Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 8, Episode 8 - Alien Encounters - full transcript

Unexplained sightings.

The first responders on
the scene reported a UFO.

Miraculous
appearances.

Inside the
tilma was the Virgin Mother.

And visions that
changed the world.

This
extraordinary sign from the

heavens becomes one of the crucial
turning points in human history.

Stories of strange
encounters accompany many of

history's major events.

Is it merely coincidence?

Or might it be evidence of
extraterrestrial intervention?



It appears
that there is an ongoing plan in

place, a hidden hand in history
that is manipulating events for

a certain given outcome.

Millions of people
around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?

And if so, might mankind's
greatest moments have been

influenced by alien encounters?

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Japan.

March 11, 2011.

Emanating 43 miles off the eastern
coast of the Oshika Peninsula...

one of the largest earthquakes
in recorded history



a magnitude 9.0
shakes the earth.

The massive movement of two
tectonic plates instantly moves

the entire Japanese mainland
some eight feet,

ripping down buildings, setting fires,
and killing thousands of people.

But the worst is yet to come.

The earthquake also triggers
enormous tsunamis.

Waves as high as 130 feet begin smashing
ashore with devastating consequences.

One wave
in particular struck the

Fukushima Daiichi power
generating plant and

overwhelmed the safety systems,
which caused the plant to enter

a critical phase and release
radioactive material into the

atmosphere and into the water.

With the nuclear
power plant's reactors melting

down and radiation seeping into

the atmosphere, the authorities
evacuate the region.

The only people who remain are
employees who struggle for days

to prevent a larger catastrophe
from occurring.

But according to eyewitnesses on the
scene, these workers were not alone.

There were UFO
sightings reported in some

significant numbers in that area
in the weeks and the days

leading up to the earthquake and
tsunami.

And there were a number of UFO
sightings reported in the

immediate area, uh, directly
afterward.

And this suggests the
possibility that

extraterrestrials were involved
in stabilizing that situation.

Because had that Fukushima plant
melted down, it would have made

a large swath of Asia uninhabitable
for a very long time.

Is it
possible that extraterrestrials

became aware of this meltdown
and they did something to lessen

the impact of this disaster and
ultimately save mankind from

what could have been a much
worse cataclysm?

Could
extraterrestrials really have

been present at the Fukushima
meltdown and might they have

helped to prevent it from being an
even more catastrophic disaster?

Ancient astronaut theorists
point out that similar accounts

of strange objects seen in the
sky were also reported 25 years

earlier during the meltdown at

the Chernobyl nuclear power
plant in Ukraine.

A number of
witnesses reported that there

were UFOs hovering around the
power station and that even

beams of light were coming down
from these UFOs and doing

something to the nuclear power
plants, and keeping them from

having a much worse meltdown
than they did have.

Some have speculated
that the UFOs that were seen

during the crisis may have
been, perhaps, protecting us,

trying to stave off a horrifying
nuclear explosion.

Or if not protecting us, at
least protecting our world.

Was it simply good
fortune that the nuclear

accidents at Fukushima and Chernobyl
weren't far more deadly?

Or is it possible that the UFOs
eyewitnesses spotted were

responsible for averting these
catastrophes when humans were

powerless to do so?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe these encounters weren't

random occurrences, but part of
an extraterrestrial agenda that

has been in place on Earth for
thousands of years.

It appears that
there is an ongoing plan in

place, a hidden hand in history
that is manipulating events for

a certain given outcome.

It does appear that we are interacting
with an alien civilization.

And that we are experiencing the
fruits of what they are offering

us because our history is being
intelligently guided and

directed to steer us towards a
particular outcome.

But if alleged
alien encounters really are

evidence that extraterrestrials
are intervening in human

affairs, what is their purpose?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the answer can be found

by looking back at the very earliest
alien encounters ever recorded.

Mt. Sinai,
the 15th century, B.C.

According to the Bible's Book of
Exodus, it was on the peak of

this holy mountain that Moses
met with God.

But ancient astronaut theorists
believe Moses's encounter may

have been with a different kind
of otherworldly entity.

There's an
interesting legend passed down

from temple times itself that
when Moses ascended to

Mt. Sinai to speak with God,
a cloud came down from heaven

and told Moses, "Come into the
cloud to ascend to God."

A door opened in the cloud and
Moses walked in and it closed

behind him and he ascended.

The Lord
descends with smoke, fire, loud

noise, trembling and so on.

All religions speak about the
same thing.

They use different names and the
stories change, but the basic

stories are always the same

somebody descended with loud
noise, smoke, fire.

The humans could not understand
what it was.

They misinterpreted and believed
that this was God or the gods.

It's just a misinterpretation.

I am absolutely sure-- there's
no doubt-- that we were visited

by beings from outer space.

According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

such accounts of unearthly
encounters can be found in every

major religion, including Islam,
where the angel Gabriel, also

known as Jibril, was said to be
the intermediary between the

prophet Muhammad and the Muslim
god Allah.

Jibril normally
would come and dispense wisdom

to Muhammad inside this cave
that he was dwelling in.

But on two occasions, Muhammad
did not meet Jibril in the cave

in person, Muhammad went outside
the cave, and it was at this

time that something absolutely
fantastic happened.

What did Muhammad see when he
went outside the cave?

The records show that there was
a magnificent shining object

there in front of him.

It was said to have 600 wings, and it
was burning as if it was on fire.

What do we know of in modern

times that could add up to a
sighting like that?

It's obvious.

A craft that would be hovering
there in front of him, giving

off brilliant white light that
he interpreted as fire.

And when he went out and saw
this magnificent shining object,

the same wisdom that he was
getting from Jibril was imparted

to him, though he could not see any
being, he only could see this object.

Is it possible that
many of the stories of gods and

angels descending from the
heavens are not actually divine

encounters, but extraterrestrial
visitations?

And if so, are they purposely
guiding our future?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe further evidence can be

found by examining a famous
vision so important, it changed

the course of human history.

Rome.

October 27, 312 A.D.

Just north of the city, the
emperor Constantine leads his

troops toward the Milvian Bridge

and a decisive battle with
Maxentius to reclaim his throne.

At stake is control over the western
part of the vast Roman Empire.

According to an account from the
historian Eusebius, on the eve

of the battle, Constantine looks
up into the sky...

and sees what he believes is a
divine vision.

Constantine
and his followers saw in the sky

what their chroniclers say was
a huge, white... fiery cross.

Now, his followers didn't know
what to make of this, but

Constantine decided that this
was the Christian cross.

Constantine feels,
after viewing this extraordinary

sign from the heavens, this
lighted cross in the sky, that

he will go forth the next day
and he will conquer the Roman

Empire, and this is exactly
what he does.

This vision becomes one of the crucial
turning points in human history.

After winning the
brutal battle of Milvian Bridge,

Constantine consolidates his
power and begins a campaign of

religious tolerance across the empire, and
he himself converts to Christianity.

But what exactly did Constantine
see in the sky that ended up

changing the course of Western
civilization?

Was it a divine vision...
or something else?

Don't we
all see crosses up in the sky

when we look at planes?

Because you have lights on the
sides and at the front.

And if you have a little bit of

light shining on it, sometimes
they look like crosses.

Is
it possible that this was

absolutely no Christian symbol
at all, but that it was adapted

over time after something that
was witnessed up in the sky?

Is it possible that
extraterrestrials were

responsible for Constantine's
vision?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
one compelling piece of evidence

that aliens have tried to
manipulate mankind through

religious visions still exists
today.

Mexico City.

December 1531.

According to an account called
the Nican Mopohua, published in

the Aztec language of Nahuatl,

a peasant named Juan Diego was
walking in the countryside when

he heard a beautiful voice singing
on the other side of a hill.

Diego climbed the hill and saw
an angelic vision

a woman in white garments that
shone like the sun.

She said
to him, "Juan Diego, I am the

Virgin Mary, and I'm asking you

to build a sanctuary for me here
on this hill."

Well, Juan Diego fell to his
knees in awe, and he said,

"Great lady, I will do as you
desire."

But according to
the story, Juan Diego couldn't

convince the local bishop that
he had actually seen the Virgin

Mary, so he went back to the hill,
where he again saw the vision.

He says, "Lady,
please give me a sign, because

nobody believes me when I tell
them that I have seen you."

And she says, "Juan Diego, take
off your cloak."

And he does, he takes off his cloak,
and she fills his cloak with roses.

He took the roses
to the bishop, and the bishop

fell down on his knees, because
it wasn't the roses as to why he

believed the story from Diego,

but inside the tilma was a
painting of the Virgin Mother.

And the bishop believed, and they
built the church on that hill.

This cloak still
exists today, and despite its

frail fabric, it has reportedly
remained in pristine condition

despite the cruel ravages of
time.

Right now you can

go to the church and see the
tilma hanging there.

And it has not degraded over the
400-plus years that they've had it.

It's been through a fire, it's
been through an explosion, where

purportedly an iron cross was
twisted from the explosion, but

the tilma right next to the
cross was still fine.

Could this be evidence of a
visitation by the Virgin Mary?

Or might it have a different,
otherworldly explanation?

In addition to the tilma
inexplicably enduring for

hundreds of years, those who
have studied it have found other

unexplainable qualities.

Most bizarre of all
are the eyes of the image.

Approximately seven to eight
millimeters wide, what we see

inside those eyes is a highly
enigmatic mystery, because it

appears that there are
characters in the eyes, the

faces of the people who were
there at the time that the tilma

was unveiled by Our Lady of
Guadalupe in 1531.

But if Our Lady of
Guadalupe really does have

otherworldly origins, did it
come from a heavenly realm

or somewhere else?

Not only do ancient astronaut
theorists believe Juan Diego's

vision was an extraterrestrial
encounter, but even some members

of the church claim that it was

something other than a religious
experience.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is
definitely a heavenly visitor.

In my opinion, though, what her

story said disagrees with what
the Bible says.

In fact, she said she would
protect the people that worship

at the church.

What that does is really deify
Mary when the Bible is very

clear that only God can protect
those that serve him.

And so any otherworldly being
that demands worship or respect,

it cannot be an angel from God.

Juan Diego may have
witnessed not just an apparition

but an actual live
extraterrestrial appearing

through some sort of advanced
technology whose mission was to

impart spiritual faith and a
thirst for the divine.

Could it be that some
of history's most

significant religious visions
have actually been produced by

alien beings carrying out a
secret mission?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes and believe further proof

that extraterrestrials have been
guiding our future can be found

in the story of a mysterious
magician that may have helped

propel humanity into the modern
age.

The English Channel.

1588.

King Philip II of Spain has dispatched an
enormous armada of ships to invade England.

They are reportedly filled with
more than 20,000 soldiers and

scores of medieval torture
devices.

According to some historians,

Philip, a devout Catholic, wants
to bring the brutal Spanish

Inquisition to England to punish
Queen Elizabeth I and her

subjects for leaving the
Catholic Church.

Philip was a
Catholic, and England had been

turned Protestant by Elizabeth's
father, Henry VII, when he broke

with the Catholic Church in

order to marry Elizabeth's
mother, Anne Boleyn.

So, to Philip, the English were sinners
and their ways needed to be reformed.

So he sent a great armada, a
great fleet of over 130 ships.

There had never been anything
like it before.

England didn't have a lot of
money, and a lot of their

vessels were not even official
government vessels.

They were whatever merchant seamen
and sailors could cobble together.

The Spanish Armada

seemed invincible and the
British severely overmatched.

But when the two forces finally
met, superior English tactics

and strategy forced the armada
to retreat.

But the number of Spanish ships
was so overwhelming that the

English couldn't score a

decisive victory until a freak
storm struck.

The English ships were more
maneuverable than the Spanish ships.

In order to counter this, the
Spanish cut their anchors.

They figured, "Well, let's get rid of
some of this dead weight, so to speak."

But when the winds hit, they had
no way to find a mooring, and

then therefore the winds blew
their ships all over the place,

including into the coast.

They lost roughly half of their
fleet due to the weather.

From the point of
view of the English people, this

extraordinary storm that
destroys the Spanish Armada is a

miracle, destroying the might of
Spain when mankind cannot do it.

The English
believed this miraculous storm

was the work of God, but some
ancient astronaut theorists

claim there is evidence that
suggests it may have actually

been the work of otherworldly
beings.

Their first clue comes from one
of Queen Elizabeth's closest

advisors, a mysterious man named
John Dee.

John Dee was the
court astrologer, mathematician,

philosopher, medical doctor at
the court of Queen Elizabeth I.

He was an extraordinarily
learned man for his time.

He dealt with magic
and potions and what we might

call spells to try to effect
change.

John Dee was a Hermetic thinker.

Hermetic thinkers believed that
there was a contemporary of

Moses by the name of Hermes
Trismegistus who lived in Egypt.

And, just as God revealed the

Ten Commandments to Moses, God
revealed to Hermes the secret

knowledge of how nature worked
and that with the proper

mind-set and proper tools that
one could uncover essentially

what God was thinking by reading
the world.

According to
legend, John Dee used this

knowledge of the natural and
supernatural worlds to predict

the storm that would ultimately
thwart the Spanish Armada.

The story goes that
John Dee told Queen Elizabeth

not to worry because a storm
would destroy the Spanish fleet.

And then, when it happened, it
confirmed his knowledge of the

world and what lay beneath it.

But if John Dee really did make such
a prophecy, what was the source?

Was it something divine?

Or is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists contend,

that this mysterious man was
using Hermetic wisdom to

establish communication with
extraterrestrial beings?

John Dee was
very interested in the occult

and seemed to spend a lot of
time harnessing or finding a way

to communicate to life-forms
beyond this Earth.

We really don't understand the
influence over John Dee as to

how he was able to interpret
such accurate information.

It's very possible that John Dee
was receiving his information

from an outside source that was
possibly an extraterrestrial.

But if John Dee's
pursuit of Hermetic wisdom gave

him insights into the alien agenda
on Earth, what did he find?

And why would extraterrestrials
want to sink the Spanish Armada?

It is possible these
extraterrestrials had a vested

interest in preserving the
monarchy of Queen Elizabeth, in

seeing that the monarchy was not
overthrown, and they repelled

any such invading forces in
order to make sure that this

carefully constructed power
structure was kept fully intact.

Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

extraterrestrials were not
acting to favor Protestants over

Catholics but may have wanted to
preserve the great cultural and

scientific developments that would occur
in England in the coming centuries.

What happened in
England after Queen Elizabeth's

time was nothing less than
miraculous.

We had the Scientific Revolution.

We had people like Isaac Newton.

And we had other great
scientists develop what

eventually became the Industrial
Revolution steam trains,

electricity and the
modern world.

The period that
followed also gave rise to

champions of the scientific
method, like Francis Bacon and

John Locke, and led to an age of
exploration that would give rise

to a greater investment in the still
fledgling new land of America.

If the Spanish had
succeeded in conquering England,

they would have brought the

Inquisition with them in a
period of darkness and torture.

And, likely, the Industrial Revolution
never would have happened.

Might some
otherworldly entity really have

intervened in the Spanish
invasion, sending a storm to

destroy their ships and ensure
the future of England?

And, if so, is this a sign that

aliens really do have an
interest in our future?

Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the vision that

inspired one of the world's
newest religions.

Manchester, New York.

September 21, 1823.

As he settles into bed, a
17-year-old farmhand named

Joseph Smith begins to say his
prayers.

Suddenly, without warning, an
overpowering light envelops his

room, and a robed figure
appears.

According to Smith's account,

"Not only was his robe
exceedingly white, but his whole

person was glorious beyond
description."

Speaking from the center of the
light, the angel, whose name is

Moroni, sends Smith on a quest

for several sacred texts hidden
near a local tree.

Upon locating the
tree, Joseph dug and indeed

found the texts, but they
recorded a language which he

could not read.

A second visitation from Moroni
told Joseph Smith where he could

find what we might call a device
of some kind that would allow

him to read the texts.

Joseph Smith was
given this translating stone,

the Urim and Dethumium, with
which he was able to not only

write down this text, but also
to be able to translate it.

He then translated

the texts into English, which
become The Book of Mormon.

And it depicts, among other
things, that after Jesus

ascended into heaven, he came to
the Americas and ministered to

the native peoples here, to
convert them to his way of life,

and that at some point the
texts that become The Book of

Mormon are deposited here, so that
Joseph Smith could find them.

Seven years later,

Smith publishes these texts as
part of The Book of Mormon,

establishing The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a

denomination with more than 15
million followers today.

Many religions worldwide have been
founded with the help of angels.

Whether they're representatives
of Christian, Muslim, or

Buddhist gods, these apparitions

are thought to be a way the gods
intervene on Earth with humans.

Angels, when they
appear in religious legends and

in myths, generally are
messengers between the heavenly

realm and the human realm.

Throughout the
Bible, we have stories of angels

and demons appearing to mankind.

In fact, Paul says that, "You be
careful how you entertain

strangers because some of you
entertain angels unaware."

The Bible is very clear that
angels can take on human form

and appear in the likeness of
man.

But ancient
astronaut theorists suggest that

sometimes these heavenly visions
and apparitions may not actually

be angels sent by an omniscient
god.

And curiously, the so-called
angel that led Joseph Smith to

the sacred texts that would
become The Book of Mormon did

not profess to have heavenly

origins, but claimed to be from
another part of the universe.

Now, Moroni did not
say that he was an angel.

He said that at one time he had
lived on Earth, but that now he

came from the Pleiades star
cluster.

And he said there were many
others like him.

When we look at the
background of The Book of

Mormon, we see some very
interesting parallels to what

could be an extraterrestrial
tale.

This angel, Moroni, that appears

to Joseph Smith seems to be more
than just chance.

It's very possible that Joseph
Smith was interacting with a

type of extraterrestrial.

These extraterrestrials may be giving
these messages to world leaders

and to prophets and seers and
mystics to let us know that we

are the product of an
extraterrestrial interbreeding,

and an ongoing contact with

these other people who were not
born on Earth.

And we have lost touch with that
history only because we refuse

to believe the truth that is
recorded in our historical books

and see what's right in front of
our faces, even now with the

encounters that are happening in
the modern world.

But if an
extraterrestrial being really

did inspire Joseph Smith to
found the Mormon church, why?

Joseph Smith's encounter

ultimately led the Mormons to
migrate west to establish a new

holy land in Utah, which has led
some to speculate that aliens,

once again, were guiding the
course of humanity.

Moroni let Joseph
Smith know that he would be the

prophet, and he would lead his
people to the new Jerusalem.

Mormonism is another
example, potentially, of an

extraterrestrial influence
steering the course of our

humanity, and helping steer the

outcome of historical events
here on Earth.

Is it possible that
Joseph Smith, the founder of the

Mormon religion, was guided by
an extraterrestrial being?

And if so, was this alien
encounter another attempt to

guide us into a more enlightened
age?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and believe further

evidence can be found by
examining a dream that helped

defeat one of the 20th century's
most diabolical dictators.

Olympia, Greece.

This valley on the Peloponnesus
Peninsula, once filled with

temples, altars and statues, is
where the ancient Greeks came to

pay tribute to their gods.

Near the temple to Zeus, the
king of the gods, was a

sanctuary dedicated to the
Moirai, the only beings that

Zeus was said to fear.

These mythical figures were
believed to control destiny.

English speakers call them "The
Fates."

In ancient times,
fate and human destiny were

thought to be in the hands of
the gods.

There was much less this idea

that we're in charge of our own
destiny and that we make our own

lives through choices and
decisions and action.

The idea was that human destiny
was in someone else's hands.

It was in the hands of the
fates.

There were three supernatural
creatures.

Clotho, who spun the thread of
life; Lachesis, who wove it; and

Atropos, who cut the thread at
the moment of death.

In the ancient times, gods and
goddesses were thought to be

able to influence people's
destiny, and that they were

constantly interfering in human
affairs.

They were constantly messing
with humans.

They could make humans do all
kinds of things.

They could disguise themselves.
They could trick humans.

They could persuade humans.

And yet, that final moment of destiny
was still in the hands of the Fates.

Other ancient
cultures had similar beliefs.

The Egyptians personified fate

as the god Shai who was said to
control the actions of humans,

while the Vedic texts of ancient
India talked about a universal

order called Rta.

There was a similar legend
in ancient Mesopotamia.

And it was of the Mamitu, who
was a goat-headed goddess who

lived with the Anunnaki in the
realms of the sky.

The Mamitu was also in charge of
our fate.

So you have to wonder was the
Mamitu and these other gods of

fate some kind of extraterrestrials
that were controlling our lives?

Is it possible, as
some ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, that the gods who were
said to control our fate were

actually members of an advanced
alien civilization?

And if so, how were they able to

interfere in people's lives
undetected?

Some ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that extraterrestrials

not only communicate with us
through visions and physical

encounters, but even through our
dreams.

New York City.

Spring, 1940.

A young Bell Laboratory engineer
by the name of David Parkinson

is using a device called a
potentiometer to track the

varying electrical voltages that
course through a telephone when

people use it.

Parkinson's work with
potentiometers seems unimportant

compared to the big news of the
day.

Nazis have begun their
shattering blitz on Britain.

The Nazis have
conquered most of Europe,

forcing the Allies to flee the
continent in a ragtag flotilla

of civilian boats after the
Battle of Dunkirk.

The Nazis were
almost undefeatable at this time

in the war, and there was a
tremendous despair and fear

amongst the Allied forces.

And the story goes that David
Parkinson had a dream one night,

and in the dream he was standing
beside a certain type of gun.

And that gun was hitting every Nazi
plane with absolute accuracy.

Parkinson's dream
gave him a brilliant idea.

He could use the same technology
that tracked electrical charges

flowing through a telephone to

track enemy airplanes flying
through the sky.

And in the dream, he
was able to see the technology

that was created to make this
gun so accurate.

And it is said that when he
awoke, he went back to the labs

and he ultimately created the
technology that was necessary to

shoot down Nazi aircraft.

Parkinson's dream
inspired him to create the M-9

electrical gun director, which
allowed Allied anti-aircraft

guns to hit moving targets like
the dangerous V-1 rocket with

incredible accuracy.

But how could such an advanced

weapon be completely realized in
a single dream?

The weird part
about it is this guy was a

scientist, but he knew nothing
about aeronautics.

Because David Parkinson had no
background in aerodynamics, his

contemraries, other
scientists, and the military

were literally taking him not
seriously at all.

But he insisted and he even
spent a lot of his own time

creating prototypes, which
eventually were found to work.

Throughout human
history, there are amazing

stories of how mankind has been
inspired through their dreams

and through their visions.

I think we have to ask ourselves what
is the source of this inspiration?

Where do these dreams and
visions come from?

Is it possible that we are being

communicated with by
otherworldly beings?

Could
extraterrestrials really be

using dreams to convey ideas and
information to the human race?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and claim the proof that

dream manipulation is a real

possibility can be found in the
human brain.

Throughout history,
many of mankind's greatest

thinkers have been inspired by
their dreams.

Scientist James Watson claimed
the double helix structure of

DNA came to him through his
dream of a spiral staircase.

Friedrich August Kekulé
discovered the chemical

structure of benzene when he had

a dream of a group of snakes
swallowing their tails.

Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose
mathematic principles are still

being used by quantum physicists

today, said that he obtained
these mathematic theorems in

dreams implanted in his mind by
the Hindu goddess Namagiri.

We are seeing an
ongoing pattern of dreams being

used to communicate information.

This is a widespread phenomenon.

It's been going on for many
thousands of years.

And it continues right straight
through to the present day.

Is it really
possible that extraterrestrial

beings could actually manipulate
our dreams?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes; and as evidence, they

point out that modern science is
already starting to understand

how to interpret and manipulate
dreams.

Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist
who studies human brainwaves.

In one of his experiments, he
shows pictures to test subjects

while they're awake and analyzes how
their brains process the images.

So each of those
little squares here corresponds

to a cell in Matt's brain.

So, right now, Matt has 128
electrodes in his brain.

They come from all various parts of
his brain-- right, left and so on.

All of those wires going to this
computer.

What we see here are the activities
of those little cells in his brain.

So, if I pick cell number 36,
and I double click on that,

what you see here is the
activity inside his brain.

This is like a microphone sitting
next to one cell in his brain.

Dr. Cerf can
determine which cell stores the

memory of a particular picture,

like movie star Cary Grant, by
analyzing which cell reacted

when he showed it to his test
subject.

Once he's figured this out for
dozens of cells, Dr. Cerf waits

for his patients to go to sleep
and then watches for signs that

they're dreaming about the
images he has shown them.

In a very basic way, he can see
his patients' dreams.

But in the future, Dr. Cerf may
actually be able to dictate our

dreams by stimulating the set
of cells that store our memories

about a person or event.

If I really map the
entire sequence, if I know all

the, say, one million cells that
encode Cary Grant in your brain

and know exactly what they are,
and I activate all of them, I

stimulate all of them, then, we
believe, you are going to

actually see Cary Grant.

If aliens really
have been coming to Earth for

thousands of years, could they

be using similar technology to
manipulate our dreams?

Is it possible
that the extraterrestrials don't

want to directly interfere in
our society but to guide us from

behind the scenes?

And even though they have to
push us along in certain

directions, we need to have the
feeling that we're doing it,

even if it does include some
extraterrestrial guidance.

They continue to
communicate with humans through

dreams and visions and other
methods of indirect

communication in order for them
to provide guidance, but also to

provide this guidance in a
hands-off way.

Is it possible that
they withdrew from our reality

because we had to modernize?

It could be that the purpose of
this was to give us the

opportunity to follow them
without being pushed.

And if they forced it upon us,

we would simply worship them as gods
and we would have learned nothing.

But by doing it ourselves, we
form our own path.

We actually make our own
ascension experience.

And we become much more like
them in the process.

Has life on Earth
been influenced by alien

encounters for thousands of years?

Are divine visions,
prophetic dreams,

and modern-day UFO sightings
all signs that we are being

manipulated by a more advanced
race of beings?

Could it be that these
encounters are not meant for

them to get to know us, but for
us to get to know them?

And if so, what are they guiding
us towards?

Perhaps we are getting closer to
our ultimate destination, and

when we reach it, we will once again
be reunited with our alien ancestors.

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