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NARRATOR: Mysterious stories of extraterrestrial contact...
SABINA MAGLIOCCO: If we were to know the truth, society as we
know it would collapse.
NARRATOR: Secret messages from alien beings...
KEN STORCH: If it wasn't our technology and it certainly
wasn't the Russian technology, then whose technology was it?
NARRATOR: and inexplicable events hidden from the public.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Just because something is a cover-up,
doesn't mean you can't reach the truth.
NARRATOR: All around the planet, evidence points to proof
of otherworldly visitors, yet governments continue to deny
their existence.
RICHARD DOLAN: Most of 'em are afraid of it, and they run away from it.
They don't know anything.
So their only option is lie, lie, lie.
NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world believe we have
been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?
And if so, what is the truth behind aliens and cover-ups?
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NARRATOR: Omaha, Nebraska, Strategic Air Command,
Offutt Air Force Base, October 1973.
As Cold War tensions between the United States and Russia simmer,
the world remains on edge.
Suddenly, an object picked up on SAC radar sends the base
onto high alert.
Sergeant Ken Storch was part of the Strategic Air Command's top
secret Trident Defense.
STORCH: This alarm went off on the computer, and at the very
top of the message it said,
"Alert, alert, alert, this is not a drill."
Five unidentified objects had been picked up coming in over
the Pacific Northwest.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff initially felt that it was a
pre-emptive strike by a Russian submarine, and that they had
launched ballistic missiles.
NARRATOR: According to Storch, the unidentified objects
flew over the entire Canadian territory in less
than two minutes.
The UFO's then made a course correction that defied
conventional physics.
Could it be, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe,
that these objects were extraterrestrial crafts visiting Earth?
STORCH: These five objects went across the Bering Sea
into the Soviet Union.
Richard Nixon was the president at the time.
He picked up what we called the Bat Phone and called
the Kremlin, and Nixon said, "They are not ours."
NARRATOR: Is it possible that both nations knew the
unexplained aircraft were piloted by extraterrestrials?
Might the alien craft have actually wanted to be seen?
But if so, why?
The next day, CIA and air force investigators moved to block the
story from becoming public.
STORCH: I had to sign a security contingency form.
This one was specific to this incident, that I would not talk
about it, uh, for 30 years.
That I would keep my mouth shut, and I did.
NARRATOR: Could this incident involving two of the world's
most powerful nations be one of hundreds of UFO events that have
been known to governments the world over, but covered up as
ancient astronaut theorists believe?
And might this be additional evidence of a long history of
extraterrestrials attempting to contact and communicate
with the human race?
NARRATOR: Los Angeles, California, February 25, 1942.
In the early morning hours, something ignites a firestorm
that lights up the sky.
LINDA MOULTON HOWE: That was he famous Battle of Los Angeles.
And this photograph that's been all around the world, showing
all of those arc lights coming up to it.
Those arc lights were aimed at a diamond lozenge,
eyewitnesses said... (siren wailing)
that nearly 2,000 rounds of army anti-aircraft artillery was fired.
They could tell nothing was interacting.
It was as if it had a force field around it.
JASON MARTEL: We fired thousands of rounds.
Unfortunately, civilians lost their lives.
The next day, no sign of this craft.
Could it have been extraterrestrials?
All the evidence points to some type of craft not of this world.
NARRATOR: According to researchers, five years later
a UFO crash-landed outside Roswell, New Mexico in July of 1947.
Following this incident and numerous other UFO sightings,
the public demanded to know who or what was behind these
unexplained objects seen in the skies.
The government responded not by answering the question,
but by creating the National Security Act.
STORCH: Six weeks after the Roswell incident, the National
Security Act that Harry Truman signed essentially says
to you...as an American citizen, we the government, don't have to answer
that question in the "interests" of national security.
NARRATOR: The sightings and close encounters only continued.
And the mysterious visitors appeared to grow even bolder.
But was there a message behind these increasing contact events?
NARRATOR: Washington, D.C., July 19, 1952.
In the skies over the heart of the United States government,
multiple unidentified flying objects are picked up on radar
by air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport and
Andrews Air Force Base.
MIKE BARA: There were jets scrambled to intercept them.
When the jets would get there, they would disappear.
When the jets would land, they would reappear again.
Basically, it was all over the news, all over the entire world.
TSOUKALOS: So it happened twice on two consecutive
weekends, meaning that more and more people saw the same thing:
they were flying over the heart of Washington.
So that is essentially the equivalent of landing on
the White House lawn.
NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists,
there was a reason that alien beings chose the nation's
capital to make contact.
BARA: We had a series of UFO sightings that were buzzing
the White House, the U.S. Capitol, I think in an attempt to make
a very symbolic direct contact saying,
"Hey, we'd like to talk to you guys."
But it just seems to me like somehow we didn't get the message.
NARRATOR: In the days following the mysterious
sightings over the nation's capital, the U.S. government
refused to acknowledge any extraterrestrial connection.
GENERAL JOHN SAMFORD: We have, as of date, come
to only one firm conclusion, and that is that it does not
contain any pattern of purpose or of consistency that we can
relate to any conceivable threat to the United states.
NARRATOR: In 1952, the Air Force created Project Blue Book
to investigate the growing number of sightings
and contact events.
But was this simply an attempt on the part of the U.S.
government to suppress the truth?
RICHARD DOLAN: You've got too many tangible objective
sightings, and of objects, by the way, that were doing things,
just utterly incredibly extraordinary.
We've got a physical phenomenon.
It's real.
The question is why, and that's something we don't have
the answer to.
NARRATOR: If the United States government and others
around the world knew that extraterrestrials were real,
why was this information being covered up?
Could it be that authorities feared the threat that these
unconventional spacecraft represented to national security?
DOLAN: There's a long litany of reports that, uh,
the U.S. government has authored on UFOs, and many of them show dramatic
UFO evidence for real.
And yet their conclusion was, it's either hoaxes or mistaken
sightings of natural phenomenon and so forth.
That's the history of U.S. government studies on UFOs.
MAGLIOCCO: In modern times there's the idea that there's a
secret and small elite body of people who are covering up the
truth from the rest of society;
that aliens from space have visited planet Earth, but nobody
else is allowed to know about it.
NARRATOR: In 1969, the air force abruptly terminated
Project Blue Book.
Could it be that the government denials regarding
extraterrestrial contact were failing to convince the public?
Or is it possible that officials knew far more than they admitted
about these events that were being reported again and again?
O'BRIEN: One of the scientific advisors for the air
force's Project Blue Book was J. Alan Hynek.
Hynek became disenchanted with the fact that certain cases were
not being followed up on and that there appeared to be some
sort of cover-up going on.
NARRATOR: According to researchers, the United States
government and others around the world have continued to
secretly investigate alien encounters that now number
in the tens of thousands.
But might extraterrestrial contact actually have been
documented and covered up for hundreds, and perhaps
thousands of years?
NARRATOR: Luxor, Egypt.
Along the east bank of the Nile River, lie the ruins of the
Karnak temple complex, dating to the 32nd century B.C.
Here, in ancient Egyptian society, the pharaohs were
considered perfect humans to be worshiped above all others as
supreme living gods.
This religious hierarchy was in place for over a thousand years,
until one pharaoh came into power and changed everything.
His name was Akhenaten.
According to legend, Akhenaten descended from the stars, and
when he came to power, the worship of multiple gods ended.
The pharaoh replaced the old deities with a single sun god
that some believe had interacted with and gave birth
to Akhenaten.
This god was called Aten.
COPPENS: What we have with Akhenaten is very brief period
of time when Egypt radically departs from its standard behavior.
We see Akhenaten is becoming obsessed, saying that he can
contact the gods.
Also, he is remodeling the way he looks, not physically,
but on his monuments.
TSOUKALOS: Akhenaten looked very odd.
And the other statues that were created during that time all
featured elongated heads, bizarre bodies and chicken legs.
The whole reign of Akhenaten leads us to think that he had
contact with extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Akhenaten's wife, Queen Nefertiti, and their
children were also depicted with similar elongated heads.
But might there be a specific reason why the pharoah and his
descendants were illustrated in this way?
COPPENS: Clearly Akhenaten and various other people were
confronted with deities who had these elongated skulls.
And so they reshaped their heads because this somehow would
bring them closer to the gods, and maybe even in contacting or
being amongst the gods.
NARRATOR: Could the sun god Aten have been an alien being
that visited Earth, as some ancient astronaut theorists contend?
Or it it possible that Akhenaten himself had an extraterrestrial origin?
Might Akhenaten have received messages from Aten?
Messages that would have had a profound effect on Egyptian
society during the pharaoh's reign?
TSOUKALOS: They visited him.
He had actual physical contact with them.
And so that was the reason why he instituted this one-god rule.
And in other theories also, that Akhenaten himself was in fact
half-human half-extraterrestrial.
NARRATOR: Akhenaten ruled for 17 years, but upon his death,
the magnificent city he built to the sun god was partially destroyed
and his mysterious depictions were defaced or obliterated.
Aten, the god who some believe may have delivered messages to
the pharaoh, was also virtually erased from the records.
Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists contend,
that the pharaoh's relationship with extraterrestrial beings was
covered up for nearly 1,000 years?
MARTEL: All the other pharaohs left wall descriptions
and describing their glory and brilliance.
But for some reason, around Akhenaten, it was all
scribbled out, as if to hide them like an ancient cover-up.
Could this be because Akhenaten was perhaps actually
extraterrestrial?
NARRATOR: Might contact with alien messengers have been kept
secret by the ruling elite around the world for hundreds
and perhaps thousands of years?
Perhaps further evidence of this contact can be found where
science and religion met, and struggled with the truth, or as
some believe, tried to deny it.
NARRATOR: Rome, Italy, February 17, 1600.
Here, astronomer and philosopher Giordano Bruno spent his last
day imprisoned during the Roman Inquisition.
Among his alleged crimes, the scientist had asserted his
belief that the Earth was not the center of the universe, and
that the cosmos is filled with life.
SHOSTAK: In the 16th and 17th century, the, uh, Catholic
Church was against certain developments in science, and
among these heresies made by Giordano Bruno was the idea that
there's a lot of life out there.
COPPENS: Bruno believed in the existence of
extraterrestrial beings.
We also know that the Vatican is able to cover up this material
extremely well.
So this is just one example of almost two thousands of years
of Vatican power.
NARRATOR: Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists
claim, that Giordano Bruno had been visited by
extraterrestrial beings?
And might these same beings have shared messages with Bruno and
other scientists including Copernicus and Galileo, messages
that the Vatican learned of and greatly feared?
MAGLIOCCO: In the Renaissance, scientists like
Galileo and Copernicus were excommunicated because the
Catholic Church had a very strong interest in controlling information.
So, of course, they did everything they could to silence
scientific discoveries.
NARRATOR: Bruno's revolutionary assertions
included the belief that the universe was made up of an
infinite number of worlds, which were populated by
intelligent beings.
SHOSTAK: The problem with all these statements was that they
violated one of the basic tenets of religion at that point, which
was we were the center of creation.
We were the crown of creation.
We were top dog in the cosmos.
NARRATOR: Bruno angered scholars and theologians across
Europe with his teachings, and the scientist was finally
arrested by order of the Vatican.
He endured eight years locked in a dungeon and was tried for
heresy, but Bruno refused to recant his beliefs.
For his crimes against the Catholic Church, Bruno was burned at the stake.
But is it possible that the Vatican knew Bruno had been
receiving messages from alien beings?
And might it be that the Vatican wanted to deny the existence of
extraterrestrial life, a species that far exceeded human
capabilities and eluded the Vatican's control?
MAGLIOCCO: The existence of this cover-up feeds our worry
today that government, uh, and science could be engaged in a
cover-up to hide the evidence of contact with
extraterrestrial life.
NARRATOR: Bruno's writings were condemned by the Catholic
Church and banned for decades.
Many of his works were destroyed, and researchers
believe they included revelations of messages he had
received, and that the Vatican wanted to erase.
But might the information Bruno may have received from
extraterrestrials still be locked away?
And if so, does it remain a threat to Catholic doctrine?
Does the trial of Bruno point to a cover-up by the Vatican?
Perhaps the answers can be found in a small village in western
Portugal and the story of a miracle that could offer proof
that we are not alone.
NARRATOR: The Vatican...
Vatican City, Italy.
In the 17th century, Pope Paul V ordered select documents
of the Catholic Church moved from the Vatican Library and closed
to outsiders until 1881.
Today, the Vatican Secret Archives are closely guarded and
some researchers believe they contain revelations so explosive
that they threaten the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
DAVID CHILDRESS: You have to wonder if the secret library at
the Vatican, which they acknowledge exists, doesn't have
records or chronicles about extraterrestrial contacts that
the Catholic Church has recorded and knows happened but is
keeping a secret.
NARRATOR: Might the Vatican Secret Archives contain the
details of messages Giordano Bruno may have received from
extraterrestrials...
information that supports his pronouncements about the universe?
COPPENS: When we look at certain specific examples,
like Giordano Bruno, we know that there was so more to it than this.
The Vatican Archives, whenever they're going to be opened, are
going to reveal extraordinary levels of details.
NARRATOR: According to researchers, the Vatican Secret
Archives holds hidden evidence connected to the Miracle of Fatima.
It was here, in 1917, that three children claimed to have
received messages from what some Catholic theologians believe was
the Virgin Mary.
HOWE: In Fatima, children saw an apparition they said
was the Virgin Mary...
and 70,000 people came to this same sheep pasture.
And people said that they saw a spinning silver disc.
The Catholic Church, for a very long time, would not acknowledge
what was happening with the children or Fatima.
ERICH VON DANIKEN: The extraterrestrials give to the
children a telepathic message, saying you are not alone on this planet.
We are here.
We have been here some thousands of years ago.
We observe you.
Please prepare mankind that we will return again.
So all this story of Fatima went to the Vatican.
NARRATOR: But is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists
contend, that the Catholic Church censored the messages
that were received in Fatima?
TSOUKALOS: The kids were given three messages, and the
Pope refused to release the third message.
The third message apparently talks about extraterrestrial life.
Now that is sensational because, to me, to deny the revelation
of that particular message.
And that is exactly what the Pope did...
and I wonder why?
NARRATOR: Some contend that the Miracle of Fatima is one of
many events that describe visitations from
extraterrestrial messengers.
Researchers also point to the voices described by Joan of Arc,
visions received in Lourdes by Bernadette Soubiros and
countless stories depicted in the Hebrew Bible,
in which similar events are described.
Perhaps the Vatican knows far more about life in the universe
than they have acknowledged.
But does a belief in alien life question the omnipotence
of a Supreme Being?
TSOUKALOS: Of course the Vatican knows about
extraterrestrial life.
But to suggest that, because extraterrestrials exist,
that means there is no God, is total nonsense.
NARRATOR: Safford, Arizona.
130 miles northeast of Tucson.
The Mount Graham International Observatory.
Here, the Roman Catholic Church quietly operates a massive
telescope that scans the heavens day after day, as does another
telescope in Rome.
What do they expect to find?
CHRIS CORBALLY: We're doing all kinds of research work
into various aspects of the heavens.
So, from the very nearest-around planets nearby...
our own solar system... out through to our galaxy,
galaxies beyond that, and then the universe as a whole.
NARRATOR: Might the Catholic Church be monitoring our cosmic
neighbors and preparing for the day when science and governments
acknowledge their existence?
O'BRIEN: The Vatican Observatory, uh, on Mount
Graham, is very near the San Francisco Peaks, which is the
Sacred Mountain to the Hopi and Zuni Indians, where the
Sky People come and go from.
I find it very interesting that the Vatican should have an
observatory right at this very sacred and crucial spot,
also well known as a corridor for UFO activity.
HOWE: If you are a Vatican, a government, and you have
secret knowledge that there is other life in the universe,
they're going to be forced into public statements consistent
with the Catholic view of the divine.
NARRATOR: In 2008, the Vatican stunned the world
when it announced that the possibility of extraterrestrial
life was not in conflict with church teachings.
Might they know something we don't?
TSOUKALOS: Do you think they came forward with such a
statement out of thin air, willy-nilly?
No. There was a deliberate calculation behind releasing
such a statement.
All you have to do is open your eyes and it becomes
quite clear we've been visited, and the Vatican knows that.
CORBALLY: The Vatican does not have a specific stance
on extraterrestrial life.
If extraterrestrial life was found, then the church would
react as it does with any data:
What's about it to learn?
A living experience would be the experience of
extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Might the growing accounts of messages shared
with a select few, here on Earth, have prompted the Vatican
to begin acknowledging other life in the universe?
And if extraterrestrials are delivering messages to humans,
could they be signaling a reunion with our ancient ancestors?
NARRATOR: Suffolk, England.
The decommissioned American Bentwaters Air Force Base.
December 2010.
Two retired airmen have returned here, still searching for
answers to a mysterious event they claim to have witnessed
30 years earlier.
It went from a sleepy, boring night to, all of a
sudden, within a matter of minutes, we were dealing with
something we didn't know what it was.
NARRATOR: The incident has haunted them for three decades,
and compelled them to finally revisit the site of their close encounter.
But why?
Our journey has begun.
John and I knew we were going to do this years ago;
that's the strange part.
NARRATOR: December 26, 1980.
Shortly after midnight, an unidentified object is picked
up on radar over the Bentwaters Air Base and appears to go down
in the nearby Rendlesham Forest.
NICK POPE: Some of the security police saw strange
lights in the forest; it was clear to the military personnel
that they were looking at something highly unusual, and
that they needed to go and investigate.
NARRATOR: Three enlisted men, including Sergeant
James Penniston and Airman John Burroughs, entered the forest
expecting to find a downed aircraft.
PENNISTON: I could see all these multiple color lights
and I was, uh, trying to rationalize my own mind that it
was an aircraft crash.
BURROUGHS: There was a weird feeling in the air.
It's hard to explain.
It just felt like there was electricity or something in the air.
When we got into this clearing, there was something there.
And the whole area just lit up in a bright white light.
PENNISTON: I was dumbfounded by what was going on.
I started seeing a silhouette of a, uh, triangular craft.
It was, uh, completely black in color except for these
occasional bits of blue and orange light and yellow light
running through it.
BURROUGHS: It appeared to me like there was something
there making us feel like we wanted to get closer.
I was running towards it;
it came over the top of me, and then it exploded into
blue objects and lights, but I disappeared into what it was.
Then the next thing I know I was standing in the field,
and I had no idea what had happened.
NARRATOR: As Penniston approached the object,
he observed strange, hieroglyphic inscriptions on its side.
Reaching out to touch it, his mind suddenly became bombarded
by images of numbers.
PENNISTON: It's like someone was holding a picture up, of
this... zeros and ones and... after another.
I could see it in my mind's eye.
What do they mean, I don't know.
The craft was on the ground approximately 45 minutes.
Then there was a bright flash of light.
I don't know, the craft just took off.
BURROUGHS: Jim and I both had watches on, and it was
behind... in other words, when we were finished, it showed like
45-minute difference in what time it really was.
But the 45 minutes of missing time actually came from the
shift commander and some other people saying that, for awhile,
what they attributed it to was they lost radio contact with us.
NARRATOR: The next day, James Penniston was compelled to write
down the strange series of numbers in his notebook.
It filled an astonishing 22 pages.
PENNISTON: I pull out my notebook and started writing it down.
I think the part that was okay for me, was that once I did
that, they went away then.
Uh, did I tell anybody?
No way am I gonna tell anybody that.
NARRATOR: Penniston and Burroughs were ordered by their
superiors to document the events they witnessed
in Rendlesham Forest.
But both men claim they were pressured to leave out certain
details of the event, especially those suggesting the craft may
have been extraterrestrial.
PENNISTON: What I remember is a triangular craft, and it
didn't have no sharp edges to it at all.
It was equally on all sides.
Black in color, warm to touch.
I had to give this sanitized story.
I left out everything from the feeling of the electricity,
the feeling of being drawn into it, also the description of the craft.
There's a lot of detail that was left out.
And truth by omission is not the truth.
It's a lie.
BURROUGHS: They didn't want it to appear like the government
was trying to cover it up, but I clearly felt that they didn't
want me to go and tell all the details.
NARRATOR: For the next two evenings, more mysterious
sightings were reported by other soldiers stationed at Bentwaters.
Yet virtually nothing was recorded except for a top-secret
report written by Deputy Base Commander, Colonel Charles Halt.
POPE: What makes the Rendlesham incident important is
really the military witnesses who were involved in this.
There are probably several hundred people who were either
direct witnesses to the UFO or were involved in a more peripheral sense.
NARRATOR: But few witnesses stationed at Bentwaters were
willing to go on record about what they saw.
The event was kept from the public, and no mention of the
triangle UFO was divulged until years later.
POPE: Rumors had been spreading about this incident for some time.
But it was not until 1983 that the story actually broke in the
media after a Freedom of lnformation Act request.
Most were interested.
Some were more skeptical.
Uh, but this was definitely a big story.
NARRATOR: When pressed for comment, military officials
claimed the men mistook a nearby lighthouse for a UFO, or perhaps
fabricated a hoax.
MOULTON HOWE: We're living in a world that until governments
and police authorities say this happened...
and speak in microphones for TV and radio and print,
it becomes a non-event.
They know how to control the media.
NARRATOR: Penniston and Burroughs retired from the
military in the mid-1990s, but each were plagued with
nightmares for decades.
In the fall of 2010, after three decades of trying to forget the
incident, Penniston and Burroughs reconnected for the
first time in many years.
Something was compelling them to return to Rendlesham Forest.
BURROUGHS: We couldn't explain how we got from point A to point B.
PENNISTON: I don't know how we got there.
BURROUGHS: Nope. Neither do I.
The best thing would be for us to go back out and go step-by-step.
PENNISTON: That's what we need to do.
BURROUGHS: Come right up to where we were, right where we had it happen.
PENNISTON: We need to do that. BURROUGHS: I know we do.
PENNISTON: There's a drive in us that says we have to go.
I suppose we'd like to have some closure.
The situation never leaves you.
I mean, it is a life-changing event.
It happened there at Bentwaters.
I would gladly give that to somebody else to be burdened
with for all their life.
BURROUGHS: One of the things that always bothers you is
who are they, what was it, what were they doing,
what were their intentions and what would happen if they did come back?
NARRATOR: Why would Penniston and Burroughs want to revisit
the site of a 30-year-old nightmare?
Is it possible that by returning, they will discover
who or what they had encountered in the forest, and the key to
decoding the mysterious message they had received?
NARRATOR: Suffolk, England, December 26, 2010.
On the 30th anniversary of their close encounter while stationed
at Bentwaters Air Force Base, James Penniston and John
Burroughs were compelled to return to the place that left
them with reoccurring dreams and many unanswered questions.
PENNISTON: We know this is different.
BURROUGHS: Yeah. PENNISTON: The gate wasn't here.
It was all the way down to the end of that perimeter.
NARRATOR: Accompanied by journalist Linda Moulton Howe,
the men hoped that revisiting Rendlesham Forest where they
encountered the triangle UFO, would confirm their memories.
BURROUGHS: Well, let's go down this road.
PENNISTON: All right.
BURROUGHS: and see if that meets up with the Eastgate Road
and see if there's a logging road between here
BURROUGHS: and the Eastgate Road. PENNISTON: Yeah, sounds good.
PENNISTON: Go ahead. You lead the way. BURROUGHS: All right.
MOULTON HOWE: We got to walk out into the forest with them
and see if they could remember.
We were trying to find the exact spot where they think that all
of this occurred.
BURROUGHS: So this is the eerie feeling.
These are the trees I remember.
PENNINGTON: This is it, yeah. Exactly.
BURROUGHS: Exactly.
MOULTON HOWE: John Burroughs seemed to begin to actually
recall details of what he remembered.
BURROUGHS: This is right where the whole thing started.
At one point, the white lights were emanating right
all through this whole forest, was lit up.
This whole forest was lit up.
But I think you saw that, too, right? From the gate?
- It was brilliant, wasn't it, that light? - Yeah.
- It was just a really white light. - Yeah.
MOULTON HOWE: And Jim Penniston, he really did seem to
start going back to that time, remembering touching those
symbols and having his mind filled with the zeroes and ones.
PENNISTON: It was dead silent out here, there was no sound at all.
Went around from the front side, what appeared to be front.
I started touching it back here.
It was warm.
Then I noticed up here on the left side there was an
inscription or something.
And I touch them.
And then there's, like, intense light again.
I got images in my head that I can't explain.
MOULTON HOWE: And it took at least two days for things to
start focusing down through their minds.
But it is a testimony to the nature of this phenomena that it
can come, it can be here, it can interact with humans, and humans
are left 100% in the dark about what happened.
NARRATOR: Later that evening, Penniston, Burroughs and a team
of researchers returned to the site... at the exact time and
place where they were 30 years earlier.
But would retracing their steps reveal new details about the
craft and its purpose?
BURROUGHS: I'm watching.
Feeling like something might happen tonight.
RESEARCHER: There is a feeling of anticipation.
BURROUGHS: Yes, feeling like something's gonna happen.
As you can clearly see tonight, whatever it was, it wasn't the
lighthouse or anything else that's out here.
It had to have been something that came into the area.
I saw the lights in the sky and the beams coming down.
And this is where the beam shot at us.
PENNISTON: I think everything's much clearer.
It's obvious that we had the answers to begin with.
I think this was necessary for us to come back out here
and clarify it.
I know that it is the beginning.
We have other things we got to do.
This is not over.
NARRATOR: Although Penniston and Burroughs recalled long...
forgotten memories of the encounter, the investigation
failed to answer the questions that have haunted them for decades.
But is it possible that the answer lies not in the forest,
but remains locked in the brain of James Penniston?
And in the notebook which contains the hundreds of ones
and zeros he was compelled to write down?
Two months before the return to Rendlesham Forest,
computer programmer Nick Ciske attempted to decode the
mysterious number sequence found in five pages
of Penniston's notebook.
But could this random string of zeros and ones really contain
an alien message?
NICK CISKE: After I had decoded the binary, there
appeared to be a message that read, "Exploration humanity."
And then it says, "Continuous.
For planetary advance."
And then some numbers that included coordinates
I looked those coordinates up.
They were off the west coast of Ireland.
So if I were to interpret this message, it would seem to be
that this alien race has come to to explore humanity
and help us along.
Does this prove that?
Well, I don't know.
NARRATOR: Could the remaining pages contain even more vital
information from an extraterrestrial source?
PENNISTON: I mean, it seemed like it was supposed to happen.
So, I don't know.
Maybe I was just the one... along with John... and we were
supposed to be out there.
BURROUGHS: I cannot explain to you what we were dealing
with, and how it did what it did, and the last thing
would be, why us?
NARRATOR: What is the secret of the Bentwaters incident?
And what was so important that both the U.S. and British
military needed to cover it up and hide it from the public?
And why have so few witnesses been willing to come forward?
CHILDRESS: There seems to be a concerted effort to really
cover up evidence that aliens have been coming here and
interacting with humans for thousands of years.
MARTELL: There does seem to be some type of international
cover-up taking place.
Tangible evidence of some type of craft in the sky that's
possibly not from this world.
This is a global phenomenon where we're being visited by
extraterrestrials.
STORCH: I think we've evolved to the point where we're
able to understand and accept interaction with another
extraterrestrial.
It's out there.
If you go looking for it, the evidence is there.
NARRATOR: Will we ever really learn the truth about the
possibility of extraterrestrial visitors to our planet?
And if they are real, why do governments and religions
throughout the world continue to deny their existence?
Perhaps we are like Penniston and Burroughs, compelled to keep
exploring the mystery of our past.
Because only then, will we come ever closer to discovering our future.
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