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00:05Tonight, on MonsterQuest, not all monsters emerge from the woods.
00:12Sometimes, they come from above.
00:14The men say they start furiously paddling back to shore, racing to get away from this
00:19world.
00:20These are the chilling accounts of those who claim sightings in the skies.
00:24I hadn't seen anything like it in all of humanity.
00:27Encounters so strange, they left witnesses questioning their reality.
00:33My thoughts when I first see this thing is just absolute terror.
00:41For many centuries, people have reported strange and sometimes terrifying encounters with what
00:47they describe as monsters.
00:49Its eyes just lit up in the moon and we're like, that is nothing I've ever seen.
00:56If I try to run, I'd be dead.
00:59Now, for the first time, some are sharing their experiences.
01:04Is there a pattern to their encounters?
01:07It was just terrifying.
01:10And if so, what could it mean?
01:18The Allagash Wilderness in northern Maine is one of the most isolated areas in the country.
01:25But for decades, reports have described unexplained objects moving through these dark skies.
01:33There have been over 1,000 sightings over the last 40 years, with the first UFO reports from this area
01:40dating back to 1946.
01:45Some sightings became impossible to ignore, like a mysterious craft intruding on Loring Air Force Base in 1975.
01:55Or an alleged UFO crash across the Gulf of Maine in Shag Harbor that sent military search teams racing to
02:03the scene.
02:05But of all the alleged sightings here over the years, no story captured the world's attention more than when four
02:13college students claimed they were abducted by aliens.
02:18The press dubbed them the Allagash Four, and the men would go on to share their story in countless interviews.
02:26He had to tell their story for the first time on television.
02:29Through all of these interviews, the men all consistently tell the same story, which they say starts back in 1976.
02:41The Allagash Four, Jim and Jack Wiener, and their friends Chuck Rack and Charlie Fultz, are Boston College students who
02:50decide to spend a week camping in the Allagash Wilderness.
02:54They set up next to a large body of water called Eagle Lake.
03:05On the fourth night of the trip, the friends decide to make use of this canoe they've rented to try
03:10night fishing out on the lake.
03:18Chuck Rack claims that they were out on the water for just a short period of time before he felt
03:24this sensation of being watched.
03:29Suddenly, they see a giant ball of light just above the horizon behind them.
03:38The men claim the large orb had a, quote, rolling light effect to it, like a bright miniature sun.
03:47Chuck is holding a flashlight at this point and decides to start waving it at the orb.
03:53They all say that immediately after Chuck does this, a beam of light comes out of the orb and illuminates
04:00their canoe.
04:03Terrified, the men say they start furiously paddling back to shore, racing to get away from this orb.
04:10They can see the shore, when all of a sudden, everything goes black.
04:19The men all say that the next memory that they have is standing on the shoreline, and they have no
04:26idea how they got there.
04:27They say they all estimate they were only out on the lake for about 20 minutes or so,
04:32but that when they make it back to camp, their bonfire has burned down to coals, as if they've been
04:39gone for hours.
04:40None of them can seem to account for this missing chunk of time.
04:45The guys all graduate college, they get married, start families, and they go their separate ways.
04:52But 12 years later, Jack Wiener says he starts having recurring nightmares of all four men being trapped in a
04:59sterile room,
05:00surrounded by strange beings with, quote,
05:03long necks, large heads, and metallic glowing eyes with no lids.
05:10And that's where the story really starts to turn,
05:13because Jim tells him that he's been having the same type of nightmares,
05:17with all four men paralyzed in this room, unable to escape.
05:22Haunted by what they saw, the men set out to find answers.
05:27Jim spearheads an effort to get to the bottom of what happened.
05:30He says he eventually reaches out to a researcher named Ray Fowler.
05:34Ray Fowler is an author who is widely regarded as an expert on the subject of alien encounters.
05:41His experience and expertise began when he was a lead investigator on a project for the National Investigative Committee for
05:47Aerial Phenomenon.
05:50Ray Fowler suggests the men go under hypnosis separately.
05:55And in each individual session, all four end up describing similar experiences.
06:02In Jim's session, he says they're trapped in this room, and none of them know what to do.
06:07He's stuck on this gurney and sees these beings approaching him.
06:13He says he feels scared and also angry, like they shouldn't be doing this, he recalls.
06:17But he claims he's helpless to move.
06:21In Jack's account, he says, they're right there.
06:25Their faces are right in my face.
06:28Like Jim, he can't move.
06:31Charlie describes the room they're trapped in like a doctor's office.
06:34He recalls the beings putting a panel over his chest,
06:37and that while he was restrained, they scraped his arms and legs.
06:42He just kept thinking, quote, we shouldn't be here.
06:45I want to be back on the canoe, end quote.
06:48Charlie says Chuck has his head way back, like he's in pain,
06:52but they're unable to help him.
06:54All they can do is watch.
07:00Ray Fowler goes on to publish a book about the Allagash Sessions in 1993,
07:06bringing more public attention to the story.
07:09But with attention comes scrutiny.
07:14After the men make the rounds on several talk shows,
07:17many skeptics say it's either all a hoax,
07:19or that maybe the memories had been implanted due to the hypnosis.
07:23But the men never waver on their stories.
07:25It didn't make any sound at all.
07:27There was no sound, totally silent.
07:30They even take polygraph tests to back up their claims.
07:33There's absolutely, positively, no doubt in my mind
07:36that they are being absolutely honest with me.
07:40To this day, the men stand by the remarkable story of their alleged abduction.
07:46And they're far from the only ones who claim to have seen something strange in the skies,
07:51or taken great pains to understand it.
07:55Hundreds of miles south, one man would soon find himself among them.
08:02On the southern tip of the Appalachian mountain range sits the small town of Fife, Alabama.
08:09In 1989, more than 50 of the town's residents, including the police chief,
08:15report a massive triangular craft hovering in the skies.
08:21The bizarre incident hits the news and catapults Fife into the national spotlight.
08:27The Fife sighting become one of the most well-documented mass sightings of a UFO in the American South.
08:34After the story comes out, the U.S. military suggests that the low-flying, silent craft people saw that night
08:40might have been helicopters flying in formation.
08:43But of the 50-plus people who spotted the unusual object, not a single one reported rotor noise.
08:52One of the defining characteristics that the witnesses said they saw,
08:55really one of the main things that convinced them these objects were not man-made,
08:59is that they could hover in the sky completely silently.
09:03Jim Powell is one of many Fife locals who grows up hearing about the town's famous UFO sighting.
09:10For him, the story hits closer to home.
09:17When all this was kind of in its height going on, my father-in-law, he saw a light out
09:21in the field.
09:24So he starts walking up to this thing.
09:28When he gets close, he says that a beam of light shoots out, hits him in the forehead.
09:36That is the last thing that he remembers.
09:39He remembers waking up that morning in the middle of his field with nothing around him.
09:45And he's just scared out of his mind.
09:51The alleged incident with Jim's father-in-law happens just miles from where Jim lives with his wife.
09:58He becomes fascinated by a dangerous idea.
10:03Recreating his father-in-law's encounter.
10:06I mean, yeah, I love a good mystery.
10:09You know, this is the biggest mystery of them all.
10:11I wanted my own experience with it.
10:16Through his research, he discovers an app claiming to make telepathic communication possible.
10:23With the app, it was basically like a guided meditation video.
10:26And you're basically just clearing your mind and you're trying to project your consciousness out to the point where it
10:33feels like you're no longer in your body.
10:35I was very skeptical of it.
10:37I have an aversion to anything that sounds new-agey, crystals and stuff like that.
10:43But yet, got nothing else to do.
10:45Let's try it.
10:48It's a decision he'll soon come to regret.
10:52I didn't know it would be the biggest mistake of my life.
10:59In 2014, 25 years after his small town is allegedly visited by a mysterious object in the skies,
11:08Jim Powell is trying to engineer his own close encounter using a meditation app.
11:15The first night when I try this meditation, I felt like I was able to travel like a rocket out
11:20there into the blackness of space.
11:24And eventually, I come into contact with a very large-looking creature.
11:30It was eight foot tall or so, pitch black skin.
11:34And then, eventually, I'll just pass out.
11:38And when I woke up, it's like, wow, that was super interesting.
11:41But, like, how do I know that's not my own brain?
11:44Like, how do I know that I just didn't create that in my own imagination?
11:49Like, interesting, yes.
11:51Anything to it?
11:53Probably not.
11:54So, it's like, I don't think I want to do this anymore.
11:57So, the next night, we had climbed in bed and we're pretty much asleep almost instantly.
12:02We both had a long day, both tired.
12:05We're just out.
12:06And we're asleep until probably 2.30 in the morning.
12:10And that's when things start to get a little bit different.
12:15Jim and his wife are awakened by a shrill sound coming from outside their bedroom window.
12:23Sounds kind of like maybe two critters fighting.
12:28It's just roars and screeches just right there.
12:32I mean, it's just crazy sounding.
12:44I had an Australian shepherd.
12:45Her name was Amaya.
12:47Her favorite thing to do really was to go outside at night and kill little woodland creatures.
12:55So, I get up and I go outside and I'm expecting the dog to have, like, something pinned right there
13:02at the window and just shaking it or something.
13:04But, when I look out there, there's nothing.
13:16Like, okay.
13:18That's weird.
13:19So, I'm going around the house.
13:22I'm hollering at the dog.
13:23Amaya, come.
13:26There's no dog anywhere.
13:30Amaya, come.
13:32I don't hear the jingling of her collar.
13:34I've heard her, like, be running to me.
13:35Nothing.
13:36Amaya, come.
13:37I walk around the yard a little bit, go and inspect the barn.
13:41I'm just like, I don't know.
13:44I don't know where the dog is.
13:45This is not normal for her.
13:47But, it's an ungodly hour of the night and I'm tired.
13:52So, I'll figure it out in the morning.
13:54So, I'm going back towards the house.
13:58I notice it's completely just silent outside.
14:03Springtime in Alabama at night, there's cicadas, there's tree frogs, bullfrogs.
14:10All kind of noise is normally happening at this time of the year.
14:15But, there is nothing.
14:16It is dead silent.
14:20Then, as I'm going around the corner, I notice that there's a light in the sky.
14:28And, it's just hanging there right above the tree line.
14:32It was about baseball, maybe softball size at most.
14:36And, it's just hanging up there, completely silent.
14:41There's no sound from anything anywhere.
14:44And, then, I take the flashlight that I'm holding and I shine up the driveway.
14:50And, there is something standing in the middle of the road.
14:54It looks like a seven to eight foot tall shadow.
14:59Like, it's, it's like a matte black shape.
15:02It's the strangest thing that I've ever seen.
15:05And, it's huge.
15:07And, it's huge.
15:07This thing does have a large head and long neck.
15:12That's maybe twice the length of a human's.
15:15The arms are very, very long.
15:20My thoughts, when I first see this thing, it's just absolute terror.
15:26And, all I can do is sit there and hold the flashlight on this thing.
15:33And, then, it turns its head to look at me.
15:36And, then, its eyes go wide.
15:39Like, in complete surprise.
15:41And, then, this thing turns and runs up the dirt road.
15:45And, just a flash.
15:47Boom, boom, boom.
15:48Gone.
15:51I run inside the house, and I am just shaking beyond any fear that I've ever experienced.
15:58I get my large M9 pistol.
16:01And, I am just standing in front of the door, like this.
16:07I am scared to the point where, if I hear a noise, I will unload all 17 rounds through the
16:13walls.
16:14I'm just standing there, waiting for anything.
16:22And, then, there's a voice that I can hear all of a sudden.
16:27And, this voice feels like it's in my head.
16:31I don't know how else to describe it.
16:33It's just an all-consuming voice.
16:36What it says to me is,
16:39If I wanted to kill you, you would already be dead.
16:44Go back to sleep now.
16:49The next thing that I know is, I'm waking up.
16:54It's the next morning.
16:55Alarm clock's going off.
16:56The wife's gone.
16:57I'm by myself.
16:58I'm just freaked out.
17:00Like, where's it at?
17:01What just happened?
17:05That was, like, the biggest threat to have ever shown up in my life.
17:11And, it controlled me.
17:13And, I couldn't do anything about it.
17:15It was just the worst thing that I've ever experienced.
17:21After the experience, I did tell my wife about this, you know.
17:25And, thankfully, she took me serious.
17:27You know, but she was also, you know, just kind of horrified about it, too.
17:31She was like, I don't want to talk about it.
17:34As far as Amaya goes, she did come back.
17:37But, it wasn't until, like, three days later.
17:40This dog was covered in mud.
17:42She was shaking like a leaf when she finally came up to me.
17:46Ever since then, she was never the same after this experience.
18:11In the Cold War era, strange lights in the sky weren't just a mystery.
18:17They were a potential threat.
18:19But, in response, the Air Force formed Project Blue Book,
18:24a top-secret program tasked with probing the escalating flood of UFO reports.
18:31The operation's mission was to determine if UFOs posed a threat to humans
18:37and the United States' national security.
18:40But, in the summer of 1955,
18:43an alleged sighting on a quiet farm in Kelly, Kentucky,
18:46would push that mission to its limit.
18:52What's reported to have happened at this tiny tobacco farm in Kelly, Kentucky,
18:56is considered one of the most significant and well-documented UFO encounters in history.
19:02The case goes on to introduce the idea of little green men to popular culture.
19:08And, according to director Steven Spielberg,
19:11it even inspires his blockbuster film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
19:17But, for the family who lives through it, this was no work of fiction, and the fear never left them.
19:24This encounter belongs to my dad, my grandmother, and several Lansing uncles that were in the house that night in
19:31Kelly, Kentucky in 1955.
19:33I found out about it when I was eight years old.
19:37Over the years, if you got any of them to talk, the story never changed.
19:41I mean, this is something that very few people have happened to them in their lifetime.
19:46And it will go down as history.
19:50This happened on my grandmother's small farm.
19:53She owned about 27 acres.
19:56It was just a regular Sunday evening, and it just so happened my dad, his first wife, and their friends,
20:03Billy Ray and June Taylor, came in for the weekend.
20:06They sat down to eat.
20:07And Billy Ray decides to go out to the well and get some water.
20:11So he's out there in the well, which is in the front yard.
20:15As he's standing there, he hears something, looks up toward where he hears this sound,
20:19and there's this silver, oval-shaped object with what he calls the colors of the rainbow flowing behind it.
20:27And he says it was only like 30 to 40 foot above him.
20:31Scared him.
20:33It's at this point, Geraldine says that Billy Ray runs back to the house in fear,
20:39begging her dad to come outside to investigate.
20:42So they head back out to the well.
20:44Well, lo and behold, out from the back of the woods behind the house comes this little three-and-a
20:50-half-foot-tall figure.
20:52Big roundhead, arms down to the ground with very long talons.
20:57They were gray, but they glowed a luminescent glow, a greenish glow.
21:03And it's floating above the ground.
21:05The legs aren't moving.
21:07They were scared to death.
21:12So they both run into the house, slam the door, and they're trying to explain what they just saw.
21:19Geraldine says at this point, her grandmother goes outside to check for herself.
21:25All of a sudden, she screams.
21:28Everybody hears.
21:29They come out there, and she tells them, says,
21:32I saw it.
21:33There is something out here.
21:36About that time, they hear a shot ring out in the front of the house.
21:40Geraldine says this is when her uncle shot one of the beams through the front window.
21:46Dad runs out there.
21:47Somebody screams.
21:48There's one in the tree.
21:49He turns around.
21:50Sure enough, in the big maple tree, they're set one on the limb.
21:54Shoots it.
21:55It floats to the ground, rolls, scurries off into the brush.
22:01Things were not dropping at all, so they didn't run in the house.
22:06But they are coming up to the doors and windows.
22:13So they were shooting these things through the screens.
22:16They were trapped in this house, and they didn't know what to do.
22:19They didn't have a radio or any other communication.
22:22They had no phone.
22:23My dad finally tells them, the only thing we can do is try to get to Hopkinsville,
22:28which was seven miles from their house, and get to the police and see if we can get help.
22:34It gets quiet.
22:35So he's thinking, let's go.
22:45They pull up, and they run into the police department.
22:48One little officer on duty, and they're all trying to tell this crazy story.
22:52So he calls up Chief Russell Greenwell.
22:55The chief tells them, get a hold of Fort Campbell Army Base, get a hold of the paper,
23:00call every state trooper you can find.
23:03By the time it's all sitting down, they've got about 25 people heading out to Kelly in the middle of
23:08the night.
23:13In 1955, the Sutton family in Kelly, Kentucky claims their farm has been overrun by little green men from another
23:22world.
23:24In the aftermath, according to direct descendant Geraldine Stead, they brace for a different kind of invasion.
23:34The police get there.
23:37They get out of their vehicles.
23:40There's shotgun and rifle shells all over the yard.
23:43Shotgun and rifle shells inside the house.
23:46Woodwork and screens are shot up inside the house.
23:50They searched and searched.
23:53No bodies.
23:55No blood.
23:56No kind of fur or feathers or anything saying it was any kind of animal.
24:00So Chief goes up to my grandmother and says,
24:02Miss Glennie, I am so sorry, but there's nothing here.
24:05There's nothing we can do.
24:07So they all left.
24:10Geraldine says the next morning, her father swears the family to secrecy, hoping to shield them from public ridicule.
24:18Their story might have ended there, if not for what happened next.
24:23All of a sudden, my grandmother heard this commotion out in the front yard.
24:27There's car after car after vehicle after vehicle pulling up in their driveway, pulling up down the road,
24:32jumping out, putting up tents, putting up tables.
24:36Word had gotten out.
24:37It was everywhere.
24:38Everybody was coming because they were wanting to see the little men.
24:42It was big news.
24:44Put down is the top story of the community in 1955.
24:49In the home of Cecil Lucky Sutton.
24:51All right, now let's go back to the beginning here now.
24:53You said a spaceship.
24:55It spread like wildfire.
24:57Bud Ludwith came in, and he was the engineer that worked at the local radio station there in Hopkinsville.
25:04He wanted a story, so he went in there to interview everybody.
25:08And he set them down off in a room by themselves, individually, and got them to tell their story.
25:13And he was, like, blown away.
25:16Because everybody's story, it was the same.
25:23My grandmother, Billy Ray, my dad, he sat down with every one of them, and hardly any differences about any
25:31of them.
25:32And that's where you get the infamous drawings to this day.
25:38Later on, it was reported that the evening that the encounter happened, there were state troopers that actually seen lights
25:48that couldn't explain.
25:49And so, yeah, there were other people seeing and hearing things that evening.
25:55In the days after the alleged encounter, the U.S. Air Force, including their classified UFO research unit, Project Blue
26:03Book, reviews the state police findings.
26:06They searched the grounds.
26:08They searched the grounds.
26:09They had aircraft in the air that morning after, and the next day.
26:14The results are inconclusive.
26:16No proof of visitors, but also no evidence of a hoax.
26:20The case is left officially unresolved.
26:23Two weeks after this event happened, my grandmother sold the farm.
26:29She was scared to death.
26:31Is it hard to believe things like this can happen?
26:33Yes.
26:34But my family knows the truth.
26:36Something happened in Kelly, Kentucky, August 21st, 1955, there's no doubt.
26:42The little green men of Kelly, Kentucky were seen once and never again.
26:47But two decades later, in Arizona, come stories of unidentified aircraft returning again and again.
26:58Among the state's reports of UFOs, there was one case that would capture the world's attention.
27:04According to other members of the six-man logging crew, on November 5th, 1975, Travis Walton disappeared shortly after he
27:11was struck in the chest by a beam of light, which they said lifted him off the ground like a
27:15rag doll.
27:19Travis's disappearance kicks off the largest manhunt in Arizona history, but they find nothing.
27:26No footprints, no clothes, no blood, nothing.
27:31Then, five days later, and 15 miles from where he vanished, he suddenly emerges, and he says, they're still out
27:39there.
27:40One of the guys in the back yelled out, it's a spaceship.
27:43Travis claims he's been abducted and examined on an alien craft.
27:47Although he passes a lie detector test, the validity of his story is still debated.
27:54Travis Walton's story remains one of the most harrowing alien abduction claims ever recorded.
28:02Nearly 50 years later, in the same state, a police officer retires to Arizona with his wife and would make
28:09a similar claim, wearing the evidence on his skin.
28:15Most of our nights are just enjoying each other's company.
28:19We go outside, watch the stars, listen to the coyotes howling.
28:24Typical Old West retirement, I guess.
28:27But that all changes in the spring of 2022.
28:30One day, I woke up and had many, many marks on my foot.
28:39And the next morning when I woke up, they were completely gone.
28:45We were like, that's weird.
28:48A few weeks later, he has another strange experience.
28:52That evening was very typical.
28:55We ate dinner, we sat down, watched a movie.
28:59And then we went to bed, I believe, around 9.30.
29:03That's when it happened.
29:08I was woken up by the feeling of being dropped on my bed.
29:15When I opened my eyes, it was unbelievable.
29:25Weeks after finding strange marks on his body, retired police officer Dwight Hull goes to bed, then opens his eyes
29:34to the impossible.
29:35I saw three glowing beings standing next to my bed.
29:41They were a shining glow.
29:43They were actually emitting this light from them.
29:48As Dwight grapples to understand what he's seeing, they fade out of sight.
29:56I sat there trying to figure out, what did I just see?
30:00Was this real?
30:01When my police officer training was kicking in, saying, all right, come on, remember all the details before you basically
30:08pass back out.
30:10It was almost like coming out of anesthesia.
30:13I couldn't keep my eyes open.
30:17And I fell back asleep.
30:23I woke up the next morning.
30:25My wife had already gotten up.
30:26I went up to her and said, honey, I have something to tell you and I need you to keep
30:32an open mind.
30:33And I told her what happened.
30:39And she believed me right away.
30:43I think one of the first things she said to me was, do you have any marks?
30:46And I was like, marks, right.
30:49So we started looking, you know, and everything else.
30:51And that's when I saw I had three red dots in a triangular shape.
30:57Dwight's markings are similar to those of others who claim to be abducted.
31:01Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, UFO researcher Bud Hopkins documented many, many abductees who all had this three dot cluster
31:11appear on their bodies that made the shape of a triangle.
31:14And he speculates that these marks may have been the result of a medical like device.
31:21But in Dwight's encounter, he noticeably has no memories from before he dropped onto the bed.
31:29There was a lot of questions to be answered.
31:31You know, let's get the facts here.
31:33Did it really happen?
31:35So my wife decided that it might be a good idea for me to see a hypnotherapist.
31:43And I begrudgingly agreed.
31:48The therapist puts Dwight under and records the session.
31:53So now I'm going to ask you to try to visualize that you are in your bedroom.
32:00Reach to your subconscious mind and ask it to show you what you want to see.
32:08I think I see him now.
32:14There I go.
32:17Big black eyes.
32:21I feel that was scary.
32:25I started remembering what I saw.
32:28They put me on a table.
32:31Their eyes were huge.
32:34Just blacker than any black I have ever seen.
32:38They almost looked liquid.
32:41They pulled this, and the best way I can describe it, is a gel blanket.
32:46And it had wires or fibers going through it.
32:51And they put this blanket over me and melted completely over my face.
32:57Every place it was touching it just conformed to it.
33:03As I'm laying there, little low-voltage feelings would go through the blanket into me.
33:10And every time that that would shock me, I heard in my head, how do you feel?
33:18But this went on for a little while, and they took the blanket off.
33:23I got off the table, and the one on my left side took his finger and just tapped a spot
33:31on my arm.
33:38And all of a sudden, I was in my room, on my bed, looking at him.
33:45And that's where the memory ended.
33:48After I came up out of this hypnosis, the first thing I remember asking the therapist was,
33:55could it have been a dream?
33:57She looked at me dead in the eyes, and she said,
34:00Dwight, where I had you, there is no way that that could have been anything other than a repressed memory.
34:08I wasn't losing my mind.
34:10I wasn't just seeing things.
34:12This really happened.
34:22Oregon is famous among stargazers for its lack of light pollution,
34:28making the state a favorite for those seeking a clear, unobstructed view of the night sky.
34:34But those same skies have long been a stage for unexplained sightings.
34:42There's this agency that tracks UFO sightings.
34:45It's called the National UFO Reporting Center.
34:48Since 1974, there have been over 3,600 such sightings in Oregon.
34:54The stories are remarkably similar.
34:58Metallic disks seen by police and civilians over Portland.
35:02Glowing lights hovering near Mount Hood reported by pilots.
35:06And a glowing object above Redmond that prompted the Air Force to scramble jets.
35:13Among the most famous occurs in 1950, when farmers Paul and Evelyn Trent photograph a flying saucer hovering over their
35:22farm in the town of McMinnville.
35:25The images that Paul and Evelyn captured were published in Life magazine.
35:30And this created a huge sensation.
35:33Of course, there were also skeptics.
35:35But the thing is, no one could ever prove conclusively that those photographs had been doctored in any way.
35:42The skeptics held on to their doubts, but not Anne Selene.
35:50Decades later, at her apartment complex in Tigard, Oregon, just 30 minutes from the site of the Trent's farm, Anne
35:58captures a shocking image.
36:01I am the writer.
36:02I grew up in the Pacific Northwest.
36:08I loved night.
36:10So I would sit out on the patio and I would really contemplate what it was that I wanted to
36:15write about.
36:17One night, Anne notices something moving outside her building.
36:22And it was actually from my peripheral that movement caught my eye.
36:30When I looked over, the movement that I saw was smoke.
36:37And it was just this really big cloud, like an opalescent fog, but thick.
36:45I was thinking, gosh, maybe somebody had been vaping and there was this huge cloud, but there was no person.
36:54This circular, cloud-like form contracted into a shape that very clearly became this humanoid-looking figure.
37:05It looks just like us.
37:07It walks just like us.
37:09It had two arms and two legs.
37:12The pointed chin.
37:15Really big eyes.
37:17This strange-shaped skull.
37:19There was no hair.
37:21No clothing.
37:22I hadn't seen anything like it in all of humanity.
37:26It was looking straight ahead.
37:30And there was no inclination that it had any idea that I was there.
37:35It was walking down this pathway on the other side of the white picket fence.
37:41It walked up to the third tree.
37:45And then it was completely gone.
37:49In that moment, I froze.
37:52If I turn around, will it be standing there?
37:55Can I get inside my house?
37:58But then the very next thought that actually broke me out of my freeze mode is the children.
38:04And race is back inside.
38:08When I walked into the kids' room, everything was fine.
38:14And I did smile at the kids to try to reaffirm that everything was fine.
38:19I hoped that maybe I could protect me and my children by shutting the blinds.
38:29And that is when my eye was drawn to the unit across from us.
38:37And in that moment, I froze again.
38:42I knew that that unit was vacant.
38:50Without a shadow of a doubt, it was the exact same humanoid-looking figure that I had watched walk down
38:57the sidewalk.
39:00And now, here it was on the second floor in a vacant apartment that just brought me to absolute tears.
39:11Here was this complete unknown.
39:14If it can manifest out of anywhere, could it manifest in my home?
39:18If it did manifest in my home, what would it do?
39:22I shut the blinds on the living room door.
39:26And then I went into my room, and I shut those blinds.
39:30I'm locking everything out.
39:34I called my sister.
39:35She knew immediately that something was wrong.
39:41My sister said, can you take a picture?
39:44And I said, I don't know. I'll try.
39:46She told me to breathe.
39:48She told me to relax.
39:49She said, just have your hand on the blind.
39:52Lift the phone up with me on speakerphone.
39:55Hit the button, and then just release the blind.
39:57I took a picture.
40:03And it was a shock.
40:07I said, does it look like it can see me in this photograph?
40:12I think that it's staring at me.
40:16She agreed, and it really felt ominous.
40:20It really felt like in the photo, it was saying, it did see you.
40:26I stayed up most of that night, all the lights on in the house.
40:31Anne's photo is of something she can never begin to explain.
40:36From a terror-filled night, she will never forget.
40:40So when you have a picture that you can show other people and say, nothing, but what do you see?
40:48And everybody comes back with the same thing that you see, that's very powerful.
40:54It shakes your reality.
40:56The subject of her photo, whatever it might be, never returns.
41:02Reflecting back on that night, some might say that it was an alien or something along those lines.
41:12I think that it's an internal battle that I deal with between wanting to know what it was and not
41:18wanting to know,
41:19because it really changes the perception of safety.
41:26We may not truly know what's out there in our skies,
41:30But every claim, every reported encounter, keeps our search for answers alive.
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