[Narrator] Tonight, on Monsterquest.
[in distorted voice] Not all monsters emerge
from the woods.
Sometimes, they come from above.
[MJ] The men say they start furiously paddling back
to shore, racing to get away from this orb.
[Narrator] These are the chilling accounts
of those who claim sightings in the skies.
I hadn't seen anything like it in all of humanity.
[Narrator] Encounters so strange,
they left witnesses questioning their reality.
[Jim] My thoughts when I first see
this thing is just...
absolute terror.
[Narrator] For many centuries, people have reported
strange and sometimes terrifying encounters
with what they describe as monsters.
Its eyes just lit up in the moon, and we're like...
That is nothing I've ever seen.
If I try to run, I'd be dead.
[Narrator] Now, for the first time,
some are sharing their experiences.
Is there a pattern to their encounters?
It was just terrifying.
[Narrator] And if so, what could it mean?
♪
[Narrator] The Allagash wilderness in northern Maine
is one of the most isolated areas in the country.
But for decades, reports have described
unexplained objects moving through these dark skies.
There have been over 1,000 sightings
over the last 40 years.
With the first UFO reports
from this area dating back to 1946.
[Narrator] Some sightings became impossible to ignore,
like a mysterious craft intruding
on Loring Air Force base in 1975...
or an alleged UFO crash across the Gulf of Maine
in Shag Harbor that sent military search teams
racing to the scene.
But of all the alleged sightings here over the years,
no story captured the world's attention more
than when four college students claimed
they were abducted by aliens.
The press dubbed them, "the Allagash Four,"
and the men would go on to share their story
in countless interviews.
Here to tell their story for the first time on television...
Through all of these interviews,
the men all consistently tell the same story,
which they say starts back in 1976.
♪♪
[Narrator] The Allagash four, Jim and Jack Weiner,
and their friends Chuck Rak and Charlie Foltz,
are Boston College students
who decide to spend a week camping
in the Allagash Wilderness.
They set up next to a large body of water
called Eagle Lake.
♪
[Hakeem] On the fourth night of the trip,
the friends decide to make use of this canoe
they've rented, to try night fishing out on the lake.
♪♪
Chuck Rak claims that they were out on the water
for just a short period of time before he felt this sensation
of being watched.
Suddenly, they see a giant ball of light
just above the horizon behind them.
♪
[Narrator] The men claim the large orb had a,
"Rolling light effect to it, like a bright miniature sun."
Chuck is holding a flashlight at this point,
and decides to start waving it at the orb.
They all say that, immediately after Chuck does this,
a beam of light comes out of the orb
and illuminates their canoe.
Terrified, the men say they start
furiously paddling back to shore,
racing to get away from this orb.
They can see the shore, when all of a sudden,
everything goes black.
♪
[Holly] The men all say that the next memory
that they have is standing on the shoreline,
and they have no idea how they got there.
[MJ] They say they all estimate they were only out
on the lake for about 20 minutes or so,
but that when they make it back to camp,
their bonfire has burned down to coals,
as if they've been gone for hours.
None of them can seem to account
for this missing chunk of time.
The guys all graduate college, they get married,
start families, and they go their separate ways.
[Narrator] But 12 years later, Jack Weiner says he starts
having recurring nightmares of all four men being trapped
in a sterile room, surrounded by strange beings
with, quote, "Long necks, large hands,
and metallic glowing eyes with no lids."
And that's where the story really starts to turn,
because Jim tells him that he's been having the same type
of nightmares, with all four men paralyzed
in this room, unable to escape.
[Narrator] Haunted by what they saw,
the men set out to find answers.
Jim spearheads an effort to get to the bottom
of what happened.
He says he eventually reaches out to a researcher
named Ray Fowler.
Ray Fowler is an author who is widely regarded
as an expert on the subject of alien encounters.
His experience and expertise began
when he was a lead investigator
on a project for the National Investigative Committee
for Aerial Phenomenon.
[Narrator] Ray Fowler suggests the men go
under hypnosis separately.
And in each individual session,
all four end up describing similar experiences.
[MJ] In Jim's session, he says they're trapped
in this room, and none of them know what to do.
He's stuck on this gurney and sees these beings
approaching him.
Says he feels scared and also angry,
like they shouldn't be doing this, he recalls.
But he claims he's helpless to move.
In Jack's account, he says, "They're right there.
Their faces are right in my face."
Like Jim, he can't move.
Charlie describes the room they're trapped in
like a doctor's office. He recalls the beings
putting a panel over his chest, and that while
he was restrained, they scraped his arms and legs.
He just kept thinking, "We shouldn't be here.
I want to be back on the canoe."
[Holly] Charlie says Chuck has his head way back,
like he's in pain, but they're unable
to help him. All they can do is watch.
[Narrator] Ray Fowler goes on to publish a book
about the Allagash Sessions in 1993,
bringing more public attention to the story.
But with attention comes scrutiny.
After the men make the rounds on several talk shows,
many skeptics say it's either all a hoax,
or that maybe the memories had been implanted
due to the hypnosis.
But the men never waver on their stories.
It didn't make any sound at all.
There was no sound. Totally silent.
[Micah] They even take polygraph tests
to back up their claims.
There is absolutely, positively, no doubt in my mind
that they are being absolutely honest with me.
[Narrator] To this day, the men stand by
the remarkable story of their alleged abduction.
And they're far from the only ones who claim
to have seen something strange in the skies,
or taken great pains to understand it.
Hundreds of miles south, one man would soon find
himself among them.
On the southern tip of the Appalachian mountain range
sits the small town of Fyffe, Alabama.
In 1989, more than 50 of the town's residents,
including the police chief,
report a massive triangular craft hovering in the skies.
[Hakeem] The bizarre incident hits the news,
and catapults Fyffe into the national spotlight.
The Fyffe sighting become one of the most well documented
mass sightings of a UFO in the American South.
After the story comes out, the US military suggests
that the low-flying silent craft people saw that night
might have been helicopters flying in formation.
But of the 50 plus people who spotted the unusual object,
not a single one reported rotor noise.
One of the defining characteristics
that the witnesses said they saw,
really one of the main things that convinced them
these objects were not man made,
is that they could hover in the sky completely silently.
[Narrator] Jim Powell is one of many Fyffe locals
who grows up hearing about the town's famous UFO sighting.
For him, the story hits closer to home.
When all this was kind of in its height going on,
my father in law, he saw a light out in the field.
So, he starts walking up to this thing.
And when he gets close, he says that a beam
of light shoots out, hits him in the forehead.
♪
That is the last thing that he remembers.
He remembers waking up that morning,
in the middle of his field, with nothing around him,
and he's just scared out of his mind.
[Narrator] The alleged incident with Jim's
father-in-law happens just miles
from where Jim lives with his wife.
He becomes fascinated by a dangerous idea...
recreating his father-in-law's encounter.
I mean, yeah, I love a good mystery.
You know, this is the biggest mystery of them all.
I wanted my own experience with it.
♪♪
[Narrator] Through his research, he discovers
an app claiming to make telepathic communication
possible.
[Powell] With the app, it was basically
like a guided meditation video.
You're basically just clearing your mind,
and you're trying to project your consciousness out,
to the point where it feels like you're no longer
in your body.
I was very skeptical of it. I have an aversion to anything
that sounds new-age-y, crystals and stuff like that.
But yet, I've got nothing else to do.
Let's try it!
[Narrator] It's a decision he'll soon come to regret.
I didn't know it would be the biggest mistake of my life.
[Narrator] In 2014, 25 years after his small town
is allegedly visited by a mysterious object
in the skies, Jim Powell is trying to engineer
his own close encounter, using a meditation app.
[Powell] The first night when I try this meditation,
I felt like I was able to travel like a rocket
out there, into the blackness of space.
And eventually, I come into contact
with a very large-looking creature.
It was eight-foot tall or so, pitch-black skin.
Eventually, I just pass out.
When I woke up, I was like, "Wow,
that was super interesting,
but, like, how do I know that's not my own brain?"
Like, how do I know that I just didn't create that
in my own imagination? Like, interesting? Yes.
Anything to it? Probably not.
So I was like, "I don't think I want to do this anymore."
So, the next night.
We had climbed in bed, and we're pretty much asleep
almost instantly.
We both had a long day, we're both tired.
We're just out.
And we're asleep until
probably 02:30 in the morning.
And that's when things start to get a little bit different.
[Narrator] Jim and his wife are awakened by a shrill sound
coming from outside their bedroom window.
[Powell] It sounds kind of like,
maybe two critters fighting.
[low-pitched roar]
It's just roars and screeches, just right there.
I mean, it's just crazy sounding.
[rumbling]
[growl]
I had an Australian shepherd.
Her name was Amaya. Her favorite thing to do,
really, was to go outside at night
and kill little woodland creatures.
So, I get up and I go outside.
And I'm expecting the dog to have, like,
something pinned right there at the window,
and just shaking it or something.
But when I look out there...
♪
...there's nothing.
[crickets chirping]
"Okay, that's weird."
So, going around the house,
I'm hollering at the dog, "Amaya, come."
There's no dog anywhere.
[distant voice] Amaya, come.
I don't hear the jingling of her collar
for her to, like, be running to me, nothing.
[distant voice] Amaya!
I walk around the yard a little bit,
go and inspect the barn.
I'm just like, "I don't know.
I don't know where the dog is.
This is not normal for her,
but it's an ungodly hour of the night,
and I'm tired, so I'll figure it out
in the morning."
So, I'm going back towards the house.
I notice it's completely, just, silent outside.
Springtime in Alabama at night?
There's cicadas, there's tree frogs, bullfrogs.
All kind of noise is normally happening
at this time of the year, but there is nothing.
It is dead silent.
Then, as I'm going around the corner,
I notice that there's a light in the sky.
And it's just hanging there, right above the tree line.
It was about baseball, maybe softball size at most.
And it's just hanging up there, completely silent.
There's no sound from anything anywhere.
[heavy breathing] And then I take
the flashlight that I'm holding
and I shine it up the driveway.
And there is something standing
in the middle of the road.
It looks like a seven to eight-foot tall shadow.
Like it's- it's like a matte-black shape.
It's the strangest thing that I've ever seen,
and it's huge.
This thing does have a large head and long neck
that's maybe twice the length of a human's.
The arms are very, very long.
My thoughts when I first see this thing
is just absolute terror.
And alls I can do is sit there and hold the flashlight
on this thing.
And then it turns its head to look at me,
and then his eyes go wide, like, in complete surprise.
And then, this thing turns and runs up the dirt road,
in just a flash. Boom, boom, boom. Gone.
I run inside the house, and I am just shaking
beyond any fear that I've ever experienced.
I get my large M9 pistol, and I am just standing
in front of the door, like this.
I am scared to the point where, if I hear a noise,
I will unload all 17 rounds through the walls.
I'm just standing there, waiting for anything.
♪♪
And then, there's a voice
that I can hear all of a sudden.
And this voice feels like it's in my head.
I don't know how else to describe it.
It's just an all-consuming voice.
What it says to me is,
"If I wanted to kill you, you would already be dead.
Go back to sleep now."
[heavy breathing]
The next thing that I know is, I'm waking up.
It's the next morning. My alarm clock's going off.
The wife's gone. I'm by myself.
I'm just freaked out. I'm like, "Where's it at?
What just happened?"
That was, like, the biggest threat to have ever
shown up in my life, and it controlled me,
and I couldn't do anything about it.
It was just the worst thing that I've ever experienced.
After the experience, I did tell my wife about this,
you know. And thankfully, she took me serious, you know.
But she was also, you know, kind of horrified about it too.
She was just like, "I don't want to talk about it."
As far as Amaya goes, she did come back,
but it wasn't until, like, three days later.
This dog was covered in mud, and she was shaking
like a leaf when she finally came up to me.
Ever since then, she was never the same after this experience.
But I don't blame her.
I don't, because, if I'm being honest,
neither was I.
It was the biggest mistake of my life.
I should've never
have initiated contact with these things.
I regret it.
[Narrator] In the Cold War era, strange lights in the sky
weren't just a mystery, they were a potential threat.
In response, the Air Force formed
Project Blue Book, a top secret program
tasked with probing the escalating flood
of UFO reports.
The operation's mission was to determine
if UFOs posed a threat to humans
and the United States national security.
But in the summer of 1955,
an alleged sighting on a quiet farm
in Kelly, Kentucky,
would push that mission to its limits.
♪
[Wildman] What's reported to have happened
at this tiny tobacco farm in Kelly, Kentucky,
is considered one of the most significant
and well documented UFO encounters in history.
[Narrator] The case goes on to introduce the idea
of little green men to popular culture.
And according to director Steven Spielberg,
it even inspires his blockbuster film
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
But for the family who lives through it,
this was no work of fiction,
and the fear never left them.
This encounter belongs to my dad, my grandmother,
and several aunts and uncles that were in the house
that night in Kelly, Kentucky, in 1955.
I found out about it when I was eight years old.
Over the years, if you got any of them to talk,
the story never changed.
I mean, this is something that very few people
have happen to them in their lifetime,
and it will go down as history.
♪♪
This happened on my grandmother's small farm.
She owned about 27 acres.
It was just a regular Sunday evening,
and it just so happened my dad,
his first wife, and their friends, Billy Ray
and June Taylor, came in for the weekend.
They sat down to eat,
and Billy Ray decides to go out to the well
and get some water. So he's out there in the well,
which is in the front yard.
As he's standing there, he hears something,
looks up toward where he hears this sound,
and there's this silver,
oval-shaped object with what he calls the colors
of the rainbow flowing behind it.
And he says it was only like 30 or 40 feet above him.
It scared him.
[Narrator] It's at this point, Geraldine says,
that Billy Ray runs back to the house in fear,
begging her dad to come outside to investigate.
[Stith] So, they head back out to the well.
Lo and behold,
out from the back of the woods behind the house,
comes this little 3.5-foot tall figure.
Big round head, arms down to the ground
with very long talons.
They were gray, but they glowed
a luminescent glow, greenish glow.
And it's floating above the ground,
the legs aren't moving.
They were scared to death.
So, they both run into the house, slam the door,
and they're trying to explain what they just saw.
[Narrator] Geraldine says at this point,
her grandmother goes outside to check for herself.
[Stith] All of a sudden, she screams.
Everybody hears, they come out there,
and she tells them, says, "I saw it.
There is something out here."
About that time, they hear a shot ring out
at the front of the house.
[Narrator] Geraldine says this is when her uncle
shot one of the beings through the front window.
[Stith] Dad runs out there.
Somebody screams, "There's one in the tree!"
Turns around, and sure enough, in the big maple tree,
there sat one on the limb.
- Shoots it. - [gunshot]
It floats to the ground, rolls, scurries off
into the brush.
These things were not dropping at all.
So, they run in the house,
but they are coming up to the doors and windows.
[gunshots]
So, they were shooting these things through the screens.
- [gunshots] - They were trapped
in this house, and they didn't know what to do.
They didn't have a radio or any other communication.
They have no phone.
My dad finally tells them, "The only thing we can do
is try to get to Hopkinsville," which was seven miles
from their house, "And get to the police and see
if we can get help."
It gets quiet, so he's thinking, "Let's go."
[engine starting]
♪
They pull up and they run into the police department.
One little officer on duty, and they're all trying to tell
this crazy story. So he calls up Chief Russell Greenwald.
The chief tells him, "Get ahold of Fort Campbell
army base, get ahold of the paper.
Call every state trooper you can find."
By the time it's all said and done, they've got about
25 people heading out to Kelly in the middle of the night.
[Narrator] In 1955,
the Sutton family in Kelly, Kentucky,
claims their farm has been overrun
by little green men from another world.
- [gunshots] - In the aftermath,
according to direct descendant Geraldine Stith,
they brace for a different kind of invasion.
[police sirens]
The police get there.
They get out of their vehicles.
There's shotgun and rifle shells all over the yard.
Shotgun and rifle shells inside the house.
Woodwork and screens are shot up inside the house.
They searched and searched...
no bodies. No blood.
No kind of fur or feathers, or anything saying
it was any kind of animal.
So, chief goes up to my grandmother and says,
"Ms. Glennie, I am so sorry, but there's nothing here.
There's nothing we can do." So, they all left.
[Narrator] Geraldine says the next morning,
her father swears the family to secrecy,
hoping to shield them from public ridicule.
Their story might have ended there,
if not for what happened next.
All of a sudden, my grandmother heard this commotion
out in the front yard.
There's car after car after vehicle after vehicle,
pulling up in their driveway, pulling up down the road,
jumping out, putting up tents, putting up tables.
Word had gotten out. It was everywhere.
Everybody was coming because they were wanting
to see the little men. It was big news.
[Radio host 1] ... put down as the top story
of the community in 1955.
[Radio host 2] In the home of Cecil "Lucky" Sutton.
Alright now, let's go back to the beginning here.
Now, you say the spaceship...
[Stith] It spread like wildfire.
But Ledwith came in, and he was the engineer that worked
at the local radio station there in Hopkinsville.
He wanted a story, so he went in there
to interview everybody,
and he set them down off in a room by themselves,
individually, and got them to tell their story.
And he was, like, blown away,
because everybody's story, it was the same.
And what really blew him away was the drawings.
My grandmother, Billy Ray, my dad,
he sat down with every one of them,
and hardly any differences about any of them.
That's where you get the, infamous, drawings,
to this day.
Later on, it was reported that the evening
that the encounter happened,
there were state troopers that'd actually seen lights
they couldn't explain. And so, yeah,
there were other people seeing
and hearing things that evening.
[Narrator] In the days after the alleged encounter,
the US Air Force, including their classified
UFO research unit, Project Blue Book,
reviews the State Police findings.
They searched the grounds.
They had aircraft in the air that morning after,
and the next day.
[Narrator] The results are inconclusive.
No proof of visitors, but also no evidence of a hoax.
The case is left officially unresolved.
Two weeks after this event happened,
my grandmother sold the farm.
She was scared to death.
Is it hard to believe things like this can happen? Yes.
But my family knows the truth.
Something happened in Kelly, Kentucky, August 21st, 1955.
There's no doubt.
[Narrator] The little green men of Kelly, Kentucky,
were seen once, and never again.
But two decades later, in Arizona,
come stories of unidentified aircraft
returning again and again.
Among the state's reports of UFOs,
there was one case that would capture
the world's attention.
According to other members of the six-man logging crew,
on November 5th, 1975,
Travis Walton disappeared shortly after
he was struck in the chest by a beam of light,
which they said lifted him off the ground like a rag doll.
♪
Travis's disappearance kicks off the largest manhunt
in Arizona history, but they find nothing.
No footprints, no clothes, no blood. Nothing.
Then, five days later and 15 miles
from where he vanished, he suddenly emerges,
and he says, "They're still out there."
One of the guys in the back yelled out, "It's a spaceship!"
[Hakeem] Travis claims he's been abducted and examined
on an alien craft. Although he passes a lie detector test,
the validity of his story is still debated.
[Narrator] Travis Walton's story remains one of the most
harrowing alien abduction claims ever recorded.
Nearly 50 years later, in the same state,
a police officer retires to Arizona with his wife,
and would make a similar claim,
wearing the evidence on his skin.
Most of our nights are just enjoying each other's company.
We go outside, watch the stars,
listen to the coyotes howling.
- [coyotes howling] - Typical Old West retirement,
I guess.
[Narrator] But that all changes in the spring of 2022.
One day, I woke up and had many, many marks on my foot.
And the next morning, when I woke up,
they were completely gone.
we were like, "That's weird."
[Narrator] A few weeks later, he has another
strange experience.
That evening was very typical.
We ate dinner, we sat down and watched a movie.
And then we went to bed, I believe around 09:30 p.m.
That's when it happened.
I was woken up by the feeling of being dropped on my bed.
When I opened my eyes...
♪♪
...it was unbelievable.
[Narrator] Weeks after finding strange marks on his body,
retired police officer Dwight Hull goes to bed,
then opens his eyes to the impossible.
[Hull] I saw three glowing beings
standing next to my bed.
They were a shining gold.
They were actually emitting this light from them.
[Narrator] As Dwight grapples to understand
what he's seeing, they fade out of sight.
I sat there, trying to figure out, "What did I just see?
Was this real?"
My police officer training was kicking in,
saying, "All right, come on, remember all the details
before you basically pass back out."
It was almost like coming out of anesthesia.
I couldn't keep my eyes open,
and I fell back asleep.
♪♪
I woke up the next morning, my wife had already gotten up.
I went up to her and said, "Honey, I have something
to tell you, and I need you to keep an open mind."
And I told her what happened.
And she believed me right away.
I think one of the first things she said to me was,
"Do you have any marks?" And I was like, "Marks!
Right!" So we started looking, you know,
and everything else, and that's when I saw them.
I had three red dots in a triangular shape.
[Narrator] Dwight's markings are similar to those
of others who claim to be abducted.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, UFO researcher Budd Hopkins
documented many, many abductees
who all had this three-dot cluster appear on their bodies
that made the shape of a triangle.
And he speculates that these marks
may have been the result of a medical-like device.
[Narrator] But in Dwight's encounter,
he noticeably has no memories
from before he dropped onto the bed.
There was a lot of questions to be answered, you know.
"Let's get the facts here. Did it really happen?"
So, my wife decided that it might be a good idea
for me to see a hypnotherapist,
and, uh, I begrudgingly agreed.
[Narrator] The therapist puts Dwight under,
and records the session.
[Therapist] So now, I'm going to ask you
to try to visualize
that you are in your bedroom.
Reach to your subconscious mind and ask it
to show you what you want to see.
And I start remembering what I saw.
They put me on a table.
Their eyes were huge,
just blacker than any black I have ever seen.
They almost looked liquid.
They pulled this... the best way I can describe it
is a gel blanket, and it had wires,
or fibers, going through it.
And they put this blanket over me,
and melted completely over my face.
Every place it was touching it just conformed to it.
And as I'm laying there, little low-voltage feelings
would go through the blanket into me.
And every time that that would shock me,
I heard in my head, "How do you feel?"
But this went on for a little while,
and then they took the blanket off, I got off the table,
and the one on my left side took his finger
and just tapped a spot on my arm.
♪
And all of a sudden, I was in my room,
on my bed, looking at him.
And that's where the memory ended.
After I came up out of this hypnosis,
the first thing I remember asking the therapist was,
"Could it have been a dream?"
She looked at me dead in the eyes and she said,
"Dwight, where I had you, there is no way
that that could have been anything other
than a repressed memory."
I wasn't losing my mind, I wasn't just seeing things.
This really happened.
[Narrator] Oregon is famous among stargazers
for its lack of light pollution,
making the state a favorite for those seeking a clear,
unobstructed view of the night sky.
But those same skies have long been a stage
for unexplained sightings.
[Hakeem] There's this agency that tracks UFO sightings.
it's called the National UFO Reporting Center.
Since 1974, there have been over 3,600
such sightings in Oregon.
[Narrator] The stories are remarkably similar.
Metallic discs seen by police and civilians over Portland.
Glowing lights hovering near Mount Hood,
reported by pilots, and a glowing object
above Redmond that prompted the Air Force
to scramble jets.
Among the most famous, occurs in 1950,
when farmers Paul and Evelyn Trent
photograph a flying saucer
hovering over their farm in the town of McMinnville.
The images that Paul and Evelyn captured were published
in Life magazine, and this created a huge sensation.
Of course, there were also skeptics,
but the thing is, no one could ever prove conclusively
that those photographs had been doctored in any way.
[Narrator] The skeptics held on to their doubts,
but not Ann Selene.
Decades later, at her apartment complex
in Tigard, Oregon, just 30 minutes
from the site of the Trents' farm.
Anne captures a shocking image.
[Selene] I am a writer. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest.
♪
I love the night,
so I would sit out on the patio and I would really contemplate
what it was that I wanted to write about.
[Narrator] One night, Ann notices something
moving outside her building.
[Selene] And it was actually from my peripheral,
that movement caught my eye.
When I looked over,
the movement that I saw was smoke.
And it was just this really big cloud,
like an opalescent fog, but thick.
I was thinking, "Gosh, maybe somebody had been vaping,
and there was this huge cloud,"
but there was no person.
The circular cloud-like form contracted
into a shape that very clearly
became this humanoid-looking figure.
It looks just like us.
It walks just like us.
It had two arms and two legs,
the pointed chin,
really big eyes, strange-shaped skull.
There was no hair, no clothing.
I hadn't seen anything like it in all of humanity.
It was looking straight ahead,
and there was no inclination
that it had any idea that I was there.
It was walking down this pathway on the other side
of the white picket fence.
It walked up to the third tree...
and then it was completely gone.
In that moment, I froze.
"If I turn around, will it be standing there?"
"Can I get inside my house?"
But then, the very next thought
that actually broke me out of my freeze mode
is the children.
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[Narrator] Ann races back inside.
[children playing]
[Selene] When I walked into the kids' room...
everything was fine.
And I did smile at the kids to try to reaffirm
that everything was fine.
I hoped that maybe I could protect me
and my children by shutting the blinds.
That is when my eye was drawn to the unit across from us.
And in that moment, I froze again.
I knew that that unit was vacant.
I think that it's staring at me.
Without a shadow of a doubt,
it was the exact same humanoid-looking figure
that I had watched walk down the sidewalk.
And now here it was, on the second floor
in a vacant apartment.
That just brought me to absolute tears.
Here was this complete unknown.
If it can manifest out of anywhere,
could it manifest in my home?
If it did manifest in my home, what would it do?
I shut the blinds on the living room door,
and then I went into my room and I shut those blinds.
I'm locking everything out.
I called my sister. She knew immediately
that something was wrong.
My sister said, "Can you take a picture?"
And I said, "I don't know, I'll try."
She told me to breathe. She told me to relax.
She said, "Just have your hand on the blind,
lift the phone up with me on speakerphone,
hit the button, and then just release the blind."
I took a picture.
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And it was a shock.
I said, "Does it look like it can see me
in this photograph?
I think that it's staring at me."
She agreed. And it really felt ominous.
It really felt like, in the photo,
it was saying, "I did see you."
I stayed up most of that night.
All the lights on in the house.
[Narrator] Ann's photo is of something
she can never begin to explain,
from a terror-filled night,
she will never forget.
[Anna] So, when you have a picture
that you can show other people and say nothing,
but "What do you see?"
And everybody comes back with the same thing
that you see. That's very powerful.
It shakes your reality.
[Narrator] The subject of her photo,
whatever it might be, never returns.
Reflecting back on that night, some might say
that it was an alien,
or something along those lines.
I think that it's an internal battle that I deal with,
between wanting to know what it was
and not wanting to know,
because it really changes the perception of safety.
[Narrator] We may not truly know what's out there
in our skies, but every claim,
every reported encounter keeps our search for answers alive.