1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,500 An ancient hammer of an incredible age. 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,840 The hammer was found in sandstone 3 00:00:06,940 --> 00:00:10,100 that takes about 140 million years to form. 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:12,980 Who was here 140 million years ago? 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,680 Strange figures of unknown origin. 6 00:00:16,780 --> 00:00:20,580 The Sanxingdui humanoid statues have really striking features 7 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,360 that are unlike anything that has ever been excavated. 8 00:00:24,460 --> 00:00:28,360 A sophisticated computing device recovered 9 00:00:28,420 --> 00:00:31,060 from a 2,000-year-old shipwreck. 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:34,720 They actually said it was like finding a jet plane 11 00:00:34,820 --> 00:00:37,060 in the tomb of King Tut. 12 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:40,160 Throughout the world, artifacts have been found 13 00:00:40,260 --> 00:00:43,000 that defy explanation. 14 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:46,500 Is it possible that they were purposely left behind 15 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,080 by alien visitors? 16 00:00:49,180 --> 00:00:52,980 All these so-called impossible artifacts 17 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,080 that have been found worldwide 18 00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:58,080 all of a sudden become very posh. 19 00:00:58,140 --> 00:01:01,680 Is it possible if you take into consideration 20 00:01:01,780 --> 00:01:03,240 the extraterrestrial question? 21 00:01:06,780 --> 00:01:11,320 There is a doorway in the universe. 22 00:01:11,420 --> 00:01:15,560 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 23 00:01:15,660 --> 00:01:20,860 It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. 24 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:24,300 The evidence is all around us. 25 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:28,300 The future is right before our eyes. 26 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,060 We are not alone. 27 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,300 We have never been alone. 28 00:01:41,580 --> 00:01:48,480 Kate Canaveral, Florida, February 21, 2019. 29 00:01:48,580 --> 00:01:51,780 SpaceX, a private aerospace company, 30 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,900 launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Israeli spacecraft 31 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,240 called the Beresheet Lander, destined for the moon. 32 00:02:00,340 --> 00:02:03,080 Within the lander is a digital time capsule 33 00:02:03,180 --> 00:02:08,020 called the Arch Lunar Library, containing over 30 million pages 34 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,960 of data, including a full copy of the English language 35 00:02:12,060 --> 00:02:14,660 Wikipedia. 36 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,900 The Lunar Library is a multi-billion-year artifact 37 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,640 that we designed to send a message. 38 00:02:21,700 --> 00:02:25,000 Of our civilization's history to whoever 39 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:28,140 inhabits our solar system in the deep future. 40 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,040 The Lunar Library contains 30 million pages of human history, 41 00:02:32,140 --> 00:02:34,140 culture, knowledge, art, science. 42 00:02:36,940 --> 00:02:40,520 On April 11, seven weeks after the launch, 43 00:02:40,620 --> 00:02:43,720 the lander reaches its destination. 44 00:02:43,820 --> 00:02:46,720 But as it descends towards the lunar surface, 45 00:02:46,820 --> 00:02:49,660 Beresheet's gyroscope fails. 46 00:02:49,780 --> 00:02:53,180 And the main engine shuts off, causing the lander 47 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,820 to crash on the moon. 48 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:59,220 While the lander is likely destroyed, 49 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,960 its cargo, the Lunar Library, was 50 00:03:02,060 --> 00:03:07,660 built to be nearly indestructible and is thought to have survived. 51 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,300 We used quartz crystal. 52 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:10,640 That is incredibly durable. 53 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:13,740 It can last 14 billion years. 54 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,480 There are 25 different layers. 55 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:22,540 The top four layers consist of 60,000 analog images 56 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:25,680 of pages of text, photos. 57 00:03:25,780 --> 00:03:30,720 Below that are 21 layers of digital information. 58 00:03:30,820 --> 00:03:33,920 The analog layers teach important information 59 00:03:34,020 --> 00:03:37,520 to get the digital information off the deeper layers. 60 00:03:37,620 --> 00:03:39,860 Storing this record of human history on the moon 61 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,800 means that once, if and when, our planet is destroyed, 62 00:03:43,860 --> 00:03:46,520 as something happens, and all of our records are wiped out, 63 00:03:46,620 --> 00:03:48,360 there is something in a place that 64 00:03:48,460 --> 00:03:52,200 has stood the test of time for four billion years. 65 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:55,000 In addition to providing a record of humanity 66 00:03:55,100 --> 00:03:58,640 that will survive for potentially billions of years, 67 00:03:58,740 --> 00:04:04,080 the project has another, less conventional motivation. 68 00:04:04,180 --> 00:04:07,020 We were interested in retracing the steps 69 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:08,980 of potential ancient aliens. 70 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,120 If there were ancient aliens and they were preserving 71 00:04:12,140 --> 00:04:17,980 a message for us to find, what would they have done? 72 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:19,980 For ancient astronaut theorists, 73 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:25,920 the mission is a milestone event and one that is long overdue. 74 00:04:26,020 --> 00:04:28,820 As far as they are concerned, what humans have now 75 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,060 undertaken with the lunar library is exactly what 76 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:37,400 extraterrestrials did on Earth thousands of years ago. 77 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:39,840 The question is always, well, where is the evidence? 78 00:04:39,940 --> 00:04:40,740 Where is the evidence? 79 00:04:42,180 --> 00:04:45,740 Well, all you have to do is open your eyes. 80 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:48,080 It's everywhere. 81 00:04:48,180 --> 00:04:51,180 Throughout the world, countless mysterious artifacts 82 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:56,420 have been discovered that defy any conventional explanation. 83 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:00,700 And while skeptics may insist that proof of alien visitation 84 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,700 could only come in the form of some highly advanced technology, 85 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,100 ancient astronaut theorists suggest even the most mundane 86 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,200 items can serve as evidence. 87 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:18,580 In fact, in 1936, a local couple in London, Texas, 88 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,360 were walking along a creek when they came upon one 89 00:05:21,460 --> 00:05:26,520 of the most puzzling ancient artifacts ever found, a hammer. 90 00:05:26,620 --> 00:05:29,060 It was a prehistoric hammer, if you will, 91 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:35,900 with part of the handle still in place inside some very old rock. 92 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,540 And part of the handle actually is starting to go through a process 93 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:41,000 called qualification. 94 00:05:41,020 --> 00:05:44,460 It's where you have inorganic material and organic material 95 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,460 changing into coal. 96 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,060 Now, how old is this hammer? 97 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,300 The hammer itself was found in the Travis Formation. 98 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,740 It's a concretion of sandstone. 99 00:05:55,840 --> 00:06:00,580 And it usually takes about 140 million years for this to form. 100 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,920 Who was here 140 million years ago? 101 00:06:04,020 --> 00:06:06,180 The modern day archaeology suggests 102 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:09,720 that we've only been around for about 10,000 years. 103 00:06:09,740 --> 00:06:15,780 So this falls into the category of out of place artifacts. 104 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:20,420 Around the world, there are so-called out of place artifacts, 105 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,060 commonly referred to as uparts. 106 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:29,860 And those uparts are challenging mainstream archaeology 107 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:35,600 because they do not fit into the accepted chronology 108 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:37,800 of what mainstream science says. 109 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:43,220 Could a 140 million-year-old hammer really 110 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,880 have been discovered in Texas? 111 00:06:45,980 --> 00:06:49,320 Skeptics argue that the couple who came upon this hammer 112 00:06:49,420 --> 00:06:53,220 must have been mistaken about where they found it. 113 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,720 What could there be so-called impossible artifacts whose 114 00:06:56,820 --> 00:06:58,960 authenticity is beyond question? 115 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:08,300 Egypt, Valley of the Kings, November 1922. 116 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,660 British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon 117 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,360 discover what will prove to be one of the most important finds 118 00:07:16,460 --> 00:07:23,300 in the history of Egyptology, the tomb of King Tutankhamen. 119 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,200 To this day, it is considered the best preserved and most 120 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:30,940 intact tomb ever discovered in the Valley of the Kings. 121 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,340 And within it, a very puzzling artifact was found. 122 00:07:34,380 --> 00:07:36,880 While they're unpacking Tut's mummy, 123 00:07:36,980 --> 00:07:40,640 they discover these incredible daggers. 124 00:07:40,740 --> 00:07:43,640 One of them had an iron blade with a gold handle 125 00:07:43,740 --> 00:07:45,040 and a crystal knob on it. 126 00:07:45,140 --> 00:07:47,540 This is two centuries before Egypt 127 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,720 is supposed to have had the ability to manipulate iron 128 00:07:50,820 --> 00:07:51,880 in this way. 129 00:07:51,980 --> 00:07:55,380 In 2016, new tests were done on this dagger, 130 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,820 and it was confirmed that this is not just iron. 131 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,520 This is meteoric iron. 132 00:08:00,620 --> 00:08:04,220 This iron took a long time to be discovered. 133 00:08:04,220 --> 00:08:07,180 It came from the stars. 134 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,420 Anybody who's ever worked with meteorites, even today, 135 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,320 will tell you it's very difficult to do this 136 00:08:11,420 --> 00:08:13,160 because of the high nickel content. 137 00:08:13,260 --> 00:08:16,520 It makes the metal very brittle. 138 00:08:16,620 --> 00:08:19,960 And a technique known as folding or stacking 139 00:08:20,060 --> 00:08:22,700 has to be done in order to strengthen it 140 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:24,760 or else it'll crack and fracture. 141 00:08:24,860 --> 00:08:28,600 So the metal has to be heated up to about 2,000 degrees 142 00:08:28,700 --> 00:08:33,240 and then folded and hammered, folded and hammered. 143 00:08:33,300 --> 00:08:36,960 But the dagger doesn't display the telltale signs 144 00:08:37,060 --> 00:08:39,600 of folding, which is usually the striations that 145 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:40,640 run through the metal. 146 00:08:40,740 --> 00:08:43,800 So how was this blade made? 147 00:08:43,900 --> 00:08:47,580 According to their texts, the knowledge of how to work with metal 148 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:52,180 was given to the Egyptians by the god, Ptah. 149 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:57,720 Ptah was the Egyptian god of smithcraft and alchemy. 150 00:08:57,820 --> 00:08:59,760 He came from the star Sirius. 151 00:08:59,860 --> 00:09:01,560 He had green skin. 152 00:09:01,620 --> 00:09:03,720 Is it possible that this incredible dagger 153 00:09:03,820 --> 00:09:07,720 has some sort of an extraterrestrial connection? 154 00:09:07,820 --> 00:09:10,820 Could it be that seemingly commonplace objects 155 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,560 like an ancient dagger and a hammerhead 156 00:09:13,660 --> 00:09:17,240 are extraterrestrial artifacts? 157 00:09:17,340 --> 00:09:20,140 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 158 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,880 and suggest that hidden away in a museum storage room 159 00:09:23,980 --> 00:09:27,540 is an even more compelling out of place artifact that 160 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,940 is being purposely kept out of public view. 161 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:40,040 Transylvania, Romania, 1974. 162 00:09:40,140 --> 00:09:43,480 Workers digging a trench along the bank of the Moores River 163 00:09:43,580 --> 00:09:49,180 make an unexpected find 35 feet underground. 164 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:53,260 Two massive bones belonging to a woolly mammoth, 165 00:09:53,380 --> 00:09:57,680 an animal that went extinct 40,000 years ago. 166 00:09:57,780 --> 00:10:00,920 But even more surprising is that embedded in the heart 167 00:10:01,020 --> 00:10:06,860 and sand encasing the bones is a mysterious metal object, 168 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,700 one that would have to be at least as old as the bones 169 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,200 themselves. 170 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:13,600 When the metal is examined, it is found 171 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:17,840 to be an aluminum alloy, except it can't be, 172 00:10:17,940 --> 00:10:21,380 because humans did not learn to smelt or fabricate aluminum 173 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:25,000 until the middle of the 19th century. 174 00:10:25,100 --> 00:10:27,840 The Wedge of Ayud, as it would become known, 175 00:10:27,940 --> 00:10:31,540 is sent to the National Museum of Transylvanian History. 176 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:33,480 And because it cannot be explained, 177 00:10:33,580 --> 00:10:37,380 it is quickly removed from public view. 178 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,980 The Wedge of Ayud was not really on display for a long time, 179 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,680 because it's a puzzling artifact for us. 180 00:10:43,780 --> 00:10:48,120 And that's why we don't really know how to interpret it. 181 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:52,960 In my view, this object could have just two solutions so far. 182 00:10:53,060 --> 00:10:56,520 One, that it is really not so old, 183 00:10:56,620 --> 00:11:00,900 and it's a new object, strangely preserved, let's say. 184 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,860 And the second option is, of course, 185 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:07,240 that it's not of terrestrial origin. 186 00:11:07,340 --> 00:11:08,600 How do you explain this? 187 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:13,040 It doesn't deserve to be in an unmarked box. 188 00:11:13,140 --> 00:11:17,640 Just because we don't know how to explain something away, 189 00:11:17,660 --> 00:11:22,540 doesn't necessarily mean we have to look the other way. 190 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:23,700 What is it? 191 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,340 Let's go figure it out. 192 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,940 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 193 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:31,780 there is one theory regarding the Wedge of Ayud 194 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,520 that provides an intriguing parallel to the lunar library 195 00:11:35,620 --> 00:11:40,720 that crash-landed on the moon in 2019. 196 00:11:40,820 --> 00:11:44,560 An aeronautical engineer who saw the Ayud Wedge 197 00:11:44,620 --> 00:11:47,660 looked at it and said, that's a piece of a landing gear 198 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,960 for a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. 199 00:11:51,060 --> 00:11:52,660 And this is very interesting in light 200 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,260 of what we know about the lunar library project, which 201 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:56,960 ultimately crashed into the moon. 202 00:12:00,260 --> 00:12:02,640 Is it possible that the Wedge of Ayud 203 00:12:02,740 --> 00:12:05,840 is part of a spacecraft that crashed on Earth, 204 00:12:05,940 --> 00:12:10,440 just like the Beresheet lander that crashed on the moon? 205 00:12:10,540 --> 00:12:13,880 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 206 00:12:13,940 --> 00:12:17,980 the question is no longer do alien artifacts exist, 207 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,740 but what do they tell us? 208 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,740 Could there be artifacts that were purposely left 209 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:28,280 for someone to find, much like our own lunar library? 210 00:12:36,220 --> 00:12:38,360 Mysuru, Karnataka, India. 211 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:42,540 At the center of this sprawling modern metropolis 212 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,840 is the Mysuru Oriental Research Institute, 213 00:12:45,940 --> 00:12:50,740 home to some of the world's most important ancient writings. 214 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,240 Here, scholars continue to study the earliest known 215 00:12:54,340 --> 00:12:57,920 manuscripts of the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, 216 00:12:58,020 --> 00:13:02,680 and other Sanskrit texts that date back at least 4,000 years 217 00:13:02,780 --> 00:13:04,820 and form the basis of Hinduism. 218 00:13:05,220 --> 00:13:09,360 Roughly 1 billion people still subscribe to the world's oldest 219 00:13:09,460 --> 00:13:15,020 surviving religion, which features a pantheon of 333 220 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,460 million gods. 221 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:19,600 These otherworldly beings are often 222 00:13:19,700 --> 00:13:25,440 depicted wielding weapons and traveling in flying craft. 223 00:13:25,540 --> 00:13:29,580 Hindu mythology really reads like the wildest science fiction 224 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:30,940 of today's world. 225 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:38,300 It's filled with all kinds of magic stones, flying spaceships. 226 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,440 In traditional ancient astronaut theory, 227 00:13:41,540 --> 00:13:47,940 we're looking at mythology and legends of these gods coming 228 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:54,180 down and reinterpreting these legends and myths 229 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:57,420 as possible extraterrestrials. 230 00:13:57,500 --> 00:14:01,800 As possible extraterrestrials who are in reality 231 00:14:01,900 --> 00:14:05,700 these gods of ancient times. 232 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:10,500 In fact, ancient India, their entire pantheon of gods 233 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:17,380 is based exclusively on a cosmic origin that they arrived 234 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:18,440 from deep space. 235 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,560 Is it possible that the foundational texts of Hinduism 236 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:27,940 provide a record of extraterrestrial intervention 237 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,640 on Earth thousands of years ago? 238 00:14:31,740 --> 00:14:33,880 For the Hindu faithful, these stories 239 00:14:33,980 --> 00:14:37,240 are not mythology, but history. 240 00:14:37,340 --> 00:14:39,720 And ancient astronaut theory suggests 241 00:14:39,820 --> 00:14:42,980 incredible artifacts exist to support this notion. 242 00:14:45,620 --> 00:14:48,160 In the Mahabharata, it is described 243 00:14:48,260 --> 00:14:52,300 that the god Krishna rules over a kingdom called Dwaraka that 244 00:14:52,340 --> 00:14:55,840 sank into the ocean after being attacked by a flying machine 245 00:14:55,940 --> 00:14:57,140 with incredible weapons. 246 00:15:01,380 --> 00:15:06,820 In 1983, 4,000 years after the text was written, 247 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,380 incredible artifacts of an ancient city 248 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:13,120 were found beneath the ocean in the exact location 249 00:15:13,220 --> 00:15:16,760 that Dwaraka was supposed to have existed. 250 00:15:16,860 --> 00:15:19,100 Indian archaeologists for years thought 251 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:23,000 it was just a mythical city until they started finding 252 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:26,200 these underwater ruins off of Gujarat 253 00:15:26,300 --> 00:15:30,640 and realized that they were the ruins of Dwaraka. 254 00:15:30,740 --> 00:15:33,280 Another ancient Sanskrit story tells 255 00:15:33,380 --> 00:15:36,420 that a great deluge was sent by the god Indra 256 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,320 to destroy what was described as the seven pagodas 257 00:15:39,420 --> 00:15:43,520 of Mahabali Puram along India's southeast coast. 258 00:15:43,620 --> 00:15:48,300 Today, only one ancient pagoda stands in Mahabali Puram 259 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,900 and just as in the case of Dwaraka, 260 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,560 most scholars dismissed the story as myth. 261 00:15:55,660 --> 00:15:59,800 17th century Dutch traders recorded this legend, 262 00:15:59,900 --> 00:16:02,900 and modern archaeologists, modern scientists 263 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,640 have generally dismissed it. 264 00:16:06,740 --> 00:16:12,280 But then, on December 26, 2004, a massive tsunami 265 00:16:12,380 --> 00:16:15,180 caused water levels to temporarily drop, 266 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,540 exposing a number of mysterious-looking formations 267 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,240 along the shoreline. 268 00:16:21,340 --> 00:16:25,540 Upon closer inspection, they were found to be man-made structures 269 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:30,920 and quite possibly the ruins of the lost pagodas of Mahabali Puram. 270 00:16:31,020 --> 00:16:33,420 It ties in with the legends and myths 271 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:38,200 of these ancient temples having been inundated by the ocean. 272 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:39,360 That's number one. 273 00:16:39,460 --> 00:16:41,160 And number two, we now have evidence 274 00:16:41,260 --> 00:16:44,260 that there's more than one temple. 275 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,160 We don't have all six yet, but I suspect 276 00:16:47,260 --> 00:16:49,860 that the legends may be correct, and there really 277 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,320 are six more temples out there to be found. 278 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,660 Could the discovery of these artifacts 279 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,860 provide evidence that the Sanskrit texts really 280 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,940 are historical accounts? 281 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,840 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 282 00:17:07,940 --> 00:17:11,240 and suggest that the most astounding evidence of all 283 00:17:11,300 --> 00:17:15,740 corroborates a prominent story of the Ramayana, an epic poem 284 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:21,000 about the god Rama and the courtship of his wife Sita. 285 00:17:21,100 --> 00:17:23,940 According to the text, Sita was kidnapped 286 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,140 and taken to an island off the southern tip of India, 287 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,840 known today as Sri Lanka. 288 00:17:30,940 --> 00:17:33,320 Rama raised an army to rescue her, 289 00:17:33,420 --> 00:17:36,560 but had to overcome a major obstacle. 290 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,320 To get to his wife, Rama and his army 291 00:17:39,420 --> 00:17:43,460 must cross 30 miles of open ocean. 292 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,760 Lanka was an island, and there was no way to get there. 293 00:17:46,860 --> 00:17:47,560 There were no boats. 294 00:17:47,660 --> 00:17:50,060 There were no ships go there. 295 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,000 And the challenge is how do you build a bridge? 296 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:56,400 You know, it is so long. 297 00:17:56,500 --> 00:18:00,040 According to the Ramayana, magical construction techniques 298 00:18:00,140 --> 00:18:03,580 were used to build a bridge to Lanka. 299 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,280 Some of the interesting details of the building of Rama's 300 00:18:06,340 --> 00:18:11,400 bridge is that they were writing Rama's name on these stones. 301 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:14,080 And that would magically levitate the stones. 302 00:18:14,180 --> 00:18:16,880 And some of these are very big stones, too. 303 00:18:16,980 --> 00:18:19,780 As with many of the ancient Sanskrit stories, 304 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,180 it reads like science fiction. 305 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,980 But incredibly, modern satellite imagery 306 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:29,320 has revealed a 30-mile-long barrier of rocks and sand 307 00:18:29,420 --> 00:18:32,920 that, in fact, connects the southern tip of India to Sri 308 00:18:33,020 --> 00:18:35,060 Lanka. 309 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:37,320 For thousands of years, people just thought, 310 00:18:37,420 --> 00:18:39,080 OK, this is just a story. 311 00:18:39,180 --> 00:18:43,020 But with satellite photos, we can see this bridge. 312 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:46,560 Rama's bridge to Sri Lanka is real. 313 00:18:46,660 --> 00:18:51,820 And you have to ask yourself, was it built artificially 314 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,520 by levitating stones and putting them there? 315 00:18:54,620 --> 00:18:57,600 That's what the Ramayana tells us. 316 00:18:57,700 --> 00:19:03,560 According to the mythology, Rama lived around 6,000 years ago. 317 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,760 And there is interesting fact that some geologists 318 00:19:07,860 --> 00:19:10,360 carbon date the rocks from the bottom, 319 00:19:10,460 --> 00:19:12,460 approximately dating around the same time. 320 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,200 So that kind of corroborates whether or not 321 00:19:15,300 --> 00:19:19,100 the story is connected to the mythology, 322 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,400 because the age of Rama is around that period. 323 00:19:25,780 --> 00:19:28,840 While skeptics suggest that Rama's bridge is simply 324 00:19:28,940 --> 00:19:32,960 a natural formation, in 2018, the Indian 325 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,060 government voted to protect it by canceling plans 326 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,460 to cut a shipping lane through the middle of the structure. 327 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,200 In order to get to Sri Lanka today, 328 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:44,760 ships have to go around, could not 329 00:19:44,860 --> 00:19:47,700 be maneuvered through the rocky area. 330 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,560 So they wanted to cut down the hours it takes. 331 00:19:50,660 --> 00:19:51,940 It'll cut down the fuel. 332 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,440 It will be extremely economical. 333 00:19:54,540 --> 00:19:58,040 But officials from the Indian government and religious groups 334 00:19:58,140 --> 00:20:01,440 believe this is something that was built by God Rama, 335 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:03,060 that that should not be destroyed. 336 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,940 That should not be desecrated. 337 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,840 Do the incredible stories of the Ramayana 338 00:20:08,940 --> 00:20:14,040 support the notion that Rama's bridge is an alien artifact? 339 00:20:14,140 --> 00:20:18,240 But if artifacts like the London Hammer, King Tut's Dagger, 340 00:20:18,340 --> 00:20:21,580 the Wedge of Ayud, and Rama's bridge 341 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:25,380 are of extraterrestrial origin, where they purposely 342 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:30,220 left for future generations of humans to discover, 343 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:33,160 ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 344 00:20:33,260 --> 00:20:36,860 and suggest there may be far more to these artifacts 345 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:37,920 than meets the eye. 346 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:50,140 Sichuan, China, 1986. 347 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,940 Archeologists unearth relics of a mysterious civilization 348 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:58,480 that flourished 3,000 years ago in southern China. 349 00:20:58,740 --> 00:21:01,740 Until the surprise discovery, this civilization 350 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:06,720 was completely unknown to archaeologists. 351 00:21:06,820 --> 00:21:11,520 Excavation of Sanxingdui revealed a very rich treasure 352 00:21:11,620 --> 00:21:14,460 trove of ritual objects at the site. 353 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:19,120 And these were extremely refined. 354 00:21:19,220 --> 00:21:22,660 And especially for the time, they 355 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:27,700 revealed very advanced knowledge of metalworking and engineering 356 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,320 as well. 357 00:21:29,420 --> 00:21:34,900 It was unlike anything that has ever been unearthed in China. 358 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,400 Based on radiocarbon dating of the artifacts, 359 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:40,900 archaeologists say they were created 360 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:46,780 by a civilization that emerged in China around 1700 BC. 361 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,240 This mysterious culture is believed 362 00:21:49,340 --> 00:21:52,280 to have been part of the ancient kingdom of Shu 363 00:21:52,380 --> 00:21:55,420 and has been dubbed the Sanxingdui. 364 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:59,340 Further excavation of the site suggests the Sanxingdui 365 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:04,280 thrived for six centuries before suddenly and mysteriously 366 00:22:04,380 --> 00:22:06,780 disappearing. 367 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,920 One of the things I find most interesting about the Sanxingdui 368 00:22:10,020 --> 00:22:14,120 culture is that no one wrote about the Sanxingdui culture. 369 00:22:14,220 --> 00:22:17,500 And the Sanxingdui culture didn't leave any writing 370 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,700 about themselves for us to find out more about them. 371 00:22:21,780 --> 00:22:25,180 So to me, that they were able to slip under the radar 372 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,080 for so long is one of the most incredible stories 373 00:22:28,180 --> 00:22:31,080 about the Sanxingdui culture. 374 00:22:31,180 --> 00:22:34,420 But buried among the marble and jade artifacts, 375 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:37,160 researchers discovered something strange, 376 00:22:37,260 --> 00:22:39,520 hundreds of humanoid figurines that 377 00:22:39,620 --> 00:22:42,620 have an unusual appearance. 378 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,460 The Sanxingdui humanoid statues have what 379 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:50,940 seems to be a mask on the face and protruding eyes 380 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:56,440 or beams almost shooting out of the eyes. 381 00:22:56,540 --> 00:23:00,680 And as to what exactly these protruding beams emerging 382 00:23:00,780 --> 00:23:04,960 from these goggle-like masks represent 383 00:23:05,060 --> 00:23:08,320 or why these humanoid figures would 384 00:23:08,420 --> 00:23:12,300 have such really striking features that are unlike anything 385 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,600 that has ever been excavated. 386 00:23:15,660 --> 00:23:21,200 Chinese archaeologists admit that whatever or whoever 387 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:26,540 is represented here, it's not the Chinese people. 388 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,680 Archaeologists believe the mask depict a strange figure 389 00:23:29,780 --> 00:23:35,280 named Kan Kong, the founder of the Xu Kingdom. 390 00:23:35,380 --> 00:23:37,880 According to ancient Chinese chronicles, 391 00:23:37,980 --> 00:23:43,320 Kan Kong had protruding eyes and ruled for more than 1,000 years. 392 00:23:43,380 --> 00:23:46,220 While scholars consider Kan Kong mythical, 393 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,360 the striking appearance of the masks 394 00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:51,060 caused the Chinese government to openly wonder 395 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,400 if it had an otherworldly inspiration. 396 00:23:55,500 --> 00:24:00,100 On November 1, 2007, the official press agency of China 397 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,500 asked the question whether or not 398 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,640 what we're looking at here are ancestors or, in fact, 399 00:24:06,740 --> 00:24:08,580 extraterrestrials. 400 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:13,140 And my question is, what if what we have here is both? 401 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,240 I am of the opinion that whatever or whoever 402 00:24:16,340 --> 00:24:20,240 is represented in these Sanxin Duik statues 403 00:24:20,340 --> 00:24:24,840 is a representation of the visitors. 404 00:24:24,940 --> 00:24:27,940 Curiously, the Sanxin Dui are just 405 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,780 one of many ancient cultures that created ceremonial masks 406 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,920 of strange, perhaps otherworldly, beings. 407 00:24:36,020 --> 00:24:41,300 The Aztecs of Central America, the Dogan of West Africa, 408 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:46,200 the Asaro tribe of Papua New Guinea, the native Hawaiians, 409 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:50,000 and the selknam of the southernmost parts of South America 410 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:54,500 all made masks to honor the sky gods. 411 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,900 When we look at these masks as well as the unusual masks 412 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,120 from the Sanxin Du culture in China, 413 00:25:02,220 --> 00:25:05,520 we have to wonder, are we looking at the face 414 00:25:05,620 --> 00:25:09,120 of an extraterrestrial? 415 00:25:09,180 --> 00:25:12,840 Could these artifacts be commemorating alien visitation 416 00:25:12,940 --> 00:25:15,120 throughout the world? 417 00:25:15,220 --> 00:25:18,220 While mainstream scholars argue that they are simply 418 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,820 imaginative representations of fictional gods, 419 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,720 ancient astronaut theorists say other evidence 420 00:25:24,820 --> 00:25:27,860 exists to suggest that these were real beings 421 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,960 witnessed by our ancestors. 422 00:25:32,060 --> 00:25:34,340 What you can find with many of these depictions 423 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,640 of these ancient gods is they're depicted 424 00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:44,040 inside flying animals or flying machines. 425 00:25:44,140 --> 00:25:47,140 In Guatemala, we have a giant flying turtle, 426 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,340 and you have the helmet, which is the turtle's head. 427 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,980 The entire body is aerodynamically fashioned, 428 00:25:56,080 --> 00:26:01,860 and there's some modern-day fighter pilot glasses or goggles. 429 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,420 There are multiple statues all throughout India 430 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,640 that depict Buddha sitting on top of what 431 00:26:08,740 --> 00:26:11,680 looks like a flying lotus flower with smoke and fire 432 00:26:11,780 --> 00:26:13,820 coming out. 433 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,620 In present-day Mexico, in La Venta, 434 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,920 we have this plumed serpent, this snake, 435 00:26:20,020 --> 00:26:22,760 that appears to be floating in the sky, 436 00:26:22,860 --> 00:26:26,160 and it has a helmet for a person as a head. 437 00:26:26,260 --> 00:26:28,000 And then down below, you actually 438 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:33,800 see a person sitting inside this weird snake, 439 00:26:33,820 --> 00:26:36,020 this flying snake. 440 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:40,460 The sarcophagus lid that we can find in Palenque, Mexico, 441 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,660 has a carving that looks as if Pacal is seated 442 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,500 in some sort of a rocket vehicle. 443 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,140 That right there is the smoking gun. 444 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,840 Ancient carvings that resemble flying machines 445 00:26:59,940 --> 00:27:03,180 and strange masks depicting other worldly beings. 446 00:27:03,660 --> 00:27:06,260 Found all across the globe. 447 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:09,200 Do these artifacts provide a physical record 448 00:27:09,300 --> 00:27:12,300 of extraterrestrial hesitation? 449 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,900 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 450 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,740 these artifacts have deeper secrets still to reveal. 451 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,740 And an important clue as to what really happened here 452 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:28,180 on Earth in the distant past can be found by examining 453 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,980 one of the most mysterious objects ever discovered, 454 00:27:32,020 --> 00:27:33,680 the Antikythera device. 455 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:45,200 The GNC, April 1900. 456 00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:48,960 Off the coast of the small Greek island of Antikythera, 457 00:27:49,060 --> 00:27:53,540 sponge divers discover an ancient shipwreck 150 feet 458 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,580 beneath the surface. 459 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,940 Over the next two years, dozens of artifacts 460 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,840 are recovered from the wreckage. 461 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,440 Including the remains of a coral-encrusted wooden and bronze 462 00:28:04,540 --> 00:28:08,420 box that looks like a clock. 463 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,120 Archaeologists dated to the second century BC 464 00:28:12,220 --> 00:28:16,220 but are unable to determine what it is or what purpose it 465 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:17,020 served. 466 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:21,060 So when the shipwreck is first discovered, 467 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,200 nobody made much of this device. 468 00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:27,560 The ship had been full of much more interesting material 469 00:28:27,660 --> 00:28:29,700 that was mined out first. 470 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,100 It didn't exert much fascination until people started 471 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,500 looking a lot more closely. 472 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,040 For almost 60 years, the artifacts 473 00:28:37,140 --> 00:28:40,400 sat in storage at the National Museum of Archaeology 474 00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:42,040 in Athens. 475 00:28:42,140 --> 00:28:47,080 But in 1951, physicist Derek John DeSola Price 476 00:28:47,180 --> 00:28:49,520 began a careful examination of the box 477 00:28:49,620 --> 00:28:53,420 and found something astonishing. 478 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,720 It contains the workings of a highly sophisticated mechanical 479 00:28:57,820 --> 00:28:58,800 device. 480 00:29:00,700 --> 00:29:06,760 The Antikythera device is what looks to be a complex machine 481 00:29:06,860 --> 00:29:10,240 of gears, cranks, and levers. 482 00:29:10,340 --> 00:29:12,040 That's the best way to describe what it is. 483 00:29:12,140 --> 00:29:15,480 If you were to look at it, it looks like a box. 484 00:29:15,580 --> 00:29:17,480 Wooden on the outside with a crank. 485 00:29:17,580 --> 00:29:18,580 And what the crank would have done 486 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:23,580 has moved a series of levers and gears around on the inside. 487 00:29:24,580 --> 00:29:30,080 What we can tell from the inscriptions on it 488 00:29:30,180 --> 00:29:33,920 and what we can tell from the way the device works 489 00:29:34,020 --> 00:29:37,660 is that it was a very mathematically sophisticated 490 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,860 machine for showing, even predicting, 491 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:46,100 where the stars, the sun, the planets, and the moon 492 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,200 were all going to be on a particular date that you 493 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:51,480 were looking for. 494 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:54,300 Really, for several thousand years ago, 495 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,980 this is a remarkably Promethean invention 496 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,880 to put together this machine in order 497 00:30:00,980 --> 00:30:04,280 to give the user of the box, in a sense, 498 00:30:04,380 --> 00:30:05,880 a vision of the future. 499 00:30:05,980 --> 00:30:07,620 It's absolutely astounding. 500 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,460 And you could see how this would be useful if you were making 501 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,060 a trip on a ship or if you were trying to plan 502 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,960 your agricultural output. 503 00:30:17,060 --> 00:30:20,360 It is also believed that the Antikythera device may 504 00:30:20,420 --> 00:30:23,320 have had an astrological purpose. 505 00:30:23,420 --> 00:30:26,860 The Antikythera mechanism was a pneumological device 506 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,160 that would help them know their planet sign, what day and month 507 00:30:30,260 --> 00:30:32,700 they were born on, and how this information applied 508 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,200 to their life. 509 00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:37,760 Pneumological information was passed down 510 00:30:37,860 --> 00:30:40,380 as sacred knowledge from various cultures 511 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,140 to know when to make certain decisions. 512 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,140 To operate it, a user would enter information 513 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,560 into the mechanism using the complex system of gears and levers 514 00:30:51,660 --> 00:30:53,700 and then turn the crank to determine 515 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,600 specific astronomical positions. 516 00:30:58,340 --> 00:31:02,440 In June 1959, Price published his findings 517 00:31:02,540 --> 00:31:05,040 in the journal Scientific American 518 00:31:05,140 --> 00:31:07,480 and described the Antikythera mechanism 519 00:31:07,580 --> 00:31:09,980 as an ancient Greek computer. 520 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,220 He realized that it was a sophisticated computer that 521 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,620 could dial up astronomical configurations. 522 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,840 And at the time, the American scientists 523 00:31:18,940 --> 00:31:22,680 were so shocked at how advanced this device was. 524 00:31:22,780 --> 00:31:25,720 And they actually said that discovering the Antikythera 525 00:31:25,820 --> 00:31:30,120 device was like finding a jet plane in the tomb of King Tut. 526 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,360 Could a 2,000-year-old machine from ancient Greece 527 00:31:36,460 --> 00:31:41,000 upend the accepted history of modern astronomy? 528 00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:43,700 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 529 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,360 this seemingly impossible artifact 530 00:31:46,460 --> 00:31:50,760 is yet another example of extraterrestrial visitation. 531 00:31:50,860 --> 00:31:54,800 Clearly, this thing existed at a time 532 00:31:54,900 --> 00:32:00,200 when computers, as far as we know it, didn't exist. 533 00:32:00,300 --> 00:32:05,640 Am I proposing that that machine itself was created 534 00:32:05,740 --> 00:32:07,580 by extraterrestrials? 535 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,780 Absolutely not. 536 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:15,240 However, the knowledge with which this thing was built 537 00:32:15,340 --> 00:32:19,640 was given to the Greeks by potential extraterrestrial 538 00:32:19,740 --> 00:32:21,880 visitors. 539 00:32:21,980 --> 00:32:24,980 If the Antikythera device was made based on knowledge 540 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,920 gleaned from extraterrestrial visitors, 541 00:32:28,020 --> 00:32:32,920 might there be more to it than scientists have yet discovered? 542 00:32:33,020 --> 00:32:36,500 Ancient astronaut theorists believe artifacts like this 543 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,520 were intended to one day be found, 544 00:32:39,620 --> 00:32:44,160 much like the lunar library that humans left on the moon. 545 00:32:44,260 --> 00:32:46,360 And that recent technological advancements 546 00:32:46,460 --> 00:32:49,900 will soon reveal that they have much more to tell us 547 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,300 than meets the eye. 548 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:03,360 Zurich, Switzerland, December 2019. 549 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:08,120 Scientists Yannif Erling and Robert Grass 550 00:33:08,220 --> 00:33:11,920 announced an incredible technological breakthrough, 551 00:33:12,020 --> 00:33:17,000 one that takes the unassuming form of a small plastic bunny. 552 00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:21,440 This seemingly mundane object hides an incredible secret, 553 00:33:21,540 --> 00:33:23,940 just like a living creature. 554 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,140 The bunny has its own DNA. 555 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:29,840 But how? 556 00:33:29,940 --> 00:33:32,140 By binding negatively charged molecules 557 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,060 of biological DNA with positively charged particles 558 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,100 of protective silica, urlick, and grass, 559 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,800 were able to create the world's first synthetic DNA. 560 00:33:43,900 --> 00:33:47,400 While biological DNA is relatively fragile, 561 00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:52,440 this synthetic DNA can last potentially for eons. 562 00:33:52,540 --> 00:33:55,280 In the case of the bunny, the scientists 563 00:33:55,380 --> 00:33:59,520 encoded the digital files used to create the 3D printed object 564 00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:01,620 into the plastic. 565 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:04,160 With even just a tiny snippet, they 566 00:34:04,260 --> 00:34:06,200 can decode the information inside 567 00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:08,600 and print a new copy of the bunny, which 568 00:34:08,700 --> 00:34:13,400 will carry the same synthetic DNA. 569 00:34:13,500 --> 00:34:16,440 What makes this breakthrough particularly significant 570 00:34:16,540 --> 00:34:18,680 is the fact that it has the ability 571 00:34:18,780 --> 00:34:21,880 to store massive amounts of data. 572 00:34:21,980 --> 00:34:24,940 Digital computers that you have in your cell phone 573 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,920 and everywhere in our world today 574 00:34:29,220 --> 00:34:34,060 deals with digital information, zeros and one, zeros and one. 575 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,000 And that's how it makes calculations. 576 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:39,300 Now, mother nature is more sophisticated 577 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,040 on a DNA molecule. 578 00:34:41,140 --> 00:34:45,300 Mother nature computes in base four, ATCG, 579 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,640 rather than 010101. 580 00:34:48,740 --> 00:34:53,320 And we can actually compute by hijacking this base four 581 00:34:53,420 --> 00:34:55,840 mechanism that mother nature has created 582 00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:03,680 and putting our programming on ATCG, ATCG. 583 00:35:03,780 --> 00:35:06,920 Experts say that once this technique is scaled up, 584 00:35:07,020 --> 00:35:10,120 massive amounts of data can be stored in any object, 585 00:35:10,220 --> 00:35:14,460 retrieved, and replicated, presumably forever. 586 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,100 These are great alternatives of storing data, 587 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,700 because they don't need any energy for storage. 588 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,100 They can just sit on a shelf and not degrade. 589 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,260 Once you actually encode data into DNA, 590 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,700 it's very cheap to replicate. 591 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:34,380 So you can put petabytes of data into a droplet of DNA 592 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:38,380 and then make a billion copies of it very inexpensively. 593 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,440 And if you have a redundancy strategy, 594 00:35:40,540 --> 00:35:42,720 lots of copies is a good thing. 595 00:35:42,820 --> 00:35:45,120 DNA is also very compact. 596 00:35:45,220 --> 00:35:47,780 The amount of space it takes to store the Wikipedia 597 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,720 is just a few drops of liquid. 598 00:35:49,820 --> 00:35:52,920 And those could actually just be embedded into fabric or paper. 599 00:35:52,940 --> 00:35:55,040 And take up almost no space. 600 00:35:55,140 --> 00:35:59,220 Although DNA data storage is still in its infancy, 601 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:00,960 ancient astronaut theorists believe 602 00:36:01,060 --> 00:36:04,120 it presents an intriguing possibility. 603 00:36:04,220 --> 00:36:06,720 Is it possible that many out-of-place artifacts 604 00:36:06,820 --> 00:36:09,760 discovered around the world have much more to offer 605 00:36:09,860 --> 00:36:11,640 than what meets the eye? 606 00:36:11,740 --> 00:36:14,040 Might they contain information within them 607 00:36:14,140 --> 00:36:18,340 about whatever civilization left them behind? 608 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,000 There are lots of natural materials 609 00:36:20,060 --> 00:36:23,220 that conduct and can contain information today. 610 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:28,060 Crystals, various types of stones, even living organisms. 611 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,900 So is it possible that extraterrestrials 612 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,500 have embedded ancient sacred knowledge, 613 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,300 some type of material that if we were 614 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,500 able to extract this information, 615 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,240 there could be a wealth of information 616 00:36:39,340 --> 00:36:40,840 ready waiting at our fingertips? 617 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,080 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest 618 00:36:47,140 --> 00:36:50,100 that by examining out-of-place artifacts, 619 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,940 we might discover clues as to what information 620 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:57,180 is contained within them and how to access it. 621 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,480 As support for this notion, they point to the artifacts 622 00:37:00,580 --> 00:37:04,060 that humanity recently sent to the moon. 623 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,820 When the Arch Mission Foundation created the Lunar Library, 624 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,600 they included analog layers that could be read 625 00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:12,660 without a computer. 626 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,040 The idea of the Lunar Library was to make it something 627 00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:18,300 which recipients who find it in millions to billions 628 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,240 of years could see that it has data on it. 629 00:37:20,340 --> 00:37:23,000 And the analog layers teach everything 630 00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:25,300 you need to know to build a computer 631 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,840 and get the digital information off the deeper layers. 632 00:37:28,940 --> 00:37:32,740 By trying to store information for thousands or millions 633 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,320 of years, you end up going to the same solutions 634 00:37:36,420 --> 00:37:40,060 that the hypothetical ancient aliens may have also 635 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,820 figured out how to use. 636 00:37:42,940 --> 00:37:46,780 So we have to ask ourselves if these artifacts didn't perhaps 637 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:52,680 have a technological purpose that we still do not understand 638 00:37:52,780 --> 00:37:57,960 and information could be extracted from them? 639 00:37:58,060 --> 00:38:01,060 Is it possible that extraterrestrials left artifacts 640 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:05,760 on Earth that are embedded with information, much like scientists 641 00:38:05,860 --> 00:38:11,400 today are encoding synthetic DNA into inanimate objects? 642 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,920 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 643 00:38:15,020 --> 00:38:18,260 the technology of DNA data storage 644 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,500 may lead to an even more profound revelation 645 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,560 and the discovery of the most incredible alien artifacts 646 00:38:25,660 --> 00:38:26,160 of all. 647 00:38:32,700 --> 00:38:38,360 A mysterious aluminum wedge dated to 40,000 years ago, 648 00:38:38,420 --> 00:38:44,260 a bizarre mask said to depict a king who ruled for centuries, 649 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,460 a highly sophisticated computing device found aboard 650 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,860 an ancient great shipwreck. 651 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,500 Archeologists have on Earth so-called impossible artifacts 652 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,100 all over the world. 653 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,840 But ancient astronaut theorists ask, 654 00:39:00,940 --> 00:39:03,540 one of the most incredible alien artifact 655 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,340 is right before our eyes. 656 00:39:08,420 --> 00:39:11,360 We've always suggested that the ultimate proof 657 00:39:11,460 --> 00:39:15,760 for the ancient astronaut theory will not happen 658 00:39:15,860 --> 00:39:20,100 because we'll discover a buried spaceship somewhere 659 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,500 or a ray gun in a tomb. 660 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:29,300 But rather, that the ultimate proof of this ultimate quest 661 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:34,380 will be found inside of our own DNA. 662 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,820 And believe it or not, I have colleagues of mine 663 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,680 looking for secret messages in our DNA. 664 00:39:40,780 --> 00:39:44,680 And some of my friends take this to the nth degree 665 00:39:44,780 --> 00:39:47,780 and say, maybe aliens from outer space 666 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,820 have left us a message. 667 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:55,920 Maybe there's a message there hidden by an advanced civilization 668 00:39:56,020 --> 00:39:57,960 that says, here we are, folks. 669 00:39:58,060 --> 00:39:59,460 We created you. 670 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,040 We are your great, great, great, great, great, great, 671 00:40:01,140 --> 00:40:02,300 great grandparents. 672 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,300 And to prove it, we left a code for you in your DNA. 673 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,360 Well, we can't rule it out. 674 00:40:09,460 --> 00:40:11,060 What if we're all walking libraries 675 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,960 and we don't even know it? 676 00:40:13,060 --> 00:40:15,200 What if each of us somewhere in our genome 677 00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:18,200 contains a huge library from an ancient civilization 678 00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:20,700 that we're not aware of today? 679 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,300 If there's a way to encode knowledge in DNA, 680 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,900 maybe we have it in our own bodies today 681 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,040 and don't even know it. 682 00:40:28,140 --> 00:40:32,880 Is it possible that the ultimate alien artifacts are humans? 683 00:40:32,980 --> 00:40:35,480 And if extraterrestrials are using DNA 684 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,340 to store data, could there be a wealth of information embedded 685 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,940 in out-of-place artifacts that exist all over the world, 686 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,640 just waiting to be discovered? 687 00:40:45,740 --> 00:40:49,120 We're in the midst of a biotechnological revolution. 688 00:40:49,220 --> 00:40:51,380 Scientists now have, in their hands, 689 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,480 the very same or similar genetic tools 690 00:40:54,580 --> 00:40:57,820 that ancient myths and legends tell us the gods possessed 691 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,420 when they fashioned the human body. 692 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,880 We can only speculate on what the impact of this 693 00:41:02,980 --> 00:41:04,060 is going to be. 694 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:06,740 But I think deep in our core that something 695 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,400 would awaken in our DNA itself, I think we're 696 00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:12,240 pre-programmed to find our origins. 697 00:41:12,340 --> 00:41:14,400 That's what ancient astronaut theory is all about. 698 00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:16,940 We're trying to find where do we come from. 699 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,340 And this is going to have an effect 700 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,440 that I think none of us can even calculate. 701 00:41:25,220 --> 00:41:29,260 Is it possible that an incredible history of alien intervention 702 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,220 on planet Earth has been right in front of us 703 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,960 for thousands of years, or perhaps even embedded 704 00:41:36,060 --> 00:41:39,560 within our own DNA? 705 00:41:39,660 --> 00:41:42,960 Where artifacts intentionally left for future humans 706 00:41:43,060 --> 00:41:46,260 to discover and ultimately decipher 707 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:50,240 once we developed the technology to do so? 708 00:41:50,340 --> 00:41:53,800 Perhaps humanity has finally reached an age 709 00:41:53,900 --> 00:41:57,240 where we can begin to recognize the ancient time capsules 710 00:41:57,340 --> 00:42:00,540 that exist all around us. 711 00:42:00,540 --> 00:42:03,640 And possibly even within us.