NARRATOR: An incredible eyewitness account
of unidentified flying objects.
It wasn't just, uh, one light, it was a series of lights.
NARRATOR: A sensational report of an alien crash.
They had the debris out here in the hangar area.
NARRATOR: Ancient depictions of extraterrestrial visitation.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: I'm arguing that what
we are looking at here is someone visiting from the sky.
NARRATOR: For more than a decade,
Ancient Aliens has followed investigators across the globe
as they've gone directly to the sites where unusual,
unexpected and unexplained incidents have been reported.
Now we take a look back
at the most extraordinary encounters.
Encounters that, according to ancient astronaut theorists,
reveal overwhelming evidence
of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth.
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On Ancient Aliens, we've traveled around the world
investigating extraordinary encounters with UFOs,
strange beings and other unexplainable phenomena.
But make no mistake, alien encounters
are not simply a modern-day occurrence.
They've been happening for thousands of years.
And when I visited the Mediterranean island
of Sardinia, I found some of the most compelling evidence
that I've ever seen.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos
is meeting Oak Island treasure hunter Marty Lagina
to explore the island's mysterious legends
of otherworldly visitors.
Giorgio!
-Hey. -How crazy is this place?
-Isn't this something? -So great to meet you here
-in Sardinia. -Great to meet...
NARRATOR: To begin their investigation,
Giorgio and Marty travel
to the National Archaeological Museum in Cagliari,
where some of Sardinia's oldest and strangest artifacts
are on display.
TSOUKALOS: It's just all weird.
He's got a helmet on, those weird eyes.
NARRATOR: Featured in the museum's collection
are a number of enormous stone statues
known as the Giants of Mont'e Prama.
They were first discovered in 1974
when a local farmer stumbled upon a large carved stone
protruding from the ground.
Archaeologists quickly took over the site,
recovering more than 5,000 broken remnants.
Mainstream historians suggest the statues were carved
by the Nuragic people, a civilization
that is believed to have inhabited the island
for 2,000 years, emerging in 1800 BC
and mysteriously disappearing around 200 AD.
But what also makes the statues so mysterious
is the strange way in which the faces are carved.
Not so much resembling humans,
but what some might describe as robots.
JASON OSEQUEDA: The giant statues found at Mont'e Prama
were approximately seven and a half to eight feet tall.
You have warriors and boxers and archers.
The statues themselves are just noted for their size,
and it's thought that they represent the Nuragic people,
that this is actually what we might have that looks like them.
LAGINA: If he's a model of that, why doesn't he have disc eyes?
Because he doesn't have disc eyes, and he certainly could.
What I find intriguing is that the Giants of Mont'e Prama,
although they were discovered in the 1970s,
were not put on display until sometime near the year 2000.
And I believe that these statues simply do not conform
to the conventional archaeological narrative
on the island, and instead point to the reality
that there was something very unusual
happening on this island.
This is very human, except it has weird eyes...
-TSOUKALOS: And disproportioned, uh... -And disproportions.
ANDREW COLLINS: When you look at these stone figurines,
they are extremely peculiar, and they give the impression
of actually being giants.
The strange thing about the statues
is that they have these very strange circular eyes
that almost give them an otherworldly feel.
NARRATOR: After their visit to the museum,
Giorgio and Marty meet at a nearby restaurant
with archaeological tour guide Maria Paola Loi...
-TSOUKALOS: Paola? -...who has offered to share with them
some of Sardinians' local legends.
How are you? Ciao. Pleased to meet you.
-Welcome to Sardinia. -Piacere. Grazie.
-Fantastic. Okay. -So-- Yeah.
-Did you go to the museum? Oh. -MARTY: We did.
Yeah, tell me what you think about the finds
that are displayed there.
I mean, up until about six months ago,
-I had no idea about these statues here. -No idea, huh?
So now, when I saw
these statues of the Giganti for the first time,
not only did the eyes remind me of, uh, C-3PO
-from Star Wars, but also... -LAGINA: They did, right.
...there are these giant-eyed statues in Tell Asmar,
from the ancient Sumerian and Babylonian times.
LOI: Originally,
the archeologists, and also scholars,
uh, who mentioned the Nuragic civilization
said that these people probably arrived from Mesopotamia.
-So the Anunnakis? -Right.
NARRATOR: The Anunnaki?
The race of winged giants as described
in ancient Sumerian texts, and frequently depicted
on the temples and icons of ancient Babylon?
COLLINS: There are a lot of connections
between the Sardinian language,
uh, and the different languages of Mesopotamia.
Suggesting that-that Sumerians did actually come to Sardinia.
They would've brought with them the traditions
to do with the Anunnaki, the gods of heaven and Earth,
uh, which many people believe were celestial beings.
NARRATOR: Might the mysterious giants of Mont'e Prama have been inspired
by encounters with extraterrestrial visitors?
Ancient astronaut theorists not only say yes,
but they believe that dozens of carved stones
found scattered across Sardinia known as menhirs
tell the story of how these beings arrived on planet Earth.
During their trip, Giorgio and Marty arranged to meet
with archeological guide Ivana Malu
-at the Menhir Museum in Laconi... -Wow.
...to get an up close look
at some of these strange standing stones.
IVANA MALU: Look at the very strange circle with the spear.
What do you think, Marty? What is that?
I'm not sure what that is and I'm not sure
what this is, either.
Now, you tell me, please, what should I be seeing?
It's a guy going down.
-To go into another dimension. -Mm.
MALU: Do not ask me where, or which other world.
But he's going on a trip, on a journey,
going from point A to point B.
Whatever it really symbolizes, it was very important.
This took an enormous amount of work,
just this-- I mean, it's very heavy,
it-it's done in relief, which is the hard way to do a carving.
TSOUKALOS: I-I think it's, uh...
What do you think that represents?
TSOUKALOS: We have people with two wings on each side.
You know, it's almost like an early version
of some type of an angel.
I'm arguing that what we are looking at here
is someone visiting from the sky.
You know what I find beyond fascinating
is this shape down here,
which mainstream archaeology suggests
is some type of a weapon, some type of a dagger.
Which makes perfect sense.
But in conjunction with this symbol right here,
and that, one could argue that this is a representation
of some type of misunderstood technology
that illustrates some type of a flying craft.
-Fascinating.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the imagery
carved onto the menhirs of Sardinia,
as well as the stone giants of Mont'e Prama,
tell a story of extraterrestrial visitation in the distant past,
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
And if so, could these mysterious figures
be the same beings that some people believe
are visiting mankind today?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining a modern-day report of a crashed UFO.
When it comes to extraordinary encounters,
TSOUKALOS: When this light appeared, did it seem to you
we are living in the most exciting time,
because governments all around the world are finally admitting
that there are unidentified aerial phenomena
that simply have no conventional explanation.
But this hasn't always been the case.
And when I visited the site of a UAP report in Wales,
I was completely blown away
by what the government tried to cover up.
NARRATOR: Late in the evening,
this quiet rural village in the Berwyn Mountains
is rocked by an enormous explosion.
14-year-old Huw Lloyd is in his home watching television
when he feels the impact,
and then receives call after call from his neighbors,
most claiming to have seen an incredibly bright light
falling from the sky and then glowing on the mountainside.
Today, Huw Lloyd still works
on his father's ranch in Llandrillo.
-Are you Huw? -LLOYD: Yep.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos
and Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator
for the British Ministry of Defence,
met up with Huw to get his take
on what really happened that night.
Can you tell us your experience?
Your neighbors called you to ask you if you're okay.
So, they pretty much had similar experiences?
So you're not the only one?
And what time of evening was this?
So, you know, some people have suggested
that, well, it was nothing else but an earthquake.
-Yeah. -Which, I don't subscribe to this idea,
but have you had any earthquakes around here?
But you saw that light, and it was much, much brighter
than people lamping.
I mean, it was something almost blinding?
Wow.
NARRATOR: The community of Llandrillo
was shaken by the mysterious event,
which became known as the Berwyn Mountains incident.
That night, dozens of residents
called the region's emergency line
to report a bright light followed by a mysterious object
seen streaking across the night sky.
Curiously, approximately 30 minutes
after the reports were made,
a police officer arrived at the home of eyewitness Huw Lloyd.
-Right, so a senior officer. -Yeah.
-Not-not one of the local... -Mm-mm, no.
NARRATOR: A plane crash?
For Nick Pope, who worked at the Ministry of Defence
and has seen the file on this incident,
this is a surprising new detail.
The official report only mentions a meteor,
and nothing about a plane.
The theory initially that this was a plane crash,
and that this police and military operation
was a search and rescue...
-Yeah. -...or search and recovery, that's fine.
But I mean, you know, we know where our planes are.
There is 24/7 radar coverage,
-civilian aircraft to carry... -Even back then.
Yeah, a-absolutely.
Planes don't just drop out of the sky.
And-and if they do,
immediately, everyone knows which aircraft it is.
So it seems odd.
NARRATOR: The officer commandeered the family's truck
and drove with Huw to the crash site.
Nick and Giorgio were taken
on the exact same journey that was made that night.
POPE: How high is the mountain?
You know, one thing that struck me
is this is a pretty difficult drive.
So you've got to be pretty determined
to get a whole bunch of people up here.
TSOUKALOS: Yes, and for what purpose?
Unless it's really something of importance.
POPE: Yeah, this-this is not
-to be undertaken lightly, is it? -No. No.
NARRATOR: According to Huw, the police inspector
directed him to stop at this spot,
although the inspector was allegedly not familiar
with the area and seemed to have no reason for doing so.
It was at this location that he witnessed
an incredibly bright light in the distance.
So, down there?
-Yeah. -Okay.
TSOUKALOS: When this light appeared,
did it seem to you as if it was an explosion?
POPE: And how long was it shining for?
NARRATOR: According to Huw, the inspector wanted to get a closer look
at the mysterious light,
but then received a curious command from his superiors.
So, it sounds like it was a "stand down" call.
POPE: Yes.
NARRATOR: In the days following the incident,
Royal Air Force personnel, scientists, journalists
and UFO enthusiasts combed the surrounding land
and interviewed locals at length.
Curiously, the official explanation for these events
provided by the Ministry of Defence
did not include either fox hunters or a plane crash,
as was told to Huw that night.
And the story they did provide
involves an incredible coincidence.
The story is apparently that there was an earthquake
that hit the village.
But at the same time,
there was a bright fireball meteor
breaking up in the Earth's atmosphere.
So, not one extraordinary event,
but two at exactly the same time.
Over the years, the UFO community has become convinced
that this was indeed a UFO crash,
that the military launched a secret operation
to secure the crash site,
to recover the wreckage and maybe bodies,
and to take it to a secure facility.
NARRATOR: More than four decades since the Berwyn Mountains incident,
the residents of Llandrillo are still convinced
that the British government is hiding the truth
about what really happened that night.
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
it is part of a global effort to keep the public in the dark
about alien activity on Earth,
and it all started after the U.S. Army itself
reported the crash of a flying saucer.
On Ancient Aliens, we have covered
some pretty incredible encounters,
including the most famous of all,
the Roswell incident in New Mexico.
And one of the most exciting places I've ever visited
was the airplane hangar where some say
the wreckage from the Roswell crash was taken.
NARRATOR: Washington, D.C., April 2011.
The FBI releases
thousands of files as part of its online FBI Vault.
One particular file draws the attention
of the media and independent researchers.
The memo, dated March 22, 1950,
is a briefing to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
regarding informant information about three "flying saucers"
that were recovered in New Mexico.
Investigators immediately connect the memo
to the infamous Roswell incident,
a purported UFO crash that many people believe
was covered up by the military in 1947.
But this document is just the latest in a series
of government files that have been released in recent years,
suggesting there may be more to the Roswell crash
than the public was told.
As an investigative reporter, I think what I am amazed by
is how many leaked documents from the 1940s
have actually come out into the world,
and lay out details about what really happened at Roswell.
On July 4th, a rancher named Mac Brazel
finds all kinds of strange silver debris.
He knows he doesn't understand what he's walking through.
He decides to go into Roswell and tell the sheriff,
"Something has crashed on my ranch."
Intel coming out of Roswell Army Airfield
get assigned to go to the debris field.
And these men are told that they are to pick up
every single thing that is in the debris field
on the Mac Brazel ranch.
Everything is to be picked up.
NARRATOR: On July 8, 1947,
the headline on the front page of the Roswell Daily Record
reports that the military had retrieved a flying saucer.
But the following day, the official story
is suddenly changed to suggest
it was nothing more than a failed weather balloon.
POPE: Roswell was the home
of the 509th Bomb Crew.
This was the only atomic bomb-capable squadron
anywhere in the world.
These people were the best of the best.
The idea that intelligence personnel at this base
would mistake a weather balloon for something exotic
is preposterous.
So that, arguably, is the start of the UFO cover-up.
The world was told, "Nope, just a weather balloon."
And for more than 30 years, that's where it was left,
until witnesses started to surface,
saying, "No, it was actually an extraterrestrial craft."
And people saw alien bodies.
NARRATOR: In April of 2014,
ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos
traveled to the Roswell International Air Center
in New Mexico
to meet with the city's mayor, Del Jurney,
and to get a rare look at the hanger
where the Roswell wreckage and extraterrestrial bodies
were allegedly first taken.
Wow.
-So... -This is huge.
JURNEY: So what do you think?
TSOUKALOS: Man, I have goose bumps right now.
I mean, we're walking on history.
JURNEY: It's amazing, isn't it?
Are you, are you familiar with where the spot is?
-Where they actually put them? -Well, y-you know,
the information that I have
says that it's probably right over here in the corner.
Uh, they took them over there,
did an examination of the bodies.
TSOUKALOS: So this is where it was.
JURNEY: This is it. Yeah, come on in.
They had the debris out here in the hangar area
and they bring the bodies inside this room.
TSOUKALOS: I-I really don't know what to say,
'cause, I mean, if this was it...
-You're standing where... -Yeah, yeah.
...where extraterrestrial beings...
-TSOUKALOS: Were. -...might have been.
Where did the debris go? Where did it end up?
Well, it ended up with the government, of course.
My understanding is that they took the bodies
to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
certainly, probably took the debris as well,
and have it well-preserved in a military installation someplace.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that an alien craft really did crash in Roswell,
and was covered up by the U.S. government,
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
Perhaps such encounters are harder to ignore
when the witness is running for president of the United States.
On Ancient Aliens, we have examined
the most extraordinary encounters on record,
and believe it or not, there are thousands
of new UFO sightings reported every year.
Of course, skeptics dismiss these accounts
as misinterpretations or outright hoaxes,
but on one episode of Ancient Aliens,
Nick Pope investigated a UFO sighting
made by a witness who's as credible as it gets,
because this witness went public with his encounter
while running for president of the United States.
NARRATOR: During the Democratic primary debate at Drexel University,
moderator Tim Russert turns and addresses
presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.
TIM RUSSERT: Congressman Kucinich, a serious question.
Shirley MacLaine writes in her new book
that you sighted a UFO over her home in Washington state,
that you found the encounter extremely moving,
that it was a triangular craft.
Now, did you see a UFO?
Uh, I did, and, uh, the rest of the account...
-(laughter) -Oh, I-I didn't, I--
It was an unidentified flying object, okay?
It's like, it's unidentified. I saw something.
Now... And also, you have to keep in mind
that more, that Jimmy Carter saw a UFO,
and also, that more people in this country,
uh, uh, have seen UFOs
than I think approve of George Bush's presidency.
NARRATOR: The debate moment made national headlines.
While Kucinich was not a front-runner,
many political commentators proposed that this admission
undoubtedly had a negative impact on his campaign.
JOHN PODESTA: I think, for most people,
it's been the notion that you are even discussing UFOs
tends to be viewed as a career ender.
You know, people think you're a little bit whacky
if you're, uh, taking the phenomena seriously.
NARRATOR: But just what did Dennis Kucinich experience?
Former British Ministry of Defence
UFO investigator Nick Pope
has arranged to meet with Dennis Kucinich
at the location of his 1982 UFO encounter,
the former home of Academy Award-winning actress
Shirley MacLaine.
The home, which has since been sold, overlooks Mount Rainier,
the site of the infamous Kenneth Arnold
flying saucer incident
that ignited the UFO craze in 1947.
-Hey there, welcome. -KUCINICH: Hi. -POPE: Hi.
NARRATOR: The current owner agreed to allow Nick and Dennis
to take a look around.
-HOMEOWNER: Come on in. -Go ahead. -Thank you.
-Wow. -Yeah, really.
(both chuckle)
-POPE: What a fabulous view. -KUCINICH: Oh, look,
-there's nothing like this. -This is, of course,
the location where you had your UFO sighting.
Can you tell me about it?
Well, uh, Nick, I was seated at a dinner table
with myself and two friends,
and I noticed a-a light in the distance.
Came from a hill directly over the house.
-Come on, let me show you. -Okay.
-Wow, fabulous. -So I was standing out here,
the-the scope was here.
I-I brought it up here...
...so that I could get a look at the light.
And when I looked at it, I saw that it wasn't just,
uh, one light, it was a series of lights,
like a grid, one stacked on another.
I went back and I looked, and then I saw something
that was extraordinary.
I-I said, "The lights were separating."
They were definitely moving in this direction.
So at that point, came right to the edge here
and I looked out into the hills to watch
what proved to be three crafts moving in this direction.
Just to be clear, first seen over there,
-to directly over the house. -Right.
Right in the hills in the distance,
and then in a straight line.
That straight line would just go right overhead here.
And then above the house.
And then, and then, quickly...
-POPE: Right, and then "whoosh." -...accelerating out of sight.
Just like that, gone.
-And that was the last you saw of them? -Oh, yeah.
NARRATOR: The next day, Kucinich described the experience
to Shirley MacLaine.
He would say nothing more about it for 26 years.
And then, when running for the Democratic nomination in 2008,
his private UFO sighting would become a public event,
affecting presidential politics in a most unexpected way.
When the question was asked,
I-I think there was mention of, you know, feeling almost a...
an emotional connection, that it spoke to you,
I mean, not in a literal sense, but feelings.
I don't know that I ever communicated that to anyone,
but I will tell you this: that it was, it was extraordinary.
It was exciting. How could it not be?
I mean, anybody who would see anything like that
would have to be excited, and was I?
Uh, yeah.
NARRATOR: As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
accounts of UFO sightings from high-level politicians
like Dennis Kucinich are particularly intriguing.
Not only is he seen as a credible witness,
but he was so amazed by what he saw that he was willing
to risk his political career to talk about it.
Perhaps the only encounter more compelling
would be one reported by multiple witnesses
that involved not a UFO but an alien entity.
On Ancient Aliens, we have traveled the globe
investigating reports of incredible encounters.
And there are some locations that seem to be hot spots
for strange and unexplained activity.
In 2020, William Henry got the rare opportunity
to visit one of these hot spots where, for hundreds of years,
people have reportedly seen otherworldly beings.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist William Henry,
along with author and historian Dustin Naef...
-It's down this path here. -...set out to explore
a series of underground lava tubes, known as Pluto's Cave
several miles north of Mount Shasta.
HENRY: That is just spectacular.
NARRATOR: It is here where numerous eyewitnesses
claim to have encountered mysterious beings,
as well as seen evidence
of possible interdimensional portals.
Pluto's Cave is one of several natural wonders,
known as lava tubes, that crisscross the region.
ROBERT SCHOCH: Mount Shasta is a volcanic mountain.
So volcanic lava tubes are formed
when you have fast-flowing lava
and it cools on the surface of the flow,
so it actually builds a crust,
but the lava continues to flow in the middle.
And it forms literally a tube.
HENRY: Check it out, man.
Awesome.
NAEF: So, almost all of the mythology and legends
around the place, it all takes place underground
in the caves and tunnels which surround the area.
If you were able to look underground,
you'd just see tunnels radiating out in every direction.
There are actually Native-authored stories
that you could travel clear into Oregon completely underground.
HENRY: Yeah.
Look at that, Dustin. That's awesome.
Beautiful skylight.
NAEF: There's a really big subculture
here in Mount Shasta that has always believed that these caves
and tunnels contain a civilization
full of people just like you and I.
And they come back and forth through portals
hidden in these caves.
I've had people actually contact me and tell me
they've seen people in this very cave
walk right into a wall and vanish.
What-what were these people like? What did they look like?
They look just like us.
That's how they're able to travel back and forth
and mingle with humans.
Wow.
NARRATOR: One of the most famous reports
of a being emerging from within Mount Shasta
was made in 1930 by Guy Warren Ballard.
Ballard, a mining engineer who worked in the area,
claimed he was surveying the slopes of the mountain
when he encountered a mysterious glowing figure.
Guy reported that when he was hiking on Mount Shasta
in the early 1930s, he encountered
some extraordinary, mysterious teacher,
which he later identified as the Ascended Master.
JONATHAN YOUNG: This is a-a radiant being dressed in white.
And they get into a long conversation.
And this teacher, this guru,
this otherworldly character teaches Ballard
the secrets of enlightenment.
NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,
Ballard's description of a radiant being
is reminiscent of accounts from ancient times
of similarly luminous figures.
In Irish legend, we learn of the Tuatha Dé Danann,
or the Tua Dé Dann.
These are luminous humanoid beings
who are considered to be beings of immense wisdom
who are also called the Shining Ones.
NARRATOR: Similar to the Shining Ones of the Celtic tradition,
the ancient Sumerian gods known as the Anunnaki
were also described as glowing figures.
Might these accounts, including those made
about Mount Shasta, be true?
If so, can William Henry
find any evidence to help verify them?
If you look on the USGS charts,
there's an immense negative magnetic anomaly
that surrounds Mount Shasta.
HENRY: That's the ley line they describe here, right?
NAEF: Yeah, a lot of psychic and paranormal phenomena
actually occurs in places that have magnetic anomalies.
And used as a, as a portal
between the inner Earth realm and the stars?
Yeah, yeah, it...
Anything capable of generating
energy like that could be a portal.
NARRATOR: Might the lava tubes found
at the base of Mount Shasta be the location
where extraterrestrial beings
can travel between planet Earth and the stars?
And if so, does this explain the strange sightings
of otherworldly entities reported in the area?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and they believe that at the site
of another incredible encounter,
undeniable evidence of alien contact was left behind
by an extraterrestrial technology.
Of all the unexplained phenomena we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens,
the formation of crop circles is simply baffling.
Crop circles have been reported in over 50 different countries
and on every continent except Antarctica.
And one night in Wiltshire, England,
two people believe they actually witnessed
a strange formation being created by something
that was not human.
NARRATOR: Local paralegal and crop circle researcher Gary King
spends the night camping out on Knap Hill,
an area known for sightings of mysterious orbs
and other strange occurrences.
It was the 7th of July 2007,
so because it was kind of an auspicious date, the 7-7-7,
we decided we'd come here.
I came here with my girlfriend to do a night watch.
So we arrived here and about 3:00 in the morning,
we had a big white flash of light,
which completely encompassed the sky.
And about 20 minutes after that, we looked and we could see
this crop circle laid out in front of us.
The field it appeared in was this field,
here to the right, that's yellow now.
It was actually in wheat the year that it occurred,
but they rotate the crops.
And it started from way back at near those trees,
and came over the brow of this hill.
It was absolutely enormous.
NARRATOR: The crop formation
extended 1,033 feet long
and 490 feet wide.
The over two-acre design
contained 150 individual circles,
the largest: 164 feet across.
I have no idea what made it.
I'm completely open to the fact that it could be aliens.
What I do know, though, is that people didn't make this.
NARRATOR: Gary King's experience
is just one of many firsthand accounts
of designs that mysteriously appear
in a short period of time.
And crop circle researchers cite
that many of these eyewitness accounts
include sightings of strange lights
in and around the formation.
In 1991, local photographer Steve Alexander
caught on camera an orb of light floating above a crop formation
in Wiltshire, England.
-STEVE ALEXANDER: What is it? -KAREN ALEXANDER: I don't know.
CHARLES MALLETT: His camera caught sight of what seemed to be
a white orb of light flying right across this field
right next to a crop circle.
That orb of light, whatever it was,
flew directly over a tractor working in the next field down,
and later on, that farmer was contacted and he said,
"I saw this weird orb of light
"about the size of a melon or something
fly over my tractor."
I was so intrigued by Gary King's story
and the bizarre events
surrounding the crop circle phenomenon
that I had to go see it for myself.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos
is meeting with crop circle researcher Dr. Eltjo Haselhoff,
to discuss a scientific paper Dr. Haselhoff published
in January of 2000, suggesting that the crop circle formations
might be created by an unknown electromagnetic energy source.
By measuring the length of the growth nodes
found along the plant stems within a crop circle
and comparing them with the nodes
on the undisturbed plants in the field,
Dr. Haselhoff was able to predict
what he thinks could be creating this phenomenon.
So, you've actually done scientific analysis
on some of those formations.
So, what were some of your conclusions?
The hypothesis is that somehow, electromagnetic energy
is involved in the creation of these crop circles,
and that somehow this energy causes node elongation.
So the nodes in the stems get longer.
And the more energy, the longer the nodes are.
And that is very interesting, because all you need to do
is take a cross section across a circle, like this,
and measure the node length in each of these positions.
And actually, this is what you see.
This is in-- at the perimeter.
See these nodes, these dark areas?
This is somewhere halfway, and that's in the center.
So, you see, there is a huge difference in node length.
TSOUKALOS: I mean, it's a huge-- I mean, this is fascinating.
This is incredible.
HASELHOFF: It is not just a little bit.
It's a difference in size between a horse and an elephant.
It's very, very significant.
Yeah, I mean, what, uh, what would do this?
-That's, uh, quite weird. -Well, in this case, it was very interesting,
because this crop circle, uh, actually had an eyewitness
when it was-- when it formed.
And the eyewitness says, "I saw a ball of light,"
and it was standing still.
And that is very important, because when a ball of light
is standing still, we can very accurately predict
how the energy will be distributed on the ground,
and we know there that will be more energy in the center
and the more energy, the longer the nodes are.
And in this case, it was a perfect match.
Wow.
Amazing, isn't it?
Now, this is where I get the goose bumps,
because clearly, there is something there.
And no one denies that many of them are man-made,
but then, there is something bizarre.
Do you have any idea how...
or who might be behind it?
That's a very difficult question.
What I can say about that is...
...I don't know.
So it is something that remains a giant question mark.
Absolutely, yes.
NARRATOR: Does Dr. Haselhoff's scientific research
provide evidence that not all crop formations
are the product of hoaxers?
And if so, could there be an otherworldly origin to them
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
Each and every one of the extraordinary encounters
we've investigated on Ancient Aliens
truly defies conventional explanation.
And when you examine them together,
it becomes abundantly clear
that we are not alone in the universe.
These events can no longer be explained away
as weather balloons or hoaxes.
So, what are we left with?
To me, there is only one answer: extraterrestrial visitation.
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