fracture dislocation of cervical vertebrae C4 on C5. 136 00:11:54,480 --> 00:12:06,480 I remember a doctor examining me and saying he had a needle or he had a sharp, something sharp and he was saying, do you feel this? 137 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:10,480 No, do you feel this? No, do you feel this? No. 138 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:17,480 Will was immediately transferred to the intensive care unit at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana. 139 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:23,480 Prognosis was not good and Will began to deteriorate physically and mentally. 140 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:32,480 When someone is totally out, the chances of recovering are as near zero as you can get. 141 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:37,480 He just laid there and kind of like he was in a trance and I said, what's happening Will? 142 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:41,480 And he says, I'm just practicing being a vegetable. 143 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:51,480 To me it's the most single devastating injury that people get because they're locked inside a body, they can't do anything. 144 00:12:51,480 --> 00:13:08,480 It comes as a sudden thing and almost every instance from one minute laughing, having a good time to all of a sudden, oh, I've done something I shouldn't have done and now can you put me back together and we say, no, we can't? 145 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:12,480 I'd pray at night and my prayer was, please let me die. 146 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:18,480 If I could, I would have taken my life, but I couldn't. I couldn't move. 147 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:24,480 So I did the only thing I could do. I asked my mother. 148 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:29,480 He says, if you really love me, you'd get me out of my misery and you'd take this pillow and put over my face. 149 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:37,480 And she just looked back at me with loving eyes and couldn't respond. 150 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:46,480 Will had lost all hope of ever being able to walk again. He became uncooperative and refused to participate in rehabilitation exercises. 151 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,480 Then an unfortunate mistake changed Will's life once again. 152 00:13:50,480 --> 00:14:01,480 They got me on the tilt table and tilted me up way too fast and I do remember I could see the floor for the first time in my new life. 153 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:09,480 And I could feel the blood just running out of my head and the room started to get a little bit dark and splotchy. 154 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:15,480 And he just passed out and the nurse couldn't get a blood pressure. We couldn't get a heartbeat. 155 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:23,480 I want to die. And all those prayers that I'd said every night were answered. 156 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:36,480 It was very dark and lonely. And that was just replaced by a brilliant, brilliant light that just completely drowned the darkness. 157 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:41,480 And the whole soul was just completely immersed in this light. 158 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,480 Will says the light offered him a choice. 159 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:50,480 To die and go where this light was taking me or breathe and live. 160 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:55,480 He started to turn blue. By this time the other nurse had gotten oxygen to him. 161 00:14:55,480 --> 00:15:03,480 And as I laid there consumed by this light with the choice to make about quitting, I thought about meeting my God. 162 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:09,480 I'm looking at him and saying I quit and I couldn't do that. 163 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:15,480 Then his diaphragm started taking over again and he was breathing shallow again. 164 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:24,480 I came back and I was a different man. I could just feel my face shining and I just glowed. 165 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:30,480 Will says he was transformed by the experience that took him to the very brink of death. 166 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:37,480 I've heard and read of these various episodes of people seeing the light and the tunnel of light and the near-death experiences. 167 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:45,480 I'm sure that there's something that occurs. I don't think we have any scientific explanation. 168 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:53,480 Before the accident, William was very shy. After his experience, it was like the dam broke and his whole being came out. 169 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:56,480 And we got to know William at that point. 170 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:05,480 I was going to live my life. And the doctors kept saying, I'll never walk again, Will. 171 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:12,480 But Will's near-death experience had given him a new determination and he began to have hints of feeling throughout his body. 172 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:20,480 He moved his toe and we were so excited. I remember running out to the barn and I'm going to my twin brother and saying, Rick, Rick, he moved his toe. 173 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,480 And we just sat there and held each other and cried over a toe movement. 174 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:30,480 It was almost like every week we'd get a new phone call saying, he's sat up, he's walking now, he's standing up. 175 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:35,480 What happened to Will when he saw that intense light cannot be easily explained. 176 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:42,480 His family attributes the transformation to their prayers and faith. Doctors have a harder time explaining Will's recovery. 177 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:51,480 Conventional medical wisdom would have said that he would be totally paralyzed for life. And I certainly would call this a miracle. 178 00:16:51,480 --> 00:17:03,480 If you define a miracle as something that occurs very, very rarely, I mean it's probably somewhat analogous to winning the lottery. 179 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:11,480 He's had a chance to have his life, to lose his life as he knows it, and to have a back again. 180 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:15,480 And that's something that very few people give the chance to do in this life. 181 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:29,480 Since his near fatal accident, Will Barton has gone from paralysis to first a walker, then braces, a cane, and now he walks on his own. 182 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:33,480 Doctors have stopped putting limits on what he may be capable of next. 183 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:39,480 With his recovery in full swing, Will is on to the next challenge. He's enrolled in college. 184 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:45,480 Next, is intuition more than a feeling? Is it a psychic ability we all possess? 185 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:49,480 25% of Americans tend to rely on their intuition. 186 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:58,480 Intuition has been described as knowing something without knowing how you know it. 187 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:03,480 It's also called gut instinct, hunch, or even ESP. 188 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:15,480 Some researchers believe that intuition is a spark, and that many people can be taught how to take that spark and use it to ignite a greater psychic power. 189 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,480 Intuition is knowing without knowing how you know. 190 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:27,480 And for some people that means you get a flash, you see something in your mind's eye, you hear an inner voice that says, you know, don't trust that person when you first meet them. 191 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:35,480 It's a way of knowing something that goes beyond what we think of as rational, logical knowing. 192 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:43,480 Author Laurie Nadell believes the so-called sixth sense is present in everyone, and that a lot of people use their intuitive power without even knowing it. 193 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:49,480 How you perform in the workplace is a good indication of whether or not you're tapping into your psychic power. 194 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:56,480 Certain people will go in and they'll do a lot of studies and they'll do time management studies and cost analysis. 195 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:02,480 They'll get all the numbers and all the data, and then you'll have somebody who's like a troubleshooter who's kind of a maverick, 196 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:09,480 and that person might go in and say, look, I want to talk to these three people, and they'll talk to three people for 20 minutes apiece, 197 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,480 and they'll come up with a big picture of what's wrong. 198 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:20,480 Long-term studies are now testing for intuitive ability, trying to determine if certain people are more psychically tuned in than others. 199 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:29,480 25% of Americans tend to rely on their intuition, and 75% tend to use their five physical senses. 200 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:37,480 Now, the same studies when given to children, they find that 51% of children like to rely on their intuition for problem solving. 201 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:44,480 And a lot of people come to me saying, you know, when I was a child, it seemed to me that it was more natural for me, 202 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:50,480 it was easier for me to trust my feelings, to trust my instincts, you know, to come up with quick answers. 203 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:52,480 And now I'm always second guessing myself. 204 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,480 I know mine was activated. I didn't realize that I had this. 205 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:06,480 And it seems to occur for me in very threatening, life-threatening, fearful situations or in very intense cases. 206 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:12,480 They're going to make the arrest, if it was, of course, state lines against her. Well, yes. 207 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:20,480 Jane Finnegan believes it was her intuitive ability that kept her alive during the 14 years she served as a New York City police officer. 208 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,480 Today, she's a private investigator. 209 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,480 They went to bed, and apparently everything was fine. 210 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:29,480 When you have a missing person, there'll be a certain format that you'll follow. 211 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:36,480 You'll find out if they had a driver's license, if they had a vehicle, evidence and things to lead you in an area. 212 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:44,480 But I believe that what tangent you choose is generally an instinct and intuitive sense. 213 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,480 I'm sure my boss would have like a stroke as I'm saying this, but it is true. 214 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:58,480 Researchers now believe that women are able to pick up on kind of subliminal cues and eye movements, breathing, posture, physiology, you know, 215 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:02,480 and also, very subtle cues that men may not be aware of. 216 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:09,480 And out of that, they are able to come up with a picture that this is somebody to trust or this is somebody not to trust. 217 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:15,480 So, I've had a number of women come to me and say, this is a fairly common story. 218 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,480 My husband had a business partner, and he brought his business partner in for dinner. 219 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,480 And I told him after dinner, Fred, don't do it. 220 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:28,480 This man is going to take advantage of you. You're going to get hurt. You're going to get into trouble. 221 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:34,480 And in each of these stories, of course, the man had gone off and hired the business partner, gotten into business with him. 222 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:41,480 And a year and a half later, they found that the partner had embezzled or they were bankrupt or he had stolen or he had done something. 223 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:49,480 I've come so much to trust my intuition that I really was able to develop my psychic abilities, 224 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,480 and I have since become a professional psychic. 225 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,480 And my home life is very exciting and interesting for me because my husband is a physicist. 226 00:21:55,480 --> 00:22:02,480 And I was even in touch with people at Princeton, Stanford, a lot of big universities are doing work on what we already know. 227 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:03,480 We already know this. 228 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:09,480 Not everyone has the potential to be a professional psychic, but there are ways to better develop your own intuition. 229 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,480 It's kind of like the old joke about Carnegie Hall. Practice, practice, practice. 230 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,480 Part of what you're learning how to do is to focus your attention. 231 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:23,480 Then you can actually ask your intuition or ask your hunches or gut feelings to give you answers to questions. 232 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:30,480 Beyond semantics, is there a difference between intuition and ESP? 233 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:38,480 Are experts defined intuition as foresight based on some degree of prior knowledge, no matter how small that knowledge may be? 234 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:43,480 Psychic ability, on the other hand, is foresight without any prior knowledge. 235 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,480 Either there's something very special about this fantasy, or it's not a fantasy. 236 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:58,480 Could you be next? Then have these people traveled through time and a musical crop circle mystery? 237 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:09,480 When the first reported case of alien abduction, the Betty and Barney Hill case, occurred in 1961, 238 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:14,480 most serious researchers felt that it was just a blip on the paranormal screen. 239 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:20,480 But since then, thousands of seemingly credible people have made similar claims. 240 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:28,480 There was this big black triangle just moving real slow across the sky and it kind of fall over. 241 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:38,480 I watched it and it got to about here, kind of stopped, pivoted a little bit, made a hissing sound, 242 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,480 and it kind of continued on toward the north real slow and it just kept watching it. 243 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,480 I could see some little detail in the back, like little circles and a little square, 244 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:50,480 and I remember thinking, well that's where I went in through, was the bottom of it. 245 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:56,480 Brian Koski is not lying. He honestly believes he's been inside an alien spacecraft. 246 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,480 He isn't trying to sell a book or get his proverbial 15 minutes of fame. 247 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,480 He wants answers. What is happening to him? 248 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:09,480 The experts have radically different opinions about the root causes of his encounters. 249 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:14,480 It's what we call waking dreams. When people start to fall asleep, many occasions, 250 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:20,480 they have a mixture, a peculiar mixture of reality and fantasy or dreams. 251 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:25,480 And in this particular state of consciousness, which is an altered state, 252 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:30,480 they see little aliens and they see spaceships and lights in the sky and so on. 253 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:40,480 After working with more than 125 alleged abductees, psychiatrist Dr. Richard Boylan believes the abduction experience goes far beyond dreaming. 254 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:47,480 I was pretty skeptical personally, but when I saw people who were very mentally sound, 255 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:54,480 talking about these experiences and having nothing to gain by putting them out there and lots to lose, 256 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,480 I had to start taking them seriously. 257 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:03,480 Dr. Boylan encourages his patients to draw pictures of their extraterrestrial experiences. 258 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:09,480 These images often arise during hypnotherapy sessions, where repressed memories are supposedly brought to the fore. 259 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:14,480 Skeptics say these memories are unreliable, but in the case of Connie Smith, 260 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:19,480 she not only has memories and visions, she believes she also has physical evidence. 261 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:25,480 I just woke up in the morning and I did have that groggy feeling that, you know, like I've been up all night, 262 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:34,480 yet I got an eight hour sleep and I sat down on the couch and I looked down and I had a mark just above my knee. 263 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:40,480 And there was no pain to it. You could poke and poke at it and there was no pain. 264 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:46,480 And then I had a little scab in my belly button with a little pinhole puncture mark in the middle. 265 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:52,480 And for the most part, I just kind of kicked it out, didn't think anything of it until my daughter came to me. 266 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,480 She had the same huge bruise, which was not painful to her. 267 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:02,480 Then I asked if I could see her belly button and I checked and she had the same thing as I did. 268 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,480 Nothing in my psychiatric education, nothing in medical school, 269 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,480 made me an expert on ufology and extraterrestrials. 270 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:14,480 They either exist or they don't exist. They either abduct people or they don't abduct people. 271 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,480 But that's not the issue. When somebody comes to me as a clinician, 272 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:22,480 my job is to help them come to a point of comfort with their own experience. 273 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:29,480 Dr. Rima Lebo believes hypnotherapy may be unduly influencing alleged abductees. 274 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,480 She uses biofeedback to achieve similar states of relaxation. 275 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:39,480 Surprisingly, she's hearing the same kinds of abduction stories that have been reported by hypnotherapists. 276 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:46,480 They appear to have been overwhelmed by an episode outside their own control and making, 277 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:51,480 which leaves them in a post-traumatic state. That's very interesting. 278 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:58,480 Either there's something very special about this fantasy that causes what otherwise does not occur, 279 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,480 or it's not a fantasy. 280 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:05,480 This is the craft I saw in 1973 out in the backyard. This is pretty much what it looked like. 281 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:13,480 Brian Koski says his abduction was not a fantasy. He has vivid recollections of being aboard alien spacecraft. 282 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:19,480 Have these little silver panels that tend to control a ship with their mind. 283 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:24,480 This is the tail I seem to do their navigation from. I always saw those. 284 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:30,480 I know something has happened to me, but I was in extreme denial. 285 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:38,480 They can't tell the difference between whether it was a memory, a real event, or whether it was imagination. 286 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,480 And this is the problem. 287 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:44,480 Kurt had been troubled by periods of missing time. 288 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:51,480 He remembers several episodes of Coming Two on his back porch, not knowing how or when he'd gotten there. 289 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,480 Under hypnosis, Kurt filled in the missing time. 290 00:27:55,480 --> 00:28:04,480 I looked down the stairs to my right, and standing there was a being that is very hard to describe. 291 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:09,480 It's unlike anything I have ever seen or have since seen. 292 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:17,480 It was approximately five foot tall. I call it kind of a pillowy liquid kind of being. 293 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:24,480 There's no form to it. The only thing that even remotely resembles a human was what I believed to be. 294 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:30,480 Two little black, like raggedy and doll eyes that it had in the area that looked like its head. 295 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,480 Other than that, unlike anything that I've ever seen. 296 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:44,480 Keith Thompson is the author of Angels and Aliens, a book that tries to delineate between myth, imagination, and reality in the abduction phenomenon. 297 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:49,480 Although he remains grounded in the laws of physics, Thompson still keeps an open mind. 298 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:56,480 I believe they've had experiences of a reality that is somehow both part of our reality, but also larger than our reality. 299 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:03,480 It's almost as if my dog is sitting on the living room floor. I'm watching the evening news. 300 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,480 I can follow what's going on in the evening news differently from my dog. 301 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:13,480 My dog hears the sounds. He hears the newsman and the reporter's voice, but doesn't track it the same way. 302 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:19,480 I do. It doesn't track the content. Likewise, I think in relationship to the UFO phenomenon, we're tuned into it. 303 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:27,480 But it is so dimensional. It is so complex and so much more comprehensive than our capacity to perceive it, 304 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,480 that we can only pick out those parts of the signal that fit for us. 305 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:36,480 And we do our best to explain them to ourselves. But we end up having to try to fit it into our categories, 306 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,480 and I think the problem with that is that it just doesn't fit. It's a larger reality. 307 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:45,480 I believe I've been touched by something that's not from this reality that we're used to. 308 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:51,480 You're not just seeing something in the sky and saying, that was weird. This is something that affects you all your life. 309 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:58,480 I know it as real as I'm sitting here talking to you people, that what has happened to me has indeed happened. 310 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:04,480 Joining me now is psychologist Dr. Robert Baker. He is Professor Emeritus from the University of Kentucky. 311 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:10,480 Dr. Baker is a researcher who believes that the alien abduction phenomenon is out of control. 312 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:17,480 Dr. Baker, if supposed abductees feel that they're being helped through therapy and hypnosis, well, what's the harm in that? 313 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:23,480 There's no harm in hypnosis itself. It can be used both for good and for evil. 314 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:30,480 The problem is that the hypnotist should not mislead both himself and his client 315 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:37,480 into believing certain things happened that never happened, or to believe that things didn't happen that did happen. 316 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:44,480 What advice would you have Dr. Baker for someone who believes that they may have been the victim of an alien abduction? What should they do? 317 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:55,480 You should go to see a therapist who can help you deal with the anxiety and the other aspects of your living that have been disturbed by this experience that you think you've had. 318 00:30:55,480 --> 00:31:01,480 Dr. Robert Baker, thank you for joining us. And we'll be back with more sightings in just a moment. 319 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:06,480 Coming up is time travel, an amazing new possibility. 320 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:11,480 It was very exhilarating, the initial impact of jumping into the future. 321 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:22,480 Throughout history there have been visionaries. In the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci was designing helicopters. 322 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:29,480 Is this ability to see into the future a special gift or something that lies dormant within all of us? 323 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:36,480 Hypnotherapist Dr. Chet Snow believes that he may hold the key to unlocking a visionary power we all have. 324 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,480 The first step, paradoxically, is to forget. 325 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:45,480 Forget your preconceived notions about past, present and future. 326 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:51,480 Allow your mind to ask the same questions great philosophers have asked since the beginning of history. 327 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,480 What is time and can I travel through? 328 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:03,480 It was very exhilarating, the initial impact of jumping into the future. 329 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:10,480 I was a little afraid the first time when I experienced my death in this life. That was kind of scary. 330 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:17,480 I like the world like it is now. I'm not sure about the vision I saw of the future. 331 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:24,480 I want to start out by having us take a few deep breaths, so just close your eyes. 332 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,480 Their visions are the result of a process called future life progression. 333 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:39,480 In Santa Fe, New Mexico, Dr. Chet Snow believes relaxation techniques and hypnosis allow his clients to transcend time and experience a possible future. 334 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:50,480 It is essentially what we have found is that when you're in the dreaming mind, you can bypass this concept of past to present to future. 335 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:59,480 And you're sort of in an eternal now. And so the mind can then look at the future and yet to the person who's experiencing it, 336 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,480 it's what they're experiencing right at that moment and so it's like simultaneous to them. 337 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:13,480 Until recently, interdimensional time travel was considered an exclusive club whose membership was limited to Nostradamus, 338 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,480 Edward Casey and a handful of psychics and futurists. 339 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:24,480 Certainly looking for the future or hunting for the future is a very ancient tradition and people have wanted to know about the future 340 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,480 as long probably as there have been human beings on the planet. 341 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:35,480 What has changed is that now instead of relying on a few psychics who have this extraordinary ability to look into the future, 342 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:42,480 ordinary people can actually do a workshop and look into their own future. 343 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,480 Now people can see a very personalized vision. 344 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:54,480 We were supposed to die and experience our life in the future, but for some reason it triggered me to experience my death in this life. 345 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,480 So I wasn't really ready for that, but it happened. 346 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:04,480 When I looked in the mirror, I scared myself and I was really, really skinny and I looked at my legs and they looked like polio legs. 347 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:09,480 And I think I was like dying of some disease where you just get initiated. 348 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:16,480 Death is an inevitable stage in any future life progression, but it doesn't necessarily end there. 349 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:21,480 Both Michael Husband and Joff Seljes experienced a personal future that took them to the sea. 350 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,480 So the year was 2150. 351 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:29,480 I was working in a underwater station. 352 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:40,480 There were tanks filled with fish and there were long trays of salt water that also had sea life in them. 353 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,480 And I was a monitor of some kind. 354 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:48,480 I had machinery, I had notes and my job was to monitor the sea life. 355 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:54,480 I was piloting a vehicle which went in and out of the water, up and down. 356 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,480 When I went under the water, the water was very clear and blue. 357 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:02,480 There were perhaps domes or something down at the ocean floor. 358 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,480 I did look at a calendar and it was 2150. 359 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,480 That was the year. 360 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:14,480 Brainwave patterns recorded during future life progressions mimic those recorded in the dream state. 361 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:20,480 But Joff and Michael believe they have shared a vision of the future that cannot be a dream. 362 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:25,480 We were both very stunned to find that we both had very, very similar visions. 363 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,480 We had seen the same landscape. 364 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:33,480 I suspect that I was patrolling the same ocean where his station was located. 365 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,480 We described the same living quarters. 366 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:41,480 So there were a lot of things, similarities that were surprising to us. 367 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:46,480 Because time travel is an interior process, it can't be measured or charted. 368 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:51,480 But while many in mainstream science dismiss future life progression as a mental exercise, 369 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,480 they do believe in the possibility of time travel. 370 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:59,480 In the realm of physics, time travel is possible in principle. 371 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,480 If we look at particles and objects that are the size of atoms, 372 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,480 they can be sped up enough so that we can see real time changes. 373 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:12,480 For ordinary sized objects, people, rocket ships, airplanes, ordinary clocks, 374 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:17,480 the speeds that are practical with current technology are simply too low 375 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,480 to actually get any significant change in time. 376 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:26,480 But after 25 years teaching physics, Dr. Jones feels there's much we don't understand yet. 377 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:31,480 Personally, I think that time travel through hypnotic projection 378 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:36,480 or some other kind of mental gymnastics is a possibility 379 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:41,480 because I do believe that our current notions about time and space 380 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,480 as defined and described in science are not the whole story. 381 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,480 I don't believe that we really understand everything there is to know about existence and time and space and matter. 382 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:55,480 At least I'm open to the possibilities and I do think they're possible. 383 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,480 I personally am optimistic about the future. 384 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:03,480 I think that once humanity gets awakened, then we will make positive and correct choices 385 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:08,480 and the future will turn out to be much brighter than some of the people have seen in these future dreams. 386 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:16,480 Dr. Snow believes these visions come when the conscious mind releases its preconceptions about past, present and future 387 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:24,480 and steps into the time-space continuum, a concept first suggested by a visionary named Albert Einstein. 388 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:31,480 Hypnosis has been used to great advantage by a number of professional therapists, 389 00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:36,480 but it's wise to remember that it's also been used by professional showmen and carnivals. 390 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:43,480 Before investing time in money and hypnotherapy, do your own research, investigate the claims made by the therapists, 391 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:48,480 talk to former patients and then make an informed decision. 392 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:54,480 Next is an alien intelligence using music to communicate through these crop circles. 393 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,480 All of the right keys on the piano are present in the crop circles. 394 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:10,480 Astronomer Gerald Hawkins drew worldwide attention when he proved mathematically that Stonehenge is a giant celestial calendar. 395 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,480 Now, Dr. Hawkins has turned his attention to crop circles. 396 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:19,480 He believes that some crop circles display geometric principles so advanced 397 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:24,480 they can only have been created by the greatest mathematical minds on this planet. 398 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,480 Geometry turns shapes into numbers. 399 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,480 Here's an easy one. Two circles, one inside another. 400 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,480 The big circle is twice as big as the little circle. 401 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,480 In geometry, that's called a ratio of two to one. 402 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,480 The big circle is two times the size of the little circle. 403 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:48,480 Advanced mathematicians like Professor Hawkins can figure out ratios for almost every geometric pattern 404 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:53,480 where we see just three circles, he sees a ratio of 16 to 3. 405 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:58,480 Where we see three enigmatic crop circles, Hawkins sees mathematical genius. 406 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:03,480 The circle makers have set up a theorem where we can prove by Euclidean geometry 407 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:14,480 that the large circle is exactly 16 over 3 times the area of the middle circle. 408 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:22,480 16 thirds, a very strange number, but it's exactly the note of F in the third octave. 409 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,480 How can a fraction be a musical note? 410 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:31,480 Different notes travel to your ear at different frequencies. C is wavier than G. 411 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:37,480 The difference between C and G, like the difference between geometric shapes, can be written down as a ratio. 412 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,480 Here are the ratios for one musical scale. 413 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:44,480 Here are the ratios of eight crop circles Hawkins has studied. 414 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,480 Strange numbers, but they're exactly the same. 415 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:58,480 The maker of the circles is, we have to admit, clever, not only in making them, but in what is encoded in them. 416 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,480 One possibility is that they're not humans. 417 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:09,480 Is someone or something with a superior intellect sending us messages through these complex circles? 418 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:16,480 Are these combinations of geometric patterns really combinations of notes that play out an extraterrestrial message? 419 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:25,480 At the University of California, San Diego, professor of music, F. Richard Moore, is looking for a musical message that might be encoded in the crop circles. 420 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:34,480 What I did was to use a computer to synthesize the sounds so we actually hear them in the precise relationships that they are expressed in these mathematical theorems. 421 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:44,480 The first set of results is just a sequence of 14 different sounds that correspond to the 14 different crop circle theorems that I've been provided with. 422 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:53,480 After playing the circles one at a time, Professor Moore combined them. 423 00:40:53,480 --> 00:41:04,480 This is the crop circle chord, and it's all 14 of these messages combined into a single chord that lasts for several seconds. 424 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:24,480 Perhaps in trying to communicate things between different species or different types of intelligent beings, we have to rely on things that are very fundamental, having to do with basic relationships, 425 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:34,480 because we have no conventional way of discussing things when you don't know even the size of someone or what temperatures they like to live at and this sort of thing. 426 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:42,480 Could the math of the crop circles and their musical properties simply be the product of coincidence and an overactive imagination? 427 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,480 Fields don't naturally lie down in circles. 428 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,480 Lots of crop fields have lots of tramplings in them. 429 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:53,480 Horses and cows walk around in grains of wheat and barley all the time. They don't leave circles. 430 00:41:53,480 --> 00:42:02,480 Circles are special, and that's why we recognize them. They are too special to suspect that they're there for no reason at all. 431 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:10,480 Professor Moore's passion for music and his skill with computers challenges him to search for meaning in the crop messages that lie a cognitive way. 432 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,480 He believes, though, that we've got a long way to go. 433 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:22,480 The stage of development that we're at corresponds to a tribe of Neanderthals discovering suddenly a grand piano sitting in the middle of a field. 434 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:28,480 And our problem is to discover its function and to learn to use it. 435 00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:32,480 And it'll be a while, I think, before we figure it out. 436 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:38,480 The idea of using music as a form of intergalactic communication is not unique to Dr. Hawkins. 437 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:50,480 When NASA launched the Voyager space probe in 1977, among its cargo was a 12-inch copper disc and a playing needle, in case the Voyager was intercepted by intelligent life. 438 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,480 The record carried greetings in 55 different languages. 439 00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:58,480 A message from then-president Jimmy Carter and 90 Minutes of Music. 440 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:33,480 On the next edition of Sightings, survivors thought it was the end of the world, an explosion bigger than 2,000 A-bombs, and now Russian scientists believe a UFO crashed in Siberia. 441 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:38,480 Then, a grisly supernatural force may have caused these bizarre deaths. 442 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:47,480 And you can't see it, you can't touch it, but a mysterious ghostly energy has been captured on tape in an exclusive Sightings investigation. 443 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:54,480 That's next time. Until then, remember, no mystery is closed to an open mind. 444 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,480 For Sightings, I'm Tim White. 445 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,480 Sightings, on Sight-Eye.