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[eerie music]

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[heart beating]

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[laughter]

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[wind blowing]

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[rain, thunder]

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[wolf howling]

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[thunder]

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[dog barking]

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[flying saucer whirring]

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[Elizabeth] I was seven years old,

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and the sun had just set beyond,
over the Drakensberg.

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And this enormous craft came across...

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quite horizontally, across the sky.

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And it was as big as a football,

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and it was quite beautiful,
and it shone with a blue-white light.

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I felt that this was something...

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the beginning of a tremendous destiny
that I was to go into,

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and I could feel this as a child,
I sensed it.

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I had this intuition.

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And I felt a bond,
a communication that was so strong

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that I simply followed this bond.

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[little girl giggles]

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There are people up here.

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[radio static]

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[radio announcer] We interrupt our sports
commentary. Shortly after 11 this morning,

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an unidentified flying object
hovered over Johannesburg,

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with many witnesses not sure
what they were looking--

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[John] GB McKenzie
is from Howick in Natal.

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Son of Elizabeth Klarer's sister,
Barbara Woollatt.

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A shy, sweet timber farmer
and nature lover.

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Salt-of-the-earth type.

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[GB] Elizabeth was before her time

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because her story is something we
as South Africans can really be proud of.

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I always remember her as being so serene
and gracious and a real lady.

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I miss Elizabeth very much.

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[John] Stella cared for Elizabeth Klarer

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during her final days
at the Highway Hospice.

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And Stella paid close attention to every
word Elizabeth said from her deathbed.

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And the alien sex part made her ears
prick up every single time.

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[Stella] My remembrance of Elizabeth
was her sitting up in bed.

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I think she dyed her hair,
and it was swept up at the back.

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She sat in her bed
with all her papers round about her.

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This big blue ring and the photo
of Akon at the back of her bed.

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That's why I remember her.
"Come in, dear, and I'll talk to you.”

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She loved talking. She loved to talk.

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She loved to talk about her journey
up into space.

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She told me all about the interior
of the spaceship,

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and it was red velvet
and she had sex in the spaceship.

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And, oh, she told me the whole story.
I could never ever catch her out.

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She always stuck to what she believed in,

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and never wavered off
what she thought was the truth.

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[ominous vibrations]

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David, Elizabeth's son,
is my first cousin.

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Um, he spent most Christmas holidays
with us on the farm.

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So, he's a few years younger than myself.

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As far as Elizabeth's experiences go,

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I myself have never seen a UFO,
unfortunately. I've never had a sighting,

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but that doesn't mean to say
that I don't believe her story

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because, you know, she's attended
conferences in Germany and America.

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She's addressed conferences
all over the world.

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[David] Yes, she was very intelligent.

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I sometimes wish I had her intelligence.

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But she was widely read,
she read a lot of books.

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[John] Meet Elizabeth Klarer’s earth son,
David Klarer.

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One of two earth children with Elizabeth’s
second husband, Paul Emile Klarer.

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David, now retired,
was a senior risk analyst back in the day.

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He was close with his mom.
Not so much with Akon.

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He's never met his space brother,

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and is witness to a close encounter
of a third kind himself,

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which does not include Akon or his people.

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[David] My mother was an amazing woman.

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She was
full of love, gentleness. Peaceful.

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She was very concerned
about the environment.

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She was concerned about people.

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She had green fingers.
Her plants always did well. [chuckles]

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[John]
Marina McKenzie is married to GB McKenzie.

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Such a sweetheart and a retired nurse.

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[Marina] It would seem that Elizabeth,
from the time she was a small girl,

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was always a little bit different
and more in touch with life out there.

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And... naturally, he'd choose somebody
like that. He wouldn’t have chosen me.

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The first time I met her
was watching GB playing hockey.

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And I'd met this aunt
who, I was told, you know,

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had had this episode
in her life with Akon.

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And so, there was a bit of interest anyway

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because it was such an unusual
and interesting story.

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She was extra special and warm,
terribly warm and affectionate,

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and people just warmed towards her.

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She had that power, that sort of aura,
I suppose you could call it.

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And I think she attracted men
from far and wide.

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[chuckles] Dare we say it?
Really far and wide.

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She must've been very brave
to go off into an alien craft...

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and face the unknown.

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GB has a cousin, yes.
I have a cousin-in-law.

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He tells-- He very proudly tells people
that he has a cousin in space.

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Potentially, I have a full cousin...

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in outer space called Ayling.

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[ominous music]

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[John] This is Sue Armstrong.

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Once upon a time, a farmer next
to Elizabeth's infamous Flying Saucer Hill

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in the Mooi River area.

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There, she was an avid horse rider,
believer, and feisty die-hard romantic.

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She has since retired and moved on,
but her eyes will always twinkle

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when she thinks
of what could've been made on that hill.

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[Sue] I see Flying Saucer Hill
every day of my life.

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Graham and I have been married for 42
years, and we've lived here all that time.

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And in fact, I married the boy next door

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because my father owned the farm
next door to Danesford.

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And so, from the time I was a small child,
we heard about Flying Saucer Hill

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and all the stories
about Akon and Elizabeth meeting.

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I believe because of my association
with Elizabeth.

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And she did have an incredible magnetism.

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She had the most incredible eyes.
She was not totally of this earth.

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[Elizabeth] This is a picture
I took of Flying Saucer Hill

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with my Brownie Box camera.

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It had a shaft of light coming right down
over the dip in the top,

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where Akon’s starship landed.

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And I can actually see his face
in that shaft of light.

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[John] Hayley and Greg Muirhead

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actually own the farm
which hosts the Flying Saucer Hill.

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But as busy farmers, they tend to focus
more on their cattle and running a farm

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than the alleged lights
and hill-frolicking,

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as described by Elizabeth.

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Even though Hayley, like Sue,
seems to be more open

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to the thought of extraterrestrial
communion as such.

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[Greg] A lot of that's in the eye
of the beholder.

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- I think... Yes, we’ll leave it there.
- [Haley chuckles]

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There are lots of holes in the story,
but just take the pearls from that

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and see what you get.

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And if I saw Akon today, Arkon,

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I’d tell him, "Take me to your leader."
You know? "Take me out of here."

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"We-- Stop the world,
we want to get off!" You know?

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- [chuckles]
- It all gets a bit much at times.

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So, yes. And there’s... there’s magic
in a bit of the unknown, the cosmic.

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It just brings a little bit of awe,
a little bit of interest

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to an otherwise very...
Excel, email kind of life.

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You know? There’s nothing wrong
with that, a bit of color.

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Good luck with this one, Akon, good luck.

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- Only skinny women are easy to kidnap...
- [chuckles]

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Not--not ones who enjoy food too much.

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[Greg] I mean it is, it’s a lovely site.
So when you’re up there,

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why wouldn’t you feel something, you know?

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Why wouldn’t you feel the beauty
and what's around you?

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But... you know, it’s still...
it’s still just a marvel anyway.

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And we find the whole story
rather intriguing...

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but to say I’ve seen activity,
unfortunately, that isn’t the case.

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[ominous vibrations]

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[ominous music]

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I went to the mountaintop.

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And there, as I topped
the northern ridge of the dip,

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I saw the starship landed in the dip,

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and she was landed flat on the ground.

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And standing beside her was a tall man.

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I never hesitated. I ran straight to him

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and I held out both my hands to him,
and he took them saying,

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"You’re not afraid this time."

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I couldn’t say anything,
I just shook my head.

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I was out of breath, I was so excited.

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And then everything happened at once.

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He just picked me up like a feather
and stepped onto the hull of his ship...

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and in through the open doors.

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[Helene] We went up the mountain one day,
just for another talk,

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and she explained that this
was the mountain where she met Akon.

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And Elizabeth started shaking,
and she was very excited.

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She said,
"This is where Akon landed the spaceship."

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And then I looked down, and it was
the eeriest experience of my life

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because in the hollow, it wasn’t just
a hollow, it was shaped... like this.

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And that area in that shape...

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was covered with strange plants.

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I felt totally ice cold,

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because this, to me, was a strange
occurrence, and I'm sure that at her age,

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she wouldn’t have sat down
planting those plants.

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And she looked at that,
and she said to me,

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“He promised me,
that he would leave a mark for me,

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and this is the mark
he left on the mountain.”

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[John] Helene Rabie was a sought-after
journalist during the '70s and '80s.

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She often used to compare notes
about the Klarer case.

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Akon, he had the most wonderful face.

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He had a high forehead,

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high cheekbones, aquiline features,

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and these really incredible grey eyes

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that were very compelling
and full of love.

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And his hair... was golden,
but quite white at the temples.

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And he must... He--he is...
In fact, I know, I knew afterwards...

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that he was at least 6 ft 4.

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She had a... I don't know whether it
was a degree, but she was a meteorologist

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and she studied in Britain.

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And I often saw communications from...

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very high officials
in the government to her.

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[ominous music]

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[John] Petrovna Metelerkamp was a go-to
magazine journalist in the '80s.

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She reported in depth and with delight

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on Elizabeth Klarer’s
extraterrestrial rendezvous.

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[Petrovna] In 1983, I was a journalist,
and I was in the privileged position

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that I could choose my subjects
for my articles.

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It was for a family magazine,

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the biggest magazine in South Africa,
called Huisgenoot.

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I used to choose alternative topics.

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And when I read a review
about the book that had appeared,

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written by Elizabeth Klarer,

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I made an appointment to see her
and spent a day with her

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because I thought, "This is up my street."

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This kind of
anything-different-and-out-of-the-box.

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One can also wonder why would Akon choose
Elizabeth Klarer of all people on Earth.

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Why would he choose her to take with him
to his planet and to give him a son?

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One of the reasons
that she mentioned was...

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that she was a descendant
of the Venus tribe on Earth,

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the original Venus people.

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And he wanted to import fresh blood
into his race

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for the strengthening of their bloodline.

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[Kitty] It does have a very romantic
aspect to it...

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when Elizabeth told you that this man
was her soulmate.

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Akon was her soulmate,
and she had dreams of him

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long before she met him.

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[Elizabeth] I knew his name through
telepathic communication...

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and he’d watched me as a child.

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"Do you know anything about aliens?

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Um, have you ever read
Elizabeth Klarer's book?

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Have you ever met her?
Have you done any research?"

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I said, "You go out there and do 30,
40 years of research like I have done

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and then come back
and tell me that they don't exist."

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[ominous music]

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[John] Kitty Smith,
long-standing friend of Elizabeth

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and founder of South Africa's
first and longest-running UFO club.

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[Credo] I looked... more and more...

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at Klarer...

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and I speak as a person
who is an artist of some kind.

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And I speak as a person...

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who's traveled and who has...

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has met people of different nations.
This woman’s ears...

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are not right.

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Elizabeth Klarer always loved to...

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to dress her hair in such a way

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that her ears were given as little
prominence as possible. They were hidden.

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[John] Ubaba Vusamazulu,
"Awaken the Heavens", Credo Mutwa.

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He was a Zulu sangoma,
a traditional healer,

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and the last High Sanusi
from South Africa.

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He also had a very special bond
with Elizabeth Klarer.

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The story goes that during the height
of apartheid in South Africa,

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they would get arrested by the Apartheid
Police for visiting with each other.

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[Credo] I will be as brief as possible.

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The common story that is being bandied
about by Elizabeth Klarer

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is that she was an Earth woman

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who was impregnated
by a man from the stars.

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I'm sorry, that is only half the truth.

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I say in Zulu, "Hayi khona, akunjalo,"

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"No, it is not so."

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This woman...
was a creature from the stars.

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She also had proof...

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according to her,
of her visit to this other galaxy.

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No, it’s not a different galaxy.
It’s our galaxy, it's a different planet.

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She showed me a thick...
almost like a book,

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which was sent to her
by the American Department of Defense,

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I think it was their Airforce branch,
which she had to fill in.

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Every little finest detail
of her experience.

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And it was 42 pages, A4.

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So, it was in extreme detail,

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and I wondered
why were they so interested.

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Then I knew they were doing research

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and they were trying to find out
about such happenings.

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She must've had her first intimations
or contact with flying saucers

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because she took these photographs.

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Not particularly good, but I think it
was with an ordinary camera.

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[camera shutter clicks]-And those were the first ones that I know

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- that were photographed in 1956.
- [flying saucer whirring]

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And I've had people say, "Well,
those look like ordinary baking pots

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that were thrown up into the air,"
or some stupid remark.

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[John] Astronomers have since discovered
an earth-like planet

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in the Alpha Centauri constellation.

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There could be as many as 40 billion
Earth-sized planets

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orbiting in the habitable zones

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of sun-like stars and red dwarf stars
within the Milky Way galaxy.

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Ooh, we're definitely not alone.

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There it is, Alpha Centauri, our nearest
neighbor, and 44-million years by taxi.

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About 500 times further away
is the star Proxima Centauri.

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The nearest star to us,
which hosts the planet Meton,

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according to Elizabeth Klarer,

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from where Akon,
the extraterrestrial visitor, is from.

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[John]
Dr. Enrico Olivier is an astronomer.

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Research areas include
the late stages of stellar evolution,

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non-linear modeling of stellar vibrations,
and brown dwarfs.

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All of the things that I've seen...
that are strange to me in the night skies,

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I could've always explained it
afterwards or something,

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either natural or something man-made
that was happening up in the night sky.

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We found that when we traveled
around the area where she lived,

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that the Zulu people often see
the flying saucers.

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- Mm.
- And they consider them to be gods.

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And when they see them, they fall down on
their knees and close their eyes and pray.

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They don't look up again
till they're sure that they're gone.

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My sister phoned me one day and said,

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"The Zulus are seeing
what they call in their language,

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'The Wagon in the Sky.'"

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And... their folklore, of course...

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This also comes into their folklore,

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and the correct Zulu name
for the flying saucer

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is "The Lightning Bird".

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[John]
Beyond the Light Barrier, page 14...

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"Ikhanya elikhanya emnyameni."

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"A light that enlightened the darkness."
A Zulu praise.

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My sister again phoned me and said,
"You’d better come down

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because the Lightning Bird
again is in the sky

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- and the Zulus are very excited."
- [serene music]

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I don't think
there's any other case on record

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of a woman giving birth
to a child from an alien.

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Pure undiluted love.

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I mean, there must've been a passion
that we can't even imagine.

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And what she gave up,
and the way she transported herself.

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I mean, that has got to be one of the
greatest love stories we'll never know.

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[gentle music]

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- [camera shutter clicks]
- [Paul] That's not a good love story.

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That's not a good love story at all.

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He comes, impregnates her,
brings her back,

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takes the baby and never sees her again.
That's not a good love story.

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[John]
Now, Paul Brogan has been many things.

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An engineer, stockbroker,
company executive, environmentalist,

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community leader, skeptic, and writer.

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Things he's not? A UFO-hugger.

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A good love story is my wife and I.

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We get married and we stay together
for the rest of our natural lives.

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That’s a love story.
And that happens every day.

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Why are we not glorifying that?
This is not a love story to be glorified

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or to be admired or to be copied.
Not at all. Not in my opinion

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He said, "Now we’re going
to the high plateau at Cathkin,"

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because there was an air force plane,

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one of these Harvard planes,

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an old air force plane,
droning around the sky all the time.

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And he said, "Let’s get away from that."
And we went up.

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And he took me up
to the high plateau at Cathkin.

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We have guests who come here
to stay with us especially...

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to go and visit the UFO landing site...

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where Akon or Arkon, I don't even know
how to pronounce his name,

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seduced his little earthling

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and swept her up into his arms
or tentacles or whatever,

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and took her off to Alpha Centauri.

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And they've met her,
and they believe her story.

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Unfortunately, I haven't met her.

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And being a skeptic,
being someone who doesn't easily...

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believe in the irrational...

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I have to... [sighs]

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I have to treat her story
with--with--with some... reserve.

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[gentle music]

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[John] Paul Brogan's home
is the highest inhabited property

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in the Central Drakensberg,

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the last friendly hearth before one
ascends into the vast mountain wilderness,

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and half-a-day's hike from the fastness,

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the alleged spaceship landing spot
of Cathkin Peak itself.

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Behind me is Cathkin Peak.

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It’s roughly 3 000m up.

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On the top is a flat portion of land,
about the size of a soccer field...

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and up there, allegedly...

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a spaceman called Akon...

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flew his "earthling" girlfriend,
Elizabeth Klarer...

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to the top...

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and they made mad, passionate love...

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and she conceived a child up there,
a boy, apparently.

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And where the spaceship landed...

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there is a bare patch of ground,
where nothing grows.

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I don’t know whether the spaceship caused
that, but I suspect there are perfectly...

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plausible, geological reasons
for nothing growing there.

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The plausible reason would be that water
has leached through this soil,

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leached out all the nutrients,
so there's just sand left,

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and that... Then there's nothing left
to nourish grass and trees, and so on.

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[ominous music]

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[John] And yet, here we find ourselves
with a photo

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taken long before spaceships allegedly
landed on Cathkin Peak plateau,

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where one can clearly see lush vegetation
and plant life covering the area

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before a UFO crossed their plant paths.

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This is Akon... who was my mother's love.

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Also ostensibly the father of Ayling,

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my mother's other son, who I've never met.

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It seems I have a half-brother
out there in space.

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And-- But I do have doubts
about this story.

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I have my doubts
that my mother's story is true,

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in terms of her meeting with Akon
and going up into space

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and having a child, all that. Um...

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00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,480
I find it very frustrating
that there's no out-and-out proof for me.

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00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,280
I would've really liked to have known
which way this whole story goes.

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00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,680
Was it true? Was it not true? [chuckles]

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00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,800
But certain things have occurred, um...

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certain writings in her book,
certain events.

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And a major one for me
was one where she says that I was involved

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up in the Drakensberg
and a craft landed in front of us.

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We were up there on horseback
and this craft landed in front of us

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and Akon got out. And I don't recall that.

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[Elizabeth] So I rode off, and...
With a groom and a packhorse,

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and, of course, David with me as well.

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And that’s when I met him again.

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00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,640
Now, surely, something like that at my...

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00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,480
even young age of, let’s say,
eight or nine years old,

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I'd have remembered something like that

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00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,200
because other parts of that trip
I do remember.

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00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:48,160
The idea of Akon having erased
the memory out of my mind in some way

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has crossed my mind...

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00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,120
But then I ask myself, "Why would he have
done it? What was the purpose?"

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00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:58,080
Especially as she says in her book, she
needs to get this story out to the world.

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00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:02,040
Surely, I would've been a witness.
I would've supported her and...

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backed her up
on that story totally, wholeheartedly,

399
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,360
if I'd seen that craft landing
and if I'd met Akon as well.

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00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:10,480
Fantastic.

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[Elizabeth]
Now this one is of the same starship...

402
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,720
moving up into the higher atmosphere.

403
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,480
And owing to the moisture content
in the atmosphere,

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00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,520
there is cloud condensed around her again.

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00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,360
This cameraman, he was so surprised.

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00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:34,720
And I explained to him
that if he'd taken it a second later,

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he would've got the whole figure

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of Akon standing there beside me
in a hologram.

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00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:49,120
[John] Pity there are no photos of Akon.
All we have is a painting,

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where he looks very much
like a male version of Elizabeth.

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He won't be photographed.
He doesn't want to be arrested

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00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,800
and put into laboratories,
pins stuck in him, and needles,

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00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:02,840
to find out what makes him tick
as an alien.

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00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,440
He avoids that, of course.

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00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,680
And it also enables him to meet Elizabeth
regularly in those years.

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00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:17,920
[John] And a bust of our alien in question
made by sculpture Bob Forbes.

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00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,360
[Bob] I just had the feeling
that if I called on Akon himself,

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that he might possibly be able to help me.
And that’s exactly what I did.

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00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:31,120
I called on him, and within three hours,

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00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,320
I'd actually completed
this sculpture in clay,

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00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,080
which normally takes three weeks.

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00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:43,480
We called Elizabeth to have a look at it.
I didn't know whether it was him or not.

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00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,480
And when she saw the sculpture,

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she was obviously very, very excited.

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Very, very happy. And it was quite obvious
that it was in fact him.

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00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,280
Then the most amazing thing,
about a week later,

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00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:03,840
my son was sitting in the front room
of the house looking out to the horizon,

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00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,800
and he saw a whole series of lights
bobbing up and down

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00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,080
where they shouldn’t have been.
And he called us all.

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00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,040
In fact, the whole family,
we all went rushing out.

431
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,080
And we saw these lights.
Thirteen of them on the horizon,

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bobbing up and down and very, very bright.

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00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,240
And then one by one, they popped off.

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00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,480
And we phoned Elizabeth and she said,
in fact, that was Akon’s squadron,

435
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,880
and that he'd come
just as a token of appreciation.

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00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,160
[Credo] But wait...

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00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,920
We're talking about the unusual.

438
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,640
We're talking about the strange.

439
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,760
And South Africa is full of these things.

440
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,360
I'm naturally a skeptic.

441
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,560
Um, I've never seen a UFO.

442
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,120
I know people, including my wife,

443
00:31:55,240 --> 00:32:00,400
who believe they've seen lights flying
around here in the mountains at night.

444
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:05,800
Um, and it’s normally at night,
and the skeptic in me says,

445
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,280
"And it’s normally
after a glass of wine or two."

446
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,680
And... if the lights are red and green,

447
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,800
then those are the natural lights for...
for... man-made aircrafts.

448
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,160
But sometimes these lights
move very quickly.

449
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:25,640
I've seen lights
flying up my valley here at night,

450
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,480
but they were fireflies. You know?

451
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:34,600
But, you know, you can be easily deceived
when you see things you don’t expect.

452
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,800
[John] Oh, dear.
Well, you win some, you lose some.

453
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,560
With Captain Chester Chandler,
we’re winning again, for the UFOs.

454
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,920
Chester is a retired
South African Airways captain.

455
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,880
He flew himself for 52 years.

456
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,800
He was also head-hunted
for the infamous Project Blue Book.

457
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:59,120
Of the 12 618 collected UFO reports,

458
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:04,560
it was concluded that most were
misidentifications of natural phenomena,

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00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,640
or just conventional aircraft.

460
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:14,000
But a small percentage of the UFO reports
were classified as unexplained.

461
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,560
Captain Chandler's report is one of them.

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00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,960
[Chester]
This event occurred on 1 July 1972.

463
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:26,800
At that time, I was a Boeing 727
captain with South African Airways.

464
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:32,800
And I was doing the last flight that
evening into Durban from Johannesburg.

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00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:37,600
And we were in the descent,
approaching to land at Durban.

466
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,280
Still about 20 minutes out,
you know, from the airfield.

467
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,000
I could see the lights, the clear sky,

468
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,040
there wasn't any--any--any cloud
around or anything.

469
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,600
I just saw a light. And I thought,
"Well, that's strange."

470
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,960
I thought, "This is no optical illusion,
Chandler. Look, there's something here."

471
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:59,040
So I said, “Graham, have a look out the
right-hand side. What do you see there?”

472
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,720
And he said, "Hey, there's a light
here." So, I called Durban control tower.

473
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:04,840
“Look, have you got
any other aircraft around?”

474
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,400
They came back and said
they've got nothing.

475
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,400
So we observed this light,
and 10, 20 seconds later

476
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:15,080
it just accelerated with enormous speed
and disappeared towards the southwest.

477
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:21,200
After the sighting, Elizabeth Klarer
phoned me and discussed it with me.

478
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,640
But I've no other... I didn't have any
other correspondence with her,

479
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,880
or any other conversations with her.

480
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,120
It was just one of those things.
Most probably she heard of me

481
00:34:31,240 --> 00:34:35,680
and then phoned me just to convey
her thoughts on the subject as well.

482
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,520
That was my only communication with her.

483
00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:45,640
[John] Captain Chester Chandler is not
the only one who can vouch for the UFOs.

484
00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:52,280
Surprisingly, so can David.
It’s just not... Akon-specific.

485
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,640
I have seen UFOs.

486
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,440
They were round,
so they could've been flying saucers.

487
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,160
But they were UFOs. I couldn't identify
them properly. It was at night.

488
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:04,920
They were about the size of the...

489
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,200
full moon or a little bit less.

490
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,920
And they'd suddenly appear in the dark sky

491
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,960
and then stop dead and then shoot away.

492
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:14,720
They were a luminous green.

493
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:19,760
Maybe the UFO I saw might've been
an Earth-made one. It might've not.

494
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,800
It might've been from outer space.
Who knows?

495
00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:24,800
To me it was a UFO.

496
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:29,400
[John] Officer Piet Kitching became one
of the first-ever documented cops

497
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:36,040
to have fired shots at a UFO
on a farm in Fort Beaufort in 1972.

498
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,440
A man of many combat talents,

499
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:44,480
which include, but were not limited to,
military, Intelligence Agency,

500
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,320
and police force training.

501
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:51,080
He wasn’t going to miss.
Not even if it’s a UFO.

502
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,080
[Piet] The phone rang...

503
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,200
and I was there, I picked it up,
and it was Bennie Smith.

504
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:02,480
And Bennie Smith told me they saw
some object moving over the sheep kraals

505
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,440
and it was changing different
colors all the time.

506
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,800
We were actually a paramilitary force,
trained and everything.

507
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,560
And when I saw the object,
I think my training was still in me.

508
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,680
Therefore, I didn’t hesitate
to take a shot.

509
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,120
Because I know I will shoot it down,
as I was quite a good shot in my day.

510
00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:24,200
He saw this object.
It was hovering just above the ground.

511
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:25,800
And when he got closer--

512
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:30,120
But he said, as we were shouting,
it reacted to the voices.

513
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:35,800
And when he got close to it,
it turned up straight, like an egg.

514
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,480
It was gray. You know,
a submarine coming out of the water,

515
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,640
then you get that gray, it looks wet.

516
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,640
And by the second or third shot,
on its left-hand side,

517
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,840
there was a very bright light,
like flashes, that came out.

518
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:54,280
And it started making a whining sound
and then just disappeared.

519
00:36:55,600 --> 00:37:00,800
He didn’t see it go through the vegetation
at all, it just disappeared.

520
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,560
But the reason why I shoot...

521
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,760
You know, I’ve been asked
that question many, many times.

522
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:12,880
I’ve been thinking of it over the days.
I can’t tell you, I don’t know.

523
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,640
I don't know.
I only know, if I'd shot it down,

524
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,960
and it was something from Mars, Pluto,
or Neptune, or one of those,

525
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:26,880
then... I would've been a hero. [chuckles]

526
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,120
[shot fires]

527
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:40,080
[John] Breyside Farm’s history dates as
far back as the Frontier War of the 1850s.

528
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,120
Bennie Smith, who phoned Piet,

529
00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:46,040
was the first-generation Smith
to farm these lands,

530
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,920
with Craig to follow,
and his brother’s son, Gary, after him.

531
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,520
[Craig]
All I know is my dad phoned the police

532
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,760
because that's what you did in those days,

533
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,440
you’d phone the police.
I think even for a divorce.

534
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:02,200
[Gary] I still believe that it was built
by the--the Russians, or...

535
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,680
so my grandfather suggested to me,
and I believe something along that line.

536
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:11,120
I don’t believe that it was aliens
or anything from...

537
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:16,800
yes... out of this-- out of this world,
or not from of this planet.

538
00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:19,000
Just my opinion.

539
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,480
Well, I just said what I saw.

540
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:27,320
Uh, the question is that
if they were spies from Russia,

541
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,320
"What are they doing on Breyside?"

542
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:34,760
You don’t send Sputniks and things
like that to investigate that.

543
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,280
This, for me,
was definitely something different.

544
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:45,520
The thing that doesn’t explain
how the reservoir blew up,

545
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,800
- whether it be a week or two weeks later.
- Mm.

546
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,760
That--That doesn’t explain anything to me.

547
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:56,120
I mean, that’s the only part
that I don’t really understand about...

548
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:58,280
how that happened.

549
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,240
[Piet] If you look at the reservoir,
it’s not one that just broke.

550
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:03,680
[ominous music]-There were still...

551
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:08,880
That stones were lying 20m,
25m away from that.

552
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,960
It must've been something
that exploded into it.

553
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,600
Otherwise, it would just be a hole
and the water would leak out.

554
00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:22,320
That particular night
when this reservoir exploded,

555
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,360
an object flying, making a whining sound,

556
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:29,120
moved slowly in the direction
of Bennie Smith's house.

557
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:35,160
From Bennie Smith, I recall that he said
that it went over his house.

558
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,760
His wife heard it, and himself,

559
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,520
and immediately thereafter,
there was an explosion.

560
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,080
And this is the result.

561
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:50,720
[Gary] People came from all around
the world to come and try and see...

562
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:56,120
My grandfather told me that the vehicles
were lined up from the tar road,

563
00:39:56,240 --> 00:39:58,920
which is about 5km from here.

564
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,040
[ominous whirring]

565
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:13,600
[whirring ends abruptly]

566
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,440
In the trees over there.

567
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,480
[reporter] There's been a UFO alert
across Southern Africa.

568
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,800
[interviewer] This is a continuation
of a possible UFO story.

569
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:25,960
[reporter]
A large, brightly colored object

570
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:32,040
was seen traveling very fast above
Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa.

571
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:36,240
I thought it was an alien,
and he had big eyes.

572
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,840
[reporter] Several planes saw it.
The experts are baffled.

573
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:45,920
[Tim]
Ruwa. Ariel School. 19 September '94.

574
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,200
12:12 local time.

575
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,880
[Tim]
Could you tell me what you saw on Friday?

576
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,800
Well, it looked like it was glinting
in the trees.

577
00:40:54,920 --> 00:41:00,440
Like, it looked like round about like a...
like a disc. Like a round...

578
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,680
- [Tim] Sure it wasn’t a Harrier Jump Jet?
- No.

579
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,480
[Tim] Or something
the Zimbabwe Airforce have?

580
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,120
It was, like, in a disc.

581
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:08,440
[Tim] What did you see?

582
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:14,040
I just... saw a glow over my chicken run.
A very orange glow.

583
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,760
- It was a helicopter or what?
- No, no, it was just a big, round ball.

584
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:22,440
We suddenly looked up and we saw this...
thing coming over the top of the hill.

585
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:27,880
As it sort of... came abreast of us,
it suddenly, uh,

586
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,400
changed from this glow to, let’s say,
two big red, orange balls.

587
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,160
It's your door.

588
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,160
[Tim]
What equipment have you brought with you?

589
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,040
Well, Gunter is a highly technical chap,

590
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,640
and he’s made his own Geiger counter,
his own metal detector.

591
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:49,000
We’re going to check it out and see
if there’s any radioactivity there.

592
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,120
[Tim] Cynthia, what are your impressions
after this morning’s little expedition?

593
00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:56,640
Well, I certainly believe the children.

594
00:41:56,760 --> 00:42:03,320
I’ve come across a similar type of thing
in Broad Haven in Wales in 1979,

595
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:07,520
and the British didn’t believe it,
although I went down three times.

596
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,360
And it was very similar
to the whole incident here.

597
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:13,600
[ominous vibrations]

598
00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:14,720
[vibrations end abruptly]

599
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,480
Perhaps one should
take the story more seriously...

600
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,760
than if it had been told
by somebody less educated,

601
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,320
or--or less inclined to rational thought.

602
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:26,880
[John] Dr. James Hurtak,

603
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,880
founder and president
of The Academy for Future Science.

604
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:36,400
He holds two PhDs, and is a consultant
to the Institute of New Energy.

605
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,960
Credo, I’m showing you a picture...

606
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,160
of something that looks
like a Dayze Mvondina.

607
00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:48,880
This being was taken out of a spacecraft
that crashed near White Sands, New Mexico.

608
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,280
I’d like your comments on the face...

609
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:58,080
what has characteristics
similar to those that you described.

610
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,280
With a large head, no ears...

611
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,680
eyes that wrap around
the sides of the face...

612
00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:11,480
and a mouth cavity that goes back
only a few inches.

613
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:16,280
This face has been reconstructed by
investigators with the American Airforce,

614
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,840
and may well represent
one of the four bodies

615
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,760
that was removed by Airforce commandos.

616
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:24,880
As one of the investigators,

617
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,760
I've brought with me also another sample
from South America,

618
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:30,760
showing the...

619
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:36,640
computerized analysis that was made
by a jet propulsion lab in Los Angeles...

620
00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:42,760
of a metallic vehicle
that landed near Lima, Peru in 1974.

621
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,200
If you look very carefully,
you can actually see the windows.

622
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,240
The vehicle was seen
to use some type of...

623
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:55,160
magnetic parallel phase activity
for its propulsion.

624
00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:01,880
Again, it represents the possibility that
there are brothers and sisters in space...

625
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,840
who are slowly
bringing us into our senses,

626
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,640
that we're not alone in the universe.

627
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:12,160
I'd just visited the Atucha
nuclear facilities in Argentina,

628
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,200
where there are massive
extraterrestrial sightings,

629
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,160
suggesting a warning taking place.

630
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,800
Many former nuclear experts admit...

631
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:26,040
all the way back to 1952,
all the way through the '70s and '80s,

632
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,880
that nuclear installations from Maine
to Montana in the United States

633
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,000
were visited by extraterrestrial ships

634
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,840
that had the power to turn off
the missile launching systems.

635
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:41,920
To me, this is a very significant
message because it says in effect...

636
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,320
with the dropping
of the first atomic bomb,

637
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,960
we had lost scientific control
of our planetary future,

638
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,120
according to some extraterrestrials.

639
00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:55,440
And that perhaps we must be aware
that we have a greater responsibility

640
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:59,240
than nurturing planetary weapons systems

641
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,440
that will move us into destruction.

642
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,080
[suspenseful music]

643
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,600
[Elizabeth] And there are sightings
all the time. It never stops, you know,

644
00:45:14,720 --> 00:45:20,920
because Akon’s civilization are now very
concerned about what’s going on here,

645
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,480
with all the wars
and the aggression and the hate

646
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:27,800
and everlasting... overpopulation.

647
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:32,280
And something
will have to be done about that.

648
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:40,640
[distant explosions]

649
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:45,840
[bomb exploding]

650
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:57,640
[Credo] Elizabeth Klarer
said that she had received messages...

651
00:45:58,240 --> 00:46:00,760
from the star people, Akon,

652
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:07,040
that the Earth must change its ways and...

653
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,600
stop abusing the environment.

654
00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:16,280
People must stop doing certain things...

655
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,760
which are destructive to the Earth

656
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:24,320
and not necessary for the well-being
of human beings.

657
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:31,040
I don’t refuse the possibility
of the existence

658
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:35,360
of other civilizations
on the other planets.

659
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:36,640
But everything--

660
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:41,840
As for me, I know, I'm sure
that everything is possible in our life.

661
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,920
I--I just can’t refuse
anything so, like...

662
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:50,000
[John] Max is a Ukrainian guide
in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone,

663
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:53,280
home to the world’s
worst nuclear accident.

664
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,480
Chernobyl won’t be safe
for human habitation

665
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,640
for at least another 20 000 or so years.

666
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,240
[Geiger counter clicking]

667
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:14,480
[John] Yet, the flora and fauna
thrive, despite being radioactive.

668
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,320
Despite the Cesium-137
that’s packed in their muscles...

669
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:23,400
and the Strontium-90
that lives in their bones.

670
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,360
Reminds me of how nature
always finds a way,

671
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,960
and it’s the humans who will not.

672
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:36,480
[Max] Everything is possible,

673
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:41,720
as the existence of wildlife
inside of the exclusion zone...

674
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:48,640
Our scientists, they told that
the exclusion zone will stay dead, and...

675
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:55,680
I... I can see just opposite variant.

676
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:57,800
- [birds cawing]
- [slow rhythmic clapping]

677
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,160
[woman singing Ukrainian folk song]

678
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,040
[voices join in]

679
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:37,720
[singing continues]

680
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,560
- [song ends]
- [wind howling]

681
00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:16,760
Nature, only nature.

682
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:21,520
Perfect example that nature
is stronger than humans. Yeah.

683
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:38,000
[John] Denis Delestrac
is a law and journalism graduate

684
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:41,320
that became an award-winning
documentary filmmaker.

685
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,680
He made a film, The Weaponizing of Space,

686
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:50,400
about the nuclear threat that surrounds us
in more ways than one.

687
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,600
[Denis] Of course we worry with our...

688
00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:58,920
our closest environment,
which is what we see around us.

689
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:04,440
But... I think people should start
to integrate space

690
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,280
in their sphere of awareness

691
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,960
because we're all surrounded by space.

692
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,600
And outer space is not that far,
it's only 100km over our heads,

693
00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:17,640
and there's a lot going on
in space as far as, you know,

694
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:23,800
satellites, technology and user space.
It's already filled with space debris.

695
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:28,600
And according to NASA, in 50 years,
if we keep on this track,

696
00:50:28,720 --> 00:50:31,400
it's going to be crowded with debris.

697
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:38,200
So we really have to start integrating
space in our environmental awareness.

698
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,160
The ozone layer,
there in the stratosphere,

699
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:47,160
is there to protect us
from the sun’s lethal rays,

700
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:51,040
and we are causing trouble up there.

701
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:52,880
Well, I think, at some point,

702
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,320
we're all worried about the future,
you know, because um...

703
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:00,000
as you get informed, you see that...

704
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:06,520
we are in danger when--
We have built enough, um...

705
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:11,400
resources and weapons now
to destroy ourselves, basically. That's...

706
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:16,360
You know, there are now 9 000 nuclear
weapons that are on hair-trigger alert.

707
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,760
That means they can be launched
in a matter of minutes.

708
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:24,200
[John] Prof. Willem van Riet
used to be the chairman

709
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:27,320
of the Transboundary
Conservation Foundation,

710
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:33,760
specializing in conservation, land-use
planning, as well as GIS development.

711
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:37,440
[Willem] The world is more or less
four-and-a-half billion years old.

712
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:43,200
And our little living skin is only a few
thousand years old, maybe 50 000.

713
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:47,240
What we have done in this period
that we have been on the globe

714
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:48,520
has been quite traumatic.

715
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:53,600
Because our impact is basically
on the living part of ecosystems.

716
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,320
And in the last 50 years,
our impact has been much more

717
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,080
than it's ever been in the past.
So I think it's quite traumatic.

718
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:02,640
[ominous music]

719
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,600
We are, on a sort of virus-like scale,

720
00:52:18,720 --> 00:52:21,560
affecting the rest of life
on Earth dramatically.

721
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:40,440
[waves lapping]

722
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:50,160
[John] Retired Dr. Hennie Smith
studied in the field of Science

723
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:52,400
at the University of Pretoria.

724
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:57,280
He majored in Physics, and was involved
in ground-breaking research

725
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,560
which took him all over the world.

726
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:03,880
[Hennie]
The fossil fuel that we are using...

727
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:09,720
Millennia of energy captured
under the ground.

728
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:16,160
But we're using it up now, and put all
this carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

729
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,080
It is really the horriblest thing.

730
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,800
All the pollution that’s going up
into the stratosphere...

731
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:28,080
all the oil pollution
of burning oil wells...

732
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,320
is getting worse and worse.

733
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:36,480
And the west winds in the northern
hemisphere are taking it around the globe,

734
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:38,800
high up in the stratosphere.

735
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:40,960
And this will eventually block...

736
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:47,240
the light and radiation from the sun,
which will give us an ice age.

737
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:48,880
[wind whistling]

738
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:55,880
[Elizabeth] Akon’s civilization,
they monitor our brains, our minds.

739
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:59,600
They know what we’re thinking
and what we’re doing.

740
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:04,800
And we’re a very barbarous race.

741
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:09,160
And he’s not only thinking of humankind...

742
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,800
he’s thinking
of all the flora and fauna...

743
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,920
all the beautiful trees, the animals...

744
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:17,880
Everything.

745
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:20,200
[ominous music]

746
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:24,160
[bird calling]

747
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:30,440
- [water splashing]
- [gulls calling]

748
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:43,080
They're constructive people.
They take care of things.

749
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:48,280
They don’t like to see death
and destruction. They’re not used to it.

750
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,840
It’s interesting that she
also experienced the ecological...

751
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:58,240
way of going about their
more advanced society,

752
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:00,600
Akon, on his planet.

753
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:07,880
[clears throat] And that led her
to also propagate more wise ecological...

754
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:11,160
technologies here.

755
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:15,960
They have. It's a way of living
and thinking and eating.

756
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:21,360
Well, their diet consists of...
fruits and vegetables.

757
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:26,000
And this... food is grown in a liquid.

758
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:29,000
Scientifically grown. And...

759
00:55:29,720 --> 00:55:34,040
as you go to pick a fruit... or a salad...

760
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:37,920
it simply regenerates itself straightaway.

761
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:42,240
So there’s no loss,
there’s nothing to worry about.

762
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:45,000
It’s the most incredible way of--of...

763
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:50,080
getting one’s entire protein and vitamins.

764
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:56,160
Instead of getting your protein
secondhand, as you do by...

765
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:00,760
destroying and consuming
a herbivorous animal,

766
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:06,400
they get it firsthand through this...
vegetation that they grow.

767
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,080
We are in trouble. [chuckles]

768
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,280
Well, I’ve not read much about her...

769
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:16,560
so, I think meeting other people in other
parts of the globe sounds a bit...

770
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:19,240
like hogwash to me. [chuckles]

771
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:23,080
But the message that we are
self-destructing is for sure true.

772
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:26,600
Who listens to messages? No one.

773
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:29,440
They don't listen...

774
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,400
in their parliaments where they tell lies.

775
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:40,120
They don't listen in their great
offices anywhere.

776
00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:42,200
This is all they know.

777
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:47,120
Speeding along in cars...

778
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,920
while the world dies.

779
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:56,440
They’ve overcome,
in their advanced medical research,

780
00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:00,400
they’ve been able to overcome
the aging process,

781
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:03,840
and they don’t go through
this awful experience

782
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:07,480
that so many people
have to face in older life.

783
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:09,640
And, in fact...

784
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:12,480
there’s no need for death.

785
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:18,600
They don’t die, no.
Life is eternal for them.

786
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:23,960
[John] Piroska Clements
was Elizabeth Klarer's closest confidant,

787
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:27,760
travel companion, and ultimate believer.

788
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:32,000
[Piroska] Elizabeth’s passing
left an unfillable void.

789
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:36,200
How many times she said,
"Good planets are hard to come by."

790
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:38,000
So obviously...

791
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:42,920
maybe Akon's not so keen
of embracing humanity,

792
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:46,360
but she wouldn’t withhold
information to help them,

793
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:50,120
to make the place better, more livable,

794
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:54,640
us being more loving, forgiving,
being the spiritual what they are.

795
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:57,840
And he definitely would give this help.

796
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:03,920
And if we conform to this behavior,
he even have an open door to his place.

797
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,760
And he does say that in Elizabeth’s book.

798
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:14,480
So, he’s not loathe to help humanity,
he loathes what we're doing.

799
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:16,040
Akon gave her a ring...

800
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:23,040
as a pledge of his love. And it was his
ring, and as such, Elizabeth treasured it.

801
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:28,520
So, you can imagine how I felt when she
said that she's going to leave it to me.

802
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:32,920
It was an honor what I could not
actually fathom at the time.

803
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:37,920
And even now, when I look at it,
I can't believe that it's on my finger.

804
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:44,320
[Elizabeth] Akon gave me this ring.
The crystal in it...

805
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:49,360
helps with our communication,
even if we're light-years apart.

806
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,960
And the crystal is harder than a diamond.

807
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:56,480
[John] Audrey is Piroska’s daughter,
who inherited the ring.

808
00:58:56,600 --> 00:59:00,600
[Audrey] When my mom passed away,
I received the bust and the ring.

809
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:05,240
And somehow I always feel I have this
connection with my mother and Elizabeth.

810
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,400
[John] Word from many Elizabeth devotees

811
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:12,400
are that its gems and rocks were analyzed

812
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:17,520
and that its components were not
to be found to be from this planet.

813
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:19,440
Not even a little.

814
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:21,960
People have asked this question, like,

815
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:24,560
"Please, if we could offer you money
to take the ring

816
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:27,360
to have it taken to a geologist
to have it analyzed.

817
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,400
Would I be open to that?"

818
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:31,480
My answer to that question is, "No."

819
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:34,320
My mom asked me
to please keep this ring safe,

820
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:38,440
while... if she's no longer here.
And that is what I’m doing.

821
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:41,040
[John] David has a few more issues

822
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:44,440
around some of these matters
of a third kind, too.

823
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:47,480
[David] I've heard that some people have

824
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:51,120
made reference to my possibly
betraying my mother in...

825
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:53,320
talking about my doubts...

826
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:58,720
but for me, there's no two ways about it.
Honesty and integrity is paramount.

827
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:01,440
That's the whole reason
why I'm voicing my doubts.

828
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:06,680
It's nothing to do with betrayal, as such.
It’s because I have to be true to myself.

829
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:11,320
And I have to... I have to say it.
Because that's the honest thing to do,

830
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:13,720
so that other people
can make up their own minds.

831
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:16,560
I made up my mind. I've got my doubts.

832
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:23,040
Then Akon said...

833
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:27,320
"Now we’re taking you to the mothership."

834
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:32,520
And he explained
that the mothership is an enormous...

835
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:37,640
craft, like a miniature planet.

836
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:40,480
And also...

837
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,120
- this is a vintage ship.
- [ominous vibrations]

838
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:46,920
He said, "We don’t go into the mothership,

839
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:52,120
we simply attach ourselves
through magnetism...

840
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,120
to a door into the mothership,

841
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,840
and then the door of the starship opens

842
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:02,680
and we simply walk through
into the mothership."

843
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:07,920
And, of course,
the mothership is very beautiful inside.

844
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:09,200
Tremendous.

845
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:13,440
And, the first enormous room I saw...

846
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:19,320
there were plants and flowers and trees
actually growing in there.

847
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:22,800
And instead of having carpeting
or anything like that,

848
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:24,560
there was the most beautiful...

849
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:30,440
blue grass covering the whole floor,
about that long...

850
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:34,960
and... it had the most
beautiful fragrance.

851
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:40,840
And... there was even a stream
and there was a waterfall.

852
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:45,520
I was 50 years old when I gave birth.
It was a natural birth.

853
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,720
From Earth standards,
I wasn't a young woman... [chuckles]

854
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:50,800
...but I was in my prime really.

855
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:55,760
Akon attended to the birth of his son

856
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:59,720
by simply using his
wonderful healing hands,

857
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:01,640
and massaging me.

858
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:08,280
And he put me on this beautiful divan
that was covered in rose-red silks,

859
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:12,560
and the lovely coolness
and softness of that silk.

860
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:14,640
I was quite naked, naturally.

861
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:20,920
Then this beautiful boy,
he was really a golden boy, was born.

862
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:25,520
He never even cried.
He just took a deep breath... [inhales]

863
01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:30,240
taking in that beautiful oxygen air
into his lungs,

864
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:32,520
and this was all he needed.

865
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:37,480
If she'd had a child in outer space...
how she would have felt about that.

866
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:41,240
I tend to think that that would've been
catastrophic for her, not to see him.

867
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:42,480
[birds chirping]

868
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:45,040
If she did have somebody,
a child on another planet,

869
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:49,040
and she only saw him for that short
period of time, as she said in her book.

870
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:54,200
She said that she had telepathic
communication with him...

871
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:57,480
um, and that would've been enough for her,
as per her book.

872
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:01,000
But I find that very difficult to believe
that. Because the way she was,

873
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:04,320
she must've struggled
with being separated from her child...

874
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:07,800
for months and years,
and never seeing him.

875
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:10,400
To me, that is a... problem.

876
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:14,480
I find that difficult to accept,
knowing her nature.

877
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:19,560
They’re millions of years
ahead of us in all ways,

878
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:26,040
and this-- Even to the fact
that they are a natural...

879
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:28,440
beautiful people...

880
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:34,840
who live in complete,
harmonic interaction with all nature.

881
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:41,120
So, their whole way of life,
of loving, of breeding,

882
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:43,200
is perfectly natural.

883
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:49,760
[John] Books. Interstellar travel.
Alien babies. Allegedly alleged.

884
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:53,720
A third book that Elizabeth
never got to finish.

885
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:57,520
It dealt with the actual
technology on Meton

886
01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:00,840
and how that could be incorporated
here on Earth.

887
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:04,720
We have since found
the unfinished manuscript.

888
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:09,920
As these things go, aptly titled,
The Gravity File.

889
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:13,920
[Jonathan] We're very privileged
to have as our guest this evening,

890
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:18,360
the author of the book, Beyond
the Light Barrier, Elizabeth Klarer.

891
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,760
Mrs. Klarer,
does your present visit to Natal

892
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:26,480
mean that you're going to travel
to the Drakensberg to meet Akon again?

893
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:28,360
[Elizabeth] Yes, definitely.

894
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:31,600
[Jonathan] Is he going to take you,
perhaps, to his home,

895
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:34,400
or will this just be a visit
in the Drakensberg?

896
01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:38,320
[Elizabeth] Just a visit.
Because I have another book to complete.

897
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:43,920
I have a lot of work to do. I have to
complete the new book at his direction.

898
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:47,240
[Jonathan] This new book of yours,
The Gravity File,

899
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:49,400
what's that going to be about?

900
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:53,640
We’re talking of The Gravity File,
the second book of Elizabeth Klarer,

901
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:58,560
where she went further,
and tried to write down what she learned

902
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:02,880
from life in the universe,
science underlying the universe.

903
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:08,400
But she was not the best scientist,
and scientifically trained.

904
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:13,080
So she tried her best with the information
she got, to write down.

905
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:17,080
And the information she wrote
is important for us

906
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:19,440
to read behind the lines,

907
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:24,280
and not to trip
over single words or terms.

908
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:28,040
There’s something bigger going on.
And she gleaned it,

909
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:31,760
and she tried to capture it
in the second book, The Gravity File.

910
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:34,960
There's no profound scientific discloser.

911
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:37,840
He took me out of the starship.

912
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:41,680
He wore a gravity belt,
buckled it around his waist,

913
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:43,200
switched it on,

914
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:48,360
and, of course, it sets up
an antigravity field around him,

915
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,360
so that he doesn’t have to tread
on the ground.

916
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:55,760
He simply carried me,
and he just sailed over the top.

917
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:57,680
[TV interviewer]
One of the most interesting outcomes

918
01:05:57,800 --> 01:05:59,800
with Elizabeth’s contact with Akon,

919
01:05:59,920 --> 01:06:03,680
has been his explanation of the light
power system used in his spaceship.

920
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:06,800
Elizabeth revealed these details in her
book, Beyond the Light Barrier.

921
01:06:06,920 --> 01:06:09,840
He could disappear instantly

922
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:15,760
by simply intensifying the field
differentials around his ship

923
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:21,120
because his ship is powered
by light in different frequencies.

924
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:25,200
Which are electromagnetism,
electricity, gravity.

925
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:31,560
We call it electrogravitics
propulsion or power system.

926
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:39,560
[TV interviewer] And this subsequently
led to her having lengthy discussions

927
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:42,760
with the Russian, German,
and US space administrations,

928
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:46,280
who were surprised at her intimate
knowledge of the starship’s power system.

929
01:06:47,320 --> 01:06:51,240
At the International Congress
of UFOs in Wiesbaden in 1975,

930
01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:53,320
her speech on the secrets of light

931
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:57,000
was given a standing ovation
by scientists of 22 nations.

932
01:06:57,120 --> 01:06:59,920
I’m convinced that her first book,

933
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:06,240
the visit with Akon, to Alpha Centauri...
I’m convinced that that is true.

934
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:11,760
And it changed her life forever.
And she tried to then study more,

935
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:15,400
tried to understand more
about what's happening in the universe.

936
01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:22,240
But not being a top physicist,
she couldn’t get everything right.

937
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:25,080
So, I won’t hold it against her.

938
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:29,600
The second major doubt I have
occurred not so long ago,

939
01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:34,720
probably about five or six years ago,
when I'd found her first manuscript.

940
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:40,440
It was written, or completed, in 1958.

941
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:44,720
And it was quite a revelation for me
to see the differences

942
01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:47,240
between that first manuscript
and the second one.

943
01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:52,040
The second one being on which her current
book, Beyond the Light Barrier is based.

944
01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:54,320
So the first manuscript
was quite an eye-opener

945
01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:56,720
because it differs in many areas.

946
01:07:56,840 --> 01:08:00,920
There's a general theme of things
are still there, a sort of overall story,

947
01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:03,240
but... it had a different title.

948
01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:05,880
It was called
the Autobiography of a Venusian.

949
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:09,200
The setting wasn't on Meton,
it was... it was on Venus.

950
01:08:10,480 --> 01:08:14,280
Each chapter was prefaced
by verses from the Bible.

951
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:19,720
Um, the--The second manuscript,
those were all taken out.

952
01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:24,640
Um, there was no child involved in the
first one. The second one had the child.

953
01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:29,520
[John] Ms. Jeanie Patterson
is not only a bookworm,

954
01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:35,120
but a sought-after researcher
and shopkeeper of Kwagga Books,

955
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:39,080
where they sell high-quality
collectible rare books

956
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:43,200
and provide accredited
valuations of rare items

957
01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:46,400
and clearly, subject matters.

958
01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:50,160
[Jeanie] Elizabeth Klarer
has been accused of plagiarism

959
01:08:50,280 --> 01:08:53,520
by various people in the field.

960
01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:59,000
And I set out to try and find proof.

961
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:04,240
I'm not an academic, I'm not a scientist,
but I want to know how things worked.

962
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:09,520
So, 50 years ago, or longer, when she
experienced this, we laughed at it.

963
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:11,760
And now I’m going, "But, hold on."

964
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:16,040
So, I’m reading this story and finding
more and more aspects of it that...

965
01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:18,600
bypassed me all those years ago.

966
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:20,680
This is the book that...

967
01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:28,320
had a lot of underlining
and writing in... by Elizabeth.

968
01:09:28,440 --> 01:09:31,480
To me, it was just marking areas...

969
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:35,560
that were of interest to her for her book.

970
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:40,440
I couldn’t find the exact words,
or strings of words,

971
01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:43,880
or paragraphs in her book,
Beyond the Light Barrier.

972
01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:49,800
It's just highlighting scientific words
that is in use everywhere.

973
01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:52,720
So, if people are going
to accuse her of plagiarism,

974
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:57,080
then they have to accuse everybody else
who's written books on this field.

975
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:00,680
[ominous music]

976
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:09,560
[ominous vibration]

977
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:11,040
[music continues]

978
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:22,480
[John]
Paul is a prolific writer and performer.

979
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:24,560
He was a member of The Space Theater,

980
01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:28,600
a non-racial theater company,
with myself in the '70s.

981
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:33,040
Many decades later,
he's busy writing yet another play,

982
01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:40,000
to do with our very own Elizabeth Klarer
called Rosetta’s Secret.

983
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:43,320
[Paul] I started reading...
Beyond the Light Barrier,

984
01:10:43,440 --> 01:10:45,560
and also reading about her.

985
01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:50,240
And I can’t tell you the number of times I
shouted out loud in my quiet little study,

986
01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:53,960
I went, "Wah! Wah! What?!"

987
01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:58,800
A pilot, a painter,
played the piano, rode horses.

988
01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:02,120
"Renaissance woman"
is too small a word. I said,

989
01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:07,240
"Do people realize what this person
was way back in the '50s and stuff?"

990
01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:10,520
It’s almost beyond belief,
but she did those things.

991
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:12,480
I think that’s what kept me going

992
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:17,240
because I had what I call
my 35-year appointment with Klarer.

993
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:28,480
So, how do you get your message across?
How do you--

994
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:32,000
Because you know,
subtle things don’t get messages across.

995
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:35,840
The things that get messages across
are noise and shouting.

996
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:37,600
[shouts, rough voice] Listen to my story!

997
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:40,760
[normal voice] It's like a rat race.
It's like, everything's like, "Whaaaa!"

998
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:45,440
Not the quietness.
But the quietness is a thing that works.

999
01:11:46,120 --> 01:11:48,760
If you can find a way
of living in the stillness...

1000
01:11:49,480 --> 01:11:51,720
you can find an answer to anything.

1001
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:54,360
People say,
"Where do your stories come from?

1002
01:11:54,480 --> 01:11:57,640
Where do your plays come from?"
They come from the stillness.

1003
01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:01,520
Like the stillness,
it’s like connecting with that.

1004
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:03,600
And Klarer connected with the stillness.

1005
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:07,680
And in the stillness came... came Akon.

1006
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:10,480
People might not believe Klarer’s story,

1007
01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:15,760
but, I think perhaps, what she did was,
she lied her truth.

1008
01:12:15,880 --> 01:12:21,120
She--she... wanted to get her story
to many, many people,

1009
01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:24,560
and the only way she could do that
was by lying...

1010
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:26,920
the truth.

1011
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:28,400
[ominous music]

1012
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:55,040
[ominous vibration]

1013
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:58,240
It is a Utopia, it really exists.

1014
01:12:58,360 --> 01:12:59,840
I think we can say...

1015
01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:04,640
that all the best storytellers are clever,

1016
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:08,160
imaginative, educated, capable people.

1017
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:14,000
Elizabeth Klarer included,
but also other charlatans.

1018
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,800
I can think of a few,
in the religious sense.

1019
01:13:18,920 --> 01:13:21,040
In the cultist sense.

1020
01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:26,200
To her credit, she didn’t try
to start any kind of cult.

1021
01:13:27,480 --> 01:13:29,640
She didn’t try to convert people.

1022
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:33,680
She just simply tried to make
the world a better place.

1023
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:37,760
I can give her credit for that.
That’s a-- It's noble. Yes.

1024
01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:42,080
And she did it in a time
when--when females...

1025
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:47,640
weren’t quite as--as free to do
what they wanted to do, as they are today.

1026
01:13:48,440 --> 01:13:53,520
So, yeah, hats off to her for that.
But she’s still a storyteller.

1027
01:13:57,440 --> 01:13:58,960
[ominous vibration]

1028
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:01,360
[vibration ends abruptly]

1029
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:04,320
- [birds chirping]
- If we look at the bottom line

1030
01:14:04,440 --> 01:14:06,280
that comes after all of the debate...

1031
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:11,040
Those who believe, those who disbelieve,

1032
01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:15,560
Elizabeth still stands out
as a shining voice

1033
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:17,880
of female courage and conviction,

1034
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:22,360
who was able to sustain
a debate of great significance.

1035
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:28,320
I say that what I’ve said before,
that he is...

1036
01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:33,360
a high guard of this part of...

1037
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:36,040
space,

1038
01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:40,040
and that it is his duty
to protect all of us

1039
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:44,400
from the forces of destruction
and the forces of the negative.

1040
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:49,520
I say that Madam Klarer
should relay this message

1041
01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:51,800
to her lover, Akon, with all haste.

1042
01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:57,680
[Elizabeth] The mission I have to do
is to write and to lecture,

1043
01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:00,440
and to tell people about all of this.

1044
01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:05,400
That we are not the only inhabited
planet in the galaxy.

1045
01:15:05,520 --> 01:15:10,280
That there are thousands
of other planets with human life.

1046
01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:12,880
We're not unique.

1047
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:15,960
This is a very wonderful truth,

1048
01:15:16,680 --> 01:15:21,240
and I’m here to reveal the truth.

1049
01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:26,360
- [ominous vibration]
- [zap]

1050
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,000
[John]
The original version of the hardcover book

1051
01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:36,840
of Beyond the Light Barrier, first published in 1979,

1052
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:40,800
includes some paragraphs
that has been conveniently removed,

1053
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:46,040
unbeknownst to the new readers
of the soft-copy version out there,

1054
01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:48,880
published in 2008 onwards.

1055
01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:50,400
[music continues]

1056
01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:58,640
Page 105 and onwards.

1057
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:03,760
The hard copy. 1979.

1058
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:10,000
"Vast hordes of black people
swarming over the surface of Earth

1059
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:13,120
have now reached a cycle in the evolution

1060
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:16,600
where they clamor
for self-rule and domination,

1061
01:16:16,720 --> 01:16:21,040
where the law of might-is-right
still prevails.

1062
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:25,120
These races will continue
to breed and swarm,

1063
01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:28,960
as is the natural way, virile and strong,

1064
01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:34,000
pushing back other races to the very
frontiers of their own homelands.

1065
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:37,200
Such widely different ways of living,

1066
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:42,920
of hygiene, and above all, of thinking,
among different civilizations on Earth,

1067
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:49,360
cannot be mixed at this stage of evolution
without moral degeneration and bloodshed.

1068
01:16:49,480 --> 01:16:51,440
Neither the fishes of the seas,

1069
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:57,120
nor the beasts of the land mix and mate
with different species,

1070
01:16:57,240 --> 01:17:03,280
but mankind of planet Earth mixes
and fornicates with all human species,

1071
01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:07,480
thereby laying the foundations
of progressive degeneration

1072
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:10,520
throughout the human species on Earth,

1073
01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:16,760
as more and more advanced races
are absorbed into the common stream."

1074
01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:24,840
[inhales deeply, sighs]

1075
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:28,480
I say, "Thank God that I’m
reading it while I’m 79.

1076
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:31,600
I have a bit of an experience
about what life means.

1077
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:34,040
I’ve gone round the block
a couple of times,

1078
01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:38,720
but it would have been, if I was younger,
the most difficult book to read.

1079
01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:45,120
Some of the things that are just
mentioned in the book make my blood boil

1080
01:17:45,240 --> 01:17:51,280
and brings back my hatred, in an intense
way, for white supremacists

1081
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:56,640
and their unbelievable hatred
for other human beings.

1082
01:17:56,760 --> 01:18:00,040
She echoes the conversations
in the living room,

1083
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:03,320
which is the most dangerous thing
when you’re trying to find

1084
01:18:03,440 --> 01:18:06,480
to create a peaceful society.

1085
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:09,000
Even us as black people,

1086
01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:12,600
we say things in front of our children
about white people.

1087
01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:14,600
We should be very careful...

1088
01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:18,160
because the children learn
by seeing and repeating.

1089
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:21,920
When I started this journey
with this book, I thought,

1090
01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:24,520
"There’s another loony
from Durban... [chuckles]

1091
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:31,080
...telling stories about the space and
all aliens and interacting with worlds."

1092
01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:32,600
[dramatic music]

1093
01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:50,880
[John] When I knew that she
had communication with Esage,

1094
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:57,040
one of the highest respected
African sangomas, an African High Priest,

1095
01:18:57,160 --> 01:19:00,640
who was the custodian
of our language, of our culture,

1096
01:19:00,760 --> 01:19:04,960
of African religion and mythology,
Credo Mutwa,

1097
01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:07,840
I had to take a little bit
of a pause and say,

1098
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:10,840
"Why would Credo Mutwa believe her?"

1099
01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:14,600
So I had to give it a little bit of, well,
the benefit of the doubt.

1100
01:19:14,720 --> 01:19:16,400
"Let me look into this.

1101
01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:20,520
Let me find out what was it that brought
these two people together."

1102
01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:22,120
[music continues]

1103
01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:45,720
The things she talked about
when she was in Meton,

1104
01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:51,200
where she heard about what will happen
if we neglect the Earth...

1105
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:54,400
if we abuse the Earth,

1106
01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:59,760
if we continue not understanding
climate change, global warming.

1107
01:19:59,880 --> 01:20:04,040
I mean, we as Africans,
we believe that we have ancestors.

1108
01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:06,200
We have... [speaks isiXhosa]

1109
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:09,760
Which is the creator
that is responsible for all the nature,

1110
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:11,840
including the dust and the ants,

1111
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:13,760
and that we have the ancestors

1112
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:18,320
that mediate our lives and relationships
with our God, Qamatha...

1113
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:20,920
that brings us great blessings.

1114
01:20:21,040 --> 01:20:25,920
But, I can’t see them. I can’t...
I’ve never known where they are.

1115
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:28,320
Reading this book made me think,

1116
01:20:28,440 --> 01:20:31,160
"Maybe they’re not far
from Meton. [chuckles]

1117
01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:33,160
Maybe they are close there."

1118
01:20:33,280 --> 01:20:36,520
But the thing that really sometimes
makes me feel sad,

1119
01:20:36,640 --> 01:20:41,880
that I feel that what Elizabeth Klarer
represented in that paragraph...

1120
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:45,600
of the hard copy published in 1979,

1121
01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:50,360
about what she thought
about me as a black person...

1122
01:20:50,960 --> 01:20:54,640
She's not alone,
and I’m afraid it still exist.

1123
01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:57,760
We need to find a language
that's unifying.

1124
01:20:57,880 --> 01:21:01,000
We need to find the language
that promotes reconciliation.

1125
01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:05,400
We need to find a new English
that talks about social cohesion,

1126
01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:07,400
that talks about forgiveness.

1127
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:08,800
[projector slides clicking]

1128
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:25,880
Am I offended by what she says?
Damn right, I am!

1129
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:30,800
Do I hate her for it?
I don’t have space in my heart to hate,

1130
01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:33,120
I’ve got so many important things to do.

1131
01:21:37,120 --> 01:21:38,840
[ominous vibration]

1132
01:23:34,480 --> 01:23:37,280
[Kurt Waldheim] As the Secretary General
of the United Nations,

1133
01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:41,160
an organization of 147 member-states

1134
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:45,960
who represents almost all of the human
inhabitants of the planet Earth

1135
01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:49,600
I send greetings on behalf
of the people of our planet.

1136
01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:53,520
We step out of our solar system...

1137
01:24:03,160 --> 01:24:07,400
We know full well
that our planet and all its inhabitants

1138
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:12,680
are but a small part of this immense
universe that surrounds us

1139
01:24:12,800 --> 01:24:17,000
and it is with humility and hope
that we take this step.

1140
01:24:17,480 --> 01:24:19,840
[sounds from the
Voyager Golden Records playing]