Ancient Aliens s21e15 Episode Script

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NARRATOR: An ancient land
known for unusual phenomena.
LYNN PICKNETT: From fairies
to weird little creatures
to UFOs,
you name it, England has it.
NARRATOR: A modern-day
hot spot for UFO activity.
WILLIAM HENRY: The Ministry
of Defence and the Royal Air Force
are intently collecting data
about strange phenomena.
NARRATOR: A royal family
obsessed with the unexplained.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: For generations,
that family has had
a high interest in UFOs.
NARRATOR: Could it
be that, throughout history,
the island of Great Britain
has been a destination
for extraterrestrial visitors?
NICK POPE: The U.K. is ground zero
for an awful lot of alien activity.
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NARRATOR: Over the course of a week,
large unidentified drones are sighted
and recorded on smartphones at
multiple sites in Great Britain.
Curiously, the incidents all
occur at U.S. military bases.
HENRY: From November 20
through 26, 2024,
a series of unauthorized
drone activities
took place over four U.S.
Air Force bases in the U.K.
These bases are critical to U.S.
military operations in Europe.
And some of the drones
look more like orbs.
POPE: Now, some of these
drones or UFOs
or orbs or whatever we want to call them
were doing strange maneuvers.
And some people thought, "Could
this be extraterrestrials?"
The U.K. Ministry of Defence, of course,
says there's nothing to see here.
But they did not find
a definitive explanation.
NARRATOR: Great Britain
is considered to be one
of the most active
UFO hot spots on Earth,
but government officials
have long insisted
that they are not concerned
about the reports
of strange activity in the sky.
However, ufologists suggest
the British government's own files
tell a very different story,
one that came to light in 2008,
when the Ministry of Defence
suddenly released its UFO files.
The treasure trove of documents
revealed that the British government
was far more interested in UFOs
than it was letting on.
The MoD released
60,000 files on the subject.
Which basically backs up
the assertion over the years
that they've been researching
all sorts of anomalous phenomena.
HENRY: The Ministry of Defence
and the RAF, the Royal Air Force,
are intently collecting data about UFOs.
In fact, RAF personnel
are directly involved.
Pilots, radar operators are sent out
to investigate these sightings,
and it's very clear
that the Ministry of Defence
had taken UFOs very seriously
this whole time.
NARRATOR: Today, the
British Ministry of Defence
has files on military personnel
encountering UFOs
going back more than eight decades.
And much like the 2024 drone sightings,
the most famous occurred
at a Royal Air Force base
where American soldiers were stationed.
(birds chirping)
- (owl hooting)
- Shortly after midnight,
military personnel at RAF Woodbridge,
80 miles northeast of London,
detect an anomalous object
on their radar.
It was seen above the nearby forest
of this air base
at Woodbridge in Suffolk.
And airmen were sent out
in a vehicle to investigate,
and they came across this clearing
in which was this otherworldly
object surrounded with light.
This object rose up slightly
and then moved backwards
and disappeared.
- (indistinct transmission)
- And then, over the next few nights,
- more and more sightings occurred.
- (beeping)
This was an amazing sighting
because, of course, it was
witnessed by the military.
- (indistinct transmission)
- There are probably several hundred people
who are either direct witnesses
to the UFO
or were involved
in a more peripheral sense.
GRAHAM PHILLIPS: The whole
episode was written up and recorded
by the deputy base commander,
Lieutenant Colonel Halt.
Now, that's very unusual.
NARRATOR: The Rendlesham Forest incident
is one of the most discussed
UFO events on record.
But it is only one of many
that have been reported
near British military bases.
In fact, two other extraordinary events
were witnessed from a base
just three miles
- from Rendlesham.
- (crickets chirping)
On August 13, 1956,
British Royal Air Force officers
stationed at RAF Bentwaters
detected 15 unidentified flying
objects on their radar screen
racing along the coastline.
POPE: Military jets were scrambled
to try and intercept these things.
At one point, one
of the objects was recorded
at speeds of around 4,000 miles an hour.
That was way faster than
anything anyone had at the time.
And reliable witnesses, the pilots,
see them. They're
simultaneously tracked on radar.
At one point, these things
are going in formation,
and then they appear to converge
and form a single object.
NARRATOR: Just one
month later, the Royal Air Force
tracked another
mysterious object on radar
- in the same area.
- (beeping)
On September 22, 1956,
radar operators at an RAF base
picked up an 80-foot cylindrical object.
They scrambled jets
to go investigate it.
When the jets arrived,
the object accelerated
at extreme speeds out of sight.
POPE: This is just
the tip of the iceberg.
You can dip into the archive of files,
and there's report
after report after report.
NARRATOR: If the British military
has witnessed
so many unexplainable events,
why has the government always professed
to have no interest in UFOs?
Ufologists say the answer
can be found by examining
the earliest British military
encounters on record,
which were reported during World War II.
The crew of a Lancaster Bomber
based at RAF Syerston
reportedly sees a massive,
torpedo-shaped object
during a bombing mission.
DAVID CLARKE: They were on
a bombing raid on Turin in Italy,
and they saw what they described
as an enormous object.
And it was surrounded by red lights.
It was about 200 feet in diameter.
And it seemed
to sort of follow the aircraft.
And they saw it again
after the bombing raid.
NARRATOR: Files released after the war
indicate that the Ministry of Defence
received numerous reports
of mysterious flying objects
including one witnessed by an
RAF reconnaissance plane in 1944
that allegedly included photographs.
HENRY: The pilot and the copilot see
this mysterious metallic object
that seems to be pacing their aircraft.
It's spherical. It's smooth.
It has no wings.
There is no obvious mechanism
for it to be moving through the air.
And they take a photograph of it.
When they get back to the base,
this photograph makes its way up
to the channels
of the Ministry of Defence
all the way to the desk
of Winston Churchill.
ZETTERSTROM: Files released
show that Prime Minister Churchill
was being briefed on these
encounters during World War II.
He was worried
that any release of information
would lead to mass hysteria,
public panic.
So he covered up every
UFO sighting that happened.
He put a blanket secrecy ban
on reporting on UFOs for 50 years.
NARRATOR: While Winston Churchill
wanted to hide UFO sightings
from the public,
he also felt it was important
to study them
and initiated government-funded
projects to do just that.
HENRY: During the 1950s,
while the British public
is told "there's nothing to see here,"
the RAF and the Ministry of Defence
are taking proactive action.
They create the Flying Saucer
Working Party
to document these sightings.
This is immediately followed
by a more serious investigation,
which lasted until 1953,
which also was documenting
these sightings.
DAVID CHILDRESS: This
implies that the British government
was taking UFO activity very seriously.
They were studying it,
and they were keeping
what they knew about it secret.
NARRATOR: While many ufologists suspect
the British government
is still keeping secret
their most explosive UFO files,
civilian research groups
have investigated
thousands of unexplained incidents.
And some of the most intriguing
occurred in a single town
over the course of a decade.
(crickets chirping)
NARRATOR: Local resident
Mildred Head is startled awake
by an unnerving noise
coming from above her bedroom.
(banging)
At first, it resembles tree branches
brushing against the roof tiles,
but it quickly grows more violent.
It sounded like thousands
upon thousands of tiles
being ripped off
and then thrown back on.
Utterly terrifying.
And, also, there was a vibration
going through the house.
CHILDRESS: It was like
her house was being pelted
by hailstones or something.
But when she looked outside, it was a
you know, a clear sky.
NARRATOR: The only explanation
Mildred could come up with
for the frightening event
was that the noise
may have been the result
of military testing at
a nearby Royal Air Force base.
That is, until her neighbor Marjorie Bye
had a strange experience of her own.
POPE: The very next day,
Marjorie Bye was going to church
when she was assaulted by
a-a series of strange vibrations
that she felt reverberating
through her body.
And shortly afterwards,
dozens of other witnesses
in and around Warminster
reported the same thing.
It was as if some unseen force
was just taking hold
of people and shaking them.
TSOUKALOS: Residents of
Warminster reported hearing
humming or droning noises.
They heard whistling sounds.
They saw lights up in the sky, UFOs.
NARRATOR: Unable to explain
what they were experiencing,
more than 300 residents
assembled a town hall meeting
demanding answers.
The most disturbing factor
is that many of our townspeople
have been frightened by unusual sounds.
If tonight we can contribute
something constructive
to the explanation of these phenomena,
it might be able to assure these people
you have nothing to be alarmed about.
NARRATOR: At a loss for what
to call the various phenomena,
they simply referred to them
collectively as "the Thing."
Eventually, the national papers
took an interest.
People started flocking to Warminster,
and they would do nightly sky watches.
And very often, they would see
these mysterious lights in the sky.
NARRATOR: Finally, in September 1965,
residents got their best glimpse
of the mysterious Thing.
CLARKE: There was a classic
photograph of a disc-shaped object
that was taken by Gordon Faulkner.
And the Daily Mirror immediately
put it on the front page.
Big splash.
And from that point onwards,
Warminster became the place
to go and see flying saucers.
It was the first sort of UFO
hot spot in the British Isles.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the frightening vibrations,
strange sounds, and unusual
lights experienced in Warminster
were caused
by an extraterrestrial presence?
Some researchers believe
further clues were provided
roughly a decade later
when a mountain village
to the north witnessed
what many suggest was
an otherworldly event.
Llandrillo, Wales.
January 23, 1974.
It's a quiet evening
in this rural community
when residents are suddenly shaken
by an extraordinary event.
NICK REDFERN: A number
of people in the area perceived
something anomalous
like a fleet of UFOs.
Now, at the same time that
these strange lights were seen,
whatever they were,
there was an impact
on the Berwyn Mountains.
NARRATOR: According to residents,
the police and military
showed up just minutes after the impact.
REDFERN: We have stories of convoys
of military personnel in the area,
of roads being blocked off by
the military and by the police.
The most controversial story of all
came from a British military
officer, James Prescott.
Now, according to Prescott,
the military recovered
the remains of a crashed UFO
and a number of dead alien bodies.
NARRATOR: Dead alien bodies?
Is it possible
that the impact in Llandrillo
was caused by
an extraterrestrial spacecraft?
And if so, does this lend
further support to the notion
that the strange phenomena
experienced in the nearby town
of Warminster
have an otherworldly explanation?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
the answer is a resounding yes.
And they claim
another high-profile UFO event
provides compelling evidence
that this alien presence
was well-known
to the British government.
Two hikers are just outside
the small Scottish village of Calvine
when they see something
unusual flying across the sky.
Amazed, they quickly grab a camera
and snap several photographs
of the object.
HENRY: This photograph
from the Calvine hills
in Scotland is crystal clear,
it's in color,
it shows this just magical-looking,
100-foot-long diamond-shaped craft
that is clear as a bell.
NARRATOR: The two
hikers brought the photographs
to Scotland's largest newspaper,
the Daily Record,
so they could share
their sighting with the public.
LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
They had six photographs,
and they go to the local newspaper
to have them published.
And for reasons that are
still not clear to this day,
this Scotland newspaper
calls the Ministry of Defence in London,
and they are ordered to send
the photos and the negatives
from the newspaper
to somebody in the government.
NARRATOR: Among the people
who saw the six photographs
was former Ministry of Defence
UFO Investigator Nick Pope,
who was present for classified
briefings regarding the images.
POPE: The photographs and the negatives
went to JARIC,
which is Joint Air Reconnaissance
and Intelligence Center.
This is part
of the intelligence community
that specializes in imagery analysis.
Their opinion was that
this was not a fake,
these were genuine pictures.
NARRATOR: The sensational photographs
would remain hidden for decades,
until August 15, 2022,
when Newsweek magazine
published one of the photographs
with the headline,
"'Best' UFO Picture Ever,
the Calvine Photo,
Found After 30 Years Missing."
In 2022, a former
Royal Air Force press officer
named Craig Lindsay
actually came forward
and said that he had in his possession
a copy of one of the Calvine UFO photos,
and he decided he wanted
to release it to the public.
NARRATOR: The Warminster Thing.
The Berwyn Mountains incident.
The Calvine UFO photo.
Is it possible that otherworldly beings
are somehow attracted
to the British Isles?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining one area of Great Britain
that experiences UFO sightings
on a near-daily basis.
NARRATOR: This historic county
is the largest in the United Kingdom.
Known for medieval abbeys,
Norman castles
and stunning national parks,
the vast landscape here is also rich
with legends of strange beings,
bizarre lights in the sky
and even UFOs.
Yorkshire is in Northern England,
and it's a county that is famous
for strange events going back centuries.
Reports of little people,
mysterious lights up in the sky,
people seeing these strange,
werewolf-like figures,
Bigfoot-type creatures that come and go.
It's a very strange place.
PHILLIPS: There is ancient
burial mound in Yorkshire
called Willy Howe.
And back in the 1200s,
a man had been walking home one night
and he saw lights
coming out of this mound.
And he went into the mound
where he saw strange beings.
Fairy folk, if you like.
He claimed to have
seen these inside the mound.
PICKNETT: England
has a very rich tradition
of fairy folk, um, going back
into the mists of time.
And it's interesting, though,
that the way encounters
with these fairy folk,
or whatever we might call them,
the way they're expressed
is very, very similar over the years
to descriptions
of encounters with aliens.
NARRATOR: Reports of
mysterious phenomena in Yorkshire
are found throughout
the historical record,
from ancient times
right up until the present day.
In an effort to better understand
what has been happening here,
private investigator
Paul Sinclair and his team
began researching and
surveilling the area in 2009.
I originally spent a lot of time
on the East and North Yorkshire Wolds,
because farmers in the area
reported seeing the anomalous lights,
the structured-type crafts.
But then I got speaking to Coast Guard,
fishermen, trawlermen,
people walking the coastline,
and they started reporting
seeing strange anomalous lights,
UFOs, all manner of things.
Going back through the local
archives of the newspapers
reveals that lots and lots
of unexplained phenomena
have been seen and are reported there.
Not just in recent times,
not just since I've been researching it,
but going back decades and decades,
there's a long history of
strange and anomalous phenomena.
Paul Sinclair has been
researching this area
for a very, very long time
and come up with
some remarkable video footage
of lights in the sky, UFOs
and everything else you could think of.
NARRATOR: Paul and his team
set up cameras around the cliff tops
along the North Sea
to try and document the objects
seen near the coastline.
During one night in 2020,
what they captured
was particularly intriguing.
It were just a typical night
by the team.
We go up there, we set up cameras
and we hope that the phenomena
might present.
- SINCLAIR: There!
- And on this occasion, it did.
But these lights, very often,
they're a bright amber color.
Or red, or-or white, and, uh,
the white ones
that you can see in the film
were actually more of an amber color.
But the lights present as one light
that doesn't fly from anywhere,
and then it punches into a multiple
of four, five and six,
switches off.
So, luckily, we managed to film
that little sequence of events
on "Lights Filmed Off Bempton,"
and it's quite exciting
when you do actually see
these unexplained phenomena.
NARRATOR: Sinclair and his team
have not only captured
strange lights above the sea
but have also documented orbs of light
submerged below
the surface of the water.
I was walking along
the cliff tops with my friend
and former police officer Dave Barnes.
And Dave saw the object
rise out of the water.
Stopped momentarily and told me.
I had the camera in hand,
started filming,
I think, soon as it started to move.
And the entire sequence of events
lasted about 90 seconds.
So and we estimated the speed
to cover six miles in 90 seconds
was about 240 miles per hour.
Now it seems to turn in
and drop into the sea.
SINCLAIR: So we've got an object
that's gone below the surface,
risen from the sea, traveled six miles
and then gone below the surface.
We have footage of objects
beneath the surface of the water,
or luminous light beneath the surface,
and we've no explanation for that.
We've filmed that on three occasions.
Paul Sinclair has got,
uh, videos of these UFOs
and lights, you know,
going into the water.
So that makes you wonder,
is there possibly
some underwater UFO base
in Yorkshire that has been there
for thousands of years?
NARRATOR: Sinclair has catalogued
hundreds of video recordings
featuring similar anomalous
lights and craft in the area.
You have to wonder,
is there something at Yorkshire
or around Yorkshire that is attracting
these sightings
and making it a hot spot?
Perhaps some kind of a portal
or a gateway that leads
to other locations in the stars.
NARRATOR: What can account
for the abundance of strange
and perhaps extraterrestrial activity
that has been reported in
Yorkshire going back centuries?
And is it possible
that there is a connection
to the region's
mysterious earthen mounds?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that the answer can be found
in the ancient stone circles of Britain.
NARRATOR: England is
home to many iconic structures
that stand testament
to a once-great empire,
like Buckingham Palace,
Big Ben
and Windsor Castle.
But perhaps the most famous site
in all of Great Britain
is the ancient megalithic stone circle
known as Stonehenge.
Constructed roughly 5,000 years ago,
the mysterious monument
consists of massive monoliths
that each weigh over 30 tons.
It's an astonishing feat of engineering,
and exactly how it was built
remains unknown.
NEWMAN: Stonehenge is unique,
it's perfectly circular,
it's designed with
precision-engineered carving
and astronomical alignments,
and it really stands out
as the kind of symbol
of ancient Britain.
NARRATOR: Stonehenge
is one of more than 1,300
ancient stone circles
that can be found
throughout the British Isles.
But why they were built
remains a mystery.
Some believe the stone circles
were meant to act as calendars
and track celestial events,
but some researchers suggest
they served a far more profound purpose.
In 1979, engineer Michael W. Saunders
proposed that Stonehenge is a cosmic map
that is encoded with advanced
knowledge of our solar system.
TSOUKALOS: With Stonehenge,
we have a representation
of our entire solar system.
Each circle corresponds
with one of our planets
inside our solar system.
In fact, in the position of Pluto,
there is a stone monument there.
So, how is that possible?
The ancient astronaut theory proposes
this knowledge was given
by visiting extraterrestrials
that descended from the sky
in glowing orbs at that time.
NARRATOR: Do ancient
stone circles like Stonehenge
have a connection to extraterrestrials?
Curiously, visitors
to these mysterious sites
often report encountering
otherworldly phenomena.
What we find is that
these prehistoric sites
seem to be located
where mysterious lights,
plasma orbs, UFOs,
are seen on a regular basis.
Not just in the modern day,
but historically, as well.
So, it seems very clear
that places like Stonehenge
were constructed
with this phenomena in mind.
In other words,
the ancients may well have built
these monuments to actually connect
with this type of phenomena
and the intelligences
involved with them.
NARRATOR: Could Great Britain's
many megalithic stone circles
be somehow facilitating contact
with otherworldly beings?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining other mysterious circles,
the kind that suddenly appear
in fields overnight.
COLLINS: Crop circles is a subject
that is very much
associated with Britain.
From the 1980s
through to the present day,
hundreds of them
appear across the country,
most of them focused in the area
around the stone circles
of Stonehenge and also Avebury.
But this is a historical
phenomenon as well.
There are accounts from the 17th century
of the so-called
"devil circles" appearing.
RICHARD TAYLOR: In terms
of the patterns themselves,
they've been undergoing
this amazing sort of ramp-up
in sophistication.
You can find these huge,
what they call pictographs,
that span hundreds of feet
across a whole field
and feature multiple components,
and they're arranged
with mathematical precision.
NARRATOR: While some
crop circles are man-made,
many defy such a simple explanation.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest that the phenomena
reported at stone circles,
along with modern crop circle accounts,
provide evidence that Britain
has long been a place
of alien visitation.
TSOUKALOS: The fact
that you have Stonehenge,
you have the Warminster Thing
TSOUKALOS: you have the
events happening in Yorkshire,
to me, indicates
that something is going on,
and it's been going on
for thousands of years,
and our ancestors misinterpreted
these visitors as gods.
They were not gods,
they were just space travelers.
NARRATOR:
Are the many modern-day reports
of UFOs and other strange
anomalies in Great Britain
connected to alien contact
that first happened
thousands of years ago?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and they believe further evidence lies
within the historical records
of the royal family.
NARRATOR: Thousands
gather outside Westminster Abbey
to receive their newly
crowned queen, Elizabeth I.
Queen Elizabeth's monarchy will be
one of the most consequential
in England's history,
and mark the beginning
of the British Empire.
Throughout her reign,
she will rely heavily on the counsel
of her trusted advisor
who chose this coronation date,
a famous astrologer
and alchemist named John Dee.
PHILLIPS: John Dee told her
to build up the navy, she did.
He said that they should start to expand
into North America, which they did.
Basically, his advice to Queen Elizabeth
began the British Empire.
Now, apparently,
the advice didn't come from him.
He said it came from "angels."
COLLINS: John Dee would
communicate with angels
coming through and delivering messages.
And not just simple messages
but a whole cipher system
of, like, this sort of angelic
alphabet was brought through.
CHILDRESS: You have to
wonder, were these angels
perhaps extraterrestrials?
And these extraterrestrials
were encouraging Britain
to colonize the entire planet?
NARRATOR: Could it be that John Dee
received guidance
from extraterrestrial beings
who were directing the course
of the British Empire?
For ancient astronaut theorists,
it is a compelling possibility,
especially when considering
that, throughout the history
of the British royal family,
numerous otherworldly encounters
were recorded,
like a curious entry found
in the 19th-century diary
of Prince Albert.
Prince Albert was the consort
of Queen Victoria,
probably one of the most famous
British queens of all time,
and he went on the record to say
that he had seen strange lights
dancing around in the skies.
We didn't have the term "UFO" then,
but it's a UFO sighting.
This is UFOs by royal appointment.
NARRATOR: Prince Albert's
grandson, Prince George V,
also recorded a very
unusual sighting in the sky.
POPE: On June 11, 1881,
Prince George, who would later
become King George V,
saw a UFO from a Royal Navy ship,
and he actually recorded this
in the ship's log.
Two other vessels also witnessed this,
and signaled across, you know,
"C-Can you see these lights as well?"
So, this was seen from multiple angles,
and it was there for some hours
and then, eventually,
it disappeared.
NARRATOR: The accounts of
Prince Albert and Prince George V
are just two of many strange encounters
associated with members
of the British monarchy.
And the royal family has
maintained an interest in UFOs
and the unexplained
right up to the present day.
When Prince Philip, the husband
of Queen Elizabeth II,
passed away in 2021,
it came to light that he had
a lifelong fascination
with otherworldly phenomena.
POPE: Prince Philip was
extremely interested in UFOs,
clearly believed in them.
He actually sent his royal
equerry, Sir Peter Horsley,
to interview a number of UFO witnesses.
NARRATOR: Why has the royal family
maintained such a strong interest
in potentially
extraterrestrial phenomena
for so many generations?
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
one of the British monarchy's
most mysterious traditions.
May 6, 2023.
Thousands of people
line the streets of London
to watch as King Charles III
travels to Westminster Abbey
for his coronation.
The private ceremony
is rich with ancient traditions
dating back thousands of years,
and involves mysterious relics,
like the Stone of Destiny,
believed to connect the new king
to his divinely granted authority.
PICKNETT: King Charles III was crowned
sitting on a throne that incorporated
the Stone of Destiny,
or the Stone of Scone,
which is a very ancient tradition,
and all British monarchs
have been crowned sitting on-on that.
Now, there are all sorts of incredible,
mysterious, romantic rumors
about where the Stone of Scone
comes from.
COLLINS: According to some accounts,
it had been brought
from the Middle East,
and was originally the stone pillow
that the biblical figure Jacob
had actually rested his head on
and fallen asleep
and seen the angels
moving between Earth
and heaven on a ladder.
TSOUKALOS: What is this connection here?
Is it possible that this stone
was part of an event long, long ago
where a first contact scenario
happened with extraterrestrials,
and this is why this stone
retains such power?
And by power, I don't mean
that the stone itself is powerful
The story behind it is powerful.
NARRATOR: Could it
be that this ancient stone
that has been used
in coronation ceremonies
for hundreds of years
symbolizes a connection
between the British royal family
and otherworldly beings?
And if so, might the rise
of the British Empire
have been part of an alien agenda?
NARRATOR: Today, the United Kingdom
controls 14 small overseas territories,
in places like Bermuda and Antarctica.
But Great Britain was once the center
of history's largest empire.
POPE: The British Empire
was one of the greatest,
perhaps the greatest empire
the world has ever seen.
The map was largely colored red
with all our colonies.
HENRY: By the 19th century,
the British Empire was so vast
and covered so many time zones
that it was always daylight somewhere.
This gave rise to this famous saying,
"The sun never sets
on the British Empire."
NARRATOR: At its height in the 1920s,
the British Empire
ruled over 400 million people
and had territories in 24% of the world.
Its global reach was unlike
anything that had come before.
But the heart of this vast empire,
the island of Great Britain,
shares at least one thing in common
with the power centers
of the ancient world:
an unusually high number
of encounters with UFOs
and other strange phenomena.
It's interesting that when we look back
at the world's greatest empires
the Egyptians, the Greeks
and the Romans
these were places where there
were records of encounters
with otherworldly beings
and supernatural energies.
And this is true
of Great Britain as well.
Maybe it's just my bias,
because I'm English,
but it does seem to be
a particular hot spot
for all manner of anomalous phenomena
from fairies to ghosts
to aliens to UFOs.
You name it, England has it.
NARRATOR: Could it be
more than mere coincidence
that this island that is home
to so many mysteries
gave rise to an empire
that spanned the globe?
Human history is about
the rise and fall of empires,
beginning with the Sumerian,
the Mesopotamian empire,
running through Egypt,
Greece,
the Roman Empire,
all the way up to the British Empire.
And in all of these instances,
you find a remarkable, consistent fact:
these empires were influenced
by extraterrestrials
who had a hand in the rise of the empire
and the stability of the empire.
POPE: What interest could aliens have
in establishing the British empire?
It comes back to the point
that extraterrestrials
seem interested in human society.
Look at all the UFO hot spots,
all the classic encounters,
and so many of them
revolve around ancient civilizations.
Not necessarily individuals,
but civilizations.
As if extraterrestrials have an agenda.
TSOUKALOS: So, what is
the underlying connection here?
Your guess is as good as mine.
But we definitely know
that this contact is not new.
And in the case of Britain,
it's been going on
not for hundreds of years
but for thousands of years.
NARRATOR: Does
Great Britain's rich history
of unexplained phenomena
reveal that it has long been
a place of significance
for otherworldly visitors?
Could it be that,
thousands of years ago,
Britain's ancient stone circles
were built to mark sites
of contact with extraterrestrials?
And might this interaction
be continuing to this very day?
Perhaps this island of ancient mysteries
and modern UFO activity
will be the place where we will one day
be reunited with our alien ancestors.