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00:01A county in England, where strange lights have been reported for centuries.
00:08A region in upstate New York that has been the site of mass UFO sightings.
00:15And a volcano in Columbia, where pilots have reported multiple accounts
00:21of witnessing unidentified anomalous phenomena.
00:42By now, the term UFO is universally understood to mean unidentified flying object.
00:50It describes a variety of phenomena, from metallic flying discs,
00:55to mysterious orbs of light, and even craft the size of football fields.
01:01And there are places around the globe that seem to have an unusually high occurrence of anomalous sightings.
01:08These locations have so much activity, they've earned the name UFO hotspots.
01:17San Diego, July 15th, 2019.
01:22In the middle of an otherwise peaceful night,
01:25the USS Omaha Combat Information Center records an astonishing event off the coast of Southern California.
01:33An unidentified, oval-shaped craft is witnessed performing mysterious maneuvers in restricted airspace around a US Navy destroyer.
01:43It is one amazing piece of footage showing a UFO hovering over the sea.
01:49Whoa, it's getting close.
01:51And then apparently descending into the ocean.
01:55Splash! Splash!
01:57When the footage is leaked to the public by investigative filmmaker Jeremy Korbel two years later,
02:03its authenticity is quickly confirmed by the Pentagon.
02:08I knew that it would strike a chord.
02:11You can see the structure of the craft being oval or circular.
02:15You can see that it doesn't have these plumes of exhaust or heat trails or any traditional propulsion.
02:21What you're seeing is a technology that is so far advanced from anything that we have ever created,
02:28or shown in the theater of war, which is where we show our greatest technologies.
02:33The strange incident was more than intriguing to UFO researchers,
02:38not only because of how the craft maneuvered, but also because of the area where it appeared.
02:45Off the coast of San Diego in California is somewhere that UFOs or UAPs have been appearing regularly for decades.
02:55Since 1995, more than 1,000 UFO sightings have been reported in the San Diego area.
03:04All these reports of sightings were not just made up. They can be photographed.
03:09There's something up there and sometimes down in the water that no one understands.
03:16More and more the military is acknowledging that it's interested,
03:20giving credibility to the fact that these things exist.
03:25When you realize that the San Diego naval base is one of the most restricted naval bases, restricted areas in
03:33the country,
03:35UFOs are flying back and forth over the ships, over the base.
03:40The number of UFO reports occurring in San Diego may appear quite significant.
03:47However, it is just one of several locations around the globe where similar incidents are often reported and documented.
03:57Locations that have come to be known as UFO hotspots.
04:01A UFO hotspot is a physical space where sightings of unusual aerial phenomena are common.
04:10There's usually a perceivable unusual energy at the site.
04:15There's been a long history of sightings at these places.
04:20UFO hotspots are places where UFOs occur not just across a few years, but across decades.
04:30And, of course, the question becomes, you know, why are these places so important?
04:35Why is it that UFOs can appear at them more frequently than anywhere else?
04:43MARFA is this mountain range in Texas,
04:48and it's these strange anomalous lights that nobody has ever been able to figure out.
04:56It's such a hotspot that the actual state of Texas built a viewing station where people can stop and rest
05:07and watch the Marfa lights at night.
05:11The Bermuda Triangle is also a well-known hotspot as well.
05:17Wiltshire, England is another.
05:20Sedona has become a very popular hotspot.
05:23And Skinwalker Ranch in northern Utah is an outstanding example of a hotspot.
05:30Native Americans have said for centuries that this is a place where supernatural UFO activity occurs.
05:36It seems that a large proportion of sightings of UFOs or UAPs in the modern world do take place at
05:44hotspots.
05:46The perception of so-called UFO hotspots emerged in the aftermath of two of the most highly publicized UFO incidents
05:54in U.S. history, which both took place in 1947.
06:02On June 24th, near Mount Rainier in Washington State, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine saucer-shaped craft flying in
06:11a coordinated pattern at a speed of approximately 1,200 miles per hour.
06:20Just one month later, the infamous report of a UFO crash took place in Roswell, New Mexico.
06:28The July 8th, 1947 headline went around the world in the Roswell Daily Record, flying saucer crashes into a pasture
06:45near Roswell.
06:47You start looking at the timeline and what was happening through 1947 and beyond.
06:55Our government and other governments were developing gigantic, huge storage and files and folders and departments that were dedicated to
07:06the secret study of UFOs and ETs on our planet.
07:14Over the next two decades, thousands of additional UFO sightings were reported around the world, prompting the U.S. government
07:22to launch an investigation into the phenomenon.
07:26The study was given the codename Project Blue Book.
07:29And while the program's official findings were not definitive, a startling trend appeared in the data.
07:36The renowned J. Alan Hynek of Project Blue Book fame wrote,
07:42there's a statistical analysis that showed when and where these occurrences happened and a pattern started to emerge, such as
07:51UFO sightings, lights in the sky, anomalous activity in the American Southwest, the Northeast, the Mississippi Valley.
07:59And UFO researchers took notice of this and began to flock to those areas to conduct their research.
08:05Researchers in the 50s and 60s, they went back through the data and sometimes literally they would get out a
08:13map and X marks the spot.
08:15And then they would notice, wait a minute, there are these clusters, these strange hotspots, areas where these events seem
08:27to pile up for no apparent reason.
08:31What researchers realized was that 60 to 70 percent of UFO sightings in America turn up in the same spots
08:41over and over again.
08:42And they realized that there was something about those spots that was drawing UFO.
08:49If we're trying to solve a mystery, you want to go to a location that has the most clues.
08:54And these are the locations that could have the clues to connect our ancient past to our modern reality and
09:00perhaps give us the answers we're seeking.
09:06Stretching almost 2,500 miles across the southern United States is a mysterious region that is known for UAP sightings,
09:17cattle mutilations and alien abductions.
09:20In fact, these events are reported with such frequency that this hotspot has become known as the UFO superhighway.
09:33Trinidad, Colorado, August 22, 2011.
09:39At 1146 PM, this small town is rocked by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake, the most powerful to hit Colorado
09:48in more than a century.
09:51A little over 12 hours later, an even more violent 5.8 magnitude earthquake strikes the area of Piedmont, Virginia.
10:02While the unlikely epicenters of these two seismic events are 1,400 miles apart from each other, they both occur
10:10along the same line of latitude, the 37th parallel.
10:16This detail captures the attention of former sheriff's deputy and UFO researcher Chuck Zukowski and sparks a revelation regarding his
10:27research into unidentified aerial phenomena and mysterious animal mutilations.
10:34The fact that this earthquake activity lays along the 37th parallel leads to Chuck Zukowski to look at trends and
10:42patterns in the data that he'd been collecting over various investigations.
10:47Chuck found that sightings and phenomena such as cattle mutilations, various other things, all lined up along this one line
10:55that we refer to as the 37th latitude.
10:59Chuck Zukowski for many, many years had been taking down reports of all types of paranormal activity that were happening
11:07both in Colorado and all the way stretching to Virginia.
11:13And Chuck actually has a sister who was also a UFO researcher.
11:18So we called her up and they started to look at each of these points of where all these different
11:24UFO and paranormal activity were taking place.
11:28Chuck Zukowski's sister, Debbie Siegelmeyer, is the director of the Missouri branch of MUFON, or the Mutual UFO Network.
11:37Over the years, the two have amassed data on thousands of UFO sightings.
11:43In 2011, my brother Chuck called me one evening and we started pinpointing the different locations on a map.
11:53We have a lot of activity going on, especially starting with my state of Missouri.
11:58And then we started expanding farther out.
12:01We noticed activity in Colorado.
12:03Then we started spreading farther out.
12:06It turned out that all but one event was near the 37th parallel.
12:12And we thought, well, this is way bigger than what we thought.
12:15Like all lines of latitude, the 37th parallel is just 69 miles wide.
12:22So Zukowski and Siegelmeyer found it extraordinary that nearly every case they had documented happened either on or very near
12:30this line.
12:31Chuck Zukowski is a highly respected UFO investigator with a lot of boots on the ground experience.
12:41As is his sister Debbie.
12:44And they presented to the world the idea that you could draw a straight line linking all these different incidents
12:52at different times.
12:54UFO sightings, abductions, cattle mutilations, paranormal phenomena.
12:59Of course, it was a real attention ghetto.
13:01So the 37th parallel has become known as a sort of UFO superhighway.
13:10Cuda's so-called UFO superhighway really exists along the 37th parallel.
13:16For UFO researchers, the evidence is highly compelling.
13:20Because among the events that Zukowski and Siegelmeyer sight are some of the most significant UFO reports on record.
13:29Including one of the only encounters in which a witness lost his life.
13:36Wilmington, Ohio, January 7th, 1948.
13:42At Clinton County Army Airfield, eyewitnesses report seeing a circular object in the sky that is described as a flaming
13:51red cone trailing a gaseous green mist.
13:55Alarmed by the sightings, the Army instructs a squad of airborne F-51D Mustangs under the command of Captain Thomas
14:03Mantell to investigate.
14:05Four fighters led by Captain Mantell were dispatched to try to follow or intercept this object.
14:12The object was massive. It was about 300 feet in diameter and traveling at about 500 miles per hour.
14:18When they attempted to intercept this object, it was too fast.
14:24And it was also climbing in altitude.
14:28Everyone except Mantell stopped ascending at a certain point due to problems with oxygen.
14:34Mantell pushed his plane, climbing higher and higher towards the object.
14:38However, radio contact with Mantell was lost.
14:43According to reports, as Mantell pursued the UFO, he lost control of the plane and crashed into the ground.
14:52The Mantell incident is an important one.
14:55And that is because it involves a UFO fatality.
14:59And it was because of this UFO fatality that the Air Force began Project Blue Book to look into these
15:06UFO incidents.
15:08The Mantell incident occurred over a stretch of many miles, mostly along the 37th parallel.
15:15With official military involvement, multiple witnesses, and even a fatality, the Mantell incident is considered one of the most compelling
15:25UFO encounters ever recorded.
15:28The mystery of the 37th parallel also includes a UFO incident that occurred 25 years later and lasted for months.
15:37One of the most fascinating areas along the 37th parallel line is Piedmont, Missouri.
15:46The sightings actually started in 1973.
15:50But the one main sighting that people began focusing on happened on February 21st to be exact.
16:01Coach Reggie Bones was at a basketball game with his team.
16:06As they were coming back home at about 8.30 at night, they saw strange lights in the distance, and
16:14they were colored lights flashing.
16:15They saw that the lights weren't just a single pillar in the sky, but were distinct colored lights.
16:21Red, green, amber, and white.
16:24Other residents in the area also saw the lights.
16:26The Mantell incident and the Piedmont sightings are just two of hundreds of UFO encounters that Zukowski and Ziegelmeyer have
16:36documented along the 37th parallel.
16:40Also found along this latitude is Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where a UFO crash was reported as early as 1941, and
16:50one of the most famous UFO incidents on record.
16:52The 1947 Roswell crash occurred just over 100 miles south of this line.
17:01It's pretty amazing to think that two of the biggest UFO events that essentially kicked off the modern UFOlogy field,
17:09Roswell and Camp Girardeau, happened to be on or around the 37th parallel.
17:15So you have to wonder why.
17:18Is it some sort of a supernatural force, or could it be something to do with extraterrestrials?
17:29South America is a veritable treasure trove for the ancient astronaut theory.
17:35The entire continent is loaded with megalithic structures and mythological traditions that point to extraterrestrial contact in the distant past.
17:46In addition to this history, the nation of Chile continues to report so much anomalous activity that it has become
17:54famous as a UFO hotspot.
18:00Santiago, Chile, 1990.
18:08After a 17-year rule, Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet steps down, ushering in a period of reform across the country.
18:21With a new spirit of government transparency and social freedom, the media, as well as military personnel, begin to openly
18:29investigate Chile's unrivaled UFO phenomenon.
18:34Now, when it came to UFOs, this is not something new in Chile.
18:38In Chile, we have had sightings long before Pinochet.
18:42So, after Pinochet, when the democracy comes back, the military forces were making an effort to change the public opinion
18:51about them.
18:52Following the country's newfound openness to UFO sightings, control tower personnel observed a flurry of mysterious aerial activity in Chilean
19:02airspace.
19:04Unidentified objects were flying dangerously close to Chilean aircraft.
19:11I do believe it's our right to know exactly what we are seeing, what our military is seeing all over
19:17the world.
19:19Several notorious near-miss incidents elevated Chile's UFO activity from harmless curiosity to an issue of national security.
19:29As a result, in 1997, the Chilean government instituted the Committee on Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena, or CIFAR.
19:39CIFAR started as a result of pilot sightings.
19:46Pilots, navigators, radar operators were reporting UFOs.
19:51Some of these objects came dangerously close to aircraft.
19:56The Chilean government decided to act.
19:59So, this is unique.
20:01It's government, it's military, and importantly, it's the scientific community as well.
20:08All working together with one common aim.
20:12Find out what these sightings are.
20:15Who's responsible? What's going on?
20:21CIFAR gets reports from all citizens from the far north down to Antarctica.
20:26And these reports are made via our website.
20:30In the last 22 years of investigation, we have received almost 900 reports.
20:35Our process and our manner of looking at these phenomena has been very rigorous, because we owe it to our
20:41community.
20:43Instead of secrecy and cover-ups and conspiracies, we have an atmosphere of openness where people are almost encouraged to
20:53come forward and report.
20:54The default position of CIFAR-R, after their investigations, is to publish, release the case files, tell the people what
21:05you've discovered.
21:05This is astonishing and refreshing.
21:12CIFAR insists that governments around the world should take a similar approach to accelerate our understanding of these aerial anomalies
21:20and reveal their true origin.
21:28To us, it is important that more organizations or institutions or countries get involved in the study of this phenomenon.
21:36The phenomenon clearly exists.
21:38We don't know exactly if there is only one explanation for its origin.
21:42Without a doubt, however, when other countries or other states create institutions like ours, they contribute to the security of
21:50airspace operations.
21:53We have more good documented video evidence out of Chile than almost any other nation I can think of.
22:01On March 13, 2012, the Chilean government unveiled footage of a curious event caught on camera above the prestigious El
22:12Bosque Air Force Base in Santiago.
22:15Crowds were gathered to celebrate the change of Chilean Air Force Command in 2010,
22:22recording fighter jets performing acrobatic maneuvers overhead.
22:27After investigating the footage, CIFAR concluded that the jets were not alone.
22:34The El Bosque was one that CIFAR was very excited about.
22:39And when they slowed down the videos, you could see these objects zipping by at incredible speeds.
22:48This case acquired notoriety once the videos were viewed.
22:51In these videos, there was a dark object that crossed the lines of flight of these squadron formations.
22:59And this is where it gets really intriguing, because the official conclusion was that this UFO was traveling at a
23:08speed of around 4,000 miles an hour.
23:16The British Isles are home to legends of powerful wizards, magical swords, and flying dragons.
23:24For ancient astronaut theorists like me, these stories aren't just fairy tales.
23:30They're possibly encounters with extraterrestrial technology.
23:33And today, England is still a UFO hotspot where an enormous amount of advanced aerial phenomena has been documented by
23:45alien investigators.
23:49Yorkshire, England.
23:51This historic county is the largest in the United Kingdom.
23:57Known for medieval abbeys, Norman castles, and stunning national parks, the vast landscape here is also rich with legends of
24:08strange beings, bizarre lights in the sky, and even UFOs.
24:15Yorkshire is in northern England, and it's a county that is famous for strange events going back centuries.
24:22Reports of little people, mysterious lights up in the sky, people seeing these strange werewolf-like figures, Bigfoot-type creatures
24:32that come and go.
24:34It's a very strange place.
24:38There is an ancient burial mound in Yorkshire called Willie Howe.
24:44And back in the 1200s, a man had been walking home one night, and he saw lights coming out of
24:53this mound.
24:55And he went into the mound, where he saw strange beings, fairy folk, if you like.
25:02He claimed to have seen these inside the mound.
25:05England has a very rich tradition of fairy folk going back into the mists of time.
25:12And it's interesting, though, that the way encounters with these fairy folk, or whatever one might call them,
25:20the way they're expressed is very, very similar over the years to descriptions of encounters with aliens.
25:29Reports of mysterious phenomena in Yorkshire are found throughout the historical record, from ancient times right up until the present
25:37day.
25:38In an effort to better understand what has been happening here, private investigator Paul Sinclair and his team began researching
25:47and surveilling the area in 2009.
25:51I originally spent a lot of time on the east and north Yorkshire wolds, because farmers in the area reported
25:59seeing the anomalous lights, the structured type crafts.
26:02But then I got speaking to coast guard, fishermen, trawler men, people walking the coastline, and they started reporting seeing
26:12strange anomalous lights, UFOs, all manner of things.
26:16Going back through the local archives of the newspapers reveals that lots and lots of unexplained phenomena have been seen
26:23and are reported there.
26:25Not just in recent times, not just since I've been researching it, but going back decades and decades, there's a
26:32long history of strange and anomalous phenomena.
26:35Paul Sinclair has been researching this area for a very, very long time, and come up with some remarkable video
26:43footage of lights in the sky, UFOs, and everything else you can think of.
26:51Paul and his team set up cameras around the cliff tops along the North Sea to try and document the
26:58objects seen near the coastline.
27:01During one night in 2020, what they captured was particularly intriguing.
27:08It was just a typical night by the team. We'd go up there, we set up cameras, and we hoped
27:13that the phenomena might present.
27:14Here.
27:16And on this occasion it did. But these lights, very often they're a bright amber colour, or red, or white,
27:23and the white ones that you can see in the film were actually more of an amber colour.
27:28But the lights present as one light that doesn't fly from anywhere, and then it punches into a multiple of
27:34four, five, and six, switches off.
27:37So luckily we managed to film that little sequence of events on lights filmed off Bempton, and it's quite exciting
27:44when you do actually see these unexplained phenomena.
27:48Sinclair and his team have not only captured strange lights above the sea, but have also documented orbs of light
27:56submerged below the surface of the water.
28:00I was walking along the cliff tops with my friend and former police officer Dave Barnes, and Dave saw the
28:06object rise out of the water, stopped momentarily and told me.
28:11I had the camera in hand, started filming, I think soon as it started to move.
28:16Now it seems to turn in and drop into the sea.
28:19It's going to go into water.
28:21It is.
28:23Unbelievable.
28:24What the hell is that?
28:25So we've got an object that's gone below the surface, risen from the sea, travelled six miles, and then gone
28:31below the surface.
28:33We have footage of objects beneath the surface of the water, or luminous light beneath the surface, and we've no
28:41explanation for that.
28:42We've filmed that on three occasions.
28:45Paul Sinclair has got videos of these UFOs and lights, you know, going in to the water.
28:53So that makes you wonder, is there possibly some underwater UFO base in Yorkshire that has been there for thousands
29:01of years?
29:05In the 1980s, a peaceful community in upstate New York was transformed into a UFO hotspot when extraordinary V-shaped
29:16objects were seen flying overhead.
29:20But witnesses didn't just report the strange craft in the sky, they were equally concerned about bizarre sounds coming from
29:28deep underground.
29:35Kent Cliffs, New York, New Year's Eve 1982.
29:41Shortly before midnight in this small town just north of New York City, New Year's Eve revelers are struck by
29:49the sight of an unusual aircraft in the sky.
29:53The ship appears to be as large as a commercial jet, but has a V-shape, moves slowly, and makes
30:00no sound.
30:02The incident is the first in a wave of UFO sightings that would shape the surrounding area known as the
30:09Hudson Valley.
30:11The Hudson Valley is your classic hotspot. Here, UFOs appeared from 1983 to 1986 and was witnessed by thousands of
30:23people.
30:26A triangular boomerang shaped object, very well lit, flew very low over the community, and it was photographed, videotaped, and
30:38it was seen from people from all walks of life who were sure they saw something strange that was not
30:45from this planet.
30:47This caused people to pull off the side of the road and actually start calling home thinking there was some
30:54type of an invasion.
30:56And there were executive doctors, scientists, and so on, meteorologists, and they all reported something that they have never seen
31:05before.
31:06Over the span of three years, officials received more than 9,000 reports from eyewitnesses describing the same V-shaped
31:15craft.
31:15Not only was there a UFO sighting in Hudson Valley, but it came back night after night after night.
31:24These are people who would not normally come forward to say that they saw a UFO.
31:31Holy, good God. I don't know.
31:36Not quite.
31:37I'm going to tell you something, honey. I don't know what the hell it is.
31:41Yet, what they saw was so convincing and so frightening to them that they went on record to report what
31:49they saw.
31:50I mean, it's just amazing.
31:54During the two-year wave of UFO sightings in the Hudson Valley, author Philip Imbronio investigated the area on behalf
32:02of the Center for UFO Studies,
32:04which was founded by J. Allen Hynek after his work with Project Blue Book.
32:10Imbronio conducted hundreds of interviews with residents of the area and even witnessed the V-shaped craft himself.
32:18This object, whatever it was, the size of a football field, came over the highways and hovered,
32:26and at times projected down a brilliant beam of white light.
32:31Usually UFO researchers don't see the UFO that they're investigating.
32:35I saw this object three times, so it was amazing.
32:42As Imbronio spent months crisscrossing the area, he noticed something curious.
32:48The volume of mysterious reports during this time were not only focused on a strange craft in the sky,
32:54but also on bizarre sounds coming from somewhere deep below ground.
33:03People start to wonder, why are these hotspots hotspots?
33:08And one explanation is that what is actually going on is underneath the ground,
33:13that these hotspots are in fact entrances to vast underground cabins or even secret bases.
33:20In the Hudson River there, especially in the 80s, I spoke to a few researchers,
33:26and they said that the locals used to hear things coming up from underground,
33:30and they weren't really quite sure what it was, but they figured there was a base below ground,
33:37a military-slash-alien base.
33:42Arguably the most famous sighting in the Hudson Valley hotspot concerned beings from underground,
33:48as was the case with best-selling horror novelist Whitley Strieber,
33:53who wrote about his own experience in his book, Communion.
33:58My wife and I had bought a cabin in the western extreme edge of the Hudson Valley.
34:06And in December of 1985, I woke up in a room, not in my bedroom, in the middle of the
34:13night,
34:14and the room was filled with two kinds of figure, these willowy figures with big black eyes
34:20and dark blue short figures.
34:25And then I began to hear a voice say,
34:27what can you do to help you stop screaming?
34:29And I thought, I'm screaming, and I was screaming.
34:36And the next morning I woke up extremely confused and disturbed,
34:41without any real understanding of what happened to me.
34:44While many presume that Strieber's alien abductors descended from the skies,
34:50in fact, he described them as coming up from below.
34:54And their presence was marked by sounds deep beneath his mountain cabin.
35:01We used to hear drilling in underground.
35:07And we could hear this taking place under the cabin.
35:13The idea that hotspots mark entrances to the underworld is a phenomenon seen across the planet.
35:20This could be what's happening in, say, Lake Titicaca.
35:23And then you have other places like, say, Mount Shasta or certain volcanoes in Mexico,
35:30where UFOs are seen and there's a lot of activity.
35:38When you think about UFO hotspots,
35:42you might picture mysterious orbs above a thick forest
35:45or along a deserted stretch of highway.
35:49But for the people of the South American country of Columbia,
35:52strange craft in the sky can be seen in a very unlikely place.
36:01Columbia, January 28th, 2020.
36:06An Airbus A320 is cruising at 30,000 feet on a routine flight en route to Bogotá.
36:15As it approaches a prominent volcano called Nevado del Tolima,
36:20the pilot notices something strange in the clouds.
36:25The plane is on autopilot.
36:27When the pilot sees what's out his cockpit window,
36:31he picks up his phone and what he filmed was extraordinary.
36:37It's an object zipping along towards his plane.
36:42So the pilot is able to use the close-up on his camera
36:46and sees that the object is actually a flying cube
36:50that is coming towards him and flying right past his plane.
36:57Two years later, in May 2022,
37:01a private pilot also flying near the same Tolima volcano
37:06captures footage of a metallic, diamond-shaped object speeding past his aircraft.
37:13And the next year, a passenger on board a flight from Bogotá to Tolima
37:19films a metallic or black object in the same location.
37:24Three incredible UFO videos in just four years,
37:28all shot near Nevado del Tolima.
37:33These are three extraordinary videos of UFOs.
37:36In fact, one has been called the best UFO video of all time.
37:41All three were taken in broad daylight.
37:45All three show what could only be described as a metallic craft.
37:50And all three were filmed near the Tolima volcano.
37:56You have to ask yourself, what is going on here?
38:00Could these three remarkable sightings around the Tolima volcano
38:05be evidence of extraterrestrial activity?
38:09Ancient astronaut theorists suggest clues may be found
38:13by examining the volcano's mysterious history.
38:19The Tolima people of Colombia hold their volcanic mountain of the same name
38:27in great reverence because in their telling,
38:32it is the place where the life of Earth meets the sky deities,
38:36the life of the above land.
38:38The legends tell us that this was a place where humankind
38:42could meet and mingle with the so-called gods.
38:46And what's interesting to me is that very curious ancient artifacts
38:50were found at Tolima.
38:55In the late 19th century, tomb robbers exploring the base of Nevado del Tolima
39:01stumbled upon a gravesite that dated back 1,500 years.
39:07Among the funerary objects found there were hundreds of small,
39:12two to three inch long gold figurines.
39:16According to archaeologists in the ancient culture of the Tolima,
39:20they specialized in creating thousands of little gold objects
39:25that they would put in the tombs of the deceased,
39:28essentially to pay off the journey from the land of the living
39:31to the land of the dead.
39:33They were all in the shape of fish, birds, frogs, anything you can imagine.
39:40But 17 looked like modern day planes.
39:44We can clearly see that the wings are attached at the bottom of the fuselage.
39:49And in the back of the fuselage, you actually have stabilizers.
39:54This is not anything that exists in nature.
39:59Could it be that the ancient gold artifacts found at the base of Nevado del Tolima
40:05are really depictions of flying vehicles?
40:09The idea that people could actually envision modern airplanes at that time,
40:14just as a speculation, seems pretty fantastic, really.
40:21And you would think that they are really making these gold airplanes
40:25after something they had genuinely seen.
40:28The ancient astronaut theory suggests the reason why they were commemorating these things
40:34is because they witnessed craft flying in and flying out of these volcanoes.
40:39And you have to wonder if maybe our ancestors were seeing the same things we're seeing today.
40:48For many of us, the possibility of actually seeing a UFO is a thrilling once-in-a-lifetime event.
40:57So it's really exciting to think that there are places around the world
41:01where people frequently witness unidentified anomalous phenomena.
41:06From vast stretches of land like the 37th parallel
41:11and mysterious orbs over Great Britain
41:14to military encounters and civilian sightings,
41:19perhaps one day we will solve the mystery of just who or what
41:25is appearing at these UFO hotspots.
41:36The hope of breaking away from the future within the world is the the Milky Way of Losing
41:36Where people may not be on the moon or the moon or the moon or the moon.
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