1 00:00:02,090 --> 00:00:06,427 NARRATOR: Unearthly inspirations... compelling 2 00:00:06,461 --> 00:00:11,933 ordinary people to perform extraordinary acts. 3 00:00:14,016 --> 00:00:18,516 MICHAEL CREMO: They've thought it best to use members 4 00:00:18,570 --> 00:00:25,475 of the human population to communicate their message. 5 00:00:25,510 --> 00:00:32,916 NARRATOR: Heavenly visitations... inspiring everything from war to peace. 6 00:00:32,984 --> 00:00:34,918 DAVID WILCOCK: They could have imparted that information 7 00:00:34,986 --> 00:00:38,488 to Joan of Arc to give her the confidence that ultimately led 8 00:00:38,523 --> 00:00:42,359 her military campaign to victory. 9 00:00:42,393 --> 00:00:46,630 NARRATOR: And close encounters... that leave behind 10 00:00:46,664 --> 00:00:51,969 mysterious clues to our past... and our future. 11 00:00:52,003 --> 00:00:54,438 NICK CISKE: I thought, "It's not gonna come out to 12 00:00:54,472 --> 00:00:57,007 anything," and then something that appeared to be a real 13 00:00:57,075 --> 00:00:59,509 message regarding aliens emerged. 14 00:00:59,544 --> 00:01:03,180 NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world believe we 15 00:01:03,247 --> 00:01:07,551 have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 16 00:01:07,585 --> 00:01:10,520 What if it were true? 17 00:01:10,555 --> 00:01:15,559 Did ancient aliens really shape our history? 18 00:01:15,593 --> 00:01:20,564 And if so, have they been helped by individuals among us... 19 00:01:20,598 --> 00:01:24,901 chosen to communicate important messages? 20 00:01:24,902 --> 00:01:34,841 Sync by honeybunny www.addic7ed.com 21 00:01:55,867 --> 00:01:59,369 NARRATOR: Rendlesham Forest. 22 00:01:59,404 --> 00:02:03,373 Suffolk County, England. 23 00:02:03,408 --> 00:02:06,410 80 miles northeast of London. 24 00:02:12,316 --> 00:02:17,487 During the Cold War, more than 12,000 American officers and 25 00:02:17,555 --> 00:02:22,025 enlisted men were stationed at two Air Force bases on the 26 00:02:22,093 --> 00:02:30,867 forest's northern and southern edges: RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. 27 00:02:32,837 --> 00:02:39,309 Shortly after midnight on December 26, 1980, military 28 00:02:39,343 --> 00:02:43,880 radar detected an unidentified flying object. 29 00:02:43,948 --> 00:02:49,519 And there were civilian reports of strange, flickering lights in the sky. 30 00:02:53,524 --> 00:02:57,961 Within minutes, military policemen, including Staff 31 00:02:57,995 --> 00:03:02,799 Sergeant James Penniston and Airman First Class John 32 00:03:02,867 --> 00:03:06,770 Burroughs, were sent into the woods to investigate. 33 00:03:06,804 --> 00:03:10,340 What they encountered was something the experienced 34 00:03:10,374 --> 00:03:15,078 servicemen had never seen before. 35 00:03:15,113 --> 00:03:18,081 JAMES PENNISTON: By the dissipating light, I started 36 00:03:18,116 --> 00:03:22,486 seeing a silhouette of a triangular craft. 37 00:03:22,487 --> 00:03:27,791 It was completely black in color, except for these 38 00:03:27,825 --> 00:03:34,631 occasional bits of blue and orange light and yellow light running through it. 39 00:03:34,665 --> 00:03:36,967 JOHN BURROUGHS: There was blue lights. 40 00:03:37,001 --> 00:03:40,303 There was like an orange spear above it. 41 00:03:40,304 --> 00:03:42,973 There was a white light that would come out underneath it, 42 00:03:43,007 --> 00:03:47,144 and then there was like a misty orange haze. 43 00:03:47,178 --> 00:03:50,981 NARRATOR: In his report, Sergeant Penniston described the 44 00:03:51,015 --> 00:03:55,452 strange craft's dimensions as roughly six and a half feet tall 45 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,355 with nine-foot sides. 46 00:03:58,422 --> 00:04:03,160 He also noted unusual markings... raised symbols similar to 47 00:04:03,194 --> 00:04:05,162 Egyptian hieroglyphs. 48 00:04:05,196 --> 00:04:10,467 PENNISTON: I was expecting to find, I don't know, USAF, something like that. 49 00:04:10,535 --> 00:04:15,472 And what I find is glyphs, pictorial glyphs, making no sense at all. 50 00:04:15,540 --> 00:04:18,275 Then I was running my hand over the side of the craft, it was 51 00:04:18,342 --> 00:04:20,610 very warm to touch. 52 00:04:23,181 --> 00:04:25,816 NARRATOR: Upon touching the craft, the 26-year-old 53 00:04:25,883 --> 00:04:31,121 serviceman claimed he received a strange and powerful vision. 54 00:04:34,525 --> 00:04:37,194 PENNISTON: It's ones and zeros, and ones and ones, and... 55 00:04:37,228 --> 00:04:39,563 it just makes no sense. 56 00:04:39,597 --> 00:04:42,165 Take my hands off it... it stopped. 57 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:48,538 And then, uh... then there was a bright flash of light. 58 00:04:48,573 --> 00:04:52,008 BURROUGHS: And then at that point whatever it was appeared 59 00:04:52,076 --> 00:04:56,112 to go up in the air and take off and go back towards the coast. 60 00:04:56,147 --> 00:05:00,217 And we didn't have any more contact. 61 00:05:02,587 --> 00:05:05,455 NARRATOR: Penniston and Burroughs were ordered by the 62 00:05:05,489 --> 00:05:09,025 deputy base commander to treat the alleged sighting as if it 63 00:05:09,093 --> 00:05:11,661 had never happened. 64 00:05:11,662 --> 00:05:16,499 Still, after three decades, James Penniston remains haunted 65 00:05:16,567 --> 00:05:20,036 by his strange vision. 66 00:05:20,104 --> 00:05:24,941 So much so, that he felt compelled to keep a written record of it. 67 00:05:25,009 --> 00:05:29,512 A record he kept locked away for nearly 30 years. 68 00:05:29,580 --> 00:05:32,282 PENNISTON: It's like, like someone was holding a picture 69 00:05:32,316 --> 00:05:40,090 up, okay, of this, zeros and ones and... I could see it in my mind's eye, okay? 70 00:05:40,157 --> 00:05:43,193 So I recorded those one afternoon. 71 00:05:43,261 --> 00:05:44,928 What do they mean? I don't know. 72 00:05:44,996 --> 00:05:48,531 MAN: More and more scientists feel that contacting... 73 00:05:48,566 --> 00:05:52,102 NARRATOR: Could the strange numbers from James Penniston's 74 00:05:52,136 --> 00:05:56,206 vision be some type of extraterrestrial code? 75 00:05:56,274 --> 00:06:00,076 If so, Penniston would not be the first to claim to have 76 00:06:00,111 --> 00:06:04,214 received messages from otherworldly visitors. 77 00:06:09,287 --> 00:06:14,124 In fact, history is filled with accounts of people compelled 78 00:06:14,191 --> 00:06:18,728 into action by contact with what they claim to be an 79 00:06:18,763 --> 00:06:24,100 extraterrestrial, divine or supernatural being. 80 00:06:24,135 --> 00:06:29,506 Abraham... Mohammed... and St. Paul are described as 81 00:06:29,540 --> 00:06:34,778 having been inspired by visits from God. 82 00:06:34,845 --> 00:06:40,850 Moses... Confucius... and the legendary Cambodian figure 83 00:06:40,885 --> 00:06:46,423 Preah Pisnokar are said to have met strange visitors who passed 84 00:06:46,457 --> 00:06:50,860 along moral codes and philosophies. 85 00:06:50,895 --> 00:06:53,496 DR. WILLIE DYE: God chose them because of their integrity, 86 00:06:53,564 --> 00:06:55,565 because of their faith. 87 00:06:55,566 --> 00:07:00,770 Men that were leaders that God had chosen to put in certain positions. 88 00:07:00,838 --> 00:07:03,306 People respected those leaders. 89 00:07:03,341 --> 00:07:07,978 And people knew that they were people of God. 90 00:07:08,012 --> 00:07:10,313 GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: According to the ancient astronaut 91 00:07:10,348 --> 00:07:13,950 hypothesis, visions are not divine at all. 92 00:07:13,985 --> 00:07:18,121 They were, in fact, visits by extraterrestrials where our 93 00:07:18,155 --> 00:07:23,493 ancestors thought it was a vision, but it never was. 94 00:07:23,494 --> 00:07:27,964 The person didn't quite comprehend that he or she was 95 00:07:27,999 --> 00:07:32,669 visited by flesh and blood extraterrestrials. 96 00:07:32,703 --> 00:07:37,040 NARRATOR: Perhaps the best known example of a man receiving 97 00:07:37,074 --> 00:07:41,678 specific instructions from an extraterrestrial source can be 98 00:07:41,712 --> 00:07:44,514 found in the story of Moses. 99 00:07:46,650 --> 00:07:50,954 According to the biblical book of "Exodus," Moses first 100 00:07:51,022 --> 00:07:56,126 encountered God in the form of a burning bush. 101 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:00,130 It was here that he was given his mission: to deliver the 102 00:08:00,164 --> 00:08:07,404 Hebrew people out of slavery in Egypt... and into the Promised Land. 103 00:08:07,438 --> 00:08:12,308 Later, at Mount Sinai, after he had safely brought the Jews 104 00:08:12,343 --> 00:08:17,480 into the desert, he was handed the Ten Commandments as laws 105 00:08:17,515 --> 00:08:21,418 given to man, directly by God. 106 00:08:21,419 --> 00:08:28,958 CREMO: Eventually, these moral codes were the foundation 107 00:08:29,026 --> 00:08:32,462 of a whole worldwide religion. 108 00:08:32,463 --> 00:08:36,666 NARRATOR: But to ancient astronaut theorists, the story 109 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:44,507 of Moses may be interpreted as not only a divine, but also an alien, encounter. 110 00:08:45,910 --> 00:08:48,878 TSOUKALOS: According to the Old Testament, Moses went up on 111 00:08:48,913 --> 00:08:53,349 Mount Sinai to meet with quote-unquote "God." 112 00:08:53,417 --> 00:08:57,353 And I quote, "And they saw the God of Israel, and there was 113 00:08:57,421 --> 00:09:04,494 under his feet, as it were, a paved work of sapphire stone. 114 00:09:04,528 --> 00:09:10,667 And it was like the very heavens in its radiating clarity." 115 00:09:10,701 --> 00:09:13,770 And my question is, does something like this exist, or 116 00:09:13,804 --> 00:09:18,675 was it some sort of a misunderstood metallic ramp? 117 00:09:18,709 --> 00:09:21,044 But it gets even better. 118 00:09:21,112 --> 00:09:27,283 Moses actually describes Earth seen from outer space. 119 00:09:27,318 --> 00:09:32,388 The quote is, "Thereupon I saw the whole round of the Earth, 120 00:09:32,423 --> 00:09:38,761 at once the depth of the Earth and the vast altitudes of the heavens." 121 00:09:38,796 --> 00:09:42,665 I mean, here he describes Earth as being round. 122 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:50,039 At the time, that should've not been known, according to mainstream scientists. 123 00:09:50,074 --> 00:09:53,209 NARRATOR: Is it possible that Moses was inspired by a force 124 00:09:53,244 --> 00:09:58,481 not only from the heavens but from another world? 125 00:09:58,516 --> 00:10:03,286 If so, is it possible that other divine inspirations have 126 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,756 also had otherworldly origins? 127 00:10:06,790 --> 00:10:09,492 (opera music playing) 128 00:10:11,662 --> 00:10:14,597 JONATHAN YOUNG: Puccini said that his great opera, Madama 129 00:10:14,665 --> 00:10:17,500 Butterfly, was from God... that he wrote it down... but it came 130 00:10:17,568 --> 00:10:20,203 directly from a divine source. 131 00:10:20,271 --> 00:10:24,274 William Blake, whose entire opus, his writing and painting, 132 00:10:24,308 --> 00:10:28,111 was based on repeated angelic visitations. 133 00:10:28,112 --> 00:10:32,382 Brahms said that his music came from something beyond himself. 134 00:10:32,416 --> 00:10:35,218 He was the one who wrote it down, but he had to give credit 135 00:10:35,252 --> 00:10:39,589 to something beyond himself. 136 00:10:39,657 --> 00:10:43,226 NARRATOR: Could great works of art, music, literature, 137 00:10:43,260 --> 00:10:49,632 and religion really have been gifts to humanity from other worlds? 138 00:10:49,667 --> 00:10:53,670 If so, then why weren't these gifts given directly from 139 00:10:53,737 --> 00:11:00,643 aliens to man, instead of being communicated through human intermediaries? 140 00:11:00,678 --> 00:11:04,047 Perhaps an answer... like many alien messages... can be found 141 00:11:04,081 --> 00:11:09,018 in one of the oldest, and holiest, places on Earth. 142 00:11:15,493 --> 00:11:18,261 NARRATOR: If, as ancient astronaut theorists believe, 143 00:11:18,295 --> 00:11:22,298 extraterrestrial beings have been contacting us throughout 144 00:11:22,333 --> 00:11:27,837 the centuries, then what are they trying to tell us? 145 00:11:27,872 --> 00:11:30,407 DAVID WILCOCK: It appears, again and again, that here on 146 00:11:30,441 --> 00:11:33,243 Earth we're dealing with something that could be 147 00:11:33,277 --> 00:11:36,980 called the hidden directorate... a directing force of 148 00:11:37,014 --> 00:11:40,917 intelligent beings, who may even be our progenitors... 149 00:11:40,918 --> 00:11:46,089 and have been working with humanity ever since we began 150 00:11:46,123 --> 00:11:51,461 evolving on this planet, and will intervene, at key points, 151 00:11:51,495 --> 00:11:55,398 to try to nudge our development in a certain direction. 152 00:11:55,399 --> 00:11:59,269 TSOUKALOS: Why were some of our ancestors told to construct 153 00:11:59,336 --> 00:12:07,010 a building... or to build an ark? 154 00:12:07,011 --> 00:12:12,816 Personally, I think, to ensure mankind's survival. 155 00:12:15,352 --> 00:12:21,991 There are stories of malevolent gods, of malevolent extraterrestrials. 156 00:12:22,026 --> 00:12:25,762 But, by and large, the stories that we have from ancient 157 00:12:25,830 --> 00:12:30,400 times, the gods were actually very benevolent. 158 00:12:30,434 --> 00:12:33,770 And these extraterrestrials have helped us throughout 159 00:12:33,804 --> 00:12:37,574 the millennia to survive to this day. 160 00:12:37,641 --> 00:12:38,942 (thunder crashes) 161 00:12:38,976 --> 00:12:42,212 NARRATOR: One of the oldest and most widespread stories 162 00:12:42,279 --> 00:12:46,916 of divine or unearthly intervention in human events 163 00:12:46,951 --> 00:12:50,320 can be found in the many great flood myths. 164 00:12:50,387 --> 00:12:55,959 WILCOCK: There are flood myths all over the world, not just in the Bible. 165 00:12:55,993 --> 00:12:58,862 You can find them all throughout South America. 166 00:12:58,896 --> 00:13:01,231 You can find them in Native American traditions. 167 00:13:01,298 --> 00:13:05,668 You find them in the Celtic traditions; the legend of the Ragnarok; the deluge. 168 00:13:05,736 --> 00:13:08,938 It's in Asia. 169 00:13:08,973 --> 00:13:11,941 Native Africans have flood myths. 170 00:13:11,976 --> 00:13:15,245 So the story of Noah is not an isolated event that only 171 00:13:15,312 --> 00:13:19,782 happens in the Bible; it's part of a bigger story. 172 00:13:19,817 --> 00:13:23,386 NARRATOR: The oldest documented flood myth is the 173 00:13:23,420 --> 00:13:27,957 story of Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh. 174 00:13:27,992 --> 00:13:31,494 The ancient Sumerian tale was discovered on a series of clay 175 00:13:31,529 --> 00:13:35,965 tablets dating back thousands of years. 176 00:13:36,033 --> 00:13:39,802 WILCOCK: Utnapishtim has a story which is almost identical 177 00:13:39,870 --> 00:13:42,405 to the story of Noah. 178 00:13:42,439 --> 00:13:45,508 There's only a few slight differences. 179 00:13:45,543 --> 00:13:49,412 In the Utnapishtim story, the beings that spoke to him and 180 00:13:49,446 --> 00:13:54,317 warned him about this spoke through the walls of his house, 181 00:13:54,351 --> 00:14:00,423 and his house then became the craft that was used to evacuate. 182 00:14:00,457 --> 00:14:03,626 NARRATOR: Like Noah, Utnapishtim collected every type 183 00:14:03,694 --> 00:14:07,997 of animal in anticipation of the flood. 184 00:14:08,065 --> 00:14:11,000 But could it have really been possible to collect every 185 00:14:11,068 --> 00:14:16,706 type of animal and fit them all in a single craft? 186 00:14:16,774 --> 00:14:20,276 Or might the ark have been a metaphor for another, much more 187 00:14:20,311 --> 00:14:27,517 advanced, and extraterrestrial, form of transportation device? 188 00:14:27,551 --> 00:14:33,356 WILCOCK: The ark in the Sumerian story is shaped like a cube. 189 00:14:33,390 --> 00:14:37,627 We now have physicists that are developing hyperdimensional 190 00:14:37,661 --> 00:14:42,799 physics models in which they're actually plotting out the 191 00:14:42,833 --> 00:14:46,336 mathematics of how these higher dimensions are constructed and 192 00:14:46,370 --> 00:14:48,504 what they look like. 193 00:14:48,572 --> 00:14:50,773 It's called a tesseract. 194 00:14:50,808 --> 00:14:54,244 A tesseract is a cube within a cube. 195 00:14:54,278 --> 00:14:58,047 So it's possible that the cube that was referred to in the 196 00:14:58,082 --> 00:15:02,986 original Epic of Gilgamesh could be describing a star gate 197 00:15:03,053 --> 00:15:07,523 portal that used this type of hyperdimensional geometry as a 198 00:15:07,558 --> 00:15:12,262 way to ensure that Utnapishtim and all the animals and the 199 00:15:12,296 --> 00:15:17,233 people that he saved wouldn't be here on Earth at all. 200 00:15:17,268 --> 00:15:20,903 And that's how they were able to survive the deluge. 201 00:15:20,971 --> 00:15:24,440 NARRATOR: Around the world, many churches, temples and other 202 00:15:24,508 --> 00:15:28,878 holy structures are said to have been divinely inspired by 203 00:15:28,912 --> 00:15:34,450 angels, gods, and even beings from other worlds. 204 00:15:34,518 --> 00:15:36,986 But why? 205 00:15:37,021 --> 00:15:44,360 To honor and praise a supreme being... or might there be another purpose? 206 00:15:44,428 --> 00:15:47,630 Angkor Wat, Cambodia. 207 00:15:47,665 --> 00:15:52,168 In the 16th century, one of the first westerners to see this 208 00:15:52,202 --> 00:15:56,806 elaborate temple, Portuguese monk Antonio de Magdalena, 209 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,610 described it as an "extraordinary construction as 210 00:16:00,644 --> 00:16:04,113 like no other building in the world." 211 00:16:04,181 --> 00:16:08,518 With each side measuring nearly a mile long, Angkor Wat remains 212 00:16:08,552 --> 00:16:12,355 the planet's largest religious structure. 213 00:16:12,389 --> 00:16:16,159 Although mainstream archaeologists believe Angkor 214 00:16:16,193 --> 00:16:20,630 Wat was built in the 12th century, by King Suryavarman II, 215 00:16:20,664 --> 00:16:24,734 as a state temple and capital city, Cambodian legends 216 00:16:24,802 --> 00:16:29,639 maintain it was built as far back as 600 BC by Preah 217 00:16:29,673 --> 00:16:34,844 Pisnokar, the offspring of a commoner father and a mother 218 00:16:34,912 --> 00:16:38,381 who came from the heavens. 219 00:16:38,415 --> 00:16:42,652 When grown, Preah was said to be abducted up into a flying 220 00:16:42,686 --> 00:16:49,926 palace by a group of otherworldly beings led by the god Indra. 221 00:16:49,993 --> 00:16:53,463 TSOUKALOS: The message Preah received was to be a 222 00:16:53,497 --> 00:16:57,633 leader for his people, and a teacher. 223 00:16:57,668 --> 00:17:00,570 He was taught all these different things when he was up 224 00:17:00,604 --> 00:17:06,008 at Indra's heaven, this flying palace up in the sky. 225 00:17:06,043 --> 00:17:10,780 When he came back to Earth, after this long education, 226 00:17:10,848 --> 00:17:16,919 Preah was basically the chosen one to teach his people in the 227 00:17:16,954 --> 00:17:21,491 ways of the world and the universe. 228 00:17:21,525 --> 00:17:24,594 NARRATOR: According to the myths, Preah was also 229 00:17:24,628 --> 00:17:28,064 commissioned to build Angkor Wat not just as a sanctuary of 230 00:17:28,098 --> 00:17:32,368 peace and healing, but as a landing zone for the sky beings 231 00:17:32,436 --> 00:17:37,206 who taught him, referred to as "the glowing ones." 232 00:17:37,274 --> 00:17:41,844 TSOUKALOS: The way it is described, it says that no real 233 00:17:41,912 --> 00:17:47,583 tools were actually used, but just magical water. 234 00:17:47,618 --> 00:17:51,721 He was able to pour this magical water onto stone, and 235 00:17:51,755 --> 00:17:56,392 after a while, it would harden into place. 236 00:17:56,427 --> 00:17:58,294 Magical water? 237 00:17:58,362 --> 00:17:59,562 Come on! 238 00:17:59,596 --> 00:18:02,131 There is no such thing as magical water. 239 00:18:02,199 --> 00:18:08,771 So my question is: what type of technology was used? 240 00:18:08,806 --> 00:18:14,410 Preah was able to build this magnificent city with ease. 241 00:18:14,445 --> 00:18:17,780 That's what the ancient texts are saying. 242 00:18:17,781 --> 00:18:21,117 JASON MARTELL: Angkor Wat was more than likely built by the 243 00:18:21,151 --> 00:18:24,587 hands of human beings, but the architectural plan of 244 00:18:24,655 --> 00:18:28,391 sophistication to lay out that type of complex could not have 245 00:18:28,425 --> 00:18:33,062 been engineered by human beings alone at that time. 246 00:18:36,166 --> 00:18:39,769 NARRATOR: 6,000 miles northwest of Angkor Wat, a 247 00:18:39,837 --> 00:18:44,407 15th-century French girl also reportedly received a divine 248 00:18:44,475 --> 00:18:51,314 inspiration... not to build, but to lead men in war. 249 00:18:51,348 --> 00:18:53,749 Orléans, France. 250 00:18:53,784 --> 00:19:01,123 In 1429, the city was besieged by the English during the Hundred Years War. 251 00:19:01,158 --> 00:19:06,395 The survival of the French military and government appeared doomed. 252 00:19:06,430 --> 00:19:12,902 Then, 17-year-old Joan of Arc traveled to Château-Chinon, 253 00:19:12,970 --> 00:19:16,672 where she persuaded the local leaders that the Saints Michael, 254 00:19:16,707 --> 00:19:21,244 Catherine and Margaret had visited her and told her that 255 00:19:21,311 --> 00:19:27,884 her presence in Orléans would inspire the French army to break the siege. 256 00:19:27,885 --> 00:19:32,788 YOUNG: The Joan of Arc story is a fabulous tale of a vision 257 00:19:32,823 --> 00:19:36,692 really affecting history in a practical and concrete way. 258 00:19:36,727 --> 00:19:38,427 France was in bad trouble. 259 00:19:38,462 --> 00:19:41,964 This sensitive soul and very young girl has the vision of 260 00:19:41,999 --> 00:19:46,969 saints that come to her and tell her to lead an army and free a city. 261 00:19:47,004 --> 00:19:49,005 She does so. 262 00:19:49,006 --> 00:19:52,608 She also has some prophecy from these visitations that she is 263 00:19:52,643 --> 00:19:56,279 able to end the siege of a major city and make major 264 00:19:56,313 --> 00:20:02,518 contributions to history... all because these saints came to her in a vision. 265 00:20:02,553 --> 00:20:06,455 NARRATOR: While Joan served primarily as a military 266 00:20:06,523 --> 00:20:10,793 figurehead, she also designed new artillery tactics and 267 00:20:10,827 --> 00:20:15,932 repeatedly outsmarted the more experienced English commanders. 268 00:20:15,999 --> 00:20:21,470 But did her mysterious visions actually come from heaven? 269 00:20:21,505 --> 00:20:25,841 Or might the French teenager have received, as ancient 270 00:20:25,876 --> 00:20:31,981 astronaut theorists suggest, a type of advanced extraterrestrial knowledge? 271 00:20:32,015 --> 00:20:35,651 WILCOCK: If this is, in fact, what was happening, then it 272 00:20:35,686 --> 00:20:39,021 would lead one to conclude that the hidden directorate decided 273 00:20:39,056 --> 00:20:43,125 that the way the world would turn out if this battle had not 274 00:20:43,193 --> 00:20:48,297 been won in favor of the French would have been an extremely 275 00:20:48,365 --> 00:20:51,033 negative outcome for humanity. 276 00:20:51,068 --> 00:20:56,205 So Joan of Arc was then contacted by a luminous 277 00:20:56,273 --> 00:20:59,575 extraterrestrial being that could have imparted that 278 00:20:59,643 --> 00:21:02,378 information to Joan of Arc to give her the confidence that 279 00:21:02,412 --> 00:21:08,584 ultimately led her military campaign to victory. 280 00:21:08,619 --> 00:21:12,488 NARRATOR: If extraterrestrial beings have inspired and 281 00:21:12,556 --> 00:21:17,226 affected human events, then is it really, as some suggest, to 282 00:21:17,294 --> 00:21:20,663 help improve humanity? 283 00:21:20,731 --> 00:21:27,770 Or could there be another, perhaps darker and more sinister, agenda? 284 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:37,321 NARRATOR: Hissarlik. 285 00:21:37,368 --> 00:21:39,335 Northwestern Turkey. 286 00:21:40,393 --> 00:21:46,998 More than 3,000 years ago, this was the walled city of Troy. 287 00:21:47,066 --> 00:21:52,270 According to Greek mythology, Troy was the site of a horrific 288 00:21:52,338 --> 00:22:00,479 war between the Trojans and the Achaeans that was manipulated by the gods. 289 00:22:00,513 --> 00:22:04,282 RICHARD RADER: Thousands upon thousands of people died, and 290 00:22:04,350 --> 00:22:08,353 the city of Troy is totally destroyed. 291 00:22:08,354 --> 00:22:13,558 It's hard to imagine when you read stories like this, of gods 292 00:22:13,626 --> 00:22:16,928 asking people to go to war, do things they wouldn't want to 293 00:22:16,963 --> 00:22:20,401 do... it's hard to imagine that they want what's best for us. 294 00:22:23,423 --> 00:22:26,517 TSOUKALOS: In my opinion, extraterrestrials are just 295 00:22:26,527 --> 00:22:33,232 like humans, so, of course, extraterrestrials also would take sides. 296 00:22:33,267 --> 00:22:38,938 They would take sides with certain people and make enemies with other people. 297 00:22:38,939 --> 00:22:43,576 NARRATOR: But when bad things happen to good people, does it 298 00:22:43,610 --> 00:22:48,881 suggest that alien visitors are capable of having evil intent? 299 00:22:48,949 --> 00:22:56,422 Or does it simply suggest the presence of bad aliens, as well as good ones? 300 00:22:56,457 --> 00:23:00,593 RADER: You look back through these stories... some of which 301 00:23:00,627 --> 00:23:03,396 have to do with actual historical events that led to 302 00:23:03,430 --> 00:23:07,400 blood, guts, destruction... and you say to yourselves, "Maybe 303 00:23:07,434 --> 00:23:10,403 they don't want what's best for us. 304 00:23:10,437 --> 00:23:15,141 Maybe their values and concerns have absolutely nothing to do with ours." 305 00:23:15,209 --> 00:23:18,344 TSOUKALOS: Just like there are good people and bad people 306 00:23:18,412 --> 00:23:23,950 here on Earth, there is good and bad extraterrestrials out there. 307 00:23:23,984 --> 00:23:26,352 Not everything is hunky-dory out there. 308 00:23:26,420 --> 00:23:30,089 Good and evil permeates the entire universe. 309 00:23:30,157 --> 00:23:31,357 Yin and yang. 310 00:23:31,425 --> 00:23:32,992 There's a balance. 311 00:23:32,993 --> 00:23:37,964 REV. MICHAEL CARTER: I'm not sure it's always that cut and dry. 312 00:23:37,998 --> 00:23:40,433 In the Book of Exodus, some translations say an angel 313 00:23:40,501 --> 00:23:42,969 killed all the firstborn Egyptians. 314 00:23:43,003 --> 00:23:46,606 Some say that "the Lord"... and I put that in quotations... uh, 315 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:50,009 slaughtered the firstborn Egyptian, uh, sons. 316 00:23:50,010 --> 00:23:53,813 Hard to reconcile that, at least in my perspective, that a 317 00:23:53,847 --> 00:23:58,184 benevolent, loving God would have angels to slaughter 318 00:23:58,252 --> 00:24:01,053 innocents, to slaughter kids. 319 00:24:03,023 --> 00:24:06,993 NARRATOR: Half a world away from the Mediterranean, across 320 00:24:07,027 --> 00:24:12,632 the Atlantic, another massacre of innocents was said to have 321 00:24:12,666 --> 00:24:15,635 been directed by the gods. 322 00:24:17,871 --> 00:24:20,006 Tenochtitlán, Mexico. 323 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:26,078 500 years ago, this was the capital of the Aztec Empire. 324 00:24:26,113 --> 00:24:32,818 During the 15th century AD, the high priest Tlacaelel claims to 325 00:24:32,886 --> 00:24:38,024 have received a command from the gods in the form of a dream. 326 00:24:38,058 --> 00:24:43,229 His people were to perform human sacrifices. 327 00:24:43,230 --> 00:24:48,467 PHILIP COPPENS: The Aztecs are like so many other civilizations on this planet. 328 00:24:48,502 --> 00:24:54,574 For them, dreams were the primary means of communication with the other world. 329 00:24:54,575 --> 00:24:59,111 So interpreting the dreams was the central thing which the high 330 00:24:59,179 --> 00:25:00,646 priests had to do. 331 00:25:00,681 --> 00:25:04,016 Now, the question is, why did he do this? 332 00:25:04,084 --> 00:25:06,819 Is this just something Tlacaelel invented, or is it 333 00:25:06,853 --> 00:25:10,823 really the fact that he had a dream whereby this new and 334 00:25:10,857 --> 00:25:15,795 brutal regime somehow had to be imposed upon his people? 335 00:25:18,665 --> 00:25:22,702 NARRATOR: But if, as ancient astronaut theorists maintain, 336 00:25:22,736 --> 00:25:27,607 there are malevolent gods... or evil extraterrestrials... does 337 00:25:27,641 --> 00:25:31,811 that suggest we have something to fear? 338 00:25:31,845 --> 00:25:38,117 Or might the evil be found not in the message, but with the messenger? 339 00:25:38,151 --> 00:25:42,555 TSOUKALOS: The possibility that some messages that were 340 00:25:42,589 --> 00:25:46,826 sent by extraterrestrials have been received and 341 00:25:46,860 --> 00:25:53,366 misinterpreted is... is fairly large, because our ancestors 342 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,737 thought that these messages were sent by godlike beings, by 343 00:25:57,771 --> 00:26:03,843 divine creatures, which they never were. 344 00:26:03,877 --> 00:26:07,079 COPPENS: Now, there's quite a bit of evidence, even 345 00:26:07,114 --> 00:26:10,383 contemporary, of people committing murders or about 346 00:26:10,417 --> 00:26:14,220 to commit murders who believe that either God spoke to them 347 00:26:14,288 --> 00:26:17,356 or something else, and we actually find in many cases 348 00:26:17,391 --> 00:26:22,762 that this is not the case, that this is delusion. 349 00:26:22,796 --> 00:26:26,232 NARRATOR: In the Bible's Book of Genesis, God instructs 350 00:26:26,266 --> 00:26:31,103 Abraham to kill his only son, Isaac. 351 00:26:31,138 --> 00:26:36,509 But was this command really given by God, or might Abraham 352 00:26:36,543 --> 00:26:41,414 have received multiple messages from more than one being? 353 00:26:41,481 --> 00:26:44,016 COPPENS: Might it actually be, in origin, a sort of 354 00:26:44,051 --> 00:26:48,788 conversation whereby Abraham and Isaac are not subjected to 355 00:26:48,822 --> 00:26:53,225 one deity but to more than one deity giving them contradictory 356 00:26:53,260 --> 00:26:56,962 messages, whereby one being might be saying, "Kill your 357 00:26:56,997 --> 00:27:00,766 son," and the other being might be saying, "Don't kill your son"? 358 00:27:00,801 --> 00:27:05,137 Are we in fact maybe confronted with two warring civilizations 359 00:27:05,172 --> 00:27:09,141 or two warring tribes? 360 00:27:09,176 --> 00:27:13,045 TSOUKALOS: And I really do think that the gods, the 361 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,882 extraterrestrials, knew 100% 362 00:27:16,917 --> 00:27:18,150 what they were doing. 363 00:27:18,185 --> 00:27:21,253 Just like when we arrive on a different planet and we 364 00:27:21,288 --> 00:27:26,325 achieve instant godlike status, we'll use that to our advantage. 365 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:29,962 We're not gonna say to them, "Oh, no, no, no, we're like you." 366 00:27:30,030 --> 00:27:31,797 We'll say, "Yes. 367 00:27:31,832 --> 00:27:34,800 You obey us or else." 368 00:27:34,868 --> 00:27:39,972 And that is exactly what happened here on Earth 10,000 years ago. 369 00:27:40,006 --> 00:27:43,342 NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists, one fact 370 00:27:43,377 --> 00:27:48,314 is certain: after contact is established, the fate of the 371 00:27:48,348 --> 00:27:53,886 human messenger is not always a pleasant one. 372 00:27:53,954 --> 00:27:57,723 After her capture by the English army, Joan of Arc 373 00:27:57,791 --> 00:28:00,893 burned at the stake as a heretic. 374 00:28:00,961 --> 00:28:04,630 Saint Paul, who converted to Christianity after a divine 375 00:28:04,664 --> 00:28:09,335 apparition, was later executed by the Romans. 376 00:28:09,369 --> 00:28:12,638 And Moses led his people through the desert for 40 377 00:28:12,706 --> 00:28:17,877 years, but could not enter the Promised Land himself. 378 00:28:17,911 --> 00:28:20,913 DYE: Anytime God choose a particular person to do a 379 00:28:20,981 --> 00:28:23,516 particular job, you're always gonna have opposition. 380 00:28:23,517 --> 00:28:26,619 Moses had opposition, you know, with Pharaoh. 381 00:28:26,653 --> 00:28:29,388 And Paul, of course, was stoned. 382 00:28:29,389 --> 00:28:32,658 Those outside entities, those forces that came against them, 383 00:28:32,726 --> 00:28:36,295 that was the burden, so to speak. 384 00:28:36,363 --> 00:28:39,899 TSOUKALOS: Some people who might have received conceivable 385 00:28:39,933 --> 00:28:45,838 messages by extraterrestrials are at first fearful that they 386 00:28:45,872 --> 00:28:53,012 might have to upend their lives, or even worse, be called crazy. 387 00:28:53,046 --> 00:28:56,549 NARRATOR: But could the fear of ridicule or death on the 388 00:28:56,583 --> 00:29:00,653 part of human messengers explain why there are not more 389 00:29:00,687 --> 00:29:04,390 alien messages that get transmitted? 390 00:29:04,424 --> 00:29:07,860 Or might many of those who have experienced extraterrestrial 391 00:29:07,928 --> 00:29:13,032 contacts have closed their eyes or shut their ears, simply 392 00:29:13,099 --> 00:29:17,269 because the truth may be too incredible to bear? 393 00:29:23,787 --> 00:29:27,256 NARRATOR: Billions of people around the world consider holy 394 00:29:27,324 --> 00:29:33,362 books like the Bible and the Koran to be the word of God. 395 00:29:35,466 --> 00:29:40,069 Hundreds of millions of Hindus view the Mahabharata as a guide 396 00:29:40,137 --> 00:29:47,710 to spiritual enlightenment handed down by the god, Lord Krishna himself. 397 00:29:47,745 --> 00:29:51,614 Each of these holy books contains religious principles 398 00:29:51,648 --> 00:29:56,719 in the form of philosophies, parables and moral codes. 399 00:29:56,754 --> 00:29:59,789 YOUNG: Messages from beyond our ordinary knowledge seem to 400 00:29:59,823 --> 00:30:04,560 come in a variety of forms: a visitation, a dream, sometimes 401 00:30:04,628 --> 00:30:09,365 an object, a tablet, a golden plate, a book. 402 00:30:09,366 --> 00:30:10,333 And so it helps. 403 00:30:10,367 --> 00:30:12,902 A book is an ordinary object we are familiar with. 404 00:30:12,936 --> 00:30:16,339 And yet, if it's seen as divinely inspired, we can take 405 00:30:16,373 --> 00:30:19,075 it as more than an ordinary book. 406 00:30:19,109 --> 00:30:21,911 TSOUKALOS: The great majority of mankind today 407 00:30:21,945 --> 00:30:27,750 regards the Bible, the Torah and the Koran as the word of God. 408 00:30:27,818 --> 00:30:33,990 But is it possible that these books were nothing else but 409 00:30:34,024 --> 00:30:39,996 guiding books of how we should conduct our lives and that these 410 00:30:40,030 --> 00:30:45,802 moral codes were, in fact, given to us by extraterrestrials whom 411 00:30:45,836 --> 00:30:49,806 our ancestors thought were gods? 412 00:30:53,510 --> 00:30:58,014 CREMO: I don't think the Mahabharata is a work of fiction. 413 00:30:58,081 --> 00:31:00,583 It's an actual history. 414 00:31:00,584 --> 00:31:06,322 And the history given in the Mahabharata includes not only 415 00:31:06,356 --> 00:31:12,695 actions of human beings on Earth, it also includes actions 416 00:31:12,763 --> 00:31:17,767 of extraterrestrials on other planets and on this Earth, in 417 00:31:17,801 --> 00:31:22,071 interaction with human beings here. 418 00:31:24,274 --> 00:31:27,944 NARRATOR: Cultures all over the world believe deities and 419 00:31:27,978 --> 00:31:31,447 other nonhuman entities frequently communicated through 420 00:31:31,515 --> 00:31:35,585 intermediaries known as prophets. 421 00:31:35,619 --> 00:31:39,989 In the Koran, it's written that God has sent over 100,000 422 00:31:40,057 --> 00:31:43,259 prophets throughout history. 423 00:31:43,293 --> 00:31:47,597 Many Native American cultures believed gods spoke to them 424 00:31:47,631 --> 00:31:52,768 through shamans, much like the oracles of ancient Greece. 425 00:31:52,803 --> 00:31:56,172 YOUNG: An oracle is a person, but a person in some 426 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,775 divine state, an altered state of some kind, who is able to 427 00:31:59,810 --> 00:32:03,546 hear the voices of the gods and then translate it into 428 00:32:03,580 --> 00:32:06,449 accessible human language. 429 00:32:06,483 --> 00:32:09,051 NARRATOR: But could the same phenomenon apply to 430 00:32:09,086 --> 00:32:11,454 Judeo-Christian religious texts? 431 00:32:11,521 --> 00:32:15,925 Might biblical stories of angels and miracles actually be 432 00:32:15,993 --> 00:32:21,364 misinterpretations of ancient alien contact or inspiration? 433 00:32:21,431 --> 00:32:25,201 YOUNG: The visitations or apparitions come to give some 434 00:32:25,235 --> 00:32:30,373 gift... to open the mind, to lead to a new perception, to lead to 435 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,944 a new possibility... either a new artistic take on something 436 00:32:34,978 --> 00:32:37,513 or a new plan for humanity. 437 00:32:39,583 --> 00:32:42,618 Often, we're trapped in some kind of thinking that needs to 438 00:32:42,686 --> 00:32:45,154 break beyond its known limits, but we're caught. 439 00:32:45,188 --> 00:32:48,791 We are unable to see, to get a transcendent perspective. 440 00:32:48,825 --> 00:32:52,528 And that is what the visitation makes possible. 441 00:32:52,562 --> 00:32:55,631 NARRATOR: If that is true, there might be additional 442 00:32:55,666 --> 00:32:59,535 evidence of alien contact by examining breakthroughs in the 443 00:32:59,603 --> 00:33:05,141 fields of astronomy, archaeology and physics. 444 00:33:05,175 --> 00:33:13,282 Or perhaps what is arguably the most universal of all languages: mathematics. 445 00:33:13,350 --> 00:33:15,718 Cambridge University, England. 446 00:33:15,752 --> 00:33:18,921 February 1913. 447 00:33:18,956 --> 00:33:21,257 Mathematics professor Godfrey H. 448 00:33:21,291 --> 00:33:25,428 Hardy receives a letter containing complex mathematical 449 00:33:25,462 --> 00:33:32,101 theorems and formulas from 26-year-old Srinivasa Ramanujan of India. 450 00:33:32,135 --> 00:33:37,373 The distinguished scholar is stunned by what he reads. 451 00:33:37,374 --> 00:33:40,276 WILCOCK: Hardy looks at these theorems and says, "My 452 00:33:40,310 --> 00:33:42,445 God, we've never seen anything like this. 453 00:33:42,479 --> 00:33:45,081 This is mathematics of the highest order. 454 00:33:45,082 --> 00:33:49,552 It's so convoluted and complex that nobody could've come up 455 00:33:49,619 --> 00:33:50,920 with this by their imagination; 456 00:33:50,988 --> 00:33:54,256 there has to be something here." 457 00:33:54,291 --> 00:33:57,293 NARRATOR: An acknowledged genius and mathematical prodigy 458 00:33:57,327 --> 00:34:02,932 since childhood, Ramanujan was devoutly religious, and often 459 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,102 claimed his breakthroughs were communicated to him in his 460 00:34:06,169 --> 00:34:10,906 dreams by the Hindu goddess Namagiri. 461 00:34:10,941 --> 00:34:14,377 In the decades since, his theorems have proved to be 462 00:34:14,411 --> 00:34:20,116 invaluable to those working in cutting-edge fields like string theory. 463 00:34:20,183 --> 00:34:23,753 WILCOCK: All of the science that we need to eventually be 464 00:34:23,787 --> 00:34:28,391 able to create portals, star gate travel, hyperdimensional 465 00:34:28,425 --> 00:34:33,996 access mechanisms, levitation, teleportation... it all needs a 466 00:34:34,031 --> 00:34:36,232 mathematical foundation. 467 00:34:36,299 --> 00:34:40,503 And the closest that we have right now is the Ramaianen 468 00:34:40,537 --> 00:34:44,774 equations that we've been able to decipher so far, which came 469 00:34:44,808 --> 00:34:51,580 to him directly from this goddess, who appeared to him in dreams. 470 00:34:53,884 --> 00:34:57,053 NARRATOR: Could Ramanujan have been telepathically 471 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:01,223 receiving important information that might enable humans to 472 00:35:01,291 --> 00:35:07,129 build a portal or star gate to other dimensions or alien worlds? 473 00:35:07,197 --> 00:35:09,698 If so, why? 474 00:35:09,733 --> 00:35:17,339 What is the ultimate purpose of what some believe to be alien communications? 475 00:35:23,195 --> 00:35:25,263 NARRATOR: October 2010. 476 00:35:25,697 --> 00:35:29,767 For nearly 30 years after their alleged encounter with an 477 00:35:29,801 --> 00:35:32,871 unidentified aircraft in England's Rendelsham Forest, 478 00:35:33,305 --> 00:35:37,375 retired military airmen James Penniston and John Burroughs 479 00:35:37,509 --> 00:35:40,845 rarely spoke to each other about the incident. 480 00:35:40,879 --> 00:35:45,250 Yet both men remained haunted by their experience. 481 00:35:45,251 --> 00:35:49,687 PENNISTON: That was a life-changing event that happened out there. 482 00:35:49,722 --> 00:35:55,693 You know, the problem with life-changing events, they affect you for your life. 483 00:35:55,728 --> 00:35:57,795 BURROUGHS: I want to know what it was. 484 00:35:57,863 --> 00:36:00,164 I think there's people out there in our government that have 485 00:36:00,232 --> 00:36:03,234 a better idea and they could tell us what went on, what 486 00:36:03,269 --> 00:36:07,672 happened to us, but I don't know how to tell you for sure wh-what 487 00:36:07,706 --> 00:36:10,141 it was and where it came from. 488 00:36:10,142 --> 00:36:14,078 NARRATOR: Shortly after his reported encounter, James 489 00:36:14,113 --> 00:36:18,850 Penniston had felt compelled to write down the long and complex 490 00:36:18,884 --> 00:36:23,221 numerical sequence of ones and zeros he claimed he saw 491 00:36:23,255 --> 00:36:25,523 when he touched the spacecraft. 492 00:36:25,557 --> 00:36:29,060 But were they really just random numbers? 493 00:36:29,094 --> 00:36:32,130 PENNISTON: I was getting this... not from memory... but 494 00:36:32,164 --> 00:36:39,971 this mental picture of these codes written out, this binary-type code. 495 00:36:40,005 --> 00:36:46,678 So, I tried to suppress it, but I just had this urge to put these down. 496 00:36:46,679 --> 00:36:50,348 COPPENS: We now realize that the best way of communicating 497 00:36:50,416 --> 00:36:55,653 with an ancient civilization is the binary code. 498 00:36:55,654 --> 00:37:00,725 If we know this, then obviously anybody else in the universe 499 00:37:00,793 --> 00:37:02,627 will know this, as well. 500 00:37:02,695 --> 00:37:06,531 And when we know that our ancestors, either on their own 501 00:37:06,565 --> 00:37:10,335 or with some help from strangers, knew this as well, 502 00:37:10,369 --> 00:37:14,372 then we realize that really the binary code is the best, if not 503 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,876 the only means, of alien communication. 504 00:37:18,944 --> 00:37:23,047 NARRATOR: For three decades, Penniston kept the mysterious 505 00:37:23,082 --> 00:37:28,219 numerical sequence hidden between the covers of his Air Force notebook. 506 00:37:28,253 --> 00:37:32,790 There they remained... unexamined and undeciphered. 507 00:37:32,858 --> 00:37:35,059 PENNISTON: I was scared to death. 508 00:37:35,094 --> 00:37:38,963 I was sitting there going, "Okay, there's something wrong with you, Jim. 509 00:37:38,997 --> 00:37:40,064 You're not right. 510 00:37:40,132 --> 00:37:42,633 You're not thinking straight. 511 00:37:42,701 --> 00:37:44,902 This stuff is so bizarre. 512 00:37:44,937 --> 00:37:46,504 You can't tell anybody this. 513 00:37:46,538 --> 00:37:49,907 They'll take your gun away from you, they'll kick you out." 514 00:37:49,942 --> 00:37:51,909 All those things were in jeopardy. 515 00:37:51,944 --> 00:37:54,645 That's what I was thinking about at that moment. 516 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,182 That if I start telling anybody exactly what I was thinking, 517 00:37:58,217 --> 00:37:59,884 that would be the end of it. 518 00:37:59,885 --> 00:38:02,887 YOUNG: The "refusal of the call" is probably an 519 00:38:02,921 --> 00:38:06,724 experience all thoughtful people have... that is, there is 520 00:38:06,792 --> 00:38:11,028 some project, some task, some mission. 521 00:38:11,029 --> 00:38:16,834 But we waver, we doubt ourselves, and don't immediately respond to our destiny. 522 00:38:16,869 --> 00:38:21,172 This is not a good thing. 523 00:38:21,206 --> 00:38:24,008 NARRATOR: After eventually leaving the Air Force and 524 00:38:24,076 --> 00:38:31,382 returning to the United States... Penniston found he was being 525 00:38:31,417 --> 00:38:36,821 haunted by persistent dreams, both about his experience in 526 00:38:36,855 --> 00:38:43,828 the forest, and the meaning of the mysterious numerical message he received. 527 00:38:43,862 --> 00:38:46,564 PENNISTON: What do they mean? 528 00:38:46,598 --> 00:38:47,365 I don't know. 529 00:38:47,399 --> 00:38:50,201 I've never had them analyzed or anything like that. 530 00:38:50,235 --> 00:38:54,205 I mean, we were out there doing our jobs with a situation that 531 00:38:54,273 --> 00:38:58,109 we'd never handled before. 532 00:38:58,177 --> 00:39:03,114 NARRATOR: In October 2010, Penniston entrusted his six 533 00:39:03,182 --> 00:39:08,586 handwritten pages of ones and zeros to a computer programmer. 534 00:39:08,620 --> 00:39:12,356 He hoped the apparently random series of numbers could be 535 00:39:12,391 --> 00:39:16,461 translated into something resembling a readable message. 536 00:39:16,462 --> 00:39:19,030 CISKE: Could someone write out six pages of binary? 537 00:39:19,097 --> 00:39:21,065 Well, probably not. 538 00:39:21,099 --> 00:39:25,169 Um, they would need some help, or they would have to be some 539 00:39:25,237 --> 00:39:27,805 kind of savant or super-calculator. 540 00:39:27,806 --> 00:39:32,610 I started transcribing it into my computer to see what I might find. 541 00:39:32,678 --> 00:39:35,079 I thought, "It's not gonna come out to anything." 542 00:39:35,147 --> 00:39:39,617 And then something that appeared to be a real message regarding aliens emerged. 543 00:39:39,685 --> 00:39:42,720 NARRATOR: To his astonishment, after plugging 544 00:39:42,788 --> 00:39:47,792 the numbers into a computer, a fragmentary sentence emerged. 545 00:39:47,826 --> 00:39:50,261 It stated: 546 00:39:50,295 --> 00:39:56,868 "EXPLORATION OF HUMANITY CONTINUOUS FOR PLANETARY ADVANCE." 547 00:39:56,902 --> 00:40:00,872 Another portion of the message revealed what appeared to be 548 00:40:00,906 --> 00:40:03,875 navigational coordinates. 549 00:40:03,942 --> 00:40:08,312 Could this now decoded series of numbers actually be the 550 00:40:08,347 --> 00:40:13,751 evidence the human race has been searching for? 551 00:40:13,785 --> 00:40:17,788 Proof that we are not alone? 552 00:40:17,856 --> 00:40:20,758 CISKE: "Exploration of humanity." 553 00:40:20,792 --> 00:40:23,394 Is that for good or for evil? 554 00:40:23,428 --> 00:40:26,898 "Planetary advancement," is that advancing the human race, 555 00:40:26,965 --> 00:40:30,434 as many have theorized, or is that the advancement of some 556 00:40:30,469 --> 00:40:33,671 armada coming to conquer Earth? 557 00:40:33,705 --> 00:40:36,541 NARRATOR: As for the navigational coordinates, 558 00:40:36,608 --> 00:40:40,711 amazingly, they point to the geographic location of a 559 00:40:40,712 --> 00:40:45,850 mysterious sunken island known in Celtic legend as Hy Brasil. 560 00:40:45,851 --> 00:40:49,987 It was said to be the home of a civilization thousands of years 561 00:40:50,055 --> 00:40:51,989 ahead of its time. 562 00:40:52,024 --> 00:40:56,727 It is also occasionally referred to as, "the other Atlantis." 563 00:40:56,728 --> 00:40:59,463 WILCOCK: Hy Brasil was believed to be a mysterious 564 00:40:59,531 --> 00:41:07,738 land in which the people living there had a high degree of civilization. 565 00:41:07,739 --> 00:41:12,710 They used sound technology and vibrational healing technology. 566 00:41:12,744 --> 00:41:15,813 They were highly ethical, highly moral people, and they 567 00:41:15,847 --> 00:41:18,883 considered everyone over in Europe to be barbarians, and 568 00:41:18,917 --> 00:41:21,419 they did not want to mix with them at all. 569 00:41:21,453 --> 00:41:24,855 They enjoyed the isolation and the seclusion. 570 00:41:24,890 --> 00:41:28,793 NARRATOR: But if the strange binary message in Penniston's 571 00:41:28,860 --> 00:41:34,031 notebook lists the coordinates of Hy Brasil, what does it mean? 572 00:41:34,066 --> 00:41:38,436 WILCOCK: They may be ancient astronauts, and the Rendelsham 573 00:41:38,470 --> 00:41:41,973 Forest incident could've been them coming back, finding a 574 00:41:42,007 --> 00:41:45,910 person who was ready to receive the message, who had the right 575 00:41:45,978 --> 00:41:50,381 tuning to receive the message... to let us know that the people 576 00:41:50,415 --> 00:41:54,051 we call the Hy Brazilians are still out there and they want 577 00:41:54,119 --> 00:41:58,122 us to be ready to accept in the future some sort of open 578 00:41:58,156 --> 00:42:02,326 congress and communication between our world and theirs. 579 00:42:02,361 --> 00:42:05,496 PENNISTON: There's certain incidents going out there where 580 00:42:05,530 --> 00:42:07,765 I know where you don't remember and I don't remember. 581 00:42:07,833 --> 00:42:09,967 But there's certain things together we don't remember. 582 00:42:10,035 --> 00:42:12,870 BURROUGHS: Right, well, even Ed said that he remembers me 583 00:42:12,904 --> 00:42:15,973 pulling my weapon, and we all blacked out. 584 00:42:16,041 --> 00:42:17,775 And I don't remember that. 585 00:42:17,809 --> 00:42:22,680 NARRATOR: In December 2010, James Penniston along with John 586 00:42:22,714 --> 00:42:27,051 Burroughs plan to return to Rendlesham Forest... and to the 587 00:42:27,085 --> 00:42:31,322 exact same site where they claim to have encountered a 588 00:42:31,356 --> 00:42:34,325 mysterious craft 30 years earlier. 589 00:42:34,393 --> 00:42:36,327 PENNISTON: We're both compelled to go back. 590 00:42:36,361 --> 00:42:39,130 Being in that area will cause us to have total recall of what 591 00:42:39,164 --> 00:42:41,766 happened in December of 1980. 592 00:42:41,767 --> 00:42:44,168 BURROUGHS: I can't explain it, just like I couldn't 593 00:42:44,236 --> 00:42:46,704 explain it the first time, but I think we're gonna have a 594 00:42:46,772 --> 00:42:49,040 better understanding what we need to do from there. 595 00:42:49,041 --> 00:42:51,175 PENNISTON: Could there be more? 596 00:42:51,209 --> 00:42:53,511 Um... yeah. 597 00:42:53,545 --> 00:42:56,714 There could be more. 598 00:42:56,782 --> 00:42:59,884 NARRATOR: If Penniston and Burroughs do return to the 599 00:42:59,918 --> 00:43:03,721 English forest where they claim to have had a close encounter, 600 00:43:03,789 --> 00:43:06,457 what will they find there? 601 00:43:06,525 --> 00:43:08,225 More clues? 602 00:43:08,260 --> 00:43:10,895 Even more messages? 603 00:43:10,962 --> 00:43:16,901 And what of the mysterious binary code found in Penniston's notebook? 604 00:43:16,935 --> 00:43:21,505 Does the phrase: "EXPLORATION OF HUMANITY CONTINUOUS FOR 605 00:43:21,540 --> 00:43:26,377 PLANETARY ADVANCE" and the strange geographic coordinates 606 00:43:26,378 --> 00:43:30,381 that point to a lost island really provide evidence that we 607 00:43:30,382 --> 00:43:37,455 are being visited... and perhaps studied... by visitors from another world? 608 00:43:37,489 --> 00:43:42,359 Could this event really be the latest in a long line of alien 609 00:43:42,427 --> 00:43:46,464 encounters that stretches back to antiquity? 610 00:43:46,498 --> 00:43:48,199 To the time of the gods? 611 00:43:48,266 --> 00:43:51,268 If so, are they helping us? 612 00:43:51,303 --> 00:43:55,406 Or are they preparing us to help them? 613 00:43:55,606 --> 00:43:58,806 Sync by honeybunny www.addic7ed.com