Ancient Aliens - The Top Ten Alien Encounters

Episode Date: May 21, 2026

We’re counting down the world’s top ten alien encounters, from the first reported abduction event to mass UFO sightings over New York’s Hudson Valley to an incident in ancient Rome that... changed the course of human history. Could these incredible accounts be actual encounters with visitors from the stars?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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Starting point is 00:00:01 A UFO sighting over multiple cities. I don't know what the hell it is. An extraterrestrial event that changed the course of history. And an alien abduction witnessed by no less than six people. On ancient aliens, we've investigated dozens of extraordinary encounters from among the thousands that have been reported. Here is what I consider to be the most compelling stories. My Top 10 Alien Encounters.
Starting point is 00:00:32 Each one adds to the growing body of proof that we have been visited by extraterrestials for thousands of years. 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.
Starting point is 00:01:11 Here is ancient astronaut theorist, Georgio Suclos. People tell me about their UFO sightings all the time. And let me tell you, I've heard some really incredible stories. In fact, there are thousands of UFO sightings reported every year. Unfortunately, most are single witness testimonials that can't be corroborated or verified. But in 1982, along New York's Hudson River, there was a flood of UFO sightings reported over multiple days by hundreds of eyewitnesses. Number 10 on my countdown of the top alien encounters, the Hudson Valley UFO sightings. Kent, New York, New Year's Eve, 1982.
Starting point is 00:01:59 Just a few miles from the Hudson River, New Year's Eve, Revelers, spot a jet jet. gigantic V-shaped craft, throbbing with red, white, and green lights. As they watch in amazement, the colors vanish, replaced by white lights so bright, they illuminate the ground. Over the next months, authorities are bombarded with hundreds of similar reports. Holy good God. I don't know. Not playing.
Starting point is 00:02:28 I'll be, I'm going to tell you something, honey. I don't know what the hell it is. Philip Mbrogno is the author of Strange Heavens. Usually UFOs just appear to a small number of people and they disappear. In this case, people were stopped down the highways. People were running out of their houses watching this enormous object pass over the size of a football field. The sightings continued for more than six years
Starting point is 00:02:56 and became the most widely reported in American history. David Childress is the author of Technology of the Gods. The Hudson Valley UFO sightings continued well up to 1988. It's estimated that as many as 5,000 people called in and made reports of this very large, lit-up UFO. But why were so many UFO encounters reported in this one particular area? There is six and the lead one has his three lights on. Everybody else only has two. Some have suggested the reason why these sightings have happened at the Hudson Valley is because
Starting point is 00:03:44 they are on top of a vortex. Now what's a vortex? Well, there are varying opinions of what that is. Some have suggested that they are magnetic points that are part of the Earth's magnetic grid. Newman is the co-author of Megalith Studies in Stone. They also represent the combination of earth energies kind of congregating into one spot, these telluric currents and these magnetic earth currents. And so one suggestion is that they create portal type effects or vortexes, entrances into
Starting point is 00:04:19 the other world. Could the Hudson Valley UFO sightings be evidence of a hidden power vortex and even a portal through time and space. You have places around the world that are known for their vortexes. Stonehenge is set to have a vortex. Sedona, Arizona has a number of vortexes, and it's famous for them. And so it's thought that the Hudson Valley is also a vortex area. So you have to wonder there if these UFOs have been attracted to the Hudson Valley.
Starting point is 00:04:55 And still to this day, no one has come up with a vortex area. a good explanation of what was happening in the Hudson Valley during this time. They're heading north-northwest. Holy good God. Just 150 miles east of the Hudson Valley, another extraordinary encounter took place in 1961. And what makes it so unique is that it is the first documented report of an alien abduction. My number nine alien encounter, the abduction of the abduction of the Betty and Barney Hill. Lancaster, New Hampshire, September 19th, 1961.
Starting point is 00:05:36 Betty and Barney Hill are driving late at night when a large flying saucer intercepts them and hovers over their car. Above them, the hills observe otherworldly figures in the windows of the craft. Days later, the couple reports missing time, and after participating in hypnotic regression, they claimed to realize that they were abducted by extraterrestrials. Bill Burns, Ph.D., is the co-author of UFOs and the White House. Under hypnotic regression, separately, by the way, so they each wouldn't contaminate the other story,
Starting point is 00:06:15 Betty and Barney told the exact same story. The object hovered over the car, then landed in front of them, and they were yanked out of the car by these small four-and-a-half-foot beings and dragged into a clearing where they boarded a spaceship. Ken Storch is a paranormal investigator and retired police officer. Betty pleaded with her captors, if you will, that not to harm her. As she laid on this table and experiments were done on her, like a needle being inserted into her stomach,
Starting point is 00:06:50 Barney relates a number of skin samples and sperm being taken from him. Jason Martel is the author of Knowledge Apocalypse. The beings described by Betty and Barney Hill fit the classic case of a grave. Now, there are variations to size and dimensions of these beings, but they all seem to have the same characteristics. Slim, skinnally bodies, large oval heads, large oversized eyes. In the years since their reported abduction, Betty and Barney Hill's encounter has become legendary.
Starting point is 00:07:23 But what was not well known was that Betty and Barney Hill were not the only members of their family who have been abducted. Betty Hill was my aunt, my mother's sister. Something that we have never revealed before is that my mother had a close encounter in 1958. She saw this huge cigar-shaped craft hovering over a field. She had no explanation. for what had happened as far as she knew.
Starting point is 00:07:56 She had gone shopping and she had driven home. My mother eventually underwent hypnosis, and through hypnosis, she recalled having been abducted as well. And I also had this uncanny sort of dreamlike experience of being taken to a craft. It appears that this is generational in my life. family, my aunt Betty was taken, my mother was taken, and there's a good chance that I have been taken as well. Could it be that extraterrestrial beings are abducting not only individuals,
Starting point is 00:08:37 but also families? And if so, why? Nick Pope is a former member of the UK Ministry of Defense. It seems that specific bloodlines are involved here. And if that, if that, you know, If that's the case, it raises the intriguing possibility that the extraterrestrials are interested in human biology, that they are monitoring specific genetic lines for some purpose. One of the most important factors I consider when it comes to evaluating a UFO encounter is how credible is the witness? And to me, there is no better expert than a pilot when it comes to reporting on a flying craft. The next encounter on my list took place in 1947 and helped launch the modern UFO era.
Starting point is 00:09:32 Number 8, the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting. Washington State, June 24, 1947. Aviator and businessman Kenneth Arnold is piloting a private plane near Mount Rainier when he suddenly spots nine fast-moving objects flying in tandem. Nick Redfern is, is the author of Close Encounters, of the Fatal Kind. As he was flying around the mountain, he suddenly caught sight of a squadron of strange-looking objects. He could not figure out what they were. Richard Dolan is the author of UFOs
Starting point is 00:10:09 and the National Security State. He was able to measure the speed that they were going at by, because he knew the distance between two particular peaks, which were about 50 miles apart, and he timed the passage of these objects by the peaks. and came to something like 1,200 miles per hour, which in 1947 was just not done at all anywhere close to that. He later described the objects as being somewhat delta-shaped
Starting point is 00:10:34 and flying as if you were to skip a saucer across a body of water. And this gave rise to the term flying saucer. The U.S. Air Force formally categorized Kenneth Arnold's experience as a mirage. But it emboldened others to come forward, with their own unexplainable encounters. And a flurry of UFO reports quickly followed. Here is investigative journalist Linda Mulden Howe. When you look at the year in 1947,
Starting point is 00:11:07 the statistics are that there were at least 800 reports to police and airports, people saying that they were seeing something in the sky. They didn't know what it was. Mike Barra is the author of Hidden Agenda. It was actually required that all of the... officers fill out a form if they saw anything that might be regarded as a UFO or a flying saucer. And in addition to that, they were told not to discuss their sighting or what was on their report with anyone. Kenneth Arnold's encounter marked the beginning of the modern UFO era.
Starting point is 00:11:39 But there are also those who believe it gave rise to a massive government cover-up. We became aware in the 40s of these extraterrestrial biological entities. and that the government's been trying to hide it for all of these decades, and that the same question of intent and agenda, and exactly who from where and why, are the same questions today. On October 13, 1917, over 30,000 people in a small town in Portugal witnessed an incredible event that the Catholic Church declared to be of supernatural character. At the center of the event were three children who for months had reported receiving
Starting point is 00:12:29 messages from a lady in the sky. Number seven on my countdown of the top alien encounters is the miracle of the sun at Fatima. Fatima, Portugal, May 1917. Three young children walking through a sheep pasture are stopped in their tracks by what appears to be a glowing angel. As the figure begins to speak, they believe she is the Holy Virgin Mary, sent to deliver a very important message. These three children claimed that they were visited by the Virgin Mary, who appeared to them in the sky and told them that she had certain prophecies for them. and that over the next six months she would return to them and give them these prophecies.
Starting point is 00:13:26 And so on the 13th of each month, these three children would gather on this hillside and Fatima, and according to them, the Virgin Mary would appear to them and tell them these stories. During one of these visits, the children claimed that the apparition told them she would return to perform a miracle. On October, 13th. They reported the encounter to the local Catholic bishop, and on October 13th, 1917, over 30,000 people gathered to witness the event. A huge crowd gathered, and they said that they witnessed the sun moving in the sky. They saw the sun spinning like a disc and then coming down to the planet Earth, and people got very frightened.
Starting point is 00:14:18 The incident was labeled an event of supernatural character by the Catholic Church. But as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, it was a very different type of otherworldly encounter. Eric von Danikin is the author of Chariots of the Gods. This whole event took place for eight minutes, not eight seconds. They had time to look it. It was not the sun. It was a UFO because it took.
Starting point is 00:14:48 He turned, he changed his color all the time. This object appeared in the sky in front of the sun, I believe. I read all the reports, and colors of light spread out from the object to the ground. To me, it indicates contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence. Encounters reported by a group of people can make strange sightings hard to deny. And when a UFO sighting is reported, sighting is reported by thousands of residents of a major metropolitan city, in my opinion, that's about as undeniable as it gets. The number six alien encounter on my top 10 countdown,
Starting point is 00:15:32 the Phoenix Lights. Henderson, Nevada, March 13, 1997. At 6.55 p.m., local police receive a report of a massive V-shaped object traveling southeast across. the night sky. Over the next three hours, the craft is witnessed by thousands of people as it journeys down through Arizona and into Sonora, Mexico. With most of the reports coming from Phoenix, as well as photographs and video footage, the incident becomes known as the Phoenix lights. The entire city of Phoenix was able to see this half a mile long display of lights over the city in a very, very distinctive pattern. It was a triangular, shaped object, seemed very reliably by quite a large number of witnesses.
Starting point is 00:16:24 Who's our best witness to that? The best one, Governor Fife Simington of Arizona. As a pilot and a former Air Force officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man-made object that I'd ever seen. He says, yeah, I really did see the UFO. And he describes it he actually was maybe 100 feet away from that flying triangle. and could see through it and the stars above. Governor Symington was a qualified pilot,
Starting point is 00:16:53 and in the Air Force Reserve as well, I think he knew what he was seeing. But some of these other witnesses said, yeah, I could have almost thrown a baseball and hit it. It was that low over our heads. The governor of Arizona described a strange, triangular UFO that appeared translucent, camouflaging itself amidst the starfield above.
Starting point is 00:17:15 They were seen by hundreds of people. But when they looked between the lights, what they could see were the stars. But it wasn't just the night sky as if there was nothing there. They were wavy, as if something was getting in the way of the direct light from the stars. So it's stealth. It's camouflaged. Camouflaged. Could the descriptions of the Phoenix lights indicate that witnesses were observing some type of stealth alien technology that, whether intentional or not, momentarily revealed itself.
Starting point is 00:17:51 And if so, could there be far more extraterrestrial aircraft in our skies than we ever imagined? People think of disclosure as being the archetypal landing on the White House lawn. What if aliens are already here? And then disclosure, open first contact, is the day when they reveal themselves. People often ask me, why aren't there any UFO sightings before the 20th century? And my answer is, of course there were. History is filled with alien encounter stories. But our ancestors didn't have the words like aliens and UFOs.
Starting point is 00:18:37 And of course, this was long before they had built flying machines. What their stories describe is what I call misunderstood technology. Like this UFO sighting that took place in the fourth. century AD and forever altered the course of humanity. Number five on my countdown, Constantine's vision. Rome, October 27, 312 AD. At the Milvian Bridge, on the north side of the city, deposed Emperor Constantine prepares to reclaim his throne from Maxentius. In the sky, he witnesses what he believes is a divine vision. Grand Philips, is an author and investigative journalist.
Starting point is 00:19:23 Constantine and his followers saw in the sky what their chroniclers say was a huge, white, fiery cross. Now, his followers didn't know what to make of this, but Constantine decided that this was the Christian cross. Sabina Maglioco, Ph.D., is a folklorist at California State University. Northridge. At that point, he made a vow to Christ that if he won the battle, he would convert to Christianity
Starting point is 00:19:59 for good, and he would make Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire. William Bramley is the author of Gods of Eden. The vision of Constantine was extremely significant. They thought it was some kind of message, fight this battle, and establish this form of Christianity. This is author and researcher Kathleen McGowan. Constantine feels after viewing this extraordinary sign from the heavens, this lighted cross in the sky, that he will go forth the next day, and he will conquer the Roman Empire.
Starting point is 00:20:35 And this is exactly what he does. This vision becomes one of the crucial turning points in human history. Constantine's victory at the Milvian Bridge was the first step in Christianity becoming Europe, dominant religion, and the world was changed forever. But was the cross-shaped object, Constantine claimed to have seen in the sky really a sign from God? Or might it have been some other extraordinary force? It looked like in the shape of a cross, but the shape of a cross could have been airplane-type objects because the fuselage and the wings will look like a cross to somebody who's looking up.
Starting point is 00:21:15 Of course, they had no concept of these things back then. Now, it was not just Constantine's vision because it is described that the army of Constantine also saw something up in the sky. This was a pivotal moment. The adoption of Christianity as the official religion really changed the world and that's now a large part of the world we live in. Is it possible that a 1700-year-old UFO encounter was responsible for one of the of the greatest turning points in human history.
Starting point is 00:21:50 So the question is, is this one of the earliest UFO encounters that we have on record? And in my opinion, yes, it is. Remember when I said earlier that the case of Betty and Barney Hill was the first alien abduction ever reported? Well, that's because the term alien abduction did not exist thousands of years ago. In fact, one of the most compelling abduction accounts I've ever read is ancient and can be found in a text that might surprise you, the Holy Bible. Number four on my countdown, Elijah's chariot.
Starting point is 00:22:30 Northern Israel, the 9th century BC. According to Old Testament texts found in the Hebrew Bible, it was here that the prophet Elijah had several encounters with both angels and God, during which he was given prophetic warnings of drought and cataclysm. Father William Folko, Ph.D. is a professor of archaeology at Loyola Marymount University. One of the most important prophets in Israelite tradition, of course, is Elijah. Elijah predicts some rough things coming, and of course they do. There is a very special role in communicating God's designs and sometimes is condemnation. So Elijah is met with rather divine like figures.
Starting point is 00:23:17 In his final encounter with God, it is written that Elijah is met by a chariot of fire and horses of fire that take him up to heaven in a whirlwind. Patrick Cook is the author of The Greatest Deception, The Bible UFO Connection. Elijah's experience details a spinning object or the whirlwind that came over him and a chariot of fire.
Starting point is 00:23:44 So the question is, was it the chariot of fire that was spinning? Or was it a beam that came down and took him up? It's not a far stretch to say that this was an actually spinning object that was above him that took him up into it. Could the fire have been some sort of engine? When he's taken up in a whirlwind,
Starting point is 00:24:08 you know, you only have to look at, for example, when the space shuttle takes to the skies. You know, you have this rumbling, roaring, jet, flames, etc., etc. If you look at it in that context, you could really place this into a UFO category. Definitely these are characteristics that we see of abductions, where people are taken up into objects. Could it be that a story found in one of the earliest books of the Hebrew Bible is, in fact, an account of an alien abduction that occurred thousands of years ago?
Starting point is 00:24:41 And if so, what might it reveal about extraterrestrial intervention on Earth? Here is Rabbi Ariel Bar Sadoq, founder of the Kosher Torah School. We see from the biblical record that mankind has a purpose and a destiny. There clearly are extraterrestrials, and they are clearly interacting with us and guiding us and directing humanity towards this predestined end. When it comes to alien abduction reports, most rely on the testimony of the abductees themselves. It's very rare for an abduction to be witnessed by anybody else. But in this next case, there were multiple witnesses who saw the abduction as it happened. This is one of the most fascinating and famous accounts on record.
Starting point is 00:25:36 Number three on my list of the top ten alien encounters, the Travis Walton. abduction. The Apache Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona. November 5th, 1975. 22-year-old forestry worker Travis Walton is driving home after sundown along with six co-workers when suddenly a strange light appears in the sky. Here is Travis Walton. We just finished a long, hard day, and it was starting to get dark. So we loaded up our equipment. We're headed home. And I noticed some little glimms. of light coming through the trees. And the light seemed to be coming from higher
Starting point is 00:26:16 than where ground level would be. It was only when we got to where this light was crossing the road that we had an unobstructed view of the craft. Now in Dallas in the back yelled out, it's a flying saucer. And I said, Mike, stop. It was a clearly visible, clearly defined, metallic object, a disc hovering there,
Starting point is 00:26:40 there outlined against the sky. I threw open the door, thinking I'd get a closer look before it took off. As I got closer to it, the sound it was making, it was a sound you both heard and felt. And the crew said they could feel the vibration in the truck. They said it seemed like something was about to happen. And it was. That's when this energy hit me. The crew said that it was like I'd stepped on a landmine, like an explosion so violent that they thought it had killed me. When this beam of energy hit me, I felt like a physical blow, but with a sort of a tingling,
Starting point is 00:27:28 sort of an electric shock sort of feeling at the same time. I don't know whether I came too soon after I was taking aboard, but I knew I was on some kind of an elevator, GERNY or operating table. I was looking straight into the face of this creature, and I just flipped out. He saw these hideous entities that scared him, maybe quite similar to the modern idea
Starting point is 00:27:54 of the so-called alien graze. And he fought, and he panicked. And then these aliens seemed to go away, and then their place was taken by much more human-like aliens. human-like aliens, and he calmed down. In the case of these human-looking ones, I started to have serious misgivings that this was a rescue, and that's when they put this mask over my face, and I just blacked out real quickly.
Starting point is 00:28:24 Now, the suspicion here was that actually these weren't different aliens. These were the same aliens, but they were capable of shape-shifting into something else, specifically to calm him down. Crews searched everywhere for the missing forest worker. But it wasn't until five days later that Walton reappeared in a nearby town. I was lying face down, outside in the dark, and there was a light above me. And I saw the bottom of the craft there right before it shot up into the sky. When details of Travis Walton's close encounter were revealed to authorities,
Starting point is 00:29:04 they dismissed his account as a possible hallucination. But Travis has no doubt that what he and his coworkers experienced was a genuine extraterrestrial encounter. What no one asked was, you know, what about the rest of the crew? How do seven people have an identical hallucination? And besides that, they were given light detector tests by state police, which they passed. There's real life things that occur out there that need to be understood. So take a look at the facts. and then judge.
Starting point is 00:29:39 I don't know the purpose that they had. All I know is what happened to me. This was unmistakable. Every now and then, an encounter is so compelling that it turns skeptics into true believers. That's exactly what happened in the early 1970s when a NASA scientist set out to prove Eric von Danden wrong. But in fact, he ended up supporting
Starting point is 00:30:06 one of Eric's theories so strong. that he even wrote a book about it. Number two on my countdown, the wheels of Ezekiel. Northeast Syria, the Kibura River. According to the Hebrew Bible, it was here in the 6th century BC that divine beings descended from heaven and made contact with a Hebrew priest named Ezekiel. Ezekiel was by the river Chabar,
Starting point is 00:30:35 and he said, a great whirlwind came toward him, toward him. He described it as a fire in folding itself, and out of the fire was the color of amber, which is the Hebrew word, which means polished spectrum metal, which implies that it's metallic and that it's spinning, and it lands in front of him, and suddenly out of this whirlwind come four creatures. In the Bible, the prophet Ezekiel calls these spiritual beings cherubims, and describes them as having four faces, four wings, and skin that shone like polished bronze. Reverend Barry Downing is the author of The Bible and Flying Saucers. Ezekiel says that he was taken up into the sky and taken to different places where he could see different things.
Starting point is 00:31:29 And then he was told some of the future things that were going to come. This was a huge image of hope. that came to Ezekiel during his experience. But is this the story of a divine encounter? Or could Ezekiel's description of metallic wheels descending from the sky in a whirlwind of fire and strange beings with skin like polished bronze point to a different type of otherworldly encounter?
Starting point is 00:31:57 He's got the best description of a UFO that's anywhere in the Bible because he basically says that the thing looked like a wheel within a wheel, kind of a classic flying saucer description. Here is astrophysicist Dr. Travis Taylor. Ezekiel describes that the outside of the wheel doesn't spin. The inside of the wheel spins. So he's telling us that's the engines. None of this necessarily has to be magic.
Starting point is 00:32:26 This could all be technology. It is basically the kind of a guy who's been abducted, who has been told certain things, and who's then returned to the place of origin. It would be what we today would describe as an abduction account. Could it be that the prophet Ezekiel's account of a heavenly close encounter might have been something else? Perhaps one not involving heavenly beings, but visitors of another interplanetary nature. This concept was put forth to the public by the ancient astronaut theory pioneer Eric von Danikin
Starting point is 00:33:01 in his 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods. And after hearing Eric speak at a conference in the early 1970s, NASA engineer Joseph Blumrich was determined to debunk his controversial interpretation. I had a speech at NASA in Huntsville, and I spoke about Ezekiel. And the chief engineer of that time, Mr. Joe Blomrich, came to me and said, Eric, that was very interesting, but in the Bible you will definitely not find any technology. But he still said, I will read originally in the Bible Ezekiel. Blumrich set out to find flaws in von Danikin's theory.
Starting point is 00:33:45 But when he read the book of Ezekiel, he was shocked to find himself agreeing with the controversial author. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book called The Spaceships of Ezekiel, in which he provided a blueprint for a practical landing module based on the description found in the biblical story. Several years later, a German structural engineer named Hans Herbert Bayer also sketched out a blueprint of the second section of the book of Ezekiel, where Ezekiel is told to construct an open-topped building to house the flying chariot. Hans Herbert Beyer sent the blueprint to Eric von Danikin.
Starting point is 00:34:26 Within five minutes of looking at these blueprints, Eric was on the phone with Joe Blumerick. And he said, hey, Joe, can you bring a model of your spaceship of Ezekiel? And then he called Hans Ebert Bayer, and he said, can you bring a model of your construction of Ezekiel's temple? Both models were created to the same ratio. And guess what? Ezekiel's spaceship.
Starting point is 00:34:56 fit into the temple construction that Hans Habit Bayer recreated according to the biblical measurements. As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the biblical account of Ezekiel provides conclusive evidence of an alien encounter. But more importantly, it may also reveal that for thousands of years, the destiny of humankind has been directed by extraterrestrials. This may be one of the oldest alien encounter stories, but for me it is still the most compelling. Written over 3,000 years ago, it was banned from the Bible because this ancient text describes in detail humankind's extraterrestrial origins. My number one alien encounter, Enoch's ascent to heaven, in a chariot of the gods.
Starting point is 00:35:56 Kumran, Palestine. In 1946, a collection of ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls is discovered hidden in clay jars deep inside a cave. Among the manuscripts is the book of Enoch, a so-called lost biblical text. In the Bible's Old Testament, Enoch is the seventh of ten patriarchs who lived before the Great Flood and the Great grandfather of Noah. But where the Hebrew Bible only mentions Enoch briefly, the book of Enoch, which consists of more than 100 chapters, greatly expands on this story. In it is a curious passage that details Enoch's ascent to heaven. According to the book of Enoch, he says he was 12 years old. The whole community of his village wanted to sleep, but then they hear the noise in the sky.
Starting point is 00:36:56 Two angels came down from the sky. One of the two beings say to Inok, Don't be afraid, human. Then they went up to the so-called heaven. Here is author and investigative mythologist, William Henry. And in the book of Enoch, we learn Enoch himself is taken into the heavens in a fiery chariot. Inok goes up to the so-called sky,
Starting point is 00:37:18 and there Enoch sees something over the earth which he cannot describe. He has no word like, spaceship or something. He says it looked like houses of crystal. It is described that he sees planet Earth underneath him. He actually describes his arrival how he has to walk through these different rooms where he sees jewels and he sees shiny surfaces and blinking lights. It is an eyewitness account. It's I-Enoch did this. I-I-Noc saw that. The Book of Enoch is one of the first abduction accounts written down by a fellow human being.
Starting point is 00:38:03 Does the Book of Enoch really describe an actual abduction event? One that took place thousands of years ago. And if so, might this incredible close encounter be documenting communication with otherworldly beings? Robert Cargill is an associate professor of classic science. and religious studies at University of Iowa. Enoch, he was said to be at the right hand of God. In fact, Enoch was said to be God's scribe in later tradition. So God would decree things, and Enoch was the one who recorded everything that went on.
Starting point is 00:38:40 So Enoch was the keeper of all knowledge of Hedden. This is one of the reasons why the book of Enoch is so controversial. Enoch was the first human to ascend to the throne of God, where he is given powerful universal knowledge by angelic beings or extraterrestrial beings. If Enoch was given information from extraterrestrial beings to share with mankind, as ancient astronaut theorists contend, what truths about our otherworldly past might be waiting to be revealed? The extraterrestrials want that in a far future of mankind,
Starting point is 00:39:21 We start to see these things. We start to translate these books. And now we start to ask questions. We start to ask, for example, how can we explain that? Have we maybe been visited by extraterrestrials? And I think it's important to think in this way because these extraterrestrials have promised to return. And one day they will return.
Starting point is 00:39:46 I was taught not to believe in coincidence. I was taught to look for patterns. When you have all these encounters, these sightings, these descriptions we have from biblical times onwards, it tells you there's something going on. It doesn't necessarily tell you what it is, but it tells you there's something there. Well, that concludes my list for now. But considering what is written in the Book of Enoch, perhaps as Eric von Danikin like to say, the most important encounter of all is yet to come.

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