Ancient Aliens

Look at that.

...exhibiting electromagnetic anomalies...

-And you can see it’s fluctuating. See it there? -Yeah, right.

...that have even been linked

to UFO sightings.

Thousands of people would witness

these massive triangular spacecraft

congregate towards where these chambers are.

And perhaps most incredible of all,

these ancient sites are located

in the Northeastern United States.

These mysterious stone structures are in fact

Druid structures.

Could an extraterrestrial culture

have existed in North America centuries ago?

People were not only seeing UFOs,

they were seeing creatures, they were experiencing missing time.

I have experienced it directly for years now.

It’s an extraordinary place of power.

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.

New York’s Hudson Valley.

December 26, 1985.

Author Whitley Strieber has an experience that becomes

the basis of his blockbuster book Communion.

My wife and I had bought a cabin.

And in October of 1985, strange experiences

began to happen there that were memorable

but not understandable.

And then, on December the 26th,

I felt myself in motion...

and woke up in the middle of the night.

And the room was filled with these willowy figures

with big black eyes, and dark blue,

short figures moving around.

I assumed it was a nightmare, and I kept trying

to wake up from the dream, and I couldn’t.

Then I began to hear a voice repeating, a very gentle voice.

But it was like a mechanical voice:

"What can we do to help you stop screaming?"

And I thought, "I’m screaming?" And I was screaming.

That was the beginning of it,

and that’s when the rest of my life began.

And to this day, he still doesn’t know

exactly who they were, where they came from.

Were they aliens?

Were they inter-dimensional visitors?

He cannot say.

Unbeknownst to him at the time,

Strieber’s abduction was actually witnessed

by a neighbor.

After I published Communion,

one neighbor shamefully admitted

that he had seen what happened to me that night.

He and his wife had been driving home from a party

at about 2:00 in the morning,

and they had seen what they thought was the Goodyear Blimp

landed in a field near our houses.

And suddenly, lights came on all over it.

He heard someone screaming inside.

His wife panicked, and he drove away.

And a year later, he said to me, "Whitley, I’m so ashamed

"to tell you, I know it was you in there.

It was a man screaming. It had to have been you."

Communion became a massive best seller,

and ignited a cultural shift in people’s attitudes

towards the subject of alien abduction.

When I published it,

I thought there were, like, maybe

30 or 40 people who had had the experience,

not millions.

But it was millions.

But for UFO researchers

and ancient astronaut theorists alike,

of particular significance is where

Strieber’s encounter occurred.

The Hudson Valley stretches northward

150 miles, from New York City up to Albany.

This occurred right at the western border

of the Hudson Valley.

The area is full of this type of thing.

And after I published Communion,

people from the neighborhood would come forward,

one after another, to tell me their own stories.

Kent, New York.

New Year’s Eve, 1982.

Just a few miles from the Hudson River,

New Year’s Eve revelers spot a 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.

Usually, UFOs just appear to a small number of people,

and they disappear.

In this case, people were stopped on the highways.

People were running out of their houses watching

this enormous object pass over, the size of a football field.

They were so large that people standing between trees

couldn’t see the ends of the flying triangles

’cause they were so big.

That’s how large they were.

The sightings continued for more than six years,

and became the most widely reported

in American history.

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.

Other accounts are of people seeing

these strange balls of light,

which move around in erratic and unusual ways.

UFOs were being seen all over the place.

Pilots were seeing them,

police officers were chasing them.

It was like something out of a movie.

But why were so many UFO sightings reported

in this one particular area?

Could there be a connection

to Whitley Strieber’s abduction experience?

The thinking is that when you have so much

UFO activity in one place,

that place is going to be significant.

There’s something about that area, it seems,

that is attracting the UFOs.

They want something in that location.

There is a connection with something in that location.

Some have suggested the reason why

these sightings have happened at the Hudson Valley

is because 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.

Others have suggested that vortexes are

sort of these portals.

What we call "portals" are locations where

paranormal phenomena and supernatural events

occur on an extremely regular basis,

and have done for many decades,

if not hundreds of years.

Some argue that New York’s Hudson Valley

and the adjoining region of New England,

America’s Northeast, may be just such a vortex.

There is definitely an extraordinary place of power,

the Hudson Valley.

If you want to call it a vortex, then sure it’s a vortex.

I’d have to be completely nuts to say anything else,

because I experienced it directly for years there.

Could Whitley Strieber’s story of Communion,

and the frenzied Hudson Valley UFO sightings of the 1980s

be just two small parts of a much larger story?

A story that begins thousands of years before Columbus,

when ancient visitors set sail for America,

bringing with them secrets from the stars.

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

the hundreds of strange stone structures

that dot the area, and their possible connection

to an ancient people known as the Druids.

Salem, New Hampshire.

July 9, 1975.

At one of New England’s most popular archeological sites,

Mystery Hill, also known as "America’s Stonehenge,"

Harvard professor Barry Fell discovers a stone tablet

with a mysterious script carved into it.

He identifies it as belonging

to a writing system called "ogham,"

which was used by the Irish Celts

who lived 2,000 years ago, and 3,000 miles away,

in their traditional homeland of Ireland.

He translates the script as meaning, "Dedicated to Bel,"

the Celtic sun god.

But why would there be Celtic writing

carved into an ancient stone tablet in New Hampshire?

There is some evidence that the Celts

were in ancient America.

The megalithic stone chambers.

We have stone circles.

There’s stone avenues.

There’s also ogham writing that’s been found.

And there’s even some dolmens as well.

And it’s all what you find in ancient Ireland

and ancient Europe.

In recent years,

a growing number of people have come to believe

that the Celts were present in the American Northeast

thousands of years ago.

And some suggest that these mysterious Celtic priests

believed that the land possessed a powerful energy.

Did the Celts travel to North America