1 00:00:02,542 --> 00:00:04,125 NARRATOR: A remote land known for bizarre 2 00:00:04,250 --> 00:00:06,167 and shocking events. 3 00:00:06,333 --> 00:00:08,375 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Alaska is a place where 4 00:00:08,542 --> 00:00:12,083 anomalous events clearly are happening. 5 00:00:12,208 --> 00:00:14,958 NARRATOR: A vast wilderness where people disappear 6 00:00:15,042 --> 00:00:16,625 without a trace. 7 00:00:16,750 --> 00:00:18,167 DAN HAMPTON: Up in Alaska, 8 00:00:18,292 --> 00:00:20,667 anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people 9 00:00:20,792 --> 00:00:22,375 still go missing every year. 10 00:00:22,542 --> 00:00:26,167 NARRATOR: And a mysterious home to UFO activity. 11 00:00:26,292 --> 00:00:29,333 THEO CHESLEY: In the 37 years I've been flying, 12 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:33,708 I've seen a lot of things, and what I saw was just not 13 00:00:33,875 --> 00:00:36,750 anything ordinary at all. 14 00:00:36,875 --> 00:00:39,458 NARRATOR: Could Alaska's rugged landscape 15 00:00:39,542 --> 00:00:43,833 conceal secrets that are not of this world? 16 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,875 DAVID CHILDRESS: You have huge areas 17 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,333 that are uninhabited. 18 00:00:48,458 --> 00:00:51,458 And it's such a huge frontier region. 19 00:00:51,542 --> 00:00:54,000 All kinds of things can be happening there. 20 00:00:56,875 --> 00:00:58,750 NARRATOR: There is a doorway 21 00:00:58,875 --> 00:01:01,333 in the universe. 22 00:01:01,458 --> 00:01:05,708 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 23 00:01:05,875 --> 00:01:08,500 It demands we question everything 24 00:01:08,667 --> 00:01:10,875 we have ever been taught. 25 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,333 The evidence is all around us. 26 00:01:14,458 --> 00:01:18,417 The future is right before our eyes. 27 00:01:18,542 --> 00:01:21,083 We are not alone. 28 00:01:21,208 --> 00:01:24,375 We have never been alone. 29 00:01:35,042 --> 00:01:37,292 NARRATOR: The largest of all U.S. states, 30 00:01:37,417 --> 00:01:40,833 it's home to the nation's highest peak, 31 00:01:40,958 --> 00:01:43,000 its biggest national park, 32 00:01:43,167 --> 00:01:47,208 and more coastline than all other states combined. 33 00:01:48,250 --> 00:01:51,000 With dense, uninhabited wilderness 34 00:01:51,167 --> 00:01:53,083 and countless mountains, 35 00:01:53,208 --> 00:01:56,500 Alaska presents a landscape that can be beautiful, 36 00:01:56,625 --> 00:02:01,333 forbidding, and often treacherous. 37 00:02:01,417 --> 00:02:04,083 The entirety of the Alaska wilderness 38 00:02:04,208 --> 00:02:06,333 is over 600,000 square miles. 39 00:02:06,417 --> 00:02:08,375 People don't realize this, but it's actually 40 00:02:08,542 --> 00:02:10,917 two and a half times the size of Texas. 41 00:02:11,042 --> 00:02:12,333 It's absolutely massive. 42 00:02:13,917 --> 00:02:16,667 It's an area of the world that's extremely desolate, 43 00:02:16,750 --> 00:02:18,333 very cold, very remote, 44 00:02:18,417 --> 00:02:22,000 in which there are no roads that go to many of these places. 45 00:02:22,125 --> 00:02:25,833 KEN GERHARD: Having worked extensively in Alaska, 46 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,833 one cannot overstate the immensity 47 00:02:27,958 --> 00:02:29,417 and vastness of the region. 48 00:02:29,542 --> 00:02:33,000 There are some 17 mountain ranges, 49 00:02:33,125 --> 00:02:36,875 66,000 miles of coastland, 50 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:42,125 and an estimated 3,000 rivers, and over 3,000,000 lakes. 51 00:02:42,250 --> 00:02:46,000 So, it is really one of the last frontiers in the world 52 00:02:46,083 --> 00:02:49,083 and one of the most challenging, 53 00:02:49,208 --> 00:02:52,333 brutal habitats that I've ever investigated. 54 00:02:52,417 --> 00:02:54,250 We're talking about harsh winters, 55 00:02:54,375 --> 00:02:58,833 craggy peaks, dangerous animals. 56 00:02:58,958 --> 00:03:02,208 It really encompasses all of that. 57 00:03:02,375 --> 00:03:06,750 NARRATOR: For centuries, Alaska's vast and rugged landscape 58 00:03:06,875 --> 00:03:10,500 has been known as a place where people disappear 59 00:03:10,583 --> 00:03:15,167 with great frequency and are often never found. 60 00:03:15,250 --> 00:03:19,708 Anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people still go missing 61 00:03:19,875 --> 00:03:21,333 every year up in Alaska. 62 00:03:21,458 --> 00:03:22,917 Now, they're not all in airplanes, 63 00:03:23,042 --> 00:03:26,167 but still, gives you an idea 64 00:03:26,333 --> 00:03:28,333 of how dangerous and unpredictable the area is. 65 00:03:28,458 --> 00:03:30,583 If you can get lost on the ground, 66 00:03:30,708 --> 00:03:33,792 how much worse would it be if you're in an aircraft? 67 00:03:33,917 --> 00:03:36,250 Most of these disappearances 68 00:03:36,375 --> 00:03:38,542 I think, personally, can be explained. 69 00:03:38,667 --> 00:03:43,292 And, yet, there are some occurrences that I know about 70 00:03:43,375 --> 00:03:47,833 that even I, as a professional ex-fighter pilot, can't explain. 71 00:03:47,917 --> 00:03:52,458 NARRATOR: On October 16, 1972, 72 00:03:52,583 --> 00:03:54,125 one of the most famous disappearances 73 00:03:54,250 --> 00:03:56,083 in American history 74 00:03:56,208 --> 00:03:58,667 took place over Alaska. 75 00:03:58,792 --> 00:04:01,167 Louisiana Congressman 76 00:04:01,250 --> 00:04:03,583 and House Majority Leader Hale Boggs 77 00:04:03,708 --> 00:04:07,625 boarded a twin-engine Cessna in Anchorage 78 00:04:07,750 --> 00:04:10,167 headed for Juneau, the state capital. 79 00:04:10,250 --> 00:04:15,417 With him was local Alaskan congressman Nick Begich. 80 00:04:15,542 --> 00:04:18,625 After the congressmen's plane departed Anchorage 81 00:04:18,708 --> 00:04:20,042 for Juneau, 82 00:04:20,167 --> 00:04:22,125 attempts to reach the pilot by radio 83 00:04:22,208 --> 00:04:24,583 were met with an eerie silence. 84 00:04:24,708 --> 00:04:29,208 HAMPTON: He made one mandatory radio reporting, 85 00:04:29,375 --> 00:04:31,750 I think, nine minutes after takeoff, 86 00:04:31,875 --> 00:04:34,000 and then they were never seen or heard from again. 87 00:04:34,125 --> 00:04:37,833 NARRATOR: The disappearance of two U.S. congressmen 88 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,875 made headlines around the world 89 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,375 and prompted an unprecedented search and rescue operation. 90 00:04:45,542 --> 00:04:48,250 TSOUKALOS: At the time, Nixon actually 91 00:04:48,375 --> 00:04:51,708 turned it into the most expensive rescue operation 92 00:04:51,875 --> 00:04:54,042 ever in the history of the United States. 93 00:04:54,208 --> 00:04:55,792 They still did not find anything. 94 00:04:57,667 --> 00:05:00,750 HAMPTON: There were, uh, 40-something aircraft 95 00:05:00,875 --> 00:05:04,708 involved and they covered an area maybe 360,000 96 00:05:04,833 --> 00:05:06,667 square kilometers. 97 00:05:08,042 --> 00:05:11,583 The fact is, nothing has ever been found or discovered 98 00:05:11,708 --> 00:05:13,792 from that aircraft, not a scrap of metal, 99 00:05:13,875 --> 00:05:15,500 nothing concrete, 100 00:05:15,625 --> 00:05:18,792 and that again only deepens the mystery in that area. 101 00:05:20,333 --> 00:05:23,458 NARRATOR: Literally hundreds of planes have disappeared while in flight 102 00:05:23,583 --> 00:05:26,333 over Alaska never to be recovered, 103 00:05:26,458 --> 00:05:28,125 and while many have blamed 104 00:05:28,208 --> 00:05:30,333 the state's extreme weather and terrain, 105 00:05:30,417 --> 00:05:34,208 Alaska has long been known as a hot spot 106 00:05:34,375 --> 00:05:36,542 for all kinds of strange phenomena. 107 00:05:36,667 --> 00:05:42,000 As recently as February 10, 2023, 108 00:05:42,125 --> 00:05:45,292 a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down 109 00:05:45,417 --> 00:05:47,417 an unidentified flying object 110 00:05:47,542 --> 00:05:50,958 hovering ten miles off the north coast of Alaska, 111 00:05:51,042 --> 00:05:54,333 making headlines around the world. 112 00:05:54,500 --> 00:05:57,750 The anomalous activity in Alaska's been noted 113 00:05:57,875 --> 00:05:59,958 for well over 100 years, 114 00:06:00,083 --> 00:06:02,708 like the Bermuda Triangle, 115 00:06:02,833 --> 00:06:06,667 and the Devil's Triangle out in Japan. 116 00:06:06,750 --> 00:06:09,917 ANDREW COLLINS: Within this area, incredible amount 117 00:06:10,042 --> 00:06:12,333 of weird things take place. 118 00:06:12,458 --> 00:06:14,250 We have paranormal activity, 119 00:06:14,375 --> 00:06:16,500 the appearance of strange cryptids 120 00:06:16,625 --> 00:06:18,625 and other monsters of time and space, 121 00:06:18,750 --> 00:06:21,542 as well as the manifestation 122 00:06:21,708 --> 00:06:26,083 of UFOs and mysterious lights. 123 00:06:28,250 --> 00:06:30,875 NARRATOR: Commercial pilot Theo Chesley 124 00:06:31,042 --> 00:06:34,583 has been flying in Alaska for nearly four decades 125 00:06:34,708 --> 00:06:38,500 and had heard countless stories of bizarre aerial encounters. 126 00:06:38,583 --> 00:06:43,750 But Chelsey remained a skeptic until 2019, 127 00:06:43,875 --> 00:06:47,625 when he had his own astonishing experience 128 00:06:47,708 --> 00:06:49,542 flying by Mount Shishaldin, 129 00:06:49,708 --> 00:06:55,250 an active volcano on Unimak Island in the Aleutians. 130 00:06:55,375 --> 00:06:58,833 The morning in late October, uh, 2019, 131 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,792 we had a normal charter flight from Sand Point 132 00:07:02,917 --> 00:07:06,292 direct to Dutch Harbor with three passengers aboard. 133 00:07:06,417 --> 00:07:07,833 About halfway through the flight, 134 00:07:07,958 --> 00:07:10,792 we're approaching the volcano from the north. 135 00:07:10,875 --> 00:07:15,375 The weather that day was fairly good, good visibility. 136 00:07:15,542 --> 00:07:18,500 And we saw something in the sky about 15 miles 137 00:07:18,667 --> 00:07:20,667 south of the volcano. 138 00:07:23,667 --> 00:07:26,167 A horizontal disk-shaped object 139 00:07:26,292 --> 00:07:30,333 that was very symmetrical, just almost perfect symmetry. 140 00:07:30,417 --> 00:07:33,833 As we continued on our flight path, 141 00:07:33,958 --> 00:07:37,625 the disk, uh, became more prevalent 142 00:07:37,708 --> 00:07:42,000 and turned into a vertical fashion. 143 00:07:42,125 --> 00:07:45,750 We knew something extraordinary was happening 144 00:07:45,875 --> 00:07:49,083 in front of us, just not quite certain what. 145 00:07:50,375 --> 00:07:52,875 NARRATOR: As Chesley and his three passengers 146 00:07:53,042 --> 00:07:55,500 observed the strange disk-shaped object, 147 00:07:55,625 --> 00:07:59,042 they were shocked to see a second anomaly, 148 00:07:59,208 --> 00:08:02,833 one that appeared to come out of the mouth of the volcano. 149 00:08:02,917 --> 00:08:06,500 CHESLEY: We noticed something fly out of the crater of the mountain, 150 00:08:06,625 --> 00:08:10,042 inside of a shrouded wisp of white smoke. 151 00:08:11,792 --> 00:08:14,667 Almost around that same time, a green sphere 152 00:08:14,792 --> 00:08:17,208 exhibited itself on the side of the mountain. 153 00:08:17,375 --> 00:08:19,667 And as all this was taking place, 154 00:08:19,750 --> 00:08:23,042 this object flew into the vertical sphere 155 00:08:23,208 --> 00:08:27,000 and pulled it out of shape in a teardrop fashion. 156 00:08:27,083 --> 00:08:30,000 At that point, we decided we did not want to stay and loiter, 157 00:08:30,083 --> 00:08:33,375 and maybe have to deal with some different consequences 158 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:36,125 that we weren't gonna be prepared for. 159 00:08:37,375 --> 00:08:40,292 NARRATOR: Could sightings like Theo Chesley's shed light 160 00:08:40,375 --> 00:08:44,167 on Alaska's strange history of unexplained phenomena, 161 00:08:44,292 --> 00:08:48,625 disappearances, and even seemingly impossible creatures? 162 00:08:48,708 --> 00:08:52,000 Perhaps further clues can be found 163 00:08:52,083 --> 00:08:55,625 by examining the pictures Chesley took of what he 164 00:08:55,708 --> 00:08:58,667 and his passengers witnessed and his report 165 00:08:58,792 --> 00:09:02,167 of a second mysterious encounter. 166 00:09:08,458 --> 00:09:12,000 NARRATOR: Pilot Theo Chesley has reported one of the most significant 167 00:09:12,125 --> 00:09:15,958 and credible UFO sightings in recent Alaskan history. 168 00:09:16,083 --> 00:09:18,667 The incident caught the attention 169 00:09:18,750 --> 00:09:21,917 of author and researcher David Childress, 170 00:09:22,042 --> 00:09:24,667 who traveled to Anchorage to meet with Chesley 171 00:09:24,792 --> 00:09:28,583 and examine the evidence of his harrowing encounter. 172 00:09:28,708 --> 00:09:30,167 CHILDRESS: Hi, Theo. 173 00:09:30,292 --> 00:09:32,958 -Hi, David. Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you. 174 00:09:33,042 --> 00:09:35,667 I understand you have a very interesting story to tell. 175 00:09:35,750 --> 00:09:37,958 Well, I do, and it happened right here in this aircraft. 176 00:09:38,083 --> 00:09:41,167 CHILDRESS: And you've been flying here for quite a few years, right? 177 00:09:41,333 --> 00:09:42,833 CHESLEY: Yeah, about 35 years. 178 00:09:42,917 --> 00:09:45,458 So, when was this first occurrence? 179 00:09:45,542 --> 00:09:49,458 Well, uh, we had a flight back in October 2019. 180 00:09:49,583 --> 00:09:52,250 We were northeast of the mountain. 181 00:09:52,375 --> 00:09:54,542 Uh, we were probably 30 miles from the mountain, 182 00:09:54,708 --> 00:09:58,417 we spotted something in the sky. 183 00:09:58,542 --> 00:10:00,542 And this is what we saw. 184 00:10:02,375 --> 00:10:05,667 CHILDRESS: Did it seem to have a-a cloud around it, or no? 185 00:10:05,833 --> 00:10:07,417 CHESLEY: It had, like, a tail on it, little bit of a wisp 186 00:10:07,542 --> 00:10:09,000 coming out of the back. 187 00:10:09,167 --> 00:10:13,750 So, I'm looking at it, going, okay, what is that? 188 00:10:13,875 --> 00:10:17,500 As we started to come towards the mountain and fly by it, 189 00:10:17,583 --> 00:10:21,958 this horizontal disk turned vertical 190 00:10:22,042 --> 00:10:25,333 and came over and sort of parked by the mountain 191 00:10:25,458 --> 00:10:26,875 and held its shape. 192 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,000 So, it had been moving, and then it stopped? 193 00:10:29,167 --> 00:10:30,917 CHESLEY: It stopped by the volcano. 194 00:10:31,042 --> 00:10:32,750 So I'm, like, looking at it, going, okay, 195 00:10:32,875 --> 00:10:34,500 if this is a smoke ring, it's not gonna hold its shape, 196 00:10:34,625 --> 00:10:36,250 it's not gonna stop. 197 00:10:36,375 --> 00:10:37,750 It's gonna dissipate. 198 00:10:37,875 --> 00:10:40,625 It held its shape the whole time. 199 00:10:40,708 --> 00:10:43,667 And had you ever seen anything like this before? 200 00:10:43,750 --> 00:10:46,417 Uh, I've been flying, well, 35 years 201 00:10:46,542 --> 00:10:48,667 and 15,000 hours of flight time, 202 00:10:48,750 --> 00:10:50,083 uh, most of them in Alaska, 203 00:10:50,208 --> 00:10:52,542 and I had never seen anything like this. 204 00:10:52,708 --> 00:10:56,958 Then we had something fly out of the mountain. 205 00:10:57,083 --> 00:11:00,333 -Uh, now, the mountain... -A second object? 206 00:11:00,417 --> 00:11:01,750 CHESLEY: A second object. 207 00:11:01,875 --> 00:11:05,167 So, this object flies out of the mountain. 208 00:11:05,250 --> 00:11:07,333 And at the same time, we're still watching the v-- 209 00:11:07,417 --> 00:11:09,958 the sphere that's vertically parked. 210 00:11:10,042 --> 00:11:11,708 -And it's, like, up here? -It's right over here. 211 00:11:11,875 --> 00:11:13,458 Matter of fact, I'll show you another picture here 212 00:11:13,542 --> 00:11:16,000 that kind of just puts it all together. 213 00:11:17,125 --> 00:11:19,500 -CHILDRESS: Okay. -CHESLEY: So, then this appeared 214 00:11:19,625 --> 00:11:21,125 on the side of the mountain. 215 00:11:21,250 --> 00:11:23,958 This green orb shows up on the side 216 00:11:24,083 --> 00:11:25,625 of the mountain in a lower spot. 217 00:11:28,208 --> 00:11:31,833 The next picture we take, 218 00:11:31,917 --> 00:11:35,333 this is what happened to the vertical sphere in the sky. 219 00:11:35,458 --> 00:11:38,667 Something flew inside of it and pulled it out of shape. 220 00:11:38,750 --> 00:11:40,167 You see these two little, I don't know, 221 00:11:40,292 --> 00:11:41,875 there's, like, two little wings out there. 222 00:11:43,208 --> 00:11:46,583 And we, like, looked at that, and I said, no, we're done here. 223 00:11:46,708 --> 00:11:48,375 We're, we are leaving the scene here. 224 00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:52,000 And to be honest, uh, you know, 225 00:11:52,083 --> 00:11:55,333 my concern level was going about through the roof at that point. 226 00:11:55,500 --> 00:11:57,792 CHILDRESS: Did it seem like a very large object, then? 227 00:11:57,875 --> 00:11:59,958 CHESLEY: This is a big mountain, and this was something 228 00:12:00,042 --> 00:12:03,292 that caught our eye 40 to 50 miles away. 229 00:12:03,375 --> 00:12:05,333 -Okay, that's, yeah, it's, like... -Yeah, so... 230 00:12:05,417 --> 00:12:06,833 40, 50 miles away from this thing. 231 00:12:06,917 --> 00:12:08,542 So, this had to be almost, I want to guess, 232 00:12:08,708 --> 00:12:10,125 a half a mile wide. 233 00:12:10,208 --> 00:12:12,083 CHILDRESS: Wow, that's fascinating. And, you know... 234 00:12:12,208 --> 00:12:16,458 (sighs) When it comes to UFO-type objects 235 00:12:16,542 --> 00:12:18,333 around volcanoes, 236 00:12:18,458 --> 00:12:20,375 that's a common thing. 237 00:12:20,542 --> 00:12:25,250 NARRATOR: One of the first modern UFO sightings on record 238 00:12:25,375 --> 00:12:28,000 involved an entire squadron of vehicles 239 00:12:28,125 --> 00:12:30,667 that appeared to enter a volcano. 240 00:12:30,792 --> 00:12:35,083 On June 24, 1947, 241 00:12:35,208 --> 00:12:38,333 Kenneth Arnold was flying his private plane 242 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:40,583 near Mount Rainier in Washington 243 00:12:40,708 --> 00:12:43,750 when he witnessed nine disk-shaped objects 244 00:12:43,875 --> 00:12:47,500 move at an impossible speed across the horizon, 245 00:12:47,667 --> 00:12:53,125 then disappear into a nearby volcano called Mount Adams. 246 00:12:54,208 --> 00:12:58,792 There have been a lot of UFO sightings around volcanoes. 247 00:12:58,875 --> 00:13:04,667 And we've seen this in the Canary Islands in Mexico, 248 00:13:04,750 --> 00:13:07,500 in South America. 249 00:13:07,583 --> 00:13:09,625 You have other places like, say, 250 00:13:09,708 --> 00:13:11,250 Mount Shasta, 251 00:13:11,375 --> 00:13:13,958 and we're seeing it in Hawaii, too, 252 00:13:14,083 --> 00:13:18,042 where UFOs are seen, and there's a lot of activity. 253 00:13:20,333 --> 00:13:23,958 I mean, it-it definitely makes you wonder, 254 00:13:24,042 --> 00:13:27,333 okay, what's in this volcano? What is the attraction here? 255 00:13:27,458 --> 00:13:29,125 And the crazy thing is-is, uh, 256 00:13:29,250 --> 00:13:31,083 this was just the first occurrence. 257 00:13:31,208 --> 00:13:34,292 -We had a second occurrence six months later. -Okay. 258 00:13:34,375 --> 00:13:37,208 CHESLEY: I'm by myself in a different aircraft 259 00:13:37,333 --> 00:13:41,458 And, uh, I looked out of my left window, and all of a sudden, 260 00:13:41,542 --> 00:13:44,875 there is a huge cloud formation that came out of nowhere. 261 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,125 And that's right, kind of above the volcano. 262 00:13:47,208 --> 00:13:49,708 Above and east of the mountain. 263 00:13:49,875 --> 00:13:51,708 I've never seen anything like this in my life. 264 00:13:51,833 --> 00:13:53,792 It was a clear sky without anything, 265 00:13:53,875 --> 00:13:56,625 -and suddenly you saw this? -Well, you saw the picture. The-the... 266 00:13:56,708 --> 00:13:58,625 -Yeah. -That picture that I took, 267 00:13:58,750 --> 00:14:00,667 clear sky was 268 00:14:00,792 --> 00:14:05,000 a minute before this decided to show up. 269 00:14:05,167 --> 00:14:08,667 So, the crazy part is, this cloud morphed 270 00:14:08,750 --> 00:14:10,875 into several different shapes. 271 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 There looks like something black inside there, 272 00:14:14,125 --> 00:14:16,375 an object underneath this thing. 273 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:17,625 CHILDRESS: Yeah. 274 00:14:17,708 --> 00:14:20,000 During the occurrence, 275 00:14:20,167 --> 00:14:22,333 uh, I had the aircraft on autopilot, 276 00:14:22,458 --> 00:14:25,042 and the aircraft was flying straight and true. 277 00:14:25,167 --> 00:14:28,375 My route of flight took me back by the mountain again. 278 00:14:30,542 --> 00:14:35,000 As I'm coming back, I have the aircraft on autopilot. 279 00:14:35,125 --> 00:14:38,083 And I look down, and I notice I'm 35 degrees off course 280 00:14:38,208 --> 00:14:41,292 heading towards the mountain. 281 00:14:41,417 --> 00:14:44,333 I shut the autopilot off, reset the heading, 282 00:14:44,458 --> 00:14:46,625 set the airplane back up on course. 283 00:14:46,708 --> 00:14:48,917 And, okay, yeah, we're fine. 284 00:14:49,042 --> 00:14:52,333 I'm looking around again, trying to see if there's anything. 285 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,667 I look down, we're heading back towards the mountain. 286 00:14:55,833 --> 00:14:58,500 It happened two times. 287 00:14:58,667 --> 00:15:02,042 So, at that point, I go, oh, no, this-- something's not 288 00:15:02,167 --> 00:15:04,417 right here. I'm gonna hand-fly the aircraft. 289 00:15:04,542 --> 00:15:07,167 And worked fine, um, hand-flying the airplane. 290 00:15:07,292 --> 00:15:10,042 But I've never had that happen to me 291 00:15:10,167 --> 00:15:12,708 on an autopilot, just pull the aircraft, 292 00:15:12,833 --> 00:15:14,250 you know, start pulling the aircraft 293 00:15:14,375 --> 00:15:15,708 somewhere where it's not supposed to be. 294 00:15:15,833 --> 00:15:18,708 So, th-the autopilot then 295 00:15:18,875 --> 00:15:20,833 was somehow sensing 296 00:15:20,958 --> 00:15:22,500 some weird magnetic thing and pulling you then. 297 00:15:22,583 --> 00:15:23,875 Exactly. 298 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,833 Something internally in the aircraft 299 00:15:25,958 --> 00:15:28,000 was feeling a magnetic pull. 300 00:15:28,083 --> 00:15:30,417 This sounds a lot like other things that have happened, like, 301 00:15:30,542 --> 00:15:32,292 say, in the Bermuda Triangle or something. 302 00:15:32,375 --> 00:15:35,000 Like, where their instruments do go haywire, 303 00:15:35,083 --> 00:15:38,417 or they're being taken off, you know, course 304 00:15:38,542 --> 00:15:39,792 without even knowing it, 305 00:15:39,875 --> 00:15:41,292 and suddenly, they vanish, right? 306 00:15:41,375 --> 00:15:42,667 Very much so. 307 00:15:42,833 --> 00:15:44,875 To me, this is a very important story. 308 00:15:45,042 --> 00:15:46,500 I'm so glad that you've been able 309 00:15:46,667 --> 00:15:48,500 to get these good photographs, 310 00:15:48,667 --> 00:15:50,833 you've got other witnesses, and 311 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,750 for 70 years, there have been planes vanishing, 312 00:15:53,875 --> 00:15:55,250 even military planes. 313 00:15:55,375 --> 00:15:58,250 This all fits so squarely into the mystery 314 00:15:58,375 --> 00:16:00,542 which is Alaska. 315 00:16:04,625 --> 00:16:08,875 NARRATOR: As an experienced pilot, Theo Chesley cannot explain 316 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,208 what he saw on those two separate occasions, 317 00:16:11,375 --> 00:16:14,000 nor explain the magnetic anomaly 318 00:16:14,083 --> 00:16:17,500 that interfered with his autopilot instrumentation. 319 00:16:17,625 --> 00:16:21,708 And to ancient astronaut theorist David Childress, 320 00:16:21,833 --> 00:16:24,667 the photographic evidence is astounding. 321 00:16:24,750 --> 00:16:26,500 CHILDRESS: Theo's a great observer. 322 00:16:26,583 --> 00:16:28,792 You know that you're really getting 323 00:16:28,875 --> 00:16:31,917 good information and reliable information. 324 00:16:32,042 --> 00:16:34,833 This is all compelling evidence 325 00:16:34,917 --> 00:16:37,375 that something's happening here in Alaska. 326 00:16:39,042 --> 00:16:41,208 CHESLEY: In the 37 years I've been flying, 327 00:16:41,375 --> 00:16:42,833 I've seen a lot of things. 328 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,833 I've been through a lot of storms, 329 00:16:46,958 --> 00:16:48,583 some great flights, 330 00:16:48,708 --> 00:16:50,833 some not-so-great flights. 331 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,208 I'll be the first to tell you, 332 00:16:52,333 --> 00:16:53,625 when you're saying you're seeing something, 333 00:16:53,708 --> 00:16:54,917 you're seeing something. 334 00:16:55,042 --> 00:16:56,792 I'm one of those kind of guys 335 00:16:56,875 --> 00:16:58,875 that have to see something 336 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,333 that's extraordinary to believe it. 337 00:17:02,417 --> 00:17:07,292 And what I saw was just not anything ordinary 338 00:17:07,375 --> 00:17:08,500 at all. 339 00:17:09,875 --> 00:17:12,958 NARRATOR: Could an extraterrestrial presence be responsible 340 00:17:13,083 --> 00:17:16,167 for the strange sightings and aircraft malfunction 341 00:17:16,250 --> 00:17:18,208 that Theo Chesley experienced, 342 00:17:18,375 --> 00:17:22,458 as well as other anomalous events and disappearances 343 00:17:22,542 --> 00:17:24,333 that plague the area? 344 00:17:24,458 --> 00:17:27,333 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 345 00:17:27,458 --> 00:17:31,708 and suggest that recently declassified 346 00:17:31,833 --> 00:17:34,542 CIA documents could hold clues 347 00:17:34,667 --> 00:17:40,000 to an alien presence under the mountains of Alaska. 348 00:17:45,083 --> 00:17:46,667 NARRATOR: Alaska's Aleutian Islands, 349 00:17:46,792 --> 00:17:48,750 where pilot Theo Chesley 350 00:17:48,875 --> 00:17:53,250 encountered no less than four unidentified flying objects, 351 00:17:53,375 --> 00:17:56,667 is an area that has been known for strange sightings 352 00:17:56,792 --> 00:17:59,167 dating back to 1945, 353 00:17:59,250 --> 00:18:04,417 when a U.S. Army transport reported seeing a large UFO 354 00:18:04,542 --> 00:18:07,583 emerge from the waters near the island of Adak. 355 00:18:09,417 --> 00:18:13,333 CHILDRESS: Historically, there have been a lot of UFO sightings 356 00:18:13,458 --> 00:18:15,667 around the Aleutian Islands. 357 00:18:15,750 --> 00:18:20,083 And there are 57 volcanoes throughout the Aleutian Islands. 358 00:18:20,208 --> 00:18:23,500 And it seems that some of these volcanoes 359 00:18:23,625 --> 00:18:27,208 have some very peculiar activity around them. 360 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:31,625 NARRATOR: But east of the Aleutian Islands is a large area 361 00:18:31,750 --> 00:18:35,833 that has become even more notorious for strange phenomena. 362 00:18:35,958 --> 00:18:39,333 It is called the Alaska Triangle. 363 00:18:39,500 --> 00:18:43,208 The Alaska Triangle is an area roughly between Anchorage, 364 00:18:43,333 --> 00:18:45,333 Juneau, and Barrow, Alaska, 365 00:18:45,417 --> 00:18:47,792 more or less running along the border 366 00:18:47,875 --> 00:18:51,500 of the Canadian territories and the State of Alaska. 367 00:18:51,667 --> 00:18:56,458 TSOUKALOS: The Alaska Triangle can be likened to the Bermuda Triangle, 368 00:18:56,542 --> 00:18:59,292 where really strange things happen, 369 00:18:59,417 --> 00:19:01,625 seemingly without explanation. 370 00:19:01,708 --> 00:19:05,208 NARRATOR: Within this region of anomalous activity 371 00:19:05,375 --> 00:19:07,208 stands Mount Hayes, 372 00:19:07,333 --> 00:19:09,375 one of Alaska's tallest peaks 373 00:19:09,542 --> 00:19:12,125 and a place where UFO sightings 374 00:19:12,208 --> 00:19:14,833 are reported with great frequency. 375 00:19:14,917 --> 00:19:19,875 Many people have seen, uh, UFOs, flying saucers, strange lights, 376 00:19:20,042 --> 00:19:22,125 flying in and around Mount Hayes. 377 00:19:22,208 --> 00:19:25,625 Now, there's no road that can go up there. 378 00:19:25,708 --> 00:19:27,792 The only way to get to Mount Hayes 379 00:19:27,875 --> 00:19:31,292 is to actually fly there, which most people don't do. 380 00:19:31,375 --> 00:19:34,333 So, what are these craft that are flying around Mount Hayes? 381 00:19:34,458 --> 00:19:37,333 NARRATOR: For decades, eyewitness testimony 382 00:19:37,417 --> 00:19:39,958 was the only evidence to support the notion 383 00:19:40,083 --> 00:19:43,167 that Mount Hayes was a UFO hot spot. 384 00:19:43,333 --> 00:19:47,167 But in 1995, declassified documents 385 00:19:47,250 --> 00:19:49,917 revealed that Mount Hayes featured prominently 386 00:19:50,042 --> 00:19:55,375 in a top secret government project called "Stargate." 387 00:19:56,542 --> 00:19:59,375 NEWMAN: Researchers were looking through CIA documents, 388 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:05,292 and they found evidence of a project underneath Mount Hayes. 389 00:20:05,375 --> 00:20:07,333 And they say they saw written in these records 390 00:20:07,417 --> 00:20:11,583 that it was actually an alien underground base in this area. 391 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,667 NARRATOR: Researchers were astounded to find a reference 392 00:20:15,833 --> 00:20:20,833 to an extraterrestrial base in official CIA documents. 393 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:26,250 And just as intriguing is how this information was obtained. 394 00:20:26,375 --> 00:20:29,000 According to the declassified documents, 395 00:20:29,125 --> 00:20:32,958 the existence of an alien base beneath Mount Hayes was gleaned 396 00:20:33,042 --> 00:20:36,417 from a top secret experimental investigation technique 397 00:20:36,542 --> 00:20:39,000 used by Project Stargate, 398 00:20:39,125 --> 00:20:42,667 a technique called "remote viewing." 399 00:20:42,792 --> 00:20:45,375 NEWMAN: Remote viewing was used by the CIA 400 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:47,333 all during the Cold War. 401 00:20:47,458 --> 00:20:51,167 And this is really a psychic projection technique, 402 00:20:51,333 --> 00:20:55,208 where, from one location, the remote viewer can look 403 00:20:55,333 --> 00:20:58,667 into a different place on the Earth's surface, 404 00:20:58,792 --> 00:21:00,708 and he's able to project 405 00:21:00,875 --> 00:21:05,000 his vision there and able to see what is going on. 406 00:21:05,125 --> 00:21:08,375 Project Stargate had a specific purpose 407 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:11,500 of using remote viewers, um, 408 00:21:11,667 --> 00:21:14,292 quite literally psychic spies, 409 00:21:14,375 --> 00:21:20,375 to find information on what the Soviets were up to. 410 00:21:21,542 --> 00:21:23,458 NARRATOR: The most famous remote viewer to come out 411 00:21:23,583 --> 00:21:27,708 of the Stargate project was a man named Pat Price. 412 00:21:27,875 --> 00:21:31,292 Price was the first to report what he believed 413 00:21:31,375 --> 00:21:35,333 to be an alien base under Mount Hayes. 414 00:21:35,417 --> 00:21:38,542 He would sit down and draw what he sees, 415 00:21:38,667 --> 00:21:41,500 and he was deadly accurate on his predictions. 416 00:21:41,583 --> 00:21:46,542 One time, Pat Price, uh, remote viewed Mount Hayes 417 00:21:46,708 --> 00:21:51,375 and saw that there was, uh, structures 418 00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:52,875 that were under the mountain-- 419 00:21:53,042 --> 00:21:57,167 tubes, tunnels-- and he was intrigued by that, 420 00:21:57,250 --> 00:21:58,917 so he went deeper. 421 00:22:00,375 --> 00:22:03,875 RICKSECKER: Pat Price saw within Mount Hayes what he described as 422 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,917 geographical instrumentation. 423 00:22:06,042 --> 00:22:07,500 He saw computers. 424 00:22:07,667 --> 00:22:10,417 He also described these strange humanoid creatures 425 00:22:10,542 --> 00:22:12,917 that were within the mountain, 426 00:22:13,042 --> 00:22:16,667 and they were working alongside human personnel, 427 00:22:16,792 --> 00:22:19,833 which he believed were military personnel. 428 00:22:19,958 --> 00:22:23,875 NARRATOR: Price began to fear that he had seen something 429 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,667 he wasn't supposed to see 430 00:22:25,750 --> 00:22:29,500 and told friends that his remote viewing 431 00:22:29,625 --> 00:22:31,958 of the secret base under Mount Hayes 432 00:22:32,042 --> 00:22:35,125 had put him in grave danger. 433 00:22:36,333 --> 00:22:41,333 COLLINS: In Las Vegas, just as he checked in to the Stardust, 434 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:44,167 somebody deliberately bumped into him, 435 00:22:44,250 --> 00:22:47,583 and he felt a sharp pain in his leg. 436 00:22:47,708 --> 00:22:50,500 And that evening, he started to feel unwell. 437 00:22:50,625 --> 00:22:52,625 And the following morning, 438 00:22:52,708 --> 00:22:56,583 he had convulsions and died. 439 00:22:57,958 --> 00:23:00,500 What's really strange about Pat Price's death 440 00:23:00,625 --> 00:23:02,833 is that the hospital 441 00:23:02,958 --> 00:23:06,625 didn't even notify the wife, and they had him cremated. 442 00:23:08,083 --> 00:23:10,917 BRUCE PEARSON: I think it is fair and reasonable 443 00:23:11,042 --> 00:23:14,500 to ask the question if Pat Price's mysterious death 444 00:23:14,667 --> 00:23:17,250 does not enter into a long lineage 445 00:23:17,375 --> 00:23:21,125 of similar tragic deaths of people 446 00:23:21,208 --> 00:23:23,083 that are whistleblowers 447 00:23:23,208 --> 00:23:27,000 or are stepping out of line and saying things they shouldn't say 448 00:23:27,083 --> 00:23:30,333 about things they have witnessed or know about. 449 00:23:30,417 --> 00:23:35,083 NARRATOR: Could the story of Pat Price and Project Stargate 450 00:23:35,208 --> 00:23:38,667 indicate that there may be a more profound connection 451 00:23:38,750 --> 00:23:43,833 between UFO sightings and Alaska's forbidding terrain? 452 00:23:43,917 --> 00:23:46,875 Perhaps further clues can be found by examining 453 00:23:47,042 --> 00:23:50,958 reports of an incredible structure believed to be hidden 454 00:23:51,042 --> 00:23:54,542 deep beneath North America's highest mountain range, 455 00:23:54,708 --> 00:23:58,917 a formation known as the Dark Pyramid. 456 00:24:09,708 --> 00:24:13,500 NARRATOR: In its race to become a major military power, 457 00:24:13,667 --> 00:24:17,333 China sets off the largest underground nuclear bomb test 458 00:24:17,458 --> 00:24:19,542 in the history of the nation. 459 00:24:19,708 --> 00:24:22,333 The one-megaton blast-- 460 00:24:22,417 --> 00:24:24,917 70 times the explosive power 461 00:24:25,042 --> 00:24:27,833 of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima-- 462 00:24:27,917 --> 00:24:31,208 sends shockwaves across the planet. 463 00:24:31,375 --> 00:24:35,750 Thousands of miles away, scientists in the United States 464 00:24:35,875 --> 00:24:38,583 begin to study how these shockwaves travel 465 00:24:38,708 --> 00:24:41,583 through the Earth's crust, hoping to learn 466 00:24:41,708 --> 00:24:43,375 about underground faults 467 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:46,208 and other hidden geological structures. 468 00:24:46,333 --> 00:24:48,833 As the shockwaves reach Alaska, 469 00:24:48,917 --> 00:24:51,708 scientists notice highly unusual readings 470 00:24:51,833 --> 00:24:55,833 around Mount Denali, North America's tallest peak. 471 00:24:57,542 --> 00:25:00,375 When these ripples of the shockwaves crossed over 472 00:25:00,542 --> 00:25:03,667 into Alaska, there was this pyramidal shape 473 00:25:03,792 --> 00:25:05,917 that came across their instrumentation 474 00:25:06,042 --> 00:25:09,625 indicating this massive pyramidal structure 475 00:25:09,750 --> 00:25:11,833 located under Mount Denali 476 00:25:11,917 --> 00:25:15,292 within the area of the Alaska Triangle. 477 00:25:15,417 --> 00:25:17,417 This is really when the Dark Pyramid 478 00:25:17,542 --> 00:25:19,208 was first discovered. 479 00:25:19,375 --> 00:25:22,375 NARRATOR: Seismic instruments revealed 480 00:25:22,542 --> 00:25:26,375 that the top of the 550-foot-tall pyramid shape 481 00:25:26,542 --> 00:25:29,500 lies 150 feet below ground 482 00:25:29,667 --> 00:25:33,750 and just 130 miles southwest of Mount Hayes, 483 00:25:33,875 --> 00:25:35,875 where remote viewer Pat Price 484 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,833 claimed to have detected an underground alien base. 485 00:25:40,958 --> 00:25:43,500 Intrigued by the mysterious discovery, 486 00:25:43,667 --> 00:25:46,500 investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe 487 00:25:46,667 --> 00:25:49,875 began researching the curious findings 488 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,292 and what might have compelled scientists 489 00:25:52,417 --> 00:25:54,500 to be prepared to record activity 490 00:25:54,625 --> 00:25:58,375 underneath Mount Denali. 491 00:25:58,500 --> 00:26:00,875 "Why would geophysicists be interested 492 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000 "in monitoring to see whether or not there was something 493 00:26:04,083 --> 00:26:06,000 underground in Alaska?" 494 00:26:06,125 --> 00:26:08,125 has always been a question in my mind. 495 00:26:09,750 --> 00:26:12,042 Was there already some information 496 00:26:12,167 --> 00:26:16,292 that our government had, and this was a perfect opportunity 497 00:26:16,417 --> 00:26:20,208 to take advantage of what the Chinese were going to do? 498 00:26:20,333 --> 00:26:25,000 NARRATOR: In 2012, after discussing the so-called "Dark Pyramid" 499 00:26:25,125 --> 00:26:27,333 on the Coast to Coast radio show, 500 00:26:27,458 --> 00:26:30,375 Linda was contacted by Bruce Pearson, 501 00:26:30,542 --> 00:26:32,375 who said he had a story to tell her 502 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:37,625 that might be connected to the alleged underground structure. 503 00:26:37,708 --> 00:26:41,292 HOWE: I ended up talking with Bruce Pearson, 504 00:26:41,375 --> 00:26:45,875 and his father had been in the Navy 505 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:51,583 and ended up describing that, on a trip in Alaska, 506 00:26:51,708 --> 00:26:54,750 he met an old Navy pilot, 507 00:26:54,875 --> 00:26:57,167 and they talked for a few minutes, 508 00:26:57,250 --> 00:27:01,042 and the pilot said, "We're just gonna go out and do a drop-off. 509 00:27:01,208 --> 00:27:06,458 Why don't you come along, and we'll talk old days?" 510 00:27:06,542 --> 00:27:08,333 My dad was a very friendly guy, 511 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:10,208 and I guess in Alaska people do things 512 00:27:10,333 --> 00:27:13,000 a little differently because there's a companionship 513 00:27:13,167 --> 00:27:15,875 that grows out of a survival mentality. 514 00:27:17,167 --> 00:27:20,625 In any event, he told me that he was talking to the pilot, 515 00:27:20,708 --> 00:27:23,667 and the pilot said that they had to take 516 00:27:23,792 --> 00:27:28,500 a flight out to a secure, secret installation. 517 00:27:28,625 --> 00:27:30,708 They had a couple of these, 518 00:27:30,833 --> 00:27:33,917 what he described as silver containers, 519 00:27:34,042 --> 00:27:36,542 that had to be delivered out there. 520 00:27:36,708 --> 00:27:38,958 On the way out, he and the co-pilot 521 00:27:39,042 --> 00:27:42,042 advised my dad, he said, "Listen, 522 00:27:42,167 --> 00:27:44,542 "we were told there's gonna be a lot of magnetic interference 523 00:27:44,708 --> 00:27:47,000 "and that our instruments are gonna go crazy. 524 00:27:47,125 --> 00:27:49,708 "Don't worry about it, you know. We were told to expect it. 525 00:27:49,833 --> 00:27:53,000 You know, we're flying VFR anyway, visual flight rules." 526 00:27:53,125 --> 00:27:57,125 Bruce said, while his father was telling him the story, 527 00:27:57,208 --> 00:27:58,250 he began to shake. 528 00:27:59,667 --> 00:28:03,167 That, when they got to this location, 529 00:28:03,333 --> 00:28:06,125 that the helicopter 530 00:28:06,208 --> 00:28:08,667 began to shake 531 00:28:08,750 --> 00:28:11,250 and roll like, he felt, 532 00:28:11,375 --> 00:28:13,542 that it should crash. 533 00:28:13,667 --> 00:28:16,458 But the helicopter pilot just kept reassuring him 534 00:28:16,542 --> 00:28:19,417 that-that he knew what was happening, 535 00:28:19,542 --> 00:28:24,000 and that there was a magnetic field anomaly 536 00:28:24,125 --> 00:28:25,583 under the ground, 537 00:28:25,708 --> 00:28:28,333 and that that was what was causing this. 538 00:28:30,292 --> 00:28:31,833 PEARSON: When they landed, these guys came out with 539 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,292 black uniforms on, no insignias. Didn't say anything. 540 00:28:34,375 --> 00:28:38,875 HOWE: Men came, they grabbed all this heavy stuff in there. 541 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,500 They put some stuff back in the helicopter. 542 00:28:41,583 --> 00:28:42,917 It all happened very fast. 543 00:28:43,042 --> 00:28:45,250 Bang, and they're out of there. 544 00:28:45,375 --> 00:28:48,833 PEARSON: My father said the odd thing was they didn't even get out 545 00:28:48,958 --> 00:28:51,417 of the helicopter. Fueled it up, and they took off again. 546 00:28:51,542 --> 00:28:53,833 They never even shut the chopper down. 547 00:28:53,917 --> 00:28:55,917 That's not standard procedure. 548 00:28:56,042 --> 00:28:58,000 This is not wartime conditions where you 549 00:28:58,125 --> 00:28:59,833 refuel with the aircraft running. 550 00:28:59,958 --> 00:29:02,958 So, it was very bizarre. 551 00:29:03,083 --> 00:29:06,333 He didn't call me until a couple days later and told me about it. 552 00:29:06,458 --> 00:29:09,250 And I said, "Wow." I said, "What do you think it was?" 553 00:29:09,375 --> 00:29:11,333 He goes, "I don't know." 554 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:13,542 HOWE: That Bruce Pearson story 555 00:29:13,667 --> 00:29:17,000 was in the area of Mount Denali. 556 00:29:17,167 --> 00:29:20,542 The same area having to do with a Dark Pyramid 557 00:29:20,708 --> 00:29:22,750 possibly underground. 558 00:29:22,875 --> 00:29:25,125 NARRATOR: Over the years, Linda has interviewed 559 00:29:25,250 --> 00:29:28,500 a number of other people claiming to have information 560 00:29:28,625 --> 00:29:32,667 about a mysterious underground structure near Mount Denali. 561 00:29:32,833 --> 00:29:36,542 One account came from a man who claimed his father 562 00:29:36,667 --> 00:29:40,167 has actually been inside the Dark Pyramid. 563 00:29:40,292 --> 00:29:45,292 He said that his, uh, father was working for Western Electric 564 00:29:45,375 --> 00:29:51,333 and ended up as a very skilled electronic engineer 565 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:54,583 being asked to go to a location 566 00:29:54,708 --> 00:29:58,333 west of what was Mount Denali. 567 00:29:58,417 --> 00:30:01,917 His father told him that there was a big freight elevator 568 00:30:02,042 --> 00:30:03,875 that was sticking up out of the ground. 569 00:30:04,042 --> 00:30:06,333 And when you got to the bottom, 570 00:30:06,458 --> 00:30:10,833 opened up into full-bore 571 00:30:10,958 --> 00:30:14,458 room, work, offices. 572 00:30:15,875 --> 00:30:20,042 The father is introduced to the fact 573 00:30:20,167 --> 00:30:24,708 that they are at the bottom of a pyramid. 574 00:30:24,875 --> 00:30:27,875 And that, at each of the three corners, 575 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,250 they had these offices that were actually monitoring energy. 576 00:30:33,917 --> 00:30:37,500 And the father tells the son who got in touch with me, 577 00:30:37,625 --> 00:30:41,500 "We are measuring energy 578 00:30:41,583 --> 00:30:44,458 "coming out of this pyramid 579 00:30:44,542 --> 00:30:47,625 "that is enough 580 00:30:47,708 --> 00:30:52,292 to power the entire country of Canada." 581 00:30:54,042 --> 00:30:56,542 NARRATOR: Could a secret energy source be hidden 582 00:30:56,708 --> 00:30:59,000 under the Mount Denali mountain range? 583 00:30:59,125 --> 00:31:02,667 Perhaps clues can be found by examining 584 00:31:02,792 --> 00:31:06,167 electromagnetic anomalies that have, in fact, 585 00:31:06,292 --> 00:31:10,250 been detected throughout a vast region surrounding the area 586 00:31:10,375 --> 00:31:13,417 where the Dark Pyramid is said to exist. 587 00:31:14,708 --> 00:31:18,042 TRAVIS TAYLOR: This very strange localized magnetic anomaly 588 00:31:18,208 --> 00:31:20,542 seems to occur randomly, transiently, 589 00:31:20,667 --> 00:31:22,750 and at different locations throughout this vast wilderness. 590 00:31:22,875 --> 00:31:27,667 So much so that the north will be off as much as 30 degrees. 591 00:31:27,750 --> 00:31:31,250 So, what's causing these magnetic anomalies? 592 00:31:31,375 --> 00:31:34,042 There are a lot of people who believe that there could be 593 00:31:34,208 --> 00:31:36,875 unusual phenomenon originating from technology 594 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,417 inside this so-called Dark Pyramid. 595 00:31:41,583 --> 00:31:44,750 NARRATOR: Is it possible that there is an ancient pyramid 596 00:31:44,875 --> 00:31:47,167 hidden deep under Mount Denali that is 597 00:31:47,292 --> 00:31:50,125 generating massive amounts of energy? 598 00:31:50,250 --> 00:31:52,333 And if so, could this structure, 599 00:31:52,458 --> 00:31:57,208 along with a secret base alleged to exist beneath the ground 600 00:31:57,375 --> 00:32:00,292 at nearby Mount Hayes, point to an alien presence 601 00:32:00,375 --> 00:32:04,667 in Alaska that dates back thousands of years? 602 00:32:04,750 --> 00:32:07,667 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 603 00:32:07,750 --> 00:32:12,625 and suggest that clues to who or what this presence might be 604 00:32:12,708 --> 00:32:17,875 can be found in the Inuit stories of contact with sky gods 605 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,917 and otherworldly beings. 606 00:32:25,833 --> 00:32:28,125 NARRATOR: Alaska is home to dozens 607 00:32:28,208 --> 00:32:30,500 of indigenous Native American cultures 608 00:32:30,667 --> 00:32:32,083 who have inhabited the area 609 00:32:32,208 --> 00:32:36,833 for hundreds and, in some cases, thousands of years. 610 00:32:36,958 --> 00:32:38,958 There are, of course, a number of different 611 00:32:39,083 --> 00:32:41,333 Native American cultures in Alaska. 612 00:32:41,458 --> 00:32:46,167 You have the Inuit people of the northern coastal regions. 613 00:32:46,292 --> 00:32:50,417 You have the Athabaskans of the central Alaskan region, 614 00:32:50,542 --> 00:32:52,208 the Yupik people, 615 00:32:52,375 --> 00:32:54,417 and then in southeast Alaska you have 616 00:32:54,542 --> 00:32:58,042 the Tlingit and the Haida tribes. 617 00:32:59,583 --> 00:33:01,875 NARRATOR: Each of the native Alaskan tribes 618 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,792 has its own unique traditions, 619 00:33:04,875 --> 00:33:08,792 but these separate cultures all tell stories of the sky people 620 00:33:08,875 --> 00:33:12,667 encountered by their earliest ancestors. 621 00:33:13,875 --> 00:33:17,708 So, I was stationed in Alaska from 1992 to 1995 as part of 622 00:33:17,875 --> 00:33:20,500 the United States Air Force at Elmendorf Air Force Base. 623 00:33:21,958 --> 00:33:24,500 And I heard the local legends and lore 624 00:33:24,583 --> 00:33:26,208 from the Natives up there. 625 00:33:26,333 --> 00:33:29,792 And local legends dating back centuries 626 00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:32,167 talk about strange lights in the sky 627 00:33:32,292 --> 00:33:35,250 and strange beings visiting the people. 628 00:33:36,542 --> 00:33:38,917 JONATHAN YOUNG: These cultures had rich 629 00:33:39,042 --> 00:33:42,458 stories about contact with beings 630 00:33:42,542 --> 00:33:45,375 from beyond this planet, the so-called star people. 631 00:33:47,042 --> 00:33:49,500 NARRATOR: Along with stories of star people, 632 00:33:49,625 --> 00:33:53,417 many native Alaskan tribes also have ancient traditions 633 00:33:53,542 --> 00:33:57,000 of giant winged beasts descending from the sky. 634 00:33:58,208 --> 00:34:01,000 Alaska has a bounty of strange legends 635 00:34:01,125 --> 00:34:03,333 and modern reports of giant winged creatures, 636 00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:05,250 like thunderbirds, that are said to swoop down 637 00:34:05,375 --> 00:34:07,250 and snatch people off of peaks. 638 00:34:08,625 --> 00:34:12,167 TSOUKALOS: The thunderbird goes back into deep, deep history 639 00:34:12,333 --> 00:34:15,500 of Native American original cultures, 640 00:34:15,667 --> 00:34:20,583 and the thunderbird was not only gigantic in size, 641 00:34:20,708 --> 00:34:25,125 but oftentimes was also described as making this 642 00:34:25,208 --> 00:34:27,417 incredible thunderous noise. 643 00:34:29,333 --> 00:34:32,208 And sometimes out of the eyes, 644 00:34:32,375 --> 00:34:35,708 these beams of light would shoot out. 645 00:34:37,750 --> 00:34:42,625 Is it possible that our ancestors witnessed 646 00:34:42,708 --> 00:34:47,500 a technological device and misinterpreted it 647 00:34:47,667 --> 00:34:49,833 as a biological entity? 648 00:34:49,958 --> 00:34:52,083 And the answer is a resounding yes. 649 00:34:52,208 --> 00:34:55,292 Mind you, pilots today are referring 650 00:34:55,375 --> 00:34:57,583 to their airplanes as birds. 651 00:34:59,125 --> 00:35:02,708 NARRATOR: Ancient Alaskan stories of strange entities in the sky 652 00:35:02,833 --> 00:35:06,333 and visitors from the stars are perfectly aligned 653 00:35:06,417 --> 00:35:08,875 with the kind of phenomena that have been reported 654 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,208 in modern times, 655 00:35:10,333 --> 00:35:12,958 as are accounts of bizarre, 656 00:35:13,042 --> 00:35:16,583 otherworldly creatures. 657 00:35:16,708 --> 00:35:21,125 There is a common thread that runs through the Alaska story, 658 00:35:21,208 --> 00:35:23,542 and it has to do with these supernatural creatures. 659 00:35:23,708 --> 00:35:26,708 They have eyewitness accounts of these bizarre, 660 00:35:26,875 --> 00:35:31,167 terrifying creatures that appear in all their tribal stories. 661 00:35:32,417 --> 00:35:34,542 By far, the most frightening creature 662 00:35:34,667 --> 00:35:38,042 is the Inuit story of the Kushtaka. 663 00:35:38,167 --> 00:35:40,500 This is a being that shapeshifts, 664 00:35:40,625 --> 00:35:45,750 and people have been seeing them for thousands of years. 665 00:35:47,375 --> 00:35:50,333 NARRATOR: When considering the high number of UFO sightings 666 00:35:50,458 --> 00:35:53,042 that have been reported in Alaska, 667 00:35:53,208 --> 00:35:56,833 is it possible that the stories of strange creatures 668 00:35:56,917 --> 00:35:59,500 have an otherworldly explanation? 669 00:36:00,458 --> 00:36:02,500 As further support for this notion, 670 00:36:02,625 --> 00:36:06,083 ancient astronaut theorists point out that some native 671 00:36:06,208 --> 00:36:09,000 Alaskan legends sound suspiciously similar 672 00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:12,792 to modern tales of small gray aliens, 673 00:36:12,875 --> 00:36:15,667 who sometimes abduct humans. 674 00:36:15,792 --> 00:36:18,792 No creature is more frightening to them than the little people, 675 00:36:18,917 --> 00:36:21,083 which go by a number of different native names. 676 00:36:21,208 --> 00:36:23,833 The Inukins, Ircinrraq, Jinksioc. 677 00:36:23,917 --> 00:36:26,125 Perhaps what's most terrifying is that they are said 678 00:36:26,250 --> 00:36:27,542 to abduct humans, 679 00:36:27,667 --> 00:36:30,167 and-and that they will take them to another realm 680 00:36:30,250 --> 00:36:32,208 where they can actually control time. 681 00:36:32,333 --> 00:36:34,458 And these little beings are actually imbued 682 00:36:34,542 --> 00:36:36,792 with other magical powers. 683 00:36:36,875 --> 00:36:38,917 HENRY: The common thread that runs through those stories 684 00:36:39,042 --> 00:36:41,375 is the idea of abduction. 685 00:36:41,542 --> 00:36:45,000 That is a direct crossover into the UFO phenomena, 686 00:36:45,125 --> 00:36:48,292 where people are terrified of UFOs because they've heard 687 00:36:48,417 --> 00:36:51,583 that these alien beings are abducting people. 688 00:36:53,750 --> 00:36:55,875 NARRATOR: According to some researchers, 689 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,125 the many accounts of strange beings in Alaska 690 00:36:59,208 --> 00:37:01,208 could also point to the existence 691 00:37:01,333 --> 00:37:03,500 of a portal or wormhole 692 00:37:03,667 --> 00:37:06,042 leading to other points in the universe 693 00:37:06,167 --> 00:37:08,667 or even alternate dimensions. 694 00:37:08,792 --> 00:37:12,375 NICK POPE: There's a theory that extraterrestrials 695 00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:14,833 would use wormholes, 696 00:37:14,958 --> 00:37:19,042 scientifically known as Einstein-Rosen bridges, 697 00:37:19,167 --> 00:37:20,708 a shortcut through space-time. 698 00:37:20,833 --> 00:37:25,708 And UFOs would then, apparently, arrive 699 00:37:25,833 --> 00:37:28,917 out of nowhere, seemingly, and disappear into nowhere, 700 00:37:29,042 --> 00:37:33,208 which is very often what you get in some of the sighting reports. 701 00:37:34,625 --> 00:37:39,375 PEARSON: I would die to have some answer to this puzzle in Alaska. 702 00:37:39,542 --> 00:37:42,667 I don't, but there's something there. 703 00:37:42,792 --> 00:37:45,375 There's something that doesn't add up, 704 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:48,500 that isn't able to be explained 705 00:37:48,625 --> 00:37:51,000 in the prosaic, in my mind. 706 00:37:51,167 --> 00:37:54,958 NARRATOR: Could the legends of the native Alaskan people 707 00:37:55,042 --> 00:37:59,333 reveal that strange, and perhaps otherworldly, phenomena 708 00:37:59,458 --> 00:38:01,792 have been happening in this part of the world 709 00:38:01,875 --> 00:38:03,833 for thousands of years? 710 00:38:03,917 --> 00:38:07,875 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 711 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,708 the answer is a resounding yes, 712 00:38:10,875 --> 00:38:14,833 and they suggest that Alaska's remote location 713 00:38:14,958 --> 00:38:20,250 makes it a prime destination for otherworldly visitors. 714 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:27,833 NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists, 715 00:38:27,917 --> 00:38:32,500 the question of why more strange phenomena is reported in Alaska 716 00:38:32,625 --> 00:38:35,000 than most other places on Earth 717 00:38:35,167 --> 00:38:38,125 may have a very simple answer. 718 00:38:38,208 --> 00:38:41,833 They suggest Alaska's remote location 719 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,500 and a dense wilderness 720 00:38:43,625 --> 00:38:45,625 would make it an ideal destination 721 00:38:45,708 --> 00:38:49,667 for otherworldly visitors who want to remain on the planet 722 00:38:49,833 --> 00:38:52,167 undetected. 723 00:38:52,250 --> 00:38:54,333 RICKSECKER: Alaska is a very remote area. 724 00:38:54,458 --> 00:38:56,167 You don't have a lot of people around. 725 00:38:56,333 --> 00:38:58,583 And so, this could absolutely 726 00:38:58,708 --> 00:39:02,292 make it an attractive location to extraterrestrials. 727 00:39:02,375 --> 00:39:05,375 CHILDRESS: You have all of these volcanoes, 728 00:39:05,542 --> 00:39:10,417 you have huge areas that are uninhabited, 729 00:39:10,542 --> 00:39:13,917 and it's such a huge frontier region 730 00:39:14,042 --> 00:39:17,583 that, you know, all kinds of things can be happening there. 731 00:39:19,417 --> 00:39:21,833 CHESLEY: There's a lot of crazy things going on 732 00:39:21,917 --> 00:39:23,750 around the whole state, 733 00:39:23,875 --> 00:39:26,292 and a lot of these occurrences happen 734 00:39:26,375 --> 00:39:28,250 in very remote parts of the state. 735 00:39:28,375 --> 00:39:32,792 So, that adds even more intrigue. 736 00:39:32,875 --> 00:39:36,833 And I wouldn't discount any stories at this point. 737 00:39:36,917 --> 00:39:39,375 There's just too much out there that you can't 738 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:41,625 discount some of this. 739 00:39:42,833 --> 00:39:44,500 GERHARD: Having worked in Alaska, 740 00:39:44,625 --> 00:39:46,292 I can certainly attest to the fact 741 00:39:46,375 --> 00:39:48,042 that it is a very dangerous place. 742 00:39:48,167 --> 00:39:50,708 However, there is a real mystery 743 00:39:50,833 --> 00:39:52,958 in terms of the state of Alaska. 744 00:39:53,083 --> 00:39:55,833 There have been many UFO reports. 745 00:39:55,958 --> 00:39:59,833 And, of course, inferences to possible UFO abduction. 746 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,583 And many of these are supported by Native American traditions 747 00:40:02,708 --> 00:40:04,375 that go back hundreds of years. 748 00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:06,750 So, we could be dealing with forces 749 00:40:06,875 --> 00:40:09,167 beyond our current understanding. 750 00:40:09,250 --> 00:40:12,708 PEARSON: In Alaska, when you bring in 751 00:40:12,833 --> 00:40:15,667 evidence that's gathered, from a nuts-and-bolts standpoint, 752 00:40:15,750 --> 00:40:18,042 from a physics standpoint, 753 00:40:18,167 --> 00:40:20,083 from the Dark Pyramid, 754 00:40:20,208 --> 00:40:23,000 the fact of magnetic anomalies, 755 00:40:23,125 --> 00:40:28,000 or any of the other factors that may be involved here, 756 00:40:28,125 --> 00:40:32,167 it is not reasonable that an educated person 757 00:40:32,333 --> 00:40:34,583 taking as objective as possible of view 758 00:40:34,708 --> 00:40:38,375 at these incidents could dismiss the possibility 759 00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:41,125 that these incidents, in some cases, 760 00:40:41,250 --> 00:40:43,708 may be UFO-related, and 761 00:40:43,833 --> 00:40:48,417 that is something that should take anyone's breath away 762 00:40:48,542 --> 00:40:51,333 or make them pause and think seriously 763 00:40:51,458 --> 00:40:53,958 about the Earth that we live on. 764 00:40:55,042 --> 00:40:58,292 TSOUKALOS: Modern technology has contributed 765 00:40:58,375 --> 00:41:00,625 by leaps and bounds to the search 766 00:41:00,750 --> 00:41:02,833 for extraterrestrial intelligence because 767 00:41:02,917 --> 00:41:06,875 we have satellite and radar technology, 768 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,958 with which we can now look into space 769 00:41:10,083 --> 00:41:15,750 with more clarity than in all of our previous human history. 770 00:41:15,875 --> 00:41:20,417 And I wish that scientists would, at some point, 771 00:41:20,542 --> 00:41:24,167 train their satellites toward Alaska 772 00:41:24,292 --> 00:41:26,833 to see what's going on 773 00:41:26,917 --> 00:41:28,583 because, clearly, 774 00:41:28,708 --> 00:41:31,458 something is going on. 775 00:41:32,417 --> 00:41:34,583 NARRATOR: Mysterious disappearances, 776 00:41:34,708 --> 00:41:36,500 strange creatures, 777 00:41:36,625 --> 00:41:40,542 a secret base, an underground pyramid. 778 00:41:40,667 --> 00:41:44,708 Could all the strange reports coming from Alaska, 779 00:41:44,833 --> 00:41:47,167 along with numerous UFO sightings, 780 00:41:47,250 --> 00:41:51,000 be connected to an extraterrestrial presence? 781 00:41:51,083 --> 00:41:55,250 Perhaps Alaska's vast and rugged wilderness, 782 00:41:55,375 --> 00:41:59,542 extreme weather, and sparse population, 783 00:41:59,708 --> 00:42:03,292 make it the ideal location for alien life 784 00:42:03,375 --> 00:42:05,500 here on Earth. 785 00:42:05,667 --> 00:42:07,750 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS