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NARRATOR: Budd Hopkins publishes his first book

on alien abductions.

The title, Missing Time,

is based on a phenomenon experienced by nearly

every alleged alien abductee.

POPE: Often, these alien abduction accounts

are associated with a UFO sighting,

but part of the experience

will be wiped from the memory.

So, they have a period of so-called "missing time."

Then they get dreams

or flashbacks that something happened.

There are a number of theories about this.

Maybe some sort of mind control technique,

maybe some sort of hypnotic, implanted suggestion.

Often, abductees only have vague recollections

that something unusual and disturbing took place.

These entities might want to induce amnesia

to protect the human from the traumatic experience.

Or it might be for their own purposes, as well.

NARRATOR: One person who claims

to have experienced missing time

is retired Navajo Nations Ranger Jon Dover.

Through my 31-year career in law enforcement

up on the Navajo Nation,

I've had a lot of travel time on the roads.

And I started having incidences

where I'd lose half hour increments of time

over several years.

In one case,

I blinked,

and when I opened my eyes,

I was 15 miles further down the road.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that Jon Dover's missing time experiences

are connected to alien abductions?

While he has no recollection of what happened

during these periods of missing time,

curiously,

Jon has also had recurring dreams

involving a giant, disc-shaped craft.

DOVER: When I was young,

I had a reoccurring dream

that me and my sister left the house.

Across the street is a little park.

And in my dream, we go up there,

and there's a disc sitting there.

And that's where my dream ends.

Years later, my older sister tells me

that she had the same dream, and we started comparing notes.

She says there was a hatch.

And I remember the hatch.

And she says, "You ran right into that thing."

And I... For the life of me, I don't remember.

I've had people tell me

that what I experienced was an abduction event.

I am still skeptical,

and I don't have a good explanation,

other than it was something really weird.

NARRATOR: Might the fact

that people commonly experience missing time

but have no recollection of what happened to them

indicate that there could be many alien abductees

who never realize they have been taken?

Budd Hopkins considered this a very real possibility,

and went in search of a way

to help unlock the missing memories of abductees.

At the end of 20th century,

regression hypnosis became a popular tool

used by psychiatrists and psychologists

for helping people retrieve traumatic memories.

Budd Hopkins starts to use hypnosis as a tool

for retrieving missing time experiences

and retrieving memories en masse.

HOPKINS: A lot of times, Dad thought of it as,

it's a trauma situation, and so you chose to forget it.

And that's, I think, why he got involved in the hypnosis,

because it was kind of going past

that trauma to try to find out what actually happened.

HENRY: Now, hypnosis has its critics and its controversy.

The hypnotist can be implanting false memories

and leading subjects into areas that,

simply, they'd never experienced.

DOLAN: You got to be careful about this.

But Hopkins often did publish a lot of the transcripts

of the sessions that they did,

so you can actually read along what they were doing and,

you can say, "This looks legitimate.

"I'm not seeing anything

"in what this person is doing to elicit false positives.

"I'm therefore going to provisionally say,

"'This looks like it could be happening.'"

NARRATOR: Seaford, New York.

February 1958.

In a relatively unassuming suburban ranch home,

an unseen force begins to terrorize the Hermann family.

Screw tops mysteriously pop off bottles.

Objects fly across the room.

Furniture topples over.

CHRISTOPHER BADER: After this phenomenon went on for several weeks,

the Hermanns became confused,

perhaps even a little bit frightened.

They reported the phenomena to the police department.

A couple of police detectives came over.

YOUNG: A psychological investigation would look into

the family dynamics.

Is there something happening at this particular point

in their journey that causes distress

they're not aware of so that the physical vibrations

would affect their surroundings?

Eventually, the parapsychology lab at Duke University came in

to investigate the case.

The Duke lab talked about poltergeist phenomena

as possibly the release of emotional energy,

particularly from adolescents or young children,

or kids going through puberty.

The idea being that they were confused,

they didn't know what was happening to their bodies,

they had emotional energy and trauma.

They were operating under the assumption

that the poltergeist phenomena was due to telekinetic energy

being released by the young boy in the family.

These things were seen by a whole group of people.

Even some of the experts saw the phenomenon.

Can this be something from another dimension?

It's not clear. Is this a group hallucination?

Are they somehow channeling the sighting to each other?

The psychic expert said it's often an adolescent girl,

so she watched the girl to see if somehow

it was happening when she was there.

But it didn't really pan out,

so it didn't follow classic lines, and yet

there were lots of witnesses, experts,

and no explanation was ever found.

Years later, Steven Spielberg wove the tale

into a fine movie that was a big hit...

Poltergeist.

NARRATOR: If this poltergeist event was not simply the result

of telekinetic energy, as some investigators suspected,

then what can explain it?

Was the Hermann family really haunted by ghosts?

Or could they have encountered an entity

from another dimension?

We know science has been able to measure

all sorts of invisible things: the electromagnetic field,

the heat signature of objects and people.

So the fact that we don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.

Any contact that we have with an interdimensional being

is actually happening beyond our normal visual spectrum.

There is no question in my mind

that there is more than one species

right here on the Earth that is operating

within different frequency ranges.

That's why we don't really see them.

Most of our extraterrestrial encounters are interdimensional.

These beings are not coming from far away,

they are actually within our human plane,

only existing in another dimension.

And all we're doing is crossing from one dimension to another

within this earthly reality.

It doesn't mean that all extraterrestrial encounter

is interdimensional.

In fact, I believe it's both.

NARRATOR: Could the Hermann poltergeist and others like it

have been caused by beings from another dimension?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that such an audacious concept is possible,

and believe this could also help explain the existence

of everything from so-called ghosts to angels and demons.

For their proof,

they point to a particular phrase found

in multiple religious texts.

A phrase in the Hebrew Talmud, as well as the Quran,

which details the existence

of seven levels of heaven and Earth.

TZADOK: What are the seven levels of heaven?

Some associate them with the different planets

of our solar system.

But others refer to them as being parallel dimensions.

So when we speak of the other worlds,

which people have interacted with throughout the centuries,

maybe we're not really dealing with extraterrestrials

from outer space,

but ultra-terrestrials coming from parallel space.

NARRATOR: Could it be that what are commonly understood to be ghosts

are not spirits of the deceased,

but entities from other dimensions

that, while able to manipulate things in our world,

cannot be fully perceived by humans?

Ottawa, Ontario, 1982.

At the National Museum of Canada,

paleontologist and curator of vertebrate fossils Dale Russell

publishes a thought experiment.

Based on the trend toward larger brain sizes

and the upright posture of dinosaurs,

he proposes a theory about what one species of dinosaur

would have evolved into if it had survived

the mass extinction 65 million years ago.

What he did is take the dinosaur known as troodon.

They noticed the morphological changes

in the skeletal structure of the dinosaur.

And based on over time where it was going,

they extrapolated it out further.

And strangely enough or wonderfully enough,

they actually came up with a model that resembled

a humanoid reptilian being, which actually matched that

of the reports that we were hearing now

as well as reports from ancient history.

So for me, this was one of the most compelling pieces

of information, where science actually says it is possible.

The dinosaurs hadn't died out.

This would have become what he called the dinosauroid,

an upright standing, semi-humanoid, semi-reptilian

entity, what we might call a reptoid.

He thought it might stand four to five feet high,

weigh about 90 pounds, and have a fairly advanced brain.

Now, did this entity ever come into existence?

What if some of the dinosaurs didn't become extinct?

What if they managed to survive a global extinction or presumed

extinction 65 million years ago, and over time some of them

developed through natural selection

and they grew smaller, they became more intelligent,

they became more adept and adaptive,

and took on a humanoid form?

We necessarily shouldn't think that the reptilians are

extraterrestrials.

Perhaps in some strange way they're our forefathers,

albeit from millions and millions of years in the past.

NARRATOR: If the reptilians do exist,

could they be the descendants of dinosaurs that walked the earth

millions of years ago?

Our concept or dinosaurs is changing all the time,

of course.

And nowadays we're making so many new discoveries every year

that we're reinterpreting them in many ways.

Certainly if you look 20, 30 years back, there

were so many things that have been found,

and so many other things we know now.

in particular, I think it's been very important that nowadays

it's completely very well accepted,

the idea that dinosaurs are not extinct, that dinosaurs

essentially evolved into birds and that they're alive today.

And now that we know that not all the dinosaurs died out,

and as a matter of fact, some survived to become birds,

warm blooded birds, mind you, from a dinosaur which

is considered reptile and cold blooded,

we're recognizing that even if these are birds now,

we did recognize them now as being part of the dinosaur

family.

What could these other pockets that have survived

the devastation 65 million years ago,

could they have evolved parallel to mankind in hidden cavern

systems?

And could they be actually the beings

that we think are extraterrestrial but are

actually our terrestrial neighbors?

Paleontologists generally argue that the dinosaurs

died out totally 65 million years ago.

I think it's certainly within the realm of feasibility

that some found an ecological niche to survive in,

and may even exist today.

And I point out that while we hear UFO abductees talking

about little greys and tall humanoids, a minority of them

do report encounters with what we would call reptoids.

So it's possible that on some planet, if not earth, somewhere

else they evolved from dinosaurs.

To find another place in the universe that

was so rich with resources and so capable of supporting life

was probably a very exciting discovery

for extratrerrestrial visitors to earth in our prehistory.

In their eyes, this could have been the place they could

colonize or perhaps act as a working environment

for experiments they were doing with new species they were

trying to engineer.

Maybe they manipulated dinosaur DNA to favor certain mutations.

By playing with certain mutations in the genes

of dinosaurs, highly advanced extraterrestrials,

through genetic modification, may

have been able to alter the course of dinosaur evolution

to favor the rise of mammals.

Billions of people around the world

consider holy books like the Bible and the Quran

to be the word of God.

Hundreds of millions of Hindus view the Mahabharata

as a guide to spiritual enlightenment

handed down by the god Lord Krishna himself.

Each of these holy books contains religious principles

in the form of philosophies, parables, and moral codes.

JONATHAN YOUNG: Messages from beyond

or ordinary knowledge seemed to come in a variety of forms

of visitation, a dream, sometimes an object, tablet,

a golden plate, a book.

And so it helps.

A book is an ordinary object we are familiar with,

and yet if it's seen as divinely inspired,

we can take it as more than an ordinary book.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The great majority of mankind today

regards the Bible, the Torah, and the Quran

as the word of God.

But is it possible that these books were nothing else

but guiding books of how we should conduct our lives

and that these moral codes were, in fact, given

to us by extraterrestrials whom our ancestors thought

were gods.

MICHAEL CREMO: I don't think the Mahabharata is

a work of fiction.

It's an actual history, and the history given

in the Mahabharata includes not only actions of human beings

on earth, it also includes actions of extraterrestrials

on other planets and on this earth and interaction

with human beings here.

NARRATOR: Cultures all over the world

believe deities and other non-human entities frequently

communicated through intermediaries known

as prophets.

In the Quran, it's written that God has sent over 100,000

prophets throughout history.

Many Native American cultures believed

God spoke to them through shamans, much like the oracles

of ancient Greece.

JONATHAN YOUNG: An oracle is a person

but a person in some divine state, an altered state

of some kind, who is able to hear the voices of the gods

and then translate it into accessible human language.

NARRATOR: But could the same phenomenon apply to Judeo

Christian religious texts?

Might biblical stories of angels and miracles

actually be misinterpretations of ancient alien contact

or inspiration?

JONATHAN YOUNG: The visitations or apparitions

come to give some gift to open the mind,

to lead to a new perception, to lead to a new possibility,

either a new artistic take on something

or a new plan for humanity.

Often we're trapped in some kind of thinking that needs to break

beyond its known limits but we're

caught we are unable to see to get a transcendent perspective.

And that is what the visitation makes possible.

NARRATOR: If that is true, there might be additional evidence

of alien contact by examining breakthroughs in the fields

of astronomy, archaeology, and physics or perhaps

what is arguably the most universal of all languages,

mathematics.

Cambridge University England, February 1913.

Mathematics professor Godfrey H. Hardy

receives a letter containing complex mathematical theorems

and formulas from 26-year-old Srinivasa Ramanujan of India.

The distinguished scholar is stunned by what he reads.

Hardy looks at these theorems and says my god,

we've never seen anything like this.

This is mathematics of the highest order.

It's so convoluted and complex that nobody could have come up

with this by their imagination.

There has to be something here.

NARRATOR: An acknowledged genius and mathematical prodigy

since childhood, Ramanujan was devoutly religious

and often claimed his breakthroughs were communicated

to him in his dreams by the Hindu goddess Namagiri.

In the decades since, his theorems

have proved to be invaluable to those working in cutting edge

fields like string theory.

GODFREY H. HARDY: All of the science

that we need to eventually be able to create

portals, stargate travel, hyper dimensional access mechanisms,

levitation, teleportation, it all needs

a mathematical foundation, and the closest that we have right

now is the [inaudible] equations that we've

been able to decipher so far, which came to him directly

from this goddess who appeared to him in dreams.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
book /bʊk/ A1	noun - a set of pages fastened together along one side, containing printed or written material
time /taɪm/ A1	noun - the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues; duration verb - to schedule an event or activity to take place at a particular time
missing /ˈmɪsɪŋ/ A2	adjective - not present or found
dream /driːm/ A2	noun - a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep verb - to experience dreams during sleep
experience /ɪkˈspɪəriəns/ A2	noun - practical contact with and observation of facts or events verb - encounter or undergo (an event or occurrence)
abduction /æbˈdʌkʃən/ B1	noun - the act of taking someone away illegally by force or deception; kidnapping
alien /ˈeɪliən/ B1	noun - a being from another world adjective - belonging to a foreign country or nation
memory /ˈmeməri/ B1	noun - the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information
theory /ˈθɪəri/ B1	noun - a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.
unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒuəl/ B1	adjective - not usual or common; remarkable
traumatic /trɔːˈmætɪk/ B2	adjective - emotionally disturbing or distressing.
recurring /rɪˈkɜːrɪŋ/ B2	adjective - occurring again periodically or repeatedly.
recollection /ˌrekəˈlekʃən/ B2	noun - the action or faculty of remembering something; the act of recalling something to mind
hypnosis /hɪpˈnəʊsɪs/ B2	noun - the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person appears to be relaxed and in a trance, often able to respond to suggestions.
suggest /səˈdʒest/ B2	verb - put forward for consideration; propose.
dimension /daɪˈmenʃən/ B2	noun - a measurable extent of a particular kind, such as length, breadth, height, or depth.
entity /ˈentɪti/ C1	noun - a thing with distinct and independent existence.
evolution /ˌevəˈluːʃən/ C1	noun - the gradual development of something.