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Sound waves compelling solid objects to float in midair.

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Laser beams vaporizing targets with pinpoint accuracy.

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Are these stunning examples of mankind's modern technology?

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Or are they?

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Merely recent incarnations of scientific achievements

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that have roots stretching back to the ancient past.

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We have several cultures who depict modern technology

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being used thousands of years ago.

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They were working with technology

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that could literally break the earth in two.

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How could they have had these advanced weapons

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that we've only just acquired ourselves today?

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Something in our past that has been lost.

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And we're looking for that answer.

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Millions of people around the world believe

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we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

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What if it were true?

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Did ancient aliens really help to shape our world?

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Did mankind's cutting-edge technology spring from our imagination?

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Or could it have come from a source much farther away?

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In the early morning hours of November 5, 2005,

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the luxury cruise ship, the Seaborn Spirit,

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found itself under attack by pirates in the waters

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off the coast of Somalia.

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The ship was discovered in the early morning hours

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of the early morning hours of the early morning hours

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of Somalia.

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But the Somali bandits were successfully repelled

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by a relatively new and formidable defensive weapon,

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a long-range acoustic device, or LRAD.

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Manufactured by the LRAD Corporation,

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this sonic device can, when focused on a target,

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produce a piercing sound that can exceed 150 decibels,

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enough to cause temporary blindness, nausea,

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The U.S. Army used sonic weapons in Iraq.

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They're used in crowd control.

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There are certain types of low rumbles and signals

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that will affect a person.

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The LRAD is currently used by law enforcement,

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and is considered the ultimate in sonic weaponry.

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But is the LRAD really a 21st century invention?

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Or is there evidence that similar audio weapons

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existed in ancient times?

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Approximately 17 miles northeast of Jerusalem

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lies the ancient ruins of the city of Jericho.

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of settlements dating back to 9,000 B.C.

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According to the Hebrew Bible,

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Jericho is believed to be where God spoke to Joshua,

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the successor to Moses,

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and instructed him to march around the walled city

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once every six days,

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with seven priests carrying rams horns,

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and followed by the Ark of the Covenant,

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the golden chest containing the Ten Commandments.

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the perimeter of the city one last time.

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and the city was sacked.

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In the Old Testament, you see very clear descriptions

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in Joshua 6 about the shofar,

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which is described as a trumpet that was used

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in the Battle of Jericho to actually bring the walls down.

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was a miracle.

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the destruction was most probably caused by an earthquake.

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Could the Israelites have possessed advanced sound wave technology?

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If so, where did it come from?

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about the fall of the walls of Jericho.

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Armies were told to circle the wall repeatedly

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and then finally blow their horns and down came the walls.

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the Ark of the Covenant.

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to allow the Israelites to basically take over that city

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So what kind of technology were they using?

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that they could have had some kind of advanced alien technology.

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when the Israelites crossed over into Canaan.

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but there was clearly an association

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between the Ark and the falling down of the walls.

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around the periphery of the city.

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acquired a supernatural source of energy at Mount Sinai.

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was later contained in the Ark of the Covenant

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to amplify Joshua's horns

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and make them into a powerful sonic weapon.

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is that this particular use of the shofar

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clearly seems to be the same thing

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that we're seeing with particle beam technology,

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death ray technology, thunderbolt technology.

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we have an extraterrestrial technology

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that the ancient people had at the ready

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that they could use when needed for military campaigns.

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some sort of advanced extraterrestrial technology,

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could the amplified sound of ram's horns

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recent research into the field of physical acoustics

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suggests it is a distinct possibility.

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if you said it has happened,

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caused by acoustic, caused by sound.

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somehow a resonance is built in that wall.

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eventually it shatters everything.

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very large pressures in the sound.

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where we no longer hear it as sound,

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which we know how to do

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by actually being with sound.

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early civilizations had been able to harness

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the power of sound for destructive purposes,

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could there be evidence that such technology

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might also have been used for a more constructive purpose?

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Might it help to explain the existence

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of mammoth stone structures,

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whose construction has baffled modern scientists for centuries?

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this ancient fortress city dominated much of southern Greece.

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where huge limestone boulders were fitted tightly together

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these Mycenaean fortifications were thought to be the work

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of a strong, one-eyed race of giants known as the Cyclops.

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people are saying mankind could not have built it.

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who has constructed these walls.

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have been used in a way that really defies almost gravity,

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is it really logical to suggest that our ancestors did this

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with pivots and with little ropes and with wooden rollers?

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the Mayan structures, the pyramids, the Greek temples.

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it would be impossible to move them around with anything

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One of the great enigmas of the megalithic buildings around the world

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is that in many cases they're built with such large and heavy granite or basalt stones.

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such as the stones at Baalbek in Lebanon,

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where you have just mind-bogglingly huge stones that weigh, in some cases,

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over a thousand tons.

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For ancient astronaut theorists, the key might be found not by studying the laws of physics,

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but by exploring the interdisciplinary science of acoustics

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and the principle of acoustic levitation.

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Acoustic levitation is another way that alien civilizations may have influenced our history,

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and there is some evidence for that,

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especially when you look at some of the research that's been done in acoustic levitation here in laboratories.

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This system is an acoustic positioning device,

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and the force field can rotate, the force field can oscillate.

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This ball is fairly light material, it's about 10 grams no more.

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It meant to be light.

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because acoustic positioning device really meant a fine tuning of the force field.

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What is it possible that early builders had access to the kind of acoustic technology

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that would allow for the transportation and careful placement of megaton boulders and stone blocks?

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handed down throughout time.

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There are many ancient legends which suggest that some of the monuments

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were built with the help of acoustic levitation.

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What the local legend of Stonehenge talks about is that those big stones

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were transported by way of levitation by none other than Merlin the Wizard.

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and they would levitate and position into place.

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There are lots of stories of stones being levitated all using the power of sound.

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It's interesting as you read these stories of magic that you see that they have to use the chanting.

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seem to create certain effects in the physical realm.

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I mean, there's no way that human beings, even 100,000 of them, could pull these things.

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You can't get 200,000 hands to lift a block.

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And once you roll it with all these people, how do you move it?

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and they were able to just come up with some anti-gravity and just move them into place.

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help early humans build the ancient wonders of the world?

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Well, everything is possible.

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We have no way to rule in or rule out aliens,

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because human technology is very primitive at this stage.

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And you look at the Earth, it has only survived 4 billion years.

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But there are planets billions and billions of years ahead of us.

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Their technology and their knowledge can be so far ahead of us that we can't even imagine.

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If early civilizations did possess the ability to levitate large, solid objects,

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might they also have possessed another, even greater ability?

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Might they have also mastered the power of flight?

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Flying Saucers

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Mainstream historians claim sightings of these mysterious craft are mostly a 20th century phenomenon.

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unidentified flying objects have been appearing in Earth's skies for thousands of years.

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Depictions of flying saucers and what seems to be some kind of ancient spacecraft

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go back to some of the earliest cave paintings that we know of.

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Scientists state these cave paintings back to 20,000-30,000 BC.

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And these cave paintings are in Russia, China, Africa, South America and other areas.

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and you actually see these disks with wings around them.

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What you're dealing with is most likely actually a flying saucer that's being seen up in space.

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Guatemala, Central America

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the earliest human settlements in this region date back over 14,000 years.

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Here can be found numerous ancient artifacts.

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And among them is this one, the figure of a man lying inside what appears to be the shell of a turtle.

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what is this, they said without the flinching of an eye,

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well this is according to legend, the giant flying turtles which flew around in Guatemala.

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The entire body is aerodynamically fashioned.

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The extremities are pressed in an aerodynamic fashion against the body of this turtle.

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And if you look closely, it's as if there's some modern-day fighter pilot glasses or goggles.

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This right here is from the same culture from the same region where they created a turtle in clay.

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So they knew exactly what a turtle looked like. It looks like a snapping turtle.

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In their frame of reference, they were able to use the turtle as the best example of what they might have seen that the gods used to fly around in.

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Halfway around the world, in 329 BC, the Greek ruler Alexander the Great planned the invasion of India.

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But according to ancient texts, his army was supposedly thwarted by a strange attack from the skies.

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As Alexander's army was getting ready to cross the Indus and invade India, suddenly in the sky appeared these flying discs.

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And they began dive bombing at the war elephants that were part of Alexander's army.

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And what these flying discs did was cause stampede within Alexander's own war elephants, who then ran amok throughout his army, tearing up the camps and everything.

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And after that, Alexander's generals met with him and they said, no, we're not going into India. This is it. We're going to turn back.

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But whether in ancient times or much more recently, so-called flying saucers are often described as being unaffected by gravity or the basic laws of physics.

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You know, I know that people who have seen extraterrestrial vehicles in modern times have said, how in the world could it be doing that?

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For example, it's moving through the sky and it's going 20,000 miles per hour and makes a right hand turn without decelerating.

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That isn't possible using normal aerodynamics.

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When jets have been scrambled after flying saucers, the saucers are described as suddenly turning at right angles at super speeds and zipping off in what seems like impossible aerobatic maneuvers.

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And that's going to be explained as the kind of technology they're using, which is gravity control.

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It's artificial gravity. So when you're inside of a gravitational field that you're creating yourself around your craft, the gravity of the Earth doesn't have a force on you.

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But although aircraft propulsion by means of gravity manipulation is beyond the limits of current technology, many scientists claim it is theoretically possible.

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In Davis, California, inventor Dr. Paul Mahler tests the boundaries of real-life science with a recreational flying vehicle called the Nuera.

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The Nuera is a very simple device to fly.

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It has eight lifting ducted fans, as we call them, each one driven by its own engine.

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Well, one of the big advantages of this kind of round shape is that you end up with the strength in the skin of the vehicle itself, much like the shell of a beetle.

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And that gets you a very, very strong design.

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This airframe you see over here next to this vehicle, which are similar to this, weigh only 75 pounds a piece, which is incredible.

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You get a complete airframe that's capable of lifting 1,500 pounds with a 75-pound shell.

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But could the inherent design strength of a disc-shaped object be the key to overcoming the forces of gravity?

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And does the prevalence of flying saucer sightings suggest a connection between anti-gravity technology and extraterrestrial visitations?

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Gravity is one of the most unknown forces in physics today, and when we do understand it, we'll be able to find out a way to shield ourselves from it,

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or to provide a device, a method, electromagnetically, but with some much greater knowledge than we have today.

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Where we eliminated within the vehicle's operations.

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Although anti-gravity devices in the form of flying saucers may help to explain how extraterrestrials might be able to travel at ultra-high speeds,

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there is in fact another means of interplanetary transportation, and it is one that humans, and perhaps aliens, have been using for centuries.

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The brute force of rockets.

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Merritt Island, Florida. The Kennedy Space Center.

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Six Earth astronauts sit atop NASA's Endeavour space shuttle, headed for orbit.

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After countdown, three main engines, together with two solid rocket boosters, provide the thrust to lift the orbiter off the ground for its ascent.

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And lift off of shuttle debris.

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I urge everyone to be part one day of a rocket launch, because it is a life-altering moment.

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When you stand there a few miles away, you can still feel the power as that rocket takes off into space.

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The grumbling in your stomach, the vibrations, and you can hear the noise, and it's a truly magnificent sight and awe-inspiring.

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But are manned space flights really a recent phenomenon? Or could our ancient ancestors have witnessed similar events?

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There is no doubt that if we thoroughly investigate this planet, they will find that this planet may have already been to the moon way before we went to the moon with a man in 1969.

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The interesting thing is that we have the exact same descriptions in ancient texts and also in oral traditions, where whenever those quote-unquote gods appeared, there was a lot of smoke, a lot of fire, a lot of noise, and the trembling off the ground.

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When rockets are taking off, it's best to stand back and get out of the way. And that's a lot of what the ancient legends are about too. When the gods came and went, may well have been just these rockets or other aerospace vehicles landing and taking off and making a lot of smoke and noise.

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But could early man really have had knowledge of rocket technology? To make their case, ancient astronaut theorists point to numerous and consistent descriptions of rockets found throughout many cultures of the ancient world.

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When you're dealing with this subject and you look at the ancient literature, you have to look at it through the lens of how was it being experienced by a civilization with no foundation for understanding the science and technology.

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And so I think in ancient times there were people who had encounters, and however I think the way they might have been reported would have been in metaphors in ways that would have made sense to them.

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In China you have these stories of dragons flying through the air. They make a lot of noise and smoke comes out of them and fire just like a rocket.

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The first emperor of China descended in a fiery dragon with smoke and fire and whenever that dragon appeared, the earth was quaking and everyone was afraid and threw themselves to the ground.

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Now of course it wasn't a dragon in a biological nature, a living being, but it was a misinterpreted machine.

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If you look at the Greek gods, they were all described as flying in on chariots of fire. Well, chariot of fire to me seems very clearly like it's some sort of rocket, probably burning its retros as it lands somewhere in ancient Greece.

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In the Old Testament we can read about a glowing furnace that descended from the sky and sometimes this glowing furnace is described as a chariot of fire or as the glory of the Lord.

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So there are all these different descriptions which in the ancient astronaut opinion describe ancient rocketry.

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From 5000 to 2000 BC, southern Mesopotamia was home to the Samarians, a highly advanced civilization considered to be among the first astronomers, regarded as one of the oldest written stories in history, the epic of Gilgamesh, told of a man's journey to the heavens to meet the god Anu.

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The Gilgamesh epic which goes back to the Sumerian, that's a piece where the hero Gilgamesh flies over the earth and he describes how the earth looks from above. Fascinating, an old story of the first flight.

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The most ancient civilization that we have on record, the Sumerian culture, has left us evidence of what's called a shem. And this object looks very similar to a modern day space capsule that we place on top of a rocket.

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In this shem is where priests would go into the shem to interact with the gods or any time man was ascending or descending into heaven. So it's a very interesting term used from a culture dating back to 3800 BC and very clearly matches the descriptions of a modern day rocket.

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Could early man have actually possessed a surprisingly sophisticated understanding of what we now call rocket propulsion?

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In the first century AD, nearly 2000 years before the industrial revolution, a Greek mathematician and engineer named Hiro created a steam powered engine he called any Ola Pyle.

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One of the great inventors of the ancient world was the famous Hiro of Alexandria. He invented all kinds of stuff. He actually invented what we would describe as a rocket type motor.

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And really something like this is the beginnings of rocket technology and we don't know where Hiro got many of his ideas but it may well have come from aliens.

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John Robert Tindall, founder of Tindall Vision Laboratories, demonstrates a small scale replica of Hiro's Iola Pyle.

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A conventional steam engine that we think of has pistons that get its power but Iola Pyle uses these opposing jets. So it's creating thrust and rather than thrust like a rocket we use it in a linear fashion.

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This is causing a rotational effect and there's your steam turbine really working off a thrust. Now this is operating much as it did in the first century AD.

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This is generally considered to be the first working steam engine. It works more like a turbine than a classic steam engine with pistons.

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But it's very significant because it really is taking a compressed gas and turning it into energy.

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Wow! That has a lot of energy. Steam!

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The name for Hiro's steam rocket engine, Iola Pyle, translates to the ball of Iolas. In Greek mythology, Iolas was the god of the winds.

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Is it possible that Hiro drew inspiration for his invention from the stories of the gods such as those found in Homer's Theodicy? Or might he have had help from the gods themselves?

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Some have suggested that it was alien intervention that aliens taught him how to build this machine.

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However, I'm leaning more towards the idea that he looked at older texts from previous generations and that the source of the idea of how to build this did come from extraterrestrials.

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But from way before he was alive and he just came across those texts.

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But do the descriptions of rockets and other worldly devices found in ancient texts and legends provide evidence of extraterrestrial encounters in the distant past?

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Perhaps the answer will be discovered in an unlikely place, in the hands of the U.S. military.

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May 2010, off the coast of California.

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A powerful new weapon shoots down unmanned aerial drones during secret testing carried out by the U.S. Navy.

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Firing from a warship at a distance of nearly two miles, a ray of intense laser energy burns through targets traveling at speeds of more than 300 miles per hour.

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But is it possible that such so-called death rays could have been used before? Perhaps in ancient times.

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I'm quite convinced that there have been in the past advanced civilizations on Earth that did have such things as the so-called death ray.

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Whether it was used as a weapon or whether it was just observed being used is a very, very open question.

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In 214 B.C., Greeks living in the Sicilian city of Syracuse prepared for an attack by a fleet of Roman warships.

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Though outnumbered by a superior military force, ancient texts suggest that Syracuse was well defended by a mysterious and powerful new weapon.

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Probably the most famous ancient death ray was the one that was built by the Greek inventor Archimedes.

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He was able to create this giant mirror and parabolic disk and focus the sun's rays on the fleet and set these ships on fire.

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So here we have what would be a primitive kind of death ray that really worked.

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But how could Archimedes have conceived such a formidable weapon, one far in advance of any known at the time?

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Researchers suggest the inventor may have drawn inspiration from Greek myths written nearly 600 years before the Battle of Syracuse.

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Myths that told the stories of gods that brandished cosmic weapons of incredible destructive force.

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If you look in the Greek tradition, they have a very clear description of Zeus's thunderbolt,

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which he was able to point at people or at other things that he wanted to explode, hit the button, and what they described as lightning would come out and create a fierce and terrible explosion.

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When these ancient gods, like Zeus, were to come down from the sky in this flurry of thunder and lightning and then get out of their spacecraft, they were perceived as gods.

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These ancient aliens had fantastic technology available to them, a technology that would have seemed like magic to our primitive ancestors.

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So when these people came down from the sky and they had advanced energy weapons, they were like gods to our ancient ancestors.

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It doesn't matter where you go, but the gods were always able to create thunder, create lightning in a controlled way.

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In ancient India, we have the gods holding the dorsis sometimes like this,

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and it looks as if some type of a directed energy beam comes directly out of the front to vanquish the enemy,

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to destroy him, to incinerate him.

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But if death-ray type weapons had been used in ancient times, might there be some sort of tangible proof? Perhaps there is.

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Here, scattered throughout the Scottish countryside, can be found numerous ancient ruins.

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Many appear to have been forts or other enclosures, dating back thousands of years.

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Remarkably, they also appear to have been subjected to fire and heat.

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So intense, it practically turned the stone structures into glass.

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It's a process more scientifically known as vitrification.

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Here you have these stone buildings in which an analysis of the outside comes to the conclusion that they were heated to over a thousand degrees Celsius in temperature.

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Conventional fire could not have reached this heat.

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You needed a sustained burn at a thousand degrees Celsius for a long period of time.

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Why is it that it's only these forts that have this type of charring where they're actually glazed like pottery on the outside?

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Why is it that you don't see it on the stones in the surrounding area?

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And even more interestingly, why is it that so many of them are concentrated in this one little area in Northern Scotland?

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I believe this is very clear evidence of death-rays being used.

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According to Celtic legend, there once was a god named Lou, also known as the Shining One, the Sun God, and the God of War.

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Like the Greek god Zeus, Lou was said to wield a mighty magic spear, not unlike the thunderbolts of his Greek counterpart.

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We have many stories of divinities who were powerful figures who had weapons that seemed extraordinary for their time.

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One was the great Celtic divinity Lou, who had a spear that could spit fire and lightning and do great damage, was an extraordinary weapon.

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We don't have a great deal of detail about it, but it clearly could dominate any situation he got into.

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When battle was near, Lou would draw out his spear and it roared and then flashes of fire came out of it and it tore through the ranks of the enemy, never tired of killing and slaying.

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It was one amazing weapon.

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I mean, how else can we explain all those numerous vitrified forts where the surface of the stone is as smooth as glass?

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And these spots can only be found in very concentrated areas through Northern Scotland.

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Is it possible that what the Celtic legends are describing as Lou is in fact an alien general or other kind of extraterrestrial leader in possession of a devastating weapon?

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All these descriptions of sophisticated weaponry sounds almost like science fiction, but is it really?

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Because we have those weapons today.

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And I think it is merely a reinvention of history that all the stuff that we have today has been around before and that our past is not science fiction, but science fact.

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Deadly laser beams.

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Acoustic levitation.

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Anti-gravity.

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Could these be technologies that were witnessed and even used by ancient civilizations?

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If so, were they conceived in the minds of early men?

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Or did they have different, perhaps otherworldly origins?

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Might unlocking the secrets of these inventions be the key to discovering our ancient past?

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Or by rediscovering lost technology, might we clear the path to our own future and to the limitless potential of the universe beyond?