1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 on this edition of Sightings. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,000 On a stormy night over New Mexico, 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,000 the crew of America West Flight 564 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 saw something in the air that shocked them. 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,000 With this lightning, you can see a dark object 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,000 and all it was pretty hairy looking. 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Sightings has the incredible, untold story 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 of a UFO encounter at 30,000 feet. 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Was it the mysterious lady in black 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000 that saved Bob Davidson's life 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 on that lonely stretch of Indiana Highway? 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Or was it fate? 13 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000 I don't know what happened here, 14 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000 but it definitely was a miracle. 15 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 This man has created a computer program 16 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 that just might make him the Nostradamus of our age. 17 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000 I predict the most novel event 18 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,000 in the history of the world, 2012. 19 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 And don't try telling Colin Andrews 20 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,000 that crop circles are a hoax. 21 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,000 He knows better. 22 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:24,000 MUSIC 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White. 24 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,000 A declassified United States Air Force Security Service document 25 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,000 contains a chilling statement. 26 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 It reads, quote, 27 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,000 sometime in his career, each pilot can expect 28 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,000 to encounter strange, unusual happenings, 29 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,000 which will never be adequately or entirely explained 30 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 by logic or subsequent investigation, unquote. 31 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 It's a public declaration of something many pilots 32 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 have privately known for years. 33 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Even at 30,000 feet, there are UFOs. 34 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:03,000 MUSIC 35 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000 Recently, Sightings was contacted by two air traffic controllers, 36 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,000 each describing the same disturbing incident 37 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 in the skies above New Mexico on the night of May 26, 1995. 38 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Here is part of one of the controller's message, 39 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 as recorded on the Sightings hotline, 40 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 electronically altered to protect the college identity. 41 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,000 You're working as an air traffic controller 42 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 and pilot of a Miracle West Airlines 15, 43 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 an object between three and 400 feet long. 44 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Through the Freedom of Information Act, 45 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,000 a Sightings-investigated team has obtained 46 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 the actual radio transmission 47 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 between a flight control center in Albuquerque 48 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,000 and an America West Boeing 757. 49 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Based on these transmissions, 50 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,000 we've been able to recreate a startling encounter 51 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 between a commercial aircraft loaded with passengers 52 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 and an unknown craft, six miles above the Earth. 53 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,000 MUSIC 54 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 The voices are real. 55 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 The words are not scripted. 56 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 This is the actual transmission 57 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 recorded at the moment the UFO was sighted. 58 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Yeah, up to three o'clock. 59 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Getting stroked up and up. 60 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Can you tell what it is? 61 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,000 But air traffic control cannot tell America West Flight 564 62 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 what it is. 63 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 The radio is not on radar. 64 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,000 The tone of the radio communication begins to change. 65 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 There's something on the radar. 66 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Well, I've got an object in the distance. 67 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 There's something here. 68 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 A permanent. 69 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 No, no one knows anything about it. 70 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 What's the altitude about? 71 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 I don't know. Probably right around 30,000 or so. 72 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 And the length is unbelievable. 73 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Albuquerque controllers contact the military 74 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,000 for an Earthbound explanation. 75 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Hannah, go ahead. 76 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 As you know, if there was anything like a tethered balloon 77 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 or anything released, it should be above Tyman. 78 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 No, we have nothing about it. 79 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 OK. 80 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 You've got 39,000, so you see something that 30,000 81 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,000 if the length is unbelievable and it has a strobe on it. 82 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 This is not good. 83 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 What does that mean? 84 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 I don't know. It's a UFO. 85 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 It's right in Tyman. We haven't seen anything like that. 86 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 OK, keep your eyes open. 87 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 I'll start Tina. 88 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Dr. Haynes is an aerospace engineer and aviation expert. 89 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 For the last 30 years, he's been conducting 90 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 independent research on pilot sightings of UFOs. 91 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 His collection of pilot reports is the largest in the world. 92 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Sightings provided Dr. Haynes with the 93 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 America West transmissions for his analysis. 94 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,000 The faculty initially spotted it was between the weather 95 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,000 and when the lightning, you could see a dark object. 96 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,000 And it was pretty eerie looking. 97 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Well, the pilot has just discussed the sighting again 98 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 in a little more detail with air traffic control at Albuquerque. 99 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,000 And he said that he saw a dark object 100 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 because it was back illuminated. 101 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Basically lightning in the cloud at some distance 102 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 caused the object to be visible. 103 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000 He then said it looked eerie. 104 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:11,000 We have only Dr. Haynes' analysis of the event 105 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,000 because all attempts to interview the America West crew 106 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 were politely but firmly denied. 107 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,000 There is no law that prohibits them from speaking out, 108 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 at least not any written law. 109 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 They don't encourage you reporting it. 110 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,000 That's for sure. 111 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 This man, a United Airlines pilot for 35 years, 112 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 also had a UFO encounter at 30,000 feet. 113 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,000 But it is only now that he is retired and anonymous 114 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 that he's willing to describe his sighting. 115 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 When it was ready to leave, 116 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,000 it departed at a very high rate of speed, 117 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 accelerating as it went, 118 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,000 and disappeared off into the distance 119 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 at speeds that I couldn't even estimate. 120 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 The other crew members have never come forward. 121 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Alitalia pilot Graham Shepard is also familiar 122 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 with the industry's code of silence. 123 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,000 It is a commercial judgment 124 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 that pilots shouldn't speak about this. 125 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Unfortunately, it's a fact of life 126 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,000 that any UFO alliance with a UFO sighting 127 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:19,000 or anything unusual about a particular crew member 128 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,000 will downgrade the potential of that airline 129 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,000 to a maximum of profits. 130 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Despite the airline industry's efforts to silence its pilots, 131 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 these transmission tapes speak for them. 132 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 After the New Mexico controller's initial call to Norad 133 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 was laughed off, Norad called back. 134 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,000 We had some a call here earlier about a pilot 135 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 spotting an unidentified flying object. 136 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Yep, that's us. 137 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Okay, well, hey, we're tracking a search-only track 138 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 kind of up where that might have happened. 139 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,000 It's tracking about 390 knots. 140 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,000 We've been tracking it for about three, four minutes now. 141 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 I mean, to be going that fast has got to be up kind of high. 142 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,000 And we've got no code on it, huh? 143 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Nope, it's search-only. 144 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,000 It seems that the radar controller was tracking an object, 145 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 an unknown, that wasn't transponding. 146 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,000 And by law, any craft in controlled airspace 147 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 must have a transponder. 148 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 But it's very interesting that ultimately 149 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,000 it was seen by the radar controller. 150 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000 This is an historic UFO event. 151 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Audio tape confirms that three highly trained commercial pilots 152 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 witnessed an enormous UFO, 153 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,000 a UFO confirmed on radar by Norad Air Defense Command. 154 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 This is one encounter that cannot be dismissed 155 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 as a hallucination or a hoax. 156 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Something was up there. 157 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Are we prepared for its return? 158 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 I listened to the American West tape, 159 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,000 and my opinion is that it's absolutely authentic. 160 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 If handled correctly, this tape could be 161 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 something of a breakthrough. 162 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,000 First time in 15 years I've ever seen something like this. 163 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,000 In Mexico City, a five-year-long flap of UFO activity 164 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 has commercial pilots running scared. 165 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 There have been several near-misses. 166 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Under the auspices of the Mexican Aviation Union, 167 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 the pilots have formed a coalition to demand 168 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000 a comprehensive government-backed investigation 169 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 into the Mexico City flap. 170 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Next. 171 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Stacey McCall. 172 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 The night of her high school graduation, 173 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Stacey McCall and two friends disappeared. 174 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Sightings looks for answers. 175 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,000 In 1992, three women in Springfield, Missouri 176 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 vanished in the thin air. 177 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Nearly every high-profile psychic detective in America 178 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,000 offered tantalizing clues about the trio's whereabouts, 179 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,000 but the case is still unsolved. 180 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Now, sightings correspondent Carla Wall 181 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,000 accompanies world-renowned psychic Dorothy Allison 182 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 to the scene of the crime 183 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 in the search for one missing link. 184 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,000 I would say Stacey is probably the most bubbly, 185 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 full-of-life young woman I've ever known. 186 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,000 She was known by her long hair. 187 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 When people would say something about Stacey, 188 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,000 they'd say something about her long hair. 189 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,000 She is a daughter, a sister, a friend, a statistic. 190 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,000 When Stacey McCall vanished from her hometown 191 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 of Springfield, Missouri, 192 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,000 her family tried to come up with a reason 193 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 why this vivacious teenager would run away, 194 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,000 because the alternative was too frightening to contemplate. 195 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Would this be the last picture of Stacey in the family album? 196 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 This, her last appearance on home video. 197 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Stacey Kathleen McCall. 198 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,000 When I graduated, I had two of my classmates 199 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 get killed in car wrecks that night. 200 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 And I remember sitting there thinking, 201 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,000 I wonder how many of these young people 202 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 will not be here tomorrow. 203 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Not thinking it would ever be happening to me. 204 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,000 You know? 205 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,000 What happened to Stacey McCall 206 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 also happened to her friends Susie Streeter 207 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 and Susie's mother Cheryl. 208 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 It's a mystery that haunts their families, 209 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,000 their friends, and Sergeant David Smith 210 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 of the Springfield Police Department. 211 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 For three years, they've searched for these three women, 212 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,000 ever since graduation night 1992. 213 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,000 We've probably followed up somewhere around 4,000 leads. 214 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:29,000 We've got about 14,000 pages of reports. 215 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,000 We've talked to dozens and dozens of people. 216 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,000 We've conducted around 200 formal interviews. 217 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,000 And we're still no closer today than we were when this happened. 218 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,000 It would have been quite different 219 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,000 if not for a simple change of plans. 220 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 After the graduation ceremony, 221 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,000 Stacey was supposed to join a group of friends 222 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,000 for an all night party in nearby Branson, Missouri. 223 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 But Stacey decided to stay in town 224 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,000 and spend the night at Susie's house. 225 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,000 The next day, when Stacey's family 226 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 tried to get in touch with her, 227 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,000 there was no answer. 228 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,000 The Springfield Police were called to the Streeter House 229 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 to the scene of the most baffling crime 230 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 in the history of the small Midwestern town. 231 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,000 When you first showed up at the Streeter House, 232 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,000 describe for me what you saw at the crime scene. 233 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,000 All three cars were there at the house. 234 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Those owned by Susie, Stacey, and Cheryl. 235 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,000 When we went into the house, 236 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,000 there were three purses that were owned by those three people. 237 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 The beds were unmade as if they'd slept in them. 238 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,000 The television set was still on. 239 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,000 A Venetian blind was open 240 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,000 as if someone had taken a look outside. 241 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 The front door was unlocked. 242 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 The porch light had been broken. 243 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 The fact that Cheryl, a notorious chain smoker, 244 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 had left her cigarettes behind 245 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 indicated to police the possibility of foul play. 246 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,000 While search crews combed the area, 247 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Stacey's parents made this televised plea. 248 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Stacey, call home. 249 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 Call home and let us know that you're okay. 250 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,000 But Stacey never called. 251 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,000 The case remains wide open. 252 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Sergeant, isn't that odd for three people to be missing 253 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 and there be no clues? 254 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,000 It's very odd that three people would just vanish 255 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,000 and we don't have a lead to follow 256 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:24,000 that would lead us in the direction that we need to go. 257 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Enter Dorothy Allison, 258 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 who agrees to step into a case 259 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 that has stumped several other psychic detectives. 260 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Dorothy is undaunted by the fact 261 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,000 that so many people believe this case is unsolvable. 262 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 What kind of things are you hoping 263 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 that Dorothy will be able to come up with? 264 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,000 The most important thing would be to find where Stacey is. 265 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 If she's alive, where she is, 266 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:50,000 if she's not alive, then we need to be able to put it to rest, 267 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,000 so I need to find her remains. 268 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Hi, I'm Dorothy Allison. 269 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Dorothy's psychic impressions in this case come quickly. 270 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Before her arrival, she had envisioned many undisclosed details 271 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,000 about the case and provide Sergeant Smith 272 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,000 with a specific list of clues. 273 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 The news is not good. 274 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 These are the things that people see when they're in a car. 275 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000 They wonder where they're going 276 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,000 before they reach their awful destination, 277 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 where they are murdered, because I believe they're murdered. 278 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 I do not believe they're alive. 279 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Dorothy has made just one request of the McCall family. 280 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,000 Dorothy, you asked for something of Stacey's 281 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 and the family has given me her keys. 282 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Very good. 283 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,000 And also a ring. 284 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Okay, that's perfect. 285 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 What will you use those for? 286 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,000 I will hold them if I get some feel from her by holding it. 287 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,000 After her initial visit to the Springfield Police Department, 288 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Dorothy asked to be escorted to the scene of the crime. 289 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,000 From here, she begins to look for the locations and landmarks on her list, 290 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 hoping they'll lead her to the three missing women. 291 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Oh, I'm going to pass this way. 292 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Her psychic list is remarkably accurate. 293 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:01,000 We pass a chemical plant, a trailer park, and a nightclub. 294 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,000 But traveling to the gymnastics center where Stacey worked, 295 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Dorothy gets her strongest psychic feeling. 296 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,000 This all uses my base as to where to look for them. 297 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:17,000 And I would go and find a thick wooded area from here to find them. 298 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 What in your tummy tells you that this is right? 299 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,000 It's just a feeling. 300 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,000 I wrote down all the clues that I could find. 301 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,000 And every clue, one led into the other, as you noticed today. 302 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:33,000 What Dorothy didn't know is that Sergeant Smith had only recently received a tip 303 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:38,000 from a railroad engineer who'd spotted something suspicious in these nearby woods. 304 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Here, I thought he saw a grave site, and I'd sent a couple detectives out to look at it a couple days ago. 305 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Less than a quarter of a mile from the woods, Dorothy found the Ramada Inn she had written on her list. 306 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Right up there. 307 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Yes. So we're on the right track. 308 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,000 There was also mention of a royal or theatrical name on the list. 309 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,000 The road running along the wooded area, Royal Drive. 310 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,000 I also saw some old cards which I see up on the hill there. 311 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,000 I feel this is the exact road he took. 312 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:14,000 And on this cold rainy day, on the actual site where Sergeant Smith is due to search, 313 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Dorothy becomes adamant. 314 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:21,000 I really feel this place should be searched. I really do. 315 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,000 The search turns up nothing, but this does not deter Dorothy. 316 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:31,000 She knows this site is significant and believes more of her psychic clues need to be followed up. 317 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,000 It was a little shock to see some names and things that I recognized. 318 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Probably the police are going to take their own time and check out everything one item at a time. 319 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:48,000 In the meantime, the McCalls have begun a support group called One Missing Lank, 320 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,000 dedicated to helping others who have missing loved ones. 321 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,000 It's their way of making something positive out of a tragic situation. 322 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,000 A life with a beginning, a middle, but no end. 323 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:04,000 As a mother, I need to find out where my daughter is. 324 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:12,000 We're a very close family and this is like leaving a big empty hole right in the middle of our line. 325 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Since Janice and Stu McCall founded One Missing Lank, 326 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,000 they have helped more than 26 families deal with the disappearance of an older child. 327 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:24,000 One Missing Lank is located in Springfield, Missouri. 328 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Next, the Chinese government plan to capture Bigfoot 329 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:34,000 and traveling to the stars at warp speed may be closer than you think. 330 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Here are some of the stories Sightings is following in the news. 331 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,000 In China, Bigfoot has a bounty on his or her head. 332 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:56,000 The Chinese government is offering $60,000 to the first person who can bring one in alive. 333 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:05,000 In China, the largest scientific expedition ever mounted to search for Bigfoot 334 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,000 has been called to a halt after only two months. 335 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:15,000 According to researchers, no significant signs of the elusive creature known as She-Ren have been found. 336 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:20,000 But the failure of the expedition has not lessened popular interest in finding She-Ren. 337 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,000 In the past 70 years, there have been more than 114 She-Ren sightings. 338 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,000 By 360 eyewitnesses. 339 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Although researchers downplay its significance, 340 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:38,000 the official expedition did turn up hair samples of unknown origin in the Shandong Ziya Forest Reserve in central China. 341 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Boastered by this tantalizing finding, the park is keeping independent She-Ren research alive 342 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:49,000 by offering a monetary incentive to would-be Bigfoot hunters. 343 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:54,000 It's about the equivalent of $60,000 if you bring one in alive. 344 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 $6,000 dead. 345 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Or even $1,200 for authenticated droppings. 346 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:09,000 In California, at the Loma Linda University Medical Center, 347 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,000 researchers have scientifically proven the curative power of laughter. 348 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:21,000 Patients who were given a steady diet of comedy had a 20% increase in the number of natural killer cells in their bodies, 349 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,000 cells that fight disease. 350 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Psychiatrist William Fry was part of the research team. 351 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:30,000 Your heart rate, as soon as you start laughing, immediately increases. 352 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,000 What happens then is your heart rate increases, the blood pressure goes up. 353 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:39,000 And as a consequence, all the nutrients and the beneficial factors in the blood 354 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 are distributed much more effectively to the rest of the body. 355 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,000 The study also found that laughter can cut the level of stress-producing hormone by half 356 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:52,000 and increase the level of immune system hormone gamma interferon. 357 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:57,000 And those are all important aspects of the healing process. 358 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,000 You don't just get healed by a medicine. 359 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:07,000 In other words, we're looking at laughter as a way of helping people heal themselves. 360 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:12,000 The ongoing study confirms the age-old adage laughter is the best medicine. 361 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:18,000 And that is that humor is contagious, laughter is infectious, and both are good for your health. 362 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 I'll sue you for this. 363 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Oh, superstitious, eh? 364 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:31,000 In San Diego, the Interstellar Propulsion Society is a new organization of rocket scientists 365 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:36,000 whose goal is inspired by science fiction to go where no man has gone before. 366 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Star Trek provides a wonderful inspirational image of how he might one day travel to stars 367 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,000 First, we have to answer the question, can we, and how can we? 368 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Millis is an aerospace engineer who believes that future space transports must exceed the speed of light 369 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,000 and that in order to do so, they must have an entirely new system of propulsion. 370 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:02,000 Our most advanced rocket today would take 900 years just to reach the nearest star, 371 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,000 with a fuel tank the size of 10 railcars. 372 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,000 So we have to find some means of propulsion that requires no propellant whatsoever, 373 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,000 presumably some coupling between gravity, electromagnetism, and spacetime 374 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:19,000 so that you can push against the very structure of spacetime itself instead of needing all that propellant. 375 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,000 One propulsion theory holds that the speed of light barrier can be broken 376 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:28,000 if spacetime can be shortened to faster intervals, what most people know as warp speed. 377 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,000 Millis hopes warp speed will be achieved in his lifetime. 378 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:37,000 It would be foolish to say, let's never go. 379 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Man has always explored in some fashion, whether it's for monetary gain or for some reason, 380 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:47,000 but nonetheless we've always explored, so why stop at our heavens? 381 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:57,000 We'll have more stories from the news next time. Now here's what's coming up on CIDES. 382 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:05,000 To this day, no one has been able to explain the mysterious woman in black who saved Bob Davidson's life 15 years ago. 383 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 It's an outright miracle. 384 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Later, why all crop circles can't be explained as hoaxes. 385 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:23,000 According to a recent Time Magazine survey, more than one in three Americans 386 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,000 admit that they have felt an angelic presence in their lives. 387 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:33,000 It's most often described as a feeling or a private vision of a brilliant loving being. 388 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Rarely do these angels take on a solid form that can be seen by others, 389 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:43,000 but when they do, as was the case for Bob Davidson, miracles very often follow. 390 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:58,000 Bob Davidson is a quiet man, given to reflection about his life as a husband, a father, 391 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:03,000 a volunteer firefighter, and the moment that transformed his life. 392 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:10,000 I don't know what happened here on this stretch of highway 15 years ago, but it definitely was a miracle. 393 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,000 In the late 70s, Bob Davidson was at a personal crossroads. 394 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 His career was off the track. 395 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Bob's father died unexpectedly and left behind only memories and his old wristwatch. 396 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:27,000 At the same time, Bob's relationship with his daughter, Dory, was crumbling. 397 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 I don't know why he didn't get along. 398 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,000 A teenage daughter and a father, you know, we had our differences. 399 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Bob had lost sight of what he wanted and what was important. 400 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,000 On June 28th, 1980, Bob decided to take a break from it all. 401 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,000 He took off on his motorcycle and left his hometown of Mansfield, Ohio behind. 402 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Being seven months pregnant, I, um, for months I had had dreams that something happened to Dad. 403 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,000 I had a feeling that Dad wasn't going to be there to see my baby born. 404 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,000 In fact, Bob never did complete that ride. 405 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Near Indianapolis, a rainstorm forced Bob to pull off the road. 406 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:11,000 When you're doing 60 mile an hour, a raindrop feels pretty stinging on your arms. 407 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 And it hits. 408 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Near the town of Acton, Indiana, Bob stopped to put on his rain gear. 409 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,000 But the moment his foot hit the pavement, something horrible happened. 410 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Maybe it was a weird stuff. 411 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,000 You got to be at the right place at the right time and I was supposed to get struck by lightning. 412 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:39,000 In a single instant, more than a million volts of electricity coursed through Bob's body. 413 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 Asking trucker radioed for help. 414 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 It was several minutes before paramedics arrived. 415 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,000 I mean, when we got there, the man was, was gray. 416 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000 I, no sign of life whatsoever. 417 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:55,000 The paramedics called for a medical helicopter, but it couldn't take off in the torrential downpour. 418 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,000 Attempts at CPR were failing. 419 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:04,000 When I got there and saw this man, where the lightning struck, it was actually smoldering. 420 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,000 I mean, you can actually see it looked like steam coming out of the wound. 421 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,000 The stem on his father's watch had welded to the case. 422 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 His shoes had blown off his feet. 423 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 Bob had no pulse. 424 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,000 I think in the back of all firefighters' minds, you're saying a prayer. 425 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:27,000 Randy Nibert believes what happened next could only have been the answer to his prayers. 426 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,000 The ambulance was with a practically new vehicle. 427 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Had power failure. 428 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,000 I don't mean just the lights went out on the ambulance. 429 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,000 I mean, the ambulance went completely dead. 430 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:44,000 Out of the clear blue sky, a lady in black came in. 431 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000 She had a Bible in her hands. 432 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,000 And I was in awe at this woman. 433 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,000 The medics of the scene recalled that the woman seemed to be from another era. 434 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000 She insisted on touching Bob and the ground at the same time. 435 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,000 That's when I said, you know, let her do what she has to do. 436 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Without even thinking about it, the words just came out of my mouth. 437 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,000 The woman in black began pounding Bob's chest with her Bible. 438 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,000 And speaking in a language the paramedics didn't understand. 439 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:19,000 The emergency team watched in silence as the rain poured down on them all. 440 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Even with the rain falling, everybody was soaked. 441 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,000 She wasn't. 442 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:29,000 She was not remotely wet. 443 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:35,000 Then the gray, limp body, the man with no pulse, began to show signs of life. 444 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,000 She looked me right dead in the eyes and smiled. 445 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Not a word said. 446 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:46,000 She stood up, walked around my sister and walked away. 447 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:51,000 As suddenly and inexplicably as she'd come, the woman in black was gone. 448 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,000 But the legacy of her visit remained. 449 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,000 It was almost like the sky was parting back. 450 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 The rain was clearing up. 451 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,000 It's weird. His blood pressure started coming back up. 452 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,000 They got a pulse on him. Color started coming back into him. 453 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,000 And no one knows where this lady came from or where she went to. 454 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,000 It is truly a miracle. 455 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,000 There's no other words to describe it. It's an outright miracle. 456 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,000 But it would take more than one miracle to save Bob Davidson. 457 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 He was in deep shock. 458 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,000 They didn't think he was going to make it through the first night. 459 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:30,000 But the moment he got that he made it, it was, you know, wow, this guy's still hanging on. 460 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,000 He was in a coma for seven weeks. 461 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,000 And it was during that time Bob believes he met his father. 462 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,000 I can still see him setting under this tree. 463 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,000 And it's the most beautiful place that you've ever seen. 464 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,000 I have never seen any place like it on this earth. 465 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,000 And that makes you stop and think, well, was he there with him? 466 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,000 When dad was in the coma and wasn't really there himself. 467 00:26:54,000 --> 00:27:01,000 And evidently it must have been heaven or something to that effect. 468 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:07,000 I know if that's the place you go when you die, I want to go there. 469 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,000 By all accounts, Bob Davidson should not be here right now. 470 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000 But he is. 471 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,000 And the watch that his father left to him never stopped ticking. 472 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,000 A reminder of the miracle that spared Bob's life 473 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,000 and brought him back just in time to see his first grandchild born. 474 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,000 I named the baby after dad. 475 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000 He's named after his grandpa. 476 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,000 But who was the mysterious woman in black? 477 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:36,000 Scythians found a possible clue to her identity here at the Acton Heritage Museum. 478 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:42,000 Acton having been a spiritual center for many years. 479 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Perhaps some of that has held over. 480 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000 What is now an empty field by a railroad crossing 481 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,000 was once a religious retreat started by missionaries in 1859. 482 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,000 It was a place for relaxation, worship and reflection. 483 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:04,000 It was a generation that believed in maybe more than we do now in the spiritual powers. 484 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000 But on a windy November day in 1905, 485 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:13,000 a spark from the railroad ignited a terrible fire that destroyed Acton's spiritual center. 486 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:21,000 The fire went so quickly that they didn't have any real opportunity to stop it although they tried. 487 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Is there a connection between the woman in black and Acton's spiritual past? 488 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,000 It's a question no one can answer, but consider this. 489 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,000 A bug that displays at the Acton Museum is a Bible 490 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,000 and a turn of the century dress identical to the one paramedics say 491 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:42,000 an angel wore on June 28th, 1980. 492 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,000 I would just like to walk along with her 493 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,000 and tell her how much I appreciate what she did 494 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,000 for me and giving me a second chance on life. 495 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:58,000 Bob Davidson wonders why he was visited by the mysterious stranger who seemed to save his life. 496 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:03,000 Why was he spared when so many other innocent victims are left to die? 497 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,000 It's a question he continues to try to answer every day. 498 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,000 Next is 2012, the end of time or a new beginning. 499 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,000 The answer from prophets old and new. 500 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,000 The mysterious 16th-century prognosticator known as Nostradamus 501 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,000 made several startlingly accurate predictions about the future. 502 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,000 His revelations coincide with the equally accurate predictions 503 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,000 of a little-known 12th-century Catholic priest, St. Malachi. 504 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:35,000 Both futurists included in their writing suggestions of an apocalypse. 505 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:40,000 The story of St. Malachi, the first Christian priest in the world, 506 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,000 both futurists included in their writing suggestions of an apocalypse, 507 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,000 sometime near the year 2012. 508 00:29:55,000 --> 00:30:05,000 Fire, blood, war, famine, plague, anarchy, the end of the world. 509 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,000 These are the apocalyptic visions of history's prophets of doom. 510 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:16,000 The most famous of these mystics is the 16th-century French writer, Michel Nostradamus. 511 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:22,000 He made over 1,000 prophecies before his death in 1566. 512 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:28,000 I believe the main reason why Nostradamus has been so popular is because he's been so successful. 513 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:33,000 Nostradamus accurately predicted the rise of Hitler, World War II, 514 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,000 and the stock market crash of 1929. 515 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,000 But one dire prophecy remains unfulfilled. 516 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,000 Nostradamus writes that the head of the church will be taken prisoner, 517 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,000 and his palace will go up in flames. 518 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:50,000 Scholars have interpreted this to mean the dissolution of the Catholic Church. 519 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:55,000 But Nostradamus was not the first seer to predict the end of the Pope and the Catholic Church. 520 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:01,000 400 years earlier, a little-known Irish priest named Malachi had an eerily similar vision. 521 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:06,000 He was on a pilgrimage to Rome in 1138 AD, 522 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:12,000 and as he came over the final hill and saw Rome, he fell into an ecstatic trance. 523 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:22,000 And his scribe wrote down these three to four-word Latin phrases that came in sequence, about 112 phrases. 524 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:29,000 It was later understood that each phrase stood for every pope, the current pope that lived at his time, 525 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,000 Cestalinus II, till the final pope of Doomsday. 526 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,000 That is 112 references. 527 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:42,000 We are down to two more in the list of Saint Malachi for Doomsday. 528 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000 While Malachi was struck by ecstatic visions, 529 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Nostradamus claimed to see the future by staring into a chalice of water. 530 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Their methods differed, but the vision was the same. 531 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,000 The end of the church would mean the end of the world, 532 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,000 and the end of the world would come soon after the year 2000. 533 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:06,000 It's a dire prediction and a date within our lifetime that has been embraced by modern-day mystics. 534 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,000 I mean a great change. 535 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,000 I don't mean the five-cent cigar or Medicare reform. 536 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:18,000 I mean ordinary space and time is going to disappear. 537 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,000 Terrence McKenna is an author and explorer who lives on the big island of Hawaii, 538 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,000 where he awaits what he believes will be the end of the world as we know it. 539 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:32,000 For McKenna and hundreds of people who have come to embrace his apocalyptic warning, 540 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,000 the Doomsday Clock will run out on a very specific date. 541 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:43,000 I predict the most novel event in the history of the world in 2012, 542 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:49,000 and for a conservative mind that might look like Doomsday, but it isn't Doomsday. 543 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:55,000 It's simply that we are moving deeper and deeper into uncharted territory, 544 00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:01,000 novel territory, and that's frightening to some people and exhilarating to others. 545 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,000 While McKenna's message is much like that of Malachi and Nostradamus, 546 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000 his medium is decidedly 21st century. 547 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:14,000 McKenna's crystal ball is a personal computer running software of his own design called Time Wave Zero. 548 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:20,000 I believe that we have in fact discovered the structure of time itself. 549 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:29,000 McKenna developed Time Wave Zero in 1970 after studying the ancient Chinese fortune-telling system known as the Yi Qing. 550 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:36,000 And out of that came a mathematical algorithm that obviously wanted to be a calendar, 551 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:43,000 and when I looked at it as a calendar, I saw that it described the ebb and flow of change in history. 552 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:49,000 When McKenna placed the Yi Qing's pattern of peaks and valleys over the timeline of history, 553 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:56,000 he made a startling discovery. When the Yi Qing system dipped, so did the fortunes of the planet. 554 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:02,000 Here, 1356, the Black Death, a third of the population of Europe, dies. 555 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:10,000 And here, the culmination of the Italian Renaissance in 1492 with the discovery of the New World. 556 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:17,000 Over here, the American and the French revolutions. Here's World War II, and here's us. 557 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,000 Because his computer system provides a remarkably accurate picture of the past, 558 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:26,000 McKenna is confident it will prove to be an accurate picture of the future as well. 559 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:34,000 So the predictions of the past give us confidence that what it's saying about the future will also turn out to be true. 560 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:40,000 On December 21st, 2012, the time wave dips off the chart and into infinity. 561 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:46,000 McKenna does not know what would occur on that date, only that it will be the most significant point in human history. 562 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:55,000 One of my guesses is that what we will discover in 2012 that will make this true is time travel. 563 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:02,000 If technologies that could move through time were developed around that time, 564 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:09,000 it would explain why the wave could no longer give a linear description of the unfolding of events, 565 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,000 because the unfolding of events would go non-linear at that point. 566 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:19,000 Nearly 500 years ago, Nostradamus predicted similar changes in the time-space continuum 567 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,000 that would occur soon after the year 2000. 568 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:28,000 He sees a change in mankind, a new humanity, a new culture, 569 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,000 that ultimately leads to the human race leaving the planet Earth, 570 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:37,000 they're living in the planets of the constellation Cancer and Aquarius. 571 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:42,000 So when you look up tonight at the sky and you see the stars of the Aquarius constellation, 572 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,000 you're seeing the future of humanity. 573 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,000 While many of his dire predictions have come true, 574 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,000 Nostradamus never claimed his prophecies were irreversible. 575 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000 In fact, he once wrote, 576 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:01,000 the one who is reasonable can learn from my prophecies how to find the right path. 577 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,000 Next, if you think crop circles are fakes, listen to this man. 578 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:11,000 We have seen a whole new family, a whole new range of complexity of the patterns themselves. 579 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:22,000 Recent revelations that hundreds of English crop circles are the work of sophisticated hoaxers 580 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,000 has damaged the reputation of dedicated researchers. 581 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:29,000 But these serialologists are undaunted by the controversy. 582 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:34,000 By studying the hoaxed crop circles, they've learned the tricks of the trade. 583 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:40,000 The fakes, they say, have made it easier for them to separate the wheat from the chaff. 584 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,000 I think hoaxers have taught us all the lesson. 585 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,000 They have shown that you can back engineer many of the features, 586 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,000 but you cannot back engineer all of them. 587 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:59,000 Crop circle researcher Colin Andrews is one of just a handful of full-time investigators 588 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,000 determined to discover the source of these beautiful enigmatic patterns 589 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,000 appearing in crop fields from England to Australia. 590 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:10,000 We have looked at the techniques employed by hoaxers. 591 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000 We have, in fact, hoaxed them ourselves. 592 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:18,000 But what happens every time, of course, is that there is evidence that you've been there 593 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,000 with the genuine phenomena, the fingerprint of the spiral. 594 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:28,000 That is the number of revolutions the spirals take from the center of the vortex 595 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,000 to completion of the circumference is also different. 596 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,000 And the plants are changed at the cellular anatomical level. 597 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000 This is a field of oil seed rape. It's a very brittle plant. 598 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:45,000 By the lightest touch of the finger, you'll see the bruising that occurs on this. 599 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:50,000 I've removed the hue from the plant and the damage is evident for everybody to see. 600 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:55,000 Well, if that plant being in the upright position as the thousands of them are in this field 601 00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:02,000 received the energy of the crop circle constructor, whoever or whatever that is, 602 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,000 this is what would happen. 603 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:10,000 I mean, here's the plant being bent over beyond 45 degrees, down to the horizontal and snap. 604 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:17,000 We would immediately establish that a circle has been hoaxed by the fact that the plants will 605 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,000 knuckle or snap off, just like carrots or celery. 606 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:26,000 In the genuine phenomena, they bend over evenly. They're undamaged. 607 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:32,000 And it is as if a steaming effect has occurred. 608 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:39,000 Andrews, an electrical engineer by trade, first became interested in the crop circle phenomenon 609 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:45,000 in 1983. He was driving to work one morning when a strange pattern in a wheat field caught his eye. 610 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:51,000 I saw five circles forming across in a field below me. 611 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:56,000 And it was absolutely fascinating. I've not seen or heard anything like this before. 612 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:02,000 The engineer in me was calling already what actually formed this. 613 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:11,000 Although crop circles have been sighted worldwide, more than 90% of the world's total have been found in Southern England, 614 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000 within 40 miles of this circle, Stonehenge. 615 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:23,000 Earlier this year, sightings provided colonanters with a high-eight camera to keep an ongoing record of new crop circle activity occurring in this region. 616 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:31,000 This is pretty much a typical day in the life of a crop circle researcher, responding to calls from farmers, police, 617 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000 that a circle has been discovered in a field. 618 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:42,000 It certainly starts, you know, first thing in the morning, responding to those calls and to get up in the aircraft, 619 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,000 looking for the patterns wherever they might be. 620 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:50,000 John, where I think we would certainly like to get is north of Andover. 621 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:55,000 This year is the only second year in 12 years that has seen a downward curve, 622 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:59,000 but an increase in complexity of the patterns themselves. 623 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:04,000 We have seen a whole new family, a whole new range of patterns. 624 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:11,000 Many of them resemble galaxies, a series of circles and rings, 625 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:16,000 rotating as if they are circumventing a central feature. 626 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:30,000 As you tick off the list of possibilities, you get closer and closer to being obliged to consider that something external, 627 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,000 something which is intelligent, is actually placing them there. 628 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:40,000 Simply considering the possibility that crop circles are the result of non-human intervention 629 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,000 has made Andrews and other serialists pariahs in the scientific community. 630 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:50,000 I think some of the media have put a funny tag on the subject, 631 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:56,000 and the fact that I am now publicly saying that I believe there isn't intelligence involved here 632 00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:01,000 as I think further distanced my professional colleagues from me. 633 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:06,000 So it is very much a lonely life out here. 634 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:11,000 And while Andrews could once count on farmers for free access to their fields, 635 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:15,000 now the farmers have had a change of heart. 636 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:20,000 This year the National Farmers Union in Great Britain have offered a thousand pounds 637 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:28,000 for information leading to the very first arrest of those people who are making some of these crop circles. 638 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000 So the attitude certainly has firmed up. 639 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,000 A number of farmers have become really actually quite aggressive 640 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:40,000 and have now refused entry to many of the researchers like myself 641 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,000 to actually conduct any work whatsoever on their land. 642 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:49,000 Despite irate farmers, mischievous hoaxes and a skeptical public, 643 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:56,000 Colin Andrews perseveres because he believes the answer to the crop circle mystery is within his grasp. 644 00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:01,000 The research I think is reaching its final stages. 645 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,000 We do have evidence that a phenomena exists. 646 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:10,000 We have some ideas to worry about in the electromagnetic spectrum the energy is coming from. 647 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:17,000 I think what we are left with now is to put into position at the primary places 648 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:23,000 we now know they're going to arrive, a very, very sophisticated surveillance operation. 649 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:32,000 And we have to record on high-quality television quality footage the crop circle makers. 650 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:37,000 The serious study of crop circles is a classic Catch-22 651 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,000 to prove that some crop circles are formed by supernatural forces. 652 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:46,000 Researchers like Colin Andrews need scientists to conduct controlled studies. 653 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:52,000 But scientists won't do these studies until it's proven that the crop circle phenomenon is not a hoax. 654 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:59,000 If you've had a paranormal experience, please write to us at CITINGS. 655 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:04,000 CITINGS can also be contacted at America Online at keyword CITINGS. 656 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:09,000 At the CITINGS forum, download images, sounds and quick time clips. 657 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:14,000 Also, join us daily in our chat room, live on AOL. 658 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:20,000 Until next time, remember, no mystery is closed to an open mind. 659 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,000 For CITINGS, I'm Tim White. 660 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,000 Next on Sci-Fi Dark Shadows. 661 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,000 Are we dealing with an epidemic? 662 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,000 A bold experiment. 663 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:42,000 We recombine termite and mantid DNA to create a biological counter-agent. 664 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,000 Becomes a deadly mistake. 665 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,000 They were designed to die. They are breeding. 666 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,000 But how do you destroy it? 667 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,000 When you've created it. 668 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,000 Mira Sordino. 669 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,000 Mimic tomorrow at 7 p.m. on Sci-Fi.