Ancient Aliens - Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

The Center for the Study of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence defines a “Close Encounter of The Fifth Kind” as direct human contact and communication with extraterrestrial life. But is this a classification that will only be useful in the distant future, or have such encounters already taken place… and within the highest levels of the U.S. government?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Stories of alien ambassadors reaching out to the British royal family. This is the top royal aid who's been introduced to a mysterious individual from another planet. And shocking claims that Earth belongs to a galactic federation. I've found the spreadsheet was actually titled in the column, non-terrestrial offices. Could there be certain people on Earth who not only have knowledge of extraterrestrial visitors, but are even in contact with them? When it becomes accepted knowledge that not only are we not alone today, but we never have been alone, that would be the most profound conclusion in the history of humanity.

There is a doorway, in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes. We are not alone. We have never been alone. Washington, D.C., January, 2023. In the first month of the new year, It is announced that a new spending bill will require the U.S. Defense Department to review UFO sightings, dating back to 1945. Another major headline involves controversial claims by U.S. congressmen of a huge UFO cover-up, and yet another claim that a UFO was shot down by the Russian military. In today's world, UFO reports are no longer a fringe curiosity, but part of the daily

news cycle. Here is Earth Files investigative journalist Linda Bolton Howe. Finally, in the 21st century, you've got the whole world curious. Everybody's looking for real UFOs. Headlines in every newspaper everywhere, every television, every radio, every cell phone. Things like NASA announces unidentified. aerial phenomena study. The big headline in the New York Times having to do with UFOs doing remarkable demonstrations

in front of military pilots. This is investigative journalist, George Knapp. It's suddenly respectable for these topics to be discussed in the open. The level of official interest, the level of scientific interest, and media interest is to the point

where now we can look at evidence that's been sitting around for decades that hasn't been scrutinized. And finally, it's getting some scrutiny. It's getting attention. That is a sea change. And because of the media interest, the topic became acceptable for Congress. There is political cover for them to go ahead and ask questions. Nick Pope is a former member of the UK Ministry of Defense.

In May 2022, there was an unprecedented congressional hearing from one of the subcommittees of the House Intelligence Committee, a lot of it was in public and some absolutely fascinating information was disclosed. I mean, effectively this was an admission that the phenomenon was real. Here is Ronald Moultrie, under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. We know that our service members have encountered unidentified aerial phenomenon. Because UAPs pose potential flight safety and general security risk, we are committed to a focused effort to determine their origins. Ralph Blumenthal is an investigative journalist for the New York Times.

Here was Congress paying serious attention to it, that these objects are undoubtedly real. They're not figments of the imagination. They're not hoaxes. There are objects up there and that are legitimate mysteries. Considering the recent explosion of UFO reports, is it possible that there is, in fact, an extraterrestrial presence on Earth? And if so, have there been encounters not only with strange objects in the sky,

but also with alien entities? Here is investigative filmmaker, Jeremy Corbell. Now we're kind of saying, well, UFO is a real, these craft are real. The next logical question is have people engage, entities, intelligences that operate these crap, whether it be biological or artificial intelligence or some sort of marriage between the two. Dr. Travis Taylor, who was hired as the chief scientist for the U.S. government's UAP task force in 2019, says that in his experience, while

UFO sightings are no longer scoffed at, the same cannot be said for reports of much closer encounters. If an F-18 pilot came to you and said, we chased a UAP in the sky with our fighter plane and couldn't catch it, you're going to listen to that guy. But if the same fighter pilot came and said, I was flying along in my F-18 and a UAP came down and abducted me from my cockpit, took me off, did something to me and brought me back and put me right back in my cockpit as though I'd never been gone, you would think he's crazy.

Why? Why is that any more fantastic? then there being something we can't explain what it is that we can't catch with a modern-day fighter plane. I think each are equally fantastic and should at least be considered. One of the first people to suggest that reports of close encounters with extraterrestrials should be taken seriously was the man who held Travis Taylor's position more than 60 years prior. Astrophysicist J. Allen Heineck. In 1952, Heinek was the scientific consultant for Project Blue Book, the U.S. government's first public investigation into the UFO phenomenon.

According to Jay Allen Heineck's son, Paul, one of the cases his father found most compelling involved an encounter with alien entities. My father didn't talk that much about individual cases, but there were some cases that really. stood out to him. One was the case of Lonnie Zamora in 1964 in New Mexico. Lonnie Zamora was a policeman, and he saw some kind of craft in the sky land. It's an egg-shaped craft. He saw some humanoid come out, a fairly brief encounter, and they took off. Lonnie Zamora had not been active in UFOs or flying saucers before that.

My father thought he was very credible and it was the case that was maybe the straw that broke the camel's back on my father being more comfortable talking publicly about abduction cases and humanites. Of the 12,618 sightings reported to Project Blue Book, 701 were left unexplained, including the case of policeman Lonnie Zamora. Yet despite the hundreds of unsolved close encounters, the government shut down Project Blue Book in 1969. But not before Jay Allen Heineck made arguably his most famous contribution to the UFO phenomenon. My father, being a scientist, decided that UFOs needed to have a classification system. So he came up with the close encounters of the first, second, and third kind. A close encounter of the first kind is a visual sighting within 500 feet or so. A close encounter of the second kind is where there's some kind of physical evidence.

A sunburned face, broken tree branches, radar sighting, etc. And a close encounter of the third kind is where you actually see some type of creature. Following the demise of Project Blue Book, claims of even more bizarre alien encounters started being reported across the globe. And two more categories of close encounters were identified. A close encounter of the fourth kind indicates an alien abduction, and a close encounter of the fifth kind involves communication and interaction with an alien entity. Close encounters of the fifth kind are essentially human interactions with extraterrestrials.

It's not just seeing. It's being a participant in an event. There is often, for example, direct communication, either verbal or telepathic. And this is particularly interesting because what we get is not just description and perceptions, but often information, messages are sometimes given in this two-way, interactive communication.

And that's fascinating because it gives us, perhaps, our best insight into extraterrestrial motivation. Accounts of close encounters of the fifth kind are often regarded as too sensational to be true. But according to ancient astronaut theorists, like Georgiosuchelos, such face-to-face interactions with extraterrestrials can be found throughout recorded history.

Throughout the history of humankind, cultures from all continents of the world, described someone descending from the sky and imparting knowledge. And instead of attributing these stories to pure fantasy, the ancient astronaut theory proposes that contact between physical exterrestrials and our human ancestors happened face to face. Could it be that the designation, close encounters of the fifth kind, is not merely terminology for potential alien encounters in the distant future,

but describes interactions that have been happening on Earth for thousands of years. Perhaps clues can be found by examining claims of such encounters within the highest levels of the United States government. Yucca Flat, Nevada, May 19, 1953. At 505 a.m., one of the United States government. a series of nuclear tests under the umbrella code named Upshot Not Hole is set off. Within seconds of the blast, a disc-shaped object is seen rapidly descending from the sky, headed south towards Las Vegas, then disappearing into the mountains. Just two days after this event, government officials secretly gathered a team of scientists

for a curious assignment. They were to investigate the crash of an unidentified flying object on the outskirts of Kingman, Arizona, a city 175 miles south of the nuclear test site. Mike Schrad is a military aerospace historian. There were 40 engineers that boarded a bus and they took a long three and a half hour ride from Phoenix to Kingman. When they got there, it was nighttime. There were MPs on all corners of the craft. It's about a 40-foot diameter dish-shaped craft that was perfectly intact. There wasn't a scratch on it. There were four beings associated with this craft,

and they shipped it to Groom Lake. Richard Dolan is a historian and author of UFOs and the National Security State. Groom Lake is the Area 51 region in Nevada. When Area 51 was just bare bones, they took the craft and the aliens out to that location in the middle of the Nevada Desert because it was so remote.

And around that, they built Area 50s. Hidden within a ring of mountains, deep in the Nevada desert, Area 51 is a top-secret military installation that has long been rumored to hold evidence of alien technology. And there are even stories that a special facility at Area 51 once held a survivor of the 1953 Kingman UFO crash, an alien entity known as J-Rod. This is Preston Bennett, author of Inside UFOs, True Accounts of Contact with Extraterrestrials. J. Rod is an alien who allegedly worked at Area 51 over a period of years, and it was J. Rod's mission or duty to help reverse engineer technology that was apparently from the 1953 Kingman UFO crash. J-Rod was one of the crash survivors and worked directly with our own government. Captain Bill U. House, a former Navy pilot who later worked for the U.S. Air Force performing experimental testing on aircraft,

was assigned to Area 51 in the mid-1960s, and he claims that he not only studied the craft that allegedly crashed in Kingman, Arizona, but also had direct contact with J-Rod. We had a long period of introduction into meeting, you know, in the area. And I called him J. Rod. That's the name that the linguist gave him. And he'd talk, he would talk, but he'd sound just like if you spoke, he'd sound like you. You know, he's like one of the, you know, a parrot, you know, but he'd try and answer your question, you know. Basically, it was only engineering advice or science advice.

There's also another whistleblower by the name of Dan Buresch. And Dan Bureish said that he was hired as a microbiologist to basically care for J. Rod, ensuring that he remained healthy. And this went on for years and years and years. According to Dan Burrish and Bill U-house, J-Rod was housed in a special underground chamber at Area 51, and there have been numerous other accounts of extraterrestrials working with the United States. States government. Here is Alejandro Rojas, editor of Open Minds. There's a lot of stories that we've worked with the aliens at Area 51, or some say at a

base nearby, kind of in the desert out there. And we've been working with them in underground labs, and they have been sharing information for us to enhance our technologies. Is it possible that the United States government has met with and worked with, entities like J-Rod and other alien visitors since at least the 1950s. According to UFO researchers, there is evidence that extraterrestrials have not only been held at secret military bases, but have even met face-to-face with the Commander-in-Chief inside the walls of the Pentagon. One of the most detailed accounts of a presidential close encounter is the story of an other-worldly visitor, named Valiant Thor.

The story of Valiant Thor comes from a gentleman by the name of Frank Stranges, who's a chaplain and apparently held a top-secret clearance. As the story goes, in 1957, a UFO landed in Virginia, very close to Washington, D.C. Police officers were called to the scene and outstep a human-looking gentleman who wanted to visit with then President Eisenhower. He was taken directly to the Pentagon and was able to arrange a meeting with President Eisenhower.

In this meeting, he basically stated that he was very much concerned about our use of nuclear weapons. Just as another country would post an ambassador to the United States, the theory was that Valiant Thor was the ambassador, from the extraterrestrials. And he was from time to time advising President Eisenhower and the US government on policy issues. This idea that an actual physical extraterrestrial visitor

could potentially be influencing the course of the world is a possibility. I am sure there's envoys out there that do this same thing, not just on a planet, but in entire planetary systems. Could it be that the United States has had diplomatic relations with otherworldly beings? And if so, do they continue even today? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and suggest there is evidence that extraterrestrials have also attempted to make contact with the British monarchy.

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Edinburgh, who passed away at the age of 99. In the months after his death, reports began to surface that Prince Philip spent more than half his life investigating claims of alien close encounters. In the process, he allegedly amassed a trove of secret evidence that has been coined the Royal X-Files, and that has never been viewed. by the public. Prince Philip had a lifelong fascination, and I would even say more than fascination,

I would say a serious interest in UFOs. He read all the books. He was actually secretly going to the media and saying, hey, the Americans are writing these great books. You guys need to serialize these. And he convinced him to do that. This was not generally known, of course, because it would have caused something of a scandal.

The irony being that Ministry of Defense policy was to play down the subject of UFOs, but here were our royal bosses absolutely fascinated by it. In order to escape public ridicule and provide cover for the royal family, Prince Philip enlisted the service of the former commander of the Royal Air Force, Sir Peter Horsley, to secretly investigate, reported science.

writings and encounters. Prince Philip charged Sir Peter Horsley to contact the MOD, the Ministry of Defense, and provide first-hand reports of UFO encounters, UAP encounters. And not only that, his other assistant brought in first-hand witnesses to talk face to face with Prince Philip about UFOs. In his autobiography titled Sounds from Another Room, Sir Peter Horsley recounts meeting a bizarre individual during his investigations on behalf of the Prince of Edinburgh. In this memoir, he talks about meeting an individual by the name of Mr. Janice.

He met face to face with this gentleman who was entirely human-looking, but it became very clear to him from the beginning that this was not a normal person. For one thing, he seemed to be able to read Sir Peter Horsley's mind. He apparently had telepathic abilities. And not only that, he began to talk about subjects such as UFOs, space travel, even time travel. I think the thing that impressed Sir Peter Horsley most was that this individual, Mr. Janice, knew all of Britain's nuclear secrets.

He knew all about where materials were being kept, all the activity that was going on. He seemed to know all of it. Mr. Janus says, well, I need to have a meeting with Prince Philip. And Horsley was like, well, you don't just walk in and have a meeting with the prince. Horsley was a very sophisticated, intelligent man. But Horsley walked out of that room, convinced, convinced that this was an extraterrestrial. And he apparently talked about some sort of galactic counsel.

And there being interest in planet Earth, but there was a genuine prospect of nuclear war. Apparently that was of concern to Mr. Janus. Much like Peter Horsley's account of his meeting with Mr. Janus, Frank Stranges claimed that valiant Thor came to earth to warn President Eisenhower about the dangers of nuclear proliferation. Many researchers also believe that the reported 1953 UFO crash in Kingman, Arizona, was caused by a nuclear test. And perhaps not coincidentally,

the number of modern-day UFO sightings increased exponentially after World War II. In the late 1940s, 1947 in particular, was absolutely undeniable that something was going on. This is when we started first exploding nuclear bombs, and in 1947, there was a huge superwave of UFO sightings, which swept across the United States in the world. And this was not one or two sightings. This was hundreds upon hundreds. You've got claim after claim of people from the 1950s onward. Someone would say, I met these human-looking beings who said they were from another planet.

And they have said to us, your nuclear technology is dangerous. You need to be more peaceful. There have also been a high number of UFO sightings at nuclear weapons facilities, including the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington State, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Kapusinjar in Russia, and the Malmstrom Nuclear Facility in Montana. Here is David Childress, author of Technology of the Gods.

There's a tremendous amount of conflict here on planet Earth, and that would be one reason why the extra transphils would want to contact leaders from around the world to try to stop. some terrible nuclear war from happening. Could it be that extraterrestrials who have been monitoring Earth for thousands of years have approached world leaders to deter them from nuclear proliferation? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and they contend that such encounters of the fifth kind don't just happen to prominent political figures.

They can happen to people from all walks of life, who are then often compelled to share such warnings with the world. Desert Center, California, November 20th, 1952. Photographer and amateur astronomer, George Adamski, is hiking with friends along the rocky sands of the Colorado desert when he sees a large saucer-shaped craft in the sky. According to Adamski, a voice from the spaceship speaks to him, telling him to walk off the main road. Allegedly, the four of them saw a craft land farther out in the desert. George Adamsky, by himself, then walked over this hill and to the craft where he claimed he met with an extraterrestrial. That extraterrestrial invited Adamsky ultimately to go on one of the craft at some point.

He claimed they took him in a spaceship out into space and toured other plants, And along the way, he is educated or schooled by a thousand-year-old being he refers to as the master. He believed that they were enlightened, advanced beings who were keeping an eye on our development and were concerned about some of the turns that the human journey had taken, pollution of the environment, development of nuclear weapons. And so, Adamski then went on to spread his message around the world because he felt that this was a mission for him. Adamski wrote a number of books about this, and his photos are still famous photos that he took of cylindrical cigar-shaped ships and of flying saucers. He actually traveled around the world as a special ambassador.

He even met with the Queen of Holland and other world leaders. He was greeted often as some kind of ambassador from the extraterrestrials. Most of these contactees will say they're lectured to in some fashion about technology and their place in the universe. It's a message that they're given to take to other people. Do extraterrestrials select certain people to deliver information to humanity? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and suggest there may even be physical evidence to prove it. Ulster County, New York, December 26, 1985.

Best-selling author Whitley Streber is celebrating Christmas with his wife and young son at their cabin. In the middle of the night, he is awoken by. a disturbing feeling. I felt that there was something around me. In other words, there was movement that shouldn't have been there. And I opened my eyes, and I saw these big black eyes staring at me. And I had no idea where I was. It was a little round room.

And I began to scream. This automatic voice turned on saying, What can we do to help you stop screaming? There were these other figures, dark blue little figures darting around. When they assaulted me, basically, it was not easy. It was a very terrifying experience. To process this traumatic event, Whitley wrote about his close encounter, which became the basis of his best-selling memoir, Communion.

He hoped the experience was behind him, but in May of 1989, Whitley had another strange nocturnal encounter. I'm on my side, on my right side, and there's a hand pressing down on my left temple, pressing it into the pillow in like waves like this. And I can't struggle, I can't move a muscle, I can't see anything. I am completely immobilized. After a few seconds, that ends.

And I think, was it a dream? Then, the next day or the day after my ears started hurting, I reach up and I feel this bump here on my ear. And I thought, oh my God, it's an implant. Look at the white thing. There was an attempt to remove it. And now it's, I don't see it. It failed because the implant went from here, right down into here on its own.

That's it. What I'm going to do any one? And the doctor pulled out. Two days later, it went from my earlobe back up to where it is to this day. Could extraterrestrials have really implanted some kind of device inside Whitley Streber's ear? And if so, why? According to Whitley, whatever the implant is, it has had a profound effect on him. In 2015, I noticed a slit opened up in my right eye, and you could see words racing through it.

But they were like someone who was typing very quickly in racing. And it had something to do with my writing. Because at the same time, my ability to do research changed dramatically and weirdly. I found that if I just thought about something I needed, no matter how obscure, one way or another, it would have come to me. Since receiving the alleged implant, Streber claims to have had regular interaction with otherworldly beings. The visitors are a part of my life now, very much so. I don't think I would be comfortable working without knowing that there was using the implant, that there was a connection. Now, what do they want from us?

That is a very big, unanswered question. Humans have been interacting with these beings wherever they're from for eons throughout human history. I think that this intelligence, instead of revealing itself on a global scale, they've been engaging with people one-on-one. Maybe they put us on the path where we are now. Don't know. They seem to have an ongoing interest in us. They take direct involvement with certain bloodlines and certain people, and the dramatic transformations

that have taken place after people have had these claimed contacts is very real. If close encounters of the fifth kind are, in fact, taking... place, are alien entities making contact for our benefit or for theirs? According to ancient astronaut theorists, both could be true because they say there is evidence that Earth is being visited by multiple alien species. London, England, March 19, 2002. Shortly after 8 a.m., the National High Tech Crime Unit arrives at the home of 36-year-old Scottish computer engineer Gary McKinnon.

They are there to arrest him on behalf of the United States Justice Department for hacking into top secret computers at NASA and the Pentagon. McKinnon not only admits to his crime, but claims he uncovered evidence that the U.S. government was working with extraterrestrial beings. I was obsessed with UFOs. I was dying to find out the information. The internet was a real enabler for finding out information. by going to places you shouldn't be in, because they were so open.

There were a lot of text files that had lists of places, installations, military bases, Air Force bases, Navy sites, NASA sites. So there was a lot to go through. But I did find a gold mine of information. According to McKinn, he unearthed a secret U.S. military program that existed entirely in space. I found the spreadsheet was actually titled in the column, non-terrestrial officers.

As well as officers' names, it had his ship names. None of these were ocean-going ships. It was astounding. They're not Navy, the not in the Army, and not even Air Force. So to me, I was thinking there must be an off-planet, space force,

or space fleet, at least. After McKinnon's arrest, he was told the US government intended to sentence him to 70 years in prison. At the time, I thought, six months community service was all you'd do for a computer misuse act in Britain. We fought extradition for 10 years and we actually won the case.

But unfortunately today, the arrest warrant is still live and I'm still on the interpol red list so I can't travel. Could it be that Gary McKinnon's account of what he saw when he hacked into computers at the Pentagon and NASA is genuine? Is the U.S. government engaged in secret operas? generations beyond Earth. I think Gary McKinnon is truthful in that he did see files on secret space programs and UFO-related material. Whether that information was legit or was just sitting there somewhere, we can't say.

But there's no question that he did what he claimed to have done. While there are many who questioned the authenticity of Gary McKinnon's account, other more notable figures have since come forward with similar claims. In 2013, former Canadian Minister of National Defense, Paul Hellyer, declared that the United States government and other governments around the world are working with organized groups of extraterrestrials. Why do you say that UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying over our hats? Well, because I know that they are. They've been visiting this planet for thousands of years.

And there is what is called a federation of these people. and they had rules. Paul Hellier was a former deputy prime minister of Canada and a former Minister of Defense of Canada. He was able to talk to a lot of important people within the U.S. and Canadian system. And it was his opinion based on the sources that he had that there are many groups that are here visiting us.

Paul Hellier is not the only government official to come forward with alleged knowledge of a federation of extraterrestrial races. Recently, the former Israeli chief of space security, Haim Eshed, came out and said that there is a Galactic Federation and that indeed many world leaders know of and are in talks with delegates of the Galactic Federation. I don't know what to make of that claim,

but when you have enough of them, a pattern emerges and it starts to take on a bit more gravitas in functioning as bona fide evidence. Dr. Heim Eshed claimed that the extraterrestrials in this Galactic Federation were in contact with governments around the world. It's a fascinating idea and one that may well be true. Should the sensational claims made by Paul Hellier and Haimashed be believed that close encounters of the fifth kind are occurring at the highest levels of government around the world and with entire factions of extraterrestrial beings? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and argue that recent revelations from world leaders

may be preparing mankind for a groundbreaking event. Full disclosure. In today's world, where cell phones are equipped with high-definition cameras, and the Internet makes it possible to share videos in an instant, average citizens have become frontline reporters on the UFO phenomenon. New images and accounts of unidentified phenomena are posted online nearly every day, and UFO researchers say the proof that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth is right before our eyes.

But they also suggest the evidence that's been accumulated by the public pales in comparison to what the United States government has had in its possession for decades. Technology has changed so much over the past 30, 40 years that now it's possible for regular Joe citizens to be part of this investigation. The flip side of that is, our military has incredible sensors that watch everything that happens on and around the earth. There's a gigantic storehouse of information somewhere that the public has never been allowed to see.

World leaders and the governments think that we, the people, cannot handle the truth. But in 2017, when the New York Times talked about the idea that the US government actually is investigating UAPs and UFOs, you know, that story came and people went about their daily lives. Why?

Just because you understand that you're not alone in the universe does not change the fact that you have to go to work, have to put food on the table, and the idea to be afraid of exterrestrials, there's nothing we can do anyway. So why be afraid? We should not be afraid because they would have eliminated us hundreds of years ago before we invented nuclear weapons.

While there has been much speculation as to whether there are people within the U.S. government covering up the truth about Earth's interactions with alien visitors, some researchers have proposed that there may be another authority controlling the narrative. It isn't humans that are holding it back. It's the extraterrestrial biological entities who said humans are not ready for the introduction yet. And that's what Heim Eschett said even in television interviews. They have said, keep the information down until we decide that you are technologically advanced enough to be introduced to us. But many UFO researchers believe that the truth is becoming harder to hide. And the day may be rapidly approaching when the public will be eugene. introduced to a profound new reality.

These public hearings mark a U-turn in U.S. government policy. We've had decades of debunking and denying and playing the whole thing down. And now it's as if they're putting it out there in front of us all. And one wonders, are they preparing us for something? Are they laying the groundwork for some big reveal or some huge global event?

It is one day at a time to walk towards what ultimately will be complete disclosure. Are we on the verge of discovering that close encounters of the fifth kind are not hypothetical, but have already taken place? Will we soon learn, once and for all, that we are not alone? Perhaps one day soon, the truth will be revealed, not through a government agency, but by the extraterrestrials themselves.