1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 on this edition of CYCLE. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:09,000 In 1948, Captain Thomas Mantell died chasing a UFO. 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,000 The Air Force said it was the planet Venus. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Now, eyewitnesses tell us they saw the UFO. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 At that time, it was... 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 General Procedure didn't nobody talk about UFOs. 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Diana Lubarski never knew how to sculpt 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,000 until she started dreaming of her death 9 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 at the hands of the Nazis. 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Whatever happens, you remember this. 11 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,000 You remember. 12 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Right there. 13 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Bart Ellis believes he can finally prove 14 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000 that California's Aliveas Adobe really is haunted. 15 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 That's absolute evidence of life after death. 16 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,000 The ancient Hawaiians believed they could predict natural disasters. 17 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Has this man uncovered their secrets? 18 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 And the recent discoveries of life on Mars 19 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 turn speculation to fact. 20 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:24,000 MUSIC 21 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White. 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,000 When Captain Thomas Mantell's P-51 fighter plane 23 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,000 dropped out of the sky on 7th of January, 1948, 24 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,000 it created a UFO controversy that remains unsolved to this day. 25 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Did Mantell die at the hands of an alien astronaut, 26 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 or was he, as the Air Force contends, 27 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 mistakenly chasing the planet Venus, or a weather balloon? 28 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Well, now, for the first time in nearly a half-century, 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000 key players in the Mantell mystery are about to talk. 30 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:03,000 MUSIC 31 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 No one's ever going to convince me I didn't see it, 32 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,000 because there were too many of us that did. 33 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 At that time, it was... 34 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,000 General Procedure didn't nobody talk about UFOs. 35 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000 MUSIC 36 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 On January 7th, 1948, 37 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,000 high above the bluegrass pastures of rural Kentucky, 38 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 National Guard Captain Thomas Mantell Jr. 39 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 saw a UFO that he considered to be a serious threat 40 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,000 to the security of the United States. 41 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Tower controllers at Godman Field, Fort Knox, 42 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000 saw two and allowed Mantell to pursue the UFO. 43 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000 A decorated war hero, he had survived anti-aircraft fire 44 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 in World War II, but Tommy Mantell would not return 45 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 from this encounter. 46 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 MUSIC 47 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 According to the original Air Force investigation of the crash, 48 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Mantell died not in pursuit of a UFO, 49 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 but while mistakenly chasing the planet Venus. 50 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,000 But now, nearly 50 years later, 51 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 eyewitnesses to Mantell's death are speaking out publicly 52 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 for the first time, and they have a very different story to tell. 53 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000 They describe the object as being very large, 54 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 metallic, round metallic object. 55 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Pilot Herb Kip distinctly remembers hearing the term UFO 56 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000 to describe the object that would take Mantell's life. 57 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:31,000 In 1948, I was a control tower operator at Stanford Field. 58 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 We got a phone call from Godman Tower, 59 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 and he asked if we had any P-51s in the area, 60 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 and I said, what's the problem? 61 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,000 He said, we have a UFO hovering over our airport. 62 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000 And I thought somebody was playing a joke on me or something, 63 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,000 and I kind of snickered a little bit, 64 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 and this other voice came on and said, this is Colonel So-and-So, 65 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 and I'm the base commander. 66 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 And Mr. Kip, this is no drill. 67 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 This thing is hovering right over the airport. 68 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Along with the base commander in the tower at Godman Field that day, 69 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,000 was base intelligence officer Captain James Duesler. 70 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:15,000 The UFO was in the air for four hours, 71 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 and it didn't move, it just stayed there. 72 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 We were looking at something and didn't know what we were looking at. 73 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 At the time of the sighting, 74 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Captain Mantell was leading a squadron of P-51s for the Kentucky National Guard. 75 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Over Godman Field, there was no longer anything routine about this mission. 76 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Mantell was requested to pursue this unidentified flying object. 77 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:44,000 A retired Air Force Reserve captain, Tabor, has researched the Mantell case for 15 years. 78 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,000 One of the pilots in the flight, Al Clements, said to him, 79 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Tommy, you don't have any air, you can't do this. 80 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Mantell replied back, Al, don't worry about it. 81 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 It's not a problem. 82 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 They continue on. 83 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Clements finally caught onto it himself. 84 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 He described it as a large glowing object. 85 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 He said, my two wingmen are coming in. 86 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,000 We want hot guns, and we want them now. 87 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 According to air traffic controller Quentin Blackwell, 88 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Mantell ordered the other planes back to load on live ammunition 89 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 while he continued to climb toward the UFO. 90 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Only this man is still alive to describe what happened next. 91 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,000 He is telling his story for the first time since 1948. 92 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,000 The day of the Mantell crash, I was six years old. 93 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 My mother was taking clothes in off the land. 94 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 She'd been watching a bright light in the sky. 95 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,000 We heard a loud plane, and we saw this fighter plane 96 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 coming in below the bright light. 97 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,000 We got pretty close to it, and all of a sudden we're straight up at it. 98 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 And then when he got all the way to it, he leveled off 99 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 and flew away from it to the west. 100 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Mantell's plane smashed into the ground, going in excess of Mach 1. 101 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Captain Duesler was among the first investigators on the scene. 102 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 As a seasoned intelligence officer, 103 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Duesler had been at many crash sites before, 104 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,000 but this one was extraordinary and deeply disturbing. 105 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,000 There wasn't a drop of blood any place. 106 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,000 I talked to one of the coroner people. 107 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,000 It was odd because there was no blood. 108 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Odd because there was no fire. 109 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,000 I don't ever call seeing a crash like that, 110 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,000 or as serious as that, that didn't have a fire. 111 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000 I never saw his body because the coroner had taken it away. 112 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 No one at the funeral home saw the body. 113 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:42,000 It was in a black leather bag, and then it was sealed inside a lead coffin. 114 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,000 The body was buried on the 10th of January, 1948, 115 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 three days after the accident, certainly a closed coffin funeral. 116 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 But again, we have a question. 117 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Was there even a body in that black leather bag? 118 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 No one saw the remains. 119 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Despite official denials, there is ample evidence 120 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,000 that the Air Force sent a special UFO investigative team 121 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:09,000 from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio to the Mantell crash site. 122 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Sightings has obtained memos indicating that Colonel H.M. McCoy, 123 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 chief of Air Force Intelligence at Wright-Patt, 124 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 and his investigator Al Loading, 125 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,000 were attempting to gather information on the flying disc Mantell was chasing. 126 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,000 One memo contains a transcription of Loading's request for information 127 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 about Captain Doosler. 128 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:35,000 He was the only man assigned to, as he called it, saucer project. 129 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:43,000 He had file case after file case after file case filled with reports. 130 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:49,000 One of the keys to solving this case comes from finding out more information 131 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:54,000 about the Air Force Intelligence team that was sent to investigate this incident, 132 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 who is Mr. Slash Dr. Loading. 133 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,000 One of the intriguing operatives in the early project sign, 134 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,000 which had to do with UFO investigations, 135 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:09,000 was a civilian engineer employed at Wright-Patterson named Alfred Loading. 136 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Alfred Loading was originally part of T3 Engineering Design, 137 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,000 but he was assigned very early in the game in July of 1947 138 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,000 to work on flying discs for the intelligence group. 139 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Michael Swords is a natural sciences professor at Western Michigan University 140 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 and is the editor of the highly regarded Journal of UFO Studies. 141 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 He has uncovered an intriguing link between 142 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Wright-Patterson, the mysterious Mr. Loading, and real-life flying saucers. 143 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,000 Al Loading, for reasons that we don't know, 144 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:52,000 early in July of 1947, designed a flying disc-shaped craft 145 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 which, although he was not allowed to patent it at that time, 146 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,000 ultimately got a patent for in the early 1950s. 147 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:06,000 In 1952, Alfred C. Loading was granted a U.S. patent 148 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,000 for this low aspect ratio aircraft design. 149 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,000 The craft's flying saucer shape raises many intriguing questions. 150 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Was Loading's design a flight of fancy? 151 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Or was he inspired by something he had actually seen 152 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,000 during his tenure in Air Force Intelligence? 153 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,000 If we can answer these questions, if we can find out their background, 154 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:33,000 then we can have a little bit more information that could answer 155 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,000 as to whether this was an extraterrestrial vehicle. 156 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,000 But the solution to the Mantel mystery is unlikely to come 157 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,000 from the one source that probably knows the truth. 158 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 The Air Force explanation that Mantel died from anoxia, 159 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 lack of oxygen while chasing Venus, is contradicted 160 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,000 even in their earlier report, recently obtained by sightings. 161 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,000 In this memo, written just after the crash and dated a decade earlier 162 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,000 than the official report, Venus is ruled out as the UFO Mantel died for 163 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,000 in the sky above his Kentucky home. 164 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 The Mantel case is important for many reasons, 165 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 including one that not many people know about. 166 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:21,000 It was the Mantel case that launched the career of the grandfather of ufology. 167 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 J. Allen Heineck, the originator of the term close encounters, 168 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,000 was a little-known astronomy professor at Ohio State University 169 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,000 when he was called in by the Air Force to consult on the Mantel case. 170 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,000 And the rest, as they say, is history. 171 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Next, in another life, she committed the ultimate act of mercy. 172 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,000 I hit her in the back of the head and killed her. 173 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Recently, sightings brought you the story of Bruce Whittier, 174 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,000 a Nova Scotia farmer who believes he is the reincarnation of a Dutch Jew 175 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 killed during the Holocaust. 176 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Bruce is just one of a number of people now coming forward with similar stories. 177 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:10,000 In this report, we introduce you to an artist whose own odyssey into the phenomenon 178 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 began with a series of strange dreams. 179 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Dreams, she says, that hit her like 5,000 jigsaw puzzles. 180 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000 I didn't know what it was. I didn't know what hit me. 181 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:33,000 It was something incongruous to my life, where I was dreaming of Holocaust 182 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:37,000 and I didn't understand why I was dreaming of Holocaust. 183 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Until the terrifying Nightmares began, Diana Lubarski's life was quite normal. 184 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Married with her first child on the way, Diana's mind was on the future and raising a family. 185 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:54,000 But it was the past that invaded her dreams, beginning shortly after her son was born in 1974. 186 00:11:54,000 --> 00:12:00,000 And despite her limited artistic ability, Diana discovered she consculpt powerful works of art 187 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,000 inspired by her Holocaust dreams. 188 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:11,000 As much as I want to paint, I can't paint. And as much as I want to play the piano, I can't play the piano. 189 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:18,000 But these images come in my head and my hands go on the clay and it's almost effortless. 190 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:27,000 Somehow or another, these thoughts and images and faces just intruded into my mind 191 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 and they were as real as my own life. 192 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:40,000 They are so real, in fact, that Diana has gradually come to believe that she is not merely dreaming 193 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:47,000 but is also remembering real life events from a past life, a life she must now preserve for posterity. 194 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Author and Judaic scholar Rabbi Yonatan Gershum has studied Diana's link to the Holocaust. 195 00:12:52,000 --> 00:13:00,000 When I first saw the photographs of the sculptures that Diana lent to me, I was moved to tears. 196 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:09,000 But that could not compare with how I felt when I actually saw the sculptures in person. 197 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:17,000 She has captured in clay the essence of the Holocaust. 198 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:28,000 They're not skeletons, they're not piles of bodies, but they are very human portrayals of what people might have experienced. 199 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Although Diana is Jewish, she had never been strictly observant 200 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:38,000 and no one was more surprised by the wrenching images she was creating than her family and friends. 201 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:43,000 I know what her life experience is during this life 202 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:49,000 and I know that she wasn't reading books about the Holocaust or looking at photos or anything like that. 203 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 That was not happening. This just came out of her head. 204 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Art work is something beautiful to look at, but only some artwork speaks. 205 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Rabbi Ben Romer was so overwhelmed by Diana's sculptures that he agreed to show them at the Jewish Chapel at West Point. 206 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:16,000 There's a sense of quiet pain. There's a place where you see what children have suffered, but there may be hope for the future. 207 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:21,000 There's a sense of what was, what happened, and what could be. 208 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:27,000 The Gentile world thinks of Judaism only in terms of the Old Testament 209 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:37,000 and is often not aware that we have many stories about prophetic dreams, about visions, about memories of past lives. 210 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:45,000 We do not seek to contact the dead, but it sometimes does happen that through a dream or a vision 211 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,000 someone from the other side may contact us. 212 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:56,000 And when that happens, then we accept that contact as a gift from God. 213 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:05,000 And what began for Diana as random, frightening images eventually came into a sharp and very personal focus. 214 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:13,000 The first images of a family, a husband, wife, son, daughter, very happy. 215 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Time passes. Things have changed. The door slams open. 216 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:28,000 The bestopple comes in and grabs them and throws them out into the street with other people. 217 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Again, time passes. There's a train. It's a cattle car. I don't know what's happening. I'm frightened. 218 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:44,000 And I'm sitting on the ground and I'm with an old man. 219 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:55,000 I believe him to be a rabbi and he holds my hand and he says, whatever happens, you remember this. You remember. 220 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Diana as a young German mother dreamed of telling the rabbi she would always remember. 221 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:08,000 Again, time passes. We're in a pretty awful place. 222 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:17,000 And I was digging in the dirt and I found a rock and I dug it out. 223 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:24,000 I loved my children and my family very dearly. 224 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:32,000 But we were dying. I called my daughter over and told her we would play a game. 225 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:41,000 And with every ounce of strength I had, I hit her in the back of the head and killed her. 226 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:51,000 She would die by my hand, not by anybody else's. 227 00:16:51,000 --> 00:17:01,000 This horrible act of mercy haunts Diana to this day and much of her work tells the story of those last desperate days. 228 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:07,000 This is the family that I believe I was a part of, the father and the mother and the two children. 229 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:18,000 These are the children that I gave the gift of life to and ultimately these are the children that I killed that I gave the gift of freedom and I died with. 230 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:28,000 In a case like Diana Lubarski's, I think what convinces me is the general feel of her presence. 231 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:37,000 I have met many, many Jews who have this strong connection with the Holocaust that goes deeper than history. 232 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:45,000 And the only way that I can describe my reaction is that I see it in their eyes. 233 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:57,000 They have old eyes. They show me somehow on a nonverbal level that they have experienced something from another life. 234 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:07,000 One always hopes that whatever was good and wonderful, spiritually uplifting of those who came before us becomes part of us. 235 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:13,000 How it gets to us, I don't know, but it's there. 236 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Although Diana's dreams have been painful, she believes that there is a reason beyond knowing why she has been chosen to speak for the dead. 237 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:33,000 I think I'm a conduit from another time and another place for a whole bunch of people who died and perhaps didn't know why they died. 238 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:44,000 And I can hear them in my head saying, who will remember me? How will they know that we were ever alive? How will they ever see us? 239 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Nobody in the world will ever know that we were living. 240 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:56,000 And I answer them and I say, I will remember you. 241 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:12,000 While there are many people now coming forward who believe that they are the reincarnated souls of Holocaust victims, 242 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,000 it's important to remember that the horror of the Nazi death camps is not ancient history. 243 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:23,000 There are still thousands of Holocaust survivors alive today and their stories need to be heard also. 244 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Next, leading experts present their best case for the existence of UFOs. 245 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:33,000 And science discovers how the universe might have been seeded with life. 246 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Here are some of the stories Sightings is following in the news. 247 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Last year, the wife of an ambassador went to one of the richest men in the world and asked for money to fund a special investigative report. 248 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Lawrence Rockefeller gave Mrs. Galbraith the money. 249 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 And now the report is in. 250 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:03,000 It's called Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document, the best available evidence. 251 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:16,000 In Brentwood, Maryland, UFO researcher Richard Hall is hopeful that the new briefing document will finally convince world leaders that UFOs are real. 252 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,000 There is a great deal of ignorance about UFO history. 253 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:28,000 So it's important to cut through all the tabloid kind of thing and get down to serious facts with people who can do something about it. 254 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:37,000 The meticulously researched report taps the extensive files of the Center for UFO Studies, the Fund for UFO Research, and the Mutual UFO Network. 255 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:43,000 It is the first cooperative attempt to legitimize UFOs to the world's important decision-makers. 256 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:53,000 The cases were selected on the basis of being well-documented with such things as military intelligence reports. 257 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:57,000 And they were chosen to represent many different countries. 258 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:02,000 The case histories presented here cover the period from World War II to the present. 259 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:09,000 And the document is especially compelling because it relies on highly credible eyewitnesses, including numerous military officers. 260 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:18,000 The best thing that could happen from this project is that world leaders would begin to treat this seriously and band together to get something accomplished. 261 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:23,000 And to do that, you have to get past this business where everybody thinks it's a kooky crackpot subject. 262 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:30,000 This document is not available to the public, but sightings will reveal many of the details included in the report on a future program. 263 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:42,000 On the World Wide Web, the Millennium Matters is the Internet's New Age Manual for the year 2000 and beyond. 264 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Click on icons like this to find links to all topics paranormal, spiritual, and environmental. 265 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:54,000 In Gaia, there are earthquake predictions and seismograms when they happen. 266 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Call up new formation to acquaint yourself with the alien faces of the past, present, and future. 267 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:08,000 And then relax in the sanctuary with verbal remedies, yoga, and the editor's hope a spiritual reawakening. 268 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:22,000 To access the Millennium Matters on the World Wide Web, the address is www.m-m.org.html. 269 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:35,000 In Baltimore, Maryland, at the Hubble Telescope receiving station that has already brought us pictures of black holes and infant stars, 270 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:41,000 new images just in may hold the key to the imponderable. How was our galaxy born? 271 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:53,000 This is a picture of a distant galaxy. It was snapped in 1996, but because the image can only travel at the speed of light, this picture is actually 11 million years old. 272 00:22:53,000 --> 00:23:01,000 Hubble has found 18 giant clumps of stars whose configuration suggests that galaxies are formed from smaller groups of stars and gases, 273 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:06,000 which have been drawn together by gravity into a kind of cosmic kaleidoscope. 274 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,000 This finding brings us one step closer to understanding the birth of our galaxy, 275 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:18,000 but also leads us to wonder what forms of life have developed in this distant place in the past 11 million years. 276 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:26,000 We'll have more stories from the news next time. Now, here's what's coming up on Sightings. 277 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Stories of ghosts haunting this historic California adobe were never substantiated until sightings brought in electronic voice phenomena expert Bart Ellis to listen. 278 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000 In particular, I'd like to hear from a lady in black. 279 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Many paranormal investigators are now moving away from traditional theories about ghosts to study a phenomenon known as residual haunting. 280 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:05,000 This is the belief that certain haunted places, especially historic places, retain energy from the past that continues to replay in the present. 281 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:12,000 Investigators believe this residual energy creates a kind of psychic wound in the environment that never heals. 282 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Sometimes this place is as peaceful and calm as my own living room. 283 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:37,000 I feel very much at home here. Other times I come in and it's ice cold. 284 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:41,000 Sometimes I really feel as if I'm being watched. 285 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:47,000 Sometimes I feel almost like whatever is here doesn't want me here. 286 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Those days I go out to the office and do paperwork. 287 00:24:52,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Richard Sennett is the curator of the Olivas adobe in Ventura, California, one of the oldest surviving ranchers in the West. 288 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:10,000 This adobe and the surrounding 5,000 acres were once the domain of Rimundo Olivas, the patriarch of one of the richest families in California. 289 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:19,000 In 1972, the Olivas adobe was donated to Ventura County and that's when the secret of the adobe began to leak out. 290 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,000 Since 1972 there have been reports of ghosts here. 291 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:31,000 It was at that time that we started to get reports of a woman in black being seen inside the house. 292 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:41,000 First, park crews coming out to cut the grass and maintain the area would report seeing a woman inside the house looking out at them. 293 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,000 And they thought it was someone who had broken in. 294 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 So they would call the police. 295 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:49,000 In fact, they called the police five or six times and they would come inside the house. 296 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000 There would be no one here. 297 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,000 There were many stories about being watched, seeing the woman. 298 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Many of them I got from ex-employees. 299 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:05,000 It seems that for some strange reason after they had an encounter they tend to quit. 300 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Dorothy Wilson is a volunteer docent at the Olivas adobe and a former skeptic. 301 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,000 Here I come out here, a non-believer quite frankly. 302 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,000 And then it happens to me. 303 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Hard to believe, really. 304 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000 It was early morning. 305 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 Dorothy was alone in the adobe. 306 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,000 Suddenly there was a form, the lady in black. 307 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:36,000 The best I can do is draw you a figure like that. 308 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,000 And I don't know whether you could, how did you explain a figure like that? 309 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:46,000 It's almost as if I had a black mantilla on and it covered me almost completely. 310 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,000 Totally in black you understand, with obviously the back toward me. 311 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:55,000 I did a double take, stepped back and looked in the room, whatever it was was gone. 312 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000 Many historic sites are haunted. 313 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000 And I think there's a really logical reason why. 314 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:09,000 They are historic sites because lots of passionate, violent, important things. 315 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,000 Important things happen within those walls. 316 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,000 All these emotions have played out within the walls of the rancho. 317 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,000 The land was granted to Remundo Olivas in 1841. 318 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,000 He brought his bride Teodora here. 319 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 They had 21 children. 320 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,000 Their home was a social and political center until Remundo died. 321 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,000 Greed tore the family apart and the fortune was squandered. 322 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:35,000 In her last years Teodora was destitute and desperately lonely. 323 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Toward the end she was just reduced to a very low state. 324 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 The family fortune was gone. 325 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Finally she passed on. 326 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000 Many believe Teodora is the lady in black. 327 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,000 But there are other women who also suffered and died in this house. 328 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000 I'm drawn into this room. 329 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:01,000 Sightings asks psychic investigator Dr. Susan Stewart to tour the Adobe. 330 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:06,000 I recognize when I came here what people were referring to, the lady in black. 331 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,000 You can see her in your mind's eye. 332 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Oh, alright. 333 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,000 In this mirror you'll be able to see her face. 334 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000 How would you describe the way you see her? 335 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Very wonderful, strong jaw. 336 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:31,000 Beautiful brows coming straight across. 337 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:36,000 Defined face. It's a strong, powerful, attractive face. 338 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,000 It's not actually a spirit. 339 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,000 It's the clairvoyant memory of a spirit. 340 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,000 That essentially means clairvoyant. 341 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,000 French word means clear seeing. 342 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:52,000 What's happening is we are seeing essentially a memory. 343 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,000 We are seeing not what's actually occurring at the time, 344 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:00,000 but what did occur many, many, many times in the past. 345 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:05,000 So it's almost as though it's a piece of video or film that's caught in a loop. 346 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:11,000 Stewart and several other eyewitnesses describe the lady in black as young, perhaps 18 or 19, 347 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:16,000 the same age Teodora's daughter-in-law Maria was when she died in childbirth. 348 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,000 To further determine the possible identity of the lady in black, 349 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:26,000 EVP expert Bart Ellis set up digital recording devices throughout the Oliva Sudovie. 350 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000 EVP is electronic voice phenomena. 351 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:35,000 It's a process of recording paranormal voices. 352 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,000 We are hoping that we can have some of our unseen friends, 353 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,000 and we know for a fact that it is a legitimate, valid phenomena. 354 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:49,000 And it's one of the very few phenomena in psychic research that can be validated. 355 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,000 I'd like to know who it is that's in this house. 356 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,000 Who is it that's in this house? Can you identify yourself for us? 357 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Under scientifically controlled conditions and with new factory sealed blank audio tape, 358 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:08,000 recordings were made throughout the house, with particular attention paid to three hot spots. 359 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:13,000 The sewing room, the children's room, and the master bedroom. 360 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:18,000 Several hours of tape were recorded in what seemed like complete silence. 361 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:25,000 The recordings were played back in a sound studio, and tape after tape revealed nothing. 362 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:30,000 Then one sound on one of the final tapes spoke to Bart Ellis. 363 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000 Right there. Hear that? Hello. 364 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,000 Let's take a look. 365 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:34,000 TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP T 366 00:31:34,000 --> 00:32:04,000 TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP T 367 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:25,120 TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP S F h thought 368 00:32:25,140 --> 00:32:25,520 Shoulder 369 00:32:26,820 --> 00:32:27,680 Some of 370 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,140 and the best seismologist in the country. 371 00:32:30,140 --> 00:32:32,980 The USGS doesn't even come close to predicting earthquakes 372 00:32:32,980 --> 00:32:38,020 as accurately as one high school science teacher in Hawaii. 373 00:32:38,020 --> 00:32:42,520 MUSIC 374 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:50,000 MUSIC 375 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,040 Whether the heavens weep and the earth will grow, 376 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,480 the earth will quake, the earth will vibrate, 377 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,980 the earth will move, and life will begin again. 378 00:33:00,980 --> 00:33:03,320 After more than 1,000 years here, 379 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,680 native Hawaiians believe that they have learned 380 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,820 to hear the earth when she speaks 381 00:33:07,820 --> 00:33:10,760 and to watch the skies for what will come. 382 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,000 Folklore tells of priests who knew when the rain would fall, 383 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,760 the wind would blow, and the earth would shake. 384 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,460 They have what we call hua ilona, 385 00:33:19,460 --> 00:33:25,340 omens, importance, and many of our priests and our elders 386 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,040 would look and see these symbols in the skies. 387 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,400 MUSIC 388 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,440 On Oahu at Damian Memorial High School, 389 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,440 ancient tales of accurate predictions of earth changes 390 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,240 captivated high school teacher and religion chairman Mike Lee. 391 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,480 For fun, he began to see if he could develop 392 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,520 a scientific prediction method based on the old ways 393 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:51,020 of the Hawaiian priests, the kahunas. 394 00:33:51,020 --> 00:33:55,020 The ancient Hawaiians believed that a pillet, 395 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,640 the fire goddess, was able to cause earthquakes 396 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,880 through volcanic eruptions. 397 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,620 When Lee learned that Paley's sacred name translates 398 00:34:03,620 --> 00:34:07,320 as the moon in the flames, he used a simple computer program 399 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,360 to search for connections between the moon and earthquakes. 400 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,920 I can take advantage point from the moon 401 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:18,360 and see where the earth is at a particular time in history. 402 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,140 At first, the connection just wasn't there. 403 00:34:21,140 --> 00:34:22,700 There had to be more to the ancient method 404 00:34:22,700 --> 00:34:24,340 than plotting the position of the moon 405 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:25,860 in relation to the earth. 406 00:34:25,860 --> 00:34:28,360 There had to be something Lee was missing. 407 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:33,040 I was looking at the data, and I wanted to piece together 408 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,840 how did the ancient Hawaiian priests actually 409 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,640 predict earthquakes months in advance. 410 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:43,040 He went back to Paley's name, the moon in the flames, 411 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,640 and wondered if perhaps the ancients 412 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,680 might be referring to the orange cast 413 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,400 the moon takes on during a lunar eclipse. 414 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,000 Paley, the volcano goddess, is seen in the sky 415 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,980 during a lunar eclipse. 416 00:34:54,980 --> 00:34:57,780 And the Hawaiians had the theory 417 00:34:57,780 --> 00:35:02,300 that whenever a lunar or a solar eclipse took place, 418 00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:05,860 regular patterns of earthquakes would follow. 419 00:35:05,860 --> 00:35:08,100 Lee studied what was happening in the sky 420 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:10,660 during famous volcanic eruptions and earthquakes 421 00:35:10,660 --> 00:35:13,300 of the past, and was startled to discover 422 00:35:13,300 --> 00:35:16,060 a definite pattern between earth changes 423 00:35:16,060 --> 00:35:18,540 and both lunar and solar eclipses. 424 00:35:18,540 --> 00:35:23,840 On February 26, 1979, we have a solar eclipse taking place 425 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,960 over the Pacific Northwest. 426 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,400 15 months later, we have the eruption 427 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,600 in May of Mount St. Helens in 1980. 428 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,560 And what we see here is the shadow 429 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,080 moving from the Pacific Ocean right over Mexico City. 430 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:43,200 16 months later, we have almost an eight point earthquake 431 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,040 in Mexico City. 432 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,000 Using a theory based on a thousand year old method 433 00:35:48,020 --> 00:35:50,500 and his own modern formula, Lee began 434 00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:52,900 to see if he could predict future earthquakes the way he 435 00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:55,300 had charted historic ones. 436 00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:57,980 Class, I'm going to show you something pretty exciting. 437 00:35:57,980 --> 00:36:00,780 One day he came up and he says that he's finally got it, 438 00:36:00,780 --> 00:36:02,820 and you're reaching down, dates on the board. 439 00:36:02,820 --> 00:36:05,820 I'm going to predict an earthquake May 5, which 440 00:36:05,820 --> 00:36:08,860 is a Friday, 1995. 441 00:36:08,860 --> 00:36:12,500 In 1995, in front of a small group of amused students, 442 00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:14,860 Lee predicted that there would be a quake near Helens 443 00:36:14,860 --> 00:36:15,900 in two weeks. 444 00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:18,160 I pretty much felt like that it was, you know, 445 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:23,680 I try it in a reach at something that was unreachable. 446 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,680 But the snickering stopped when an earthquake hit the big island 447 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,320 within one week of Lee's prediction. 448 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,760 My reaction to it was, I believe something 449 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,200 that should not be believed. 450 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,840 Since then, Lee has continued to predict the times, locations, 451 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,560 and magnitudes of earthquakes worldwide. 452 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:44,520 And he has an unnerving accuracy rate. 453 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,100 And no one is more astonished than Lee, 454 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:49,460 that the ancient folktales of his childhood 455 00:36:49,460 --> 00:36:52,900 seem to have scientific validity. 456 00:36:52,900 --> 00:36:55,620 The question is, so what's new? 457 00:36:55,620 --> 00:36:56,620 What else is new? 458 00:36:56,620 --> 00:37:01,420 Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh. 459 00:37:01,420 --> 00:37:04,060 John Keola Lake is a teacher and historian 460 00:37:04,060 --> 00:37:06,540 whose chants celebrate the rich cultural gifts 461 00:37:06,540 --> 00:37:08,060 of his ancestors. 462 00:37:08,060 --> 00:37:09,740 Lake believes that Mike Lee is merely 463 00:37:09,740 --> 00:37:13,180 reinventing what the ancient Gahunas knew all along. 464 00:37:13,180 --> 00:37:17,240 They had quite a knowledge on knowing 465 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:19,600 when catastrophes were coming about, 466 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,800 when the next earthquake would come. 467 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,560 Despite the accuracy of Lee's earthquake predictions, 468 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,200 mainstream science has not embraced his metaphysically 469 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:29,400 inspired theory. 470 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,040 How can spirituality exist on the same plane 471 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,680 on as scientific evidence? 472 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:39,160 I think that computers are the modern gods for us today. 473 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,440 We rely on them in the past. 474 00:37:41,460 --> 00:37:43,620 The ancient people relied on their belief system 475 00:37:43,620 --> 00:37:44,580 and their gods. 476 00:37:44,580 --> 00:37:47,100 So convinced, is he, that his method works. 477 00:37:47,100 --> 00:37:50,220 Mike Lee recently wrote to President Fujimori of Peru, 478 00:37:50,220 --> 00:37:52,940 warning him of a potentially life-threatening quake 479 00:37:52,940 --> 00:37:54,140 in that country. 480 00:37:54,140 --> 00:37:57,540 I think if we're going to make any progress 481 00:37:57,540 --> 00:38:00,060 in predicting earthquakes here on Earth, 482 00:38:00,060 --> 00:38:03,260 that we're going to really have to take a serious look at this. 483 00:38:03,260 --> 00:38:05,940 Lee is frustrated by the fact that more experienced 484 00:38:05,940 --> 00:38:09,060 scientists with more powerful computers have largely ignored 485 00:38:09,060 --> 00:38:11,060 his earthquake prediction method. 486 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,280 But for the people of Hawaii, deeply rooted in the Earth 487 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,840 and her mysteries, Lee's predictions are ancient history. 488 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,320 According to the USGS, there was a moderate earthquake 489 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,480 in Peru during the time Michael Lee said 490 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,000 that there would be one. 491 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,280 Lee predicted a 7.2, the actual magnitude was 5.3. 492 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,080 If you're wondering whether it's time to pack up 493 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,760 the China in crystal, you can get Michael Lee's upcoming 494 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:41,000 predictions on the World Wide Web at www.damian.org. 495 00:38:41,060 --> 00:38:46,760 www.edu.html. 496 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,240 Next, the experts speculate on what 497 00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:51,280 happened to the life on Mars. 498 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,280 Living organisms from Mars could very easily get to the Earth. 499 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:56,280 Very easily. 500 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,200 August 7, 1996 will go down in history 501 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,640 as the day NASA told the world what many people said 502 00:39:09,660 --> 00:39:11,500 they already knew. 503 00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:13,940 Breathless with excitement, NASA Chief Dan Golden 504 00:39:13,940 --> 00:39:18,660 declared August 7 the day we opened the door to other worlds. 505 00:39:18,660 --> 00:39:20,700 For the first time, a US government official 506 00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:24,540 was openly admitting the possibility of life on Mars. 507 00:39:24,540 --> 00:39:27,460 And it all started with one little rock. 508 00:39:32,060 --> 00:39:34,580 Antarctica, 1984. 509 00:39:34,580 --> 00:39:37,740 Just after Christmas, a team of American meteorite hunters 510 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:41,000 had no idea that they had just made one of the most exciting 511 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,720 scientific discoveries of the century. 512 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:46,880 The day started out very windy and very cold. 513 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,800 29-year-old Robbie Score, a geologist 514 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,240 from the Meteor Lab at the Johnson Space Center, saw it first. 515 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:56,160 A rock glowing green in a sea of white. 516 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,400 We were on this one ice field, which 517 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,000 was the furthest ice field from the Allen Hills. 518 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,040 There was no scenery. 519 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:05,040 It was basically, you felt like you were out in the frozen 520 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:06,800 ocean. 521 00:40:06,820 --> 00:40:09,100 The team collected nearly 100 meteorites 522 00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:10,340 on their expedition. 523 00:40:10,340 --> 00:40:12,460 But Robbie remembered finding this one. 524 00:40:12,460 --> 00:40:15,380 She found it almost by accident, while the group was out 525 00:40:15,380 --> 00:40:19,980 joyriding on their snowmobiles during a well-deserved break. 526 00:40:19,980 --> 00:40:21,940 It's just really fun, and we were all really excited. 527 00:40:21,940 --> 00:40:25,220 As we were leaving the areas, when we ran into the rock, 528 00:40:25,220 --> 00:40:26,700 it's not so famous. 529 00:40:26,700 --> 00:40:29,020 It sat in a lab for nearly 12 years 530 00:40:29,020 --> 00:40:32,180 before the discovery of something inside the meteorite 531 00:40:32,180 --> 00:40:36,100 propelled this hunk of rock into the headlines. 532 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,040 The topography of Mars, so similar to our own, 533 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,560 with its chinks and fissures, riverbeds and mountains, 534 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,600 has captivated the scientific imagination 535 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,520 for more than 100 years. 536 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,640 At the turn of the century, Percival Lowell 537 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,160 was the first American to suggest that there was life 538 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,400 on our nearest planetary neighbor. 539 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,640 In the 1920s, astronomer David Todd gained worldwide attention 540 00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,600 when he claimed to have successfully recorded 541 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,120 radio signals from Mars. 542 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,840 Since then, many members of the scientific community 543 00:41:05,900 --> 00:41:08,780 have continued to search for irrefutable proof 544 00:41:08,780 --> 00:41:11,900 that life, past or present, may exist on Mars. 545 00:41:11,900 --> 00:41:17,820 Now, some say that proof has a name, meteorite 84001. 546 00:41:17,820 --> 00:41:19,460 Within this innocuous-looking rock 547 00:41:19,460 --> 00:41:23,660 are microscopic structures that look like fossils. 548 00:41:23,660 --> 00:41:26,460 And after analysis of the gases inside it, 549 00:41:26,460 --> 00:41:30,220 the general consensus is that the rock is Martian. 550 00:41:30,220 --> 00:41:33,020 It's pretty certain that these things came from Mars. 551 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:36,480 They're just fingerprints of Mars all over these meteorites. 552 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:40,040 Dr. Michael Carr is a geologist whose work with NASA 553 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,600 and the exploration of Mars began in 1971 554 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,640 with the Mariner 9 mission. 555 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,280 Dr. Carr and his colleagues are convinced 556 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,600 that the Earth is littered with pieces of Mars. 557 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,600 So how did they get to the Earth? 558 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:57,960 Well, it seems pretty certain that these things were ejected 559 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,240 from Mars by a large impact. 560 00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:02,060 All the bodies in the solar system 561 00:42:02,060 --> 00:42:05,220 are being impacted by meteorites all the time. 562 00:42:05,220 --> 00:42:07,660 And there are about 500 that fall on the Earth every day. 563 00:42:07,660 --> 00:42:09,300 So for millions of years, those pieces 564 00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:10,700 orbit around the sun. 565 00:42:10,700 --> 00:42:13,940 And eventually, the Earth hit one of them. 566 00:42:13,940 --> 00:42:18,180 And that piece is what we now find in the laboratory, 567 00:42:18,180 --> 00:42:20,500 seems to contain microscopic fossils 568 00:42:20,500 --> 00:42:22,460 of possible past life on Mars. 569 00:42:22,460 --> 00:42:26,300 These images are at the center of the life on Mars debate. 570 00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:29,100 Structures inside the meteorite that many believe 571 00:42:29,100 --> 00:42:32,160 are the fossil remains of microorganisms. 572 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,720 The possibility that these organisms ever existed on Mars 573 00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:39,240 furthers the provocative theory that life on Earth and Mars 574 00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:42,520 were once evolving simultaneously. 575 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,640 Back in the early days of Mars, Mars 576 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,120 was very similar to the Earth. 577 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,240 And that has led to speculation over the years 578 00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:51,560 that maybe life got started on Mars as well as on the Earth. 579 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:52,680 Yes, it's conceivable. 580 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:57,440 Finding of these meteorites has caused all kinds of speculation. 581 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,060 And so living organisms from Mars 582 00:43:00,060 --> 00:43:03,980 could very easily get to the Earth, very easily. 583 00:43:03,980 --> 00:43:06,060 So yes, life could have started on Mars 584 00:43:06,060 --> 00:43:08,460 and ended up flourishing on Earth. 585 00:43:08,460 --> 00:43:12,820 Could it be that life on Mars has come full circle? 586 00:43:12,820 --> 00:43:14,660 Have we met the Martians? 587 00:43:14,660 --> 00:43:16,860 And are they us? 588 00:43:16,860 --> 00:43:20,260 If it turns out that life evolved independently on Mars, 589 00:43:20,260 --> 00:43:22,300 the implications are tremendous. 590 00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:24,100 And that means to me that the universe ought 591 00:43:24,100 --> 00:43:26,140 to be crawling with life. 592 00:43:26,140 --> 00:43:32,080 Today, rock 84-001 speaks to us across all those millions 593 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,600 of years and millions of miles. 594 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,920 It speaks to the possibility of life. 595 00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,560 If this discovery is confirmed, it 596 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,960 will surely be one of the most stunning insights 597 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:47,240 into our universe that science has ever uncovered. 598 00:43:47,240 --> 00:43:49,760 Its implications are as far-reaching 599 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,760 and awe-inspiring as can be imagined. 600 00:43:52,540 --> 00:43:55,100 Among the only sour notes sounded during the balayhoo 601 00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:57,140 over the Mars rock was one comment 602 00:43:57,140 --> 00:43:59,140 from an unexpected critic. 603 00:43:59,140 --> 00:44:01,700 When asked to comment on the importance of the Mars rock, 604 00:44:01,700 --> 00:44:05,700 Ray Bradbury, author of Martian Chronicles and Lifelong Science 605 00:44:05,700 --> 00:44:09,540 Fiction Visionary, had a simple two-word answer. 606 00:44:09,540 --> 00:44:11,540 Bradbury said, it's stupid. 607 00:44:15,540 --> 00:44:18,180 If you've had a paranormal experience, 608 00:44:18,180 --> 00:44:19,660 please write to us at science. 609 00:44:19,720 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