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The rock itself is set to weigh about 500 tons.

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You want to just look down below?

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It's hovering above the water.

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This monolith is said to be related to one of the first gods that descended from the heavens to Japan.

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And he traveled over the country on a sky ship made out of a giant rock.

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So what you're telling me is that there is a deity flying around in the sky with a gigantic vehicle made of stone?

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The University of Tokyo reveals designs for electric vehicles that are able to charge while driving on powered roadways,

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enabling the Japanese to travel freely with unlimited mileage throughout the country.

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This same month, the Japanese government, in cooperation with private companies,

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unveils plans to unleash a country-wide drone delivery system by 2020,

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with self-driving trucks to follow in 2022.

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And Inamihiyama Laboratory brings to market a new prosthetic device called MetaLims,

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a pair of wearable robotic arms controlled by the legs and feet,

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giving the user two additional hands to work with.

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These are just a few of the scientific innovations introduced by the Japanese in a single month,

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and they, along with numerous others, have helped accelerate mankind's technological advancement at a breathtaking pace.

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Yet in the midst of this cutting-edge technology are antiquated tea houses, palaces,

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and shrines dating back thousands of years that create a stark contrast between the old and the new.

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Japan could be a puzzle to a Westerner.

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On one hand, you have this modern culture with trains that are going 250 miles an hour.

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Robots can serve you in the home, can help people with handicaps walk.

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They can be a robotic pet.

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They have parking garages in which the cars park themselves.

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So Japan is always on the cutting edge of technological development and innovation.

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Yet at the same time, it cherishes and looks back at its age-old traditions,

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some of them going back several millennia in fact.

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While Japan is a nation where old-world traditions and new-world technology collide,

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ancient astronaut theorists suggest the two are not as disconnected as they may seem.

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And that the secrets of ancient Japan help explain why they are at the forefront of technology today.

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Secrets that are connected to extraterrestrial visitation.

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December 18, 2007.

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Ryuji Yamana of the Democratic Party of Japan, under increasing pressure from his constituents,

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publicly demands a response from the Prime Minister and his cabinet to address the surge of UFO activity over Japan,

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totaling more than 300 reported sightings per month.

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The cabinet's official statement is that it has not confirmed the existence of unidentified flying objects from outer space.

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But within a few hours, everything changes.

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Just hours after this meeting, the Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura announced on live television

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that regarding the question of extraterrestrials, he definitely thinks they exist.

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that he had been carefully considering different response scenarios for an alien invasion.

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there are no grounds for us to deny that there are unidentified flying objects and some life forms that controls them.

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in which she claimed that she had been abducted by aliens, that she had travelled on a UFO.

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For the wife of the Prime Minister to come out and make a statement like that was absolutely unprecedented.

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I think the only reason this isn't on the front page of every newspaper in the world

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Could these profound statements coming from top Japanese government officials

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reveal that they have knowledge of alien visitation?

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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest evidence of alien contact on these islands

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dates back thousands of years and can be found within the teachings of Shintoism.

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Shintoism is the primary religion of Japan with over 107 million followers

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and is designed around a set of ritual practices that connect present-day Japan

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to its ancient mystical past.

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At its center are celestial beings that according to the Japanese people

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still roam their islands to this day.

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The term Shinto translates as the way of the kami or the way of the gods.

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It's a tradition that has a millennia-long history in Japan.

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There are over 8 million kamis according to the Shinto tradition

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and each one of them has its own particular personality traits, if you will.

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which is called Takamagahara.

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The celestial kami will come into the terrestrial world, our world, and they need a home.

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so that they can feel at home in the terrestrial world.

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with the belief that they are actually praying to an extraterrestrial being who can fulfill their blessings.

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Are they still being encountered today in the form of UFOs?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining ancient Japanese structures

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that defy explanation.

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Coming up, there are thousands of these statuettes that have been recovered

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and these figures have goggle type eyes and they have rivets all over their body

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indicating that they're wearing some kind of a spacesuit or technological armor.

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Honshu, Japan, April 2017

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Near the modern-day city of Osaka,

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the Ishi Nohoden Megalith, a Shinto shrine said to be inhabited by an otherworldly being.

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This is the Ishi Nohoden.

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It's about 5 to 6 meters long.

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The rock itself is said to weigh about 500 tons.

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This is said to have the soul of the god or kami inside it.

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The spirit of the god is inside and the stone carries a special spiritual meaning now.

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I had no idea how massive this is.

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So do you want to just look down below here?

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It looks like it's floating over the water.

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The name for this rock is Amano-Ukishi or the floating rock from the heavens.

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So this monolith is said to be related to one of the first gods that descended from the heavens to Japan

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and he is said to have traveled over the country on a sky ship made out of a giant rock

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which is called Amano-Iwa-Hune which is the heavenly rock ship.

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So what you're telling me is that there is an ancient Japanese legend that speaks of a deity

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flying around in the sky with a gigantic vehicle made of stone?

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So do you think that is the reason why it was called a vehicle made of stone?

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Because it was so powerful and strong and virtually indestructible

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that the story became it's a vehicle made of stone.

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You're absolutely right because the gods were flying over the land on a giant ship.

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It wasn't a plane because it didn't have wings.

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It looked like a ship made out of very hard material that was like a very hard stone

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and they would descend from the heavens and down onto the land

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and thus they would travel around the country.

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According to the Japanese, otherworldly beings have been visiting their islands for over 12,000 years.

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The earliest culture that we can identify in Japan is the Jomon

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which is originally a stone age culture running roughly from 10,000 BCE to 300 BCE.

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It is a culture that we don't know an awful lot about

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because they had no writing system, all we have is artifacts.

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The little that we do know about the Jomon comes from archaeological evidence

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and one of the most representative artifacts that is tied to the Jomon is the dogu statue.

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Approximately 15,000 dogu figurines resembling strange humanoid beings

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have been found throughout the Japanese islands.

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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest these figurines represent the very kami

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the Japanese believe descended to this world in the ancient past.

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There are thousands of these statuettes that have been recovered

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and these figures have goggle type eyes and they have rivets all over their body

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indicating that they're wearing some kind of a space suit or technological armor.

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who came and directed the Japanese to have their civilization and culture

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and that ultimately these sky gods are their ancestors?

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Do the dogu figures represent extraterrestrials that visited Japan thousands of years ago?

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And could they have descended in a craft that resembled the monolith called Ishinohoden

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as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

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which describe the islands as inhabited by other worldly beings.

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Issei, Japan in the center of this remote coastal city

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is a massive complex of 125 individual shrines erected 2000 years ago

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dedicated to the supreme goddess of Shintoism, Amaterasu.

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When Amaterasu is residing in the terrestrial plane instead of the celestial plane

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her home is the grand shrine at Issei

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which is built without any nails, any metal fastenings whatsoever.

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It's also architecturally unlike any other shrine in Japan.

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Modern architects still have difficulty comprehending how this palace was built.

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It is the most important shrine in Shintoism and has been visited by hundreds of millions of pilgrims

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over thousands of years.

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Now, allegedly, the shrine contains something called the Sacred Mirror

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one of Japan's three most sacred artifacts which are collectively known as the Imperial Regalia of Japan.

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They were given by Amaterasu to Emperor Jumu, the first emperor of Japan

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and they have only been seen by the emperors and high priests of Japan.

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But what were they and why is the public not allowed to see them?

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If these are items that are brought to earth by celestial beings

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then by definition that would make them of extraterrestrial origin.

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are physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitations in Japan's ancient past

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and might the Prime Minister of Japan and his cabinet still have connections to these same other worldly beings?

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Perhaps the answer can be found by more closely examining Emperor Jumu

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and the stories that he was guided by an intelligence that spoke to him from the sky.

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Coming up, why would they label a boat a flying boat?

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I don't think our ancestors pulled this out of their own imagination.

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They actually saw flying boats. Thus the legends were born.

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In the middle of this modern metropolis lies the Dyson Kofun

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a tomb for one of Japan's long line of divine emperors.

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Covering over 400,000 square meters, the Dyson Kofun is considered the largest tomb by area in the world.

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There are more than 160,000 Kofun dotting the Japanese archipelago

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all of which contain the remains of emperors or their royal families.

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There are burial mounds throughout the world.

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However, there's one specific shape that exists only in Japan and this is the Kihou Kofun.

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Most of these can only be seen from the sky.

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This raises the question as to why emperors would be buried in such a way

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that they're actually being memorialized and being seen from the sky.

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So we have to wonder, is this a way for the extraterrestrial to be seen?

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Could the Kofun's ideals try to identify the tombs of their ancestors?

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Could the thousands of Kofun dotting the Japanese islands contain the bodies of extraterrestrial beings?

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Curiously, in 2016, researchers studying high-resolution photos of the surface of Mars

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spotted an eerily similar Kihou shaped mound.

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Is this possibly a Kofun found on Mars bearing some lost extraterrestrial god?

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If so, we can see that there's definitely a connection between what we're seeing on Mars

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as some type of Kofun burial site and over 160,000 of these found all over Japan.

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of a link to beings from outside our world?

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To investigate this theory further, Georgiosuchlos and Takaharu Mikami

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were granted special access to one of Japan's oldest tombs, the Ishibutai Kofun.

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Oh man, it's gigantic.

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It's a megalith from 6th century AD.

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The largest rock on this tumulus weighs about 77 tons.

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Have they calculated the weight of all the rocks combined?

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All together this will weigh about 2,300 tons.

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Wow, that's incredible.

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Can we go inside?

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So I presume one of these rocks up there is the one that's 77 tons.

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We would have great difficulty achieving that today.

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And I'm not saying we can't do it. Of course we can do it.

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Well, we would use sophisticated high-tech heavy machinery.

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Activation visits have found wooden sleds that are said to have been the tools they used

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to drag and carry these large rocks across the fields.

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You put 77 tons on wood, it crushes into dust.

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So that's wonderful that these sleds were found, but I highly doubt that 77 tons were on wooden sleds

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because I've once seen a 5-ton block being placed on wooden rollers and it got crushed into oblivion.

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This area here, it's very hilly mountainous.

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Traditionally, there were a group of very skilled artisans or architects who held a lot of secret skills

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does he presume that this knowledge may have come from some of those Kami's or celestial beings

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that are in Japanese mythology?

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So the further back in history we go, the greater these monuments become.

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Yes.

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So the technology was there from the very beginning and if we go back in time to follow these roots of these beings,

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we will go back to prehistoric times of the era, the age of the Kami's or the diaries.

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Ancient Japanese Shintoists believe that once you die, you would be put into a coffin that was shaped like a boat

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and then traveled to the land of the gods.

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You know, that's so fascinating because there are stories of flying boats all around the world.

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In ancient Egypt, you have the sun barges descending from the sky.

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In Native American cultures, you have the flying canoes.

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Why would they label a boat a flying boat?

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Well, could it be perhaps because they didn't have the vocabulary to say airplane?

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I don't think our ancestors pulled us out of their own imagination.

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I think they actually saw flying boats and thus the legends were born.

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Might the Ishi Boutai Kofun have been built with the help of extraterrestrial beings?

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Beings that were also present on Mars in the distant past.

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest further clues can be found by examining another mysterious megalithic structure,

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one that some believe represents the so-called flying boats that according to the ancient Japanese stories were used to travel to the land of the gods.

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Coming up, so this could be some type of representation of one of those flying vehicles that our ancestors witnessed.

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Yes, the rock ship would have come down from the heavens as a vehicle for the gods.

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Hitachi province, Japan, 1803.

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Local fishermen on the Harajidori shore spot an unusual craft drifting in the distance.

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When the vessel washes ashore, they are astonished by what they witness.

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This craft was likened to the shape of a Japanese incense burner.

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In incense burner, it is almost literally a flying disc, a flying saucer.

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On the outside of this craft were multiple small metal plates,

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are not too dissimilar to heat resistant tiles that you'd find say on a space shuttle.

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A hatch opened and a young woman came out of the craft,

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dressed in clothes that had never been seen before,

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and speaking a language that nobody understood in the slightest.

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When they looked inside the craft, they could see pyroglyphs and strange writing all inside of the craft.

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The story of the stranger Tsurobune craft appears in three different Japanese texts.

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Even today, modern historians struggle to understand what this means.

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Nobody can really decipher this.

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Japanese today are very familiar with this story, and to them, this is a curious story of one of the gods of their ancestry,

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who had somehow arrived there on the island in this mysterious craft, and then departed.

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Could the Tsurobune Incident have marked the return of extraterrestrial beings that were present in Japan in the distant past?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and claim further evidence can be found by examining a strange monolithic stone

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that many believe was carved to resemble the very craft that had been visiting Japan for thousands of years.

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Asuka Park, Japan, April 2017

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Does that say rock ship?

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Masuda Rock Ship.

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Giorgio Succolos and ancient astronaut theorist Takaharu Mikami set out to examine Masuda No Iwafune,

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an 800-ton rock structure that was carved from a single piece of granite

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and resembles no other architecture in Japan.

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Oh, man.

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Wow, that is... I mean, I've never seen anything like it.

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While some researchers believe the Masuda No Iwafune megalith is a tomb, others claim it is meant to depict the skyboats

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that are described in ancient Japanese stories.

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So the idea is that this was the entrance to a Buddhist temple. What do they mean by that?

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Inside, I mean, where?

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It would actually predate Buddhism in Japan, so it wouldn't have anything to do with Buddhist temples.

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Right. So what is the actual translation of Masuda No Iwafune?

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Masuda is the name of a region, and Iwafune literally means stone ship or a rock ship.

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Yes, it's naturally that Iwafune or the rock ship would have come down from the heavens as a vehicle for the gods to descend upon Earth.

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of one of those flying vehicles that our ancestors perhaps witnessed.

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Could the Masuda No Iwafune have been carved to resemble the so-called flying boats that were referred to in ancient Japanese texts

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and was a similar alien craft witnessed by Japanese fishermen in 1803?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining much more recent UFO sightings

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and the long-held belief that Japan's imperial family has a connection to other worldly beings.

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Multiple witnesses sighted a fleet of UFOs right over the city.

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The erratic movements and patterns suggest that these are possibly being controlled by some extraterrestrial species.

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Kyushu, Japan, the 7th century BC.

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According to Japan's earliest known historical texts, Kojiki and Nihonshoki, it is from this point that the country's first ruler, Emperor Jimo,

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set out to conquer and unify the Japanese islands.

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He seems to have come out of Kyushu, the southern island, and moved across Japan to find a better place to center the government and center his realm.

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Conquering people along the way and eventually settles in the Yamato region, and that becomes the center of Japan's government all the way until it moves to Tokyo in 1868.

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As he was working his way northwards, he was actually assisted by a divine crow, a three-legged crow known as Yatagarasu.

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Yatagarasu loosely translates to eight-span crow, so we can imagine that this crow would have been extremely large.

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In some instances, Yatagarasu is also depicted within a fiery orb in the sky.

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This so-called crow guided him on his journey and advised him in military matters to ensure his success.

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And when you look at ancient depictions of this crow, it is often depicted inside some kind of an orb, this circular disk.

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So if you look at that, you have to ask what exactly were the ancient Japanese talking about here?

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Because this to me sounds more like he was being guided by some kind of a flying craft and an actual crow.

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Could Japan's first emperor, Jimo, and the imperial family today, be direct descendants of extraterrestrials?

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And might the three-legged crow, Yatagarasu, really have been an alien craft?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest further evidence can be found by examining a military coup designed to cover up this extraterrestrial heritage.

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Kyoto, Japan, 1183

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Military general Minamoto no Yoritomo, this siege is the capital city of Japan, forcing the current emperor on Toku and his bodyguard to flee.

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For nearly 700 years after, military dictatorships known as shogunates maintained strict control over Japan.

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Isolationist policies allowed few to enter or exit the islands, with death as the ultimate penalty.

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Only in 1867 did shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, facing a revolt from the Japanese people, relinquish control of the government back to the emperor.

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The Meiji emperor was the first of the emperors after the restoration, made a point of tracing his lineage all the way back to Emperor Jimo.

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And to Amaterasu as well.

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So this notion of a divine emperor of a living kami at the head of Japan was resuscitated.

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They wanted to return to the original Japanese empire, the one founded by Jimo, in his connection with the extraterrestrial beings.

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What happened after this is extraordinary, suddenly Japan takes off, it starts accelerating in its technological ability.

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It suddenly becomes a world-conquering nation.

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By the early 20th century, Japan was a superpower, and it had amassed a vast colonial empire, rivaling that of the greatest western colonial empires.

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And what Japan accomplished in modernization in the span of 20 years, it took most European nations about two or even 300 years to accomplish.

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So you have to wonder, with the reinstating of the royal family, was this also a reconnection to the technical and extraterrestrial past that had begun centuries ago in Japan, and is now continuing today, possibly with the guidance of extraterrestrials?

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Could Japan's meteoric rise to power be a direct result of reinstating the divine, perhaps extraterrestrial dynasty, originally established by Emperor Jimo?

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And is this why some of Japan's top government officials have recently made statements supporting the notion that alien visitation is real?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest further evidence of an alien presence in Japan today can be found by examining a recent mass UFO sighting.

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In July 2015, multiple witnesses in and around the city of Osaka sighted a fleet of UFOs moving in a quite extraordinary fashion in broad daylight right over the city.

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And various people caught them from different angles on camera.

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Now, the government was quick to dismiss them as candles or lanterns in the sky, but the erratic movements and patterns suggested that they were technological in nature.

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Similar white orbs were reported four years earlier, during one of the worst environmental disasters in mankind's history.

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On March 26, 2011, two weeks after the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, a fleet of white orbs was recorded hovering over the site.

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If we go back and look at the history of the UFO subject, we find a great deal of interest with, for example, our atomic energy plants, our nuclear missile silos.

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And it suggests to me that maybe we're seeing alien entities who are deeply concerned by our usage of atomic power.

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Could the white orbs witnessed above Osaka and Fukushima be alien craft belonging to the same celestial beings the Japanese traced back to their very origins?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining recent attempts by Japanese astronomers to make contact with extraterrestrial beings.

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Tokyo, Japan, July 1983.

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At the University of Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, astronomers Hizayashi Hirabayashi and Masaki Marimoto target a telescope towards the star Altair.

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Using radio waves, they transmit a short binary encoded message in an attempt to contact extraterrestrial life.

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This was a groundbreaking piece of history in terms of the search for extraterrestrial life.

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This message basically told information regarding human life, human history, DNA, and also the location of the Earth itself.

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So any potential extraterrestrials living in the vicinity of Altair would potentially know where we're coming from.

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The star of Altair is 16 light-years away from Earth.

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And so it was expected that the binary message would reach that star by around 1999.

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And now from 2015 on, the Japanese are expecting some kind of reply from their signal.

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Now what's particularly intriguing is that Altair actually represents one of the ancient Japanese gods.

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This makes me wonder if the scientific community had come to a conclusion that perhaps their ancient god, represented by Altair, may not have been a god after all.

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So you have to wonder here, are these Japanese astronomers trying to contact the extraterrestrial gods that they believe came to Earth and started the Japanese civilization?

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It would seem so.

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In 2010, JAXA, Japan's national space program, announced plans to establish a base on the moon by the year 2020.

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And recently, the Shimizu Corporation unveiled designs for their lunar ring project,

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a massive band of solar panels surrounding the moon that would beam limitless clean power back to Earth.

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When you look at all this together, you can't help but wonder what's going on here.

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Is it about reaching out to extraterrestrials?

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Or is it perhaps about using extraterrestrial knowledge and technology that the Japanese already have?

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This suggests that the Japanese people are serious about colonizing space and maybe working with extraterrestrials on developing this enormously advanced technology.

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Is it possible that there is a link between Japan's technological advancements and the country's connection to extraterrestrial beings?

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And are these beings the same otherworldly entities that have been influencing the development of Japanese culture for thousands of years?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and believe the proof lies not only at various locations found throughout the Japanese landscape,

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but also on Earth's neighboring planets and one in particular soon to be explored.