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Magic carpets.

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There are traditions of King Solomon having an airship

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and fiery wheels descending from the heavens.

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What is Z-Kill described in his eyewitness report?

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It was misunderstood technology.

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In ancient cultures throughout the world,

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there are stories of strange sightings in the sky.

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Are they simply fiction?

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You begin to have to ask yourself,

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is something going on here?

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Are we missing part of the story?

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Yet honestly, I think we are.

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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 history?

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of alien transports?

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Z-Kara, Egypt.

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Located roughly 20 miles south of Cairo,

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it is home to the world-famous steppe pyramid of King Joseph.

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The first ever-incorporated city in the world

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was built by the Z-Kara.

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The city was built in the 18th century

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and was the first to be built in the 18th century.

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and was the only city in the world that was built in the 18th century.

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King Joseph.

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Dating back more than 4,000 years,

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it is the oldest of Egypt's 97 pyramids.

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earning it the nickname City of the Dead.

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of Padi Eman, an official from the 3rd century BC.

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of what appeared to be a bird,

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flying beside a papyrus, bearing the inscription,

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I want to fly.

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The artifact was later sent to the Cairo Museum,

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where authorities placed it alongside several other bird figurines.

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and noticed that there was something very different

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about the Z-Kara bird.

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it should look like a bird,

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because it has eyes and has a typical nose of a bird.

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and those wings are modeled down.

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five times larger than the original, to test that possibility.

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but there is another problem to consider, launching a glider.

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then releases it when a proper altitude is reached.

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So how might the ancient Egyptians have launched the Z-Kara bird?

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Many of today's glider enthusiasts employ a bungee court system to launch their sail craft into the air.

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But if the Z-Kara bird is capable of flight, where would ancient Egyptians have acquired such technology?

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and they gave us culture and scientific technologies to improve our life on earth,

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coming from the primitive to a higher developed culture.

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than our history books give them credit for.

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You begin to have to ask yourself, are we missing part of the story?

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and we're a species with amnesia. We don't really remember who or what we are.

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but there is no reason why not.

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mainly because there are so many anomalies that we can't explain.

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Could the Z-Kara bird really be a model of an ancient flying machine?

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Perhaps further proof can be found by examining a century-old Mexican ritual called the Dance of the Flyers.

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There are crews Mexico.

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The other four men launch themselves off.

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The ritual has the leader stand on the top of the pole, a tiny little platform,

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and the four flyers wrap a cable around that pole and then branch out and fly around in a pyramid shape

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in perfect synchronous order. It's a stunning and daring thing to do.

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they are representing the elements, heavily symbolic in mythic as a powerful ritual.

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as a plea to the gods to end a severe drought.

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something that describes and illustrates in front of our living eye the descent of the gods from a long time ago.

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According to ancient astronaut theorists, the Voladores ritual is a reenactment of a close encounter

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with alien visitors in the distant past.

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around 500 AD, dropping from their aircraft and gliding down to earth in spiraling circles.

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signifying a rival of the gods.

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Where does that flying or descending gods motif originate?

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Our ancestors saw something because why would you hurl yourself from a 100 foot pole out of nothing to imitate a bird?

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Birds are not that important, something very significant happened.

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Could an alien encounter really be the inspiration for the Voladores ritual?

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And could the Totonic people who created the ceremony really have been trying to mimic the ancient gods' power of flight?

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ancient astronaut theorists point to various artifacts and statues depicting ancient gods.

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One such example is the Mayan god, a musancob, also known as the flying bee god.

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Another is the most prominent god of early Mesoamerican culture, the winged deity, Quetzalcoatl.

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Mesoamericans believed in the plume serpent or Quatzicotl, which came from the sky bringing wisdom,

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power of the wind, and also influenced everything that happened in the daily life of the Mayans.

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when to plant corn to when to go to war.

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They believed all answers in the universe came from the sky and trying to relate that to their daily lives.

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The ancient record are loaded with fantastic examples of the gods flying around.

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These are the ancient aliens and humans are being shown the ultimate capability of these gods.

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In my eyes, because we are the sons of the gods, we are the offspring of the gods,

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whatever humans can dream, whatever humans think was once reality in the past or will be reality in the future.

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July 31st, 2003, the English Channel.

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Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to cross this 22-mile wide body of water in freefall,

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using a specially made fiber wing.

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But the Austrian daredevil is just one of many who have used wingsuits to simulate flying by means of a freefall.

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A wingsuit is basically a jumpsuit that you put on under your rig,

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and it's designed to actually make you fly when you exit the plane.

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The material inflates underneath your arms, in between your legs,

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and creates basically an airfoil that you glide on through the air.

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and the wingsuit helps you cover a lot of ground as you're descending.

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For example, three-to-one would mean for every foot, you descend, you're traveling three feet forward.

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We got these flying guys that have these wings attached to their backs,

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and they hurl themselves out of planes, and some even have rocket engines attached to them,

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and so they essentially themselves become airplanes.

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not understanding that there is technology involved with this.

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Just using our own body, we cannot fly. We have no wings.

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The pursuit of flight has been one of the most sought-after quests

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in all of mankind's history. Why? Because with flight, you could reach conceivably the realm of the gods.

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From the ancient Greek myth of Icarus, fashioning wings of feathers and wax,

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to modern daredevils like Felix Baumgartner,

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human beings have been fascinated with and often frustrated by their desire to fly.

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But have birds really served as mankind's inspiration?

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by examining ancient China's mysterious stories of dragons.

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Celestial beings coming down to Earth, gods descending from the sky.

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Do similar accounts exist in other cultures and other religions across the world?

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We have to remind ourselves that our ancestors were highly intelligent.

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So what did they do? They used words that they were familiar with in their time,

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and so they tried to describe whatever they witnessed to the best of their abilities with their vocabulary.

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That deities arrived from the stars.

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According to Chinese mythology dating back to 3000 BC, when the god named Wang Di was born,

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there was a radiance from the great star Qi.

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Wang Di would later emerge from the belly of a fire-breathing dragon to become China's first emperor.

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The origins of the Han Chinese people start with the story of a great god looking down with empathy.

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Here were people in poverty in a beautiful, rich country, in the landscape, profound, but the people were suffering.

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He took pity and decided to come down.

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Wang Di arrived on planet Earth in a flying dragon.

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He had the power of flight.

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Wang Di could be anywhere within minutes,

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and he usually accomplished this by hopping on his dragon and flying somewhere.

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Now this divine energy becomes human and is a great leader, the Yellow Emperor,

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who rules and unites the people and there is a period of great prosperity until his work is done.

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Wang Di brought order to the chaos, creating China's first empire.

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and the standardization of Chinese writing.

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One of his greatest legacies is the Great Wall of China.

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When the land is prosperous, he decides it's time to go,

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and the great yellow dragon comes back and he gets back into the belly of the dragon and flies off forever.

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Mythology is the effort to grasp what we can't grasp, to understand what is beyond us.

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sometimes on their back, sometimes inside their bellies,

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so if we think of them as a poet's effort to explain a vehicle that was strange to them.

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because that furlough is just a word, it's trying to describe something that's very difficult to grasp.

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of rocket ships descending to Earth?

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And if so, could the legends of Wang Di, like those of Quetzalcoatl and the Egyptian Sakharaburg

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be evidence of alien visitations in the distant past?

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Perhaps the answer can be found high on a mountaintop, known as the throne of Solomon.

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In the 21st century, modern transportation and communication methods

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have connected the world like never before.

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Products or ideas, no matter where in the world they may have originated,

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can spread to even the most remote countries.

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A hip-hop hit in Brooklyn might make it big in Tokyo before it's even heard in Manhattan.

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This cultural interconnection has transformed the globe,

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but is it new?

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Mainstream archaeologists believe ancient civilizations, such as those found in the remote Pacific islands,

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Asia and South America, developed independently from each other.

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But ancient astronaut theorists contend that similarities in building styles and beliefs

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found in these cultures suggest that a worldwide trade route may have connected them to each other.

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But just like we have airports today around the world,

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in ancient times with the Vamanas, there would have been hangers for the craft,

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airports for them to land, and those airports would have been situated

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in strategic places around the world.

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And that's exactly what we see in remote places.

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Legends of air travel are also found in ancient Africa and the Middle East.

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According to the Kavernaugast, a holy book of the Ethiopians, written sometime before the 2nd century AD,

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the Queen of Sheba was once given a gift of a flying carpet by King Solomon of Israel.

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The Kavernaugast is one of the most important texts you've never heard of.

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The Kavernaugast means the Book of Kings, and it is the most sacred book of the Ethiopians.

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In it, King Solomon is described as having access to some type of flying machine.

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And in that part of the world, the term flying carpet was always used very liberally.

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My question is, did they really mean actual flying carpets,

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or was it another term with which to describe some type of a flying machine?

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This was the original chariots of the gods that Eric Vondonikin talked about.

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The flying magic carpets of the Arabian Nights stories.

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There are traditions in the Middle East of King Solomon having this airship

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and flying to different places in the Middle East, certain mountains which are known as the mountains of Solomon.

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These may have been certain airports or landing areas for these Vamanas.

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Nicholas Rourke, famous Russian-American explorer who traveled all through Central Asia and Tibet in the 1920s.

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He too claimed that Tibetans had traditions of King Solomon flying to Tibet in this aircraft.

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The Kavernaugast also describes how King Solomon used his flying airship to make maps of the world.

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What could these have any relation to other ancient maps? Some believe may have been made by extraterrestrials.

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Some of these maps show the world not as it looks today, but as it looked during the last Ice Age.

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And this is really hard to explain. Everybody's heard of the Piri Rees map,

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but they perhaps not heard of the Ronitius Phineas map or the Mercator maps that show Antarctica in great detail

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hundreds of years before Antarctica was even discovered.

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One of the most referenced stories of ancient aircraft is found in a surprising place, the Bible.

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In the Book of Ezekiel, the prophet describes a flying chariot containing wheels within wheels and powered by angels.

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Although Bible historians suggest Ezekiel was speaking symbolically about the terrifying enemies facing Israel,

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could this be another example of an alien visitation and proof that prehistoric aircraft existed?

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In the story of Ezekiel's throne chariot, this flying vehicle that doesn't seem to have any means of propulsion,

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if we thought of the word angel as representing something like celestial energy,

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it sounds much more like a spacecraft then because some of the angels are going back and forth.

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Well, that sounds like flames. That sounds like propulsion.

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So there are wheels like, well those sound like flying saucers.

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Our ancestors weren't idiots.

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Ezekiel saw something that was so frightening to him that he fell to his knees.

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Then out of the glory of God came this being in these bright clothes that looked like metal and told Ezekiel,

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all right man, we brought you here. We want you to measure this monument, this building.

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And Ezekiel asks, well why should I do this?

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And the being says, that's why we brought you here.

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And then you have 40 pages in the second part of the book of Ezekiel

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with measurement after measurement after measurement of this gigantic building

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in which by the way, the glory of the Lord landed.

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In the early 1970s, NASA scientist Joseph Blumrick set out to disprove the theory

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that what Ezekiel witnessed was a spaceship.

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Joseph Blumrick is your proverbial rocket scientist.

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He worked on the Moon project for NASA and from the mind of a rocket engineer

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started to look at what was written in the first part of the book of Ezekiel

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and after many months of research, Joseph Blumrick came to the conclusion

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that what Ezekiel described in his eyewitness report, it was indeed a type of spacecraft.

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Joseph Blumrick would go on to write the spaceships of Ezekiel.

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sketched out a blueprint of the second section of the book of Ezekiel

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where Ezekiel is told to construct an open-top building to house the flying chariot.

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Ezekiel's spaceship fit exactly into the temple that Hans Herbert Bayer recreated.

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So what we have here is a proof by indication.

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Here we have a NASA engineer and a structural engineer.

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They didn't know if each other's work and both pieces fit together like a puzzle.

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In any court of law, that's evidence that would hold up.

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I think that scientists feel uncomfortable with the notion of the lost civilization

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precisely because the evidence for it is so ambiguous.

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It's not so in your face that it's immediately obvious

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and the result is that science has not welcomed this idea.

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It'll take much more evidence before it's widely accepted.

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The God that I believe in doesn't need a vehicle in which to move around from point A to point B.

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Whatever was described in the Old Testament wasn't God.

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It was a misunderstood flesh and blood exoterrestrial whom our ancestors misinterpreted as being divine and supernatural.

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And why? Because of misunderstood technology.

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And that is the underlying thread that applies to all of the ancient astronaut theory.

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But while ancient texts provide tantalizing clues to our past,

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physical evidence paints an even clearer picture.

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But will modern science finally prove the ancient astronaut theory?

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Did the ancient civilizations of Earth have access to advanced technology?

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Well, it seems like they had something going on.

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Could ancient stories depicting flying carpets, fiery chariots,

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and even dragons really be evidence of an otherworldly presence here on Earth in the distant past?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and claim that further proof of alien craft traversing our skies

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can be found with the countless reports of flying saucers.

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Guatemala, Central America.

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According to most mainstream scholars and archaeologists,

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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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And when I asked the local archaeologists there, what is this,

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they said without the flinching of an eye, well, this is, according to legend,

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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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And what we have here, that is everything but a turtle. It's something else.

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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 stampedes within Alexander's own war elephants,

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who then ran amok throughout his army tearing up the camps and everything.

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No, we're not going into India. This is it. We're going to turn back.

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And that was the end of that war campaign.

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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,

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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

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and just zipping off in what seems like impossible aerobatic maneuvers.

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And this can 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,

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the gravity of the Earth doesn't have a force on you.

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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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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,

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much like the shell of a beetle. And that gets you a very, very strong design.

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This is airframes 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 of physics today.

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And when we do understand it, we'll be able to find out a way to shield ourselves from it, or to provide a device, a method,

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electromagnetically, but with some much greater knowledge than we have today, where we eliminated within the vehicle's operations.

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Are flying saucers more than just the product of overactive imaginations?

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Might ancient cultures that wrote of fire-breathing dragons and angels descending from the heavens have been witnessing earlier versions of these alien spacecraft?

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Or could there be another explanation?

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Perhaps the ultimate answer can be found in the American Southwest, with a mythological beast called the Thunderbird.

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Elizabeth Lake, Southern California.

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This high desert body of water sits at the junction of the tectonic plates that form the powerful San Andreas Fault.

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The Mexicans who colonized California in the 1700s called it Laguna del Diablo, Lake of the Devil.

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And it was said that the Devil's own pet would come into this world through a portal at the bottom of the lake.

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Local legend says that at the bottom is actually an entrance to the underworld. They call it the Lake of the Devil.

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And as I said that in the middle of the 18th century, from up until about 1880 onwards, something was happening there which frightened locals.

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Some of the rich landowners built ranches there. These ranchers claimed to have been harassed and tormented by some sort of monstrous beast that would come out of the water.

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And steal cattle and menace the locals.

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The ranchers who claimed to have witnessed this beast called it the Thunderbird.

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And their description of it was nearly identical to that of the giant bird witnessed by cowboys in Tombstone in 1890.

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Eventually one of the landowners got it in his head that he was going to hunt this creature down and sell it to the circus.

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So according to the story, this rancher was able to actually fire a few shots at this creature which seemed to be bullet-proof and metallic.

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The bullets bounced off and after that encounter the bird flew east never to be seen again in California.

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Could this so-called Thunderbird really have been the same creature that cowboy shot at in Tombstone?

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And why was it referred to by locals as the Devil's pet?

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They didn't have the vocabulary we had today. So when things happened that they couldn't explain, it was called the Devil's Tower.

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It was called the Devil's Lake. It was called the Devil's this or the Devil's that.

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Take it away from the legend and you might find that this was a portal to another dimension which the locals knew about and might have something to do with the fact that this mysterious entity was present at that very specific location.

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If a portal to another dimension or another part of the universe does lie at the bottom of Elizabeth Lake, might it also be possible that the Thunderbird was not really a creature at all but something even more incredible?

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A Thunderbird was enormous. It made enormous noises so the Thunder part of it could sound like a jet engine.

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This ice was able to literally pierce and emanate fire.

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We have this large flying wing creature which gives off a thunderous sound and lights fly through its ice.

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That to me suggests that we could be dealing with some sort of craft.

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Native Indians in North America, they know of course the bird but now something differently arrived.

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An object which could fly, which is bigger than the eagle but at the same time makes tremendous noise.

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So you have the creation of the Thunderbird.

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Even when the airplanes first started going up in the sky here in the Southwest, they referred them to as metal birds.

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As a matter of fact, when the first fixed wing craft landed in Zuni, the Indians over there actually went out there and worshipped the airplane.

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It makes me think of a concept called cultural tracking which is the idea that UFOs can mask themselves to appear as almost anything.

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You go back to ancient China and they talk about the flying dragons. You go back to the ancient Egyptians, they talk about flying boats.

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You go to the Roman times and they're talking about flying shields. Perhaps that was just their interpretation or perhaps that's what they actually saw.

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Have alien spacecraft really been darting across our skies for thousands of years?

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And could stories of Thunderbirds, dragons and flying chariots be not mere legends but the proof we have been looking for?

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Perhaps when our own technology allows us to venture further into space, we will be given the final answer that aliens and mankind share a common origin and perhaps a common destiny.