1 00:00:02,042 --> 00:00:03,875 NARRATOR: In the alien abduction phenomenon, 2 00:00:04,042 --> 00:00:05,292 there are those who say 3 00:00:05,458 --> 00:00:07,708 they have been taken dozens of times. 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,375 BILL BIRNES: These were not one-time abductions. 5 00:00:11,542 --> 00:00:14,458 They continued for the rest of his life. 6 00:00:14,667 --> 00:00:19,583 NARRATOR: Some have discovered mysterious implants beneath their skin. 7 00:00:19,708 --> 00:00:22,792 WHITLEY STRIEBER: My initial paranoia about it was really intense. 8 00:00:22,875 --> 00:00:24,125 I wanted it out of me. 9 00:00:24,333 --> 00:00:27,208 NARRATOR: And others say they can summon UFOs 10 00:00:27,375 --> 00:00:29,042 just by thinking about them. 11 00:00:29,250 --> 00:00:30,917 NICK POPE: He's pointing and saying, 12 00:00:31,083 --> 00:00:32,542 it's gonna come from this direction. 13 00:00:32,708 --> 00:00:34,500 And bang, there it was. 14 00:00:34,667 --> 00:00:38,167 NARRATOR: Could it be that certain people are being chosen 15 00:00:38,333 --> 00:00:41,500 to carry out an extraterrestrial agenda? 16 00:00:41,667 --> 00:00:44,625 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: These abductions may be 17 00:00:44,750 --> 00:00:46,292 part of this giant project 18 00:00:46,458 --> 00:00:50,667 that's been going on for thousands of years. 19 00:00:53,667 --> 00:00:57,292 NARRATOR: There is a doorway in the universe. 20 00:00:58,292 --> 00:01:01,667 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 21 00:01:02,875 --> 00:01:05,167 It demands we question everything 22 00:01:05,375 --> 00:01:07,708 we have ever been taught. 23 00:01:07,875 --> 00:01:11,333 The evidence is all around us. 24 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:15,375 The future is right before our eyes. 25 00:01:15,542 --> 00:01:18,000 We are not alone. 26 00:01:18,208 --> 00:01:21,167 We have never been alone. 27 00:01:21,375 --> 00:01:23,292 ♪ ♪ 28 00:01:34,292 --> 00:01:36,917 NARRATOR: Astronomer J. Allen Hynek publishes 29 00:01:37,042 --> 00:01:40,542 The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. 30 00:01:41,792 --> 00:01:45,458 From 1948 to 1969, 31 00:01:45,625 --> 00:01:47,833 Hynek acted as scientific advisor 32 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,042 for a series of UFO investigations 33 00:01:50,250 --> 00:01:52,708 conducted by the U.S. government, 34 00:01:52,833 --> 00:01:55,708 known as Project Sign, 35 00:01:55,875 --> 00:01:57,500 Project Grudge 36 00:01:57,667 --> 00:01:59,417 and Project Blue Book. 37 00:02:00,542 --> 00:02:02,167 In his new book, 38 00:02:02,333 --> 00:02:05,333 he draws on his decades of experience researching UFOs 39 00:02:05,458 --> 00:02:09,625 to establish a classification for close encounters. 40 00:02:10,583 --> 00:02:13,250 A close encounter of the first kind 41 00:02:13,375 --> 00:02:16,833 is where you see an object within 500 feet or so. 42 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,833 A close encounter of the second kind 43 00:02:20,042 --> 00:02:21,833 has some type of physical evidence. 44 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,292 A radar corroboration, 45 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:27,167 sunburned face, broken tree branches, et cetera. 46 00:02:27,333 --> 00:02:29,625 And a close encounter of the third kind 47 00:02:29,792 --> 00:02:32,792 is where you actually see some type of creature. 48 00:02:33,833 --> 00:02:37,625 NARRATOR: In 1990, Hynek's close friend and protégé, 49 00:02:37,708 --> 00:02:42,375 Jacques Vallée, added two more classifications to the scale. 50 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:45,333 A close encounter of the fourth kind 51 00:02:45,458 --> 00:02:48,750 is an event in which a human is abducted by a UFO 52 00:02:48,958 --> 00:02:50,667 or its occupants. 53 00:02:51,667 --> 00:02:54,500 And a close encounter of the fifth kind 54 00:02:54,667 --> 00:02:57,333 involves an alien abductee receiving some manner 55 00:02:57,542 --> 00:03:00,833 of physical effect from their close encounter. 56 00:03:01,875 --> 00:03:05,958 For Vallée, the large number of reports of alien abductions 57 00:03:06,042 --> 00:03:09,167 merited the additions to Hynek's scale. 58 00:03:10,333 --> 00:03:12,167 TSOUKALOS: The fact of the matter is 59 00:03:12,375 --> 00:03:14,375 that there are hundreds of thousands 60 00:03:14,542 --> 00:03:18,042 of abduction reports all around the world. 61 00:03:18,250 --> 00:03:21,792 Clearly, something is going on. 62 00:03:21,958 --> 00:03:24,417 And there's no doubt in my mind 63 00:03:24,583 --> 00:03:27,500 that these abductions are happening. 64 00:03:27,708 --> 00:03:30,167 NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists, 65 00:03:30,333 --> 00:03:34,167 not only are alien abductions real, 66 00:03:34,333 --> 00:03:36,958 but they have been happening throughout human history. 67 00:03:38,875 --> 00:03:42,792 When we talk about the modern-day abduction phenomenon, 68 00:03:42,958 --> 00:03:44,833 what's so interesting to me 69 00:03:44,958 --> 00:03:49,250 is that they're not just modern-day occurrences, 70 00:03:49,417 --> 00:03:53,750 but that they've also existed for thousands of years. 71 00:03:53,875 --> 00:03:58,000 In ancient times, you have multiple abduction stories 72 00:03:58,208 --> 00:04:02,833 where earthlings were taken up into the sky 73 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,500 in certain vehicles-- 74 00:04:04,667 --> 00:04:11,750 Elijah, Enoch, Abraham, Baruch. 75 00:04:11,958 --> 00:04:16,125 And there are other stories that are not even biblical. 76 00:04:16,250 --> 00:04:20,208 For example, in Cambodia, we have Preah Pisnokar 77 00:04:20,375 --> 00:04:23,292 who went up into the heavens to visit Indra's Palace, 78 00:04:23,458 --> 00:04:25,958 which in the ancient astronaut opinion, 79 00:04:26,125 --> 00:04:28,125 it was an orbiting space station. 80 00:04:28,292 --> 00:04:31,375 And then in ancient Greek mythology, 81 00:04:31,542 --> 00:04:35,667 Hercules was taken up from Mount Olympus 82 00:04:35,833 --> 00:04:39,458 in a flashy black cloud 83 00:04:39,625 --> 00:04:43,458 that is described in ancient Greek mythology. 84 00:04:44,583 --> 00:04:47,333 NARRATOR: Is it possible that extraterrestrials 85 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:50,333 have been abducting humans for thousands of years? 86 00:04:50,458 --> 00:04:54,292 And if so, for what purpose? 87 00:04:54,375 --> 00:04:57,208 Some researchers believe clues can be found 88 00:04:57,333 --> 00:04:59,208 by examining the cases of people 89 00:04:59,375 --> 00:05:02,958 who claim to have been abducted not just once, 90 00:05:03,125 --> 00:05:04,542 but multiple times. 91 00:05:06,125 --> 00:05:08,583 One of the first repeat alien abductees 92 00:05:08,708 --> 00:05:10,417 to capture the public's attention 93 00:05:10,583 --> 00:05:13,833 was a rancher whose experiences started 94 00:05:13,958 --> 00:05:17,292 not with himself, but with his livestock. 95 00:05:19,708 --> 00:05:24,750 Bosler, Wyoming. August 30th, 1976. 96 00:05:24,917 --> 00:05:27,708 Cattle rancher Pat McGuire 97 00:05:27,875 --> 00:05:30,958 discovers one of his calves dead on his property. 98 00:05:32,083 --> 00:05:33,750 Upon closer inspection, 99 00:05:33,958 --> 00:05:37,542 he notices bizarre mutilations to the animal's body, 100 00:05:37,708 --> 00:05:40,167 including the ears and nose 101 00:05:40,333 --> 00:05:42,833 which appear to have been surgically cut off. 102 00:05:44,875 --> 00:05:47,167 Later that night, McGuire and his cousin 103 00:05:47,375 --> 00:05:49,125 stake out the property 104 00:05:49,250 --> 00:05:51,083 in hopes of catching the culprit. 105 00:05:52,292 --> 00:05:54,792 POPE: McGuire camped out, 106 00:05:54,917 --> 00:05:57,625 effectively on his own property, keeping watch, 107 00:05:57,750 --> 00:06:02,375 and he saw multiple orbs and lights 108 00:06:02,542 --> 00:06:05,667 moving very strangely. 109 00:06:05,792 --> 00:06:08,208 RICHARD DOLAN: There's something that zipped by, 110 00:06:08,375 --> 00:06:10,458 kind of low altitude, over his property. 111 00:06:10,625 --> 00:06:12,250 He goes to chase after it. 112 00:06:12,417 --> 00:06:14,917 They can't really see what this was. 113 00:06:15,083 --> 00:06:18,000 But the next morning, they find another dead cow. 114 00:06:18,167 --> 00:06:21,208 So, this seems to be connected. 115 00:06:22,250 --> 00:06:25,500 NARRATOR: Following this incident, McGuire filed a report 116 00:06:25,667 --> 00:06:28,750 with the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, 117 00:06:28,875 --> 00:06:31,333 claiming visits from extraterrestrials 118 00:06:31,458 --> 00:06:34,000 occurred regularly on his ranch. 119 00:06:34,208 --> 00:06:35,500 (cattle mooing) 120 00:06:35,708 --> 00:06:39,500 Three years later, in September 1979, 121 00:06:39,667 --> 00:06:42,667 investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe 122 00:06:42,833 --> 00:06:44,958 brought a TV crew to McGuire's ranch 123 00:06:45,125 --> 00:06:48,667 to interview him for a documentary she was producing 124 00:06:48,833 --> 00:06:53,000 on animal mutilations called A Strange Harvest. 125 00:06:53,167 --> 00:06:58,500 HOWE: Who or what is killing and mutilating these animals? 126 00:06:58,625 --> 00:07:00,250 I've traveled through Wyoming, 127 00:07:00,375 --> 00:07:03,250 New Mexico and Colorado exploring this mystery. 128 00:07:03,417 --> 00:07:05,542 NARRATOR: According to Linda, 129 00:07:05,750 --> 00:07:07,875 the moment that she and the crew arrived 130 00:07:08,042 --> 00:07:11,833 at McGuire's ranch, they had their own close encounter. 131 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,625 Pat McGuire and his family came out to greet us. 132 00:07:16,750 --> 00:07:20,458 And we're hardly out of the car, 133 00:07:20,625 --> 00:07:24,167 and my cameraman, "Oh, my God, look at that!" 134 00:07:24,375 --> 00:07:28,500 It was bright red, and it's glowing. 135 00:07:28,625 --> 00:07:30,958 It is slowly moving. 136 00:07:31,167 --> 00:07:32,583 It stops. 137 00:07:32,708 --> 00:07:34,333 And the next thing it does 138 00:07:34,458 --> 00:07:37,500 is it starts going back down 139 00:07:37,625 --> 00:07:41,458 exactly from where it came. 140 00:07:41,583 --> 00:07:43,625 Pat McGuire said, 141 00:07:43,833 --> 00:07:47,375 "This is what I'm telling you. We see it most nights." 142 00:07:47,542 --> 00:07:50,750 And Pat said, "I have a drawing." 143 00:07:50,917 --> 00:07:53,208 PAT McGUIRE: I've drawn a picture of the spacecraft, 144 00:07:53,375 --> 00:07:54,792 what I seen that night. 145 00:07:54,958 --> 00:07:56,875 It was a pure white and then it turned 146 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,542 to a fluorescent orange, the whole ship did, 147 00:07:59,708 --> 00:08:01,833 and it stays this color, and of course it'll glow 148 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,500 the whole area up right around where the cow was. 149 00:08:05,667 --> 00:08:10,833 POPE: McGuire went on to say that these encounters continued. 150 00:08:10,958 --> 00:08:14,667 He said that, you know, maybe 20 or 30 times 151 00:08:14,833 --> 00:08:17,375 these things landed on his property, 152 00:08:17,542 --> 00:08:21,417 and that he was abducted on multiple occasions. 153 00:08:21,583 --> 00:08:26,042 KATHLEEN MARDEN: He said that the non-humans began to take him. 154 00:08:26,208 --> 00:08:29,000 They gave him information, 155 00:08:29,125 --> 00:08:35,167 information about the coming environmental collapse. 156 00:08:35,333 --> 00:08:39,750 About the danger of nuclear war. 157 00:08:39,875 --> 00:08:46,583 He was shown images of fires, of floods. 158 00:08:49,750 --> 00:08:52,458 NARRATOR: Pat McGuire could not say for certain 159 00:08:52,583 --> 00:08:54,625 why he was shown what he interpreted 160 00:08:54,792 --> 00:08:57,208 as warnings about the future, 161 00:08:57,375 --> 00:08:59,500 but similar visions have been reported 162 00:08:59,583 --> 00:09:02,375 by other repeat experiencers. 163 00:09:02,542 --> 00:09:08,292 Some humans, when they have been examined 164 00:09:08,458 --> 00:09:12,625 by an extraterrestrial biological entity... 165 00:09:13,833 --> 00:09:16,667 ...they have telepathy into their minds 166 00:09:16,875 --> 00:09:19,958 that what is happening has something to do 167 00:09:20,125 --> 00:09:24,583 with our survival and their survival. 168 00:09:24,750 --> 00:09:28,583 That is a theme that runs through the human abductions. 169 00:09:28,750 --> 00:09:32,958 POPE: Is it certain people being chosen for a mission? 170 00:09:33,125 --> 00:09:36,542 Or because there's something special or different about them? 171 00:09:36,708 --> 00:09:38,542 We don't know. 172 00:09:38,708 --> 00:09:41,917 But if we could find out what connects these people, 173 00:09:42,042 --> 00:09:43,958 I think that would be very useful, 174 00:09:44,125 --> 00:09:47,208 because that would give us a massive insight 175 00:09:47,375 --> 00:09:50,042 into the extraterrestrial agenda. 176 00:09:51,167 --> 00:09:53,750 NARRATOR: Could the experiences of people like Pat McGuire, 177 00:09:53,917 --> 00:09:56,833 who claim to have been abducted multiple times, 178 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,417 reveal not only that extraterrestrials 179 00:10:00,625 --> 00:10:01,875 are present on Earth, 180 00:10:02,042 --> 00:10:05,583 but that they have an agenda for humankind? 181 00:10:05,750 --> 00:10:08,333 According to one repeat experiencer, 182 00:10:08,542 --> 00:10:11,542 the answer is a resounding yes. 183 00:10:11,708 --> 00:10:15,500 And, as evidence, he points to his own... 184 00:10:15,708 --> 00:10:18,125 alien implant. 185 00:10:23,875 --> 00:10:25,292 NARRATOR: Ulster County, New York. 186 00:10:25,458 --> 00:10:29,583 December 26, 1985. 187 00:10:29,750 --> 00:10:32,333 Best-selling author Whitley Strieber 188 00:10:32,458 --> 00:10:35,333 is living with his wife Anne and their young son 189 00:10:35,542 --> 00:10:38,333 in a remote cabin in the Hudson Valley. 190 00:10:38,542 --> 00:10:40,833 On this night, he will experience 191 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,000 a harrowing close encounter. 192 00:10:43,208 --> 00:10:45,500 The first of many that will occur 193 00:10:45,667 --> 00:10:48,042 throughout the course of his life. 194 00:10:48,208 --> 00:10:52,833 I remember December the 26th, 1985 like it was yesterday. 195 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,667 I woke up in the middle of the night 196 00:10:55,792 --> 00:10:58,333 in an incredibly peculiar situation. 197 00:10:58,542 --> 00:10:59,917 I became aware of the fact 198 00:11:00,125 --> 00:11:01,625 that there was a lot of movement around me. 199 00:11:01,708 --> 00:11:06,667 I felt strange, and I opened my eyes, 200 00:11:06,833 --> 00:11:10,000 and this thing looked in my face 201 00:11:10,167 --> 00:11:12,000 with big black eyes. 202 00:11:12,208 --> 00:11:15,000 Like a big insect, is what I perceived. 203 00:11:15,167 --> 00:11:17,667 I thought, my God, I'm having a nightmare. 204 00:11:17,833 --> 00:11:20,333 And it was absolutely appalling. 205 00:11:20,458 --> 00:11:23,167 I just was completely paralyzed. 206 00:11:23,375 --> 00:11:27,542 And finally, it ends. 207 00:11:27,708 --> 00:11:30,292 I just wake up the next morning in bed, 208 00:11:30,500 --> 00:11:32,958 distraught without knowing why. 209 00:11:33,125 --> 00:11:35,417 That was the beginning of the rest of my life. 210 00:11:36,917 --> 00:11:39,917 NARRATOR: In the days following his traumatic encounter, 211 00:11:40,083 --> 00:11:44,708 Strieber searched for a way to explain what he experienced. 212 00:11:44,875 --> 00:11:49,375 I went into a kind of mental decline, really a tailspin. 213 00:11:49,542 --> 00:11:51,500 I went to the doctor. 214 00:11:51,708 --> 00:11:54,167 I told him what I remembered. 215 00:11:54,333 --> 00:11:58,500 And we did an MRI scan for temporal lobe epilepsy, 216 00:11:58,625 --> 00:12:01,208 which causes lucid hallucinations. 217 00:12:01,333 --> 00:12:03,292 And the bottom line was, 218 00:12:03,417 --> 00:12:07,292 I was quite healthy except I was very much under stress. 219 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:11,083 NARRATOR: Having ruled out the possibility that his experience 220 00:12:11,208 --> 00:12:14,167 was caused by epileptic hallucinations, 221 00:12:14,333 --> 00:12:15,958 Whitley began to wonder 222 00:12:16,125 --> 00:12:20,417 if his encounter really was of an extraterrestrial nature. 223 00:12:21,583 --> 00:12:23,250 My brother had sent me a book 224 00:12:23,375 --> 00:12:25,250 called Science and the UFOs 225 00:12:25,417 --> 00:12:27,542 by Jenny Randles for Christmas. 226 00:12:27,667 --> 00:12:29,083 And then I get to the end of it, 227 00:12:29,208 --> 00:12:31,208 and there's a description of an event 228 00:12:31,375 --> 00:12:33,792 that was very much like what happened to me. 229 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,333 And I thought, holy moly, have I been abducted by aliens? 230 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:40,292 Is that what happened to me? 231 00:12:40,458 --> 00:12:43,000 NARRATOR: Based on what he learned in the book, 232 00:12:43,125 --> 00:12:45,750 Streiber reached out to Budd Hopkins, 233 00:12:45,917 --> 00:12:49,750 one of the country's leading researchers on alien abductions. 234 00:12:49,875 --> 00:12:52,958 Hopkins had developed a process that used hypnosis 235 00:12:53,125 --> 00:12:57,167 to help abductees recover memories of their encounters. 236 00:12:57,375 --> 00:13:02,375 Budd Hopkins proceeds to get Dr. Donald Klein, 237 00:13:02,542 --> 00:13:07,458 the best, most practiced-- with proven case success-- 238 00:13:07,583 --> 00:13:10,292 forensic hypnotist in the world. 239 00:13:11,458 --> 00:13:15,333 BIRNES: They believed that under regressive hypnosis, 240 00:13:15,542 --> 00:13:19,500 people who've been abducted will remember their missing time. 241 00:13:19,708 --> 00:13:22,833 And they began a program of talking 242 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,208 to alien abductees, hypnotizing them, 243 00:13:26,375 --> 00:13:30,292 and under that regression, learning what happened. 244 00:14:06,583 --> 00:14:09,583 NARRATOR: Under hypnosis, Strieber revealed details 245 00:14:09,792 --> 00:14:13,292 of numerous experiences with extraterrestrials. 246 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:16,583 These close encounters became the basis 247 00:14:16,750 --> 00:14:19,500 for his best-selling memoir, Communion, 248 00:14:19,708 --> 00:14:22,792 and it was only the beginning. 249 00:14:22,958 --> 00:14:27,167 In 1989, four years after his initial encounter, 250 00:14:27,333 --> 00:14:30,833 Whitley had another strange experience. 251 00:14:32,083 --> 00:14:34,417 STRIEBER: It was about 11:00 at night, 252 00:14:34,542 --> 00:14:36,375 when suddenly... 253 00:14:37,875 --> 00:14:40,333 ...there's pressure pushing down on my left ear. 254 00:14:40,458 --> 00:14:41,500 (grunts) 255 00:14:41,625 --> 00:14:43,250 Like that, into the pillow. 256 00:14:43,375 --> 00:14:46,000 And I can't do anything whatsoever about it, 257 00:14:46,125 --> 00:14:48,125 and I can't make a sound. 258 00:14:49,125 --> 00:14:51,042 NARRATOR: Disturbed by his encounter, 259 00:14:51,167 --> 00:14:54,833 Strieber asked his wife Anne to examine his ear. 260 00:14:54,958 --> 00:14:56,500 It became clear to Anne and I 261 00:14:56,667 --> 00:14:58,833 that there was something in my ear, immediately, 262 00:14:59,042 --> 00:15:00,792 because you could feel it. 263 00:15:00,917 --> 00:15:04,042 And, uh, it hadn't been there the day before. 264 00:15:04,208 --> 00:15:06,833 I said, "Annie, they put an implant in my ear." 265 00:15:07,042 --> 00:15:10,458 And initially my response is, 266 00:15:10,625 --> 00:15:12,292 I've got to get it out of here. 267 00:15:12,458 --> 00:15:15,292 NARRATOR: Whitley's wife Anne, however, convinced him 268 00:15:15,458 --> 00:15:17,333 he should leave the implant alone. 269 00:15:17,542 --> 00:15:20,292 STRIEBER: She says, "Don't do it. Don't take it out. 270 00:15:20,458 --> 00:15:21,750 You signed on for this." 271 00:15:21,958 --> 00:15:23,667 I had started going out in the woods after I 272 00:15:23,875 --> 00:15:26,292 f-figured out this was somehow real. 273 00:15:26,458 --> 00:15:29,250 And I had signaled to them that I was here to do this. 274 00:15:29,375 --> 00:15:32,417 And so she was basically s-saying, 275 00:15:32,542 --> 00:15:34,917 "Fulfill your promise." 276 00:15:35,042 --> 00:15:36,625 And she was right. 277 00:15:38,958 --> 00:15:41,417 NARRATOR: Eight years after receiving the implant, 278 00:15:41,542 --> 00:15:43,708 Whitley finally decided to have it removed 279 00:15:43,875 --> 00:15:45,875 so it could be studied. 280 00:15:46,042 --> 00:15:48,667 STRIEBER: So here's what would happen. 281 00:15:48,875 --> 00:15:51,958 My ear would turn bright red and get hot, 282 00:15:52,125 --> 00:15:54,167 and I would hear a buzzing sort of sound, 283 00:15:54,375 --> 00:15:56,542 like an old-fashioned modem when it goes, "ehh," 284 00:15:56,708 --> 00:15:58,667 like that, in your ear. 285 00:15:58,875 --> 00:16:00,500 And that would happen from time to time. 286 00:16:00,583 --> 00:16:03,000 But that was all, for years. 287 00:16:03,167 --> 00:16:05,875 So we find a doctor, he says, 288 00:16:06,042 --> 00:16:08,083 "Yeah, it feels like a little cyst in there. 289 00:16:08,208 --> 00:16:09,708 I can take that out easily." 290 00:16:12,875 --> 00:16:15,083 STRIEBER: There was an attempt to remove it. 291 00:16:18,542 --> 00:16:20,958 Then he tries to touch it with his scalpel, 292 00:16:21,083 --> 00:16:23,292 and it runs down from here 293 00:16:23,417 --> 00:16:26,000 down into the bottom, into the, you know, 294 00:16:26,167 --> 00:16:28,042 into the earlobe from up here, 295 00:16:28,250 --> 00:16:30,333 on its own right under the skin. 296 00:16:32,708 --> 00:16:34,083 STRIEBER: At this point, he says, 297 00:16:34,250 --> 00:16:35,708 "Well, I'm gonna have to pull out." 298 00:16:35,875 --> 00:16:38,000 Two days later, it goes up from here, 299 00:16:38,208 --> 00:16:40,542 back up to here and where it stayed. 300 00:16:40,708 --> 00:16:43,542 NARRATOR: Both Whitley and the doctor were shocked 301 00:16:43,708 --> 00:16:45,750 to witness this mysterious implant 302 00:16:45,958 --> 00:16:47,667 move around on its own. 303 00:16:47,875 --> 00:16:49,833 But what could it be? 304 00:16:50,042 --> 00:16:52,292 After trying to have the implant removed, 305 00:16:52,458 --> 00:16:53,833 Whitley started to notice something 306 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,167 very strange happening, 307 00:16:55,375 --> 00:16:57,875 which he attributes to the implant. 308 00:16:58,042 --> 00:17:01,167 This slit opened up in my right eye. 309 00:17:01,333 --> 00:17:03,542 And you can see words flashing past 310 00:17:03,708 --> 00:17:06,167 and like someone was typing at breakneck speed. 311 00:17:06,375 --> 00:17:08,042 I couldn't read the words, 312 00:17:08,208 --> 00:17:10,708 but I knew they were helping me in my writing somehow. 313 00:17:10,833 --> 00:17:14,458 POPE: Whitley talks about his implant 314 00:17:14,583 --> 00:17:17,625 in terms of being not a tracking device, 315 00:17:17,792 --> 00:17:20,125 but a communications device. 316 00:17:21,417 --> 00:17:25,000 And this is a fascinating possibility 317 00:17:25,167 --> 00:17:29,000 that the abductees are implanted with these devices 318 00:17:29,125 --> 00:17:31,625 so that they can communicate. 319 00:17:31,833 --> 00:17:34,042 There's a program here. 320 00:17:34,208 --> 00:17:37,333 The extraterrestrials are doing something 321 00:17:37,458 --> 00:17:43,667 with individuals and perhaps with humanity as a whole. 322 00:17:44,333 --> 00:17:46,000 This is 30-plus years on, 323 00:17:46,125 --> 00:17:48,625 and I've probably seen the visitors 324 00:17:48,792 --> 00:17:52,542 in that period of time 50 times. 325 00:17:52,708 --> 00:17:57,708 And so I have ended up being their ambassador. 326 00:17:57,875 --> 00:18:01,875 I am trying to communicate their presence to the world. 327 00:18:02,083 --> 00:18:04,542 A world which is very, very dubious 328 00:18:04,708 --> 00:18:06,250 about the whole idea still. 329 00:18:06,417 --> 00:18:08,500 But nevertheless, they are here. 330 00:18:09,875 --> 00:18:12,833 NARRATOR: Strieber's experiences, while incredible, 331 00:18:13,042 --> 00:18:15,125 are not entirely unique. 332 00:18:15,292 --> 00:18:17,000 Much like the esteemed author, 333 00:18:17,125 --> 00:18:19,333 there is another repeat experiencer 334 00:18:19,542 --> 00:18:22,042 who claims to have had telepathic contact 335 00:18:22,167 --> 00:18:24,083 with entities from another planet. 336 00:18:24,250 --> 00:18:28,208 And he says that he can summon UFOs from the sky 337 00:18:28,417 --> 00:18:31,167 simply by thinking of them. 338 00:18:40,042 --> 00:18:41,708 NARRATOR: While on a fishing trip 339 00:18:41,875 --> 00:18:44,167 on the banks of the Cape Fear River, 340 00:18:44,375 --> 00:18:48,417 Chris Bledsoe decides to step away from his friends and son 341 00:18:48,583 --> 00:18:52,250 to take a walk alone through a nearby field. 342 00:18:52,417 --> 00:18:57,083 Suddenly, he spots something incredible in the sky above. 343 00:18:58,042 --> 00:19:03,125 Chris sees a bright red ball, 344 00:19:03,292 --> 00:19:05,250 what looks like the Sun. 345 00:19:05,417 --> 00:19:08,042 And as he continues walking up the hill, 346 00:19:08,208 --> 00:19:10,083 his perspective widens 347 00:19:10,208 --> 00:19:15,083 and he sees a second ball of light-- red-- 348 00:19:15,250 --> 00:19:19,292 and there's flames coming off of these balls. 349 00:19:19,458 --> 00:19:21,542 Chris is looking at these orbs 350 00:19:21,708 --> 00:19:24,083 for what he thinks is 20 minutes. 351 00:19:24,250 --> 00:19:25,375 Turns out, it was actually-- 352 00:19:25,542 --> 00:19:27,917 he was missing for about four hours. 353 00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:30,458 This is a classic case of missing time 354 00:19:30,625 --> 00:19:32,250 in connection with this phenomenon. 355 00:19:32,375 --> 00:19:35,667 And that's how this story began. 356 00:19:36,667 --> 00:19:39,125 NARRATOR: According to Bledsoe, the encounter 357 00:19:39,250 --> 00:19:41,167 had a profound effect on him, 358 00:19:41,375 --> 00:19:44,583 both mentally and physically. 359 00:19:44,750 --> 00:19:48,458 Chris had been a highly successful businessman, 360 00:19:48,667 --> 00:19:50,500 a builder, a pilot, 361 00:19:50,667 --> 00:19:56,167 but he had an illness in which he had become disabled. 362 00:19:56,375 --> 00:20:00,500 So, on that night he had been healed 363 00:20:00,625 --> 00:20:03,833 from that debilitating illness. 364 00:20:04,875 --> 00:20:09,167 NARRATOR: Unable to explain what he saw or his remarkable recovery, 365 00:20:09,333 --> 00:20:13,417 Bledsoe became convinced he had an otherworldly encounter. 366 00:20:14,750 --> 00:20:19,083 He reported the event to the Mutual UFO Network, 367 00:20:19,250 --> 00:20:22,333 and word of his experiences spread quickly. 368 00:20:22,458 --> 00:20:26,042 MARDEN: When the story went public, 369 00:20:26,208 --> 00:20:29,000 he was made out to be a liar, 370 00:20:29,125 --> 00:20:32,250 he was rejected by his community. 371 00:20:32,417 --> 00:20:36,667 It's a very sad situation when this happens to people 372 00:20:36,833 --> 00:20:41,250 who have these experiences, but it's not uncommon. 373 00:20:41,375 --> 00:20:43,667 NARRATOR: According to Bledsoe, 374 00:20:43,875 --> 00:20:46,667 his sightings of mysterious orbs continued 375 00:20:46,833 --> 00:20:49,625 and he became convinced he could summon them. 376 00:20:50,667 --> 00:20:53,125 One person who was intrigued by Bledsoe's story 377 00:20:53,292 --> 00:20:56,333 was his friend Colonel John Alexander. 378 00:20:56,500 --> 00:21:00,042 And when Colonel Alexander went to visit Chris at his home, 379 00:21:00,208 --> 00:21:03,708 he had his own UFO encounters. 380 00:21:03,875 --> 00:21:05,667 Colonel John Alexander 381 00:21:05,792 --> 00:21:08,833 investigated UFOs for the U.S. government. 382 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,292 He knows Chris quite well, has visited his property, 383 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:15,167 and on one occasion 384 00:21:15,333 --> 00:21:18,000 actually witnessed Chris pointing and saying, 385 00:21:18,208 --> 00:21:19,833 "It's gonna come from this direction." 386 00:21:19,958 --> 00:21:21,958 Bang, there it was. 387 00:21:22,125 --> 00:21:24,833 -BLEDSOE: Look, wow, wow. -ALEXANDER: Yeah, I see it. 388 00:21:25,042 --> 00:21:29,000 POPE: So he knew that this UFO was going to show up. 389 00:21:29,208 --> 00:21:31,333 Again, it's indicative 390 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:35,792 of there being a connection between the UFOs 391 00:21:35,958 --> 00:21:38,417 and the abductees themselves. 392 00:21:38,583 --> 00:21:40,917 BLEDSOE: There's an orb right here. 393 00:21:41,042 --> 00:21:42,958 They're embarking. 394 00:21:43,125 --> 00:21:47,833 POPE: It's not just maybe that these people are passive victims. 395 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,583 They are participants, 396 00:21:49,750 --> 00:21:54,000 active participants in an extraterrestrial agenda. 397 00:21:54,125 --> 00:21:56,375 BLEDSOE: Man, is it bright. 398 00:21:58,208 --> 00:22:03,333 NARRATOR: In 2012, five years after his first sighting, 399 00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:06,417 Bledsoe claims he had another encounter, 400 00:22:06,542 --> 00:22:10,833 and this one had an even more profound effect on him. 401 00:22:11,042 --> 00:22:15,667 Chris is outside one evening, and all of a sudden 402 00:22:15,833 --> 00:22:20,333 right in front of him, this portal opens, 403 00:22:20,542 --> 00:22:22,167 and out of this portal 404 00:22:22,333 --> 00:22:26,167 appears this beautiful lady 405 00:22:26,333 --> 00:22:29,375 and she's hovering up off the ground. 406 00:22:29,542 --> 00:22:31,250 He refers to her as the Lady. 407 00:22:31,417 --> 00:22:34,292 She's wearing a glorious garment of light. 408 00:22:35,417 --> 00:22:39,458 TOK: She says to Chris, "You know why I'm here. 409 00:22:39,625 --> 00:22:42,292 "You are to tell your story, 410 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:46,000 "and if you tell your story, I'll be here with you. 411 00:22:46,167 --> 00:22:47,250 "I'll guide you, 412 00:22:47,417 --> 00:22:49,333 I'll help you." 413 00:22:50,542 --> 00:22:52,042 NARRATOR: Because of his encounter 414 00:22:52,250 --> 00:22:54,083 with the being he calls the Lady, 415 00:22:54,250 --> 00:22:55,417 Bledsoe believes-- 416 00:22:55,542 --> 00:22:58,375 like many other repeat UFO experiencers-- 417 00:22:58,542 --> 00:23:02,958 that he has been chosen for a special purpose. 418 00:23:03,125 --> 00:23:06,542 Chris Bledsoe starts to view this through a religious lens. 419 00:23:06,708 --> 00:23:10,167 He's thinking suddenly that he's a prophet, 420 00:23:10,250 --> 00:23:11,500 he's a chosen one. 421 00:23:11,708 --> 00:23:14,917 He's somehow connected with a, a revelation 422 00:23:15,042 --> 00:23:17,625 or a disclosure that's about to happen on Earth. 423 00:23:17,750 --> 00:23:21,083 And he connects the UFO experience with God. 424 00:23:21,250 --> 00:23:22,667 There are different models 425 00:23:22,792 --> 00:23:24,417 of the abduction experience, 426 00:23:24,583 --> 00:23:26,375 and one of them basically says 427 00:23:26,542 --> 00:23:27,958 it is religious. 428 00:23:28,125 --> 00:23:33,333 That's a classic motif or, or pattern that we see 429 00:23:33,542 --> 00:23:35,792 in the history of very extreme religious experience. 430 00:23:35,958 --> 00:23:38,333 And today, of course, 431 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:40,125 it's not framed in religious terms, 432 00:23:40,292 --> 00:23:42,417 it's framed in science fiction terms 433 00:23:42,542 --> 00:23:44,250 or astrophysical terms. 434 00:23:44,375 --> 00:23:46,958 But I think these experiences have a consistency to them. 435 00:23:47,125 --> 00:23:49,750 And I think human beings have been interacting 436 00:23:49,875 --> 00:23:52,708 with these entities for a long, long time. 437 00:23:52,875 --> 00:23:57,375 In ancient times we hear the same stories. 438 00:23:57,583 --> 00:24:01,583 For example, Enoch very specifically says 439 00:24:01,750 --> 00:24:04,708 that the reason why he was chosen is 440 00:24:04,875 --> 00:24:07,708 because the so-called guardians of the sky, 441 00:24:07,833 --> 00:24:12,083 the angels, imparted certain knowledge to him. 442 00:24:12,292 --> 00:24:15,417 In every ancient culture, 443 00:24:15,542 --> 00:24:20,583 all origin stories tell us someone was chosen 444 00:24:20,750 --> 00:24:23,792 to relay important knowledge, 445 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,625 important information to the rest of the world. 446 00:24:28,958 --> 00:24:32,667 NARRATOR: Could it be that the numerous otherworldly apparitions 447 00:24:32,833 --> 00:24:35,625 recorded in religious texts around the world 448 00:24:35,792 --> 00:24:38,500 are firsthand accounts of encounters 449 00:24:38,667 --> 00:24:41,125 with extraterrestrial beings? 450 00:24:42,583 --> 00:24:45,833 As far as Chris Bledsoe is concerned, 451 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,042 his encounters with glowing orbs and angelic beings 452 00:24:49,208 --> 00:24:53,500 are of both an extraterrestrial and spiritual nature. 453 00:24:53,667 --> 00:24:57,750 In January 2023, he published a book 454 00:24:57,917 --> 00:25:02,583 about his ongoing experiences called UFO of God. 455 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,833 POPE: He believes that God is inextricably linked 456 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,292 with this whole extraterrestrial visitation. 457 00:25:13,458 --> 00:25:15,917 In all of this, we have to remind ourselves 458 00:25:16,042 --> 00:25:18,500 that these are just labels we're putting on something 459 00:25:18,708 --> 00:25:19,917 that's interacting with humanity. 460 00:25:20,042 --> 00:25:22,833 But these are our words, our labels. 461 00:25:22,917 --> 00:25:25,167 The reality may be quite different. 462 00:25:26,625 --> 00:25:28,875 NARRATOR: Is it possible that Chris Bledsoe 463 00:25:29,042 --> 00:25:31,875 has been chosen to be a messenger? 464 00:25:32,042 --> 00:25:34,542 Could he be carrying out an agenda... 465 00:25:34,667 --> 00:25:35,792 BLEDSOE: See that? 466 00:25:35,917 --> 00:25:37,333 NARRATOR: ...to enlighten humankind 467 00:25:37,458 --> 00:25:40,417 about an otherworldly presence? 468 00:25:40,583 --> 00:25:42,542 Perhaps further clues can be found 469 00:25:42,708 --> 00:25:46,083 by examining incredible claims that have been made 470 00:25:46,250 --> 00:25:49,500 about a galactic federation. 471 00:25:59,417 --> 00:26:01,875 NARRATOR: Retired L.A. Times journalist 472 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,833 and Pulitzer Prize winner Phillip Krapf 473 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,792 gives a presentation at an event held 474 00:26:06,917 --> 00:26:08,875 by the Mutual UFO Network 475 00:26:09,042 --> 00:26:12,542 and describes a remarkable encounter he experienced. 476 00:26:12,708 --> 00:26:14,000 I wake up in the middle of the night, 477 00:26:14,208 --> 00:26:16,125 and the room is filled with a kind of a bluish 478 00:26:16,250 --> 00:26:18,042 white iride-iridescent light. 479 00:26:19,625 --> 00:26:21,833 I get up out of bed and I head for the wall switch 480 00:26:22,042 --> 00:26:23,583 controlling the lamp in the room. 481 00:26:23,708 --> 00:26:25,708 And I got no more than two or three feet 482 00:26:25,875 --> 00:26:27,750 when all of a sudden, I-I no longer felt 483 00:26:27,917 --> 00:26:29,833 my feet against the carpeted floor. 484 00:26:30,042 --> 00:26:32,875 And the next thing I know, I feel like I'm rising. 485 00:26:33,042 --> 00:26:34,708 It was only momentarily I felt like I'm rising. 486 00:26:35,583 --> 00:26:37,500 I found myself in this room full of, uh, 487 00:26:37,667 --> 00:26:39,125 very, very strange creatures. 488 00:26:40,167 --> 00:26:42,000 DAVID CHILDRESS: Krapf has written all about his abduction 489 00:26:42,208 --> 00:26:45,500 in his 1998 book The Contact Has Begun. 490 00:26:45,667 --> 00:26:47,875 Krapf had a lot of credibility. 491 00:26:48,042 --> 00:26:51,167 He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. 492 00:26:51,333 --> 00:26:54,875 He had been writing for the L.A. Times for over 25 years. 493 00:26:55,042 --> 00:26:57,500 And people knew him and respected him. 494 00:26:57,667 --> 00:26:59,833 Most of his friends had known him as, you know, 495 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,500 something of a skeptic, apparently. 496 00:27:02,708 --> 00:27:04,875 NARRATOR: According to Phillip Krapf, 497 00:27:05,083 --> 00:27:06,833 the mysterious beings he encountered have 498 00:27:07,042 --> 00:27:09,458 a specific agenda for our planet. 499 00:27:09,542 --> 00:27:11,958 KRAPF: It turned out, I was there as a person 500 00:27:12,125 --> 00:27:15,708 who had been recruited to perform a particular task. 501 00:27:16,833 --> 00:27:18,542 MARDEN: They told him 502 00:27:18,750 --> 00:27:20,667 that they had been monitoring us 503 00:27:20,833 --> 00:27:22,500 for thousands of years. 504 00:27:22,708 --> 00:27:25,542 Their mission was to, uh, 505 00:27:25,750 --> 00:27:30,750 lead an intergalactic federation of planets 506 00:27:30,917 --> 00:27:35,042 who were finding other planets that had intelligent life 507 00:27:35,208 --> 00:27:39,625 and to monitor them and only permit them 508 00:27:39,750 --> 00:27:43,542 to join the federation when they had matured 509 00:27:43,667 --> 00:27:45,292 to a certain level. 510 00:27:47,125 --> 00:27:50,625 And that they had ambassadors on our planet 511 00:27:50,792 --> 00:27:53,500 who had important positions, 512 00:27:53,667 --> 00:27:56,667 who could speak to other people on the planet 513 00:27:56,875 --> 00:27:59,167 about their presence. 514 00:28:00,333 --> 00:28:01,500 Phillip Krapf was selected 515 00:28:01,625 --> 00:28:03,250 because he's a writer and he's able 516 00:28:03,417 --> 00:28:04,500 to communicate their message. 517 00:28:05,583 --> 00:28:09,000 NARRATOR: In 2001, three years after the publication 518 00:28:09,125 --> 00:28:13,083 of The Contact Has Begun, Krapf published a second book 519 00:28:13,208 --> 00:28:16,833 called The Challenge of Contact in which he detailed 520 00:28:17,042 --> 00:28:19,750 two more extraterrestrial encounters. 521 00:28:19,917 --> 00:28:21,375 POPE: One thing Krapf recalled 522 00:28:21,542 --> 00:28:22,875 about all this was 523 00:28:23,042 --> 00:28:25,625 that the extraterrestrials seemed to know him 524 00:28:25,792 --> 00:28:27,208 very well already. 525 00:28:27,375 --> 00:28:30,500 He didn't need to tell them anything about him. 526 00:28:30,667 --> 00:28:32,042 Perhaps they'd always known. 527 00:28:32,208 --> 00:28:35,042 And that's fascinating because, again, 528 00:28:35,208 --> 00:28:38,333 this is a theme that comes up multiple times 529 00:28:38,458 --> 00:28:40,042 with different people's accounts, 530 00:28:40,208 --> 00:28:43,833 the idea of the aliens as watchers... 531 00:28:44,875 --> 00:28:46,833 ...that they're watching humanity 532 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,000 but also they're selecting, 533 00:28:49,208 --> 00:28:52,083 they're choosing certain individuals. 534 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,542 In Krapf's experience, 535 00:28:54,708 --> 00:28:56,250 he didn't have just one encounter. 536 00:28:56,375 --> 00:28:58,125 He had multiple encounters. 537 00:28:58,292 --> 00:29:00,208 And this affirmed to him 538 00:29:00,375 --> 00:29:01,917 that he was indeed chosen for this mission 539 00:29:02,083 --> 00:29:04,417 and that he ultimately will be a spokesperson 540 00:29:04,583 --> 00:29:07,708 or messenger for this federation. 541 00:29:09,375 --> 00:29:12,125 NARRATOR: Could Phillip Krapf's extraordinary statements 542 00:29:12,292 --> 00:29:15,500 about a galactic federation be true? 543 00:29:15,667 --> 00:29:17,875 While it might seem far-fetched, 544 00:29:18,042 --> 00:29:21,750 other notable figures have come forward with similar claims. 545 00:29:21,958 --> 00:29:26,000 In 2013, former Canadian Minister of National Defense 546 00:29:26,167 --> 00:29:29,458 Paul Hellyer declared that the United States government 547 00:29:29,625 --> 00:29:31,583 and other governments around the world 548 00:29:31,708 --> 00:29:36,000 are working with an organized federation of extraterrestrials. 549 00:29:36,167 --> 00:29:41,083 Paul Hellyer was really a senior political leadership figure, 550 00:29:41,250 --> 00:29:47,042 and he essentially came out and said extraterrestrials are real, 551 00:29:47,250 --> 00:29:51,208 they are visiting Earth, and that Earth was on the point 552 00:29:51,375 --> 00:29:54,417 of being accepted into the galactic federation. 553 00:29:54,542 --> 00:29:57,292 NARRATOR: Paul Hellyer is not the only government official 554 00:29:57,375 --> 00:29:59,750 to come forward with alleged knowledge 555 00:29:59,958 --> 00:30:03,250 of a federation of extraterrestrial races. 556 00:30:04,292 --> 00:30:07,167 DOLAN: In 2020, former head of the Israeli space program 557 00:30:07,333 --> 00:30:09,333 Haim Eshed came out with 558 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:11,708 a very remarkable statement on UFOs and aliens, 559 00:30:11,875 --> 00:30:14,667 and basically stating the aliens are real, 560 00:30:14,875 --> 00:30:15,833 governments around the world know about it, 561 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,000 and that there was this entity 562 00:30:17,208 --> 00:30:19,583 known as the galactic federation. 563 00:30:19,750 --> 00:30:21,833 POPE: Haim Eshed talked about 564 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,667 a federation and talked about 565 00:30:24,833 --> 00:30:27,583 how planet Earth was being readied 566 00:30:27,708 --> 00:30:30,292 to join this federation 567 00:30:30,417 --> 00:30:32,500 when there's open contact. 568 00:30:32,708 --> 00:30:36,167 This is a theme, again, that comes up quite frequently. 569 00:30:36,375 --> 00:30:37,542 I've never given much... 570 00:30:37,708 --> 00:30:38,667 NARRATOR: Should the claims 571 00:30:38,833 --> 00:30:40,250 of people like Phillip Krapf, 572 00:30:40,375 --> 00:30:44,125 Paul Hellyer and Haim Eshed be believed? 573 00:30:44,250 --> 00:30:46,250 Have certain people been chosen 574 00:30:46,417 --> 00:30:50,500 to prepare humanity to join a galactic federation? 575 00:30:50,667 --> 00:30:53,000 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 576 00:30:53,208 --> 00:30:56,750 and they suggest there is evidence of 577 00:30:56,917 --> 00:30:58,208 an alien agenda 578 00:30:58,375 --> 00:31:01,875 that is not only about disseminating information 579 00:31:02,042 --> 00:31:04,292 but also directing 580 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:07,375 the evolution of humankind. 581 00:31:11,250 --> 00:31:13,333 NARRATOR: In the alien abduction phenomenon, 582 00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:15,625 many people have reported experiencing 583 00:31:15,792 --> 00:31:19,042 telepathic communication with their abductors, 584 00:31:19,208 --> 00:31:23,292 having strange devices implanted beneath their skin, 585 00:31:23,417 --> 00:31:26,583 and receiving messages about the future. 586 00:31:27,708 --> 00:31:29,833 But perhaps the most disturbing accounts 587 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,833 are those of alleged abductees who report 588 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,667 that they have been the subjects of alien experimentation. 589 00:31:37,833 --> 00:31:40,500 Most experiencers are left with 590 00:31:40,708 --> 00:31:42,375 some physical markings. 591 00:31:42,542 --> 00:31:44,833 It's either puncture wounds, 592 00:31:44,958 --> 00:31:47,917 it could be, uh, patterned marks 593 00:31:48,042 --> 00:31:51,208 that are burned into their flesh. 594 00:31:51,417 --> 00:31:53,250 We don't know why. 595 00:31:54,958 --> 00:31:58,250 Experiencers, for years, 596 00:31:58,417 --> 00:31:59,833 have reported 597 00:32:00,042 --> 00:32:02,625 that ova, that sperm, 598 00:32:02,750 --> 00:32:06,208 has been extracted from their bodies. 599 00:32:06,375 --> 00:32:08,708 Some humans, 600 00:32:08,917 --> 00:32:11,625 when they have been examined 601 00:32:11,833 --> 00:32:15,917 by an extraterrestrial biological entity 602 00:32:16,083 --> 00:32:19,042 and they see them clearly... 603 00:32:21,042 --> 00:32:23,917 ...and what is happening to them, 604 00:32:24,042 --> 00:32:27,583 they are harvesting sperm and eggs from humans 605 00:32:27,750 --> 00:32:30,292 in many of the abductions. 606 00:32:30,417 --> 00:32:33,000 NARRATOR: If reports of experimentation 607 00:32:33,125 --> 00:32:35,125 on abductees are true, 608 00:32:35,292 --> 00:32:38,083 why might this be happening? 609 00:32:38,250 --> 00:32:40,000 According to some researchers, 610 00:32:40,208 --> 00:32:41,500 it is just one part 611 00:32:41,625 --> 00:32:43,417 of a larger alien agenda 612 00:32:43,583 --> 00:32:45,917 for humankind. 613 00:32:46,125 --> 00:32:48,750 The extraterrestrials usually are performing 614 00:32:48,958 --> 00:32:50,208 some sort of examination, 615 00:32:50,375 --> 00:32:54,708 and it has something to do with genetics. 616 00:32:54,875 --> 00:32:57,250 Perhaps they are 617 00:32:57,417 --> 00:33:01,333 trying to upgrade the human genome 618 00:33:01,542 --> 00:33:04,917 to the higher level of awareness, 619 00:33:05,083 --> 00:33:06,625 to be able not just 620 00:33:06,750 --> 00:33:08,333 to evolve and thrive 621 00:33:08,458 --> 00:33:10,542 but also take care of the planet. 622 00:33:12,083 --> 00:33:14,792 NARRATOR: If extraterrestrials are abducting people 623 00:33:14,875 --> 00:33:18,000 to carry out some agenda for humanity, 624 00:33:18,208 --> 00:33:20,625 could it also involve a genetic upgrade? 625 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,333 Some researchers suggest 626 00:33:24,458 --> 00:33:25,958 further evidence of genetic manipulation 627 00:33:26,125 --> 00:33:27,625 of the human race 628 00:33:27,792 --> 00:33:29,833 can be found by examining children 629 00:33:30,042 --> 00:33:32,417 who display astonishing abilities, 630 00:33:32,583 --> 00:33:35,708 sometimes referred to as the star children. 631 00:33:36,833 --> 00:33:38,958 An offshoot of the abduction phenomena 632 00:33:39,125 --> 00:33:41,708 is the belief that there are hybrid offspring 633 00:33:41,875 --> 00:33:43,667 that have resulted from these abductions. 634 00:33:44,917 --> 00:33:47,250 These children have special abilities, 635 00:33:47,458 --> 00:33:50,208 psychic abilities, healing abilities, 636 00:33:50,417 --> 00:33:52,667 knowledge and understanding 637 00:33:52,833 --> 00:33:54,750 way beyond their years. 638 00:33:54,917 --> 00:33:58,500 TSOUKALOS: There is this concept of the so-called star children, 639 00:33:58,708 --> 00:34:01,167 and it's usually kids 640 00:34:01,375 --> 00:34:04,875 until the age of about 12, 14, 641 00:34:05,083 --> 00:34:08,125 and they are highly, highly gifted. 642 00:34:08,292 --> 00:34:12,500 Like, for example, they have telepathic abilities, 643 00:34:12,667 --> 00:34:15,833 ESP abilities, 644 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,958 and certain other things 645 00:34:18,125 --> 00:34:19,833 that are abnormal 646 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,500 to what regular human beings 647 00:34:22,708 --> 00:34:24,500 are capable of. 648 00:34:24,708 --> 00:34:27,292 And so, what's going on? 649 00:34:29,208 --> 00:34:31,625 NARRATOR: The idea of so-called star children 650 00:34:31,792 --> 00:34:35,458 has been part of Native American traditions for centuries. 651 00:34:35,625 --> 00:34:39,792 But in 1980, it became an international story 652 00:34:39,958 --> 00:34:42,500 when the Chinese government launched a nationwide search 653 00:34:42,625 --> 00:34:44,667 for children with psychic abilities 654 00:34:44,875 --> 00:34:48,833 such as telekinesis, telepathy and clairvoyance. 655 00:34:49,042 --> 00:34:51,875 In total, Chinese officials identified 656 00:34:52,042 --> 00:34:53,958 more than 2,000 children 657 00:34:54,125 --> 00:34:56,625 who possessed what researchers referred to 658 00:34:56,750 --> 00:34:59,500 as exceptional human function. 659 00:34:59,667 --> 00:35:03,000 CORY: I've interviewed so many star children 660 00:35:03,125 --> 00:35:05,333 who will tell me stories 661 00:35:05,542 --> 00:35:09,458 and describe in such great detail 662 00:35:09,667 --> 00:35:11,250 how the universe works, 663 00:35:11,458 --> 00:35:14,000 how minds are all connected. 664 00:35:14,167 --> 00:35:17,708 Some really, really profound information 665 00:35:17,833 --> 00:35:22,250 that the average five-year-old or six-year-old wouldn't have. 666 00:35:22,417 --> 00:35:25,833 So, you have this genetic encoding 667 00:35:26,042 --> 00:35:27,833 in certain children, 668 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,708 a new race of upgraded humans 669 00:35:31,875 --> 00:35:33,333 that will allow 670 00:35:33,542 --> 00:35:37,542 this more advanced extraterrestrial lineage 671 00:35:37,708 --> 00:35:40,167 and help evolve humanity. 672 00:35:41,375 --> 00:35:44,083 NARRATOR: Is it possible that extraterrestrials 673 00:35:44,208 --> 00:35:46,042 are not only choosing certain people 674 00:35:46,167 --> 00:35:48,500 to relay messages to humanity 675 00:35:48,708 --> 00:35:51,333 but upgrading our DNA? 676 00:35:51,542 --> 00:35:54,417 TSOUKALOS: The fact that we have abductions 677 00:35:54,583 --> 00:35:56,875 and the fact that we have these 678 00:35:57,042 --> 00:35:59,667 stories of star children 679 00:35:59,833 --> 00:36:01,792 leads me to think 680 00:36:01,958 --> 00:36:04,083 that extraterrestrials 681 00:36:04,292 --> 00:36:06,708 have been invested in our survival 682 00:36:06,875 --> 00:36:09,625 for thousands of years 683 00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:11,792 and that this is something 684 00:36:11,917 --> 00:36:13,208 that's been going on 685 00:36:13,375 --> 00:36:15,792 for a very long time. 686 00:36:15,917 --> 00:36:20,625 CHILDRESS: When we look back at all of these incidences 687 00:36:20,750 --> 00:36:24,375 and experiences of people 688 00:36:24,542 --> 00:36:27,125 and their meeting extraterrestrials 689 00:36:27,250 --> 00:36:31,125 or having their DNA sampled and analyzed, 690 00:36:31,292 --> 00:36:33,208 what the aliens are doing 691 00:36:33,417 --> 00:36:36,000 is still a mystery. 692 00:36:36,167 --> 00:36:39,875 You know, we're getting snippets of information 693 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,833 that helps us build this picture, 694 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,667 but still we... we don't know 695 00:36:44,875 --> 00:36:47,083 what is going to happen 696 00:36:47,292 --> 00:36:49,500 or why the extraterrestrials are doing this. 697 00:36:49,625 --> 00:36:53,083 BIRNES: What if the star people have an agenda? 698 00:36:53,250 --> 00:36:54,458 Which they do. 699 00:36:54,625 --> 00:36:57,542 Their agenda is, "We've colonized you. 700 00:36:57,708 --> 00:36:59,667 "We want you to survive. 701 00:36:59,875 --> 00:37:02,417 "Why? Just because we like you? 702 00:37:02,583 --> 00:37:04,833 "No, you are us. 703 00:37:05,042 --> 00:37:06,292 "We're the star people, 704 00:37:06,458 --> 00:37:08,000 "you're the star children. 705 00:37:08,167 --> 00:37:11,125 "We want you to survive and maybe 706 00:37:11,292 --> 00:37:14,333 inhabit other planets in different systems." 707 00:37:15,292 --> 00:37:16,792 NARRATOR: Could these star children, 708 00:37:16,958 --> 00:37:18,583 like repeat experiencers, 709 00:37:18,750 --> 00:37:21,417 be evidence that extraterrestrials 710 00:37:21,583 --> 00:37:24,042 have chosen certain individuals 711 00:37:24,208 --> 00:37:27,833 to help usher in a new era of humankind? 712 00:37:28,042 --> 00:37:30,958 And if so, are we on the verge 713 00:37:31,167 --> 00:37:33,458 of first contact? 714 00:37:42,708 --> 00:37:45,917 NARRATOR: The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office 715 00:37:46,083 --> 00:37:48,125 at the Pentagon announces 716 00:37:48,250 --> 00:37:50,750 that it has received over 800 reports 717 00:37:50,917 --> 00:37:54,708 of unidentified objects from military personnel, 718 00:37:54,875 --> 00:37:59,458 up from just 144 in 2021. 719 00:37:59,625 --> 00:38:02,500 The office states that it is receiving 720 00:38:02,667 --> 00:38:04,833 more new cases at a staggering rate, 721 00:38:04,958 --> 00:38:08,958 and UFO researchers say reports of anomalous activity 722 00:38:09,125 --> 00:38:11,958 are on the rise among civilians as well, 723 00:38:12,083 --> 00:38:15,500 including claims of alien abduction. 724 00:38:17,375 --> 00:38:19,333 TRAVIS TAYLOR: Today we have 725 00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:22,250 so many people saying that they're being abducted 726 00:38:22,375 --> 00:38:24,250 and experimented with or tested or so on 727 00:38:24,375 --> 00:38:27,125 by someone from not here. 728 00:38:27,250 --> 00:38:29,458 And we simply want to say that they're crazy 729 00:38:29,625 --> 00:38:32,250 and-and-and not even think about it. 730 00:38:33,208 --> 00:38:34,750 From a scientific perspective, 731 00:38:34,875 --> 00:38:36,250 the phenomena is something 732 00:38:36,375 --> 00:38:38,333 that absolutely has to be studied, 733 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:41,583 not necessarily because I do or don't believe 734 00:38:41,750 --> 00:38:43,000 that aliens are coming down and abducting people, 735 00:38:43,208 --> 00:38:44,292 doing experiments on them. 736 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:47,792 That's really beside the point. 737 00:38:47,958 --> 00:38:50,125 There are plenty of people who do believe it's happening. 738 00:38:50,333 --> 00:38:54,167 And so, we have to take that serious enough 739 00:38:54,375 --> 00:38:56,167 to study it and understand 740 00:38:56,333 --> 00:38:58,292 why they perceive this, 741 00:38:58,417 --> 00:39:00,417 why this is happening to them. 742 00:39:01,750 --> 00:39:04,000 BIRNES: The contact has increased 743 00:39:04,125 --> 00:39:07,208 and the messaging has increased. 744 00:39:07,375 --> 00:39:09,083 Why would we be seeing this increase 745 00:39:09,250 --> 00:39:11,667 in UFO contact, in UFO selection, 746 00:39:11,875 --> 00:39:13,583 in these messages? Why? 747 00:39:15,208 --> 00:39:17,417 POPE: We ask, well, what's the big picture? 748 00:39:17,583 --> 00:39:19,750 And, of course, there are lots of different theories 749 00:39:19,917 --> 00:39:20,750 doing the rounds: 750 00:39:20,917 --> 00:39:23,583 breeding program, 751 00:39:23,750 --> 00:39:25,500 testing program, 752 00:39:25,667 --> 00:39:27,583 people who are chosen. 753 00:39:27,708 --> 00:39:30,500 But if any of this is real, 754 00:39:30,667 --> 00:39:35,333 it's a large-scale, long-term program 755 00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:38,125 whereby an extraterrestrial race 756 00:39:38,292 --> 00:39:41,083 is interacting with humanity, 757 00:39:41,250 --> 00:39:45,375 perhaps to help us into a new age. 758 00:39:45,542 --> 00:39:47,292 And of course, there, 759 00:39:47,375 --> 00:39:49,167 what I'm talking about is first contact. 760 00:39:49,292 --> 00:39:53,042 Something much more up close and personal. 761 00:39:53,208 --> 00:39:55,292 Interaction between 762 00:39:55,458 --> 00:39:57,958 extraterrestrials and humanity. 763 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,333 HENRY: I think the big agenda is about humanity. 764 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:05,583 It's about humanity being taken into the stars, 765 00:40:05,750 --> 00:40:09,708 and all of these abductees are harbingers, ultimately, 766 00:40:09,833 --> 00:40:12,375 of the future of where the human race will end up. 767 00:40:14,083 --> 00:40:15,625 NARRATOR: Are alien visitors 768 00:40:15,792 --> 00:40:18,208 choosing certain people to help prepare humanity 769 00:40:18,375 --> 00:40:20,708 for the day when we will be introduced 770 00:40:20,875 --> 00:40:23,792 to other intelligent beings in the cosmos? 771 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,625 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 772 00:40:26,750 --> 00:40:30,333 the answer is a resounding yes. 773 00:40:30,500 --> 00:40:31,417 TSOUKALOS: From the perspective 774 00:40:31,583 --> 00:40:34,000 of the ancient astronaut theory, 775 00:40:34,167 --> 00:40:37,292 our human genome, 776 00:40:37,458 --> 00:40:40,083 at some point in our distant past, 777 00:40:40,208 --> 00:40:42,167 has been changed artificially 778 00:40:42,333 --> 00:40:44,625 by extraterrestrials. 779 00:40:46,125 --> 00:40:47,458 So, if they did this 780 00:40:47,625 --> 00:40:50,458 thousands upon thousands of years ago, 781 00:40:50,625 --> 00:40:51,792 then why would they 782 00:40:51,917 --> 00:40:55,417 not continue this in modern times? 783 00:40:56,417 --> 00:40:58,500 And so, is it possible 784 00:40:58,625 --> 00:41:00,500 that these abductions 785 00:41:00,625 --> 00:41:04,708 may be part of this giant project 786 00:41:04,875 --> 00:41:09,292 that's been going on since times immemorial? 787 00:41:09,458 --> 00:41:11,000 HOWE: Whatever is happening, 788 00:41:11,208 --> 00:41:14,542 this is a new step for humans. 789 00:41:17,083 --> 00:41:20,167 And I hope, before I pass to another dimension, 790 00:41:20,333 --> 00:41:21,875 that it will finally be announced: 791 00:41:22,042 --> 00:41:26,458 What is the huge penetrating relationship 792 00:41:26,625 --> 00:41:29,750 between Homo sapien sapien 793 00:41:29,875 --> 00:41:34,125 and extraterrestrial intelligences? 794 00:41:36,875 --> 00:41:38,750 NARRATOR: From biblical patriarchs 795 00:41:38,917 --> 00:41:42,000 to modern-day alien abductees, 796 00:41:42,208 --> 00:41:44,208 throughout history 797 00:41:44,375 --> 00:41:45,625 there have been people who claimed 798 00:41:45,792 --> 00:41:48,458 they were chosen by otherworldly beings 799 00:41:48,542 --> 00:41:51,750 to deliver important messages to humanity. 800 00:41:53,125 --> 00:41:54,500 Are they helping to carry out 801 00:41:54,667 --> 00:41:57,208 an extraterrestrial agenda? 802 00:41:57,333 --> 00:42:00,583 Perhaps we will soon learn the truth 803 00:42:00,792 --> 00:42:04,833 when we are reunited with our alien ancestors. 804 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,625 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS