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On this edition of Sightings, on a perfectly clear day in 1978,

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Freddie Valentich encountered a UFO at 5,000 feet.

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He hasn't been heard from since.

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He comes to the southwest while shining a metallic.

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My God, she comes at me!

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To Australia's top secret pine gap tracking station, hold the answer.

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Your program has got a hold of a tiger by the tail here

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when you start looking in the pine gap.

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In the rugged Sierra Mountains, this man's miraculous vision

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accomplished what 100 rescue workers couldn't.

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Someone was just pushing me the whole way.

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It was like I was chosen to go.

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The Air Force says it's simply a research tool.

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Others say the military finally has the ultimate doomsday machine.

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It's got all the marks of Dr. Strange love on it.

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Last summer, the kids who attend this grade school all claim they encountered an alien.

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Why would 62 children lie?

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Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White.

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Every year, one grieving father in Australia makes a pilgrimage

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to the place where his son disappeared.

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Even though Freddie Valentich has been missing for close to 20 years,

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his father has not given up hope.

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He believes that one day the extraterrestrials who took his son away

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may decide to bring him back to Earth.

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He was a 20-year-old pilot with the Australian Air Training Corps

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who took off on October 21, 1978 and was never seen again.

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Freddie Valentich took off from Moorabbin Airport in Victoria,

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bound for Cape Otway on King Island.

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45 minutes into the flight, the control tower in Cape Otway

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received an alarming SOS.

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Valentich was on a collision course with a strange craft he could not identify.

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According to the tower, the radar screen was clean.

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For six minutes, Valentich continued to insist that a UFO

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was approaching him at a high rate of speed.

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Then his radio went dead.

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Is there traffic below 5,000?

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No traffic.

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Traffic above me at 5,000.

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None. And none.

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Near your position and altitude.

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Tower, you must read check.

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Above it. No, but no. A terrible brightness.

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Nothing. Nothing.

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And then he was gone.

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Freddie Valentich and his airplane disappeared without a trace.

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Legally dead by everyone but his father.

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17 years after Fred's disappearance,

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Guido Valentich still makes an annual pilgrimage to Cape Otway

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where he believes he lost his eldest son to a UFO.

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That particular day I supposed to be with my son on the airplanes

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and I feel a little bit sorry that I didn't go

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because in my mind I felt that if I would have been with him,

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perhaps one would say the situation could turn out slightly different.

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Why would a father return here every year on the anniversary of his son's disappearance

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and reflect on the possibility that his child had a close encounter with a UFO?

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Because Guido Valentich says knowing Freddie,

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it's the only explanation that makes sense.

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He was hardworking and honest, a straight shooter who knew how to fly.

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His future was to be a commercial pilot.

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He had about close to 200 hours flying.

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The last time I spoke to him was the morning of the 21st of October

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at the breakfast table and as he went there,

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I remember Dick was lying to me, you know, the last word he said,

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oh, it's gotta be a beautiful day to fly today.

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Freddie's flight plan that warmed cloudless evening

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took him over the infamous Bass Strait,

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an area known as the Australian Bermuda Triangle.

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There had been other disappearances, reports of mechanical failures

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and magnetic anomalies,

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but Valentich was the first pilot to ever report into the control tower

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that he was in the presence of a threatening UFO.

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His voice told the controller to take this SOS seriously.

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Tower, he's not in the aircraft.

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Repeat, not in the aircraft, no, Lewis.

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An identified vehicle is a green light at terminus of upper cylinder.

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Out of projection appears to be aluminium or some other light metal.

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The actual tapes of Freddie's communication with the tower were considered top secret

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and Guido Valentich was allowed to listen to his son's last words only one time.

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Soon after, the tapes were erased.

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A version of the tape transcript was leaked to the media by anonymous airport personnel.

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Valentich gave a complete description of the type of the craft, the shape, the portholes,

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what it was doing, how it was buzzing him, circling him,

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going off at great speeds, disappearing, coming back.

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And he was in constant contact with the tower over this period of time until 714

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when all of a sudden he said this was approaching him and bathed him in a green light,

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the plane and everything.

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And then there was a metal scraping sound and he just disappeared off the face of the earth, the plane and everything.

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You believe me, Log?

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Sure do. We're now at Valentich.

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Thank you, Tower. In proceeding at a speed of 110 at the same course moving up to 4,000.

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Wait, wait, ancient faltering.

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We've got rough idling, she may call me.

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She's caught up for rear in tremendous burst.

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His green light is all over here. It's not an aircraft.

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Going up to 5,000, 6,000, long wingless metallic tube spouting flame of your scorching appeal.

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229, 229, we hear something tearing. 229, 229, please reply.

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When the tower lost radio contact, a search plane was sent to the point of last contact, 12 miles off the coast of Melbourne.

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There was no sign of Valentich. They searched by air, by land and by sea.

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But after three weeks, searchers had found nothing and the operation was suspended.

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To the first of the tour because it's one die which I can never forget.

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I'd like to go down to respect and study some of the area when this phenomenon occurred

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and to be able to see some strange thing perhaps on that particular die.

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Officially, there were no eyewitnesses to Freddie Valentich's disappearance nearly 20 years ago.

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But a small group of UFO researchers claim there were eyewitnesses working here, working for the United States government.

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This is the Pine Gap Research Facility, a tracking station located in the Australian outback.

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And according to researcher Robert Dean, Pine Gap knows more than it's willing to tell about Fred Valentich.

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They can track anything from a basketball-sized meteor.

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There's no question in my mind that the Pine Gap facility tracked that object.

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They were tracking Fred, they were tracking that object. God knows when the truth will come out.

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But I think Fred was grabbed and I know Pine Gap must have monitored the whole damn thing because we monitor everything.

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According to Dean and others, the Pine Gap tracking station did much more than simply track the last moments of Fred Valentich's life.

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Did officials there have a hand in the death of an innocent man?

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More on this story when sightings returns.

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Next, the Pine Gap connection to the disappearance of Freddie Valentich.

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The real secret behind it involves the alien reality and UFOs.

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A fiery oblong UFO, no wings, no observable propulsion system, soaring above Australia at unbelievable speed.

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It was the last thing Pilot Fred Valentich saw before he disappeared off the face of the Earth.

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That was 17 years ago and from that day to this, his father and a handful of dedicated researchers

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have searched for information about who or what was controlling that UFO.

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229, are you on a collision course over?

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No, it's still at my side. It can hang motionless, orbit over and under me.

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Proceed 229.

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Wingless tubes she is. Maybe 100 feet long with a green blast, sometimes green paper.

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These were Freddie Valentich's exact words to an air traffic controller when he encountered an unknown object over Australia's vast strait.

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He disappeared minutes later.

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Now, a small but convincing group of researchers believe that Valentich's encounter must have been observed and was then covered up by a super secret government tracking facility at Pine Gap, Australia.

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Anything that comes in from out there in space on the planet is immediately picked up, whether it's a meteor or whatever.

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If it's one of our own satellites, if it's something we don't know, immediately they pick it up.

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They monitor it, they photograph it, they track it. That's what Pine Gap does.

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Robert Dean is a retired United States Army Command Sergeant Major.

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In his 27-year military career, Dean claims that he was involved in several top secret military operations concerning UFOs.

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Your program has got a hold of a tiger by the tail here when you start looking into Pine Gap.

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And I must be honest with you that the Pine Gap facility and all that it's involved with is probably one of the most secret installations in the world.

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The NSA is involved, the CIA is involved, and the National Reconnaissance Office is part of that.

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They call it a joint space defense facility, but it's a hell of a lot more than that.

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But other experts insist the location is simply an advanced satellite communications facility.

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Most governments don't even publicly admit that they are involved in satellite intelligence operations.

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That's probably about as close as any government is ever going to go to saying that they're involved in signals intelligence collection functions.

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Well, I can tell you that as a result of 30 years of my personal research, the fact that I am ex-military, the fact that I still have a bunch of old cronies in sensitive places,

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the real secret behind it, the real undercover, unannounced, unpublished operation, involves the alien reality and UFOs.

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The Pine Gap research facility has never commented publicly on a possible link between their operations and Freddie Valentich's disappearance.

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But this photograph suggests there is a link.

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It was taken in the same area at nearly the same time Valentich disappeared.

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If the eyes and ears of Pine Gap are as powerful as Robert Dean suggests, they must know something about the UFO snapped by amateur photographer Roy Manifold.

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Quite a clear night. It was cool. We had the fire going in the front room and everything seemed normal that night.

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I had taken the photographs and taken the six consecutive ones.

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And I walked inside and I just came inside. I was only been there about maybe five minutes and I heard an airplane pass overhead.

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The airplane was Freddie's Cessna just moments before Valentich's fateful UFO encounter.

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And later, when Roy had his film developed along with the beautiful sunset, there was this important clue to fright his mysterious disappearance.

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He got this object here on his sixth frame and it was quite strange that he thought that one incident was something wrong with the camera.

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But then when he took back to the laboratory, they assured that that object there is nothing wrong with it.

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He's definitely got an object on it.

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Computer analysis and enhancement of the UFO in Manifold's photograph reveals that the object was a solid metallic reflective sphere approximately 70 feet in diameter.

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The fact that this picture was taken just minutes before Manifold heard Valentich's airplane suggests this may be the craft Freddie saw moments before he vanished without a trace.

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Air Corps officials however vehemently disagree.

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Some of the experts said that he got disorientated and that he was flying upside down.

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But the Cessna 182 has got the petrol or gas, aviation gas, is in the wings and is gravity fed to the motor.

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So 49 seconds of flying upside down the motor would have cut out. He was talking for six and a half minutes.

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So that tells you he wasn't flying upside down, he wasn't disorientated.

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Now are you all clear, 229? And there's no strange craft, right? Could be miscalculation. Did you hear a vibratory?

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Tower heard nothing but my own sound. Electrical phenomena 229, powerful lightning can do strange things.

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Storm flare far off to East Tower, not vapor to real either.

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Holy, here he comes from the south west, all shiny and metallic. My God, he comes in me!

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Now in Frederick he wouldn't deviate rules and regulations.

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I'm quite certain that he would not go on that ride here and enquire about to the air traffic controller what he's got around him.

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Unless it was something really worthwhile to ask pickles to him.

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It wasn't like convention or a crafty for something else.

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I could have been extra terrestrial, but the time will tell.

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For 17 years a family has searched for answers and now they hope that Pine Gap will share its information concerning Freddy, the UFO in this photograph and one of the most puzzling encounters in UFO history.

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Only two pilots are believed to have disappeared as a result of their aerial contact with the UFO.

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Fred Valentich and Thomas Mantell, a military pilot from Louisville, Kentucky.

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The consensus among ufologists is that these incidents occurred not because the UFOs were aggressive, but because pilots have never been taught what to do in the event of a UFO encounter.

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Next, the ultimate celebration of mind over matter.

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Are we getting too big for our planet?

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Later, an extraordinary alien encounter in Africa.

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Here are some of the stories Sightings is following in the news.

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In a recent book titled Seven Experiments that Could Change the World, author Rupert Sheldrake explores new and intriguing theories about the psychic bond between humans and animals.

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In Big Sur, California, English researcher Rupert Sheldrake recently presented the findings of a scientific study he conducted which validates what many pet owners already sense, that they have a unique psychic bond with their pets.

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I think the psychic abilities of animals are very common.

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I would explain it in terms of morphic fields and they're the kinds of fields that connect packs of wolves together or flocks of birds.

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I think that these are the basis of the bonds between pets and people.

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Sheldrake spent 14 years studying animal behavior at Cambridge University and found that morphic fields may explain those uncanny premonitions animals display.

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When it's time to go to the vet or when you're about to leave on a trip or even when a family member is in danger.

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If we can show that psychic connections between pets and their owners are real, we have to take seriously the existence of psychic phenomena in general.

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I think that there is, if you want to use the term telepathic, communication, I think there is an undeniable bond between Papillon and Rachel.

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Mindy Gwyn knows the power of animal telepathy.

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Her daughter Rachel was only five days old when their dog Papillon somehow sensed danger as Rachel lay sleeping in her crib.

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Papillon came into the bathroom while I was in the shower and he was frantic.

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Enough to the point where I knew he was trying to tell me something.

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I throw my clothes and I followed him to the bedroom and that was where he put his front paws up on the crib and he barked at the baby.

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And when I looked in at her I realized that she was a little bit blue.

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On closer examination Mindy realized that her infant daughter had stopped breathing.

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Mindy tried desperately to revive her.

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My daughter Amanda called 911 and I was still doing mouth to mouth when the ambulance got there and I carried Rachel out and jumped in the back of the ambulance.

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Rachel survived. After a week in the hospital Mindy brought her home to the friend she believes saved the baby's life.

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I reaffirmed my belief in the bonds between animals and people at that point.

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I just remember hugging the dog for a good long time because this dog just really did more than I can ever say thank you for.

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Most people accept these things. Science at present denies them and I think opening up science in a way that these things are taken on board can help open up our view of the world in a really dramatic way.

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I think it would change science.

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In Thailand more than 5000 people from around the world gathered for this year's Phuket Vegetarian Festival, an ancient tradition demonstrating the powers of mind over matter.

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Men from the area believed to be spirit mediums display a superhuman threshold for pain.

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Walking over hot coals and piercing their bodies with an unbelievable range of sharp implements.

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Even close up, their faces display no signs of pain. Not even a wince is they endure piercing with 3 inch diameter bamboo poles.

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How is this possible? Dr. Joshua Prager, director of the UCLA Pain Medicine Center, believes it may be a result of the amazing mind-body connection.

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We now know that pain is not something that is just a sensation in a part of the body or parts of the body but it's actually an entire experience.

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Information that comes in has to pass through a gate and that gate can be opened or closed by various phenomena.

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The mediums at the festival use self-hypnosis to will themselves into an altered state of consciousness and such a state seems to act as a natural anesthetic against what would normally be excruciating pain.

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People who are having a religious experience are often very close to trans state and so somehow they are teaching themselves or they have the ability when they work themselves up into the trans state to close the gate.

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Dr. Prager believes that the ability to withstand pain varies from person to person based on their genetic predisposition.

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But he also believes that the Phuket Festival does demonstrate that everyone can improve their own pain threshold to some degree.

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In San Diego, California, one engineer is issuing a warning about a new threat to Earth's ever-waning resources and not only from our growing numbers but also our size. Humans are getting too big.

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By 2050 we're talking about maybe 12 billion people in the world. We have 6 billion right now. Now it makes a big difference whether that 12 billion people averages 100 pounds or 200 pounds.

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In the last 100 years, the median height has grown by 6 inches and the median weight has increased by more than 50 pounds and the larger we become, the more natural resources we consume.

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But there's no doubt that we live on a finite Earth. There are finite resources and the Earth is going to change.

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Samaris warns that unless we begin downsizing our population, we will use up most of our farmland and all of our petroleum supplies midway through the next century.

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We're getting more people and we're getting bigger people. I think we can see that the problem is stupendous in terms of the threat to our survival.

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We'll have more stories from the news next time. Now, here's what's coming up on Sightings.

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When Millie McGregor was lost for three days in the High Sierra, this man saw it off from 100 miles away.

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He pointed right to the site. He said she's right up on top of the mountain.

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Later, could this device end life on our planet?

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In the movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, character Roy Neary becomes obsessed with a vision. Plagues his mind, his dreams, even sculpts it in his mashed potatoes.

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In real life, a California horseshoe named Randy Spears also had a vision. It plagued his mind and his dreams.

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Deciding to correspond to Karna Wall reports, when Randy pursued his vision, something very strange happened.

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The spectacular Sierra Nevada Range extends almost the entire length of California.

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These are mountains of unparalleled beauty. Along its rugged trails, you can easily find yourself lost in thought, or as even experienced hikers know, just plain lost.

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I love the mountains. I also love waterfalls and lakes, and I like to sometimes be by myself.

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Millie McGregor has been hiking and camping in these Sierras for much of her life.

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On the morning of September 4th, 1995, she set off on a simple day hike. She told her husband she'd be home before dark. She wasn't.

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After I was on the trail for several hours, I got, I started having chest pain.

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Millie was dizzy and disoriented. She lost the trail and couldn't find her way down the mountain.

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The places I was going, when they would run out or they'd come into a big high canyon, it was real rough terrain.

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Millie's spirits and her water supply were running low. She was tired, frightened and cold. When day turned tonight, the temperature dropped below freezing. For search and rescue teams, it was a race against time.

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How extensive was the search?

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There were about 100 people involved, mostly volunteer units. There were about 50 mounted units, and the rest were foot units, motorcycle, tricycle and dogs.

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After three bone-chilling nights, Millie was still missing. Search helicopters were equipped with infrared radar, but hope for her survival was dwindling. Millie's husband feared the worst.

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After three days and nights up there, I just about ready to give her up.

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On day three, over 100 miles outside the search area, for sure Randy Spears had a strange, haunting vision he did not understand.

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I just kind of flashed on search and rescue and kind of pictured a hillside. And for some reason my hand was in front of it. I was basically pointing, but I had my whole hand up.

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It wasn't until he got home that Randy learned of Millie's disappearance. His wife, Shelley, helped Randy in his search for the mountaintop in his vision.

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When I looked on the map, it just kind of all came back to me, that hillside, and it just struck me right then that I knew right where she was. So I just kind of decided I had to go.

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What did Randy say to you when he came home?

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He told me it was somebody's grandma, and she was very cold and she needed to be found. And he knew who she was, and they were wasting time.

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It wasn't just a nagging feeling. Randy dropped everything to pursue his vision.

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I generally don't like to skip out of work, but it was strong enough that I just canceled everything and went.

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Randy felt he had a job to do and convinced his best friend Frank Smith to join him in his quest. At 1.30 in the morning, they set off to find a woman they had never met.

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As we approached the area where the search party was taking place, it's like you could see the excitement on his face, or the seriousness. I don't know how to describe it, but he goes, that's where she is. She's on that hillside. She's on that mountain.

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And he held his hand up, and he goes, I don't know why I'm doing this. But behind his ring finger is on that mountain, is where he said she was.

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At dawn, Randy and Frank saddled up their mules and rode to the rescue station. Randy revealed his vision to James Marks.

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I was little taken aback just because, I mean, here we all are 100 people who've been there for three days, and here comes someone who just says, I'm very, very determined, saying, I know where she's at, and I'm going to go get her.

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Did he actually point out to you where he thought he'd find Mildred?

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Oh, exactly. He pointed right to the site. He kind of framed it in with his hands, and he said she's right up on top of the mountain.

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Was there any doubt in your mind that you were going to find Mildred?

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No doubt. Absolutely not. They didn't have the same map that Randy had.

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All the way up the mountain, Randy never wavered from his mysterious internal map.

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Something was just pushing me the whole way. It was like I was chosen to go.

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Incredibly, Millie McGregor, exhausted and close to dehydration, was also being drawn to the top of the mountain.

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I don't know how much longer, you know, that I'm going to be able to do this, so I thought, I had a notion when I got to the top, for some reason I thought there would be somebody there.

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How long was it that you were sitting there before you saw this mirage coming towards you?

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I don't think it was more than five minutes.

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I couldn't believe it. She just walked right out. We just run right into each other.

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Randy signaled to Frank that his vision quest was over. Millie was finally in safe hands.

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Fransky is ex-affirmative. He was just brought into camp by one of the horse teams. He's in good shape.

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And everything, this has got a happy ending.

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As they rode into the search area, everyone just kind of looked at them and they were stunned.

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I don't think they could believe that he actually had them.

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Millie was escorted to a waiting ambulance. Her heroes disappeared before Millie's family could thank them.

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I feel very well and very thankful.

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You give me back my wife. What can you say to a fellow to give your partner back to you?

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Thanks doesn't seem to be enough.

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You excited?

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Oh yeah, very excited.

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I accompanied Millie and Jim on a trip back to Northern California so they could thank the man whose vision had saved Millie's life.

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Look who's here.

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You are the one that led your crazy husband come. We were just talking about last night. I don't even think that I would encourage my husband to go.

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Well, I have no choice. So Frank hit us, smile.

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She must be going to be a special lady or something. Whatever it was, it's mighty powerful. That's all I can figure out.

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The whole experience is one that you certainly never forget. It's like sometimes in your life things happen that change you and you'll never be quite the same again.

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Mildred McGregor also told Carnival that she wants to start hiking again but she's made a promise to her family that she won't go hiking alone.

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Next, it's called heart and one of the things it's designed to do is burn holes in the ionosphere.

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The ozone layer is nothing compared to what harp can do.

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In 1993, the FAA started warning pilots to stay away from a certain section of airspace over Alaska.

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The U.S. government was experimenting with a new breed of high-altitude electronic technology that was significantly altering the Alaska airspace.

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The experiments continue to this day and critics are warning that this project could have global effects that will destroy our planet.

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In Alaska, the rugged pristine wilderness is timeless, most of it remaining just as it has for thousands of years.

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In the midst of all this natural beauty, just outside the small town of Gakona, stands an enormous and seemingly harmless antenna farm.

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It is a $100 million Air Force project known as HARP and critics of the soon-to-be-completed facility charge it just may turn out to be the ultimate doomsday machine.

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It's got all the marks of Dr. Strangelove on it.

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HARP is an acronym for High Frequency Active Ororal Research Program.

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According to program manager John Hescher, HARP is a research facility designed to study the ionosphere.

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All the military have communications, surveillance, navigation systems whose paths either traverse the ionosphere or reflect from it.

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So we need to be very careful about what we know about it and how we study it.

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What we're interested in is what is the effect of a large input of energy on the ionosphere.

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The ionosphere is the outermost layer of the Earth's atmosphere.

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It is part of an electromagnetic field that keeps out harmful solar and cosmic radiation.

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One visible effect of the sun's rays hitting the ionosphere is the aurora borealis, known as the Northern Lights.

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The ionosphere also plays a vital role in worldwide radio communication.

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The first transmission of radio waves across the ocean were quite a surprise when it was first done.

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People thought there'd be no chance to transmit signals across the ocean by wireless.

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And in fact what the ionosphere does is act like a mirror.

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It lands where you transmit a signal and it bounces off the ionosphere and then bounces off the Earth.

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When HARP is fully operational, it will transmit extremely powerful blasts of high frequency radio waves directly up into the atmosphere,

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superheating the electrons that make up the ionosphere.

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This is what caused them to disperse, effectively punching a hole in the ionosphere.

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But after you turn the instrument off, this thing kind of moves around and it gets replenished.

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And within a few minutes it's back to where you can't even detect that there's a hole anymore.

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The Air Force says that manipulating the ionosphere and studying the effect will allow them to improve the efficiency of communications, navigation and surveillance systems.

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But researchers outside the military see HARP as a high-tech weapon with global implications.

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The way I see HARP as it is right now, it is a premier, I mean top-notch high-energy radio physics experiment and has definite military applications.

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Journalist Mark Farmer lives in Alaska and has written about the potential impact of HARP for both Jane's Defense Weekly and Popular Science Magazine.

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He believes that HARP will be used to take giant X-rays of Earth.

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Earth penetrating tomography is a technique using extremely low-frequency radio waves.

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Today in geophysical probing, scientists will use explosives or a machine that thumps the ground to produce these waves.

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But HARP will stimulate the auroral electric jet to make an antenna thousands of miles long that will emit these ELF waves.

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Farmer's research indicates that the extremely low-frequency waves would be capable of penetrating several kilometers into the Earth,

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ferreting out nuclear storage facilities and other underground military installations.

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This is producing surveillance systems able to detect stealthy cruise missiles and aircraft.

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These are systems that will enable us to communicate at higher data rates and at greater distances with our ballistic missile submarines.

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While the Air Force insists HARP is not an offensive weapon and is necessary for continuing national security,

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Alaska native Nick Begich proposes a different scenario in this new book.

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The things that we found in other Air Force documents, one in particular was a document put together in 1982.

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The document was called Low Intensity Conflict in Modern Technology with a forward by no other than Nune Gingrich.

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One section spoke about using radiofrequency radiation transmitters for disrupting human thinking,

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for debilitating troops invisibly by being able to bombard them with radiofrequency.

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That was tuned to just the right frequency in just the right wave form so as to totally disrupt their mental process and debilitate those troops.

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Because of HARP's potential to disrupt the Earth's magnetic field, many observers are concerned that it will damage the biomagnetic sensors

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that migratory animals like salmon and birds depend upon.

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Anything that HARP can do to the magnetic field is, orders of magnitude smaller than the natural variations of the Earth's field.

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So I would have to say, no, there's nothing we can do to affect the salmon.

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But what generates the most concern by far is HARP's ability to tamper with and punch holes in the ionosphere.

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The thing that one of the Air Force documents points out is that they want to use this heater to create enough energy in the ionosphere

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to get a runaway effect up to the next stabilizing level, whatever that might be.

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It's precisely whatever that might be that worries Dr. Patrick Flanagan, a physicist who believes the ionosphere is extremely fragile.

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The ionosphere is a chaotic system that is on the edge of instability.

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So the trigger point for HARP would be that energy and that frequency which throws the ionosphere into chaos.

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In other words, it would be that point which throws it over the edge.

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For example, it is believed that a hole in the Earth's ozone layer has caused an increase in infrared radiation,

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contributing to the melting of the polar ice caps and forcing New Zealand children to wear protective clothing to school.

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Flanagan and others believe the potential danger from a hole in the ionosphere is much greater.

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It could create a change in the ionospheric shield that protects us from cosmic radiation.

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We're worried about the ozone layer. The ozone layer is nothing compared to what HARP could do.

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You know, we're worried about ultraviolet light. That's just a very harmless ray compared to some of those energy streams or particles

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that are coming from outer space that are being deflected by this natural shield around the Earth.

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And this is what HARP wants to play with.

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Critics worry that HARP has been placed in the hands of too few and that international debate is necessary

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to fully explore all the potential dangers that this project may soon unleash,

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a proposal in which the Air Force has shown little interest to date.

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Once we open this box, and it is a veritable Pandora's box, we're not going to be able to close it.

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And of course, once you acquire a technology, you want bigger and better aspects of it.

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And then we come to the questions of whether or not if we go big, if we go better,

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if we're going to cause damage to our planet.

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Proponents of HARP insist the danger has been grossly exaggerated.

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The project continues to move forward as scheduled and will be fully operational by 1997.

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Next, they started an international controversy with their story of extraterrestrial contact at a remote African school.

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I have seen what I've seen.

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At the recent International UFO Congress held in Sheffield, England,

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sightings team members heard their first account of a major UFO sighting in Africa.

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It was particularly intriguing because the eyewitnesses were schoolchildren

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who had not had any exposure to popular press accounts of UFOs.

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On September 14, 1994, something flashed through the sky in southern Africa,

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alarming a few and confounding everyone.

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It was a UFO.

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Two days later, 62 schoolchildren in Rua Zimbabwe claimed they had seen a UFO land in the schoolyard.

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It was dismissed as fantasy until one UFO researcher began insisting that the children were telling the truth.

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This thing, object landed with the three or four things beside it and then a door opened

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and this little man got out ahead on a black suit.

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Cynthia Hind is one of Africa's leading ufologists.

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She interviewed the children the day after their encounter

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and had them draw pictures of the strange visitors they had seen.

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They were very slim, the suit was black, but it was the eyes that was frightening.

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In 1995, Hind brought worldwide attention to the Rua children

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when she presented their case at the 8th International UFO Congress in Sheffield, England.

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Why don't they try and form some sort of panel?

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Not necessarily Americans, it could be United Nations to check out these stories.

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Why would 62 children lie?

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In Rua, a few weeks after the conference, a full on-site investigation began

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under the direction of Harvard professor of psychiatry, Dr. John Mack,

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who is now producing a documentary film about the Rua encounter.

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It was silver and the ring around it was red.

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It was red.

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Did light come from the whole thing?

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There were lights around here.

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Lights along the edge there.

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How many of the strange beings did you see?

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I saw one over here. They had eyes like that.

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And they were kind of just like looking at us.

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They were like kind of astonished at what we were.

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I felt scared.

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It felt scary? What was scary about it?

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I felt scared because I've never seen such a person like that before.

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They experienced very powerful encounters with these beings

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and were left with the rather disturbing fact that this seems to be what it is.

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And it seems to have no other psychiatric explanation.

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More disturbing still was what the children told Dr. Mack about the purpose of the alien visit.

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It was a dire warning Mack had heard more than 100 times before

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from people in the United States, half a world away.

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Their doomsday scenario was being repeated to the last detail by the Rua children.

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Fungi, what do you imagine is his reason for visiting Earth?

404
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,000
I think it's about something that's going to happen.

405
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Something that's going to happen.

406
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What I thought was maybe the world's going to end.

407
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,000
Maybe they're telling us the world's going to end.

408
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:32,000
I think they want people to know that we're actually making harm on this world

409
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and we mustn't get too acknowledged.

410
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How did that get communicated to you?

411
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,000
I don't know if I just popped up in my head.

412
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Pollution?

413
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,000
Yes.

414
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,000
He never said anything.

415
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It's just that the face is the eyes.

416
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,000
They looked horrible.

417
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:55,000
And the eyes, the horrible look had that information that you just told me?

418
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Yes.

419
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,000
Now, the people in Africa don't have television.

420
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:06,000
They might have a radio, but I can tell you the media don't deal with UFOs there.

421
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,000
They're nervous of it.

422
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,000
So where would they pick it up?

423
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,000
Is it a mass telepathy?

424
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:18,000
While some researchers are suggesting the Rua sightings were created by mass hallucination,

425
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,000
Dr. Mack hears a different story from the children.

426
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If someone were to say, well, you know, you just have a lie to the imagination and you've made this up,

427
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what would you say?

428
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,000
I haven't been influenced by any of my friends.

429
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I have seen what I've seen.

430
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,000
Because of political instability in many African nations,

431
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:40,000
it's been impossible to get an accurate accounting of UFO sightings there.

432
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,000
Ufologists are eager to investigate several reputed hotspots,

433
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:49,000
but field investigations in Mozambique and Rwanda have been put on hold.

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437
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438
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439
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,000
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440
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,000
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441
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