NARRATOR:
22-year-old forestry worker Travis Walton is driving home after sundown with a group of coworkers when suddenly a strange light
appears in the sky. I noticed, uh,
some little glimmers of light coming
through the trees. And the light
seemed to be coming from higher than where
ground level would be. It was only when we got to where this light was crossing the road that we had an unobstructed
view of the craft. It was a clearly visible, clearly defined metallic object, a disc hovering there,
outlined against the sky. I threw open the door,
thinking I'd get a closer look
before it took off. As I got closer to it,
the sound it was making, it was a sound you,
you both heard and felt. And, uh, the crew
said they could feel the vibration in the truck. They said it seemed like something was about to happen. And, uh, it was. (chuckles) That's when this energy hit me. The crew said that it was like
I'd stepped on a land mine. Like an explosion so violent that, uh, they thought it, uh,
it had killed me. When this beam of energy hit me, I felt like a physical blow,
but with a sort of a... tingling sort
of an electric shock sort of feeling at the same time. I don't know whether I came to
soon after I was taken aboard. But I know I was on some kind of an elevated gurney
or operating table. I was looking straight into
the-the face of this creature. And I just flipped out. MICHAEL SALLA:
He sees these Grey extraterrestrials
around him, and he panics. And he begins
to struggle very violently. And so those
grey extraterrestrials leave that room. And then shortly afterwards, you have two human-looking
extraterrestrials walking in. WALTON:
In the case of these human-looking ones,
I started to have serious misgivings that,
that this was a rescue. And that's when they put
this mask over my face. And I just blacked out
real quickly. NICK POPE:
Now the suspicion here was that actually these
weren't different aliens. These were the same aliens,
but they were capable of shape-shifting
into something else, specifically to calm him down. But if true,
was he abducted by beings that are able to shape-shift
and mimic humans? While Travis Walton's account
is extraordinary, it is not entirely unique. SALLA:
There are many stories
of these abductees, who see these non-human looking
extraterrestrials, these Greys, who then are replaced
by beings that look human. And this seems
to be extraterrestrials using this shape-shifting
ability to make it look as though human
extraterrestrials are there. NARRATOR:
In 2013, Public Policy Polling released data that showed
12 million Americans believe that shape-shifting beings
live amongst us. FENTON:
One of the most intriguing
conspiracies today is that of the
shape-shifting aliens. The idea that perhaps there is
a class of entities on our world today that is able to represent
itself as humans at will. These extraterrestrials that are hidden from the rest
of the-the normal human society around them. POPE:
There is a theory that there
are aliens among us. Aliens in human form. That there's an advance guard,
a fifth column. Call it what you like,
but the idea that perhaps as a prelude
to a full-scale alien invasion, they infiltrate, they get their
people into positions of power. And one could be walking right
past you and you wouldn't know. People think of disclosure
as being the archetypal landing on the White House lawn,
uh, spaceships in the sky. What if it's actually not that? What if aliens are already here? NARRATOR:
At Skinwalker Ranch, a number of strange happenings
have been reported. Everything from sightings
of prehistoric beasts and poltergeist activity to shape-shifting monsters and mysterious orbs of light
in the sky. But one detail
seems to be consistent: the manner in which
these frightening phenomena suddenly come about,
as if out of thin air. Could it be that some sort
of portal through space and time really does exist in this area, as many ancient astronaut
theorists believe? And while most
of Robert Bigelow's activities on the property
have remained top secret, investigative journalist
George Knapp was able to learn of at least one
extraordinary encounter. There was one night, the...
one of the most dramatic things that happened,
there, two of the scientists-- these are PhD-level people. They walk around
the middle homestead and two guys are up on
Skinwalker Ridge looking down. They've got infrared
equipment, watching. And one of them with the
infrared sees what looks like a dirty snowball of light just hovering a couple
of feet off the ground and he walkie-talkies
these guys down there, "Hey, do you see it?" "Yeah, we see it,
it's kind of vague." Then he says, "Hey, something's
happening, it's changing." Our guys are on the ridgeline
looking down, and you see a light appear
above the ground expand. KNAPP:
This ball of light
was stretching out. It became a tunnel of light. Into this tunnel comes
a humanoid figure. Some kind of monster reached up, pulled his shoulders
and come out. KNAPP:
Seven or eight feet tall,
black, featureless. When it gets out, the tunnel
collapses into a ball again. It was almost as if it was
a dimensional tunnel, that it was coming
from some other reality. NARRATOR:
According to both
the Navajo and Ute tribes, such portals do exist. You have to go back to the story
of the emergence of the Navajo. The story there is that
they went through several underground worlds, and in coming to this world,
through a hole in the ground, or through a portal, if you may. CESSPOOCH:
There are holes-- portals, if you want
to call them that-- within the universe that allow you to go
into different dimensions, and those have existed for eons. So those who know about them
can travel back and forth. NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorists
point out that emerging scientific
theories support the Native beliefs that other
dimensions not only exist but that travel
between them is possible. REDFERN:
Quantum physics, essentially, allows for the existence
of multiple dimensions that coexist with ours. What we're seeing at places
like the Skinwalker Ranch are strange creatures, unusual entities coming through
the portals and the doorways. It's entirely possible
that creatures and beings from other realms of existence could quite literally jump from
their dimension into our world. More and more,
scientists are talking in these extraordinary esoteric
terms about very powerful places where realities
blend or blur together. From the descriptions
of Skinwalker Ranch, this could well be
one of those bleed-over places. NARRATOR:
While the theory of a portal
at Skinwalker Ranch may seem incredible, futurist Caroline Cory takes it
even one step further. CAROLINE CORY:
We know that the physical
universe is based on geometry. We are now predicting
that there is a matrix, a grid patterning system
around the planet that is a web-like structure with specific entry
and exit points that allow
certain phenomena to happen that seem supernatural
or paranormal. If there are tears exactly
at these locations, you're going to have all kinds
of anomalies that would happen because of these tears. You're going to perhaps,
uh, see an anomaly in the sky or you could also see
a prehistoric animal cross over
because there's a tear in this fabric of space itself. Varanasi, India-- 500
miles Southeast of Delhi-- located on the
banks of the Ganges, Varanasi is one of the
oldest cities on Earth-- a city that,
according to legend, was founded by the gods. Long known as a center of
knowledge and learning, Varanasi was once home
to an ancient physician by the name of Sushruta,
who many historians credit with developing
the art of surgery. In ancient India,
the early physician was a guy named Sushruta. And he was a surgeon
and physician who would do skin grafts,
cataract removals, even early plastic
surgery on people. So once again, we have someone
whose medical knowledge seems so advanced for his time. NARRATOR: Sushruta
is also considered to be the first
practitioner of Ayurveda-- one of the oldest known systems
of medicine in the world. According to Hindu
legend, Sushruta is said to have received this
knowledge from a god known as Dhanvantari. Dhanvantari was a high-level
God, as we would know them, who provided all the information
on this complete healing modality based on an
understanding of the physical and subtle aspects of the body. And it was passed
through to Indian culture in ancient times, and has
been preserved and expanded since then. NARRATOR: Though he
is most often depicted as having four arms and
holding medicinal herbs, the god Dhanvantari was
also a shapeshifter. According to legend, during
his journeys to Earth, he could take on other forms,
including that of a bird. Is it possible that both
Dhanvantari and the half man, half bird Egyptian
god of healing, Thoth, were connected
in some way? And if so, how? WILLIAM HENRY: Whether
it's Dhanvantari or Thoth, we learn of these
extraterrestrial divinities very often being portrayed as
birdlike beings who delivered the knowledge of ancient
medicine to Earth. This tells us that our
original knowledge of medicine, human anatomy, and
how to heal the body came from
extraterrestrial sources. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Sushruta was very clear in stating that
he learned this knowledge from the gods. Who were the gods? Extraterrestrials. PHILIP COPPENS: Every
culture will tell you that the first surgeon,
that medicine, that healing was a gift of the gods. That is extraordinarily
interesting, because it really shows that the
benefit of mankind was accomplished through the
intervention and the knowledge of the deities. This 500-acre expanse
has been plagued by reports of strange
phenomena for decades. Phenomena that include both UFO sightings and accounts
of a shape-shifting monster. Any paranormal activity that you can imagine
has happened, allegedly, at this Skinwalker Ranch. You've seen UFOs. They have seen
different creatures. They have seen weird things
happening up in the sky. There is a history
that not only goes back over the past 100 years,
but over the past 1,000 years of activity happening
in that area, some of which is connected
to Navajo legends. Tales of shape-shifters called skinwalkers have existed since time immemorial. NARRATOR:
In the oral traditions of both the local Navajo and Ute
populations, the shape-shifter for which
Skinwalker Ranch is named has inhabited the area
for centuries. But the story
behind this creature is different from that
of other shape-shifters. According to the Navajo,
the skinwalker is a human, who has attained the ability
to transform his body. A "skinwalker"
is the name that is given to a Navajo shaman or witch when they are in
a supernatural form. Very often a skinwalker
will be a wolf, but it can be
other animals as well. The Native tradition
concerning the skinwalkers is that these are
actual people that, uh, have gained
a certain type of power. They were given
certain abilities and shape-changing and magic. NARRATOR:
When it comes to how
the skinwalker is able to change shape,
the Navajo have a similar notion to that of ancient
astronaut theorists. They believe it is
connected to DNA. DOVER:
Our view on it is that they're manipulating
the DNA of their own body. They do change shape. And it's usually an animal
that they have the skin for. And they'll use the skin and
with a-a combination of chants, actually turn into that animal. And interestingly enough, in Navajo tradition, you are taught early on
as a child, you don't leave
your fingernail clippings, you don't spit on the ground
and not cover it up. All of this has to do
with the transmission of DNA. NARRATOR:
If extraterrestrials are harvesting DNA
in order to shape-shift, as some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest, is it possible that
they could also bestow humans with this same ability? And might the skinwalker be
evidence of alien intervention? While it may sound farfetched, former Navajo police officer
Jonathan Dover is certain that the being
called the skinwalker is real. I spent, uh, 31 years
in law enforcement. We've had many, many incidences
where people have seen them chasing their vehicles as their
vehicles are traveling at 60, 65 miles an hour, and having a human figure
running behind you. Whether we have
an alien presence, we don't know for sure,
but there's enough information there
that I would say don't take it lightly
just because it's a different culture.
