Giorgio a. Tsoukalos: A ufo sighting over multiple cities.
Man: I don't know what the hell that is.
Tsoukalos: 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.
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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.
Narrator: 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.
Man: Oh, good god.
-Woman: What's that? -Man: I don't know.
-Woman: It's not a plane. -Man: I don't...
I'll be... I'm gonna tell you something, honey.
I don't know what the hell it is.
Philip imbrogno: 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.
Narrator: The sightings continued
For more than six years
And became the most widely reported in american history.
David childress: 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.
Narrator: But why were so many ufo encounters reported
In this one particular area?
Man: There are six,
And the lead one has his three lights on.
Everybody else only has two.
Tsoukalos: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Man: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Ken storch: 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.
Jason martell: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Narrator: Could it be
That extraterrestrial beings are abducting
Not only individuals
But also families?
And if so, why?
Nick pope: 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.
Number eight: The kenneth arnold ufo sighting.
Narrator: 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.
Richard dolan: 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."
Narrator: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Childress: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Imbrogno: They saw the sun spinning like a disk
And then coming down to the planet earth,
And people got very frightened.
Narrator: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Dolan: 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.
Birnes: 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.
Dolan: 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."
Narrator: The governor of arizona
Described a strange, triangular ufo
That appeared translucent,
Camouflaging itself amidst the star field above.
Birnes: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Narrator: 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.
William bramley: 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.
Narrator: 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?
Bramley: 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.
Tsoukalos: Now, it was not just constantine's vision
Because it is described
That the army of constantine
Also saw something up in the sky.
Pope: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Patrick cooke: 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.
Redfern: 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. -Man: Four, three, two...
Redfern: 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.
Cooke: Definitely, these are, uh, characteristics
That we see of abductions
Where people are taken up into objects.
Narrator: 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?
Rabbi ariel bar tzadok: 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.
Narrator: 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."
(tires screech)
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.
(chuckles): 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 explosion
So violent that, uh, they thought
It, uh, it had killed 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.
Pope: 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.
Walton: 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.
Pope: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Walton: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Downing: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Travis taylor: 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.
Coppens: 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.
Narrator: 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."
Narrator: 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.
Tsoukalos: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Von daniken: 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.
William henry: And in the book of enoch, we learn
Enoch himself is taken into the heavens in a fiery chariot.
Von daniken: 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.
Tsoukalos: 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.
Narrator: 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?
Robert cargill: 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.
Henry: 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.
Narrator: 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.
Pope: 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.
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