1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,840 On a previous edition of Sightings, we brought you the story of three women in Israel, all 2 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:12,720 of whom claimed to have had contact with an extraterrestrial being. 3 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:17,240 Sightings investigated evidence at the scene, including crop circles and mysterious silicon 4 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:18,640 shards. 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,920 And the investigative team learned that this was not the only case in which physical evidence 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:33,080 could be found after a UFO sighting in the Holy Land. 7 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:38,640 In the annals of modern UFO hot spots, Israel has been a blank page. 8 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:46,000 When I researched my book, the only public mention of UFOs that I found were from 1952, 9 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,560 from Haifa, there were two sightings. 10 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:53,080 That is all I could find until Shikmona. 11 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:57,440 Mary Chameish is an author and journalist who has written about a recent rash of UFO 12 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:03,480 sightings and encounters that began suddenly in 1987. 13 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,120 This is on the evening of Rosh Hashanah in 1987. 14 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:14,840 Ami Akra'i is returning home from Tel Aviv, this home in Kiryat Bialik near Haifa. 15 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,560 There is a beach called Shikmona just before the safe hyphen. 16 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:26,600 He sees a red object fly into the air, hover, dip. 17 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:31,160 Underneath there was a red glowing spot about one and a half meters in diameter. 18 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:36,640 There were immense flashlights and there was a very loud noise of whirlpool as if a helicopter 19 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,600 was going to crash. 20 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:45,120 He stops his car, gets out of the car, sees the object return and there is a huge flash. 21 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:46,120 It suddenly disappeared. 22 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:53,680 Only a big red spot remained and in a second it leaped into the sky and vanished. 23 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,960 Ami was shaken by the inexplicable UFO encounter. 24 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,280 He tried to put it behind him to dismiss it as an asteroid or a comet, but something 25 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:08,080 drew him back to the scene and in the daylight he found concrete remnants of his experience. 26 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:15,400 An intense heat burning sand and vegetation in the shape of a UFO. 27 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:22,640 Inscribed in the right hand corner, a clear cut picture of an astronaut in front of a 28 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:23,640 dashboard. 29 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:27,960 Not only was there an indelible image in the sand, testing that the site revealed the 30 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,920 ground itself had taken on unusual properties. 31 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:38,960 The land was 671 percent more magnetic than usual land. 32 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:43,200 At the request of sightings, soil samples were taken from the scorched earth at Shikmona 33 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,760 beach for a detailed analysis by biophysicist W.C. Levengood. 34 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,600 His findings confirmed that the ground had new characteristics. 35 00:02:51,600 --> 00:03:02,320 Levengood was astounded by the tremendous change in the ratios of the elements. 36 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:11,120 For example, ordinary sink was increased 104 times, whereas other elements weren't 37 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,720 stayed absolutely the same. 38 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,520 But that finding paled in comparison to what Dr. Levengood found while he was preparing 39 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:23,160 to take a photo micrograph of the soil sample. 40 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:30,800 As I was adjusting the camera to get the photograph, to my astonishment the soil appeared to be 41 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,000 melting. 42 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:39,640 What I found here was that there was a coating on the soil of a very low-melting material. 43 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:45,080 I have consulted with a geophysicist and there is no explanation. 44 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:46,680 This does not occur in nature. 45 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:52,520 There is no natural way that this amount of hydrocarbon would be on the soil. 46 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,480 Five months after the Shikmona beach sighting, just one mile away in the city of Haifa, Rosetta 47 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:01,560 Calfon and her family spotted bizarre lights in the sky. 48 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,600 They were able to film the UFO with a home movie camera. 49 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,960 We were chatting and suddenly my sister looked up towards the window and saw a glittering 50 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:10,960 light in the air. 51 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,960 I got up quickly and we both rushed over to the window. 52 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:15,960 I told her, do you know what that is? 53 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,960 That is a UFO. 54 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:22,960 The light was golden, like nothing I've ever seen in my life. 55 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,960 A real light beam radiating out from it. 56 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,960 It was shocking, truly shocking. 57 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:34,040 There was a UFO that stayed there 17 minutes over the sea and then disappeared very quickly 58 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:35,960 until it became small as a star. 59 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,960 You see windows and this is possibly the most outstanding feature. 60 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:45,400 And certainly in the film you'll see that at the beginning Rafi Malka is clever enough 61 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:46,400 to get background. 62 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:52,120 There is no mistaking this as part of the features of the hill or the Haifa area. 63 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,720 It's not a natural feature, it's certainly dangling in the air. 64 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,840 It moves, it has lights and it was witnessed by experts. 65 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:04,240 I believe that it was tremendously documented, UFO. 66 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:10,360 Two years later, in 1991, Yossi Ben-Mahas was leaving his real estate business in Haifa 67 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,520 for his home in nearby Beit Shon. 68 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:21,920 Suddenly out of nowhere he was nearly blinded by a brilliant shaft of light. 69 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:23,920 There was a huge sheet of light. 70 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:25,520 It was right before my eyes. 71 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,120 It was spectacular. 72 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,840 It was a very calming light but I was afraid it would go to Beit Shon where my friends 73 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:33,200 and family are. 74 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:38,960 So all of a sudden it changes course as if it was reading my mind, a kind of telepathy 75 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,440 between us. 76 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,240 Yossi immediately called the Beit Shon police department. 77 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:46,240 Chief of police. 78 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:54,080 Yizkak Mordechai is awoken at three in the morning, goes outside, sees an enormous object 79 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:55,080 in the air. 80 00:05:55,080 --> 00:06:00,120 It looked a little bit like a boomerang but it was a shape that I never saw before. 81 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:05,440 It had a unique power in color, a special glow which was very different from anything 82 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:06,440 I saw before. 83 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,480 I didn't know how to react. 84 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:14,160 He radios in the headquarters, calls the air force, says, this is what I got. 85 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,520 They asked for the exact location of the object. 86 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:21,160 I gave them the location and they couldn't find the object on the radar. 87 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:25,560 Because of Beit Shon's close proximity to the Jordanian border, the Israeli defense forces 88 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,920 sent 300 troops into the area to track the undedified craft. 89 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:36,080 It was dragging a convoy of armed men for three hours on a trail up to the Jordanian 90 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,600 border which is a very sensitive place but it seems to know where the Jordanian border 91 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,400 is and heads back. 92 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:46,440 At a quarter to six in the morning, in broad daylight, it disappeared in a flash. 93 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,840 Chameish has developed a controversial theory that these three UFO sightings are part of 94 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:55,240 a pattern dating back to biblical times. 95 00:06:55,240 --> 00:07:02,320 People who have been studying UFOs seriously around the world have reached the consensus 96 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,120 that the Bible is a convincing UFO story. 97 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:11,840 I came to the same conclusion that the Old Testament from the pillar, the cloud that led 98 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:18,520 the Hebrews out of Egypt that glowed at night and stopped the Egyptians all the way through 99 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:24,640 the prophets were in fact UFO related. 100 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:30,000 Chameish also believes that stories of alien abductions in Khadimah as reported previously 101 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:35,240 on sightings are also part of the centuries old pattern. 102 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:41,760 Shikmona, they were announcing in black and white we are here. 103 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:47,480 At Beit Shon they're saying all right now we've got five, six hundred of you seeing us and 104 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,440 you can shoot us if you want. 105 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,520 Khadimah was stage three, we want to meet you. 106 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:59,480 In stage four, according to Chameish, is foretold in a prophetic passage from the Bible. 107 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,320 From Khadim they shall go up to Jerusalem. 108 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:11,120 In other words Khadimah is the next hop towards the revelation of the UFOs in Jerusalem. 109 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,880 The investigation in Israel is ongoing. 110 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:18,760 A sightings team is now following up on late reports of activity in the town of Yatziths 111 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:20,720 on the Mediterranean Sea. 112 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:27,560 The eyewitness there claims that he has evidence of UFO contact in the form of mysterious footprints. 113 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,480 Sightings will bring you more on this story after the investigation is complete.