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[birds tweeting faintly]
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[man, in Japanese] I am the high priest
of the Enmyoin Temple.
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The 29th chief monk.
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Many visitors have spotted UFOs
at this temple.
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I've seen one here too.
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It was a huge UFO.
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[unsettling music playing]
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It was hovering right above here.
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And it was moving like...
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[imitates heavy, dull sound]
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I was surprised by how big it was.
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I was stunned.
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Mm-hmm. But I saw it with my own eyes.
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Mm-hmm. It was undeniably real.
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I saw it before the earthquake,
so about 12 or 13 years ago.
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[reporter 1, in English] Breaking news.
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{\an8}A large earthquake has just struck
off the east coast of Japan here.
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{\an8}[reporter 2, in English] A big quake,
magnitude 8.9. It struck at 2:46 p.m.
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Sendai was the closest population.
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[monk, in Japanese]
That's the ocean over there.
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There used to be lots of houses here,
but the ocean swelled up very high.
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[reporter 3] The Pacific Tsunami Warning
Center issued a tsunami warning for Japan,
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Russia, Marcus Island,
the Northern Marianas...
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[man, in Japanese]
Waves are rushing through.
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[reporter 4, in English]
Devastated by the tsunami
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was the port city of Sendai,
the closest city...
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[reporter 5] People near the coast
should evacuate to higher ground.
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Whoosh!
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Whoosh!
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[people shouting]
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[reporter 6] Nuclear officials are warning
of a possible nuclear reactor meltdown.
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[reporter 7] We keep hearing
that the coolant system is not working.
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[reporter 8] A "China syndrome" meltdown
and radiation leaks are...
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[reporter 9] The clock is ticking.
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Every minute that passes,
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we come closer to the time
when there could be a secondary...
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[mysterious music playing]
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[monk, in Japanese] The UFOs
came after the explosion.
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[tense music playing]
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There were so many of them.
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I was shocked.
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[music stops]
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[mysterious music playing]
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[man 1, in English]
From the beginning of recorded time,
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men have been seeing
unexplainable things in the sky.
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[woman] Are we alone in the universe?
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[man 2] Somewhere in the data
will be something worth real inquiry.
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We have not been hiding anything.
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There are such things
as interplanetary spaceships.
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I thought it was an alien,
and he had big eyes.
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[man 3] There's something
profoundly important going on here
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that is authentic and real.
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[music fades out]
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[mysterious ambient music playing]
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[Geiger counter crackles faintly]
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[mysterious ambient music continues]
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[Keisuke Udagawa, in Japanese]
I came here on March 14th,
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right after I heard
about the Fukushima nuclear accident
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because I wanted to help my friend.
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They lived further away, towards the sea.
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But, still, I thought,
"I have to come and help them."
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Unfortunately, my friend passed away.
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However, I knew
I couldn't go back without helping,
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even though I had lost my friend,
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so I stayed here as a volunteer.
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Many people lost their lives.
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Many others ran away
and left everything behind.
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I saw so much in those five years,
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and I heard so many mysterious stories.
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Many people had been swept away
by the tsunami,
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so we'd come and search the beaches
to see if we could find anyone.
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It was right after the disaster.
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So, when you looked in this direction,
it was just a lot of debris,
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and over there, there were
all kinds of things scattered around.
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It was a tsunami after all.
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It took people, houses,
anything it could reach.
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One day, a group of us came here,
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looked up and saw these balls of light
out over the ocean.
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They were these bluish-whitish
balls of light,
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off in the distance.
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There were so many of them,
and they were all lined up in a row.
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It was beautiful.
They were such beautiful lights.
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[man, in Japanese]
Ishinomaki is a small town.
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A simple port town.
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Truthfully, I don't think
anyone ever imagined
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it would be hit by a tsunami,
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much less destroyed by one.
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This is where my mom was born.
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She actually became a teacher
and taught at the elementary school here.
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She really loved the elementary school.
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She talked about her students here
all the time.
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The tsunami destroyed the school.
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Everything has gone.
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It wasn't long after
the nuclear disaster at Fukushima
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that many people
began to see UFOs near the facility.
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We didn't exactly know
what they were or what they were doing,
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but there they were, in broad daylight,
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and they were clearly
working on something.
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[man speaking Japanese indistinctly]
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[woman, in English] I think
there is a very clear connection
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between UAP activity
and nuclear power plants,
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and I think
that this has gone back for decades.
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{\an8}My personal view, on the basis of over
30 years of very extensive research,
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{\an8}is that there is an advanced
extraterrestrial presence operating,
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basically, here on Earth
and in the oceans.
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And one of the biggest things
that we have to come to grips with
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is the fact that this is happening.
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[mysterious music playing]
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[Jensine Andresen] Some of
the declassified US government reports
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that go back decades are amazing.
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And they're not the least bit ambiguous.
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FBI documentation. CIA documentation.
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It goes back to the 1930s,
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to when the science and research
was being done to understand fission.
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But then it really heats up in the 1940s,
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in particular, right after the detonation
of the two atomic bombs in Japan in 1945.
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Then it is decisive. It's conclusive.
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You see one after another event occurring
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in proximity, specifically,
to sites associated with nuclear weapons.
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So, Los Alamos in the 1940s.
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Sandia National Labs.
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Kirtland Air Force Base
where nuclear weapons were stored.
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Just boom, boom, boom. They are thorough.
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They, like, don't miss anything.
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If you look at a lot of the UAP displays,
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as they are recounted by witnesses,
really credible witnesses,
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there is a kind of signaling to us.
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You know, in the Fukushima disaster,
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there were many reports of UFO activity.
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[Jensine Andresen]
But not only in Fukushima.
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In 1986, in Chernobyl,
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when Unit 4 malfunctioned,
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there was a lot of UFO activity
reported there also.
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At the height of the fire in Chernobyl,
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the reading was 3,000 milliroentgens,
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which is a unit of ionizing radiation.
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And right at the height of the fire,
many people observed a UFO come,
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stayed for three minutes,
shone a light right at Unit 4, departed.
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They took another reading,
and it had apparently dropped to 800.
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Just in a few minutes.
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That seems like a very conscious attempt
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to remediate the danger
caused by the malfunction there.
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{\an8}[men speaking Japanese]
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[monk, in Japanese]
When the plant exploded,
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everybody began to panic.
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Of course, I evacuated right away
with everyone else.
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"We're going to be exposed," they said.
"Hurry!" So we did.
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It was terrifying at first.
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[reporter, in English] ...24 hours ago
was a town of 71,000 people,
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now completely underwater.
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No structure still standing.
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[monk, in Japanese] But then I learned
that, miraculously,
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the temple was untouched.
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That's why it's called the Miracle Temple.
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I don't know if it was some god
or some powerful being in a UFO,
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{\an8}but I believe that some invisible power
really did come to save us.
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{\an8}[mysterious music playing]
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[man, in English] UFOs and aliens
and the whole question of outer space
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were depicted in various ways
in Japanese popular culture,
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and many anime and manga stories
take place in outer space.
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You know, when people
ask me about Astro Boy,
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like, "How could they create this hero
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powered by atomic energy
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{\an8}so soon after the nation
was devastated by a nuclear bomb?"
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{\an8}And then the other more important aspect
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is that Astro Boy is half-boy, half-robot.
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His father, the doctor, created Astro Boy
because his own son was killed.
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{\an8}So it doesn't take a very big leap to say,
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"The father's family members
were killed in the war."
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And so, "Let's use technology
to create something new
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and give us a future."
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So there was an enormous faith
in technology,
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born out of trauma.
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{\an8}In a way, that was the...
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expression of the subconscious
of Japanese in the post-war period.
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And what you see,
you know, starting with Astro Boy,
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is these characters
that are half this, half that.
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[ethereal music playing]
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Ultraman's character
is so wonderful because...
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Ultraman is from a planet, another planet,
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and he screws up
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and has an accident,
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and he crashes into a human ship,
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which is piloted
by this Science Patrol guy.
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And Ultraman decides, "I'm so ashamed
that I hit this guy's ship."
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"I'm gonna merge with him."
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So they merge together,
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and that becomes Ultraman.
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[upbeat rock music playing]
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It's an alien merging with a human,
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and, of course,
Ultraman embodies that notion
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that some aliens are really good.
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They're actually trying to protect people.
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And as a kid, I loved that idea.
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[calm music playing]
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[Jiyo Sakuma, in Japanese]
When I was seven years old,
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I became fascinated with aliens.
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I can't really tell you why,
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but even when I really couldn't picture
what they looked like,
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I could sense their warmth and kindness.
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It was powerful.
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They do exist.
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I was certain of that by the age of seven,
and I still believe it now.
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They don't show themselves to us,
but they're always watching us.
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I know they are.
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[in English] I don't know
what you're hoping to get,
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but I am a professor.
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And I just...
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I mean, I'm not a ufologist.
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So, I'm a professor of religious studies.
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And so I study religion.
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To focus on whether it's real or not
is actually focusing on the wrong thing.
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We really should be looking
at the meaning of these events for people.
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Because it has completely shifted
not only individual lives,
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but also the belief in UFOs
is now a new global belief system.
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It's different than a religion,
but it's religious-like.
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If you look at my research,
there's a continuation,
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a theme, of looking up at the sky
and seeing things that are unknown
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and then trying to identify them.
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And today, we're still seeing
that people see things in the sky,
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but what they're seeing in the sky today
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is what they believe to be,
like, advanced technology.
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Whereas a thousand years ago,
they would think, "Maybe that's an angel."
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Or, "Maybe that's a demon."
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Today, they look up,
and they say, "Well, that's a UFO."
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[Tanaka Kazuo, in Japanese]
Personally speaking,
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I wish there were aliens,
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but I dislike the feeling
that I'll be deceived
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by people making up stories.
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I hope to find true evidence one day,
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but as far as I can tell,
there's been no definitive proof yet.
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The urban legend of the UFO
began in America
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with the first sighting in 1947.
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No photographic evidence
had been found prior.
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However, during my research,
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I found another urban legend in Japan
dated much earlier,
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the legend of the Utsuro-bune,
or the hollow ship.
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[ominous music playing]
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They were in these kawaraban,
each dated to 1803.
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During the Edo period,
a kawaraban was a tile-block print
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that was like a modern-day newspaper.
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At first, I thought the story
was about a foreign shipwreck.
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But that's not what it was.
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In my research, I've yet to discover
any ship in this period
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that matches the descriptions
in these documents.
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Every account of the ship's appearance
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makes a note of these three windows.
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And perhaps most notably,
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many of the incidents make reference
to the presence of a strange woman.
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[woman muttering rapidly]
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[muttering continues]
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[woman, in Japanese]
Some people call this "space language,"
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but the proper term is "light language."
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When I speak it,
I take the wavelengths I receive
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and output them into sound.
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Sometimes it's musical.
Other times, it's words, like...
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[making staccato sounds]
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This is how to make contact.
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Both with space and with the aliens.
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[tense music playing]
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I am an alien. [laughs]
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I have been to many stars.
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Currently, the Earth
is going through a great ascension,
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and so I came here
to satisfy my curiosity.
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[tense music continues]
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Here we go.
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Ready.
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[tense music continues]
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[Roland Nozomu Kelts, in English]
Japan doesn't really have a religion
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the way we use the word in English.
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An institutionalized religion.
There's nothing like the Ten Commandments.
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Ethical characteristics
in Japanese culture
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are learned through school
and through family.
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So behavior and identity
is rooted in context.
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In this context, you behave a certain way,
you can be a certain identity.
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And then in this other context,
you can be something else.
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And not blink an eye.
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You could be a teacher,
you could be a performer,
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and at the same time,
you can speak light language
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and be channeling the aliens,
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and know, perhaps,
that you're one of them.
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[Miho Ninagawa, in Japanese]
Now I want you to recall
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how you came to Earth
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and what you wanted to do
when you got here.
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[in English] It's a mystery,
but it's also a strength
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in that Japan can embrace
what we think of as paradox
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and go forward.
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- [water running]
- [tranquil music playing]
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[Jiyo Sakuma, in Japanese]
Three months after the earthquake,
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my wife and I had
a close encounter ourselves.
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That was a big turning point for me.
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Our entire perspective
towards life changed.
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It was a complete 180
in how we saw things.
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How we saw everything.
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It was some time after two in the morning.
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My wife had woken up
in the middle of the night
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and felt someone was watching us.
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I woke up when I heard her scream,
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so I immediately got out of bed
and went to look outside,
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and right in front of us was a real UFO.
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[mysterious music playing]
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[woman, in Japanese] The first thing I saw
was this round, bright light,
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{\an8}and then it just got
closer and closer to us.
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Of course I was blown away.
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A gold UFO was hovering
right in front of our eyes.
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[Yuko Sakuma]
He began to speak to the UFO,
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and then the UFO would respond
by flashing its lights.
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[mysterious music continues]
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[Jiyo Sakuma] Suddenly,
it began to change colors.
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Its gold light changed
to this deep pink shade
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I had never seen before.
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It was almost as if they were saying,
"You are all right." You know?
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"You are welcome." Or something like that.
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[Yuko Sakuma] I think the aliens
were able to understand us
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because we believed in them.
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[mysterious music continues]
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[music fades out]
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[waves lapping]
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[Tanaka Kazuo, in Japanese]
For a long time, no one knew
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exactly where the Utsuro-bune
had been spotted.
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It appeared to be a fictional place.
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And so the logic follows
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that if the place where
the ship was spotted doesn't exist,
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then the story would have to be fictional.
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That's what I believed at the time.
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[ominous music playing]
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However, a new document
was discovered in 2014.
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One of the most famous
ninja families in Japan, the Ban family,
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is known for
their historical record keeping.
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And in 2014, another record was discovered
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and cited the location as
Hitachihara, Sharihama.
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When I saw that, I was certain
that was the name I'd been searching for.
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{\an8}The Utsuro-bune was washed ashore
on this beach in 1803.
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[ominous music continues]
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It had been spotted in the distance,
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and so a group of local fishermen
used their boats to grab the Utsuro-bune
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and drag it to the shore.
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The legend says
that when they reached the shore,
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they opened it,
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and to their surprise,
they discovered a beautiful woman inside.
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[ominous music continues]
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The first UFO sighting is still accredited
to the American pilot.
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However, this sighting has been dated
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all the way back
to the late Edo period in 1803.
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Therefore, the Utsuro-bune is probably
the world's first that involves
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an otherworldly visitor riding in a UFO.
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[unsettling music playing]
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[Miho Ninagawa, in Japanese]
One time when I was sleeping and lucid,
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five aliens appeared to me.
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The one in the center was a green alien,
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and on either side of them
were these luminous white aliens.
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I had been waiting for them for so long,
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so I said, "Oh, you're finally here."
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And then I told them, "Do what you want."
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So I opened my hands
and spread my arms out like this.
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I let go of everything
and gave everything to them. I felt happy.
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Like I'd been reunited
with a long-lost friend.
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The green alien beamed a light at me
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and beamed my chakras here.
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All five of them did, and then...
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I was enveloped in this supreme bliss.
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I think that the five beings
appeared to me in the form of aliens
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so that I would be able to recognize them.
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They were light itself,
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but they appeared to me
in the form of aliens.
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[mysterious music playing]
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- [in English] Um, okay. [chuckles]
- [music fades out]
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00:26:43,268 --> 00:26:47,772
So, this question
of what we see in the sky,
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is this objective,
or is it just subjective?
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Did we just actually just see that?
And is it real?
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And if you go back
into the historical record,
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especially in the West,
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you see that there are things in the sky
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that actually do produce
real effects on people, okay?
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So one case would be
the Stigmata of Saint Francis.
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[ethereal music playing]
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Saint Francis sees what he calls a torch.
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And it emits some sort of light.
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It basically zaps him with this light.
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And he gets what in the Catholic tradition
are called the stigmata,
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or the wounds of Christ.
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So he gets burned.
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[ethereal music continues]
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The things of religion
are also unbelievable.
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Angels coming down and speaking to people.
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00:27:40,116 --> 00:27:41,618
Walking on water.
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These are also things
that are unbelievable,
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and we only have
eyewitness accounts of those.
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And we tend to believe those
without question.
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So why do you separate
the categories of belief?
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You believe this unbelievable thing,
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00:27:55,507 --> 00:27:59,469
but we don't believe in things
that we actually have some evidence for,
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00:27:59,552 --> 00:28:01,179
which are UFOs.
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00:28:02,430 --> 00:28:04,432
[music fades out]
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00:28:07,227 --> 00:28:08,978
[squeaking]
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00:28:10,146 --> 00:28:12,565
[crickets chirping]
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{\an8}[Keisuke Udagawa, in Japanese]
I find that people are usually frightened
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by ghosts and mysterious stories
and spirits.
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00:28:22,158 --> 00:28:25,120
They view these spirits
as something to be scared of,
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00:28:25,203 --> 00:28:26,913
but they shouldn't be.
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00:28:26,996 --> 00:28:30,250
The people in Fukushima,
Miyagi, and Iwate,
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those who were directly affected
by the earthquake,
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00:28:32,961 --> 00:28:35,130
still feel the presence
of their loved ones,
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00:28:35,213 --> 00:28:38,174
as if the ones they had lost
are coming back to them.
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00:28:39,884 --> 00:28:42,721
When we were searching for people
in the aftermath,
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00:28:42,804 --> 00:28:44,305
usually when we checked cars,
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00:28:45,014 --> 00:28:47,225
we would see
these bright blue-white lights
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kind of hovering above a spot like this.
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00:28:49,686 --> 00:28:52,814
They seemed to be floating
over where someone had died.
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00:28:52,897 --> 00:28:56,735
So, if it was here, that meant
someone had died in this driver's seat.
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00:28:56,818 --> 00:29:00,822
If it was up here, then it meant
their spirit would be right here.
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00:29:00,905 --> 00:29:04,409
So you can kind of imagine it like that.
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00:29:06,161 --> 00:29:10,123
In Japanese folklore,
there's something called a hitodama.
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It's like a fireball
or a bright ball of light
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that floats in the air.
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00:29:13,877 --> 00:29:15,920
At the time,
I saw a number of them out there.
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00:29:17,922 --> 00:29:21,134
It's believed that when a person dies,
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their soul ascends to heaven
as a hinotama, a fiery ball of light.
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00:29:25,430 --> 00:29:27,932
[tense music playing]
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00:29:35,190 --> 00:29:37,776
[waves churning]
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[Keisuke Udagawa]
I find it hard to believe
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that, in the aftermath
of catastrophes like these
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where so many lives are lost,
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00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:51,039
most people would see
these balls of light as UFOs.
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00:29:51,122 --> 00:29:54,918
I think most of us
would interpret these things as hinotama,
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00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:57,962
the lingering presence of the human soul.
437
00:29:59,631 --> 00:30:03,176
To me, these mysteries
are just normal experiences
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00:30:03,259 --> 00:30:06,304
that are a part
of our regular, everyday lives.
439
00:30:06,387 --> 00:30:10,600
And I think it's important
to remember that.
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00:30:12,185 --> 00:30:14,187
[birds tweeting]
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00:30:16,523 --> 00:30:20,985
[Tomonori Izumi, in Japanese]
I was born and raised here.
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00:30:21,528 --> 00:30:24,489
There has always been
strong chi energy in this place.
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00:30:24,572 --> 00:30:26,324
You can feel how strong it is.
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00:30:27,075 --> 00:30:29,869
Some people believe
this place leads to heaven,
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00:30:29,953 --> 00:30:31,871
that's how nice it feels.
446
00:30:34,707 --> 00:30:38,962
I believe that the frequent presence
of UFOs here
447
00:30:39,045 --> 00:30:42,048
is because they want to come
and feel the energy for themselves.
448
00:30:42,131 --> 00:30:44,300
Because it feels so good to be here.
449
00:30:49,305 --> 00:30:50,807
[man, in English] Take a deep breath.
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00:30:50,890 --> 00:30:53,560
- [inhales]
- Hold it.
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00:30:54,143 --> 00:30:56,663
[Roland Nozomu Kelts] Japanese folklore
is full of these stories
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00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:59,148
of the spirits in the world around you.
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00:30:59,232 --> 00:31:03,319
Hayao Miyazaki,
one of his most popular films in the world
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00:31:03,403 --> 00:31:05,154
is My Neighbor Totoro.
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00:31:06,364 --> 00:31:11,035
And Totoro is this big, fuzzy creature
that could be terrifying.
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00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:12,745
[yawns deeply]
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00:31:12,829 --> 00:31:16,374
[Roland Nozomu Kelts] You see his mouth
is full of these huge teeth.
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00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:20,962
But when I've interviewed
Miyazaki himself and asked him,
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00:31:21,045 --> 00:31:23,631
"Mr. Miyazaki, what is Totoro?"
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00:31:24,132 --> 00:31:27,760
You know, his answer was very quick.
He just said, "Totoro is Totoro."
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00:31:27,844 --> 00:31:28,970
"It's just Totoro."
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00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,309
I would say that the supernatural
and the natural in Japanese art,
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00:31:34,392 --> 00:31:36,311
in Japanese sensibility,
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are both interconnected and intertwined.
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00:31:40,398 --> 00:31:42,066
But at the same time,
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00:31:42,150 --> 00:31:45,361
you wouldn't even think of them
as separate entities.
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00:31:45,445 --> 00:31:47,488
So they don't need to be intertwined.
468
00:31:47,572 --> 00:31:49,741
They're not two things
that need to be together.
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00:31:49,824 --> 00:31:53,453
They are of a piece. One thing.
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00:31:54,078 --> 00:31:57,498
[woman 1, in Japanese]
Call the newspapers! There are UFOs!
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00:31:57,582 --> 00:32:00,752
- [baby crying]
- [woman 1] Here's a UFO!
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00:32:01,502 --> 00:32:02,837
[woman 2] I can't see anything.
473
00:32:02,921 --> 00:32:05,173
[woman 1] Look! There's the UFO again!
474
00:32:05,256 --> 00:32:11,721
I've never seen a UFO before!
There are so many of them!
475
00:32:11,804 --> 00:32:16,392
[in Japanese] There have been numerous
eyewitness accounts of aliens and UFOs.
476
00:32:16,476 --> 00:32:19,020
But that's just it. Eyewitness accounts.
477
00:32:19,854 --> 00:32:23,650
It's tricky because even if a witness
does see something,
478
00:32:23,733 --> 00:32:26,152
they could be confusing
an aircraft with a UFO.
479
00:32:26,235 --> 00:32:29,739
This likely applies
to the sightings from March 2011.
480
00:32:34,661 --> 00:32:37,747
[in Japanese] I don't need evidence.
481
00:32:37,830 --> 00:32:40,625
I don't need
anything materialistic to believe.
482
00:32:40,708 --> 00:32:45,296
To me, it's...
[in English] we better to feel, the echo.
483
00:32:48,758 --> 00:32:51,552
[in Japanese] I try not to talk
too much about aliens.
484
00:32:51,636 --> 00:32:55,807
I don't want people to think
I'm even crazier. [chuckles]
485
00:32:58,893 --> 00:33:01,854
Honestly, I don't mind
if people think I'm crazy,
486
00:33:01,938 --> 00:33:05,024
but it would be a shame
if they don't get the message.
487
00:33:07,902 --> 00:33:09,988
[reflective music playing]
488
00:33:10,071 --> 00:33:12,782
[Miho Ninagawa] In March 2011,
there was a light.
489
00:33:12,865 --> 00:33:15,994
UFOs came in order to help
protect this world,
490
00:33:16,077 --> 00:33:18,329
probably in hopes
of preserving the balance.
491
00:33:18,413 --> 00:33:21,582
There was so much going on at the time.
492
00:33:21,666 --> 00:33:24,961
[reflective music continues]
493
00:33:28,089 --> 00:33:30,591
It is not strange for this to happen.
494
00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:36,431
I think if I were an alien,
a life-form beyond Earth,
495
00:33:36,514 --> 00:33:41,185
and I saw such a massive,
almost catastrophic amount of energy,
496
00:33:42,186 --> 00:33:46,065
I would want to have a look. [chuckles]
497
00:33:46,941 --> 00:33:49,944
[tense music playing]
498
00:33:57,285 --> 00:34:00,204
[Jensine Andresen, in English]
If you have hundreds
499
00:34:00,288 --> 00:34:04,667
{\an8}of well-documented UAP events
500
00:34:04,751 --> 00:34:06,836
around your nuclear sites,
501
00:34:06,919 --> 00:34:09,172
that's a really clear message.
502
00:34:09,255 --> 00:34:11,716
{\an8}[tense music continues]
503
00:34:11,799 --> 00:34:13,551
{\an8}My name is Robert Salas.
504
00:34:13,634 --> 00:34:20,634
{\an8}In, uh, March of 1967, I was stationed
at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana,
505
00:34:21,476 --> 00:34:23,978
uh, as a missile launch officer.
506
00:34:24,062 --> 00:34:28,066
I was downstairs 60 feet underground,
in a capsule,
507
00:34:29,108 --> 00:34:34,280
monitoring and, uh, controlling
ten nuclear-tipped missiles.
508
00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:41,537
I looked at 39 accounts
from the '40s to the '90s.
509
00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:43,456
So about a 50-year time period.
510
00:34:43,539 --> 00:34:49,295
All of the witness accounts have
a certain degree of consistency to them,
511
00:34:49,378 --> 00:34:52,673
which is, a UAP arrives at the site...
512
00:34:52,757 --> 00:34:54,300
I got a call that morning,
513
00:34:55,176 --> 00:34:58,763
uh, that they were seeing
strange lights flying in the sky.
514
00:34:59,263 --> 00:35:00,473
Uh...
515
00:35:00,556 --> 00:35:02,975
I disregarded that call, uh,
516
00:35:03,059 --> 00:35:07,021
told them to call me
when something more significant happened.
517
00:35:07,105 --> 00:35:11,150
It doesn't matter
if it's Malmstrom Air Force Base
518
00:35:11,234 --> 00:35:15,029
or F. E. Warren or Minot...
519
00:35:15,113 --> 00:35:16,531
It just doesn't matter.
520
00:35:16,614 --> 00:35:19,659
I got another call, uh,
subsequent to that call.
521
00:35:20,284 --> 00:35:24,872
And this time, it was a more, uh,
intense tone in the guard's voice.
522
00:35:24,956 --> 00:35:26,958
He was very... clearly very frightened.
523
00:35:27,583 --> 00:35:30,294
Um, he said there was a, uh,
524
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:36,134
a bright, glowing, red object
hovering outside the front gate.
525
00:35:36,217 --> 00:35:39,095
It's in restricted airspace. It hovers.
526
00:35:39,178 --> 00:35:43,057
It shines a light
on these nuclear weapons.
527
00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:46,686
[Robert Salas] Right after that call,
my weapons start going down,
528
00:35:46,769 --> 00:35:49,147
uh, one after the other.
529
00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:51,149
They went into a no-go condition.
530
00:35:51,232 --> 00:35:53,943
What we call a "no-go condition."
They were unlaunchable.
531
00:35:54,026 --> 00:35:57,113
And that's not the only site
where that has occurred.
532
00:35:58,156 --> 00:36:03,244
{\an8}Uh, again, that morning, we were...
after reporting it to the command post,
533
00:36:03,327 --> 00:36:08,082
we were informed that a similar,
very similar incident happened
534
00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:09,584
at Echo Flight.
535
00:36:09,667 --> 00:36:13,212
They lost all ten of their weapons,
in... under similar circumstances,
536
00:36:13,296 --> 00:36:15,047
very similar circumstances,
537
00:36:15,548 --> 00:36:18,217
where UFOs were sighted
over the launch facilities.
538
00:36:18,301 --> 00:36:20,928
[eerie music playing]
539
00:36:29,478 --> 00:36:32,815
[Tomonori Izumi, in Japanese]
Radioactive energy was leaking everywhere.
540
00:36:32,899 --> 00:36:37,653
I believe the UFOs came to readjust
the flood of radioactive energy
541
00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:39,572
in order to save us.
542
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,116
That's my theory anyway.
543
00:36:42,950 --> 00:36:45,870
And I think that's why
the Fukushima nuclear power plant
544
00:36:45,953 --> 00:36:47,580
was not totally devastated.
545
00:36:48,164 --> 00:36:49,207
Mm-hmm.
546
00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:54,754
[Roland Nozomu Kelts] When Japanese people
talk about extraterrestrials,
547
00:36:54,837 --> 00:36:57,757
or UFOs, or why they're here,
548
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:02,762
a lot of it is about achieving
or restoring balance.
549
00:37:02,845 --> 00:37:06,724
That life, modern life, is out of harmony.
550
00:37:06,807 --> 00:37:12,688
And the benevolent view is that aliens,
whatever you wanna call them,
551
00:37:12,772 --> 00:37:15,316
are coming in, or are concerned,
552
00:37:15,399 --> 00:37:19,904
and are trying to restore
a sense of balance to the world.
553
00:37:21,405 --> 00:37:23,950
[Jiyo Sakuma, in Japanese]
If we could hear them, they'd say,
554
00:37:24,033 --> 00:37:26,160
"Oh, earthlings,
our brothers and sisters."
555
00:37:26,244 --> 00:37:30,498
"You've begun to use
nuclear energy, haven't you?"
556
00:37:31,666 --> 00:37:33,793
"That's wonderful," they'd say,
557
00:37:33,876 --> 00:37:37,797
"that you earthlings have evolved so much
with your technology and all,
558
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:41,300
but we can't leave you unsupervised."
559
00:37:41,384 --> 00:37:44,136
[reflective music playing]
560
00:37:46,555 --> 00:37:50,017
Nuclear power can be very dangerous.
561
00:37:50,685 --> 00:37:52,478
Think of it like this.
562
00:37:52,561 --> 00:37:55,398
Say there's a kitchen
and a child who goes to the stove
563
00:37:55,481 --> 00:37:56,899
to cook with a frying pan.
564
00:37:56,983 --> 00:37:59,443
We all see how dangerous that is.
565
00:38:00,069 --> 00:38:02,405
The parents have to make sure it's safe.
566
00:38:02,989 --> 00:38:06,409
I think that's why the aliens came.
To look after us.
567
00:38:07,910 --> 00:38:09,370
[interviewer] Should we be scared?
568
00:38:09,453 --> 00:38:12,373
[in Japanese] Of aliens?
You don't have to be scared of them.
569
00:38:12,456 --> 00:38:17,044
Think of aliens
as being on the side of humans.
570
00:38:18,629 --> 00:38:21,799
I've never met one that was mean.
571
00:38:23,759 --> 00:38:25,928
[in Japanese] I think
they came at that time
572
00:38:26,012 --> 00:38:28,556
to make sure
things were properly in balance.
573
00:38:32,018 --> 00:38:34,979
I believe that's how
they expressed love for us.
574
00:38:37,398 --> 00:38:41,277
[Jensine Andresen, in English] I think
this is an intelligence that recognizes
575
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,529
the depth of human creativity
576
00:38:44,113 --> 00:38:46,615
and wants to preserve it.
577
00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:51,537
I think this intelligence cares about us.
578
00:38:51,620 --> 00:38:55,207
I think this intelligence
does not want us to go extinct.
579
00:38:55,291 --> 00:38:56,667
[exhales]
580
00:38:58,085 --> 00:39:02,214
That's what I think
is really being communicated.
581
00:39:02,298 --> 00:39:05,551
[shakily] "We're,
we're right here with you."
582
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,264
"Just open your hearts, open your minds."
583
00:39:10,348 --> 00:39:12,892
[sniffles] "We'd like to help you."
584
00:39:13,809 --> 00:39:17,355
"And, you know,
let's get to know one another."
585
00:39:17,438 --> 00:39:20,399
I think that's really what the message is.
586
00:39:22,985 --> 00:39:28,991
[Jiyo Sakuma, in Japanese] The earthquake
was a very painful experience for me.
587
00:39:30,493 --> 00:39:35,790
The encounter we had with the UFO
was so vivid that it transformed me.
588
00:39:36,874 --> 00:39:40,294
It both transformed me
and completely healed me.
589
00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:44,882
So, to me, their presence
is really... comforting.
590
00:39:44,965 --> 00:39:46,467
Kind and comforting.
591
00:39:49,637 --> 00:39:51,437
[Diana Pasulka, in English]
A UFO is an event.
592
00:39:52,348 --> 00:39:56,018
When a person has an experience,
say they see a UFO,
593
00:39:56,102 --> 00:39:57,812
they're different afterwards.
594
00:39:58,312 --> 00:39:59,897
I know this sounds really strange,
595
00:39:59,980 --> 00:40:03,818
but the relationship to the cosmos
changed for these people.
596
00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:07,029
Almost like a religious
conversion experience.
597
00:40:07,113 --> 00:40:10,199
It changes their worldview.
It changes the way they work.
598
00:40:10,282 --> 00:40:12,701
It changes their relationships to people.
599
00:40:12,785 --> 00:40:15,871
It fundamentally, completely changes them.
600
00:40:15,955 --> 00:40:18,958
[somber music playing]
601
00:40:20,292 --> 00:40:25,506
[Jiyo Sakuma, in Japanese] In 2016,
I experienced an "astral abduction."
602
00:40:27,591 --> 00:40:31,137
That is the abduction
of one's astral body,
603
00:40:31,220 --> 00:40:32,888
where it enters a UFO.
604
00:40:32,972 --> 00:40:35,057
[somber music continues]
605
00:40:36,976 --> 00:40:39,395
There was a screen in front of me.
606
00:40:42,106 --> 00:40:46,068
I'll tell you what they taught me
inside the UFO.
607
00:40:48,154 --> 00:40:50,489
The Earth is alive.
608
00:40:51,574 --> 00:40:56,620
So much happens to us.
Everybody experiences trauma.
609
00:41:00,082 --> 00:41:04,462
In the midst of trauma,
people can learn to hate each other.
610
00:41:04,545 --> 00:41:07,882
We feed off of the negativity
and feel negative ourselves.
611
00:41:07,965 --> 00:41:11,635
And it's because of that,
all that negative energy,
612
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,430
that we lose sight of what's important.
613
00:41:15,973 --> 00:41:19,602
- So we all need to change our perspective.
- [music continues]
614
00:41:19,685 --> 00:41:24,690
We need to remember
what we felt like as young children.
615
00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:31,447
We need to remember our innocence
and return to that unbiased state of mind.
616
00:41:32,156 --> 00:41:36,076
We need to clean up our consciousness
and cleanse ourselves
617
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:39,163
to lead humanity to cosmic civilization.
618
00:41:40,247 --> 00:41:45,002
And at the very end,
I saw the Earth aglow with golden light.
619
00:41:45,085 --> 00:41:47,838
I saw it on the screen, and I understood.
620
00:41:48,547 --> 00:41:50,591
The future of the Earth is bright.
621
00:41:51,175 --> 00:41:53,093
And I could see
622
00:41:53,177 --> 00:41:56,305
a Golden Age is coming to Earth.
623
00:41:56,805 --> 00:41:59,808
[uplifting music playing]
624
00:42:02,645 --> 00:42:04,647
[music fades out]
625
00:42:08,776 --> 00:42:12,571
[Tomonori Izumi, in Japanese] Human beings
are born into this world for a reason.
626
00:42:13,113 --> 00:42:16,075
I believe that we have to work hard
with one another
627
00:42:16,158 --> 00:42:18,702
to bring peace to the world.
628
00:42:18,786 --> 00:42:24,792
And with the support of invisible power,
gods and UFOs, peace is possible.
629
00:42:24,875 --> 00:42:27,378
[mysterious ambient music playing]
630
00:42:29,755 --> 00:42:32,115
[Roland Nozomu Kelts, in English]
When you talk about UFOs,
631
00:42:32,174 --> 00:42:33,884
I think the Japanese story about it
632
00:42:33,968 --> 00:42:38,973
is the ability to embrace mystery
and let it be.
633
00:42:39,807 --> 00:42:42,518
It's not that what is seen is different.
634
00:42:42,601 --> 00:42:47,064
It's the way the story is told
about the experience
635
00:42:47,147 --> 00:42:50,651
that I think differs
between Americans and Japanese.
636
00:42:51,735 --> 00:42:55,698
It's much less
about this complete otherness.
637
00:42:56,574 --> 00:43:00,953
The mystery of the UFO and of the alien
638
00:43:02,329 --> 00:43:04,123
just is.
639
00:43:05,082 --> 00:43:06,542
And that's enough.
640
00:43:07,126 --> 00:43:09,128
[mysterious music playing]
641
00:43:12,631 --> 00:43:15,092
[Keisuke Udagawa, in Japanese]
When I looked at those lights,
642
00:43:15,175 --> 00:43:17,511
I saw how beautiful the human soul is.
643
00:43:17,595 --> 00:43:20,347
How beautiful we as humans are.
644
00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:24,184
That goodness resides in each of us.
645
00:43:24,977 --> 00:43:28,147
At least, I think that's
what the lights showed me.
646
00:43:28,230 --> 00:43:30,232
[music intensifies]
647
00:43:33,193 --> 00:43:35,487
[mysterious music playing]