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During the past five years,

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unsolved mysteries has broadcast a number of stories

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dealing with unidentified flying objects.

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Viewed in retrospect, they chronicle the history

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of UFO sightings in America and Europe.

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Today, most of us take tales of UFO sightings for granted,

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yet the phenomenon was virtually unheard of

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until just after World War II.

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The Genesis of UFO Sightings

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1947, the genesis of UFO sightings

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unfolded in the New Mexico Desert near Roswell Army Air Base.

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Military investigators were called in

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to examine the debris of an unknown aircraft.

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The incident was thoroughly documented and even publicized.

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Incredibly, a few eyewitnesses claim

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that alien light forms are also recovered.

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Ultimately, the authorities denied the entire affair

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and insisted the UFO was nothing more than a downed weather balloon.

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18 years later, in 1965, residents of a small Pennsylvania village

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observed a fiery object streak through the sky then fall to Earth.

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Many witnesses saw an Air Force radar squadron hauling the object away.

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The military dismissed the sighting as a meteorite

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and insisted that nothing was ever recovered.

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Over the next 25 years, reports of close encounters proliferated.

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Many of them on or near military bases.

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One of the most remarkable occurred on December 26, 1980

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at Bentwater's, an American Air Base in England.

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There's definitely something up there.

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The 81st Tactical Fighter Wing

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at the United States Air Force operates out of southeast England.

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In a unique arrangement, the wing is housed on twin bases,

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Woodbridge and Bentwater's.

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The two air bases boarder a three-mile expansive farmland and woods

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known as Rendlesham Forest.

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In 1980, Rendlesham was a site of one of the most extraordinary

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and least publicized events in modern military history.

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Around 2 a.m. on December 26,

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Airman First Class John Burroughs and his partner

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both assigned to Woodbridge Base Security

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were on routine patrol along the base perimeter.

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What the hell's that over there?

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The cheese, I don't know.

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What the hell is that?

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I don't know. I've never seen anything like it before.

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It's out in the middle of the woods.

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Now come on, let's go back to this guard station.

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Call the sergeant to see what he wants to do.

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There was definitely something out in the woods.

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It seemed like to me like a mass of light show.

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I was thinking, who would come out in the middle of the woods

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outside an air force base and make a Christmas display?

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I was nervous. He was nervous.

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We didn't know what to expect, and we decided at that point in time

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we'd better get back and let somebody know what's going on

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in case something did happen.

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Burroughs notified his immediate superior

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from a nearby sentry post.

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Yeah, we got some kind of weird activity in the woods off the base.

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Hey, John.

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Yeah, sure I can see him from here. Still going on.

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Yeah, look, there's some kind of weird lights in the trees.

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I don't know, they're moving all up and down.

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But, simultaneously, another security patrol arrived.

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They verified the presence of the odd lights.

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He wants three men to go down off base.

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You coming with us? No.

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All right, look, we'll stay in radio contact.

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He's going off base. Leave your weapons.

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Burroughs and the second security team were sent off base to investigate.

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They were ordered to leave their weapons behind

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because they were moving out of American jurisdiction.

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We were intrigued, but we were also very nervous.

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We didn't know what we were getting into.

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We started down on foot towards the lights.

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At the same time, we could hear the animals.

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They're moving.

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We're very upset. You could hear a lot of ruckus.

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At that point, we got a radio transmission.

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They had just gotten contact from Heathrow Tower in London

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that they were going to be able to get in.

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We were going to get in the Heathrow Tower in London

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that an object had been seen over our base

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and then had disappeared on radar.

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Shutting? I can't tell.

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All of a sudden, the clearing there was an object.

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It had a bank of blue lights on it,

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and it was sitting there like strobing.

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It was unbelievable.

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We all hit the ground, and it went up into the trees.

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When it was happening, everything seemed to go slower.

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We seemed to be in, like, I wouldn't say a time warp,

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but, like, everything appeared to be happening slower to us,

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and everything felt different.

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But when it disappeared, it was like everything was normal again.

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The perception of the ground, the air, the sky, the stars,

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the whole nine yards were different.

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Where'd it go?

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For more than two hours, we were in the woods.

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We were in the woods.

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For more than two hours, the three men played an eerie game

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of cat and mouse with a mysterious craft.

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It appeared almost to toy with them.

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It was off the ground and a horizon above the trees,

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and it always stayed out in the distance and a horizon.

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Sometimes it appeared to get closer,

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and we were going to get close to it again, and then we never did.

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The events of that December night

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set in motion a chain reaction

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to the results of the best documented sighting of a UFO

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in American military history.

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The United States Air Force has no official comment

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on the entire incident,

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but tonight the military personnel who actually witnessed the events

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will appear on camera for the first time.

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Just five hours after the sighting,

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John Burroughs reported to his shift commander...

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Spit it out. What did you see?

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Well, sir, after we received permission to continue into the woods,

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we saw some lights, sir, red ones and some white ones.

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And well, sir, they flew up into the trees.

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He basically said, gentlemen, you saw something.

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Heathrow Tower confirms that you saw something.

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And now let's go out into the area

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and see if we can find any physical proof of what happened.

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I was hoping when I got out there that basically I would see nothing.

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There would be no tell-tale evidence that possibly something happened.

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That would make it easier for me,

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because if there's nothing proving that something happened to me,

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you can just kind of check it off.

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But when you get out there and you find damage to the trees,

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depressions in the ground and stuff,

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that makes it even more unexplainable.

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We came up through the woods to this point right about here.

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We saw it hovering.

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Later that same day, Burroughs rendezvoused with a British police officer.

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Together, they explored the site where Burroughs had seen the strange object.

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We were watching it for about 20 minutes.

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Indeed, there were circular impressions in the earth

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directly below the spot where the craft had appeared to hover.

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Was more of a mystery over here?

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Because when I first saw it, I didn't perceive it as something sitting on the ground

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with a tripod-like, a tripod-type thing.

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Now all of a sudden there's physical proof showing that something sat down in that area.

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The British police officer dismissed the circles as a marks of burrowing forest animals.

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Nevertheless, he did order his men to measure the distance between the circles.

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3.4 here too.

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Surprisingly, the three circles were exactly the same distance apart

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and formed a perfect equilateral triangle.

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3.4 as well.

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Early the next morning, Colonel Charles Halt, Deputy Base Commander,

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arrived at Woodbridge Security Headquarters.

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Rumor of the UFO sighting had spread like wildfire.

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What's going on?

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Currently, you're not going to believe this, but Burroughs and the guys were running around the woods last night chasing after UFOs.

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UFOs? What are you talking about?

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Listen, I thought they were yanking me, but the guys saw something.

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They thought an aircraft went down somewhere and looked.

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There were these lights in the woods.

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Why isn't that in the blotter?

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The Lieutenant didn't want me to put that in, sir.

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Is anybody sure it wasn't an aircraft that went down?

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Then put it in the blotter?

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I was very skeptical.

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I found what had allegedly taken place hard to believe, and I was really going to debunk it, quite frankly.

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And as events unfolded, I became more and more concerned that there may be something to this.

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I kept telling myself that there had to be some type of an explanation for it.

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But I certainly couldn't find one, and even to this day, I can't explain what happened.

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Straight back, straight back!

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That evening, unusual lights were spotted once again.

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In response, the base commander ordered large mobile floodlights, devices commonly known as lightalls, to be set up in the woods.

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All right, move it out!

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At 9.30 p.m., Colonel Halt received word that the lightalls were inexplicably malfunctioning.

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I don't know, sir. Craziest damn things I've ever seen. Animals in the forests are acting weird.

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Starlight scope's going bad, radios ain't working, and the lightalls ain't coming up.

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Let's get out there and see what we got.

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This is Colonel Halt's car.

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Base security was immediately ordered to dispatch a second set of lightalls.

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Simultaneously, Colonel Charles Halt, deputy commander of both bases, put together a special investigative team.

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I called the on-duty or standby man a disaster preparedness, and had him get his camera, he was a professional photographer,

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and calibrate several radiac instruments to take along, and we were going to go debunk this.

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By the time Colonel Halt arrived at the site, the second set of lightalls was also malfunctioning.

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What's going on, Sergeant?

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Some of the vehicles weren't working properly, and radio transmissions were limited at best.

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Armed with a Geiger counter, a starlight scoped to enhance night vision, and a tape recorder to record his first impressions,

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Colonel Halt led his team into the woods.

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What you are about to see is based on verbatim transcripts of the tape made that night.

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We're in the center of a triangle.

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It didn't take us long to find what I believe was a landing site of some sort.

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The trees had had branches broken off.

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One of the members of Colonel Halt's team was Sergeant Robert Ball.

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As we looked up, and we had high-power flashlights with us, and we could see branches up to an inch, two inches in diameter,

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which had either been knocked completely off or had been bent downward.

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And it was clean up to the top of the trees.

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We looked at the area through the starlight scope, and it did.

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I'll have to admit, have a dull glow that I couldn't explain.

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So we got the Rediac Instruments out, and we're taking readings.

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And while we were doing this, the police lieutenant said, look, over there.

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Colonel!

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Yes, sir?

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It was a strange glowing object that appeared to be 100, 200 meters away.

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I couldn't explain it.

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Lights out, everybody.

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It was avoiding the pine trees, zigzagging around them.

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It kind of winked at us.

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The strangest thing I've ever seen, sir.

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Strange.

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Looks like an eye, a weakening of human.

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It approached us at one time.

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We just stood there and awed.

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Watched it probably for a minute or two, maybe a little more.

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Finally, the object began to move away.

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Colonel Halton as men followed.

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As we were pursuing this glowing object through the woods,

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we noticed a farmhouse directing in front of us.

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We've got a reading of two on the counter that's much higher than background radiation.

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The farmhouse appeared to be glowing very brightly, as though it were on fire.

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You reckon there's somebody in there, sir?

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I don't know, Lieutenant.

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The object then broke into five white objects and disappeared.

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There was a very strange feeling in the air.

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It made your hair bristle.

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Sort of like static electricity.

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You just had a very unusual feeling.

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And I don't think it was all psychological.

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I think there was something physiological about it.

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There was something to it.

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I don't know what it was.

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We ventured on toward the coast, trying to decide what to do next.

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We looked to the north, and about 30 degrees off the horizon,

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there were three objects in the sky.

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They started moving rapidly about in sharp angular movements,

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as though they were exercising some type of formation or search pattern.

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I'm not really sure what it was.

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We now have multiple sightings of three objects of a similar kind.

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I think there was some type of guiding force behind these objects.

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Whether it was trying to communicate with us, whether it was trying to warn us,

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or whether it was trying to do something to us, I don't know.

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To me, it looked like a grid search.

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Like they were boxing off an area and looking for something.

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And that was the thought that hit me right away,

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and it stayed with me over the years.

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It looked like a search pattern.

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Colonel Hulse initial skepticism eroded with each passing minute,

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and each bizarre sighting.

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There's definitely something up there.

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We've got an object.

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We could very clearly see it.

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It sort of danced about in the sky, and it sent down beams of light.

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I noticed other beams of light coming down from the same object,

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falling different places on the base.

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My boss was standing in his front yard at Woodbridge,

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and he could see the beams of light falling down.

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And the people in the weapon storage area and several other places on the base

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also reported the lights.

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They didn't seem to be harmful.

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They appeared to be searching or maybe trying to communicate.

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I don't know.

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I woke up about 3.34 in the morning,

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and for whatever reason I felt like maybe something had happened,

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and I don't know why.

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I just woke up and felt like something had came back.

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Don't ask me why.

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It just was a gut feeling.

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So I went ahead and got up and went up to the base.

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I was sitting in a couple of blue transparent type lights appeared in the sky.

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They were all of a sudden in the horizon, and one of them broke towards us.

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The only time the light-offs were working as far as came on and off,

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when I saw them, were when the light passed them.

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And I have no idea what caused the light-offs to come on and off,

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other than the fact that the blue light as it passed it, the light-offs came on.

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At virtually the same moment, 300 yards away,

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Colonel Halt's investigation was about to culminate in a remarkable close encounter.

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The object was coming at us at a very high rate of speed.

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One of these beams of light fell very, very close to us,

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sort of a pencil beam of light.

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We had objects at the ground near our feet.

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This is unreal.

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The extraordinary visitor never returned.

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It was kind of difficult going from a skeptic to suddenly a party involved in the whole thing.

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I really didn't know quite how to react.

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I guess I was a little concerned that our people were really going to believe me

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when I tell the truth, and that's... I thought I had no choice but to tell the truth.

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I ran into my boss the next day, and I had the tape with me.

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I played the tape for him, and he kind of raised his eyebrows.

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I was very pleased that I'd taken the tape recorder along, and I had recorded it all,

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and that there were several very reliable people with me.

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Did you make an instrument for it yet?

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I know. I wanted to play for it.

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Let me see what you've got.

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There's no doubt about it. There's some type of strange flash in the red light ahead.

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That's where we saw the first object.

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Weird.

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It appears that you may be moving a little bit this way.

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What did you see?

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We saw an object about 200 yards in front of us.

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It was red, blinking, pulsing, like an eye almost,

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and it was hovering without any visible means of propulsion.

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Were any of our choppers in the area?

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No.

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Did you talk to air control? Did we have any other birds nearby?

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Nothing down?

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Okay, we're looking at the thing where it's probably about 200 to 300 yards away.

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It looks like an eye, winking at you. It's still moving from side to side.

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And when you put the star scope on it...

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I really think you'd have to get this forward to command, sir.

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Doc Sarritz.

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Yeah, like a pupil of an eye looking at you and winking.

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Chuck, I agree with you.

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Go ahead and complete an incident report.

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Have it on my desk by 0800 hours tomorrow morning.

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I'll take it and the tape up to command.

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He took it to the staff meeting at Third Air Force.

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Everybody scratched their heads. Nobody knew what to do.

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I drafted a memo, sent a copy to London, and it was swallowed up.

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It became very quiet.

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This is a copy of Colonel Halt's memo.

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It was submitted to British military authorities who never acted on it.

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The United States Air Force did not acknowledge that the episode had occurred.

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Then in 1983, a private citizen invoked the Freedom of Information Act,

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and Halt's memo was released.

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Nevertheless, many remain unconvinced.

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Spacecraft from another world, although not impossible, is extraordinary.

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James McGayhay is an astronomer and noted UFO skeptic

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who is director of two private observatories.

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And the burden of proof for any event that is extraordinary

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is upon those making the claim,

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not upon those who look at it from a skeptical perspective.

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Where is the evidence? Show me the evidence.

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And that's what science is all about.

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On the first night, the night of 26th December, 1980,

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at about three o'clock that morning, a bright fireball,

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which is a very bright meteor, came into the Earth's atmosphere.

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And this is unquestionably what John Burroughs saw that night.

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I've seen meteor showers come down before.

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It wasn't a meteor falling out of the sky.

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And it went up, not down.

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Meteors fall from the sky. They don't go back up into the sky.

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Meteors not going to go up, go back and forth,

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and maintain position in the sky for a long period of time.

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Meteors not going to send beams of light down.

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I think both of them are being honest as to what their perceptions are,

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but human perception is very, very easily fooled.

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And I think that what they saw that night was just lights in the sky.

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And they're not spacecraft from another world.

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There's no evidence that they were.

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And again, I don't deny that they saw lights.

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When they went out there to the woods, everybody was out there

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expecting to see a UFO.

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With that preconceived notion of the way you view things

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can be greatly influenced.

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There's definitely something up there.

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McGay, he believes that the growing red-like kernel halt saw that night

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with simply reflections from the revolving beam of a nearby lighthouse.

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There are too many unrelated things.

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If it were just a reflection, how does one explain two different sightings

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and two different places in the sky? How does one explain the object moving through the forest?

366
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How does one explain the sighting in the forest by the three airmen?

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There are just too many things.

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I have a lot of unresolved questions that I'm not sure I'll ever have answered.

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I've had people suggest all sorts of things,

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everything from I've seen the Second Coming of Christ to the Devils after us.

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I can't explain it. I really can't.

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I know it was beyond the realm of anything that we experienced in ordinary life.

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According to kernel halt, two other unconfirmed sightings have been reported

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in the vicinity of Woodbridge Air Base.

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The first in January of 1981, the second nine months later

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in the initial sightings of 1980, at least 15 men, all of them U.S. Air Force personnel

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witnessed the strange lights and objects firsthand.

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The Air Force continues to have no official comment on the entire series of events.

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I was starting to have nightmares, really terrible nightmares

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that I could not explain.

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I found myself in a very brightly lit room.

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I had no idea where I was or why I was there.

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To my left, I could see my brother Jim, Chuck Rack and Charlie Foltz

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sitting on some type of bench and they were all naked.

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I was wondering why they weren't helping me

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because I felt like I was in danger.

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And while I'm trying to figure this out,

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I notice this figure or a dark, shadowy type figure

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emerging from this light, this bright light in front of me.

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I would wake up sweating and breathing heavily

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in a state of terror and shock.

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Are you okay, Jack?

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For years, Jack Weiner told no one about the nightmares except his wife, Mary.

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Then in late 1988, Jack's twin brother Jim confessed that he was being haunted

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by the same disturbing nightmare that he had been in.

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He confessed that he was being haunted by the same disturbing nightmares.

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They started happening more and more often

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and they seemed to be becoming more and more real

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in terms of what I was remembering about these things.

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There were always certain elements of the dream that were the same.

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Some type of creature and being helpless, being violated

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was a feeling I often woke up with.

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It was a real surprise to find out that Jim was having identical dreams

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because I didn't want to talk about my dreams except to Mary.

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And then when I found out he was having them, it was like,

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wow, something is going on here, but we just couldn't put our fingers on it.

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In every dream, the twins were with Charlie Foltson, Chuck Rack,

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two friends he had met in art school.

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The twins began to wonder if their nightmares could be connected to a bizarre experience

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the four men had shared 12 years earlier during a camping trip in Maine.

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In August of 1976, Charlie, Chuck, Jack and Jim

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spent two weeks along the Alagash Wilderness Waterway.

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The Alagash covers thousands of acres in the northernmost part of the state.

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One of the area's most prominent features is a mountain named by the Abhinaki Indians.

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They called it Katahdin. To them, it is a sacred place.

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On the second night out, Jim noticed a bright object in the sky.

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It was just floating above the treetops. It didn't seem to be moving in any direction.

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And I looked at it through the binoculars for maybe 15 seconds, 30 seconds,

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and it suddenly just winked out from the outside edges inward.

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It's gone. Where is it?

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I mean, it literally just went like that, and it was gone.

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It's very strange, wasn't it?

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I thought maybe it was a weather balloon or perhaps a helicopter

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that had just turned a light off that was flying over,

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but there was something about this thing that left me with an odd feeling

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that wasn't quite right, but I really didn't dwell on it.

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Well, let's get that tent up.

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The men continued through the Alagash wilderness.

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On the fourth day, they decided to try some night fishing.

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They built a bonfire to mark their campsite.

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That far north at night, it is pitch black,

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and we had a nice, good-sized fire going,

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not too large that it would get out of control and burn the forest,

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but it was borderline.

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It was a fairly good fire that would have lasted four hours bare minimum,

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and then we struck out onto the lake, just as it was getting dark.

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Chuck Rack was the first to realize they weren't alone.

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I had a feeling that there was someone staring at me from behind me.

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I turned over my right shoulder like that,

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and I saw this large, round globe of light

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that looked exactly like what we had seen two nights previously.

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Hey, guys, look at that.

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It was a type of a thing where we didn't have to ask what or where.

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We just seemed to know where he was looking, and we all turned and looked.

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It had this roiling effect to it, like a miniature sun, very, very bright.

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It lit the tree tops up like daylight, and it was absolutely silent.

447
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After looking at it for what seemed like several moments,

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we decided to signal this thing,

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and that's when Charlie picked up the flashlight and squeezed off a message, S-O-S.

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The response was instant.

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The sensation I had was one of absolute elation.

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I couldn't believe it, that we were really going to find out what it was.

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We attempted to communicate with it, and it actually was responding.

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Well, when the light started coming toward us, my curiosity was satisfied.

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And I just dropped the flashlight.

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The only thought in my mind was to get to shore.

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I never looked back.

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I remember looking over my shoulder, trying to keep an eye on this object,

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as it was coming up behind us, and it was getting very close.

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I mean, it was almost on top of us at this point,

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and I remember thinking that we're not going to outrun this thing.

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There's just no way. It was coming too quickly.

463
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Come on, let's get to shore. Come on.

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Come on.

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The next memory any of the men had was being back on shore.

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Staring up at the bright object is opposing for a portrait.

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I remember thinking, my God, I could pick up a stone and bounce it off the side of this thing.

468
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That's how close it was.

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I thought, I'm going to get to shore.

470
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000
I thought, I'm going to get to shore.

471
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,000
I thought, I'm going to get to shore.

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00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,000
I thought, I'm going to get to shore.

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He turned away from us.

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00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,000
He started this thing. That's how close it was.

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I picked up the flashlight again and flashed at it a second time.

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This time there was no response from it.

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00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,000
It seemed to just drift away from us.

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As it was moving up, it seemed to implode somehow, and it shrank.

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And then all of a sudden, at a higher level, it reappeared again.

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And then all of a sudden it just streaked away.

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Very, very fast, and within a few seconds it was like a star,

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just another light in the sky.

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I remember stepping out of the canoe

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and going up to the campsite,

485
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and I remember there was no panic.

486
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People seemed to be very relaxed.

487
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Hey, guys, do you want to do about this fire? It's out.

488
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,000
All the men agree that they were out on the lake for less than 20 minutes.

489
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,000
The huge bonfire should have blazed bright for hours,

490
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,000
yet inexplicably only coals remained.

491
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,000
Just go to bed. We don't want to rebuild the fire.

492
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,000
The unusual thing is that we didn't stay up for hours and discuss this thing,

493
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,000
which is what you would think, you know, four young guys on a camping trip would do.

494
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,000
And we just seemed very fatigued and we just wanted to go to bed.

495
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,000
The next morning we got up and got our camp together

496
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,000
and paddled to the next campsite.

497
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,000
The men spent another 10 days in the Alagash wilderness,

498
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,000
but never again saw the bizarre light.

499
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,000
As the years went by, they told friends and family about the UFO,

500
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,000
but no one really believed them.

501
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,000
The men could hardly believe it themselves.

502
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Then the nightmares began for Jim and Jack Weiner.

503
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,000
Finally, Jim contacted UFO researcher Ray Fowler for help.

504
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:21,000
Fowler suggested the Alagash 4 undergo hypnosis

505
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,000
with a trained hypnotherapist to recover details of the sighting.

506
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:30,000
Fowler has since written a book about the case called The Alagash Abductions.

507
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,000
Jim, I know you four have been very apprehensive.

508
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:39,000
From the beginning, Ray Fowler suspected the men had been abducted by a UFO,

509
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000
but did not tell them.

510
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,000
One by one, they underwent hypnosis.

511
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,000
They all promised not to tell each other about what they recalled

512
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,000
until all the sessions were complete.

513
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:57,000
Each of the men, Jim Weiner, Chuck Rack, Jack Weiner, and Charlie Foltz

514
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:03,000
describe what appears to be a classic abduction experience.

515
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,000
Afterward, each of them drew illustrations of their incredible recollections.

516
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,000
These are their actual paintings and drawings.

517
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,000
All four said they were taken aboard the craft.

518
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:21,000
The aliens forced them to strip naked and seemed to be conducting medical examinations.

519
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,000
The aliens apparently took samples of the men's skin and body fluids,

520
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,000
their blood, urine, and semen.

521
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:34,000
What follows are excerpts from the original hypnosis sessions recorded in 1988.

522
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000
They don't know what to do.

523
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,000
I think they think I'm going to come after them.

524
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,000
I feel like I want to.

525
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,000
I feel like I want to...

526
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,000
The first one that comes near me, I'm going to throttle them.

527
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,000
That's what I want to do, is throttle them.

528
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,000
I don't like these things.

529
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,000
I don't care where they come from.

530
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,000
They shouldn't be doing this to people.

531
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,000
Jim's brother Jack found the faces terrifying.

532
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,000
They're right there.

533
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,000
Their face is right in my face.

534
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,000
I don't know why.

535
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,000
I don't want to know.

536
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,000
I don't want to know what they want.

537
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,000
They're...

538
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,000
saying things.

539
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,000
They're...

540
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,000
explaining things with their eyes.

541
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,000
In my head,

542
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,000
they're saying,

543
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,000
don't be afraid.

544
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,000
Don't be afraid.

545
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000
We won't harm you.

546
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,000
They say,

547
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000
do what we say.

548
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,000
Just do what we say.

549
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,000
Charlie Foltz was the next to be examined.

550
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,000
I'm afraid that...

551
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000
it's like a doctor's office.

552
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000
I get that.

553
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,000
It's cold like a doctor's office. It's cold.

554
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,000
They put the...

555
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,000
panel over your chest.

556
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,000
And then they scrape your arms.

557
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,000
Your chest.

558
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,000
Your legs and thighs.

559
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000
We shouldn't be here.

560
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,000
I just keep thinking I want to be back in the canoe.

561
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Chuck Rock had a good view of what the aliens were doing to Charlie.

562
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,000
Is he some sort of...

563
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000
device on him?

564
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,000
He's got a... it looks like a...

565
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,000
silvery.

566
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,000
It looks like it's got curves on it.

567
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,000
It's almost like it sucks.

568
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,000
Something.

569
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000
He's got his head tipped way back.

570
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,000
It's almost like he's in pain.

571
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,000
We're just there. We can't help him.

572
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,000
We're just...

573
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000
all we can do is... watch him.

574
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000
I don't know if you're aware of it,

575
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000
and you probably aren't because you haven't been talking to each other.

576
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,000
After the hypnosis sessions, Ray Fowler brought the Allagash four together.

577
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:06,000
For the first time, they discovered that each of them had recalled the same

578
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,000
horrifying events.

579
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,000
We were amazed that Jack would say something about how he remembered the light,

580
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,000
or Chuck Rock would say something that he remembered, or Charlie would say,

581
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,000
and we'd sit there,

582
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,000
my God, that's exactly what we remembered.

583
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,000
One person would pause to take a breath,

584
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,000
and the next person would pick up, and you knew what they were going to say.

585
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,000
You knew what they were going to say, and when they paused for breath, you could continue.

586
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,000
It was just amazing to come to the realizations that all these things

587
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,000
were really true and that they really had meaning,

588
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:45,000
and it was also kind of nice to know that I wasn't going insane.

589
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,000
Having these nightmares, that they were, in fact,

590
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,000
real memories of an event that did happen.

591
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:57,000
Ultimately, each of the Allagash four took polygraph tests and passed easily.

592
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,000
It is clear that they believe their memories are real.

593
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:06,000
To skeptics, however, stories of alien abduction do not stand up to scrutiny.

594
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,000
Some suggest that images from the popular culture,

595
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,000
like these scenes from the 1953 science fiction movie,

596
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:19,000
Invaders from Mars, may be the inspiration for memories of alien abduction.

597
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Some of the stories that you hear about abductions are right out of the films,

598
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,000
I mean, almost verbatim.

599
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,000
Dr. William Cole is a clinical psychologist

600
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,000
who specializes in the study of repressed memory and hypnotic therapy.

601
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000
It's media-driven, it's cyclical.

602
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,000
You get some good cases on TV, people hear about them,

603
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,000
they think they may have had the same thing happen.

604
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000
It sort of feeds upon itself.

605
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Elements from the media.

606
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,000
Dr. John Mack is a Harvard psychiatrist

607
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,000
who has done extensive work with abductees.

608
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,000
Usually these people have no interest in abductions, have not read about it,

609
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,000
are even unfamiliar with the nature of the beings,

610
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:03,000
and are shocked and astounded when they hear someone else has had these experiences as well,

611
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,000
or that there is material in the media about it.

612
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:11,000
My experience of what's going on is the investigators have a very clear-cut agenda

613
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000
about what they're looking for.

614
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,000
So if you get somebody that's doing UFO abduction research,

615
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,000
this is a person that generally has already decided that UFO abductions are real,

616
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,000
that thousands of people are having them, they have a symptom list,

617
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,000
and if you come in the door with those symptoms, then you must have been abducted.

618
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000
It really doesn't work like that.

619
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:36,000
The person comes because they've heard that I'm open to listen to something

620
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:45,000
which other therapists or other mental health professionals have not been able to listen to.

621
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000
They're highly doubtful.

622
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,000
They don't want this to be true.

623
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,000
This is not a club anyone wants to belong to.

624
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:59,000
If you were to tell somebody 40 years ago

625
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,000
that they would be able to see on an invention called a television set,

626
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000
which didn't exist,

627
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:10,000
a meteorite crashing into a planet that they can now watch at home,

628
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,000
that's a reality check, folks,

629
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:17,000
and yet 40 years ago, that's science fiction.

630
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,000
This happened.

631
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,000
If you believe it, that's all right.

632
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,000
If you don't believe it, I don't care.

633
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,000
I don't care, because it did.

634
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:35,000
When the Greek philosopher Aristotle first suggested that the world was round,

635
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,000
skeptics dismissed it as fantasy.

636
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:43,000
When Copernicus, theorize of the sun, not the earth, was a center of our solar system,

637
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,000
many considered it heresy.

638
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:50,000
When Jules Verne wrote that a human being would someday travel to the moon,

639
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,000
science rejected it as pure fiction.

640
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,000
Perhaps the day will come when our beliefs about the existence of UFOs

641
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:02,000
and alien encounters will undergo a similar transformation.

642
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:08,000
We have these two camps, the scientists searching for life among the stars

643
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,000
and the UFO believers thinking that they've already landed.

644
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,000
I think in both cases we share the dream.

645
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,000
The dream is that we're not alone in the universe,

646
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:25,000
that we have, if not brothers and sisters, perhaps cousins out among the stars.

647
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,000
Publicly, the scientific community remains skeptical.

648
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,000
Privately, however, they are working to achieve contact.

649
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:38,000
NASA anticipates that within the next decade,

650
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:43,000
the Voyager 1 space probe will become the first human artifact ever to leave our solar system.

651
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:49,000
On board is a message in a bottle that has been dropped into the vastness of space.

652
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,000
As the Secretary General of the United Nations,

653
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,000
an organization of 147 member states,

654
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,000
who represent almost all of the human inhabitants of the planet earth,

655
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:06,000
I send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet.

656
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:13,000
It is either the greatest hoax in human history,

657
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,000
an unprecedented mass hallucination,

658
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:22,000
or perhaps the single most important event since the dawn of civilization.

659
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:28,000
For the hardened skeptic proof will remain elusive until an alien spacecraft is placed on public display

660
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,000
or an extraterrestrial appears on the evening news.

661
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:39,000
Until that moment, one of the greatest mysteries of our age will remain unsolved.

662
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,000
Edmonton, Alberta, on the western edge of the Canadian prairie.

663
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,000
Rusty, Manuel and Thelied Whitman have been driving home from the city

664
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,000
when they were flagged down by one of their farm hands.

665
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,000
Hey! Y'all done? Yep.

666
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,000
He said, you have a circle in your field.

667
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:14,000
And I said, yes, I know the darn animals, they're always lying down and flattening the grain.

668
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:20,000
He said, oh no, it had to be an awfully big animal to make this circle.

669
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:25,000
What Rusty and Thelied discovered were seven cropping animals

670
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,000
that Rusty and Thelied discovered were seven crop circles pressed into thistle and barley,

671
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:33,000
comprising a formation about 190 feet long.

672
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,000
It was just amazing.

673
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:43,000
What made this? How could it be made? You know, what's going on here?

674
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:48,000
The grain was all flattened down and it almost looked like a pad or like petals,

675
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,000
the way the grain came out and then the hits turned back in towards the center again.

676
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:56,000
I got a hold of the city police and the city police didn't come out.

677
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:00,000
He was totally amazed.

678
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:07,000
Soon after the starting discovery was made, the Canadian Crop Circle Research Network was contacted.

679
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:14,000
CCCRN is a group of volunteers dedicated to gathering information about the mystery of crop circles.

680
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:19,000
Judy Arnt is a field researcher with the organization.

681
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:25,000
It looked like a place had been electrocuted. The plants were so badly frazzled.

682
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:29,000
It was just amazing.

683
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,000
It looked like there had been a huge force of some sort.

684
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,000
So it's over there.

685
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:43,000
I was very curious to see what we could see and look at the details of the formation.

686
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,000
Skeptics were quick to call the whole affair a hoax,

687
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:52,000
attributing the work to clever pranksters like those shown in this TV documentary.

688
00:43:52,000 --> 00:44:00,000
Well, I'm from a farming background, so I know what it looks like when plants are driven over or flattened in some way.

689
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:05,000
So it was very clear to us that it hadn't been flattened by somebody out there with planks and boards.

690
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,000
You can't do that to thistle.

691
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:15,000
It was very densely grown and it would be very difficult for anybody to get in without leaving tracks behind.

692
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:26,000
Paul Anderson, director of the CCCRN, has studied many similar formations in western Canada.

693
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,000
Well, anybody can go out with a board and flatten down a weed.

694
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,000
You know, I could do that. Anyone could do that.

695
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:35,000
And yes, something you have to take into account is it's not just the formation itself,

696
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,000
but it's the complexity of how it's actually constructed,

697
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,000
which even in some of the ones here in Saskatchewan we've seen,

698
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:47,000
have been quite elaborate, like multiple layers going in different directions, one on top of the other and so on.

699
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:53,000
Paul believes another factor makes it improbable the so-called Edmonton Circle was a hoax.

700
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:58,000
Unlike England's mysterious Stonehenge region, for many crop circles have been sited,

701
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:02,000
western Canada holds little of that same mystique.

702
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,000
What would be the point?

703
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:13,000
You know, usually when you hoax something, you want to claim it after and make a big fuss about it and, you know, make a name for yourself.

704
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:20,000
As Judy art examined the site, she carefully documented each of the circles within the formation.

705
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:25,000
Judy also gathered up crop and soil samples for scientific analysis.

706
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:34,000
Each sample is numbered and there's a corresponding sample of the grain stocks and of the soil at that particular location.

707
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,000
So those are all numbered and written on a chart.

708
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:42,000
The samples are analyzed by Nancy Talbot in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

709
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:49,000
Nancy works with a consortium of scientists who have studied more than 350 crop circle cases from eight different countries.

710
00:45:51,000 --> 00:46:03,000
The three major changes in plants in the real McCoy as opposed to man-made crop circles are no elongation, expulsion cavities at the nodes,

711
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,000
and germination abnormalities.

712
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:12,000
Each of these conditions was present in the crop samples sent from Edmonton.

713
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:22,000
In other words, both internal and external characteristics of the crops were profoundly altered in ways that could not be induced by humans using ropes and boards.

714
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:30,000
There is a sense that you're walking into something special. I have always equated it to walking into something special.

715
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:35,000
Former high-ranking British government official Colin Andrew has witnessed this phenomenon many times.

716
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:42,000
There's preciseness. The geometry is precise. There are no tracks in or out.

717
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:47,000
The plants are not damaged. They're bent over. They're not knuckled or broken.

718
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:56,000
The plants are changed in their internal structure at the cellular level. You don't find that in the hoax.

719
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:03,000
Meanwhile, the soil samples from the Edmonton site were sent to Dr. Sampath Iyengar in California.

720
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:07,000
Dr. Iyengar is an expert in material analysis.

721
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:16,000
We went ahead and looked at the mineralogy of the clays using a technique called x-ray powder diffraction.

722
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:27,000
That's the technique that can be used to identify the type of clays and the type of various other minerals that are present in a soil.

723
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:36,000
The results showed a dramatic difference between the soil samples taken from inside the crop circle compared to those taken from outside the circle.

724
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:52,000
This has been seen by geologists before, but this is in a geologic time over several millions of years, plus at a lot higher temperature than what you would expect in a crop circle.

725
00:47:52,000 --> 00:48:02,000
And this has to be some kind of a fantastic energy or some kind of laser type of thing that's causing this change.

726
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,000
And I don't have any idea what it is.

727
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:14,000
Do the crop circles in western Canada finally provide conclusive evidence of unknown forces at work?

728
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:24,000
Skeptics say no. They blame pranksters who proudly take credit for making 80% of these often complex formations, creations they call human land art.

729
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:34,000
But what about the other 20%? It's a debate that's been raging since the mid-1970s on the wave of crop circles captured worldwide attention.

730
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:44,000
The most compelling question remains unanswered. If they are not the work of humans, then who or what created them and how?

731
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:52,000
Theories range from geothermal and magnetic forces to some kind of cosmic energy.

732
00:48:53,000 --> 00:49:03,000
We looked at meteorology, we looked at earth energies, we looked at chemical applications of farmers, and all of them led to a blank. It just did not fit.

733
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:11,000
What we now know is we have a solid mystery. This cannot be explained in the terms of people making them.

734
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:20,000
We have many hundreds that are absolutely, certainly not man-made, and that is a solid fact.

735
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:27,000
Things like compasses will deviate or even spin if you sit them on the ground, you know, like in the center of a circle.

736
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:32,000
Things like that, which to me hoaxing simply doesn't explain because something has to be affecting that compass.

737
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:36,000
Even compasses and airplanes have been affected flying over some of these.

738
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:41,000
You know, I had problems with my own camera, both on the ground and in the plane.

739
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:48,000
Any kind of electrical equipment will often dismal function or go completely dead inside some of these.

740
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:58,000
Perhaps most intriguing of all the proposed theories is the one that claims at least some crop circles are the work of extraterrestrials.

741
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:06,000
I was contacted by a young couple who had been driving along in the late evening.

742
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,000
So do you have to work next weekend?

743
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,000
Maybe, I think they're going to call me any minute.

744
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,000
She was taking her husband to work in North Edmonton.

745
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,000
You're going to have a weekend off.

746
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:24,000
He looked out the window and saw some lights and rolled down the window to make sure it wasn't just reflection on his passenger side window.

747
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:25,000
What is that?

748
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:30,000
And the lights were still there. He got quite excited about it and asked his wife to pull over.

749
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:37,000
There were two small lights, brilliant bluish.

750
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:38,000
Is that a plane?

751
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,000
No, planes don't move like that.

752
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,000
Then they said these two lights looked like they were playing tag with each other.

753
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,000
No, is that right to believe this?

754
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:49,000
And it went on for, I don't know, 20, 30 seconds.

755
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:57,000
This sighting occurred about a week before the crop circle formation was found.

756
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:05,000
Then a few days later, Rusty Manuel and Thelib Whitman had their own close encounter.

757
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:11,000
We were just approaching our farm when we saw this light.

758
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:12,000
What's that?

759
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:13,000
What?

760
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:15,000
Yeah.

761
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:20,000
First you thought it was a helicopter because it moved like a helicopter, but still there was no other lights on it.

762
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,000
That is so weird.

763
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,000
I don't know what that is.

764
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:30,000
It was just bright and would just hover over the field and sort of move off and then come back again.

765
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,000
Oh my God, I've never seen anything like that.

766
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:38,000
I tried to picture it as being an aircraft, but it was too much too big for an aircraft.

767
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,000
That's no airplane.

768
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:41,000
No.

769
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:47,000
And it just seemed like it passed over the back end of the pickup and it just disappeared.

770
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,000
It just was so fast.

771
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:57,000
Was there a connection between the strange lights in the sky and the sudden appearance of the Edmonton crop circles just days later?

772
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:05,000
Seth Shostak is senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, an acronym meaning the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

773
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:09,000
Seth and his colleagues explore the heavens for any sign of life.

774
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:16,000
I believe that the aliens are out there, but I don't think that they're visiting here.

775
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:21,000
The fact that so many people feel that there may be something unusual going on here,

776
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:30,000
crop circles, UFOs and so forth, I think this speaks a psychological need that we all have to believe that there are some powers that we don't understand.

777
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:38,000
And after all, it's much more interesting to think that this pattern in the weed here was graffiti from beings from another world

778
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:41,000
than to think that it was students from the local university.

779
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,000
That's not a terribly interesting story.

780
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:46,000
But what about crop circles that simply define logic?

781
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:50,000
Formations that show no sign of human intervention.

782
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:55,000
That certainly seemed to be the case in Red Deer, Alberta, not far from Edmonton.

783
00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:03,000
According to a stunned local farmer, this giant star of David formation literally appeared overnight in one of his fields.

784
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:07,000
It measured an incredible 422 feet across.

785
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:13,000
Still skeptics like Seth Shostak believe it's all smoke and mirrors.

786
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:18,000
When I go to a stage show in Las Vegas and I see these grand illusions produced by these magicians,

787
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,000
I don't understand how they're all done.

788
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,000
In fact, I don't understand how most of them are done.

789
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:26,000
And I could assume some unknown physical force is involved.

790
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:30,000
This would be terribly important if it were true about the crop circles,

791
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:37,000
but the facts are that to say that they are made by something other than humans is a radical, a revolutionary claim.

792
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:42,000
And consequently, I'm not going to be swayed by what amounts to very anecdotal evidence.

793
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,000
It's got to be better than that.

794
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:52,000
I don't think we need, necessarily, to be talking or trying to prove that it is or isn't extraterrestrial.

795
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,000
I don't know that either.

796
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,000
What I know is what I'm looking at that has arrived in our fields.

797
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,000
Something knows what it's doing here.

798
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:02,000
There is intelligence of some sort.

799
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:11,000
And I know they're not all made by people.

800
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:18,000
Over the past three decades, researchers have compiled a database that includes more than 10,000 crop circle reports from around the world.

801
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:23,000
If 8,000 of these strange formations can be attributed to pranksters,

802
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:29,000
that still leaves more than 2,000 that are simply unexplained.

803
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,000
Roswell, New Mexico, 1947.

804
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,000
A mysterious explosion.

805
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:50,000
Unidentified debris found in a remote pasture sparks a UFO frenzy.

806
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,000
Official explanation.

807
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,000
A downed weather balloon.

808
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:59,000
Bentwater's Air Force Base, England, 1980.

809
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,000
Multiple sightings of strange lights and aircraft.

810
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,000
Official explanation.

811
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,000
A meteor shower.

812
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:11,000
Hudson Valley, New York, 1983 to 1989.

813
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:15,000
A mysterious V-shaped formation seen by hundreds of local residents.

814
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,000
Official explanation.

815
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,000
An elaborate hoax.

816
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:23,000
For UFO buffs, it's always the same story.

817
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:27,000
An unprecedented event, followed by an official brush-off.

818
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:31,000
Now some say it has happened again in Phoenix, Arizona.

819
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:34,000
All right, you tell me what it is.

820
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,000
March 13, 1997.

821
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,000
10 p.m.

822
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,000
Oh, what do we got?

823
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,000
Michael Christen shot this videotape.

824
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,000
Hey, go look at this.

825
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:49,000
And before I know it, an entire display of lights comes on.

826
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,000
I got a little excited at that time, and I called my wife.

827
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:58,000
I took her about a minute to get over there, and it was really quite unusual.

828
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,000
Michael Christen wasn't alone.

829
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:05,000
This videotape was shot around the same time, 15 miles away.

830
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:07,000
Look at this, three of them all together.

831
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,000
The third one popping.

832
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,000
There's one behind the chimney.

833
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:15,000
In fact, the bizarre lights were seen by thousands of Arizona residents that night.

834
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:19,000
An explainable series of strange bright lights seen over the skies of Arizona

835
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:23,000
gets a lot of people wondering what the heck they saw.

836
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:27,000
Not surprisingly, an official explanation soon emerged

837
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:31,000
from Captain Drew Sullens of the Air National Guard.

838
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:36,000
The 104th Fighter Squadron of the Maryland Air National Guard's 175th Wing

839
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:40,000
and Night Training Exercise in the vicinity of the mysterious lights.

840
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:45,000
And what they were doing was dropping night illumination flares

841
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,000
over the North Tactical Range of Luke Air Force Base.

842
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:52,000
And a lot of people seemed to think that those flares could in fact have been

843
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,000
the quote-unquote mysterious lights.

844
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:02,000
Flares. It seemed perfectly plausible and was widely accepted.

845
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,000
However, there was one little problem with the military explanation.

846
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:09,000
They said they'd only drop flares between 9 and 10 p.m.

847
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:14,000
But the most impressive sightings occurred earlier between 8 and 9 p.m.

848
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,000
Taken together, these had incredible eyewitness accounts

849
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:22,000
seemed to indicate that there was something other than flares in the Arizona sky that night.

850
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:25,000
Was it an extraordinary UFO event?

851
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,000
Judge for yourself.

852
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:33,000
8.10 p.m.

853
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:37,000
Nearly an hour before the military would begin dropping flares,

854
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:44,000
Ross Nickel and his family were on Highway 89 just outside Chino Valley, 90 miles north of Phoenix.

855
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,000
Dad, do you see that light over there?

856
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:48,000
Where?

857
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,000
Over the horizon.

858
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,000
Oh yeah, looks like an airplane.

859
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:59,000
I looked out the window and I saw some lights in a very small pattern.

860
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:03,000
And what they really looked like at that point was just dim stars,

861
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,000
several of them in a very tight pattern.

862
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:12,000
Let me out, I got a sense.

863
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:14,000
Hold it, let me look at this first.

864
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:17,000
They were white like stars when they were coming towards us.

865
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:22,000
And at that point they changed colors and went from white to red.

866
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:27,000
They were just overhead at that point and they were in my estimation not very high off the ground,

867
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,000
I'm guessing a thousand feet.

868
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,000
And there was absolutely no sound.

869
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:36,000
During the whole time from the start to the finish, there was absolutely no sound.

870
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:37,000
What is it?

871
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,000
I have no idea.

872
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,000
There was definitely five of them.

873
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:42,000
Let's move it again.

874
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:47,000
They were basically on a flight pattern of some kind that was fairly uniform.

875
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:58,000
Ten minutes later, 8.30 p.m., 90 miles south, a commercial airline pilot and his wife were driving home after dinner.

876
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:05,000
For professional reasons, a pilot agreed to tell his story only if his identity was concealed.

877
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,000
They don't look like fighters.

878
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,000
That's a show formation.

879
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:16,000
I've been flying for 29 years now and I'm not used to looking up in the sky and not being able to figure out what I'm seeing.

880
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:21,000
I looked at it then and tried to make it into an airliner.

881
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:27,000
I realized again, it's going too slow and oh by the way, there's no noise at all.

882
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:28,000
Definitely not fighters.

883
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:34,000
And then the next thing that struck me is that, yeah, and why would his landing lights be pointed straight down?

884
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:46,000
Because the lights appeared to be about five lights arrayed in this V formation with landing lights pointed straight down.

885
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,000
Ross Nickel and his family had seen the lights here.

886
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:56,000
The pilot and his wife saw them here.

887
00:59:56,000 --> 01:00:00,000
Whatever it was seemed to be on a definite southerly course.

888
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:08,000
14 miles southeast of the pilot's sighting, Osmo Linderman and her boyfriend had their own peculiar encounter.

889
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:14,000
Keep in mind, the military would not begin dropping flares for another half hour.

890
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:15,000
What is that?

891
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:17,000
Looks like it's going to crash.

892
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:20,000
Wait.

893
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:26,000
It was very clear in my mind that it was one solid craft.

894
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:38,000
The lights were traveling too perfectly spaced apart and there was a void clearly between the lights that blacked out the stars when it came down.

895
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:51,000
The whole thing just slowed, I don't know, maybe to a stop or it hovered for a second and then what looked like one solid red oval object.

896
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:55,000
It just turned red and shot straight up and disappeared.

897
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:57,000
Gone. Completely gone.

898
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:06,000
I tried everything I could to explain them away and I said, well, it looks to me like a flock of geese flying down from Iowa with flashlights in their mouth.

899
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:10,000
8.45 p.m.

900
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:14,000
Still 15 minutes before the military would begin dropping flares,

901
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:21,000
Trucker Gary Moore saw the lights approximately 10 minutes after an 80 mile south of Osmo Linderman.

902
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:24,000
Hey Jimmy, you see those lights over in the east?

903
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:27,000
They didn't look like flood lights. They didn't really look like spotlights.

904
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:31,000
There was something different about them that I had never seen before.

905
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:39,000
Between 8 and 9 p.m., a Phoenix lights that traveled over 300 miles and been seen by hundreds of witnesses.

906
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:44,000
Gary Moore's encounter came near the end of the first wave of sightings.

907
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:47,000
An hour passed.

908
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:55,000
Then at 10 p.m., Michael Christen shot the videotape that would set off local hysteria and provide the basis for the official explanation.

909
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,000
Proof, what have we got here?

910
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:02,000
If you lived in Phoenix, these flares, some of them were dropped at 14 and 15,000 feet.

911
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:06,000
They burned very bright. They burned for 5 to 6 minutes.

912
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:10,000
They are suspended by a parachute and it's a large flare.

913
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:16,000
You would be able to see those flares, I would imagine, for 150, maybe even 200 miles.

914
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:24,000
The military says that flares like these, dropped at night, would look like this.

915
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:28,000
Again, judge for yourself.

916
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:40,000
I'm certain that the lights that I saw were not aerial flares, as used by the military.

917
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:43,000
I've seen them from the ground. I've seen them from the air.

918
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:46,000
And these weren't flares.

919
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:56,000
And probably the major reason that these were almost certainly not flares dropped by the military was they're dangerous.

920
01:02:56,000 --> 01:03:00,000
So they would never, ever be dropped over a population center.

921
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:08,000
We saw them travel over a distance of probably 70 to 80 miles, over about 12 to 13 minutes.

922
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:11,000
And no flares that I know can do that.

923
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:17,000
The Ross-Nickel sighting is very interesting because it involves...

924
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:22,000
Veteran UFO investigator Richard Motser has been on the Phoenix case since the beginning.

925
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:26,000
Surprisingly, Motser sides with the military up to a point.

926
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:30,000
He agrees that the 10 o'clock event was indeed flares.

927
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:34,000
However, he has no explanation for the earlier wave of sightings.

928
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:39,000
The descriptions of the witnesses simply leave you shaking your head

929
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:44,000
because they will tell you that this is no military vehicle that they have ever seen.

930
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:51,000
And so right now, we can't make a determination on what actually happened at 8.30 on that night

931
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,000
of March the 13th.

932
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:58,000
Will the mystery of the Phoenix lights ever be solved?

933
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,000
For the military, the case is closed.

934
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:04,000
But for hundreds of eyewitnesses, the question remains...

935
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:09,000
Did the Phoenix lights come from somewhere beyond the stars?

936
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:13,000
We've got to learn to accept certain things in life.

937
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:19,000
We've been sending radio signals out in space for over 50 years now, trying to locate intelligent life.

938
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:26,000
So why would it be hard for us to think that at some point in time, somebody finally answered the call?

939
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:40,000
They are like enigmatic guests from a vanished time.

940
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:45,000
The Sphinx rises in scruble above the sands of Egypt.

941
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:50,000
Stonehenge, somber monolith circled in silent prayer.

942
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:57,000
In the statues of Easter Island, their faces curiously turned away from the sea.

943
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:05,000
In South America, another ancient mystery has defied all who would uncover its secrets.

944
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:11,000
Here inexplicably, monumental drawings have been etched into the desert plain,

945
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:17,000
where they created to placate angry gods, to map out the heavens,

946
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:21,000
or perhaps to welcome visitors from another galaxy.

947
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:29,000
Welcome to the Nazca Plateau, 100 square miles of unanswered questions in western Peru.

948
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:36,000
This spider prowls the eastern corner of the plateau.

949
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:41,000
It is formed by a single winding line that starts and ends in the same place.

950
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:45,000
But for what purpose?

951
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:53,000
This gigantic monkey, as contours dim by time, could fill two football fields.

952
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:58,000
But how did this jungle dweller come to be marooned in an empty desert?

953
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:05,000
More than 800 ramrod straight lines shoot across the plateau,

954
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,000
late end to end they total a thousand miles.

955
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:13,000
The lines converge at 62 different points.

956
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:21,000
Archaeological evidence suggests that the ancient Nazca's famous for their ceramic art

957
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:25,000
inscribed the giant drawings between 1500 and 2500 years ago.

958
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:30,000
However, the Nazca's left little that tells us the meaning of the figures,

959
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:32,000
or reveals how they were made.

960
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:39,000
Imagine standing on the Nazca Plateau without modern surveying tools,

961
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:42,000
aerial photographs, or topographical maps.

962
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:45,000
How would you plot out the enormous monkey?

963
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:47,000
Where would you put its tail, its head?

964
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:51,000
How would you make sure that the parts all fit perfectly together?

965
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:55,000
Somehow the ancient Nazca artists were able to do exactly that.

966
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,000
All towed nearly a thousand lines,

967
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:05,000
geometric shapes and figures are tattooed across the Nazca Plateau.

968
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:10,000
When they are mapped in catalog, the images form an astounding body of work.

969
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:15,000
To this day, no one has fully explained the drawings, though many have tried.

970
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:22,000
One of the first archaeologists to visit Nazca theorized that the plateau

971
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:24,000
was a giant celestial calendar.

972
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:28,000
He observed that on the summer solstice, the sun set in perfect alignment

973
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:30,000
with one of the markings.

974
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:36,000
For over 40 years, a German mathematician named Maria Reike

975
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:40,000
spent virtually every waking hour studying the Nazca Plateau.

976
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:46,000
She concluded that dozens of the lines and animal figures pointed to major constellations.

977
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:52,000
If you go out there, dawn, where you can see the sky,

978
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:56,000
and you can see the dawn glow reflecting off of those lines,

979
01:07:56,000 --> 01:08:00,000
and they really become like lighted pointers to the heavens.

980
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:06,000
A radically different theory was proposed by Swiss author Eric von Daniken

981
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:08,000
in the late 1960s.

982
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:12,000
He claimed that some of the markings were nothing less than giant landing strips

983
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,000
for alien spacecraft.

984
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:18,000
In his book Chariots of the Gods,

985
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:23,000
von Daniken suggested that the ancient Nazcas had regarded the aliens as gods

986
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:26,000
and had constructed the runways under their direct orders.

987
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:31,000
Von Daniken identified this 840-foot marking as a signpost

988
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:34,000
pointing the way to the landing strip.

989
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:42,000
And this, a portrait of one of the intergalactic voyagers, complete with spacesuit.

990
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:51,000
Scientists aren't against the idea of necessarily extraterrestrials per se,

991
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:57,000
but we do expect some evidence before we then start doing a lot of research in that direction.

992
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:04,000
Dr. Reinhardt and other scientists believe that the plateau was an immense outdoor cathedral.

993
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:09,000
Prayers were once whispered here in the name of a priceless resource, water.

994
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:14,000
The plateau is one of the driest places on Earth.

995
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:17,000
In five years, five good years,

996
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:21,000
the plateau will be blessed with just one half inch of rain.

997
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,000
But how were the drawings created?

998
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:33,000
In 1982, an attempt was made to replicate the process using only the simplest of tools.

999
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:39,000
We pirated a couple of broomsticks from the local hotel, some pieces of string,

1000
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:45,000
laid out a line, and we proceeded to clean and sweep away the surface of the line.

1001
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:53,000
It took us, a group of twelve, one morning, we even got back to the hotel for lunch,

1002
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:59,000
to make a line about twenty yards long, two yards wide, clear it completely.

1003
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:03,000
And here was a brand spanking new Nazca line.

1004
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:08,000
Dr. Avini's line certainly looked like the genuine article,

1005
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:13,000
but clearing a sixty-foot curlicue was a relatively simple task.

1006
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:18,000
How did the Nazca artists accurately model gargantuan figures like the sprawling monkey

1007
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:21,000
by looking at them only from ground level?

1008
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:28,000
It took a tremendous leap of imagination to make these large models on the ground,

1009
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:34,000
which they themselves presumably did not see, not being able to fly.

1010
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:40,000
But perhaps they were able to fly, argued Jim Woodman, a British author and explorer.

1011
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:46,000
To prove his point, Woodman hired Peruvian craftsmen to stitch together a hot-air balloon

1012
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:50,000
from materials that would have been available centuries ago.

1013
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:54,000
A raging campfire provided the requisite hot air.

1014
01:10:58,000 --> 01:11:03,000
Perhaps for the first time in centuries, Nazca's figures were being viewed as intended,

1015
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:07,000
from a hot-air balloon hundreds of feet above the desert.

1016
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:15,000
However, many scientists still believe that the markings are meant to be experienced at ground level.

1017
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:20,000
The straight lines look like roadways.

1018
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:23,000
They start from someplace, they lead to someplace.

1019
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:29,000
So the idea that the lines are meant to be walked on seems to me to be a much more feasible one

1020
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:32,000
than the notion that somebody had to look at them from above.

1021
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:39,000
The animals are made out of a single, sinuous, continuous line that begins and ends at the same point.

1022
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:48,000
I can imagine that a worshipper of a deity would walk around one of these animal figures

1023
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:52,000
to pray to the god or gods that had to do with that animal,

1024
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:57,000
that probably some invocation to the gods would have happened here.

1025
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:05,000
Maybe it's because in our culture we give a very high priority to visual experience,

1026
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:11,000
that we want to think that ultimately we have to be able to explain how these people saw the lines

1027
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:16,000
in order for there to be a rational explanation for them.

1028
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:23,000
And I think here that maybe we reflect more of our own interests and the limitations of our own point of view

1029
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:28,000
than any kind of limitation that might have existed for the Nazca people.

1030
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:34,000
In the end, there are no answers.

1031
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:39,000
Those who created the wondrous artworks of Nazca have been dead now for centuries,

1032
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:42,000
buried in tombs that ring the plateau.

1033
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:46,000
Over the years their bones have been carelessly scattered by grave robbers.

1034
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:53,000
However, the ancient mysteries of Nazca will in all likelihood remain undisturbed forever.

1035
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:10,000
Usually when we hear that a person in some remote community is at a UFO sighting,

1036
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:13,000
we respond with a smile and a shake of the head.

1037
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:17,000
When three or four credible people report seeing a mysterious craft,

1038
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:20,000
we may pay just slightly more attention.

1039
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:24,000
But when thousands of people claim to have seen the same strange object

1040
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:26,000
and hundreds provide videotape evidence,

1041
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:29,000
we may begin to think that maybe, just maybe,

1042
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:32,000
there is more than a grain of truth to the reports,

1043
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:37,000
which brings us to the fantastic saga of the Mexico UFOs.

1044
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:45,000
July 11, 1991, the last total eclipse of the sun in this century,

1045
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:51,000
perhaps the most spectacular celestial event of the past 200 years.

1046
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:57,000
For the residents of Mexico City, the eclipse prompted a festive celebration.

1047
01:13:57,000 --> 01:14:01,000
Thousands took to the streets as one of the world's largest cities

1048
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:05,000
plunged into total darkness in the middle of broad daylight.

1049
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:12,000
No one imagined that the entire country was about to be swept up in a wave of UFO hysteria.

1050
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:17,000
That afternoon, a television executive named Guillermo Aragin

1051
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:22,000
was videotaping the eclipse when he noticed an unusual object overhead.

1052
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:25,000
It was presented on the news.

1053
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:30,000
It was said that a very strange object was over Mexico City,

1054
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:32,000
but nobody said what it was.

1055
01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:37,000
When I saw it, I said, oh my God, this is a UFO, a real UFO.

1056
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:40,000
I mean, you can look at it, you can look the video,

1057
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:43,000
and be absolutely convinced what are you looking at.

1058
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:49,000
Jaime Mauson is one of Mexico's most respected television journalists.

1059
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:53,000
For the past nine years, he has produced, directed and hosted

1060
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:57,000
Mexico's edition of 60 Minutes or 60 Minutos.

1061
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:02,000
Eight days after the eclipse, Jaime presented the Aragin footage

1062
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:05,000
as part of a special UFO broadcast.

1063
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:08,000
The network was inundated with phone calls.

1064
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:13,000
We asked the people in Mexico to bring their videos to us

1065
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:17,000
because we like to see if in the eclipse they had recorded the same stuff.

1066
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:23,000
The telephone lines blew up, I mean, 40,000 calls at the same time.

1067
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:27,000
Then the system was completely shut out.

1068
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:31,000
We received more than 15 videos, and we now know for sure

1069
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:34,000
that at least in seven of them we can see the same,

1070
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:38,000
exactly the same ship that was recorded by Guillermo Aragin.

1071
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:43,000
One of the many videos was sent by Eric Aguilar,

1072
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:47,000
a 19-year-old student at National University of Mexico.

1073
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:50,000
He was setting up to film the eclipse from a rooftop

1074
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:54,000
when his girlfriend spotted something unusual in the sky.

1075
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:00,000
We all turned to look.

1076
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:05,000
My girlfriend commented that it was a UFO, but we thought it was a joke.

1077
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:09,000
No one really believed her when she said she saw a UFO.

1078
01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:14,000
But within moments, they all decided that the object was not a joke at all.

1079
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:19,000
At first, all we saw was a white dot in the sky.

1080
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:22,000
That's all we could see in the beginning.

1081
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:28,000
Later, we saw that this dot was shining brightly.

1082
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:32,000
It must have been a very bright star.

1083
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:35,000
And we didn't realize it at first.

1084
01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:38,000
We didn't realize it until we saw the videotape later.

1085
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:41,000
We saw that this dot,

1086
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,000
it wasn't a dot anymore.

1087
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:47,000
It was a larger object, and it was giving off light.

1088
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:50,000
It was shining.

1089
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:54,000
At virtually the same time, 60 miles from Mexico City,

1090
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:59,000
a businessman named Luis Lara photographed a similar object.

1091
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:06,000
As I raised the camera, you could see something in the clouds.

1092
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:08,000
And it was a metal object,

1093
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:12,000
and it looked like it was made of two plates.

1094
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:16,000
You can distinguish a dome and it turned on its own axis.

1095
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:21,000
It was silver-plated, a color like aluminum.

1096
01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:24,000
You could see clearly it's not a star.

1097
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:27,000
It's a UFO because it had a shadow underneath.

1098
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:32,000
If it were a star or a planet, you would see clearly that it would be completely luminous.

1099
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:36,000
But this one had a little shadow underneath.

1100
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:41,000
Yet another video was shot by the Breton family in Puebla,

1101
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:45,000
a city 80 miles east of Mexico City.

1102
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:53,000
Magnifying the Breton video revealed an odd wave-like disturbance behind the pulsating disc,

1103
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:56,000
perhaps some kind of energy trail.

1104
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:03,000
Jaime Maussan enhanced the Arragine footage and captured the video.

1105
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:08,000
The objects, the photographed nearly 100 miles apart, were remarkably similar in every aspect.

1106
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:18,000
The video from Puebla was absolutely identical to the one we had seen with Arragine in Mexico.

1107
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:21,000
It was for the first time in history.

1108
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:27,000
Never before you had a tape of two UFOs in two different places at exactly the same moment.

1109
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:32,000
The videos caused a sensation throughout Mexico, but the UFO craze was just beginning.

1110
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:42,000
Two months later, an engineer named Vicente Sanchez took his video camera to a military air show in Mexico City.

1111
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:48,000
I was following one of the planes and I saw a shiny dot in the camera.

1112
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:51,000
I saw a light, and I saw a light.

1113
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:56,000
I was following one of the planes and I saw a shiny dot in the camera.

1114
01:18:56,000 --> 01:19:00,000
I didn't know what it was, but it seemed to be moving.

1115
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:07,000
It was undulating, so I let the planes go off and I focused more on this shiny dot in the sky.

1116
01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:18,000
What I saw was a bright, round object, about 10 meters in diameter.

1117
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:24,000
It was made of silver, was shining very brightly, and reflected the sunlight a lot.

1118
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:31,000
It didn't fly like a plane, it was undulated.

1119
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:35,000
The object appeared, undulated, and moved around very quickly.

1120
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:41,000
A year later, a similar object was videotaped at the same air show.

1121
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:46,000
This time the disc descended rapidly and mysteriously disappeared.

1122
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:54,000
By the time the 1993 air show rolled around, people anticipated another sighting.

1123
01:19:54,000 --> 01:20:01,000
Sure enough, just as a squadron of helicopters flew by, the familiar metallic disc appeared.

1124
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:08,000
It was traveling against the wind, so much so that had it been a balloon,

1125
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:12,000
considering the force of the helicopter blades, it would have crashed.

1126
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:18,000
But no, it kept on its path very, very straight and steady, till it got lost in the sky.

1127
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:26,000
Optical enhancement of this video seems to reveal that the object crossed in close proximity to the helicopters.

1128
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:31,000
Curiously, the military has consistently declined to address the matter.

1129
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:36,000
The military hasn't made any comment on that sighting or any sighting,

1130
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:43,000
and there are many more where we can relate the military or military planes to videos.

1131
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:49,000
However, we haven't had any kind of answer from them.

1132
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:57,000
Since the eclipse in July of 1991, there have been thousands of sightings throughout Mexico.

1133
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:02,000
There is no clear pattern, although the great majority have occurred in and around Mexico City.

1134
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:08,000
The witnesses range from pilots to doctors to bus drivers and even school children.

1135
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:17,000
These drawings are made by a class of fifth graders who allegedly saw UFOs in March of 1993.

1136
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:25,000
The pictures are strikingly similar in detail, three shining lights with the brightest light in the center.

1137
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:41,000
The objects were silver with red. One of them was coming down, and the other one that you could see in the sky was silver.

1138
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:47,000
When they were a little lower, you could see the shape of the objects.

1139
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:51,000
They were like saucers with a dome, everything silver.

1140
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:58,000
And though it was harder to see, there seemed to be a kind of reddish magnetic field all around it.

1141
01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:05,000
We haven't found a single reason why these little kids made this story up.

1142
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:12,000
There were so many, and when you talk to them, you can feel the honesty that they transmit.

1143
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:16,000
They are just little kids. They don't care about the UFO conspiracy.

1144
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:21,000
They don't care about if they are real or not. They saw what they saw.

1145
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:28,000
People really like UFOs. People really believe in UFOs.

1146
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:35,000
And we are now convinced that we are living an incredible experience as a country, as a society.

1147
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:44,000
Because it's everywhere. It's not just one people. It's many people with their eyes in the sky and a camera in their hands.

1148
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:50,000
Now it's the video era, and the video is going to solve the UFO mystery.

1149
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:57,000
Are the Mexico UFOs real? It is difficult to deny the startling images captured on videotape.

1150
01:22:57,000 --> 01:23:03,000
Though a determined skeptic would no doubt find some basis to discount the entire episode.

1151
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:10,000
But for those who have actually witnessed the mysterious objects in the skies over Mexico, seeing is believing.

1152
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:24,000
UFO sightings can usually be explained away as airplane lights, weather balloons, military maneuvers, even mass hysteria.

1153
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:31,000
Sightings sometimes gain credibility when they are supported by photographs, which cannot be written off as obvious hoaxes.

1154
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:36,000
All of these photographs and thousands like them have been taken over the last 16 years in Canada.

1155
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:43,000
They baffle even the harshest skeptic and raise two elegantly simple questions. How and why?

1156
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:51,000
Vancouver, British Columbia, on the Pacific coast of Canada.

1157
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:57,000
For 35 years, this city has reported an inordinate number of UFO sightings.

1158
01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:03,000
The most frequent and well documented of the sightings have all been attributed to one woman,

1159
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:07,000
Dorothy Isat, a homemaker and mother of four.

1160
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:15,000
Dorothy's first sighting occurred 16 years ago on November 9, 1974. She was 52 years old.

1161
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:23,000
I was in the kitchen fixing myself a cup of tea.

1162
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:29,000
And I had a sensation that something was watching me.

1163
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:34,000
Very, very strong feeling.

1164
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:40,000
So I went over to the window and here was this enormous object sitting up in the sky.

1165
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:46,000
It looked like an enormous diamond. It was just flashing, going around and around and around.

1166
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:55,000
It was so beautiful to look at that I felt I was really lifted up. It was absolutely a wonderful feeling.

1167
01:24:55,000 --> 01:25:01,000
I wasn't afraid at all. I felt really privileged to be able to see something like that.

1168
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:08,000
At that time, Dorothy and her family lived in Richmond, a modest suburb of Vancouver.

1169
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:12,000
They considered themselves average working class people.

1170
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:17,000
Dorothy's husband and children took her UFO sightings lightly, almost as a joke.

1171
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:24,000
Their skepticism motivated Dorothy to prove that what she had seen was not simply a star or an airplane.

1172
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:31,000
I said, I must find some way of communicating with this thing up there.

1173
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:38,000
So I picked up a flashlight and said, all right, whatever I do with this flashlight, would you please imitate me?

1174
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:45,000
So I flashed the light three times to the left and this object went three times to the left.

1175
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:50,000
Then I flashed it three times to the right and the object went three times to the right.

1176
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:56,000
Then I went three times upwards, he went three times upwards, three times downwards, he went three times downwards.

1177
01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:59,000
He was doing everything and zigzagging and he went zigzag.

1178
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:03,000
So I said, I'm not imagining this. I said, this is really happening. So it's intelligent.

1179
01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:10,000
Dorothy was amazed that the light seemed to be trying to communicate with her.

1180
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:16,000
So she attempted to capture them on film. The results would be startling.

1181
01:26:21,000 --> 01:26:27,000
What I saw in the sky was just round objects of light, round balls of light.

1182
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:35,000
But what was on the film, you'll see the balls of light, but after a couple of frames there will be this enormous blast of light.

1183
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:41,000
This is actual footage from Dorothy's super eight millimeter home movies.

1184
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:55,000
On her home viewer, Dorothy inched the film back and forth until she isolated a single bright frame.

1185
01:26:55,000 --> 01:27:00,000
What had at first appeared to be a simple flash of light was actually a maze of colored streaks.

1186
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:07,000
Oddly, the light did not spill over onto adjacent frames.

1187
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:19,000
I noticed that while I'm filming these objects, they'll suddenly stop and I'll notice one object like shooting out a little beam at the other object.

1188
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:22,000
And that object will be shooting out a little beam back at it.

1189
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:27,000
And so I guess there must be messages or something that they're passing back and forth on these beams of light.

1190
01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:32,000
And then when I get it developed, I'll find all these strange one frame shots on it.

1191
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:41,000
Dorothy had the single frames of film blown up into photographs, bright kinetic beams careened in all directions.

1192
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:45,000
She also blew up frames of the mysterious balls of light.

1193
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:49,000
These photographs began to show more and more curious detail.

1194
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:52,000
Sometimes they'll beam the light down at me.

1195
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:58,000
They'll just beam this enormous light down at me, you know, and I'll be all lit up with this light.

1196
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:06,000
I used to ask them to come closer and closer because I wanted better shots and they did, you know, like come closer and closer.

1197
01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:15,000
I don't think she's lying about what she's doing. I feel that she's quite sincere.

1198
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:24,000
On the other hand, I'm not able to assess her photographs professionally because that's not part of my expertise.

1199
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:31,000
But her personality make up would make me believe that she's not making things up.

1200
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:38,000
Like most UFO sightings, Dorothy's experiences and her photographs seem to defy conventional logic.

1201
01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:44,000
She says she used three different cameras. Each one yielded similar results.

1202
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:50,000
We asked a photography expert to evaluate Dorothy's film.

1203
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:55,000
I have seen several similar examples of photography like this.

1204
01:28:55,000 --> 01:29:01,000
Light sources in the sky with dark backgrounds are quite easy to manipulate.

1205
01:29:01,000 --> 01:29:08,000
But these are more extraordinary in the sense that they were done with an 8mm camera, a motion picture camera, rather than a still camera.

1206
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:12,000
And they have so many different types of effects.

1207
01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:20,000
There's images that I can't explain at all. Explain how the lights got into the individual frames.

1208
01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:30,000
I can suggest ways that they could have been put in intentionally, but no ways that they could accidentally have been placed into the film.

1209
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:37,000
I believe that these images were produced by natural occurring phenomenon in the night sky.

1210
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:42,000
And not by extraterrestrial beings or unexplained objects.

1211
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:52,000
Despite endless skepticism from the scientific community, Dorothy Isat has become an internationally known figure in the world of UFOs.

1212
01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:57,000
As Dorothy's fame spread, people often came to visit her in Vancouver.

1213
01:29:57,000 --> 01:30:01,000
One of them was Jerry Mackay, a planning and marketing consultant.

1214
01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:06,000
He had read an article about Dorothy and felt strongly that he had to meet her.

1215
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:13,000
I was interested enough and moved enough by that article that I really did just want to find out more for my own interest sake.

1216
01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:17,000
I think it's healthy to be skeptical because I was myself.

1217
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:22,000
I didn't have any previous experience with the subject matter at all.

1218
01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:28,000
I didn't even realize up until that point that I had as much of an interest with it as it's turned out that I do.

1219
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:34,000
These are like daytime type shots, or they look like it, or is it just the type of lighting or whatever?

1220
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:39,000
Well, I was told to try and get some pictures in the daytime as well, and that's why I got these.

1221
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:49,000
I was listening very intently to what she was saying, at which time I noticed that I was hearing some kind of audible sensing thing that was happening only in my right ear.

1222
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:51,000
So that they know it's solid and it's not just...

1223
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:56,000
Excuse me, Dorothy, I don't mean to interrupt you, but I'm getting a strange sensation in my ear here.

1224
01:30:56,000 --> 01:30:58,000
So I'm sort of losing what you're saying.

1225
01:30:58,000 --> 01:31:00,000
You can hear that?

1226
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:03,000
And I looked at her and I said, yes, I can. What is it?

1227
01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:09,000
And this brilliant beam of smile went from ear to ear on her face.

1228
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:15,000
And I remember the look that she gave me, and she said, they're here.

1229
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:23,000
Jerry Mackay was the first person to say he actually heard the same thing that Dorothy heard.

1230
01:31:27,000 --> 01:31:32,000
I don't think any more than 15 or 20 seconds went by and she said, do you see it?

1231
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:34,000
Do you see it, Jerry?

1232
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:36,000
No, I don't see anything.

1233
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:37,000
Where are you looking?

1234
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:39,000
I'm looking straight ahead across the Cypress Bowl.

1235
01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:43,000
She goes, no, no, look over here to the left where I am.

1236
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:44,000
You see it? I'm kind of seeing it.

1237
01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:54,000
To my complete shock and amazement, what appeared to be sitting right out in front of the window just to our left was a hard metallic object.

1238
01:31:54,000 --> 01:31:59,000
I remember the feeling was so intense, it was like I was standing in a vacuum and all my hair was standing on it.

1239
01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:08,000
And as soon as it disappeared, Dorothy let out a giggle that was like, there you go.

1240
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:10,000
What do you think of that?

1241
01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:14,000
Jerry commissioned an artist to draw what he and Dorothy had seen.

1242
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:17,000
He says he was completely overwhelmed.

1243
01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:20,000
It did not occur to him to try to photograph the object.

1244
01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:31,000
Dorothy has accumulated more than 25 hours of film and has had blow-ups made of 3,000 frames.

1245
01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:41,000
Her enthusiasm remains unabated and she continues to film, hoping that she can one day decipher the meaning, if any, of the lights.

1246
01:32:41,000 --> 01:32:45,000
I feel there is some sort of message in there for us.

1247
01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:48,000
They're trying to tell us something from these pictures.

1248
01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:55,000
It seems like they're coming closer and closer all the time compared to the first pictures I used to take.

1249
01:32:55,000 --> 01:33:02,000
And each picture now that I'm getting is far more vivid. It varies all the time.

1250
01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:09,000
My mission is to just keep filming, I guess, and receiving these pictures for as long as I am able to.

1251
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:15,000
And hope that one day someone or somewhere will be able to understand what it's all about.

1252
01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:20,000
When Unsolved Mysteries visited Dorothy Isat's home in Vancouver, she told us the lights were there

1253
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:23,000
and she filmed them with a super 8mm camera.

1254
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:27,000
We could not see the lights, but our cameraman attempted to film them anyway.

1255
01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:31,000
He also asked Dorothy to take a picture of the lights she had taken.

1256
01:33:31,000 --> 01:33:34,000
Dorothy is a photographer, and she is a photographer.

1257
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:37,000
She is a photographer, and she is a photographer.

1258
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:40,000
She is a photographer, and she is a photographer.

1259
01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:44,000
We could not see the lights, but our cameraman attempted to film them anyway.

1260
01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:47,000
He also asked Dorothy to operate his camera.

1261
01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:52,000
The film from Dorothy's 8mm camera showed the usual brilliant light patterns.

1262
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:57,000
When we developed our film, we did find one tiny, unidentifiable light in the sky.

1263
01:33:57,000 --> 01:34:01,000
But it exhibited none of the characteristic scene in Dorothy's photographs.