1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Rockets capable of destroying entire cities. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Fire that burns underwater. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,000 And fighter jets that fly without pilots. 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Throughout history, advances in technology have led to the development of powerful weapons. 5 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Each more deadly than the last. 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,000 We go from attaching sharp stones to the ends of sticks, 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,000 and then all of a sudden we have actual swords. 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,000 In the Mahabharata, 46 different types of weapons are described. 9 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,000 They're using air-to-ground missiles. 10 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Powerful particle beam weapons. 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:52,000 It's astounding to read about events from centuries ago using weapons that are in use today. 12 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,000 But were these lethal weapons the product of human innovation? 13 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Or were they developed with help from another, more otherworldly source? 14 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Extraterrestrials may well have given man these weapons. 15 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:14,000 They want us to be able to advance and ultimately to be like them. 16 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Millions of people around the world believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 17 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,000 What if it were true? 18 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 19 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:35,000 And might they have been responsible for the development of mankind's deadliest weapons? 20 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Earth. 21 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:03,000 4.5 billion years ago. 22 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Molten hot magma spews from beneath the ground. 23 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Lightning cracks down and bursts from the sky. 24 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,000 And rippers of lava flow across the land. 25 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Ever since the dawn of time, our planet has been changing. 26 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Evolving. 27 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,000 And ripped apart by the awesome forces of nature. 28 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:39,000 And it's the harnessing of that nature that has offered mankind its most formidable weapon. 29 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:46,000 And it's the harnessing of nature that has offered mankind its most formidable challenge. 30 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,000 And greatest accomplishment. 31 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Mankind achieving the ability to manipulate fire is probably the most historical event that ever happened. 32 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:06,000 When we achieve the ability to master fire, everything changed for mankind. 33 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:18,000 But how did our ancestors learn to recreate and harness this most volatile and ultimately essential of the Earth's elements? 34 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Was it simply a part of our intellectual evolution? 35 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Or is it possible that the knowledge came from another, more otherworldly origin? 36 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:38,000 When we look at fire, we imagine this idea that somehow our ancestors are rubbing some sticks together. 37 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:45,000 But each culture always says that fire is a gift from the gods. 38 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:50,000 In Native American traditions, quite often its fire was stolen from the world above. 39 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,000 In Maori legends, again, we see the theft of fire from the gods. 40 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,000 In the Greek legends, it's Prometheus stealing fire from the gods. 41 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:11,000 How is it that such similar myths exist about fire being given to man by the gods? 42 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:24,000 According to ancient astronaut theorists, this eerie similarity may actually be evidence that gods, or perhaps extraterrestrial beings, really do exist. 43 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:34,000 And if so, it might also reveal how mankind eventually used fire to create deadlier and more sophisticated weapons. 44 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:40,000 If we are talking about ancient aliens having an impact, where would we expect to see that impact? 45 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 And we'd expect to see it in metalworking. 46 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:49,000 And do we actually see hard and fast evidence of mankind making sudden huge leaps in metalworking? 47 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Yes, we do. 48 00:04:52,000 --> 00:05:01,000 We go from attaching sharp stones to the ends of sticks, and then all of a sudden we have actual swords. 49 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:15,000 According to archaeologists, the first human work with metal weaponry began in the Bronze Age, beginning around 3300 BC in the Near East. 50 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Most of the swords at one time were either copper or iron. 51 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:25,000 If you think about it at the age, we started first with bronze, nickel, softer things that are easier to work with. 52 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,000 The reason we don't have iron as our first example is because it's a much harder material. 53 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:35,000 You have to get much hotter fire to be able to work with it, and it's just a tougher material to work with. 54 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,000 They were fighting bashing each other with these swords. 55 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 They wanted a tough sword, which means it was not always very sharp. 56 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:52,000 When these people were fighting, when they're hacking each other's heads and arms off, they were ripping each other's heads and arms off with blunt pieces of metal. 57 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Approximately 1000 years after the development of iron came another, even greater breakthrough, the invention of steel. 58 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:15,000 No one really knows when people first started making steel. Some say it only dates 1000 BC. 59 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:26,000 To make a steel sword in ancient times was not an easy task. You would have to get high quality iron, and most of the time they could not get that iron mine from the earth. 60 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:34,000 And meteorites were obtained, which were pure iron, which made the best steel swords. 61 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:43,000 These were considered magic swords, and it was usually a guarded secret and villages would have one or two steel swords. 62 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,000 And there's tales about warlords who had one purpose in mind. 63 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:55,000 To find all the steel swords that were made and take them for their army. 64 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:03,000 There's no doubt that cultures that were able to obtain steel usually became masters of the world. 65 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:18,000 But where the forging of iron requires a relatively unsophisticated knowledge of metallurgy, the creation of steel is a more complex scientific process. 66 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:25,000 So who or what was responsible for this incredible evolutionary innovation? 67 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:39,000 In the book of Enoch, we see some type of interaction between celestial beings and human beings. What did they give us? They gave us steel. 68 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:51,000 And the legend goes not only from the Bible and from Enoch, but it goes to Sumerian times where the gods had steel. 69 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:58,000 The making of the sword is a magical process back in the time before modern metallurgy. 70 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:04,000 The ability to take natural material and make a sword out of it was considered the work of a wizard. 71 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:14,000 You mustn't look the village blacksmith in the eyes, because people are frightened of being killed by his gaze. 72 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:20,000 The blacksmith isn't allowed to live in the village because of his magical powers. 73 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:37,000 The notion of metalworking being a dark and magical process was so prevalent in the ancient world that in Greek mythology, even Zeus looked upon his son Hephaestus, the god of metallurgy, with suspicion. 74 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Hephaestus is responsible for making armature for the gods. 75 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:50,000 But the real miracle that he does is for the shield for Achilles, and it's got the whole universe on it. 76 00:08:51,000 --> 00:09:00,000 What's amazing about this thing is that it's not just a static shield, it's alive. This is not something that a human being makes. 77 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:07,000 This is terrifying, this is scary, and this thing will kill you, just in its own kind of metaphysical beauty. 78 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:14,000 And so he has this weird ability to kind of endow metal with a kind of life of its own. 79 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,000 So Zeus is in fact very suspicious of this guy and just tries to get rid of it. 80 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:28,000 So Zeus picks him up and swings him, and he just falls and falls and falls and falls and falls until it crash lands on the island of Lemnos. 81 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:37,000 There is a little city on the island of Lemnos called Hephaestia, so there's a place that is named specifically after Hephaestus. 82 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Three thousand years ago, Hephaestia was one of the most important cities in Greece. 83 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:54,000 And according to the ancient stories, Hephaestus actually lived here among the people of Lemnos. 84 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:02,000 The Greeks worshiped this divine blacksmith and built monuments to him. 85 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:08,000 But could this mythological being have actually been present in ancient Greece? 86 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:15,000 And if so, might he have been not a god, but an ancient alien visitor? 87 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Greek mythology is conceived of gods as kind of like human beings. 88 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:25,000 We have lots of literature which deals with the whole range of interactions that human beings can have with gods. 89 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:36,000 It is very clearly stated that the knowledge from making swords was given directly by the gods. 90 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:45,000 And those gods weren't figments of our ancestors' imagination, but they were physical beings. 91 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Is it really possible that our ancestors' ability to forge metals and make weapons was aided by extraterrestrial beings? 92 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:07,000 And might stories of swords imbued with magical powers be something more than mere works of fiction? 93 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer can be found half a world away in Japan. 94 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Japan 700 AD 95 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Here, according to legend, the swordsmith Amakuni and his son, Amakura, 96 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:38,000 sealed themselves away in their blacksmith shop in an effort to forge the perfect weapon. 97 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:45,000 For seven days and seven nights, they prayed to the Shinto gods to guide them. 98 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:55,000 31 days later, they emerged from their isolation with a curved, single-edged sword resembling no blade ever made before. 99 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:07,000 At that time, the swords that they used were these double-edged, Chinese-designed, clunky-heavy, unwieldy swords. 100 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:17,000 And Amakuni started re-establishing and learning everything that he knew about metallurgy, and after about a month, he finally emerged from his forge. 101 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,000 And he had this single-edged blade with a curvature to it. 102 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Every swordsmith in the area ridiculed him. Everybody laughed at him. He thought he was ridiculous. They didn't know what he was doing. That's not the way you do it. 103 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Well, the next time the emperor went off into battle. 104 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:48,000 When he came back, Amakuni stood on his front porch and he started counting the blades. Two, ten, fifteen, twenty, a hundred, two hundred blades. None of them were broken. 105 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:57,000 And the emperor praised them and said, you are the greatest swordsmith ever. Ever since then, they have followed that design. 106 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:11,000 But what was the secret behind Amakuni's radical new design? And what or who inspired him to deviate from the one that had been used for more than a thousand years? 107 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Was he simply ahead of his time? Or could he really have received other worldly guidance during the seven days and nights he and his son prayed to the Shinto gods? 108 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:44,000 The history of the Japanese sword is a long and varied history. All the way back to mythological beliefs that Amakuni, the sun goddess, gave her grandson a sword when she sent them down to rule over the earth. 109 00:13:45,000 --> 00:14:04,000 According to the beliefs of the samurai, higher beings called kami began human life. But in order for humans to experience the divine nature of the kami, they must undergo purification rituals, which were always performed when making a new blade. 110 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:23,000 Before you even begin, you bathe yourself and you put on clean clothes. All your assistants give prayers and they solicit the help from the gods. And in fact, there are swordsmiths that will actually chant as they're hammering on the blade. 111 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Because every hammer, as it compacts the metal, is also including their chant into it. 112 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Could the swordmaker Amakuni and his son, Amakura, have actually come in contact with the kami? And might these Buddhist gods have come not from a spiritual realm, but from an extraterrestrial one, as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 113 00:14:53,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Might alien beings have chosen Amakuni, the greatest swordmaker of his time, to hold the knowledge of this new technology? 114 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:19,000 When you give certain very powerful objects to people, you need to have extremely intelligent people to use them. And so what we find everywhere is that even if the gods had given the most extraordinary machine, including fire or any other piece of technology, 115 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:24,000 you would have to have somebody able to operate it, a highly trained human being. 116 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Another example of Amakuni's work, the Kokurasu Maru Blade, the most legendary sword in Japanese history, resides in the Japanese imperial collection. But modern scholars and scientists have had difficulty in figuring out the secret to its amazing strength. 117 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:58,000 The famous stories are always, of course, the Japanese steel used for the samurai blades has been very hard to reproduce, because some of these processes can be incredibly sensitive to the exact detail of the temperature. 118 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Some of its features are just its flexibility and the way they were able to fold it over and over, and its incredible strength and its resistance to oxidation, which is what you really need to keep something sharp. 119 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Could the fact that modern sword makers have been unable to achieve the same quality as Amakuni's blades be further evidence that he was trained by a more advanced race of beings? And might these ancient swords have held some technology we have yet to discover? 120 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:48,000 In Shingon Buddhism, the sword has a life of its own. It's not that the samurai selects the blade, is the samurai more appropriately good enough for the blade, does the blade choose him? 121 00:16:49,000 --> 00:17:05,000 Is the philosophy of Shingon Buddhism that the blade chooses its owner? Simply an example of early humans' tendency to project spiritual consciousness onto inanimate objects. 122 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Or might ancient swordsmiths like Amakuni really have possessed some other worldly knowledge? A knowledge that swords, like other deadly weapons, come not from man, but from a divine or extraterrestrial origin. 123 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:36,000 According to legend, one such sword may have existed in 15th century France, the sword of Joan of Arc. 124 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:48,000 When Joan of Arc was arrested and brought to what we now know of as her condemnation trial, her inquisitors were determined to get information about her sword. 125 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Her inquisitors were obsessed with finding out about her sword and that is because Joan of Arc's sword was reputed to have legendary power, divine power. 126 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:08,000 Joan claimed that her voices, her angelic voices, led her to this sword. 127 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:20,000 She said to have found it, as it was, hidden behind an altar dedicated to Saint Catherine de Fierbois. 128 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:32,000 It is said that the sword itself was forged by the Archangel Saint Michael and that whoever possessed it was invincible. 129 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:49,000 And that was certainly true when Joan wielded this sword, carried it with her into the battle of Orleans, which was the decisive battle which allowed them to put King Charles VII on the throne of France. 130 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Could Joan of Arc really have been given her invincible sword by extraterrestrials who had an interest in the future of France? 131 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Ancient astronaut theorists believe such a thing is not only possible, but likely. 132 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:13,000 And they point to the legendary story of King Arthur as evidence of their claim. 133 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:22,000 King Arthur had two swords. The sword and the stone that showed that he was to be king is one sword. 134 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:37,000 When I hear a story about this magnificent sword that's encased in this stone with only the handle sticking out, and only King Arthur has the capability to pull it out, 135 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Well then I start thinking about some type of a biometric security system, where today we now have guns that can only be fired if the handle recognizes your fingerprint. 136 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Is it possible that the sword and the stone was calibrated specifically to King Arthur's biometrics? I think yes. I know it sounds crazy. 137 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:22,000 We're merely saying that what today is being discovered is a rediscovery of what already took place thousands of years ago. 138 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:31,000 According to the stories of King Arthur, the sword that he is said to have pulled from the stone was never used in battle. 139 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,000 His weapon was the legendary Excalibur. 140 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:45,000 The Excalibur sword came to him from the lady in the lake where a hand came up and handed him a magical sword. 141 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:54,000 And according to the ancient chronicles, this sword, shown with the light of 30 suns and blinded his enemies. 142 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:04,000 This sword of King Arthur was said to have radiated lightning and energy when he fought against monsters. 143 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:14,000 So we have swords as magical objects, but here also is the suspicion that a misunderstood technology could exist. 144 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Although historians still debate whether the stories of King Arthur have a basis in fact, in 1998, archeologists found a six-century piece of slate inscribed with his name. 145 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,000 At his reputed birthplace, Tintagel, England. 146 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:43,000 But if King Arthur really existed, might the legends of his incredible swords also be true? 147 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:53,000 And if so, might that suggest that extraterrestrial visitors did, in fact, provide humans with weapons not of this world? 148 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:06,000 Perhaps the answer can be found in ancient Rome and by examining a legendary battle, one involving a much-witness phenomenon in the sky. 149 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:15,000 Rome, October 27th, 312 A.D. 150 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:27,000 At the Milvian Bridge on the north side of the city, deposed Emperor Constantine prepares to reclaim his throne from Exentius. 151 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:35,000 In the sky, he witnesses what he will later describe as a cross hovering above him. 152 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:40,000 He interprets this vision as a sign from the Christian God. 153 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:55,000 The next day, Constantine and his army bear the image of the Cairo on their shields and flags, one of the earliest cruciform symbols used by Christians. 154 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:05,000 When they emerge victorious, Christianity becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire, and the world is changed forever. 155 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:17,000 But was the cross-shaped object Constantine claimed to have seen in the sky really a sign from God? Or might it have been some other extraordinary force? 156 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:26,000 It looked like they were in the shape of a cross, but the shape of a cross could have been airplane-type objects because the fuselage and the wings will look like a cross to somebody who's looking up. 157 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 And of course, they had no concept of these things back then. 158 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:38,000 There were other signs and portents that were seen around the same time that were described as a crucifix in the sky. 159 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,000 If these were to appear in the sky today, we would describe them quite differently. 160 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:58,000 Is it possible that Constantine, instead of actually having seen a cross floating in the sky, actually saw a type of an extraterrestrial craft? 161 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Is it possible that Constantine won because the extraterrestrials were siding with Constantine and thus altering mankind's history forever? 162 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:24,000 But according to ancient astronaut theorists, even stronger evidence exists that Emperor Constantine had a genuine alien encounter. 163 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Shortly after the Battle of Milvian Bridge, he was said to have acquired a powerful new weapon. 164 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:41,000 Known as Greek fire, it was the most devastating weapon of the time, and it was said to have been given to Constantine by angels. 165 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:53,000 It was said to burn so violently and so hot, it was said that even in the greatest of rainstorms, fire would not go out. 166 00:24:54,000 --> 00:25:01,000 And when projected out to sea, when it sunk into the water, it would still burn on the bottom of the ocean. 167 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:09,000 In one battle, Byzantium was attacked by 1800 Persian ships. 168 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:17,000 Only 15 escaped. All the others were destroyed by the so-called Greek fire. 169 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:30,000 And Prince Igor, who attacked Byzantium in the year 941 AD, attacked with a fleet of 1,000 ships. 170 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Only 10 ships made it home. 171 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:50,000 But perhaps even more astounding than the incredible power of Greek fire is the fact that scientists have not been able to reproduce it, even after 1600 years. 172 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Scientists have been trying to identify what Greek fire is for decades, if not centuries. Nobody has come up with a satisfying answer. 173 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:07,000 The most logical answer is that it might be somehow petroleum, because it is known that petroleum continues to burn when in contact with water. 174 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:16,000 I think it has to do with phosphorus and magnesium, because when they are mixed in with water, they tend to explode. 175 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:28,000 The formula for Greek fire was not even known to most of those who used the weapon, as the delivery system required multiple people to operate it. 176 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:39,000 What's interesting about Greek fire is that it only worked when all the different components worked together as one piece. 177 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Each component was operated by a different person, so if somebody was captured, they couldn't give away the quote-unquote secret of Greek fire. 178 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:58,000 But what was this mysterious weapon? And more importantly, where did it come from? 179 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:06,000 One story goes that Greek fire was given to Constantine by an angel. 180 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:23,000 Now angels are supposed to be these friendly creatures that instill peace and love, and all of a sudden we have this one quote-unquote angel that gives one of the most sophisticated weapons in mankind's history to Constantine? 181 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:31,000 Replace the word angel with extraterrestrial, and we have a very different story. 182 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:43,000 Could Greek fire really have been a type of advanced alien technology given to Constantine to ensure the success of the Roman Empire? 183 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:51,000 If so, wouldn't there be evidence of extraterrestrial influence during other earthly conflicts? 184 00:27:53,000 --> 00:28:01,000 Hannibal, who crossed the Alps and attacked Rome, was said to have had a chemical explosive. 185 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:10,000 We don't know where the knowledge came from in these cases, but there could definitely be a connection to other weapons of the gods. 186 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:21,000 The explosive weapon Hannibal allegedly used against ancient Rome in the third century BC predated gunpowder by over a thousand years. 187 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:32,000 And some believe even gunpowder itself may have been a discovery inspired by other worldly beings back in the ninth century. 188 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:42,000 Ironically, this deadly invention was discovered by Chinese alchemists attempting to create an elixir of immortality. 189 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:51,000 Alchemy has a long history in China, and the alchemists they had been seeking elixir of immortality. 190 00:28:52,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Medicine, for example, lived forever, so they were experimenting for many centuries and mixed all kinds of things. 191 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:12,000 And it was not until around the 850-Comba era that we had records to show the disastrous impact of this mixing. 192 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Though the Chinese emperors never achieved the elixir for immortality, they ended up with something almost as valuable. 193 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,000 A weapon more powerful than anything that had come before. 194 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:40,000 The Chinese gunpowder technology led to this important political and geographical changes in China, in Vietnam, in South East Asia. 195 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,000 It led to the rise and fall of the dynasties. 196 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,000 But where did such an incendiary ability come from? 197 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Was the formula given to us by extraterrestrials or did somebody discover it by accident? 198 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,000 No one really knows. 199 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:05,000 Gun pattern was made of charcoal, which would burn trees and ground down the charcoal. 200 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Sulfur, they would get from volcanoes, and sodium or potassium nitrate is not readily available. 201 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:22,000 So how would they know to get those nitrates and mix them all together in the right proportions? 202 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:29,000 Could the formula for gunpowder really have extraterrestrial origins? 203 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:38,000 And if deadly technologies like gunpowder and Greek fire really were handed down to humans by an alien race, why? 204 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000 Might they have been trying to shape our future? 205 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:49,000 And if so, what other even more powerful weapons might they have had in their arsenal? 206 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:58,000 An unmanned aerial vehicle hurdles across the sky. 207 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:07,000 It travels at supersonic speeds, spinning fire, launching deadly missiles. 208 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,000 Programmed to seek and destroy. 209 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000 The effect is devastating. 210 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000 High-tech warfare at its most lethal. 211 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:35,000 But what could be a pave stolen from a U.S. military black project is actually a description written down over 2,500 years ago in the sacred Hindu text known as the Mahabharata. 212 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:43,000 When it comes to the ancient Indian accounts, they really eye-witness testimony of the gods fighting. 213 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:56,000 When you read the ancient Hindu epics, they talk about horrific weapons, missiles, and atomic weapons. 214 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:03,000 Massive laser weapons that are melting and devastating entire cities. 215 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:11,000 I refuse to think that our ancestors came up with these stories out of thin air. 216 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,000 When writing was first invented, they wrote down their history. 217 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,000 The first things that were ever written down were actual events. 218 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:35,000 How is it that some of the earliest written accounts of warfare describe sophisticated weaponry that humans wouldn't develop for thousands of years? 219 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:45,000 For the answer, ancient astronaut theorists point to numerous descriptions of deadly weapons found throughout the Mahabharata. 220 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,000 Many strikingly similar to those used by the military today. 221 00:32:53,000 --> 00:33:03,000 One example are the incendiary weapons wielded by Vishnu, which are specially equipped to find their targets. 222 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,000 Vishnu has a flying guided missile to the Nare in Astar. 223 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,000 And once it is launched, it will destroy everything that is moving. 224 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:19,000 So, you know, according to the description, it is Mohsen detecting a weapon. 225 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,000 Which is pretty much like our modern weaponry. 226 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,000 There is also a weapon that was a heat seeking. 227 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Heat seeking is a very effective way of finding something you would fire a missile from behind one aircraft at an aircraft in front of you, specifically targeted against the hot engine. 228 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:47,000 And then you were able to move off from behind the airplane and the heat seeker would still be able to find the target. 229 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:55,000 I am aware that there are forces of nature. 230 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:07,000 You've got thunder, lightning, earthquakes, but how would you go from witnessing that to a description of heat seeking missiles? 231 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:18,000 In addition to guided missiles, the Mahabharata is filled with accounts of other sophisticated weapons wielded by the gods. 232 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,000 In the Mahabharata, 46 different types of weapons are described. 233 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000 And each one has a specific function. 234 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:32,000 The Pasupata is a weapon that actually multiplies into seven different arrows. 235 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,000 So then it hits seven different targets at the same time. 236 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:42,000 Salva is an anti-god. He can make his vehicle disappear. 237 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,000 So we're talking about a flying object that is stealth. 238 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,000 He also can put people into sleep. 239 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000 So we're perhaps talking about nerve gas. 240 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:01,000 They talk about weapons that are so high tech that it could only be from extraterrestrials. 241 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:15,000 But of all the weapons described in the Mahabharata, perhaps the most deadly was a device called the Brahmasthra, a weapon that the text warned was never to be used. 242 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:20,000 Brahmasthra is described as the ultimate weapon. 243 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:27,000 Once it is launched, it will simply burn everything so it incinerates the entire universe. 244 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:40,000 We're talking about a nuclear blast, a hundred-fold magnitude of the bomb that we have seen or experienced in our own times. 245 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:47,000 So it never be used. And yet, someone was going to make use of that Brahmasthra. 246 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:53,000 So that's the dilemma that the books talks about in the Mahabharata. 247 00:35:54,000 --> 00:36:00,000 India now has a rocket program and one of their rockets is called Shakti. 248 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:06,000 Shakti means goddess energy. This is also another divine weapon. 249 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:15,000 Indians are now sort of going back to their text or rather mythology and reliving it by their modern technology. 250 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:30,000 Is it possible that alien beings visiting the Earth thousands of years ago dealt with the same issues of nuclear annihilation that humans are dealing with today? 251 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:43,000 And might the deadly weapons currently being deployed by the world's military really be recreations of weapons first used on Earth by extraterrestrials in the ancient past? 252 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:55,000 Perhaps. But then it should also be possible to predict mankind's military future by searching through still more ancient texts. 253 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:01,000 The Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia. 254 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:16,000 This combined lake and river system has a flow that changes direction twice a year and the portion that forms the lake expands and shrinks dramatically with the seasons. 255 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,000 But this unusual body of water is unique for another reason. 256 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,000 It is said to hold the mythical sword of Priya Pismokar. 257 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:40,000 The swordsman in Cambodia has a wonderful legend and a story within that culture called Pismokar. This is a wizard, a master craftsman. 258 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:49,000 In Cambodian mythology, Priya Pismokar is the son of a human man and a woman who came from the sky. 259 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:57,000 The stories say that he is brought to the sky world where he has taught the technology of the gods. 260 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:09,000 And some have credited him as being the architect behind the world's largest religious shrine, Ankurwant, which sits just north of the Tonle Sap Lake. 261 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:20,000 But in addition to magnificent structures, Priya Pismokar was also said to have fashioned a sword that made him invincible in battle. 262 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:29,000 In the Cambodian legend, he has been credited crafting a sword as thin as a feather. 263 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:49,000 Priya Pismokar had a sword that could cut stone and it's reported that he could use this to cut a ceramic jug so finally down the middle that the water only ran out when the two halves fell apart. 264 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:59,000 According to legend, Priya Pismokar threw his mighty weapon into the Tonle Sap Lake when it grew too weak to be of use to him anymore. 265 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:09,000 Much like Excalibur was given back to the Lady of the Lake in the story of King Arthur. But how does his sword grow weak? 266 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:22,000 According to ancient astronaut theorists, the blade had lost its power and that blade was not made of metal, but of light. 267 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:31,000 Does a sword of fire really exist? Well, it does if you think of a type of lightsaber. 268 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:38,000 Whenever he took it out to cut something with it, it was more blinding than the sun. 269 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:51,000 It was very thin and very bright emitting light. From the description of it, it could be a kind of laser type of beam. 270 00:39:52,000 --> 00:40:00,000 Lasers, what you want to just think about is a whole bunch of waves all moving together in step. 271 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:10,000 The light that comes out of a light bulb is a bunch of random people in a mob running crazy in all different directions and the laser is all the people marching orderly fashion. 272 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:16,000 Everything lines up and basically makes the light that much more powerful and effective. 273 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:30,000 Could Priya Pissnokar really have existed? And if so, might the amazing sword he wielded have involved some type of laser technology? 274 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:39,000 Is it possible that lightsabers, a work of modern science fiction, actually existed in the ancient past? 275 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,000 So there's two ways to think of a lightsaber that you're trying to make. 276 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:53,000 One is actually out of a laser beam and that's very hard to imagine because it's hard to figure out how you get the end point because light just keeps traveling and you'd need a way to bend it back on itself. 277 00:40:54,000 --> 00:41:04,000 They make much more sense as a plasma beam and a plasma beam is a bunch of very, very energetically charged particles that would glow so you'd get the effect of the lightsaber. 278 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:09,000 And they're much easier to have an end point because they respond to magnetic fields. 279 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:15,000 The plasma beam really is energetically charged particles with a lot of energy and pretty much cut through anything. 280 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:26,000 For ancient astronaut theorists, descriptions of laser type technology can be found in numerous texts throughout the ancient world. 281 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:35,000 In China, it's called a Yin-Yang mirror, which could kill opponents with a beam of light. 282 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:43,000 We have the Maori, who's god defeated rebels with a kind of laser lightning weapon. 283 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:50,000 Stories come to us from ancient India, Rama's arrow, which was some kind of laser weapon. 284 00:41:51,000 --> 00:42:00,000 We have the famous story of Archimedes using some kind of magic mirror to create a laser that set ships on fire. 285 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:08,000 So it seems that ancient lasers were being used and that technology probably came from extraterrestrials. 286 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:21,000 What if the futuristic weapons we believe we have cultivated in our modern day arsenals are really reinventions of something that has come before? 287 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:26,000 Could we subconsciously be recreating our ancient past? 288 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:34,000 What we have is people who are eyewitnesses and to some extent victims of a show which is happening above their heads. 289 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:42,000 And they are trying to explain to people something which was truly on a scale which they couldn't comprehend. 290 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:52,000 Here we are today thinking that we are inventing all these wonderful things, which we are, but it's been here before. 291 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:58,000 Extraterrestrials may well have given man these weapons. 292 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:07,000 They want us to be able to defend ourselves, to advance and ultimately to be like them. 293 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:20,000 From flaming arrows to heat seeking missiles, could the evolution of mankind's deadly weaponry really be the result of alien intervention? 294 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:29,000 Could extraterrestrial beings have given us technology as a way of accelerating natural selection? 295 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:37,000 Or might they have imparted their knowledge with a specific and perhaps insidious agenda in mind? 296 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:46,000 Some say the answer is right in front of us, or in yet another ancient text or carving waiting to be discovered. 297 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:56,000 But one thing is certain. It is best we keep looking and be prepared before they return.