The Experiencers: Full Disclosure

In my career, I've helped make sequencing of human

and other genomes, all your genes, possible,

and then affordable,

so bringing it down from $3 billion to $300.

We've also been involved in writing and editing DNA,

which involves being able to synthesize DNA from scratch

and also to make tiny edits with enzymes like CRISPR.

I probably should have no opinion being, you know,

a scientist that's open to possibilities.

To some extent,

the entire universe has some kind of intelligence to it.

It just has this amazing computational ability.

Yeah, I think we haven't even scratched the surface even

in all science fiction of what aliens could be like.

It's exciting, the possibility

that we are not only seeing aliens,

but having close encounters with 'em.

Were you visited by aliens as well?

Yeah, and I had a UFO experience.

That was in '67, '68.

And you weren't high or anything?

No, I didn't do drugs.

I didn't even drink back then.

- And who visited? - They just randomly picked me

and I woke up while they were doing it.

I'm going, "What the fuck's going on?"

My room was white.

We're talking today

with Harvard University psychiatrist John Mack,

who studied the cases of about a hundred people at least

who claimed that they'd been abducted by aliens.

One of Dr. Mack's patients, Randy here,

says his abduction occurred while he was awake.

What do you remember from that moment on?

When I regained consciousness, it wasn't real quick.

I didn't know where I was.

I felt like I was dying.

And this is what really fueled the panic

when I finally laid eyes on these creatures.

They seem to cut across every socioeconomic level.

They seem to be,

this is kind of paradoxical since everyone's always trying

to blame this on psychopathology,

they seem to be unusually mentally sound.

In other words, they seem to pick people

who are particularly strong, stable, open-minded.

My name's Terry, I'm an experiencer.

My name is Travis Walton and I'm an experiencer.

I prefer experiencer.

I've never liked the word abductee, I don't know why,

it kind of creeps me out.

Contactee sounds a little 50-ish, 1950s weirdo.

I had experiences.

My name is Debbie and I'm an experiencer.

How I got into this work

is something that's a little difficult for me to explain.

It was not anything that I had planned.

I was interested in hypnosis and hypnotherapy

by what I had read,

but my heart was really in working with cancer patients.

Once I received the couple of abduction cases,

or possible abduction cases in the beginning of my practice,

I thought it would be very interesting to work with people

who feel that they have been contacted.

So, this experience often starts in childhood

and follows the person throughout their life.

As an example,

I am working on a case now

where she told me that she and her sister,

when they were young children, shared the same dream.

Well, then my red flag goes up.

You know, people don't share the same dream.

Something may have happened.

My name is Skyler Collins.

I am a professional hairdresser

and I've been doing hair for going on 10 years,

as well as a musician.

I'd say that the beginning of all of this kind of happened

for me when I was a child.

My sister and I are a year and nine days apart,

so growing up everyone always thought we were twins.

You know, we have a lot of features that look similar,

but definitely two separate personalities.

One day we both woke up and told each other

that we both had this similar dream.

I think I was either six or seven,

so she was either seven or eight,

and this first dream we had was like this mansion

that we were trapped in.

And we both confirmed

that it was the same setup in this living room.

The people that were in the dream were the same.

Almost a year later,

it was in the same situation again

where we both woke up and told each other this dream.

This dream was a little bit different

where we were at a family party

and eventually all the kids in the dream got, you know,

absorbed into this, like, floating tornado.

Everything went black and then we were thrown back down.

I just thought it was a dream,

didn't really think anything of it,

but apparently it's not common

to have identical dreams with siblings.

So, we always kind of just thought it was

some sort of alien abduction,

because being literally sucked out, you know, into the sky.

So, one of the opportunities that was given to us

was to go through dream regression

and go through hypnotherapy.

It'd be a great opportunity to see what my options are,

what my chances are of figuring out if this was real or not.

And then I can, you know,

decide based on if it works or not,

how to interpret what we learn.

Hi, Sky.

I don't think that anything will really come

of this hypnotherapy 'cause I'm kind of stubborn.

I'm someone who I've never been able to get into yoga

because I can't let my brain go.

I'm a very consciously moving person,

so it's hard for me to shut off everything around me.

I'm gonna go through the process

of what we're gonna do today, take some notes.

I'm not gonna control your mind.

Okay.

You're not gonna be unconscious.

A lot of people go, "God, I don't think I'm in hypnosis."

"I can just get up and walk outta here," and you can,

but you're giving me permission

to allow me to be your facilitator, okay?

Okay, great. - So, just keep that in mind

that you know...

I think this is a great opportunity

to see if this was real or not

and then I can, you know,

decide based on if it works or not,

how to interpret what we learn.

You will not be anxious or distressed,

but you will remember everything

and you will tell me everything.

As the niece of Betty and Barney Hill,

I've had a long-term interest in contact

and attempting to discover the answers

that I've looked for for many years.

My aunt Betty Hill was a very curious, very strong person.

There was very little that she was afraid of.

She married a Black man in 1960.

She was a social worker in the state of New Hampshire

and very active in the Civil Rights Movement as well.

Barney had been a very jovial person.

He had a lot of charisma,

and I think that this is why in 1965 he was appointed

to the US Civil Rights State Advisory Commission.

He was active in the NAACP.

He spoke to the public promoting civil rights.

He'd also went on Martin Luther King's March on Washington.

Barney had decided to surprise Betty

with a short vacation trip.

So, they went to Niagara Falls, drove up to Montreal.

They had intended to spend the night there,

but there was a hurricane coming up the coast,

so they wanted to return home before it hit.

As they were driving through Northern New Hampshire,

Betty saw a new light in the sky.

She wondered if it might be a satellite.

And so, she started to watch it

as it grew larger and larger in the sky.

She wanted Barney to stop the car

so that she could get a better look at this thing

to try to identify it.

When they finally arrived home,

they were at least two hours later

than they had anticipated.

Betty's clothes were torn,

Barney's best dress shoes were so deeply scraped

that he had to buy new shoes.

The watches they were wearing that night never ran again.

Betty especially wanted to learn more and more.

Barney unfortunately developed what we know today

as post-traumatic stress disorder.

He developed a bleeding ulcer, high blood pressure,

and these things would not recede

with traditional medical treatment.

He was greatly distressed by his conscious recall

of feeling that he was going to be captured

and then having evidence

that he might have indeed been captured.

He was referred to a renowned psychiatrist

in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Benjamin Simon.

He worked with veterans returning from the war

during World War II.

He used deep trans hypnosis

to help his patients resolve the trauma

that they had experienced.

Betty and Barney, under separate hypnosis,

relived the same events.

We are driving along, I don't know where we are.

I don't even know how we got here.

We've been driving and I don't know how long