Ancient Aliens s20e09 Episode Script

For thousands of years,
Scotland has been
an epicenter
of otherworldly phenomena.
So many high-profile
UFO cases and other mysteries
are centered on Scotland
and actually go back
to the dawn of time.
It is home to many
mysterious ancient structures
One of the theories about
the stone circles in Scotland
is that they're energetic.
and is a major hotspot
for UFO sightings.
The volume of UFO reports
in Scotland
compared to the population
is astronomical.
Could it be that,
throughout its history,
Scotland has been a magnet
for extraterrestrial visitors?
I think that
that particular area
of the world is crucial
in figuring out
the larger picture
that our origins
is not down here on Earth,
but out there.
There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
It demands
we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is
right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
Scotland.
The most northerly nation
in the British Isles
is a land known
for its stunning geography,
mysterious ancient structures,
and a rich
mythological tradition
that dates back
thousands of years.
Scotland, by its very nature,
is a land of mystery.
It's a land of mists.
It's a land of craggy moors.
It's a land of firths
snaking up between green hills
and mountains.
There are many mysteries
associated with Scotland
from ancient times
all the way up
into the modern era.
The mysteries of Scotland
extend even to its very origins.
Some scholars suggest
the country's name is derived
from the Greek word "skotos,"
meaning "darkness and gloom,"
but ancient legends say it comes
from Scotland's true founder,
who was the sister of the famous
Egyptian pharaoh King Tut.
One of the founders
of the Scottish race,
according to ancient tradition,
was a princess or a queen
by the name of Scota.
She actually came
from ancient Egypt,
and Scota can be found
in ancient Egyptian chronicles,
identifying her
as the daughter
of the Pharaoh Akhenaten.
And, according to the story,
she left there
at a time of persecution.
Tutankhamun,
her younger brother, takes over,
and she settled in Scotland
and therefore
her descendants are
the Scottish people of today.
Researchers say
support for this version
of Scotland's origin story
can be found
in The History of Egypt,
written in 300 BC
by an Egypto-Greek historian
named Manetho.
But very little
was written about Scotland
before Roman soldiers
arrived in the British Isles
in the first century AD.
The Romans saw Britain
as this mysterious island
at literally
the edge of the world.
Now, the Roman legion
is notorious for their might,
but yet, they went
to great lengths
to protect themselves
from the people who lived
to the north to keep them away
from the rest
of the Roman population.
In 128 AD,
Roman soldiers built
a massive stone wall
stretching across
the southern border of Scotland
named for the emperor Hadrian.
The imposing
73-mile-long structure
was 12 feet thick
and stood 15 feet high.
One of the most
interesting constructions
in ancient Britain
is Hadrian's Wall.
They were trying to keep out
the invading tribes
coming down from Scotland.
The tribes were a part
of a confederation
called the Picts,
and these people
were remarkable warriors.
They painted themselves blue
with tattoos
all over their bodies,
and they would
attack their enemies,
naked and fearless.
Even up to the 4th century AD,
they were still
coming over the wall,
and, virtually, they kind of
drove the Romans out of Britain.
Scotland has maintained
its reputation
as a fiercely independent
nation throughout its history,
with heroes like William Wallace
and Robert the Bruce
and their legendary battles
for Scotland's independence
from English rule.
And just as unique and volatile
as Scotland's history
is its landscape.
There is something geologically
special about Scotland.
It's visible with the naked eye
when you drive
through the Highlands,
when you drive through
the Scottish mountains
and you see
the grandeur of the place.
It's obvious when you
come to understand
how much volcanic activity
there was in Scotland,
how many extinct volcanoes
there are all over Scotland,
and that there is
a very specific and powerful
fault structure and system
across Scotland.
There are just some places
in the world
where the earth itself
is powerful,
and Scotland is at
the very, very top of this list.
Scotland is really
overlooked geologically,
in terms of
its seismic activity.
To have greater than
a magnitude five earthquake
is, uh, pretty common.
If you look at what we call
the structure of Scotland,
it's a structure
or an amalgamation
of tectonic activities
going back
hundreds of millions of years
that have really pieced together
this island,
and it's still very active.
These are deep crustal faults.
So, when you consider
the whole configuration of it,
it's a very, very
energetically dynamic place.
Scotland's energetic landscape
is of interest
not only to geologists
but also to
ancient astronaut theorists
because they believe
it could have a connection
to another defining
characteristic of Scotland:
its unusually high number of
unidentified aerial phenomena.
There's a very interesting
correlation between
UFO sightings and earthquakes
and other underground activity.
In fact,
there are numerous places
around the world where portals
are talked about.
Natives speak of these portals
that are also sites
where there's this
seismic activity.
You think of places
like the Big Island in Hawaii,
Carnac stones in France,
and also Mount Shasta.
You think of Mount Adams
in southern Washington where,
for centuries,
we've been told about this place
as being a gateway
into the inner Earth.
It's actually a dormant volcano.
These are all places
the natives or the locals
speak of UFO activity,
portal activity,
and they also happen to be
sites where there's
extreme seismic activity
as well.
In Scotland, they have
exactly the same thing
involving UFOs
and paranormal phenomena.
So many high-profile UFO cases
and other mysteries
are centered on Scotland.
And Scotland
may be at the heart of
a lot of things which might
help us unlock this mystery.
Could it be that among the
mist-shrouded mountain peaks
and boggy moorlands of Scotland
lurks an otherworldly presence?
One that has been around
for thousands of years?
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
a small town in Scotland
known to be one of the most
active UFO hotspots on Earth.
Central Scotland.
Situated between
Glasgow and Edinburgh
lies a mysterious region
famous among UFO researchers
as the Falkirk Triangle.
Centered around the small
village of Bonnybridge,
it boasts
the highest concentration
of UFO sightings on Earth.
The volume of UFO reports
that come
within the Falkirk Triangle
in Scotland
compared to the population
of these areas
is astronomical
and immediately shoots it up
to being one of the biggest
UFO hot spots in the world.
You have to say to yourself,
"What-what is it
"that's going on in this area?
Why is this area so special?"
Since 1992,
approximately 300 UFO sightings
are reported every year
in the Falkirk Triangle.
And for the past 30 years,
this extraordinary statistic
has been well-documented
in recorded images
captured by local residents.
Over the years, Craig has filmed
an unprecedented 18 hours
of UFO footage,
much of it from his own backyard
in Bonnybridge.
And neighbors like Steven Bird
have captured
additional footage.
While most people cite 1992
as the year the Falkirk Triangle
became a UFO hotspot,
locals say
that mysterious encounters
have been happening
in the area for far longer,
and as evidence point to one of
the most famous UFO incidents
in Scottish history.
In the center
of the Falkirk Triangle,
just 20 miles from Bonnybridge,
Forest service supervisor
Bob Taylor walks
down a wooded path
when he sees something
extraordinary
in the clearing ahead
a huge object
hovering above the forest floor.
What Bob Taylor came across
was a physical object.
One that appeared to be
disc-like in appearance.
But it would seem to have
these very odd propellers.
Taylor managed to stagger
the mile and a half
back to his home
and called the police.
As a result,
the Bob Taylor incident
remains one of the only
UFO encounters in history
to be officially investigated
as a criminal matter.
The case was also taken up
by young UFO investigators
Malcolm Robinson
and Andrew Collins,
who were both just 22 years old.
Now they are returning
to the scene
with researcher Hugh Newman
in search of new evidence
that could shed light
on the 44-year-old mystery.
Wow, that's a proper plinth.
Wow. Marking the spot.
Was it just right here?
Is this where it was?
And then you put the word out
to the UFO community.
And this is where Andrew
got involved,
- I believe?
- That's right.
I came straight up here,
immediately,
because we realized just
how significant this case was.
- And there I met Malcolm for the first time.
- Yeah.
That being 44 years ago,
almost to the day now.
- Yes.
- There were still a lot of people here
that would still come
in the area investigating it.
And we saw the marks
on the ground.
The marks were
in a circular arrangement.
And there was no way that these
were caused by some kind of
mundane events
such as horses passing through.
You know,
these were very clearly
heavy-duty marks
pushed right into the ground.
Bob Taylor's account
stands apart from many others
due to the abundance of
physical evidence.
Including the trousers
he was wearing,
which he claimed were
torn by the objects
that tried to pull him
into the craft.
They are proper thick,
aren't they, as well?
Look at these.
That is unusual.
You can see the way it's being
cut, kind of accurately.
It's not just
like a random branch
or a stone cutting it
if you fall over, is it?
Something quite
something else going on here.
Just doesn't make any sense
whatsoever.
Does Bob Taylor's
extraordinary encounter
supported by physical
evidence and a large-scale
police investigation
provide the ultimate evidence
of an extraterrestrial presence
in the Falkirk Triangle?
And if so,
is some mysterious force
attracting alien visitors
to this particular location
on Earth?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and suggest
that further evidence
can be found
not by looking to the skies
above Scotland
but by examining
the earth beneath it.
Billy Buchanan is elected
to represent Bonnybridge
and the neighboring town
of Larbert
on the Falkirk area council.
It is the same year
that hundreds of UFOs
begin to be witnessed
in the region
known as the Falkirk Triangle,
and the locals
come to Councilman Buchanan
in droves to report
their strange encounters.
Billy Buchanan
lobbied the government,
first the ministry of defense
and then the office
of the prime minister.
And he was calling
for a public inquiry.
And I think
Billy came to view me
as-as one of the bad guys here,
because his central allegation
was that the ministry of defense
knew all about this
and was covering it up.
And, you know,
I don't like to fall back
on the Nuremberg Defense,
but, uh, this was my job
to play down the phenomenon.
But, uh, Billy and the people
of Bonnybridge, I apologize.
There's something going on
in the Falkirk Triangle.
What could explain why this
area of Scotland experiences
even more UFO sightings
than the rest of the country?
Curiously, geologists have found
that the seismic pressure
beneath the Falkirk Triangle
is particularly intense.
When you look
at that triangular area,
there's a break in seismicity.
And we call that break
a seismic gap.
If you live in a seismic gap,
it's actually more prone
to have a next big earthquake,
because it's locked.
You know, pressures are being
put on it
from what we call
the institute stresses.
And we see the Falkirk Triangle
falls into
one of these seismic gaps,
and I think that's very,
very relevant to the story here.
Some researchers have theorized
that aerial phenomena
witnessed throughout Scotland
is connected not only
to seismic activity
but also the country's
geological makeup.
A lot of the country
is made up of igneous rocks
that were produced by volcanoes
across many millions of years.
And this creates
an intense type of geology
involving certain types
of minerals,
such as quartz and tourmaline,
which generates electricity.
So is it possible
that the presence of this
incredibly intense geology here
is producing a portal
into another realm
or another place
in space and time
or indeed, perhaps, even
a higher dimensional reality?
Could the geology
and seismic activity in Scotland
be creating exotic energy
that attracts
extraterrestrial visitors?
Or even opens portals
to other realms?
Curiously,
a major fault line runs
directly through one of the most
famous sites in Scotland.
Loch Ness.
One of the most intense
geological areas
is Loch Ness.
Because passing along
the entire length
of the loch
immediately beneath it,
is the Great Glen fault line.
The rock walls of the chasm
that exists in Loch Ness
contain a high concentration
of quartz,
which is known to be
an efficient conductor
of electricity.
Some researchers have suggested
that quartz,
coupled with the narrowness
and depth of Loch Ness,
creates a perfect storm
of highly charged
electromagnetism
that could generate portals
in space-time
through a process
called the Casimir effect.
The idea is
if I take two metal plates
and stick 'em
in the vacuum of space,
it turns out,
because of quantum fluctuations,
this creates an effective,
attractive force
between the plates.
One can think of this
as a negative energy.
Now, an intriguing idea
that we get
is that this is exactly
the principle we need
to understand, perhaps,
how to stabilize a wormhole.
Perhaps Loch Ness
creates a window into the past.
And so what if,
because of the Casimir effect
which, at Loch Ness, is
a physical possibility
a window in time opened
and the Loch Ness Monster
is witnessed
essentially
almost by coincidence.
Could it be that
those who witness
the Loch Ness Monster
are actually
looking through
a window in time?
Or is it even possible
that Nessie is an alien entity
that is able
to pass through a wormhole
that exists at Loch Ness?
If it was only Nessie,
then we could ignore this
as perhaps
being a clue to understanding
the greater importance
of Scotland.
But it's not.
Because what we also find
is that UFOs are regularly seen
either above the loch,
on the shores of the loch.
Sometimes they fly
down the length of the loch.
We have Bigfoot sightings
on the shores of Loch Ness.
We have fairy encounters
in the modern day.
So is this underlying
geological fault
producing the right type
of environment
to allow
the manifestation of UFOs?
Is it possible that the geology
and seismic activity in Scotland
creates an energetic environment
that attracts
extraterrestrial visitors?
Or even opens portals
to other realms?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining another
of Scotland's many mysteries:
the ancient stone circles.
For more than 2,000 years,
Scotland has maintained
a connection
to its ancient Celtic traditions
of little people and fairy folk.
According to legend,
these magical beings
inhabit stone circles
and standing stones
across the country,
and sometimes even abduct humans
into their realm.
Most scholars regard
such Celtic mythology
as purely fictional.
But to many Scots
and other descendants
of the Celtic people,
stories of fairies
and other non-human entities
are anything
but fantasy.
Scotland's fairy folk
are often associated
with its rich trove
of stone circles
that date back
more than 4,000 years.
Legends have persisted
for centuries
that these sites
attract otherworldly entities
and serve as portals
to other dimensions.
Scotland does have
a lot of stone circles,
and some of them are
similar, somewhat, to Stonehenge
in that they are upright stones
of varying size and heights.
And typically, the layout
seems to correlate
with the summer
and winter solstices
and the equinoxes.
Knowing the changing
of the seasons
is really important because
you need to plan
your agriculture around it,
you need to plan your herding
around it.
And some people think
the stone circles might have
a hidden meaning that speak
of a higher connection
to something.
One of the first researchers
to document
the strange happenings
witnessed near Scotland's
ancient standing stones
was a 17th century
episcopalian minister
in the Scottish Highlands
named Robert Kirk.
Robert Kirk made it
his life's work
to document supernatural
activity around Scotland.
And he created a volume
called The Secret Commonwealth.
And Kirk really focused
on the idea that
the fairy folk were guardians
of portal areas,
that there were places
in Scotland where you could slip
in and out
of different dimensions.
The accounts Kirk documented
came from his parishioners'
many striking stories
about elves, fairies,
wraiths,
and other mysterious beings.
Kirk believed these stories
constituted strong evidence
that another world
exists parallel to our own.
The fascinating thing
about Robert Kirk
is right before he published
The Secret Commonwealth
he died
and his body disappeared.
And it's believed
to this day that he was taken,
uh, by the fairy folk
into another dimension
through one of the very portals
that he was writing about.
Could it be
that the fairy folk described
in Scottish folklore
truly exist?
According to some researchers,
the fairy sightings
reported at stone circles
may be connected to
the modern-day UFO phenomenon.
In the folklore of Scotland,
the fairies became
the inhabitants
of these stone circles.
So how can we relate this
to the UFO phenomena?
Well, we can
in the sense that we know
that these monuments
are associated
with the appearance
of mysterious lights.
This is found
not just in Britain
but also across the world.
In other words,
it's very obvious
that our ancestors
built these monuments
where mysterious lights would
appear on a regular basis.
Andrew Collins
and Hugh Newman have spent
decades researching
UFO activity associated
with the standing stones
of Scotland.
This is really
a fascinating area.
I mean, Lundin Links is
an incredible megalithic site
In 2023,
they traveled to the northern
edge of the Falkirk Triangle
to investigate Lundin Links,
three ancient monoliths
associated with
mysterious lights
and other phenomena.
These are some
of the tallest standing stones
we get
in the entire British Isles.
These have been compared
to the sites
on Orkney,
like the Stones of Stenness,
but also the Ring of Brodgar
and a few other places.
So, these are just so similar.
They're so outrageously tall
for Britain.
We are in a landscape
that was created
as much as
300 million years ago.
But intruding into that is
this incredible hill behind us,
Largo Law,
as it's known locally.
That could be important
because we know
that Largo Law
was once a volcano.
So, there could be
a lot of unusual geology,
which could create energies
within the landscape.
Yeah. And those energies
are generated
through the extreme actions
going on below the earth,
through the process
of piezoelectricity.
And through them,
portals might open.
Folklore plays
an incredible role
in the memory of historic UFOs.
They were associated with
the fairies, the little people.
So, what is the relationship
between these megalithic
monuments here
and the UFO phenomena?
Is it possible
that this whole area
is one big UFO hotspot
whereby structured craft
can come through?
Structured craft like
Bob Taylor saw in 1979?
Certainly seems like that
because we are literally
on the edge
of the Falkirk Triangle.
It just seems like there's
something really special
about this place,
and this was marked
by these giant standing stones
that we have here
at Lundin Links.
Could it be that the people
of ancient Scotland
were instructed
to erect stone circles
by extraterrestrial visitors
in order to harness
the energy of the Earth?
Do the many modern-day
UFO sightings
reported throughout Scotland
point to an alien presence
that remains in this region
of the world even today?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
and suggest the most compelling
evidence of all
has been kept hidden
by the British government
for more than three decades.
August 15, 2022.
Newsweek magazine publishes
the provocative headline
"Best UFO Picture Ever,"
"the Calvine Photo,
Found After 30 Years Missing."
This from the Calvine Hills
in Scotland
is crystal clear.
It's in color.
And it shows this
just magical-looking,
100-foot-long
diamond-shaped craft
that is clear as a bell.
Not only that,
we also see Harrier jet
trailing the object.
As soon as this photo
was released to the public,
uh, people went crazy.
It was a big deal.
It has been called
the greatest UFO photo ever.
And I agreed.
In fact, I've had a picture
of the Calvine photo on
my wall for the last year.
While the image is compelling,
of greater interest
to UFO researchers
was the sudden publication
of the photograph.
It was taken 32 years earlier,
in August 1990,
by two hikers outside
the small village of Calvine.
The identities of the two hikers
have never been revealed,
but according to the story,
they delivered the photos
to Scotland's biggest newspaper,
The Daily Record.
They had six photographs
and they go
to the local newspaper
to have them published.
And for reasons that are
still not clear to this day,
this Scotland newspaper,
instead of immediately
putting these six incredible
photos on the front page,
which is what I would have done
as a reporter,
somebody calls the ministry of
defense in London.
And they are ordered to send
the photos and the negatives
from the newspaper to somebody
in the government.
The only people to
see the Calvine photos
were the hikers who took them,
a handful of people
at The Daily Record,
and a select group of employees
at the ministry of defense.
Among them was former
ministry of defense
UFO investigator Nick Pope,
who was present for classified
briefings regarding the images.
The photographs and
the negatives went to JARIC,
which is
Joint Air Reconnaissance
and Intelligence Center.
This is part of
the intelligence community
that specializes
in imagery analysis.
Their opinion was that
this was not a fake,
these were genuine pictures.
And they showed
a solid structured craft.
And also critically important,
parts of the countryside
were visible.
So, trees, fields, a fence.
What that meant was that
our ministry of defense experts
could start to make
some calculations
and estimate distance
from the lens,
height above ground,
diameter of craft.
One of the things we were most
interested in
is the apparent lack
of conventional aerospace,
parts and shapes.
No wings, no tail, no fuselage,
uh, no obvious engines.
While the ministry of defense
claimed the Calvine photos
were returned
to Scotland's Daily Record,
the newspaper said
they never received them.
The images remained a mystery
for the next 30 years,
until former ministry of defense
press officer Craig Lindsay
revealed that he had kept
a copy of one of the photos
and shared it with Newsweek
for publication.
While it is unknown exactly
what happened to the originals,
some believe
the ministry of defense
secretly took measures
to ensure that the photos
would never be seen
by the public.
My theory is that
the ministry of defense
bought the photos
and the negatives.
And the witnesses
effectively signed
a nondisclosure agreement.
Were these photos
hidden by the government
for more than 30 years
because they know
that what was captured is
in fact an alien craft?
Could the Calvine photos provide
the strongest evidence yet
of an otherworldly presence
in Scotland?
According to
ancient astronaut theorists,
the mysteries found in Scotland
extend throughout the entire
region of the British Isles,
and their connection
to extraterrestrials
is well known
to the royal family.
Across the United Kingdom,
people gather
to pay their respects
to Queen Elizabeth's husband
Prince Philip,
the Duke of Edinburgh,
who passed away
at the age of 99.
In the months after his death,
reports surface
that Prince Philip
spent more than half of his life
investigating UFO reports.
Over the years,
he allegedly used his influence
to amass a trove
of classified reports
and statements
from the British military.
The late Prince Philip
had this incredible interest
in the subject of ufology
and would follow it avidly.
He would actually
even invite witnesses
to come to Buckingham Palace
to actually discuss
their encounters.
Using the intermediary
of a royal inquiry,
he actually investigated
a number of cases himself
and had witnesses brought in.
And interestingly,
he was the Duke of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh being
the capital of Scotland.
So, with Prince Philip's
interest in this in mind,
it does pose the intriguing
possibility
that the Royals are aware
not only of Scotland's
ancient mysteries,
but are the ultimate guardians
of the UFO secret.
The British Isles
account for only 0.2%
of the Earth's surface above sea
level,
but despite their small size,
they are home to many of
the world's greatest mysteries,
like the towering monoliths
of Stonehenge,
the giant Newgrange mound
in Ireland,
the crop circle phenomenon
and Rudloe Manor,
an underground
military installation
where it has been rumored
that the British government
is hiding an alien craft.
Is it possible
that the British Isles
have been a prime destination
for extraterrestrial visitors
dating back thousands of years?
And if so, might the modern
UFO hotspot of Scotland
provide important clues
to understanding why?
Scotland seems to have
the largest number
of recorded events,
whether it's recorded
in folklore
or recorded in modern times.
Scotland seems to have
more supernatural,
unexplained events
and circumstances
than maybe in any
other place in the world.
To this day, Scotland has
incredible UFO sightings.
And we can see this
also in ancient times.
So I think that
that particular area
of the world
is crucial in figuring out
the larger picture
that our origins
is not down here on Earth,
but out there.
Is Scotland, with its long
history of unusual phenomena,
a hub of otherworldly activity?
Could it be that
thousands of years ago,
extraterrestrials made
this area a connection point
using megalithic stone circles
to harness the energy
of the Earth?
And does the region's
unique geology
still attract
otherworldly visitors today?
Perhaps solving
the mysteries of Scotland
will provide the key
to reuniting
with our alien ancestors.