Ancient Aliens

Mysterious orbs of light...

Reagan says, "I just saw a UFO."

He's not just being crazy.

He knows exactly what it is.

...strange visions...

George Washington sees this glowing,

beautiful creature who describes

the future history of the United States.

...and glowing humanoid figures,

all reported by presidents of the United States.

We have an extraordinary series of stories.

President after president after president

being associated with a sighting.

For decades,

the White House has denied

having any knowledge of alien craft visiting Earth.

Even discussing UFOs tends

to be viewed as a career‐ender.

But is it possible that extraterrestrials

have been monitoring

and even influencing America's presidents?

It's really hard for people to wrap their heads around the fact

that there was all this E.T. contact going on.

There's a line, "You shall know the truth,

and the truth shall set you free."

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.

In a wide‐ranging interview,

Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson asks

President Donald Trump his thoughts about UFOs.

You gave an interview the other day

in which you said you've been briefed

on unidentified flying objects.

Are they... are they real?

Personally, I tend to doubt it.

We have had people saying that they've seen things.

I don't assume it's correct, but,

you know, I have an open mind, Tucker.

To UFO experts,

the president's response raises a key question.

If U.S. intelligence officials

have secret knowledge of alien visitations,

are American presidents informed or kept in the dark?

In August 2019,

former British Ministry of Defense UFO investigator

Nick Pope posed this question to Tucker Carlson.

Do you think he knows more than he's letting on?

Or do you think, as some people say,

even the president doesn't know?

My impression was

that the president does know more than he said.

Once in office,

every president has become mum on the subject.

And what it tells you is

they likely know something

that they've decided to keep from the public.

Look, I don't know what they know.

And so perhaps they have a good reason

to lie to the public about it,

but... I doubt it.

Months later,

as the 2020 election year begins to heat up,

several of Donald Trump's presidential challengers

are asked by New Hampshire based reporter Daymond Steer

of The Conway Daily Sun

about where he or she stands on the issue of UFOs

and government disclosure.

It's very unlikely that we're alone in the universe.

I think one of the things a president could do

is to look into what's there,

uh, in terms of what's the... what does the science say,

what does our military say.

Of course, we have to explore that

and look at that, if it is true.

Many people would be surprised to discover

that 36% of all U.S. presidents

have had encounters with unidentified

or unexplained UFO phenomena.

This, according to a recent poll,

is a full 20 points higher

than the number of similar encounters experienced

by average Americans.

We have an extraordinary series of stories.

President after president after president

either seeing a UFO,

commenting on a UFO,

being associated with a sighting.

It's not something that just flashed

in American culture briefly.

We can date it back to 1800.

We can date it earlier than that.

This is not a new phenomenon.

Presidents throughout history have been encountering this

during almost the entire history of the American nation.

Could aliens be trying to steer the destiny of America

by influencing its presidents?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining the very first presidential encounter

on record.

Amid freezing conditions,

epidemic disease

and shortages of food, clothing and supplies,

General George Washington's Continental Army

faces possible destruction.

In late 1777,

George Washington was kind of at his lowest point.

The Continental Army had been driven out

of the national capital of Philadelphia

to a winter encampment at Valley Forge.

There was an optimism that they would eventually be able

to push the British out of Philadelphia.

But that optimism was dim and bleak

in December 1777 at Valley Forge.

Years later,

an aide to General Washington revealed what happened next.

Washington went out into the woods at Valley Forge to pray.

And he saw this image

of this spirit garbed in white

that assured him, "You will win this war."

And the spirit laid out for Washington

the history of what would be the United States of America.

After this meeting,

Washington was‐was invigorated.

He was inspired.

And he realized this is divine fate,

for the United States to exist.

But he first had to defeat the British, which he did.

Could George Washington really have had

an otherworldly visitation at Valley Forge?

If so, he isn't the only Founding Father

associated with an alien encounter.

In 1801,

Thomas Jefferson filed

one of the country's first official UFO reports

after astronomer William Dunbar told him

about an unexplained aerial sighting

at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

In his report,

Jefferson wrote of a fast‐moving, luminous object

about 70 to 80 feet long

that flew by at about 200 yards above the ground.

After it disappeared over the horizon,

the witnesses heard a tremendous impact in a nearby forest.

Upon investigating,

they found a crash site

where everything had been burned and scorched.

Thomas Jefferson, when he was vice president,

wrote up an official report

of a UFO sighting that had happened in Baton Rouge.

He wrote it up for the American Philosophical Association.

So that, arguably, is the first case

where someone who would go on to be president

made an official UFO report.

The American Philosophical Society

was founded by Benjamin Franklin,

who, like Thomas Jefferson,

openly expressed his belief

in the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life.

The Founding Fathers' worldview

accommodated the idea that there would be people in other worlds.

And that was principled upon this idea

that you cannot limit God's creativity

just to the world that you observe.

They literally had a vision

of not just the world where we live

but the world beyond it.

And that‐that world beyond theirs,

um, was populated by extraterrestrials.

Could the Founding Fathers have been aware

of an otherworldly presence that was helping to ensure

the success of the American experiment?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest that so, too, was the man who took office

at another crucial moment in the nation's history,

Abraham Lincoln.

On April 14, 1865,

just hours before he would be assassinated,

President Lincoln made a shocking admission

to General Ulysses S. Grant.

Lincoln met with Grant,

who was awaiting news from General Sherman

about a battle in North Carolina,

and Lincoln assured General Grant

that news would come and it would be positive.

And Lincoln told him that, on the eve of every great battle...

Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run...

he had the same dream.

He was in some kind of indescribable vessel

that he was sailing at a very rapid pace

and that this, in fact, led him to understand

that this would be a positive outcome for the Union forces

and lead to the doom of the Confederacy.

It's almost as if,