17x06 - Top Ten Alien Encounters
Posted: 02/16/24 11:52
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- UFO sighting over multiple cities.
I don't know
what the hell that is.
An extraterrestrial event
that changed the
course of history.
And an alien abduction
witnessed by no
less than six people.
On Ancient Aliens,
we've investigated
dozens of
extraordinary encounters
from among the thousands
that have been reported.
Here's what I consider to be
the most compelling stories:
my top ten alien encounters.
Each one adds to the
growing body of proof
that we have been
visited by extraterrestrials
for thousands of years.
People tell me about their
UFO sightings all the time,
and let me tell you, I've heard
some really incredible stories.
In fact, there are
thousands of UFO sightings
reported every year.
Unfortunately, most are
single-witness testimonials
that can't be
corroborated or verified.
But in 1982, along New
York's Hudson River,
there was a flood
of UFO sightings
reported over multiple days
by hundreds of eyewitnesses.
Number ten on my countdown
of the top alien encounters:
The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings.
Kent, New York.
New Year's Eve, 1982.
Just a few miles from
the Hudson River,
New Year's Eve revelers spot
a gigantic V-shaped craft
throbbing with red,
white and green lights.
As they watch in
amazement, the colors vanish,
replaced by white
lights so bright
they illuminate the ground.
Over the next months,
authorities are bombarded
with hundreds
of similar reports.
Oh, good God.
- What's that?
- I don't know.
- It's not a plane.
- I don't...
I'll be... I'm gonna tell
you something, honey.
I don't know
what the hell it is.
Usually, UFOs just appear
to a small number of
people, and they disappear.
In this case,
people were stopped
on the highways.
People were running
out of their houses
watching this enormous
object pass over
the size of a football field.
The sightings continued
for more than six years
and became the most widely
reported in American history.
The Hudson Valley UFO sightings
continued well up to 1988.
It's estimated
that as many as
5,000 people called in
and made reports
of this very large, lit up UFO.
But why were so
many UFO encounters reported
in this one particular area?
There are six,
and the lead one
has his three lights on.
Everybody else only has two.
Some have suggested the reason
why these sightings have
happened at the Hudson Valley
is because they are
on top of a vortex.
Now, what's a vortex?
Well, there are varying
opinions of what that is.
Some have
suggested that they are
magnetic points
that are part of the
Earth's magnetic grid.
They also represent
the combination
of Earth energies
kind of congregating
into one spot,
these telluric currents
and these magnetic
Earth currents.
And, so, one suggestion
is that they create
portal-type effects or vortexes.
Entrances into the otherworld.
Could the
Hudson Valley UFO sightings
be evidence of a
hidden power vortex
and even a portal
through time and space?
You have places around the world
that are known
for their vortexes.
Stonehenge is said
to have a vortex.
Sedona, Arizona has
a number of vortexes,
and it's famous for them.
And, so, it's thought
that the Hudson Valley
is also a vortex area.
So, you have to wonder
there if these UFOs
have been attracted
to the Hudson Valley.
And still to this day,
no one has come up
with a-a good explanation
of what was happening
in the Hudson Valley
during this time.
They're heading north-northwest.
Holy good God.
Just 150 miles east
of the Hudson Valley,
another extraordinary
encounter took place in 1961.
And what makes it so unique
is that it is the first
documented report
of an alien abduction.
My number nine alien encounter:
The Abduction of
Betty and Barney Hill.
Lancaster, New Hampshire.
September 19, 1961.
Betty and Barney Hill
are driving late at night
when a large flying
saucer intercepts them
and hovers over their car.
Above them, the Hills
observe otherworldly figures
in the windows of the craft.
Days later, the couple
reports missing time,
and after participating
in hypnotic regression,
they claim to realize
that they were abducted
by extraterrestrials.
Under hypnotic regression...
Separately, by the way,
so they each wouldn't
contaminate the other's story...
Betty and Barney told
the exact same story.
The object hovered over the
car, then landed in front of them,
and they were
yanked out of the car
by these small
four-and-a-half-foot beings
and dragged into a clearing,
where they boarded a spaceship.
Betty pleaded with her captors,
if you will, that...
not to harm her, uh,
as she laid on this table
and experiments
were done on her,
like a needle being
inserted into her stomach.
Barney relates a
number of skin samples
and sperm being taken from him.
The beings described
by Betty and Barney Hill
fit the classic case of a Grey.
Now, there are
variations to size
and dimensions of these beings,
but they all seem to have
the same characteristics.
Slim, spindly bodies.
Large oval heads.
Large oversized eyes.
In the years
since their reported abduction,
Betty and Barney
Hill's encounter
has become legendary.
But what was not well-known
was that Betty and Barney Hill
were not the only
members of their family
who have been abducted.
Betty Hill was my
aunt, my mother's sister.
Something that we have
never revealed before
is that my mother had a
close encounter in 1958.
She saw this huge
cigar-shaped craft
hovering over a field.
She had no explanation
for what had happened
as far as she knew.
She had gone shopping,
and she had driven home.
My mother eventually
underwent hypnosis,
and through hypnosis,
she recalled having
been abducted,
as well.
And I also had this uncanny
sort of dreamlike experience
of being taken to a craft.
It appears that this is
generational in my family.
My Aunt Betty was taken,
my mother was taken,
and there's a good chance
that I have been taken, as well.
Could it be
that extraterrestrial
beings are abducting
not only individuals
but also families?
And if so, why?
It seems
that specific bloodlines
are involved here.
And if that's the case,
it raises the
intriguing possibility
that the extraterrestrials are
interested in human biology,
that they are monitoring
specific genetic lines
for some purpose.
One of the most
important factors I consider
when it comes to
evaluating a UFO encounter
is how credible is the witness?
And to me, there is no
better expert than a pilot
when it comes to
reporting on a flying craft.
The next encounter on
my list took place in 1947
and helped launch
the modern UFO era.
The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting.
Washington state.
June 24, 1947.
Aviator and businessman
Kenneth Arnold
is piloting a private
plane near Mount Rainier
when he suddenly spots
nine fast-moving objects
flying in tandem.
As he was flying
around the mountain,
he suddenly caught sight
of a squadron of
strange-looking objects.
He could not figure
out what they were.
He was able to measure
the speed that they
were going at by...
'cause he knew the distance
between two particular peaks
which were about 15 miles apart.
And he timed the passage
of these objects by the peaks
and came to something
like 1,200 miles per hour,
which, in 1947, was
just not done at all,
anywhere close to that.
He later described the objects
as being somewhat delta-shaped
and flying as if you
were to skip a saucer
across a body of water.
And this gave rise to the term
"flying saucer."
The U.S. Air Force
formally categorized
Kenneth Arnold's experience
as a mirage, but it emboldened
others to come forward
with their own
unexplainable encounters,
and a flurry of UFO
reports quickly followed.
When you look at the
year 1947, the statistics are
that there were at
least 800 reports
to police and airports
of people saying that they
were seeing something in the sky
and they didn't
know what it was.
It was actually
required that all officers
fill out a form if
they saw anything
that might be regarded
as a UFO or a flying saucer.
And in addition to that,
they were told not to discuss
their sighting or what
was on their report
with anyone.
Kenneth Arnold's encounter
marked the beginning
of the modern UFO era,
but there are also those
who believe it gave rise
to a massive
government cover-up.
We became aware in the '40s...
of these extraterrestrial
biological entities
and that the government's
been trying to hide it
for all of these decades...
and that the same
question of intent
and agenda
and exactly who
from where and why
are the same questions today.
On October 13, 1917,
A huge crowd gathered,
over 30,000 people in
a small town in Portugal
witnessed an incredible event
that the Catholic
Church declared to be
of supernatural character.
At the center of the
event were three children
who, for months, had
reported receiving messages
from a lady in the sky.
Number seven on my countdown
of the top alien encounters
is the Miracle of
the Sun at Fátima.
Fátima, Portugal.
May 1917.
Three young children walking
through a sheep pasture
are stopped in their tracks
by what appears to
be a glowing angel.
As the figure begins to speak,
they believe she is
the holy Virgin Mary
sent to deliver a very
important message.
These three children
claimed that they were
visited by the Virgin Mary,
who appeared to them in the sky
and told them that she had
certain prophecies for them
and that over the
next six months,
she would return to
them and give them
these prophecies.
And so on the-the
13th of each month,
these three children
would gather on
this hillside in Fátima,
and, according to
them, the Virgin Mary
would appear to them
and tell them these stories.
During one of these visits,
the children claimed that
the apparition told them
she would return
to perform a miracle
on October 13th.
They reported the encounter
to the local Catholic bishop,
and on October 13, 1917,
over 30,000 people
gathered to witness the event.
A huge crowd gathered,
and they said that
they witnessed,
uh, the Sun moving in the sky.
They saw
the Sun spinning like a disk
and then coming down
to the planet Earth,
and people got very frightened.
The incident
was labeled an event
of supernatural character
by the Catholic Church.
But as far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
it was a very different type
of otherworldly encounter.
This whole event took
place for eight minutes,
not eight seconds.
They had time to look it.
It was not the Sun.
It was a UFO because it turned,
it changed its
color all the time.
This object appeared in the
sky in front of the Sun, I believe.
I read all the reports.
And colors of light spread out
from the object to the ground.
To me, it indicates contact
with an extraterrestrial
intelligence.
Encounters reported
by a group of people
can make strange
sightings hard to deny.
And when a UFO
sighting is reported
by thousands of residents
of a major metropolitan city,
in my opinion,
that's about as
undeniable as it gets.
The number six alien encounter
on my top ten countdown:
The Phoenix Lights.
Henderson, Nevada.
March 13, 1997.
At 6:55 p.m.,
local police receive a report
of a massive V-shaped
object traveling southeast
across the night sky.
Over the next three hours,
the craft is witnessed
by thousands of people
as it journeys down
through Arizona
and into Sonora, Mexico.
With most of the reports
coming from Phoenix
as well as photographs
and video footage,
the incident becomes
known as the Phoenix Lights.
The entire city
of Phoenix was able to see
this half-a-mile-long
display of lights over the city
in a very, very
distinctive pattern.
It was a
triangularish-shaped object
seen very reliably
by quite a large
number of witnesses.
Who's our best witness to that?
The best one?
Governor Fife
Symington of Arizona.
As a pilot and a
former Air Force officer,
I can definitively say that
this craft did not resemble
any man-made object
that I'd ever seen.
He says, "Yeah,
I really did see the UFO."
And he describes
it. He actually was
maybe a hundred feet
away from that flying triangle
and could see through
it and the stars above.
Governor
Symington was a qualified pilot
and in the Air Force
Reserve, as well.
I think he knew
what he was seeing.
But some of these
other witnesses said,
"Yeah, I could've almost
thrown a baseball and hit it,
it was that low over
the... over our heads."
The governor of Arizona
described a strange,
triangular UFO
that appeared translucent,
camouflaging itself
amidst the star field above.
They were seen
by hundreds of people.
But when they looked
between the lights,
what they could
see were the stars.
But it wasn't just the night sky
as if there was nothing there.
They were wavy as if
something was getting in the way
of the direct light
from the stars.
So, it's stealth.
It's camouflaged.
Camouflaged?
Could the descriptions
of the Phoenix Lights
indicate that witnesses
were observing
some type of stealth
alien technology
that, whether
intentional or not,
momentarily revealed itself?
And if so,
could there be far more
extraterrestrial aircraft
in our skies than
we ever imagined?
People think of disclosure
as being the archetypal
landing on the White House lawn.
What if aliens are already here
and then disclosure,
open first contact
is the day when they
reveal themselves?
People often ask me,
"Why aren't there
any UFO sightings
before the 20th century?"
And my answer is,
"Of course there were."
History is filled with
alien encounter stories.
But our ancestors
didn't have the words
like "aliens" and "UFOs,"
and, of course,
this was long before
they had built flying machines.
What their stories describe
is what I call
misunderstood technology,
like this UFO
sighting that took place
in the fourth century AD
and forever altered
the course of humanity.
Number five on my countdown:
Constantine's Vision.
Rome.
October 27, 312 AD.
At the Milvian Bridge on
the north side of the city,
deposed Emperor Constantine
prepares to reclaim his
throne from Maxentius.
In the sky,
he witnesses 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.
At that point, he
made a vow to Christ
that if he won the battle,
he would convert to
Christianity for good,
and he would make Christianity
the state religion of
the Roman Empire.
The vision of Constantine
was extremely significant.
They thought it was
some kind of message.
"Fight this battle and establish
this form of Christianity."
KATHLEEN McGOWAN
COPPENS: 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.
Constantine's
victory at the Milvian Bridge
was the first step
in Christianity
becoming Europe's
dominant religion,
and the world was
changed forever.
But was the cross-shaped object
Constantine claimed
to have seen in the sky
really a sign from God?
Or might it have been some
other extraordinary force?
It looked like the
shape of a cross, but the shape
of a cross could have
been airplane-type objects
because the fuselage and
the wings will look like a cross
to somebody who's looking up.
And, of course,
they had no concept
of these things back then.
Now, it was
not just Constantine's vision
because it is described
that the army of Constantine
also saw something
up in the sky.
This was a pivotal moment.
The adoption of Christianity
as the official religion
really changed the world,
and that's now a large
part of the world we live in.
Is it possible
that a 1,700-year-old
UFO encounter
was responsible for one of
the greatest turning points
in human history?
So, the question is
is this one of the
earliest UFO encounters
that we have on record?
And, in my opinion, yes, it is.
Remember when I said earlier
that the case of
Betty and Barney Hill
was the first alien
abduction ever reported?
Well, that's because
the term "alien abduction"
did not exist
thousands of years ago.
In fact, one of the most
compelling abduction accounts
I've ever read is ancient
and can be found in a
text that might surprise you:
the holy Bible.
Number four on my countdown:
Elijah's Chariot.
Northern Israel.
The ninth century BC.
According to Old Testament
texts found in the Hebrew Bible,
it was here that
the prophet Elijah
had several encounters
with both angels and God
during which he was
given prophetic warnings
of drought and cataclysm.
One of the most
important, uh, prophets
in-in Israelite tradition,
of course, is-is Elijah.
Elijah predicts some
rough things coming,
and, of course, they do.
There is a very special role
in communicating God's designs
and sometimes his condemnation.
So, Elijah is met with
rather divine-like figures.
In his final encounter with God,
it is written that Elijah
is met by a chariot of fire
and horses of fire
that take him up to
heaven in a whirlwind.
Elijah's experience
details a spinning object
or a whirlwind
that came over him
and a chariot of fire.
So, the question is
was it the chariot of
fire that was spinning?
Or was it
a beam that came
down and took him up?
It's not a far stretch
to say that this was
an actually, uh, spinning
object that was above him
that took him up into it.
Could the-the fire
have been some sort of engine?
When he's taken
up in a whirlwind,
you know, you only have
to look at, for example,
- when the space shuttle takes to the skies.
- Four, three, two...
You know,
you have these rumbling,
roaring jet flames,
et cetera, et cetera.
If you look at it
in that context,
you could really place
this into a UFO category.
Definitely, these
are, uh, characteristics
that we see of abductions
where people are
taken up into objects.
Could it be that a story found
in one of the earliest
books of the Hebrew Bible
is, in fact,
an account of an alien abduction
that occurred
thousands of years ago?
And if so, what might it reveal
about extraterrestrial
intervention on Earth?
We see from the biblical record
that mankind has a
purpose and a destiny.
There clearly are
extraterrestrials,
and they are clearly
interacting with us
and guiding us and
directing humanity
towards this predestined end.
When it comes to
alien abduction reports,
most rely on the testimony
of the abductees themselves.
It's very rare for an abduction
to be witnessed by anybody else.
But in this next case, there
were multiple witnesses
who saw the abduction
as it happened.
This is one of the
most fascinating
and famous accounts on record.
Number three on my list of
the top ten alien encounters:
The Travis Walton Abduction.
The Apache-Sitgreaves
National Forest, Arizona.
November 5, 1975.
22-year-old forestry
worker Travis Walton
is driving home after sundown
along with six coworkers
when suddenly, a strange
light appears in the sky.
We'd just finished
a long, hard day,
and it was starting to get dark.
So, uh, we loaded
up our equipment.
We were headed home.
And I noticed, uh,
some little glimmers of light
coming through the trees,
and the light
seemed to be coming
from higher than where
ground level would be.
It was only when we
got to where this light
was crossing the road
that we had an
unobstructed view of the craft.
Allen Dalis in the
back yelled out,
"It's a flying saucer!"
And I said, "Mike, stop."
It was a clearly visible,
clearly defined metallic object,
a disc, hovering there,
outlined against the sky.
I threw open the door,
thinking I'd get a closer
look before it took off.
As I got closer to it,
the sound it was making,
it was a sound you-you
both heard and felt.
And, uh, the crew said
they could feel the
vibration in the truck.
They said it seemed like
something was about to happen.
And it was.
That's when this energy hit me.
The crew said that it was
like I'd stepped on a land mine.
Like an expl*si*n
so violent that,
uh, they thought
it, uh, it had k*lled me.
When this beam of energy hit me,
I felt like a physical blow,
but with a sort of a tingling,
sort of an electric shock
sort of feeling
at the same time.
I don't know whether I came to
soon after I was taken aboard.
But I know I was on
some kind of an elevated
gurney or operating table.
I was looking straight into
the face of this creature,
and I just flipped out.
He saw these
hideous entities that scared him.
Maybe quite similar
to the modern idea
of the so-called alien Greys.
And he fought, and he panicked.
And then these aliens
seemed to go away,
and then their place was taken
by much more humanlike aliens,
and he calmed down.
In the case of
these human-looking ones,
I started to have
serious misgivings
that this was a rescue.
And that's when they put
this mask over my face,
and I just blacked
out real quickly.
Now, the suspicion here
was that, actually, these
weren't different aliens.
These were the same aliens,
but they were capable
of shape-shifting
into something else
specifically to calm him down.
Crews searched everywhere
for the missing forest worker.
But it wasn't until five
days later that Walton
reappeared in a nearby town.
I was lying facedown
outside in the dark,
and there was a light above me.
And I saw the bottom
of the craft there
right before it shot
up into the sky.
When details of
Travis Walton's close encounter
were revealed to authorities,
they dismissed his account
as a possible hallucination.
But Travis has no doubt
that what he and his
coworkers experienced
was a genuine
extraterrestrial encounter.
What no one asked
was, you know, "What
about the rest of the crew?"
How do seven people have
an identical hallucination?
And besides that,
they were given
lie detector tests
by state police,
which they passed.
There's real-life things
that occur out there
that need to be understood.
So, take a look at the
facts a-and then judge.
I don't know the
purpose that they had.
All I know is what
happened to me.
This was unmistakable.
Every now and then, an
encounter is so compelling
that it turns skeptics
into true believers.
That's exactly what
happened in the early 1970s
when a NASA scientist set out
to prove Erich von
Daniken wrong.
But, in fact, he
ended up supporting
one of Erich's
theories so strongly
that he even wrote
a book about it.
Number two on my countdown:
The Wheels of Ezekiel.
Northeast Syria.
The Khabur River.
According to the Hebrew Bible,
it was here, in the
sixth century BC,
that divine beings
descended from heaven
and made contact
with a Hebrew
priest named Ezekiel.
Ezekiel was by the River Khabur,
and he said a great
whirlwind came toward him.
He described it as
a fire enfolding itself,
and out of the fire
was the color of amber,
which is the Hebrew word
which means "polished
specter of metal,"
which implies that it's
metallic and that it's spinning.
And it lands in front of him,
and suddenly, out
of this whirlwind
come four creatures.
In the
Bible, the prophet Ezekiel
calls these spiritual
beings cherubims
and describes them as
having four faces, four wings
and skin that shone
like polished bronze.
Ezekiel
says that he was taken up
into the sky and taken
to different places
where he could
see different things.
And then he was told
some of the future things
that were going to come.
This was a huge image of hope
that came to Ezekiel
during his experience.
But is this the
story of a divine encounter?
Or could Ezekiel's description
of metallic wheels
descending from the sky
in a whirlwind of fire
and strange beings with
skin like polished bronze
point to a different type
of otherworldly contact?
He's got the best
description of a UFO
that's anywhere in the Bible...
because he basically says
that the thing looked like
a wheel within a wheel, uh,
kind of a classic flying
saucer description.
Ezekiel describes
that the outside of
the wheel doesn't spin.
The inside of the wheel spins.
So, he's telling us
that's the engines.
None of this necessarily
has to be magic.
This could all be technology.
It's basically the account
of a guy who's been abducted
who has been told certain things
and who's then returned
to the place of origin.
It would be what we
today would describe
as an abduction account.
Could it be that
the prophet Ezekiel's account
of a heavenly close encounter
might have been something else?
Perhaps one not
involving heavenly beings
but visitors of another
interplanetary nature?
This concept was
put forth to the public
by the ancient astronaut
theory pioneer Erich von Daniken
in his 1968 book
Chariots of the Gods?
And after hearing Erich speak
at a conference
in the early 1970s,
NASA engineer Josef Blumrich
was determined to debunk
his controversial interpretation.
I had a speech at
NASA in Huntsville,
and I spoke about Ezekiel.
And the chief
engineer of that time,
Mr. Joe Blumrich,
came to me and said, "Erich,
this was very interesting.
"But in the Bible,
you will definitely not
find any technology."
But he still said,
"I will read originally
in the Bible Ezekiel."
Blumrich set out to find flaws
in von Daniken's theory,
but when he read
the Book of Ezekiel,
he was shocked to
find himself agreeing
with the controversial author.
So much so, in fact,
that he wrote a book called
The Spaceships of Ezekiel
in which he provided a blueprint
for a practical landing module
based on the description
found in the biblical story.
Several years later,
a German structural engineer
named Hans Herbert Beier
also sketched out a blueprint
of the second section
of the Book of Ezekiel
where Ezekiel is told
to construct an
open-topped building
to house the flying chariot.
Hans Herbert Beier
sent the blueprint
to Erich von Daniken.
Within five minutes of
looking at these blueprints,
Erich was on the
phone with Joe Blumrich.
And he said, "Hey, Joe,
can you bring a model of
your spaceship of Ezekiel?"
And then he called
Hans Herbert Beier,
and he said, "Can
you bring a model
of your construction
of Ezekiel's temple?"
Both models were
created to the same ratio.
And guess what?
Ezekiel's spaceship fit
into the temple construction
that Hans Herbert
Beier recreated
according to the
biblical measurements.
As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,
the biblical account of Ezekiel
provides conclusive evidence
of an alien encounter.
But more importantly,
it may also reveal that
for thousands of years,
the destiny of humankind
has been directed
by extraterrestrials.
This may be one of the
oldest alien encounter stories,
but for me, it is still
the most compelling.
Written over 3,000 years ago,
it was banned from the Bible
because this ancient
text describes in detail
humankind's
extraterrestrial origins.
My number one alien encounter:
Enoch's Ascent to Heaven
in a Chariot of the Gods.
Khirbet Qumran, Palestine.
In 1946,
a collection of
ancient manuscripts
known as the Dead Sea Scrolls
is discovered
hidden in clay jars
deep inside a cave.
Among the manuscripts
is the Book of Enoch,
a so-called lost biblical text.
In the Bible's Old Testament,
Enoch is the seventh
of ten patriarchs
who lived before the Great Flood
and the
great-grandfather of Noah.
But where the Hebrew Bible
only mentions Enoch briefly,
the Book of Enoch,
which consists of
more than 100 chapters,
greatly expands on his story.
In it is a curious passage
that details Enoch's
ascent to heaven.
According to the Book of Enoch,
he says he was 12 years old.
The whole community of
his village wanted to sleep,
but then they hear
the noise in the sky.
Two angels came
down from the sky.
One of the two
beings said to Enoch,
"Don't be afraid, human."
Then they went up to
the so-called heaven.
And in
the Book of Enoch, we learn
Enoch himself is taken into
the heavens in a fiery chariot.
Enoch
goes up to the so-called sky,
and there Enoch sees
something over the Earth
which he cannot describe.
He has no word like
"spaceship" or something.
He says it looked
like houses of crystal.
It is described that he sees
planet Earth underneath him.
He actually
describes his arrival,
how he has to walk
through these different rooms
where he sees
jewels and he
sees shiny surfaces
and blinking lights.
It is an eyewitness account.
It's, "I, Enoch, did
this. I, Enoch, saw that."
The Book of Enoch is one
of the first abduction accounts
written down by a
fellow human being.
Does the
Book of Enoch really describe
an actual abduction event?
One that took place
thousands of years ago?
And if so,
might this incredible
close encounter
be documenting communication
with otherworldly beings?
Enoch, he was said
to be at the right hand of God.
In fact, Enoch was
said to be God's scribe
in later tradition.
So, God would decree
things, and Enoch
was the one who recorded
everything that went on.
So, Enoch was the keeper
of all knowledge of heaven.
This is one of the reasons
why the Book of Enoch
is so controversial.
Enoch was the first
human to ascend
to the throne of God,
where he is given powerful
universal knowledge
by angelic beings or
extraterrestrial beings.
If Enoch was given information
from extraterrestrial
beings to share with mankind
as ancient astronaut
theorists contend,
what truths about
our otherworldly past
might be waiting to be revealed?
The extraterrestrials want
that in a far future of mankind,
we start to see these things.
We start to translate
these books.
And now we start
to ask questions.
We start to ask, for example,
how can we explain that?
Have we maybe been
visited by extraterrestrials?
And I think it's important
to think in this way,
because these extraterrestrials
have promised to return.
And one day, they will return.
I was taught not
to believe in coincidence.
I was taught to
look for patterns.
When you have all
these encounters,
these sightings,
these descriptions we have
from biblical times onwards,
it tells you
there's something going on.
Doesn't necessarily tell you
what it is,
but it tells you
there's something there.
Well, that concludes
my list for now.
But considering what is written
in the Book of Enoch,
perhaps, as Erich von Daniken
likes to say,
the most important encounter
of all is yet to come.
- UFO sighting over multiple cities.
I don't know
what the hell that is.
An extraterrestrial event
that changed the
course of history.
And an alien abduction
witnessed by no
less than six people.
On Ancient Aliens,
we've investigated
dozens of
extraordinary encounters
from among the thousands
that have been reported.
Here's what I consider to be
the most compelling stories:
my top ten alien encounters.
Each one adds to the
growing body of proof
that we have been
visited by extraterrestrials
for thousands of years.
People tell me about their
UFO sightings all the time,
and let me tell you, I've heard
some really incredible stories.
In fact, there are
thousands of UFO sightings
reported every year.
Unfortunately, most are
single-witness testimonials
that can't be
corroborated or verified.
But in 1982, along New
York's Hudson River,
there was a flood
of UFO sightings
reported over multiple days
by hundreds of eyewitnesses.
Number ten on my countdown
of the top alien encounters:
The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings.
Kent, New York.
New Year's Eve, 1982.
Just a few miles from
the Hudson River,
New Year's Eve revelers spot
a gigantic V-shaped craft
throbbing with red,
white and green lights.
As they watch in
amazement, the colors vanish,
replaced by white
lights so bright
they illuminate the ground.
Over the next months,
authorities are bombarded
with hundreds
of similar reports.
Oh, good God.
- What's that?
- I don't know.
- It's not a plane.
- I don't...
I'll be... I'm gonna tell
you something, honey.
I don't know
what the hell it is.
Usually, UFOs just appear
to a small number of
people, and they disappear.
In this case,
people were stopped
on the highways.
People were running
out of their houses
watching this enormous
object pass over
the size of a football field.
The sightings continued
for more than six years
and became the most widely
reported in American history.
The Hudson Valley UFO sightings
continued well up to 1988.
It's estimated
that as many as
5,000 people called in
and made reports
of this very large, lit up UFO.
But why were so
many UFO encounters reported
in this one particular area?
There are six,
and the lead one
has his three lights on.
Everybody else only has two.
Some have suggested the reason
why these sightings have
happened at the Hudson Valley
is because they are
on top of a vortex.
Now, what's a vortex?
Well, there are varying
opinions of what that is.
Some have
suggested that they are
magnetic points
that are part of the
Earth's magnetic grid.
They also represent
the combination
of Earth energies
kind of congregating
into one spot,
these telluric currents
and these magnetic
Earth currents.
And, so, one suggestion
is that they create
portal-type effects or vortexes.
Entrances into the otherworld.
Could the
Hudson Valley UFO sightings
be evidence of a
hidden power vortex
and even a portal
through time and space?
You have places around the world
that are known
for their vortexes.
Stonehenge is said
to have a vortex.
Sedona, Arizona has
a number of vortexes,
and it's famous for them.
And, so, it's thought
that the Hudson Valley
is also a vortex area.
So, you have to wonder
there if these UFOs
have been attracted
to the Hudson Valley.
And still to this day,
no one has come up
with a-a good explanation
of what was happening
in the Hudson Valley
during this time.
They're heading north-northwest.
Holy good God.
Just 150 miles east
of the Hudson Valley,
another extraordinary
encounter took place in 1961.
And what makes it so unique
is that it is the first
documented report
of an alien abduction.
My number nine alien encounter:
The Abduction of
Betty and Barney Hill.
Lancaster, New Hampshire.
September 19, 1961.
Betty and Barney Hill
are driving late at night
when a large flying
saucer intercepts them
and hovers over their car.
Above them, the Hills
observe otherworldly figures
in the windows of the craft.
Days later, the couple
reports missing time,
and after participating
in hypnotic regression,
they claim to realize
that they were abducted
by extraterrestrials.
Under hypnotic regression...
Separately, by the way,
so they each wouldn't
contaminate the other's story...
Betty and Barney told
the exact same story.
The object hovered over the
car, then landed in front of them,
and they were
yanked out of the car
by these small
four-and-a-half-foot beings
and dragged into a clearing,
where they boarded a spaceship.
Betty pleaded with her captors,
if you will, that...
not to harm her, uh,
as she laid on this table
and experiments
were done on her,
like a needle being
inserted into her stomach.
Barney relates a
number of skin samples
and sperm being taken from him.
The beings described
by Betty and Barney Hill
fit the classic case of a Grey.
Now, there are
variations to size
and dimensions of these beings,
but they all seem to have
the same characteristics.
Slim, spindly bodies.
Large oval heads.
Large oversized eyes.
In the years
since their reported abduction,
Betty and Barney
Hill's encounter
has become legendary.
But what was not well-known
was that Betty and Barney Hill
were not the only
members of their family
who have been abducted.
Betty Hill was my
aunt, my mother's sister.
Something that we have
never revealed before
is that my mother had a
close encounter in 1958.
She saw this huge
cigar-shaped craft
hovering over a field.
She had no explanation
for what had happened
as far as she knew.
She had gone shopping,
and she had driven home.
My mother eventually
underwent hypnosis,
and through hypnosis,
she recalled having
been abducted,
as well.
And I also had this uncanny
sort of dreamlike experience
of being taken to a craft.
It appears that this is
generational in my family.
My Aunt Betty was taken,
my mother was taken,
and there's a good chance
that I have been taken, as well.
Could it be
that extraterrestrial
beings are abducting
not only individuals
but also families?
And if so, why?
It seems
that specific bloodlines
are involved here.
And if that's the case,
it raises the
intriguing possibility
that the extraterrestrials are
interested in human biology,
that they are monitoring
specific genetic lines
for some purpose.
One of the most
important factors I consider
when it comes to
evaluating a UFO encounter
is how credible is the witness?
And to me, there is no
better expert than a pilot
when it comes to
reporting on a flying craft.
The next encounter on
my list took place in 1947
and helped launch
the modern UFO era.
The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting.
Washington state.
June 24, 1947.
Aviator and businessman
Kenneth Arnold
is piloting a private
plane near Mount Rainier
when he suddenly spots
nine fast-moving objects
flying in tandem.
As he was flying
around the mountain,
he suddenly caught sight
of a squadron of
strange-looking objects.
He could not figure
out what they were.
He was able to measure
the speed that they
were going at by...
'cause he knew the distance
between two particular peaks
which were about 15 miles apart.
And he timed the passage
of these objects by the peaks
and came to something
like 1,200 miles per hour,
which, in 1947, was
just not done at all,
anywhere close to that.
He later described the objects
as being somewhat delta-shaped
and flying as if you
were to skip a saucer
across a body of water.
And this gave rise to the term
"flying saucer."
The U.S. Air Force
formally categorized
Kenneth Arnold's experience
as a mirage, but it emboldened
others to come forward
with their own
unexplainable encounters,
and a flurry of UFO
reports quickly followed.
When you look at the
year 1947, the statistics are
that there were at
least 800 reports
to police and airports
of people saying that they
were seeing something in the sky
and they didn't
know what it was.
It was actually
required that all officers
fill out a form if
they saw anything
that might be regarded
as a UFO or a flying saucer.
And in addition to that,
they were told not to discuss
their sighting or what
was on their report
with anyone.
Kenneth Arnold's encounter
marked the beginning
of the modern UFO era,
but there are also those
who believe it gave rise
to a massive
government cover-up.
We became aware in the '40s...
of these extraterrestrial
biological entities
and that the government's
been trying to hide it
for all of these decades...
and that the same
question of intent
and agenda
and exactly who
from where and why
are the same questions today.
On October 13, 1917,
A huge crowd gathered,
over 30,000 people in
a small town in Portugal
witnessed an incredible event
that the Catholic
Church declared to be
of supernatural character.
At the center of the
event were three children
who, for months, had
reported receiving messages
from a lady in the sky.
Number seven on my countdown
of the top alien encounters
is the Miracle of
the Sun at Fátima.
Fátima, Portugal.
May 1917.
Three young children walking
through a sheep pasture
are stopped in their tracks
by what appears to
be a glowing angel.
As the figure begins to speak,
they believe she is
the holy Virgin Mary
sent to deliver a very
important message.
These three children
claimed that they were
visited by the Virgin Mary,
who appeared to them in the sky
and told them that she had
certain prophecies for them
and that over the
next six months,
she would return to
them and give them
these prophecies.
And so on the-the
13th of each month,
these three children
would gather on
this hillside in Fátima,
and, according to
them, the Virgin Mary
would appear to them
and tell them these stories.
During one of these visits,
the children claimed that
the apparition told them
she would return
to perform a miracle
on October 13th.
They reported the encounter
to the local Catholic bishop,
and on October 13, 1917,
over 30,000 people
gathered to witness the event.
A huge crowd gathered,
and they said that
they witnessed,
uh, the Sun moving in the sky.
They saw
the Sun spinning like a disk
and then coming down
to the planet Earth,
and people got very frightened.
The incident
was labeled an event
of supernatural character
by the Catholic Church.
But as far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
it was a very different type
of otherworldly encounter.
This whole event took
place for eight minutes,
not eight seconds.
They had time to look it.
It was not the Sun.
It was a UFO because it turned,
it changed its
color all the time.
This object appeared in the
sky in front of the Sun, I believe.
I read all the reports.
And colors of light spread out
from the object to the ground.
To me, it indicates contact
with an extraterrestrial
intelligence.
Encounters reported
by a group of people
can make strange
sightings hard to deny.
And when a UFO
sighting is reported
by thousands of residents
of a major metropolitan city,
in my opinion,
that's about as
undeniable as it gets.
The number six alien encounter
on my top ten countdown:
The Phoenix Lights.
Henderson, Nevada.
March 13, 1997.
At 6:55 p.m.,
local police receive a report
of a massive V-shaped
object traveling southeast
across the night sky.
Over the next three hours,
the craft is witnessed
by thousands of people
as it journeys down
through Arizona
and into Sonora, Mexico.
With most of the reports
coming from Phoenix
as well as photographs
and video footage,
the incident becomes
known as the Phoenix Lights.
The entire city
of Phoenix was able to see
this half-a-mile-long
display of lights over the city
in a very, very
distinctive pattern.
It was a
triangularish-shaped object
seen very reliably
by quite a large
number of witnesses.
Who's our best witness to that?
The best one?
Governor Fife
Symington of Arizona.
As a pilot and a
former Air Force officer,
I can definitively say that
this craft did not resemble
any man-made object
that I'd ever seen.
He says, "Yeah,
I really did see the UFO."
And he describes
it. He actually was
maybe a hundred feet
away from that flying triangle
and could see through
it and the stars above.
Governor
Symington was a qualified pilot
and in the Air Force
Reserve, as well.
I think he knew
what he was seeing.
But some of these
other witnesses said,
"Yeah, I could've almost
thrown a baseball and hit it,
it was that low over
the... over our heads."
The governor of Arizona
described a strange,
triangular UFO
that appeared translucent,
camouflaging itself
amidst the star field above.
They were seen
by hundreds of people.
But when they looked
between the lights,
what they could
see were the stars.
But it wasn't just the night sky
as if there was nothing there.
They were wavy as if
something was getting in the way
of the direct light
from the stars.
So, it's stealth.
It's camouflaged.
Camouflaged?
Could the descriptions
of the Phoenix Lights
indicate that witnesses
were observing
some type of stealth
alien technology
that, whether
intentional or not,
momentarily revealed itself?
And if so,
could there be far more
extraterrestrial aircraft
in our skies than
we ever imagined?
People think of disclosure
as being the archetypal
landing on the White House lawn.
What if aliens are already here
and then disclosure,
open first contact
is the day when they
reveal themselves?
People often ask me,
"Why aren't there
any UFO sightings
before the 20th century?"
And my answer is,
"Of course there were."
History is filled with
alien encounter stories.
But our ancestors
didn't have the words
like "aliens" and "UFOs,"
and, of course,
this was long before
they had built flying machines.
What their stories describe
is what I call
misunderstood technology,
like this UFO
sighting that took place
in the fourth century AD
and forever altered
the course of humanity.
Number five on my countdown:
Constantine's Vision.
Rome.
October 27, 312 AD.
At the Milvian Bridge on
the north side of the city,
deposed Emperor Constantine
prepares to reclaim his
throne from Maxentius.
In the sky,
he witnesses 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.
At that point, he
made a vow to Christ
that if he won the battle,
he would convert to
Christianity for good,
and he would make Christianity
the state religion of
the Roman Empire.
The vision of Constantine
was extremely significant.
They thought it was
some kind of message.
"Fight this battle and establish
this form of Christianity."
KATHLEEN McGOWAN
COPPENS: 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.
Constantine's
victory at the Milvian Bridge
was the first step
in Christianity
becoming Europe's
dominant religion,
and the world was
changed forever.
But was the cross-shaped object
Constantine claimed
to have seen in the sky
really a sign from God?
Or might it have been some
other extraordinary force?
It looked like the
shape of a cross, but the shape
of a cross could have
been airplane-type objects
because the fuselage and
the wings will look like a cross
to somebody who's looking up.
And, of course,
they had no concept
of these things back then.
Now, it was
not just Constantine's vision
because it is described
that the army of Constantine
also saw something
up in the sky.
This was a pivotal moment.
The adoption of Christianity
as the official religion
really changed the world,
and that's now a large
part of the world we live in.
Is it possible
that a 1,700-year-old
UFO encounter
was responsible for one of
the greatest turning points
in human history?
So, the question is
is this one of the
earliest UFO encounters
that we have on record?
And, in my opinion, yes, it is.
Remember when I said earlier
that the case of
Betty and Barney Hill
was the first alien
abduction ever reported?
Well, that's because
the term "alien abduction"
did not exist
thousands of years ago.
In fact, one of the most
compelling abduction accounts
I've ever read is ancient
and can be found in a
text that might surprise you:
the holy Bible.
Number four on my countdown:
Elijah's Chariot.
Northern Israel.
The ninth century BC.
According to Old Testament
texts found in the Hebrew Bible,
it was here that
the prophet Elijah
had several encounters
with both angels and God
during which he was
given prophetic warnings
of drought and cataclysm.
One of the most
important, uh, prophets
in-in Israelite tradition,
of course, is-is Elijah.
Elijah predicts some
rough things coming,
and, of course, they do.
There is a very special role
in communicating God's designs
and sometimes his condemnation.
So, Elijah is met with
rather divine-like figures.
In his final encounter with God,
it is written that Elijah
is met by a chariot of fire
and horses of fire
that take him up to
heaven in a whirlwind.
Elijah's experience
details a spinning object
or a whirlwind
that came over him
and a chariot of fire.
So, the question is
was it the chariot of
fire that was spinning?
Or was it
a beam that came
down and took him up?
It's not a far stretch
to say that this was
an actually, uh, spinning
object that was above him
that took him up into it.
Could the-the fire
have been some sort of engine?
When he's taken
up in a whirlwind,
you know, you only have
to look at, for example,
- when the space shuttle takes to the skies.
- Four, three, two...
You know,
you have these rumbling,
roaring jet flames,
et cetera, et cetera.
If you look at it
in that context,
you could really place
this into a UFO category.
Definitely, these
are, uh, characteristics
that we see of abductions
where people are
taken up into objects.
Could it be that a story found
in one of the earliest
books of the Hebrew Bible
is, in fact,
an account of an alien abduction
that occurred
thousands of years ago?
And if so, what might it reveal
about extraterrestrial
intervention on Earth?
We see from the biblical record
that mankind has a
purpose and a destiny.
There clearly are
extraterrestrials,
and they are clearly
interacting with us
and guiding us and
directing humanity
towards this predestined end.
When it comes to
alien abduction reports,
most rely on the testimony
of the abductees themselves.
It's very rare for an abduction
to be witnessed by anybody else.
But in this next case, there
were multiple witnesses
who saw the abduction
as it happened.
This is one of the
most fascinating
and famous accounts on record.
Number three on my list of
the top ten alien encounters:
The Travis Walton Abduction.
The Apache-Sitgreaves
National Forest, Arizona.
November 5, 1975.
22-year-old forestry
worker Travis Walton
is driving home after sundown
along with six coworkers
when suddenly, a strange
light appears in the sky.
We'd just finished
a long, hard day,
and it was starting to get dark.
So, uh, we loaded
up our equipment.
We were headed home.
And I noticed, uh,
some little glimmers of light
coming through the trees,
and the light
seemed to be coming
from higher than where
ground level would be.
It was only when we
got to where this light
was crossing the road
that we had an
unobstructed view of the craft.
Allen Dalis in the
back yelled out,
"It's a flying saucer!"
And I said, "Mike, stop."
It was a clearly visible,
clearly defined metallic object,
a disc, hovering there,
outlined against the sky.
I threw open the door,
thinking I'd get a closer
look before it took off.
As I got closer to it,
the sound it was making,
it was a sound you-you
both heard and felt.
And, uh, the crew said
they could feel the
vibration in the truck.
They said it seemed like
something was about to happen.
And it was.
That's when this energy hit me.
The crew said that it was
like I'd stepped on a land mine.
Like an expl*si*n
so violent that,
uh, they thought
it, uh, it had k*lled me.
When this beam of energy hit me,
I felt like a physical blow,
but with a sort of a tingling,
sort of an electric shock
sort of feeling
at the same time.
I don't know whether I came to
soon after I was taken aboard.
But I know I was on
some kind of an elevated
gurney or operating table.
I was looking straight into
the face of this creature,
and I just flipped out.
He saw these
hideous entities that scared him.
Maybe quite similar
to the modern idea
of the so-called alien Greys.
And he fought, and he panicked.
And then these aliens
seemed to go away,
and then their place was taken
by much more humanlike aliens,
and he calmed down.
In the case of
these human-looking ones,
I started to have
serious misgivings
that this was a rescue.
And that's when they put
this mask over my face,
and I just blacked
out real quickly.
Now, the suspicion here
was that, actually, these
weren't different aliens.
These were the same aliens,
but they were capable
of shape-shifting
into something else
specifically to calm him down.
Crews searched everywhere
for the missing forest worker.
But it wasn't until five
days later that Walton
reappeared in a nearby town.
I was lying facedown
outside in the dark,
and there was a light above me.
And I saw the bottom
of the craft there
right before it shot
up into the sky.
When details of
Travis Walton's close encounter
were revealed to authorities,
they dismissed his account
as a possible hallucination.
But Travis has no doubt
that what he and his
coworkers experienced
was a genuine
extraterrestrial encounter.
What no one asked
was, you know, "What
about the rest of the crew?"
How do seven people have
an identical hallucination?
And besides that,
they were given
lie detector tests
by state police,
which they passed.
There's real-life things
that occur out there
that need to be understood.
So, take a look at the
facts a-and then judge.
I don't know the
purpose that they had.
All I know is what
happened to me.
This was unmistakable.
Every now and then, an
encounter is so compelling
that it turns skeptics
into true believers.
That's exactly what
happened in the early 1970s
when a NASA scientist set out
to prove Erich von
Daniken wrong.
But, in fact, he
ended up supporting
one of Erich's
theories so strongly
that he even wrote
a book about it.
Number two on my countdown:
The Wheels of Ezekiel.
Northeast Syria.
The Khabur River.
According to the Hebrew Bible,
it was here, in the
sixth century BC,
that divine beings
descended from heaven
and made contact
with a Hebrew
priest named Ezekiel.
Ezekiel was by the River Khabur,
and he said a great
whirlwind came toward him.
He described it as
a fire enfolding itself,
and out of the fire
was the color of amber,
which is the Hebrew word
which means "polished
specter of metal,"
which implies that it's
metallic and that it's spinning.
And it lands in front of him,
and suddenly, out
of this whirlwind
come four creatures.
In the
Bible, the prophet Ezekiel
calls these spiritual
beings cherubims
and describes them as
having four faces, four wings
and skin that shone
like polished bronze.
Ezekiel
says that he was taken up
into the sky and taken
to different places
where he could
see different things.
And then he was told
some of the future things
that were going to come.
This was a huge image of hope
that came to Ezekiel
during his experience.
But is this the
story of a divine encounter?
Or could Ezekiel's description
of metallic wheels
descending from the sky
in a whirlwind of fire
and strange beings with
skin like polished bronze
point to a different type
of otherworldly contact?
He's got the best
description of a UFO
that's anywhere in the Bible...
because he basically says
that the thing looked like
a wheel within a wheel, uh,
kind of a classic flying
saucer description.
Ezekiel describes
that the outside of
the wheel doesn't spin.
The inside of the wheel spins.
So, he's telling us
that's the engines.
None of this necessarily
has to be magic.
This could all be technology.
It's basically the account
of a guy who's been abducted
who has been told certain things
and who's then returned
to the place of origin.
It would be what we
today would describe
as an abduction account.
Could it be that
the prophet Ezekiel's account
of a heavenly close encounter
might have been something else?
Perhaps one not
involving heavenly beings
but visitors of another
interplanetary nature?
This concept was
put forth to the public
by the ancient astronaut
theory pioneer Erich von Daniken
in his 1968 book
Chariots of the Gods?
And after hearing Erich speak
at a conference
in the early 1970s,
NASA engineer Josef Blumrich
was determined to debunk
his controversial interpretation.
I had a speech at
NASA in Huntsville,
and I spoke about Ezekiel.
And the chief
engineer of that time,
Mr. Joe Blumrich,
came to me and said, "Erich,
this was very interesting.
"But in the Bible,
you will definitely not
find any technology."
But he still said,
"I will read originally
in the Bible Ezekiel."
Blumrich set out to find flaws
in von Daniken's theory,
but when he read
the Book of Ezekiel,
he was shocked to
find himself agreeing
with the controversial author.
So much so, in fact,
that he wrote a book called
The Spaceships of Ezekiel
in which he provided a blueprint
for a practical landing module
based on the description
found in the biblical story.
Several years later,
a German structural engineer
named Hans Herbert Beier
also sketched out a blueprint
of the second section
of the Book of Ezekiel
where Ezekiel is told
to construct an
open-topped building
to house the flying chariot.
Hans Herbert Beier
sent the blueprint
to Erich von Daniken.
Within five minutes of
looking at these blueprints,
Erich was on the
phone with Joe Blumrich.
And he said, "Hey, Joe,
can you bring a model of
your spaceship of Ezekiel?"
And then he called
Hans Herbert Beier,
and he said, "Can
you bring a model
of your construction
of Ezekiel's temple?"
Both models were
created to the same ratio.
And guess what?
Ezekiel's spaceship fit
into the temple construction
that Hans Herbert
Beier recreated
according to the
biblical measurements.
As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,
the biblical account of Ezekiel
provides conclusive evidence
of an alien encounter.
But more importantly,
it may also reveal that
for thousands of years,
the destiny of humankind
has been directed
by extraterrestrials.
This may be one of the
oldest alien encounter stories,
but for me, it is still
the most compelling.
Written over 3,000 years ago,
it was banned from the Bible
because this ancient
text describes in detail
humankind's
extraterrestrial origins.
My number one alien encounter:
Enoch's Ascent to Heaven
in a Chariot of the Gods.
Khirbet Qumran, Palestine.
In 1946,
a collection of
ancient manuscripts
known as the Dead Sea Scrolls
is discovered
hidden in clay jars
deep inside a cave.
Among the manuscripts
is the Book of Enoch,
a so-called lost biblical text.
In the Bible's Old Testament,
Enoch is the seventh
of ten patriarchs
who lived before the Great Flood
and the
great-grandfather of Noah.
But where the Hebrew Bible
only mentions Enoch briefly,
the Book of Enoch,
which consists of
more than 100 chapters,
greatly expands on his story.
In it is a curious passage
that details Enoch's
ascent to heaven.
According to the Book of Enoch,
he says he was 12 years old.
The whole community of
his village wanted to sleep,
but then they hear
the noise in the sky.
Two angels came
down from the sky.
One of the two
beings said to Enoch,
"Don't be afraid, human."
Then they went up to
the so-called heaven.
And in
the Book of Enoch, we learn
Enoch himself is taken into
the heavens in a fiery chariot.
Enoch
goes up to the so-called sky,
and there Enoch sees
something over the Earth
which he cannot describe.
He has no word like
"spaceship" or something.
He says it looked
like houses of crystal.
It is described that he sees
planet Earth underneath him.
He actually
describes his arrival,
how he has to walk
through these different rooms
where he sees
jewels and he
sees shiny surfaces
and blinking lights.
It is an eyewitness account.
It's, "I, Enoch, did
this. I, Enoch, saw that."
The Book of Enoch is one
of the first abduction accounts
written down by a
fellow human being.
Does the
Book of Enoch really describe
an actual abduction event?
One that took place
thousands of years ago?
And if so,
might this incredible
close encounter
be documenting communication
with otherworldly beings?
Enoch, he was said
to be at the right hand of God.
In fact, Enoch was
said to be God's scribe
in later tradition.
So, God would decree
things, and Enoch
was the one who recorded
everything that went on.
So, Enoch was the keeper
of all knowledge of heaven.
This is one of the reasons
why the Book of Enoch
is so controversial.
Enoch was the first
human to ascend
to the throne of God,
where he is given powerful
universal knowledge
by angelic beings or
extraterrestrial beings.
If Enoch was given information
from extraterrestrial
beings to share with mankind
as ancient astronaut
theorists contend,
what truths about
our otherworldly past
might be waiting to be revealed?
The extraterrestrials want
that in a far future of mankind,
we start to see these things.
We start to translate
these books.
And now we start
to ask questions.
We start to ask, for example,
how can we explain that?
Have we maybe been
visited by extraterrestrials?
And I think it's important
to think in this way,
because these extraterrestrials
have promised to return.
And one day, they will return.
I was taught not
to believe in coincidence.
I was taught to
look for patterns.
When you have all
these encounters,
these sightings,
these descriptions we have
from biblical times onwards,
it tells you
there's something going on.
Doesn't necessarily tell you
what it is,
but it tells you
there's something there.
Well, that concludes
my list for now.
But considering what is written
in the Book of Enoch,
perhaps, as Erich von Daniken
likes to say,
the most important encounter
of all is yet to come.