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A couple driving in New Hampshire encounters the UFO

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and become the first alien abductees

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to make national headlines.

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Barney became terrified, screaming to Betty

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that they had to get out of there,

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or they were going to be captured.

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For the first time on television,

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the story of coworkers taken captive by aliens

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and the secret police recordings of what happened.

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He'd levitating me, and we started going to the craft.

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To be taken forcibly on board a craft, it's terrifying.

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And leading edge science and surgery

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reveals shocking evidence of extraterrestrial implants

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inside of UFO abductees.

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During hypnotic regression, they will describe

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something being put in their bodies.

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Could these implants finally provide the smoking gun proof

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that alien abduction is real?

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Is this real?

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September 19, 1961, upstate New Hampshire,

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just south of Lancaster in the Franconia notch.

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At about 10 PM, Betty and Barney Hill

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are driving home from a vacation in Niagara Falls.

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What they never could have imagined

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was that this drive would lead to one of the most famous cases

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of alien abduction in history.

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The moon was about three quarters full,

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and Betty began to wonder if she was seeing a satellite.

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So she asked Barney to stop so that she could look at this

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thing through binoculars.

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Kathleen Martin is the niece of Betty and Barney,

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and she recalls that night with all the emotion of the story,

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as told to her directly by her aunt and uncle.

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They sat there and continued to watch the UFO

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as it came closer and closer and closer.

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This really sparked her curiosity.

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And then it started bouncing back and forth in the sky

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in a very unusual pattern.

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A UFO skeptic, Barney finds it hard to explain

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the movement of the strange light.

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He also wanted to get home.

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He didn't want to admit that he was wrong,

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that this was an unusual flying object.

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Betty and Barney continue their drive,

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following the unusual light.

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Then a mile north of Lincoln, suddenly,

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the UFO rapidly descends in front of their car.

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They realize it's coming lower, very low,

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so much to the point that Barney stops the car

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and he gets out.

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In fact, Betty was calling after him,

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and he's just like saying, hang on, he goes out there.

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He had the binoculars, and he looked up at that craft.

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And what he saw was what he described

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as looking like a huge pancake.

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There were lights that he could see

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along the front edge of this huge pancake craft.

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And as it descends within 100 feet,

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Barney could see windows in the craft

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where several figures stared back at him.

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Barney became terrified.

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He was looking at one figure staring down at him,

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and he thought that figure had a plan to capture him,

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like, quote, a bug in a net.

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He ran screaming to Betty that they had to get out of there.

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He got into the car and starts speeding down route 3.

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As they race away, the UFO craft follows.

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When Betty looks back, she sees the craft

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following right behind them.

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Then it seems to disappear.

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She thought that the UFO had left the area.

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He told Betty to roll down the window and look up,

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because he thought that it might now be above their vehicle.

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She didn't realize immediately that it was hovering just

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above their vehicle.

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All of a sudden, they felt a tingling sensation

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pass through their bodies.

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The car vibrated, and the next thing they knew,

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there were 35 miles down the highway,

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with no memory of what had occurred in the interim.

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But as they continue to drive, Betty and Barney Hill

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are overcome with a growing uneasy feeling

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that something is terribly wrong.

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By the time the hills arrive home,

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their uneasy feeling turns to shock

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when they realize it's two hours later than they expected.

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Even more disturbing, they have no memory of what happened

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during the two missing hours.

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One of the components of what I investigate

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is what we call missing time.

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And this is exactly what Betty and Barney experienced.

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They were missing two hours.

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And this was something that kind of bothered them.

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We have tens of thousands of these reports.

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And what we find is when there's missing time,

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they haven't fallen asleep on the side of the road.

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Barney immediately went into the home

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and checked his body out.

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He had vague memories of something

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being placed on his body that he didn't like at all.

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Betty discovers her dress is torn in several places,

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but has no memory of how or why.

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I met Betty back in 2002, and she had the dress with her.

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Like, this was something that was very important for her,

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and I got to see it myself.

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And it obviously had different kinds of markings.

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It looked like it was damaged.

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All of that was true.

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The next day, the Hills are reluctant to share

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news of their encounter with anyone.

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Betty and Barney did not want to bring this story

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to the public for several reasons.

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But one of those was that she was white and he was black.

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They didn't want to dwell on the story.

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Black.

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They didn't want to draw attention to themselves.

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They were an interracial couple in an era

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where that was still very unusual.

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We're talking early 1960s here.

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Barney was an active member of the NAACP.

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Betty Hill was a social worker, also very equally active

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and engaged in the community.

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And a lot of people knew them and really respected them.

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So they had everything to lose and nothing

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to gain by putting their story out there.

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Then two days after the incident on September 21st,

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the Hills call P's Air Force Base in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

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to report their encounter.

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And while on the phone, the Air Force actually

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confirms the UFO sightings were noted on the same night

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in radar reports made by two separate aviation facilities.

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Still, over the next few days, the Hills

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continue to wrestle with the feeling

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that a part of their encounter is missing.

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But when those memories began to emerge,

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what they had experienced would prove shocking

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beyond imagination.

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She started to have dreams that seemed too real to be dreams.

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What emerged was that this object actually landed.

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And they were forcibly taken.

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While driving home just south of New Hampshire's Franconia

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Notch, Betty and Barney will encounter a UFO.

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And in following weeks, they begin

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having nightmares about terrifying events that

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may have occurred during two hours of missing drive time.

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This was a five hour drive, and yet it took seven hours.

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So there were two hours of missing time.

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What happened in those two hours?

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That question, of course, gets to the heart

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of the alien abduction mystery.

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In my experience working with these cases

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is that partly it's the subconscious mind blocking

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some of these memories.

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And then bubbling up to the surface eventually.

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And partly it could be the alien beings are programming people

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not to remember.

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Increasingly disturbed by fragmented memories

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of their encounter and recurring nightmares,

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Betty and Barney seek the help of a noted psychiatrist,

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Dr. Benjamin Simon.

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Dr. Simon interviewed Betty and Barney separately and together.

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And then he began six months of separate hypnosis sessions.

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Dr. Simon uses a then revolutionary technique

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known as hypnotic regression, a process by which Betty and Barney

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are put under a trance and then are encouraged to recall memories

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that are not of the same kind of memory

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and then are encouraged to recall memories that are not

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available to the conscious mind.

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When I have a person in hypnotic regression,

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they'll relive this experience.

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Men and women will go through what they went through back then,

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the trauma, the fear, their crying.

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In sessions lasting over six months,

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Dr. Simon uncovers shocking facts about the first ever

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modern account of an alien abduction.

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Audio recordings of hypnosis sessions never before heard

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on national television reveal the frightening moment

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when Betty and Barney are taken.

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And then I hold over to the side of the road

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and I look forward to sky.

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Looks like a big pancake.

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I drive and Betty is still looking and she says,

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Barney, it's still following us.

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What do they want?

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I believe this is a fine process.

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I can see it's tilted toward me.

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All right.

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Betty Hill told me she resisted.

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She described it to me as almost like getting in a fistfight

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with these entities, whatever they were.

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She became terrified when they tried to take her

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and she fought for her life.

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It was very frightening because they

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saw these beings approach the car and they took them out

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of the car and led them into the craft.

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I have been told to keep my eyes closed.

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They took me and carried me.

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And my feet are not bumping on the rocks.

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I am going up.

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It's slight incline.

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I'm afraid to open my eyes.

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According to their own words, once inside the craft,

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Betty and Barney are taken to separate sterile environments.

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They are placed on tables where extraterrestrials begin

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to examine them.

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First, they wanted to remove her dress,

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but they didn't know how to operate a zipper.

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They tried to pull it apart.

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It tore the stitching and it tore the thick zipper fabric.

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Did you feel you were going to be operating on me?

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I was laying on the table.

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I thought if I keep real quiet, I won't be harmed.

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They examined their hands, their feet, their joints,

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and they seemed to do a test of their nervous systems.

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They seemed to be counting his vertebrae

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as they would push on his spine with something.

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For Betty, she believed it was part of her neurological test,

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so they underwent the same type of examination separately.

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This creature is telling me something like a day tale

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to keep my eyes closed and open.

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And there will be the eyes of people.

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Oh, my God, give me a breath.

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All right.

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Oh, God.

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Why is this?

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Holy, God, I'm a thousand less God.

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It's my God.

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Give me a breath.

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I've got to get away.

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At the end of Betty's examination,

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the examiner produced a very large needle,

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and he plunged the needle into her navel,

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causing so much trauma, so much pain

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that Dr. Simon had to end the session early.

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Betty and Barney's sessions are incredibly disturbing,

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and yet their stories are remarkably similar.

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Whatever happened to Betty and Barney's health,

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they believe that it happened, and they are reporting it

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as accurately and truthfully as they know how.

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Now, Dr. Benjamin Simon, he didn't go so far as to say,

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it's real, and they've been on a spaceship,

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but his point was they believe that it's real,

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and they've been on a spaceship.

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After six months of hypnosis therapy,

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Betty and Barney believe they've uncovered the truth

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about their close encounter.

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In time, they accept what happened

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and move on with their lives.

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Betty and Barney decided to tell the family, close friends,

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and they spoke to scientists and UFO investigators

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who were interested.

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They also spoke to the Air Force,

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and they made a Project Blue Book report.

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The Hills Encounter becomes the first widely publicized

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credible report of alien abduction in history.

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Coming up...

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I noticed some blue lights coming across.

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We stood up, looked around, and the door on the craft

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had just slid open.

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Years after Betty and Barney's UFO encountered,

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two coworkers experienced a landmark case of abduction

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that is the most compelling and horrifying of all.

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7C Design, 3, 4...

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What is this?

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What is this?

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What is this?

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The alleged abduction of Betty and Barney Hill

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is an extraordinary case made all the more credible

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because it involved more than one person,

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even though details were recalled only while under hypnosis.

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The story of Betty and Barney's death

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was told by the late Dr.

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Hill's were recalled only while under hypnosis.

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But what about a shocking case where coworkers remained

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conscious and able to recall their entire terrifying experience?

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October 11, 1973, Pascagoula, Mississippi.

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It's 6 p.m. when 42-year-old Charlie Hickson

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and 19-year-old Calvin Parker get off work.

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The men are looking for a spot to go fishing

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here along the west bank of the Pascagoula River.

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Only a teenager at the time,

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it would take Calvin nearly 50 years to finally come to terms

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with what happened that October night.

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And for the first time ever on national television,

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Calvin Parker shares the story of what he wishes never happened.

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Well, October 11, I remembered the rest of my life.

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So we had got up and I'd seen the trespassing signs

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and I had told Charlie,

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I don't think we need to fish here.

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They got no trespassing.

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And he said, oh, don't worry about it, son.

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I'll fish here all the time.

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We got set on him.

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And I remember sitting on up here and casting out.

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It's a clear night and the moon is already out

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as the two men drop their lines in the water.

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Then something very strange begins to happen.

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I noticed some blue lights coming across.

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And that was the same color lights, hazy blue lights

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that the police department always had.

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I just knew we was going to get took to jail and run off.

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And I stood up and turned around.

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The door on the craft had just slid open.

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And that's when I seen the bright lights.

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And I couldn't figure out what was going on.

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I actually felt to myself the shining spotlight on us.

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In a tape recording made later that evening

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with the local sheriff, Charlie Hixon,

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who has since passed away, describes the scene.

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It was so bright, it was blinding.

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We couldn't see nothing until it got right up on me.

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And then I seen it was something not from this world.

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And that's when I knew I was scared and needed the place to go.

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The craft, I would say, was from 80 to 100 foot long.

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It was probably 8 feet long.

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I was scared and I was scared and I was scared.

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It was 100 foot long.

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It was probably 8 foot tall.

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It wasn't very tall.

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And it kind of shaped Iblon like a football.

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And I remember two windows being in the front of the craft like that.

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The description of the craft is really interesting.

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This oval, almost tear drop shaped craft.

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This is not a shape that I recognize from a science fiction film.

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This is not even something that I've really seen in the UFO literature.

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If these people had been making this story up,

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you would have expected them to have sourced it

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from something that's been seen before.

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Disoriented by the craft's piercing lights,

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Calvin Parker and Charlie Hixon are feeling trapped.

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And the lights was coming from inside that craft.

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And that blinded us from seeing what was going on.

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But what had happened when we got to where we could see,

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it was three robotic looking beams that was coming toward us.

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And all of a sudden, three of these floated out of the ground.

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You know what you're asking about?

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The rhythm moves out.

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No things fly to the earth in any way.

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And the ground made a little buzzing all over.

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And by then I was scared. I didn't know anything.

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These illustrations of the creatures are based on descriptions from Parker and Hixon.

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They looked very unusual.

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And to me, there is no other case in UFO history

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where the beings looked quite like this.

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They had wrinkled skin like kind of on an elephant.

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Gray wrinkled skin.

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I couldn't tell if it had clothes on or anything like that.

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They had a move like robotic looking move, you know?

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The idea that biological life forms wouldn't be able to transverse space

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but would send robots to do that is becoming much more accepted.

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And yet, back in 1973, Parker and Hixon said that's what they encountered.

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I know that one gotta hold a man, two of them gotta hold a m.

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He's levitating me and we started going to the craft, to the front door of it.

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Once inside the craft, Hixon and Parker are sedated.

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And they laid me on an examination table.

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I was looking in and rolling my eyes. I couldn't move my head

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because I was able to see and I was conscious of my hearing, my sight, my smelling.

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But I wasn't able to turn my head.

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All I could do was just look whichever direction they pointed me.

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And the light just appeared to illuminate out of walls.

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You couldn't see any light fixtures or anything.

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And it was still bright.

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Coming up.

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While they were in the police station, the officer on duty secretly recorded their conversation.

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I'm gonna shoot them.

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These guys were 100% telling the truth.

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While fishing along the Pascagoula River in Mississippi, Charlie Hixon and Calvin Parker

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claimed to have been abducted by alien creatures and taken into an alien spacecraft.

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To be taken forcibly on a craft against your own will and to be subjected to strange experiments

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is one of the most terrifying things anybody would have to deal with.

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As Parker lies scared and immobilized on a table, extraterrestrial androids begin their examination.

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That's when the old big ugly creature, and I describe it as a grayish looking mechanical robotic looking creature.

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I couldn't tell if it had only any space suit.

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He stepped back and when he did, there was another feminine. I call this a female.

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Parker describes the two gray droids as having crab-like claws, but the feminine humanoid has five finger-like talons.

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Then she took a finger and run it down my throat and tried to come up through my nasal cavities.

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And that's when I started trying to come back too.

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You know, I wanted to beat her to death because that was painful.

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In fact, the pain is so unbearable that Parker thinks the alien is going to kill him.

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And all of a sudden, I wore a white t-shirt at the time. It was already blood running down.

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And she backed up out of the way and then the old big ugly one come in.

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The one that was mechanical looking and I think he was a soldier.

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And they mumbled and he grabbed me by the arm and it must have injected something into it again because I got relaxed all at one time again.

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Then right away, the droid soldier lifts Parker in his claws and moves toward the door.

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That's when he picked us up and took us back out to the river about exactly the same spot.

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That's the first time I had heard Charlie or even seen him.

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And I looked and this thing, the lights went off and it picked up off the ground a little bit and it just shot straight up into the air and disappeared.

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Later that night, Parker and Hickson do something extraordinary.

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For the first time in history, UFO abductees go immediately to the police after the encounter to file a report.

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Thus creating an almost real-time record of their experience.

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Parker is taken into one room for questioning, Hickson is taken into another and interviewed by Sheriff Fred Diamond.

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The Hickson Parker case from 1973 is extremely interesting.

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What I think makes the case extremely credible is the evidence that we have of a secret recording that was done after the interview.

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After being questioned separately, the men are brought into a third room and left alone together.

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Unknown to them, there is a hidden microphone.

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While they were in the police station, the officer on duty, this is a very interesting thing he did, he said, I'm going to leave the room for a minute.

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And he secretly left a tape recorder going to record their conversation because I think he was suspicious like were they making something up or not.

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This is the actual conversation between Calvin Parker and Charlie Hickson.

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Here we go, here I read the, not that I found, not that I found that there was a person on the phone.

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And I read the transcript of when they were having a conversation with each other and Calvin was just, you know, he was out of his mind with fear.

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And I think he had a pretty hard time for a while after his experience.

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Maybe that's the answer to this, but go down.

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The secret audio tape made without their knowledge confirms for Uevo researchers the credibility of Parker and Hickson's encounter.

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Calvin Parker had only just arrived in Pascagoula and this was his first day at work and this got him fired.

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So who is going to put themselves in that situation? It seems impossible to believe.

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And what you really get from the recording is that these guys were 100% telling the truth.

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Like they were in a state of bewilderment and fear over what they had experienced.

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Skeptics can just say some people want attention or it's sleep paralysis or it's some kind of fantasy.

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But the problem is like that's almost never the reason. That's almost never what's going on.

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According to recently uncovered evidence, Hickson and Parker report the incident to nearby Keisler Air Force Base the very next day.

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And in a stunning revelation, the official transcript notes that two additional people corroborated their story by reporting a UFO at approximately the same time.

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One of them was a Pascagoula law enforcement officer.

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Later that week, Pascagoula becomes the center of an international media frenzy and in the weeks that follow, Calvin Parker is eventually hospitalized for an emotional breakdown.

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38 years later in 2011, Charles Hickson dies at age 80 having never changed any details of his story.

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And neither has Calvin Parker.

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The reason I want everybody to know now is my family, my friends and the general public that lives around me that won't think I'm crazy for a neighbor.

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For UFO researchers, the abduction of Calvin and Charles who remain conscious during their ordeal and reported it to police,

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built powerfully on the evidence that abductions were real.

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As first established by the hypnosis revelations of Betty and Barney Hill, but as compelling as these cases are,

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could it be that we've finally uncovered the smoking gun evidence that proves these stories once and for all?

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Coming up.

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Dr. Roger Lear claims that alien abductees had been implanted with small devices.

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The cocoons were in fact impossible to be inside the body.

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For UFO researchers, first person accounts of alien abduction offered compelling evidence that these harrowing stories were true.

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But what they lacked was smoking gun proof of extraterrestrial involvement, or at least they did until 1995.

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That's when Daryl Sims, a leading expert on alien abduction, is approached by a woman named Patricia, who claims that she too had been the victim of an alien abduction.

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Patricia told me about a remarkable experience with her family and herself involving a UFO and apparently missing time or contact as some people refer to it.

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In an exclusive first-hand account, Daryl Sims shares what he's been doing to bring these stories to the public.

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Patricia had a splinter in her foot and her doctor said, well, let's just take an x-ray and just make sure everything's okay.

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He took an x-ray and he came back puzzled and he said, when did you get the surgical clips in your feet?

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And she said, what are you talking about? What's surgical clips?

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And he said, well, it looks like you've had an osteotomy. They put surgical clips in your feet.

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And she said, I've never had a surgery in my entire life.

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To solve the mystery, Sims flies with Patricia to California to see a specialist.

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Dr. Roger Lear was a podiatrist, a foot and ankle surgeon who specialized in looking into claims that some of these alien abductees had been implanted with small devices of some kind.

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After examining Patricia, Dr. Lear agrees to perform exploratory surgery. In short order, he locates and removes a foreign object from her foot.

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Surprisingly, he finds the hard object surrounded by a biological cocoon of tissue.

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The biological tissue, yes, will eventually be removed and then it'll be sent in for separate analysis. That's before we get to the metal.

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Later that same day, Dr. Lear removes a second foreign object from another patient.

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The people that Roger Lear dealt with were people who came to him because they had the strong feeling that they'd had an alien abduction experience.

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Again, Dr. Lear finds a foreign object surrounded by a similar strange cocoon.

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When you look at the objects on X-ray, all you see is metal objects inside the body next to the bone.

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When we surgically opened these people up, we didn't see the metal at all. It was hidden inside these cocoons of each of these two people.

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So we took the objects to the pathologist and to his shock and amazement, the cocoons were in fact cocooned of a material that he said was impossible to be inside the body.

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He said, this is a keratinous material. I said, what does that mean? He said keratin is your fingernails, your surface skin, your hair. It doesn't exist inside the body next to bone.

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So that's our first hint that in fact there may be something alien related here.

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Going deeper for answers, Dr. Lear turns to Steve Colburn, a chemist and material scientist, to conduct further tests.

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This is one of the implants at 10 times magnification after it was removed from the body before any dissection of the skin layer had been done.

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And you can see that dark area, that's the metallic core underneath.

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For Colburn, the objects are clearly very strange.

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There's no inflammation around the objects and that's almost unheard of. There's nerves growing into the devices and that's very unusual.

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According to Colburn, a connection between the object and the human nervous system indicates a sophisticated interface between the implant and its recipient.

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But that's not all. Once the metallic core is exposed to air, it soon turns reddish in color.

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I decided to compare it to an actual meteorite. You can see from these pictures how similar they are in tone and color and general appearance.

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We found out that the metallic core was made of meteoric iron. That was one of the most unusual things about it and really stood out.

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Could the implant really be made of iron from outer space?

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For Darryl Sims, Colburn's incredible analysis leads to an intriguing opportunity to double check the results.

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I was contacted by the National Institute for Discovery Science and I went before 18 scientists.

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Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, the National Institute for Discovery Science was a privately financed research group founded by Bob Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace.

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And according to the New York Times Breaking News on December 16, 2017, Bob Bigelow had been working with the Pentagon's secret UFO research project.

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So Bob Bigelow had the object sent off to Los Alamos Labs. They found 11 different elements did not belong on this particular metal.

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So I said, what's so unusual about the metal? Well, the metal is from a rare meteorite.

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Los Alamos was so stunned with the study they shipped them off to New Mexico Tech for further evaluation.

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New Mexico Tech found some of the metal to be as hard as the hardest steel known to man and other parts of the metal to be soft carbon and magnetic.

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What they found specifically in the metal object retrieved from these people was that the metal was off-world.

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An off-world metal implanted in humans? What could possibly account for the stunning conclusion?

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What the scientists found is that these metal objects found inside these people were extraterrestrial in origin. They obviously came from outer space.

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For UFO researchers, leading edge scientific scrutiny finally offers physical proof that alien technology is being implanted into the bodies of UFO abductees.

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Coming up, an even closer look reveals how these implants may be influencing the human mind.

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According to UFO researchers, off-world metals surgically removed by Dr. Roger Lear provides physical evidence that aliens placed implants into the bodies of UFO abductees.

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There have been a number of these that have been extracted from people. The real question to get into is why this happens.

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But UFO researchers believe that there is an alien implant phenomenon.

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After receiving implant specimens from Dr. Lear, scientist Steve Colburn begins his groundbreaking analysis.

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Viewed with an electron microscope at nearly 75,000 times magnification, the results are nothing short of stunning.

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The shot on the left is a shot of the metallic core of the object.

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The picture on the right is a little bit higher magnification shot of what looks like a carbon nanotube wire that might be one of the main connections to the device.

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That is a view of fibers that were found inside the object. They turned out to be carbon nanotubes.

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Artificially engineered, carbon nanotubes consist of a single atomic layer of carbon atoms rolled into a tube, measuring only a billionth of a meter in diameter.

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Thought of as beyond cutting-edge technology, carbon nanotubes provide for extreme electrical conductivity and super-efficient transmission of electrons.

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They can also boost energy storage by a factor of 10,000.

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Nanotechnology is the science of building machines at the molecular level. We're only just beginning to experiment with this technology.

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If this is nanotechnology and if these devices are turning up inside of people who claim to have had alien abduction experiences, what's going on?

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Upon further investigation, what Steve Coburn finds shakes him to his core.

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Something in the device acts as an antenna to allow it to broadcast radio waves.

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And any small object that is emitting radio signals has to be something that's a device rather than just an inert piece of material.

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I think there's a very good case to be made that they're tracking devices.

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These objects do emit an RF frequency that would presumably be useful to find someone.

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It could be like an RFID chip in a sense where you can store certain amount of information on it, like your medical record in history type of thing.

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If some of these implants could indeed be used to not just track but maybe influence, who knows?

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For UFO investigators, Coburn's astonishing findings are persuasive evidence.

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I look at all the evidence together. I think it's proof positive that someone is coming here from beyond Earth and putting these objects in people.

494
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If ever there was hard evidence that these UFO encounters, these alien abduction claims are real, then it's the implants.

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For somebody like Dr. Roger Lear to conduct these surgeries and remove these objects, I think really takes the whole story to a different level.

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This could be the smoking gun.

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Could the evidence of alien implants really be undeniable proof that we are being visited by extraterrestrials?

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And might this also confirm that alien abduction is real?

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No one really knows the exact amount of how many contact events happen, but we have government as well as some anecdotal evidence that suggests to us that it's in the thousands every year.

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Having been in the CIA for a two-year period in covert operations, I absolutely do know that there in fact is a quote-unquote alien program ongoing.

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Overwhelming evidence continues to mount that stories of alien abduction are real, from terrifying memories of being taken, revealed by hypnosis,

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to gripping accounts of fully conscious abduction reported to police.

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To smoking gun evidence of alien implants in UFO abductees.

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But proving the truth of these stories still leaves unanswered the most unsettling questions of all.

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Why have they come for us and what are their intentions?