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00:00A flight has got by C-17.
00:02Among the quiet towns and bustling epicenters around the world,
00:06reports pour in of unusual aerial phenomena.
00:09It shoots high into the air.
00:11It's moving in an erratic way.
00:14This is not a terrestrial craft.
00:17Flying discs, hovering orbs,
00:19strange biological substances falling from the sky.
00:23To determine what it might have been,
00:25you'd have to eliminate all the other possibilities.
00:28The sensational becomes credible once it's crowdsourced.
00:32Thousands of people claim to see these orbs.
00:36UFO hotspots light up on the map.
00:38What's made these places the target of otherworldly attention?
00:42This might be the location of the vortex.
00:45As vessels reappear in the same locations,
00:48can we use the earthly to guess at otherworldly motives?
00:52Are these mysterious visitors friends or foe?
00:55And should we fear their return?
00:57All over the world, repeat sightings of UFOs baffle researchers.
01:02UAV are in our airspace, but they are grossly underreported.
01:05A pattern begins to emerge.
01:07These sightings are not rare or isolated.
01:09They are routine.
01:10What is the meaning behind these hotspots?
01:12I can't go beyond what I've already stated publicly.
01:15Are we being mapped?
01:22July 4th, 2022, 4.30 a.m.
01:28In Bass River Township, New Jersey,
01:31two friends return home from a late night drive.
01:34As they look up at the starry night sky,
01:39one of them suddenly notices something highly unusual.
01:44Two of the lights are much brighter than the rest,
01:47and they've started moving.
01:50The beams move closer,
01:52and the friends can see now that they are attached to a strange craft,
01:57roughly the size of a car.
01:58They watch in shock as the lights pass over them.
02:04The object then accelerates sharply away,
02:07before vanishing into thin air.
02:13Alone again in the dark night,
02:15the two friends are left wondering
02:17what this surreal aircraft could possibly be.
02:20And could it be linked to news reports
02:24of a mysterious device found by police
02:27a little over a year earlier?
02:31April 9th, 2021.
02:35Detectives from the New Jersey State Police Department
02:38have received a report of an unknown object
02:41located deep in the wilderness.
02:44When the police come across this object,
02:46they think of it as something which is very strange,
02:49potentially threatening,
02:50and the immediate response is to send a bomb squad
02:55and a canine unit to make sure that this thing is safe.
03:00Once the object is cleared by the bomb squad,
03:03the detectives cautiously approach it.
03:07The label reads UFO Detector Site No. 448.
03:13The detectives are baffled,
03:15but they know this isn't the first strange occurrence
03:19to take place in the forests of New Jersey.
03:24New Jersey is not what one associates with mysterious places,
03:27but there's an entire stretch of land called the Pine Barrens,
03:31which is a genuinely weird area.
03:35The Pine Barrens are a vast stretch of woodland
03:38of over a million acres
03:40divided into more than a dozen state parks,
03:42nature reserves, and preservation areas.
03:46I think that photos of the Pine Barrens
03:49don't really do it justice.
03:51You really can't with a space that is so large.
03:55You can't underestimate how spooky a place like that can be.
03:59It's going to produce some pretty interesting stories.
04:02There's a whole tradition in our folklore
04:07about mysterious, threatening forests
04:11that you might get lost in.
04:13Well, the Pine Barrens takes that to a whole new level.
04:16This is a forest that could suck you in
04:19and you'd never be seen again.
04:23Despite its name,
04:25the Pine Barrens are actually teeming with life.
04:27To us, it might seem like a barren, inhospitable place,
04:32and yet these places can actually have
04:36dynamic and complicated ecosystems
04:39that we've overlooked until now.
04:44The Upland Forest is a dense pine forest,
04:48which is really the signature forest area.
04:51The pine trees are intermingled with the oak trees,
04:54which are the two hardiest tree species in America.
04:59In the lowlands,
05:01dark cedar and hardwood swamps carve through the land,
05:04fed by an intricate natural irrigation system
05:07of streams and rivulets
05:08leading east to the Atlantic coast.
05:13Some of the rarest plants in the world
05:15grow in these enormous forests.
05:18Delicate flowers like the Pine Barren gentian,
05:21bog asphodel,
05:22and swamp pink
05:24have been all but eradicated
05:26in the rest of the world,
05:27yet bloom happily here,
05:29beside carnivorous plants
05:31like the pitcher plant,
05:32sundew,
05:33and bladderwort,
05:35gorging themselves on tiny insects.
05:42But despite sprawling acres of trees and plants,
05:46the Pine Barrens are known
05:47for being an especially hostile environment.
05:50The Pine Barrens are appropriately named in a sense
05:56because the soil is inhospitable
05:59in terms of turning this into farmland, for example.
06:03For centuries, the Lenape tribespeople inhabited the Pinelands,
06:09cultivating berries and hunting game
06:12as they moved through the woods.
06:13But in the 17th century,
06:17with the arrival of European settlers,
06:19large swaths of land were cleared
06:22to establish farms and homesteads.
06:26For these newcomers,
06:28life here would quickly prove near impossible.
06:30The soil is very acidic.
06:33It's very difficult for things to grow there.
06:36So the practices that early settlers
06:38would have used to survive elsewhere
06:40simply would not have worked.
06:41And it very much would have brought them
06:43to their knees
06:44in terms of being able to survive.
06:46These people eventually gave up
06:52and they left.
06:53And what they left behind
06:55were these deserted villages,
06:57essentially ghost towns.
07:00Those brave enough to venture into the woods today
07:03can still find the haunting remnants
07:06of this struggle for survival.
07:07Some of these deserted settlements
07:11have been restored
07:13and you can go and visit them
07:14and they look very nice.
07:16Others, though,
07:17are really quite imposing
07:19and tragic ruins.
07:22There are facades from old buildings.
07:25There are some very small ghost towns,
07:28long abandoned,
07:29old ruins that have just crumbled away.
07:33Although these villages
07:35now lie completely abandoned,
07:37they stand as a testament
07:39to the stories and legends
07:40dating back hundreds of years.
07:43It's not at all surprising to me
07:45that the Pine Barrens
07:46is saturated with ghost stories.
07:49Ruins in general
07:50invites lots of stories.
07:52We're used to, in our experiences,
07:55you see a house,
07:56somebody's living in it.
07:57You see an abandoned house,
07:58something bad must have happened there.
08:00Why isn't anybody living in it?
08:02And that leads to these ghost stories
08:04and other things that go along.
08:07The early colonial period
08:10has given us a lot of ghost stories
08:12and folklores around the Pine Barrens.
08:15Many of these stories
08:16are around laborers,
08:19railway workers,
08:20mine workers,
08:21who end up in real horrific accidents.
08:23The alleged ghosts
08:27wandering the Pine Barrens
08:28have on occasion
08:29presented as fully formed people,
08:32indistinguishable from the living
08:34until they vanish without warning.
08:37But more often,
08:39they are more abstract
08:40or spectral apparitions.
08:42The ghost stories there
08:43are in many ways
08:45more akin to UFO stories
08:46or sightings
08:47of orbs of lights
08:48that are spectrally floating about
08:51through the trees
08:52that you just sight
08:53through the forest.
08:54Media these days
08:56has us imagining ghosts
08:58that are very much
08:59looking like humans.
09:01Ghosts of the time
09:02when these stories first started
09:03didn't.
09:05Somebody saw a light,
09:06somebody saw an abandoned railway,
09:09heard a story of a person
09:10who had recently died there,
09:12put them together.
09:13That's got to be
09:13the person's ghost.
09:14Among these unfortunate souls
09:18is a pilot
09:19whose final flight
09:20ended abruptly
09:21deep in the New Jersey wilderness.
09:30Pine Barren's local
09:32John Carr and his family
09:34are walking through
09:35Wharton State Forest
09:36picking fruit.
09:39As he moves through the trees,
09:42John notices something strange.
09:44To his horror,
09:47he realizes he is staring
09:49at the lifeless corpse
09:50of a man
09:50lying in the underbrush.
09:54Though he doesn't know it yet,
09:56John Carr has just found
09:58the body of one of Mexico's
09:59most celebrated aviators.
10:04Emilio Carranza
10:05was a dashing
10:07Mexican national hero,
10:10a pilot who was compared
10:12to Charles Lindbergh,
10:14a star of the 1920s
10:17for his daring achievements
10:19in the air.
10:21And in 1928,
10:22Carranza is paying a visit
10:24to the United States.
10:28Carranza engages
10:30in a month-long goodwill visit
10:31to the eastern U.S.,
10:33finishing in New York City,
10:35where he waits
10:36for the poor weather
10:36to clear up.
10:37Carranza's story
10:40turns tragic
10:40when he attempts
10:42to make his way
10:43back to Mexico.
10:44And he takes off
10:45in rather mysterious circumstances.
10:47It's not clear why,
10:48but he tries to leave
10:50in the midst
10:50of a very difficult storm.
10:53Taking off
10:53in an airplane that size
10:54in a thunderstorm
10:55or anywhere near a thunderstorm
10:57is looking for trouble.
10:59A light aircraft like that,
11:00an encounter
11:00with a nasty thunderstorm,
11:02just tears wings off.
11:03When he's flying
11:06over the Pine Barrens,
11:07he loses control
11:09of the aircraft
11:10and crashes
11:12and is killed.
11:14And is later found
11:16his body clutching
11:17a flashlight.
11:19And this is because
11:20this is allegedly
11:21his only source
11:22of illumination
11:23in this very difficult storm.
11:26A monument was built
11:28to Carranza
11:29in the Pine Barrens.
11:31And it is said
11:32that if you flash
11:33a torchlight at it
11:34or your car lights,
11:36that a light
11:37will flash back at you,
11:39the ghost of Carranza.
11:46Renowned Mexican aviator
11:47Emilio Carranza's ghost
11:49is said to be
11:50one of the hundreds
11:51haunting the Pine Barrens.
11:53But these eerie lights
11:55are not unique
11:56to this remote woodland.
11:58Similar sightings
11:59have occurred
12:00throughout the state
12:00of New Jersey.
12:02November 20th, 1976.
12:08A team of scientists
12:09assemble in the forests
12:10of Morris County.
12:13They are from Vestigia,
12:15New Jersey's
12:16scientific anomalies
12:17investigations team.
12:19For years,
12:21local residents
12:22have reported
12:22seeing the ghost
12:23of a railroad worker
12:24injured on the tracks
12:26decades earlier.
12:28He is known
12:28as the Hooker Man.
12:30He seems to appear
12:32as a kind of
12:33large disc-like light
12:35and he hovers
12:37above old
12:39abandoned railways
12:40moving along
12:41the tracks.
12:43The investigation team
12:45uses copper wire
12:47to link amplifiers
12:48and oscilloscopes
12:49to the tracks
12:50to monitor variations
12:51in electrical frequency.
12:52With their equipment laid,
12:56they wait for
12:57the Hooker Man
12:57to appear.
13:01At 10 p.m.,
13:02their instruments
13:03spring to life,
13:05recording dramatic
13:06shifts in electrical
13:07activity around
13:08the tracks.
13:09At the same time,
13:11a bright light
13:12emerges in the darkness.
13:13For over two minutes,
13:16the researchers
13:17are transfixed
13:18as the would-be ghost
13:19glides around them.
13:22The Vesigia experiment
13:24was crucial
13:25because it proved
13:26that there was
13:26this light source
13:28appearing spontaneously
13:29in the forest.
13:31It also led
13:32some people
13:32to speculate
13:33that it was
13:34a natural phenomenon
13:35known as
13:35the piezoelectric effect.
13:37The piezoelectric effect
13:39is a physical process
13:41where you squeeze
13:42a crystal
13:43and you get
13:44a corresponding
13:45electrical effect.
13:47If we place
13:48a pressure
13:49on that object,
13:51it causes
13:52a slight shift
13:53in the location
13:54of the atoms
13:55within the material.
13:57When we change
13:59that pressure,
14:00because all of those
14:01atoms are moving
14:03ever so slightly,
14:04it creates
14:05an electric field
14:06and produces
14:07electricity
14:08and electrical energy.
14:09In New Jersey,
14:11this unusual
14:12occurrence
14:12can be traced
14:13to a major
14:14geophysical fault line
14:16known as
14:17the Ramapo Fault.
14:18Faults occur
14:19where we have
14:21pressure from
14:22tectonic actions,
14:23basically points
14:24where the earth
14:25is being upthrust
14:27or pulled apart
14:28and there's
14:29pressures being
14:30generated
14:30along the fault line
14:32that cause it
14:33to stick
14:34but then eventually
14:35slip.
14:35And when it does slip,
14:36that's when we get
14:37in an earthquake.
14:39Now when we come
14:40to these areas
14:41of geological faults,
14:43we can see
14:43that they are
14:44responsible not only
14:46for seismic events
14:47which do occur frequently
14:49in that area
14:50but also can be
14:51responsible
14:51for other phenomena.
14:53So if we have
14:55minerals
14:56at a fault
14:57that can act
14:58in a piezoelectric
14:59manner
15:00and we have
15:01changes in pressure
15:02as a result of
15:03changes in forces
15:05along the fault,
15:06potentially we could
15:08generate electricity.
15:09If we have
15:10conductive materials
15:12in that field,
15:14we potentially
15:15could produce
15:16a light source.
15:18On further
15:19investigation,
15:21the Vestigia team
15:22concludes that
15:23the Hookerman
15:23lights appear
15:24reliably before
15:25local earthquake
15:26activity.
15:28But while the
15:29piezoelectric effect
15:30may be behind
15:31some of the
15:31haunting ghost
15:32lights in the
15:33Pine Barrens,
15:34other sightings
15:35continue to defy
15:36scientific explanation.
15:39The piezoelectric effect
15:40is going to produce
15:41phenomena at more
15:42or less ground level.
15:44They're not going
15:44to produce phenomena
15:45in the sky
15:46or at a great height.
15:48They're not
15:49the kinds of lights
15:50that are stereotypically
15:52associated with UFOs.
15:54The piezoelectric effect
15:56can't explain
15:57the decades of reports
15:58documenting sightings
16:00of otherworldly aircraft
16:01and strange beings
16:03in the Pine Barrens.
16:05January 18, 1978.
16:093 a.m.
16:11An officer from the
16:13Fort Dix army base
16:14near Trenton
16:15drives through
16:16the Pine Barrens
16:17to investigate reports
16:18of a low-flying aircraft
16:19that has been detected
16:21moving through the
16:22base's airspace
16:23before vanishing
16:24into the forest.
16:26Now,
16:27the officer scours
16:28the endless pine trees
16:30looking for anything
16:31out of the ordinary.
16:32An hour into his drive,
16:36this officer sees
16:37this glow
16:38coming from above
16:40and it seems to be
16:41some kind of alien craft.
16:45He looks down
16:45onto the road
16:46in front of him
16:47and into the beam
16:48of light
16:48from his headlights
16:49comes what's described
16:51as a textbook grey alien.
16:54Long, slender,
16:55very long arms,
16:57saw him,
16:57chained to eyes,
16:58standing directly
16:59in front of him.
17:00He shouts at it
17:02to freeze
17:03and it doesn't,
17:05so he then apparently
17:06shoots it dead.
17:07Hours later,
17:12at 8 a.m.,
17:13a specialized
17:14cleanup crew
17:15dispatched from
17:16the Wright-Patterson
17:17Air Force Base
17:18in Ohio
17:19arrives at Fort Dix
17:20to remove
17:21the unknown creature.
17:24Wright-Patterson
17:24Air Force Base
17:25is infamous
17:26in UFO history
17:27as being the headquarters
17:29of Project Blue Book,
17:30America's longest
17:32running systematic
17:33investigation
17:34into UFOs.
17:36Following World War II,
17:37we see an increase
17:39of UFO sightings
17:40being recorded
17:41in the U.S.
17:43The term of UFO,
17:44naturally,
17:45it applies to objects
17:46that are not alien.
17:48Any unidentified
17:49flying object
17:50is just that.
17:52The post-war era
17:53was explosive
17:55for aviation
17:56of all kind.
17:58Experimentation
17:59that had started
17:59during the war
18:00was going on
18:01with more modern aircraft
18:02and there was
18:03more and more traffic
18:04every day
18:05and the civilian population
18:06was not used
18:07to seeing it.
18:08Now,
18:09this is significant
18:10because it's also
18:11at the beginning
18:12of the Cold War.
18:13These UFO sightings
18:15become an issue
18:16of national security
18:17because they could be
18:19enemy aircrafts
18:20surveying the United States.
18:22In 1948,
18:27in an effort to calm
18:28the fears of the public
18:29and demystify
18:30these objects,
18:32Air Force General
18:33Nathan Twining
18:34establishes the program
18:35that would eventually
18:36evolve into
18:37Project Blue Book.
18:40Respected astrophysicist,
18:43J. Allen Hynek,
18:44is hired as
18:45its scientific consultant.
18:46Over the next 20 years,
18:49researchers examined
18:51more than 12,600 sightings.
18:53There's a degree
18:55of skepticism
18:56that characterizes
18:57Blue Book.
18:58This is really about
18:59debunking UFO sightings
19:02and when the project
19:03concludes in 1969,
19:05it basically says
19:06there was no evidence
19:08to support the UFO proposition.
19:11Following years of sightings
19:13and reports, however,
19:15even the most skeptical
19:16of experts realized
19:18that these mysterious
19:19aerial phenomena
19:20are real
19:21and in dire need
19:22of further study.
19:24Some of those involved
19:26in Project Blue Book
19:27said that they felt
19:28pressured
19:29to take a skeptical line
19:31towards UFOs
19:33and it's interesting
19:35to note
19:35that there are
19:36something like
19:37700 Blue Book cases
19:40that had no
19:41solid conclusion
19:43in other words,
19:44the cases
19:45are still open.
19:48Project Blue Book
19:50ends in 1969,
19:52nearly a decade
19:53before the surreal
19:54alien sighting
19:55near the Fort Dix
19:56Army Base, Trenton.
19:59This strange incident
20:01may have been
20:01forgotten entirely
20:02were it not
20:03for U.S. Air Force
20:05Major George Feiler,
20:06an intelligence officer
20:08at McGuire Air Force Base
20:09adjacent to Fort Dix,
20:11who recounted the incident
20:13for a 2018 biography.
20:16Feiler has a lifelong
20:18interest in UFOs.
20:20I mean, he claims
20:21to have had his first
20:22encounter age five.
20:24He's told to write
20:25a memo
20:26about the case
20:28that this alien
20:29has been brought in,
20:30shot dead,
20:31et cetera,
20:32but he never actually
20:33sees the alien.
20:34He's just waiting
20:35for the cleanup crew
20:37to arrive.
20:39It's always important
20:40for the credibility
20:41of a UFO sighting
20:42to have a first-hand
20:44account of it,
20:45and unfortunately,
20:46that's not really
20:47what we have here.
20:48So he's heard about
20:48this second,
20:49maybe even third-hand.
20:50It's certainly something
20:51to consider
20:52when you're considering
20:53UFO accounts,
20:54like where did this
20:55information actually
20:56come from
20:57and at what level
20:58of remove.
21:01The exact events
21:03of the allegedly
21:04fatal alien encounter
21:05in the Pine Barrens
21:06of January 1978
21:08remain a mystery,
21:10leaving UFO researchers
21:12and enthusiasts
21:13desperately trying
21:14to disentangle
21:15facts from fiction.
21:17One theory
21:18that has been proposed
21:19to explain
21:20at least some
21:20of this unusual activity
21:21in the Pine Barrens
21:22is that it may simply be,
21:24for lack of a better word,
21:25an alien search party.
21:26If we do take
21:28it face value
21:29that an alien
21:30was shot
21:31in the Pine Barrens,
21:33well,
21:33what would other
21:34aliens have done?
21:35They'd have gone
21:36looking for
21:37their comrade alien.
21:42Mysterious lights
21:43and unidentified
21:44flying craft
21:45continue to disturb
21:47local residents,
21:48but these haunting
21:49objects are far
21:51from the only
21:51unusual phenomena
21:53in these forests.
21:54summer, 1990.
21:59A local teenager
22:00eats his dinner
22:01by a small campfire.
22:04He often camps
22:05in these woods
22:06and is used
22:07to the strange
22:07sounds of the forest.
22:09But tonight
22:10is different.
22:12He can hear
22:14something big
22:14moving through
22:15the trees.
22:17It has been
22:18stalking him
22:19for hours now,
22:20but he still
22:21hasn't caught
22:22a glimpse of it.
22:26The terrified
22:28teenager's
22:28heart pounds
22:29as he waits,
22:31listening for
22:31any creak
22:32or telltale rustle.
22:33Just as he begins
22:37to relax,
22:39a heavy footfall
22:41lands directly
22:42behind his tent.
22:46This creature
22:47doesn't appear
22:48to be purely animal,
22:50nor is it human.
22:53Could it be both?
22:54The story
22:58of the Jersey Devil
22:59is one of my favorites.
23:01It's got a great
23:02history to it.
23:03It's got a great lore.
23:04It continues to this day
23:05in many forms.
23:06It's just wacky.
23:08I love it.
23:09We go back
23:10to the year
23:101795.
23:13There's a woman
23:13called Mother Leeds
23:15living in very
23:16modest circumstances.
23:19She's about to have
23:20her 13th child,
23:22not uncommon
23:23in those days.
23:24But she's fed up
23:26of bearing children
23:27and she just screams out,
23:30let this one
23:30be a devil.
23:34A few months pass
23:35and she gives birth
23:36and everything
23:37seems fine at first.
23:38But within just
23:39a few minutes,
23:40very shortly after,
23:41a change starts
23:42to take place.
23:43The baby starts
23:44to turn into
23:45something else.
23:47It begins to
23:48transform into
23:49some kind of
23:50dreadful creature
23:51with the eyes
23:52bulging and wings
23:54and claws.
23:56It then attacks
23:57its own mother
23:59and the midwife
24:00and other people
24:01in the cabin
24:01and the Jersey Devil
24:03has been born.
24:09Each year,
24:11dozens of visitors
24:12venture into
24:13the vast Pine Barrens
24:14in search of
24:15the infamous
24:15Jersey Devil.
24:16but even before
24:19the tale
24:19of the Jersey Devil,
24:21the Pine Barrens
24:22are said to have
24:22been home
24:23to another creature,
24:25not a devil,
24:26but a god.
24:27We have accounts
24:29from the indigenous peoples
24:30with their own stories
24:32associated with the area.
24:34One of the indigenous
24:36deities associated
24:37with the Pine Barrens
24:38is known as
24:39the Missing.
24:41The Missing
24:42was a very important
24:44Lenape god
24:44and he was a god
24:45who maintained
24:46kind of the balance
24:48between man
24:50and nature.
24:52Missing was a
24:53protector god
24:54and a powerful
24:55medicine spirit
24:56worshipped to prevent
24:57catastrophic natural
24:59disasters
25:00like storms
25:01and earthquakes.
25:01During their
25:03tribal ceremonies,
25:05the Lenape
25:06would invoke
25:06Missing
25:07to keep them
25:08safe from
25:08the earth's anger.
25:11Some have theorized
25:12that these
25:13ceremonial practices
25:14were some of the
25:15first that the
25:16settlers had seen
25:17and interacted
25:18with the indigenous
25:19population.
25:20They hear about
25:21the story,
25:21of course,
25:22living there
25:23amongst the Lenape,
25:24maybe trading with
25:25them,
25:25trading stories,
25:26materials,
25:27and you see
25:28cultural transformations
25:30take place,
25:31with the settlers.
25:33The European
25:35settlers took
25:36this creature
25:37that had
25:38benevolent powers
25:40for the Lenape
25:41people,
25:42but they
25:43Christianized it
25:44and they
25:44Christianized it
25:45in such a way
25:46that they turned
25:48it from benevolent
25:49to malevolent.
25:50They turned it
25:51into a devil.
25:55Over time,
25:57accounts of the
25:58Jersey devil
25:59poured in from
25:59colonists living
26:01in and around
26:01the Pinelands,
26:03building a truly
26:04terrifying reputation
26:05for the elusive
26:06creature.
26:07While some of
26:09these witnesses
26:09were discounted
26:10for being
26:11inebriated,
26:12mistaken,
26:12or simply lying,
26:14many more
26:15were taken
26:16extremely seriously.
26:17the credibility
26:20of somebody
26:21who belonged
26:22to the upper
26:23class,
26:24who was viewed
26:24as coming
26:25from a good
26:26family,
26:27who was probably
26:28male,
26:29probably white
26:30as well,
26:31their testimony
26:32would have carried
26:33more weight
26:34in the community.
26:37In the early
26:3819th century,
26:39near Woodbury,
26:41naval commodore
26:42Stephen Decatur
26:43claimed to have
26:44spotted an enormous
26:45pterodactyl-like
26:46creature flying
26:47overhead.
26:48He fired a
26:49cannonball
26:50directly at the
26:51animal,
26:52only for it to
26:53ricochet harmlessly
26:54off its hard,
26:55scaly body.
26:58In 1820,
27:00Joseph Bonaparte,
27:01brother of the
27:02former French
27:02emperor Napoleon
27:03Bonaparte,
27:04took up residence
27:05in Bordentown.
27:08One day,
27:09during a hunt
27:09in the nearby
27:10forest,
27:11Bonaparte came
27:12face to face
27:13with a creature
27:14he described
27:14as having
27:15the head
27:15of a horse,
27:16the body
27:17of a kangaroo,
27:18and the wings
27:19of a bat.
27:21But despite
27:21their presumed
27:22credibility,
27:24Decatur and
27:24Bonaparte's
27:25descriptions of
27:26the beast
27:26don't quite line
27:27up.
27:29With the origins
27:30of a lot of
27:31these stories,
27:31especially of cryptids
27:32or unknown creatures,
27:34there's always
27:34discrepancies,
27:35especially at first.
27:37And so this is
27:37the case with
27:38the Jersey Devil
27:38as well.
27:39The Jersey Devil
27:40is often described
27:42as a nightmarish
27:43combination of
27:44various animals,
27:45from goats,
27:46bats,
27:47and reptiles,
27:48to camels,
27:49kangaroos,
27:50and horses.
27:51Nevertheless,
27:52there are sufficient
27:54commonalities
27:55between their
27:56descriptions to
27:58suggest that
27:59they could have
27:59seen the same
28:01creature in
28:02the Pine Barrens
28:03or something
28:04very odd
28:05that lives out
28:06there.
28:06UFOlogists
28:13refer to
28:13regions like
28:14the Pine Barrens
28:15as areas
28:16of high
28:16strangeness.
28:18It's a great
28:19term coined
28:20by ufologist
28:22Jayon Hynek
28:22to denote
28:23areas or
28:25times or
28:25places where
28:27frankly strange
28:28stuff is going
28:28on,
28:29things that just
28:30seem to defy
28:30explanation,
28:31and it's often
28:32used to refer
28:33to UFOs and
28:34cryptids in
28:35particular.
28:36This is
28:37basically an
28:38area of high
28:39strangeness
28:39because all
28:40these weird,
28:42seemingly
28:42inexplicable
28:43phenomena keep
28:44recurring in
28:45this area.
28:46In recent
28:48decades,
28:48the mysterious
28:49ancient creatures
28:50of the Pine
28:51Barrens have
28:52been joined by
28:52the more
28:53modern phenomena
28:54of UFOs.
28:56Just what
28:57are these
28:57objects,
28:58and could
28:59they somehow
28:59be connected
29:00to the
29:01Jersey Devil?
29:02In areas
29:03of high
29:03strangeness,
29:04there is
29:05a kind
29:06of occurrence
29:07of UFOs
29:09or UFO-type
29:10phenomena
29:10wherever
29:11cryptids have
29:13been said
29:13to have been
29:14located,
29:15whether it's
29:15Bigfoot or
29:16the various
29:17sea monsters,
29:18Ogopogo,
29:19whatever it is.
29:20But it is only
29:20very recently
29:21that people
29:22started thinking
29:22that, oh,
29:23cryptids and
29:23UFOs is a
29:24connection,
29:25but before
29:25that,
29:26people were
29:26investigating
29:27cryptids as
29:28a biological
29:29phenomena.
29:29One of the
29:31most mysterious
29:32aspects of
29:33the UFO
29:34phenomenon
29:34and the
29:35cryptozoological
29:36phenomenon is
29:37that there's
29:38often no trace
29:39of any of
29:40these alleged
29:41animals or
29:41these craft,
29:42and there's
29:43lots of
29:43theories proposed
29:44to account for
29:45that.
29:46One of them
29:47comes out of
29:47the 1960s by
29:48journalist,
29:49paranormal
29:49researcher,
29:50John Keel.
29:51In the late
29:521960s,
29:54Keel devotes
29:55an entire
29:55year to
29:56investigating
29:57reports of
29:58strange creatures
29:59and encounters
30:00with non-human
30:01entities in
30:02remote West
30:03Virginia.
30:04Despite
30:04countless
30:05witness accounts,
30:07Keel is left
30:07baffled by the
30:08lack of physical
30:09evidence left
30:10by any of
30:11these phenomena.
30:12He proposes
30:13a theory that
30:14may explain
30:15this frustrating
30:16discrepancy.
30:17He calls it
30:18the
30:19Ultra-Terrestrial
30:20Hypothesis.
30:21John Keel uses
30:22the idea of
30:23Ultra-Terrestrials,
30:25meaning that
30:26these UFOs are
30:27not from
30:28out of this
30:29planet.
30:29We don't really
30:30know where
30:30they've come
30:31from.
30:31They could be
30:32within the
30:32planet, or
30:33maybe from
30:34another dimension.
30:37We don't know
30:38about anything
30:39beyond our
30:40universe.
30:41There is
30:42potentially other
30:43universes or
30:45parallel dimensions
30:46out there that
30:47have similar or
30:48potentially differing
30:49properties to us.
30:51Now, when we
30:52talk about
30:52parallel universes
30:53or the like,
30:54the thought is
30:55that they would
30:55exist in some
30:56higher dimensional
30:56space.
30:57That's a really
30:58hard thing for
31:00our human brains
31:02to try and
31:02conceive, because
31:03we exist in
31:044D space, 3D
31:05plus time, because
31:06time is also a
31:07dimension.
31:08Is it possible
31:09they're there?
31:10And if they do
31:10exist, could you
31:11travel between
31:12them?
31:13Your guess is
31:14as good as mine.
31:15this is well
31:16beyond the
31:16physics that we
31:17understand at this
31:18point in time.
31:20We talk about
31:21this idea of the
31:22multiverse, in
31:23which each
31:24universe has a
31:25different set of
31:25laws, a different
31:26set of constraints,
31:27a different set of
31:28rules.
31:29You know, it's
31:29possible, maybe,
31:31that there is a
31:32sufficiently advanced
31:33civilization that
31:34has developed, by
31:36some measure, that
31:36we don't currently
31:37understand, some
31:39process of
31:39traveling through
31:40higher dimensions to
31:41go from their
31:42universe to
31:43ours.
31:44If this is the
31:45case, it might be a
31:46simple matter of
31:47something like a
31:48Sasquatch or a
31:49Mothman just
31:50traversing that
31:51boundary to another
31:52dimension and thus
31:53leaving nothing
31:53behind.
31:56Since the late
31:571970s, researchers
31:59have continued to
32:01expand on Kiel's
32:02work.
32:03In 2022, a new
32:06theory emerges,
32:07based on the
32:08work of
32:08parapsychologist
32:09Harold Puthoff.
32:10The theory
32:12strengthens the
32:12link between
32:13UFO reports and
32:15tales of strange
32:16nightmarish cryptids.
32:18This is an
32:19alternative model
32:20that says that if
32:22aliens do exist, if
32:23extraterrestrials do
32:23exist, and they
32:24have such advanced
32:25technology, then
32:26it's also a
32:27possibility that
32:28they have the
32:29technology to
32:30travel between
32:31dimensions, but
32:32even more
32:33profoundly to
32:34manipulate our
32:34reality as we
32:35know it.
32:37Now, why they do
32:38that, who knows,
32:39but they could be
32:40able to do it.
32:41And something like
32:42the Jersey Devil may
32:44be something that
32:45they're projecting
32:46into our reality to
32:48mess with our
32:48minds.
32:51One interesting
32:52theory is negative
32:53reinforcement, that
32:55they might be trying to
32:55help us by crafting
32:58experiences for us that
32:59basically keep us away
33:00from certain places,
33:01almost like
33:02cautionary tales, or
33:03even like the
33:04original purpose of
33:05fairy tales is to be
33:06wary of the woods.
33:07reinforcement learnings
33:10based on the idea
33:11that when something
33:12happens, there is
33:13either a reward or
33:15a punishment or a
33:17bad thing doesn't
33:18happen if you do
33:20this as negative
33:21reinforcement.
33:22You're learning over
33:23time that your action
33:25has a specific
33:26outcome, and that
33:27outcome then feeds
33:28back in to determine
33:29do you want to do
33:30this action again or
33:31not.
33:32And the same thing
33:32will happen if it's a
33:33scary story.
33:34You've got a small
33:35kid, so you tell
33:36them, you know, don't
33:37go into the woods at
33:38night, because the
33:39real reason, they'll
33:39get lost, and you
33:40don't want them to get
33:41hurt.
33:42But, you know, you
33:42tell them that there
33:43might be beasts or
33:44other things in there,
33:45you scare them to
33:47stay out of it.
33:48So if this is
33:49happening with
33:49something like the
33:50Jersey Devil story,
33:51going around, trying
33:52to keep people away,
33:54it's getting into that
33:55fear to say, this is a
33:57bad place, don't be
33:58there.
33:59It could very well be a
34:01way of keeping people
34:02out, but that would
34:03work only for so
34:05long.
34:05You know, there are
34:06always curious people,
34:08and the more you tell
34:09people that a certain
34:10place is prohibited, at
34:11least a certain group of
34:13human beings is going to
34:14be attracted to that
34:15place.
34:18The possibility that an
34:20unknown force may be
34:21driving humans away from
34:23the Pine Barrens begs the
34:24question, what for?
34:27It may be that a device
34:29like the Jersey Devil was
34:32created to stop early
34:34colonists from damaging a
34:37pristine environment like
34:39the Pine Barrens, and in
34:41our time, the Pine Barrens
34:43is a protected reserve.
34:45Is this what the aliens
34:47wanted?
34:49Now, another reason that an
34:52alien might do this, this
34:54kind of negative
34:55reinforcement, is because
34:57they don't want us going
34:59into the woods and seeing
35:01what they're up to.
35:08The Jersey Devil continues
35:10to spark terror around the
35:11Pine Barrens, leaving
35:13locals and visitors
35:14reluctant to venture into
35:16the forest.
35:17But the Winged Devil isn't
35:19the only threat to the human
35:20mind in these woods.
35:21One aspect of UFO lore that I
35:25find quite interesting is the
35:27physiological responses that
35:29people have to sightings and
35:31encounters of various kinds.
35:33It runs the gamut here from
35:35fear, sometimes frustration,
35:37anger, to much more
35:39benevolent feelings.
35:40And there's a range of this
35:41being experienced in the Pine
35:42Barrens.
35:43One of the most shocking
35:46accounts of extraterrestrial
35:48activity in the Pine Barrens
35:51was reported anonymously in
35:53summer of 2022.
35:56The person wakes up in the
35:58middle of the night, can't get
36:00back to sleep, has some
36:01insomnia, so they decide to do
36:03laundry.
36:07As they enter the living room,
36:09they catch something out of the
36:11corner of their eye.
36:13It looks like a thin, angular
36:15person with long arms and a
36:18large head, flitting across
36:20the room.
36:21But when they turn on the
36:23light, there's nothing there.
36:26Relieved, they turn towards
36:28the laundry room.
36:30Then, their heart skips a
36:32beat.
36:33They're stopped short by what
36:35appears to be a hand reaching
36:38around the door.
36:39And they are kind of floored with
36:42very visceral feelings of fear,
36:45of danger, and overcome with
36:48images of very extreme graphic
36:50violence.
36:52They reel back in shock.
36:55But when they look back at the
36:57door, the hand is gone.
37:00They enter the laundry room,
37:02beset by an onslaught of new,
37:04even more harrowing images.
37:06And they see the door adjoining the
37:10backyard is flown wide open.
37:12The dog is barking viciously, and
37:15they witness a small humanoid creature
37:18running across the lawn and then
37:20disappearing right over the fence to
37:22the neighbor's yard.
37:25As the images in their mind finally fade,
37:28they're left shaken and deeply disturbed.
37:31All that starts off with that first
37:35waking up.
37:36And the first question is, were they
37:37awake?
37:38The descriptions follow what you would
37:41expect for what's called vivid
37:42dreaming.
37:43And in vivid dreaming, you can make
37:45decisions and move places and do
37:47things and get a sense of you are
37:50experiencing it because the parts of
37:53your brain that would make decisions
37:54and choose things, they are awake
37:56enough for you to have that conscious
37:58memory of those as well.
38:00And so during that period in the dream,
38:02you feel like you're awake and you're
38:03doing these things.
38:05But if it wasn't a dream, what could
38:08this strange creature want in the
38:10Pine Barrens?
38:11And was it the cause of those
38:13terrifying visions?
38:16The story is really striking.
38:17It's one of the more dramatic graphic
38:19ones that I've come across, but it's
38:22actually not unique or unprecedented.
38:24There have been other stories like this
38:26coming out of the Pine Barrens.
38:29In 2006, a family camping by Lake
38:32Absigami reported loud banging sounds
38:35in the woods and the circle of strange
38:38lights flying in a low ring formation
38:40over the water.
38:42They described a sinking feeling in the
38:45pits of their stomachs that lasted for
38:47days.
38:49In 2016, a driver on Route 72 is gripped
38:54by an inexplicable terror when he sees
38:57flashing lights in his rearview mirror.
39:00The light follows him for what seems like
39:02hours, but when he checks his watch, he
39:05discovers the entire ordeal has lasted less
39:09than a minute.
39:09Feelings of fear, feelings of anxiety, lost time, time
39:15dilation, all of these are associated with the contact
39:20with extraterrestrials.
39:21This could simply be the case of people having what are fairly
39:25natural reactions to them unknown phenomena, or it could
39:30hearken to other theories like the
39:33ultra-terrestrial model where they could be, in essence,
39:37implanting these kinds of feelings in us, maybe again as a part of keeping us away from
39:42key sites, instilling in us fear of places where they, for whatever reason, think we shouldn't be.
39:52While little is known about the neurological effects of UFO encounters,
39:57new research by Dr. Gary Nolan, professor of pathology at Stanford University,
40:03may bring us a step closer to an answer.
40:06The investigation of UFOs is split into a number of different branches and you have a range of people
40:12with quite far-out theories that are very difficult or impossible to test, and then you have the
40:17other range with pretty die-hard scientists who know what they're talking about when it comes to
40:21their particular field, and this is the case with Nolan.
40:25Nolan attracted media attention in 2012 for his work analyzing a tiny mummified skeleton
40:32found in Chile's Atacama Desert.
40:36Because of the features of this mummified body, rumors start to swirl
40:42that it could be an alien.
40:44The truth is, it was most likely a stillborn baby that possibly had some very unfortunate genetic defects.
40:54Now for Nolan, he becomes a recognized investigator of unusual phenomena.
41:04A year later, a former CIA agent and an executive from a large aerospace company,
41:10appear at Nolan's Stanford laboratory.
41:14They hand him a stack of brain scans, the MRIs of pilots and intelligence agents
41:19who claim to have been in close contact with UFOs.
41:24Nolan was tasked with analyzing them and carrying out further testing.
41:30The images of many of the individuals show changes to a region of the brain called the basal ganglia.
41:35Well, the basal ganglia are a series of nuclei in our subcortical regions.
41:43Our prefrontal cortex, which is where our decision making is, our executive functions,
41:47our personality is, are heavily connected to the basal ganglia, as are our motor control areas.
41:54The MRIs showed stronger connections between some parts of the basal ganglia in pilots that have
42:00experienced UFO sightings. But are these connections a cause or an effect?
42:07You can either say that it's causal and having a UFO experience caused the change,
42:15or you could say that it is, you know, a predictor. And so having this means you're
42:20more likely to interpret an event as being one of these UFO experiences instead.
42:26While Nolan doesn't claim that his research proves that UFOs exist,
42:32he doesn't shy away from the possibility of extraterrestrial life visiting Earth.
42:37Nolan is a lifelong enthusiast about UFOs and claims to have had his first encounter aged five,
42:46but his approach is rigorously scientific.
42:51Being scientific means not just considering things which fit into our picture of the world,
42:57but being open to changing our picture of the world.
43:04Gary Nolan's work is part of a new wave of UFO research.
43:10In 2022, the US government established the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office
43:17to research unknown aerial objects.
43:22A year earlier, a Freedom of Information Act request to NASA revealed that looking for
43:28extraterrestrial life remains one of the organization's top priorities.
43:33And in 2023, a series of military officials presented their own experiences with UFOs
43:41at a highly publicized congressional hearing. With this shift in the scientific community,
43:46many wonder what else researchers might discover, and what these findings could mean for those living
43:53in hotbeds of unusual activity, like the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.
43:57What people go through when they claim to have seen a UFO or an extraterrestrial is something that we're
44:05still grappling with. And we could hope that in the future, neuroscience may give us some new insights as to what's going on inside the human brain,
44:17when people claim to have had an encounter of the third kind.
44:21One of the things that continues to fascinate me about the UFO phenomenon is simply how little we know.
44:27More than 75 years since the early days of the UFO phenomenon, we don't know that much more than we did back then.
44:34It's frustrating, but it's also exciting that there's probably much more that we can learn from this if we take it seriously.
44:42Could a new scientific dawn one day explain the seemingly unexplainable?
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