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President Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus,

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crusaders in the Middle Ages.

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What did they have in common?

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They either experienced or believed

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in the possibility of alien encounters.

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The fact is, there have been so many descriptions

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by various chroniclers talking about a strange cloud

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in the sky that glowed red.

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Columbus, in his first voyage, he

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noted in the log a glowing object

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rise out of the water and head off into the atmosphere.

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Could alien beings have been responsible for biblical floods,

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medieval plagues, and even ancient nuclear attacks?

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Visitations occurred since before Record of History

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all the way to today.

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Millions of people around the world

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believe we have been visited in the past

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by extraterrestrial beings.

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What if it were true?

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Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

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And what if these visitations didn't only

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occur thousands of years ago, but much more recently?

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Might there be evidence of real life close encounters?

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The World of War

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The World of War

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The World of War

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Alamogordo, New Mexico.

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White Sands Proving Ground, July 16, 1945.

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Early in the morning, a number of US military officers

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and scientists gathered to watch a powerful new weapon

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being tested.

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Some believe the device will be a complete failure.

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Others think it might destroy the entire state of New Mexico.

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As a precaution, viewing stations are placed

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from 10 to 20 miles away from the test site.

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At precisely 529 and 45 seconds,

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the first atomic bomb is detonated.

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Three, two, one, fire!

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The blast emits a fireball over 600 feet wide

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and produces an explosion equal to 20,000 tons of TNT.

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The mushroom cloud reaches over 7 miles in height,

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and the reverberations can be felt nearly 100 miles away.

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The World had a new weapon.

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One so terrifying, it left even its creator,

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Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, shocked and shaken.

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Few people laughed.

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Few people cried.

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Most people were silent.

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For the first time in its history,

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the Earth had been assaulted by a man-made weapon

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of incredible power.

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But what if it had all happened before?

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What if an explosion of even greater force and destructiveness

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had long ago shaped the Earth's history?

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Some people have suggested, on the basis of a number of lines

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of evidence, that there may have been atomic warfare,

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atomic bombs, atomic explosions in the very distant past.

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Atomic warfare among ancient civilizations

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may sound like something out of a science fiction novel,

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but descriptions of similar deadly occurrences

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can be found in the very same text Dr. Oppenheimer quoted

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after the New Mexico atomic test.

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I remember the line from the Hindu scripture,

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the Bhagavad Gita,

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now I am become death,

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the destroyer of worlds.

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Part of an ancient Hindu scripture,

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known as the Mahabharata,

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the Bhagavad Gita was written

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sometime between the 5th and 2nd century BC.

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This massive 100,000 verse text

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contains stories about the ancient empire of Rama,

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which it is said existed over 12,000 years ago,

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or roughly 5,000 years before

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the earliest recorded civilization in Mesopotamia.

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If you read the ancient Indian epics,

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they read like modern day science fiction.

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Yet they're thousands of years old

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with references not only of flying chariots,

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and of these gods that had these incredible technological

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capabilities, but incredible weapons

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that they used in those epic battles.

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They had what was called a Brahma weapon.

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There were many people that were singed and burned

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and melted by the Brahma weapon.

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Ancient astronaut theorists believe

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the Brahma weapon was an early nuclear device,

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because the descriptions of its deadly after effects

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are eerily similar to the effects of exposure

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to intense radiation.

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It is a theory largely discounted by conventional science.

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There is no evidence that a nuclear bomb

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was described in the Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita.

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It describes a battle.

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In battles, there are explosions, big explosions.

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It's one thing about suggesting

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that, you know, battles have explosions,

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but that's not really what we're looking at.

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You got to look at the whole picture.

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One reference that we have, for example,

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speaks of these explosions that were brighter

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than a thousand suns.

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And when these blasts occurred,

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the suns were twirling in the air,

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trees went up in flames,

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and there was just this mass destruction.

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After those blasts, people who survived

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started to lose their hair,

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and nails started to fall out.

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I mean, right there, we have a concise reference

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to radiation poisoning, nuclear fallout.

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And those texts are thousands of years old.

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But if the Mahabharata is based on fact,

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wouldn't archaeologists have uncovered

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physical or radiological evidence?

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According to ancient astronaut theorists,

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they have

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the Indus Valley, southern Pakistan.

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In 1922, an officer with an Indian

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archaeological survey group discovered the ruins

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of an ancient city known as Mohenjo-Daro.

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According to mainstream archaeologists,

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the city, whose name means Mound of the Dead,

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had flourished between 2600 and 1900 BC.

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However, scientists in Pakistan

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have suggested Mohenjo-Daro is much older.

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Mainstream archaeologists believe

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the city was abandoned as a result of climatic changes,

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or possibly a decrease in trade.

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But when the ruins of Mohenjo-Daro were discovered

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in the 1920s,

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44 skeletons were found lying faced down in the street,

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many holding hands.

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Their faces and body positioning

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suggested they suffered a sudden, violent death.

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You have a culture of people who literally were lying

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that in the street, archaeologists have found human remains

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and something big has happened to these people.

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What in fact did happen to the people of Mohenjo-Daro?

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Why is there evidence that wild animals

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avoided scavenging their remains?

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And why, even after thousands of years,

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had their bones not decayed?

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In certain areas of that site,

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you find increased levels of radiation.

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And radiation exists all over the place.

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When all of a sudden you have higher levels of radiation

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in certain areas of the world,

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the question arises, why?

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Is it possible that Mohenjo-Daro

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was one of the cities mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita,

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a city that suffered the equivalent of a sudden atomic attack?

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In his 1979 book,

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Atomic Destruction in 2000 BC,

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British researcher David Davenport

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claimed to have found a 50-yard-wide epicenter

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at Mohenjo-Daro,

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where everything appeared to have been fused

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through a transformative process known as vitrification.

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Vitrification is a process

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in which regular type stone

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gets molten into a magma state,

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and then it hardens again.

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But once the stone is hardened again,

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it feels like glass.

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At Mohenjo-Daro, we find evidence of vitrification,

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which could have only been achieved

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if the material was exposed to extreme heat

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by some type of a blast.

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When British and Indian and Pakistani archaeologists

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began doing excavations in the Sin Desert,

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on the borders of India and Pakistan

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in the late 1940s and early 1950s,

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what they found in these cities,

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Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, Kodiji,

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was archaeological evidence to show

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there were apparently atomic weapons.

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Only it happened in ancient times.

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There's other evidence in parts of Africa

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and the Middle East where it would seem to be

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like some sort of atomic explosion

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had taken place there

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and had turned the desert sand into glass.

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And that's exactly what happened at Alamogordo in New Mexico

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when they detonated the first atom bomb in the desert.

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Could the strange ruins found in the Indus Valley

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really contain evidence of an ancient atomic explosion?

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If so, where did these powerful weapons come from?

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Who was using them and why?

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In the ancient Indian texts themselves,

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it says, and I quote,

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at one point three giant cities

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were orbiting the Earth.

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And those giant cities were often described

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as being made of gleaming metal and iron.

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And at one point those three cities

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went to war with each other

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and it's described how

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the gods threw weapons at each other,

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destroying those cities that all went up in flames

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and fire came raining down onto Earth.

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So when you read those passages,

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the question I ask is,

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what is it that our ancestors try to describe here?

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And I think that it was some type of a technology

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that was witnessed, yet our ancestors,

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while being highly intelligent, didn't understand

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the nuts and bolts aspects behind that technology.

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And so they created something divine out of it,

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something supernatural, yet it never was divine,

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it never was supernatural.

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If in fact the Mahabharata is describing historical events,

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might we also find similar accounts in other ancient writings?

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As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

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we need look no further than in the pages

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of the Holy Bible.

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According to one of the stories contained in the Book of Genesis,

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angels were sent by God to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah,

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because of the sins of their inhabitants.

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Only a righteous man named Lot, along with his family,

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was to be spared. But while making their escape,

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Lot's wife ignores the angels' warning not to look back,

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and upon gazing at the horror and devastation,

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is turned into a pillar of salt.

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When you are at a nuclear testing range

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and you witness a nuclear blast,

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you're told to look away and not to look straight into the blast.

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And here we have a similar description in an ancient biblical text,

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where instructions were given, whatever you do,

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don't look back, because you will die.

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And sure enough, it happened to Lot's wife.

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Could it be that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah

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is really a description of a nuclear explosion,

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similar to the one described in the Hindu's Mahabharata?

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Do the stories of the Mahabharata and the Bible

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represent actual historical events?

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For ancient astronaut theorists, the answer is resounding yes.

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And they believe the so-called angels,

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who brought forth the devastation, were in fact,

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beings from another planet.

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Alien visitors armed with advanced weaponry.

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September 2000, the Black Sea, Turkey.

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Marine archaeologist Robert Ballard

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and his team of underwater scientists

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discover what appears to be a farmhouse,

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330 feet below the surface.

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Estimates suggest the submerged welling to be approximately

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7,500 years old.

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Ballard and other scholars speculated

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that rising ocean levels could have caused the Mediterranean Sea

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to burst through a natural dam.

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Creating a flood so great, it drowned an estimated

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58,000 square miles under 500 feet of water.

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But more than finding the ruins of an ancient welling,

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had Ballard actually discovered proof that the biblical story

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of Noah and the Great Flood was true.

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And those villages, of course, weren't built underwater.

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So Ballard concluded that the Black Sea,

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as we know it, was only created some 8,000, 9,000 years ago.

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And that is exactly what we're talking about

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with Noah's Ark and the Flood,

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the same area where all that happened.

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And in fact, mainstream archaeologists know

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that in the Mediterranean, there are over 200 known sunken cities.

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Those cities, too, were somehow flooded

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the same time that the Black Sea was flooded.

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Also written in the book of Genesis,

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the story of Noah tells how God saw

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that the wickedness of man was great

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and decided to destroy all of creation.

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Only Noah, his family and the animals aboard the Ark,

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were allowed to survive and repopulate the planet.

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But is this the whole story?

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Was Noah selected only for his virtue,

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or was there another reason he was chosen to save the planet?

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Ancient astronaut theorists believe the Bible

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doesn't tell the whole story.

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In the late 1940s and early 1950s,

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a series of ancient texts, known as the Dead Sea Scrolls,

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were discovered in a cave located in what is now Israel's West Bank.

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Among the ancient writings are various stories

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not found in the traditional Hebrew Bible.

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One such story tells of Noah and his strange, miraculous birth.

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One of the Dead Sea Scrolls is called the Lamek Scroll.

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What is Lamek?

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Lamek was a shepherd.

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And one day, Lamek, his woman, was pregnant.

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And he said to her, this is impossible.

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I was not here for months.

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But his woman, with the name Batinosh, swears.

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No one touched me.

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But Lamek doesn't believe his wife Batinosh,

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and he goes to his father, which was Methuselm.

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And Methuselm says to Lamek, I can't help you.

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I don't understand this.

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I believe you are women, Batinosh, that nobody touched her.

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And I believe you. What shall I do?

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So Methuselm goes to his father, the grandfather now of Lamek.

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His name is Inok.

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Now Inok tells to Methuselm that the guardians of the sky

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have made an artificial insemination

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into the womb of Batinosh, the wife.

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And he should accept this child

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because this child would be the father

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of a new human generation.

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And in the Bible, this is Noah.

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What if, as ancient astronaut theorists believe,

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the story of Lamek is true

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and the guardians of the sky, described in the story,

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are in fact aliens?

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Does this mean that Noah was the product

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of an artificial insemination,

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a genetic experiment performed by extraterrestrials?

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If so, what was the reason for the great flood?

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Well, the reason for the flood,

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and we need to understand this,

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it tells us that Noah was pure in all of his generations.

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What does that mean?

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Why would the account specify pure in all his generations?

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According to the Bible,

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God sent the flood because of man's wickedness and corruption.

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But ancient astronaut theorists believe the flood

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was actually a means of ridding the earth

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of biological imperfections.

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By using Noah and his family,

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they could repopulate the planet

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with a genetically superior species.

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Part of this human society

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is again genetically backward, closer to the animal.

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What can we do?

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This humans were spread out over the planet.

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So they said, we have to kill them all by a great flood,

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and then we have to restart again.

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Another familiar element in the story of Noah

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involves the collection of animals brought aboard the ark.

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In the Bible, God commanded Noah

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to collect two of every kind of living creature,

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animal, bird, and insect.

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But many biblical scholars and theologians agree

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that such a task

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would have been both physically and biologically impossible.

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Could there be another, more scientific explanation?

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The story of Noah's ark

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is pretty implausible if we think about it

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You have two animals of each creature

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on planet earth on a boat.

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Not only would the boat have to be huge,

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but how are you going to collect every animal on the planet

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and put it on that ship?

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So could it be possible

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that Noah's ark was once again

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misunderstood technology

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and Noah's ark was a DNA bank?

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Could it be a story?

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Could it be technology, somehow,

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gathering up all living things as in a DNA bank of some kind?

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It fits together hard to imagine

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how that would happen so far back,

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but if it did happen, it would need to be told as a story

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and the story of a boat works.

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Perhaps this is really an extra treasure.

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Perhaps it's a treasure.

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Perhaps it's a treasure.

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Perhaps it's really an extra-trestrials DNA bank as well.

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The extra-trestrials, you need plants and animals

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and minerals on this planet too.

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Just like when we go to Mars or something,

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we'll be using what we can use on that planet.

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So extra-trestrials coming here would want to do that as well.

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And if they knew that some cataclysm was coming,

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they too would want to preserve

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certain kinds of animals and plant life

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and create what we think of as Noah's Ark.

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Alien DNA bank?

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Is there any evidence that such a thing is even possible?

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In 2008, on the Arctic Island of Svalbard,

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a vault was built to store the seeds of hundreds of thousands

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of plants in the event of a global catastrophe.

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Elsewhere, similar efforts are reportedly underway

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to store animal and human DNA as well.

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Cutting-edge science or merely history repeating itself.

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The Frozen Ark Project is a program that was initiated

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by the London Natural History Museum.

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What they've done is they started to store DNA

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of endangered species for future generations,

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for preservation.

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And as of today, over a thousand species

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have been preserved in small little vials.

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And so the question arises,

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could it be possible that Noah's Ark wasn't necessarily

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a boat made out of wood,

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but what if Noah's Ark was some type of a DNA storage facility

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that was used in order to preserve

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all the species on planet Earth?

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If each species can be held in a tiny vial

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like this, then it all becomes very logical.

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And once again, we have to look at it from a perspective

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what did our ancestors try to describe?

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What did they witness?

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Aliens artificially inseminating humans.

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Ancient DNA bags.

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Could such ideas really help our understanding of the Bible?

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00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,640
And is it possible that extraterrestrials

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00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,640
have influenced the development of mankind?

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There are many who claim that the proof can be found

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in some astonishing places.

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For those who believe that close encounters with alien beings

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00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,640
have helped shaped Earth's history,

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00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,640
it is important to remember that it isn't only ancient history

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that has been so influenced.

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There have been literally hundreds of credible accounts

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of strange creatures, UFO sightings,

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and other worldly phenomena that took place,

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even in the so-called dark ages.

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There have been sightings all over the world

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throughout the Middle Ages.

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There are stories going from Scotland,

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to England, to Italy, to the Crusades.

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Remember, the Crusades took place over hundreds of years,

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and at certain points in the battle, in some cases over Turkey,

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in some cases over Jerusalem,

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00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,680
there are images captured in writing

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00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:12,720
by various chroniclers talking about a strange cloud in the sky

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00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,720
that glowed red.

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A strange image coming out of a cloud in the sky.

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00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,720
Why would we say this is a UFO?

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Because traditionally, UFOs mask themselves

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00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,720
by forming a cloud around themselves,

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and it's a cloud that's going through the sky,

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00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,720
that's their invisibility cloak.

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00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,720
In his 13th century historical work,

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titled Auto Imperiali,

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00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,760
Gervas of Tilbury wrote about an aerial craft

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00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,760
over the city of Bristol, England,

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which caught an anchor in a church steeple.

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He uses specifically the term anchor,

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00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,760
that we don't know what kind of anchor that is,

438
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,760
but a creature, a man,

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00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,760
climbs out of this craft

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00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,760
and tries to free the anchor from the steeple,

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00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,760
and all the people in the village start stoning him,

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00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,800
thinking he's some sort of evil demon.

443
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,800
But for ancient astronaut theorists,

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00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,800
evidence of an alien presence during the Middle Ages

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00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,800
isn't only found in literature.

446
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,800
All throughout the Middle Ages,

447
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,800
there are some magnificent paintings.

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And in certain areas of the painting,

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there are what looks like to be UFOs.

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00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,840
They're always floating up in the sky,

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usually above the Virgin Mary

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or above Jesus on the crucifix,

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or somewhere we have sceneries

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00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,840
that depict what looks like UFOs.

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00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,840
One very interesting painting

456
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,840
is where Jesus sits up in the clouds

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with, quote-unquote, God,

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and they're holding on to the antenna

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00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,880
of what looks like Sputnik.

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00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,880
And theologians say what is depicted here

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is nothing else but the Earth.

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00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,880
But why would Earth have two antennas sticking out of it?

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00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,880
And why would it be round?

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Because the mainstream viewpoint at the time

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was that the Earth was flat.

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Here are pictures of the crucifixion,

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dated around 1350 from Kosovo.

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Here are presumably vehicles

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with people driving them

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in attendance at the crucifixion.

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Could this be a crude an attempt

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00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,880
on the part of the artist

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drawing on a tradition?

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Obviously, he wasn't there.

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Drawing on a tradition.

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Could he be reflecting a folklore?

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00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,920
Possibly.

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The people of the Middle Ages

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depicted devils and angels

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frequently in their art.

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They did not depict

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what we today consider aliens, specifically.

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But angels are heavenly creatures

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that come from outside of our sphere, aren't they?

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00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,960
Did the medieval artists include strange creatures

486
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,960
and flying spacecraft in their paintings

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00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,960
because they had seen them in real life?

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00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,960
Or were they trying to communicate their belief

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00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,960
that the miraculous events of the New Testament

490
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000
had otherworldly origins?

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00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,000
The most famous painting that without any doubt in my mind,

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00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,000
depict a UFO with its laser beam,

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00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:11,000
was made by Crivelli in 1486.

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The annunciation to Mary.

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In medieval art, in the annunciation,

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when Mary is told that she will have a child

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but she will still be a virgin,

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00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,040
and the angels tell her this,

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over Mary's head

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00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,040
is a space capsule.

501
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,040
But what's a UFO or a space capsule

502
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,040
doing over Mary?

503
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,040
Maybe the artist saw it.

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00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,080
And he's putting it in the painting

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00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:49,080
to bring together his own vision of a UFO,

506
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,080
the annunciation from the Bible,

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00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,080
and the mystery of salvation

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00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,080
that there could be a virgin birth.

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According to ancient astronaut theorists,

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00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,080
the UFO-shaped objects found in medieval paintings

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00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,080
aren't the only evidence of an alien presence

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00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,080
during the era.

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00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,120
In his book, The Gods of Eden,

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00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,120
author William Bramley cites private journals

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00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,120
and other publications throughout Europe,

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00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:23,120
which contain accounts of cigar-shaped flying objects

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00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,120
emitting noxious mists.

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00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,120
The first reports of this kind

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00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,120
began during the mid-14th century,

520
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,120
closely corresponding to the outbreak

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00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,120
of the worst health epidemic in human history,

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00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,120
the Black Plains.

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00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,160
The Black Plains, back in the 1300s,

524
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,160
many have said was caused by

525
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,160
a virus from a rodent

526
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,160
bitten by fleas, this disease

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00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,160
that wiped out 75-plus million people

528
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,160
on the planet at the time.

529
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,160
But there's another theory

530
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,160
by a fellow by the name of William Bramley

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00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,160
who says that the Black Plains

532
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,160
was created by ETs.

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00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,200
That they wanted to eradicate human beings

534
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,200
for whatever horrible reason.

535
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,200
We know that plague can be spread by rodents,

536
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,200
but there weren't that many rodent infestations

537
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,200
being reported back then,

538
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,200
at least not enough to account for all of the breakouts

539
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,200
that we had.

540
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,200
So what you find in the literature from that time

541
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,200
are numerous reports of

542
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,200
bright lights moving through the sky,

543
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,240
emitting gas, or what they call mists.

544
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,240
And you find them in China, you find them in Europe.

545
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,240
There are similar reports from the Justinian plague

546
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,240
from earlier in history,

547
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,240
and even later plagues, the Euclid epidemics,

548
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,240
you find similar stories of mists

549
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,240
that are the cause of the plague.

550
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,240
We have weapons like that, biological warfare.

551
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,240
As for the motive as to why this happened,

552
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,240
I can only kind of scratch my head

553
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,280
because in the UFO phenomena,

554
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,280
we see certain consistent patterns,

555
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,280
but we don't always understand the motive.

556
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,280
Italian historian Matteo Vellani,

557
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,280
who both chronicled the Black Death

558
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,280
and died from it in the 14th century,

559
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:21,280
wrote of pestilential fogs reported by travelers from Asia.

560
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:25,280
He even wrote that people were convinced

561
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,280
they could actually see the plague

562
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,280
coming through the streets.

563
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,280
But what some ancient astronaut believers

564
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:37,280
find to be even stronger evidence of alien involvement

565
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,280
are the numerous reports of mysterious black-cloaked creatures

566
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,280
who would appear on the outskirts of villages

567
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,280
just before plague broke out.

568
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:52,280
Contemporary accounts describe them as having terrifying faces

569
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,280
and waving long, sight-like objects

570
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,280
dispensing noxious mists.

571
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,320
It's the image we know today

572
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,320
as the Grim Reaper.

573
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,320
These figures in black would appear

574
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,320
usually on the outskirts of a town.

575
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:13,320
They were carrying these long devices that looked like scythes.

576
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,320
These figures in black would just start sweeping in the fields,

577
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:20,320
as though they were cutting down the wheat.

578
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,320
Then immediately there would be an outbreak of the plague.

579
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:28,360
Although ancient astronaut theorists are divided

580
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:32,360
on Bramley's proposal that aliens were behind the plague,

581
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,360
his research, like the artwork of the time,

582
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,360
has led to one important conclusion.

583
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,360
What is evidence is the fact that

584
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:47,360
visitations occurred since before recorded history

585
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,360
all the way to today.

586
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,400
It's not like ancient astronauts only happened thousands of years ago,

587
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,400
and then all of a sudden we have Roswell.

588
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,400
The fact alone that these visitations

589
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:06,400
have been going on for all this time,

590
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,400
thousands of years, that's sensational.

591
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,400
Flying cylinders spreading plague from the sky,

592
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,400
black-clad aliens looking to destroy humans,

593
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,440
but even if possible, why?

594
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,440
And if true, wouldn't there continue to be evidence

595
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,440
of even more close encounters,

596
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:34,440
encounters that would take place much closer to home?

597
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,440
When Columbus and his men first set foot

598
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,440
in what the Europeans was, the New World,

599
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:47,440
the indigenous people had never encountered anyone like them.

600
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,480
Their skin was pale.

601
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,480
They wore strange clothes,

602
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,480
made of bright, often shiny materials.

603
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,480
They arrived in massive ships and had powerful weapons.

604
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,480
To the natives, the visitors were truly aliens

605
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,480
from a strange, far away world.

606
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,480
Powerful beings, who might just as well,

607
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,480
have been sent from the heavens.

608
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,520
Columbus wrote in his journal that the inhabitants

609
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:19,520
eagerly came out to see their ships and ask them

610
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,520
if they had come from the heavens.

611
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,520
And despite the fact that Columbus and his men indicated,

612
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,520
no, we didn't come from the heavens,

613
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,520
they called out to the people still on the shore,

614
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,520
come out and see the people who have come from the heavens.

615
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,520
Certainly it seems interesting to wonder why it is that,

616
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,520
instead of thinking that possibly they came from some other part of the sea,

617
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,560
that they'd come from the sky.

618
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,560
But there is more to the story.

619
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:51,560
Less well known is that Columbus had an alien encounter of his own,

620
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:57,560
one reported in his log just days before he reached the shores of the New World.

621
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:05,560
At about 10 p.m. on the 11th of October, 1492,

622
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,600
the anxious explorer was on the deck of the Santa Maria

623
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:13,600
when he saw a light glimmering at a great distance.

624
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,600
Columbus wrote,

625
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,600
the admiral standing on the quarter deck saw a light.

626
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,600
Calling to Perugutieres, he told him he saw a light

627
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,600
and bid him look that way, which he did and saw it.

628
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,600
The admiral again perceived it once or twice,

629
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,640
appearing like the light of a wax candle moving up and down.

630
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,640
Summoning another member of the crew,

631
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:43,640
the two watched as the light vanished and reappeared repeatedly.

632
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,640
Seeing lights in the water isn't really an anomaly.

633
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:50,640
We all know that certain kinds of underwater life give off lights,

634
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:55,640
but this light actually traveled along with the ship.

635
00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:01,680
Columbus noted in the log a glowing object rise out of the water

636
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,680
and head off into the atmosphere.

637
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,680
What did Columbus see?

638
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,680
A phosphorescent sea creature?

639
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,680
An hallucination?

640
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:19,680
Or was it something more, something from out of this world?

641
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,680
What did Columbus's men see?

642
00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:27,720
What they saw was a luminous object

643
00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:31,720
that upon breaking the water surface became a UFO.

644
00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:36,720
To UFO researchers like Bill Burns,

645
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:39,720
Columbus's sighting is significant.

646
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:42,720
Not only because of when it occurred,

647
00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:46,720
but also because the object was spotted coming out of the sea,

648
00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:50,720
ruling out the possibility that what he saw was a comet

649
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,760
or a shooting star.

650
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,760
What's intriguing is that this was in what we call today

651
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,760
the Bermuda Triangle.

652
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:05,760
The Bermuda Triangle, that area, particularly off of Bimini

653
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:10,760
and the Bahamas, may in fact be, and I'm way out on a limb here,

654
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,760
colony headquarters underneath that.

655
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,760
Your UFO goes down into the water

656
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,800
and then into a subterranean.

657
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,800
What better position would be to monitor

658
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:30,800
South America, Middle America, Egypt, than the Caribbean?

659
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,800
Many people believe that it's possible that UFOs

660
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,800
could have established bases on the sea floor.

661
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,800
To some extent, it's true that we know more about the moon

662
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,800
or some parts about our space than we do about the deepest parts of our own oceans.

663
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,840
This event is extremely important

664
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:54,840
because it is the world's first recorded event

665
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,840
that illustrates the appearance of UFO

666
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,840
as object emerging from the water.

667
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,840
If Columbus's sighting was so extraordinary,

668
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,840
why do we only find record of it in his log?

669
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,840
Some believe another account of this event exists,

670
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,880
in the official records of the Spanish Inquisition.

671
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,880
UFO researcher Maximilian de Lafayette

672
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,880
claims that Columbus's shipmate Pedro Gutierrez

673
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,880
reported him to the Inquisition

674
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,880
after hearing Columbus describe the lights in the sky,

675
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,880
as resembling the Jewish menorah.

676
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:39,880
When they went back to Spain,

677
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,920
Gutierrez went directly to the infamous Inquisition.

678
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,920
This is the Catholic organization created by the Vatican

679
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,920
to persecute and kill the infidels.

680
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:55,920
The infidels means the Jews, the Muslims,

681
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,920
and Christians who are not Catholic.

682
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,920
The Inquisition called him for explanation, the position.

683
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,960
Did you say that you saw menorah?

684
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,960
Why did you say menorah?

685
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:13,960
Oh, so you are a Jew.

686
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:15,960
He said, I'm not a Jew.

687
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,960
In the deposition, which is lengthy,

688
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:20,960
you find more details,

689
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:25,960
meticulous details of what Columbus saw above the water.

690
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:34,960
The file of the Inquisition

691
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,000
is in the vault of the Vatican.

692
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,000
And good luck if you can go to the secret file of the Vatican

693
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,000
and try to dig for documents as explosive as this one.

694
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,000
Secret files of the Spanish Inquisition,

695
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,000
UFOs and alien sightings in the time of Columbus,

696
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,000
far-fetched, perhaps,

697
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,000
but to proponents of ancient astronaut theory.

698
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,000
These pre-colonial close encounters

699
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,040
are considered commonplace events.

700
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:11,040
For them, it offers additional proof

701
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,040
that we are not alone.

702
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:18,040
They have several sightings of what we could call UFOs today,

703
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,040
along the discovery of America

704
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,040
during the conquest of America.

705
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,040
Columbus was not the only one.

706
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,040
Also, on the trip of Magillian,

707
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,040
Fernando de Magillian,

708
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,040
the discoverer of the strait,

709
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:36,080
who still could navigate the war after Columbus.

710
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,080
He had also sightings.

711
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,080
Seafarers often encounter strange lights

712
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:48,080
both in the sky and below the surface of the ocean.

713
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,080
Skeptics argue that Columbus's sighting,

714
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:55,080
like many others, was simply a natural phenomenon.

715
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,080
At night, there are all kinds of things,

716
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,080
for example, bow lights.

717
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,120
These are these very large comets,

718
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,120
and they're spectacular.

719
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,120
It's just like this enormous, bright light with a trail

720
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,120
that just arcs through the sky.

721
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,120
But we can tell the difference.

722
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,120
When you have a meteor like that or a bow light,

723
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,120
characteristics are very different

724
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,120
than the ones of genuine UFOs.

725
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:21,120
As far back as the 19th century,

726
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,120
people have speculated about what that light could have been.

727
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,120
Explanations have centered around the possibility

728
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,120
that it could have been a light

729
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,160
or a torch being carried by an island inhabitant.

730
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,160
They were, in fact,

731
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,160
more than 35 miles away from any land,

732
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,160
in which he makes that impossible.

733
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,160
The other possibility is that it was a meteor

734
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,160
traveling very close to the horizon,

735
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,160
and that the movement of the ship

736
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:53,160
is actually what made the light appear to be moving up and down.

737
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,160
But what if conventional science is wrong,

738
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:01,200
and the ancient astronaut theorists are correct?

739
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,200
What if Columbus, Magellan,

740
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,200
and the early explorers

741
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:10,200
really did see evidence of extraterrestrial creatures

742
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,200
visiting our planet?

743
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:16,200
What does this say about our past,

744
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,200
our history,

745
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,200
and our future?

746
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:26,200
Germany, April 14th, 1561.

747
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,200
At dawn, the citizens of Nuremberg

748
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:35,200
awoke to what was described in a local news flyer

749
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,200
as a very frightful spectacle.

750
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:43,200
Various strange objects were spotted in the sky,

751
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:48,200
engaged in what appeared to be an aerial battle.

752
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:52,200
Could they have been witnessing a close encounter?

753
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,200
They see this incredible sight

754
00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:57,240
as the sun is coming up.

755
00:44:57,240 --> 00:45:01,240
They see what they describe as cigar-shaped objects,

756
00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:03,240
circles in the air,

757
00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:07,240
and crosses, flying crosses.

758
00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:11,240
And suddenly, these shapes begin emitting other shapes.

759
00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:15,240
These spheres and disks were seen for a long time,

760
00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:17,240
as they apparently were fighting

761
00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:20,240
in some kind of a battle over the city.

762
00:45:20,240 --> 00:45:22,240
In fact, the battle was so evident

763
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,280
that the people in Nuremberg were actually able to perceive

764
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,280
which side was winning.

765
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,280
Some of the objects were seen to crash into the ground

766
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:34,280
and disappear in a cloud of smoke or steam.

767
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,280
Other objects were seen to fly off

768
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,280
and disappear in the direction of the sun.

769
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:44,280
This entire event becomes memorialized in a broadsheet.

770
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:47,280
Now, a broadsheet in the 16th century

771
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,280
was literally a newspaper.

772
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:54,320
And that broadsheet exists today in Zürich, Switzerland.

773
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:58,320
The Zürich Central Library to this day retains a copy,

774
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:02,320
not only of the famous woodcut that shows the 1561 sighting

775
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:06,320
over Nuremberg, but also a 1566 woodcut

776
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:09,320
showing a sighting from that year

777
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,320
that was quite similar in Basel, Switzerland.

778
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,320
What's fascinating is it's a very similar event.

779
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,320
People saw a bunch of circles in the air,

780
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:21,360
in fact, a proliferation of circles in the air.

781
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,360
They didn't necessarily interpret that as a battle in the air,

782
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:28,360
but they did interpret it as some kind of heavenly sign.

783
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,360
The broadsheets that were distributed both in Nuremberg

784
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,360
and in Basel five years later

785
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,360
advised people to repent for their sins

786
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:42,360
and interpreted these extraordinary events as signs from God.

787
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:47,360
In all time, everything, paranormal, extra, extra.

788
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:52,400
Eiffen Ordnere belongs to realm of divinity of God.

789
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,400
God's doings this, God is punishing us,

790
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,400
God is blessing us, go repent, go to church.

791
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:01,400
It's interesting to read the Nuremberg description

792
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:05,400
because it is written with religious iconography in mind.

793
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,400
They talk about crosses seen in the sky

794
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,400
on the previous day during that sighting.

795
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:15,400
Now what we might think of as a fuselage with wings

796
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:20,440
might have appeared as a cross to people who saw religious symbolism

797
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,440
constantly in their everyday life.

798
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,440
It's difficult to imagine how these things might have appeared,

799
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:30,440
but it's certainly possible that if these were to appear in the sky today,

800
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,440
we would describe them quite differently.

801
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,440
Could the people of Nuremberg have actually witnessed a battle

802
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,440
between warring alien factions?

803
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:44,440
An event eerily similar to the one written about

804
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:48,480
in the Bhagavad Gita over 3,000 years earlier.

805
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:54,480
And if not, what else would explain the vivid accounts

806
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:59,480
of luminous globes and blood red crosses appearing in the sky?

807
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:07,480
Throughout the Middle Ages, visions of strange happenings

808
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:11,480
were often attributed to God or to the supernatural.

809
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:15,520
But moving into what is known as the early modern period

810
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:19,520
of the 17th century, people began to look more and more

811
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:23,520
towards science and the stars for answers.

812
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:28,520
And with the invention of the refracting telescope in 1608,

813
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:32,520
there would be more eyes trained on the stars than ever before.

814
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:39,520
Ironically, the first report of a UFO witnessed through this new device

815
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:43,560
came from Colonial America's best known Puritan minister,

816
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,560
Cotton Mather.

817
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:49,560
There was an incredible sighting that the very famous New England preacher

818
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:51,560
Cotton Mather had.

819
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,560
Cotton Mather said that he was looking through a telescope at the moon,

820
00:48:55,560 --> 00:49:02,560
and in the telescope, he saw a flying light over the surface of the moon.

821
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:07,560
Well, how did this get recorded by none other than NASA?

822
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:11,600
And people confounded themselves go to the NASA report

823
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:15,600
on lunar anomalies over 500 years, and they will find

824
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:20,600
Cotton Mather's sighting of a UFO over the surface of the moon.

825
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:29,600
There are a vast number of natural atmospheric phenomena

826
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:33,600
that can appear as bright lights in the night sky.

827
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,640
Certainly meteors are a possibility.

828
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:42,640
Even certain kinds of terrestrial phenomena do materialize

829
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:47,640
as glowing balls of light that, seen from a distance, may appear to be a star.

830
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:53,640
And it's incredibly difficult to judge the distance of a point source of light in the night.

831
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:57,640
So he may have thought that it was on the surface of the moon

832
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:02,640
or hundreds of miles away when in reality it could have been quite close to where he was.

833
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:07,640
Though it is uncertain what Cotton Mather saw,

834
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:11,640
ancient astronaut theorists find it significant that a prominent

835
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:15,640
religious figure would report such a sighting not as a vision from God,

836
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:19,640
but as an astronomical event.

837
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:23,640
They see it as a sign, not only of the sighting's authenticity,

838
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:27,640
but that views on the possibility of extraterrestrial life

839
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:32,640
were starting to shift, even within the Christian Church.

840
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:37,640
Cotton Mather was known as a fire and brimstone preacher,

841
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:41,640
but there's a rational part of Cotton Mather as well.

842
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:45,640
Because this was the very beginning, the dawn of the industrial revolution.

843
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:49,640
And in this context,

844
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,640
people were thinking about science, they were thinking about machines,

845
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:57,640
and really thinking about could there be something in space.

846
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:01,640
All those sightings, like Cotton Mathers,

847
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:05,680
were still rare in the 1700s.

848
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,680
The increasing interest in astronomy sparked a new debate

849
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:13,680
over a centuries-old theory called the plurality of worlds.

850
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:18,680
The idea that life might exist elsewhere throughout the universe.

851
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:22,680
By the end of the 18th century, the majority of people,

852
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:27,680
at least of educated people, were convinced

853
00:51:27,720 --> 00:51:31,720
that all throughout the solar system, there was intelligent life.

854
00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:35,720
On Jupiter, on Mars, on Saturn,

855
00:51:35,720 --> 00:51:39,720
all of them had extraterrestrials.

856
00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:43,720
Very possibly the moon would have intelligent beings on it.

857
00:51:43,720 --> 00:51:47,720
I once did a tally of the leading intellectuals

858
00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:51,720
in the 18th century.

859
00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:55,720
Over half of them included ideas of extraterrestrial life

860
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:59,760
in their publications.

861
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:03,760
The premier 18th century astronomer, William Herschel,

862
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:07,760
also supported the theory that life existed on other planets.

863
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:11,760
So did Thomas Paine, one of America's founding fathers,

864
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:15,760
along with many religious leaders of the time.

865
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:19,760
Preachers were preaching about extraterrestrials as a proof of God's goodness.

866
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:23,760
That's the idea that if there is a good

867
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:29,800
of the nephers than God, he would populate all the planets, all the stars.

868
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:37,800
Though there was open debate about the existence of extraterrestrial life

869
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,800
in the 1700s, the discussion did not often extend

870
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,800
to the idea of aliens visiting Earth.

871
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:50,800
But in 1731, a series of sightings occurred across Europe

872
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:56,840
that were so compelling, the possibility could no longer be ignored.

873
00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:01,840
In modern UFO sightings, the communications with UFOs are instant.

874
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,840
It's on the internet, it's on YouTube.

875
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:08,840
But what about some of these 18th century or renaissance sightings?

876
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,840
Here's something incredible.

877
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:16,840
In 1731 over Kilkenny, Ireland, there was a sighting of a luminous object

878
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:18,840
coming out of a red cloud.

879
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:25,880
That same sighting is reported in the span of a week over the rest of Europe,

880
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,880
particularly over Romania in Eastern Europe.

881
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:32,880
Now, here are two countries that are not communicating with each other.

882
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:36,880
Newspapers don't go back and forth, they don't speak the same language,

883
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,880
there's no radio and there's no television.

884
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:45,880
Yet, a UFO was spotted traveling from the Irish Sea,

885
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,920
across Europe, all the way to Eastern Europe, and towards Asia,

886
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:53,920
and is spotted in different places as it goes,

887
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:57,920
independent observations that don't cross pollinate.

888
00:53:59,920 --> 00:54:03,920
Could these nearly identical reports of a strange object

889
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:07,920
passing through the sky be mere coincidence?

890
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,920
And if it was an alien craft,

891
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:14,920
is it possible that earlier sightings simply weren't reported?

892
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,920
Because they were interpreted as signs from God.

893
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:25,920
In colonial America, the idea that aliens were visiting Earth was gaining ground.

894
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:33,920
And in the 1800s, this controversial theory would even make its way to the White House.

895
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:41,960
The United States officially declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776.

896
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:48,960
And just 14 years later, a report of the first UFO sighting in American history

897
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,960
appeared in the newly published journals of John Winthrop,

898
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:56,960
the second governor of the Massachusetts base in the United States.

899
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:04,000
His journals, which are now known as a History of New England, 1630 to 1649,

900
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:10,000
are still considered the preeminent record for that period in American history.

901
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:14,000
When the journals were finally published in 1790,

902
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,000
over 140 years after Winthrop's death,

903
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:21,000
they were finally published in 1740.

904
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:29,040
One night in March of 1639, James Everill, who was described as being a sober and discreet man,

905
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:37,040
and two of his companions boarded a little boat in the middle of the sea,

906
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:41,040
and the boat was pulled out of the boat.

907
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:44,040
And the boat was pulled out of the boat,

908
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:47,040
and the boat was pulled out of the boat.

909
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:53,080
And two of his companions boarded a little boat in the muddy river of Boston.

910
00:55:55,080 --> 00:56:01,080
As they paddled along the river, they saw a great bright light that hovered in the sky.

911
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:09,080
As they watched, the light flared up and then contracted into what they described as the figure of a swine.

912
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:14,080
It's difficult to imagine anybody seriously reporting a sighting of a glowing flying pig.

913
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:22,120
Looking at the sighting, one can't help but wonder if they were struggling to describe an oval-shaped fuselage

914
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:29,120
and for short what we might now call landing struts or landing gear in a way that made sense in the 17th century.

915
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:37,120
Winthrop's account states that the object moved swift as an arrow, jetting back and forth,

916
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:41,120
as well as up and down, for two to three hours.

917
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:49,160
And when it finally disappeared, the three passengers in the boat, who had been drifting downstream the entire time,

918
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:55,160
were astonished to find themselves back at the point where they began their trip.

919
00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:02,160
What Winthrop describes in his journal is really difficult to explain.

920
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:07,160
Certainly, it seems hard to fathom that for two or three hours,

921
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:13,200
three men in a boat watched a bright light moving around in the sky over the city of Boston.

922
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:22,200
And it seems almost inconceivable that their boat could have been drawn back against the tide without them noticing it.

923
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:33,200
These type of strange and inexplicable phenomena are now associated with the phenomena that's called alien abduction.

924
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:42,200
And as the abduction cases evolved, you heard people say,

925
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:47,200
all of a sudden everything around them was slowing way, way down.

926
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:59,200
And they associate the slowing way, way down with whatever this event is that we call the human abduction syndrome.

927
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:06,200
Could this event at Muddy River be not only North America's first documented UFO sighting,

928
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:11,240
but also the first account of an alien abduction?

929
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:19,240
Those who believe the account in Winthrop's journals was an actual alien encounter.

930
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:23,240
Point to the last line of his report, which states,

931
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:27,240
other credible persons saw the same light.

932
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:33,280
By the time Winthrop's history was published in 1790,

933
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:40,280
the debate over the possibility of extraterrestrial life was more heated than ever before.

934
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:48,280
In fact, the question of whether life existed on other planets had become so hotly contested,

935
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:56,280
it caused one of America's founding fathers, Thomas Paine, to be unofficially exiled to Europe.

936
00:58:56,320 --> 00:59:04,320
Thomas Paine enters the extraterrestrial life debate in a very dramatic way.

937
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:09,320
He was an Englishman, but famous American patriot.

938
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:16,320
1793, Thomas Paine publishes a book called The Age of Reason.

939
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:23,320
And in The Age of Reason, he makes one of the most vigorous attacks on Christianity ever made.

940
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:30,360
The bottom line on it is, he says, you must believe in extraterrestrials.

941
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:38,360
If you know any modern astronomy, the idea of God made the entire universe going from planet to planet,

942
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:42,360
redeeming people is just impossible to believe.

943
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:47,360
That creates a sensation.

944
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:50,360
Thousands of copies of the book were sold.

945
00:59:50,400 --> 01:00:00,400
In December of 1793, Thomas Paine was arrested in France as a result of supporting a political party that was no longer in power.

946
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:05,400
When the American ambassador refused to speak on his behalf,

947
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:13,400
Paine believed that George Washington had abandoned him because of his writings supporting the idea of extraterrestrial life

948
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:16,400
and refuting traditional Christianity.

949
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:25,440
In 1802, he was invited back to America by the third president, Thomas Jefferson.

950
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:31,440
Jefferson, an intellectual, was considered a genius by many in his time,

951
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:36,440
both for his skill as a statesman and his scientific aptitude.

952
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:43,440
And some believe he was also a proponent, like his contemporaries Ben Franklin and John Adams,

953
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:47,480
in the concept of the plurality of worlds.

954
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:54,480
The concept of a plurality of worlds was a very widely accepted concept in the 18th century.

955
01:00:54,480 --> 01:01:00,480
People like John Adams and Thomas Paine didn't view extraterrestrial life as a possibility,

956
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:05,480
but rather as a matter of fact that everybody knew to be true.

957
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:12,480
The new rationality in science changed the way that these founding fathers talked about religion.

958
01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:19,520
1825, Thomas Jefferson is hiring faculty for the University of Virginia,

959
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:25,520
and John Adams writes to him and gives him advice on how to do that hiring.

960
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:28,520
He says, do not hire any European professors.

961
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:34,520
If you hire a European professor, they are liable to believe in Christianity,

962
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:40,520
and that is a very dangerous doctrine that we should stay far away from.

963
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:49,520
Other founding fathers also agreed with this view, which included a belief in the existence of life on other planets.

964
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:57,520
Benjamin Franklin wondered if there were different gods for every sun that harbored intelligent life.

965
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:04,520
Many of them felt it was clear that there were intelligent beings conceivably through the whole universe,

966
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:11,520
and that the notion that God came to this planet as a person who was spit on and persecuted

967
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:17,560
simply was ridiculous, and they rejected that long-held traditional belief,

968
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:20,560
which was a very radical thing at the time.

969
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:28,560
America's founding fathers defending the concept of extraterrestrial life against Christianity?

970
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:32,560
A revolutionary idea to be certain.

971
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:38,560
But perhaps not so revolutionary to the country's earliest inhabitants,

972
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:43,600
who long before claimed to have met visitors from the sky.

973
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:52,600
In northwestern New Mexico lies a vast concentration of ancient ruins,

974
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:55,600
known today as Chaco Canyon.

975
01:02:56,600 --> 01:03:02,600
Built from sandstone blocks in timber between 900 and 1150 A.D.,

976
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:09,640
the 15 major complexes of Chaco Canyon contained four-story structures with hundreds of rooms

977
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:13,640
that required thousands of man-hours to construct.

978
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:19,640
Until the 19th century, they were the largest buildings in North America.

979
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:26,640
Chaco Canyon was a center of activity for a lot of different Indian tribes, Pueblo tribes.

980
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:31,640
Archaeologists, anthropologists have a lot of theories about what there was,

981
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:38,680
but what I have studied and what I can tell by just some of the chants from my own tribe

982
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:44,680
and other Pueblo tribes is that this would have been a big center of activity

983
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:48,680
for technological, spiritual activities.

984
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:55,680
There's a lot of places on there that has direct bearings up into the universe.

985
01:03:55,720 --> 01:04:03,720
When archaeologists first excavated these ruins in 1896,

986
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:07,720
they marveled at their architectural precision.

987
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:13,720
But even more astonishing was the fact that many of these ancient structures,

988
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:18,720
like those found in Egypt, England and South America,

989
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:23,720
suggested the inhabitants had a sophisticated knowledge of astronomy.

990
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:29,760
A number of devices designed for tracking solar events were found.

991
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:34,760
And at Fahada Butte, which sits at the entrance of the canyon,

992
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:41,760
three giant slabs of rock are positioned near two spiral petroglyphs etched on a cliff wall.

993
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:48,760
During the Solstice and the Equinox, these rocks catch the sun in such a way

994
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:52,800
as to shine daggers of light on different areas of the petroglyphs.

995
01:04:55,800 --> 01:05:02,800
But why would early Native Americans spend so much time building the structures at Chaco Canyon

996
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:06,800
along such precise astronomical alignments?

997
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:12,800
And why build them in such a desolate area of the country?

998
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:17,800
It is one of those sites which has been posing so many questions

999
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:20,840
and which science is only slowly beginning to explain.

1000
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:25,840
But really, there are more questions and answers at this moment in time about Chaco Canyon.

1001
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:33,840
In his 2006 book, The Orion Zone,

1002
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:38,840
archaeoastronomer Gary David proposed that the geographical layout of Hopi ruins

1003
01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:45,840
in the American Southwest precisely mirrors the star patterns of a number of constellations.

1004
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:52,880
When you look at where the ancestral Pueblan mages ceremonial sites are actually located,

1005
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:59,880
Gary David has identified that when you just map these, you actually find that they depict constellations.

1006
01:05:59,880 --> 01:06:02,880
Specifically, Orion is very important.

1007
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:09,880
Orion's belt points to the brightest star in the sky.

1008
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:11,920
Sirius.

1009
01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:17,920
If one looks at the Hopi Maces as the stars of Orion's belt,

1010
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:22,920
they also point to an important location, Chaco Canyon.

1011
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:25,920
But why Orion?

1012
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:34,920
And could it be merely a coincidence that this constellation pattern has been found at other important sites around the world?

1013
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:39,960
And always with the belt pointing toward a place of significance.

1014
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:44,960
Ancient astronaut theorists have discovered the constellation of Orion,

1015
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:49,960
lining up with the Mayan complexes along the street of the dead in Mexico City.

1016
01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:56,960
And here, Orion's belt points to Cholula, the largest pyramid in the world.

1017
01:06:56,960 --> 01:07:00,960
They also find it at the Giza pyramids in Egypt,

1018
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:08,000
with the belt pointing toward the city of Heliopolis, a place of worship for ancient Egyptians.

1019
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:13,000
One thing we know about Orion's belt is that this is a theme which is recurring in mind mythology.

1020
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:17,000
It's also actually a theme which is occurring in Egyptian mythology.

1021
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:21,000
Orion's belt and the stars around it were seen as the heart of creation.

1022
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:24,000
It is where everything began.

1023
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:30,000
And it's probably not coincidental that the Hopi see the place where they are living as the heart of the world.

1024
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:36,960
These are ancient people. All they had to go by were the stars.

1025
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:45,960
And so they believed, as the strategists believe today, that the stars have certain powers over what goes on on planet Earth.

1026
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:54,960
According to their legends, the Hopi believe there were three worlds that preceded the one we are in today.

1027
01:07:55,960 --> 01:08:07,960
Each of those worlds was wiped out when guardians of the sky called to the creator to tell him that his finest creation, humans, were no longer living according to his plan.

1028
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:17,960
And they called to him by setting off a warning through the Earth's axis of vibration strong enough to shift the balance of the planet.

1029
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:33,960
Is it possible the structures at Chaco Canyon were built along precise celestial alignments so that the Hopi could predict the periods of Earth's devastation and renewal?

1030
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:40,960
Could the guardians of the sky have led them here so they could monitor the position of the sun?

1031
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:51,960
Why in the world people settled at that location wasn't something that they did on their own. There's no running water there. There was no reason to live there. There's no good soil.

1032
01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:55,960
They did that because their guardian told them to live there.

1033
01:08:56,960 --> 01:09:11,960
During the times of the summer and winter solstices, as well as the spring and fall equinoxes, the people at Chaco Canyon could gauge the Earth's balance by watching the path of the sun daggers at Fajada Butte.

1034
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:21,960
If the daggers did not pierce the petroglyphs at the same points as the previous year, they would know that the Earth was out of balance.

1035
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:30,960
And since the Earth fell out of balance at the end of the previous three worlds, this could mean the end was coming once again.

1036
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:43,960
Scientists from NASA determined the earthquake that hit Chile on February 27, 2010 shifted the Earth's axis by three inches.

1037
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:50,960
Would the ancestral Pueblo people have seen this as a sign from the guardians above?

1038
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:59,960
What do you think that's going to show up at Chaco Canyon on that dagger stick that comes down at the time of the solstice? Do you think the Indians were watching that?

1039
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:11,960
It's what the Hopi call Koyaneskatsi. We are living in Koyaneskatsi right now. We are living in a life that's out of balance.

1040
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:27,960
Could these Native American legends be more than just myth? Is it possible that these stories, along with the ancient texts of India and the stories of the Bible, are all describing alien visitations?

1041
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:38,960
For ancient astronaut theorists, the answer is yes, and the proof may lie on a small uninhabited island in Nova Scotia, Canada.

1042
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:55,960
In 1795, three Nova Scotia farm boys set out to explore nearby Oak Island after witnessing strange green lights coming from its shore in the middle of the night.

1043
01:10:56,960 --> 01:11:07,960
As they came to the island, they saw that there was one little pit that they thought, well, this is very odd.

1044
01:11:08,960 --> 01:11:18,960
So they started to dig in that particular spot. They came across different platforms made out of wood, especially out of oak.

1045
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:32,960
And the deeper they dug, they also came across a mat made of coconut fiber, and they came across a stone slab that had very bizarre writing on it.

1046
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:45,960
The one thing is crystal clear. Canada does not have any coconut trees. So the mat made of coconut fiber, where did it come from?

1047
01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:50,960
That's a very intriguing question, how all these different levels were made.

1048
01:11:51,960 --> 01:12:09,960
The initial excavation stopped at a depth of 30 feet. But since that time, over a dozen professional excavations have been attempted and funded by everyone from actors John Wayne and Errol Flynn to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1049
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:22,960
Mining and excavation companies have dug multiple shafts surrounding the whole money pit with the hopes of achieving or reaching whatever is buried down there.

1050
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:28,960
They've even tried to dig in sideways, and even that didn't work.

1051
01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:44,960
Based on the findings from numerous excavations, the money pit contains a series of oak platforms starting at a depth of 10 feet and recurring every 10 feet thereafter, going at least 200 feet down.

1052
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:53,960
In between these platforms are slabs of flagstone, not indigenous to the island, and layers of puddle clay.

1053
01:12:54,960 --> 01:13:01,960
Efforts to reach the bottom of the pit have proven so dangerous, six people have died in the attempt.

1054
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:15,960
Its underground is covered with canals, flooding canals that lead seawater into the system.

1055
01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:26,960
Each time there seemed to be progress, underground floods in the canals would make further searches impossible.

1056
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:34,960
So this is what we know. Many centuries ago, someone constructed a giant hydraulic system under this island.

1057
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:43,960
It couldn't have been pirates. It had to be someone with great expertise for architecture and hydraulics.

1058
01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:58,960
We still haven't been able to access whatever is down there because of the incredible flooding system.

1059
01:13:59,960 --> 01:14:14,960
These treasure hunters poured red paint into one of these shafts, and not only did it come out on one side of the island, but also on the other side, up to three shafts.

1060
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:18,960
They have been discovered. I mean, it's ingenious.

1061
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:31,960
But who, or what, constructed this elaborately booby-trapped pit, and perhaps more importantly, what, if anything, lies hidden at the bottom?

1062
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:43,960
Some have speculated that it might be the crown jewels of England, pirate treasure, Viking hoards, and even the original manuscripts of Shakespeare.

1063
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:52,960
But perhaps the most audacious theory of all is that the money pit is the hiding place for one of the most sacred objects in the world.

1064
01:14:53,960 --> 01:15:02,960
There is a possibility that the Ark of the Covenant, with its contents, has been hidden on Oak Island.

1065
01:15:03,960 --> 01:15:10,960
The Ark of the Covenant? The most sacred object in all of Judeo-Christianity?

1066
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:18,960
The gold chest that is supposed to contain the tablets on which the Hebrew God wrote the Ten Commandments.

1067
01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:26,960
Why would this religious relic be placed at the bottom of an elaborately booby-trapped pit in northeastern Canada?

1068
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:37,960
Ancient astronaut theorists believe the Ark may have been hidden because of the powers it held, powers from out of this world.

1069
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:52,960
According to the ancient national hypothesis, the Ark of the Covenant housed an extraterrestrial device which was given to the Israelites during their 40-year wandering through the desert.

1070
01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:01,960
When you go back to the biblical descriptions, it becomes a weapon.

1071
01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:07,960
It rises up into the air, it rushes towards the enemies of Israel.

1072
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:20,960
When the Philistines briefly capture it, they make the mistake of opening it and filing past it. Suddenly thousands of people start to die.

1073
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:26,960
The biblical account states quite clearly that the cause of death was cancerous tumors.

1074
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:37,960
This is a very mysterious and puzzling thing. What kind of object could have these almost machine-like attributes and cause deaths that sound like radiation sickness?

1075
01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:52,960
What powers the Ark held is the subject of wide speculation, but an even bigger mystery is what happened to the Ark and where it might be located today.

1076
01:16:56,960 --> 01:17:05,960
One legend says that it was taken during the Crusades by an elite band of monk-like warriors known as the Knights Templar.

1077
01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:15,960
The cover story, and it feels like a cover story, is that they were to protect pilgrims on the route between the coast and Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

1078
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:25,960
But they don't ever seem to have done any of that. Right soon after they were founded, they took possession of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

1079
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:36,960
And for the best part of 80 or 90 years, they devoted themselves to what looked like an archaeological expedition on the Temple Mount.

1080
01:17:36,960 --> 01:17:40,960
And I'm pretty certain they were looking for the Ark of the Covenant.

1081
01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:50,960
The legend tells of the Knights taking the Ark to Scotland, where they formed an alliance with the powerful Sinclair family.

1082
01:17:50,960 --> 01:18:00,960
Some historians believe William Sinclair may have taken the Ark to Oak Island in Nova Scotia in the 1400s to protect it from English invasion.

1083
01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:08,960
Here, Sinclair and his men could have built what might be the most impenetrable vault ever made.

1084
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:11,960
The notorious Money Pit.

1085
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:17,960
But if so, where is the evidence?

1086
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:27,960
In the 1990s, some scientists were able to send cameras down into one of the shafts.

1087
01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:33,960
There, they discovered strange objects that had a rounded tubular shape.

1088
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:42,960
Their C-14 values were diverse and their radiometric age ranged from very old to futuristic.

1089
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:47,960
Now that is basically impossible.

1090
01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:54,960
However, there is some chance that that effect could be caused by some kind of radioactivity.

1091
01:18:56,960 --> 01:19:03,960
That's why we suspect that a nuclear reactor may have been taken there and hidden inside this ingenious hydraulic system,

1092
01:19:04,960 --> 01:19:10,960
so that it would be kept safe forever.

1093
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:19,960
What would it mean if the Ark of the Covenant really was discovered at the bottom of the Money Pit?

1094
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:29,960
Would it provide the proof of alien intervention, the very proof that ancient astronaut theorists have been waiting for?

1095
01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:39,960
If the Ark of the Covenant is found at the bottom of the Money Pit,

1096
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:43,960
well, the story is over.

1097
01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:51,960
Perhaps, but an even greater question persists. Why?

1098
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:59,960
Has mankind been helped by the intervention of beings from other worlds, as ancient astronaut proponents contend?

1099
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:03,960
Or was there a more ominous intention?

1100
01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:16,960
Could the Ark, if discovered, be a sort of Pandora's box that once opened would reveal more about our origins than we would ever want to know?

1101
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:28,960
As the 20th century dawned, the Industrial Revolution suggested that nothing conceived by man could be impossible.

1102
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:35,960
We could now ride through the countryside in hoarseless carriages,

1103
01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:43,960
sail the seas and huge ocean liners, fly through the sky in airships.

1104
01:20:46,960 --> 01:20:54,960
Even the idea of building rockets and flying them to the moon, Mars and beyond seemed well within our grasp.

1105
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:09,960
It was the era of science fiction writers like H. G. Wells and inventors like Einstein, Tesla, Edison and Ford.

1106
01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:20,960
In 1896, there were widespread reports of strange airships hovering over various locations in the American West.

1107
01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:24,960
Coincidence or consequence?

1108
01:21:25,960 --> 01:21:31,960
There were sightings throughout history and of course there were a large number of sightings in the 19th century.

1109
01:21:32,960 --> 01:21:37,960
But it wasn't until 1896 that there were waves of sightings.

1110
01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:47,960
Thousands of people in 1896 and 1897 in the United States saw phantom airships, the origin of which was never explained.

1111
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:54,960
These reports were catalogued, discussed in newspapers.

1112
01:21:55,960 --> 01:22:10,960
There were sightings in 1896, 1897, 1898 and in fact we kind of know from newspaper reports from the Southwest that people were seeing craft with wings.

1113
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:18,960
And the Wright brothers didn't fly an airplane until 1903. So what were these craft?

1114
01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:26,960
Well on the one hand, people were flying balloons in the 19th century. So balloons were not high technology.

1115
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:34,960
What was high technology back then? Was affixing a gasoline engine to the gondola of a balloon.

1116
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:41,960
That whole airship mystery, my guess is that some of those were just dirigibles that people were flying around.

1117
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:49,960
On the other hand, during that time we also find reports of objects that moved really too quickly to be dirigibles.

1118
01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:55,960
And some were maybe too shiny really to be the types of balloons that they were making at that time.

1119
01:22:55,960 --> 01:23:12,960
The prevalence of these balloons powered by gasoline engines flying around in the late 1890s in the turn of the century probably opened up people's minds to the possibility that there could be literally unidentified flying objects.

1120
01:23:13,960 --> 01:23:17,960
People began to put it bluntly looking up.

1121
01:23:18,960 --> 01:23:27,960
So it could be said that modern UFO history began with these mysterious airships of the 1890s.

1122
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:46,960
It certainly seems possible if we believe that the airship sightings were sightings of extraterrestrial spaceships that perhaps the aliens were interested in human activity at the time because of the rapid increases being made in technology.

1123
01:23:48,960 --> 01:23:56,960
Some people have suggested that aliens have been interfering with the lives of human beings for thousands of years.

1124
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:09,960
And because they were always here at significant points in human history, they introduced various kinds of technologies to spur development along a certain line.

1125
01:24:10,960 --> 01:24:23,960
Could the same alien presence that some believe had been visiting the Earth for centuries have been responsible for inspiring our great leap into the modern age?

1126
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:35,960
Or could the increased close encounters with UFOs, which would persist through the next century, be a sign that we were in danger of going too far?

1127
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:46,960
A very common idea that we have today is that as we develop technologically we're going to see an increase in UFO phenomena, that UFOs are basically monitoring us.

1128
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:59,960
Decades ago we saw a lot of UFO activity around air bases, around atomic bases, and also UFOs following airplanes and maybe following our aircraft.

1129
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:08,960
I would say that certainly as we keep developing we will continue to see that monitoring aspect to the UFOs.

1130
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:18,960
Especially as we continue going into space we're going to continue seeing more UFO activity, whether it's for our benefit or not, that's hard to say.

1131
01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:31,960
Our history, the history of human beings on planet Earth, whether we ourselves are the aliens, seated from another planet, or whether the aliens created us, as the stories of the Anunnaki say.

1132
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:37,960
Regardless, it may be that human beings are being directed toward a certain end.

1133
01:25:38,960 --> 01:25:49,960
In the 20th century the inhabitants of planet Earth were capable of blasting off and touching the stars.

1134
01:25:54,960 --> 01:25:57,960
We were also capable of harnessing the atom.

1135
01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:05,960
And using it to inflict the deadliest of devastations.

1136
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:15,960
We would send satellites into orbit, land on the moon, and reach Mars.

1137
01:26:16,960 --> 01:26:23,960
But what would we find? A barren empty universe of dead planets or something else?

1138
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:33,960
In the 1960s mainstream scientists were already exploring the question of whether or not we're alone in the universe.

1139
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:44,960
And there was only a handful of scientists who actually proposed the idea that yes, there are other civilizations out there.

1140
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:57,960
Now fast forward 50 years, you'd be very hard pressed to find any scientist today saying that we're alone in the universe.

1141
01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:04,960
What we're coming up to now in the 21st century is going to be a redefinition.

1142
01:27:05,960 --> 01:27:13,960
Our entire history may have to be revised in the context of non-human intelligences coming and going.

1143
01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:20,960
And what else is out there in this incredible universe of which we humans are apart?

1144
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:28,960
Perhaps the dawn of the space age was a signal to whatever or whoever was out there.

1145
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:39,960
That after centuries of writing on cave walls, building temples, and mapping the skies, the inhabitants of planet Earth were at last ready.

1146
01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:42,960
Ready for their return.