UFOs: The Lost Evidence (2017): Season 1, Episode 5 - Past and Present - full transcript
From the lore and history of ancient Egypt, to the myths of Native Americans, and even the art of the Renaissance period, mankind's past is riddled with the evidence of UFOs.
Narrator: UFOS HAVE BEEN SEEN ALL ACROSS
THE GLOBE.
NOW, ACCORDING TO SOME,
SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE
SUGGESTS MANKIND HAS ACTUALLY
INTERACTED WITH UFOs
AND OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS
THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
Man: WHEN YOU LOOK
AT ANCIENT MYSTERIES,
CAVE DRAWINGS,
PETROGLYPHS,
IT'S BEEN GOING ON
FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
Narrator: EGYPTIAN PHARAOHS,
THEIR TOMBS
AND TEMPLES REVEALING
ASTONISHING SECRETS.
Woman: WHEN YOU HAVE A RULER
WHO IS HALF GOD,
HALF MAN, WAS HE, IN FACT,
EXTRATERRESTRIAL AND HUMAN?
Narrator: ROYAL BLOODLINES
AND DISTORTED SKULLS
EXPOSING A LINK TO ALIEN
BEINGS LONG HIDDEN
THROUGH THE AGES.
Man: DNA TESTING SHOWS THAT
THEY'RE NOT HUMAN.
THAT WOULD MEAN THAT
THEY'RE NOT FROM THIS PLANET.
Narrator:
EVEN IN THE RENAISSANCE,
POSSIBLE SECRETS
OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.
Man: THERE'S A MAN
STARING UP AT IT
JUST LIKE ANYONE SEEING A UFO
WOULD STARE UP AT A UFO.
Narrator: AND, MORE RECENTLY,
A UFO EVENT CAPTURED
IN STUNNING
DETAIL IN THIS FOOTAGE REVEALS
A CENTURIES-LONG RELATIONSHIP
WITH SKY BEINGS.
Man:
THE 1997 PHOENIX LIGHTS CASE
REMAINS ONE OF THE LARGEST
COMPLETELY UNEXPLAINED MASS UFO
SIGHTINGS IN NOT ONLY U.S.
HISTORY BUT IN WORLD HISTORY.
Narrator: NEW INFORMATION
IS TRANSFORMING
WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT.
ARE UFOs REALLY
VISITING OUR WORLD?
IS THE GOVERNMENT
HIDING THE TRUTH?
AND, IF SO, COULD A RENEWED
LOOK AT UNEXPLAINED ANOMALIES
IN EARLY ARCHAEOLOGY,
ARTWORK AND BIOLOGY PROVIDE
SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE
OF THE INTERACTION
BETWEEN HUMANS AND UFOs
THROUGHOUT HISTORY?
CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS
Narrator: JUNE 8, 2016 --
CAIRO, EGYPT.
THE MUSEUM OF EGYPTIAN
ANTIQUITIES RELEASES
A REPORT THAT BECOMES
WORLDWIDE BREAKING NEWS.
IT CLAIMS THAT KING TUTANKHAMUN,
THE YOUNG PHARAOH
WHO DIED AT 19,
WAS ENTOMBED WITH ONE
OF THE MOST MYSTIFYING ARTIFACTS
EVER DISCOVERED
IN THE ANCIENT WORLD.
IT'S ONLY VERY RECENTLY
THAT IT'S EMERGED,
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY
OF ONE OF THE DAGGERS
THAT WAS BURIED WITH HIM.
Narrator: THIS DAGGER, MADE FROM
EXTRAORDINARILY RARE METALS,
HAS INCREDIBLE SIGNIFICANCE
TO UFO EXPERTS.
THE RECENT FINDING IS
ALL THE MORE ASTONISHING
BECAUSE KING
TUT'S MUMMIFIED REMAINS
AND THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS FOUND
IN HIS TOMB
HAVE BEEN CLOSELY STUDIED
EVER SINCE THEIR DISCOVERY
ALMOST A CENTURY AGO.
IN 1922, HOWARD CARTER,
UH, OPENED KING
TUTANKHAMUN'S TOMB
AFTER IT'D BEEN SEALED
FOR OVER 3,000 YEARS.
WHEN THEY CRACKED
OPEN THE TOMB,
THEY FOUND CHARIOTS.
THEY FOUND A -- A GOLDEN THRONE.
THERE WAS THE TOMB ITSELF,
WHICH WAS THIS INCREDIBLY
ORNATE STRUCTURE.
Narrator: INSIDE THE NOW FAMOUS
SOLID GOLD COFFIN,
THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND
THE YOUNG PHARAOH'S
MUMMIFIED CORPSE.
SO MUMMIFICATION IN EGYPT DATES
BACK TO ABOUT 5,000 YEARS AGO.
WHAT YOU DO IS YOU
GOTTA GET RID OF ALL
OF THE MOISTURE IN OUR BODIES.
Narrator: BUT DID THE EGYPTIANS
REALLY PREPARE THE KING
FOR A JOURNEY TO ANOTHER REALM
OR FOR A FUTURE ENCOUNTER
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL ANCESTORS,
AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?
NOW, THE DAGGER,
DISCOVERED WITH AN ORNATE
GOLD HANDLE AND SHEATH,
IS WHAT INVESTIGATORS
ARE FOCUSED ON.
Man: HIS BODY WAS FOUND WITH
SEVERAL WEAPONS,
INCLUDING DAGGERS.
AND ONE OF 'EM
WAS REALLY INTERESTING
BECAUSE IT WAS MADE OF IRON.
IRON WAS A REALLY VERY UNUSUAL
SUBSTANCE FOR THE EGYPTIANS.
AND IT'S VERY BIZARRE THAT,
THOUSANDS OF YEARS LATER,
YOU HAVE THIS IRON KNIFE
THAT HAS ABSOLUTELY NO RUST.
THAT IS, IN OF ITSELF,
AN INDICATION THAT THE IRON
MAY HAVE COME
FROM SOME UNUSUAL SOURCE.
Narrator: EARLY TESTS ON
THE IRON DAGGER'S COMPOSITION
WERE INCONCLUSIVE.
BUT, IN 2016, A RESEARCH TEAM
RE-EXAMINED THE DAGGER
WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY.
USING AN X-RAY
FLUORESCENT SPECTROMETER,
THEY DETERMINED THE METAL'S
ELEMENTAL MAKEUP.
AND THE RESULTS
WERE STUNNING.
THE IRON CAME NOT
FROM THE EARTH
BUT FROM THE COSMOS.
YOU KNOW, KING TUT WAS
DISCOVERED IN THE 1920s.
AND WE'RE JUST LEARNING
THIS NOW THAT,
IN ADDITION TO A GOLD DAGGER,
WHICH HE WAS BURIED WITH,
WAS A DAGGER OF METEORIC ORIGIN.
AT THE VERY LEAST,
YOU HAVE TO SAY
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS UNDERSTOOD
THAT THIS WAS
A VERY RARE THING.
AND I DO THINK IT'S RATHER
INTERESTING THAT HE WAS BURIED
WITH AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL
ARTIFACT.
SO THE EGYPTIANS KNEW
THAT THIS IRON
HAD COME FROM SPACE.
IT HAD COME FROM THAT
PLACE BEYOND THE STARS
THAT THEY ALL WANTED TO GO
TO WHEN THEY PASSED.
AND, CLEARLY, THEY KNEW
THE KING'S DAGGER
WAS OF INCREDIBLE RARITY
AND SIGNIFICANCE.
Narrator: BUT DID THE IRON
IN KING TUT'S DAGGER
SIMPLY FALL FROM THE COSMOS
AS A METEORITE?
OR, AS MANY UFO
RESEARCHERS BELIEVE,
COULD IT HAVE
EXTRATERRESTRIAL IMPLICATIONS?
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS BELIEVED
THAT THE PHARAOHS
WERE COSMIC DEITIES,
HALF MAN AND HALF GOD.
WHEN YOU HAVE A RULER
WHO IS VIEWED BY THE PEOPLE
AS HALF MAN, HALF GOD,
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
COULD THERE BE SOME
SORT OF GENETIC ALTERING?
WAS HE, IN FACT,
EXTRATERRESTRIAL AND HUMAN?
Man: KING TUT HIMSELF
WAS ACTUALLY NAMED
AFTER HIS FATHER, AKHENATEN.
AND THE PURPOSE
OF NAMING HIM
THAT WAS TO CONNECT HIM
WITH THE SUN GOD, ATEN.
TUTANKHAMUN'S NAME ACTUALLY
MEANS, LITERALLY,
THE LIVING IMAGE OF ATEN.
Narrator:
TUT'S FATHER, AKHENATEN,
WAS A CONTROVERSIAL PHARAOH
OF EGYPT'S 18th DYNASTY
WHO WORSHIPPED THE SUN GOD,
ATEN, AS THE CREATOR,
GIVER OF LIFE
AND NURTURING SPIRIT
OF THE WORLD.
STRANGELY,
DEPICTIONS OF AKHENATEN
AND HIS WIFE, NEFERTITI,
HAVE RAISED MANY QUESTIONS
IN THE UFO COMMUNITY.
AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI HAD
A VERY UNUSUAL
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE.
THEY HAD EXTREMELY
LONG NECKS,
ELONGATED SKULLS FREQUENTLY
COVERED WITH HATS.
ALTHOUGH THEY WERE
PHYSICALLY VERY BEAUTIFUL,
IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THEY HAD
SOMETHING MORE TO THEM
THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON.
THERE'S SOME INTERESTING
HIEROGLYPHS THAT SHOW AKHENATEN
AND NEFERTITI HOLDING UP
A CHILD, WHICH WAS PROBABLY TUT.
AND THEY'RE HOLDING UP
THE CHILD TO THIS VERY,
VERY BRIGHT OBJECT IN THE SKY
AS IF THEY'RE RECEIVING
SOME SORT OF ENERGY,
TRANSMISSIONS,
PERHAPS INFORMATION,
FROM SOME HIGHER SOURCE.
WHETHER THAT HIGHER SOURCE
IS THE SUN OR THE SUN GOD
AS IT'S DEPICTED IN THE IMAGE
OR WHETHER IT'S ACTUALLY A --
A -- A SPACECRAFT
OF SOME KIND IS --
IS HIGHLY DEBATABLE.
Narrator: ADDING TO THE ALREADY
BIZARRE PHYSICAL TRAITS
OF HIS PARENTS,
X-RAYS AND CT SCANS
OF KING TUT'S MUMMIFIED BODY
REVEAL THAT THE BOY
KING HAS SIGNIFICANT
PHYSICAL DEFORMITIES SIMILAR
TO HIS ROYAL FAMILY.
KING TUT HAD X-RAYS
AND CAT SCANS TAKEN
OF HIS SKULL IN LONDON.
NOW, THE INTERESTING THING
THAT WE SEE RIGHT AWAY
IS THIS ELONGATED SKULL.
A NORMAL HUMAN SKULL
WOULD CROP HERE.
ALL THAT'S EXTRA.
AND WE WONDER IF HE WAS
NATURALLY BORN THIS WAY
OR IF IT WAS DONE TO HIM
FOR SOME CRUEL REASON.
THIS IS NOT A NORMAL SKULL.
Narrator: FOR UFO RESEARCHERS,
CRUCIAL QUESTIONS REMAIN.
HOW DO WE EXPLAIN
THE UNUSUAL PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES
OF KING TUT
AND HIS ROYAL PARENTS?
AND COULD THERE
BE FURTHER EVIDENCE
OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL
CONNECTIONS BEYOND THE DAGGER?
Man: KING TUT'S DYNASTY
IS A VERY SIGNIFICANT
ONE IN ANCIENT EGYPT.
AND THERE WERE ACTUALLY ALSO
SOME INTERESTING UFO SIGHTINGS,
AT LEAST ONE THAT'S RECORDED,
FROM THAT SAME DYNASTY,
OF A LARGE FIERY OBJECT
THAT APPEARS,
IS THERE FOR SEVERAL DAYS.
NO ONE REALLY KNEW
WHAT TO DO WITH THIS.
AND THEN, EVENTUALLY,
THE, UH, THE FIERY OBJECT,
UH, WENT AWAY.
Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE
SUPPORT THE THEORY PROPOSED
BY UFO EXPERTS THAT
THE EGYPTIAN ROYAL FAMILY
COULD HAVE HAD INTERACTIONS
WITH OTHERWORLDLY ENTITIES?
AND, IF SO, MIGHT KING
TUT'S IRON DAGGER
HAVE SIMPLY BEEN HANDED
TO HIM IN LIFE LIKE A GIFT
BY BEINGS THAT ARRIVED HERE
IN WHAT WE CALL UFOs?
YOU HAVE THIS PATTERN
WHERE THE BLOODLINES,
THE DNA, SUPPOSEDLY DESCENDS
FROM THESE GODS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
WHO MAY HAVE BEEN
ACTUALLY NOT GODS AT ALL
BUT PEOPLE FROM ANOTHER WORLD
WHO CAME HERE
FOR THEIR OWN REASONS.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DAGGER
AND THE ELONGATED SKULLS
AND THE CARVINGS
ON THEIR TEMPLES,
I BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE
ALL CONNECTED.
SO I BELIEVE THAT THEY DID,
IN FACT, INTERBREED WITH ALIENS.
AND, WHEN THEY DIED,
THEY WERE GONNA GO BACK
TO THEIR HOME PLANET
IN THE AFTERLIFE.
Narrator: FOR MANY, THE THEORY
THAT EGYPT'S ROYAL FAMILY
COULD BE CONNECTED
TO INTERSTELLAR
BEINGS COULD SEEM FAR-FETCHED.
BUT UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
THERE IS EVEN MORE EVIDENCE
THAT RAISES FURTHER QUESTIONS
UNEXPLAINED BY SCIENCE,
EVIDENCE FOUND HALFWAY
AROUND THE WORLD
LINKING UFOs TO 3,000-YEAR-OLD
REMAINS UNEARTHED IN PERU.
ator: THE MYSTERY OF ANCIENT
EGYPTIAN MUMMIFICATION
AND ELONGATED SKULLS
AND QUESTIONS
ABOUT THEIR POSSIBLE CONNECTION
TO OTHERWORLDLY ENTITIES DEEPENS
WHEN UFO RESEARCHERS DISCOVER
HIGHLY UNUSUAL ANCIENT
CARVED DEPICTIONS.
HERE, 25 MILES NORTHEAST
OF THE VALLEY
OF THE KINGS,
ALONG THE NILE RIVER,
LIES ABYDOS, EGYPT,
AND THE ANCIENT
RUINS OF THE SETI TEMPLE.
ABYDOS IS A CITY IN EGYPT
ABOUT 150 MILES FROM CAIRO
WHERE A LOT OF THE ANCIENT
KINGS ARE BURIED.
A LOT OF THE ANCIENT PHARAOHS
AND THEIR WIVES ARE BURIED.
AND IT'S A VERY BIZARRE PLACE
BECAUSE THERE'S ALL
THESE TEMPLES SET UP
TO THESE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GODS
AND GOD-KINGS.
Narrator: INSIDE EGYPT'S MOST
EXTRAORDINARY TEMPLE,
THERE EXISTS STRANGE
AND HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL
STONE RELIEFS CARVED
INTO THE WALLS
AND SUPPORT BEAMS
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
Man: ABOUT 15, 20 YEARS AGO,
A PANEL ACTUALLY FELL OFF
ABOVE ONE OF THESE COLUMNS.
AND IT REVEALED A MUCH
OLDER PANEL BEHIND IT, IN FACT,
A PANEL THAT MAY HAVE GONE
ALL THE WAY BACK
TO 10,000 YEARS AGO.
AND, ON THIS PANEL,
YOU CAN SEE WHAT ARE CLEARLY
TECHNOLOGICAL WAR MACHINES.
Man: PEOPLE LOOK AT IT
BECAUSE THEY SEE
WHAT LOOKS LIKE A HELICOPTER
AND OTHER TYPES OF MACHINERY.
UH, SOME PEOPLE THINK
ONE THING LOOKS LIKE
A SUBMARINE AND SO FORTH.
Man: THESE SETI TEMPLE IMAGES
ARE FASCINATING.
IT WOULD APPEAR THAT WE WERE,
AT SOME STAGE
IN THE PAST,
VISITED BY SOMEBODY
WHO HAD ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT
THESE IMAGES SHOW.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS
IN THE MIND'S EYE
OF WHOEVER CREATED THOSE IMAGES,
WHETHER THEY'RE LITERAL
OR JUST SOMETHING
FROM THE IMAGINATION.
Narrator: MAINSTREAM SCHOLARS
ARE AT A COMPLETE LOSS
TO EXPLAIN
HOW SUCH IMAGES
COULD HAVE BEEN IMAGINED
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
YOU HAVE OBJECTS THERE THAT,
BY ALL CONVENTIONAL TERMS,
WOULD LOOK LIKE
MODERN-DAY AIRCRAFT.
HOW COULD THIS BE?
WERE THEY SOMETHING THAT
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS SAW?
Narrator: EXPERTS IN THE UFO
COMMUNITY BELIEVE
THE MYSTERY CAN BE EXPLAINED
BY TAKING A CLOSER LOOK
AT THE REASON
THE SETI TEMPLE WAS BUILT.
THE ENTIRE TEMPLE AT ABYDOS
IS ESSENTIALLY A TEMPLE
TO THE EGYPTIAN GOD, OSIRIS,
THE GOD OF THE AFTERLIFE,
THE DEAD,
JUDGEMENT AND RESURRECTION.
Narrator: IN ANCIENT
EGYPTIAN WRITINGS,
KNOWN AS THE PYRAMID TEXTS,
OSIRIS IS SAID TO BE
TRAVELING WITH THE SUN GOD
AMONGST THE STARS.
WHAT DOES THIS REALLY MEAN?
Man: THE IDEA OF GODS COMING
FROM THE SKY IS --
IS NOT UNIQUE -- ALL THE ANCIENT
CULTURES HAVE THAT.
BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING
IS THAT, AS YOU DIG INTO THEM,
WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT
ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT LEGENDS
OF THESE GODS
THAT COME FROM THE SKY,
THEY SEEM TO COME IN,
NOT LIKE DESCENDING AS ANGELS,
BUT ACTUALLY COMING
ON PHYSICAL CRAFT,
THINGS THAT ARE DESCRIBED
AS FLAMING SHIELDS
OR DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROCKETS.
Narrator:
IN THE SETI TEMPLE,
OSIRIS IS COMMONLY DEPICTED
AS A PHARAOH
WITH A STRIKING
PHYSICAL COMPLEXION.
Man: OSIRIS IS FREQUENTLY
DEPICTED WITH GREEN SKIN.
AND THIS APPEARS
TO BE A REPRESENTATION
OF HIS EXISTENCE
AFTER HIS DEATH,
THAT HIS SKIN HAS TURNED GREEN,
THAT HE'S THE DEAD
AND RESURRECTED OSIRIS.
AND, FREQUENTLY,
HE'S DEPICTED ON HIS THRONE
WITH VARIOUS SCEPTERS
AND VARIOUS INSTRUMENTALITIES
THAT HE APPEARS
TO BE WIELDING.
Narrator: STRANGELY,
DEPICTIONS OF OSIRIS
ARE EERILY SIMILAR TO KING TUT
AND HIS ROYAL PARENTS,
AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI.
DO SUCH SIMILAR PHYSICAL
TRAITS LEND CREDENCE
TO THE THEORY SUGGESTED
BY UFO RESEARCHERS THAT OSIRIS
AND THE EGYPTIAN ROYAL FAMILY
ARE OF THE SAME RACE
OF ALIEN BEINGS?
OR DID OSIRIS BREED
WITH EGYPTIAN ROYAL ANCESTORS
AND PASS ON ALIEN
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS?
Man:
THERE'S THIS DEEP CONNECTION
BETWEEN EGYPT AND THE SKY
AND SPACE AND ALIENS.
AND YOU COULD ARGUE THAT,
LIKE, OSIRIS WAS,
IN FACT, AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL.
THESE ANCIENT GODS
THAT CAME AND INTERACTED
WITH THE PHARAOHS,
IS THERE SOME KIND
OF GENETIC MANIPULATION
GOING ON TO MAKE THESE DEMIGODS?
IF SO, WHAT WOULD BE
THE PURPOSE OF CREATING
A RULING CLASS
TO BUILD THEIR TEMPLES
AND THEIR PYRAMIDS?
FOR WHAT REASON IS UNKNOWN.
Narrator:
FOR UFO EXPERTS,
THE STRANGE SKULLS DEPICTED
IN THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CULTURE
ARE A CLEAR INDICATION
OF PHYSICAL INTERACTION
BETWEEN EGYPT'S ROYALS AND UFOs.
BUT WHAT GETS EVEN
MORE INTERESTING IS
WHEN YOU TRAVEL
OVER 7,000 MILES,
HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD,
TO DISCOVERIES MADE NEARLY
90 YEARS AGO
IN PARACAS, PERU.
HERE, IN 1928,
IN AN ANCIENT GRAVEYARD,
ARCHAEOLOGISTS MAKE
A SHOCKING DISCOVERY,
ONE THAT MAY FOREVER CHANGE
HOW WE LOOK AT OUR ANCESTORS
AND OUR ORIGINS.
THE ELONGATED SKULLS
ARE BELIEVED
TO BE AT LEAST
3,300 YEARS OLD,
ABOUT THE SAME AGE
AS KING TUTANKHAMUN'S MUMMY.
SO CRANIAL SHAPING
OR CRANIAL DEFORMATION
IS VERY COMMON
IN ANCIENT CULTURES,
IN ANCIENT EGYPT, ANCIENT PERU
FOR THE INCA AND THE MAYA.
AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SEE
IN MANY DIFFERENT
ANCIENT CULTURES
AS A WAY, AS A MARK
FOR THE ELITE.
Man: MANY CULTURES HAVE HAD
A TRADITION OF BINDING
THE HEAD OF AN INFANT.
AND THIS PRODUCES THESE
ELONGATED SKULLS THAT WE SEE.
I THINK WE HAVE ALWAYS
BELIEVED THAT THE BRAIN,
THAT'S INEXTRICABLY LINKED
WITH INTELLIGENCE --
SO ENLARGING THE HEAD
MIGHT BE AN ATTEMPT
TO PRODUCE SOMEBODY
WHO IS SMARTER.
Woman: EVEN WITH SKULL-BINDING
TECHNIQUES
THAT WE SEE SOMETIMES
IN ANCIENT CULTURES,
YOU STILL CAN'T CHANGE
THE VOLUME OF THE HEAD.
Narrator:
HOWEVER, THE PARACAS SKULLS
HAVE VERY UNUSUAL CRANIUMS.
Man: THESE PARACAS, PERU SKULLS,
THEY'RE ALSO 25 PERCENT LARGER
AND 60 PERCENT HEAVIER
THAN THE AVERAGE HUMAN SKULL.
NOW, THAT PUTS THEM IN
AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CLASS.
Narrator: IN 2014, PRELIMINARY
DNA TESTING
ON THE SKULLS WAS PERFORMED.
THE RESULTS PROVED
HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL
WHEN IT WAS DETERMINED
THAT SOME OF THE SKULLS
HAVE A UNIQUE DNA PATTERN
THAT SCIENTISTS ARE
AT A LOSS TO EXPLAIN.
Man: DNA TESTING IN 2014
SHOWED THAT THESE SKULLS
HAVE MITOCHONDRIAL DNA
THAT IS UNRELATED
TO HUMAN BEINGS
OR ANY OTHER
MAJOR PRIMATE OR ANIMAL.
WITH THE RECENT DNA TESTING
ON THESE SKULLS
THAT SHOWS THAT
THEY'RE NOT HUMAN,
THAT WOULD MEAN THAT
THEY'RE EXTRATERRESTRIAL.
AND THEY'RE NOT
FROM THIS PLANET.
Narrator: MORE RECENTLY,
A SECOND ROUND
OF TESTING PROVES
JUST AS CONTENTIOUS.
Man: EVEN MORE BIZARRELY,
THEY FOUND
THAT THE SKULLS
WERE OF MIDDLE EASTERN
ORIGIN WHICH WOULD, AGAIN,
GO BACK TO ANCIENT EGYPT.
HOW DID THEY END UP IN PERU?
NOBODY KNOWS THE ANSWER
TO THAT BECAUSE,
ACCORDING TO THE HISTORY BOOKS,
THERE WAS NO COMMUNICATION,
NO TRAVELING BETWEEN
THESE TWO CONTINENTS.
Narrator:
FOR UFO INVESTIGATORS,
THE EVIDENCE OF ELONGATED SKULLS
AND THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL DAGGER
CLEARLY INDICATES CONTACT
WITH UFOs IN THE DISTANT PAST.
AND THEY SAY THERE ARE
MORE RECENT EXAMPLES,
THE CONTINUOUS, STEADY DRUMBEAT
SUPPORTING THE IDEA
OF CONTACT THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
FURTHER EXAMPLES CAN BE FOUND
HIDDEN SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS
AND STUDIED ARTWORK
OF THE RENAISSANCE.
Narrator: UFO EXPERTS BELIEVE
THE ROYAL BLOODLINE
OF EGYPTIAN PHARAOHS
AND ELONGATED SKULLS
FOUND IN PERU
MAY WELL HAVE EXPOSED THE TRUTH
OF HUMAN INTERACTION WITH UFOs.
FLASH FORWARD
TO THE RENAISSANCE,
A PERIOD IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
FROM THE 14th
TO THE 17th CENTURY,
WHERE INVESTIGATORS SUSPECT
A CLOSER LOOK
AT SOME OF MANKIND'S
MOST REVERED ARTWORK
MAY REVEAL FURTHER SECRETS
OF UFO CONTACT
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.
Man: THE RENAISSANCE
WAS AN EXPLOSION
OF CREATIVITY AND OF THOUGHT.
IN MANY WAYS,
IT WAS A REACTION
AGAINST THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
AND IT WAS A PERIOD
WHICH BEGAN TO SEE
THEIR AUTHORITY DECLINE
SOMEWHAT.
Man: PEOPLE WERE THINKING
FOR THEMSELVES,
CHALLENGING THE ORTHODOXY,
UH, THE PARTY LINE,
A VERY HUMAN THING.
EGOS GOT INVOLVED.
AND THE CHURCH WAS PUT
ON THE DEFENSIVE.
Man: MANY OF THESE NEW IDEAS
WERE EXTREMELY CHALLENGING
TO THE CHURCH.
AND THEY FELT THAT
THEY HAD TO FIGHT BACK
AGAINST THIS FOR FEAR
THAT IT WOULD ERODE
THEIR AUTHORITY.
Narrator: IN AN EFFORT TO
PRESERVE ITS DOMINANCE,
THE CHURCH IMPOSED STRICT RULES
AND HARSH PUNISHMENT
FOR THOSE INTERESTED
IN SCIENTIFIC LEARNING
AND NEW IDEAS
ABOUT THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.
THE CATHOLICS
HAD ALSO IMPOSED VERY,
VERY STRICT RULES
AGAINST SCIENTIFIC LEARNING
AND SCIENCE IN GENERAL.
THEY DIDN'T WANT PEOPLE
LIKE GALILEO TO TELL US
THAT THE, UH, EARTH
REVOLVED AROUND THE SUN
AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
Man: THE CHURCH'S REACTION
TO THAT KIND OF --
OF OVERVIEW OF THE RENAISSANCE
WAS BRUTAL AND SWIFT.
PEOPLE BURNED AT THE STAKE
FOR SUGGESTING
THAT THERE MAY BE LIFE ELSEWHERE
BECAUSE THEY WERE
LOSING THEIR INFLUENCE.
AND THEY WERE LOSING
THEIR CONTROL.
Man: IT'S A FACT THAT THE CHURCH
OF THE MIDDLE AGES
WOULD HAVE YOU PUT TO DEATH
IF YOU PUT FORTH A THEOLOGY
THAT WAS IN CONTRADICTION
TO WHAT THEY STATED WAS
THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE.
IN FACT, UH,
IN THE 16th CENTURY,
THEY BURNED A MAN
NAMED GIORDANO BRUNO ALIVE
AT THE STAKE FOR, UH,
SUGGESTING THAT THERE WAS LIFE
BEYOND PLANET EARTH,
LIFE JUST LIKE OURS.
AND THEY KILLED HIM.
Narrator: STILL, THE RENAISSANCE
SAW AN EXPLOSION
IN MAN'S KNOWLEDGE
OF THE NATURAL WORLD.
Man: THIS WAS THE BEGINNING
OF WHAT EVENTUALLY
BECAME THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
WHERE SCIENCE BEGAN
TO DISPLACE RELIGION
AS OUR WAY OF EXPLAINING
OUR POSITION IN THE COSMOS.
Narrator: BUT WAS THIS GIANT
LEAP FORWARD
SIMPLY THE RESULT OF MAN'S
GROWING INTELLECT?
OR IS THERE MORE TO THE STORY?
IN SUCH A HOSTILE CLIMATE,
IS IT POSSIBLE TO FIND,
IN SOME WORKS OF ART
FROM THE RENAISSANCE,
HINTS OF UFO CONNECTIONS
OR AT LEAST CLUES
TO THINGS THAT POINT
BEYOND THE KNOWN WORLD?
ONE SUCH PAINTING CALLED
"THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST,"
CREATED BY AERT DE GELDER,
DEPICTS THE BIBLICAL SCENE
WHERE JOHN THE BAPTIST
IS BAPTIZING JESUS
IN THE RIVER JORDAN.
IN "THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST,"
CLEARLY,
INSTEAD OF SEEING
SOME SORT OF SPIRITUAL
BEING AS YOU WOULD EXPECT,
IN THE PAINTING, THERE IS A --
A SPHERICAL-TYPE OBJECT
EMITTING RAYS DOWN TO CHRIST.
WHAT IS THIS OBJECT?
I MEAN, IT'S NOT A CLOUD.
IT'S NOT THE SUN.
IT'S NOT GOD'S FACE.
IT'S A DISC-SHAPED OBJECT.
AND THERE'S REALLY
NO DISPUTING THAT.
IT APPEARS TO BE SAYING THAT
JOHN THE BAPTIST'S INSPIRATION,
AS WELL AS JESUS' INSPIRATION,
CAME FROM SOMEBODY
ON BOARD THESE CRAFT.
THE QUESTION IS,
HOW DO THESE THINGS END UP
IN THESE RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS?
WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO TELL US?
Narrator: EVIDENCE
OF UNORTHODOX KNOWLEDGE,
SECRETLY EMBEDDED
IN RENAISSANCE ARTWORK,
ACCORDING TO UFO EXPERTS,
CAN BE FOUND HIDDEN IN
"THE MADONNA
WITH SAINT GIOVANNINO,"
COMPLETED IN THE 15TH CENTURY.
Man: IN THE BACKGROUND OF
THE VIRGIN MARY, IT JUST LOOK --
LOOKS LIKE A CRAFT IN THE SKY.
AND, NOT ONLY THAT, BUT YOU SEE,
IN THE BACKGROUND,
THERE'S A MAN STARING UP AT IT
JUST LIKE ANYONE SEEING A UFO
WOULD STARE UP AT A UFO.
AND, NOT ONLY THAT,
BUT SO IS HIS DOG.
NOW, WHY WOULD THAT BE
IN A PAINTING FROM THIS ERA
UNLESS SOMEBODY'S
SEEN IT THEMSELVES?
THEY WERE LEAVING CLUES
FOR US IN THE FUTURE
OF WHAT THEY WERE SEEING
AND WHAT WAS NOT
ACCEPTED AT THE TIME.
Narrator: EXPERTS SAY FURTHER
EVIDENCE OF UFO INTERACTION
WITH HUMANKIND CAN ALSO BE FOUND
IN KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA,
IN A MEDIEVAL MONASTERY
WHERE A FRESCO ENTITLED,
"THE CRUCIFIXION,"
PAINTED IN 1350,
HANGS ABOVE THE ALTAR.
Man: YOU SEE THESE OBJECTS
IN THE SKY.
AND THEY DO LOOK
SOMETHING LIKE, UH,
AN AERIAL VEHICLE
WITH SOMEBODY IN THEM.
MAYBE IT'S JUST
A REPRESENTATION OF A --
A STAR OR A COMET.
BUT IT MIGHT REPRESENT
A LITERAL TRUTH.
IT MAY BE THAT THAT'S
WHAT THE ARTIST SAW.
Man: THESE CRAFT LOOK LIKE
THEY'RE BEING PILOTED
WITH CONTROLS
AND HAVE DIRECTION.
THEY'RE VERY SIMILAR
TO EACH OTHER.
HOW COULD PEOPLE OF THAT
TIME DEPICT SUCH CRAFT
IF THEY DIDN'T EXIST?
OR MAYBE THEY DID.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS,
SUCH IMAGERY REFLECTS
THE SPIRITUAL CONNECTION
BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH UFOs.
BUT IS THIS REALLY THE CASE?
Man: IF THERE WERE UFO SIGHTINGS
BACK IN THAT ERA, IT --
IT WOULD MAKE SENSE,
WOULDN'T IT,
THAT YOU'D WANNA BE VERY CAREFUL
ABOUT PUTTING THAT
INFORMATION OUT THERE.
UH, IT REALLY WOULD BE,
UH, UH, LITERALLY
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.
AND IT IS POSSIBLE
THAT THERE WERE
SOME BRAVE ARTISTS
OF THAT ERA,
UM, WHO WERE SEEING
THINGS IN THE SKY.
AND THEY DECIDED,
"I'M GOING TO DEPICT THEM
IN MY OWN WAY, UH,
FOR POSTERITY."
IN THE PIECE,
"MIRACLE OF THE SNOW,"
SEVERAL DIFFERENT
CYLINDRICAL-TYPE
OBJECTS ARE OBSERVED
ABOVE THE MOUNTAINS.
THESE OBJECTS ARE
FLAT ON THE BOTTOM
AND SLIGHTLY ROUNDED ON THE TOP,
WHICH ARE VERY SIMILAR
TO THE DISCS
THAT WE SEE
IN PHOTOGRAPHS TODAY.
IS THIS, PERHAPS, UH,
A FLEET OF UFOs IN THE SKY?
Man: LOOKING AT SOME OF THESE
RENAISSANCE IMAGES,
THERE ARE THOSE WHO SUGGEST
THESE ARE LITERAL UFOs.
AND PERHAPS THE ARTISTS,
MINDFUL OF THE REACTION
OF THE CHURCH,
THOUGHT THAT INCORPORATING
THESE IMAGES
SUBTLY INTO A PAINTING
AND PERHAPS SAYING,
"IT -- IT'S A REPRESENTATION
OF DIVINITY,"
IS THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN PASS
ON THIS KNOWLEDGE
OF WHAT THEY REALLY SAW
OR WHAT THEY BELIEVED
TO BE TRUE.
Narrator: IN SOME CASES,
INVESTIGATORS
SUGGEST IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE
THAT SOME ARTISTS SIMPLY
MISINTERPRETED UFO SIGHTINGS
AND GAVE THEM SPIRITUAL
SIGNIFICANCE IN THEIR PAINTINGS.
THE PAINTERS OF THAT PERIOD,
DURING THE REN--
DURING THE RENAISSANCE,
WERE CLEARLY HIDING IN PLAIN
SIGHT THE CONNECTION
BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY
AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL RACES,
STAR PEOPLE.
CALL IT WHAT YOU WILL.
THOSE PAINTINGS
ARE A TESTAMENT.
IT'S EVIDENCE.
Narrator:
UFO EXPERTS CLAIM
SUCH INTERPRETATIONS SUGGEST
THAT THIS AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
MAY HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED
BY INTERACTION
WITH AN OTHERWORLDLY
PRESENCE HOVERING
AT THAT TIME
IN THE SKIES ABOVE EUROPE.
HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD,
THAT SAME ALIEN PRESENCE
MAY HAVE ALSO BEEN WITNESSED
BY THE NATIVE PEOPLE
OF NORTH AMERICA
IN AN AREA WE NOW CALL ARIZONA.
EY HAVE FOUND EVIDENCE
THROUGHOUT HISTORY OF CONTACT
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS.
NOW, INVESTIGATORS
ARE FOLLOWING
THE TRAIL OF CLUES
TO NORTH AMERICA,
SPECIFICALLY ARIZONA,
WHERE EARLY NATIVE PEOPLE
MAY HAVE WITNESSED
WHAT THEY REFER
TO AS SKY BEINGS.
BUT, STRANGELY, THE CONNECTION
WAS ONLY REVEALED RECENTLY,
ON MARCH 13, 1997,
8:30 P.M. LOCAL TIME,
WHEN, ARGUABLY,
THE MOST COMPELLING
UFO EVENT IN HISTORY OCCURS.
Man:
WHAT WE CALL THE PHOENIX LIGHTS,
IN FACT,
STARTED IN HENDERSON, NEVADA.
WITNESSES THERE SAW AN OBJECT
THAT WAS CLEARLY GOING SOUTH.
IT WENT ALL THROUGH
THE STATE OF ARIZONA.
THERE WERE, I THINK,
HUNDREDS OF WITNESSES
WHO'D REPORTED THIS
GOING SOUTH DOWN THE STATE.
Man:
PEOPLE WITNESSED THIS CRAFT
GO COMPLETELY OVER
THEIR HEADS VERY, VERY SLOWLY.
THIS CRAFT WAS V-SHAPED
AND HAD MULTIPLE LIGHTS
LONG THE EDGE.
THESE LIGHTS COULD BE LIGHTS.
OR THEY COULD BY
SOME KIND OF PROPULSION.
WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE,
IT WAS LARGE, SILENT
AND INTIMIDATING.
Man:
THE PHOENIX LIGHTS INVOLVED,
UH, MULTIPLE WITNESS
SIGHTINGS OVER A WIDE
GEOGRAPHICAL AREA
IN ARIZONA GOING PRETTY MUCH
ALL THE WAY DOWN TO TUCSON.
SOME WITNESSES THOUGHT THIS WAS
A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT OBJECTS
FLYING IN FORMATION.
BUT OTHERS SAID, NO,
THESE WERE LIGHTS
ON THE UNDERSIDE
OF ONE SINGLE MASSIVE CRAFT.
Narrator: AS THE ENORMOUS OBJECT
APPEARS OVER PHOENIX,
PHONE CALLS FLOOD INTO AREA
LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NEWS MEDIA.
ONE EYEWITNESS,
DR. LYNNE KITEI,
RECALLS HER EXPERIENCE VIVIDLY.
ONE WALL OF OUR BEDROOM
IS A WINDOW.
AND WE LIVE HIGH
ON THE MOUNTAIN
AND HAVE A PANORAMIC VIEW
OF THE CITY SKYLINES.
WHEN MY HUSBAND FIRST
CALLED ME TO THE WINDOW
TO SEE THESE ORBS
IN A TRIANGLE FORMATION,
I THOUGHT TO MYSELF,
"IF I DON'T GET A PICTURE
OF THIS,
NO ONE'S GONNA BELIEVE IT."
SO I GO TO MY CLOSET TO GRAB
A 35-MILLIMETER CAMERA.
AND I STEPPED OUT
ON THE BALCONY,
GOT A QUICK PICTURE OF THE --
THE ORBS AND NOTICED
IMMEDIATELY AN EERIE SILENCE
AS IF TIME HAD STOPPED.
IT WAS JUST BIZARRE.
Narrator:
IN ADDITION TO STILLS,
DR. KITEI ALSO CAPTURES
A VIDEO OF THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
WHILE THEY ARE DIRECTLY
OVER THE CITY.
Woman:
AFTER HAVING AN EXPERIENCE,
IT'S JUST MIND-BOGGLING
IN AND OF ITSELF.
AND CAPTURING
35-MILLIMETER PHOTOGRAPHS
OF THESE ANOMALOUS
AERIAL PHENOMENA,
HAVING THOUSANDS SEEING
THE SAME THING
THAT I WAS WITNESSING
AND DOCUMENTING ON FILM,
I FELT OBLIGED TO SHARE
AND LET PEOPLE DECIDE
FOR THEMSELVES.
Man: THERE'S THIS KIND
OF CLICHED IDEA
THAT UFO SIGHTINGS HAPPEN
ON THE LONELY
COUNTRY ROAD LATE AT NIGHT.
AND PEOPLE WILL SAY, WELL,
WHY DON'T THEY EVER FLY
DIRECTLY OVER A CITY?
WITH THE PHOENIX LIGHTS,
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
I HAD ONE PERSON TELL ME THAT,
ALMOST LITERALLY,
THE STARS SEEMED TO BE
GOING OUT ONE BY ONE.
AND HE LOOKED UP.
AND THEN HE REALIZED
THE REASON THEY WERE GOING OUT
WAS THIS MASSIVE CRAFT
WAS JUST PASSING BETWEEN THEM.
AND IT WAS SO BIG,
IT WAS LIKE A FOOTBALL FIELD
PASSING OVERHEAD.
Woman: IT WAS SO UNNERVING
THAT I CALLED AROUND,
FOUND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS
AT SKY HARBOR
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
WHO SAW THE SAME THING.
THEY LOOKED ON RADAR,
DIDN'T SHOW UP ON RADAR.
THEY TOOK THEIR
BINOCULARS TO LOOK.
AND, IN THEIR OWN WORDS,
THEY SAW SEVEN POINTS OF LIGHT,
TOTALLY EQUIDISTANT
FROM EACH OTHER,
MASSIVE SPAN,
OVER A MILE WIDE,
AND SAID THAT THE WHOLE THING
TURNED AS A UNIT
AGAINST THE WIND
AND THEN ELEVATED SLOWLY
AND MOVED BEHIND SOUTH MOUNTAIN.
Narrator: THAT EVENING,
DESCRIPTIONS OF
THE UNIDENTIFIABLE OBJECT
ARE REPORTED IN
A 300-MILE CORRIDOR
FROM THE NEVADA STATE LINE
THROUGH PHOENIX TO
THE NORTHERN EDGE OF TUCSON.
IN THE DAYS TO FOLLOW,
THERE WAS SUCH A DEMAND
FOR ANSWERS
THAT THEN-ARIZONA GOVERNOR
FIFE SYMINGTON RESPONDS
IN A PRESS CONFERENCE.
Man: I'VE DISCUSSED THIS WITH
THE FORMER GOVERNOR,
FIFE SYMINGTON --
HE WAS A QUITE CONCERNED.
THERE WAS ALMOST A STATE
OF HYSTERIA TAKING HOLD.
SO HE JUST MADE A JOKE ABOUT IT,
A PRESS CONFERENCE.
HE GOT HIS CHIEF OF STAFF
TO DRESS UP IN AN ALIEN SUIT.
Man: AT THE TIME, HE SAID HIS
JOB WAS TO MINIMIZE PANIC.
AND THEY WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY
TO RIDICULE THE PHENOMENON,
TO JOKE ABOUT IT AND TO KIND
OF BRUSH IT ASIDE.
Narrator: THE OFFICIAL
GOVERNMENT EXPLANATION
FOR THE STRANGE OBJECT
IN THE NIGHT SKY
IS EVENTUALLY PRESENTED
BY THE U.S. AIR FORCE.
Man: IT WAS THE MILITARY WHO
FIRST CAME UP WITH
THE EXPLANATION THAT THIS WAS
JUST FLARES
DROPPED FROM AIRCRAFT
ON THEIR WAY
TO BARRY GOLDWATER RANGE.
BUT THE EXPLANATION
DIDN'T STACK UP.
THE FLARES WERE MUCH LATER.
AND, INDEED, SOME SUGGESTED
THE AIR FORCE
HAD DELIBERATELY SCRAMBLED JETS
TO DROP FLARES
SO THAT THIS COULD THEN BE USED
AS A DEBUNKING EXERCISE.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,
THE MILITARY ATTEMPTED
TO CONFUSE
IN THE MINDS OF THE POPULATION
WHAT THEY HAD WITNESSED
EARLIER THAT EVENING
BY DROPPING FLARES
IN A PATTERN
THAT APPEARED TO BE SIMILAR
TO THE UFO LIGHTS
SEEN IN THE PHOENIX SKY.
Man: THE RESIDENTS OF PHOENIX
HAVE SEEN FLARES
AT THE MILITARY BASES
AROUND THERE MANY, MANY TIMES.
THEY'RE USED TO THAT.
FLARES DON'T LAST THAT LONG.
THEY DON'T HAVE
THAT KIND OF PATTERN
THAT STAYS TOGETHER AS IT MOVES.
Narrator: FOR RESEARCHERS,
THE EVENT IS
A WATERSHED MOMENT
IN THE FIELD OF UFO STUDY.
ONE LASTING QUESTION,
HOWEVER, CONCERNS
THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE.
WHY DID THEY ATTEMPT
TO DIVERT ATTENTION
WITH SUCH A COVER-UP STORY?
THERE IS NO DOUBT
IN MY MIND
THAT THERE ARE AGENCIES
WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT THAT KNOW THE TRUTH,
THE FULL TRUTH, ABOUT UFOs.
THERE WAS ONE MEMBER
OF THE PHOENIX CITY COUNCIL
NAMED FRANCES BARWOOD
WHOSE CAREER WAS DESTROYED
BY HER INSISTENCE
ON LOOKING INTO
THE PHOENIX LIGHTS.
AND, AS SHE SAID LATER,
SHE RECEIVED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT
OF POLITICAL AND,
I BELIEVE,
SHE SAID MILITARY PRESSURE
FOR HER TO STAND DOWN
FROM LOOKING INTO THIS.
AND SHE WAS ESSENTIALLY
RUN OUT OF POLITICS
IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH
OF HER INQUIRY INTO THIS.
Narrator: STILL, THE CONTROVERSY
OVER THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
RAGES FOR YEARS.
THEN, A DECADE LATER,
ON MARCH 23, 2007,
BREAKING NEWS REPORTS
THE FORMER
ARIZONA GOVERNOR,
FIFE SYMINGTON,
REVERSES HIMSELF
ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.
Man: HE CONFESSED THAT,
NOT ONLY DID HE BELIEVE
THAT THE UFO INCIDENT
ACTUALLY HAPPENED,
BUT HE SAID THAT
HE HAD SEEN IT, TOO.
HE'S A FORMER PILOT.
AND HE SAYS,
"LOOK, I KNOW AIRCRAFT
WHEN I SEE THEM.
AND I KNOW FLARES
WHEN I SEE THEM.
AND THIS WAS NOT THAT."
Man: THE PHOENIX LIGHTS CASE,
IT REMAINS ONE OF THE LARGEST
COMPLETELY UNEXPLAINED MASS UFO
SIGHTINGS IN NOT ONLY U.S.
HISTORY BUT IN WORLD HISTORY.
IT'S A HUGE CASE.
AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS
WHAT THEY ARE.
THERE'S NEVER BEEN
A SUFFICIENT EXPLANATION
FOR EXACTLY WHAT
THE PHOENIX LIGHTS WERE.
Narrator: IF THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
REALLY WERE ALIEN SPACECRAFT,
AS UFO EXPERTS BELIEVE,
WHY ARE THEY HERE?
AND WHAT COULD EXPLAIN
SUCH EVENTS
IN THE SKIES OVER ARIZONA?
COULD THESE MODERN SIGHTINGS
BE CONNECTED TO POSSIBLE
UFO CONTACT
SEEN THROUGH HISTORY?
PERHAPS FURTHER EVIDENCE
MAY BE FOUND
IN THE NEARBY MOUNTAINS
WHERE LOCAL LEGENDS SPEAK
OF A CENTURIES-LONG RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS
AND SKY BEINGS.
OVERING
WHAT MOST
UFO RESEARCHERS REGARD
AS POSSIBLE EVIDENCE
OF UFO CONTACT
WITH HUMANS
THROUGHOUT HISTORY,
INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE
THE EVENTS OF MARCH, 1997,
KNOWN AS THE PHOENIX LIGHTS,
POINT TO A HISTORIC WORLDWIDE
LINK BETWEEN MODERN
AND ANCIENT CULTURES AND UFOs.
AND, IN PHOENIX,
THE MYSTERIOUS
SIGHTINGS CONTINUE
FOR YEARS TO COME.
Man: WHILE THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
IN 1997 ARE PERHAPS
THE BEST-KNOWN
SIGHTINGS FROM ARIZONA,
THERE WERE ALSO
SIGHTINGS IN 2007,
2008, AND, IN FACT,
OTHER OCCASIONS, TOO.
THE QUESTION ARISES,
WHY SHOULD ARIZONA BE
SUCH A HOT SPOT
FOR THIS UFO ACTIVITY?
Narrator: ON EACH OCCASION,
WITNESSES SAY THE LIGHTS
SEEM TO TRAVEL
A SIMILAR PATH
FROM HENDERSON, NEVADA,
SOUTH THROUGH PHOENIX,
TOWARD TUCSON.
BUT WHY WOULD UFOs APPEAR
TO BE PATROLLING
THE SAME CORRIDOR
OF ARIZONA SKIES?
INVESTIGATORS LOOK FOR ANSWERS
IN THE REGION'S MYSTERIOUS
CONNECTION TO THE ANCIENT
PUEBLO PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR,
THE NATIVE AMERICAN HOPI.
Man: MANY PLACES WHERE STRANGE
LIGHTS HAVE BEEN SEEN,
OR STRANGE CRAFT,
TOOK PLACE IN ARIZONA
OVER LAND OF THE TRIBES
OF THAT AREA AND ARE SACRED.
Man: IN THIS AREA,
THERE'S A VERY LARGE
NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATION,
INCLUDING THE HOPI
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.
AND, OF COURSE,
THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE
A VERY CLOSE RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE GREAT SPIRIT
AND THE STAR PEOPLE.
Man:
MIGRATION INTO THE NEW WORLD
REALLY BEGAN AROUND
15,000 YEARS AGO.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS
HAVE FOUND EVIDENCE
OF PEOPLE LIVING
IN SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES
DATING TO ROUGHLY
12,000 YEARS AGO.
Narrator: LIKE THE EVIDENCE
OF POSSIBLE CONTACT
UNCOVERED IN ANCIENT
EGYPT AND PERU,
ANCIENT ARTIFACTS FOUND
IN THE MOUNTAINS
OF ARIZONA BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS
MAY CONNECT
THE EARLY NATIVE PEOPLE
TO OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS.
HERE, THE EVIDENCE IS FOUND
IN MYSTERIOUS PETROGLYPHS,
OR PICTURES ETCHED
ON STONE CANYON WALLS.
Man: THERE ARE PETROGLYPHS
ALL OVER THE AREA
THAT WERE CARVED BY
THE ANCIENT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
OF THE REGIONS
THAT SHOW, CLEARLY,
OBJECTS THAT APPEAR
TO BE FLYING DISCS
OR FLYING SAUCERS OF SOME KIND.
THEY SHOW BEINGS
THAT ARE CALLED THE STAR PEOPLE
THAT BEAR A STRONG RESEMBLANCE
TO THE MODERN-DAY
GREY ALIENS
THAT WE SEE TODAY.
AND YOU HAVE TO GO
TO THE ACTUAL INDIAN LEGENDS
TO SEE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THEM.
AND WHAT THEY SAY IS THAT
THESE ARE THE STAR PEOPLE.
THESE PETROGLYPHS THAT
DEPICT BEINGS,
ARE THEY PRIESTS?
ARE THEY OTHER TYPES OF BEINGS?
WE DON'T REALLY KNOW.
THEY'RE MYSTERIOUS.
THEY GO BACK CENTURIES.
BUT IT IS TRUE
THAT NATIONS THEMSELVES HAD
A LONG HISTORY
OF TALKING
ABOUT THEIR CONNECTION
TO THESE SKY BEINGS,
THAT THEY WERE CREATED BY
OR WERE TAUGHT
BY THESE SKY BEINGS.
Man: PEOPLE SAY THEY'RE DOODLES
OR INDIAN GRAFFITI.
IN MY EYES, THEY'RE TRYING
TO DEPICT SOMETHING
THEY'D ACTUALLY SEEN,
SOMETHING OTHERWORLDLY,
TO A FUTURE GENERATION.
THE PETROGLYPHS, THEY BASICALLY
TELL THE STORY OF OUR PEOPLE.
THE IMAGES ARE
THE TEACHERS OF OUR PEOPLE.
Narrator: IF THESE DEPICTIONS
ARE EVIDENCE
OF HUMAN INTERACTION
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS
IN THE DISTANT PAST,
COULD THEY REALLY BE CONNECTED
TO SIGHTINGS
OF UFOs MORE RECENTLY?
WHEN THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
WERE SEEN
IN THE SOUTHWESTERN SKY
OVER THE CITY,
THEY WERE TRAVELING
OVER THE ESTRELLA MOUNTAINS.
IN THE SHADOW OF THESE MOUNTAINS
LIES THE GILA RIVER
INDIAN RESERVATION,
HOME OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
Man: NATIVE PEOPLES OF
THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
HAVE TALKED ABOUT SEEING UFOs
IN THE SKY FOR CENTURIES.
THE MOUNTAINS CALLED
THE ESTRELLA MOUNTAINS,
WHICH MEANS STAR MOUNTAINS,
THE WORD COMES FROM,
UH, WHEN THE --
THE SPANISH ENTERED THAT AREA.
THEY LEARNED,
FROM THE LOCAL PEOPLE,
THAT THIS IS WHERE THE STAR
BEINGS WOULD COME FROM.
IT SOUNDS A LITTLE BIT
LIKE THEY'RE DESCRIBING
KIND OF A PLACE
OR MAYBE A PORTAL WHERE
THEY'RE COMING FROM TO MEET
WITH THE LOCAL PEOPLE.
Man: THE ESTRELLA MOUNTAINS,
WE BELIEVE, ARE SACRED,
ARE PORTALS TO OTHER DIMENSIONS.
OUR PEOPLE WERE GOING THERE
AND EXCHANGING INFORMATION
WITH THE TEACHERS.
Man: THE HOPI HAVE A LONG
TRADITION OF BELIEF.
THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY
ORIGINALLY CAME FROM THE STARS
AND THAT, ONE DAY, PERHAPS,
THEY WILL GO BACK TO THE STARS.
DOES THIS MEAN
THAT THE HOPI AND OTHER TRIBES
IN THAT AREA WERE INTERACTING
WITH THESE VISITORS
AND PERHAPS HAVE BEEN
FOR MILLENNIA?
IT BLEW ME AWAY TO LEARN
THAT NATIVE CULTURES BELIEVE
THAT THESE PHENOMENA
ARE OTHER INTELLIGENCES
COMING TO GIVE THEM GUIDANCE,
INSPIRATION AND KNOWLEDGE.
SO, WHEN I NOTICED THESE
PHENOMENA, I CALLED THEM UP.
AND I SAID, "DID ANYBODY SEE
STRANGE LIGHTS ON MARCH 13TH?"
AND THEY STARTED TO GIGGLE.
AND THEY SAID, "ARE YOU KIDDING?
WE'VE BEEN LOOKING UP
AT THEM FOR CENTURIES."
THEY CALL THEM
SKY PEOPLE, LIGHT BEINGS.
IT'S PART OF THEIR CULTURE.
AND THEY EMBRACE
THESE PHENOMENA.
Narrator: LIKE THE ANCIENT
EGYPTIAN CONNECTION
TO THE SUN GOD,
HOPI LEGENDS TELL OF A FUTURE
WHERE THE TRIBE'S FAITHFUL
WILL BE LIFTED
BY THEIR SO-CALLED GODS
TO ANOTHER WORLD
ON WHAT THEY CALL
THE DAY OF PURIFICATION.
WE BELIEVE THAT THERE'S GONNA
BE A DAY OF PURIFICATION.
THE PEOPLE WHO STAY TRUE
AND BELIEVE IN OUR TEACHINGS
AND OUR WAYS ARE THE ONES
THAT ARE GONNA MAKE IT
INTO THE NEXT WORLD.
Woman:
WHAT IS THIS OTHER PLACE?
IS IT ANOTHER PLANET?
WE DON'T KNOW.
BUT IT IS VERY CURIOUS THAT,
NOT ONLY IN THE NATIVE
AMERICAN CULTURE,
BUT IN MANY OTHER RELIGIONS,
YOU SEE THE SAME TYPE OF THING.
THERE'S A MAJOR DESTRUCTION
ON PLANET EARTH.
AND WE ARE GOING
SOMEWHERE ELSE.
I'M NOT SURE WHERE
THIS OTHER PLACE IS.
BUT THERE IS ABSOLUTELY
NO DOUBT THAT IT'S OTHERWORLDLY.
Man:
IN THE HOPI COSMOLOGY,
THERE'S THE GREAT JUDGMENT
IF WE'RE STILL AROUND
WHEN THAT HAPPENS.
BUT, AT THE END OF THAT,
WHAT'S HOPEFUL IS THAT
HUMANKIND GETS IT,
THAT IT USHERS
IN A NEW AGE OF HARMONY.
Narrator:
IS IT POSSIBLE THE HOPI
AND OTHER PUEBLO PEOPLE
ARE WATCHING
AND WAITING FOR UFOs
THAT WILL TAKE THEM
TO THE HOME OF THEIR ANCESTORS?
COULD THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
REALLY BE SPACECRAFT
LIKE THOSE DEPICTED
IN THE MIDDLE AGES?
AND COULD THE SKY BEINGS
THAT VISITED THE EARLY
HOPI BE THE SAME ENTITIES
THAT ONCE VISITED ANCIENT EGYPT?
UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE IT'S NOT
ONLY POSSIBLE BUT VERY LIKELY.
WE TEND TO THINK OF THE UFO
PHENOMENON AS SOMETHING MODERN.
BUT, WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME
OF THESE ANCIENT MYSTERIES,
WHETHER IT'S STRANGE IMAGES
IN CAVE DRAWINGS,
PETROGLYPHS,
RENAISSANCE ARTWORK,
IT'S INTRIGUING TO DRAW
THOSE PARALLELS AND SAY,
"MAYBE WHATEVER'S GOING
ON HAS BEEN GOING ON
FOR A VERY LONG TIME."
Narrator:
WILL WE DISCOVER FURTHER CLUES
ABOUT MAN'S CONTACT
AND POSSIBLE INTERACTION
WITH OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS?
AND, IF SO, WHAT ELSE
WILL WE FIND?
WHAT OTHER EVIDENCE
WILL BE REVEALED?
MAYBE, ONE DAY, WE MIGHT
DISCOVER A PROFOUND TRUTH
ABOUT MAN
AND OUR POSSIBLE CONTACT
WITH UFOs.
Adjusted CORNELDVD
THE GLOBE.
NOW, ACCORDING TO SOME,
SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE
SUGGESTS MANKIND HAS ACTUALLY
INTERACTED WITH UFOs
AND OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS
THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
Man: WHEN YOU LOOK
AT ANCIENT MYSTERIES,
CAVE DRAWINGS,
PETROGLYPHS,
IT'S BEEN GOING ON
FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
Narrator: EGYPTIAN PHARAOHS,
THEIR TOMBS
AND TEMPLES REVEALING
ASTONISHING SECRETS.
Woman: WHEN YOU HAVE A RULER
WHO IS HALF GOD,
HALF MAN, WAS HE, IN FACT,
EXTRATERRESTRIAL AND HUMAN?
Narrator: ROYAL BLOODLINES
AND DISTORTED SKULLS
EXPOSING A LINK TO ALIEN
BEINGS LONG HIDDEN
THROUGH THE AGES.
Man: DNA TESTING SHOWS THAT
THEY'RE NOT HUMAN.
THAT WOULD MEAN THAT
THEY'RE NOT FROM THIS PLANET.
Narrator:
EVEN IN THE RENAISSANCE,
POSSIBLE SECRETS
OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.
Man: THERE'S A MAN
STARING UP AT IT
JUST LIKE ANYONE SEEING A UFO
WOULD STARE UP AT A UFO.
Narrator: AND, MORE RECENTLY,
A UFO EVENT CAPTURED
IN STUNNING
DETAIL IN THIS FOOTAGE REVEALS
A CENTURIES-LONG RELATIONSHIP
WITH SKY BEINGS.
Man:
THE 1997 PHOENIX LIGHTS CASE
REMAINS ONE OF THE LARGEST
COMPLETELY UNEXPLAINED MASS UFO
SIGHTINGS IN NOT ONLY U.S.
HISTORY BUT IN WORLD HISTORY.
Narrator: NEW INFORMATION
IS TRANSFORMING
WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT.
ARE UFOs REALLY
VISITING OUR WORLD?
IS THE GOVERNMENT
HIDING THE TRUTH?
AND, IF SO, COULD A RENEWED
LOOK AT UNEXPLAINED ANOMALIES
IN EARLY ARCHAEOLOGY,
ARTWORK AND BIOLOGY PROVIDE
SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE
OF THE INTERACTION
BETWEEN HUMANS AND UFOs
THROUGHOUT HISTORY?
CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS
Narrator: JUNE 8, 2016 --
CAIRO, EGYPT.
THE MUSEUM OF EGYPTIAN
ANTIQUITIES RELEASES
A REPORT THAT BECOMES
WORLDWIDE BREAKING NEWS.
IT CLAIMS THAT KING TUTANKHAMUN,
THE YOUNG PHARAOH
WHO DIED AT 19,
WAS ENTOMBED WITH ONE
OF THE MOST MYSTIFYING ARTIFACTS
EVER DISCOVERED
IN THE ANCIENT WORLD.
IT'S ONLY VERY RECENTLY
THAT IT'S EMERGED,
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY
OF ONE OF THE DAGGERS
THAT WAS BURIED WITH HIM.
Narrator: THIS DAGGER, MADE FROM
EXTRAORDINARILY RARE METALS,
HAS INCREDIBLE SIGNIFICANCE
TO UFO EXPERTS.
THE RECENT FINDING IS
ALL THE MORE ASTONISHING
BECAUSE KING
TUT'S MUMMIFIED REMAINS
AND THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS FOUND
IN HIS TOMB
HAVE BEEN CLOSELY STUDIED
EVER SINCE THEIR DISCOVERY
ALMOST A CENTURY AGO.
IN 1922, HOWARD CARTER,
UH, OPENED KING
TUTANKHAMUN'S TOMB
AFTER IT'D BEEN SEALED
FOR OVER 3,000 YEARS.
WHEN THEY CRACKED
OPEN THE TOMB,
THEY FOUND CHARIOTS.
THEY FOUND A -- A GOLDEN THRONE.
THERE WAS THE TOMB ITSELF,
WHICH WAS THIS INCREDIBLY
ORNATE STRUCTURE.
Narrator: INSIDE THE NOW FAMOUS
SOLID GOLD COFFIN,
THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND
THE YOUNG PHARAOH'S
MUMMIFIED CORPSE.
SO MUMMIFICATION IN EGYPT DATES
BACK TO ABOUT 5,000 YEARS AGO.
WHAT YOU DO IS YOU
GOTTA GET RID OF ALL
OF THE MOISTURE IN OUR BODIES.
Narrator: BUT DID THE EGYPTIANS
REALLY PREPARE THE KING
FOR A JOURNEY TO ANOTHER REALM
OR FOR A FUTURE ENCOUNTER
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL ANCESTORS,
AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?
NOW, THE DAGGER,
DISCOVERED WITH AN ORNATE
GOLD HANDLE AND SHEATH,
IS WHAT INVESTIGATORS
ARE FOCUSED ON.
Man: HIS BODY WAS FOUND WITH
SEVERAL WEAPONS,
INCLUDING DAGGERS.
AND ONE OF 'EM
WAS REALLY INTERESTING
BECAUSE IT WAS MADE OF IRON.
IRON WAS A REALLY VERY UNUSUAL
SUBSTANCE FOR THE EGYPTIANS.
AND IT'S VERY BIZARRE THAT,
THOUSANDS OF YEARS LATER,
YOU HAVE THIS IRON KNIFE
THAT HAS ABSOLUTELY NO RUST.
THAT IS, IN OF ITSELF,
AN INDICATION THAT THE IRON
MAY HAVE COME
FROM SOME UNUSUAL SOURCE.
Narrator: EARLY TESTS ON
THE IRON DAGGER'S COMPOSITION
WERE INCONCLUSIVE.
BUT, IN 2016, A RESEARCH TEAM
RE-EXAMINED THE DAGGER
WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY.
USING AN X-RAY
FLUORESCENT SPECTROMETER,
THEY DETERMINED THE METAL'S
ELEMENTAL MAKEUP.
AND THE RESULTS
WERE STUNNING.
THE IRON CAME NOT
FROM THE EARTH
BUT FROM THE COSMOS.
YOU KNOW, KING TUT WAS
DISCOVERED IN THE 1920s.
AND WE'RE JUST LEARNING
THIS NOW THAT,
IN ADDITION TO A GOLD DAGGER,
WHICH HE WAS BURIED WITH,
WAS A DAGGER OF METEORIC ORIGIN.
AT THE VERY LEAST,
YOU HAVE TO SAY
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS UNDERSTOOD
THAT THIS WAS
A VERY RARE THING.
AND I DO THINK IT'S RATHER
INTERESTING THAT HE WAS BURIED
WITH AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL
ARTIFACT.
SO THE EGYPTIANS KNEW
THAT THIS IRON
HAD COME FROM SPACE.
IT HAD COME FROM THAT
PLACE BEYOND THE STARS
THAT THEY ALL WANTED TO GO
TO WHEN THEY PASSED.
AND, CLEARLY, THEY KNEW
THE KING'S DAGGER
WAS OF INCREDIBLE RARITY
AND SIGNIFICANCE.
Narrator: BUT DID THE IRON
IN KING TUT'S DAGGER
SIMPLY FALL FROM THE COSMOS
AS A METEORITE?
OR, AS MANY UFO
RESEARCHERS BELIEVE,
COULD IT HAVE
EXTRATERRESTRIAL IMPLICATIONS?
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS BELIEVED
THAT THE PHARAOHS
WERE COSMIC DEITIES,
HALF MAN AND HALF GOD.
WHEN YOU HAVE A RULER
WHO IS VIEWED BY THE PEOPLE
AS HALF MAN, HALF GOD,
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
COULD THERE BE SOME
SORT OF GENETIC ALTERING?
WAS HE, IN FACT,
EXTRATERRESTRIAL AND HUMAN?
Man: KING TUT HIMSELF
WAS ACTUALLY NAMED
AFTER HIS FATHER, AKHENATEN.
AND THE PURPOSE
OF NAMING HIM
THAT WAS TO CONNECT HIM
WITH THE SUN GOD, ATEN.
TUTANKHAMUN'S NAME ACTUALLY
MEANS, LITERALLY,
THE LIVING IMAGE OF ATEN.
Narrator:
TUT'S FATHER, AKHENATEN,
WAS A CONTROVERSIAL PHARAOH
OF EGYPT'S 18th DYNASTY
WHO WORSHIPPED THE SUN GOD,
ATEN, AS THE CREATOR,
GIVER OF LIFE
AND NURTURING SPIRIT
OF THE WORLD.
STRANGELY,
DEPICTIONS OF AKHENATEN
AND HIS WIFE, NEFERTITI,
HAVE RAISED MANY QUESTIONS
IN THE UFO COMMUNITY.
AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI HAD
A VERY UNUSUAL
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE.
THEY HAD EXTREMELY
LONG NECKS,
ELONGATED SKULLS FREQUENTLY
COVERED WITH HATS.
ALTHOUGH THEY WERE
PHYSICALLY VERY BEAUTIFUL,
IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THEY HAD
SOMETHING MORE TO THEM
THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON.
THERE'S SOME INTERESTING
HIEROGLYPHS THAT SHOW AKHENATEN
AND NEFERTITI HOLDING UP
A CHILD, WHICH WAS PROBABLY TUT.
AND THEY'RE HOLDING UP
THE CHILD TO THIS VERY,
VERY BRIGHT OBJECT IN THE SKY
AS IF THEY'RE RECEIVING
SOME SORT OF ENERGY,
TRANSMISSIONS,
PERHAPS INFORMATION,
FROM SOME HIGHER SOURCE.
WHETHER THAT HIGHER SOURCE
IS THE SUN OR THE SUN GOD
AS IT'S DEPICTED IN THE IMAGE
OR WHETHER IT'S ACTUALLY A --
A -- A SPACECRAFT
OF SOME KIND IS --
IS HIGHLY DEBATABLE.
Narrator: ADDING TO THE ALREADY
BIZARRE PHYSICAL TRAITS
OF HIS PARENTS,
X-RAYS AND CT SCANS
OF KING TUT'S MUMMIFIED BODY
REVEAL THAT THE BOY
KING HAS SIGNIFICANT
PHYSICAL DEFORMITIES SIMILAR
TO HIS ROYAL FAMILY.
KING TUT HAD X-RAYS
AND CAT SCANS TAKEN
OF HIS SKULL IN LONDON.
NOW, THE INTERESTING THING
THAT WE SEE RIGHT AWAY
IS THIS ELONGATED SKULL.
A NORMAL HUMAN SKULL
WOULD CROP HERE.
ALL THAT'S EXTRA.
AND WE WONDER IF HE WAS
NATURALLY BORN THIS WAY
OR IF IT WAS DONE TO HIM
FOR SOME CRUEL REASON.
THIS IS NOT A NORMAL SKULL.
Narrator: FOR UFO RESEARCHERS,
CRUCIAL QUESTIONS REMAIN.
HOW DO WE EXPLAIN
THE UNUSUAL PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES
OF KING TUT
AND HIS ROYAL PARENTS?
AND COULD THERE
BE FURTHER EVIDENCE
OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL
CONNECTIONS BEYOND THE DAGGER?
Man: KING TUT'S DYNASTY
IS A VERY SIGNIFICANT
ONE IN ANCIENT EGYPT.
AND THERE WERE ACTUALLY ALSO
SOME INTERESTING UFO SIGHTINGS,
AT LEAST ONE THAT'S RECORDED,
FROM THAT SAME DYNASTY,
OF A LARGE FIERY OBJECT
THAT APPEARS,
IS THERE FOR SEVERAL DAYS.
NO ONE REALLY KNEW
WHAT TO DO WITH THIS.
AND THEN, EVENTUALLY,
THE, UH, THE FIERY OBJECT,
UH, WENT AWAY.
Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE
SUPPORT THE THEORY PROPOSED
BY UFO EXPERTS THAT
THE EGYPTIAN ROYAL FAMILY
COULD HAVE HAD INTERACTIONS
WITH OTHERWORLDLY ENTITIES?
AND, IF SO, MIGHT KING
TUT'S IRON DAGGER
HAVE SIMPLY BEEN HANDED
TO HIM IN LIFE LIKE A GIFT
BY BEINGS THAT ARRIVED HERE
IN WHAT WE CALL UFOs?
YOU HAVE THIS PATTERN
WHERE THE BLOODLINES,
THE DNA, SUPPOSEDLY DESCENDS
FROM THESE GODS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
WHO MAY HAVE BEEN
ACTUALLY NOT GODS AT ALL
BUT PEOPLE FROM ANOTHER WORLD
WHO CAME HERE
FOR THEIR OWN REASONS.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DAGGER
AND THE ELONGATED SKULLS
AND THE CARVINGS
ON THEIR TEMPLES,
I BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE
ALL CONNECTED.
SO I BELIEVE THAT THEY DID,
IN FACT, INTERBREED WITH ALIENS.
AND, WHEN THEY DIED,
THEY WERE GONNA GO BACK
TO THEIR HOME PLANET
IN THE AFTERLIFE.
Narrator: FOR MANY, THE THEORY
THAT EGYPT'S ROYAL FAMILY
COULD BE CONNECTED
TO INTERSTELLAR
BEINGS COULD SEEM FAR-FETCHED.
BUT UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
THERE IS EVEN MORE EVIDENCE
THAT RAISES FURTHER QUESTIONS
UNEXPLAINED BY SCIENCE,
EVIDENCE FOUND HALFWAY
AROUND THE WORLD
LINKING UFOs TO 3,000-YEAR-OLD
REMAINS UNEARTHED IN PERU.
ator: THE MYSTERY OF ANCIENT
EGYPTIAN MUMMIFICATION
AND ELONGATED SKULLS
AND QUESTIONS
ABOUT THEIR POSSIBLE CONNECTION
TO OTHERWORLDLY ENTITIES DEEPENS
WHEN UFO RESEARCHERS DISCOVER
HIGHLY UNUSUAL ANCIENT
CARVED DEPICTIONS.
HERE, 25 MILES NORTHEAST
OF THE VALLEY
OF THE KINGS,
ALONG THE NILE RIVER,
LIES ABYDOS, EGYPT,
AND THE ANCIENT
RUINS OF THE SETI TEMPLE.
ABYDOS IS A CITY IN EGYPT
ABOUT 150 MILES FROM CAIRO
WHERE A LOT OF THE ANCIENT
KINGS ARE BURIED.
A LOT OF THE ANCIENT PHARAOHS
AND THEIR WIVES ARE BURIED.
AND IT'S A VERY BIZARRE PLACE
BECAUSE THERE'S ALL
THESE TEMPLES SET UP
TO THESE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GODS
AND GOD-KINGS.
Narrator: INSIDE EGYPT'S MOST
EXTRAORDINARY TEMPLE,
THERE EXISTS STRANGE
AND HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL
STONE RELIEFS CARVED
INTO THE WALLS
AND SUPPORT BEAMS
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
Man: ABOUT 15, 20 YEARS AGO,
A PANEL ACTUALLY FELL OFF
ABOVE ONE OF THESE COLUMNS.
AND IT REVEALED A MUCH
OLDER PANEL BEHIND IT, IN FACT,
A PANEL THAT MAY HAVE GONE
ALL THE WAY BACK
TO 10,000 YEARS AGO.
AND, ON THIS PANEL,
YOU CAN SEE WHAT ARE CLEARLY
TECHNOLOGICAL WAR MACHINES.
Man: PEOPLE LOOK AT IT
BECAUSE THEY SEE
WHAT LOOKS LIKE A HELICOPTER
AND OTHER TYPES OF MACHINERY.
UH, SOME PEOPLE THINK
ONE THING LOOKS LIKE
A SUBMARINE AND SO FORTH.
Man: THESE SETI TEMPLE IMAGES
ARE FASCINATING.
IT WOULD APPEAR THAT WE WERE,
AT SOME STAGE
IN THE PAST,
VISITED BY SOMEBODY
WHO HAD ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT
THESE IMAGES SHOW.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS
IN THE MIND'S EYE
OF WHOEVER CREATED THOSE IMAGES,
WHETHER THEY'RE LITERAL
OR JUST SOMETHING
FROM THE IMAGINATION.
Narrator: MAINSTREAM SCHOLARS
ARE AT A COMPLETE LOSS
TO EXPLAIN
HOW SUCH IMAGES
COULD HAVE BEEN IMAGINED
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
YOU HAVE OBJECTS THERE THAT,
BY ALL CONVENTIONAL TERMS,
WOULD LOOK LIKE
MODERN-DAY AIRCRAFT.
HOW COULD THIS BE?
WERE THEY SOMETHING THAT
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS SAW?
Narrator: EXPERTS IN THE UFO
COMMUNITY BELIEVE
THE MYSTERY CAN BE EXPLAINED
BY TAKING A CLOSER LOOK
AT THE REASON
THE SETI TEMPLE WAS BUILT.
THE ENTIRE TEMPLE AT ABYDOS
IS ESSENTIALLY A TEMPLE
TO THE EGYPTIAN GOD, OSIRIS,
THE GOD OF THE AFTERLIFE,
THE DEAD,
JUDGEMENT AND RESURRECTION.
Narrator: IN ANCIENT
EGYPTIAN WRITINGS,
KNOWN AS THE PYRAMID TEXTS,
OSIRIS IS SAID TO BE
TRAVELING WITH THE SUN GOD
AMONGST THE STARS.
WHAT DOES THIS REALLY MEAN?
Man: THE IDEA OF GODS COMING
FROM THE SKY IS --
IS NOT UNIQUE -- ALL THE ANCIENT
CULTURES HAVE THAT.
BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING
IS THAT, AS YOU DIG INTO THEM,
WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT
ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT LEGENDS
OF THESE GODS
THAT COME FROM THE SKY,
THEY SEEM TO COME IN,
NOT LIKE DESCENDING AS ANGELS,
BUT ACTUALLY COMING
ON PHYSICAL CRAFT,
THINGS THAT ARE DESCRIBED
AS FLAMING SHIELDS
OR DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROCKETS.
Narrator:
IN THE SETI TEMPLE,
OSIRIS IS COMMONLY DEPICTED
AS A PHARAOH
WITH A STRIKING
PHYSICAL COMPLEXION.
Man: OSIRIS IS FREQUENTLY
DEPICTED WITH GREEN SKIN.
AND THIS APPEARS
TO BE A REPRESENTATION
OF HIS EXISTENCE
AFTER HIS DEATH,
THAT HIS SKIN HAS TURNED GREEN,
THAT HE'S THE DEAD
AND RESURRECTED OSIRIS.
AND, FREQUENTLY,
HE'S DEPICTED ON HIS THRONE
WITH VARIOUS SCEPTERS
AND VARIOUS INSTRUMENTALITIES
THAT HE APPEARS
TO BE WIELDING.
Narrator: STRANGELY,
DEPICTIONS OF OSIRIS
ARE EERILY SIMILAR TO KING TUT
AND HIS ROYAL PARENTS,
AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI.
DO SUCH SIMILAR PHYSICAL
TRAITS LEND CREDENCE
TO THE THEORY SUGGESTED
BY UFO RESEARCHERS THAT OSIRIS
AND THE EGYPTIAN ROYAL FAMILY
ARE OF THE SAME RACE
OF ALIEN BEINGS?
OR DID OSIRIS BREED
WITH EGYPTIAN ROYAL ANCESTORS
AND PASS ON ALIEN
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS?
Man:
THERE'S THIS DEEP CONNECTION
BETWEEN EGYPT AND THE SKY
AND SPACE AND ALIENS.
AND YOU COULD ARGUE THAT,
LIKE, OSIRIS WAS,
IN FACT, AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL.
THESE ANCIENT GODS
THAT CAME AND INTERACTED
WITH THE PHARAOHS,
IS THERE SOME KIND
OF GENETIC MANIPULATION
GOING ON TO MAKE THESE DEMIGODS?
IF SO, WHAT WOULD BE
THE PURPOSE OF CREATING
A RULING CLASS
TO BUILD THEIR TEMPLES
AND THEIR PYRAMIDS?
FOR WHAT REASON IS UNKNOWN.
Narrator:
FOR UFO EXPERTS,
THE STRANGE SKULLS DEPICTED
IN THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CULTURE
ARE A CLEAR INDICATION
OF PHYSICAL INTERACTION
BETWEEN EGYPT'S ROYALS AND UFOs.
BUT WHAT GETS EVEN
MORE INTERESTING IS
WHEN YOU TRAVEL
OVER 7,000 MILES,
HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD,
TO DISCOVERIES MADE NEARLY
90 YEARS AGO
IN PARACAS, PERU.
HERE, IN 1928,
IN AN ANCIENT GRAVEYARD,
ARCHAEOLOGISTS MAKE
A SHOCKING DISCOVERY,
ONE THAT MAY FOREVER CHANGE
HOW WE LOOK AT OUR ANCESTORS
AND OUR ORIGINS.
THE ELONGATED SKULLS
ARE BELIEVED
TO BE AT LEAST
3,300 YEARS OLD,
ABOUT THE SAME AGE
AS KING TUTANKHAMUN'S MUMMY.
SO CRANIAL SHAPING
OR CRANIAL DEFORMATION
IS VERY COMMON
IN ANCIENT CULTURES,
IN ANCIENT EGYPT, ANCIENT PERU
FOR THE INCA AND THE MAYA.
AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SEE
IN MANY DIFFERENT
ANCIENT CULTURES
AS A WAY, AS A MARK
FOR THE ELITE.
Man: MANY CULTURES HAVE HAD
A TRADITION OF BINDING
THE HEAD OF AN INFANT.
AND THIS PRODUCES THESE
ELONGATED SKULLS THAT WE SEE.
I THINK WE HAVE ALWAYS
BELIEVED THAT THE BRAIN,
THAT'S INEXTRICABLY LINKED
WITH INTELLIGENCE --
SO ENLARGING THE HEAD
MIGHT BE AN ATTEMPT
TO PRODUCE SOMEBODY
WHO IS SMARTER.
Woman: EVEN WITH SKULL-BINDING
TECHNIQUES
THAT WE SEE SOMETIMES
IN ANCIENT CULTURES,
YOU STILL CAN'T CHANGE
THE VOLUME OF THE HEAD.
Narrator:
HOWEVER, THE PARACAS SKULLS
HAVE VERY UNUSUAL CRANIUMS.
Man: THESE PARACAS, PERU SKULLS,
THEY'RE ALSO 25 PERCENT LARGER
AND 60 PERCENT HEAVIER
THAN THE AVERAGE HUMAN SKULL.
NOW, THAT PUTS THEM IN
AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CLASS.
Narrator: IN 2014, PRELIMINARY
DNA TESTING
ON THE SKULLS WAS PERFORMED.
THE RESULTS PROVED
HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL
WHEN IT WAS DETERMINED
THAT SOME OF THE SKULLS
HAVE A UNIQUE DNA PATTERN
THAT SCIENTISTS ARE
AT A LOSS TO EXPLAIN.
Man: DNA TESTING IN 2014
SHOWED THAT THESE SKULLS
HAVE MITOCHONDRIAL DNA
THAT IS UNRELATED
TO HUMAN BEINGS
OR ANY OTHER
MAJOR PRIMATE OR ANIMAL.
WITH THE RECENT DNA TESTING
ON THESE SKULLS
THAT SHOWS THAT
THEY'RE NOT HUMAN,
THAT WOULD MEAN THAT
THEY'RE EXTRATERRESTRIAL.
AND THEY'RE NOT
FROM THIS PLANET.
Narrator: MORE RECENTLY,
A SECOND ROUND
OF TESTING PROVES
JUST AS CONTENTIOUS.
Man: EVEN MORE BIZARRELY,
THEY FOUND
THAT THE SKULLS
WERE OF MIDDLE EASTERN
ORIGIN WHICH WOULD, AGAIN,
GO BACK TO ANCIENT EGYPT.
HOW DID THEY END UP IN PERU?
NOBODY KNOWS THE ANSWER
TO THAT BECAUSE,
ACCORDING TO THE HISTORY BOOKS,
THERE WAS NO COMMUNICATION,
NO TRAVELING BETWEEN
THESE TWO CONTINENTS.
Narrator:
FOR UFO INVESTIGATORS,
THE EVIDENCE OF ELONGATED SKULLS
AND THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL DAGGER
CLEARLY INDICATES CONTACT
WITH UFOs IN THE DISTANT PAST.
AND THEY SAY THERE ARE
MORE RECENT EXAMPLES,
THE CONTINUOUS, STEADY DRUMBEAT
SUPPORTING THE IDEA
OF CONTACT THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
FURTHER EXAMPLES CAN BE FOUND
HIDDEN SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS
AND STUDIED ARTWORK
OF THE RENAISSANCE.
Narrator: UFO EXPERTS BELIEVE
THE ROYAL BLOODLINE
OF EGYPTIAN PHARAOHS
AND ELONGATED SKULLS
FOUND IN PERU
MAY WELL HAVE EXPOSED THE TRUTH
OF HUMAN INTERACTION WITH UFOs.
FLASH FORWARD
TO THE RENAISSANCE,
A PERIOD IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
FROM THE 14th
TO THE 17th CENTURY,
WHERE INVESTIGATORS SUSPECT
A CLOSER LOOK
AT SOME OF MANKIND'S
MOST REVERED ARTWORK
MAY REVEAL FURTHER SECRETS
OF UFO CONTACT
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.
Man: THE RENAISSANCE
WAS AN EXPLOSION
OF CREATIVITY AND OF THOUGHT.
IN MANY WAYS,
IT WAS A REACTION
AGAINST THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
AND IT WAS A PERIOD
WHICH BEGAN TO SEE
THEIR AUTHORITY DECLINE
SOMEWHAT.
Man: PEOPLE WERE THINKING
FOR THEMSELVES,
CHALLENGING THE ORTHODOXY,
UH, THE PARTY LINE,
A VERY HUMAN THING.
EGOS GOT INVOLVED.
AND THE CHURCH WAS PUT
ON THE DEFENSIVE.
Man: MANY OF THESE NEW IDEAS
WERE EXTREMELY CHALLENGING
TO THE CHURCH.
AND THEY FELT THAT
THEY HAD TO FIGHT BACK
AGAINST THIS FOR FEAR
THAT IT WOULD ERODE
THEIR AUTHORITY.
Narrator: IN AN EFFORT TO
PRESERVE ITS DOMINANCE,
THE CHURCH IMPOSED STRICT RULES
AND HARSH PUNISHMENT
FOR THOSE INTERESTED
IN SCIENTIFIC LEARNING
AND NEW IDEAS
ABOUT THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.
THE CATHOLICS
HAD ALSO IMPOSED VERY,
VERY STRICT RULES
AGAINST SCIENTIFIC LEARNING
AND SCIENCE IN GENERAL.
THEY DIDN'T WANT PEOPLE
LIKE GALILEO TO TELL US
THAT THE, UH, EARTH
REVOLVED AROUND THE SUN
AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
Man: THE CHURCH'S REACTION
TO THAT KIND OF --
OF OVERVIEW OF THE RENAISSANCE
WAS BRUTAL AND SWIFT.
PEOPLE BURNED AT THE STAKE
FOR SUGGESTING
THAT THERE MAY BE LIFE ELSEWHERE
BECAUSE THEY WERE
LOSING THEIR INFLUENCE.
AND THEY WERE LOSING
THEIR CONTROL.
Man: IT'S A FACT THAT THE CHURCH
OF THE MIDDLE AGES
WOULD HAVE YOU PUT TO DEATH
IF YOU PUT FORTH A THEOLOGY
THAT WAS IN CONTRADICTION
TO WHAT THEY STATED WAS
THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE.
IN FACT, UH,
IN THE 16th CENTURY,
THEY BURNED A MAN
NAMED GIORDANO BRUNO ALIVE
AT THE STAKE FOR, UH,
SUGGESTING THAT THERE WAS LIFE
BEYOND PLANET EARTH,
LIFE JUST LIKE OURS.
AND THEY KILLED HIM.
Narrator: STILL, THE RENAISSANCE
SAW AN EXPLOSION
IN MAN'S KNOWLEDGE
OF THE NATURAL WORLD.
Man: THIS WAS THE BEGINNING
OF WHAT EVENTUALLY
BECAME THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
WHERE SCIENCE BEGAN
TO DISPLACE RELIGION
AS OUR WAY OF EXPLAINING
OUR POSITION IN THE COSMOS.
Narrator: BUT WAS THIS GIANT
LEAP FORWARD
SIMPLY THE RESULT OF MAN'S
GROWING INTELLECT?
OR IS THERE MORE TO THE STORY?
IN SUCH A HOSTILE CLIMATE,
IS IT POSSIBLE TO FIND,
IN SOME WORKS OF ART
FROM THE RENAISSANCE,
HINTS OF UFO CONNECTIONS
OR AT LEAST CLUES
TO THINGS THAT POINT
BEYOND THE KNOWN WORLD?
ONE SUCH PAINTING CALLED
"THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST,"
CREATED BY AERT DE GELDER,
DEPICTS THE BIBLICAL SCENE
WHERE JOHN THE BAPTIST
IS BAPTIZING JESUS
IN THE RIVER JORDAN.
IN "THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST,"
CLEARLY,
INSTEAD OF SEEING
SOME SORT OF SPIRITUAL
BEING AS YOU WOULD EXPECT,
IN THE PAINTING, THERE IS A --
A SPHERICAL-TYPE OBJECT
EMITTING RAYS DOWN TO CHRIST.
WHAT IS THIS OBJECT?
I MEAN, IT'S NOT A CLOUD.
IT'S NOT THE SUN.
IT'S NOT GOD'S FACE.
IT'S A DISC-SHAPED OBJECT.
AND THERE'S REALLY
NO DISPUTING THAT.
IT APPEARS TO BE SAYING THAT
JOHN THE BAPTIST'S INSPIRATION,
AS WELL AS JESUS' INSPIRATION,
CAME FROM SOMEBODY
ON BOARD THESE CRAFT.
THE QUESTION IS,
HOW DO THESE THINGS END UP
IN THESE RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS?
WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO TELL US?
Narrator: EVIDENCE
OF UNORTHODOX KNOWLEDGE,
SECRETLY EMBEDDED
IN RENAISSANCE ARTWORK,
ACCORDING TO UFO EXPERTS,
CAN BE FOUND HIDDEN IN
"THE MADONNA
WITH SAINT GIOVANNINO,"
COMPLETED IN THE 15TH CENTURY.
Man: IN THE BACKGROUND OF
THE VIRGIN MARY, IT JUST LOOK --
LOOKS LIKE A CRAFT IN THE SKY.
AND, NOT ONLY THAT, BUT YOU SEE,
IN THE BACKGROUND,
THERE'S A MAN STARING UP AT IT
JUST LIKE ANYONE SEEING A UFO
WOULD STARE UP AT A UFO.
AND, NOT ONLY THAT,
BUT SO IS HIS DOG.
NOW, WHY WOULD THAT BE
IN A PAINTING FROM THIS ERA
UNLESS SOMEBODY'S
SEEN IT THEMSELVES?
THEY WERE LEAVING CLUES
FOR US IN THE FUTURE
OF WHAT THEY WERE SEEING
AND WHAT WAS NOT
ACCEPTED AT THE TIME.
Narrator: EXPERTS SAY FURTHER
EVIDENCE OF UFO INTERACTION
WITH HUMANKIND CAN ALSO BE FOUND
IN KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA,
IN A MEDIEVAL MONASTERY
WHERE A FRESCO ENTITLED,
"THE CRUCIFIXION,"
PAINTED IN 1350,
HANGS ABOVE THE ALTAR.
Man: YOU SEE THESE OBJECTS
IN THE SKY.
AND THEY DO LOOK
SOMETHING LIKE, UH,
AN AERIAL VEHICLE
WITH SOMEBODY IN THEM.
MAYBE IT'S JUST
A REPRESENTATION OF A --
A STAR OR A COMET.
BUT IT MIGHT REPRESENT
A LITERAL TRUTH.
IT MAY BE THAT THAT'S
WHAT THE ARTIST SAW.
Man: THESE CRAFT LOOK LIKE
THEY'RE BEING PILOTED
WITH CONTROLS
AND HAVE DIRECTION.
THEY'RE VERY SIMILAR
TO EACH OTHER.
HOW COULD PEOPLE OF THAT
TIME DEPICT SUCH CRAFT
IF THEY DIDN'T EXIST?
OR MAYBE THEY DID.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS,
SUCH IMAGERY REFLECTS
THE SPIRITUAL CONNECTION
BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH UFOs.
BUT IS THIS REALLY THE CASE?
Man: IF THERE WERE UFO SIGHTINGS
BACK IN THAT ERA, IT --
IT WOULD MAKE SENSE,
WOULDN'T IT,
THAT YOU'D WANNA BE VERY CAREFUL
ABOUT PUTTING THAT
INFORMATION OUT THERE.
UH, IT REALLY WOULD BE,
UH, UH, LITERALLY
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.
AND IT IS POSSIBLE
THAT THERE WERE
SOME BRAVE ARTISTS
OF THAT ERA,
UM, WHO WERE SEEING
THINGS IN THE SKY.
AND THEY DECIDED,
"I'M GOING TO DEPICT THEM
IN MY OWN WAY, UH,
FOR POSTERITY."
IN THE PIECE,
"MIRACLE OF THE SNOW,"
SEVERAL DIFFERENT
CYLINDRICAL-TYPE
OBJECTS ARE OBSERVED
ABOVE THE MOUNTAINS.
THESE OBJECTS ARE
FLAT ON THE BOTTOM
AND SLIGHTLY ROUNDED ON THE TOP,
WHICH ARE VERY SIMILAR
TO THE DISCS
THAT WE SEE
IN PHOTOGRAPHS TODAY.
IS THIS, PERHAPS, UH,
A FLEET OF UFOs IN THE SKY?
Man: LOOKING AT SOME OF THESE
RENAISSANCE IMAGES,
THERE ARE THOSE WHO SUGGEST
THESE ARE LITERAL UFOs.
AND PERHAPS THE ARTISTS,
MINDFUL OF THE REACTION
OF THE CHURCH,
THOUGHT THAT INCORPORATING
THESE IMAGES
SUBTLY INTO A PAINTING
AND PERHAPS SAYING,
"IT -- IT'S A REPRESENTATION
OF DIVINITY,"
IS THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN PASS
ON THIS KNOWLEDGE
OF WHAT THEY REALLY SAW
OR WHAT THEY BELIEVED
TO BE TRUE.
Narrator: IN SOME CASES,
INVESTIGATORS
SUGGEST IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE
THAT SOME ARTISTS SIMPLY
MISINTERPRETED UFO SIGHTINGS
AND GAVE THEM SPIRITUAL
SIGNIFICANCE IN THEIR PAINTINGS.
THE PAINTERS OF THAT PERIOD,
DURING THE REN--
DURING THE RENAISSANCE,
WERE CLEARLY HIDING IN PLAIN
SIGHT THE CONNECTION
BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY
AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL RACES,
STAR PEOPLE.
CALL IT WHAT YOU WILL.
THOSE PAINTINGS
ARE A TESTAMENT.
IT'S EVIDENCE.
Narrator:
UFO EXPERTS CLAIM
SUCH INTERPRETATIONS SUGGEST
THAT THIS AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
MAY HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED
BY INTERACTION
WITH AN OTHERWORLDLY
PRESENCE HOVERING
AT THAT TIME
IN THE SKIES ABOVE EUROPE.
HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD,
THAT SAME ALIEN PRESENCE
MAY HAVE ALSO BEEN WITNESSED
BY THE NATIVE PEOPLE
OF NORTH AMERICA
IN AN AREA WE NOW CALL ARIZONA.
EY HAVE FOUND EVIDENCE
THROUGHOUT HISTORY OF CONTACT
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS.
NOW, INVESTIGATORS
ARE FOLLOWING
THE TRAIL OF CLUES
TO NORTH AMERICA,
SPECIFICALLY ARIZONA,
WHERE EARLY NATIVE PEOPLE
MAY HAVE WITNESSED
WHAT THEY REFER
TO AS SKY BEINGS.
BUT, STRANGELY, THE CONNECTION
WAS ONLY REVEALED RECENTLY,
ON MARCH 13, 1997,
8:30 P.M. LOCAL TIME,
WHEN, ARGUABLY,
THE MOST COMPELLING
UFO EVENT IN HISTORY OCCURS.
Man:
WHAT WE CALL THE PHOENIX LIGHTS,
IN FACT,
STARTED IN HENDERSON, NEVADA.
WITNESSES THERE SAW AN OBJECT
THAT WAS CLEARLY GOING SOUTH.
IT WENT ALL THROUGH
THE STATE OF ARIZONA.
THERE WERE, I THINK,
HUNDREDS OF WITNESSES
WHO'D REPORTED THIS
GOING SOUTH DOWN THE STATE.
Man:
PEOPLE WITNESSED THIS CRAFT
GO COMPLETELY OVER
THEIR HEADS VERY, VERY SLOWLY.
THIS CRAFT WAS V-SHAPED
AND HAD MULTIPLE LIGHTS
LONG THE EDGE.
THESE LIGHTS COULD BE LIGHTS.
OR THEY COULD BY
SOME KIND OF PROPULSION.
WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE,
IT WAS LARGE, SILENT
AND INTIMIDATING.
Man:
THE PHOENIX LIGHTS INVOLVED,
UH, MULTIPLE WITNESS
SIGHTINGS OVER A WIDE
GEOGRAPHICAL AREA
IN ARIZONA GOING PRETTY MUCH
ALL THE WAY DOWN TO TUCSON.
SOME WITNESSES THOUGHT THIS WAS
A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT OBJECTS
FLYING IN FORMATION.
BUT OTHERS SAID, NO,
THESE WERE LIGHTS
ON THE UNDERSIDE
OF ONE SINGLE MASSIVE CRAFT.
Narrator: AS THE ENORMOUS OBJECT
APPEARS OVER PHOENIX,
PHONE CALLS FLOOD INTO AREA
LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NEWS MEDIA.
ONE EYEWITNESS,
DR. LYNNE KITEI,
RECALLS HER EXPERIENCE VIVIDLY.
ONE WALL OF OUR BEDROOM
IS A WINDOW.
AND WE LIVE HIGH
ON THE MOUNTAIN
AND HAVE A PANORAMIC VIEW
OF THE CITY SKYLINES.
WHEN MY HUSBAND FIRST
CALLED ME TO THE WINDOW
TO SEE THESE ORBS
IN A TRIANGLE FORMATION,
I THOUGHT TO MYSELF,
"IF I DON'T GET A PICTURE
OF THIS,
NO ONE'S GONNA BELIEVE IT."
SO I GO TO MY CLOSET TO GRAB
A 35-MILLIMETER CAMERA.
AND I STEPPED OUT
ON THE BALCONY,
GOT A QUICK PICTURE OF THE --
THE ORBS AND NOTICED
IMMEDIATELY AN EERIE SILENCE
AS IF TIME HAD STOPPED.
IT WAS JUST BIZARRE.
Narrator:
IN ADDITION TO STILLS,
DR. KITEI ALSO CAPTURES
A VIDEO OF THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
WHILE THEY ARE DIRECTLY
OVER THE CITY.
Woman:
AFTER HAVING AN EXPERIENCE,
IT'S JUST MIND-BOGGLING
IN AND OF ITSELF.
AND CAPTURING
35-MILLIMETER PHOTOGRAPHS
OF THESE ANOMALOUS
AERIAL PHENOMENA,
HAVING THOUSANDS SEEING
THE SAME THING
THAT I WAS WITNESSING
AND DOCUMENTING ON FILM,
I FELT OBLIGED TO SHARE
AND LET PEOPLE DECIDE
FOR THEMSELVES.
Man: THERE'S THIS KIND
OF CLICHED IDEA
THAT UFO SIGHTINGS HAPPEN
ON THE LONELY
COUNTRY ROAD LATE AT NIGHT.
AND PEOPLE WILL SAY, WELL,
WHY DON'T THEY EVER FLY
DIRECTLY OVER A CITY?
WITH THE PHOENIX LIGHTS,
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
I HAD ONE PERSON TELL ME THAT,
ALMOST LITERALLY,
THE STARS SEEMED TO BE
GOING OUT ONE BY ONE.
AND HE LOOKED UP.
AND THEN HE REALIZED
THE REASON THEY WERE GOING OUT
WAS THIS MASSIVE CRAFT
WAS JUST PASSING BETWEEN THEM.
AND IT WAS SO BIG,
IT WAS LIKE A FOOTBALL FIELD
PASSING OVERHEAD.
Woman: IT WAS SO UNNERVING
THAT I CALLED AROUND,
FOUND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS
AT SKY HARBOR
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
WHO SAW THE SAME THING.
THEY LOOKED ON RADAR,
DIDN'T SHOW UP ON RADAR.
THEY TOOK THEIR
BINOCULARS TO LOOK.
AND, IN THEIR OWN WORDS,
THEY SAW SEVEN POINTS OF LIGHT,
TOTALLY EQUIDISTANT
FROM EACH OTHER,
MASSIVE SPAN,
OVER A MILE WIDE,
AND SAID THAT THE WHOLE THING
TURNED AS A UNIT
AGAINST THE WIND
AND THEN ELEVATED SLOWLY
AND MOVED BEHIND SOUTH MOUNTAIN.
Narrator: THAT EVENING,
DESCRIPTIONS OF
THE UNIDENTIFIABLE OBJECT
ARE REPORTED IN
A 300-MILE CORRIDOR
FROM THE NEVADA STATE LINE
THROUGH PHOENIX TO
THE NORTHERN EDGE OF TUCSON.
IN THE DAYS TO FOLLOW,
THERE WAS SUCH A DEMAND
FOR ANSWERS
THAT THEN-ARIZONA GOVERNOR
FIFE SYMINGTON RESPONDS
IN A PRESS CONFERENCE.
Man: I'VE DISCUSSED THIS WITH
THE FORMER GOVERNOR,
FIFE SYMINGTON --
HE WAS A QUITE CONCERNED.
THERE WAS ALMOST A STATE
OF HYSTERIA TAKING HOLD.
SO HE JUST MADE A JOKE ABOUT IT,
A PRESS CONFERENCE.
HE GOT HIS CHIEF OF STAFF
TO DRESS UP IN AN ALIEN SUIT.
Man: AT THE TIME, HE SAID HIS
JOB WAS TO MINIMIZE PANIC.
AND THEY WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY
TO RIDICULE THE PHENOMENON,
TO JOKE ABOUT IT AND TO KIND
OF BRUSH IT ASIDE.
Narrator: THE OFFICIAL
GOVERNMENT EXPLANATION
FOR THE STRANGE OBJECT
IN THE NIGHT SKY
IS EVENTUALLY PRESENTED
BY THE U.S. AIR FORCE.
Man: IT WAS THE MILITARY WHO
FIRST CAME UP WITH
THE EXPLANATION THAT THIS WAS
JUST FLARES
DROPPED FROM AIRCRAFT
ON THEIR WAY
TO BARRY GOLDWATER RANGE.
BUT THE EXPLANATION
DIDN'T STACK UP.
THE FLARES WERE MUCH LATER.
AND, INDEED, SOME SUGGESTED
THE AIR FORCE
HAD DELIBERATELY SCRAMBLED JETS
TO DROP FLARES
SO THAT THIS COULD THEN BE USED
AS A DEBUNKING EXERCISE.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,
THE MILITARY ATTEMPTED
TO CONFUSE
IN THE MINDS OF THE POPULATION
WHAT THEY HAD WITNESSED
EARLIER THAT EVENING
BY DROPPING FLARES
IN A PATTERN
THAT APPEARED TO BE SIMILAR
TO THE UFO LIGHTS
SEEN IN THE PHOENIX SKY.
Man: THE RESIDENTS OF PHOENIX
HAVE SEEN FLARES
AT THE MILITARY BASES
AROUND THERE MANY, MANY TIMES.
THEY'RE USED TO THAT.
FLARES DON'T LAST THAT LONG.
THEY DON'T HAVE
THAT KIND OF PATTERN
THAT STAYS TOGETHER AS IT MOVES.
Narrator: FOR RESEARCHERS,
THE EVENT IS
A WATERSHED MOMENT
IN THE FIELD OF UFO STUDY.
ONE LASTING QUESTION,
HOWEVER, CONCERNS
THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE.
WHY DID THEY ATTEMPT
TO DIVERT ATTENTION
WITH SUCH A COVER-UP STORY?
THERE IS NO DOUBT
IN MY MIND
THAT THERE ARE AGENCIES
WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT THAT KNOW THE TRUTH,
THE FULL TRUTH, ABOUT UFOs.
THERE WAS ONE MEMBER
OF THE PHOENIX CITY COUNCIL
NAMED FRANCES BARWOOD
WHOSE CAREER WAS DESTROYED
BY HER INSISTENCE
ON LOOKING INTO
THE PHOENIX LIGHTS.
AND, AS SHE SAID LATER,
SHE RECEIVED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT
OF POLITICAL AND,
I BELIEVE,
SHE SAID MILITARY PRESSURE
FOR HER TO STAND DOWN
FROM LOOKING INTO THIS.
AND SHE WAS ESSENTIALLY
RUN OUT OF POLITICS
IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH
OF HER INQUIRY INTO THIS.
Narrator: STILL, THE CONTROVERSY
OVER THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
RAGES FOR YEARS.
THEN, A DECADE LATER,
ON MARCH 23, 2007,
BREAKING NEWS REPORTS
THE FORMER
ARIZONA GOVERNOR,
FIFE SYMINGTON,
REVERSES HIMSELF
ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.
Man: HE CONFESSED THAT,
NOT ONLY DID HE BELIEVE
THAT THE UFO INCIDENT
ACTUALLY HAPPENED,
BUT HE SAID THAT
HE HAD SEEN IT, TOO.
HE'S A FORMER PILOT.
AND HE SAYS,
"LOOK, I KNOW AIRCRAFT
WHEN I SEE THEM.
AND I KNOW FLARES
WHEN I SEE THEM.
AND THIS WAS NOT THAT."
Man: THE PHOENIX LIGHTS CASE,
IT REMAINS ONE OF THE LARGEST
COMPLETELY UNEXPLAINED MASS UFO
SIGHTINGS IN NOT ONLY U.S.
HISTORY BUT IN WORLD HISTORY.
IT'S A HUGE CASE.
AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS
WHAT THEY ARE.
THERE'S NEVER BEEN
A SUFFICIENT EXPLANATION
FOR EXACTLY WHAT
THE PHOENIX LIGHTS WERE.
Narrator: IF THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
REALLY WERE ALIEN SPACECRAFT,
AS UFO EXPERTS BELIEVE,
WHY ARE THEY HERE?
AND WHAT COULD EXPLAIN
SUCH EVENTS
IN THE SKIES OVER ARIZONA?
COULD THESE MODERN SIGHTINGS
BE CONNECTED TO POSSIBLE
UFO CONTACT
SEEN THROUGH HISTORY?
PERHAPS FURTHER EVIDENCE
MAY BE FOUND
IN THE NEARBY MOUNTAINS
WHERE LOCAL LEGENDS SPEAK
OF A CENTURIES-LONG RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS
AND SKY BEINGS.
OVERING
WHAT MOST
UFO RESEARCHERS REGARD
AS POSSIBLE EVIDENCE
OF UFO CONTACT
WITH HUMANS
THROUGHOUT HISTORY,
INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE
THE EVENTS OF MARCH, 1997,
KNOWN AS THE PHOENIX LIGHTS,
POINT TO A HISTORIC WORLDWIDE
LINK BETWEEN MODERN
AND ANCIENT CULTURES AND UFOs.
AND, IN PHOENIX,
THE MYSTERIOUS
SIGHTINGS CONTINUE
FOR YEARS TO COME.
Man: WHILE THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
IN 1997 ARE PERHAPS
THE BEST-KNOWN
SIGHTINGS FROM ARIZONA,
THERE WERE ALSO
SIGHTINGS IN 2007,
2008, AND, IN FACT,
OTHER OCCASIONS, TOO.
THE QUESTION ARISES,
WHY SHOULD ARIZONA BE
SUCH A HOT SPOT
FOR THIS UFO ACTIVITY?
Narrator: ON EACH OCCASION,
WITNESSES SAY THE LIGHTS
SEEM TO TRAVEL
A SIMILAR PATH
FROM HENDERSON, NEVADA,
SOUTH THROUGH PHOENIX,
TOWARD TUCSON.
BUT WHY WOULD UFOs APPEAR
TO BE PATROLLING
THE SAME CORRIDOR
OF ARIZONA SKIES?
INVESTIGATORS LOOK FOR ANSWERS
IN THE REGION'S MYSTERIOUS
CONNECTION TO THE ANCIENT
PUEBLO PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR,
THE NATIVE AMERICAN HOPI.
Man: MANY PLACES WHERE STRANGE
LIGHTS HAVE BEEN SEEN,
OR STRANGE CRAFT,
TOOK PLACE IN ARIZONA
OVER LAND OF THE TRIBES
OF THAT AREA AND ARE SACRED.
Man: IN THIS AREA,
THERE'S A VERY LARGE
NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATION,
INCLUDING THE HOPI
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.
AND, OF COURSE,
THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE
A VERY CLOSE RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE GREAT SPIRIT
AND THE STAR PEOPLE.
Man:
MIGRATION INTO THE NEW WORLD
REALLY BEGAN AROUND
15,000 YEARS AGO.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS
HAVE FOUND EVIDENCE
OF PEOPLE LIVING
IN SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES
DATING TO ROUGHLY
12,000 YEARS AGO.
Narrator: LIKE THE EVIDENCE
OF POSSIBLE CONTACT
UNCOVERED IN ANCIENT
EGYPT AND PERU,
ANCIENT ARTIFACTS FOUND
IN THE MOUNTAINS
OF ARIZONA BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS
MAY CONNECT
THE EARLY NATIVE PEOPLE
TO OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS.
HERE, THE EVIDENCE IS FOUND
IN MYSTERIOUS PETROGLYPHS,
OR PICTURES ETCHED
ON STONE CANYON WALLS.
Man: THERE ARE PETROGLYPHS
ALL OVER THE AREA
THAT WERE CARVED BY
THE ANCIENT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
OF THE REGIONS
THAT SHOW, CLEARLY,
OBJECTS THAT APPEAR
TO BE FLYING DISCS
OR FLYING SAUCERS OF SOME KIND.
THEY SHOW BEINGS
THAT ARE CALLED THE STAR PEOPLE
THAT BEAR A STRONG RESEMBLANCE
TO THE MODERN-DAY
GREY ALIENS
THAT WE SEE TODAY.
AND YOU HAVE TO GO
TO THE ACTUAL INDIAN LEGENDS
TO SEE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THEM.
AND WHAT THEY SAY IS THAT
THESE ARE THE STAR PEOPLE.
THESE PETROGLYPHS THAT
DEPICT BEINGS,
ARE THEY PRIESTS?
ARE THEY OTHER TYPES OF BEINGS?
WE DON'T REALLY KNOW.
THEY'RE MYSTERIOUS.
THEY GO BACK CENTURIES.
BUT IT IS TRUE
THAT NATIONS THEMSELVES HAD
A LONG HISTORY
OF TALKING
ABOUT THEIR CONNECTION
TO THESE SKY BEINGS,
THAT THEY WERE CREATED BY
OR WERE TAUGHT
BY THESE SKY BEINGS.
Man: PEOPLE SAY THEY'RE DOODLES
OR INDIAN GRAFFITI.
IN MY EYES, THEY'RE TRYING
TO DEPICT SOMETHING
THEY'D ACTUALLY SEEN,
SOMETHING OTHERWORLDLY,
TO A FUTURE GENERATION.
THE PETROGLYPHS, THEY BASICALLY
TELL THE STORY OF OUR PEOPLE.
THE IMAGES ARE
THE TEACHERS OF OUR PEOPLE.
Narrator: IF THESE DEPICTIONS
ARE EVIDENCE
OF HUMAN INTERACTION
WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS
IN THE DISTANT PAST,
COULD THEY REALLY BE CONNECTED
TO SIGHTINGS
OF UFOs MORE RECENTLY?
WHEN THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
WERE SEEN
IN THE SOUTHWESTERN SKY
OVER THE CITY,
THEY WERE TRAVELING
OVER THE ESTRELLA MOUNTAINS.
IN THE SHADOW OF THESE MOUNTAINS
LIES THE GILA RIVER
INDIAN RESERVATION,
HOME OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
Man: NATIVE PEOPLES OF
THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
HAVE TALKED ABOUT SEEING UFOs
IN THE SKY FOR CENTURIES.
THE MOUNTAINS CALLED
THE ESTRELLA MOUNTAINS,
WHICH MEANS STAR MOUNTAINS,
THE WORD COMES FROM,
UH, WHEN THE --
THE SPANISH ENTERED THAT AREA.
THEY LEARNED,
FROM THE LOCAL PEOPLE,
THAT THIS IS WHERE THE STAR
BEINGS WOULD COME FROM.
IT SOUNDS A LITTLE BIT
LIKE THEY'RE DESCRIBING
KIND OF A PLACE
OR MAYBE A PORTAL WHERE
THEY'RE COMING FROM TO MEET
WITH THE LOCAL PEOPLE.
Man: THE ESTRELLA MOUNTAINS,
WE BELIEVE, ARE SACRED,
ARE PORTALS TO OTHER DIMENSIONS.
OUR PEOPLE WERE GOING THERE
AND EXCHANGING INFORMATION
WITH THE TEACHERS.
Man: THE HOPI HAVE A LONG
TRADITION OF BELIEF.
THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY
ORIGINALLY CAME FROM THE STARS
AND THAT, ONE DAY, PERHAPS,
THEY WILL GO BACK TO THE STARS.
DOES THIS MEAN
THAT THE HOPI AND OTHER TRIBES
IN THAT AREA WERE INTERACTING
WITH THESE VISITORS
AND PERHAPS HAVE BEEN
FOR MILLENNIA?
IT BLEW ME AWAY TO LEARN
THAT NATIVE CULTURES BELIEVE
THAT THESE PHENOMENA
ARE OTHER INTELLIGENCES
COMING TO GIVE THEM GUIDANCE,
INSPIRATION AND KNOWLEDGE.
SO, WHEN I NOTICED THESE
PHENOMENA, I CALLED THEM UP.
AND I SAID, "DID ANYBODY SEE
STRANGE LIGHTS ON MARCH 13TH?"
AND THEY STARTED TO GIGGLE.
AND THEY SAID, "ARE YOU KIDDING?
WE'VE BEEN LOOKING UP
AT THEM FOR CENTURIES."
THEY CALL THEM
SKY PEOPLE, LIGHT BEINGS.
IT'S PART OF THEIR CULTURE.
AND THEY EMBRACE
THESE PHENOMENA.
Narrator: LIKE THE ANCIENT
EGYPTIAN CONNECTION
TO THE SUN GOD,
HOPI LEGENDS TELL OF A FUTURE
WHERE THE TRIBE'S FAITHFUL
WILL BE LIFTED
BY THEIR SO-CALLED GODS
TO ANOTHER WORLD
ON WHAT THEY CALL
THE DAY OF PURIFICATION.
WE BELIEVE THAT THERE'S GONNA
BE A DAY OF PURIFICATION.
THE PEOPLE WHO STAY TRUE
AND BELIEVE IN OUR TEACHINGS
AND OUR WAYS ARE THE ONES
THAT ARE GONNA MAKE IT
INTO THE NEXT WORLD.
Woman:
WHAT IS THIS OTHER PLACE?
IS IT ANOTHER PLANET?
WE DON'T KNOW.
BUT IT IS VERY CURIOUS THAT,
NOT ONLY IN THE NATIVE
AMERICAN CULTURE,
BUT IN MANY OTHER RELIGIONS,
YOU SEE THE SAME TYPE OF THING.
THERE'S A MAJOR DESTRUCTION
ON PLANET EARTH.
AND WE ARE GOING
SOMEWHERE ELSE.
I'M NOT SURE WHERE
THIS OTHER PLACE IS.
BUT THERE IS ABSOLUTELY
NO DOUBT THAT IT'S OTHERWORLDLY.
Man:
IN THE HOPI COSMOLOGY,
THERE'S THE GREAT JUDGMENT
IF WE'RE STILL AROUND
WHEN THAT HAPPENS.
BUT, AT THE END OF THAT,
WHAT'S HOPEFUL IS THAT
HUMANKIND GETS IT,
THAT IT USHERS
IN A NEW AGE OF HARMONY.
Narrator:
IS IT POSSIBLE THE HOPI
AND OTHER PUEBLO PEOPLE
ARE WATCHING
AND WAITING FOR UFOs
THAT WILL TAKE THEM
TO THE HOME OF THEIR ANCESTORS?
COULD THE PHOENIX LIGHTS
REALLY BE SPACECRAFT
LIKE THOSE DEPICTED
IN THE MIDDLE AGES?
AND COULD THE SKY BEINGS
THAT VISITED THE EARLY
HOPI BE THE SAME ENTITIES
THAT ONCE VISITED ANCIENT EGYPT?
UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE IT'S NOT
ONLY POSSIBLE BUT VERY LIKELY.
WE TEND TO THINK OF THE UFO
PHENOMENON AS SOMETHING MODERN.
BUT, WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME
OF THESE ANCIENT MYSTERIES,
WHETHER IT'S STRANGE IMAGES
IN CAVE DRAWINGS,
PETROGLYPHS,
RENAISSANCE ARTWORK,
IT'S INTRIGUING TO DRAW
THOSE PARALLELS AND SAY,
"MAYBE WHATEVER'S GOING
ON HAS BEEN GOING ON
FOR A VERY LONG TIME."
Narrator:
WILL WE DISCOVER FURTHER CLUES
ABOUT MAN'S CONTACT
AND POSSIBLE INTERACTION
WITH OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS?
AND, IF SO, WHAT ELSE
WILL WE FIND?
WHAT OTHER EVIDENCE
WILL BE REVEALED?
MAYBE, ONE DAY, WE MIGHT
DISCOVER A PROFOUND TRUTH
ABOUT MAN
AND OUR POSSIBLE CONTACT
WITH UFOs.
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