NARRATOR: A remote land known for bizarre
and shocking events.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Alaska is a place where
anomalous events clearly are happening.
NARRATOR: A vast wilderness where people disappear
without a trace.
DAN HAMPTON: Up in Alaska,
anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people
still go missing every year.
NARRATOR: And a mysterious home to UFO activity.
THEO CHESLEY: In the 37 years I've been flying,
I've seen a lot of things, and what I saw was just not
anything ordinary at all.
NARRATOR: Could Alaska's rugged landscape
conceal secrets that are not of this world?
DAVID CHILDRESS: You have huge areas
that are uninhabited.
And it's such a huge frontier region.
All kinds of things can be happening there.
NARRATOR: There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is the promise of truth.
It demands we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
NARRATOR: The largest of all U.S. states,
it's home to the nation's highest peak,
its biggest national park,
and more coastline than all other states combined.
With dense, uninhabited wilderness
and countless mountains,
Alaska presents a landscape that can be beautiful,
forbidding, and often treacherous.
The entirety of the Alaska wilderness
is over 600,000 square miles.
People don't realize this, but it's actually
two and a half times the size of Texas.
It's absolutely massive.
It's an area of the world that's extremely desolate,
very cold, very remote,
in which there are no roads that go to many of these places.
KEN GERHARD: Having worked extensively in Alaska,
one cannot overstate the immensity
and vastness of the region.
There are some 17 mountain ranges,
66,000 miles of coastland,
and an estimated 3,000 rivers, and over 3,000,000 lakes.
So, it is really one of the last frontiers in the world
and one of the most challenging,
brutal habitats that I've ever investigated.
We're talking about harsh winters,
craggy peaks, dangerous animals.
It really encompasses all of that.
NARRATOR: For centuries, Alaska's vast and rugged landscape
has been known as a place where people disappear
with great frequency and are often never found.
Anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people still go missing
every year up in Alaska.
Now, they're not all in airplanes,
but still, gives you an idea
of how dangerous and unpredictable the area is.
If you can get lost on the ground,
how much worse would it be if you're in an aircraft?
Most of these disappearances
I think, personally, can be explained.
And, yet, there are some occurrences that I know about
that even I, as a professional ex-fighter pilot, can't explain.
NARRATOR: On October 16, 1972,
one of the most famous disappearances
in American history
took place over Alaska.
Louisiana Congressman
and House Majority Leader Hale Boggs
boarded a twin-engine Cessna in Anchorage
headed for Juneau, the state capital.
With him was local Alaskan congressman Nick Begich.
After the congressmen's plane departed Anchorage
for Juneau,
attempts to reach the pilot by radio
were met with an eerie silence.
HAMPTON: He made one mandatory radio reporting,
I think, nine minutes after takeoff,
and then they were never seen or heard from again.
NARRATOR: The disappearance of two U.S. congressmen
made headlines around the world
and prompted an unprecedented search and rescue operation.
TSOUKALOS: At the time, Nixon actually
turned it into the most expensive rescue operation
ever in the history of the United States.
They still did not find anything.
HAMPTON: There were, uh, 40-something aircraft
involved and they covered an area maybe 360,000
square kilometers.
The fact is, nothing has ever been found or discovered
from that aircraft, not a scrap of metal,
nothing concrete,
and that again only deepens the mystery in that area.
NARRATOR: Literally hundreds of planes have disappeared while in flight
over Alaska never to be recovered,
and while many have blamed
the state's extreme weather and terrain,
Alaska has long been known as a hot spot
for all kinds of strange phenomena.
As recently as February 10, 2023,
a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down
an unidentified flying object
hovering ten miles off the north coast of Alaska,
making headlines around the world.
The anomalous activity in Alaska's been noted
for well over 100 years,
like the Bermuda Triangle,
and the Devil's Triangle out in Japan.
ANDREW COLLINS: Within this area, incredible amount
of weird things take place.
We have paranormal activity,
the appearance of strange cryptids
and other monsters of time and space,
as well as the manifestation
of UFOs and mysterious lights.
NARRATOR: Commercial pilot Theo Chesley
has been flying in Alaska for nearly four decades
and had heard countless stories of bizarre aerial encounters.
But Chelsey remained a skeptic until 2019,
when he had his own astonishing experience
flying by Mount Shishaldin,
an active volcano on Unimak Island in the Aleutians.
The morning in late October, uh, 2019,
we had a normal charter flight from Sand Point
direct to Dutch Harbor with three passengers aboard.
About halfway through the flight,
we're approaching the volcano from the north.
The weather that day was fairly good, good visibility.
And we saw something in the sky about 15 miles
south of the volcano.
A horizontal disk-shaped object
that was very symmetrical, just almost perfect symmetry.
As we continued on our flight path,
the disk, uh, became more prevalent
and turned into a vertical fashion.
We knew something extraordinary was happening
in front of us, just not quite certain what.
NARRATOR: As Chesley and his three passengers
observed the strange disk-shaped object,
they were shocked to see a second anomaly,
one that appeared to come out of the mouth of the volcano.
CHESLEY: We noticed something fly out of the crater of the mountain,
inside of a shrouded wisp of white smoke.
Almost around that same time, a green sphere
exhibited itself on the side of the mountain.
And as all this was taking place,
this object flew into the vertical sphere
and pulled it out of shape in a teardrop fashion.
At that point, we decided we did not want to stay and loiter,
and maybe have to deal with some different consequences
that we weren't gonna be prepared for.
NARRATOR: Could sightings like Theo Chesley's shed light
on Alaska's strange history of unexplained phenomena,
disappearances, and even seemingly impossible creatures?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining the pictures Chesley took of what he
and his passengers witnessed and his report
of a second mysterious encounter.
NARRATOR: Pilot Theo Chesley has reported one of the most significant
and credible UFO sightings in recent Alaskan history.
The incident caught the attention
of author and researcher David Childress,
who traveled to Anchorage to meet with Chesley
and examine the evidence of his harrowing encounter.
CHILDRESS: Hi, Theo.
-Hi, David. Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you.
I understand you have a very interesting story to tell.
Well, I do, and it happened right here in this aircraft.
CHILDRESS: And you've been flying here for quite a few years, right?
CHESLEY: Yeah, about 35 years.
So, when was this first occurrence?
Well, uh, we had a flight back in October 2019.
We were northeast of the mountain.
Uh, we were probably 30 miles from the mountain,
we spotted something in the sky.
And this is what we saw.
CHILDRESS: Did it seem to have a-a cloud around it, or no?
CHESLEY: It had, like, a tail on it, little bit of a wisp
coming out of the back.
So, I'm looking at it, going, okay, what is that?
As we started to come towards the mountain and fly by it,
this horizontal disk turned vertical
and came over and sort of parked by the mountain
and held its shape.
So, it had been moving, and then it stopped?
CHESLEY: It stopped by the volcano.
So I'm, like, looking at it, going, okay,
if this is a smoke ring, it's not gonna hold its shape,
it's not gonna stop.
It's gonna dissipate.
It held its shape the whole time.
And had you ever seen anything like this before?
Uh, I've been flying, well, 35 years
and 15,000 hours of flight time,
uh, most of them in Alaska,
and I had never seen anything like this.
Then we had something fly out of the mountain.
-Uh, now, the mountain... -A second object?
CHESLEY: A second object.
So, this object flies out of the mountain.
And at the same time, we're still watching the v--
the sphere that's vertically parked.
-And it's, like, up here? -It's right over here.
Matter of fact, I'll show you another picture here
that kind of just puts it all together.
-CHILDRESS: Okay. -CHESLEY: So, then this appeared
on the side of the mountain.
This green orb shows up on the side
of the mountain in a lower spot.
The next picture we take,
this is what happened to the vertical sphere in the sky.
Something flew inside of it and pulled it out of shape.
You see these two little, I don't know,
there's, like, two little wings out there.
And we, like, looked at that, and I said, no, we're done here.
We're, we are leaving the scene here.
And to be honest, uh, you know,
my concern level was going about through the roof at that point.
CHILDRESS: Did it seem like a very large object, then?
CHESLEY: This is a big mountain, and this was something
that caught our eye 40 to 50 miles away.
-Okay, that's, yeah, it's, like... -Yeah, so...
40, 50 miles away from this thing.
So, this had to be almost, I want to guess,
a half a mile wide.
CHILDRESS: Wow, that's fascinating. And, you know...
(sighs) When it comes to UFO-type objects
around volcanoes,
that's a common thing.
NARRATOR: One of the first modern UFO sightings on record
involved an entire squadron of vehicles
that appeared to enter a volcano.
On June 24, 1947,
Kenneth Arnold was flying his private plane
near Mount Rainier in Washington
when he witnessed nine disk-shaped objects
move at an impossible speed across the horizon,
then disappear into a nearby volcano called Mount Adams.
There have been a lot of UFO sightings around volcanoes.
And we've seen this in the Canary Islands in Mexico,
in South America.
You have other places like, say,
Mount Shasta,
and we're seeing it in Hawaii, too,
where UFOs are seen, and there's a lot of activity.
I mean, it-it definitely makes you wonder,
okay, what's in this volcano? What is the attraction here?
And the crazy thing is-is, uh,
this was just the first occurrence.
-We had a second occurrence six months later. -Okay.
CHESLEY: I'm by myself in a different aircraft
And, uh, I looked out of my left window, and all of a sudden,
there is a huge cloud formation that came out of nowhere.
And that's right, kind of above the volcano.
Above and east of the mountain.
I've never seen anything like this in my life.
It was a clear sky without anything,
-and suddenly you saw this? -Well, you saw the picture. The-the...
-Yeah. -That picture that I took,
clear sky was
a minute before this decided to show up.
So, the crazy part is, this cloud morphed
into several different shapes.
There looks like something black inside there,
an object underneath this thing.
CHILDRESS: Yeah.
During the occurrence,
uh, I had the aircraft on autopilot,
and the aircraft was flying straight and true.
My route of flight took me back by the mountain again.
As I'm coming back, I have the aircraft on autopilot.
And I look down, and I notice I'm 35 degrees off course
heading towards the mountain.
I shut the autopilot off, reset the heading,
set the airplane back up on course.
And, okay, yeah, we're fine.
I'm looking around again, trying to see if there's anything.
I look down, we're heading back towards the mountain.
It happened two times.
So, at that point, I go, oh, no, this-- something's not
right here. I'm gonna hand-fly the aircraft.
And worked fine, um, hand-flying the airplane.
But I've never had that happen to me
on an autopilot, just pull the aircraft,
you know, start pulling the aircraft
somewhere where it's not supposed to be.
So, th-the autopilot then
was somehow sensing
some weird magnetic thing and pulling you then.
Exactly.
Something internally in the aircraft
was feeling a magnetic pull.
This sounds a lot like other things that have happened, like,
say, in the Bermuda Triangle or something.
Like, where their instruments do go haywire,
or they're being taken off, you know, course
without even knowing it,
and suddenly, they vanish, right?
Very much so.
To me, this is a very important story.
I'm so glad that you've been able
to get these good photographs,
you've got other witnesses, and
for 70 years, there have been planes vanishing,
even military planes.
This all fits so squarely into the mystery
which is Alaska.
NARRATOR: As an experienced pilot, Theo Chesley cannot explain
what he saw on those two separate occasions,
nor explain the magnetic anomaly
that interfered with his autopilot instrumentation.
And to ancient astronaut theorist David Childress,
the photographic evidence is astounding.
CHILDRESS: Theo's a great observer.
You know that you're really getting
good information and reliable information.
This is all compelling evidence
that something's happening here in Alaska.
CHESLEY: In the 37 years I've been flying,
I've seen a lot of things.
I've been through a lot of storms,
some great flights,
some not-so-great flights.
I'll be the first to tell you,
when you're saying you're seeing something,
you're seeing something.
I'm one of those kind of guys
that have to see something
that's extraordinary to believe it.
And what I saw was just not anything ordinary
at all.
NARRATOR: Could an extraterrestrial presence be responsible
for the strange sightings and aircraft malfunction
that Theo Chesley experienced,
as well as other anomalous events and disappearances
that plague the area?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest that recently declassified
CIA documents could hold clues
to an alien presence under the mountains of Alaska.
NARRATOR: Alaska's Aleutian Islands,
where pilot Theo Chesley
encountered no less than four unidentified flying objects,
is an area that has been known for strange sightings
dating back to 1945,
when a U.S. Army transport reported seeing a large UFO
emerge from the waters near the island of Adak.
CHILDRESS: Historically, there have been a lot of UFO sightings
around the Aleutian Islands.
And there are 57 volcanoes throughout the Aleutian Islands.
And it seems that some of these volcanoes
have some very peculiar activity around them.
NARRATOR: But east of the Aleutian Islands is a large area
that has become even more notorious for strange phenomena.
It is called the Alaska Triangle.
The Alaska Triangle is an area roughly between Anchorage,
Juneau, and Barrow, Alaska,
more or less running along the border
of the Canadian territories and the State of Alaska.
TSOUKALOS: The Alaska Triangle can be likened to the Bermuda Triangle,
where really strange things happen,
seemingly without explanation.
NARRATOR: Within this region of anomalous activity
stands Mount Hayes,
one of Alaska's tallest peaks
and a place where UFO sightings
are reported with great frequency.
Many people have seen, uh, UFOs, flying saucers, strange lights,
flying in and around Mount Hayes.
Now, there's no road that can go up there.
The only way to get to Mount Hayes
is to actually fly there, which most people don't do.
So, what are these craft that are flying around Mount Hayes?
NARRATOR: For decades, eyewitness testimony
was the only evidence to support the notion
that Mount Hayes was a UFO hot spot.
But in 1995, declassified documents
revealed that Mount Hayes featured prominently
in a top secret government project called "Stargate."
NEWMAN: Researchers were looking through CIA documents,
and they found evidence of a project underneath Mount Hayes.
And they say they saw written in these records
that it was actually an alien underground base in this area.
NARRATOR: Researchers were astounded to find a reference
to an extraterrestrial base in official CIA documents.
And just as intriguing is how this information was obtained.
According to the declassified documents,
the existence of an alien base beneath Mount Hayes was gleaned
from a top secret experimental investigation technique
used by Project Stargate,
a technique called "remote viewing."
NEWMAN: Remote viewing was used by the CIA
all during the Cold War.
And this is really a psychic projection technique,
where, from one location, the remote viewer can look
into a different place on the Earth's surface,
and he's able to project
his vision there and able to see what is going on.
Project Stargate had a specific purpose
of using remote viewers, um,
quite literally psychic spies,
to find information on what the Soviets were up to.
NARRATOR: The most famous remote viewer to come out
of the Stargate project was a man named Pat Price.
Price was the first to report what he believed
to be an alien base under Mount Hayes.
He would sit down and draw what he sees,
and he was deadly accurate on his predictions.
One time, Pat Price, uh, remote viewed Mount Hayes
and saw that there was, uh, structures
that were under the mountain--
tubes, tunnels-- and he was intrigued by that,
so he went deeper.
RICKSECKER: Pat Price saw within Mount Hayes what he described as
geographical instrumentation.
He saw computers.
He also described these strange humanoid creatures
that were within the mountain,
and they were working alongside human personnel,
which he believed were military personnel.
NARRATOR: Price began to fear that he had seen something
he wasn't supposed to see
and told friends that his remote viewing
of the secret base under Mount Hayes
had put him in grave danger.
COLLINS: In Las Vegas, just as he checked in to the Stardust,
somebody deliberately bumped into him,
and he felt a sharp pain in his leg.
And that evening, he started to feel unwell.
And the following morning,
he had convulsions and died.
What's really strange about Pat Price's death
is that the hospital
didn't even notify the wife, and they had him cremated.
BRUCE PEARSON: I think it is fair and reasonable
to ask the question if Pat Price's mysterious death
does not enter into a long lineage
of similar tragic deaths of people
that are whistleblowers
or are stepping out of line and saying things they shouldn't say
about things they have witnessed or know about.
NARRATOR: Could the story of Pat Price and Project Stargate
indicate that there may be a more profound connection
between UFO sightings and Alaska's forbidding terrain?
Perhaps further clues can be found by examining
reports of an incredible structure believed to be hidden
deep beneath North America's highest mountain range,
a formation known as the Dark Pyramid.
NARRATOR: In its race to become a major military power,
China sets off the largest underground nuclear bomb test
in the history of the nation.
The one-megaton blast--
70 times the explosive power
of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima--
sends shockwaves across the planet.
Thousands of miles away, scientists in the United States
begin to study how these shockwaves travel
through the Earth's crust, hoping to learn
about underground faults
and other hidden geological structures.
As the shockwaves reach Alaska,
scientists notice highly unusual readings
around Mount Denali, North America's tallest peak.
When these ripples of the shockwaves crossed over
into Alaska, there was this pyramidal shape
that came across their instrumentation
indicating this massive pyramidal structure
located under Mount Denali
within the area of the Alaska Triangle.
This is really when the Dark Pyramid
was first discovered.
NARRATOR: Seismic instruments revealed
that the top of the 550-foot-tall pyramid shape
lies 150 feet below ground
and just 130 miles southwest of Mount Hayes,
where remote viewer Pat Price
claimed to have detected an underground alien base.
Intrigued by the mysterious discovery,
investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe
began researching the curious findings
and what might have compelled scientists
to be prepared to record activity
underneath Mount Denali.
"Why would geophysicists be interested
"in monitoring to see whether or not there was something
underground in Alaska?"
has always been a question in my mind.
Was there already some information
that our government had, and this was a perfect opportunity
to take advantage of what the Chinese were going to do?
NARRATOR: In 2012, after discussing the so-called "Dark Pyramid"
on the Coast to Coast radio show,
Linda was contacted by Bruce Pearson,
who said he had a story to tell her
that might be connected to the alleged underground structure.
HOWE: I ended up talking with Bruce Pearson,
and his father had been in the Navy
and ended up describing that, on a trip in Alaska,
he met an old Navy pilot,
and they talked for a few minutes,
and the pilot said, "We're just gonna go out and do a drop-off.
Why don't you come along, and we'll talk old days?"
My dad was a very friendly guy,
and I guess in Alaska people do things
a little differently because there's a companionship
that grows out of a survival mentality.
In any event, he told me that he was talking to the pilot,
and the pilot said that they had to take
a flight out to a secure, secret installation.
They had a couple of these,
what he described as silver containers,
that had to be delivered out there.
On the way out, he and the co-pilot
advised my dad, he said, "Listen,
"we were told there's gonna be a lot of magnetic interference
"and that our instruments are gonna go crazy.
"Don't worry about it, you know. We were told to expect it.
You know, we're flying VFR anyway, visual flight rules."
Bruce said, while his father was telling him the story,
he began to shake.
That, when they got to this location,
that the helicopter
began to shake
and roll like, he felt,
that it should crash.
But the helicopter pilot just kept reassuring him
that-that he knew what was happening,
and that there was a magnetic field anomaly
under the ground,
and that that was what was causing this.
PEARSON: When they landed, these guys came out with
black uniforms on, no insignias. Didn't say anything.
HOWE: Men came, they grabbed all this heavy stuff in there.
They put some stuff back in the helicopter.
It all happened very fast.
Bang, and they're out of there.
PEARSON: My father said the odd thing was they didn't even get out
of the helicopter. Fueled it up, and they took off again.
They never even shut the chopper down.
That's not standard procedure.
This is not wartime conditions where you
refuel with the aircraft running.
So, it was very bizarre.
He didn't call me until a couple days later and told me about it.
And I said, "Wow." I said, "What do you think it was?"
He goes, "I don't know."
HOWE: That Bruce Pearson story
was in the area of Mount Denali.
The same area having to do with a Dark Pyramid
possibly underground.
NARRATOR: Over the years, Linda has interviewed
a number of other people claiming to have information
about a mysterious underground structure near Mount Denali.
One account came from a man who claimed his father
has actually been inside the Dark Pyramid.
He said that his, uh, father was working for Western Electric
and ended up as a very skilled electronic engineer
being asked to go to a location
west of what was Mount Denali.
His father told him that there was a big freight elevator
that was sticking up out of the ground.
And when you got to the bottom,
opened up into full-bore
room, work, offices.
The father is introduced to the fact
that they are at the bottom of a pyramid.
And that, at each of the three corners,
they had these offices that were actually monitoring energy.
And the father tells the son who got in touch with me,
"We are measuring energy
"coming out of this pyramid
"that is enough
to power the entire country of Canada."
NARRATOR: Could a secret energy source be hidden
under the Mount Denali mountain range?
Perhaps clues can be found by examining
electromagnetic anomalies that have, in fact,
been detected throughout a vast region surrounding the area
where the Dark Pyramid is said to exist.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: This very strange localized magnetic anomaly
seems to occur randomly, transiently,
and at different locations throughout this vast wilderness.
So much so that the north will be off as much as 30 degrees.
So, what's causing these magnetic anomalies?
There are a lot of people who believe that there could be
unusual phenomenon originating from technology
inside this so-called Dark Pyramid.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that there is an ancient pyramid
hidden deep under Mount Denali that is
generating massive amounts of energy?
And if so, could this structure,
along with a secret base alleged to exist beneath the ground
at nearby Mount Hayes, point to an alien presence
in Alaska that dates back thousands of years?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest that clues to who or what this presence might be
can be found in the Inuit stories of contact with sky gods
and otherworldly beings.
NARRATOR: Alaska is home to dozens
of indigenous Native American cultures
who have inhabited the area
for hundreds and, in some cases, thousands of years.
There are, of course, a number of different
Native American cultures in Alaska.
You have the Inuit people of the northern coastal regions.
You have the Athabaskans of the central Alaskan region,
the Yupik people,
and then in southeast Alaska you have
the Tlingit and the Haida tribes.
NARRATOR: Each of the native Alaskan tribes
has its own unique traditions,
but these separate cultures all tell stories of the sky people
encountered by their earliest ancestors.
So, I was stationed in Alaska from 1992 to 1995 as part of
the United States Air Force at Elmendorf Air Force Base.
And I heard the local legends and lore
from the Natives up there.
And local legends dating back centuries
talk about strange lights in the sky
and strange beings visiting the people.
JONATHAN YOUNG: These cultures had rich
stories about contact with beings
from beyond this planet, the so-called star people.
NARRATOR: Along with stories of star people,
many native Alaskan tribes also have ancient traditions
of giant winged beasts descending from the sky.
Alaska has a bounty of strange legends
and modern reports of giant winged creatures,
like thunderbirds, that are said to swoop down
and snatch people off of peaks.
TSOUKALOS: The thunderbird goes back into deep, deep history
of Native American original cultures,
and the thunderbird was not only gigantic in size,
but oftentimes was also described as making this
incredible thunderous noise.
And sometimes out of the eyes,
these beams of light would shoot out.
Is it possible that our ancestors witnessed
a technological device and misinterpreted it
as a biological entity?
And the answer is a resounding yes.
Mind you, pilots today are referring
to their airplanes as birds.
NARRATOR: Ancient Alaskan stories of strange entities in the sky
and visitors from the stars are perfectly aligned
with the kind of phenomena that have been reported
in modern times,
as are accounts of bizarre,
otherworldly creatures.
There is a common thread that runs through the Alaska story,
and it has to do with these supernatural creatures.
They have eyewitness accounts of these bizarre,
terrifying creatures that appear in all their tribal stories.
By far, the most frightening creature
is the Inuit story of the Kushtaka.
This is a being that shapeshifts,
and people have been seeing them for thousands of years.
NARRATOR: When considering the high number of UFO sightings
that have been reported in Alaska,
is it possible that the stories of strange creatures
have an otherworldly explanation?
As further support for this notion,
ancient astronaut theorists point out that some native
Alaskan legends sound suspiciously similar
to modern tales of small gray aliens,
who sometimes abduct humans.
No creature is more frightening to them than the little people,
which go by a number of different native names.
The Inukins, Ircinrraq, Jinksioc.
Perhaps what's most terrifying is that they are said
to abduct humans,
and-and that they will take them to another realm
where they can actually control time.
And these little beings are actually imbued
with other magical powers.
HENRY: The common thread that runs through those stories
is the idea of abduction.
That is a direct crossover into the UFO phenomena,
where people are terrified of UFOs because they've heard
that these alien beings are abducting people.
NARRATOR: According to some researchers,
the many accounts of strange beings in Alaska
could also point to the existence
of a portal or wormhole
leading to other points in the universe
or even alternate dimensions.
NICK POPE: There's a theory that extraterrestrials
would use wormholes,
scientifically known as Einstein-Rosen bridges,
a shortcut through space-time.
And UFOs would then, apparently, arrive
out of nowhere, seemingly, and disappear into nowhere,
which is very often what you get in some of the sighting reports.
PEARSON: I would die to have some answer to this puzzle in Alaska.
I don't, but there's something there.
There's something that doesn't add up,
that isn't able to be explained
in the prosaic, in my mind.
NARRATOR: Could the legends of the native Alaskan people
reveal that strange, and perhaps otherworldly, phenomena
have been happening in this part of the world
for thousands of years?
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
the answer is a resounding yes,
and they suggest that Alaska's remote location
makes it a prime destination for otherworldly visitors.
NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists,
the question of why more strange phenomena is reported in Alaska
than most other places on Earth
may have a very simple answer.
They suggest Alaska's remote location
and a dense wilderness
would make it an ideal destination
for otherworldly visitors who want to remain on the planet
undetected.
RICKSECKER: Alaska is a very remote area.
You don't have a lot of people around.
And so, this could absolutely
make it an attractive location to extraterrestrials.
CHILDRESS: You have all of these volcanoes,
you have huge areas that are uninhabited,
and it's such a huge frontier region
that, you know, all kinds of things can be happening there.
CHESLEY: There's a lot of crazy things going on
around the whole state,
and a lot of these occurrences happen
in very remote parts of the state.
So, that adds even more intrigue.
And I wouldn't discount any stories at this point.
There's just too much out there that you can't
discount some of this.
GERHARD: Having worked in Alaska,
I can certainly attest to the fact
that it is a very dangerous place.
However, there is a real mystery
in terms of the state of Alaska.
There have been many UFO reports.
And, of course, inferences to possible UFO abduction.
And many of these are supported by Native American traditions
that go back hundreds of years.
So, we could be dealing with forces
beyond our current understanding.
PEARSON: In Alaska, when you bring in
evidence that's gathered, from a nuts-and-bolts standpoint,
from a physics standpoint,
from the Dark Pyramid,
the fact of magnetic anomalies,
or any of the other factors that may be involved here,
it is not reasonable that an educated person
taking as objective as possible of view
at these incidents could dismiss the possibility
that these incidents, in some cases,
may be UFO-related, and
that is something that should take anyone's breath away
or make them pause and think seriously
about the Earth that we live on.
TSOUKALOS: Modern technology has contributed
by leaps and bounds to the search
for extraterrestrial intelligence because
we have satellite and radar technology,
with which we can now look into space
with more clarity than in all of our previous human history.
And I wish that scientists would, at some point,
train their satellites toward Alaska
to see what's going on
because, clearly,
something is going on.
NARRATOR: Mysterious disappearances,
strange creatures,
a secret base, an underground pyramid.
Could all the strange reports coming from Alaska,
along with numerous UFO sightings,
be connected to an extraterrestrial presence?
Perhaps Alaska's vast and rugged wilderness,
extreme weather, and sparse population,
make it the ideal location for alien life
here on Earth.
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