NARRATOR: A military base that was targeted by a UFO.
A plane that was hijacked by an otherworldly technology.
And an encounter in rural Texas
that defies explanation.
On Ancient Aliens, we've examined dozens
of unexplained encounters that have left witnesses
not only astonished, but terrified.
Now, we're counting down
the ten most frightening encounters ever reported.
Encounters that add to the growing body of evidence
that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.
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Every year, thousands of UFO sightings are reported,
and experiencers are often left wondering
what they actually saw.
But some incidents are so intense and so terrifying
that the witnesses are certain
that what they encountered is not of this world.
On this countdown, we're featuring
some of the most frightening contact events
we've ever examined on Ancient Aliens.
And this first one was certainly a heart-stopping incident.
At number ten on our list of the top ten scariest encounters:
The UFO Hijacking.
NARRATOR: Some of the most compelling and harrowing UFO accounts
are those reported by pilots who witness strange craft
while flying thousands of feet above the Earth.
Instead of seeing a small disk or light way up in the sky,
pilots often encounter UFOs at close range.
And they have the experience to know
if they're looking at man-made craft
or something else.
TSOUKALOS: You have countless commercial and private airline pilots
who spend an exorbitant amount of time up in the sky.
And, in my opinion, I think they're the best people
to discern what is natural and what is not.
NARRATOR: According to some pilots, not only is there
an extraterrestrial presence in our skies,
but they present a serious danger.
Zihuantanejo, Mexico. May 3, 1975.
Pilot Carlos de Los Santos takes off
from the local airfield
on a routine flight to Mexico City.
One hour into his journey, he witnesses something unusual:
a gray, wingless object off the right side of his plane.
RICHARD DOLAN: As he approaches Mexico City, he notices,
basically, a small flying saucer just above his left wing.
It's not as large as his aircraft.
He's flying a fairly small aircraft.
And he's like, what is this?
And then he looks over to his right
and he sees another one.
And then he looks ahead of them, and there's one coming at him.
It goes below his aircraft.
And he feels a bump under his aircraft.
And he's scared out of his mind.
Anyone would be.
He then realizes that he's not
really in control of his aircraft.
BILL BIRNES: The theory is that the UFO that came
under the plane
took control of his plane.
And the UFO's own magnetic envelope
is lifting the plane higher and higher and higher.
De Los Santos is in a panic.
He's giving Mayday calls.
NARRATOR: As the small aircraft races towards a mountainous area,
the three UAPs disengage and veer off
toward the Mount Popocatépetl volcano at lightning speed.
As the objects disappear from sight,
Carlos regains control of the plane.
So he lands his aircraft, and the story doesn't end here.
Now, he would've had his whole career,
reputation ruined, probably, with this,
except for the fact that
Mexican air traffic control tracked these objects also.
And this came out to support him.
This story became a huge news story in Mexico.
It's just one of the most incredible aviation UAP stories
that you're ever gonna hear.
To me, pilots are some of the best UFO witnesses out there,
because they are trained to discern
between different objects flying through the sky.
Which is what makes our next encounter even more frightening.
It involved a cargo plane that reported
an alien craft of enormous proportions.
Number nine on our list:
Japan Airlines Flight 1628.
NARRATOR: Alaska. November 17, 1986.
Japan Airlines Flight 1628
is carrying cargo from Paris, France,
to Narita International Airport near Tokyo.
The three-person crew is led by Captain Kenju Terauchi,
an ex-fighter pilot with over 10,000 hours of flight time.
As the 747 approaches Anchorage,
Captain Terauchi notices two strange lights
out of his cockpit window.
It's dark. It's, uh, very early morning before sunrise.
These lights are clearly maneuvering.
And they move directly in front of his aircraft.
Now, he's flying at about 500 miles per hour.
These things are pacing him.
Captain Terauchi radios Anchorage air traffic control
and reports the lights are strange,
oval-shaped flying objects,
and they are getting dangerously close to his aircraft.
As the pilot attempts a series of evasive maneuvers
to avoid a potential collision,
the two UFOs suddenly disappear.
In their place is another object.
One so large it dwarfs the 747.
DOLAN: His words for describing it were "gigantic spaceship."
The size of maybe two aircraft carriers. Just immense.
Terauchi sees this massive thing in the sky,
and he's scared.
NARRATOR: On the ground, radar specialists
confirm a mysterious object
is in fact in the sky near Captain Terauchi's plane.
DAVID CHILDRESS: This incident is more than just
the witnesses on the plane.
We have radar spotting the craft.
We have discussions between air traffic control
and the pilots, and them describing this.
So, we have other people also on the ground
who can back up this sighting.
We don't know, really, what it was.
But it may well have been an extraterrestrial craft
flying right over Alaska.
There is no doubt that Alaskan pilots
are some of the bravest aviators around.
They can adapt to sudden storms and dangerous conditions
on a moment's notice.
But even a pilot like Theo Chesley,
who's been flying over Alaska for nearly four decades,
found his heart racing when he encountered multiple objects
in the sky that resembled no aircraft he'd ever seen before.
Number eight on our countdown
of the top ten scariest encounters:
The Mount Shishaldin Incident.
NARRATOR: Anchorage, Alaska,
October 19, 2022.
Author and researcher David Childress has traveled
to a local airfield to meet with pilot Theo Chesley.
In 2019, Chesley encountered a UFO
while flying near Mount Shishaldin,
an active volcano on Unimak Island in the Aleutians.
While the event left him shaken,
Chesley took several photographs.
CHILDRESS: So, when was this occurrence?
Well, uh, we had a flight back in October of 2019.
We were northeast of the mountain.
Ah, 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 cloud around it, or no?
CHESLEY: It had, like, a tail on it,
a 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.
Then we had something fly out of the mountain.
-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 sphere
that's vertically parked.
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, you know,
my concern level was going about through the roof at that point.
Wow, that's fascinating.
NARRATOR: As an experienced pilot, Theo Chesley cannot explain
the two events he experienced.
I've seen a lot of things.
I've been through a lot of storms.
Some great flights, some not-so-great flights.
But 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.
a disturbing phenomenon ,
has been reported across the country.
Ranchers have discovered livestock dead in their fields
that appear to have been killed by a mysterious
and possibly extraterrestrial force.
Number seven on our countdown
of the top ten scariest encounters:
Animal Mutilations.
NARRATOR: San Luis Valley, Colorado.
1967.
On the King family ranch,
a horse named Lady
is found dead in a pasture.
The skull is stripped so clean of flesh
that it appears to have been exposed to the elements
for weeks.
Yet the King family had seen Lady alive
just two days earlier.
Even stranger,
no blood or animal tracks of any kind
are found near the corpse.
Authorities are shaken and perplexed.
The skeleton was completely clean and white.
Even brain tissue was gone.
But the rest of the horse
looked as if it should get up and walk.
It was that fresh.
NARRATOR: The incident likely would have been lost to history,
were it not for the fact that near-identical slaughters
soon became commonplace across the American heartland.
You had farmers and ranchers getting up in the morning
and finding their animals dead in the fields.
And these were clearly not attacks by mountain lions
or coyotes or anything like that.
The farmers actually reported
how blood was drained from the animals,
organs were removed,
and it seemed as if the bodies of the cattle had been opened up
by some sort of high-heat weapon or device.
NARRATOR: While mainstream medical professionals are unsure who
or what could be responsible for these attacks,
ancient astronaut theorists suggest
the answer may be found by examining strange findings
reported at other mutilation sites.
Sometimes, the animals
are lying on top of charred patches of ground.
Sometimes those charred patches
are exactly the same size and shape
as the animals themselves.
And very often, there have been reports of strange lights
in the sky or on the ground in and around the time
where the mutilations are taking place.
HOWE: The deeper you get, and the more people you interview--
and I have literally interviewed thousands now--
you hear, "I saw this kind of light.
"I saw this beam lowering an animal
to the pasture, and it was mutilated."
Somebody else, "I saw this animal coming up
in a beam of light, and later, it was found mutilated."
It was my work investigating animal mutilations
that took me to the conclusion
that the phenomena that is behind
the global animal mutilations
of the last... at least a hundred years,
are extraterrestrial biological entities.
When it comes to encounters that defy explanation,
there are none more confounding than what happened
in the mountains of Russia in 1959.
A group of nine hikers ascended a mountain
that is actually named "Do Not Go There."
And what happened to them was so shocking,
researchers are still trying to solve the mystery to this day.
Number six on our list:
The Ural Mountains Encounter.
NARRATOR: A group of nine mountaineers
embark on a winter trek into Russia's Ural Mountains.
Their destination,
a mountain called Otorten,
which, in the local Mansi language, means,
"Do Not Go There."
PAUL STONEHILL: Among them were three
experienced engineers, the rest were students.
They were all young, though I think the oldest
was, like, 37 years old.
They had conducted other hard treks to the area,
they were all experienced, strong-willed,
determined people.
NARRATOR: On their fourth night out,
bad weather forced the hikers
to camp atop an area called Kholat Syakhl,
which, in Mansi, translates to "the mountain of the dead."
STONEHILL: It was a very inhospitable,
very strange, very, very hard place to be.
Snow, cold, freezing winds
and very few living things around.
NARRATOR: Ten days later, when the nine adventurers
failed to show up at their destination,
military rescue teams searched the area.
They found the campsite abandoned
and a tent that had been torn to pieces.
Curiously, the investigators determined
that the tent was cut and ripped open from the inside,
and the hikers appeared to have fled in socks
and with bare feet.
STONEHILL: Something was pushing them
to run away without taking any clothing with them,
without taking any supplies.
They were behaving like they were in a daze, confused.
NARRATOR: The investigators followed the trail
to the edge of the forest.
But what they eventually found...
...was beyond belief.
BIRNES: All nine hikers died.
They were discovered by Soviet troops
in various stages of what can only be described
as being mutilated.
Their bodies were burned,
some suffered radiation poisoning.
In one case, a hiker's tongue was missing.
They had prematurely aged,
their skin was orange, their hair had turned grey.
What could've explained this?
STONEHILL: Three of them had injuries
that could be sustained
when somebody is hit by a speeding car,
except the injuries were inside.
Their ribs were crushed like eggshells.
But there was no effect on their skin.
NARRATOR: The official explanation
was that the nine hikers died from hypothermia.
But years later, members of the search party spoke out.
According to their testimony, at the time of the incident,
a mysterious ball of light was seen floating in the sky.
BIRNES: This wasn't a craft
like a plane, it wasn't a craft like a rocket.
It was a glowing, bright ball of light.
One theory is that orbs, they're like cameras.
They travel around, they surveil the area--
as if they're surveilling our dimension
from another dimension-- and then they disappear.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the strange orb
seen in the Ural Mountains was not of this world?
And if so, could there be a connection
between it and the mysterious deaths of the Russian hikers?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and suggest further evidence of extraterrestrial visitation
can be found in a close encounter
that left physical evidence.
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of extraterrestrial contact
comes from the most harrowing events.
Like in the case of three people
whose dramatic encounter with a UFO
left them not only traumatized,
but with lasting physical injuries.
Number five on our list
of the top ten scariest encounters:
The Cash-Landrum Incident.
NARRATOR: Dayton, Texas.
December 29, 1980.
Seven-year-old Colby Landrum
is with his grandmother and her friend
driving along a desolate two-lane road
when they have a life-changing experience.
Betty Cash, my grandmother Vickie Landrum, and myself
headed back home towards Dayton.
It was real late at night, nobody else on the road,
and we encountered a bright object.
It actually was, like, about the size of a water tower.
100 foot across, 100 foot tall, but in a diamond shape.
I just panicked. I got on the floorboard.
VICKIE: This is Vickie Landrum from Dayton, Texas.
JAMES: Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum
stopped the car to investigate,
and the local environment is actually being heated
by this object to the point where they try to touch
their car and it's hot to the touch.
LANDRUM: You could feel the heat off of it.
The heat was very intense.
It was hot enough for-- When she grabbed
the dash when we stopped,
I mean, it was an indention of where her hand was sitting.
JAMES: Now, what makes this unique is that, when they get home,
after a couple of days, they start to show symptoms
of being exposed to ionized radiation.
NARRATOR: After the incident, all three witnesses
were treated for radiation exposure.
LANDRUM: I got nauseous and sick.
It probably lasted two or three days with me.
My grandmother, she had the same symptoms,
but she also had blisters on her skin.
They would bust open, and she'd have sores
for several years after that.
Betty Cash suffered the most severe part of it.
She was out of the car the longest.
According to the doctors, she had the most exposure to it.
CHILDRESS: The women blamed the U.S. government for this.
And this then became a very well-known court case,
where they were suing
the U.S. government, essentially.
NARRATOR: For help with their case, Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum
turned to investigators with MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network.
NICK POPE: MUFON investigators got the witness statements,
gathered the evidence, including things like medical records,
which were central to the legal case.
And, although the witnesses didn't win their case,
what's important was that that gets it on the record.
NARRATOR: Today, the Cash-Landrum incident is one of the most famous,
and harrowing, UFO encounters in recent history.
LANDRUM: I remember being there, and I know what happened.
I want somebody to come forward and actually, you know,
admit that something happened there.
I just want to know the truth.
To me, the most intriguing UFO encounters
are those that can be corroborated
by multiple witnesses.
One mass sighting that I find particularly compelling
happened to a group of school children
in rural Oklahoma,
and the experience was so intense,
it left them fearing for their lives.
At number four: The Miracle Mountains Incident.
NARRATOR: Hartshorne, Oklahoma. 1975.
Randy Young is a ten-year-old student
at the Miracle Mountains Boarding School.
One day, his normal routine
is shattered by a terrifying event.
RANDY YOUNG: My brother and I, we were out in the sandbox,
and we saw this circular, uh, shining light that was
probably 2,000 or so feet up in the air.
And it didn't have the movements of an airplane.
Um, it was just hovering.
And, as it got darker, this craft got closer.
It had lights that went through the midsection,
all the way around,
and it had this classic, um, saucer-type shape.
We called the adults out.
There were a few children that were frightened to death
of the thing.
And we heard one of the girls scream.
Seems to have been a landing.
Some people say there are entities there.
At one point, one of the older children
got onto the roof with a-a gun
because they were that concerned about what was happening.
It was a rifle, and that was the end of the story for us
'cause it took off, and we never saw it again.
NARRATOR: Almost 50 years later, several people who attended
the Miracle Mountains Boarding School
shared their story with MUFON in chilling detail.
I first reached out to Randy and interviewed him.
The next person I spoke to was Philip Buchanan.
Philip was one of the older children
at the school at the time.
And then I spoke with the teacher via e-mail.
And the teacher described that some of the kids
were hiding under the beds
because they were very terrified,
and some of the kids were looking out the window.
They reported to see
shapeshifting entities out there.
What Mindy found out, after doing all that work,
is that these kids were recalling the exact same thing.
As these witnesses were telling their stories years later,
one of the things Mindy asked them to do
was to actually draw the UFO that they'd seen.
And the consistency is amazing.
And not only are they telling the same story,
but they're describing the same craft.
TSOUKALOS: This cold case is one of the most fascinating cases,
because students, they had not spoken to each other since 1975,
and they all replied with the same answers,
which indicates that something happened,
and everybody saw the same thing.
YOUNG: It was something that will always be a memory for us.
And I've never seen anything like that ever again.
I almost wish that it would never have happened.
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in history was reported by members of the armed forces.
Over the course of two nights,
multiple servicemen not only saw a mysterious craft,
but some claimed to have had an experience
that haunts them to this very day.
Number three on our countdown:
The Rendlesham Forest Incident.
NARRATOR: In Suffolk County, England,
there is a remote forest in the village of Rendlesham
that has become famous for being the site
of one of the most extraordinary and frightening
UFO encounters ever reported.
The event occurred on December 26, 1980.
Airman John Burroughs was performing
a routine security check
at a U.S. Air Force Base when he received orders
to investigate a possible downed aircraft.
JOHN BURROUGHS: My supervisor called me on the radio and asked me
to meet up with him so we could check the east gate.
We're driving down the road leading to the east gate
to check on it when, all of a sudden,
he saw some strange lights in the forest.
So I decided to call it in and let them know
something strange was going on.
They decided to send one of the security units down,
which was Sergeant Penniston.
He got down there and he saw the same strange lights
that we were seeing.
PENNISTON: I could see all these multiple color lights
and things like that,
and the air felt different.
I don't know how to... really explain that,
but it did feel like there was electricity
on our skin and hair and stuff,
but that progressively got worse the closer
we got to the tree line, and it got more intense.
NARRATOR: As the servicemen approached the strange lights,
Sergeant Penniston reportedly saw a large craft
just beyond the tree line.
PENNISTON: The craft was triangular in shape,
measuring about six to seven feet high, black in color.
I'd come around to the far side of the craft,
and that's when I noticed that there was, you know,
an inscription on the side.
You know, it is about three feet long,
maybe six inches high.
Instead of something familiar,
I see these pictorial-type glyphs.
And got running my hand over the side of the craft.
I don't know how to explain this.
It's like someone was holding a picture up, okay?
There was this feeling of being drawn into it,
or being pulled into it.
Like someone was holding a picture up of zeroes and ones
in my mind's eye.
NARRATOR: The strange visions
Sergeant Penniston had upon touching the craft,
has made this one of Britain's most famous UFO encounters.
But ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that even more compelling is what happened after.
Over the following two evenings,
U.S. Air Force Colonel Charles Halt
reported further strange sightings.
He led his own search party to put an end to the confusion.
But instead of finding a logical explanation,
they discovered high levels of radioactivity
where Burroughs and Penniston had previously
seen the strange craft.
They then spotted a light in a nearby field
that suddenly came towards them through the trees at high speed.
CHARLES HALT: While we're walking around, we also notice
four or five objects in the sky.
Then one came at high speed, stopped directly overhead--
3,000, 4,000, maybe 5,000 feet--
and sent down a concentrated beam
about eight or ten feet from us.
I was really concerned then.
At that point, I was thinking,
"Why did I ever get involved in this?
How will I ever explain this?"
POPE: Now, I did a cold case review
for the Ministry of Defense.
I am still subject to the Official Secrets Act,
but I can tell you, chances are these craft were real.
And if they're real, they might actually be extraterrestrial.
NARRATOR: Today, the frightening encounter in Rendlesham Forest
is known in the UFO community as Britain's Roswell.
For Airman Burroughs and Sergeant Penniston,
the event wasn't easy to leave behind.
Both men had lasting physical and psychological effects
from the encounter.
After the incident, I started having throat and eye problems.
At one point, my gums turned white.
I also had vision problems, and when I went
and saw the doctor, one of his first questions
was had I been ever exposed to radiation.
I've definitely had dreams about it,
and I still have feelings about what happened.
Prior to the incident,
uh...
my views on any kind of phenomena like UFOs,
things like that-- they didn't exist.
I never believed that kind of stuff.
But after the life-changing event of December 1980,
my views were different.
It opened up the possibility
that we're not alone.
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we've investigated on Ancient Aliens
are abduction events.
And one of the most famous involved multiple witnesses
who watched in terror as their friend
was abducted right before their eyes.
Number two on our countdown:
The Travis Walton Abduction.
NARRATOR: The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest,
Arizona.
November 5, 1975.
22-year-old forestry worker Travis Walton
and a group of co-workers
are driving home after sundown
when suddenly a strange light appears in the sky.
I noticed, uh, some little glimmers
of light coming through the trees.
And the light seemed to be coming from higher
than where ground level would be.
It was only when we got to where this light
was crossing the road that we had
an unobstructed view of the craft.
It was a clearly visible,
clearly defined metallic object.
A disc hovering there, outlined against the sky.
I threw open the door,
thinking I'd get a closer look before it took off.
That's when this energy hit me.
I felt, like, a physical blow,
but with a sort of a tingling sort of
an electric shock sort of feeling
at the same time.
REDFERN: Walton basically got zapped
by this blinding light.
The crew just hot-footed it out of the area quickly,
uh, then thought, "Well, we've got to go back.
You know, we've got to get Travis."
Went back, whatever this object was, was gone.
And he was gone as well.
NARRATOR: According to Travis Walton,
the mysterious beam of light rendered him unconscious.
And when he awoke, he found himself in a room
surrounded by strange beings.
I was looking straight into the, the face of this creature.
These, uh, small beings were humanoid.
But so unhuman.
It was just terrifying.
And I just flipped out.
It was just horrible.
It was like they were looking right into me.
POPE: He saw these hideous entities that scared him.
Maybe quite similar to the modern idea
of the so-called "alien Greys."
And then these aliens seem to go away.
And then their place was taken
by much more human-like aliens.
And he calmed down.
WALTON: In the case of the human-looking ones,
I started to have serious misgivings
that this was a rescue.
And that's when they put this mask
over my face.
And I just blacked out real quickly.
POPE: Now the suspicion here was that actually these
weren't different aliens, these were the same aliens,
but they were capable of shape-shifting
into something else specifically to calm him down.
NARRATOR: Crews searched everywhere for the missing forest worker,
but it wasn't until five days later
that Walton reappeared outside of a nearby town.
When I woke up, I was lying face down
outside in the dark, in the cold.
I was on a highway in the middle of the woods.
I looked around, I recognized the lights
of the town down below.
And I ran down into the town
and, uh, found a telephone and called my family for help.
NARRATOR: Travis Walton's story has become
one of the most famous alien abduction cases ever reported,
and was even adapted into a movie in 1993.
While some dismiss his account as a hallucination,
Travis has no doubt
that he experienced a genuine extraterrestrial encounter.
WALTON: What no one asked
was, you know, what about the rest of the crew?
How do seven people have an identical hallucination?
And besides that, they were given
lie detector tests by state police,
which they passed.
There's real life things that occur out there
that need to be understood.
So, take a look at the facts, a-and then judge.
I don't know the purpose that they had.
All I know is what happened to me.
This was unmistakable.
We're just moments away from revealing
number one on our countdown.
And as far as I'm concerned, it is one of the most incredible
close encounters ever reported.
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some of the most terrifying alien encounters
ever reported,
but this one truly gives me chills.
It's one of the most vivid abduction accounts on record.
And the experience didn't end
after just one incident,
but has persisted for nearly 40 years.
Number one on our countdown
of the top ten scariest encounters:
The Abduction of Whitley Streiber.
NARRATOR: Ulster County, New York.
December 26, 1985.
Best-selling author Whitley Strieber
is celebrating Christmas
with his wife and young son at their cabin.
In the middle of the night,
he is awoken by a disturbing feeling.
I felt that there was something around me.
In other words, there was movement
that shouldn't have been there.
And I opened my eyes
and I saw these big,
black eyes staring at me.
And I had no idea where I was.
It was a little round room.
And I began to scream.
This automatic voice turned on, saying,
"What can we do to help you stop screaming?"
There were these other figures,
dark blue little figures darting around,
and they assaulted me, basically.
It was not easy. It was a very terrifying experience.
NARRATOR: To process the traumatic event,
Whitley wrote about his close encounter,
which became the basis of his best-selling memoir,
Communion.
He hoped the experience was behind him,
but in May of 1989,
Whitley had another strange nocturnal encounter.
I'm on my side, on my right side.
And there's a hand pressing down on my left... temple,
pressing it into the pillow in, like, waves, like this.
And I can't struggle.
I can't move a muscle. I can't see anything.
I am completely immobilized.
After a few seconds, that ends.
And I think, "Was it a dream?"
Then the next day or the day after,
my ear started hurting.
I reach up and I feel this bump here on my ear.
And I thought, "Oh, my God, it's an implant."
WOMAN: Oh! Look at that white thing.
STRIEBER: There was an attempt to remove it.
STRIEBER: It failed because the implant
went from here, right down into here
on its own.
STRIEBER: And the doctor pulled out.
Two days later, it went from my ear lobe
back up to where it is to this day.
NARRATOR: Could extraterrestrials really
have implanted some kind of device
inside Whitley Strieber's ear?
And if so, why?
According to Whitley,
whatever the implant is,
it has had a profound effect on him.
In 2015, I noticed a slit
opened up in my right eye.
And you could see words racing through it.
But they were like someone was typing very quickly and racing.
And it had something to do with my writing.
Because at the same time, my ability to do research
changed dramatically and weirdly.
I found that if I just thought about something I needed,
no matter how obscure, one way or another, it would come to me.
NARRATOR: Since receiving the alleged implant,
Strieber claims to have had
regular interaction with otherworldly beings.
STRIBETER: The visitors are a part of my life now.
Very much so.
Uh, I don't think
I would be comfortable working
without knowing that there was--
using the implant, that there was a connection.
Now, what do they want from us?
That is a very big unanswered question.
Much like Whitley Strieber, we are all left
with unanswered questions by these incredible incidents.
As far as I'm concerned, there is no doubt
that extraterrestrials are visiting our planet.
But what do they want?
Perhaps only through the careful study of these
and other extraordinary accounts,
whether they are mass UFO sightings,
animal mutilations,
or even frightening abductions,
the truth may finally be revealed
about Earth's extraterrestrial visitors.
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