1 00:00:05,042 --> 00:00:07,208 [Narrator] Tonight, on Monsterquest. 2 00:00:08,250 --> 00:00:09,875 [in distorted voice] Not all monsters emerge 3 00:00:09,958 --> 00:00:11,458 from the woods. 4 00:00:11,542 --> 00:00:14,708 Sometimes, they come from above. 5 00:00:14,792 --> 00:00:17,250 [MJ] The men say they start furiously paddling back 6 00:00:17,333 --> 00:00:19,500 to shore, racing to get away from this orb. 7 00:00:19,583 --> 00:00:21,417 [Narrator] These are the chilling accounts 8 00:00:21,542 --> 00:00:23,958 of those who claim sightings in the skies. 9 00:00:24,042 --> 00:00:27,375 I hadn't seen anything like it in all of humanity. 10 00:00:27,458 --> 00:00:30,000 [Narrator] Encounters so strange, 11 00:00:30,083 --> 00:00:32,917 they left witnesses questioning their reality. 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000 [Jim] My thoughts when I first see 13 00:00:35,125 --> 00:00:36,750 this thing is just... 14 00:00:36,833 --> 00:00:38,625 absolute terror. 15 00:00:41,208 --> 00:00:43,333 [Narrator] For many centuries, people have reported 16 00:00:43,417 --> 00:00:47,042 strange and sometimes terrifying encounters 17 00:00:47,125 --> 00:00:49,458 with what they describe as monsters. 18 00:00:49,542 --> 00:00:53,000 Its eyes just lit up in the moon, and we're like... 19 00:00:53,083 --> 00:00:55,417 That is nothing I've ever seen. 20 00:00:56,875 --> 00:00:59,208 If I try to run, I'd be dead. 21 00:00:59,333 --> 00:01:01,167 [Narrator] Now, for the first time, 22 00:01:01,208 --> 00:01:04,042 some are sharing their experiences. 23 00:01:04,125 --> 00:01:07,125 Is there a pattern to their encounters? 24 00:01:07,208 --> 00:01:09,083 It was just terrifying. 25 00:01:10,542 --> 00:01:12,833 [Narrator] And if so, what could it mean? 26 00:01:12,875 --> 00:01:16,708 ♪ 27 00:01:18,875 --> 00:01:21,792 [Narrator] The Allagash wilderness in northern Maine 28 00:01:21,917 --> 00:01:25,042 is one of the most isolated areas in the country. 29 00:01:26,042 --> 00:01:28,583 But for decades, reports have described 30 00:01:28,667 --> 00:01:32,458 unexplained objects moving through these dark skies. 31 00:01:33,542 --> 00:01:35,833 There have been over 1,000 sightings 32 00:01:35,875 --> 00:01:37,833 over the last 40 years. 33 00:01:37,875 --> 00:01:39,292 With the first UFO reports 34 00:01:39,375 --> 00:01:42,333 from this area dating back to 1946. 35 00:01:45,250 --> 00:01:49,125 [Narrator] Some sightings became impossible to ignore, 36 00:01:49,208 --> 00:01:51,125 like a mysterious craft intruding 37 00:01:51,208 --> 00:01:54,458 on Loring Air Force base in 1975... 38 00:01:55,667 --> 00:01:58,792 or an alleged UFO crash across the Gulf of Maine 39 00:01:58,875 --> 00:02:02,083 in Shag Harbor that sent military search teams 40 00:02:02,208 --> 00:02:03,750 racing to the scene. 41 00:02:06,208 --> 00:02:09,500 But of all the alleged sightings here over the years, 42 00:02:09,542 --> 00:02:12,333 no story captured the world's attention more 43 00:02:12,417 --> 00:02:15,000 than when four college students claimed 44 00:02:15,083 --> 00:02:17,083 they were abducted by aliens. 45 00:02:18,542 --> 00:02:21,792 The press dubbed them, "the Allagash Four," 46 00:02:21,875 --> 00:02:24,000 and the men would go on to share their story 47 00:02:24,083 --> 00:02:25,833 in countless interviews. 48 00:02:25,833 --> 00:02:28,792 Here to tell their story for the first time on television... 49 00:02:28,875 --> 00:02:30,500 Through all of these interviews, 50 00:02:30,583 --> 00:02:34,333 the men all consistently tell the same story, 51 00:02:34,417 --> 00:02:37,958 which they say starts back in 1976. 52 00:02:38,042 --> 00:02:41,500 ♪♪ 53 00:02:41,542 --> 00:02:44,792 [Narrator] The Allagash four, Jim and Jack Weiner, 54 00:02:44,875 --> 00:02:48,000 and their friends Chuck Rak and Charlie Foltz, 55 00:02:48,083 --> 00:02:50,000 are Boston College students 56 00:02:50,125 --> 00:02:52,042 who decide to spend a week camping 57 00:02:52,125 --> 00:02:53,750 in the Allagash Wilderness. 58 00:02:55,083 --> 00:02:57,125 They set up next to a large body of water 59 00:02:57,208 --> 00:02:58,917 called Eagle Lake. 60 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,417 ♪ 61 00:03:05,375 --> 00:03:06,833 [Hakeem] On the fourth night of the trip, 62 00:03:06,833 --> 00:03:08,958 the friends decide to make use of this canoe 63 00:03:09,042 --> 00:03:11,833 they've rented, to try night fishing out on the lake. 64 00:03:11,917 --> 00:03:16,542 ♪♪ 65 00:03:18,375 --> 00:03:20,958 Chuck Rak claims that they were out on the water 66 00:03:21,083 --> 00:03:25,167 for just a short period of time before he felt this sensation 67 00:03:25,250 --> 00:03:26,917 of being watched. 68 00:03:28,667 --> 00:03:31,708 Suddenly, they see a giant ball of light 69 00:03:31,833 --> 00:03:33,750 just above the horizon behind them. 70 00:03:33,875 --> 00:03:38,792 ♪ 71 00:03:38,875 --> 00:03:41,042 [Narrator] The men claim the large orb had a, 72 00:03:41,042 --> 00:03:45,958 "Rolling light effect to it, like a bright miniature sun." 73 00:03:47,125 --> 00:03:49,208 Chuck is holding a flashlight at this point, 74 00:03:49,292 --> 00:03:51,792 and decides to start waving it at the orb. 75 00:03:53,333 --> 00:03:56,333 They all say that, immediately after Chuck does this, 76 00:03:57,542 --> 00:03:59,583 a beam of light comes out of the orb 77 00:03:59,667 --> 00:04:01,458 and illuminates their canoe. 78 00:04:03,542 --> 00:04:05,208 Terrified, the men say they start 79 00:04:05,292 --> 00:04:07,167 furiously paddling back to shore, 80 00:04:07,250 --> 00:04:08,875 racing to get away from this orb. 81 00:04:10,875 --> 00:04:13,375 They can see the shore, when all of a sudden, 82 00:04:13,458 --> 00:04:15,167 everything goes black. 83 00:04:15,208 --> 00:04:19,792 ♪ 84 00:04:19,875 --> 00:04:21,792 [Holly] The men all say that the next memory 85 00:04:21,875 --> 00:04:24,792 that they have is standing on the shoreline, 86 00:04:24,875 --> 00:04:26,750 and they have no idea how they got there. 87 00:04:27,875 --> 00:04:30,167 [MJ] They say they all estimate they were only out 88 00:04:30,208 --> 00:04:32,667 on the lake for about 20 minutes or so, 89 00:04:32,750 --> 00:04:35,167 but that when they make it back to camp, 90 00:04:35,292 --> 00:04:38,083 their bonfire has burned down to coals, 91 00:04:38,167 --> 00:04:39,708 as if they've been gone for hours. 92 00:04:40,667 --> 00:04:42,500 None of them can seem to account 93 00:04:42,625 --> 00:04:44,500 for this missing chunk of time. 94 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,500 The guys all graduate college, they get married, 95 00:04:48,583 --> 00:04:51,167 start families, and they go their separate ways. 96 00:04:52,167 --> 00:04:55,000 [Narrator] But 12 years later, Jack Weiner says he starts 97 00:04:55,042 --> 00:04:58,500 having recurring nightmares of all four men being trapped 98 00:04:58,542 --> 00:05:02,125 in a sterile room, surrounded by strange beings 99 00:05:02,208 --> 00:05:05,833 with, quote, "Long necks, large hands, 100 00:05:05,917 --> 00:05:08,917 and metallic glowing eyes with no lids." 101 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,125 And that's where the story really starts to turn, 102 00:05:13,208 --> 00:05:16,500 because Jim tells him that he's been having the same type 103 00:05:16,583 --> 00:05:19,208 of nightmares, with all four men paralyzed 104 00:05:19,292 --> 00:05:22,333 in this room, unable to escape. 105 00:05:22,417 --> 00:05:24,333 [Narrator] Haunted by what they saw, 106 00:05:24,417 --> 00:05:26,875 the men set out to find answers. 107 00:05:26,958 --> 00:05:29,000 Jim spearheads an effort to get to the bottom 108 00:05:29,167 --> 00:05:30,792 of what happened. 109 00:05:30,875 --> 00:05:32,500 He says he eventually reaches out to a researcher 110 00:05:32,583 --> 00:05:34,417 named Ray Fowler. 111 00:05:34,542 --> 00:05:37,417 Ray Fowler is an author who is widely regarded 112 00:05:37,542 --> 00:05:40,750 as an expert on the subject of alien encounters. 113 00:05:40,875 --> 00:05:43,292 His experience and expertise began 114 00:05:43,292 --> 00:05:44,958 when he was a lead investigator 115 00:05:45,042 --> 00:05:47,042 on a project for the National Investigative Committee 116 00:05:47,125 --> 00:05:48,708 for Aerial Phenomenon. 117 00:05:50,292 --> 00:05:52,208 [Narrator] Ray Fowler suggests the men go 118 00:05:52,333 --> 00:05:54,750 under hypnosis separately. 119 00:05:54,875 --> 00:05:57,333 And in each individual session, 120 00:05:57,417 --> 00:06:00,750 all four end up describing similar experiences. 121 00:06:01,917 --> 00:06:04,500 [MJ] In Jim's session, he says they're trapped 122 00:06:04,583 --> 00:06:07,667 in this room, and none of them know what to do. 123 00:06:07,708 --> 00:06:10,000 He's stuck on this gurney and sees these beings 124 00:06:10,083 --> 00:06:11,750 approaching him. 125 00:06:13,250 --> 00:06:14,833 Says he feels scared and also angry, 126 00:06:14,875 --> 00:06:17,708 like they shouldn't be doing this, he recalls. 127 00:06:17,792 --> 00:06:20,375 But he claims he's helpless to move. 128 00:06:21,667 --> 00:06:25,250 In Jack's account, he says, "They're right there. 129 00:06:25,333 --> 00:06:27,958 Their faces are right in my face." 130 00:06:28,042 --> 00:06:30,875 Like Jim, he can't move. 131 00:06:30,958 --> 00:06:32,917 Charlie describes the room they're trapped in 132 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,375 like a doctor's office. He recalls the beings 133 00:06:35,458 --> 00:06:38,625 putting a panel over his chest, and that while 134 00:06:38,708 --> 00:06:41,542 he was restrained, they scraped his arms and legs. 135 00:06:42,750 --> 00:06:45,333 He just kept thinking, "We shouldn't be here. 136 00:06:45,417 --> 00:06:47,500 I want to be back on the canoe." 137 00:06:48,542 --> 00:06:50,667 [Holly] Charlie says Chuck has his head way back, 138 00:06:50,708 --> 00:06:52,625 like he's in pain, but they're unable 139 00:06:52,708 --> 00:06:56,083 to help him. All they can do is watch. 140 00:07:00,042 --> 00:07:02,000 [Narrator] Ray Fowler goes on to publish a book 141 00:07:02,042 --> 00:07:05,167 about the Allagash Sessions in 1993, 142 00:07:06,625 --> 00:07:09,333 bringing more public attention to the story. 143 00:07:09,417 --> 00:07:12,417 But with attention comes scrutiny. 144 00:07:14,625 --> 00:07:16,958 After the men make the rounds on several talk shows, 145 00:07:17,042 --> 00:07:19,583 many skeptics say it's either all a hoax, 146 00:07:19,667 --> 00:07:21,500 or that maybe the memories had been implanted 147 00:07:21,625 --> 00:07:23,500 due to the hypnosis. 148 00:07:23,583 --> 00:07:25,250 But the men never waver on their stories. 149 00:07:25,375 --> 00:07:27,458 It didn't make any sound at all. 150 00:07:27,542 --> 00:07:29,750 There was no sound. Totally silent. 151 00:07:29,875 --> 00:07:31,500 [Micah] They even take polygraph tests 152 00:07:31,583 --> 00:07:33,458 to back up their claims. 153 00:07:33,542 --> 00:07:36,625 There is absolutely, positively, no doubt in my mind 154 00:07:36,708 --> 00:07:38,667 that they are being absolutely honest with me. 155 00:07:40,542 --> 00:07:42,667 [Narrator] To this day, the men stand by 156 00:07:42,750 --> 00:07:45,125 the remarkable story of their alleged abduction. 157 00:07:46,708 --> 00:07:48,917 And they're far from the only ones who claim 158 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,667 to have seen something strange in the skies, 159 00:07:51,792 --> 00:07:54,083 or taken great pains to understand it. 160 00:07:55,833 --> 00:07:58,458 Hundreds of miles south, one man would soon find 161 00:07:58,542 --> 00:08:00,125 himself among them. 162 00:08:02,542 --> 00:08:05,500 On the southern tip of the Appalachian mountain range 163 00:08:05,583 --> 00:08:08,125 sits the small town of Fyffe, Alabama. 164 00:08:09,208 --> 00:08:13,500 In 1989, more than 50 of the town's residents, 165 00:08:13,583 --> 00:08:15,333 including the police chief, 166 00:08:15,417 --> 00:08:19,833 report a massive triangular craft hovering in the skies. 167 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:23,708 [Hakeem] The bizarre incident hits the news, 168 00:08:23,792 --> 00:08:27,167 and catapults Fyffe into the national spotlight. 169 00:08:27,208 --> 00:08:30,917 The Fyffe sighting become one of the most well documented 170 00:08:31,042 --> 00:08:33,833 mass sightings of a UFO in the American South. 171 00:08:33,917 --> 00:08:36,875 After the story comes out, the US military suggests 172 00:08:36,958 --> 00:08:40,458 that the low-flying silent craft people saw that night 173 00:08:40,583 --> 00:08:43,792 might have been helicopters flying in formation. 174 00:08:43,875 --> 00:08:46,917 But of the 50 plus people who spotted the unusual object, 175 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,542 not a single one reported rotor noise. 176 00:08:52,375 --> 00:08:53,792 One of the defining characteristics 177 00:08:53,875 --> 00:08:55,708 that the witnesses said they saw, 178 00:08:55,708 --> 00:08:57,667 really one of the main things that convinced them 179 00:08:57,708 --> 00:08:59,708 these objects were not man made, 180 00:08:59,792 --> 00:09:02,208 is that they could hover in the sky completely silently. 181 00:09:03,667 --> 00:09:05,750 [Narrator] Jim Powell is one of many Fyffe locals 182 00:09:05,833 --> 00:09:09,542 who grows up hearing about the town's famous UFO sighting. 183 00:09:11,042 --> 00:09:14,917 For him, the story hits closer to home. 184 00:09:17,125 --> 00:09:19,667 When all this was kind of in its height going on, 185 00:09:19,708 --> 00:09:22,083 my father in law, he saw a light out in the field. 186 00:09:24,875 --> 00:09:26,750 So, he starts walking up to this thing. 187 00:09:28,125 --> 00:09:30,500 And when he gets close, he says that a beam 188 00:09:30,625 --> 00:09:33,333 of light shoots out, hits him in the forehead. 189 00:09:33,417 --> 00:09:36,667 ♪ 190 00:09:36,667 --> 00:09:39,000 That is the last thing that he remembers. 191 00:09:39,083 --> 00:09:41,917 He remembers waking up that morning, 192 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,000 in the middle of his field, with nothing around him, 193 00:09:45,083 --> 00:09:47,792 and he's just scared out of his mind. 194 00:09:52,083 --> 00:09:53,667 [Narrator] The alleged incident with Jim's 195 00:09:53,792 --> 00:09:55,917 father-in-law happens just miles 196 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,958 from where Jim lives with his wife. 197 00:09:58,917 --> 00:10:01,792 He becomes fascinated by a dangerous idea... 198 00:10:02,917 --> 00:10:06,000 recreating his father-in-law's encounter. 199 00:10:06,125 --> 00:10:09,000 I mean, yeah, I love a good mystery. 200 00:10:09,083 --> 00:10:11,083 You know, this is the biggest mystery of them all. 201 00:10:12,083 --> 00:10:13,917 I wanted my own experience with it. 202 00:10:14,042 --> 00:10:16,583 ♪♪ 203 00:10:16,708 --> 00:10:18,667 [Narrator] Through his research, he discovers 204 00:10:18,750 --> 00:10:21,458 an app claiming to make telepathic communication 205 00:10:21,542 --> 00:10:23,083 possible. 206 00:10:23,167 --> 00:10:24,792 [Powell] With the app, it was basically 207 00:10:24,875 --> 00:10:26,708 like a guided meditation video. 208 00:10:26,833 --> 00:10:28,292 You're basically just clearing your mind, 209 00:10:28,375 --> 00:10:31,750 and you're trying to project your consciousness out, 210 00:10:31,833 --> 00:10:33,333 to the point where it feels like you're no longer 211 00:10:33,375 --> 00:10:35,333 in your body. 212 00:10:35,375 --> 00:10:38,292 I was very skeptical of it. I have an aversion to anything 213 00:10:38,375 --> 00:10:43,167 that sounds new-age-y, crystals and stuff like that. 214 00:10:43,208 --> 00:10:45,375 But yet, I've got nothing else to do. 215 00:10:45,500 --> 00:10:47,125 Let's try it! 216 00:10:49,042 --> 00:10:52,167 [Narrator] It's a decision he'll soon come to regret. 217 00:10:52,250 --> 00:10:55,000 I didn't know it would be the biggest mistake of my life. 218 00:10:59,875 --> 00:11:03,583 [Narrator] In 2014, 25 years after his small town 219 00:11:03,667 --> 00:11:06,083 is allegedly visited by a mysterious object 220 00:11:06,167 --> 00:11:10,250 in the skies, Jim Powell is trying to engineer 221 00:11:10,333 --> 00:11:14,417 his own close encounter, using a meditation app. 222 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:18,000 [Powell] The first night when I try this meditation, 223 00:11:18,125 --> 00:11:19,917 I felt like I was able to travel like a rocket 224 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,292 out there, into the blackness of space. 225 00:11:23,958 --> 00:11:25,958 And eventually, I come into contact 226 00:11:26,042 --> 00:11:30,917 with a very large-looking creature. 227 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,083 It was eight-foot tall or so, pitch-black skin. 228 00:11:35,833 --> 00:11:38,000 Eventually, I just pass out. 229 00:11:38,042 --> 00:11:39,667 When I woke up, I was like, "Wow, 230 00:11:39,750 --> 00:11:41,333 that was super interesting, 231 00:11:41,375 --> 00:11:44,167 but, like, how do I know that's not my own brain?" 232 00:11:44,250 --> 00:11:48,167 Like, how do I know that I just didn't create that 233 00:11:48,208 --> 00:11:51,542 in my own imagination? Like, interesting? Yes. 234 00:11:51,625 --> 00:11:54,083 Anything to it? Probably not. 235 00:11:54,167 --> 00:11:56,458 So I was like, "I don't think I want to do this anymore." 236 00:11:57,583 --> 00:11:59,458 So, the next night. 237 00:11:59,542 --> 00:12:01,542 We had climbed in bed, and we're pretty much asleep 238 00:12:01,708 --> 00:12:03,167 almost instantly. 239 00:12:03,292 --> 00:12:04,917 We both had a long day, we're both tired. 240 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,667 We're just out. 241 00:12:06,708 --> 00:12:08,792 And we're asleep until 242 00:12:08,875 --> 00:12:11,042 probably 02:30 in the morning. 243 00:12:11,042 --> 00:12:13,500 And that's when things start to get a little bit different. 244 00:12:15,208 --> 00:12:18,333 [Narrator] Jim and his wife are awakened by a shrill sound 245 00:12:18,375 --> 00:12:20,750 coming from outside their bedroom window. 246 00:12:23,333 --> 00:12:24,833 [Powell] It sounds kind of like, 247 00:12:24,958 --> 00:12:26,625 maybe two critters fighting. 248 00:12:26,708 --> 00:12:28,417 [low-pitched roar] 249 00:12:28,542 --> 00:12:32,083 It's just roars and screeches, just right there. 250 00:12:33,042 --> 00:12:36,000 I mean, it's just crazy sounding. 251 00:12:36,125 --> 00:12:39,667 [rumbling] 252 00:12:39,792 --> 00:12:41,417 [growl] 253 00:12:44,208 --> 00:12:46,042 I had an Australian shepherd. 254 00:12:46,167 --> 00:12:49,667 Her name was Amaya. Her favorite thing to do, 255 00:12:49,708 --> 00:12:51,625 really, was to go outside at night 256 00:12:51,708 --> 00:12:53,750 and kill little woodland creatures. 257 00:12:54,958 --> 00:12:57,167 So, I get up and I go outside. 258 00:12:58,875 --> 00:13:01,000 And I'm expecting the dog to have, like, 259 00:13:01,083 --> 00:13:02,875 something pinned right there at the window, 260 00:13:02,958 --> 00:13:05,667 and just shaking it or something. 261 00:13:05,667 --> 00:13:07,333 But when I look out there... 262 00:13:07,375 --> 00:13:10,833 ♪ 263 00:13:11,875 --> 00:13:13,500 ...there's nothing. 264 00:13:13,583 --> 00:13:15,417 [crickets chirping] 265 00:13:17,750 --> 00:13:19,750 "Okay, that's weird." 266 00:13:19,875 --> 00:13:22,000 So, going around the house, 267 00:13:22,042 --> 00:13:24,333 I'm hollering at the dog, "Amaya, come." 268 00:13:26,042 --> 00:13:30,083 There's no dog anywhere. 269 00:13:30,167 --> 00:13:32,042 [distant voice] Amaya, come. 270 00:13:32,167 --> 00:13:33,833 I don't hear the jingling of her collar 271 00:13:33,875 --> 00:13:35,875 for her to, like, be running to me, nothing. 272 00:13:35,875 --> 00:13:37,708 [distant voice] Amaya! 273 00:13:37,792 --> 00:13:39,333 I walk around the yard a little bit, 274 00:13:39,417 --> 00:13:41,792 go and inspect the barn. 275 00:13:41,792 --> 00:13:43,708 I'm just like, "I don't know. 276 00:13:43,792 --> 00:13:45,458 I don't know where the dog is. 277 00:13:45,542 --> 00:13:47,833 This is not normal for her, 278 00:13:47,917 --> 00:13:50,833 but it's an ungodly hour of the night, 279 00:13:50,917 --> 00:13:52,833 and I'm tired, so I'll figure it out 280 00:13:52,917 --> 00:13:54,875 in the morning." 281 00:13:55,042 --> 00:13:58,083 So, I'm going back towards the house. 282 00:13:58,167 --> 00:14:02,250 I notice it's completely, just, silent outside. 283 00:14:03,292 --> 00:14:06,375 Springtime in Alabama at night? 284 00:14:06,458 --> 00:14:10,083 There's cicadas, there's tree frogs, bullfrogs. 285 00:14:10,208 --> 00:14:13,958 All kind of noise is normally happening 286 00:14:14,042 --> 00:14:16,417 at this time of the year, but there is nothing. 287 00:14:16,542 --> 00:14:18,375 It is dead silent. 288 00:14:20,208 --> 00:14:23,000 Then, as I'm going around the corner, 289 00:14:23,083 --> 00:14:26,625 I notice that there's a light in the sky. 290 00:14:28,125 --> 00:14:30,500 And it's just hanging there, right above the tree line. 291 00:14:32,167 --> 00:14:36,417 It was about baseball, maybe softball size at most. 292 00:14:36,542 --> 00:14:39,875 And it's just hanging up there, completely silent. 293 00:14:41,208 --> 00:14:43,417 There's no sound from anything anywhere. 294 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:46,167 [heavy breathing] And then I take 295 00:14:46,208 --> 00:14:47,875 the flashlight that I'm holding 296 00:14:47,958 --> 00:14:49,667 and I shine it up the driveway. 297 00:14:49,708 --> 00:14:52,833 And there is something standing 298 00:14:52,917 --> 00:14:55,167 in the middle of the road. 299 00:14:55,250 --> 00:14:59,833 It looks like a seven to eight-foot tall shadow. 300 00:14:59,875 --> 00:15:02,833 Like it's- it's like a matte-black shape. 301 00:15:02,958 --> 00:15:05,500 It's the strangest thing that I've ever seen, 302 00:15:05,583 --> 00:15:08,000 and it's huge. 303 00:15:08,042 --> 00:15:12,042 This thing does have a large head and long neck 304 00:15:12,125 --> 00:15:15,083 that's maybe twice the length of a human's. 305 00:15:15,167 --> 00:15:17,958 The arms are very, very long. 306 00:15:19,875 --> 00:15:22,167 My thoughts when I first see this thing 307 00:15:22,208 --> 00:15:26,250 is just absolute terror. 308 00:15:26,333 --> 00:15:28,750 And alls I can do is sit there and hold the flashlight 309 00:15:28,833 --> 00:15:30,458 on this thing. 310 00:15:33,417 --> 00:15:36,625 And then it turns its head to look at me, 311 00:15:36,708 --> 00:15:41,333 and then his eyes go wide, like, in complete surprise. 312 00:15:41,458 --> 00:15:45,167 And then, this thing turns and runs up the dirt road, 313 00:15:45,208 --> 00:15:49,000 in just a flash. Boom, boom, boom. Gone. 314 00:15:51,333 --> 00:15:54,583 I run inside the house, and I am just shaking 315 00:15:54,667 --> 00:15:58,292 beyond any fear that I've ever experienced. 316 00:15:58,375 --> 00:16:03,958 I get my large M9 pistol, and I am just standing 317 00:16:04,042 --> 00:16:06,542 in front of the door, like this. 318 00:16:07,583 --> 00:16:10,333 I am scared to the point where, if I hear a noise, 319 00:16:10,375 --> 00:16:13,458 I will unload all 17 rounds through the walls. 320 00:16:14,667 --> 00:16:17,792 I'm just standing there, waiting for anything. 321 00:16:17,875 --> 00:16:21,917 ♪♪ 322 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,958 And then, there's a voice 323 00:16:23,958 --> 00:16:25,583 that I can hear all of a sudden. 324 00:16:27,125 --> 00:16:31,250 And this voice feels like it's in my head. 325 00:16:31,333 --> 00:16:33,333 I don't know how else to describe it. 326 00:16:33,417 --> 00:16:35,833 It's just an all-consuming voice. 327 00:16:35,875 --> 00:16:38,000 What it says to me is, 328 00:16:39,375 --> 00:16:43,250 "If I wanted to kill you, you would already be dead. 329 00:16:44,542 --> 00:16:47,500 Go back to sleep now." 330 00:16:47,583 --> 00:16:49,583 [heavy breathing] 331 00:16:49,667 --> 00:16:52,750 The next thing that I know is, I'm waking up. 332 00:16:54,375 --> 00:16:56,708 It's the next morning. My alarm clock's going off. 333 00:16:56,792 --> 00:16:58,625 The wife's gone. I'm by myself. 334 00:16:58,708 --> 00:17:01,250 I'm just freaked out. I'm like, "Where's it at? 335 00:17:01,333 --> 00:17:03,167 What just happened?" 336 00:17:05,208 --> 00:17:09,333 That was, like, the biggest threat to have ever 337 00:17:09,375 --> 00:17:12,417 shown up in my life, and it controlled me, 338 00:17:13,375 --> 00:17:15,500 and I couldn't do anything about it. 339 00:17:15,542 --> 00:17:18,667 It was just the worst thing that I've ever experienced. 340 00:17:21,375 --> 00:17:24,458 After the experience, I did tell my wife about this, 341 00:17:24,542 --> 00:17:28,167 you know. And thankfully, she took me serious, you know. 342 00:17:28,292 --> 00:17:31,292 But she was also, you know, kind of horrified about it too. 343 00:17:31,375 --> 00:17:34,167 She was just like, "I don't want to talk about it." 344 00:17:34,250 --> 00:17:36,958 As far as Amaya goes, she did come back, 345 00:17:37,042 --> 00:17:39,792 but it wasn't until, like, three days later. 346 00:17:39,875 --> 00:17:43,083 This dog was covered in mud, and she was shaking 347 00:17:43,208 --> 00:17:45,708 like a leaf when she finally came up to me. 348 00:17:45,792 --> 00:17:51,042 Ever since then, she was never the same after this experience. 349 00:17:51,167 --> 00:17:53,417 But I don't blame her. 350 00:17:53,500 --> 00:17:55,667 I don't, because, if I'm being honest, 351 00:17:55,750 --> 00:17:57,458 neither was I. 352 00:17:58,542 --> 00:18:00,708 It was the biggest mistake of my life. 353 00:18:00,708 --> 00:18:02,500 I should've never 354 00:18:02,542 --> 00:18:05,042 have initiated contact with these things. 355 00:18:05,125 --> 00:18:06,750 I regret it. 356 00:18:12,417 --> 00:18:15,333 [Narrator] In the Cold War era, strange lights in the sky 357 00:18:15,417 --> 00:18:20,000 weren't just a mystery, they were a potential threat. 358 00:18:20,083 --> 00:18:22,667 In response, the Air Force formed 359 00:18:22,708 --> 00:18:26,167 Project Blue Book, a top secret program 360 00:18:26,208 --> 00:18:29,000 tasked with probing the escalating flood 361 00:18:29,083 --> 00:18:31,667 of UFO reports. 362 00:18:31,750 --> 00:18:34,375 The operation's mission was to determine 363 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:37,375 if UFOs posed a threat to humans 364 00:18:37,458 --> 00:18:40,375 and the United States national security. 365 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:43,167 But in the summer of 1955, 366 00:18:43,292 --> 00:18:45,083 an alleged sighting on a quiet farm 367 00:18:45,167 --> 00:18:46,667 in Kelly, Kentucky, 368 00:18:46,750 --> 00:18:49,042 would push that mission to its limits. 369 00:18:49,125 --> 00:18:52,583 ♪ 370 00:18:52,708 --> 00:18:54,333 [Wildman] What's reported to have happened 371 00:18:54,417 --> 00:18:57,125 at this tiny tobacco farm in Kelly, Kentucky, 372 00:18:57,208 --> 00:18:58,667 is considered one of the most significant 373 00:18:58,750 --> 00:19:01,667 and well documented UFO encounters in history. 374 00:19:02,875 --> 00:19:05,167 [Narrator] The case goes on to introduce the idea 375 00:19:05,250 --> 00:19:07,667 of little green men to popular culture. 376 00:19:08,792 --> 00:19:11,333 And according to director Steven Spielberg, 377 00:19:11,375 --> 00:19:14,000 it even inspires his blockbuster film 378 00:19:14,083 --> 00:19:16,292 Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 379 00:19:18,083 --> 00:19:20,250 But for the family who lives through it, 380 00:19:20,333 --> 00:19:22,292 this was no work of fiction, 381 00:19:22,375 --> 00:19:24,583 and the fear never left them. 382 00:19:24,583 --> 00:19:28,417 This encounter belongs to my dad, my grandmother, 383 00:19:28,542 --> 00:19:30,333 and several aunts and uncles that were in the house 384 00:19:30,458 --> 00:19:33,583 that night in Kelly, Kentucky, in 1955. 385 00:19:33,708 --> 00:19:36,667 I found out about it when I was eight years old. 386 00:19:36,750 --> 00:19:39,292 Over the years, if you got any of them to talk, 387 00:19:39,375 --> 00:19:41,542 the story never changed. 388 00:19:41,667 --> 00:19:44,167 I mean, this is something that very few people 389 00:19:44,167 --> 00:19:46,542 have happen to them in their lifetime, 390 00:19:46,625 --> 00:19:48,167 and it will go down as history. 391 00:19:48,250 --> 00:19:50,500 ♪♪ 392 00:19:50,583 --> 00:19:53,375 This happened on my grandmother's small farm. 393 00:19:53,458 --> 00:19:55,333 She owned about 27 acres. 394 00:19:56,292 --> 00:19:58,500 It was just a regular Sunday evening, 395 00:19:58,583 --> 00:20:00,417 and it just so happened my dad, 396 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:03,333 his first wife, and their friends, Billy Ray 397 00:20:03,417 --> 00:20:05,917 and June Taylor, came in for the weekend. 398 00:20:06,042 --> 00:20:07,542 They sat down to eat, 399 00:20:07,667 --> 00:20:09,667 and Billy Ray decides to go out to the well 400 00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:12,500 and get some water. So he's out there in the well, 401 00:20:12,583 --> 00:20:14,708 which is in the front yard. 402 00:20:14,792 --> 00:20:17,250 As he's standing there, he hears something, 403 00:20:17,333 --> 00:20:19,333 looks up toward where he hears this sound, 404 00:20:19,458 --> 00:20:22,167 and there's this silver, 405 00:20:22,292 --> 00:20:25,250 oval-shaped object with what he calls the colors 406 00:20:25,250 --> 00:20:27,333 of the rainbow flowing behind it. 407 00:20:27,417 --> 00:20:31,250 And he says it was only like 30 or 40 feet above him. 408 00:20:31,333 --> 00:20:33,375 It scared him. 409 00:20:33,458 --> 00:20:35,583 [Narrator] It's at this point, Geraldine says, 410 00:20:35,667 --> 00:20:38,833 that Billy Ray runs back to the house in fear, 411 00:20:38,875 --> 00:20:42,583 begging her dad to come outside to investigate. 412 00:20:42,667 --> 00:20:45,167 [Stith] So, they head back out to the well. 413 00:20:45,250 --> 00:20:46,875 Lo and behold, 414 00:20:46,958 --> 00:20:48,667 out from the back of the woods behind the house, 415 00:20:48,708 --> 00:20:51,375 comes this little 3.5-foot tall figure. 416 00:20:52,583 --> 00:20:55,125 Big round head, arms down to the ground 417 00:20:55,208 --> 00:20:57,417 with very long talons. 418 00:20:57,500 --> 00:21:00,000 They were gray, but they glowed 419 00:21:00,083 --> 00:21:03,250 a luminescent glow, greenish glow. 420 00:21:03,333 --> 00:21:05,208 And it's floating above the ground, 421 00:21:05,292 --> 00:21:07,500 the legs aren't moving. 422 00:21:07,542 --> 00:21:09,542 They were scared to death. 423 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:15,583 So, they both run into the house, slam the door, 424 00:21:15,667 --> 00:21:17,917 and they're trying to explain what they just saw. 425 00:21:18,917 --> 00:21:21,000 [Narrator] Geraldine says at this point, 426 00:21:21,083 --> 00:21:24,000 her grandmother goes outside to check for herself. 427 00:21:25,208 --> 00:21:27,292 [Stith] All of a sudden, she screams. 428 00:21:28,542 --> 00:21:31,208 Everybody hears, they come out there, 429 00:21:31,292 --> 00:21:33,417 and she tells them, says, "I saw it. 430 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:35,333 There is something out here." 431 00:21:36,417 --> 00:21:38,250 About that time, they hear a shot ring out 432 00:21:38,333 --> 00:21:39,958 at the front of the house. 433 00:21:40,042 --> 00:21:42,625 [Narrator] Geraldine says this is when her uncle 434 00:21:42,708 --> 00:21:45,667 shot one of the beings through the front window. 435 00:21:45,750 --> 00:21:47,500 [Stith] Dad runs out there. 436 00:21:47,542 --> 00:21:49,333 Somebody screams, "There's one in the tree!" 437 00:21:49,417 --> 00:21:52,167 Turns around, and sure enough, in the big maple tree, 438 00:21:52,292 --> 00:21:54,208 there sat one on the limb. 439 00:21:54,292 --> 00:21:55,833 - Shoots it. - [gunshot] 440 00:21:55,917 --> 00:21:58,833 It floats to the ground, rolls, scurries off 441 00:21:58,875 --> 00:22:00,542 into the brush. 442 00:22:01,542 --> 00:22:04,167 These things were not dropping at all. 443 00:22:04,208 --> 00:22:06,625 So, they run in the house, 444 00:22:06,708 --> 00:22:09,542 but they are coming up to the doors and windows. 445 00:22:11,417 --> 00:22:13,125 [gunshots] 446 00:22:13,208 --> 00:22:15,333 So, they were shooting these things through the screens. 447 00:22:15,375 --> 00:22:16,917 - [gunshots] - They were trapped 448 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,500 in this house, and they didn't know what to do. 449 00:22:19,583 --> 00:22:22,333 They didn't have a radio or any other communication. 450 00:22:22,417 --> 00:22:24,000 They have no phone. 451 00:22:24,083 --> 00:22:26,833 My dad finally tells them, "The only thing we can do 452 00:22:26,875 --> 00:22:29,042 is try to get to Hopkinsville," which was seven miles 453 00:22:29,125 --> 00:22:31,917 from their house, "And get to the police and see 454 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,208 if we can get help." 455 00:22:34,292 --> 00:22:38,333 It gets quiet, so he's thinking, "Let's go." 456 00:22:38,375 --> 00:22:40,000 [engine starting] 457 00:22:40,083 --> 00:22:45,167 ♪ 458 00:22:45,292 --> 00:22:48,208 They pull up and they run into the police department. 459 00:22:48,292 --> 00:22:51,000 One little officer on duty, and they're all trying to tell 460 00:22:51,125 --> 00:22:55,583 this crazy story. So he calls up Chief Russell Greenwald. 461 00:22:55,708 --> 00:22:57,500 The chief tells him, "Get ahold of Fort Campbell 462 00:22:57,542 --> 00:23:00,417 army base, get ahold of the paper. 463 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:02,875 Call every state trooper you can find." 464 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,875 By the time it's all said and done, they've got about 465 00:23:04,958 --> 00:23:08,125 25 people heading out to Kelly in the middle of the night. 466 00:23:14,125 --> 00:23:15,500 [Narrator] In 1955, 467 00:23:15,625 --> 00:23:17,708 the Sutton family in Kelly, Kentucky, 468 00:23:17,792 --> 00:23:19,708 claims their farm has been overrun 469 00:23:19,792 --> 00:23:22,583 by little green men from another world. 470 00:23:23,875 --> 00:23:26,458 - [gunshots] - In the aftermath, 471 00:23:26,542 --> 00:23:29,625 according to direct descendant Geraldine Stith, 472 00:23:29,708 --> 00:23:32,792 they brace for a different kind of invasion. 473 00:23:32,875 --> 00:23:35,083 [police sirens] 474 00:23:35,208 --> 00:23:37,667 The police get there. 475 00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:40,042 They get out of their vehicles. 476 00:23:40,167 --> 00:23:42,958 There's shotgun and rifle shells all over the yard. 477 00:23:43,042 --> 00:23:46,125 Shotgun and rifle shells inside the house. 478 00:23:46,208 --> 00:23:49,625 Woodwork and screens are shot up inside the house. 479 00:23:50,542 --> 00:23:52,750 They searched and searched... 480 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,833 no bodies. No blood. 481 00:23:56,917 --> 00:23:59,000 No kind of fur or feathers, or anything saying 482 00:23:59,042 --> 00:24:00,583 it was any kind of animal. 483 00:24:00,667 --> 00:24:02,500 So, chief goes up to my grandmother and says, 484 00:24:02,542 --> 00:24:05,708 "Ms. Glennie, I am so sorry, but there's nothing here. 485 00:24:05,792 --> 00:24:08,917 There's nothing we can do." So, they all left. 486 00:24:10,083 --> 00:24:12,042 [Narrator] Geraldine says the next morning, 487 00:24:12,208 --> 00:24:15,000 her father swears the family to secrecy, 488 00:24:15,125 --> 00:24:17,917 hoping to shield them from public ridicule. 489 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,542 Their story might have ended there, 490 00:24:20,625 --> 00:24:23,458 if not for what happened next. 491 00:24:23,542 --> 00:24:25,167 All of a sudden, my grandmother heard this commotion 492 00:24:25,208 --> 00:24:26,917 out in the front yard. 493 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,667 There's car after car after vehicle after vehicle, 494 00:24:29,792 --> 00:24:32,417 pulling up in their driveway, pulling up down the road, 495 00:24:32,542 --> 00:24:35,833 jumping out, putting up tents, putting up tables. 496 00:24:35,917 --> 00:24:38,750 Word had gotten out. It was everywhere. 497 00:24:38,833 --> 00:24:40,333 Everybody was coming because they were wanting 498 00:24:40,458 --> 00:24:42,750 to see the little men. It was big news. 499 00:24:44,667 --> 00:24:46,208 [Radio host 1] ... put down as the top story 500 00:24:46,292 --> 00:24:48,833 of the community in 1955. 501 00:24:48,875 --> 00:24:50,875 [Radio host 2] In the home of Cecil "Lucky" Sutton. 502 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,125 Alright now, let's go back to the beginning here. 503 00:24:53,208 --> 00:24:54,750 Now, you say the spaceship... 504 00:24:54,833 --> 00:24:57,000 [Stith] It spread like wildfire. 505 00:24:57,042 --> 00:25:00,875 But Ledwith came in, and he was the engineer that worked 506 00:25:00,958 --> 00:25:03,708 at the local radio station there in Hopkinsville. 507 00:25:03,792 --> 00:25:06,375 He wanted a story, so he went in there 508 00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:08,125 to interview everybody, 509 00:25:08,208 --> 00:25:10,208 and he set them down off in a room by themselves, 510 00:25:10,292 --> 00:25:13,292 individually, and got them to tell their story. 511 00:25:13,292 --> 00:25:15,792 And he was, like, blown away, 512 00:25:15,875 --> 00:25:18,292 because everybody's story, it was the same. 513 00:25:19,667 --> 00:25:22,917 And what really blew him away was the drawings. 514 00:25:23,042 --> 00:25:26,000 My grandmother, Billy Ray, my dad, 515 00:25:26,083 --> 00:25:27,917 he sat down with every one of them, 516 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,625 and hardly any differences about any of them. 517 00:25:32,708 --> 00:25:35,333 That's where you get the, infamous, drawings, 518 00:25:35,417 --> 00:25:37,042 to this day. 519 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,833 Later on, it was reported that the evening 520 00:25:41,875 --> 00:25:44,333 that the encounter happened, 521 00:25:44,375 --> 00:25:48,583 there were state troopers that'd actually seen lights 522 00:25:48,667 --> 00:25:50,625 they couldn't explain. And so, yeah, 523 00:25:50,708 --> 00:25:52,375 there were other people seeing 524 00:25:52,458 --> 00:25:54,292 and hearing things that evening. 525 00:25:55,875 --> 00:25:58,125 [Narrator] In the days after the alleged encounter, 526 00:25:58,125 --> 00:26:00,792 the US Air Force, including their classified 527 00:26:00,875 --> 00:26:03,708 UFO research unit, Project Blue Book, 528 00:26:03,792 --> 00:26:06,792 reviews the State Police findings. 529 00:26:06,875 --> 00:26:08,583 They searched the grounds. 530 00:26:08,667 --> 00:26:12,458 They had aircraft in the air that morning after, 531 00:26:12,542 --> 00:26:14,125 and the next day. 532 00:26:14,208 --> 00:26:16,833 [Narrator] The results are inconclusive. 533 00:26:16,917 --> 00:26:20,667 No proof of visitors, but also no evidence of a hoax. 534 00:26:20,750 --> 00:26:24,000 The case is left officially unresolved. 535 00:26:24,083 --> 00:26:26,833 Two weeks after this event happened, 536 00:26:26,958 --> 00:26:29,083 my grandmother sold the farm. 537 00:26:29,167 --> 00:26:31,125 She was scared to death. 538 00:26:31,208 --> 00:26:33,875 Is it hard to believe things like this can happen? Yes. 539 00:26:33,958 --> 00:26:36,333 But my family knows the truth. 540 00:26:36,458 --> 00:26:40,333 Something happened in Kelly, Kentucky, August 21st, 1955. 541 00:26:40,375 --> 00:26:42,667 There's no doubt. 542 00:26:42,708 --> 00:26:44,667 [Narrator] The little green men of Kelly, Kentucky, 543 00:26:44,708 --> 00:26:47,625 were seen once, and never again. 544 00:26:47,708 --> 00:26:50,125 But two decades later, in Arizona, 545 00:26:50,208 --> 00:26:52,333 come stories of unidentified aircraft 546 00:26:52,458 --> 00:26:54,833 returning again and again. 547 00:26:58,417 --> 00:27:00,375 Among the state's reports of UFOs, 548 00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:01,875 there was one case that would capture 549 00:27:01,958 --> 00:27:04,250 the world's attention. 550 00:27:04,333 --> 00:27:06,500 According to other members of the six-man logging crew, 551 00:27:06,542 --> 00:27:08,833 on November 5th, 1975, 552 00:27:08,875 --> 00:27:11,083 Travis Walton disappeared shortly after 553 00:27:11,167 --> 00:27:13,417 he was struck in the chest by a beam of light, 554 00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:16,292 which they said lifted him off the ground like a rag doll. 555 00:27:16,375 --> 00:27:18,833 ♪ 556 00:27:18,917 --> 00:27:22,833 Travis's disappearance kicks off the largest manhunt 557 00:27:22,875 --> 00:27:26,875 in Arizona history, but they find nothing. 558 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,042 No footprints, no clothes, no blood. Nothing. 559 00:27:31,125 --> 00:27:34,042 Then, five days later and 15 miles 560 00:27:34,125 --> 00:27:37,625 from where he vanished, he suddenly emerges, 561 00:27:37,708 --> 00:27:40,208 and he says, "They're still out there." 562 00:27:40,292 --> 00:27:42,792 One of the guys in the back yelled out, "It's a spaceship!" 563 00:27:42,875 --> 00:27:45,500 [Hakeem] Travis claims he's been abducted and examined 564 00:27:45,542 --> 00:27:49,625 on an alien craft. Although he passes a lie detector test, 565 00:27:49,708 --> 00:27:52,208 the validity of his story is still debated. 566 00:27:54,250 --> 00:27:56,917 [Narrator] Travis Walton's story remains one of the most 567 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,167 harrowing alien abduction claims ever recorded. 568 00:28:02,167 --> 00:28:05,167 Nearly 50 years later, in the same state, 569 00:28:05,250 --> 00:28:08,500 a police officer retires to Arizona with his wife, 570 00:28:08,583 --> 00:28:10,708 and would make a similar claim, 571 00:28:10,833 --> 00:28:13,042 wearing the evidence on his skin. 572 00:28:15,083 --> 00:28:18,375 Most of our nights are just enjoying each other's company. 573 00:28:19,583 --> 00:28:21,667 We go outside, watch the stars, 574 00:28:21,792 --> 00:28:23,417 listen to the coyotes howling. 575 00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:25,708 - [coyotes howling] - Typical Old West retirement, 576 00:28:25,792 --> 00:28:27,500 I guess. 577 00:28:27,583 --> 00:28:31,333 [Narrator] But that all changes in the spring of 2022. 578 00:28:31,417 --> 00:28:36,917 One day, I woke up and had many, many marks on my foot. 579 00:28:39,167 --> 00:28:42,333 And the next morning, when I woke up, 580 00:28:42,417 --> 00:28:45,458 they were completely gone. 581 00:28:45,542 --> 00:28:47,917 we were like, "That's weird." 582 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,167 [Narrator] A few weeks later, he has another 583 00:28:51,292 --> 00:28:52,833 strange experience. 584 00:28:52,917 --> 00:28:55,333 That evening was very typical. 585 00:28:55,417 --> 00:28:58,125 We ate dinner, we sat down and watched a movie. 586 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:02,375 And then we went to bed, I believe around 09:30 p.m. 587 00:29:03,750 --> 00:29:06,250 That's when it happened. 588 00:29:08,542 --> 00:29:14,417 I was woken up by the feeling of being dropped on my bed. 589 00:29:16,375 --> 00:29:18,000 When I opened my eyes... 590 00:29:18,125 --> 00:29:20,458 ♪♪ 591 00:29:20,542 --> 00:29:22,750 ...it was unbelievable. 592 00:29:26,958 --> 00:29:29,250 [Narrator] Weeks after finding strange marks on his body, 593 00:29:29,333 --> 00:29:32,333 retired police officer Dwight Hull goes to bed, 594 00:29:32,375 --> 00:29:35,917 then opens his eyes to the impossible. 595 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,333 [Hull] I saw three glowing beings 596 00:29:39,375 --> 00:29:41,500 standing next to my bed. 597 00:29:41,583 --> 00:29:43,958 They were a shining gold. 598 00:29:44,042 --> 00:29:46,917 They were actually emitting this light from them. 599 00:29:48,250 --> 00:29:49,917 [Narrator] As Dwight grapples to understand 600 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,458 what he's seeing, they fade out of sight. 601 00:29:56,708 --> 00:29:59,667 I sat there, trying to figure out, "What did I just see? 602 00:29:59,750 --> 00:30:02,000 Was this real?" 603 00:30:02,125 --> 00:30:04,500 My police officer training was kicking in, 604 00:30:04,542 --> 00:30:07,042 saying, "All right, come on, remember all the details 605 00:30:07,125 --> 00:30:10,042 before you basically pass back out." 606 00:30:10,125 --> 00:30:13,667 It was almost like coming out of anesthesia. 607 00:30:13,792 --> 00:30:16,917 I couldn't keep my eyes open, 608 00:30:16,917 --> 00:30:18,667 and I fell back asleep. 609 00:30:18,750 --> 00:30:23,167 ♪♪ 610 00:30:23,208 --> 00:30:27,167 I woke up the next morning, my wife had already gotten up. 611 00:30:27,208 --> 00:30:30,542 I went up to her and said, "Honey, I have something 612 00:30:30,625 --> 00:30:33,500 to tell you, and I need you to keep an open mind." 613 00:30:33,583 --> 00:30:37,083 And I told her what happened. 614 00:30:38,833 --> 00:30:41,250 And she believed me right away. 615 00:30:43,125 --> 00:30:45,250 I think one of the first things she said to me was, 616 00:30:45,333 --> 00:30:48,458 "Do you have any marks?" And I was like, "Marks! 617 00:30:48,542 --> 00:30:50,792 Right!" So we started looking, you know, 618 00:30:50,875 --> 00:30:52,958 and everything else, and that's when I saw them. 619 00:30:53,042 --> 00:30:57,333 I had three red dots in a triangular shape. 620 00:30:57,375 --> 00:30:59,333 [Narrator] Dwight's markings are similar to those 621 00:30:59,417 --> 00:31:01,542 of others who claim to be abducted. 622 00:31:01,625 --> 00:31:05,708 Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, UFO researcher Budd Hopkins 623 00:31:05,792 --> 00:31:08,750 documented many, many abductees 624 00:31:08,750 --> 00:31:12,375 who all had this three-dot cluster appear on their bodies 625 00:31:12,458 --> 00:31:14,333 that made the shape of a triangle. 626 00:31:14,375 --> 00:31:16,292 And he speculates that these marks 627 00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:19,542 may have been the result of a medical-like device. 628 00:31:21,875 --> 00:31:23,625 [Narrator] But in Dwight's encounter, 629 00:31:23,708 --> 00:31:26,208 he noticeably has no memories 630 00:31:26,292 --> 00:31:28,958 from before he dropped onto the bed. 631 00:31:29,042 --> 00:31:31,500 There was a lot of questions to be answered, you know. 632 00:31:31,625 --> 00:31:34,250 "Let's get the facts here. Did it really happen?" 633 00:31:35,542 --> 00:31:39,292 So, my wife decided that it might be a good idea 634 00:31:39,375 --> 00:31:42,625 for me to see a hypnotherapist, 635 00:31:42,708 --> 00:31:47,583 and, uh, I begrudgingly agreed. 636 00:31:49,167 --> 00:31:50,958 [Narrator] The therapist puts Dwight under, 637 00:31:51,042 --> 00:31:53,208 and records the session. 638 00:31:53,292 --> 00:31:55,458 [Therapist] So now, I'm going to ask you 639 00:31:55,542 --> 00:31:58,167 to try to visualize 640 00:31:58,250 --> 00:32:00,292 that you are in your bedroom. 641 00:32:00,375 --> 00:32:04,083 Reach to your subconscious mind and ask it 642 00:32:04,208 --> 00:32:07,292 to show you what you want to see. 643 00:32:25,208 --> 00:32:27,333 And I start remembering what I saw. 644 00:32:28,875 --> 00:32:30,458 They put me on a table. 645 00:32:32,125 --> 00:32:34,375 Their eyes were huge, 646 00:32:34,458 --> 00:32:38,000 just blacker than any black I have ever seen. 647 00:32:38,125 --> 00:32:40,167 They almost looked liquid. 648 00:32:41,208 --> 00:32:44,083 They pulled this... the best way I can describe it 649 00:32:44,167 --> 00:32:47,833 is a gel blanket, and it had wires, 650 00:32:47,875 --> 00:32:50,500 or fibers, going through it. 651 00:32:51,875 --> 00:32:54,208 And they put this blanket over me, 652 00:32:54,292 --> 00:32:57,208 and melted completely over my face. 653 00:32:57,292 --> 00:32:59,625 Every place it was touching it just conformed to it. 654 00:33:03,375 --> 00:33:08,333 And as I'm laying there, little low-voltage feelings 655 00:33:08,417 --> 00:33:10,917 would go through the blanket into me. 656 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,500 And every time that that would shock me, 657 00:33:13,542 --> 00:33:17,125 I heard in my head, "How do you feel?" 658 00:33:18,625 --> 00:33:20,833 But this went on for a little while, 659 00:33:20,917 --> 00:33:24,250 and then they took the blanket off, I got off the table, 660 00:33:24,375 --> 00:33:29,167 and the one on my left side took his finger 661 00:33:29,208 --> 00:33:32,500 and just tapped a spot on my arm. 662 00:33:32,583 --> 00:33:37,625 ♪ 663 00:33:38,917 --> 00:33:41,167 And all of a sudden, I was in my room, 664 00:33:41,208 --> 00:33:43,292 on my bed, looking at him. 665 00:33:45,625 --> 00:33:47,333 And that's where the memory ended. 666 00:33:48,333 --> 00:33:51,458 After I came up out of this hypnosis, 667 00:33:51,542 --> 00:33:55,417 the first thing I remember asking the therapist was, 668 00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:57,667 "Could it have been a dream?" 669 00:33:57,708 --> 00:33:59,958 She looked at me dead in the eyes and she said, 670 00:34:00,042 --> 00:34:03,417 "Dwight, where I had you, there is no way 671 00:34:04,625 --> 00:34:06,833 that that could have been anything other 672 00:34:06,917 --> 00:34:08,458 than a repressed memory." 673 00:34:08,542 --> 00:34:12,625 I wasn't losing my mind, I wasn't just seeing things. 674 00:34:12,708 --> 00:34:14,292 This really happened. 675 00:34:22,542 --> 00:34:24,917 [Narrator] Oregon is famous among stargazers 676 00:34:25,042 --> 00:34:26,583 for its lack of light pollution, 677 00:34:28,375 --> 00:34:31,417 making the state a favorite for those seeking a clear, 678 00:34:31,542 --> 00:34:33,708 unobstructed view of the night sky. 679 00:34:35,208 --> 00:34:38,042 But those same skies have long been a stage 680 00:34:38,125 --> 00:34:40,167 for unexplained sightings. 681 00:34:42,292 --> 00:34:45,250 [Hakeem] There's this agency that tracks UFO sightings. 682 00:34:45,333 --> 00:34:48,542 it's called the National UFO Reporting Center. 683 00:34:48,625 --> 00:34:52,875 Since 1974, there have been over 3,600 684 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,458 such sightings in Oregon. 685 00:34:55,542 --> 00:34:57,917 [Narrator] The stories are remarkably similar. 686 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,417 Metallic discs seen by police and civilians over Portland. 687 00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:04,625 Glowing lights hovering near Mount Hood, 688 00:35:04,708 --> 00:35:08,167 reported by pilots, and a glowing object 689 00:35:08,250 --> 00:35:10,750 above Redmond that prompted the Air Force 690 00:35:10,833 --> 00:35:13,292 to scramble jets. 691 00:35:13,375 --> 00:35:16,583 Among the most famous, occurs in 1950, 692 00:35:16,708 --> 00:35:19,000 when farmers Paul and Evelyn Trent 693 00:35:19,125 --> 00:35:20,708 photograph a flying saucer 694 00:35:20,833 --> 00:35:24,125 hovering over their farm in the town of McMinnville. 695 00:35:25,917 --> 00:35:28,833 The images that Paul and Evelyn captured were published 696 00:35:28,917 --> 00:35:33,125 in Life magazine, and this created a huge sensation. 697 00:35:33,208 --> 00:35:35,208 Of course, there were also skeptics, 698 00:35:35,292 --> 00:35:38,167 but the thing is, no one could ever prove conclusively 699 00:35:38,208 --> 00:35:40,667 that those photographs had been doctored in any way. 700 00:35:42,333 --> 00:35:44,417 [Narrator] The skeptics held on to their doubts, 701 00:35:45,667 --> 00:35:47,625 but not Ann Selene. 702 00:35:49,833 --> 00:35:52,583 Decades later, at her apartment complex 703 00:35:52,667 --> 00:35:55,750 in Tigard, Oregon, just 30 minutes 704 00:35:55,833 --> 00:35:57,958 from the site of the Trents' farm. 705 00:35:57,958 --> 00:36:01,083 Anne captures a shocking image. 706 00:36:01,167 --> 00:36:04,542 [Selene] I am a writer. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. 707 00:36:04,625 --> 00:36:08,208 ♪ 708 00:36:08,292 --> 00:36:10,458 I love the night, 709 00:36:10,542 --> 00:36:13,708 so I would sit out on the patio and I would really contemplate 710 00:36:13,792 --> 00:36:15,583 what it was that I wanted to write about. 711 00:36:17,625 --> 00:36:19,833 [Narrator] One night, Ann notices something 712 00:36:19,958 --> 00:36:22,208 moving outside her building. 713 00:36:22,292 --> 00:36:25,833 [Selene] And it was actually from my peripheral, 714 00:36:25,917 --> 00:36:28,708 that movement caught my eye. 715 00:36:30,208 --> 00:36:32,083 When I looked over, 716 00:36:32,167 --> 00:36:35,167 the movement that I saw was smoke. 717 00:36:37,542 --> 00:36:40,958 And it was just this really big cloud, 718 00:36:41,042 --> 00:36:43,708 like an opalescent fog, but thick. 719 00:36:45,583 --> 00:36:49,125 I was thinking, "Gosh, maybe somebody had been vaping, 720 00:36:49,250 --> 00:36:51,042 and there was this huge cloud," 721 00:36:51,167 --> 00:36:52,750 but there was no person. 722 00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:58,333 The circular cloud-like form contracted 723 00:36:58,417 --> 00:37:01,500 into a shape that very clearly 724 00:37:01,583 --> 00:37:04,333 became this humanoid-looking figure. 725 00:37:05,750 --> 00:37:07,333 It looks just like us. 726 00:37:07,375 --> 00:37:09,917 It walks just like us. 727 00:37:10,042 --> 00:37:12,667 It had two arms and two legs, 728 00:37:12,792 --> 00:37:14,458 the pointed chin, 729 00:37:15,375 --> 00:37:20,000 really big eyes, strange-shaped skull. 730 00:37:20,042 --> 00:37:22,458 There was no hair, no clothing. 731 00:37:22,542 --> 00:37:25,625 I hadn't seen anything like it in all of humanity. 732 00:37:26,667 --> 00:37:28,917 It was looking straight ahead, 733 00:37:30,417 --> 00:37:32,667 and there was no inclination 734 00:37:32,750 --> 00:37:34,667 that it had any idea that I was there. 735 00:37:35,708 --> 00:37:39,833 It was walking down this pathway on the other side 736 00:37:39,875 --> 00:37:42,292 of the white picket fence. 737 00:37:42,375 --> 00:37:44,792 It walked up to the third tree... 738 00:37:46,167 --> 00:37:47,667 and then it was completely gone. 739 00:37:49,375 --> 00:37:52,333 In that moment, I froze. 740 00:37:52,417 --> 00:37:55,375 "If I turn around, will it be standing there?" 741 00:37:55,458 --> 00:37:57,542 "Can I get inside my house?" 742 00:37:57,625 --> 00:37:59,333 But then, the very next thought 743 00:37:59,458 --> 00:38:01,208 that actually broke me out of my freeze mode 744 00:38:01,375 --> 00:38:03,000 is the children. 745 00:38:03,083 --> 00:38:04,667 ♪♪ 746 00:38:04,750 --> 00:38:06,708 [Narrator] Ann races back inside. 747 00:38:06,792 --> 00:38:08,333 [children playing] 748 00:38:08,417 --> 00:38:09,958 [Selene] When I walked into the kids' room... 749 00:38:12,292 --> 00:38:13,833 everything was fine. 750 00:38:14,917 --> 00:38:18,167 And I did smile at the kids to try to reaffirm 751 00:38:18,208 --> 00:38:20,167 that everything was fine. 752 00:38:20,292 --> 00:38:25,625 I hoped that maybe I could protect me 753 00:38:25,708 --> 00:38:28,417 and my children by shutting the blinds. 754 00:38:30,167 --> 00:38:35,458 That is when my eye was drawn to the unit across from us. 755 00:38:37,375 --> 00:38:41,417 And in that moment, I froze again. 756 00:38:42,750 --> 00:38:44,833 I knew that that unit was vacant. 757 00:38:46,833 --> 00:38:48,667 I think that it's staring at me. 758 00:38:51,250 --> 00:38:52,917 Without a shadow of a doubt, 759 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,625 it was the exact same humanoid-looking figure 760 00:38:55,625 --> 00:38:58,542 that I had watched walk down the sidewalk. 761 00:39:00,417 --> 00:39:03,208 And now here it was, on the second floor 762 00:39:03,292 --> 00:39:04,875 in a vacant apartment. 763 00:39:06,333 --> 00:39:09,125 That just brought me to absolute tears. 764 00:39:11,750 --> 00:39:14,500 Here was this complete unknown. 765 00:39:14,542 --> 00:39:16,583 If it can manifest out of anywhere, 766 00:39:16,667 --> 00:39:18,625 could it manifest in my home? 767 00:39:18,708 --> 00:39:21,542 If it did manifest in my home, what would it do? 768 00:39:22,750 --> 00:39:25,958 I shut the blinds on the living room door, 769 00:39:26,042 --> 00:39:30,167 and then I went into my room and I shut those blinds. 770 00:39:30,250 --> 00:39:31,875 I'm locking everything out. 771 00:39:33,875 --> 00:39:36,500 I called my sister. She knew immediately 772 00:39:36,542 --> 00:39:38,375 that something was wrong. 773 00:39:41,583 --> 00:39:44,667 My sister said, "Can you take a picture?" 774 00:39:44,708 --> 00:39:46,750 And I said, "I don't know, I'll try." 775 00:39:46,833 --> 00:39:49,667 She told me to breathe. She told me to relax. 776 00:39:49,833 --> 00:39:52,083 She said, "Just have your hand on the blind, 777 00:39:52,167 --> 00:39:54,708 lift the phone up with me on speakerphone, 778 00:39:54,792 --> 00:39:56,917 hit the button, and then just release the blind." 779 00:39:57,958 --> 00:39:59,667 I took a picture. 780 00:39:59,708 --> 00:40:03,083 ♪ 781 00:40:03,167 --> 00:40:04,917 And it was a shock. 782 00:40:07,833 --> 00:40:10,375 I said, "Does it look like it can see me 783 00:40:10,458 --> 00:40:12,500 in this photograph? 784 00:40:12,583 --> 00:40:14,667 I think that it's staring at me." 785 00:40:16,750 --> 00:40:19,625 She agreed. And it really felt ominous. 786 00:40:19,708 --> 00:40:21,250 It really felt like, in the photo, 787 00:40:21,375 --> 00:40:23,417 it was saying, "I did see you." 788 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,250 I stayed up most of that night. 789 00:40:29,333 --> 00:40:31,667 All the lights on in the house. 790 00:40:31,708 --> 00:40:33,417 [Narrator] Ann's photo is of something 791 00:40:33,500 --> 00:40:36,333 she can never begin to explain, 792 00:40:36,417 --> 00:40:38,208 from a terror-filled night, 793 00:40:38,292 --> 00:40:40,625 she will never forget. 794 00:40:40,708 --> 00:40:42,500 [Anna] So, when you have a picture 795 00:40:42,542 --> 00:40:45,375 that you can show other people and say nothing, 796 00:40:45,500 --> 00:40:47,083 but "What do you see?" 797 00:40:48,667 --> 00:40:50,875 And everybody comes back with the same thing 798 00:40:50,958 --> 00:40:54,125 that you see. That's very powerful. 799 00:40:54,208 --> 00:40:56,458 It shakes your reality. 800 00:40:56,542 --> 00:40:58,375 [Narrator] The subject of her photo, 801 00:40:58,458 --> 00:41:01,917 whatever it might be, never returns. 802 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,500 Reflecting back on that night, some might say 803 00:41:05,542 --> 00:41:07,542 that it was an alien, 804 00:41:07,625 --> 00:41:09,583 or something along those lines. 805 00:41:12,708 --> 00:41:16,000 I think that it's an internal battle that I deal with, 806 00:41:16,083 --> 00:41:18,083 between wanting to know what it was 807 00:41:18,167 --> 00:41:19,875 and not wanting to know, 808 00:41:19,958 --> 00:41:24,125 because it really changes the perception of safety. 809 00:41:26,083 --> 00:41:28,750 [Narrator] We may not truly know what's out there 810 00:41:28,833 --> 00:41:32,000 in our skies, but every claim, 811 00:41:32,042 --> 00:41:37,167 every reported encounter keeps our search for answers alive.